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Mtss CAMUJELI., of Ohio, • i 4V- %,;v r •» • v. <••-> VTITLYKB, MTOREM PUBLISH* ILLINOIS. WORLD IN A WORD. awaraed [ prohfcitoty law. Thirty*wvan KM w nrw 9t5,0004iBiOM by the jury in her breach- i national prohibition, one of whom is of-promise rait Charles Arbaokle, i * Governor, the millionaire ooffee merchant of New! - f York. It is thought the case will be ap» , Donntie and i transmitted Over the Electric Willi. Bailroad, and Oommeroiil Jews, Aocidents, Fires, Grimes, Eto., Etc. LITEST DISPATCHB8. . KNIGHTS MUST GO. Corbin Declares His Intention of Powderly's Ken from the Bead- A SPECIAL dispatch from Heading, Pa., #>f»: "The Reading Railroad officials de- twatuted to oat loose from the Knights of XieltOt, «nd that organization will not bo allowed to interfere in the company's affairs •gallic The action of Mr. Corbin in refus­ ing to tie at with his miners through their loaders is sufficient proof of this, PSP9? r AUSTIN COBB1H. * tt makes very little difference wow what the men do. The war is to be Mttmd at any cost. There is consider­ able aaaasiness in the coal regions, partic- lariy among the most conservative miners, MpTa.Cinlara is not unlikely. It is be- w*i that many of the old miners will dsssst the ranks of the Knights and return towork next week. Many of them ore jpanlrfiin np their effects preparatorv to Ming. Xany will go West.* -^ FIRE LOSSES^ MgHaae at Indianapolis-Sioux city, Iowa, aad ftnr Paw, Mich.. Scorched, inuin the wholesale district of la- burned four large business . .causing a loss of between $500,00® t §600,000. A fire at Sionx City, Iowa, 1 oat the Martin <fc Schulein building "-*1" ~*~eet, leaving nothing but the j. The loss to building and i stocks therein is about $50,000. several stores in Paw Paw, including « bank, newspaper office, 4>h gallery, drag store and saloon, i is about 00,000. By the destruc- . of Kohlsaat'e bakery, on Clark street, ~ a loss of $100,000 was entailed. f .* Printers' Striken. •"" OYER on® hundred printers in Louis- villfl, Kv., a third of all the union printers in the city, have been on the Courier- pay-roll. All these, except six, Mi, a strike. The managers of the raay they will take any of the men : irho chooee to come independently, .;g.,̂ f̂rtm^s t̂in>e on the office shall be a t" Philadelphia Typographical Union Ms Issued orders calling out all union fat flie large job-printing offices of & Co., W. F. Fell & Co., and & Harvey. The object of the » ii to bring these offices to the union Nidholls Beats MoEnery. Ill AM Louisiana Democratic State Con- VOUtiou, at Baton Bouge, Franeis T. Nich- for Governor on the The McEnery men then moved intake the nomination unanimous, which fa**- The convention was in session A Deadly Feud. ̂Jfc tha war of extermination between fta MeCoys, of Pike County, Kentucky, <tB*|fce Hatfields, of Logan County, West VWgi»Ha,_tliree of theHatfields have been Istled. The authority are powerless to liop the deadly feud. Think That Strikes Are a Failure. TfeB Illinois State Convention of Trades i in session at Peoria, adopted a HHST-T--T- declaring strikes and boycotts a iJMoca and the ballot the only mmnn «( .#1*1 wing wrong. ifflSinlflalr educational bill again eame up in y^m WmUoa the 13th inat, and Mr. Gray of made a constitutional argument >atast it. Me. V&nce of North Carolina ad- ptSSMtM Senate on Mr. Brown's resolution *Si i teternal revenue taxation. The lines, ***Hi ml been drawn closely by the Prosi- •njf"age on the subject of the surplus aumaa. Ihe contest had to be fought jttarely and the question had to be de- aneqai vocally on its merits. North Caro- be said, objected more to the loieollKtioa than to the amouut of and spirits tax. Mr. Stewart of jrOBeced an aiueudinent to the bill pro- [tarcbe investmeot of the surplus, which tBSwat any person may deposit at any °* *--ay office cold or silver bullion Weelve certificates therefor. In the Representatives Mr. Criap ( of j !iIi °* tlie Committee on Eiee- •rtedou the case of A. E. Redstone, : JS».rSvf.be<!n «,ect*d to Congress >F«th California l»i strict, that no i vi- n_ed been filed and there was not 1 JPp®*® 1^* contest. Mr. Hatch of 1 x!?J? Committee on Agriculture, bill making appropriations to carry the psevteicna of the act to establish tal agricultural stations. XASi; ilo 4hne hundred staneeullw because they were required to hours per d*y during the wintei iltadiand express train which left Toeaday afternoon was wrecked ; HpurethUl bridge, which spans the fewer between Bradford and and cine persons were killed r hart more or less seriously, oansiated of eight cars. The i notatep at Bradford, and was Speed. The Georgetown I atanding on the track near [ houae at the Bradford end for the express to to Haverhill. As the ex- ed the <ourve two of its cars i and went crashing into the : houae, demolishing it. In this *>er of section hands were eat- Two of them were killed. ; crashed mto the tank house foundation out, letting the [down upon ft* mr, crashing top of it and doing fearful The next ear behind tele- ~ lof it, adding to tfca and wounded were t4«o«an. The oars behind »«kndf»wn alongside tbo Oaorge- pealed. A COMMITTER of business men from the Schuylkill region, says a Beading dispatch, went to Philadelphia on Wednesday to eonfer with President Corbin in order to induce him to take action to settle the strike. Snch towns as St. Clair, Shenan­ doah, Pottsville, Mahanoy City and other places were represented. President Corbin received the delegation cordially and the situation was discussed. The delegation report that President Corbin refused to re­ cede from his position, that the miners' grievances would only be considered singly and alone, and that as far as the freight handlers and trainmen are concerned the company will maintain that it can employ, whomsoever it pleases. : - • " west: * ;• : . JAUM S. ROUJWSI «t wje time prominent in Missouri politico, died re­ cently at his home in Columbia, Mo. AT Brunswick, Mo., J. C. Talmage, of tho late A. A. Talmage, shot and killed the night telegraph operator, C. J. Tidd. They quarreled over a telegraph order in the depot office. In the scuffle that ensued Tidd got Talmage down, and was beating him, when Talniag^ drew his revolver and shot him through the heart, killing him almost instantiv. IN the Iowa Legislature at Des Moines, on Tuesday, Senator James F. Wilson was nominated by acclamation to Bucceed him­ self, Mr. Hepburn and other candidates withdrawing. The Senator announced that upon the expiration of his second term he wonld retire to private life. C. B. TODD, of Chicago, was one of the members of the jury that fonnd the An­ archists guilty of murder. Speaking of the matter the other day he said: "I was never troubled over threatening letters, but I have been loaded up with them, to a large extent. But that was before the date of the execution. Since the men were hanged I have never had a threatening let­ ter. When the trial was over, and during it, I was constantly receiving letters, almost all of them threatening personal violence, but when the last act was concluded the lottaw stopped and I have had inum •inmi " M L A B O R ' 7 * v AT a conference in Jersey City between representatives of the various trades in­ volved in the Beading Btrike, says a Naw York telegram, it was decided that the men should be ordered out of the Wyoming mine. This action, it was said, would prac­ tically stop work in the anthracite coal re- gion. A prominent member of District As­ sembly 49 said that the Knishta had fully made up their minds to fight-this strike to the end, and would make BO attempt now to secure arbitration. Closing the Wyo- mines, he added, would result in thousands of men being thrown out of work for want of fuel to run factories and mills. A READING (Pa.) dispatch of Tuesday says: "Not a single colliery, either owned by the Beading Bailroad Company or by individuals, is at work. There is it total suspension of mining everywhere. The strikers are very firm, and claim that they are now in a position to dictate terms. Prominent Beading officials say that if the miners would drop the cause of the striking railroaders, no doubt Mr. Corbin would treat with them; but ha will never consent to the re-employment of his old who have been discharged. The miners say they will not forsake their brethren on the railroad, and the breach is apparently growing wider daily. The Beading officials are not as cheerful as they were a vreek ago. They did not think it possible that the miners would turn out so Bolidly. It is one of the most complete strikes on record. That of 14Z5 was nothing to comiwra with SOUTH. ATTENTION has been called by Judge Spear, United States District Judge at Sa­ vannah, Ga., in his charge to the grand jary, to the conflict between the Federal and State laws on the subject of the liquor traffic, the State prohibiting and the Fed­ eral Government granting licenses for the sale of liquor. It is suggested that a me­ morial be addressed to Congress on the subject. VAST sums of money have been loaned by foreign capitalists upon farm mortgages in Georgia at 12 per cent. Jndge Speer, of the United States Court, has decided snch interest usurious and the loans forfeit­ ed. and the Shylocke will contest the de­ cision by appeal. SIXTEEN leading members of the First Baptist church at Jackson, Tennessee, and three newspapers in different parts of the State are defendants in an action for $50,- 000 damages brought by Bev. Frederick Howard, pastor of the Central Baptist church in Jackson. They are charged with making statements injurious to his character. THE Mexican Central passenger train due at £1 Paso, Wednesday morning, was held up about three hundred miles south of El Paso by a band of eight robbers. A considerable sum in .gold and bills was taken, but a quantity df silver was left be­ hind. None of the passengers was mal­ treated. IN the case of the Bev. Thomas P. Byan the Methodist minister who was murdered in Boane County, West Virginia, last Oc­ tober, and for which crime three men were lynched, two detectives have reported that the lynchers were the actual murderers of the minister; that they are members of an oath-bound society known as the "Consoli­ dated Band," having grips, pass-words, etc., and that they have committed many outrages in that region. WASHINGTON: SECBXTABT LAMAR has tendered to the President his resignation as Secretary of the Interior, and it has been accepted by the President. Mr. Lamar's letter is dated Jan. 7S and closes as follows: In terminating my relations to you as a mem* aer of your official family, I desire to express my gratelul sens* of the obligation I am under to you personally ior the consideration and kindness which have always characterized your treatment of itie, and for the generous confi­ dence and support which yon have steadily given me in the trying and arduous adminis­ tration of this department. I shall always be proud to have been associated witn the honor- able record you will leave upon the cage of your country s history. The President, in accepting the m>pa> tion. says: I am sure that the close confidence and the relations of positive affection which have grown np between us need no expression or interpre­ tation. And jet 1 find it utterly impossible foe me to finish this note without assuring yon that the things which have characterized yoot conduct and bearing in the position from which you now retire--all your devotion to your coun­ try and your chiaf; your self-sacrificing care and solicitude for public interests; all the ben- ut which your official service has conferred upon your fellow-countryrifcn, and all the afle®. tion and kindness you have so often exhibited toward me personally--I shall constantly re­ member with tenderness and gratitude. WASHINGTON telegram: "Attorney- General Garland has appointed Jndge Sol Claypool of Indianapolis to assist the Uni­ ted States District Attorney in the prose­ cution of the tally-sheet election forgers at that city. The Hon. W. M. Henderson,* WH*AT--No!"iWhite! representing the committee of 100, an or- r _ K K®-!t R#d ganization composed of prominent men in - ~ - *" either political party, for the purpose of purifying the elections in Indiana, Tues­ day filed a petition with the Attorney-Gen­ eral, asking for the employment of Judge Claypool in the prosecution of the indict­ ments now pending, and to have a vigorous prosecution. Mr. Henderson has been as­ sured that the Government will lend every assistance, to the end that justice may be done." ^ FOREIGH. THE sentence of two months' imprison­ ment paaeed upon Wilfred Blunt for hav­ ing addressed a proclaimed meeting at Woodford has been confirmed by the oosrt to which an appeal was taken. PRODUCERS of the genuine Champagne wines in France have resorted to the courts successfully to prevent the sale of alleged champagnes which are not made of grapes grown in that province. THE death is announced from London pf Bonamy Price, M. A, Professor of Political Economy in Oxford University, and an eminent writer on finance and political economy. He was 87 years old. A CABLE dispatch from London states that^- Thoosaads of persons packed Fleet street, attracted by a publio uwee that the great Sullivan would t>e at the Sporuman office at two o'clock. The police sent a special detail, whose members had all thev could do to sup­ press a riot. Sullivan's business was to sign with any or all corners for a light, and he had Ms money with him. A long wait, and nobodv Came. Sullivan grew furious, and called Smith, Kilrain, and Mitchell, especially the last-named, the hardest kind of names. In vain his friends tried t " soothe him. Alter an hour's waiting the police came up, scared but deferential, to know if the big fellow couldn't do someth*ng to quiet the crowd down stairs. This touched Sullivan's .ts.ea.rt. and he said: "I'll go down and give 'em a chance to see me." So be went down and smiled benign an tlv, while the crowd surged about him, patted his brawn and called him pretty names. He went through the crowd line a snow-plow, took a cab and drove away, fallowed still by shouting, surging tlmisands. GENERAL. ACTING SECBETABY OF THE INTEBIOB MULDBOW has requested the Attorney General to institute suit in the name of the United States against the State of Iowa for the recovery of about twenty-two thousand five hundred acres of land in O'Brien County, t-aid to have been wrongfully pat­ ented to the State for the benefit of the Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Compa­ ny. It is claimed that the land was never earned by the railroad company under thq granting act. The acting Secretary has affirmed the decision of the Land Commis­ sioner of Feb. 17, 1H86, holding for rejec­ tion the selection by the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company as indemnity certain lands in the Wausau (Wis.) land district, because the same appears from the field notes of the United States Surveyor to be swamp lands. THE largest gun ever made of steel in one solid casting, and one of the three big guns recently ordered by the United States Government, was cast at the Pittsburg Steel Company's works in that city on Wednesday. The completed gun will be 268 inches long and will weigh nine tons. Its largest diameter, measuring from the outside, will be, at the breech, 23 inches; itB smallest diameter, at the muzzle, 10 inches. The wall, between the bore and the outside, at the breech, will be 7£ inches thick. The pressure in the chamber will be 15 tons to the inch, and the muzzle velocity will be 2,000 feet to the second. If the experiment is successful, it is claimed that the guns can be cast for $3,300, whereas, if made on the old plan, it would cost over $20,000. THE Drexel-Morgan syndicate has suf­ fered a defeat at the hands of Senator Gorman, who, it is supposed, represents Robert Garrett. There was to have been a meeting of Baltimore and Ohio stock­ holders in Baltimore tr sanction the issue of $5,000,009 of preferred stock which was to have been taken by the syndicate. This would have given them control of the road, and this Mr. Garrett by no means wants. In order to have a quorum to do business 100,001 shares of the stock must be repre­ sented at a meeting. This Senator Gor­ man prevented by holding out the city and State interests of 45,000 shares, so that but 76.000 shares were represented at the meeting. The proposed issue of bonds, therefore, fails lor the present. MARKET REPORTS. CiTTLl Hoos NBW YOltK. «S.03 0 C OO £.25 & G.OOn .94 .90^ <9 .01 POLITICS. £X-8ENATOB JOSEPH E. MCDONALD, of Indiana, who has just returned from Wash­ ington, was asked at Indianopolis if he thought a tariff-reduction bill would be passed at this session of Congress, to which he replied: I douot if a bill reducing the tariff all along the line can get through under the circum­ stances, but I am inclined to believe that some •ort of a compromise measure will finally be w', V°°K upon the matter as Home what OATS--White.. POM--New ifess CHICAGO. CATTLE--Choice to Prime bteers Good Common to Fair Hoos--Shipping Grades FLOUB--Winter Wheat . . WHEAT--No. 2 Bed Winter CORN--No. 2.. OATS--No. 2 BUTTEB--Choice Creamery Fme Dairy CHEKSF.--Full Cream, new..... Eoos--Fresh POTATOES--Choloe, per bu POBK--Mess MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash Coax--No. 3 OATS--No. 2 White RTK--NO. 1 J. POEK--Mess ,* „ ST, LOUI& WHEAT--NO. 2 Bed. COUN--Mixed OATS--Cash PORK--Mess TOLEDO, WHXAT--Cash. ..., CORN--Cash. .62 .40 13.25 5.2S 4.25 3.50 6.2S 8,75 .84 .48 .81)4 JO & .24 id .11*4 2J <», a .68 '<« .46 <315.70 0 5.75 & 4.75 & 4.25 <3, 6.00 (ft 4.25 .BS <A .40 .80 15.00 .76 .49 .84 .63 15.00 .38 .26 -12!* .22 015.75 & .76* .49 <4 $ :£* @13.50 «B2y£4 .83*4 .47Vi<|- .48*4 .31!$ -« .32* 2*00 <313.50 J^ktful, however, and I think it can only be OATS--No. I White, aocomplisbcd after a nard struggle. There will doubtless be a long and tedious debate, and tnere is evidence that some of it will prove to oe rather heated. CIECULAKB were sent out from Dubuque (says a telegram from that city) to 100 of the most prominent Republicans in Iowa, including the Governor, all the State ofei- cials, and leading legislators, questioning them as to their choice for President. lie- ££• £roBl "eventy have been re- . n4tor Allison leads the ii!r 0 „ v only for first but for second choice. Out of seventy who answered, thirty-eight name Allison as first choice and eighteen as seeond choice. Mr. j1**® 18 hrst choice of twenty-three and the second choice of eleven. Lincoln is not the first choice of any, but the sec­ ond choice of two. Every State official ' ^"160.u R8 first choice except the j Auditor, who is for the nominee. All but I fclTtfr swnrllli t lith J , °° . . . *eventy for protection, "WW""* \ and all b«t four oppose ihe repeal of the bjETBOi'tf'" BEE * CATRI'L Hoos Bhf.EP "WHKAT--No. 1 White COBN--No. 2. OATS--No. 2 Whit«. CINCINNATI WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN-- No.2 J J J OATS--No. 2 Pome--Mess "" LIVE Hoas BUFFALO. CATTUB Hoos WHEAT--No. 1 Hard. II COBN--No. 3 Yellow INDIA If APOLI8. BEBF CATTLE Hoos Bhkkp WHEAT--NO. 2 Bed... COBN OATS--Mixed ' EAST tllBERTT. fllRU--Ptine Fair Common. Km, ....... ,87 ,52 .36 4.00 4.*0 4.50 .88 .52* •30>4 -.87 .53 & .35* « .89 ;* .5 2U® .85 15.25 6.25 9 4.75 * 5.2S 5.50 .88 .53* .90 :£* 15.75 <& 6.00 LOO 0 5.50 6.25 0 6.00 90* J .91* .67 & .67* 4.00 6.25 8.75 .84 .50 .33 5.00 4.25 3.50 @5.28 ® 6.00 & 4.7S m .85 ® .50* <3 .88* f MI as its THE PACIFIC RAILROADS. A Story of Jobbery and Robbery Not Fully Revealed by tbfuQf* ficial Investigations. the Sohemsrs Lined Their Pocket* at the Expense of the Gov- : eminent. A (he OoteriMett *t Its Dues--Policy of Charles bran­ ds Adams. • Qfoan the Chteaso Tribunal ,< ™ majority and minority repbruTol the Pacific Railroad Commissioners, startling as they are in their arraigment of the men that have mismanaged and wrecked these corporations, faH far short of revealing the actnal condition of affairs. The history of both the Central and Union Pacific Companies is full of rottenness from the start. It may almost be said that they "were conceived in sin and born in iniqui­ ty." The original idea of building a rail­ road across the western half of the con­ tinent, from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, was a grand one, but if'it had been left to the honest men that pro­ jected it, to accomplish the result, it would have been deferred many years. As orig­ inally chartered and surveyed, the Pacific Road was divided into two sections--the first, the Union Pacific, to run direct from Omaha to Ogden; the second, the Central Pacific, from Ogden to San. Francisco. The enterprise was too heavy and costly and the results too uncertain to attract private capital to any extent, and Congress, to insure construction, voted aid at an av­ erage of $32,000 a mile. The sharpers soon ascertained that this would amount to more than the actual cost of building, and began to flock in, vulture like, to feast on the financial vitals of the corporations. The history of the Union Pacific from this point is peculiarly interesting, and a fair reflex of the operations of both sec­ tions during the construction period. The men who, attracted by the big Government bonus, had embarked in the work and vir­ tually seized control of the company began to figure on a plan for securing all the £1 under possible. They had little, if any, ope in the future of the road, and were in for what could be made out of the con­ struction of it on the "addition, division, and silence" scheme. Prominent among these men were Dr. Durant, Vice Presi­ dent and General Manager of the company; the brainy but erratic George Francis Train, James Davis, and others more or less known to fame. Congress had wisely provided that the subsidy should be paid in installments only on the completion and acceptance of the road in fifty-mile sec­ tions. Durant and his associates were un­ able and unwilling to stand the cost of building the first section themselves, and the whole affair threatened to "die a-born- in'." At this juncture, George Francis Train, then the boss schemer and brains of the gang, came to the front with his Credit Mobilier, and showed his pals how to not only build the road without going down into their own pockets, but to shave off an extra share of the profits as well. It was under Train's inspiration that the road, instead of being built direct from Omaha to Ogden, a distance as the crow flies of about nine hundred miles, was twisted in and out like an ox-bow, until an extra one hundred were covered and on which the government subsidy was demanded and paid. Every conceivable plan for the diversion of money from the treasury of the government and pockets of innocent stockholders into the coffers of the construction ring was put on foot. Honest men, disheartened at the outlook, either retired voluntarily from active par­ ticipation in the coimcils of the company, or were rudely ^ioU aside by the man­ agers. When the condition of affairs had become so notorious as to call for Congres­ sional action the ring seemed to have a death grasp on the morals as well as the finances of the country. Men in high places--Senators, Representatives, Judges on the bench--obeyed its behests with a readiness that caused surprise, even to their masters who issued the command. Dissen­ sion followed dissension in the ranks of the ring, and change afier change was made in the directory and management of the com­ pany proper, but through it all the old idea of plunder survived, and the new comers were quickly introduced and initiated into the devious ways of their predecessors. And this ring was not always particular as to its methods of doing business. Dur­ ing the Durant dynasty, and when the road was getting well to the west of Cheyenne, one of the inside construction concerns, known as "Davis and Associates," had a contract for furnishing all the ties, bridge timbers, and lumber needed, from Chey­ enne west to Promontory Point, the real terminus of the road. This firm consisted of James Davis, M. B. Sprague, George Francis Train, and, as might be supposed, Dr. Durant. The latter's share was in the name of his brother Frank, and Train's was in the name of his beautiful wife, whose affections Durant is accused of hav­ ing by that time alienated and transferred to himself.as well as the largest part of her husband's property. This firm had sublet their contract to other parties at figures which insured an enormous profit to "Davis and Associates," but, not contented with that, began to scheme for an additional dollar. When the work was about finished the Union Pacific was owing "Davis and Associates" $750,000, and the latter were indebted to the sub-contractors to the amount of $210,000. The laborers had been clamoring for their pay for some time, and the sub-contractors had made repeated demands on "Davis and Associates" for their money, but without result. Durant, BB manager of the Union Pacific, claimed the company was bankrupt and unable to |>ay Durant, as head oil the contracting jflrm, over 10 per cent of the $750,(iOO, and the latter in turn asked the sub-con­ tractors to settle on that basis, hoping in this way to turn about $100,000 into the ring treasury. The cashier for "Davis and Associates" at ihat time was a nervy chap named Christopher, a character well known to Western and Southern railway men. Christopher, on becoming acquaint­ ed with the nature of the proposed steal, went to the sub- contra ctors and advised them not to settle, as he had a plan for getting their money in full. It was about time for the directors of the road to make an inspection, and Christopher arranged with a telegraph operator named Hilliken, then stationed at Echo City, to advise him as to the arrival of their train. This was done, and Christopher, gathering the sub­ contractors and their men, went to a sid­ ing six miles west of Piedmont, wnich was then the headquarters of "Davis and Asso­ ciates." When the train came along about sunrise it was stopped and switched off on the side-track. Christopher went into the car and explained the situation to Durant and his party, telling them plainly that the men thought they were trying to rob tt;em, and that they could not proceed until the $210,000 was paid in full. Durant made all sorts of prom­ ises, but it was of no use. After forty- eight hoa s' parleying Durant sent out $50,000 which he had iu a safe in the car, and wired to Omaha for $">0,000 more, which was forwarded. When the $100 (ion was paid over, Durant made fresh pledges and asked to be allowed to finish his trip. Under Christopher's advice, however, the men refused. Then Durant began to rave and threaten them with imprisonment, say­ ing he had wired for help. The men in command were not fooled by this talk, as they had taken good care that no commun- icat on revealing the actual condition of affairs should go over the wires. Before morning of the third day a Mr. Wilson, of New York, who was with Durant, advanced the latter $50,000, and Henry Rogers, a Cheyenne banker, was sent -or. When Rogers arrived Durant drew drafts on Hew York for the remaining $60,000, which Rogers accepted and gave Christopher cer- tificates of deposit for. Thus the men were paid in full* and the oar polled oat* in a oafha that ha would have and his allies ia (he penitentiary for robbeij. The affair finally died out, how­ ever, and than was no prosecution. With the completion of the road the gang looked for new conquests, and turned tbeir attention to the operating department. When President Lincoln, In conformity with the wishes of the original projectors of the road, located its eastern terminus on the west Bank of the Missouri River he named Omaha as the initial point. This did not satisfy the cormorants, who were hungry for fresh prey. Money was to be made m the construction and operationr- particularly the latter--of a bridge across the Missouri, and in connection therewith of a union depot on the Iowa side. In or- der to proceed legally with this work it «ras necessary to have a judicial decision baming the eastern bank of the Missouri as the intended and proper initial point of the road. This was obtained from Judge Dillon, then on the United States bench, and was followed, on the Judge's retire­ ment, by his appointment as counsel for the company at a fat salary. Under this de­ cision the bridge and union depots were built, and are being operated to-day at an immense profit, which goes only in small part to the stockholders of the railroad, the bulk being absorbed by the favored few who manipulate the inside" construction concerns. These "inside" companies have always been a curious feature of Union Pacific history. Tbie company stands spon­ sor for branch roads without number, for bridge corporations, for coal mines and fctone quarries, all worked by "inside" or­ ganizations. Whenever one of these side issues is found to bo earning a fair divi­ dend a goodly share of the stock can be traced to individuals, while the securities of the non-paying concerns invariably are classed among the assets of the parent company. When Charles Francis Adams was elect­ ed President of the Union Pacifio some three years ago, there was a terrible shak­ ing up of the offenders in this line, and an honest and determined effort was made to put the affairs of the company on a fair ana sound basis. That it. has been only partially successful is not the fault of Mr. Adams. During the shaking-up process referred to, some startling disclosures were made, of which Mr. Adams is possibly not as ignorant as he wonld claim to be to an interviewer. One of these was a well- matured plan, fathered by men high in Union Pacific management, to Robbie the valuable portions of the road, %d leave the Government "holding the bag," after the fashion of the Southern snipe-hunters. The Government, as security for the aid advanced in construction, holds a second- mortgage on the main line between Omaha and Ogden, and on the Kansas Branch west of the 350th mile-post. The earnings of these mortgaged roads, instead of going into a sinking fund for the gradual extinction of the Government debt, havfe been used in the building of branch lines, feeders, etc., until now the company has a network of roads that, with connecting links of a few miles put in here and there, would give it a satisfactory through route. It was the intention in case the Government pressed payment of its claim, to allow the old roads to be seized, and the company would then have a comprehensive system, free from Government debt and congressional interference. Thus the Union Pacifio haa for years been actively at work tackingr together its various brunch lines until now a glance at its map will show that, by the dropping down of a few rails, it would have an independent and practical line from Missouri liiver points to Portland, aside from the regular road. Should the majority report of the Commission, recom­ mending tbo extension of tho time for pay­ ing the debt, be adopted this scheme will probably be sat upon still harder. Mr. Adams«and the men now associated with him in the management of the com­ pany are understood to have some ideas of their own in regard to financial matters which may be laid before Congress for con­ sideration. Under its charter the Union Pacific is debarred from borrowing money or guaranteeing the securities of other cor­ porations. Much as it may need money for legitimate uses it cannot go into the market and borrow it like other corpora­ tions. For this reason many well-inten­ tioned and necessary improvements have been delayed, and territory which should have been gridironed by Union Pacifio tracks has been seized by competing roads. The efforts of the company in .the past have been directed to the securing of a link of outside roads rather than the invasion of paying territory. Many miles of branch lines in eastern Nebraska are needed, rath­ er than costly and uncertain roads into thinly settled parts of Colorado and Idaho. But promising as these projected feed­ ers may be, investors do not care to put money into them unless they are rea­ sonably certain, under a guarantee, that the interest at least will be paid. Mr. Adams is known to favor the granting of power to the Union Pacific to either bor­ row the money to build such roads or to guarantee their securities so they will find sale on the market. The company's sur­ plus in the hands of the authorities at Washington, drawing at the most per cent., could, he was heard to assert some time ago, be used just as safely and much more profitably in the building of branch roads into the thickly settled agricultural regions of Kansas and Nebraska. Mr. Adams even goes so far as to claim that the money thus invested would earn 10 per cent, where it now only brings 4^, and that in addition it would largely swell the profits of the Union Pacific, make the property a more valuable security for the Government mortgage, and insure the pay­ ment of the huge debt at a much earlier period than by any other means. QIGANTIC LAND STEAL* An Expose of the Alleged Methods of it Foreign Syndicate in California. The New York Herald prints a three- column letter from Eureka, Cal., in regard to a gigantic timber-land steal. The cor­ respondent states that a foreign syndicate is operating in the redwood district, of which Eureka is the center, and that it has already gobbled up 04,000 acres of the finest redwood forests in the world. The correspondent says: "Of all the numerous robberies of the Government of the United States which have disgraced the Western and Pacifio- slope States during the past two decades, not one has possessed the monumental ear-markB of unblushing fraud to a more startling degree than the one about to be related. Ior ragged picturesaueness of roguery C alifornia Redwood Company's robbery is unique." He then goes on to tell how the Califor­ nia Redwood Company was organized in Edinburg in 1883. A number of notorious land-sharks were hired by the company and sent to Eureka, and they soon had the plans perfected ior a great fraud. The area of land sought by the conspir­ ators was so vast that a small army of men was required to go through the forms of entering and proving as required by the lavrsof the United States in the disposal of the public domain. It was necessary to obtain 400 peisons who were willing to aid in the fraud, either knowingly or uncon­ sciously, thiough ignorance of Ihe mean­ ing of the statement each would be called on to make. The sum fixed by the ! ed- wood Company as the maximum pne© was $50. For that paltry sum men were called on to go to the land office and make the statement that the land they entered under the beneficent and.liberally generous laws of Uncle Sam was for their individual use and occupancy. As soon as the entry was made the men were escorted to the headquarters of the syndicate, where the land was transferred to the "canny Scotch­ men." Thus it was that the chapter of crime was completed and the raid on 04,000 acres of growing timber, among the most valuable in the world, was Anally consum­ mated. NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS. Oregon's Democratic Convention. The Oregon Democratic State Central Committee has decided to hold the next StateK**veaitt»s * Pendleton, Xneeday, April 3. 1 - Ia Being Done by tfca lifts tioaud Legtrtstnn. Ma. Baowa, oC Georgia, addressed the benate on the Mb last In support at his resolution far the repeal of the internal revenue laws. Mr. Vest addressed the Senate in opposition to the Blair edoeationa! bill, which he oalied "Au met to ereot a monument to the memory of Alexander Hamilton, aad to encourage ineaaioanejr in the Southern Ht&tea." "Mr. H arwell introduced a bill authorizing the\Pre«ide nt to appoint a "lake and gull waterway commis­ sion," whioh shall mature and submit m plan for a system of water communication to unite the head of Lake Michigan at Chicago with the Mississippi by way of tne Illinois an# Desplaines rivers. Mir. Cullom intzeduoed a bili to pension, at the rate ot S8 per month, all surviving OBMII aad enlisted men Who actu­ ally served sixty days in the Northwest in the Black Hawk Indian war or in the South in the Florida Seminole war. Pensions are also granted to the widows of deceased soldiers of tliese wars. A special proviso declares that this act shall not he so construed as to grant a pen­ sion to Jefferson Davis. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to establish a bureau ol adulteration, and to regulate and prohibit the importation, man­ ufacture and sale of adulterated rood and drugs. In the House of Representatives Mr. Mliliken introduced a bill to remove the tax from tobao* co and sugar, aad to pay a bounty to tbe pro­ ducers of cane-sugar in Louisiana, and the beet and sorghiikn sugar in Illinois, Kansas and elsewhere. This will amount to fiu,- 000,000, and the reduction under tbe bill will reach nearly 190,000,000. The meas­ ure was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. O'Doonell presented a measure to repeal tho sugar duty and to pay a bounty of 98,000,000 a year for two years for the cultivation of sugar in the United States. Mr. Hatch offered a bill placing salt on the free list, Mr. Lawler introduced a resolution providing for the appointment of a special committee ol seven membern to investigate the causes and facts underlying aad appertaining to the exist­ ing labor strikes. THB bill to ersdit and pay to the several Mates and Territories and the District of Columbia all moneys collected under the direct tax act of August; 1861, was discussed by the Senate on the 10th inst., but action w*as de­ ferred. Mr. btewart Introduced a bill to establish a national university in the Dis­ trict ot Columbia for the education of teachers in the common schools ot the States and Territories and the District of Coluaa< bia. Mr. Chandler offered a resolution instruct' ing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the suppression of the votes of colored citizens at Jackson, Miss., and the alleged participation in such suppression by the United States Dis­ trict Attorney and by a Deputy Collector of Internal Bevenue and a Deputy United States Marshal. Laid on the table. Mr. Wilson, of Maryland, made a constitutional argument against the Blair Educational bill. Alter dis­ cussion of various measures the Hen ate went into executive session, and Mr. Kdmonda, from the Judiciary Committee, made an ad­ verse report on the nomination of LL Q. C. Lamar to be Associate Justice of the Su­ preme Court, while Mr. Pugh, in behalf of the minority of the same committee, submitted a favorable report. Mr. Edmunds made a favorable report from the Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Wiliiam V. Vilas to be Secretary of tne Interior. Mr. Saw­ yer, from the Postoffice Committee, made a favorable report on the nomination of Don M. Dickinson to be Postmaster General. AU the reports were plaoed on the calendar. In the House of Representatives, Delegate Cain, ot Utah, presented tbe Constitution of tne pro­ posed State of Utah, with a memorial asking ad> mission into the Union, also a bill for that pur­ pose, all of which were referred. The following bills were introduced: By Mr. Wood burn, or Nevada, directing the purchase of not less than W ,000,<w0 worth of silver bullion per month, and the cot * " " " " - - WINTER SPORTS. lieMiH 1" « \ v'; Arrangements Beta? Made fbe SnIIi< rat and Kilrain to Meet i* ̂ - Mexican Bn 1 Bing. Sporting Notes and Gossip from Iwi|4 where--Events In Base-ball > ' cirdM. " * A. 'U. ' V-» C \ ^ ' [CHICAGO COBBBSPONDENCB.J1 * ^ With the continuanoe of cold weat&eiat." -'tp sleighing, tobogganing and ice skating . . ^ main the popular methods of winter pas~ ,f time in the great centers of population^ throughout the Northwest. At Chicago,. . . • "aul and Minneapolis the toboggan. shde" <P®at and small are daily andfg;;MM- nightly filled with brilliantly cosluineck ?uQIl?ue erB enjoy the rapid rash off the toboggans, the crisp cold of the at- mosphere, and the exhilarating effects o£ ' ' •- the climb up the run-way as they havel " . never enjoyed a winter pastime before. To- , / " bogganing costumes tt,is year are richer in! 1 ~ color and material and more fanciful inf » '• f- design than last season, and as ifc* , - . \ I is their grotesque out and bright* " colors which more than anything? % else contributes to the picturesqueness off , • '• v the soene, the improvement is an accept-' • • * *, i able one. ^ " .» 1 Aside from outdoor sports,* athleticC - V J,? «« training in the gymnasiums seems to be' ' more popular this season than ever before.* * ^ In Chicago particularly is tbe increase ux • popularity of these pastimes more notice-" " • • able than anywhere else in the Northwest.^'. / ; C ^ i .twelve months ago this great city of nearly ; ' A -J a million SOUIB had not a single athletio ' \" *,4 - organization, and but two small gymna- 1'°"day,it hM three prosperous» ^ athletic clubs, three well-equipped gym- 1 a t nasiums, and an inclosed grounds for ?' . " *' • ^ atnletic sports equal to any in the country. f>- The Chicago Amateur Athletic Associa- ' tion, organized some thirteen months ago, can be classed among the pros- 5 i perous amateur organizations in tho' 'V' V- V country. The Garden City Athletio Club \ \ celebrated iis organization last week by an ft 1 "" athletic entertainment of more than ordi- 1 ' ' nary merit, at Central Music Hall, while t the great Casino gymnasium, established - * a yeor ago this fall in this city by A. G. "T.V Spalding, whose name is familiar to every > lover ot athletics in the country, has a. 1 * membership list of over 400 active mem- ,1, i1 bers. It iB a sight not soon to be for- : ? ' < gotten to see the interior of this greats b u i l d i n g b e t w e e n t h e h o u r s o f 7 : 3 0 a n d - • " » ' 10:30 any evening during the week. When 4 * ; ht inclement weather does not thin out tho ^ * attendance, between 200 and 250 strapping" v - * ' young fellows, in regulation gymnasium,* 1 * costume, may be seen scattered throughout | the spacious interior, home are boxing, & < ' 'C others fencing, others are playing hand- * ball, while still others are working on the parallel and horizontal bars, indulging in dumb-bell and;'. - Indian club exercise, trotting around tho & * ! i the coinage of the same into standard dollars: fanning pathj working the lilting and row- by_Mr. Bliss, of New^York, to dispose of the ">g machines, or contesting in a wrestling surplus money in tne Treasury, and to prevent the accumulation thereof; by Mr. Tillman, ot South Carolina, to prohibit the use of sto .os or oil lamps on railway passenger trains; bv Mr. La oliette, of Wisconsin, to punish fcy officer of a national bank who receives a deposit when the bank is insolvent; by Mr. Harmer, of Penn­ sylvania, to increase tbe pension of tbose who have lost eyes ci limbs or wno are deaf. This is the bill indorsed by the United States Maimed Soldiers' League and the Grand Army of the Bepublic.] MB. HAU'I resolution calling for a seleot committee to examine into the present condi­ tion of the civil service, was taken up by the Senate on the 11th last., and Mr. Hale spoke in matoh. In the galleries some of the mem­ bers who have finished exercising are en­ gaged in playing billiards and pool, or aro indulging in ri,.e and archery practice, or in bowling. One who may be fortunate enough to be a member of the Casino need never want for occupation if he likes ath­ letic exercise. The facilities and equip­ ment of the institution are without question superior to those of any gymnasium in the West. While upon this subject of athletics your correspondent is reminded that a Senate ou tne utn inst., aua Mr. «ai® spoite in wealthv citizen of Faol« PnOB « i"" ™ advocacy of it. He charged the administration ^ • m ® , ft88». whO is now with fAiling to carry out its promises to reform ' ~ -- the civil service. He read from a tablo to show that up to J une 11, 1687, out of 2,370 presidential postmasters there bad been 2,000 changes ; out gt j'2,ii00 fourth-class postmasters there had een 40,0 0 changes; out of 33 Foreign Ministers 82 changes; out of 21 Secretaries of Legation IS Changes; out of 111 Collectors of .Customs 10!) changes; 32 bui veyors of Customs wore all changed; not one of the G naval officers re. niaiuod ; of Appraisers but 2 remained ; of 13 Superintendents of Mints and Assay Otlicoi there hud been 11 changes; tho 9 Assistant Aj»- praiser-s wero all gone ; of the 8i Collectors of Internal Kevenue Ml had gone : of the 11 Inspect­ ors o hteum Vessels 8 were gone ; of 70 District Attorneys (a semi-judicial oflicei 05 were chang­ ed ; of 30 Territorial Judges (judicial offices) 22 were changed ; of Territorial Governors all wero gone; of 18 Pension Agents but 2 remained; every one of tho IU Surveyors General wero all gone; of v!24 local land oilices I'JO were gone; of 10 Indian Inspectors and special agents but 1 remained ; of ivJ Indian agents but 8, nud of H3 special agents of tho General Land Office but 4. Mr. Butler sent to the Clerk's desk and had read a circular sent out in 1.^78 by authority of the Kepubiican Congressional Committee (of Whii-h Mr. Hale was a member) calling ou Gov- Srnment employes for political contributions. Ir. Hale just:tied tho circular, aud said that it dirrctiy and. explicitly excluded the idea of ex­ torting contributions. The Blair education bill was then taken up, and Mr. Coke spoke iu oppo­ sition to it. The House went into committee of the whole upon tbe stato of tho Uuioti, and adopted a resolution referring the President's message to the Committee on Ways and Means. The committee then arose, and its actiou was eonfltmed by the House. The House then went into c mmittee of the whole on the "little de­ ficiency bill," and after a long debate it was passed. ________________ We Misunderstood Him. When he had closed the sanctum door and atracted our attention by heaving a cigar stump across our desk, he cried out: "I suppose yon have not--" "No," we said, "we haven't; we had one about two or three years ago, bat we lost it." "That's not what I was driving at; do you know--" "No, we don't; that's what makes uf aigh for the quiet of the tomb." "Oh, pshaw! Hold your horses a minute until I explain; can yon--" "No, we really cannot; the last time we did it the man ran off with our funds, and that explains why we're re­ duced to editing a magazine. " "Don't be so fast, please; I really must--" "So must we; we would fain avoid the task, but duty calls us on." "Now, don't be too smart about it; just give me a little elbow room in the matter; why don't you--" "Merely because of the fact that the last time we did it the owner of the orchard caught us and struck us with a orowbar; you must have noticed that we are lame." A cold sweat broke out on the pallid countenance of our visitor, but he oon tinned: "Am I, or am I not--" "Now, really, sir, we cannot tell; we have no means of getting acquainted with the history of your ancestors; and will have to give up the conundrum." "You really mean--" "We most certainly do; we are too sincere to say a thing that we do not mean; just study up the history of our life and you will find it to be a long record of duties fulfilled." His voice was so calm when he again spoke that we wera afraid to interrupt mm. "I merely desired to sav," he re­ marked, "that my employer sent me up to settle his bill of $ H'», but if he is in no bigger hurry to pay you than I am, you will be $i5t» short." "We were only joking--we didn't mean--" But a harsh, hollow laugh on tbe stairway echoed through the vast arches of the building and drove the in San Antonio, Texas, states iu a letter to a Chicago friend that Richard K. Fox, of New York, has been arranging a fight be­ tween Kilrain and Sullivan, to occur at Piedras Negras, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass. One prom­ inent gentleman of Eagle Pass has already guaranteed $1,000, and several promised substantial financial support in the event ot the scheme being looked on favorably by Mr. Fox, and definite arrange­ ments are being made. It is proposed that the fight shall take place in the amphitheatre, where the annual bull tights are held. This s has a Beating capacity of 3,000, and a sug- S gestion that $5 admission fee should be charged has been made in the preliminary letter to Kilrain's backer. Another induce­ ment offered is that the written consent of the Governor of the State of Coahuila, to allow the fight to take place, could be ob­ tained. The climate, being mild and dry, would offer good training facilities. Base-ball news is, of course, always ac­ ceptable to nine-tenths of those interested in sporting affairs in any seotion of coun* try. Tom Burns, the cleaer third baseman of the Chicago ball team, has just returned to Chicago from San Frnacisco, where a great many of the Eastern bail-players have been wintering since the close of the championship season of 1887. He is look­ ing well, and declares himself to be in shape for good ball-playing next season. Ned Williamson and Fred Pfeffer, who are still on the Pacific slope, will also arrive in Chicago within a few days. Burns says that he firmly believes that both Pfeffer, and Clarkson will be found playing ball with the Chicago team next season. Advices from Detroit say that Sam Thompson, the big fielder of the champion team, is in Detroit having his leg looked after. It* needs looking after, and if Thompson isn't careful he may be a very lame man before the season opens next spring. It is his right member, and he strained some of the muscles last sum­ mer. The under part of the leg from the hip to the knee is now very sore and somewhat inflamed. A curious cir­ cumstance is that relief can be had only by walking. The leg did not pain him any when playing, but he goes half crazy with pain while sitting down any length of lime. It has been growing steadily worse, and tho great player would become discouraged if it were not for the fact that he is free from all pain while moving the limb. It is not improbable that the Indianap­ olis team may surprise the League next season. They are not saying much, but have quietly gathered in some excellent player«» Hines and Esterbrook have al­ ready signed with them. The Hoosiers are fairly mashed on Twitchell, of Detroit, and want him badly. They have offered a good sum for his release, but will probably have to go higher to get him. Twitchell is perfectly satisfied to remain in the ehampion team. He developed last sea­ son i into a great fielder, showed consid­ erable ability to hit the ball, and does not, care to pitch any more. He has written that he will not pitch if he oan avoid it. SPORTING PICK-tlPS. There is talk of Fred Dunlap's acting as captain of the Pittsburg team next season. John Sullivan is the only reputable pugi­ list abroad. When asked to join Smith in a series of friendly exhibition!-,, the Boston boy said that lie was no "advetiising sand­ wich." Jack Fogarty and Denny .Kelleher ue to fight ten rounds, using small gloves, at the Cribb Club in Boston on Jan. 17. As usual, the contest will be governed by Queensber- ry rules. Though McLaughlin rode 119 winners last year and Garrison 109, they were both easifv beaten by the English jockey, C. Wood, who had 147 winning mounts. Jake Kilrain and Jem Smith have been engaged to spar for one week at the West­ minster Aquarium, London, England, ia February, receiving therefor, it is stated, the sum of $5,000. J . - ;• * -• 3^v:4;$ warm blood back to our heart. HA , ^e house of A. G. Spalding <fc Bros. warm uiooa DacK co our nearc^ pa* have received and sold over 5,500 toboa- goqel St. Lows Magazine. ; . gans at their Chicago house alone thia season. The New York house has sold fully as many. Not such a bad year for winter sports, after all. CON CBEOAIT. ? Pure Cussetlnes^ Why do summer roses fade? Why does a singer nearly always complain of a slight cold?* Why do some girls always say yes when they mean no, and no when they mean jes? Why do organ grinders and sti oiling bands always insist on playing in front of »house MI wiuoh some one is very illf. ' THS word "assassin" comes from the Assassinians, a branch of the fanatical Mohammedans, who settled in- Persia in 1090. Their young people were trained to murder such as their chief doomed to death. They were extirpated about 1258 i* ftmb and about l'i?3 j* Syri* , . . > v ; r « - r. ...