Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 25, 1890, Page 1

S L » e THE. OMAHA NTIETH YEAR T OMAHA WEDNE DAILY BEE. LICKED UP BY THE FLAMES. An Tncendiary Wreaks His Vengeance o Blue Hill, Nebraska. NEARLY TWENTY STORES BLOTTED OUT. The Amount of Damage Done Roughly Estimated at Over Fifty Thousand Dollars, With Comparatively Little Insurance. Brur Hiv, Neb,, June 24.—[Special Tele- gram to Tre Bee.]—At 2:30 this morning a Aire broke out simultancously in two plac on the north side of Main street in Blue Hill. The one at the opera house, at almost the ex- treme east end of the street, was extinguished by the efforts of 0. C. K. Leigman, Mrs. B. H. Munson and the girl help at the Munson house, It was beyond question of incendiary origin, the whole side of the building being saturated with coal oil, The fire which caused the destiuction of the city originated in the rear of the I. X. L. paint store, and in spite of every effort spread until it had wiped out sixteen of the leading business houses of the place and destroyed the merchandise and office furniture of twenty firms, to say nothing of the city jail, which was also de- stroyed, The sufferers are as follows: 1. F. Grimes, two buildings—a drug store and stock of paints and wan paper. Value of buildings, $2,500; insurance, $1,850. Value of stock, £,500; insurance, $2,500. Insured in German, Springfleld, Home of New York and Northern. Little was saved of the Alliance store of 8. Mandlebaum. Value of building, 23003 loss, total. Value of stock, §7,000; insurance, $1,000 in the German, 81,000 in the British American, Goods saved, £500. A. Koptsch's two buildings, Alliance hard- ware store and vacant building adjoining. Value, $1,200, insured for $X00 in German- Auwerican, Value of stock, $3,500, insure for §1,000 in the Hartford. Nothing was saved of Higgins & Price’s stock of general merchandise. Value, #5,000, insured for £1,500 in the Niagara and £1,000 in the Hartford. Part of the stock saved. Building belonging to Tobin & Klesson. Loss £1,000, insured for §))0 in the Orient und the Home of New York. Hicks Bros' drug store, Loss $4,000, insured for $2,000. One-fourth of the stock was saved. 3 Building belonging to K. O. Pisch & Kle Loss $750, insured in the German for 80 $600. Building belonging to S, C. Pnose of Crete. Value £700, total, 2 Schmindt’s saloon, 10ss unknown. Louis Schumot, two buildings and saloon. Loss £00 on one building, uninsured; £00 on goods and fixtures, uninsured, and $300 on the second building, covered by §1,850 in- surance, Grusel building, 1c Parker building and stock of hardware. Value of building, $1,200, insured for $00, Loss on stock, 3,500, insured for $200. Saved " one-third of the stock. Schunok & Smidt, butcher shop, loss $300. J. . Kick, barber shop, loss #00; insur- ance of £400. Mrs. Smith’s building. T.oss 8500, Hunsner & Taylor, building, $575: insured for #400; stock mostly saved. Blue Hill Leader, loss slight and covered by insurance. Piercely building and stock of groceries, covered by iusurance Fremont, Grand Island, Kearney. Fuemoxt, Neb., June 24.—[Special to Tie Bk, |—The exact figures on the population of the threo leading cities in this census trict, namely, Fremont, Grand Island and Kearney, can not yetbe given, but Tite Bie's correspondent learned today approximatel what they will be. Fremont's figares wi not vary one hundred from 6,500. Informa- ticn received in - different ways from Grand Island and Kearney is to the effect that those two cities will show about the same popula- tion as Fremont, and it will probably requive the official returns from the census bu determine which of the three is the largest. It is understood from a man who has just been at Kearnoy that the enumerators there have been notified by local parties inter in a big showing that they will be expected to find at least 8,000 people in that town. The citizens of Fremont are generally di appointed at the result. They had gooll rea- 801 to believe that there would be a better showing, But just n is the most unpro pitious time for counting the people in this city there has been in the pust year, Hun- dreds of men have left the city temporer on summer sheep drives and railvoad work in the Black Hills and Wyoming, where local contractors have contracts, The together with the numbers missed by the enumerators, make an impor- tant difference in Fremont's showing. FrEMO: @ to Tue Bek. | —Sherift Mallon lest night from Covington with two crooks whom he captured there and brought back here for the purpose of meeting the charge of burglarizing tho residence of Jay Roynolds, Friday afternoon, und some valiabl in the'shaps of a gold avateh and dinmond” finger and_ear vings. They were traced to that point through the purchase at Missouri Vallc : icket with & gold dollar which wus | the booty they secured at the Re; idence. They still had in their possession some of the valuables when captured. It appears to be a plain case of penitentiavy, He Climbed fo _Breatm Neb., June 2 graitnto Tur Bee|—Charles Cunningham was seriously injured by the caving in of a well in this city today. He had been sent down to clean it out aud when near the bot- tom discovered iV caving in and climbed up the rope hand over hand He was about exhausted when he reached the top and a neighbor happened at this june. ture to see him and pulled himont, A moment later the wall went in witn a crash, Ho was badly bruised about the he: body by the falling debris and ste was making his peril laid up several day nd and o as he ut, and will be sequence, A Peculine Injur, Cietr, Neb.,, Juno [Sveciul to Tue Ber.|--Jud” Hawk, a young son of John Huwk, met with a somewhat serious accident last evening. The velocipede, upon which he was riding, parted in the centre, the boy re- ceiving @ severe cut in the back from the backbone of the machine, Doctors were called In, and the httle*fellow s doing as we | as could be expected. A Surprising Decision, Nenraska Ciry, Nob., Juue 24, Telegram to Tug Bre.)—The ci last evening, by a vote of four to t jected the proposition of the Buwliy 10 conv their bridge at this point into & combination vailvoad und wagon bridge. As the railroad's Spocial council offer wus cousidercd a clear gift the council's action created some sur P ise. The Deadly O DovGras, Neb., June ial ''ele- grow o Tur Bre]-Jerry Higgiusou, aged seven, of this place, stole his father's 35-cali- bre revolver, and with his brother, aged four years, started for the pasture half a mile away to shoot a jaybird. Inste: the boy shot himself in the left breast. The ball passed between the eighth and ninth ribs, coming out of his back, Afterward he walked back tos the house, lingered in terri- ble agony and died this morning at 5 o'clock. First Day of the Tournament. Prarrssourt, Neb., June 24.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee.|-—The tournament opened today and the weather was perfect. Trains brought in large numbers of firemen, who were met at the depot with a band and escorted up Main_ street, which was gaily decorated, there being two arches of welcome, one at Second street and another at Sixth street. They were erected by Hon, William Neyille, after whom our running team was named. All business houses and many residences were appropriately decorated. The state hose cart, which has been won by the Kearney team twice, arrived this morning. It bears the inscriptions of all the teams who have won it in the last eight years, At the races this afternoon there was a poor attendance owing to the counter attraction. The were very good. The first was the Green hook and ladder—with two teams entered, the _Otoes of Nebraska City and the Plattsmouth teams—which = was won by _ the former. Time, 51§ seconds. The chiefs’ race came next, with eleven entries. A. Rothman of York won the first prize. Time, 11 seconds. George Melyin of Wahoo brought up in the rear, getting the sccond prize, The 42-class race, with five entries, ended the pro- gramme, G. F. Corcoran of York winning the first prize, Time, 40 seconds. Nevilles of Plattsmouth second. Time, 4114 Tomorrow more firemen are cxpected to be here to take part in_the parade and state The prc scond day is: 10 m nd parade; best uniformed and appearing company, handsome banner and badge. Green hose race for a purse of $150. 3 State hook and ladder for a jurse of §350; first prize and championship Peit, £200; second prize, $100; third prize, £ 4 . m.—State hose race for a purse of st prize, #2000 and championship c prize, #1003 third prize, £50. 0 i Ladder climbing contest, prize, adge. e, Neb, June 24,—[Special to Tne Phe graduating exore of the third year preparatory class of Doane college last evening wi the best which have occurred in several years. Although there were four- teen productions composing the programme, and the attention of the audience was held from beginning to end. The Dawes oratorical contest occurs in the Congregatio church this evening. This contest was instituted tw 20 by ex- Governor Dawes. Three p —325, $15 and $i0—are offered. The }ullu\\'ing udents will contest with the orations indicated Homer C. House, Crete, 1on Peter; James W. Cooper, Crete, “Bismarck, the Mains, Stella, “Oli- Statesman;” Seward L. e Cassel, Nobr Cromwell;” Walter v, “The Re v'W._Green Nettie alls City, “Two Heroess? Geo ce, Irvington, “An Appeal for Af B. Benuets, Crete, “The Inc ming of Forelgm Capital;? Cla ence A. Skinner, Crete, “Triumphs’ of Sc ence.” Judges aroas follows: On thought and composition—J. J. Bon, 3 Lincoln David City. On Scott, Om: 5 I H, lie confest resulted as follos W. N. Cassel, Nebraska Oity. first; H. C. House, Crete, second; G. L. Noyee, Irvington, third: Helping Sweetwater Sufferers. A, Nob., June 24.—(Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—A meeting is being held tonight at the opera house to devise ways and meaus to relieve the Sweetwater ey clone suf- A large amount, of provisions have 't out by our merchants to relieve the porary w of the homeless. N ses of destitution are reported. Thomas, whose son sustained fatal injurics, is a_man advaneed in and has a large family to pport, be having i from " the orm. Ho is vs and declin- ing in health. Heis a member of the Grand v of the Republic, and the commander of el post has issued an appeal for aid nembe) of the order. Polic for eyelono insurance, were issued in Monday . Ravens Tw) Fires at Fairbury Famnory, Neb, June 24— [Special Tele- gram to Tk Bzr | —A fire broke out in the building oceupied by W. Denning as a musi store at 11:30 last night. The stock wi 1y ruined and the loss is fully cos inuurance, Five was discovered at 10 a. n large elevator owned by the the S, W. Bal tute and operated by Liddcll & Baile; department was® promptly on hand and made tosave the building, The engine and boiler part of the machinery were saved thousand bushels of grain wi $s on _the building is v from £2,500 to #1000, The fire h lLittle avail, In- supposed to have originated n the engine room, The Colorad Masons. 5oy, Neb., June Spacial Tele- gram to Tur Bee.]—The coloved Masons of Omuha were out in full force and regulia to- day a d succeeded in making a day of it at the Waterloo picnie grounds, despite the fact the thermomete tered from 100 to in tho ade, -making, boating fishing was the order of the day. Prof. som, in un able address, painted the blac s trials end tribulations down to the present day. The Omaha colored band fur- nished melody for BeATRICE, Neb,, June 24 | gram to Tur Bie]—The Gage county re- publican central committee met this after- noon aud fixed the d te for the republican county convention for Tues at 10 o'clock a. m, fn this ¢ s will be held the Saturday | It was d i to hold but one convention is year, at which timedelegates to the state ntion will bo nominated and the couuty sket put in the field. Proxies will not be admitted to the convent Fine Wheat VENANGO, Neb, June 24 am to Tue Bek]—A te A western Perkius today. Perkins is lead the state in wheat prospects and tod in settled bgyond a doubt that the heaviest op ever ralded fu thls section will be - ested, in vis- Caring for Young Johnsor Hurtixaioy, Neb., June 24.—[Special to Tue Ber.] —Dr. Martiu is in town under or- dors from Prof. Mullalieu of the state indus- trial school lnvestigating the matter of the bratal attack on John Johnson last weelk by Hines and son of thus place, and is doing all that can be done for the comfort of the boy. - No Hope tor Entombed Miners, Duxnag, Pa., June The the rescucrs had broken into the mine this morning was false. #rose from the fact that the broke through the heavy “gap’ into a small opening. The workmen uuder whose d tion the coal in this mine was mined says tho working party will probably get iuto the during the early morning hours. All of fiuding tho men alive have boen ubandoued, that reports Hill Farm The report cuing party | | | Fatal Explosion of a Cannon, Corvans, 8. C., June 24, —A premature ex- plosion of & cannon at & democratic meetin g todsy, resulted in the fatal injury to two | e and the serious wouuding of ‘auother, }lT CREATED SOME SURPRISE. Action of the House Coinage Committee Regarding the Silver Bill, SENATE AMENDMENTS NON-CONCURRED IN. The Previous Question to be Ordered and a Final Vote Taken at 2 O'clock This Afternoon —Miscellaneous, WasniNGToN Burkau Tie Ovana Bee, 513 FOURTEENTII STREET, Wasiisatoy, D, C., June 24. There was great surprise around the house at noon today when it was announced that the coinage committee had held a special meeting and agreed to report the silver bill with a recommendation of non-concurrence in the senate amendments and ask for a conference committee. This action was expected, but not sqQ soon. Chairman Conger told your correspondent yesterday that a meeting of the committee would not be held before the latter part of this week and a report could not be expected before next week. Late last night he was told by the committee on rules that it would be best, since there was a majority of the house from the republican side in the city and a number wanted to leave, to get his committee together this morning in special meeting and report the measure back for im- mediate consideration, This was done and the bill was taken up before 2 o'clock. After the adoption of a resolution providing that the previous question shall be called and a final vote taken at 2 o'clock tomorrow after- noon, the democrats knew they were in the minority, and, as they are not together on the subject of free coinage any more than the re- publicans, they made no effort to defeat the solution. As stated in these dispatches last night, thereis no doubt that a $£,500,000 or 4,500,000 ounce, with a full legal tender clause can be casily passed in the senate now. Senator Tell er, the leading free coinage ad- vocate in the upper branch of congress, said this afternoon that no resistance would be of- fored to a 4,500,000 ounce or 4,500,000 bill if it had a full legal tender clause, ;i This s, however, an_era_of congressional surprises and one cannot, always foretell the changes a night or day may make. SUBSTITUTE FOR THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE D) Those who have been preparing specches to be delivered in the house when the bills re- sultant from the original package decision should come up for action will now have to revise them, The judiciary committee of the house, which has been considering the Wil- son bill for the past_ten days, has agreed upon a substitute, which will upset much of the elaborate preparation which has been going on, In the modificd form it is made applicable not merely to liquor, as in the sen- ate bill, but to every article forming the sub- ject of nterstate commerce. This is a d cided advantage, as it relioves the measure of any objection'on the ground of being in- dious class legislation, and it is_equally ap- plicable to liquor or lumber, oleomargarine or oil, providing merely that when it has reached its termination of transportation and is held or_cxposed for sale in any state it shall be subject to the local laws. By a provision more lengthy than the rest of the act the con- stitutional - principle is afirmed that there shall be no mination in favor of the citi- zens or product of like character of the state where any given article is held or offered for sale and the reafirmance of the right of police regulation for the sake of the public health. The bill is skillfully and artfully drawn. Tt whe state's right doctrine in mat- of public health, 4 proposition that no would question. It leaves the opponents he measure but little ground to stand on, and that upon the theory that state legisla” tures, from one cause or another, might be induced to pass a measure under the guise of being for the public health when such was not the c: The difticulties of this position are two-fold: First, it assumes that mem- bers of state legislatures will be actuated by improper motives or will be false to their oaths, an assumption not tenable in law and which no member who wants to stand solid with his constituents can afford to put for- nd, second, the proviso in the act in to products of like character. Under this limitation the courts would undoubtedly hold as invalid the discriminations recently sought to' be placed on the statute books of several states against Chicago dressed “beef until it could be affirmatively shown that given shipments whose sule was sought to be objected to were 1 such condition as to be injurious to health, The vote in the committee showed that in this new form the bill is likely to encounter but little opposition, Mr. Adams alone having voted in opposition to the proposed substi- tute, FOR IMPROVING THE MISSOURI, The river and harbor bill, as reported from the senate committee on commerce, has this amendment: “Tmproving the N iri from its mouth to Sioux City inclusive, em- bracing oftice, clevical, traveling and expenses of the Missouri river commission, surveys, marks and guages, £000,000, to be expended by the secretary’ of war, in the systemat mouth up to mprovement of the river from its Sioux City inclusive, according andspecifications of the Mis- , that in the seretion of the commission such portion of id sum as they may deem proper shall be expended in the protection of harbors and loculities on any part of the rive hin said limits; improviug Missouri river between reat Falls amd Sioux City, 50,000, to be wded in the discretion of the and nhe is authorized to use of as may be necessary for the prov ing of two ice harbors, to be located by him,” ALLOTMENTS FOR STATE MILITIA, The president has approved the following allotments for the distribution of the 400,000 annually appropriated by congress for *arm- g and equipping the militia” the com- ing fiscal year: Nebraska, £4,608; Towa, $12, 214; South Dakota, 8,738, ' Tt is not likcly that the bill of Colonel Henderson of Towi, giving an increase of the annua tion for the militia, will get a hearl session. INTERSTATE COMMERCE QUESTIONS, The commerce committee of the house de- voted its entire session today to the consid ation of interstate commeree questions exceutive session, The bill by which it is made lawful to take evidence of Failroad before justices of the peace or other pr authorized s o offficers was discussed by the friends of the bill, as {t would save the expense and great incon- venience of the pr interstate comumerc ch the > com- st system by wl cominissioners & pelled to be present in person at every hear- ing, no matter how far distant from Washington, merely to take evidence which could be taken just as well before state authorities, while the opponents of the bill are adverse to a mingling of state ofticers in a federal tribunal. bill was discussed for over an hour. No final vote was reached, but the prospects are favorable, The bill providing that there shall be no i for carrying oil in barrels than ransporti ks was also carcfully discussed. practical would of ‘course be to 1 y the oil barrels tree of veached, but the outlook is u port. The committee will Lold similar meet ings until all its most important interstato commerce bills have been considered and re- ports received thereon, W A DEEP SHEME UNEARTHED, postofiice department has, through its I agents, just unearthed u nest of de- tion and fraud in the use of the muils to further the interests of the puve lard bill, which has attracted so much attention during the present scssion of congress. It has been | discoyered that the Juests made of furmers for petition to congress in favor of the Con bill came from an establishment run under the title of Fa and Fireside | & mes pamed Wedderbura, at [ | Grange Camp, V& The postoffice at Grange Camp was ostablished for the purpose of conducking the: campaign for the Conger lard bill fnthe irteeest of a Boston pork packing establishmbnt, and it was as taing by an investigation that the paper, Farm and Fireside, hud fdw if any legitimate subscribers, but was published in the inter- est of this bill to save motey in the way of postage by circulating & class of matter that should have paid 'a rate many times higher than was paid. The postofice devartment has not only stopped the circulation of the paper, but abolished the postoftice, which had Pt two patrans and wns at & point whoto there was not even a railroad station. BLATNE'S RECIPROCITY VAEWS ENDORSED. Both of the Nebraska senators look with favor upon Mr. Blalne's proposition to open commercial relations with our South and Central American neighbors and to begin the trade with sugar, not removing the duty without a corresponding equivalent. Scnator Paddock said today: I am with Mr. Blaine on the main proposition. I am in fayor of any plan which will extend our for- eign markets withoul assailing_our home in- dustries. I believe that Mr. Blaine's propo- sition to use the removal of the duty on the sugar for the purpose of securing concessions in South America, which will give Nebraska farmers u larger market for their crops, is wise and far seeing. In response to the cry for a free breakfast tdble we arbitrarily re- moved the duty from coffce when we might have securbd the samé result together with large concessions in tho way of the re- moval of duties from American products in Brazil. As a consequence Brazil put a corresponding export duty on our coffee and the cost to our people was mnot dimin- ished. While I belfevein the policy of pro- tection to home industries and believe that through the stimulation of manufacturers our farmers receive a larger home market for our roducts and at the same time are preserved Feor tharathous competition on the farms which the throwing into agriculture of thous- ands ot operatives now engaged in manu- facture would entuil, the proposition to re- ciprocate with countries like the South American countries, having no manufuctures, scems to me one which will commend_itselt to the people of the west. A scheme of cou- tiuental reciprociy on this basis would, I be- lieve, be a good one. In the future I look to see a large portion of our western products seelc the gulf by ruil and by river and if we an find a market from the gulf southward by water it will be & much better one for our western farmers than the one by rail and ocean by way of New: York to Liverpool.” Senator Maaderson says: “I havo ot given the matter any special thouwht, but I am favorable to it. 1 am a protectionist, but not a prohibitionist. Our western people believe iu protective, but not in prohihitory duties. We believe in revising the tari where we can safely. do so, for, after all,” continued the speaker, laughingly, “the tar- iff is a local issuc. Mr. Blaine's proposition is one that will no doubtjcommend itself to the people of the west. Our farmers want a market for their produed, our great rivers flow to the south and it is in that direction that we look for an outlet. We ought to do what we can to develop friendly and com- mereial rolations with onr southern neigh- s, and Mr. Blaine's suggestion, if acted upo, will doubtless benefit us greatly.” MISOELLANEOUS, Tn the senate today Mr. Allen of the state of Washington reported with favorable recommendation an amendment to the sundry 1 appropriution bill increasing the appro- priation from $200,000 t0$700,000 for making surveys of public lands in the states of Wash- ington, Montana and North and South Da- kota. Tt also contains & proviso that the com- missioner of the gentral land office may allow for the survey of lands heavily timbered, mountaiuous or cofered with dénse under- growth rates not excbeding $18 per linear and meander mile for sta@ardines, $15 for town- ship and 812 for section dines, The amounts set_aside for the new states is £00,000. The following members of the house com- mittee on bunking afid currency have been designated a sub cothinittee to tike charge of the international bunxing bill: Mr. Dorse, of Nebraska, Arnold of Rhode Island, Walker of Massachusetts, Dargan of South Carolina and Haynes of 'Ohio. Comptroller of Currency Lacy will meet the committeo tomorrow for consultation. Representative Dorsey has recommended the appointment of wembers of pension ex- amining board as follows: At Grand Island, B. Huwks, to take the place of Dr. A. d; at Chadron, Dr. O. B. Juckson, resigned. ill granting an extension of time to purchaserf of lands in the Omaha Indian ryation has gono to the president for his signature, Mr. Dorsey introduced this bill three times in the house und Mr. Manderson introduced it once or twice in the sonate. The temperature in Washington today was almost one hundred @egrees. There were very few sunstrokes, however. he superinteudent of thereruiting service will cause twenty-five recruits to be assigned to the Seventeenth infantry and forwarded under proper charge to such point or points in the department of the Platte us the com- manding general of the department shall des- ignate. Commissary Sergeant Simon Askins, now at Fort Niobrara, will be discharged from the vice of the United States., amucl B. Milton, editor of the Redficld (S, D.) Observer, who has been visiting his old home in this city for two weeks past, left today for Redfield, accompanied by his brother, John 1. Miiton, who will engage in journalism at the same place. The senate committee on financo has given the Nebraska senators to understand that thoy will accept, tho proposition of Senator Manderson and Paddockadmitting beet sugar hinery free of duty. The tariff bill us re- ported from the committee, does not make any provision of this character, but itis to be offered in the senate.as an amendment to the measure. The idea has ample precedent to support it and it is no small item to the Deet sugar manufacturers and will be hailed with delight by Nebraska farmers, Inquiry having beon made as to what has become of the measure requiring purchasers of lands in the Pawnee Indian reservation to tako out patents, Tus Bee correspondent was informed today that the measure became a law on April 22 last, Senator Pettigrew presented a lot of peti- tions in the s ate today from South Dakota in favor of the origal packuge amendment to the interstate commerce law and the adop- tion of the Conger frec lavd bill. onator Paddock, from the senate commit- tee on public lands, today reported with fa- vorablo recommendation’ the bill providing that any person who shall maliciously or negligently and carclessly set on fire or caus: to be fired any brush, undergrowth or prairie or any of tho publiolands of the United States, and any one who shall negligently pr maliciously pormit or syffer auy firo which hio may have lighted onjother lands to pass therefrom to public laed to the injury of trees, undergrowth ‘of praivie, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction fined not mgre than three tiwmes the value of the trees of other damage, or im onment for a term of not more than thre years, one-half the fine o go to the informer and the other half to the public school fund of the county in which the damage was done, This bill was recommented by the se of the interior and Land Commissioner and there is no doubt that it will be adop at this session of congress, Penny S, Heamin, He Roasted the Supreme ( Manisoy, Wis,, June 24, —[Sp gram to Tue Bee]—The roasting that President Bascom gaye the supreme court last night in his lectpre before the gradun of the law class, for its decision in the Edger- ton bible case, is likely to ereate a good deal of excitement in this case, Judge Cassidy, whow ailed, 15 on cheol and the ex-president of the lecturers v highly thought 3 to hold an against the ox-president and to show their esteem for the ju , Pa., June 24.—|Special to Tue Bee.]—The thermometer re 1 02 here today. It was the hottest of the present hot spell. As @ vesult, many of the steel mills were obliged to shut dowii until cold wave sets in. Muany work- NG, JUNE yet dead, but the physician in attendar thinks his chunces of recovery very slim. -~ $50,000 Fire at Salt Lake, Sarr Lake Ciry, Utah, June 24,—[Special | gram to Tue Bee)—The Sult Luke wery took fire this moruing. The malt | house 15 a total loss, Damages, §50,000, fully 25, 1890. 25, A FIEND IN WOMAN'S SHAPE. An Omaha Traveling Man Lured to His Death by a Femalo Outoast, ROBBERY THE MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME. J. B. Scott, Representing o WiscoRsin Lumber Company, the Victim of a Foul Plot—The Murderers Arrested. Orrawa, TIL, June 24.—[Special Telogram toTie Bre.]—One of the most diabolical mur- ders ever committed in La Salle county was perpetrated in Ottawa at o late hour last night. Tho discovery was mado at 6 o'clock this morning, when Mattio Brown, the ten- year-old son of the tenant at Allen park, was sent out to look for the cow. Some twenty yards from the house, in the midst of Allen park, the boy came upon tho lifeless, gory body of a well-dressed man. The lad shricked for assistance and’ the vo- lico were soon on the scene. The body was that of a stranger, but was soon recognized by people from the Clifton hotel as that of Dayid Moore, a traveling man from Omaha, Neb., employed by the J. B. Scott lumber company of Merrill, Wis. A terriblo gash, nearly two inches long, on the right temple, a broken jaw and five fear- ful gashes upon the back of the head told_the tale of murder most foul. Beside the dead man lay a coupling pin of the kind used by the Burlington railroad company. It was covered with blood and matted hair. The person of the murdered man showed that he had been struck from behind, as he iad_ evidently fallen baclward and hud no warning of his doom. ~Near him were found a woman's purse containing £2.05, and ncar this o woman's hat pin. The murdered man was minus watch, stud, collar button and cuff buttons. Ho had’ carried a fine wateh and his stud and_vollar button were first water diamonds, Nearly $150 pinned to the inside pocket of the blood had been overlooked by the murde Shortly after the discovery of the murder a woman wus seen at tho corner of Main and Laramic streets by Churles Bowerma: painter. She was busily engaged in t upa paper. When she had walked aw Bower: who had heard of 1y the murder, picked up the scraps of paper and ter, putting them together found that the had orrginally been the route map of murdered man, He notified States Attorney Blake of his find and the woman was_promptly arrested. Under severe pressure she confessed that she was with Moore but refused to say who her accomplices were, Moore had been about the ity all day yes- terday. Ho is known to haye visited a well Jnown resort on the west side yesterday a f- ternoon, © He was seen at about 10 o'clock last night making his way over the Illinois river bridge toward Allen park. When the above facts had béen communi- cated to the woman, and when sho was also informed 'that she was known to have faken dinner with Moore on Monday, she broke down utterly and made a confession. Sho said that ler name was Kate Weimar and that she was married to Charles Ford of Spring Valley about two weeks ago. She met Moore yesterday afternoon and he agreed 10 mect her at Allen parlcat 10 o'clock. She noted his dimmonds and told her husband, who had_been boarding with her at the St. Nicholas hotel, that she belicved the man had money and that they coutd work him. Her husband and a man named Barry, liv- ing on the north side, followed when she went to keep the appointment. They went around the south side of Allen park and got u conpling pin from the railroad track. Sheled Moore to a secluded spot near a house in th park and a nalf hour later succeeded in got- paper the ting him into a quarrel with her, This was the signal for the murderers. Moore and the woman, arguing in a low tone, had stepped some five paces apart, when one of tho womaw's aides— just which she refuses to say—stepped from behind o tree und dealt Moore a tervible blow on the back of the head. He stageered, and to complete the worlk the assassin dealt him a dozen additional blows, any one of which would have fetled anox. When the man was perfectly still they turned his pockets inside out and robbed him of his stud, collar button and watch. Both men wero immediately placed under arrest and lodged in the county jail. An abandoned female named Minnie * Winter- ling was arrested und placed in jail. She i suspeeted of having taken part in the affair as the cinpanion of Barry. The Ford woman implicates her in the plot. The mu der was one of the most foul ever committed in the county of La Salle. The police are Jooking for H, T. Baum,a travcling. man who was scen with Moore before the murder was committed. Ho left on an early train, but the states attorney does not attach much importance to his arrest other than for use as a witness, At the Murdered Man's Home. Fred W. Gray of tnis city received o telegram about 11 o'clock yester- day requesting him to inform the dead man’s family of the crime. Mr. Moore had resided in Omaha about twelve months, but previous to locating hero he had made frequent visits to th for several yoars. He was, us a consequence, well known among business men. He made the Millard hotel his headquarters and there the announcement that he had been killed oceasioned a shock to those who knew him. His family one son, reside at the corner of Thirty-second Cuming streets, Moore, the wife of the murdered man, cen ut the family residence, 813 North y-thivd street, last night. Sho said: I can’t imagine why any one should have mur- dered my husbund. He was the best man in the world and I cannot understand how it happened.” David Moore was born in New York fifty s ago and after growing to manhood ho mbarked in the lumber trade. Twelvc ago he sold out and engaged with the L. Scott lnmber company of Morrill, Wis at the time of his death was in the emp the company as salesman and geaeral agent, Last June Mr. Moore moved his family to this city, furnished s house in an eclezant manner und to every appearance he had u happy home. The wie is nearly ef and one thing that makes he greater is the fact thut just at the time she received the telegram announcing the death of her hushand sho was reading one of his let- tors, written in Ottawa, I, in which ho stated that ho had turned his face homeward and that trains could not carry him too rap- idly on his journey to his loved ones, Charles Moore, the only son, a young man of twenty years, dep: A for Ottawa last night to briug back with him the remains of his father, ~~ A Cowhoy Gots Crevesse, Wyo,, June 24,—| gram to Tue Bee])—A cowboy named Augustus Van Burkun was brought to this city on the Cheyenne & Northern today and taken to the county hospital for tre t for concussion of the brain. Van Bu another cowboy who i3 kiown us * Johuny,” got into & dispute while about & herd of cattle today und ¢ blows, In the encounter V 1 from his horse und condition, “Serapping Johnuy picked up in a started on a stock train to bimself up, but changed his mind about forty miles north of here and jumped from the train, The sherift csuit of him. is now in’pu Van Burkan is not ors werw prostrwled by tho heat, some fatally, | lsured, n and | Apping nding to Cheyenne | POLITI(S IN 10O Ex-Governor Shcrman Says the Re- publicans Will Hold Their Own, Citeaco, June M4,—|Spocial Telogram to Tk Bee,|—Ex-Goverr , herman of Iowa was in the city today or = return from a trip to Georgla., Speak the coming con- gressional elections, ho “Our deloga- tion in the next house of 2 sentatives will be greatly changed. The Z. qinal package decision und the question % {ver colnage are the main fssues upon \ = 1 the people will_select their next re, © utativ I think the republicans in Tow. 1 told their own in the fall olections, but will have to fight. Tho only members e nomina- ltinnslr(‘xm‘d as cortain are igressman ear in the First district, Jud, ays in the Second and Congressman Flick .ac Eighth, (‘nngn sman Kerr of the Fifth, Conger of the Seventh and Reed of the Ninth will not andidates for re-election. Colonel Hen- derson of the Third may be renominated, but he will have a warm fight in the general election. The democrats will nominate Judge Couch. In the Fourth district Colonel weeny, the present member, is having his claims for re-election disputed by ex-Gov. ernor Larrabee, and the natural result of such a contest would bo a heated fray. Tho warmest contest in the state will be in the eventh district over the successor of N onger. The candidates are Senator well of Dullas county, ex-Congressman Cum- mings of Madison and Mr, Hull of Polk. Colonel John Scott of Story county may enter the contest and would make a ‘good rac Congressman Shouble of the Tenth district has several opponents for the nomination and the fight promises to be very animated. The democrats are watching the mepublican fieht with great interest and will eagerly take ad- vantage of any opportunity to advince their own party inierests.” — DAKOTA AFFAIRS. Sioux Falls Opens the Trotting Circuit. Stovx Farts, 8. D, June 24.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee.)—There was a tre- mendous crowd of people at the opening of the interstate trotting circuit in this city. The result of the 2:40 trotting race with twelve entries wi Dick C first, Billy W second, Nettle third, Time {, 2131, 2182, An accident occurred in first heat of Interstate the this race, caused by the coliision of Billy W and Yankee Doodle, in which the sulky of Yankee Doodle was knocked into splinters. Both horses ran around the trotting course four or five times before the were stopped. The judges sent Yauke Doodle to the barn upon the claim of Billy W’s driver of a foul, In the 2:22 pacing six heats were necessary to settle the contest. Tangent was first, Black Heury second and St. John third: Dime—2:318¢, 2:20, 2:30, 2:81 and 2371 The races will continue for three days. Mitchell Matters. Murrenerr, S. D., June 24, —[Special Tele- gram to Tur Ber.]—The educational council of the state holds its first session here this ovening, continuing throuzh the day and evening of tomorrow. Addresses will be made by General Beadle of the Madison nor- mal school, President MeLouth of Brook- ings collegre, Prof. Hood of Aberdeen and others, The State Sabbath holding a session in the dressed by W. F. Crofts. A heavy wind storm prevailed here this afternoon, but did no dumage, School assoclation is ty and will be ad- They Used Him Kor a Sucker. Deapwoon, S. D., June 24.—[Special Tele- gram to Tur Buk]—Hugh F. Rogers was before United Statos Commissioner Washa Dbaugh this afternoon charged with passing a counterfeit dollar. Hoe was bound over, Rogers was uscd as a sucker by a gang of counterfeiters, all of whom | X himself. He passed the coin at Whitewood. The United States authorities arc Lunting down the balance of the gang. Four Per Cent Premitm, Despwoon, S. D., June 24.—[Special Tele- gram to Tur Bee.]—Mayor today sent away the $1,500 city bonds which were sold to Bowler & Merrill of Bangor, Me. Four per cent premium was realized on this deal, which is the best paying one ever sent out from the Black Hills, 1he aby.’ Deapwoon, S. D., June 23.—[Spectal Tel gram to Tur Bue.]—The Baby, which the only pyvitic smelter in the Black Hills, blew in yesterday with new machinery and all avound improvements under the super- vision of Dr. Carpente A Rich Strike. Deanwoon, 8. D., Jund gram to Tur ]—The that a rich strike has been made in tho Ir hill mine. Stock has jumped from 30 to cents in twenty-four hour: o el HE LOVED HIS OLD MOTHE [Speelal Tele- 2 is a rumor afloat n 2. A Murderer's Efforts to Keep Her in Ignorance of His Cri St. Louis, Mo., June 24.—[Sp gram to T Bre.]—B. M. Ch was acquitted of the murder of Fr: Bowman of Chicago, has just returned to his home at Ferguson, Mo, whero he was wel- comed buck by Lis mother, now n two years old. ne months ago Bowman attempted to en- ter Chambe 2 to make a le on the old lady’s prop Chambers met him at the door, ordered him to leave the place, and mistaking a movement n by Bowman’s hand, fired with his shotgun, killing the lat- nstantly. cial Tele- it was a hun- shot, and though _the body lay on the lawn for two hours, she wus ot aware that ahomicide had been committed. When he son tuken to Clayton he wrote letters, re mailed at New York, where it was pretended he was on busir N He was tried for his lifo, was aequitted has returned to his home, and his old motr is still in uttor ignoranck of the terrible tragedy of her son’s life. P B For the Inspection of Cattl WASHINGTON, June 24.—The senate com- mitteo on agriculture and forestry today in structed Chairman Paddock to report, favor ably (with amendments) the substitute pro d by him for Vest's bill to provide for > iuspection of cattle and beef products in- los tended for export, for an inspection at the cattle and_hogs; the carcasses of which o | subjects of interstate comuie previous 1 ughter, in all cases wh culture decms it ne mination of care The substituto proy place of killin; post asses intended to ther prepaved for consumption ata can bstablishment or elsewhicre may also be ordered by the secretary of ugriculture, In case of the discovery of any discased animal or carcass it shall be destroyed, also any product of such carcass found to be unfit for of the shed is only ubout four feet ubove the | roofs of ordinary freight cars and that all brakemen are’ compelled to stoop going through it. A verdict was rendered declar ing the Union Pacific culpably negligont Sloan is the seventh brakemun W be killed while passing under this shed, - War Department in Mourning. WasuiNgtoy, June 24—The flag on the war department was ot half mast today wcount of tho death of ex-Secretar | and the departinent will be closed on the ) of bis funeral, on human consumption. Struck by a Snow Shed., Lanae, Wyo, dune 24,—[Special e gram to Tue Bee.|—William Sloan, & Union Pacific brakeman, was instantly killed early this morning while passing under snow shed | No. 7, & few miles cast of here, The top of the shed struck his head, crushing iu the skull | "Pho edroner's inquest showed that the top | ILLINOIS ~ CENTRAL ~ STRIKE, Business Completely Paralyred by thi Going Out of Trainmen, AN OBNOXIOUS OFFICIAL THE .CAUSAl They Demand the Discharge of Suf perintendent Russell, Whom They Claim Has Constantly Pere secuted Them, Cnrcaqo, June 24.—The strike of froighl conductors, switchmen and brakemen on the 1llinois Central has Lecome a sexious one and threatens to blockado its entire business, The suburban trainmen struck this morning afteg the early trains had como in, and there are now about thirteen hundred men idle andl the business of the road is paralyzed. An order was issued by the strikers at & meeting held today extending the strike over the whole of the Illinois Central in Illinoisy Wisconsin and Towa. ‘The men insist on the dismissal of Superina tendent Russell, whose jurisdiction extends over the lines in Illinois, lows wud Wisconsin, They claim that he persecuted many of the men and have many grievances against Rim. The troubla culminated yestorday afternoon, when traind masters were discharged by him, as mens tioned in these dispatches last night. The men did not wish to be held responsible fo# mterfering with the United States mail on express matter and consequently attached mail and express cars to the engine of the New Orleans mail train today. The general superintendent, however, refused to start mg tewin until passenger coaches were attache and the strikers warned him that he detaine the mail and express at the company’s visk, General Manager Beck and General Sub perintendent Sullivan had a conference wit the strikers this afternoon. The men stete their determination not to return to world until Superintendent Russell was dismissedy The ol iclusion arrived at was that tha company would resist the men's demandy They now await overtures, and it is said thab unléss the men return to work tomorrow the company will proceed to hive new hands, 'y The tie up will cause serious trouble, not only locally, but throughout a large section of count both west and south, The suburban trafic of the road ~ is cnormous, the lurgest i the United States. Trains run in and out of the city few minutes from b o'clock in the moraing until midnight and are crowded. All these people, many of whom live bayond. the cable car limits, are now thrown upon their own resources for transportation. But it is not this that will trouble the coms mercial world. To stop freight trafic on th Tilinois Central means to prevent thousands of people in northern: Towa, southern 1linois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi wnd Louisis ana from getting products to market, The vds in this city are already filled with ight cars and the stulling of (rains now i ill jam every transfer track touche lie rond. Anro, Ills., June 24.—The strike on th Illinois Central has not extended this fap south, but only pissenger trains left today and perishable fruit trains have been sen north by the Big Fourrond, It is exnected that all the yard men will go-out here and a$ Mounds Junetion tomorrow. IR 1 388 'O OMAHA PEOPLE DROW, Ly Charles Fairfax and 1da Bruce Find a Watery Grave. Evgnonry, Neb,, June 2 [Special Tele gram to Tne Bee. | Fairfax and Ida Bruce of Omaha, who were attending the pienic of colored Masons at Waterloo today, were drowned by the upsetting of a boat in the Elkhorn last night. The recent vains had changed the usually tranquil Elchorn into & raging torrent, I8 had overflowed its banks until in many plices it is 4 quarter of a mile wide. Opposite the Waterloo picnie grounds & rope had been placed ucross the river to aid in operating the ferry, and above this the excursionists had been boating, when sude denly the boat containing Fairfax, Tda *Bruce and two other was sweph down the stream, and, striking the rope, upset. A number of boats were sent out_from the shore, but before they had reached the spod Fairfax and Miss Bruce sank, never 1o rise again. M, resided ad a porter on one of the B ors, und with his family ty-first and Nicholas strects, Miss Bruce was o graduate of the class of 00 of the Omaha high school, and stood yery high in the estimation of het' clissmates, She ded at @35 North Twenty-fifth strees, th her parents, and was twenty years of ag The river was dragged during the after- noon, butat 10 o'clock last night when the tinin left for Omahba, neither of the bodies had been recovered, - IR SARDONYX. THE STEAM Particulars of the Loss of That V Ofr Queen Charlotte Island. Vicrowia, B. C., June 24.—[Speciil Telos B sel gram to Ture Bee]—A letter has been ree ceived from Captain Smith of the mer lonyx alars of the loss of that vi rlotte island June 13, Captain Smith suys the steamer was pros at smooth sea when she strack a rocky shoal ne ceeding southward full speed with ¥ down on the chart, The vessel could not be gotten off and soon commenced to fill, Boats were launched and passengers and od to Skitgate hangs on - a n and the captain 5t the fiest high wind. The vessel 000, The rocks on which k were unknown to navls lieved to have been throwny up recently by voleanic action, - O'Connor Claims a Foul, . W, June 24, —0'Connor, the beaten by Stansbury yes= tested against the payment of stakes to the latter, O'Connor claims the s ground that Stansbury took his rock unaer the she will inc to piec ued at Oarsma Syoyey, N orsman, who v water a quarter of a mile from the sturt and a foul cnsued, The umpives deny there was a foul, - Union Cloakmakers Win, NEw Youk, June 24 ¢ Marks, of the Cloakmalkers' association, surrendered to the Cloalimalkers' union this morning, agreeing to employ none but union men and women horoalton | Six hundrod men aro employed by them, The striking cloakmakers are exe ultaut, = SRR Those Hebate Grievances, New Yokk, June 24—J. B, Greenhut of Peovia, 111, prosident of the Distillers’ and Catt cders’ association, hud a conforence toduy with the committeo of wholesalo liquop dealers of Philadelphia aind this city regards ing the rebate nces complaied of by the liquor dealer I'he result will bo pres sented at a mecting of liquor dealers tomory oW, " he Weather For o For Omuha aud vicinity—Fair weathesy For Nebraska, lowa and South Dakota—s Showers, prec by fair weather in Ney braskis and 1 jontinued high temperad ture; sout Brooklyn's Estimated tion. Niw Yok, June 24.—The sUpars timates the population of Brooklyu uy »