- THETRIBUNE. .
F. HI. & E. M. , Pubs.
McCOOK. NED
OVER THE STATE.
LAUER TELLS His STOIIV. John W. Lauer ,
on trial at Omaha for the killing of his wife ,
told the following story when put on the
stand : On reaching home about 7 o'clock
I drovp around to the back part of my
house , in tho alley behind the barn , and I
backed the hone up against the barn , lifted
my wife out of the buggy , unhitched the
horse and took him out. My wife stood
with me. I took him around into the barn
on the opposite side facing towards tin
house , and my wife went around with in
and waited at tho door until I had put tho
horse away. When I had finished I went
to tho house with my wife. We went into
the house and immediately lie a linht , am"
then we set about preparing supper. I
was a hasty meal because I got home late ,
I usually got homo from G to 10 or 15 min
utes after G. On this particular evening
did not get homo until 7 or a quarto :
past. I recollect preparing supper. . '
think it likely I assisted as much as ni\
wife. I usually did when I was home ,
After supper I helped my wife take , th
dishes off tho table and put them away ,
During the evening , the first thing I recol
leo-t doing after supper was laying down on
the sofa. I had been very busy that daj
and was very tired and I lay down on th
sofa. I had been suffering with a boil on
my right check. We had two or three dail
papers there that evening , I am not post
tive which. My wife sat beside me as clos
ns I am to the arm of this chair ( pointing
to the arm of the chair on which ho was
sitting ) on the smaller of two rockin
chairs we had in the house. Her head was
facing in the same direction ns I was lying ,
I told her to read the paper to mo and sh
eat on the rocking chair and read the pa
per. She did not read very long. She a
"John , I am tired. I would like to go to
bed. " I looked at my watch and it was 20
or 25 minutes to nine , and I said , "No
Sally , it is a little too early. I will try and
read a little myself.1 She got up and wen
into the other room to timlress. I followed
eoon after , and while I was undressing she
got up again and said , "I forgot to prepare
the oatmeal for breakfast , " and I think
that while she was preparing the oatmeal I
got in bed. After preparing tho oatmea"
she came and got in bed and we lay
there talking for some little time ,
I know I must have fallen asleep very soon
ns regards my wife I do not know whether
she went to sleep before I did or not. On
this particular occasion I recollect dis
tinctly of lying in "bed and talking to my
wife. The next thing that I recollect was
when I was awakened out of a sound sleep ,
I was lying on my back'to tho best of my
recollection and heard a noise in the next
room. I was awakened out of a perfectly
sound sleep and I supposed when 1 was be
ing awakened that it was burglars. Thai
was the lirst-and only thought that I had
at that time. I turned to my right side and
grabbed for my revolver. On this particu
! ar night I had it prepared f > o that I could
grasp it easily from under my pillow. I got
my revolver just as quick as I could after
turning over on my right side. I then
turned in the direction of the next room
and turned back on my back and looked
over the foot of the bed. I did not see
anything , but I heard a rustling in the
other room. After hearing the noise in the
other room. I heard a voice. I will not say
that I heard voices. I supposed it was a
burglar but I did not recognize the voice ,
and supposed the burglar was talking to
some other burglar. I naturally concluded
there were two burglars a tthattimepcssibly
in the room that I was in. That is what
thought at that time. But I heard this
rustling and immediately after hearing this
rustling , there wan not the smallest part ol
.a second before I saw a form appear over
the foot of the bed and as soon as I saw
that form , and as quick sv. ; lightning , I fired
and at the same time yelled at the top oi
my voice. I will not say that yell was
heroic. After firing and yelling at the same
time I sat up in bed and looked along the
foot of the bed on tho outside. My distinct
recollection is that I expected to see some
thing fall , and I hold my revolver , for if I
had seen anything fall I should have shot
again. But I saw nothing and didn't hear
anything. Something drew my attention
that made me think of my wife. I put out
my hand where my wife ought to havebeen
but she was not there. I naturally con
eluded it was my wife that came toward
the bed. I jumped out of bed as quick as 1
could and found the foot of the bed and ]
felt on the floor. I felt my wife on the fiooi
and then turned and recollect before doing
anything further 1 called my sister.
POPE'S SUCCESSOR. A Washington
special says : It is generally conceded here
that Gen. Howard , commandant of the
Department ol the Platte , with headquar
ters at Omaha , has been docided upon as
the successor of Gen. Pope , and that ho will
tie sent to the Presidio as commander of
the Division of the Pacific. Army officers
generally incline to this opinion. It is
rumored that tho president had drawn up
Gen. Howard's nomination , and that it
will in all probability be sent in to the sen
ate at an early day. The promotion of
Gen. Howard is regarded as fitting and
right , as ho is considered deserving of it
both on account of the seniority of his rank
and in recognition of his great services.
Commenting on the foregoing the Omaha
Herald snys : In Omaha there was very lit-
1le stir yesterday among army office s.
Every man was on the qui vive for news
from Washington , but no official announce
ment was received of Gen. Howard's pro
motion. In the afternoon the general re
ceived a dispatch from Washington. It
was confidential so that its contents were
restricted to Gen. Howard himself. He
consequently refused to state any tiling
about it or to be inter viewed on thesubjcct.
The impression as well as the report circu
lated that it was a private and reliable
forerunner of his appointment and several
officers and men tendered him congratula
tions. He smilingly thanked all but said
the congratulations were a little too early.
[ Gen. Oliver Otis Howard was born at
Leeds , Mo. , Nov. S , 1830. He graduated
; it Bowdoin college in 1850 , and in 1854 at
the Military academy at West Point , where
in 1857 he was made assistant professor
of mathematics. Upon the breaking out
of the civil war ho was made colonel of a
regiment of volunteers , and commanded a
brigade at the first Bull Run. He lost his
right arm at the battle ofFair Oaks , May
31. 1802. He was made major-general of
volunteers Nov. 20 , 18G2 , and had the
command of a division at Burnside's de-
Icat at Fredericksburg , Dec. 13 , 18G2.
Soon after he was placed in command of
the Eleventh army corps , which was put
to fight at Chancellordville by Stonewall
Jackson in may 18G3. In the following
autumn he was sent with his corps to the
west , and took part in the campaign which
followed down to the capture of Atlanta ,
und commanded the right wing of the army
during Sherman's "march to the sea. " He
was in December , 1854 , promoted to
"brigadier-general , and in the .following
March brevet major-general , in the regu
lar army. In May , 18G5 , he was placed at
the head of the freedman's bureau , his
duties lasting until 1872. Frgm 1SG9
till 3 873 he was president of the Howard
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university. In ISTa no was sent aa special
commissioner to the Indians in New Mex
ico and Arizona , and from 1873 to 1881
served on the frontier. During the latter
year he was placed at the head of the Mili
tary academy at West Point. He now has
charge of the department of the Platte ,
with headquarters at Omaha. ]
MISOBELAXTEOUB STATS XATXEB3 ,
A NUMBER of young thieves arrested at
Omaha for stealing goods swore they had
no difficulty in disposing of them to mer
chants. Two of the boys were given places
in the reform school.
NEW business enterprises are laying hold
of "Nelson , and the town expects to make
rapid strides the present year.
EDWARD CLAPPER was burned to death
seven miles from Fremont on the llth.
Clapper lived alone in a small one-story
building. Ho was considered a hermit.
Wednesday ho went to Fremont , but did
not get drunk , as usual on such occasions ,
presumably because he had not enough
money. He returned home that night , and
Thursday his charred remains were found
in the ruins of his house. The supposition
is that the house caught fire from a defec
tive flue.
TWELVE thousand leases of school lands
in Hitchcock county were signed in the
land commissioner's office at Lincoln last
week.
week.V
\V > r. IT. RICHARDS , convicted of embezzle
ment at the recent form of the Gage comity
district court , hns been taken to the peni
tentiary to serve out a three years' sen
tence.
W. H. RICHARDS , convicted at the recent
term of the district court in Gage county ol
embezzlement , was sentenced to the peni
tentiary for three years.
THE Fitzgerald hose team of Lincoln ,
won the champion 300-yard race , open to
the world , at the exposition grounds in
New Orleans.
THE contract for the Beatrice water
works has been let to the Holly company
of Lockport , N. Y. , for $09,330. '
TniRTYyonng men of Beatrice got together
last week and organized a Young Men's
Christian Association.
ORLEANS has indulged in a 600 pound
bell for its new school building.
THE jury in the case against John W.
Lauer , now being tried for the murder of
his wife , at Omaha , will board and lodge at
the county jail until the trial is concluded
and the decision of the jury is rendered.
SENATOR MAXDEJISON has introduced a
bill in the senate for the sale of the site of
Fort Omaha , near Omaha , for the sale or
the removal of the buildings , and the pur
chase of a new site and the erection of
suitable buildings. The bill directs tho
secretary of war to sell the reservation and
such improvements- cannot be con
veniently removed.
THE Lincoln Journal says J. W. Work
man of Ottumwa , Iowa , was in that city
the other day getting from Governor Dawes
the documents-that would enable him to
proceed into a western county , there to
capture and takefromthe state one George
Prince , who is wanted in the state east of
tho river to answer for a murder which he
committed in Wapello county some time
since. An extradition warrant was also
issued to Perry Reed for the arrest and re
turn of one Fred Miller to Pottawatamie
county , Iowa , where he is wanted for
forgery.
THE hotel project recently agitated at
Wymore has crystalized into a joint stock
company , to be known as the Touzalin
hotel company , with a capital stock of
$25,000. Samuel Wymore , after whom the
town was named , started the enterprise
witli a subscription to the capital stock of
§ 5.000. The inrurporators are Samuel
Wymore , J. Neumann , J. B. Weir , C. B.
Rogers , E. P. Reynolds , jr. , and E. J. Hays.
DURING the year 1885 the St. Joseph &
Grand Island road carried from Fairbury
1,523 cars of freight and brought to that
place 1,200 cars.
A PETITION has been in circulation in
Fremont asking the city council to raise
the saloon license to § 1,000.
UPWARDS of a hundred men and teams ,
from Colorado , passed through Nelson the
other day , on their way north to work on
the B. & M. railroad.
NELSON finds her hotel accommodations
too small for the crowds coming , and it is
probable some effort will be made toward
securing a new and larger public house.
THE little son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Wiper , of Burt county , was so severely
burned that its life is despaired of.
THE settlers in the vicinity of Fort
Robinson are very anxious to establish a
church society and build a church near
where it is supposed the railroad company
will locate a town.
THE spring boom has fairly struck
Ogalalla. Immigrant movables are being
unloaded there at the rate of ten carloads
a day. A flouring mill , a new hotel , a
brickj-ard , a mammoth clothing house and
a fourth lumber yard , are among the new
additions to the business interests this
year.
IHVING E. MONTGOMERY , of Lincoln , who
recently borrowed a horse of a friend and
sold it , placing the proceeds in his pocket ,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary lor
one vear.
T/it : Beatrice Young Men's Christian asso
ciation has completed its organization.
MR. GRIFFITH , the recently appointed na
tional bank examiner for Nebraska and
Kansas , says the first of this year there
were seventy-nine banks in. Nebraska and
seventy-four in Kansas , and since then thir
teen have been organized , two in this state
and eleven across the line. A comparison
of population and capital invested , how
ever , shows that Nebraska is far ahead , for .
it has SG.OOO.OOOinvestedin national bank
interests against § 5,000,000 for Kansas.
THE Omaha board of trade proposes
organizing a stock company with a capital
of § 100,000 , which shall have for its object
the inducement of outside manufacturers
to locate in that city. A commitloj has
also been appointed to induce the council
to exempt from taxation'all new manufac
turing firms for a period of three or five
years. The proposed § 100,000 is to be
loaned to the new manufacturers who will
locate , in § 3,000 and § 5.000 lots , for which
the company will take shares in the con
cerns.
"War. HARRISON , " supposed to be a Chi
cago murderer , has been arrested in Omaha
and jailed awaiting information from the
Garden City.
THE remains of Senator Miller , of Califor
nia , passed through Omaha last week , ac
companied by a congressional delegation.
JOHN C. BONNELL has tendered his resig
nation as commander of the G. A. R. post
it Lincoln and is succeeded by Joseph
leeter.
ONE hnndred and seventy five sporting
iromen in Omaha answerto ths.call of the
minorities lor a monthly fine.
A SON of Judge Tiffany , of Boono county
while coasting , ran into a barb wire fence
and was badly cut about tho face.
BOONE county now claims one of thebes
jails in the state for a limited number o
prisoners.
Tun people of North Bend are having a
tonipi'i-ii-u awakening. Hundredsaresaid
to be signing the pledge.
CIIJAK RAPIDS' population is about GOO.
Tim town has three churches , two of which
were built lust year.
NimtASiCA CITY Methodists are making
efforts to secure theservices of Rev. Bittlcr ,
the revivalist , for a short campaign.
THERE is a dearth of servant girls in Lin
coln , though good wages are paid for first-
class help.
THE feed stables of Schuyler are doing a
thriving business feeding the teams of im
migrants bound for Nebraska and other
portions of the west. .
LINCOLN is full of tramps and unfortunate
laborers drawn there by the report that
laborers were wanted for railroad work.
Many more have come than could find work
and from twenty-five to thirty have been
accommodated with lodgings at the city jail
in one night.
BEATRICE'S skating rink , that at one time
was the scene of big crowds and liberal pat
ronage , hns been turned into an ncricul-
ural implement liouaa
AN old man named Watson Bartholomew
of Delaware county , New York , who was oil
his way to Benkleman with his wife , was
met at the car door of the westbound train
at Lincoln a few days ago by a man who
crowded against him , threw his arms around
him , and abstracted from his inside over
coat pocket a wallet containing § GO. The
old man yelled and a brakeman set out in
] nil-tin it of the escaping thief and captured
him , but he had passed the wealth to a
confederate , for it could not be found.
A HANK has been established at Bennett ,
the following officers being elected : Presi
dent , E. M. Lewis , Lincoln ; vice president ,
J. G. Southwick , Bennett ; cashier , L. C.
Humphrey , Bennett.
JOHN STEVENSON , of Greendale , Buffalo
county , had his leg broken between the
ankle and knee. He was chasing a colt
when the horse on which he was seated ran
against the barn , catching Mr. Stevenson's
leg with the above result.
THE Lincoln Journal says that P.H. Me-
Guire , the man who made such a splurgo
two or three j-ears ago by going to Omaha
and paralyzing Ihe people with opening the
finest saloon in the place , has been lodged
in jail at Seward for the crime of horse
stealing. He stole the horse last October
near Milford and took it to his place , or
one on which he was living , near Palmyra.
Gov. DAWES last week issued a requisi
tion upon the governor of Dakota for 'the
extradition of a fugitive from this state
who is wanted for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
CRITCHFIELD , the noted Missouri temper
ance lecturer , has been giving a series of
talks to the people of North Bend.
STATE AUDITOR BABCOCK and his force has
recently been busy sending out blanks to
the various railways in the state , on which
they must make returns before April 5 of
all the taxable property.
THE Lauer trial in Omaha last week at
tracted large crowds of both sexes.
SIDNEY is about to have another paper.
[ t will be democratic.
A NOTED athlete from New York , says tho
Albion Argus , named John Donnohue , has
jeen giving exhibitions in Albion. One of
liis tricks was to swing a dumb bell , weigh
ing 105 , and he offered to pay any one § 10
who would do the same thing. His offer
was accepted by T. J. Hcffron , of Albion ,
who did the act with the greatest ease.
Tom is in all probability the strongest man
of his size in Booue county.
A MEETING will be called at an early day
to organize a prohibition party in Custer
county.
THE Lincoln Journal says that Attorney
General Loose on the 17th served his brief
in the Quin Bohanan case , on motion to
dismiss the same out of the supreme court
for want of jurisdiction. The defendants
are notified that the motion will be called
up at the opening of the supremo court in
Washington on Monday , April 12 , next.
IRISH citizens of Lincoln celebrated St.
Patrick's day in a befitting manner.
THE Presbyterians of York , who for
some months have boon without.a pastor ,
have now obtained one in the person of
Rev Mr. Racl. They are also thinking of
building a new church.
THE temperance people of Beatrice will
put a full ticket in the field at the coming
municipal election.
A LODGE of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen has been organized at Atkinson
with eighteen charter members.
A TEMPERANCE tabernacle , 44x100 , is
projected in Fremont.
CHRISTIAN HEROLD , who was convicted in
the district court of Lancaster of fraudu
lently disposing of property to the amount
of § 15,000 with intent to cheat his .credit
ors , was sentenced to five years in the peni
tentiary by Judge Pund. . A motion made
by his counsel , just before sentence was
passed , was overruled. Burr will now move
for a suspension of the sentence pending an
appeal of the case to the supreme court.
WHEN the Fitzgerald hose team of Lin
coln arrived home from New Orleans ,
where they acquitted themselves with great
credit , they were givqn a hearty welcome
home.
Tun state supreme court has handed
down the following decision. 1. Where a
homestead of greater value than § 2,000 is
.transferred from a husband to his wife
without consideration , and still occupied
as a homestead , the surplus in value over |
§ 2,000 will be liable in the hands of the j
wife for the debts of the husband con
tracted before .the trnnsfei , in the same
manner as though the title had remained
in the husband.
OMAHA is making an effort to drive out
the thieves and thugs , with which the town
is overrun.
AT this writing the Union Pacific and B.
it M. are sellinc : first class passenger tickets
to California , limited , for § 20.
THE Methodists of Omaha have started
a revival which is expected to result in a
religions upheaval equal to that utLincoln I
a few weeks ago. 1
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THE new normal school building at Peru i
was dedicated a few days ago. Thenormal ;
school is now in a more prosperous condi
i
tion than ever before. More than 300 ii
students arc on the roll for the present i
term , the attendance averaging over 280. i
The building is now complete in every re 1
spect and the school offers the very best ad 1c
vantages to all the young men and women ]
of the state deserving a normal education. i
The teachers in each department are the ii
very best to be found. I
THE commencement exercises nf the medi
cal department of the state university took
place on the ISth in tho university chape !
and the following named persons were
graduated and received their diplomas :
Charles W. Hale , Benj. F. Gray , Charles W.
Baldwin , Surah E. Green , Win. N. Hylton ,
Thomas C. Canine. Fred. W. Voos , Dan
Frank Morris , Jennings A. Coffman. Chus.
A. Shoemaker , Jessie ,1. Campbell , Mary A.
Lutz and Orcn B. Hngij. Tho exercises ,
aside from the music , consisted of a saluta
tory by Orcn B. Ilugg , an address by Dr. A.
R. Mitchell , dear of the medical faculty ,
and an oration by Win. Hylton on success
in medicine. The degrees were conferred by
Chancellor Manatt.
THE old maxim of "digging his own grave"
was verified at the insane hospital at Lin
coln quite recently. The Journal says that
just previous to the recent storm thesuper-
intcndent deemed it be.st to have three or
four graves dug before the stormy weather
set in. Among the men selected to perform
the task was a man named Tabor , an epi
leptic. Thegrave-digging party hail finished
the task about 4o'clock in the evening and
repaired to tho hospital. That night the
man Tabor died , and the following night
was interred in the grave made by his own
hands.
Tun Omaha nail works have been pur
chased by a new company for § (50,000 ( , and
an offer was immediately made by other
parties to the new company to buy the real
estate alone for § 45.000. The new com
pany is composed of William Haven , quito
a wealthv man of Syracuse. N. Y. , G. T.
Walker. L S. Hascall , George Towle. W. N.
McC'andlish and several other Omaha men.
The capital stock is § 150,000 , with § 120- ,
000 paid in.
LYONS has no saloons , from which tho
local paper accounts for the fact that the
town has but few chronic loafers. There is
no place for them to hang out and they
move on.
St. Patrick's day was quite extensively
celebrated in Omaha. . '
Lincoln is making a strong fight against
the gamblers , and it is probable that they
ivill give that town a wide birth.
A TTARXIXG TO FARMERS.
Allanllon Called to Swindlers in Seeds Who
arc Flooding the Country 11 itli Circulars.
The agricultural department has issued a
caution to farmers against the designs of u
lot of impostors who are engaged in a syn
dicate to impose on them by the sale o !
worthless seeds : There are reports of sales
of "hulless" oats at an exorbitant price ir
certain counties in Wisconsin and Nev ,
York , thirteen years ago , but the swindle
does not appear to have root in thoso
localities ! It is reported on good authority
to have been imported from Canada about
1880 , and planted in northern Ohio , where
it soon attained a particularly vigorou
growth. It was early exposed , and has
during five years been driven westward , and
made local incursions south in Kentucky
and Tennessee. Correspondents report the
attempt to sell this grain at exorbi
tant prices in twenty-live states and the
presence of the agents of the organized
swindle in eighteen states. Indiana
makes returns of operations in twenty-
four counties , Michigan , sixteen counties ,
mostly in the southern part of the state ;
Illinois , ten counties indifferentpartsof the
state. In Wisconsin , Minnesota and Iowa
agents have reported at five points , and
only an occasional fine forays hns as yet
been made in Missouri , Kansas , Nebraska
and Dakota. As the name Bohemian is be
coming somewhat notorious , we begin to
hear of Australian and Russian oats and
other varieties , or tho old variety under
other names may be expected to appear.
Cases arc also reported from innumerable
parts of Indiana and other western states
inhich "Hiilless Barley" and a pretended
new variety of wheat bearing suehnamesas
' 'Seneca Chief , " ' 'Red Line , " etc. , arc being
offeted for sale at high prices. The
wheat is as high as § 15 per bushel upon
tho same plan as has been followed with
the Bohemian oats. It is not necessary to
know anything of the quality of grain
offered on that plan , as it is understood
that these schemes arc frauds , because a
plan which presupposes the crop can bo
sold year after year at the same price as
the seed , when thelatter is twenty or thirty
times the ordinary market price of grain ,
manifests a palpublclackof common sense.
The correspondents of the department
send reports of various other frauds that
were more or less successful , being practiced
on farmers in different parts of the coun
try. Agents for the sale of fruit trees , fer
tilizers , stoves , copking ranges and various
other articles succeeded in many cases in
selling their wares at two "or three times
tiieir value , or getting tho farmers' money
for things proved valulcss. The device. *
'or getting the farmer's signature to some
paper which can be changed into negotiable
lotes and Bold for cash arc too numerous
to mention.
THE CONTESTED ELECTION CASES.
1c2 > resciiiative Ifalin's Dcatli Complicates
diallers Seriously.
Washington special : The death of ex-Gov
ernor Halm so suddenly last Monday morn-
ng has complicated the contested election
cases to a considerable extent , and it is
likely to result in the dafeat of the republi
cans in each instance. The committee on
elections in the house , of which Governor
Halm was a member , now consists of nine
democrats and four republicans. There
are four contests before the committee ; in
three cases democratic contestces are try
ing to unseat republicans ; in the other a
republican is trying for the seat now occu
. In the lat
pied by a greenback-democrat.
ter ( Can pbell against Weave ? of Iowa ) the
contestant certainly has a very strong
case , and if there had been no change in the
committee Weaver would , in all probabil
ity , have been unseated. 'J he prospects
now are that he will retain his seat during
this congress. It is not so certain , how
ever , that Mr. Romeis , the sitting member
from Toledo , Ohio , will remain. Tho em
inent free-trader , Frank Html , wants the
scut. Ho said , just before the session be
gan , that if he could not obtain the seat
that he claimed inside of sixty days ho
would withdraw from the contest. He has
not yet withdrawn ; on the contrary , he is
fighting hard for the seat and means to got
it if it takes till the first of March , 1887.
There is something radically wrong in the
manner of conducting election contests in
the house. It is a disgrace that years must
pass before it can be known who is elected
to a congress. *
AN EXTEXSITE CONFLAGRATION.
A fire broke out in the extensive oat meal
mills of Ferdinand Schumacker , ol Akron ,
Ohio. These mills are the largest in tho
country and consist of several immense
buildings. The flames spread with alarm
ing rapidity and were soon beyond control.
The building first attacked was soon en :
tirely enveloped. The fire next communi
cated with the dry house , which was also
destroyed. A 20,000 bushel elevator was
next burned up and at lost reports
another mill was threatened with destruc
tion. The Universalist church , across the
street , and the freight hoi.se of the Cleve
land. Akron & Columbus road was on fire.
The Windsor Hotel , also owned by Schn- ;
maker , and valued at § 70,000 , was threat-
sned. The loss trill reach $500,000. .
THE rtVSY BOYCOTT.
District assembly 57 , of the Knights ol
Labor , Chicago , hold a meeting , and ,
though the session was secret , a member
after adjournment vouchsafed the informa
tion that it had .been decided to sustain
the striking employes of tho McCormick
Reaper company , and to boycott tho firm
which is now employing nearly a full force
ot non-union men. It was also decided at
the mooting to raise the Thompson & Tay
lor boycott , one of the firms using Max
well Bros. ' goods , and to call out the full
strength of the order in Doycottiug Maxwell
Bros.
LEGISLATIVE NEWS AX3 > NOTES.
A Secord of Proceedings in Both Branches
of the U. S. Conyress.
SENATE , March 15. Among the petitions
presented and referred to committees were
a number from local assemblies of the
Knights of Labor throughout the country
favoring the buildingof theHennepincanal.
Tho resolution was agreed to appointing
Rev.J. . G. Butler , D. D. , of AVanhington ,
chaplain of tho senate. After a brief .dis
cussion of tho house bill increasing the pen
sions of widows and dependent relatives ol
deceased soldiers the senate adjourned oat
of respect to the memory of Representative
Halm.
HOUSE , March 15. Immediately after
reading of tho journal the house adjourned
out ol respect to tho memory of Michael
Halm , of Louisiana.
SENATE , March 10. After routine busi
ness Mori-Ill addressed the senate upon the
Edmund's resolutions. Ho was followed by
Ciillom , who said the refusal of tho attor
ney general to furnish papers called for by
the senate was a denial of the right of the
"Bonnie to inquire into the management of a
public ollice. The attorney general was an
officer of the law. His duties were defined
by law , a ml it was his duty to obey the
law , whether it cost him his oflice or not.
The prominent fact was that when citiior
branch of congress had called for any in
formation it had usually been furnished ,
and that in exceptional cases in which it
had not the refusal was not based on the
constitutional pierogativeof the president.
"When the president suspcmled Duskin he
did it tinder the tenure of ollice act. So the
case stood that the president proposed to
obey the law in getting men out of office ,
but questioned its constitutionality when
the senate , under that law , said it had a
right to inquire into his act of suspension ,
and , to do that intelligently , it needed all
the papers on file. The president used the
law in suspending men from office , and
then , in a volunteer message , intimated
that the senate was attempting to interfere
with his high and mighty prerogative as
chief executive.
HOUSE , March 1 G. Under a suspension
of the rules the bill was oassed for the clos
ing of the business of tho court of commis
sioners of Alabama claims. The senate
bill was passed authorizing the comptroller
of the currency to permit the receiver ol
national banks to use trust funds for the
purchase of property upon which the bank
holds a mortgage or other evidence of in
debtedness. Bland , of Missouri , under in
structions from the committee on coinage ,
weights and measures , moved to suspend
tho mles'nnil adopt the resolution innkinc
house bill 5,900 , "for the free coinage of
silver , " the special order for Saturday ! ) , the
20th and 27th instants. Saturday , 3d o !
April , and the same to be again taken up
on Tuesday. April Gth , after the morning
hour for the consideration of bills reported
by committees , and BO to continue from
day to day until disposed of ; provided
that , unless sooner ordered by tho house ,
tho previous question shall be pending
thereon at 3 o'clock on Thursday , April
8th ; this order not to interfere with the
revenue or general appropriation bills , ex
cept on Thursday , April 8th , the day fixed
for the final disposition of this order. The
motion was agreed to.
SENATE , March 17. Several moorages
from president were laid before the sen
ate , one of them being unsigned , but "re
ceived , " said President Pro Tern Sherman ,
in due official form. The message , on sug
gestion of the chair , and on motion of
Cockrell , was returned to tho president for
signature. The unfinished business , being
the Edmunds resolution reported from tho
judiciary committee , was then laid before
the senate and Dolpli resumed thofloor and
continued his remarks in favor of the ma
jority report of the committee.
HOUSE , March 17. Burnes , from the
committee on appropriations , reported
back the urgent delinquency appropriation i
bill with senate amendments. Burnes ex
plained tho report of the committee. Con
currence was recommended in some of the i
amendments , and non-concurrence in 1
others. The report of the committee was i
agreed to and the house went into commit- I
tee of the whole on the Indian apprnpria- 1
tion bill. Wellborn , in clofiin ; ; the debate , j
said that the history of the Indian policy ]
was a dark record of broken treaties , ' f
fraudulent devices and treacherous prac4 4 i
tiees. The government had entirely for- i
feited the confidence of the Indians. When i
he reflected that this mighty domain ] [
reached from the great lakes of the north 1
to thu southern seas and covered the vast '
extent between the two oceans , when he re- \
fleeted that this vast imperial territory had <
been wrested from the Indian race , ho was
filled with amazement that the gentlemen [
complained that the government was deal- , . .
ing too liberally with the Indian. j j
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SENATE , March IS. Tho senate passed .
the bill to remove the charge of desertion ! :
from the records of the adjutant general J
of the army against soldiers who re-enlisted 1
in the late war without having received a ,
discharge from their first regiments , proi
viiling that the secretary of war shall br E
satisfied that the re-enlistment was not to 1
secure bounty. Logan called up his bill to t
"increase the efficiency of the army. " It
was amended and ordered reprinted. At
2 o'clock the unfinished business was
placed before the senate , being the resolu
tion reported by Edmunds from the judi
ciary committee expressing the senate's
condemnation of the attorney general for ( t
refusing to furnish papers called for by the (
senate. Van Wyck oJfercd as an amend
ment to the resolutions the following :
"And in all such cases of removal tho '
matter of confirmation shall be considered i
in open session of the senate. " Several ]
speeches were made , after which the senate j
adjourned. i .
HOUSE , March IS. The house , in com- ' :
mittee of tho whole , Townshend in tho *
chair , on the Indian appropriation bill , ,
finished forty-two of the forty-eight pages 7
of the bill. The committee rose and the r
house adjourned.
SENATE , March 19. Mr. Van Wyck in
troduced a bill authorizing tho secretary
jl the interior to extend the time in his
iiscretion for tho payment of purchase
money by settlers upon lands from the
Otoe. Missouri and Omaha Indians. Coke
alled up the bill to establish a national i
ive stock highway and to promote com-
nerce in live stock between the states.
L'he bill sets apart for ten years as such
righway public lands in range 41 , along
the east line of the state of Colorado , it )
aeing a fractional range averaging about
two miles in width. The senate resolutions
reported from the judiciary committee re- )
arding the refusal of the attorney general
to furnish papers called for by the senate
was then considered until adjournment.
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HOUSE , March 19.-The house went into
committee of the whole on tho private cal
bill which gave rise to
endar. The only
to change tho rank
any discussion was one
the retired list of the
of an army officer on
army. The bill authorizes the presidentto
select from the colonels on the retired list
one officer who served as chief of artillery
and him on the re
during the war , place
tired list with the rank of major-general.
The bill is intended to apply to ColHenry
J. Hunt. It met with a good deal of oppo
sition , principally from tho republican side.
Laird made the strongest speech in its sup
port uul declared congresswas justns
competent to exercise the legislative and
at the-
executive functions as thcgentleman
other end of tho avenue. At the evening
session the house passed thirty pension
bills. The last bill to bo considered was
that of granting a pension of § 2.000 oyci.r
to tho widow of General W. S. Hancock.
Price opposed tho bill and stated that it
must be considered in tho full house. He-
knew that the country had paid Gen. Han
cock brilliant , brave , generous m all his
proportions the sum of § 152.000 during
the last twcntyyears. Continuing , he said
that the practice of granting largo pension *
to widows of men who had been receiving
big salaries , and who died poor , was de
structive of American manhood. Its influ
ence was to make men live up to the last
dollar of their salaries in pomp and extrav
agance and champagne. On the question
of passing the bill the vote stood 25 to 4-
DEXOinfCING THE BOYCOTT.
Terra Haute Merchants to J > iscuss Oto
Kniijhts Action.
A meeting of about 175 of tho leading
business men of Terra Haute , Indiana , was
held in the city council chamber to take
action on the boycott instituted by tho
Knights of Laboin that city. Every
branch of business industry was repre
sented , and the meeting continued until a
late hour discussing the boycott and it
effects on the business of the city. Colonel
R. W. Thompson , ex-secretary of the navy ,
presided. He said the meeting was called
that the merchants might calmly and
deliberately unite themselves to oppose
the practice of boycotting now rampant in .
tho city. He had come on the invitation
of people who thought he had interest in
the business YvJfare of the city. He would
go as far as any man to build Terra Haute.
He considered himself as earnest a friend
of the laboring men as any on the face of
the earth , and he realized to the fullest ex
tent their rights. They should enlarge
their interests , extend their business ,
accumulate property , and secure fair
compensation for their labor. Tho
prosperity of tho city depended on the-
success of that part of the com
munity , but the practice of boycott
ing was in his mind , injurious to nil
the interests of the city It exacts a com
pliance to demands which place thoso mak
ing them in antagonism to the best interests
of the city. He held that every man has a
right to deal with whomsoever lie pleases ,
to work for whatsoever he pleases , and to-
make mutual contracts. If he made a con
tract with a man , its terms concerned no-
one else but the employerand the employe.
A committee of eight was appointed to
draft resolutions expressive of the sense of
the meeting. The committee reported a
scries of resolutions opposing the boycott
is wrong in principle and injurious to busi-
iess , and that the merchants of Terro
[ Inute could enter into no compromiso-
with reference to it. It also provided that
a committee of ten should be appointed to
: onvcy the resolutions to the Knights of
Labor as the unqualified opinion of tho
neeting. The report was unanimously
idopted. A number of business men made
speeches which were received with applause.
AX OFFICE WITnOVT ASIfUfG.
John , H. Obcrly , of Illinois , Appointed a
Cicil Service Corninissioiiei :
Washington special to the Omaha Bee :
Colin H. Oberly , of Illinois , was to-day
lotninnted by the president to succeed
? ivil Service Commissioner Trenholm as a
nembcr of that board. Although thenom-
nation Avas sent to the senate as early as-
1 o'clock , Oberly. who was busy at his-
dcsk in the Indian bureau , was in ignorance-
of the fact until one of his clerks read tho
announcement from an evening paper. A.
rumor vas in circulation several days ago
that a tender of the place would be made-
to Oberly. but it could be traced to no re
liable source and was generally disbelieved.
The president said to-day tnat no one had
suggested Oberly's name to him , but in.
looking around for a suitable man he had
decided that Oberly was better qualified
for the placo than any of thoso who had
been recommended to him. He Raid tho-
administrative ability Oberly has dis
played since his appointment aa-
Bunerintendent of Indian schools , sat
isfied him. Ho
passed the proper-
qualificati ns for a civil service com
missioner. There are more of Oberly'o-
riends who are not as much surprised at
the president's action as Oberly himself.
Tho president consulted nobody in regard
to the matter not even the members of tho-
cabinet. His acquaintance with the Illinois-
L'entleman began shortly after the presi
dential election , when Mr. Oberly went to-
Albany as the representative of a Chicago
newspaper. It was an open secret in. poli
tical circles here that Oberly's appointment
us Indian school superintendent was only
i temporary affair until something better
couldbe provided for him , but his admin
istration of that office was so gratifying to-
the president that ho hesitated about re
moving him until certain abuses in the ser
vice had been reformed. The pay of a civil
service commissioner is 53,500 PT annum ,
but congress will be asked during the pres-
jrit session of congress to increase this to-
35,000.
TJIEY FOCGHT TO A FJCX1S7T.
What those who witnessed the encounter
ilesignate as the greatest middle weightfight
on record was fought at 7 o'clock on the
morning of the 14th at Rye Beach , just on.
the border line between New York and Con
necticut. The contestants were George La
Blanche of Boston and Jack Dempsey of
Sew York. The stakes were § 1,000 a sido
mil about ? 2,000 of a purse made up by"
ertain notable gentlemen of New York.
Jack Dempsey was the winner , thirteen
separate rounds being bitterly contested ,
und it is declared that a better and niore-
tnanfully fought battle was never witnessed ,
rhere were about forty persons present , in-
jludins twenty-eight members of the New-
i'ork Racquet club.
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Ay OCEAX STEslHER SVA'K ,
Sandy Hook dispatch : The steamer
Dregon was run into by a schooner between
and 4 o'clock this morning while east ol-
i"irc | Island , having two holes stove in her.
she commenced sinking at once. Part of
icr passengers were traesferred to the pilot
oat and part to the schooner , and it is-
relieved they were all subsequently trans-
erred to the steamer Fu da. There were
ver 800 passcnsers and the crew of the
Jregon alone on the Fulda. The Oregon ,
vas entirely abardoned. She sunk at 1 n.
n to-day. *