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Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
4 MUSEHEN

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Could the members of John Robinson
'strictly moral circus looked in at Boyd's
opera house last evening, they would have
undoubtedly reached the conclusion that the
profession was in imminent danger of total
humiliation by far~ce-comejy people, mas
querading as ground and lofty tumblers,
aerial artists aud world dazzling eques-
t%riennes, with plain people thrown in ad lib
to give a measure OF seasoning to the sauce.
Had Jenny and Jessamy from Elkhorn in
advertently wandered into the pretty
theater while Nellie McHenry. masqueraded
as the peerless bareback rider of the tented
show, their hearts would have worked like
trip hammers over her feats of riding, to
say nothing of the work of the clever peo-
pie who support this new star of the arena
in her latest circo comedy, IA Night at the
Circus
There was one thing missing, however.
which the management must look after I'M
mediately-the aroma Of The sayydus was
lost in the up-to-date perfumes of swell So
ciety, lilies of the valley, musk and frangi
panni. If some expert chemist will now in
vent an extract of sawdust the circus will be
complete. There is nothing tawdry or moth
eaten about this latest railroad show"
The gymnasts wave their pink legs about
like tho tentacles of II sea emo while
the girls in still piuker tights. as they turn
and twist, look like sylphides in their tinsel
'frippery."
"a Night at the Circus'' is sufficiently
loud to delight the most blase theater-goer,
and suggestive, too, in spots. But the per.
formance made an immense hit with the
large audience, Nellie McHenry and her
company of players winning salvos of APP
plause throughout the three acts of the
farce.
Miss McHenry is charmingly chic in the
very best part she has ever played and her
final entree as the queen of the arena was a
wonderfully clever stage picture.
}. III. Bradbury plays Sig. Bonanza, the
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
RESULTS REGISTRATION
official Returns from All the City Districts
Except Twenty-FOur.
DlscLoSEs A DECREASE OVER LAST YEAR
Sunday Before the observation-disclosures OF
Labor Discuss the Candidatcs-Danish
Mass Meettug-Ehrenpfort's Hand
writiSs on tho Sidewalks.

Registration lists Of sixty-four voting
districts in the city have been returned TO
City Clerk Groves. These lists, as predicted,
show a considerable falling off in the regis
tration of voters as compared with last year.
In tho sixty-four districts reported $4,000
voters have registered. This makes an
average of 200 to each district. Taking
these figures as a basis the remaining
twenty-four districts will increase the total
registration in the city to IL 800, against 30
200 for 1892, II loss of 9, 700 votes.
Undoubtedly several hundred voters have
neglected to enroll their names on the regis
tration list, while many who exercised the
election franchise one year aso, have
moved else where. An observing politician
has concluded that the falling off in tho
registration may, in a measure, be at
tributed to the existing jury law.
Among a large class of citizens there is a
decided disposition to evade jury service.
and they possess the idea that by keeping
their names off tho list of registered voters
they will escape this irksome duty, and
their names will not become tempters OF
fortune in Colonel Frank Moore's lottery for
the panel winners. Other causes are also
attributed. 1t is believed that owing to
the small registration that within 1,0OC
of the registered vote will be cast, and
perhaps even a less percentage than that
will fail to vote.
The registration by voting districts in the
wards returned, is as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
Dropoed Into u subterranean Lake.

A section of country about a quarter
of a mile in diameter mas fallen or caved
in about a mile above Stones Ferry,
Tenn. The slide occurred in Lake
county and the first persons who saw it
the next day were astonished beyond be-
lief to see the land sunken out of sight
and tree tops and water about 100 feet
below what had been dry ground the
day before. The sink was partial on
the northern extremity, getting deeper
and deeper toward the southern side,
where it obtained its greatest depth. 1t
appeared as though the tract of land
had been resting on IA shell of rock
which, having been partially destroyed
by the action of the water for untold
ages, suddenly gave way and dropped
into a subtcrranean lake. One of the
strangest things about it is that there
are hundreds of catfish, perch, buffalo
and other fish floating about. 1t is al
most impossible TO convince anyone that
such a body of land could fall without
producing something of an earthquake
that would have alarmed the surround
ing country. The lake will doubtless be
christencd Little Reel Foot.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
THE MEXICAN PLAN.
1t Render Train Kobbing n F%rccario,
Profession.

III NenueTS IRAN NODDlnE II IECCartOuS
Profession.
Apropos of the recent train robberies
in this country. a western railroad man
suggests that wc should adopt the Next
can plan of dealing with them. which
proved so effective there. Mexico offers
great advantages over this country for
train robbing. 1t is thinly settled; the
land is cut up with mountains, Offering
hiding places for the robbers and q safe
retreat: Its people are not rs advanced
in civilization as ours, and there is q
much larger dangerous element, eX-
bandits and revolutionists, to whom train
robbing would come as a natural trade.
The railroads, moreover, are a new in
%stitution, and IL was natural TO suppose
that train robberies would be numerous.
During the first extension of our rail
road system into Mexico they were so
frequent that a passenger thought him
self lucky to get from the Rio Grande
to Mexico without several stoppagcs
from these ''knights of the road" De-
t~ectives, bloodhounds and other means
of suppress.ng the evil were tried, but
with little more success than in
this country, when. President Diaz,
on the old theory of ''set Il theft to catch
a thief" hit upon the happy idea of util-
izing the bandits and railroad robbers
to protect the roads by organizing them
into a police force known as the r~urales,
or rural guards. He had some Of the
men who were suspected Of this business
summoned before him, and offered them
an opportunity of entering the govern
ment service as mounted police, n told
them that if tn " did SO he would fur
nish them with fine uniforms, improved
firearms and the best horses that could
be bought, but if they did not he would
nave the soldiers hunt them down. They
knew that Diaz was Il mar of his word,
and they entered the government scrv-
ice, and being daredevils, as far as cur
age is concerned, and thoroughly ac-
quainted with the ways and methods of
the train robbers. to whom they showed
no mercy, they very soon suppressed
these robberies. When a train was held
up, the ~rurales, who knew every noun
tain recess, never stopped until they had
hunted down the last robber. The plan
worked splendidly, and there is today
less interruption to railroads in Mexico
than in this country, although. the
chances for robbery are so much better
there.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
AGAIssT THE COAL TRUST.
Bedford's Candidacy for Mayor rs Viewed
by Workingmen


Bedford's Candidacy for Mayor as Viewed
by w~orkingmen
A co~ptributor to the Western Laborer.
published in this city, has the following to
-, Io0 w Roaford- tho democratic can
say OF Jch H~s"N'
didate for mayor: rIh
Mr.. Jefferson W. Bedford, coal merchant,
MI, ~ Ne ti,st orpanizers of the coal ex.
u one " ~ trnst' of TIE BUYERS and
cnnspn,ers of conI know that during the last
ei,ht nr len yeaIs they have absolutely been
~ :. ,ritnts In this yillainois conI irnst2
Thera was no such association until MIR. He'd
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
STORY OF TWO SURVIVORS.
Sailors from the Wrecked ship Give
' Graphic Description.

sailors from tho Wrecked Ship Give q
@ Graphic Description.
copyrighted 1893 by the Associat d Pressl
BILBAO, Nov. 1.-Two sea men who escaped
the dynamite-laden steamship Cabo Michi-
caco, which caused the fearful disaster at
S~antander. have arrived here after being
blown up on that vessel and thrown a great
distance out to sea, falling among a mass of
burning wreckage. These sailors eventually
reached the shore on the other side of the
harbor, from where they were driven to this
city. An old seaman gives the following ac-
count of the disaster:
"We did not know there was any dynamite
on board beyond the twenty cases which we
landed at the outbreak of the fire. A few
moments before the explosion, my mate hur-
ried on deck crying out that every body
should leave the ship and clear off the quay
as the fire was reaching dynamite. Every
one then FASTENED over the gangway but
while so doing the explosion overlook us
and when l fell into the water after having
been up in the air for what SCENE to me
to be quite n long time, l caught hold of u
plank and swan away."e
One of the men had his hair badly singed
and another an arm injured. Both assert
hat the crew of the ship was ignorant of
the presence of the contraband dynamite on
board of her. The two seamen wept while
describing their struggles In the water
amidst corpses and wreckage.
Many Children Killed.
Another eyewitness of tho disaster says
he saw at least thirty bodies thrown into
| the sea and that among them were many
nurses carrying children in their arms.
Another witness declares that the first
question the captain of the Alfonso XII
| asked when his steam launch ran alongside
the dynamite ship with the intention of
assisting in committing the flames was,
Have you any explosives on boardl"
s.Nn y, uy,,ct tho raplu SAN tho aynlocivap
awe been landed"
The captain of the Alfonso XII then sug-
| gested that the burning steamer be towed
into deep water and s~cuttled, seeing the diff
Guilty in distinguishing the tiames.
Soon after the explosion took place other
people asserted that the Cabo Michicaco
had 1000 cases of dynamite on board. and
the authorities of Bilbao, where the ill.
fated steamer sailed from. are said to have
been aware of the shipments of ZOO kilo-
grams of dynamite, and supposed the
twenty cases landed belonged to Santander
consignecs. The Bilbao people at
tribute the explosion to the bursting OF
the boiler, and considered that the dynamite
was not liable to ignite easily, and, there.
fore, that IL was II comparatively safe
cargo. Tho Bilbao people also declare ship.
mcnts of dynamite from their factory nj
Galdacano for all Spanish forts are frequent
and that the explosive is regarded as merely
merchandise.
Finance Minister Gamanzo, accompanied
by a number of Santander people, arrived
at Santander today and convened the re-
naming officials and consoled with them
and encouraged them to organize methods o
relief. The tiremen of Valledolid, Burgess
Bilbao and other towns which have sen
engines TO Santandrc have furnished loca
relief.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
County Court Irees.

OMAHA, Nov. 3.-To the Editor Of THE
BEE: Referring to your pungent and timely
criticisms upon the 'hOld me up"-'ncw
methods"-of Judge Eller in probating the
estates of widows and orphans. l beg to
ask what assurance we will have in case we
vote for Mr.. Baxter that the costs for pro-
batting estates and doing other business in
Judge Eller's administration Will MIR.
Baxter please state over his signature how
or to what extent we will be relieved? l
should like to hear from Judge Eller in re-
ply to G.. w. Shields interview in the
Herald of yesterday.
Apropos, MIR. Editor, of all this fee bust
ness By all the various public officers. espe-
cially in this county and city, are not the
litigant and taxpayer, robbed right and left
under the preteDss of it being within the
pale of the law. REPUBLICAN TAXPAYER.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
Duh rcnnsyiy,u,n Campaign,

~PHnADELPHIA, Nov. 5.-Thc campaign in
this state has been tho dullest on record.
Chairman Gilkinson o. the republican state
committee claims the election of the repub-
lican state ticket by a majority ranging
anywhere from 5000 to 100, 900. Chairman
j. Marshall Wright of the democratic COM
mittee anticipates the defeat of the demo-
cratic ticket by the usual majority, about
$4,000. There are four tickets in the field
as follows:
Republican-State treasurer, Samuel
Jackson: supreme court, ID. Newlin Fell.
Observation-Disclosures, Frank Osborne; SUI
preme court, Samuel Cuisine Thompson.
observation-disclosures, John y. Kent; SUI
preme court, Herbert L. Ames. Peoples
party-Treasurcr. f. Nj. Wiudsur; supreme
court, John H. l.. Stevenson.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
COUNTY COURT OF
DOUGLAS COUNTY, NEBRASR

y. w. Elicr, county Judge.
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. /, 1893: Dear Sir-Re-
meo,bering the very pleasant occasion of your
marriage. ut which I was accorded the pleas
ure of officiating. and feeling that you might
be Interested in my political welfare, | take
the liberty. of calling your attention to the
fact that | am n candidate for reelection.
Anything you can say TO your friends In my
behalf viii be appreciated, Yours truly
j. w. ELLER.
The judge regrets the fact hat all the
brides cannot vote, Us he is positive that
they were sufficiently impressed with his
personal beauty and proficiency in tying the
knot" to vote for him if they could.
AS the Judge charged the regular rates for
performing the ceremony and made mo re-
duction in price during the recent financial
depression, it is thought that bridegrooms
will resent his attempt to compel them to
vote for his reelection.
Clerk Walkup, it is said, contemplates an
appeal IN Eller's behalf and will recall the
memories OF newly made Benedicts to his
beautiful pictorial-rosebud marriage oertifi-
Gates which make a nice companion picture
to fern leaf mottoes OF Home. Sweet
Home" These Holdup-or rather Walhup-
certificates are sold to hridegrooms, and il is
thought that the double appeal will fill the
hearts of newly married. men with such
overwhelming gratitude that they will exer-
else the right of Independent citizenship and
vote for whom they please, regardless of the
dictntion of men to whom they are under nc
obligations
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06

Santander Is the capital of the province of
Santander, situated on the Bay of Biscay,
about POI miles from Madrid. II is well To-
Gated on u headland, and has a large and
secure port, with good anchorage and
shelter. a mole and docks. The town is the
terminus OF n railway from Madrid. In the
ancient part of the town the
streets are narrow, while Ia the
modern portion the streets are wide and
the buildings of good architecture. There
are ten squares. large and small, as well as
many public buildings. 1t is 4 busy, thriv-
lng place, carrying on extensive operations
in native industries, as well ms u consider
able export and import trade. At the last
census the town had q population of 90, 202.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
Charged with nee.

Charges of drinking whilo on duty will be
preferred against Officer Holman before the
police commissioners 1t is alleged that tho
officer was found on his beat early Friday
morning while under the influence of liquor,
and after he was reprimanded he is said to
have gone to the home of one of the tommis.
siouers in order 10 prove that he was no,
drunk. Tue officer was ordered to report 10
the captain in charge, and when he WIS told
that he was under the influence of liquor h,
acknc wlcdgcd that he had taken n drink or
two.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
Alaska's PAGER Mines.

The steamer Topeka, from Alaska,
brought to Victoria n number of Yukon
miners whose combined pile of dust
amounted 10 $50. 900. They say there are
some 300 prospcctors in the country, and all
mainly doing well, there being enough gold
there for tho work. The men who go in,
however, must be prepared TO rough IL. The
results of mining for the past summer have
been fitful, some men doing well aud others
the 1nVnrsn
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
FOUND ON A SAND BAR.
CHASTITY Discovery oil Corpse In the River
Near East Omaha.

Near East Omaha.
While out hunting yesterday, William
BerLue, who lives at Third aud Woolworth
streets, discovered the body of a mar lodged
on a sand bar near East Omaha. The man
had evidently been dead for several days,
and had been washed upon the sand
par. The body was discovered at
dusk, and it was too late when, the COR
oner was notified to make any effort to res
cue the remains last night. The coroner
and MIR. Berdue will go to the place early
this morning and take charge of the body.
AS no one has been reported missing lately
there is no theory as to whom no
might be. Tn police are Investigating the
matter in hopes of discovering the identity
of the dead man.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
Mercer as a Child OF NapIes.

DIR. Mercer and Ike Hascall are fierce
rivals in an attempt to spread q net for
the Italian voters.
Several Thousand cards have been issued
bearing the following alluring inscription in
Italian:
Votate X per s. 7. Mercer IL Sirdaco. Votato
Y per II canale. Che avretc lavaro empire.
Singnion non mancate domencia assere al can
tone II @ Doglas ST., allie ore 8 p. m.
DIR. Mercer does not speak Italian iuently.
He has but recently developed a banker
ing to hug the sons of sunny Italy to has gen.
crous eXpause OF shirt front. He ''winks the
other eye" when he thinks of his great
scheme to catch votes.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
Arrested on suspicion.

Frank Smith. alias Holly. and John
Sloane were arrested yesterday on suspicion
Of having stolen a shotgun from G.. S.
Parker, who is stopping at Belts barn on
jackson street. Tine gun was stolen yester-
day, and as suspicion was directed at these
men they were placed under arrest, pending
an investigation. Parker is the man who
had his wagon demolished in a runaway on
South Sixteenth street one day last week.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06

reason Is because they are rich aud would not
be robbed In this ninnner. This tyrannical
exchange does not dare trife with the rich
consumers; IL Is the poor consumers who pay
tho profit given to the rich. II Is the only
local monopoly that has remained intact. and
Is soliciting your votes for the office OF mayor,
Mr.. Jeff W. Bedford.
Time and again have poor men gone from
one coal office to another In the hops to find
coal cheaper, the Same as other necessities,
price is the same ~cvcrywher In Omaha,
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06

Suit Against the sultan oil Johore Decided
In London.
LONDON, Nov. 5.-The action for breach
Of promise involving heavy damages and
the question of possession of a diamond
bracelet, brought against his highness, the
sultan Of Johore, by Miss Jennie Mitchell
of Devonshire Terrace, Brighton, came up
before Justices Swigs and Lawrence today.
The judges decided to allow the appeal of
the sultan to stay all proceedings on the
ground that he was an independent sover-
eign and did not come under the jurisdiction
of the court.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
Fed raj Cnuri G sas.

United States Circuit Judge Caldwell wi I
attend the term of court here that convene
on the 18th INST. He Ia. set the old case of
the New York Security and Trust compnny
VS.. the Kansas City * Beatrice Railway
company 70" II hearing on the Goth. This
case has been pending for several years,
and IL is the expectation that Il fnIl order
Will now be reached.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
DANISH Alas, Meeting.

The Danish Nonpartisan club held a rous-
ing mass meeting at Washington hall yester-
day afternoon.
Speeches were made by f. j. Cornish,
Theodore Olsen, Charles Anderson, George
Munro and others.
Engineer Howell discussed the canal
proposition. He made the same old speech
and talked against time. No definite action
was taken by the meeting on the proposition
and no nominees were endorsed.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
Uivii Service Exam'nations.

The semi-annual examination OF appli-
caIts for positions in the civil service will
be held in the United States court room of
the federal building next week. The exam
nation for positions in the Indian and de-
partmental service will be held on Wednes-
cay, and for the railway mail service on
Thursday.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
Totals ] ] ' sSa 9d b'5s4 ~ !,

Twenty-four districts have not reported.
In the above list The totals apply only to
wards from which returns have been received
Tor 1893, as compared TO the registration of
1892. In the twenty-four districts from
which no returns have been received for
1893, the figures for said districts for 1892
are given in the latter column. but are not
used for a basis of comparison of increase or
decrease in the respective districts.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
AUsTRiA's NEW oApINEr.

1t WIN BE Moderately Conservative-Al
Portfolios Not FILLED.
LONDON, Nov. 5.-The correspondent Of the
Chronicle at Vienna says the new cabinet
has been formed as follows:
Widmaun, minister of the interior; Nj.
Plcncr, minister of finance; the Pole, Jaw
roski, minister for Galtcia the Pole, Ma,
deski, minister of justice; Wo~berscheimb
and Fatkenhayne retain their portfolios.
The others are untitled.
The Cabinet will be moderately conserva-
tiva
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
DECLARED FOR UNITY.

King Oscar Picads Tor closer Relations Be-
tween Norway and sweden.
CHRISTIAN, Nov. AT a banquet given
in the palace this evening to celebrate the
anniversary of the union of Sweden and
Norway the king said that the union must
be preserved intact as a safeguard to the
independence and neutrality of the two
countries. He urged the necessity of hav-
ing one minister of foreign affairs for both
countries and expressed the hope that at
the coming election all true men would
stand together to support the union.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
WARM MASSACHUSETTS, FIGHT.
Both Sides Engaged IN n Determined Cam
paign.

BosroN, Nov. 5.-Massachusetts will
elect state officers on Tuesday. 1t
is regarded as a foregone conclusion
that republican candidates for lieutenant
governor, secretary of state, treasurer,
auditor and attorney general are safe and
that the executive councillors will be largely
OF the same party. The fight centers on the
governorship and the work of the past week
has been noticeably harder than during the
closing days of last years fierce campaign,
The republicans claim that G~reenhalgc
will have a majority of at least 5000, and
the democrats make an equally confident
claim for John II. Russell. Both parties
nave distinguished themselves for steady,
solid work. Governor Russell has thrown
himself into the struggle with great vigor.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
Commerc,nl Slub Mectine.

A general meeting OF the members of the
Commercial club will be held at its rooms
Tuesday evening at s o'clock. A tuil at
enhance Is requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
READY FOR VOTING
[coNrINuFn FnoM rInsr rAar.l

independent democrat for mayor is giving
the regular party trouble. +. G. Batrobe,
the present incumbent. IS the democratic
and William Master the republican candi-
date. The democrats will elect tte three
cans claim TO have n good chance t. elect
Richmond as Judge over Boyd in we ern
MARYLAND.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
~onnde in rnnrlxL

~tCopDri0hted 1898 by Jdmcs Gordon Bcnnctt.j
BERLIN, Nov. 5.-TNew York Herald Cable
Special to TN BEE THE kaiser has sent
his portrait TO Chancellor Won Capriyi, ac-
companicd By a letter expressing his un-
abated confidence in the count, and promis-
ing TO continue TO support hi,u,
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
Frederick Douglas is Coming.

Hon. Frederick Douglas, who has recently
acquired fresh laurels by his famous adj
dresses at Chicago, is soon 10 visit Omaha.
He is TO lecture in Boyd's opera house on
Wednesday evening, November Is, on THE
Race Problem in the SOUTH 1t has been
yearly twenty years since he visited Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
Accepted una Reduction.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 5.-Chiefs Arthur,
Clark and Sargent held a consultation yester-
day with the receivers of the East Tennessee
road about The regulation of trainmen's
wages. The result WAS an agreement to
accept proposed reductions for three mouths,
at the end Of which time old rates will be
restored.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-06
pnrai,zph IN IN. l.nlnit.

NEWCASTLE, Pa, Nov. 5.-itey. Mr.. Big
ham, one OF the oldest United Presbyterian
ministers in this section, while preaching to
mis- congregation ut Plaingrove this morn
ing, was stricken with paralysis and cannot
recover. He is about % years old.