Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 17, 1895, Page 1

ESTABLISHED JU NE 19, 1 SINGLE COPY FIVE C} FILLED THE MORGUES @iant Powder Explodes at a Fire with Fearful Fffeot, IDENTIFIED DEAD NUMBER FORTY Many More Bodies Are fupposed to Be in the Ruins, BUTTE FIRE DEPARTMINT WIPED OUT Many of the Bodies Mingled Beyond a Possibility of Recognition, CITY SHAKEN TO ITS FOUNDATICN S Hospltals and Private Resldences Filled with the Injured, Many of Whom May Die—Fire Supposed to e of Incendiary Origin, BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 16.—It is now esti- mated that tho number of persons killed by last night's terrible explosion of glant powder is sixty. Nearly fifty are already known to have been killed. The entire city is in mourning, and all flags are at Lalf mast. The relief meeting called by the mayor was largely attended, and com- mittees were appointed for the collection of money for the relief of the aficted families. The people are responding liberally | and a sufficient amount to relieve distress Is already guaranteed. A number of the | bodies are mangled beyond all recognition and never will be identified. The following Is a list of the dead identified: CHARLES ASHTON. SAMUEL ASH. CHARLES BOWMAN, volunteer fireman. ALEX CADDY. JACK CHARLES. —— COZAQUE. J. G. CAMERON, fire marshal, STEVE DELONGHERRY. C. W. ENGLISH. J. J. ENRIGHT. GEORGE FIFER, fireman, JOHN FUDGE, volunteer fireman, ELMER GREEN. ALBERT GODDARD. CHARLES GUTTENBURG, an employe of the Butte Hardware company, folks live at Osage, Ta. GEORGE GALBRAITH. PAUL HANSON. GEORGE HOLLOWAY. DAN HICKEY. J. B. MILLER, Idaho. MIKE MEAD, JOHNNY MORGAN. DAVE MOSS, fireman. WILLIAM M'GEE, fireman, MILES M'DONALD. J. J. MHALE. PETER NORLING. W. H. NOLAN. JAMES O'LEARY. WILLIAM PIERCE. WILL SMITH. JACK SLOAN, fireman, ED SLOAN, fireman. C. E. TRACEY. GEORGE WELTON. GEORGE WILSON. GEORGE M'DONALD. CONSEAGUE BARNS. PROF. ROBBINS. MATT GROSSER. OFFICER FRED KRANBECK. WILLIAM PIERCE, WILLIAM SMITH (colored). MIKE DEAGLE. GEORGE HOLLOWAY. BAILEY, ALEXANDER Areman. CHARLES HANSEN A. D. CAMERON. JOHN SLOAN. OLE OLSEN, LIST OF SERIOUSLY INJURED, The following is the best available list of serfously injured at Murray & Freud's hospi- tal: Mike O'Neill, cut in the head and arms, badly mangled. W. R. Orr, jaw broken, teeth knocked out. attorney, Salmon City, M'WILLIAMS, volunteer tongue cut and the city were among the dead, among them being J. B. Miller, an Idaho lawyer. The ruins are still smouldering, and it is be- lieved: that more bodies will be found under the acres of debris. Inquiries are coming from all parts of the United States inquiring about relatives and friends who reside In the city and who were supposed to have been here at the time of the explosion. It 1s admitted by all that this is by far the most disastrous surface explosion that occurred anywhere in the country recent years. ORIGIN OF THE FIRE. The fire originated in the Royal Milling company's warehouse and pread to the Ken- yon & Connell company's bulldings, and from there to the Butte Hardware company's ware- house. Nobody seems to know where the powder was stored that wrought the terrible destruction, It is believed that over 100 were killed, The buildings burned include the warehouses of the Butte Hardware company, the Parchen- Dacheul drug store, the Kenyon & Connell Mercantile company, the electric works, the old Schlitz brewery building and a flour and feed warehouse, The contents were entirely destroyed. The loss is heavy, but not as yet estimated. The Northern freight depot was completely wrecked, and six wood cars burned. At 9: 65 o'clock the fire department re- sponded to a call from box 73, the call of death for nearly every member of the de- partment. There was a rumor that there was powder in the building, but this was denled, and after a moment’s hesitation the firemen began fighting the fire. At 10:08 the men had barely started to work when there was an explosion which shook Butte to its very foundations. The powder in the Butte Hardware company's warehouse blew up, spreading death and ruin to all who were near.. There were heroes among the spectators, however, and as soon as the stun of the shock had passed away and while some ran in ter- ror, others began to remove the mutilated bodies of the firemen and the injured from the proximity of the flames. All over the city people began moving toward the fire and the crowd had greatly increased within five minutes. Just about that length of time after the first explosion a second one, almost equal in volume to the first, heightened the terror all over the city and spread death and desolation about the scene. In this explosion scores of citizens were killed and injured. Parts of bodies were hurled scores of feet away. A man near the Northern Pacific water tank was almost struck by the leg and thigh of a human being, driven by the force of dynamite from the fearful scene. There were still heroes left to help pull the shricking, wounded and groaning and dying to a distance, but the people up town hesitated. There had been two explosions and there might be more. There were rumors of carloads of powder in the vicinity besides that stored in the warehouse. Five minutes later a third explosion did come, but it was a mild one and it is believed that very few, it any, were injured in this, LIKE A BATTLEFIELD. It had all occurred in fifteen minutes, the most horrible quarter of an hour in Butte's history. The awfulness of the scene after the explosion was beyond description and words could give no idea of it. It presented more the appearance of a battlefleld than anything else. The dead lay everywhere and the tries and groans of the wounded and dying pre- sented a scene altogether horrible. Here were legs and arms, scattered around and there were pleces of flesh and entrails. It was sickening. Between the Northern Pacific and Great Northern depots, a space of 300 feet, the ground was literally covered with parts of human beings and with the dead and in- jured. The scene was one of utter and ab- solute destruction. The houses in the vicinity were as thoroughly wrecked as if a cyclone had passed through them. One of the rescu- ing corps gathered twenty-seven dead bodies in one pile. Eight were in another. Two and three were in other groups. The rescuers pulled some of the bodles out still quivering, the remnants of the human beings still groan- ing while legs and arms had been torn off. Shapeless trunks quivered and died in the arms of the living. The work of rescue was prosecuted in earn- est. Every vehicle in the city was brought into service. to carry away the scores of dead and the hundreds of injured. The hospitals were filled. The spare rooms in the hotels were taken, and private houses were thrown open where it was necessary. The hose wagon crew consisted of Chief Cameron, As- sistant Chief Sloan, Sam Ash, Ed Sloan, Dave Moses, Dave Magee and Jack Flannery. Ma- gee was the driver and remained with the wagon about forty yards away while Flan- during John Cole, four ribs broken, Henry Earle, back hurt and leg bruised. James McElroy, knee cap smashed. Melbourne Tracy, serfously injured in the bowels and an arm broken. George Dever, back and hips injured. Willam Singleton, right arm broken. C. A. St. Clair, left hip badly bruised and arm injured. Tommie Donald, will lose his right arm. Henry Tiggerman, right leg broken and breast badly injured. W. L. Mills, stomach mangled and head badly bruised. John Cohn, body badly scarred. W. Grossen, back injured. R. A. Weall, back injured, Mike Connors,.contusion of the leg. Frank Hart, contusion of the face body. Nicholas Rogers, sprained ankle and wrist, W. M. Shingleton, fracture of arm. George do Voy, badly bruised, Andrew Swift, fractured arm, Henry Steinborn, fractured leg and arm, At the St. James hospital the Sisters of Mercy and the volunteer assistants were lired and weary this morning, no one in the Institution having slept up to noon. Five of the fifteen victims brought there last night died, two of the deaths occurring while the patients were being dressed. The sisters were unable to get the names of some of those who were given into their care, and the following 1s a list, as far as it can be secured: Tom Burns, fatally injured, Mr. Bow, unconscious, injuries so sc that there Is little hope of recovery. Andrew Michaels, unconscious, but not se- riously Injured. ~— Frazer, & boy, broken arm and leg, David Coleman, head injured, but not ee- rliously. Tom Coleman, injurles not dungerous. T. 1. Hald, broken arm and leg. T. J. Riley, leg badly bruised, James Buroe, broken leg and arm. and nery was at the hydrant, The hook and lad- der was manned by George Fifer and Pete Nolan, of the regular paid department, and William Orr, one of the volunteers. Chlef Cameron directed the attack on the building and while some of the firemen handed a line of hose along, the others started in to tear off the iron covering of the building so they could get at the flames. Just as they had succeeded In tearing off a part of the cover- ing, and secured an entrance the first explo- sion came. A blinding sheet of flame forced the roof from its fastenings and shot it 100 feet Into the air. Then followed a second’s deadly silence and then came the awful roar carrylng with it annihilation to closely surrounded the death trap and struction on every hand. The sights in the undertaking establisi- ments this morning were something awful All are crowded with heaps of human flesh. Here was half a head and a mutilated (runk below it; in another place an armless and legless trunk with the face disfigured beyond all possibility of, recognition. Scarcsly any of the corpses were recognizable and the complete roll of dead will probably never b: known. There are twelve dead at the Butts undertaking rooms, ten at the Montana and nineteen at the Sherman. OMAHA'S REPRESENTATIVES ESCAPE, BUTTE, Mont, Jan. 16.—(Special Tele- gram.)—John Flannery, formerly of Omaha, was not injured in the explosion here last evening, He happened to the plugman and was about 200 yards from the spot when fhe powder went off. So far s known 4o Omaba people were injured. Flannery and Dave Magee wero the only firenien Kkilled, - e WILL PROSECUTE HUNTINGTON. those who de- be not Collecting Evldence Aguinst Him for Issuing Tasses Courary to Law. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 16.-Unitzd States Distrlet Attorney Kuight has concluded to {proceed with the case against C. P. Hunt | Ington, for whese arrest a warrant was de manded on the zround that the president of Willlam MeAndrews, boy, back injured John Slean, compound fracture of arm and Both legs, Prof. Robbing, who Is also known as Two Bear, was a famous hunter and a friond of Theodore Roosevelt of New York. He had spent all his life in the wountaius, and was making preparations to guide a party the Southern §* ued un inte state pass to Frank M e, un attorncy 1 politic Knight is collocting all the dence portisluing Lo the case, which c reforr d Lo the i o ney g noial it W for duveatization aud instruet EUL says that Huntington is not th ottictal who bus trans Ly granting interstat. that o Huntington s 3 ol Huntington has denied, iy ke ise v let- through a practically wnknown portion of M Yellowstone park. Several visttors in Lor, it he an intastats | 8tone paEs A has | % who will sufter | WAS LIKE A SPOILED CHILD ; Unable to Have His Own Way Perier Petu- lantly Resigns, | PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IN DANG =R Announcement of tho Resignation In the Senate and Chamber Greeted by Cries of Vive In Republique and Vive lo Rol—Scencs in Both Chamber; PARIS, Jan. 16.—The Hundred Days ended | in Waterloo. It will not be Casimir-Perier's fault If the two hundred and two days of his presidenc; not end in the ruin of parliamentary government in France. He has acted like a spaled child, or an ill- tempered chess player, who, on finding that be had done badly, tosses over the chess board. Parie awoke this morning to learn he had resigned. He is well meaning, but queru- lously touchy, and is surrounded with would- be republican renegades or wealthy semi- liberals afrald if they moved on to melt like snalls. He has been down-hearted at the death of his bosom friend, M. Burdeau, to whose want of moral sense he was blind and Whose great talent he overrated. In resign- ing, the president muddled an already con- fused situation. The act of resignation was in bad form and disrespectful, though not intensely 0. The circumstances con- necied with that event are deplorable. The highest post has been deserted at the first crisis. The wholesome precedent established by MacMahon and followed by Grevy and Carnot, of consulting in times of difficulty the presidents of both legislative houses, was discarded. Challemet-Lacour, president of the senate, was alone sent for, he having always en- couraged rather than sought to alter Casimir- Perler's touchiness and angry ebullition. Challemet-Lacour has advised dissolution and threatened it as a means of bringing the nose of the Chamber of Deputies to the grindstone. Besides he is fll-tem- pered and arrogant and sympathizes With the reactionaries, the consequence of having been raised from noth- ing to the greatest situations and assoclating With dukes at the academy. His splenic temper chimed in with the impatience and ir- ritability of Casimir-Perier, BRISSON HAS ABILITY. Brisson, who was ignored, is a man of principles, a Puritan in his domestic life. His record is spotless. His intellect Is of a high order, but his singleness of mind is not associated with the wisdom of the ser- pent. — Casimir-Perler had taken umbrage at Brisson's election to the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies after Burdeau's death and regarded his election the other day as a slight to himself, Brisson having opposed the Draconian laws which Casimir-Perier pre- sented when he was prime minister to the parliament. There was an accumulation of fancied slights. The first was. the wrangle over the Widow Burdeau's pension bill, Mme. Burdeau is a Spanish-American with lambent eyes, fine- teeth and a lily-colored complexion, looking well by candle light and as fond of diamonds as any cocotte. She was not left penniless by her husband. Far from it, but was not rich enough to live in grand style, When Burdeau was dying Casimir-Perier promised to be a friend to his family and was behind Dupuy when he pro- posed a public funeral at a cost of 20,000 francs and a pension to the widow of 12,000 francs annually, This pension was pared down to 9,000 francs, but the other 8,000 francs were given to Burdeau’s mother. The prime minister asked for the annuity to be continued to the three children of the annui- tant after her death, during their lives. As two of the children were sons and one of those a scamp, aged 19, who at 16 ran away from school to set up with a demi-mondaine, this was refused, unless in regard to the daughter. AVENGED A FANCIED SLIGHT. There has been an impression at the Chamber that to avenge this fancied slight Casimir-Perier set on the minister of justice to have the blackmailers Canivet and Tro- card arrested, not so much to punish them as to find in their desks documents damag- ing in connection with the Southern rallway scandals to a number of deputies. Then came on the Qerault-Richard affair, which is analagous to the George 111 and Wilkes af- fair. Richard is a ribald scoundrel like Wilkes. He lampooned Casimir-Perier as Wilkes did George III. The Paris electors gava him a seat in Parliament after he had been tried and severely sentenced as the city of London gave Wilkes a seat; but, whereas King George had to put up with Wilkes, the Chamber refused, in order to conciliate Casimir-Perier, to release Richard from prison to take his seat in the Chamber. Since then the Chamber had pushed its ac- commodating spirit so far as to expel, on insufiicient pretexts, two deputies who were personally inimical to Casimir-Perler, namely Jaures, who in defending Richards at the assizes delivered a phillipic against the Casi- mir-Perier family, in bad taste but not criminal, and Rouanet, who systematically attacked the president in the soefalist news- papers. Another deputy a few days ago was arrested for agitation at the Carmaux col- liery, because Casimir-Perier is a colliery king. The Chamber suffered this. It is not, therefore, surprising that today a guffaw met the complaint in the presidential message about his being undefended by the Parlia- ment, though he was In a situation in which self-defense was impossible, CUP OF BITTERNESS OVERFLOWED., What made the cup of bitterness overflow was the vote for a committee to be named to Inquire into Raynal's conduct in the mat- ter of the railway convention and to im- peach him. These conventions, involving the most gigantic scandals of all times, were signed by Raynal as minister of public works in the Ferry cabinet in 1883, of which cab! net Casimir-Perier was an under secretary of state. A syndicate of railway compani in that year spent 20,000,000 francs in buying journals and deputies, The conventions were 0 drawn as to in many cases allow interest of 25 per cent on the capital subscribed They allowed guarantees of interest on all in shares and bonds, but were do the "capital silent as to the date when the Interest guar- antees were to cease, As prime minister Casimir-Perier selected Raynal to be min- ister of the interior, and this person ordered police raids on the domiciles of thousands of harmless people to terrify the soclalists and prevent attacks on the score of the conven- tions, thus breeding a spirit of viole that culminated in Carnot's murder, Raynal Is co-religionist of Captain Dreyfus, who was recently sentenced to life imprisonment for betraying military secrets to foreign goy- crnments. e comes from Bordeaux, where the president’s mother, a semi-Jewess, was brought up. Casimir-Perler's choice of Raynal for min ister of the interior was generally thought astounding, but was considered to have been due to the liability of the former to be hood winked, It is a colossal blunder for the president to take up the culgels for Raynal who, being very clever, cannot be credited with having made an o sight. He is, there fore, stamped as the author of a colossal act of Kknavery. en the soc'allsts refrained from accusing Cas.mir-Perier of complicity Why, then, ghould he act as if the conven- tions fitted himself as well as Raynal? | Casimir-Perier goes back tomorrow to his private residence on the Rue Nitol, where ho lives on the first floor, and his mother, w run floor. risson has apparently the best chance belng elected president, because he Puritan and is wanted for the place. who was prime minister when the {acandals were unveiled, but who lmpl ed In them, is also ment connection with the' cffice. Dupuy for the presidency, lives on the ground s a Rub:t Panama was uot onel in h | | amrairs of ¥Fra with Burdeau and Spuller, persuaded him to | a fair chance. Felix Faure, marine, is also spoken of, EMILY CRAWFORD. SERIOUS CRISIS IN FRANCE, minister of Prosident Censured for &howing Moral Weakness in Resigning. PARIS, Jan. 16.—The atteution of the whole of France, and for that matter the entire European continent, Is centered upon this city. There is no doubt that the political crisis resulting from the resignation of the Dupuy ministry and the subsequent fbsigna- tion of President Casimir-Perler is one of the most serious in the history of France. However, the crisis has not had any great effect upon the bourse. Rentes opened this morning only 75 centimes lower, and advices received here from Vienna say that the opening of the bourse there was firm, When the Senate and Chamber met at 8 o'clock the following letter from M. Casimir- Perier was read to both bodies, “I did not conceal from myself the diM- culties of the past which the national assem- bly fmposed upon me. 1 had foreseen them, but if one does not refuse a post in a moment of danger one can only preserve one's dignity in the convietion that the coun- try s being saved. A president of the republic without means of action or without control can derive from the confidence of the nation alone that moral force without which he is nothing. I doubt neither the good sense nor the justice of France, but public opinion ha sbeen lod astray, More than twenty years given to the same cause, thirty years of attachment to the republic and devotion to the democracy, have sufficed neither to convince the republic of the sincerity and ardor of my po- litical faith, nor to disabuse my adversarie: who believe or affect to believe that I will make myself the instrument of their passions or hopes. For the last s'x months a campaign of slander and insult has been going on against the army, maglstracy, Parliament and the hierarchical chief of the state, and (his license to disssminate social hatred continues to be called ‘liberty of thought.' The respec and ambition which I entertain for my coun- try will not allow me to acknowledge that the servants of the country, in the presence of foreign nations, may be insulted. every day. 2 “I am not content to bear the welght cf the moral responsibilities placed upon me in the condition of powerlessness to which I am condemned. Per I may be understood when I afirm that the constitution of function cannot silence the ex- igencies of political conscience. Perhaps in laying down my functions I shall have marked out the path of duty to those who are solicitous for the dignity of the power and good name of France in the world. In- variably true to myself 1 remain persuaded that reforms can only be carried out with the assistance of a government determined to insure desperate laws, make itself obeyed by its subordinates and group them all to- gether in common action for the common good. “In spite of the gloom of the present hour, I have faith In the future of social progress and justice. I lay on the table of the Senate and Chamber of ‘Deputies my resignation of the functions of president of the Republic of France. CASIMIR-PERIER. “LONG LIVE THE KING." As the deputies were leaving the Chamber today after the president of the Chamber read M. Casimir-Periet's letter of resignation, the Duke de la Rochefoucald cried: *‘Long live the king.” A scene of great excitement followed. M. Brisson, president of the Chamber of Deputies, this afternoon offiefally announced that he had received ‘a*letter from M. Challemel-Lacour, presidént of the Senate, | convoking the national assembly for 1 o'clock tomorrow at Versailles. What is the true reason of the step taken by the president is a question upon which there is a great conflict of opinion. The press is almost unanimous in holding that Casimir-Perier is to blame for having chosen the present moment to withdray from office. In this connection, some details of the elec- tion of M, Casimir-Perfer to the presidency, which have hertofore remalned secret, have come to light. It appears that it was known among his intimate friends and relatives that he was not strong enough physically to re- sist the nervous tension which the responsi- bilities of the election involved. After his election, it appears, M. Casimir-Perier fell back upon a couch and remained completely prostrated for several hours, to the conster- nation of his friends, who did everything possible to hush the matter up, and suc- ceeded in keeping it almost a gecret until the present time. Now, however, the incident is being commented upon, and it is generally believed that the nervons strain has been 00 much for him, especially as it is under- stood that he has been in constant apprehen- sion of an attempt upon his life. Then again, the death of M. Burdeau, the late president of the Chamber of Deputies, deprived the president of an intimate personal friend, and his loss affected the president most deeply, but those who are most competent to e press an opinion, say that they have good reason to believe that the manifesto pub- lished by the socfalist depitfes after the r fusal of the Chamber of Deputies to liberate M. Gerault-Richard, who had been elected a deputy after being sentenced to a long im- prisonment and a heavy fine for violently at- tacking the pre:ident in Le Chomard, in which manifesto the majority of the Cham- ber of Depueties were violently’ attacked, con- tributed more than anything to decide M. Perier to resign, CENSURED BY ALL PARTIES. Socialist deputies met at 1 p. m. to arrangs a program. They have lssued a manifesto saying that they do not believe that Casimir- Perier will present himself for re-lection, The manifesto adds: “He is done forever, vanquished by soclalism. He falled in the combat to obtain the victory expected of him by the reactionaries on account of his weakness of character, It is a victery for the soclalist party.” Rumors are circulating that a dissolution of Parliament is expected, The opinion expressed here this morning at the clubs and on the boulevards is unani- mous, in common with the press, in strongly condemning M. Casimir-Perier for having r. slgned in the midst of a parliamentary crisis, The Journal des Debats says that in view of the terriblo perils to which the eve Increasing activity of the wevolutionists and the inertia of the moderates expose Fran other courses than abdieation should haye been pursued. The Gaulols describes the resignation as “desertion.! | The Figaro says urope must judge him as severely as ance does.'" ! The Lanterng says the resignation of M Casimir-Perier does not, ¢hd, but begins a coup d'etat against indepenfience, against the Chamber and rights of wniversal suffrage, for M. Casimir-Perler is desjrous of a new in- vestiture. T resignation," says the Petit Journal, “Is a matter of exceptional gravity and can nly complicate the sitution already peril- The Solcil asserts that “M. Perler did not wish to compromise his dlgnity {n struggles, the issue of which were not doubtful. In endering his resignation with soverelgn dis n he has proven himself a crafty player. His resignation necessitates a revisicn of the constitution.” The Journal Oficiel publishes the followlng notice: “The president of the republic has resolved to resign his-funotions provisionally In order to insure the tranamission of power TODAY'S DEVELOPMENTS, The minieters met again at noen today and t is understocd that the whole palitical s't { uation was thoroughly discussed and we 'ghzd from all standpointe. ~ This meeting tock plac: at the minstry of the interior, which was surrounded all the while by er wde of anxous people, cagerly diccussing the erisis in the One of the most gn'fleant features of the s gnation of the president s the fact (hat biv action is condemned even by his most ulimate entourage \t 11 o'clock this mopn'ng Caslmir-Perier ved Prexier Dupuy.and the rest of th binet miustera, Affer u short ¢ nfareace y withdrew and an eficer of pres'- (Continued on Fifth ige) Sonth Dakota’s Public Land Commissioner Hotly Olaims He is Innocent- DENIES ANY CONNECTION WITH TAYLOR Says fle Held Up the School Fands Beeau He Could, but Knows Nothing ot the Ex-Treasurer's Ofclal Affairs, PIERRE, 8. D, Jan. 16.—(Special Tele gram.)—Colonel Thomas H. Ruth arrived early this morning from his home in Desmet, and s hij have been made against him during the past tew days. He enters general denal, and as- serts that he Is anxious for the fullest inves- tigation. He states that he will be able to prove his finnocence of any wrong doing. Colonel Ruth emphatically refused to see The Bee correspondent, or to make any state ment,. but says he will appear at the proper time and, having cleared himself, will deal With those who set the charges afloat. Ruth has told his friends his version of the affair, and it is given herewith. He states that the charges that he was cognizant of Taylor's condition, or that he in any way aided him to escape or to get a larg> amount from the state treasury is falge in every respect. The fact that he failed to, make the apportionment before t th of December last, he was not in violation of law, although statute says that such apportionment be made directly after the 10th of November. He points out that the statute reads substantially thus: *“The com- missioner of public lands hall on or before tho 10th of May and November cause to be made an apportionment of the funds which he estimatas will bo in the public treasury on the 1st of July and January ensuing, and shall then notify the auditors of the respective counties of the amount so apportioned.” The sections immediately following fix a time for the distribution and the statute is so blindly worded that the commissioner annot be held liable for del The state officials un- derstand that he is to apportion at once. The commissioner distributes them, TONCERNING DELAY IN 1893. The serious part of the charges relate to his holding up of the school funds in the summer of 1893, Under the law the commis- sioner should, on the 15th of June, 1893, ve apportioned about $25,000, which wera in the fund at that time. He did not do so, but left for Pennsylvania about July 1. The office was besieged with remonstrances from the various countles, funds being particularly in demand on account of the panic. No apportionment was made until the following December, despite the protests of the goy- ernor and other state officers. Colonel Ruth refuses to discuss this matter farther than to say that during the summer his wife was very ill and finally died, and that he would not leave his dying wife for any cause; also that the full amount of the cxpected Income was not'in the treasury on the day fixed by law. His wife died the sccond week in August, and that would not debar him from distributing the fund immediately on his return In September. Moreover, under his orders, the deputy did apportion all the funds on. August 15, when they had all eome in. Colonel Ruth refused to send them out for fcur months, notwithstanding the plain letter of the law and the great loss to the state, When he finally made the apportionment he sent out only part of the money. All of this information is gained on the statement of his deputy, Bowman, and of the state officers familiar with the facts. Colonel Rtuh denies absolutely that he wrote a letter to Taylor which was sent to the treasurer of Clay county, and states that he wrote the letter to that county's treasurer respecting the funds which that treasurer had collected and was holding in deflance of law. This letter was not seen by any one now in the capital, but it was re- ported to the officials who gave credit to the story. The investigation has been or- dered and will probably produce facf Colonel Ruth absolutely denfed that he was in any way connected with Taylor for the use of state funds, or that he had any sus- piclon of his shortage or his whereabouts since last seen here, RESUBMISSION BILL PASSED. The resubmission bill passed the house to- day after a short contest by vote of 49 to 31 substantially the same vote as that of yester- day. It will go to the. senate tomorrow, and after the first reading will be referred to the committee which will report it back Friday. It is expected that it will then pass easily. The house granted Mrs. Cramer and Mrs.” Simmons the use of the hall for Sun- day night, when they will hold a prohibition meeting. No in says the must OICE IN KANSAS, Burton Has the Lead for the Kepublican Nomination for Senator. TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 16.—The republican caucus to nominate a United States senator met in the senate chamber at 8 o'clock to- night. Before the caucus orgavization was completed A, W. Smith withdrew, thus re- leasing four votes, two of which were clajimed by Burton and one each by Hood and Ady. The balloting proceeded without nominating specches. The first ballot resulted: J. R. Burton, 37; Calvin Hood, 15; J. W. Ady, 15; S. 0. Thayer, 17; John J. Ingalls, A, H. Horton and” Lucien Baker, 1 ecach. Necessary to a choice, 54, Second ballot: land, 14; Ady, Baker, 1. After taking six other ballots without re- sult, the caucus adjourned at a late hour till ‘tomorrow, Burton made gains on each ballot, lacking but seven of nomination in the eighth, which stood: Burton, 47; Hood, 30; Leland, 2; Ady, 8; Thayer, 18; Horton, 1 After the first ballot Ingalls did not ceive a vote, After the adjournment Bur- ton's friends began working for him like Trojans, and at a late hour tonight claimed to have secured the necessary votes to nom- inate him tomorrow. On the contrary, the opposition to him generally asserts Burton has reached his high water mark Burton, 30; Hood, 20; Le- 14; Thayer, 17; Horton, 2; re- Winois Logislatare Will Ballot January 23, SPRINGFIELD, IIL, Jan. 16.—8enator Fisher offered a joint resolution in the sen- ate this morning fixing the date of nominat- andidates for the U States s h bran 8 for January 22 at 11 o' th t 1o balloting Ine y, January , at noon, lution was adopted. nate ack, o The reso- shoup Gamned Ous Vote, BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 16.—Today's joint session for United States senator shows a change of only one vote, One vote changed from Heyburn to Shoup, making the latter figeen, while Sweet had twenty: one, There Y5 no change in the situation tonight allot in se F in Wolcott at the this after- Siates sen- 57; Pence, Jan, full of was T vo Thomas, 3. 16.—Edy 0. republican vote leginlature ected United 5: Wolcott, the Joint noon a ator, a; C. 8. pIph Gets the Caucus Nomination, SALEM, Ore., Jan. 16.-The republicans in | caucus tonight nominated Senator Dolph to succeed himself in the United States senat vote stood: Dolph, 40; Fulton, 12; Ton- 11; scattering, 9. Ho BOST bouse Hg | St r Retaras from M IN, Jan. 16, and senate George F es senator ssuchasetts, In joint convention the today formally declared | Hoar re-elected as Uhited - Hrvaa Gets Auother BiL VASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Repn sentative Hryan of Nebraska has Introduced a bill r (OLONEL RUTH INDIGNANT! | “oloi Patric iy indighant at the charges which | (o1l Patrick | row. | lingness to put the matter entirely in the e ——— A feat * of the bill provides that any per- son ting to the treasury greenbacks asury notes and demanding their re- fon In gold or silver for the purpose ‘mbarrassing the government, injuring its credit or compelling or securing an fssue of bonds shall b: guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, be punished by im- prisonment for not less than five years, —— STRIKE PARTLY SETTLED. Men on the Other Lines Rea Arbitration, . Jan. 17.—At 1:15 this (Thurs. morning the strike was declared off on Do Kalb Franklin avenue trolley These lines constitute what is known as the Brooklyn City & Newton Railway company. Colonel John M. Patrick is prosi dent. The settlement brought about through the agency of Mayor Schiren and State Arbitration Commissioner Feeney, that this is practical a back-down on the part of the men, as he has conceded no pertinent points. 1t is gen- erally believed tonight that the strike on the other lines will bo settled amicably tomor- The strikers have expressed their wil to Sabmit to BROOKLYN day) the lines. and was says hands of the arbitration upon the decision which provided the companies will do the same. The officials of the companies will hold a mecting tomorrow to decide whether or not they will do this i AW KATE GING'S TWIN SISTER, board may be and stand rendered, Harry Hayward's Nerve Stays with Him at a Critieal Time, MINNEAPOLIS, Jan The state sprung a little surprise on Harry Hayward, accuscd of the murder of Catherine Ging, when Miss Julia Ging of Auburn, N. Y., o twin sister of the murdered woman, ard most exactly like her in appeacance, was sud- denly and without warning ushered Into | Hayward's presence at the county jall, The state’s attorney had imagined the (ffect the sudden appearance of the woman double might have upon tne supposel derer. But they were great!y disuppointed, Ha rd’s magnificent nerve never deserted him for an instant. The sister's eyes falrly blazed as they rested on Hayward and to an impressionable culprit she well have looked like an ayengin, come back to earth. But Harry almly, then bending slightly “From appearances 1 shonld Miss Julia Ging. 1Is this not Miss Ging Miss Ging made no reply but a no affirmation and Hayward went on, rip, oI am very glad to meet you, Miss C The clrcumstances are pecullar wnd unfortunate, but I am sure that if [ could have a long talk with you I could convince you of my innocence of this murd: had seen ‘you on the street I should hav hardly known you from Kit. The blanc is remarkable.' Miss Ging still maintained silence Hayward had to fill in the gap. ou cannot think that I murdered your ster,” he . Miss iing, in a and full of feeling care to make o looker e and low voice, but steady remirks “1 don't ny assertions on that point.” Hayward went on, detailing the business relations he had with Catherine Ging and winding up by exclaiming again that it was impossible that any one could believe him connected with thé murder who Knew all the facts. “A great many important things have not been brought out,” he added. “If I could have a long talk With you either here or elsewhere I know I could convince you of my innocence. Time will tell. Do you think T am guilty?” he asked again, ad- dressing Miss Ging. 'As you say, ‘time will tell! " answer, "Phe - interview lasted -ten minutes, Hay- ward doing all the talking. Miss Ging will attend th gins next week. She h: Blixt, K'S GRIND OF THE MILLS. was the trial, which be- not yet seen WEE Production Slightly Increased and Demand for Flour Better. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 16.—The Northwest- ern Miller says: Minneapolis mills la:t week turned out 71,9% barrels, against 70,220 bar- rels the week before, and ! barrels in the corresponding week in 184 The most that can be sald of the market Is that where buyers were unwilling to look at flour about the holidays, they are now showing some in- terest and feeling around as to prices, etc, This change has resulted in more or less sales. Forelgn trade did not respond as well as might be hopsd. Some patent wa worked last week, but bakers was mor wanted at quotations around 168 6d. London millers were not free sellers in the latter grade, some of them having orders ahe: IExport shipments were 15,60) bar 1 the week before, and 13 Superior-Duluth mills ground 1 against 1,432 barvels the week before, and 27:36) in 'the corresponding week in' 1891 They will show a decrease for this week, Flour shows more improvement, and lake stocks are reported to be moving quite idly, though shipments from the head of lakes are light Freights are weak and 10 cents per barrel lower to the Atlantic seaboard. St. Louis mills made 34,800 bar, 22,600 barrels the preceding w from a little more export. tr was discournging, At Milwauke> the output rels, 1,000 barrels on 10 in 1894, They will be what larger for the present week is little to_encourage the trade in the w of new busine Most of the valley of the Ohio concerns noted a quiet trade. About all that could be sald for business In Michizan was that it was no worse, with po improvement. No special developm notlced in th' trale of No th Dakota. what mors activity was manifest York with prices steady at unchanged fig. ures, | Very slight improvement was note at Philadelphia, though in some cases th local dealers operated a_little more freely At Baltimore the trade is awakening to the fact that stocks are light and flour cheap, 1864, barrels a ls, against k. Aside le, business was 20,409 bar- the previous | Thurston haa They have been absorbing spot and near by offerings to such an extent that they are now pretty well cleaned up. IIAN REPUBLIC A SHAM, Claus Spreckels, the Sugar King, Gives tha as His Opinion, SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, Spreckels, the sugar King, declared that the Hawalian . republic Is a sham. He first mad: the siat m nt at the Chamber of Com- merce, speaking to a resolution requesting the government to station a warship perma- nently at Honolulu (o protect American in- terests there. He reiterated the remark in a subsequent Interview, and says the repub- lic is being main temporarily by a few men interested land speculation Spreckels says the ument s daily growing in disfavor ot last, points to the fact 't last’ 1 archical election 11000 votes were po led, and at the election under the present govern ment there were but 5,00 votes cast Spreckels s skeptical about a steamship line cable from Vancouver to Honolulu, and says the Hawalian islands will always be forced to sell thelr products at San Fran- na 16.—Claus ined in Boy: e MORE FRAUDULENT BONDS, Forger Plerce's Work Not All Uncovered in South Dukotu Yet, CHAMBERLAIN, 8. D, Jun, Telegram,)—It was learned among the fraudulent honc Plerce, the Yankton swindler, there were forged bonds to the amount of many thousands of dollars on townships in this 10.~(Special today that | floated by county. 2 134 | Ple 1 Gulity 1o Suve His Son. | CHAMBERLAIN, 8. 1., Jan. 16.—(Sp-cial | gram.)—United States Attorney Miller | was here today to prosccute John Hultman | for selling liquor withuut a government se. Upon Hultyan b ing sequitt d, his son was arrested on the same charge, when, by the advice of hix attorney, tho elder | Hultman a-ked to arrcsted and pleaded guilty in order to save his son, and bound over to appear b fore the grand at Deadwood jury - — s the Great Father. 1.-Senator Kyle * today Chief Two Chlef WASHINGTON, Jan brought to the white hou Stars of the Blsseton and Wahpaton tribe, accompanied by Ag:nt Keller and an inter preter. The chief had un Interview with the president and personally urged that por mission be granted the Indians to use §40, 00 of the principal of thelr trust fund to {44001 £07 the colnage of the seignlorage. | rry them through the winter and Lmyi seed” wheat to plant in the spring HIS TITLE 1S CLEAR John M. Thurston Formally Elected to B¢ United States Senator, RATIFICATION OF THE PRELIMINARY VOTE Joint Session of the Legislature at Noon Declares the Result, HE MAKES A SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE Roviow of the Campaign and the Issues on Which He Was Eleoted, HIS SILVER POLICY A LEADING FEATURE Protection Also Figared Largely In the Result—Declares o Will Represont e and Not the Rall- roads ln the Senate. LINCOLN, Jan. 16.—(Special Telegram.)= The formal ratification of the election of John M. Thurston of Omaha to be United States senator took place in representative hall at today, in the presence. of the densest throng of pecple that ever packed itsell into the auditorfum. Nelther branch of the legislature was in for work and the only stir in the was made by the hundreds of visitors who poured inte the hall in a constantly increasing stream. Shortly before 12 o'clock Senator Thurston, accompanied by Mrs. Thurston, his son and his sister, Mrs. Newman of Lincoln, entered tho hbuse and took the seats assigned them With the Omaha delegation. The senator and party were welcomed with a hearty clapping of hands. A few minutes later Adjutant General Gage escorted Governor Holeomb and his private sccretary to the seats that had been reserved for them, and the governor, too, received a friendly greeting of applaus from the audience. After Senator and Mrs. taken thelr seats, Representa- Benedict placed on the desk in front of the wife of the new senator one of the largest bouquets of roses and lilies ever pre- sented on a similar occasion. The floral plecs was given to Mrs. Thurston with the compli- ments of the Douglas county senators and representatives. At noon the sergeant-at-arms announced the senate, and as soon as that body was seated Licutenant Governor Moore called the Joint convention to order. The journal of yesterday's proceedings In the two houses was read, and then the lleutenant governor formally declared Mr. Thurston the duly clected senator from Nebraska. The audi- ence burst into prolonged applause. Hardly had the announcement been made than Mrs, Thurston leaned over quickly and kissed her husband. The Immense boquet of roses In front of the two concealed this little wifely token of congratulation from all but a few. Cooley of Cass moved that a committee of five be designated to escort Senator Thurston to the platform, and the lieutenant governor announced as such committee, Cooley of Cass, Barry of Greeley, Sutton of Douglas, Senators Graham of Gage and Pope of Saline. Mr. Thurston's progress through the crowd was an immense ovation. Affer being formally introduced he delivered his address as fol- lows: SENATOR THURSTON'S INAUGURAL. Gentlemen of the Joint Convention: Words ar: impo sble in which to adequately cxpress my heartfelt gratitude for the great honor you have so generously be- stowed upon me. Tt will be my ambition, a8 your representative, to merit and retain the " full measure of that confidence, friend. ship and csteem with which T am’ 5o sig: nally favored, have been elected United States sena- as a republican and by republican votes, but T believe the republican party in powe and its servants in ofice, can afford to put aside partisanship for patriotism, and ft will be my purpose to represent and stand for the interests of all the people of this r commonwealth of ours, 1 shall en- vor to assist in carrying out by appro- ate legislation the declared principles of the republican party, because they have been formulated by my party, but be- cause 1 believe that urder them, and by them, the greatest possible measure of 1ib- erty, equality, opportunity, perity and happiness can be secured to every Ameris an man, woman, and child, The people of Nebraska have been publicly and thoroughly advised as to how I stand upon nearly all of the important questiol of the hour, I hereby reaffirm those tene of political ‘belief enunciated by me befora the last republican state convention. In addition thereto, T take this opportunity of plainly expressing myself upon some of the fogisidtive. problems’ which wilk vt s mand congressiosal action. 1| wish the legis: lature to know my views, for if you should differ with me T respectfully ask that you direct me by appropriate resolution as to your wishes. So long as 1 bear the com- mission of (he people of Nebraska I shall hold myself as thelr servant, and subject ta their direction, 1 desire, alko, to be thor: oughly undersiood, in order to invite criti- clsm in advance. While I have deep-seated convictions upon most public questions, 1 have no pride of opinion which would stand in the way of giving full consic the views, arguments and suggestions of others. If the republicans can secure the necessary votes they should organize both branches of congress, and fearlessly assume the r spongibilities of 1 ation. The republi= can party has always had the courage to fight in the open flefd, and its ultimate obs ject should not be pirty success, but the welfare of our country, In o government of ‘the people the unit of political power s Individual citizenship, The weapon of modern clyilization |s the lot; it protects the w from the op- sslon of the strong; the poor from the Ignorant noon a mood house tive not it ction 1 "th m the sophistries’ of the learncd. No free until every individual has and fairest opportunity to ex his privileges of citizenship and to his ballot as his consclence dictates, S0 long as God glves me life and volce I dedicate myself o the support of these amendments to the constitution of the United States which guarantee the rights nd privileges of American eltizenship, at government which will not exhaust its full’ constitutional and legistative powers o protect its own citizens in the exercige of the highest personal privilege and greatest kovernmental duty: odght 1o e blotted out: and its name should become a by-word and reproach among the nations of the carth, HIS POSITION ON THE TARIFE, T am in favor of the speedy enactment of protective tarift law modeled upon the general lines of the McKinley act, and em- body the reciprocity ideas of James G Blaine. 1t fs my profound conviction that the prosperity of this cotntry und il8 people, 1 eapecially of 1t Indusrial masses, des pends upom the broadest apy ion of the American idea, that whatever lubor is to done for thé people of the United States, 1l be done by the peopls of the United under the stars and that the prices of the f labor shall be fixed by American cond and Ame mpetitior I helieve the & Ginanclal panle which has sp over the whole land and bro poverty and distress to our to was precipitated upon the country by the attempt of our business intercsts to ant pate and discount the evil effect of threat- ened taviff revision on free trade lines, smekeloss chimneys, silont epindles, rots water wheels, idie me chcerless es, raggcd women and hungry do’ ot necessarily attest a bad SyELOIn OF i IMoney stringency, the direct result of the abatdons the Am prote X facturing, Industrial alysis in the money panic Vican itions istrial and disaster ht idleness, Ting ‘millions ren financiai they a1 of ma and bughicss p: ame first—(h sults do not procede Causes finuncial and monetary situation 18 cons cerned, 1 believe our “conditions will i 2 Just %0 soon s the pi It Congreas wrive without further legislation. — The of what the denwcratic party migie Mowed; s Bo far as the