Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 27, 1892, Page 1

PART ONE. TWENTY— TTRST YEAR. THE OMAHA ' SUNDAY BEE. OMAHA, UNDAY MORNING, MARCH 0= “ly POLITICS IN GERMANY | Ministerial Changes and the Effect They Will Have on Different Parties, SOME COMBINATIONS THAT MAY BE MADE Emperor William Will Prorogue the Reichs- taz and Landtag Soon, PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL BILL DEFEATED 1t Will Not Be Pushed to Passage by the Government, WILLIAM ENTHUSIASTICALLY ~ CHEERED urn by the Patriotic Words from for an pple alist—Arrested Unnatural Crime. [Copyrighted 1892 by New York Associated Press.] Bentiy, March 26.—The emperor means to give himself and his new ministers a period of rest from parliamentary worries by tho prorogation of both the Reichstag and Land- tag. The former body will be prorogued next week for an indefiuite period. The Landtag will be nominally prorogued until the end of October, but it will not mect ogain for business until a new house is elected. In view of the suspension of parliamentary life it will be futile to study how the politi- cal groups will rearrange themselves under the Prussian ministerial chanees. Tilo membors of the conter party in the Reichs- tag ara already in revolt and aro ready to vote any way 50 as to defeat the rovernment, but they are powerless, as tho vemaming business stands, to do more than assist in the rondition of minor items of the budget. When Count von Kulenburg, the new president of the Prussian council of min- isters and Dr. von Bosse, the new minister of ecclesiustical affairs, public in- struction and medicinal affairs, meet the lower house of tho Prussian Diet on Monday their attitude, it can be predicted, will be distinctly friendly toward tho conservative and centerist groups. Count von kulen- burg’s whole record is inconsistent with any policy tending to the aliiance of conserva- tives with the national liberals under con- ditions giving a liberal imprintto govern- ment legislation. Both he and Dr. von Bosse aro sent to find some method of recon- ciling The Catholics between the adjourn- ment of the Landtag and the eclections. Tho ministers can hope to renew the compact with the clericals, and then appealto tho constituencies. This may so alter the bal- ance of the parties as to enablo Count von Eulenburg to defy, if possible, liberal coalition. Wil Fix Up a Combine. Count von Eulenburg’s enemies say that he has the suppleness of an eel, and that he will work t®win with a conservative and moder- ate liberal or conservative and clerical alli- ance. In the meantime it is ascertained that meaus to try to prevent un estrangement ‘with the clericals concerning his relations with Chancellor von Caprivi. Nothivg 1s suver than that the latter is opposcd to the appolutment of Count von Eulenburg as his successor as president of the coun- cil, knowing, as he did, that Count von Kulenburg ns Prussian premier would be & dangerous rival for the imperial chancellor- ship. Prince Bismarck, when chancellor, found Count von Eulenburg too astute and of too strong @ personality. He picked a quarrel with him and ejected bim from the ministry of the interior in 1881, After an in- terval of some months Frinco Bismarck ap- pointed him president of the government of Hesse-Nassau. The count is an abler orator than General von Caprivi, and will make a bigger figure in the Prussian Diet, ‘'ne duration of the present provisional ar- rapgement after the Prussian elections is improbable. Those best acquainted with Count von Eulenburg back him in assisting in ousting General Caprivi from the Prus- sian ministry and from the imperial chancel- “& lorship within the current year. He s an All-Around Reformer, The emperor selected Dr. von Bosse as being sympathetic with his social and reli- glous reform, He is pious without beng a pietist, conservative but not a reactionist. Dr. von Bosse is notable among the minis- ters as an eager supporter of the anti-drink legislation. He is an unti-duclist and a so- clal purity man, There wus o highly interesting discussion ot the Reichstag today on Herr Richter questioning Chancellor von Cagrivi regard- ing the attitude of the government on the clerical view 8s to the probable abandonment of the primary education bill. The chancellor replied that he found it im- possible to carry out tho policy of bartor amplied 10 the declarations of Prince Bis- marck. Hesaid it would be sinning against the German empive to purchase benefits for it at the expense of Prussia. The anxioties he had endured as president of the Prussian ministry bad been the greatest of his life, It would strengthen the stability of the em- pire to make the imperial chancellor inaepen- dentof Prussian affaws. Germany, be de- clared, would come out of the present crisis with renewed force arising from the winis- terial changes. Had Cause for Repalring, Herr von Bennigsen next took credit for loading the opposition to success against the oducation proposals, The national liberais and the members of freisiunige party heartily wpplauded his reference to the agitation sgainst the bill, Herr Liebnecht expressed for the social- 1518 thelr rejoicings over the collapse of a measure which had menanced religious free- dom in Prussia. He concluded with the rather irrelevant declaration that despite the strong party and political divisions, Ger- many, if attacked by France or Russia, would rise as one mun to repel the invaders. General von Ceprivi remaius as the repre- sentative of the Prussian ministry in the Bundesrath, The emperor returned to Berlin this even- ing from Hubertusstocs. He was met at the station oy the empress and General von ‘Wittich aod other oficials. He wus eathusi- asticully eheered by the people on the streets as he drove to the castle. He looked well and showed no traces of his recent illness, His attendants state that the cold from which e suffered ouly slightly affectod his respiva- tion. He daily took hard pallops through the forest roads. He has not been troubled with his ear malady, the attendants say, for weoks. The Desconton (iesellschaft, with the Rotbscbilds of London, are making arrange- ments Lo issue in May an Austre-Hungarian gold loan of 100,000,000 fiorins. Arrested torw Horrible Crime, ‘The case of the Awerican, W, R. Whitney, Ny Wwho was arrested last weeck, is assuming the proportions of a most gross scandal. Prior to his arrest the police wero warned through anarchists that men addicted to un- natural offenses met in a certain restaurant, The place was watched, and . it was found that & company of forty-five men, many of whom wero attired in women’s clothes, had assembled in the res taurant, where a mock marriage ceremony was being performed with Whitney as the bride, dressed in white satin. The bride- Rroom was an ex-cavalry private, Dr. Saal, & Gorman-American, acted as the clergyman. The placo was adorned and an altar had been erected. ‘The ceremony was interrupted and stopped by the detectives. The parties concerned, however, were allowed to go. Subsequent orgies reawoke the authorities ana caused the arrest of Whitney on the specific charge of having committed a foul offense. It is said that Whitney’s annual income is Bail was refused in his case. ACTED LIK He Headed O & Duke, [Copyrighted 1892 by James Gordon Bennett.| Toxvoy, March 1 [New York Heraid Cable—Special to Tue B ~Some months 8go the European edition of the Horald called attention to one of the worst cases of injustice that evor occurred, oven in the Britis war oftice, and to the Hjerald the Duke of Cambridge may ascribe one of the hardest raps he ever received over the knuckles. In 187 young Surgeon Briges, just 21, entered the army. Two years later he was in India and served in the Afehauistan war, He was with the Nile expeaition in 1884, taking part in the famous desert march for the reiief of Gordon Pashu. On his return he was promot- ed to be surgeon major for brilliant services in the field, being put over the heads of over forty surgeons, and later was sent to India a second timo on the staff of the governor of Madras, Lord Connemars, who had just been raised to the peerage. For two and a half yoars Briggs was with Connemara, when the latter's wife, who was the eldest daughter of the marquis of Dal- housie, began pruceedings for divoree. Con uemara filed a counter suit implicating Briggs, who immediately came to England to fignt tho case. That there was no founda- tion for Conuemara’s accusation is plain from the fact that Briggs nsistea on and ob- tained a written apology from Connemara. Notwithstandihg this the charges were re- peated. Inorder to be here when the trial came up, Briggs asked for leave, but instead was appointed to a far-off Irish station with instructions that no leave would be given. His only course to pursue when the trial was at hand was to place his commission in tho director general’s hands before the duke of Camdridge would permit him to come to London and vefore the trial came up, he was peromtorily ordered back fo India. Cam- bridge was inexorablo and Dr. Briggs was obliged to resign, although at threo years more would have heen entitled to retire on a pension of £1 per day. When the trial was over and Connemara had lost his case, Dr. Briggs asked for rein- statement. Mr. Lockwood, M. P., took up the caso and his royal highness reinstated the surgeon, but with the loss vf pay and any allowances for ono vear, with the same loss of time toward retirement and pension. Besides thirty-tive officers being put over his head thus, he was deprived of tho ad- vantages gained by his bravery in the Soudan. No man of any self respect would stand this, and thus for the socond time Briggs was driven out of the army. The Herald here took up the case. Other papers were afraid to criticise the duko when Parlinment openea. Dr. Briggs with oull- dog piuck began to haunt the corridors of tho house. It looked like a perfectly hopeiess case until the question was finally raised in house, when Stanhope confessed he was un- aware of the facts of the cuso and sald, “Briggs shall not suffer loss as regards position or promotion in consequence of an act which any gentleman 1s bound to per- form. Briggs will therefore be restored to the seniority he held before retiromsnt,” Now the bapers which were previously afraid to attack the duke are coming out to- day with vehemout outbursts of indignation, and loudly call on the old man to retire, too. German Politics. Loxpoy, March 20.—The Rerlin corre- spondent to the Times telographs: “The withdrawal of the support of the center party will compel the government to rely on the national liberals, who, if able to impose a liveral pregram, will recover the eround tbey lost in the last genoral elections. It is doubtful if Von Eulenburg, the new presi- dent of the Prussian council, will care to place his party under the dictation of Von Beonigsoa. Laberals forsee the government will direct its efforts toward the conciliation of the center party. England and the World's Falr, Loxpoy, March 26, —Tho Moraing Post soys: ‘*We hope that the force of pubiic ovinion will inauce the treasury to increase the grant to provide for a worthy British ex- hivition at Chicago. Our action in the mat- ter contrasts very unfavorably with that of other countries.” Princess Christian presided at the meeting held toduy of the ladies committee of the Chicago World’s fair. Ladies Salisbury, Knutsford aud Averdeen wero present, Arrested for Iuciting Riots, L.oxpoN, March 26.—The Times’ Shanghai correspondent says that the Tsiang Lie Yamen (the Chinese foreign office) urged by toe foreign ministers at Pekin has orderea the viceroy of Chang Cbli to arrest Chan Han Van, oficially responsible for the spreading of anti-foreign literature. Dillon Was Not Consuited, Dunriy, March 20.—Dillon declares he was not consuited in regard to the amalgamation of the Freeman’s Journal sud the National Press and does not think \he amalgamation will attain the desired objects, - May Indict Raiiro . Cnicago, 1L, March 20, he federal grand jury will be convened next montn, and itis hinted that Distriot Attorney Milchrist will lay before the investizators some now and startling facts calculatea to get certain rallroad freight agents into trouble for dis- erimination in favor of the large shippers. The indictinents returned against several sbippers and railvoad men several montns 4g0, seem o have been of little or no value 8s 8 warning to_others, aud compliiots are wade that the heavy shippers are still get- ung such advantages in rates that their small competitors are unable o do soy busi- ness, This state of affairs the unfavoved ones are resisting. Speclal Agent Kreteh- mer of 1he luterstate commerce commission has been in consuitation with the district at- toruey for suveral days, and it is supposed that important evidence is being prepared, e Shoed George Washington's Horse, Wiasingroy, Del,, March 2.—Louis Fell, the father of fourteen cktildren, ana who shoed a horse ridden by George Washington, died here iast night, aged 9. He had veen married seventy-one years, aud his wile, aged 92, survives biw, 300,000 bars Union soap sold ia Ne brasku lastmonth, It's the best. 1 an{T KIND YOU HAVE READ ABOUT Yesterday's Storm Was a Real One of the 01d-Time Brand. DAMAGE DONE TO ALL KINDS OF WIRES ation Iway ht honie Commu pended — Street Ri Traffic Blocked and Electrie L, Service Discontinued, About 7 o'clock yesterday morning the rain which had beaten down all night changed to snow. Such asnow! Not one of the fine, sifting, drifting, blizzardy sort that fllis the gutters and leaves the streets bare, but a real ola- fashioned downfall of hugs feathery flakes thatdanced and floated and eadiea 1n rostless, bewildering, limitless clouds. It banked the streets with snowy pillows which the fest of dripping bedrargled humanity tramped into melancholy sogginess; it glorifisa the trees and draped every ledge and roof with glis- tening festoons; it transformed the unsightly poles into forests of whito shafts and the overbanging wires iuto silvery gossamer webs, and 1t transformed ordinavily good natured humanity intu wretched 8now efiigies with depressing rivutets trickling down their backs aud footwear that went “sqush.” Solitary policemen purrowed into sholtered doorways, buried their hands in their pockets and their noses in their coat collars and patiently shifted from foot to foot while *‘the baautiful” banked slowly up about theiv feet, over their shoulders, over their helmets and, melting, trickled away with spring time gladness over the spots that were warmest. Motors Gave it up Early. For a time the motor trains, with spite fuily flashing trolleys, struggled and groaned at the slippery grades, but by 10 o'clock travel on all except the Hanscom park line nhad been entirely suspended. The South Omaha and Sherman avenue street car line became blocked about 10 o'clock. The sweeper had not boen over the line, and a north-bound car found the snow so heavy as to be unable to pass Wilhams, Other following trains tried to force a pas- sage, but several motors were barned out in tho attempt, and at noon fourteen oars lay there dead in line and there they still re- main, while siagle trains are strandea at irregular intervals over all the lines aund in all parts of the The cabie demonstrated its superiority for stormy weather service and kept running, though all the other lines were shut down and the current turned off. An unexpected accident, however, interrupted cable travel for a tinie justas completely as though the storm had gottenin its work directly. Owing | ) phones in the /ity wems working and the company had sustained, an estimatea loss of nearly i not quite 810,000 Not an outside conunection could be d, As one by one the wires irom nmm'm had yielded to the fury of the stobms The ‘snapping of poles from inability to bear the tremendous (extea weight thrown upon them becsme iliar sound during the morning hours. Krom reports of the linemon, which are by po means complete, it was learned that there were thirty broken poles on Leavenworth sireet, cightesn on St, Mary’s avenue and twenty-two on Cuming street, while the wires on Farnam street were tangled and (wisted in almost inextric- able confusion, All over the city polas are broken and tho wires twisted. The company's linemen wero at work ¥, but even after tho storm ceased at 2 o'clock, they could do littlo toward repairing the damage, as their whole attention was directed toward getting their wires clearea from those of the motor and electric light companies, and even in this di- rection they had hardly made more than a fair start when the mantle of night fell over the city. It will bo at least three days he- fore anything like ordinary work can be done at the central bffice, and much fonger than that beforo the service is restored to its former high degree of efficiency. Samples of the Havoe, Both telephone and motor wires on West Leavenworth street are badly demoralized, Noarly every other pole for from four to five blocks east of Park avenue is prostrate, while others are tottering and will have to be replaced. At the corner of Leav- enworth and Park avenus there is sad bavoc. A7 large pole carr not less than 100 telephone wires broke under the extraordinary weight and fell over upon the motor wires, not ouly breaking every metallic cireuit’ but completely blockading thestroct until 5 o’clock; when the linemen had cut away the wires to enable pedestrigns to 8. On tho east side of Park avenue and in front of tho brick vlock that fronts on Leavenworth street another beavy pole had fallen, completely abstructing the sidowalk and entrance ways iitathe store-rooms. From this point east to Géprgia avenue the wires and poles were ail down upon the ground. Across (ieorgia avenue tho wires formed a fence, totally shutting out all venicles and rendering it difficult for pedestrians to pass. Worked from Council Blufts, The telegraph companies weroalsonot only seriously 1nconvenienced butsustained heavy losses on account of the storm. KEvery ono of the eighty wires leading to theoftice of the Western Unlon company wero useless. The company’s wires wero working from the Bluffs east, however, and Manager Umsted sent over a large force of operators and arranged at once for a continuous messenger service be- tween the Bluffs and tne Omaba office, so that the more important busiuess of the day was taken care of. As the Lridge motor serv- ice was abandoned early in the day a lino of livery buggies was put on to carry the mes. sengers back and 1orth, and even whon the storm was at its height the biue coated lads and their drivers wareendeavoring to mako time on their unpleasant trips. So severo was the storm and so strong were the gusts that drove the blindiug flakes that togethe with the shippery and Heavy footine. n singie round trip was safcient 1o c mplvely exhaust a pair of horses even though ther load was only a light; buggy and two passer.- gers, ono of whom was a boy, 892--SIXTEEN PAGE bo confined 16 a territory within a radius of thirty to fifty miles of Omaha. A mounted messonger service was also maintained be- tween this city and South Umaha during the afternoon and night to attend to the business of the packing houses aad stock yards, Tae poles of the Postal Telograpt com pany seemed to stand the storm better, as there were fower wires, and therefore loss weight on them. Communication was en- tirely cut off for a time, however, and last ht thero was not a wire, either telegraph or telepbone, working out of the city in any direction, False Fire Alarms q t. The fire department horses camo tn for their share of excitement. The crossing and recrossing of the many currenis and wires kept sending in alarm after alarm till the an- imals becama nearly frantic. Last night there were hardly any ot tho fire alarm boxos working us the polos on some of tho circuits wero down for blocks. Superintendent Coulton of the fire and polico alarm worked Wwith several gangs of linemen during the en- tire afternoon and night to get tho wires raised temporarily and in somothing -like working order, Acting Chief Saiter, Barnes and Graves remained at headquarters all night. The central fire station was cut oft from telephonic communication with ull of the other engine honses except Nos, 2, 6 and . Chief Salter ordered the firemen at every house to patrol the blocks in which the house was situated all night to detect nossibie fires and to be ready for any alarms that might coma in any manner whatever., Temporary poles for the fire alarm wires will bo " put up today, but it will take some time to thoroughly ropair the damage, as there are 150 miles of fire and police line, and all of it is in trouble. Only five of the police patrol boxes were working last evening. The night patrolmen were instructed atroll call to at once pull the box on their beats in case of tire, then to telephone to tho station, and 1f ncither call seemed to work satisfactorily, to run at once to the nearest engine house. Rallroads Sufter Also, L., H, Korty, superintendent of telograph of the Union Pacific, was one of the busiest men in town during the day. Ho said that every lineman available had boen put to work rebuilding the prostrate wires. The train dispatchers wero sent out to Papiltion early 1 tho day, where the trains wora dispatched without interraption, wires west of that point being in fair condition, _Ine wires of all the railroad companies sufferod greatly throughout the city At G o'clock only two raiirond wires were working oast from Council Blufls, and they were occupied coustantly. No press or commercial busi- ness could bo handled up to that time. All telegraphic communication to the south and west was cut off save_ono railroad wire on the Union Pacidc. Beforo communication was cut off u heavy storm 1 Colorado was roported but particulars could not be loarned. On the Union Pacific no freight trains were started out, the track befng held open exclusively for passenger traffic. Thero was no very graat delay reportod to passengor trains. Toward noon the temperature dropped several dogrees and the rising wind drove the stow io stringing horizontal Iines, which soon cleared the streets of all except those who were compelled to bo out. Some fears werc expressod that life may bo lost ir. the country. Though the day was pot. with Assistants to the heavy track and the clogging and binding of the grip in the cable slot, the in- creased strain caused o partial parting of the cable, Several of the strands broke, but be- fore the wreck was complote the power was shut down, The rope was cut 1n the power bouse and some 200 feet of the weak portion taken out. A new scction was spliced in and in three hours the line was again in op- eration. Electric Currents Shut O, The wotor systems were not ‘knockea out,” as it would have been possible to have Kept them it operation for some time after they were shut down, but the current was turned off at the urgent request of tho tele- phone aud telegraph companies, which were apprehensive of great damage to their switchboards anda instruments from the heavier current, which was liable at any minute to be cutinto their offices through the broken wires that were daugling and swivgiug i all directions. ‘I'he sume request was made of the electric Light company and it was obligingly com- plied with, so that after 10:30 o'clock there was not a “live"” wira of high potential cur- rentin the city, But for this fires and fatalities would undoubtedly have been uumerous, and there was & variety of reports as it was, All sorts of rumors of dead men and horses were afloat, which could be neither confirmod nor denied for lack of wmeans of communica- tion, “There was cousternation in the telepnone exchange. ‘The network of wires all over the city, strained by the weight of snow, apped like spider webs, and belis tinkled and numbers dropped in bewildering con- fusion, Now avd then a floatiog shred of wire would settle down over some of the motor company’s **hot”’ trolley wires, when there would foilow in the exchange u flash, & shriek and one of the hello girls would promptly throw up ber job. By 10 o'clock all work overthe wires bad ceased. Telephone People Lose Hea: ly, Atuoon less than 100 0f thy 180 tele I BETWIXT THE WAVES, i wire burned the anim: sido in manner. High Wind on the Vi The tall poles that carry the wires over tho Tenth street viaduct succnmbed to the im mwense weight thrown upon them and gave way, seriously interfering with viaduct tra Half a dozan of the tallest ot the telophono poles on Farnam and Fifteenth streets were snapped off at the top and only held in posi tion by tha wir Tho plan recently put into offect of snlicing out poles with 1ron arm extonsions proved to bo impracticablo, as the metal collapsed under the strain and bent almost double throwing the wires over against adiacent buildings, Linemen were in groat demand among all the wire companias and comparatively new mon commanded & a day with no_embarras- sing questions askad s to compet or ex- perience, From an Ofcial Standpo Observer Basslor had much difficulty in obtaining reports from outside points, but loarned that tho storm center was in lowa and Northern Missouri. Yestordav’s temperature as show at the local forevast station was as follows: 7a. m., 93=: 10, m., 835 1 p. m., 86°, His report last evening was as follows : Owling to the remarkable storm prevailing during the day no tel phic reports have Dbeen recelved this evenin und no fo ust for Sunday based upon the eSt roports can therefore be made. But judeing from this morning's reports and purely lo ications it 15 still thought Ing to fair somewhat colder yicinity Sunday to 107 fuch, which pu pre January 1 nearly n quarterof an ineh in ox- cess of the norninl, . Motors Wil Move T It was supposed that the motors would bo in operation last evening, but Mayor Bemis requested that no current bo turned on until the overhanging wires had been so removed as to obviato the danger that threatened from the position they were in. 1'or that reason the cars were not started, but Secre. tary Goodrich stated during the evening that he thought vigorous work on the part of the employes of other clectric companies would put them in shape to turn their whoels as usual today. In the main, tho city was dark last mght, as tho olectric light company turned the cur- rent on only two of their arc-light circuits, and those were for the accommodation of some of tho business houses. Not a street arc light was burning, and tho strcets wero oven mora desolato on that account. Several of the incandescent circuits wera in opera- tion, but the effect of the temporary shut- dowu of the major portion of the electric lighing plant was outwardly visible in all parts of the city, aud will undoubtedly very materially affect the monthly reacing of the meters of the gas company. trange as it may secm tho hotels were crowded last night with tho traveling public. Ohe or two of the principal houses wero obliged to turn people aw; for want of ac- commoaations. This may bo accounted for by the fact that many traveling meon who | tended leaving the city yesterday morning were prevented from doing so, while many who were emroute stopped off in Omuba to kecp out of o probable blockade on the road Strangers from all parts of the country a in the cily and toey say generally that it was When the snow fall ceased the motor com- pany cleared its tradiss and again got its cars iu operation. though it van them west only as far as Tenth stredt, being unable to run around the loop, the, er for which is fur- nished’ by the OmshaStreet Railway com- pany, ASsoon @3 the cars resumed opera- tions, the Western '8 Llivery line wus discontinued,.and earduring the whole alternoon and up tognidnight carried a tole- graph messenger. fit.thll. hour, when the rs stopved runnfag, Amouated messengor service was put on. TelegraphingUnder Dificulties. The Westorn Unfon' cqupany had tayelve wires worklng to Chigago, two to St. Louis and five to Kansas Uity but not a wire wa working out of O Tue BEe's specials and press report sweceived at Council Bluffs and transfe (Mcross the river by messengers us rapidly as possible o the edi- torial rooms. i L'he bulk of the dayde commerciul business was not hundied until wearly night, and I ovening over 590 s mossagos '"x'd a cumulated at the t b offices waiting to e delivered wdayt-“-o The wires of the company were sadly tan- gled on this side of the river, both on Ka naw strect and vear the coroer of Nintb and Joues, but the really serious trouble was on the lowa -shore, as|the wires e almost complete'y prostrated from the river to the transfer. ~ Florty-eight poles were snapped in twain and lay nalf bugied 1o the s while thera was any . amount of chaos and disorder between the trausferana the Bluffs uptown ofice. ‘I'i@ compauy put twenty-five linemen to work ' vesterday aftérnoon to straighten out the fangle, and five more Raugs are now onthe way tiero from Chi- cago. They will areive this moroiug, and today the company will have seventy-five men at work erdeling two sats of short pol upou which to tamporasily string the pro: trate wires. taen ol the Dwuha operato: s were kept al work all bt in Couneil Bluffs, and the working wires were kept C trauble from thestorm seewed Lo RIVAL cold, the immense fall of snow has been driven over the open prairies with such blindiug fury that travel must oe almost 1m- possible. Tarned Into s Rain, At 22 o'clock a cold d: ng rain was (fall- ing, and the streets were in an impassable condition. Floods of water and slush cov- ered the crossings and not more than halt a dozen vehicles could be sean on the whoio length of Farnam street. Half of the tall wlej)hulln poles with their weight of huu- dreds of snow-laden wires were twisted and broken and in some cases leaned up against adjacent buildings. Hroken wires huog in loops to the sigewalks or lay *in tangled masses across the street, while thoso over- head were in almost fnextricable confusion, Line men were at work with long poles knocking off the snow and miniature ava- 1anghes splashed Aown into the slush below or over the devoted heads of the pedestriuns continually. Koocked & Team Do One of the most serious ageidents of the day happened at the Delione hotel. A fiue span of horses attached 1o a carriage belong- ng to the Palaco Livery baru bapnened te be standing directly unaer a falliog telephono wire which broke off with the weizht of suow. Tno horse upon which the wire fell was kuocked down and tue other horse also lost his footing and fell. 'I'ne broken wire luf' across an eleciric light wire thus giviog it s heavy charge and the poor brute lay at full length upos the instrument of torture. The other horse received cousid erable of & shock by coming iu contact with the animal toucting the wire, The driver ran into the hotel and got a batehet as quickly as possible and cut the wire, The current was sufiicient to kill but it the borse that be could sowe time, T'he animal was finully gotten up and led away Lo the stable. but ne ap peared to Le very seriously injured. The the severest March storm they bad ever wit nessed. ath Omaha Demoralized, The storm played havoo generslly with South Omaha yesterday morong. The fire slarm system was temporarily wrecked, and as only 8 few telephones can be reached it would be almostimpossible to tura in a fire alarm from most parts of the city. 'The electric light company’s wires suffered nost, Thelr wires are completely down. Five poles in succes- sion sre broken eutirely off on Twenty- seveoth street and the wires are scatteréd all over the street. The American District Telephone systems are disofdered and no telephone connection has béen made with Omahasince yesterday morning. Fortunately no one was injured by the falling poles and wires. (ieorge Brower was caught in a tangle of falling wires at Twen eventh and N streets but was not injuved, Iis silk umbretla was torn into shreds. The falung snow from wires and roofs occasioned considerable inconvenience to pedestrinns. City ‘Treasurer Tom Hoctor was caught under about » wagom loud of soft slush which nearly smothered him., The motors stopped ruuning at 10 o'clock but will probably be started egain today. Opinion of an English Ad New Youk, March 27.—Admiral Selwvn of the British navy, who is here enroute to Mexico, said today: “There will be no war between Eugland aud the United States, no matter what the outlook portends.” He thought politics might be played a little, ndipg & settlement of the question of sea it il \ —— Mitigated His Sentence, Wasniserox, D. C., March 2. —The presi dent has mitigated the sentence of the court martiul in the case of Major Charles I3 ‘I'hrockworton %o suspznsion (rom rank ana wud duty for five yoars on balf pay, a horrislo | \( N \ PAGES 1-8. , l NUMBER 284, E 5 - CANAD, i CAUSING THE TROUBLE P - Her Majesty's Subjects Do Not Compre= hend the Sitnation, ANXIOUS TO SEE THE CORRESPONDENCE Nothing Official Yet Given to the English Publio, DETAILS PROMISED FOR™ TOMORROW Disposition of tho of G Britaln to Pravoke Strife Offvet Ity Aristocracy ‘nb the Amicable Feeling of the Cow te. [Copyrighted 1892 by James Gordon Bennett, | Loxpbos, March 26, -[New York Herald Cable—Special to Tiur Bee. |—The strained relations between the United Stutes and Gireat Britain on the Bering sea question bogin to cause a good deal of uneasiness among well nformed porsons here, but for some reason or other the Philadelphia cor. respondent of the Times balittles the wholo controversy day aftor day and s ““The subject has failed to arol interest among tho American people, This encourages thu advocates of the dogged policy of *no surrander’ to persevera in their course and contirms them in their belief thut the president aud senat are merely engaged in carcying out an eloction- cering dodge. The statement of the Timos correspondent is certuinly not confirmed by the quotations from the Amcrican pross, which some members of Parniament obtained from friends. These clearly show that ke controversy is rogarded as ono of the great- ost importance by the people of the United States, and it is a pity this fact is not put in an authoritative manuer before the British public. [ have reason to believe, howover, that the government is not underrating the dis- pute. T'hey are very anxious to arrive at settlement and think they would be able to @0 so if 1t were not for the ‘jingoers” in Canada as well as in the United States, I'his class is not largel§ reprosentative in Bug- land, for no section of the Kaghsh peoplo worth mentioning would 100k upon the prob- abihity of war with the Uaited States with- out horror, Where Canada Figures, Canadian pressuro is very strong and naturally wust have some effect upon the mivistry as well asupon Parliamont. There is absolutely no political advantage to ba gained for any party in this country by quarreling with the United States. On the contrary, the ministry which places two countries in peril of war on such- a question as the soal fisheries would undoubtedly wreck itself and that speedily. But much is to be feared from the ignor- ance of the great body of the English poople concerning theso auestions at issue, for they cannot be expected to read tho blue books containing the correspondence, und they uc- cept the newspaper version of what is going on, That, as a rule, ropresents the United States as having no case, and being deter- mined only to forcs Eagland into a humiliat- ing position. Maunwhilo uone of the cor- respondence between tho two govern-ents has been allowed to see the light, although it has been published in the United States. We are al' in the dark as to the true natare of the counter proposals made by Lord Salisbu and as to his reasons for refusing to renew the modus vivendi of last year. The whole affair is represented as partof the *‘tall twisting business,”” which always goes on with redonbled vigor when- over a presiaential election is pending, Believe t Will Blow Over, Tho question put on I'riday afternoon in the House of Coimons will at least hava the effect of accelerating the production of tho official correspondence, in fact it 18 now promised for Monday, although not a word was heard of it before, The under-secretary for foreign affairs alsostated thavLord Salis- bury’s reply tothelast note received from tho American government is still under consid- eration.. As to the note, nothing seems to havo been swid at Wasnington or in uny ot the communications mado to the press thera, rather indicating that the correspondaenca had been closed and the result had been laid before the senate. We now learn, forthe first time, of the note from the prosident still remaining un- answered. I may ada that the belief is strong in official circles that tho storm will blow over and that u fair and reasonable compros mise will be arrived av. We hear of no threatening naval prepuras tions on the partof the Americun govern- ment, and consequently it is not generally thought that the warlike expressions which find utterance in various quarters are likely 10 be translated into action. It must ba dis- tinctly reported thut no party or section of a party in this country desires to seo a serious misunderstandiog with the United States on any subject whatever, A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, e —— S FOR THE ARMY, Complete List of Chunges In the Regular Servieo, Wasmaroy, D, C., March [Special Telegram to Tuk Bee, |-The tollowing ase signmente to regiments of ofiicors vecently promoted and transfers of odicers ars ors dered : Colonel Alfred Mordecos, orduance de- partment, will proceed from the Springtield armory to the Watervloit arsenal, West Troy, on public business in connection with tho cquipment of the new worksbop, ete., and upon tie completicn of the same will returu 10 his station. The Jeave of absonce on su; geon’s certificate of disability granted Cap- tain Emerson H, Liscum, Niunetesuth infan- try, Febroary 19, Department of the Mis- souri, is extended one month on surgeon’s certificate of disablity. much WaASHING? he house today procecded to the consideration of pens sion bills reported favoravly from the come mitteo of the whole. After vassing seveu teen puoblic building bilis busiuess was suspended, and the colleagues of the late Cougressman Spinola pro- ceeded to o tribute and respect to his memory. After speeches Ly Cockran, Cur- o T i, g and Cooper, the house, as @ further mark of respect Lo the mewory of the deceased, ad- Jjourned. e Mr. und Mrs, Keld Sail ilavie,March 26 —Minister WhitelawiReld and Mrs. Kuld sailed for the United States this morning on the steamer La Champaguey