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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1883-03-12
oompromi,e of the case for $500 has
not yet been scted upon
SUIT F)R DAMAGES

SUIT F)R DAMAGES.
Thomas Worthingtop, of Ohio, to-.
day filed suit against L w. Ksight.
ley, third auditor of the treasury, for
$50, 900 damsger, on what are do.
scribed as Zone hundred falss, mslic.
ious, libellous and groundless allega.
tions calculated and intended to pre-
vent payment by the United States of
the plaintiffs Just claims for army
supplies furnished volunteer troops at
Camp Dsnison, Ohio, In 1861" The
csmplaint sets forth that the allega-
tlon, referred to were made by the
third auditor in varloas ii,ial re-.
ports,
THE BIssELL CHECK,
Ex-senator Dorsey furnishes the
folio wing: IA dispatch from Dsnver
states that the so.called Belf ord check
was really given to j. B. Bissell.
Thee seems to be determination to
insist that there was such check, and
Bissell Is selected for the reason that
hts his initials are j. B. b. If l ever
saw Bissell l don't remember it. /
certainly never gave him check. I
never played game of cards in my
life with anybody, There never was
check issued by me or an account In
my books in the name of j. B. B. To
be certain az to this fact, I have had
my checks examined back for ten
pears. F"
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT HILL
Charges have been filed by person
whose name ia withheld against Su.
psrvising Architect Hill, aud the sec.
rotary CT the treasury is now consider.
ing the best method of investigating
them. The charges were fled about
ten days ago, while Secretary Folger
was confaed to his houss. They are
prepared In formal style, with speci.
fications and list of witnesses who
are said to be able to substantiate
them. Secretary Folger declines to
make public the particular nature of
the charges.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.
Members of the civil service com.
mission called at the executive man.
sion and had short conference with
the president In regard to the general
plan of operations to be observed In
carrying the law into effsot. 1t was
agreed that tie commission should
prepare q set Of rules in regard to
questions under their jurisdiction and
submit them to the president for ap-
proval. Selection of chief examiner
under the commission was not agreed
upon.
NEW WAR VESSELS.
Secretary Chandler has instructed
the naval advisory board to proceed at
once and prepare plans for five new
United States war vessels provided for
by congress, consisting of three cruis-
ers and two torpedo boats. Also to
arrange for completion and repair of
four unfnished monitors. The latter
will be worked upon first, and it is
thought the frst contract will be given
out IA two months.
THE CASE OF sHERIDAN.A
The state department. has raqeived
no information as to the intentions of
the British government In relation TO
the warrant for tho extrAdisie7, OF p.
j. Sheridan. Inquiry at the British
legation ellcited the information that
while no further steps had been taken
In the matter, no instructions from
the home government had been re-.
ceived to abandon proceedings.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1883-03-12
Tho River Declining.
Special DISPATCH 70 THA BIZ.

HELENA, Ark, March 10.-The
river declined half an inch and will
continue falling slowly for several
days when more rapid decline is ex-
peoted. The levees are still being
strengthened and will be made thor.
oughly secure In this vicinity. The
backwater is still rising In the over.
flowed districts below. Most terrific
currents roar, which can be heard
here tearing through the country be.
low, carrying destruction with them.
In the old town with lake region the
water Is higher than ever before
known. Toe losses to planters will
be greater than ever before, and from
the same cause the cabins, fences,
dead carcasses of animate are seen
floating down the river In great mum.
bere. The weather is clear with q
strong wind from the northwest.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1883-03-12
THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD.

ST.. LOUIS, March ia dispatch
from Helena says the first loss OF hu.
man life by the fl BOD in that region
occurred by the upsetting of a house
twelve miles south In which were six
adults and four children. The latter
were drowned, but the former were
rescued by party of hunters who
took them of the roof after they had
olung to 1t three days.
The st. Francis swamp contains
hundreds of horses, mules aud cattle
standing up to their throats In water,
their owners being unable to rescue
them. Many carcasses are floating
about. The legislative committee ID
examining into the condition of the
people In the overfio we'd districts and
will report In favor of giving state aid
to actual sufferers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, July 14-Flour dull and nominal
Regular Wheat-Opeued unsettled; closed shade
lower; 9S15 for seller July; 1.OOSs for seller Au-
gust; 1.02 for seller September; 1885 for seller
October; LOIS for seller November; 6S16 for
seller the year; No. ?, Chicago Spring. 9S15; No.
Chicago spring, 50; Noe, red winter, /. O5 Corn
Unsettled and lower; 5O15@ 5O34 for seller cash;
sos for seller July; 5034@5O9s for seller August
5O4 for seller September; SOS for seller October;
1875 for seller the year. OatS-Dun and easier;
3415@3455 for seller cash; 375s for seller July;
30 for seller August; 277s02S for seller Septem-
Der; 2715 for seller the year. Rye-Firmer 531b.
Pork Unsettled and lower, ID 60013.65 for seller
cash and July; 13671a@147O for seller August;
13.9213@13.95 for seller September; 14G215014O5
for seller October 10 40@1345 for seller the year
Lard-Unsettled and nominally unchanged; s. Goa
6.6219 for seller cash and July; S.671s6S.7O for
seller August S.sO@S.S71a for seller Septem-
Der; S.S719@S.90 for seller October; S62152S. IS
for seller the year Bulk Meats-In fair demand
shoulders, $50; short rib, 7.35; do clear, rs
Butter-EaSer. Eggs-In fair demand; 1905
Whiskey-Steady and unchanged
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19

vat of boiling I've and grease, Saturday.
and was literally boiled to death. When
the remains were found at 7 P. NJ.
scarcely a bit of flesh remained on the
body, it being literally boiled off of him.
The deceased leaves a wife and one
child
a PASSENGER train on the Woonsocket
division of the New York & New Eng
land railroad was thrown from the track
at Franklin, Mass. The engine and one
car went down the bank. Mrs. C. w.
Saunders had her shoulder broken. and
several others were injured; none ia
tally.
JOHN MAsKEE, So years of age. a la
borer employed with other men in re-
moving earth from the surface of the
rock at the Stockton Mimi quarries
was instantly killed Saturday afternoon
by land slide. A body of earth and
stone four feet square fell distance of
ten feet ON his head, literally crushing
him to death. He was unmarried and
had no relatives in this country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19
A Tough Story About Watch.

Says the Boston Journal: About
twelve years ago a Mr.. Royal, of Els
worth, Maine, while fishing off the
coast of the town of Toulboro, near
Prospect Harbor lost overheard in
from six to ten fathoms of water, a
silver watch and silver chain A day
or two ago the watch was returned to
it's former owner The finder says he
found it in his potato patch, where he
supposes it became deposited by being
attached to the sea-weed which he used
as fertilizer, and which he obtained
on the shore abreast the place where
the watch was originally lost. The
cases are in very good state of pre-
servation. The works are somewhat
rusty, but retain their original shape
very clearly. The cases and chain
are blackened, and, the jeweler says,
have every appearance ofhaving been
in the salt water for long time The
watch bears marks which are, Mr.
Royal claims, sufficient to identify it
as the one lost beyond all peradven-
tIIre
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19
A Kentucky COlOred Jury.

County court came off last Monday.
A bastard case was tried III the after
noon, which was rather disgusting
and novel In its procedure. The case
was submitted to a colored jury, the
parties being of that nativity. The
proof was contradictory, and showed
up much disgusting indecency. The
novel feature of the trial was the make
up of the jury, and the general levity
of its members during the examina-
ton of the witnesses. Some of the
younger members would indulge III
such strains of laughter as was almost
side-splitting, notably so was Steve,
the blacksmith. Gen. Lee was on that
jury, and it is already suspected that
he has pen picture of the whole pro
ceeding in his Uranium, and that he
will soon be letting off on the street
the scenes of that trial The verdict
was for the defendant, and from this
time henceforward we presume that
no other fallen angel will trust her
veracity and baby to the tender mer-
cies of a colored jury We think the
verdict was right, but predict that it
will be many a day before that jury
Will cease to have the curses of the
woman In the case. The following is
verbatim copy of the verdict: eve
the Undersigned Jury Do not find the
accused not guilty. "-HaweSville ky
Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

4" S. P. WELLER died at Aitkin, Mimi,
the result of an accidental gunShOt
wound received June %.
MRS Alberto HUFFMAN, aged 49,,
and Mary Donlen, aged Is, were drown
ed in the river at Baltimore by the up
setting of the boat.
MATT ROGERS and John Blanquist
were killed and John Anderson and Den
mis- Corners were seriously injured by a
falling derrick in Walkers quarry at
Lamont Ill.
By premature discharge of blast
in the Twin City slate quarry at Walnut
Port, Pa, yesterday, VIM. Keyser was
fatally, Oliver Deshler seriously, and
Robert Parry and Griffith Ellis slightly
injured.
A special from McRae, Ga, reports the
killing of three persons and severe
woU ding of ten by train on theDodges
rOao by running over burning trestle.
FOy cars were burned.
aniel Hayes of Boston, went on the
re If of his house to cool off Saturday.
He was sunstruck and rolled off the roof
to the street. a distance OF three stories,
dying soon afterward.
MOXY STEFAN, Duluth boy of ten
years, fell through the forehatch of the
Iron Cliff, a distance OfabOut thirty feet,
and badly fractured his skull. He pro-
badly cannot recover.
AUGUST EHLERs and child, in a small
boat on the river at Albany, n. Y, tax
ing shelter under the bank, We're struck
by falling tree during the cyclone and
killed. The mother is dangerously in
jured.
AT Russellville, KY, Nimrod Long
fooled with an old gun and shot his cou-
sin, Nimrod Briggs, killing him instant
ly. The cap on the gun was corroded,
and Long thought there was no charge
in it.
WILLIAM SINCMAIR, who was injured
in the recent explosion at Winnipeg has
| died His face, hands and head were
! fearfully burned and feet almost roast
ed. He was twenty-three years old, and
came from Chatsworth, Ont, where the
! body will be sent for intermeut.
| AN unknown vessel was seen ashore
on the North Manitou island Saturday
morning by Capt. Lisk. of the Narragan-
sett, which arrived at Milwaukee yester-
day. She was head on, and is supposed
to be grain or laden for below. It is
conjectured that she struck during the
fog Friday night.
An engine and eleven cars of east
bound freight on the New York & New
England road was derailed yesterday at
Hartford, Conn, owing to the failure OF
a signal where track was being repaired.
! Nobody was killed. The engine, cars and
freight were much damaged.
A DOCTOR of Amigo, Wis, wrote NOR
phine by mistake for quinine in a pre-
scription, and killed his patient, Bo-
hemian boy, Monday. There is great
excitement at Amigo among the Bohe-
mians, and threats ofviolence are made.
1t is not thought that-the doctor will be
prosecuted.
j. R. Lopez. proprietor of Loper's
large soap works and one of Oshkosh's
leading citizens, accidentally fell into &
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19

Omaha's postmaster, Thomas f.
Hall, has come to the rescue of his
reputation in card denying his sal
airy during his incumbency with
Senator Saunders. The denial was
rendered necessary by the scandalous
reports which had emanated from the
back doors of the postoffice itself, and
two or three years past since Hall W a
reappointed. There are, it seems, wit
nesses who could swear that the
mulcted postmaster himself declared
that he had been deviding with his
superiors, and between this statement
and his denial there is a general dis
position among his townspeople to
choose the former as the truth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19
A Beautiful Three-Legged Colt.

w. r. Tolston, of Nashville, Tenn,
has three-legged bay colt, which is
now over year old, and Of which
the American says: Excepting the
fact that he possesses one leg less than
other members of his species, he is a
perfectly formed animal. When the
writer saw him he was hopping around
Mr. Polston's back yard, and resented
an interference with his long tail by
kicking as vigorously and with as
much grace and precision as an old
mule. The entire left fore-shoulder
and leg of this remarkable animal is
missing, the only effort which nature
seems to have made to supply this
want being a bone something in the
shape of a seals fin, and about the
same size
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19

ing company, of New Mexico, out of
$50. 900. He was committed in default of
5000 bail.
HOSEA KING, charged with the muir
der of Long Meyer, doorkeeper of Coles
circus, IN LOnoke, Ark. several months
ago, has surrendered to the sheriff there.
and has been committed in default of
so, 900 bail.
JOHN H. DREW, under arrest at Bos-
ton on a charge of stealing $4,000 worth
of furs from Moore, Smith & Co., his
employers, has made confession to the
inspectors that to cover up his robbery
he set fire to the firms building on June
19, causing loss of $4,000.
THOMAS S. NICHOLS and Louis l.. Mel
Ter We're arres ted in Philadelphia on sus-
piciOn of having stolen So, 600 worth of
silk, which they were offering at prices
far below the market value. Upon search
ing their room. a bundle of silk was
found ready for shipment to Chicago.
MILLER, a white man twenty
nine years old, was arrested in Sweet
water, Tex, charged with bigamy. He
has nine living wives. Miller says he
is no Mormon, and will plead guilty to
having four wives.
G. B. FOWLER and Ford CALDWELL of
Benton, Mont, while on a trip through
the Judith country, had their horses
stolen. 1t is not known positively
whether the thieves were white men or
Indians, but it is reported that twelve
soldiers deserted from Fort MaginniS the
day previous, and it is probable that
they appropriated the horses to help
them out of the country.
A GENTLEMAN residing in what is
known as Little Park, between Sturgis
and Crook, in the Black Hills, was held
up while on his way home from Sturgis
Monday night, by two men on horse
back. He was made to dismOunt, and
hold up his hands under the persuasive
elOquence of a couple of six-shOoters.
The robbers failed to secure anything,
as he had only 90 cents with him.
E. E. Wu.MORTH of Massillon, Iowa.
eX-agent for the Cedar Rapids Marriage
Fund association, has been arrested for
offering to sell counterfeit greenbacks-
So for so cents, $35 in bills of different
denominations for $1.75; $40 in bills of
different denominations for $2.75; 500
in bills of different denominations for
1878, and sending his circulars through
the mails.
ANTHONY GGNYCK, French squawmas
at the Santee agency, Neb., committed
suicide Thursday night during the alb
sence of his family family, who return
ed the next morning and found him
dead, with bullet hole in his head. He
had $1,000 under his pillow and was
worth 100000.
FIVE Western Union telegraph ope-
rators along the Manitoba division of
the Northern Pacific railroad have been
engaged in swindling the public for sew
eral months past. Their mode of OPP
Grafton was by overcharging, destroy
ing copies, etc. II. w. Hilbert. for a
long time in the employ of the govern
ment at Miles City, is said to have or
ganized the scheme, and owing to the
detection of one Of the party, he flew,
in what direction is not known.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19
Life is Soon Jeopardized

by inaction of the kidneys In bad cases their
inactivity and the consequent retention of the in
furious constituents of the urine by the blood pro
duces coma and death. Bright's disease sometimes
they become torpid, is often the means of avert
ing more serious consequences. A diuretic, in
which the stimulating principle is modified by
combination with botanic ingredients of known
corrective potency is to be found in Hostetter's
Stomach BitteTs, which strengthens while it i'm
pelS the kidneys to activity. 1t is far more use
full means to this end than the unmedicated slim
ulants of commerce. Its early use for the pre-
vention of kidney and bladder troubles, is highly
advisable. as such ailments are among the most
formidable known. This remedy also prevents
and cures malarial maladies dyspepsia constipa-
ton, liver complaint, heartburn, nausea, sick
headache, rheumatism and nervous troubles
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19
CRIME.

THE insane wife of Julius Mettler of
Portage, Wis, escaped and drowned her
self in the river.
MARTIN ERICKSON was bound over at
Fergus Falls Saturday in 5000 bail for
cutting government timber.
A TRUSTWORTHY report is afoat in
Cincinnati that a clerk in the employ of
II. FEEDER & Co. has abscOnded with
$4,000 of the firms money.
SATURDAY Justice Nevins of Wadena.
held Frank Brown in bonds of $500 to
appear before the grand jury in Sep
TENDER. for uttering forged paper.
IN difficulty in New Orleans bar
room, corner of Magnolia and Julia
streets, Andy Downs, city employee
was shot and killed by David Noyes.
Two Northern Pacific brakemen have
been arrested and taken to Bismarck,
charged with robbing Nathan Lodonsky
a passenger on freight train, of S75.
CAPT. LEWIS G. BARKER, of Philadel-
phia, charged will willfully destroying
the schooner Mary D. Leach, of which
vessel he was master, was committed for
trial without bail.
PETER GEISINGER. a German aged 45.
was fatally stabbed at Phoenixville, Pa,
by James Caughlin. The latter was ar
rested, but with the other prisoners in
the jail tunneled his way out and escap-
ed
FRANCIS 3. WEBSTER, of Cambridge,
Mass. has been arrested on charge of
swindling the Alta gold and silver min
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
WA SHiNGTON.

THE fifth annual convention of edu-
Gators assembled yesterday. President
Wilt delivered his annual address, and
in the evening the delegates were given
reception.
THE treasury department has been in
formed of the arrest, at Port Townsend,
w. T., of nine Cinnamon struggled into
this country through British Columbia.
The facts have been reported to the
president, who will order their departa-
ton.
CAPT. JOHN P. WALKER, of the third
cavalry, recently adjudged insane at
Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, has been
brought here and committed to the gov
eminent insane asylum for treatment.
THE president has appointed John II.
Livingston United States marshal for
South Carolina, vice AbsalOm Blythe,
resigned, and the following postmasters:
Miss Francis l.. Stewart, Ypsilanti,
Mich: Lemuel F. Gandz, York, Neb. :;
John D. Frink, at Taylor, Tex.
The lock on the vault at the sub-treas-
ury has been out of order for forty
hours and some $50, 600, 900 were beyond
the reach of the business world. AT 9
o'clock yesterday the clock-work ran
down and allowed the lock to be I'M
fastened.
IT is said the civil service commission
will come to congress this winter and
ask for an increased appropriation for
the support of the reform movement. 1t
appears that the commission is already
! hampered for want of clerks and funds
to employ them.
! COMMISSIONER EVANS has instructed
1 \ c1Ix 10 n
! the manufacturers of rock and rye for
payment of special taxes as rectifers
and LIQUOR dealers from the 1st inst, and
to require all persons in his district who
sell that compound to pay special taxes
as liquor dealers.
/ JAMES IRWIN. Indian agent at the
| Shoshone agency, Wash. t., has tele-
graphed Commissioner Price that the
Uintah agency Indians in Utah are
passing into the Shoshone agency in
great numbers, not less than fifty. Com
missioner Price replied directing the
agent to order the Indians to return to
their reservation and not to issue ratiOns
to them from his supplies.
Miss VAN LEW of Richmond, Va,
whose services during the war in behalf
/ of the union cause and in aid of union
prominence, has been rendered first
class clerkship in the postotfice depart
ment by Postmaster-GeneralG Gresham,
on the recommendation of Gen. Grant.
Miss Van Lew was postmistress at Rich
mOnd during President Grants admins
| tratiOn.
| SPECIAL AGENT HOWELL, now at Platts-
burg, n. Y, has called the attention of
the Treasury Department to the large
number of emigrants arrived at Quebec
and Montreal, and says many of them
are almost destitute, having neither
money or friends, and are too feeble by
reason of age OF infirmity to support
| themselves. He says most of this class
are paupers who have been assisted in
procuring their passage and are ticketed
! to points in the Western part of the
United States The special agent is in
formed that twenty-eight persons, who
had left Ireland only twenty days before,
were found helpless and starving in the
streets of Buffalo and committed to the
| Erie County Almshouse; all of these
people came into the United States via
| Canada.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19

GUITEAU's unfortunate sister has
brought another action against George
Scoville in the circuit court of Cook
county, Ill, asking that he be restrain
ed from visiting her place of abode and
from defrauding her of her property
that he be compelled to contribute to
her support and that Of her child, and
be made to give her the assassin's
effects. She claims to have supported
herself and Bertha by dressmaking,
and kept the child in a boarding
school.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19
A SAD STORY.
Bridal Apparel Twice Exchanged for
EmbIems of Mourning.
Greensburg PENN Post.

GICCiSbulS u SDL'J Vs..
About three ears ago Miss Rose
Haverman, a bright and good-looking
young lady of this place, was engaged
to marry young gentleman of Mid
dletown, Penn, by the name of Fox.
A short time before the day set for the
solemnization of the marriage young
Fox was taken i'll with typhoid fever,
and died three days before the day set
for the ceremony Stricken with grief,
the young lady for time lived in re
tirement, but recently her heart and
her hand were again sued for and sue
cessfully won by a promising young
man of % named David Price They
were engaged to be married, and Mr.
Price removed to LatrObe, where last
Sunday he lost his life while bathing,
just three weeks before he hoped to be
united in marriage to Miss Haverman.
Upon hearing the news of her aft
anced's death she left Immediately for
Latrobe to attend the funeral, only to
discover that he had been inferred the
previous day, the news having been
delayed in reaching Greensburg
Miss Haverman was strongly affect
ed by the shock, and was taken with
violent spasms, under which she is
still laboring. She now lies III very
critical condition.