Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 22, 1890, Page 1

TWEN THROUGH A BURNING BRIOGE, An Awful Wreck on the Wabash Road Near Conneil Bluffy, THREE OF THE CREW MET DEATH. i an ka Burke Might Have Been A from His Horrible Fate it They Had Cut O His Hand in Time, A wreck oceurred on the Wabash, St. Touis & Pacitic railroad near Council Bluffs about 8 o'clock yesterday morning, in which En- gineer Martin Eskridge, Firweman Joseph Burke and Brakeman R. G, Williamson were killed, On the Omaha & St. Louis railway, the Towa branch of the Wabash system, six miles southeast of Council Bluffs, there is a hu trestle where the road jumps across a wide chasm that a little creek has cut through the hills, The trestle is 300 feet long, and in its ceuter it is fifty feet above the bed of the little stream. Thetrestle is located on a steep grade and at the point of a sharp curve where the road abruptly leaves its eastern course and turns south, This point was the scene of TITE FEARFUL CALAMITY, in which th: men lost their lives and an entire train with the exception of the caboose anda few cars was destroyed, with eve element of horror that could invest such o atastrophe. Freight train No, 07, from St. Louis to Ccuncil Bluffs and Omaha, drawn by one of the company’s largest ten-wheel engines, No. 11, was running on its regular time, 1t had seventeen loaded cdrs and a caboose, in which three passengers were riding aslecp on the qushions, The crew u-n-h'l-(l of Conductor James Durbin, F er Martin |,\RI‘I\]L’|‘ Fireman Joseph Burke and Brakeman R, ( Williamson. The train was loaded with mer- chandise mostly from St. Louis. The third car from the engine huge tank contain- ing 6,000 gallons of cvude petroleurn designed for fuel, Two cars near it v filled with beer and others were filled with hard ware, dry gouds aud one with buggics ana car- riages. The curve commences at the eastern end of the bridge and is so sharp that a per- wding 100 yards cast of it and looking down the track can just seo the end of it. On each sidethereare high embankments covered with a heavy growth of timber. The grade commences nearly half a mile east of this bridge, but the sharpest decline is west of it. The practice withdown-coming train crews is to commence setting the brakes just be- fore they get to this bridge. "This prac- tice was followed yesterday morning, and Head Brakeman Williamson had left the en gine and was sefting the brakes and had reiched the second car when the enginge dashed around the curve and the engineer and fiveman were PARALYZED BY THE AWFUL SPECTACLE of a blazing trestle. The whole eastern half of the bridge was a mass of flames. The engin- «cer reversed his machine, set the air brakes on the engine, pulled the valve to the sana box wide open and turned on the whole head of steam. The wheels revolved backward with lightning speed, and the great mogul groaned under the desperate effort to stop. But the speed was searcely checked, and the inertia of the heavily laden cars drove the train on to a point 006 fect away, where the flames from the blazing bridge were burn- ing a great hole in the night. It leaved with scarcely a perceptible halt into the blazing chasm, and the worst accident that has ever urred in this vicinity had transpived, Only Conductor Durbin and the rear brakeman arc the living eye witnesses of the awful plunge. The brakeman had climbed upon the caboose to answer a double call for brakes and the conductor had fellowed, after setting the rear brake. They saw the engine rise apparently into the air as if it were malc ing a conscious effort to spring across the gulf of seething flame. It struck the embank- ment and turned off sharply to the right and disappeared, They saw the car nest to the engine turn crosswise and lodge against the side of the bank and the car upon which Brakeman Williamson was standing strike it in the middle, He was standing with his back to the engine, and they saw him HURLED HIGIIN THE ATR ond strike ahead of the wreck in the trees on the north side of the grade. The the cars one after another tumbled into the chasm, carrying down 100 feet more of the trestle Every car but the caboose and the threo ahead of it went down. The rear brakes stopped these, and the last one was pulled off the rails by the plunge of the one ahead be fore the couplinggave way. The three passen- gers were not aroused until the cars had stopped, and they stepped out with the con- ductor and brakeman, A fearful sight met their gaze. Piledinin- extricable confusion on the bottom and sides of the ravine were the wrecked cars ahead, Bright tougues of flame® were shooting up thraugh the mass in o thousand places and clouds of steam and avalanches of boiling water wero hissing from the wrecked engine, Above the shrick of the escaping steam they could hear eries for help. Hurriedly climbing down the grade they crossed over the creek and climbed around to the wreck, The monster tank of oil had lodged on the side of the bank and was stand. ing in the wreck one end elevated about forty-five degrees, It was lying on topof the wrecked car upon which the brakeman had been standing, and pinioned beneath it they found the fireman, £ HEHAD JUMPED FROM THE AT before the engine went down and had been caught by the mass that came after him, Ho was lying on his back parallel to the car and ls left band was caught by the main girder of the car which ad crushed it into the earth, He was apparently not hurt otherwise, and was makwg desperate efforts to pull his hand loose, The tank of oil towered above him and the lower end of it was already enveloped fn flames. The declivity was so steep that the men could scarcely maintain a foothold, but they worked nobly to rescue the iwpris- oned man, but at a great disadvantage. They had nothing to work with but sticks and pleces of the wreck, and their efforts were fruitless. The heat from the buvning tim- bers was becoming intense, and the impris- oned man who kept his senses and displayed the most remarkable cooluess, realized that the oniy means of saving bis life laid in cut- ting off the pinioned hand, **You will have to do it, boys; GET AN AXE AND OUT MY IAND OFF, and do it quick,” he said in a calm voice. “I'hat tank of oil will go in a few moments, nd we will all be killed. Get an axe quick.” “The idea was 50 repugnant to the men that could not be entertmned, and y continued their efforts to release him hout mutilation. Five minutes more were cupied in the attempt to pry his hand loose, but by this time the flames ten feet away N I { | ‘IF'J‘H YEAR, were blistering his flesh and burning his clothes, “Run and got for € ye an axe 1's sake,’" h 1 s sg shop “it's the on me,! The conductor and the rear brakeman who were at work, started a the time for the axe, but it was in th M fec away, and between them and the ear was the deep chasm, They had reached the bed of when the furnace which the rend of the gigautic oil tank was Lying had heated the wi point, and it exploded tion, and the b valanche oy san cabse ke in mass o the burning Lwitha terri ving oil was scattored in an v the wreek. They turned and saw their comrade enveloped and almost sub merged in it, and saw him WRITHING 1N 1018 TERMBLE Then the oil came down te they w It came @ deton AGONY the point where standing transfived with in torrents and the from it were rolling fifty feet hi They liad to flee for their lives, and only escaped engulfment by climbing upthe bankon the opposite side of the ravine, A second explosion quickly followed the first, and the great tank was vipped open like a paper bag, and allathe oil that remained in it was poured down upon the wreck and down the ravine in a blazing stream It one of the head cars among the merchan- dise were two cylinders filled with hydrogen gas liquified under pressure, They each held about one hundred gallons. In a fewminutes after the oil tank bursted they oxploded like bombshells, with an interval of a minute or two between them. They were in a car loaded witn machinery, and the broken cast- ings were thrown like fragments of shells in all gdirections, and the heavy stecl cylin- ders themselves were hurled a distance of 100 yards into the woods. These successive explosions deterred the workers for a moment, and when they got back to the opposite side of the bridgeby crossing above the heat was so intense that they could not approach near it. The steam and water from tho engine was still hissing out in all di- rections, and they could only stand in horror and wait helplessls "The crash, the successiv were heard more than a mi the farmers near by and they came to the scene and rendered all the help that could be rendered. In half an hour th> fire had begun to go down andthe steam in the engine had escaped, and it was possible to near the wreck. A search was then made for the victims who were known to be lost. The first one foand was the head brakeman, Williamson, He was lying fifty fect ahead of the engine near the foot of the grage. He had struck a young white oak tree, and the Llow had CRUSIED 1N THE BACK OF 118 SKULL. His left low the horror. flames h, ran »xplosions which , awakened s00n was @ knee. He w unconscious. A search was made for the engineer, but he could not be found, and the spot. where they had left the impris- oned fireman was a glowing mass of couls, Among the first to avrive was Dr. Trum- bull of Minneola, who was passing on the highway half a mile north of the bridge. He took charge of the wounded brakeman and did all that could be done to save him. He ed out on_the track, where he died rtly befored o' clock. Next to the lastcar that went over, two tramps were riding, and after the wreck they were given alantern by the conductor, and told to come to town and give the alarm. They veached the Wabash yards at +:30, and gave the first intelligence of the disaster that reached the city, As quickly possible a wrecking crew was gotten together and taken to the wreck. hey did all that could be done and then returned to Coun- 1 Bluffs, reaching there at 8 o'clock. bringing with them the body of Brakeman Williamson, and the the first news of the ac. cident that was generally civculated through- out the city Tue Bre reporter drove to the wreck in a age carly in the moming, but early as it was, hundreds of vehicles wero encountered headed for the same place. Ttwasa fearfal spectacle thot met his eyes, and one that words can not describe. Only one half of the higi bridge was left standing, and upon it were the caboose and a few cars that did not go over, Piles of glowing rods and irons were twisted in a mass around wheels and trucks. Forty feet from the west end of the bridge laid the engine on its back with its driver wheels pointing upward aud nearly covered with dirt. The trees on all sides were covered with mud und slime and their foliage wilted and seared by the hot water and steam. Limbs were broken and the bark was knocked off the trecs in scores of places by the MISSILES IURLED BY THE EXPLOSION, One hundred yards away laid tho wreck of the gas cylinders. One of them bore a bright silver plate on which was er A9 & S., St. Louis.” nthe trees and in the ground which th had been plowed when they struck we re picces of iron casting, ap parently the wreck machines, Some of 800 yards from the wreck, thrown with force enough to have killea whatever they hit in the shape of animal life. The eye-witnessesof the fearful sceno who were still on the ground w tioned and their graphic accounts "The body of Enginecr Bskridge was the w and its locatica could not be as- cortained. At tho point where the engine struck theve was an immense pile of dirt and it was believed tl the engineer was under it or beneath his engine, The earth was covered with a mass of red hot coals and there was no water near to quench them, and no other effort was made to find the body until late in the afternoon. Dr. Trumbull was seen. “I was driving home to Minneola,” said he, “and was on the road north about half a mile or less from the track. My attention was attracted by a light in the direction of the bridge. It was very faint, but at times it would blaze up and then die down, and T gathered the impression that somebody was feeding a little fire by throw- ing upon it small quantities of fuel. The tim- ber was so thick that I could only see the re- flection of the light upon thetopsof thetrees, Before I passed Iheard the approach of the train, and before I had gotten as faras the Floquet farm, where the road tuins to cross the track, Iheard the crash, 1 knew what bad happened - 8ad 1 got there as soon as [ could, but 1had to tie my horse in the road and run down the track a distance of nes half amile. I heard three explosions before I got in sight of the wreck, and when I got there it was a fearful sight.” Charles k living three-fourths of a mile v, was awake nursing a tooth ache, He heard tue erash and went to the door, When ke looked out THE WHOLY NEAVENS WERE FILLED WITH PLANME, Before he could dress and get half way to the bridge he heard the first explosion, and abont & minute after the second and third occurred, A. Sewing, another farmer, who lives near est the wreck, and about a quarter of a mile away, was awakened by the crash, and when he reached the door he could see a bright light in the direction of the bridge. He 150 1S log broken be- alive, t ca of a number of sewin the pieces vere found “They hiad all been @ ques- ned. Il in ck dressed hurriedly but before be could get | day, TOMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, SEPT MBER 22, 1800, near the place the explosion had occurred They were three distinct, and heavy detona tions that shook the earth, The itories of those men doubt that the bridee was on fire and had been burning a long tine before the train arrf How itcaught is not known, The only train that had passed prior to the doomed freight was an east vound local at 1 the evening, Whether coals were dropped from it at the end of the bridge and jinited the timbers ov whether the structure was set afire by design is at present un known, ‘Iheve was no grass near the bridge 10 buri and it is apparont from the surround. fngs that the fire was kindled at the west end tely bencath the ties. There is a suspicion that 1t was the work of an incendiary The body of Williamson step's undertaking rooms, at noon all that r lofythe fireman the halocaust, o few half incinerated bones and alittle of *no trunk, were gathered up and pliced in an old waste box and bre to the same plice, where they were both prepared tor burial Williamson lived at Stansbury, Mo., where hie has a family. Ho has been” on the road but a short time, and his comrades knew littl about him, Engineer Eskridge was the third | oldest man {u the service of the company, and_one of the best and most trusted engineers they had. He has a family who live at Stansbu ry Firoman Burio was comparatively a new man in the employ of the company. His liome was aiso in Stansbury, andit is thought hie was recently married The body of Engineer Eskridge was not, re covered until near o'clock last evening, There was little of it left but the skull anda few of the bones. 1t laid beneath the engine, showing that the old man had cling to his post to the last. When the wrecking crew attached their tackle to the e nd turned it over the engineer's pocketbook that hiad been forced into the earth was_ thrown up. Near by, and also buried in the carth, was found his watch. The body was found under what remairied of the tender. The burning oil had poured down and ignited the conl and all of it wus burned over the en- eor's body, destroying cverything but the skulland some of the larger bones. A special train bearing the son of the en- ginecr arrived from Stansberry shortly be- fore the body was found. ‘Thie wateh and money and all that remainedof his father was turned over to him and taken back to the Missouri home, It is cortiin that the engineer sacrificed Lis life to save others, He couid have jumped before the train struck the trestle, for the pointwhere he evidently saw the ' fire and where he reversed his engine and applied the sand is one hundred yards from the bridge. The point where the wheels began to revolve backward, grinding the _sanded track, can be scen, T'he conductor thinks they were going enty-five miles an hour when struck the bridge, and says if it had not Snfor the efforts of Eskr i d remaiping at his post, and the caboose with its ps uld haye gone down, and five more tims would have been added to the list. The body of Brakeman Williamson and thatof Fireman Burke were shipped last evening. The former was sent_to Macon, Mo., where he lived, instead of Stansber as fiist supposed. Thore were thirteen and the loss is now estimated at from £50,000 to 85,000 The bride was in cx- cellent¢ondition and had only been built about_two There wis no grass or weeds left growing near the ends, The com- pany employs only section men and has 1o regular track waikers, and there is but two men on the section General Manager F. M. Gault and Auditor 7. D. Bedson wero on the ground nearly all day directing the work. 1t will be a week before the bridge can berebuilt, under the most favorable circumstances. The running of trains, however, will not bo interfered with. The Burlinglon track will be used to Malvern, where it crosses the Wabash. The regular St. Louis passenger train left via this route last evening. Coroner Watterman will hold an inquest commencing at 10 o'clock this morning. leave no room to 1S was taken to in Council Bluffs, Vi cars destroyed, A CHICAGO RAILROAD HORROR. Five People Killed in a Collision on the llinois Central. Citicaco, Sept. 21,—A terrible railroad ac- cident occurred in the southwestern portion of the city shortly after dark this evening. A Chicago, Burlington & Quiney freight train dashed into an Illinois Central excursion train returning from outside the city. The collizion ended in a frightful tragedy. For a time the confusion was so great that even an approximate idea of the loss of life was im- possible to obtain, The first reports from the police had it that forty people hud probably met their death, while the railtoad ofiicials said that only ty or three persons were certainly known to have been killed, Within half an hour, how- ever, five mangled corpses hud been dragged out of the heap of broken timbers and twisted iron that marked the spot where the collision had talcen | By this time it had been ascertained thatat least thre people were seriously injured and six others slightly. Tie collision took place near Douglas park and the victims were Sunday exeursionists just reaching the city on their way home from an afternoon outing, The frefght train crew, when questioned, sserted that they passed Millard avenué under a cearsignal, Millard avenue is only ashort distance from where the smash up oceurred, and the freight erew claim thut when the «rash came the red lights on the rear of the Illinois Central_train were burning with extreme dimness, To this tho fearful result following was attributed with- out hesitation, Other peoplo state thatthe Burlington train wis benind time and running atareckless rate and that to this was duethe fact that the en- incer could not stop when he saw the Il nois Central lights, Tho latter train was “blocked” and waiting tobe released when run into. The dead are: LILLIE DIEN MARTHA DIENER, OTTOSCHLOERE, two men unknown, The fatally injured are: LN A RETSING, MiNNiE Prionisy, Enpie Tionre. In addition to these a dozen other were more or less seriously bruised anc of them had limbs fracturcd. The conductor and engineer of the have been arrested The Central T PHILADELTIIA, Sept. jeneral Master Workman Powderly left the city today be foro a reporter could see him regarding the confession of thr York Central tr wre i ter Workman Le L his absence Mr. Wright of the general ox- ard said that until the confessions were publisted the board believed the ac- cused men innocent, but since they confess that they took part in the wrecking the board will make a thorough _investigation and lend assistance to the authoritios to bring the guilly tojustice. Wright could mnot b liove that Master Workmnan Lee had ar knowledge of the uffair, ALmaxy, N, Y., Sepfs, 21.—As regards the published’confossious of Cain and Buett in roference to the attempts at wreeking on the ntral road, Master Workman Lee said to- night that he did not know Cain or Buett and denfed_everything connecting him with cither amding or abetting the alleged train wreckers, aged seventeen and peonte some train Caused by a Flagman's Carclessness. CoNyeLsviLne, Pa., Sept. 21,—-A fast | freight train on the Baltimore & Ohio ran into another freight near Lere today, de- molishing the engine and caboose. The enzine of the wrecked train went for as- sistanc 1while returning, through a flag- man’s cavelessness, was run into by a wreck- ing train near the scene of the first collisiol Engincer Shields was killed, Fireman Cuphem injured internally and Fireman Reynolds badly cut and scalled, - Death of Nevada's Governor, Camsoy, Nev., Sept. 21.—Charles ( Stevenson, governor of Nevada, died of t phoid fever at bis residence in this city to- STRUCK BY A FREIGHT CAR. Serious Accident o Thwe Young Ladies at & Railway Orossing. HEBRON BUSINESS BLOCKS BURNED. An Attempted Suicide at Lincoln— A Big Carrlage Factory for York-The Alleged Court House Steal, —— —[Spegial Tele- Ber,]=As three young ladies. Ella and Mary O'Keefe, all sisters, wereon thelt: way to church this evening, they were Struck by a freight car that was being switghel on the Missouri Pacific tracks crossing Tenth street, Julia and Mary were throws under the car, while Ella was flung clear @ver the tvack. Mary and Ella were only slightly brulsed, but a's right leg fell aeross the rail and was torribly crushed by the wheels of tho car She also suffered interal ihju The buggy was smashed into kindling wood. Julia was carried into the watchman's quarters, where it was foynd necessary to amputate the crushed limb. The young lady is still unconscions and the phy- Sicians cannot give any hopes of recovery The youngladies say that the watehman signalled to them 0 @ross tho track and they supposed it was_cloar. They all live with their brother Thomas in Helmont addition, The parents live in Grecley county, gram to Th named Julia, Disastrous Fire at Hebron. Hennoy, Neb., Sept. 21, burned an- other section of this ¢ity's business hous yesterday morning at 11:30 o'clock, five buildings having beén reduced to ashes and piles of debris. The destruction began in the middle of the block, in a frame building owned by J.W. Richards and occapied k Thomas Buuker with a stock of furniture. The flames spread rapidly, and in an hour and a half the four dwellings cast of the one where tho fire started were in ruins. The handsome Oddfellows block on the oppositeside of the strect on the east nar- rowly escaped destruction, while the Central house and a couple of stone buildings across the street north suffered more or less damage and were saved only by faithful work on tt part of citizens. The losers by the conflagra- tion are: J, W. Richards, building, #1500, insured; Thomas Bunker. stock, 2,800, in- sured £2,000; Charles . Schriver, law libra and ofice fixtures. $00, in- sured; J. E. and "EQ_ Sheaver, house- hold ' goods, ete, $130, no insurance Gottschalk Brothers, boots and shoes, £3,00 insured £1,500; Mrs. M. Correll, buildin amount unknown; Creviston & Scriver, mea rket, $2,000, partly insured:; Will Hillg building, §1,000, insured; C. C. Fletcher, building, &2,600, lll'!ul'ul(‘:.()ml; Hebron mer- cantile company, dry - goods and groceries, loss by vemoval of stock unkmnown;J. J Malowney, building, #2,00. Mrs. Glen, scamstress, who occupied rooms in Mrs. Correll's building, lost everything she possessed, und the Boston clothing house, Just west of the Richards bull«\lm., suffers a loss of $1,000 or more on stock. Had the flames in this buidding got under headway the entive block would have been cleare 'l:nlhul:rlnj You&gg, Knode CS.’s nm‘:v ‘h;lhvik uilding just bein of this stock was \mrnerl \c&‘kfl &%‘h half was pretty well obliterated )esmrdu) morning. The fire was of incendiary _origin, and it is said that the parties responsible are known, A Jilted Lover's Bluff. Lixcory. Neb, Sept. 21.—|Special Tele- gramto Tue Ber.)—About 10 o'clock this evening Mr. Linhoff and Mr, McMurty, both well known citizens, were startled on "T'welfth and J streets by a young man who flercely flourished a revolver and declared his inten- tion of committing suicide. The young fellow wis well dressed and had cvidently been calling on his best givl. From hintslet fall, it is believed that the young lady had jilted him, and this had made him desperate. One of the gentle- men sent for the police, and just as the patrol wagon came tearing around the corner the young fellow wus trying the revolver to see thatit worked all right, Itis said that as soon as the patrol came up the lover fled precipitately. The police are dumb as oysters in regard to his idemity, butit is hinted tnat he is highly connected. A Lively Time Looked For, Crar Cesten, Neb, — [Special Telegram to ‘Tuie: Ber)—The comingeveut of this week in Clay county is the mecting between Harlanand MeKKelghan at the har- vest home pienic in Logan procinct next Thursday, The farmers aro holding private caucuses all over the county and have resolved that McKeighan cannot carry tho republican farmer vote of Clay county. A number of leading democrats of the county are working hard to et up a big crowd to shout for McKeighan and backe him up. There will undoubtedly be alively time. A Big Carringe Factory for York. Yonk, Neb., Sept, 21.—[Special to Tup Brr.]—A proposition te establish an exten sive carviage factory in this eity in connee tion with the works of Mavshall Collings has been laid before the board of trade Tho York county €xaibit, which the second premium at+ the state fair, will be taken to the lliinois state fair. The county board appropriated @, sumof money o pay the expenses of transportation, captured Attemp Lixcory, Neb, i gram to Tur Ben.]—Nell Roberts; who runs a honse of ill-fame on M street, took mor- phine this evening withf sulcidal intent, Pre- viqusly a physician bag'given her some of tho drug, but sickness had jevidently made her desperate and she took enough more to kill he There are but slight hopes of Ler recoy- er; Republican Rally at Riverton. RivErToy, Neb.,, Sept. 21— (Special Telo- gramto ‘e Bee.|—The lndependent vally last evening turned out to be complete vie- tory for the republicang.~ Mr. Bucharar of Hastings, a staunch republican, being invited to speals, gayve MeKcighan such a record that nearly allthe voters pyescut decided to vote for Harlan, Speakers at Plattsmouth. Lixcory, Neb., Sopg 2L —[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.|—After the congressional convention at Plattsmolith on Tuesday even- ing, arvangements have been made for ad- dresses by J, L. Webster, L, D. Richurds, W. J. Counell and Colonel Tom Majors, The Madison O Minisox, Neb., Sept. 21 pecial o Tur Bee |—The Madison county x.m-, owing to rain, was continued over Saturday 'he dis- play ful d any previous fair and the races were superior o any previous fuir ever beld in this count; ity Fair, A Sad Rir Pawsre Crry, Neb, Sept, 21— [Special Tel- gram to Tie Bee.]-The infant daughter of J. N, Hassler, editor of the Republican. @' . this morniug with convalsions, The sympa- thy of the entite community is with Mr, and Mus, Hassler, ement. Corn in Poor Condiion, Lipexty, Neb., 21, ial to Tue Bee,|—Your correspondent recently had occasion 1o visit the northwestern part of Sp | Johnson county, western Pawnee, eistern | Gage and the northern part of Marshall | county, Kansas, and found the corn crop 10 | be ina very poor condition. It is, perthaps, | worse near tne state line than i theother ! partsvisited. The yield will not bomor | than cight or ten bushels to tho acre, while in western Pawnee and castem Gage the average will be al fifteen bushels aund | twenty bushels in _Johnson county. The r cent frost did considerablo damage to potaty vines, tor hay, ete,, but did notinjuare the corn toany groat extent, The scrcity | of hay has necessitated the cutting of agreat | deal of corn fodder and _fully 25 per cent of the corn has boen cut, The potato cop s | almost an entive failuce. wheat will | be sown this fall than in wvious year. A Unio Muisoy, Nob, any ton and Finance, (Specal o T Brx|—Tho teachers bankers of this place consolidated foi lnst week Reuben Payne, ussistant cashier of the Elk horn Valley bank of Tilden, wis warried Thursday evendsgst 5o'clock to Miss May Lewis, & well kunown teacher in this county The bride and groom leave this mornig for Lincold and from theuce onan extended tour east, They will be athome in Tilden, Neb, Octaber 1 Mol C. Garrett, assistantcashier with tho st National bank of this place, was mar- ried Wednesday evening to Miss Lizzo Mil ler of West Poiut. They will bo at homo September 20, Friends Remember Him, Osceory, Neb, Sept. 21,—[Special to Ber]—A number of the friends of Rev. . Johnson, D, D., planned a complete surpris on h'm Thursday night. While the doctor was attending prayer meeting at the church they took possession of the parsonage and when the doctor returned, Hon, E. T, King. in u very griceful speech, ented tho doctor with a very fine gold- Youded cane hased in Omiaha. Ou the head of the were the initils ¢ P, J mistake having having been made by the engraver, the doctor's initials being P. C. J. The speaker remarked that the letters were very significant at the present time, and they should remain and be a reminder to tho docior; that they signified *“Can't persecuto Johnson.” Dr. Johuson has madea host of fiiends here in_his two yeas' pastorate and the good wishes and “prayers of s friends will follow him to hisnew field of labor at Friend, Neb, socially A Fine Race Course for Hastings HustiNas, Nob, Sept. 21— Spacial to Tur Buer|—The mile race course, and club house, to beerected by Prank Taglor, is an assurel fact, It will besimilar totheoe at Tnde pendence,Ta. A 160 acre tract one mile and @ half north of the city is now being surveyel by engineers for that purpose. Mr. Taylor informs your correspondent thit ho expects to have every thing in readiness for the Juno races. He has unlimited weans, and will make thegrounds and buildings a creditto the state. The enterpriso will involve a ox penditure of £25,000 or 30,000, Chief of Police Wanzer and fore ha been keptbusy the past. week, watching sus- pieions characters. Sineo tho electric 1ight has been dispensed with, and the city is i durkness, the city of Iistings hasboen o targev for suspicious individuals. Fovtu- nately no_robberies have been commitied thus far. Thecitizens and the press of this cityare still vigorously kicking for electric liglt. >ws 2t Wahoo. Wanoo, Neb, Sept. 21. al to Tie Bre|—The opera house difiiculty has been aajusted and work isnow being pushed as rapidly as possible, and tho building will be enclosed within two weeks, The walls for thothird story are almost completed and when finished Waloo will have an opera house that will seat $00 people. It will be elegantly finished and equipped and as god an opera houseas can be foundin @ town of twice thesize of Wahoo. The contract for the building of hall has been let to J. S. Crawford of Watoo and the contract pr s 85,97, The ity hall bouds have just been sold to N.. W. Har- ris & Co. Theamount of the bonds is $10,00 and were sold for $10,183 and acerued inter- est. Asthe rate of interest the bouds bore was only 6 percent it shows the excellent financial standing of the city. Workwill bo began on the ity hall in a few days and the building will be enclosed before cold weathe sets in, Wahoo's public schools are in good running order. The enrollment the first day van up to’6, which is fifty more than the enwll- ment forthe same time last year, anotner evidenceof the growth and prosperity of Wahoo. Theschools areunder the manuge- ment of Supermtendent T, L. Bradbury and anable corps of twelve teachers. The facili- tics of the schools have been increased this year by the building of a _two-story, four Yoom Brick bullding costing 3,000, Polities are getting warmedup in this part of the field. The independents have their ticket in the fleld and the republican conven- tion will be hield October 2, and the demo- enitic will beheld October 3. In the ruean- time theindependents aw holding their pie- nics and political meetings, They were to have held a monster piciic lere ~ Thursday, but the rain prevented, and a political mect- ing was held at the court houso at uight in- stead, that was addressed by Hon. Richard vellick and Candidates Allen 1Root and . V, Wolf, Tho main talkof the evening . by Trovellick, who expounded in a very Liborious and boastful manper, and asserted that there was no one among the hard money believers or among the old parties thit could stand before him m joint”delate, and intimated that he was a Joln L. Sullivan sligger that could “do™ any one that had the hardihood to stand before im. Hesad that the farmers we dishonest, that they were fools and hadnot sense enotgh to come in ot of the cold, that the merchants were eilher Kuaves or hadw’t any sense, The average congressman was o fool and had 4 cocomut for a head. Mr. Wolf made a very brief speech, but put in bis time before the meeting in - intro ducing himself with his business card, which vtised him in verse asa breederof Poland China hogs and & candidate for stite treas- urer. Mr. Koot only reiterated theyiews of Trevellick on the money question. the ity The “T. K. Quartette at Ashland. AsmiaNp, Neb., Sept. 21, il to T Bee.]—The concertgiven herdby the T K. quartette of Omaha at Lamingtor's opere house was the best musical entertainment the people of Ashland have hal the plesure of attending for some tine. It is od that the storm prevented tho attendanc of many people. The gentiemenacquitted them solves admirably, Ashland will give the loys alargeaudience if they will come here again, Miss Heilman aided with two rocita- tions which wera well rendered. The instra- mental musicby Imo Thompson and Mr Stambaugh of Asbland was wso lighly ap- preciated. —[Spe An Invulnerable Tough Nenmssa Crry, Neb, Sept 21,—[Special Telegram to Tue BEE|—Ata late hourlast night Willis Brown, & tough character about town, entered the houso of John Ciscoaand | amused himself by smashing all the furni- ture. The police attempted to arrest him, when he van, and four shots’ wero fired, but none took effect, He retumed luter in the | tand two officers again shot _at him, but scaped the second time without being bit. Brown was nearly kiled by an oficer several years ago, Mortuary veK, Neb., Sept, 21, —(Specil to Tue Bre.]—Julian, t e infant son of Charles and Lillie M, Woosterof this place, dled to- duy, uged sixteen months wnd ninoicen days, Abandoned the Investigation, Keasey, Neb, Sept. 2.—[Special to Tax Bee,]-An investigating committee con- SILvER ¢ liance, has boer hero attompting to i thecourt house, The alline cnormons anl_oxtrvagint public money whilethe now been under ourse Qf consty severaldays of hard work (e commit turew yp the job, fuiling fo find any discrop ucies i the decount, and passd reslutions asking the court atits nest sosson toappoint aspecial jury o farther ivestigate the books of the county with reforenc to the **sup houso st County Clerk efused the comuitteo the right to 'y his books outol the oM, but insisted upn their ging o work behiad s desk, ere o would assist in theie ve This aroused the indignation of thoe com teoand they gave »d steals at wiconed an witure of house his After rhage. Ciry, Neb, Sept Speclal toTie Bee. | -Mvs, Anm Sclliephik applied for 4 divorce from ler Adolphon thegroumds of desertion, ro mirried on October 30, 1882, at sska City and thocircumstances sure ing thelr marriaze are interosting Adolph Schliephack, who was ctor, was atthat time enzazelas elitor o he N ebraskea Staats Zeiting, and onthe diy before his marriagehe mude abet with a si- loonkecper thit he could got married to a woman with whom he was not. then a quaintel within twenty four hours. The bt was taken and Addph _stacted in search of & wife. He found her within a fov hours ina Gierman servant_girl engged at the washtub, Flecxplained bis mission and shie quickly accepted hiimand was mirried to him vhat saune evening, Thoe couple som after returned to the old country, whore they lived for a fow years, when Adolph becane tired ofhis wifé and ‘shippad her bick to Ne brslea City, promising o follow soon, but h ail notcome, A fter wailing until now Mrs. Sehliephack lns concladel that shehas ben deserted anduslks for a divorceana the os- tody of theirome child. Nemgsxa has husba Tl 10d strotling a ¢ Business Failure at North Platte, Nonm Prure, Neb., Sept. 21.—[Spedal Telegran to Tk Bre.|—1 hefirm of Seo & William gavo chatlel mortgages £or$100 list ight. The abswonding pattner, See, re- turned from Keaviey Last night while Will- s went o K ca 1) bouthis part- co now wires the police to aested, The liabilities of abont 00, he stock is worth have Williams the firn ar: 00 o 00, Fai Special to Gosper County Erwoon, Neb., Seps. 91 Bee.]—The Gospercounty fair closed Friday. There was good exhibit e crowdin attendance on vich diy. The Hon. 1. M. Lansingof Lincoln madea speech here Thursiay evening to alarge audience. He was billel for Exet discussion with: MeK eighan on 1y Tie here and & gton's Ex-Marshal Avrested, Sopt. 21, —Sheri ff Ryan of Dakota county, aslka, aided by the loul police, s capturel Frak Cramer, ex-mrshal of Covington, Neb., who, it is said, én ny from that plice while “under bonds for tial for robbing nnan, Covil Cirre OMAH A A FETHODIS TS, Assignments of Fastors for the New Church Year, W arNE, Neb., Sopt 2L —[ Special Telegram to Duk Ber)—Thefollovingire the appint- mentsof thenorth Nebuslca conferenco for Omaha and vicinity as tiey will te read by the bishop tomorrow morning: T. €. Clendenning, presiding elder, Omiha First church, P, 5, Merril; Omba Sewand street, FL A. Crane; Omala Trinity, W. K. Beans; Omiha South Tonth street, A. Hodgetts; Omaln Hunscom Park, G, M. Brown; Omiha Newnan, (. W. Savilge; South Omala, T N. Dawson; Albvisght, W. Van Buren; Monmouth Parl F. W, Bros. Wi ENGINEERS AND CONDUCTORS. on the Northwestern System Torm a Combination, CHIcAGO, Sept, 2. —An important conibina- tion of the enginecrs and conductors e poyed on the Uhicago & Notthwestern sy's tem was formed today withthe mame of the Association of the Brotherhodd of I.oomo- tive K inec and_ the Order of Condictors, . E. Wills chesen chainman, Toa the association would n workings of either of the prises Those o interfor with th two bodies it com- It was formed for mutuall benefit, Its formation must not be ), lie said, as an_indication of any troublo brewing, On the contrary, the best of focling exists be tween the employes and management of th Northwestern system, An importint feure ment is that ceh orcaniztion will aid theotherin case of trouble wilh the compan, B u;.,lm‘(‘ Niw York, ossion The grand union meeting of the Brothethood of Locomotive Engincers, with delegites from all overthe country, L Chief Arthur presided The meeting put into the form of a wsolu- tion its views of Grand Chief Arthu's atti- tudein relition to thelite stilke o thoNew York Central, unanimously appoving the instructions given. A sigaicant feature of meeting was the submision of a scheme a federation of railyay enplo As the ting ws secret ture of the schem could not be leariec present wn today — Natiomalists Holdl o Meoting, Doners, Sept. 21 —The ntionlists eld a meeling tolay at Swinford, Comty Mayo. Two hundeed polic \d soldiers wero on the g n Dilon mde a specch denouncing wovernment's tacties in daling with the iationlists, Armnge ments have been ma tolold anumber of gsin diferent partsof the contry Thenext important meeting will be at the central ofices of the lagucin Dublin, Tues day, whenthe question of sending a mission to the United Sttes will bedecided. - 2 Yankton County Democrats, YAk, S. D, Sept. 21— [Special Tele gramto Tue Bre.]—The domoents of Yank) ton county havenominateda full county and 1 iveticket, with . M. Zibachat the head for state smator, Thee ticketsare in thefield and theresultis doubtful, The in dependents have o strong wing, The three parties have fullstateand congresional tickets and an exciting campaignis progress ing. 130 Hog Cho Divroy, O., Sopt cinity of Spring Vi hogs by ciolers, and the presenceof the dis caso fs roported west of there toward tho BigMiamiri Ifopen weather continues thecpidenic will bewome general, ¢ - . Stareholders Must ay Up, Loxpoy, Sept. 21-Tho shaeholders of theCape of Good Hope bunk ar under e liabllity to paythrice the amout ac 0 lities of tho bank - A in O o, Furners in the 2sing all their Record, Troy, N. Y., Sept.2l.—Ata lte awa villa, the eountry residence of My, \[«lh(hl'fillv, a wealthy New York broker, was totuly dostroyed by five, and Man chester’s twelve-yeur-old soun burmed death. - hour to e A Crew in Peril, Orrawi, Out, Sopt. 2l—A double raft stuck in the Duchesno rapids yeterdsy and s0 fur allefforts to reach ithavebeen unsuc cessful. Muchexcitment prevails, the po. sition ofthe crew heing most perilous. 1f theraft should breakup it would be impossi- sisting of uine wembers of the Famcrs blo o save them, | An Ameriom O 1 | i sisctingl NUMNBER 96, KICK FRON LICTIE HOREA, ues o Row by Writing a Libdlous Lettu THE COUNTRY ALLEGED TO BE BANKRUPT, Wisw Of Reprsentative e Congressional Eoap portions ment Bill-A Former Onas han Oediined, Duns Wastrexoros Brieae Ties Osam Ber, 511 FOUrEE NI STiEET, Wasiminaroy 1), C., Sept. 2 Ther has been i evolutionof dnss inthe nnles of the Koran logition, id their odlly fntastic gowns have gven wiy to the dos mandsof civilization and highpriced tailrs. This wly ble toduy when your orrespndent called at the lgae ton toascertain th status of o matior which las been agitating diplonaticeireles mor o less oflate. When the Koveans arrivod hova about three years ago they atonee otbidthe Chinese for uniqueness of gub. Gowns of remarkable patten, textire ad cutand von- tlated gauzhats of mormos proporiins. and remarkible arhitednve mado them the freak featurs of all diplomitic ptherigs and the special prey of all the amateur pho= tographers of the wpital But when M Ye Cha Yun, seoctary of the ation groted your correspondot tolay lis gown had i ven place to trousers aul & cataway of very proouncd phids. His fantastic hadzenr had disappearl, and on the Koreanupperlip was thefuint siggestion ofa genuine Awuerican mustiche, Mr Yo Cha Yun was 1 whal steps had been taken towanls resentingn reent sandious attackon the government of Koreaand some of thelegation in Washington. The attacle contained fn @ lttor publisied hore, om . I Cummings, of tho Amorians who went to Koroa, for thopure pose of organizing the anmy of that country. The ltter statel thit Ioea wias bk rpt ind that sor tho American of= ficials had not vecivedtheirpy. Concening Dr. Allen, one ofthe Neads of the Korea le- gation wwhich first here, tho lettew stated: *‘Allen, the king's Amertean forign reary at Washingon, tied to mike a’*bigthing in Washington, while he knewitto e a bgeady and thivihg concern andsecured s saliry in advice He wow keeps an apotlecary shop at Cher- nulpo, which is the pot of Seoul. He once introduced conabine of albw diss to the white house as Korean ladies (here is no such thing) and allowed a fellow, who had been s gateporter for the missionries lere to call himself aprincein Washingon.® Mr. Ye Cha Yuu siid that Cumimings® chages were fulse. The only Korean lady talken to the white hoise by Dr. Allen wils Mr. Yun's own wil and he oferd to prodice her to establish that she was a Korean and o lady, Prsident Hanison had heen soplessed with Dr. Allen ghat he upponted him s the repreentative’ o the United Sttes in Korea. The time when Allen took Mrs. Yun o the white housewas during theClevemnd sdminstration. As to what the legation would do to resent the chiarges, Mr, Yun snidthat the pudlished let.- ter of Cummings had bem forwardd to Kora, There was no use to ask thestate depurtmient heroto take anysteps, for Cumn- mings wasa private dtizenmad cold nt be oMdilly discipliied. But Mr, Yun was con- fident fronwhathe hd beard from Korea that the Americn military attagche would be paidoff infull invited 0 g @& out of the country e had wbused s quickly s posible, My, Yun conclided his stiement with the suavest cortesy, for e is of royil podigree. It is sail that he s entitled to wen the il peaocls feather, which isa mark of inctionin - Korea,and the king has be- 1 onhim the sarlet button, which is cquivalent to Korean knightiood, DUNNELLTS RE A PRORTIONME NTBIT.1, The bill intwduced by Congresman Dun. neilfor the reapportunmentof cogressonal reprosentation, whiloincresing the vitio of population by nearly twenty thousand, does notuttempt to wstrictthe nembeship of the lower houso of congrss toits prseant num- That unyieldly body, but recently en- d bythe admission ofsix new stiles to lionwith sevennow members, isto be made more unyieldly by o further ‘addition of forty-three repréntatives. Although sufiiient seats may possily cuwded into the, hall of louse by moing bk the cutains w hich sepiratethe by from the ¢hamber itsdl, yetthe chnge will dubtles reult in deacasing tho legislative offedivenss of that bocty “The fivst canof och now memberupon hisclectio to congss, is to bagain with whomsoeyer he propses tsuport for the ersiip for wppintinmt to oue or more awlecomuittecs, To weommodate tho ney reprsentitives, new cotnmittees w have to becreated orexisting ones inceas: toa size detrinentlto their pod work. Newly crated comuiltees entill ney ex- penss for clerkhire statimery, junkts, to sayuothing of thousinds spent in finishing additional committecroomms in the basment of the capitol The hill_of tho nouseis eroydedand tolavge for ¢ oy menure wle tomake thei v voices heari bytheir colleague on all piretsof the floc wiile auditorsin_tho gallries scldom cateh more than o few disconneced phrasesof the diseo The person speaking attnets to hisside those lnterested in his sibject—usu: allyof the same political paty, or those who with to weply o his o ents —whale the mainderol the members prescatsiv it thelr desks writingsor realing liows pip. Anl thenumber of the litter frquently dwindles down tomn excoedingly small positivequan- tity, Toremove thedésksand o imilte the Biitish commons, by furishing seatsonly, might conpel those present to pay altention tothe business beforo tho house, Bt the trouble would then consistin obiaining memn. bers present, for the attrctions of the res. tamantand the o om farexceel those of the house itself. > house of comn: force its 13 to stand up for aquorin, but congress it is far was consplon nske as 2~ cane bo tho alcady over cotive spraking, with different But inspiteo ] tecreasel efficency, outsido of politi sidorations, 010 cogent argunient ranced whichoutweighs il opposition citizens of thostates refuseto hive thir pro- portionate representation decreased, Pl states_ having the smallest populations are ac- corded by the constitition it 1ewst o repre. sentativein the lower house of congrss. It isunjustto ask states like Nobmskia to givo upn part of her proporionate volo upm nutional legsltion when Nevada is accorded membenship far in excessof whit her popi lation warrants, The preservation of the reativeinfluece ofthe various sections of the country must and does lave greater weight that any probabledecrease inthe o ficien ey of the housc, A PORIEIR OVATTAY ORDAINED, Among the dass ofninecndidate s ordaied as Protestant Episcopal mini al Ball more toliy by Bistop Parct are two from Washingon —Rev. Dr. T, 8 Chills and George 1), Dudley, son of Colond William W, Dudley, D, Childs was for a line jstox of the Eastern Presbyterim chueh of this clty, @ positionhe rsigned within the past year. Dr, Ohilds, athis rquest, was granted letters of dismissal from the Presiyteain ministry a the titoe simifyiug his disire to aswme holy o ders in the Episcopal church M Dudleyis Cobuel Dudloy's second s, Ho studicd for the ministey na thelogial elas taugh t by the bishop who ordaiied bim, Ho s beerapponted assisunt o De. Perry, rector of 5t. Audrew's parish, tis clty, Dr, Childs was formerlyof Omabia, o served by apwintment of President Clevdand o steretary of the commission, which arranged for the transfor of the Utes from Colorado W Utals, not yetaccomplis bed, however s10rs