Columbus Daily Telegram from Columbus, Nebraska • 1

a tt sarrtui fcj BfiggMgfcKg 7 i Columbus Daily Telegram COLUMBUS NEBRASKA FRIDAY MORNING IANUARY 23 1891 NO 244 vol PERPETUAL MOTION CANADA AND RECIPROCITY LIVE STOCK RATES A QUESTION OF TIME MANY NARROW ESCAPES MONTANA ROBBERS Thev The Struggle in the Senate Likely to Be a Lengthv One Meeting of the Western Freight Agents to Consider an Advance Kill Two Men Wound Three thers and Then Escape TWO OFFICIALS INDICTED DESPERATE FACTION FIGHT PENSION CASE DECISION For Alleged Manipulation of Kates Iowa Railroad Commissioners to the loed Station Matter Refuses to Ratify the Schedule Important Ruling by Assistant Secretary The Bill Regulating United States Marshals' Fees -Lymph Received by the President Prominent Young Men of Danville Ills Engage in a Bloody Battle Infuriated Citizens Tr to Lynch a Wife-Beater in Court Room Other Crimes A Missouri inventor Gives to the World a New Motor Mexico Mo Jan 22 Jones of this city is constructing a model of an invention that will revolution! ze the world and startle sych electricia ns as Thomas A Edison Mr Jones has ini vented a machine that will ultimately do away with both steam and electricity and instead run engines and all kinds of machinery with either compressed air or water It is a hydraulic engine and is attached to the regular steam engine by valve that lets the compressed air into the boiler and by the simple touch of a lever with the hand sets the machinery iD motion which runs perpetually until shut off by the opening up of another valve that lets the compressed air escape the hydraulic engine keeping up its work continually By this means an engine can be easily controlled or governed as if by steam and run at an almost trivial cost Mr Jones the inventor has a model that has been tried to his entire satisfaction and he is now constructing one in this city 12 by 14 inches expressly to secure a patent The inventor claims that in a year there will be very few engines in this country run by steam The model as shown is one of neatness and is the simplest Eiece of machinery in existence The ydraulic pumps in connection will stand the pressure of over 7d0 pounds of comjtressed air or water to the square inch and the inventor claims that it can be made to stand a pressure even greater than this A POINT FOR BOYD Fire in a Chicago Office Building Causes a Panic Among the Occupants Chicago Jan 22 What threatened to be a serious flre broke out in the Pot-vin building on Washington street op-positthe city hall The build in occupied principally by Ui yers and real estate inen tor unices The basement aej as a restaurant An over- 1: ited stove in the drying room adjoining the kitchen caused a board Partition to ignite and the flames shot through the elevator shaft with a cming rapidity The occupants of offices the building were apprised neir danger the smoke that en-ti through the crevices in their do rs I hey rushed to the ball-ways only to be confronted by huge volumes of stifling smoke whiqh made retreat impossible There are no fire escapes cn the building and the people shut op in the offices became frantic with fright Visions of a horrible hoi ocaust came to the nlinds of the helpless lawyers and terrified typewriter girls as they beheld the clouds of smoke accumulating about the windows of the offices in which they were imprisoned The windows were raised and the now thoroughly frightened men and women climbed out on the window ledges to escape being smothered by the smoke which now filled the rooms of the building The fire department arrived and ladders were raised to the terrified people were clinging with deathlike grip by the ledges One by one they were rescued from their perilous positions until they were all landed safely on the ground Helena Munt Jan 22 A terrible tragedy occurred at a tent town known as MeCartyville located at the head of the Great Northern extension in the Flathead country Three masked men entered the tent where five graders were seated at a table playing poker being attracted by the sight of $700 lying on the table The players were commanded to throw up their hands and upon refusing the robbers opened fire killing two of the graders and seriously wounding the other three They then took the money and fled The camp was at once aroused and pursuit began After following the murderers about fifty miles all traces of them were lost The report is authenticated railroad officials at that point Ministerial Circle Considerably Agitated Over the Question Ottawa Ont Jan 22 There is considerable agitation in ministerial circles just now Cabinet ministers are daily caucusing in little cliques The straight-out opponents of reciprocity are evidently growing restless and urreas over the mystery as to what Sir John Macdonald intends doing in regard to the reciprocity question He will give them no satisfaction as to whether he intends to stand by the combines or drop them As a result of a general commotion among the ministers tin reports about tbe dissolution of parliament are again rife as it is hinted Sir John wants to get the election over before he is compelled to make a choice between reciprocity and ly The action taken by Newfoundland in seeking free trade with the United States has apparently forced the hand of both the dominion and imperial governments and indications point to a sudden change in the ministerial policy Speaking of the general financial and commercial situation a banker who does considerable government business said: is useless to' ignore the fa'ct that the country is in a bad state There is no money in the country and none coming in Money now being withdrawn from the savings banks is now going into other banks The people are using it np and nothing is being exported to be drawn against by the merchants If there is a large surplus of grain in the northwest it is not being moved The lumber trade is dead and the McKinley bill restricts dealings with the United States and an immense sum of money has to be sent abroad this month to pay interest on bonds etc These payments will cripple ns still farther" American Seamen Rewarded London Jan 22 Capt Thomas Officer Crockett and several members of the crew of the American steamboat Pennsylvania have been rewarded by the board of trade fo their rescue or the crew of the British steamer Falcon in the Atlantic last November Capt Thomas receives a gold medal Officer Crockett a silver medal and Seamen Morgan Carlsen Jensen and Finnjgan each £2 The Chili Revolution London Jan A Buenos Ayers di spatch reports the news received there from Chili that the insurgents have taken possession of the port of Pisaqna forty miles north of Iquiqne A battle between the insurgents and the portion of the army remaining faithful to Pr es-ident Balmacela is imminent Washington Jan 22 The game of cross-purposes being played in the senate is in such a state that a prediction as to the final outcome would amount to nothing more than mere con jecture The Democrats have entered upon a policy of delay that can only be offset by some flank movement on the part of the Republicans backed by a ruling favorable to the majority party by the vice president The Republicans are playing a waiting game They think that p'r tracted sessions may tire the Democrats to such a degree that little resistance will be offered to some motion that will lead up to the approval of the journal and the consequent resumption of unfinished business the consideration of the cloture rule But the Democrats are determined not to be tired out Messrs Morgan Gray and Kenna have been selected as the next speakers and they are men of wonderful physical endurance There is apparently but small chance for the Republicans to successfully carry out their plan A thorougfi discussion of the situation has taken place among Republican leaders resulting in the general agreement that Mr Morton holds the key to the situation But the main difficulty is for Mr Morton to find an opportunity to make use of the key This he cannot do it is said without making some radical ruling and it remains to be seen whether he will exercise his power as the presiding officer of the senate to bring about a change in the present condition of St Louis Mo Jan 22 The general freight agents of a number of western roads and the secretary of the Western Freight association held a meeting here to consider the rate on live stock and lumber from Missouri points to Kansas City St Joseph Atchison Leavenworth St Louis and Chicago The roads represented were the Chicago and Alton Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Chicago Santa Fe and California Hannibal and St Joe Wabash Missouri Pacific St Louis Keokuk and Northwestern and the Missouri Kansas and Texas It will take some time to complete the business before the meeting which will be to slightly advance the rates There will be a session in the morning At Huntingdon Huntington Ind Jan No trains were run out of here on the Chicago and Erie railway except mail trains and they consisted of an engine and one mail car each Conductors and dispatchers are all on strike An attempt was made to run two passenger trains manned with new men in the evening but strikers -boarded them applied the air brakes and stopped them After trying for more than an hour the attempt was abandoned and the trains were backed into the yards where they now stand It looks as though there may be trouble Some of the imported men are drinking and are very ugly The Schedule Chicago Jan 22 Owing to the interest of the National Dispatch line in the Canada Atlantic and the consequent loss of earnings if the business goes via Chicago it has refused to ratify the schedule of rates made by the other eastern connections of the and which equalized rates via Chicago and via the to the northwest The Chicago lines will not give up the fight however and are bringing every possible pressure to bear to iuduce the National dispatch to change its Attempted Lynching in Court Boom Chicago Jan Miller narrowly escaped lei eg lynched in the court room in the village of Lombard Justice Fi-cber issued a warrant for the arrest of tue man for beating his wife and child in a most brutal manner the little one being nearly killed by the kicks and blows of the inhuman father The warrant was placed in the hands of Constable Mack to seive When he arrived at house Miller was standing in the doorway flourishing a big corn knife and club and he threatened to kill the officer if he came very near By this time the news of brutality had spread and quite a crowd had assembled in front of the house The constable and some of the crowd made a rush for Miller who entered the Father Hynes Determined St Louis Mo Jan 22 Father A Hynes of Pierce City Mo the excommunicated Catholic priest who still performs all the functions of a prelate has addressed the Very Rev Archbishop Kenrick of St Louis in a letter which inquires whether the archbishop will grant the writ on Bishop Hogan of Kansas City commanding that dignitary to appear and show cause why bis order of excommunication against Father Hynes should not be annulled The mandamus proceedings were begun Dec 13 and unless the inch bishop who is the mediator and the only one who can afford relief takes seme action in the case Father Hynes will take it to Rome and claim recognition as a Catholic priest and de- house and closed the door The crowd lost no time in breaking the door open Still armed with the knife and club Miller defied the crowd and refused to I church uiaud most of the a hearing This is one of the remarkable cases in the annals government of the Catholic in this country and has no precedent surrender Justice Fischer came up and finally persuaded Miller to go with the officer He was taken to the office of the justic followed by the crowd Once there the rage of the people became so intense that ropes were secured and a desperate effort was made to hang Miller in the court room Constable Mack was knocked down aud trampled by the mob His deputies drew their revolvers and making a determined stand were enabled to get the prisoner away and took him to jail at Wheaton On the road a second in-1 effectual attempt "was made to secure and hang the wife-beater Meisonier lit Paris Jan Meissonier the illustrious French painter is seriously ill with bronchitis The violence of the attack added to his advanced years creates extrema anxiety as to the result Congressional Washington Jan 22 In the senate the vice president ruled that motion to proceed with the consideration of the closure rule was in order and overruled a point of order that the question before tbe senate was a motion to correct journal On anpeal the chair -was sustained yeas 35 nays 30 Teller Wolcott and Stewart voting with the Democrats Aldrich then moved to consider his resolution Gorman moved to table it and a vote is now being takeu on the question The motion to table motion was lost yeas 30 nays 35 Several other motions for the purpose of delay were also defeated The house was in a wrangle again during the discussion on the approval of the journal The journal was finally approved and the previous question on the District bill was ordered at 5 At that time no quorum being present the proceedings dragged along until 6:15 when the house adjourned the bill going over as unfinished business Chicago TV! Chicago Jan The dairymen of the state who ship milk to this city have formed the Chicago Milk Shippers association It is a sort of a trust It will employ a general manager who will take charge of the business and dispose i all the milk furnished bjr the members jf the association Each can of milk snipped to the city will be as-se-s 3 eeuis to defray the expenses of the association Inspectors will be appointed to inspect tne milk and if a shipper slums or waters hs supply he wull Le dropped from the association If ihe tetail dealers continue to water the milk as it is now claimed they do the association will organize a retail department and deliver tbe milk to the consumers direct Duke of Death IiO DON 111 The jury found that the Duke of Bedford shot himelf through the head while temporarily insane There is still much mvsterv about the suicide The Signature Question Given the Supreme Court Lincoln Neb Ja i 22 At 11:15 a Speaker Elder called the joint session to order No sooner had the roll been called than Shrader of Logan caught the eye and presented a resolution providing for the appointment of a committee of three to wait on the supreme court aud ask the opinion of that body whether it would be necessary for the governor de facto to sign the concurrent resolution where this official is interested Also if the signature of the de facto lieutenant governor would be necessary Shrader moved the adoption of the resolution and the previous question Twenty Alliance men were on their feet at once to second the motion Howe said he was in favor of submitting the question to the supreme court but he thought the resolution went a little too far Shrader called for the ayes and nays on the resolution The resolution was ca? ried by a vote of 81 to 51 WhiM the speaker declared the result of the vote a most remarkable scene was enacted Church Howe caught the eye and read the following resolution: move that the chaplain be requested to it thanks that at last the legislature of Nebraska in joint session has recognized the constitution and the laws as mud upon the statute The Democratic and Republican aud many dependent members sprang to their feei aud cheered lustily while handkerchiefs in the lobby and gallery were waved in the air The resolution was sent to the desk but the speaker instructed the clerk not to read it Shrader Taylor of Johnson and Capek of Douglas were appointed a committee to wait upon the supreme court and get their opinion upon the resolution Appropriation Bills Washington Jan 22 Mr Cannon of Illinois chairmau of the house committee on appropriations introduced in the house a resolution providing that on Saturday next at 4 unless the legislative appropriation bill has been reported to the house by the committee of the whole the committee is to be discharged from its further consideration and the previous question is to be considered as ordered The resolution provides urther that on Wednesday next unless the naval appropriation bill has been reported to the house the previous question is to be considered as ordered at 4 The same rule is also to apply to Jhe consular appropriation bill on Friday Jau 30 and to the military academy bill on Tuesday Feb 3 The resolution was referred to the committee on rules This committee discussed the provisions of the resolution previous to its introduction and will report it to the house should the necessity arise Bribe- Money Flourished Olymp a Wash Jan 22 Just after Speaker Shaw of the house called for nominations for United States senator Representative John A Metcalf rose and said: of the legislature of Washington: 1 hold in 1113- hands $500 which was given to me by Harry A Clarke of Spokane Falls with the express understanding that I cast my vote for Calkins for United States Silence prevailed throughout thediall Metcalf sent the roll of bills to the speaker and then resumed his seat Senator supporters then began cheering and it was some moments before the speaker could restore order Filially a motion was carried appointing a committee of five to investigate f-he charge of bribery Desperate Faction Fight Danvjll: 111 Jan 22 There hat been blood for some time between two factions cf prominent joung men of this city Henry Hulce being a leadei on one side and Neil Myers and Thos McReynolds on the other The factious To Begin Work met on East Main street and at once Chicago Jan 22 The fair commenced fighting Myers cracked directors have instructed the building Hulce skull with a brick Joe Hark- an(j ground committee to take posses- Mvc'r Wr sion of the lake front and begin at once fatally carved by Hulce Myers re- erection of the five buildings to ceived several oangerous stabs The i the nronerfcv owners consented other participants received wounds of a Inhe event St objection by indiWd-less dangerous character Tne police recourse will be had to the rieht eheri the woanded andcon rered Qf donaln jnot jnjprob There have1 that all he lake front bmldmge slaughter is not considered a proper maJ consti ucted as to be pier cam! for arrest in Vermillion count thlS PulUt the A Glailstonian Victory London Jan 22 The election at West Hartlepool resulted in the success of the Gladstonian candidate Mr Furness by a vote of 4603 to 4305 for Sir William Gray the Unionist candidate Kiwaai Banks Fall Atchison Kan Jan 22 Banks failed at Clyde Greenleaf Clifton and Glasco making eight failures of this kind in three counties in a week For Manipulating: Rates St Paul Minn Jan 22 It is stated at midnight by one of the attorneys connected with the case that the United States grand jury returned an indictment against the Chicago St Paul and Kansas City railroad for illegal manipulation of freight rates and irregularity in the sale of passenger tickets The indictments are reported as against President Egan and General Passenger Agent Holdrege Will Investigate Des Moines Ia Jan 22 The railroad commissioners were asked to compel the Milwaukee and St Paul to open the station at Briggs closed recently The company complains that the citizens refused food and shelter to a man sent there and ordered him to leave The company has now refused to send another man The commissioners will investigate the matter at once Receiver Appointed Chicago Jan 22 George Bogue was appointed receiver of the Pacific railway company on complaint of the judgment creditors The bill sets forth that the company which was organized iu 1889 by Holmes the well known cable man and other capitalists with a capital of $2500000 is insolvent No Use for Organized Iabnr Barron Wis Jan 22 The has issued a circular to all telegraph operators and agents ou that line requesting those who belong to the Order of Railway Telegraphers either to withdraw from that organization and sign an agreement to that effect or resign their positions County Treasurer SIort Springfield Mo Jan 22 It is reported that John Baber treasurer of McDonald county for twenty years past is short $7000 Important Pension Case Decided Washington Jan Assistant Secretary Bussey has rendered a decision in the pension case of the mother of Lorenzo Babcock late of Company 125th New York Infantry whicU involves the question of line of duty It appears from the record that Babcock served in the army from August 1862 till May 1864 aud was regarded as an efficient and faithful soldier During the struggle in the Wilderness early May J864 he underwent extraordinary fatigue prolonged exposure to fire arduous exertions and loss of sleep After several days of service of this same character he committed suicide by shootiDg himself through the breast Tne department is convinced from the testimony that he had become mentally deanged and that the whole aberration of mind was developed in the service long after enlistment The department therefore reverses the former decision of the commissioner of pensions and accepts it as a fact that this mau through no possible fault of his own was irresponsible for the fatal act and died in line of duty- THE MARKETS- Gen Miles Reviews the Troops Pine Ridge Agency Jan Gen Miles reviewed the troops in the midst of a driving storm The review occurred two miles south of the agency and all the troops participated except four lupanies of the First infantry i wo girls ran away from the school house last night and two more this morning The parents of the children now confined in the school house threaten to burn the building if the girls are not released Chicago Grain and Produce Chicago Jan 22 May 93-c May July May 4oc May $ltt60 Matv fctiBJJ May $527J4aA3U Chicago Live Stock Union Stock Yards Chicago Jan 22 Estimate receipts 150(X) head Natives JliGljgi'itO cows and bulls 300: Texans $10Ut35d Market was steady HOGS Estimated receipts 003 Heavy $340a)3ti5: mixed $335'a65 MarKet firm Natives $35O400 western $360 A 550: Texans 425 basely head light Tlie Chicago and lirio Strike Chicago Jan No trains in or out over the Chicago and Erie since yesterday at 4 "The early mail train wreut out this morning Noar-tempt has been made since the strike has heeii inaugurated to move freight Western Congress Denver Jau 22 There is a movement on foot looking io hold a congress of representatives from Texas Arizona New Mexico Colorado Kansas Nebraska Iowa North and South Dakota Wyoming Utah and Montana to unite and unify the people in securing national legislation for the interests of tbe middle western states The congress will be held at the great mardi gras and interstate trade display at alveslon Tex Feb 5 to 10 inclusive Took No Clmiiras Woonsncket Jan 22 Leon Stevens a banker recently arrested for forgery was turned loose on a bond of $790 and skip) pod Depositors are out $20000 Just before he left he was knocked down on the street by William McFarlane a merchant whom he had beat out of $300 and of whom he sneer-ingly aske'J: you satisfied Citizens are indignant over his escapie He refused to complete the assignment which had been del ayed by his supposed insanity aud subsequent arrest Put Arsenic in Their Coffee Lexington Ky Jan 22 Daniel Frazier and 'wife and Peter White and wife all respectable colored people were poisoned by drinking coffee containing arsenic from the effects of which Frazier died Monday and his wife and White are in a dangerous condition Lully White 1" years old daughter of Peter White has been arrested charged with the poisoning and the circumstances point to her guilt She was severely reprimanded by her father and was in an ugly mood Defrauded His Creditors Lima Jan Charles Veith who for the past thirty years has been a respected and honored citizen and prominent bu-iness man of Upper Sandusky has been missing since last! Sunday and it now developes that he a defaulter to the amount of over non Shot Her Lover San Antonio Tex Jan Bertha Gross shot and fatally wounded her lover James Hartley and herself They were engaged to be married Hartley told the woman he was going to separate and the shooting followed The Santa Fe Flection Mudille Santa Fe Jan 22 District Judge Leeds took final action iu the county election muddle and County Clerk Delgado was committed to the county jail for contempt he having refused to obey the order and recognize the legally elected county board Delgado is a Democrat and the jiew board is Republican hence the action of the clerk The ex-Commis-sioners Sloan and Martinez who violating the order issued certificates of election to tbe Democratic candidate for the legislature were fined $20U each and they declare they will go to jail rather than pay the fine It is probable that the whole matter will be brought by the Dem ocrats before the supreme court now in session on an application for a writ of habeas corpus Kansas City Live Stock Kansas City Jau 22 Cattle- Receipts 3030 head: shipments 6900 head Ste rs $32549(: cows $LSffl 370: stockers arid feeders 2i)0if3o0 Market steady Hogs Receipts 17050 head: shipments300 head Ail grades Market was lower Rear End Collision Portland Me Jan 22 A switch engine lau into the roar of a passenger train on the Boston aud Maine i ail-road at Scarboro injuring five or sis persons Particulars are delayed by the storm affecting the wires Tlie Illinois Senatorstiip Springfield Ills Jan 22 The fourth ballot for senator was takeu after which on motion of Mr Tauben-reck A representative the joint assembly ad journed until morning The vote showed no Palmer 101 Oglesby 100 Streeter Tunnel Company Incorporated Albany Jan 22 A com pany with $3000000 was incorporated to construct a tunnel between New City and Brooklyn Anstin(Jor-bin of the Long Island railroad heads the directory Hides for Amazons in all a Live Stock Union Stock Yuds OMAHA Jtm £3 i CATTLE Estimated receipts 2203 head Prime heavy 45: medium Heavy 385 30 common choice fancy cows and heifers £(' common to medium cows S300f531 coauers $100210: balls best meated feeders Stockers 5200 ijHSO steak beeves SLSo Mar- lOWt? I -Estimated receipt 6030 head Heavy mixed Market opened lower: closed strong: loss regained Estimated receipts 603 head Market steady Engineer and Fireman Hilled Larldo Tex Jan 22 The Aztre limited express on the Mexican National railroad ran into an open switch overturning the engine Engineer neilani was killed and Stafford fireman fatally injured None of the passengers were injured Gen Illness San Antonio Tex Jan 22 Gen James Longstreet is quite ill at a hotel in this city suffering from a wound received during the civil war London Jan 2c The king of Dahomey is negotiating with English and German houses for the purchase of guns to arm his Amazons Although he has made peace with the trench he refuses to trade "ri-h the ua The Glasgow Strike Lost Glasgow Jan 22 The railway companies have much improved their position and the strike is virtually lost.