Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 18, 1892, Page 2

& Co., and (. 1. Wright, formerly financial [ manager of the Liberator Building soclety which recently failed, has been arralgned in the Bow street police court on a charge of fraud and forgery and embezzlement, pre ferred by tho treasury. The counsel for the treasury stated that Hobbs & Co. owed to the Liberator Build society $10,495,000 while Hobbs was managing director of the society. Tmportant books belonging to the | society were missing, and a number of bills had been falsified POISONED THE SULTAN'S FAVORITES, Four Beauntifal Femal tims of & Jealo Wrath, CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 17.~Four beautiful | female slaves were recently presented by the khedive of Egypt to the sultan of Turkey and placed in the imperial harem. They ap pear to have had a_captivating influence on the sultan, who paid them so much attention as to excite the jealousy of the othe The four beautiful slaves were 1 their beds a few days ago, ha tims to The have deeply @ he heard the fate of his favor- ites, and to have ordered a rigid inves- tigation and severe punishment of the guilty Three cunuchs who had access to the apart- ments of tho victims have bee o on suspicion of being ms who actually | administered the poison, and at latest accounts are being subjected to torture in order to compel them to make a full confes sion, Suspicion of having instizated the crime rests chiefly on one of the Cubuns, who until the arvival of the Bayptian women al- most monopolized th affections In the present temper of his majesty, it is doubtful whether even she would escape the bow string or the bosporus should evidence | of her guilt be adduced. AGAIN Now Cases of Cholera Appear In That City —ftussin's Chole Statlsties. Hamsrre, Dec. 17.—Two fresh cholera have been reported here. have been reported in the Hammerbrock dis trict. Tn this city there was one fatality yester: Sr. Prrensnena, Dec, 17.—Final statistics of the cholera epidemic in Russia have be issued. According to these figures ther ha been 140,417 deaths from Europe and 185,843 deaths from Asintic cholera since the outbrealk of the discase in the Empire, mak ing a total of 265,760 deaths Four leaders of the eholera viots have been sentenced by a court martial to death Eight were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labor; thirty to detention in the house of correction; forty to prison without hard Iabor; twenty-seven prisoners who found to have had nothing to do with the | rlots wera discharged. Their Loxnox, Dec. Slnves nde the Vies women tered in fallen vic d to when w ing sultan is s poison been the per sultan’s HAMBURG VISITE n were nterest Subsiding, ~The Berlin correspon- dent of the Times says that the decision of the Steamship ion as to the transat- | lantic passenger trade applies to the Bel- | gium and Dutch companies, All arrange- ments for cheap tickets to the World's fair have, therefore, been eanceled. The com- panies declare that interest in the fair is re- duced to & minimum, probably in quence of the deci conse- ho Federation of PoitApELemiA, P It i session of the Federation of Labor resolu- tions were adopted calling on local unions to join central labor bodies holding charters from the federation; condemning the Rock | Tsland rond for requiring its telegraphers to withdraw from their ¢ 2 sking that sailors be included in the alien contract labor law; favoring changes in the contract labor law so that the inventor shall receive a direct reward; demanding t immigration be restricted; favoring the eight-hour sys tem; asking clemency for the Chicago an- archists; demanding that the government control Iroads, but rejecting socialistic resolution fuvoring government control of all means of communication, transportation and production. Resolutions were pas suffrage, agking fo tect t tion ag congre -At to ed adyocating woman iate legislation to pro- ades unions trademarks; for legisla- ainst the Chinese. Resolution asking cither to pass legislation for com- pulsory arbitration of labor disputes or the submission of a constitutional amendment permitting such legislation, caused a lively tilt between the socialists and anti-socialists in the convention. The question was finally settled by the adopting of a substitute which practically approves the principle of arbitration. | The annual election of ofticers was called for in the afternoon as the regular order; but the federatlon first desired to vote on,the amount of salaries paid. The pres.dent’s salary was increvsed from $1,500 to $1,800 per annum and the secretar from £1,200 to £1,500. Before proceedin: or resolutions were adopted favoring municipal, state and na- tional civil service reform and free and com- pulsory education. There was no opposition Gompers' re-clection, and the unanimous, Christopher Ivans was elected secretary; John B, Lennow wa elected treasurer; P. McGuire wa elected vice president. For second president, William A. Carney, who took active part in the Homestead troubles, v elected, Chicago secured the convention aftera close fight against the Denver. A resolution favoring direct elections by the people was passed unanimously A resolution was pussed favoring the pr hibition of Jupanese immigration. The final adjournment was then aunounced. o E A LITTLE BETTER. s to President election for 1803, claims MR, BLAL His Physician Makes a Statement to the Press as to His Condition, Wasmingron, D. C., Dee. 17.--Dr. Johuson, Mr. Blaine's physician, with the concurrence of the fumily, gives the following statement tothe press: “Mr. Blaine has been suffer- ing for some time with symptoms of un- paired general health, but which did not elearly indicate the discase of uny particular organ. ‘The evidences of local orzanic d case wore manifested recently and it'is be- lieved his present condition is due to this cause, While there is nothing in the nature of this disease such as to war- rant fear of any rapid progress, he has shown within the past month wmore slgns of serious illness than before. It is hoped this aggravation may pass off, but | no positive statement can be made as to the | changes which may take place from day to day. At the present.moment he is bettes than for a week past.” Mr. Blaine is just a little better, but th is no great change in his condition, w re | Promiuent Wyoming Business Ma Hands of ¥ Boudsimen, Rawrixs, Wyo.,, Dec, 17.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee]—Fred P, Shaunon, a prominent Carbou business wanand town treasurer, is short §700 in his town funds His bondsmen have secured themselve upon his business YI‘()I!\ ty and under thel management will allow him to serve out his term which expires next April. Deed of & Demented Man, Rawwixs, Wyo., Dee. 17.—[Special Tele- gram to Tus Bes. ) —Henry Williams, o man 60 years old, who has been living at the rauch of David Harden on Pass creck, wu& twenty-two miles cast of this cit ame violently insane Wednesday and at- tempted.to commit suicide by cutling his throat with a pocket knife. He madea fearful gash, almost from ear to ear, nearly severing the windpipe. He was brought to town last night, hfi wounds bel dressed | Pallen | of th | withdrawn. of b | is by a local physician. He is nos much improved. 0N THE Editor Pallen Repliss to Aroht land's Published Intervi SOHO0L QUESTION hishop Tre- oW, HE CONTRADICTS THAT EMINENT DIVINE Satolli's Mission Which Te is Vested (1 Dispute 1 the P Canse more Conference, Sr. Lovts, Mo, Dec. 17.—Mr. editor of the Church Pro, has made no secret of his hostili bishop Ireland’s school scher to make a reply to th prel said he \tter interview wte published this morning Archbishop Treland accuses his oppo does ex uts of doi pling to create a public their own favor. wholo i nothing more calls the <A secular pi would 1 appeal or this co srican mind in slic opinion to know what sy has to do with socular the the be exy this count school b, it quest not to Certain is | secular opinion as to what shoule Catholic education will dominate tlement of the controversy The secular mind is not capable a judgment upon the nature, cl exigencies of Catholic education to it, therefore, is simply to appe proper posse court, where to the hasty ion of the populace. 1t un-Americ to app: has no legitimate rel dispute. < Notwithstanding statement that Mgr. Satolli nipotentiary powers to settle question, we have no evidence to On the cont Archbishop Eider have public that Mgr. Sutolli had no such moreover, the fact that the ar th recent confel 1o My by the weight of the pope’s av they had been, the searcely have point blank rejecte Archbishop Treland's stateme the church belong sligious in§ and to the state the right of sec alone jur ind temy Both un-C fon o the hurcl Arehbishop arclibishops owers with of Much Dolngs of the Balti= Conde B who Arch d h that Pallen what that opinion gress ty to whic Mr it ly is in iterview to is what he [ Wo opinion i 1 reality untry I that itut pected 1co iu the set s of forming \aracter An appe al fron e isdiction is orary ¢ fatho! 1 to a prejudic question in I > the s¢ that effect, land's (L with wry.both Archbishop Katzer and | 1y declared wowers and, hbishops in refused to subscribe atolli's views were not supported whority. 1f could d them ent that to ruction only, sular tion, apart from religious training is in radi cal opposition to the couneils o £ Baltime und to the repeated public teaching of 1 X111 on this subject. ter of the present pope to the Fr in 1884 he says: ‘And first ward to domestic soc importance that the children s Christianmarrisge should be iv the precepts of religion at an_ear that the studies in which yout tomed to be educated be conform ligious “training. o sepurate 1 the other is really to wish t minds shall remain neutral in the God. This teaching is false dangerous in the early years of because it indeed pa the and saps the foundation of v How Archbishop Ireland ic eption; that itis repugnant to N published address on the same also appavent. umption in Archbishe that his position on ty, it is of th way In the encyelical lot neh bis , in 1o greates prung fr ly age: and his acens- wod with re he one from youthful sir duties to and especially chiidhood, ntheism m.’ reconciles this question is op Treland's the sc question is also the position of the Amer Catholic_mind, scems to me f he was the the entire universe who stood r scribe to Mur. Satolli's And when it is remembe bishop not only expressed his ow when he rejected them, but al cordant judgment of each of his more iniposing ity of Americ hool 1 that suff antasti only one in cady 10 sub- proposals b arch 1 convi s0 the con s, o an Catholic opinion against that of Archbishop Irelind could not be conccived.” FATHER CORRIGAN AVOL Settlement of the Dispy Bishop Wigge Honokex, N. ., Dec. 17.—The between Bishop Wigger of Newai Father Corrizan of Hoboken wu wvuptly terminated tonight, Bishop Wigger lly. The trial is stopped and Bishop Wi committee of priests gan and endeavor to induc To this proposal Father Corrigan stating that because of the ady viends he yields whatever migh expected from him to put an end troversy. He expresses regret t have unintentionally gone beyond hounds, and says he believes tried to be just in the administr: diocese. in the future of att government in the Bishop Wigger, in ceipt of Father Corrigan’s letter. cepts cheerfully the the trial and wishes the ing. 3 58 Does Not Want to Go (o St Prouia, I, Dec. 17.—Bishop who has just returned fromt conference, said today, when about his proposed appointment to Archbishop Kenrick, that want to go to St. Louis and is vemain bishop of Peoria S CARNEGIE'S GIE: sdging the the Cit ‘king the hers, pricst since the Pittsburg Art society olutions recommending the ac Mr. Carnegie's gift of a public 1i city of Pittsburg In transmitting Carnegie the taken by the the resoluti oty deplored several labor o against aceepting Mr. Carneg day Mr. C. W, Scotel received My veply, witieh suys in part: 1 m naturally much ion of some of the indus! tions to which the resolutions re ever was of a personal charac under nd and passed ove the mor casily bhecause not quite sce how I de But the osition i hall srent 1 and ter, curners for music art d b, Vious. prejudiced against th of the donor, however gr ho fail in_his efforts.to Ii and do his duty —and no knows as well as himself | falls short of his own ideals - yet Pittsburg mus ever remuin st working good continually, hope, therefore, that your action my fellow workmen (for 1 have a this title) to sec that fair play e 10 separate the donor and his n from libraries and halls laries, which hav If the, do this 1 will gladly punging the yotes of censure me per Ao ol ver uppointed to visit Father Corri- him to apologize. He adds that he has no acknowledging grieved expressed any shorte and never ¢ LOGIZED, te Between Him and controversy rk City and rather ab- surrendered uncondition- i the charge a made reply, of mutual it justly be 1 to the con- hat e may { the proper the bishop hus ation of his intention ishop or his the re- L 81ys he ne- ology, discontinues every bless- Louis. Spaulding, he St. Louis spoken to as coadjutor lie docs not satisfled to 70 PITTSBURG. Acceptan ad ptance of brary to the ons Mr. the and ranizations 's gift. To- arnegic’s to . at the Al organiz for, 1o v, 1 readily perhaps 1 could eserved it 1o the gallery It wer indeed, whom these nently ming for sadly ve worthily one, alas! low fur he his gifts to ainless, and vil. 1 muy bring right to use Juires them nany faults and art gal- v will only s their someday ex- passed upon alls Talks, PutLaperrnia, Pa., 17 Ingalls was in the city tonight co the recent election. *“I'he repub now is without leaders and without wust start anew to build itself no evidence in the past campalgn W tics. McKiuley hus ceased ¢ He is without laurels or pli s part, be in -1 at that stage of its history whe single politician in its ranks derstood the pure business of mod enator uversing on blican party it hopes and up. It gave that the who un- 1 poli- a Napoleon. the rank of B Absorbed the Lorillard Factory. Wixnston, N. C.. Dec. obacco Journul here asserts Auwel Lorillard's tobaceo factor e il Sulclde of u Soldier. Four Rivey, Kan., Dec. 17,1 Ldoyd, troop I, Seventh cavaly, 17.—The Southern that the an Tobacco company has absorbed rst Sergeant , commitied | bim h | he knew | said he could take the powders and go west, m | istructed in | 5 | Hart to | Barrett and James A ol | | the | way more of | allow theold corporation to look afier the | | supposed that ¢ | match, whic | ¢4 0. 1) won, H What- | suleide today hy shooting himsolf in the hend with o rovolver, Loy was with his troop fn the battle of Wounded Knee and ro prinful wonnd, Since then ho has | or health and despondent b i HOMESTEAD POISONERS ON TRIAL, Drmaging Testimony Given Agalnst the De- fendants Yesterday Pa.. Dee, 17 the case of Robert Beatty, furnishing pofson with nnlon workmen at Homestead, Prerentia hearing in charged with vhich to poison 1s held this afternoon before ‘Squire MeMasters, and re sulted in Beatty being held in #,000 be for trial at court. The ofice of the al man interested spectator n s filled with Patrick Gallagher, the cook who made the confession, was not_presont J. W. Davidson, former! stend, Aug Gallagher held that attend stsin the Wt Home- he and conference Dempsey, of them work of to said stified that on and Beatty with District Master the result of which went to Homestead to poisoning nonunior the selection of the poison Beatty suggested Croto no that it was dangerous and he knew a powder which w Dempsey said he had used thes Chicago and he had broken a days. It was not dange wonld guarantee us &0 cach and our ex We got no powders that day. We tien left the hall together and talked about it. Beatty said we were to @old wateh and chain if we wer Davidson that of the wot but &14, Severe eross-examinatior inlly weaken Davidson's evidence. David son’ however, admitted, that he was ar rested late in’ November and taken into the station and was sworn and told the story he had just told, Then he was released. Gal lagher swas arrested before that. He said they had it down in black and white and he had 1o tellull he knew Detective Ford was then called. He suid Beatty i Davidson. “On De- *he said, <1 heard a conversation en Beatty, Gallagher and Davidson, i I Beatty told about the powders and what they contained. Gallagher said he | believed if Demps home the strike would be won, hut snid he thought not. 1 heard Gall ‘om Brady first sted Croton oil. On December 4, 1 ard 4 talk between Gallagher and Beatty, which was about the sime as the former one. Beatty said Turkish rhuba and snuff weve in the powders and it not necessary to tell the rest. Gallagher | a n all the il was witness oil, and 1 said, Dompsey said be better. powders in strike ur rous, Dempsey suid he pense sid id not cember 1 bot wh Beatty 101 Sy and told Beatty to go to Home: day and get the powders, there was money in it for both of them.’ Lonis Wolfers, steward of the res: in the Homestead mill, testified that he noticed sickuess after he employed Galla- gheras cook, He suid that in spite of the best food, he and his wife became very ill and had never fully vecovered. He had several times seen Beatty talking to Galla- in the mill held in & arant 000 bail for trial at - SPORTING NOTES, Changes In the Ownership of the Chicago Base Ball Club, Curcaco, DL, Dec. 17 ational | League franchise of the Chic Buse Ball club has been transferred by John R, Wa A. G. Spaulding, A: C. Trego and James A, Charles M. Sherman,” Thomas . Hart. The new man- | agement made application today to incor- porate with a capital of £100,000. There ave | number of small holders, but Sherm Barrett and Hart own the controlling interest. The reason given to by Mr. Hart for the transfer is that by its purchase of new-ball grounds in s west and, at Hot Springs, Avk., the Chicago buse ball club became in a financial land than an amusement or- It was. therefore, concluded to the two branches seperately and sto anization, operate anded business while the:new: corporation | will do uothing but hunt the penant, It is ptain Anson will retain the old position and hold not only what stock he now has, but a good sized block in addition. Mr. [Tart expresses himself firmly in the opinion that the agreement means Sunday games and p ng the World's fair. rat, Ka Crry, Mo, Dec. 17 shoot in the series of five ma J. A, R. Blliott of Kansas City and E. D. Fulford of Harrishurg, Pa., to decide the wing shot championship of the United States. took place at Exposition park this afternoon and was won by Mr. Fulford. The score wus: Fulford, 86; Elliott, 8 The score at the end of the first half of the at 100 birds, was: Ful ud the friends of the i hopes that he would ner, but_he could not do it. us follow 11101 11102 21111 The first tehes between W ford, 41; Elliott, Kansas City man pass the “The full Fulford. 11 12502 Elliott. Sloppy NEW ORLEANS, Dec, day made the track sloppy The attendance was large. India Rubber's performances for the past few days have been under investization, and as a result the board ordered that he be given the hypo- injection to which he is accustomed and which prevents him from sulking. “Though he did not win, the morphine made a difference in his form that was plainly per- ceptible. None of the favorites won. ke sults: Pirs won, I Rainy weather to- and very slow. . five furlongs: Bar Harrison rist (5 to 2 second, Scottish Belle (1 Pime: 1:00 Sccond raee, selling, five and one longs: Ansel,jr., (4 to 1) won, 81 By second, Heloist (4 to 1) third, Third race, selling, six furlo ¢ to 1) won, John J I 8 to 1) se 210 1) third, Time: 1:24i, Fourth race, seven farlongs: half fur- Lishon (4 10 Time: 1:164. s Beeswing nd, Sun Saba Blaze Duke nd, Rose- ol (3 to 1) (hir ifth race, sellin 210 1) won, Indin Star 4 1o 1) third Sight T ond, T aft Xus Petty and Fuller to Shoot. This afternoon on the grounds of the Bemis Park gun club across th e, John Petty, champion rifleman of Nebraska, and Fred A Fuller an aspirant for these honors, will meet in a special mateh for £100 a side. The conditions ave fifty shots to the man, 200 | yards off hand. It will be an interesting shoot and a crowd of course will be on hand 1o witness the sport Petty is not styled the champion shot of Nebraska simply by virtue o won ot last Sunday's compe chutzenverein's medal emblematic of this honor, but by reason of the fact that he has demonstrated time and time again, during the past seven ye to the satisfuction of all rauinded sportsmen that there is no professionul or amuteur shot in the state, the conditions oeing equal, who has any business in 4 match with him, vifle ving n - the Sax today First five furlongs: Aunie Mae wol o Cotton second, Mount Carlo third, Fraxcisco, Cal., Results Iris (filly) won, I 1:29, Cyclone Huppy n, Happy won, Misty thivd, Thwe, | ceat thivd, Tix athetics last Lottie Miles Will Open in April, Sr. Louvis, Mo, Des 17.—The spring meeting of the St. Louis Jockey club will open on April 9 next and continue uninter- ruptedly until June forty-eight days in all. The money to be.added.to the stakes and purses will amount o $150,000. The entry to all stakes has been lowered to §. All stakes are to ¢ on January 15, Charged with Embezzlement, Prrrssune, Pa., Dee. 17.—Ernest F. Kck- ert, coafidential el for H. B. Rea & Co., pork packers, was arrested this evening | in | holdine down jobs with | have positive infor charged with the embezdement of from $10,000 to §20,000. R_18 THEY RELY 0N THE BOYCOTT | [ Rook Island Steikors Dotormined Not to Give Up the Fight, HOW THE COMPANY WilL FINALLY LOSE AlL the Tnfly WL Be Brought to Bear Question and Business Diverted. on the Tt is apparent from expressions by the striking 1sland operators at the Union Depot hotel last night, that they were no longer sanguine of success, ‘There are now seventeen operators at the hotel of them men ntly came to the city, and who are being taken care of pending their securing work on other railroads to prevent them ac cepting positions on the Rock Island s me of the telegraphers secured work, Union Paci rilcers committee at work along the that the railroad company s filling up va cant positions. By Monday, they believe, t come of the strike will be practically of opinion telegraph Rock stopping who 1 stem have already employed by the still have line, but admit o | decided Last night a sceret mass road men was held at Stuart ings aresaid to have been held at other points along the Rock Island. Besides the operators, the engineers, conductors, firemen and brakemen ave said to have participated the meetings. The telegraphers’ strike was the matter discussed, but what signifi s there is in the meetings was not 1y explained report was received by the operators from Des Moines yesterday that Chief Rumsay, who is now stopping at the Palmer house, Chi conttemplates making his headquarters” further west and may decide 1o come to Omaha. This report caie from one of Chief Rumsay’s right hand men, it i said. Nothing has been learned from Mr. Ramsay on the subject, however. Thinks the Case Hopeless. meeting of rail Similar meet- Last night the operators, while declaring their firm determination not to yield to_ the ailroad company, did not seem o think that the company woild come to terms. They are inclined to belicve that efforts to arrive amicable agreement will be abandoned that the Rock Island will be boycotted. D. H. Wheaton, one of the oy The Rock Island s sure to quit I count of this trouble. Already have bocome timid of trave and are taking other routes. some accident 1 be caused by the empl ment of incompetent operators, who not familiar with the work th arcexpected to do. Big shippers are sending their goods over other lines and an immense amountof traftic has been di ted from the Rock Island, notably cattle shipments. The Rock Island has been forced to turn over a reat deal of business to the Union Pacific, which will permanently. remain with the ter company taking cverything into consideration, the eothp: s the big loser in this affair. None of the men who quit the Rock T will return to the service of th mpany, 1o watter how the trike is settled. They are all experienceéd’ operator apable of \y railroad and it will only be & short time before all are again at work on other systems. Of course, we would like to see the_ brouble scttled, but we are not worriec hoat The matte All the operators - talked the same way. They seem to think that the matter of con- tention will not be adjusted. T iking operators will get weork with other iroad companies and do ,allyin_ their power to in- duce union operators Lo give the Rock Island a wide berth. o They claim to Bd *hble to divert a still greater amount of basiness from the Island, declaring fon ngents on other ling ) n sympathy with the strike, and will ‘keep as much busi- ness from the Rock Island as they possibly can. ; verything points to the operators placing a boycott on the Rock Island and then quietly awaiting developments. and said: er on passenger ng over its line They fear that id Will Moet the Cut. Bostox, Mass., Dec. 17.—General Tr: Manager Berry of the Boston & Maine way has sent the following commut of J. F. Goddard, chairman of the Line committee in New York, Midgley, chairman of the Western association in Chicago: . Notwithstanding the went the tranl i1 possession o tiatone of the fast fr r the Vanderbilt system in With the Chicazo & Greit Western, has quoted 1ies (o two different concerns thit 1 know of Boston and Now York points to St. Paul 1 Minne 30 per eent less than the 81 rangemeni wis rof the ‘pre tative of one of the Vanderbilt ronds, and that ithas been agrced that the rates shall he tion Trunk to J. W Traftic til the opening of navigation. | itly postpono t ates any longe issuing of a to jump without © Lani golng ol 1, whil you, without a betrayal y information, | want 10 wssire ition that the facts first look Just as stated to you Without doubt” traflic will all he waybilled at full tarif? rates and the 80 per ecni of 180 basis to be allowed shippers s i comnl sion for securing the sending of traflic via th particular route referred to. 1'do 1ot propose (o et rates in this manner, but I do propose to issue o tarifl at onee hat will protect the lines which 1 am supposcd (o represent out of New England. Yours truly, W. . BERRy General Traflic Munager, The Boston & Maine railroad has cons quently notified the Boston & Albany and others that it proposed at once to issue a tariff, quoting a proportionate rate to Mis- souri river crossing have been issued by the Kunawha Dispatch. This will reduce first class rates from Boston to St. Paul and Minneapolis from £1.30 per_100 pounds to 81 cents per 100 pounds. The other class rates will be correspondingly ro- duced. Strange Conduet of Chicago Tyy hical Union In the St. Clalr Cas Cuicaco, 111, Dee, 47.~The subcommittee of the National board of control at a late hour tonight completely exonerated Com- missioner St. Claiv, fhdin any complicity in letting the Conkey gpwiract or of diveet or indirvect connection with the letting of any concession. Incidentilly the members of the Typographical upion were denounced as a set of cowards, sho did not dare to at- tempt the substantiatjon of the charges they had made, This listyhowever, was not in- corporated in the oMekul report, The committee met 't 2 o'clock and the members of the Typographical union did not show up. For fous! kours the committee waited and at 6 o'cloeltn letter was brought from the Typographical union, saying thav the board of controt hdfl declined to enter- tain its charges, andgps the investigation was in progress before another committee, the printers had decflil that they would not appear before the Gourd of control and prosceute their charges against Mr. St Clair. ‘The other committee has in char the Conkey concession alone and the St Clair matter had been left entirely to the board of control committee, which some days had informed the printers that it would listen to a1l the evidence the union had to resent V' iVhon the lettor had been read Commis- sioner St. Cair sprang 1o his feet and de- nounced the members of the Typographical union as cowards, who dared not stand up to he charge they had made. He was followed by Commissioner McKen zie of Kentucky, who called the men bring- ing the ch cowards who lied and who knew they He declared the Typographical union knew that the board had appointed a committee to investigate the charges, and when it said that no atte tion had been paid 10 its requests it told cowurdly lie, hey declave,” he said, “‘that they dare pot come before this commitiee, b2 cause auother committee has the matter in g1 Rock | polis, and doubtless (o many others, | 1892-TWENTY-FOUR charge and 1o now in sossion, That mitteo has adjourned it Tossday and mion knows it, and they lie when they | anything to the contrary. ‘They khow chivryges are false and the cowards darc stand up to them,* Other speakers fi com the iy their not Howed and a report was drawn up declaring that every opportunit had boon given the Typographical union to uphold its charges against Mr. St Clair, but that it had not appeared to do so, and the conclusion therefore, that the ch were utterly untrue SPOUTS SIXTY FEET. A Carlous Salt Water Phenomenon in € ifornin, One of the strangest t nta Cro ing rock nes to e 7, Cal., these days is a queer spout or rather a tunnel and rocky r eh which the sea water boils and uriously, Hundreds of people have tto it the San Francisco r. The quecr spouting rock was de veloped during the recent great storm Iiyery two or three minutes alternately, a volume of water sixty feet high shoots into To view it wholly from the surface v igantic_goyser compared with which those of the Yellowstone are at times insignificant The water, which is thrown great volume, is salt brine ocean. Fora thou up in such a from the Paci i years possibly, and may be more. nobody knows, the waves of th have been playing such an carnest game of hide-and-go-scek with them selves and the rocky shore that they huve worn great chasms and tunnels intc and, It is but the rock for the vory hard. 1t is maiuly a micacious sandstone of a lizht yellow hue, and if you walk over it while 1 is wet you must be cantious for it is almost as slippery as soapstone. In this curious stone the waves have cut long avennes dug out caves far inland over which pe walk and never mistrust that if the top should fall they would be precipitated into the In fallen | the cd for eean 1 rock-hound most part is n silicious shore or partly and one dlook throwgh queer circular holes fifty feet down into the secthing blue waters, The tunnels, open cuts and this strange sy 1z rock are two miles south of Sunta Cruz, not far from the Baplanade and in full view of the nt bay, the mouth of | the Salinus and S white shaft erected to the memory of the Francisean friar, Junipero Serra. The of the ocean, and faint blue of two wings of the Caseades and the varied colors of the sky, with the other surroundi make the place one of singular beauty. 1t was odd to see such 4 column_extending out of what appeared to be a level streteh of land, covered thickly with grass, which for much of the year was redolent of wild flowers, Very fantastic the water appeared. Day and night, at intervals of two and three minutes, the column would shoot up, and as suddenly fall, only to appear again as hefore Throngs went to see it and wonder at its fantustic colors. The wilder the storm the lofticr the column. Tt vavied from forty to sixty feet high, according to the force of the waves amination of the grounds thercabouts dled novel things, It was found that a narrow groove or et led into the shove 1 widest at the sea end, like i wedge and grew narrower as it reached into the | land.” Tt extended about eighty feet Into this the waves thrashed and ham- mered as they rofled in from towards the mountains across the bay which border Salinas river. As the waves crashed the end of the tunnel they kept awiny the soft sandstone which compo: La portion of the roof, and there was a rebound which was very powerful. Grad ully it ate away the roof uddenly during the storm it burst through, making an aperture about two feet square and looking much like a_hopper to a in mill. It appears to have been at a point where a peculiar strain was put_on a vortion of the caprock, which eracked and 1. When this oceurred the water was pa inlly freed from the quecer und prison, and as the waves played forth it sent the column skywards A loud sound accompanied it like the r artillery. The bending of the lithe euc lyptus trees, the incoming of the many white waves, the falling of the sheets of rain and the fury of the tempest made up a_scene i expressibly grand. — As the waves died down the lofty column of water coased to o but as they increased in power with the storm it again shot up into the air. Alto- gether it is a new attraction for this part of the beach. have already nay peer over the tops gainst back and w PERSO. e L PARAGRAPHS. A.J. Sawyer of Lincoln is at the Paxton® O. H. Jeffreys of Wisner is at the Murray Hon. Frank White of Plattsmouth is in the city. I, W. Van Sickel of Norfolic cade, John Robbins of Thayer is a guest at the Millard. D. C. Everett of Beatrice is at the Paxton. S. Shickley of Geneva is a Paxton guest. . C. Barnum of Columbus is at the Mer- chants. J. B Arcade. W. J. Kornof Plattsmoth is registered at | the Arcade. Bdward Laenhoper of Schuyler is a guest at the Paxton. Dr. A. G. Me at the Merchants. W. J. Burke of Missouri tered at the Murray. Chas. R. Dean, an attorney of Kearney, is stopping at the Merchants. H. H. Bowens and Ira Thomas of Oakland are stopping at the Millard J. A. Costello of Grand Island, sheriff of Hail county, 15 stopping at the Paxton Mrs. W. R. Howard of Chicax of Mrs. R. Howard, 2422 Franklin street Hon. George W. Baxter, ex-gove | Wyoming, is in the city, stopping ton, Mr. heen | home, Hon. R. F. Kloke of West Point, rey atiy isat the Millinrd by his wife. Mrs. Annic Besant of will be the guest of Dr. during her stay in Omaha. Mr. and Mrs, K. L. Rood and Gray of Hollyrood farm huvy the Murray for the winter, Miss Cla who has with her sister, Mrs. . A. Dillon of Chicago, o the past four months, returned how last week. W. D, McHugh has gone to Portland, Ore., to take depositions in i case that is coming up for trial at the next term of court. He will be home about the last of the month. Mrs, J. L. Harris, who has been ill soy and was thought almost conva slapse and has been quite | i1l the past two weeks at Hotel Brunswick Mr. and Mrs. B, H. Barrows cutertained Mr. Will Carleton last evening at their resi dence on St Mary's avenue after the vead ing at Young Men's Christian association hall. A few friends were invited to meet “the poet of the poor.” At the Mercer—J. McDonough, San Fr clsco; Goldsmith, St. Louis: James Jennings aud wife, Sult Lake City: R Brownlee, Nebraska City ; Mrs. N, Adam burg, 1115 1. Raymond, S is at the Ar- is Dunlap of Orleans is a guest at the ew of Geneva is registered Valley is is the guest rnor of atthe Pax- ind vis Mrs. Harry ting in McCreary, who have Chicago, have returned esent- aceompanied London, and Mrs, England, Jensen Miss Mabel taken rooms at been visiting n A D. ial Telegram bras! Mrs. 1L, Dee. 17.—[Sp | k.| —The following 2 registered here today: Palm uning and niece, Lincoln: B, H. Swasey Omaha. Wellington—Frank A. Fitzpatrick, Omaha, Great Northern—Charles Keunedy, Chris Staum, Omaha, Geand Pacifie—T. Arnett, Lincoln; Charles C.” George, Arthur 5. Potter, Omal B Fakntoow Parls. Saint-Saens has been lately the musical fon of Paris owing to the production of his amson et Delila” at the Grand Opera. The critics and feuilletonists express sur- prise that this opera, one of the finest scores | produced in France during the last quarter of a ecgutury, should have to wait fifteen ye r its first performance at the Grand | 1t was begun in 1867 and completed i after vain efforts to get it ac vis, Saint-Suens 0ok it to Ge Liszt brought it out at Weimar » | in 1877, It has also been given at Cologne, Dresden and Prague. but the Paris mun- | agars still waited until they heard that the G orman emperor had given orders to mount it at Berlin, when they concluded that it | wis tune for theuw, Lo, W do justice o Saiut- Sucns, many, w enzo rivers and the | e the reround regis- | ! | federal government of the | pas | was a trusted ser | quarters with his own b | pected that they will show fight when the | maila list 'IN PURSUIT OF THE BANDITS other days and half romembered thiy holding withered b held his, while death softly pross then nds of those who first dim and loving oye down the 1ds of rest And so, locking in marriage vows his ehils ren's hands and erossing othe on the breasts of peace with daughters' babes upon his knees, the white hair ling with the gold, he journeys on from day to day to the horizon Where' the dusk is waiting for that night - sitting by the holy hearth of home, as the last embers ehange from red to gray, he falls asleep within the arm of her he wors shiped and adored, focling upon his pallid lips love's last and holicst Kiss. - NATIONAL SLUMMING. United Statos Troops Pushing the Invaders of Mexico, CAMPS OF THE INVADERS ON MEXICAN SOIL rlidions Conduet of n Trosted Servant He Metrays the Mexiean Captain an His Comrades Tnto the Hands of the Rebels, The Heathen Within Our Gates. A Lively rmon by Miss Kate Fleld, W. Spofford, appointed by ¢ 1te the slums of all cit 200,000, has with a visit to the tenement houses of Chicago. This in- vely preliminary, to give Mr, n idea of the number of istants I'he real investigation will begin in New York nest month Does anyone stop to o last night fiftec 1sks Kate Ficld's Washington fig occurred the first that if Christ re alive he to the number of about 200 | « Christian churches more vigore e denounced the money ehangers in the tomple, and with far m reason h money-changers made no pro fess In taking the nay of Christians we brand ourselves as u generation of vipers, being nothing more nor less than hypocrites, Hypoerites are consiened by the new testa ment 1o the lowest depths of hell What is the boginning and endof practical hristianity? o do unto oth we would have others do unto us—to_love our neigh bors as we love our Do we 1t is un necessury to answer this question, Every thinking human being knows that if we did aboy the Golden Rule there would be no physical suffering except from accident and dis 1 no sorrow except that entailed by death. The fact that there are slums in towns proves that the rich take 1o thought of the poor. In fact, they often fatten on the misery of less fortunate fellow creatures, as many tenements belong to them, and the rents collected therefrom are 0 much greater than thoso colleeted from higher class dwelling houses inproportion to the capital expended as to make them highly desivable investments, Take Now York for example. 1 have tried in vain to find out who owned filthy tenements swarming with humanity, The owners ave represented by agents who will notdivulee the names of their employe 1t s the business of those sents to do the dirty wor woll-to-do citizens who no more concern th nselves with the welfare of their tenants than they concern themselves with customers buying from them dry goods and groceries. In tho latter case customers - got their money's worth in the former they are at the merey of landlords and must pay what is asked or be turned into the strect “What is the rent of this room?" a poor blind woman, who husband, a good son and a dog. occupied darle and small apartment in one of New York's blind alleys “Seven dollars and a replied. “How can you afford it2 “God only knows. The landlord hard on us and I pay when 1ean butcher, a Jew, who is good to us, works for him at $1.50 a week, and he us meat every day Seven dollars and erable, broken twenty rooms. of 31500 E neful? New ments consist, Nnw Democrat's the Mexi: ORLEANS, Mont oy La roy Dec. 17 Mex has ordered the tat exhaustive special mgrress having bogun_ his sweating shops \ nment n mmer - nd S R ssion to make an » the horribl op nvestigation < recently committed by the band revolutionists, 4 ' to an ofticial ais what this means? pateh rece 1t mvans, in mi the revolutios ved fr s from hore m where the fight Mexico From reliable private it is also learned that the camp of the bandits had been situnted on Mexi fow the gar t 1 are still in sources within a it mil of The ing the massacre, wis itionists swe the remnant of garrison across the Rio ,Grande surviving complet the The in San viver sought refuge . wherg they still rema rn to Mexico, as they wi tewed The bandits are believed to be the lower part of the state of Idie soldicr Tgnacio, Tex 1, fear: s ing to ret by as desertors making for Tamaulipas Manuel Gillipa, commander of quarters at Mier, that the revolutio in Moxico, St the head wdits the statements sts had theiv rendezvous e warned the United that the dexi cans were gathering on the lower Rio Grande border counties for the purpose, but no seri ous attempt had been made by the United States troops to disperse the liwtess bands There is much exeitement. over the affair, which the citizens gencrally regard as a flusco. di He say ilitary authoritics Pursuing the Bandits, New Onieaxs, La., Dec. 17 Democrat's Lavedo, ‘Pex., special says: A courier arrived from 1ort. Melntosh this morning with the information that Liouten ant West is in pursuit of the Mexican ban- dits. A number of M to this side who we revolutionists and dispateh brought states that The Times- ican soldiers who crosscd ¢ ot injured joined the ve now with them. The by the courier further Maximo Martinez, the traitor, it of the captain of the Mexican troops and betrayed them to the revolutionists, and then set fire to their uds, and is now be- lieved to be with the revolutionists. 1t is learned that two companies of Mex- ican cavalry, cach ecighty strong, left New Laredo this morning for” the lower country, and the Mexiean authorities now have 160 men at cach of the fords of the river between San rnacio and Mier. Two companics of United States troops left San Antonio for Larcdo today to join those who are in the field of the lower coun try. The United States troops are in close pursuit of the bandits on this side and news of a decisive engagement having tuken place is hourly expected. Bolder Than Last Yea The bandits appear to be Dolder thau they were last year 1 asked with a drunken half a month,” she isn't vory There's My son Sends ahalfa month! A mis- down house, containing yields o rent at the a year! Is it nbt York tenement apart- o rule, of one room with ono or more windows opening into o windowless closet lange enough for a bed and one or two pieces of furniture. The great deal | yoom is used for kitehen and pavlor. ‘The it s ex- | Goget s slept in. From three to five per- sons oceupy such an_apartment—man, wife and chil Som sers are taken to help cke out the rent ! Inone room of a regular lodging house, aboundit I and humanity, [ lave seen 4 in bed inone’ corner, 1o wen in bed in another, a singl third corner on straw an sofa in the_fourth corner of the different corners wore auother. The man and his ) down soldier with hemor- rhage of the lungs and no pension—paid fif- teen cents a day for their awful corner of an eful room. At this rate one room brings $16.80 a4 month. or 520160 & year. A lodging Touse containing ten rooms will thus yield an annual income of 52,016, T believe it is usual to let lodging houses to one person, who again sublets to the miserably poor. The kceper of the house lives ou what is made oft these wretched lodgers. OF course drunken- ness and brawls are common. None but angels can vemain decent with such envi- ronment, 2 Did the rich bestow their own alms, going among the poor to learn for themsclves the status of the of soclety, T believe there would he an awakening to the duty of the hour. So long as they 1 Qurents not only the collection of their ren yut the disbursement of their charitic gap between classes and masses will wider and wider. landlord, soldiers ove GALVESTON, Tox San Antonio to th tonight sent the follow A special from Dr. Ornelio T send you by f soldic wn Tznacio ot true that bandits have 1 burned and there was not one of them inour territory. Two of our soldi o roturned f an Tgnacio. They have n well receiy This was sent to the commander in charge at San Ignacio. OfMelally Notified by Mexico. WasnixGroy, D. C., Dec. 17.—The Mexic government through Don Romero, chavg daffairs at thenational capital, has officiall called the attention of the United St government to the recent raid into Mexico of itizens of Mexico at San Ienacio, who formed san side of the line, ster of the Statedepartment has in turn communicated with the war de- partment and has asked_that additjonal troops be stationed on the Mexican border t) | prevent these excursious complained of The Seveuth ¢ v now at Fort Riley has been ordered to the Rio Grande to assist the the United States cavalry force now there In army circles the matter is treated very lightly and no serious trouble is anticipated A high offi ys that if the Mexican government tenth of the foree on the Mexican | the United States lad o e outrages could not It is be man left woman on occupants a b n S0 the grow ke town. The individual his duty, it is not to e ex- covporation of which he is iy thought whatever on Hence municipalitics i are bred the crime, vice and disease of the human family, The marvel is not that the slums produce so much drunkenness and_immorality, but that the, beget 5o little, When a baby 15 months olil will give exidence of knowledgzo of dopravity asis o fact—don’t you think it marvelous that 50 much good is left in_even hoodlums? Individual and municipality having to concern themselves with the masscs, national government at the labor is about to take uplon work. Should My. Spofford and his assist; pursue the usunl course of con sional committees, it will be months if not yeurs before light is thrown on durk places, The these ma s they wders return to seattered like partrid the chapparal. ~ Whether it was from mo- s of economy or otherwise that the Mex n government did not pat troops along its | side of the border no one could st - LIFE PICTURED BY INGERSOLL. the b | i unit wiil bes the unit's tc | abound in sy One of the Prettiest Picces of Word Paint- ing in the Language, Born of love and hope, of ecs of agony and foar, of tears and joy—dowered with the wealth of two united hearts —held in happy arms, with lips upon life's drifted font, blue-veined and fair, where perfect peace finds petfect, form-—vocked by willing i o oS o Sl | voport of the immigration commission sent ing with wonder's wide and startled eyes at | o Kurope in the summer of 1501 his just common things of life and duy—taught by | been published. 11 New \‘m» e ‘n.‘ ago v.‘.‘n:| wint and wish and contact with the things | Other big towns wint to cscape the Faviges that tonch the dimpled flesh of ba of cholera, made probable by their own by light and_ flam 1 churmed criminal neglect, their citizens willat this wonrous robes, Iearning the use of lunds | eloventh hour yewiembor that Christinity is d feet, ane 0106 of mi weniled | mot confined to ehurchegoings they wi from crabbed and curious marks on soi Uhe nation apparently |'.‘.“ '-QL»‘:L..',“.;‘.\ |'~‘-' and tattered leaves—puzzling the brain with | towns containing less thin SR SOWE crooked numbers and their changing, tangled | These ave 16ft to thelr 0wt (orlEes: worth--and so ihrough years of alternating | Sums can be found whovever s (WIE CX S ay and night, until the captive grows fu- | Whut'stobecome of these s Jeve (e L miliar with the chains and wu and limita- | often feed the lapger ra ih Wkesdi) tions of a life, utterly fgnored? “Fake Providenco, 1t And time vins on in sun and shade, for tnstance, und Lowelland F'all Rive : oue of all this world is wooed and Verily the heathen is not only within our all the love of love is tatg own gates but abides within our own skins, 4in o how and unless we reform ourselves we'll never chnmber wherein fi see hewven on earth or anywher dowy vales, -y and pain, until won vand learn, 15 huilt, with the fi t dreams, like cool und ide the billowed hours of Again the miracle of bivth—the puin , the kiss of welcowme and the cradle song, drowning the drowsy pratile of a babe. And then the sense of obligation und of wrong—pity for those who toil and weep. rs for the imprisoned and despised—loye for the gencrous dead, and iu the heart the rapture of i high resolve. ud then ambition, with i place and power breast distinetion’s worthless badge keener thoughts of men, and cyes behind the smiling mask of craft 1o more by the obstreperous crin and greed —knowing the useles hoarded gold and houor bought from those who charge the usury of self-respect—of power thut only bends i cownrd’s knees and forces from the lips of fear the lies of praise. Kuowing at last the unstudied gesture of esteem, t n made rich with honest thoughts and holding high above all other things -high as hope's great throbbing star about the durkness of the dead—the love of wife and child and friend. y The locks of gray und growing TIN WORKERS STIILE, Welshimen at Ellwood Object (ot ment of Unskilled Labor, Erewoon, Ind,, Dec. 17.—For past there ave been differen Welsh in the Amevican Tin Plate fuctory and the compa day @ (U ence was held between the manager and the wen, the vesult of this conference men’ have refused to work unless the con piany accedes to cortain conditions. 1t seems that a certain patent machine has been in troduced into the tinni artiment, which does away with the w One i, and s compiny wants Lo operate this with un- Hed lnbor and pay him less than o skilled omu Welshmen de Imploy= timo, between the some workers its lust of pelf longing to put upon_its Then that see flattered of gain of 11 s, ind that skilled labor wll be employed, as they thit otherwise unskilled Tubor will Take away Ls. Until this is conceded, they de- 0 Lo work. 1t is thought some ami sdjustment of the differonce will be made in a few days love of Highest of all in Leavening Power.-—Latest U. 5, Gov't Report, aking Rl B ABSOLUTELY PURB