Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-09
School Children Thrown Into a
Panic by a CauSOleSS
Cry Of Fire,
The Actors Fund Society Meet
and Canvass the Work
of the Year.
a Kidnapped Custodian Sues
for False Imprisonment
and Conspiracy.
Tho Florida Ship Canal Company
Go to Work Vigorously,



PANIC IN A SCHOOL.
New YORK, June 8. A panic, that
might have resulted III u dreadful loss
of life, occurred In the primary school,
Fitch street. this afternoon. A schol-
ar shouted 'hre," and q scene of Wild
excitement and confusion followed.
Hundreds Of children in the different
class rooms crowded towards the stairs
SUD all Efforts Of the teachers to pre-.
serve order were Intellectual. A mum
Der of children we're crushed and had
their clothes torn In the struggle.
This police report nc ono seriously In
Jured. There was no fire.
THE ACTORS FUND.
The frat annual meeting of the
actors fund society was held this
afternoon in WallscR's theatre. Total
receipts the past year, S57 1892; ex-
penditures, relieving distressed actors,
S12, $40; expenses of fitting up rooms,
eto., S1,794; balances on hand, 49,
219. Several English actors III were
aesisted to return home. The estab.
ikbtliAibllb VI III tStttn NASLNhSo VIM
discussed and tho proposition favor.
ably received. A committee was ap-
| pointed to select q suitable burial plot.
Lsster Wallack was chosen president.
KIDNAPPED AND IMPRISONED.
An action hes been begun by Lewis
+. Sloat against Distric5 Attorney Nc.
Keen, James +. Roberts, IA clerk In his
otio Thomss Brennan, commissioner
Of charities and correction, and War.
deu L4wrenco Dumph, Cf the Harris
Island aims house, 40 defendants to
recover 500, 900 damages for alleged
conspiracy agsiust him, and false I'm
prisonment. The plaintiff is q BROTHER
in.law OF McKeon, by whose ir t%l1enoe,
1t lie alleged, he was kidnapped and
confined for three years and ten
months on HATS Island. This was
done, 1t is said, to enable McKeon tc
get control of the estate of the plain
lifts father, of which the plaintiff was
executor.
THE FLORIDA SHIP CANAL
The Florida Ship Canal and Trausi
company held q meeting to-day, pre-
sided over by Hon. John @. Brown
of Tennessee. Highly encouragin,
reports were made by various commit
tees and the feeling of confidence II
the auccess of the enterprise was very
marked. General Charles p. Stone
; chief engineer, was present. I'll
= stated he had examined fully Into tn,
' reports of the previous engineers ant
:. entertained no doubt of this feasibiht.
!, of constructing q tide water ship cans
! across the peninsula Ct Florldu
He also stated his assistan
engineer, A. F. HUI, Ia already on tn
ground la Florida, aud that the actu'
work the survey will begin immedi
ateIy. The survey will be complete
in about ok weeks, and as soon as Tn
exact route of tho canal Is determine
upon, contracts will be- let and til
work be pushed with all possibl
a yigor. II it thought work will begl
Il in September next. General Ston
has had largo experience In Egypt |
connection with the Suez cana
d Leading capitalists IL this country al
England are eager to furnish thefund
for the construction of the canal
II Is we'll understood here that tn.
, canal will have the backing and frlenc
20 ly cooperation of tho great Texas an
. Arkansas system OF roads, with cor
y neotions rsmliying throughout tn
southwest and extending through t
the Pacific. Gen. Store expects to |
In Florida In two weeks,
THE TRUNK l N MANAGERS
q and representatives of the Union p
ciic and Central Pacific railroad lint
resolved to keep the freight rates
the Morgan steamship line and Soutl
10 ern Pacific railroad route at the sam
q figure a. last year.