Nebraska Newspapers

    FHE OMAHA DAILY BEE.
ESTABLISHED JUNE 19 , 1871. OMAHA , TUESDAY MOBNT2TG , FEBRUA11Y 8 , 181)8 ) TWELVE PAGES. SINGLE COPY liTVB CENTS ,
BRIGHT SKIES IN THE WEST
The Familiar Ory of "tho Enemy's Country"
No Longer Heard in the Land ,
BETTER FEELING IN THE MIDDLE WEST
CoiiilllloiiN Itnnlxli Hit * 1' < >
unit I'rolli of I'ollllcul Clninor
IVIIIIIIIM CiinilltliiiiH n " r
I > \unil > le.
The second paper ot Franklin Matthews
In Harper's Weekly , under the above cap
tion. deals with the political battle cry ,
"The nnemy'rt Country , " Ita disappearance
r.nd the causes thereof. It ahould be wel
come news , writes Mr. Matthews , to those
* Aho live In the eastern part of the United
St.itos , and , .ndccd , to all the people , that
"the rnrmy'R country , " famous In the cam
paign of IS'Jfi , Is patnlng away , and Is prac
tically n thing of the pru.'t In Kansas and
the middle west ono rarely hears or sees
the expression nowadayvS. An era of better
fcclltig hau eel In. Tills change mij bo
noticed not only In the nwespapera and In
the convcrsatlcn of the plain people , but
Is a''o observable In the words anJ acts of
the state olllclils.
It ks no jart of the purpose ot these ar
ticles on Kansas and the middle rtcst to
lev vt political titrlfc , nor , Indeed .oven 'o
recall It except to Iiliistratp marked changes
In public sentiment of lalng benefit to our
cnmtnra eountrj One of these changes re
lates to the spirit that la ) behind the ex
pression "the cnenij H conntr ) . " It was Mr
llrjan who gave the phrane promlnmce Ho
used It In his pi cell while on bin vvaj east
A- ) accept formally the nomlnitlon for the
presidency. It lo altogether probable that
ho ( .poke the words aa a mere peasantr ) ,
but co-nlng as thej d d after the Impas-
n'onod ' speech that weii him the nomination ,
In whlcli he said , while referring to the
east " \\o entreat no more , " the plir-ise wan
caught up by both sides , and It became the
'to-ni ce-ter of sectional bltternckfl.
Governor Le-edy whether he knows It o-
not , fmnlshes probably the most conspicuous
Instance of the change nf feeling. This Is
tliov- 1. In bis official utterances. In hlb
message to the legislature of Kansas on
Januirv 12 W7 , Governor Liedy railed blt-
torlj at the- east It was ono of the moM
remarkable messages over sent to a Icglsla
tun In thlH country In his Thinksglvln-
pie ( Inmotlon of November 11 , ten months
Inter , t'le bltteiness had ciascd entirely am
the governor also rejolcul openly bucjuai
the atta < ks on Knnsab had ceased. Trulv
there was n change1 Two things cf un-
VHiial In.portanco had occurred in those ten
months One was the revival of prospurltj
In Kansas because of nature's bountiful
rrops an 1 the other was that In August
nftiv the ciops had been Inrvested practl
cally. Governor Lecdy came to Now York , for
tbo nrst tlmo In his life , to sco what kind
of a place It was.
LHKDY'S WAR WHOOP
Here Is what Governor Lecdy said In the
Introductory part of his message on Januarv
12 , 1V17 :
"While according to the press of the m
lion's most populous metropolis , her chil
dren linger In the streets nntiupht except
In the lore of the pavement , unfed excepi
nt the hand of charltj unhoused except litho
the kcanels thej dispute with crciturcb
scarcely leas m'f > "rible , the commonwealth
of Kansas rejoicing In a public-school sjn
tern which Is the most grateful heritage we
receive fron our fathers and the bebt legac
wo can leave to our children , nnds ample
house room and school room for cverj
Kansas child , an 1 for such straggling waifs
ns come to us from where penury and pawl-
mony stalk sldo b ) side Thcro are no
tramps in Kansas except those birds of passage
sago who nit by us , grim reminders ot tbo
conditions In older communities.
"With a cheerful audtclty that almost chal
lenges admiration Grub Street scribblers on
a venil press which panders to the most
vicious lifitlnctsof benil-clviilred foreign
ccloilps llko New York and Chicago with
hcml-lurbarlc splendor at the apex and soml-
Larbarlc eaualor at the base of thulr oo-lal
life have offered their puny nnd presumptu
ou criticism of those whose shoestrings thej
are not worth ) to unloose The dopa of
Uopt hue barked at the pramlds un-
an-werpd for nfty centuilos Let Gruo
Stieet rail en. When the iccused Doe stood
bc-'o-o the Venetian Council ho said , "My
dpfenif * la jour accusation. " Tlu-j well
know tint Kansas was a pillar of cloud bv
illy and a pillar of nro by night before an
oppressed people in the nitlon'a darkeot
hour We shall keep those nres alight In
our camps , and that fiinokc ascend'ng from
our hllltolM , till this l.s Indeed a government
of the people , and for the people , and by
the
"Slip filliil you not In tbe enrly d ly , nnd
Hie fulled you not In the late ,
Nor forgot you how t'le ' bilance was poised
on our youngest Btate ,
And ho'v with the file of Kansas was
linked the nation's fate "
GMveinor Lccdj'n familiarity with things
r3gitlan | wns u greit Miiprlso to hlb friends ,
but they noon lenicmCicred that his prlvitc
MPCiitary wap formeily e-onsuil geneial at
Cairo , an 1 that accounted for It Those pri
vate secretaries are usually elenor fellows
rnd If Governor Leedy did not write that
part of the nuhfiiige relating < e > irgjpt him-
Belf he allowed It to ronmln In the docu
ment and became responsible for It whlcli
Is the same thing Governor Leedy's de
nunciation of the nvNtem that had brought
burn fiUhtfnl Ignorance , hunger , eiualor
and illthy nb'dlng ' pliiern to New York Cltv
savorol 1 irguly of atsl IIIOIIH reading of what
IB known as "vellow Journalism , " ( ho kind
of Journalism that for tin * snko of thn ad-
vi rtlfament gC'ts up 'b'read ' funds and the
lIKn whenever theie Is nn e < ast sldo Btrlkp
and the peopln of tlut district with mueh
wnllliiK , havn to draw n few ilollnra out of
the bink from their savings to support thein-
olvp.s until vvoik Is resumed Still there
can bo no doubt that the governor meant
what he said , although pnmpoiih phraj.es nnd
evaggerated language wnro used.
A CHANGU OF TUNR
To fchow thn cliango that came over Gov
ernor Leedy let us lefer to his Tli. kf.glv-
Ing iiroolamatlnn After spoaklng of the
bountiful ban int nnd better price. ? , and after
mentioning that the attacks on Knnu.ia had
rea.sed , and calling attention to the fact
tl1 .it "thi > lepiitntlon of Kan.sas Is again nx
good as KB rlmractcr always ha * bopn " he
makes this solo reference to the condition of
the p or In his cities
"In tlu > day of mil- rejoicing let o.ir peonle
rot forget the poor nnd needy of the great
cities' and of foreign countries "
It may bo bald that It would not have
been proper for Governor Leedy to say
Fbarp things In a Thanksgiving proclama
tion To that ono may reply that a gov
ernor who could send Biich an unusual ine's-
tago to the Irglslaturn would scarcely have
restrained hlnibelf from making a si ) dig
at least In his Thanksgiving proclamation
when ho wni talking on the name topic , the
jiooi of our groa-ti cities ,
Tim fact Is that Governor Leedy was ,
anil is a fair typo of hundreds of thousands
of porbons In the middle west who have had
vuoai ? and unfortunate notions about thn
jipopln of the east. They have Imagined
that them was no health ) mlddlo rlass , as
it Is called.In the east ; that there were a
largo number of very rich persons , and
honks upon hordes of poor living In nith
a.- nnd squalor ticre ; that there was no
brotherly love or Christian feeling and
that DIP lot of the mum-s In the ea t was
| irai-tlcally o in of slavery to money barons
T\IK : \ is no exaggeration , as I shall chow ,
nml It U Also ( run that the phr.nie "tho
cnr-riv's country" was paiily rccpouolble
fo , * It ,
IPiiRU8t list Governor Lccdv VUMII buck
to the home of hi * childhood In Ohio , and
t.bllo them It Is said , suggc-slrd to his wife
that as they were so near New York It \
would bo a good Idea to run eiut and Icxik
ttt the famous town ana lit sights I'orth-
. \\ltb they ttnrtcd , I nm tola that it has
not yet been made public that the governor
came to the metropolis and that ho spent
four days In town Incognito. Ono of his
friends , to whom the governor spoke freely
of his visit , told me that the nrst thing the
governor did after ho crosied the Hudson
river was to call a hackman , to whom he
( Mid :
"Drive mo to Wall street "
DRMIDINO TUB PLUTOCRATS.
The governor went to Wall sti'cet , travel-
Eialncd so he was. and his cab wont slowly
from Trinity church to the East tlvcr , the
governor peering eagerly from silo to side
at people and at buildings. My Informant
aj s that on his return homo fho governor
slid that Wall street was nothing but a srt
of "dinky little alley , anyway , " but that IIP
was sure ho saw the nameii of Morgan and
Holmont cii the signs , When the governor
got down to the Kast river he saw the Brook
lyn bridge and ordered hl driver to go up
there. After looking at the bridge the gov
ernor reached Droadway by devious paths
through Cherry Hill. He spent four days
looking about the town , having taken cnjo'lal
rains that none of the reporters nhoiild nnd
I'lm out by moans ot his signature , which he
OUrposely trade blind , on the hotel register
I was curious to learn what Governor
Leedy saw In New York , and during an Inter
view which ho gave tne , and most courteously
placed all sorts of Information In 'Jta omcc a'
my disposal , I asked him about his New York
xtslt. Now Governor Leedy IIEB plenty of
whit Is known In the west and olsewtie-o as
"horso sense. " Ho paused a moment aftei I
ci'ktJ my question , his ees twinkled and ha
evidently fathdmed my purpose , which waa
to place what ho might say of his expe-lenca
In New York side by side with his extraor
dinary mersag" to the legislature n the i a-no
subject. The governor was noncommittal at
nice and ho rcylled :
"Oh , It was just such a place us I expected
to see I was there so fbort a time that It
wouldn't be right for mo to talk knowing' )
obotit it I had n good time "
No more would the governor say , but 1
cnn tell him what he really paw He saw
people on the streets looking ns well fed
and as well clothed as In anv other place
In the world He saw hundreds of th u-
sands of prosperous persons of what Is
called the middle cla&s He siw that N w
York residents and New York buildings
looked Just llko the people and builriliimi
of any of our large cities Chicago St
Louis , or even Kan-as City , the : ie irest
largo town to Governor Leedj's home
Ho did not ROO people In the streets irving -
ing for bieail Ho saw no scmaloor fllth -
New Yoik'H health board under Mavor
Strong having storped all that Ho saw no
golden chariots , rolling about with the fam
ilies of millionaires In them He siw no
tobbcr barons , or It he did , like the rest of
us could not identify them No , Governor
Lccdj went homo with a broader , kln-llt'r
vlc-v , a feeling that he wab a proud clthrcn
of a great country which even Inclmltc !
'semi barbaric" New York within its borders
ai'il down underneath the surface he wa5
pioblblv glad of It He had nothing to bu
of "Grub btrcet writers on a venal press"
when I saw him and I should bebiirprlsnd
If ho ever referred to the matter again.
OUTLAWING A V'ORD.
Moio striking even than the governo-'s
change of mental attitude Ib a movement
that was staitcd about a year ago bv Bank
Commissioner Hreldcntl-il of Kansas , the
head and front for many venrs or the popti-
llht tarty there , and until within a few
months its state chairman Mr nrcldcnthal
told me anil this Is probablv the Hrst hiif
that has been made of It In prl'it that
within a year he had written from fifty to
ono hundred letters to men of Influi nee In
the populist and 'democratic partlcveliters
political managers , high ofllce holders in
tact , every nun of great Influence In the
flee silver movement asking them hence
lorth not to use the word plutocrat In their
wilting and their speaking Ho said that
he pointed out to them that the word rcillv
meant nothing , that It inflamed one set of
men ngalnst another , and that the best wij
to make political warfare was not by use
of epithets. This Is what Mr Brcldentlu ,
said to me abojt if
"Wo should not make war In politics on
Individuals , but on the sjstem that has
brought t.bout certain results Nothing can
bp gained by calling a man or a 'ct of men
plutocrats. It Is the system tint we- oppose
Wo ought not to hate the banke r , the Indl-
v ( dual. Wo do object to trusts and moncpo-
lleu , the Individuals who ptofit b ) them arc
nothing to us It Is wrong to attack bankets
ns i class. You can't blame men fon.ak -
Ing inoacy when they luvc legal oppo tunltj
It Is the illegal opportunity , the morally
wrong sstcm , that wo are after"
. Mi Ilrcldenthal asked his corr'-bpondcnth
to substitute the word cotporatlon for pluto-
cmt hereafter. That , he said , would muko
the war Impersonal , and would not aroiin-
sectionalism. Ho received prompt lesponses
to Ills letters , and , almost to a man , his
correspondents agreed with him Ho read
me some of tbo letters I am not at liberty
to give the namett of the writers nor to tell
the exact language that they tispd , but I can
y that the spirit of denunciation of the
east , the spit It that found common expression
In the phrase "the enemy's country" was
not to be found In them Practically all the
wilters agreed not only to drop the word
plutocrat but to UFO their Influence to have
genera ! use of It abandoned
DAWN OF IinrTKR PURLING
I do not know how thlb may Impress
ot'ieru , but It teems to me to be a matter of
Mich great slgnincnnco as to mei t calling
the . \idcst attention to It We of the east
m y saj what we pleaseof popiills-i and
trcii theories but Is It not a mattei for
fdlcltatlon that a movement.tnwa-d a bet'ev
unders.uid'ng ' nf each other ha. teen In ex-
Istenei quietly for more than a year , th it
It was started In HIP ve-y ct del of ronu-
llun by a populist lender and already has
ud good rceults ? Mr Hreldenthal Is tlm In
timate fi lend and close politically ally of Mr
Ilryan They are about the fimo age and
liavo known pach ohei and worked together
for nearly ten year . It U known however
that Mr itreldenthal U not wedded to the " 1C
tn 1" Idea , believing rathur In flat mcriey
md tlut ho depr < cites the USD of such ploacs
as "tho enemy's country. "
In order tn loun prevalent Ideas In Kan-
SKI Nc'brnska and other western states as
to New York and Its people , I made It a
' "Int to ask merchants fanueiii editor ? ,
: ravclors , in those states what they thought
Now York was IlkainJ Itniv they looued
ipon Its people. Almost Invariably I found
tint the campaign of 1S9Q had left so mo
ciirloui notions among tin : imi&vs and almost
as Inv.irHbly I found that whatever feeling
of enmity h > d existed was gradually pass-
UK a.way. Although the fee-ling la becoming
; li dllcr. nevert'iclcSs ' many queer Ideas as
o tin iilace still prevail among the nuibscs
[ naked Governor Lcody what ho thought
was the general opinion among the masses
of Kan&is of Now Yoik Hn said
"Our people think It Is essentially H for
eign city , that It Is filled with men lacking
'i ' patriotism ; that they are mercenary and
.1 onsands of them , ns soon as tl.cy have
nudn sulllcle'nt money , go back " to Ruropu to '
Ivt nn their fortunes H "is not the gon-
cnil lellef tl'-t there Is a great mass cf
> luln people In New York , a health ) mlJdlo
ilass that we k'tnw Is most desirable in any
common .vmlth. "
VAGUE IDKAS.
Heio Is what Mr. lircldcnthal cue of the
popular Impretslon regarding New York :
"People out here have a rather vague Idea
about New York and Its people Many thl'ik
theru Is a big moneyed machine out there
a inichlne or a sjHtem that Ib not coulucivo
o Ideas of liberty or ol freedom I do not
thl-k , vou can ca ) truthful ! ) that our peo-
ip | huto New York. Hither they feel j-orr )
'or the miifees there "
Hi-re la what < xie of the candlJatts on tl.o
republican state ticket at the last election
( alJ ui the tubjitct ( I nm not at 1 berly to
glvt ) hU > name )
"Out here we have the Idva that New
York U not a truly American city.Ve do
rot regard it a < representative of our rojn-
trj We look at It au a p'ace whora meet
eluich at tbelr bonda Snd i perfc end set up
a cry ( hat they will lotp a do lar If we
Hhotild assert the" 'M6nroe- doctrine or
thrpaten to go to wnr to stop the terrible
state of affairs In Cuba , Wo do not bc-
llt-vo that the masses in New York love our
country as wu do , or as wo think true
American citizens should love the country.
Still It Is true that there is to be seen on
every hand a friendlier feeling toward the
cast. "
Another representative man stood by this
speaker , and he became aroused. Ho broke
In :
"I'll tell you , " ho said , "whit people out
hero think about New York- They think It
Is a great big sponge a sponge that. In the
greed for money absorbs all the life , man
hood , and patriotism of Its citizens "
Hero Is what ono ot the proprietors ot
ono of the largest retail stores In Kansas
said In answer to my question.
| "I nnd that many pecplc In Kansas look
j n > .n New York as the home and business
I place of a rich set of Yankee-like men with
I a great lot of Invention and peculiar ways ot
gctttlng hold of oilier people's money. They
lead exaggerated stories about the poor there
and the starving and , being of a sympathetic
wholesoulcd nature , believe these stories anJ
think there arc hundreds djlng or starvation.
while the Goulds and Vanderbilta and othcv
millionaires by the score and hundred loll
1 about the streets In gorgeous turnouts , liv-
Ishly displaying jewels as the poor static ! on
I the streets with outstreU'.ied arms asking for
bread Now It would seem btrange that such
an absurd Idia should be prevalent H Is not
I general among our educated people , but I
i nnd that the Ideas I have Indlcitcd are mote
1 widespread than one would think. "
Hero Is what one of the foremost candi
dates for governor al the coming repub
lican convention had to say on the matter -
tor : .
"It Is a mistake to say that our people
' hatu New York. Many of them have had
n wrong Impression about the place and Us
people- They have had an Idea that there
nro a great many more millionaires than
icnlly exist there , and they have thought
that the rich people of the east were hard-
I hearted They are bcjjKinlng to rcall/e
however , that we are one people , that the
people of Kansas woull probibly do as the
people of Now Ycrk do If placed were
changed , and that It wns a mistake to set
oft ono part of this coantiy against nnothc
In political hostility "
SECTIONALISM VANISHING.
So much for talks with representative men
I talked with stoiekcepc s , railroad hand' '
farmern , everywhere 1 went , ! > nd while I an
Inuml to say that such stiangcIdeis dl
prevail as I have Ind catcd In many ct-es
not once not oven when speaking with po
lltlcal managers who naturally would hop *
to thrive on stirring up discord dl 1 I hea
a woid or enmity to.varJ the east as a dh
tlnct part of our country There was mu , . .
I said about corporations rtnd monopolies , there
( was a belief that patriotism v.as rainir
negative quantity in the cast , tint tin
! niaSits wcie do.vi-troldcn , bit there was no
bpccch or thought that found cxpicsjion In
such a phrase as "the enemy's country , " cr
Indicating feeling or opinioin about the cast
Almost In every Instance In talking with the
plain people I mut with th s statement
" 1C thcio has been hatred toward the oar
and that probably was overdcne ) ou vvll
flnd v ry llttlo of It now. Wo recognize
that New York is as cstentlal to us as we
aio to New York. We all belong to one
country. "
And Indeed this should be so , naturally
More farmers send their sons to college , i
is r ertcd in Knnsab , ' 'rom the mldJle wes >
than from nny other ngtlcultural part o
nur cojntr ) Scores of them come east tc
the largo universities , and hundreds am
thousands go to their own state unUeisltic'S
It one wants a college educUlon in the
middle west , it costs very little. Tultioi
Is free , and ore can live chuplv The re
sult Is that higher education thrives am
piCbpcrs there , and that a highly Intelligent
people lives there
The fact Is , Kansas people refer to them
selves as "a peculiar people. " 'Ihey are in-
tepscly high-spirited , and oven more In
tensely patriotic- The John Drown spirit
Is still In evidence In the state The people
are roascd easily when their sympathies aic
affected At such times they do not spare
tbobo against whom they thunder. They
still tell you about the famous "Battle o
the Itlue , " and nil one has. to do Is to talk
In earnest nbout liberty and the rights o'
the people to secure their attention They
hold not less than second place In the list
o ; states In the milter of education of the
people. In their anger about misrepresenta
tion in the east and under 'he scourge o ]
hard times , some o' them si Id harnh thlniv
about the east , but that bitterness Is sub
si ling The horn of plenty has rolled out Its
Joy and peace over the btate Kansas and
New York are In the sime country again ,
where they alwavs have been , and where
they always will be.
Why should not the efforts of men like
Utcldpntbal , asklru ; the people on ono bile
to refrain from using sjch a word as pluto
crat , bo met by T similar reiucst by some
man of commanding influence on the other
siJe , asking that the people of the cut
no longci refer to the people of Kansis as
clanks' * If such effor's were met in the
proper spirit , henceforth we fihoull hesx-
very little of "tho enemy's country "
KTVMIU > < m , s'ioitn > .
CiiiiipMiiyimply Rellliiii , In Old l.l < | iil-
ilntlimr TIT 11II i-Hi ex
NRW YORK , Kcb 7 Standard oil sold
rn the curb today at $42. > on the strength
of a story that It was proposed to exchange
present ceitincntcs for shares'n ' a new com
pany on the basis or four to one. S C F.
Dodd general solicitor for the Stiiulani
Oil company contrallctcd the truth of to
report. A statement Is authorized that liqui
dating trustees arc simply going ahead and
getting In prcsc.it liquidation certificates and
other tiust stock pud Is'ii.ng therefore a
rcitiilcato assigning le al title to a
propoi tlonalp share in the cmponte
i.toik of the Individual companies.
U Is said furtler th t there
nre still outstanding $37500,000 of liquidat
ing ecitinentes and over $20,000,000 of the
old trust certlUctes Until the above
urnmuits are traiiRfened Into the new cui-
tlfle.itcs nothing will be doiuIn icgarl to
exchanging the coipotato ftoil.s for any now
secuiltles
ciiimv * , rou vmu.i'u sriito
nillforilln VlllllouilllilJuilK < -il Mt-ii-
( ullj Irrc-kiiniiNlMi * .
SAN KRANCIKCO , Teb 7. Adolph Sutro
ox-mayor of San Francisco and builder of the
famous Sutro tunnel , lies been adjudged
mentally Incompetent by Superior Jud e
Helchor. Ills daughter. Dr. Cinma Sutro
Merrlot. who his been In constant profcs
elonal attenclatii-p on lier father for innnv
months past , has been appointed Ktiardla.i
of his person and estate' , her bonds bolng
nuc-d at $100,000. Mr Sutro Is over SO yeam
old and the lass ol menfil facult'ca Is at
tributed to the weight of years , combined
with the effects of two strokes of apoplexy
which hp has suffered within the past few
m on thn. The petition to have his daughter
appointed his guardian was made by Colonel
Llttlo , manager of the Sutro properties after
the members of their family and attorney. ,
hud decided that eucli n tstcp was necessary
Item-Kelt from nn lee l-'loe ,
CLnVIJLANO. O. , Pob 7.-I"ho workmen -
men who hod started to walk across the
Ice from the new water works crib , five
mllex out In thp lukp were rescued lost
evening by thp flreboat Cle-velnnder from
nn Ice lloe after nn exciting experience
The men had started to walk ashore anil
when a mlle out discovered that fu-y wcro
on n detached Ice lloe nnd rapidly moving
awny. After prolonged crlea and waving
of their coats they finally attracted the
attention of n skater near the shore , who
telephoned to thp llrPbout After a hard
battle with thp Ice the Clevelander BUP-
i ceded In crushing1 Its way through the
heavy Ice and rescuing the men
Ship VnnU Slnrt I'll.
HAY CITY , Mich , , Feb. 7. The Wheeler
& Co , ship yard , which had been uhut down
for two weekB on account of a strike of
riveters , resumed operatlona today , A few
non-union rlveteru were put to work. The
striking riveter * will stay out at least until
after u meeting of the state court of me
diation , which Is expected to take thu ques
tion up hero tbhj
COLTRIN GIVES TESTIMONY
Not Satisfied with the Conditions Im
posed ,
METHODS OF THE LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE
Uuti-N I'IINNIMI fen "le Purpose nf
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Lafayette Coltrln , prej-li ont and treasurer
of the Omaha Live Stock Commission com-
pany , resumed ha ! direct tostlmcay In the
case nt the United Statuojagilnst the South
Oniata Live Stock fxchangc yesterday ,
before John W. UatUn. cxamlner-ln-chan-
cery. Ho was on the stand a greater part of
the day. „
Wltmcs testincd that the Omaha Llvo
Stock Commission company comprl'ed forty
stockholders ; that It began basinet * * October
1 , ISflC , nt the Colon stock yards , nnd re
tired August 28 , 1S97. The company had
quit business In coneociuenco of the rule
pa'Kcd by the exchange which provided that
members of all commission concerns at the
South Omaha market would bo required to
become members of the exchange or bo mem
bers of uoino other similar orgintoatlon
which vas a member of the National Live
stock exchange. This rule provided that In
any cast1 at Icoct Ihe members of conce.iis
doing busings at the South Omahi jards
\\ruld ha\o to be memberm of the local ox-
clnngcOnlj six. stockholders of the Omaht
Llvo Stock Commission co.i.fany had been
members of any exchange niil thcj were at
tached to the South Omaha orinlzitlon
Sir Coltrln Etnted thit while the Omaha
Li\p Stock Commission company was In
Inis ness Its profits had avcr.iged nbout
P21 per cent pel > car on the money Invcbkl ,
vhlch proflts b < 1 been nppoitloncd among
the KtiK > kh ildors. Witness had rcpeatedlv
made efforts to compromise the company's
differences with the exchange and get Into
me nbersh p te ! co-poiatlon'a coantrj stock
holders , but the exchange had rc'uscd to
consider the overtures alleging that the
company h > > 1 violated rules of the cx-
c > ianso by dvldlng Its cr > mmissl-ns
In the \\iy of pajlni ; dividends to
stockholders , when fitness tcHtlfled ,
s n matter of fact the company hid never
declare ] a dividend until after it had wound
up its business , about September 1 , 1S17.
WOULD SHUT OUT COLTRIN.
At the time the exclunge ado < ted its now
rule ? Mr Coltrln said , when the section re
lating to all members or commission conoercu
was under discussion at a meeting , Frederick
smith , a rtoch-.iolder In the Omaiu Live Stock
Commission company , had ofTeied an amend
ment to the prcno'ed bectlon to roanlre enl )
five members of any compel y or coiyoration
to become Identified v lti ! the exchange. D
3 ParkhWbt n eotnml 1- > ion man and a mem
ber of tile exchange , had addressed the meet
ing In Cf.posit ! n to the amendment and had
raid that it VMS the object of the rcctlon to
shut cut fro.n the business of Uio jards Mr
Coltrln's company an I nil other su ' .i concerns
tbit attenntcd to invade the commission busi
ness at the market Mr Parkhurst hid said
that Mich concerns should be driven from
tl > e field , bccau.-o thy were doing business
'n ' violation of the rues of thq exchange end
that they wcro being uin by a lot-of farmers
Lev I Cox , another member qf tne ex hange ,
nnd others who belonged to that ortwal.tk-
llop , lid Indorsed what'Mr. Parkhurst old
nn the subject. Witness testified that the
first month the Omaha Live Stock Commis
sion company did buplrew ? at the yards it
mcde a geol showing and that all the time it
was In bus'oess ' It was airong the conxrns
it the h ad of the Met for the volume of bust
ness they did
On cross-examination , Attorney Swlt/ler
nskcd Mr CoHrln it ho wished to go on
recoil as raj Ing that the exchange pcssc 1
its alleged arbitrary membership rule for
the inirpcsc of freeyiru out of business the
Omaha Live Stock ronif' ' i-n company
' . ' do , " replied Mr. Coltrln.
"In It not a fact that jou made over
$5,000 Individually whllethe _ company was In
existence' ' " '
"No , " icplled the wltndrs , "rs treasurer o >
the cnnipanj I received fomething like $ * , -
700 from the business , 'but tint sum was
all divide ! among the'sfo'-kholders or paid
out In other ways for Him benefit of the
coiporatlon. "
"Was there nnj dU cns'on among the
stockhcldcis of the company' "
"Onlt ono man niropn the ( stockholders
made anv trouble Tint was I ) Olnry a
< - ltlo fikmnan v ho received a salary from
the crncern and whose holdings In the or
eanlzftlon were only four shares at stock
There wcro 102 shaies of stock outstanding
when the company quit business"
"Did not Mnllorj Son & Zimmerman , the
firm that ( succeeded to the company's busi
ness , puj n bonus for tht business ? "
"It did not : It bought HIP furniture of the
company for $ 'ii ' ) less than was paid for It ,
and paid Into th treipuiy about $1 100 to
offset money which the company had expended -
ponded when It brgun buslncrs to SieltA
Olnoy & Co for ttie firm's lUt of customers
and ltd good will. "
WOULD HCNEFIT PATRONS.
At the aftoinoon s ° s Ion the witness nald
that If the South Omaha exchange wan
ajolhhert the cominhslco bik'ncz.3 at the
jards could bo do-e for about one-rilf the
expense and save pitiova of the market In
tl'o total from JC10.000 to $300,000 a year
Returning to the organization of the Omnha
Live Stock Coinm'Hg'on company , witness
said that whim the corporation WES llr.it
forinnj there- were 102 shares of i toeU Issued
to about fortj per/sens After the rule le-
( fiilring every member of a commission con
cern to become a member of the oxohingu
it n cost of $1.000 each was passed , ntock-
hcldprs of the company who could not af
ford to comply with this regulation disposed
of their stock Witner-s bought up this stock
pajlng M high as $100 < pcr share for It until
when the company ccsised doing buslncs ] at
the jards. witness had come Into postu.s.1 OT
of foitj-two shares nnd the remainder of the-
loldlnps wcro divided among about niiio
otlicr str < ckholdcrs. Witness said that when
the compan ) hcg.n husinoss. It occupied the
old Bland of Spcltz Olney & Co. whoso
jus ness It had practically. HUCcroJeil to and
hat nhciit the only visible change In the
inslniss of the old concern was In the emi i
iloyment of olllco helri , etc The company |
linpl ) had succeeded to a vvull-cstabllshcd
commltulon buslnces at the yards.
Allen Root , a former commission mer-1
chant < U the yards , \\a the next witness
ea'led ' by the govornmpnt. Witness said
hat In ISIll lo owned stcck In the Amerl- '
can Llvo Stock Cominlsslon companj , I
vhlch was doing liiinlncHK at the yards then
lo had also been stocli agent of the Nc-
> raska State ulll'inre , an organization of
'armera , with a membership of about 27.000
Flcso farmers would ) up stock to him as
agent at the jards. Ono of the rules of the
alliance was that aftr ( * , ho had sold this
block and paid the expanses of such sales ) ,
liu moit > saved on rpmmlsslons and all
ollior profits were to bo pro-rated into a
rebate to shippers. Wit"188 bad by this
iie-aus bavcd the shippers from 50 to CO per
cent of the established ommlsHlons at the
narkets. Ono of the members of the Ameri
can company , who was also a member of
he exchange , It d befcn George nrown and
t 1'ad been witness' custom to handle the
alllanco's stock through tbls concern le-
cause of this , the exchange brought charges
against Drown to th& effect that bo was
lolatlng a rule of the organization In that
10 was dividing commissions > : ml paying real -
> al ( One morning wltqcss had received a
argo consignment of stock from members
of the alliance and ponfjlgtifd It to the
American company fqr sale. Drown at-
empted ( o dispose of the stock , but could
lot and witness was compelled to hold It
n the market for two days In the mean-
Imo the American compiny secured a tem
porary Injunction against the exchange re
training It from Interfering with the sale
of the stock and only In tbU way bail vvH-
ncss been able to sell off the consignment.
Ever after that time , bow ever , the Ameri
can compan ) had been BO hampered by the
exchange tbjt It was finally compelled to
quit business ,
ROOT COUI.D NOT 9HLL STOCK.
Witness had himself tried to sell stock
belonging to the alliance as agent of that
otganlzatton , but lie could do nothing hlm-
eelf , Seeing that the exchange was bent on
freezing out the agency as well as the
Amcrlo n company , witness afterward ar
ranged w Ith n commission firm to handle
shipments from alliance members and paj
to them through witness ns their agent 10
per cent commission for the privilege of
handling the stock. In this way witness
had succeeded for the time In getting stock
of the alllanco Into the market according
to the c-lglnsl plans and rebating to ship
pers the sivod commissions.
finally , after the alliance arrangement
was knocked out by the exchange and the
American company had been compelled to
quit business , witness bad attempted to run
a commission business at the jards under
the firm name of Allen Root & Co. , one of
the partnera bolng George Urovvn. Hut It
was not long cro the exchange had forced
this concern out of the field by causing re
ports to bo spread concerning Urown's meth
ods of doing 1/uslncss and his standing
among bujers at the jards , which were Intended -
, tended to prejudice shippers against the
I firm.
| On cross-exnmlnatlon witness slid that If
the exchange were abolished the commission
i buslriCFo at the yards could be done for
! from GO to 70 per cent less than It Is being
done at present.
"Unless jou nro a member of the ex
change. " said the wltncbR , " > ou cannot do
n commiss'on ' business at the Union Stock
jards I have tried the experiment and
have failed. Others have met with n sim
ilar fate "
Hero the government rratcd Its cise and
Attornej Mahonoj , for the defendants , nn-
nouncc-I that when the testimony had been
extended nnd counsel had read It over the-
defense would announcu when It would be
rendj to present Its evidence
Unl'cd States District Attorney Sawjer.
rcplvlng to this served notice to opposing
counsel that Just so soon as the testimony
of the govern in cut's witnesses was extended
tl'e prosecution would carry the case to the
federal court , regardless of whether the de
fense hnd presented evidence , and ask for a
temporary rcctrntnlng order against the ex
change piohlbltlng It fiom Interfering with
tljo commission business at the South Omaha
stock irarkct.
ir run DIII.IM
Ii-lsli-Vtm-rl.-niiM Mi-el mill \inxilnl
"In-11- .
Sunday afternoon ( hero was acry en-
tluslnstlo meeting of the various comnii'-
tecs having il.arg of the entertainment
and rc-fiJtlsn to bo tendered the Irish pa
triot , John Dalley , on March 17.
It was the ilr-st mooting of all committees
since the afialr w > stalled some two weckh
ago The committees are all v.orklng lnr.1
to s'.iovv Mr. their-
Dalley theirai > pictlallon of o
man who can give the best nart of his life
in "tittering for the Irish cause
Atlorncj General Smj th will preside o-
the occasl n , and the feception committee
will Inc'tidoBome of the bent as well .is most
PiitluiS'istic Iilsh-\iuerlcan citizens o
On-ilu. The committees on which will fall
the work of preparing the coining entertain
ment arc as follows :
Arrangements T. L McDonnell , chair
iLau , Jonn Rush , John Powers , M. Hogan and
J 1" Lallj.
Program Ed Walsh , chairman- J fiar-
rott Andrew Murrby , John Rush and J. F.
Lally
Kironce loin Po-vcii ? , clnlrman ; HdivarU
Kcllj , WIKlam JIaher , Colonel Codj R
O'Kneffo ot Oirahi and Join FIjrn , Andrew
Gallagher ard Dr McC.an of South Omnha
Hall R. 0 Keeffe. chairman ; M Hogan
T L McDtcinclI. M Dnnleavcy and J p
Hirnaher.
Prrqs T J. I-'itzmorrls , chairman ; Frank
Gallagher , J. B. Rjan , John Qulrn ant'
James Tracy.
Next Sunday afternoon nt .1 o'clock ail
committees will meet in Kllw * lull 132"
Farnam street to which all the Irish and
Irlsh-Amerlcfci people of Omahi are linltod ,
a-d morn cspeclallj the women vsho aie tak
Ing so much Interest 'n the coming affali
It is thelesiro of the commlttep on .uranRc
mcnts thit all of . .Hiearous committee
members be present at rext Sumlaj's meet
ing
r i M v
C'oiilrnvt for ' niiplj IIIKT I'l-i-scrlpl IIIIIM
In -I ) | > rm fil.
On account cf the absence of Chalrni'n
Klorstcad , Comml < sloncr Ob'rom presided at
the regnar meeting of the Hoard of County
Commissioners jestcrday afterroon. The
Viocccdlngs wore entirely of a routine char
acter.
T-o leport of the flnrnce committee on the
cnnual report of Judge P-axtcr agreed with
the figures submitted by Judge Haxtcr The
latter were acceptoJ and placed on file Sim
ilar action was taken on the last semi annual
sta'ement of Countj Treasurer Helmrod
Tic contract tni bond of Otto Svlfert for
furrlhfag prescriptions during 1S9S was ap
proved. The bonds of John Lew s , George
Strjker , IJell A Pierce and George U
Sand ns deputy sheriff/i were-also approved
A'communication from Jo'm J Willis pro
tested aRdlri t tbe cuitom that has prevailed
of allow ns officers of the banks Interfiled
to be Miretles on bends given by county do-
po.sltorl(3. Referred to finance commute- "
with pov.cr to act
A lot of additional applications for pea -
tlons In connection with the countj exhibit
at the expedition wcro paced on ( lie
The rci- tuition of George W. Hawkins an
reid ( supervisor for the north district of
Wi'jt Or.iala precinct vvcs aeceplol and
Christ Neveaa was appointed to till the va
cancy
A resolution b > IJarto Instructel the HU-
porlnter Junt of the eourt hoi.uo to collect
all kejs to county oUicen held by pei o-s
otlie- than county olllciils , In order to cor
rect a prevalent Impression tru various Ln-
olllclal Individual had accrs : ? to thu olilces
night or da ) Adopted. Tills wan duo to
HID fact that certain persons when dlu-
charged had failed to deliver tho'r ' kevs
MN WVItl ) IlKUMinsH | \ ,
'N III liiktnllVlir Ii-iirliiii | > iit'N
i\iiiiiiiH : iii tin * nviioMiiinn
Henry C. WarJ of the Sixteenth
United St. tea Infantry , the officer who will
ha\o charge of the War department ex
hibit ut the exposition , arrived In the city
jiHterday and Is Btoinlng at the Millard -
lard hotel. The captain Avll ] make Omaha
Itls hindquarters until the exposition Is over
and will devote his time to making arrangu-
mcr.ts for the Installation of the exhibit
and conferring with the ex | > osltlan olllUalK
regarding other matters In connection with
the affair.
To a Ueo representative Captain Ward
stated tlat the exhibit to ho made by the
War department at the TransmlfsieslppI
Imposition would bo much larger and more
extensive In every way than the exhibit
made at Nashville "All of the material
comprli'ng ' the exhibit &t Nashville , " nald
he , "was returned to Washington after tbe
exposition cloned and the material to bo
exhibited at Omaha will bo now. It will
comprise a lar v amount of material which
will bo prepared especially for tbls exposl-
t'on ' and will be one of the best exhibit. . !
over made by the department This mater al
will not be seat hero until the building Is
eomplcted end ready to reecho It "
Captain Ward U accompanied by Jcucpti
J Hlttlnger , quartermaster tergcant , who
was on dutj with the captain at NashvU'o
and former expositions.
x n IlnuiUfii > Iiui.
Bpeelul Olllccr lirovvn hud n conflict with
n drunken man at Fifteenth nnd Karntim
streets Sunday night xvliifh resulted
In xuveral euta and brulsen about
his dice. The man emerged from
the nlli-y and sprang upon tbe
olllrer without warning. Ho VVUM later
found to In ; mentally unbalanced from the
effect of alcohol ,
mii.i\v VOMITS ins tu'ii/r.
Durn ( KIHIVh > lie I'il unoil III *
Itrnttirr niiil STutor.
SUISUN , Cal. . Feb. 7 Frank Dellew has
repeated to the district attorney bU confes
sion of the murder of bis brother und sister
He 1ms msde only A few new statements
Ho said that before bo left the ranch on
the afternoon of the * Jay ne put the poison
In the kettle , ho emptied the powder out
of Its original package and folded U In a
newspaper , throwing nvv , y the box In front
of the rancb house Ho thinks he burned
this paper We aho said ! "When 1 held
Susie's hand , while she vvak dying.'I did not
give her water or broth to drink or anj-
thlng else All that I gave her was some
Ice It Is not true that my brother Tom
knew anj thing of the poisoning , cither before
or after It h > ppcnd Ho Is cntlrel ) Inno
cent. I am sorry for Tom and Arthur , but
I do not see what they want to worry for. "
Arthur Hellew crloJ bitterly when ho met
bis brother In his cell , but the prisoner
siemrd stolid.
"Tell mo with jour own lips , Frank , " said
Arthur , "that > ou have made this confes
sion. I ran hardly bellnvo It "
"That's what I did , " was the answer "It
Is true. 1 killed Susie t'ml Louis , but I
don't really know why I did It. "
The murderer has expressed a desire to
plead guilty , but rather hesitated about this
after a visit from his attorney , Rccs Clark.
The attorney askc-J permission of Sheriff
Ross to bring n phjslclnn to the jail vv th
him. and there Is little doubt that this re
quest me'ans that Insanity has been chosen
ns the line of defense that will be1 adopted
The case- will be brought before the grand
jury o.i Tue-wlaj Under Sheriff Robinson
xva Watchman Wells thought Tr.ink Hel
lew tried to commit suicide last night by
putting u handkerchief down his throat
\\V1N bavg he thinks the attempt was made ,
but Ilcllewlisorouslj denied It.
n vs > rnno'.s I'Hivvrn
VV. K. II MoKc li UIIONOM lo I'llMlNll
Some uf TlM'lli.
NKW YORK , Keb 7 Ihcie Is nt least ie
man In Gicater Now York today who holds
the hipplni'Sfl , honor and fortune of a greu
manj iieciile In the hollow ot bis hand. Tills
man is W i : 1) Stokes Mr. Stokes caire
Into possession of all lh < > private tapers of
William M Tweed several joiri ago H
has made a thorough otuilj of them with the
Idea of writing a book on the subject Ac
cording to his story , moreMian $11000001
was paid bj fie "Doss" for bribes and buj
Ing up Individuals that othe' ocopleto this
i'ay know nothing about The evidences of
thcb" pajmrnts are btlll In existence , with
the endorsement of the forties directly eon
corned The surrender of Tweed by the
Sfinlsh goveminent alter hH escape from
l.udlow street Jail Is described by the ciauerp
in ro session of Mi Stukcs ns imlltlcal vv < 1
to secure the e le"tlon of n republican prosl
lent Mr Stokes * ajs > also tint there is T
real confession of Tweed In existence , whloi
Is likely to be publib'ird and which Is bound
to cirato the liveliest kind of a stir He sa\i
Tweed's diary Ib the most Interesting of a ! '
the prners H contains references to evei
mio that called on htm and his business
showing that noatlj cverj ono could be
trc-ilcd with on n casli bas'8. The pipsr.
wcro dellveird to Air Stokes by n mau vvhoir
1 o had befiluidnd
NO iMtocunss Tim vim
CoKon VII1I > > < rl1.f siru-ls In 1111 tlic
I'lMii'lli AVroK.
NCW nnnroilll , Mnes. , Tab. 7. Tlio be
ginning of the fourth week pf the cotton
inl'l operatives' strike showed nothing but
tbo same apparent , determination on both
sides to stick to their irRpscllvo position"
until the other jlclds Secretary Cunnano of
the Joint strike committee bns Issued n
btntement sajlng that the total amount of
moncj received up to Saturday , Februniy 5
was ? 1 343.
"In looking over the amounts received
ijs Secretary Cunnano , "there Is evc > ry In
dication that Now Cngland Is beginning to
wako up. The peopleof Lowell , Lawrence
and Iloston , in particular , give encouraging
IlIDDCFORD , Me. , Fob 7 The arbitral lo
committee of the Hoard of Trade lies as yet
undo no progress ) In the proposed effo-ta to
remedy the htrlko situation here A commu-
nlcat'on has been sent by the committee U
the Dressers' union. whHi Inaugurated tin
strike , oxprc'-cliiK the willingness of the committee
mittoo to tiv to open negotiations between
thn mill management and the ope-atlves , K
the strikers u > desire No ans.vcr to the
communication lias vet been -ecclved The
corporations remain closed.
I'VTIIOM'/IS VMljItlOVX IM US'l'lf\
i \Viiiiiiin nf Tlllo Seenron u
DuKolii 1)1 nice.
MINNKAPOLIS. Fcb 7. A report to the
Journal from Fargo N. D. says- Satur
day night State'n Attorney Preil Morrllla se
cured a divorce for a dlstl.nguls'icd . Ppin'sh
womrn Crucltj woo the ground upon which
the decree was secured and there was no
tight rrado on the suit bj ner hiibband The
p'alntlff w.a Counters Marie do li Ooneeplo i
de la Cantcra y Clark do Gobel y Fenian
ce7 ! The dcfcndcm was Juan C Gobel j
Perncnde ? Thej were married at Madild
In Varcb. 1SD2 The woman belongs to one-
of the oldest and wealthiest families In Spiln
and owns laigo estate * In both Cuba aid
Spain , Minister Woodford of the United
States resides In one of her houses at Mad
rlil and the woman Is second In rank inJ
wraith rnly to the family of the premier
She came- hero eovcra ! monlits ago , accom
panied by a maid and spninis to have a mor
tal frar of pnb'lcltj. She ban scarcelj left
tier hotel since coming hero except to go to
her attornoj'is ofllccAftei her separation
from her lnsband two jeara ago the Bpent
some time In Florida
I'usrvi. IMI : > M > I ns TV POLITICS.
Xo Cc'iKTiil Iluli * HH n ( iiijilo for Tliclr
Irllon ,
CHICAGO , IVb 7 Postmatter Gordon to
day iccelvcd a letter from First Assistant
Postmaster General Heath In regard to what
aaiou employes cf the postal survlco would
bo allow oj to tuko on political
The ccniiiuinkatlon statej that the depart
ment had no special rule In such matters
and that they prcforrc-d not to make nny
Mr Hcuth said , however , that there would
bo no objection to the cinplnycb asserting
their political rights , but that there might
bo cbjeetloir to the maniifr In vvlilr-h lhis <
lights were attert&d Ho stated that It was
the object of the department to do evc-rj
thing possible for tbo gcod of the- depart
in eat nnd that nothing would bo dune to
binder the carrying out of that object
Sometime ago John L Manning , president
of thu Union Veteran club , addressed it com
munication to Postmaster Gordon asking
what liberties the cmplojen would bo allovvol
In political uffuln/ The postinawton referred
the matter to tbo department nt Washing
ton.
V iii'liiir Mm
8T LOUIS , Feb 7-Tlie property of the
Anchor line , which recently failed , wns put
on Halo at Cairo , III. , today by tbo United
Slates marwhnl. The Mcnuicr jji | ] c\lv \ w it
sold to Captain Sims of St. Louis for J''ilV )
The upprnlK'daluo of the vcs'c'l 'Mm lll-
Wfl Ocorge H. IJdulll of Nc-w Yoik , t1 < '
f'nrc-vv of HiuiiiKlli- , III. , < < aptaln T II
HlniH of Bt. Loiiln und Captnln H it Jiiadlcii
of Cairo uoro the only bidders. It IK Ken
t-rally understood tint Captain films pur-
rbased the bout In the Intcrect of the
Tennessee Rlve-r Packet company.
Ht-iirliiMT Sinlili-iil > KiulN ,
IIOSTON. MIIHS , Fcb. 7.- The unexpected
withdrawal uf the petition of Henij M
\Vliltrie'y , president of tbo MaHH ichuKetif
Pipe Line OIIB company rijlng foi the
npproval of the IHHUO of $ lW ) , iO of Ktorx
IMH hrouglii to an abrupt < owea hearing
liefortt tbo lloird of On * find Irtrlc LUht
CoininlHtloncTH. The action of tin- pipe lln
company an far an tlio procicdlnuK today
ore concunc'd , appeared Iti lie on account
of the question of the legality of the at
provul of tbo LominlajloiKra aliould It bv I
BlV n. '
EXETER IS BADLY SCORCHED
Nebraska Town Suffers from nn Ettily
Morning Firo.
FOURTEEN BUSINESS HDUSES CONSUMED
All lint TIIII Iliillillniti mi OK * AVv * |
Side f tin * TIIuu DrNtrii } t-il
_ liiiH > < \ < > r >
IU-n > ) ,
fiXBTEK , Nob. , Feb. 7.-Spcclnl ( Tele
gram. ) A bad nro occurred hero
early this morning. The west sldo
of the business portion of town
Is burned excepting Wallace & Co 's bank , a
brick building , and Dli.iieon's restaurant , n.
frame. Losses ns follows. C. 11 Wtill-
brandt , frame building , $100 ; lleardslcy
Stsler , stock mllllnerj- , total loss , J.OO , J.
0 Wilson , general merchandise , loss , build-
IIIK. n.OOO , Block , $1.800. Insured , building ,
$500 , stock , $1 000 ; Mrs Carrie West , build
ing , $ SOO , no Insurance ; J. C McLccse ,
auction stock , total , $400 ; J. P. Wilson ,
restaurant , stock and household goods ,
$ SOO , Insurance KM , O P. linker , dental
outfit and building , total no Insurance , V
if Elska , gcneipt merchandlbo and build
ing , $11.000 , Insurance' $5 MH ) T H L Leo
ft Son , lianlwnio and bulldlucr , $ L',200 , In-
suruiCH $1,700 ; Mrs. Leiler , building , $300 ,
total loss , Insurance $300 , Miller Heller ,
riocerlcs $550 , Insurance' $100 , Kollv Hroa. ,
meat market , $ . ' 00 , Union Stock Yards
National bank building total loss , $ , " 00 , W.
II lajlor , general merchandise and bulld-
Ini , , $10,000 , Insurance , building and stock ,
$ .1,000
ATLNTIC CITV SCOItCIIKI )
ATLANTIC CITV. N. J , Feb 7 A fire
which originated in the AiMdeniy of Muslo
this niornlni ; distroved n half block of
Imlldlngh , entalllni ; a lo s of nbout $ R& oni )
before being got mider coiitiol The origin
of tin tire Is a inji'terj Olllcer Reblnson dla-
covcred smoke lusulni ; from under the > boa d
walk In front of the Acadcmj of Music A
gene-u.1 alarm WCH s < > nt In but before the
engines arrived the Ac idem ) of Music was
enveloped In flames 'Ihe flro spread to
Lapro's confictloiu-rj store and there com-
inunlcUcd to the reui of the Ilrvn Miwr
hotel 'Hie IHincs quliklj spread to Ilaclmr'a
fttrnlturo store Ruttcr's school of phieno-
logy. M.ver's photograph illi-rv. the Gold
Mlno Until lioiMiv ) . Smith's rolling choir
establishment and a portion of the vltascope
ixulors on the boird walk
For a time it looked as t'lOUiOi the Hi-rkelev
hotel , the largest hostelrj on Kentucky
avcnno , would BUI el ) be dostroved Tie
1 car of the hotel adjoined thu burned build
ings and the stiff westward wind fanned the
Ik-imiH tow ml the big house Several lines
ol hobo we're run o.it of the- hotel windows
and the side of the building and surionnl-
hiK propci tj wib the ouglilj di curbed Iho
guests In the Ilcrkclej hotel hurrlcdlj picked
their clothing and prepared foi a hastj e > xlt ,
but the wind shifted at this time and this
ilono saved the hotel Tiie lloor of the bl-j
beard walk for a dlb nnc-o of half u sqmre
was bo badly damaged by the Ilamea that It
will Imo to lin rebuilt
Thc > heavlobt leoorn an < Academy ot
Music , $30,000 ; Insurance Mimll , owned by
Jobepli Frallngei , Lapte-H confectionery
store , $5.000 ; Gold Mine Ivaths $4,000 , owned
by P S. Mcrvlne ; Stewart McShea's house
hold goods , $2,000 , Urjn .Mavvr hotel $10 , .
000 ; Hach.ir's fiirnlture > store , $1,000
Owing to the fict th-jt the property de-
strojcd wns nil beach fionl buildings there
'a very little Insinance thn Iniiiranre rom-
panlea icfining to take the risks except nt
nigh rates The Academy of Music was
ichtrojcd b ) llro In 1 ! > J3
ALI1ANY Ind , IV > 7 The nre which
threatened laH might to destroy the busl-
ess portion of Albany was subdued after
' .ours of hard fighting and the- llamcieon -
Ini'd to David Spolrher's 1 lor-K The leas
MIH Irss tl.in J25 000 , wol I'Mined
LONDON. Feb 7. Dispitohcs Just rc-
rnlved from Manila capital of the Philippine
Ihlnnils aiinounco th it 200 bul'dings ' , someof
them of Importance , 'avo ' been destrojed by
IreDAYTON.
DAYTON. O Fe-b 7 The works of the
liradlpy Twine and Cnrlasc company were
almost totnllv ilratroji-d bv ilro todaj with
i loss of $75 OOOPPMSO unknown
KANSAS CITY. Fob 7. A special to the
Star from Hoiilson Ark . sajs The Hill
Fontaine Cotton Co's largo brick block
was entire ! ) drstrojcl bj nin tolny Total
'ess , $50000 , Insnraiifp imnll I'rlnclpil
lo'-ero nip Ilairlson Piipnlj company.
Hedges liros Rnckit Klnrc , Cltl7onb' bank.
Fire undoubicdly Inccndlirj.
ntmiKi-llNl Sniltli'H VV orlc.
The evangellstlimeelliiFis at the First
United Prrs ! < > terlnn chinch contlniio to
i > row In Interest. Audlto-lnm und Sunday
bdiool room ? wcro ( lacked Sunday night to
hear Mr Smith's sermon on "Hepentanco
and ConvpiHlon " Tonight the pvaimi-lmt
will preach to men only , taking up three
things which liavo troubled many "Tho
Land of Nod , Where Cain Found His Wife , "
"Tho Slaughter of the Cnn-anltlsli Nations , "
mil "If Christ Was Horn of n Woni'in Whv
Wa HP Not n Sinner" All men nnd bovs
over II jears of ago mo InvltPd Tomorrow
night Mr Smith will tell the Htory of his
IKo nnd ccnvirMnn The-io will bo meetIngs -
Ings each evening during thu week , cxcept-
ng Saturday , at 8 o'clock Afteinnoii mee't-
liips nt 3 o'clock Tnculaj mi Friday In
clusive Piof A. Dolmoro Cheney will hln
each ovenlng.
lint i-riiiiii-nl In HIM
C.iptnln JOIICH chief iiini | term iili r of the
DcpirtmPiit of tne Plattp , has re > relvpil au
thority fioin Wi hlnKtnn lo nlveillsii for
hliln foi 110 p iik nnd ilillng mil' ) s to npbiii )
lliot-o vvhldi vveru rccintly HI-II ! from the di-
pnrtmi-nt on tin1" n lit f exposition to Al isli i
mid which annov on thdr way to the
fromi north Tinmuli s wirp taken fr in
I > "orIn KuHKc'llVasli.ildn anil ItiibliiHini and
the ones to be purchased will dltitilbilted
among these- thrift POH'H
I'liiilit lnlrriiilN | n I'liiM-rnl ,
I.nXINGTON , Ky , 1M ) . 7Si vi ral
thousand mgropH i-oncruKiitPil at the Audi-
toiliun 'jdny , uhi'f the fiinpi il of the IH--
gro HaptlHt prpiulur Stanford J , Howard ,
v. aH to liein.ichil | The woolen nti ps to
tinAiiilltoiluin , ndi n vvltb llircu H < oru
vvomon , broke down Four wn-inin suffi-n d
liroki n IPKH and many < itlui4 win- mon or
'CHS BOV < TP | > ' brulKi-d A runU PiiKiiul and
tillfuller. . il was plP.irliril Mi a 111 Me chiirrh ,
During HIP pinlrthi HionUiy 1'iotinant
I/jilscopal ehiirph eaiiKlit Hrp and half nn
hour later thu Ontinnry Mi thoillHt chiirch
wan on lire. Hotli flu B were ( julikly ex-
tlnuiilHhcd.
In l.i-iivi- I In * I'orl.
HOl'STON. T x . Fell 7Tho iitc-ainHhlp
nriiintlHler H.illid today from Hablnc Piss ,
the now harbor on the nuiithP.iBt eoiiHt , for
Liverpool It if the Ilrnt Kuropi an HlPinn r to
K.il1 from that port. Whiletbprp him burn
twenty-four fpct of vnter on the bur for
IAO yearn , nothing him hitherto IK on nhlp-
tied cxtc-itt liimbir , if wh'f'i ' J7WWO worth
VVIIH font out last > rir The Drunu iKlT
c-iirrled out u gineial iarxo The onii cugo
IF "Aortb more Hun , all of hint year'H lum
ber HhliimentH , belnw v tliiiil at f ftUM Thei
Hnildin Hall will liit-'ln loulliiB tomoirow
nt Snlilne I'.IHH with 22 , < 0 lialeB of c-otton.
for Liverpool.
viliH-r * hlnrl it > < -vt VIn'iiienl. .
MOItaANTOWN. W Vn , Fell 7 The
movement umoiu. the coil mlneiH of Wcut
Virginia to Hi-parnte themHolv from the
I'nltid Mine Workirx' uhxoclnllon anil form
in Indepcmlint oreinUni " U r < tdly
KiilnliiK b'round Mure than 3 00 mlncrx and
lehly operaloiH linvi joined the lndc [ > pnd-
i in movtiiunt u | to ( Lite ami t.imu are
lirtnhlng ever ) Irllunx to liiar up m the
mlncrH and operatcrH v.ho are still In thei
older orK'.inlz.itk'ii lo htivi them eomc In
t < new The Kanavvhi and Nfw rlvt-r
m it1 * iivn taken thn lead In the light
the United MlnuVorheru. .