Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 30, 1891, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. B YEAR. "OMAHA, MON DAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1891 —— ] MBER 252 place himself at the disposal of the city committee to i1l any appointment the com- mittee may make for him He 18 suffering with Ia_grippe in a mild form and deems it unwiseto risk catching a greater cold than he now has by making the tnp to Chicago tonight. LAST WEER'S BUSINESS, What Clearing House Reports Show for the Volums of Trade. Bostox, Mass., March 20, —(Spacial Tele- gram to Tue § ~T'ho followinz table, com- LOST 1§ THE SNOW STORM. I Father and Son Sucoumb to Severe Wy- oming Weather, WORST IN THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY. UDICIAL POSITIONS T0 FILL.! President Harrison Has a Greater Number Than His Predecessors, PLENTY OF CANDIDATES FOR THEM. Five Feet of Snow on the Level | g pom dispatches from the manigers of | The Kecent Act Providing for the on a Mail Route — A the clearing hoases of thecities named, shows | ¥xtension of the Franking Priv- Heavy Fall in the gross exchanges for last week, with rates flege Will Prove a Great Nebraska. per cont of increase or decreaso, as against the Boon, BANET similar amounts for the corresponding week s in 18 I Caspan, Wyo., March 20.—[Special Tele- — — Wasmyarox Buneaw Tae Breg, gram to Tne Bee.|—-Thomas Clark, a boy sixteen years old who carries the mail from Ofl City to Rongis, Wyo., is reported to have lost his way and has not been hesrd from since last Sunday. The route is over the backbone of the Rattlesnake mountain range, and at best a terriole road. The snow in that section is five feet on the level and the car- rier is supposed to have lost his way in a blinding snom storm that struck Oil City last cirirs a 1 the mdst of ather nor son rching parties are terday a horse in Frida; a driving storm, and neither hunt him 1 very desirable. [ u age limit, left the city tonight for his old has veen heard from. S out looking for them, and 3 driven by the father was found dead between rious appre nd the ho Providence, Detrolt i U had ns are many judiclal Harrison. almostany time, and the district judges congress, tho polico court judge here and the 518 FOURTERNTIL STREET, } W asuiNaToy, D, C., Match 20, No president was probably ever given so appointments ns President Bosides Associate Justice Brewer nd likely the successors of Associate Jus- ices Field and Bradloy, who may retire nine eircuit and authorized the other day by Cinoionait .« 3 Sunday morning. FHis father, Wiliam Clark, | Pitesvure 3 | laud court judges, s vacancy has just been who has the mail contract, started to | Kanuss ity 3 | created on the court of claims. This court s in Washington, the judges are paid $4,500 or lifoand the positions are regarded as Judge Glenni M. Scofield of he court of claims, who goes upon the re- ired list by virtue of his having reached the their haviog found she luv.n-\. rants B ' home in thestate of New York. A large ey s worh i | Mestin number of well knowa men are mentioned e Hfatory Of tre motaL D) for the vacancy, among them ex-Representa- Dotith e, tives McComas of Maryland, Cheadle and Heaviest Snow of the Year, Harttord Si0vx Fare, 8. D., March al'vel- | i gram to Tue Bee.]—One of the heaviest | Dortlan ¢ Washington snow storms of the year broke 100so here this | Peoria morning and by evening fully an inch and a | $¢ Joseph . halfof snow iad fallen. Its value is incal- Ingflela, culable. For the past two weeks the farm- e, ers have been busy secding and the snow Worth will assist in giving the seed a good start. | Stouxticy The storm extends as far west as Pierre and | Jonttle reports coming in indicate that it covers tho entire state. Snow and Roin. 0 Augelos Huzoy, 8. D., Marh 20—|Special Telogram | ko3 Avieles a to Tur Bre.|—Snow and rain foll hero this | Lowell....! o morning. s afternoon & heavy snow- storm setin and continued during the even- ing. Thesnowis full of water and will put the ground in splendid conditior for seeding. Easter services were held in the various churchies today and were largely attended. A Foot In Depth, Hyaxwis, Neb, March 2. —[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee|—A terrific wind and snowstorm has been raging here sines yes- tenday morning, with 1o signs of clearing up. The snow on the level surface is fully a foot deop. ot tneluded 1 to e Sl Sl BURIAL OF PARSONS, Trains Blocked. Lixcoy, Neb., March 20.—Reports from the western part_ of the state indicate a heavy suow storm prevailing, Trains on the Black Hills branch of the B. & M. are blocked near Long Pine. Remains of the Dead Burlington Frakeman Buried at Dorchester. Dorcugster, Neb, March 20.—[Speelal to Tue Bre.|-The romains of Andrew Par- sons, the B. & M. freight brakeman who died from injuries sustained by being run over by the cars at Bremer, Kan., were brought here for interment by a special train this morning. The funeral servico will bo AT e A5 SHE SHOT T0 KILL. ATacoma Gambler Mortally Wounded by His Mistress, vania, Owen of Indiana, Grosvenor of Ohio and ond Comptroller Gilkison of Peansyl- THE FRANK PRIVILEGE. Therecent act of congress extending to sonators and representatives the privileges of sending through tho mails under a frank all communications addressed to a government official will provea big boon to nearly every one of thenation’s law makers. In accord- ance with the act Postmaster General Waua- maker and e their attention to the provisions of the bill as issuean circular to postmasters ployes of the postal service calling and_instructing them to pass all mail matter of this class when accompauied by the signa- ture of the sender placed on the outside, The circular states that the privileges conferred applies to members of both branches of con- gress, senators, delegates and representatives {neluding not only those who have taken their seats s such, but thoso who have been elected, have received their certificates of election and hold the prima facie rights to seats. Senators and representatives whose terms have oxpired are not entitled to the benefits of this act. Franked letters must in _every case be addressed to a government officer— not necessarily at Washington, but any where in the United States—whose oficial title mustbe glven fa the: superscription of the letter, either with or without his name. The privileges given in the act applies only to letters on official business, each letter to a government oficer to be separately envel- opedand framed. The term ‘letters’” as used in this law means communications wholly or partly in writing, relative to ofi- cial matters and sent under seal, such com- munications as aro dominated in the laws mail matter of the first class. By the term of this actit will readily be_scen where the congressmen will profit. Tuking the coun- try member for examplo. The country which Tacoms, Wash., March 20.-Last night [ heldat the Methodist Episcopal church to- | ke represents contains many thousands of Johnny Foran, s gambler, was shot and day- | morrow at 2 o'clock, under the auspices of | constituents. A goodly number of these ous nded ndet. Order of Oddtellows, of | want places u‘r,xdar the government aud the g 2w S i tyncs Bt = e ations asking gar recognition. ‘head in the rear of and on a line with the top of the loft ear, vanging upward and toward the right side of the head, lodging in tho brain, One aiso remains 1n the muscles of the left arm, betwoen the shoulder and elbow. Dr. Mangus, who was passiog, en- tered to find the room full of smoke and tho woman standing over Foran, saying: “Johnnie, you will not die; you know £ did not'intend tohurt you. Itwas an accident; you know it was an accident.” To this Foran replied: “Thatbe——. You shot atme five times, There was noaccident about that. 1 never expected you would do anything like that, A policeman was sent for and the woman taken to the city prison. She registered as Mrs. Loon Dofourcey, and has boen known in the house where she resided as Georgia Adams. She sppeared to be parfectly sober, but admitted that she had been drinking during the day and was out for a sporting time In a hack with amale friend. Soon fier reaching the room Foran began busing her and lecturing her about hor actiop. He continued upbraiding and vilifying_her until she began enragod tou frenzy. She only remembers stooting onco, and don't know why she fired. Sho says Deourcey is ber maiden name, and that she came originally from 1llinots, but resided for a timo in San Francisco and in_ several bagnios in this city since her adyont here two years ago. Foran has been living with and shoshared all she had with him. She left. him onco for a day, to go witha man who intended to take her from a lifo of shame, but Foran followed and porsuaded her to roturn to him, Foran was a dealor at the Comique gambling rooms, His people are rostdonts of Texas, but the man has been ou the fronticr nearly all his lifo. He came to Tacoma from Tucson, Ariz., where he fol- lowed the same modo of life. - STRANGLED RERSELF. ve years of ago and singl widowed mothor and one married sister are living hete, and the news of his sudden death briogs grief and sadness to the entire com- munity. Burre Ciry, Neb., March 29.—|Speclal to T Bee.—Yesterday was a gala day for Butte City. News reached here that we are assured of the temporary county seat and it was received with such universal satisfac- tion that the event was colebrated by a dis- splay of flags, firing of anvils and general jol- lification. Refreshments flowed like water. “The day closed Witk a by fro0 danco aStohl hall. REV. HO LS RD CROSBY DEAD. He Passes Away While the Bells Are Ringing for Vespers. Ne farch Dr. Howard Crosby died at 5:45 this evenis His end wus peaceful. As the bells were ringing for the vespers sorvice of Easter day he asked by a sign for paper and wrote a few lines to bis loved ones—to his absent son and daughter in Egypt and the three members of s family at home. The first words of this, his last writing, were: “Iknow Ihave t0 go.) Howard Crosby was bora in New York city February 27, 1820, Howas of a revolu- tionary family, bis grandfuther, Ebenezer Crosby, being surgeon of General Washing- tou's guards. He graduated at the univers- ity of New York in 1844. In 1563 e took up tho pastorship of the Fourth Avenue Prosby- terlan church, with which he was associated at the time of his death. Dr. Crosby's inter- estin public affairs was shown by the active part ho took in the interest of the people's municipal league movement, which aimed at the puridcation of local politics. He was & high license advocate. Asan author he has written a number of scholarly books on bibli- cal subjects. Mrs. Lucy Andrews Suicides in the Colorado Springs Jai Death « Plankinton, Covorano Serixas, Col, March 20.°The | Myrwac arch 29,—Hon, John femalo flend, Mrs. Lucy Androws, who was in the county jail in default of a bona of #,000, for her appearance in the’district court, hanged herself in ber cell late Friday evenmng. The prisoner was last scen alive by Sheriff Jackson about 4:30 o'clock. e was starting to come up town and, as he usu- ally doos, took & walk through the jail, no- tickng the prisoners. All wero around in the various departments the same as usual, He then came up w the court house, leaving Juiler Beal in charge. Beal was in the house and in the yard tho most of tho time uutil when the sheriff returned, and both _entered the juil toether. They noticed nothing out of the usual “order of things until the cell occupled by Mrs. Androws was reached andone of her hands was noticed protru ing through the side of the cagy. As soon as Suerifl Jacksou could euter he found that his first impression_ was only too true. Shewas dead. The body was av once taken down and tho coroner nofified. She was arrested on Monday of this week on & warrant sworn out by oue of her neigh- bors, who cbarged her with attempting to take'the life of her_ stop-son,a bright little boy of nine years. She waived examination and was held in the sumof 5,00, Indefault of bond she was remanded to the county where she ended her existence as stated. had taken a towel from her eell and tied one eud to the bars of the cage above. Then she had evidently stood on the bed and tied the other end around ber neck, pushed the Plankinton, a prominent aud wealthy citizen of this city, died at his home at 8:50 tonight monia. tup a greet fortune in the packing business, in which he was long assisted by P, D. Armour of Chicago. He was theowner of the Plankinton house and many large business blocks in this city and his fortune is countod iu millions. Ho was @ man of great public spivit and gave money and ald to every enterprise that promised o advance the city's interests, while his private cuarities were very large. B An Ambushed Assassin, Ava, Mo., Mareh ). —A dastardly attempt at assassinatiou took place in this county a few evenings ago, in which Frank Perry was serlously wounded. - Perry lives fourteen miles west of town, and at tho time of the shooting was not aware that he had an enemy in the world. Whilo passing along the road home he was fired upon from the brush by an unknown assassin, betwoen sun down and dark. Porry fell and cried for help, and when his neighbors who beard the shot and hils eries arrived upon the scene the assassin had fled. Perry i3 in @ precarious condition, the ball baving penetrated his bowels, and is not expected to live. At this time no clew has been obtained, and the wholcaffair seems tobe shrouded in’ mystery, el pdus Coke Strixers to Receive Ald, Premsucia, Pa., Mareh 2. —The Counells. bed dway from her with her feot and allowed | ville coko strikers will receive aid from an horself to bo strangled, When found her o S 3 feet were about & {0ot. from the floor, GEIN] AR - BABOAl Gompers, president of the Awerican Federation of por, will bo here within two weeks and writes that nis organization will back the cokers to the last in their demand for eight hours. Gompers' visit, however, more directly concerns the coming struggle of the building trades in this vicinity for eight hours, to be demanded May 4. Pittsourg was chosen as the nucleus for the eight hour movemeut in the building trades to extend all over the oountry, ankment, BIMINGUAN, , March 20.—-A train beavily loaded with pleasure seekers on the Ensley City dummy line, and going at a rapid rate ran off the track a fow wiles from town frow no apparent cause and fell down a ten "I‘w"l rmb?nkm(‘nl‘ Al Browu and Bob ‘wylor, colored passengers, were instantly killed and Engineer Rigsoy' fatally injured. About fifteen other passeugers were burt, more or los, aud two of them will protably e, i °d of Heart Trouble, Cuevexxe,\Vyo., March 20.—[Special Tele- gram to Tug Bee,|~Mrs, Bush, wife of H, 8. Bush, who has been a prominent Wyoming P:rmnullxl;l,l\. 1, Marol 20. - Senmor | gairle growor for s numbor of years, diel mer will not go to Chicago until Wednes- | suddenly this evecing of heart trouble day, He will be there Weduesday night and | brought on by an attack of the grippe, ————— Se o Paimer's Plans, i i Being some distance away from Washington a correspondence with the officials under whose charge the desired appointment is classed must be carried on and United States. stamps aro freely used. Sometimes the re- sultis beneficial both to the applicant and to the representative and in these iustances the money is well oxpended. _ On the other hand the applicant is “turned down” aud then the money spent 1n stamps is cousidered as wasted. Under the new law a congressman is entitled to carry on all his correspondence relating directly to the interests of his con- stituents without tho expenditure of any of his privato funus. Itis safe to say that this act will bothe means of saving to western members alone hundreds of doliars each, HARRISON'S CHANCES FOR RENOMINATION, “it's my judgment,” said Sevator Pad- dock of Nebraska, theother day, “that Presi- dent Harrison will be renominated next year, and without formidable opposition. His ud- ministration has grown rapldly. He has had frictions with individuals, No man ever oc- cupied the position without having them, Hehas been unable to piease everybody, but none of his predecessors have, There are members of his cabivet who have difficulties with individual members of the republican party, and these displeased gentlemen will fight in the convention against renomination. ‘This is_but the repetition of history. I do not pledge myself tuis far in advance to any- body as the standard bearer next year, but I beliove President Harrison, looking at the future from the present standpoint, will be the nominee.” Senator Hoar of Massachusetts said re- ceuntly: “With the possible exception of arfiela and Lincoln, President Harrison is the best equipped chief executive we have hadin a half ceutury. I mean the officer, for it is not & question to speak of the man." An Ohio congressman, who did not want his name mentioned, speaking of the person- ality of Presidents’ Gurfield and Harrison, and drawing wm?url!onl between the per- sonal popularity of tho two men, said : ‘‘Fewer persons have spoken ill of the prosent occupant of the white bouse than of any man I_can remcmber during tho frst twoyears of his term. That is the trying period. 1t is almost impossible to keep from offending men during the office-seeking period, for oneis driven from pillar to post every day in his efforts to not offend, and it seems the more one triesto please all the more liable he is to inmocently disploase somé.” COMING STRIKE OF PRINTERS. Itlooks as though the strike of the job printers in_Washington, ordered 10 take place next Wednesday unless the demands of theunion are acceded to, promises to be warmly contested and to have a far reaching influerice, The printers demand cents per 1,000 ems mstead of 40 cents before 5 o'clock in the afternoon ana 55 cents after that hour. Allof the owners of job printin, establishments are reported to nave decla that they will not yield to the demands, Rufus H. Darby, who owns the largest printing house in the city, says: “We are now payirg higher prices for consposition than are paid in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, and this because the union here is ruled by the em ploves of the government ofice. Washiogtou ought to be a great pub- lishing ceuter, and yet, while a great many books are written here, but few are printed here. Why is this{ Because of the high price of composition. Were the price reason- able a great deal of work would be done here that now goes out of the aity. Yes, Iam pre- pared for the fight if it comes, and if 1 am forced out of the union by excessive demands 1 will never have any dealings with it again,” It is stated that the strike will be ordered by the printers at the government printing ofice, who control the union here, aud the object is to hold apthis victory, if one is achieved, as an _object lesson to demand au- other iwcrease from congress when it con- venes next winter, and that the printers in the jobofices are satisfied with the wages now paid them, but are unable o keep them- selves out of the strike if their demands are not complied with, ~ An assessment of 2 per cent will be ordered from the goverument printers to meet the expense of the strike. MISCELLANEOUS. Land Commissioner Groff expects to get off for Los Anzeles before the end of this woek. He feels naturally aud properly proud of the beautiful and valuable suver service presented to him by the employes of his office. His danghters, who have been suffering from malaria for sowe time, are improved in health, A baudsome oil portrait of Judge Grofl is 10 haug on the walls of the land office. Deputy Commissioner Lincoln says that be roceives about six thonsand fnauiries a day concerning the way In which pension claims are being treated, an that ho would ~ Iike to fake an ex- planation. There &re at present about 610,000 new law claims on fite in the bureau, These aro eiven the Hight of way and aro dis- posed of as_soon as possiblo, A great many of these claims come from sotdiers who have already applied under the law, and as soon as their new claims afe attended 1o they get a littie more _ evidencetogether and try to et through theirold enes. Theso do not re- coive o much attention as their new law claims did, and then they write letter after letter, complaining of the unjust vreatment which they think they are receiving, but it is an established rpule at the bureau that the new Jaw claims and the applications of widows shall have the preference over all the other cases, and the deputy commissioner wants it fully understood why somo claims are seem- ingly given the proference over others. The deputy commissioner says that, judging trom the increase fn the numbsr of ‘applications and in the amount of mail wathin the last two or three years, that the messenger boys who now carty the cases from ono room to another will grow old and gray in the service before the work of the office will be near its close. Mrs, Hearst, the widow of the late senator from California, has insisted upon paving the expenses of transporting her busband’s remains and the members of the funeral proper from Wushington to San Fran- cisco, This 1is because so much scandal has been. made of the funeraitrip by the newspapers. The sena- tors and representatives who accompanied the party feel very much outraged by the published statements and particularly from those made by Mrs. Gougar, of Lafayette, Ind.. and one distinguished senator who was with the party said today: “‘She surpasses v liar that I ever hoard of.” Nevertheless Mrs Hearst does not propose to be in any v rosponsible for the charge of oxtrava- gance in connection with the funeral of her husband, and will permit only the expenses of the rongressional committees who accorm- panied the remains to San Francisco to be paid from the publio fands. She will her- self pay for the tickets of herself aud her family, for the use of the private car they occupicd and for all the supplies that wero served to them. Penuy S, Hearn, An Invitation from Italy. Wasmyaroy, March 20.—Secretary Rusk is in receipt of a communication from the de- partment of state with reference to an inter- national exposition to be held at Palermo, Italy, of machines and motors for small in- dustries, and conveying from the royal do- partment of agriculture, industry and com- m of the kingdom of Italy a cordial in- vitation to American inventors aud maunufac- turers to participate in the exbibition. Major Rathbona Accepts. WasniNaros, March 20.—Major Estes G. Rathbone of Obio, at present chief postofice fnspector, has been tenderod and accepted the oftice of fourth assistant_postmaster-general, created at the last session of congress, i WOMEN READY TO VOTE, How They Are Representsd on Kan- sas Reglstration’ Lists. Torrka, Kan., Mareh 20.—Tue campalgn for the city. election in Topeka this year is a spirited one, and the women have become greatly interested in ‘i, A house-to-house canvass has been made by the women leaders and the result has au unusually large registration of female voters, over 25 per cent of the 9,000 registered voters being women, The increast 'in the mumber of women who have reglsiyted aver last year is nearly 50 per cent, A < rtion. ;g. this increase iz.colnl'afl W aulod 1o the 4 7 the last -ym%', in carriages. 2 Aroiisoy, Kan,, March 29.—The leaders of the equal suffrage movement in A tchison are ‘vecoming discouragea ‘and mauny ave falling by the wayside. The law giving women the right to vote at municipst elections in Kan- sas was adopred by che legislature in 1880, The following_spring 496 women registered, but less than 300 voted. The next year 481 women registered, but only 875 voted. The third year 204 womer registered, but less than 300 voted. This year 224 women rogis- tered and it is believed that not over 100 will vote. The average Atch- ison weman does mot care to dabble in politics. She will leave that sort of business to the men. Ome woman 18 now serving her second term on the school board, but she is not an equal suffragist, and was elected by the votes of the men and without opposition. W henever women run for office us equal suffrage candidates they ivvariably wet defeated. Two women are now makinga Bolllim\l tight for positions on the school oard, and all the female school teachers in the city have registered fot: _the sole purpose of voting against them. ' Equal suftrage is looked upon as a fad hers which is rapidly nying out. 'WicnrTa, Kan., March 20, —The registration books have closed and show a total of 6,526 names, Of these 1,364 are those of women, being nearly three times greaterthan the registration of women st the last municipal election. The primary cause of this increase is found in the existence of a large citizens’ alliance, which has registered all its women, thus forcing the opposing candidates to intro- duce into the fight as many as possible of their petticoated allies, 3 LeavexworTn, Kan,, March 20.—The total registration is 1,200 short of the last bennial election. The women fetl off inabout the same proportion as the men, No separate count has been made as yet. ——————— THE PERRIEN ABDUCTION. Reward Offered for the Perpetrators of the Crime. Detrorr, Mich,, March 20, —Fresh interest was added to the famous abduction case today by Perrien's lawyers offering £,000 fors the arrest and conviction of the abductors, or evidence that would lead to that end. Per- rein would have offerod the reward the day after his return, buv Chief of Police Borg- man advised aguinst it. A breach has been made between the chief of police and the Perrien relatives by regson of nothing being done, and Lawyers Muston, Cowles and Jerome, who have charge of Perriby's inter- est, have drawn up chirges to present to the police commissioners t Chief Borgman, asserting that he neglected to work out clows that were furnished, and claiming that had he doue so Perrien's abductors would have been landed the firstday. As far as can bo learned the police’are as muca in the dark as thoy were the day, although John Liyons, who keeps & stable and always goes bail for the ‘crooks, is nv.ronglr suspected of knowing whio'they are, but will not talk. The case is likely to make its effect felt, as the lawyers will'pish the charges against the chief. Lyons was called upon to- day by Perrien’s lawyers, and grew angry, lffl telling them they had b cease to try and catch the abductors, or the first thing Per- rien knew ho would turn ap. missing again, and would either give up Bis' mouey or die. Perrien and his_ son. appiied to the mayor for permission to revolvers und 1t was grauted. Al T Fitzsimmons Wil' Fight Hal', Baurivore, Md., Mareh 20.—Bob Fitz simmons bas left for Buffalo. He says of the Astoria (Oregon) Atbletic club purse for a fight between himself and Hall, that the chance has come at. last'to pay off old scores, and that at the closo of his engagement with Clark, which eads 1o nine weeks, he intends to train for the fight. Clark tele- graphed from Chicago to his agent here that he had a guaranteed purse of §17,000, and, furthermore, ho would back Fitzsimmons for £10,000. With equal backiug on the Hall sido this will make the larest stake ever fougbt for, the total amount being #37,000. Fitzsimmons says if be defeats Hall he 'will make Ted Pritchard, Englaud’s champion, bis next mark. e P Alabama Incendiaries Lynched, Birsixouas, Ads., March 20.—News was recelved here tonight from Russeliville that Elrod Hudson and Jeft Dipsmore, the two negroes who burned & portion of that town Tuesday night, were taken trom jall by & mob and Jyuol EVELINE ACHIEVES ~ FAME. The Extraordinary Matrimonial Oareer of | an English Girl, MACKAY--BONYNGE SCANDAL REVIVED. A Paris Paper's Interesting Death Notice of Lawrence Barrott— They Thought Ho Was a Woman, Loxpoy, March 20.—The Parisin police have just given out the facts in connection with the arrest of Eveline Neal, mention of whom was made in these dispatches yester- day, regarding her extraordinary matrimon- inl career, Eveline Neal is the child of a well-to-do farmer in Shropshire, the fertility of whose acres made it an oasy matterto provide hand- somely for his family,composed of one daugh- ter and three sons. Eveline, like many others in the same position, being tho pet of her father and brothers, and fairly good looking, soon learned to conmand and grew up in the belief that mankind was created to do her homage and minister to <her wishes. How early she started in her present careor is not yet known, but as she is still young, if not in the heyday of youth, it1s supposed that she early entered the crooked.paths in which she has since strayed, Eveline's methods were admirable in their simplicity. Fearing that the sturdy common sense of the majority of her countrymen might nct prove favorable to her schemes, she long since transferred herself and her belong- ings to French soil, finding fn Paris, and the general practice of patronizing marriage bu- reaus and answering advertisoments holding out attractive Inducements to commit matri- mony, a congenial atmosphere and much en- couragement. Behold her, then, locatodl in the gay capital, if she could be said to have a location when the necessities of her trade com- pelled her to bo as locomotive as a rass- hopper and quite proteanin_ ner many dis- gulses. Of course, & woman of Miss Neal's genius could not adhere slavishily to any par- ticular method. Skehad many, but a favor- ito schome, and ono that won her much wealth, was the announcement in the jour- nals that she was a widow, with a fortune varying in_different advertisements from 200,000 to 1,000,000 francs, and desired to marry a gentieman in good circumstances bo- longing to *high life” if notw the nobility, or to the select circles of commerce, Answers were directed to be sent ad- dressed poste restante, where they were called for by an accomplice. The latter then selected such of the replies as madame was leased with, and _made appointments for an nterview, not with the English_maiden, but, only with her friend. At this meeting the accomplice, M. Burges, passed the candi- dates in serious review, noting down care- fully the physical characteristics of wach, the amount of fortune, ete. Tn cases where the cxamination proved sat- isfactory the victim was invited to madame’s sumptuous apartments in sight of the Rond Point in the Champs Elysees or some equally attractive quarter of the city. Ou every oc- casion the widow assumed & new name, but each time she told & pitifal tale of how' she had been married against her will, and, while she would liketo pleaso herself on tho pres- | which under its management during the last | servative tono which formerly characterized | its articles to indulge in personalities, and in ent occasion, she still had a mother, her father hdng dead, whose wishes she must gon sult, and who still deemed her, in spite of er provious matrimonial experlence, “o’er young to marry yet.” In short the applicant must wait. 'hen began the most profitable portion of the game, the courtship being made as ex- nsive as possible for tho suitor. Nothing ut the most costly presents would placate the imperious beauty, and if they fell off in the slightest from her high standard of qual- ity and quantity the dream of the infatuated admirer was promptly ended. Nor was this done in any disagrecable manner. There was no scene, no reproaches, no tears. Madame simply disappeared. The profusely bled vie- tim sought ner in her accustomed baunts, but the most diligent search failed to reveal her. 1t goes without saying that the presents, constituting the magnificent “Corheille,” were also missing. The precious stovies, rich jewels and other valuuble beoty were not only invisible to the donor, gut he would have been compelled to take Ship in order to see them again, They had been safely trans- ferrad to the madame's snug little mansion in the suburbs of London, which was rich from arrett to cellar with the proceeds of her Parisian industry. But madame had yet another method. In cases where something more than the sedate joys of a F'rench courthip were needed to in- duce the fiancee to with his means in suf- ficient abundance, Eveline kindly consent-d to an actual marriage, which piece of racious condescension never failed to pro- gucc the desired effect. The “Maire” and the church would be vis- ited in due course, the wedding breakfast eaten and the presents duly received and ticketed, but when the shades of night had fallen on the scene the groom, who mayhap had indulged too freelv in Chambertin, woula suddenly be rudely awakeued to the knowl- edge that both bride and gifts had departed. The French police declare on their horor that in 1881, when Eveline was brought to their official attention for the first time, she had been married in this peculiar way thir- teen times, but that now she had increased the score to the extraordinary total of torty- three, Tho canse of the present unsought publicity given to Eveline aud her ways is her experi- ence with a certain viscount, which led to her arrest at the Hotel Meurice yesterday. This gentleman had ruined himself by gambling and was naturally anxious to ob- tain more wealth wherewith to regild his tarnished escutcheon, At firstattracted b, Eveline's suppositious millions, he at lenstl became really in love with the adventuress nand followed her and her companion with canine fidelity in their travels throughout England, Belgium and Norway, the expenses being paid by the noblm?.\u, who borrowed right and left on notes of hand based on his expectations of marryinga wealthy widow. This, however, could not go on lorev The viscount insisted that the happy day should ve named; Eveline, knowing that no more presents coald be_gained by an actual marri- age, declined to- do so, and her suitor laid his case before the police. Sveline was astonisbed at her arrest. but isa woman of too many resoirces to be greatly cast down. Interest in the Mackay-Bonynge dispute has been transferred to this side of the At. lantic, where attacks upon Mr. Mackay and his family continue to be made, even while the solicitor and friends of that gentleman are being kept busy preparing papers to be used in the legal procoedings which have al- ready been instituted. In additioh to the ac- tion to be brought agaiust the principal in these offendings there are others which will be urged ugainst certain society papers which have taken up the cudgel in favor of Mr. Bonynge. The Bonynges claim that they have knowl- edage w the effect thut Mr. Mackay employed detectives for the purpose of obtaining infor- mation in regayd to Bonynge's family, but it is known thatthe information conneciing Mr. Bonynge with the publication of the rumors hostile to the Mackays was securedgthrough a friend and advisor of the Mackays in New York, to whom it came accidentally, No de tective was ever employed nor was auy nec- essary for the purpose. Oné of the local society papers published a short time #go several pig s of misleading {n- cidents connected with the subject, and went 50 far as torepiint an extended article from the New York Truth which, it has teen al- leged, was the cause of the personal en- counter that took place between Mackay and Bonynge in the Nevada ban k, San Francisco, Mr. Mackay has reason to believe that he knows who inspired those articies and has al- ready stated that he has takeu s1ops to prose- cute the guilty parties. Perhaps u feusive and incautious article on the supject ‘was that published in Galignani's Messenger, ~Boston & Maine road and with a voics in the r has departed sufficiently from tho con- this pariic 3aligmant's divectly charged Mr. Mac) having circulated 1ibels re- garding Bo~, e and his family, an accos tion whictt 2\ Mackay strenudusly denie and of why . © asserts not the slightest proof exist4 “ Neoon as the article in Galig- nani's anped = Mackay placed tho mat- | ter in the b s solicitor in Paris and proceedings \ the article wa fact that the s \mmediately bogun, That \cious is supported by the tor of the paper in ques- tioff has fi ouge aMidavit with Mr. Mackay's solic ad which forms an im- portant part of 110 ¢ ssier now on recon. Mr. Mackay was 1 first inelined to accept a simple apology, but ho reparation was ne lected by the editor of tho paper, who stated to an intimate friend that be wis fully in- demnified agaiust any proceedings that Mr. Mackay might choose to take. At the last moment the mythical individual who would { indemuify the editor of the Galignani’s conid not be found, whercupon the newspaper im- mediately came out with a profuse - apology. It was, however, oo late, for Mr. Macka fused to acoopt 'what was offered and di- rected his solicitor to prosecute the editorand publisher to the last ex tremity. The case came up last, Wodnesday in Paris at the Neuviene chamboer of police _correc- tionnelle Palais de Justice, and after Leopold Graham and the publisher had been called to the bar to plead tho court adjourned thecase until April 15, Ubless in the meantime the editor and publisher flee the country they wilt be liable to Le found guilty, and probably will suffer for their indiscretion. The doath of Mr. Lawrence Barrett has been the subjoct of many regretful romaris, not only in theatrical but in other circles as well. It has served to show a fact which has long been noticed and has frequently been commented o, viz, the absoluteignorance of everything conn: with tho outside wortd which exists in P The death of your well known manager and actor was, of course, cabled to the French capital; equally, of course, it was made the subject of editorial comment, and it peed hardly be said that the information the French editors served up for the delectation of their readers was such as would make the average American open his s in wonder and amazement and cer- y created no little amusement in the n colony. Thus one of the lead- ing papers said: “The death is announced from New York nt the age of fifty-three of the well known American actress Lawrence Barrett.”” This was bad enough, because nobody, so far as is known, ever had the slightest. idea that Mr. Barrettsdistinctively masculine method and forcible stylo could have produced any suggestion of femininity. Ths notion of the dead actor being a woman was further exempiified in the caso of another paper, which wrote: “Lawrence Barrott, the well knownlAmerican actress, died yesterday in New York. Mme. Barrett was fifty-three years of age, but many of her admirers finding her at all times so sprightly, pretty, and youthful in appearance, thought she had only just turned thirty. M. Barrett, her husband, se: ho war of sec WILL Trafic Agreement Hetween the Can- adian Pac fic and Vanderbiits, v Yorg, March -President Van Horn, of the Canadian Pacific, bas concluded an arrangement with Chauncey M. Depew and H. Walter Webb, of the New ¥ork Cen- tral railway, by which the Canadian Contral can bring its frelght and passenger trains into New York over the West Shore and Central. The Canadian Pacific will come down from Brockville over the new bridge which is to bo built at that point by way of the Rome, Watertown & Ogdaepsbur road to Utica., details of the agréoment arc to mediately. e the dealin an interview, and saia thearrangement would give the Vanderbilt system u trans- continental line from Nova Scotia (o Van- couver and the foreign road will bring a great amount of business to the metropolis. The Canadian Pacifc now enters many of the great commercial cities in the United States. By a trafic agreement with the management of that road it gets an entrance into Boston and a strong hold on all New England. The Wabash lets it into Chicago and by means of the “Soo” and_the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic it taps Duluth, Min: neapolis and St. Paul, while arrangoments with other roads lefs it into Sioux City to a connection with _transcontinental roads, Thus it is in a position to compete with all roads betweeu the Missouri and sea- board, Being & foreign road itis not amen able to tho interstate commerce law, and whenever during the vast yearor two thero have been rate disturbances at junction points, the Canadian Pacifie has not often escaped suspicion. Depew did not say what would be the effect of the Canadina Pacific getting a foot hold in New York, or_how the New York Central would be rezarded for allying itself with a foreign line. The new alliance is not likely to improve the rate situation in trunk line territo1y, and the chances are that the dis. turbances at Boston, Chicago and St. Paul will be repeated. —— SLEEP FASTING CONT. T. Detroit to Be Entertal Test of Endw Deriorr, Micn,, March 29.—The sleep fast ing match which opened at Wonderland to- night is attractiog attention becauss of its novelty and the discussion that his been stirred upas to any ono's ability to do witn- outsleap the 108 hours necessary to geta lace. The entries closed at midnight. Mrs, >aul Jones of Cadiz, O., who entered yester- day, claims she will win, as sheonce watched with a sick baby night and day for 240 hours. Among the entries is a Grand 1'rank wateh: man named Flynn, whosaxs his _chum was once ill and to save him the job he watched night and day for oight days. Eight persons have now entered, and the rules of tho mateh necessitate the contostants being in signt of three doctors all the time. e Couch's $ ayer to Hang, Wicnrrs, Kan,, M. .—After being in session for four weeks, the longest term ever held in the state, the two United States courts adjourned at noon today. Sentences wore passed on all the convicted men this moming. J. C.Adams, the slayer of Cap- tam William L. Couch, the Oklahoma leade and £d Belden, late of Kunoxyille, Iil., who killed_ Charles 'Grant, near Edmont, Okla,, were both sentenced tohang on June 3. Jako Pecora, who slew Jacob Cline during a gam- blors' quarrel, got ten years, A moton for anew trial was made by Adams’ attorney but overruled, and the attorneys were @iven until May 10 to file & writ of error in tho supreme court of the United States. -— Hathaway Granted a New Trial, OmeAo, Mareh 29.- -Georgo Hathaway, the slayer of ex-Alderman Whelan, wus granted @ new trial by Judge Tuthill yesterday. Dur- ing Hathaway's trial it was claimed by the defense that his cane was taken away from him by Whelan's fricnds and used to beat biw over the head, and that he was forced to uso bis revolver in self-defense. Licutenant Kiploy secured the cane, but kept his posses- sion of it a secret untl Hathaway had been sentenced, whon he cunfessed to Huthaway's attorney that he had the caue. Judgo Tuthill ted a new trial without hearing argu- ment on the question and he severely scored Kipley and his police methods, Licncliddmiiial Mob Led by a Min ste Corvwnus, O, March 20, —The State Jour- nal's Tifio, O., special says: The temper- ance warfare at Bloomyille continues with additional riotous demonstrations. After the demolition of bis saloon, Miller procured a new stock of liquows and establashed himselt in other quarters. Last night his place was visited by a crowd of men_and women, Who edwith a Novel o most of- | them half an hour to leave tov assauited the proprietor and barkeeper, in- | Juring tho latter severely and giviug both of on_peuulty of more severe troatment. Among the lead- ers of tho mob wis & Methodist minister. A CLEVER SWINDLE EXPOSED. Story of Fictitious Spaniards Who Loft Mythical Fortunes to Americans, PRIZE PACKAGES BY THE WHOLESALI An Attempt to Victimize President Hareison Leads to an Inquiry —Citizens of Nebraska Not Forgotten, WasiiNaroy, March 20,—For soveral yoars past attempts have been made to victimize people of prominence in the United States by playing upon their credulity at tho expense of their purses. Just who the would-be swindlers aro and to what extent they have succeeded 13 not yot known, but suflicient data s drifted into the dopartment. of state to indicate that theso oporations have been conducted on & broad scale, and that the leader in them s educated and well acquainted fn the affairs of the persons selected as the vietims, The fraudulent schemes arcof the same general plan, but the details were varied indefinitely to meet the character of the vietim. Asarulehe isaperson who has at some time had @ slight acquaintance with a Spaniand. He receives a lettor from a Spanish vriest, telling him that a large sum of money has beon left to him by this Span- iard on conditions that always involved the advancoment of a groator or less sum of money to pay the necessary charges. The first notico the department of state had of the swindlo was alotter addressod to President Harrison soon after he assumed office. In this letter the writer, a Catholie priost, as ho described himself, informed the president that a Spanish army officer, after undergoing incredible vicissitudes of fortune, had died in Spain, He had delivered to the priest a package containiug £20,000, which was to be turmned over to President Harrison on condition that e would assume churgs of the oficer’s little daughter. Incidentally tho amount of £,000 was nceded to pay neces Sary expense The next person selected asa victin was General Bartlett, of the pension ofiice in Washington, Iu this cise a great quantity of valuable plate was at stake, encumbered with the_innocent, angelic chili of a Span- iard, His suspicions were aroused aud ho escaped without lss. "Lhen & prominent drogaist of Patterson, N, was | y tho gang, but he ' re- ded the lotter as & joke and paid no atten- tion to1t. ¢ Tast weeka citizen of Creston, Ta., was told that £40,000 in jowels and treasurd were buried in his uaighborhood by & Span- iard he had known in days gono by A member of the houso of representatives last summer also camein for one of these prize packages. This letter 15 chiefly re- markable for the crafty manmer in which the priest seeks to_provent anexposure of tho swindle by making it appear to bs to the _ro- cipient’s interest o maintain slence. The priest’s story is romantic, as isinvariably the case, Tho last communication on the subject which_reached tho department of state is from an attoruey-at-law in Nebraska. He givesa modification of the schsme, which wlummgmd in1882. In this case a pro. tended priest has 1earned atthe con- fossionasl that “a prisoner, for a theft from the queen-of Spain, s Gy leavinz conccaledin Americn o large amoun ~condemned of money, considerable part of which he promised to leave t a banker in Nebraska if tho latter would act as his exccutor. This particular banker showed the letter to the attorney, who inves- tigated the matterand saved @ l0ss of money. An aitempt was renewed last Novenber upon another batker of the same city. The oid story was again modifled and the names changed, but the hand writing was the same as inthe first case. These also fell into tho hands of the samo attorney and he led tho parties along in & correspondence while ho in the meavtime notified the Awerican minister in Spain aud urged the authorities to act. Bt 41 PREPARING FOR WAR, Arms and munition Being Ime ported In Large Quantitics, Say Fmaxcrsco, Cal, March %.—-The steamer Farallon, from Salvadorean and Guatemalan ports, brings advices that at the the Salvadorean port of Acajutla on the,6th inst, the schooner Viking had just finished uloading 7,500 stands of rifies and o large quantity of ammunizion brought from San Francisco. Every vessel arriving at Guate- malan ports, on both the Atlantic aud Pa- cific coasts, is likewise bringng arms and ammunition toGuatemala, and tha indica- tions point undeniatly to the fact that war between the two countiies is probable i the ucar future. Indian peons have disappeared from coffee plantations and are in the moun- tuins, presumably engaged fn drilling and preparing for war. e man Tarred and Feathered, Na, Mont, March 20, — William O, Hart, & watchman in the yards of the North- ern Pacifio at Livingston, was held up aud tarred and feathered by five masked men last night. He saw the five individuals enter the car shops and followed them, whereupon thoy turned and treated bim ns stated, A few months ago the switchmen at Livingston a strike, and Harl was accused He recelved leave went out on by them of be several anon; town, but paid n After st his captors painted him complote and varnish and applied the feather hewas led to the rwlroad bridge and given the alternative of leaving town or bemg shot. He made his way back to town several hours later. his assailants and the railroad ofticials say thoy will join heartily in the prosecution, ‘I'hé presumption is that they were railroad employes, s a dotective, warngs to al He claims that he can identify two of .- A Numerously Engaged Man, Husmixerox, W. y March 20.~Olwver cacon is very much in demand up in the om’s Creek neighborhood. He was with- out the shadow of & doubt the most numer- ously engaged man in all this reglon, There have been eighteen girls who have stated since his deparivae thut they were engaged to be married to him, and that the wang_l)u; day fixed in o e was April %, most distressing partof the wholo affair is that all cighteen maidens spoken of are likely to have remembrances of Dea- con whose names will not bo Deacon, Hang- ingis probably too good for Deacon, but he seoms safe, us be has written from Catlotts- burg that Kentucky.” *they don't hang gentlezen in - Stea ship Galena Floated. Visevawp Havey, Conn., March 20.—The nited States steamer Galeus was floated off Gayhead this morning by throe steam tugs aud by the ald of the ship’s anchor and bawser, which was carried only. The Galona arrived here iu Low this afternoon and now lies alongsido the wharf. She laks only about one and onotalf inches pur hour, which fudicates that there are 1o holos in her bottom, which provably is only strained somewhat. _The work of floating the United States tug Nina will commence at mce: - HER FOKRECAST, THE WEAT For Omaha aud Vieity—Snow or rein; de- didedly calder, For Nebrarka and Sowth Daketa—Snow or rein: warmer by Monday night; variaile winds, For lowa—Rain; slightly woler; winds be~ 1 eoming northeriy,