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A Tho Throo Blmotnlllc Organizations to Bo United. GOUPERS DECLARES FOR PEACE. Ilio (Jrout l.nbor I.cmdnr Hny tho Worltors Aro Opponnd to Wiir Troublo llrow- Ing Ainonir tlio ItnglnnMni of tlio I'lunt HyMtoin. Chicago, Doc. no. For Homo tlmo past negotiations lnivo been pending ior a comploto consolidation of tho American Bimetallic league, National jlliuiotulllc union and tlio National Silver committee, thu three principal ullvor organizations in tho United Stales, representing all sections of tho country. TIicho negotiations liavo cul minated in an agreement by tlio repre sentatives of tlio respective organiza tions by which consolidation has been substantially perfected. Nothing now remains to bo done but a ratification by the exccutlvo com mittee of theso organizations, 5jioIi acting separately, which will npcudily follow. Tlio consolidated jib nociatlon will bo known as tho Ameri can Hlmotalltc union. Its principal of iico and general headquarters will bo in Chicago at 1111 Monroo street, in tho olllccs occupied by the National Bl iiietalllc union, with branch olllccs in Washington, San Francisco and pcr Imps in other cities, both north and noulh. It is tho purpose of tlio organi zation to press the campaign of educa tion on behalf of bimetallism with tho utmost vigor in all parts of tho coun try. A conference of prominent silver men will bo hold in Washington on January 22, when a plan of action will lie outlined, which, it is said, will ltavo on important boariiiir on political events next year. oompbuh dbclaiikb fok pbacb. "Nkw Yoiik, Dec. 30. Before leaving for Indianapolis, tho hcadquartors of tho Amorlcan Federation of Labor, tiumuol Gompors mudo a farewell upeech to tho Central Labor union .yesterday in which ho denounced n policy looking to war between tho United States and England. Ho aid: "Thoso who aro stirring up this war bcaro aro covering them selves with a mask of patriotism behind which is hidden nothing but liblustor and pomposity. Around, bo Bow and beneath this so-called patriot ism is n scheme to onlargo tho army nnd navy. Tho true patriot is not looking for war. IIo wants peace. Tho workers of our couutry have no quarrel with tjio workers of other countries. Thoy will not bo swayed 4y political schemers. In tho ranks of tho sensible, cool-headed workers and -true American citizens you will find tills bo-culled war scare has had no -effect. Labor Is never for wur, it Is nlwayn for peace. It is on thu side of justico and humanity." BNOINICBIIH MAY 8TIIIKK. Savannah, Gu., Dec. :io. Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Loco motivo cNginccrs, had further Intor viows yesterday with tho commlttoo rreprosontlng tho engineers of tho Plant system. General Superintendent Dun Jimm has roferred tho matter of con tracts to President II. 15. Plant No udviccs havo yet been received Ifrom him. It is expected Mr. '.1'lant will either wire instruc tions to-day or co.no in porson. It is tho impression that President Plant Hvill indorse tho position his bovcral superintendents have takon in opposi tion to written contracts. Tho ongi flio'.'rs and firemen aro Mild to bo stand ing together and will act in unison. If thcro is a strlko it will bo mado gen eral, covering tho system from Charles ton, S. C, to Tampa, Fla., and as far vest as Montgomery, Ala. TWO BIG ROBBERIES. V)l itnonil ThlovrH (lot About H7ff,000 from Two Now York Itonlduncrit. Nisw Yoiik, Doc. 30. In addition to tlio robbory of S0S.000 worth of dia monds and jowolry from tho Madison nquaro mansion of I. Townsond liurdou Friday night, it now transpires that .another robbory, similar in its modo of execution, was committed tho sumo evening in tho houso of Mrs. Francis N. Barnes, at "-J30 Contral I'urk, West, at about tho samo hour at which tho Bunion houso was robbed. The loss in tho case of Mrs. Barnes, Iiowever, was considerably less tJiun 'that of tho liurdou's, aggregating not .in ore. than $10,000. A STRICKEN TOWN. aiiirtfonlt Kim , Vlnl-oil for tlio Third II in ii Wirh Ulmtfttcr. EMl'OWA, Kan., Pec. 30. Tho threo largest business buildings In Hartford, 0 miles south of here, were destroyed liy tiro at daybreak yesterday morning Xoss about 830,000 or $10,000. Lust spring Hartford was visited by a cy .clutio which destroyed a largo part of rtho resldonco portion of tho city and lid Hod and wounded a number of people, -and only a couple of years previous to jthut disastor lire destroyed nearly tho wntirn business part of tho place, in- Tho .Touch I umlly Not Drowned. "TCl.noUADO SiMtlNGH, Mp., Dec. 30. Tho Jomjs family of six, which were veportoiras being drowned in the Sao river, havo been found. Tho report aviis roceived hero that they woro found tin a porllous position on a largo drift tieur tho center of the stream and res cued by a party In a bout BIG ZINC MINE DEAL. Alt tlio Hmnltcr tn tlio Country Kxcopt Four Mulil to llnvn CnnnnlMittnri. St. Louih, Dec. 30. Tho biggest deal in tho history of zinc mining in Mis souri will bo closed by January 1. It will unite all tho zinc smelters of tho country except four under ono manage ment practically, and tho result will bo, tho promoters claim, hotter prices for zinc in all branches and a general revival of tho Industry. The money involved is about $2,000,000, which is to bo furnishod by Now York and Connecticut capitalists. Tho deal was engineered by 15. F. Hobart, prosidont of tho Kansas & Texas Coal Co., which controls a big zincsmcltor at Pittsburg, Kan. Tho now company will control all tho zlno smolters In what is known as the southwest Missouri district, ombrnc ing tho zinc producing territory of Missouri and Kansas. Two smelters in Indiana will como in also. THE BOND BILL PASSED. Tho IIoiiho TnUon n, Voto on the Monsuro by Section. Washington, Dec. .'10. When tho house convoned Saturday three hours remained for dobato on tho bond bill. Tho voto, by tho torms of tho rulo tin dor which the house was oporatlng, was to bo taken at threo o'clock. The attendance was large. At threo p. m. voting began. By tho timo tho roll call in tho first section was half through it was thought that not enough republicans would voto against tho first section for bonds to defeat it Tho first roll call resulted: Yeas, 151); nays, 132. Probably 44 republic ans voted against tho bill. On an other roll call the first section of tho bond bill passed by a voto of 109 to 130. Tho second section of tho bond bill passed without division. INTERESTING TO PENSIONERS. A United Ktntos Court Nnys Tlmt I'onnlon Choulc In Not Attiichnblo. PAHKKitsnuiiu, W. Va., Doc. 30. Judge John Jackson, of tho United States circuit court, yesterday released Ben jamin F. Morgan, a United States pen sioner. Morgan had given his pension certificates as security for a storo ac count When tho pension check came ho" rofused to pay tio bill and was ar rested for obtaining money under false protonsos. Tho court held that no pension money could be attached, lov led on or in any way mado subject to dobt, and ordorod that Morgan bo re leased at once. TIRED OF CIVILIZATION. Iowii Imllnim Hnvo I. mined 15,000 acre of Lund In thu Knw ltnitervntlon. QuTitmi:, Ok., Dee. 30. The Iowa Indians havo jnst closod a lcaso with tho Kaw trlbo for 15,000 acres of land in tho reservation of tho lattor tribe. Tho Iowas will erect a villago there and live off tho rental of their allotted lands oast of hero, which they are leasing to whito farmers. Thoy say thoy aro tired of living apart on thoir allotmcnt,scattered among tho whites, who will not associate with thorn. A (liitliorlnir of Ni-Kroi-n. Kansas City, Mo., Dee. 3a Negro literary lights from tho surrounding territory including St Joseph, Mo., Topoka, Leavenworth, Lawrence, Atchison, Fort Scott and Wichita, Kan., and Macon City, Mo., will gather in Kansas City, Kan., Thursday and Wednesday to at tend tho fifth annual meeting of tho Interstate Literary association, which will bo hold at tho St. James Methodist church. The association is composed of many of tho most intellectual negroes of this section. An Old ICnj-lncur ItutlroR. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 30. After having spent 33 years in constant serv ico as a locomotive engineer, Henry C. Weston gavo up his engine on tho Moniphls railway last week and re tired from tho business. Mr. Weston is 53 year. old and is known among railroad men as "Dad" Weston. Ho was tho oldost railroad engineer run ning out of Kansas City, and tho greater part of his work on tho road was as engincor of pusscngor train locomotives. Northeast Mlmtourl Toaohoro. Mexico, Mo., Dec. 30. Tho North wost Missouri Teachers' association adjourned after electing tho following otllcors: President, L. J. Hall, of Mont gomery City; secretary, Arthur Burton, of Centralis); treasurer, J. F. Sporn horst, of Laddonia. Tho association passed a resolution condemning tho proposed constitutional amendment making tho legal ago for admission to public schools flvo yoarB instead of eight Tho next mooting will bo at Coutrallu, Mo. Kaiina rlnneer I Lkavknwoutii, Kan., J). 30, Hiram llamblin, a Kansas pioneer, died here yesterday of diseases Incident to old age. Ho was 82 years old and a native of Vermont Mr. llamblin was a strong anti-slavery man, and took a leading part in tho bordor rulllan struggles horo during tho 50s. He was a con tractor and put up many largo build ings in western cities. Irre Dollvory to 1o Kxtnnded. Washington, Dec. 30. A numbor of post otliees throughout tho country will bo nllowod free delivery borvice next month. Thcro nro now (512 free delivery otilces and about 00 moro are eutltlod, under tho regulations, to bo added to tho list Tho post ollleo de partment Is making a general investi gation, but in many tho bcutlment is udverso to free, delivery. THEATER PANIC. Awful Soonos In a Baltimore Play Houso. Itofttilt of n Fnlnn Aliirm of Flro Twonty- fottr Vernon L'rimlied to Douth find Many Otlinrn Injured Ilulld- liiB I'nekeil full. IJAr.TiMOK, Mil., Doc. 2a In a sense less panic caused by a defectivo gas burner nnd a foolish cry of fire, at tho old Front Stroot theater, last night, 24 people woro killed, two fatally in jured and ten moro seriously hurt. Up to ono o'clock this morning, but four of tho dead had been identified. Almost all tho victims aro of Polis.li na tivity and Hebraic extraction, and many of the injured were takon to their homes by friends, rendering it almost impossible to got a comploto list at this time. Tho theater, which is probably tho oldest in tho city, was filled from pit to domo with peoplo who had" assem bled to listen to Hobrow opera, which has been given in tho old house twico a week for tho past month. Tho ticket ofiico receipts show that over 2,700 tickets had boon sold when, at eight o'clock, tho salo of soats was stopped becauso there wcro no moro left Gen eral udmission tickets wcro sold, how ever, after this, and it was supposed that there wcro at least 3,000 peoplo within tho walls when the curtain vtentup on tho first act. As tho ca pacity of tho house is less than 3,500, the density of the crowd may bo imag ined. Ten minutes nftor tho curtain rose, ono of the attendants went up to tho second tier to light a gas jot which ap peared to been extinguished. As he turned the cock and npplied a match it was scon that there was no tip to tho burner. Tho jot was well down to ward tho stage on the left side of thp houso, in plain view of tho greater part of tho audience, but as pio glaro from it showed against tho wall, somo one in the gallery shouted, "Fire! Firol Firo!" In an instant thcro was a mad scramble for tho door, in which tho wholo audience took part. Tho van guard of tho terror-stricken multitudo reached tho ontranco on Front street, pushed on by tho howling, shrieking mob behind them. There thoso in tho foremost rank wcro compelled to turn to tho right and to tho left to reach tho double cntraneo way, built in tho form of a storm door. Passing through theso doors, thoy reached a flight of steps, leading from each door, down ward to a landing, from whence a broad stairway of moderate height would have carried them into tho street and to safety!" The steps lead ing from tho doorways are but about five feet high, but tho landing at their base is narrow. Down theso tho frightened people hustled themselves in the frightful struggle to reach tho open air, and to escape the certain death they thought was behind them. As tho crowds from tho two doors, ono on tho right, and tho other on tho left, reached tho landing, they met There was a brief btruggle, and then some ono lost his or her footing and fell. In a moment the crowd, pushed with irresistible force from the rear, crowded upon the prostrato form, and began, in turn, to stumble, reol. and presently to fall prone upon the floor under the myriads of feet coming like a herd of frightened buffalo from be hind. In less time than it tukes to toll it, the landing was packed 20 or 30 deep with tho panic-stricken multitude, and tho hundreds behind them were strug gling over them to reach tho street. Tlio tumult attracted an immense crowd from tho outside, many of whom tried to gain entrance to tho theater, thus adding to tho confusion. A dozen policemen, also attracted by the shrieks of the frightened crowd, hurried to the scone, and, using their clubs on thoso on tho outside, pushed through tho door and to tho writhing mass on tho landing. When tho mass on tho landing had been cleared, tho frightened mob on tho Inside wcro quieted down sufficiently to enablo tho police to clear tho theater. Then it was found that thero had been no dan ger and that not a soul would havo been injured had tho audience but re mained seated. AN EXPLOSION. Four Ton of Giant l'owdnr Ignited Nour Itomt'o, III. Chicago, Dee. 28. What was be lieved to bo another earthquake shook Chicago at four o'clock 3'cnterday morn ing and made tho country tremble for miles around. It camo not in tho low, rumbling-manner in which earth quakes usually occur, but with a great boom. Tho shock was causod by tho explosion of four tons of giant powder said to havo been accidentally ignited near tho littlo town of Uomeo, on tho new drainairo canal, in course of construc tion. Throughout nn area of 50 miles, from Waukcgan, 111., on the north to Kankakee, III., on tho south, and from Rockford, 111., on tho west to Michigan City, Ind., on tho east, the shock wan felt At all theso places tho explosion was thought to bo local, and anxious inquiries woro sent in all directions. No ono was killed. Tho explosion occurred in tho powder house nour Uomeo and about 800 feet from tho canal. In Chicago windows rattled and buildincs boomed to rock. Prob ably 1,000,000 people were uwukened by the shook. WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. Tho I'rPHldnnt'd l'lnanolal MnMngo Had n Had r.fToct on .Stock. NKW Yoiuc, Dec. 28. It O. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Ilovlow of Trado says: Tho failures of tho fourth Quarter of tho year 189V not yot Ilnlshod, cannot ho dollnltoly stated, but tho nggrogato of deforrcd liabilities for tho your, whllo much smaller than In IB03, will vary but littlo from that of 1891. Tho year's nggrcgnto of commorclnl liabilities will probably bo about H70,OJO,000 In manufactur ing ovor i73.000.0OJ, or ton per cent, moro than last your, but In trading about 188,000,000, or nlno per cent leas than last year. Tho foreign nnd llnunolal messago of tho president woro followed by vlolont reaction In tho stock markot last Saturday, with gravo fears of monotary trouble Tho sudden panic shocked business In many dopartmonts nnd tho Industries cannot bo expected to show signs of improvement until the Now Year be gins. Orders havo for months been so much smaller thnn thoy woro In tho summer, when production was expanding nnd prices mount ing rapidly, that new causes of uncertainty hnvo tho moro tnllucnce. In tho great toxtllo manufactures tho usaal holiday dullness Is Increased by a dearth of ordors, though thore Is somo accumulation of goods for tho domnnd expected soon. In woolens tho markot Is oxtromcly dull, soft woolen dress gooJs and Indies' cloths nro n shado lower, nnd tho nvcrngo of quotations Is nhout yt per cont. lowor for tho week. Somo multors hnvo gono below last year's quotations In securing orders. Tho shoo and leather business does not 1m provu nnd both leather and manufactured goods dccllno slightly, though speculation Is ngaln hoisting hides about ten per cont. for all In two weeks nnd for somo kinds 25 per cent. Wheat nnd ootton were depressed by lust week's panlo and navo hnd littlo tlmo to re cover. Wheat rccolp contlnuo enormous for tho week of 3,701.07,! bushels against 1,712,903 last yeur and Atlantic exports, Hour Included, hnvo been 7,r2fW) biHliols In four wocks of December ngulnst 7,703,000 last year. Ilusslan and othor supplies aro mov ing freely, olllclal ostlmntos nro wholly forgot ten nnd tho men who prodlctcd 1 wheat havo disappeared. Cotton has remained at 8'' cents slnco last Saturday and onormous commorclnl and mill stocks horo nnd abroad with n de mand for goods much smaller than In Soptcn ber, hinder nn advance. Tho quantity whloa has como Into sight Is 30 per cent, less thnn last year to date, hut slightly larger than la 180.', when the crop was 0,700,000 hales. Failures for tho weok havo been 3J2 In tho United Stntcs against 30 last yoar, nnd 40 In Canada ugulnst -11 last year. THE WATERS SUBSIDING. A fjtory of tho Destruction Wrought by tho Floods In MlMHourl. Baonki.i,, Mo., Dec. 28. Tho waters of tho Osage havo begun slowly to sub side and tho havoc plnyod by the sud den rise begins to manifest itsolf. Thousands of railroad tics, thousands of bushels of corn and wheat, wagon loads of apples, miles of fence and acres of fodder and feed havo disap peared before the mighty onrush of the floods. Houses, barns and granaries by tho hundreds havo been swept away; cattle, horses and hogs have been drowned nnd their carcasses lino tho hills, against which the back waters beat Houses and btores all along the Osage valley aro filled yot with water, naud nnd tho wreckage of tho waves, and woe and desolation appear on all sides. At Tuscumbia, tho county seat, every house in town is filled with water and the loss will bo immense. A correct estimate of tho losses suf fered throughout this section cannot bo estimated yet, but will be large. MR. BAYARD'S CASE. Tho Homo IlrsolutlonH of ltnrrntt nnd ATcCiiU Will lie Koported lu u JModliled Form. Washington, Dec. 23. Tho houso committee on foreign affairs held a mooting and considered tlio Barrett and McCall resolutions relatlvo to the speeches of Amussndor Ilayard. The committee decided to report the Mc Call resolution in a modified form. As agreed on it calls tipon tho pres ident for information as to tho alleged utterances of Mr. Bayard and tho correspondence on tho subject Tho resolution has been very much tamed down and mado mild in com parison to what it was when intro duced. It was thought that in view of present circumstances it would be much better to make tho resolution simply ono of inquiry. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. It la I'rnposoit to Hold Ono In 1890 to Ar rangi) All lloundary DHputi-R. Washington, Dec. 28. Representa tive Barrett, of Massachusetts, intro duced in tho house a joint resolution authorizing tho president to arrange a conference between the United States and nations possessing territory on tho American continent for tho settlement of boundary dis putes. Tho president is to invite each nation to join tho United States in a conference, to bo hold in Washington in 1800, to ugree, if possible, upon all boundaries in dlsputo between such atiousn. J'hyMciilly Unuble to Train. NicwYoitK, Dec. 28. Among sporting men hero the report is current that James J. Corbett, the erstwhile cham pion pugilist, has good reason for quit ting tho prize ring. It Is said that he is physically unable to undergo a se vere course of training, and that should he re-eutcr tho ring he would bo a mark for any first-class heavy weight Accordmg to a friend of Cor bett, tho big follow is going tho same road traveled by poor Jack Dempsey. Now It Is American Who lit. Kansas Citv,"JIo., Dec. 28. Italian Vice Consul Jerome Fedcll has received 1 a communication from tho minister of I tho interior of tho kingdom of Italy complaining about the spoiled and damaged condition of grain received from this country at ports and ware houses. After the first of thu year no grain shipped from this country will bo received into Italy, unless it bo ac companied by a certificate of its good condition and dryness. NEBRASKA STATE NEWS. Haki.an county's big corn crop is not yot all harvested. Tub Wahoo butter tub factory is turning out 150 tubs a day. Inland boasts of a citizen 00 years old who has used tobacco for more than 00 years. Tub Southeast Nebraska Poultry as sociation recently held its annual ses sion at Beatrice. In tho James Ish murder trial nt Omaha, the jury after being out three days failed to agree. Cr.Ai'.A Hamkh, 11 years old, was re cently fatally burned at Aurora whllo kindling a fire with koroscno oil. Tub llth annual convention of tho Nebraska State Firemen's association meets at Grand Island on January 21. In tho caso of Ocorgo E. Hawkins, ex-water commissioner of Beatrice, tho jury acquitted him of tho charge of forgery. Mits. L. Donald, of Grand Island, died recently as the result of a fall re ceived a short tlmo previous. Sho was 80 years of age and loaves a husband and ono child. Tub O. A. It. post at Hastings passed resolutions heartily indorsing1 the mes sage of tho president on the Venezuela affair and commending him for stand ing up for Americanism, giving assur ance that the G. A. It is with him. Onb farmer near Plattsmouth has about 20,000 bushels of corn which he is holding for better prices. Portions of it is four years old. About 12.000 bushels of this corn ho onco refused (55 cents for in hopes of getting more. Tiiubb young farmers, Eli Oryall, J. M. Foster and Georgo Van Patten, wore recently arrested at Grafton on ' tho charge of taking two loads of shelled corn from tho granary of C. Bos Thoy pleaded guilty and were held to the district court. An attempt to rob tho First national bank at Arlington was made the othor night. Burglars broke open three doors and entered tho bank, drilled a hole in the outer door of the vault and blow the combination lock off, but wcro frightened away before accom plishing their object Otto Skidmtz was rccontly arrested at Plattsmouth upon complaint of rep resentatives of tho B. & M. road, charg ing him with wrecking a passenger train two weoks previous. The de fendant being only ten years of age, tho charge was changed to "incorrigi bility" when ho was takon into court. Tun Nebraska State Dairymen's as sociation, at its lato session in Lin coln, elected the following officers: President, E. F. Howe, Crete; vice president, F. II. Vaughau, Fremont; secretary and treasurer, S. C. Bassett, Gibbon; directors, B. R. Stouffer, Bellcvue; W. A. Carpenter, York; G. A. Merrill, Miuden; J. W. Bush, Battle Creek, and J. S. Temple, Cheney. Fjibd Waiii.gubn, who murdered Au gusta Maitland at a laundry in Omaha last June, for alleged Infidelity u him, when brought up for trial in the Oma ha district court the other day pleaded guilty and was sentenced to tho peni tentiary for life. Wahlgren mado a statement to the court that affected the court and spectators to such a de gree that a movement was set on foot for his pardon. Editou ItAKifit, of tho Gretna Re porter, was recently fried before Judge Scott at Omaha and sentenced to ono year In the penitentiary for criminal libel, but the supreme court suspended execution indefinitely. The libel charged consisted of tho publication of a story reflecting upon tho foreman of the grand jury last June. An Omaha, dispatch stated that the papers of tho state were much worked up over tho rulings of tho court W. M. Hki.m was recently found dead at his homo 40 miles southwest of Al liance. He had been shot bovoral days before. It was supposed that ho was opening tho gate to drive out his cat tle when ho was fired upon by two or more unknown parties from ambush and instantly killed. Tho body was riddled with bullets and tho horso that he had been riding shot Ho had had difiiculties with neighboring ranchmen in the sand hills and tho killing is sup posed to havo boon tho result Pensions lately granted Nebraska voterans: Original, John E. West, Crawford; Gustavo Sherman, Somer field; W. E. Gosper. Lincoln. In crease, Ambrose K. Bliss, Rodingtou; William C. Kidd, Nobraska City; Dex ter Russell, Trenton. Reissue, Samuel Pettit, Guldo Rock. Original widows, etc., Abby C. Cornwall, Elyria; Mar garet A. Angcll, Highland; Mariah Swalloy, Benedict; Dora E. Grogan, Wlsner; minor of Jabcz Green, Platts mouth, Additional, Jonathan N. Fletcher, Brewster. Restoration and reissue, Amos Sniff, Elinwood. Orig inal widow, Rebecca Swift, Elmwood. A fi:w days boforo Christmas Gov. Holcomb commuted the sentences of two convicts in tho ponitentiary, W. II. Porlno and George II. Wilson. Perino was sentenced from Dawes county by Judge Kincaid for 14 yours for arson. He was received at tho pen itentiary October 31, 1890. By allow ance for good timo his sentence would have expired July 31, 191)0. Tho re quest for a commutation of sentence was accompanied by a letter from Judge Kincaid, in which he admitted that tho length of tlmo was too severe and urged commutation. Ho left tho prison on Christmas evo. Wilson was sent up from Burt county for five years for removing mortgaged property. Ills sentence was commuted bo as to expire Christmas. K y A L X
