Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 16, 1891, Page 1

% THE OMAHA DaiLy BEE "TWENTIETH YEAR. OMAHA DOWN IN THE COAL MINE. Btatistics Bhowing the Production of One of Towa’s Chief Industries, OUTPUT OF THE DIFFERENT COUNTIES, An Intercsting Case at Marshalltown Against the Glucose Works —Towa Farmers in Politics— Hawk. eye News. Ders Moixes, Ta., Feb, 15, [Special to Tie ‘Bee,]—The coal mining industry of lowa fs one among the state’s chief interests, and it is carefully guarded by julicious laws. A statistical report was mado up and published by the inspectors January 1 of this year, which shows the production for 1889 and 1560 by tons as follows: . FIRST DISTRICT, county. Appanoose Adans..... Davis Lucas annrul' . e Taylor. Wipello., Warren. Wayi Total tons [ Jofferson.. Keokuk Mahaska. . - Jnsper 166,001 Hardin i Egott 8,10 an Buren 40,405 Total tons ......... 1,604 THIRD DI Boone Dal Greone Guthrie Marion Polk .. Webste Totul tons. .. Grand total tons, .. ¢ This indicates that tho industry is constantly growing, the increase in the output the past year being 320,054 tons, although the produc- tion depends largely on the weather, By reference to the last biennial report, it is found that in the First district for the 3 ending June 30, 1550, the total num- ber of miners cmployed was 4,100 and other employes 1, a total ' of 5,367, The total number The amount of money paid for this labor this district was §1486,361.92, and_ the total value of the product at the mines was 1,50, 831,25, or about $1.40 por ton, and the aver- age price paid minors was about 80 cents, 1n the Second district the average number men employed was 3,405, the aver: f mines was 207, paid miners was 771 cents and the average value of coal po at the mino §1.44. This would givo 81,11 paid_miners, and the total value of ' product the Third district in the s In me year the total employing number of mines was 105, 8,103 men, paying them ' total of 81,017,232,50, and” tho total value of output was £1,508,773.82. The average *pri paid for mining per ton was 911G cont the average value of coal mined was §1.63 per ton. The laws of the state are so judicious and so well enforced that strikes and griev- ances that cannot be settled are of rare oc- currence, and fatal accidents and casualties conparafively few 1 number. So far as the ‘writer has béen ablo to discover there is no public record kept of the mining ares of the Btaw or the actual mumbor of acres being worked. These statistics would be of little value, however, because of the constant abandonment of old mines and tho opening of new ones. A glanco at the tables above given and comparison with & map of the state will show the most productive counties and their relation and situation to cach other. The most, productive sections are operated largely by the railway companies which pass through them—tho Burlington being chiefly intcrested in the First district, the Mii- waukee and_Northwestern in the Second, while very little shipping is done in the Third. SUIT AGAINST A BAD SMEL An interesting case is on at Marshalltown, belug the suit of Mrs. Williams vs the Firm- ench glucose works, Tho case recently ocou- ied ten days of the court's attention, result- ng in averdics for defendant. Itwas dis- covered that one of the jurors was serving in the same capacity in a_former like case against the company, and the verdict was setaside, This caso is a test ono, and means lifo or death to the establishment, which con- sumes 5,000 bushels of corn_per day; hence it is being bitterly fought. The plaintiff s a worthy widow residing near the works, who secks to recover damages for injuries sus- tained by offensive smells from Linn creck, tho waters of which are polluted by rofusd from the works and offal from the thousands of cattlo fed there, and other nuwisauces which have destroyed the value of her home and affected the health of herself and child- ren. Tho waters of the Towa river below the mouth of Linn creek have also been 80 badly olluted from this same source that all the fish have died and it is unfit for stock. The people of Marshalltown and vicinity are bitterly divided on the question, as tho loss of the es- tablishment would.be most serious in a busi- ness sense, The foreman of the works was. recently tried for negligence In not properly disposing of the refuse of the plant, result- ng in his conviction and fine of $00. The case is now pending in the supreme court, IOWA FARMERS IN POLITICS, For the last twenty vears the farmers of this state have made themselves felt in poli- ties, Thoy bavo not dono this so mach by dependent organization as by taking an active interest in and controlling” the action of the dominant party. The first successful uprising of the farmers was in 1874, when the rowth of the grange was at its height. (ho paramount issue in that cam- paign was control of the railways. Cheaper freights and fares were demanded and the grange went into S to secure them. The ) legislature elected that year was a tie, as it was last year, and there was a deadlock of thirty days over the speakership, which was fnally secured by republican concessions, The grangers made up the committees and controlled legislation, every member of the committee on railroads being a farmer. This committee did not kuow how to formulate what it wanted and avits own request four lawyers were added toit. The result was the famous granger railway law which estavlished the right of the state to control and regulate common carzriors, The regulation of freights under thot law was found to be impracticable and unjust, and has been remodeled time and again futo the present law, but the system of regulating passenger fares has never been changed. Another object of the grange was to wipe out the “middle"” man Ly the estab- lishment of co-operative stores, but it was a dismal failuro and the grange rapidly de- clined. There is still a substantial organiza- tion in thestate, but its membership has nearly all been absorbed by the farmers' alliance, This latter organiza- tion has bad varying fortunes for 8 dozen years past, but never had much control in politics except in an indirect way. The last six months has seon a rapid growth, mspired no doubt by the political success of the organizatign in neighboring states, It is estimated there are now about two thousand alliances in low: with an aggrogate memborship of probably fifty thousawd, 1If itshould choose to do so it might control the situation, but one of the cardinal principles of the Iowa organization 15 aguinst independent party action, and politics as such is a tabooed subject in' their councils, The great bulk of the farmers of Yowa are republicans and they will never o sent o become a side show for the de s long as thero is auy hope of gaining the desires through the meaium of the republi- can party, which has gl\'\‘n them all they baye gained thus far. The republicans wiil put upa farmer this year for governor, who Wwill doubtless be elected. It will be a demo- cratie funeral, but the republicans will more than likely furnish the Coftin, STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The executive board of the state agricultu. cssion tho past week ments for the state fair. d was engaged to furnish k for a remuneration of £1,000, tho band to bo composed of not less than forty insteuments, This decision will cause some disappointment. as there aro a number of excellent bands in the stute who thought thoy been glven a cl horns for good pay. The age of the stato s increased from v was instructed 1o prepare plans and 1nvite proposals for tho ercction of several new dining halls and ox- hibition buildings, The old soldiers of the state will be given froa tickets two days, in- stead of one, as leretofore. The most im- ision to engagean engineer to estimal the cost of building a mile race track, with a view to its probable construction. DES MOINES' UNION DEPOT, of a union depot for Des ©s has been in status quo for some time, 150 the committee of the council having the matter in hand have been too busy de- fending themselves from churges of “*boodle- ism” in the courts to attend toit, and vecause 0 Towa st musie durin, owne mitte Trion Depot to reactf an agrecment. it tho matter has becn awakened the past week by the visit of General G. M. Dodge of New York City, who is president of the Des Moines { ilway company, which pro- the depot. A conference of tho als and the council committee was held, and many seeming difficultics were explainec. away, In speaking about whether the roads would use the depot, General Dodgo said he could assu puncil that e rond of any consequence that ran nto the city would run its trains in the depot; that while he would not make such a contract, ho felt fectly sure that would be the result, as he known 1t to fail in all cities where union depots had been built, MUTUAT, INSURANCE AGATY. *Attomey General Stone has sent to Auditor Tiyons an opinion supplementa umendatory to his recent decision in_ reg business of mutu 1y and the cons Now interest nce companic ches a fow days code appears to provide th be paid to mutual insur constr h premiu eived when insur ken after tho original deposit notes ar filed, and that such cash premiums shall bear the same proportion tothe deposituotes taken atthesame time that the or amount paid in cash shall bear to the deposit notes origin- ally given, but he does not think the proyis- iori of tho Mw means more than that, and ho does not think the law provides for 'the in- vestment of the talof a mutual insurance company. The attorney general also ventures the sage remark that since ti wh 1 be aceumulal 3 ina ompany, it is dificult to sce its accumulations or profits can be invest DEET SUGATE MANUFACTUR rado, Cal.. has been in uging for putting nufacture of beet y has already been orga- s well under way. Mr, Stayner isloaded with fnformation on tho beet sugar qudstion, and sums up the financial phase of iths follows: ‘Lot mo tell you what this factory willdo for your farm Instead of raising corn at 25 conts a bushel and niaking not more than £10 an acre from it, he will have a chance to raiso bects andsell the crop at 0 anacre, It costs to produce it £35 an acre, counting the labor of Mhis children as paid for at good prices, “T'his is asure thing, and the farmer will gt cash for it upon its delivery at the factory. At the ontset the factory here would be ablo to use about, §125,000 worth of beets in @ sonson, and by thesccond season it could uso $250,000 worth 1f the farmers would vaise the beets. The plant we should putin 103 cost $400,000, and_it would all bo made in America and’ operated by American work- men. There is no uced of talking about goingto Europeto buy machinery and get men to run the machinery to make beet sugar, We have them all n this country.” RACE COURSE AGAINST CHURCH. Independence has been the scene of an ex- citing contest the past week. A merchants' carnival was being prapared under the aus- pices of the Methodist Episcopal church, (. W. Willinms, proprictor of the now world: renowned race course, was solicited to help out, and one of the most prominent young ladies of the city consented to represent Rush park by donning a jockey coat and eap, sugar, A compa nizod and the matte All blanket, Willlams colors, et These facts reached thoe ear of the pastor, Rev. Pye, and he proceeded last Sunday to express his disapproval in vehement stylo from the pulpit. When it was proposed to omit the objectionable representation the merchants and business men came forward and declared if Rush park was not repre- sented tho entortainment should be with. drawn from the church and the proceeds b given to some charitable institution, That was a settlor and the bunner of Rush driving park was mightily borae aloft at the Metho- dist carnival amid storms of applause, Tho future of Indepeadence is based on tho suc- cess of Rush park, and its proprictor can have, most anything he wants. High License for Des Moines. Dusuque, Feb, 15.—[Special Telegram to Tur Bre.)—A. B. Cummins, a leading Des Moines lawyer and ex-member of the legislature from Polk caunty, was in Dubuque on legal business and gave the details of a plan whereby it is hoped to free Des Moines from the depiessing effects of prohibition. He said that in case the republicans carry the state clection next fall an effort would bo made to have a law passed applicable to Des Moines alone, giving that city the right to sell liquor in bulk or original packages under a license of #1,000. 1t is designed, he said, to demonstrato to “the leglslature that Yroll“)liiuu is a flat failure, and that the law Des Moines is to ask for is an absolute neces- sity. In case the legislature is republican this measure will be insisted upon in order to test the working of a stringent license law as compared to the operation of the present pro- hibitory statute. If the legislature is demo- cratic, the present law would surely be re- pealed, and this actign would not be neces- sary, Licutenant Schwatka in Des Moines. Des Moixes, Ia., Feb. 15.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Brk. |—Lieutenant Schwatka, who was reported as seriously crippled by an accident at Mason City, is ln the city, bear- ing no outward evidences of his injurics, which, he says, were exaggerated by the ro- porters. He' was walking around calling on is friends and joling about Lis supposed death. B — Gibson's Vlight Denied, Cnicado, Feb, 15, —President Greenhut of the whisky trust emphatically denies the story of Secretary Gibson's flight from Peoria. I have positive knowledge, he said, “that Gibson was In Peoria Saturday night, 1received a bundle of letters this moruing from Gibson, postmarked Peoria,’ Numbers of the directors of the whisk trust arein thecity to attend the regular business meeting of the trust, which will be held tomorrow. Some reference to the Gib- son matter will undoubtedly be made, What They Say in Peoria, Promus, 111, Feb. 15.—The anuouncement that Gibson had gone created great excite- ment. One prominent whisky trust man says Gibson has gone to Europe or South America, while another equally 88 promiuent says Gibson left at 11 o'clock Saturday night for Clicago in response 1o & telogram from Presi- dent Greenhut, telling him to bring his report to lay before the directors’ meeting tomor- row in Chicago. Gibsow's wifeis stll here aud says he bas gone to Chicago. : e The Weather Forccast, For Omaha and vicinity—Light snow; colder, with cold wave. For Nobraska—Colder; northwesterly winds; fair Monday, For lowa—Fair Monday; decidedly colder; porthwesterly winds: cold wave, For South Dakota--Northwesterly wind falr Mouday ; warmer by Tuesday morniug. TONTI'S IRON HAND IS FOUND. Interesting Historioal Relios Found by Work- men on the Illinois River. PRESIDENT MURPHY'S ~ OBSERVATIONS. He Does Ny t Anticipate Any Great Pi- nancial Activity This Year Towa Merchant's Adventure— Plans of a Pugilist. Citteaco Orricr or T Ber, | Cricaao, Keb, 15, ' § Workemen, while excavating on the Tilinois riverat Starved Rock, have discovered the gravo of Tonti the groat French explorer and the iron hana which he wore. Tho ox- cavations were begun last summer for build- ing purposes, Thoskelbton is of large size and mingled with the mold wero of what haa evidently been armor. fragments were vichly inlaid, and attached to them wero copper rivets, Finally the dis- covery of the iron hand put it beyond doubt that theso were the remains of the great ex- plorer. History mentions Tonti's “ivon hand,” an artificial member which took the place of the right hand which he lost in battle. The hand when relieved from the carth and rust with which it was covered was found to bo made of bronze and had evidently once had steel joints. It was the same size asthe other hand and of intricate mechanism, A cross was also found bearing emblems of the order of St. Louis, of which Tonti was a chevalier, A cross shaped silver sword hilt lay near by. It haslong been miintained that Tonti was buried at Starved KRock, al- though the statements of contemporancous writers are conflicting, “With this hand which was always covered with a glove he was ableto terrify the Indians and they came to regard it as evidence of his supernatural vower. On one occasion he erushed the skull of avefractory native with o smgle blow andcame to be known as*Tonti, of the Iron Hand.*? WILAT IIE NOTICED, President Murphy of the Merchants' Na- tional bank of Omaba left for home tonight. Mr. Murphy has just returned from a two weeks® visit in thocast, He was in Wash- ington at the time of the passage of tho bill for the mew bridgo and says he thinks the enternrise will be of great benefitof thecity. In New Yorl, Mr. Mur- phy found the money market had ‘completely recovered from recent disturbances and a ling of confidence and security prevailed. Capitalists, however, are disposéd to be con- servative and rather cautious about embark- ingIn new cuterprises. The recent scare was in part responsible for this and it was also in a great measure due to the political situation inthe west. Men of means are a little ap- prehensive as to what the alliince movement will result 1, in the way of leislation on Iroads, rates of interest aund kindred ubjects, and prefer to place their money where the returns, though comparatively small, will bo more'certain than if invested in securities or enterprises which would bé' octed by such logislation.. For this reason Mr. Murphy does not anticipate any great activity this year, although cities liko Omaha, whose business iuterests rest on a sound basis, will continue todevelope at a satis- fuctory rate. CHIEF BUCITANAN'S PLAN: Chief Buchanan of the department of agri- culture arrived from Sioux l:g' “The 1 The sald, “fsin_cxcellent condition. ago’ T addressed lotters tion in al parts of the country interested in farm products and the replies have boen most favorable. Peo- plo at large pay but littie attention to minor differences. These things are naturally ex- fostedin a grent undertaleing, such as this. Some time to organiza- What the gencral publio is interested in s the ultimate succoss of the exposition ~and they aro determined that it shall surpass any exposition e The commission, recently organized in lowa, will ask for 50,000 to carry out its work and I do mot think there is the slightest doubt about getting it. Tho comumission is ably organized, being composed of active, inflientisl men who want to see the state’s resources properly repre- sented, I am not atall uneasy about the duction of spaco assigned my depaviment, 1 believe that an area ample to our needs will be provided and so I amnot worryiag about itat all.” Chief Buchanan will remove his headgnar- ters to Chicago noxt month and give all of his time to the department. AN IOWA MERCILANT'S ADVENTURE, Rudolph A, T. Meyers, a merehant of Post- ville, Ta, stopped in the city today on his way to Philadelphia. He visited a’ disrepu- table resortat 222 Fourth avenue and was The police raided r held. robbed of 05, all he had. the place and recovered a portion of the money. Meyers feels the sdisgrace kecnly and, as o threatens to comnit suicido, ho' will be held until he grows rational. CORBETT'S PLAX: James Corbett, the young California pugil- ist, will make his first appearance before Chicagoans at the Madison stroot theatro tomorrow afternoon, appearing us the Pro. fessor in **Sawaust Bl Referring to his approaching engugement with Peter Jack. son, Lo said today: “I consider Jackson one of the best men that ever donned a glove, putely scientific, o tremendous hitterand & great” general, Of courso if T did not consider that I could de- feat him T should not. have signed my namo to the articles of agrecment, but I can assuro you that, win or lose, Lor any man that ever faces him will not need to learn the fact that a fight has taken place from next moring's papers, Th reports recently eivculated re- garding my health were very much exag- gerated. 1 never folt betfer in my lifo thun I do at present. Stenzell, my backer and manager, who was with .me in New York will accompany us ncross the continent and make arrangements for mo to commence training soon after we arrive in San Francisco, which will be about March 1, Isee that Mr. Sullivan considers me a fitting substitute for_himself in the prospective ‘go with Slavin, T am obliged to the champion for his good opinion of my abllity, but for tho present I have as many engagements as I can ulfill. Should I succeed in defeating Jack- son, however, I shall be happy to make a mateh with Slavin,”? LOTTY HOOD'S SHAME, Lotts Hood, the daughter of a wholesale grocery merchant at Marshalltown, Ia., was discovered by her father this evening and re- moved, with' the assistance of the polico, The girl, who is a good looking brunette, left lome abouta year ago and came to Chicago, She wrote to her parents that she was kecp- ing books and they allowed her to remain, thinking that she would soon tiveof it and ro: turn, A cousin of hers, however, who vis- ited the city the other day learned that sho was leading a life of shame and told her father who camo after her at once. She was greatly affected at meeting her father and almost went into paroxysms of grief, She said she conld not look her mother in the tace and hud to be foreibly taken to the train. WESTERN PEOPLE 1IN CHI0AGO. The following western people were in the oty teday: At thé Auditorium—Mr, and Mrs, L. B, Nutting, Towa City, Tn.; John T. Murphy Mrs, M.'J. Coltins, " Heléna, Mont.; Mr. and Mrs. A, R. Lewis, Fort Dodge, Tn.; C. H, Brampton, Cedar Rapids, T.; G. S. Holmes and B, K.'Block, Salt Lake Clty,Utan; J. M. Fox, Montaaa: C. 0, Guernsee, Cheyenne, Vyo, At the Richelien—E. E. Naugle, Omaba; Mr. and Mrs, D, H. Wheoler, jr, and M. L. Dundy, Omabaj J." D.” McFarlind, Liucols, At the Tremont—A. J. Vail, R, E. Gould, Omata: William P.” Dewey, jr., Yaukton, 5. D.; J. D. Carpenter aud Miss K. Carpenter, Sioux City, Ia. At the Grand Pacifio-John W. Plain, . Bogue, Omaha; A Fort Madison, Ta.; V. B. Jennings, Essex, In.; F. W. Lafrent y | W Hill, Ogden, Utan; Mr. aad” M, 4. qw'lfim‘im“ iemer, Lincoln: Freank Murphy, William Lamson, W, J. Fischer, Omaha: Charies P, Richardson, Des Moines, Ia,; C. C. Crandall, C. 5. Johnson, Sioux Falls, D, At'the Palmer—Mr. and Mrs. Georgo B, Richardson, Lo Mars, Ia.; Jamos H. Craig, Nebraska; W. G. Buchanan, & { A. H. Prescott, Helena, Mont. ; W. B. Mi'lard, Mr. and Mrs, Charles A, Coe, Omaha; U, F enne, Wy At'the Sterman—Mr. and Mrs, George A. MeCrea of Davton, N. D.; Harvey, L J. Gormat oux C! s Cincinnati Enquirer contains the following personal mention Homer Dresbach of Council Bluffs spent the week in Tiffin, the guest of relatives, Mrs, Emma Graft of Orleans, Neb,, is tho guest of her sister, M Willard Griswold, at Peru. Miss Cus of Omaha is the guest of Mr, and Mrs. Charles L., Woll at Logans- port, ATKINSON, Post, Chey - GENERAL SHERMAN, Many Sympathizing Friends Call and Pay Their Respects, New Yonk, Fob. 15,—There was a crowd of people passing tound froin front of Gen- cral Sherman’s house from early morning until late tonight. There was nothing to sco but the long crepe streamers and once in & while the face of some member of the family or friends within as they glanced out of a window. The callers at the house were 7, butonly a few went inside, the ma- merely leaving cards, 1n the afternoon the two Misses Sherman went out for a short drive, but they were theonly oues who left the house for any length of time during the day. A meeting of the board of officers of the New York state commandery of the military orderof the Loyal Legion was held this morning and a giard of honor, consistimg of companions of the commandery, to watch over the remains of the dead hero, was sent to the family. About three thousand telegrams have been reccived at the house since the general's death, including those from Vice President Morton, ex-President Hayes, Blaine, Tracy, Rusk and Noble Melville W, Fuller, H. M, Stanley, Judge Walter Q. Gresham, Archbishop Kens k_of . Louis, Joseph K. Johnston, Judge Harlan and General Alger. JIn addition to these there were tolegrams from forcign ministers and heads of the varions state departments from all over this country and Europe, of Justic Arrangements for the Funeral. New Yorg, Feb, —The preliminary ar- rangements for the funeral of the late Gen- eral Sherman have been made. The funeral cortege will move at 2 o’clock Thursday next from the house in West! Seventy-first street, The fun services praper will be heldin 8 Louis. he funeral procession in thi city will be made up as follows: The regu- lar army escort will bo under command of Colonel Langdon of the Tirst_artillery; tho artillery will be made up of the First artil- lety, U, S. A, Dillenback’s light battery and two four-gun batteries of the national guard; the alry will consist of a troop of regulars and troop A of - the national guard. The body will be borne on_a caisson, An cort, of houor from Lafayetto post, Grand Army of the Republic, will surround the caisson and the pall-bearers will be in carriages. Then * tho president and vice president of the United States, ex-President Hayes, ex-President Cleveland, delegations from the United States senato and house of representatives, governor of the state of New York and the mayor of the city. The military part of the procession will fol- low the carriages i this order: Loyal Le- &ion, Grand Al of “the Republic posts, state of New York, dewgations from civic socleties and citizens, The march from Des- brosses street ferry has not been decided upon yet. Tho Grand Avy of tho -Republic will be under the command of General Clark- son, the National Guards under Gen- eral Fitzgerald and the regular escort under Colonel Langdon. The pall-bearers will be: General J. M. Schofield, General 0. O. Howard, Rear Admiral D. L! Braine, Rear Admital L, A. Kimberly, Gen- eral Thomas L, Casey, Geneval J, C. Keiton, Prof. H. L. Kendrick, General Joseph E. ohnson, General 'H. W. Slocum, neral' Danicl E. Sickles, General L. ' L Dodge, General J. M. Corse, General Wagor Swayne and General S.L. Woodford. The funeral in St. Louis will be strictly military in character. Intor- ment will be in the Calvary cemetery. On account of tho expressed wish of General Sherman when alive it was_decided not to comply with the request of President Harri- son that the body be taken to Washington aud therelay in stato fora day. It will not lay 1n state anywhere, Rev. Talmage's Tribute, BRookLYN, Feb. 15.—At the Academy of Music today Dr. Talmage spoke as follows on General Sherman: “The country has no grander soul to surrender into cternity than theone who has just passed away from us. Frank, nonest, brillisnt, gallant, patriotic William T. Sherman, that god, that I even knew, that I even felt the hearty grip of his right hand and had the friendship of his great big heart. I have no part. in the question which is being agitated as to whether he was a Catho- licor a protestant. I heard his profession of faith on a memorable occasion and under pe- culiar circumstances, In New York at the New England dinner three years ago I sat with him four houis, he on one side and the immortal Henry W. Graay on the other. ‘When in conversation he expressed to me his respect for the religion embraced by his wife and his own faith in God and his confidence in the future, Simple asa child, brave as a lion, sympathetic as g woman, firm as a rock, wrathful as a tempesp when aroused against a great wrong, lovgly as aJune morning among his friends.” - General Shermanm's Old Regiment. St. Lovis, Feb. 153General Sherman was the first colonel of the Thirteenth United States infantry and Py J. Carmody is, per- haps, the only survivag of the regiment who lives here. Coptafn Carmody wired P. T. Sherman Bekipg what arrauge- ment, it any, ‘hd been made as tothe place of honor ifor veterans of one of the dead chicftain’s commands, The following mw been received from P.T. Sherman: * make arrangements for you o join Ranspm post, Grand Army of the " Republic, and eseort the body. Join it with none but survi¥ges of the Thirteenth.” Aboutone hundred and twenty- five survivors areleft; most of whom live in lowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, Cap Carmody wishes to hear from as many edwrades as hio can, and he invites tnem to joirt him in honoring their late colonel, He may be addressed at 215 North Sixth street, oo M Important Railegad Consolidation. KAxsAs Crry, Mo, Feb. 15,~The Times to- morrow will say: Eresident Nettleton of the Kansas City, Forg Scott & Memphis has determined to carry out tho plans which have been under consideration for some time past, contemplating the consolidation of the Memphis with the Missouri, Kansas & Toxas, The plan also coutemplates the pur- chase by the consolidated roads of the Mis- souri & [Cansas, to be built through Kansas City from Topelks, Kan., to Booneville, Mo. the present northern terminus of the M souri, Kansas & Texas, This would give the latter a line of entrance into and terminal facilities in Kansas City and would at the same time by means of the traffic arrange- went with the Burlington from Booneville east wake theshortest road to Chicago, e Last Week's Clearing: Bostox, Mass., Feb, 15, —The clearings for the principal cities of the United States for last weelk were §1,047,08,507, & decrease of 0.5 per cent s compared with the correspond ing week last yea CHICACO'S LABOR TROUBLES. Uongressional Action Likely on the Stoppage of World's Fair Work, UNION WORKMEN SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED An Investigation to Be Made Into tho xtravagance alent in the Government Printing Ofice ~Miscellaneous. 513 Fc NS THERT, WASHINGTON, C, Feb, 15, Some form of congressional action is likely tove inaugurated tomorrow in connection with the pending labor troubles at Chicago Several of the leading labor exponents and some of the membars of the labor committee of the house have been watching with much interest the efforts of organized lavor in Chi- cago tooust the Italians and all other unc ganized labor which is engaged in the pre- liminary work on the world’s fair site. Among those interested is Ralph Beau- - mont, who has been the representative of Mr. Powerly and the Knights of Labor in Washington, his work being to watch labor bills and labor interests generally. Recently he has been elected president of the National @itizens' Alliance, which is an outgrowth of the farm- ers' alliance. Mr. Beaumont said today that he was watching the contest now going on in Chicago and it was likely that a resolution would be futroduced 1n congress tomorrow caleulated to ossist the organized working- Wasitixaros Boreav Tite Brer, } men in Chicago in their efforts. Before framing the exact forin of the resolu- tion he will wait to see what action the differeat labor organizations take. He thinks the dispatches from Chicago will give suficient information by tomorrow morning so that the resolution can be drawn -up.in a way to give theorganized labor bodies atleast some smallsupport and perhaps some support of a more practical nature. Mr. Beaumont's association with members of the labor committee of the house and with con- gressmen who ave known to be leading labor exponents is such that he will have no dif- ficulty in securing the introduction of the resolution. “It seoms to me," said Mr. Beaumont, “that if the world's fair work is to be done by Italians, Hungarians and other foreigners we might as well send the fair across the ocean and have it held n Italy, Hungary or some other place whero these foreign taborers could rightly take charge of it, but as long as it is to be held in Chicago the actual labor community city should be preferred for the work GOVERNMENT PRINTING OF As aresult of stateme dispatches about three weeks since, there is to be an investigation made into the printing aud binding branchesof the government, Attention was called to the fact t of more than half of the publications of the govern- ment from wo to ten times as many copie are printed as were neces while many documents were publishea which never saw the light of day, but after being stored away m executive departments for many months were carried tothe rag man and sold for waste paper. It was also shown in these aispatches that the quality of printing and Gxflm&flf? - Benator Manderson has reported a concur- rent resolution from his committes of print- ing whicn will undoubtedly be adopted and which will lead toa throrough _investigation of the printing branch of the government during tho coming summer. Itis proposed to create an office or board which will have complote supervision over the printmg and binding for the government so far as classi- fleution and amount of work is concerned. W way confiict with It 1 be entirely separate from and will in no the duties of the public printer. Itis not generally understood, but nevertheless is a fact, thatevery executive department in Washington, of which there are eight, has a separate anddistinet printing office, and most of them binderies: also quite all of the bureaux. These printing establish- ments work from fifty to two hundred and fifty employes each. All of this work is for the department in which it is conducted. Be- sides these there is the goverament printing oftico, with nearly threo thousana em- ployes and soveral million dollars of “expenditure each year. It matur- ally follows that there would bo immense duplications and great extravagances and_all sorts of uscless work done. It is proposed to have some supervision overall this work by which the greatest economy to the goveri- ment would be_exereised. 1t would bo an casy matter to save from halfa million to a million dollars a year in the goverument's printiug. EXPLORATIONS IN ALASKA. Unless congress gets & sharp move upon herself none of the bills looking toward bet- ter facilities for explorations into Alaska will bocome laws at this session, and under the plodding and non-progressive management of the democratic party in the house nothing can be gotten through in the next congress. “Chere are various bills before the two houses proposing the extension of state laws over Alaska and creating a torritory out of that expanse of country, which has none _but arbitrary federal goveriment, and _providing for an exploration into and 'survey of tho country of Alaska. Every one of these measures is highly im- portant tothe developmentof the country. Phe true conditions of Alasi are not genér- ally understood. Noone has ever made any thing like a thorough exploration of the couatry. The government has only a smat- tering idea about its resources. The rivers, lakes, agricultural, mining and other lands are not located. Senator Manderson proposes to seud an exploring party of scientlsts now in the employ of the government, to be ac- companied by some of the geologlcal, geode- tic, army und navy officers, which shall make a thorough exploration and survey of the country. Thereare to be no salaries paid, and only the expense of living will be incur: red, as the party can be sent to Alaska in the government's vessels, Tho proposition has met with almost universal favor in both houses, but it hangs fire owing to the block- ade of busimess, If it fails to get through within the next two weeks or eighteen day it will stand no show of success for two years. as the democratio party, if it bad its ~ way, would keep the people ignorant of even their own resources, much less those of the eoun- try they own. REPRESENTATIVE GEAR'S ADDRESS. Representative Gear, au ex-governor of Towa, made a stirring address last evoning av & meeting of the lowa association. 1t will be remembered that it was ex-Governor (¢ who, as a mewber of the committee on ways and means, stood out from first to last forand secured the abolition of the duty on sugar and an increase of duties upon farm products gencrally, Heo has been the farmers' repre- seutative upon the committee on ways and means and what he says of congressional work and politics s therefore of more than ordinary interest to farmers. Mr. Gear made a_special reference to the McKinley bill, and in_his specch went. into the details of the compilation and adoption of the measure. He thought it was especially a matter of pride to the repablicans that it was framed and passed without a caucus. He pointed 10 tho fact that just before the 1cKinley bill became a law, while loaf sugar retailed in Washington and other cities at about 8¢ cents per pound, he was told the other day by one of the leading dealers that the retail prico was already reduced in antici- pation of the action of the McKinley bill 1041¢ cents A pound and was assured that it would be considerably lower withina few weoks, *“The inevitable effect of the tariff law,’” said he, “will be to give the plain people of this couutry free sugar for the first time since the foundation of the government aud practically @ free breakfast tavle, It was said,” he con- tinued, “that the McKinley bill would start no new industries. While the ink was hardly dry on the tarift law we found new laterests starting up all over the country, and you are wolng 1 a good many more of ‘them. ' Mr. Ge \ilulml]»lmm f American made tin and gany other oral demonstrations of studit ssentations made by t democral *~ the last campaign which would res m them next y when a prosident . = \a clected, and when, ho said, tho action « would_swe 2 therear tha the procossic Governor ¢ republicans in this ‘congress ) democratio party so far in uld never cateh up with °d sone sentiment whicl is especially o st o the lowa readers of Tue Ber, Ho “Wo hayo a most im- portant clection v this year. Wo aro toduy inaugura, stonly 4 vole to recap: ture tho state any .eglslatur augurato tho prosidential L Lam glad to sce here tonight aud intelligent republicans, b fact th 30 to in- many active usc the very ou are here is an'evidence that you are working in the fnterests of the party, 1'ho coming election {n lowa is of = moro than usual significance. It covers tho election of a chief magistrato and legislation which involves thoduty of redistricting tho stat, We are all painfully awaro of the fact that oul o elected for the first time sinco tho foundation of the republican party a democratic governor. ‘That error has got to be corrected, and will bo corrected in my judgment. The greatest slander thatever was perpetrated on the good name of lowa emanated from the gentleman who fills tho high executivo of chief magistrate of that commonwealth, At the great tariff reform dinner, in discussing the question of 'politics s 3 sees it today, ho enforc Towa went democratic bee: were unprosperous, Ho prosper. Had he turned to the statistics of the state agricultural s he would have found that the Lowa farmers bhave been eof Joying @ more luxurious life than any othor Deople on God's green footstool, Farming, as we know, is not at all times profitable but when you consider the agricultural pro- ductions of Towa you will find tho corn crop of your own stato exceods that of ‘any other country. Therefore, 1 be- lieve ‘the exccutivo head of the to slandered tho stato when he said the farmers of lowa wero unprosperous, Last of the most potent arguments used ~ by enemy was that we were entering upon era of Ligh pricos, Weattended to our b ness and our democratic friends made the representations 1 regard to these prices. Thoy tlooded the state with documents which wore absolutely false on their face. They hired people to cirealate these papers. They hired people to peddle tinware and that soy of things at high prices. If An nanias and Saphira had_ oeen in_the campaigu and tho samo peralties hud been attached to these people as thero was in tho olddays for deliterato lying therc would have beon some sudden deats. " WANAMAKER 11AS NOT LOST ALL T(OPE. Postmaster General Wanamaker has not given up the hopo of securing the passago of the postal tetegravh bill, although the c mittee on postoflices and postroads has fused to report it to the house. Mr. Wana- maker will try it again next session. Some of his friends have even introducad new bills which they will try to got throush during the remaining fifteon days of the session. MISCELIAN EOUS. Mrs, Lewis A. Groff and tho Misses Giroff announco that they will hoat home 1nforu- ally during Lent at 200 East Capitol stree ani that they will also be_glad to sco the friends & v ovenings. Mrs. Groff has as Humphrey of Napolcon, O. Representative Henderson of lowa, who vont to Florida some days since for his alth, and who is much better, suffers most from his ankle, which ho sprained severely last fall. General Henderson has but ono >d his views that auso her farmers v could not year one the foot, having lostone on the battlefield, but o exercises his cork momber & so nimbly that & stranger would not He su!f)cct that he wallsed;with a cork foot. will not likely take part in the proceedings rs. Enpm féaapnmil “entertaining hor sister, Mrs, Wright, of Des Moines, Ia, John R. Gamble of Yaukton, S. D., who takes Representative Gifford’s place after March 4, is at the bbitt. Perry S, Hearn, A ey IN WHITECHAPEL, Curious Crowds at the Scene of the Latest Murde: [Copyright 1891 by James Gordon Benns Loxpon INew York H 4 Cable--Special to Tne Br ‘Whitechapel wore a gala appearance all day. The lowe class of the population arrived in shoals from every quarter of the metropolis and gaped over the scene of the murder, Close by, east end girls were dancing and sivging, for the locality hus grown callous, even to the Ripper, The man Sadler, still detuined on suspicion, fails to account for himself between 10 0'clock on Thursday and and 6 o'clock on Krigay morning. The police yesterday were confl- dont they had the right man, but are far less sure today, . Forsome weeks past thero have been un- favorable reports concerning the Hansard publishing union. As a consequence the or- dinary £10 shares were quoted yosterday as low as £2 to £214. A short time ago they stood atabout £0. Yesterday it became known o recciver had been put fu possession of the offices of tho company in Catherine street, Strand, at the instance of a debenture corporation. The recciver is John Annan of Broads; Patterson & (o, The business of the union sf 1 under what ap- 5 peared favorable conditions, for in 1889-%0 the ordinary shares received 12 per cent. At a meeting of the union on January 20, 1800, a satisfactory account was given as to the progress of business and as a result of the meeting the original capital of £875,000 was increased to £500,000. In July o further increase of capital was sanctioned to absorb the share capital raised to £1,000,- 000. There was also a debenture cap- ital of £230,000, #Tho divectors, including Horatio Bottomley, Sir H. Isaacs and Sir. R. Lethbridge, M. P., anticipated a golden fu- ture, 1t is pretty generally known thatfa large amount of this capital was not placed; that in conseauence not all of the business men- tioned in the second prospectus was actually taken over, Bottomley, finding his scheme rather too difficult to handle, endeavor about a week ago to dispose of the unpla shares by the formation of Bottomley's trust, limited. Meantimne difficulties in regard to the paymentof the interest on the original in- debtedness havebrought matters to a climax. A debenture corporation which makes it fits business to iuvesy in debenture securities, practically took over the whole of the union’s debentures, amounting to £250,000, the inter- est of which would bo £15,000 a year. This has not been paid, This corporation, acting in tho interest of the bondholders, has taken the courso of putting in o receiver, as it was empowered to do, without application to the courts. The action of tho corporation was prompted by the knowledge that the funds at the disposal of the union were exhausted. The receiver, meanwhile, has attached all the money stand- ing tothecredit of the company at the Con- solidated bank. Bottorhley, after giving his reasons for the present position of the company, stated that all concerned agreed that some form of re was necessary, The fact of a receive put in would, he said, facilitate the recon- struction, 1 bhad no trade debts worth mentioning—£25,000 would cover all things. It had been tight for them, but still Han were all right. The public hardly shares the optimism of the mansging divector, - Northwestern Saengerbund. MiLwavkee, Wis,, Feb, 15.—At a meeting of the B Saengerbund execu. | tive committee today Prof. Charler May 1 this city was_chosen president, and it was deeided to raise & fund of §25,000, | NUMBER 240 SUNDAY MORNING'S TRAGEDY, The Man Killed in Reicheuberger's Lodge ing Houso Identified as John Connors, JOE DWYER, THE MURDERER, ESCAPES, The Police in Possession of an Acoue rate Description of Him and His App Re garded as O ston tiin, The man who was killed at Reicienberger's cheap lodging house at Eleventh and Farnam about 1 o'clock yesterday morning was iden- tified as Johu Connors, who had been engaged in cutting ico for the Swift packing company fortho past tavo weoks. The po also learned from the statements of several wite nesses that the murderer is one Joe Dwyer, alias “Scotty,” alias “'Shorty," a coal miner, who formerly resided in St. Louis, and has worked in several mines in lowa, The murder was the resultof a quarrel and fight between Dick Cushing, a laborer, on ono side, and Dwyer and his partner, Tim Flannery, alias ““Dublin,” on the other, Cone nors tried to scparate the combatants, ang succeaded fu forcing Dwyer o ona side. Dwyer then slipped into an ad jolning room, closed the door and held it with his back while he drew his knifo and opened it. He then suddenly opened the door and without a word of warning plunged the murderous weapon in Connot's heart, The wounded man sank upon a beneh and died o few minutes later without sayinga word. At that time it w be had been stabbod, and the spoctators who picked up his body and laid it upon the bench, supposed that he had died of heart disoase, Meantimo Dwyer and | the” combatants struggled savagoly, Oficer Marnell dashed in at this juneture and found Flannery with Cushing's head in chancery, pounding him as bost he could and calling upon Dywyer to “give it to him.”? Cushing received anugly cut betwoon the shoulders, but the stabbing had beels done before the oficer arvived. [lanncry ro- fused to surrender and Murnoll feliod him with bis club, dragged hm to the sidewalk aced' him in cho after which *h nce and the patrol wagoun, and then re- s not known that th fight between inery went Cushing, on and ussist entered the | Cushing was found room - upstair Dywyer had disappeared. The pla an uproar, and the ofiicer found it to use his'club vig pede of the excit: mat When the wagon arrived with officers Sergeant Whalen took command. Repeated questioning lod little nothing as to what had transpired, was not until the serg ) clothes that it was kuown that & murder had been committed. Everyonoin the plice was & once placed under arrest aud bolices men were statioed at all the doors. Aftor fully half an hour of investigation and questioning, thewwituesses began to loosen, their tongues, and a deseription of the mur- dorer was secured. ¢ nook and corner of the houss, both up staivs and down, was cavefully searchied, but Dwyor was not 'to be found. “The k was found in a corner of the room where Dwyer had retreated befora the murder. Allof ‘the witnesses wore taken to two station and locked up. They will ba held uniess: W can be madé that will assure their uppearance atthe in- quest, which will probably be held today or tomorrow. John Connors, the murdered man, came heve from the Black Hills about two weeks ago and secured work cutting ive. o stayed at the company’s camp, and did not visit the ity until Saturday nigit. Ho was about five feet ten inches high, and weighed 185 pounds. He was davic complexioned and wore a heavy brown mwstache. The knife entered a littlo below and to the right of the left nipple, and the wound is very small one, being less tha i long. ~The blade penetr through ad overall blouse, vest and three shirts ‘The remains were vemoved to Heafey & Heafoy’s, where they were viewed yesterday by fully 500 people Chief Seavey had a number of curds struck off and sent out the following description of the murdere “Joe D, sarg ¢ to prevent o stame and hall frenzied jn- additional ¢, ahas ‘Scotty,? ars old; weight abod one hundred and seventy-five pounds; height five foot six. inchos: laht complexion and hair; smooth, full face slightly freckled ; blua cyes, short thick neck, long body, short legs, knock kneed, square build, When last scon ray sack coat and vest, light joans pants, cotton striped shirt and Scotch cap with peak.” ‘The police are contident of apprehending the niurderer, s he is well known as & croolke and bad man. Cushing's injuries are not serious, Hoad- mitted to the police that ho know who stab him, but refused to give any information re= garding his assailaut, Flaunery is held onacharge of resisting an officer, but a complaint on 1 more serious charge will be fil ed against him. “The place where the murder was committed i Lhe toughest hobo joint in the city, It hag been in operation about two moiths, richly deserves its apy Tramps’ Own.” It is a rickety two-story frame structure, and over the entrance on Eleventh street'is a sign which reads **Lodg- ing,5to % ceuts.” Inside 15 a long, low room, at one end of which is a funch counter, presided over by a set of resulsive featureg with a corncob pipe and sleeveless blue shirt, A Bee reporter visited the place list oven~ ing in company with a couple of detective, On the stove were acouple of eauldrons in which was brewed a decoction, the odor from which was highly suggestive of an- clent shoes. Out of ‘these vessels the sge called waiter ladleda suspieious looking beve erage in response to calls for tea or coffee, The tortured atmosp®ro was redolent with fumes and odors which bafHe descri ption op explanation. Occupying the chairs and benches of th place were nearly three score of individuals, crowded as closely as possible around a stov in the center of the room, The fire burne fiercely, although it hardly seemed possible that there was enough oxygen in the vitisted atmosphere to support_ cowbustion, The gang of wretches relapsed into silongd when the officers entered, and watched th parly with ~furtivo glances which tol plainly of their uncasiness in the presence of the miuons of the law, In response toa command to light up th stairway and upper corridor, an ugly visages youth, through the encrusted dirt on whose face peered a couplo of the most villainous eyes that ever saw the light, sullenly picked up asmoking lampand led "the wiy up & Hight of rickety si and slong the lo ¥ narrow, tortuous passage. On either side are.doors which open into rooms about 7x14 feet each, Inseveral of these rooms bunks are arranged on either side in tiers of three, ono above auother, These bunks are constructed of the roughest kind of unplined lumber, A rageed _quilt was supposed to Interven between the jagged splinters on the botto: of the bunk _and 1L oceupa ch bun was intended to accommodate two lodgerd, and the eighteen _bunks in each Hitle aparty ment would the enable thirty-six yieary \l]llful'lullilws 4o obtain “‘sweet, refroshing sleep.” Ti'somo of the rooms were bods viaced closely together until ull of the spice was occupied. The prices charged for those ace commodations are varied, For 5 cents a poo devil can_oceupy a chait near tho stoys al night, while it will cost hum a dimo if ho de- sires to recline during the hours of darkness of the benches near the wall, Fifteen . nanded if ho desives 10 occupy berth with its quilt uccompanis ment d @ bumap bodfelow For 20 cents he can kave the privilge of courting the drowsy god In a bed' wnd m.‘j silver quarter he can have & narrow bed to himsel. Few of the patrons of the are nabobs cuough to evjoy the latter luxury,,