Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1889, Page 1

m THE OMAHLA ; NINETEENTH YEAR. AMONG MEN OF LETTERS. | The Ohristmas Season a Fatal One to Famous Poets. FORMER EDITORS OF THE TIMES, The Great rower Which John Delane Wiclded and the Hard Work Ho Did—~The One Great Mis- take of Macdonald, Christmas Season Fatal to Poets. (Compright 1559 by James Gordon Beanstt.y Losvoy, Dec. 4.—[New York Herald Cable. clal to T Bre.]—Tue Christ- mas season of 1883 deprived the world of Thackeray, that of 1850 removed George Eiot, and now, as it is retarning once more, Robert Browning vanishes from the scene. The greatest adwirer of the new generation may be forgiven for doubting whether the glants of the past, will be eclivsed by the men now playing prominent parts before us, ‘We can scarcely boast thut Swinburne sur- posses Tennyson, or that Buchanan throws Browning into the shade. Rider Haggard, James Payne and Walter Brant cannot muke us forget the day when Dickens and Thackeray vied wich cach other in providing entertainment for the public, and waen tho coustellation of which they wore the center included George Eliot, Charles Lever, Bulwer Lytton, Mrs. Gaskell, Wilkie Collins and Captain Marry- att. They have no superiors and but few equals. - For the time the public seem to have no relish for such work, as they did not art. But the consolation is that the voice of an old favorite will still be listened to, ond therefore two' volumes of poems just placed before the world containing Brown- g’s last and Tennyaon's latest work will be sold by tens of thousands. The English public never forget their old frienas. They ‘will put Browning's volume on their shelves with peculiar veneration, because it came into the world as the poet departed from it. He lived just long enough to hear from Lon- don by telegraph that the work had been most cordiully received, With these last mssuges to and from his fellow-men he passed into the unknown. The death has also taken plac last few days of a man wa public than within the far less familiar to Robert Browning, and yet' of some little iwportance in the world of letters—John Macdonald of the Times, He falls a victim to the Parnell commission. Few of the men who were with the nes in its valmiest aays now remain. In the whole history of the paper its power, circulation aud influence were nover so great as they were from about 1830 to I875. Since the latter date competition has been pressing more and more severcly upon it, and its greatest editor, perhaps the greatest editor that ever lived, hag been taken nway. I have scen some editors in my time, but none of them has been equal to John Delane, During his reign the late Macdonald was in the machine department, and cousequently he had nothing whatever to do with the direction of the paper. The place which he recently occupied was previously fitled by Mowbray Morris, who looked after the for. ceign correspondence besides attending to the general business of the property., Two men of the capacity of John Delane aund Mowbray Morris have not been brought to- gether in any newspaper. Very few mis- takes were made by the Times in these days. Mistakes of policy were of course committed and at rare intervals the paper might be de- oeived by one of its servants, but no great blunder was possible liko that which led to the publication of the Pigott letters, Delane and Morris were exceedingly acute men, ever on the alert und full of watchfulness in the interests of their paper. I have seen Mr, Delane at work long after his regular duties were over answering letters or putting things into shupe for the next day. He would often koep at his desk tll 4or5o'clock in the mormug, when the editorials were all read and revised. 1 have seen him go luboring through a proof of news and correcting paragraphs about an old woman slipping upon a piece of orange pecl or about some fire in a back strect, toning down the re- porter's fine English, changing side heads and even improvising the punctuation, What editor of a morning paaper takes ail that troublei Now Delane wrote but little, and he nover made a change o a man’s article that was not a change immensely for the better. In the depths of the dulluess of a London autumn he always could find plenty of good subjects. The contributor would go into his little room in Sergeant’s inn and oy caonot seo anything to write about today.” Detane would look up in astonish- ment and begin maming a lot of subjects, one after aunother, checking them off upon his fingers, My dear fellow,” he would say, “is it possible you did nov oos any of those.” In spite of his constant uight work he had a fresh, even ruddy cowplexion, and looked like a farmer. He was a sovere diciplinar- ian and yet very kina-hearted and tnoroughly sppreciative of good work. He did not praise very often, but when he did one never forgot it. If heordered one to the very euds of the earth, as he had a trick of doing ‘mow and then, one weut av five minutes notice, even though it broke up plaus for a lifotime. They who did would b dealt with Justly, Macdonald did not have the same vosition and certainly he never could have exercised the same degree of influence, No doubt, however, he was an efficient man within his limits and unquestionably he po sessed the confidence of his ohief, John Walters, to a degree which I am inchuned to thivk was never bestowed upon elther Delane or Morris, Macdonald had no will apart from Walters, or, if he bad, he wated till it become Wulters, by adoption. It1s 8 most singular thing that a canny Scott like Macdonald should have been duped so easily by the famous forged letters, There was everything W excite s picion in the circumstances under which theso letters were placed in Macdonald's hands. They were without envelopes. No fuquiries were made asto the source from which they were obtajned, nor was any in- formation vouchsafed. ‘Their contents were calculated to arouse incredulity, and the veuder was a person to be regarded with a great deal of suspicion, Evena raw youth would bave hesitated before publishing such lotters, considering the terrible libels they contalued, supposing they were not genuine. Macdonald, ws be admitted in the witness box, never asked whether they were genuine or vot, He knew little or nothing of the person whosold thew to him, Houston, He never lnquired where the letters dume from or whether Houston got them from Pigott. *I carefully avoided the subject,” be said. “Lunderstood that secrecy was to be maintained.” Aund tho great puper risked ita fortunes with so little care or forethought ®s that. Nothing 80 incredible and ioex- Plicable bas ever cowe to light in the annals m. There 18 no exvlanation of it Houston was anxious to make out a case against the Parneliites and he fell readily into the hands of Pigott. But why the Times should have fallen into the trap passes comprebension. The consequences of its error have already boen ve ous, and must be still more so. Not only has Parnell an action pending against it to which there is no defense, but dozens of others are to be brought. The re- port of the commissioners can scarcely fail to be acted upon promptly in the house of commons, and there will provably be a more or less direct vote coudemuing the "Vimes for libelling members of the house. Looking at all this, it is not surprising that Macdonald grieved over the blow which ha had incau- tiously been the means of inflicting upon the paper. His death may perhaps soften some of the animosities with which the Times was regarded, and everybody ought to admit that Macdonuld did not knowingly make himself the mouthpiece of Pigott. Waat of caution, which 1 certainly not in Scottish chura as a rule, brought about all the n 1 which threw 8o durk a dloud over his last days. A few words 1t bhas been stated - over agam of late that the princa of Wales is in a declining state of health, and this arises from his being greatly worried over some malicious reports recently set afloat concerning one of his family. To ig- nore these rumors is useless, and therefore it is best to deal with them at once by the dis- tinct aud very positive assertion that they aro untrue, The prince bas no cause for anxiety, and whatever investigations may take place at any time, neither he nor any one of his family can possibly be injured by them. 'To this statement you may giv fullest and widest interprotation, and you may depend upon it that events will fully substautiate it, A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. ENGLIsH GUSsLP, on another subject and over arious Irems Interest From t British Metropolis. LCopuright 158) by James Gordon Benn:tt.) Loxno: Dec. 14.—[New York Herald Cable—Sp lto Tur Bee.]—In the great international sneezing contest now raging England 18 seriously handicapped by u slow but her partisans hope that their cli- matic advantages will more than overbal ance this. In the last ten days the sun has studiously avoided interfering with the fog and the atmospiiere has beon wore than moist enough to draw the hardest microbe han ever engaged in the influenza business. Loudoners do not deny that influenza is rzmpant in their midst, but are loth to admit that it is communicated by a microbe on the ground that nona but the deadliest variety could exist here under the present conaitions. Nervous people are beginning to prepare to receive tho choler. Indications grow stronge. daily of a corner in handker-" chiefs, ‘The British lion has bogun to roar at Por- because Major Serpa Pinto picked a quarrel with Makololo, the Afcican poten- tate, shot several hundred of his followers to pieces with Gatling guns and captured two Briush flags recently presented to Makololo by the British consvl. Thinking himself de- serted by Englaud, Makololo threw up his hands. Portugul, being uudersizoJ ana con- sumptive, will naturally be comuelled to eat crow and pay well for the privilege Labor has struck the down grade. The Rgas stoliers of Manchester were beaten, and it seems certain that fow of the 2,500 strik- ing gas stokers of South Loudon will get toeir old places, as the company guickly ob- tained more men than necessary, The companies' victory will not be cheap, as it boards and lodges the uew men on the premises beside paying increased wages. Subscriptions to the strik- ers’ fund up to today amounted to an almost imaginable amount—3 shillings, One begins to hear talk of a coming fight between Smith and Slavin. The former's rtisuns now claim that Smith failed to prepare for the match with Jackson, Be this true or not, he was certainly beaten ia a most disgraceful way by the black, No bet- ting of consequence has been done yet. English sporting writers loudly lament Searle’s death, whom most of them uescrine as the best man that ever sat in a boat, They said the same of Hanlon and spesk of him now as *that wonder.” They ascribe Han- lon’s downfall as an oarsman to typhoid feverys the disease which 1ok Searle for a victim, Kemp's claim to the championship would not be recoguized on the ground thut Beach had no right to give it to him, and that Kemp has dooe nothing to uphold it. O'Con- ner has more backing for it in England than any other oarsman, and after him comes Stansbury. There are indications of another dock strike, The dock laborers refuse to load for any carter who is unfurnished with a union ticket, Ub to this time two hundred dock laborers have struck rather than break this determination. In the last strike the public was with them. ~Auother strike and on such a pretext may not meet with such treatment. ‘The dean of Westmiuster proposes to iu- vite the friends and admirers of Robert Browning to participate in mewmorial funeral sorvices at the abbey on the duy of the poet's funeral, Flosence St. John sailed on the Servia from Laverpool today for New York., Ten days ago she was reported dying. Bernard Quaritich will suil for New York the coming week, Among the luggage will be trifies of raro additions estimated to be worth £40,000. Among them is the Mazarine bible, valued at £5,000, a copy of the firat book issued frow the Caxton press, Carlo Menowu of the city council of R ome says he favored the establishment of an Awmerican bank with a branch at Rome, but bad wo idea the orgunization was to be on re- ligious lines, e Death of the Marquis De Oaux, (Conyright 1859 by James Gordon Bennstt.) Paws, Dec. 14—[New York Herald Cable—Speqiul o Tug Bek |—The death is announced of the Marquis ue Caux, who wus married Jn 1508 at Cappbaw, England, to Adelena Patti und was legally separated from her in 1577, B i The Weather Foreoast. For Omaba and Vicinity—On December 15, fair weather. lowa and Nebraske—Fair, warmer in Towa; stationary tewperature in Nebraska; Southerly winds, South Dakota—Fair, lower tempesature by Monday morning; south winds, e Steamshin Areivals, At Quecnstown~The Lord Cline, Philadelpbia, At New York—The City of Berlin, Liverpool. At Philadelpbia — Tne Prussian, Glasgow. e Murderer H was bapged bere yesterday in the jail yard. THE EPIDEMIC OF INFLUENZA. 1t is Now in Full Swing Among the the Population of Paris, WHAT ITS SYMPTOMS ARE. Interviews with So Learned Frenc hysicians Re- rarding ‘Malady —Va- rious Opinions Given, e of ths Supposed the The Scourge in France, (Copyright 1849 by James Gordon Bennett.) Panis, Dec. 14.—|New York Herald Cable ~—Special to Tur Bre. | ~The chianges in the weather have been simply friehtful in four, hours. The thermometer has 5 degrees and tallen 10 degrees. This morning was clear, warh and bright. Mem- bers of the jockey clubs strolled slowly through the Rue Scribe in spring overcoats, smoking cigarettes. This afternoon every- body was muffled up in furs and we had a biting snow storm. This evening was cold and clammy, while a fog has settied down upon us and cverybody 18 coughing und sneezing, The influenza swing, It has captured the mili- tary school of St. Cyr; it hus attacked the corps de ballet av the opera; it has made a clean sweep through the great shops like the Louvre and Bon Marche: in fact, nothing since the Eiffel tower has absorbed such public attention as this aggravating and mysterious malady the has swooped down upon us from Russia and today holds not 1ess than a hundred thousand Parisians 1n 1ts annoying but happily harm- less clutches. Herald correspondents wero sent out in pursuiv of information of this curious malady, and three of tha best known specialists of France were interviewed. M, Albert Robin of the Academio de Medicing expressed himself as follow b4 discase is known as more commonly in French as Five days awo I had my first case and siuce then I have treated at least twenty patients. Unquestionably the epidemic will contin to spread. How far it is impossibic to s but the Herald may assure its readers that there is no occasion for serious alarm. An ordinary case of influenza is nothing more to be dreaded than a severe cold of a week’s duration, Symtoms of un- stakable headuches, pains in the eyes, sore all over the body, us if one had been beaten, loss of appetite, a feverish con- dition and a general scnso of lassitude and discomfort—these general symtoms are apt 1o be followed by various local troubles, such as a bronchial attack, cold in the head, sore throat, diarrhoea, and sometimes by plenrisy or pueumonia. The only real dangoer is pre- sented in the last Lwo cases, which can usu- ally be guarded against by proper care. From three to eight days is the average duration of the disease proper, but its effects. upon the system are comparatively severe, 80 that several weeks more are often needed for full convalescence, Grand Duke Alexis, who was ill for only a week, will probably require a month before he feels himself again.g§ As to the cause, medical science today is practically at a loss. We can, to be sure, tell the public vhat It is due to the ravages of an undiscovered microbe, but the public tukes only an indifferent in- terast in thav fact. Why the epidemic should sweep across Europe oue year and then re- main unknown fora decade s buyond our power to expluin. The theory has been ud- vanced that influenza is a forerunner of cholera, but 1 regard that as pure nonsense. Itis true that several times inthe present century an inflaenza epidemic has been clos ly followed by a visitation of cholora, It is also true that several timas in the same cen- tury there has been an epidemic of influenza with no cholera following, just as there have been epidemies of cholera with no influenza preceding, Thefact is that the two diseases are so utterly dissimilar as to make any such sequence all but impossible, and any occasional instances of their simultaneous appearance wust be regarded as mere coin- cidences, with no deaper sigoificance in the matter of treatment. Tho classic remedies are sulphate of quinino or bromobgarate of quinine, but recently physicians of Baccarat have strongly urged the use ot taunin, Per- sonally I would recommend a prescription containing sulphate of quinine, tannin and opium, the latter being cthe most valuable i relieving the paius which are felv all over the body.” Dr. Villemin of the Academie De Medicine wus the next seen. It is he wnose namo has been of late years 80 promneatly before the Parisian public 1 connection with measures designed to check the terrible spread of consumption in the metropolis and io the French army. He svoke of tae n» epidemic in the same cheerful way thata dramatist would discuss a successful play. 1t is almost too soon,” he began, *'to speak positively about the epidemic which scoms o be breaking out in Paris, It 18 generally assumed to be what we have been accus- tomed to call ‘La Grippe,’ and yet in reading the accounts which have cowe from St. Pe- tersburg I have been struck by the presence of one symptom uot usually ob- served in that diseuse, 1 refer to the appearance of red rash on the bodies of the patients. Now, there is in Syria and olher eastern countries a very common fever known La Dengue,’ which 18 aceompanied by precisely such a rash as described. This fever has often reached westward as far as Constantinople, and I am disposed to Lelieve that the St, Peters- burg evidemic is nothing less than this Syrian ‘La Dengne,’ “And are we, then, going to huve this Syrisn fever in Parisi " *'Oh, there is nothing to be alarmed about. La Dengue belongs to the category of mala- dros like scarlatina, measles, ete., which cause very little trouble, They run their fixed course 1n & few days, The patient gets well or occasionally dies, and thav's the end of it.” “Do you attach any importance to that epidewic of influenza, or whatever it is, as & precursor of cholera?” Not in the least. There is not the re- motest connection between the two diseases. Both are contagious, to e sure, but cholera is so chiefly by infected water, while the microbes of this St Petersburg epidemio spread through the air ana get wnto the sys- tem through the lungs. **Ihen one is liable 10 cateh this influenza merely by goiug into a room where some one who has 1t has been breathing “Certainly, or even by breathing one of the influenza microbes ju the street,in s cafe, st @ theater, in a rallway carriage— anywhere.” *Then the whole population 1s sure to be down with influenza sooner or later?” ‘The doctor laughed and shrugged his shoul- de . Dr. Coroil, one of the best known special- iste on tuberculosis, sud @ member of the epidemic s in full influenza, or ‘La Grippe.’ Academie de Medicin® saide *‘This epi- demic in our midst and aboutiwhich we have received such varied acedbunts from St Pe- tersburg is simply La Grippe; an epidemic, a contagious discase of slight importance. A person suffering from it need not ever call in a docto Let Mim remain indoors a few days and keep warm, or, if tho case is severe, let him stay in bed and driak plenty of tissane. That will put him right in short order. Y undoubtedly the epidemio is caused by microbes brewthed into the lungs, but as yet we have not been able to discover this microbe. To be more accurate, 1 should Bay we Lave not yev saceredod in distingu ing the influenza microbe from a quantity of others which are always found in tho ex- pectorations of persons suffering from that disease. It 18 not generally known, but the fact that saliva of healthy persons contains ten or twenty different kinds of wicrobes, which are not only harmiess but apsolutely necessary to digestion. As soon, however, as the person becomes affected with any disease of a contagious nature the number of microbes in the various bodily secretions become considerably increased and what makes the task dificuit is that what I may call good microbes and bad mcerobes become hopelessly mixed up and it takes us years of patient experimenting to separato and class- ify them. In my labratory I could show you jars and jurs filied with cultivated consump- tion microves. It is not long since a Russian doctor discovered a whoopiug cough microbe and the cholera microbe, a8 you know, has been unquestionably recognized. One of these days some savant will single out of the mass of tadpole-like creatures the wflucnza microbe, aud that wiill be a happy day for hiw." LY PUBLICOFFICE A P Astonishing Report o Ju Savr Lake, Dee, 14.—The grand jury of the Third aistrict court thid afternoon mado its report. The report shows that it has been the custom of the United States marshal to charge the penitentiary 25 1o 40 cents per gallon for milk from cows kept there ana cared for by prison lubor and fed principally from food ra:sed upon thp reservation or paid for by the government. These milk vouchers sice 1882 have amounted to about £3,000, The marshal also lm's been selling to the penitentiary potatoes raised on the reser- vation by conviet labor] Other fruit- ful sources of revedue for him were team hire for deputics, hauling prisoners to and from the penitentiary, etc, Ihe marshai supports also,'partly from the public supplics and table leavings, twelve milch cows and one hundfed hogs and two extra horses. In one year one team, for which the government paovided a driver earned the marshal in hauling the sum of £2.200. The jury says for $00 the government could provide itself with horses, wagon and harness to perform all this service and for £100 additional two good ‘cows suflicient to furnisn all the milk nceessary for the pen- itentiary, and it would seem as though it were cconomy 10 dol ‘this. The jury also complains that sthe marshal has shown unusual favors to prisoners convicted of unlawful ceoabitation, The supplies now furnished to the penitentiary are 25 per cent in excess of its needs and at aprice 25 per cent in excess of the actual value. The jury also investigated the administra. tion of county affairs and makes a sensa- tional report thereon. Road work has re- ceived in five years $114,000 and there are no bids on the work and no proper vouchers. Tne county has sunk in canals $122,000 and has no canuds save a waste ditch and nothing to show for the money The collector - defaleatizns are severely commented upon. The county has lost §30,000 by two collectors ana 11,000 throuh aclerk, The report says the county officials deal with tnemselves as a business firm for supplies and show favoritism to Mormon prisoners, ‘The county court has also voted away valua- ble franchises tor no puolic consideration. The officers have been ' trading with each other for supplies and entering into vartnership with spotters, dividing with them the fines imposed, The city also paid to a bogus hydraulic canal company $9,607 for its interest in the Jordan river dam which the comvany never owned, out which the county obligingly bonded over to the city, the county receiving not a cent of the money, The report in closing charges that tne bulk of this fund found its way into the pockets of city and council ofticers, izl S FEDERALION OF LABOR, VATE SNAP. a Utah Grand Tyvographical Delegates Oppose As- sessments for the Expacted Strike, BostoN, Dec. 14.—At today's session of the American Federation of Labor the ais- cussion on the repory of the committoe on constitution was resumed. The debate was aniwated, and great interest was manifested in the arguments of the speakers. The rep- resentatives of the Interuutional Tynograph- ical union and a number of printers from the ceutral organizations were decidedly opposed o the question of assessments to mect the expenscs of the expected strilse May 1. The following section was adopted : "The executive council shall have power to | levy a strike assossmeut of 3 ceats per mem- ber on June 1, 1890, on all national ad in turnational bodies under the jurisdiction of the federation, i Another amendment wasadopted giving to the executive committees power over afiili- ated bodies to levy an assessment not to ex- ceed 2 cents per week to cousioue at the dis- cretion of the executivéwcouncil, unless otherwise ordered by a voteof all national and international unions | Towards the Knights of: Labor the federa- tion states its position as.follows : 1. That the Knights of. Lavor shall dis- countenince and revokeYhe charters of all trades assemblies in the order. 2. The American labor and trdae unions will urge their memberssand encourage working people to become members of mixed assemblies of Koights of Labor, The time has arrived when trade unions should claim their own, the trend of | grganization shows the wage earners of Amerioa are weary of having their interests adjysted by the meas- ureof the hokster or yardstick of the mer- chant. We assert the natural right of trade unions to occuvy trade unions territory, When this right is coneeded disdork will end and organized labor be more closely nnited.” The election of officers resulteh in the re- election of President Samuel Gompers of New York aud Secretary P- J. Maguire of New York. Final adjournment was then taken. Detroit will be the place of the next meeling. e Farmers Robbed. Sr. Louis, Mo., Dec, 14 —A half dozen farmers who were returning to their homes from Dallas, Tex., yesterday, after selling their cotton were robbed by bighwaymen on the nm? M Whitevock. Bloodhounds were put on the robbers! tracks and & repor has reached Dnuut.n:;.wo of e rob r: have beeu captured b . ey e g mmndwloen STOLE A MARCH ON BISMARCK Theological Students Relieved From Military Service. DONE BY THE CENTRIST PARTY. Elections at Hand—Attempts to Con- ciliate the Striking Miners—Gers man Bankers Afraid of Portugal ~Dom Pedro’s Manifesto. A Centrist Steat gy, LCopyriaht 183 by New York Associatel Press.) Beruy, Dec. 14, success of the cen- trist party in the vote on the reichstag re- lieving all theological studen s from military service has stirred up a good deal of a bi 0 in the upper world aof politics, and Bismarck complains 1n regard to it that the highest interests of the government service s neglected for the interests of individual deputies. The centrists secured the victory by rush- ing througn avote in the absence of many members of the Cartel party, who were home doing what American politicians call “taking care of their fences,” The National Zeitung announces that the government will nov ac- cept this decision on this very important subject. Bismarck has hauled Herr Boet- ticher over the coals for not preventing the vote and Boetticher has prombtly responded throwing the blame on the Cartel combination, Hismarck’s ususv to the effect that all important goverament meas- ures must be settled in reichstag befors the midale of February, when he desires to dis- solve that body. Herr Boetticher's task will not be an easy one, Caucuses aud conventions innumerable are being neld throughiout the entire country preparing for the ¢bming elections, and although all parties,are active the serialists aro pushing t! more cnergetically thau the others, baving already brou; forward 205 candidates. Their national committee 18 a strong one, Rentzel Grillenberger, Lieben- knecht and Meistersinger, Tt assuines abso- lute authority for the purty and announces that all questions relating to the elections must be addressed to the committce and ve decided by it. In districts where the urty is 100 poor to face the expenses of election the faithful must malke their appeal 10 the comwittee befora January 1, and must name the sum required to make up the de- ficiency. All sociulists are instructed to attend the general electoral assemblies to vindicate their principies, but to abstain frow wterfering with purely party reunions. They must not introduce any elements of friction to embarrass the smooth working of the party machine. The manifesto con- cludes with a few earnest and eloquent words on the importance of order and en- ergy in a great electoral conflict and on the tmportance of the fuct that all men brought to the front should be men of unblemishod reputation, The comments of the journals of the Cartel narty upon all this disclose the apprehension in the government groups that the admirable organization of the socialists will make them troutlesome customers, The strikes of the miners will be a matter of great moment in the electoral game in spite of the supposition that the Westphalian strikers have been appeased. The strike is extending, In the Saar mines 7,000 men are out and it is feared that a strike of the re- maining 25,000 is imminent. In lower Silesia there will be a general strike the first of the year unless there is an advance of 10 per cont iu wuges and a concession of the eight- hour day. The employers declare it impos- siblo to concede these demanus. Herr Boetticher in conference with the employers has referred to the importance of tha speediest possible settlement i view of the pending elcetions. Mauy mass weetings of ‘miners are to be held tomorrow, He pointed out tuat discontented men, and especially men for whose discontent therc was any good reason, were a source of strength to the socialist party, which nat- arally belved to make it dangerous, and he urged that concessions be made to the men. Immediately after the conference the mio- ister ordered the local authorilies to fill all conspicuous places in tae strike district with placards bearing the recent decision of the supreme court for discouraging the elo- quence of agitators. This decision is to the effect that any verson publicly exciting oth- ers to any act contrary to their contracts, violates the law and is punishable for the of- fense, The president of the Dortmund district to- day convoked the provincisl counselors to consider the grievauces of the miners of Bunte and Schroeder, The delegates of the men were heard and they explained the de- mand of the men. The president urged them to use their influence with their comrades for an amicable settlement of the differences and assured them the authorities would not fail to impress upon the directors of the mines the necessity of mecting as far as possible the wishes of the men. Schroeder reminded the president that the men had re- lied upon the government's promises when they abandoned their movement in the spring strikke and that these promises had never been fulfilled. The conference ended, there- fore, without any encouraging result. The general movement for strikes every- where has aroused a discussion of the pro- ject to import Chineso labor, but the econo- mic societies generally look upon it as a thing of doubtful utility, The Portuguess government recently ap- plied to Frankfort and Berlin banks to ne- gotiate a loan of 5,000,000 miletres, ostensi- bly for the execution of various public works. The bankers have refused the ldan, being alarmed by the advices from Lisbon touch- ing negouiations there thav have for their objective point the declaration of a Portu- guese republic, The monarchist press in Lisbon continues to deny that there is any danger o whe agitation, yet in the same breath these monarchisc journals urge the suppressioa of the liberal papers. Thus does a course thut may be only a httle stroke of business, throw doubt upon the valueof their opinions as to the political agi- tation, But they not only want the republi- can papers suppressed, they want also to have the republican cluus shut up, the re- publican leaders imprisoned and all suspeetod mililary men transported. The Ofcial News denies that the repubiican party has any strength, It states that while disturbance is always possible, yet the country is strovgly consorvative aund the monarchy is safe. T'he Viscount de Ouro Preto, the Brazlian imperial premier, arrived at Lisbon today with ex-Minister of Finaoce Oliovero, Prato wired to the Braziliau agent at Hamburg that he will go to Paris after a consultation with the ewperor, Dom Pedro is preparing 8 manifesto to the Brazilisus, defending the acts of his winis- ters aud explaiving the overthrow of the empire, He says he will await tranquility #od au expression of the will of the people, hopefal that in the coming ele ple will pronounce froely in favor of his go ernment. [n all ailusions to Dom Pedro the semi-ofticial pross here continues to treat of his return to Brazil as improbable and undesirable. The Rexhsbote main tains tho right of German to a dominant influence 1 Southern Brazil, 1t says there are over two bundred thousand man colonists in the three provinces and argues that if emigration had not been checked the provinees would ere this have fallen as a ripe fruit into the hands of the German goyernment The influenza has about run course here. At least a third of the population has suffered from it and several members of the imperial 1it. The court comes hither from Potsdam morrow. Tho fotes begin in the January. The prince of Wales, Archduke I'rancis of Austri the son of Archduke Charles Louis, and the emperor's nephew and heir, the acchduke of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha wiil be the guests of t! mperor, Dr. Parke telegraphs that Emin Pasha im- proves slowly and that the bad symptoms are disappearing. tion the peo- its to- middle of STAR Franklin B, Gow Kills Himsel Wasiixoroy, De o NG SUICIDE, of Ehiladelphia in Washington. 1.~ Franklin B. Gowen, a well known railroad oficer and lawyer of the Peunsylvania road, shot himsclf th afternoon av his room at Wormley's hotel and died almost instantly. The immediate circumstances surrounding the death of Gowen areshrouded in mystery. The last seen of him at the hotel before the body was discovered was about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon when he came down to the dining room for lunch. He then ap- pearad to be in excellent spirits and gave 1o apparent manifestation of any existing trouble. Avout noon today, as Gowen did not wake his uppearance and his room was iocked, the door was forced and the dead man was found lying on the floor with a pistol near b; 1t is not known how long he had been dead. Gowen came to Washing- ton ou the Oth inst. Ho was engaged as counsel in some very important, cases whicn lave been on hearing vefore the interstate commission for several days past. Gowen was born in Philadelphia and was in ws fiftp-fourth year. He was admitted to the bar in 18360 and in 1862 was elected dis- trict atworney of Schuylvill county. Ho was afterwards retained as counsel for tho Phila- delpbia & Reading and by the Girard coal trust. In 1800 he was chosen president of that company, failed of re-election in 1881 on account of aifferences regarding thepolicy of the company, but was re-elected n 1882, Gowen conceived and- established the Phila- delphia Coul and Iron comvany. He also conceived and put into operation the move- ment against the famous organization known as the *Moilie Maguirss.” In the trials which followed this movement he was one of the counsel for the Commonwealth, Philad -ipnia stavrled, Puiuaverenia, Dec. 14.—The news of Pranklin B. Gowen’s death i Washington caused @ great sensation here. Francis 1. Gowen, a nephew of the ex-railroad presi- denc, and who has a law office in this city, was dazed and could scarcely recover from the shock for a few minutes. *I can form no idea,” said he, *'of what motive actuated him to take his life.” Financial difiiculties are not suggested as tie incentive for the act. Gowen is esti- mated to be worth between $200,000 and £300,000. The announcement that he com- mitted suicide causea the greatest surprise in financial circles. “Inever had anything to startle me so in my life before,” said President Cummins of the Girard National bank. No one will ever convince me that Gowen took his own life. 1 never knew him to carry a pistol, and you can rest assured that if he lost his life through a pistol shot the wound was inflicted by accident and not by design.” P — NO CRONIN VE .DICT YET. Judge McConnell Gocs Hdmo Till the Jury 18 Ready to Report, Cn1cAGo, Dec, 14.—At 10:25 p. m, the large audience which had assembled n the court room was rapped to order by Sheriff Matson, who said: “Thero is yet no return from the jury and Judge McConnell has gone home for the night. 'The judge will be down to- morrow when be is sent for,” added the sheriff, “‘Bat not before?” queried a reporter, “I think not,” sald the sheriff, but declined to answer further questions. Itisunderstood there will beio formal session of the court tomorrow (Sunday) but that the judge will be prepared at any time during the day to visit the court room and receive the ver- diet when notified by the jury that they are ready to muke a return, The usual amount of speculation is being indulged in by the anxious waiters, but there seems to be no reason for any of the opimions given, as it is lmpossible for any thing to leak out from the jury room. 'Lhe prevailing jmpression about the criminal court building seems to be that the jury has agreed on the conviction of Burke, O'Sul- livan and Coughlin, but are hanging on the matter of the guilt or wnocence of Kunze and Beggs. e ——— A British Growl, LoNDoN, Dec, 14.—The papers here ex- press much indignation at the action nf the Portuguese oficer, Pinto, in making war on the Makaololo tribe in Africa in violation of British interests. The Globe says: The con- duct of Portugal is practically a casus beili. ingland does not relish warring with con- temptibles, but if they become arrogant, in- sulting or aggressive peyond endurance she will not hesitate 1o make her power felt. The Briush fleet might exercises a gentle pressure at Lisbon, A wave of the viceroy's band would sufce to bring the Portuguese possessions v India under British sway. e Ireland’s New Viceroy, DusLiN, Dec. 14.—The new viceroy of Ire- land, the earl of Zetland, arrived today, A royal salute was fired upon his arrival here and be met with a remarkably enthusiastic reception, The route from the station was profusely decorated with flags, The viceroy was enthusiastically cheerea along the en- tire route. The Trinity college students sang the national antbem in which they were joined by the crowd. No trace of hos- ulity was displayed. B The Bak-r Coniest. WasniNGros, Dec, 14.—The house commit - tee on elections today received a batch of testimony under seal in the case of the con- test of John Baker aguinst William 8. For~ man, the sitting member from the Belleville (1L} district. ey West's surike, Kex Wesr, Dec. 14.—The cigarmake) strike is further from settlement thao ever, Only fifty cases of cigars were stipped last month. ‘Lhie output is geuerally 1,500 cases monthly, e Fatal Boller tixplosion. CovixetoN, Teun,, Dee. 14.—The boiler in Randall Brothers' sawmill expioded this morniog, demolishing the building and kill- ing \wo wen and fetally lojuring wwo others 2 UMBER 178 LINCOLN ~ POSTOEFICE, THE Final Action Suspended Till Aftey the Holidays. NOT HOSTILE TO CATHOLICS, fndian Commissioner Morga ter to Archbishop Silcott Con Trust - WASHINGTON BUREAU Titr Ovanta Bow, 518 FOURTERNTIL STHE } Wasmisaron, D. C,, Doc, 14, There will not be flual action taken on the Lincoln postwastorship until after the holidays. The naming of a postmaster at Lincoln was couceded originally to Congressman Connell, but Sendlors Manderson and Pad- dock have asked for a hearing, and their request has been granted. The scrators want to present the claims of various aspir- ants. ~ The appointment will hikely be made 5000 after the holiday reoo MORGAN'S DEFENSK, The fight against the contirmation of Thomas lorgan as [ndian commissioner is lod by Scuators Ingalls aud Plum of Kan- sas, There are seycral senators who will join them, T'he groatest intorost was manifested to- day in Morgun's treutmoent of Archbishop Treland, which was generally puvlishod in the leading eastern papors this worning, I replyiug to the Minnesota prelate the com- missioner said: *The Catholic heir yis misled, The matter of complaint in this connection started from the dismissal of John A. Gorman, chief of the educational division in the Indian burcau. He was dis~ missea for insuvordination, incompeteney and drunkennes He was a Catholic and to gain sympathy bas misled the leading Cathones of the country who bave made their attacks on me through misinformation, I huve explaived my position on contr: denominational schools before, and peopld interested in the education of the Inainns are well acquainted withat, As to the Indisn school at Devil's Lake the archbishop 18 correct only 8o far as the sisters have been notificd that as government vroperty the bureau would take charge of the building at any tiwe for the purvose of establishing an Tudian school. It was a notification to the sisters o be ready to move. I deny that all the Indmus at this agency are Catholics. L never told Mr. Lusk that I bad decided not to uppoint sisters at this sehool. As to the prosident's pol I am going farther thau ho suggested in his messaxe, ys tho funds should be distributed ly. At present the Catholic churoh is getting seven-tenths of the lands for school purposes. As to my war record the statement that Lamopposed by old soldiers is false. Al that matter has been explained and after the court-martial proceedings [ was recom- mended for promotion. The mwan heading the list of oflears singing this request was Benjumine Harrison, There is not now nor bas there ever been hostility to the Cathollo church in this bureau. I have stated that L believe in government schools in vrefart ence to contract schools, ‘Ibat is the chief reason for cowplaint.” 1 TOUSE COMMITELS, “Do you think Speaker Reed will announce the house committees before congress takes its holiday recessi” L asked Chairman Me- Kiniey tonight. “*Yes,” was the reply, “Ibelieve that is the understanding.” *What day do you expect the recess to be taker.1” *‘That depends upon the day on which tne speaker is ready to announce the commit- tees,” “By Thursday?” “Probably.” “R2y Friday, sure?” “By Saturday at the farthest, ably a day earlier.” The senate will have to wait until the house is ready for the holiday recess, A gens eral impression prevyails that the recess wil} be taken on Thursday, immediately after the speaker anunounces his committees, Most men on both branches expect the committees to be ready by that day. The committee on elections has already begun work, It has taken up the contest of Posey vs Parret from the first district of Indiana, and it would nave been ready to report it to the house before the holiday recess had it not been for the absence of one or two members of the committee. It is understood the case will be disposed of the first thing after the house convenes in January. Parreut, the sitting member, it is believed, will be un- seated aud Mr, Posey, the repubiican con- testant, will be seated. THE SILCOTT MATTER, There continues to be a good deal of ner- vousness on the part of the members of the house as to the outcome of their financial ac- counts with Sergeant-at-Arms Leedom, While very many are willing to vote openly for a bjll to reimburse themselves there are those who contend that they should bear the loss instead of the eovernment and vote against the measure to reimburse. The question of the responsibility contiunes to be debatable. Itis beld by some of the shrewd- est luwyers that Silcott was the agent of the government becauso he was paid by the government; that the governmeut cannot hire one to be an individual agent and all who receive salaries out of the federal gov- ernment are agents of the governwment; that, therefore, Silcott was the agent of the go ernment, und & general bill to reimbur those who had money with lum is not ouly lawful but just. It is safe to say that fioully the members will be reimbursed, with the wxception of the money tuey deposited with the sergeant- at-arms, The statement of the com- mittee uppointed to iuvestigate the short- ags in the sergeant-at-arms' office reports quite a numberof members as having overdrawn their accounts, Among them is Speaker Carlisle who received 8416 more thau was due bim, The §103 reported by the commitiee 88 the item overdrawn by Speaker Reed Is incorrectly reported, Mr. Reed says that the amount was due him wheo he drew it and that although it may stand as wo uverdrafton the books it was for the salary of past months, There seems to be no effort made by the treasury, or by officials of the house to bring about the apprehension of Silcott, So far as can be ascertuined uo detectives have been put upon Silcott's track aud no rewara has been offcred by anyoue, Usually & reward of 5,000 or §10,000 would be offered for the apprebension of the defaulter. It is under- stood that twelve or fifteen indictments have been returned by the grand jury agsinst Silcow for forgery. Vorgery is an extrad- iteble crime and if the defaulting cashier is in Canada he can be brought to trial tor his crime if be cau be found, Bergeant-at-Arms Leodom is doing Limself an iujustice o ned s Liote treland ~The ndenm—Antie Legislation, and probs