Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 19, 1889, Page 1

"NINETEENTH YEAR THE ZALINSKI TORPEDO GUN. Interviews With British Naval and Military Officora. VARIOUS OPINIONS EXPRESSED. Bome Ihink It Would Be Effective jombarament Capabls of Destroying Large Ships. English Views of Our Now Gun. mes Gordon Bennett.| New York Herald Bee. |—A uumber {Covyright 1850 by Cable—Special to of naval and military ofticers have been & by the Herald correspondent and express an opinion of the Zalinski pneumatic £unin view of the recent expe ir Frederick Richards, “I have been traveling a_ereatdeal and have not had time to thoroughly master the recent experiments. be nothing more or 1 think it would be u powerful instru- ment employed against a town, but I think of improvement before it is used successfully aga less than an commander-in- He is one of the three duced a report upon the naval manauvres of 1888, which largely contributed to naval defense bill. Morgan Singer, firm of Maxim & Nordenfeldt, gun makers isions, S, W., was reluctant to boing pressed said: adviser to the speak, but on opinion is worth anything I all dejiends upon the value of the projectile. The advocates of the gun projectile falls within thi exloded wi state that if the y to forty feet of That is not. myself that unless the projectile falls within 1,000 pounds of ay Title effect indeed. Zalinski gun approach with re 1 have seen it used in its and its accuracy was very you might fire a good m: you struck a ship or anything el satisfactorily cleared up to my mind, but if ali these things now be true, it must weapon, but tiey do amite, it would never secn the 1y rounas before that are said abont it bea very formidable not come within my own experience.” successful experiments wie other day near Philadeiphia?? “1Oh, yes, but as the ex, sented to us they are very an exan:ple of what I say, only the other the papers said that th ments aro pre- misleading. xperiments in satisfactory, know for a fact that they were just the re- m ratber loth to@ie all I 1f one is to give an opinion that is worth anything he should either sec the experiment himself or have a witness of I have neither of recent the Zalinsk: gun de- the projectile whereas T verse, 8o that 1 read for granted somebody who has, If the value of pended upon >d from this gun falls within twenty, v forty feot, can blow up the vessel, it formidabie weapon, but I donot believe a bit Admiral Morgan Singer was at the head of the naval artillery deparument. expert on ord 1ce matters. Licutenant General Sir Andrew Claris, G. C. M., G.C. B, C. at importan 1t is not a completely p inventions are continuafly regard it as a most formidabi employed agunat towns. used agains! thirty feet or forty feet of a vessel exploding would bo effective destructive purposes " *I most certainly think so.” Tave you had any experionce of its ac- Does it deliver with tolerable ac- “‘Both from my own experiense and from what reliable witnesses bave told me, I can certainly say I do think the Zalinski gun most formidable weapon aud one of the most important inventions of the kind we Insuch craft as the Vesuvius torpedo gun vessel could it be especially servicea- “No, T would not say ihat. bo used with greater advantage fu such craft but the gun is only as I think it could as the Polyphemus, yet in an experimental stage,” Have you read tho cablo reports of the recent successful experiments near Phila- “Yos, and all that I bave read only con- firms and strengthens the impressions L ha ly formed. tinually going on and 1 hardly kuow of any information long, but from what we do know that is re- liable it is one of the most effective weapous wo have seen.” tenant General Sir Andrew Clarko is # most distinguished military ofilcer. sixty-fivo yoars old and entered tho army forty-fivo years ago, veyor general of Victoria and was electod to tho Victoria assembly for Melbourne and became miuister for In 1853 he was sur- public lands in 1563, west coast of Africa respecting the Ashantee He was appointed the naval works and held the office for nearly He then becawme governor of Straits settlement and was minster to India. tho school of militury engineering bam from 1881 to 1852, when he was appointed eneral of fortificatious. been on fmportuut special missions to and has written engincering, difficulties, director of next appointed Ho was commaundant of Not Born to Bo Beheaded. », Oct. 18.—While an excursion into the luterior yesterday, the 10 Cross a s The sultan bis body guard who returning from river to get to Fez safely, but twenty of undertook to swim the river on their horses, were swept down the stream by the ragimg flood and drowned. o ADC T French Military Plan Pawis, Oct. 1 France proposes to double on account of the increase of German Lorraiue, is now centered at Nung, eastern railway facilities will 0o increased by doubling the lines ruuuing from Lille, Lyous aud Besancon to the German froutier, in Aisace- WILL WED A PRINC The Coming Marriage of the Daughter of Millionaire Huntingion. [Copyright 1389 by James Gordon Bennatt.| Loxpo¥, Oct. 18.—|New York Herald Cable—Special to Tis Be he marciage of Prince Halzfeldt and Miss Clara Hunting- ton, daughter of C. P. Huntington, will take place at the oratory at Brompton at 11 o'clock in the morning of the 35th of this month, the past week being devoted to arrangemerts of the necessary preliminarics, and in the re- gion of Hanover square and Dover streot, where the contracting parties are at present respectively residing, there is a state of happy anticipation quite commensurate with the fact that one of America's daughters is o become a princess in a family which dates back in history for 900 years. The date of the marriage was not settled upon until this afternoon {ous circum- stances have delayed the final conclusion. A marriago in London, according to the rites of the Catnolie church, including the publi- cation of the bans, necessitated that both of the contracting parties should be Catholics, and they should have had previous residenco in London for a cortain period. The first ovstruction disappeared through Miss Hunt- ington's becoming a communicant of the Catholic church. This has been entirely by hier own desire, as the marriage could have gone on just as well with- out it, but sho 80 chose, and @ Catholic bishop will marry them. The other objection was overcome by means of a special license, and in the most fashionable Roman cathedral in Loundon, under tho superin- tendenco of Bishop Patterson, the nuptial knot will bo tied. The wedding will be a private one, without ostentation or extrane- ous ceremonies, and oniy the nearest friends willbe present. This is due partly to the fact that the Huntingtous are in mourmvg, and, furthermore, to the departure of Mr. and Mrs, Huntington for America by the Teutonie, Me. Huntington's business calling him to New York without delay. On the day of the ceremony Prince and Princess talzfelat will leave for Italy for their honeymoon, which will be spent at the northern lakes, After a month there the priace will tako his bride to Schonstein, the scatof the Halzfeldt estate, in Germany. Jlo Huntingtons have been here for a month past and tho prince arrived ten days ago. 'Tho ceremony was originally intended to take place in Pacis, but the necessity of Mrs. Huntington's stay in London aitered the plan. For a week past the preparations have progressed with all the pleas- urable flutter incidental to such huppy occasions, What tho results are s mot kuown, but it is quite certain that they are in every way satisfactory to all parties. Mr. Huntington has been in the most genial mood ever known sice his arrival and seoms to havo accepted ihe role of father-inlaw to the prince as a new and very pleasant addition to his existing fawe, Miss Huntingtow's wedding dress is being made in Paris, Prince Hulzfeldt is being variously de- scribed, and under the prosent circumstances @ pen pieture of him may not be uninterest. jug. He is a blonde of medinm height, square and symmetrical figure; his hair parts i the center and rolls back in a Ger- man way, and his moustache, which is brown and curling, takes the princely hon- ors among moustaches. s faco 18 German in type and clearly cut, though inlooks hé is entirely cosmopolitan. Heis exceeaingly good natured, oft-hand and very cordial in his address. He has penetrating biue eyes, is shrewd in observa- tion, and has a quick, commanding manner, which is apparently due partly to his tradi- tions and partly to his nervous and wi make up. Ho dresses very quietly witha geniloman’s taste and ovinces a notable dis- crimination in the matter of scarf pins. B3ut for his faint German accent in spealing English he might be mistaken for a young American of the most polished cluss. Alman De Gotha sags he is thirty-six years old, but he does not leok thirty, it as old, It s only in conversation that his added years become apparent, From the very scntimental complexion of affairs at present 1t quite seems that the resalt would have been the same if the prince had the good fortune to bo a thor- oughbred American and without anything to recom mend him to his bride and father-in- law except himsclf, Custle Schonstein, which will bo the fu- tura residence of the prince and princess, is quite o realization of tho dreams of all young ladies who read novels, It is located on o precipitous elf on the Rhine and its picturesque, 1vy-grown gray walls and tow- ers are tte most impising featuro m the landscape for many miles. It has the felicity of being nine hundred s old, having been built by the feudal Hauzfeldts and oc- cupied without a break by their descendants up to now. The estates are extensive and tho farms and woods streteh in ull dircetions over u picturesque, rolling country, sojthat the princess-to-be will be tho sovereizn of all she surveys in several directions at least, There are three okt s in ruins amoung other adoruments of the Fief environmonts, and the legends that cluster thercabout from the story of the sicge of 1848, back through the realms of semi-mythical tradition will be a Liberal education in yeowan bistory if any- body ever wasters thei, B HAWAII'S PROPOSITION, The Conditions Under Which She Will Trade With Uncle Sam, SAN Fraxcisco, Oct. 18.—Advices from Honolulu by the steamer City of Pekin say the Hawailun cabiuet, in response to a com- mittee of citizens who made inquiry as to the relations with tho United States, has is- sued a statement saying that as to the result of nearly a year's cousideration the minister resident at Washington has been instructed to ascertain whettier the governmeut of the United States is willing to entertain a propo- sition looking to the extending of treaty re- lations s0 as to enhance and inerease the com- mercial and political benefits now enjoyed, Should he find such willingness he is in- structed to open negotiations with the United States government for the conclusion of a treaty whereby the following objects may bo securs To continuo 1n forco all treaties and corventions now existing until it is to the mutual advantage to abrogate or modify them. All products of either country which are by virtu mitted free into eisher country suall be treated as of the country iwto which ad- mitted, ‘8. To provide for the entry iuto either country without duty all prodicts of cither eountry except opiuin, spirituous liquors of more than 15 per cout’ alcobol strength and all articles prohibited by law. “Lastly & positive and efilcacious guaranty by the United States government of the per- fect independence and autonowy of the Hawaiisn government in ail its dowains, and its right of sovereignty over_ such domains. 10 enabie the United States government to do this without davger of cowplication with other powers we do agree not to negotiate treatios with other nations without the knowledge of the United States govera- weat.” aslk the election of Major McKinley as speaker of the Fifty-first congress, Hon. Robert P. Porter, editor of the New York Press, a representative of the manu- facturers of the country and a standard au- thority on tho tariff, says to your correspond ent that he and his friends are for MeKinley, and that the because he wan natur: deepest interest in the s to preside over the house in whom they have always rccogni champion of thew industries. I have reason to believe that they have discussed the subject and that they will bring pressure to bearupon their respective congressmen, There has beon some talk of a formal meet- ing 1o be held just before congress convenes for the pury McKinley, will, I think, be his largest and unle for Mr. Reed are founded o: think that either of the delegatious are solid for anybody just yet.” publican congress lar thing to make Arizon: erty something over §2,000,000 during the cuitu totho ¢ Ohio, New Yorls or any othe re in the Old Domunion, and then 1t is very n the national capital. is Representative Cheadle, of Chy outlools, it secms, position of the biurbons is concerncd. Ho has written from D: spondent as follows: democrats arce so pi and it looks as though a full ballot an count would be impossible, Under the cir- cumstances it would be almost a miracle for the negroes from voting in Jackeon w In the courso of his re in bloodshe low giv Wo propose to wive those who have been the penitent to the causcs, however, the d duy made the drst practical meve to avoid desertions, General order "No. this afternoon, directs that hereaftér thero shall be au interval of six day of enlistment ai of taking the oath. Durin the vecruit will be known as a *‘recruit on probatior new) step he will giy and see Lim for five years of sorvice. Many a_new recrit will be very willing to take off his uniform before the day col the oath, and thus the ar tion. Expericnce has proved that a larg proportion of the deserters are men who re- gretted their action after enlisting and who are the very outset todesert, 1by this n the wan may leave it 1f ho deserting, and the army is sayed ao unwill- ing soldue punishing for ye of the reciprocity treaty ad-» give to the press the entire roport subuii by the board appointed o investigate Cot- missioner ‘Panner's adwinistration of the pension oM to-nig emplo i v jurisdiction over the management of the pen- sion oftice, is but the first installment of what is L0 be a vigorous defen; the administration taken in relation to the mauagewent of the peusion ofice uuder Tan- OMAHA THE MANUFACTURERS' MAY, Major McKinley's Backing for the House Speakership. ARIZONA WANTS TO COME IN, She Will Lay Siege to C; Winter—The Virginin Campaign— Solving the Desertion Prob- lem—Army News, 513 FOURTEENTIL STREET, Wasnixaroy, D. ¢, Oct, 18 There are good r the manufacturers of the country WasnINGToN BUreAu Tie Ovama Bes, } Yhio man will be elected, To- “I believe Major McKinley will be elected 1 and proper that the; ole of formally endorsing Major may may poll the biggest vote, but his first vot goes through with a rushon that bailot 1 think his following will atonce begin to drop off. ‘Therc are many congri willing to give Mr. Reed their first vote well carned compliment, but who after will consider thimsely s at liborty to vote for their prefercnce. 1 don't believe that the statements to the effeet that the New tions are solid York and Pennsylvauia del fact. I don't ARIZONA'S ASPIRATIONS. ““Wao.-shall make a vigorous effort to induce congress to admit Arizona to statehood thie winter, or rather provide laws by which we may come m some time next year,” says N, 0. Murphy, who is the of the ter- . ‘As to sretar nd who is now in the ritor what the politics of Arizona will be I do not 10w, it i uncertain, but sure it1s that are- ould notdo a more popu- republican. perity with us has “The outlook f I never been brighter. The output of metals will be 1 rger this y cording o the of the te ar than ever before,and t rolis, tho prop- itory has_ increased last twelve month; e prmeipal agri- al valleys are attracting widespread attention, not only for the variety but quan- tity of their products. When the railroads now being projected 1 Arizona are com: vleted, bring commercinlly and_furnishing ch better change of commodities for homo consump- tion, us wel successfuily comy & communities closer together aper and ties for traffic and the inter- s oxport, then Ar te with any ot Arl ona will com - zona will make 1th'in the uio: mon we afight with Wyoming and Idaho to secure tateinood at the approacning session of con- gress, and the prospects are that the ad- miss10n 1o the union of more new states will be a feature of the winter's work “in con- gress. THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIG Much more interestjust now at ampaign pending in V ches here inin than in for the o0 that there are doubts as to the result ‘Among those who are speaking for Mahono adle takes o discouragin o far as the natural dis- wille to your corre: At Danville the owners would not rent the theater or hall for republican speaking, und there i8 @ city ordinaunce prohibiting street speaking, 80 I could not_speak hero, A aity o1 12,000 people and nearly 5,000 white republicans’ in it. This couniry' is sixty miles sq miles in the country, T held asuecessful meet- ing to-day. Democrats camo to hear and we are. At Callands, tweuty-five made votes for the tickets, At Cailands [ met three old friends who voted for W. H. Harrison and General Ben. There are 100 white republicans in that precinct.” Mr. Cheadle goes on to say that the white udiced against the negroes thatthey are becoming alumost rabid, asfair N ahone to secure the returns from his elec- ou, Judgze Waddel, of Henry county, Vir- ginia, spoke toa crowd of 1,500 people on 13road street, Richmond, last hight, on tho methods pricticed by democrats to'p narks ho suid : 1t is wrong,and unless stopped will result Ho insisted that the negroes should be al- 'd to vote, and added: *“Weo intend to them a chunce to vote, and furthermore, keeping them from voring a chance W go to ry."” THE DESERTION PRODLEM. Secretary Proctor will reccive to-morrow the testimony taken by the board of inquiry appointed to asc are so many des rtain if possible why there rtions {rom the army, ng the mass of testimony as epartment to Without awai \ issued ays between the | the day this time ' The purpose of this innovation is clear. Tho six days’ 1nterval will give the y enlisted man a clance to repent of the bas taken before 1t is too late, It him also aslight opportunity to hear omething of the lifs thut awaits s when he takes is saved a deser- imost immediately letermined from W order spents without and th Pxpense of ca 's & cortain des NODLE'S FIRST LETTER. ecretary Noble intends in a 1 turing and ~ The letter which he gives for publication t reviewing ‘tanner's re-rating of t s of the vension office and reminding he, as secretary of the interior, had of the pusition of SATURDA ngress This asons for believing that intend to of Ohio, Baltimore American has this from its Washington correspcudent, who auotes Mr. Porter: is the man the mauufacturers They know that the tar!ff will be re. vised by the coming congress, and it is only should feel the on of that man d the ablest but I hardly believe that such a meeting will be held. Major McKinley not be elected on the first ballot in the cau- cus. On the contrary, Mr. Reed, of Maine, s he wmen who are s o that small iucendiary fives have occurred re- cently, Y MOR ner. It has been decided that the adminis- tration sido of tho case shall be given to-tho public in full, ARMY NEWS, Captain Lowis H. Rucked, Ninth cavalry, has been detailod as a nu‘m?‘er of the cour! martial to convene in Jefferson barracks next Wodnosduy for the tifal of such pris- oners as may be brought beforo it. Captain Willlam B, Spurdln, Twenty-first infantry, now on duty at the Unitea States military a ny at West Point, will pro- ceed to Greenwich, Rochester, Medina and Batavia, N. Y., on'public business and on the completion thereof will return to his proper station. Acting Assistant Surgeon Honry S, Has- ki is relioved from duty at Fort Omaha and will report in person to_ the commanding of- ficor at For® Sheridan, 11]., for duty at that s tation, relieving Major John Robinson, sur- geon, and reporking by letter to tha com- manding general department of tho gMis- souri. TSUL KWO YIN CALLA, The now Chinese minister, with one of his new attaches, who speaks English vory well, were making calls upon the delegates of the Tnternational Marine conference yesterday afternoon and to-day. Tho mimsier's name, as engraved upon his visiting card, is Mr. Tsui Kwo Yin, ‘Tho cards were turned down at the upper right hand cornor, which 1 the language of visiting cards, being interpreted diplomatically, means “affairs.” “The latest arrival i the diplomatic corps makes the first calls upon all the resident ministers, as do the new accessorios to the United Sta muke the first calls upon their seniors in offices, NEBIASKA AND IOWA POSTMASTERS. ebraska—Randolph, Cedarcounty, James ; IRaymond, Lancaster county, J.' Weller; Minatier, Cheyenno county, Willium B. Swindell. Towa—Clio, Wayne county, Perry Tullis; George, Lyon county, W. E. Stillwell; Mo- ville, Woodbury county, Barton I. Boyd: Yorkshire, Harrison county, Eli Vickery. MISCELLANEOUS, A regular meating of the cabinet was held this afternoon at which several important auestions wore considerad. Carter Clarkson, the son of the first asaist- ant postmaster general, who has been acting as his father's private secretary, has signed in order to continue his studies pre- paratory to entering Harvard college Pruny S, Hearm, THE CRONIN CASE, New Indictments Found in Order to Increase Batll Ciieaco, Oct. 18.—The work of securing jury in the Cronin case was resumea this morning in the criminal court. Jerry O'Dounell and Thomas Kavanaugh, of those who were rearrested last night on the new indictments returned yester were bailed out this morning, The state's attorney stated that the object in having the men reindicted was to have their bail tixed at w bigher figare. In cases of conspiracy it is customary to have an iadictment returned against all the prisoners jointly. Thic state's attorney also said there Was iothing in the rumor that this indictment held the prisoners for complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin as accessorics after tho fact. “Fhe grand jnry is again in session to-day, but_so far nothing importaut has transpired. The Journal says that additional evidenco has been secured against 13, W. Smith, oue of the men undor wdictment for conspiracy 10 bribe the jurors in the Cronin ¢ story is to the effect that two men volun tarily sought an interview with State's At- torney Longenccker last might and revealed to hir the fact that Smith had approached them with the suggestion that they could make money by acting s jurors-on.the Cronin case. They replied they had not even been summoned (a8 venire men. To this thoy said Sunth replied that he would fix it S0 that they would be summoned; that, if they would so frame their answers as to be accepted on the jury and would then hold out for acquittal they would be paid 31,000 each, The men are Messra. Francis and Wolf, members of a dry goods firm in Engle- wood. No additional jurors were secured in tho Cronmn case to-day. Michacl A. Manley, who has a room on Oak street opposite the residence of Alex- ander Sullivan, was before the stale's attor- ney this evening. Nothing of what Manloy said could be loarned from him or the state’s attorney, but the report became current that Manley was asked us to whetber ho had not seen Suspects Cooney and Coughlin and a Clan-na-Guel man named oy and another man enter Mr, Sullivau’s house together during March. Accompany- ing this rumor was the report that Manley’s examination did nov prove very fruitful, Another expressman has been brought into the case. He was taken to the stato’s attorney’s office to-night and confronted by young Carlson, a son of tho aged owner of Carlson cottage. The expressman, it is bo lieved, was subsequently taken to some se- cure place by the authorities, STABBED HIS WIKFL IN COURT, A Jealous Husband Frustrated in an Attempt at Murder. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct, 13,—[Special Telegram to Tue Brr,)—Henry Smith, a huckstor,w defendant yesterday in Justice Judkin’s court on a charge of threatening his wife's life, When Smith was led into the court room he aadressed the squire saying he was not ready for trial. Tho 'squire asked him if he could furnish boud, and then Smith turn- ing to bis wife, said: “Sco what you have brought usto, 'l fix you.” With that he drew a large knifo from his pocket and sprang ot his wife, Grabbing her by the throat with his lefv hand he plunged the knife into her throat within a quarter of an inch of the jugular vein. He s about to stab her a second time when ire Judkins and some of the spectutors sprang forward and cauglit bis arm. Inan instant the wildest confusion pre- vailed in the court room. Some women who vad accompanied Mrs, Smith ran wildly about screaming and a general rush for tho stairway leadin to the street fol- lowed. ~ Mrs, Smith fell to the floor insensible, and the justice and constable strugeled with the despéryte husband to pre- vent him from striking another blow. Smith was 800n overpowered and disarmed, but begged for the knifo that be might cut bis own throat, e trouble is due to jealousy and Smith red he had no regret for what he had done except that the blow was not fatal, L MAGGIE MITOCHELL MARRLED, ‘The Ceremony Took Place at Long Branch Jupe Hostoy, Oct. 18.—With regard to the re- ported warriage of Maggie Mitchell to her leading man, Charies Abbott, the Boston Herald announces on autljority that the cer- emony took place at the residence of the actress at Long Branch June 13 last. When Miss Mitehell marricd Mr. Paddoclk she did it so quietly no onp know it until two months had elapsed. She pursued a simi- lar policy on this occadton, for not even her uephew in this city wasinvited Lo witness the warriage, e SR CAPLAIN KIDD'S PETS, Incendiarics Found to Be a Banil of School Boys. IEANSAS Ca7y, Oct, 18.—A large amber of ‘The police have discovered that the iucendiaries were a band of school boys anging in age from eleven to fifteen ycars, They were regularly organized and called themselves Captain Kidd's Pets, The lead- ers are under arrest, Biz English Deal in Texas, Avsniy, Tex., Oct, 18.—The Capital Free- NING, OCT hold Land and [nvestmont company, of Bog- land, filed a copy of its charter with the secretary of state yestorday. The company's operations owbrace 8,000,000 acres of capital svndicate land in \he' Panhandie portion of the state. The capital stock of the compan 18 $15,000,000, ° 4041 $10¢ AR OMAHA DAILY BEE NOBLE'S EPISTLE TO TANNER The Corporal Had an Exaggeratod Idea of His Official Sizo. THE FIRST POINT SETTLED. Then He Had Little or No Notion That the Baw of the Land and Not Caprice of the Commis- sloner Kuled, Noble Rates Tanner. Wasnixaroy, Oct, 18, —Secreta first letter to Commissioner Tanuer on the subject of tho rerating of pensions 18 made public to-night. It is dated July 2. The secretary acknowledges the receipt of Tan« ner's Iotter of July 11, marked *tunoficial,” but which he could not receive as anythiug but an official paper, raising as it did tho question of authority batween the commis- sioner and tho secretary and asserting that the commissioner is to be the superior as to the matter discussed, “‘Your position in your own language, says the secrotary, “18 that ‘while the secro- tary of the interior has power to reverse the decision of the commissioner of pensions on appeal by a claimant against whom tho com- missioner has decided, on tho other hand, it for any rcason it should be held t tho claimant has been granted too wuch pension the commissioner himself is the only person who has the power to call a halt and reduce tho pension.” Tho commissioner 18 laboring under a great mis- apprebension, The secretary has power to correct any abuses in the bureau of pensions, or any other bureau in his department.” Tho secretary 1 support of his position quotes copiously from the revised statutes, and add “Itwill nov do to say that the secretary may not interfere aud stop by his own power the excoution of any orders obviously illegal and arbitrary. The secretary 18 reponsible for the conduct of the commissioner, is bound to see that tho law is enforced, that the pub- ury is not unlawfully invaded, and izen entitled to a right, whether pension, land or anything else, is not un- duly preferred either in the time of hearing or in the aliowance of money.” ‘The secretary takes up the rerating cases, which, he says, seem to be largely mere in~ ses of pension allowed for long pe o tho date of the examining sur s under the pending clum for increase. *In_fact,” he says, commissioner himself acknowl- edged them to be cases of increaso of pon- sions,” The secretary contmnues: “The ferred to were ten in number. In ¢ of these the claimant was an employe in_the pension bureau, receiving vy suflicient for his comfortable subsistence and was at bis work daily. They were associuted together; most of them had been in their places und Noble's former administrations, did not then prefer their They made them soon after the advent of the present administration. Thero ‘was no reason under the existing rales that their cases should be made special or rushed through in advanco of allothers, On the contrary, there was then, and had been for some yeurs, a printed rulo in full force that no cases should be made special exeept in cnse of destitution, or when the applicint was at the point of death, Yeu these cases wero all hurried through by your ordar, whilo hundreds of thousands of other appli- its wero awaiting throughout the land the allowance for the first timo [ T rENSION Nearly Five Thousand Men Wasminaroy, Oct al year 18580 of the commissioner added to the rolls 51,021 new pen nors, 1,754 we dropped from th ©paid for pensions ious canscs, ttornoys was £1 thiere has been pension claims, of the amount of pensions sinco 189 During the past rsed _on secount being originals At the close of the year there were ing unallowed 4 I'he commissioner re a8 bo asked to amend the act of Juno 1874, 80 us to extend the benefit of sion'laws to all pensioners have been granted by spec acts subsequont 81008 bo gran originating prior to 1881 during time of ommiends that the bo amended to grant pensions to thoso participated nlisted in the army or n d wero disabled therein. er recommends new logis- ualities in gthe subsequent ‘The commissio tho unfairness in vided by In the rutes now pro- Ho thinks this statuto should 150 s to permit u rate of $72 per month to be proportionately divided for disa- bilitios shown line of duty. ent to the sel injustice and of pensions to receive who were receiving £50 pe r month to those month at the date vision is made for grading tnis rate belpless on that date, but not re- who bave become totally helpless since that ull soldiers ar period recedes from us and o 1n limiting the application sion laws to those ntracted in th sailor who is moiw, or who may hereafter be such disability is chargeable to the tates or has been con- 2d therefrow.” ervice of the U sted since dischary commissioner first mortgage bonds. This o the for an ac bill to strike off some answe and for a settiement for some § mortga countin pany ul of trust bondssettiod, the trustees diseharged and an orde mortgages. IHollister takes ¢ claims that holder, has a prior right paid furth manifestly insufficient sum 15606 10 widows for the children under “The comuiissioner also favors a pen wales an carncst plea in their behalf, JAD ORI FR Secrctary Windom Refusesto Change Its Classification. 18.—Sceretary it made public the long expected lead ore decision. He sustains the present c admits argentiferous load ore Mexicofreo of duty. “The decision recites the uniform decisions ctice of the department with respect to the classification of these ore and says, in view of the fact that sinco the T Bee.]—The with the Louisville & Nashville by extend- ing its lines into the latter's territory, Pri- vate advices from Lexington, Ky., to- say that next Tuesday the its line bety ton, and wi will be opetied ssification that imported from of the bounty thoa government had promised them. Theso other pension claim- ants were, many of them, supborted by no such salarics as these particular men wero receiving, and the association together of these men, where by this preference seems to have been secured, and the subsequent al- Jowances obtainca'is m itself a fuct that shows that their purpose was to impose upon the commissioner, A further fact in each case is that the incre: vas allowed prior to the surgeon’s certifieato in the pend- ing claim, and that the sums allowed age gate over #10,000, “Neither you nov T can afford to act unon 1al_cousiderations in a matter of this magnitude, We arc cach bound by the law in ail things and it is our duty to take the law as we find it, We are to fully exercise at power given to either of us and 1o ab- lin from its abuse to ouy degres what- ever,” Iie seeretary refers to the dutics of the board of review and says it 18 an established and well known rule that the department will uniformly refuse to disturb adjudication of claims by a former administration excopt upon the most conclusivo cyidenco that error has been committed. “\When a question as to the pro- priety of a given rating is one of judgment merely, depending upon the weight of evi- dence, the department will not allow the opinion of to-day to _overturn the opinion of yesterday; and, furthermore, old cases will 1ot be reopened, reconsidered nor readjusted, except upon the presentation of new ana ma- erial evidence tending to show the existence of a paipable error or mistake, The depart- ment does not entercain the least objection to the increase of a pension, tho B se to commence under the pending claim us the w dircets and upon evidenee Lo support it,” T'he secretary then revi t considera blo length the cases of three of the pension employes whose pensions were rerated, aud concludes that_the rerating was illegal and unworranted. He adds: “ILwill pot go into the othe: are before you. I have said enough, 1 think, to show that the secreta v well call a halt until theso cases can be more carefully cases, 'They cxamined. I notice yousay in your letter that you have such regard for your ofiicinl and reputation that you will not these cascs to remain as are, but will order each claimant for medical examination before men whose word upon medical points cannot bo_ challenged, The questiou is not what may horeafter be fourd out about these men. Thie question is what should bave becn dono upon their record it stood when judgment was rendered. It may be that this government is strong and great and has at its command a surplus that no other nation cver had, but if sums of mouey to tue amounts ‘above mentioned may be_granted without uny further consideration of fact or law than secms to have been given in theso cases it will depend solely upon a single of- ficer's disposition whether the resources of tho government shall be sufiicient for its maintenance or not. ‘There are more than enough of these applications alrcady on file and increasing duily to_exhuust the sur- plus of which so much bas been said in con nection with this matter, and I am informed the applications for reratings are greatly on the increase, aud now reach the amoint of from seven 10 eight thousand a weel,” The secretary further says that he intends to have all these cases re-cxamined and has ordered an investigation of the pension ofl Pending the report of the investigat ing committee he will issue no further order, but expresses his beliof in his authority to control the abuses ia his department by any means be deoms legal and expedicnt, i b - A Pastor Falls From Grace. Cmicaco, Oct. 18, —[Spacial Telegram to Tue Bre)—Kev. 8. J. Backwell is a Meth- odist minister who resides at Fort Sheridan, wud who up to this morning has cujoyed the highest esteem of s flock. For some years the reverend gentleman hus also been the proprietor of & flourishing little grogery storo. To-day his congregation was aston- ishied and borrified to learn that their pasto had been arraigned by the eity oficials and fined on the charge of selling intoxicating liquor in the guise of a healing tonic, B The Weather Forecast, For Omabia and vicinity: Faw weather, For Nebraska, Iowa aud Dakota: Fair, xcept stationary temperature in Lowa, Winds becoming norther] al dceision congress has re-enacted th existing provisions of the tarifl with re RiEA o RaAE AR the recevership of Gene; late of the Wubash ores, the seci isting classitication. auotes from o judiciary committee of the L that ores of the ores contain- Gresham to-day. power to retuko the. Wabash _property if the new company fails in uny of its agreéments, senate last year to the effe character mention |, ingz more lead in weight than either gold or silver in value, ure ommitteo, subject but more golil not, in the opinion of the to duty under the e: The “Cannon Ball™ Dej A MEDICINE bound train on the Sunta I Three Ing ball,” reached here to-nizht e Him While SeaTTLE, Vi ish Indians—Charies Willams, Tom bagg: tourists’ the bottom of 4 ten-foot Howell, twenty miles west of Dodge City, brought to Seattle from ged with the muvder of Big Lob alias Big Bob, who claimed to be . ten or Indian doctor. sickness in the trib sponsible forit. I to kil him. Lim whilo the otier La Comer “There was much ndians were dent. Fo ‘They met him one cut his throat, from Tho Indians were arrcsted and for murder. one w sons were briised and more o A Civil Servie: Knot Untied. 18.—1n compliance with the president, Socilitor € erul Chapman rendercd an opinion upon the question submitted by the civil service com- WasniNGroy, Oct the request of bone bro about the head, M. Taylor was appoints a8 a railway postal clerk, or, did not take the oath of office when tho rule ay mail service should go v extended from March up whether lor, howeve until May 1, 1589, to inelude the raily: into effect having q 5 to May 1, the question or should not sorvice examinat i The Tourists Get Their I'he solicitor gen- fact that Taylor did not after May 1 cial unon the question of bis right to hold the ofiice to which 1t is understooa that a large n ontage of these ) OWing 1o Lhe s poiutees were, time, unable rtness of the n contended opinion was Rrr for coption was held at the city ball this evening, and to-night the tourists boarded their special train and started for South Bend, Appointments void, approved by the i WASHINGTON, special Telegram Origiual invalid Thomas W. Granborry. crease—Bradford A Pensions graute 1id— William Mcl Oniginal invi osh, Davia McFall, Res- 10— Suneon /elico, Lyman Carlos Chamberlain, Charles Corbin, Milton R, Davis, William 7, Van Buren Dennis, William Farnsworth Cobb, Charles J, Cla Increase—Godfrey PTG the delegates were becomin continued visiting of factor right,” said he. “Most of the gentlemen inal widows, ete.—Caroline, widow of Jumes de Adjourns The National Board ternoou to meet a determined, modification National Board ¢ LovisviLLe, Oct of Trade adiourned this year hence at a place South America say, but [ sincerely building un s wagnific o close communicatio crat itions opposing commerce a pooling, favo tional supervision of insurance legislation, favoriog a re- vast interests of South America v s0 closely allied to those of the Un thiat the por all its necessary concomituntsi” nd uniform h will not e trades, favoring congress for irrigation, and fayor relations with Canada w Jbarrass tho loring plans rocity trade v adopted, tho high s schiono » Marine Cont to do Ler shure o'clock this ine conference assembled, and consid of the international rules was resum ternational war of the State Medical soclety, ex-pre the Michigan A held the office of wayor of Lansing for three Thoe Dying Ki . 18.—1'he condition of the king of Portugal has become worse, ‘Ihe paralysis | | of his body Las lucreased, 3 TN T e IR TR 3 ioiaosstiins 33 % NUMBER 122 THE B. & N. AND NANITOBA, Positive Assertions Made That They Have Consolidatoed. THE MONON'S LATEST MOVE It is tapldly Extending Its Lines Inta Loulsville & Nashville Territory -A 3 a TraMo Arvangement, A Rumored Consolidation Telegram to |~Dispatches from New Yorl claim positively that the Manitobh and Burlington & Northern have formed their long-rumored consohdation. There was no Burlington & Northern ofielal in the city to-day, and the ouly ganeral officer of the Burlington was Vieo President Poasloy, who professed compioto ignorande of such a deak. That the rumor should originate in New York he considered suspicious, as if the deal had been made it would hnve been consum- muted in Boston. Tie B toduy Trafic Arrangement, , Oct. 18.—[Special Telegram nnsylvani Cireac to Tym Bee|—The Pennsylvania officials who wenton the recent junketing tour in northw close tarifl o st completed, while in St Paul, a angement with the St. Paul & Duluth road to conneet at Duluth from Erie with the Penusylvania Avchor line of steants era, which was lately withdrawn from the Lake Superior ‘Iransit company. By the opening of luth, Twin Cities & Southern will have com- pleted its hne to Omaha and_absorbed the present St. 1 tho Pennsyivania dir Omaha and the west, irrespective of Chicago roads, ‘Tho contract is at present in force between the Pennsylvania und the St. Paul vigation next scason the Due ul & Duluth, This will give et connection with Duluth and will” be continued under the name of the latter road, the Duluth, Twin Cities Southern, An O1d Ca Cmicaco, Oct. 18.—| Spe Revived. al Telo, m to Tk BEk ] —An old phase of the still older case of J. A. Ste vs the Wisconsin Contral railr first filed on December 1, 1873, most complicated picees of it ord, was resurreeted before Judge in the United States conrt to-d, art and Kdwin H. Abbott ad company, ud one of the ion on rec- esham . The orig- age was brought about over a matter of s a_motion on of New Yorlk, a supplemental s for reference 00,000 of first o bonds, Hollister wishes an ac- and the trustees of the railroad come > want one, but they wish the matter t of W. 11 Hol punting aud to fil issued 1o pay up to date the ceptions, He is a first ort @ bond- vud wants his bonds The trustees say he has no 1 other bondbold The Monon Eecoming Agzressive, Cimicaco, Oct. 18.—[Special Telegram to is pushing its fight 10! 4 Will open nd Lexing- town line Mon| cen Lawrenc 1 a week ihe Wabash Becewvership. Ciieaco, Oct. 18, —The decrec winding up Al John McNuita, oad, wis entered by creditors by Judgo The court rescrved the sent of gl i - - WRECK ON PHID SANTA PE, 1ed—Nobody vy Kan,, Oct. 18.—T Killed —About Twe HUTOMNSO! casts caunon > hours Late, with ouly the express car und two Pull- wman coaches. The balance of the train, consisting of a car, two Pullman conches and a 1 Pullman sleeper, were left at nbankuent near A broken rail was the cause of the acei- ung afire was prevented and 1 the passengers were quickly rescucd. No s killed, but a score or more of per- 88 njure Among the by ily injured are: Mr Dunkle, of Lamar, Mo. H. Atman, of Elgin, ill. 1188 Mary L. Upton, of Keoluls, Ia. H. Knapp, of Falis City, Neb., haud i collar D. 11 Lawrence, Kan.,.was hurs I and che AR AL GRAND RALU D3, 18t Coot Ree ception, From Jack Fross Graxp Rapins, Mich, Oct. 18.—~When the party of Pan-American delegates arrived hicro this morning, on the ground, wiich was e house, and when th make the rounds of the furniture factories, a I vefore Grand | ment and the city bicyele club.” In the after. noon tho prrty attended the running and w o vas u hea frost wething new to was taken at the Morton tesloft thero to Brealfust vas fired. An hour reviewing the pids batallion, the city fire depart- ting r the fair grouuds. The delerates were much interested in the furniture factories, of which there are wwo in Grand Rapids. An informal re- S1znor Quint Cnicago, Oct. 15, o' Views, Special Tele am to Tue ek |—Signor Manuel Quintano, repre- enting the Argentine Republic in the all- America congress, arvived in this city to-day, Signor Quintano is the most prominent law- in the Republic, and was twice president tine senate, “The stories circulated to the effect that tired of this o8, ete, 4re not enjoying their trip as they ney wselyes before, What will con: to better the relatic id your count enjoyed of this 5 between v 1 cannot hope it will result in ut trade. The two to bo brought inte It the present gen- 1 does not accomnlish it the next will.” 1o you then anticipate that some day the Il bécome d States established aud 1 the two countrics with ntrics destine cwill be an ant trade botw ‘[ do most assurcdly. 1t remains for the ited States 1o assert its prerogatives on ond Lelp consummate this Auierica is certainly willing Sout e The Denth Record, <15, Mich,, Oct. 18.—Dr, Ira Hawle tholomew, uged sixty-one, ex-president Lot {eultural society, and who La sid uve terws, died this woruieg of Lreke |