Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 29, 1889, Page 1

"NINETEENTH YEAR. THE COTTON CRISIS. | It is Expected to Strike Liverpool on Monday, LIVELY TIMES IN PROSPECT. Indications That Somebody Will Go to the Wall Financially. STEINSTRAND AND THE SPINNERS They Are Actively Hagaged in Try- ing to Down Each Other. HAVRE MARKET ALSO CORNERED. An Even Worse State of Affairs Re- ported at That mated pated on 'Change. Place — Ani- Scenes Anticis Fortunes in the Balanoe. [Copuright 1859 by James Gordon Bennett.| Laverroor, Sept. 28.—|New York Herald Cable—Specinl to Tur Bre]—The crisis in the cotton corner is approaching and on Monday there will be such a scenc on ex- chauge flags at Liverpool as has not been witnessed since the occasion of the Morris Ranger corner. In that case the cotton king was utterly and completely ruined. It now remains to be seen what will be the result of Steendstrand’s big speculation. Asto what this will be, opinion is somewhat divided, The quictest day's work which can be re- membered for years was transacted yester- day, when only 8,000 bales were sold, but the record was beaten to-day, when the guan- tity disposed of was only 2,000 bales, There has been butone previous similar occurrence. This was on the occasion of a semi-holiday, duving the time of the American war, when only 1,500 bales was sold during the day. Tinterviewed to-day tho head partner of perhaps the leading firm of cotton merchants in Liverpool, who, however, for obvious reasons, though not adverse to talking, would on no account permit the publication of his nume, Ho said: *“T'he general impression appears to be that Steenstrand has yet to receive 70,000 bales, and of this not more than 80,000 can be ten- dered him. For this reason it is probable he would make the price about 7d a pound, and that the aefaulting brokers would have’ to pay this prico, which is penalty, which will be impossible according to the rules of the cotton association. It is now believed that thestock held vy Steenstrand on Octo- ber 1 will be overwhelmingly large, as he has continued regularly tosupply the trade demand throughout the month and 1 th way has disposed of cotton tendered to him almost as quickly as he has received it. The Position of cotton next month 18 of course a very puzzling one. There will be no corner, ~hut as the spinners have allowed their stocks to run down to a very low point they must either close the mills or go on buying 1t. It i8 generally thought that they will adopt the latter course, aud therefore that there can be no very scrious shrinkage in the value of couton iu Liverpool. The impression which f,in company with other merchants, have Hormed, is that 6d to 6}¢d per pound may bo %he value of cotton for the next gwo months, The receipts of cot- fou from American points are very farge ana the supplies consequently will be very abundant later on, and possibly a some- what lower rauge of prices may be current dor a time. The crop is estimated not to e reed 750,000 bales, and =0 our supply of cot- %on next season will be ali that 1s required, mnd if values do sink between now and the 'end of the year much below 6d a pound a con- siderable action must necessarily follow. It mwill no doubt interest the general public, as it has interested the commercial community, %o know that as a result of general stock taking it has been ascertained that the actual stock is 63,202 bales of all kinds loss than the estimate, and about 20,000 bales of American cotton less than the estimate. The actual stock last year at this timo was about 40,000 bales over the estimate. It has been for some time anticipated that the actual stock was less than the estimate, and there- fore the effect of this deficiency on the mar- Xoi will probably not be so great as if this state of things had como as a surprise, “During this week the spinuers have,” said another leading merchant, who gave me an impartial review of the procecdings of the past week and of the present aspect of affairs, “*bought less cotton thun they had bought in any weck for many yewrs, Yesterday the amount of business transacted and the sales effected was much less than it has been for years past. This affords evidence of the ex- ¥ nordinary determination on the part of the spinners to resist the corner, and in addition 10 this there is a firm belief in many quarters that 2otton is oing to be very much cheaper next month. The market has been subject 10 somewhat sharp fluctuations during the week. Steenstrund yesterday wok nearly all his cotton off the market and refused to offer it at any price, For whbat he did offer he ked from !¢ to 810 0f & penny per pound advance over the price he had been taklng the duy before. His object in pursuing this course 18 to force the price, and his wotion clearly shows that f the spinners determine 10 stop buying he would stop selling. Bueh a determination is clear evidence of the fact thav he is not afraid of nis cotton, An interesting incident has eccurred in con- nection with one of the steamers which haye come 1nto port this week laden with cotton, which is being got out of thew us rapidly as possible in order that it may be warehoused and ready for tendering before noon on Monday. The vessel I refer 10 is the White Btar steamer Teutonic. Despite the fact that sho 15 said w0 have over 2,000 bales of ©otton on board, she is lying in Langton graving dock and is to-day open to public in- spection. In consequence of this the Teu- tonle cannot well be unloaded and the mer- chants interested in cotton on board her are in a terrible way about it. Of course, it de- pends upon whut arraugements have been made between the combany and the con- signees as to who will have to bear the loss, Af any loss is incurred, and there is no doubt that if the cotton is not tendered on Mond 4t will mean the dropping of a pile of mone by some one, This being so, there will no doubt bea great effort to get the cotton out, but how thoey are goiug to uaload & vessel lying in & graviug dock and open to public nspectiou, no oné knows. Liverpool is not Athe only market that is at preseut in a state of corper, The Havre market is cornered even worse and yesterday prices for Sep- tember delivery rose to 7%d. The stock in Havre is also abuormally small because the principal part of the early shipments from America cawme here for our corner and in Havre they have scarcely any old or new cot- ton atall. Not only is their stock thus ex- coedingly small, but they have no new cot- ton coming in. There appoars to be symp- toms of the same kind of things in New York for Soptember delivery has gone up 33-100c, which is equivalent to over 3.16d per pound. 1 can toll you of & rumor to which I myself attach credence as to; what Steenstrand is going to do with the cotton with which 1t is hoped to choke him. This rumor is to the effect that, taking advaatage of the Havre corner, he has made or is about to make ar- rangements for shippingi a quantity of the cotton which will be tendered to him on Monday to Hayre. This move will have the double effect of relieving him and of keeping up the price of October delivery. The spin- ners hope to smash him with the immense stock they will make him carry over, and 1f Steenstrand manages to get rid of any considerable amount of it in this way, all that I ean say is that he will have accomplished a stroke of business policy which proves him to bea wenius, Whether the rumor will prove correct, or whether it is simply one of those rumors which are flying about, it is at present impossivle to say. The stato of the Havre market encourages the opinion that the adontion of such a course is by no means impossible, even although it is declared in somo quarters that the cotton contracted for in Havro is specified for as New Orleans cotton, which must be shippea direct from New Orleans. Steenstrand’s present attitude is one of entire confidenco in his ability to hold his own against all comers, Ho hus no doubt already mude a pile of money, generally estimated at £150,000, andhe appears to have sufficient confidence ta exffect that he is going to make it up to £250,000. At any rate, he evidently believes that the range of prices in October is goivg to be much higher than the market expects, As he trusts to be able to hold all the cotton that can be delivered to him next week, Steenstrand will have gthe wholo available cotton in his own hands, and he can then practically do what he likes with it, for thiere will be little cotton to speak of put into the mavket if there are shorts or bears who have not yet covered. It is just possible that there may be a convulsion in the marlket before the finish. Unless they can manago to come to terms with Steenstrand, some of them will go by default, but if they do they willhave to pay a penalty of from 1¢d to Xd, or less, according to the act of the associa- tion. It remains to be seen whother Steen- strand will settle with them what they will do. There are men on the market who be- lieve that the shorts are already covered, and if that is so then the affair is prac- tically concluded. The probability 1s that there are at any rate some important bears who have not yet covered, so that Steen- strand can not very well lose this month, but he may drop heavily next month, If he has delivored to him a great deal more cotton than he expects and the spinuers st out very strongly during the whole of Octo- ber, when American cotton is being stupped, then at the end ot the month he will on no account bo the only holder. An abundance of cotton will be supplied by the end of Oc- tober, and the question is whether Stecn- strand can get the cotton off his hands b fore the great mass of new cotton comes in.'” Lt SMALLPOX IN CHIOAGO. A Boy Brings the Discase Europe. CiticaGo, Sept. 25.—An outbreak of small- pox, which may prove quite serious, was r ported to the Lake View health office last night. The patient is John Welter, aged fourteen, the son of wealthy pavents. The Weiter family has just returned from Luxemburg, via Havre, wherg, on the 14th inst, smallpox being reported, young Welter was vacei- nated. The family sailed on the steamer Gascogne and Janded at New York Septem- ber 2. The next day the family having passed the quarantine started west on the Delaware & Lackawanna train, when the breaking out was noticed on young Weiter's face. It was thought then that it was a case measles. At Buffalo they changed and took the Michigan Central train and arrived in Chicago on the 25th instant. The sume 7 the boy was taken to his homae in the north- ern limits of the city, and a physician was called in, who concluded he had smallpox. All ths school children in the vicinity are being vaceinated to-day. There is no doubt that hundreds of per- sons between New York and Chicago have contracted the disease, while no attempt was made in Chicago to isolate it for two days, and mn the meantime the boy traveled the streets and came in contact with many per- sons. Dr. Wickersham, the health ofiicer, thinks the quarantine officers in New York werc very careless to allow the case to escape their notice, From s il EXPLOSIONS IN GERMANY. Ten Men Kil Many Injared and forty-two Women Hurt. Brruay, Sept. 28.—An explosion occurred to-day 1 the Rhein-Prussen colliery at Ham- burg-on-the-Rhine, Ten men were killed and several injured, Some of the injured will die. An explosion in the artillery laboratory at Spande n to-day, injured ten men and forty- two women. —-— A Queer Combination. (Copuright 1589 by James Gordon Bennett.) Loxboy, Sept, 25.—|New York Herald Cablo—Special to Tur Bik.|—To-uay the ancient corporation of the city of London elected its lord mayor and two shoriffs for the ensuing yoar. 1t is about as cu combination s ever appoared at the L any municipality in the world, as the new lord mayor—Alderman Issac—is a Jew, while one sheriff is a Catholic and his col- league an atheist. el Ohicago's Non-Partisan Jud Cu1eAGo, Sept. 28.—[Special Telegram to Tne Bre.|—At a meeting of the Chicago ar association this afternoon a resolution was passed requiring the holding of primaries for the coming judiclal election next Satur- duy between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. 1t was decided to nominate a republican to succeed Judge Willismson and a democratto succeed Judge Shepara, thus carrying out the plan of insuring & non-partisan judiciury. e In Need of a Head. CHicAGo, Sept. 28, —[Special Telegram to Tue Bk |—A call for a Special mectiog of the lines in the Westerr States Passenger association has been issued for Monday by President Huphiwt, of the Northwestern; Cable, of the Ruck Island, und Vice Presi- deat Clark, of the Missouri Pacifle. 1t is the intention to adopt some plan to clear up en- tirely tho present sem -acephaious condition of the association. ions @ d of L Owes Over a Hundred Thousan, Depuax, Mass, Sept. uS.—Horace S, Shepard, treasurer of the lumber firu of Shepard & Morse, Boston, has filed a per- sonal petition 1 insolvency. His liabilities are mostly for money due on notes, aud amount to $147,000. As bis insolvency is personal it does not invelve the frm, OMAHA, twmi{ THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE Tt SUNDAY GOSSIP FROM THE COAST. Corbett Anxious to Meet Sullivan— The Mining Market. 1500, Cal., Sept. 28,—[Special Telegram to Tre Bee, |—~There are prospects to-night of a fight soon between Jim Corbett and Sullivan. Corbett sald last night: “In willing to meet Sullivan in a four or six round contest. If I get knocked out it will be no disgrace from a pugilistic stand. point, because ho has knocked out every- body else. 1But there is one thing you can count on, I'll not lie down, und I'll make Sullivan know that hehas been in a fight.” Should Sullivan get as far as San Francisco on his exhibition tour he cannot afford to ignore such an offer from Corbett. If Sullivan will come we would see the greatest four round contest ever given in San Francisco, Local horsemen have not yet recovered from their enthusinsm over Senator Stan- ford’s stallion’s (Palo Alto) phenomenal performance of a mile in 2:135{ at the Stock- ton fair, About a year ago Count Valensin, of the Pleasanton stock farm, was advised to buy this horse. Senator Stanford said he could have him for £,000. Count Valensin thought the price wo high and refused. Some time afterward he reconsidered the matter and told Senator Stanford that he would take Palo Alto at that price. He was tola that the price had been raised to $15,000, This was more than the count cared to pay, and he did not negouate further. Senator Stanford is quoted as having said the other day that he would not sell the horse for 60,000, The mining murket was very dull here during the past week, and especially to-day. Busivess during the month has been so light and the prospects so gloomy for the imme- diate future that many brokers are beginning to take a serious viewof the situation. There is an absence of news of any importance from Comstock at present. The volume of the transactions on the board to-day would nott? afford commission enough tof support ngle commission house, let alone forty ctive members, The two theatrical sensations of the week have been Fanny Davenport in “*La Tosca,” at the Baldwin theatre, und the production of the new grand opers, *Theodora,” at the Tivoli theatre, *“Theodora’ has had a re- markable run here, and after another week the production will be taken east. The music is by . K. Furz, and the libretto by F. Lafontame and Arthur Barendet, of this city. The strike of ship carpenters at the Union iron works is not serious, Irving M. Scott s that work on _the new United States steel cruiser San Francisco wiil not be de- layed, butthat the new war ship will be launched the latter part of October. The prospeets ave that the San Francisco will be the fastest war ship in the world, and her speed will exceed twenty knots an hour. The wine men are now in adistinctly bet- tor position than seemod probable two months ago. The vintage has begun n earnest ana the vineyardists can tell pretty well where they stand. It now seems prob- able that the wine product of the state will not run much above 15,000,000 gallons, while it was estimated a few months ago that the product would rise above 20,000,000 gallons, It hus been charged that exaggerated esti- mates of the exspected crops were spread abroad for the purpose of ‘“‘bearing the market,” and giving the speculators a chance to buy grapes and wines at starva- tion rates forgrowers. If the large estimates were given with such intention they had an opposite effect from that expected. The re- portscared some of the growers into abandon- ing the cultivation of their vines, determined others to dry their grapes, and spurred the growers to make preparations to turn the surplus product into brandy. Grapes sufi- cient to make 2,000,000 gallons will be dried, according to present accounts. It is estimated that 5,000,000 gallons will be twurned into brandy. With these amouuts taken out of the production of the year it will be a much easier task than was expected to han- dle the wine product. The duminished product has brought the price of wine grapes up to a better figure than prevailed last year. The vineyard labor problem seems to have solved itself satisfactoril, From many parts of the state come reports that women and children have gone into the vineyards as pickers, and have proved an eficient substi- tute for the disappearing Chinese iabor. In several of the vineyaras Chinese bave been lurgely employed, but the mew era of white labor has been well begun. Tn many of the arape districts the schools have been closed for a month to allow the employmenv of the chil- dren in the vineyards. As this will not lead to a shortening of the school year the exper- iment is satisfactory from every point of view. Every Chinese steamer arriving at the port brings a score or more of *wives” or “daugh- ters” of Chinese merchants. These women are brought here solely for immoral pur- poses. They have not the certificates which the act of 1884 declares the sole evidence of thewr right to enter. They can be adwmitted, if at all, only on evidence which is explic- itly excluded by every law on the sub- Jeot, from the Page act of 1852 to the Scott act of 1883, And yet they will probobly be technically luuded when the courts get around to them, and they are already uctu- ally landed on bail, and will be allowed to ply their vocation for some months in Cuina- town, whether they are finally remanded or not. It is suid that the better class of Cbi- nese merchants are becoming indignant ot a trafic that brin on the whole Asiatic colony, and are taking steps to sup- press it. s disgrace Admiral Kimberly ¢ SAN Fraxcisco, Sept. 28,—The steamer Alameda, from Sydoey and Auckland via Sawmoa and Houoluly, arived to-day. Adwiral Kimberly aund staff left Apia on the Alameda und stopped at Honolulu. The admiral was given an ovation at Houolulu, the British man-of-war Carelins and the Japanese man-of-war stutioned there firing salutes on his arrival. He will return hos in the United States steamer Nipsic, The admiral was given a reception 1 Hon olulu by the American residents at which resolutions eulogistic of his conduet of naval affairs at Sumoajwere adopted. The politi- cal situation at Samoa remains quiet. . LAl All Quiet at Pratt's Mines. BinwiNanay, Ala., Sept. 25.—The Jeffer- son volunteers found on their arrivrl at Pratt’s Mines last night that their presence was uot required, us everything was qniot, The woman who was said 1o have been shot is not dead, but is suffering frow the effects of the beating given by Maxwell for insult- ing bis wife. g Home. NN Socialist Convention, CuicAGo, Sept. 28,—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee.|—A convention of the social- istic labor varty bogan here to-day. Various labor topics will be discussed. The dele gates are all Germans. The gencral talk among thém today has reference to the hanging of the anarchists two years ago, which, s usual, was denounced as murder. HIS VISIT DEFERRED. The Czarina's Cold Postpones the Czar's Journey to Pottsdam. EUROPE’S WAR CLOUD LOWERING The Lightnings Which Bdge it Are Russian Bayonets. €0 BISMARCK'S PAPERS SAY. The Chancellor Making a Groat Ado, for Reasons. — TRYING TO CORNER THE RUSS. By Alarming the Nations the Wily Teuton Expects ta' Hurt Ru Credit and So Force a Oon- ference With the Czar, . The Czar's Visit Postponed. [Copyright 1889 by New ¥hrk Associated Press.] BERLLY, Sept. 23.—ThA czar has sent an autograph letter to Empdror Willlam stating thut the czarina hos cadght cold and her physicians advised her td delay sher depur- ture for several days. The czar asis that thednal dircotions for his receptiou at Potsdam be delayod. Ac- cording to the National Zsitung the czar's visit is ofticially fixed for'October 9. Prince Bismarck has ‘communicated with Count Schouvoioff, the Russina mumister, in regard to the arrangemoats of the czar in the ovent of his coming %o Berlin. Count Schouvolof replied that he had orders to prepare to receive the czar and his suite at the embassy. The czar himself has not in- timated his intentions byyond his visit to Potsdam, The emperor will zo to Schwerin on Tues- day as the guest of the Grand Duke of Meck- lenburg. The absence of M. DeGiers, the Russian prime minister, does uck appear to affect Princo Bismarck's determination to have an audience with the czar. ‘The week has beer: sigualized by an out- break of the war clamor i the semi-ofticial vress. The Cologno Gazette publishes an alarmist avticie on the extension of the Rus- slau strategic railway on the frontier, which the North German Gazette prominently quotes. There is a simultancous reappear- auce of war notes in the chancellor’s organs. The Vienna papers foment the scare by statements that tho Russians along the fron- tiers of Galicia und Bukovina are in active motion. Six regiments of cavalry and four of infantry have, they say, arrrived from the interior. Obscrvation towers are being erected close to the Galician frontier,the whole aspect of the co unt ry giv ing the inpression that th3 army is making a strategic march. $ Bismarck’s motive in woreating gitation over Kussia’s armaments'on the ave of the czar's reception is vatously interproted. Recalling tho incidents prior to the last in- terview the czar accorded him here it is ob- vious the chancellor aims to place the c under the necessity of granting him a polit- ical conference. The reports also serve other purposes, us they tend to balls Russia’s efforts to negotiate a loan for the payment of the cost of the repeating rifles ordered in France, and they prepave the reichstag to accept the new military bill. The czar’s aversion to meeting the chan- cellor or to giving bis visit any character other than that of a formal courtesy has been intensitied by the projected juurney of Emperor William to Constantinople. The programme of the emperor i8 now an- nounced to mclude a visit to Bucharest, which will further annoy among the czar. The Moscow papers ask if Bismarcic dreams of detaching the Greeks from their dream ofa Russian allisnce. Tho Greeks attach a superstitious import to the marriage of the duke of Sparta and Princess Sophia, An old prophesy is recailed by the papers of Athens and reproduced here to the of- fect that the mosque of St. Sopbin in Con- stantinople wiil be restored to the Christians under tho rule of a Greel emperor named Constanine with & wife called Sophia. The coincidence of the duke of Sparta’s name, Constantine, and that of the Princess Sophia is exciting the imaginution of all Greeks as a hopeful nug- ury of coming events, i feeling which Bis- marck will take advantage of. The empross will accompany the emperor to Constantino- ple and will stay on the imperial yacht while the sultan entertains his majesty. The reichstag is expocted to meet on No- vember 4. A regrouping of the parties is in- evitable. ‘The ultra consorvatives annou nce their determination to break from the cen- tral party, as it is becoming too liberal. Herr Miguel, speaking at Frankfort, de- clared that it was necessary to reconstruct the groups. The existing parties, he said, were products of the pastand out of date. The present party programmes ure utterly unadapted to deal with the questions of the immediate future. ‘The progressists under- stand Miguel as foresceivg tho break-up of the national liberais, but the nationals are sanguine that the party will be strongthened by the absorption of a segtion of the center party and a close union with tue liberal con- servatives. Bismarck is favoring the aims of Herren Hennigsen and Miguol and otber leaders of the nationais. He will offer He Miguel the post of fuunce minisier, replac Herr Scholz, whose eye malady grows wors These prospective changes do not threaten seriously Bismarck’s hold over the cartel party though they are likely to weaken the government's majority in the new house. Tne Post to-night semi-oficially denies that Count Von Munster has resigned uas German ambassador to France. A report to that effect was part of the current rumors thut Hatzfeldt would be trausferred to Paris, Count Von Waldersee going to Len- don. The Post does not eontradict the Von Waldersee rumor. Bismarck is again in- triguing with the emperor to send Von Waldersee to bigh diplomatic post in which Bismarckian crafv wil succeed in exposing him to adverse criticism, Vou Waldersee was last year offered the Vienna embassy, but gof the emperor's per- mission to decline it, The chancellor 18 now reported to be urging the emperor that if he desigus Von Waldersee to become chancel- lor he wustjrain bim in stateswunship through diplomatic experience, ‘’'tie emperor has instructed the minister of justice to report on execution by electricity. He is in favor of this method of execution if it will produce painless death with certainty. He reads everylhing attainaple upon the scientific side of ihe question und has sent the winister copicus note- on Americau aud Europeaa scientists' in in's MORNING, SHPTEMBER 29, 1889-SIX quiries into the matter. Fis personal con- clusion was that electricity ought not to be applied unless tho preparations for tho ex- ecution boe shorter ana simpler than for hang- ing or beheading. Hejthings that the pros- ent methods are clumsy. ”. The report of the Germa#‘Bast Africa company for 1SS referring to'the concess- fons of territory to the Bultish company north of the Lana river, elaims compensa- tion. The company has received advices confirming the belief that Henry M. Stauley has been acting for the British Bast Africa company, and has secured Emn Pasha as British agent to control the traffio. botwoeen Wadelai and the coast, tapping the whole of the central lake country. Captain Wissman telegraphs that the ox- vortation of slaves from the territory under his rule nas entively stopped, Sixman steal- ers have been executed. Bagamoyg has been restored und the population agaty numbers 5,000, A STRONG'S DENIALS. Thay Have no Weignt With Chicago Rallroad Men, Caicaao, Sept. 28.—[Special Telegram to Tug Ber.]—The denials coming from the east that ex-President Strong. of the Atch- ison, I8 to bo the mew president of the Mis- souri Pacitio have no weight with the Chi- cago railroad men, It is the general opinion here that the ap- pointment is slready made, especially as ex- President Strong was so guarded in his denial of the appoinument, Additional and confirmatory testimony has come to the rail- way press burean from the original source of information in New York and also from @ railroad man in Chicago who simply tells an untruth if the report is not founded on fact. He claimed to know whercof he spoke and positively asserted that the ap- vointment of Mr. Strong had been consum- mated. This informant further said th g will tell you in a fow days of the Atchison plan of organization, It is practically decided now but it would be premature to tellof it now. In one respect the news- pavers are all mistaken, There will be no refunding into 4 per cent bonds or less. 1t was found impossible to get the socurity holders to accept such an arrangement. Nothing less than 41¢ per cents will be ac- cepted. The present bonds run from 4 to 7 per cent. There are so mauy conflicting nterests in the system that it is donbtful if any plan of reorganization will be more than tially successful. There are fourteen distinct roads und sets of security holders in the system and it 1s an actual fact that some of the lines are competitive and an I think within a week the new plan of orga- nization will be ripe for publication. Seeking an Alliance. MONTREAL, Sept. 28.—Sir George Stephen and Sir Donald Smith have gone to New York with the object, it is said, of forming an ailiance between the Manitoba, Northern Paciflc, Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific roads in order to control the trafiic north of Oregon, and if the alliance is concluded the +500" route, which has been such a disturb- ing factor, will in the future work in har- moby with them Nothing in At Bostox, Sept. . 28.—With regard to the re- port that President Hill, of the Manitoba, has been in Boston this week and in confer- ence with President Adams, of the Union Pacific, and Traffic Ma er Mellen, about a trafic agreement, the Unicn Pacific people say Hill has not been to the Union Pacific of- fice, and state that no conference has been held, I TWOMBLY WAS DRUNK. Fireman La OCloche Breaks and Confesses, Cnicaco, Sept. 28.—A sensational chmax ended the coroner's investigation into the Rock Island suburban railway aceident this evening. The jury had returned a verdict holding Engincer Twombly and Fireman La Cloche responsible for the wreck and committing them to jail, when La Cloche broke down and admitted having perjured himself in swearmg that Twombly was not drunk. The fireman then made & confession telling of his wild ride with the drunken cngmeer. He ntimated that compulsion from high ofilcials of the company had prompted him to lie. Twombly and bunself, it appeared, had gone to asaloon before starting out in charge of the freight train thav played such havoc at Washington Heights, Twombly drank freely, but, said LaCloche, “he was not paralyzed drunk.” LaCloche added that Twombly ran the engine himsclf, and said at the time of the accident Twombly's head was out of the cab window and he might have been asleep for all the fireman knows. LaCloche broke down and cried like a child, Engineer Twombly is under arrest at Lis home where he is confined to bed by the injuries received in the wreck, At tho coroner’s] inquest tendent Chamverlain, of the division of that road, testified he had discharged Engineer Twombly three or four times for drunkenness. After bemg idle for a while, Twombly's father, who is master mechanic of the road, would re-omploy him without consulting anybody. General Superintendeut Royce testihied that he had made an investigation into the causes of the accident, aud had found that the treight train was running ahead of time and that engineer Twombly was mainly responsi- ble for the accident. homas B, Twombly. master mechanic of the road and father of Engincer Twombly, testified that his son had been remstated by him on the recommendation of Vice Presi- dent Kimball. He claimed the engineer was sober on the day of the accident. EDGAR THOMPSON VIOTIMS, General Managerdones and a Laborer Die, Pirrspuno, Sept. 28.—Captain W, R Joues, general mavager of the Edear Thomp son steel works, died tonight from the in juries received in the accident at that plant last Thursday evening., Hisdeath was un- expected. He took a sudden turn for the worse and died in @ short time. The de- ceased was fifty-five years old and leaves o wife aud family Anotuer of the Thompson stee: wo Quinn, died to-day, Down Superin- llinois that of tho accident, victims ks Kag Michael Fifty Shyste Cnicaco, Sept. 28.—[Special Telegram to Tur Bee.]—After careful investigation the bar association hasgnade the astounding dis- covery that there are fifty lawyers in Chi- cago who are practising without license from the supreme court of the state or any other legal qualificatious, Most of these are divorce ana yolice court lawyers, and the associauon will at ouce begin proceedings to have thew disbarred. . — 5 A Wife Murderer Convioted DeNvER, Colo, Sept. 23,—|Special Tele- gram to Tup Bee |-James J, Medley, who shot and killed his wife iu this city last May, was to-day found guilty of murder ia the first degree, PAGES. FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS, The Sum Invested By Two Engl Syndicates in Yankee Industries, Ciioaao, Sopt. 28.—The expenditure of £50,000,000 by two English syndicates for the control of an extraordinary aggrogate of in- austrial entorprises in the United States was completed in this city to-day. The syndicates include in their member- ship a great number of Hritish bankers and trustoes of large ostates in the united king- dom. No business was acquired for them in the United States which has not paid at least 12}§ per cent a year for the past five yours, Grain elovators, flouring mills and breweries have been the favorite investments, Management of each of the various enter- prises will be placed in American boaras of directors, subject to the control of a board in London. The representatives of the syndicate here when asked to-day if this don't look like the establishment of a huge British trust, sald: “No, each enterprise is operated separately. The plan is not one of aggres- slon, but of conservative, sure investe ment.,” Hostile legislation, it is learned, has been cleverly evaded. The deal cmbraces a chain of elevators from the Minnesota and Dakota wheat dis- tricts to Chicago. The syndicate's flouring mills are at Minucapolis and the breweries in Chicago and the east. The purchasing committee, it is understood, left this evening on route to the northwest and are intend- ing to go from there to Omaha and iKansas City, where further purchases are being considered. Among the properties over to the syndicates ber of breweries in Chicago, Al- bany, Detroit, Newark, Jersey City, New York, Baltimore, Rochester ana Syracuse, also the Star elevators of Minneapolis, seventy-six in number; the Vandiesen sys- tem of elevators of Rochester, Minn., ninety in number; Cargyll Bros.’ elovator system of Minnesota and Dakota, and Brasstad's Hancock Iron mines, Hancock, Mich, The arrangements for the purchase of the Pittsourg flour mills and the Washburn nills in Minneapolis have been comploted and the transfor will take place in a fow da, Negotiations for two extensive ele- vator systems in Chicago ave well advanced. The City Contract company, of London, with a capital of $50,000,000, and the Trus- tees’ and Exceutors’ company, of London, with a capital of 17,500,000, ave the syndi- cates making these purchases, Lord Mayor TIsaacs, of London, is presi- dent of the latter company. Trusted agents first made o list of desirable propertios, then options were ob tained, export examinations then followed, then came a report from an advisory com- ittee, and lastly tho work of the purchas ing committee. Among the members of the advisory committee was D. G. Macrae, edi- tor of the London Finauncial Time: et A MINORITY REPORT. turned are a num- already A Member of the Utah Commis Who Can Not Concur, WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—John A, McCler- nand, of the Utah commission, to-duy pre- scnted a minority report, the reason for so doing being non-concurrence in the report of his colleagues in “its general animus, partic- ularly in the treavment of the distinction be- tween opimons and actions as the subject of legislative punishment,”” The existing laws, he says, are working well. Further aggressive legislation trench- ing upon civil and political privileges would be injurious rather than beneficial. No re- ligion, says he, was ever finaliy destroyed by either armed or unarmed proscription. He recommends an amendment to the federal constitution *perpetually prohibitiug polyg- amy, whatsoever its guise, not only in the states but also in the territories and other places over which the United Statos has, or may have, exclusive jurisdiction.” He says the Mormon religion, purged of 1ts impuri- ties, will probably survive; how loug, he can not foresea. He dwells upon the importance of this and says it would substitute a lasting organic law for a legislature en ment which wust cease Lo operate with the cessa tion of the anamalous territorial condition. Sl T A MISTAKE, m 1T Was A Supposed Olerical Error Turns Out an BEmbez CHIcAGO, Sept, 25— m Parrish & Co., which w. d to apply for a receiver on the 31st of August, on ac- count of a mistake of their head bookkeeper in figuring up the assets of the firm, notified the police to-day to arrest as an embezzler Harry ¥, Clifford, the man who it was at first thought had merely made a clerical error. Now it is alloged that Clifford tol #39,000 and fled. The police are sending a description of hin to the principal cities. His alloged em- bezzlemeny and flight has aroused fresh sus- picions of the members of the firm. Some time ago the store of the firm, toguther with its books, was destroyed by fire, and the sus- picion is now that it was a case of mcendiar- ism, the fire being set for the purpose of de- stroying whatever evidence of dishonesty the books may huve containe An Insane Convict's Escape, Cnicaco, Sept. 28.—=[Special Telogram to Tne Bee.|—At Joliet about b o'clock this morning while James, alias Tom Conley, an insane convict, was on his way from the prison to the depot in charge of an officer who was conducting him to the Elgin asy lum, the prisoner sprung from the carriage just as it was passing the rolling mlls, darted under some freight cars, and disap- peared, The morming was dark and foggy, and althougn the prisoner was handeufted he succeed in evading o posse of police and reached the woods near the suburb of Ridge- wood, where up to the. present he has found a secure hicing place. Conley was a burglar sent up for four years from Henry county lust October. of Gibson, The Ball Players Mean Business. New Youk, Sept. 28, —The New York Syn dicate Hrotherhiood of base ball players to day leased two blocks of ground lying be tween One Hundred and fty-seventh and One Hundred and Fifty-ninth stroets and Ninth avenuo for a term of ten years at an annual rental of 4,000 They also leused the new polo grounds at One Hundr nd Fifty-fifth strect, now occupled by the New York team, for a teri of ten years, subject, nowever, 1o the lease now held by Day for two years, —-— Fix- . Martin, of Kansas, Very Sick Kansas Crry, Sept. 28.—A special from Atchison says: Ex-Governor Martin's ill ness is mose serious than was first supposed. For niue weeks he has been suffering from a peculiar malady which his physicians have been unable to diagnose, and uow typhoid fever has et in and grave fears are enter- taiued for his recovery, -~ The Weather Forecast, Nebraska and lowa—Fair, followed in Ne- braska and western lowa by light rain, southerly winds, stationary temperature. Dakota—Falir, southerly winds, stationary tewporature, Berevp—r | NUMBER 102, Slumbering Passengers Crushed t0 Death in a Wreck, FOUR KILLED AND A DOZEN HURT Trains Collide on the New Yorle COentral With Terriflc Force. SAD ENDING OF A HONEYMOON A Relative of Ex-Seoretary Mane ning Among the Viotims. LIST OF KILLED AND INJUREQ The Accident to a Detoctive Steam Chest and the Carelesss of of the Train Crews Due ness Ono Disaster at Palatine Bridge. Caxasonanir, N. Y., Sept. 98.—Four kille and a dozen or more injured is the rmm:} anaccident on the Central railroad two mil cust of Palatino Bridge station which oey curred last night, The train to which thg accident happoned was the St. Louls an Chicago express, bound west, which, owingy 10 the heavy travel last night was run in L\v§ sections, Tho first section left Fonda at 11:20, ten minntes late. The scctions gen4 crally run ten minutes apary, but from the best information obtainable this seems t§ have been disregarded last night, When the first scction reached a point ops posite the Brandywine rift in the Mohawlg river, Bngincer Wecks noticed a giving oug’ of the steam chest of nis engine, He immay diately stopped and a brakeman was senf back to flag the second section, As near ag can be judged, it was not over five or six minutes before the crush came. Horth, the engineer of the second section, says he made every effort to stop by applying the aif brales, but they did not seem o work, and nothing was teft for hin to do but to bracg himself for the crash, He was pitched oub of the cab window and both lags broken, His fireman, John Slatter, went up about twenty feet tn the air and tanded on top of the bage gago car which was in the roar. The first section was made up of baggage, mail, express, and through passenger card, besides a Wagner sleeper, the private car of President Ingalls, of the Cleveland, Colums bus, Cineinnati, & St. Lows railroad, ana thg private car of President Ledyard, of the Micmgan Ceutral railvoad. The latter cap was oniy slightly damaged, and of the oceus pants, Charies Franklin, the porter, was the only one killed or injurec. Presidert Ingalls' car being next to @& big Michigan Central car, was shoved with great force through the Wagy ver sleeper anead, which was packed with people. The two cars telescoped, causing a terrible crash and knocking ouf the lights and sphatering both cars, The persons in the upper berths escaped with slight injurics, soveral crawling out of holeg in thetop of the cars, The saddest part of the accldent befell William H. Manning, of Marquette, Mich., and his party. Mr. Manning, who is & rela tive of cx-Secretary Mauning, was so badly injured that he died. His wife also received injuries abouv the head. The young couple were on their way to Marquette, baving been married ut Westport, N. Y., but a short time ago. Mrs, Manning has not been in- formed of her husband’s death Rev. Prentiss Duave, of Dayton, O., who oceupied a lower lerth, was found dead in the sleeper in the second section, Among those who escaped were Misg Meladden, of Green Bay, Wis., and John Gordon, of Chicago. Conductor Dillon, of the second section, says he was only nine minutes behind the first scetion after leaving Yost's, which ig 81X ast. A coroner's inguest will ba held Monday. ™ REV. PRENTIS about six SADIE BOYD, of Westvort, of W, H. Manning and wife, twenty-fou CHARLES PRANKLIN, porter on the Michigan Central railroud, aged abou twenty-eight. WILLIAM MAN of Marquette, Mich. THE INJURED. “The following persons are reported injuredt WiLLiam McELroy, New York, L Manry Pare, Fredonia, N, Y, Mus. WirLiax H, MANNING, of Marquettay Mich, i R. E. FowLn, of New York, H., L. Lewis, New York Cotton exchange. Bxaixeen Hoyru, both legs crushed, bug will probubly survive, —-— AMUSEUM OF BUKIED W ORLDS, KILLED, DUVE, of Dayton,aged Y., maid ged aboup VIN( 1 estate dealer Result of Sci tific Investigations in the Oreg ; Mountains, New YoRk, Sept [Special Telegram to Tue Bee, |—The scientile expedition sent out by Princeton college to dig in the Oregon mountains for fossil deposits, has returned bringing news of a most inLerasting nature to the scientitic world, Their investigations lay chiefly in the John Day lake region, Their report concludes with this outiine of the extent of their discoveries: Could we produce a view of that ancieny Oregon when John Day lake existed wa should find ourselves in a very strange animal world—little three-toed horses, bardly larger than donkeys; rhinoceros, camels, a groat assemblage of laree apd flerce catlike, doglike and hyeualike animals, uot to mention hosts of litlle rabbits and squirrellike creatures, ‘The animuls of this time were all rather small, the largest belng a beast not unlike the hippopotamus in size aud general appearance. As the lisk shows, this assemblage has a very oriental churacter, The climate was perhaps rathes milder than at prese and the forests, of which leaf beds on Hridge creek give ample illustration, were like those now found g the warmer parts of the United States, This wond has been sealed up by subsequent lave floods, and is now accessible ouly on the sides of canons and valleys where the streams have cutdown through the overs iying masses. The results of our summer's work were nearly two tons of these animalg, @ striking proof of the vast numbers of thega which bave been preserved, York, Pa., Sept, 25.—The boiler used in & quarry at Wrightsville axploded with terrifio force this morning, instantly Killing Mre, Lemuel Barues and fatally injuring ber hugs. baud B i ful museuwn of buried worlds = S P