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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1890)
2 THE OMAHA DAILY gE&jlTHIJEBDAY , JTEflKUAttY 20. 1890. ' " I I i I I i II i. ' i i in i i i i i , . in , i . i „ i. i i . i . ! HID HIS BODY FOR YEARS Garfield's Homalna Olandoatlnoly Ilomovod from the Vault TO GUARD AGAINST GHOULS rrlontm Tnko up the Collin by Mslit nntl I'lneo It In nn Obscure epot In l.nko Vltswt Ceme tery nt Clcvolnnl < A. Komnrknbto Story Clevkiami , O. , Tcb 19. [ Special Tolo- /rram to Inn linn } The Uartlcul monument is complotrd nnd preparations uro now mak ing for the dedication , which Is to talro place early in thti spring At that tlmo the ro- in&uiB.of President Gnrfluld will bo placed tn the pcrmnnont scpulchro beneath the monument In vlo' .v ot the approaching transfer of these remains from LnUe View cemetery It Is now passlblo to relate an astounding story respecting the disDosltlon which has boon in ado of the Into presidents body for the last four years When Garfield's remains were deposited In nn elaborate vault in Lake View cemetery It wai nniiouncod they would bo kept there until the tlmo catna to make a pcrmnncut disposition of thorn After the funeral the heavy cuskot wus placed In the sarcophagus within the vault , which could bo viewed from the path outsldo throuith a massive iron orniinp 'llio suspicion which the robbery of the grave of Air Stewart had occasioned respecting the cxistonco of an organized band of grnvo robbers In- / duccd the government to tulto spoclul inena- uros to prevent any such violation of this tomb Uv direction or Secretary Lincoln a special guard of United States troops was - stationed ut the tomb with instructions never to leave it unprotected For llvo yours this tomb was constantly under the eyes nf sol diers , night nnd day About a year nftor Secretary Endicott suc ceeded Lincoln as secretary of war , ho decided - cided that it was unnecessary longer to maintain the guard there Ho thcreforo caused orders to bo issued return I Tig the sol diers to their rccluiontal hcadquartors This caused.tliu personal friends of the Garflold family in Cleveland serious apprehension , for some intimation had been received from detective * that the possibility of de spoiling the temporary vault had boon suggested to certain Chicago ghouls The revelation of nn atttempt to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield ndilcd to the nnxloty of these friends , nnd nftor considerable consultation they decided they would do themselves what the government hud declined loncor to un dertime , Four prominent citizens selected nn obscure vnult in a remote portion of the cemetery grounds nnd one night proceeded thcro nnd themselves rotnoved the casket to its hiding place The task wan n severe ono and one of the gentlemen strained himself bo badly that ho has novcr slnoe fully recov ered ' 1 ho work of removal nnd obliterating all traces of what they had done , both at the old nnd new vaults , occupied the whole nicht From that tlmo until this the re mains huvo lain in this remote nook ot the comotcrv , n tomb utterly neglected and never glanced at by the casual observer who happens to pass by On the other hand , thousands of persons in the past four years liavo visited the temporary resting place of Gnrllolu and us they supposed paid silent homage to the memory of the president whoso remains they belloved to bo rcposinc within the sarcophagus m UI3ATEN TO DPATll 1'ho Huildlni ; of a Turnpike Causes n Fatal Fruil Mavivii.i.e , Ky , Fob II ) . Yestordav Thomas A. Uriisnoars , owner of a tobacco warehouse nt Hrashears station , four miles bclow.bcro , was beaten to death with a club and Rhovel initio hnnds of Oub Sullivan and his son , James 'Jho Sulllvans were neigh bors and had n grudge ugalnst Hrashears , because ho had been Instrumental In building a turnpike which took a portion of their property National Cnpitnl Notes Wasiiinoto.v , Fob 19. The bouse com mltto on patents presented a favorable report - port upon the bill providing for the appoint or representatives on the part of the United States to the international Industrial con ference at Madrid , Spain , next April The president has approved the joint reso lution congratulating the people of Brazil on tbeir adoption ot the republican form of gov ernment , and too act for the relief of the MifTcrots by the wreck of the United States steamer Nipslc at Apia , fcanion , The majority report In Atkinson vs Pen fileton , the Fourth district West Virginia contest , holds that Atkinson was elected , and the minority report holds that Pendleton is entitled to his seat The senate bill reported favorably grant ing pensions to armv nurses Is amended to make the pcaslon f 13 a month Instead of $23. Von llrr Alio wnnin ilia Warriors Sioux City , la , , Feb 19. [ Spooial Tele gram to Tub Ueb ] President Von dor Abe at the St Louis Browns , is endeavoring to purchuso the Sioux City baseball club and franchlso in the Western association His first offer two weeks ago was refused Pres ident Peavey , who owns the Sioux City club , has Justrerelvod from Von dcr Abe a second offer of { 3,000 for tliu club and franchise The Sioux City club Has never paid , and is now (3,000 in debt for tbo Btrong team of players engaged for the coming season President Pcavey calls upon thu citizens to put IIP 15,0dO immediately Von dor Aho's offer U hela pending tbo response v Fifty Millions In It Ci.rvbi.ajcd , O. , Fob 19. A special from Flndlay , O. , says : Tni movements of an in- depondcn .eyndlcato of very wealthy capi talists have just coma to light In this city assuring tbo foundation of a company with Ot lorfst U,000,0U0 boblnd it for tbo estab lishment of pipe lines and the directing of the Immense oil ro&nerlcs in Find lay , Lima , Sign a , Dolphus and Upper Sandusky The company is composed of capitalists of Mil waukee , Chicago and Pittsburg t * . . .a"Ihf " * Fire llecord SoDtii AuuoYf N. J. , Fob 19. Half a * ' block o f'buildings burned hero this morning , causing a Iobs of about $70,000 ; insurance about hab" . „ Kuk QhhAks , Lb , Feb 19. A Qro this tnorulpg destroyed the Fouro block on Ca nal street The loss is estimated at $153- OOOflnsurcd . „ . 'Hie li I * . Anniversary ( , LAvr.KwoitTii , Kan , Fob 19 , [ Special Telegram to The Ube , | The twonty-sevonth ' anniversary of the order ot Knights of Pythias was celebrated hero this ovouing by Unlformod , Hank No , 9 , wbicb garo an tuogaafbilnquut at the National howl , Bx- CoHettorIvolson ; Facers prosldad , and on Intorestlog programme was rendered CNn < 'lnuntl IJrewerlru Gobbled Tip Cinuinkati , O , , Fob 19. A morning paper . states that Jung & Croiom's buwerles ot this city Wil today pass into thu hands of an tEnglish svndlcato and be known us the Cin cinnati Uruwerios , Limited The owners of the breweries received cash amounting , it is supposed-to ubout (1,000,003. It roe I veil a Litglit Sen Inner , i LusK , Wyo , Feb 19. I Speolal Telegram to Tire Bke ] Charley V. Trumbull , who was sentenced to bo banged at Cheyenne in July , lbST , for the murder ot Charley Mlley * 1 Lusk on October D , IRsu , today pleaded irulltj to inanslauirnler und -wus sontenrol to lbs penitentiary for six years and six uioaths ' Cigar MfttiDfaoturcr * ' HoiuaniU N w Youk , Fob 19. The National Cigar ' Manufacturers'convention has declared for the bankruptcy law ; fixed trade dlsconnts and credit at four mouths , 4 per coot ; demands that aho import stamp on foreign ' cigars ' be ' abolished and u uniform twist of 05 ouuts a pound on all imported tOMOga WKSTKIIN 1'ACIUNU lNTKHBslrJ Cotnpnrntlve Flgurcsorlloc | llanitloil nt Vnrioun Plnco" . Cincinnati , O. , Fob 10. fSpochl Tele- grnoi to Tub Hre | Tomorrows Prlco Cur rent will sny Packing returns for the wcok Indicate some further reduction in the western orn marketing of h < K9 , the total handled by packers being 270,000 against 290,000 last year The total shico Norombor 1 indicated by current estimates Is 0,110,000 against 5,055,000 , a year ngo The possibilities of the seasons record to Mnrch 1 seem to fall short of 0,700,000 , , with the probabilities pointing to about 0OJO,000 , or 1,105,000 In excess of last years record Packing at prominent poinds compares as followst . / pTaco7" 1 nwn-g ) . | tEt - l. ChlCAiro Ser > V > | 1.3I.VJW KansaiCltv , , . . . C3VKU a BJ7IJ ( ( ) Omaha ll ( II7S.M.1 SULoiiis ! ! . ( ) > aw , ( H lndlanai > ells 2M.0K ) S MKU Cincinnati ZS3,00 > 2t.tlo.W . Milwaukee , iSJ.eOI 2..U,0)J smux city anuxn isaojo • Oodar ItaphH SIS.0M It tHO Clerclan < l , , . , ITi.Oiu 7 .0iU loulivlllo lieIOJ H5.0DO Ottumwn IO8.I111O 77,001 Keokulc U.U00 * 1. V Nobtaslra City M.OJ0 73.KIJ StJonoph SHIK 81,000 Another • tnyxK ) 8r..uoo N. A. AV S. , \ . WASntNOTON , Feb 19. At the mooting of the National American Woman's Suffrage association today reports wore received of the progress of the cause in the various states The tonlo for the morning was ' • The Attltudo of this Association Toward Pollticnl Parlies " Addresses were mudo by Mrs Picklcr of South Dakota , William Dudley Fiunlco of Indiana , Mrs Fray of Toledo , Uov Oivmpia Drown of Wisconsin nnd others The canornl sentiment was that the association should urge Its rlehtful demands in nil political parties , but should enter into all Ion cos with none Carrie Lane Chapman of Jorra opened the session with a denunciation ot political bosses nnd corruption In politics It was time , she said , that Intelligence and morality wore inndo requlslties of the suffrage "Woman's Inlluunco in Ofllclal Government ment" wus the topic olPhoobo Wi Cousins ur Missouri , who detailed her pxperiouco in of fice Her removal she declared to bo duo partly to the fact that she wus a woman and partly to political combination Killed tor Lilo Insurance St Louis , Feb 10. Charles Vail was arrested * rested this afternoon on a warrant s wom out at St Charles , charging him with the murder of his wlfo , Fannlo Vail ThU case created considerable of a sensation last wcok Vail had his wlfo's Ufa li.surod In several companies , tbn amounts aggregat ing to nearly $15,01)0. lis took nor to St - . Cbarloa on u visit , and when nbout to return she was fatally wounded hv the discharge of his revolver which ho claims was in his overcoat pocket and struck against the wheel of the wagon as ho wus getting In The case was brought to public notice by Vuil • notifying the insurance - suranco companies of tbo accidental death of his wife immediately on his return to St Louis nnd the investigation following has resulted as above The conviction that Mrs , Vuil was the victim ot foul play is growing stronger Sucaostod Warner lor Governor Kansas City , Mo , Feb , 15 At the state convention of the Republican league clubs today President Thurston of Nebraska , head of the.Nntioual league , in his nddrcss , referred - forrod to the redemption , us ho termed it , ot the state from democracy , he mentioned the name of Major William Warner as a proper candidate for governor in 1S92. This mot with great favor and in reply to loud calls Mujor Warner made a nriot uddross , but did not refer to tbo use of his name iu connec tion with Thurston's roforeucc HlMinarck to It < • tire Bek&in , Fob 19. The Freissingo Zoltung says tbat Bismarck has ordered nn inventory madoof his personal effects in tbo minister ial rosld'encein view of his proposed resigna tion and retirement The somi-olliciai papers indfeato Iiootticaer as the princes successor Biui.in , Feb 19. An extra force of police is on duly in all the thoroughfares tonight in consequence of apprehension of disorders duo to the election Took Laudanum PniLADBLrniA , Feb 19. Mrs Ida Walker , wife of the well known English bicyclist and a passenger on the steamship British Princess , which arrived today from Liver pool , committed suicldo on the 11th with laudanum She hud suffered much from sea sickuess , and domestio troubles are also hinted at ItenclirJl-nii Aroincnt nt lmnt Albany , Ni Y. , Fob 19. The worlds fair conference report was today adopted iu the assembly with only ono dissenting vote The Mjnatc this uttornoou agrocd to the confer ence report The bill now goes to the gov ernor , Who has announced he will sign it , Shot by a Drunken Sinn Ciiioaoo , Hob 19. Daniel Downey , a cab man , was probably fatally shot thls'mornlng by Han Murphy , a book-makerwho is a well known figure on the souikorn race trucks The shooting was ontlroly unprovoked Murphy was half drunk Presidential Nominations WasIiinoion , Fob 19. The .preslaont today sent to the sonata the following nomi nations : Levi K. Pond , pension agent at Milwaukee ; Ford llabcock , rocclvcrof pub lic moneys at Des Moines , Iu Thirty-Four Bodies Uncovered * Paws , Feb 19. An explosion occurred la a co 'lllery near Dcciso , department of Nioryo , last night It is not known bow many lives were lost , but already tblrty-four bodies have been recovered Ohio Club Dinner New Youk , Feb 19. The fifth annua ; dinner of the Ohio Bociety tonight was largely attended Qenoial Swayno.Goneral Kwlng , Chauncoy M. Dopew and others - poke , Many letters of regret were received A I'roiperous Concern Tkentox , N. J , , Fee 19. The American Cotton Seed Oil company , filed articles today increasing its capital stock from J.20,000,000 , to 30,09a,000 , I'erionul Iuruiiraplis G. C. Huzlctt of O'Noil is In the city , Barrott Scott , county treasurer of Holt county , is in the city Messrs J. JL Crane and J. Corwln , repre senting the National cash register company , uro la the cliy The Medication ot the Mind Wo contend that at the nrosont time there le nud for the last half century there has boon ovotvins nn altered ro tation between hotly nnd uiiud , says the Hospital The mind the brain , in short of the present Renorutlon is moro cvnorally and intonsoiy octlvo than was tliointiid of ' immediately pro cediut ; . gonorntions This is not the siuno ua saying thut the average man of the prcbQpt generation litis moro eonso and judgmunt than ' his grandfather , or thut tbo poets and philosophers of the present uro greater tliun Shakespeare or Goethe , than Descartes or Newton It' is only uiHrming that that the avorayotnan's mind is much moro active , nnd | s subjected to muoh moro wear und tour than was the uvor- ugo mans mind of tla | sixteenth , seven teenth and eighteenth centuries As it is , thcreforo , imperatively incumbent upon the practical physician that bo constantly study , understand und prac tice the medication otho , znind " In the consideration of almost ovary in dividual cn.soit.la us nbuouary to take into the brief the etato of the mind as it is to include the condition of the tooth , or the bowels , or any other pri mary organ or function of the body BOUND FORTHE RESERVATION A Colony of Swodoa Lortvo Dead wood to Seek Njw Homsa THE DAKOTA LIQUOR LICENSES An Important Decision on the Ques tion or Their \ nlltllty North Jlakotn Adonts the Aus tralian Systoni , Kecking New Homos DBAtiwoon S. D. , Fob 10. [ Spoelal Telegram - gram to The Lice ] A party of about fifty persons , comuosed largely of Swedes , Nor wegians nnd Danes , left this city today tor the reservation , where they go to take up land tinaor the homestead law Most of them have been working in the mines at Lead Cltv , Torravillo nnd Central City , but they prefer farming , and have hnd tholr eye on some rich land nlong the Chcyonno river for some time and were only waiting for the reservation to open when they oould go und tukoltup They propose forming n colony and organizing n county government ns Boon ns possible , 1 ho reservation fever is rising and hundreds uro coming into the city pre paratory to going down and locating on the paradise , UlHsntlulled With Court Districts llcitos , S. D. , Fob 18. [ Special Telegram - gram to Tun Bee ] Most of the nUornoys attending court hero this wcok nro dissatis fied ivlth the proposition to dtvldo the state ' into thrco Unltod States court district s , with Sioux Falls ns the place for holding court for the enstern district , Plorro for the cen tral district and Deadwood for the western aistiict In the Sioux Falls district there Is n population of about 210,000 , with thirty four counties nnd four Indian reservations in the district In the western district with Pierre ns the plnca for holding court thcro arotwclvo organized and llvo unorganized countlos a\l sparsely Bottled , thorc bolng not to exceed 23,000 , people in the district For the western district Deadwood is named ns the place for holding court , tbo district being cotnposod of six counties with a population all in the Black Hills country ot nbout 10,000. ' Tbo location of tbo cities in which court is to bo hold nro not central , Deadwood bolng the nearest approach preach to centrallty Stoux Falls is off on tbo southeast border and Pierre on the northwestern edge of their district , the latter - tor being quito inaccessible Efforts nro being made to have the districts changed no that thu majority ot the people can be ac commodated , but it Is doubtful If the efforts will provo successful , The Midland 1'noillc. Picriie , S. D. , Fob 19. [ Special Tele gram to Tub Bee.J A contract was closed hero todny-with the general manager of the Midland Pacific Itailroad company to build tbo road from Sioux Falls to Plurro , crossing the river hero and extending to Puget Sound , A double corps of opginoers will bo put in the-field as soon ns the wcathor permits Grading will commence as soon as the frost is out of the ground At least one hundred miles are to bo oompletod this year A few miles are already graded west of Sioux Falls The road is supposed to be backed by the Illinois Central Senator Pcttigrew is the moving spirit in tbo enter prise Wo3t from Pierre the reid traverses the choice portion of the newly opened Sioux reservation the coal und timber country ot western Dakota and Wyoming The people uro naturally Jubilnnt An lmnortnnt Decision Mathsox , S. D. , Feb 19. [ Special Tele gram to-TiiE Bee Judge Alkons decided an Important liquor case in tbo circuit court today The question was the legality of licenses issued under tbo territorial'law * of 1879. JudgeA-lkons holds that prohibi tion-wont Into otToct.November C ; upon the admisUion of the state iiSto the union , and that such admission Topealed all oxtsting territorial license laws Judge Alkens furthermore holds that although the pro hibitory clause of the constitution provides no penalty for a violation thereof , f till any violation since November 3 last is indictable and pumshablo in the same manner ns pro vided for the punishment of misdemeanors , by a fine not exceeding $500 and by impris onment not exceeding one year , or both . A Sioux Fnllv lidlior DrnO Siocx Faixs , S. D. , Feb 19. [ Special Telegram to The Beb.J At an early hoUr thisnnorning W. H. D. Bliss , one of the pro prietors of the Sioux Falls Daily Press , died at his rcsldonco on Second nvonuo " Too de ceased was one of the most w'doly ' known men throughout the Btato , havlng , Deen inti mately connected with the nffairs of the commonwealth and tbo territory since his arrival in the state eight years ago Ho leaves a wife und brother to mourn bis loss Tbo remains will be taken to Poughkeepsie , N. V. , to bo burled alougside bis mother in accordance with bis dying wish Tbo im mediate causa of Mr Bliss death was con sumption , which was aggravated by arecont attack of the grip Ijlitlo OppoHiilon BisuAitcu , N. D. , Fob 19. The state senate - ate today by a vote ot SI to 8 adopted the Australian election syBtom and the house passed a bill offering a bounty during live years for the production of potato , starch and beet sugar in North Dakota The lioOAllon Selected Chamurkiain , S. D. , Feb 10. iSpeelal Telegram to The Bee ] A location has been sclocted here torn new land oflics bulldlne , nnd worlc will bo commenced on it in the morning . m . A nmvo Kour-Yoar-OI l , The story of n plucky four-year-old hnby comes from Oskaloosa , la It is the child of Mrs Wilson , and while playing nhout a dcop well covered by loose boards foil in , says u Burlington , la , dispatch to the St Louis Republic The well is thirty feet deep and con tained ton feet of water Tbo mother saw the child fall , and frantically grub bing a cloth08 line , lowered it into the well The child grasped the line , but of course could not hold on tight enough to bo drawn out , so the mother tied her end above Will , pet , hold on tight until mamma runs for papal trombllngly cried the mother to her little ono ' 'E'sss' ' came n brave little sob from below The mother Hur ried awav and soon returned with the father and several other men , who , alter much difficulty rescued the child from its chilly bath The child was al most unconscious from cold when taken out , but had btavoly clung to the clothesline nil the tlmo , holding its houd ubovo water The happy mother hucged lior rescued ono ami wept for joy , while the nssunblod crowd threw up ilioir hats and cheered in acknowledge ment of the baby's grit Ononns Teriulnir with IjIIV At a recent mooting of the Edin burgh Royal sooioty Dr John jMurrny discussed tbo question of the origin nnd nature of coral roofs und other carbon mo of limo formations in recent sous , says the Publio Opinion , Ho first re ferred to experiments which have re cently boon made regarding secretion and solution oi carbonute of IJtno , Carbonate - bonato o ( llnrb TOtnalns arc found in grpat abundance at the sea bottom in bbullow waters , but the amount steadily diminishes as the depth increases , until nt 4,000 fathoms almost every trace lias disappeared This is due to so lution , as the organisms slowly nil to the bottom Everywhere within 00 fathoms of the surface the dceun Looms with llfo The Greeley expe dition was starving within tou feet nj abundant food which might huvo been obtained by breukiug hole through ! 3m the ice nnd'hsing ' a shirt iw n drag not Dr Murray Ihwi proceeded to dUcuss his theory 61 ( ho formation of coral reefs , brlng1hg''for\\nrd , in reply to ob jections bylmn \ nnd others , some recently - contly obtaiuotl facts regarding the existence - istonce of shallow regions in what is on the whole , dojap water Ho showed that carbonate or fflmo is contlnunlly pro duced in gront quantity in wnrm trop ical water by the action of sulphate ot limo in solution on cfTote product ? . This oxnlaing 1jho great growth of coral in tropical regions The absence ot coral on cor tain shores in tropical dis tricts is oxphtihod by the uprlso of cold water duo tolwltrds blowing oft shore Ills paper wnVfllustrnted by an olnbor- nto series of limo light dlngrams A SOBERING MACHINE A 1'ciinsvlvn.nln Bpliemo for Iloforin- InIT ttio Jolly Good Fellows , Philadelphia Record : The wlutor crop of tramps in Bucks nnd Montgom ery counties is go abundant tills year that ordinary measures for driving them out have proved futllo nnd the county authorities nro studying how host they may dhposo of tbo trouble some vagrants On nccount of the ox- tromuly mild winter the tramps who usually soolt a warmer clime in the cold months nro hovering about the comfortable - fortablo barns and haystacks in Bucks nnd Montgomery counties and nro lodg ing also in the railroad stations and conveniently open freight cars The sober vagrants are troublesome enough , but the hundreds ot intoxicated tramps are oven worse to deal with , and they not only defy the orders to move on , " but also threaten violence to country folks whoso farms they invade An old-tlmo Bucks county fnrtuorhaa suggostcd thnt a revival of the sober ing mnchlno that did olTccttvo work in Doylestown thirty or forty years ngo might have n wholosotno iniluonco on the hordes of tramps and malto thorn Bhun Bucks county as they would flee iu terror from soap and water Not many of the present generation in Doylestown are fnmillnr with the sober ing machine , but men who lived there in the ' 50s and early ' 00s readily re member the unique npparatus , and probably there is moro than ono man in Doylestown todav who would hosltato to toll how well he recalls the old sober Ing macbtno The famous mechanism was nothing more nor less than the shafts and front wheels of a light wagon gear , with a big wooden box fastened ( Irmly upon the axle , making a. rough kind of a cart The machine was kept in n convenient dark alloy , and whenever ono ot Do.vles- towns goou citizens came home so tilled with ardent spirits that ho could riot handle himself the machine was run out from its * hiding place , the tipsy man was seized and , dumped upon his back in the box , und with throe or four sturdy burghers at tbo shafts ho was given a ride over thoivraugh streets that was enough to sboltB every drop of liquor out of him ami make him a sobcror und wiser man This heroic : treatment was oftoncst applied to intoxicated strangers , but the moral inlluouco'of the mnchlno was ail powerful in preserving the bobriety of the townspeople ? The clrcumstmices now are Buch1thnt many Bucks and Montgomery county mon bolicvo it would bo well Idrovlvo this old-tlmo moral iuBtitut y. A M Nt'olrpoWER' Ho Insists \H \ 0" Doccnt Behavior fri mH'lUnnfa Cnbhion A very insignilicant inciflBnt led re- i cantlylo.very ing roaulu.in Vienna An elegantly dressed man toolc u , cab early ono morrriufi'and ' drqyo all over the clty till latcAln th' afternoon Then ' ho alighted at iiplaih'houso and entered it A few minutes later a servant from the house gavq the cabman the exact faro for thoridoof the elegantly dressed . ' man - Now , if anything will anger any man , nn exactly calculated faro will unger a Vienna cabmanfor he is the most voracious cious of his kind In a minute the cab man in question was down from his seat Ho culled the servant , ran into the corridor rider of the house bawled for his faro , and smashed a hatraok The olcguntly dressed man came out of his library to learn the cause of the row The cab man tried to do him up It was a bad mistake on the cabman's part , for the elegantly dressed man was none other than Count Erich Kiolmnn- BOgg , stntthalter of lower Austria , and in Austria it is'bettor at such a time to bo a count and a statthalter than to bo a Sullivan or Kilrain The cabman is now iu jail to romuin there longer than any cabman ever before remnlnod in jail for trying to bully his faro , and the whole cab system of Vienna is being thoroughly shaken up nnd reor ganized Special orders have been is sued at the instance of Count Kielman- sogg to the effect that every cabman who Is impudent or refuses to accept a passenger shall bn summarily punished and dismissed as soon as reported ; thnt every policeman shall make it his special business to compell nil cabmen on his beat to bo as honest and polite as possible ; tnnt the nogluot of u cab man to keep an appointment with a passenger shall bo treated as a breach of contract ; that every cabman must have a well-regulated watch , which ho shall show to his passenger at the be ginning and nt the onA of every drive ; and that every violation of these rules shall bo punished with the most ox- trorao ponnltios of the respective laws behind thorn The text of this olubgrato order fills a whole column and n half.of the Frcio Prohso , and has been recotyed with universal joy by the Vienese , who have longgroaned'Tieiplessly under the im positions of thu cabmen . * A S'rw Fail Clothier nndFurnisher : I sat in nn oyster house lopnwd on Broadway near Thirtieth ntroetdi night of the charity ball and the flr tulsubscrlption dunce at Sherry's , at about 3 a. m. both affairs occurring on ttidisamo evening when there was nn iiijltf'i fcf 'a hnU doien of thijounosso robrbo , including Tom Howard , CrolghtrJn Webb , the Cut tincrs , and ot\ur | delegates from the irntclterhj > clfor club I no ticed that after the order was given the topdeflfcts nnd hats wore not removed , althOuijh the place was reasonably warm , Nor were the outer gartnonts laid pihlpo when the order was served ' } neglect wus inten tional , for the fjatulias gpno forth that the dignifying iSorraulity ot dining iu full ureas is notttojbo uccorded upon oc casion of inforriful onvenlng nt table , save in resorts Tike Pol'monico's , the Brunswick , or Shol-ry's. or others of equally high repute Upon nil ordi nary occasions the , top coats und hats are to be kept on tjver the dress suits A flnv llnrn At Monroe yesterday a lad nnmod Wutsou , who was'employed nt the jail , wont up to the third story to trnnsfor the prisoners to the dungeon for the night , says a Raloighi N. 0. , dispatch , William Smith suddenly tbrowaliuckot ot filth in the lads face , then seized the bar used for fastening the door Wut- son , although blindeduud in great pain , pulled his pistol and fired two shots Smith bogged ] iim not to shoot any inpre Ono of the balls onturod Smiths ueck and ranged downward The wound is u serious one < A GIGANTIC STRIKE Hcventy.Firo Tliousnnd Minora I.x * peeled to Go Out Next Spring Patrick MoBrydo , ox-socrotnry of the Miners National Progrosslvo unijn nnd member ot the executive board of the United Minors Mio now organiza tion ia in the city for the purpose of making the nrrntigoincnts for the an nual conference with the oporntors , says the Pittsburg Dispatch Ho ar rived in town yesterday and will bo in this viclmtr for a week or moro Ills presence will bo the moans of inaug urating the annual scnlo trouble and this your sonsationat developments nro looked for Mr McBrldo says unless the operators of Ponnsylvnn in , Ohio , Indiana and Illinois come together and sign the scato the grcatost coal minors strlko flvor suon in this country will take plnco It makes no dilTe ronco whether the Pittsburg oporntors are willing to grnnt the udvnnco or not The four states must act together or n shutdown will bo called by the minors represontntivos This will throw 75,000 minors idle On nccount of the failure of ono of the strikes nnd the partial success ot thu other In Illinois nnd Indiana , the oper ators hnving gained a victory and not caring whether they ruu their mines with union ornon-utiion men , they have glvon notice in n sort ot way that they will not confer with the minors com mittee In past yonrs it-has been the custom to siAtlo the rnto ot wages for the miners in the four stales ut n. meet ing of what was called the interstate board McBride Is sccrotuay and Alex ander Dompstor of this city president of the bonrd Whenever n dilToretico of opinion arose iu regard to a differen tial ruto In certain localities , this was gotiorully sotllod by making the prlco lower in these localities The oporn tors in Indiana und Illinois ignored the bcalo by forcing a reduction It took thorn flvo months In ono enso and seven tn the ether to do it Now they will not coufor in regard to next years scale At the joint convention of the N. P. U. nnd Knights of Labor miners in Co lumbus Secretary McBrldo wus elected a member of the executive board , and ordered to make the preliminary ar rangements with the Pittsburg opera tors The present scale , whioh is 73 cents per ton for mining , expires about April 30 , and unless a now sealo ismado by May 1 the minors will quit work > Invitations will bo sent to the opera tors in Indiana and Illinois to attend the interstate conference If they nro not present no conforoneo will bo hold The Pittsburg operators may think this is taking nn unfair advantage of thorn by making them suitor for what the Illinois nud Indiann operators are to bo blnmod for This , it is claimed , cannot bo helped , us it is the only way tbo united minors hav6 ut their com mand to got the Indiana and Illinois people to pay higher wages It is ex pected that the influence of the Pitts burg operators will have enough effect on the ethers to make them come within the fold The officials of the miners are sorry they did not try this means of forcing u settlement of the strike in the two states In spoakingof the mat ter , Mr McBrydo sttid : "My Instructions are thnt unless the operators in Indiana nud Illinois attend the interstate conforoneo and grnnt the advance no conference will bo held lam now in communication with the Pittsburg employers in regard to our annual mooting If the western opera tors refuse to treat with us , wo will refuse - fuse to treat with the employers in Pennsylvania ana Ohio In the oypnt ofthoir rofusiiig to attend our conference - forenco with the operators in the two luttor states wo will shut down overv mine wo can in Pennsylvania , Ohio , In- diuna nnd Illinois This would put 75,000 mon on strlko Of course , thuro is not ono-huli of this . number of men orgunizod , but it is not necessury for them to bo in any organi zation If wo have ton mon in a mine we can control thut miuo The uou- uion mon always work in sympathy with the ethers They obey the man dates of the union and net with us in everything Consequently it would bean an eiisy tunttor to cull them out It this hud been done in the last strikes in In diana wo would not have lostthom "At the Columbus convention it was decided to ask for an increase from 73 to 00 nnd wo either got the advance from everybody or wo do not get it at all " Was not 17 cents a big jump ? " quo riod the reporter : "No , not exactly , " wits the reply "If wo have to light wo may as well light for a whole loaf ns a half loaf " "No , 1 dent think the operators will close down thmr ininos on account of not getting bettor railroad rates " Several oporntors wore seen , but they said the conferences were so far nhead that they would not talk about it ' Mr McBrydo will go to McDonald station tomorrow night and address the minors there Ho will hold meetings at yarious points along the Panhandle road und thinks ho can revive the old feeling among the miners for organiza tion COURT LIFE IN TUDOR TIMiS Wealth in Amazing ; Stores ol' Sliver Gold Ilnto The brilliant court llfo of the later Tudor times was a new thing in Eng lish history , says Mrs A. S. Green in the Speaker In curlier duys it hud not boon the fashion for the great land owners to forsake tholr cstatos and live at Tower Hill or Shoe Lane with a fol lowing ot lOOorSOOgontlomen in livery and white friczo , lined with crimson taffetas , nnd to spend two or thrco times tholr yearly Income in a merry life of dicing , card-playing , and hunt ing in Grays Inn Fields , Islington , and Higligate , and in buying dresses line enouirh to adorn court , pageants nnd processions where the grcutcst nobles uf the laud aceoptod the honor of bear ing the queens litter The country noble or gontlointiu of the time of ICdwnrd IV nnd Henry VII had ether business and otner ambi tions Ho was not , indeed , a lioino- Icooping mnn ; ho had to be uwny at French wars , or lighting on tbo Scotch border , or leading lovio3 hither and thither to put down a rebellion or to pot ono going , or to make a raid on his neighbors property But whether lie was a successful soldlnr , or "a good Cotswolfl shepherd , " or n prosperous lawyor.or a wealthy judge , ho romalnod a true provincial in heart and in interests Booty was to bo had in Franco , oven in Scotland ; there was none in London On the contrary , a journey to the capital needed the one thing that nobles and landowners never had ready money in the purse If a country lord had to attend purliumuut a. supply of oats und corn was carried for the horses "to save the oxnotibO of his purse ; his wife nutiaged the big house hold nnd osttvto in the country , and from London an array of servant * rode tmeicwnrd and forward contlnuully to fetch provisions from fields and ponds und sujtiug-tubs at homo , so that he need never go to the market or to tbo huker to buy for money , It was iu thu province : ) thut the uoblc hopt his Into tlnte , If his journey lav through nny town all the bolls were set ringing "to glvo notiuu of the passage ot bueh uuilneucy , " uud the burghers blood to watch him pass In his robe of penrlct twelve yards wide , with pendent slcovc * down on the ground , nud tbo "fuiTtir thoroln sot , " worth perhaps X200 or JC300 of our money , whllo his at tendants came after , nnxinnsly holding up with both hands out of the iitth of the modimval streets the wldo sluoves that trailed at tnoir sides The great oak chosls of the country houses were iiilod up with splondhl robes ; cloth ot gold , figured satins , damask , and silk , and velvets , and flno cloths were heaped together with rich furs of marten nud beaver Str John Fnstolf had thirty-llvo covorlngs tor his head hoods ot satin.rustot and vol- vet Btrnw hats , lints of beaver lined with diimnsk gilt , and the like , to suit ills various robes Chains of gold ot the old fnshton" nnd the now , " collurs of with roses and ' " gold covoreil suns , pnecious stones , women's girdles of cloth ot gold harnessed with gold or with sll- vor-gllt worked by famousforotgn mak ers , tnado fully as bravo n < show iu the ilftecn the century as in the one that enmc nftor But the real wonlth of the nobles lay in their amazing stores of cold nnd sliver - vor plate Fastulf had laid up in Ills treasure tovvor uud in the safe rooms of monasteries vessels that weighed over 10,000 ounces , besides the pinto In his butlers pantry Wo road of ewers , nnd goblets , and platters of gold ; great chargers of sil vnr , weighing HO ! ) ounces or moro ; n lltigon of Blivor of i)5l ) ounces ; others with gold verges and enameled chains about thorn ; gilt basins with nn- tclopes , gilt cups like fountains , with otinmclou flowers ; saltcellars like toners ; basins or 1B0 ounces , covered with silver ot Paris toueo and over-gilt , pounced nnd embossed with roses , and t1th great , largo enamels In the bottom tom with curtain beasts embossed standing within a lmdgo ot sllvor and gilt upon the eamo enamels ; " great gallon pots having the edges gilt and wreathed with popy-loavos ; glided goblets with columblno ( lowers nnd the like At the funeral of a | ady ot Bork- cloy , early in the slxtoon century , the plate was brought out to give "a drinking ing" to the mayor of Bristol and his lirothren , and I thank God , " wrote the Btoward , "no plato nor spoon was lost , yet there were twenty dozen spoons " Sucli was the wealth upon which the spendthrifts of Elizabeth's court fed una feasting till ruin over took thorn , and on which Jack of Newbury" and his fellows prospered and laid field to hold ENGLAND'S CRITICS CRITIC ZED Our Slncb ljorils nnd Imillcs Said to Do ( inns Carlcnt urm Wo are not accustomed , ns a rule , to pay much attention to foreign critics Usually they lull into too many errors gonornlly of a comic nature to deserve very serious nttontion Even our cous ins across the Atlantic huvo some strange notions of us , says the Preston , Eng , Chronicle They are quito con vinced that wo are all drop or , as they call it , clip our H's from mem bers of the peerage down to the gotitlemoii busied in carrying iish at Billingsgate It is ono of their traditions , and perhaps , wo cannot ex pect them to discard it from love of ac curacy In a comedy wo mean a com edy , not a burlesque running the other day in Now York , two English lords , arrayed in chock coats , ever widely-opened waistcoats , displaying linen of thut startling brilliancy of color and pattern dour to the music halt artiBtu , appear on the stage Quoth the first lord , who Is carrying a fox terrier under his arm , to the second end member of our aristocracy "Ullo , ' 'ow ' i"- the Enory are wherouptm whole house is convulsed with laughter at so delicious a joke The Amorlcans are just now incensed with the British aristocracy because some of the wealthiest of their daugh ters have married un equal nuihbor of our noblemen Their vcngetinco litis boon pitiless They have robbed even the peerage ot tboir aspirates "I would rather , " exclaims the transatlantic stage father for such a majestic parent is , of course , not found nnywhoro else but on the boards of melodrama see my daughter married to the poarost AmerIcan - Ican citizen than to the richest English lordl" At which bplondid sontimeut the nudietice thrills with patriotic lervor If , thcreforo , our own kinsmen , speaking the sumo mother-tongue , will not sue us as wo are , but rather as they would have us bo for tholr own1 glorili- oation , how are wo to expect foroiguors to undorstaud us ? Wo are disliked everywhere throughout Eurnpo just now , except in Portugal , where we are execrated Our sin cannot bo expi ated Wo would no 't permit that enter prising power to dance on our flag , so with ouo voice our neighbors all cried outntnnco : "Go along ! Why dent you hit ono of your own size ? " Wo huvo often hoard thorn say this before , so wo are not very much ashamed , nnd , Durhups , not quito convinrcd that our foreign critics In the newspapers believe - liovo themselves all they nrito about us in journals frequently at a loss for startling copy Arl to Order There is n difference between man ufactured illustrations and illustrations thut uro not , " remarked an artist yes tordny afternoon as ho spread out a copy of the London Illustrated News before him Now observe this illus tration , " says the Detroit Tribune Should you say it was mndo up in pieces or that li is n bit of nature ? " The former , " responded the visitor Right you are I know the artist well and icuow his methods He gets an order for a picture Attractive young woman simply attired stand ing in n pouslvo attltudo rural scene ' Then ho turns to his scrap hook wherein uro posted innumcral photographs The fence ho takes from ono photograph the house from unother nnd bits of landBcnpo from many ethers Thendie uses his wife us a model for the panslvo , and lays in the drapery by painting from a dummy Iu this manner the black und white sketch is manufactured It is sout to the pub lisher Perhaps it comoB t > nck with comments , Girl not pretty enough , or not young enough , or npt pensive enough the English like pensive sub jects put a cow in the background juiU u purling hrnolt nt thu girls feet , ' Well , the faoe Is tuned down to the propur degree of inoluucholy The cow nnd the broplc nro added and the pic ture nppenrH And that Is the way the work " bluck-uiid-whito potboilers JMnniier of Siiictios In a Shirt The following singular calculation of the number of stitches in u plain shirt has been ltuido by n Jjoicoi > tor beam strcss : Stitches in a collar , four rows , 3,000 ; crossoodsof same , COO ; buttonhole uud sowing on button , 160 ; gathering nock und sewing on collar , 1-01 ; stitch ing wristbands , 1,228 ; ends of wrist bands , 08 } buttonholes in wristbands , 148 ; honiming slits , 2UJ ; gnthoring fileevod , 840 ; setting on wristbands , 1.8U8 ; stitchingoushouldor strups.lB80 ; homralng the bosom 1103 ; sowing in sleeves und making gussets , S.OOO ; sow ing up side seems pf sleovps 2,5M ; cord ing bosom , 1,101 ; tapping the sleeves , 1,520 ; bowingallptherfccamsand setting eido gussets , 1,272 ; total number ot Pitched , 20(210. ( i THE NEW GENIUS OF LIGHT A Ilcsorlptlon of tlio Now Htatuo Sot Un In IIiIIhoii'h IinbnrAtiiry l Now York Hornld : Among the many objeots ot Interest to the visitor nt the gront laboratory ot Thomns A. Edison , J In Wosl Orange , N. J. , the first to attract - / tract nttontion is the romnrknblc statue / that litis recently boon placed in \ iwf \ tion iu the library , The stntuo nt- ' trnctcd Mr Edison's nttontion at iho liarls oxposltlou , where it occupied the place of honor lu the Italian depart inont Ho was so much pleased with it that ho purchased it , and it was shipped to this country , and now occupies the place ot honor in the center of the inng- inllcont library It is ontltlod The Now Gonitis of Light , " nnd win the worlc of an Italian artist , A. Bor- dlgaof Rome , nnd was llnishod Into in the fall of 1KSS. The subject Is an alle gorical ono and typifies the triumph of electricity ever other means of illumi nation It is a lltu-sizo figure of a graceful _ youth In the full vigor of onrly tiinii- " * hood , posed in a half recumbent posi tion nnd partlnlly supported by linlt- oxtondud wings on thu ruins of a broken gas lamp The right arm Isoxtondcd high above the bond and holds aloft an lu cnndosreiit lamp of llffy-candlo power , the conuocting circuits from whioh extend downward und , partially supported by the loft hand , continuo to the base of the stntuo , where they nro joined to a voltaic pile About the base uf the statue nro grouped n telephone - phone transmlltur , a telegraph key und a gear whoul The whole is mounted on a pedestal thrco foot high The modeling of the central iiguro is singu larly strong and llrra nnd the finish is almost perfect " " senrchlnu toe Hidden Treasure A Japanese native paper contains the following btory ot hidden treasure : The luclosuro whuroln the house of Mr Ibuwu Otosnburo ntTochigi-gorl is built is the plnco where the castle or Yuki Hurutomo wassituatod Tradition says thut in the era of Kiikltsu , when tiio "T castle was taken , those in the qasllo buried deeply in the qarth 80,000 pieces of pure gold , bIx inches in diam eter and n foot iu length , and then loft the castle During the Tokugawa dy nasty three nttompts were made to dig it out , but these ns often failed in consequence of unforosocn accidents to the men engaged in the work or the breaking open of streams whioh obliged all excavations to bo suspended , hi consequence of this the inhabitants of the plnco beenmo afraid , and no more attempts word mudo until lately , when sovornl men begun digging on May 14 lust Their Inborn have till the npponratico of being re warded with success.is pieces of wooden boxes covered witli plato iron have been oxonvatcd , and subsequently Bbmoslotio slabs on which 6ncreu characters tnken from Buddhist books were engraved huvo conio to light At present stones und gravel arc being dug out , which they think is a sign that they are approaching preaching the end of their labors The buried treasure is ostiinntod at present quotations , to bo worth yon 800.000,000. Ijivinc Atntin In n Hut nt 1 10. V Richnrd Hoops of Osage City , this O county , Is boyoud question the olduot person in the Htato of Missouri , says the .fottorson City ( Mo ) Tribune Ho iB a negro and lives nlono in h small hut on the banks of the Osage river , justbolow the Missouri Paclllc railroad bridge Ho is 110 years of ago and iu appear ance soroowhnt resembles a mummy , his skin bouig parchuioiil-lilco. but Ho is full of life und energy und is iu full possession of all his faculties In the summer und fall ho llnds work as "a farm hand , nud what ho earns in this way Is eked out by the aid of his skill • with rod and gun to a respectable living Duriug the last fall ho con tracted with a farmer to grub out the stumps In a largo liold and carried out his obligation , performing all the labor himbolf Undo Richard has u good mumory , nnd can recall incldonts that happened in his boyhood just after the revolutionary war Ho remembers having soon on ono occasion Gonornls Greene und Wuyno , and ether horous of the wur of independence whoso names ho cannot recall now He was born in Chatham county , South Carolina , and jf his musters name was William Hadoii , Ho came to Missouri in 184 ! ) , and for the last twonty-fivo yours has boon living about Osage county Kncllsti nm Written In Japan A ToUio correspondent give3 some amusing specimens of English us it is written by the Japanese Among thoin are these , from n library company's rules : The prolTosslon of our Com pany is supplying the all Japanese Classical and t\lodorn Books or Chinese und English Language Books to Rend ers for recoving duly Lending Prlco " The object of our library is for the Rouder who desires to Rend many books at ono time for searching useful , matter Thorororo all book which is ready iii our Company , is permit to- Read , but the prevailing book at pres ent is wished for Reader to bo lend from the procedeur of Soiidin " Who has read the Boole of our Company , above Three month by the Polish way of the reading , thought of our Company * will send the Signature of Special and - - muy bo lend by piying Lending Price thut mitigating 1-10 of it " > i POWDER Absolutely Pure 1 his powder never varies A marv l of purity btrougtli and wliolosoinoneiH More eoonotulcu than the ordlnurr kinds , und cannot betoldhy competition with tno multitude of low teat than umluht nlum or iihonnuuta powders SuUx onluintlncim * . 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