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jore than #85 per month. There are a num- v of amendments making changes in the phraseology, but not affecting the bill. The ris stric! out are the ones over which here has been so much contention and con- troversy. No Maximum Rate No Charter, This morning when the report came up Babeock moved that it be adopted and the charter advanced to third reading. This motions aroused the independents, and in an excited manner Dysart took the floor and uncovered the plans of the populists. He stated that the maximum rate bill had been passed by the house and was ready to come 0 the senate, The independents had no ob goctions to the Omaha charter, but they vould insist that after the charter measure the maximum rate bill should be considercd 1f one was to be advanced to third reading without action of the committee ob the whole the other should be treated the same Jie claimed that, although Omaha was town, the interests of Nebraska were gre: than those of Omaha. The independents b decided to hold up the charter until the hublicans agreed to assist them in plac he maximum rate bill on_its third reading. They had the strength to do this, because it swould take a two-thirds vote to take a bill krmm its place on the general file. Stumped the Doug nators. The discussion which followed was lengthy and animated. The two senators from Doug- gus county were confronted with a responsi- bility they had not expected to be called pon to assume, and both made strenuous |efforts to_secure favorable action on the charter without expressing their intentions §n_regard to the maximum freight rate bill ‘" Lobeck made an carnest appeal to the in- @cpendents to treat Omaha with justice and fairness, He asserted that he was will- gng to do what was right on the railroad bill and asserted that he was ready to vote on hat bill. He insisted that the independents stand up to the rack and do their duty, as he was willing to do his. Babcock explained that the failure of the charter would work an irreparable injury to the city of Omaha. Its failure would ‘put a stop to all works of improvement. It would stop paving and grading and throw thous- tnnds of men out of employment at the begin- "!-lng of the season, | Kead £wo Bee Editorials. i He read to the senate the editorial in ‘Bure this morning in ird to the charter and said that the editorial reflected the sen- | timents of Omaha in the matter. The argu- ments of the two Douglas county senators had a telling effect on the minds of the inde- r-ndvnm senators. Johnson said that he had poen promised by republican senators that Yhe independents should receive fair treat- ment when they wanted it to advance the imaximum rate bill. Gray was still inclined {20 hold out. He also r 1y editorial from Tuk Bee of this morning in which republican enators were admomshed to do their duty {nud assist in the passage of the maximum Sreight rate bill Advanced to Third Reading, 1 Finally, at a few minutes before |wote was reached. Twenty-six senators voted to advance the charter toa third read- ing, while but four or five of the independ- ents held to their previously adopted policy |of obstruction. The senate then adjourned until 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, | The house spent the forenoon session in committec of the whole and at noon ad- Journed until 2 o’clock Monday afternoon. noon, a IN THE HOUSE. Resolutions to Investigate the Institute for Feeble Minded—Other Business. LiNcoLy, Neb., March 11.—[Special to Tz Bee.]—Seventy-four members were in their seats this morning when Speaker Gaftin ealled the house to of The reading of the journal was dispensed with, and a large number were excused until Monday. On motion of Jensen the house agroed to adjourn 'at noon until 2oclock Monday afternoon. I Scott calied up his resolution of yesteeday, providing that no sifting committee be ap- pointed, and moved its adoption. \ McKesson moved that the resolution be Jaid on the table, but could muster only ineteen votes to his support. Action on the "vsolutlon was deferred. I Merrick offered a resolution directing the ommittee on public lands and buildings to F';su the Institute for the Feeble Minded at Beatrice to ascertain whether or not that in- stitution was in need of more land. v The resolution was adopted after naving (been amended by Keckley soas to instruct |the committee to employ an expert account- nt and stenographer and take evidence in gard to how the appropriation of two years go had been expended. Grew Patriotic. ¥ The house then took a patriotic streak and appropriated $50 to be used in purchasing wo flags to be araped behind the speaker’s esk. One of the flags is to be the national lcolor, and the other the standard of Ne- raska. Stevens offered a resolution directing the peaker to appoint a committee of three vhose duty it should be “to employ counsel 0 collect any moneys due to the state by cason of the failure of the late state treas- rer to pay over to the presert state treas- jurer the amount of money collected in 1889, 890, 1891 and 1892, At Stevens’ request the resolution was aid over until next Tuesday. ‘The house then resolved itself into a com- ittee of the whole for the consideration lof bills on the general file, with Higgins in he chair. The following bills were con- ideres 2 Bills Considered. No. 130, by Ricketts, to provide that all ersons shall be entitled to the same civil rights, to punish all persons for violation of ts provisions, to repeal sections 517 and 318, mown as chapter viii, Civil Rights, consoli- dated statutes of Nebraska of 1891, as here- tofore existiug, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act. The committee voted to substi tute senate file No. 34 for the bill, as it con- tained the same provisions. ! No. 82, by Crane, to amend section 823 of jthe code of civil procedure, being section {4844 of the comsolidated statutes of Ne- (braska, and to repeal said original section. | The bill was recommended to pass. No. 459, by Oakley, the amended Lincoln city charter. The committee rose without reaching any conclusions on the bill and then the house adjourned until 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. South Omaha Afuirs, ‘The political pot has begun to bubble. Among those mentioned for mayor are Ed Jehnston, Frank P. Broadwell, John Schultz, W. B. Cheek, J. D. Jones and Acting Mayor Walters. ‘Tierney, the man bound over by Judge Fowler some time ago for taking lecherous liberties with little givls on the ice, tried in district court, found guilty und sen- tenced to $100 fiue and costs. During the past winter the Women's Re- Yief Corps has visited an average of ten fam- ilies u week, relieving their necessities and nursing the sick. These ministrations have not been confined to the families of soldiers. The oficers are: President, Mary A. MeDougul ; senior vice presi s. Lottie Anderson junior vice president, Miss Emma Harding; secretary, Mrs. May M. Cress treasurer, Miss Elevia Harding. —— WEATHER FORE It Wil Be Falr and Pleasant Throughout Nebraska Todny, ‘Wasmixaroy, D. O, March 11.—Forec for Sunday: For Nebraska winds shifting to northern portion. For Towa—Fair, westerly v For South Dakota—G ly fair, vari- able winds; warmer in western portion, colder in eastern portions Sunday morning Loeal Record. Orrice or THE WEATHER Bue Onmana, March 11 —Omaha record of temperature uud rainfall, compared with corresponding day of past four years: st Generally fair, southerly, warmer nds. 1803 \perature, 452 Aniniun tomperature.. 332 vernge tempurature 402 392 182 40 Precipitation.... 0000 04 T Statement showing the condition of tem- perature and precipita day and sinco March 1, 1503 [ormal teniperatare. xeess for the day. ... o since March 1............. iommnl preeipltation Donrian y for tho day 100 08 tnch Deficioncy since March 1........ 00 inch . G. E. Lawron, Observer. 1892, 1891 092 2 192 1 1890, 453 342 62 atdnsoad: <O T 04 inel u at Omaha for the | TRAVELS IN FOREICN LANDS Wakeman's Interesting Glimpses of Life on the Continent. TRIP ACROSS THE ISLAND OF CUBA Lowly Galiclan Shrines European Poasantry—Havana € Forelgn Rallroad T 1 Where Guard Bribery is Untversal, - Contentm [Copyrighted, 1892.] LoNpoN, Jan. 80, —[Correspondence of Tir Bie.)—If Melrose abbey, the Mecea of all American tourists in Scotland, furnishes examples of art nearly as bewitching as the most delicate expressions of nature ltself, Dryburgh abbey, but four miles distant down the Tweed, holds and fascinates the wan- derer with a far more tender and subtle charm. The founding of Dryburgh is of remoter antiquity than even that of the original Culdee housc of Old Melrose, Before the advent of Christian mission- aries the place was resorted to by the Druids for the celebration of their mystic rites—as Darachbrauch or burgh, *the bank-cluster of 1 oaks,” Dryburgh's Celtic name, im- Modan, a Culdee presbyter, set up Christian establishment of Dry- | 3. For 628 years thereafter its at. The monks from under the patronage of Sir Hugh of Scotland here a 1 histor insignific Alnwick { de Morville, constable | King David 1., founded tentian abbey of splendid dimensions. This was burned along with Melrose abbey by Edward 11, and restored by aid granted by King Robert the Bruee. in 1355 and 1554, it was pillaged and ed by the English. The reforma- tion of doughty John Knox sixteen years later did the rest. The ruins of Dryburgh abbey show thav the walls of the completed edifice stood on different levels, and that the structure illustrated at least four different styles of architecture. This is seen in the massive Roman arch with its ample, square sides; the deep splayed and always impres- sive Saxon arch, and the early English pointed arch. The church originally in the form of a cross with short transepts, and a small but exquisitely decorated choir while the interior was divided by light and wraceful colonnades into a central space and side aisles Of the transepts a portion of but one, the north, called St. Mary's aisle, 18 still stand- but there is a no more beautiful spe men of the early Gothic to be found in Scotland than in this, the solemn and se- cluded burial place of Scotia’s greatest mins- trel, the noble author of “‘Waverley.” The chapter house, a tiny chapel of ‘St. Modan and a Norman arch which formed the western doorway are yet standing. A stately ) over 800 years old, casts its somber shade upon the liwn, opposite where once the abbots sat at their casements to mock the huge pile of stone as it crumbles into the earth u feel more than is under onstra- youcan seeat Dry . The whole place is instinet with re The horizon is clc not a half-mile any direction. It is fringed th the boughs and verdure of sheltering trees, suve where, far to the south, the weird Eildon hills of wizard renown peer down from above their cloud-mists into the sunny copse. 'The Tweed, moving in silence for miles above, circling here sweeps wide and grand] r gleaming shallows and sings its endless song just at the end of the olden abbey ground: You como to the place through a hushed and silent avenue, ankle deep in th oring- time with hawthorn blossoms white uas snow. In the graying days their place is filled by the browns and puces of rustling drift from the beech, elm and sycamore. Ouly the lodge-keeper's habitation remind: of earthly activitic Nature alone hold: sway. Bloom and birds, grasses and vines, odor and song, russet walls and emerald masses of moss, oriels of ivy, fillets of vines, pointed arches of roses, towers of trees leaping from the old walls themselves, reach the eye and sense tenderly, slumberously, pulsing with hush and baim, Melrose exalts. Dryburgh soothes. The entire spot is ruin merged into Elysium, hal- lowed by one humble grave. And so sweet and hushed is all that even your reverence for the ever silent disappears; for you feel that your mighty friead lies here as on the bosom of the d he so loved and immortal- ized and that Scott only sleeps while sweetly all nature songs to him are sung. The cafes and foudas (or eating houses, for the latter are equally resorted to) are resting places of the gay city of Havana. Their number and patronage are remarkable, They are all wide open to the street, the year round. One fancies they are almost a of it, as frequently more than one-half the cafe is underneath lon wide, huge-pillared porticos. Here chattering crowds by day and brilliant crowds by night, under the flare of lamps in great, century-old metal frames, never cease cigarette smoking, gin and wine drinking; although all_ liquors, however frequently ordered, are used in sparing quuntities. And between the shrill cries of the dulceros or confection peddlers, the hoarse importunities of the lottery ticket mobs, the ever minor music of the wandering street minstrels and the number- less sounds of a marvelously gay but never brutal and more than half oriental city life, the “click, click, click?" of the universal and never silent dominoes upon the marble tables, come to you as an understood staccato of myriads of unseen castinets. If your own wanderings ever lead you to Gibraltar, to Barcelona or to Marseilles upon the Mediterranean coast, do not fail to engage passage in one of the pretty steam- ers which ply between this city and the slumberous port of Palma in the little Span- ish isle of Majorica. It is quainter than Spain, more Moorish than Algie and its pleasant folk are the most hospitable 1 all the world. Ay to its half ruined ancient monastery of Valdemusa and the wild and marvelous north st _scenery are alone worth a trip to the islaud. With as magniticent and far more class surroundings as those of Vallombrosa in Italy, a mountain chasm is bridged by the ancient pile in so extraordinary and pictur- esque a4 way as to seem a4t a distance iike a gray old cloud-kissed nest that has for ages defied decay und the battling of the aerial tempests there, But the gray of real decay is upon all things at Valdemusa; in the gray old church and endless cells and cloisters; in the gray old houses that nestle along the mountain side beneath it; and in the gray old folk that haunt the spot like wraiths of those who once were there, An indescribable saduess lingers about this splendid Majorican relic of monkish times and days. ‘The rich of Palma come here in summer and live a gay mock-conventual life, George Sand, half a century ago, passed the most dolorous winter of her life within these walls. With her was Chopin. Perhaps within these very cloisters was born the wild and inexpressible melancholy of the melodic creations of the master’s later life. To me Valdemusa will remain more a memory of these two strange, sad souls, than merely a crumbling, desertéd and majestic monastic relic upon the island mountains, T have passed the greater portion of the last seven years among the peasantry of Europe. Not only has this association be with the lowly upon the road beside their shrines; at public fountains where the back- breaking loads ure drawn; among the men and maid servants of great hotels and little | inns; with the veriest clods in flelds and Vineyards; among the shepherds of the mountains and plains; and with this manner of folk from the cabins of Shetland to the huts of Apulia into which shines the sun | from across the Tonian s and I think that the honest thing to besaid about these people is that there is general content among them, 1t 13 difficult for Americans to understand this, for it is inconceivable to us how we | could be thus contented. When you get | ¢lose to the European peasant you will find | that it is equally as dificult for nim to c | ceive of any other condition than that in which he exists. To illustrate. In any half hour's ride by rail through Bavar youare certain to whiz past some pr une and sce a Bavarian peasant driving cart to which are a little heifer and a course woman, As they Ston near your pass- ing train, you will notice t the heifer is the only animal chafing under its yoke, for the woman looks up and smiles and " the male removes his pipe for u hearty laugh. They are simple, childish folk, one and all, content in their sovere labor; satisfied with their, to us, niggadly recompense; loving the very earth they dig with unutterable llfl«'“un. huppy in” the few holidays the year brings about; patient under the tithing of king and church while proud that the one protocts and the other shrives: and quite diant, at the end, to Iny aside tha working clothe. of the sodden days behind for the promised finery of the eternal holiday be- yond Nowhere elso in Europe can be seen stich a variety and wealth of roadside shrines as in Austrian Galicia, I the 2,000 or 8,000 miles of its great stone roads a huge wooden or stone crucifix, or a tiny brick or stone shrine, may be found on the average at the distance of evory half an English mile. Most of the itixes are of wood hewn out of beech or onken logs. Whether of wood or stone, as if from some great burden, every one leans, and this very leaning lends 'u strangely sugges- tive sadness and loneliness to the landscape. They are most frequent in districts near- est the Carpathians which form the Hun- garian boundary. The Ruthenian peasants being of Russian stock are all Greek Catho- lics, and the Polish Galacians are without exception Roman Catholics, They are equally pious, and_ you can, never pass cruciix or shrine without witnessing a group of both in rapt devotion, many of whom are grovel- ing prostrate upon the earth before the icred reminders of Calvary. At Whitsun- tide one will sec crowds of these simple and pious devotees crawling upon all fours, while trailing huge wooden from their necks and shouldors, around every roadside shrine in all Galicia After one gets over the first flush of re- bellious resentment at the system, there is a good deal of grim humor to be got out of con tinental raiiway travel. You will find the same little carriages as in England, compris- ine from four to six compartments, each holding eight people in the first and second, and ten persons in_the third class compart ments. In Bavaria the re even fourth cluss cars, or car . principally for use in time of war. They are all marked: “To contain ten horses or thirty-six men.” Except in France, Italy and Spain, the servie hout equal to that in Bogland Oue has personally to see his luggaze in the Iuggage van, and not_only give trinkgeld or pourboir to it labeleid but to have it put on board. While the monarch of the train, the guard, cannot take money for u fare, he would accept a bribe from anybody for any and even an officer of the line thinks it quite the proper thing to pay tribute to should he desire to occupy an en- compartment The guard bribery is universal. I recently saw a train of thirteen carriages capable of accommodating 450 people move out ef Co- logne with but thirty-seven passengers, who had in this manner purchased almost exclu- sive compartment accommodations, upwards of 100 persons having been left behind at the station. The most serious opposition to the general introduction of modern sleeping conches for night service comes from these bribers and bribed. A five-mark or a fiv franc piece, or less, slipped into the hand of a night train's guard will secure an entire compartment, or an entive side of one, for your individual use, and is far preferable to a berth in the vile little four-compartment sleeping coach which has lately crept into service, where the guard, conductor and porter in one_insists at all hours of the night on your purchase of bad viands and worse wines In will be found the most grotesque offieialism, but the best coaches and the prettiest railway stations in all the world. The government wholly conducts all German railway lines, Every employe, even the waiters at the station dining rooms, has been a German soldier and the entire regime is military. Iach st has a captain in a red cap and goi uniform. The station guards and porters are also uni- formed, with dark blue caps. When a train halts the captain and his station guards will be found drawn up inline in front of the main entrance. The train guard alights and salutes the station captain, who with his men return this salute, when the loading and unloading of luggage is begun. As far as convenience of arrangement, cleanliness and comfort are concerned, the German railway station is immeasurably superior to the old board hovels called depots along most American lines, They are mnva models of neatness, tidiness and comfort. They are not infrequently the prettiest structures to be seen during an entire day's travel. They always have a lovely bit of lawn about them, in which are often fountains, flowers and’ tidy hedges, Man vered by ivyor ereeping and flowering vines. wers in windows and in lawn plats are always in view of the tived passengers. And nearly all are supplied with chimes of bells; not clanging, jangling, wrangling bells, but voiwceful, melodic bells, which—when the train guard has taken a whistle from his belt, blown upon it thrice and again saluted the station master and men—seem to say as you move away : Well—good—by ! Then—good—by !— Friends—good—by ! In the brief trip across Cuba by rail the traveler is furnished abundaut material for observation and reflection. Wherever your train may halt, in pours a dismal troop of beggars, lottery ticket sellers, dulceros, with all manner of sickening sweets of which the Cuban ladies buy freely and eat vora iously, and peddlers of glow worms and beetles, guava, green cocounuts and fresh cheese similar to the German scheerkase. If one alights for refreshment another savage herd of ‘“eros” with all sorts of edibles and refescas are to be battled with; and if a meal at a cafe is taken you are un- blushingly charged with from $1 to & in gold. But all these aunoyances a naught when one considers the giori tropical panorama provided in this trip across the island. The loneliness of the northern coastwise country disappears on leaying Matanzas and of” u sudden your train is whirling through a veritable nature's garden. Great orange groves are as common as pine woods in- Maine. Vast pineapple plantations fill the space botween, Here the view sweeps across river, valley and vast reaches of cane grounds, the last “cuttings being hurried to the massive and groaning machinery with the splendid villas behind, the whole surrounded by stately cocon trees and the lordly palm. There, for miles, strewches another valley, a plain of puce and yellow where the *‘last cut” of tobacco is being piled by the operavios upon the cujes or curing racks, or carried from these before the dew falls at 3 o'clock, to the great casas de tabacas, where are other noble houses, palms and fruits and flowers untellable. Here and there are ranches and herds like the shining-horned hosts of Camaguay, with mounted vanqueros and monteros and their wonderful dogs, in pic- turesque groups, with the great palmetto- vallisaded corralies for the “round-ups™ and agai by these porticoed houses and quintas, like palaces. Upon every stream, at the mouth of flower- embedded canons, or' set like brown gypsies upon mountain side, are the poor guajiros' lm-thatched cabins. And everywhere are i luxuriance in soil and forest, vine and flower, that when you reach the splendid city of Cienfuegos he shadows fall, and the moonbeams begin to dance upon its matchless b one feels as though the day had be jon of some dresmland isle where the weird in men and the glowing in nature have blended in magical spell with indescribable bloom and song. EpGAR L. WAKEMAN, or Immense Quantity of tho White Motal Stored-nv the Philadelphis Mint. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 11.—The coffers of the United States mint hotd the largest amount of bar silver ever stored in one mint in the United States. The quantity of 101,- 000,000 ounces, or fully enough with the usual alloy to make no less than 150,000,000 silver dollars. The vaultage of the mint is said to be unexceled in this country, yet the steel-walled treasury holders ave filled to overflowing and the bullion is being received from the government at the rate of 3,800,000 ounges a month. Besides this amount there are in the separate vaults 10,000,000 i coined silver. The seal on the door has not been broken for two years. All the avail- able storage having been utlized, it has been found necessary to have another steel tined vault constructed for the sole purpose of stormg the bullion. The new vault is about ten feet from the floor to the ceiling, about eight feet wide and - thirty- fivo feet long. It was completed yesterday, and it wili be filled on Monday with silver piled clear up to the ceiling. This new storage vault will contain about 20,000,000 ounces, and at the rate it 1s ming in it will be filled within less than six months. The construction of another of these immense storage places for silver is a ssity if the purchase of silver continues. his condition of affairs is far beyond all precedent in the history of the miat. Pre- vious to 1800 it was a rare event to have stored within the walls of the mint more than a swgle 1,000,000 ounces of bullion, — v SCHOOL JANITORS ~ ESCAPE Another Effort 'fo.rRednoo Their Salaries Was Throttled. e MR. BURGESS SPRUNG A LITTLE SCHE.IE t it Did Not ‘Work--Appropriations for Grading and New Schools A of the Proposed alos. Another Discussi The Board of Education seems to be ina pesuliar box. It has been conceeded by nearly all the members that the present schedule of janitors' salaries s extravagant in ocomparison with that paia for similar ices in other cities of similar size, and yet about half the members of the board seem to be afraid to make an aggressive move in the divection of reduction. Alter | sort of mounkey and parrot time v the matter for half an hour I night tho whole business was postponed until the next regular mecting, Vice President Akin presided, and Senator W. N. Babcock was present for the first time since the legislature bogan the present sc sion, Mr. Elgutter on the school construction. He said building the Sarat entitled to a payment of tractors putting up the West Omaha_build ing were entitled to #2837, He offered a resolution that these amounts be allowed, which was adopted _ Mr. Smyth of the committec on judic fary submitted a report upon the request of “the city council calling for the funding of ‘a part of the expressn mse funds onaccount of a change the ordinance reducing the license It was the opinion of the judiciary commit- tee that the board had no legal right to divert the funds arising from expressmen’s licenses for the purpose of paying back a part of the funds collected immediately prior 10 the passage of the ordinance reducing the nnual license from $10 to . The matter was laid over. a some estimates in course of the contractors school — wore 07, and the con- presented houses New School Builaings, Mr. Elgutter of the committee on build- ings and_property recommended that the grading of the Hickory site be let to I. C. Jackson & Bros. at 113 cents per cubic yard. The grading will cost about $2,585, as there are 22,000 cubic yards of earth to be removed to get them down to grade. One of the deepest cuts in Omaha s that on Sixth street where it crosses Hickory, and the Hickory school is lecated at the intersection of these two streets, I'hereport of the com- mittee was adopted The committee also recommended that the old buildings be removed and that the archi- tect be instructed to draw plans for right-room building on the Hickery street ite. Adopted The board decided to purchase two lots | diagonally across the street frow the present Long school site at #0,000. Upon these lots | the new Long school will be erected. The architect was instructed to prepare plans and specifications for the new Long school house, which will be an eighi-room buildin The committee on buildings and property recommended that the contractors on the Central school be;, given permission to sub- stitute the bestquality of Lake Superior brown stone for the Colorado sand stone for the reason that thé Colorado sand stone cannot be procurefl without considerable de- ay. The recommendation was adopted ‘The board then took another tw at the rules, which have'boen in a half-baked con- dition for a month ormore. The section pertaining to janitors’ salaries came in for a full share of discussion. Discussing Junitors' Sularies, Mr. Burgess, chafrman of the committee on rules, read a proposed schedule which he said had been submtrted by “Mr. Fleutter. Mr. Burgess did ngt submit this schedule as a report or a recommendation from the committee. Ho said he was opposed to this schedule. but in ordey to_get it before the board he moved its adoption. Mr. Smyth called Mr. Burgess down by asking him why he submitted a schedule that was not a part of the committee’s re- port. “As T understand it,” said Mr. Smyth, “the chairman of the committee on rules is now supposed to be reading a report of his committee, and if this schedule is not a part of the report then he has no right to present iv at this time.” It really looked as though Mr. Burgess was desirous of dragging in_the new schedule simply to get it killed off, The president held that Mr. Smith's ob- Jection was well taken. If it were not a part of the committee's report the chairman certainly had no right to present it while reading the report. Dr. Du said the proposed schedule had never been before the committee on rules and it could not, therefore, be a part of the committee's report. Sly Mr. Burgess Has Another. Seeing that he could not ge* the Elgutter schedule before the board to be slaughtered, Mr. Burgess withdrew his motion and said his report was ended, He then offered a resolution to adopt another schedule of Janitors' sal- aries, which he read. He said it would save about #5,000 as against the present. It was a split between the old schedule and that proposed by Mr. Elgutter, for the latter would save about 0,000 per annum. A pretty fight was sprung right here. Five members of the board seemed to be in favor of the Burgess schedule, and five were op- posed to pussing upon the matter withour further consideration. It was moved to refer the proposed schedule to the committee on rules. This wais opposed by the friends of the Burgess schedule, They wanted the matter settled then and there. Mr. Smyuh held that under the rules the mattermust lay overatleast two we The motion to refer failed, and after some fur- ther discussion Presiaent Akin declared the resolution introduced by Mr. Burgess out of order. The board adjourned with the wage ques- tion still hanging in the balauce, and the janitors are therefore still on the anxious seat. ARE BEHIND THE BARS, Two of the Men Implicated in the Stock Trouble Under Arrest. CueveNNE, - Wyo.,, March 11, Telegram to Tue Bre.]—Two of the men charged with helping in the assassination of George A. Wellmai, & deputy United S marshal in Johnsor county, during the stock trouble last spring, are behind tne b Clayton Cruse surrendered to the state authorities at Buffalo. Henry Smith is in the county jail hege, He was captured in the Indian territory by Sam Moses, whose home is at Hot Spbings, S. D. Moses has been following his mau three months. Tom Hathaway, the man with Wellman at the time the [atter wasshot in the back, swore that the men he saw behind them were Smith, Crus nd i, Starr. Larr is still at large, but is clesgly pursuea. The trio were among the mest desperate of the thieves and outlaws who caused the trouble in the north. Cruse surrendered to the authorities, hoping for a trial in Johuson county amoug friendsi He must answer before the UnitedrStates Cheyenne court. He says he can prove an alibi. Smith says he was near the scene of the lalling at the time, but had nothing to do with it. Well- man had for years been foreman of the Hill ranch, owned by H. A Blair and others of Chicago. At the time of the invasion he left. When he went back it was with a commission as deputy United States marshal in his pocket and with papers to serve. ‘Word was sent from Cheyenne that he was coming and they killed him on the road. Wellman, who was a fine young fellow and as brave as a lion, had been married but ten days when he was murdered e Proffered Ald from Bank HeLesa, Mont., March 11 —President Knuight, of the Helena Associated banks, to- day tendered $500,000 in gola coin to the sec- retary of the treasury in exchange for legal tenders. Prrrssuga, Pa., March 11,—The First Na- tional bank of Pittsburg today telegraphed the secretary of the treasury offering to | tions for that period ive $100,000 gold for currency provided the exchange were made without cost to the bank. The secretary declined the offer unless the bank would pay the charges for shipping the gold t the subtreasury and bringing out the cur rency. As the exchange would not in any way benefit the bank and was made only to agsist in doveloping & movement on the part of the national banks to turn over to the government a portion of tho gold held in their reserve, the bank did not think they should be called to bear any share of the ox- pense. o Y— CLEAWING STREETS. I T, Clarke Roasts t Vogue. ‘There are about twenty men working down in an alley between Farnam and ney and Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, suid Mr. Henry T, Clarke to a representa tive of Tue Bee pesterday afternoon. “They are o thick in that alley that they are in ench other's way, and to what purpose! The claim that the cellars of the business houses are in danger of being flooded is all bosh. I'ne alleys will not thaw out for a month yet, and if they did the overflow would not be enough to do any damage, as most of the accumulation in the alloys is dirt and rub- bish that | been swept from the stores. Then if there is danger let the authorities cut a trench down the middle of the all T one on each sid off the v as it melts and save the the frozen mass out “1 am not opposed to cleaning the alleys by any means, but [ protest against putting the cntire force of the street commissioner at this work while the main strects ave in the disgraceful condition that they are at present. Farnam street has not had a decent crossing until the past few days and will not have them long unless somoething is done toward removing the piles of filth and rub. bish that have accumulated during the win ter. Around the Board of Trade building, for instance, the dirt and filth are heaped up several fectand the ice that has melted dur- ing the warm days has simply formed stink ing pools of water and s allowed to stand there and rot the paving. Let the streot foree get at some of these prominent ners and clean the wud away so that the ice when it does melt can run away. ““Then there s another plice that disgrace to the city. The water mud on the south end of the street viaduet make it ulmost impos- sible for a man to gev to the cable or motor cars without having to walk half way the length of the viaduct. The mud hasnot been cleaned from the viaduct all winter, although I have called the attention of the authorities, from the mayor down, to the matter more than ouce. Between the mud and filth and the gang of impudent express and baggemer. who block the exit from the depot, u visit to the depot is attended by a great deal of inconvenience and no little dan- ger. Something should be done in this mut- ter and that at once.” dai T KANSAS LEGISLATURE. systom Now is a and Tenth 1t is Almost Ready to Adjourn—I Bills Kan,, March 11.—The two branches of the legislature have decided to business at 10 o'clock Wednesday night, but the large amount of clerical to prepare the bills and r y possibly prevent an adjournment sine > before Thursday. The I gislature during the last ten days of its session, disposed of an amount of busi Two weeks ago not one bill had become u law. A large mujority of these bills are of local interest only. Among the laws of a general character enacted ave the following: The | cludes the Dunsmor pportant Torexa cense 0 work necessary cords has, enormous ative appropriation bill,which in- exper incurred by Populist 's house, £80,000; World's faiv, ap- propriating £65,000 for the Kansas exhibit at Chicago; senate resolution, submitting the suffrage amendment to the constitution to the people. Bill prohibiting contracts for the payment of wages in gold; bill appropriuting £.000 for experi- menting in the destruction of chinch bugs; bill appropriating $10.000 for the preserva: tion of the public health against an epidemic of cholera; bill compelling corporations, ex- cept railroads, to pay their empioyes weekly the Australian ballot bill, and a bill appro: priating $11,000 for_the payment of a bounty on the sugar manufactared within the state, The chairman of the ways and means com- mittee, has given out the following figures, the correction of which is challenged by Senator Parker and others The total ap- iation for the bienn period, ending exclusive of deficiency appro- 10,242: deficiency appropria- ) £350,000;" total appro- priation for the biennial period enaing June 30, 1805, including deficien ] The deficiency this year, Senator Rogers savs, will be about half what it was the past two years. priations, e e ECHOES FROM SLAVERY DAYS. On Tuesday Missourl Will Witness the Pub- lic Sale of a Negro Vagrant. Kaxnsas Crry, Mo., March 11.—A special to the times from I"ayette, Mo., say Next week Howard county will wiwness the sec- ond sale of a vagrant negro within her bord- ers since the war. The victim on this oc- casion is George Winn, On Tuesday nexty March 14, at the south front door of the court hovse, between the hours of § o'clock mn the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the after- noov, he will be sold at pubtic auction for ash in hand for a term of six months to tne highest bidder. Judge Boyd McCrary will most likely be the auctioneer on this oc- asion. The first public sale of negroes took placo here Monday, March 28, 1892, The sule was advertised and caused much comment pro and con. During the national election last full, the republicans of Chillicothe, Mo., told the negroes that if the democr hould get in power they would sell all the negroes back into slavery. They cited the sale of the negroes here and the result was that the republicans rried the day by a large majority. ——— NOT AFFECTING OTHER ROADS, Strike of the Ann Arbor Engineers Not Having an Influence Elsewhere, New Yonk, March 11.—The strike of the engineers of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan has Lot as yet made itself felt on the railways running into this city. Trains are moving on time. Nevertheless the officers of the roads which terminate in New Yorlk are watching with great interest the devel- opment of the trouble in Toledo. They recognize that a strike on only a single road not properly managed, involve a r. No one, howev fears an extension. Tral; Running Regularly Owosso, Mich,, March 11.—The Toledo & Ann Avbor strike situation is unchanged and everything is quiet here. Passenger trains continue to run regularly, but few freights are on the move. Won by the strikers. Cuicago, Tll, March 11.—The linemen's strike at the World's fair buildings endod today, the 250 strikers being conceded their 1, 8715 cents an hour. They had been veceiviug 31 cents. e ‘Went Ashore in a Fog. New York, March 1L.—The British steamer Wells City, Captain Squage, of the Bristol City line, which sailed from Bristol February 21 and Swansea on the 23d, went ashore 10 fog, broalside on, at Seabright, N.J.at 7 o'clock this evening. Both the life saving crews of Monmouth Beach and Seabright are at work at present and the passengers and crew are being rescued. A heavy sea is running, with wind from the southeast, Fourtoen of the crew were landed. een of the crew still will be safely taken off. sengers on poard. It required but a few moments to shoot another line out to the steamer, and an hour later the entire crew was landed. 1t fs doubtful if the ship can be saved. ot Pl Holdiers Lose Thelr Camp Equipage. Ankaxsas Ciry, Kan.Marcn 11.—This after- noon at 2 o'clock the tents and other camp equipage. of Captain Forbush's troop of the Ffith United States cavalry,which is in camp on the Mge five miles south of this city, was enttvely cousumed by fire. The guns, ammuni- Eight- remain on board, but There are no pas- tion and c'othing of the entire troop wore also consumed. A roquisition was sont in for new supplies. Tywenty-five boomoers wore removed from the strip today by the troops, some of whom | claimed’to be moving through to Oklahoma | Fire Record. | ST. PAvt, Minn., March 11.~Farly this morning fire was discovered in the rear of the Kansas City machine shops, South St Paul, which resulted in about 822,000 loss The building, machinery and five engines were damaged considerably. Al loss is « cred by insur How the fire originated i aystery result of the fire 150 | men are out of work Durvr, M nn., March 11.-~The handsom framoe residonco of Mrs, Harry H. Bell, cor ner of Second stroet and Sixth avi | was destroyed by fire this morning | home was built ‘several years ago at a cost of §65,000. Two servants and the childron vere the only occupants of the house at the | time the five broke out. Al escaped. It is | thought tho fire started from a grate in the | library. Insurance on residence, $30,000; | on furniture, § | Msinnis | ernor Boyd Not Responsible. Ex-Governor Boyd said toa Bre reporter | vesterday afternoon that he was not re sponsible either dircetly or indivectly for | the article about the sceretary of agriculture | which appeared_in the Chicago Dispatch of the 24 inst. “Neitherdid I cver use such langunge to & ‘prominent politician’ or othe | personin - Washington, Chicago or else where,” said the governor. “Further, there was matter in that article that 1 neve heard of until T sasw it in print. And fur ther, I am not responsible for the seathing wrticle which appeared in the New York Sun of the 7th inst. " - D Sa— Ashland Cat O Closod AsuLaxn, Neb,, Maveh 11.—(Special T am to T Bre. ] —One span of the B, & M railroad bridge at this place went out this afternoon. No. 2 going cast had crossed the bridge about fifteen minutes before the span went out. The Rock Island teain which fol lowed the B. & M. train closely was com | pelled to back to Ashland as the brilge was unsafe. The trains woing cast and west he tween Omaha and Lincoln ave compelled to zo around by Plattsmouth. The Union Pacitic and Rock Island tr, ave to run over the B. & M. line on_account of its bridges being out at South Bend, St et LOCAL BREVITLES, Mr. Matt Gering of Plattsmouth talked to the Jacksonian club astevening on the issue of the day The Philome at the First Friday evening. The Board of Public Works 10 o'clock tomorrow twenty inspectors The force of men engaged in flushing str s began last night at Sixteenth Farnam and worked north on’ Sixteenth, The rite of coufirmation will be adminis. tered in All Saints chureh this Bishop Worthinzton will preach, service 7:30 o'clock David Bennison of the firm Bros. is erecting a fine residenc Twenty-ninth swect, just north of worth. It will cost about £12,000. The musical entertainment for the ben of the poor will be given at Creighton Col lege hali Tuesday ovening under the au spices of the St. Vincent de Paul associa- tion Mr. Frank R. Roberson will give his lee- ture on India at Young Men's Christiau association hall Thursday evening under the auspices of the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor, Rev. W. Franklin Smith, pastor of the Pirst Universalist church, has resigned Action relative to the selection of his su sor will_be taken at the close of the rvice this morning. A grading contractor engaged in removing earth scattered by his teams on Tiwenty-fourth street between Farnam and St. Mary's avenue had a force of seven teams and twenty ren employed in the work. Miss Blanche Cox, staff captain of the Sal vation Army, who has had a varied experi- ence 1n army life in England, India and Can- ada, wi ak at the bareacks this morning, afternoon and evening and Monday oveuing On Tuesday evening she will lectare at tne ISountze Memorial church on “*Slumdom and Shelter Lafe.” “The citizens in that section kuown as Gibson have senv Mayor Bemis i protest against the practice of the South Omaba stocs vards dumping its offal in Gibson aud then setting fire to1t. A similar complaint was made o year ago, and t tock Yards company was ordered by the Board of Health to carky its garbage a mile further on. The B. & M. track was ex tended 900 feet, but during the winter the offal has been dumped at~ the old dumpi ground. i quartet will give a concert Congregational church next will morning to meet at appoint the and evening hour of of T on South Leaven ol gular terday of the city Ty IR PERSONAL PARAGRAPIHS, D. B. Gurney of Yankton, 8. ., is in the cit, 15 M. Correll and wife of Hebron seen upon the streets yesterday. 12, Faulkner, # large grain dealer of North Platte, was in the ity yesterday. L. H. Wygant, father of Alex Wygant, day clerk at the Murray, will visit with his son a few days and then’ go to Denver, where an- othier son resides. Theodore Weber siness man of Ne- braskea City and a member of the city coun- cil, made a eall upon his many Omaha friends yesterday. W. V. Irwin, for many years manager of the men's furnishings in o leading dry goods e, has taken charge of Browning, King & Co.8 furnishings. . Newton Wind, editor of the Missi Lumberman, Minucapolis, arrived iy to attend the state convention of s, which meets in Omaha next Tues- were inpi lished a reputation as a apan and will k on i tour, do and travel cast . Kuene received announcing the death of M grandmother in Wisconsin, M mother left yesterday afternoon to be present at the fundral. State Senator Churles Clarke, who has been so seriously ill at his hom in' this city for the past menth,is muci unproved in health, but will hardly be alle to take any further part in the legislative work for the present session. At the Murray: A Lindsay, J. L. Hinc Sifrit, Dayton, O.; B. Kalmbs, Gaby fant, Duvis, Chicago; W. S, ). Waldberger, M. ; Switzerland; W. 8. Forrest and wife, Chi- r0; A. Van Derberg, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; 1. George Mahan, Now York. At the Mercer n Euger, New York; J.'W. Buchanan, Chicago; Robert . Wood: sou. Lonis W t. Louis; J. Newion Wind, Minne ' Lapp, Chicago; J E. Finney, Salem, O.;" M. . Anderson, Alron, O3 W. M. "Robinson, IT. M. Wilc Portland, Ore.; J. H. Anderson, i, 1. Sioux City; H. H. Wallace, Tekamah, ywell and — wife, Fremont; Katharine: Abbott, Lincoln; J. B. Aveline, North Platte . Faulkuer, Schuyler; Frank Baughman, Rock Island ; Frank™ Reynolds, Florence; W. R. Alling, Chicago; George Schuessler, Kogers; H. H. Parker, Grecly Centre. New Yokk, March 11 4l Telegram eturer leave He on India, Omaha this will open in a telegram yos- Kuene's Kuene C. A. Palmer, Chicago; , New York; O. A H W Galls, nnison | BUSY DROWNING HIS WOES Jim Hall Soaking His Sorrow in All Sorts of New Orloans Liquor, TO® FULL TO NAVIGATE LAST NIGHT awlle Mitehell, 'Squire Abingdon and the Austealian Falnting the Crescent City. A Beautiful Celmson- Fltzsime- mons Walting for the Purse, New Onueans, March 11.--Hall, Mitchett, Abingdon and party have not yet succeedod in gotting out of the city Thoy secured berths this morning, but did not train. Then they bought herths fo, this evening and were again preventod from leaving, Mitchell is out about 300 for borths could mot use. Hall has vily since his de to get himaway. He was out souing the town this evening and was hardly able to walk Pitzsimmons pu but sleeping take the he he, impossible has menmbers evening that he would time 1 wonld lo Hall has been to attempt togot a and his friends will the city ton Fitzsi ht. Heis very po yot received his the club said this ive it in by waiting h under the weather Mitchell effort to leave rec » nothing muc good ither mateh make an PrOW morning Ba e mons left for St Louis to- lar with the people unong ! il th bration of his vid Bat Master whom he has taken up residence ¥ have prepared @ recoption in celo oty Al days party to ft in diszust and tined for seve in ordor the Mitchell Denver and this morning | went home. e MOKE THAN EVER BuMalonians Talk About %30,000 for Corbett-Vitehell Go Brreraro, N Y., March 11 A the gentlemen interested Mitehell-Co to this city met this afternoon and decided to enter the bid- ding for the mateh with an offergof £40,000, going as high 00 if Howey thought 0,000 was as high s any club was warrauted in offering fora glove contest, even for the championship. The contest, if secured, will be under the auspices of the Buffalo Athle elub, The projectors propose to give a gen- eral athietic cumival during the week in which the fight occurs, and there will be | boxing, wrestiing and other kinds of sports, A permanent organization of the syndicate will be formed next when it is ox- pected ving will have been heard from both « ana Mitehell meeting of in bringing the pett contes it wis neces- Golug at Gutte New Youx, March bur Pirst race, five furlongs won, Sir Hlerhert (12 10 1 310 1) third, The: 1:1 Seeond e, six an Jamestown (3 10 1 won, « | CW (1110 5) third. T |~ Thira race, five' furlonzs won, Mavor B (4 to 1) seeond 1o 2 thivd. Time Fourth rivee, half o Spaldic filly (15 to 1 1 thivd. Time Fifth ‘race, four and a half furlons: Voyi 10 1) won, Salishury ( John & third. Time: 1 Lo paee, one s (3 10 5) won, Lovd of arem scond, Glenloe, (G 102) third. Time ¥ Results at Gutten- Crown Prine second, Ch (7to furlongs: 3 secon Tringle (1 to M Woodchopper (9 Hymm o, Mi 110 1) won, Annio (3 1o Bon Results at New New Onrriaxs, La., March 11.—Rosults: First race, selling, four and a half fu Funnic Williams ©ven) won, Ko secon e Cad (11 to 1) third, v+ furfongs: ¢ (10 10 1) won, Den ) (100 1) third. ot selling, six furlongs: Nobles ( 3 won, Edwin (7 1o | Cistout (7 to Wihivd. ' Tino: 1:15 Pourth r selling, one and one L (1210'1) won, | Slield, (11 10 B (frd ongs: cond, Dolly = 1) secoud, i« Fitth race, owner's handieap, one mile: Duke of Milpitas, (5 to 1) won, Genernl Marmaduke, (7o second, Maud, ) to L third, Time: 1:42, Time:, Anothor Ausiralian Wonder, New Yok, March 11.=The Australian welterweight pugilist, Walter Walker, ar- rived today from San Francisco, His mis- sion is to avrar match at 142 pounds, He particularly wishes to meet Fred Mo of Philadelphin, who was formerly known as “Muldoon’s Cyelono,” and who recently issued a challenge to meet any man at his ; seept tho lage s challengo and is willing to meet Morris any time to sien articles of agreement Want to Wrostle, St. Lovts, Mo, March 11.—George Bap- tiste leaves this evening for Lockport, 11L., to bind a match with Fred Kaiser of Joliet for a cateh-as-cateh-can fight for 250 a side, tho mateh to take place within a month. Kaiser has never been defeated by a man in 1linois of his weight, Pro ¥ N, New Haves, Conn., March 11.—The man- agement of the Yale navy toduy received challenge for the annual o-Harvard- Columbia freshman race at New London, Yale wiil aceopt e ST. PATRICK'S DAY, of the Parade Column and Line of March The committees in charge of the celeb tion of St. Patrick’s day have agreed on the order of the procession The guests in carringes will umn. The carringes will be in the corner of Thirteenth and Capitol avenue. Immediately following will be the police in charvge of Chief Seavey Next wall com the Second Infaniry band, succecled by division No. 7, Ancient Orvder of Hibernians, composed of United States soldiers. These will be followed by societios other than the Ancient Order of Hibernians, visiting mem bers of the Ancient Order of Hiberans, the contingents from lowa taking the lead; next the loeal divisions in their numerical order, The procession will b divided into thres parts. The first division, composed of car riages, police and band, will form on Thir teenth strect north of Capitol avenue. second division, composed of socioties other than the Ancient Order of Hibernians, will form on Fourteenthstreet north of Capitol avenue, The third division, made up of the Ancient Ovder ot Hibornians' band, Hiber nian kuights and other divisions in Douglas county, will form on Fifteenth stroet uorth of Capitol avenue. 3 line of march will ve south on Fif street to Douglas, east to Tenth, wsi to Ninth, south to loventh, north'to Farnam, t to Sixtecnth, north to Cuming. counte march on Sixteenth to Douglas, c1st to Fif- \th, north to Dod ard O'Keeffe will have charge of the procession. *The parade will move at 2 p. and promptuess, accuracy and dispatch urged on the parfof the several aides of the day. Joux Kusi, Marsnal A No Damage ut Burlington, BurLINGTON, Ia., March 11.—The ice went outof the river this evening, doing little Formatle head the col- waiting at teenth south to Farnan, Howard, west to to Tug Bee.|—Omaha L. A. Curey, St. Denis; S. Burns, Broadway Centrai; G. N. Foresman, Westminster, damage. The river is almost clear tonight, but still rising, and is now eight inches above fow water mark. Roal l Highest of all in Leavening Powef.— Latest U, S. Gov't Report. Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE