Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1890, Page 2

THE e Y SWONG OFF IN 600D STYLE, | ABAD BLOW FOR COVINGTO Fire Destroys Eight of Her Princi- pal Business Houses. LOSS FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. Proceedings of the Fourith Day of the Trial of Charles Shephard at Fremont Other News About the State, A Rig Whisky Blazo Dakota Ciry, Neb, Jan. 30,—|Spocial Tel egram to Tne Bre | —Eight saloons were burned to the ground this morning in Stan- ton’s addition to Covington. The fire started ubout B o'clock and originated in the club rooms of Arcnsdorf & Leader's saloon, The fire consumed all of the best saloons and burned up thres wholesale liguor houses, How the fire originated cannot bo found out, but it is supposed to be the work of an in- cendiary, Some of the liguor was saved, but everything slse is a total loss, The buildings and most of the liquor were fully insured except that of one saloon keeper, John Manderscheid, whose insurance expired yesterday and he had not renewed it yet. Heostimates his loss at $5,000. Th rest wore insured for aimost their full value "The fire was the work of a fiend, as the place where it originated was saturated with kero- sewo. Tho place where the fire origmated, in Paul Leader's saloon, was iusured for £5,000, and_that will the most of his loss, ' William_ Larsch of Sioux Uity is also « hoavy loser, his wholesalo house being al- most an entire loss, The most of his roods were stored in his cellar and the fire made such rapid progross that there was no time 1o get his goods out. The buildings occu: an entire block and were all of them light frame buildings with a brick veneered front. T'he entire loss will amount to about 50,000, Fourth Day of the She FreyoNT, Neb., Jan, 80.—[Special Telo- gram to Tur Bee.|—Today was the fourth day of the trial of Charles Shephara for the murder of Carlos Pulsifer at Crowell. Tho Yollowing witnesses were eramined: Dr. g(ortlncl(. John Pulsifer, Josh King, Dr. prague, W. T. Cohee, Herpian Diers, Frank Hormel, Fred Muller, Angust Alberts, Miss Richmoud, Gustave Shoemaker, Irauk Grube, [dwin Nathan, John Rombers, Reu- ben Neff and Mrs. Pulsifer, Through the tastimony given tne state traced the mur- ~derer step by step to the identification of Shephard and Frust. Much of it was previ ously dotailed in Tie Be: n the hight of the murder two wen answ Ang pretty closely the decription of the pris- oners uppeared at the farm house of Gus Shoomaker and bought a loaf of bread. They stated that they were going to West Poinu and next moraing they appearcd av the Bagnio of Jennie Burns in that place. While there Shephard spoke of having a grip, ‘which said he had hidden in a hay stack near Scribuer, and which was found thers by his direction after he had been captured. One of the inmates of the BBurns bagnio tes: tified that Shephard was one of the two hard Trial, men who calied there tho next day after the murder, The testimony also snowed that the next morning but one after the murder at 4 o'clock two persons came to Joe Shep- hard’s barn in Seribuer anua that one of them was Frust. The state has many more witnesses. Fifty D liars Worth of Enthusiasm. Beatrice, Neb.,, Jan. 30.—[Special Tele gram to Tur Bee.|—Joseph Grimes, pre prietor ol Grimes’ hall, sued John Ellis, O. H. Phillips and M. B. Davis in Justice Cal- lison’s court this afternoon for damages done his lml‘ during the rather boisterous republican city caucus held there last fall. ‘The damages are fixed at £200 by plawtiff, but late this evening the jury vrought in a (verdict in Grimes' favor for only $30. As the damage was the result of the caucus, and being generally regarded as a reasona Dble claim, the republicans of the city will generaliy chip in to stisfy the judgment. A Premature iilast, Lovisvitue, Nev., Jun. [Special to Tug Bre|—A very serious accident oc curred at the J. Bauer quarries two milos east of this place yostorday. Tha men had put in o blast and fired it but the powder went off withoul Dblasting tho rock. ‘The foreman, Mac Smith, and one of the hands named Henry Johuson went to tho place and examined it and concluaed to put in another charge of vowd They were pouring the powder out of a keg when iv all exploded, burning their fuces and bodics in a feurful manner, taking all the haiv off their heads and faces, A physician was called m and dressed their £Wounds, nnd they are restin g s com;;rtably a possibie uuder the circur.stances. No ono else was injured, although the shock of the expiosion threw several men to the ground. h-B.d Kepentancs, Neb,, Jan. |Special |—ld Platner, an old scttler and well known, who died two days ago, was during life an avowed infidel and somirer of lugersoll, He had a well stocked library of books on this subject, was a well read mau, and never so huppy as when arguing againsi the teachings of the bible. O thoe day of \ s death, when ke vealized that his dissolu- tion was' nearat bana, he sent for a Chris £ tiun ne whom ¢ instructed to burn all bis books on the subject of infidelity, and 2 bonfire was accordingly made of them! Mr. Platver then called his fawily about him and warned them from the way in wiich he had Jod them, saving that he ut last realized tho great mistakie ho had mude dering his life Nobrara Preparing to Boom. Nionaua, Neb., Jao. 80— Special to Tue Bk | —The firstpreparation for new business in Niobrara, preparatory o the opening of ; the Sioux reservation and the completion of the - Frewont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroud to this place Muy 1, comes from . Owmaba. William Wolf will mausge an_ ex tensive clotbing and furnishing establish- ment for Omaha parties, aud the Niobrara Pioneer has just contracted for a new Potver press with the Chieago agency and an entive new dress, ready for the new life about to be s {cnl(wtl. Other enterprises will soon fol- ow. Arapahor's Shipping Record Anaranor, Neb,, Jan. 50.—[Special to T B —Arapaboe feels quite proud of her shipping record of 1589, whioh is us follows: Receivea—Lumber, 64 car loads; coal 43 car loads; salt, 8; implements, 00; barbed wire, 8; upples, 4; emigrant movables, 19; live 1, 951, Forwarded —(Grai tock, 165; hay, # 3 u, b4; miscellaneous, 25; total 54, ‘We consider this u good record. It attests the productivencss of our soil, and the thrift of our farniers. Accepted the Isiand. Niongawa, Neb., Jan, 30, —|Special to Tue Bee. | —At the council meeting lust evening the oty formally accepted Niobrara Island fron the government. T'his island contains about one thousand acres and forms & part of the agreement with the Sioux Indians : opeung the reservation. It is counected with Niobrara by the large iroa bridge croas ing the Niobrara river here, and will be un proved as u park. Willing 10 Assist, Keauxer, Neb, Jan. 80.—(Special Tele- gram to Tue Bek. | —Word was received nere today frow Chadrcn that the business men ©f that eity wishod to assist the Kearney & Black Hills railroad. Chadron is oa the line of the proposed route aud its people offer liboral inducem.ents to secure the road A8 800N 4y possivle. Preliminary Surveys Commeno 'd. Neuuasga, Ciry, Neb, Jan. 30.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bk |--Surveyors com mepced work this morning making prelimi nary surveys al this point for u permaneat high wagon bridge across the Missouri river, A Picosmouth Waterworks Buest. Prarrsuovra, Neb., Jan. 30.—{Special Telogram to Tae Bea.|—This cvenlog the pressure main leading from the water works pump house to the stand pipe burst end com- pletely drained the standpipe, leaviag the city without proper fire protection, The Nicholson Woman. Evxnony, Neb., Jan. 80.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bes.]—~Miss Mary Nicholson of this place, who has recently acquired con- siderable newspaner notoriety by reason of her relations with Cook, the Omalia suicido, is not at home at present, being at Sidney, this state, on a visit. It will be remembered by readers of Te Ber that Mrs. Cook, wife of tho suicide, charged Miss Nicholson with stealing clothies and silverware from her, While your ropresentativo was unable to tablish this fact, it was learned that Mrs, Cook recovered, on a search warrant issved by Justico Smith, two trunks filled with 4 ring apparel and sundry articles of household goods valued at §00 at the Nicholson residence, where the Nicholson's stated they were left by Cook. Justice Smith was seen and_fully corroborated the above statements. In rogard to Miss Nich- olson’s elopement with Cook, it is an open secrot here that Cook was infatuated with her, and that thoy left here about the samo time for Otlaloma, where Miss Nicholson went ostensibly to purchase land, An Oakland Jeweler Closed Up, OAEL Neb., Jan. 80.—[Special Tele- Rram to J. P. Lindblad, dealer in and silverware, was today closed up by the Omahba National bunk of Omaba. The closing was caused by the failure of holm & Akin in Omaha some time ago, who held J. P, Lindblad's notes to the amount of 1,200, and when they failed they turned the notes over to the Oinaha National bank. The Bonds Carri ed, Nnitn, Neb, Jan, 80.—[Special Tele n to Ine Bre.| —The proposition to vote $16,000 bonds to the Puacific Short Line was submitted to the pesple bf Grattan township today and was carried by a majority of 418 to 10 ngainst, The peoplo ave very jubilant over their success. Thera is stiil 14,000 in bond to be voted on by the city. Jhis practically assures tho building of this line into O'Neill as 5000 as the weather will per- wit, o ———— Presidential Nominations. Wasmixaroy, Jan, 80.—The president today sent to the senate the following nowi- nations: Willlam H. Taft of Obio, to be solicitor general; Rovert Adams, of Pennsylvania, no'w accredited envoy extra- ordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the empire of Brazl, to be the same to_ the United States of Brazil. Postmusters—Pat- rick W. Fennessy, Orleaus, Neb.; Clark Robinson, airmont, Neb Edwin A, Wood, Avoca, Ja.: Chauncey I'. Owen, San- borne, la.; Eugene B. D, harles City, fa.; Oliver D. Heald, Kingsley, In. ‘s Faie Fund. ArBaxy, N. Y., Jan. 30.—The world's fair bill us amended by the senate yesterday came up in the assewmbly this afternoon ana after a long debate the amendment adding twenty-two names to the st of commis sioners was strickon out and tho bill passed. The bil) was immediately sent over to the senate and was at once taken up by ti body. ‘The democrats favored its immediate pussago as it stood, but the republicans iu- sisted on the wmenidment being again added and the appointent of a couference com- mittee. New Yor! A i Much ement About Nothing, ERMILLION, §. D, Jan. 30.—|Special Tel- egrani to Tus Ber, | —People in this city were thrown imto a state of excitement a few days since by the 1enort that a combination had been formed at Pierre to remove the state uni- versity from tiis city to H Ad ived today from United States Marstal 1°ry and Senator Jolley are to the effect that o canvass of the iegislature voveals the fact that the purpose of the combination caunot be carried out. Vermillionites are quite appy in ccnse uence. s SN Admiral fKimborly Bangie'ted. SAN FRANCI8C0, Jau, 30.—A public recep- tion was tendered Admiral Kimoerly, just returved from Snmos, by the chamber of commerce, attended by thousands of citizens and anumber of navy and army officials. Dresident Perking of the chamber of com- merce read resolutions eulogizing the con- duct of Admiral Kimberly, his ofticers and sailors. General Miles, Admiral Kimborly and others spoke. piac iy S Fatal Fight with Strikers, Viesya, Jan, 80.-Five hundred glass workers who were on a strike at Goblong, Hohemia, forced an entrance into the factory in which they hod been employed and de- stroyed all the wachinery, The strikers turned on the police who were trying to quell the riot, and in the conflict that fol- iowed two of the rioters wore killed and many others seriously woundad. 3 LY g Grist Ail Buened, VemMLLION, 8. D., Jan. 80.—[Special Tel- cgram to ‘T Bes.i—Dononoe’s grist mill burned this morning just beforef o'clock. ie fire originated in the engine room. No one was about the promises when it started. The property was valued at 515,000 und only & small portion of the stock was saved. a5 A Arrested by Lancoln Ofiicers. Dexvek, Juu, #),—Oficers from Lincoln, Neb., today arrested Charles Williams as he was ulighting from the train from Salt Lake, Wil is wanted ut Fredonia, O., for tbe murder of William Mo a farmer. Ho 15 also wanted at Johnstown, Pa, for safo blowing. - Vietims of Kaxsas Crry, Mo, 1t is stated that twenty-cight freight and passenger con- duetors on the Hanmbal & St. Joseph rail- road are to be discharged at the end of tho month by renson of the revelations made re- cently by spotte: Tho Deatn Becovq. CrevELAND, O., dan, ). —Prof. Karl Merz, airector of the musical dopartment, of Woos- ter university, diod todayof la grippo. A SUIT FOR $100,000. A Man Thouzht to iz Dead, 0 Claim a Fortune, Willinm Everhart, an old man who was supposed to be in his grave in Kau- sas, hus turned up in New York and claims the fortune of $100,000 which his son, Heury 5. Lverhart, left at his death last autumn, says o New York dispateh to the Chicago Times. To obtain the property ho has begun a legal fight in the surrogate’s office with his surviving son, George P. Everhart, Henry S, Everhart foralong time wasin the buckot shop business in Chicago with Dan Loring and was up to his death in the sume fiaancial line here at 18 Broad- way., When bhe died George came to New York and stated that his father who was divorced from his wife some veurs ago, was dead and that he wished 1o take charge of the estate. He and Dan Loring were appointed administra- tors, - Some time after Henry's death his sister wrote to her father, who waus in the cattle business at Alexandria, Mo, suying that a fortune of $100,000 had been leit by Henry and that it was divided between ‘“‘mother, Mury, George and we."” By the laws of the state of New York the eutire property would fall to his father. Hence George's the- ory that his father's death was likely to redound to his pecuniary advantage. The old man petitioned tha surrogate to revoke the letters of administration and appoint & new administrator and it was done, and he gave George P. Ever- hart and Loring twenty days to file an aecounting and Eusud_ over all the books and property. When G. P. Everhart heard that his father was in Now York he claimed that he supposed the old geutleman was dead, but that he had been honestly mistuken. The father will be the sole heiv of all the om‘reru- that remains and can be recovered. rns Up Another Indian Territory Murderer Hanged at Fort Smith. HE PROTESTED HIS INNOCENCE. A Brief History of the Orime for Which George Tobler I'aid the Extreme Penalty of the Law. A Fort Smith Hangzing. Fonrr Switn, Ark., Jan. 30.—[Special Tele- gram to Tne Bee. |—George Tobler, a negro, was hanged today in the United States jail for the murder of 1rving Richmond in the Indian ‘Territory last April. Tobler was cheerful and composed and displayed great nerve. Heate an early breakfast and walked from his cell to the gallows ‘with a steady step. At 11:10 the drop was sprung. His neck was broken and he never moved, Georgo Maledon, tie hangman, did his work well. Tobler protested his innocence to the last and left a atatement denying any knowledio of the killing ot Richmond. Aboutu huna; persons witnessed the execution. Amo them were turee fomale ucquaintances of Lobler, George Tobler was convicted of wmurder- ing Trving Richmond on the nizht of April 80, 1859, The killing occurred near Scully- ville, in the Indiun Territory, at 8 nogro dunco. The evidence was purely circam- stantial, but asill feeling had existed be- tween Tobler and Richmond suspicion at once pointed to him as the guilty man. “These men, both of whom were negroes, had been rival suitors for the affections of a white woman of doubtful character, who lived at a negro house near the scene of tho murder. A short time beforo the Killing Tobler entered the room where Richmond slept, seemingly for tho purpose of murder. ing him while he slept, but was discovered in time to prevent it, He then went to the house of a neizhbor at £ o’'clock at night to borrow a pistol with which to kill Richmond, but failed to get one. Ou the night of the dance Richmond stood leuning ugainst the side of the door playing the fiadle, when he was fatally shot by some unseen foe outside. It was soon dis- covered that Tobler was missing. Ho was called several times before responding, and when asked where he had been told several conflicting stories, Tobler was arrested for the killing and brought to Fort Smith for trwl. He pto- tested Lus innocence, while all of the other eight men who wers with him confessed. Sixof the others werc hangea here two weeks ugo, but one had been previously com- muted to imprisonment for life at the De- troit, Mich., house of correction, and George Tobier and Charl vere granted a respite till Jaunary or to enable the president to investigute their cases, HBul- lard’s sentence was commuted to life im- prisonment, but the president declined to in - tecfere further in the case of fobler. A Race Riot. Macox, Ga,, Jan. 30, —Seven hundred peo- ple, mostly negroes, gathered yesterday at Morgan to witnnss an axecution which was postponed. In the afternoon a riot began betyeen the whites and blacks, caused by a drunken negro striking a white child, Many stiots wore fired and one white man was fatally and cihers badly wounded. Several newroes were wounded, bul none were Killed, SENT BACK TO O'NEILL. A Strange Application for Admission 10 the Dou :las County Poorhouse. Anold lady named Mrs, Collins, about seventy-tive yoars of age, appeaved m the office of the county commissioners yesterday with a letter which she presented. 1t was from Norfolk, ana was signed by John O'Licey, a luw partner of the county at- torney of Madison county. The letter stated that Mrs. Collins was a resident of O'Neill and was the possessor of 160 acres of land in Holt county whicn is clear of encumbrance and valued at 82,500, It asked that she be admitted to the county poorhouse, as she is a Roman Catholic and desires to be buried in a Catholic cometery. To recompense the county for the trouble of buryinz the old lady, the ietter stated tha% she wouid deed her property 1o the county. Questioning developed the fact that the old lady haa $18.77 1n cash on her person and the deéd referred to in the lettor. ‘Thie commissioners refused to admint her to the poor farm and guve her transportas tion back to O'Neill. A day or two ago & man and woman with two children applied to Superintendent Ma- honey and presented a letter from the com- missioners of Pottawattamie county, saying thut the family were not residents of the Bluffs, and sarcastically asking perwmission to return them to Douglas county. Superintendent Malioney questioned the man and learued that the family had moved from Norfolk to the Bluffs about three months ago, and he hud been trying to eke outa miserable existence in the Bluffs, but he was taken sick und applications for relief were refused on the ground that they had uot been residents of the county for six months, They were furnished with money to pay their fare on the motor to Omaha. Superintendent Malonoy waxed wrothy at this recital, and indicted a very caustic letter 10 the commissioners over tho river, stating that he would receive the family if the com- missioners would allow him to return the fifty or bevonty-tive families from the Blufs who are being kept by Douglas county, He then seut the fumily back to the Bluffs, e AMUSEMENTS, Murray and Murphy opened at Boyd's opera house iast night to a large and wildly enthusiastic audience, *‘Our Irish Visitors,"” a comedy in which “Colonel” Gilhooley and Jerry McGuiness figure as principals, was the play and these two very clever coma- dians dispensed 80 much fun in thew per- formance that they kept tha spactators con- stantly convulsed with laughter, - Watty d logues, coupled with artistic imitations of the characters impersonated—Thomns Mur- ray as Colonel Gilhooley and Mark Murphy in the role of Jerry Mclininess—produced a combination that would amuse anybody. Incidental 1 the play they .introduced a great deal of pleasing spevialty busins in the way of songs and dances, all of which, considering its excallence, added much w the general enjoyment of tho entertainment. Other members of th: company, espacially Miss Ada Melrose, came in for a good share of vhe applause. Miss Melroso's daucing in the secoud nct won her four or five recalls, She is a lively, graceful little uctress and sustained the part of Dorothy very well, One of the most ludicrous, yet amusing, fea- tures was the ballet givertisement by Mur- ray, Murphy and Charles Young. The Arouson opera cowmpany closed its Omaha season, which was 1y success- ful, at the Graod last wight, *‘‘Ermiaie" baing the attraction, and anolher large audi- enco applauded the siuging of Miss Lamoat, the funny busiuess of Grabamand DeLange, the beautiful scenery Ang eiogant cosLUmOs. Manager Roth hassccured dalos at the Boyd for u return cugagement in May. e The Oold Wave Signal. The chief signal ofticer has notified the Omahba observer of the approach of a cold wave, accompanied by a fall in temperature to about 15 degrees above zero. . This unwel- cowe wvisitor is due in Omaha tomorrow moraing about daylight if noibiug happens to prevent e A Runaway Boy, ¥red Krauser, a runaway boy eleven years old, was arresied by Ofices O'Gormuan last night ana takea to the station. He ran away ubout & week ago aud his mother has been scouring the country for him. live 1n & dugout at the coruer of seventh street aud Poupleton aveaus. - T . Dr. Simou Quinlan, exalted grand ruler of OMAHA DAILY the Beopevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was a visilor last night at the regulsr commwunication of Omaha lodge, which be BHE: FRIDAY, Thero and a helpad to organigs four was a large AteBdance of members, more interesting-scssion has not been heia since the offanization was started. Tne doctor is on his awnual tour of ail the lodzes, and conscque¥tiy haa much to sny thal deoply concesned every Eik. He compli- monted No. . very nighly upon the charac- ter ana excellance” of its membership, the manner in which, its businoss transactions were conductéd sand also the well arrauged and comfortable quarters. ‘The ordor is growing very, smpidly, doing much good overywhe of the country. now of i< yoars ago strongost scorot socicties in this icaltod Rulor A B, Davenport, nsas City, was present, ty Peeaaurership Contest ish nas filed his answer in tho county court to the amended petition of Jumes McShane, in the coatest over the eloction for city treasurer, in which he de nies that all ballots which contained Me Shane's name were not counted for him or that any ballots were connted for Rush which did not bear the latter’'s name. The votes of the preciacts are given in detail, and Rush claims a majority of 731 over all candidates, The answor denies all aliega- tions of fraud in the votes cast and counted for Iush. It is also charged that many fraudulent ballots were cast for McShane and were couated for him, The habeas corpus case of August Tre- maine was continued until this morning at 10 o'clock, The « John ¥ A Y A Coward ot the » Miss Kato Tovey, who conducts a dross- making establishment at 1410 Capitol ave. nue, complains of astrange annoyance in her apartments at that place that occurs nightly, but never during the d “or a number of nights past she und a dressmaker who occu- pies the same room with her havo been awakened by a suffocating odor in (heir room as though emanating from somo drug. She does not thini it is allicd to tho eMuvia arisine from the colls in the police station, as they are too far away, nor does she believe 1t can come from the firnace that supplies the room with heat. A3 she has been sub- jected to other annoyances by some enemy, she is inclined to think that ti s a now de- vico of the same individual to iujure her. e Dance by Lady Tarners, Tho Damen Sektion of the Omaha Turn- verein will give a dance on the evening of February 5. The dances given by theso la- dies are always ploasant affairs, and the coming one promiscs to eclipse all others. The young fadies in charge of the social arc tho Missos Fmmu Kuenne, Eva Stricker, Aunt Ralilf, Auna Schuize, Amanda Icloin- beck. ST Sy Fire in a Candy Store. A small blaze in a confectionery store near the corner of Saunders and Hamilton streets called the fire department to that place about 6330 o'clock last ovening, The fire was_ex- tinguished before the department arrived. ‘The damage was very shght. - e SOUTH OMAHA NEWS. Packing House Strike. At noon Thursday a strike occurred among the employes working in the ice gang at the Armour-Cudahy packing houses, which, at ono time, threatened to reach pretty laree proportions. A'fewof the new men own- ployed are -said to be inexperienced, and some of them quito Incompetent for the worlk. Most of them, however, are trusty and competent, - When some of the alleged incompetent mengwere paid off at noon, re- ceving only #1550 per day, the rest, nearly a hundred, struek. belivying thut they would only receive $1.50 ver day. On veing assured that they would be pud $1.75 per day, all re- sumed work. 1 The Ke izhts of Honor, At the last meeting of Good Will lodge, No. 3,450, Knights of Honor, it was decided to have a masquérade bell at the earliest op- portune date. ' A geheral committee on ar- rangements, cousisting of Charles R. Bur- gess, Jacob Beilstein ind George J. Seltzer was appointed {vIth full potwer to act. Emanon Hich-Five. The members of the Emanon will return the compliment of the ladies by giving a progressive high-five party this ovening. President Lawrence appointed a committee i0 procure suitable trophics. Tho interest 1n the classic game will draw a large at- tendaace. Nutes About the City. William Newton of Albright is siclk. ‘l\lrlrs. James C. Corley is listed among the sick. J. W. Lube, who is quite ill at the police headquarters, will be removed to St. Joseph's hospital, Omiha. Dr. Thomis A. Berwick tomorrow will re- move his otfice to the Saxe block, over C. T. Van Aken’s shoe store. The regular anoual meeting of the South Omaha gun club for the alection of officers will be held Monday evening, February 3, at Hermann Kobert's jewelry store, 2610% N street. Little Agnes, aged two years and six months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Paddock, died Thursday morning. The re- mains will be taken today to Percival, Ia., for interment. James Ward, Willlam Crandall and Will- inm Parker, three notorious crooks, were ar- rosted yesterday by Mavshal Maloney and Oficer Redmond, and will recvive justice from Judge King this morning. About Peopl Mrs. Edward D. Munsuaw, who has been visiting her parents near Chicago during the wictter, has returned bome. Henry Groves, long associated in business with Henry Martin, today will remove to Papillion to take cuarge of the Sarpy hotel. Brougham Stevenson, who has been rep- resenting the Star Union lumber company in this eity, will zo to Kunsas City tomorrow to open au oftica for thut company in hunsas City, Parrick Curtin, an employe in the ham de- partment of the Armour-Cudaby packing houses, last evening received a telegram in- forming nim of the death of his father in Chicago. ~ Mr. Curtin will start home this worniug 1o uttend the funeral. e B Bond Offerings. WasmINGTON, Jan, 80.—|Special Telegram to Tug See.—Bonds offered: $20,000, at $1.24; $20,000, at $1.04%. T————— A River in ¥l unos, A remarkable scene was witnessed on the Wear at Sunderland recently. Moored at themunor quay, near Messrs. J. L. Thoripson’s shipyard, was the stenmer Wil [lower of London, which, having beon gshore at Southwold, had just come tothe, Wear for repairs. She carvied oil in bulk, and was being pumped dry) preparatory to being docked, says® she London Times. A quantity of uilz‘unn the tunks appears to have got i1kba with the water in the bilges, and this, was pumped into the river, Suddenly the river mear the Wild Flowembécame wrapped in flames. The cause ofothis is supposed to have been u hot rivet falling from Messrs, Thompson’s }a'p_\'urd into the oil in the water, . Jti 4 fow minutes the river for about two hundred yards was one mass of flames, which rose to a great height sigl completely enveloped several ves$slétin the wicinity., The flames on thé river soon died out through the exbaustion of the oil, but the vessels were left burning and con- tinued to do 80 for about au hour, when the police extinguished the flames with the aid of the Fire Queen apparatusand fire burrows. - The vessels lamaged were the Wild Flower, the Deronda, and the Douglas of Sunderland and the tug Laal of Dumfries. These were all much damaged woout the hulls, decks, and riggings, the damage, ameunting to several thousunds of pounds. Dur- ing the excitement a man was drowned. He and two others were on board the steumer Deronda when it caught fire, Ail three leaped into the water and two #ot safely to some baulks of wood, buta young min:natwed Joha Thompson sank fand was urowned, his body being subse- quently recovered. JANUARY 31, ‘e Ak Promises to soon become one | 1890, NONTANA'S MINING CENTER. Tho City of Butte and the Riches Surrounding It. A HUNDRED AND FIFTY SHAFTS. Th Are in the lmmediats Vieinity the Town and are Rich in Orc=Many Claims Still Unworked. Fhe Resources of Datte. BUTTE Crry, Mont., Jan. 80.—[Specinl to Tne Bee ]—Butte is situated on a tevel, some 6,000 feet above the sea, and two or three mile: rounded with mountain heights which rise a thousand or fifteen hundred feet on every hand. The ground on which the it \ds s o barren ash heap on which grows no grass or flower, no shrub or tree. On the distant 1 hore and there aro seen u fow scraggy evergreen trees in ov Over the level swrfac: and within its borders J mines, and the neighboring aro dotted with reddish buildings, smoking chimneys, piles of debris and loles gaping in the earth which alone >deem the utter barrennessof the seenc. Circling around among the hills, run , one above another,over which trains of cars constantly hurry londed with wood, supplies and ore, Looking up the hillsides one seesevery where the smallest one-story hou Among the cross, and is sur- avines 1 every direction, winding among which roads descend to the level of the town, serpentine and tortuous, down which rattle and elang wmmense four-horse wagons, their hind wheels held by massive chains attached to the frontaxle, and the driver perched up in his lofty seat managing the teams with marvelous dexterity and using his lash with mingled skill and force. The town dark and grim lies stretched out below. A pall of smoke from athou- sand smothered burning heaps, and from hundreds of towering chimneys on every hand, hangs over the plain, half envelops the huights the heights around and obscures the hilitops in the far off distance. Here aud thers ar seen the log huts of twenty-five year: ago. The little cottages, when not un- puinted, exhibit all the colors of the spectrum—yeliow, red, blue and green in a hundred shades moet and often r pel the eye. These tiny dwellings cling everywhere among the crannies of the hills, and are reached by wind- ing roads which frequently narrow down to paths almost. The town is of brick and frame intermingled; compar- atively few business blocks are more than a story or two, and there are noticeable only the court house, the school house and three or four churches. Of fine residences there are a few. There is oue cable line, a mile or so in length; a steam-car reaches the depots a mile away, and electric lights are seen here and there. Saloons and licensed gambling” hot are everywhere wide open days, nights and Sundays, and they atiract the crowds of the idle, the curious and the vicious with which the town is full to overflowing. The wpames of the streets ure o sufficient indication of the ruling passion which sways the multi- tude—Agate, Aluminum, Clear-grit, Copper, Galena, Gold, Granite, Iron, Mercury, Platinum, Porphyry, Quarry, Ruby and Silver appearing among the desiguations of the thoroughfares, Among social organizations secret so- cieties appear to hold the first place in the scale. There are no less than nine lodges of Oddfeliows, seven of Masons, and five of Knights of Pythias, together with lodges of railroad men and work- ingmen’s orders, and a miners’ union which numbers 3,000 members. The chief source of wealth in Mon- tana 18 mining. In the quarter ofa century since its settlement more than $200.000.000 worth of the precious metals has been produced, besides.the rich output of copper and lead. The entire mountain portion, embracing one-third of itssurface, is rich in wealth and its resources have only been touched as yet. In no other district in the world are there so many successful mines in operation as there are around Butte. The declared dividends of in- corporated companies the past year ag- gregated 34,000,000, and the profitsof the numerous close corporations more than doubled the amount. The principal mines are in Gilver Bow, Deer Lodge and Lowisand Clark counties, and m'(*- pecting isactively progressing through- out the state. There are in operation ten gold mills, eighteen silver mills, seven lead smeiters, cight copper smelters and twenty-live combination mills, Many of theso are of large s and their entire capacity is over i thousand tons a day, which on the pletion of the Araconda smelter will be 1ncreased to 7,000 tons. Ten thousand men are directly employed and 75,000 people, or over one-third of tho enlire population of the state, are indirectly supported by these great industries. A year ago Montana had outstripped all tompetitors in the value of her precious metal output. Governor White, in his recent report to the United States government, suys that two things are nceded to fully build up these great industries: The free coinage of silver by the govern- ment, increasing its value and enlarg- ing the demand for it, and the collec- tion of the full duty on all lead ores in- ported from Mexico, whether contain- ing silver or not. Montana produced 12,000 tons of lead lust year, buv was able to do so at a profit only under the stimulus consequent on the assurance of a ruling of the treasury department favorable to American producers. At Butte are located the great cop- per and silver mines, whose production has increase from $1,000,000 in 1881, to #28,000,000 in 1888, and $18,000,000 in 1889 —the closing of the great Anaconda mine for the last three months of the year on account of fire having produced this latter result. The total copper pro- duct of the Butte district in 1880 was 120,000,000 pounds, worth $12,000,000; and the great quarz mills produced an aggregate of $6,(00,000. The Anaconda mine has spent from first to last fully £20,000,000 in the vity of Butte. Nearly twenty thousand people in that city are are now living on the products of the great mwining camp. The leads un- derlie the city and the sur- voundlng eountry. The further the mines are developed the richer becomes the ore, The. pick and the shovel in the bands of strong aud skill- ful men are doing this wonderful work. The smelters that surround the city con- sume thousands of tons of coul dail brought from the Union Pacific min The veins of Butte are parallel veins, occurring at irregular intervals for three orliuur miles and extending some five miles in length. They vary in width from ten to oune hundred feet. They are simply vast chaunels filled with silver und copper. The pure ores occur in shoots from one hundred to one thousand feet in length, which arefilled with the motal from wall to wall. No bottom has yet besa found to the Not a single shaft that b beon sunk 800 tect has ever been abandoned. There is said ta Lo enough actuaily “in sight" to last for many years. ~ Not one elaim in twenty is yet opened. It is simply a question of ihe supply of mills and “smelters and of a market for the silver, copper and lead which shall be produced. There never was a camp like Butte. The expense of iking the shafts lhias been from £15 10 £30 0 foot wnd they vary in depth from 100 feet to 1,500 feet. There are 850 stamps operating in Butte orc crushing over six hundred tons por day, or about two hundred thousand tons per ear. Six great smelters have a ncity of 3,250 tons daily and their product will be doubled” during present year. There are 900 other stamps operating in the state, which wreat 2,000 tons of ore overy twenty-four hour There are thus treated in the entire stute about seven thousand tons ever There arve in Butte sixteen men worth from $1.000.000 to #6,000,000 each, and the number worth from $100,000 to £500.000 is very large Montana hasthe greatest copper mine. the greatest silver mine, the greatest gold mine in the world, the Anaconda at Butte, the Granite Mountain in Deer Lodee county and the Drum Lummon in Lewis and Clarke county, The profits of the Anaconda are belicved to be not less than $5.000,000 a yeur. The Grau ite Mountain paysover $200,000 o month to its stockholders. 1t is supposed that profits amounting to $10,000,000 are an- nually given by all the mines, which is one-fourth of the base-metal produet of the entire state. D. C. B. s SLANG OF WALL STREET, A Dialect that Greatly Myst fics the Outer World. ouse gunmning in that quarter, I tell you. If you've heen caught short, best say nothing about it, unless you want to get the ruzzle-dazzl These emphatic remarks were made by one of the young guard of Wall street to an acquaintance at the Hoffman house last ovening, says the New York Mail and Express. “But it’s an off market, anyhow.” *Not imuch it isn’t. 1've had a pointer and a couple of days wili see things swimming—see 1f they don't. There won’t be a break in the I and O. in a month. But it’s going to be quiet. There won't be any twisting avout it. It's gilt edged and the fellows who are in have a cinch on it.” To the uninitiated the dialect of Wall treev, of which the language just quot- isa fair example, is one of the ma vels of the metropolis. The panic of 1837, 1869 and the grent contributed heavily to the dinlect of the speculative elass. After each pe- riod of unusual excitement the slang became more pronounced. The great- est contributor of all was the exciting period of the ecivil war, from which sprung w remarkable list of word coin- ages that have been a hundred times discussed by themen who were then the leaders on "Change. It is impossible to trace the history of Wall street slung without, in a measure, following the history of the strect itself. “A break™ in the market—a thing till then unknown—expressed the down- movement where stock had been buoyed up by artificial means: “covering his shorts” described the dileioma of a of a broker who. on a rising murket, bought where he could to protect him- self on the day of delivery of his con- tra Brokers who have lost standing or credit by unfortunate speculation came to be known as the “‘lame duck™ and **snipes” of the street; they wore distinguished from the ‘‘lambs,” who were verdant outgiders who had taken a “flyer” and lost. soslings” ware the younger brokers who had not got crip- pled early in the race. “To gun a stock” was to attempt by every possibie means o produce a break in that par- ticular security. “Kite-fly was a risky sport iuvdulged by brokers who had outrun their vredit and were at- tempting to negotiate worthless paper, or to borrow on **wildeat” stoek. **Col- lateral” was an invention of Drew, and signified anything possessing value in Wall street, and which was given in bond fora loan. A ‘“egvod delivery nfeant that the broker who had under taken to deliver stocks at a certain time found himself in shape to do so « the proper date; a “bad deliv just the reverse. Hypothecating™ a stock was to place it inanybody’s hunds as security for a loan. “Caught long” is where the market drops and a broker is caught with a falling stock “caught short” describes the fix of one who has sold ahead and finds the market s0 quickly that he can not settle ¢ at a neavy loss. “A sick market” when brokers generally hesitate to buy —an outcome of erspeculation, A swimming market” is just the reve “An off market” is where the price have a downward tendency, To “*‘sad- dle the market” is to loist a stock upon it which it does not seem willing to tuke. This is done either by “forcjng the quotations™---that s, keeping “up the price of u stock or preventing it from dropping beyond i certain point until an opportunity are] Lo **boow it. A drop” isequivalentto a “bros he ‘difference,” a term which my fies outside speculators not u little. means the variation in price as between the time of buying aud selling, or from the hour the order was given until the sule or purchase 1s actually wccom- plished. A **flat” loan is one that car- ries no interest; a‘'*jobber” is the street term for an operatar in stocks; an operator is ‘‘wiped ount,” clearly a western term, when he 18 compelled to declare suspension, or is “sold out” under the vules, because of inubility to carry on his contracts. “Watering stocks” —a favorite phrase of Jacob Little, and first used by the Great Bear—is the process of increas- ing the quantity, without adding to the value of the stock. “Twisting on the shorts” is when the ‘‘shorts” have undersold heavily and the marker has Black Friday™ of panic of 1873, all the | ' | in his own country, & revenuo officer in Ireland, an accountant in Bombay in an English shipping house,nnd now drives his car with the profane and cynical cheerfuluess which characterizes old e old printers and old night | watchmen, | [ loarned a new thing about whisky | last might,"" he said to mo yesterday, I stepped on the front platforin of hjf ear, “What was it?" [ asked, “Why, how it was made first,” ho ro- pied as he pulled hisold waterproot cout through the guard rail in front and bit off a piece of plug, It was a monk who first invented it. He lived 1 alone in a little hole in the rocks, or yoars ho had lived there. He was o inan of great piety and learning. Heo could read the stars and foretell eclipsecs Hoknew fields, and some powerful cordials and medicines. He could set broken hones and cure disensos, and ho was as kind-hearted as a c¢hild, and never harmed as much as o field mouse. Al the snme, the people would have noth- ing to do with him. They avoided him, except now and then, when some mis chievous lad would roll a rock down tho mountain against his hut, or else stonoe his old shaggy dog. No one ever saud a kind word to him, and no one would have been noar him. Then he invent- ed whisky. First the people smelled 1, and they used to hang uround to what itwas; one duy themonk found a poar feliow sick and cold and gave hiw a drink, and then a little flask to carry cvery hy coula concoct sco aw In a week the monk had moro friends than an alderman with o pull. The people almost took his arm shuk- ing hands., They built him a fino litt stone house, and he could a - monastery and grown r wouldn’t, but kept on whisky until he died. “Where did I learn that?" said the old man, after he had paused a minute 1 suy something sareastic about o woman who wanted the ear to stop on the wrong side of the crossing, “Why there was too old ducks got on the car late last night, and both wore prott full. One was an Englishmun and the other was au Irishman, and it was the Englishman who told the story aboat the monk, and he wound up with: *Ana this huppened in Ireland, an’ tho monk wus an kuglishman, an’ the only time an Irishman is ever riend to an Englishman is when the Englishman has the bottle.’ ***Ah, said the Irishman, ‘be off wi ¥ The first time [rishmen ever saw whisky was at the battle of Baliy macleugh, where the Saxons put upa bud job on em. It was but timo after the days of St. Pat 5.000 Ivishmen came down upon the Lnglish and would have ate ’em but for their thricks. The English filled the trenches wid buckets of wisky, und the Iris drank it an’ got 'to fighting amony themselves, and that js v the Iong- lishmen first bate us and brought throuble on ireland.’ *Yes,” said the rlishman, ‘you yive an Irishman a dvink an’ he'll fight his own father. S A’ if an Enelishman offers a man a drink look out for him, for he wunts to do 'em, woind that,” said the Irish- man. *“An’ that's the way they keptit up all the w pwi - from ifty-nghth stroet to Abingdon square,’ said 1hs driv “They were both good-navured, and when they got off it was to take a adrink and wait for the next car.” " TWO PRESIDENTS. The Success of Both Their Candidates for kxcuutive Positons. The women’s organized [ anthropic purposes, have, during the last ten yeurs, become a great factor in the social life of our time in almost state of the umion, suys the Youth’s Companion. Sometimes th assume an amusing weight of impor ance in the minds of the younger mems= bers of the families of their enthusiastic oflicers. At the time of the last national elec- tion of & democratic president there was in a certuin New Englund village an election of officers for the women’s lit= erary club. Asit happened the suceess- ful eandidate for presicentof this wholly non-partisun club was the daughter of a democrat and the wife of a_ democrat. Her two small sons, also avdent demo- ats, naturally associated the two elec- tions, and put the one which most af- fected the home discussions firstin ranic and importance, The evening that the success of both of their candidates was assured a re- publican neighbor going home from business found Will and Harry hunging Chinese lanterns on the gateposts be- {ore the house. “*Helto, boys!” said he, good-humor- edly. **What does this mean? Has any- thing happened?! “Happened! oxelaimed *Why, don’t yon krzow the new “*Mother and Cleveland’s electec chimed in_ little Will, excitedly. “Mother and Clevelina’s el »d, and we're going to decorationi — irideing the Don A representative of M. Lliffel hus ar- rived ut Buvcharest on a visitin rela- tion to the projected bridge over the Danube, says the London Globe, It is stated that M. Eiffel is expected in in the new year. Bul- garin does 1ot wish, the correspondent of the kxchange telegraph company snys, that the bridge should lo direct from her side of the Danubé to Crua- voda, but rathe to Aral Tabia, a point which, perhaps, might be conceded by Roumania were it to serve as a junction of internatioval lines of railways, sec- ing that Roumania has her line in working order from Bucharest to tho bunks of the Danube on that side, and that she has her line from Comavoda, Kustindjie, on the other side. It would seem that the original plan is more to the advantage of Roumania, especially as the port of Kustindjie is zlready much frequented, and its” harbor is to be enlarged. - , but making ho e Harry. been artificially raised in order to com- pel them to settle at rising rates. HSalting down” stock, to waiv for a raise; *‘loading and unloading,” ‘“‘car- rying” stock for a raise, or the purpose of a pool or *‘clique” (a term borrowed from the Paris and London exchanges), “hiocks” of stock, and many other terms are fumiliar to outsiders, The “ballooning”’ of n stock by circulating “roorbucks,” or fayorable stories con- cerning it, is & common practice on the street, When a broker “buys in’ stock, he makes purchases in order to meet short contracts, orto enable nim to return stock he may have borrowed. “Covering Lis shorts’’ means that when stock has been sold, and tho warket rises, the soller buys where he can and protects himself on the day of delivery. e HOW WHISKY WAS DISCOVZRED Rirst Made in lreland vy an &lish Monk. Some quaint characters can be found in the odd places of this great cosmo- politan city now and then, suys the New York Star. I metone of them driving 4 street car on the Eighth avenue line last night. Heisa elshman pamed Evan Jones—little iron-grey old man, with keen black eves and a highly roseate nose. He wus a school teacher 0. Grana Duke Sienolus Dying. Loxbox, Jan, 80.—Grand Duke Nicholes of Russia is hopelossly ill of cancer. Absolutely Pure, powder never varies. Amarvel of purity; strength and wholesomeness. More conmnica than the ordinary kinds, sud canoot be sold;Ly competition with ke multitude of low tost BhOrt welght alum or phosphate powders. 5 unh‘muru-l!u, Rovar BAKiaG POwDEK Couy 106 Wall 5t , N, 'Y,