Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 19, 1890, Page 1

e THE OMAHA DAILY BEE TTWENTIETH YEA \ o DISASTROUS NEW YORK FIRE. The Big Westem Union Building Badly Damaged by the Flames, MIRACULOUS ESCAPES FROM DEATH. e Among the Employes, hut Ail of Them Safely Taken from the Lurning Struct by New Yong, July 18.—The Westemn telogvaph building caught fire this morning. The distribating fifth floor, the operating roc above, the Associated press Union room ou the m on the floor T00ms and res. taurant on the seventh floo destroyed B ere compiciely Seven lives were mirculousl§ saved, A few minutes before tors began ur fifty men an operating 7 o'clock the opera- to go to work. About & women vt room, A a puft of smoke undc in the distributing room below the operating room. time to investigate wooden table was in flanes and the fire spreading with Jightning rapidity. He rushed up staivs to notify the new arrivals that the building was on_fire. They were compelled 1o go throngh the distributi oom to gret down stairs, A paic was the result, The women screamed and the ushed pell mell down stal escape the flameos, ch in less minutes spread almost over the distributing room, burning up wires, instram cables as if so much tinder, Theentire room when the panie-stiicken crowd passed through it was filled with dense, stifling smoke. They fell over cach other in their wild efforts to reach a place of safeLy, As'soon as the smoke was notic Minager Tobin cried firc all the men in the room jumved for the hand grenades which hung about the walls. These they began to throw down the hole where the flames ‘were, The contents splished out glass brokeand the liquid sputtered fire. “That was all thie visible effects. The hand grenades could not fight afive like this. Tobin culled a mes. sengeer boy to go down and send in an alarm, As 5001 as the boy started down stairs th operator unrolled a big hose wheel which is kept at the south side of the floor always ready for an emergency of this kind. Tt unrolled the hose and Tobin wrned the wate on. 1t weas a pretty good strean aud it loolked at fist as i1 it would beat the way out of existence, but it did not-nota bit The ouly effect it seemed to bave was to make the fire shoot up higher, and it wus noticed that the sioke came tolling out of the big hole in creater volumes than before, These operators w tthe bose until the suioke becamie so thick that they could mot e where the fire . Three ladies of the day force who had arrived kept cool and the operators worked ke beaver The found, however, that their eflorts were less. The elevator man had brought clevator up to the fifth flo the women went into the ca some of the wen. They began to re by this time that the fire was a more s affair than at fiest thought. When the last few crowded into the last car they were just a little bit frightened. As th passed the floox below the holea wave of smoke passed over them which made their throas dry and parched, and as the car proceede dowa fio brands fell upon fhem and bumed their clothing. When the car reached the bottom they were all glad enough to getout. Not until then did these men realize that escape had almost been cut off, and it is noton rccord where worked s0 hani under such fearfal eir- hstar-ces and against such odis as did * these thirty men. By this time the flames had reached the piling of the distributing room and were eat- iug their way through to the operating room, where the instruments that connect with the wires that distribute news throughout the country were located. In less time than it talkes to tell this the entive floor was ablaze and the flumes were extending to the floor ubove, on wh the Western Union com- pany’s restaurant was located, Ou the restauraut floor there v men and three women, who, sccing escape cutoff from every quarter, became panic ~stricken, The young women were waiters in the restaurant and the men were cooks and choremen, The women rushed around the restaurant screaming and wringing their hands. Oune of the men, finding there was no possible means to escape do ard, rushed for the scuttle in the roo tenp door was pushed off and the pr climbedto the roof. The flames were shoot- ing out of the front windows and volumes of smoke puffed heavenward. From under the eaves of the great building the flames were shooting up and the uetire seemed crowned with five, When the great crowds on the streets saw themenand women vush out upon the roof of terror went up, for it did not seem possible that they could survive. In a few minutes after the fire started there were fourteen engines and hook and ladder com- hanies and @ water tower on the ground. Wat » was poured in through the flaning windows and beat down upen the roof, fulling o the ground in a perfect catavuct. All of the houses surrounding the building were much lower than the roof of the \West- ern Union and for those on top of it death seemed tain, A long ladder was rabsad to th »of of the building adjoining and placed aguinst the rear of the burning building. Tt did not reach within fifty feet of the voof of tho Western Union. Two fircmen, however scaled the ladder and theew a rpe t. the 1o which was caught and tied, The firemen then pulled tdem: selves up hand over hund until they reached the roof, and amid the chicers of the assem- bled thousands let the seven down to places of safety, Itwas accomplished just in time, for the flames immedistely burst up through and so01 enveloped the roof, The immense amount of water soon began $79 havea telling effect upon the fire, and fin ity the flames died away altogetfier. The entire upper part of the building wis gutted and every instrument and wirve rendered use- less, How the fire originated 1o one secmed to know, but it is surmised that two of the company's clectric light wires became crossed and set the flooring on fire Had the fire broken® out an hour later the 1oss of life might have been enormous. Fully seven hundred givls and men are employed in the great buildin, The floggs are tlooded with water to the depth of a foot or more and the destruction which was started-by the fire was absolutely completed by the water. When the day force wrvived shortly after 5 o'clock it was but too evident that'the use- fuluess of the great building was at an end for tho present, The ruin of the perating room rendered ever Western Union wire on Mauhattan 1sland uscless, 50 the associated opened head- quarters in Jersey City, every facility being afforded them by the oficials of the Pen nunia railroad company, and before the fi wis under control the various cireuits of the associated press were in active operation, No exact figures can yet be given as to the loss, but it will be heavy, The bullding is filled with offices on the five lower floors, which are oceupiod by some of the greatest railroad magnates in the world. The vast system of the Pacific railroads is operated through instructions given from the building and there are the private ofices of Jay Sidney Dillon, D& Norvin (Green who are famous throughont the country. The vice president of the Western Union isof the opinion that the loss of that com- pany will not much exceed $100,000. Heo also oliewes they will be uble to emplo nsider ablo force in the main hallways in o duy ortwo, Already new switchboards are ou the way fiom Philadelphia aud all that money and energy can doto quickly restore o service for the public will be done. The messenger a table the floor He scarcely had when the on the cause men to than two entire s and $00 use- the and with lize re four at 7 o'clock | hud reached the | boy saw | of flame | R. associated press wall use the executive room (on the fifth floor and such other rooms as | can be had in the neighborhood | e fire burned out the ship news cabl | andno dispatehes have been received (his morning from Fire Istand, Sandy Hook or lqu.\mnmu-v The police estimate of the loss on the building and fixtures is 225,000 | The Associated pross loses instriments, | typewriters, furniture and all its books, pa- | pers and records dating from 1845, and o val- uable reference librar ‘This loss is irrepar able. All the material for the histe | growth of the pross in | tained in letter books | destroyed and can never be r | placed e money value s estimatec t £15000. There is no insurance, Hon | William Henry Smith, g al manager, is a | eavy loser by the destruc of rare book and papars, niany of which cannot ve dupti cated By the fire the comm completely shut off from all telegpraphic con nections, . The cotly ffec and produce ex- clianges depend onthe Western Union com- pany to distribute their quotati ers” This caused a complet n of | the ticke service and brought business al most toa stanastill in the exchange. Inad- dition all connections side the city are cut off and the public, grain and cotton cables were also lost through the cutti off of wites, The suspension of telegraph facilities had & worse cffect than the blizzard of 188, America, con and files, i 1 S “inl exchan A Biz Liverpool Blaze. Loxnoy, July I8.—The Manchester canal company’s warchouse in Liverpool burned today. An enormous quantity of cotton, grain and Hour was consumed. Loss 500,000, rr. R EIGHIEEN YEAR A Convict at Cheste old Mu ANDALIY, T, duly 1S, wmisstoner J. Confesses to an der. Penitentiary Com- Brown, of this city, while on arecent visit: to the southern 111 peni tentiary, at Chester, came in possession of the following interesting fact There isa couvict in the Chester peniten- | tlary by the name of Davis, sentenced for ten years, from White county the cell-mate of one Charles Henderson, a former residont of this (Fayette) county, wnd well remembered by the people of Vandulia, Hende is now serving a ten years' sentence from Christian county for an inhuman crime. ome time ago he was taken sick in prison, and thinking Le was going to die sought to release his conscience by relat. ing to his cell mates the shocking details of a murder, most foul, committed in this county cighteen years ago, ind confessing that e and his brother were the murderers, The neis well remembered, the victim being Frank Little, a young farmer residing in the northiern part of this count, Little aud his two sisters lived together, and known to be among the very best peopleof the neighborhood. The night of the murder Little was seated at an organ playing and singing, accompanicd by his sisters, who stood by his side. A shot was fired through awindow, and Little fell to the floor dead. Inmediate steps wero taken by the people of the neighborhood and officers to hunt down the murder t little_or no clue conld be obtained, Years passed, and still nothing de- veloped which could possibly lead to the identification of the assassin, and us time fled the horrible event faded from the memories of our people. Now, the cirenmstances of the uddenly and unexpectedly revived under ar and surprismg conditions, and there yeta probability t the porpetrators may, afterall, be brousght to punishment for the erime of eighteen years ago. A barn of Camupbell Nave, an unele of the murdered man, living inthe same neighborhood, was burned @ short time after the murder, and Henderson also admits that he and his brother were guilty of this crime. His brotuer, ho says, is now in Maine. Charles Henderson has a uniformly record and is yerfectly cavable of erimeas le confesses to, He is now s second term in the penitenti first was for inplication in the theft of a car load of cattle from J. M. Parke of Vera, this county, which was brought to Van dalia and shipped to Chicago, His present sentence for ton ¥ is for a crime co mitted at Tayvlorville during the cal of 185, A big political rally in progress at that place, when Henderson, who was focated thercas a veter- inary surgeon, sncaked around I and poisoned thirty or fo the of- fects of which s able animals died. He was arrested for the deed, and in a few days confessed to i The conviet Davis, to whom the con was made, and who imparted the Warden Dowell, is a I<entuckian, an gent ma, and be the reputation the prison officiuls of being truthful, FOUGHT OVER A BARY, A Shooting Mateh on Account of Fan- i1y Troubles. DaLLAS. Tex,, July 18, —Excitement i the colebrated Payne baby case reached a mux imum this afternoon when Lester Payne shot down his bother , Will Estes, in the leading commne street this - city, Lester Pay Lizzie Estes were married here years ago, and th wentto Los Augeles, Cal. A few weeks ago Lester Payne ook his two-year-old baby to a suburb and informed his that it was probably drownedin a lake. This threw the wifeinto convulsions. The chief of police took the matter in hand andlearned that T ter Payuc's mother had been in the eity, The body was traced to 21 Paso in her possession, where she was arrested on the chavge of kid naping. Detectives started back with her and the baby, but at o Ford its father slipped on board of the train_and stole the child. A fow days or Payne’s father arrived from California, and after remaining in the city thee days | disuppeared. He was discovered with the baby in the Indian Territory and arrested The baby was brought back and turned over 10 its mother, who now b it. Tc Will I5stes, a brother of Mrs. Payne, struck L ter, whereupon the latter drew'a pistol and shot Estes in the side, inflieting an’ ugly but not fatal wound. He also shot John Kanady in the am accidentally, - ~ son oceurrence | bad ch a erving fession e intelli- among of L BRIN RUMORS. The British Admiral Has No Oxders to Send Ships North, Vicrowia, B. C, July 18, —Her mflesty's ship Warsprite the flagshiv of the North Pacific squadron,with Rear Admiral Latham rd, arrived heve yesterday afternoon. mival was interviewed in regard tothe suggested movement of warships to protect uadhan vessels in Behring sea. He stated emphatically that he had not yet received instructions to send any of the fleet to the north to protect British v Is from seizure by American cutters, or to retake any that might be seized in Behring sea. Had Eng- land any intontion of sending one of the fiect to Behring sea this year to prevent the se ure of schooners flying the British flag, i was prosumed that orders would have come loug ago. Now, if #e did go, it would be practically o lute plish the end aimed at. Ho certaiinly should muke o move inthe matter without anple instructions sq to do. B L cked Up for Eloping. Peons, WL, July 18.—Willilam Hale of Danville arrived in #his city today looking for his wife, a pretty little woman ouly eighteen yeass old. He found her at a pri vate boarding hovse in company with Mort Cunnon, with whom she ran away he re- fuses toreturn to Danville unless Cannon is released, us all have been locked up. -~ —— Sentenceld to Death. July 15.—Judge Bryant in the foleral cowt today sentenced nine men to death--Charles Reed, colored, for%rape of his step-daughter, and B, J. 1 B Chamberlain, O, J. Cook, Cyrus J. Frease, John Juckson, C, E. Cook, J. J. Ball and R. J. Bouk for complicity in the Cross murder case, Nlie Me Panis, Tex | | Rapid Progress Being Made in the Work by the Oensus Bureaw ¥ of the | Davis was | The | to | in the season to accom- | OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1800. —— NUMBER 31. THEGATHERING OF MORTGAGE STATISTICS. Reports from Superyisors Already Re- ceived Indicate ThatVery Little Dificulty Was Esperione d in That Particular, W ASHINGTOS BUsenaw Tie Ovina Brr, B FOURTEENTH STREET, | » WasiiNatoy, D, C., July 18, ) The progress of the cornt of the population | of the United States is being pushed mol vapidly than ever, and day after day the ca- | pacity of the counting division s increased, until now, with nighe forve on every ing, the division is enabled o tabulate the re- turns at ti 20,000 names a day, rate, if keptup, will secure the count of the toal population within the next three weeks, and proparvations are alveady being made for Le mtwoduction into cong tionment bill, Tn this tendent Porter stated todiy that he has re ceived from every supervisr in the country reports relative fo the question of mortguge statistios and he is gratified to | througlout the entive countey the enurmo tors expericnced very curing the information in (his line against which there was sueli a proest from financial newspapers for some time, cisms which have been heard from time, there is really no reason w partment slould not congratulate itself upor the result of the w &, which was done more promptly than ever known befol A NEBRASKA LAND DECISION, Assistant Secret teric » department todi missioucr was wrong in - dismissing the con- test of John C. Pike against the homestead entry of William S. Atkinson for the south querter of the northeast quarterand the south half of the northwest quarter of section 30, township 12, range 12 west, Grand Island, Neb., district. (It appeas that Atkinson made a homestead entry for this land March €, 1885, and in March, 8™ mes Hunter instituted u contest. Muarch 2 year Atkinson @ relinquished and gave it to one tormey. for Hunter. June 2, 1886, Pike filed a contest against the entry, alleging andonment and that the Hunter contest was _a collusion between Atkinson, Hunter and Hunter's attomey and was fo speculation. On July | Hunter withdrew his contest and it was dismissed. On the day for Pike’s hearing he appeaved with counsel, and Atkinson being in default, Roe appeared and moved a postponement’ until inal dis position of his Hoes) appeal from the re fusal to reinstate. Hunter's contest motion overruled and the case passed for On Februavy 21, 1857, Dan- el Sullivan filed the relinquishment of Atkinson and filed an application for a homestead for the land, subject to the rights of the contestant, Pike, March 2, 1887, the local oficers found in favor of Pike and al lowed thirty days’ preference right of entry, Sullivan’s ‘entry to be cancclled if Pike should make application to enter. Sullivan appealed and the land commissioner Decem- ber 4, 1885, held that there was no ground for awarding “preference right of entry” to Pike and dismissed his contest and allowed Sulli- van's entry to stand intact. Pike now appeals to the secretary and he deades that althongh Roe, as attorney for Hunter, bad expended some money for his client, yet he has not su ficlent interest to entitle him to app: he says, was evidently holding the relinquish: ment of Atkinson tor specalation. While it was true the contest of Pike awse of Atkinson's relinquishment, vet it is appavent that the filing of said relinquish- ment was the result of contest, and at th hearing evidence had been submitted which must have resulted in the cancellation of the entry, and the only opportunity Roe had obtaining money for relinguishment was tosell and fileit and procure the can- colling of the entry beforeit was ¢ 1led on the evidence submitted at the hearing, the cancellation thus being the vesultof Pike contest. The secretary decides that he mu; have preferenge vight of e try and Sullivan | entry must be cancelled, should Frike still as- sert his rights., TRANSPORTATION OF (OODS IN BOND. Senator Cullom’s resolution for an investi- gation of the transportation of goods in boud through Canadian tereitory destined to por in the United States was ot intended by author, as Senator Washburn said he feared wus the case, w0 be the initiative foran at- k upon the Canadian Pacific railroad, and he therefore willingly aceepted the latter's amendinent to include the Grand Trunk road in the investigation, But the alleged abuses of the revenue at which it s aimed have their i largely in the commeree carvied on by the Cuiadian Pacific road from the Pacific o § loosely conducted, Senator Cullom he believes thut an investig show it 10 be not only injurions to American lines of railroad, but detrimental to the customs nues of the country. A paragraph of the original resolution which was stricken out by the senate Scuator Cullom afterwards had adopted as a separate matter under it. The retary of the treasury is required 1o state whether or not, in his opiuion, the intere of the United States are being saciificed and those of Canadaadyanced under the pre ent system of placing United States custom louse ofticers at Canadlign posts in order that clevator and other business connceted w the shipment of grain muy be done on foreign soil instead of in the United States, wi is asserted it properly belongs, It is said this practice has grown up without authority of law and that if abandoned it would result in a censiderable increase of business at Amer- an ports on the Canadian frontier, INTERSTATE COMMERCE MATTERS, 1t is not probable that any legislution will be accomplished at this session of congress having for its purpose the amending of the interstate commerce act. Members of the senate committee in charge of all propositions affeeting this act are confining their attention 10 one of the several schemes suggested by Senator Vest as an outgrowth of the investi- gation by his special committee on the transportation of dressed meat _pro- duets. As introduced. by Senator Vest, it proposed to requie railroads to receive from shippers', palace or improved stock cars in which to transport live stock The comuittee, it is said, are not willing to make this requirement of the railroad con- panies, thereby compelling them to let their Investments in cars be idle, but will probably report a substitute forbidding companies who may conclude to vesuch cars from dis- criminating between shippers and their ac- ceptance of their cars. A MINERAL WATIER REPRESENTATIVE, M. A, M. Jones, president of the Bethseda mincral water company of Waukesha, whose appearance in Washington caused an unjusti- fiable flutter among T1linis politicians here, is | noton a political mission this time, His visit {s “strictly business.” Representing the min- cval water interests in the country, Mr, Jones today prosented arguments to Mossrs, Alli- son, Sherman and Jones of the senate finduce committee in support of his requesty that the duty on imported min- eval waters imposed by the MeKinley bill be restored tothe bill in the senate,” The finance committee put nineral waters on the free list, but an in by the duty on the bottle: bill imposes a duty of 50 dozert on quarts of effervescent wmineral waters and 25 cents a dozen on pints, Mr. Jones thinks this is about the right thing in ovder to protect American bottled fizz, but it is doubtful if he finds a majority of the sen- ate disposed to agree with him. It is almost time te the de title at- the Roe, The Mc conts a | | | | | mittee will recommend the adoption of the amendment he secks, THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE BILL. Cousideration of tie original package | l This ross of an appor- comection Superin- find that r- ttle difficuity in se- arious Now the whole outlook is for a very complete and sutisfactory census and in spite of the criti- Chandler of the in- deicded that the com- 7 of the same dental protection is af- | certain that the members of the finance com- | question was today v dn the house after o brief squabble over the fale by which it was brought up and on Monday next the vote | will be taki There are now three distinet propsitions befora the house—the Wilson the substitute repoted from the ju smumittee by which all articles which y be the subject of inturstate commerce areto be subjected t0 the same conditions and the Adams amendment, by which an or- il package is dofimed aid all sales nmde by inporters in any other form declared illegal. Which of theso may bo adopted o whether any of them Will be is now very problematical. Changes of copviction are continually going on and members who a fow days ago expressed themselvag v confi- dentially upon this subjectare now all at sea s to how they will vote, It has beon aday of surprises, - When the rule for the cousid- eration of the bill was reported at the cl®k's desk it was generally understood that the contost would develop a8 one between the aws embodied in the @mendment, reported om the judiciary committeo and the substi- tute reported by Mr. Adams, and so strong was this view that Judge Tuylor, chairman of | the committee, and Mr, Adums ‘were recog- bate, 1t <00 bec the committee me manifest, howove substitute would have fow friends as being 00 sweeping in ¢ | acter and partaking t00 much of « de | tion to the states by congress of powers, a thing which that Tho contest, therefore, promises to be one & most entirely between the Wilson bill and the Adams proposition. * Between these the divergence is great. The former proposes to make state regulations attach the moment the liguor enters the stite, and the latter al- lows itto come in and b a subject of one sale in a defined original package beforelocal law attaches, The debate was opened inabrief speecn by Judge Taylor, who outlined generally the scope of the proposed legislation, He was followed by Judge Culbertson of Texas, who made the arguments of the day, The latter took the ground that both the bill of the senate and that of #hie committee were vicious in that they trankcended the powers conferred on leongress By the constitution, and would be so held by the courts for the reason that they gave tothe states power to enact legislation touching subjects of inter- state comunerce, a right Which subsisted only in congress, and could nat be delegated, He could see no retiel from the existing situation save in another decision by the supreme court which shouid overrule the recent one, or else in a constitutional amend ment. The speech was a close legal argument, without attempt at orator effect, and during its delivery he was sue- rounded by all the ablest’ la rs in the house and enjoyed an.attention such as is seldom witnessed in that hull, Mr. Adams followed, and, while yielding a concurrence in many points with Judge Cul- berson, sought to find a remedy along the line of the decision of the dupreme court by defining and limiting the term ‘“original pickage” so that the decision should not be made a cloak under which to conduct in de- fiance of state enactments u direputable form of the traffic as has been attempted in various places. Mr. Reed of Towa followed in defense of the committee proposition and was subjected to a constant fire of questions on the point of delegated authority which bothered him not alittle. Judge Taylor soom came to his res- cue, insisting that the proposed legislation was not a delegation of power, but its exer- cise within certun boundaries oaly. his avgument was an extremely technical one and was appreciated cnly by the lawyers present. Mr. Morse then took gkand at the puzzle, reading a cavefully prepatal specch, during which many members retived to the lobby and cloak rooms to rest themselves from the close attention theyhad been giving. The M, ] Issu;_-!‘mm-u.s nmmsn,; bm-a\m{n et he evils of intemperance, out in 4 froe criticism of the sup) bfi?fiund pictured what a well vegulated'peommunity, uncursed by the rum sellers, should be, but_ offered no ald towards solving the pu: The second speech of the day in ils imyu anee and the bést oratorically was that 6f General Hender- son of Towa, who closed the day’s discussion, Aftera tribute to his stute and the supreme court, he declared the liue to be the recogn! tion of the absolute supramaey of the state in its police power within its borders and the like supremacy of the nhtion over interstate ommerce. The government might, if it aw fit, absolutely prohibit the importation of any articie, and so in like manner it could, without any delegation of power, ullow i state to forbid any importation of liquor by recognizing in an~ futerstate commerce pro- vision the police reguistins of a state, Such was the line of the first day’'s debate, The interest is not merely that of ‘the repre- sentatives from prohivitipn states or where local option has considersble sway, but it is shaved equally by the representatives fron states wherein license laws are in force unde which there is a considetble revenue to be derived from such licenses. If the decision of the supreme court is o stand unaltered these ave threatened with a deluge of shops selling oviginal packidges not subject to the license laws, to the manifest diminu- tion ofthe local revenues, and, it is urged by those who favor the Wilson bill, no even sub- ject to the Sunday laws or those forbidding the sale of liquors to minovs or on days of election ; in fact, rendered cxempt from all state or locul regulation whatever, Party lines are not drawn and many members on both sides realize that, Yote as they may, it is likely to cost them numbers of votes this fall and ave under their breath freely anathemat- i7ing the supreme court for baving involved them in the muddle, the escape * from which is anything but apparent, MISCELL 5 The promotion of R P. Brown of the Twenty-fourth infantry a remarkable in- stance of the slowness of advancements in military life under cerfain circumstances, This gentleman graduated from W Point twenty-four years azo, served for a number of years in the department of the Platte in a regiment that has phenomenally slow proin tion, and he has been almost to a day a qua of a century in working up to his cap- by ordinary stops. ator Paddock returned from a three dasy’ trip to New Yorle and Boston on Wednesday, the first and_only vacation he has taken since January, It wias his inten- tion to participate in the irrigation debat but he has been confined to his room ever since his return, owing to prostration from the heat. He oxpects to be able to resume his seat in the senate Moada Hon. John M, Thurston this morning in the city. ! ‘nator Pearce of North Dukota proposed n amendment to the triff bill today. By its tevius the president will 3 in the absence of further legislation by eongress authorized to impose the duties on SUgEE in force on June 80,1800, upon shipments ffom these countri which & yearafter the passage of the act have not entered into regiprocal treaties in regard to agricultural préducts of this coun- try with the United Stafes, and the presi deént will be authorized lo enter into negotia- tions with sugar-produting countries for such treaties, This am@mdwent if adopted will, he < practicallysecure the benefits aimed at in the Hale anjendment. It is un derstood that the adminibtration approves of the tenor of the proposedimendment Peury 5. He A Cleverly Arrak zed Esca Pirrsnvna, Tex., July 18, —Yesterany even- ing about 6 o'clock C. A Cox, who was con- vieted at the last teem ol the district court in forty-seven cases for dolating the local op tion law und assessed & penalty of 25 and twenty days im | fail in ecach caso, succecded in effecting his es cape from jail. 'The 'sheriff was awuy and the keys werd intrusted to johu to feed the prisoters at uoon. afternoon Cox was visited by a ¢ friends from the eoulitey named Noblin and Richardson. He was albwed to come out of the cage into the carr x:lur to eat a watermelon with them. While digaged in melon and talking wl\mlmm he managed to get the key to the oufide door from Good- John and immediatel the three in the coprid The three whom he [locked in seemed to take the matter yery amlly, as the; v alarm either then or 'Wter they had g out. They got out by »eaching through the wicket and unlocking ile door. A mumber of the citizens wereout of town, and Cox’s es- cape was not known for an hour after ho had gone. His escape ha# been the subject of much couames* that but 18, of Omaha speut In the bill, so-called, being the bill as it passed the | | nized as controlling the time during the de- | even- | H. Good- | uple of | cating the | Y darted out and locked | or, |CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS The House Tukes Up the Original Package Bill for Consideration, QUITE A LONG DEBATE ON THE MEASURE. The Senate Considers the § Appropria lon Bill and Reagan and Stewart Have a Lively Spat, Adry Civil WASHINGTON, July 16, —In the house tolay Mr. Cannon of Illinois, from the cornmittee on rules, submitted a resolution providing that the house shall immadiately proceed to con- sideration of the original package bill, the previous question to be considered as ovdered Monday, after the veading of the journal, and that the house shall consider the bankruptey | bill, the provious question to bo considered | asordered Wednesday, after the reading of the journal. The hous tion. After some debate the resolution was modi. fied sous to provide that the appropriation bill shall not interfere with the ¢ deration of the two bills, and the resolution was then adopted, The original package bill was then taken up. Mr. . B. Taylor said that never had such a blow baen given state rights as by ascertain ment that under the constitution citizens of a foreign state might, take into another state any property that was subject to sand there sell it without linbility of taxation or burden of taxation, While ‘he preferred the house substitute, he feared its adoption would en- danger the legislation, consequently he advo- cated the senate bill Mr. Culberson of Texas said that if Towa could prohibit the importation of intoxicating liquors it could exclude tobacco, and it could g0 furthe rantining the health and movals of it could protect its own products against those of other states, It would be better to amend the constitution than mangle it by these makeshifts, Mr. Adams of Tllinois did not believe the remedy for the original package saloon could be found in either of the proposed measures He argued in favor of the substitute, definin an oviginal package of intoxicating liquors i bottles as a case containing not less than dozen, and not in_bottles, as a cask contain: ing not less than five gallons. Mr. Reed of Towa, wl decision as a was overruled by the decision of the me court, spoke in favor of the proposed ion, He could not indulge in the hope expressed by Mr. Adams that on a rehearing of the question a different result would be ar rived at. Any lawyer who studied the dis. senting opinions of~ the court would see that every possible phase of the question had ~ been discussed thoroughly before the decision was aunounced. He was informed that a reheaving had been applied for and denied. If any relief was to begiven the people from wrong and evil to society growing out of the decision of the suprem court, it lies in the direction pointed out b, the pending bills, They delegated no pow toa state. They mercly exceeded the pow delegated to_congress to regulate commy among the stites. Mr, E. B. Taylor denied that the prop legislation delegated any power to the states, and opposed Mr. Adams’ substitute on the ground that it would turn every local option township and county in the United Stai into u liguor-seiling township aund county by uct of congress, Mr. Henderson of Towa said that no decis- ion rendered by the supreme court court had decided that a human u prope tue feelings of the country as the orizinal package decision, . No good citizen would fail to submit to the decision of the court. But he (Henderson) would not sit down with folded hands and wait until the supreme conrt made some other decision. While he was willing to recognize the decision as law, he was unwilling to sit still and submit to the operation of that decision if there was a lawful remedy, and he believed there was, Let the gentleman not forget that the sup- reme court in throwing this thunderbolt into the vepuolic did not send with it a cure. [t cried out to congress, **While we believe this to be our duty, we believe it your duty to remedy the evil.” The heople of the country, without regard to pavty or politics, people who bended the knee and uncovered their heads in the presence of God and their fellow men, ap- pealed to congress for its action, and, for one, he would not hesitate to act. Pending further debate the house took a recess, the evening session to ba for consid- eration of private pension bills, Nething was done at the evening session, Mr. Knloe i toa point of no quorum. decided to consider the resolu Senate. Wastivaroy, July 18.—The senate today the resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Alli- son making it in order, in consideration of ap- propriation bills, to move to limit the debate on amendments to five minutes for each sen- ator, was presented and laid on the table, sub- ject to call hereafter, Mr. Dawes, from the committee on Indian uffairs, to which was referred the president's message vetoing the bill to change the boundaries of the Uncompahgre Indian reser- vation, ceported it back without recommend: tion and at the same time reporting a new bill for the same purposc. The bill and the mes sage were placed on the calendar, Consideration of the sundry ewvil appro- priation vill was resumed and Mr. Reagan continued his avgument, bezun yesterday Mr. Reagan warmly defended Major Powell and in the course of his remarks i because Powell couldu't be 1 3 lators in public lands that war had been made upon him, ‘This led to alively spat with Mr, Stewart Mr. Allison said he desired to pat himself on record against any appropriation bein, madde in the divection of continuing the i wation sur He was fiemly convin that an immediate stop showd be put to that survey. The results of its continuance would be to ‘involve the government in enormous expenditures and entanglement. After further discussion by Messrs. Plumb, Cockrell, Teller and Stewart tne amendment was agreed to. The itoms of & 00 for an irrigation survey, £0,00) for engraving maps and #7,500 for office rent in- Washington were stricken out and the bill laid aside, Mr. Alli- son getting notice that he would ask the sen- ate to remain iu session tomorrow until it was completed A conference was ordered on the land grant forfeiture bill. Adiourned. e The Tioga Inquest, CHicaGo, July 18.—At the coroner® in the matter of the explosion on the Tioga toduy City Oil Inspector C; fied that he had several times found naphtha ou hoard vessels in this harbor, shipped by the Genesee ofl company of Buffalo, and had notified the consignees of the fact, but had received no ly. He had found three ship- ments of naphtha by the Genesee company 4 the Union steumship company during the ent month, They were simply mavked amond B, and witness said he had no doubt the Genesee company in Buffalo and its branch house here had knowledge of the lolation of the law reported. treasury department at Washington has taken cognizance of the case and ocdered the seizure of the Tioga's cargo of oil, - . Conflemations. Wasmixaroy, July 18,—The confirmed the following inquest steamer ain, testi nate today Jumes Russell tary of the navy sota and Oliver sistant se A. B. Nettleton of Minne- Spaulding of Michigan us. otaries of the troasury sou M. Somervillo of Alabama, Lewis Stack- | pole of Massachuseits and Ferdinand M | Shurtlift of Oregon gencral appraisers of merchandise, ) | Soley of Massachusetts to bo assistant secre- | Hender- | A. T GOSHER) He Will Probably Be Director General Citcaco, July 18 Bee, | ~There is no longe AT, Goshern, ox-dire, Philadelphia contennial the divector genoral of th exposition. The local divectors have thought of no one else, and the national conmission is dotermined npon My, Goshera Last night the divectors sent a telogram to the sub-committeo of the national commission, in session at Philadelphia, asking that body to appoint asub-committes to at once confer with a similar committee appointed by the diree tors, on the' selection of a director general, The local board wants a director g the ground here within three or four we if possible, and Gosbern is the man wanted. Mayor Cregior will in all probability voto | the Lake Front ordinances, After the action of the world's faie bowd of directors last, in refusing to accept the ordinance in its present form, and proposing cevtain amendiments there must happen one of two things: The council must either reconsider the ordinance or the mayor will veto it. Then when his honor refuses to accord his oficial sanction, | and at the same time communicates to the council the amendments which tne directors | desive, and indieates that theiv adoption would | secure his approval to the ordinance, what will the councit dot Some of the directors are afraid it will not o anything in particular. Their reasons for | thinking so are that the very provisions which | the directors want stricken out are the ones | which the aldermen put in with a whoop. There is a great feeling of uncertainty’ and vexation amond the divectors, eloggram to Tre * much doubt that w0 general of the exposition, will be world’s Columbian | bicago Union Stock Yards Deal Hag Boen Consummated, CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW WILL BE PRESIDENT. ¢ Ol Own Stice of t Roepresents e< Will Also a Big K23,000,000 Which the [ i | New Company. | s neral on | ClicGo, Tut Bei union July 18~ [Special Telogram ta The Bvening Post says the great stockyards deal has baen closed. The s ot #21,000,000 for their property lice of the 23,000,000 which, in stock and bonds, reviesent the now compan The Pennsylvania company and the Vandei- Lilt fnterosts have been harmonied. Mr, Depew will be the president of the new come pany, but J. N. MeCullongh will pilot the old company untit the old stockholders have realized their price, and then the control will be turned cver only upon cortain guarantees | which will place the Pennsylvania company on an equality with New York Coentral ine terests, The prospectus of the u being changed very radicaily in some particus Lo issued fomorrow. It sews forth the following directors for the ne company : Chaunceoy M, Depew, Now Yo John Quiney Adams, Boston; William vell, Camden: John Hoey, New Yor! Hugh C. B, Childers, late chancellor of the excheguer, London: Idward J. Phelps, Now York: Frederick H. Winstor, Chicage ram o | above directors will, it has been argiued burcau | Chaunc Depew president of the | company. This conc will, however tho prosent no divect of the stockyavds business, It itsel £ with séeuring and dividing the profits arising from the old company s busi “Phe following directors of the Union stocke vards and transit company will remain control of the actual business of the coneer | until the deal has closed by the final paym; of the stipulated prico: R R. Cabel, Nathiun- plished except by reimbursing some of the | iel Thayer, H. B. Stone, . V. McCnllough, lines which will be forced out of their share | Stuyvesant Fish, Jon Newell, J. N, Shers of the through business by the advance. | man and Marvin Hughitt. Of these divecs “This looks paradoxical until 1t is remem- | tors the present ofMeers will remain as fol- bered t the lines ending at the Mis- | lows: Nathaniel Thayer, president, und J. B, souri or only obtuin a shard Sherman general manager. Mre, Willinms the from west of will continue to be treasurer and Mr. Ashuy maintaining low local general superintendent from the river, A general advar in local - 15t of the river would assurcdly end in HIS FIANCE. a loss of uearly all through teatic” to the lines ending at the rive “There wis & very interosting pas: at arms between the Atenison and Rock Island, which shows how irreconcilable ave some of the differences. It is a matter of history that that the Rock Island unloaded its Chici Kansas & Nebraska stock und vonds to cit and counties west of the river at a price which is now very unsatisfuctory to the holders, and that it is being sued in nearly overy county through which it pusses west of the river fora veturn of the money paid it | exchange for the securit “The Rock Island during the me stantly favored a reduction in rates west the river, The Atchison finally read the viot act at the Rock Island, accasing it of want- ing to bear its securitics west of the viver so as to settlo on better teris with its sceurity holders, and threatened If the Rock Island reduced 1 cent on anything west of the river to reduce 3 conts on the sawme comno- dity east of the ri This 15 ouly one of the half dozen s o which things have been wound, “The committee, consisting of Chairman Walker, Presidents Mauvel of the and Cable of the Rock Island, vic dent Newman of the Northwestern and | General Manager Campbell of the Alton, | will meet tomorvow and try to unravel the suarl. None of the inembers have yot aban- doned hope of some kind of & compromise based on a division of traffie, and ali efforts at settlement will be on some kind of a di sion basi Toantime, no regard whatever is piid to taviff rates or tradic § Missouri. “A trafile manager said today that he not believe tarif rates had been se solitaty instance by a single line within the last month, The system of rebates is adinit- tedly ut a full swit.g, which accounts for the largely ir sed expenses compared with gross carnings, the taciff rates being eredited in gross caraings wnile the vebates ave charged in as expenses, old owner and a bi ) v company is | laes and will UNRAY J. Railroad Matters otic Assuming a Cha- Shape. Crucaco, July 18.—[Special Tue Bee.]—A local railway news says: “Asthe western W men begin to talk more freely about the meeting to ud vance cast-bound freights from the Missouri river, the feeling grows that it will be difi cult if not impossible to accomplish ox onthe explicit instract of the bankers wio control of the K 1 then the advanc cannot be accom u M new for mtrol will content ot | ns castern most roads. ROBRED O The sad Experience of a Farmer Living No v Macomb, 11 Macown, TiL, July 18, —Defrauded of his prop rty, robbed of his botrothed, and then turned out of doors by an ungrateful son, is the sad expericuce of J. B, Brall, a prominent German farmor living near here, Some timo ago Mr, Brall became involved in extensive lawsuits @nd to protect his property deeded a | farm to his son with the understanding that it was to be decded back to him when the suits in court were | disposed of. A month ago theold gontlen who is a widow went to Raoshville cured the ser nonsekec tion, They hal | the legal dificultios we the advent of the woman trouble bogan. The with her chavins, anl she favored the suit of the younzer man, This stateof affuirs cons tinued till the other day, wioen t and the housakeapar bacans man and wife, Y terday thoy drove him away from the place without money aud scarco a friend, ——— D THEIR EGRESS, a8 5000 of. On Brall home mo smitten SHE BARRE Delivery of Dayton, O., Prisoters Prcs nted b, Dayvrox, O, July 1 Prisoners in city work house attacked the guard this ¢ ing and, rendeving him powerless and sp less by choking bim, took away hi va and revolver. Willinm Johnson, Frank Wilson and Charles Jackson escaped, but Mres, Mar- tin, wife of the superintendent, barved the egress of the othe A trasty prisoner who give the alarin was attacked by some of his companions and almost. killed, —~—— National Capital Note WasniNgroy, July 18, —Senator Pierce day proposed an amendment to the tarift providing that after one year from the sage of the bill the president in his discretion muy direct that the dutics on sugar imposed under the laws now in force be relmposed a3 against any nation or countr ling to enter into adequate reciprocal relations with the United States regarding the agricultural pro- duets of this country, and the president is di- rected to persue such negotiations as may bo decmed necessary to sccure by treaty o otherwise unrestricted entry inio any such country of the agricultural products of the United States, A meeting of the repub) senate committee on priv was held today to conside tion bill. The committee refuse to say un, thing respeetfng the procecdings, Scaators members of the committeo understand that the committee will make very conside ble changes in the lodge bill and " reduce | length materially. The house committes on elections today de- cided two or more contested cases in favor of the republican stants. Thoey were the Florida case of Goodrich vs Builock, in favor | of Goodrich, and the West Virginia case of McGinnis vs Aldewson, in favor of MeGin -~ n Original Packaze Conspirne Poreka, Kan., July IS, —Judge Phillips’ decision granting an injunction to tawo orig 1 prosecution by the rens che to- hill Kreiger, the Heir Sum, Dies in an Almshous Minwavkee, Wis., July 18, —John Kol alias Krier, an old man of eighty-seven, died at the county hospital about six weeks ago, after having spent several years in the county almshouse, Some years ago he was picked up by Fred Netz, who took him to his home with the intention of providing for him. The kinduess opened the heart of the aged wan- derer, and he made a will naming Netz as sole heir. His possessions seemed imaginary although he insisted that something would suvely turn up as a roward for the hospitalit shown him. For some reason M 'tz later on found it necessa o have the old man leave his home, Kreiger's next home was the almshouse and he found # friend in the person of a saloon- keeper, to whom he dopated his wealth in will made not long ago. A few w s aft his death two men came to the ity to make ingui about the wheveabouts of John arned of the death of John ) was indenti with the man 1o for. It was then dis od that wlhio pretended 10 be i widower, had a family living in Chic , and that arelative had died leaving a fortune of about #30,000 to Krier which the family is about to claim, The interesting feature now is as to whether or ot the ecper is e titled to the fortune and v will hold good in the face testator, Krieger, is no heiv and could not dis o of the inheritence of Kreier, though Doth names upply to one and the same person - A Mule Causes a Traved) SAVANNAH, G, July 18.—At Gayton today R. G. Norton, jr., son of a physician of this city, shot and killed tu hrothers named Willie and John Bir Yesterd young Norton and Willie Bird traded mules Today Willie Bird, accompanied by his brother John, went to Norton's placa to_get him to trade back ton refused and John Bird, drawing a piswl, told Willie to break open the stable door and recover the mule. At this point young Norton the younyg Bird beys dead. John to a Lar, an members of tho szos and ciections the fodeal eleo ry i\ b its cont » ther his claiy of the fact that the package agents restrain unty ofieials has resulted in Mayuard, Hoplkins & Co.,, wholesale liquor dealers of Kansas City, instituting suit in the United States cireuit conrt agaiust County Attorncy Welch, Sheriff Witkeson, Police Conimissiois ers Bonebrake and MeCibe, Chiof of Polico Garduer and Editor Hudson “of the Topoia Daily Telegraph for £10,000 dax s couspivacy. | | ges, alle 5 e A B Statement Mireniin, 8. D, July 18.—[Spe gram to Tue Bae)—F. A, Leavity, didate for congress on the independent ticket, who addressed a small audience here last evening stated that he believed that the Englisn syndicate which bought up breweries in this county last year, before doing | made a deal with the United States suprome court whereby the original package décision was to be rendered. He made othor stites wents in the same vein, sl A Gold itar Thief Ing Cincaco, July 18.—A new indicts been found by the grand jury Ehret, ox-drivor for the United States Exe press company, chavged with the theft of a | #10,000 gold bar. Indictments have also been retirned against three other persons, and one of them, Ehret's brother, was wrested this afternoon, Cine shot siatic Chole - 50, in Atchison, Arciisoy, Kan., July 18.—|Special Tele- gram to Tur Bew]-Two physicians of reputable standing reported a genuine case of Asiatic cholera in Atcluson yesterday The victim died in_ less than twenty-four hours and was Mrs, W, R. Bishop, the wife of a well known citizon, It was sporadie, of | course, but the case developed all the symp toms of Asiatic cholera, nevertheless | has John nt it Vica-President Morton Robbed, Saratois, N. Y., July About noon k thieves entered the Bliss cottage here awany with $10,000 worth of diamonds and’ jewelry. ‘The cottage is ipied by Mortou, vice-president of the United States and bis partier, Bliss, and their wives. A voward b] 1,000 15 offcre for the vocov the jewels, 18, - - Another Royal Wedding in Sight, Viexya, July 18.—The Arch Duke Franz Perdinand, nephew of the emperor and heir | to the Austris-Hungarian throne by adoption, | since the death of Prince Rudolph, Is golug arvied in January, 1801, to” Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria, who is a granddaughtes of I'ranz Josef ccessful, | s, July Hou. John P, Buchanan,_president of the Farmers' alliance, was nominated for governor in the state rvatic convention today by acclamation | Taylor and Cattenon withdrew in the inte Guard., Pestu, July Special Cablegram Tur By been eived of hurmony. Buchanan is a favmer, but has | here that the Hungarian guard bas been fired | been w member of the legislature for three | upon by ou the Berviau side ol the L terws, | den to Danube persons