Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1890, Page 2

-+ N OTEENTH YEAR. THE RUNGARTAN WASHINGTON Louls Kossuth on Wilhelm's Re= ecripts and the Political Outlook. PESSIMISTIC PROGNOSTICATION. Bocioty's Malady Defles Cure—Mon- archs Have Not Solved it, Social- ism a Detusion and Republice antsm Hardly a Success. Not a Rose-Colored View. (Copyright 1850 by James Gordon Benneit.| Tonis, Italy, Feb, 2.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to Tre Bre.|—Here where the wild Alps are flung against the sky about the craale of Italian liberty I found Louis Kossuth today. For more than twenty years the great patriot Las maintained o steadfast silonce. He has watched the drift of political eveuts, sounaed the currents and marked the rocks against which monarchies and republics are drifting, and yet he has not spoken. It is now almost a whole gener- ation since Victor Emanuel and Cavour in- vited the unsuccessful Washington of Iun- gary to live in Italy. From that time on ho has lived alone, speaking with no one but the three or four persons necessary to his comfort, but reading and writing prodig- jously. He is eighty-eight years old, but his mind 1# as clear and vigorous as ever. The world at large does not scem to be aware of the fact that within a few days Kossuth became & man without a @ country. A law was passed in Hungary declaring that all versons lLiving abroad for ten years and failing formally to assert their citizenship before some Austrian official would be thereby denationalized. Kossuth has never rocognized the Austrian emperor's authority ana would not do any act that might compromise his position. Last month the law made him a political o: t. There is a tremendous burst of patriotism over- flowing Hungary in consequence. Already eighty-three cities have conferred honorar. citizenship upon him and fresh tributes ar rive every day. The people he lod are weay- ing wreaths for his brow that will never fade, wrile the world honors his stainless patriousm, An effort will be made to re- peal the Jaw that makes [Kossuth a strancer in his own Iand on the eve of the year when Hungary will celebrate the thousand years of her existence as thy buiwark of Europe against barbarism. When I called at Kossuth's house, 22 via ae Mille, 1 found the venerable chieftain seated at a large desk 10 his working room. Papers and books were strewn about in all direc- tions and carefully marked drawers in the ‘wall spoke of a life of 1ndus'ry cven 1n his old age. Kossuth earns his own living, scorning all assistance. He has & strong face, broad forchead, earnest bluo eyes, mouth made to command, snowy locks curl- ing from beneath a black silk cap and a heavy beard almost touchwig the deep, full &hest. There 18 in lus gentle countenance a suggestion of some old sorrow. We started o talk sbout the rescripts of the German emperor calling for an international confer- , ence 10 settle the great social question raised by organizéd labor. Gradually we drifted from ono topic to another. Kossuth would not consent to be quoted. All 1 can do is to mive the improssion left on my mind by my tweo hours’ talk with this remarkable man: “Tho German emperor's words are only words, No doubt they are sincere, tor it is a hereditary principle of the Hohenzollern princes to interest themselves in the poor. They have always aimod to base their power upon the masses and not upon the few. A congress of nations docs not amount to much, and congresses aud kings are not to be trusted. Kings take little real interest in the welfare of the common peopln except when it happens to jcoincide with theic own plans, As for the Dresent sovereigns of Europe,their persoval interests are so antag- onistio that it would be impossible for tnem to agree on thoe labor aquestion even if it were solveable. Monarchies, to exist in the present time, must extend themselves, and no king can afford to setany limits to bis actions such as an finternational compact regulating labor.. Two propositions are ad- vauced by the emperor. One is that normal hours of labor shall be txed. The other is that the working man shall participate in the' arbitration of labor questions, Already this idea 1s in partial operation, both in England and America, but the scheme regulating the hours of work is no more practicable than the idea of & common system of popular education, for in all coun- tries thodiftereuce of temperament, physique wnd character added to the aifference of surroundiags, create a varrior that can not be crossed. “The international project formed by $laine in the United States is quite another matter, If he succeeds in bringing about the union of all the Americas on the certain lines of political economy, it will have an ancaleulable effect upon the future of ‘Burope. It is clear that the social industrial question surmounts all others, Society is sick of a malady that defies cure. The progress of civilization has given the groat mass of the peopledesires which were onea confined to a few and the rich workingman today re- gards @s necessaries what his pre- decessors considered luxuries, So-called state socialism will not cure the sickness. An equal division of property will be fol- lowed in time by an unequal possession of property. The weak will always go down before the strong. Monarchy will not cure the malady. Monarchy is going down all over the world and republicanism is coming up. The anarchical principie is not extend- ing itaolf, while the-principle of republicau- s is rapidly gaining grouud, as the recent chunge of the government in Bruzil shows. It is cortain that the one system is ceasing to extend itself and that the opposing system keeps on gaining ground, aud the first is bound to be displaced. But republicanism will not cure the malady, for is there not in America the nearest possible spproach to a real reoublic, with an -eafranchisod democracy, free education and popular in- stitutions, Still, Awmerica has the social wmalady, too, “There seems to be DO remedy. Meanwhile the earin will continue to revolve and some day the present population may be swept from its surfaco und & new race capable of a new civilization way sppear. A catuolysni*is the only hope of a solution, This appeal for au international system of labor regulations s simply & reassertion of the old doctrine that the government wust medale ia every- thing, belp everythinz aud control every- thing, ‘Ihat idea is discredited by history aud by the personal condition of the work- ing people. 1t will not do. ‘Phere must be more scope for man., The ludividual must Lave room to develop. “As for the effect of the emperor's re Scripts upon the future empire, they will not count for much. There wust betwo Ger- manies, Prince Bismarck affeots to despise the statesmanship of the late Napoleon ill, who believed in two Germanios, but it is a | matter of fact that whon Bismarck was prac- | tically master of Europe and it was sugzested that all the German states should be united into one government, he replicd that there would never be less than two Germant His hands may be strong enough to hold the sections of the empire together now, but when he dies they will fall asunder, The interests of the north are to be entirely #%p- erate from the interests of the rest of Ger- many. Much of the poverty n Kurope is due to the expense involved in standing armies, They will not disappear till mone archs with their personal ambition disap- pear, Europe is on the verge of a vast con- flict. It is inevitable. Nothing ean avert it. The oniy cause forsurprise is that war has not already bogun. France and Germany could step asido and settle their differences peaceably without disturbing the balance of Europe, but not so the oriental question be- tween Russia and Austria. Russia knows that Constantinople could be taken by a coup ae force, but it would be a barren vie tory. She could not maintain such a position withiout first getting possession of Bulgaria a8 a background, Austria cannot afford to be surrounded by Pan-Slavism and crushed. Had Hungary succeeded in gaining her in= dependence Poland would Eave been liber- ated and they would have been followed by o Danube alhance of small states umted ouly for common defense and offence but each preserving 1ts independence. The movement of Russia towards the sea which threatens the peace of the world dutes from the downfall and division of Poland, That throw Kurove open to the czar. When the struggle opens Hungarians will fght against Russia toa man, They have still preserved their naticnality and know that if Russia succeeds all hove of independenco is lost. If Russin 18 defeated Hungary still has a chunce of freedom by revolution, or ir the event of the crown tumbiing from the head of Frunz Joseph, Hungary was crushed only because she got no outside help, Washe ington at Valley, Forge acknowledged that ho was hors do combat, and then France went to his aid. Where would Well- ington have been had he not been supported by Teutonic armsi v is safe. She has a great and happy futare and her people deserve it, they have been true so long und through so many bitter trials for the princile of Italinn unification. When the thread of conspiracy fell out of one mun’s hands on the scaffold there was al- ways another to take it up. The vatican casts but a small shadow. F the college of cardinals been adroit enough to have se- lected a member of the reigning House of Savoy—tue late duke of Costa, brother of King Humbert, for instance—to St. Peter's chair, they might bave changed the situation, but the papal sovereignty 18 o thing of the past, and no one understands that better than the present pove, ngland is wanting in power. She is liv- ing today on capital accumulated in the past and rapidly usinz it up. Canada and Aus- tralia are sure to be separated from the mother country and not a drop of blood will be shed. There will always remain ties of lauguage and and similarity of institutions that will encourage inter-commerce and be mutually profitable. These colonies are not. a great source of strength from a material standpoivt, Todinis a greal Lreusure house,- Had Lord Beaconsfield lived and carried ou! s plun of using Indian troops in Burope England would be today a wighty force, “Ireland is drifting away from England every year. The people are becoming more closely knit 1 sympathy with the United States. Modern invention bas partly an- nihilated the distance between the two coun- tries und now it does not take much longer to go to San Francisco than to Queenstown. There are men unow alive who will see the day when Ireland will become a state in the American union,” When I bade goodbye to the grand oid man he stood in the middle of a checrless outside reception room with bowed head saying that he was almost ashamed to live 50 long, and so [ left him in his nermitage— Kossuth, the incorruptible, who, if he could have chosen his own place in nature, would huve been the dew, trampled on by man and beast unnoticed, unappreciated, but still silently fructifying the earth, e i THE NAMES ARE ASsSUMED, Putzhkjoff.§ and Sqarovtchiki Effect- ually Conceal Their Identity, Prenr) D., Feb. 25.—[Spacial Tele. gram- to Tue Bee.|—Peter Putzhkjoffgi, the Russian who was injured yesterday by falling from a scaffold at the electric light works, and who, under the supposition that he was about to die from his injuries, di- vulged certain matters in which he was im- plicated concerning the attempted assassina- tion of the czar two years ago, was taken to the room of a friend and comrade and no- body but the doctor has been permitted to ee him since, The friend 18 named Pat Searovtehiki, aud he and the injured man are apparently from the higher class of Russiaos and living in this coun- try under assumed nawmes, All attempts o interview either of them have proved futile, as the injured man, since he found his injuries are wot fatal, has become most reticent. He and his companion came here last fall, and for some tme they did nothing, but when the electric work was commenced Peter applied for work, claim- ing to be an pert electrician, which has proved o bo true. When told last night that is chances for recovery were doubtful he started a coufession, wh was at the tine undistinguishable from his weakness, but the understandicg was that he was to cou- tinue today, and he wus given an opiate to put him tosleep. He has been muzzied by his friend, and the names of the high itus- s1an officials who were implicated in the plot ageinst the caar’s life cannot be obtained but ivis known that several are now resid ing i Siveris, from whav was divulgod last naght, Pierre's ontoon Briage. n. ~[Svecial Telogram ‘ontracts were let for lumber 10 build the new fpontoon bridge across the Missouri river at this city and it is hoped to have the bridge all completed in sections to put in when the 1ce goes out in about three woeeks, It will cross from the steamboat landing 1o the new town of Stanley opposite, ‘The swount of lumber requirea for o bridge WAll be jn the nelghvorbood of oo willion oet, A New Opern House for Plerre. Pierur, 8. D, Feb, 25.—|Spacial Telegram to Tue Brr.]--Contracts were closed last night far the erection of a $150,000 opera house here. Work on the same will be com menced as s0on as the weather will perwit and it wiil bo rushed to completion be the spring season opens. 1t will be of brick and dressed brownstone, snd it is claimed that it will be the finest’ in either of the Dy hotus when completed. o suteoi L TEY Dashed Through a Bridge. Evassviie, Ind, Feb. 25.—The Nashvillo apd Chicago fust mlail traiv north bound went through a bridge at Kelso creck, tayr Vincennes, early this morviug. The cW;ine and baggage car fell into the creek, The en- ginoer ana firemen are missing and are sup- Pposed to be nuder the engiue. Noue of the passengers received serious injury, THE PLATTSMOUTH REUNION A Gathering of Survivors of the First and Second Nebraska. LARGE CROWDS IN ATTENDANCE. Many Veterans From Other States Present — The Roll Oall=— Other News About the State, Nebraskn Veterana. PratsvorT, Neb, Feb. 25.—|Special Tologram to Tue Bem|—The reunion of the soldiers of the First and Second Ne- braska regiments opened today. The day was cold and stormy and very discouraging, but a large crowd came on euery train, 'Uhis afternoon the Burlington flyer brought about fifty veterans from the western partof the state, aud the colors of the regiments, in charge of Lieutenant Gillespio, Singular to suy, although 1t is a reunion of Nebraska soldiers, a largo number of soldiers from other statos are In uttendance. This even- ing they beld a campfire and related many reminisconces. Speochies were mude by Lieutenant J. Q. Goss of Belle- vue, Major Thomas Majors of Peru, Major J. W Pearman of Nebraska City, Governor Thayer and Sergoant F. Morris of Griswold, Ia., all officers in the two regiments, There was a recitation by Miss Grace McMakin of Atchison and a specch by General John MeNeil of St. Lous, The two regiments served creditably in the following battles: At Fort Henry, Fort Donaldson, Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Siege of Memphis, Cape Gerardeau, Pilot Kuoband Duvalls’ Bluft. They were mus- tered into service at Omaha on June 11, 1561, und served three years as infantry and in 1 were mounted and sent to Fort Kearnoy, where they guarded tho mail coaches and _the Union Pacific surveyors, They returned to Omuha in 156, and were mustered out July 20f the same yeur. The following veterans of the Nebraska regiment have reported for duty: General John M. Thayer, P. R. Child and E. G. Child, Company A, ' Firs Nebraska, Arapahoe, 'Nev.; E, M. Lowe, D, First O'Neil; Bon Hetnpel, A, Pirst, Plautsmoutt; L. Shipley, B, Second,' Florence; L V H, Second, Plattsmouthi; William A. Scoop, H, Second, Logan, D. C. Edson, K, Pirst, Murray: S. 'C. McMallon, A, First Atchison, Kan.; S. A, Davis, H, Sécond, Plattsmouth; “F. M Study, B, Elirst, Partlette, Ia. J. P.'Burdick, B, Second, Eagle; John Selmner, H, Seventh, Eagle: L. Kuobler, D, First, Palermo, Kan,; L. D, Lemon, D, First, Bik Creek:'A. B. Toad, B, Secon Plattsmouth; J. W. Johuson, 4, First, Platt mouth; F. J. Streight, B, Second, ' Platts mouth; H. C. MoMaken, H, Second, Platts- mouth; Johu Carr, H, First; N. A, Roukas, W. A, Tiffany, G, First, Plattsmouth; Fred Hacris, H, Tirst, Griswold, Ta.; 7, W. Thomas, C, Second, Plattsmouth; Joa*Hill, F, First, Clarinda,’ Ta,; M, C. Johnson, F, First, 'Clarinda,’ Ia; D, B. Gooaman, ¥, Wirst, Clarinda, Ia; James D, Curns, F, First, Sidnoy; M. W. Morgan, E, Second, Sidney, In.; N.'D. Kelly, F, First, Siduey, In.; B. Sage, H, Second, Platts- mouth; George Hant, D, Second, Weeping Water; Daye Campbell, C, Second, Auburn; B0 . Becomt unty; Willlsm Kemp, C, Second, Aubura; C. G. Randall, A, Uirst, Lincoln; R. G. Gor- don, H, 'Second, Wabash, Ta.; J. W. Barr, A, First, 'Memphis, Nov.: A.W. Throckmor- ton, O, First, David City; A. Bowen, sur- geon, Second, Nebraska 'City; James E, Aught, A, First, Ashland; H. C. Harsh- burger, 'A, Tirst, Woodbine, In.i J. . " Goss, ' Second, Belleyue; W, T ogeboones, B, Second, La Platte; W. T. Clark, H, First, Des Moines, Ia.; Frank Caldwell, H, Second, La Platte, Tu.; J. J. Prem, A, First, Villisea, Ta.; S, W. 'Smith, A, First, Port Towhsend, Wash.; John S Crane, C, Second, Omaha; William Miller, art, dept. Omaha; Thomas W. Richey, A, Fifth cavalry, Omaha; J. M, Whittier, 'D, Second, Florence; B. A. Racker, O, First, = Audubon, la.; J. McCool, F, First, Kokomo, Ind.; A S, Karmes, ‘A, First, Plattsmouth; G. V. Hall, F, second, Lincoln; J. W. Hess, C, Second, Greencab, Kan., G. W. Dave port, G. Second, Pawnee® City; Milton Davenport, E, First, Pawnee City; M. O. Barrawt, ¥, ‘Second, Dewitt; Willlum M. Hall, F,'first, firth, Neb.; H. G. Sappe, Second, ' Nora, = Nebj; 'William. Powell, C, Eighteenth, Syracuse’ John Gil- lespie, Firsisergeant, Eighteenth, Lincoln; D. W. Queen, F, Second, Lincoln; John Ed- wards, °M, Second, Pawneo City; James Iler, #, Second, Crote; James Brites, F, First, Pawnee City; J. W. Pearman, major, Second, Nebraska City; B, Joseph Shipley, First, West Poini; Nealy Lewis, ‘B, First, West Point; 'S. Calman, G, First,’ Lyons; John Dyer, G, First, Omaba; James Allen, C, Second, Pender; Nathau Carter, R, Second, Blai W. B Swibart, C, First, Kennar S. Downs, H, Second, Horman; C. E. Eis: ley, A, Second; Norfolk; E. D, Dou- avan, ' A, First, Plattsmouth; R C. Miller, F, First, Norwich, Neb; John Campbell,'E, First, Missoula; ‘Thomas Majors, major, Peru; .’ Prouty, C, First, Peru; = F. ' B, Reed, T, ' First, Pern; M. J. Conrad, C, Second, Perui John Wyne. C, Second, Peru; O. P. Wells, C, Second, Peru; Dovid Myers, C, Tirst, Meelan, Kan; H, P Kellogg, ' F," First, Rockport, Mo.; Nathan' Brown, A, First, tHamburg, Ta.; A. Yost, A, Second, Norfoik: K. Mippin, ¥, First. Norfolk; J, I Dorse, A, Sceond, North Hend; Lowss Loftin, I, First, Crab Orchar David Gall, "G, Second, Reserve, Kan; Alfred Stephens, H, Second, Platismouth; Clarles Widdervarcher, B, Fiat, Teavenworth, Kan.; H. 8. Herrman, A, First, Horlon, Kan.; James Mutchell,' A, First, Plattsmoutb; John MoNeil, general, St. Louis; John Heardsly, K, First, Weeping Water; J. M. Birchopp, G, First, Elmwood. Captured Two Crooks. FremoNT, Neb, Feb. 25.—|Speoial Tele. gram to Tue Bee.)--Saturduy night Ofcer Herr capturad two crooks as they were in the act of holding up a farmer who was drunk and lad his pockets full of money, They were held for examination, which took place this afternoon. One of them, who gave his name as Jumes Moran, proves to be James Lamb, who is wauted at Escanaba, AMich., and for whom a reward of $300 is of- fered. The local officers received a tele, from tho sheriff at Escanaba this afternoon stating that he would come on the first train, #ud requesung that Lawb be beld, which will be done, Goes to Calitornia, KEARNEY, Nob, Feb. 25.—[Special Tele- gram 0 Tue Bee]—today Ben Hill, right fielder for the Kearney champions lust year, signed with the Califoraia Athletic club, He sturts for the coast tomorraw, As a fielder he hus no equal in the atate. = Al the bat he i usmasher and sure. The Kearuey uine has not been organized this year, Remembercd Washineton. MixpEN, N Ieb. 25,—Special to Tae Ber,|—Washington's birthday anuiversary was duly cclebrated by the Minden sohools, Inthe evening Rev. George M. Maftin, an old army chaplain, gave o very iuterestin, lecture, under the auspices of the Gran Army of the Repub Hastings Happening.. Hastixes, Neb,, Feb. 25.—[Special to Tug Bee.]—luvitations huve been recewved in this cily to the mulitary dress ball and recep- tion at Juniata, Neb, in honor of Adjutant OMAHA, WEDN ESDAY MORNING Ge 1 A. V. Cole, givon by Company F, First regiment Nebraska National guards, February 27, A delegation from this city are making proparations to Attend A military drill_company #s being organ- ized®n this city by Chris Hoeppner and Bd Tonacker, determined effort is baing made to di- vide the First ward, making five wards in the city. The First ward has beon casting about half the entira vote of the city. Two carloads of material for the new soap factory, soon to be established 1n Hastings by Alexander Brothers of Monmouth, [l have arrived. These gentlemen mean blisi- ness, and will commience operations as soon as practicable, Thompson & Brown, editors of the Tribune, will atart an anti-amendment daily April 15, to continua through the cam- paign, 1t is reported that the Blks are preparing to establish olegant quarters on the third tloor of the opera house block. Iho friends of W. H. Lunning have pre- vailed upon him to secevt the nomination of mayor on the people's ticket. Me. Lanning wes liead of city affairs in 1883 and made u good executive office Fire at Kirth, Finrm, Nob, Feb, 25,—A disastrous fire occurred 1 this city yesterday, The drug store of J. H. Davis, H.J. Febring's grocery store, the Firth bank building and Fleck- inger's harness shop were destroyed. The ]t‘:";o:r’ estimated at $13,000, and insurea for Corn Galore, Dononrsrenr, Neb,, Fob, Tae Ber. here are 240,000 bushels of corn now in the erib in this place and still there are thousands of bushels being hauled in every day. One farmer, George Armstrong, hauled in at one load, with ono team, niuety bushels of ear corn. pectal to A Murderous Assaait. Nenraska Crry, Naob ob. 25, —|Special Telegram to Tne Beg, |-—Joseph Muck made a murderous assault on George Carber with a koife, for which he was bound over to the district court in $500. | et L) 20 FEARFUL STORMS. Houses Blown Away Wrecked, St. Louis, Mo,, Feb, 25.—Specials report that a terrible hurricane ,8wept over apart of northern Texas this* moruing. The Ma- souic hall in Guinesvillé was_ torn to pieces, the court house unroofed, the Santa Fe depot wrocked and somo twenty buildings blown down. Nobody was killed but scveral per- sons wore more or lesainjured. CansoN, Nev., Feb. 9—A terrible storm raged at Lake Tahoe yesterday. Smallcraft were smashed to pieees, wharves severely shaken and houses damaged. The snow is shifting along the roud: hore, covering the station houses and burying the logging camps, ¢ INDIANAPOLIS, Tnd., b, 25. able damago has been dome to railroad erty ull over Indiana by ‘heavy rain this ity and vicini boen washed away af Sentinel special fron saya the Evana- ville & Terrs Hi ® over the Eel woak lin. 18 pr tically cut off from g nunication. LousyiuLe, Ky, | storm of Monday night Worikof ion with aph. 8ervic night alf connoction was cut off, but, ut § Union succeeded in| thing sboud. the dj wires, houses or the ares and Bridges prop- In T NASRVILYLE TS storm did consraeri: tion of the. state, but n the immediate vicinity of Nashville. 1 Cumberland river and all the other streams are rising rapidly. Several houses were unroofed in neighbor- ing towns, but no fatalities are reported, Aot ARIZONA'S DAM DISASTER. Between Fifty and Sixty Lives Thought to be Losrt, PrEsCOTT, Ariz, Feb. 25,—A messenger bringing further details of the Walnut Grove dam disaster arrived this morning. Sheriff O'Neil, who went to the scene of the disaster, writes as follow The scene of desolation along the Hassay- ampa river, bolow the sites of the dams, is complete, For miles the waters turned free by the breaking of the dams have filled the bed of the creek with bedies and with enor- mous boulders, trees abd'every other kind of debris, The following is a partial list of tho drowned : Hannah McCarthy, Joe Reynolds, miner; George Ebbets, laborer; Alexander McMil- lun, coachman for Van Huren; E. G. Wheeler, luborer; one Mexican, name un- known; G. L. Cook, labdrer; N, L. Cook, laborer; N. L. White, laborer: John Silsbeo, Charles King, blacksmith; Patrick Shay, laborer; Patrick Barry, laborer; Cbarles Bracken, laborer; Willlam }lanagan, laborer; Frederick Palmer, laborer: Casper Freester, laborer; John Broune, engineer; Alex Broune, eongingor; 8, Burlogie, laborer; L. D. Haynes, ‘laborer and child George Rundell, laborer, aad eight China- men. Besides these mentioned some twelve or fifteen miners who were placer mining between the upper-avd lower dom with a number of ranchers along the stream, are missing, and when the easualties are ascer- tained the entire loss will probably be be- tweeu fifty and sixty lives. A number of bodies have been recovered, many of which were found twenty and thirty miles from the place where the flond over- took them. All the remains are more or less mutilated, whi)e 10 sume cases only fragments have been recovered, as the force of the flood wus terrific, Many bodies have doubtlessly been buried in the sand, others torn to picces and others carried far south, The impotus of the stream of water when turned loose can hardly be appreciated without going over the ground covored by it. Those who saw it say it came down almost in a perpendicular wall, ninety to one hundred feet high, and apparently crushed down instead of sweep- ing away everything before it. An immense body of water oneand a half miles square and sixty feot deep was: emptied in an hour, Immeuse boulders weighing tons were thrown around, enormetis trees broken in W0 or torn into shrods, iren bars broken and twisted out of shape, ordinary flat irons picked up and carried five miles and then imbedded in the walls of the canyon eighty feet above the present leyel of the stream, A large safe containing §7,000 was swept away aud no trace has heen found of it. ‘the flood struck the lower dam at 1:50 a, m., and five minutes later the headquarters five miles below, was swent away. b‘uvm;‘l persous were at both mowmts watching, but notwithstanding this the pumber of drowned at the first point was over thirty, and thoso who escaped did s emly with what they had “on = their bagks, many only their bt clothes. The survivors are n great destitution, havigg weither provis: nor clowhing, Many age using coarse grain sacks in lieu of clothing, Friduy evenng a courier was the upper to the lower dam to wara the resi- doents that the focmer structure was in dunger of breaking, but owing to the storm the messenger lost his life in trying to cross the Hassayampa within view of the suryi ors of the camb he nad tried to save, Charles Thompson, a courier who arrived this afternoon from below Wickenburg, re borts that niue bodies have been discovered at Wickenburg and three above in addition to those already aiscovered. Tue old b torie Brill runch, with ali the other ranches aloug the river, huve 'been eutircly swept away. seat from A Apiple Tragedy. MoxtGoMERY, Mign,, Feb. 25 —At the bome of Frank Washs, ‘four miles from Montgomery, Thomas Yiadra shot and in- stanly killed Miss Lizzie Washa He then fatally sbot Frank Weanor and ended the tragedy by blowiug out his ows braius, Jealousy was the cause, FE BRUARY [NOT AN OPPORTUNE TIME McKinley on the Proposed Suppres- sion of Goerrymandering. THE SENATORS ARE BLUFFING, eoutive Seasion Leaks Not Liable to be Discovered—A Sabstitute for the Windom Silver Measure. 58 FounrerNTi WASHINGTON, 3 The Morning Post contains an interview with Major McKinley with regard to the gerrymandering scheme in Ohio which makes his district democratic and will leave him out of congress. He says: ““Tho story that I purchased a farm in Colnmbiana county 80 as to escape the gerrymandors is without the least foundation. That farm has been in our family for thirty years, so you will sce that it was not acquired for congressionul purposes, No, I will not be a candidate for congress from Columbiana county.” “*What is your opinion of the bills to pre- vent gerrymandering?" “You refer to the Hofer and Wickham bills? I have not scen cither of the meas- ures, but 8o faras 1 am concerned I would not pass a bill to prevent a change in the Ohio congressional distriocts ot this time. Whilo there may oo good reasons for a luw to prevent this constant changing of dis. tricts, it would hardly bo fair to urge it at this particular time. The Ohio democrats Hfave elected & majority of the legisluture, and so far asam concerned they will be allowed to enjoy the fruits of their victory. This is common political play. However, the history of gerrymandering shows that it t{enerully injures tho party that indulges in Wasniseros Bureav Tiue Opama Ben, } 'What is your idea of a law on this sub- jecti» Well, thero ought to be some general law; but now is hardly the vroper time to express it. I don’t know as it would be proper to provide that the congressional dis tricts should be fixed after each census and then stand until after the next census, as even that kind of a law might work an in- justice. It might do to provide that the dis- triots could be changed by a two-thirds vote of the legislatures, and this would give the people a chance to correct any wrong that might be perpetrated by either of the parties,” “You have been mentloned, major, as the next republican nominee for governor of Ohio.” “1am not a candidate for anything at the present time. The next Ohio gubernatorial election is almost two years off and I would be very foolish, indeed, to allow myself any concern on that account.” Major McKinley said today that he exs pected the committes on ways and mean: would be able to report the tariff bill to the house in about two wecks, and that they .should try to shorten the debato as much us possible so as to have au early adjournment. A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE WINDOM BILL. The senate committen on finance today re- poried a subsutute for the Windom bil which valdu for the issue of certificates von silver and gotd bullion deposited with the gol 8 h Ll the most sur- fifi#m-:; of the session. 47 uny one.ads suggested that men of sucn divided views as Mr. Besk and Mr. Hawley, Mr. Jones of Ne- vada and Mr. Aldrioh, Mr. Voorhees and Mr, Sherman would ever stand upon & common silver platform the remark would have been pasaed over as an absurdity; but hera they ore all agreeing to the sawe scheme, and what suits the most extravagant advocate of silver geverally is supported by the most conservative gold bug from New England. Mr, Sherman will offer some amendments to the bill wheo it comes up in the senute, one of which will be for the purpose of reducing the limit on sitver from $4,500,000 to §4,000,- 000 and another will be to strike out that sec tion which provides for the issue of certifi cates upon gold bullion, SECKET SESSION INVESTIGATION, A vigorous effort is being made by a por- tion of the senate to ascectain how informa- t10n concerning executive or secret sessions get into print and a_secret nvestigation s being made by the special committee np- pownted for the purpose, with Sonator Dolph of Oregon as chairman. There have been similar efforts made before and they huvo all faled. There is some talk of summon- ing before the committes certuin newspaper represontatives who have for yeurs ox- tracted this information from various sources and sent to the country broadcast, but that will hardly be done, §Certainly it would result in securing no practical information and tbe talk about an authorized investigation and the summoning of witnesses is simply done to frighten some senators who are suspected of giving out the information. When the special committee makes its report Senators Teller, Platt and other courageous and fair- minded statesmen say they will demand that nominations be consiaered in open session of the senate, and the prospects are that star chamber work and the assassination of men’'s reputations behind closed doors will cease. The men who know the most, ubout the executive or secret session work can see no good to any one or anything in continu- ing the star chamber work, as just enough proccedings get into print to njure the men and measures under consideration and to misrepresent the senators who participate in the secret session debates. The senators who bave taken a stand for open sessions.for the con- sideration of nominations are in every in. stance the most couragzeous and fair minded memoers of the upper branch of congress. It is not proposed to discuss diplomuatic rela- tions or treaties in open session, but no one is able to see whore justice is protected by the discussion of nominations behind closed doors, A COLORED SHARP. A fow duys 8go a woman passing under the name of Caroling Clements went about Washington among the colored people ana represented to thei that there would be an immense entertainment given at the white house by President and Mrs. Harrison on the night of St. Patrick’s day. She represented 1o the colored women that waitresses and servants were being employed; that their salaries would he liboral and the duties pleasing and elevatiog, She embloyed a large number of colored women and demanded from each some *‘faith money,” or an advance in cash as an earnest of a dosire to appear ut the white nhouse on St. Patrick’s night ready for duty. It is eved that she collected quite a sum of money in this way before oue colored waman who had advarced several dollars, becoming suspicious, went to the white house, where she learned that her em- ployer was o fraud. The solicitor is now in the station house, bewg unable to give a £300 bond to_appear for trial. The police of- ficers say that Mrs. Harrison will be sum- moned as & witness in the case. CHICAGO NEEDN'T PEAR. Au effort will be made by Washington and o fow friends of New York to set aside the decision of the house yesterday looating the world's fair in Chicago, by having the sen- ato disagree, and subatituté one of the other cities named, There s very little doubt, bowever, that this movement fall, ‘Phe friends of the three unsuccessful cities are, as o body, satisfied Lo perwit Chicago 10 walk away unmolested with ber houors, and will extend to her all possivle encourage- ment to make the exposition a success. I1tis stated that there are nearly sixty senators who own real estate in Washingion, and this encourages the people in this city to be- lieve that the upper branch of congress may revorse the decision of the house and make afight for the fur to be held ab the na- tional capital, Your correspondent talked saveral senators today who idences and other real » and they express a willingness to per. the house, the members of which are ted by the vote of the veople aud who ersonally responsible for their actions ir constituonts, o decide this question, wd there is very little roascn to beliovo that Chicago can be displaced by any other oity, ome ° economists ure demanding that the 81,500,000 for the exhibit namod in the bill shall bo decreased, while a fow want it stricken out. The great bulk of the senti- ment, however, 18 in favor of retaining the appropriation as at first proposed. The vill containing the §1,500,000 appropriation and Chicago as tho site is expected Lo come up in tho houso very soon and be passed 1n that form, [t wiil then go to the senate where speedy action is anticipated. There will be consilerable contention over the question of the date when the fair shall bo held. Very many statesmon believe that wwo yoars i3 not suffcient time to got ready for the the fair and that it shonld not bu hold until 180 GENERAL BROOKE 1% WASHINGTON. General Brooke, commander of the depart- ment of the Platte, was before the senate committee on military affairs yostorday ro- garding atho granting of right of way to certain railroads through the military reserv. ation of new Fort Omaha, He accompunied ator Manderson to the war department and had o conference with Secretary octor on the same subject. Tomorrow tho goueral will Jeave for Philadelphin and New York, where bo will remain for threo or four days. Licutenant Roe, aldede-camp t General Camp, will join the ceneral at H risburg and proceed with hinf to Chicagzo. Meanwhile the licutenant will remain i Washington visitinge s father, - Admiral Roe of the United States navy. The general and the lieatenant will be with General Crook for*a day and then go to Omaha, arriviog thero on the 3d or 4th proxiwo. PIERRE'S BRIDGE. The house committee on commer: mitting a favorable report upon th thorizing vhe construction of o t thé Missouri r capital of South Dakota, says: *The bill provides for the construction of n pontoon bridge for wugous, foot passengers and ruil- way trains, “Tho banks and shifting charag ter of the Missouri river at this point make it very diicult ana expensive to construct a pler bridge, and inasmiuch as thero are towas ou the opposite hanks of tho river at this point and great need for the construction of 1age the privilege ought to be given at “This bill has been sibmitted to the chief engineer of the army, who reports under dute of Febraary 25, 1800, that there i8 no ovjection to the passage of the bi Your committee recommends the passage of the bill with the following amendment to be added 1o section 6: ‘Provided that conuress reserves the right to alter, amend or repeal this act.’ own estate e, in sub bill LAND DECISIONS. Assistant Secretary Chandler today af- firmea the decision of the commissioner of the general land oftice in bolding for cancel- lation the timber culture entry of Joseph Kilpatrick for the southeast !5 of scction 2, township 22 north, range 2 viest, Sixth pric cipal meridian, Neligh district, The entry was coutested by Oswell Hyde, He also aflirmed the commissioner's de- cision dismissing the contest of John Brickey aguinst the timber culture ent Perry N, Dwizht for the rorthwest 1 of township 106 north, ravge 65 west, Fifth princwal - meridian, Mitchell, S. D., land district. g To the caseof C. R. McDonald, wherein the commissioner rejected commutation proof in the homeatead cutry for the north- east. Sg of section 23, township 114 north, range 80 west, Huron, S. D., lana district on the ground that the residence and culti- vation shown were not isfactory, the assistant reversed his decision aund directed the lslm"iy tead of leavin it t0 tho discration of the postwastor general, The statute fixes five prades with a maxi- mum salary for each, but the postmaster general in the absence of definite instric- tions by law is often hampered by inadequate appropriations and, the burden of negligence Or over economy on the part of congress in- variaply falls vpon the postal clerks, who are paid less for the work they do than any other class of government employe: A bill has beon introduced in the house by Mr. Dubois of Lduho, authorizing the city of Ogden, Utab, to assume a bonded iudebted- ness, including all _existing liabilities, equal to 8 per cent of the vulue of the taxable property within the corporation, such value. to be ascertaned by the lnst assessment fol municipal taxes, The money derived by this indebtedness is 1o be expended i public improyements. Representative Gifford of South Dekota in the house today presented memorlals of the legis'ature for a natiozal soldiers’ home to be established at Hot Springs, S. D. ing to settlement under a part of Fort Randail military re and for the ratification of the agreement ve- tween the Wahpeton and Sisseton Indians, W. H, Hurd was toduy appointed post- master at Climbiog Hill, Woodbury county, lows, vice Bayne removed, and W. 5. Wilson at Okoboji, Dickinson county, vice . Mills, resigned. Dr. W. C. Camp of Creighton has been ap- pointed a member of the medical exnminin g board for the pension office at that place, vice Dr, Perry, declined, Senator Stanford todav introducad a bill appropriating §250,000 for a public building at Ogden, Utah, Curtis C, Turner of Omaha is here. Senator Paddock was today notified by the supermtendent of the railway mail service of the appointment of G. G, Whitmore of Lincoln to a position as postal clerk on the line between Omaha and Ogden. ‘The acting commissioner of Indian affairs has notified Senator Paddock that the Indian office is ready and willing to assist in the securing of the assignment of the land of the Poncas from their reservation 1o north Ne- braska and that all assistance necessary will be given settling the Indians upon their lands. Senator Reagan today introduced a bill to provide for a general system of rescrvoirs for wrrigating the arid laods of the west. It)1s stated av the generai land office that Receiver Glover (dem.) very much desires to hold his oftice till the expiration of hi commission, Prxry S, Hearn, B DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, A Rumor That it is to Be Removed Fre Fort Leavenworth. LeaveNworry, Kan., Feb. 25.—|Special to Tur Bee.]—The chief topic in local army circles is the rumor to the effect that the headquarters of the Department of the Mis- sour: are to pe removed from Fort Leaven- worth, This is a topic which uvershadows in the lmportance of the proposed action ang its immediate effect upon the city, the pro- posed amnesty to desertors and the pardon of prisoners confined in the United States military prison for desertion, ‘This action is said to be contemplated by the national war suthorities. owing to differ- ences existing between General Wesley Merritt, department communder, and Gen- eral Alex McD. McCools, post comman der, e e O The Weathor Forecast, For Omaha and vicinity: Fair weather, Nebraska—¥air, preceded by light snow in extreme southeast portion jvariable winds; warmer Thursday moraing, South Dakota—Fair, variable wind, coming southerly; warmer Thursday ing. Towa—Laght snow followed by weuther; colder northerly winds, Proxia, Il of a train dispatcher two Lake Erie & Weatern freight trains collided at Hilton this worning. One brakeman was killed and avother injured. Forty cars were wrecked, ——— Will Meet With Wilhelm, Loxpoy, Feb. 25.—England and ielgian have mrud the invitation of Germany to take part i the labor conference, lpromising plan has been suggested NUMBER 247 | THE INAUGURATION OF B)IES Democrats Already Assombling for the Great Fivent. A GORGEOUS DISPLAY EXPECTED: an Thirty- n o the Pent-Up of nthusinem our Years to Find Vent Joyous Ouiburst of Jefersonian Complicity. The Mosshacks sed, Drs Moixes, In,, F —[Special Tele- gram to Tne Bee.|—The city 18 beginning to fiil up with strangers who are coming to attend the inauguration of Governor Holes, Some old mossback democrats who haven's been out of their township in twenty-five vears are coming to town, They are dressed in the old fasnioned styles, and are genuine old bourbons. Nothing but the inaugura- tion of the first democratic governor 1n lows in thirty-four years would have brought them out. The order of tne parade was announced by the adjutant veneral today, Jtis twice aw long und will have several times as much display as has ever been made for the inauzuration of a republican governor, post of honor is nssigned to the Cook county democracy from Chicago, 250 strong. ThS mayor of ‘Chicago will rido in a carringe with tho mayor of Des Moines. All the other uotables will be in carriage and innumerable democratic clubs Wi march behind the Dix company of the ha- tional guard, State Basiness Mon's Association. Drs Morxes, Ta., Feb, 85.—|Special Telo- gram to Tur Brer|—The State Busmess Men's association met h today for its first annuat session. This is a new ovgan- ization of unique character, being devoted to the protoction of busiuess interests from the wealthy merchant down to the washor- woman. ‘There ure local branches in this state scattered over sisty-two countics, Ita more specific parposes are to secure protec- tion against unjust Iws affeoting business men, and to obtain such legislaiion as will help them; also to maintain a system of credits 8o as 1o 8u0w the actual credit stand- ing of consumers of geods in every city where a local branch i found. It is intended to eive the same kind of credit protection to retailers that the commercial agencies now give to wholesalers, In the opening session today President H. Youne delivered the main address. The associution was orgunized at Marshalltown February 4, IS8, and it has grown. rapidly. ‘Thero are no high salaried oficers and no trusts. © exemption law, said the speaker, needs attention, and the manufacturing in- terests need to be looked af: The associ- ation offers protection to all business men aud women. Follotving this addrcs: the seos retary, A. Buroell, made a leagwy re- port, in which !‘n Kuve a list of ofticors of the assocjation, and reported its incorporation, and the publivation of a weekly paper as the ofticial organ of the orgunization, the Inter- atate ‘I'racer, at Marshalltown, Tho latest local ussoclution was dat West Side. Seventy-seven societies have been formed in lowa and Missouri, and are ull i a tlourishing condition. As to finance: the secretary reported that the association is out of debt and has no debtors or credit ors.. The collecvion department has been most successful, reachingallover the United Sb_uri and the .debtor 18 not any more sc- ml One Atato’ thun ‘auother. The toial fons in . amounted to $22.025 §oCIAtion, while-in soaslon “hore, wi PR ok eaiaon o sepure groater busiuess = protection to delers and others dolug business on & small scale. The Murray Murd »rer Are CrestoN, In., Feb. 25, —[Special Delogram to The Bre. |—Bob Nevins attempted to as- sault a young girl at Murray, a small station east of here, last night. A Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy section hand named Franks interfered, when Nevins drew s re- volver and snov him dead and escaped. He was captured a mile east of tuwn an hour luter and loaged in the Clark county jail, Strong talk of lynching was indulged in prior to his capture, A NOVEL 3G STION, Chicago Discussing the Fair Site Problem. CHicAGo, Feb. 25, —|Special Telogram to Tue Bee.]—On the question bf a site for the world's fair in Chicago the Evening Journal says: “Nextto the securing of the fair for Chicigo the most important mutter is where all it be located. A very plausible and his is. to divide the fair into four sections, one to be located on the lake front, one in Jackson park, one in Garficld park and another in Lincoln park, Coupon tickets admitting the purchaser to all departments at one price of admission could be sold and.easy means of rapid transit communication securea which would make the round a pleasurable one, This plan would do away with local jeal- ousies, insure space enough to make the ex- hibitions thoroughly complete and rehieve the neighborhoods from the enormous crowds and pressure which would certainly detract from the comfort aua convenience of both exhibitors aud sightseers Dudiey Must foe the Mark. New Yonk, Feb, ~Judge Patterson of the supreme court today denied the applica- tion of Colouel Dudley-to vacate the order. for his examination before trial in the suit brought by him ugainst the Pross publish. ing company Lo rocover $50,000 for alleged libel in the publication of the *blocks of five” letter. Dudley's counsel claimed that he had been in the state since the order was granted, but the judge held that Dudley has avoided the service of the order und cannot expect cousideration from the court when he refu: to sumbiv himself w its jurisdie tion, ‘velogram to Tug Ber, | —Assistant Atlorney Black yesterday applied in the district court for au injunction agaiost eleven drugeists of this city alleging technical irregularities in the filllng out of the permit books issued to the druguists. The test case, that of the atate is I, O, Fritsche, came ub for trial and Judge Crosier drove two teaws of oxen through the whole thing refusing the injunc- tions and finding for the pluintiff. The war of the prohibitionists acainst the reputable druggists of the city hasawakened great interest, She Wanted Vengeance. CiicAGo, Feb. 25, ~Patrick Multiearn, on trial for the murddr of Michael Brecn, ha anarrow escape today. The desd maw’ mother was in court acting very nervously, and while moving about a large revolver fell from*her dress pocket. A policeman selzed it bofore she could recover it.. Mrs, HBreon became hysterical and declared she would kill her boy's murderer if it was the last ack of ber life., Bhe wus taken away by friends, T e Fire Rocord. Vaxeouvis, Wash, Keb, 25.—Early this morning the county court house burned to- gether with most of the county records, The building . was valued at $0,000; purtly e sured, The cause of Lhe tire s uuknown, Cashier Vanzandt lndioted, New Youx, Fev, be grand jury to. Aay found two indictieuts against Cashier Vanzandt of the Lenox Hill bauk, in con. nection with the bavk wrecking. Veusandh bas been urrested,