Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 2, 1894, Page 6

8 UNSEEN HANDS AT THELEVER A Guarlian Spirit ;(h: with a Locomotive Engineer, THREE MARVELOUS ESCAPES RECORDED nable Feeling, Irresist- Danger Aheaa uts the ThrottleFhrilling Instances Kelnted A Qucer, Unat ible and § in Force, Siznals “Is it premonition or predestination? Or 1 it be udmonition or forewarnin about that dashing, danger Iccomotive engineer some cots them, for amid th of risk there is the minimu There is reported by them more narrow eseapes than by mortal man off the field of battle. The man himself who has ridden the iron many yeans and faced igers generally believes that he is a hand of destiny, that an invisi protents hin, 1803, T was traveling on the railroad, between Wash ington and Chicago—going to Sioux Falls, 8 ., to the first constitutional cunvention, which proved the preliminary invitation to statehood for that territory. The weather was cool, crisp, dry and clear, There was a late moon. The sun set with an autumn glow—blood red, surrounded by a bright yel low sheen, resembling the goblin placques of the monk painters at Moscow. 1 retired to my berth in the sleeping car late. Th wheels beneath me rang out clear and steel like, It was that fast-flying vestibule of that fast road, and every sixty seconds we were at least a mile nearer Chicago. Unlike many persons who, apou awaking on the train and finding that they have nar. rowly missed a terrible catastrophe, declare that they felt a premonition and could not sleep well, T was soon dreaming of the cen vention, the contests over statutory laws in constitutions, and the struggle which would follow in congress when these people asked for the confirmation of their work. Finally 1felt a chill and The train was standing still. 1 thought we must bo at station and would soon be on the way again So I turned ov irew the blan ts about me, and would have dropoed back nto the roveries of the abstract self had I not heard o woman in & berth ahead of me ask in dis- tressful tones: 1 wonder what the matter We ave been here these two hours Then men began to appear in tho aisles half dressed and made inquiry. It was vitch dark mside. I raised tho curtain to my window. It was neither light nor dark outside. 1 could sec the tint of the sun just peaking out in the cast—casting but the izhtest suggestion that the orb of day was and. To the south further the_moon hustling away out of sight, as if trying tonot besecn by bis rivalof theday. It was the dispelling of that darkness before dawn, a contest between the monarch of night'and the ruler of the da Animuted Interrogations. There were voices along the track outside, and hearing the word ‘“accident,” T hastily dressed and soon found mysclf in the throng of passengers, moving toward the head of the train. It was now more light than darlk, The shades of night had passed away. 1t chilly, but not cold. One_buttoned his coat about his neck and shivered. Iew words were spoken by the passengers, of whom there wero 100 out n No one knew what was tho matter. There was an awe over the crowd. \We feared some one had - been killed—we knew not how. But death is solemn, even with one we know not, under all circumstances As wo passed the locomotive and heard the low. threatoning escape of steam and saw the firoman oiling - his great uorse 1 heard him sny his traio will have to back to the next station. Yes, we must bo latc icago, and you may miss your afternoon connection west. But it can't be helped. You ought to Eo glad to get away atany time with " your Two hundred fect farther ahead we saw sitting on a rail of the track a man, alone, with his head sunl in his hands, apparently asleep. We walked toward him. He nover moved s wo surrounded him, nover took his hands down. He was either usleep or weeping, we thought, Wo were now aoout an hour and a quarter past of Chicago, guaging the distance by our fast running. "The track upon which we stood was probably sixty feet above the country immediafoly surrounding. Ahead there was a trestic work of wood 150 yaras In length. At the end of it we could now see through the light of the day-aawn a watch- man's shanty, 4 little building which re- sembled a handear house. There was no life in view except that'which was brought by the train. The surroundicgs were quict, save the crowing of the barnfow! around the distant farm houses. It was a strange scene, an inexplicable wait, solitary in_its gloomi ness. So fur no explanation had been made of our stop. No one had said where we were, why we had stopped, how long we would be there, when wo would start, or for what we were waiting. The Meaning of It. Finally the crowd moved Jforwards beyond the nigh grading to_the point where the trestlo work began. When we had reached the apex of the oarth and stepped upon tho frame work all was rovealed. In the middle of the immenso trestle work and at the bottom of the dry ravine which was spauned there was a mass of fire conls For a distanco of #00 feet in length and six or eight feet in height above the ground all had burned away. The fire had spent its force, It could not burn upward nor back ward nor forward, Iron work above and masonry upon either sidoe had stopped the progress of the fire. The result was a lonyg ine of live coals on the ground far, far be- low the track’s surface, and two threads of steel rails above which sagged probably two feet. The rails held together the frame work below and wero kept from pressing down the ontire structure by being bolted together. A thousand pounds of weight in the center of tho trestlo work would huve crushed the whole to the ground far boneath. Had the train dashed upon this structure it would huve been precipitated in its entivety n distance of sixty feet, and it is improbable that o single lifo” upon” it would have been aved 1 A terrible shudder ran through the men and women who looked down into the chasm and contemplated the danger from which they had escaped. Tntuitively wo all turned 1o the solitary man with his face buried in his hands and sitting on the track in front of the locomotive. He seemed to have never stirred duving all of our talk and the time hud emerged from tho train, but as wo approached him he dropved his hands, and looking up said *Good morning,” while his ghastly face gave out no expression. Wo now saw that this man was the engineer, for he was dressed in the regulation over ulls and blue duck jumper. He was prob ably 58 years old, of medium heght, and had scragely red board which was sprinklod with white, and came half way down his breast. Ho had not been asloop. He had not been weepiag. ‘Tho cngineer had evi- dently been in deop meditation, a sort of trance. He was an honest-looking man, ovi. doutly practical in - every act, and full of human nature. Thut Strange Feeling. As he looked about at the anxious crowd of passeugers and saw their eagerness for information, the engineer said You want to know what hore, why we are waiting, going to do and how | train, dou't you! Well, I have again been delivered from death' and destruction by that strange feeling Let me see, it is now after 4 o'clock, neariy half-past. We havy been hers nearly two hours. A short time after the traiu pulled out of the last stoppiug place that strange fecling, which has saved more than one train for me, gave warning 1 felt uncasy, and it -was with & benumbea hand that 1 opened the throttle and made her snort along at fifty-eight seconds a mile. The moon had beciouded or bedimmed the track ahead of me 50 that I could not see a hundred feet ahead. Probably you men and women do uot know it, but a beadlizht on & woonlight night dims rather than glears the There must be life of the that pro o charm ximum ortulity hor: m guided b, ole something | In Septem ber Baltimore & Olio awc can be? wo are doing what we are came to stop this | CALTFORNIA'S GREAT SHOW way. The glimmer of the moonlight against the light of the engine confuses tho eyesight till thore is no use of trying to see anything ahead “Wher w this cut T was fmpelled to stop, nothing ahead of me, thing ominous. Something told me [ must not run over that trestlework. At first I be- lievea that therc might be a man on the track. T feared that the watchman whose business it is to g~ over tnis bridge every half-hour had faien asleep upon his oeat, and I would knock the life out of him. 1 bont my ear to the ground, but as the train rushed along at fifty-five scconds I could hear nothing except now and then the crow of & rooster as we passed a farm house. Yes, 1 can hear a rooster crow above the din of the train, for 1 am used to the rattle, A mile from here [ put my head out of the cab and shadiug my eyes, tried to discern whatever there might be in the way. ‘The impulsc to shut off the stem now vecame irresistible Two or three times 1 pushed the throttle; then [ thought how foolish I must be, and pulled it on agan. There was nothing ahead, 80 taras I could see, although the shimmer botween the moonlight and the headlight made 1t impossible for me to uy distan ad. Finally I thought I saWw i man running in the middie of tha track. e appeared to be waving his hat, and 1 shut the throttle of. 'his train will vun a long distance on its own womentum. 1t seencd to me that for a half mile the speed nover elackened, Then it began to siow up almost as rapidly as if 1 had applied the brakes, It suddenly came to n standstill with a jerk Not Dend but Sleep! “There, we have done it,' 1 fireman. ‘We have run ove though wuch away back yonde heart was in my moutn, for I was c that we had run over the watchman We both-got out of the eagine ana, I going upon one side and the fircman upon the other, we walked clear back past train, Jooking under the wheels for a body, and along the grading, but we found noth ing, no trace of any damage ““Itmust b ahead of walked aliead, he engine w fect of this trestleworx! ‘Cireat the fire!' I said, almost_palsied. man was speechioss. We both some moments in_contemplation. the fireman said: ‘Well, what are going to do about 1t T finally gathered myself together enough to say, ‘Run back a little.’ 1 could not think of leaving the train so near the object that might have dashed us to perdi tion. When the fireman had run the train ack & livtle | whistled for the watchman, but there came no response. 1 first thought [would go down through the ravine und awaken him. But, instead, 1 sat down here to plan my way out, and have never moved By the way, where 18 the watchnan?” and suiting the action to the quescion the engi- neer arosc. Climbing into the cab the erizzly-bearded engineer pulled the rope, and the whistlo gavo u fierce shrick. There were & fow seconds of solemn quict. ‘Then as every eye looked in the dircction of the watchman's hut across the chasm we saw the door open and the old man appear. As he looked about ana sniffed the crisp lndiana_air. not real- izing te situation, we saw him throw up his hands and fairly scream with astonishment and romorse. e saw the ssanding train and viewed the long lines of fire which had destroyed the lower structurc of the trostie- work! He had been asleep! Fortunately the fireman had been less shocked than the cugiucer, as he had not been volted by the mysterious impulse which had saved the train of human freight from truction, and ho had taken the precau- tion to not only send & flagman to the rear, but another back to a telograph station, where a message had been seat to Chicago for a transfer train. While we were waiting for the train to take us from the fire to Chi- cago the engineer entered the throng, and seating himself upon the end of a cross-tie, said: had come within three miles of [ could seco to the one. 1 My some us,’ said 1, as we s within sixty od! See ho fire- stood for Presently you The Unseen Guardian. unot surprised at this deliverance. Twice have 1 before felt this power which guided my hand ana saved the lives in my care. A few years ago I was running on the short line betiveen Columbus and Sundusky, in Ohio. It wusa pitch dark night in the middle of the summer. That portion of tho state is threaded by many little rivers and streams, - which are spanned by the old- fashioncd covered wooden briages. It was after midnight. My headlight cut a vista in the blackness which seemed like a long golden swath, and I could have scen a man on the track a full mile. Wa were speeding through wheat fields, little bits of woodland and flashing through flag stations like lightning. 1 was. hanging out of my cab window, looking at the pebbles which toyed ‘around the wheels from ths swirl of the drivers, every now and then furtively glancing _ ahead. Al was still, not a leaf rus- tling. The warm summer air fanned my face and made me drowsy. Suddenly something seized me with action, and 1 dropped back into the seat and clutched the throttle viciously. Somothing said to me that there was trouble ahead, that I must stop. 1 looked far in the distapce, but saw nothing. ‘The fireman was craning’ his neck forward and pecring ahead. 1 know I ney guided my_hand, but it pushed to close the throttie. There'was a feeling throughouu my body akin to the mild thrill which fol- lows the appiication of a battery. My heart fluttered and I felt o weakness at m throat. The fireman looked at me sharply as the train slowea, “I could not speak for the moment as the train ran 1nto the entrance of a long, covered bridge. 1t spanned a very deep littlo rive and stood upon masonry thirty-five feet in height. As the tramn stopped 1 sprang to the ground and walked ahead. The fireman stepped out on tho approach to the cab, and od: ‘What is the matter? ‘I saw n ghost.’ wus my reply, as | waiked through the bridgo, examining the track and the framowork for the cause of my warning. At the farther end 1 found a rail from which the soikes had been drawn_fully twelve or fif- teen feot. ‘Ihe end of the rail had been deftly drawn aside six inches, and stones wedged in to hold it firmly out of place. The embankment on the side was over fifty foet in height, aud had I nov stopped the train we would have all been dashed to destruc- tion, Ouecould not have seen the work of the villsin an hundred feet aistant in broad daylignt, cven if he had been looking for it. Another Instance, “Another time this impulse has seized me and savea my human freight,” continued the grizly old cngineer. It was a fov yeurs afterward. 1 was running into Toledo, and hud the niyht express. I had just_spent a brief New Year, holiday with my family, and my affections were wrought up. It was a terribly stormy night. Twelve inches of snow covered thacurth, and moro ot it was falling. The wind howled through the trees und fairly shook the train, Great flakes of snow filled the air and iced the window panes. 1L was a dangerous night on the rail. But it was that kind of night when steam comes easy and reat speed i possi- blo_ for a locomotive. I'he blinding snow made it diffeult to see any distance ahead, 1 never stopped that train except on ovders, and we dastied through namiets and villages with lightning speed. As 1 steained my eyes uselessly endeavoring to peretrate the loom ahead my mind ran back tomy family, and 1 meditated on the responsibility which u locomotice engineer carries, Somchow I folt thut on this night 1 would be dashed to picces. [t is not true that a man gets used to danger ind becomes oblivious of it. ‘I'ho wore a thinking mi + seesof danger the more Lie thinis of it 1 had been ordered to not stop at one of tho lurge towns where I had been used to receiving orders, and it made a strange feeling como over me as 1 approached it, with the knowledge that 1 could not stop there. A mile from the place I blew the whistle, and as its e:hces dicd away it seemed ' to me that an invisible person en- tered the cab and whispered in my ear the sunple words, ‘Stop! there is danger shead. I shook off the spell with a shrug of the shoulders. As 1 approached the station it seized mo agan, I felt that there must have been some mistake in my last orders, and that the intention wus for me to receiye orders he With a hump and a jerk I brought the train to a full stop, but it was some distance ahead of the station, Just as Topened the throttle to move down to the station the impulse closed it. 1 sprang from the englne avd started to walk abead and tound that within sixty feet there stood half upon the main track a box car loaded with steel rails! 1t had blown from the siding. Had I not stopped the moment 1 did the loss of life could not have been estimated ‘L have often wondered,” said the engi- neer in conclusion, *is it premonition or pre destination! Or can it be admonition or lu(w\vnrumgl" Peruy S, Hearu, nor could T hear any- | the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 9 1891, Informal Opening of the Midwinter Fair at San Franoisco, OVERRUN THOUSANDS THE GROUNDS Brilllant and Ausplcious Tnauguration of the Exposition—Workmen Still Busy Pre- paring for the Visitors—The Ticket Takers Were Worried. SN Frascisco, Jan., 1.—After a Christ mas week of cold, cloudy weather, which closed with a siight rainfall last night, New Year's day opened clear and pleasant in San Francisco. It is a double holiday here owing to the fact that the California Midwinte International exposition opened this morn ing, though the opening is purely informal, the dedicatory exercises having been post poned until the main buildings are com: vleted und the exhibits are in placo. Thero were no formal exercises today, and the only special features were concerts by the Mid- winter Fair band and the unveiling of Sir Francis Drake's monument, the “Praye: book Cross, Besides the music and the monument ded- fcation. visitors today had 100 acres to wander over and about seventy building and camps to inspect. I'here were thousands of peopls at the exposition grounds yestor- day, and they saw for thomselves how near completion the great enterprise is. The ex hibitors were moving their displays into the main building. Booths and sections were led up in the great structures, and car was on the ground waiting to od of its freight. Workmen were busy in different places putting finishing touches bere and there or decorating the buildings which had already been completed. Ou the grand court several hundred mon were working, and in a very few days it will be transformed into a splendid semi-tropical garden, with wide leavea palms and flowers of countless colors. Scores of w depositing material which will form macad- amized roads, and everywhere was the sound of the bustling activity, which means the rapid completion of the exvosition. The people who visited the exposition grounds today were numbered by thousands. From early hour every car going to Golden Gate park was crowded, and ticket takers at the grounds had dificulty in ad- mitting every porson promptly. Much en- thusiasm was displayed, and there was every indication that the f ad opencd auspiciously under the circumstances. Many flags and standards of the various nations of the world floated from the various build- ings. The visitors were eager to see ever. thing that w to be seen and the crowds re- mained on the grounds all day. sy e STATISTIC3 OF CRIME. Record of 1893, with Somo Comparisons and Reflection The record of embezzlements and other forms of defalcation in the United States re- ported during the year now closing foots up & total of §19.920,092 in) sums of §1,000 and upwards, says the Chicago Tribune. It does not include a large number in each of which the abstraction was less than $1,000. This is two and a quarter times tho correspond- ing aggregate of §5,37,547 for 1892, but little more than that for 1801, the record of which year was swellea by several unusually im portant cases, prominent among them being the affairs of the Maverick bank of Boston. The total for 1500 was nearly the same as for 1802, and that of this year has been excecded only once since 1878—namely, in 1884, the total for which wus a little over §22,000,000. These statistics do not include commercial failures in the ordinary sense of the term, many of which are not necessarily the consequences of moral wrong. The list is limited to the cases in which money belonging to others has been appropriated under conditions which imply moral obliquity, if they do not proveit. Hence the record of embezzlements is one of the pecuniary measures of crime. It gives an 'average of 30 cents per capita, or about £1.50 for each family, on the supposition that the popula- uon of the United States is 67,000,000, and if 1t were divided up into domestic bunches of five persons. Tne statistics of 1803 take account of about fifteen cases of heavy bank wreckings. Among the defalcations there were two for over £1,000,000 each, three for over $500,000 and less than $1,000,000, one four over &00- 000 and less thun $500,000, one four ove $600,000 and less than $700,000, two_for ove $500,000 and less than $600,000, three ‘over $00,000 and less than 500,000, two over $300,060 and less than £100,000, four over $200,000 and less than $300.000. ‘und_saven- teen over $100,000 but less than $200,000. New York contributed §3,503,176 to the total, that being the maximum, and Rhoad fsland $12.5%0, the mmimum. No defalca- tious amounting Lo as much as $1,000 cacn are renorted to have occurred in Florida, Idaho, Nevada, North Dakots, South Curo- lina, Oklahoma, or the District of Columbia, The figures correspond with the changing business conditions of the year. Thus the total for March was the smallest month. record, being only $546,441. There was then some apprenension, but little real embar- rassment, fears for the integrity of the cur- rency not being actively felt till April. The largost monthly total was the §4,258,788 for August, that being the time” when the gen cral shrinkage in values had become so pro- nounced that it was jmpossible longer to conceal the fa of losses incurred through speculation with funds v h.od not beloaged to the person using them for that purpose. Doubtless if the facts were traced out it wonld be found that most of the defuleations resulted from that course of uction. The man -subsaquently known as an_embezzler lost his own monc in speculation or the one step boyoud that, which is gambling, and then took the money of others confided to his care, hopiu thereby 1o “make goou” his previous losse: Probably n the great mujority of cases there was what was supposed to be an honest ntention to return thoe money, and when this was impossible because the ap- ated funds wert ame way as the others, detection followed as a matter of urse. ‘The disgraceful eod was all the more sure and specdy, owing to the fact that excitement neited 1o dissipation, which not only cost money, but unsettled the judgment and rendered " the culpriv less able to steer clear of the rocks on which he ultimately suffered moral shipwreck. 1 this deplorablo aggregate of vice be re garded as & parasitic growth on our modern civilization it should” be remembered that the same modern conditions render possible the vecord of benevolences to puolic objocts, in which respect the present far outsirips the p 1 what may bo called the world’s moral departments some of the statistics have a hopeful look, 50 far as this country is con cerned. ‘The number of murders and homi- cides of various kinds, amounting to 6,615, shows a sligiit falling off_as compared with 1802, when thero were 6,791, whereas for ton yours previously they showed a steady in- crease. ‘Uhe record of suicides on the othe hand is notso encouraging, as it numbers 4,450 us against 5800 in 1502 For the last fifteen years indeed suicides in the United States huve increased steadily and out of propoition to the ncrease of population, T'he cnormous disproportion between mules an females is shown by the fact that while 838 of the latter ook their own lives there were 3,573 of the former, which opens up the question whether women are not braver than men in bearing the burdens of life. A curious feature of this record is the large number of physicians who have committed self-murde as compared with clergymen and lawyers Duving 1803 1o less than fifty-three physi cluns have shuflled off their mortal colls” b, their own hands, wiilo thenumber of clergy men and lawyers combined is only fifteen, and the record of physicians increases each year. Perhaps some one in the profession may stato the cause and suggest o remedy. As the out- come of murders and other crimes 120 per- s0ns have been executed legally, us against 107 ia 1802, and 200 have boen lynched, us against 230 {o 1802 The ncreaso in legal and the decrease in illogul hangiogs would indicate nealthier conditious in the opera tious of justice, for it is the first time in fif- teen years that the record of lynching has shown a decrease, Tho statistics, us usual, puint o 1ho south us the favorito locality of udge Lyuch and mob law. While seventoen bave been lyuclied io the northern 183 buve been lynchad in the southern states, and of |\|_u~r'!\}uw‘< 98 than 154 lored men Notwithstandin » stgeative com pari sons there is lea\ flr hope that respect for Inw I8 increasin@anm that the popular senti ment of the country, joined to the efforts of some of the s nulr‘rp governors in sccuring legislation and phntfities against mob I beginning to have some intluence, —— MURDEKER ARRESTED: CRUEL Louis Snyder Fwken into Cuostody India polis Police, INDIANATOLIS, Jan. 1.—Louis Snyder, who brutally mupgered Mrs. Olive Cloud, a widow, who had been receiving his atten: tions for some tirie. Saturday night, and who escaped, was ‘this morning, at 11:45, arrested at the hiome of his sister, Mrs. M Naught, on East_Ohio street. Detective Wilson had been, watching the MeNaught house for several hours,and he wascon vinced that Sngder was there in hiding. He went to the door and demanded Snyder's surrender. Snyder said that he was just going to the station house to give himself up. When the prisoner with the detective reached the station, 2,000 people were massed in front of it, and Chiel Powell of the police force asked Sheriff Kmmetc to place Snyder in the county jail, which the sheriff did, as it was feared that the crowd would take pos session of the prisoner. Snyder suys that he was drunk when he kiiled the Cloud woman. netments. by the 80 Found Errors in the I IxpiasaroLts, Jan, 1.—The United States grand jury will probably be ca'led together again in a few days to correct the errors 4n the indictments against Cashier Rexford and Director Pieree of the Indianapolis Na. tional bank. The orrors in the Rexford i dictment, i{ is thought, are not material. but the errors in the Pierce indictment arve of sufficient importanco to vit the counts on which the government hoped to rest_its strongest case. Frank M. Hayes, the rep resentative of the comptroller of the cur rency, who read the indictment, has been informed of the errors. He is at Auburn, N Y., and is oxpected to return here in o few aays Counte r. Josern feiters: Tools Dis Jan. 1.—A woman this morn ing found part of a counterfeiting outfit in the storage yards of the Fullerton Lumber company. The articles found consisted of a complete set or plaster of paris molds for making coin of the denomination of a doilar, half-dollar and nickels, The outfit was turned over toofticers, who think it belonged to a gang which became alarmed by the a rest of Charles May and his wife forcounter- feiting sowe tima ago. During the last twelve months this pirtof the state has been flooded with counterfeit money, and about a dozen persons have beeu arrested. “Tenn., Jan. 1.—Rev. Dr. Howard closed his argument this morniug, he having consumed thireen hours and a half in plead- ing in his own bohalf. District Attorne Hawkins began speaking immediately upon the close of Dr. Howard's speech, and he will consumo the remained of today's ses- sion. The case will be given to the jury to- morrow. ‘The court room vias crowded, and the arguments were given the closest atten- tion. Muchiy Married. NEw Yonk, Jan. 1.—William H. Primm, who was quite popular with the members of the Young People's socicty of Plymouth church, has arrived in jail. ile was brought from Fort Wayne, Ind’, to stand trial on uan indictment for bigamy. He lius been three times marvied and cin show but one divorce, Mysterious Desth of n Family, Kaxsas Cr1y, Jan. 1L.—The Star's Inde- pendence, Kan.,special says: G. W. Reed of the Long-Bell Lumber company was found dead 1 bed this morning, and mis wife and children urem wdying condition. The sorvant girl was also dead. The affair is a mystory. el THINK THE END IS NEAR Michigan Adventists Preparing for the Final Judgement of the World. BarrLe Cneeg, Mich., Jan. 1.—{Special Telegram to Tae Ber|—The Advent- ists here firmly believe that tho last days have come, and that in a short time this world will be no more. They believe that the prophecy is daily being filled. A watch meeting was held last night to raise money to educate the heathen and convert the unsaved. Over 3,000 people at- tended the mecting. ‘e elders called upon those present to donate what they could of their worldly goods to assist in the conversion of the unsaved. Soventy nine gold watches wero given, over 100 rings and other jewelry. One man gave house and lot valued at $5.000. In all over 25,000 was raised for the cause. ‘I he elders huve «dvised those of the members that can, to scll out and go into the world to predch the Adventist doctrine. Some twenty adherents ot the faith sold their homes at sacrifice and haye left for different parts of to preach the doctrine of the Adventis ———— BADLY, Return of an Ame feom a Prospecting Trip Through Afrie New Yok, Jan, 1.—August Lalou, whose homo is at San i'rancisco, arrived yesterday on the French liner La Bouregnol from a prosvecting trip on the Zambesi river in Mashonaland and the Matabelo country. Lalou says his journey proved unsuccessful and thathe has had an uncowfortable timo in South Africa. He fouud on his arrival that he had to obtain nermission from the British South African company before pros- pecting, and that if successful he would huva to'pay over large amounts of money as royaltics. Ihio natives, he said, are very antigonistic, and ave 1 |l|n”tu|||um|ll). “They fear no power and no authority beyond the South African company. Thoy take constant_pleasure in menacing the white people within their reach, e Long Tra w Boy. Wasmixatoy, Ind., Jan. 1.—{Special Tele- gram to Tue Bek]—Reuben Owens, a 13- year-old boy, arrived hero this morning, having walked ali the way from Texas. He is on his way to Petérsburg, this state Some time last summer, he says, a Rip Van Winkle show struck thit town anda he was employed to work the drop curtiin, The show turncd him adrift 1 Texas three months ago, since which Yime he has been wmping Lis way homeward. He reached Petersburg tonight. - 1 Dismissal, SN Fraxcisco, Jan. L—The Call an- nounces what purports to be a decision in the court, martial at Mare island in_the caso of Passed Assistant Surgeon Ashbridge It vas charged that the young surzeon had forged the signatul of Sverotary of Ihu_ Navy Herbert to telegraphic messages of instruction to Captawm Howison. 1t is snid that the court murtisl sustains the charges and findings forwarded to Washington and recommended the ais of Ashbridge from the service Recomme Reeollootion Indianapolis Journl Dawson, after & fong_drink woll, “reminds me, of when feller.” +Oh, you was raised on a the good woman, ‘Nuw, I wasu't vdised on a farm. But hat | mean is, aat it was de water 1 was Vinkin' of. 1 used to drink the stuff regular when 1 was a kid. e B Chicago’s ¥. M. €. Cuicaao, Jan, 1,—The Christian association building. thirteen stories high and costing $300,000, was for- mally ¢ i today. The building is lo- cated on La Salle stroot, just south of Madi son street, und is tne finést occupied by any Young Men's Christiun ussociation in Amer- ica. ‘The property is valued at §1,500,000, “1s," said Disi at the farme; I wasa little farm, eh " said A, Building, new Young Me By a fall on the sidewalk in front of 1048 Georgin av John who is om ployed at that number sustaived a fracture Sriho 101t leg. Ho was taken to the Preaby- terian hospital 1e, Towns, - Leaves from expericnce are useful at the turning point. LOMAY | INTEREST Quality of th The new as the old clc over 1,400 « offerings v “The market tho | slow, with all but the | houses expec and, as thel urging, buying. expericnced figures for th Dealers wo carly, and al throughout, ‘Ihe mark but in the m the same as and the mov and yearling close of lust Kinds was Busincss Neither fi itry buye fur as it wen sirable fleshy choice feedcr v to good common gruc 1063 870 80O 490, 1000 - 1t 1040 1060 L o4 11005 - SSomaon © 5 oo e JooTorey 1080 1205 1111400 1416 [STSTSeTeIey © ....1860 485 462 . 662 470 500 bulls 51 fdrs 6clvs 1 cow 7 cows 31 cow! e nere tod market. As hoes here to and as price buyers starte shade o e Lo hogs, howeve rival of of Chicugo so the Tater trd pric logs ~ of nearly every big bulk of £.15. busiue sales W 8h 20 12 20) 8 There wer local houses tons and | pric Quo Fair 1o goo good stock sheep, [ Receipt OMcial rocal shown by th compiny for 60 ciok p. SXE | 691,382 Omuha Pack The G, H. H Switk O Tho Cudahy P R. Be P.D. ckor & D Armour Total st i S, LOUIS head; shipie none: market sinlos, $0.000 Suger - Re market fivm plies; mixed nuttons would brin Ko KANSAS 2,200 head stronger; 1 cows, $1.9002 $2.50¢3.40; O SEEMED GREATLY He Able to was very kitt fiem close they What bought at full somewhat limited supplics were Av. I'r. 11260 reported strougel from $.10 to .1 W practically going av 2510 and Last Monday w 40 84 95 wester: 100-10. Lambs, WU E . Nelson Morris | e City IVE STOCK MARKETS | Oponing Day of & New Year Fiuds a Light ! Supply on Hand, LACKING e Oorings So Poor as to Not the Indifference and & Dull Trade the Result. Overool Moxpay, Jan. 1 month and year open out There weel, ssed with light receipts. » change in the markets. Not attle were received, but the od up fair as to quality was far from steady with but trading was orn not last prices best woek, tnelined to weakness Buyers for ood run this week, present are not very time about on grades eul ta pretiy wants at took their own struck their fancy they turday's prices, bug sellers some difficulty in getting steady he ordinary and mforior grid all desirous of getting through though business was rather dull by noon it was practically over, ot for cows was rather uneven, ain prices averaged up about on Saturday, Offerings we but the demand was fair cment tolerably free. Calves s sold about like they did at th week, and rough stock all uotably unchanged. in feeders was rather quiet h receipts nor regular dealers very extensive, and but rew ws pub in an appearance. As t the market was firm, with ¢ stock a shadestronger. Good to s ave quoted av from & to .60 at from £2,70 to 23, and lighte les av from §2.70 down. of Keprosentative DIRESSED BEEF PO 100 Cows. 1 1080 2 §76 1000000 944 1 920 8..... 883 6100 888 8 1046 10 012 15 078 1051 SRR 11090 (1081 11260 AND HEIFERS. HLFERS, ..1420 870 1260 L.1850 1810 111850 SISy o DERS. 1180 763 840 L Moo 832 Western Cattle, COLORADO. No. 180 4fdrs 310 WYOMING. 50 13 cows 5 9cows. 5 1fdr. . 870 260 7fdrs... Y64 ) Hogs for n Market. light supply of hogs . 836 917 a very y, hardly enough in fact'to malke o A ruie the quality of the of fair. Iastern markets were but as there were too few supply the entive_local demand here were too high Saturday, d 10 bidding £.05 and pwer than Saturday. or, sold at under §5.10., Very fow The ar- good shippiuz order from Armour mark full for the at cod was yon L wding fair weight T'he cleared by 9 good, bad and ind .15, On Sutu 1ding was #lso at §.10 and s Christmas and no Representative ail pens lov! thing he t s transacted, Pr, 160 85 Pr. 5 00 40 0 0 0 0 no fresh receints of sheep. All want some and able mut- mbs will briug good firm ptations are_as follows ¢ natives, $LIG@HH0; fawr to ns, 25a@310; common and Bl £00d to choice 40 to 2,500 4.1 & and DIsposILLon of Stock. Ipts and disposition of stock as Dol of thy Taion 362 Yards the forty-clght hours ending av Junuiry 1, 1503: HECEIES oSS & T8, Hoad | Cavs. Hoad | Cars, | Head 211,39 | DIPOSITION CATTLY, | HOGR : Co 1 425 icicing 00, | Shippers and fecders ouls Live Stock Jan 1. —OATTLE nts, none; n Mirket. Rocoipts, 1,000 teady: fulr to 3,200 hoead; strong; top price, %5, 5. 10, lpts, 100 hoad but xiles light natives are 1 ipments, bulk of shipments, none; Ol THEAZET sup rLh $2.2003.00; Market. Re Liv Ty, Jan Stook 1, -CATTLY shipmients, 8,700 head; murket xius' wtoers, 42.00@3.60; Texns 50 Shippo s, §4,00.0.00; natives, utchicrs, 13,2646, stockers und 1pts, foedors, $2.0003.50; bulls and mixed, 1,800 head steady to shipnien nigher: b mixed, 84 Yio.20, 1S, nono; ~ oG8 Re 500 head: ninrket $5. 105,107 vy, prekinge and 6.20; Tieht, Yorkors nnd pigs, $4 Sk - Hoceipts, 900 head; shipme market strong and active Stock in Sight. Recelpts of 1ivo stack at tha fonr western markets Monday, January 1 Catla, . Hogs 1,082 1,308 aipte, Vb prinsipal Shoop South Omaha. Chicago Kansas Olty. 8t. Louls. 1,800 000 Total 1,000 TIRED OF REVOLUTION, Statomonts an to W adaras s De- clured War d . SAN Fraxcrsco, dan. 1.—General Aguirre of Honduras was among rivals here on Saturday's steamer from Cen: tral Ameriea. General Aguirre fron liere to Washington, th to New Orleans, where, es directing his large business intercsts on the north const of Honduras, he will remain as the Hon duras, ¢ i Ihe general says, Honduras nd Nicaragua imminent, diplomats from different Central Amorican ruments are making a patch-up 1 the two rop He says, how pr, that just prior to his leaving the con s§ of Honduras had passed an act authotizing President Vasquez to equip troops and _declare war winst Niea rigua in his. discretion. The cause of this, as explained by Gener Aguirre, fs that the Nicaraguan government has permitted the_revolutionary f Honduras to equip itself in and march into Honduras. I'his has urred five or six times during the past years The Honduran government has spent £3.000, 000 ana has lost the lives of at least 1.000 men in quelling these revolutions. Besides this loss of money and life the republic been injured heeause the frequent revoli tions have prevented the development of its resource President Vasquc tion of affuirs must cease and if necess: offect the desired end he will march his troops to the very capital of Nicaragua. The president has sent diplomat ngents to the heads of the Central American govern m s announcing the facts, and further statements that he will equip an army and march into Nicaragua the first time he nears of Nicaraguan troops marching nto his tevritor P the M ar goes accredited consul of and Guatemala while war between is now blics. his condi ry to has decided AL Gl in und Outlook for Rice. The follow is taken from the monthly Rice circular, Messrs. Dan Talmage's Sons, New York, December 30: We have to report extreme duliness, inci dent to the hohdays and stock-taking peviod, and while we look for more active conditions in the coming month, we have no great ex- pectation that the trade will purchase to any large extent, as advices from friends in every quarter of the United States indicate that the policy of extreme conservatism will maintain until the rinancizl, commere nd legislative conditions are’ more eacourag- Situatio “There is a great lack of confidence in the minds of many regarding the future course of the market, because of ganeral conditions and because of depressing factors pertain. ing to our own article. The “gencral con ditions” arc unduly low prices in other food products which compete to a greater or less extent with especialiy in- hard times when the penuics count, such as potatoes, beans, wheat, corn, onts and the products thereof: canned goods, beef, pork, cte., all of which are from 10 per cent to 30 per ccut lower than atequal date last year. Addres: ing ourselves to the features peculiar to ric we note the advance which oceurred be tween August ana latter October of 30 per cent t cent, and which advance has been barely maintaized until the present time. v ‘was justified- on the ground that the cyclone on the Atlantic coast bad destroved most of its crop, aud contrary conditions in Louisiana_indicated scarce onc-half, with probability of only one-thid the amount grown the precedmir vy “The former has proven true, butitis ning to be m ifest that the crop of Lomsiana will turn out equal that of 189103, and this, together with the amount over, furnishes a supply for the current scason nearly cqual to that consumied last year. In so far as quotations are concerncd, they are about one-fourth cent per pouad lower than at the close of October. and all things considered, we can but feel that they are fully up to, if not above mormal value, ‘here may be fluctuations of prices and a temporary fardening immediately after th 1st prox., but we are of opinion that th trade will serve their best interests through out the scason by pursuing the hand-to mouth policy: (1) As the forward supply of domestic is ample for all requirements. (2) Swdwich Isltud rice now obtamable at equal price with the domestic. (3) Japan due the mddle of February, Patna in March, and (Rangoon) Java in April. Al of the forcign will be of new ¢ i quality, und owing to the sion in tho fur east, styles suitable for the requirements of the United States securable as the seison progresses on cquul or better terms than now offered in the domestic. Sl R Se Mike Was Disfizured. As the result of an altercation and exces- sive drinking Red Mike, as he styles him- self, reccived a severe blow in the abdomen avthe hands of an Itahan on South Thir- teenth street yesterday afternoon, He also received several bruises upon his head and face, with u small gasn on his nose. Mike s'that the Italian used a brick ns o weapon. I'he injured party was taken to the Presbyterian hospital, bl Will Gesign His Position. KANsAs Crry, Jan. L—Judge James Gibson of the ewcuit court of Jackson county is in Jefferson City today for the purpose of pre seating his resignation to Governor Stono, to take effect January 9, 1804, The judse considers the sulary of 500 paid cireut judges inadequate, and will becowe a mem- ber of a law firm of th - Wool Growers Caxoxsuvig, P, Jan meeting of the National Delaine Sheep Breeders association will be held in the opera house, this place, January 17, 154, In connection with the meeting itis proposed annua Merino be MAHA anuiaclurer TENTS, 1 lent COMPA BACS&TWIN 59 | Bemis Omaha Bag COMPANY Importers and ma turers of four buriaps, twins. ETC. Awning HORSE O 114 Farna, ".oon | depressed present dustry, growing dudyo Willian Lawre Girower nember of congress from S0 A other speakers aro expected National Wool Pickler Kot wool growers of Washington counties will also bo pr Kanans Pe Leaveswonty, I sosaion of the State Fed called to order at the Knights of Pything Only husiness of a voltine nature came before the ternoon. wis a ball for the dologates the local trade unfon at hall in this city body during the The convention is the state federation. HEED ™ WARNING stantly giving i the shpo Which natire is ¢ to have a wool grower cuss the duty of wool gr cony convention to ition of the poiution; N th 1 and adjoiv sent. - eration o ., Jan, 1 ation of Labor wag by Lavor, A two di the president Tonight and memt Fellows hal 08t yot hel L b Odd the lar St boils, pimples, eruptions. uleers, show lllnl the blood is contaminates asaist sons, ce must be given to relieve the trov 18 the remedy to force out these poi- and enable you to GET WELL. which u [imples would b o i great annoyance. > my face 18 all cl should be and fe al’ from tho use o § « CRATHOR, G 7A, adlo me dread to sh ORI 5 THE LMSWMB%N%HWU years a humor in my blood, as small boils or cut, thus cansing the shaving ta Ve takingz thrco bott £ and smooth At ppetito splendid, sleep like running % foot Laurel st , Phila THE GREAT HINDOO REMEDY Station bue e COUNCIL BLUFYS, arid Thee b cle- tedNon- changeable Spectacle s and G Eye ses for sale in Omaha, by —rfmfle 5 Rk Y M ok Man Wrltten gunrantee (0 cire or moncy r. 160t gOLIE W CuickGo, Selnbider, 521 cd. Don't € on ot IND 1 Yend ic pre + or thelr ac, th and Dotigines Ste . and I Douglas 8t ONATLA; andway & 0 Peart Sty Leading Druggist ~:>_,~.i, iR - N CHANGE bPBC’l‘ILL‘L EYE CH\SSLS ox “No it Write for fuy TAD ity 21711589 MAX MEYER & BRO. CO., ONLY, Simpson. Wash y's foo R!}NE\VLD HE,, GREAT, or, G0 rostore dll the eon s, Lpoten sible it CUPIDINK 1. Sead for At and st DAVOL MEDICIN SUU’I il (} \1[111 L Union Stock Yards Company, South @mahas Best Cattle Lo and 3hasy COMMIS s AL UL T DU Se sy 3104 d0Y Wood Brothars. Live Stock Cornmisilon Morohants S0th Umaba—Tolophous 11 JOIN D DADL ” 1 Market roports by mall and wire choe; Don application. WaLTE araishod I \\) N COMPANY Corner 10th and Jackson Siraots Rector & Wilheluy | —~ Chloats MY | Managare " ul wimeeg % ¢ Jobbers Direclor HARDWARE, S Lobeck & Linn, 108 10 hartworo v anios (0018 | W08 Dol s eena BOOT3 AND SHOES Morse-Coe Shoz Company. HO7-1103- 1111 1o var 3 10-1121-1125 Howard 9t Manufasturers of Boots and Salosroom and Offica ral 1avitatlon 1s 0xtendsd to all Lo 1nsp ) Kirkendall, Jones & | Amer, Hand-Sewed COMPANY osnlo Fubbor goous, 13 Wit i 0T Haenty buront flaruy Sire i DRY GOODS. M. E. Smith & Co. | | ilpairick-och Dry e | mpunrons B ol T gain Coraee | ol o 1 aai Fith wia fiCward ko) Siriois _ FURNITURE. (Omaha Upholstering COMEANY Upholatored fursitu R1U2-1104° Nenolus sb Wholesale 0y, | [t COAL. Johnson Bros, WHOLESALE COALs 1005 Farnam Stk Viialis, Noo HATS, EIC. W. A. L. Gibbon & Co Hata, caps, airaw g00ds kloves, tens. Lth and Larney #trests. COMMISSION, Branch & Co. | xinds, oystors. _ LIQUORS. Frick & Herbert, Whole 1001 Kur lo liquor dealors am St PAPER, Carpenter Paper Co Carry n full stook of Printing wrapplog snd WALlOg Dapers, Gard Bapuis, by frults of anl| ey ey | LUMBER, [John A Wakieliold; aportad, Amorionn I'ort 1and eomont, Milwaus koo coment ad Quiicy whits s STOVE REPAI il? Omana Stove Nc.l.ui WOUKS. Stove ropiice W0 wator attagh monts © nay Rindof aiove VEIT oudi 8 OILS, Standard 0il Co. Kefoed and lubr, biug Olla, azle grvasy, b dis wors in view of the wool o, prosident of tha njor I ug L thery s 0f ited fréo ung ntor's Guid Dovolopad » ’mnsc’flmn'sf- s