IMPORTANT BILLS.
A TT.VG JIKFJIRKXCK TO MAT
i 'S Kits OJ < '
fay Gould NuccccdN In
Ideal Railroad AwHoelatlon A ' 'Bill
of Importance to All the Packing
SIouKcs in the \Vcxt Panne * the Sc'n-
J.tcl"orld N Fair ComnilNIoiicrN
ppohed to a Double Site Former
Order * 'making a Selection to bo
Kecoiifcldcred.
Two Important Bill * Panned.
WASHINGTON , Sept. 20. Two im
portant bills were passed by the senate
yesterday. The first is intended to do
away with the too often unjust and
severe punishments inflicted by the
court-martial pn enlisted men for com
paratively trifling offenses. Adjutant-
General Kclton warmly approves the
measure ; in fact , it is due to his efforts
primarily that the bill was introduced.
An inspection of the reports of the pro
ceedings of courts-martial awakened
him to the enormity of injustice often
times inflicted , and he set about to
secure a change. The bill authorizes
the president to prepare a schedule of
punishments to bo inflicted for the com
mission of certain named offenses in
times of peace , leaving to the court-
martial to determine simply the ques
tion of guilt or innocence. It is be
lieved that this will also tend to give
the accused , when an enlisted man , a
fairer chance before the court. As it
is now they rarely , if ever , escape con
viction.
The other was the bill to revive the
grade of Lieutenaut-General with the
pay and allowances formerly belonging
to it. The democrats are all in favor
of this. While no one is named in the
bill for the position , Major-General
Schofield , who is a democrat , will
naturally be selected for promotion.
This will give President Harrison an
opportunitj' to make another Major-
Gcnerul and a scries of promotions all
tilong the line.
Jay ( > ould Succeeds in Forming Ills
Ideal .Isxoclatioti.
CHICAGO , Sept. 2' ' . A railway news
bureau says : "Entirely without pub
licity and without the knowledge of a
single railroad not directly interested ,
Jay Gouid has succeeded in forming
his ideal railroad association. Its title
is the Southwestern Railroad and
Steamship association , and it includes
all lines south of Kansas City and west
of the Missouri river. Its existence
was mentioned last night in an article
saying that J. F. Goddard had accepted
the chairmanship. Today the full
story was told , as follows : 'The lines
in the territory affected have long felt
the need of a strong association. None
of the existing agreements suited , and
Jay Gould has been quietly working
for a year over the formation of an
agreement which will be strong enough
to compel every line to do as it should.
He has been completely successful.
Two weeks ago today the presidents of
all the roads interested met in New
York and signed a cast-iron agreement
which absolutely prevents disastrous
rate wars. Under the hew agreement
an executive committee was appointed
with powers as plenary and autocratic
as are those of the Czar of Russia.
Important To Western Packers.
WASHINGTON , Sept. 20. A bill of
importance to all the packing houses
I
oi the west was passed by the senate
yesterday , and. judging from the tem
per of the house on the compound lard
bill and on the export pork inspection
bill , it is likely to pass that bed } ' also ,
as the bill is supported by the advo
cates of those measures. The bill as
passed provides "that the secretary of
agriculture shall cause to be inspected ,
prior to their slaughter , all cattle and
hogs which are the subjects of inter
state commerce and which are about to
be slaughtered at slaughter houses ,
canning , salting , packing or rendering
establishments in any state or territory ,
the carcasses or products of which are
to be transported and sold for human
consumption in any other state or ter
ritory , and in all cases where the said
secretary of agriculture may deem it
necessary or expedient when on said
inspection any such cattle or hogs are
found to be affected by disease , or if
from any other cause any of said cat
tle or hogs are found unfit for human
consumption the inspector shall , in the
discretion of the secretary of agricul
ture and under rules and regulations
to be described by him , order their
condemnation and cause them to be de
stroyed without compensation to the
owner. In addition to this inspection
the secretary is authorized , in cases
where he deems it expedient or neces
sary , to order a post-mortem inspec
tion of the carcasses of cattle and hogs ,
and if found unfit for human food or
unhealty , they shall be destroyed ,
together with all food products made
from any part of such carcasses.
Transportation lines are forbidden to
carry animals , carcasses or products so
cond"emiied under heavy penalties. "
The Double Site Rejected.
CHICAGO , Sept. 20. From yester
day's action of the national world's fair
commissioners and from the canvass of
the commission it can be stated that
the majority of that body is finally and
irrevocably opposed to a double site
for the world's/air. and that on Satur
day next a resolution will be offered
and adopted requesting" the Chicago
directory to tender Washington Parker
( or what is generally known as South
park ) as the site. In case this is re
fused the commission will report to
Washington that no adequate site has
been offered. Tbcre are also indica
tions of a change sentiment in re
gard to the director generalship , and
from the indications to-night the local
directory will seloct'one man as a direc '
tor general , probably George R. Davis ,
while it is thought the national com
mission will elect a man of their own ,
with the title of "commissioner general -
oral , " and place him in charge of all
foreign and interstate exhibits in con
nection ith the fair. This will , of
course , curtail the powers of the direc
tor general. The meeting of the com
mission was an exciting one. Soon
after the body was called to order a
resolution was offered by Mercer of
Wyoming , which had already been
agreed upon by the caucus. It sets
forth that the act ef congress provided
for a tender of "an adequate site , "and
whereas , the resolution adopted by the
commission at the first session im-
plicdly adopted two sites ,
Resolved , That the former action be
reconsidered , and the Chicago direc
tors be called upon for a site adequate
and in one compact body.
Mercer , McDonald of California ,
Sewall of New Jersey , St. Clair of Vir
ginia , Martindaleof Indiana and others
spoke in favor of the resolution and
the comments on the action of the Chicago
cage board were scathing. The mat
ter was finally la id over for the present
WASHINGTON NOTKS.
William E. Gibbons has been com
missioned postmaster at Plover , la. , to
take effect October 1. ,
The committee on public lands has
made a favorable report on authoriz
ing and directing the payment of one-
half the cost of constructing certain
pavements in the city of Lincoln.
A bill carrying an appropriation of
$100,1)00 ) to defray the cost of erecting
a United States mint at Omaha , Neb. ,
was introduced in the house by Repre
sentative Council. Ho also Introduced
a bill for the erection of a statute or
monument in Washington to the mem-
orv of John Erricson at a cost of $50-
000.
Assistant Secretary Chandler has af
firmed the decision of Commissioner
G roll'in rejecting the application of
John A. Golden to make a homestead
entry of the northwest quarter of the
southeast quarter of the northwest
quarter of section 6. township 32 , and
the southwest quarter of the southwest
quarter of section 31 , township 3o
north , range 3 west , O'Neill , Neb.
There will probably be a lively fight
in the conference on the tariff bill over
the senate amendment creating a tariff
commission. There are to be five
commissioners at a salary of $7,000
| I each , three of them to be represented
by the party in powerIf the commis
sion is appointed there is a general
sentiment in favor of Mr. McKinley as
chairman of the commission in the
event of his defeat at the November
election.
The accounts of the Omaha post-
office building site appraisers have
been approved by the department of
justice and the court officers at Omaha
have been so notified. There is one
account still pending , however , and
that is the bill sent in by the district
attorney ftfr his services. This has
not yet passed the hands of the ac
counting officers and the reason is that
it is on a different basis from the ac
counts of the appraisers themselves.
The latter had their awards made by
the court and the approval of these i
awards was simply a matter of formal
ity. The attorney general himself
passes upon the district attorney's ac
count , and until he approves that the
bond cannot be discharged nor can the
service money in the hands of the
court be paid over to those to whom it
is due.
Stockmen Get3Iorc Time.
CKESTON SPKINGS , Pa. , Sept. 22
The president has issued the following
proclamation :
"To whom it may concern : Where
as , It has been represented to me that
by reason of drought which has pre
vailed in Indian territory and its ad
joining states , the execution of my
proclamation of February 17 , 1890 , re
quiring the removal of all live stock
from Cherokee outlet on or before Oc
tober 1 , would work great hardship
and loss , not only to the owners of the
stock on the strip , but to the owners of
cattle in adjoining states , and
"Whereas , Owners of all cattle now
heyded upon the outlet have submitted
to me a proposition in writing , where
by the } ' agree to remove one-half of
their stock from the outlet on or be
fore November 1 , and residue thereof
and all their property and employes
on or before December 1 next , and to
abandon all claims in said outlet ; now
"Therefore , I , Benjamin Harrison ,
president of the United States , do give
notice that the limit heretofore fixed
for the removal of the live stock herded
upon the same outlet is extended to
November 1 as to one-half thereof , and
to December 1 next as to the residue
thereon and as to all property and em
ployes. " '
Paying for Silver Kiillioii.
WASHINGTON , Sept. 22. Acting Secretary -
retary Batchellor sent to the senate a
eommurication in response to'Plumb's
resolution as to the manner of paying
for silver bullion. He says that checks
drawn in payment of silver bullion pass
through the New York clearinghouses ,
the same as other checks drawn on the
assistant treasurer at New York. It
was necessary , he says , at the time the
law took effect to issue notes of large
denomination in payment for silver
purchased , but they will soon be re
placed by smaller notes. He states
that there has been no demand of any
magnitude upon the treasury for the
redemption of these notes in gold coin.
Omncctlrut Republicans.
NEW HAVEN , Conn. , Sept. 18. The
republican state convention reconvened
this morning. United States Senator
Orville H. Platt was elected permanent
chairman. Samuel E. Merwin was
nominated for governor , George P.
McLean for secretary of state , E.
Stevens Henry for treasurer and Lyman
S. CatJin for comptroller.
9. ,
3LING TO POLYGAMY.
JCEPOltT OF THIS UTAH COM
MISSION
What They Say In Kovlewiiis ; the Sit
uation of AfliilrM The Financial
Policy of Secretary AVindom Under
UlHCiiHMlon In the Senate Senator
Plumly and Morgan Exprem Their
View * A Flood oflTIoney In Gotham
A CaiiciiH of Republican * of Iho
Lower House.
Report of the Utah Commission.
SALT LAKE CITV , Utah , Sept. 19.
Tlio Utah commission has forwarded
to the secretary of the interior a
lengthy report of its operations and
proceedings the past year. The prin
cipal feature is a recommendation for
further legislation in support of exist
ing laws. In reviewing the situation
the commissioners say : "During the
year there have been frequent expres
sions of the hope that the church
would in some authoritative and ex
plicit manner declare in favor of the
abandonment of polygamy as one of
the teachings of the church , but no
such declaration has been made. So
complete is the control of the church
over the people that there is little rea
son for doubting that if such declara
tion was made it would be accepted
and followed by a large majority of
the membership , and a settlement of
the question would soon be reached.
On the contrary , in all the teachings
in the tabernacle and the church or
gans every effort of the government to
suppress this crime is still denominat-
efl persecution. The church seems to
grow more united from day to day
under these teachings.
ice-rotary YViiidosii-s Policy Criticised.
WASHINGTON' , Sept. 19. In the sen
ate jesterday Mr. Plumb offered ares-
oltion directing the secretary of the
treasury to inform the senate whether
the rule or policy which requires the
payment of checks for silver bullion
'over the counter of the sub-treasury
instead of through the proper clearing
house does not result in paying out
no'es of larger denomination instead of
those suited for circulation and use in
ordinary business transactions and
whether such payment does not result
in the payment of gold instead of treas
ury notes. As a reason for offering
the resolution Mr. Plumb sent to the
clerk's desk and had read a letter from
a member of a New York banking
house stating the facts as to the pay
ment of such checks and venturing the
prediction that the silver question was
not finally settled and that New York
speculation and accumulations of sil
ver threatened to oust it. "Bank
withdrawals of treasury gold , " the
writer says , "will be seized upon by
certain influential journals here un
scrupulously. A break in the matter
of the price of silver ( and that threat
ens ) at such a time will equal the proof
of the holy writ in support of fears. "
Mr. Plumb spoke of the conspicuous
illustration that had taken place with
in the last few days of the im
policy of allowing the treasury de
partment to obstruct or accelerate the
business of the country. For years the
treasury department hoarded money
and during that time the volume of
currency was constantly decreasing on
account of the withdrawal of national
bank notes. The secretary of the
treasury had seen the business of the
country hampered on account of that
lack of money , but he waited until a
panic was impending not a stock
brokers' panic , but a stringency of
money that affected the banks of all
cities and seriously interfered with the
operations of ordinary business. And
then the secretary had given out money
to holders of government bonds under
such circumstances as to enable them
( and not him ) to control the money
supply of the country during their
pleasure. Money which a few days
ago had been in the treasury and which
could have been paid out at the will of
the secretary was today in the hands
of men who owned bonds to the amount
of $20,000,000. It was perfectly safe
to say that the men having that money
would use it to benefit themselves and
not in the interest of the people.
Nothing but an overwhelming calamity
would ever divorce the treasury from
such malicious interference with the
business of the country.
Mr. Sherman said that while he had
no objection to the resolution , that
which had been done had been done in
strict execution of the law. The secre
tary of the treasury had no right to ,
pay for silver bullion in anything but I
treasury notes. These treasury notes j j
had been issued in large denominations.
There had been only a short time to
prepare for the execution of the law
and a sufficient amount of treasury
notes of small denominations could not
be prepared. Those large notes neces
sarily did not enter into the general
circulation of the country. Ho ( Sher
man ) doubted the policy of paying a
year's interest on bonds in advance. A
financial scare was a manufactured
scare. It had been gotten up by brok
ers , by bulls and bears and various
kinds of animals who practiced their
trade in the exchanges of New York.
There was , he admitted , a great de
mand for money now for moving the
cotton and grain crops and perhaps to
pay for an increased quantity of foreign
goods imported in order to evade the
higher duties under the tariff law. All
of these things , Mr. Sherman said ,
would settle themselves in a little
while. There was no real serious
financial disturbance in the country.
It was confined to the city of New
York. He thought the secretary of '
the treasury should be permitted to us-j. i
his discretion. j i
A Flood of ITIontry. i
NEW YOKK. Sept. 19. Payments at [
the sub-treasurv in this citv were
larger yesterday than for many years ;
in fact , the amount is so large that the
officials there were unable to make up
the totals. The amount paid out on
account of the bond purchase alone
was $911,668,000 , and in addition to
this there wore largo prepayments of
interest on 4s and 6s and heavy pay
ments for silver and on pension ac
count. Fully $5,500,000 was paid out
in cash over the counter. As a result
of this flood of money the rate for call
loans ruled at $ and 4 per cent ; ninety-
day mon'oy was offered at 6 per cent ,
and one institution made a time loan
of $1,000,000 for ono year at 5 per
cent.
Caiiciih of House Republicans.
WASHINGTON , Sept , 19. Atthecau.
cus of the republican members of the
house it was found that there are now
in Washington 145 republican mem
bers , twenty-one less than a quorum ,
consequently there are now twenty-
eight republican absentees. The cau
cus resolved to make every effort to
secure the attendance of these mem
bers. It was stated that if these ab
sentees would return to Washington
the remaining business of the session
can bo closed up in a few days , while
the failure to secure the attendance of
a republican quorum will tend to pro
tract the session indefinitely.
The Butchery of ISarrundia.
W YOKK , Sept. 18. A. P. Mulligan -
gan , purser of the steamer Acapulco ,
upon which General Barrundia was
butchered by the soldiers of GuatfMiala ,
is here , lie witnessed the killing. He
says several Guatemalans whom Bai-
rundia recognized as enemies were on
the Acapulco. One of these hired a
negro boatman and sent a telegram to
the authorities at Champerico so that
Barrundia might be arrested when he
landed there' . The vessel reached
Champerico August 26. Commander
Tellefeno came aboard and demanded
that Barrundia be turned over to him.
Captain Pitt of the Acapulco refused.
Captain Pitt sent a telegram to Lans
ing B. Mizner , United States minister
at Guatemala , asking him to send the
American man-of-w.vr Hanger from San
Jose to prevent Barrundia's enemies
from taking him off the vessel. The
Acapulco left Chamberico at noon. Au
gust 27 , arriving at San Jose de Gua
temala seven days later. The Ameri-
ican vessels Thetis and Ranger were
lying there.
The night Captain Reiter of the
Ranger visited the Acapulco , Captain
Pitt explained the situation , and said
he hoped they would not allow Bar
rundia to be taken from the vessel.
Captain Reitcr replied : "I am sorry
we cannot do anything for you without
orders from Port Captain. " Later the
Acapulco was boarded by General Tor-
rielle and five policemen from Guate
mala to arrest Barrundia. Torrielle
showed Pitt a letter from Mizner say
ing that it was the captain's duty to
surrender Barrundia , who would not
be harmed except for his political
offenses.
When Barrundia discovered what was
up he jumped back into his state room ,
drew two revolvers and fired point
blank at the men before him. They
fled , Barrundia at their heels , firing as
he ran. Missing the men he ran
around on the outside and fired a bullet
or two into every state room , hoping
to hit some one.
Pushing forward he came within
half a dozed feet of the live special
officers. All live blazed away at Bar
rundia who fell dead at the first volley.
The officers stood over the body and
emptied their revolvers into it. Nine
bullets entered his head. Leaving his
corpse the officers began to search for
his friends Posta andLaroque. Brown ,
the first mate , had locked them in a
state room and stood guard with a re
peating riile. The murderers were
cowed. The dead body was wrapped
in a hammock , dragged by the heels
along the deck and down the gang
plank into a boat that carried it ashore.
The American naval officers on land
heard of the killing and went on board
the Acapulco to get particulars. They
made no comments.
Ifavid Moore's Murderrrs.
OTTAWA , 111. , Sept. 17. JudgeBlan-
chard overruled the motion for a new
trial in Bill O'Brien's case and sen
tenced him to Joliet for life. O'Brien
still maintained his bold front , claim
ing to be innocent of the murder of
Moore , but a new development in the
case makes the prospect for Charley
Ford decidedly dark. Minnie Winter-
ling , whose attorney , Jesse Bruger ,
had almost persuaded the public that
she was not in Allen park , has made a
clean sweep of the matter and con
fesses the crime in detail. She says
that she came up town and met O'Brien
in front of Kapliske's boarding houe
at or a little after 8. He told her to
go back and get her hat. She did so ,
and she. O'Brien , Ford and Mrs. Ford
met at Tress' corner , just a block from
the Illinois bridge , and started over to
Allen park together. Ford and his
wife walked ahead and she behind
with O'Brien , who stopped at the City
mill switch and picked up the coupling
pin , which he wrapped in a copy of
the Times , They walked across the
bridge together and at the park she left
Mrs. Ford te meet David Moore. She
says that when the men attacked
Moore. O'Brien dropped the pin. and
Ford , picking it up , struck Moore
across the client. He then dropped it
and O'Brien picked it up and finished
the job. She then ran out of the park
across the bridge and down through
the tile works to Cummins' house ,
where she worked. She was not gone
more than twenty minutes.
_
An agitation has been begun for the
formation of a cattle-owners' associa-
lion to keep cattle off 'the - market and
-aisc prices.
ACHIEVING VICTORY.
TJri7.vrn FOR FOSTSTASTKR
AT
ge In the Senate of the Antl-Zjot *
tery Bill IV 1thout Division and IV 1th
the Loss of hut Little Time The
Paddock Pure Food BUI Soon to.bo
Kcachod The ISutchery of General
Karrundia , aw Told by One who wan
an Eye "Witness of the Outrage on
an American Vessel.
The Anti-Lottery Bill.
WASHINGTON , Sept. 18. Postmaster
General Wannamaker achieved the tri
umph of His official life yesterday when
the senate took up the anti-lottery bill
and passed it without division , the
whole operation taking less than five
minutes. No one spoke against it and
there was no yea or nay vote. The bill
was called up by Senator Sawyer , read
and passed , so that the Louisiano lot
tery company seems to bo done for at
last , or , at least , thoroughly wounded ,
in every respect. Senator Voorhees
had intended to speak against the bill ,
but Mr. Sawyer dissuaded him from
doing so. One or two other senators
had intimated a desireto introduce
some amendments , but Mr. Sawyer
succeeded in persuading them to do oth
erwise , io that he succeeded in having
the bill passed just exactly as it passed
the house. It now goes to the presi
dent and will probably become a law
before the week is ended. Some very
interesting stories are told of the last
frantic efforts that were made by the
Louisiana lottery company to defeat or
postpone the passage of the bill. It is
known that a few days ago one of the
representatives of ( he lottery company
sought to obtain an interview with a
certain senator , that senator being in
ignorance of the identity of his visitor.
After some preliminary skirmishing
the visitor stated to him boldly the
uurnose of his visit. The companv.he
said , was willing to spend $15,000 to
see the anti-lottery bill referred
to the senate committee on judicviry.
Of that $15,000 , he said , $5,000 was for
him ( the agent of the company ) and
§ 10,000 for the senator who secured
the reference. It is needless to say
that the lobbyist failed in his purpose.
It is equally well known that a day or
two ago a prominent senator in whose
state there is just now a very lively
campaign affecting his seat was approached
preached by this same agent and was
told if he succeeded in having the bill
postponed untiJ next session the com
pany would spend $25,000 in this sena
tor's state and to pledge a legislature
favorable to the senator's return to the
senate. The prompt passage of the
bill to-day in the senate shows how un
successful have been all efforts to even
retard the bill.
There is considerable indignation
felt here at the remarkable tardiness of
the United States district attorney be
fore whom the postoffice department
has placed an enormous amount of in
formation regarding the work of the
lottery company in this district. Mr.
Hoge has up to the present time given
no intimation that he proposes to do
anything practical in the matter and
the postoffice authorities have about
abandoned hope that anything will
come during his administration from
all their laborious investigation.
The Paddock Pure Food Bill.
WASHINGTON" , Sept. 18. The Pad
dock pure food bill , which has been
placed on the order of business for con
sideration at this session before ad
journment , will be reached in a few
days. Very strong pre-sure is being
brought to bear from the west to pre
vent the substituting of the Conger
compound lard bill for the Paddock bill
when it is taken up , and Senator Pad
dock's committee room has been be
sieged by representatives of the pack
ing interests throughout the country
and Hooded with telegrams from farm
ers' alliances and business men of Ne
braska praying for a delay in the con
sideration of the lurd bill until what
they call its enormities shall ha\e had
an opportunity to be ventilated. It is
urged b } ' the opponents of the Conger
laivl bill that its enactment into law
would wine out iho compound lard in
terests of the- west , including those at
Omaha. Lincoln. Kansas City and Chicago
cage , and that the inevitable result of
the law would be a very heavy fall in
the price of farm products. Senator
Paddock , however , averts that the
f-enate shall have an'opportunity to ex
press its opinion on the subject ami
will see that those who desire to push
the Conger bill as a substitute for his
own Mil shall have an opportunity to
do so. It is not probable that he will
himself make the motion of substitut
ing , as he considers the pure food bill
indefinitely superior to the Conger bill.
It not only covers lard adulteration as
far as docs the Conger bill , but also
the adulteration of all other products
of common consumption.
The Print Cloth Trust.
PHOVIPKNC-K. R. I. , S3pt. 20. The
local print cloth manufacturers have
about decided "to unite with the Fall
River manufacturers and curtain the
production by shutting down for sixty
hours during October. Such action is
regarded as necessary , as with the print
cloth industry in its present condition
curtailment seems to be the only ef
fectual way of remedying affairs. The
Providence manufacturers may agree
with Fall River manufacturers not to
sell 64s for less than three and fifteen-
sixteenths cents , but no decision has
yet been reached on this point.
At Morris , 111. , the jury in the trial
of Maxwell , for the murder of Charles
Decker on June 23 , brought in a ver-
diet of guilty and Condemned him to
death
AVoiit Io\vn to Their Death.
OMAHA , Sept. 22. Freight twin No.
97 coming from the south on the Wabash -
bash road was wrofckodyesterday
morning on a high trestle about seven
miles southeast of Council J Huffs.
Three men the engineer who stood at
his post of duty to the last and died
under his engine , the fireman who was
with him and the head brakeman
lost their lives as a result of the catas
trophe. Thousands of dollars worth
of valuable freight have vanished in
flame and smol e and all that remains
of the twelve cars which went down is
a tangle of broken ana twisted iron
and a heap of ashes and blackened ,
partly burned beans.
The train , which was in command of
Conductor James Durbin , Engineer
Martin Eskridgo , Fireman Joseph
Burke and Brakemcn R. G. William
son and S. P. Sherman , passed the
small station this side of Minneola at
2:25 yesterday morning. A short dis
tance this side of the station is a long
and tolerably deep cut. a largo part of
which is on a sharp curve. At the
west end of the cut is a sudden sharp
fill is encountered , and then comes the
trestle bridge , which is , or was , fifty
leet high at the center of the ravine
which it spans. This trestle was about
300 feet long. ' The train was going
about twenty ini.lcs an hour when it
emerged from the cut. This is the
statement of the rear brakeman , Sher
man .
The facts of the accident , as related
by those who were on the train and
those who were on the ground a few
minutes after it occurred , seem to es
tablish with tolerable certainty that
the bridge was burning when the train
approached. Farmers who arrived af
ter the first crash say that when they
first saw the bridge all that had fallen
with the train was burning fiercely.
Brakeman Sherman saas that while
they were coming through the cut ho
noticed a light in the direction of the
bridge , and thought at the time it was
in Council Bluffs. Dr. Trumbull of
Minneola , who was returning at thr.t
late hour from a professional visit toi
patient who lives this side of where
the accident occurred , relates that
while on the road directly north of the
trestle lie saw a light over the treetop
top- , which seemed to fire up fiercely
and then die down , then blaze up again.
Immediately after lie noticed this he
heard the whistle of the engine and
then the terrible ryh as the train
went down.
One of the cars immediately in t.'ie
rear of the engine was an oil tank cn
filled with something- billed as tar.
though it bore much the appearance oC
oil of some sort. When the cars wort
crushed together the tank was burst
open and the contents were strewn far
and wide over everything and imme
diately took fire. In a moment all the
cars which had fallen were ablaze , and
a stream of tar , which ran down the
ravine , became a stream of llame. The
fireman , Joseph Burns , seems to have
jumped from the engine as it want
over , and as he lit he was pinned be
neath the forward trucks of the car
immediately behind the engine. As
the brakeman , Sherman , approached.
Burke called to him in piteous accents
"Sammy , come and get me out I' '
Both Sherman and Durbin made the
attempt , but found that they couid not
release him. He tried to render what
assistance he could himself. At this
time the flames were within ten feet of
the doomed man. A rush was made
for something with which to cut his
arms off and thus get him out , although
the truck rested not only across his
arm , but across the shoulder and part
of the breast but
; before anything more
could be done , and while his comrades
were struggling to free him , the heat
became so great that they were forced
to leave him. He realized his condi
tion.
tion."Don't
'
"Don't stay too long , boys , " he said ,
and when finally they ' were forced te
go. he gave one despairing cry : "Oh.
my God ! what will my poor wife do ? "
And just then the lire caught the tar
ivhich had saturated his clothing , and
in an instant he was a living mass of
flames. He writhed
a moment in mor
tal agony and thei ail was over. None
of the three men who lost their lives
were residents of Council Bluffs. Mar
tin Kskridge and
Joseph Burke were
both residents of Stanberry. Mo. Both
were married. Eskridge leaves a wife
and three children , and Burke one
child less to mourn his lo = s. Williams
was an unmarried man whose parents-
live at Macon , Mo.
Wf-ddlnz Quests Poisoned.
PiSTTSBL-itc , PaSept. . 22 Advices
received from Monongaheia City , an
up river mining town , say that forty
persons were poisoned at a marriage
feast near there Monday , and not until
today can the last of the forty unfor
tunates be pronounced out of danger.
W. F. Berryhill wed Miss Margery"M.
Carroll , and the bride's proud father
set out a feast for their friends in which
canned fruit played a prominent part.
There are but two physicians in that
neighborhood , and as the two score
guests all became ill at the same time
with symptoms of acid poisoning , the
trouble was traced to canned fruit and
many of the cases were serious , in
cluding the erstwile happy pair , but
all are now fairly recovered.
Andy I Jovoii Knocked Out.
NEW OKLKAN ? . La. , Sept. 13. The
Jong-expected fight between light
weights Andy Bowen of New Orleans.
+ he colored boy who recently bested
lli'Iy Myers , and Jimmy Can oil of San
Francisco , who was defeated by Jack
MiAuliffe in a forty-seven-round fight
sune time ago , came off last night and
lie wen was knocked out in the twent-
ru-st round. About three thousand
people witness-eel the battle , which was
a good'one. Bowen weighed 130J and
Can-oil 132 ] . The purse was $ : ) .000.
ol" which $500 went to the loser. The
i.oiiM 'nsisted on five-ounce gloves.
