27115 CRI3CINALS CONFESS. Tlif Mystery Surrounding the XCiiiourl Foci flc Wreck Cleared Up. KA.KSAS CITT , Jan. 15. The Journal saya Mr. J. W. Dalby , division superintendent e the Missouri Pacific , lu this city , received a din patch from Nebraska City , Neb. , yesterday , t the effect that David Huffman and James Bell the two men under arrest for wrecking th passenger train near Dunb&r , had made a ful confession of their terrible crime. A special telegram received by tbe Jburnc from Nebraska City later on confirms tbe met tage to Mr. Dalby. It toys : "Huffman am Dell , the men accused of wrecking the Mlesout Pacific passenger train at D unbar and causlnj the death of Engineer James De Witt tnado a confession at the Grand Pacifi hotel Tuesday night In the presence of Sherll McCullom and Missouri Pacific detectives , wh have been with the two men since their arrest Two men who registered M Gcoree Falrcbih * nd Frank K. Tutt , Kansas City , came to th Grand Pacific late 1 hursday evening and wer assigned to room T4. About midnight JjlieriJ McCullom and the state's attorney came to tin room with Dave Huffman , who remained then for about au hour. Bell "was then brought h and remained for au equal length of time Their stories were exactly similar , nlthougl Huffman tried to throw the principal part ii the fiendish deed on Bell. This is not bcllev cd to bo the case , as the ' facts already shov that IT WAS nUPTKAX TVHO PLAXNED THE WKECK There is iiovr no doubt of their guilt and i will be uo surprise if they are liken from jal and epccdily lynched. The guard at the coun tv jail has been increased aud officials are on the alert to prevent any attemot to hang tb < prisoners. Excitement I * at high mark ant shows no &igu of kDatciueiit Bell lives neai Umadilla , a small station on the Burliugtor & Missouri River , fourteen miles from Dun bar. Bell is a. renter , while Huffman was formerly a brakcmau on the Chicago , Burling- tou & Qulncy , but has lately been living ot a farm with his brother , near Dunbar. Bel came to Dunbar lost Saturday with a trait and spent his time In drinking at Mof Jat's saloon. Huffman was his constant companion and up to Tuesdaj night they were intoxicated most of th < time. Tuesday a farmer named Roger * came down , to Duub.ir from Umadilla to see about Bell's team , on which he held a chattel roort gage , and which tie thought Bell was trying to dispose of. He pressed Bell to satisfy the morteage , and Tuesday evening they had t row in Moffat's saloon , which culminated it the airest of both. They were taken before a justice aud gave security for their appearance. Huffman and Bell soon returned to the saloon , but about 10 o'clock their conduct became sc noisy tbat City Marshal Nelson ordered Moffat to close the doors of his saloon , which he did Huffman and Bell went out ou to the &tree1 and soon disappeared. Tficn their devilitl work began. It seems that they had plaunet for several weeks to wreck a train POK THE I'UUPOSE OF IIOU1JBUT. Both of them were broke aud theywantet to leave the country , but could not do so or account of their straitened circumstances. The express car contained in the neighborhood ol 516,000" in its safe , and carried eighteen huge eilver bricks consigned to Kansas City , which were worth fully $1,000 each. Shortly after they left Moffat's saloon thei made for the Missouri Pacific train aud fol lowed it up in a northerly direction. A shorl distance out of town the Burlington and Mis souri River crosses the Missouri Pacific track , and at this point the two men stopped tc break in n tool house and carry away s claw bar and track wrench will which the spikes were drawn and the fishplates removed. It was a clear , moon- light night , and as the wreckers resumed theii journey , they could see three miles of straight truck before them. Huffman said in his con fession that the fish plates had been taken ofl and some of the spikes drawn , when the head light cf a locomotive loomed up in the distance aud the cast bound passenger came thunder- Ing along with its load of bixty human lives. Huffnmu and Bell threw down their tools , and not stopping to carry away the plain evidence of their guilt , scampered off "into a ravine They heard plniuly the crash , the hissing of the escaping stctim , and the cries of the pas seiigers , but they stopped for a moment ouly. They then ran up through acorn Held and turning cast approached the house of Huff man's brother , John Huffman , a respectable young fanner , which was about 3JO yards from the point of the wreck. Huffman had gone to the assistance of the passengers , and his wife , who had been aroused , was STAXniXO XK1R THE HOUSE. Huffman went up to her r.nd she said , "Have you seen tbe wreck ? " "No. " he re plied , with appiirent surpriou and before go ing to it stopped to introduce Bell and say that they bait walked Irom Dunbar to spend the nighr. Huffman and Bell went out to the- wreck and offered to assist the passengers , but did not do FO , and returned to Huffman's brother's house. Here is where their neive went b.ick on them and both agree that they intended to rob luc espress car of its valua bles but they did not have the opportunity. " " Huffman said they had no "idea of "the amount of money that was on the express that night , but thc-y'knew they would c ruiuly get eoinethinir if they Bitched the.down . passen ger. While they were working on the track Bill weakened and suggested"that they go home without tampering with it any further , paving that several people would surely be killed. Huffman replied , "It don't make a d n bit of difference how many get killed. We want the money. " Huffman and Bell stopped the remainder of the nighr at the house of tbe former's brother's fiud wenj formulating plans to leave the coun try in case there was any suspicion aroused against them , when they were supposed to ap pear before the coroner's jury , which began Its investigation of the wreck at Duubar on Wed- Bosdav. THH SITRKOGX DIXO COUXTJIT had been thoroughly aroused by the fright- lul did , and po&ses of farmers were speedily organized and started out in every direction. At the coroner'.i Inquest the next day John Huffman testified that about 11 : 30 o'clock Tuesday night he went out to draw a bin-tat of water aud saw two men walk ing oc thu * * ck , one of whom he recognized as his lv wiiei Then , too , footprints were found in tkf snov hicn corresponded exactly to the shoes of IlffJCman and Bell. They were fol lowed from : he track down into the ravine and through the cornfield into the house. Huff man and Bell both testified that they had come from Dunbar by an entirely different routs , and that they "lied was shown by the tracks-in the ravine and through the cornfield. Sheriff McCullom arrested them shortly after they left the witness stand , and with Mr. Dal by of the Missouri Pacific , brought them to this city to preyent them from being lynched. THUT LKIT XONB TOO soox , For in ten minutes after they departed with Bell and Huffman , both heavily manacled , a mob of citizens appeared nt the jail and de manded the prisoners. Sheriff McCullom has spread it around that the prisoners were to be taken awivy en the train , but instead of this they quietlv secured a sleigh , and managed to hustle them out of town before the people were aware thev had cone. The mob was surprised at being so cleverly outwitted , and seeing pursuit would be of no avail , disband ed. ed."Neither -ot tbe two men belong to the Knights of Labor and their sole object , ac- cordinff to their own confessions , was to rifle the express car after it had been thrown into tbe ditch. They thought that the confusion would enable them to do this , but they were mistaken , and the fruit of their crime doubt less made them weaken. Their preliminary examination occurred yewterdsy , and they waived their heariue , being bound over until the next term of tbe district court without bond. Bell is about 5 feet 8 inches tall , of Scotch-Irish descent , aud unmarried. ' He is apparently about SO years old and is rather dissipated. Huffman is two inches tailer and is a man of fine physique. He has two brothers now employed as bmkemen qn the Chicago , Burlington &r Qnincy. He has a florid complexion and In the vicinity of Dun- bar has the reputation of being a thorough buliy. " _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ranking high among the recent transfers cf "mineral lands In the southern states , : i the sa'a of a controlling interest in the town of Annis- ton , Alabama , for $6,000,000. THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. Texas expended over $2,000,000 for th public schools during last year. One mayor of a Paris arondissement d : vorced 300 couples tho other day. There were over 3,000 miles ol new rail roads built in this country last year. It is now beleived that Archer , tho fara ous English jockey , left a fortuno ol ? 1 , 000,000. A 'detachment of United States soldier fired upon a party invading Oklahoma which they had ordered back , and killec one man. The cholera has appeared in Chili. Father McQIynn has again been sum moned to Rome , but refuses to'obey. The Rev. W. E. Parsons of Washingtoi City says that city ia "tho wickedest" it the union. During the first six months of last yea : in England 4-iO persons were killed by rail road accidents , and 1,680 were injured. 0 the killed 202 wero railroad employes , ant of the injured 958 wero employes. A table compiled from dispatches to thi Boston Post from tho managers of the lead ing clearing houses of the United Statei gives the total gross exchanges for the vreel ending January ll lSST , compared witl those of the corresponding period of 188 ( to be $982,210.648. Omaha stands thir teenth on the list with a total of ยง 4,767- 283 ; increase , 49.8 per cent. In conHequenco of tho ill-health of tin archbishop of Arrnogh the popo has ac corded him a co-adjutor bishop. Negotiations wore completed at Jackson Fla. , by which a Dutch syndicate of bank ers in Amsterdam , Holland , acquired fron tho Florida Land and Mortgage company limited , a vast body of timber land ii West Florida. Tho purchasa embraces i olid area of nearly 900 square miles heavily timbered. This is the largesl transaction made in the state since thi jreai ; Disston sale in 1881. Tho syndicat < propose to form a great land and coloniza tion company-'building a railroad into thi purchase and colonizing from Holland. Parsons ( Kas. ) dispatch nays : Lasl week the Christian church , threo uiilei north of here , was totally destroyed bj fire. The origin of the fire was a mys * rj until to-day , when a half-witted yin ( man named Ruby Coufiman confessed ha1 he had set the building on fire to warm thi cattle that were shivering with cold in tin pasture near by. Tho young man was ar rested and lodged in jail at Erie. ON TO OKLAHOMA. Hut Halted liy V. S. Troops , and One Boomer Tttracd Into a Stiff. Ft. Leavenworth special : An official re port received here to-day from Camp J. P. Martin , I. T. , near Arkansas City , Kns. , states that tho troops in that vicinity arc having quite a lively time. A day or two lince a party of wood thieves were arrested by a detachment on the Chickasaw river , but refused to surrender , and the sergeant in charge of tho party ordered that if they : rossed a certain line they would be shot : lown. This , however , had no effect , and the party escaped , as the soldiers were in floubt about their right to fire. Since then the boomers have been boomingand think ing that it needed only a little cheek on their part to stand off Uncle Sam's men. A. hxrgo party crossed the line , and had their wnonn loaded when they were dis covered by the same party of soldiers which had made the fruitless attempt to arrest tho former party The ser- eanfc ordered the boomers to halt , but WHS told to go to a place away above tero. No halt was made. The sergeant seeing that prompt action wa nucebnary 'iiuHiaving. ' since the first party escaped , received strict orders to alluw no one to pass , he again ordered the party to halt , notifying them , at the same time , that if tho order was disobeyed they would bo iired jpon. This order only had the effect of ; ausing the outlaws to level their guns on the bearer of the order. Before they could Tire a volley the troops frustrated them in their purpose , and , with the loss of one of bheir horses in the leading team , and ono nan shot through the hand , they surrend jred themselves and were brought to the uain cam n to await the action of tha [ Jnited St.ites cotn-nissioiiers. The party irrested numbered ten , wldlo the detach- ueut of trooos consisted ol only five men. sows n'AstiiyGTox GOSSIP. Senator Vest , from tho committee ou omnierce , reported favorably the b 11 to xtend the provisions of the law allowing .11 imported merchandise consigned to in- erior ports of the country to ba innnedi- tely transported in bond to such ports rithout appraisement or delay at the orig- ml port of arrival to such imported mor- tiundise as may not require appraisement hen not consigned to such interior ports , ut which may be , under certain specified onditioiii , reconi iied by tho original con- igne * . The house judiciary committee hav nder consideration the resolution puaaed y th senate last session providing for a onstitutional amendment changing the ate for inaugurating the president of th United States from March 4 to the last 'uesday in April. Tho matter was re- irred to a sub-committee consisting ol lessrs. Tucker , Collins and Caswell. Mr. rane has introduced a resolution fixing lie date at the lust of December , and pro- iding fur a longer sitting of congress. A sinprqmise will probably be mado be- iveen these two resolutions , and a aubati- jte reported for passage by tho house. The state dinner at the white house on ie 20th , given by the president in honor f his cabinet , was a most brilliant affair , 'ho ' president led the way to the state ining room with Mrs. Manning , followed y Secretary Bayard and Mrs. Cleveland , ecretary Whitney and Mrs. Lamar , Sec- : tary Endicott and Mrs. Vilas , Postmast- r-General Vilas and Mrs. Shsrman , Secre- * ry Lamar and Mrs. Carlisle. GILDER HEAJID JFHOJT. New York special : Col. W. P. Gilder , ho is traveling toward the North pole by jo land route through British America , iforms the Herald by messenger from York 'actory ' , Hudson bay , under data of Dec. 5 , that he would be detained there until fter Christmas , owing to the refusal of ths idian guides to start on a journey befora liey had partaken of the Christinas com- mnion. He expects to reach Repulse bay nd fall in with tha Esquimaux in th pring. Andrew Howell , an eminent jurist and law uthor of Michigan , is confined to his house la .drian through a recent surgical operation. TEADES-imiONS AJTO SOCIALISM. Tlio "WorHi n em en of Europe Genei ally Infected vvltli Social istic Ideas. Mr. Adolph Smith , the official English intc preter to the workman's congress lately he ! In Paris , has published his not s. They shoul be read by everyone who wants to understau the international labor question , says 2V Londun JTciot , and they will bear reading f < their dramatic as well as for their ecouom : interest The congress had its plot aud i : situations , as well as iU monologue ? . TL plot may be briefly described aa an attempt t force the English delegates into declarator in favor of socialism. It did not succeed , bu it was not so completely defeated as to pr < elude anxiety aa to the issue "next time. ' For there it 'to be a next time , and & next The international tradesunion congress ha established droit tie cite among the congressc of the world. We may expect great doing * I the anniversary year of ' 8'J , and the years b < tweeu will not be idle. The report shows one more that , outside of England , tbe workine of Europe , one might almost say the workine of the world , look solely to socialism for socu salvation. The spread of socialism is th theme of well-nigh every utterance at the con grcss. The subject is alwats handled in tw parts , and the first is a terrible recital of th sufferings of the workman. Itt the speechc of these skeptics , labor seems to figure one more as the primal curse. The delegate frou Belgium could photograph the position of hi country in a sea truce : "If he were not a sc clalist'hc would be ashamed to be a Bel flan ! " There were 5,000,000 Inhabitants o elgium ; there were but 80,000 electors , aui of thesa ouly 30,000 were iudepeud cut The miners earned but 1 shilling 9 pcnc a day , and some , who worked fire hundre < yards below the surface , took the 9 penci only. Tne laborers did not receive more thw 10 or 11 pence a dav " ; the weavers 5 to 6 shil lings a week. "I d"o not exaggerate. I swea that whut I say is true ; we workmen flud ui pleasure in rending our hearts to exagsrerat ing the misery of the people. " The Austria ! delegate told much the same story , with oni slight difference. lu Belgium , he showed , thi workmen had the right to complain , whil < in Austria he hud only the right to be lockec up for complaining. Tht Swede painted it the same gloomy tints. BUrvatipu'wiures pre railed throughout his country , with theexcep tiou of two or three towns. "The Genual tok of checkered fortunes thirteen locial demo cnts returned to parliament , in spite of Prince Bismarck's laws , aud by virtue of Prince Bis- inirck's nearly 50 societies broken up , and a thousand prints suppressed , and all in ssvei years. Distant Australia txxikup the mournfu tale in statements , some of which , by the way , were continued no later than yesterday froid another quarter. The colonial aristocracj were sheep-breeding absentees , who cared noth ing for the breed of men. There was little agriculture and les industry throughout th colony. Skilled artisans at Sidney Were some times"glad to work as navvies for 15 shilliuirs ' a week , 10 take a ratiou of bre d and chec' from public charity , and to borrow u blanket from the jail. State aided emigration was a delusion ; it simply sept the surplus misery ol Europe to swell the misery of this newer world , The English delacate was hardly niore ex bil.ira.tiug. His manner made the chief differ ence between himself and his foreign col leagues. Mr. Mawdsley could not forget thai he stood for the parliamentary committee oi the trades-unions , and he measured his woras. All the English building trades , busaid , were In bad position ; 'so were other leading trades ; ind their depression wus felt in a thousand eiiaor callings. There could be no improve ment till workmen looked more closel to theii awn interests. But what remedy could the. c be ? He did not understand their socialism ; lie had not studied it as perhaps he ought te tiave done. "He had not f tuuicd their social ism. " We may imagine the effect of such an ivowal oa the assembled delegates I From iTery quarter of the hall , ia more or less cour teous phrase , the speaker w.is told that it was i pity he had not The Bflgian delegate had previously regretted the British workmen's ivant of education in socialism , much as he night _ have regretted their inability to sign their own names. A itA.Tir.iya SET-TO. FT/iie/4 Was Decided at the End of tlu TwentyEighth Hound. Lawrence ( Mass. ) dispatch : A remark ibla prize Gght was fought here last nigh ! n the presence of a small number of sport- ng people , between Jack McAul ffee , ol 3rooklyn , champion light weight of Amer ca , ami llarry Gilmore , of Toronto , lighl veight champion of Canada. They fouglil or Hoik's international diamond prizi jelt for light weights and a purse of $500. n addition ? 3,000 was put up inside the ing on bets. The men were in excellent : onditionaud both scaled within a limit > f 133 pound * . Twenty-eight rounds wer ought , occupying an hour and fifty-two ninulea. The fight was only finished by Jilmore falling ( senseless in the ring undei h terrible blowa indicted by MeAuliffe. Hiere wns couiiderahl * fighting up to he tixth round , McAuliffe evidently omiiig out tho better man. From tht ixth to ths twenty fifth round the ortuncs of the men varied and McAuIiffe's onfhlence was visibly increaxed. lu ths wenty-fifth round McAulitt * ntarted in to iniah Giltnore , who had begun to show igna of weakness , but the latter , whoio lies wan puffed up badly , fought with dos leration and continued to make a good ight. McAulitfe got thu beat of the twenty- ighth round , but Giluiore continued to how "jrauid , " and it was not until th wenty-seventh round that 1m began to eiv , way , MeAuliffe reining blowa upon him inmercifully. In the twentyeighth round Gilmore was ery groggy and McAuliffe truck him fully sn heavy blows in th face , Gilmore finally illing nenaelega on the floor and wasun - ble to respond when time was called. Mc- Luliffe claimed thefightand it wa awarded o him. Gilmore recovered and decided to ontinue the fisht , but was prevented by is backers and referees. He wna fright- illy punished and as put to bed with hysiclans in attendance upon him. A TRUNK Pittsburg dispatch : Th * baggage car at- iched to the New York limited weit-bound : presa was almost blown to pieces near Itoona last night. Baggagemaster Harry ingus picked up an ordinary trunk and irew it upon some other baggage when an cploaiou occurred which blew the roof oH oiti the car and scattered th * baggage. iingiis was quit * seriously injured. Tha unk is supposed to have contained dyna- lite. The trunk was owned by a miner amed John Kagman , who cleniei that th * : unk contained any explosive. He is nd.'r arrest. The bag.'age was transfe. red 3 another car and the train proceeded eat. THS ANTI-CANADIAN HILT. Mr. Belmont , of New York , introduced t the holiM on the 17th a bill to protect merican vessels against unwarrantable qd unlawful discrimination in parts of ritisli North America. The bill author- es th * president to prohibit vessels be r IE the British fing and coming from such orts from entering ports of the United tates or from exercising such privileges nereiu as he may define. It also an tin. r- MB the president to forbid entrance by nd from the provinces of British North merica of all merchandise , also all cars , > comotives , or other rolling stock of anv lilroaJ company chartered under the laws f said province * . Cocaine has nearly brought to the grave Dr. . N. Moore , of Sprincfield , Pennsylvania , who > r weeks has been suffering from hallucina- ons. THE DEADLT PANIC. Scenes of Horror at the Hebrew Xltealer I. London * London dispatch : Tho hall in Pinces street , Spitslfield , where the fatal panic oc curred last night , ia a favorite resort fo Jews in that part of London. Last even ing tho placo was crowded. During th progress of the piny a man and womai were fighting outside and near the mail doorway of the hall. The man used yio lence and the woman screanitd. Her cr. was heard by a passerby who misundei stood it and cried , fire. The woman'i creams and cries ot fire were heard insid and created a panic , the audience number ing 500 , rising in a body and rushing pel mell for the entrance. The manager ol th Hebrew dramatic club was on th * stag when ho perceived at once there wa n ( good reason for it , and did all in his powe to allay the excitement and to afford al possible facilities for exit to the people The hall has a number of entrances , nnc all were thrown open , and he called on tin people when they would not remain to di vide and use all the doorways , but thej paid no attention to him. The wholi crowd made for the main entrance. I happened that among those who firs ! reached it were a number of children am women , who were overborne by strong mei attempting to pass by them. As tin women and children fell at the doorway at stumbling blocks , they tripped up the oth. ers who were crushed down by the frantic crowd. Seventeen corpses were found in eido of tho theater near the door. Thej were all torn , cruuhed and disfigured. II was found that of the dead twelve wer < women , three were boys , one was a girl and the other trim a man. The hu.ll to-day resembles a disordered auction room. Broken furniture , crushed toys , children's hats , broken bottles orange peel , nctor'n wigs , Hhredu of clothes , lie scattered'over the floor. There an muny blood spotH on the chairs and floor , Here and there ghantly knots of hair clitif to the furniture. Bodies were found at the bottom of the stone ntairs leading from the gallery. Here a terrible struggle took place between the front of the crowd running from the main floor and the leaders of the throng which rushed down the gallery stiiirs. The dead lay mostly in two op posing rows , the feet of each row close to those of the others , one row of heads lying cloae to the gallery Htairway , the other toward the opposite of the hall. The faces of the dead are distorted with agonized ex- pressiona. The clothes are completely torn from the bodies of some. A little girl , since identified as Eva Marks , was found lyina at the bottom of the pile dead , her lowei limbs bare , the upper part of her dress torn to tshreds. She must have fought hard for life. Iaaic Levy , a venerable Hebrew , waa Fannd among the dead. His wife's body Iny opposite. Beside her lay a little boy whose punts and stockings were torn to shreds. A man named Harris Goldbergways he went to the gallery of the hall , accom panied by his wife and family. During the performance some buys , in order to got a belter view , climbed up thcgns pipes fixed nlong the walls. Tins started the leak. Some one shouted , "Turn off the meter , " just as an actor on the stage made some cry of alarm. Then the people in the gal lery rose and ruslifd headlong down stairs. G-ildber 's wife was tramped to death. Hi * six year-old son jumped down on the heads of the mass below and escaped by running over thi'ir henda. The managers are not to blame for the disaster. The passage trom the hall to the street entrance is ten feet wide where the struggle occurred , and the door swings both waya. There are sev- sral minor exits from the gallery , three be sides the staircase. The disaster arose not from the crowdinj of tTie passage , but tho [ ran tic efforts of the people to force their way down the crowded stairs. The men und women in front wero driven headlong into the passage , where they met the ex cited occupants of the pit , and there was a block. THE IXDIANS WILL MOTE , They Agree to Relinquish Their Retercatlon and Sign a Treaty. Helena ( Mont. ) special : A Ft. Assini- boine special to the Independent says that x courier is just in from Ft. Belknap In- iian agency with a report that negotia- : ions between the Indians at that poinb ind the commissioner had been completed vith the exception of signing of a treaty , vhicii is to be done to-day. The treaty is is follows : In consideration of payment y the United States each year for ten ears the sum of 5115,000 , the Indians igree tc relinquinh all of their present enervation with the exception of a small > ortion located in the eastern part of their ircHent reservation , and bounded an fol- ow : Beginning , at the mouth of Snak * : reek and running in a southerly direction ; o the west ide of the Little Rockies ; thenc * last over the xuminit of the same to the lead of Beaver creek ; thenc * north to tho nputh of Peopled creek ; thence following > Iik ! _ river to the point of the beginning. riii section will have an urea of about ) rOO square rnilei. Payment is not to b nade in cash , but to consist of merchnn- line , cattle , horses , etc. , to the amount greed upon. The Imliu.ni are reported to le well provided forat thoir present agency , nit without a ningle exception seemed well ileascd with the proupect of removal to lew quarter * . Under the influent e of Agenfe Jaldvvin the Indians begin to realize that hey must yield to the dissolution of tribal ' elation aud accept land in severally , and njage in agricultural enterprises for their utnre support. The commission trill b-xv * u I filled its mission in th H section in . manner mostsntixfactory to all of th * larties concerned very soon. t DAKOTA LEGISLATIVE SENSATION. St. Paul diipatch : A Bismarck special a the Eioneer Pres say * a eennation was aused in the house of representatives this fternoon by a motion to reconsider the doption of the report of the committoa n rules and the diaco\ery that a combina- ion had been formed between eighteen of lie North Dakota members and neven from lie South in oppouition to the combina- ion backing Speaker Crosne. Such a com- ination would control the house. Its bjectin * aid"to be the removal of Chief lerk Eakin and Sergeant-at-arms Roor- nnsh , the passage of a bill for the removal f the United States court from Yankton nd Mitchell , and the establishment of e. jform school at Plankinton. The course f Speaker Grouse ha * occasioned consider- ble dissatisfaction even among some autbern members. The afternoon was iken up with filibustering motion * . GOSSIP FJROSt PARIS. PARIS , Jan. IS. Tbe chief clerk o the Paris ostoflice liss stolen 540,000 in postal money rders and fled. At the cabinet council to-day Admiral Aube , ilnister of marine , withdrew the bill providing 3r a special crant for natal construction and irtification of harbon and announced that he ould only ask the chambers , on account of ae deparfmeat , for credit to spread over scv- ral years , but not to exceed $4,000,000 francs. In"the chamber of deputfes to-day a pro- osal to abolish the indemnity for defraying le expenses of religious worship In prisons as rejected by a vote of 253 against 241. The Anglorench fishery agreement lately included had to be submitted to the British overnment , and was not definitive. The ne- otiations have now been resumed. ITS PROnSIONS SET FORTH. The Inter-Slate Commerce Hill as Agree Upon by Hoth House * . THE inter-state commerce bill as agree upon by both houses of congress provide that all charges made for any service rent ered in tbe transportation ot passengers o property by common carrier * shall b reasonable and just , and every unjust an unreasonable charge for such service is prc hibited and declared to be unlawful. Section 2 make * it unlawful for any com mon carrier to charge or receive , directl , or indirectly , from any persons a greate or less compensation for any lervice rend ered in the transportation of passengers o property than it charge * or receives fron any other person or persons for doing i like and contemporaneous service in th transportation of a like kind of trnfli under substantially similar circumstance and conditions. Section 3 makeo it unlawful for any com mon carrier to make or give any undue o unreasonable preference or advaiitHge t < any particular penon , company , or cot poration , or locality or particular deacrir. tion of traffic. Sections 4 and 3 , the long and short hau and pooling sections , nre UH follows : Tha it Hlmll be unlawful for any common cm rier , subject to the provision * of this act to charge or receive any greater compenna tion in the ttcgregnte for the tranaportn tion of passengers or of like kind of pro perty , under lunstantially similar circum dtancea and conditions , for a shorter thai for a longer distance over the Hume lino ii the lame direction , the ohorter being in eluded within the longer distance , but thi hall not be construed an authorizing anj common carrier , within the terms ot thi act , to charge and receive as great com pensation for A shorter or for a longer dia tam-e , provided , however , that upon ap plication to the commiBwion appointed under the provisions of thin act nuch corn mon carrier may , in special case * , after in vestigation by the comnvitsion , be author ized to charge less lor longer than fo : horter distance * for the tranHportation o passengers or property ; and the conunis nioti may , from time to time , prescribe tin extent to nhich nuch designated conunoi carrier may bn relieved from the operatioi of this section of this act. Section 5. Thatit shall be unlawful foi any common carrier subject to the pro viriioiiB of this act , to enter into nny con tract , agreement or combination with anj other common currier or carriers for tin pooling of freights of different and compet ing railroads , or to divide between then the aggregate or net proceeds of the earn ings of uch railroads or any proportioi thereof , or in nny case of agreement for thi pooling of freights an aforesaid , each daj of its continuance , shall be deemed a sep parate offense. Section G requires that after ninety daye from the passage of the net every commor carrier subject to its provisions shall hav printed and kept for public inspection schedules , sliovuns the rate , fares anc charges , and in addition to requiring tlu railroads to give publicity at all of the do- pots on th-ir several lines it gives author ity to the commission where it in propel and nccfHsary to require them to give pub licity to their rates to other places bey OIK : the lines of I heir several railroads. It altu : provide.H that the rates , fares and charge * shall not be raised except after tei JayH of public notice ; the notice , however , shall be simultaneous with tho reductior itself. _ Section 7 makes it unlawful for nny com mon carrier to enter into nny coinbiuatior or agreement to prevent the carriage o ! freights trom being conlimioiiH from tin [ ) lare of shipment to the place of destina tion. Section 8 declares that nny common cnr ricr violating the provisions of thcacb shall be liable to the person or persons injured thereby for the fiillamountof damngCH sus tained in rnn.Heqnence of any such viola tion , tocether with a reasonable counsel oi attorney's fees. The ninth section provi.lea that persons : ] iiimitij to have been damaged by the ac- .ion of common carriers may proceed for fcovery of their damages cither in the : onrl cif the United States or before the : oninii. ionliit not before both tribunals. The tenth section makes it a penal of- ense to violate any of the provisions ol hiM act and puts the maximum of the fine vhich may be impnued at the sum of ; " > 00. Thenevei following sections contain Hie : oinniiM ion feature * of the bill. They pro- ride for a , co'iimiuMon to ronnifc r > f five per- IOIIH appointed by the prescient ami with .he advice of the neiiate , whoso term of ) filC'shall be for six yearn , except for tho irat appointments , whit-hare to be for two , , hree , four , five , and s > 5x ye.ira. Their prin- : ipal ollic shall bo : n Washington , but hey may hold senaions at other places han Washington , and a Kiugle member of he commission may take textiinony any- 'here , as may be directed by tho com min ion. ion.These These commissioners liave salaries of ' 7.500 each. Th * commission haa the lower to appoint a secretary with an iinual salary of $ . ' { 500 , and hai anthori- y to employ and iix the compensation of iinh oilier employes a it may find nccea- ary to the proper performance of its du- ies , subject to the approval of the secre- ary of th * interior. It i * also provided hat nothing contained in the act-i shall bridge the remedien now existing at com- 1011 law or by statutes. Section 23appropriaten ? 100,000for the urpose of the act for the fiical year end- ip.Iune , 1888. Section 24 provides that the provisions f the sections relating to the appointment nd organization of the commission shall ike effect immediately , and that the re taining provisions of the act shall take , feet sixty d.-tyc after its pHasnse. XUKDER AND SUTf'IDE. CLEVZLAND O. , Jan. 20. A horrible mur.ler is committed here this morning , between 7 ul 8. James Cabalek U a well to do carpen- r living on Independence * treet , near ths city nite. He his had employment all win- r , and his oldest son has worked with him. ! ii morning he and his Fon went to work 9rily before 7. The mother , Antoiuett had : en out of temper at the breakfast table , and id refuted to talk to her htuuaud. Directlv after breakfsut she tent Harry , her " -year-old ion , to * . grocery near by , and"still lother son to the milk depot. When they re- , rned they could not get into the bouse. Go- g into the back yard they taw Jarns , tht 13- ' r-old. in a closet bleeding from sixteen Dunds in bis left tide. They hastened nway id called their oldest brother , who had gone f Trith his father , * nd returning , the three > ys forced sn entrance into the house. They discov red Tony , the S-year-old zirl , ceding from a dozen cuts on "her left side. a the floor near by were M mie , 5 year * old ; ntoinette , 3 yean old. and Willie3 tnonthi d , all dead from dreadful ( tabs near the iart. A bloody pair of old shears told the story , buut was made for the mother. She was Und in the cellar hanginc from a rafter , ad. She had killed her three children , ortally Injured two others , and had then Icidcd. The two children who-were re- oved to a neighbor's house , but they will e. No cause for the terrible deed was given , je husband docs not think that his wife was sane. THE QUEES'S JUItlLEE. LONDOS , Jan. 17. At a meeting at Oldham , ic mayor nresidiar , a motion to ignore tbe icon's jubilee was earned , whereupon the layer said there were cnouch present in favor " the celebration to warrant htsgoimron with ie preparations for the event. A sreat uproar isued , the mayor being roundly hissed and ooted. JSTICT1ONS IN IRELAND. DUBLIX , Jan. 20. Several evictions was made in Glcnbeigh , County Kerry , to-day. The tenants did not offer any resistance. The Crowbar brigade , employed to tear down thu vacated dwellings , was not used. rUUTHEH TROUBLES. GLEXBEIOII , Jan. 0. Commoner Conygby to-day received a telegram from Sir Michael Hicks-Beach , who is in London , saying : "It fs Impossble for me to go to Glenb Igh. From all accounts it appears that the police are only protecting the owners in the necessary en forcement of their rights. Any suffering re sulting , though much to be regretted , is alto gether due to others. " The following replv was nent : "Wearoquitc prepared to leave it to the judgment of the public. We utterly deny that th'ere Is a shad ow of foundation for saying that the suffering here bus been cauxed by others. You are clearly bound to explain your statement aud prove your authority on which you made It. " Negotiations with a view to an nmicablcset tlement wero resumed at 7 o'clock this even ing , and terminated at midnight without suc cess. Agent Roe formulated a memorandum to the effect that he would accept a hnlf-year'i > - rent and cost * already Incurred and givc'a fnlii receipt from May , IwO , and consent to com missioners fixing the rent of eidi tenant. ' Dillon and others replied : ' 'We represent the tenants in this nutter , aud will lay before Mr. Roe to-morrow proposals in their "iwhalf. " Later they sent a note saving : "Agent Roe , It appears clear , has no real desire for settle ment , having merely repeated the offer of last November. There fs no course open but to do all in our power to protect the tenantry from the barbarous aud inhuman acting of'Agent Roe. " AX ARIUNGESIRXT. GLKNBEKOH , Jan. 20. Two evicted tenants were restored to-day as care takers. lu one case the eviction was postponed , pending ne gotiations between August Roe anil Commis- iloners Conybear and Sheelmn. Roe , on con dition that the tenants surrender the land offers to accept half a year's rent , and give each a new letting. Conybear offered half a year's rent on a basis ot judicial rents , pro vided there be no costs , and that permission be given the tenant * to enter the land in court Coneybear , Dillon and Harrington will meet the sheriff to arrange the matter. WEST ON THE 1UOK3IONS. Washington special : Caleb W. West , ot Kentucky , governor of Utah territory , waa asked if he had considered tho provisionn of the bill , and what was his opinion as to its effectiveness when enforced in suppress ing the evil. Governor West replied : "It is calculated to effect a great good in the proper settlement of the Mormon ques tion. It is absolutely necessary to that end. " "Are not the present lares very severe , and since they have failed , on what do you base your hopes of the Tucker bill reach ing the desired end ? " "The present laws , as against the per sons upon nhoni they have been enforced , ' have not accompliHhed tho end intended in securing their obedience and respect for thd government and its laws. These siru ani mated by a religious belief that it is their duty to practice polygamy. Thev look to higher law rather than civil faw. Six months1 imprisonment many can and will stand , when , if the period wan longer , as in the new hille , say three yearn , many of them would promise obedience to the law upon which cor-d.tion H. iitenco ban alwavs * been suspended and they were allowed to go free. " 077.E WEEKLY CROP SUM3IART. The Chicago Farmers' Review has the fol- lowi-ig weekly crop summary : 'The gen eral tenor of reports from winter wheat states continues to be favorable for seeded grain. Fourteen Ohio counties making re turns this week , nil made favorable reports. The fields arc well protected with snow and ( lie plants look very healthy. Similar re ports nru made from thirteen Indiana coun- le. * , with one exception Pike v/bich re ports a number ol fields Hliowi.-ig severe in jury from freezing. Eight Michigan conn- Lies make a uniformly favoralns showing. Reports xvcre received this week from twen- Ly-Hevcn Illinois counties , embracing one- third of tho-e growing winter wheat. All but five of these report the winter wheat Diitlook as favorable. Reports from Clay , Franklin , Hardin. Lawrence , and Wayno : c.iinies ! show that wheat has been frozen , i ml that fields uro covered with frozen ! "dt. In fifteen Kansas conn tie.the ) pros- luct ; for growing ijrain is considered fair to tood , v.lnle Harper , Lyon , and Pioneer : GUiiti i n-jK-rt the wheat outlook as look up bailly. Nine Wisconsin counties report .he wheat outlook an generally favorable , log cholera IB prevailing with considerable . irtilenut * in Illinois and Iowa , and prevails vith mure or IP H virulence in Missouri , ndiaii'i. * nd Ohio. In Johnson county , ovrji , tlho are dying in very large nuui- wra. FRANCIS AXD THE r.-IT/C.l.V. ROKI % Jan. 2 \ In view o' tha declaration if M. Goblet , the Vrench prime minister , to he coinmittvv which is considering the qncs- lon of the abrogation of the concordat , that. Ithoiigh he was in favorof the separation o hurch and state , he thought that parliament : , nd the country would oppose it Cardinal ! acobini , papal secretary of sttr , has inttrnct- d the Liiil nuncio at Paris to remind the Tench government of its obligations toward- he Holv See and to intimate that if they were iot fulfilled that the Vatican would act uccord- agly. Cardinal Jacobin ! has resigned the office of tontififal secretary of state. A eonsi-itory will be held March 7 , when onseignor Masella and the nuncios at "irnna , Madrid and Paris will be hattwl. The } < c fn ; boa accepted Cardinal Jacobini's esignation , and aa mark of eat-cciR , invited ,11111. , continue to live in the papal residence , 'he cardinal probably will be appointed a pre- sct oi apo.tolic palice . His succesfeorin the apal secretxryship trill be the nuncio at LIs- on. \ ho will be rai id to tbe rank of cardinal Uer the ccnsistorr. HfcQUAItE GOES UP. New York special : JudPratt , of the upreme court , to-day handed down his ing-delayed decision in the cane of ox- iiderman McQuade , denying the motion 3r a stny of proceeding pandins an ap- eal. The argumunta on the motion wero eard bj the judge two weeks ao. Mc- [ unde was sentsnced by Recorder Smith o seven y ars imprisonment at Sing Sinjc nd to pay a fine of 55.000. The effect of , denial for a stay will bo to cause his im- icdiate transfer to the state prison. Lincoln's Wise Words on Labor. There is no landing place on the stairwty rom labor UD to capital. There are no bolted oors along the ascent. It is treason to maka ut .in irrepressible conflict between them , 'be fact wai never better put than by Mr. .Jncoln In his first annual message : "There i no such relation. ' ' lie said , ' 'between capital nd labor : n assumed , nor is there any uch thing as a free man being fixed for fe in the condition of a hired laborer. Both hess assumptions are false , and a.l inferences rom them are groundless. Many indepen- enl men everywhere in the.ce states a few- ears back In their lives were hired laborers , 'he prudent , penniless beginner in the world iborj for wages for twhiie , saves a surplus ith which to buy tools or land for himself , ben labors oa his own account for awhile , nd at length hires anotcr new beginner to elp him. This is the just and generous rstcni which opens the way to alL gives hops j all , r.nd consequent energy anu progrewi nd improvement of condition to alL" igo Advance.