Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1889, Page 2

AN T0WA AN T0 THE FRONT. Mr. Ehurtleff of Waterloo Will Suc- coed Siloott. DIPHTHERIA AT FORT DODGE, A Circu- Work— De- gree—Other Towa Nows. Dental K iners Report lar Saw Geots in Ity Murder in the Sccond Sileott’s Sncoe Warenwoo, Ta, D 11.—[Special Tele: ! gram to Tne Bee]—The position made vacant by the def: m of Cashier Silcowt was tendered a few days since to W. Shurt- 1eff of this city. Ho accepted and left today for Washington to enter upon the dutios of the position. Mr. Shurtleff is a native of Illinois and is about thirty years ot age. He came to Waterloo avout tew y s ago and has been genoral agent of To the Northwestern Barb wiro company of Sterlinz, Il For sovoral yoars past e has been chairman of the republican county central committee for this county. A Threatened Diphtheria Epidemic. Fort Dowae, Ia, Dec. 11.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—There is much appre- Tieasion here over & threatened diphtheria epdomic. Two deaths and numerous dan- gerous cases wore reported to tho health officers this morning. The twelve-year-old daughter of Mrs, Patrick O'Hara was the first fatal case, dying late last night. Six others in tho family are suffering from the same discase. The ecight-year-old daughter of Bartlay Gilday died today after a brief straggle with the dread disease. An investigation by Mayor Pearsons and City Physician Palmer discioses over a dozen woll developed cases of dangerous diphtheria and numerous throat affections resembling it. Al possible quarantine pre- cautions are being taken to provent the spread of the disease. Arrangements have been made for removing some of the affected families into the country. The city schools ‘have not yet been closed, but many children are being withdrawn. Teport of Dental Examiners, Drs Morxes, Ia,, Dec. 11.—[Special Tele- grom to Ty Bee, |—The seventh annual re- port of the Iowa stato board of dontal exam- iners was received today by the governor. The sceretary states that since the last re- vort, November 15, 1888, licenses huve been issued to twenty graduates of dental col- leges, and during the year six permanent licenses have been granted to non-graduates who pasged the requirea examination before a full board. The total number of registered und licensed dentists in the state is 5ii. “Thiere aro over one hundred students at- tending lectures in the dental department of the state university at Towa City. The s retary calls attention to the urgent need_of increasing the license fee from $2 10§ a year and @ corresponding increase for licenses issued to the holders of valid diplo- mas, ‘[his, the secretary thinks, would give the board funds for the prosccution of their work with greater efficiency than is now. possible with the lmited amount at their command. The Saw Was Des Morxes, Ia, Dec. 1L—[Spesial Tele- gram;jto Tnz Brr. | —Albert Henning, a youns farmer living some six miles southeast of Mechanicsville, mot with an accident result- \ Motion. ing in his death. Ho was engaged in sawing wood only o short distance from his house, using @ large circularsaw, It became noces: gary for him to reach under the saw to take outa large ko, and in reaching under his arm came in contact with the rapidly revoly- ingsaw and was all butsevered from the body Mr. Henning av once started for the house. Reoching thero his famity bandaged tho arm %0 stop the blood which was flowing copi- ously, and sent to Mechanicsville for sur- geons. Upon their arrival the wound was dressed aud all possible done for the comfort of the man, but the flow of blood had been 00 great and he died in o short time. G. A. K. Election, - Missovnt VaLuey, In., Dec. 11.—[Special to Tue Bre]—Belden post, No. 59, Grand Army of tho Republic, of this city elected the following officers for the ensuing year ‘at their regular meeting: J. D. Brown, com- mander; C, H. Foster, senior vice com- mander; J. Q. Parks, junior vice commander; . N, Brower, adjutant; Willism H, Camp- ell, quartermasters M. 'A. Bronson, chap- 1gin} Isaac Blunt, O. D.; G. C. Walkor, O, G.; A, H. Livingstono, surgeon; E. A. i jor; A. H. Livingstone, delegate to state encampment; J. N. Brewer, alternate delegate. Runaway Girls. Des MorNes, Ia., Dec. 11.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—Two young girls, Myrtle and lvey Heywood, arrived in the city this morning on the Winterset train and it was found they had run away from home. They were in care of thewr father at Winterset, ‘who was divorced, and they preferrea the mother’s charge, she living in thus city. So they ran away. ‘The sheriff took charge of them, placiog them in the care of Jailer gpe'xllmun until an officer arrivos to take them ack. Awarded a Railroad Contract. Swovx Crry, Ia, Dec. 11.—[Special Tele~ gram to Tne Bee.]—Reynolds Brothers were today awarded the contract for grad- ing and bridging forty-ive miles of the Sioux City & Ogden ruilroad, The section is in Nebraska between Plainview and O'Neill, Found Dead n the Field. Hamnura, Ia., Dec. 11,—Special Telegram to Tue Ber, |-W, H. Gandy, a prominens farmer resuling nine miles east of Hamburg, was found dead ip his field. A post-mortem -examination revealed u rupture of tho heart, and deatn is supposed to have been instan- taneous, - Murder in the Second Degree. MaxsuaLLtows, Ia, Dec. 1l.—[Special ‘Telegram to Tug Bee.]—After being out all night the jury 1n the Neel murder case ut Grundy Center returned a verdict of murder in the second degree against Nelson. White, the principal, will not be tried till the next term of court. An appeal will be taken in ‘the Nelson case to the supremo court. A County Treasurer Gone. 8ao Crry, Ia, Dec. 11.—[Special Tele- gram to Tus Bee |—Thomas J, Marks, treasurer of this county, died here this morning, Mr, Marks had been il with pleurisy only four days. He has been treasurer for four years and was highly re- speoted. A Fire at Stuart, . Dgs Moixzs, Ia., Dec. 11.—The opera house block at Stuart was destroyed by fire tonight cuusing losses amonoting to $18,000. The ‘business portion of the village was threat- enod for a time, and aid was seut frow this city. An Old Railroader Gone, Pixe Bruers, Wyo, Dec. 1l.—Thomas Green, one of the oldest track men in the + Union Pacific service, died this evening from bemorrhage of the lungs, He will be buried at Choyenne on Friday, e Sailed for the Isthnus. < Pamis, Dec.#llL—The commission ap- pointed by the ligudator of the Panama ‘canal company to examiue into the affairs of the company oi the isthumus, has sailea for Aspinwall, el { The Department Olosed. ' WasmiNevon, Dee. 11.—The state, war, "H and treasury departmonts were closed &t 12:30 this afternoon in honor of the cen- - veunisl colebration, ; — - The President in Washin zton. Wasuinorox, Dee. 1. —Fresident Har- vison returned here st 8 0'clock this mornivg , from his trip to Coicago. HIDDEN GOLD UNEARTHED. €outh Carolina Treasurs Scekers Make a Find at Plattsmouth, Prarrswouvrn, Neb,, Dec. 11.—[Special to Tne Bee)—A small fortune 1 gold dust, which was buried npear this city by a man named Henry J. Hopkins in 18060, was un- carthed yestorday aftera secret search of many days by two of his surviving heirs, Messrs. A. R. and P. E. Torey, of Charles- ton, S. C. Tho scarch for the buried treas- ure was conducted so slyly that no one knew the business of theso gentlemen in the city until yesterday afternoon—after the gold had been found. When interviewed by Tne Bee correspondent Mr. A, R. Torey wid his story as follows “In 1849, when the gold fever of California wus raging, wy uncle, Henry Hopkins, a YOUNg man about twenty-two years old, was then living with his father's family on a plantation near Charleston, S. C. The fam- ily consisted of Silas Hopkins and wife and three childron—Henry, Richard and Mary, atter being my mother, Henry caught ,in company with Ira Gooaell, a neighbor’s’ son, started for California to seek his fortune “After having labored hard for ecleven rs and accumulating a smail amount of alth, early in the spring of 1860 the two compurions started on their homeward jour- ney. Hopkins had been favored with good fortune, while Goodell, who was a reckless fullow, had becu shadowed with misfortune, aud had saved barely enough money to carry him to his home in South Carolina. Goodeil was very envious of Hopkins' good luck, ns is shown by u lettor received from Henry a they lunded here. Why halted in this city is not known. Shortly after their arrival Goodell fell in h some tough characters and drank freely, and_one night while Hopkins was aslecp in his tent, attempted to rob and murder him. Hopkins, secing his danger, determined to nide his treasure until he could evade his companion, and then to re- turn and get it and proceed on his journey. He wrote u letter to his father, stating what he had done, and fearing that he might bo murdered for his money, sent a complete description of the spot where the gold was buried; nlso saying that if he should not reach home in a reasonable length of time, to send his brother Richard after the hidden treasure, Early in 186i, before the letter had reached its destination, Silas Hopkins and Richard enlisted 1n the confederate ser- vice, Silas was lkilled in the early part of the war and Richard, though seriousiy wounded, recovered. “Up to the close of the war, nothing more had been heard of Henry. Supposing his brother to have been murderad, Richard came to this city in 1866 and after a search of three weeks failed to find the hidden treasure. He returned home much discouraged, thinking that Good- ell had murdered nis orother Henry and tound his gold. Goodell did not continue his journey homeward, but returned to Califor- nia and was killed in a drunken fight two ars later. 'At the desth of Uncle Richard, a short timo ago, the letter written by Heary came into my mother's possession and my brother and I concluded to see whut we could find out about it. We came to your city last woek and have worked hard to discover the spot where the gold was buried. We did zet discouraged aud were just prepuring to stop digging when my spade struck a laree rock. This gave us new hope, and uncovering tbe rock, which was about two feet square, we raised it up and you ean imagine our surprise when we beheld a copper camp kettle con- ning seven buckskin sacks full of gold dust. We had the gold weighed and it is worlh about §7,000, enough to pay s for our trouble.” The gentlemen worked secretly until they had gained possession of the lost treasure, which it is supposed cost their uncle his life, as he has never been heard of since writing the above meutioned letter, They refused to gve the location of the find, any farther thau to say that it was about two miles south of this cityon a_high cliff overlooking vho Missouri river. They seemsd o be in a great hurry to get away from town and did not tell of their good luck until a short time before they doparted for the east. —— A FATENUL FIRE. d'he Destruction of Salvador's Nation- a1 Palace and its Results. New York, Dee. 11.—|Special Telegram to Tue Bee.]—A letter received today from the city of San Salvador regarding the destruc- jon of the national palace of Salvador by fire recently, says: The destruction of this historic edifice blots out many a page in Central American history, as all the national and international archives of Salvador were destroyed as well, The palace was unin- sured, and $300,000 could not replace it. Fortunately the disaster was unattended with loss of life. All business with the gov- ernment 18 practically suspended for the time beinz. 1t 15 almost impossible to con- ceivo the great unportance of this building, but when it is borne in mind that it include the balls of congress, the offices of four sec- retaries of state, the president's ofice, the national treasury, supreme court, superior court of appeals, besides the ofices of the liquor, mternal and maritime revenue, together with all their archives and histori- cal documents and treaties, one 18 not sur- prised that the destruction of all this valna- ble property, apart from the building itself, must be keenly felt by the peoplo of Salva® dor, and 1n fact of all Central America. It is wot yet known Low the fire origin- ated, but many strauge whispers now afloat bode no good 10 the prevailing peace of Cen- tral America; and if rumors be true it wiil not be long before another forcible attempt will be made toeffect a uunion of the five repubiies of Central America—Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rico. There is talk here that the fire flend’s work was due to an incendiary wlo was on agent of the unionists, and conpled with the deed is the story of a very pretty piece of international intrigue which gives the color of truth to the rumor of incendiarism. L Nebraska, Jows and Dakota Pensions, Wasmxaroy, Dec. 11.—[Special Telegram to Tae Bee)--Pensions granted Nebras- kans: Original invalia—John Frederick Appubn, Greenwood; George Thorndyke, Alton. Increase--Melvin Z. Barnard, Cedar Rapids; William T. Beatty, Gibbon; George E. Taylor, Xulo; Shepard Hell, Lincoln. Reissue— Amos Sherman, Moline. > Pensions for lowans: Originul Invalid— Solomon Jackley, Marble Rock; Joseph Aunsell (deceased) Excelsior; Patrick Harri- son, Groneli; John W. Douglas, Whito Onk; Charles W. ‘Srockhouse, Onawa; Willlam McClure, Hill Judd. Increase— Joseph E. Hamilton, Colfax; Russell Tom- linson, Humestone; Alfred Grayson, Albi Wiunfield 8, Harper, Keokuk; Joseph H. Col- son, Marengo; Aaron 1, Ord, Fort Dodge Samual H. Smith, Walnut City; Jesse Wro- ten, Independence; Thomas Turner, Punora; Samuel Petters, Carlisle, Reissue—Johu R. Wetherell, Lisbon; George H. Hughes, Bolknap; Peter Tenbager, Palla; John L. B, Harndon, Allerton. Peusions allowed Dakotan valid—Peter Anderson, Miller. James Doyle, Hope. i Left the Safe Locked Up, New York, Dec. 11.—Martin Alpers, of the firm of Alpers & Swarthout, wholesale coal dealers, who are reported in fluancial difi- culties, has not been seen at the office since last Thursdny. His partner, Charles A. Swarthout, said that on that day Alpers went wway, prosumably to bis howe in Woat erfield,JN. Y. As he alone had the combina- tion of the safe and as all the books und ac- couuts have been locked up ever since, there are.no means of kuowing auything about the state of affuirs. ————— Evervthing Tranquil in Brazil, Loxvox, Dec. 1L—~The manager of the National $Sank of Brazil, referringto ad- verse Engush comments regarding the sta- ‘bility . of the republic, teleg: that the comments are groundless. He says com- plete tranquility prevails throughout the country and the people huve euntire confi- dence in the govermment, Everything pro- gresses well, —p—e The Whitecap Outrage. Hovvoxe, Wyo, Dac. 11.—[Special Tele- gram to Tar Bew]|—Everything s auiet here today in the matter of the whitecap outrage of Buuday wmorning. However, business 1s aluiost suspended wnd men staoa in small koots 03 the street corners xm’nd! talking tho wattor over aud are aul § Original in- Increase— THE OMAHA DAILY BER:THURSDAY, arrests of certain suspects. George Ellis started for Nebraska this afternoon by team and being one of the parties that are bein watched by the officers papers were issue for s arrest and officers starced in pursuit at5 o'clock. Up to 10:15 p. m, nothing has been heard from the p vers, A NEW MOTOR. It is Declared to Be the Best Yot Ine 'or Street Raliways. Mixxearorts, Minn, Deec. 11.-~[Special Telogram to Te Ber | —Articles of incor- poration of the Cooper pneumatic motor company were filed toaay. William Cooper and George P. Hampton, two practical en- gineers, have perfected an invention which promisos to revolutionize all previous pow- ers in street railway trafc. For many months past their secret has been carefully guarded and the working model has been tested again and again behind locked doors and drawn blinds. After they satisfled themselves a dozen of the best engineers of Minneapolis were invited in to seo it work. They all pronounced it the most wonderful invention yet aiscovered for moving street railway trains. The stock is at present limited to $100,000, which 18 all taken, The new motor, which holly pueumatic in action,will be given a practical test January 1 on the Minnehaha and Thirt; first street line. Among those who have e amined its practical workings is Georgn W, Cooley, the well known engineor. He sad: “Iam folly prepared to say that for street railway purposes the Cooper motor will beat anything Lever saw. Iam speaking with some experience for I huve exawined eve motor that has been invented in this country in the last ten years. It is my opinion that it will supersede anything that has been put upon the market, It is so simple and yet so practical. When one sees it he says: ‘Why did not some one think of that before?’ It is not an imaginative scheme like the Keeley motor, It is practical and solid,” et WADDINGHAM'S WIFE. She Obtains a Chicago Diverce. KANSAS Crty, Mo., Dec. 11.—|Special Tele- fram to Tne Bee.—Mr. Wilson Wadding- ham of this city, probubly the larges individ- ual land owner i the United States, has just learned that his wife recontly secured a di- vorce from him in Chicago. The cnse of these people is an exceedingly strange one. For soveral years they have been estranged, but all that time Waddingham allowed his wife the princely sum of $25,000 yearly, with $10.000 cach to the four children. The di- vorce decree continues _the allowance. Mr, Waddingham came to Kansas City just at the height of the real estate excitement and made large investments here. It is said of him that at one time he won & large ranch in New Mexico at a two handed game of poker, the loser being a young Koglish lord, Mr. Waddingham was o poor man when in 1850 ho married his wife. He came west shortly after that and strack it rich in mining, Ho also obtained a large grant of land in Mexico and mado extensive aud profitable wnd pur- chuses in New Mex He has built at New Haven, Conn., u residence costing $305,000, which represents the profits on one of' his mines during the past ten years. Not Yer. Cmicaco, Dec. 11.—Tudge Horton of the county court said today that the story that Mrs. Waddiogham had obtained a divorce from her husband, the millionaire cattleman, was untrae. The case came up before Judge Horton last Saturday and the attorneys in- formed him that Mrs. Waddingham is in New York ill and unuble to attend, but they oftered her deposition. Judge Horton flatly refused to grant a divorco and added: *“Mrs. Waddmgham must be here. If she is sick and dies she won't need a divorce. 1f sho gets woll and lives, hero must she return. This thing of New York dumping all its divorce cases 1nto Chicago must be stopped,” i) FEDERATION OF LABOR, President Gompers' Report—It Leads in Membarahip. Bostox, Dec. 1L—At today's session of the Federation of Labor President Gom- pers’ report was read. There are afiilisted with the American federation 3,800 local unions and a membership larger than in any one organization in the world. Efforts to establish fraternal relations with and secure the co-operation of other labor organizations have met with-success. The isolated policy pursued by the locomo- tive engineers has prevented the establish- ment of a federation of the railway men. "The conference with the Knights of Lubor is still pending. Referriug w0 the farmers' organizations the report says that all propositions roceived were from employing farmers. “’he eight hour question is recommended 10 the consideration of the committeo to be digested and roported. In the matter of labor legisiation the fed- eratious should formulate the legislation that labor demands, A more strict enforce- ment of the alien contract labor law and the Chinese exclusion act is set forth. Special attention is called to the condition of the coul miners, Speeches were made on the state of the different trades aud labor organ- izations, various committees were appoiated and the convention took & recess, Ilinois State Grange. SeriNgrieLp, 1L, Dec. 11.—The state grange is in session here. The executive committee in its report showed that fifty- two new granges with 2,500 members were organized during the past year. Resolu- tions were adopted in favor of changing the laws so that United States senators shall be elected by the people; in favor of the Aus- tralian election law; denouncing Governor Fifer for the appointment of a lawyer in- stead of a f armer on the state board of rail- road and warehouse commissioners; favor- ing an incrcase in the saluries of fourth class postmasters; favoring the free coinago of silver; asking the legslature to repenl the laws requiring assessors to take a report of agricuitural statistica, and in favor of holding the world's fair in Chicage. e English Oapital at Dulur Durura, Minn,, Dec. 1L—[Special Tele- gram to Tug Ber.]—Moses Greenwood of St, Louis is here in the interest of Hon. T, P. O'Connor, Spencer, Balfour and other prom- inent Englishmen and several American cap- italists closing up & $1,000,000 cash transac- tion in realty, the details of which wil be fully made public tomorrew. " ‘The Vanderbilt party here yesterday bought an_extremely valuable quurter sec- tion of suburban land with extensive water froutage at $1,000 au acre. bl Business Trouble Aniuivg, Kan,, Dec. 11.—Careful estimates regardi ng the failure of the First national bank place the liabilities at $181,000, aud the assets, mostly western land mortgagos, au $210,000. The Kansas farmers' insurance company, of which Prosident Bonebrake of * the bank is also president, will be somewnat affected by the Zailure, but no danger of sus- pension is feared, ToLevo, 0., Dee. 1l.—H. C. Haskios & Company, commission merchants, have failed; liabiiities, §060,000; essots between $40,000 and $45,000, Coruamsia, 8. C,, Dec. 11.—By the prema- ture explosion of & cannon used in firiug salute today J. E. Fouche was bu}xlly buraed, He will probably lose his eyesight. B. W. Blantou bad a hand shattered, his arm laver- ated and was otherwise wounded, Soveral others were slightly injured. The caunon Was the one uu‘ 1o firing the salute when South Carolina seceded from the unien, It was fished out of the river sowe ganu ::n where it had been thrown when Sherman’ army was about to euter the city. e —— Snow Btorm in Germany. Coroane, Dee. 11.—There is a great snow storm through all central G-mllu"“ Au n:- Thuris railwi well as el those in m"ui'fl':“mm::' o‘:- 80 obstructed that travel is, for the time, at au oud. B — Dead in Bel, Povenkeersig, N, Y, Dec, 11.—Rov. J. R. Kendrick was found dead in bed by the side of his wife this worni Kendrick was at oune time president of Vassar college wnd was widely known, FORUEST CLOSES, Dinan's Whits Horse Gots Consider- Able Attontion. Cit10AGo, DES. M. ~At the opening of the Cronin trial this fnorning Forrest resumed his address to the jury on behalf of the de- fendants, Hebagan with & long argument to show thatthe horsa which drew Dr. Cronin away td is death was not Dinan’s white horse. Forrest cited the probabilitios from Cough- lin's words wnd mctions in favor of the theory of mngécnee, **Why shonld Cough- lin harm Cromn?!” said he. “Cronin had never injured him in any way, Don't you soe the whole thing is absurd?" Forrest said Martensen, the oxpressman who hauled the furniture to tho. Carlson cottage would have been suspocted of complicity had he been an Irishman. He argued that, there was no evidenca that Burke fled 1o Winnipeg. When questioned by the police he voluntarily gave his truo name and alias, Thera was absolutely evidence that Burke was at the Carlso tage on the night of tho murder. closed his argument, which had lasted thres days and a hulf, with an appeal to the jury for acquittal, and the court ' adjourned until Friday. i Silaggseiay THE “ROASTING PROCESS." More About the Operations of the Kansas Sugar Company. Kaxsas Crry, Dec. 11.—A special from Ashland, Clark county, says: Further in- vestigation into the operations of the sugar company shows that the frauds were moro exiensive in this county than at first in- timated. The company erected a mill at Mincola and asked the six surrounding town- ships to each vote $15,000 in bonds for 1ts support. The bonds were voted, but not de- livered when the exposure was made. The president of the compan A. H. Hamilton of Mead City, Kan, claimed an extraordinary product {rom what he detined as the “roasting process,” the se- cret of which he refused to divuige. The secretary of the state board of sagriculturo will make a thorough examination of the op- erations of the company and see what can be done in the way of instituting legal proceed- ings. it el PECULIAR STYLE OF BURIAL. An Eccentric Man's Will Provides for a Remarkable Funeral. Bavrivone, Md., Dec. 11.—|Special Tele- gram to Tis Bre.|—A very peculiar will of a vory eccentric man has been filed in the probate court. The deceased was captain H. Smith, son of the late Hon. Lewis C. Smith, n former president of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal. Captain Smith died in Kansas City. After some bequests Captain Smith directs that his funeral expenses shall not exceed 30 und that his remains shall be conveyed to the burial pluce in a spring wagon. The body is dirceted to bo wrapped 1 a cloth, packed in unslaiced lime, and_some one, who shall receive §5 for his services, is to' ponr water into his coffin until the body is cremated. His will directs that if hedies during the day his body shall be buried one hour before sun- set, and if he dies at night his burial shall taiso place on. hour after sunvise. It also durects that his name shall _be placed upon the family vaultin Rose Hill cemetery in Hagerstown, but {hat the ashes shall be sent to Kansas City for burial. The estate amounts to ubout §50,000. oo CHARGED. WITH MURDER. A Cowboy Arrested for Kiliing His Companion Three Years Kaxsas Crry, Dec. 11.—| Special Telegram to Tk Bes. | —John Stravello, for two years a bartender at Ed Kelley's place in this city, was arrested this afternoon charged with the murder of “Lee Hamblott, 1 Custer county, Colorado, three years ago. Stravello and Hamblett Wote young cowboys together and the latter ,had, saved something like $1.600 in cash, which he kept on his person. The two cowboys were suddenly missed from their haunts i Custer ceunty, but nothing was thought of the matter for a year and a half, when the skeleton of Hamblett was found in a ravine. It was easily identified by the boots, spurs and hat, and subsequent investigation proved that the murder bhad been committed by shooting. Officers at once took the matter in hand and Stravello’s disuppearance was Jooked upon as a solution of the crime. Detectives have boen sifting the matter thoroughly and Stravello was finally located here and arrested this nfter— noon. He tells a wild story about the roam- ing disposition of his friend Hamblett, how he sold him a pony %0 g0 to New Mexico on, and how he never saw him agam. Tho sheriff of Custer county, Colorado, says Suravello will be convicted. ———— THE HOG CROP. Reports from Thirty Different Points. CixcisNaTy, O., Lec. 1L—Tomorrow’s Price Current will say: Hogs have been margeted in enlarged numbers the past week, returns from thirty vlaces indicating @ total of 465,000 against 405,000 the preced- ing week and 840,000 last year, Total from November 1 at these places 2,100,000, against 1.785,000 & year ago. Compared with two years ago thero is @ moderate decrease, Cowmparisons for the season of the under- mentioned places: TLH000| 10,0001 117,000/ 001 8t. Louis 2 Indiananolis . Cineinnali Milwaukee. Sioux City. . Dedar Ropids Cleveland. Lonisville, Ottumwa. .. Keokuk - Nebraska City St. Joseph. . He is an Embezzler. BiNomanrrox, N. ¥, Dec. 1L—What was at first considered a simple assignment for the benefit. of his creditors by E. B, Hem- mingway, a druggist and private banker do- ing business at Whitney Point, this county, is now ragarded as a mattor'of grave impor t- ance. Yesterday the creditors learning that Hemmingway had ot been seen since Satur- day instituted an inquiry avd 1t was sscer- tained that he was an embezzler to the extent of about. $75,000, e Influenza Epidemic Spreading. Panis, Dee. 11.-7The influenza epdemic in this city is sppeading. The disease has made its appedrauce in the barracks, the markets and the ficole Centrale, The medi- cal report shows that there are 670 cases awong the employes in the great Ary gogds store of the Mugasin du Louvre. In other large stores it provails to an extent equal to that in Louvre. : v ——— Assuming Large Proportions. Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 11.—The strike on the Cascade difision of the Northern Pacific railvoad which bezan last Sunday snd which up to the present time has been considered a local matter thredtened to affect the whole roud. Not a freight tram has arrived or de- parted from Tidoms or Seattie for three days. The freight trafic from Helena to Tacoma is practicdlly suspended. . e Bishop Tuizg's Burial. < Art00NA, Pa., Dec. 11.—The funeral of the Rt. Rev. John Tuigg, bishopof the Pitts- burg diocese of the Roman Catholic church, took place this morning, the remains being interred in, St. Joha's cemetery. At the funeral services church notables were pres- ent from all parts of the country, amon; the number being Cardinal Gibbons sn Archbishop Ryan. e Dr. Olson's Successor. Mirgugr, 8. D., Dec. 11.—[Special Tele- gram to Tug Bee.]—F. J, Cory of Redfleld, amember of the beard of trustees of the state Uuiversity, was in Mitchell today. Lle said the board had just exteunded & unanimous call to the presidency made vacant by Dr. Olsou's untimely death to Dr. Witliam R Harper of Yale. Dr. Harper was a warm friend of the late president, and if he ac- 1889, on the university @s bogun by Dr. DECEMBER 12, copts will bo woll gualified to _carry work at the Olson. New Haves, Conn,, Dee, 11.—Prof. Harper of Yale has tolegraphied the trustees of the South Dakota state university declining the presidency of that institution, In & Healthy Financial Condition. Cramneriary, 8. D, Doe 11.—[Special Telogram to Tis Ber.|—County Treasurer Licas hns issued a notice ordering that all outstanding county wafrants boe presented for payment, ana notifying holders of said warrants that intoreston them has censed. This is gratifying to the taxpayers.of the connty. There is sufficient money in the treasury to take up all these warrants and the county will be entirely out of debt. resident Ward Dead. YaNKTON, 8. D, Dec. 11.—~[Spocial Tole- gram to T ~Rev. Joseph Ward, D.D., president of Yankton collego, died at 5 o'clock this morning. Ho had been here twenty-one yeurs and besides being a leade 10 all religious and church work, was active in niding all material intorests for the up- building of the city and state, His death cuuses universal sadness, Exprossing Their Sympathy. Huroy, S, D, Dee. 11.—(Special Telegram |—The death of Dr. Joseph Ward, president of Yankton coliege, croates doep sorrow here. Congregationalists held @ macting this evening, passed resolutions of condolence, aud sent a telegram of sympatny to Mrs. Ward and family and the college “faculty, and appointed a number of persons to represent Huron Congregationalists at the funeral Friday. ptrlo Light at Mitchell, MircitL, 8. D., Dec. 1L.—[Special gram to Tus Dee The electric plant, the franchise for which was granted sume wocks ago, 18 in process of construc- tion. F. J. Cram. a practical electrician, rep- rosenting the Northwestern Klectric com- pany of St. Paul is in charge of the work. el ALE LYNCHING, lele~ light A WHOLE Eleven Cattle Thieves Are Rounded Up and Hanged in Wyoming. Cuzyesse, Wyo.,, Dec. 11.—(Special Tele- gram to Tie Bee. |—‘Kettle” Jack and his hustlers, composed c¢f cattle thieves and cut-throats, made an 1ssue with the citizens of the Big Horn basin und the fittest have survived., KEleven of the bandit chief’s fol- 1owers were lynched and half a dozen more wero killed in & running fight. The story of “‘Kettle” Jack, who got his opame from the fact that he once fought a duel with an Indian using @ kottle as a shield reads like a ro- mance. About a year ago he and four companions appeared in the basin. They established a rendezvous in an isolated vai- Being reinforced they began to plunder. A first their depredations were coufined to the slaughtering of cattle for food. Becom- ing bolder the gang bogan to run horses and stock over into Utah and Southern Montana, Farmer Benjamin and two sons followed the thieves and made a fight for a bunch of horses, but were shot down and Jeft to rot on a _lonely monntain trial. The d had now become strong and contident. The basin is ninety miles 1 length and fifty miles in breadth, and its population is avout five hundred souls, The gang would run cattle off the range in duylignt and boldly offer them for sale ut trading points, Not long ago Jack abducted the beautiful daughter of u wealthy rauchman and a priest was captured and forced into marrying her to Jack. The father headed a rescuing party but was defeated. About one suonth ago Jack's rreat strength of character and executive ability threw the whole basin into a convulsion by the bold and startling announcement that he pro- posed to shortly establish a monarchy pro- claiming himself as king, The settlers held meetmgs and determined 1o resist such a proceeding to the death, Headed by a once noted scout they made a forced march to the mountuivs and confronted the outlaws. An old cannou was unearthed and pressed into service. Londed with log. chains, spi lead and all sorts of missiles it was fired iuto the pirate stronghold. The first discharge killed four men. The outlaws fled, but eleven were captured and Langed in' pairs to & cottonwood tree, Peace and order now reign 1 the Big Horn, el RS WIND AND WATER. Destractive Fioods in California— Storm in Pennsylvania. SaxTa Cruz, Cal, Dec. 1L—A cloud burst over Perry’s mill last night, Five houses were washed down stream. Jose Easton was drowned. There were several narrow es- capes. Sacramento, Cal, Dec. 11.—Reports from north of this city show that much damage was done by the water rising in the Sacra- weuto river and its tributaries, caused oy the recent rains. The river has risen over twenty-six feet above low water mark at Co- lusu. The levee broke below that town this morning, flooding thousands of acres. Hun- dreds of men are putrolling the levees wutch- ing for danger. Several washouts have oc- curred and a number of bridges have been washed away. C. T. Jones, at one time candidate for sheriff in San Francisco was drowned while attempting to cross a small bridge, the high water having washed away the approach. A man named Jostlet, hying near Colusa, is supposed to be drowned. A Pennsylvania Tornado. Pirssurg, Pa., Dec. 1L.—The most de- structive wind and rain storm thav ever vigited the western portion of Wertmoreland county, passed over the new city of Jea nette early this morning. Houses wero vlown down and utroofed, trees torn up by the roots aud carried long distances. ‘I'wo large three-story frame buildings were com- pletely demolished. No lives lost. —— OPIUM SMUGGLERS. The Capture of a Notorious Gang at Tacoma. Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 11.—|Special Tele- gram to Tueg Bee. |—Billy Euston and Jack Powers, with a confederate named Fisher, a conducter for the Northern Pacifie, the most notorious gang of opium smugglers on the coast, were captured by United States offi- cers toduy. Opium valued at $22,000 was taken from them. They threw 1,500 worth into the sound. e Northwestern Trotting Association, Cuicaco, Dee. 11.—At a meeting of the Northwestern Trotting association today dates were announced for 1590 as tollows: Kansas City last week in May; Terre Huute June 3 to 7; fowa City June 810 7; Janeville June 10 to 18; Cedar Rapids June 27 to 803 Dubugue July 1to 4. N, C. Blake of Cedar Rapids was elected president of the circuit and A. D, McKinney of Janeville secretary. el Mrs. Dom Pedro's Jewels Stolen, Lassoy, Dec. 11.—The ex empress of Brazl has received atelegraw from Rio Janeiro in- forming her that all her jewels bave been stolen, ‘I'nis loss will be a heavy blow to the imperial family. 1o the coliection were com- prised the flnest diamonds in the world. e Rumored Trust Collapse. PmiLapeLpiia, Dec, 11.—A private dis- patch received today asserts that the barb wire trust has collupsed. There were several points on which the manufacturers disa- greed, e -— Leather Works shut Down. Wanuky, Mass., Dec. 11.—All the leather works except one are shut down and a dozen employers wnd 1,500 men are discussing differences. e —— After Moussa Bey. CoNBTARTINOPLE, Dec. 11.—The American legation has decided to demand the trial of Mousse Bey for the murder of a wissionary. B Steamship Arrival At Baltimore~The Scotia, from Hamburg. At New York—The Wyoming, from Liver- pool. e ——— Rathbone's Remaius Arrk: Umica, N. ¥, Dee. 11.—The remaios of J, B, Rathbone, founder of the Kuights of Pythiss, arrived tonight. fENTS. Mr. Conried has strengthonod his opera company very materialiy since its last visit to this city. Consequently last night's per. formance of “The King's Fool” at the Grand was much the bost that has ever boen witnossed he However, thera is sull room for improvement, noticeably in the part of Archibald De Zarnosa, now bein by Edward S. Grant. It s supposed o be a character for low comedy business, but one would not think so after seeing hi it. The groatest stroke of policy was shown by Mr. Conried when he substituted J. F. McGovern, a fairly good tenor singe: King Philip for the big fellow who sustained that’ rolo lust scason and could not sing at all. Miss Della Fox, the clevor petito Yronue, was a member of the organization but it %0 happened by reason of iliness tha chorus girl known a8 Pedelford represont or in the cast both times that the opera in Omaha, On this occasion Miss Fox red and created a very favorable im- Joseph W. Herbert, the comodian mstallea as Court Jester when INitzgerala withdrew, aiso descrves favorable mention ald bocame quite a favorite here and has many frionds whose prejudices doubtiess lead them to over-rate his ability and in comparisén with him underestimate tHerbert, but judge tho two from an artistic stand: point and the odds are in favor of Mr, Her bert, Ho vertainly has a stronger aud more meloaious voice than the other and his action is also verv good. He sang a topical song last evenig that won him several encores and his delivery of tho joster's speoch was well done. Muss Holen Bertram and Miss Ada Glasea rotain thoir popularity, 8o much 5o that 1t is questionavte whethor *“The King's Fool” without them would seem natural. Miss Bertraw's splen- did voioe 18 always heard to exceilent advan- tage in every one of her numbers, There is no question that she is rapidly advancing to the front as a_ lignt opera vocalist. In addi tion to her natural grace and fine stago pres enco sho is thoroughly artistic in everything and casily wins the sympathy of an audi- ence, ‘The chorus is powerful, the suards drill perfectly, and the Vienna fencers ure a feature of the show, A prizo fencing mateh for £200 been arranged between ielen the Conried opera company nnd \W. H. Al- ford, o gentleman now residing in Or to take place at the Grand this evening v Sandy Griswold us reforec. Mr. claims he was once a member of Royal artil uad is swordsman, side has Snglehardt of th Alford Sussex therefore an expert Rosina Vokes closed her engagement, which was n sucoessful one, at the Boyd lust night. She delighted another large und fashionable audience, appearing in “My Milliner's Bill," Lord in Livery." The republican club of the Third precinet of the Sixth ward met at tho corner of Thirty-fourth and Decatur streets last night, There y a bare quorum present aud isncted. order of the Loyal Logion command f Nebraska wil hold their fourth auniversary and banquet at the Mil- lard hotel on Monday evening the 16th inst. Several distinguished people from abroud are expected. The commandery has ex tenged the hospitalities of the occasion to quite a number of prominent _citizens of the state, and an entertaining and iaspiring ime will be had. -——— Court Martial. A general court martial has been ordered to convene at Fort & Thurs- day, the 19th i The following ofiicers of wenty-first infantry will constitute the Captains Ebenezer W. Stoue, Louis S. Tesson, Joseph W. Duncan, Lieutenants Willis Wattich, Charies H. Bonesteel, Fred- erick L. Palmer, Almon L. Parmerter and Munroe McFarland. Lieutenant John S. Parke, jr., will be the judge advocate of the court. court: Sy, The Light Fantastic The first annual ball of the Sixth war band was held at Masonic hafl lustnight. Seventy-five couples participated. The ladies' auxilliary of the Turnve gave a hop at Germania ball rein which was largely attended. The second cotillion affuir at Washington ball was & briliiant sucoess B e General Sickles' Daughter Elopes. Winre PLaixs, N. Y., Dec, 11.--Miss Alia Sickles, a daughter of General Daniel Sicl les by his second wife, cloped to this place toduy with Thomas Dinban, a bartender at New Rochelle, and they were married by the Episcopal mimister. They went first to the pastor of the Catholic church, but Father Dunphy refused to perform the ceremony on tearning who the intended bride wus. They did not tell the Kniscopal clergyman that it was a case of clopement and he asked them no questions. Tho bride had but recentiy graduated from a Catholic conveut in Montreal. S Sen the “Great Father."” D., Dec. 11.—|Special Tel- Tug Bre]—Crow Kagle, Bird, Churger, Straight Head, White Swun, all Sioux chiefs from Cheyenno agency, bassed through here this afternoon on_tueir way to Washmgton 10 see President Harrison, In- dian Agent McChesney and Interpreter Nar- celle were in charge of the party. SR T Coonvy Caught Again. MiLwavkee, Dec 1L.—*Cooney tho Fox™ hus been found agam. A dispatch from Dodgevitle, Wis., says a prisoner who has been confined in juil there forsoveral months and who has been acting very mysteriously is believed to be the long sought for Cromn suspect, Going X TON, egram 1o Swift ZE A T He is Stark Dead Now. JACKSONVILLE, Fa., Dec, 11,—This morn- ing Liouis Witkovski, mayor of Starke, was shot und ipstantly killed by A. B. Thrasher, alawer. The supposition is that the deed was done in defense of a woman's honor, The ieath Record Manisox, Wis., Doc. 11.—General Atwood, sged soventy-five, editor State Jouraal, died this afternoon. ALpaNY, N. Y., Dee. 1. —James A. Grey, the oldest pianowaker in the United Stutes, is dead. David of the Kemp Claimas Searto's Ma; Syoxey, Dec. 1L.—Kemp, m 8 published interview, maintains that he is entitled to the championship made vacaut by the death®, of Seurle, P Prohibition Convention. Des Morxes, I, Dec. 11.—A call has been issued for the state prohibitiou sonveation av Des Moines Januury 9. o Ran on a Reef. Porr Towssexn, Wash, Dee. 11.—The steamer Michigan ran on Eaterprise reef yestorday afternoon, but got off aguiu with- out damage. et L e A DIEY. MILES—At Florence, last evening, Mrs, Bessie L, Miles, wife of John L, Miles, president of the Nebraska suviogs bunk, e Celestial ieporiers. North China Herald: The Chinese language, as the natives use it, has great force, fluency and direction. 1t is practiced as the nution is practical, and those who use 1t are too independent to abandon the speech and writing handed down to them through so long a line of ancestors. 1t will be made the medium of instruetion in science and is very suitable for becoming so. They have contractions for all their characters which foreign students do not trouble themselves to learn, but the use of which in fact qualifies the chinese to become shorthand reporters of speeches in their own language. They do not practice speech making, but if they did and if the native news- papers fofmed a staflf of short-hand re- porters they would not need to learn any foreign system. They can report quite fast enough themselves with alit- tle practice, snd they write the cou~ tractions with wonderful quickness. Their hand muscles are pliable, their fingors small, and the writing brush they employ is an instrument superior to tho steel pen or the quill. The seribes at an_imperial audience probe ably write all or nearly all that is said. ribes who are pard by the piece get through a large amonnt of copying in & very short time. Yet let no one expect a teacher who is paid by the month to write fast. e hus every reason to be clow. But copyists paid 80 much for a thousand charnoters try iy to transcribe as many thouss weolk as they can. The rapid work of such copyists, aspeciall, it they are allowed 0 use contractions the conclusion that, using Chinese characters akor says. could compete with roupean stenograpers may perhaps soon be brought to tral in Japan; whore many thousands are now learn- ing to write in the Roman characte The new school will procoed add short hand to Romanization, and then it will soon be decided which is the best adapted for swift and accurate reporting. As to whether they the quickest K- 8000 to - THE STORY OF MCGINTY, How He Came to Fall to the Bottom of the Sea, It is now generally conceded that the man who can’t sing “Down wont Me- Ginty to the bottom of the sea,” has no right to live. says tho New York Mail and Bxpre Everyono rvings it in, from the mayor to the bootblack. The verdant youth who answers the tele- phone gels it off, and the subscription lists are out o0 aid the family of the un fortunate man. No one knows who struck Billy Pat- terson, or what De. Johnson did with his orange peels,or iu what name the man with the iron mask chalked up tho drinks. It would be hard luck if Me- Ginty were added to that dismal list. The soug is being sung at the Four- toenth strect theatre—I'ox and Conroy do it. TFox explained the ovigin of the song 10 this way: [t was in Boston, and 1 was going home rather lateand I came upon n big Irishman leaning nguinst a lamp post. *Hello, my lnd,” snid he. “Ho **Like he; drin “Who are you? suid 1. “Faix,” said he, “by the greot gunof Athlone, I'm the bhoy who lives up to his income. ou o daisy,” smd come and have a a dhrink, and—with- we had more than day’s breakin', an’ by I'm broke.” And what’ hore. it “And where are you going?” “*Down goes McGinty to the bottom of the sea,” suid he. Ja x took his cue from this, went Lomoe and wrote out the song. Since that time it hus been sung from e very- where to the corner of O'Grady's lane gem of nineteenth cen- : opens thus DAN M'GINTY, arnin’ just atnine, Dun M ¥, dressed so fine, Shtood lookin' un agin a high stone wall; Whin his young friend, Pat McCann, ‘Il bet a foiver, Dan, to the top without a fal P! So on his shoulders he took Dan, % And to climb the lad began, N Aw “twas very near be did 1o rache tho top; Whin Mc ¥, thinkin’ thin That the foiver he would win, Let %o his houid an’ tuk an awfal drop! Clorus—Down wint McGinty to the bottom of the wa | Aud tho' he won the foive, rwas more dead he was thun alowve, Wid ribs an’ mose aw’ back broke from the fali— Dressed in his best shoot of clothes ! From the hospital McGinty went home, ‘When they'd fixed ache broken bone, To find he was the father of a choid. 50 1o velebrate it roight, Friens he wint out to invoite, And soon was driukin’ whisky fast and would { As he wandered down the strate, In his Soonday shoot so nate, Wid head hoild up us proud us Joun the Great, In tho sidewalic was a hole, For to recave a ton av cosl That MoGinty vever saw till joost too late. Chorus—Down wint McGinty ! to the bottem of the hobe, And the driver av the car-rt, Bedad, he gave the coals a star-rt An’ it tuk us an bhour to dig M- Giaty from the conl— Drossed in his best shoot av clothes! After this Mr. MoGinty’s adventures take on a romantic flavor. He wants to be a pugilist and smashes a trockmon’s head with a loaded brick, and **down gees McGinty 10 the juil,” The denouement is, of course, in the last stanza of this touching little song: When McGinty, thin an’ pale, Wan foib duy got out of jail, Ho wid love to say his bhoy was nearly woild, To his howe he quickly ran, An’ his wife—his birdy Aun— Butsbe had skipped the rope an’ tuk tho choild ! Then Le gave up to despair And piucked all s ripest hair! Then 11 an hour he stood by the river shore, An’ knowin’ well he could not swim, He did fooliskly jump in, Although wauter he bad never tuk before, Chorus—Down wint McGinty to the bottom of the say | An’ he must be vory waot, For they haven't got him yet. But his ghost 1s at the dock ivery marn at break of day Dressed in his best shoot av clothes, This is MeGinty's song, and yet somo people suy thut America bas no poets! We have! John Chenevix Wox, who wrote **Dan MeGinty,” is an American by birth, e An immense sugar plantation in Moreles, Mexico, with an sccompanying silver mine, has been sold to a London synaicate for $2,000,000, OWDER Absolutely Pure. owder never varies. A marvelof paicity, Tuls strength and waolesomeness More economil cal thin the ordinary kiuds, und cannot bs sol in competition with the multitude, of low e short welght wlum or phosphute puwders. ouly (ncans. ROYAL BAKING Powoss Co. 104 Wall 8t., N, ¥,