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Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
The Den,h Record.

QUINCY, ILL.,, Jan. l7.-Mrs. L. Esem, wife
of the Hon. Isaac Lessen, died at her home
in this city this morning. Mrs. Lesem has
been prominent in charitable work for many
years.
LONDON, Jan. 17.-Christopher Rice Man
sci Talbot, liberal member of the commons,
is dead. In point of service Talbot was the
Oldest emil OF the house, having sat uu-
iuterruptedly for sixty years.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Jan 17.-Asa II. Soule
died this evening aged sixty-ive. He waa
president OF u patent medicine concern.
Soule had large interests in western Kansas.
He was the founder OF Soule college at
Dodge City and owner and president of the
First national bank there. He also owned
more than half Of the town Of ingalls,, which
became the county seat of Gray county after
O violent struggle with the residents of Gin.
arron. Soule was worth 81, 900, 900.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1T.-Commodore +.
Joseph Bartine Hull, United States navy, re-
tired, died today, aged eighty-seven.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
THE HEIGHT Of SEA WAVES.
Measurements Snow an Elevation OF
Forty Feet From Base TO Crest.

Measurements Snow an Elevation of
Forty Feet From Base To Crest.
The height OF sea wav has long been
the subject OF controversy. Eminent
photographers ha ge insisted that storm
waves we're usually not more than ten
feet high, and rarely ven twenty when
the conditions OF the sea were most
favorable for wave development.
Many a traveller, reclining en- a cabin
transom, has looked up through the
skylight to see the waves rearing their
frosty crests, and wondered how even q
twenty-footer could show so high above
"a great ships deck. Many "a sailor
dowsed by an up-driving wave while
lying out on a top-gallant yard has,
doubtless, shaken his head incredu-
lousy when told that the highest waves
were not above twenty feet, the rest
being heel" OF ship and dip OF yard.
Now, however, comes expert testi-
mony to prove that storm waves are
often forty feet and sometimes from
sixty to seventy feet in height. In the
recent British scientific expedition
some instructive data were gathered by
u sensitive aneroid barometer capable
| of recording its extreme rise and fall
by an automatic register.
with a sea not subjected to an at
mosphhere of unusual violence, il indi-
Gated an elevation of forty feet from the
wave's base to the crest"
Admiral Fitzroy, after a long series
OF careful measurements from the main
top of his ship, came to a similar cou-
clusion.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
One of the Rernted.

WAsHINGToN, Jan. T.-Commissioner of
Pensions Raum has sent a letter to Secre-
tary Noble requesting the removal from
Office of Henry A. Phillips of New York,
chief of the middle division of the pension
bureau, on the ground that the efficiency Of
the bureau would be promoted thereby. On
April % last, during Corporal Tanners ad-
ministration, Phillips pension was rerated
and increased. For this reason Secretary
Noble some weeks later asked him to re-
sign. This. however, he declined to do, and
no further action has since been taken until
today, owing, it is said, to the pressure
brought to bear In Phillips behalf by mem
bers of congress and others.
soon followed by others whose pensions
were rerated and that several others will be
reduced in r ank and pay.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
H~ORSEWHlPPED A PANTHER.
Curious Adventure OF a Pennsyl-
vanian who Was Out Driving.


While driving through the Stony
SINNERS Creek (Pa.) letter to the New
York Sun, H. M. Hanor, who lives in
the Elk Creek valley, four miles from
here, had a remarkable experience.
Mr.. Hanor had q single horse attached
to a buggy with a-canopy top, and he
was alone. The horse was on a slow
walk, when suddenly it SHE'D to the
right, and Mr.. Hanor SAW a quick
mOyement among the bushes to The
left. What the flash-like movement
was he didn't know, he said because his
whole attention was directed to the
skittish horse at the instant, and when
he refined the horse back into the road
he saw a ~long-bodied animal creeping
through the copse toward the carriage.
Before he had time to make up his
mind what kind of a beast it was the
animal crouched and then sprang at the
buggy.
II landed in the roadway opposite q
point between the wheels, having seem
Ingly checked its leap on account of the
canopy, the fringe of which futtered.
The horse snorted and plunged ahead
and the strange animal crept along and
made several moves as il il meant to
spring into the carriage. 1t constantly
eyed the huttering top and seemed to be
afraid to make the spring, snarling a
little as it kept along side OF the wagon.
Seeing that the beast was bent or fol-
lowing HIM Mr.. Hanor picked up his
whip and dealt it two cuts with the
lash, thinking that it would then clear
out.
When the lash cut it on the head the
second time the animal gave vent to
three ear-piercing screams, and Mr..
then realized that he'wa dealing with
n panther. He had the horse we'll
under control, with the lines in his left
hand, and rs the panther followed aud
kept screaming he dashed it again, and
it darted to the rear of the buggy aud
leaped to the right side, where Mr..
Hanor dashed it half u dozen times.
Again it acted as if it would spring on
him il the top wasn't there, and fearing
| that it would do SO before long, Mr..
Hanor threw down his whip, pulled OFF
his right mitten, unbutt0ned his over
| coat, pulled out his six shooter and fired
four times at the panther. Each bullet
took effect and the beast rolled into the
ditch ana died.
IL was a female panther, nearly Sc ven
feet in length, and it Is supposed that it
was the mate OF a huge male panther
which q party Of Wilkesbarre deer
hunters ran down and killed in Dead
Pine mountain in November, after they
had followed its tracks in the snow for
more than eight miles. Mr.. Hanor
SAID he fel - certain the panther would
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
rwo FATAL
They Rob SIDNEY Dillon or McArdle
Prpclnot of life.


Precinct of Life.
Sidney Dillon, residing 10 ur and one-half
miles from Irvlngtoai and four miles south
of ,McArdle schpoi house, was accl-
dentally shot and KILLED yesterday morning
about IL; 3 while hunting with q tenant of
his named James champion.
The shooting toek place on the farm Of
Hugh Doherty, adlptuing that of Dllon's.
FramptOn was several feet behind Dillon
and watching the ~latter's dog, which he
thought mad Started some rabbits.
He heard two shots in rapid
succession, and turning around in
the direction of Dillon saw that
the latter was bending forward as II in pain.
He ran TO him and Dillon asked him to loosen
the belt.around his waist, from which u couple
of rabbits were suspended. Frampton
did as was requested, and then ran TO
Doherty's house to get a wagon to carry the
wounded man home. Doherty accompanied
Frampton and the body was found
at the bottom OF O small
ravine, the victim having staggered about
fifteen feet after Frampton had lett him and
fallen down the embankment. Dillon's gun
was found at the ridge OF the bank partially
buried In the snow.
Dillon was placed IN the vehicle, aud on
his way to his home, died,
Last night Coroner Hsrrigan held an in.
quest, ana the verdict returned was Of acci-
dental death from shooting.
There are some doubts entertained that
this was really the manner IN which Dillon
met his fate.
The contents of both shells of his double
barreled gun entered the breast Immediately
above the heart, making q most ghastly
wound.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
DER THE SEA BY KITE POWER.
Au Adventure In Winch Cupid
Play ed q PROMINENT Part.

tiaNru u PROMINENT fart.
The hero of this story, Colonel S.,
has been at a hostelry here for a week
or two, but at present is in Deland, says
"a Lake Helen (Fla.) letter to the St.
Louis Globe Democrat. He Is Just now
the central figure Of ian adventure and
one in which the goa of love played n
very conspicuous part. Colonel s., IL
appears, spent most of the last winter
at the Caicos, a little group Of islands
north OF Cuba. His hotel was built on
a perpendicular bluff overlooking the
ocean, and the morning before he was
to sail for Havana he was talk
ing his usual stroll after breakfast
on the beach, gazing out on the green
waters, and across the neighboring
islands, when, without any warning
whatever, a strong cord wound itself
about his legs, and something, which
proved to be large kite partly dragged
and partly lifted him into the sea. The
wind was blowing briskly from the land.
and away he went over the breakers to
the smoother waters beyond.
He caught hold Of the cord with his
left hand, and with the other he kept
his head above water, he being a good
swimmer. He was about an hour going
to the next island, where u large crowd
awaited him with surgeons and restora-
tives, but he needed very little atten-
ton in that direction, his only hurt
being where the cord had cut through
his clothing and into the fleshy part OF
his leg.
The young lady who was flying the
kite, with others, launched boats and
put out for his rescue, but did not reach
him until he had nearly reached the
solid earth. OF course the peril he had
been in from her carelessuess cauled her
much nervous agitation, and with her
sympathy there was mixed n stronger
attachmert-at least SO the result
proved. The boat he had en-
gagged passage in stopped for
him the next day, and his business
at Havana being so pressing he was,
with reluctance, obliged to leave his
new made friends. Last summer he
came to New York, but his legs con
tinued to trouble him and grew worse,
the doctors sad caused by poisoning his
blood with the coloring of his pants.
In Pennsylvania he heard of
Mrs. DR.. Leggett, who came
here every winter through some
of her patients, but whether
from the name or not, your correspond
emit cannot say, he task u notion that she
could help him, and 80 followed her to
Lake Hclen, and in the few days he has
received treatment from her his trouble
has nearly left him, or, as he expressed
it, has put HIM on his feet. again"
But the strangest part Of the story is
yet to be told. One day recently, after
taking a bath IN asanitarium, and while
on his way to his hotel he saw
a carriage approaching, which proved
to be from Deland, and judge of his as
constituent and delight when he recog-
nized the young lady, with her father
and mother, who ilew the kite that
caught his legs that caused the pain
that brought him here. They all went
back to the hotel, and IN the hour spent
there the day vas set for their we'd
ding.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
EURoPE's FUTURE KINGS.
Most OF Them are Very Young, but
viii Yield the Sceptr'.

VIII 1lelu tne 3ceDtTt.
Who are to be the emperors, kings
and queens of the future? Who are the
persons in the several countries who
are des tined, in the ordinary course of
events, to sit on the thrones and to rule
with Jesse r or greater authority?
1t is q striking fact that many of the
heirs TO kingship are young people;
m indeed, are very young.
The heir apparent, for instance, of the
great German empire and the Prussian
Kingdom is the little Prince Frederick
William, who is only sc ven years OF age,
says the Youths Companion. Sho uld
he die before reaching maturity his
younger brother, Prince William, now
aged six, would BECOME the heir.
The heir to the Portuguese throne,
to which Dom Carlos has just succeeded,
is Louis Philippe, Prince OF Beira, who
is only two years old. The future queen
of Holland, Princess Wilhelmina, has
recently completed her ninth year, and
is likely to succeed her aged and de-
crepit father ere long.
The present king OF Spain. Alfonso
MIL, is not four years old, and came to
the throne at his birth, his father hav-
ing died before the little king came
into the world. Should he die before
marrying, his eldest sister, the l~nfanta
Dona Maria de las Mercedes, now nine
years of age, would succeed TO the
Spanish throne.
Some heirs to European thrones have
| Just arrived at young manhood. The
Grand Duke Nicholas OF Russia and the
duke OF Sparta in Greece, have recently
celebrated the completion OF their
| twenty-hrst year. Young Victor EN-
manuel, prince OF Naples, the heir to
the throne of Italy, was twenty years
| old last November.
Thus it appears that with the ex-
ceptions of Great Britain and Austria
Hungary the heir TO every European
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18

ODD WANDERING ROCKS.
C%uriousIy Carved N Near the
LOftiest Lake in the. World.

CurfOuSly CdTVeu StOneS Near the
Loftiest Lake in the. World.
Near the village OF San Jose, Peru,
on the shores of the great Lake Titi-
caca-the Hottest lake in the whole
world, are three large pillars OF stone.
They are of unequal height, and the
condors that perch on the top of them,
add by their gaunt figures and dark
plumage to the weird effect of the soli-
tude.
On one of these huge blocks the fea-
lures OF u human face are cut, and the
others are covered with designs of va
rious kinds; and they all have some
reference to sun-worship. The pillars
were probably engraved by the original
natives of the land, who are now known
only by these and other relics in this
quarter of Peru. They are supposed
to have been a highly civilized race.
1t is not believed that the people
brought these stones to the present
position. The rocks are those called
''erratic'' or wandering stones and
were probably left by a glacier.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18

W~AsuINGToN, Jan. 17.-At a special meet
ing Of the senate committee on territories
today Chairman Platt was instructed To re-
port recommending q passage of bills to
make the state Of Wyoming and to organize
q territorial form of government for Okla
hOma The committee decided that mas
much as there is a case now pending before
the supreme court involving the constitutions
atty of such test oath as is required by the
affecting Mormons the bill for the admission
of Idaho as q state should not be acted anon
definitely until the supreme court rules upon
the question.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
STATE NEWS.
Leg Broken nv the Cars.

WrMoRE, Neb., Jan. 11.-ISpecial Tele-
gram TO THB BEE. When train No. 10
pulled up to the DEPOT this afternoon q
sixteen year-old boy by the nam Of Harvey
Herndon attempted to climb tho rear plat
form of the chair car before the train had
stopped. He slipped and fell between the
car and the platform and was turned COM
pletely over by the steps and journal box,
breaking one leg between the ankle and the
knee. He was carried into the baggage
room, where the broken bones were set by a
physician, who had been hastily summoned,
and then sent home. The fracture Is a COM
pound one and may cripple the boy perma-
nently.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
DISASTERS ON THE RAIL.
A Fatal Smashup at College Hill
Junction In Ohio.
FIVE KNOWN TO BE KILLED.
Two Passenger Trains Collide at st.
Joseph - Several Injured, Two
Fatally-Freight Deraiied
The Utah Wreck.
A Renr End Cnllisinn.

CISCINNATI, Jan. l7.-At 80 this evening
as the Glendale accommodation, bound for
Cincinnati, was leaving the station near Col
lege Hill Junction the Chicago vestibuled
train ran into the rear OF the accommodation
tram. There were three passenger cars on
the Glendale train, containing about seventy
FIVE people. The locomotive of the Chicago
vestIbuled t~rain,ran half way through the rear
car Of the accommodation tram, pillng the
passenger cars in a heap and setting them on
fire.
AT the present writing four persons have
boon taken out dead from the wreck,
The wounded are now on their way to this
city, where they will be taken TO the hos
pital. The number % fatalities and iniur-
les, considering the completeness of the
wreck and the NUMBER Of passengers, is re-
ported to be comparatively small.
Several persons were rescued fatally
wounded.
Bob Stevenson, baggagemastcr Of the ves-
tibuled tram, was badly hurt and died short
~ after being placed in tho patrol wagon.
The body Of John Wilson, superintendent
of the Metropolitan life insurance company
OF Cincinnati has been identified as one OF
those burned up.
The engineer of the vestibuled train is
seriously hurt.
Observation-Disclosures Nelson, who ar
rived in the city from the scene of the
wreck at midnight, says John Wilson of Gin
cinnati, conductor; i. ". Witherbee and an
unknown woman were the only ones killed
outright.
James Stately, the baggage master, who
was terribly burned, and William Klamitz, a
passenger, have died at the hospital since
beng brought to the city, making the mum,
Der OF fatalities five.
The engineer and fireman OF No. 81 were
terribly injured, as was also u boy, name un.
known, from Carthage, o. They are in the
hospital. 1t is claimed that no other persons
were seriously injured,
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
IN THE FIELD OF SPORT.
Comiskey Casts His Fortunes With
the PIaYers' League.

Comiskey CASTS His Fortunes with
the Players League.
CHICAGO, Jan, 1T.-ISpecial Telegram to
THE BEE. THE White Stocking team Of
the Players or Brotherhood league was COM
pleted this afternoon by the signing Of
Comiskey. The lease for the new grounds
has also beon signed. In personnel the team
is an exceedingly strong one, US may be seen
from the following list Of players, who signed
in tho order named: James Ryan, center
field; Fred Pfefer, second base; Ed Will
hanson, short stop, second or third base;
Walter Latham, third base; Mark Baldwin,
Charles KING, John Tener, Frank Dwyer
and Charles Bartson, pitchers; Del Darling,
Charles Farrell and j. Boyle, catchers; Hugh
Duffy, right field; George Van Haltren, left
field; Charles Comiskcy, first base. Comiskey
will captain the team. Tener's contract IS
conditional upon his concluding to play. 1t
is thought he will do 80, but he has not yet
derlled.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
SOUTH OMAHA NEWS.
The Vinduct Injunction.

~ SiuauCt ~AuJuuCliOu.
The petition of ex-City Attorney Eli II.
Doud's injunction to restrain the city from
paying the bill amounting to nearly 81, 900 to
the King Bridge and Iron ompauy of Cleve-
land, o., on the Q street viaduct alleges a
number of things. Among them are fraud
on the part of the, city council in advertising
for bids and awarding the contract on the
same. and by inference, a conspiracy between
the representatives of the bridge company
and city officials; a fraud on and robbery of
taxpayers because the change In the viaduct
made the cost less rather than nsOre than the
price of the structure according to the orig
inal plans; a violation of law and a misap.
preparation of funds because the
officials purpose paying and have con-
tracted to .pay the bridge company more
money than was noted by the people for that
purpose, and also charges of gross irregu-
larities and misdoiugs and direct violations
Of the law and the sworn duty of the mayor
and the members of the city council.
A restraining order WAS issued by Judge
Clarkson returnable Saturday morning, the
18th at 10 o'clock.
On the other hand it is charged that Mr..
Doud has taken this course to compel the
King bridge company to pay for certain work
done for sub-contractors on their viaduct
contract. which claims Mr.. Doud holds for
collection. Mr.. Doud admitted having a
batch of small claims but said positively that
ducemeut to abandon the injunction
proceedings. Shut regarding these
claims,' continued MIR, Doud, 'they are for
work on the viaduct structure and approaches
which the King Bridge company are ulti-
mately liable for and before these proceed
ings were commenced l proposed to adjust
them either by an amicable arbitration or
amicable suits entered here but the company
declined saying that its bond TO the city was
sufficient. AS between the city and the
bridge company that is true but IL in no way
protects the laborers on the viaduct nor
gives them the benefit OF their lcins. 10
have prosecuted these little suits as that
company insisted / should, would nave cost
| mara than thav yyara yynrth ~
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
Nalunble Ba turned.

GRAND ISLAND, Ned Jan. 11.-lSpecial
Telegram to TIM BEE.ATAbout II O'Clock
last night the large bae of }. Thompson, ~
farmer living about five miles north of TINS
city, was discovered to be on fire. The fire
had already gained such Roadway that 1t was
beyond control. There was a large number
of horses and cattle In the barn besides a
large amount of hay and grain, but nothing
was saved. The loss IS about 81, 000; insur-
ance, 1880. 1t was supposed TO be the work
of trAmns.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
DcconIter and Fugitive.

LoUIsvILLE, Ky, Jan. 11.-George Penley,
u bookkeeper for the Kentucky Lumber
company, which does a heavy business with
a large capital, with headquarters at Burn
side, KY, is a defaulter and a fugitive. His
wife. a relative of Congressman Finley, is
Frustrated. The amount Of his defalcation
IL not known.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
the Track.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Jan. 1I-lSpecial
Telegram to THE BEE. THE south-bound
train on the st. Joe g. Grand Island jumped
the track near the beet sugar factory and
ran about three hundred yards on the ties.
The air brake did not work, but the train
stopped before any damage was done ex-
cepting a hard shaking up received by the
passengers.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18

Robert Browning, the great poet,
whom many think the greatest of his
time, is OF no less unique fame in that
he married a great woman who won
praise in his own ART and that he made
her happy, says the London News.
Browning's women, the creations of his
verse, show the high esteem in which
he held the sex of which his own wife
was SO brilliant an ornament. Women
to Browning are not feeble, character
less things, but flesh and blood, with
Wills and passions: and his sympathy
with them was truly the gift OF genius.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
Passenger Trains Collide.

ST.. JOSEPH, Mo-, Jan. ia Hannibal s.
st. Joe aud n Rock Island passenger train
collidcd here this morning. Several passen-
gers on the latter train were injured, two
badly. They are Frank Trimball Of Atchi-
son, Kan, and Joseph Galley of Belnap, La.
Both are injured internally.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
Freight Derailed.

MANSFIELD, Mo-, Jan. lion the Kansas
City, Fort Scott s. Memphis, about three
miles east of here, yesterday a freight train
with fifty loaded cars was derailed. The
fireman was instantly killed. The engineer
and two brakemen were seriously injured.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
She Was Not Invited.

OTTAWA, Ont, Ian. T,-[Special Telegram
TO HE BEE. l-Captalu Mcmahon, aid-de-
camp at the government house, is authority
for the statement that Mrs. q. w. Foster,
the wife of the minister OF finance, was not
invited to the state dinner. Mrs. Foster is
the lady who recently procured 4 in Chicago
q divorce from her former husband. ID. B.
Chisholm. q fugitive from Canadian justice.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
An Old Bank President Dying.

ATcnIsoN, Kan, Jan. 17.-lSpecial Tele-
gram to The BEE. -Hon. William Hether-
ington, president Of the Exchange National
bank of this city, is believed TO be fatally
i'll. He is nearly seventy years old and has
been confined to his house during the greater
part of the winter. The recent severe
weather seemed to affect him very severely
and he is so low now that he will probably
not rally,
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
Fought Thlrty-F,vc Rounds.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. Thames Kennard,
better known as the "St. Paul Kid" de-
feated "Reddy'' Strauss OF Buffalo in a fight
to a finish here early this morning in the
thirty fifth round. Both were badly pounded.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18
SIayin Challenges Sullivan.

New York, Jan. 11-Frank Slavin cabled
from London to the Police Gazette, challeug-
ing Sullivan to fight for Sl2, 500 q side, Lon
don prize ring rules, or to fight with small
gloves. Police Gazette rules, for IS, 900 q side
at the California Athletic club, provided the
club will add a SIS, 900 purse to the stake.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-18

MINNEApoLIs, MINI, Jan. 16.-A. j.
Blethen of the Tribune has bought out the
interest of E. 7. Bennett in the Tribune
Star, which is the evening edition of the
Tribune, and now controls both papers.