Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 28, 1890, Page 1

— FLOODS AND SNOW STORMS. Toe Ohio River Rapidly. stil Rising GREAT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. Ifthe Prosent Heavy Rains Continue & Terrible nundation Will Re- sult—Several Landslides toported. A Wet Prospec:. Crxerxxaty, O, Feb. 27,—At 11 this morn. Ing the river had re: d a little over fifty- four feet and was still Lrising. Unless there should be phenominally rainy woather within the next four days it is not thought the flood will reach the height to which ivarose in 1583 andy 18%4. Uhe prosent stago drives out many families in the low grounds of Cincin- nati, Covington, Newport and other points along the river. he 1ron wworks and saw mills of Ne: .. have stopped operations bec; high water and others are likely to follow ®oon in Covington and in this city. Railroad communications are hourly growing more and more uncertain to the exposed roads and it 18 possibla that trains caniot got wto the central passenger station by ni Shortly after day dawned in which continued tho o'clock tonight the rain still continued to fall though it was uot very heavy, If the rain is very severe in this section it will probably cause a flood, but if it continues at the rate it is now falling even throughout the entire Olito valley it will hardly do more rain set cntire day. At than to keep the river at its presont stage or a little higher for a few days only. The Baltimore & Ohio, the Southwestern and the Bee line have their tracks covered to n depth of nearly four feetnear the stock yards. Toward midnight the rain ceased, Tho storm is reported to be central about Nashvilie, Tenn. At this writing, 11 o'clock, it is causing grave apprehension here, If the precipitation in the next twenty-four hours should be as great in the Ohio valley as 1t has been at Memphis and Nashville, it wiil doubtless cause a great flood. LouisviiLe, Feb, 27.—The Ohio river has reached the Hood stage. One of the olovated road stations on the city front hus been cut off. A scare was started tonight and a num. ber of families in the districts su ged in 1888 moved out, but there is little fear of such a deluge as then. The river is still ris- ing an inch an hour. C. Wooster, who has just returned from Middleborough and intermediate points, says the Cumberland is higher than it bas r been, and the run- ways of the waters have craated much havoe. There nave been landsiides where great trees and immen bodies of earth have tumbled away, and in places big tracts of country are submorged, At Ilion switch, below Livingstone, noth ing but the top of the extensive raw mill is to be seen above water, und at Livingstone Rock Castle creek has encroached upon the town disastrously, At Middleborough the clectric light plant has been vendered useless, the streets ar subnierged and the canal is outof sight. The floods have crippled the railways to o considerable extent. The news from the mountain section is that luna-slides and wash.outs are numerous I'be mails of thatregion have been practi- cally discontinued. The telegraph wires aro down in many places. BSAN FraNCis0o, Feb. 27.—Heavy rains continua to provail in Arizona. Last night the floods washed out a lasge portion of the Prescott & Arizona tral railw; Tele- jgraph _communications have been cut oft from Prescott, s0 tho nature of the damage 18 not known. . Cuaruestoy, W, Va., Feb. A land- slide occurred at Grinnemont, on the Chesa- penke & Ohio, this moruing, covering the track for 200 yards. A freight train was wreclked, but nobody was hurt. TorRANEE, Miss, I7eb. 27, —Yesterday af- ternoon a heavy wind aud rain struck this place, doing an immense amount of damage. Several stores were wrecked and fences and barns were leveled in maoy places. A heavy ram_ is sull falling and the streets are flosded. MEMEHIS, “Tne unusual ramn fall over the entire watershed of the Mississippt and Obio rivers and their tributaries since Saturday lust portends evil to the low lands protected by the leveefiin the Yazoo delta e Tensas basins. ™ The worst is feared for the newly constructed levees along the Tensas basin. Major Sterling. engineer for the lower Mississippi levee district, antici- pates that the levees in - Arkansas will give way and relieve the prossure on the Missis. sippi side. The outlook in the section through which the White und Arkansas riv ers pass is not encouraging. Both streams aro rising fast and the people living along the banks are taking advantage of the timely notice ferved and are moving their stock to places of safety. Snow Storms. KANSAS City, Feb. 27.—Dispatenes from Missouri aud Kansus state that o blizzard from the northwest prevailed throughout these states today. Thne thermometer foll to about zero, Davixronr, Ta,, Feb, 27.—A heavy snow storm s been raging here today and street car tralic is greatly impeded. About ten fuches of $a0w has fullen and the storm con- tinues. It is tho first gencral snow storm that hus oceurred in this section for two years, in P e That Awful English Syndicate, Cuicaco, Feb, 2.—A morning paper priut- ed u lengthy story today to the effect that ® represontative of an Enghsh syndicate had made an agrecment with Jacob and Samuel Woolner of Peoria for the sale of a controil- ing interest in the whisky trust, ote. ‘I'his afternoon Samuel Wooluer said the story was entirely untrue. A Mr, De Peyer, the allezed representative of the syndicate, also denied the stoey. It is true the wnisky trust has received some propositions, but Mr. Jacoo Wooluer declares the present negotintions do not even re- motely concern that operation. De Peyer's scheme i3 to purchase tho Peoria brewerics. The English syndicates, it is stated, has now control of the breweries iu all the larger cities of the couutry and is commencing a similar acquirement in the smaller cities and towns. In Peoriu the transfer, if carried out, will amount in the money to change bands about §1,000,000. . nerated, Cuannru D, Feb. 27.—|Special Telegraw to Tug Bee.]—Barly this morning five destroyed a building occupied by an old negress on the ontskirts of the city, and the old wowan was burned to a crisp. Nothing but a portion of the head aud feot of the body was uncousumed, How it came that she was unable 10 save her life will probably never be known, but there is much talls that she was murdered. For several nights past he had been bothered by a gang of rufiuns Wwho had repeatedly called av her house and iusulted her, and it is believed they mur- dered her uud then set live to the house to cover thelr erime. Steamship Arrivals, At New York—The State of Indiana, from Glesgow. At Philadelpbla—The Nederland, Aptwerp. At Southamptou—The Aller, from New York, for Hrowe) At Quecnsiown-~The Britaunic, from New York. from - Orwise of the Brundrite, New Yon, Feb. 27.—Malarial feverdid deadly work among the crew of the schooner Brundnte of St. Johns, Newfoundland, on the voyage from Barcelona to this port, which terminated this moroig. She left Barcelona eighty days sgo with Captain Foots and ll'urgw “y flv:”m-n‘ Wh:lt:n e arrived this morning only her captain one sallor were len'l: ...lé'-z.u m Thfi NINETEENTH YEAR. of the crew dind on the voyage and one sailor lny more dead than alive in the cabin. The victims were stricken immediately after the schooner left Barcelora. For three weeks the captain, with the assistance of one seaman, navigated the schuoner and at- tended to the wauts of the sick men in the cabin, - ALARM The Pan-American Conference Dis- cuss din the Cortes, [Caryright 18% by James Gordon Bennett.) Mapnin, oD, w York Herald Cable—Special to Tue Bee.|—In the debate in cortes ou the foreign office budget which closed this evening Fortuondo, tue Cuban deputy, made the promised interpellation 1o reference to the Pan-American conference, He oxprossed alarm lest the United States stould adovt @ South American policy in- juriousto Spain. Ievest, of the budget committes, in re- said the South American policy of the ited States excited the alarm of Europe and wus dangerous to the whole Latin race. This policy alwoys shows a profound dis- likeo to Spain and Spanish-Americans, The Menroe doctrine of “America for Ameri- cans' really meant America for the United States. The minister of foreign affairs closed the debate oy stating that the policy of the liberal governweat fostered friendly rela- tions with the South American states for the purpose of forming a Pau-American union. He believed the conference at Washington Was in its main object a flasco. The rela- tion between Svain and the United States were most friendly despite the late position of the IMlorida senator relative to the pur- chase of Cuba, b o Sy Minister Linc s Son Not Doad. [Copyright 1800 by James Gordon Bennett.] LoxpoN, Feb. 27,.—[New York Herald Cuble—~Special to Tue b 1=The condition of Abraham Lincoln, which was considered hopeless last night, took a slight change for the botterat an early hour this morning, which enabled the doctors to perform an operation. He 18 still 1n a very critical com dition. The doctors say thav his only cnance for life is in auother operation. It will be of a desperate character and will be per- formed shorti SPAIN FREPARING FOR THE FAIR. Work Begun on the South Side Ele- vated Line in Cnic . Cnricaao, Feb. —|Special Telegram to Tue Ber, |=Witk the arrival of ull necessary material work was vigorously beguu ou the South Side elevated road this morning, and the startling aunouncement is made that the cowpany wiil-have a mile completed before April 1. After the first span, called “'a trav- eler,”” was placed on a platform erected on top of ‘the girders, a stationary engine as crected thero and the girders thoreafter lifted intoplace by steam power. “How fast will the 3work proceed?”’ asked of Chief Engineer Cornell. “When we get fairly started we will build from s1x to oight girders a day with each gang. We start with one gang at Thirty~ third street and another gang starts just north of Thirty-third and works north, In thirty days, or by the endof March, we ex- pect to have o mile of the road completely finished. We callita mile from Twenty- ninth to Thirty-seventh street. and that will be completed Lefore April 1. 7The entire road from Van Buren street to Thirty-ninth strest wo will have completed a_year hence. ‘That much accomplistied, the hardésu. por- tion of the road is built, because south of ‘Chirty-ninth street the land is almost va- cant and we will not be hampered by con- demnation proceedings, and will be able to put up a road from Thirty-ninth street south in no time. But we first want to see where the world’s fair is going to be located. If it to be in Jackson park, and we think it will be, we will go ahead with the road out there. If not, we will take our time about.it. Event- ually, however, the road will be bailt o N -first street, or the Indiuna state was The company has succeeded in sottling with most of the property owners without going into cour BISHOP O'CONNOR'S SUCOESSOR. Vicar General Brady of St. Probably the Man. St Louis, Mo, Keb. 2i.—(Special Tel- egram to Tne Bre]—Tne special meet- of the Catholic bishops of tho western arch- diocese which was called at the request of Bishop O'Connor of Omaha, Who is now lylug at the point of death in Pittsburg, to elect a coadjutor bishop of Omaha, was held in St. Louis this morning at the residence of Archbishop Kenrick on Sixteentn street, The following bishops were preseut: Bishop Hennessy of Wichita, Bishop Fink of Leavenworth, Bishop Hogan of Kansas City, Bishop Scanlon of Concordis, Kus., Biskiop Bonacum of Lincoln, Neb.; Bishop Cosgrove of Davenport, Ta,, and Bistop Hen- nessy of Dubuque, the only bishops absent were Bishop O'Connor of Omaha and Bishop Burke of Pittsburg, It was impos- sible to ascertain who was the, one decided on at the meeting to be referrcd to the pope 08 o caudidate for coadjutor bishop of Omaba, but it is universally conceded that Vicar General Brady of St. John's church, St. Louis, has the choice. There are many reasons for his appontmont, He s first oo the list for promotion, and in addiuon to this, is a man of great ability. Ho is still @ young man, being about thirty-oight years of age, and has six years been vicar general, He was formerly pastor of the Annunciation church in this city, and one year ago was given charge of St. John's church, His ap- polutment will give gencral satiafaction. He is o native of St. Louls, e PATTI ILL IN DENVER, Louils The Prima Donna SuM:ring From Ex- osure in the Snow Blodkade, Dexver, Feb. 'he Abbey Grand Ttahiau opera company’s special train of ten coaches und four baggage cars arrived over the Union Pacific at 4:10 yesterday after- noov. The train was delayed by the Cen tral Pacific snow blockade, and was thirteen hours behind schedule vime. The membvers of the company are in bad shape, owing to the privations they underwent when blocked in a snow bani fifteen hours, The company oben at the Metropolitan tonight, but the Denverites will not see 17atti at the opening performance, as the preat prima dunna arrived in the ity suffering from a_scvere chest cold, and to- duy it was aonounced at her private car, which she was unable to leave, thut she had a high fever. Nicolini informed a reporter thut tho doctors were hopeful of the diva's recovery by Saturday, when she is billed at the matinee. The weather bere is very cotd and a storm is threatened; so. taking into consideration Patti's aversion 0 appearing under any but the wmost favorable circum- stances, the chauces are very poor for the many admirers of the lady hearing ber at all. The aavauce sale has been the largest in Deover for years, even at the prices, which are the same that Chicazoans paid at the Auditorium opening. “Semiramide’ was 10 open the season, but “Faust” nas been substituted, with Albani and WAZNO, Nordica and Fabbri are each suffering from severe cajds, but were able to go 1o their otel, and it is expected they will be able to sing, a7, M - - Pendleton's Remains Arriv New Yok, Feb. 27.—The United States #teamer Enterprise, with the body of George H. Pendleton, late minister at Berlin, ar- rived this wmorning, REPUBLICAN TARILE BILL. It Is Fixpected in the House Within | Two Weeks. ULTIMATUM OF THE SUGAR MEN They Will Stand a Cat of Twenty-five Per Cent—1L Silver Ore Must Reg- ad in Pay ular Daty. NTERNTH STRERT, atoN, D. C., Feb, ‘The republican members of the house com- mittee on ways and means have wformed the Pacific slops delegation that the same duty will be imposed upon lead 10 silver ore that is levied upon pure lead ore. This pro- vision will be reported in the tarift billat it proves satisfactory to the representauves of the lead producing districts. It will check the supply of lead from Mexico which comes in with silver ore. The representatives of the sugar beet in- dustry have informed the majority of the committee on ways and means that they will without complaint accept a reduction of 25 ver cent of the sugar duty, and they will fight against any greater reduction, The committee is inclined to report a cut of 30 per ceut. The present duty on sugar is about 72 per cent. The tariff bill is expected in the house within ten days or two weeks. ONLY TWO MEMBERS OBJECTED, Only two members of the house committee on territories voted against the bill o give statehood to 1daho; both are of course demo- crats. They are Springer of Ilhnois and Mansar of Missouri. These men will submit a minority report, but it will proveof no avail. Springer was the suggester of the omnibus promnsition, which passed the last house and resulted in the admission of four new states, and his idea is another omnibus bill admitting Arizona and New Mexico as & Dpolitical offset to the repub- lican territories of Wyoming and Iaaho, He is trying to work up’ sympathy in favor of this proposition and claims that a demo- cratic house was willing to admit three re- liable republican territories upon a com- promise admitting Montana, a doubtful po- litical territory. Mr. Springer, however, knows as well as anybody that the sentiment of ‘the majority of the last house was be- yond control of the democratic leaders and that if the republicans hud not agreed to the omuibus bill enough democrats wouid have voted with the republicans to admit the four states whkich came together and would have been admitted upon separato and distinct bills. 1t wvas not a compromise, The republicaus, by virtue of having demo- cratic support upon the popular proposition to admit the four states, forced the demo- crats to do what they did. They did not do it willingly. The democrats, it will be re- membered, insisted upon the admission of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico at the same time, but were compolled to back down by reason of their inability to muster ama- jority of the house. PIEKCE'S ADMIRATION FOR BLAIR. Senator Blair has been about the senate consulting with the new members of that body in order to uscertain what amount of opposition he may expect when his educa- tional bill comes to a vote. He finds that all of the new senators will support the meas. ure, but they give different reasons. for dof 80. For example, Senator Pierce said: “O; course, Mr. Blair, 1 will vote for your bill. I will vote for it purely out of admiration for you. Iwould vote for any bill that a senator would stand up hero for nine days to advo- cate without a single listener either in the galleries or on the floor and did not get mad but twice because the people would not stay and listen to him. A man who has that much patience deserves to have his bill passed and will get my vote.” THE FIGUT ON WARMOUTIL There has been a very long and very lively fight in the senate committee on commerce against the confirmation of ex-Governor Warmouth of Lousiana as collector of the port of New Orleans, The president nom- inated him over the recommendation of a Mr. Coteman, the republican representative from Lewsiuna, who secured the assistance of the negro leaders of the party and of Gov- ernor Kellogg in his efforts to prevent War- mouth’s confirmation, ‘The members of the senate committee after hearing state ments from everyone interested in the case have come o the conclu- sion that the fight is purely a political one between the two factions of the party in Lousiana and that Mr. Warmouth's wing would doubtless have made a similar war upon any representative of the other faction that wight have been nominated to office. ‘There is nothing alleged*against Warmouth's personal character and ex-Governor Kelloge, who has been rather in the lead of War- mouth’s opponents, has finally come down and consented to his confirmation. Colonel Warmouth bad & narrow escape in the con mittee room the other day while his case was under cousideration, being selzed withia faiting fiv from which he did not recover for some hours. The pbysicians think that it was due purely to nervousness. JUDGE BREWER'S SUCCESSOR. ‘The appointment of Henry C, Caldwell as district judge for Arkansas to be United States circuit judge for the Eighth circuit, vice David J. Brewer, resigned, to bo ap- pointed to the supreme court of the United States, obliterates the immediate chances for the promotion of Judge Durd, in Tne Bee dispatches some weeks ago. ‘This appointment was made upon the principle of senfority promotion, APPROVED THE BRIDGE BILL. The secretary of war today approved the location and plans for the Nebraska Central railroad .bridge across the Missouri av Omaha and there is nothiog in the way of the mediate commencement of the work of construction. Senator Manderson's bill for a bridge over the Missouri at Decatur, Ta., passed the senate today; also bis bill for the payment of a claim to J. Little and Ho- bart Williams of Omaha. MISCELLANEOUS. - The river and harbor comwmities of the house has not yet taken up tne Henuepin canul scheme at this session, as the report of the survey that was made under the direc~ tion of the chief of eagineers is still in the hands of the government printer, executive session this atternoon the senate confirmed three nominations of re- ceivers of public mouéys in the Nebraska Inod districls who were nominated yester- day. This is exceedingly rapid ~work. Usually nomnations of lund oMicers are hung up for weeks and go through regular iuvestigations by the comumittee on public lands, Hou. James G. Day, for twelve years a Justice of the lowa suprome court but now & member of the Des Moiues bar, is in the city on business before the supreme court und is stopping at the National. This 1s his first visit Lo the national capital and he is charwed with 1ts many beauties. Senutor Pottigrew today filed the memo- rial of the South Dakota legislature praying for the opening of the Fort Randall militury reservation, Congress Pickler woday introduced a bill for the creation of & vational soldiers’ howe at Hot bpriogs. The senate today passed Senator Pad- dock’s bill providing that in computing the period of cultivation upon timber culture en- 1rien the time sball run from the date of the entry if the nccessary acts of cultivation were performed within the prover time; that the preparation of tae land and the planting of trees shall be construed us acts of cultiva- tion and the time authorized to be so em- ployed and actually employed shall be cowi- puted as par of the eight years for cultiva. hon required by statue, Senator Moody futroduced bills today ap- propriating §24,148 10 enable the secretary of the interior 10 pay Indian depredation cluims which bave been allowed under the WasniNGeTox Buneav Tiue OMAnA Ben, } ' (INGy, FEBI 28, 1890. tUARY act of March 8, 188 pay Thompson & Hamilton of South Dakobs 83,140 on In- dian depredations. Ex-President Cloveland . hus made a very haudsome thing out of the of his coun- try scat, three miles out of Washingzton. He made the purchase in 1888 for $32,000, or about #)00 an acre, 8dd it today for €140,000. This will be B @'ear gain of $100,- 000 after paying for all of $he Improvements. Mr. Pendicton of Weat “Virginia, who was unseated in the house tHiS afternoon by n vote of 163 to nothing, Proposes to carry the case to Lhe supreme court on tho ground that 100 votes is a consitutional quorum and that the speaker has Sdatlawlul right to count any one present wHo'Was not voting. This will furnish the testtiat the democrats have been anxious to Ma§e as to the consti- tutionality of the rules ntly adopted by the revubiicans and the {#ulgs of Speakor Reed on this subject. 3 Assistant Secretary firmed the docision of the general land office i dfsmissing the con- test of William D). Sewell dwainst the timber culture entry of James Ropkafeiler for the southwest I of section 3, township S north, range 2 west, Bloomington, Neb,, distriot. S. R. Razeo was todsy appointea post- master at Curtis, Frontiaeounty, Neb, C. B. Compton, removed, #ind Ella S, Ham- indler today af. commissioner of DAiLy BEE =3 MBER 24¢ A LAW WITHOUT A PENALTY | Sherman Moves to Remove the Anti-Truat Bill's Sting. THE DEBATE ON THE MEASURE, George Maintains That Congress Has | No Constitutional Power to Enact It—Contestant At- kinson Seated, Sonato, WasniNarox, Feb, 27.—In the sonate today resolutions were presented and reforred to the committee on the world's fair from the convention of granite dealers being held at | Boston, declaring 1t to be the sense of the convention that thecity of New York affords advantages ana facilitiea for the fair of 1802 lin at Blockley, Decat county, Ia., vice Ella C. Hamilton, resigned, Rev. Riges, a well known missionary, will be appointed special agoht to allot lands in severalty 10 such Sioux 8 desire allotments on the ceded portion of the reservation. Attorney General Miller today appointed Dewitt C. Cram to be assistant United States atterncy for the worthern district of Towi Euuny S, Hearim, — i GENERAL, OROOK'S OPINION, Rather Inclined to Favor the Proe posed Military Academy. Cuicaco, Feb, 27.—[Special to Tne Bee.]— General Crooks was &esn today at army headquarters, and asked Whether ho favored the proposition to have the government present Fort Owaba to ‘the state of Ne- braska, to be used as a militiry academy, provided the state would charge itself with the maintenance of said abademy. “I am not partictlarly well acquainted” said the genaral, ‘‘with the facts leading up 10 this proposition; thouy as a matter of general information in @rmy circles, I am of courso aware that suchia proposition has been mooted from time to time. Ido not quite see the necessity for agitating the question just cow, as it was niy understana- ing that it was practically.disposed of by tho il which congress passed over a year ago. However, I suppose some new phases of the case have avisen, withu-which I have not yet been made acquainted; and until I am more particularly informed, I should not care to hazard a_ decided opinion as to the advisability of such a sten, On broad prin- ciples, Imay say, howsver, that I am in sympathy with the military’ policy of the government, whiclr is to {oster aud promoto educational military establishments through- out this country. I know the post well, of course, 1 believe it contains‘eighty acres or thereabouts, and it would, no doubt. be ad- mirably smited for the purpose of an acad- emy. As I have said, 1dé'hot know of any arrangement looking tothe acquirement of this property of the government by tue state of Nebraska, coupled witha_proviso for its mawtenance as a military academy. That is new to me. oy understinding nas always been that the old fort was to be sold out and out, and the proceeds he dgguted to the build- ing of u new post, which £ ibelieve is now in process of erection. Ofcpiirse, I believe in propazating military K much as possible, and anything $'vhat in view, Tshould undoubtedly kg ed to favor.” A PREMATURE Lines Not Yet kormulated. Cnicaao, Il, Feb. 27.—|Special Telegram to Tue Bee.|—The report that Chairman Walker has formulated and-submitted to the presidents of all westera lines an agreement to take the place of that under which the Interstate Commerce Kuilway association is working is premature. Up to this afternoon when Chairmen Walker, I"aithorn and Fin- ley held a consultation; mot an article of the new agreement had been formulated. At the conference today the whole subject was gone over and a general understunding reached, but nothing could be definitely settled, owing to the ubsence of Chairman Midgley. It 1s safe to say that the new agreement will not be ready before the last of March, s Fixing Excursion Routes, CricAGo, Feb. 27.—|Special Telogram to Tue Bee.] - The Central® Trafic Passenger dopurtment met today and decided ou its series of summer excursiofs to all eastern resorts outside of trunk line territories. The lines, lately members of the Western States Pussenger association also met but failed to agreo on harvest excursion rates. Will Not Reducg lowa Rates. Cnicaco, 111, Feb. 27.—(Spacial Telegram to Tue Bek.|—The railroad officials who went to Des Moines to argue with the Iowa railroad commissioners figainst a reduction in rates returned this morning, Asa result of the conference the commissioners decided Dot to reduce rates at present and if they thought best in the future to make a reduc- tion they promised to flvst hoar the railroad tide of the case, Great) Railway Activity, New York, Feb. 21.—The Engineering News this week will say the work of rail- way extension for the coming season prom- ises move activity thau &ny season 1887 Tn the United States there aro 5,000%n.123 | process of coustructiony 1,041 miles surveyed und 2,831 miles projected, making a total of 14,910 miles, In Canalia the figures are: Construction, 916 miless surveys, 435; pro- jected, 7005 total, 2,118 miles. The principal enterprises under wav in the south and southwest are the coal rouds of Pennsy vania and Obio and in Montana and Wash- ington, Almost all lines in prospect are rather short and generally furthered to de- velop comparatively local interests, Lhere are practicaily no paralleling schemes, et il L OANADIAN TARLPE fEVISION, Many lmportant Ohpnges to Be Made Affecting Thia Qountry, Orrawa, Ont., Feb. 27.——Reliable iuforma- tion hus been secured that. there is to ve a complete revision of the tariff. Probebly the most linportant changes affecting the United States will be an increase of from 50 to 5 ceuts a barrel on wheat flour und the re- moval of the duty on lp corn imported into Canada from the’ ted States, The duty on American frult. and vegetables will be reimposed and in on boots and shoes, pork, beef and meats, A strong eftort is being made to ‘sgeure the avbolition of the export duty on pink logs shipped to the United States, but 80 far without wny en- couragaing as ces from the government, Watered Ohscagi, Whisky Seiz . Cuicaco, Feb, 27.—[Spepial Telegram to Tuk Bee, |—The United States pevenue col- lector hus seized a lov of woisky from whole sulo firms here. Ho says he heard that cer tain firms were selling whisky at figures bolow even tax cost, (After careful iuvesti- gution he learned that' after the whisky 1s suugcd and stamped, 20 or 80 per cent of it is rawn from tuo barreis,which ure then tilled up with water. ‘The ' gauger's certificate states the whisky 18 phoot of « certain stau- dard, while 1 fact W is adulterated, The report bas been forwarded to Washiugton, The partics interested tell the collectur practice is very common here, and 1s nee sary in consequenee of ‘the kepu competition in the whisky trm dr I The Wearhes Foreoast, For Omaoha and viginity: Fair weather. For Nebraska and South Dakota: Fair, warmer, variable winds. For Iowa: Cloudy w lowed by fair, colder warmar Saturday in we ther and suow, fol- eastern portion, w0 partian, *L0ssessod by no other city in the union, and extending the thanks of the convention to the Now Eugland members who had voted for locating the fair there, The following bills were then taken from the calendar and passed: For the erection and location of a bronze statute of Christo pher Columbus, and the removalof the naval monument to & new site; to authorize the construction of a railroad bridge across the Missouri in Monona county, lowa, and Burt ebraska; to amend the timber cul- ture act. The senate then proceeded to the consid. eration of the bill to declare unlawful trusts and combinations in restraint of trade and production. Mr. Shermun, who reported the biil from the committee on finance, said he had been instructed by tho committee to move to strike out the third section, which fixes penalties for the offense of entering into trusts and combinatio Mr. George opposed ground of its ineflicienc that cougress had not the constitutional power to enact it. His arguments wera mamnly of a legal and technical characte and designed to prove that it would be im {musi\llu to even get. a: coaviction under the bill, and as to the suits provided for, he said fow such eyents would ever be instituted and not one would be successful. Mr. Reagan gave notice of an amendment wh e woula offer to the bill, being the bill pffered by him in December last. _{'he bill went over without action. After an executive session the senate adjourned. he bill both on the und on the ground Hous- WasmisaroN, Feb, 27.—The contested election case of Atkinson vs Pendleton was called up and the floor was accorded the contestee, Pendleton. A vote was then taken on the minority resolution declaring Pendleton entitled to his seat and it was defeated by a strict party vote. The vote then recurred on the majority resolution seating Atkinson. The democrats refrained from voting, their object beiug to have the contestant seated by less then a quorum so that the question of the right of the speaker to count a quorum may ba’ taken before the courts, The vote resultea—yeas, 162; nays, nothing; the speaker counting a quorum. Mr, O'Ferrall of Virginia raised the point of no quorum, but the speaker ignored nim and the newly elected member appeared at tue bar of tho house and toak. th of office amid_applause on the repul ide. Mr, McKiule, o poebl Beo hob Marol e ad D ported from the committes on public build- 1ogs and grounds, Adooted. ‘The house then proceeded in commitlee of the whole to the consideration of tne urgent deficiéhcy bill, and after some discussion ad- journed without action e e ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL. Secretary Proctor Reports Contlition, Wasmnaroy, Feb, 27.—Secretary Proctor today trausmitted to the house an answer to the resolution of that body calling for a re- port on tho present condition of the govern- ment works at Rock Island and the views of the secretary as to the propricty. economy and desiravility of utilizing those works as a gun factory for finishing and assembling heavy ordnance. Incorporated in the an- swer to the resolution are reports by Colonel _Whittemore, commanding the arsena who is favorable to the project, and by General Benet, who was of the opinion that the distance of Rock island from the present sources of sepply of forgings, from proving ground at which the guns can’ be proved before issue ana from the sea coast, where the guns must be mounted rendered its location unfavorable to the establisnment of & gun factory. Secretary Proctor says in the transmittal without approving or disapproving of the planssubmitted, : “*In my view, the arsenal at Wateryliet should be first completed accord- ing 1o the original plan aud an appropriation made for mounting the guns already author- ized by law., There will be needed for the mounting of these guns lifts for the larger &uns and it is quite probable that it will be desirable to munufacture some of them at the Rock Island and Watervliet arsenals, and it may be thav provisions will be made for heayvy guns so that some of these can be and vaphled at Rock Island. That is an ex- Correp Heation with good buildings and watar power, and { am in favor of establish- ing some branch manufactire thore in con- nection with the making of heavy ordnence zod field material that will be required, but it 18 impossible to decide now what will be required and what work can be done there to the best advantage, and I think it the part of wisdom to completo the work in hand and defer the beginning of the manu- facture at Rock Island until we can judge better what is required.” on Its 3 Oonfirmations, WABHINGTON, Feb, 27.—The senate has confirmed the following nominations: Chiof justice of the supreme court of New Mexico, Jumes O'Brien, Minnesota; United States district judge for North Dakota, Alfred D, Thomas. United States marsbal-—-A, E. Price, North Dakota. Register of land of- fice~ W. H. Clark, Liocoln, Neb, Receiver of public money—A. L. Towle, O'Neill, Neb.; M. M. Nceves, Siduey, Neb.; B, 5, Willlams, Yankton; 'S. D. _Appralser of merchandise—R. N.' Pearson, Chicago, Su- pervisors of the census. Tlhnois W, Bailey, Third district. lowa—R. W. Hignt, “Pnird district; J. W. Near, Fourth district. Postmasters, Nebraska—H, H. Troth, Mo V. E, "Taylor, Superior. ~ Wisconsin— Frank B. Hand, Hurley A Bureau of Animal Industry. WasniNaron, Fen. 27. enator Paddock today introduced a bill for the establishwent of @ bureau of animal industry to provent the exportation of diseasoed cattle and to pro- vide for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pueumonia and other coutagious dis. eases among domestic animals, The bill, which is iutended as a substitute for all measures on the sume topic, provides that the sceretary of agrieulture shull prepure and enforce rules for the suppression aud ex- uirpation of all diseases of cattle and espe- vially of pleuro-poneumonia, Cattle so af- fected are Dot 10 be transported from one state 1o another. The secretary shall wake o special investigation into the existence of pleuro-poeumonia along the dividiug line be- tweeo the United States aud Canada, and wlong the lines of travsportation from all parts of the country to all ports from whbich live stook are exported, and establish regu- lations concerning the exportation of such slock. Penalties are provided for violation of such provisions, It shail be the duty of the secretary te give notice through the newspapers of the existenco in any locality of contagious discases, and he snall also no- tify all transportation companies of this fact. A NAVAL BULLY. Commander McCalla Makes Life Bur- densome on Board His Ship. NEW York, Fob. 27.—The war ship Enter- prise arrived today. On board are two of her ofticers who have been brought home under arrcst, to be tried by court-martial, They are Chief Engineer Kntwistle and En sign Kline, The chiof engincer of impudence to the is accused commander, and the accused of slecping ut his post. commandor, McCalla, i§ a very t diseiplinarian It 18 said among the officials that he 18 overbearing and tyran ud on very slight provocation his is aroused, How or this may be it i a fact that much disorder and_discontent has beon manitested on the vessel’s last trip. Over sixty of the crew deserted at the vari ous ports at which she touched. The Tribuae tomorrow will print an inter- esting story of the peculiar actions of Com- niander MeCalla which will doubtless be in- vestigated by the navy department. The Enterprise has been on a European station W0 years an en mooths, and was Com- mander McCalla's first sea duty. The ves. sel left the uavy vard st Brooks lyn with a well svlected crew and officers picked out by McCalla himself, She urned probably the -most unbappy ship that ever came into port. Life aboard the Enterprise for the officers and men was described by one of the junior officers today as having been ono continual round of “from hell to breakfast and back again." One incident which is related is almost 1n- credible. When tho sMi) was av Christiana u firemun named Walker got drunk and was put in irons. McCalla bad him brought to task. When the officers on deck questioned him Walker replied that he “was drunk and glad of it.” Thoreupon McCalla ordercd an officerto cut the man down with a sword. The ofticer refused. and McCaila himself cut the man down, deluging the deck with blood and 8o severely injuring the man that he was uuder a surgeon’s care for some time, Many other stories a ated, among them one of an adventure Algiors. At this place Captain McCalla gallantly offered to mount the box of Lady Playfair's carriage and drive her down to the city from a picnic waich had taken place. Her coachman jn- terfered and McCalla belabored him with a whip. te was an English man and when next McCalla and his officers‘came ashore they were set upon and roughly used. Iu the course of the cruise nearly” every officor in the ward room had been under suspension several times for running against some of McCalla's notions. ————— A RACE WITH FIKE, Six Miles in Six Minutes to Burning Mail Conch. Ocoey, Utah, Feb, 27.--|Special gram to Tuk By Phere was an g und exciting race on the Central this morning near Blue Creek, west of Ogden twenty-five miles. It was a race against time with a burning train and the goul ahead was the water tank. It was a race the trainmen and passengers will long rem ember, while the excitement itself lost much of its attraction on account of the im- peuding danger that threateued. When the westbound fast mail reached a point six wiles east of Blue Creek, the engineers dis- covered tbat o mul car filled with through mail was on fire. An effort was made to put it out, but there being no water near the en- gineer threw open the throttle and resolved to reach #he water vemini{ possible in time to save his valuable cargo. Each minute the Save a Tele- interest- Pacific {burnidg train was @ mile nearcr the prom- ised rescue. In six minutes he landed the chariot of fire under the spout of the water tank, but it was too late. The interior was o mass of flames and 158 sacks of through mail were almost totally consumed. Word 800N 8pread thr the coaches that the train-was on fire. The greatest excitement prevailed, Only the lightning speed pre- vented the ladies from jumping from the train. As the flames bad not made their way through the sides of the coach no danger threatened the other Thomas Orchard, chief clerk of the railway mail ser- vice ut Ogden was on the tram Ho says that he 18 unable to give even a theory of the firing of the train, as it seems impossible that it should have caught from flying sparks. . e Visits Brooklyn Y onx, Ieb, 2i 2 Tne B ~—Secretary of the Na Tracy, who came to Brookiyn yestirday for the purpose of making necessary avrangements for taking out letvers of administration on his late wife's estate, paid a visit o the navy yard this morning in company with his son. The yisit was entirely unoficial Afer greeting fricnds, the secretar, ar Admiral Braine, Nuval Mintouye and _ Lieutenaut Schwerln, went on u tour of inspection around the d, visiting_in his walk the cruisors Maine @nd No, 7, the monitora Terror and Miautonamon, and the Barbett battle-ship Puritan, all in various stuges of constructi 'y ulso visited the new Simpson timber dry dock und the gun- boats Alarm and Intrepiial, the former of which i8 now in the old Stoue dry dock undergoing repairs, und the latter sting on her ways over a sand bank near her queenly sister, the Maine. Tho secretary expressed b meelf 1o his compauions as highly pleased with the condition of the yard, N ctor el LGB Anderson's Appeal. WasmiNcroN, Feb. 27, — Representative Anderson of Kansas today apveared before the house comuittee on Pacific railroads to urge favorable action on his bill to fo the p iustituted against the Union Pacitic the railroad placed m the hunds of a government receive Anderson said the whole west, and esvecially Konsas, was deeply interested in the subject, as thab section had for years suffered from exces sive freight rates and railroad combinations to0 bleed the people. He said the farmers of Kansas received but 13 cents per bushel for corp which afterwards sold in New York at 50 cents. He attributed the existence of the present state of affairs to the machinati of Jay Gould, whom he characterized as the brightest man this couutry had ever pro- duced, e Serttl “Their Lifliculiy. MoxthEAL, Feb, 27, —|Special Telegram to Tue Bee.|—The dificulties between T, Ber- thiaume, proprietor of La Presse, and La Minerve and Father Paradis, which the vatican had beeu asked to adjucate upon, have beeo settled by order of Archbishop Fabre, ather Paradis formally withdraws his various libel suits now pending in the criminal and sunsrior courts against Her- thisume, and the latter acknowledges in a letter published in L'Entendard that he had no knowledge of any facts to substantiute the lucriminating passages of the letters published in Corvamus, 0., Feb. -About midnight w5 unknown man called at the residence of Dr, Alexander Neil, one of the leading phy- sicians of the city. The doctor came to the door. 'Lhe nau drew a revolver und placing iLagainst bis head pulied the trigger. The cartridge failed to explode and the doctor grabbed him, fter a desperate struggle he wrested the rovolver from the man and the latter ran aw e afterwards came back und s eral windows with rocks. “I'he police cunnot tind bim, rn ol th Cuicaco, Feb. 27.—Mayor Cregior and a large number of other members of the world's fair delegation arrived howe from Washivglon this moroing. The party marchel in procession to the city bLall through the streets lined with cheering peo. ple. At the city hall an informal reception wus beld, at whbich wuch entbusiasm was manifested. GREAT DAY FOR DEMOCRACY Boles = ducted Into OMos as Gove = ernor of Iowa. EXTE OED INAUGURAL ADDRESS. The Larger Portion of it ¢ cul g Erohivition Practical Legisiat the Subj cot, on to Dis and the on Innugurated at Last, Drs Moises, la., Feb. I8 gram to ‘ine Bee)-For tho first time 8ince 1854 there is a democratic governor in lowa. The mauguration of Governor Boies under such circumstances called out a great throng of democrats, who began coming by tho carly traine. A special train from Sty Joseph, Mo., brought the Jeffersonian club, 150 strong. Another special from Chicago brought the Cook county democracy, §00 strong. lowa cities coniributed their quots, and at 2 o'clock, the hour for the parade to start, there were wore demourats together than have ever been seen in any Towa city before. Some of them were old timers who went into retiroment years ago. One group was composed of democrats from Poweshiek county who were engaged in the draft riots during the war, in which adeputy United States marshal was mur- dered. They have searcely been seen out of their township since then, but they came to the front today. The weather was bitter cold making it impossible to hold the inaugural roises out of doors. ‘Phe parade was not aposing as exvected, many of the visitors. rofusing to march on account of the cold. The wilitary display included six compa- nics of the national guards from the citics of Des Moines, Dubuque. Burlington, Otti mwa and Sioux City. ‘Then camo the Chicaxo contingent, all' drossed alike, with black silk hats and silk umbrellas, wearing enormous badges af the Tammany hall style. They were followed by the St Joe marchinz club ana the Hawkeye club of thia city, and then a line of carriuges with the notables. ho Chicago delegation carried one large bauner having a picture of Grover Cleveland painted on one side and of Gov- ernor Boies on the other. Another banner bore the inviting words, “Come to the world’s fair at Chicago in 1502." Several thousand people had gathored in the capitol before tho procession arrived,and the house of represcntatives was packed with invited guests. There were no decoras tions except large puintings of Washinzton, Governor Hampstead, the last democratio governor, and Govel Grimes, the Hrst ro- publican governor, which hung ovi the speaker’s chair. Four color sergeants wera stationed in front of tho desk, and Governor Boies and Licutenant Poyneer took the onth of oftice, standing beneaih their flags. rhe floor of the house was reserved for members of the legisiature, state ofe cers and their friends, and the gal- leries for special visitors, Governor Boies. read his inaugural address in a clear, frm voice, and was frequently applauded. ~His utterances on the probivition question called out the groatest eathusiasim, Just before the exercises began, the chair- n, Lieutenant Governor Hull, rappea for r and requested the audience to rise e prayer was offered. Oune of the Chi- cago contingent, mistaking the opportunity, called out in a loud voice: ‘‘Three cheers for the new governor ot Iowa!" und the threo hundred members of the club rose up- and cheered with great cuthusiasm; after, which the ehaplain proceeded with the dsyo- tions. The inaugural address was very highly appinuded for its strength and dictiou, and the rewark was frequentiy made that Goy- ernor Boies would be the next democratie. candidate for vice president. He held an informal rcception at the close of the exer- cises, and tonight will hold his first - formal reception for the public at the state house, pecinl Tele- and windy, The Inaugural Address, Des MoiNes, la, Feb, 27.—[Special to Tnm Bk |—In the opening of his aadress Gov: ernor Boies, after confessing the unusnal sense of responsibility wh his election to. the ficsy place in the gift of the state had imposed upon num, and thav the election had been due Lo the united action of the different political parties, urged upon s hearers the great importacce of wise legislation and promised, on his part. the policy of a broad and liberal administration of affairs. After payme a graceful compliment to the retiring chief executive he proceeded to take up one by ome the mostumportant publio questions at presc itating the people of the state of lowa, discussing them at great length and exhaustively touching ou the ull- important topic of prohibition, to which & large portion of his inaugural was devoted. On the guestion of ballot reform he de- clared that the very safety of the republie depended upon the inteiligence of the elee- tors, aud that ignorance and corruption were alike incompatible with stamility in a government which derived 18 powers from the people, 1f ouy danger threatened this government, it was in the fact thut 1gnorimg the question of iutellizence in elcctors, the franchise had been unduly extended beyond the hwmits of reasonable S.uynLy. Among ather obstructions to frea hallot was the undue influcnce exerted by employors on th Great interest naturally attached to the subject of rate transportation. . Prior to the present laws the purchaser ol ransportation was at the a of the railway comjanics, They abused their power, and to gain greab dividonds individual and public rights wera sacrificed, Valuable lives were entrusted ta these wen, The yearly record of muimed and dead among those enzaged i the operation ilronds was appalling, The chicf mag- of this nation had called attention to the sufferings of these men aud invoked the #id of the nationai law Lo lessen their dau- gers, An important work remained for tue veople of lowa 10 lewislute wisely between the people and railroads withia its voun- daries, Referring to the division of representativa districts which had veen made, the census of 1855, upon which the vresent ratio of repre~ ntation was established, showed the population of the state to be in round number 1,754,000, which should have made the actual ratio for 100 wemvers 17,540, Instead of adopting this number the legislature in 1556 enacted that 24,000 should be the ratio of representation’ and divided the state nto assembly districts, No less than sixteen of theso aistricts as then formed contamed less that twelve thousand iuhabis tants, He believed that such an apportion= @ grave error, if wot an actual puploy s, condition of the common schools the state was satisfuctory, Not #0 with the higher institutions of learn- Ing. To wake them compare favorably with those of sister states large sums of movey must be contrivuted for their establishment and support. A liberal policy should he adopted in the way of appropriations. Kves, appropriation of this character would be re- .turued to thé great mass of people in that which was far more valuable than goid. Coming to the quostion of prohibition the governor suld: Berious complaint is made by the pharma- cists of tho state sgainst many of the pro- visions of our statute regulatiog the conducy of their business. It can scarcely he denied that these complaints, i some particulurs, are well founded. Personally 1 can see little excuse and no justification for tue great bulk of the pre visious of this law regulating the sale of i toxicuting liguors for icinal purposes It is necessary that such sales be wmade those whose duty it becomes o trausact the business are entitlea to geutlemavly ureat- meut @b icast from the bublic they ser T'his they certaiuly do nol receive under e