Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1891, Page 1

T PWENTY-FIRST NOW VENGEANCE WILL FALL i's New Government Preparing to Pun- ieh Agents of the Old, BALMACEDA’S ~ MILITARY HANDICAP. His Generals Were Incompetent and Disobedient—~How The Didn't Fight—Murdered by His Esce [ Copyright 101 by James Gordon Bennett.] VaLvakaiso, Chili (via Galyeston, Tex. pt. 13, —[By Mexican cable tothe Herald Speciul to Tie Bee. | —Mumnister of Justice Errazuriz of the provisional government, yesterdgy issued orders to procurator [is- cales to arrest all persons implicated in tho killing of Isadore Ossa; also all thoso who are suspected of sacking aud robbery, and everyone who has engaged in the flogging or other torturing of parties favoriug the junta The minister also ¢irected that all violators of the correspandence of the forcign minis- ters accredited to Chili should be imprisoned. Every one who was concerned in the kili- ing of Cummings and his two companions for their alleged attompt to destroy Balmaceda's warships, Almirante, Lynch and Condell, with dynumite, Is aiso to be arrested. The procurator is also ordered to use cvery effort to apprehend persons implicated in the killing ot other cougressional victims, He is especially directed to hunt up all those en gaged in tho horrible massacro of forty-two young men at Los Canos August 18, Their ages ranged from sixteen to eighteen years, The details of their killing are unfit for publication, owing to the indignities com- mitted on their bodics after the young men were shot. All of these acts wero committed under Balmacedas’ authority during the past eight. ecu months. Balmaceda's Handicap. 1 had an futerview in tho prison tonight Colonels Wood and Iusei, late of Balma- cedw's army, They mado statoments to me, whichare confirmed by documents found in Moneda, that both of Balmaceda's generals, Barbosa and Alzerreca, who were killed in the first onslaughts between the contending armies,were uttterly incapable ofticers. They flagrantly disobeyed Balmaceda's orders, thus causing the overthrow of his govern- ment, Iis plicit instructions were that they were not to engage the junta’s troops with less than 14,000 men, but that they should draw the enemy inland, aeral Barbaso so utterly despised his adversaries that he acted exactly to the contrary of these order: he result was bis disastrous defeat at Concon on August 21, The defeat of the government troops was also largely owing to the issuance of contrary wilitary orders by Balmaceda and his war minister, Bananadas Espino: This con- fused everybody. Colonels Wood and Ruise also inform me that there was no more life in Balmaceda's troops. The representations mado to the president that the soldiers were loyal and enthusiastic were untrue. Just at the lgight of the first eugngement 1wo rogi- nients turned their rifies butts up as a sign that they surrendered. Where the General Was Off. The junta’s troops, on the other hand were full of vigor and patriotism. Their tactics wero belitted by General Barbasa. When reminded of Balmaceda's orders to retire inland, ha replied: ““T'hose oppositories ure like so many cats —thoy are easy for a dog to catch, Bulma- ceda knows nothing about fighting anyway. We shall soon put these rebels to flight.” The right wing at Coucon was commanded by Colonel Ruise, who says that he was left unsupported. In consequenco the cne easily swept his men aside. The government troops, the two colonels added, never wished to do any fighting. What little they did was owing to the excitement of the moment, President Jorge Montt will give banquets tonight and on Monday to Captain St. Clair and the other ofticers of the British war ship Champlon, which shortly sails for Esqui- mault, in recognition of the sympathy for the funta displayed by the British navy during he strugelo for supremacy between the two partics. It will be remembered that when the mem- bers of the junta arrived hero on September 2 on the steamer Ariguipa the Champion dressed ship In honor of the occasion although Captan St. Clair afterward ex- plained that this was doue without his knowl- edgo. Itis much to be regretted that the feeling among the people1s sointense against the United States owing to tho attitude of our government during the war, urdered By His Escort, The junta requests the Horald to make public that tho murder of ex-Minister Aldun- ate on September 7 is deeply deplored by tha on now government, Stroug efforts are being mado to capture the murderers, who it scoms wero his own escort. They wero government Lroops. Aldunate was traveling toward Sanlago ot the time, The murder took place at Quillota, fifty-five miles from bere. Tho escort robbed him and mutilated his body in a horrible manner., The first act of Augustine Edwards, the banker, on arrival here with his family on the steamor Mapocho from Callno was to tele- phouo his thanks to Minister Egan. Mr, Tgan for four months gave the protection of his own house and of the United Stutes flag to Seuor Edwards. Caving for the Spoils, [Copyright 1891 by James Gordon Bennett, | Carrao, Peru, (via Galveston, Tex.), Sept. 18.—[By Mexican Cable to the Herald - Special to Tue Bre.|—The Chilian junta’s warship Trumoa which arrived here u fow duys axo to take back to Vulparaiso the tor- pedo boat Condell aud the transport Imperial, late of Balmacedw's floot, sailed today for that port with them, The Condell and the Imporial surrendered to tho junta after com- fng hero from Coquimbo, The vessels sro in charge of representatives of the congressional party. Several prominent members of the Balma. cedan governmont who took refuge in the forolgn warships in the harbor of Valparaiso after that city was captured by the junta's troops areived here today. Among them was Senor Claudie Vicuna, who, during the ascendauoy of Bulmaceda, was elocted As his successor to the presidency of Chili. Senor Domingo Godoy, ex-minister of state and for- eign affairs, and Balmucedw's vrother were also of the party. News roceived here from Chill by mail confirms the roport that thero 1s general sat- isfaction throughout that couutry with the now government Honduras' kle kGUeiGaLes, Honduras, election bas been completed and Goneral Leibas sccured a very large voto for presi- dent, His majority is estimated at three uarters of the total vote, The balloting was conducted in & perfectly YEAR. THE OMAHA DaiLy BEE peaceful mannor throughout the repubiic. “There was no restriction of freedom of press or voters. Gieneral Leibas' inauguration as president will take place in November. The universal opinion is that t‘resident Bogramm has shown bhimself a true patriot, NOT YET CIPTURE Chili's Ex-Ruler Being Pressed | by His Victorfous Encmies. |Copuriaht 1591 by ron Bennett. ALPARALSO, Chill, Galveston, Tex.) ard 1imes G (via Sept. 13,—[ By Mexican eable to the Herald Special to Tie Ber,|—No trace of Balma- cedn has so far been found, Ono thing is certain, he has not yet reached Buenos Ayres, I heard by wire fi y today to that effect. The junta has all tho 1aountafn passes closcly watched by troops to prevent his escape. Today Anibal San Huezs, judge of the district of Sanfernando, RRoberto Bermudez and Alejandrino Trujillo, governor of tho provinco of Cachapoal, wero arvested while attempting to make their escape through the Planchon P’ass in the Andes. They were all oftfcials under Balmaceda, All of tho passes aro reported to be chokea with snow, render- ing every route over tho Andes almost im- passible. This news confirms the rumors, so porsistently spread, that Balmaceda has not tried to leave the country, but is hidden in oneof the monasteries, The search through these institutions is still kept up by the police authorities, Unless the fugitivo ex- president has alveady escaped from Chili it is pretty certain that he will ultimately fall into the hiands of his enemics, It may v that he has put off to sea in some steamship but this does not appear likely. The United States flagship will sail from here tomorrow Caliao, thenco to Califor: an Francisco, night for LOST WITH ALL ON BOARD, Fate of n Saiting Vessel Which Col- lided with the Steamer Arizona. QuEENstows, Sept. 13.—The Guion line steamer Arizona, Captain Brooks, from New York September 5 for Liverpool, arrived here today in a battered coudition. Certain pas- sengers report that at an early hour on Sun- day, September 6, while the vessel was in a fog but steaming rapidly, an unknown sailing vessel, believed to bs o large coasting schoonor, struck the steamor port guarter. The passengors, who wero in bed at the time of the accident, were awakened by the shock aund noise of the collision and all rushed on deck. 1t was scen that thirty feet of the rail had been smashed, that sho was ragged and that sev- eral plates liad been bent. It was at first belioved that the consequences of the acci- dent were more serious than proved to be the so. Tho engers were much alarmed and life boats were prepared, but the foars of all were soon ullayed. The Arizona for a long time searched in vain for the unfortu- nate sailing vessel. A part of her bowsprit was left on the Arizona's deck. From wreckages seon it is feared she foundered. Ono_passenger makes the following state- ment : “After passing Sandy Hook wo entered a haze, which later becaine a dense fog. Tho fog ' horn was kept blowing. About 11 p. m atoud report like the bursting of a boiler startled the passengeas, who rushed on deck. The captain, who was on the bridge, ordered the engines reversed at full speed. Ho assured tho passengers that the steamer was all right and ordered thew below. After- wards the ofticers stuted that a three-masted ship had struck the Arizona'on the port side almost midship and then disappeared. — The fog steam whistles and fog horn wero kept going long aftor the collision, but nothing was discovered. he steamier’s pumps were worked, but no water was found.” So violent was the collision that passengers sleeping on the damaged side of tho stcamer were tirown from their berths.” Miss Ava Still at the Cincinnati House of Detention CiNerssay 0., Sept. Vera Ava still remains the heroine of a cunning romantic episode, or the victimof a cruel outrago. ‘There 13 a strong disposition here to regard her as Miss Dis Debar sailing under another name. Dr. Bonnall of New York, who knows Dis Debar. called on Miss Ava last evening and said she was not Dis Debar. The Asso- cinted press dispatch from New York last night gavo a doscription of the real Dis Da- bar, a_statement of the New York chief of detectives. It tallies with that of Miss Ava inthat Dis Debar was fat, had blueeyes, wore a wig and was a voluble' tatker. After that it diverged. This Ava woman has by fno means & ropulsive countenance. Dis De- bar’s nose is described as large and coarse. This woman's nose is ucither hugo nor coarse. Dis Debar was described as fve feet two inches high. This woman says she is five feet four and one-half inches hich and tuat she is ready to prove it by measure- mont. Dis Dabar is described as_weighing 50 pounds. This woman says she weighs 200 pounds, and is williug to prove 1t by go- ing on tho scaies. She looks as if she might weigh 230 pounds. To a representative of the Associated press lato this evening sho scouted the Dis Debar theory and said: “Witnesses will settlo that. Every person that ever knew Dis Debar will, on sooing mo, testify that 1 am not that woman. Futhermore, there is a surer, more reliable test than human testumony that I am not that woman, Dis Debar. I have never had children and Dis Debar has had _several, An examination by ‘compotent physicians will prove beyond the possibility of doubt that [ am not a woman that has given birth to childien, and, therefore, canuot b Dis Do- bar, At this stage of tho interview a_lieutenant of the police came into the ofticeof the House of Detention, where tte madame spends tume, ner aud anounced that a Mr. Hummell of York, who snid he would kuow Dis De y auy (Hsguise, would arnive before to- morrow i whether or not she was Dis Debar under another name. She expressed herself delighted and said, “That will setue the matter.” Los Caros, Cal,, Sept, 12, said in A dispatch from St. Lonis to be a friend of Miss Ava, is here. He says ho first heavd of Miss Ava through o lettor from his friend, Dr. Fitzporter, who lived uear him in St Louis. Iitzporter wrote about two weeks ago that sho had cailed and had been given Lumford's card naa nddress. Ll WEATHER FUREC. Dr. Rumford, st For Omaha and Vicinity —Fair, warmer. For Missourl, Jowa, Kansus and Ncbraska Warnior; fair: southerly winds For Nortl Dakota—Eair i south; loca! showers in northern portion; wavmer in southieast; shghtly cooler in morthwest por- tion, 3 Wasiivaioy, D. (., Sept, 13, —There is an aren of low pressure, covering the lower St. | Lawronce vailoy, with local showers in New England ana the'lower lake rogions and mid- dlo tlantic states, The pressure above the normal in the Mis- sissippi valley and a depression is forming in tho extreme northwest, It is warmer ox copt in tho lake reglons and St, Lawrence valloy, whero the temperature has fallen from five degrees to twenty degrees. It has risen about ten dogrees at northern Rocky mountains stations. The indications are it will be warmer and generally clear through- out tne corn reglon on Monday and probably Tuesday, Showers and coolér weather are indicated for the states of the Atlantic coast north of Hatteras on Monday, followed by clearing weather. Generally ' fair weather will prevail in the southern” states on Mon- day. P R — i Killed by Lightning, Avnerr Lea, Mioo,, Sept. 13.—During » storm last night the house of Peter Peterson of Gieneva, was struck by lightning and lis son Charlos, aged 17, instaotly killed while | sleep, although his brother who slopt with bim escaped. | ¥ to company K; ftom company K to company A. The! fellowing chauges in the stations. . of officors of tho Medical depawtmenmt aro ordered: Major Churlos L. Holzmann, surgeon, is re- lieved from duty at Fort Clark, Tex.. and will report in porson o the commanding officer at Fort Douglas, U, T., for duty at that station, relieving Major Wiiliam D. Martin, from _compat Samuel A, Smolke, HAS PROVED A MAN-KILLER, Exacting Duties of the Interstate Com- merce Commission, 13 3 Wolverton, surgeon, ad Feporting by lotter DEMANDS ~ VERY CLOSE ATTENTION. | ¢ 0 tominndung neral, Department of the Platte, Major Wolvgrton, on being re Jieved by Major Helamann, will report in Regarded in the Light of Anything | person to the commanding officer at Fort Bt & SliRonre~Moms. Ttsas Schuyler, N. Y., for duty at that station, ro- : porting by leuter to the commanding gerieral sons for the Any Department of the Kast. Major Robert H. Changes. White and Joseph K, €arson, surgeons, are detailed us members of the board of ofticers, appointed June 25, 1801, Vice Captain | ter Reed and Jumes C, Morrill, assistant sur- geons, who are hereby relieved from duty as members of said boards ‘Thie following trangfers m the Eighth in- fantry are made: Ideutenant Samuel E Smiley from company I to company B; John C. Beardsley from compuny K to company 1. Lieutenant Smiley will proceed to join the 513 FounrTteeNTit STRERT, Wastizaros D, C., Sept. 13, Tt begins to look as thongh the Interstato Commerce commission would prove a man killer, At first 1t was said that the commis- sion wus merely a sinecure, which would | ooinpany'to which he s temnsferred on being give three men soft places at £7,000a year | relioved from college’ duty October 1, 1501, and expenses and a number of clerks good | Lieutenant Beardsley will proceed to join his WasnixGToN Buneav or Tre Bes, } berths. But thero have boen more changes | proper company on théexpiration of his pres- on the commission on account of the breaking | Gt leave of absence. ‘,L“tm'.“.“‘;’".“".\";: down of commissioners than O COYSy VO L R oot 15 T0CL, 1 in any other place here in the samelongth of time, Veasoy went out because he said the work was too exacting. gg died. Cooley's health failed and he has resigned. Morrison of 11li- nois, he of horizontal tarift fame, 1s the only original member remaining, and ho almost died some months ago. Hoe is not robust in health now. When Secretary Foster loft hero ten days Within the next six months it is probable | ago for a fishing cruise along the upper At- that an_enuro change will nvo taken placo | Iahtic coxst he suid heavonld b abscut over on the commission. 1t is very well known in | 80 wecks, that he f§ould remain away till granted Second Lieuténant Samuecl E. Smi- ley, Kighth infantry, Leave of absence for six months, to take effect on or about Octo- ber 15, 1801, is granted First Lieutenant Joseph'H. Gustin, odjutant Fourtcenth in- funtry. The leave Bf absenco granted to Major David L. Huntington, surgeon, June 1, is extended to September 80, 1501, SECHETARY FOSTER'S PLANS, > . aoout September 20, The sccretary 18 official circles that Morrison, who holds the | naryvous, busy man and although ho bas boon democratic place on the commission, will bo | here all summer bard atwork with voxatious excused when his term expivesnext January, | problems, he could not&tand time killing and soon began .0 indicat® a desire to return. Ho is to arrive here tomorrow or Tuesday at the farthest. As soon s ho gives the 41g per cent bond extension and few other things a little time, ho will go out to Fostoria, lis Ohio home, and prepars to remove his family hera, Ho has a’ home already pre- pared. Secretary .Foster intends to devote tho last two. weeks of the Ohio campaign in his native, state on the stump and otherwiso working for the election of McKinley. In view of his long and hard work bere, and the fact that he has had less vacation than any public or well known pri- vate citizen in Washington this summer, his two weeks of campaigning at home 1 O ber, will not cowme yyithin the pale of criti- cism. The democrat to succeed him will likely be from the south, and will be appointed soon, as Morrison must be retained to instruct tho other two new commissioner: Unless ex-Congressman Thompson of Ohio is appoiuted to the vacancy on tho court of clais ho mayfbe given a place on the Tnter- state Commerco commission. Ex-Land Com- missioner Groff, formerly of Nebraska, now located iu California, has been strongly rec- ommended for a placo on tho commission. He is a fino lawyer, has had a successful experience on the beneh, is recommended by the farming and railroad interests as a faur and just man. The south has been striving for a place on the commission, or rather to Keep the oue it has had, and there is overy reason to believe that it will get a new man as soon as the president can take up the bundle of recommendations for men. IMMIGRANTS AS DOMESTICS, From the managers of the immigration oftice in New York the information comes that there is a boom in the demand for immi- grants as domestics. There are hundreds of calls overy week at the immigration ofiice for women arriviag_from Germany, Eng- laud, Scotland aund Norway. The superin- tendent of immigration at the Treasury de- partment says he has a great many requests for women who arc wanted as domastic: (Giood cooks and housekeepors get from $12 to 30 a month in this city, board and liviug MISCETRANEOUS, The Misses Winke ‘of Beatrico are guests of Miss Ida Cragin of 218 C street. The Nebraska coloniy has tkinned out of Washington. Thereis nyta well known man from the state in the eity,’ The two senators are soon expected to arrive, however. P. 8. H, — e WEEE'S CLEARINGS. Gross Exchanges of the Country as R ported by the Banks, Bostoy, Mass,, Sept. 6.—Tho following table compiled from dispatches to tho Post, from the clearing houses in the cities named, shows the gross exelianges for the weok. LAST meluded. Theimmigrants have scldom over | ending, — September 12, with rate been paid half this much—generally about | Per cent of increase or decrenso as one-fourth these wages. compared with the corresponding period last “T'ho employment oflices here report more | Year: calis thau ever for housekeepers aud cooks. They find that the demand for help in manu- factories ana the growing independence of the poople depreciate tho amount of labor offered for the house. The effect of the in- creased demands for women arriving at the pirixs. immigration offices it is feared will Lave a | Newvork. ... demoralizing effect upon America’s labor l“;;;'f"n‘--m e market, as the successful immigrants aro | puiadeiphia. . " flooding Enropo with glowing accounts of | St Louier .. what women can do in households here, and the volume of femulo immigration will hence- forth materially ine: 5e, POSTOFFICE BUSINESS INCREASING. There probably never were more demands made upon the Postoftice department than at this time by postmasters throughout tho country for increnso of allowance for clark hire. This grows out of tho onormous in- crease of business in the various oftices and the fact that for many vears there has veen much loss allowed than was necessary to carry on tho work. Itis stated that hero are thousands of postmasters in all parts of the country who are every month paving out of their own pockets money for their clerks that the allowances of tho Postoflic depart! ment are inadequate to the demands of tho business, and rather thau give an_inferior service the postmasters go down in their own pockets and make up the deficiency. It is nrobable that 10 per cent of the salarics of the postmasters of tho second and third classes aro_paid by tho postmasters to clerks in_their efforts to mako good tho lat- ter's salavies. The postmasters in the large | New Haven citios—those of first and special classes--do | ForGester not moct this trouble because there is 50 | Fom Warth: Pittsburg Kansns Ciey. ] Loutsville.... ... Bufalo St. Paul.. Indlanapolis’. Galveston Columbus Memphls.... Duluth .. Datlas. Hartford.. wichmond. . nshvill Portland. Oro Salt Lako Clty. orln. . tochiestor, Springfield much pressure by tho patrons unon congress | Norfoik that ample proyision is made. It is the po EASOIB IS masters in cities of 5,000, 10,000, or 15,000 | & o population who have tho trouble. Hons 0 When this congress proposed to inerease | Grand 1 rmons the appropriation_for salaries and llowance something like 00,000 the democratic press | Foxd! o bewan howling about extravagance. But it | Birmingham:.. 4 is fouud that nofore the rendjustment is com- | Des Moines Tk ploted the postmasters are going down into | {hattanooza. e their nockets and taking out their own | Niwiiiori money to meet their clerical exponses. These | Topeka arc expenses which must of necessity in- | Wichit Lexington. Ky Montroal, Can......., FOTONL0) 34 s v o153 P “Houston SWaco .. creuso with the growth of towns and cities, WASHINGTON'S STREET CAR LINES, Thoro aro few cities in the country where the strect. car lines pay better than here. For mary years the hocse lines aro said to have paid i3 per cent dividends, but of late years, although paying vetter than ever be- Total sixty cltios Outside of New York *Not tneluded In tot fore, it has not been practicablo to ascertain [ Tast week’s clearings in New York, Bos- what are tho incomes of the two or three | ton and muny smaller cities were for five companics. Atany rato the companies al- | days, and are in comparison with six days ways put up a pitiful mouth when congress [ for the corresponding week last year. talked of forcing them under the provisions | Twentv-nine cities increased and thirty-one of their charters to put on ade- | decreased s compared with the showing for quate [acilities. Everybody rides in a | the corresponding week last year. In com- street car here, if gowg but threo or [ parison with tho provious (3ix days) wes four squares, ordinarily. There is no mud | tho total exchange decreased 3165, 747, hore, but when it vaing the water banks up | 12.7 per cent, aud outside of New ' York on tho asplialt sidewalks and streets. and pe- | chances docreased $30,191,543, or 0.4 por dostrians take o car, so that with Washing- [ cent. ton’s wet weatner the cars, which run every twonty or thirty seconds, are always erowded at b cents a faro, WRECK OF AN BXOURSION TRAIN, Tho last congress concluded that it would | Poculiar Accident on the Colorado look and he better to haye cablo cars all over iy e the city, that on ono street proving so con- AtERI=NosBatallg i veniont. At oue fell swoop a law was passed | DExver, Colo., Sept. 18.—An exoursion requiring the compavies to put in cables within two years. In most cities it would have paralyzed the corporations, and council- men would have staggered at the suggestion of such n move. But congress did it. And it did 1t in the face of the fact that the horse lines wero well equipped, and none of tha old facilities could be utilized in the construction of the new. Further, it was known that to put down cables cost much more than put- ting 10 an entire new plant, as tho telegruph lines underground, gas and water maias, sewerage, ete., had 'to be taken caro of by the car companies'at a great cost. There was a strong kick of course from the train was wreeked in the Clear Creek canon today in o most pecaliar manner, it being the first case of the kind on record. The train, which consisted of eight day coaches, three baggage cars and two engines, loft here about ¢ o'clock this morning. It reached Beaver Brook on its way to Georgetown about noon. At this point, while rounaing a very sharp curve across the creck, tho engines pulled tne threo middle cars off the track and from the shape of a **horse shoe" trans- forming the train intoa st ht live. The derailed cars were thrown down the embank- street car companios, but they went to work. | ment into the creek bed and badly wrecked It became necessary for the companies, after | Gegrge Ture was bruised badly about the contemplating expenditures by this law of | body, General W. C. Browning had his right many millions of dollars, to put up a power | sidd bruised und received Internal inju 03, houso 1n the center of tho city which must | Ixpress Messenger Aultback was badly hurt cost, all told, over §1,000,000. But Washing- | and Brakeman E. L. Wareen cut in the hoad tou will soon have tho finest street car | and right side braised. Twenty-four other facilities of any city in the country. passengers wore slightly bruised, but none RECENT ARMY ORDERS, seriously. The wounded roturnéd to this The following army orders were issued | ¢ity this evening on a special traln sent ouu from here as soon as the wreck was reported. - 1se Wheat Crop, todny Thie following named officers of the Corps of Engineers will, on the expiration of their graduating loaves of absence, report in per- [ fcixuns Crry, Moy Sopt, 19.—Tho Union 8on to the commanding officer at Willevs [ ,,isAN#AS CITY, Mo, Sopt. 13.—fTho U Point, N. Y., for duty with the battallion of | Pacific railway has gatherod up reliablo sta- Kansas' Im enginoers and at the United States Eogineer | tistics from the thirty-six counties through solool; - Second Lieutonants Spoucer, Cosby, | which it runs. From thoso statistics it 1n John S, Sewell, Charlos >, Echols, James I | estimated that tho total acreage of the state Melutook and J. J. Morrow. The ' following | is 50 acves. The gencral average yield transfors in the Eighteenth infantry are | is d at thirty-two bushels per acre, ordered: First Lieutenant Thomas W. | which makes the total crop 160,401,600 Grifiith, from company K to company B: | bushels. Tho genersl condition of the crop Benjamin C. Morse, from company B to com- | is good, the recent heavy | raius having been pany K; Becond Lieutenants George W. | of great benott, i | Commissioner Raum Explanation, WHY PENSIONS ARE DELAYED. Writes a Letter of INSTRUCTIVE TO APPLICANTS FOR PENSION The mmense Amount sion Bureau with the Wasnixaroy, D. €., Sept H. Enochs, member of congress eloct the Twenticth Ohio district, ington for the purpose of con: commissioner of pensions delay 1 the sottlement of and_ especial sion bureau calls mado assistant as to the some of his calls being ans and others uot for months, if on Enochs was anxious to know wh ansacted Yearly by the P Catehing Up Rush, status ot Business General W. from came to Wush- sulting with the 13, as to the seeming pension claims, s to the answer of the Pen- by the generul of claims, ed promptly General there was w at ull, no uniformity in the answers to his calls for tho status of pension elaims which Commissioner Raum has written ( cral Enochs the following in structive lotter upon mattel In answer to - teresting and in- rs pertaining to the settlement of claims in tho bureau of pensions : DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER. WASHINGTON, D. (.. Sept. 12.—lon. W. H Enochs, Carroilton, 0. DEAR GENERAL—I1 compliance with your request of this date in regard to certain matters connected with the business of the Ponsion of you that I have been and n an tosecuro the prompt ad claims pending in this bu duy of July there wero 523,787 eciiting cases before the bureau who had neve wery been pensioned, and the pending [n the Shape of ¢ pension and duplicate el Luws, claims, alm fms the volume of business done practically fmpossible to brin aking a zrand total of 1 will bo ohriote. from hia atatam 1 bez to adyise now dolug ali judication of ail 0 On_ tho 1st imants pro: 35,590 elatins s for lncrease of under different 420 pending nt of here that it is 2 all these eases 1o immedinte development, they cannot all be ken up ab o T have adopted certain rules for the governuent of husiness of the office, whercby claims which are complets shall have the right of way and be hurried to the earliest possible settlement, Lhave felt, t0o, that where eluin ing'a considerable pension t titled to hnve as great official force worklng upon their IS are v n proportion wdy recolv- ey are not en- of the Lt for in- erease of pensions as those claimants, soldiers and widows, who are not dra ponsions, The oflico force Is so divided that both classes of work Is steadily golng on, but the larger portion of the official foree’ is upon original work. Now. the objective point of all the labor of tie office is Ljudicution of the pension claims and the issuing of certi- ficates, Any interfercnce w ith this is an pediment which should be avo ded Now. in addition to lett congriss, the oflice ar unieations from claim torneys, making inqu ain and condition of their tious poured In at the rate of per day. Thelr reccipt was and letters sent to the claim; ic to d physically inpossi nd glve t which they reluted the sume. rs from members of recelved 1130610 nts, their friends rirfes as to the These communics morc than 34,800 acknowledged 18, but it W the case to he condition of AW You ask why Is one congressionai_call an- swered sooner than anothe both filed at the same time. answered when the elaims thelr ttrn, Consequently if Clalms bureau. Same of the imniediate attention be reudy, while others may not somé time to come. Ao when they Your cal are reach you file twenty 1s for status today they will be sent to the s iy receive the cases are bo taken up for By dirceting the foree of the ofice to adjud- tlon of dlaims and keeping y at work upon business brought the oflice up to the 30,000 claims pe In fact 35,000 fiseal year, whic! riificates du h will be jonth. It i3 thiis can be Kept up during the present fis I have set the office to the 1 inere the force stead- vo av lust adjuuication of believed that al H the present se of 100,000 over the work of Iast fiscal year and ihe work of the fiscal year *just closed, (June 30) showed an lucrease of nearly 100,000 certificates over any previous year. During the past fiseal year thero w - ceived in the office 154817 communications from members of congress in regard to pension claims. Ne: 1 the member Yo fn co; and you will observe that an morc than 50 applicants per were received during the past To draw the claims to whi ato and hay ¥ give the e be h spondence with many climi rs of both louses 1ts, wyorage of front y for stutus fisenl vear I these letters whers, would an with thé other business of the hureau that it would be a denial of justic 10 probably 1,000 or 100,000 pensioners per an- num, who would other pon adjudieation of their ¢ member of eongress Is cogni: from knewledge, or that an old soldier is in such e ally or financially as o r that his clalm should have in tion, and that fact is hrought the office, | do not hesitate t oulled up, examined and the st insuch ¢ your letters. As 0 memberof congress you accirato ive ce It wins, © zant of tho fact informutio anditlon physic ler 1t importa nmediate atter 1o the notl 0 huve the case tatus glven, and ses 1 would bo glud to responil to u will. of cours: be interested to know that this groat incrense in the rolls proposed by the is: certificates during this fiscal crente a deficiency in the app appropriation for this_yc concress, Is 103,155,085 m afte o nreful examing subjeet, that the work dono by the office during Will not” cause adeficioney u priation. 1t se ans of the w ndorstand t rean, und the effor dispose of this by patience on all side The important o i to obtaiu and fur denee to complete their elain done they must give notice of pletion and the clalm wl promptly and disposed of as Veryhirdiy yours, Gukr w, who re that iness, v th B. RAUM, - FROM ACROSS THE Latest News from China orve Riots Fed SAN JRANCISCO, Cal,, S ish steamer China av Hong Kong and Yokoham: about thirteen days from tho Advic The Br against the dilatory Chinese government dealt riot, aud has asked that go questions: Why an edict on the riot was not dispatched t pire by telegrapht trate who tried to stop the graded, whilo his superior wero not punished? Why the guilty was delayed! His excollency Li Hung ( custom to ish minister has pr manner W that it was not th wire; the magistrate was degraded for othor reasons: third, thoe rioters r, mado by tl s to me that when your cor s condition of things thing for every cluiy ish tho nel with Why Wuba, suince of 1 year. will ot ropriation. T fully fon’ which tho pon that of will fiseal y Appro- th it L th made to counsel s e ing oy will nt to sary ovi- ps. When ihis s tho fuct of con Il be taken up soon us possl bie Commlssioner PACIFIC, and | ed, 18, pan-— The Brit- ived this morning from a, having been latter port s from China up to August 30 say: otes in strougly which the the recent veroment these tho subject of hrough the em- tho magis- riots, was de- vho did nothing, tho punishment of ‘hang answered send edicts by had been pun ishod, two being executed and many other- wise punished, The North China News, commenting edi- torially on Lho answers, says meve subterfuge, because th serious to admit of use of messengers. As to th the magistrate was degraded to the natives, who bad dei doiug his duty in the affaiv palpable evasion, and only sk not be depended upon by As for the execution of tho delay caused by tho first was a o case was oo the o secoud ¥ as a con jounced him for Tho reply is a ows Chioa can- foreign powers. of the culprits, osslon this is unsatisfactory, as coming far short of the requirements of Cbineso murder among themselves; w ciguers must not bo punish than murderers of Chinese. Lord Salisbury has deman which is & hotbed of rnti-f, in China, be opened to trade. pled with the threat that not control her own people would take the matter iu ha law 1w cases of wrderers of tor- od more light led t | i« relg 1. To at Hunan, sentiment demand is ina could his thi | viceroy replio ever held in powers | of this eity “China is perfoctly abie to control her own people.’’ ‘The Nows adds: *“The conclusion 1s, that it able she must be unwilling to control them meanwhile the powers do not intend to be satisfied with what has boon done by tho Chinese government so far in the way of punishment and reparation; that thoy lave sent China what s (= “1ally an ultimatum and will not take any quato reply; Bng- land's action is undel « 1'to bo backed by other powers and it is. = ht force will be used if Chiina is not co, % ory Tweuty thousand pey = Chow, in Hunan, to pi = ph lines. Ton thousi = and tho workmen drivel = oty has been form graph out At New Chang, ‘Dr. Craly, a doctor, was assassinatod by 'soldiers. Aatter has been placed in the hands of tho British consul. It isuot thought to bo tho work of secrot societies, but caused by local mattors, Reports from oo Choo, of the killing of three missionarics has proven false. The German Roman Catholie bishop of Shan Tung has returned from Polan to Tiensing. ~He said his excollency, Li Hung Chang, told bim the riots wero only fore- runuors of more serious trouble, The Italian corvotte Vultumo was under orders to leave for Italy, but was stopped and ordered to remain indefinitely vy tho jsembled at Lung putting up tele los wero burned tho boundary. keap the telo missionary Tho Italisn minister at Peking, who [fears trouble. Iollowing are the latest advices from Japan: On August 16 an American vessel, namo unknown, was wrecked in Kan No Way bay. Tue crow of soventeen wero all drowned but two. Tho captain’s wifo was also drowned. The last division of the road has been opened, length oporated 445 miles Six hundred stono cutter inTokio struck tast week against a reduction in wages. Their demands were accoded to. By recent floods in tho Tokuishima pre frecture 854 houses wero destroyed, thirty- one vessels destroyed, two persons drowned and over 600 injured, 1ppon making company’ the total _Mr. Pethick, Auncrican vice-consul at Kientsin, has been made assistant manager of one extension of the Kientsin ilrofd. Viceroy Chang Hai Tung rocently opened the iron mines in Hutel, and claims that he can manufactura ail the iron needed on the road by next July; his offer has been cepted” and 230,000' tous of forcign iron has been ordered for use meanwhile, Gold mines havo been discovered in Cheng Chen district of Quang Tung. Adventurers float, to them in° erowds and have greatly damaged fields and grados in_digging, Tho wagistratos finally prohibited mining thero, There scems to bo no foundation for the roport that tho son of Houch, minister to England, has boon arrested as a membor of a sceret society. There was a sei ous landslide on the bank of the Yang-tse-Chiang, opposite Ching Tang. The people, warned by premonitar tremblings, fled i their night clothes. Large tracts of ground slid into the river, carrying about 200 buildings with it Nolives wero ost. News has boeen received horo of tho_death in Perak of W. Mactavish and J, M. Nelson, two weli known mining men. Cholera is said to vo the cause, but poisoning is sus- pected. “There is sovious trouble in Seutany. Dutch West Borne, between Dyajs and Maylays. Taxes are the cause of tho trouble, Threo thousand Dyajs_aro in arms against the Malay rajalis. Several fights have taken place, several Leing killed. suffering from a famine. EARNEST, SINCERE Delegates to the Anti-Sub-Treasury Convention Assembling at St. Louis. St. Lovts, Mo, Sept. 18.=“The prospect for a lurge attendance ot the anti-sub-treas- ury convention, which meots in this city next Tuesday daily brightens,” reported Mr. Hall, when called upon by a reporter at his headquarters in tho Lacledo, “[very mail brings letters from several states, assuring me that their respective alliances will bo reprosented by some of their ablest men. From the present outlook the convention will not only bo the largess gathering of farmers this county, but will contain a number of the brainiest men in the union. You will find them carnest, sincero men, devoid of demagoguery and moved solely by tho patriotic impulse to benefit tho wholo country by elevating and improv- ing the condition of the farming class, upon whom, it can well be said, vests the hope and prosperity of the government. They recog- nizo that the alliance is a great factor in this direction 1f it can be preserved and held true 10 tho principles on which it was organized, but they also realize that its nsefulness is at anend if it is to bo mado the subservieut tool of political schemers soeking porsonal aggrandizement. 1 have lopes that tho worl of the convention will be such ns to arouse the farmers of the country generally to the importance of the issuos at stake, when, [ am sure, thoy will almost unitedly sot the seal of coudomnation on any and all efforts to divest tho alliance of its original prin ciples.” The delegates avo expected to commonce arriving this morning, but the majority will not arrive uatil Mouday evonir ot s MURDERED IN Neighbors Quarrel and One is Stab- bed to Deaih Paracovtn, Avk., Sept. 12 —This unusual- ly quiet town was the sceno today of a terri- ble tragady. The principals wore Jim Honey aud Silas Potter, well-to-do planters residing near here, A few day’s ago some of Honey's cattle broko into a cornficld belonging to Potter aud did considerable aamage, Hone became very angey, and gradually work himself into a passiou offered to The country is N CovKT, iz ght Potter then and there with pistols, knives or fists. Potter langhed and walked nway Hovey became enraged at his neighbors’ coolness and sent PPott er a challengo to fight aduel, To ridicule the matter Potter went before 'Squire Hart hero and procured peace warrant against Houney, who was al rested and prought to town. The case was set for today and while it was in progress ifoney, who was sitting near ottor, sud denly sprang upon him with an_open 'knifo and stabbed him several timos, iuflicting fatal wounds. Honcy was soized by the ‘squiro aud constable aud after a brief but desperate struggio was overpowered, hand- cuffed and taken to jail, Thero is some of lynching, but the authoritios and He frieuds aia on the alert and will protect the prisoner, = - FASTIDIOUS CONVIC ‘hey Go on a Strike Because of the 1weir Gral Say Fuaxcisco, Cal, Sept. 1 Tue con viets in tho jute mill at San Quinten struck vesterday. Nearly 200 prisonors threw down thewr tools and defied the oficers to mako tuem work, The couvicts demanded thiat they be given better food, more tobacco, and they wanted less favoritism shown. They also demanded to be taken before the Board of Prison Directors, wklere they might state their case. The convicts make a bold standa, but the guards were quickly summoned, and every avenue of escape was covered, whi armed men filled the aoors of the jute mill, where the insurrection started. ‘The convicts resumed work after obtai committee of five to appen iing perimission to appoint before the prison divectors, After listening to the complaints from the committee, tho prison directc informed them that the food was good enough, and that the next timo there was au outbreak it would be punished by solitary confinement. ‘I'his”is the sccond strike in the prison during a weelk, tue conviets hay ing stopped work last Welnesday to euforce their demand for bett food, - Plighted Their Troth, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 13, - The engage ment is announced bere of Miss Harriet, daughter of George M. Pullman of Chicag 1o I'rank J, Carroll, 8 prominent society man The wedding will occur in Chi | cago next spriug. I NUMBER 88, WITHOOT HOME OR COUNTRY, Balmaceda 8till a Fugitive From the Vens geanco of his Countrymen, HONORING AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICERS, Results of the San Salvador Barthe quake- Scismic Disturbances in Chili~the ing out AfMairs, Junta Steaightens New Yorg, Sept. 13,1 the following cable dispateh: Sux Syivanon, (via Galveston, Tex.) Sept. 12.--The waters in Llapango, Cojutopeque or llabasco lake, as it is vaviously known, keop on rising, The workmen sent by the government to open an outlet to the ocean aro still hard ay work The shocks continue to be felt at intervals, lay's tHorald has irreguiae ke carthquake of Soptember 8§ was experienced all over the couutry. The material losses are estimated at 00,000 although this scoms a low figure, News w 1ved horo th Guatemala City that the vice president, Dr, Rafel Aola, had been accidentally shot and killed whilo attempting to separato two of his friends who were engaged m a quarrel, 5 roc s morning from Hunting Balmaceda, VaLranatso (via Galveston), Sopt. 12,—The police authorities are still prosceuting a vige orous search throughout Santingo for the fugitive ex-president, Balmacoda, It is now the general beliof that hie is In hiding in some of the monasteries, Soveral of theso institus tions have already been visited by the polico, but 5o far no trace of Balmacedn has been discovercd. In spite of this fact rumors gain ground that ho has found protection under clerical wings, There is no trath whatever in the report about an Indan uprising. Tho story e dently had its origin in tho pillaging of Coros nel by miners, Of this outbreak I notified you by cablo at tho time. Course of the German Minister. The German minister to Chili has made & public denial hore of my cablo to the Herald, 1 which I told how he had ordered the ade miral of the German warship Leipsig to sur- render political refugees, but tho admiral had geclinea to do so, calling on the icrman emperor for approval of his action and how tho emperor 1 cabled back sustaining the admiral. 1 reaflivm the truth of my statement and chad lenge proofs to the contrary, The German minister, by the way, might try to explain another extraordinary proceeding on his part while e 1s about it. His recent conduct in nermitting the removal of Batmaceda’s min- ister of war, Valasquez, from the German legation to prison is generally condomned and has provoked wuch adverse criticism amoni even the wi us of the rmest partis President Senor Montt himself, upon learning the particulars of the strango casa, ordered that Senor Velasquez should be re- turned to tho logation and deereed that his removal and imprisonment were a violation of the sanetity of logation. Senor Montt's magnanimous conduct is in marked contrast to the action of the German minister. The British war ship Melpomeno has been ordered to British Columbia, on Vancouver island. Tho Champion on its way north will call at Coquimbo 1o take on board Colonel Carvallo and Intendente Sunchez, two of Balmaceda’s ofticials, and will land’ them at Callao. American Officers Thanked. Senor Ovdencz, the Spamsh minister to this country, has tenaered the thanics of him- self, s country and the Spanish residents of Chili, to Admiral Brown of the United States flagship San Francisco, for his offers of protection to tho mimsfers and his countrymen during the recent troubles. The forcign ministers ave much chnrgined t the prompitude displayed by Minister Egan in_scoring a point in behalf of the United States in recognizing tho junta’s authority ahead of any other nation. The loading Santingo unowspavers highly compliment the Horald upon_its enterprise in giving the outsido world tie only relinble news about the Chilian war, The ambulanco service bas tendered a tes- timonial to Passed Assistant Surgeon Kdga, of tho Uuited States steamship San Frant cisco, Edgar Stitt, of the Baltimore, and the two junior surgeons of the same vessels fo their valuable aid in behalf of the injured i the recent conflicts, Wreck of a Freight Train, The railrond connection botween this city and Santingo has been temporarily suspended. While a froight train last nizht was erossing ono of the bridges, tho structure collapsed, the locomotive, tender and most of tho freight cars were thrown into tho ravino below. Tho ace cident happened so suddenly tuat the engineer id fireman were unable to make any attompt to escape and they went down with tho wreek. A reliof party was ovgaus ized tn the hope of saving their lives, When it veached the wreck the engineer and fire- man were found buried down under the des bris. After considerablo trouble they wera takou out and 1t was found that they were alive but seriously injured Severe Barthquake Shocks, fwo sovere ecarthquakes occurred this I'be tirst need at 7:40 morning. wus experi o'clock and created genccal alarm. It was of a fow sceonds’ duration. Before the peopla had recovered from their fright a sccond took pliace at 7:4 was feared that they wero only foregunners of more sorious siiocks, but happily none otuer oceurved, There was no damago done to property and 50 one was injured. I am_imformod on re allof the men known to have been sotive supporters of Balmaceda, ns well as those wiio were guilty of peoulation, will 100 their confiscation. The supreme Jurthas lveady oveanized, and all of these asos will bo submitted Lo it, N T family of Senor Augusting Kdwards who has accopted tho offer of tho oftice of minister of war in the cabinot of the pro- visional government, arrived here today and wore accordod & grent reception, able authority that property | DISCIPLIN 2 PARSON, Horse Racing Minlster Arney Pulled Over the Conls, Guraxp Rapms, Mich, Sept. 12, —The Michigan Methodist Eplscopal conference spent wost of the forencon tuduy with the case of Roev. Arney of Saranac, the pastor with & decided proclivity for fast horses, Tho cowmittee appointed to iuvestigate the watter rogorted that “Brother Arnoy had uot lived up to the promises wade at Muskin- gum last year, and recommended that he be disciplined, Avney was then called before Bishop Newman, who proceeded Lo admonish im in forcoful lunguage that his conduct lad uot boen at ull pleasing the pust year, and that unless he curbed bis passion he { would bave to bo asked for bis parchment, - Platte County's i Corvsmuis, Neb,, Sept. 13, acial to Tk Bew, ) -Tho Platte county fair opens September 16, under the diroction, and on the grounds of the Columbus Driving Mavk anda Faiv association A large number of cutries have been made and tho fair promises to be u success in every way. A novel und | attractivo feature will'bo u barbecus on the I grounds which will be served frec Platte county hus haryested a bountiful or [ (RS the exbivils will .