Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 20, 1894, Page 2

UNDER COVER OF SARBATH Pe'oit Iron Work: Emp'oyes Attempt to Remove Valuable Beatrien Property, IGNORE THE COURT'S ORDER WORKMEN Arvested and Jailed Sheriff - Little Scheme that Work by the Gage County Falled to (8pecial Telegram to a uumber BBATRICE, Aug. 19 The Bee.)—For several days past of men In the employ of the Beloit Iron Works company have been at work in th paper mill, three miles southeast of the city, packing the machinery ready for shipment. About a year ago the outfit was sold under a mortgage held by the company mentioned Last night, at midnight, the Unlon Pacific sent a train of te ars down to the mill and the work of loading the machinery was begun. Local creditors who have liens upon the property got on to what was going on and prevailed upon Judge Babcock to issue an infunction. This was served upon the workmen by Sherift Kyd, but the men re fusing to give any heed thereto the sheriff returned to the city. A warrant was issued for the men upon a charge of working on Sunday and the foreman and four laborers were lodged in jafl. Through the efforts of an attorney they were released on bail at 4 o'clock this morning. It is expected that the men will proceed with their work after 12 o'clock tonight, and if they do, it Is prob- able arrests will be made upon fome other charge. The plant Is valued at $25,000 and the claims held against it by local parties amount to several thousand, the Dempster Mill Manufacturing company being the heav- fest creditor. The attempt of the Beloit com- pany to spirit the machinery away in the night looks as though they Were not abso- lutely sure they had a right to do it. HAMILTON COUNTY EDUCATORS. Normal 1nstitute Closes a Sucesssfu of Two Weeks. AURORA, Neb., Aug. 19.—(Special to The Bee)—The Hamilton county normal insti- tute, which has been in session for the past two weeks, clos:d yesterday. It has been conducted by County Superintendent Stanley, who Is well satisfied with the work, it being the general opinion that more good In an educational way has been accomplished dur- ng the session just closed tho. at any in- stitute previously held in this county. The enrollment was 149, and in spite of the hot weather the average attendance was about 95 per cent. Of those enroll:d thirty-seven were males and 112 females. A number of the students of the High scliool were also in attendance. Mrs. Sara D. Jenkins of Ithaca, N. Y., was the fnstructor in reading and language, geography, physiology and didactics. ~This was the second institute here in which she was the instructor in the branches named. She has finished her institute work in Ne- braska for this year and left for Reading, «Pa,, today. J. L. Rose, superintendent of the Aurora schools, was fnstructor in grammer, orthog- raphy, algebra and practical and mental arithmetic, and contributed largely to the success of the institute. Many teachers who attended the institute were enabled to pass better examination by reason of having recelved Instruction from him for two weeks. County Superintendent Stanley was the in- structor in civil government, a subject in which he is thoroughly posted, and deep interest was taken in this study. During the first week of the institute lectures were glven by Prof. J. A. Beattie of the Cotner university, and Prof. J. F. Saylor of the Lincoln Normal university, both of Lincoln, and were much enjoyed by the teachers and a large number of citizens. The sub- Ject of Prof. Beattie's lecture was: ‘“Educa- tlon—The Need and Safety of Our Country,” and that of Prof. Saylor's: ‘“Mind—Its Growth and Laws. A. K. Goudy, state superintendent, was present, and addressed the teachers and school officers, taking as the subject of his Temarks, “The State—Why Should it Edu- cate?” Tt pleased many of the teachers to (8eo the state superintendent take an interest dn the institute, and his visit was one of the many pleasing features of the session. About 100 teachers passed examination at the close of the Institute, and go forth with certificates qualifying them to take sesponsible positions in the schools' during the next year. There are ninety-eight school districts in this county, giving employment to a total of 120 teachers. A prominent educator remarked to the writer, that the country schools of this county were in the hands of teachers who were, as a rule, well qualified for the work, and that if a few among the number would take a courss at the State university they would be heard from later in educational clrcles. OMAHA GUARDS GET THE CUP. sslon General Colby Tssues an Order Disqualify - ing the Thurston: N a Technicality, LINCOLN, Aug. 10.—(Special Telegram to The Bee.)—Over 5,000 people witnessed the sham battle of the Nebraska National Guard encampment yesterday, and the army officers who were among the spectators state that it was one of the finest military specta- cles they had ever seen. A quict Sunday passed in camp today, with religious services, conducted by the chaplain of cach regiment, There has been a good deal of discusslon over the award of the governor's cup to the Thurston Rifles, and caucuses of the colonels O the regiments, the brigadier general and ather officers have been in progress all day. 1t was proposed at first to order a new driil, because the Rifles did not drill with their full company. This cvening General Colby Jssued an order awarding the cup to the Omaha Guards, with the explanation that al- though the marking of the judges gave the trophy to company L of the ond, they had not complied with the regulations and were not entitled to the cup. The score of the three competing companies reads: Com- pany G, Omaha Guards, 90; on Rifles, #1.4, and the Norfolk company, S1. The big pavilion of the State band was prected on the grounds and a series of con- certs has been given. A dance is in pro ress et the pavilion this evening, and a couple of band concerts completed the day's pro- gram. dals very o Crowded. T, Neb., Aug 19.—(Specal to The The management of the camp meet- ing here was agreeably surprised today at the number of visitors In attendance. Every tent owned by the assoclation is occupled, and many tents owned by private parties are crowded. The committee on entertain- ment announces that arrangements are being SERIES NO. 26, August 19th. 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Send orders to Tho Bos OMlea orders should b addresssd to DIOTIONARY DEPARTMENT accommodate others who are ex- | This morning's services largely attended 6 o'clock At 8 o'clock President | Slavens of Beatrie conducted a love feast, | at which were present every person on the grounds and many from town and the sur- rounding ecountry, Evangelist Wilson de- Jiyared a powerful sermon. Rev. Calfee took charge of the young people's meeting, and Rev. Mr. Sciby led the children’s eeting. Word has been rec ed from J. A, V the noted Cslfornia evangelist, who expected, recalling his appointment on unt of failing health made to peeted L morrow opened with prayer meeting. Aubura Notes and Personals. AUBURN, Neb., Aug. 19.—(Special to The Bee)—Mrs. R. B, Reynolds is the guest of | Rufe Leack and family. Fred Martin of Lincoln Is visiting friend Mrs. R Plattsmouth Mrs. J. W. Carver of Madrid, Neb,, Is the guest of Mrs, B, C. Worden Rev. H. H. Hope of New York will preach at the Christian church next Sunday morning and evening. Mrs. D. A Tuesday anno her mother at day morning her bedside, The reopening of this city will take place a. m. Father Fitzgerald, the first Catholic pastor of Auburn, will be the celebrant at high mass. Madam and Prof. Boucher will assist at the music of the mass. In the evening Rev. Willlam Murphy will preach. J. F. Cole and son_ attended the reunion at_Tecumseh this week. Walter Gilmore pald St. Joseph a business trip the last of the weel Miss Dell Dundas Is ok. Les and Milon Whittemon from the Cherokee Strip. Henry Carse of Nem: of his daughter, Mrs. E. of this city. W. T. Kauffman, one of Brownyille's pros- perous merchants, was in town Tuesday Mr. L. Scott and family Sundayed Rulo. Miss Mae Holmes Tecumseh Mrs. Charles Hamon of Johnson I8 visiting relatives in Auburn. John Crammon of Brownville is clerking for J. C. Hacker. Miss Lydia Skeen visited Nemaha City last week Auburn 0. Fellows and daughter Sundayed in Meese received a telegram neing the dangerous illness of Dixon, 11l She left Wednes with her children to attend the Cathclic church in Wednesday at 10 visiting friends in have returned City is the guest McCandlass, in is visiting friends in relatives in Injured by an Infuriated Bull FREMONT, Aug. 19.—(Special to The Bee.) —Herman Past, a farmer living a few miles north of the city, was attacked and seriously injured by a bull yesterday. He was thrown from the stable in which he was attacked and across the yard and escaped by crawling into the barn, but not until his clothing was torn from his body and he was seriously gored and bruised. The Grand Army of the Republic gave a dance in the park last evening. The Turners and their friends are enjoying a pleasant picnic in Maller's grove today. Oliver Clancey, an employe on the Godfrey farm, lost two fingers in a corn sheller yes- terday. Miss Maud E. Turner returned last evening from a visit with friends in Kearncy. At a meeting of the directory of the Dodge County Agricultural society, held yesterday, the secr:tary, James Huff, was authorized to make all necessary repairs and improvements at the fair grounds and employ a band for the fair. George Marshall was elected gen- eral superintendent and Mrs. A. Truesdell superintendent of floral exhibits. Work in the harness factory and collar factory was suspended Saturday night for a few weeks only. Ashiand Affairs. ASHLAND, Neb., Aug. 19.—(Speclal to The Bee)—The six weeks' summer normal, under the direction of County Supcrintendents Clark of Saunders and Farley of Cass, closed here today. The school had an average at- tendance of 150 during the whole term. The school will be continued next year. Among the instructors were Superintendents Clark of Saunders county, Crabtree of Ash- land, Principal Halsey of Plattsmouth, Profs, Cromwell of Tobin coliege, la., Parsons of Fremont and Miller of Grand Island. Nearly all the teachers left last evening to attend the county institute, which meets in Wahoo next week. A light rain fcll here Thursday evening, the first rain since July 4. The crops in this vicinity will be better than was expected at first, President W. A. Norton of the State Nor- mal school lectured at the Methodist Epis- copal church Wednesday evening before the summer students, Camp Morrow Almost Ready. GRAND ISLAND, Aug. 19.—(Speclal to The Bee.)—Quartermaster Harrison of the reunion committee Is one of the busiest men in the city these days. The camp is all planned and the tents are expected to arrive in a day or two. They will be pitched at once and held in readiness for next week's visitors to Camp Morrow. Mr. Harrison was at first greatly alarmed lest he could not secure the necessary hay, straw and wood, but he has secured all of these in sufficient abundance, though with some difficulty. Straw was secured at Archer, a distance of twenty-eight miles, and is being hauled down "during the night. Tho indications are that at least In one respect this reunion will eclipse all others in respect to speakers. Grafton Brovities, GRAFTON, Aug. 19.—(Special to The Bee.) —M. Carbury of Seward, formerly a resident here, was in Grafton last week. The body of Mr. Douglas of Bradshay, brother-in-law of Mr. Shafl, was brought here for burlal Tucsday. Mrs. Burke took charge of the Le Clade hotel Wednesday, Landlord Miles having moved to his farm near town. There is general complaint of sneak-thiey- ing. Grain, meat, chickens, ete., are stolen almost in ‘broad ' daylight. Cerfain partles are suspicted, but no arrests have been made Plattsmouth Boy Drowned. PLATTSMOUTH, Neb., Aug. 19.—(Special Telegram to The Bee)—The 15-year-old son of George Flechtner, a foreman in the B. & M. shops, was drowned in the river here this afterncon while swimming. The body has not been recovered yet. Struck the Editor with His Safe Full, M'COOK, Neb., Aug. 19.—(Special Telegram to The Bere)—Last night burglars effccted an entrance into the office of the McCook Tribune and secured about $3 in small change and some postage stamps. mall Blaze at Falrh FAIRBURY, Neb., Aug. 19.—(Special Tele- gram to The Bee)—A small dwelling belong- g to Willian Felkner was destroyed by fire this afternoon. Loss, about $400; fully insured. AR e Eriesson ohaved Waell, WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—In a letter mailed at New Orleans on the 14th ult Licutenant Usher reports to the Navy de- partment concerning the performance of the torpedo boat Ericsson coming down the Mis- sissippi river from St. Louis, as follows: It is worthy of remark that so well has the machinery performed during the passage of 1,200 miles that it has not been necessary to slow or stop the engines, except to make landings or come to anchor. The run was made by daylight on account of low water, and the Ericsson will proceed to New London, Coun,, as %00n as repairs are made to her propeller strut and the bones of the pro- peller are- put on, stopping perhaps once or twlice only for coal L Rifles mphant March. ‘fhe Thurston Rifles will leave Lincoln at 4:50 p. m. today and arrive in Omaha at 6:50. They will march from the depot on Tenth to Farnam, west on Farnam to Sixteenth, north on Sixteenth to Douglas, east on Doug. las to Fifteenth, south on Fifteenth to arm- ory, Fifteeuth and Harney. e City of the Second Ulass. SIOUX CITY, Ia., Aug. 15.—To the Editor of The Bee: To decide a bet please state whether South Omaha has got a charter for a first class city or Is South Omaha a city of first class. READER. The courts have decided South Omaba to be a city of the second class, ——————— Sham Battle of Federal Soldiers. CHICAGO, Aug. 19.—The 1,800 United | conditions of men States troops in camp at Evanston engaged THE OMAHA DATLY BEE: MONDAY fn_a sham battle Satardiy under the command of General N. A. Miles. The spec- tacle was a brilliant one, and witnessed by more than 30,000 prople. COMPARING APPROPRIATIONS, ght Millions Less Than Those the Previons Sess! | WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—~Chalrman Sayres | of the committee on appropriations | has completed an official statement of the | amount appropriated by the session of con- gress just closing, as compared with pi sslons. The statement , represents the views of the democratic majority in the com- and in the house on the economy of nment expenses. Mr. Sayres' statement reads as follows: The appropriations made during the extraordinary session and the first rogular session of the present congress, in- cluding permanent appropriations, show a duction of $28,285,389 under the appropr tions made at the last session of the last con- gress, and deducting the amount of the river and harbor bill, $11,373,180, which should be done for the purpose of comparison, nasmuch as no river and harbor bill was passed by the last congress at its last scssion, the re- duction s $40,309,169. As compared with the biils passed at the last session of the las congress the following reductions are shown in the table: Agricultural bill, $101,476; army bill, $632,755; legislative, ete., Dbill, which carries in the main_ the great salary list of the government, $557,507; military academy bill, § pension appropriation bill, $14,949,780; sundry civil bill, $7,506,533; on o t of deflelencies, $10,456,440; on ac- count of permanent appropriations (including $11,000,000 for sugar bounty, which is abol- ished, and $450,000 exper under election laws that are repealed), $14,303,593; total re- ductions, $48,624,119. The bills showing increases over the last laws are follows: Diplomatic and con- sular bill, District of Columbia bill, §131,339; ations bill, $126,949; Indlan bill, $1,475,408; naval Dbill, $3,223,065; post- office bill, river aud harbor bill, total, $11,473,180; miscellaneous, $29,500; total increase, $19,788,229. The secretary of the treasury, in submit- ting the annual estimates to congress in December last, stated he had included therein no amount for the payment of the bounty on sugar, but that if the law authorizing its payment should not be repealed it would be necessary to add to the estimates for 1895 for permanent appropriations the sum of $11,000,000. But in July last the commis- sloner of internal revenie estimated the sum required to pay this bounty, if not repealed, would be $15,200,000 for the fiscal year 1895, and $17,500,000 for the fiscal year 1896. The expenditures made for bounty on sugar have been as follows: Riscal year 1892, = 028; fiscal year 1803, $9,56¢ fiscal year 1894, $13,073,879. The postoffice bill makes the usual increase incident to the growth of the country and its commercial interests, the number of postoffices having increased during the period between June 30, 1890, and June 30, 184, by 7,404, the number of post routes by 4,514, the length of post routes by 26,73 miles, the annual revenues from the service by $15,098,055 and the total annual expenditures by $17,952,500. The sundry civil Dbill carries §$5,400,000 toward payments under contracts for river and harbor works authorized under laws passed during the Fifty-first and Fifty-second congre:ses, For river ind bharbor v orks there was appopriated at this session, $11,473,180, and $8.438,000 for contracts in the sundry civil Lill, the tofal sum of $19,873,180. During the first session of the last congress there was appropriated by the river and harbor bills, $2,905,038 more than was appropriated at this session. At the present session there has been appropriated $1,300,000 toward me-t- ing the river and harbor contracts author- ized by the Fifty-first congress and $7,100,000 toward contracts authorized by the Fifty- second congress, leaving $5,448,799 of the former and $14,263,368 of the latter, or $19 712,147 in all of the river and harbor con- tracts yet to be appropriated for. To finally equip and complete and arm the fitty new vessels of the navy, built or au- thorized, it is estimated there will yet have to be appropriated the further sum of $23 080,974, making a total of $112,042,163 which the new navy, as now authorized, will cost. During the present session of congress the salary list of the government has been re- duced by more than 600 in number and over $700,000 in annual cost, and more salaries have been reduced than increased. Mr. Sayres attaches elaborate tables to the statement, which give in detail the points he has summarized. e i RECRUITING DEPOTS AB. Twenty NDONED. ‘Would-Re Soldlers in Future to Be Sent at Onee to Train with Veterans. WASHINTON, Aug. 19.—By an order issued by the secretary of war the three great army recruiting depots at Davids island, New York harbor, Columbus, O., and Jefterson Barracks, Mo., are wiped out and in their places will stand military posts. The department has had this change under coysideration for some time past, the scheme originating with Adjutant General Ruggles. Heretofore the men picked up at the small recruiting stations about the country have been sent in small squads in charge of a sergeant to these three central recruiting depots, where they were quartered and drifled until ready for assignment to some regiment in active service. The department has concluded that these green recruits will become - proficient soldiers much sooner if sent immediately to join and tram with the veterans at the different posts, and that is why the change is made. The transform- ing of the recruiting departments into army posts will also be in line with the accepted policy of concentrating a good force of regulars at places near the great cities. In place of about 150 recruits exch of the new posts will have a permanent garrison of about 300, and in the case of two of them at least the rank of commanding officer will be ralsed from lieutenant to full colonel. NO expense s involved in the change, as the derots are a'reedy well supplied with qu: rters for the infantry. The assignment of troops to the new posts has not yet been made, e A s SHAKING THE TURKS. Eurthquake Sup- vernment. It will probably never be known how many persons have lost their lives in this cat trophe, writes a correspondent of the New York Tribune. The Turkish government hates nothing so much as.facts, and the giving of statistics, or anything like statis- tics, of the earthquake damages has strictly forbidden to the newspapers. The oficial record of the event is that the earthquake has done no great'harm save to old buildings that were alrcady likely to fall. But the most of the government de- partments are established in temporary quar- ters all the same. Moderate estimates place the numbsr of killed in Constantinople at about 150, and the number of wounded at about four times as many. The government and private benevolent individuals are using every effort to help the miserable creatures whose houses are ruined, and whose daily bread 15 taken from their mouths by the collapse of busine But it will be months before people can begin to find means of self- support agal The merchants from the bazaars have taken their goods to shops in other parts of the city, and are trying to set up again in new quarters. But they are lost to their customers, for there i no pos- sibility of keeping the guilds together in the new arrangements, while advertising has not yet been learned by Turklsh mer- chants, This earthquake is universally deemed a direct expression of the wrath of God. So when some parts of the bazaars which are not injured were reopened this weel the peo- ple opened with prayers and sacrifices of shesp. They tell a funny story of the ex pression of this idea of a special Divine in- terposition at the English consulnte here A woman had just been found guilty of som lme and sentenced to imprisonment by the onsular court. She declared herselt in- nocent, and called down the judgments of heaven upon the court Just then the earthquake occurred. In the midst of the resulting panic the prisoncr had time to say, “There! Didn't 1 tell you so?" e Praise for the Telepl Girl, The telephone girl is not so bad as she is painted, says the Courier-Journal. Indeed, oftentimes she is not bad at all; and where she is, three times out four she fs made so by the genarl depravity of the “all sorts and not forgetting women— with whom she has to deal, who look upon the hello glrl, not as & human being, but as | a sweet been | a public target at thev mav enn- AUGUST 20, 1891, venlently discHaFga~ thelr Impatience, vexa- tion and wrath gver the affairs of daily life that “gang a-gle¥.” ' The wonder of it is not that there are # Hlany cross and unaccom- modating girls, But that there are so many patient, obliginik ‘andl sweet-volced girls who make our connedtions for us in the exchang > man ought th allow himself to becomo A cynic after heliring some of the sweot volces of the Ndllo‘girls. A girl who can stay in a telephpne’ exchange and preserve voice I€ living and conclusive proof that the salt of ‘the¢ earth has not yet lost its savor, LUCK, NOT SKILL. AnlRelates n Exporio “Policemen somei'mes got the credit of making a clever capture when, if the truth was only known, the capture is the result of pure, blind luck,” said H. L. De Witt of Philadelphia to the Globe-Democrat. “I used to be on the police forca myself, and I had one or two just such experiences, 1 remember one fnstance very distinctly when I was complimented by my captain for my prowess in capturing a thief, where, had it not been that the man actually threw his plunder on me, while I was asleep, thereby waking me up, I never would have known that anything was wrong. The beat I walked at that time was on the outskirts of the city and there had been a good many complaints entered by the residents in that locality thal their chirkens were boing stolen. I had tried to catch the thief, but had so far been unsticcessful. One night, feeling pretty tired, I walked around to tho rear of a house and seated myself on a log that rested against the back yard fence. s 1 sald before, I was pretty tired and I had not been seated there long before I fell fast asleep. 1 had not been asleep very long before I was awakened by a heavy bun- dle falling on me, and, starting up, was a good deal startled at first at hearing a scrambling noise on the fence top right above and the next moment a big negro a red on the top and without even taking a look below him, dropped virtually into my arms. A more surprised man than he when he discovered me you never saw. I at once placed him under arrest, and picking up the bundle that had so rudely broken my slum- bers, found it to bs a sack filled with chickens, which the negro had just stolen. He had ‘wrung their necks, placed them in the bag and then threw it over the fence, in- tending to get it when he climbed over him- self. I took him to the station and he, thinking I knew all about him and had been watching him, made a clean breast of the matter and confessed that he had been the one who had committed all the former depre- dations. I, of course, made a good case against him and got a good deal of credit for my smooth detective work, which I bore with becoming meekness.” Quite Unsympathetic, Texas Sifting Birdie McHennepin and her brother were at the seashore. 0, see that!" exclaimed Birdie, See what?” inquired the stoical John. “Why, see that little cloudlet just above the wavelet like a tiny leaflet dancing o'er the scene.” 0, come, you had better go out to the pumplet in sthe back yardlet and soak your little headlet.” = et PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. An Ex-Poli Professional Miss Mal Shirley and her friend, Miss Gerke, have returned from a visit with the family of Dr. Beatty of Dunlap. Mr. and Mrs. W. L Laird, nee Florence Mead of Omaha, ‘spent Sunday at the Murray on their way"home from Denver to Chicago. TELLGRAPHIC BRIEFS, Domestic. A move Is on foot to organize a corn meal trust. A. B. Cross, a veteran Joseph, died yesterday. Conrad Neikoff, a Chicago bank defaulter, has been captured at Alton. About all the whisky in the St. Louis dis- trict has been taken out of bond. The sundry civil service bill has been sent to the president at Gray Gables. Theodore S. Baron & Co., knit underwear manufacturers at Brooklyn, have failed. B, T. Harris, & Co. manufacturers of architectural irgn. work at Chicago, have failed. Benton C. Cook, a well known Cook county attorney, died at his home in ISvans- ton, TiL. Treasury department has advertised for bids for striking 23757 bronze World's fair medals. Coples of the new tariff law have been mailed to all the customs officers in the country. Joseph Dusty of St. Joseph was sentenced to death yesterday for assaulting a 7-year- old girl. The annual coaching parade, one of the great social events at Newport, took place aturday. A wild man has been found in the woods near Boise City, Idaho. He is supposed to be insane. Rev. Cobb, the tourist who was reported lost in the mountains, has arrived safely at Trinidad. Captaln John W. Catlins has been ap- pointed chief engineer of the revenue ma- rine service. The Dreifus & Block company are mak- ing_arrangements to build a tin plate mill at Pittsburg. Actor M. B. Driskel at Austin, Lakewood, N. J. Judge Aldrich of Columbia has decided that the new dispensary act in South Ca lina s unconstitutional. The loom fixers and web drawers in the mills at New Bedford, Mass., have voted to strike Monday morning. Sall Eichel, the German forger arrested when he landed in New York, started back to stand trial yesterday. Treasury officials have confiscated a lot of scrip fssued by Kansas merchants to be used in place of currency. The finance committee of the preparing to push the tariff bills of the action of the senate, Rev. A. Cobb of Springfield, TIL, who Is on an oufing in the mountains near Denver, has been lost for two d; Mrs. Byers, the wife of fron manufacturer who was abdu nies that he left of his own accord. Cruiser Newark, now at the Cape of Good Hope, will not Chinese squadron, but will proceed to the south Atlantic. The New York & New Haven railr unearthed a sche of the nductor steal tickets and sell them to broke The Amoskeag company of Manchester, N. H., announced that all the machinery in the mills will be started up Monday. The remnants of the Dalton gang are re- ported to have congregated again and arec preparing for a raid on the Muscogee bank Wi am Vogel, son of prominent New York clothing merchant, Saturday night shot and killed Louise Dartlett, his mis- tress. The st clsco ye: Pacific pa: hours Conductor GosintSn “has been found gullty of murder tor! the killing of Colonel H. €. Parson # well known Kentucky politician tus s Dr. David Furmy, late attorney general of the state of Calorado, died at Gowanda, N. Y., where he Jis bean residing for the past yea H. B. Hess, a prominent Indianapolis at- torney, committél Suicide yesterday. Grief over he death off hik wife and child was the cause. W. W. Allen of “8t. John, N. skipped out after beating a large of ‘wholesale merchants of whom chased goods o A war In insurange rates at San Fran- clsco Is likely to yesult from the expulsion ol the agent of thy Northwestern company of Milwaukee from thit local boar: Marine hospital*bivbau has adyic m Amsterdam to tHeé 'eWect that there were twenty-nine newscaked of cholera and nine deaths during the st (wo weeks Pueblo strikersywhb were arrested by the deputy marshals and taken to Denver have commenced damage sults inst the shal, charging illegal imprison ent C. C. Cline, police porter of the Kansas City 'l s, has been sted for destroy ing the property of the Rock Island Rail road company at Round Pond, Okl. At the time the property was destroyed Cline was mayor of Round Pond Among the passengers arriving in New York yeste Ay was a usin of the mikad of Japan, who has been in this country and Europe inspect naval vessels and navy yards. He salls from San Francisco for home as soon architect of St. Curtis_has traded the Hotel Tex., for 6,000 lots in snate is in spite the Pittsburg ted, de- amer China arrived at San Fran- erda; having made the St age ‘on record by almost twely D., has number he pur- o g The report th inet had resigned Is officlally denied. Only one new case_of cholera ported at Amsterdum Saturday The English propose to put into effect the gold standard In Britlsh Honduras, The latest news from Bluefields 1s to the effect there Is no change in the situation was re- HEROES IN BLUE AND CRAY Course of the War Changed by Graut's Pro- motion as Chief in Command, ARNIZS WERE KEPT MOVING TO ONE PLAN Jefforson Davis Al planting Johnsto Victory of the Into Defent d the North Hood Latter Was Othor War Notes. in Sup- Mow the Turned with From the beginning of the civil war to the date of the advancement of General Grant to the chief control of the union armies the strength of the government had been frittered away in weak and incon sequential efforts at various points, but no intelligent guiding mind appeared in the direction of our movements for the suppres- sion of the rebellion. Advances by the Army of the Potomac were met by con- stantly growing, reinforced armies of con- federates. Campafgns by the armies in tho west and southwest were rondered abortive fo. the same reason. All of the confederate mies were under the control of General Les, who directed their movements as one mobilized whole, whose component parts were always within comparatively easy sup- porting distance of each other. A sorely pressed confederate army in Virginia was spe-dily aided by the arrival of reinforce- ments from the armies in the Carolinas or Ternessee. Or, if these outlying armies were attacked by superior federal forces, their ranks were quickly filled from the main army and victory remained with them. The railroad facilities of the south and the comparatively short line of operations en- abled them (o successfully practice this method of co-operation on every occasion Thus were the battles of Stone River and Chickamauga rendered almost hopeless contests to the union troops be- cause of the swift concentration of superior forces in their front, while to the union gencrals there were no means of counter- acting such movements, nor facilities at hand for similar concentration. When eneral Grant went to Washington (o re- ceive his commission as licutenant eral he very modestly suggested to President Litcoln” and the cabinet that the rank con- ferred upon him was an “empty honor unless it conveyed with it a power com- mensurate with the responsibility I°rom that hour success perched upon the banners of the armies of the republic, and there it remained until the spirit of re- bellion was crushed down in fire and blood by the trampling of the soldiery of mighty nation. It was General Grant's plan to “advance along the whole line and encircle the confederacy with a wall of steel, lead, iron and_fire, until it was throttied to death.” Thercfore, on the 5th day of May, 1564, the Army of the Potomac under Meado, the Army of the Mississippi under Sherman, the Army of the James under Butler, the Army of the South under Gilmor., the Army of the Gulf under Canby, all moved as one body upon a common foe, Vastly different was this from the former hap- hazard movements of the independent com- manders, hamper=d as they had been by the mighty impotence of General Halleck, the great military peacock at Washington City. seneral Grant remained with the Army of the Potomac, but it is not of the movements of that army alone that I would write today, but concerning the Army of the Mississippi under General Sherman. That grand army was composed of the Fourth, Fourteenth and Twentieth corps, Army of the Cumberland under command of General Thomas; the Kif- teenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth corps, Army of the Tennessee, under command of General McPherson; and the Twenty-third corps, Army of the Ohio, under command of General Schofield; the entire force amounting to not less than 120,000 effective men of all ranks and arms. From the 5th of May to the 224 of July this grand army had moyed steadily southward until the primary goal of thelr desire was in full view, and before them lay Atlanta. Opposed to General Sherman in this im- portant campalgn was General Joseph E. Johnston, the ablest general produced by the south in the greal civil conflict. It was General Johnston who contrived to be on the first battlefield of Mannassas, in time to drive the union forces in a panic from that field. It was General Johnston whose maneuverings drove McClellan in despair from before Rich- mond. It was Joseph E. Johnston who made the cap'ure of Vicksburg so difficult, and al- most compelled General Grant to forego his great undertaking. General Johnston opposed General Sherman in a manner most skillful and indicative of great strategic ability; and manifested a capability of conducting a de- fensive campaign greater than was displayed by any other commander in the annals of the civil wars of the worid. It is indeed doubtful if General Sherman could have suc- ceeded in the capture of Atlanta, and the sub- sequent march to the sea, had General John ston been permitted to continue in command of the army. But the confederate president, for petty spite and malicious jealousy, removed General Johnston and appointed in’ his stead J. B. Hood, a dashing fighter, but in no degree capable of creative generalship and percep- tion of the great events then transpiring Jefferson Davis aided the north very ma- terially by that action. Before leaving th army General Johnston explained to his suc- cessor a plan which he had conceived of striking the Army of the Tennessee in the flank and rear, ncar Peach Tree creck, and General Hood adopted the plan as his own. General Johnston then retired and repaire:l to Richmond to be assigned to a subordinatc command. GENERAL HOOD'S DEFEAT. . On the 224 of July, 1864, General Hood undertook to execute the plan as conceived by General Johnston. At absut 10 o'clock in the morning, as the Sixteenth corps was moy- ing eastward along Peach Tree cre:k prepar- atory to a grand flank movement which was to bring the Army of the Tennessee to the south of Atlanta on the Jonesboro road, the brigades on the right were furiously at- tacked by the masked and massed confeder e army, whose furious onslaught upon the regiments in n ching order caused the old vete ns to recoil and flee, panic stricken, away from their line of march through th. woods. They were doubled up on the - teenth corps, which, fortunately, stood firm, having had time to prepare for the shock Nearly two miles away, conversing with General Sherman, was General James B. McPherson, commander of the Army of the Tennessee, and ono of the ablest and best beloved of all the genmerals of that grand army. Hastily mounting his horse, he plunged away at a break neck pace, like a true soldie toward the sound of canncn in the unexpected battle. Knowing the loc tion and direction of his troops, General M- Pherson rapidly came fo the point occupied by the Sixteenth corps. But alas! they had been driven away and thelr place was oc cupied by the victorious southrons. was called upon to surrender, realized turned his horse to flec, when a thousand bullets whistled after him, a number of them striking the gallant general, mortally wounding him. He fell from his horse and was rcbbed of his watch and purse as he lay dying upon the sod. News of the death and robbery of their commander soon spread from rank to rank, until the entire army of the Tennessee knew of the disaster, and faced ab.ut to redeem the day and recover the body of their fallen leader General Hood was unable to understand and apprec ate the.importance of the advantage which he had gained, nor did he appreciate tho temper of the arny which le had thus at tacked and bereaved 1l was it for Sherman and his Army of ‘enuessee that General Johnston was not in command of the confederate army at that time. Hood was incompttent, and all the ad- vantage gained by his vigorous assault was lost by his reckless waste of time. In less than two hours the unfon army had re formed and came onward In line of battle with such determination as always brings with it They struck the clated pil laging confederate army and hurled it into and across the eek with shouts and yells of triumph. Sundown of that eventful day found Hood's army broken and hopeless be- bind the fortifications of Atlanta. The body of Gen 1 McPherson was recovered, and bis death made the subject of most touching comment by General Sherman in geners orde Tuls orugsle success ‘vas but one of many bat- tles In the continuous fighting from Chat tanooga to Jonesboro, but In_fmportance it ranks second to mone in its ¢ffects upon tho great campaign, while by the loss of General James B. McPherson the union army and the nation suffered fncomparable injury. HONORS THROUGH THE BOWL. am a temperance man,” says Con gressman Hull of Towa, “but upon one oc casion [ Indulged in the social habit of drinking, and it turned out to good advan tage at the time. “The Twenty-third Towa infantry was being organized, and a great struggle was going on for preferment in the line, by the different companies. Every captain’ wanted to have his company occupy either the right or the left or the cente the line, and hence they wanted to be company, B com- pany, or “C' company. I was a lieutenant in Captain Grigg's company, and was sent to Davenport to seo Adjutant’ General Bake! in order to have certain companies made A and B, and my own company or that wo might have the center of the regi- mental line and carry’ the regimental flag I was a very young man then, and after spending three days in Davenport and being unable to see the adjutant general, I became disgusted and angry and got ready to start back to Des Momnes. I had my satchel packed when I met Hub Hoxie, and in response to his inquiry I told him that I had been there long cnough, end that the adjutant general would not see me, and that 1 was going home completely tired out and disgusted. Hoxie advised me to remain awhile. He said that the adjutant genc would soon be down town and on the way to his office would want to take a drink of whisky. He advised me to invite the general to take a drink and while indulging in the liquor to state my case to him. Fllowing the advice of Hub Hoxie I stocd around the hotel until General Baker came in, when I approsched and invited him to tako a drink with me. The old man smiled and sald that he was just about to take a drink anyway and walked nto the bar-room With me. We eich pourcd out our liquor, but befcre taking a drink I stated what my business was in Dave he old man would not drink until I tcok my lquor, and T did not raise my glass to my lips until 1 had stated my case. The adjutant general took out a memorandum book and sa'd that he would attend to it right away. We then took a drink tegether and that afternoon the order was made out in accordance with our desire. It took a little temporary intempor- ance to accomplish the result, but during war times that did not amount to much, My company was mede company C, all of our boys we nd preud of the' designa- tion. We carried the ilag, of course; but there were many times afterwards, when the bullets were flying fast and thick, when I would just as lief have been in company D, or any other company of the regiment." CLEAN COLLAR MEANT BATTLE. On the march and in the camp Sherman's life was simplicity itself. He had few bril- liantly uniformed and uscloss alds about him. The simple tent “fly’” was his usual head- auarters, and under it all his military family e together, writes S. H. M. By in M Clure's for Augu His dispatches he wrote mostly with his own hand. He had little use for clerks. But Dayton, his adjutant general, was better than a regiment of clerks. When we halted somewhere in the woods for the night, the general was (he busiest man in the army. While others slept, his little camp fire was burning, and often in the long vigils of the night I have seen a tall form walking up and down by that fire. * % * Sherman himself slept but little. He did not seem to need sleep, and I have known him to stay but two hours in bed many a night. In later years a slight asthma made much slezp impossible for him. After the war, when I was at his home in St. Louis, he seldom retired until 12 or 1 o'clock. It was often as late, too, on this march. It was a singularly impressive sight to sce this solitary figure walking there by the flickering camp fire while the army siept. If a gun went off somewhere in the distance, or if an unusual noise were heard, he would instantly call one of us to go and find cut what it meant. He paid small attention to appearances; to dress almost none. ““There js goinz to be a battle today sure, said Colonel Audenreid of the staff, cne morning before daylight. “How do you know?" asked a comrade, “Why, don't you sec? The general's up there by the fire putting on a clean collar. The sign's dead sure.” A battle did take place that day, Cheraw, with forty caunnon, fell into hands. It was more a run than a battle. LAST WAR VETERANS. The war of the American Revolution closed in 1783. At that time a soldier belonging to the regiment of New York militia com- manded by Colonel Marinus Willett, who had been four years in the army, was a young man of 23." Eighty-six years later, on April 5, 1860, says the Washington Post, having reached the age of 109, he was gathered to his heroic fatliers at (he town of Fre-dom (not inaptly named), Cattaraugus county, New York. His name was Daniel F. Bake- man, and he was the last of the revolution- ary pensioners under the special act of con The last of the revolutionary pensioners on the regular roll was Samuel Downing of Saratoga_county, New York, who listed as a private in 1780, when only 14, and dicd in 1867 at 101, Only twenty-one among us one who bore a musket at the surrender of Cornwallis, yet lived to hear the tidings of the surrender of Appomattox These incidents furnish no data, of cour: on which to base exact foreknowledge of th time when there shall remain in the land of the living only a single soldier of the great armies that were disbanded in 1865, but it is not unreasonable to suppose that cven if none of the veterans of the war is spared to the extraordinary age of Daniel Bake- man it will be reserved to some of them, to turn the century point. If there s a soldier, who, like Samuel Downing, was but 17 when discharged from the service, and who lives to Downing's age, he will die in 1949, It 23 at the time of his discharge, and he lives to the five score and nine of Danl keman, he will dic in 1951, Th chan ¢ that the man who is destined to bear the proud but melancholy distinction of being the last survivor will not be living later than 1950. e, THE LAW IN THE CASE. portant and Intoresting ¥ions of the Courtw The liability of a railroad company formed by cousolidation to pay the obligations of its predecessors is upheld in Chicago & Hiinois Central Railway company against Hall, Ind 23, L. R. A, 231, and a note to the case siows that many other decisions to the same effect, The right to levy property s upheld fn son, Kan. 23, L. R. A were annuals and the A note to the case rey of decislons as to levy praperty. The liabllity of a banker who gratultously loans money for a customer on forged s rities is a somewhat novel question pre sented in Isham against Post (N. Y.) 23 L. R. A. 90, in which the ulleged negligence of the bauker is carefully considercd and his lability denled, if the forgery was such as to deeelve a fairly prudent banker. The right of a bank to set off the deposit of one partner agalnst a firm overdraft is denfed in Adams against First Natlonal Bank of Winston (N. C) 23 L. R. A. 111; and a note to the case shows that other de- cislons are (o the same effect. 'he fact that a rallroad company Is com- pelled by statute to blow a whistle of a train as a signal {5 held In Bittle against Camden & A. R Co. (N. J.) 23 L. R. A 283, to be no defense to an action for damages caused by the frightening of a horse by such whistle it it was blown negligently, wantonly or maliciously For trolley poles track, by which a the footboard of a is held in Elliott Rallway company A. 208, that the was liable, and that hound to be on the hat a charitsble made (o pay damag gence of an officer or & Williams gainst Leulsville Industrial School of Reform (Ky.) 23 L. R. A, 200, and a note to the case revl the prior deci- the subject, which ace not altogether and our years ago there walked Deci- on crops Polley 58, where the crops product of industry ws the large number on crops as pe dangerously near the | passenger standing on stroet car fs struck, it againse vport Strect (Rhod 23 L. R trolley rallway company the passenger was not lookout for such poles fustitution cannot be | for the wrong or negll ' I3 declared in Island) an vant ws slons on ace agreed The deduction of debts fr 18 held in Florer against § company. (Ind) 23 L. R. A m taxable credits ridan Insuranc 218, not to b tonal guarantee of uniformity and equality, The constitutionality of such provisions for deduction of debts from taxable property In considered in a note to the case Whether or not one whose property s des stroyed by fire because of the fallure of a water supply can recover damages from tha water company which has contracted with the city to supply the w I8 a very prac- tical question which is answered in Hows. man against Trenton Water company (Mo.) 23 L. R. A, M6, in the negative, The an notation to the case reviews the decisons as to the lability of the water company and also of the municipality in such cases. The natural tendency of persons Intoxt- cated or otherwise lacking in ability to keep out of the way walk upon a raflroad track, 18 fllustrated fn Anderson agalnst Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Raflway company (Wis) 23 L. R. A. 203, In which an infovieated person was killed by a train while walking on a railrond trestle, and this was held (o bo contributory negligence. 1t was also held, though against the dissont of the chief justice, that an_fmplied license to walk on such trestle cannot exist, because It would b contrary to public policy The effect stead s consider (N a divoree on rights of home- 4 in Rosholt against Mehus D) LT Sy in which the homestead s held to renain In possession of the party holding the legal title, If the divorce decreo Is silent upon the question. A note to the cas pre- sents the other decisions on the question. Ignora of danger by reason of the youth and inexperience of a ohild injured in at- tempting to follow the example of adults in passing between cars standing upon a street crossing is held in Schmidt against St. Louis, I M. & S railroad company (Mo.) 23 L. R. A, 250, to be proper for consideration {n determining the question of contributory negligence of the child. The case holds that allroad company leaving cars at a cross- With & narrow space between, must use b « e to avold injury any one when closing up the same. One who to pay the debt of another, and subscquently seeks reimburse ment, may be interested in the decision of Crumlish against Central Improvement com- pany (W. Va) 23 L. R 120, which denies an action at law against the debtor to ratify the payment mad or him, or to recognlz the volunteer as an equitable assignee of the debt, A very extensive note to the case reviews the multitude of authorities on (e effect of payment of a debt by a volunteer or stranger to the original underfaking. No more living question can be suggested than that of the legality of combinations of employers against employes, or vice versa. In Cote against Murphy (Pa) 23 L. R. A, 135, combination of employers to resist a demand for increased wages was held Tawful on the sole ground that a statute had removed the illegality of a combination of the employes te enforce their mand. The court id that the combination of employers would ave be awful before the statute was impliedly legalized by legalizing a combina- tion which it was obliged to meet. Whether a draft in the ordinary form, by one bank on another, is to be regarded as a cheek or as a bill of exchange, is an inter- esting question recently decided in the Mary- land case of Exchange Bank of Wheeling against Sutton Bank. 23 L. R. A. 17, in which it was held that such draft was simply a ciieck, and not an ordinary bill of exchang The difference is, of coul very material in respect to the rights and Nabili- ties growing out of the instrument. Other authorities on the q on, in substance supporting the decision, arc considered in a note to that case. The indorsement of a check * although it is a transaction that has been ex- ceedingly common, is n-vertheless one on which there has not been much law created by decisions of the courts. Like many other matters in banking, the custom has been it- solf the law, but has mot been brought to adjudication in many instanc In the re- cent Maryland ecase of Ditch against Wi ern_ National bank of Baltimore, 23, L. R. A. 164, such indorsements were held to trans- fer the title of the check to a bank which had taken it and paid for it in good faith, although a collecting bank from which it received it had become insolvent before pay- ing over the procesds. The effect of such indorsement s alzo the subject of annota- tion to that case. One of the most interesting questions of the present time, as well as an exceedingly important one, both from the legal and so- clal or political standpoint, is thie constitu- tional right of the legislature to restrict the freedom of contract batwe'n employers and employed. In Leep against St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway company, (Ark.) 23 L. R. A. 261, the validity of a sta ute of this kind is denied so far as it ap- plies to individuals, but upheld as to cor- porations, which are the creatures of the legislature. But even as to corporations, it is held that a statute compelling imme: diate payment of wages, although they would not otherwise be due, upon discharge of an employe, although so far valid, is not valid in 0 far as it attempts to deny the set-oft or deduction of d ug s to the corporation on account of the employe's failure to per- form his contract. volunteers or deposit Peneil for Writing Letters. A new fashion thal is just beginning to grow in New York is that of writing lelters in pencil rather than with pen and ink, and when once It is fairly established it is doubt- ful whether anything but legal documents and business papers that must be preserved will ever be prepared in the old style. Letters are generally shorter nowadays than they formerly were, are more hastily written, more frequent and seidom worth keeping for any length of time. They are not the elab- orate efforts of bygono days thal were often cherished for their intrinsic worth. The pen- cil, which is far more convenient than the pen, is therefore taking its place in the great mass of casual correspondence. AL L Navel Su Damages. Lawyers are ever ready with new methods of procedure and novel grounds for action, but there is an Englishman who has just made himself prominent ta his profession as a deviser of a unique basis for a suit for damag He has entered suit a asking damages and an injunction, on the ground that his practice has been injured by the newspapcr withholding his name in cases where he has been successful and pub- z it only in cases which he has lost ut counsel has been retained on both and the action will be bitterly con- nst a newspaper, sidos tested, The Past Cuarantees The Future The fact that Hood's Sarsapas rilla has cured thousands of others is certainly sufficient reason for belief that it will cure you, It makes pur rich, healthy blood, tones and strengthens the nerves, and builds up the whole system. 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