Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 17, 1894, Page 1

HE OMAHA W i S b DAILY B WEME ER 17, 94—TWELVE PAGES. — — e SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. BUTCHERED THE ARMENIANS " “ Rovival of the Atrocities Perpetrated on Ohristians by the Turks, APPEAL MADE TO CHRSTIAN EUROPE Moslem Soldiers Kill All Who Fall Into "Their Power, Sparing Neither Women Nor the Aged—Claim to Act Un- der Orders from the Porte. LONDON, Nov. 16.—The chairman of the Armenian Patriotic association, G. Hagopian, has sent the foliowing letter, received from an Armenian, whose name is not given be- cause it would jeopardizo his life, to the earl of Kimberley, the secretary of state for foreign affairs. The letter is accompanied by wne from Hagoplan, in which he says: “I have no reason to doubt the authenti- clty of the detalls, They will be born out by fuller official reports which have been or which will soon be recelved from the British agents In Armenia, The events re- ported are of the re-enactment of the Bul- garian atrocities with all their most sickening detalls of flendish lust and atroclous cruelty on unarmed - Christlans and defenseless, fnnocent women and children, deliberately planned and ruthle exccuted under orders recelved from Constantinople..” Hagoplan concludes by saying the time has come to abolish in toto the existing administra- tion of Armenia and replace it by another regime approved by Great Britain and the other signatories of the treaties of Berlin, and worked under their immediato super- wision. The letter of the Armenian thus prefaced 48 dated Bittlis, October 9. After saying that the magnato appears to be a second Nero, the writer continue: The so-called re- bellion of the Armenian in 1893 was a got-up affair, for the repression of which the chief magnate got a decoration. This year the Kurds carried oft Armenian oxen and the Armenian appeal for their restora- tion was refused. A fight ensued, two Kurds were killed and three were ounded. The Kurds immediately carried their dead before the governor, declaring the Armenfan soldiers had overrun'the land, killing and plundering the Kurds. “This furnished a pretext for massing the troops far and near. The troops were com- manded by a pasha and a marshal and were hurried to the district. The pasha is sald to have hung from his breast, after reading to Mis soldiers, an order from Constantinople ‘to cut the Armenians up root and branch nd adjuring them to do =0 if they loved their king and government. KILL AND SPARE NOT. “Nearly all of these things were related here and there by soldiers who took part in the horrible carnage. Some of them weeping claimed the Kurds did more, and declare they only obeyed the orders of others. It is said that 100 fell to each of them to dispose of. No compassion was shown to age or sex, even by the regular soldiers, not even when the victims fell suppliant at their feet. “Six to ten thousand persons mct such a “fate as even the darkest ages of darkened Africa hardly witnessed, for the women and tender babes might, at least, have hiad a chance for .a life of slavery, while here womanhooi was but a mockery before the cruel lust that ended its debauch by stabbing women to death with the bayonet, while tender babes were impaled with the same weapon on their dead mother's breasts, or perhaps seized by the hair to have ‘their heads lopped oft with the sword. “In one place 800 or 400 women, afier being forced to serve vile purposes by the merci- less soldiery, were hacked to pieces by sword and bayonet in the valley below. “In another place some 200 weeping and walling women begged for compassion, fall- ing at the commander's feet, but the blood- thirsty wretch, after ordering their violation, directed his soldiers to dispatch them in a similar way. “In_anotlier place some sixty young brides and the more attractive girls were crowded into a church, and, after violation, were slaughtered, and human gore was soon flow- ing from . the church door. “At still another place a large company, ®under the leadership of their priests, fell down beforo them, begging for compassion and averring they had nothing to do with the culprits. But all to no purpose. ~ All were called to another place, and the pro- posal was made to several of the more at- tractive women to change their faith, in which event their lives were to be spared. They ‘said: ‘Why should we deny Christ? ‘We are no more than these,’ pointing to the mangled forms of their husbands and broth- ers, ‘kill us, too,’ and they did so. ! CONSULS WILL INVESTIGATE. “A great effort was made to save one beauty, but three or four quarreled over her and sho sank down like her sister: “But why prolong the sickening tale? There must be a God in heaven who will do right in all these matters, or some of us would lose faith. One or more consuls have been ordered to Investigate the matter. If the Christians instead of Turks reported these things in the city of Bittlis and the region where I have been touring the case would be different. But now we are com- pelled to believe it. The magaates are hav- ing papers circulated and are trying to com- pel the Christlans to sign them, expressing satisfaction that justice has been dealt out to the rebels, and thanking the king and the chief magnate. ‘The Christians of Bit- tlis will not sign,«though it is said that in some of the outlylng districts Christians have signed. The circulars have not been offered to Protestants, and as yet the Protestants have not been thrust into chains or Dblackmailed very much, though lately things are beginnig to look that way.” Another letter says some of the regular sol- dlers themselves admit they killed 100 per- #ons each In a flendish manner, and that as- sault was followed by the bayonet. Twenty or thirty Armenian villages, it would seem, Dbave been wholly destroyed, and some per- sons were put to death with kerosene in their own hou TURKISH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 16.—The follow- ing officlal account of the Armenian trouble was issued today: Some Armenlan brigands, provided with arms of fore'gn make, joined an insurgent Kurd tribe for the purpose of committing excesses. They burned and de- vastated several Musselman villages. As an tance of tae ferocity of the Armenians it reported they burned alive a Mussulman notable. Regular troops were sent to the sgens to protect peaceable Inhabitants against o depredations, The Ottoman troops not only protectea and respected the submissive portion of the population and the women and ohildren, but they re-established order and tranquiliity. It 18 not true that the Kurds selzed the furniture, effects and cattle of the fugitive Armenians. The latter took their ef- fects to the mountains before revolting. The Apmenian women at present with the Kurds belong to the familles of the brigands and went of thelr own accord with their husbands 0 the insurgent Kurds. -Respecting the vil- Iny alleged to have been destroyed, it was the “Armenians who carried off all their be- longings before becoming brigands. Viceroy Arrested for Murdor. SHANGHAI, Nov. 16.—A dispateh from Chung King*(Shun King), says that the viceroy of Se-Chuen has ben arrested upon orders from Peking, charging him with mur- dering & Taratr general. The crime is said to have been cemmitted in order to cover snormous degaleations in the provincial ac- counts, ———— Mol Formed to Lynch the Marshal. MASSILLON; - 0 “Nov. 16.—Ed Morgan, one of the gang charged with having outraged at Pike Run and who was shot by &uu was burled yesterday. At the Morgan's father and brother took an th to kill Ji avenge if either A mob of Morgan's friends has been organ- ized to lynch Just, but as yet no one has Dbeen found to make the start. ———— SAVED BY A PLUCKY SERVANT, Vhough Badly Injured She Awakened the Inmates of a Barning Hotel- WICHITA, Kan., Nov. 16.—Fire broke out in the Patterson house at Harper this morn- ing at 4 o'clock. A furious gale was blow- ing at the time and ther ewere thirty-seven guests in the house. Two dining room girls, Maud Schemerhorn and Mattie Harper were nearly suffocated, and Miss Schemerhorn, who is only 16 years old, broke & window, threw Miss Harpe? out and followed her, lacerating her flesh. Miss Schemerhorn then gave the alarm and a dozen guests were taken from the building more dead than alive. Twenty other houses caught fire, but the cutizens and fire department succeeded in extinguishing the fira before the loss amounted to much. Miss Harper was rendered unconscious by the fall. Miss Schemerhorn, although herselt badly injured, dragged her limp comrade to a placs of saf- ety, then, breaking in a window of the hotel, crawled through and proceeded to perform a most herolo act. Though her feet and hands were bleeding from cuts' recelved from broken glass, she bravely made her way through the blinding smoke on her hands and knees, never stopping till she had aroused every guest in the house. When the man in the last room opened the door in response to her cries, he found her half suffocated In a bool of blood from her lacer- ated limbs. Himself halt smothered by the smoke, he picked her up, and groping his way, finally reached /e street. ' Miss Schemerhorn was placed under a physiclan’s care. She will recover. When the guests learned of her herofc act a contribution was taken up for her. ki M i DREDS HOMELESS Destruction Wrought by the Flames in the Colorado Mining Camps. BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 16.—The telephone lines to Gold Hill, Ward and other mining towns west of this city are down today and there is no communication with those places. People who have ridden in from Gold Hill, however, report that the forest. fire was checked by last night's storm and this en- abled the fire fighters to extinguish the flames just west of Gold Hill. So far as reported no lives have been lost. The property dam- age is estimated at $1,000,000. Several hun- dred people have been made homeless. Although all the larger mining camps were saved, the fire did great damage to the for- ests, ranches and mines in its line of travel. The burnt district reaches from Left Hand at the mouth of Alamakee gulch on the north to Sunset on the south, a territory about five miles long and four and one-half wide. Fred Ehler, a ranchman, was severely burned while fighting the flames. The terror stricken inhabitants of Gold Hill are returning today from Big Horn moun- tain and Horsfal shaft, where they sought shelter, and are moving their household fur- niture from the mining tunnels, where they stored it, back’to thelr homes, HUA Deaths In the Forest Fires. MEMPHIS, Nov. 16.—Details from the forest fires comes in slowly and in- many of the cases indicate only nominal damage. In general the fighters have been successful in warding off the flames. The general sitvation fn Arkansas is unchanged and no serious losses by the fire are reported. At Oakland, Tenn., Jeff Rayner and wife (colored) were busy in the fleld when their house caught fire, and, before they could reach it, their liitle ones, aged 7, 6 and 3, respectively, perished. —— FBOM CRETE T0O WINTON. German Congregational Seminary In Tty New Home in Town. WILTON, Ta., Nov. 6.—(Special Telegram.) —The German Congregational seminary, formerly located at Crete, Neb.; was dedi- cated here amid great pomp and splendor. Fully 10,000 people witnessed the exercises and many hundred dollars were subscribed to further the interests of the college. This town donated to the association $75,000, buildings included. The faculty consists of: Rev. BE. Mannhardt, Union Theological sem- inary, German and Greek; Albert Morrer, A. B. Oberlin college, Latin and English; Wil- liam M. Dehn, A. B., Hope college, natural fence; Miss Anna Brammeler, A. B., Na- tional Normal university, mathematics; Miss Lida R. Peck, Oberlin conservatory, musical department; J. B. Harris, principal of busi- ness department. —_—————— NEWS FOR THE ARMY. Changes in the Reguiar Service as An- nounced Yesterday. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The following army orders were sued today: Major Henry C. Hoxbrouck, Fourth artillery, and Captain M. Lancaster, Third artillery, will meet at Fort Monroe, Va, to consider suggestions for modifica- tions of new drill regulations for light ar- tillery and to decide as to changes, If any, to be made. They will embody thejr con: clusions In & report to the War department. Tolllowing 1s the detail of the generai court-martial appointed to meet at West Point Monday, November 19, for trial of prisoners: Captaing " Willlam! 1% Spurgin, Pwenty-first Infantry; Willlam 13, Gordo ordnance department: Charles F, Masch, assistant surgeon; First Licutenant Edwin . Babbitt, ordnance department; Wilds . Richardson, ~Bighth Infantry: Austin H. Brewn, Fourth infantry; William 8. Beddle, r, Fourteenth Anfantry: Peter 1. Traub; “irst cavalry: Richmond P. Davis, Second artillery; William Weigel, Eleventh in- fantry; Clement A. F. Fiagler, corps of engineers; Second Lieufenants Matthew C. Butler, jr,, Fifth cavalry; Charles 8. Brom- well, corps of engineers: John 8. \inn, Ses- ond ‘caviiry, judge adyocate: G, Jones, Jr., Second Lieutenant Samuel Fifth_cavairy, will proceed to Montgomery for duty with the Alabama state troops. Second ~ Lieutenant ~Thomas I Schley, Twenty-third infantry, is granted a leave of_three months. Captain Bernard A. B first’ lleutenant, 13 assigned 'to company H, Fourth infantry, vice Schindel, deceased. First Lieutenant Williom K. Jones, pro- moted from second lieutenant, Is assigned to_company G, Sixth infantry, vice Byrne, Second Lieutenant Otho W. B. Far, Sec- ond urtillery, Is granted two months ex- tended leave. — - Want Some Express Company Money. NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—The amended com- plaint was filed in the United States court today in the suit of Malcolm Anderson and Roger W. Woodbury against Thomas C. _Platt and’ the United States Express com- pany. The plalntiff had a rixty-day option on a'plece of mining prcperty in Colorado called the Rialto. The necessary maps and other things for the proper transfer of the company were put in an envelope addressed to Malcolm Anderson in this city for exe- cution. The package was lost in’ transmis- slon, and was not recovered until the option expl] In consequence of this it is claimed the complainants lost $100,00 to be made on the option, and judgment for that amount is asked. i FPersuaded to Loave Clark. DENVER, Nov. 16.—Gertrude Hutchins, granddaughter of Commodore Hutchins, who married Claronce W. Clark on two day's acquaintance, has been persuaded by her friends to leave him and go to relatives in the east. Clark is in jail awaiting & hear- ing on charge of larceny. frs Bt CLARL, Burlington Clothing Store Nurned. BURLINGTON, Nov. 16.—Fire this even- ing caused §$75,000 damage to the Boston clothing store. Oswold Pistorlous, aged 17, ne, promoted from was suffocated. Insurance, $30,000, KNIGHTS OF LABOR FINANCES Assets of the Order Foot Up to Almost One Hundred Thousand Dollars, TWO-TERM ELECTIONS VOTED DOWN Main Interest Now Centered om the Seloc- tion of OMcers—Powderly Arrives on the Scene but Refuses 10 Talk, NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 16.—The Knights of Labor held their usual session today and the proceedings were dry. The reports of the executive board, of the finance committee, of the rccording secretary and financial sec- retary were presented and referred to the general committeo for distribution to the proper subcommittees. The report of the special committees appointed at the last session of the general assembly to call a convention of the chiefs of the national labor organizations of the country in St. Louls in June of this year was read and was also referred. Without transacting any further business the convention adjourned until this afternoon. There will be the usual public meeting tonight. The first business of the afternoon session was to receivo the report on the financial condition of the order, and it was reported there was now in the grand treasurer's hands the sum of $9,000. A schedule of the prop- erty in the possession of the order was also presented. Among the ftems on the schedule was the Knights of Labor building in Philadelphia, valued at $60,000; official journal and plant, $15,000; Canalburg, Ind., coal mines, $10,000; real éstate at Homer, N. Y., $24,000, and other smaller properties, aggregating about $95,000 in all, The committee on law made its report, which was referred to the committee on dis- tribution, to be presented to the subcommit- tees, and a few minor changes were made in the preamble of the order, but the motion to “elect grand officers for two terms of two years each” was defeated by & large major- ity. A congratulatory telegram was gent to the national grange now in session at Springfleld, 11l Interest is now centering in the election of officers, which will not take place until the latter part of the session. Adjournment was_taken until 5:30 p. m. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 16.—Ex-Master Workman Powderly refused to talk to a representative of the Assoclated press today concerning his plans. He reached the city last night, and declined to see reporters, and this morning he said he could not speak for publication at this time, and was unable to say what his relations would be toward the convention of the Knights of Labor. Pri- vate business brought him here, he said. Powderly's friends are quietly working up a boom for him, and they are feeling the pulse of the assembly with respect to the suggestion of Powderly’s name for the posi- tion now held by Mr. Sovereign. It Is evi- dent from the conversations held with dele- gates that there Is much objection to the Sovereign administration, end Powderly's friends say that the ex-master is now as strong as ever with the rank and file of the organization, and that he stands a very good show of getting the vindication which he is seeking since he was turned down. —-———— FOR FOUR BRUTAL ASSAULTS, Neck of a Negro at Atchison Is in Serlous Danger, ATCHISON, Kan,, Nov. 16.—Considerable excitement, which end in a lynching, has been caused here by the brutal acts of a negro this morning. Between 4 and 6:30 o'clock a negro entered the homes of four highly respectable white ladies living within four blocks of each other and outraged them. The flend was evidently acquainted with the habits of the male folks, as at each place they were absent at the The victims are Mrs. Michael Cain, Rosa Cain, Mrs, Grossman and Mrs, {amin Posion. Bearching partics are ng for the negro in every direction ustice will surely be meted cut aptured. finally learned the fiend was Tom stler from Fort Leaven- n in Atchison the past e, He was traced (o and brought back He was secretly taken to the county jail, where tonight he is under a, heavy guard, It i8 now thou; the law will be allowed to take its cours Mrs. Cain is in a precarious condition night _and may succumb to her injur Her and two other women also suffe injury, but will recover. M Caln_was asleep when the brute’ en her room. Whe de an outcr: drew a Knife across her throat, cutting a slight gash, H ims had awakened her daughter, who fled the house In her night clothes, ain, desisting in his attempt to injur Cain, made for the door at the same and Mrs, Cain, b lieving he was pursuing her, jumped through a window. Although the nelghborhood had been aroused by this time, Colling mac attempt to injure Miss Cain and in try to choke her into submission caused blood to flow from her mouth. Some of the neighbors came upon the scene and he fled. Tmmediately the alarm was given and a searching party oOrga ut Collins was lucky enough to have a and es- caped, as noted, to Leavenworth. = His capture by the officials later.was all that saved his life, summary to him if It Collins, worth, three 'day Leavenwoi here this evening. TRIPLE DOMESTIC TRAGEDY, Prominent New Yorker Shoot His Wife, Her Sister and Himself. ELMIRA, N. Y, Nov. 16—Martin J. Strait, a well known flour and feed dealer, this afternoon fatally shot his wife, put one bullet in the body of Mrs. Willam Whiteford, which may cause her death, and then turned the revolver on himself and tried three times to put a bullet through his own heart, failling to strike that organ, but inflicting wounds which will undoubt- edly cause his death, The shcoting was the result of domestic difficulties. The White- ford and Strait families until a few wecks ago lived in the same, house on Hudson street, the women being sisters, Strait and his wife fell to quareling and separated, but soon buried their difficulties and again re- sumed marital relations. About three weeks ago they agin fell out. 'Strait tried In vain to retain the good will of his wife. This morning he sent a note by a messenger boy. The boy returned With the report that there was no answer. Strait purchased two revolvers. Early in the afternoon he saw his wife and sister-in-law In the busi- ness section shopping, He followed them across the river toward their homé. The first intimation they had of his approach was when he began firing. The first shot being at Mrs. Whitford, it struck her in the side and ehe fell, His wife wheeled about with a cry and he fired three bullets into her, all striking her in the stomach and abdominal_region, and passing clear through her. He continued shooting until one revolver was emptied, and then ro- duced the other and fired three bullets into his left side in an endeavor to reach his heart. In all he fired ten shots, and then calmly seated himself on a horse block. A crowd gathered, but as he still held the smoking revolver, hesitated to approach. “Come one," said Strait, “there are only three of us.”" 'He and his victims were helped to the house. To the police Strait saild: “I am sorry this has happened, but they drove me to it.” Mrs. Strait dled tonight. say Strait and Mrs, cover, The physiclans Vhitford cannot re- i — Sued Mrs. James Brown Potter. CHICAGO, Nov. 16—Mrs, James Brown Potter appeared as defendant in a suit in the superior court today, Miss Margaret Van Zaudt, an actress, filed a suit against the star, who 1s at present playing at the Schiller theater, asking for $1,018 from: Mrs. Potter for expenses attendant upon a trip to India, and costumes. An attachment was placed in the hands of the sheriff, and the company in which Mrs, Potter is now playing will 'be garnisheed Lt sy Large Confectionery Dealers Fall. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 16.—The firm of B. H. Douglas & Sons, confectioners, emulied for the appointment of & receiver for the for the past year, - NARSHA HASN'T PALD THE h1LL, Forest Lawn Cemetery Associalfoh Wants Money for a Burial FLat. NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The Forest Lawn Cemetery associa- tion of Omaha has employed Lawyer Louis F. Wilson here to collect & judgment against Rev. Willlam J. Harsha, D.D., formerly pas- tor of the First Presbytérian church of Omaha and now pastor of the First Col- legiate Dutch Reformed church here, which the cemetery assoclation secured against the reverened gentleman for a lot he gave for a grave for a poor person, but for which he never paid. Officers of the Fovest Lawn Cemetery as- sociation were asked yesterday concerning the truth of a dispatch from New York stat- ing that an attorney had been employed there to collect from Rev. Dr. Hariha, formerly pastor of the First Presbyterian chiurch here, a bill due for the purchase of a lot. They #aid that the story was substantially correct. Dr. Harsha purchased the lot for which the assoclation is mow. endeavoring to collect payment January 10, 1890, the agreed price being $55. Some time after that date he signed a note for the amount, but although the note is long past due he has failed to pay it. The association recently sent the note to the New York attorney and asked him to endeavor to collect the same from Dr. Harsha. The attorney writes that the doctor has agreed to pay the cldim on January 1. No suit has as yet been commenced, and the officials of Forest Lawn gave their attorney specific instructions not to commence a legal action, et e aibin STORM NOT SEVERE, Threatened Blizzard in Wyoming Caused Little Damage to Stock. CHEYENNE, Nov. 16.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The storm in Wyoming was not as severe as first indicated. Less than two inches of snow fell, but the temperature dropped from three to fourteen degrees be- low zero iIn different sections of the state early this morning, and it has not moder- ated any tonight. Cattle were in fine con- dition, consequently there will be no lo but the sudden change will cut stock down in flesh very rapidly Something of Wyoming's Exp CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 16.—(Spe It cost the people of Wyoming $204, run the state govi 1804. The mone ‘Wyoming univ state indebtedness, § the capitol building, $5, Tum, $11,583.53 ing ' fund, % hospital, $23,161 1.76 to mment during the year expended as follows: on afntenance of 3 36; ‘ipsane asy- Rawlins penitentiary build- 216.00; Rock Sprigs Miners' 7; " live stoek gommission, $4,986.19; officers’ ' salaries, incldental ex- penses, etc, $112,485.07; total, $204,58L76. —— ] MILLS WILL SHUTL DOWS. Miilers Take this Method of Raisiog the Price of Flour. ! CHIC®GO, Nov, 16.—The initial steps look- ing towards the curtailment of the flour output by a six weeks' surpengign of the merchant mills of the country fvere taken eting of millers atith¢ Auditorium The meeting consigted | twelve me ", wh) were cke en by vot,.a3dd1 whoe lection 500 millers, representing. a dally output of 30,000 barrels, were javited to ake part, The committée was umanimous n agreeing that t(he price of! flour was below a profit vielding pont, and that some concerted actfon by the trgds wag, to bring up the price (o & pro reduction of stocks was rég best method tending to an price, An agreement was shut down mills for six months, beginning Decomber’ 10.* The agree- ment will be in force when mills represent- ing & production of 160,000 barrels a day have signed the same. SHOT DOWN IN THE STREET. Two Mississipplans Lie in Walt with » guns for Their Foes. LULA, Miss, Nov. 16—There was a pitched battle in the main business street of Lula today, as the result of which two men are dead. J. W. Boyd and his brother, Bob, stood in an alley until they saw J. W. Harman and A. H. Lawrence approaching on their way to dinner. Then the brothers, each armed with a shotgun, stepped forth and opened fire on the others, Harman had time _to draw his pistol and fired twice at the Boyds, biit without effect. Iach of the brothers had his man picked out, and at the first volley both of their men fell. The elder Boyd mounted a horse and rode away while the other esceped on foot, The t word later they would surrender to ¢he sher- iff, but to no one e The tragedy is the result of an old feud peiL Bank President Under Arrest. BALTIMORE, Nov. 1 special to the : J,E. Cran- hot- ston City, was arrested States Marshal Condol on him with making fi a condition of the b released r today by United o writ charging ements as 1o the nk's fimances. He was $60,000 bail. The bank at several days ago, but created no particular excitement. Mr. Crandall's arrest has caused a sensa- 16.-The arrest of randall of the Johnston City Na- tional bank was made at the direction of Comptroller of the Currency Kckels, In his ast report made to the treasury, early in October, the president reported hia bank to be in a solvent condition and_the treasury is assured it was not. The United States district attorney has béen directed to prose- cute Crandall for violating the law which requires a truthful statement of the condi- tion of the national banks to be made five times a year. e Whitworth Makes a Statement. NASHVILLE, Nov. 16.—George K. Whit- worth, clerk and master of the chancery court, who shot and killed Chancellor Alli- son on Wednesday last, is still alive, but cannot recover. An ante mortem statement made by Mr. Whitworth was given to the public today. In this statement Mr. Whit- worth says that before Judge Allison's first election as chancellor the.latter told him he would not appoint him unless he (Whit- worth) weuld agree to diyide the fees of the office. This, Whitworth gays, he agreed to do, and in addition the sums he loaned Judge Allison at different times amounted to 326,00 He says he endeavored to get Judge’ Allison, to secure this amount to se- cure himself and protect his bondsmen, and when he learned that Judge Alison would jlot agree to a settiement Re detprmined to him, - Killed His Landiady and Himself. CHICAGO, Nov. 16—J. J, Higgiogs, an electrician, shot and killed Mri.jMcLaugh- lin, his landlady, and afterw; selt through the head,- 4y stantly. Higgings has roome: Laughlin's house for some time, behind in his rent, had been with ejection. Tonight he called into a’bed room, and after a ha threw her to the floor and . fir shots into her body. After woman' Higgings left. the hi but re- turped, and was standing on_the sidewali In front of the place when he heard the patrol wagon coming, and rather than be arrested, he sent a bullet through his head. ————— . Baldwin Wants the Judgment Set Aside. CHICAGO, Nov, 16,~Lucky Baldwin has filed a bl in the circuit court fo prevent the enforcement of a judgment df §3,428, re- covered against him by John W. McClel- land, In which garnishment proceedings have been taken against the Washington Park club. Baldwin claims it is illegal be. cause no notice was served on him. Mec- Clelland s a race horse trainer and wag at one time in the employ of Baldwin. The sult was brought for salary for services and relmbursement for moneys pald out for the horse owner. A reatene e woman struggle several ing the Noted Editor and Literateur Dead. NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—Franciks A. Teall ded today in Bloomfleld, N. J., in His 73d year. He came to this city is 1841 and worked at the case with Walt Whitman, and soon became proofreader. He read the original. proofs of Poe’s “Raven' and ““Fne Bells.""- For nome time he was: on the editorial Staft of the Amerigan Wik fee- View, and he Wcted ‘sad : Uributor and Assoolate eAMOr I (he " AmAr: can Cyclopedia.” He was oge of the prin. fl\‘.‘:’m,: clpal “editors of U Clnl\:ry having charge of the work at the start. CASE A CONTEST COMES Independents Are YPreparing for Vigorous Action, Defensive and Offensive, WILL SHOW FRAUD IN FAVOR OF MAJORS Ample Evidence of Gross Irregularities on Part of Election Boards ln Interes of the Corpuration Candidate for the Governorship. LINCOLN, Nov. 16.—(Speclal Telegram.)— A new element has recently been injected in- to the election contest. It s based on the evident fact that the newly elected republican state officlals from lieutenant governor to the last candidate on the ticket are not at all anxious for a contest. They are not whooping for a recount. On the contrary they are well satisfled to let the matter rest, And one of them remarked, an illegal ballot thrown out for Majors would be lost to the state ticket. Thore is ample evidence ac- cumulating that thousands of such ballots were polled at the election in Nebraska on November 6. At independent headquarters at the Lindell preperations are being made to meet the pro- posed contest with crushing evidence of fraud on the part of the railroad managers of Tom Majors' political Waterloo. A representative of The Bee today ealled on J. A. Edgerton, secretary of the independent state central committee, and inquired in regard to the outlook. Mr, Edgerton said: #Judge Holcomb s elected go¥ernor of Nebraska by over 3,100 plurality on the face of the returns. How any one with ordinary political sense and shrewdness can expect to make a successful contest against such a plurality is more than I can understand. This talk I regard s purely in tht nature of a bluff. WHERE CONTEST TALK ORIGINATES. “It is not supperted by a single prominent republican leader of any reputation for politi- ocal sagacity. It is my understanding that the meeting of leading republicans held in this city a few days ago declded to abandon the idea of going into a contest. All the present talk is instigated by a few Jim Crow lawyers who are trying to work up a case, a few tin horn gamblers who want to avoid payment of their election bets and a few cheap John politicians who want a job and want it badly."” ““How about the charges of fraud published in the Lincoln morning paper?” “They are certainly too silly for serious consideration. In the first place that paper digresses upon the large number of votes polled for governor more than were polled for the other state officers. The facts are that the official canvass mow belng made shows that there were nearly as many votes polled for the other state officers as for gov- ernor. Naturally there would be a few people who would vote for governor who would not vote for the rest of the state ticket. The claim that ballots were thrown out because marked with a lead pencil would operate as much against one side as the other. A contest opens up both sides of the question, and each side Is allowed all benefits accruing as well as disadvantages. The claim that in certain places persons voted for Holcomb twice and both votes counted is fully as nonsensical. I have falled to learn of a single place in the state where republi- cans ‘did not have a representation on the election boards. In ‘a number of cities I know that they had every member of such boards. “Ther was never a fairer election in the state, as far as the friends of Judge Holcomb were concerned. The independent commit- tee had barely $1,600, hardly money sufficient to pay postage, let alone to corrupt voters. The democratic committee had less. On our part it was the most economical campaign in the history of the state. We couldn’t have bribed any one if we had had the disposition. The machine and the funds with which to run it and purchase votes were all on the other side.” “What do you consider the aim of the Majors managers in crying fraud, since the returns show them to have been defeated? SAMPLES OF' MAJORS' WORK. “TMe Majors managers of this state are In very poor shape to cry fraud. It is much like the cry of ‘stop thief' indulged in by the pickpocket to throw off suspicion from himself. It is done to divert attention from their own frauds, of which we are securing incontestable proof. To say nothing of the immense amount of money used by the rail- roads and the republican committees in the late campaign, it is enough to call attention to a few Majors tactics on election day. On the Deadwood branch of the B. & train load of railroad men was brought down from Wyoming and voted at Alliance and other points along the route wherever republi- cans had the election boards. On the main line of the same road a gang of Russians was brought in from Colorado and voted at McCook and other points. When their votes were challenged and the judges asked them questions in taking the oath they would answer, ‘Yah, yah, republican.’ That was all they could say in the English language. They had been taught the one word, ‘republi- can.' That, however, was the open sesame with the judges of these precincts. These facts the independent committee is able to prove, as well as many others. Aside from this, it is common talk in many of the western towns that many republicans who had been out of the state for three and four years were brought back and voted.” “Do you intend to inquire into the alleged frauds in Lancaster county?” “Yes, if the contest is brought. In the city of Lincoln there were the grossest frauds practiced at the polls. In this city republi- cans had almost the solid registration and election boards. The total registration was nearly 1,000 more than it had ever been in its history. Whole squadrons of men were registered from vacant houses, vacant lots, freight yards, the government square, etc. Even dead men were registered, and their names voted on by illegal colonized tramps. T am rellably informed that there was a train load of 250 railroad men from Wyoming brought into this city the night before election and scattered all over town and voted, A large number of Russians took out their first naturalization papers the same day they registered. Most of these illegal voters were permitted to deposit their ballots in the box. Our committes has the names of many of them, and, should the contest be brought, they, together with a great many others throughout the state, will go to the penitentiary. These are but a few samples of the frauds committed, which we are pre- pared to prove if it becomes necessary to do so. We were disposed to let these matters alone until the Majors gang began to talk contest. We wanted to avoid expense. But you may give notice in The Bee that if they really desire to unbottle this thing we will have all the money necessary and are pre- pared to spend it In defense of the legally elected governor of Nebraska, Silas A. Holcomb." 2 ABOUT THE LINCOLN VOTE. Some Interesting information s gleaned by a comparison of the votes of Lancaster county since 1891. With a steady decrease in the population of the ecity of Lincoln, an astonishing increase in the vote polled at the last election Is discovered. Nearly two- thirds of the Increase between the votes of 183 and 1894 occurs in the city. Here are the total votes cast in four election: Year. City. Count ot Couny 6,105 6,438 4,481 ot 6 5,23 It will be seen that the total increase in the city of the vote of 1892 over 1801 was 80. Th was a corresponding decre: in th vote In the country of 19. In 1893 there was A decrease of the city vote from that of 1892 of 1,347. The decrease in the country was 863. In 1894 the vote In the oity of Lincoln, notwithstanding a steady falling off of popu- lation, jumps to 6,808, the largest vote ever polled, un increase of 1,460, The inorease for the corresponding years in the country wae but 811, There is no doubt that this THE BEE BULLETIN. Weather Forecast for Nebraska— Fair; Warmer; Winds Shifting to South Page. 1. Tarkish Outrages in Armenia. What the Soversign Knights Are Dolng. Populists Prepared for a Contest, Result of Running a Taloted Candidate. 2. OMcial Yote of the State, New Amorlcan Assoclation Meets. 3. Forelgners Fear Amerlcan Finanolers. Japan’s Answer Anticipated. Trast to Control Siiver's Price. 4. Editorial and Comment. 5. Two Lincoln Women Who Want to Die. Destitution Attructs Attention. 6. Councll Blufts Local Matters. How Booners Secured Town Lots 7. Work of \he W, C. T. U, Western Graln Not Going East, 8. Day's Work Instead of Contracts. 9. What Holcomb's Title Rests On. 11, Commercial aud Financial News. Features of the Live Stock Trade. Dun and Bradstreet on Business. 12. Stories of Some Suro Soldiers. When Webster Was a Warbler. remarkable increase is the result of illegal colonization and fllegal registry by the B. & M. rallroad politiclans. It is stated on the best of authority that in one Lincoln ward the registration lists show forty-two voters registered, giving places of residence on vacant lots. The names of four dead men appear on the list, while the names of seventy voters appear as resiling in one house, or at the same street number. Investigation shows the place to be a small cottage. A committee has been quletly at work checking up the registration lists and gathering evidence of fraud. Papers are now all ready to cause the arrest of parties impli- cated when the proper time arrives to strike the blow. WHAT THE SCHEMERS HOPE FOR. “Whom do you really believe are the main agitators of a contest?’ was asked of Mr. Edgerton. “‘As I sald before, T do not think any repu- table republican leaders are in a scheme to steal tho governorship,” he answered. *“They must realize that it would be the death knell of the republican party in this state It car- ried to a successtul conclusion. It is headed by a few cheap strikers, who flatter them- selves that each one is a statesman out of a job. The plan is this: A contest will be started on some sort of a trumped up charge. It will be carried to the legislature. There a committes will be appointed to recount the ballots. An attempt will be made to have this committee made up of men of the same stripe as those who are instigating the steal. Then, while this count is progressing, enough genuine ballots will be drawn out and enough forged ballots introduced to turn the scale in favor of Majors. It is a bold plan, but it won't work, If persisted in it can only result in sending a few of the conspirators who engineer it to the state’s prison. ~We are not disposed to bluff in this matter, But we are prepared to maintain our rights. Silas A. Holcomb is as honestly elected governor of Nebraska as was ever a_man elected to an office in this country. And the men who elected him will see that he takes his seat.” ————— Government Wil Hang on Till Voted Out. ST. JOHNS, N. F. Nov. 16.—The last bye election in Georages ended today. Mr. McCarty, the government nominee, was elected by a majority of Gi4 votes. The parites fn the legislature now stand: Gov- ernment, fourteen; Whitewayites, twenty- one. One seat has been petitioned against. The government has made 1o announcement of its Intentions, but as constitutional usage permits it to meet the legislature and of- te until it {s disposed of by a vote of want of confidence, It is likely it will take this course. It is thought acceptance of of- fice by the Whitewayites will by no means prove a bed of roses under the present con- ditions. —————— Eckels Writes on Currency Legislation, NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—A Washington dispatch to the Evening Post says: Comp- has written an article for tne North an Review entitled "“Experl- mental Currency Legislation,” in which he will show that all the financlal legislation of recent years has been with a view to cor- ing temporary ills rather than to obtain- ing permanent results, but that the effects of these experiments has been to eliminate certain factors from the general problem which confronts the financial law makers of the future. ————— St. Louls Company Wero Agents. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 16.—In the federal court today in the case of the St. Louis Bank Note company, charged with having printed warrants for the state of Mississippi in si- militude of government noles, a nolle pros equl was entered, the district attorney hold- ing that he had no jurisdiction, but that the case should be tried in Chicago, where the rrants were printed by the firm for which the St. Louis compiny acted as agents. Tried to Cheat the Hangman. MOBERLY, Mo.,, Nov. 16.—Reason For- bush, the notorious Howard county mur- derer, made a desperate effort to escape from the Huntsville jail today. He knocl down the sheriff who went ‘to feed him, took his revolver and attempted to kill tne officer. with it. Forbush was recaptured after being filled with bullets. He was to have been hung at Huntsville next weess. He will doubtless die from his wounds. e Bank Not in Bad Shape, SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Nov. 16.—Bank Examiner Wightman has made his report to the comptroller of the treasury at Wash- ington on_the condition of the First Na- tional bank. The report has not been made public, but unofficlal sources say the condition of the bank was found favorable, and if justly managed will not only puy depositors, but Wil leave ‘the capital unim- palred, e Two Switchmen Killed. §T. LOUIS, Nov. 16.—James Floyd was Killed today in the Belt railway yards in Tast St. Louis, where he was at work as a switchman. Both his legs were cut off and death resulted instantly. Floyd was hurt by falling in front of a moving switch en- gine as he attempted to step on the foot board. J. A. Benedict, another switchman, was run over by frelght cars and fatally hurt, PR S T John Turk Gets a Heavy Verdict. DENVER, Nov. 16.—The jury in the United States court today returned a ver- dict in the suit of John Turk against the Colorado Central Consolidated Mining com- pany, awarding the plaintiff damages to the amount of $116,000. The action was brought to recover the profits of the ore taken from the Aliundi lode during the litlgation relative to that and other prop- erties in the vicinity of Georgetown. ——— t by Robbers. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Nov, 16.—This even- mg two masked men entered Beer's saloon on the upper Stockton road, elght miles from s cily, and demanded of the bar- keeper, a man named Cornelius, money in the safe. He refused to comply, when they shot and killed him, Worden Sentenced to Be Hanged. WOODLAND, Cal, Nov. 16.—§ G. Wor- den, who was convicted of wrecking a Southern Pacific train near Sacramento, in which the engineer and four United Bates soldlers were Killed, was tonight sentenced to be hanged February 12, 1895, ——— Towed Back Iuto Port. MILWAUKEER, Nov, 16.-The steamer Oades and consort San Diegro, which were ashore this morning a few miles south of this city, have been released and towed into port. Considerable coal was jettonized from both boats. prhas R S—— Movements of Neagolng Vessels, Nov. 16, At Rotterdam—Arrived—Rotterdam, from New York. . At Liverpool—Arrived—Cevic, York. Y‘|klllmbur[—Al’l’l\'ed-Moruvll, from New ork. At New York—Arrived—Aller, Bremen; Schiedam, from Amsterdam, At Liverpool—-Arrived—Germanic, New York. from New trom from TATTOOED MEN NOT WANTED Moral Taught by the Reeult of the Recend Election in Nebraska, CORPORATION CONTROL IS REPUDIATED Campaign of Allled Capital Unable to Crusly Publio Sentiment Against Men Morally Unfit to Hold High Offce—A Great Victory, The further away the recent election gets the greater the magnitude of the victory achieved by the overthrow of the cohorts of corporate monopoly and boodle rings appears With the exception of Nevada, every state north of the Ohio river and north of Texas gave the republican ticket majorities almost phenomenal in proportions. In New York the republican candidate for governor was elected by an unprecedented majority. Evem in New York City, the solidly democratio stronghold, a republican mayor was elected by a majority reaching almost 45,000, In Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, and, in fact, all of the great states of the north the republican victories are so brilliant as to attract general comment. ‘Tn Nebraska two congressional districts were wrested from the popullsts, and the state legislature Is & strongly colored with republicanism that the opposition will hardly have sufficient repres sentation to fill places on the committees. Every republican candidate for a state ofice except governor was elected by a large and handsome plurality. Tom: Majors seems to have been the only republican candidate of any prominence mnorth of Mason and Dixon’s line who was indignantly rejected by the people. For this reason the people's victory over the confederated corporations stands out in bold relfef. COMBINED CORPORATION COERCION. The colossal proportions of the combinas tion that eupported Majors can scarcely be underrated. Every rallroad in the state, excepting, possibly, the Rock Island, was tied up with the Burlington czar in his deter- mination to force Majors upon the people of Nebraska, The whole power of the Burs liungton railroad was brought to bear upon the people of the state. Employes of that road were coerced Into voting for Majors. People in the western part of the state who are at the mercy of that corporation were intimidated and browbeaten in the most shameless manner. The bulldozing of the railroad forces was almost intolerable, and the people In the extreme western part of the state might well imagine tnat they were liv= ing under a military despotism, instead of in a free and enlightened country. On the other railroad lines the attempt to coerce voters and intimidate employes was not so marked or 50 bold, but the mailed hand wag there, even if it had been clumsily concealed beneath the kid glove. General officials and subordinates from their headquarters went out over the length of the Eikhorn, Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific roads to instruct men how to vote, They left no stone un- turned to cast the entire rallroad vote of the state to Majors, in the hope of forcing his election in spite of the indfgnant uprising of honest voters of all parties. { But the Burlington was. the head and front of the combination. Never in the hisfory of this country was there such a display of| autocratic power over employes as was exers cised by the Burlington czar over the men dependent upon him. From the headquarters at Omaha and the shops at Plattsmouth to the Colorado line employes were dragooned into the war under the Majors banner. Rail road employes everywhere along the whole system in this state were given plainly to understand that their places or their wages depended upon the way they cast their votes, and all were given a gentlo hint that any man showing a digposition to vote for Judge Mol comb would encounter serious trouble it he persisted. EASY ENOUGH TO RIDE. Free pasces were issued by thousands, Every railroad capper in the state had bun- dles of passes for distribution among peopla who could thus be bribed into support of Majors. These passes were used in a number of ways. Students in attendance at the State university at Lincoln were furnished free transportation to enable them to ga home to vote, provided, of course, that their votes would be pledged in advance for Majors. Kvery township In the state was ransacked for the names of voters who had lived in the state at any time within the past five years. Theso absent voters were sent for from wherever they could be found. Men were brought from the Pacific coast, from Texas and from as far cast as the New Eng- land states upon conditions that they would vote for Majors in return for the free trans= portation given them. In many parts of the state, and particularly along the line of the B. & M. in the Republican valley, the reglstration laws -were completely abolished and the way opened for the voting of the men from the gravel trains and the emigrant excursions. These emigrant trains were run into the state a few days prior to clection day and the strangers induced by small rewards to vote for Majors, even at the risk of punishment If their crime against the bal- lot box should be discovered. The forces from the B. & M. extensions in Montana and Wyoming were bronght back to Nebraska to vote, and were judiciously distributed along tho line of that company's road between Omaha and McCook and given the privilege of casting their votes for Majors and draw- ing pay from the railroads. This may have been @ little hard on the contractors, but they will probably be reimbursed. The same thing was done here in Omaha, and men employed by contractors from this city were brought here and voted. LOCAL EFFORTS TO AID TOM. Allied with the railronds were the fran- chised corporations of the city of Omaha, the leading banks of this city, the stock yards and packing houses of South Omatia, the Standard Ofl company, and many wholesale houses. These various forces were organ- ized into an alleged Business Men's associa- tion, and the amount of money contributed by this powerful agency could not have been less than $100,000, and probably reached nearer $160,000. This immense ~campalgn fand was expended with a lavish hand, not only In Omaha, but In every part of the state where the use of money promised to aesist in the election of Majors. In Omahi for several days Defore election the street were black with the thousands of professional workers who liad sold their pretended in- fluence to the Majors campaigners for not less than $10 apicce, and many inen who claimed to be able to handle whole blocks of voters received all the way from $25 to $300 each. In addition to this, they wer promised more in the event of the succem of their efforts. It is belicved that the pledges contingent upon the election of Mas Jors reached $100,000. On the other side, the fight agalnst corporas rule In Nebraska politics was fought en= by volunteer forces. Neither the demo= cratic or the populist parties had a campaign organization worthy of the name. While the republicans had complete and well supplied commissary and quartermaster departments and a paymaster general well provided with funds, the men who assisted the oppositiom had to pay their expenses. Thelr cpeaker had to pay their own rallroad fares and thein own hotel bills. ‘The democratic and populist committees had scarcely funds enough te pay for stationery and postage with which te conduct the ordinary campalgn corresponde ence, WAS A GREAT FIGHT. It caunot be denjed that the republicaus made & most magnificent campaign. Never in the history of politics In Nebraska was the state canvaszed so well. With an abundance of means at its disposal the republican com= mittee was able to engage a large corps of trained speakers. It was enabled to esti & literary bureau with pald writers.