Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 14, 1895, Page 2

2 THE OMAHA DAILY BEFR, DAY, OCTOBER 14, 1895 history of Nobraska, factional feuds have | Mayor Broatch. This resort has always bren FOR‘[‘U\‘E'S FAV“RED MZF‘ interest for Chicago is that of young George PR v ROP REP RT around in the dark, as we aro now.'" not been uncommon, and In some memorable | the trysting place of these bogus detective J\ LV | M. Pullman ‘And Miss Felieite Oglesby. The | | | 1t took the grain speculators twenty years campalgns the rank and file of the perty [ I asked Mr. Broatch why he tolerated thess bride-to-be Ih th® daughter of e, -Governor to get Statisticlan Dodge out of office. In the | went into open revolt against candidates [ Iawless places, especially during the fair, B Richard J. Oklasby of Elkhart, 11l Miss first year of Mr. Robinson's experience it was who were nominated by unfair means or [ when strangore and visitors were Tiable to % Al Ogleaby s o s weslthy a8 her betrothed, m.,,r.‘,,‘l,: ihern wn loak M“”M:r»; ,,,‘ e nota onest and disreput- | bs swindled or confidenced out of thelr i illions | Who will somu duy (nherit the vast business i i @ statisticlan's office—that some one there | - Bty b dicle el T oney. " Mr. Broatch wontended that o way | SIX Pairs of Plodged Hearts with Mi and fortune which his tather has bulit up, | Agricultural ~Department Organising a | i\ Sibtfsticlans office that wome one the | “In the history of Nebraska polities there | unable to suppress thess criminal resorts. But to Command. The wedding 'will not take place for a year Corps of 50,000 Correspondents, crop average to speculators in Chicago. .On | is not a parallel to the infamy " bass | they wers never disturbed, although Mr. and a half, as both of the young folks are Investigation it proved that a former employe | treachery that has culminated In the de- | Broatch’s dotectives have achleved renown i I.‘m:hl::';‘m- handylof futors. Youn l(;ul::;r; Aot of the Department of Agrieulture, who knew orge W. Li ’ by climbing transoms and breaking open ng 6 Thraell, w 58 Ol e system of the statisticlan's office, had ’p:"r;.': (I;l;‘l;vr:wr:\ ..1’ ‘\:".“TI”Hm«u-h, consist- | doors in privats houses 1o ferret out men or A REMARKABLE ~ MATRIMONIAL ~ GROUP | J,," S8 0 next year in Paris, where the | PRESENT CORPS IS ONLY 10,000 gane o Chicago an organized a little bureau | ing chiefly of mercenary henchmen, city con- | women who w:re consorting without mar- finishing toudhedl “will be put upon her edu- of statistics of his owr. He was gathering | trectors and mayor's appointecs on the city | rlage liesnscs, . mhee | StHoD. bis information from the same sources from pay roll, were fairly overthrown in the pri- | “While Brosteh was pulling the wool over | Vast Fortunes Affected by The wedfl:’. Ol and ds that of [ A Gigantle Undertaking—The Agent | Which tho statistician obtained It, and was mary election, in which Broatch had all the | the eyes of the goody goody people in sup- Senson's Engngements—Youth, Mise Ethel V, Phelps-Stokes and John Sher- Redelves Only Department D publishing a little in advance of the depart- advantages of compact cohorts massad at the | pressing Higging' saloon he was enlisting the Benuty ad Helllon I man Hoyt. Tt will take place at Lenox, A o ment what was virtually the department re Ity’s exp:nse and gangs of ripeators a1 ron. | Support of the dive kespers, who were ten oM Kby Mass., wheré ‘te Stokes family has the ments in Compensntion—A T port on the crop conditions, 1t fw this cor \deat graders CHAC W marshaled by | {imes as bad as Higgins. The keeper of one 7 A * finest house In that region of millionaires with Statisticinn Robinson. petition which is responsible chiefly for the Toe e CNGAE LI et eI BY | T tNore Jotaty; WiToH b uotariousty hends The ceremony will performed at Trinity change mad> in the system of collecting he water works boases, Street ; Mr. | Quarters for thugs, bruisers and toughs, was chureh on Thursday, October 31, and there reports. When the Agricultural department . ot notorlous Duft Green a0 i | faken to the bosom of Brostch and only last | This year's record of matrimonial unions | Sy % SoMDHIoL. Tt the houss whieh Bein (S WOPK. GF, collvering. cro Do e Wiley of the Thomeen-Houston Blectric Light | taken to bosom of Broatch i y E B giia Sdi v o vl Honty A. Robinson, the ohief statisticlan | ! work of collect i f the Tucsday Broateh put fully $2,000 into his [and engagements involves a greater number | promises to eclipse In grandeur the Lenox it had no competition. Now speculative ir W her ver, Mr. Broatch | hockets: by locating the votlug place of the [ of yast fortunes tuan any previous social | wedding of Miss Sloane and J. Townsend |of the Agricultural department, Is engaged | torests are so freat that both speculators and hi ORI Sur ety 1) is competitors | Second precinct of the Third ward in his season in the country's history, Chief among | Burden In the gigantic task of organizing a corps [ merchants in large cities have thelr agents | O o “Witn anty | den. And while all ‘the worst rum holes | * ot 1 early summer | The bride-to-be is the daguhter of Anson | of 50,000 correspondents throughout the agri. | traveling through the agricultural dfstriots | ::’_;‘:';fl"-;";\("f";‘"flr:,‘fl‘:l’:;-;';fl‘ elegates | WeTe being favored by Broatch other liquor | Uae unions of the spring and early Phelps-Stokes. The eldest daughter some making private reports to them to guide | elected on a square issue, Mr. Broatch had no chance for a nomination unless he could buy four delegates from the opposi tion. It is an open secret that all the way from $500 to $2,000 were offered to anil- Broatch delegates to induce them to go over to Broatch. After ten hours' session and 267 ballots, Mr. Broatch was fairly beaten by the majority of the convention, and G. ‘W. Lininger nominated. That nomination was made unanimous on the motion of Broatch’s right bower, John T. Clarke. It was duly announced by the chairman, Mr. E. P. Davis. Following the nomination of Mr. Lininger, Mr. John Rush was renomi nated treasurer by acclamation. Not a dis- senting vote was cast, or a_whisper of oppo- siton from any delegate. Under the politi cal code every delegate In that convention was in honor bound to give these nominees thelr support. ‘But what d.d they do? In the language of Zach Chandler in his famous speech on pensioning Jeft Davis, with other Mexican War veterans, ‘with treason in their hearts and bravado on their lips,’ these tools and herchmen of Broaich conspired under the in- piration of that arch-hypocrite and double dealer, held sccret caucuses to play into the hands of the enemy and defeat Lininger and Rush. And while they were plotting to kuife Lininger, these scoundrels were pro- fuse with professions of good will. Mr Broatch gave it out that Liningor was his chotee above all other rival eandidates. The arrant old hypocrite went so far even as to dbelare that Lininger was his first choice. and that he wculd not have been a can date himself had Lininger only consented to allow his name to be used in the primarles. Lininger was invited to Broatch's banquet to the Twenty-eighters, and was there given pledges and assurances by onc and all that they would give him their most cordial and active support to the end. But when Lin- inger's back was turned the unprincipled villains were whetting their stilettos to assassinate him. he most damnable exhibition of duplicity and viperous treachery was manifested at the Lininger Thanksgiving dinner to the dele- gates of the convention. With the exception of Judas Iscariot Clarke they were all there. ‘They toasted Lininger as thelr next magyor and each and every one raised their hands to pledge themselves to work for him and the ticket from that time on to the close of the palls. “But how did these traltors keep their word? The very next night they held a se- cret caucus in Councilman Chaffee's office. Twelve out of the twenty-eight were there, and Paul Vandervoort, the Dodlin granite Jjobber, who had at the Broatch banquet pledged himself personally to Lininger, was also there to concoct the plot that was to defeat Lininger, Rush, Bechel and other ean- didates who were offensive to Broatch and his tottering dynasty. “But the conspiraiors were not only work- ing out political revenge. It is stated by par- tles who know that over $10.000 of boodle was paid to the Broatch contingent, and with this boodle the ‘law and order’ ticket beaded by Cushing was peddled openly by the very delegates who had helped to nominate the republican ticket, reinforced by members of the republican central committes who had. sold out, and they did effective work for Cushing. . . . . . . . A Zulu who breaks bread with the say- ages in Contral Aftica will abstain from hos- {tilities; a Bedouin Arab who tastes salt with a traveler in the desert will protect him on his journey; a savage Indian who smokes the pipe of peace with a white man considers bimself obligated to show his good will and amity. What a despicable creature is the man who would accept the hospitality of an- other while treason lurks in his heart! There is vothing so mean or disreputable that such a two-legged viper is incapable of. Fortunately the law of the survival of the fittest will rid the politics of Omaha in due time of such rat- tlesnakes.' BROATCH HAD A CHAMPION. The scathing denunciation of the work of Broatch and his assoclates called for an an- swer. He appeared In a long letter in the World-Herald, which is again championing his candidacy, in which he denounced the editor of The Dee and went on to explain his conduct. Although everyhody knew he had organized the Twenty-eighters to knife Lininger, he claimed to have voted for Lin- inger himself and to have coerced his coach- man into voting for him. He explained the opposition of his followers to Lininger to hava been inspired by a belief that Mr. Lin- inger was pledged to a liberal policy, in case of his election, toward the liquor dealers of the city. In answer to Broatch’s denunciation and explanation, Mr. Rosewater, on December 7, 1889, printed the following’ editorial in The Bee over his signature and under the caption “A Monumental Fraud:" * “This man Broatch has been posing as a model of integrity and a loyal upholder of &ood government and a strict enforcement of law and order. By cunning and duplicity he has managed to create the impression among the best people of this city that he has been @ sincere and uncompromising opponent of everylhing that is disreputable, disorderly and lawless. “‘Broatch has proved himself a monu- mental fraud. His career as mayor has been one of constant deception and selfish schem- ing for personal ends and ambitious designs. During the memorable struggle between the council and the police commission, when he had enlisted the active support of good cit- izens against the combine that sought to starve the police, he was constantly nego- tiating compromises. While myself and other citizens had raised a fund to pay the police, and I bad personally sacrificed thousands of dollars by upholding the police commission in the fece of threats that the city hall would be relocated, Mr. Broatch stood ready to_make terms that would further his own ends. In the very heat of the exciting strug- gle, while the title of Chief Seavey was being tested {n the courts, he signed the ordinance and the warrant to pay Tom Cummings his salary as city marshal. This was practically giving away (he case. Scavey and Cum- mings could not legally hold the office of chief of police at the same time. My earnest remonsirance against paying Cummings was met by Broiteh with the response that Cum- mings was hard up and needed the money to start a saloon! ‘Why don't you pay Cummings out of your own pocket? I asked. “But Mr. Dioateh preferred that the city pay Lwo salarles because Cummings needed the money te start a saloon. “A few days later, when Seavey, who had become tired of the fight, tendered his res ignation, Broatch promptiy voted to accept it, and ooved as a substitute for Seavey John McDanald, one of his solid Twent eight, who had for years kept a saloon on the northeast corner of Douglas and Fourteenth streets. This would bhave been a complete surronder to the anti-police combine, but Broateh cared nothing about law and order = long as the new chief was a man who would be a politi- cal tool. Broatch, however, was foil:d by my personal appesl to the members of the police commlssion to reconsider thelr action and uphold the status In which thelr case stood in the courts at that period “But th: most disgustiog imposture which Broatch has been playing wpon credulous people who regard him as the law and order ehampion has been since he commenced to ot his pins for re-election. The spy system which h: inaugurated has boen a sham and a fraud, gotten up chiefly for the purposs of holdiug clubs over the heads of taloon koepers, gamblers and dive owners. Mr. Broatch and his detectives soon became ac- cessorles to the most scandalous violstions of law. Last summer after Duff Green was forced to resign from the police forco I called Mr Broatch's attention to the fact that there was a collusion between his dctectives and cortaln gambling hells. Oue of these re the Diamond, was then ranuing and still’ continues to run faro (ables and other #ames by mnd with- the' taelt consemt of dealers were biacklisted and persscuted be- cause they refused to lend Broatch their political influence. “Broatch prates about the enforcement ot the Sunday law—the old fraud! He did enforce the Sunday law rigidly the first nine months of this year, but for the last two months every Broatch salvon has had a handy back door open, with the assurance that the police would not moiest them. “With these facts beforc them our law- abiding citizens can no longer bemoan the merited defeat of Broatch. e has not only imposed upon good and plous peoplo, but merits their everlasting cont:mpt. Broatch is not only an impostor, but a dangerous political desperado. His attempt to carry the primaries by an army of hirelings and repeaters, while sailing under law and order colors, and his manipulation of the Third ward primary election judges and clerks, whe were Instigated to felonious interference with the poll list and to sign fraudulent returns wses in infamy anything that has ever attempted by McGarigle and the Chi- cago ballot box stuffrs. A chief executive who will resort to such means must be in deed desperate, if not wholly crazy, to hold his_office. “The faint attempt Broatch makes to ex onerate his late confederates, who treach crously sold out Lininger and the ticket for boodle, is scarcely worthy of notice. These men will go down Into political history as a most unconscionable set of knave: el FOI REFORM IN N WYORK. Good Government Clubs Iusue an Ad dress to the Public, NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—The executive com. mittee of the Good Government clubs issued an address today setting forth their reasons for opposing the fusion ticket. They say tha it the committee of fifty had effected a union on a nonpartisan platform in support of non-political candidates, it would have been acceptable to them. The addresses con- tinue: “The committee of fifty, disregarding the resolution under which it was appointed, bought from the leaders of the republicans and of the state democracy, by promise of money and moral support, certain admirable judicial nominations. The other places on the ticket they eonceded to be party spoils. ““So long as the honorable and wealthy men of this city are willing to lend the weight of their names and the power of their resource in such trafic in an attempt to purchase government from the politicians, we shall have to fight corruption by whatever party name it may be called.” The argument of the fusion ticket is the “cholce of ovils,” one which was used in 1890 to gain support for the People’s Munici- pal league, and because of which 50,000 voters stayed away from the polls. Says th address: ““The people of this eity cannot close their eyes to the fact that the committec of fitty has made an alliane with Platt They remember that last winter Platt's ma chine refused to grant us polica reform, de- teated all efforts to reform the public sehools; derided and repudiated the very principle of civil service reform which republican rep- resentatives had embodied in the constitu- tion of the state, and rejected a_simple and effective ballot law. It imposed upon you a law formed to disfranchise independent voters and facilitate bribery at the polls.” Wl QRN PLAYTHING OF FICKLE FORT B Joseph Nesbitt, Onee Worth Millions, Dies a1 er In Chicago. CHICAGO, Oct. 13.—Joseph Nesbitt, who, it is claimed, was at one time worth $1,000,- 000, and a part owner in the famous Ana- conda and Bonanza mines, was found dead in bed In a cheap lodging house in this city this morning. Nesbitt has been in Chicago for some time, and lately has been known as “Hypo Jo" from the fact that he is habitually addicted to the use of coacine and morphine. It fs said that Nesbitt lost his fortune at the gaming table. He came her during the World's fair with a number of other men with the intentlon of running gambling houses on a wholesale plan, but the police wonld not allow him to open At that time he is sald to have had $15 000 left. Since he continued to gamble in a small way until bis last cent melted away and he was compelled to resort to the cheap lodging housi Olney Story Not Verified. WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—No official utter- ance could be obtained today regarding th statement contained in the Washington dis patch to the New York World that Secretary Olney had intimated to the Spanish govern ment that Spain will be held responsible for anything that may oceur through failure of the authorities at Havana to recognize Consul General Williams as a dislomatic agent. retary Olney declined to discuss the subject The Spanish minister, Senor de Lome, ls out of the city. e Chinese Benutien in Court. ATLANTA, Oct. 13.~The nine Chines, beauties who were taken from the Chinesc village at the exposition last week, on the grounds that they were brought to this country and detained for immoral purpo: were before Judge Newman on habeas pus at the insts of two laundrymen in the clty, who declared that the women wert held as'slaves at the exposition. The girls, who sald that they were actresses in Chind and hold similar positions in the Chinese village here, testified that they all came to this counfry voluntarily. Judge Newman remanded the girls into the ‘custody of the concessionalres. Troublesome Palr Arrested. Owen Shannon was intoxicated and try- ing hard to ralse another row in the neigh borhood of Tenth and Capitol avenue, wh he was arrested. Owen s @ brother of Jack Shannon, who precipitated hostilitie at Garrity's saloon last Friday night Louis Cassidy was arrested last night for making trouble in the house at 1119 North Nineteenth street. Cassidy Is the man wh. recently stole a_quantity of lead plumbing from vacant houses in the northwest section of the city. Engineer Armstrong Buried. The funersl services of the late Thomas P rmstrong, the engineer who killed by the accident in the Union Pacific freight yards, were hcld yesterday afternoon at his late residence, 7 Plerce street. Owing to the iliness of the aged mother of the de- ceased, the services were not elaborate, the cercmany bel & qu'et an1 impressive. There were present a number of the rallroad em- ployes and other friends of the unfortunate engineer. o - Pistol Duel Causes Two Deaths. CINCINNATI, Oct. 13.—A speclal to the Commercial-Gazette from Glouster, Athens county, O., says: Davld C. Cooke, city mar- shal, was attacked on the street tonight by ex-Marshal Blmer Donnelly, who, from an old grudge, began firing at Cooke. Five shots were fired and both fell dead ten fect apart, ke with four balls in his breast and Donnelly with a bullet through h's heart. atally Wounded a Girl, CINCINNATIL, Oct. 13.-A Commerclal- Gazette special from Eaton, O., says: Last night John Munroe Smith, aged 17, escorted home his sweetbeart, Gertrude Lally, and quarreled with her on the way, and arriv- ing at the house shot and fataily wounded her in the presence of her mother, then sur- rendered 1o the sheriff. - He Enjoyed His Evend Isaac Blake spent all of his weekly wages except 16 vents yesterday, just to have a jollification. When Be went to call on his cham st a late hour last night, at the house CrT e, 217 Bouth Twelrih stroct, Blake broke in the door and created other Lurms of (usbuwo. He will expl: his actions udge Berka this T — were the Gould-Castellane, the Leiter-Cur- zon and th: Vanderbilt-Sloane nuptials, in each of which large fortunes were affected. Following these are announced engagements in which millions are involved. The more prominent are: Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt—Moses PAFIOE. i ciaiies +$ 30,000,000 Miss Pauline W i 18,000,000 Edith Rockefeller—Harold McCormick ceviieaeaniieennss 38,000,000 Miss Consuelo Vanderbiit—Dike of Marlborough .. P .. 25,000,000 Miss Felicite Oglesby—G. M. Pull- man, Jjr. . seviveestvecsiesoaines 15,000,000 Miss [3thel V. Phelps-Stokes—J. 8. Hoyt .. chicseins o 9,000,000 Grand total . ++ . $135,000,000 It can be seen at a glance that the little chap Cupld has not spent an idle season by any means, To bring all this youth, beauty and millions together was quite a task, but he has managed it with rare tact. For two Vanderbilt heiresses, one Rockefeller, one Whitney, one Stokes, a Marlborough and a Pullman to enter the matrimonial arena Is a rare treat for Hymen. That an active rivalry will spring up among all these prospective brides and grooms to have the grandest wedding is quite certain. In the above list of the many millions in- terested, says the Washington Post, the amount of money which the young folks will probably inherit is given. In many cases these figures will be exceeded, as In all probability their respective papas will live for many years and keep on piling up the family millions. A $25,000,000 BRIDE. Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, as the daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the head of that august family, s quite certain to come in for $25,000,000. Her father today is worth $100,- 000,000, and while the bulk of it wili go to the eldest son, It has always been part of the Vanderbilt policy to deal generously with the daughters. Miss Gertrudg is now a shade under 20 years. She is a'blonde, with gray-blue eyes, slight in figure, graceful, and with more in- telligence than the ordinary society butter- fly. She has a fancy for heavy reading, and Is well vers:d in the literature, arts and cus- toms of the ancients. She is a clever mu- sfcian, can sing an old ballad as delighttully as a skilled professional, and altogeher is a pleasant type of the true American gentle- woman. She has never hankered after a title, and if her innermost thoughts could be read a tinge of pity might be found for her pretty cousin, whose engagement to the duke of Marlborough has just been an- nounced. Moses Taylor, whom she will marry, is a sensible young chap and was a college mate of her brother, Cornelius, at Yale. Young Taylor graduated in the class of '93, and has served a term as president of the Uni- vereity club. He is 25 years old and be- longs to the Taylor family noted for its wealth and conservatism. ~The wealth of this family and its management take o all of the time of this young man and dbars him from entering any of the more active forms of business life.” He is something of an athlete and a skilled horseman and polo player. A WHITNEY TO WED. Miss Pauline Whitney is a_girl not unlike Miss Vanderbilt. They have been the closest of friends since their childhood, living, as they do, on opposite sides of Fifth avenue and Flifty-seventh street. Miss Whitney's father, ex-Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney, and possibly the democratic candi- date for' president next year, is one of the great moneyed men of the age. His wealth is computed at between $40,000,000 and $50,- 000,000, but the young lady will also inherit considerable weaith from the Payne family of Ohio, to which her mother belonged. She is 20 years old, and is about ten years the junlor of her afianced. She received her education in a privat school at Dobbs' Ferry. She was a close student and graduated with honor. Miss Whitney has made her appear- ance in some of the junior dancing classes, and she was about to make her soclal debut in February, 1893, when her mother died. For more than a year Miss Whitney re- mained for the most part uoroad. While in Europe during the winter of 1894 tho rumor of her engagement to George Vanderbili was circulated, but promptly denied. She Is of a very charitable disposition, and her manner of life has been characterized by an abun- dance of common sense. Her afflanced, Almeric Hugh Paget, of an old English family. His father was Lord Alfred Paget, who was a general in the army and chief equerry to the queen. Lord Alfred was the father of fourteen children. One of them, Colonel Arthur Paget, was a page in Queen Victoria's court for five years, when he recelved a commission 2s colonel in the Scots Guards. Colonel Paget married the daughter of Mrs. Paran Stevens of this city. The marquis of Anglesey is the head of the Paget family. The founder of the family was knighted by Henry VIIL The present Lord Anglesey, cousin of Almeric Hugh Paget, married the daughter of J. P. King of Sand Hill, Ga. Other members of the family are Sir Augustus Paget, for a long time British am- bassador at Rome; the marchioness of Hast- ings, Lord Combermere, the carl of Win- chelsea, the duke of Argyle, Lord Sidney, Lord Windsor, Lord Conyngham and Lord Strafford. When he was 16 years old, Almeric Hugh Paget, who is the youngest member of his faaly. core to his o try. After receiv- ing his education he went west and entered the real estate business. His success at- tracted attention in Bugland, and be is now the manager of an English company dealing | in western investments. In manner and ap- pearance Mr. Paget is a thorcugh American, and as his business interests are all in this country he will doubtless always remain an American. The Whitney mansion is now being fur- nished up in anticipation of the wedding, which will probably occur some time in N vember. COUNTLESS MILLIONS HERE. Although in the Rockefeller-McCormick nuptials there will be more millions con- cerned than in any of the other weddng it will doubtless be a very quiet affair, as the Rockefellers have never moved in the very smart set which controls New York so- | clety. As the daughter of John D. Rockefeller, the richest man in the country, Miss Eqith comes Rockefeller will probably _inherit between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000. Sh» has two sisters and one brother. Mr. Rockefeller's wealth is increasing at a terrific rate, and Is | probably somewhere in the nelghborhood of $160,000,000. It has been estimated as high at $185,000,000, but no one knows what it amounts to, not even the owner of it all. | Miss Edith Rockefeller is 24 years old, and while not a beauty, in a soclety sense, has a fine, sensible, intelligent face. Shs is a fine musician, playing the cello, violin and | piano, She dresses quletly and plainly and has never been seen to wear a bit of J welr worth $100. She fas two fine saddle horses, | and when in tewn rides daily in the park She is a clever linguist, speaking mary of | the languages of eontinental Europe, and | she also understands Japanese, Simplicity is the keynote of the Rocke- teller home life, and for this reason the wed- ding is bound to be a quiet affair, Miss Alta | Rockefeller, the unmarried sister of Migy Edith, is as much like the latter as can be. Their amusements, studies, and charities are the same, and they are generally to he seen together. Harold McCormick, the prospective husband of Miss Rockefeller, has just graduated at Princeton, and is now entering Into what promises to be an active business career in Chical His father made millions by the manufacture of agricultural implements, and the family occupies a leading position in Chi eigs. Young McCormick Is 23 years old, is a hard worker, good looking, and well put to- gether. He a faney for fine raiment, but is not a dude. A PULLMAN WEDDING Another wedding which will bave a peculiar | will serve until January 1, 1897, | respondent six years ago married Baron Halkett of Eng- land, and a settlement of $5,000,000 was made at the thne. It is quite probable that Miss Edith will be equally as fortunate, as the family is a fabulously rich one. THE WEDDING AT SHADOWBROOK. There are more than 100 bedrooms in Shad- owbrook, the Lenox home of the family, but the house will not be nearly large enough to accommodate the throng of guests which will surely attend the wedding festivities. The Stokes know how to entertain better than most people, and they almost literally burn money up in their efforts to please every one. John Sherman Hoyt is not as rich as his future wife, but at least he can count upon a million. His family Is a fine one and has been soclally prominent for many years, Little need be said about the approaching alliance of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt and the young duke of Mariborough. They are both the children of divorced parents. Notwith- standing the popular belief that it has been an exchange of the Vanderbilt millions for the mighty title of duchess, it is patent to all who know the young couple that they are very deeply In love Wwith each other. Marlborough is level-headed and democratic and secms to be made of finer stuff than his father was. Miss Consuelo is so young that she can hardly be called a woman. She has Just passed her eighteenth birthday, and ha: been o sheltered that her knowledge of the world is very slight. She has a quaint style of beauty, and in a few years should develop into one of the most strikingly beautiful women the world over, The wedding will take place the latter part of November, and those who know Mrs. Alva Vanderbilt's capacity for entertalning count upon seeing the most wonderful festivities in the history of New York. . BUILD FROM I0WA TO THE Outlines of the Plan of & Kansaws City Ruilrond. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 13.—The Journal, in a leading articie tomorrow, will say: The men who are building the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf railroad are not satisfied with pushing it toward deep water at Sabine Pass as rap- idly as possible. They have ambition to reach out with a vast trunk line to the north and east. This is the true inwardness of the sur- veys which are now, being made from Paines- ville, Harrison ‘county, Mo., to Des Moines, Ia., and to Kansas City. At Des Moines con- nections will be made with lines running to St. Paul, Minneapolig and Chicago. When the link between Kansas City and Des Moines is completed the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf will have a continuous line from St. Paul and Minneapolis to Chicago, and from these cities to Kansas, theuce to the Gulf of Mexic: at Sabine Pass, This will enable the road to do an enormaus business, additional to the business on the. main line that it could do without these gonneations. The survey started at Gainesville. The sur- veyors then ran the line to Pattensburg, Da- vies county, thence to Weatherby, DeKalk county, where the survey crossed the right of way of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. From there it gontinued north through Platts- burg, Clinton ceunty, and Smithville, Clay county, to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul bridge, near Rando'ph, Clay: county, It.is the intention of the company to obtain a right of way over the bridge, provided, of course, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul people will consent. If they do not, another bridge will be bullt a short distance up the river from it. There Is a narrow gauge road between Gainesville aud Des Moines, a dis- tance of 102 miles. It is intended to change this to standard gauge and make it part of the line to Des Moines. These facts were obtained frem an offiial of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Rallway company. He said he was not yet ready to say what lines wi'l be used between Des Moines and St. Paul and Minneapolis, and between those cities and Chicago. Nor would he say whether other lines will use the bridge that it is proposed to bulld if the use of the Milwaukee bridge cannot be obtained. S e GULE. ™ IRE OTING. Too Soon for y n. The dlspatch sent out of here to the east ern papers last Saturday regarding an incl dent in the common council was both mislead ing and maliclous, relates the Arizona Kic Wo had scarcely taken our place as presiding officer of the meeting when we noticzd that Alderman McGraw of the Second ward had mischlef in his eye. We couldn't understand what he was at until he moved to take from the tablo a resolution for a_sidewalk on the east side of Grant Place. There Is but one houso on the east side of that street, and the alderman owns that. Hio idea was to stick the taxpayers about §200 for his own jn- dividual benefit, and as he made his motion he started to draw his guns. We were too quick for him, however, and ordered him to throw up his hands. Alderman McGraw is a critter who knows when he is beaten, and he didn’t hesitate to elevate and keep h hands up until disarmed by the city clerk. He left the council chamber with a threat to do us up later, but after the session was over we met him in the Yaller Dog saloon and he extended his hand, acknowledged his error, and asked that friendly relations be renewed, The incident really amounted to nothing, and we are sorry to sec the eastern paper. giving it so much space. Ours is a ploneer town in a territory. Our common council is composed of good material, but we run things after our own fashion, and should mot be criticised becauso that fashion differs from New York or Chicago. Every alderman brings at least one gun into the meeting with him, while we always have two within reach, but we nevertheless flatter ourselves that the public business is carefully consid- cred. e Womew 1 Trustees, Mrs. Henriotty 'Neé¥lan is the latest addi- tion to the nyfiber'of women trustees of the public schdgls gt New York City, and Mrs. Ney- lan fs a woman out ‘0f the ordinary. She is at the head of Aj ¢xtensive cooperage busi- ness, which she ¢ihducted for four years during the last’ ilness of her husband and since his déath, which occurred six years ago. She Is a firm believer in the inde- pendence of women, and is an enthusiastic friend of educdtign’ ‘The district in wh she lives is one Of the densely populated sections of the [pwer east side. In an inter- view she =ays: ‘T Naye not sought the posi- tion, but if I cqp do the chidlren of the dis- trict any good I shill do the most I can. I think women trusiees are needed, since many of the teithers are women, and their ts are better ydderdtood by a woman trus- eo. T have twi TG girls 1n the achoole Murdere CHILLICOTHE, Mo, stacks of hay were burned on th 8. B. Patterson, ten miles south of Chilli cothe, last night, and (his morning th charred remains of a man were found in one of the stacks, burned beyond Knition Circumstances’ point to murder, as there ar two bullet wousds In the dead man's hea and fresh wagon tracks were found near by ~— ntie Cable. 14.—The Times' Paris cor- that directly Parliament opens that Lebon, minlster of commeree, wiil submit a bill ratitying the contract for a new cable to be laid from Brest to New York, with branches to the West Indies and Brazil. A ral Jones Dead. LONDON, O°t. 13 —Admiral Sir Lewl 163 Is dead. Sir Lew's Tobi Jones, G. C. B. governor of G ich hospital. He was promoted from vieo sdmiral to admiral on July 14, 1871, aud was gn tue reiired list New At LONDON, Oct says cultural districts, particularly in the wost and south. This corps will be twice as great as the standing army of the United States, nearly one-half as great as the militia force in all of the states and territories, one- twelfth of 1 per cent of the population of the United States, fifteen times as great as the whole corps of first, second and third class postmasters in' the government service, to whom nearly $6,000,000 is pald every year. And the work of thls corps of corre- spondents will be performed without any cost to the government, except what is represented by the value of some crop pamphlets which are distributed by the secretary of agriculture every month, says the Washington corre- spondent of the Globe-Democrat This work of organization is the result of yhe meeting at Washington last spring of ihe representatives of commercial bodies from all_parts of the United States to protest against the system upder which the informa- tion about the crops was collected. The chief occupation of the statistician of the Agricul- tural department is the preparation of statis- tics showing the condition of the growlng crops. Bulleting containing this information are published every month. They are awaited anxiously by all the people who are interested in cotton or cereals. They are of chief inter- st to the speculators in graln and cotton, because if the government report shows a good condition of the growing crops the prices of grain for future delivery are likely 0 go down, and if the government report shows a bad condition of the crops, or a decrease in the acreage planted, the price is likely to go up. Whatever the character f the report, there is one class of men dis- satisfied with it, and never a month passes that the statistician is not denounced by the speculators as unfair or stupid or corrupt Mr. Robinson's predecessor, Prof. Dodge, had this experience, and it was the persistent at- tacks of the speculatcrs and the dealers in grain in the large cities that brought about his retirement from the department. Mr. Robinson is having a similar experience, and it fs making his hair gray WEAKNESS OF THE OLD SYSTEM, Under the old system of making up the monthly crop report, at returns were' received he statisticlan’s’ office from each agri- tural county. In each of these counties were four correspondents. One of these was designated the chief correspondent, and ‘o this one the othcr fhree sent thelr re- ports of the crop conditions on a day fixed These three reports the chief correspond- ent combined with his own, and he made U report to the Dopartment of Agriculture on the crop conditions of his county. There were (and there are now, for that matter) 10,000 of these correspondents, of whom %500 sent reports to the department. In ddition to these correspondents, there is another corps which is Intended to be just s large, which fs organized In each state mder the supervision of a state agent, who receives a salary from the government. This salary may be anything from $400 to $1,200 a year. “The amount is supposed to be proportioned to the work. Mr. Robin s tells me that the division of salaries has not been entirely fair in the past, and that there is to be a reorganization of these state agencies some time in the near future. These state agents appoint their corre- spondents in each county, who are independent of the agents reporting direct to the department. The reports of their ngents are made to them direct, and then each state agent assembles the reports which come to him and makes up a general report of crop conditions in the state to send to Washington. The two sets of correspond- ents are expected to be a check on each other. If there s any discrepancy between the reports of one and the reports of the other the statisticlan Investigates through a special agent and learns which set of cor- respondents is wrong. When the representatives of the commer- cial bodies met here the statistician went over the subject of the reports with them very thoroughly, and after some consideration he came to the conclusion that he was not raking the country carefully enough for his crop facts. So he determined to mulitply the number of the department’s direct corre- spondents by five. Instead of having four correspondents to a county, he determined tc The question Mr. bave one to each township. was how to get at the right men. ingon decided to write to the coun as men likely to know th> most ava - respondents. So he sclected twenty-one states, in which from two-thirds to nine- tenths of the grein crops are raised, and sent circular letters to the county clerks, asking them to send the names of men, two in cac township, who might be willing 0 act as the department’s correspondents, and who would be competent to make crop estimates. With each circular was inclosed a franked en- velope for reply. This correspondence has invblved no litite labor. Most of the county clerks have re- plied promptly, but a great many have not replied at all, ‘and it has been necessary to addiess these agein. In all, thers are about 2,500 county clerks to hear from, but the de- partment has uot entered into correspondence with all of them at cnce. For, when th county clerk replies, it is necessary for the statisticlan to address circular letters to twenty men more or less in the unty, and when these twenty men have replizd, to send circulars to the alternates, in case the men first addressed refuse o serve. ALL FOR THE GLORY OF IT. “The service is one of pure patriotism,” sald Mr. Robinson. “Or, rather, perhaps I should say, authority worship, or possibly it would ‘be fairer to call it a desire for authority. Each one of the department’s cor- respondents feels that he is a part of the great government machine—that on him rests a part of the responsibility of the work of this department. It is this consclousness and the interest In government which it arcuses which makes thousands of men will- ing to serve the statistician’s office without pay. All of them are doing something for their country, and without their aid we could not accomplish the work of getting out the crop reports.” Fer the present Mr. Robinson Is retaining the old correspondents, because he wants to make a comparison between the new system and the old. Whenever he has succeeded in organizing the new corps of correspondents in one of the states he will make up his repert for one month from the advices of the new correspondents, and then from the advices of the old ones, and compare the two. He has Rob. | no doubt that the larger corps of correspond- ents will do the better work. But the work will be_more complicated and harder to handle. “The trouble with Prof. Dodge, I think, was that lie was too much inclined to spec. ulate,” sid Mr. Robinson. “He would gt In his reports from every source, and the he would make his own crop average, using them as guldes and not as authorit!es A dis advantage under which this office labors, and which I am trylug to remove, s the fact that the census of the acreage is taken only once’in ten years. I am trying to persuzde the secretary to recommend to congress a blennial census of a age. It will cost a good deal, but if this work is worth doing a all 1t Is worth doing well. We are now six from the last acreage census us of 1890 was virtually a cen- sus of the acreage of 1889, Ths first year the acreage estimates no doubt were ac curate. In the yesr following the correspond ent: of the department had to gain what owledge they could by hearsay and base a rough estimate on that. In the year follow- Ing the correspondents had to bear in memory estimates they bhad made the year before, and asecrtain again by hearsay what changes had oceurred. It will take only a yesr or so of this kind of rough work to make the estimate of the acreage of the country thoroughly un- reliable. 1f we can have an official census onee in two years we can be sure of the accuracy of the ucreage, and uot be groping them in buying and selling grain for future delivery. The newspapers in the large citles, too, gather informatfon from the crop coun try at great expense. Still, the government report has.a value above those made by pri- vate agencies, because the government o afford to have a larg:r corps of correspond ents than the speculators or the merchants and because the government reports are known to be unprejudiced. SHERIFF HOUPT ON THE ¥ 3 Not Inclined to Sec Law Violated, but Prepared to Wait, LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Oct. 13.—Sherift Houpt of Hot Springs was In the city last night and held a long Interview with ernor Clarke. Sald he: My mind has b fully made up all along as to what cou would pursue. I intended to use my au- thority on the day of the fight and I would have succeeded. That crowd would have dumped $500,000 into Hot Springs and law would mot have been violated. I made arrangements for 500 men had the number been necessary to uphold the law.’ He says that Judge Duffie's action in writ- ing to Governor Clarke for unwarranted. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 13 assistance was A special to the Re- public from Hot Springs, Ark., says: The big contest will take place in Hot Springs October 81. In order to comply strictly with the laws of Arkansas the articles of agree- ment of the Florida Athletic assoclation have been changed from a finish contest to a lim- ited number of rounds, the referce being vested with full power to stop the contest when in his opinion it becomes brutal. The ontestants are to box with soft gloves. Spring Lake, a beautiful resort four miles from the city, has been, selected by Manager | Brady as Corbett's training quarters. At the request of the citizens of the city, Corbett will give an exhibition with his company at the opera house Wednesday evening. Fitz- Ummons’ training quarters have not yet been cted. AN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. 13.—Corbett re- celved the following telegram from W. A. Brady at Hot Springs tonight: “Come at once; everything Is fixed all right; protection Ruaranteed.” Corbett will leave for Hot Springs tomor- row night. O'Donnell Is not as well as his trainers would like to have him, -although he is working hard. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 13.—"There may be a fight at\Hot Springs, but it won't be a prize fight,” said Governor Clarke to an Assoclated press representative this afte noon. “I earnestly hope that extreme meas- sures will not be necessary. 1 know thes: men, every one of them and they are my irlends, and I should regret very much to be compelled to adopt harsh measures, but the law gives me the authority, and supplies the means and, if the necessity arises, | shall certainly prevent the fight at any cost.” The governor finds that the law of 1891 was not legally enacted, leaving the state without a lnw on the subject of prize fight- ing. The law of 1838, in his opinion, In- vests in the executive all the authority for carrying out the policy he has decided to adopt. This law does not refer to prize fight- ing, but rather to riots and rebellion, Under its operation the governor is allowed almost unlimited latitude, and could declare the district in which the “disturbance oceurs to be in rebelllon against the state, and cowuld not only drive out by force all the parties concerned In the disturbance, but could ar- rest and imprison without process of law. CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Oct. 13.—Fitz- simmons’ quarters presented a lively appear- ance this afternoon. Clerks and business men who have no time to spare during the week were out to see him. Parties who have scen Corbett train jn San Antonlo say that Fitzsimmons' physical condition is far su perior and Trainer Charles White says Fitz- simmons is in betler condition than ever before. ARRANGING ¢ Dt ceton Trying to Ar- range a Date. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. 13.—The pre pects of a foot ball game with Princeton the one thing talked of among the followers of the game at Harvard. The latter will do everything possible to bring about the game, Harvard and and Prof. Ames said today that the only difficulty in the way s that of a suitabl date. Princeton has named November 2, but Harvard has scheduled a game on Noyember 2 with the University of Michigan, but open dates on both November 9 and 16, 1 latter date, however, is objectionable, from the fact that a week later both Harvard and Princeton play their most important games, the former with University of Pennsylvania and the latter with Yale. Princeton has o game with Cornell on November 9, which it I3 stated that the latter refuse to cancel, al- though it is suggested that Marshal Newell, the old Harvard tackle, who is coaching Cor- ne'l, may be able to arrange another date. A meeting of the Harvard coaches will be A tomorrow evening. to discuss and decide the matter. Meei £ he khorn, ELKHORN, Neb., Oct. 13.—(Speclal.)~Th Elkhorn Park and Cycling assoclation? on Saturday, October 26, will pull off their last race meet this seaso; Following is the card: One mile novice First prize, go'd watch chaim, $; second prize, bicy $2; third prize, fancy bipe and case, $ One mile open dozen linen handker one suit u; card case, $§i ze, onc e irth mile ass A: FI prize, umbrella, $i 0d prize, one pair slecve buttons, third prize, watch charm, $i Two-mile race: Tirst prize, gold filled watch, $15; second prize, fifty 10-cent clgars $6; third prize, smokiny set, $2 One mile unty, for riders outside of Omaha an th Omaha: First prize, 100 cigars, cond prize, cyclometer, $2; third prize, 'rac¢ing toe cl The last man 'across the tape in nt will awarded 100 pounds pure Three-mile handicap: First prize, gold watch, $25; second prize, stop watch, $10 50 third prize. fifty 10-cent cigars, $5. The meet has been sanctioned by A racing board, and riders part'c in the different events will be goyern L. W. rules. All open races w paced by a tandém. A feature of the meet will be "an exhibition mile by Nebraska' well known eruck, H. . Fredrickson, now a clas man, paced by a tandem. In case of bad wenther races will be postponed and readvertised tion will furnish entry f the assonin n request The secretary hlanks Wantx to Be a World Champion PHILAD HIA, Oct Churles M Keever, the lightweight pugilist, having de- clared that he would challenge the winner f last night's fight between Griffo and Lavigne, In consequence of the contest hay- ng been a draw, has issued a challnge fc fight elther for ihe lightwelght champion hip of the world, for a stake or & purse, at the limit Chexs Chunaplons at Play, NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-The firsi game of the chess match of five games betwoer nogrodsky and M. M. Sterling, th x iean chess champlon, was played at the Marihattan Chess clih yesterday evening Jusnogrodsky opened t ame with a pai and won afier sixty-two moves, Crieket Club Meeting, Thero will be a meetir exveutiy L ttee of the Omaha Cricket club at the Barker hotel at 8 p. m. sharp this evening All members of the committee are requested i the | bad | P —— HOOTING AFFRAY, MIsSOURE Family Quarrel at Aurorn Ends Fae tnily to Two. AURORA, Mo, Oct. 13.—A shooting affray, n which two men wero probably fatally in- Jured and a third serfously Injured, occurred here this evening. The trouble occurred at the home of Louls Jones, whose married daugh- ter, Sarah, who s living apart from her hus- band, appeared at the house in company with Andy Alexander and demanded her personal pffects. The woman has been living recently at the home of Alexander's father and mother, The Jonos family refuscd to give the woman her things and a quarrel and a fight followed, when they attempted to prevent. her leaving the house with young Alexander. During the seuffe Alexander drew a revolver and shot Thomas Jones, the woman's brother, and Louis Jones, her fatl Louls Jones also used his gun and succeeded in putting two bul'ets Into young Alexander's body. One bullet entered the left side of Alexander's neck and the other penetrated the forehead Just above the temple and entered the brain. Alexander cannot live. A bullet passed through Tom Jones' body, entering on the right side, below (e ribs, and coming out at the back. Old man Jones was shot In the mouth. Al of his teeth were knocked out. The woman was not Injure A Great Blessing My wifo and I have found in Hood's Barsaparilla. . She Lad rheumatism very [ with ankles and legs badly swollen,and hardly able to get up and down stairs without help. Many other remedics failed but Tood's Sars _parilla entirely < curcd her. It was only shortly after .~ that 1 was taken with the wame t complaint, aftect- ing my limbs and hips, 80 T just tried the samo medicine with the same result. My wife and chil- dren take Hood's Sarsapurilla whenever they feel the need of a medicine and it im= mediately makes them feul better. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Saves me doctor’s bills. Tam an engineer, and well known in this locality.” Q. We WyAT?, White Bead Hill, Tudfan Ter. I o83y tobuy, easy to take, casy In effect, 2oe. “BIG FOUR” ROUTE TO ATLANTA. and International postion. Travelers to the South during the fall and the carly part of the wintor season will have an unusual opportunity of see- ing the South at its best advantage. 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