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Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
OPPOSING THE TORREY BILL
Iowa Jobbers and Merchants Combine
Against the Bankruptcy Measure.
NOT FAVORABLE TO WESTERN INTERESTS
They Think 1t is Calculated to Assist Eastern
Business Men to the Injury of
Other Localities In the
Country.
NOT FAVORABLE TO WESTERN INTERESTS

SIOUX CTY, Ia, Dec 26.-TSpecial Tele-
gram to THE BEE, The leading jobbers and
merchants of this city have organized a
movement against the passage of the Torrey
bankruptcy bill A petition will be sent to
congress and correspondence has been
opened with other western iobbers. The
Sioux City jobbers employed a lawyer to ex-
anime the Torrey bill and he has just made
an elaborate report against it, alleging that
it would antagonize vital interests of west
ern jobbers.
The Torrey measure, it is urged, would
give the jobbers of the eastern states an
equal share in the assets of bankrupts,
whereas western jobbers who are on the
grounds are able to protect themselves. In
other words, the Torrey measure would
overcome the difficulty which eastern mer-
chants have experienced in the west by
reason of their distance and enable them TO
re-enter a field which they have had to
abandon. A letter has been received here
from Judge Torrey asking Sioux City job
bers to put their objections III writing so
that his bill may be amended, if deemed
necessary
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27

took advantage of the opportunity TO say
that the city was getting something and
giving something that IL did not have. He
wanted another meeting in the morning, and
Elsasser insisted that it should be an open
one instead Of secret, as had been Intimately
Chaffee induced the city attorney to say
that an expression from the council would
assist him In getting the injunction dis
solved, so that the ordinance could be passed
and then started in to roast all those who
had been speaking on the opposite side
Elsasser objected to such conduct on the
part of Chaffee, but the latter was sustained
by the chair, and proceeded to say that all
those opposed to the settlement were inter
ested in another site, or were officials of
other roads, or paid attorneys, and that they
did not include single representative busi-
ness man.
Edwards was not ready to see it go through
so swiftly and asked Thurston why he OBJ
iected to the clause with reference to the
other roads if it would not affect them, and
was informed that there was no use of a
settlement if it did not bring the road any
thing more than 1t already had.
The motion to report progress was lost,
and before the original motion could be pat,
Munro called attention to the fact that the
meeting had been called,to hear the opinions
of citizens in order that the council might
act in accordance with the wishes of the
taxpayers. He said that the expression
had been practically all one way, and that
the citizens seemed to be pretty unani-
mOuSly opposed TO the settlement,
Then They Voted 1t Through.
Davis chipped in with another roast of the
"kiclSers,n and said that Boggs was never
for anything or anybody but Boggs, and the
rest of the opposition were in about the same
boat.
Steel talked long and loud for settlement,
while Elsasser vowed that he would never
vote for the agreement.
Bruner was heard from for the first time.
He said that the road was holding some of
the lots that were included in the prop
osition for speculative purposes or was
leasing them, and they could not properly
hold them under the plea that they were
used for railroad purposes. He held that
| specific agreements should be fulfilled,
whether made by individuals, cities, states
or nations, and wouldn't make an exception
in the case of the Union Pacific. He said he
would oppose it and he kept his word, for
| when the vote came on roll call a minute
! later il resulted as announced above.
| The committee rose and reported, and the
! report was received by the same vote
Although they had claimed that it was
| such big thing for the city, the members
| of the railroad lobby We're intensely tickled
over the result, and could not refrain from
! indulging in hearty congratulations among
themselves as soon as they thought the
| question was settled
The city attorney will move this morning
| to have the injunction dissolved, and III case
| of success and possibly without it, a vigor
Gus attempt to pass the ordinance is booked
for tonights session of the council.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27

Editor Stead of the Review Of Reviews
is now 53 years old. The son of con-
gregational minister, he left school at
IA TO take the place Of an Office boy in n
mercantile establishment. After work
ing here eight years his salary had risen
to 1925 n year, when he gave up his
place to be the assistant editor of n half
penny daily. He at once showed his
talent for newspaper work and soon be-
came editor-in-chief, He rapidly ad-
vanced from one journalistic position to
another, working on various newspapers,
until along about 1883 he became chief
editor of the Pail Mall Gazette. In
speaking Of his magazine recently he
said:
II had long had the idea of such a
magazine, and intended to mako it a
monthly supplement of the Pail Mall
GazeHe. The owners OF the Pail Mall
Gazette, however, did not want to put
any money into the scheme and got
outside parties to take hold of it. | be-
lieyed there was II big field for ii and
thought it was my duty TO work it. /
did not expect 10 make any money out
Of it, and my widest ambitions were
that IL would pay me, perhaps, from
81, 600 TO 81 900 Xear, which AS AN addi-
tiOn to my salary on The Puli Mall was
not to be sneered at. After | decided
to start the magazine the owners of the
Pail Mall objected and told me that |
would have to leave the Pail Mali
Gazette If did SO. ] considered it my
duty TO found the magazine and | re,
signed from the Pail Gazette and took
charge OF it. 1t succeeded at once be-
yond our expectations. Instead OF net
ting Inc 81 900 or 81 500 year, it il
bringing in an excellent income.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
Johnny Daley Wins One.
NyhccImcn nt Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE. Wis, Dec 26.-The first days
racing in the Diamond tournament was sue
cessful The following were the winners:
Three men, handlcap Bottrcll, first; George
Becker second; Mamie stark, third. Time,
2:3S SO
Two milo, open; II. A. Citizens, first; c, Davis
second. Race declared oil because not under
the three mile class.
Three mile class: H. Mclswontscl, first; j. II.
Bowen, second. Time, 2:55ia.
One mile, open: II. A. Citizens won, George
Becker second, G. A. Steele third. Time:
2:44H.
Two mile handicap: George Becker won,
j. r. Bowen second. Time: 5:25 20. In one
of the heats of this race II. A. Citizens OF Chi
cago ran two miles in 4:21.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
Attracted "A Large crowd.

OsKALoosA, Ia, Dec. 26,-[Specal Tele-
gram to THE BEE. The seventh annual Els
teddfod state musical festival of the Welsh
people, held today, brought delegations from
all over the state and an immense crowd was
nell was the conductor and Prof. Price Of
Chicago the adjudicator. The following
prizes We're awarded: Best composition, won
by "a Worker" S25; for adjudication pryd-
dest dynes, won by unknown, s25; chorus of
children under 10, won by Mrs. V. X. Logan
and class, $50; chorus of fifty voices, won by
Carbonate choir, Prof Solomon, leader $50,
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27

SoUIx CITY, Ia, Dec 26,-[Special Tele-
gram to The BEEF IA complete canvas Of
the members of the South Dakota legislature
which meets January 3, shows that on the
question of resubmssion of the prohibition
section of the constitution to the people the
senate stands "A for and 22 against re-
submission with two members non-com-
initial but evidently against; only eight
members of the lower house oppose resub-
mission. If "A majority is secured in the
senate resubmission is assured.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
NeXyest Devices.

An apparatus for tempering cream.
A music rack attachment for guitars.
A device to tighten the tiyes of vehicle
wheels.
A machine that seams the heads upon
tin cans.
An apparatus for rolling corrugated
plate glass.
A wire coil pen rack for attachment
10 u sleeve or cuff.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
Rncing at New Orleans.

New ORLEANS, La, Dec. 26.-The weather
today was cold and windy and the track
heavy.
First race, selling, FIVE furongs Duke of
Kent, Is to 81 won, Nathan Frank, q to II sec
ond, Horace Leland, (5 to II third. Time LII.
Second race, five and one-half furlongs:
Duncan (even won, The Judge, u to 81 second,
Highwayman, (S to II third. Time l:l9,
Third race, selling, seven furongs: Green
leaf, q to ~ won, Viola second, Bergen 10 to ~
third. Time LAG.
Fourth race selling, one mile; Bret Harte
(oven) won, Texas Clarke, % to II second, w. l..
Munson, q to l0) third Time 2:0l.
-, Fifth race handicap, one mile; ,Iampost,
q to ~ won, Bonnie Byrd % to ~ second,
Heloise, "a to ~ third Time 2:O1R.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27

SIoUx CITY, Ia, Dec. 26,-ISpecial Tele-
gram to The BEE, l-Micheal Beacon, a
farmer living south of town, started to walk
home on the railroad track Saturday night,
He stepped off to let n train pass and fell,
breaking his leg. He became unconscious
and laid by the track until morning when he
managed to crawl to his home, a mile and Il
quarter, on his hands and knees. Both legs
were frozen 50 that they will have to be
amputated and the flesh on his knees and
hands was terribly torn and bruised. 1t is
doubtful if he will survive.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
BLOOD FLOWS At Il D1NCE.
A Fight at Barada, Richardson County, May
Result In Murder.

FALLS CITY, Neb., Dec. ga dance at
Barada, fourteen miles north of here, ended
in free-for-all fight in which Michael Casey
jr., was badly whipped by John Rhombaugh.
While the party were dispensing Casey pro-
cured revolver and shot Rhombaugh
through the bowels. Rhombaugh again
attacked Casey and beat him about the head
in a horrible manner with u pair of metal
lnuckle. Both parties are now in the care
of physicians, but will be arrested if their
wounds do not prove fatal
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
Crossing tho Mississippi ON Foot.

DAVENPORT, Ia, Dec. 26,-ln exposed places
the mercury dropped to IL below this
morning. This afternoon persons were
crossing the Mississippi on foot and tonight
the ice bridge will hold teams.
CREsToN, Ia, Dec. 26-[Special Telegram
to The BEE AT O'Clock this morning the
thermometer was reported TO have indicated
23S below zero. At 7 1t was l4@ below.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
ParaIyized the Police Force.

DEs MoNEs, Ia, Dec. 26.-ISpecial Iole-
gram to The BEE, THE office or j. ID.
Talon, dealer in furnaces, was SAtered
at noon today and $500 taken frosa the
cash drawer. There is no clew to the thief.
This, following the heels Of seven cases Of
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
Demands PAY for n Murderer's Life

New York, Dec. 26,-Attoney Pesham to-
day brought a claim for indemnity, naming
81 ,O0O, 900 as the amount, before the British
minister for the benefit of Murderer Hallin-
ger, who he claims was a British subject and
was illegally executed.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
Hagen Wins Again.

MINNEAPoLIs Mimi, Dec. 26-Hagen won
the second skating race with Mccormick
and the championship. Mccormick gained
in the first and second laps and then dropped
back. His training was evidently deficient.
Time, 3:01 distance one mile.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27

At the Mercer: b. l.. Little, Salt Lake
City; T. NJ. Wood and wife, Pittsburg. Pa ;
j. w. Love, Fremont; Ernest RIAL
and wife. city; G. w Vance, Chadroni Sol
Wyoming; w. A. Hoover, Blue Hill; DIR.
Abbott, Fremont.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
Played IA Tie.

PITTsBURa, Pa, Dec. 26-The Pittsburg
and Chicago association foot ball teams
played draw game at Exposition park this
afternoon, the score at the end standing
to 2
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
Ed Crowell's Body.

Yesterday afternoon DR. Crowell, brother
of the late Edward Crowell, arrived from
the east. He will take his brothers body to
New Jersey today.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
FUNERAL NOTICE.

The funeral OF Charles Lord Will be hold al
Nj. o. Maul's undertaking rooms l41T Barnam
street, at o'clock this afternoon Burial "a
Forest Lawn cemetery.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
FuIford Won the Last, Too,

HARRIsBURG, Pa, Dec, 26.-E. d. F'ulford
defeated j. A. r, Elliott in the traps at
Highland park today. which gives him four
of the five matches in the series ended
today. The weather was intensely cold and
made brilliant shooting impossible, Elliott
not involved in these matches. The score
WaSas follows.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27

ing the clause that Burge must deposit n
forfeit OF $4,000 rs especially stipulated by
McAuliffe. Much talk was indulged in to-
day between McAuliffe, the representatives
of Burge and Judge Newton, matchmaker
of the Coney Island Athletic club, but it all
came to naught
Burgess people win meet Judge Newton to-
morrow morning, when it is said an agree
ment will be reached. II is the opinion now
that McAuliffe is anxious TO see Burge and
measure him up. as he is afraid he will run
against stiff game.
Johnny Daley Wins One.
ST LOUIS, Mo. Dec. 26.-In nine-round
fight at Florissant, suburb of this town,
this evening, John Daley of this city knocked
out Billy Fitzgerald of East st. Louis. Daley
ninth round. The fight lasted thirty four
minutes.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27

A combined clod crusher and land
roller, the large revolving drum con-
sisting of T-shaped crushing bars.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
stiIl Amounts to Talk.

New York. Dec. 26-The match between
Jack McAuliffe and Dick Burge for a $4,000
purse before the COney Island Athletic
club is still incomplete. Burgess repre-
sentatiyes refuse to sign articles contain
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
SOME sCRAPPER NEWS.
Lively Fight Before "A New York Club-Talk
of McAuliie and Eurge.

OF M'AuIIHt pIlII FsuTEt'
New York, Dec, 26-4 desperate prize fight
was decided here thisPveBing in the gym
nasium of the NonpareA Athletic club. The
principals in the vicious conflict We're BILLY"
Weish-of the Nonpareil club, who is famil-
iarly known by the sobriquet eff Little
John L." by reason of his striking resem-
blance to the ex-champiOn, and Joe Daley of
, the Union Athletic club of Brooklyn. The
in at 1870 pounds. About 300 persons, inelud-
ing many political lights of Tammany hall
witnessed the fstic argument Welsh was
was the agressor throughout the battle and
secured the verdict in the middle of the sec
ond round. During the wind up Welsh
scored five knock-down blows. Daley, in the
last fall, rolled upon his back and refused to
get up until counted out by the referee.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27
Started the Railroad scheme.

And then discussion was cut off by Bech-
el' motion that the committee rise and re-
port that the ordinance do pass, Chaffee
seconded IL in hurry. Munro wanted the
report to be that the ordinance do not pass,
ana Edwards that the report be simply
progress. Steel seconded the latter, but
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sPRECKELs TO GO WEST.
He Yields His Refinery to the Trust and
Will Go to California.
Philadelphia Press

Philadelphia Press.
Claus Spreckels will leave Philadelphia
for San Francisco during the coming week.
with all of his family except his son Ad0lph.
who will stay here to attend to such
Spreckels interests as will remain here.
His departure will be permanent. He and
his family will make the journey IN a pri-
vate car, specially fitted MP for their accom-
mediation and that of their servants.
"Mr. Spreckels's sugar refinery will be
taken charge Of by the trust tomorrow"
was the remark that was passed among the
brokers yesterday afternoon.
Said a well-posted man: THE difficulty
S%preckels will get what he asked. On
cuted by the trust in Spreckels's Office, and
Mr.. Spreckels Will go to his California
home"
By the absorption of the Spreckels re-
finery q deal of the most gigantic magni-
tude has been consummated, involving an
ex expenditure of s25. O00, 900 in this city and
Boston. There was about $500 600 of 1t
spent here, and as this was the point on
which the whole transaction was hinged
the matter was engineered with a great
deal Of caution. Every day or SO some
authentic report would be denied by the
trust people, which with other methods of
the same kind aided them in bringing about
the ends desired by them. Spreckels's plant
is equipped with all the most approved pat
terms of modern machinery. bnt he could
not run it protitably against the great COM
binatiOn of sugar companies that has
e~ndeavOred for the past nine months to get
him in the trust.
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WHITMAN AND HIS POETRY.
He Was Gray and Perhaps Good, but Was
by No Means q Poet.

He Was Gray and Perhaps Good, but Was
by No Means q Poet
The Independent
The designation of Walt Whitman as
'the good. gray poet" fails of the complete
and supreme infelIcity of the famous defi-
milton of the crab. in that time had made
him at least gray. He wrote the noisiest,
noisomest stuff ever called poetry. in lines
beginning with O capital letter. and whose
elusive dactyllIc suggestion had q habit of
dribbling out into utter prose.
The characteristic of Walt Whitman's
style is the big and the braggart. His po-
ems are the long-winded replication of En-
ers0n's egotistic pantheIsm:
81 am owner OF the sphere.
OF the seven stars and the solar year,
OF Caesars hand and Plato's brain,
or Lord Christs heart and Shakspeare's strain"
So Whitman claimed to be everything
and filled up page after page with the
weary list of the particular things he was,
apparently everything he could think of.
The powers of nature and especially Of
way. the brutal novelty of which was de-
clared to be poetry by some astonished al
mirers. although Emerson was greatly AM
noyed at being. represented as one of the
worshIpers of the rude-stepping b~acchanal.
The form of Walt Whitman's verse was
as bad as it could well be. After Long
fellows ~"EvanRelne" had tuned the pub
lie ear to dactyls, and Upper had diluted
tnem Into catcnlnB pTOSalc rnyIuIne, WHIT
man adopted the last and weakest fad Of
metrically struetureless verse. Then his
diction was strained and %repulsive, and
modesty was q forgotten virtue and q fall
lacy.
When the war came he ceased to celebrate
i~ndecency, and devoted himself rather to
clarifying the greatness of q country
which has such big rivers. lakes and 9th e.
geographical monsters. Though his verse
Improved, and he wrote some fair
short poems in rhyme and meter.
his reputation gradually fell. as
it deserved; for 1t was impos-
sible that the pure taste of o decent people
could long endure the foul. or find peren-
NAL enjoyment in q loud auctioneer's cata-
logue of members. regions and activities.
He Outlived his fame. and will never re-
cover his reputation. because be had in
him no music, no imagination, no delicacy
of sentiment. and was but the voice of one
bawling in the wilderness, with nothing
to say to the listener.
Are We told to speak nothing but good of
the deadi What good can we sayf He is
past any pain from our words. He has add
ed no strength to our literature, only q
name of oddity and %crankiness to It's list of
writer's who have achieved notice and men
ton.
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came into their fingers. but that their
lives were spent In the kitchen. The
fact Is that the majority of literary women
are far better housekeepers than the public
imagine. While por tions of their days are
spent in their "deps." the kitchen is not
forgotten, and frequently have L sat down
to a delicious dinner personally prepared
by a hostess OF literary renown IN the alb
admiral Dahlgren, for example. can cook
as well ss she can write. Anna Katharine
Green is a model housekeeper. For years
Frances Hodgson Burnett did all her own
work: and cooking .T f. p mot 3
can prepare as palatsble a Inner as can
her cook. Edna Dean Proctor Is likewise
an excellent cook. Madeline bridges loves
housekeeping as much as shedoes to write
poem. Ella Wheeler Wilcox superintends
the preparation of ali her meals. and mar
kets like an expert. Rebecca Harding Da-
Wis is another good domestic manager. Mrs.
Humphrey Ward 10 not IN love with the
kitchen. but she has an intelligent knowl.
that makes her independent of the whims
of servants. And there is q long list which
one could give to prove. and most concll-
sively, too, that some of our foremost lit
erary women are among the best house
keepers. and do not neglect the kitchen for
the library.
CHAT BOU AUTHORS.
Sister Rose Gertrude. or Mrs. Lutz. as is
now her married name, is employing part
of her time at her Honolulu home in liter
airy work. and some articles by her will
shortly appear. Iirs. Lutz writes grace
fully, she has q fund of material to draw
from. and what comes from her pen. it Is
reasonable to suppose. will be interesting.
Mrs. Admiral DabIgren has finished her
new novel. and it will shortly be brought
ont. Its title is "Chim; His Washington
Winter" The story is built entirely upon
original lines. and Is q departure from the
conventions style of fiction.
Sarah Orne Jewett has gone abroad seek
ing health and rest. and IS not to return to
America for some weeks.
John Habberton's famous story of Hell
ems Babiesp has just been translated into
the bohemian Language. which now leaves
the Turkish rs the only tongue into which
the story has not been rendered. l under
stand. In this connection. that the story
still enjoys q steady sale, despite Its age.
Lieut. Frederick Schwatka. the Arctic
and Alaskan explorer, has contracted to
write a series of articles on the worlds
fair. prior to it's opening and during it's
celebration, for q syndicate of prominent
European newspapers.
EDWARD w. Box.
COPYRIGHT
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Column No Saint.

Eugene Lawrence, II Harper's Magazine.
But who was this famous navigator, u
what were his character and aimsf The
common legend paints him in saint-like and
superhuman colors. No man was 40 wise,
gentle. learned. studious. humane. To sew
eral of his recent b~iographers he is without
q fault, o Numa, a Washington, with sven
q higher dim. With moro than chivalric
austerity he prepares himself for his rare
achievements; heaven guides him on his
way; he works miracles; SORROWS and afiiic-
tions follow him: majestic and godlike,
he passes away from among men, with
ont q blemish and without a fault. Such
he is to De Lorgues, Belloy and the
Abbe Cadoret. Irving's delightful biogra-
ply admit his faults. but softens them
into venial errors. His hero is clothed
In the fairnest drapery of his matchless
style. The common legend has filled all
modern histories, II til the whole story
of Columbus Is wrapped in q cloud Of false
hood. And there is some truth in the
picture. Columbus Possessed an unrivaled
strength of character and will. q mind of
rare power and sagacity. He was strong as
Hercules In forcing his way into distant
seas, but, unlike Hercules, rather COM
mitted than redressed wrongs. Never was
there q more striking difference than that
between the traditional Columbus of the
biographers and the Columbus Of true his
tory. OF his contemporaries.