Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 23, 1894, Page 3

HOUSE IS GETTING READY Bpeculation as to What They Will Do with the Taziff Bill, FREE SUGAR MEN ARE DETERMINED Bpirit of the House Ap e Favor- able to Compromises on Most of the Benate Ameadments, but Draw the Line on Sugar, ars to WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BEE, 1407 F Street, N, W., WASH! 'ON, June 2: No agreement has as yet been reached n the ways and means committe ing the stand which th the sugar schedule of the Yeved, howover, that th the senate and house on be desperate, with a deadlock between the house The Wilson bill, as it left the hou contained no sugar schedule, as the tax on raw and re fined sugars had been struck out and ths concern- house I8 to take arift bill. It is be. truggle between this schedule wil possibility of a long on THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1891 out of work. When asked if any party se- cured an adyantage through the existing as- soclations Mr. McCabe replied that their reports were generally falr, although he thought from his recent experfence in the editorfal chair of a daily paper that the news of the Associated press was more re- lable and unbiased than that furnished by the United press, ON UNCERTAIN GROUND, rict Greand Jury Strack a Snag In Dealing with Contumacious Witness WASHINGTON, June 22.—The conclu- #lons reached by the grand jury in the cases of the recreant witnesses before the senate Sugar trust Investigation committee will not be officially announced before next week, it then, the jury evidently having some reluctance to act. A short session was held today. The only witness was Senator Gray, chalrman of the in committee who testified to the action of Broker Chap- | man of New York when he was called be | fore the committee. The senator dwelt upon the refusals to reply to the senatorial | aueries, and submitted to an examina- | tion on this polnt by the members of the | He polnted out the fllezality of the action of the witnesses and cited the law bearing on the case. He also discussed the | alleged injuricus effect of sustaining th | contumacious conduct of Messrs. Edwards, | Schriver and Chapman. His testimony was H stigating bounty had Leen abolished outright. The nate schedule i, therefore, the ouly sugar proposition to go to conference, and the first dssue will be on refecting the senate schodule entirely and thus. returning to the house a form of the bill which contalned no sugar schedule. 1f one or the other side will not yleld on this issue the next step will be to frame a_compromise. The attitude of the ways and means com. mittee on the senate sugar schedule has not et been made clear. Chairman Wilson has een away for ten days and there have been jo meetings or conferences since the schedule sed the senate. It is believed, however, at the committee is disposed to be cons orvative and conciliatory, and to avoid by iny fair agreement anotlier protracted dis. dussion or deadlock. But the committee iy ot sure of having the house behind it in 18 conciliatory polcy. It was on sugar that the committee sustained its first d eat when the Wilson bill was before the ouso and this victory of the free sugar radicals may be repeated. LOUISIANA HAS NO PLANS. Representative Price of Louisiana, who presents the largest sugar district of the te, mays the Louisiana delegation has 6 no plans and is aimply waiting on 0 action of the senate. He and others of e democratic delegation say the outcome pends largely on . the disposition of the nate to stand by its amendments. Reprosentative Meyer of Loulsiana says o senate amendments make the sugar duty 8 than the Loulsiana delegation contended r in the house, and that the disposition uld probably be to accept the senate hedule as the best obtainable. The free sugar men are very determined, and some of them say there can be no com- romise short of an absolute surrender of 8 senate 1o the house amendments, “The house fs overwhelmingly opposed to ther tax or bounty on sugar,” said Mr. ery. “It was 50 when the bill passed 0 house, and it 1s 5o now. If anything, the ling I8 stronger for free sugar now than was then. There is the voting strength, erefore, to non-concur av the outset in the nate sugar amendments and to keep non- nourring as often as the conferences re- port failure to reach an agreement. “With this overwhelming sentiment and yoting strength for freo sugar it would scem assure a very determined stand on the rt of the house. To be sure, however, the eling against another long contest and the osire of members to close up the work of e session would operate, “A canvass is the only means of de- ining, and none has been made. If the use votes as it thinks, and positively de- ines to yield to a sugar tax, then the estion may be presented as to our taking our coats and staying here all summer ther than yeild to the senate sugar endments. But as to myself, I will not oss that bridge until I reach it. Sure it ), however, that there is to be a most t effort to have the house stand by convictions against a duty or bounty ¢n gar.”" “I belleve In remaining right here at our ks until the 4th of next March rather n surrendering to the senate sugar hédule,” sdld Mr. Warner of New York. think, moreover, that the house is cer- to mako a resistance which will compel gengte to yiold, It will be hot weather lashington, and this protracted struggle 1l bring many discomforts, but it will not a8 hot for congressmen here as it will be them in thelr districts if there s a tax sugar. Our constituents and our editors for free sugar, so that members can be rviog their districts best by remaining ero until the senate Is forced to yield." SUGAR SHOULD BE FREE. Mr. Warner was asked If the senate sur- gonder would have to be absolute and un- ndjtional, or whether the house would Al 7ieid somewhat for the sakie of agree- he normal, natural, inherent position of o house I8 for no tax and no bounty on gar,” he continued. “It will be this or mething substantially like this that the ouse will insist on. If a slight revenue luty was put on raw sugar It might be the s of an agreement. But it would have 20 be limited to revenue, and not a particle for protection, except that glven by a rev- enué duty. The senate schedule gives pro- teotion as well as a revenue duty to the foflners. The house will never accept any- thing of that sort. It will have either free sugar or else sugar that Is at le protection to the refiner Bome of the free sugar men In ‘the former gontest in the house are now inclined to eld thelr positions rather than see a long ebate. ~Representative Hatch of Missouri is ono of these. He says: “My judgment is that the house ought to emphasize its posi- ton on sugar. And yet I believe any bill which comes out of the conference commit- tee will be so far ahead of the McKinley Bill that I will be ready to surrender my views on ono or two articles in order to secure a bill. Itis abill we want—a bill. On the other hand Representative Harter holds thut the McKinley bill Is better than the Wilson bill with the senate amendments. He says: “I do not know what the others expect to do, but I shall not vote for the tariff bill as it comes from the senate. Unless materlally altered in conference, 1 greatly prefer the McKinley bill as a re- publican measure than see the senate bill &0 on the books as a democratic law."” IN A GENERAL WAY. Representative Pickler filed with the post- mastor general today a largely signed peti- ton from citizens of Copp, S. D., asking that the postofice at Copp be re-established. This ofice was discontinued because it was tmpossible to find a democrat to hold the position of postmaster. Representative Pickler today recelved a telegram stating that the Black Hills Na- tional bank at Rapid City has failed. In- spector Zimmerman has been sent out to investigate the matter. It is expected that there will be a long fight over tho position of recelvership. Chauncey L. Wood and W. N. Johnson, both of Rapid City, are appli- cants. Representatives Pickler and Lucas called at the Treasury department today and filed several papers in the case Mrs. Olement Chase, wife of Editor Chase of the Omaha Excelsior, is in Washington for a few da: W. L. May and wife of Omaha are stop- ing a few days in the national capital on heir way home from New York. Mrs. May Bas been south for her health. The Graves Elevator company of Roches- ter, N. Y., were the lowest bidders for fur- nishing and placing an electric passenger elevator. in the public building at Lincoln, Neb., bids for which were opened in the supervising architect’s office today, The amount oi their bid was $5,600, John Morrisey has been appointed post master at Alcester, Union county, 8. D, vice T. J. Mayers, resigned. Kate A Bchuacke has been appointed at Big Stone, Grant county, 8. D., vice M. O. Movins, re- signed. Printers Favor Telegraph. WASHINGTON, June A delegation of the International Typographical union ap- peared before the house committee today to advocate the government telegraph. Wil- liam McCOabe of Washington was spokesman. He urged government control of the tele- graph lines on the ground that It would lead to the establishment of more newspapers, ihereby giving employment to many printers very brief, as the jury continued in session | less than an hour. “Then the jury adjourned | until Monday, Mr. Gray also had a consul- tation with the district attorney today with reference to the Indictment of Broker Chap- | man. " The district attorney is now pro- | ceeding with much caution with the work, | and he has found that the resolution under | Which the investigating committee is pro- ceeding is very unsatisfactory for purposes of prosecution of the witnesses, as it I8 neither very clear nor very epecific. The Chapman e 18 considered the strongest | of those persented to the grand jury, and | the district attorney on this account has decided to put It ahead and virtually make it a test case The Edwards and Schriver case, therefore, will be allowed to remain unacted upon until it can be shown what can be done in the Chapman case. This case will also take precedence over the Havemeyer, Searles | and McCartney cases, which the vice pre ident probably will certify to the district attorney today or tomorrow. R-COLONIAL RAILWAY. Forthecoming Report on the Project Looked Forward to with In t. WASHINGTON, June 22.—Richard C. Kerens of St. Louls, a member of the inter- colonfal railway commission, who has been in the city for the past few days, speaks enthusiastically of the work which has been done and says that when the report of the commission s published it will be found to be more interesting than a novel, because of the information of an unknown region that it will_contain “That country is,” he said, in a brief in- terview, “‘a sealed book now, but the report which {s in preparation will throw a flood of light upon it, and will, I think, be the means of attracting such attentlon to it as to insure the building of the road. Possibly it will not come in our day,” he added, “but there is no reason why the day should be long delayed when a man can get into a palace car and ride to the heart of South America. The proposed road will open up the territory of fifteen republics south of Mexico, and the immigration of tho United States and the disposition of the people of those countries has shown the favor with which the project has been received. We have received as- surance that every country through which the lino has been surveyed will make land grants and other concesslons to insure the building of the road. The United States will not find it necessary to grant any further aid than that necessary to make the facts known, aé will be done in this case. The building of this road will follow as surely as it followed the publication of the reports on the Pacific raflroads.” Mr. Kerens says the resources of the re- glon which will be developed by this great line will be found to be marvelous, and that a country sufficlent to support a population of 200,000,000 people will be opened up. Mr. Kerens thinks it the place of all others for the United States to send its surplus immi- gration. TALES OF ARMOR PLATE FRAUD. INT Informer Cralg Gives Some Additlonal In- formation Regarding Them. WASHINGTON, June 22.—Charles S. Craig of Edgewood Park, Pa, was today before the congressional committes investigating armor plate frauds. He was associated with Sill in giving the main information of irreg- ularities at the Carnegie works. Craig's evi- dence was much like that recently given by Sill and corroborative of it. He testified that he made reports of the work on armor plates from the workmen's slates, giving the actual work done. The reports were submitted to Superintendent Cline, who changed them to bring the work within the government con- tract. The altered reports were then fur- nished to the government officers. Cralg gave from his note book a list of armor plates which had been doctored after they had been turned over to the government as test plates. He gave details of thie re-treat- ment of each plate. Many of them were re- treated after the government had rejected them. Cralg testified that he had been in- structed by Superintendent Cline to burn the original records showing the real work done. Cralg sald that while assistant heater he observed much surreptitious work on plates. He gave the technical details of these irreg- ularities. This was done without the knowledge of the government officers and was to deceive them. The capacity of the Carnegle works was not sufficient to do the work properly. He had heard Cline complain to Assistant Hunsiker that more furnaces were necessary. Mr. Craig identified a number of alterations in reports made by Superintendeht Cline. WESTERN PENSIONS, Veterans of the Late War Remembered by the General Government. WASHINGTON, June 22.—(Special to The Bee.)—Penslons granted, issue of June 9, were: Nebraska: Original—John Fisher, Ogulalla, Keith. Increase—Joseph Smith, Grand Island, Hall. Reissue—Thomas R. m, Arborville, York. Original widows, Susan M. Horn, South Omaha, Doug- Original widows, ete.—Emil on, Graham, Clayton; James C (father), Clarinda, Page. 'Mexican war widows, ete.—Sarah Garner, Council Blufts, Pottawattamie . South Dako Renewal and Increase— Ellas W. Kirkland, Mound City, Campbell. Refssue—Henry R. " Draper, Wessington, Beadle; Edward M. Crabbs, Redfield, Spink. Colorado—Jose Lobato, Hastings, Las An- imas. In —Joseph' H. Childers, Den- ver, Arapahoe Predictions on the 1 WASHINGTON, June 22.—Senators Harrls and Aldrich were in conference today, and, after separating, bgth expressed the opinion that the senate would conclude the considera- tion of the tariff bill in committee of the whole before the close of the day tomorrow and that the bill would be disposed of and ready for return to the house for adjourn- ment on Tuesday. Senator Allison is not so hopeful of a speedy vote on the pasasge of the tariff bill as are many other senators. on the income tax likely to continue until tomorrow night, and does not think the pros- pect good for a final vote before Saturday of next week arift BiL « e Go. WASHINGTON, June President Cleve- land has been obliged by the pressure of public business to torego attendance upon the national saengerfest in New York. He had provisionally consented to review the torch- light parade of saengerbunds tonight, but has now sent the managers word that he cannot do 0. & Gold Stlll Golng Abroad. WASHINGTON, June 22.—The gold taken trom the subtreasury at New York today for export amounted to $2,380,000. After deduct- ing the $400,000 in gold recovered yesterday and $100,000 received today, the true amount of the gold reserve is $61.902,776. The cash balance today was $115,662,880. e e See the jugglers Courtland beach, He thinks the debate’ STOCKHOLDERS ~ CAN VOTE Atchison Stockholders Not Deprived of that Privilege by Deporiting Their Stock. SANTA FE GIVES RATES ANOTHER TWIST Rlo Grande Has a Kick Coming Beeause the Homeopaths Were Not Given Time to Take in Side Exe In Colorado. rslons CHICAGO, chairman of June 22 the reo Summer Haynes, nization of the At- chison road, is in Chicago today. In speaking of the plan of reorganization, he said that it was a mistake to suppose the stockholders would be deprived of their right to vote on any or all questions submitted. “The de positing of thelr stock with a trust com pany,"said Mr. Haynes, is a mere matter of convenlence to provide a way by which the {ncome bondholders may also have a vote during the period they derive .no in- from the securities. The laws of this country provide that only stockholders shall have the right to vote, but by agreement we have arranged to allow the in come bond- holders the same privilege. When any ques- tion Is to be voted on there will be a pre liminary meeting of both stockholders and bondholders, something like a primary meet- Ing at elections. At this meeting the stock- holders will cast an informal vote, the re- sult of which will be placed in the hands of the trustee of the stock, and he will cast the formal vote in conformity therewith." Mr. Haynes appears to have little doubt of the plan of reorganization being adopted as submitted Action was taken by the Atchison road today which will have a tendency to com- plicate the existing demoralization in cursion rates. It gave notice of its inten- tion to extend the date of sale of tickets from the trans-Mississippi for the Re- publican league meeting at Denver so as to include June 23, 24 and 2. The original dates agreed upon were June 23 and 24. This action was taken because the trans-Missouri lines had agreed with the Unfon Pacific to change the dates of sale to June 24 and 25. The Atchison also gave notice that it would make an additional day of sale in trans-Missouri territory for the Natlonal Educational convention tickets to Asbury Park. The iriginal agreement was that the dates of sale should be July 6 and 7, but the Atchison will now sell July 5, 6 and 7. It will also have an additional day's sale fore the Christian Endeavor soclety meeting at Cleveland. The agreed dates were July 8 and 9, but the Atchison will sell July 8, 9 and 10." Western Passenger association lines hauve been authorized to take similar ac- tion in each case. A blg protest was filed by the Denver & Rlo Grande against the short limit allowed on_tickets sold the homeopathics for their convention at Donver. The Rio Grande as- serts these short limits have deprived the Colorado lines of a large amount of revenue, as they prevented the delegates who desired to do so from taking advantage of the Colo- rado tours ararnged for them. It does not want the thing repeated. come WILL TEST B. & M. CHARGES. Grand TIsland Mercantile Company Objects to the Company's System of Collection. GRAND ISLAND, June 22.—(Special Tele- gram to The Bee)—Grand Island Mer- cantile company, whole e groceries, today replevined a car of sugar from the B. & M., which st had ordered from a San Francisco Jobber, and which had been billed to Lincoln and then returned to Grand Island. The car was shipped to Aurora, then to Grand Island, never making Lincoln, and when the Mercantile company tendered freight charges minus the local rate from Lincoln to Grand Island the agent refused them. The Mercantile company then replevined the car and Las possession. The case will be brought into test before the Interstate Com- merce commission and federal courts, if need be. Gulf Road Cutting Wages. DENVER, June 22.—The employes of the Union Pacific, Denver & GuM Railroad com- pany claim that General Superintendent Dunaway has made a sweeping reduction in wages and that faithful employes have been dismissed without good cause. A committes is preparing a list of grievances to lay be- fore Receiver Trumbull and if he refuses redress an appeal will be made to Judge Hallett and the trouble may lead to a strike. General superintendent Dunaway denies that there has been any reduction in wages, He says if any of the pay checks were short it was due to the fact that the men’s full time was not sent in last month. Recelver Trumbull says there will be no trouble. Object to Paying e Notes, SIOUX CITY, June 22.—The Missouri, Kan- sas & Wexas Trust company has filed objec- tions to the allowance of $900,00 off claims filed in the federal court against the Union Stock Yards company. Tne claims are on notes fssued by the officers of the company in its name and negotiated through the Unlon Loan & Trust company. The company, it is claimed, recelved nothing from the notes. It is alleged the money raised by thelr sale was appropriated by the officers to thelr own use, Suit will be commenced Immediately on the claims. Atchison Bridge Will Soon Be Useless. ST. JOSEPH, June 22.—Raflroad officlals here are of the opinion that the bridge ac. cross the Missouri river at Atchison will have to be abandoned before the summer is oves and are making no effort to protect their right of way. All trains between Atchison and this city now use the Burlington's tracks. This cannot last long, however, for the bridgo will soon be in the middle of the river as thy land at this end will have been eaten away. Men to the South Are Kicking. ST. JOSEPH, June 22.—A delegation from the Commercial club of this city, together with representatives from Atchison, Kansas City and Leavenworth, are in Chicago today to protest against the action of the railroad companics in making a minimum rate ot 50 cents for packages shipped by freight. The rate has heretofore been 25 cents. e HARRIS WELL WHIPPED BY WALCOTT. New York Exhibition Neatly Reversed in a Go ut Bost: BOSTON, June 22.—Two thousand people in the Casino saw Mike Harrls of New York, the much lauded conqueror of Joe Walcott, counted out after an unmerciful drubbing his plucky opponent. The first round was all In favor of the black man. In the second round Walcott started in to finish his man quickly. He was over- anxious, however, and in one of the rushes received a stiff {eft hander in the mouth which brought him up with a jerk. The gong saved Harris. The third round was but a_repetition of its predecessors, Wal- cott doing all the leading and punishing. It looked in the fifth as though Harris wanted to stop, for twice did he drop to his knees without being hit. The sixth and last " round was rapid. Walcott " followed Harris about the ring, landing right and left 8o fast that the spectators could mot count the blows. After Walcott hit him a Stiff one on the jaw he fell to the floor and remained there until counted out. opka ¢ ouldn’t Win it A HASTINGS, Neb., June 22.—(Bpecial Tele- gram to The Bee)—Hopka of Blue Hill in today's game struck out eighteen men, but in*general was hit very hard. The feature of the game was Reynolds' batting—five times at bat, five bases, two singles, two doubles and one three-bagger. Score Blue Hill . e 410000100-6 Hastings Y. M. C. A 012686302 Hits: Hastings, 17; Blue Hill, 9. Two-base hits: Hopka, Reynolds, 2; Meston. Three- base hits: Reynolds. Hatterles: Hopka and Smith; Rohrer and Reynolds. Drugglsts Agminst Bankers. This afternoon a team representing the Richardson Drug company will meet the First National bank's team at Twenty- seventh and Corby streets. Players: First Nationals—Iler, first; Low, third; Maris, left: Shackelford, right; Murray, Street, pitcher; Zimmerman, sec- ond; Miller, short stop; Burchmore, middle Richardson Drug Company—Broyer, short stop; Abbott, second; Kuhn, catcher; Roo- ingon, pitcher; Schall, gight; McKelvey, third: Wallace, middle;3fRyborg,left; Har: per, first. o Carpet Against Mardware. The Orchard & WJh@im Carpet Co.'s cross bats with the Clean Clippers of Rec- tor & Wilhelmy Hardware company at Twentieth and Poppleton avenue at 3:30 p. m. Saturday as follows 0. & W, Poritipn. €. G, Hamer ... Cateh. ... Reed Hayes Pltohd Troby Hawes ..\ Miller ldridge Frank Stocking ... Simpson Tooker .v.ivis iivnes Dorcus Welch . Moehler Grotte ... e Mdde . Bennison H L. Right Marsh urday. the Ga & W.'s ‘are open ime with any, gqod uniformed club, p City Again Befeats Ord eb., June 22,~(Special to The Bee.) —Loup City and Ord base ball clubs met for the second time this season at Ord and the game ugain went In_fayor of Loup City by @ core of 20 to 5. The batteries were Mellor and Ward for Loup City and Hond and Pratt for Ord. The citizens of Ord have contributed enough money to their_club to bulld one of the nicest little grand stands in this part of the state and to leave about $100 ‘still in the club's asury. - S 1 n Hundred. (Special Tele- The Bee)—Five hundred exclted, antic people, witnessed a ball game between the Osceola and Afton teams, for $100 a side. The Osccola team made the winning run in the half of the ninth inning almost fi at this ats Mascot. ~In Satadin Def PHILADELPHIA, June race for $2,000 a side between Saladin Mascot, the former puced the first t in 2:08%, the fastest mile ever made in a race at Belmont park. ~Saladin won the second heat and race in 2:10. DE A Jumbo Turtle. Probably the largest leatherhead sea turtle ever seen in Baltimore arrived on the steamer tern Shore, and was sent to the Mary- land Academy of Sciences. The turtle welghed between 800 and 1,000 pounds, was seven feet long, six feet wide, and two feet thick. The head was two feet in clrcum- ference, and a man could get his head in the turtle’s’ mouth. Its fins were as long as a man's arm, and a foot wide. It was caught in J. A. Marion’s fish net, at Harborton, Ac- comac county, Va., and had to be raised out of the net and on shore with a block and tackle. It required fifteen minutes and a crowd of men to get the turtle on the boat. When the monster was taken off the steamer yesterday it required six men to turn it on a truck. It died on the boat from injuries recoived In being holsted out of the seine. The Maryland Academy of Sciences will hae the big shell mounted. — - TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. a match and George W. Stewart, a Boston yacht de- signer, dled yesterda: Colonel Scott Newman's colt, Greenbery, valued at $10,000, Is dead. The Princess Colonna has commenced di- vorco proceedings in Rome. The funeral of ex-Senator Perkins will be held in Washington Saturday. The democrats of the Twentieth Tllinois district have renominated J. R. Willlams. The New York Central company has de- clared the regular dividend of 1% per cent Richard Wade, a prominent Chicago at- torney was str.cken with apoplexy yester- day. Republicans of the Fifteenth Ohio di have nominated H. €. Van Voorhis fol Bress. Seven prostrations from ported in Chicago Thursday. will dfe. The Pacific railroads committee of the house has about completed consideration of the Reilly bill. | Senhor da Costa Duati, the Portuguese consul at San Franci:co,is to be transferred to Washington. Republicans of the Fourteenth Ohio dis- thict have nominated Winfield 8. Kerr of Mansfield for congress, Willlam Whaley, colored, was hanged at Columbus, 0., for -the murder of Allen Wilson in Gréen county. At Fairfield, Mo.,' yéstérday, the republi- cans nominated Judge Orlend Burrel of Hamilton county for congress. Frank Henry Coake of London and Miss Beatrice Lindell of Kansas City were mar- ried at the latter place yesterday. A strike of gold quartz, which averages sixty ounces to the ton, i reported in the Pike's Peak mine at Cripple Creek. The Farmers Loan and Trust company has secured a judgment for $374,247 against the Grape Coal company of Illthols. Unknown Smith, Coxey's deposed lieuten- ant, was fined in police cour. at Greensburg, Pa., yesterday for disturbing a lawn fete. “The American Grocery company of New York and New Jersey” has been “incorpor- ated at Trenton with a capital of $3,000,000. Gold shipments this week aggregate $7,775, 000, the largest for a single week since Feb- ruary. Wort Dent and O. P. Wright of Crawford county, Georgia, quarreled, und as a result of a duel with knives and pitchforks both will dle. Astronomers who have been conducting observations at Flagstaff, Ariz., think they have located several of the canals on the planet Mars. Moloch, 2:17, by Strange, Is dead. He was expected ‘to make a mile o 2:10 this season, and was valued at $20,00. e was owned'in Chicago. The Topeka home guard contingent of the Industrials held a meeting yesterday and denounced the federal court for sending the Sanders army to jail. At the twenty-fifth annual reunion of the Army of the Potomac at Congord, N. H., General Alexander 8. Webb of Neéw York was elected president. Dr. Gustavius Drolshagen and his wife were mysteriously murdered at Lawley, Fla., wihile sleeping. Robbery is the only motive that can be assigned. The new torpedo boat built at Dubugue will be started down the river shortly on its journey to New London, Conn., where the ‘trial trip will take place some time in July. The Washington grand fury has not yet returned indictments against’ Edwards and Schriver, the newspaper men who would not answer the investigating committee's ques- tlons. Two boys, named sons of prominent citie Wis., fought a five-round batt resénce of over 100 spectators. nocked out, and his people trouble. Elmer C. Satterly, cashier of the defunct Kansas City Safe Deposit company, was ar- rested yesterday on the charge of receiving deposits after he knew the concern was Insolvent. John Ldziki was arrested at Cleveland last night on the charge of murdering Elizabeth Janickie. The murder grew out of a church quarrel which involved a plot to assassinate the priest. The famous Sutrg’ tunnel In Nevada has been attached to 'force a settlement of cluims aggregating' $12000 against the Com, stock Tunnel company. The tunnel origi- nally cost about $5,000,000, Texas populists havé nominated Judge L. Nugent of Fort Worth for governdr, and adopted @ platform advocating & number of radical reforms, which include the aboli- tion of all private batlk: The representatives of live stock Interests, who have been in session at Washington for several days, adjourned yesterday. They advocated uniform ‘state laws for the sup- pression of cattle digeases. Congressman Breckinridge, 1t s now ex- lained, only received the formal invitation hat ls' customarily mailed to all senators and representatives to deliver the Fourth of July address to Tammany. . Thompson, who has been working Keepers in various parts of Illinois, Iowa and Missguri in & number of ways, Plended gullty at Bprimgfield to using the Inited States mails to defraud. He will recelve a penitentiary sentence. The Santa Fe company commenced taking up its track at East Atchison yesterday to prevent it being washed down the river At Harlum a house that was vacated the day before fell into the river yesterday and went down stream. Sherift Parke, veyor, W. Ered ‘Hoy rict con- heat were re- Two laborers Thompson and Hart, s at Egu Claire in the Hart wus threaten government townsite sur- Morey, W. J. Bhawcross and are under arrest at Perry, Okl They were Indicted by the grand jury for crookedness In selzing a town block in Perry at the time of the opening last Bep- ber, worth §100,000. Attorney J. A, Bmith, who 18 being tried for libeling the Kansas populist oficials, is making his defense on the ground that be- ing Interested in the welfare of the state be had a right to write as he did If he be- lieved the statements to be true, HERR DOWE'S SECRET TOLD The Composition of the Bullet Proof Cuirass Degcribed, CHINA GRASS AND EDGED STEEL The Latter Cuts the Bullets and the Former Gathers the Fragments litary Sensation Exploded, The German The secret of the much advertised and widely discussed bulletproof cuirass for the use of soldiers when in action I have been sufficiently fortunate to discever, writes the London correspondent of the Philadelphia Times, and the Information for which Herr Dowe asks the glish government to pay him £200,000 can be acquired by the United States for the modest price of this paper. It consists essentially of a combination of a material woven of china grass, the fibers of which are very tenacious, and the blades of tempered steel, aluminum or iron, dis- posed o that their edges are presented to the bullet. The way in which the structed is as follows: A sheet of linen or canvas s taken, On this fs laid a sheet of waterproof materfal, and then lay- ers of china grass are placed upon it, the fibers being all disposed in the same direc- tion untll the sheet is as thick as is re- quired. Another sheet of canvas Is then placed upon it, and the whole is sewn to- gether and subjected to pressure. One sheet of this kind forms the front of the culrass and another the back. If it is only required to resist pistcl bullets nothing fur- ther is required, the material being sufil- clently resistant’ for this purpose. The china” grass requires no treatment of any kind, being used in its natural condition. To' resist rifle bullets, however, something more is required, and this s provided by blades of metal placed between the front and back of the cuirass, with a_metal casing on each side of them, the whcle being held in podtion by a pidding of felt. The blades are sharp at tho edge presented to the impact of the bullet, and thus, when the latter strikes the cuirass, it is cut up Into small pleces whose further progress is stopped by the sheet of china grass ma- terial. Privato Frederick Lowe, who was one of those who did the firing at the Alhambra trial, writing to the Times the mext day, pointed out that “the bullet fired from the dress circle broke up and the splinters spread laterally,” and he shrewdly re- marked: “We wWere assured that there was no steel or fron plate, but why did the bul- let break up and why did its fragments muke holes in the upper ‘deck of the cushion five inches away?” The explanation is easy if we suppose {he cuirass to be con- structed as above described, and the denial that there was any steel or iron plate is also explicable, since aluminum blades may be substituted, Further, and this perhaps is the most sig- nificant fact of all, there is Captain Marten’s evasion In an interview of the direct ques- tlon whether the cuirass was proof againsta steel bullet. Steel bullets, he remarked, would spoil the rifiing of ‘the gun, but whether they would spoil the cuirass or not he did not say. -The Times military cor- respondent, it will be remembered, stated that Herr Dowe and Captain Marten gave as an explanation of certain details in the Al- hambra_trials that in the trials in Berlin some German officers “played on the in- ventor the cruel trick of introducing into the rifle steel bullets.” Steel bullets would, of course, easily penctrate a cuirass, such as is above dekcribed, however effective it might _be against bullets of lead or nickel. Herr Dowe's objection to steel bullets can therefore be easily understood. Herr Dowe is a thick-set man, somewhat under the medium height, with a typically Teutonlc cast of features, square-cut jaw and blue eyes, the latter having the curious concentrated expression of men who have pored for years over one theme. When unoccupied he stands absolutely still, with his hands in front of him, looking into space. This may be because he does not understand & word of the English conversa- tion going on around him; for he speaks only German. From hls appearance he should be about 35 years of age. He was born in Westphalla, and for some years he has been a tailor at Mannheim. In a re- cent interview he safd of himself: ‘A man_ who lived next door to me gained 1,000 marks by an invention, so I thought— why should I mot invent something that would bring me money? Then I looked about for something to invent. It had to be something connected with my trade. At last I determined to make a cloth which should resist bullets. I was working at the invention a year and a half. I looked after my business during the day and worked at my cuirass at night. And during the din- ner hour L would run off to the Schiessplatz and test my material. All the time my wife was lying ill. She lay ill for three vears. And then she dled just before I had completed my invention. I did not hit upon the bullet-proof cloth all at once. I had to go day after day to the rifle ground and experimept. It was not tho first time, nor the tenth, nor the fiftleth that I su ceeded. At first the bullets went clean through. Then they were stopped, but their force was not broken. But now when the bullet strikes my cuirass I feel no more than a finger tap.” The cuirass Is at present being offered to the English government. As Herr Dowe 18 a poor man he could not afford to travel about himself giving exhibitions of the power of the cuirass. An arrangement has consequently been made between Captain Marten and himselt by which Captain Mar- ten supplies the necessary capital for two years, and during that time Herr Dowe is in his hands. cuirass is con- A cooling ride—to Courtland beach. ———— A Relle of 01d Days. “While stopping at Prescott, Ariz., on a recent western trip,” said Ben L. Folsom, a New York drummer, to the Globe-Demo- crat, “I was shown a stage coach that s said to have been held up and gobbed oftener than any other that 1s now In_ex- istence. 1t was originally a handsome Con- cord coach, drawn by elght horses, and said to have cost $2,000, but it has scen its best days, and now stands in the yard back of a livery stable, a dismantled and dilapl- dated affair. It began Its career early in the 70's, running between Tombstone and Prescotl, and {8 said to have been robbed cighty-three times. Eight drivers and as many express messengers have been killed from its box, and no small number of its passengers are reported to have been Killed While énguged in-a conflict With the rob- ers.'” e PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS, J. 8. Corbin of Denver is at the Arcade. Willlam Otto of Hebron is at the Dellone. Frank Heaton of Lincoln has rooms at the Paxton. Ex-Judge Ogden has returned from Lake Washington, Minn. F. J. Foss, a merchant of Crete, Is regis- tered at the Millard. 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