Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1890, Page 1

A\ THE OMAHA NIN ETEENT]{ YEAR. OMAHA, THURSDAY MOR mG FEBRUARY NUI‘IBER land, they hoodwinked him into deeding his | zens as well a8 property to them, pretending it was his will from every _part he was signing. ' Returning from his bridal MURDERER BLACK HANCED, |t st yecame eneveea to ven 3tor- T DHIE CONPOUND LARD BILLS, | com fom evraskaintien covered that the document he had sigued the Last. was a rogular conveyance. T swo late war to the present, o children Hearing. him in his private FACES DEATH WITHOUT FEAR, | of they ung wi board of supervisors departed today for to examine the stone EXCHANGING REMINISCENCES Warrensburg, quarries there and furnish building material to the new Gage county court aro the guests of the Kaasas City & rice railroud companv ana will return Fri- ) FARMERS SOLID FOR ALLISON, who have been famfliaf with Colonel Ter- He Maintains His Ianocence to | tour, the old gentlemen, who is infirm, dis- | Opponents of the Measures Given a | rell's record from the t L;: oe"ll"l?d tm: ve followed d social relativns, and the deed was a voluntary act and that especially those who are familiar with the the attempt to nullify it was at the instance ks o very effective \vurll v:lh\o\; he did in the in- Judge Tulley today held terest of Coneral HakFison's THEY MAKE A STRONG PROTEST. und election at the tim@when there was a Second Day of the Nebraska Vel- erans’ Raunion. They Flood the Senato With Patie tions Asking His Re-eleotion. Sneak Thin = at Wymore, . THE PROGRAMME FOR TODAY. " THE LEGISLATURE RECONVENES, gram to Tie Bre.] men were in town Loc some clothing which Oue of them went attempted to steal the aught and arres now in the J being made to catch the other two. wapicious looking Committes the Omaha Real state Kxchange—Other State News, foubtless stolen. lothing store and But No Busines be Transacted Until Inauguration - Men's Convention. of Importance Win groatly cisappointed whon the appointment Confer With ‘our of the num} ovary effort is that the children inposed on their father, ks ‘The old man was greatly delighted. et democratic adminisraton in charge und it . > was politically hazardous for army oficers And Only Regrets the Lies He Told May Manufactare Cement. Nebraska Nominations—Iowa Stock | to show republic ( — in Order to Save “Roxy' 'A\ln ',","'I:" ’D.”I b, = : ot 1>rlL el Report—0Ohio Wauts thoe Direc {5 mado and. Colonel Terrell is - A History of the ULl RS E R SURVRTUVERERE S torship of the World's vized, Orime. P ar ISVALR CHEEH STSGUIING | joatment Fair, The appointment_of (& paymaster general manufacture. Chalkstone and eclay are 3 to succeed General R@Bhestor is expected e found in great abundance in the vicinity of —_ daily, and, although it i% underatood that the the city and have boen subjacted to varisd «geologst, of the state university, pronounces the clay the best grade of potic shot Burnett la The house committee on agriculture gave | May, was hanged here at Y olny aha & tremor and declared to the last he had not | west, It will make p fired the shot which killed the eccentric old | texture, probably even chinaware. The | bills which was very interesting and im- | Cleghorn, deceased. ranchwan, Black did not retire until | Chalkstone is equal to that at Yankton. Tne portant. L y will malke just as good cement. An ac- nearly 1 o'clock this morning and awoke | tive offort is being inaugurated to enlist the sented by J. M. Otiver of Chicago, W. J. breakfast until 9:30 and ate ver) St Sy THE LAPAYETIE STATUR, ness ; capital, $50,000. were distinetly branding their product as “lard compouud” and there was no decep- Lis own request. None but intimate friends wore allowed 1o see Lim, and at an early hour Doputy Sherft McKay visited the cell. | agiioer TRetd Wil He explained to Black just what wouid be Ordered By Congress. done on tho scuffoid. He told nim that by [Copyright 189 by James Gordon Bennst.| noon e would be in another world and that | Pymis, Feb, 2.—[New Yorik Horald | Urand their goods “compound lard.” They after he had been pinioned tho suerift | Cable—Special to T Bme.]--Minister | fUrther claimed the goods wero healthful, would ask him if he had anything to say. Whitelaw Reud will tomorrow go to see the | And 1o subport of this proposition presented “For God's sake, George,” said the d0D- | statuo of Lafayotte ordered by the congross | UM FePoris of the state boards of health of amine the One The Conger bill would simply require them 1o reverse the words they now adopt and 1887, K> uty, “let what you say be the truth. Do | of the United States from Mm. Mercie and | NeW York and New Hampshire commend- nov go to the other world with a lic upon | Faguiorer, sculptors, and M. Ujol, architect. | I8 lard compounds and cotton seed your lips.” Tho monument stands altogether about ten [ 9t 88 good and = nutritious edible McKay spoke kinaly but earnestly and the | metres high. The statue itsolf, which is | f3t8: A further objection to the legislation prisoner burst into tears, bronze, and stands on a granite and marble | A8 the great injury caused to our foreign 0 a4 the " said, ode b . | commerce by unfavorable agitation. The G R LT HCL S :’",:l”'('fl‘l‘"’:{“ ;‘“‘; 9:&.:‘“:! otme Topre: | result has been to-stimulate lard rofining in upon the scaffold. 1 am going up | SeDUS frener Lafayotte as_atanding with | foreign countries, the growth of this busi- thero and shall try to bo as stout | MiS<ightarm outstretched inan emphatic | ness in Hamburg alone being at least 40 per s I can, but I don’t know whether I cau talk | gesture. On tho front of the marble of the | centin the lastthree years. Letters and or oot. The only thing [have to be forgiven | upper part of the pedestal is carved an ins :‘I:T\;lr‘::l‘:ro‘:;“:uu e:“‘m{:*g:; n‘x’crgxtg:‘x:;nx :z;cls"l{?-;,\'f"'l']"‘b alie in the beginuing to ncrl]:lml? .rL'ru‘nlmg the grmvm'ullu of America | gouingt tho proposed 1aws on these” grounas, The doowecd man's last hour was spent | t0 Lafayette and his fellow volunteers. An [ It was claimed by the opponents of the bills with Father Comiskey who.administere, allegorical figure of & woman is | that the presentadvocatesof the measures last it | also represented offering @ sword | outside of congress were seoking o trade ad- and after tho priest’s pray to the hero in remembrance of thay pre. | VAntage and were urging these bills to stifle stepped quickly on the trap. sontod by the women of Amoricn. Four of | COMPetition; that if any measuro should bo he bad anything to say his reply was. : L : America. passed it should be a general pure food or a “No; I'm not the mau that done the kill- | [afayette’s companions in ariis—Rochan- | general lard biil compelling packers and re- Ing; that's all.” beauu, Portal, De Grasse and d'Estaing—are. | finers as well as lard compounders to brand His neck was broken by the fall and mrm carved on the lateral faces of the pedestal, :(1;;:;‘1-‘ :;Ir:::llul:::t e Lm't':: lt‘l;; t}%“f‘,“i‘;‘éf..g‘vi‘.l was 10 movement of ibe body beyond a | 2 back sho feld upheld by now L e slight musculur contraction of ‘the fingers ;;'(':““ll']“u"’x:c shows @ shield upheld bytwo | pig'jura, "No' good argument has yet beon and knees, After six minutos the pulse be- sikth presented showing why but one food article came imperceptible and in twenty-seven wh R c should be selected from a thovsand for leg minutes the body was cut down. hat Standing Armiss Cost, lation, Such a bill has been introduced by The day was cold and raw and snow fell (Copyright 180 by James Gordon Bennatt. | Mr. McClammy of North Carolina. The the entire forenoon, at times quite eavily, | BERLIY, Feb, 26.—{New York Herald | commitice also have before them several It {i"rll W a considerable dnxn.h upon [lhu Cable~Special to Tur Bek.|-—Statistics are ::lfixffi-:‘lj "l::llh:l- m*nfl‘.‘."fiie.";“:;’{’,g'o:i‘u‘}.ié’? scaffold, which was swep off about half an | o 5 vy oxpond. | 8178 o co bour before the execution and fell upon !L‘l:'r’if"‘“l“nl"f’f “";’“’“"‘f;:‘“ ‘l;‘u"r“““llfii""“‘f‘l In the consideration of the subject of pure the head of Black as thecap was drawn | Ures of the great powers ng has food as well as lard aud *‘lard compound.” May 1, there will be & competitive distrioty - over his face. three years. France spent 5,082,000,000 SRR K IN R LT ONE: JSTORY OF THE CRIME. marks, Russia 8,254,000,000 marks, Great The nominations of Albert L. Towle for | PRt Robert Burnett, an elderly and ecceutric | Britain 2,475,000,000 marks, Germany 3,480, | recoiver of the O'Neil lund ofiice, W. H. J - ranchman living in the Pole mountain re. [ 000,000 marks, Austria-Hungary 1,852,000,000 | Clark receiver at Lincoln and Mark M. HE WAS A BIGAMIST, gion, fifteen miles cast of Laramie, was stot | marks, Italy 1,254000,600 marks. Noves receiver at Siduey, were sent to tho y uod killed by George Black on May 28 last. A sonate today, This leaves butthres outof | .- oo g Fightin: On the morning of that any Burnett left FAILED 10 AGREE the ten Nebraska land offices which havenov | TwWo ows ARk “Indian Johnny" Thompson's ranch for his changed Incumbonts under tho prosont, ad- 3 mivistrasion. The deiegation b o ?’..“(3.',.'l‘c‘f.‘"'.fi...‘.fifig,"“n“xz “:zg;?x‘v::i“eft f.'.‘,‘:,‘u.‘ifi The Rail and Lake Lines Mnake a | McCook, North Platte and (Grand Island of- ranch on his way and was never seen alive Vain Attempt to Fix Rates. fices and bas sent its recommendation in to fignin.l]n was nu'unlumgd to o off forseveral 2urcaqo, 1L, Feb. 26.—|Special Telagram kl;: l;::::gunkbafl;in cfigsefl “;‘l‘ho:’r'gfc i rl»lfl ays at a time, so his disappsarance at first | to Tur Ber.|—The trunk nad central tra " rs 3 ccted, atiracted no attention. But when he aid not | o RS HORE ARG HAOCE TAIO | shortly be sent to uhe senate for confitma~ return, und people found that George Black * G tion, . There Las been probably more difii- and Dwight Rockwell, two young ranehmen, | 10dny and a vain attempt was made to agree | culty for the delegation in determining the had taken possession of his'ranch and werd | on u basis of rates ‘mfixxmm;u sete i in s cabin, they began to open theis v c 3 3 pves and talkiof Toul By, Gl o B RO s et hundred applications. for. those positions The laxe, eyes und talk of foul play. ii ’ > ; It was woll known that Black aud Burnoty | 178 bad every advantage in tho conferenco | wefla™e, SREUCEUDES UE HH0R0 BORTHON had not been friends. The Burnett ranch is | 8nd refused utterly to even consider a prop- | with the numerous endorsemsnts and recom. ) upon the Fort Sandors reservation, and had | osition of the rail lines for a lower differen- | davions, made & mass of papers almost originally been occupied by Black. Two years | tial on lake trafiic. The point was made by | larke enough to stock onc of the auditor’s ugo Buinew obtained a judgment agaiust | the lake lines that there was uo possibility | offices in the treasury department. The cm- Bluck for some hay the former claimed | of sticking to any agreed rates, as there | barrassing feature of the situation was thay and levied upon his house, corral und a | were enough guerilla boats which would cut | scores of the apphicants were admitted to be few cows, Burnett took possession of these | the rate at any time they failed to get a load | in every way fitted for the position and that and also of ghe rauch, as being upon the res- | at the tarift to demoralize any busis of rates | in the final determination the delegation ervation Black bad no titie to it. Black left, | which could be estublished, The proposition | were obliged to choose between excellent &olng to work in asaw will near Medicine | for the lake lines to accept a lower differen~ | candidates, a large number of whom were Bow, but early in 1830 returned to Pole | tial was not even brought to a vote, and as | personal friends of the members. mountain, where he made threats avainst | they would not como to terms the rail lines 10WA STOCK REPORT. Burnctt aud said he proposed to huve the | agreed to refer the whole matter back to | From the agricultural department's report ranch back uga:n. Chairmen Bianchard and Hayden for new | ypon the numbers and values of farm an: But it was not until August that there | recommendations. It is sufe to say that no | mals for the current month the following is Was any proof Buraett had been murdered. | stable system of differentials can be arranged | taken, representing the report frota Towa, On the evening of August7 an excited man | botween the lake and rail lmos as long as | " wAl} atock is in very good condition, ‘The und woman arrived in Laramie carryiug two | tho Jake lines are free from the operation of | arouth during the latter partof tho scason pails. Thaey wero Charles Pullmin and wife | the interstate commerce ac! made fall pasture rather snort, but the ex- and the pails contained the charred bones of ceedingly mild winter weather bas beon very a buman being. They had been found by Reading's Voting Trust. favoravie, Little: hay or grain, hes. yav Mrs. Puliman's doughter, Mary Backus, i | Pumaveneins, Feb. 25.-A vetition ad- | been fod fo stock cattie. and young 3 secluded gully ubout two miles from the | grogead to tho judgos 1n the court of com- | horses. No disease or sickuess is provajent to any extent. Hog cholers has not made Burnett place. The authorities became o . ince ¥ mon pleas, praying for the dissolution of the ORRVInDRdTE LAY iEithay . wur - the .| re: PSRALY 8 of its appearance in wore than five or six coun- ties where any material loss has resulted. mainsof Buruolt, At thoicoroner's ju- | voting trusteeship of the Rending railrond quest Black awore that Burnett was not on | company and the removal of Corbin from cl 0 C ed- lem ranch when he took posnemauf Divight | the presidency, was circulated today and a ,’},‘;".‘:,‘:fi:fl,}‘a‘;‘.‘&.’"‘ii‘.filfl.”,fi "u:m‘:'i:lco[lmfln Rookwell who had gono on the place with | number of siguatures obtuined. ~Some of the | £ AN EEIE EEER fof, CATHE, OF o) Black could nov be found, But there was | 8igners have a largo interest in the railroad nf,y provious time in recent yoars, yet the some very strong testimony as to suspicious | and their viows it 1s thought will Lave con- | BuY Provious thie in recont yoars, yei the circumstances and threats made by Black | siderable weight in court, some have reduced their herus otbers have and it was decided to hold him, While his TR beid on hopeful of the f The d preliminary examination was in progress two A Rute Cut By the Northwestern. e ‘“" 1°p.° ,“,"b |° m’“r,f‘ ‘: u“'""’ weeks later Roclwell was arrested in North | Mitcne D., Feb. 26.—(Special Tele- | $100 I Ho Cattie bisinoss his notod, as o Platte, Colo., by Sheriff Yound. He atunce | gram to Tme Brs.|—Yesterday the North- | hus boan for several. yoars . ahauol crease in the number and value of horses. Cnicago, Feb. 26.—| for several years unj existence, met in con themselvés to ba the i bachelor, married first wife after made a full and voluntary confession. | \western road reduced freight rates from He said that ho became acquainted with | cago from 8 to 15 cents per 100 on different | With aboutbe usual increase in. numbe Bluck and the latter provosed that they 2o on | classes, and carload Iots 2 to 4 cents per 100, this year prices for all except the very best the Burnett runch. Black claimed that the | Today the Milwaukee met the cut. representatives of the roadster and draft place wus rightfully his and_they would di- B e types are gradualiy declining. About vide the summer’'s ‘profits. He agreed, and ONLY A PHANIOM LOVER. the same is true of hogs. 'The absence of “mumfi:; unf,gmur,l,.:\“’;h aitesul Ftorashe ’ disease and the past three vears' good prices ‘ P SRR D D A 19 | insure a large crop for 1890, with prices al- Fa'“his " eabing " sitting on o’ “Mee | An Explanation of Miss Drury's Her0y a0 thn Aeaiine. L Hhach Davkdeas & more rapidly during the last nine months than any other farm stock., Renumerative following oath: and cutting potatoes. Black de- Queer Condu manded possession, saying the pluce was | Nrew Yous, Feb. 26.—| Special Teiegram to :'.:;:-L:imwl;hfi' Jonrae, Brl‘lf:;:d I:rmuvx‘x’n‘llxll: Tup Bee. |--The past history of the hand- | prices for mutton and confidence in con- C . I3 Cl ol arri vl e in~ Black, who was standing & Littlo to the baok | #0me cosmopolite, Miss Harriet Drury, who X\Y'fe'fi.,':ff:‘v‘»c“”" for wool seem 1o be the in of Burnett, suddenly di his revolve: ‘was committed to the insane asylum at Plat- I L y b, y drew his revolver and ) s R s 3 fired. Burnett exclaimed, “Ob, George!” | bush last week from Mme. de Saussers home 1 -OIIO'S BONNT FOR OFFION, ;mlnhnll rising, ll;ludu & motion us if to Ivaoh | for girls, has been unravelled. 5ho is thiruy- B ;l;;“’:“fi:gfiu‘e Lfl,l:u:m‘:l“:v‘fi:m: or his gun, which was 1n a corner. Black ree yei 7 i g h A ; 1 fired again’ ‘Tho sbot took offect, and Bur: | W0 Yeurs “L 880. a0d. Inho: danghtor “f’ been hore several days, today culled upon nett foll forward on the floor. . A third time astus W. Drury, a promwent citizen of | Mayor Cregier of Chicazo and other men of he fired, but the second had done the work, | Fond du Lac, Wis,, who died fifteen years | promwence from the Windy mity. His object Rockwell then assisted Black in hauling | ago. Her mother died in 1852 aud her prop- | Was the putting in nomination of A. T, the body to the gully, whero they placed it | orty, which 15 of considorable value, is m | Goshern of Cincinnuti for the respousible upon u pile ¢ logs and cromated it. A few | tho care of A. G. McDonald, In the ‘spring ator goneral of the world's days later they returned to the gully, and | of 1880 while traveliog in Europe with some Mr. Mosby's urgument was based on fiuding that many of tho larger bones re- | companions Miss Drury's balluciation of « | the fact that Olio gave Chicago twenty-one main thoy rencwed the, fire. — Even | phantom lover, to whichjshe hadjbeen for soy- | YOUes for the fair, and that Mr. Goshern’s a toied time thoy returned wud wmade | oral years n victim, obtained such a complete | eXperience as director general of the Cen- A flual effort to cancel the evidences of their | aycendancy over her thather mind gave way | Lenial of 1876 placed him far above the crime. Some of the remaining boues were | and she vecamo irrespousible, crratio and | F93ch of auy competitor. ~Chicago men have placed in a gopher hole whero they were | yiolent at times, After an exa regarded £, T Jeffery of their own town us foiud as Rockwell stated, Wias Sommitted to & celebratad iatithtion foo | the person for that place, Mr. Gosuern was Rockwell msisted he had no idea a crim> | the insane situated in Bremen. Through the | Kielted by ooo of the toreign powers for was to be committed when he went to the | jnterference of the United States counsel she | e Work he did at Philadelphia. Place. Black was indicted for murder in'| wag shortly after roleased and wvent to the THB PATNADIAR QUNRRALAELP, the second degree and Roclwell us an acces- | home of nor nunt, Miss Stiogel, at Laurel, | It is not likely that Colonel Terrell will be sory after the fact. At the trial Black,after | My, Sne HOL the into her head after p Paymaster general of the army. proviously having deaied knowing anything | 1o n:onths residence. at Laurel that her | Prosident Harrison has & very high appre- about tho murder, went upon_ the stand and | yunt was her enemy, and she left the house | clation of Colonel Torrell, but, the warm and aamitted the trath of Rockwell's story, with | and was not again heard of until she turned | 100& friendship which has existed botween one exception—ho declared that the shooting | up at Mme, de Sausser's house and spplied | e presidont und the prosent paymaster of was done by Rockwell und aot by hunself. | for'n home. Miss Drury has & haif brother, | the department of the Plutie’ will militate Other testimony as to wotives and threats | | H, Drury, at Grand Rapids, Mich. She | #8108t the appiicaat. There hus been n weut to corroborate Roekwell uud Black | nys always been u devout Frotestant, very unfair warfare waged against the ap- like this incense.” ate a Penusy Minneck, & prominent, had been incarcerated. while perfectly sane. account of family rei Many well kuown suy the wan is perle & purse Lo prooure was convioted and sentenced to hang. ol OUH poigument of ~Qolonel ' Terrell by | otfor hand his wite : fow years ago he married & woman twice his [ NEVY YOMK, Feb. 2. —[Speclal Telegram | 7 0 "yoo, UUNENGT LAt antly | physiciaus of this city. own age, but they separated o year befors | t0 Tur Ber |-—Eurly this moraing o desper- | by tye the mur Rockwell's case will come up | ate attempt was made by six prisoners to 0s- | weneralship; or their friends, that Colonel :n um: d lrlm cnurl' next m&m h. He 18 | cape from Randail's island. They kuocked ‘ll,urrulhh‘:-ud ln; l_:ll.\l:‘up Iu; prfxnnuou;puu wenty-eight years of uge and was u sailor # his well known friendstip for the president. ub to Iwo years go. | o A5W 108 BisNt AU, Yonah Baieiim, and | Sone of the aspirants have winied at bubii “This was Liaramio's socond legal hanging, | Pound, kagged androbbed him. = They then | catious anuounving that Colonel Terrell’s the first huving boen that of George Ugolk in | openea tho doors and escaped to the water | only claim for the promotior aud his only 1580, - rron‘h The n:uu{lllrut;!.cfl the uflcnllnght;l relisuce was in his well known relations —e another guard sod ar alarm was given, The prosideat, G A Pennsylvania Hanging. .\xp.-um'fm were s00n rw:‘p'.url‘ug Ketchum K&!‘-fl'}’hfim wi‘in E:E:LZTdfiurv:nl:gn 'l‘n:fi Warsesucue,” Pa, Feb. 2.—George | has a bad wound in the head, aud he believes | been told by him that he has for many Clark, convicted as 0oe of the murderers of | the men weant to kil biw years regurded Colonel Terrell as being variovs upplicants for the paymaster foreign delegations. William MoClelland, an Allegheny City dro- 3 b S entitled 1o the recognition of ranking pay- ver, was hunged here today, G rman Socialist Gains. master in the army; that his record wis | Of the conference. S - Beniiy, Feb, 20.—The voteof the sozial- | clean und that there was nothing in the way Married Seventy. 1618 compared with the election of 1887 shows | ©f 118 recoguilion so far as he himself could Cuicaco. Feb, 2. —1Spacial Telogram to | u gain of 57,405 votes, Tro gain of the Ger- | 8¢ The president hus, however, left the Tu Bux)—Auwos Liversidge, agod ucarly | man liborals' is234,600. Tho Cartellers lost | aifression upon those who have’ recontly talked to bim in bebalf of Colonel Terre seveuly, today won §14,000 from his children | 1,000,000 votes. 2 i that he could not let his friendly impulses AfteF haviog agpiust their wishes married a Business Troubles. inchine bim toward Colonel Terrcll and that beautiful young English woman, Mrs. Eliza | Nyw vork, Feb, 80.—Jucob Houkell all things else being equal, weil kuown and Maybon. Liversidge claimed when his “w‘n‘:m‘mun'mum“ i M“:‘ -u“': well established personat friendstip would from ulusov: the Ems, rather incline bim to act sgainst an sppli- | Rugia s . eohildren, Joshph le?r-ldn. Mrs. Louisa | failed, His liabilities are stated at $114,000; | cant. The work that h &u dune hu«vm S Oliphant gpd Mrs. Ewma West learued | assets about tho same, the luterest of Colonel Terrell uid ot alone | from Copenhayen, president has not dafinitely i » Harbor Meast Fighting Their Batties Over. 3—[S 20, —[Special he old soldicrs mot_ tonight Atthe lowa Capital. [Special Tele- J Both branches legislature reconvoned business of importanco after the inauguration tomorrow. ate was delayed with a flood of petitions ask- ing for the ro-election of Allison, ers are just boginning to bo heard from, they have found out that the democrats were claiming that they were opposed to Allison. “There wis just one petition presented today asking for the olection of Governor bea as senator, and there $ persons, asking for HastiNgs, Neof 3EE. ] —Tho oity adopted a resolution requesting our senato; and congressmon Galveston deep water measure now before id to lie between Colonel Rodney Smith ana Majo¢ Corey. MISCELLAXEOUS, 11:15 this morning, He mot death without | superior to any he has seeu in_the north- | & hearing this morning to the opponents of {5 u1 Mijes has been Appointed postmaster of the finest | the Conger and Butterworth lard compound | at Cleghorn, Cherokee gounty, lows, vice A. council tonight Hanged While t WasniNGToN Huneav Tz Omana Be, v 2 shall be sent to the sonate for Larawie, Wy tests for cement by J. K. Smith and have 513 FOURTRENTIL STRERT, } e e gram to T 138e, | —George A. Black, who | fully metail of them. Prof. G. E. Culver, Wasnixaron, D. C., Feb, 26, it Telogram to Tue B who are in reunion in this oity at Watorman’s opera house, where they held were recited speeches were made by the following old sol- S. H, Vannatts, who mado the open- ing oddress, followed who spoko with feeling and paid an eloquent tribute to the memory of the late General K. R. Livingéton, who raised company A of tho First Nebraska ceeded GGeneral Thayer to the coloneley of the regiment. ] acamp fire. 6,000,000 1 3 hat point. Fairbank & Co. were repro- | _The house committes on territories ae- § or the harbor at that puin cided to report favorably the bill for admis- 5 ¥ ey 1 sion of the territory of Idaho, twice during the night. He refused to | investment of outside capital in ecrecting | Curtis of New York and D. E. Fox of Wash- | the committes was not, entirely unanimous, little, al- | Works. The cement that can bo maunfac- | ington. These gentlemon directed atten- | Tho First National bank of Creighton. though fried chicken had beon prepared at | tred will be equal to Portlaud. t10n 10 the fact that the lard compounaers | Neb., has beon authorized to commence busi- 1o Subinit Proposition. HasTtixas, Neb, S| The action ol by General |—At a special meeting of was carried onight the motion unanimously to submit the sewerage propo- sition atun election to be held April 30, The amount of bonds was fixed at $60,000 to run twonty years av b per cent. The Typographical union of Keokuk, Ia., Plattamouth has petifioned congress to restoro the wuges ton of the public in their brands or labels. | of the employes of the government. printing office o the rates 1u effgot prior to March 81, Prnry S, HeATH. e MINERS' MISERY. Allison’s re-election. All the trains have been bringing in itors to the inauguration, and several dem: A ROYAL FAVORITE, part, related several laughable anecdotes. homns Muajors made asbecch which He was followed by will oe the lnst Lawyer Gibson of 8t. Louis Dac mperor Wilhelm, b. 26, —[Special Telegram —Charles Gibson of St. eived notification from the Ger- man mimster, Count von Arco: Emperor Wilhelm the Order of the Grand Cross of the sian Royal Crown. lawyer for the German crowa in this country for man, King William 1V, was well received. many others, day and many more visitors are programme laid out Many Pennsylvania Coal Diggers Without Sufficient Foond. ScravToy, Pa, Feb. 26.—Powderly speak- ing with reference to a series of articles o had written on the condition of the mining cluss of this region, sald the first one which was printed lasy week, had brought him many lotters from all oyerthe country, man in New Jersey,” he conticued, written to mo that ie will care for one family if 1 will send them on. ceived letters from 1Hinois, several of them coming today, asking if the surplus miners cannot bo seat away from here. plenty of work out west_they say. numbers of our peopla ‘do not get enough to eat. Misery and privation stalk abroad and we often close our eyes to the spectacle,” udato the croy the house of reprosentativ a8 at first pro- stato officials uakors aro here. Ono feature of the procession will be u club of democrats who voted for Stephen Hempstend, the last governor of lowa. 1850, and served tili 1851, has been a repu arrivals is ex-Auditor Pattee, the lust dem- for tomorrow, : At 10:30 a. m., roll call and regimeats formod in frontof the opera house and dress parade; camp fire at the opera house with from guests and music by the gles club; will th n adjourn to Rockwood hall for a bun- quet prepared by the ladies of the city and the relief corps. at 7:80 p. m,, bas conferred upon him uearly forty yi Cuming to BeaTrICE, Neb,, Feb, 26.—[Special Tele- —A committee consisting Co! der gram to Tuk Bel ah e the conferred upon him_the commander’s cross of the order of Fratz-Joseph. decoration is the highes by Germany upon an American citizen and is, 1 fact, the highest class of ( nouse convened today was still quite & aumber of abseutees. Lattle of importance was rent resolution tees appointed to vility of romoving the old battle Smith, A, C, Jordan, J. W. Crawg will leave here at 7:40 tomorrow morn- ing on the Union Facific for Omaha to con- fer with the chamber of commerce and real estate exchange of that city in_reference to the Omaha and Beatrice Rock Island exten- The committee will business men of Omahu to send representa tives to Beatrice to be 1n 1 attendance at the mass meeting to be held this city, Tuesday ovening next, at which time the Rock Island project Omuha-waras will bo discussed from a Superintendent Lowe of the Ch & Nevraska will be in attenda The Beatrice N ] passod to have commit- A Miners’ striks Threatened. Trrre Havre, Ind., Feb. from tke local lodge of the Miners’ Progres- sive union and the local assomblies of the Knights of Labor held & session here, adopt- ing a constitution for the of the amalgamated otdar, izer of the netional order, says if tne oper- ators do not agree on the yearly scale before o strike 1n the igh includes Iilinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentuglktyjand Tennessce, Seven Miners Killed. CoLoGNE, Feb., 20.—=Neven miners have been killed by an explpsion ina miune at present time. torney to the German him into intimate relation 1man minister residents here, begiuning with Baron Gerolt, been exertod relation as at- has brought with all the Ger- In the senate a number of potitions ented from wll over the state asking the clection of Allison, nnd soveral tate organization in the auditorium, MecBride, organ- promoting kindly feelings and coraial governmental relations between the two countrios, and this in- recpgnition of his secvices iu that par- Both houses adjourned until tomorrow at 2, when they will uttend the wauguration in st decoration 1s local standpoint, en's Association. e The Business VIGOROUS LANGUAGE. visitors to Omaha will make their headquarters at the Murra where they have an gram to Tie Bek, |— wunizations in different va represented in the bLusiness men's associa- forenoon session appointment to meet with the ropresentatives of the business or- ganizations of Omaha, The Allian Judge Ferguson Renders Judgment in the Smart Oase, N —|Special Telegram to Tne Bee ]—Judge Ferguson today delivered judement in the proceedings by way of ha- beas corpus for the recovery of the children The judgment was alto- getber favorable to the respondent, The judge reviewed the case at great length and denounced in the strongest language the conduct of Smart toward his He said Smart bad become lost to all senso of social propriety, that be was given to drivk, was mean, degraded and wicked. that his conduct e o false and foul slander on brate creation.. . . s The case was hoard.in. Camera,, From: a perusal of many cases the judge said he was ced tnat according to English law Mrs. Smart would be entitled to a ‘*a mensa et thoro.” children remain in ihe care and The children are aged four- teen, twelve and nine years, being a boy and the two others girls, Smart is a lawyer and belongs to Port Hope. His wife 18 a daughter of the late James C. Worts, the millionaire distitier, here Some years ago. in her own right and 18 connected with some of the best families in the city rts of the stato are tion meeting was devoted to hearing ral satisfaction with crediv agencies, at Madison. MapisoN, Neb., Feb. 20.—|Special Telo- —Owing to the inclem- ency of the weather many of the farmers were not in attenaauce today and the meet- ing for organizing the county alliance was postponed until March 8. business men of the city had made arrange- ments for entertainiug the visitors and se- cured Stuart's hall for tho & banquet and better atten: gram to Tne B ngof the system of principal work of tho day was drafting bilis for desired legislation. ure formed is o amend tho law 8o the exemption for ninoty days against gar ment of wages or salaries may be removed. The convention is also interested in revising improvement of roads, so that wore and better work may be “Phe business men say that nothing would Lelp business in smail towns more taan better roads for the farmers. [for a Chicago in the Smart case. Man's. Estate. al Tele, to Oue important meas- gram Tne Bee.}-Two womenawho have been liv- ng within a couple of . mi of each other of each other's Dboth belioving urpose of giving ing to the wants ers who En come in lhrsngh the ot _Wwas_prepare va Rallot Coroy. and tao. weleo spoech was made by Mayor Prince. was followed by Mr. C. D. Muffiay, one of the earliest pioneers of the state, who spoke of the suffering of the farmers and the causes, and ended with a strong appeal to in general w0 unite corporations, Speeches were made by Messrs. Stuart, Allen, Green and others, all tending to show that harmony prevailed ana all favoring the organization of an,alliance, done upon them. yours desorted her aud came to Llinois, causing o revort to be eirculated in.his old Laucashire home that he had died soon after urriving in this country. he kept.on living and 800n, in the guise of a <. Disoussing the itute Question. Drs MoINEs, Ia., Feb. 20,.—A great gath- ering of prominent railroad men met here today to object to any further reduction of rates by the state commissioners, vers were represented by President Torbert of Dubuque The situation, The fact was that He ordered thatu the farmers and 3 their mother. igrated to America stranve chance to Chieago; were her thres children. remained in the same section of the city, but never met. Pulman died a short timé ' ago without informing wife No, not No. 1. The newspaper death notice led to inquiries by the English spouse,wha satis- fied herself of the identity of the deceased without learning of the secoud marriage. The matter of Pulman’s éstate came up the probate court today and the women met for the first timp. There ness. Wife No. 2 won n ‘a contest for the " property,which amonats to only $600. will appenl and the htigation leave both widows without a cent. A CHINE! z} OATH, A SBtrange Ceremony ia a New York City Court Room. New Yok, Feb. 20.—|Special Telegram to T Bek.|—In the {trial of the suit of Johnson against Maw Sing, Son & Co., and Hong Quong, Long & Co., in the city court today, & Chinese witness said he did not be- lieve 1n the Christian, but in the Chinese re- ligion, and that he preferred to be sworn according to the form§ of his belief, with burning joss sticks. After a littlo argument his desire was gratifiod. produced and stood between two bibles, “he sticks were, lightod and kept burning during the examination, also with her briefly 4, i The two families riefly stated, is as interstate rates m Chieago to put. towns atu less rate, Towa jobbers could de- Kearney Means Business. She has large moans KRrARNEY, Neb,, Feb. 20.—[Special Tele- w Tue Bee|—1he pointed to .inaugurate the move toward se- curing a railroad to the northwest from here to Albion met last night and drew up articles They were forwarded to The incorporators 2 that she was had permitted shippors committee ap- comparatively, than LOOKS LIKE BUSINESS, U down to correspond with the re- The jobbers pra- Wilde, secretary The Intercontinental Road Recom- meniation WASHINGTON, comuwittee on railroads favoring struction of an intercontinental railroad to systems with South America, was adopted by the Pan-American congress today. Sowe details of the plan have already been pubiished. provides for an international engincer com- mission of three eneineers from each nation for the preliminary surveys; struction and operation of the line should be at the expense of the concessionaries or the auction in interstat of incorporation, the secretary of state. W. H. Hand, W. J, S ler, 0. S. Marden, Wiley, B. H. Bicknell and §. convention to was much bitter- of the state rates across the stato should equal about 60 v of the throngh rate from Chicago, and that shonld be the basis of rates. sample petition asking for rates wos read by tho also sample protests that had been received. lowa rates now were lower than the lncal rates in any adjoining state, and as low as the roads could ufford. General Manager Ripley spoke at some length in behalf of the iuterstate roads, urged against any further he revort of the N. A. Bake redvetion in commissioner; harmonize the railroad interests will be called nexv month. An election to vote bonds in Buffalo county 1o aid the four roads will be called atan carly aate. Work will bo pushed rapidly. from Red Cloud, Minden and Mason City ure in conference tonight with the railroad men of this city devising ways and means 10 build the Kearney, Hutchinson The report | Lhe latter said thut that the con reduction of trouble wis boing stirred up by jobbers at Mississippi river points who have formerly received illegitimate advantagos and now were placed on an equal footing with jobbers at interior Receiver Gilehristof the Fort Madi- son & Norihwestern, spoke for the protosting against lowering they had enough A Hotel Olerk in Trouble. HasTINGs, Neb., Feb. 206.—|Special Tele- to Tne Bee.]—Yesterday a man named Hobson from north of here, induiged too freely in forty- rod whisky and was taken across the strect from a saloon to the Queen City hotel and taken up stairs to bed by the clerk there, ia young fellow probably eighteen yecars of When Hobson went to bed he had §60 When the clerk took him the train this morning he had nothing, matter was reported to the police, cuusing the mrrest by Officer Tennant of ‘tho young man, who afterward confessed that be had taken §20, The trial will take place tomor- row morning at 9 o'clock. construction and operation are to be exempt from import duties and all property used in its construc- tion and operation is to be exewpt from all taxation; that the exccution of the work de~ sorves to be further encour dies, land concesslons or gaarant ecs of mini- mum interest, A MG ced by subsi~ |.rates any more. work now to make their expenses, closed for the jobbers, showing how much capital was invested sented, and asking only fair play for the shippers as well as tho railroads, ra took the case under ad- | give their decision later. He then took the BOOMERS. iuterest repre- 1, duly, in the reign ot Quong Sue, in the sixteenth year, second mosth, and seventh day, arrived in this cotet to bo sworn to tell the truth, and to tell every word of tell a falsehood my soul will be extinguished in his pocket. ‘the Rush Into the Strip Will Rival Oklahoma. Ankaxsas Crry, Kan,, Feb, 26, continue te arrive and the banks of Walout river from this city to the Indian territory line is dotted with tents, Nuwbers of heads of fumilies wers inter- e commissi visement und wil £oldiers’ Home okee boome The operation of sdwinistering the oath ocenpied nearly holf an' hour. witnesses did Dot seém to have any particu. lar religious faith, add were offered the option of three Kinds of oath, the chicken bead, the joss sticks or the bible. sticks biad the preference. Lt INSANE O NOD INSANE, —r— An Alleged Conspiracy to Incarcer- overnor received today a draft for $),117.50 from States treasury being a paywent on nce the governinent's contribution to th This, with a previous payment made since the begmning of the state's fiscal term, makes an aggregate of $1: 3 of receipts not estinated by the auditor, and increasing the probable surplus of the cur- rent term by that much, today was brought to Governor-elect Boies, to whom it was sent from Wasington. Three otner ——— e —— Farmers Meet at Au! AUBURN, Neb,, gram to Tue Bee.|—The Farmers' institute met here this afternoon with a large at- tendance. Julius Gilbert was elected presi- dent and A. C. Leeper secretary, thing on the programme wus the discussion of the benufits derived from holding inst itutes, All the members took a hand in the discus- sion. The next one was, *‘Are Country Iairs a Benefil to the Farmer!” chief feature of the session, discussed by all. induced their early arrival on All disciaimed any connection with u secret organization whose object is to occupy the strip by force of arms as soon as the presi- denvs preclamation ejecting tne cattie goes Their early arrival and the nu- to thewr number ndi cate that the rush into the strip will equal thut into Oklahoma last'spring, rcoln's Son Dead. Loxnoy, Feb, 26,~Young Abranam Lin- coin died at a late hour tonight. Rocurster, N. Y. Feb, 20.—News has ived of the death of Dr. Brewer Anderson at Lake Helen, I Anderson was one of the leading educators He was prosident of the Lochester uulversity from 1850 to 1858, and prior to that time editor of the and professor in and president of Colby university at Waterville, Me. the ground. merous accession ‘L'he draft received Prrrsnuna, Pa., Feb, 20.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—Great excitement has been caused here by, she publication in an evening paper of the, slatement thav W, J. dent of Braddock, Dixmont asylum fa a statement made 10 a reporter Minnicksuid he had been im- vosed upon and was being taien to Dixmont while in full possessions.of his facultios, on and because o cer- in that direction, idents of Braddock Minister L 8 it was ably The meeung adjourned to this evening. Cracked His skull, Bramg, Neb.,, Feb. 20.—[Special to Tue A ‘drunken riot ocourred in Nate aloon here last night 10 which a col- ored man by the name of Henry Lucas got Arch and Lon McMani- gal and Bove Stricklet started a row and itched onto Lucas with billiard cues, and roke several over his head, has Stricklet and one of the McManigals locked up, and 1s now looking for the other It s thought that Lucas cannot live. All the parties connected with the affair huve a very hard name, Vam, I, Kob, 2.—[Special Telegram to Tie Ber,|—A fire toduy destroyed the stores Tempest Broth A. L. Suong, dry goods and grocery, and the building occupied by J taurant and Fred Edgar The fire started at 2 a. m., and the loss is r $17,000. Stroug's £5,000, Nesbitt's $700, and the others none. Partios living over the two stores sayed part the rost is a total loss, occumed by . Nesbitt's res- fowelry store. of the country. his skull lked insurance 1s about 18 skull cracked, tuin man bad made effo of vheir furaitur: mane and are raising The marshal Looking tor Feb. 26.—[Specisl Tolegram named Snediker, living near Hooue, bus been here hunting for his wife, The woman came to town to sce a dentist, left her team standing on the street, uud disappeared with her baby. thought she hus eloped with ber husband discharged bired man, taudard's Berlin correspoudent believes Bismarck's dec to ratain ofice is the outcome of the long in~ teryiow he had with the emporor which the emperor probably yielded on the points of difference betwnén sented 1o the presentation of the new anti- socialist bill, is insane an .. Mianick was com- of two reputable A thorough inyvesti- gation will be made at.once - Plerra Throws u WasnINGTON, Féb. 20 — Lhe Pan-Awmerican conference today accepled the resign Pierra of New York, the Spgnish whose resignation has been sent in several times but withdrawn at the request of the The resignation is due to a fecling on the part of Plerra that tho salary was inadeguato and t friction be- tween him and Curtis, the executive oficer A Popular Traveling Man Married, Graxp IsLaxp, Neb., Feb. to Tug Bee.)—Mr. Arthur L. Steetz, one of Omaba’s wost popular traveliog men, aad nighly acvomplished ana greatly esteomed young Lady of this city, were murricd this morning at & o'clock, and left at 9:30 for an extended trip throush the Rev. W. H. Vange of Creto per- formed the coreimon thew and con- p His Jub, 20, —[Special e Inanzuratio ‘e Key City dems New You, Fe, 2. Jucob Astor wus filea for probats today. od thousand dollars is divided eral hospitals, the Metropolitun muscuw of art and the Astor library, which gets $15,000, Alexauder Hamilton and James rong each receivo $40,00). xoes to his son, William Waldorf DusuQuE, la, Feb. 26, acratic club and Governor's Grays loft for Moines tonight to take guration of Goveraor Boies, part iu the mau- About one hundred and fifty members of the county democracy loft for Des Moines this morning to attend the inauguration of Governor Boics, Feb, 20.—|Special Telegram Huwley of Orieans ———— Siteamship Arriva At Halifux—The Mavitoba, from Glasgow; the Gotheburg Cify, from London. At New York-La Champague, Havre; the Teutonic, Bothnia, Arizona ana Lake Huron, from Liver, to Tue Bee. )L, W. bad bis houso and contents destroyed by fire on the morning of the “5th at b o'clock. The children wero carried out in their night Lusuranve on the house $1,000, und #500 001 the contouts. Will Examine the Qu Bearrice, Neb.,, Feb. 2, —[Special Tele- —A detackwment of the Khode island Prohibitionists, 2.~The state probibitionists put in nomination the follow- ng ticket today: The Weather Forecasr, For Omaba and v followed by clearing weather, Tows and Nebraska: ble winds; warwer Friday mornin, Warmer; varlab) becowing southerly; fair weather. Light suow, the Anchoria, Suevia, from Hawb Local snows; varias v awbur, Broun; secretary of stute, John W. Mooney Westernland, from Antwerp; the Po Joun T. Blodgett; gener: attoruey genera treasurer, John ety South Dakota: gram ue Bes.