Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1892, Page 2

e THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY APRIL 2, 1892 thronged this evening, the occasion being a parly given by Mr. and Mrs. Geore Barney and Mr. and Mrs. John S, Kittl Both couples are well known in Omaha, Mr, and Mrs. Barney being formerly residents of that city. They expect to shorily remove from Seward to Indianapolis. Tho party was rosplondant with the weaith, beauty and fashion of the city. The music was fur- nished by an Omaha orchestra. Notes from Gothenbnrg. Gornexnrno, Neb,, April 1.—[Special to Tir Bre. |—Farm work has been delayed by the continued cold weather and but httle wheat has bean sown. Indications at pros- ent, howaover, favor nicer weather and it s generally conceded that prospects for good crops wore never more favorable, A large amount of 1ast year's crop i3 still in the hands of the producer and an air of prospority is prevailing. An_effort is being made to secure the Pueblo & Duluth rallway and it is moro than probablo that tho effort will be crowned with success, Arrangements are about completed for a large and important manufactory employing upwards of 200 men and & large amount of capital. A number of new dwellings are now 1n process of erection and many more in con- tomplation The Methodists have just closed a suc- cessful revival with twenty-one additions to the church. Superior's Home Talent, Surenion, Neb., April 1.—(Special to Tie Bre.| A very appreciative audience greeted tho Superior orchestra at the opera house last night. The home talant, consisting of A. D, Hill, W. W. Kendull, H. C. Volbher, A. C. Fely, Lee Brodhord, W. Seott, D. Guthrie, B. "Eaenfield, Mrs.'W. W. Kendall and Miss Loeper, assisted by Jules Lombard of Omaha and Captam go Lyons of Nelson, mado tho entertanment ono of the most enjoyable ever witnessed in this odibinh e WILL APPEAL FROM THI. DECISION, Waestern Unlon Officials Do Not Thinic Jus- tico Brewer's Decision Will Stand. New Yok, April President Norvin Gireon viows with apparent complaconcy the blow administored to the Western Union- Union Pacific telegraph aliiance by United Statos Supremo Court Justice Brewer. “Tho decision of Judge Brewer,” said Prosidont Greon, “will affect tho economies of our oporations along the Union Pacific trom Omaha to Ogden, but 1t will not hurt us financially except in that direction. Jnder tho deoision of the court wo are to take out our wires and officos. We can keep our offices in the samo_ building, T suppose, but we ure to do a separate business, This will result in & poorer and moro costly ser- vice to tho public, and some of our ofiices in small places will probably bv abandoned. “The railroad company won't bo avlo to run anything except a poor commercial telegraph company, not near as good as ours. Our gross rovenues will not be impsired and may bo increased, but our expenses will bo incrosed. The Postal —Telo- graph Cable company may, and prob- ably wili, at onco under 'this decision make connoctions with tho Union' Pacifio Railroad Welograph company and persons using the Union Pacific telograph wires can ordor thoir messages delivered by either the Postal or the Westorn Union company. Our agreoment saved tho Union Pacific railway £60,000 o year.’ Prosidont (iren received a long alspatch from ex-Judge Dillon of counsel for the com- pany in Washington, which, 1t was said, ad- vised tho Western Union to appeal from Jus- tico Brower’s decision. Prosident Groen said tho Western Union would appeal. S GALLY HELD. IL Marion V. Dudley, the Poctss, Although Sane, Confined in a Madhouse, Minwavkeg, Wis., Aprl 1.—I'or some time it has been quictly talked among the friends of Marion V. Dudley, the poetess, that she was consigned to an insane asylum without proper oxamination. Today the State Board of Control was in the city, and it was said that the members came for tho purpose of in- vestigating complaints made by Mrs. Dudley herself relative to her confinement in a mad house. She clams perfect ability to care for herself and alleges that sho was com- mitted with the object of giving te other peo- ple the control of her property, which is said 10 be valued at about $20,000, The complaint as to the mental condition of Mrs. Dudley was made by ner aged hus- *mnd last Jaunary, and after a privato exam- nation by physicians she was committed to aprivate asylum without a jury trial and without opportunity to be heard in her own defense. At the time the lady was stopping at the Plankinton house. and while her actions were somewhat singular it was r marked by the sneriff who took her away that she talked and actod rationally and con- versed with him and his wife during the journey to the madnouse without evideuce of an unbalanced mind. The members of the board do not talk of their mission, but it is believed that Mrs. Dadley will sucure a new hearing and that all doubt s to her mental condition wili be removed. —— FEMALE A WAS STUDYI ATOMY. A Youthful New Yorker Gets Himself Into Serlous Trouble, New York, April 1.—Ernest Lasser, 17 vears old, said to be the son of parents who have money, is locked up here for imperson- atiog an attache of the health board, hunting the Italian district for typhus fever cases. He had convinced two women in a Mott street tenemont that they must djsrobe to satisfy oficial requiroments as to their sani- tary condition. Fach of the women did as Lasser bade her. Male friends of the two women wero warned of the presence of the oficer by a child of one of the outraged wo- men, aild when an officer arrived the [talians had Lasser in a cornerand tneir disposition of bim, had they not been interfered with, is problematic. Vhen placed in a cell the prisoner wept and eried: *‘My father is wealthy and he will give you lots of money if you will only let me go. The lad was taken to theTombs this morn- ing. Some of his friends urged last might that he is insane. Lasser explains that he is an anatomical student and was seeking sub- jects for study. He is a clerk for Steiu Bros. ew Keop Watcl Thetr Aged Mistr Prrrsnong, Pa., April 1L--For years an agod woman, known as Mrs, Schuldie, has Lived alone with hor two dogs in alittle house in-Alloghony. Today she was missed by her néfgnbors, whose attention was attracted by the strange howling of the dogs. Mr. and Mrs. Morse attempted to enter the house, but wore driven back by the dogs. Neighbors gathered and led for Mrs, Seluldie, but the only response they got was from the dogs. They summoned an ofticer, who was forced to shoot the animals through & window before an entrance could be safely effected. . A boy then erawlod through a win- dow and opened the door, Mrs. Schuldio was found dead on her couch, dressed, with her grn er book in her hand. She seomsd to ave fallon asleep. Her faithful dogs, that nad protocted her in life, had afterward guarded her corpse with an affection which ended only with their death, e MURDERED HER STEPDAUGHTER, O'er the Mes, Bylugto or Hushand's Child to Death and Burns the Body, Boxye Teuug, Miss, April L—Mrs. Wil- lam Byington, living near here, is in jail charged with the murder of her stepdaughter Saturday, March 26. Willlam Byington, ve- turning from work, found the body of bi 9-year-old daughter Iylng on the hearth, her body borribly burned. Mrs. Byington ex- plained that the litte girl had fallen into the old-fashioned tireplace. Suspicion was ex- cited, the body was exhumed Monday ana an inquest heid. The post-mortem examination showed that the cnild had been beaten to death, there being several wounds on the hoad, sny one of whioh, in the opinion of the three physiciaus, would have caused death. The wowan was immediately arvested under & warrant sworn out by ber busbaud charg- iog ber with murder in the first degree. e Soldlors Serlously Injured, Paws, April 1.—By tue collapse of the floor 1n the barracks twelve soldicrs were seriously injured, MUST HANDLE LIVE CATTLE Manner of Furnishing Beef to Indians Can't Be Ohanged. FEATURES OF THE PRESENT SITUATION Suggostions of an Subjoet Recognize Advantageous, But the Depart- ment Has No Chole April 1. —[Specia A couple of weoks Wasmsaroy, D, C. Telogram to Tk Be ago Senator Manderson transmitted to In- alan Commissioner Morgan a letter from Hon. W, A. Paxton of Omaha in relation to the delivery of dressed beef instead of gross beef at the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Tudian agencies, in which Mr. Paxton stated that it dressed beef wero delivered at railroad points nearest to the agencies and trans- ported to the agencies by the Iudians them- selves, tho reveuue from hauling would be much groater than they mow receive from the sale of hides and give them ready cash rather than trade as they now get, and that tho expense of herd- ing ana of butchers would be saved $0 that there would be no shrinkage. He added that the presont sysiem of shooting ana erippling beeves on the praiio and often rerdering them uufit for food would thus be avoided and the Iudians would not have the opportunity of toruring the cattie, as is the provailing custom, Senator Manderson today received a reply to tho letter, in which General Morgun says: “In transmitting Mr. Paxton's letter you stated that tio presents this subjuct in such a convincing and forcible way that 1 do not feel that I noed add anything to his lotter oxcopt to say that 1 leartily coceur with him in his conclusion. I think it would bo a long sten 1n the direc- tlon of civilization and a better condition for tho Indians whon beef shall be issued to them in drossod form. Replying to your fet ter L would respectfully say that I hoartily agreo with you that the fssting of dressed beof to Indians in placo of live eaitle, which are by them tortured before being killed, would bo a long step in the direction of the civilization of tno Indians, and for that pur- poso the building.of sub-issue statious is under consideration, and they will probably be built during' the fiscal year of 1503, located at different places on the respoctive agoucies, from which stations all rations are to boissued for the Indians living {n tho vicinity of tho stations, and when the plans in contemplation aro finished and congress furnishes sufficient funds for their execution this office will be in a condi- tio to mature a plan for issuing from those sub-issue stations, dressed beef to the ln- dians in place of live stock. Features of the Situation, The plan submitted by Mr. Paxton, how - is, it scems to me, entirely impractica ble, For the Rosebud agency about 5,000,000 pounds of becf, gross, are required Annually and for the Pino Ridge ugency 6,000,000 eve) pounds, gross. Tho nearest railroad station to Rosebud agency is Valentine, Neb. distance about twenty-five miles. Therefore the dressed beef would have to be hauleda in wugovs, in one case thirty-fivo miles and in the othor twenty-tivo miles. In the summer this would mean the spoiling of the meat be- foro it reached the agency, and in winter, when the roads are bad, it 1s dountful if the Indians would be able to haul the same. But aside from the above, if dressed beef wero furnished the Indians at the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies, it would 1n summer have to be issued daily, aud in winter at least wwice a wee. Some of the Inaians live over fifty miles from the agency and a majority from ten to fifteen miles and to come, in summer, daily for the beef, and in winter twice a weel, would keep them always enroute, unable to attend to their farms, stock, etc. Beef rations on the hoof are issucd now. at the agencies every two weeks; but this could not be douo with dressed beef, even if it could be kept from spoiling while being hauled from the ter- minus of the railroad. “*At some of the agencies, namely the Standing Rock agency. in South Dakota, sufiicient cattle are killed in November to last uutil the middle of March, frozen and issued to the Indians in_that condition, but the weather at Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies is too chaungeable to allow of this. For tho present and until a plan has been matured and proper.appropriations made for its execution are furnished, the issuing of live cattle to these Indians will have to con- €ON Debate on the Will Close k. Wasnixaroy, D. C., April 1.—Attendanco in the house today was very small, and Bai- loy of Texas, without antagonizing any par- Today at ticular measure, made & point that no quo- rum was present, snd several bills that were called up had to be withdrawn 1n order to clear the track for regular business, Norton of Missouri was the first member to secure the passage of a favorite measure. It was the bill to authorize the construction of a bridge across tne Mississippi at St. Charles, Mo. Catohings of Mississippi, from the commit- teo on rules, reported back a resolution for the appointment of a special committee to in- vestigato the charges against the census bureau. Wilcox of Minnesota thought the matter ought 1o be left to the standing committee on the Eleveuth census, although he thought the special committee coula do the subject botter justice. Catchings demanded tho vious ques- tion, wheraupon Millerof Wisconsin assumed the role of a filibusterer. He moved to ad- journ, Defeated by 126 to 2. Miller moved to take a recess, Catchings called atention to the rule pro- viding that no motion to adjourn could be entertained while a report from the commit- tee on rules was being considered, Milier denounced the rules, Wilcox offered un amendment that tho in- vestigation of the census buveau be placed in chargo of the census committee. The amend meut was adopted. nloe moved the house go into committee of the whole, McMillin, in response to a question, said it was tho intention 1o ask the bLouse to close the tariff debato tomorrow at 2 o'clock. Simpson, aided by other third party mem- bers, attompted fo filibuster, but their struggle was brief and the house went into committee of tho whole on the free wool bill. Cox of Tennessee spoke in favor of the bill and McRao of Arkansas deseribed tho abusos arising from a protectivo tariff, Watson of Georgin expressed the sonti- ment of the third party on tho tanff ques- on.. Dalzell criticised the democratio party and answered the attacks made upon the McKin- ley act. At the suggestion of McMulin it was ordered that general debato on the free wool bull close tomorrayw. In tho Senage. ~WISHINGToN, DOy APl T trensaction of the regular morning business the Indian appropriation bill was taken up, An amendment offered by Mr. Vilas to in- crcase the appropriation far an Indiun school led toa discussion in whioh Mr. Allison chairman of the committee on aporopritions, criticised the Indian commissioner for wril- ing long supplementary letters to sonators fayoriuy increased appropriations, instead of recommending them to the committee. Tho school at Lawrence, Kau., wasacase iu oint, the commissionor having written a etter to Mr. Perkins favoring an in- crease of from $5,000 to $125,000. It had been discoverod by ' the commillee an appro- priotions thay $5.000 of thatsmount (ex- pressed in the estimate as for “‘out-houses’’) was actually for the erection of a residence for the superintendent and some toachers, aud that §,000 was for an electric plant. “What do tboy want with an electric pisut!" Mr. George asked, ‘‘canuot the Iu- disus be educated except by tho eleetricity 1 ‘To the first query Mr. Allison replied that he nupfiuud Kerosene lamps wore gisagree- able. He added tbat he aid not like the methods of the Indian commissioner. Mr. Vilas said the nation had aimost with- out exception treated the Indians unjustly, He uwu‘;ht they should bo educated. Mr. Haosorough offercd au amendment i for & commission 10 negotgte with the or_ 1hoe Turtle mountain band of Chippowa Indians in North Dakota for the gassion of the right and interest which they claim on their lands. Agroeed to. Finally the bill was reported to the senate trom tho committes of the swhole, Mr. Dawes moved to strike out of the bill the provision for the assignment of army officors to duties as Indian agents. After a short executive session tho senate adjourned until Monday. THI BACON WAS GOOD. NKS THE How Pine Ridge Indlans Failed to Recelve Tainted Meat., Wasnixatoy, D. C., Apnl 1.—[Special Telegram to Tue Br Indian Commis- sioner Morgan today sent to Seaator Dolph a letter saying that tho attack cn the Indian oftice by Senator Manderson on tho fioor of the senato Wednesday, charging the oftico with attempting to forco rotten bacon upon the Indians at Pine Ridge Agency, S. D., soems to have been based upon a misappre- hension of tho facts in tho case. He says that a contract for furnishing the Indlan sorvico for the year end- ing June 80 1892, for 50,000 pound of bacon, short clear sidos, sound, sweet and merchantable, was awarded to the firm of J. O. Armour & of Chicago: 120,000 pounds of this bacon were shipped to 'Rushville, Neb.. by rail to bo convey thence oy Indian transportation to Pine Ridge to be aistributed among the Indians, ‘I'he meat was inspected bofore shipment, n Chicago by an expert chosen by the secro- tary of tho interior and it was pronounced to be fully up to the contract roquirements. Captain Penny, acting Indian agent at Pino Ridge, refused to receive the meat on the ground th it was old, musty, raucid and unfiv for food. Commissioner Morgan uoti- fied the contractors and requested them to replace the bacon with a vetter quality., Tho legal ropresentative of the iivm, in counection with Senator Cullom, called upon the commissionor and protested that thoy were boing unjustly dealt with; that the bacon was all they claimed for it, and ro- quested that final action should be deferrea until the matter could b fully investigated. Accordingly Commissioner Morgan directod that what bacon was still remaining at Rushville should be inspected by the ship- ving clerk, J. k. West, who was appointed to his position on the recommondation of Senator Manderson aud the other member of tho Nebraska delegation, who assertod that he was thoroughly compotent and trust- worthy. He, with tho aid of two butchers und exports, inspected tho bacon and re- ported it fully up to the requiroments or the contraet. Commissioner Morgan, fn order to avoid any possibility of doubt, relieved from duty tho man who had inspected the bucon in Chicago and appointed another man who was recommended to him as an_expert and directed him to proceed to Pine Riuge, witn instructions to mako a_critical and oxhaus- tive examination of the meat and report the result of his findings. He did s0 and said that he found all ox- copt a littio less than 7,000 pounds satisfac- tory. On tims the mmissioner directed the 7,000 poundds to bo rojected_and replaced by the contractors with acceptable meat and_di- rected tho agent to issue that which had been foand satisfactory. Captain Brown, who had succeeded (ap- tain Penney, insisted that o was not willing to issue 1ho bacon, whion. had been pro- nounced unfit for food by his predecessor, and asked that 1t be removed and other bacon substituted therefor. Tho comnissioner then directed, that pending the final determi- nation of the question and awaiting o change in the weather when the bucoa could be more fully examined, the acting agent should issuo to tho Iudians full rations of beof 1n lieu of the bacon, Recently on the recommendation of General Cyrus Biissoy, assistant secrotary of the interior, a third 1nspector bhad been agpointed and is now at Pine Ridge engaged in making an examination of the bacon, and the Tndian oflico is awaiting his report. Calvin M. Favorito of the Armour Packing company says t there can be no gronnds for Senator Manderson's charges. Ho admits that the 100,000 pounds of bacon were seut to the Sioux reéservation out he claims that tho shipments wero mado last, October, .a vear after the battle of Wounded Knee had been fought. He says that the bacon-was acceptod by Cox and aiterwards rejected by the of- ficers, not because all of it was unfit for use, but because about 1,000 pounds had become tainted. The Armour company was notified of the condition of & part of tho shipment and immediately mado it good to the govern- ment, after which the deal was closed. THEL MONEY, American Capitalists Largely Interested In Mexican Lands, Wasnixgtoy, D. C., April 1.—Ona of the largest investments of American capital made in Mexico 1n recent years hus just been completed by V. W. de Saville of Philadol- phia, who is 1n Washiugton on his way home from that country. Mr. da Saville, repre- senting the Tamaulipas Emigration, Land and Stock company, organized under the laws of New Jersey, has purchased 1,000,000 acres of land lying in the state of "Tamaulipas, along the gulf coast, immediately north of Tampico. The doman extends back to the Tamaulipas mountains, aud includes fruit, coffeo and suger lands, grazing tracts and a large aren of mahogany, cbony and codar timber. Concessions have been secured from the Mexican government for tho erection of packing houses and fish cannerics along the coast, and an arrangement has been mado for the importation of several thousand Japauese laborers, iy whom the arable lands will be cultivated. Concession has also}been granted for anow steamship line to be run by the same com- pany frow Tampico to Galveston, Savaunah aod Philadelphia, Mr. do Saville states that Chicazo as well as Philadelphia capital has been interested in the enterprise, and that it is proposed to bring nll the arable lands of the purchasea tract under cu'tivation and make 1t the verl table garden spot of Mexico, 1t extends for fifty miles along the guif coast, and is one of the most fertile and important regions triou- tary to Tampico. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. How It May Be Con Cattle, C., April 1.—[Speoial ]—Consul Shorman at bas communicated to ated by Forelgn Wasnixarox, D. Telegram to Tt B Liverpool, England, the State department that foot aud mouth disease is spreaaing rapidly among English cattle in that section. Attention is called to the fact that hay and straw in which glass and crockery ware are exported from Eng- land may be venicles for trausmitting the disease to this country where this packing is made valuable for bedding for cattlo, “‘Auother source of dauger,” continues Counsul Shermar, “lies in the trausportation to the United States of English cattle in- tended for breeding purposes, Any case of disease among them may be communicated not only toour cattle at home, but Lo others ceming to market and beiug placed in the same sbip on its return voyage.”” New orders will be issued at onco by the secretary of the treasury for the guidance of customs officers on this question, Progressing Favorably, Wasmxaroy, D, C,, April 1.—The cabinet again considered the Beriug sea quostion. 1t is understood that negotiations for a modus viviendi are progressing favorably. s i GOULD CAN KIL 1. Days of the Westera Traflic Axsockstion Lieved to e Numbered. Cumcaco, 1L, April 1,—Many railroaa men regard 1t as almost a certainty that the West ern Trafiic assoclation meeting, called to con- veno in this city April 12, will not ve beld. This opition Is based largely on reports from New York, where it is said strenuous efforts are bolug made by interested parties, to vre- vent the meeting. Should there be no meot- 1ug, several complications of a more or less serious nature are likely to arise, Not the least of those is the expiration of Chairman Walker's term of oftice, which wili leave the oclation without @ head. A prominent railroad manager said this noon: “If it is true, as reported, that Ja Gould is interesting himselt to' prevent & quorum belug present at the Anril meeting, you can depend upon it that the association will go to pieces.’ e —— Mprs. L. R. Patton, Roekford, IlL, writes: “'rom personal experience 1 can recommend DeWitt's Sarsaparilla, u curo for lmpure blood and general debility."” DUY'S REWZIW OF THE WEEK Manufactured Products Finding a Ready Bale and Dehestio Trade Good. — MANUFACTURERS “ARE ALL DOING WELL AR orts from the Business Centers of the Country Marked Improve- mfor the Last Quarter aring 1 it Shaw, me nse Statel W Youk, April 1,.—R. G. Dun & Co. Weekly Roview of Trade will say: Thebusi- ness outlook is distinetly improving. There has como a distinet increase in the marketing of manufacturea products and groutoer activ- ity in many lines of domestic trado. This is in part due to more favorable weatherin most sections and the improved conditions of country roads and to the prospects of an early spring. The manufacturers are doing well. Prob- ably the cotton manufacturers have not turued out as groat a quantity of goods at any other time s it has this yoar thus far, With less accumulation of its products in the hands of manufacturers or wholesale dealers. Tho distribution has beon remarkably largo and® the result of trade generallv sat- isfactory, as prices for material has been declining while goods, though on the whole are as cheap as at any other time, are fairly maintained in- prices. The woolen manufaciure also shows distinet improve- ment in some branches though not in carpets, uor in the lower grades or mixed goods for men’s wear, Tho better all wool goods, worsted and dress goods are more largely produced than in the past years, and no un- desirable umulation is seen. ''he boot and shoo business is aiso increasing and ac- tive, shipments now exceeding last year's and orders being large. Reports from the Clties. Reports from citics are generally encour- agiug. At Cleveland trade is good in ary goods, crockery ware, hardware, machinery and manufactured iron and other trade fair, ex- ceeding lest vear's, At Cincinnati the clothing’ r adelis better than a year ago, the harness strikoe continues d southern merchants aro asking exten- sions because cotton is low. At Chicago a large increase is scen in merchandise sales, and collections in dry goods equal last year's, while in clothing and shoes they are not quito satisfactory, though no special complaint is made. Roceipts of gruin and flour show great increase, but of otner products some decroaso. At Milwaukee business is improving with mouey casy. At St, Paul the prospects of an early spring stimulates trade. At Minneanclis all jobbing trade is excel- lont and the lumber business is very good. At Omaba trade is-active in all 1ines, Increused distribution in all branches is seen at St. Louis; with improvements in country roads and: clearings for the woek show a wain of 30 per cent, At Kansas City trade is improving with petter weather, receipts of grain are heavy and of cattlo and hogs good. At Denver trade is fair, At Louisville tradg is generally improving, with a phenomgnal iucrease in sales of tobacco. At Memphis trade,is dull, At Nashville steady and at Littlg Rock slow, with money eus 4 At New Orlequs business is pnly fair, cotton being dull, but sugar, strong and active, 5 At Savannab bjisigess 1s slacker. Intion Not Active During the Woek. Speculation du¥lfg'thé week has not been very active. Whedt has, ‘declinea 23%e, corn ore-halfof a ¢eht: 6l n fractioh, and pork 25c per barrel. 'fhe “decline in wheat is mainly aue to the'shrinkuige in forsign de- wand, western receipts continuing large. As the new crop draws vearer, and the prospect is that it will be very 'large, prices nauraily tend downward. Although cottolr receipts has been smaller than a year ago the pressure of stocks here and abroad have caused a further aecline of a sixteenth. Coffee is also three-fourths of a cent lower, ‘ana the eeneral tendency of oprices is toward alower level. But in the iron trade the bottom seems to have been reached. Moro business is seen at Philadelphia and mauy furnaces have coused proauction so that fewer forced sales are reportad, though anew and large furnace in Alabama begins work. No improvement is scen in bar iron, but some in plates and in structural iron the demand is better than a year ago. Copper 1s unsettled and irregular, tin slightly lhwer and lead dull. he .market ior coal1s dis- tinetly firmer. _T'ne monoy market here and throughout the country are abundantly supplied ana there is no sense of anxicty. > Tho failures during the fi st_quarter of 2 were 3,334 in the United States, against ast yoar: and the liabilities #49,254,340, against $12,167,631 last year, Increase 1s scen in tho eastern states, but a great de- crease at the west und some decrease in every other section. The business failures oceuring throughout the country during tho last seveu days number 218, as compared with totals of 231 last week. For the corre- sponding weok of lust year the failurcs wero 243, New Yow April 1. —Clearings for the princival cities of tho United States for the past weck as reported to Bradstreot's wero $1,085,029,850, an increase of 0.7 per cent. CITiEs. CEAIINGS, New v Boston. . Chicagd Phiadolobi 8L Louls... Sun Franciaco Baltimore .. Cinelnnnty Pittsbu Kansay B2110.8 L0 Duluth Sloux City Doy M Houston. Indinnapolis’ . Nushville Washington Bt Joseph, Mo. . Springtield. . Fort Worth Portland. M’ Worcester Waco Norfolk Wittngion, bel. Now Bedford. Topeku .., *Atlunta BOLAL:200r2000 Outside Now York. .1 Dominion of Cannda Montresl May Withdraw Some Indictments. Cuicaco, I, April 1.—A report was in circulation today tkat & number of the in- | divtwenta found by the graud jury were to | be withdrawn before the grand jury finally adjourns Saturday. General Lieb, foreman of the jury, was quoted as authority for the statoment. Tt was also «aid that Alderman O'Brien's indictmant was reconsidered for nearly an hour. The evidenco in the cases in question was such, according to rumor, as to make convictions aecidedly doubtfu), without the help of a “‘squealor,” andthe ex pectation that such individual would turn up had not been realized. - BALL PLAY&RS COMING IN. Pitehers Darby and Handiboe o) Others Expected by Tonght. The first membors of Omaha's new ball team to reach the city arrived yesterday. They woro Pitchors Georgo Darby and James Handiboo. Darby camo from Los Angelos and Handibos from Columbus, O., whero ho has beon practicing for sevoral days with Gus Schmeltz's team, Darby has been pitching on the winter and is in oxcellent form. yesterday that hio felt 1iko going into cham pionship games without further practice. He is a lithe, well muscled young fellow of and in the box depends largoly on his speed. He throws a wicked vall and last season was the leading pitcher for the Portland, Ore., winners of tho Pacific North- west league championship. Handiboe 13 about the same age, and has the form of an athleto. Both are anxious to begin practice, and this morning Managor Rowe will start with them by taking a fow spins around the park, Allof the Omaha hall playors are now hoading toward tho city, aud it is oxpoctod that thoy will bo hero by this evening. Ficlders Keliy and Sprague. Third Buseman Hand and coast all Cullopy and Catcher Ea Haves com- pose a party that is coming irom Doston; Second Baseman Fitzgorald is coming from New Yors, Pitcher Vil frow Philadeiphia_and Bov Gilks from Cin- cinnati. On Monday tho entire club wili begin activo practice at the it tho weather is pleasant. Should it be disagree able thoy will take their preliminary work indoors, Pitcher Darby plaved in the New England leaguo with Keily, Hayes and Callopy, and he says that all three of them aro star Heo spoke cuthusiastically of Kelly's prowess as a batsman and made the propheey that he would bo one of the best stickers in tho leaguo. —_— TOLD IN OMAHA. Captain Hattle Smit on How §i Ll vers Her Lecture he Was Shot. With a flourish of trumpets, the clanging of symbals, the pounding of tambourines, a discordant brass band and & stroot parade, Captain Hattie Smith, tho wounded heroine of tha Salvation army, was welcomed by an inmense crowd of people last night at the army's barracks, Seventeenth and Daven- port streets, It was tho young woman’s first visit to Omaba smee her recovery from tha shot fired last November by Nettie Biedlor, who, thinking she had committed o murder, im- mediatoly killed herself by firing a bullet through her own brain. Curiosity scekers who went in throngs packed the hall of the barracks last night o hear the surviving woman were sadly dis- appointed. Those who expected a sonsa- tional story heard nothing but a few of tho details of the shooting. She saic she uever knew before how 1t was to 0o on the bank of the dark river, and whilo golng through darkness a:d sorrow sho trusted in Jesus and He éid not let her slido off the bank. Heronly excuse for the shooting was that Ho said | AMONG JEWELS SHE SHINES | An Agrionltural and Mineral Gem in the Qore of Wyoming, LAVISH WEALTH OF HILL AND VALLEY The Past Ree « rd pxsihilitie: urpassed in Cli- Sherida ctiveness Sneribay, Wyo, April 1. (Special to Tik Bre| - Shoridan is pre-omi nontly an agricultural county, and in the production of all small ns, fruts, vegetablos and root crops does sho particuls oxeol. The already quite thoough but cosstantly improving systom of irrigation makes the raising of thoso crops absolutely certain, and roasouably romuner. ativo. The bost variotios of hard winter wheat yield from thirty to sixty bushels per acro, and weigh from sixty-five 1o soventy pounds to the measured bushel. Oats yield from forty bushels up to as high as 126 131 bushels in & fow cases, tha g ago being about sixty, and rang from forty to forty-six pounds to the bushal. Potatoes were grown horo last season at the rate of 475 busheis per a Cabbago, onions, tomatoes and all garden vegetables £TOW 10 enormous size, and the quality is al- wavs of the very best, ame grassos—alfalia and timothy —grow luxuriantly upon almost every ranch, tho former ofteu furnishing threo érops in' one season. In its preseat stage of development stock raising is next in fmportance to agri culture, and with each succeoding year the two are being more generally and profitably combiued, The days of tho largo and oxclus ive stock companies ave about over, and al MOSt BVery jarmer is now tho ow of u small herd of cattie that ran at will on the uuoccuvied lands adjacent to the farm. In 180 aboul §0,000 worth of fat cattle were shipped out of Sher- idan county by this class of men, aud 1n 1801 the amount reached over $100,000, exclusive of the amouut shipped by the large stock combanies, kach subsequent yoar will con- iinue to sce theso tigures increase, as our people are thoroughly tmbued with tho idea that farming and stock raising combined can be carried on more profitably thaa cither ono alone. The stock gots better cary, there isa smaller per ceut of loss, and each individval animal arrives at a moroe thorough and com- plete stage of development. A smatl hora of this class of cattle was sold for £0 per hoad on the range, With the apparent approach of better times than this country has seon for the past five years, comes an awakening of the ener gies chardeteoristic of u western people. New enterprises are pringing 1nto existence, which are confidently exjpected to serve the double purposo of developing the resources of the county and enrichiig their projectors, A company of home capitalists will evect a large four-story flouring mill in this city be fove the new 'wheat crop comes in, One member of the compauy is in the east at this time purchasing the machisery. It will be run vy steam power and will make the third first-class tlouring mill in the county. Another company will bring iu an exten- siva sawmill, planer and otuer attachments necessary for the manufacture of lumbver, she told the Biedler woman that she did not have time to talk to ter. Captain Smith’s lecture was substantially the same as printod in Tne Bee some days ago. B e “01d Creole Days 1f tho author of “Grande Pointe” and “The Grandissimes’ were not so great a fictionist. he would undoubtedly be famed as one of tho best dramatic readers of his time. Mr. Cable appeared on the plavform in Omaha for tho first timo last evening n the Young Merf’8 Christian association hall. The audi- enco was small, but that fact only secmed to mako more personal and consequently more delightful the relation between rcaders and auditors. G. W. Cable discovered Louisinna and the Creole to the busy world that live: apart from the siuggish, lingering bayo whoere pause and rest the tides from the kulf, uvd that world is grateful. The author, to look oo, has all of the charac- teristics of the New Orleans man which be is. His head is lurge, his hair black and thick. His eyes twinkle or gleam with his varging emotion. His framo is spare, the conventional evening dress in which he was met lust evening saems to smphasize 1t. T'ho story of “Posson Jone’ " from “Old Cre- ole Days™ was told by its author with that art which conceals art; his hearers lived in the incidents and overheard the actors. A graphic bit of description is tho scene at tha bull fight in the book; to hear it described by Mr. Cableis to sce it, sheer and vivid. The author, 100, isa humorist of rare quality, and tolisten to the Widow Reilly and 1o Narcisse is to laugh and enjoy a quite uncommon type of theridiculous. The dramatic intensity of Mr, Cable’s description of Mary Richling's ride, with her baby and his on ber bosom, through the union lines to the hospital ved of the father and husband, reaches a height in dra- matic expression coequal with the eenius that conceived the story. This, though Mr, ‘Cable’s voice bas evidently had nooe of the training thought necessary to success on the reader’s platform. So fow authors can in- terprot fittingly their own creations, that Mr. Cable's work is particularly and pleas- antly a surprise, A feuture of last evening's entertainment was Mr. Cable's singing two of the characteristic tolk songs of the Crenle- African, Tonight Mr. Cable will read, or rather present and intorpret, s “Grande Pointe,” considered by many bis best work, aud the Young Men’s Chnstian association hall should be ecrowded to hear this most beauti- ful Acadian prose idyl. ————— NONAL PARAGRIPHS. PrE S. D, Coe of David City is stopping at the Arcade. George W. West of Ciarks, Neb,, is at the Arcade, J. W. Morris of Ashland, Nob., is &t tho Arcade, D.N. Elis of Pender, Nob., is at the Dellone. J. A. Bichor of Fremont is rewistered at tho Arcade. Waugh of Lincolu is registgred at illard. Soely of Madison, Nob., is stopping wde. A. B. Waters and wife of Oskaloosa, Ta., aro at the Delloue, C. R. Wheeler and sister of Plattsmouth are at the Dellone, H. W. Dickinsou of Broken Bow is stop- ping at the Dellone. sudgo M. N. Kinkaid of O'Neill is rogis- tored at the Dellone, L. W. Russell of Glenwood, piug at the Millard. ', B. Parmoter of Grand Rapids is stop pingat the Millard. muel Chapman of Plattsmouth is regis- tered at the Millard. John W. Simpson and wife of Grand Is- land are at tho Dellone, G. B. Simpson and family of Park avenue leave tomorrow for u two weeks' trip to Portland and the Pacific coast. Mr. George W. Awes, president of the Omaba Athletic clup, returned vesterdav from u two weeks' visit to New York and Boston. Capta In, is stop- in H. E. Palmer nas just returned from a fiylug trip east, including Chicago, St. Louis aud Kaosas City. Phe captain says it was raining bard at city and the rainfall in Missouri was remarkably heavy. M. Y. Hewlitt, a capitalist of Red Oak, Ia., was in the city yesterday and was the guest of Secretary W. N. Nason of the Boara of Mr, Howlitt, contowplutes somoving o Trade. 10 this city and retiriog to private life. 1s interested i banking, farming and cantile business in Red Oak and Iowa. was & sehool mate of Mr. Nason thirty-five yeurs ago in New York. S Drunke: A disease, treated s such and perma- nently cured. No publicity. No infirm- ary. Howe treatment. Harmless and effectual. Refer by permission to Bur- | lington Huwkey send 2¢ stamp for | pamphlet. Shokoquon Chemical Co., Burlington, Ia. latn, shingles, ete., from tho tree. A'third company is now at work on the construction of a wagon road from Sheridan to the Bald Mountain mining camp and the Big Horn basin. The road will be completed in July and will mako that excellent and rapdly developing country tributary to Sheriaan, Sheridan county also has vast mineral re sources, but their dovelopment is as et in its emb i stage. Their value will be thoroughly tested before the snows of an- other winter cover the mountains with their white mantie, and unless the present indica- tions are very deceptive the mountain fi nesses will be required to give ‘up a largo amount of treasure. With her large and well developed agricul tural area, her boundless ranges upon which stock can be raised and fattencd at compara- tively small expense, her timber and stono for foucing and building purpos limited quantities of coul in coal which ha uperior for domestic pur- poses—her enlerprising and intelligent peo- ple, what more could be desived ov needed to place Sheridan in the foremost rank of west- ern counties, and on the bigh road to cortain and lasting prosperity ¢ Ono thung: railroad transportation facilifies und telegraphic com- munication with the outside world. A few short months and that want will supptied. The B. & M. railvoad 1s contract’ and is being rapidly pushe Powder river, fifty-nine miles cast of She; dan, almost at our door as it were. Noto the difficulties under which we have gained our present growth. Ten years ngo there was no indication of & town here, our nearest railroad was 125 miles away, only reached by crossing be under [ man; formidablo stroams, through an Indian bridees’ or ferries. Somotimes freighters had to lay by before daring to Seeking A Resort? Twenty ¢ m HEFERRO-MANGANESE and St floa northenst of Ranaas City, on the C., M. & St. Paul Ry., fs & beautifal lttle city of 8000 inhabitants, built alnce the summer of 1880, solely on nccount of the discovery of the marvelons MO SALINE waters and the thousands of cures that have since been cffected by their use, THE ELMS, fesort hotels in America, AIl charges modersto. 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We havea board of trade, s business men's club, good banks, two newspapers and a happy prosperous law abiding veople, as quiet moraily aud as lively socially as any New England town of its size, ana contain- ing o much larger percentago of indelligent, educated citizens. “We claim that this rogion of country is the garden of Wyoming, It is dostined 10 produce wore small grain and vegetables than can bs produced in the samo area of country in the worid. Tue Big Horn mountains, n dozen miles west, 156 uy Lo oternal snow lue to temper the winas, ot tract the moisture and snow clouds-to give us building material of every description, timber avd stone, and has stored in her vaults millions of gold and silver and all the paser metals, We have the finest climate, cool summers and mild winters; our moun- tain streams innumerable are filied with luscious trout; wild plums, cherries, ruspber- ries and other wild fruit ‘are had for the picking. We could live on Catifornia diet, Sscenery and air,” were it uot that our peo- plo are too matier of fuct. We came hero to stay—to build up the country and grow up hit. ery enterpriso tonding to better our con- aition financially, morally and intelloctually will receive our encouragement and help. On plan wo expeet 1o buitd a city that shall ¢t to the credit of that eallant soldier who gave to hero worshipers un idol not easily broken, Cileyenne and Denver, 250 and south; Butte miles aird Heleca wiles vorth—Sneridan holds the koy to tne Big Horn range —1ts wonderful vulleys, east and west, tho Yellowstone parls, an cmbire of ag vicultural, pastoral, timber, mineral and scenio lanas, the garden and park of tho world, N. miles - Dr. Birnoy cures cau: Bre bldg You're through with ary finally and cc bletaly, —or you have E5400 in cash. hat's what is === promissd you, no matter how bad l rn.r caso or of low long stand- ing, by the proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remed Catarrh can bo cured. Not with the pois- caustic onous, irritating suufls and stron solutions, that sinply palliate for a time, or perhaps, drive tho discase to the lungs—but | with Dr. Bage's Kemedy. ! The worst cases " to its mild, sootl n’g, cleansing and bealing propertics. * Cold 1 the Head,” noods but a fow applications Catarrbal ' Headache, and all the effects of Catarrh in the Hewd—such as offensivo breath, loss or impairment of tho senses of tasto, smell and hearing, watering or weak eyes—aro at onco relioved and curdl In_thousands of cases, whero everything elso has failod, Dr. Bagds Homody s pro duced perfect and permancnt curcs. That ives its proprietors faith to mako tho offor. §% 8500, 'or cure. 'They moai to pay you, if they can't cure you. Softening of tho Brain, deeny, doa‘h, 15, cor. lith and in blue on each AMUSIS seventeanth and Hurney Sts., This (Saturday) April 2. sox, 1 ey Iy by A Do aturs OId Ao, Barrsn IN TREA \ Fits, No on causod by al- . Mental Dopeasin, addng (nolty, misory; o, Lo potoncy, Lu 1coreaoss and Involuntary Loseas, Sore- xortion of tha brain A month's troatmont Lighig GOMPANY'S Extract of Besf. you want acopy ot Deef Tea? See that it is made from the Gen uiny the tabl soluds ¢l signaure , thus o Incomparably best, Puve, pula- lo,rofreshing. Dis- wrly- Last two performances of Poor Jonatha MATINEE THIS AFT. AT 2:30 Price and BoydsN parquet and 3100 wTheatre MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 4th. ingagoment of tho World-Renowned Violine 1st, mus. Prices COR, Hurry D GE Runerve HE S { Admissto, mn. w MISS K CLIFE b id 250 Saturday, Apri Matinee We! Grand WE 4 Performuces Daily at 2:30, Woodward' My Kess Ed Nows 1 Musd Tradesman. OFEN DAILY. flouar supported by th [ rt. ALIC #1, T MRS, TOM Farnam Strest Theater, vomiari Four Nizhits, Commenc ing Sunday Mat Anderson Unique Comedians "ic MISS EDITH MoGRE H. FISSEADES, | COICRYI Howlng d 'stinguished 15150 )rano 24, Ao, nor, REY, Vlanist. Seats go on sale JLAR FARNAM ST, THEATER *°¥7iirdss g ‘Phursday, Muroh il own orlginal TH UM, —AND. e THR LILIPUTIANS st and most talente 1 1tie aetors n the M Wil ay and Suturday. School ehildren under 12 years, L oents. Apr —IN da, WONDRBRRLAND 2 OLD CRONIES. y. AN —— 5TH ANI Eden Musce and 9 (AL ADMIS juct Seuts, | Y.M.C A HAL Friday & Saturday Evenings April 1 & 2. GEORGE W, CABLE 16 Humorous and Patheuic Koadiugs from bis owa a pents AL ice, Opera House ) CAPITAL AVE. o, Owners. K OF MARCH 28TH 4115, 8:00 e v, Cornet M. ound Adda b Gior p.om. d Seals and L. i ‘rion, Skot n Comedi ly Co. 4 Lions Artists. “Tho Rural LTO 0PN SION ONI dei Box Soats, 10TH AND DOUGLAY DIME. ik salo opons wt iat, wt¥a w CONRIED'S COMIC OPERA COMPANY. = In Mitloecker's Comedy Ope 2 8 r ™~