Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1894, Page 1

TABLISH IN AFRICAN JUNGLES Lieutenant Von Hoehnel Speaks of the Ohanler Expedition, WAS UNFORTUNATE FROM THE START All Their Cattle Destroyed by Pests Early in the March, TS TO SECURE OTHERS HEROIC EFF! Burrounded by Warlike Tribes and Unable to Make Headway. SUFFERED FROM FAMINE AND THIRST Opposed by Fierce and Well Armed Natives on Al Sides — Battles Fought Daily | Without Assisting in the Progress of the Whit (Copurighted, 194 by the Associated Press.] VIENNA, Feb, 25.—After an absence of nearly two years spent in exploring north- east Africa Lieutenant Ludwig Rutter von Hoehnel of the Austrian navy has returned to Vienna and now resides within sight of the big admiralty building in the Maxnin Haime platz. On arriving last week at Finne he was met by his old companion, Explorer Count Teleki, who accompanicd him to Buda Pesth, where the still open wound caused him terrible suffering and was immediately operated upon by Prof. Lumnitzer and great relicf given. Licuten- ant von Hochnel is now rapidly recovering his usual health. He s a Hungarian, born at Pressburg in 1857 He was educated at the naval academy fn Fiume. He joined his first ship as mid- shipman in 1876, but as his great desire to travel only found its partiai relief in cruising about the Mediterrancan he gladly accepted Count Telcki’s invitation to accompany hi expedition In 1886 which, after two years ex- ploring, resulted in the discovery of Lakes Rudolph and “Stephanie in Africa.. Lieuten- ant von Hochnel is a tall, stalwart built officer, with determination stamped in every feature. His physique is hardened down to whipcord - toughness through the excessive hardships of African travel, and his face is tanned brown. He ks the English lan- guage with remarkable fluency and a faint American accent. He possesses a charming frankness of manner which causes ers in his companny to be as much at ¢ ¢ is himself, and does not seck to conceal his pleasure with English speaking visitors. “You wish me to tell about the Chanler expedition?” remarked the explorer, sitting with his charts and diagrams lying all about him. “Well, we had desperate ill luck. It followed us everywhere, and during the time I was with Mr. Chanler rendered all our best efforts fruitless. But let me start at the beginning of my narrative. I made Mr. Chanler's acquaintance by means of a Jetter written to me from the base of Kilimanjaro in 1891 The same year I met Chanler in Vienna, when he old me of his intention to explore the Bor- ana country lying eastward of Lake Rudolph. The district he believed to be fertile and interesting, 1 expressed my great willing- ness to accompany him. We discussed the plans of the routes and determined to land at Lamu on the Zanzibar coast, sail up the Tana river to Borati—once called Hargazo and then strike northward through the Mount Kenla district to Rudolph lake. After thoroughly exploring the Borana coun- try in that neighborhood, we were to march directly across to Berbera on the Gult of Aden. MISFORTUNE ON ALL SIDES. It success scemedto favor our expedition it was soon reversed. We started from Lamu on September 16, 1892, with 185 men in good health and in the best of spirits. George Galyin, Mr. Chanler'’s servant, also accom- panied us and we were thoroughly organ- ized, thanks to young Chanler's marvelous administration. We had cattle, donkeys and camels and ten canoes laden with food were accompanyifg our caravan. The Tanta route 1o Borati is a very bad one. The banks are lined with thick jungle and our progress was dreadfully slow. November 26 had ar- rived when we reached Borati, all well. “Then came our ill luck. Our beasts of burden began to die as if stricken with a pest. This was a serious plight for us. We formed a store camp here inside the de- serted palisade erected some time prev- jously by the British Bast African company. Our caravan had come to a dead halt from loss of trans ports. Chanler and myself determined to proceed northward to the Guarronjiro river, whose source and outlet I had discovered in tho Teleki expedition. 1 knew the Rendill, a nomadic tribe, possessing camels and donkeys in large numbers, lived near this river on the northern side. George Galvin went to the coast on a similar expe- itlon. Now, from the departure on Septem- ber, 1893, to the day the rhinoceros charged at me, August 2, 1893, we had explored with- out success the entire district for transport beasts, ALL CATTLE KILLED. “Four years ago a cattle plague over the whole of northeast Africa agsure you, you may search for ten where wo werce withont obtaining cati wished on starting out to strike northward of Borati over the plains, but they were sandy and stony and absolutely devold of water, We had not gone far before we turned back to Boratl and ascended the Tani to the Mackenzie river and from rce to the Diimbeni range. The long and broad plateau of the Diimbeni, 7,200 feet high, its bracing atmosph (ST for Buropeans, is thickly inhabited by tho mbe, a very powerful tribo numbering 20,000 in all.” They raise in this plateau beans, sweet potatoes, millet, ete. They possess very few cattle, goafs and sheep. They are warlike, using spears, slings and polsoned arrows. The polson s vegetable, and weak unless freshly made. The Embe refused to sell us any cattle, but they did not molest us. We then struck the Guar- ronjiro.. After days of weary wanderings along its banks seeking for transport animals and experioncing great hunger, on January 24, after a hopeloss soarch again with fifty-ive men wo set out for th Djambent range with the intention of onee more crossing the extremity looking toward tho slope of Mount Kenia MET WARLIKE TRIBES. “Botore we struck the Djambeni we had to cross the country of the Wamasari, a tribe with the reputation of havi stroyed a caravan ten years ago. They num bor 1,000 warrlors and soon showed us their Intentlons, ,We fought with them through o whole day's march. They ap- pearad und reappeared at overy nook and defile. We cut our way through, however and our Maanelichers and Werndtz must have created heavy . + - the. ranks of the blacks. At Dorati on Marchl, 1883, we determined by thro a greater part of cur goods away to set out for Daltcho, place forty-five milea northeast of Mount Kenfa. On March 27 we arvived at Daltcho, having lost heavily in loads, beasts and through “Loaving € at Daitcho and sending runners to Mombasa for cattle and men Chanler and myself again started out June 15 to find the Rondili. At last our efforts wore rewarded on July 2 at Komi, to the far northeast in the southern end of the General Matthews range of mountains. W discovered the nomadie Rendili there, They had camcls, goats and shecp In tholr possession, but they demanded sueh ex- orbitant 'prices that we could not buy, Only ome hope wa now swept and, 1 years Wo THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. :D JUNE 19, 1871 still remained the Turkanans Lake Rudd and they, we supplies of transport ani- for the Loroghl range, but on the way I met with my episode with the rhinoceros, In which I was badly wounded This necessitated our return to Daitcho, and finally I was removed to Kib wise, where I received medical attention On December 1 1 reached Zanzibar and enterad the hospital there, As t & the ultin e result of the ex pedition, I am afraid that through lack of transport animals Mr. Chanler has not been able to advan to the Hora country, the goal he desired to reach. What have been his dventures since we parted he will tell on his arrival shortly at M Now I have told you a good dealand in return I wish to tell through the American press what a clever, well educated, straight-minded gen tleman Mr. Astor Chanler is. | honor Is great, his faithfulness as comrade unswerving his gencrosity no less re marlkable left. There living south of knew, had spare mals. We set out s sense of and SHOT DOWN BY SLAVE DEALERS, ils of the Disaster to British Troops in Africw. [Conyrighted, 104, by the Axsociated Fress,) LONDON, Feb. 25.—Further details of the disaster of the Dritish force in its encounter with alers on the west Africa have been received here from urst. The British troops numbered 2 They had destroyed the strongholds of Ken- bujh and Mandina and were returning to Kembujh creck for the purpose of re-em barking when they were ambushed near the mouth of the creek here had been no sign of an enemy and the attack was most sudden and unexpected. The British had entered into a perfect trap and were sur- rounded on every side. A fusilade poured upon them from all directions. In spite of the suddenness of the onslaug and the terrible fire to which they were sub- jected, the sailors, enc 1 by the heroic efforts of their officers, tried to make a stand. The attempt was useless, as the cnemy maintained their well directed volleys. The peril of the British was extreme. To re- main there meant the total destrinction of the force. Amidst a hail _storm of bullets and with their officers and comrades falling dead, dying and wounded all about them, they were com- pelled to retreat. So great was their danger and so ferociou the attack of the enemy that the British were unable to rescue the bodies of Lieutenant of Marines . W. Hervey and eight others who had been killed. 1t was only with the greatest difficulty that they were able to save the wounded. In their retreat (hey were forced to abandon their field pieces and 6,000 cartridges, all of which fell into the hands of the encmy. On the arrival of the news at Bathurst the war ve Aviso and Alecto were dis patched to the scene of the disaster and at- tempted to land a party at Conjor. The enemy, howover, were prepared for their ar- rival, and as soon as the attempt to land was made opened up a heavy fire, which compelled the party to retire. The Alecto thereupon returned to Bathurst for rein- forcements. Three hundred men of a West India regiment are expected at Bathurst, and the expedition against the slave dealers will be resumed immediately upon the a rival of these soldiel Further De coast of Bath- ) men the slave d Severe Storm in treland. LONDON, Feb. 25.—The transatlantic gale struck the coast of Ireland today with great violence. The Holloyhead packet boat, with 1,184 sacks of mail for the Luciana, was an hour and a half late in crossing the channel. This delayed the Luciana’s de- parture until 2:15 p. m. The Luciana met the full force of the gale in the Irish sea and proceeded against a headstorm. Seven hundred passengers aboard were unable to approach the Servia until the latter was harbored. DIVERTED THE FUNDS. Old Adams County Treasury Trouble Re- vived by Litigation. HASTINGS, Feb. 25.—(Special to The Bee)—A reminiscence of the old county treasury trouble was filed in the office of the clerk of the district court yesterday in the shape of a petition of James L. Britton against ex-Treasurer C. H. Paul and his bondsmen. The petition alleges that during the defendant’s term of office the plaintiff sent for redemption or tax deeds certaln tax sale certificates to the value of $828.71. It is alleged that the redemption money for these certificats was paid into the county treasury and redemption certificates issued, but that the money was never recelved by Britton, He sued the county for the money at the last term of court, but the case was decided in favor of the county. An appeal to the supreme court was taken. This suit is dirccted against the bondsmen. The supreme court has sustained a motion for & new hearing in the case of Rittenlonse against Bigelow, an original action for an injunction. This action is brought by Mayor Rittenhouse, on behalf of the taxpayers of the city, to restrain County Clerk Bigelow and Treasurer Fleming from levy'ng and collecting the township levied by a called township board, organized in somie not very well understood manner, for the year 1893, This town board, the first organized in five years, levied a special tax for their salaries and undertook to equalize the town- ship assessment for the year. The city at- torney brought the snjunction suit, and the case was decided by thie supreme court in the closing days of the year just passed. The interesting question, Which is of con- able importance to towns of the class tings and Beatrice, will be more fully investigated by the supreme court, and the power of a town board to equalize wss ments in a city of the first class be settled for some time to come. The Freshmen of Hastings college gave a reception to the faculty, alumni and under- graduates last night at the home of one of the members of the class, Miss Mary Howey. 4 arge number of college people were present, and the affalr proved very enjoy- able, The Board of Education held a special ses- sion yesterday afternoon and decided to pre- pare petitions for circulation among the voters asking that the bo: submit at the next election a proposition to bond the dis- ,000 for a new high school build nd for necessary furniture. About 6 will be needed to secure the ston of the proposition sub Want Salaries Reduced. GRAND ISLAND, Feb. 25.—(Special to The Bee)—A petition, which is considered as a political dodge by those whom it most directly affects, is being circulated for the reductio aries of the mayor and all city officials. Though it has about 200 signatures it s not believed that it will create anything but political capltal—and a poor quality at that. Policemen now receive only $55 per month und there are those among the city's heaviest taxpayers whe will strenuously oppose the proposed re- duction o $40 per month, These men work every day In the month and twelye hours day. Big Vit NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Feh, Telogram to The Bee)—In the Sullivan agalust the Union Pacific Railway company, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant this aftornoon. This s one of a dozen cases now pending in the dis trict court and grew out of the great prairie fire which sturted at Nichols and swept into North Platte on April 7 last. Th total losses from (he fire aggregated §75,000 and Sullivan alleges that the fire was started from a spark from the company's engines ad school question discussed ase of Mixs dennie Stover Wins. JUNIATA, Neb., Féb. 25.—(Special to The Bee)—A Demarest gold medal contest was held in Allen's hall last night, There were seven contestants from different parts of the county, Six young ladies and one young man, They all did splendidly and were re peatedly cheered by the large crowd present The judges awarded the gold medal to Miss Jennie Stover, a young lady from th try uorth of town. Each one of the ants were holders of silve former contesta, coun contest medals, won in ALLEN MAY BE PRESIDENT Jerry Simpson Favors the Junior Senator from Nebraska in 1896, BRAINIEST MAN IN THE POPULIST PARTY Opinion of the Sockless Socrates to Which Other Members of All rtily Kyle and Bounty, rties He Subscribe - the Sugar WASHING' BUREAU OF THE BEE, 613 Fourteenth Street WASHINGTON, Feb, ! Representative Jerry Shapson of Kansas out in an interview advoeating the nomina tion of Senator William V. Allen of Nebraska for the presidency in 1806 by the populists. He says Allen s the only man in the popu- list ranks who comes fully up to the measure; that Senator Peffer of Kansas fs a good and able man, but too timid. He regards Senator Allen as the brainiest, nerviest man in all the populist party In his estimate ho voices the sentiments of not only the other popullsts in congress, but the level-headed republicans and democrats here Mr. Simpson says the populists expect to make immense gains in congress at the elec tion in November, gains principally from the democratic column, yet he does not explain why voters will leave the democratic or r publican party to.join the populists, when the latter are every day in congress sup- porting the southern democrats in their partisan legislation, and the hard time: which are to cause the change in vote are due to democratic incompetency and destruction, and it Is admitted upon every turn that none of the commerclal evils and labor distress existed when the republicans were in power. ator Kyle, the well known South kota populist, has announced himselt favor of the position heretofore stated by Senators Allen and Peffer in I ecials upon the sugar question. He is decidedly in in favor of the present sugar bounty. Sen- ator Kyle says: “There are some things in the Wilson bill that do not commend them- selves to me. The easl, 1 think, so far, is better off than the west. As to the income tax, 1 am heartily in favor of that, but I am in doubt as fo sugar. It seems to me that the government has entered Into at least a moral contract with the sugar people, and, this being true, 1 should prefer to see a coursn taken that would enable the sugar pecple to save themselves from loss. Our igar industry must be developed and to develop it the government must help it, but upon the general proposition of tarift reform I heartily favor that. I am a low tariff man and shall so vote at every oppor- tunity."” DEMOCRATS AGAINST THE BILL. Chairman Voorhees and his democratic associates on the flnance committee e been active all day. They are laboring to make their meeting tomorrow morning at the hour the democratic caucus convenes for tariff consideration fruitful of results which will preserve their committee influ- ences. They hope to so place cert. ticles in the bill as to make caucus struction to the committee unnecessary. While trying to save the bill from ultimate defeat, they want to preserve the prestige of the finance committee. There is yet sufficient democratic opposition to the tarift bill to defeat it in its present form and yet, knowing this, it s sald by Chairman Voorhees that it will not be ma terially modified. The strength of the ob- Jectors to the free list of the Wilson bill i fixed at twelve democratic senators, far more than sufficient to obstruct indefinitely the passage of the bill until their demands are granted. These twelve senators are Gors man and Gibson of Maryland, Faulkner and Camden of West Virginia, Hunter and Dan- iel of Virginia, Pugh and Morgan of Ala bama, Caffery of Louisiana, Hill and Mur phy of New York and Brice of Ohio. The latter denounces the entire bill as “a south- ern measure, made by brigadiers.” In ad- dition to these twelve, the protection demo- crats count on the senator whom Governor Foster of Loulsiana will appoint to succeed Justice White; on Smith of New Jersey, and possibly Senators Ransom of North Carolina, and Butler of South Carolina. This combin- ation, while considerably less than a majo ity of the democratic senators, and therefore easy to be voted down in tht caucus, was yet so strong as to force the administration senators to make a counter demonstration. The necessity for such a step was all the more apparent when the protection senators frankly avowed that if out-voted in the caucus they would still keep up their oppo- sition until thelr demands met proper con- sideration, even If they had to vote agains tho bill on final passag SOME CHANGES MADE. Senator Voorhees, finding the minority so stubbborn that nothing could be gained by any attempt at conciliation, issued a call for a special meeting of the finance commit- tee on the same day, and at the same hour as the caucus. The administration and anti- administration lines being thus sharply d fined, the subcommitttee, consisting of Jonos, Vest and Mills, have held a final meting at which it agreed upon a report to the full committee, which will emboly the rates of duty on coal and sugar which they be- lleve they can afford to grant. These rates are not final, but suggestive, Sugar, as has been repeatediy stated, is given a protective duty of 1 cent a pound for raw and refined and whisky is taxed $1 a gallon, the same as in the house bill, with no_extension of the bonded period, which is a knock down for Voorhees. On coal they will express a willingness to grant a duty of 30 or even 42 cents per ton, but Mr. Gorman insists on 50 cents. No duty whatever will be recommended for iron ore. While a third draft of the bill was presented yesterday it s not at all improbable that penciled changes may be mac the suggestion of Chairman Voorbees for the purpose of curing a united demacratic vote in the com mittee. This, it is believed by the admini: tration managers, will weaken the effect of whatever agreement may be reached in the caucus. UNION PACIFIC REORGANIZATION. There will be another meeting of the sen ate committee on Paclfic raitroads this week to consider the plans proposed for the r organization of the Union Paclfic Railroad company. Members of the commitiee appear to regard the proposition of the Holland bondholders with a good deal of favor. This proposition 15, in a word, to reduce the entire first mortgage indebtedness on the main linie and all _of its branches to $75,000,000, or $10,000 per mile, and give the government a second mort for all of its indebtedness, principal and interest, over the entire sys tem, aggregating about 7,000 miles of road. This would place the reorganized system under an indebtedness of only about §20,000 per mile, which expert raliroad men say would be easily carried, and the Union P cific would become a dividend paying system almost immediately, and at the same time be able to provide a sinking fund to wipe out the government indebtedness at matur ity. The mortgage to cover the indebtedness to the government is to run 100 years and pay 3 per cent intercst. MORTON AND THE GRANGERS. J. H. Brigham of Delta, 0., master of the National Grange, is here looking after-the farmers' Interests before congress. He is very warm under the colar over Secretary Morton's expressions respecting those pro fessionals who farm the farmer, as ho is probably one of them himself. Grand Master Brigham says: “I believe Secretary Mor- ton's condemnation of agricultural socletles in his Chicago speech was without valid basis. Mr. Morton's remarks were caleu lated to rouse the ire of every tiller of the g0il in_America, and were gratuitously of fonsive, Aw secretary of agriculture, he adopted repressive methods ever since he went into Mr. Cleveland's cabinet, His hobby is anti-paternalism. He seems to think himself espeuially called to warn the people of the danger of paternal government. In the pursuance in this hobby he is apt to forget his real mission—the promotion of agricultural interests, the basis of all na- tional prosperity. PERRY 8. HBATH, TS BESY WE oriant Measures that Will of in n Few Days, WASHINGTON, Feb, The senate has made but little progress during the past two weeks In its efforts to clean up the calendar in advance of the forthcoming discussion of the tariff bill in the scnate. If the oppor- tunity s afforded it will continue its work on the calendar during the present week. There many special bills, however, some of which have been brought over from previous weeks that it is probable paratively little progress will be made week. It Is I'kely that at least t will be necessary to dispose of the provide a new government printing office building and another day to pass the bill for the rearrangement of the Florida judicial districts. - The Hawalian resolution intro- duced by Senator Turple and the Stewart bond resolution are also undisposed of, the pending motion on the latter being to refer to the committee on finance, which will prob- bly to be done with bt little if any mor pecchmaking The specch on Hawafian affairs of which Senator Turpie has given notice is as yet undelivered, but it is understood that he will make an effort to get the floor during the present week. It is also possible that the report of the commitiee on foreign re tions, to be made on Monday, concerning the diplomatic relationt between the United States and Hawail will cause more or less debate, and cven though the tariff hill should not get into the senate during the week there need be no surprise if there should be more or less reference in the senate to that subject. It bids fair to be a busy week and one of varied interest, It is the Intention of the senate committee to report the tarift bill, the republicans offer . strenuous objections ollowing this it is oxpected thal Senato Voorhees will give notice that the bill will come up the following Monday and ask that it be kept before the senate until disposed of. 1t is part of the program that the bill shall be taken up every morning immedi- ately after convening and kept before the senate fo the exclusion of everything els It is intimated that if there is any dispos tion manifested to prolong the debate a move will be made for extra long sessions. The democratic subcommittee will con- sider tie bill for a short time tomorrow morning before the full committee meets, The bill which was sent to the printer last night will be changed in some particulars before it is finally submitted. As it now stands there are three propositions which have not been wholly agreed upon and what- ever is done will necessitate corrections. But as showing how near complete the bill 1s, one member of the committee said tonight that he saw no reason why it should not be reported tomorrow. He: thought that no prepared report would be made on the bill by the committee, the bill itself stand- ing for a report. The democrats will offer to allow the republicans a week In which to submit their views, either in the form of a bill or a report. {It is not believed the republicans will cansent to a report on the bill tomorrow and this may inter- fere with the program and delay the report. The democratic membegs of the committee do ot attempt to conewal the feeling they have .{hat the caucus gailed for tomorrow morning af the same fime the committee meets is antagonistic fotthie bill. It is said that not many members of the finance com- mittee will attend the cpucus. TO INSURE A QUORUM. == ENAT K. e Disposed are so com this o days bill to epresentative Payuter fas a Scheme that Will Fill'n Long Felt Want. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The call for a caucus of democrats to agree upon a rule for recording members present, but not voting, In order to make up a quorum, is growing in favor. The call now bears the names of 122 democrats. Members say this matter must be settled as saon as the Bland bill is dis. posed of. Representative Paynter of Ken. tucky, who started the call, has drawn up a new rule which, he thinks, overcomes the objections of many members to his draft ot a rule for recording those present and not voting without fining them. This incorpor- ates a new principle, that the afirmative votes on a call must be a majority of those officially recorded, both as voting and as present and not voting, In order that the vote shall be a legal one to decide the pends ing question. ~ The rule is; “But should a_quorum fail to appear, and should a point of no quorum be made there shall be a call of the house and the nays and yeas on the pending question shall at the same time be ordered. The clerk shall call the voll and each member as he answer: his name or is brought before the house under the proceedings of the call shall vote on the pending questidn. If he refuses to vote or refuses (o answer to his nawe, then any member can announce that the member is present and failed to vote and failed to answer upon the calling of his name, there- upon the speaker shall direct the clerk to note the member as present. If those voting on the question and those de- clining to vote or answer to their names shall make a majority of the house, then the speaker shall declare a quorum s consti- tuted and the pending question shall be providing the affirmative vote is of those voting and those present and not voting.” Three propositions have been drafted which will have supporters, that devised by Journal Clerk Crutchileld, for finlng mem- bers one day’s pay, the resolution by Rep- resentative Dearmond of Missourl for a fine of $50, and the latest plan of Represen tative Pynter. But nope of these can be effective for breaking the present deadlock because the caucus will not meet until the Bland bill is disposed of. Western Pensions, N, Feb, (Special to T Bee) Pensions granted. Issues of February 13 were: Nebraska: Original widows, ete Letta Saulsbury, Berwyn, Custer; Susan Me, H, Alblon, Boore; Tabitha Dorris Broken Bow, Custer; Mary A. Walters, Broken Bow, Custel Towa: Original—Erick Hanson, Tenold Worth, Reissue—Olie W. Holcomb, North- borough, Page. Original widows, ete arah Oliver, Sioux City, Woodbury Mexlcan war survivors— Increase—Levl B Overman, Atallssa, Mageatine Mexican war widow Autoinette Well Cedar Rapids Linn. South Dakola Supplemental—George W, Hays, Hecla, Brown, Montana: Survivers of Indian wars W. Winglett, Stevensville, Missoula. dkes L ik FURNINHED DRGREL WASHINC John CHEAP, Expose of the Methods of an Hlinols Pro- PEORIA, Feb. 25.(~Special Telegram to The Bee.)—Last June Prof. B. C. Wood ar- rived here and the Peoria Busi ness university. here from Davenport, la., and 18 & member of a num ber of local organizatfous, He conducted a university in the lowa town A great sen sation has been created by the publication of 2 number of letters written by him during the summer of 1892, They were addressed to ministers of the gospel and in them he offers to furnish the degrees of M. D., Ph. D. and L.L. D. for $35. In these letters he stat that he is well aware no minister would ask a certificate unless entitled to one. In enother letter he ofters to furnish single degrees signed by all the members of this faculty for §10 each, sending the eXamination questions in ad- vance and having the certificate ready be fore the answer was ved, He also offered a coimtmission of $2.60 for each per son who could be induced to invest in a certificate. Mr. Woods admits the letters le, but declares he has now ceased th At the time he was lssulng the rtificates he did not know that h was engaged In any lrregular practice The exposure has evoked ng end of discussion 10 educational circles throughout the city, TOMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1891, LINCOLY'S CRUSADE OPENS Rev. Dr, Beals Fires the First Gun in the Warfare Against Social 8in, HIS APPEAL TO MEN TO BE PURE IN LIFE Stirring Words Followed by o of a of Scorn for the Seducer Vivid Picture Womal Death Scarlet Awful LINCOLN, The Bee.) ment that Feb, pecial Telegram to It needed but the bare announce- Rev. Byron Beals: would preach this evening to men only to pack the Third Presbyterian church to the doors. Dr i8 not a sensational of the word Beals preacher in any It the crowd of men and boys who sat before him tonight went to church Wih the idea that they were to be enter- tained by a sermon bordering upon the ra and sensatfonal they pointed Dr. Beals is one of pastors. He is a vigor word painter and personality. He b sense went away dis Lincoln’s best known us preacher, a s lias a most impre the strong, rugged and vet refined face th cterized the late Philip Brooks. He opened his service by announcing several hymns, which his mascu line auditors sang with indifferent success as far as rythme and melody were con- cerned. Then he read the seventh chapter of Proverbs, He commenced his address by saying that few things, if any, have caused more Sorrow and mystery and death to the body and soul than sins against chastity Like great rivers, deep and dark, swecping on adown the centuries, comes this mighty torrent of iniquity, bearing upon its rushing tide the white, upturned faces of men and women that are being borne rapidly out into the sea of eternity—out away from hope, from purity, from God. Some of the noblest men and women the world has known have made shipwrecks upon this rock of unchas tity and have gone down to hell. “It is notorious that sins of the kind 1 have mentioned are common in almost every community of the land,” said the preacher. “I have tiever been to any place as a min- ister but 1 have scen families broken up by villlans who feared neither God nor man. On two oc jons leading officers in the church of which T was pastor were the guilty ones, in each case doing vast harm to the cause of morality and religion. It is because these sins are foo common and are damning the bodies and souls of men that I speak out tonight. ome voice ought to be lifted to warn men of the Niagara over which they are plunging.” SCORCHED Dr. Beal then subject would be and that he rong sive THE SEDUCER. stated that his general personal and social purity, would divide his sermon into six general hcads or dlyisi Passing rapidly over the first division, in which he spoke in plain words of the sin of self- pollution, he passed to the second division, in which he held up to the scorn of the world the seducer Every woman, in her weakness, he said, whether fallen or pure, appeals to man as her protector. The man who will take ad- vantage of this confidence to push these confiding ones over the precipice down upon the rocks of shame and death deserves himself to die. “Perhaps there {s one here,” speaker, ning upon his auditors, “who ha seduced some woman. What have you done? You have acted the part of the great leader of hell. You have dragged down an angel from her throne of virtue, committed soul- murder. Blood, blood, soul-blood is upon your conscience, It stains all your garments, It is upon your habitation. It cries up t heaven against you, ‘vengeance, vengeance. You have not only done all you can to damn the soul of an immortal being, but you have committed a suicidal act upon your own un- dying spirit. You have done what you can to sink your own soul into darkest, deepest, hottest hell, where, if there be a hotter fire, a keener pang, a deeper gulf, they will be ours. Man, give up that woman, and turn your feet aguin to virtue's path or you are fost forever. In treating of his fourth division Dr. Beals spoke upon the prevalence and the horrors of prostitution. 1t was under this division of hils subject that the preaclier drew some of his strongest pictures. DEATH OF THE SCARLET WOMAN. “Come with me, young man, to yonder hospital, where numbers of these fallen women are taken to die. Enter that ward. Look upon the pale and bloated wrecks of humanity that lie around. Keep the win- dows open, or soon the loathsome odors of disease and death will sicken and compel you to withdraw. Observe that labored and fetld breath; mark those features once fair and beautiful, now half fiend, half pain and misery racked with the last’deep cough The harlot approaches the awful realit of another world, There is no hope in her death. Corrupted, hardened and intemperate, the earthly has already passed into the sensual and the sensual is rapidly giving place to the devilish, Her accumulated in- iquitics, llke a huge millstone, lie on the brink of the great gulf ready for the supreme moment when the unbiessed spirit passes to the judgment and leaves the shattered temple in which it dwelt in dishonor. Mark it well. The vital spark has fled, and the discased body stiffens into the ghastly pallor and_rigidness of death “No mother is present love, no sister to smooth the hai folds. 'Tis best it should be so. I name, nor speak of relatives these have long since been woman who lies before us. See. The rough coffin is borne into the ward. Gently the sheet Is lifted, and now the human clay has found its bed. Hu it away, bury it deep lest the corruption spread. What part did you have In bringing this once pure girl to this awful death?” The balance of the discourse treated of marital excesses, which the speaker charac- terized as licensed prostitution, adultery and infanticide. He handled all these subjects without gloves. He did not avoid the con ventionalities of the pulpit or the lecture platform, but called spades spades. Con- trary to general expectations the preacher refrained from wholesale denunciations of the authorities, He did not insi that the city of Lincoln should shirk its responsibili- ties by driving out the fallen women. He called for no public exhibition of assumed morality, but went at the heart of the evils, He preached of and appealed to the consclence. The address was listened to with marked attention and Dr. Beals was warmly congratulated by scores upon its conclusion SCHOOL QUESTION DINCUSSED, sald (he to shed a tear of into final 1l not her Home and all dead to the Denounces Catholie This Lin Rev. Madison C. ht at the Bloom “Satolll's cau- Madison Peters Chureh Policy in YORK, Feb, 2 Peters, in his sermon toni ingdale Reform church tious concessions on th made he first arrived here, won him the good will of the American people. But he has shown himself to be a man of many masks. It Americans need any outside aid in settling her educational problem they would prefer an ambassador from a land which can be found where the standard is higher than it is in the United States. It is an insult to American Intelligence to have a man sent here to dictate in reference to our schools who cannot speak our laun guago and who comes from & nation where at least seventy out of 100 persons can neither read nor write. If Amcricans still cherish the spirit of 1776 Satolli would bg placed in a pneumatic gun of solid senti ment and fired to Italy fopthwith Interter with” our fr school system 15 the most da of anarchy. Let the free schoc mined and one of the chief Rev. NEW sald school question, when gerous sort s be under cornerstones SINGLE CQ Y FIVE CENT public schools were org our youth partisan in religion, but to ized not to make in polities and sectarian give all, regardless of position, nationality or color, a good educ tion. Al denominations maintain separate sectarfan schools and coll but they do not attempt to avold paying the pubiic school tax. Why should Rome thrust her hand in the public treasury any more than any other church? It any church wishes to make a denominational dance there Is not a thing to hinder in this free land, but the denominational fiddler will have to paid with denominational and not with sta money. If there are any persons in the country who are not deriving as much bene fit from this government as they pay for thelr taxes let them recross the Atlantic the the better, that, with our Kindest benedictions sooner too, NO CAUSE FOR TROUBLE, p Ireland Tostracts St Panl Cath- oltes on Their Christian Duty. ST. PAUL b, 25.—Archbishop Treland preached today in the Cathedral of St. Paul on the “Catholic Cause in Americ He sald the church had now all the rights and privil she desired, The liberty of country was hers, The great s which the was all sufficient. of America, he added, we the letter and spirit of the con stitution nd allowed the rights of Catholies. Those who refused them their rights were few nd they would not be heeded, Some Catholies do harm to Cath- olicism by thefr imprudent methods of d fonding it. The opposition of an existin anti-Catholic party would ®die out if it were not noticed.” Catholic papers, in erying out so loudly against it, gives to it importance before the country. It looks as if the Catholics we glad to have a fight on their hand Polities have much to do, not less with the defense than with attacks, and a supreme cffort must be made by ail devoted Catholies to keep the church from entangling alliances with any political part Catholics individually are most free in their political alliances, but they must not drag the chureh with them (o their political parties. No one party in the party or can lay claim to alliance with the church and it would be a great misfortune for the church were she the ally of ~one special party. Cath- olics helong (o all parties and it is well that this the case. When A rican citizens vote t r basis of decigsion must be not the religion of the candidate, but his citizen- ship and his personal fitness for office. To put in office a man because he is Protestant or to put a man in office because he is a Catholic is wrong. The constitution, which gives the suffrage, does not consider a man's religion, but a man's honesty and ability. The archbishop deprecated the tone of some Catholic pape He thought the peo- ple should all rejoice when a good man receives honor. Protestants and Catholies must all become thorough Americans in their politics, and their civil relations with one another, and then there will be no religious discord in the land. There is no opposition in America to the political and soclal rights of Catholics that Catholics need to notice and there never will b — - INSURANCE MEN FEAR FRAUD. common and that mass of people loyal to owns Case of a Dodge County Man Suppose Have Been Drowne FREMONT, Feb. 25.—(Special to The Bee.) —It is reported that the man Dobbins, who was supposed to have been drowned in the Platte river at North Bend a month or so ago, has been scen in Rockport, Mo, As the water at the place, where he was supposed to have drowned was but about three feet deep most people had grave doubts as to the mat- ter at the time, but the river was dragged after the being removed by dynamite, and the fullest search made. There were other susviclous circumstances connected with the case. He lad just taken out a $2,000 policy on his lifo and had been negotiating for more, all for the benefit of his young wife of a few months, who, it may be said without question, belicved that his hody was certainly in the river. The day of his disappearance he stated that he was going to el the river to get a pole for @ hay bind Some of his clothing was the same day found on the ice near the hole and that was the only clew to his fate or whereabouts, The Insurance company has refused to pay the policy until the mystery is solved. The DBagley Heating company of Milwau- kee has been awarded the contract of heating the new government building at 2,653, The wife of Photographer McMillan re- ceived a painful injury yesterday by falling upon an fcy sidewalk, he d-year-old boy of P. H. Morrison, in the east part of the city, swallowed lauda- num_from a bottle, but was saved by the timely arrival of the doctor. Mr. Upton, who is feeding sheep at packing house, will ship 1,000 sheep Liverpool tomorrow. The Young Men's Christian association has decided to put up a $15,000 bullding on its property on the corner of F and Fifth streets, and claim that the means are al in sight. This, with the new Grand v of the Republic hall, will mark @ new era of improvement in the city. the for SWEARING. Noted Divine hs to Death, Feb, 25.—(Special Telegram to The Bee)—Dr. Samuel L. McFadden, divine healer, spiritual medium and teacher of metaphysics and the laws of life, famed the conntry over for “remarkable manl- testations of power” and more remarkable methods, died at his home at 18 Walnut strect this afternoon. men in the United States, who have claimed to po to heal have been better known or more celebrat among the believers of his kind than Dr, Mc- Fadden. Hundreds testify that thoy X perienced instant and permanent relief fre chronfe and malignant maladies by the lay ing on of his hands, and his other offh a healer. “Modern American Spiritualism, Emma Harding's renowned work, that is re garded by believers In spiritnalism almost as is the Koran by Mohammedans or the Book of Mormon by the Latter Day Saints, devotes a long article to Dr. Me Fadden, fn which is recounted a wonderful cure, sald to have been effected by him on the wife of a wealthy man at Titusville, P 1t also tells of his peculiar methods. Dr. McFudden’s way of invoking the “di. vine power” Las made his enemies say th the answer did not come from above, but from the other dircction. He didn't pray. He swore. Ho swore to drive out devils all kindred spirits and disease. His swearing was not refined or smothered in euphemistic veribage. It was th genuine fcle with words such as Clark street darivers His vocabulary, it has been said, would have put a ‘“slang' lexicon to shame. He used it with an ecar that bespoke the artist and a vehemence that would have done credit to a canal tew ess the divine power Whole Fumily Perished GURDON, Ark., Feb. 26.—News ha reached here of the burning of a farmhouse and its occupant miles west of Mur freesboro in Pike county on Wednesday night, John Wert, a farmer, and his wife and five ehildren occupied the house and all perished in the flames. The bullding was constructed of logs with a large fireplace built at o family wore aslecp, fire f nd in that manner ier fnflam ed In No Tmmediate Danger Feb. 25.--Repre 1 the following ( | General £ Mexi My can o expeeted {mmediate danger, good of our national Independence is gone, Qur | He is still at Guadulajare.” HE FEARS N0 COURT General Master Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Labor Defies Judge Jenkins, WILL VIOLATE HIS INJUNCTION AT ONCE Euroute to Minnesota With that Exprossed Purposo in View, CHEERED BY DES MOINES LABOR KNIGHTS Branch of the Ordur Organized in Towa's Capital Last Night, GENERAL JAMES B. WEAVER PRESENT ks of the Enthusiastic Labor Chams sed w Sensation and Much el Was Manifested -Gives Notice to United States Marshals, DES MOINES, Feb, George W. How ard, vice president of the American Railway union, organized a branch with 1756 members this af The general exceutive board of the Knights of Labor and General J. B. Weaver' were present. After the organiza- tlon General Master Workman Sovereign made a speech in reference to the injunction against him by Judge Jenkins. Sovereign said: “Iam golng to Winona will speak there on Monday. On Tuesday and Wednesday I shall be in St. Paul and Minneapolis to talk to the Northern Pacific employes and them that as sure as thery iod in heaven I will violate the injunction of Judge Jenkins. It fs an out- rage on ail workingmen. He would be a poor representative of organized labor who would not have the backbone to do what he pleases against this disgraceful order and would deserve the condemnation of all honest workmen. Who is Judge Jenkins, any how? Simply a man with a soul to damn. I fe no courts. 1If there is a United States mar- here let him serve his process.’” The speech caused a sensation in the meot- ing, but was received with great applause. Only 150 people were in the hall when these words spoken, the majority of the audience having gone home just before tho election of ofll of the new union. Minn., tonight and pssur is a were DENVER, Feb. Since Receiver Trum- bull took charge of the Denver & Gulf rail- road much freight from the east for Denyer and the surrounding country has come via Galveston. The railronds comprising the Colorado Freight assoclation, which was formed to maintain rates, have striven in vain to induce Agent IHickler of the Mallory line to enter a combination aginst the Guify route. Friends of the system say if the present traflic arrangement is continued the receiver will have no trouble paying the company's interest charges, Union Pucin CHEYE! o5 to Meet. e various Inion Pa- cific system have been invited to send dele- Bates to a convention in this city next Wednesday evening. Judge Dundy's order and other matters bearing on the wage question will be discussed, Eugene Delfil, president of the American Railway unlon, will deliver an address here Tuesday evening, BLIZZARD IN THE SOUTH, Texas and the Indian Territory Experiencing. cre Weather, ST. LOUIS, Feb. 25.—Reports from sece tions of Texas and Arkensas indicate that a snow storm bas prevailed there for the past twenty-four hours or more, at Templo, Sherman, Denison and Fort Worth. The storm s the heaviest known in over a des cade. Several inches of snow have fallen in Arkansas and in many of the adjoining states, and in the Indian territory the cold is intense. Trains in Toxas have been des layed in consequence of the storm, and some apprehension is felt by the cattlemen, who fear that the storm may result disastrously, In the Seminole Ind ation the bodies of Joseph Add, a negro, and two half- breed Indians have been found in the woods frozen stiff. They were hunting and being caught in the blizzard of several wecks ago perished. Denver Toorvists o DENVER, Feb. . G. Pratt and Mrs. Georgia Mason,who represented horself as his sister and made demand upon the Fire and Police board to aid in the recovery of money belonging to her which she claimed he lost at a gambling house, have both left the eit Mrs. Mason said she was the widow of ex- Judge Mason of Louisville, Ky., and that upon his death she had $150,000, nearly all of which she lost by Colorado investments, Her clalin to be Pratt’'s sister is denied by his wife living in Wichita, Kan., who has asked the Denver police to take charge of her daughter, whom Pratt took aw from home with him, until she cen send for the child, It I8 pres ed the departure of Pratt was hurried on this account. He is sald to be now In Omaha. . Lty INXIOUS FOR PEACE, Inhubitants of Brazil Want the War Sottled Ono Way or the Othe, NEW YORK, Feb. 25,.—The B; Moonstone, Pernambuco, 1tlsh steamer night from port on Jan- which arrived last that brings no news of had nothing to Wfairs at that reported, is iled from 2 aptain Lavory pecial nature and ing the state of The city, as alrcady martial law, The was the only vessel in the of the fleet having gon previously. The people pross their opiulons on of arrest by the authorities very anxious for a spe War one way or another, DEATH ROLL say port. still under boat Destroyer harhor, the rest south some time dare uot openly ex- shore, being fearful The people are y settlement of the torpedo nise of Stecle Macknye While Enroute to Sun Franciseo. DENVER, Feb. 25 this morning at small sta tion near the Now Mexican line,while aboari, a Santa Fe train on his way clsco. Steelo Mackaye Timpas, Colo., a aled San Fran- on. M. 1L Stait, EL PASO, Tex., Feb, 25.—Bx-Congress- man H. B. Strait, who for twelve years rep- resented Minnes in the lower™ house at Washington, dled on the Mexican Central train here this morning. He had been on a pleasure trip and was suddenly taken il - - Movements of O At New from Havre At Havr New York At Queen York for an Steamors k Arrived — La bruary York Boulogne, Arrived-—La Champagne, from town--Passed: Liverpook Servia, from New,