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

o=t . - PART ONE. 'THE OMAHA SuUND AY BEE. — " TWENTIETH YEAR. 'OMAHA SUNDAY MORNING, DEOCEMBER 28, 1800-SIXTEEN PAGES. A DECISIVE FIGHT DIMINENT. News of Bloodshed May Be Expected Within Forty-Eight Hours, COLORED TROOPERS LEAD THE ATTACK. Captain Taylor's Scouts Act as Feel- ers—Word From the Troops Sent Ont from Pine Ridge— Bhort Bull's Prophesy. Prixe RinGe Acexoy, 8. D, (via Rushville, Neb,), Dec. 27,—News of a decisive fight in the bad lands may be expected within forty- eight hours. The colored troopers of the Ninth eavalry are leading the attacking forces, under command of the gallant Colonel Guy V. Henry, and they are well prepared for a stubborn struggle, Captain Taylor's Indian scouts, led by the famous scout, Grouard, went in advance. The ldian con- tingent is made up almost exclusively of the Sioux, many of Buffalo Bill's performers being in thesquad. The licutenants at the head of the black fighters are Gilfoyle, M Inerny, Wright and Bettens. Gilfoyle and Wright are famous Apache fighters. One hundred pack mules and mules with Hoteh- kiss guns strapped to them followed the troopers, while the gatling guns and the tele- graph corps brought up the rear, The trails leading to the bad lands are well beaten and it 18 probablo that the cavalry, last night, were within two hours’ march of the » Indlan intrenchments, When the blow s struck it ill come at daybreak, unless .the Sioux should assumethe offensive, which is not likely. Meantime other troops are slowly tightening the cordon around the natural fortification, which the red skins have chosen for their fighting ground. Unless Kicking Bear, Tron Hawk, Short Bull and the rest of the petty chiefs surrender at the final ‘command of Colonel Henry hostitities will begin, ‘The hostiles appear anxious for war. Reports differ as to the fighting strength of hostites, but it is probable the soldiers wiil meet at lest eight hundred heavily armed warriors, besides 500 able bodied squaws, who, owing to the impregnable position they have taken, will be able to do almost as efiicient firing as the bucks themselves, ON THE MARCH, ‘What the Pickets Report to the Camp at Wounded Knee, Canmr ox Wouxnep Kxer, (Via Rushville, Neb.,,) Dee. After avery rough forced march of four hours and a half in tecth of a blinding sand storm General Whiteside and troops, A J and K of theSeventh calvary together with several corvespondents fnd themselves making a hasty camp here. We are eighteen miles northeast of Pins Ridge agency and where only a few da ago the ghost dance was in full swmg m the midst of some two thousand hostile Indians. Our object is to capture the bands of Sittiug Bull, Big Foot and Hump, hostiles that gave Colonel Sumner the skip the other day after they had become prisoners of war. Pickets have scarcely been thrown out when they pass in word from the scouts that the latter are chasing a party of the hostiles that they found creeping up on our camp as soon asour fires wero started, Near where we are camped are the remains of what a fow days ago was awell:stocked Indian store owned by Louis Mosseau. I have just looked through it and find 1t the most lonesome mer- @ yanch I ever saw. Thehostiles have plunderéd and ruined the stock, right and left, Great tears came into the eyes of the youthful proprictor as he told of havinglost his all, a stock consisting of nearly $1,000. How long we are to sfop heve no one but the cammander knows, and he won't tell, The cavairy hopo to get the fleeing reds before thiey got into the bad lands or beforo they get us, Weexpectto turn up in the bad lands. SHORT BULL'S PROPHECY, The Appearance of Hopkins Re- garded as 1ts Fulfillment. Pixe Rwae Acexoy, 8. D. Deo. 27— [Special to Tur Ber]—A delegation of the most inteligent and conservative of the friendly Indians here appeared before S pecial Indian Agent Cooper late yesterday after- noon very much troubled, With great seri- ousness and an emphasis not manifested on any similar occasion, they stated that the excitement caused by the visiv of the man Hopkins in his attempted impersonation of the Messiah was rapidly increasing, and that decisive measures were necessary in order to avert trouble. The delegation was headed by Captains Fast Hovse and Thunder Bear, old officers of the police force: a prominent man namod Sitting Bear and several other of the most level headed and trustworthy Indians of the agency. They reported to Mr, Cooper instead of Agent Royer simply because the latter didn’ happen to be in the ofiice at the time they came, Nearly all of the several thousand Indians here hid, the spokesman reported, became - —.seriously agitated over the matter, It seems that they have a new cause for thinking so deeply on the subject. Short Bull, chief of the red horde in the bad lands, made a rophecy somo weeks ago that the new ‘hrist would make his next appearance at Pine Ridge agency. That prophecy has, these thousands of superstitious minds now argue, been fultilled, Therefore a udal wave now rolls high in favor of Short Bull, the bad man in the bad lands, ““What would vou proposo in the way of disabusing the minds of your people of their belief in Hopkins being the Messiau?” asked “Mr, Casper. “The ouly thing to be done,” said Sittin Bear, “is to bring Hopkins back here oy show him to the Indians as the fraud that he is, That's what they demand, and in our our opinion the troublo that will surely come if the thing is allowed to drift along canuot be averted in any other way. ! Mr, Cooper was deeply impressed with what he hadheard, and asked that Sitting Bear accompany him to General Brooke and inform him of the situation, Sitting Bear and the entire delogation approved of the suggestion and acted upon it. The general told Special Agent Cooper that he better have mo&flnl brought back here and ex- posed o the Tndians, as had been proposed by @ delegation, But Mr, Cooper says that he has no author- ity to go to the necessary expense in getting the man back here. hen Agent Royer heard of it hesaid that he would not send for Hopkins, Therefore the matter is in statu quo, ‘While talking to Mr. Cooper, members of gm delegation asked the very pertinent ques- o0 “If the fellow Is insame, why isn't he locked up or in some way kept from making such trouble among our people! 1t he is doing this wilfully, why isn’t he put in jail, just as Indians are who make trouble! The query was a deal of a stunner, and r got_around it the best way he could, which, ‘i.udxlnn from the expression on the faces of his auditors, was anything but satisfuctory, Christmas Eve in the Field. Pixe Rimee Acexcy, 8. D., Dee, 27.— |Special to Tue Bge.|-A bright particular starshown down upon the camp of the fa- mous old Seventh cavalry Weodnesday night, Mnd its beaws met and blended with an un- usual illumination that glowed through the big double tent of Lieutenant Herbert G. Squires, he lieutenant was giving a Christmas eve reception to his brother officers and a few other friends, including some of the corre- spondents, A handsomer, more thoroughly Christmas- like interior would be difficult to produce within the four duck walls of a soldier home in the field. Boughs of fresh, green pine istmas tide as you enterved, and a center pole wound with the samo and liter- ally loaded with Christmas toys—jumbing jacks, rubber dolls, tin horns, left. no doubt as to the particular character of the Cots covered with blankets made by Vi bes of the red childeen were ar. ranged about the sides of thetent and formed unique divans, of the tent stood a camp table pi high with all varioties of tho rarer fruits, confoctions, ete. At the other was a new wash tub holding delicrous Roman punch mads by the master band of Major Whiteside, When the guests arrived and a round of Christmas eve greetings had been exchanged, rved with a royal luncheon of de by the skiliful lieutenant, “Pansy” Bre: y Rochifort cheese, the . pickles, with ginger elgars 10 ton off on. h proposed and respondad ely ey present, General For- sythe and Major Whiteside, who are about the same age. officiating as leaders in this feature, which was varied oy “something that everybody could sing.” The distribution of presents resulted in every guest getting atoy which will undoubt- edly be borne home to distant states asa souvenir of the most unique and royally com- plete soldier Christmas eve ever spent, ll'l'Ei:E a5 BIG FOOTY The Only Question Which Now Both- ers General Miles, Rarip Ciry, 8. D., Dec. 27.—News received today indicates that the Indian troubles are about to be brought to a close without the sacrifice of more lives. General Miles' ad- vices last night that the hostiles in the bad Jands had listened to the friendlies and were on their way to Pine Ridge were con- firmed by dispatches from General Brooke today, The whole body of braves, squaws » 0w enroute to the agency. A courier states the party has alread reached White river and will camp tonight on Whi ek at a point about sixteen iles from the agencies, Other scouts con- firm this but are reporting camps in the bad iands deserted. General Miles has ordered several bodies of troops to carefully search the bad lands for stragglers, secreted arms, ete., and to_draw in toward the agency. The general now wants to know where Big Foot Nothing definite from bim has yet been heard, * FEARS FOR THE FRIENDLIES. A Half-Breed Belicves Hav hered Them. Cuistoy, S. D., Dec The Indians are still carrying on depredations and growing much bolder. A haif-breed came into camp on the Cheyenne river and was interviewed about the hostiles in the bad lands. He says he left Pine Ridge agency a few days be- fore the 150 friendlics who went to induce the hostiles to veturn from the bad lands. There are at the least caleulation 500 to 600 warriors among the hostiles, all well armed and all declaring vhat they would fight. He maintains great fears as to the 150 friendlies, as heis almost sure the major portion of them have been killed, He says the hostiles havean immensa stock of provisions and that their stronghold is almost impregnable. Sikiisruee bk FATAL SOUTHERN SCRAP, A Murderer Killed and a Sheriff and Deputy Fatally Wounded. New Orreays, La., Dee. 27.—A Times- Democrat Lumberton, Miss., special says: A fatal affray occurred at Daviston this after- noon, In a fight at a dance at Red Top Clristmas night F. T. Favre killed John Parker and seriously wounded Neal Strahan and John Hickman.” Favre was placed in the Elifsville jail_by Justice of the Peace Cooke of district No. 1. Today Justice of district No. 2 dispatched a deputy the necessary papers to obtain Tav lease on bonds. Sheriff Shivers, hearing of this, came to Daviston on the afternoon train to re-arrest Tavre, The shooting resulted, Tavre was killed and Sheriff Shivers and Deputy White fatally wounded, A D S PERISHED IN THE FLAMES. An Agea the Hostiles South Dakota Farmer Burned to Death. Eik Point, 8. D., Dec, 27.—[Special Tele- gram to M'ne Bee.]—The house of Lasse A. Heaven, threo miles north of this place, burned last night at 12 o'clock and he per- ished in the flames, Mr. Heaven was eighty- five years old and lived by himself, about one hundred feet from the residence of Chris Lewison, his son-in-law. At the hour men: tioned Gilbert Lewison awoke aud instantly discovered that his grandfather’s residence was on fire. He rushed down stairs, awaken- ing the members of the family as he went, He reached the burning buflding and at- tempted to enter the south door and a west window, but it was utterly impossible. The cause of the fire is not known, Aftor the fire the body was found in the ruins, the legs and arms burned off, B HER TERRIBLE MANIA, It Leads Mrs. Higbee to Poison Two of Her Children. ) 27.—[Special Tele- e Bee.]—Near Brandenburg, the coroner's inquest in the case of the poisoning of the four children of Mrs, Julia Higbee is in progress. Dr. James J, Lewis, the family physician, testified today that upon the third death he became suspicious of the poisoning, When ho suggested a post-mortem examina- tion, after the death of the fourth, the father consented, but Mrs, Higbee made strong op- position, and it was only by legal process that the examination was secured, Arsenic was found and the conclusion that two or more of the children had been poisoned was reached by all the physicians atthe post- morwem, Mrs. Higbee's opposition to the examination and her indifference to the re- sult of the illness of the children directed suspicion to her. In closing he said: “My conclusion is that the first child 8 natural death and that was the origin of the homicidal mania which resulted in the deaths of the other three. I have known Mrs, Higbee twenty years, after her marriage she had a mental attack which nearly resulted in mania and within the past six months she has secwed to me to undergo a complete mental change,” Other physicians testified to the indiffer- ence and other symptoms of mania at the bedside of the childr e An Interesting Chapter. Kaxsas Ciry, Mo., Dee, 27, —An interest- ing chapter in the affairs of the defunct Union railway company of this city was re- vealed today in the testimony of one of the stockholders during the trial of the suit of an attorney for fees, He sald stock to the value of §300,000 had been issued by the company, Of this §260,- 000 was deposited with the American loan and trust company. The other $100,000 was turned over to thirteen local members of the company in paywent for securing franchises, ete. —_— Crobably Murdered by Burglars. CHI0AGO, 27.—Saloonkeeper Frank Brown was found dead bghind bis bar ths momhxg. shot through the head. The theory is that burglars were at work at the money drawer and that he surprised them and was shot. - & mallpox at a German Seaport. Benkuiy, Dee, 97, —There is a serious out- break of smallpox at the Seaport town of Hadersloben, Several deatbs have occurred. A SOCIAUISTIC ~ MANIFESTO. German Leaders Reaffirm Their Determina~ tion to Rally the Peasants, SPURIOUS IMITATION OF KOCH'S LYMPH. A Number of Foreign Medical Men Deceived Into Purchasing It— Conservatives and the Communal Bill, [Copuright 1890 by New Fork Assoetited Press.) Benuiy, Dee, 27.—The soclalist leaders issued a manifesto tonight afirming the de- termination of the socialist party to rally the peasants around the flag of socialistic reform. It suys the life of agricultural laborers is scarcely human and that they are serfs in all but the name. The bright dawning of a new era shall bring rejoicing to the peasants as well as to the toilers in the cities, and they shall learn that they havea right to the beau- tiful earth fruits whereof they may not streteh forth their hands and enjoy. They must be taught that the patriarchal system is the moral foe of the agricultural laborer. The peasant proprietor and the aristocracy are becoming brandy distillers and will make the peasants the slaves of machinery as the town workers have already been made. The mani- festo asks the members of the party to con- tribute money to assist in a rural propaganda, Behind the declarations in the manifesto, which the government might disregard, are practical arrangements for lecture tours, the formation of rural branches, ete., which are already having a disgusting effect upon the official mind. The nature of the manifesto was known to the government before its publication, and the matter was referred to the emperor, who gave instructions that nothing should be done to suppress it. It has been discovered that a spurious imi- tation of Koch's lymph is being manufac- tured and a number of cases are reported in which foreign medical men have been de- ceived into purchasing it. The manufac- turers have not yet been discovered, The poiica are working on one case where the fraud was attempted upon Dublin physicians. A man who gave his nameas Bouges and who pretended to be attached to the Koch clinic opened communications with the doc- tors of the Dublin hospital, offering to send them a quantity of the lymph on payment of a certain sum of money. The doctors, in reply forwarded a check for £15 and told Bouges to send thelymph. Bouges also got from an- other Irish doctor who was visiting Berlin. Later, however, the sender of the check, sus- pectecting the swindle, telegraphad to stop payment. Bouges had given the check to the manager of the hotel where he was stopping in piyment of his bill. The in- formed the police, but had decamped, leaving a quantity of plausible imitations of the Koch lymph. The medical profession throughout the empire i growing more and more indignant over the manner iu which the lymph is distributed and Kocl's secrecy regarding its producticn. Koch, in an interview with an. eminent Eng- lish physician, who urged the professor to daisclose the whole process, got very wroth at the proppsal and declared that he had a right to do as he pleased with his discovery. The Tageblatt assails this position as scan- dalous and says the rapacity of the Koch cligue will certainly be severely criticised when Minister Von Gossler moves in the land tag a grant for Koch and his assistants of 3,000,000 marks, with 15 per cent on the an- nual sales of the lymph, The treatment in the case of William Deg- man, who came here from New York, has proved a failure. He has had four injections and the symptoms are the same as when he arnved, The medical associations of Brandebury and other provinces have sent protests to the government against tho secret manufacture of the Koch remedy, which, they say, is giv- ing rise to scandal. The Breslau medical soclety sent to Prot. Koch, also to Dr. Von Gosslock, minister of ecclesiastical affairs, a resolution declaring that it works ereat in- jury to the profession at large to allow hos- pitals and privileged persons in private to practice a monopoly of the lymph, The prospects of the submission of the conservative majority in the landtag on the communal reform Dbill has become remote. Bismarck’s organ in a series of articles, evidently inspired by the ex-chancellor, urges the conservatives not to yield. Government organs assert that the government is resolved to maintain the project in its integrity. The liberal press continues to clamor for im- mediate dissolution. Other menacing causes of political conflict are Emperor William's educational projects and the Austrian treaty of commerce, The Hamburger Nachrichten (Bismarck's organ) leads the aggressive campaign, It asserts that the reichstag ought to be dis- solved and the sense of the country taken on projects which never have been submitted to tho electorate and which affect the highest interests of the empire. Bismarck’s tacties in assuming the offensive against the govern- ment is supposed to have been adopted for the purpose of formenting and exciting gen- eral parliamentary disorderand embarrassing the ministrp in the hope that he might again become chief. Von Gossler is known to differ with the emperor in re- gard to ideas on education. It is reported tnat he offered to resign, but at the request of the emperor consented to remain for the present to give the emperor a chance to select his successor, who, it is thought, will be Dr. Hinzpeter, Emperor William's former tutor. The official census of Germany, recently completed, gave Berlin a population of 1,547, 485, an increase of 250,000 in five years, The next city is Hamburg, with a population of 510,534, an increase of 09 Deipsic, which has only 160,500 in 1885, This is the greatest in- crease in any city, being 82 per cent, Prof. Weiger of Strausburg is dead. Prince Schonaich-Carolath, grand master of Masons, has sent proposals to the leading Masonic lodges on the continent for the es- tablishment of a central court of reference. It Is reported that the grand orient of Rome favors the proposal. The German man-of-war Fredrich Karl, which struck on a rock off the island of Mitylene, in the Aegean sea, near the coast of Asia Minor, was floated on Christmas day. e Steamship Arrvals. Passed the Lizard—The steamer La Cham- pagne from New York for Havre. At Queenstown—The steamers City of Efrlin ulld,\\'ynlnlllg from New York for verpool. At Hamburg—The steamer Rhactia from New York. At New York—The Nordland, frem Ant- werp; the Germanic, from Liverpool. b iy The Fire Record. Cixersyar, 0., Dee. 27.—The Little Miami freight depot burned tonight with most of its contents. Losses $175,000, with little in- surauce. BROKE THE AGRERMENT. The Union Pacific Takes Snap Judg- ment on the Milwaskee, There 18 likely to be & gemeral shaking up of dry bones between the Milwaukee and the Union Pacific railroads within the next fow weeks in consequence of @ very peculiar transaction that took place at a late hour last night. Ever since June last the Milwaukee has had use of the Union Pacific track between Council Bluffs and South Omaha for all of the Milwaukee freight trans, It has been given out recenty that arrangements had been consummated by which the Milwaukee would run its passenger trains into the Union depot, beginuing today. The officials of the Milwaukee had made arcangements to do this, and gave orders for the passenger train topull across from Council Bluffs, but when the first train made the attempt the switches were found locked ana the yardmen of the Union Pacitic notitied the trainmen of the Milwaukee that no Milwakee trains could be permitted to cross the bridge. Speaking of the matterat a lato hour last night, Mr. Nash of the Milwaukee, said: “We have a contract signed with the Union Pacific which gives us the right to run our passenger trains across the bridge into the vnion depot. Last night we attempted to take such advantage of this contract as we had a right to, and wererefused right of way and use of the Union Pacific track. So far as L have yet learned, there is no reason for this peculiar and unlooked for action on the part of the Union Pacific. Itis in direct violation of ourcontract.” Superintendent Blickensderfer of the Union Pacifie was seen at a very late hour by a Bee reporter, but refused to talk upon the matter. GLADSTONIANS AGITATED. Fears That the Government is Pre- paring for a General Election. [Copyright 18%) by James f3ordon Bennett. Loxpoy, Dee. 27.—|New York Herald Cable—Special to Tiur Bee.]—An important question is just now secretly agitating the conservative Gladstonians and Parnellites. In the inner circles of - political life nothing compares with it in interest, It is this: Is the government gotting ready for a general election? There is great activity at the treas- uty and a general shaking up of iocal organi- 1ong, One of the cl (ladstonians ad- mitted to me yesterday that his party is en- tirely at the mercy of the enemy just now. “We have no money,” ha said, ‘and very few friends, Some of our best supporters have intimated that they wash their hands finally of nome rule. Parmell & Co. have completely knocked the battem out of that. I don’t see how Humpty Dumpty is to ove set on his legs.” Theu I asked, “Why does not the old man iy s0 at once” “How can he!” replied his staunch sup- porter, *The MecCarthy lot would come down upon us at once, They would say, ‘We have given up Parnell apd shattéred our organization for you, aud now you basely desert us.’ All Ireland , would cry out againstus. Something may oceur to give us an opening out of the diffiealty. At present the tories have got us in Ut er But what do'the tories sagt very powerful member of the party today, and I know that his view &k shared by more than one member of the: try, “We have v aot alshe. Bosh 0 I Tt doubt,” said be, *but you must consider many things before plunging into & general election, How are we off for money?" ‘“Better off, agood deal, than the other side,” I remavked. ‘“Yes, that is quite true; but still we ave not so well off as we ought to be. The Barirg affair hit somo of our people pretty hard. You have no idea what many of our most liberal supporters have lost in the Avgentines. Then Goschen bas offended the big brewers add distillers, who have usually subseribed largely to the campaign fund. We should not get much out of them just mnow, as their pockets aro buttoned up tight all around. Local orgaui- zations are poor. Recolloct, they have had to fight two contested elections within five years, They don't want any more at pres- ent.” “Still,”” T sugeested, ‘‘you will scarcely find any one who doubts that Lord Salisbury would get another seven years of power if he appealed to the country now.” “I agree with that view,” replled my friend, *‘but we must consider what the people in the country wish. -1 tell you they do not want auother election, Trade is not good generally, and they are in favor of letting this parliament run on another year, or at least till next autumn, I rather think that is the view taken in a very high quarter, which has also to be consulted. We need not bein any great hurry. I think the Glad- stonians cannot get over the knockdown blow they have received. Where are they now? Associated with Patrick Ford, Michael Davitt and all that crowd. The moment they go before the country they will be pulled to pieces. We can wait, and not much will be risked by delay. 1f I was you I should tell your constituents to expect an- other chance of electing you some time next July or August. Itis all up with the ola man anyway. There will be no more Irish alliances in our time. Parnell has smashed the machine—mora power to his elbow."” A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, Ispoke to a i Poor Children Provided For. WasniNeroy, Dec 27. — Tho Christmas clubof Washington today entertained 600 children at dinuer and afterwards distributed presents to each one. Mss, Dimmick repre- sented the president's family, and Miss Jane Fuller, doughter of the chief justice and president of the children's department of the club, and Miss Jessie Miller, daughter of the attorney general, the vice president, took a leading part in caring for needs' of the young guests. The [ast Washington club provided a good dinner and presents for about. one thousand young people. e Business Troubles. Vioksnura, Miss., Dec. 3%.—0'Keefe, Guide & Co., dry goods, assigned today with pre- ferences of $52,000. A full statement is not obtainable, Lakcaster, Pa, Dee. 27.—The Fishing Creck Lumber company assigued today. Thy assets, itis believed, will exeeed the liabili- ties. 27.-The banking t has made an assign- 1y $100,000 and assets expect to resume if ex- : 0 ment. about 140,000 tensions are gran| fadn oRa Kean's Depositors Get no Comfort, Cuicago, Dee. 27. —The depositors in Kean's bank have recelved no comfort from the revelations of Manager Hatfield of the New York branch of the institation, It ap- pears that for thirty days preceding the crash securities for lurge amounts were for- warded to Now York, negotiated and the proceeds of the loans returnad to the Chicags oftice. » ————— The Drath iR 11, L Benwiy, Deg, 27.—Dr. Heiorich Schleimann, the noted archmologist is deads New Youx, Dee. 27.~ Frapklin Chase, who was thirty-seven | iee of the Unitad tates, died today. NG ears i the consular :erv- | HE SAVED IS SWEETHEART, Gallant Qonduct of Rilsy Byra:s, a Young Lincoln Hero, WIND-UP OF THE CONTEST AT NORFOLK. Votes Disputed on the Ground of Non« Residence—Death of a Prominent Beatrice Citizen—-A Loaded Christmas Box. Liscory, Neb, Dec. 97.—]Spocial Tele- gram to Tie Bee. |—While Riley Byrnes and his sweetheart accompaniod by another young couple were skating in the moonlight on Salt Creek this evening near tho Twonty- seventh street bridge, Riley and his partner suddenly came upon a strip of thin ice. Byrues forgetful of his own danger gave his ladylove & sudden turn that sent hor spaod- ing out of danger. But tnhe gallant young skater looked to his own safetytoo late as the ice gave way beneath him and he was pre- cipitated into tho chilly stroam. T'he young man with him attempted to res- cuo Byrnes and he too went into the water and only managed to get out after the most hero efforts, Byrnes attempted to follow the example of his” companion, but every time he lifted himself partially out of the water the ice broke. In a final desperate effort to climb out he slipped under the ico and was not seen again, Word was sent 1o the police station concerning the accident and an effort was made to fiud the body but without success. The young lady who was saved by Riley is ina serious condition from nervous prostration. The Co-itest at Norfolk. Nowroik, Neb., Dec, 27.—[Special Tele- gram to Tne Brr]—The contest court re- sumed its sittings in this city today and the entire time was devoted to an attempt on the part of the attorneys for the contestant to discover that illegal votes were cast in Nor- folk at the late election. Attorneys John S. Robinson and James Nichol of Madison appeared for Powers and John R. Hayes and Judge Barnes of this city were the attorneys for Boyd. A good deal of time was taken up in showing that a number of the members of a traveling show company voted for Boyd, when they had no legal right to do so. Some twenty-five or thirty men who were laying steel railsd on the Chicago, St. Paul & Minneapolis railroad had their headquarters here at the time of the election and voted the democratic ticket. All the boarding house keepers in town were called to show that their votes were fraudulent, with the result of showing that these men had been at work in Norfolk 18t spring and after being absent at w the line returned here on Septembes maining until about three wecks after the election, 1tcould not be proven that these men had a home elsewhere. A large number of employes of the state hospital for insane were called in and made 1o testify as to the legality of their votes, the theory of the contestant sceming to be that being in the service of the state disfranchised avoter, The taking of testimoay closed this -even- ing thoughi, owing to the barren result of tne attempt to get census returns out of the enumerators and newspaper men of the city, application will be made to the consus bureau for documentary evidence asto the popula- tion of Norfolk. Brwbon, Neb,, Dec,, 27. 0T Bee.]—A good many letters are being re- celved here asking about the condition of the people and if relief is needed. Av present there s no need for outside help.-here. Only twenty families have applicd to the county commissioners for assistance and they have been promptly helped to provisions, coal and clothing. The commissioners think they can easily talke care of all destitution in this county and are not asking anything from the state aid soclety. In some of the adjoining counties, however, there is a great deal of re- lief work belng done by the state relief coni- mittee, Carload after load goes through here on its way to Frontier, Chase and Per- kins counties, where there are hundreds of families applying for and recoiving assist- an Were it not for the free coal being distributed over the B, & M, there would be danger of some families perishing in case of asevere storm. In thesouth part of Fron- tier county are many families who have had no winter supplies of efther coal, clothing or provisions ou»lI as it has been shipped in free by the B. & through the state aid com- mittee, and in a few instances relief has come from private sources. His Christmas Box Loaded, Ginoy, Neb., Dec. 27.— [Special Telogram to Tnr BE.)—L. H. Bisco, & liveryman of this city, got as a Christmas present an ‘- fernal machine,” composed of & rat trap spring, & hammer to strike a percussion cap, something that looked like apiece of a pitman from & mowing machine, gun powder, etc. A great deal of ingenuity was displayed in the construction of the thing. It came from Kenesaw via Kearney on the night bofore Christmas but owing to some informality in the bill of the express company was not de- livered until about noon today. It was in a nice little box with hinges at one end. Mr. Bisco took it to his office, and as he raised the lid the combined hammer and trigger sfipped from its wire loop in the box lid and a fearful explosion of gun powder followed, and the gentleman and a boy wero seriously burned. Mr, Bisco was also struck by a piece of iron in the face, and take it all together he has been lucky to get off as easily as he has, L An Incbriate's Suicide, RusnviLie, Neb,, Dec, 2 Special Tele- gram to Tae Bee.]—At 6 o'clock this morn- ing, M. J. Tully committed suicide by shoot- ing himself through the head with a 45-calibre revolver. He was just recovering from a pro- tracted spree. The deed occurred in his brother's saloon where he was bartender. No one was present at the time. Death was almost instantaneous, as he expired befere any one reached the scene. Four or five years ago Mr. Tully was a prominent and re- spected young merchant of this town, but a mania for drink caused his downfall, The Gage County Contest. Bratice, Neb,, Dec. 27.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—Tho testimony in the Funck-Collins senatorial contest case came to an end today, The contestee filed a protest agaiust tho transmission of the testimony, ballots and poll books to the secretary of state on the ground that the notice of contest was not sufficient to warrant such a step. The proceedings will, howbver. be sub- mitted to the legislature through the secro- tary of state for figal determination, Burglars Bound Over, Bearrics, Neb,, Dec. 27.-—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee. | ~William McKinney, Ed Johnson and Charles Bowles, who re caught in vhe act of burglarizing Harry Smith's residence on North Twelfth strect, were given a_hearing in the police court this afternoon and were bound over to the district court in the sum of §00 each, Bound Over fur Perjury. Bearnice, Nob., Dec. 27.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bek.]—Dave Payton, colored, charged with perjury in giving his testimony n the Child’s flax stealing case, was given a ‘hearing this afternoon and bound over to the district court in the sumof §0, Flora's C Gexeva, Neb, Dec gram to Tur Bee.| 27,~-[Spocial Tele- fora 1. Houchin, ccrotary of the Woman's Christian Tempor ance Union, has filed_compinints in the cir- cuit couart against Philiip W. Jones and Albert €, Tucker for selling liquor without a license, of four counts each, and the cases are set for hearing Jauuary 0 and 10, D ath of a Prominent Citizen, Beatnicr, Neb, Dee. 27.—[Special Tele- gram to Tne Bee.|--Mes, Ira L. Ryan, a lady highly estecomed in this locality, died suddenly at her home in this city last night of a congestive chill. Her husband, a mem- ber of the firm of Ryan Brothors, furniture dealers, one son and two daughters survivo heor, he funeral occurs tomorrow morning, after which the remains will be taken to Springfield, 1ll., ner former home, for final iuterment. A Hemonsteance Secured. Fammeny, Neb, De Special Telo- gram to Tie Bee,] —Notice was sorved upon County Atrorney C. B, Letton tolay to the effect that G, 1. MeDonald of Fremont, Neb., would make application on Decomber the governor to have the fine remitted which was imposed on him by District Judge s in the court house bribery case in auaty at a recent term of court. Th > was not served on the county attorne until _about noon today, and in three hou time a remonstrance with nearly four hun- dred names attached had been secured. = it GIVEN UP FOR LOST, The Steamship Thanemore Believed to Have Been Wrocked. Bartivorr, Md,, Dee. 27.—The agents of the Johnson line have given up for lost the steamship Thanemore, which left here November 2 for London with a general cargo valued at $175,000 and 450 hoad of cat- tle. Besides the thirty-four officers and crew there were twelve cattlemen on board. Coal Barges Break Loose. Lewis, Del., Doc. 27.--Tho steamship Saturn, fron New York for Baltimore arrived at the breakwator this morning, re- porting that during a severe snow storm and sosterday morning the coal barges and Antelope, which she had in Joose and imix drifted out of sight and nothing v n of them. It is fearcd thal th lost. TRAINS DEL Storm K YED BY SNOW, Roads in the East Blocked as a R sult of the Storm. New York, Dec. Incoming mails are delayed by snow. The western mail via the New York Central is over three hours be- hind time. All other mails are from two to three hours late, Caxvonarie, N, Y., through the Mohawk valley average of one hour late. are blockaded and back t unable to reach town tod SUSQUENANNA, Pa., Dec. 27.—Owing to the great fall of snow the Jefferson div the Erie railroad and the Pennsylvania di vision of the Delaware & Hudson road have beea blocked since Tuesday morning. On the Erie main line trains are running several hours late, Prrrssuns, Pa., Dee. 27.—Passenger tri on all roads aré few and far between, Tri being very light, though, they ave muking fair time with double engines. Nb effort is being made on any road to me cight. All the engines are busily engaged in passenger traffic, BostoN, Mass, Dec. 27.—Owing to thesnow western trains have not been heard from and their locations are unknown here, Coxcorp, N, H,, Dec. 27.—The snow has ceased falling. Trains are running from five to seven hours behind time. Purtsnune, Pa., Dec. 97.—Specials from N Gok thit of Ay iy ifng and Reports from all up and Jw snow down river districts show fear of rain and year since 1857, flood. Al railroads are still laboring under a great disadvantage, e A HORRIBLE MURDER. re moving at an Country roads stages will be One of the Worst on Record Perpe- trated at Sayville, L. I. Sayvire, L. I, Dec. 27.—A most brutal murder was committed last night at Bohe- min, a small village three miles north. Late in the evening Frank Krulis, a cigarmaker, walked into the house of Constable Sashek, laid on the table a human finger and said he had killed Arnnie Croupa, a fellow-cigarmakor, and had brought the finger to prove it. The constablo at first thought the man was joking, but Krulis said, “T mean what I say. Croupa told lies about me, and I = comcluded to kil him. I met him on the road to- night and cut nis throat. I wanted to make sure ho never would speak again, so I cut open his belly and placed his bowels over his face. Then I cut off a fluger for you.” The constable hastily summoned a posse, and accompanied by the murderer, uu;y went out and found the body. It wnsallorriblo'ilqht' Itlayin a frame of bloody snow. The clothing was torn from it and a hole the size of a sugar bowl was in the abdemen. The entrails lay over the breast, neck aud face. The right earand ingdex fin- ger of the left hand were missing. When the party retuvned to thevillage they were met by an excited crowd which wanted to lynch Krulig, but the constables succeeded in getting himto jail. When searched, the misslng ear was found in the murdérer’s pocket, and he told Judge O'Brien that he had bought it for him, and also handed the judge the blood-stained knife with which the awful deed had been committed. Throughout the examination Krulis conducted himself in a stolid manner, 1t Is believed that jealousy of Croupa’s atten- tion to a young woman was one of the mo- tives Krulis had for the crime, ——— JEWETI'S BRAVE STAND, New Hampshire's Legislative Challenges Investigation, Coxconn, N. H., Dec, 27.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—In reply w the charges made by democrats that the clerk of the next legislature, Colonel Jewett, in making up the roll of the next legislature would seat all the doubtfully elected republicans, that gentle- man this afternoon made a formal reply to the charges, In his statement to the supreme court in answer to the fills en- tered before that tribunal against him, he says that he intends to prepare a legal roll aud to do his duty in the premises accord- ing to law; that he is not now able to determine what his duty will be because no cortificates of election” have been pres: ented to him, that he does not know how many, if any of the smd forty debatable persons named in the bil will present a certificate. He is informed that the certificates returned to the ofice of the sec- retary of state are unlike; that for this and otker reasons he nas refrained from deter- mining questions that may arise on certifi- cates and he prays advice and instruction and a decree of the court us to his duty. To that end he specially prays the court to inquire and ascertain what certificates will be presented and to nine his duty in each of the forty cases. His action dis- pells the imputations that have been made by democrats to the effect that Colonel Jewett would set up a law anto himself in the prepagation. of the roll of members, The democrats, it may be said, are not only surprised but geatified at the extent to which the answers go, becanse they had anticipated only a general denial, The patriotic position assumed by Colonel Jewett aud his included some of theablest lawyers in the state gives avthis time a strouger hope thun ever that the existing political complications will be peacefully settled. Clerk ot i et S Remanded i _Defanlt of Bail, New Youk, Dee, 27,—The divorce lawyer, Butner, pleaded not gujity on examination today to the charge of grand larceny and wiss remanded 1o prison in default of bail, legal advisors, which | NUMBER 199, T SOCIAL QUESTION Popo Leo Finishes the Draft of Ris Enoyolis cal Upon the Subject. THE (, HOW WEALTH SHOULD BE DISTRISUTED, A Document That Will Review and Expound All Matters Affecting Wage Workers tion ol Condemnns Capitalism, Panis, Doe, 27.—Advices from Rome statq that tho pope has finished the drast of hig encyclical, upon the social question, His holiness has boen working upon the subject for overayear andat his roquest tho most competent economists and bishops of diffor- ent countries, including Amer furnished memoranda, The pope 05+ tion the greatest of the present t ho cal will bo the crowniug act of the work in this dirvection. The date of publication has mot yet been given, but the Associated press correspondent is cnabled to givo the substaunce of itnow. The encyclical will roview and expound the wholo question affecting waga workers, The document will comprisa throe parts, In the first his holiness will develop the general principals upon which social ¢ is founded and the doming tive justice which should to tho inters course of men and the spread of wealth, The pope says distributive and restorative justice is needed to prevent misery and Sweating on oue side and exorbitant riches and tyranny on the other. The second part cowprises the orizin and cause of the present condition of the social problem. On this point his Holiness takes & new thesis, the fiest developed in his encys clieal on socialism, The third part contains s pope vegarding the remedies beyond religious and moral influence to be advocated. Mis holiness expressed himself again infavor of intervention by the state within the limits previously set forth. Ho condemns pitalism, as now organized, and ade vocates o more equitabloand just distribution of riches. The pope is convinced that the papacy and church should present social and democratic movement and will appeal toall conservative forces and ta Protestants to ald in - sceuring the safety of the view of the should leav Ihe pove's physician says his holiness may some time yet, as he has a robust coustitution and is suffering from no in firmity. A Prohibitive Tariff. Pawrs, Dec, 27.—Notwithstanding tho pro- tests of the ministry against the augmenta- tion by the tariff committee of the basis pro= posed in the government bill, the committes continued until adjournment to raise the tariffs to a prohibitive pitch, The represens tation of the agricultural interests in the chamber of doputies is stronger than the ine dustrial element. They will support prohibis tive dutiés on manufacturers in expeetation that in return they will obtain a close narket for farm products, They will wreck the bill unless their demands are conceded, Improved by the Koch Lymoph. Panus, Dee. 27.—Dr. Pean, in a lecture to- day at the hospital on the result of the Koch cure upon diseases of the throat, testified to the marked improvement of three patients ‘who had received injections for affections of the larnyx. “It was, therefore, he said, “)tl."l)carly a tcll’lludy in t{{lucuna clu S, A;l; though up to the present time it could not effected.” His “statoment m al{profound impression on the large audienco of medical men present. THE BELMONT HORSE SALE, AFine Lotof Crack Racers and Years lings Disposed Of. Banyiox, N. J,, Dec. 27.—Thesale of the crack racers and the pick of yearlings at the nursery stables of the late August Belmont brought a large crowd of prominent turfmen here today. The event was regarded as the most important sale of racing horses since the selling of the Rancocas stable in 1586, and all prominent turfmen had representas tives present. Colonel S. D, Bruce was auctioneor. Raceland, winner of the 1589 suburban, was the first horse puc up and was sold to Michael E. Dwyer for $7,000. Prince Royal was knocked down at 85,600 to Phik Dwyer. W. P, Jennings got St. Carly at £1,600 and Fred Eschner pald $3,500 for Mag- nate. Then came the strugglo for Potomac, the throe-year-old son of St. Blaise. Eschines started the bidding at £15,000. It went ahead with €00 and $1,000 Jumps and the hsrse was finally sold to M. lu. Dwyer for $25,000. The oum[mrnuvu}{ small price realized for him was a great disappointment and was due prob- ably to thefact that he is mot eligiblo to some of the richest three-yeur-old stakes of next season. La Fosa proved a great favorite and after spirited bidding was s0ld to Hough Brothers at §13,000. Eschner paid #,000 for Masher. There was lively bidding for St. Charlos, who was sccured by W. M. Berry for $4,000. Flavia, a chestuut filly, went to F. McCabe for $3,800. The chestnut fill Beauty was the last of the race horses sold, Eschner taking her for $2,500. Yearlings brought the following pricos s Alltance, chestuut colt, $1,200; Bellisei, bay iy, §2,800: Captive, bay colt, §,100; Fidelio, bay colt, $1.800; Ingot, bay colt, #1,300; Mag= nolia, bay flly," 85,1 His Highness, bay colt, ¥3,400; St. Félix, colt, £1,000; Kt Florian, chestnut colt, 6,600 St. Mark, brown colt, $800; Regina, chestnut filly, $1,450; Tars antéll, buy filly, £,100; Caliph, bay colt, $,060) St. Carolina, chestdut _colt, 33,1005 King Cadmus, bay colt, #,000; Vietor colt, $4,000; Schaylkill, chestnut colt, §, B THE BRAZILIAN SCHEME, A Warsaw Paper Accuses the Governe ment of Connivance at Fraud, Wansaw, Deo. 27.—[Special Cablegram to Pie Ber,|—The Courier publishes vhe text of what purports to be a secret Brazilian decree for the encouragement of immigration, The decrce appears to have been issued June 20, 1890, and bears the signatures of presi- dent Fonzea and Senior Glyceria, It cone tains forty-nine articles, It promises that immigration agents shall be paid 120 francs for every adult they send to Brazl and 60 francs for every child landed. An aaditional premium of 100,000 francs is offerea any company landing 10,000 immigrants in Brazil in one year. In addition immigrants are promised substantial advantages contingent; upon their signing before embarkation declaration as to the handicraft they intend to practice. The Courier complains that emigrants sailing for Brazil from rman ports are never asked to sign any declaration and says that therefore when they reach Brazl they are in the position of outlaws and having no rights are forced to enter into coutracts which practically convert them into slaves. The Courier dencunces the system as & fraud and accuses the Brazlian government of connivance, Sh Gt < A Father's Terrible Mistake, Cixorsyaty, 0., Dec. 27.—Louls Schwing, worn out with watching at the bedside of his daughter ill with diphtheria, gave her b; mistake a dose of carbolic acid. The chil died in two hours and the father had to be re- strained from taking his own life. e e Tragedy at an Arkansas Danc Mespins, Tenn., Dee, 27.—A special from Pine Bluff, Ark., says meager details have been ived of an affray at Swan Lake, Pwo negroes ure reported dead and ten mg or less seriously wounded. The fight geefired | ®t @ dance.