Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 13, 1890, Page 5

PR OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1890 =SIXTEEN PAGES. THE DEPENDENT PENSION LAW A Meastre Framed for the Benefit of Pension Claimaats. RULES FOR MAKING APPLICATIONS. It is Not Necessary to Employ an At- trney or a Pension Agent— Forms of the Application Blanks, Wasitixatox, July 10 il to Ber. | ’ension claimants r‘ expr 2 themsclves as being greatly ploased with the new dependent pension law. The provisions of the measure relating to lications, to- gether with the recent rules adopted ab the pension office, make it easy for claimants to complete their e e pensions without the employmentof agents, Indeed if any onc now enters into a contract with pension ugent wherehy hie or she agrecs to pay any sum whatsoever for procuying a pen- sion under the new law it will be on account of igns of the law or because he or simply wishes to make a gratuitous present to the agent. The republicans in the house in frami is law made it o special point to 50 simplify the process by which applications are made and testimony furnished that the mant himself or herself can deal directly with the pension ofiice as illy as an agentor attorney nd the claimant can pr curo the pension as speedily as possible wit out uny cost. And it should be added that Commissioner Raum has done everything he can to 1 the expenso of caimants and to get app! ons through at the earliest mo- ment. Inthe first race, the new law, which coy- ers nearly y original and a large majority of applicitions for increases, provides thut the fee of agents or attorncys “shallin no case be greater than 10, and ouly us shali e agreed upon heveunder between ‘the claimany and agent,” so that it is entirely optional with the cliimant whether a cont with an agent. It is further well to know that all contracts made under laws prior to this one, approved June 27 last, and which are for cases coming under this new law, arc null and void, and the ciaimant is in nowise under obligations to venew the agrecment contract ow contracts or blanks for the t is made will be presented to the claimants for re newal, but it is a matter of option with the can upply for blanks directly from the n ofice here, by addressing Green B commission this whetherit is desired 1o appl pension or increase of pension; also w 1t is for o dependent purents' pension o ision of @ child of a soldior, siilor or statiug original ther city, v an rine, anl the proper blank will be mailed premptly. Everythingseatout by the com missionor of pension under a frank, free, und itis not necessary to enclose postiyze stamp. The _blanics wh se state that the de L nsion Is to be execut a court scord or some officer thereof, having cus- tody oi it s The new law makes it much easier for applicants to prepare their papers, as the statements named in the blanks can be sworn to before any one authorized to ad- minister oaths and havin, . This in- cludes all notaries public, and in most states Justices of the peaco or other oflicer of same rank. his places an oficer in every comru- nity. Any applicant of ordinary intelligence can fillout the blank, and it “will cost but twenty-five cents to walk over toa notary or Justice and swear to the statement., Then mail it to the commissiouer of pensions, Washington, D. C, When the application is received here a fow days must necossarily _clapse before it is reached for the f When it is openoed and examined notice will be sent as to whether it is completo as toform wnd ovi- denco. I it Is complete application should bomade to the conmissionerto have it placed on the list of “completed files” for immedi- ate consideration, This application should set forth that the declaration or applic has been made indue form, stating the p service of the soldier and the fact. currence of his disability in and from the service; that that tho dis was incur by law as being necessury to entitle applicant toa pension; that the claimant has, with the authority of the pension bureau, had a regular medies examinationin respect to the disability de- scribed and ¢l .lilHL‘l‘ for in the de ration 3 that in the opinion of the claimant the cluim is fully made out and comy Claims. lum-l'xl on the “‘completed files ave taken up n their order and will be considered as soon where there is- no attorney as where s dozen are employed. They are taken up in their order, and never out of their order. Under theold laws the privilege was given an appheant to make a special contract with an attoruey and pay as much as$2%5 for acting in behall of o claim, but that special contract ion oftice if it was to be considerod legal. Under the new law tho limit in all cases coming under the new law is fixed at £10. Of course these special con- tracts for o larger fee moy now be made under the old laws for casos which will not bo considered under the new or dependent pension law, The following ave the required forms of declarations for dependent pensions under the various regulation DECLARATION FOI INVALID PENSION. Tobe oxeeatod before a court of rec ome oft- cor tioreo having eusudy of 1ts any one authorized to aduldister an oath and having aseal. Btate of County of ldent of L staty o ding to la + who was e R e {iioTe stirt, wont in will l, 1€ 1n the nuvy. | st ninocy feeoi 0B Junabio to i honorably di 1 18... Tl i by roason of .. 0 the diseaso or disabled. the i \rh i 80 S Tom whileh Mhat waid “disabiiiiea’ are "not du Babits, and aro to the best ot his knowledgo and be- lef permanent. That bo his. applied for pen- nder applieation N Thatho is a pen- Ne A tifiealo numhor uly neod bo I 1f not, give the number of the former appil- eation If ono was made.) ankos i betng placed on tho p or Lo provisions of the He horeby appoints . Bt it ot ALOTIICY 10 Prosecute his address 1s. ounty of . purp roll of the Unitad et of June 27, 1 (Gt Attest Sona and residing respectablo it and who, bolng by mo duly sworn, say thoy wore present and saw . the cllmant, sign his na r mark his mark) 10 the forexolng docla- ratlon; that they have every reason to belleve from the appoar { aatd clatimant and tholr acquaint- o WIth Il £Or......y0ars And......years rospee- that lio Ls the ido: resents BWOIN to and subacribed bofre mo (s of. L AD NS, and | hereby ¢ ontants Of the Above dulartion, ete, were fully made known and oxplalned 0 the appil- cant and withosses before swearing, tncluding the words . . « erased, and thos words - . ndded | and that | have no t or Indirect, in o prosecution {us.) (Omiclal character.) The act Of June 27, 15W, requires fh caseof a soldior: 1. An honorable discliarge (but tho certificate noed no bo iled unlos called for) 1 8orvico f nlnoty days. permanent physieal disabliity not due to habits. (It Doed ot have orlyinated in tha rafes undor the mct are graded from §5 to : proportioned (o the degre of inabllity t oarn Pport, and 4xo ot affected by the rank hold. . A peasloner under prior liwx may apply under his 0ne, or & pensioner under this ouo may Apply under Othor luws, butho cannot draw Wore than ono penslon fur the sme period. DECLARATION YOR DEPENDENT PATICER'S PENSION. o bo executed befors a Court of record oF some of- ficor thoreo having eustody of 5041 or wny onoe wu- thorized Lo adminlsier an vath and having s seal. Btatoof sand olght hundred rod before m r record in and o wged .y ears, resl- Tae | law, docl@res that he 18 the fathor enlisted wnder the name of. ay of is ote wtate rank. company, and tary service, or vessel, | rried to th At m nor of i) m nat e Iy n hiis oW pplieation beiny Inration for ¢ placed on the on rollof the t he provison of the At of June % Hohereby nppoints Atato 0f ..., his Ly cuto his ol i county of na lawful Lhis postoft Attest Alod of n we prosont To be excentod before a court « officer thereof having custody ed to administer o diny 1 ninoty the county and st i navy.] in'the war of the rebel i i the .. day of ¢ A8ixj ineurrod Lon ¥ “That sald =on Teft neither o wid sixteenyenrs of ngo sur e T osent e upport That she and That her p o' iier , county of 2. ‘That he ) That the i ) wifo or mino hor support Fthis act it of the apj DECLARATION Yon Y CHLDUEN ALIS OF A n court 0 dduinister a ) he nxecuted | 15 tho legn SeisinNn0 Jon' tho {1iere stata rank, company and mlLATy Service, OF yosso dl at e who was honorably Thut he left . 8 TOllOWS: oovoiiens the father was marr AR thero belng no le Thit 'the declarant hore stateof. . and this claim. That......postollice county 0f......, state o i ander th al barrier ¥ appol [ i Attost: The , 1690, requi ohild 1 the soldier served at le the war of tho rebellion and was hoi charged, Proof of soldier's donth [ca bean due to army servico), his aud proof of Lier death or dive T Just a Min hold a busket picnic_at Wal Senator Van Wyck will sp: County Clork O"Malley's damaged by lightning Friday Collector Atexander Isnoti of the government out. “The old postoftice is to be Mr, and Mrs. J. F. Halnsw ngost ehitd. n., today, dence on West Nic eastof Walnut Hill depot. Tho name of the Goos changed to *“The Jennings.” “Tho Grand Island local trai Pacific has been abandoned. cight willbe advanced on August | “Tlie passenger rates hotwer Missouri river pomts threate Whipple Sherman, the murder of Al and Doro stealing. The county commissioners yesterday afternoon just long journ until Puesday morning, Several cases of scariet fovy from Walnut fill and Orch: 0, Tequ Lros, wct) In the pension st ninoty days in th wid who was quitted of the charge of being implicated in of.. who on the Fotgment ' mili £ navy.) in'She war of the rebellion, who dled at.\", on the.. | from the effects of. ' ineurred it O A0 .. . A8Y OF iy M The saild aon Inft nelther widow, nor ehild under SIXL00N yoars of surviving. Thatdeclarant of . ey ' prose. addross 1§ wns sigiature) In the case of d, Infiiry oF dis- ould “have given soldter left no wife or minor chila s father 18 at present e ton his yor, or the eontelbution others ind £0r his 81 | jer this act commence from pplications (executed aiter | of the act) in the pension bur DECLARATION FORDEPENDENT MOTHRRS' PENSION. f 1 ot an rd or # al, or ath and having dent of county of statn of who, belng duly sworn, according to Jaw. that'she 1 the moth % , Who ¢ under the name of 1 at day of 18.., in iiere stnte ik, company and reximent, or vesscl eliiid i with ) : Jawful Wtoency o Uit nddress 13 te of injur: id gl r chila (e ribut Jmmenco fron Hentlon UNDER BIXTEEN record or any of outh and hayin, ulisted under the y of V18,0, i Tegiment. 1 1 Lo a1, if 1 soharged. ... 8 ow surviving b tho 8 years o 1185 o nae of .....t0 rto such marringe. UL ot aw ful ALLOFRGY 10 Drosecuto address 18......, U's Signuture. ] ros that in minor ast ninoty days in ably dis- nead not have ago 1o mother, nt OF tit iy S, E uso te, The Douglas county farmers' wliance will terloo, Tucsday. house was slightly ht. x the tenants ni site to pay reut ormove airad. rth mourn tho The funeral is from tho resi- olas street, half a block hotel has been uon the Union ates between Chicago and Omaha on Chicago and o go to pieces. rocently ao- nth Jones, has been arrested at Walton, charged with horse were in session enough to ad- or are roported rd Hill, The Pioneer Dramatic club and the Omaha central band will hold a p July 22, at Weeping Water, The real estato and loan agents of the eity are signing an agreement to ¢l of business on Saturday at 2 p months of July and August The Park Cou The Musical Union orch other grana sacred con at this afternoon. The orchest active practico, aud the future p: icnio Tuesday, loso their placds p. . during the ert, a will give an- Hanscom park ra las been in rammes will be rendered ina more acceptablo man- ner even than those which have delighted immense gatherings at the park for the past four Sunda; be rendered this afterno on, ginning at ) 0'clock, The following ; selections will , the concert be- Grand Processional March—The Silver Trampots A (Played for the great fostivai at St. Petors, Rox Overture—Rival (By request st T & DImo .o e uartetto— It 1s Go © Messrs, Lotz, Lito! Tattoo or Austrian R sription: 1, Appr ercunde, 3. The before the battl Burltone Solo—Down in the Overture—TPoct Tdyll=The Mill @) On the brook. Seleetion—Bohemian Girl Marehi—World's Expositio el ey The New Methodist A mass meeting of the frier ....Viviani the Councils ne.) Beyer dolssohn scher Suppe Kilenborg il L Balt Schieltarth Hospital. nds of the new Methodist hospital movement will be held in First M. E. church, Twentieth and Daven- vort stree rnett, D.D., L DD, pastor of Graco M. Shurch Extension Societyof the Methc dist tpiscopal church, and Rev, . , on Tuesday nightat 8 o'clock. L.D., secretary K. Young, clurch of B Philadelphin, will addross the meeting. ————— MARRIED. BRADLEY-SPENCER—At the bride's brother, Jul{ Br John Barrows, Atonzo D, the restlence of 0, 1890, by Dr. radley of Omaha and Lucretia M. Spencer of = Say brook, Conn, DIED, CARNABY —Jennnio, daugh Annie Carnaby, died at 5 terof James and 5 p. m. Funeral will take placo from family resi- dence, 803 North Eightceaith Sunday, July 13, 159. i e Dr. Birney cures hay fe street, at 3 p.m., vor. Boo bldg “THE PERFECTION OF REASON” A Definition That is fcarcely Applicable to Modern Law. | TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTION TENDENCY, Some Reflections andas It S| on the Law as It is uld Be—-A Ren- edy tuggested ror Exist- K ing ils, To the conscletions law learned from Blackstone “perfection of reason’ como before he has I | active practic tion: “Is law tion of reas This is student who first that law was the thero must certainly ng engaged in the of his profession, the ques- Ing any nearer tho porfec- been of roven and Ihope it willnot be thought sacriligious for a mem of the profession to inguire whether in the id march of human progress toward | civilization, the science of law 1s keep- abreast of the times To getat this question properly the pur- posc of this article shall be to show that the | manner and resultof handling the legal ques- | tious of the day is more uncertain and more | unsatisfactory than any other question of the age; even the science of medicine, and the | medical profession dealing with the uncertain- ties of life and with tho great problem of dissolution which we shall never thouroug) understand can tell us just as surely the sultof a cerlain disease upon a certain sys- as can a counsellor of law at the present advises his client what will be final of a court of law upou a matter on seekang advice, t purpose entering onthe profession an has been a vast in forms and pleadings in tk common luw and old English forms to thos of modern date, but [ do usk those fawmiliar with legal proceedings if it is not a fact t n umeaning crit- juries und attorn tious, motions, di s is consim -ussions and plead- ings, which have for their object not to make clear, plain and preciso the fucts in _issu but whose object, or at least whose effoct omplicate, muddloand hide the re Aud 80 often do the; object that I do not think it e: which suceeed in runuing the gauntlet of the | technical mill o distigured by their con- tact with logal rules of pleading, demurrers and replies that the plaintift bimself, much nian, would notknow that the issue cachéd Wwas onie on which ho gave the state- mont of facts and employed an attorney to maintain his right In case the issue is reached after a longand tedious effort on the part of counsel on both sides tosee if any motion to dismiss, quash, strike out, amend or substitute would entrap tho funcy of the court, the trial begins and the chances ave that the will be some ev dence admitted or excluded, some juror not qualified ornot conducting himself properly at the trial, or some instruction will be give orrofused by thecourt, All of these and a thousand objections and motions will bo in- terspersed along the trial road, and on these objections and excuses, no matier how slight and trivial, are hung the exeeptions on which will be based the grounds for a new trial. Thus, when a decision is reached, the question is uot settled if the defeated party has the money to keep the legal mill grinding, and the would-be vindicator of his vights, With a righteous: cause but an empty ket, is compelied to compromise on ac- count, of the law's delay and never ending un- cortainty What is the cause of this state of affairs, and how may it boremedied? One of the greaf causes of this condition Is the modern tend- cncy of thocourts to lay too much stress on technical points ra by attorneys during the progress of a_trial to evade the true merits of & case, if they, assisted by able counsel, can find some technical point on which to buse a decision. 0 expert have the judges, courts and law- yers become in this branch of work that it is Safe to say thatno body of men taken from theublest attorney's, judzes and senators could framo a law, of oven draw @ will affect- ing large financial wter s, that would stand the eru s and assaults that would bo made afl ity and constitution- ality. age decision and the decision declaring invalid the will of the late Samuel J. Tilden are cases in point. In the former the supreme court of the United States has in times past decided similar points with different results from this last de- cision, and yet from technical legal stand point tho décision is a correct ome. In Til- den’s will the point is much better illus- trated. Tilden was considered one of the ablest lawyers and jurists of this country. Aftera life spent in the study of the legality of different instruments, in the acquisition and distribution of property,in the es- sion of all the faculties of brain and mind which are not questioned, he executed his last will and testament, and in accordance, it may be pernaps, with 1ife long plans,directed what should be done with his property. The New l\'urt( courts have decided that his will is il- egal Did space permit columns of these techni- cal constructions and hair splitting decisions could be mentioned, Theresult of this technical construction tendency has been to educate attorneys to keep a sharp lookout for all the minor details of a case, for all places where the spivit of the lnw is earried out if not the exact letter and, if not on the best side of a case, keep the main .issue hidden as much as possible and trust to luck, a technical judge or an obsti- nat for a verdict. for this will have to emanate Led into these toechnical decisions by respect for able members of tho bar who raised the questions life has become @ burden to the judges on account ot the ob- ud from them must y. Letthe judges decide trivial questions instanter, give attorneys tounderstand that such trifing with the time and patience of the court is not to be tolerated, insist that plain issues shall bo supported by plain dence and the decision be in accordance with law and justice. Then and not till then will law be *‘the perfection of reuson.” Lrx, The Verdict Will Stand. The case of Charles Randall vs the B. & M. milroad was up in Judge Hopewell's t yesterday afternoon ona motion for a me three years ago young San- dall and his father were in a box car with a lond of houschold goods, in was wrecked near Lincoln, and in the wreck the lad received a broken leg, besides being bad- 1y scalded. He sued the ‘company for §15,000 damages, and at a subsequent trial was awarded §10,000. A motion was made for a I the opinion was rendered yesterday that the verdict was in accordance Wwith the law and the evidenc Marviage Licenses, reShiclds issued the following mar- licenses yosterday : Name and addross, Frank H. Jones, Omaha, 1 Carrie Kirkpatrick, Omala. Henry Grimm, Omaha. { Mary Beeckley, Omaha { Joseph Hart, Omaha Mary MeGulre, Omakis Jonn Faulkner, Omaha, Clara Crowley, Omahi. SHIR Stephen Dennison, Omaha. 08 Agnes Casoy, Omah Midy —_—— Charged With Issuing Counterfeits. E. Graham was crought in from Fre- mont last night and is now occupying quar- ters in the county jail, Gmham is charged with havingused the United States muails for the purpose of disposing of counterfeit money. The oficer who braught Graham to the city last night stutes that he (Graham) sent circulars out, informing his correspon- dents that he had a quautity of ‘‘grcen goods’ that would defy detection, and that the whole lot would be disposed of at a figure that would onable the buyer to double his woney inside of ten days. - — The Philosophical soc! day evening at 7:30 in room 205 Sheely ‘block. Allarefuvited. Wednesday and Thursday evenings the room is open to the publio. ¢ meets overy Sun- SOCIAL GOSSI The Week's Doings of the Omaha Society Folks, D. W. Van Cott and fumily have returned from the cast. Rev. W. O, Pe to Newport, R I Miss Mabel visit to St. Louis. Miss Alice Hitt and Miss left for Boston Thursday Ms. G, C. Whitlock, family, went to Chicago Mrs. ¥\ B. Br: Canandaigua, ard has returned from a aunie Arnold ccompanied by hor hursday morning. it and family have gone to . Y, tospend the summer, L. M. Bennctt and family loft for Elimira, N. Y., where they will cujoy a sumwmer vaca- tion, Miss Eva Spiglohas gone to Red Oak, Tn., | where she will remain several weeks visiting | friends. Milton Rogors joined the Omal family and J. C. Patterson and Henry Gibson loft rsdiy evening to be gone sev- weeks. Mr. and Mrs, Charles N. Dietz left riday for Portland, O a month's travel. City Engine from a two pl and other castern poin Misses Lillian and Ollie Saunders and Mira Hope of Mount Pleasaut, lu., are relatives in the city Mr. and Mrs. R, N. Withnelt, accompanied by their niece, Miss Minuie Leihon, * loft for California last wec bl M. Carter ha spend a month in onj of the centennial state, Miss Genie ller left on Friday for Kansas City, where sho will spend a few weeks as the guest of Mrs. A. B, Davenport. Misses Anna and Leydia McCague have re- turued to Om years of their course at Wellsley. iss Emma L. Stacey of New York is vis- ug her aunt, Mi Nincteenth and Emmett strect, Place. Tillson roturned Monday wsure trip to Boston s gone to Colorado to ¢ of tho pleasuros Kouutza and Mrs, Robert Hunter of left Wednesday for a fortuight's trf verand Salt Lake and the summer resorts in lorado. Mrs. S, E. Pratt and dau Thursd rvening for the Tur B wst, where they will and with old friends. Colonel and Mrs, H. Brownson and thoir daughter, Mrs. Paul Clenaounin, loft for the east lasy Monday and will first visit Swanton, V', until the first of August, when they will go o Old Orchard beuch | st o it qopehall 91 ™ Mrs, F. B Johnson and children, accom- el rounds . tho mnerita of the owses | Panied by Mrs. Byron Reed and Miss Jean- e Ehnciod: il the vomaining Chalf | €tto Johison loft on Monday for Boston to spend the summer on the coa ity The of September, Among the latest departures from the ci intending to summer at Manitou, Colo., are Mrs. W. F. Allen_and fawily, Mrs. C. W. Cleaveland and Miss Nellio Cleaveland, Mr. and Mrs. Arthar Rewington Mrs. J. 5. Preston. There v Friday evening at the home of Mrs. n that vicin- fol ‘Windheim on T'wenty-fourth and Izard. The bf Miss al given in hono from Bur on, 1a,, visiting f _Everybody had a splen” did time, and, despife the warmness of the night, dancing was indulged in up to alate hour.” Several musical numbers were ren- dered, which were highly appreciated. occasion w Ida Looknes The Business Colloge. The annual commencement of Rathbun’s business college will bo held at Boyd's opera house Wednesday evening, July 16, Admis- sion free. The graduates ave: Miss Celia Carlos, Florence Frost, erie Killin Mary Leonard, Lucille Leonard, Maggie nely, Jane Fulton, Mamie Leamiug, Berntsen, Kate Barnes, Kate Dempsy, Jussie McCoy, Bertie Green, Maud Green, Sarah Smith, I nah Goldstein, Nora Baker, Mrs, Nellie Pickett, Mrs, M. Berolzheimer, Miss Nannie Jones, Tim Kelley, J. H, Shober, Georgo Hemple, D. C, Deaver, J. Mansfield, Charles Kennedy, B. W. Sullivan, C. K. J. R, Livingston, C. 0O, Jubll, Poter lson, G. W. Huston, Samuel Grace, W. J. ett, O, H. Cowles, Richard Cross, J. Q. ‘Michael Cunningham, A, W. Hagan, ard, J. W. O'Day, Charles Dill* arles Willeox, William Carr, D. M., Faylor. OF ROIHACKER. worth, Nuugliton, Wallace A PORIRAIT Artist Mulvaney's Gift to the Omaha Press Club. A very flne oil painting of the late O. FL Rothacker is on exhibition in A. Hospe's show window at 1513 Douglas street. It was painted by John Mulvaney, the well known Chicago aitist, expressly for the Omaha Pressclub, Itis an excellent likeness and will shortly be hungon the walls of that or- ganization's rooms in Tur Bik building. On this picture Mr. Mulvaney has, as will bo plainly evident to every oné who looks at it, not only devoted a great deal of work, but his very best efforts. Being o warm personal friend and great admirer of Mr. Rothacker, ho doubtless felt o deeper intercst in the _result of his efforts than might otherwise be the case, -and Mr. Mulvaney can rest assured that the club appreciates very highly his splendid gift. Its members desire also to thank Mr. Hospo for his gencrous donation of a magnificent gilt frame, und they will always remember his kindne A more natural ture of the subjeet could not beproduced. As 10 its finish, the observer is at once struck with the per: feet hurmony and completeness of every do- tail. The hair, eyes, mouth, long gracefully cenrved mustache, and tho fatures generally show to the very best advantage, and ure true tothe mostminuteitem. Expert judges of oil paintings who have looked at the picture say that Mr. Mulvaney’s brush must have been inspired during the hours he labored on i Mr. Mulvancy was in the city a few days last week, After Dakota’s Tin Product. Secretary Nuson of the board of trado left last night for the Black Hills. At Hot Springs he will meet President Martin, and together they will journey through the southern Hills, investigating the tin question. Before his departure last night Mr. Nason said: *“We shall remain _in the Hills five days and shall visitall of the tinmines for the purpose of seeing what we can do in the way of making arraugements to have the productsof the mines brought to Omaba for reduction. shall also look into the _other mineral ind tries of the Hills and shall make a full report of our trip to the board of trade as soon as we retum to Omaha. “Wo havo cousidered this matter for many months and have now arrived at the con- clusion that the miferl products of South Dakota can be handled in Omaha as well as 10 hiave them sent abroad.” The Bradshaw Benefit Concert. A concert gotten up by Edward Diorzak and A. Ceyarre was given last night at Ger- maniahall cyelone sufferers. An excellent programme, Plattdeutscher verein, the Omaha Lioder- kranz, the Swiss singlng soc club, Omaha Mannerelior, lo quar- tette club and Turner quartette club took part, was highly enjoyed by a large audienc commitice. —_— Party in the Park. shalltown, Ia. Syndicate park. supifer was spread under the trees, which was thoroughly enjoyed. Miss Seppie Standish, Mi Marshalltow and Mrs. L. J.'Cushing and C. D, Thompson. Mr. €, H. Dewey's Condition® W. J. Kierstead telegraphs Tue Bee fron Battle Creek, Mich., that the condition of Mr, For two months Mr, Dowey has been vnable o retain any C. H. Dewey is unchanged. but liquid nouvishment. As a consequence heis very feeble and but little hope is enter: tained of his recovery, rson and family have goue contingent at Spirit Lake for and other coast points for visiting a after having finished two Hey brock, corner p to Den- hter Fannie le ft. spend a few weeks at the Lome of the former arty will be gone until the middlo and Mr. and is & merry gathering of young We for the bgnefit of Bradshaw's in which the Musical Union orchestra, the the Zither A comfortable sum was realized, which will at once be forwarded to the Bradshaw velief Mr. and M, . J. Cushing of Eighteenth and Doige gave a picuic party yesterday in honor of their guest, Miss Lullu” Calhoun of Mar- The day was lovely and the place ono of Omaha’s most beautiful resorts, After a stroll around the lake and a row upon its waters, a bountiful Those present were Lullu Calhoun of Ta, Miss Elia Calhoun, Mr, ] ) things that T could obtain which were fit to eat woere o fow crackers, We passed through town after town without sceing more than a dozen human beings in all, and they were negroes. The were all dead or had fled to the North. We ran into a shotgun quarentine at Milan, and Thada heap of trouble to got food and_my new passes. As yot that town had escaped tho feverand n quarantine had been established against ONLY ONE RETURNED ALIVE. Herolsm of Volunteer Telographers in a Yellow Fever Epidemio. HE COULD WORK THE THROTTLE, TOO. both the north and south, as the fever How a Brave Knight of the Key Ran | was then raging on both sidos, When [ an Engine Through a Shot-Gun stepped from tho train at Milan a fol- LIRS D low leveled his gun at mo and ordered Quarantine During an mo back into the ear, 1 got back quick Epidemic, went to the rear of the train and got on the opposite sid When the were not looking 1 dashed into the tele- graph office at_the dopot, presented my odentinls and received my There wis a country store on a 1it about a furlong from the depot, where I thought ors and cheeso might bo procured. No one was the road to the storeand I a run for The lives of the telegraph operators of afew years ago were full of thrilling | experiences, few of which have been told in print excepting in their craft publications, which the readers of daily newspapers neve ays o writer in Passes, 800, the New York Tribune, At the tele- |it. I had almost reached the stove when graph club the other night anumborof | I hearda shout, and turning, suw that “old time™ operators entertained each | the guards wero coming for me. I bhed a pape kors into it and threw dpwn mont. As the tw bag, jummed somo ed a plug of tobacco silver dollar in gunners were toiling up the hill in front of the store 1 went out of the back door and stood there until T heard them enter, Then [ made a dash for the hill and ran down it. T was back on the train again before my pur- other for hours with tales of their early adventures. One of them, as told by the operator himself, is of peculiar in- terest. The narrator was oneof the best known experts in the service of the Waestern Union telegraph company in 1878, when he was employed in the Phil- adelphia office. 1) He is modest, and even | suers vealized it, We waited until the at this date will not consent to the pub- St. Louis train came along, over another lication of his namne in connection with | road and then took the Lullman car upon the story, which, as he related it, is as ar of our train, - This ear had one ; i sl A R nger, Jed Thomas. Jed was a good follows: ellow, neclimated to the south, and I “Youall know how the yellow fever raged in the south in thosummer of 1878, and how tervibly fatal it wasamong the operators. The mails to the north rd 10 his advic ROPES AND GUNS, , Tenn,, the conductor told was i shotgunand vope <son, nine miles below owed much aftor STOPP At Modin s that the antine at J. qu w 1l quavantined, and the only com- | qy that the train would not be allowed munication between the two sections of | togo through. Wewere now in deep the country was by wire. When the | trouble. If we went south we would operators w to die there were grave | Surely bo quarantined in the woods above Jackson, and if wo stayed on the train at Medina we could got nothing to eat, Jed and I walked over to a cotton- win, and found that wo could get a bed and have supper and breakfast. Going back to the train we arranged with the conductor that ha was to run down to Jackson, sce how the situation was und voturn for us early inthe morning. But he failed to do so. At 9a. m., however, three negroes came down the track on a hand . We bargained with them to take us down to Jackson. Wa found the train side-tracked abouta mile and a half above the town, inthewoods. The fears t communication would be shut off altogether, leaving the south with- out means of indieating its neods to the generous north, Such an event would have been like lowe black curtain between two sections, leaving the south to struggle alone in darkness with the plague. The scourge was at its height in September, when the deaths in Mem- phis and New O 1§ ran up into the hundreds duily. Iivery day an oporator would die, and every ‘day "the wires be- came mor ywded with urgent appes foraid, Barly in September all north- | conductor had a fearful story for us. ern operators were informed that the | Both the engineer and the fireman had company would likea few volunteers to gosouth, No appeal was made by the company, but hints were thrown out that volunteors been attacked by the fever the night be- fore and had been laid on beds made of the cushions of the seats in the smoking were badly needed. car, The authorities at Juckson would “In response to these hints seven men | not allow the train to proceed and ropes formally offered their servi Two | had been stretched across the track. were operators in Pittshurg, two in Cin- | The mayor and a committee, the conduc- cinnati, two in Philadelphia and one in | tor told us, had visited the trin the Boston. The Pittsbuvg and Cincinnati [ night before, agreeing to send food and men were first called upon and we medicine to it but positively refusing to sent to Memphis. All four fell victims | allow it to pass either . No food or to the fe! and died within a week | medicine had come, there was mach ter reaching their destination. The | need of ico and fresh water, and the rest of the volunteers were badly scared. | trainmen were in astate of panie. Men At least, T know that Iw glad that I was the las The s, and I was armed with shotguns, the conductor suid, t on the list. were at the Jackson depot to preventany other Philadelphia man was | one from cutting the big ropes which ordered to New Orleans, and _went | hung from posts on either side of the on his way as far as St. Louis, | track. The sick men became delirious where he was arvested on a trumped up | and our situation was voally terrible, enarge by his mother and wassent to [ **All the morning I was busy medit jail to kéep him from carrying out his | ing on a seheme for our relief, and_fin dangerous mission. The sixth manwas | 1y I spoke of it in confidence to Jed, who then ordered from Boston. Hecame as | at fiest pronounced it impracticable, Tt far as New York, and at French's hotel | was, in short, that [ was to act as engi- the night he arrived he met some south- ern_people who told him some blood- curdling tales of the horrors of the neer and run the train through Jackson such a speed as to destroy the obstruc tions, when, of course, we need not fe plague.” A pistol was accidentally dis- | the = shotguns, Jod _shook his charged in his room that night, and the | head and said it was too dangerous; we his leg by the bul- impossiblo for him to travel further, General Superintendent John C. Hinchman telegraphed to me in Philadelphia asking if I was ready to roceed 1o New Orle Nobody ever e tempted I was to back out. The cold sweat absolutely dropped from my head as I considercd my reply. Finally I determined to go, lot, the result be as it might, and replied to Mr. Hinch- man that I would start the following flesh wound made in and, besides let rendered it TtoldJ might all be smashed up. how could I run the engine? that my uncle was the ms ofal iroad, that ho h d ter mechanic I 1 had me in his shops almost. from childhood, that 1 had fired an engine for six months, being compelled to give it up becauso I was not strong enough for the work, and of my expervience with all sorts of engines s then. Then he thought the scheme more feasible, We took the con- ductor into the plan, and he consentod night, Itooka train out into the coun- | to it on condition that I prove my ability try that night and bid my pavents | to handle the engine by running the goodb; The next morning, when my | train buck to Medina for more wood and father left me at the train, he said ho hoped but did not expect to see me again on carth, BIDDING HIS FAMILY FAREWELL. “Returning to Philadelphia I found awaiting me the passes made out in the name of the Boston man, which accord- ing to my instructions, would carry me as far as Milan, Tenn., where other passes in my own name would be Kand- el tome. A lot of my friends went to the station to see me off, but it was an extremely melancholy party, and the re- sult was that I did not start in the very best of spirits. Nothing unusual oc- curred until I reached Bowling Green Ky., which was then the northern limit of the fever line. But there was no one traveling toward the south., I 5 alone in the train south of Louisville, and when it reached Bowling Green, I was ordered off the train which was then put under the car sheds—abandoned. When 1L learned what had been done I hunted water, First, I said, I would walk down as near Jackson as possible to observe the number and cha of the ob- structions, Jed went with me, and we sot close enough to see that the two hn.wsux's over the track hung about twelve inches above the rails. This pleased me, for I saw that tho ropos would not get under tho wheels, but would slip up over the pilot of the en- gine and against the front end of the boiler, which naturally would graduall streteh the ropes and snap them or els break the posts to which the wre fast- ened. Besides the ropes there L big tar barrel between the rails ready to be set on fire ut nightfall, CRASIING THROUGII THE BARRIERS. “It was 5 o'clock that night when I had steam up ready to move. Jed helping mo five, and he worked at it like an old hand. Somehow 1 felt ferfectly foon the engine, and whenIran tho * ! > main track I was g 5, and iusisted that the trainschivduled | GUNA RN wo BV T Kibding to go south should proceed. It was not | & s entor, and by vntdl headquarters hod besn anpesled to | Lied:up swish wood andl wintdr, and by cutting in on the telegraphi wire at the thathe would send the trainout, and | ypandoned depot I loarncd ihat thero thenonly when he got peremptory or- 5 v { e no trains to fear to the southward, We ‘!‘,"“1‘.‘? ‘13'}"',%"" Driin a8 00K made | it il dark, and then started south, o o Vs o sty R | The sick men had cushions all around them to break any shock at the obstruc- tions at Jacksou, I ran slowly for a mile and then began slowly to in the speed of the train, Wé had no houd- light burning, and my idea was o go through Jackson so fust that nothing could stop us. Five miles from Jackson the woods are extremely thick, but the track is as straight as a plumb line, When we entered the level streteh I put had besides an engine, . combination baggage and smoking carand two ordin- ary day couches, I wasas hungry as a bear, but nothing could be bought at Bowling Green, and, although I had had nothing to eat since leavi Cincinnati the day before, there was little prospe that I would be able to sccure anything for another day, because, as the train men told me, no hotels or restaurants on - on all the stewm possible, gradually the way south wereopen. We_ started U e folting, south, therefore, with my mind in not a woods on either sido mnow very pleasant condition, and flew past like black screcns, while earnestly tor :dat all, gret having st from under “The day we left Bowling Green was | 33 { d (TP he day i ) g wheels. iles awa, atrociously hot, and I suffered intensely, | t2¢ driving wheels. hroo miles away A Y+ | we could sco the tar barrel burning b At fivst L opened the windows, but'a | §\c s BE E T BT el He brakoman told me how the fover germs | i@ RS 8 TR U wore would rushin if the windows were al- | Yt el sot and his the flames in the distance, 2 ! es were on lowed to remain open, and on the im- pulse of the moment I closed most of | "SI C0 a1 Hively now.? them. This brakeman wos o delightful | 1 oot dng oo, AR U R companion, Knowing that I was going | it M maflns wet by i minatos south, with b g chances of dying, he consoled the w ary hours of thé journey and we wero almost upon’ the obstruc tions befove I realized it. by telling me how many cases of fever | "W out. Tedo T eried had occurred among the refugees in | 1 feet against the boiler, 1 was consciods of secing flying forms in the darknoss ahead, of a sudden jur, of a sheetof flame and untold millions of sparks envelop- ing us, a pause, and then the train shot on into the darkness beyond the station as if fired from a cannon. We must have covered milos of rail before I thought to shut off the steam. As soon as I had done 50 T looked wround for Jed, whom I found with his arms on the fireman’s D. that very car in the last up t When he told me that a sick woman had died in the seat in which we were, 1 opened the windows once more, prefer- ring to take the chances of lotting germs outas at leust equal to those of lotting others in, The trainmen all took a hand at telling me horrible stories of the suf- fering from fever on the last up-trip, and when they saw that I would not be dis- rouraged, they confessod that they hid | gopt and his head on his arms. He had tried t frighten me wway from the ter- |y, thrown against an iron bolt, which rible country into which T was plunging. | padout his forihond sy R NOTHING BUT CRACKERS TO EAT | unconscious, but & cup of cold water from “The first town reached wo where | the tender, when thrown in his fuce, there was much suffuring was Paris, | revived him. He was not seriously hurt Tenn, As the train pulled into the | and was soon in jolly spirits. Stopping station, the only people there to meot it wore half a dozen cadaverous negros, 1 waus alnost famished and Lad to have food of some kind at once. The only the train, [ went back and found that all hands were uninjured. Then after light- ing the headlight we went on more leis- urely to the end of the section. The of- | whites | o hill y ficials were astonished to sco a youth witha high hat run the train in, bud ¢y made o great deal of it aftorward, h the 1-\w{1(i«\u that the stack was 'd atrifie the engino wag unhurt, GREAT MORTALITY AMONG or ATORS, Ihat was the most oxciting episodeof the journey south, but there were othors thrilling cnough to satisfy any onos | When the teain reached Holly Springsy Miss,, where the fever had been so terris ble that no one scemed to be alive in tha town, the moon was shining boautifully No other light was visible in the plac On one end of the platform of the depot was a huge pile of rendy-made cotting, the shadows of which foll upon & row of Howard association relief boxes, As tho train volled quictly in shril sereams were heard uttered by some ona behind the depot. Then a woman, evie dently young; but whose silver hair wae tossed by the wind, ran up to tho train shrieking wildly, An old man with lantern told us that the woraan had 1 crazod by the loss of her fathery mother, brothers, sisters and husband, all within aweek, It v this place thata young operator died at her ins strument just after sending an appeal for relief, Just soven days and nights afterleave ing Philadelphia I reached Now Orloans, It was late at night when I got there. No hotels were open and no street lamps wore lightod, Jed took me with him to a lodging houso house he kne The landlady and Jod talked alone nwhile, and the lady then camo to mo, saying there was no fover in hor house, and might sloep there safely. I was dis- turbed during the night by the sound of heavy feet overhead and in the halls,but on the whole slept fairly well. (n the morning, being in_good spivits, Jod told meo that four dead men were takon out during the night. 1 was told thut thera was no fever in the house so that [ might gota good night's rest. It was all vight unyway, hosaid, as every house in the city had had fever in it and so [ found when Ttried to get u boarding house, I remuined in New Orleans through the epidemic and escaped the fever, Out of twenty-one men in the telograph offico ninetéen had the fever and thivteen died. 1 was the only one of the volunteers who went south and came back alive Army Orders. A general court-martial is appointed to meet at Camp Pilot Butte, Wyo., at 10 o'clock o, m. on Monday, July 21, 1800, or as soon thercaftor as practicable, for tho trial of such persons as may be properly brought'bo. fore it. The following will comprise the de- tail of the court: Mujor John B. Par ix- teenth infantry i Licutenaut Jamies 1, Kerr, Seventeenth infantry: Second Lieuton= nt Charles H. Cochiran, Soventh infantry ; Second Lieutenant William Y. Stamper, Wl Licutenant cond ith ine 1l 3 Second Lie Wild, Seventeentl H 4 nant John L. Barbour ey, Judge adv o A greater numberof oficers than those namo cannot be assembled without manifest injury to the servico. On theadjournmoent of tha o Major Parke, Licutenants herand Wild will return pper stations, absence for twelve days fs eranted Captain_Georgo E. Bushuell, assistant surgeon, Camp Pilot Butts, Wyo. A Youthful Thicf. Bertie Moadows, the ten-year-old boy of Bettio was 0 wo, and having the owner of a speater from ong Next move was Lo go Georgo Meadows, is in cash boy at 8. I, Morse's s anitehing desire to becomo gold watch, he lifted a $10 of the showcases, Ilis juil to Tenth street, where ho offered to sell his h timep o jail e for $10. Whi wais scen by a polic e was doing this an und taken to e Stationary Engineers, At ameeting of the Omaha branch of tho National Association of Stationary Enginecrs an Friday night, Joe Bailoy was elected delo- gate and J. W. Mathews alternate to the na- tional convention of the order to be held iu New Yorl city on Scptember PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS, J. Sheckel of Tekamah is at the S . Hoover of St. Paul is at the Paxto IR. C. Brown of Philadelphin is at the Pax ton. B. Heninger of Waterloo Is at tho Casey. J. L. Peris of Dubuque is at the Mo chants. C. W. Hamilton of Toledo, O., isat tho Miliard. Judgo De Dr. Birney Join Roualdson of St. Louis is stopping a the Paxton. Sam Jesslen of Now York is registored at the Paxton, J. 1. Ja the Millard, S, ¥, Snith of Philadelphiais stopping at Millurd, R. ( mornin H. W. Adams of Chicago was at tho Pax- ton last . H. 8. Manning of Chicago Casey lnstuight. M. R. Thorpo Casey last night. 0 and A, S. Burrows of Schuylor oy, man of Columbus wts. 51ro0 of Chicago is tho guest of bson of New York isa guost at ham of St. Joo is at the Paxton was at tho f Nevraska City was at tho in the y 1 of the Fremont Signal was in Omaha yestorday. M. McS and H. M. Sullivan of Broken Bow ave at tho Millard. R. G. Davidson and J, 1L Peterson of Chi= »ave at the Merchants Drake, P amson and 0. R. Motz of Chicago are Dr. J. A. Webb, M. K. Wylio Maish of Baltimore are at the Me . E. Baldwin, Thomus Shaw A. Kield of Grand | pristered at the Millard, and H, At the X Miss Maggie Carroll and Miss Maggie Me- Carthy of Omaha. 1 eedham will leave next Tuese g0 und her old home in Michs she will spend the summer, Heafy, who has been in the city cral days, Iast night returned to Kansas where he s cmployed as an oxpress me ssenger, Mr, and Mo, W. Berresford, who have been in the city several weeks visiting thoir children, Mr. and Mra. C. W, Lyons, departed last night for their home in Chicago. T. Foley and nicco, Mrs, J. Mur- Springfield, 111, have returned home pleasant visit, with Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Gentleman of 1214 Sherman uyenue, Captain T, H. Russell, one of the original 74 pioneers of the Black Hills, hus been in s city for the lust fortnight. tiying to el cato our people in rd 10 tho vast sources of his country and demonstrating to them why this city should receive the entiva trade of the Black Hills, That he has suc cd isshown by the vast amount of con- s from our best houses for adyortising spaco in the spic 1mal e represents, the Deadwood Daily” Pioneer, amounting to over §1,500. Captain Kussoll' has been an en- thusiast for the last fifteen years in his cor- respondence and interviews with Tue Brs and othar leading journuls of the cast, prophesying that the Hills would ultimatel, pe the greatest mining country on the conti- nent. Ho has been on the frontior for the last thirty-one years, engaged in mining, staging, railroading and journalism, sud ha been a feader and an_occasional _coutributor to Tie Be for yoars, Ho leaves for hiy home in Deadwood this morning, BREVITIES, First Uni alist church services 10 :45 o m.at Goodrich hall, North Twenty-fourth streot, Rev, George H. Vibbert of Boston will preach. Sunday school at 12 m. The July number of the Medical and Surgi- cal Reeord is out1n @ new dress and presents afiuo iypographical appoavaico. [t s un Omaha ~ journal of fourteen pagos and cliamplons the uew school of homasopaths, |