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STICKS 10 PANAMA to a fight betweqh MoKeighan and Thurston Jay Burrows sfid today that if Van Wyck entered the senatorial race he wonld alsoshy his castor into the same ring. Van Wyck is now east to look after a law suit that comes up in Genesce cuuwty, Now Yorl, about two weeks hence. WhHBA in Lincoln last Satur day he was askadrogarding his candidac, for the United States senate, and replied “One_campalim 1s quite sufficient in one year. The conditigps are not much changed since November? #nd the influences which secured the election of a republican governor then will probably be as powerful to return a republican now.f the corner of Ferty and Third | Hormann Eitz and wife and D. Dickinson were badly burned bullding ¢ stroots today Mrs. M PECULIAR ( ONTESTS 'CAUGHT IN A DEATH TRAP SONE -~ ENDED HIS TROURLES. of evicted tenants by Tandlords within nr y \ period of two or three days: County Mayo. Nine familles evicted from | | their cabins in the frightfully congested dis- y Nia trict of Bohaun, _All for rent arrears and all | in destitute condition with no means fo 3 future support fooN FIRST PAG | Gonnty Cork —District Inspector Langhorn [CONTINUED PROM FIRST PAGE.] and thirty armed policemen broke through the roof of the house of a respectable tenant, near Skibbercen, and evicted the family while the father and mother were both lying ill and a demented daughter roaming about the scene, singing. Three other tenants on the same estate ejected. County Monaganadad — Homestead of John McKenna on the Anketell Grove estate pulled down and razed to the earth and the | jivectieated the case and had decided that Company. | furniture broken in pleces by emergency ailroad should furnish the site for an men; 1 neighboring ‘tenant sent ator whenever Blair wanted it. The v seven days In jail for digging X matter was referred back to the secretaries meal of potatoes on his land. T Tor Sotion. wnother t In the Laurel in which the secre torn down taries recommended the erection of a depot County Captain _Crook at Laurel, a small station on the Chicago sherifl, with *of bailiffs and riflemen, | Gt Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha road, in | who had be all the week i Dixon county, the findings were approved, wholesale_se in various parts of the | apd g communication from the company stat | county, left uis at midnight _to seize the that the order would be obeyed, was tenants’ eattle on the notorious Bodic es f on Blo, of Colonel William Gallaghan. And so on sts. Bonton and Hill, the retiring mem from county to county and from day t0 day. | hors of the board, weve tendered @ vote of thanks for their services, The secretaries were requested to report the status of the warehouse business to Commissioner Humphrey for future action and the board adjourned. Lo Figaro Insists That America is Only Try- ing to Frighten France, ITS COMMENTS ON PROPOSED CONDITIONS | Many Chicago Firemen Badly Injured by an | (= o Explosion of Gas, ( » > Drs gram to Olay County Oitizens Airing a Number of 01d Oases, Peter Satter, the Wealthy nes Wie Murderer, Morses, Ta., Jan. 4. [Special Tele Tie Bee.|—Peter Sutter, the rvich old German favmer v rod his wife durin, last week rible tragedy today b the county Jail Des tion today, all the members being present But little business was transacted Tn the Broken Bow case, in_which Byron Blair petitioned for an elevator site, a com munication was read which stated that Blair had focted o lease of one of the elevators already built at Broken Bow and that therefore he was content to let the matter rest. The sccretaries had already NARROW ESCAPES FROM AN AWFUL FATE | WILLIAM M CLARK'S ~ STATEMEN1 e quar added to the ter committing suicide in Thinks the Best Thing to Do Is to Waita Confiemation of the Report—Ad- gos of the Europe Brave Work of € is After the fiovernor's Bounty. n R ning Their Comrades at Governor Crounsehas received 702 applica Fire In the B tions for appointyant to the various posi [ tions within his giff, and in many of the b8 tho claims of the applicants have been acked up by committees which have called upon him in person. The judicial training of the governor-elect has made the weighing of all matters a second nature to him and cvery visitor takes hope from this earnest con sideration that his elaim will bea lucky one. It is stated that the patronage at the governor's disposal will be' distributed by congressional districts Mr. Strickler, occurred at the Lindell this shows that even in the inde S th sweet bells of harmony are jingling allout of tune. C. H. Pirtle who'is making the fight of his life for the secrotaryship of the senate, hasall along been conscious that there was an under cur rent of opposition within the ranks of his own party. Enlisting the sympathy and sup and Their | Port of W.H. Dech, he started after the man who was quietly working against him and soon_uncarthed him in_ the per son of V. O. Strickler. The —words which followed made the atmosphere of the room of a strong bluish cast, and if words cut more than skin deep, somebody is feeling protty sore tofight and that some body is mot Dech, cither. In language a rreat deal more emphatic than polite, Dech admonished the little Omaha attorney to “remember that from this day forward and forever I will have my knife out for you. | will prove to the people of this state that you are not an independent, and 1 want it fef Sweente and Men He Requests the Co A Time w Yoars Pay for th Earned « Suceesstul Salary Several Ther were f same cage, and one razor to shave hims Sutter secur and, going nto a dark cell throat twice, half severing his head from his body. He staggered out whero | panions were and died i a few second ur prisoner th had < in the ment of & 1sed o Ago hy d this slashed his & House. Oppone (Copyrighted 1293 by James Gordon Rennett.] Pamis, Jan. 4 w York Herald Special to Tie Bee.]-—Figaro today es an article which is attracting con siderable attention. 1t first of all quotes tho Herald dispatehe announcing the conditions voon which Colombo might transfer to a thir y its right concerning the T anal and then goes on to say it has good grounds feving that the conditions cabled to | it ot the Furopean edition of the Herald have not ? et it L S Befors boon Drought to the notice of any per- | = VIRNSA, Jan. 4.—A passengel "_‘f” _f';"f' Sons hero having authority to accepgor re- | this city collided at Kanaizes today wit passenger train from Stublweissenburg S A . TRy Kanaizsa is a junction of the two lines and “Consequently,” 1t says, it would be U | g, oy, inear of the Vienna train, misunder dent to await a confirmation of this news Nine Thia sliciils, van av Mald speed on furnished by the Herald, for Americans are ttaole: kioad of tho Stuhivelsenbirse in the habit of Jetting loosc occasionally | frain, which was moving twenty miles an §n France a ballon d'essai. Sometimes | hour. In the crash the latter train ploughed i s to discourage us to complete | Lhrough three coaches filied with passengers. ourselves the work of the Panama canal | They were comyp ely pmolished. Eight | sengers were killed instantly, five sus. by threatening us with an imaginary com- | wed injuries of which they probably will potition, which is almost ridiculous, of the | and ten were wounded severely, but not Nicaragua canal; pe )8 also to test the | mortally chances of gotting a better bargain with Colombo by secing how our government s affected by the cnunciation of these hypothetical conditions. North Amer- feans aro very jealous of the Panama canal The great advantage the Iuropean com- pany has in the eyes of Colombo is its free- dom from the danger of the political situa- tion which would constantly threaten them in the case of the United States com- pany. We are quite sure the Colom- bian authorities will be very firm in opposing any conclusion by the United States of the terms announced in the Herald, In short, the conditions cabled by the New York Her- ald, “sont suspects, mais s'clles emanaient reallement de bomota clles devraient, etro Yobjet de fort expresses reserves.” With these words ends the Figaro article. Criicago, 11, Jan. 4 o'clock this afternoon a te natural gas wrecked the great printing Henneberry, on Dearborn dent occurred during th fire, and over a Chief Sweenio of seriously injured Short ribl before con Neb., Jan. 4 contost Cray Cexren Special to explosion ¢ He had probably contemplated suicide, as | TVE BEE.]—The Phelps partof the | ho oceupied the early momin in writing out | AK1SL Seifkin for the office of supervisor of establishment of Donoliue tatement concerning his property in- | Lele VPR, % tioel uing his friends of his_intention of bid ket ding them all farewell, One of the singulan DProgre ‘\l.r“ Y{h\ll features of the statement, which showed the firemen, {neluding | 610 man's insane love for money, was mer the fire department, were tion of the thought that his murdered wife's T'wo men are dying funeral oxpenses ought to be paid out of her List of Injured. own bank aceount. He made 1o confession of the former crime. RUSSELL, JAvES, fireman, burned about the 8 head and internal injuvies. Fatally injured. | '“': K ‘l""" Garracier, THomas, fiveman, SRR \lmost burned off. Lpel L, 4 Ward woere ar to dispose of stolon goods. oy had been ahout ity, A several undred dollar ity of dynamite. other burglar tools 1 The clothing has been | ®oods stolen from stor Luton Salix and Sloan in this lower sster township was decided yesterday in favor of the independent candidate, as first [ Tho recount of the *in the result. In the | caseof Clark, independent, against Epperson, | republican, for the oftice of county attorney, a stipulation was made botwesn the pattios that so far as this count is concerned they would each waive thoe right to introduce tes. timony and s unt of the ballots, each reserving the right of appeal on poiuts raised as to the legality of hallot So far have been canvassed with important changes Tho most interesting part of business has just come to light the filing of a bill agaiust t William M. Clark for 82 ilterest from Jamuary. 1597, to danuary, 155 s This term of office was filled by B. K\ ho tofice: 4 phad i | MeLoney who was elected as a vepublican i postoftices were TOLUOY “ue ) over M as i de t by about 800 ma- nfes blown at Luton and Salix at the time | P bt Sy o y:‘l‘l"".“‘"‘; EoNd "‘{'.”"""I""" A ‘4””" that Mr. McLoney was ineligiblo for tho juantity of stmps was found congealed in 150000 that he had only been a vesident of the liniug of Ofleary’s clothing, The men | yhiy giate from July 1 when he was elected will ‘be turned over tothe United States | 1\ ovember. Tt I8 now four vears since authorities. The police ave now gathering | N ovember. It ds Bow four vears s up alavgo quantity, of goods that the men | gy prosent contest mania aroso his title had liad already disposed of. o BN G e Tnstantly Killed, — 5 1608 CItY: T dat 2 S pse] Tele Sensational Developments Promised. AR Hastises, Neb., Jan. 4. [Special Tele- to Tk Bee.]—Mrs. J. M. N R : T N RO ESRMIAGTER gram to T Bee. | ~The petition of Edward ¥ { 4o, Milws W. Mason asking a divorce from his wifo Anna B. Mason and for the custody of tho two minor children was filed with the elerk of the district court today. The petition al lexes infidelity and names Delavan 8. Colo If one of those early Methodist preachers [ as the oter party. Cole, who was who were accustomed to proach the gospel | & well known wealthy = Hastings = citi- iR Ghes AR AAverAbLG zen, was found mysterionsly murdored under the most unfavorabl a hovel on August Land despite the cfforts of iid to audiences not the coroner’s jury and_oftiers, sufiicient evi for their mtellectuality, were to drop into | dence has not been collected to warrant an the First Mothodist chureh and wateh the | arrest. Mrs, Mason figured prominently be. revival in progress there, it is hard to say | fore the public as the supposed woman in whether he would be most surprised at the | the case and at the time the excitement was comfortable pews,the ornamented pulpit and | at its height. M. A. Hartigan, attorney for the magnificent pipe organ or the langu: the plaintiff, was Cole's counsel in his life of the preacher and the conduct of the cor £ time. gregation, The shouting and wild excite ment which chavacterized Methodist re vivals o generation or two ago have entively | OscEorA, Neb, disappeared, and in their place is o clear and | B Rising S simple exposition of the plan of salvation on | of Odd Fellows installed theirnew officers on UL i din bl (L0 Monday evening, the following well known R L e brethren representing the grand — officers, acting as installing_ oftice B. Moffet shown by the returns seore of ballots made no ct Skinne An incident evening that pendent ran Burglaes Caj dun, 4 Joln O'Leary ared. Special Tele- wnd Joo internal in ibmit the question on a1 Will but not juries and fac The following fatally burned DENNIS SWEENTE ont Ptk O'Maryey, fire marshal CHARLES SYFORDICK, captain truck No. 1 Joux MeDox ALy, captain company 10 Preperick J. Kaeo Mawtis Lacey, veeruit for 21 Pat Mureny, licutenant company 10 J. C. Latx, lieutenant insurauce patrol. Jons DNy, Marrnew Kocr, WILLIAM PADDON, Miciaks NoLas THOMAS NEVING Jony DEVLIN. 1. Kniuey, fireman Cranes Previxa, fireman, DwARD Kerensen, timekeeper. JOUN SHERNEY. pressman. AUGUST GNATT, pressman, CLINTON CLEVELAND, laborer. | Jous Farnati, laborer, | HENKY SCHRoEneR, laborer, i | | . while trying b 1t was found that the promises disclosed fine drills and 1 hehind a foundation identiied as part of sat Charter Oak. Oto, TS, were 1y, o) five townshiy ? yut developing any Bills Ready to Be Int Chane Lixcoy, Neb., Jan. 4.—[Special o gram to Tue Ber,]—It may be a relief to the general public to be informed that there are few people at the state hou re thinking of something aside from gne hope of office. For instance, a well known lady of this city was present today with the copy of a bill extending municipal suffrage to women alveady prepared, and a number of printed copies ready to place in the hands of the members as 8000 as Y | Ynderstood that if you are to be considered were ready to settle down to work. The | un judependent, then from this day forward bill w Mrs, Zara Wilson, a lady | { . who sl with Ada Bittenbender the d tinction of beinga practicing attorney be- fore the state_courts. She asks simply municipal suffrage, and in her canvass for support has addressed a letter to each of the members of both houses, mitted to Tue Bee reporter the replies already received were somewhat oura With but few exceptions, those who had the courtesy to reply put themselves on record as opposed to the bill In this connection the name of Senator | Corvell of Thayer county has been mentioned as o probable aavocate of the bill, but he as- sured Tk Bee reporter that he would not favor any measure looking toward woman house east of oduced chief of the fire depart AT OF the contoest however, by county’ by or salary and somo el i, captain company 21 it NEWS For wmM anges of Tmport n Regular Service Yesterday WasHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4.—[Special Tele gram to Tie Bee.]—The following army ders wore issued today A board of offcers is appointed to meet at Madison Barracks, N. Y., to consider the whole subject of the san ry condition of that post in connection with the recent epi- demic of typhoid fever, and report to the cretary of war what measures are neces. sary 1o establish Madison acks upon sound sanitary basis, and especially in re- spect to the supply of water. Detail for the board: Colonel Charles €. Bartlett, Ninth in fanty: Lieutenant Colonel George M. Stern- g, deputy sy by P. Miller, ussistant q “The junior member will record the proceed- ing: “The followitig changes in the Seventh cav alry are made: Second Lieutenant Willi I, Clark, from troop I to troop D; Second atenant Robert Sewell, from troop D to op 1. Second List of rge Strickler is not at all numerous around in dependent headquarters tonight. [UCK THEMSELVES, terprising Printers Get Into Through Sharp Dealing. Lixcory, Neb., Jan. 4.—[Special Telogram to Tur Bee.]—Timely action on the part of the State Priuting board this afternoon squelched a little scheme for muleting the state treasury of several thousand dollars UNKNOWN AN, employed by the Gas com- For years it has been the practice of the | pany. printing boavd to incorporate in the contract he explosion was in the plate suffrage. He stated that he had worked for | for printing the senate and house files | whichis located immediately Hu;i\l{'“~~;‘{”‘A\"y”"l‘».h';""- when '.‘.“".‘1.,"'; a provision to the effect that all | sidewalk, which is formed by heavy iron mitted totho peopleot the stato sever parts of pages and ‘“necessary blank | frames covered with glass and iron. During years ago, and that he regarded the verdict page. Il be charged for as full 1 ¢ AL St vy the present generation, ages” shall be charged as full | phe carly part of the afternoon three e | pages. This proviso contains the secret of | ployes of the Natural Gas company had | the extreme ansiety of the several printers | heen at work in this vault making connec- | of the state to sccure this particular con- | tions that were to be used in supplying the | tract, for an_exumination of the files for | hoiler plant with fucl. As a_precaution the | years back reveals the fact that the number | doors of the vault were closed | of pages upon which but one or two lines DI \ appear, as well asthe number of necessary 00y blank pages has always formed a prominent | Shortly before 3 o'clock Foreman . part of the work. (It requires but little | Granger of the press room, which adjoins mechanical ingenuity upon the part of the vault, noticed flames in theg vicinity of 2 Bl < ) R knowing printer to niake a page run over a brick wall which extended fbtween” the | that they are cffectual is shown by the e B e B (G few lines. press voon and vault. These flames had the | fact that the attendance s fucre ! e S he o et AT This year the agrepment for bids on this | appearauce of ignited gas that had escaped | Inz uightly, and “that - many - Bave | 357 jg e s etand treasurer and J. W class of work made no mention of the fact [ through the partition walls. Without wa Iready expressed the iutention o 0] Lt R [l A B ik, < W that pavts of pages or necessary blank pi ing to open the vault doors, the foreman | Christianlife. Last night Mr. Crane spoke ider, noble grand; Dr. S. O. Whaley, would be paid for at full pa gave an alarm of fire on the subject of “Iaith i I I’h he ~-mlix\ i W Mille RO contract was let to the printing houseof | When the foreman returned to the base- | imply believing that God will do what e | rasurer. Pace, Williams & North of thiscity at a | ment some one threw open the vault doors, | has said He will do. 1t isan act of the will | s price so far belowtall, other competitors that | Tnstantly there was an explosion and nearly | A8 18 repentance. Repentance consists in | FEeH L0 G niemoers and they expect many were surpriged; Other bidders, who | all the employes who were in the vicinity, | burning from eviland doing that which God | 780 FEATE S BN 107100 duiring the were not on to tho seheme, we: loss to | about ten in number, were thrown to (ol et SLAUR LU M R i know how the firm could get enough out of | floor, all sustaining more or less serious ']“‘”r‘;'il\ \l«v‘l‘j,“ Ll ‘ll" has promised '!\! SR e, e i baon e ol | s s After the workt, had been let 1o ©-2¢, | ware on the shot, headod by Ghief Swoenie Went Steigh Riding. Williams & Northi, ,the contract and bond | The squad of firemen rushed to the base- ) little boys, 7 and 10 years old, stole a | were prepared at thp office of the attorney- | ment and had no sooner reached the | horse and cutter day afternoon from general. — No_refgrence was made to parts | voult door than a second and stronger | William Bey, 1518 North Tiwenty-fifth strect, of pages being. paid for at full page | explosion followed, and all the | jng el B fid for 4 rates, The contruch,.even failed 1o | men twere hurled’ to the floor or | 2Rd enjoyed th Sl il specify that “necessary blank p: *should | jeross the room to the wall on the opposite | three hours. ‘The matter was pported and be charged up as full pages, but simply pro- | side, which they struck with terrifie fc tnight the elder of the pair, John Dia- vided that the work should' be paid for at | Several of the men were rondered sensele mond, was arrested and locked up for 1 the rate bid according to the advertisement. | and the flimes, which had ignited t incorrig, e Dinmond s a tou When the successful bidders examun A IBbHInG | T8 LEA BUHDIE! BAO S na TAcoaE Y| Phemrs and has caused his parents contract they at once noticed the st the most horrible manner. Other firemen | ADY amout of trouble. 1t is probable that he omission, und went to the attorney general’s | wers close behind them, however, and for a | Will be sent to the reform school. office to call attention to the oversight. They | fow minutes, the fire was left to take care of T were considerably taken back to learn that | jggelf while the injured men were reseucd. Caught Mr. Redd. For the last six wecks the police have there had been no oversight. The contract - jAnotheribeplosions been looking for a colored man named Will- had been drawn in due logal form, and i | 1othe s ect accordance with the terms of the ad- ~cfore onc-half the men had been taken | {1 "Redd and last night he was caug Vertisement which had guided the fivm In | out and while the bisement was full of men | 1 [edd and last night he was caught, making its bids. The printers begged and | working with desperation to save their help- | About six weeks ago Redd discovered |{eazetEbme D SUoR IO TN ToR postilated aud threatened, but the deputy | less comrades, came a third explosion, more | some furniture in a burn near Twentieth the bill will be Ay bt it will be | attorney gencral who dvew up the contract | terrific than either of its predecessors, and .mlv\\--.M-- streets .and proceedod to. sell it ie bill will be so drawn up that it will be | \v,5 obdurate, und he was backed in his | the would-be rescuers we aid beside the | to @ Cuming street second-hand dealer. almost impossible to evade its provisions. obstinacy by the attorney general himsclf. | men whom they had come to ussist. Tho | After the sale Redd sojourned for a while in Will Tax Telephones. f\ piece of obstinacy saved the state | already loosened iron work covering the | Towa, |n;( I|‘)”mlll‘“k]'\“h‘“r‘:“.‘ to \I':I \:‘ plll\ Jther project that hus alrendy assumed | many thousand dollars and taught cager | vault was torn from the fasteniug under the | ruins of the big fire and was promptly aianother project that hus isendy esumed | Didders for state printing thata time had | sidowalk. nabbed by a blue cout. The telephone. companics doing busiiass in | come at last when the interests of the people | ~ Fresh food for the gas was already at | b e 1 ey 1 tasation b the | should reecive consideration before the | hand, and u score of gallant firemen sprang Starte oar of Boualization. fuat ne the teles | wishes of prosperous publisiing houses would | into the vault to reseue the men who had e AdiaTiat i Aen O | be subserved by questionable transactions. | been injured. Undeterred by the danger of Fixed 1t to Sult. nother explosion and cheered on by ot tsed only i the Cities and the | . Oneof the contractors took the contrast | can work when their own lives and the lives state is ussessed only in tho elties, and the | o,y and several duys later brought it back | of others are trembling n the balance, Ono countios gavmono ot ishebonefil. Wk to the state housc properly signed upon | by‘one. the bumned. nd battored men were D T e o woel. | their part and stated. that it satisfac- | drageed from the basementand as the lasy | Dearances in the penitentiary cases here, state has liues diverging from Omaha to al- | (5py ¢ them, They informed the printing | one was gaken out Sweenie called supposed to be epidemic, ind cholera, most ove stern and southeast- | o004 that the original contract did not in N The examinations for bacteria are still in ern Nebraska, There ave hundreds of miles | clude a provision that former contracts had | Tiiere was a rush for the upper floor,which | complete. O L e O e, et ko [ always contained and said that they had | wasmado just in the nickof time, for a Commnw i, ulaw making the assessment of this | 1,0'fy insertod. The members of the board | Fouen explosion occurred. neaply 8 bid as s e 1y more equitible to the people of tho | yeeepted the cxplanation and signed the | the others. which gave Chief Sweente a | . HOLYOKE, Colo, Jan. 4.—[Special to Tun contracts, This afternoon they learned the | soq E Bre.) —Johu B, Cummins and Miss Amma through which the lines pass.” helopl | scorching. : significance of the interpolation. A meeting | *Cliior ¢ iie notified the Natural Gas | Hill were married here Sunday evening by of the board was held and the following | compuny to shut off the gas at once. In the | Rev. Father Towney, Mr, Cummins is clerk resolution adopted : meantinie he had his wounds partially | of the distriet court for this county and the He has apparently forgotten his position as [ Whereas. On the 13th duy of Decem! dressed, led his men into the hose attack on | bride is one of the most accomplished and | a member of congress and puts in his whole | the printi board of “the state ‘{" the five and made short work of it. The | amisble ladies of this city, formerly of time lobby or his election to tho United | braski ontered info u contract for great buding, however, had been badly | Curtis, Neb 4 I H on behalf of the state of Nebraska ) BEs ! S | s - v to Washiniton. States senat rnoon it was difl- | P50 Wintons & North for printing the | Strained and torn and every pane of gliss in - the American_ min- h fo und house fils of the twenty. | the building was broken. Itiwill cost 320,000 | PERSONAL PARAGEAPIIS, v visiting the United States | Bryan or third session of the legislature of the stute of | to repair the dumage done. hias urvived in London. dent that such oldtimers as Bill Nepraska: ind | There were usually about 800 people em- Fred Olmstead werc not in it with the suave | MWhewens, Said contract does rrespon ployed in the building, but there was no congressman who claims to represent the | With the conditions contined i the adver- | pyic among them. They were for the T Xy F tisement for bids for such printing, nor with + ) United States in the national legislature. I i MRy Ktrefore | part out of the building before the fi 7 the original draft of contract drawn, therefore A democratic ofticial said ftornoon: | ha it plosion took place, and none of them w ' 0 would show a great d more taste Resolved, T injured. The Jjured firemen were removed would confine his log rolling to his to neighboring drug stores, where temporar; relief was applied, and they were th fic moved to their houses or to hospitals, while crossing the tracks at a grade crossing this morning to home on Bacon ay uue and instantly killed - Mr. Crano's 1t 5 that SEEERD A. MrrLiase, labover. circumstances, always distinguished vault, LISH LINES, beneath the FAVORING ENG Chilian Companies Inclined to Discriminate Against the Uni ates, [Copyrtghted 193 by James Gordon Bennatt.) VaLearaiso, Ciili, (via Galveston, Tex.,) Jan. 4.—[By Cable to the New | York Herald—Special to Tug Bee.]—The Chilian and English companies running up the coast to Panama have notified shippers that after February 1no goods to or from New York will be granted through bills of lading by way of the Pacific Mail line This action benefits the English lines through Magellan straits, who expect to do a Jargely increased-business by way of Liver- ool Domingo Gana will shortly be sent as Chilian minister to Argentine in pl Senor Guerrero, who will resign. Chili has purchased a 4,000-ton armored cruiser from | the Armstrongs, and a 930-ton torpedo vessel built for Turkey by Green of London. Tho contracts for the purchase of the vessels have Jbeen confirmed in secret session by congress. Senor Ewires, Paraguayan minister at Montevideo, has published a demal of the ptory of an alliance between Paraguay and Chill. Uruguay is suffering from o drouth. L Paxama, (via G ton, Te: . [By Mexican Cable to the New York Her ~Special to Tie Bek|—Advices osta Rica say the b en that country N been reopened and there is a prospect of war between the two countries in consequence. A body of Costa Rican soldic possession of territory claimed by Nic and Costa Rica has conve an ultimatum which the latter country is not disposed to agree with. She is preparing to defend her rights and the outlook is | grave. STRIKING utenant Charles G nfantry, is d iled of the ing board convened at Fort Myer, ce Second Lieutenant Henry D, hird artillery itenant Colonel dwin V. \th cavalry, is detained as a_member of the army rof hoard at Washington barracks, vi Colenel Guy v Henry, Seventh ¢ relieved The ' boards of ofticers convened at the aces and by the orders specified for the examination of ofticers to determine their Dwyer, For a County Assess Among the important bills already pared for presentation in the senate at earliest favorable opportunity is one provid- ing for the clection of a county assessor. It will be his dut X the asscssed valwition of ull the real cstate in the county and to appoint deputies to asscss the personal property subject to regulations laid down by himself. He is to hold his oftice for a term of two years the sume as the other county ofilcers, but the deputies are to be appointed fitness _for promotion dissolved, viz: | each yoar, The author of the bill believes rt Custer, Mont.: Fort Leavenworth, | that his plan will doaway with the unequal an.; Fort Assiniboine, Mont.: Fort | assessmeuts so frequently complained of in Leavenworth, Kun. every county in the state. [ALeave of absence for one month with per- | Another revenue billlikely to be p mission to apply foran extension is granted | carly in the session is the time-hon Sccond Lieutenant George . French, | familiar bill providing for the taxation of all Fourth infantr) property at_its actual valuation. Its feu- ccond Lientenant Ellwood W. Evans, | tures are so familiar und its advantages and Eighth cavalry, now onleave of absence, will | defects have bey 1 50 frequently that proceed to Fort Myer, Va., and report in | comment is unn, person to the commanding oficer of that | The bank te will come in for ssignment to temporary duty with | their full shareof attention. Speaking of troop I, Eighth cavalry. the subject o well known memberssaid today : The leave of absence granted C: “Inotice by the report of the proceedings of Clarence A, Steadman, Ninth cavalr the recent meoting of the’State Bankers tended fifteen day : ociation as printed ‘W’ Twe Bee that The retirement from active service of [ two years ago when the independ- | Colonel Rodney Smith, assistant paymaster | ent legislature was in session tho general, is announced. Colonel Smith will | Bankers association thought it best proceed to his home. The superintendent of | not to hold its annual convention for fear the recruiting service will cause thirty re- | that its deliberations would attract too much its at Columbus Barracks, O, to be as- | attention and have a tendency to provoke signed to the third artillery and fory unfavorable legislation. So instead of a cou- to the Department of the East. vention they appointed a well kuown banker from Seward to take churge of a_burcau in this city and the exccutive council reported ith no little satisfaction that the work of the uhad been very suceessful in warding off vorablelegislation. You may be assured that the present logislature will endeavor to enact some needed legislution in regard to ol Odd Fellows. . 4.—[Special to T i lodge Independent Order pre Ose the Sumner. od the Fire. rtation to personal saviour. methods are approciated and Robert, | ented red and Clay County Agricultur Cray Cexter, Neb., Jan. 4.—[Special Tue Bee]—The Clay County cultural society held its annual meeting here yester- day in theeourt room, and in connection conduc orn_exhibit. Quite a nice dis- s play of corn was brought in. The following wepe elected as officers of the soclety for the cnsuing year: President, B, W. Camp- bell; first vice president, B. H. Duna; asurer, W.J. Gardiner: secretary, W. B Swith; géneral superintendent, 1. 11, Dunn Annual Election of Ofcers, < Frevost. Neb., Jan. 4.—[Special to T Bre.]—At the annual meetiug of the Fre- mont Brewing company the following officers were clected for the ensuing ) Johu Dern, president ; John M. Diels, dent >, Larson, treasurer Moore, secretary ; directors, John Dérn, L. . Lart shin M. Diels, 8. F. Human, Oswald Tw ptain yeste is ex- prolonged received At Southampton—Arrived New York for Bremen. At Fastnet—Passed York for Liverpool At Copenhugen—Arrived—Polaria, New York At Lizard—Passed—Iilinois and Pennsyl- vania, from Philadelphia for Antwerp Penland, from New York for 4 Havel, from “Teutonic, from New from ire at € Corox. b., Jan, 4.—[Spe T Bee.]—The home of Mrs, one mile north of Colon, was | fire this morning. Searcely wved of the houschold - effeets and clothing. The origin of the fire is_ supposed to | been a defective pipe. Aid will be given by the nefghbors until she can for the future ful Telegram to Geony i, des anyth was iV . MAN MINERS. At Delaware Cape— 2 Princess, from Liverpool for Phi and Creato Man At New York—Arrived--W s from Antwerp; Wemar from Sothnia, from Livi ; Stubbenhuk, from ; 1o Hamburic: Veendam, from Rotterds Xeen anxiety in the Saar district, where the | At Philadeiphia Arved Bt striking miners and leaders hdve madea | from London and Swansen desperate attempt to save their cause by e spreading terror and threatening open con- ARWFOBTRIT flict. In Putlingen this morning 200 strikers raided houses of the men who had refused to join them, dragged out and beat several, | and smashed the windows. In Forbach a mob, starting out with a similar purpose, was stopped for a moment by a priest, who begged them to be r frozen 10 denth. able and not inflict punishment on the v Hamburg still ingmen for trying to support their families, | PLice fol ie priest spoke against anarchists and then a shower of stones fell avound him. The | mob made a rush for him, but he saved him- self by running away. The mob broke a few windows, beat two miners who had refused to quit and dispersc At the pit numbers of men are still work- ing and mining ofticials have becn in constant | _danger of being killed. Muny of the strik ara armed with revolvers and a fow with vi- fles, and they have been fiving recklessly in “the neighborhood of the pits A mecting of 5,000 strike meor Suar-Louis. Five men and three women delivered violent harrangues, After | - the meeting broke up the mob_divided into three bodies singing the Marseilles and hoot- ing at everybody respectable looking. @hey Become Riotous Disturk Jan. 4.—This has been a day of | Arkansas Cholern Cases, Rock, Avk., Jan, 4.—Dr. I D. Ged ding, past assistant the United States marine hospital service, in conversa tion with an Associated press reporter to- day, denied emphatically that he has ever said as hus been reported abroad, thatap- | Ben surgeon of King, 5 Forged a ¥ Canony, Neb., Jan, 4.—[Special T to Tue Bee, | —S. 1. Malone Kansas a fow days sinc small checks, to which name of Walt Nutter, o living near Budicott. He was d today, and, waiving examination, was committed to Jjail to await the convening of the district court, RDAY, sgram came here from and cashed tw he forged the Foreig The Berlin correspondent of the Times says that two fresh cases of cholera were reported in Hamburg. A dispateh from Retehitza, on the Di 3 snys that fifteen men were killed by o ming | explosion ther 3 wtinues to suffer from the cold Near Cronstadt, Russia, several soldiers were Must Answer u Serlous Charge, Rusuvinue, Neb, Jan. 4.—(Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee|—lda Burwell, a givl | about 16 living six miles west of here, today filed an information with County Judge Bullock charging John L. Wood, u young man about 15 years of age, with illegal par entage. The hearing will be had tomorrow There was no busier man among the lobby- continues ists in the senate than Congressman Bryan new 10 be a breeding cases and deaths 892 and with of Spain signea smission of the duke of Almodovar del Valley s minist Hon, Robert T | ister, who has Iy on leave of absenc Miss Way Philip 11 been united i England. 1t s weh additional information has heen seeured in the. Pan canil ¢ and it arrests will be made in o day Mr, I, S. Pott, traveling cago Tribune, is in the city. AR T 1, editor of the Leader, is in the city enroute cas Ir. T. S. Armstron litor of (Neb.) Gazette, was a caller at L yesterday Charles A. Althaus - left for Atchison, Kun Miners Crushed to De te Afternoon SepaLIA, Mo., Jun 4.—A horrible mining | My and Mrs, A, W. Cr tastrophe occurred in a coal mine within | 111, ave visiting their pare the city limits this afternoon, Seven mi | Wiltiam Stadelmann, av 14 were at work in the y-foot level when | . the slate roof commenced to fall, Stonewall Juckson was pinned down by the falling slato and the other miners ran to his rescue, when the timbers gave way, and George Brown, Senator Paddock is ut the Morcer. He is | the leader of the rescuers, was instantly | one of the leading stockholders in the Omaha kilied by threo tons of rock fallig on, his. | Streer Railway company and attended o Theothers were more or less seriously in- | yeeting of the divectors yesterday. jured, A falliug timber crushed the lives | 1y Sl States Marshal Hepfinger Police Go to Paciile dunction o out of Jackson and Brown. The most sevi- | | B 00 L Taasany, LD seent. ously injured are Elijah Fines and Isaac | JEHTERS ORI s T A Detective Viand a6d Officer Russell went | Haynes, © e bodies of the two dead miners | 4o \woeks ago upon a churge of stéaling and to Pacific Junction'yesterday for the purpose | haVe not been recovered dlsposing of stolen catle of identifying a colored man supposed to be Henry Jitner, treasurer of . iza Joe Williams, When the oficers reached | Brooxriy city hud | and Tridors oxclunge, ueto puniod by his | o action was takou E the junction the man -had gone to Platts Jother disastrous ive tonight in which o | Wife and childron foave fodty Tora WnEEHs lp— mouth and was followed, He was overtaken | block of frame buildings bounded by Broad- | Siit b NEFOS B T M nd. duother at . there proved ' td be George Timpson, a dart and Lawton streets, was almost | Atlanta, Ga. fricnd of Williams, who dr considera- ;l:;:x;n;: swept away, entailing a loss of At the Mercer HiA f ¢ like the murddfds. The police returned | #200, ; Shines, J. 3 ncoou s, New 5 bly ko tho musdgfer, The police returmed oseps H. Ryan, dealer in furniture and | York: 5. N, Kline, Toledo, 0. ; James McCoy, have one or two of the independent districy | empty handed, adit tmpressl arpets was the ownerof most of the build- | Wisconsin; J. 1. Byers, Chicago; J. It judges of the stato here during each woelc of | Tt s | the gefdil impression carieie s Bliogurqgeal oy o5 b U | Wisconsini 4. B Byare, Luleuoi the logislature aud Judges 5. Novilleof North | the police —wipfon = thot, ine nd thoie contenis at $I0.00. - M | Tslind’ M. A. Brown, Kearney atte, Bush of Beatric of Madison, | i paneg | 8 ¥ d : Caroline Skillmun, the owner of 1 T AoRE. Tan. 4.=<(Spalul T Bates of York and Wheeler of Polk will be | Omaha and is bein (Keld by colored people buildings lost $20,000; J. A. Dani '|‘|A:\>NM?-|- i ()mlzll‘l f |‘;. i familiar figures here during the next. three | The reason for this' i that so wany colored | o0 ML Sl ok, Insurance small. Blocker, Hotel Bartholdi “lords and their tenants. The settlemeuts | furred nugrogates. $480.000. Sevoral small ““’“"“:fl ""f"“‘“'h"“‘"‘ “""I‘""i""w and iv {""'ll"“‘ ;“I ‘”'\{,‘.‘l';,’;‘y:l“"“‘l askwhal rowan L N ey C. Kerr, Hoffn 3 B Py oy 1. W 0 it that they are v harges | 15 offered for Willia A Fita dent on the 3 Y s IRRRSH hiaiant abous (heough the good | aloms aro licluded, : against, certain ofioials gh in authority | Very naturally the police infer that some | By Crry, Mich., dan. 4 ! ummtnl good feeling of landlords and ten- I‘\'p«::’lr'lnilI:A]Ib::||.:::)‘::-dlll¥| siaguo .-n'.!"}‘,f,; '.-'rfikvi that will come up for investigation later on, | one iu town knows the negro's whereabouts | g i bgcangor . Buts, Even upon the Olphert estate, of | Luving been rescuod by yho steameor Ason, was | The republicans propose to have Chester | and is willing to turn him over to the author- Benriful momorics, sottlaments had boen | owned by the Hess Ol Oif vomans o Bita | Norton sworn in as s member of. the house | ities if there is money~ enough in it. So far I & aid there was 3" prospect thiat the | Puis: Pa: and when the appropriation bill passes he | 1o reward is offered. If the man is in town peos) Ruilroad men and shippers are ploased over | will go down and draw his pay. He will be | the detectives or police will surely get him ,evicted tenants would bereinstated. Never- | the prospect of tho Unfted States retaliating | sworn in ou the strength of the ruling of the | and if anybody is concealing * Williams theless, Dillon informed the commission that | against Canada for her discrimination. The | supreme court. hoping to gev a reward and it is found out ‘there were thousands of evicted tenants “whose condition was 80 pitiable and desperate Indebtedness. [Spevint to Tun amount, Nebraska's Mortgug Fresoxr, Neb,, Jan Ber.] - Farm £28,006; rel d city mort £24,081.72; relensed, #3: amount, 223 Chattel mortgages filed, 135 005,04 3 peleased amount, hes, 1ot correspond agent of the Chi Cheyenne Juor 1sed, the Butte Town 2 B of id contract is hereby can- vaside: and ms & North be ntri that nditio to a new b ch contract. colled, anniiled That Pace, Wi enter into n new with the terms and Dids, and enter performunce of as held today in this city. He is making vespoctal crats very weary with his public exhi- bition of the tactics of the common lobby- ists.” An independent member of the senate also | " A comparison 0T the contract signed by sid: “Bryan is winaing neither the re- | yhe hoard with the carbou copy of orizinal spoct nor the support of the independents by | on filo in the ofiice of attorney general shows his prominenca in the lobby.” that the second page had been taken und Congressman McKeighan s equally keen | nouen one prepared on paper of similar for support on his ambition to represcnt. the | uillity and tixtire, The stylo of the iy pe ple of Nebraska in the senate, but he | coppesponded with the original but_thero seems to show much more consideration for | e many insceuracios easily detected by the people of the state and the offce he | gy one who took the ‘trouble to make the holds than his younger and more unsophisti- | comparison cated colleague. 1t is suggested that pe Naps it is McKeighan's groatest strength as a candidate that fmpells Bryan to forget the dignity of his position and dispute with the men who are after the janitorship and simi- | lar places for the attention of the members of the senate. Noother candidate for the same shows the eagerness or persistence displayed every day on the floor of both houses by the junior member from Nebraska. Will Have Thelr Own udge: The independents are profiting by perienceof two years ugo when the somewhat for want of good legul advice is deficiency will not exist during this ngements have boen made to Ishmen iclously on o the Sandwieh islands continue ve in their vors o native mind against the United requir Moo | Vinder n New Name. NEWMAN (iovE, Neb., Jan. 4.—[Special to | e Bee)—The New Era today changed hands, R, Pryor_and son buying the entiro printing outiit e paper will receive an- other name, and Theodore O, o the faithfu to attend school The outgoing of Lord coming of Mr. Gladstone's administeation his All the speakers denounced with special | badly upsct (he plans and policies of England sirulence the clergy, who have incurred the | In the niaticr of state nld (0 emigrants. hatred of the auarchists by counselling mod- | At meeting of the directors of the Boston eration. tion resolution wis At Endorserf tho strikers have asked tho | hevnf 1400w for s i relatos e he D mayor to propose to the mineowners for | of silver bullion, them a compromise. Tho Standard’s ¥ Reports from Saar-Tuis tonight are to the | that n rumor effect that despite the bombast of the lead- | Clemen ers and the apparent responsiveness of the | With the P cmen, tho strike is weakening. The strik- | hasnot ) Ang miners are sufiering keenly from the The pope has been unusually feritated by soverity of the weather and the expected “:\”mlli-llnil»‘::lr|n~v||l;‘r.-p;:-fru“‘?‘.‘,‘p.-nuu muneio contribution from Englund, France und | redand hid secured | Belgium have not come in. As the men were | wmission, says a Rowe ¢ unprepared for the strike, they must cither return o work soon or starve Salsbu and the in- wford of ts, Mr. and Mrs South Twenty- for formerly traveling vep Max Moyer & Co., is now traveling in Texas and ladian itory for | Rothenburg & Schloss - adopted v for Veteran 1 The veteran firemen Chief Galli bt and ident, s Oflcors. held o meeting in in the city hall lasy following officers: fivst vice president, ident, Juling Cl Houry K h Brown) rls correspondent was current in Paris that M. u had been arrested in tion ma canal scandal. rumor on contirmed. an's oftice clected the Max Moyoer M. Carr; second vice pre corresponding sec finuncinl secreta les Coffnun appointed chairman of of five on national organization an firemen. Other matte in- the Builders | ing to the organization were brought up, but e IT WASN'T WILLIAMS. i Th a False Adviees from Nicholls ure to the eff that that port is crowded with disabled sels, five being there at present undergoing r pairs of damages received during the re heuvy gales. Muny of the vessels men lost by beinig washed from the decks by lieavy seis. IRELAND'S E D TENANTS, Br. Dillon Makes an Earnest Behalf. DunLiy, Jan. 4. —The evicted tenants' com- mission resumed its session today. M. Dillon made an earnest plea in behalf of the peinstatement of ovieted tenants and pro- “duced statistics showing thut a number of settlements had been made through their ex- suffered Plea o Their Domestic, Rogers, an 11-year-old toin a quarrel, has quitted of murder by a PItsbirg, Pa., jury Swallpox his broken out among the convie the Unlte 4 penitentiar Me N sl Al persons vace ‘the plan of campaign between the laud- V. B. Thayer, a jeweler of Memphls, Tenn., has mide un assignment. The amount pre- GaLyEsTON, Tex., 4 il from Laredo to the News says: Deputy Marshal CGiuerera who escaped from the bundits sev- eral d now in the city, He says most of the bandits are from Mexico, They have organized on i regular military basis and are conducting their campaign in‘a war: like ma They say they ure determined to fight at any time anybody who interferes with them, and Uncle Sam’s boys must give them @ wide berth ssed Weaver, Giles Stewart boy whio | Killed a pls f been ue- s since is around Williams or near il hivve been the this morning section hand was fatally hed and se re shightly in- jured. A section rattled and opeued the switch when the train came up, thus derailing it. Highest of all in Leavening Power.-— Latest U. S, Gov't Report, i ARTELTIY o fimckad agtiuss e, Causdian Tp to the present time thirty-two rooms at | trouble witl follow SRR b canatitltod & menace. to tho pubiic the Capital hotel have been occupied by the , and he wgently advised that meas- tory. \‘um' be adopted for their relief, both on the ground of humanity and public security. + " Dillon also spoke severely of those land- _ lords who are apparently endeavoring to em- “Jarrass the government by merviless 4 tions at this severe season. i)lllun stated 0 b the +total amount received from all for the support of evicted teants . the plan of cam m was £284,000. ' recent issue of the chester Guard- r, W. O'Brien gave the folowini 1ist The supreme courtof Pennsylvanla has de- clded that the Blue luws of that state are in force ut the present time and hus sustained the decision of the lower court in the case of Thomas Matthows of the Pittsburg Sunday Leader, convicted of publishing a paper on thiv Sabbath. A comwittee appolnted by the locomotive englnoers of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Vo and the manugement of that road has ur- rauged @ new schedule for the coming year. This coutalns but few clauses not fed In the agrecment which bas effect two yeats Just past direction of the lobby and charged up to the railroad account, Plax the Seuntorisl Fight, It is a fact, known o a few on the inside, that two state oficials narrowly escaped in: dictment at the hands of the grand jury re- cently in session here, and that one of them only dodged it by two votes, In discussing the senatorial fight, Senator Paddock’s friends claim that the issue will finally come between him and MeKeighan, while others assert that it will nacrow down Stole Two Watchos. Some time Monday uafternoona thief en- tered a residence at Twenty-sixth and Hamil- ton sireets und stole two watches, one a handsome gold timepiece set with dia- monds, and the other a cheap one. He be- came frightened after leaving the house and ought back the more expensive one, Oficer Keysor loeated the thief yesterday afternoon and got back the rergaining watch. He proved to be a young bo¥ and he may not be prosecuted. Wreck on the Balthnore & Ohio, PIrrsBukaG, ,Jan. .—Two work trains on the Baltimore & Ohio near Buena Vista, Pa., this afte large number of cars were demolished wreck took fire and all the cars were sumed. Engineer Kune and Perregay were slightly hurt by jumping. noon and a The on- Wrecked by the Explosion of Gas. Twoy, N. Y., Jan. 4.—An explosion of leak ing illuminating gas wrecked the four-story oad came together Conductor Roal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURB