Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1892, Page 1

TWENTY-SECOND YFEAR. FEAST FOR FLAMES show windows the fire had burst through the roof, and just as the first hose company Yaid in its line the roof fell Intensely Hot Work, of the terrible speed of the fire may be imagined when one knows how hard { fast the firemen work when it is neces savy. Before hose could be brought up the alleyway in the rearof the building the whole structure on the alley, from baseme to roof, was one mass of flame and - the he in thealley was that it was a hard matter to pipemen to play on which were liablc to fall at any moment The half dozen lines of heavily insulated tric wires soon caught from the heat overlapping flames, before being off were completely ruined and fell 10 the ground. ( Graves of hose com No. 6 stood in the alleyway with a his hands and threw the e ay between the Orchard block and the Continental b ing, ind tried to cool the walls and thus prevent the fire from spreadi One of the most i in fire was the dash made by company 5. 10 through the alley. This company aid in its line from a hydrant at Fourteenth and Douglus strects and started up the alley toward Fifteenth street, The heat balked the horses, but & word from Assistant Chief Salter cnused the driver to lay on the and the greys galloped down the alley, past the flames which singed their hair into air frec ok Fifteenth street Tne big aerial truck was the gutter on the cast street and as close as possible wall of the Continental building. An t was made to raise the big ladder, but the wires were in the way and had to be broken down before the ladder and a line of hos could be run up, By the time trucks Nos. 1 and 2 got into position the throtgh the west five wall building, and was spreading of the Continental block Some it Orchard's Furniture Store Furnishes a Ban- | quet for the Fire Element. ESTABLISHMENT Only One Wall of the Palatial Store Tts Position, — urned CONTINENTAL BLOCK ALSO DESTROYED Freeland, Loomis & Co's Clothing Stock Gone Along With the Carpets. wet th valls, HIS WIPED AWAY Left in ts of the itler hose BUSY NIGHT FOR THE DEPARTMENT Called from Small Blazes to Battle With « Flerce Conflagration—1Tow Fortu Were Dispelled in BHlaze and Smole. run up close to side of Fifteenth Fire played havoc with the two big huild Lol Ingson the northeast corner of Fifteenth and ,Douglas streets last night, The four- stdry brick structure occupied by A Orchard's immense furniture establishment was entirely gutted, and the ex tended to the Continental building on the destroying the two top floors, used ofices and apartments, and resulting in t damage from water the lower floors, the clothing stock Loomis & Co. suffering heavil lar fire that since the destructive hardware March, the total losses being ¢ ething near £100,00 by fusur The fire was discover at 9 burned furiously for nearly two ho which the flames gradually subsided. Though the firemen worked hardand their efforts | were well directed, nothing availed to extin- guish the blaze in the Orehard building and it | wasoniy with the greatest dificulty that the fire was prevented from spreading further than it did. Started 1n 0 The five orizinated flames of the O aeross the WHAT WAS DES oy on of Ireclund, 1t was the ) of the That Oceupied 1t lie Continental block was the property of James H. Byers of Leavenworth 1t was 1 feet in size amd four stovi hizh, and oceupicd the entire quarter of the block at the corner of Fifteenth and Douglas. The haif of the building occu pying the corner built five ago for the present ts, the nental Clothiug Loomis & Co. s name from &% Omalia fire last timated at has oceurred in IKan, ouly partly covered heast nee, northeas! vs, after w yeamrs Conti Frecland, oceupa company, or atacost of @5,000, and took the firm ‘that occupied it. The other half was built two years ago, like wise for the present A Orehard, who moved in two years ago last September. That part of the building, which was of the s le of architecture, cost 45,000, the 10 i to the fact that the other hall was upon the corner and had two street fronts, while it > had the tower, which such a niliar feature of that corner The corner was leased by the clothing com- pany on terms that provided that it should maintain the ins s and it earried $70.- 0000n it Mr. Byces carried the insn the otner part the buildin amounted to only £20,000, so that building, costing £1:0,000, 200,000, ocenpant chard's, in the Orchard build fng. Oficer Godola declures that he passed the store less than five minutes hefore the blaze broke out. After passing Orchard's he had time to walk down to the corner of Fourteenth and Do thepoint of erossing the street when he heard aloud report, rescinbling the explosion of some combustible, aud the crash of Turning suddenly, he saw out of the show window ard’s stor Before the reach the place, running at full interior of the store was alrea An alarm was immediately which the entive fire departm In an ineredibly short tw of water were b thrown upon the burn ing building, but the fames mounting the elevator shaft, quickly ascended to the three upper floors. The furniture, being of a very combustible nuture, fed the fumes and made a magnificent blaze of the buildin to t In less than half an hour after the ajavm | £ranted that there was no dang A T e v getting a hold on that portiom of the portion of the struetur structure, and it was not until the roof of T | the older portion was actually ablaze that and attention was turned to saving th 1- | they bestirred themselves very actively joining houses. Toward the cast Foley's | Fven — then. when the water that plice wiis not seviously menaced, The Con- | Was being poured upon the tinental bloc the corner, however, v wor its way down n ity A thick five. | cciling into the store room on sl R o An T floor. the feclinge prevailed that the fire had from the Orchard building spenbioll n0g S racuonly pndoncoy the firemen at first hopod that the s S could be confined to the burning out the stock. called N door had been eut throush the fi | that it would result fording a means of JToullibaSalpdiby Salilo nite the two st This the fivemen found | : Dburned down, and immediately took prompt coming through asieve, There was a wiid hustle for rublbe measurcs to prevent the fire from penetrat ing the Continental block from that point overcoats umbrellas, which were spread over the stock on the tables, in the show cases and on the shelves, but us the water Crash of Fallin poured down in strc it was One after another the floc scen that this imperfect pro building caved Heavy tection ssould awonat to nothing and the en 3 G tire for of th iployes of AR thongh uildin the establishment. together with o number hem pi who volunteered their sery begun v torior worl b movive the immense stock acioss the street 0 be dying out to & vaeant store room, and i balf an hour B it Woio the removal had been very successfully ac- e A complished. The stock tvis very consileri building wis in u shed bly damaged, both by water aud its unee the fire began on the hea wonious removal, but it was by no m obseured its brighitness busily playing tie structure, and the fire appeare control, when there was - lou the vast throng asscmbled i wueh as would hitve been the case o allowed o remain where it v witness the work bf devastat A thin sheet of fl The stock wias vilued at 220,000, fnsurcd for $85,000. The annual the voof of the Cont the windows wias in progress, having bec day, and at the time the five several of the clerks were on an ominous a erash ul flames burst ont The quickly ond floor engaged in that | The stock was at low water whtieh point is reached about the fivstof Jan: uary and the fiest of July. The stock two months ago am ited to #1i5.000, but the in- uranee ut the presenttme is as much as ever the case, as the fiea cumies its own ablaze and the elocks tower on the corner of | 3 1 L, ALt s ol G- the building wrapped in flames. After | o the A e SRS B Durning for about half an hour the tower fell crashing to the ground. The cfforts of the fire department were then divected Mr, Ovelipd wais it the five at Thivteenth saving the Continental block, After three | and Howard when the aliem of the greater hours hard work the flames were checked, : 124 x;.n taned in, and "f lhv S5 FET aarned wheve it was ned “to- e kil who e ward Fifieenth and Douglass v bl Y fast as possible. e could, ¢ course, floor was badly inj 1 and the Jdo nothing but witeh the re, and Preelund, Loowis | maintained his sclf-possession Al oG Continental Clothing com i could haye becin expected under the civeum- floor, was water, lis been s strects and was on falling glass. smoke pouring of Orch- | officer could the 14 blaze, turned in, to it responded ve stre ance on and it the entire insured for peed, was Felt Falsely Secure, The Orchard store v ! ated, | and the fire was workinz its way over the topof the fire wall to the roof of the portion oe- cupied by the clothing company. before any great concern scemed to be felt vegardi the stock in that building. The crowd. and even the occupants of the v time o floor: seemed ke it fo 1 extended to eve All hope of savi ts were abandoned roof i the through th on ™ imminent ‘parate bloc nd nes store. A s wall, o, communication betweer assertiol ter loss than 1t was not rfore the water was the ceiling if it had been ctures. 5 s Flors. sint Orchard ivon pitlars bearing with As the in and consume in the flaming timber, n to fall in the While the stocic bei s of 08, light the flame, but when timber th The fir on the to be under of s smoke i w burning | b i ind v inventory broke out the sec work. from the street to had nental Block the 1 ligh darted uy Soon 1 from tor, floor threw ont then there and the floo on red of wis is ton was Mr. Ovehard Interviewed. to 1S 800N has upper stories weve i Iture o the second the the of company, known us ny, ou the eriously damaged by und | voul aud |yl siore was ablige When he arvived, awd he realized that the stock wust be a total loss, He exhibited the greatest concern about the safe, und be- sought Chief Galligan to pour water on that part of the ruins where the safelay, and keep itus cool us possible. This the chicf prom- ised to do, wnd assured My, Orehard that as soon as the fire in the other part of the building was under contvol he would dive wore attention o the safe, but t not safe to send men into the building When asked about his losscs, Mr, Orchard suld that he had not taken ace i stock, and could nottherefore toll just how much there was in tho st SWe were 1o hive 1uking necount tomorrow,” he seid. = We always hive about £110,000 i stoek on hand at the end of the | year, and it would have amounted to a little wore than that this year, | remacked only yesterday that our stk on - hand this yeur would he lager than ever {*beford. It wus inswred for about #0000, all through Joeal agents, and it will make my loss fully 0,000 aboy the insurance. We had about 10,000 worth Lof fixtures, and they were but lightly in: sured, in comparison to the stock, I don't think there wits over #,000 on them, We had just fivted up an art roow, and 1 had been thinking that the insuraice was not heavy cnough, but had made up wy mind that 1 could afford to carey some of th fusurance wyself. 1 Luve uever had o § hefore, and 1 auppose that is why 1 had in the way of thinking that I didn't | 80 much insurance i people carey ou i | stock of that size. This will be a veny heavy | loss on me ud Idon't kuow yer whae | will 1 five uad then cut loose his macbine and | fge” the say of starting s aenh T tiol his beat W deaden the die on the | stock s totally destroyed, so thero will be ground floor by using plenty of chewical | povhing left on hind 1o be disposed o i e, B R, b i | nouhfng loft on baud to Bo dispespd of. 1 line Jaid in und commenced pis)ing ok tac stoke from top to bottom WORKING ON ANOTHER FIRE, Galligan and His Men Thoey Discovered t While the department was working hard 10 put out the fire in the rear of 4 second hand furniture store at 503 South Thirteenth strent Were Bus, Mg Blaz When some one in the crowd discovered the flames from the Ovehard building aud Delos Beard, the firc waded in through the four inches of water on th nd told Chiefs n and salter there v wother fire. The two oficials Jumped into theiv sloj i v ordering all of the apparatus al work to fullow except the chemical mad Phe slippeey hard and by the time the ehief sistants arrived the whole wof of the b ing was one wass of flune, the front and the vear of the building the flames poured forth from cellar o roof, and when Chief Gal aped ont of his sleigh on Iouglas strect he saw ata glance Dt hieroic work was necessary, and he faivly on adr us be rushed Lo the fin corner of Fifteenth and Dot pulled in a second aluri diutely by o general alarm The first machine up wushe Captain Windheim Jooked reporter, oo it nmedintely begsun all laste 10 the walked | oy ut the dlas stroets and followed i for 4w | [CONTINUKD ON SECOND PAGE.| whip | fire had broken | Building and the Stores | ice being due | of the fire | an to | lower | mmis- | veference to moving | ek, | OMAHA, WEDNESDAY hi()ilNlN(L DECEMBER 28 | | TOSSED 0N AN ANGRY SEA Thrilling Voyage Across the Atlantic by the Steamship Noordland, | SHE WAS DISABLED IN A TERRIFIC GALE Passengers Driven Frantic by ¥ by € Good Her Propeller Shaft 300 Miles from Land, It and Saved from Sinking Seamanship Broke: Losvoy, Dec. ®.—The American line steamer Ohio, from Philadelphia, December 14 for Liverpool, passed Brow Head today She had in tow the four-masted Belgian steamer Noordland from New York, Decem ber 14, for Antwerp. The voyage ofsthe Noordland was tuous almost fr Hook The hurricane tempes the hour of leaving Sandy winds blow almost @ and the ship 1 mucn diMeulty in - making headway through the wayes, Some of the passengers were so apprehensive of danger that they could not be induced to retive at night and sat about the dozing at intervals 1y to take to the boats in the event of an accident, although the boats could have lived only by a miracle in the terrible seas. The waves tossed their foam on the decks until the lower rigeing was covered with a congealed frosting and the deck itself was like o skating pond. The only comfort or security the cabins. Captain Nickels, his officers and crew, spared no pains to secure the safety of the ship, and the sailors never shivked “un’ order, however perilous and painful When the Accident Ocenrred, The Novdland labo until Thursday evening. 1t was a hitter cold night and the passengers were congrat- ulating themselves upon gradually neaving | the end of their voyage. The steamer was in lonzitude 18 degrees 52 minutes west and latitude 50 degrecs 10 minutes north, At in the evening a tremendous crash was card and the vessel quivered from end to The passengers who were sitting up cdabout like nine-pins, several of them being thrown to the floor. Several e blows resounded, one after the other sif the vessel were being struck by o gi- antic hammer, which, indeed, was the fact, sropeller shaft had broken. “The fright of some of the pas | pitiful to behold. They rushed hither and thither, delaying the officcrs in their efforts to et at the cause and extent of the disas ter. Captain Nickels knew well enough hat the sound meant, and with « reassur- ing word to the passengers he hastencd to investizate. The vessel rocked furiously, while the broken shaft seemed about o erash throuzh the ship at every concussi Water rushed into the tube, mena stoke hold and the en, panic stricken pass while that the vessel veral minutes elapsed before given for the engines to stop, At the Merey of th “The Noordland lay helpless. 1 by the gale, and as the water rushed in there seemed immizent danger of s The pumps_were manned and put to work, every | man of the crew being summoned to duty. For twenty-four hours continuously —the pumps were kept at work and the water was prevented from gaining on the workers. Then the passengers were informed that they were not in present peril. At the time of the accident the Noordland was 300 miles west of Quecnstown. The erippled steamer was sighted by the stoam- ship Ohio. whieh loft Philadelphia on_the same day that the Noordland left New York and needed assistance was at onee extended The voyage to Queenstown in tow was attended by mueh difieulty and ¢ \tinu- | ous_stormy weather madé it necessary to navigate with cau but the Noordland ived without furtheraceident. nation showed that the fracture s six fet inside the stern The steamship Noordland was towed into enstown harbor by th \mship Ohio at 7 o'clock this evening, All the passengers were ondeck, wavi and handk chiefs and eheering. The passengers were removed to shore by a tender. Al showed s of the anxicty which they had suffered, and some of the clderly steerage passengers were hardly able to walk, Several women fell on their ki ud ericd the moment they were lundd Frank Shea, a fiest cabin passenger stopping at 1 Queenstown hotel, told his perience tonight: saloon wius in along suceessiully ers was for a sink was vas about to word Te. Story of a Passenger. he fiest two days out of New York faivish, thongh part of the time a was running. The idly worse. On the night of the accident we were making about twelve knots an hour. he ship was rolling X cabin - passengers were below-—sick Five or six of us were in the smoking room, talking about how we should pass Christmas in Antwerp, when there was i territic cvash and we were thrown from our_ seats into a Tieap on the floor, The vibration of the ship 5L shook us from our feet us we started v the door. 1t seemed as if a gigantic hammer was pounding the ship's bot | tom. When we got outside we saw the captain coming from the engine room The | passeng came running on deck, half dressed and white from fear, Wesurrounded the captain and he told us' that the main shaft was broleen, but there wis no immed- fute reason for aliem. Phe oficers who were not busy below walked about among the pas sengers andencouraged all to believe there wis no danger. Ina fow minutes we learned that the engineers,3 at great visle to their lives, had found the dwo stay Pates and the phonmer blocks had smashed | the glind of ‘the engine. The bulkhead, lowe m kept tight. The vessel pitch d terribly, 50 that we suw we coul ust to the boats in case the WOrsL came, were heavy sea sather then grew ray ibly Alarmed, “We were just hecoming ealmer when saw the erow rushing through the: steer: ying bedding, mats and stuffed into the tunnel bo. W then that water was comi Nobody | slept that night, "The women sat erying in the cabing and’ the men crowded the smok ing room to play cards and talk over the situation. We all were badly frightened, The vessel rolled terribly and with every roll eame a tremendous thump. as if a pi of the shaft was loose aud swashing things in the hold T'he saits had been spread, but they did not steady the ship noticeably.” We knew we were far from th track of the transatlantie steamers nd no one would have guessed that our chances for life were o that two in five. “The erew worked heroically at pumps for twenty-fowr hours after the dent, and at the same time the were busy at the shaft, fixing plug: nd try- ing to prevent further influx of water Lventually word was sent out that the flow of water bad been checked. \Weo h of food and water, and therefore, with fairly favorable weather, wonld have heen able 1o Lold our own for sowe time. As the s st too rough, however, for any life we were a gloomy lot, Friday was unevent: ful The tables were luid sual, but few | cared to eat. i UAU 2 o'clock on Saturday lookout yelled Light ahead ! turned and listened eq 1y for the next word. She steawer,” wis the next call We all shook hands and checred and mauny ran about shoutiy; We all remajned on deck the rest of the nizht watehing the Ohio’s lights, At hits ¢ by aud passed i hawser. we e e the ol engineers nuing the v body Resonern: | i Diicult Work of the | “At that thwe and was full of water | sions of encour subsequently our peak despite the expres. GVEEY OLG Wit LKL The straiu caused by the heavy sca was 50 great ihet after five minutes th huwser broke. Before another iawse | could be passed, nine Lours elpsed | meantime they avily and most of the | | Shawnee county, th 1 and child “he | second hawser broke, s did also tho third On Sunday morning other hawsers were fixed and as the. weather had improved held until we reached the harbor.™ The steamship Ohio proceedcd to Liver pool this morning. Most of the steerage passengers were taken back and will live aboard until further orders are received Probably the Noardland will then proceed ntwerp, where she will be completely hauled Wyoming's About the Umbria. 97, Anxiety is felt over the alat New York of the Cunarder Umbria, which sailed from Liverpool De. cember 17, and, allowing forstormy weather, should have reached port at least” two days Apprehension is so serious that rein surance has been begun The oficials of the Cunard line say have 1o doubt that the Umbria's ¢ due to the breaking down of her engines se Cort they ay s CHEYENN am to T the decisior TO M. ASTEUR, murrer to man to com entieth Birthday of the Famouns Savant Fitly Observed, [Copyrighted 1892 by James Gordon Rennett.) Panis, Dec, 97.—[New York Herald Cable —Special to Tie Bre]—The 70th anniver: sary of the birthof M. Louis Pasteur, the distineuished biologist and chemist, was celebrated today with great pomp nd un disturbed by the political scandals of the hour. M. Pasteur was given a magnificent ovation. The famous savant entered the hall leaning on the arm of M. Carnot, piesi- | dent of the republic. The speech of the English surgeon, Sir Joseph Lister Bart, was loudly applauded, especially that part in which hie said he admived M. Pasteur as much for his integrity as for his scientific attainments, M. Pastenr which he | Chief concurred Ross had LW 0880 Just on the grou from t demur First—TH o was so moved by the ovation reccived that he was not able to speak, and his son read his speech. The aged scientist sobbed when he spoke of his wife and relatives Then the s delegations congratulate him. The mos the Copenhagen and Stockholm delegations The scene was most interesting. It was vegretted that the united scientific societics of Berlin were not represented. The Panama inquiry was continued today Yesterday no one was arvested. There is sport that the medical expert who pe formed an autopsy o the body of Baron de Reinach had come to the conclusion that the baron was poisoned and had not committed suicide. More revelations are expected in regard to the sudden deaths of several per- sons mixed up in the @ffairs of the Panama 1l company. There are some coinci- dences which are remarkably curious and quieting. The people, however, are some- what quieter. Jacques St. C ing it ne issue ori in the case. Third—N suflicient tion or writ plaintifs tc The first filed by to applanded were house w Wi cision s overrul sentatives matter. T the demun | ing similar “Did the ¢l ot and opinions ur stituted the clerk and t powe sion STARTI RUMORS, New Revelations In the Panama Canal Scandal Promised. Dec. 27.—The Chronicle’s Paris correspondent says: Two sudde s may form the subject of a special inquiry. He hesi to mention the person’s names, ven as mere conjecture. startling revelations made by ex tive Amiel have been revived. The | correspondent declyras that in answer to advertisement in Figaro, he (Amiel) was of- fered money to murder’ Dr. Herz He con- tinues: * Amiel askefl me to publish the story, but when | sentfor him 1 found that he was dead The Gaulois compares the unhealthy Pan- ama scandal to the scandals of the period of Rohan, and says that the diamol kla allegation made agalnst Mme. Carnot will probably not lead to the disgrace of a high ofticial “A cartridge similar to that used in the boulevard Magenti outrage of last spring, was found today, ciose to the de Reinach residence in the Rue de Lisbonne.” The Standard’s Vienna correspondent says: French detectives shadowing Mile. Dupoin, friend of the late Baron de Reinach. Her various journeys botween Buda Pesth, Vienna and Bucharest are sup. posed to connection with important documents deposited in one of the cities,™ have been v The Paris correspondent of the Pelegraph | he did not « remarks upon the faet that no denial has | feat th been issucd fo the story that M. Ribot, upon | the partics hearing of M. de Ireycinet’s interview with | A M. Andrieux, d de Ereyeinet to resign and offered the war portfolio to another statesman. M. do Preyeinet, it is said, re fused to vesign and appealed to President Carnot, who supporied him. One ‘of the experts who assisted Brouardt at the de Reinach inquest that the result may be u surprise to every body. If he had to malke an oath on the sub- ject, he would not say adds, that Baron de Reinach wa t the LoNDON, with the re rights of tl are certain political pa the hands ¢ icate duty the countie: gle oficer conflicting practices county the | fused’on on ticiy Tt | of the pe: the vote of 1f, ¢ nty them was t | abstract ma the official I ness e placed the c “hl'v court D, | 185 Carbon ¢ copy of th tices of th the action « as the Lo state boar county. It resul canvissed county, bu thori true he poisoned. URUGUAY PURCHASING ARMS, She Will Demand Satisfuction for Tnsults | Offered Her Consul, (Copyrighted 1592 by James Gordon Bennett.] Varearaiso, Chili, (via Galveston, Tox.,) Dec. 27.—[By Mexican Cable to the New York Herald—Special to Tur Bee]—A meeting of the cabinet was held today at Santiago to disouss the diplomatic con troversy caused the Guerrero incident. The Herald's corvespondent at Buenos A telegraphs that a meeting of the Avgentine Cabinet held Last night to discuss the xplanation whieh Minister Guerrero g of his objectionable pamphlet, and also to formutate a demand that. Chili withdraw i 10 ofy uerrero as minister to the Argentine Re- ( °\ ublic. Your correspondent at Rio de Jdan ), Brazil, st wrted that a battle rs hid has taken place between the police and goy- | Clzibility o crument troops in ko Grande do Sul U il sl ald’s corvespondent ut Montevideo | jud the government of Urnguay | all tending lias contrated for a supply of arms and war | Were in the 1s to be delivored withina month, | ton of ok Urnguay i prepaving to make o demand Avgentine for the insults offered the: Uruguayau consul by the revolutionists « in the provinee of Corvientes. T learn thut the revolutionists ave meeting with great success and that the government at Buenes Ayres is trying to suppress then, Nows d today says that Clandio Vienne had invited leading fol lowers of the late President Balmaceda to | 1o oo ) attend a meeting to be held in Mendoza in § tlocks Argentine, streams, ne; where wen are st ert country, ance of the retur “The den When th roon Jud by answer 1o t answer to I Wil Dot 1 irregulariti tion by case the s the United demur Campbell 155 cour morning, w 1o the answ RAWLINS, gram ¢ 1 stockmen | ranges in all - Murket. Demand for wool and Bosto BostoN, Mass,, Dec. 37 steady, Sales Ohio fleece sell at 27 al Pennsylvania for XX B territory v on '8 for No. 1 wools CHEYENNY ram brought by 10 com from Hin before Jud: s heen sule of and medium at lifornia and Oregon woo! pulled wool is in steady demand at for washed. Australian 1o fiem forcign carpet wool in steady request - 1l the dec More Kunsas Election Contests, Sme , Dec 4 quies o more con s of republican scat s in the logislature defeated popufist candidates were begun today Oue is agaiost Hon. Solon O Tiatcher, senator-clect from Doiglas county, the ground of contest being alleged franid and the other isagainst A, (. Sherman of svound of the action | \ | W YENNE T weok I in additd L around and have e being $hat Sherman ion, wus ) ut the time of his ol stmasier at Rossville and th heen v B in amou Asphysiated by o V8. D, Dee Raswussen, living place, was asphyxiated last night. The fumily o ound, wife aud iufant child, The died and the fatber's cha living ave slight, 1 Gy A fa) miles west BRADLE 7. ily named this gus hus- | other ves uli L ve | st foet today t struck a sol of It Qs the big IN FAVOR OF THE DEMOCRATS cided in the Supreme Court, LEGAL RETURNS FROM CARBON COUNTY to count Hanna precinet Ross' returns did not include Hanna precinet the returns of any election held I'he the county clerk nd Chapman alternative sued by the court the state board of canvass. do not set forth inally from the supr Second—The fact of the petition and writ indicate that this court has no jurisdietion ond was urged s th tution, of the quulifications affected canvassers, leaving to The court quoted many opinion. 1 ce?”! The Concluding an ire can h fon that the weight of vassing boa bsolute authority in the important and del- different ground acted to . conside of canvassers organized as indicated sults from these v county took to his nstituted o cinets of the county and the one that speration of the luw or the “The county as to the acts of bi unty vote. veturn. trolled by mand spoudents in the mandamus ¢ the the ad nal on Vandeventer read An adjournment kinds of stock doing excecdingly well, with 1o losses dur herds Lo v there 200 50 f 1o Ty ol Clerk qraw o Tug bestos ficla, 1892, asbestos ready tain COLD WEATHER PREVAILS. Reports of Suffering and De Isting Low Temperaturs Wienrta, Kas., Dee. 97— Snow fell again last night and after a orief intermission be gan again this morning. Railrond trafic throughout the state is badly demoralized Trains all pulled by two locomotives and are still badly behind time or are stalled alto gother. A frightful lc stock is reported in “No Man's™ land and elsewhere Crarirston, 8¢, Dee. 95 -A blizzard struck Charleston this moring, and for the first time within the past fifteen. years the house tops were covered with a thin coatiug of snow and sleet. The orange trees in the | city are injured somewhat and will probably bear only one crop this year. They usually T WO crops Fowrnt Mo Va blizzard in twenty A hout over since th From the Ex- Oclebrated Election Contest De- | ified To by the Must Be Canvassed by Stato Justices of the B, Wyo., Dec. r By Justice Conaway handed 1 of the suprome court on th the petition of Bennett and Chap: pel the state board of canvasser in Carbon county ice Groesheck and Justice Merrill in the opinfon. County Clerk nt in one sot of returns and the | the peace a second Special Tele Do years struck midnight and the snow I'he electric car 1 is blocked and navieation is vicinity been fall to Hamy pended DETROT Within_the have lost their lives Mich., Dog, 27 two days two persons beeause of the cold weather, They wer Charles Mellwain, a laborer, and Michael Duross, an exprossman. The former was found dead in-an outhouse, while the latter met his death ina lumiy yvard, both men having been frozen while under the influence | of liquor. Hirox, weathoer b the Jim The ther below zero. many directions, Pirrsnura, Pa., Dec The Allegheney, Monongahela and Ohio rivers are frozen over W river trafie isentirely suspended for the fivst time in many y Wiatinaron, N, .y the ground her inches, an almost section te justices of to not show they in the counted the ab. thereby defeating nd that the returns purporti hat precinct did state boar 8. D.. Dee, s provailed her Intensely cold and throughout t three days, 0= to S s reported from rer of the Canvassing Bos of writ mandamus is At sulferit od on the following grounds: ho potition and alternative writ any circumstance render ssary that should ne court. Dec. 27, -Snow covers to the depth of several unheard of thing in this a mandamus e ROCKEFELLER'S MUNIFICENC of n Million Dollars go University. Johin D. Rockefeller cither the petition or writ state 1se of action. Neither the pet state sufticient facts to entitle > the relief prayed for. : objection was waived. The see. on the ground that each 1o Judge, under the consti The objection ground that the de merely the state board of the house of repe full and final jurisdiction in the lie third and fourth grounds ot were considered together, be ure. He Gives Another Gift to the €1 Ciicaco, 111, Dee. 2 has made another huge gift to the University of Chicago. The sum s lerstood to be over £1,000,000, but the exact figures are not given out For the last two months the trustees of the university have been endeavoring to per. suade Mr. Rockefellor to give them 2,000,000 in order to carry out some of their chic plans, The New York Ted on the ished apitalist objected o giv ing that sum outright, but submitted a propo sition for a vast sum to be given, providing in plans which he sugzested be carvied out sposition was submitted o the ‘rustees today. 1 cannotgive you | said one of the trustees this afternoon. **but Lwill say that through the generosity of Mr. Rockefeller we have now a fund which will enable President Harper 1o carvy for- ward the itution on_the broad basis which he conceived for it New Youk, Dec. & Pres| | the University of Chicago arrived in this | city today. I an interview as to dohm D, Rockefelier's million dollar Chuistmas ift to the university he siid: “Fora € mas_gift it is about the bizzeston recor Mr. Rockefeller has beer iind to the university and we think it_especially grate ful that a citizen of New York suld dis. play such munificence to an in Chicago.” . HIEZ WAS A FAITHLENS in ihorities in its first question was, vk err in muking a_separate ab: rejecting that of the justices of had been “conflicting ed us to whether the clerl it consisted of the the peace of_equal exhaustive discus- Justice Conaway suid dly be a differerice of opin- uthority coincides wson and policy of the law. The 10 people in choosine their ofiicers ly safer in the hands of lof three persons of differ rtics, when practicable, than in Sf one man. It is casy 0 see how the exact figures,” wo i point ent Harper of y of canvassing the s, respecti vested in a sin- in each county will result in v ud diver in . In one votes of precinets would be r ¢ ground, in_another county or as affecting their authen- will evidently be counter- ble extent by the board 1t ve- justices f Carbon | vassing erwith him of canvassers for n of the majority of I he action of the board: that ‘the e by the justices of peace was | and abstract of the votes of the pre- | correspondence led 1o the enwagren should | two, although they had clerk. That | each other. ~ Finally the wlowed to de- | for the wedding and Mile, Dihaute, who Wt of | WAS 4 governess at the time, in an English man’s family in London, started for America | to meet her intended hushand. The meeting place was to have been the office of Prench Consul Lang. Mlle. Duhaute arvived promptly on time, but M. Dunas failed to put in an ap. pearance. Consul Lang wrote 1o the tardy lover, and received reply from Dunas that he had changed his mind and that he did not now desire to marey Mile, Duhaute. This drove the little French woman to distraction and she threatened to commitsuicide, havin no friends in this country and no nic return home. Consul Lang informed h tress in London of the situation by cab! the latter cabled funds for Mile, Dubaus return to London, She started on the ward journey today o FROM TH vote of Sad Experience of a Pretty Little Girl, KaxsasCrry, Mo, Dee, 2 apretly I girl, after having maud journey across the occan ana haif across the American continent to marey her sweetheart, star turn howe this morning, th fuithless lover Mutual fr dted a corresponder between Mlie. Dubaute and Felix himan who came to this coun bouglit a ranch in Ollahoma 1is evi w s that the tive whom the clerk ssistance in ca on county toget hourd that theac »d on her vietim of hor nds st 1o Dunas, @ in 1800 T'h ut of tie never seen nade by the county day was st lo this must not be or the people. cted in Perfect Falrness. clerk has acted with perfect »m’ his view of the law. Lo has sanvassing board, and through it 1 the possession of the exact iscll and associate the canvass of the We must_ consider the ¢ ‘abstract made by the two jus. © peace as the one authorized by of the majority of the bourd and | 1 and ofticial returns to the of calvassers,of the vote of the in making 5 Lo mis. ind [ Lome- ts that the return t - another "Their 1 is minis mus rrer is overrul e court reconve > Vindeventer the state board has not | of the vote of the apparent and unau- duty to canvass the il and may be con- SUFFERING JALES. bled and Battered Vessels A York Harbor, Youk, Dec Every vessel ahat battered and storm tossed harbor tells of heavy seus The big French three days quarantine today. $She little resembled thit stately, well groomed levinthan that left | Havree on the 171h. Tee was on her in sheets and elusters of fantastic icicles hung all over the ship. Captain Torent, her commande suid it was one of the wildest voyages he had v experienced five in New after- W Lh creeps 1in the counsel for filed lutors, into this ales and treacherous e petition of the r 3ennett's petition it is argued b ilarly nominated and the s in eertifying to his no county clevl, In Chapn e allegitions are made, besides that he is not a citizen of States and, thevefore, ineligible line overdue, ¢ Normandie, nearly ne st ng into rer wias at once suying the state no authority to i A > fa candidate, that, therefore, it | The Fulda, which lefy fon that could not be considered | #1s0 had u tough time. L flooded, and one huge many docisions, | heavy port life hoat. to_show clearly that the courts The steamship 1 habit of declaring void the elee- | from Rotterdam December S e A wed coat of ice from stem Lo stern. wis taken to Thurse ior Jife boats was siished hen o decision on Several vessels arvived jrom South Ame crs will b ca, and all badly stormtosscd filed by A. C board of 1 ire into the Cenon Her wave December 4 decks weve smaushed b stterdam, which 10, siiled vovered Ly the demurrer handed down = — fits the ¢ DIED IN 1T5 MOTHE Wyo., 1x [Special Telo- e Bee—A large number of are in the city from the several Carbon county. They all report ttiemen. LRMY, Pathetic Incident at n Kailroad Kansns City, Kansas Ciry, Mo, Dece. old ¢hild of an emigant died in its mother's arms today. Depot at .~The 1l-days named Carl Valdo. t the union depot The child wis born at sea and could not partake of nourishment ¢ mother wits unaware of the infant’s death until | attention was ealled o it by a policems ¢ e D\ Lhe Whon she d o the babe was dead | ‘,“'fl"j"_ they will remain the bal- | FEe e Diviable, She and her husband ALt were absolutely penniless and had had no ved s Decision, breakfast, A subscription wis wade up for Wyo. Dec, 97 thewm among the people in the waiting room. s e 1 the dead By I'he bichy their s |0} T Sehalk, tion. The haby ticket fon Ro the lute snow sing, allowing their nge back from the \lof which are frozen up, is excellent grazing, Sheep rting their focks toward the des. storms, heing i bl arly ele mandamus casc candidate the Ay commissione to count the returns was argued today who reserved his decision sion of the suj on the in a might be © coroner 1o and they we Jenuings, Kus., the wais buried in potters fiel ssion of on a Ma v Scott Cuicaco, 1L, third annual Woodworkers ica w strong Thi proceedin Gireen of St Dee. 27 convent Delegates to the of the Machine International Union of Amer. ssion bere toduy, nearly 200 kK hleves. nt into Wyo., De Spocial By The vity has boen o with o into many 3 are presided over by John 1 i Louis, while the other offl present are General Viee sidents Frank Heacoo of Omaha, and rank Frank of Chicago, and General Secret ‘Thomas 1 Kidde of Chie: The veports pr Aistrict organizors show that the tion hus received many accessions Bership during the past year and ceedingly prosperous condi - New York Exch New Youx, Dee, 27 o Tur Bee. |~ Exchange wis quoted as follows : wade in the us- | Chicago, 70 to 80 cents premium ;. Bostou, par 25,000 pounds of | 1010 celts premium; St. Louls, par, infes! gang b no making u lavge haul he K puasser has been 0 Jess than half & dozen citizens i timized by usetes vurg- 1ts up 10 0. . i Ko sean Ashestos. | Wy, Dec Special ‘ele. ‘ Bee. | ~Atu depth of forty-five | 0 have brolke so8 5 el sented from the Leck s in an ex ¢ MeConuell Ashestos company id twelve inch seamn of gest slrike yet There arve ushiestos. NUMBER 191 for shiment v the-mown | CORHAM BETTS - ARRESTED One of the Lincoln Asylum Robbers Taken Into Oustody, : ' EXPRESSED NO SURPRISE AT BEING HELD e Seemed to Think the Whole Proceeding Was Regular of & Linc Peculiar I Wo Christmas Robbers, Laxcory, Neb., Dec toTue Bek. |- Gorham [ at Nebraska City today and brought to Lin- coln this evening by Deputy Sheriff Langs Betts was formerly o member of the coal firm of Betts & Weaver of this city, and el for some time o contract to supply the state insane asylum with coal. He is charged with having obtained money under false pretenses, and his arrest is the outs growth of the recent investigation by the rand jury. He expressed no surprise when placed under arrest, but said that since he had heard of the arvest of the other parties concerned in the asylum contracts he had expected to be gathered in himself. Up to this evening he had not suceeeded in secur- ing bail, but expected to before morning. A somewhat exciting episade oceurred in Lincoln yesterday afternoon, the facts of which were learned only by accident this evening. Yestorday being o general holiday most of the business houses were closed all day. Shortly after the noon hour Mrs, San- son, wife of the proprietor of the Colum- bian tailoring houso on O street, went to the store in gearch her husband. The door was locked, but she saw (wo strange men inside. She went up the front stairs of the block in which the store was located and then by descending i stairway she ling. She asked One of them Special Tolegram Ptts was arrested st ar N ingress to the by the men what they replied that they sont for & pacl and at the same time picked up a bundle of cloth and started for the door. Mrs. Sanderson intercepted him and he brutally steuck her in the face with his clenched fist and knocked her down. The curtains in front were down aud us the woman lay there in i dazed condition one of the fellows, with an oath, proposed that they take advantage of her defenscless sit- uation. By this time she had recovered and springing to ler feet she sccured a large pair of cutting shears and prepared to defend herself. Springing to the side of the win- dow she apparently La button in the wall. One of the men asked her what she had doue and she replicd that she had called the police. The ruse had the desired effect and the men decamped. The facts were not re ported to the police, Mr. Sanderson not car- ing for the publicity. wanted were \e, FATAL BURLIN 'ON WRECK. W Killed St Dec, in ke a Collision with Neb, B | Lircman ~ [Special Tele- incer Andrew Cume Baxter Goodrich, in locomotive attached to a gravel train, killed this afternoon six miles west of here. The engine was derailed by running over a number of horses. The fami- lies of the vicims reside at Red Cloud, from whence they recently The track was od by mid flic continued. TLE STEALING. were came, ht and tr; IRRESTED 1OR CA €L Hayes Pulled at Stoek in s Possesslon. Lotis, Mo., Dec, 27.—This morning C. 1L Hayes arrived at the National stock yards with ws of Texas eattle, which he turned over to the Western Live Stock Come- for disposal. Now he is at the Kast St. Louis ud will be called upon to answer a charge of cattle stealing. Mr. Suow, inspector for the Norhwest Texas Cattleraisers association, noticed that s of cattle which Huayes brought m were branded with the h this brand belonging only to the Conti- tal Cattle company procecded to in- ¢ the matte found that the ttle had been sold but the money had not n turned over to Mr. Hayes. He then sent for @ deputy sherif and” that worthy cscorted Hayes to the station ona charge of stealing tle, 25 Chicago with Stolen St nine mission company langzuishing in a cell police station Justice” Wilson held Hayes under bonds. Being unable to give the bond, Hayes was locked up. There were twenty-nine h one ste i tified belon of the association, DOCTORS IN SESSION, 1 of cattle and £ to members Meeting of the Western rickans and Gynes logists. KAxsas Crry, Mo, Dec The Western Society of Obstetricians and Gyneacologists. met in annual session here today, with fifty members present from states west of the Mississippi viver, The day was consumed in the reading of papers upon technical sub- ects, by Drs. Mitehell of Topeka, Kan.j Shreeves of Des Mo ; Sutherland of Hewvington, Kan.; Richmond of St. Joseph, Mo., and several loeal physicians, i doseph Price, the noted obstetrician from 1*hiladelphia. on his way to the Pacifle coust, Isstopping over to attend the society’s meeting, and will tomorrow perform. o delicate operation at the ity hospital which the members of the socicty will witness, Among other noted physicins present are Dr. T, H. Hawkins of Denver and J, E, Summers of Oy i ¥ of Obstet= - - BROKE ptortous ride JacksoN, Miss,, Dec. 27.—Brooks Story, the noted desperado, has at last succeeded in making his escape from the stute penitens tinry here. This is the fourth attempt, His last attempt was only o fow days ago, when in company with three other conviets he was discovered digging o hole under the prison walls, He was then placed in a cell on the ground floor and in ivons. Notwithstanding these precautions, he dug through his cel and, after stealing o gun and a supply of am- wunition, by the aid of a rope let himself down by the side he wills and_1s o free mnn Bloodhound ere put 1 the trace, Fe was put i the penitentiary for ten years for vobbing the express compiny at Durant cighteen months ago - JAIL, Mississippl Dospe: Colorado ors Meet. Colo., Dee. 27.~The State Allia nd Industrial union met and fere in session until late After the election of oficers lengthy resolutions were adopted, among them being the recommendation that the state should own the coal mines and the ferl- wation ditehes, and also that conviets be eme ployed in the cog tion of the ditches, Waoman suffrage was approved of, and the declurations of she Ocala and St. Louis puliforms reafiiviicd. The allisnce will coms plete its work Lomorrow. Dexven. Farmers hare today tonight L ey ! illed Wimselt, Ky, Dee. 27.--Louis Lovi of of Levi & Bosley, commission mer- at 165105 Kourth strect, and a widely kpown man, shot himself in the head this iorning, death following ine stantly. Melancholy brought on by the dan. gerons iliness of Lis wife is the only cause 50 £ 48 Jnown, TLovis the fir chants 1E