| Show BY TELEGRAPH esa eza P umon mon L sim tsz gnam anim axa A da t IF 14 A N washington 8 the president hab haa urged senator edmunds to reconsider his declination of the supreme judgeship judge fudge ship and he refrained from making mating another appointment thinking he could persua persuade do ida lda edmunds to accept hut but friends frienda of the latter who enjoy his confidence say cewill he will not consent under any circumstances mum cum cum stances senator davis davia of illinois is very anxious to have edmunds appointed to the supreme bench and it is said sald the request was made through him to edmunds to reconsider it is evident that edmunds Is firm in his declination and the president is now satisfied of this fact KANSAS CITY 8 al ras tab passenger who arrived on the Wabash train this morning baid eaid while he was waiting for the train at moberly a t sheriffs officer entered the depot there having just arrived from the west wot looking very pale worn vorn and be spattered eind and vind told an exciting story which if true will cause much rejoicing among railroad officials he said jesse james was waa captured last evening at some place in kansas the passenger did not remember the exact location after a determined ter mined and bloody fight in which he killed seven pursuing boffl officers and wounded three others jesse himself is paid to have been shot full of holes and it ig 13 im poasi bie hie for him to live the outlaw was surrounded at a log cabin in the midst of heavy timber where he and a companion supposed to be ed miller were hiding they were asleep when the officers arrived but the of the hutlas hut was securely barricades barricaded barrica ded they made desperate resistance and killed seven officers while an attempt was being made to td batter down the thel door from outside jesses companion was shot dead the officer who told the story claimed to have been with the part party y and ehid just reached moberly by train the story is generally discredited tenn 8 yesterday dayfly a passenger pas Vas passenger and breight Jr eight train was wag wrecked on the tild Knox knoz knoxville villo ohio railroad bali Bail moad road near i this chis city cl ty elgh eight t men were woun wounded dedy none fa talfy tally the engine and two cars passed safely over the trestle bilt but the next box and mail mall barfell car fell through A car containing negro laborers was wits left perched upon the embankment NEW NENY yo YORK 8 the quart quarterly erly eKly statement of the western union shows the net revenue for the ter ending dec doc deducting the appropriation for divid ends the surplus kurpius on jan was tiie tile net profits once the american P co were absorbed has been ben the gross grods and surplus ia is A dividend has been beed declare declarer 4 payable on april omana OMAHA at athe mhd broils of laborers rep replacing lacin strikers on tn ane e B and M grading contract con eon tract wab was afas interrupted apted ghis this afternoon by a abaiz t men who for formed inet a procession guions rushed tipon upon the grounds drove onn off the laborers and and overpowered the regular and S several everal special police were taken to the hospital in conie conje wounds CHICAGO U the thuie TM sr izurie Uie ja 6 morrow will announce the purchase by ex governor stanford I 1 of cail cakl calli california fo rala raia of ot the celebrated trotting g stallion P dindak ka ctr 4 2 at and owned G by 8 J T giorgan li morgan organ of this city mr 8 stanford f d saw baw piedmont nt A last orr t toflia 0 abw arnie andner a short ide ride be behind 1 him closed the trade ma in ho anima fied fled t Is ont out and in 1875 won a four cearold ye arold stale stake stake getting a record ot zsa 0 he lid did not trot again u until 01 W 1 1878 when heid heil he was wils defeated I 1 in two the following spring hi i by peterana Pet erand erard aad johnson ind and indin sine cp then has trotted seventeen devent sev entee ee fourteen fourton laking taking 9 a cond money in two and third m i ne f in he be won the stake fo foi 33 vin hure hune an and ard d last year captured the iree fon tor all ali I 1 st tai tao t tal ai t the fourth hlat hist t in claus is the th ee oni oui that ever beat pierino piedmont beat hi him I 1 last july the go governor 1 vernor also pure purchased M re ased abed from mr M morgan dmn the dp elx year old mare lia lla happy dream reann i J by bia to happy s py podium odium and will 11 breecher bre ble breed edher her to the journals ourn is washington ashington special bays fays ea it is whispered whisper that jonk lings declination may inay leadtka lead toa rup ture beaw between himself ana anu arthu arthural Art ant huras ras it la is zie urged in hi sletten sletter of tul tiro tire 0 bi larence clarence seward but the president determined not to appoint him washington 8 senator benator saunders today to day submitted a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution allowing the people to elect postmasters internal revenue offic officers erst united states marshals mid arid district attorneys tomeye at he has studied stu etu died the question aa as a member of the civil service reform committee and is satisfied this la Is wise and essential washington 9 tu a conversation today to daywitt day with cannon of utah he expressed himself very freely on the antl anti polygamy biln bill he said the bill la Is very unjust it is framed upon prejudice and la Is being pushed by people who are ignorant of the nnie true condition of affairs in utah which is in a very flourishing condition it is out of debt and is the most lightly taxed of any section in the tha west the percentage of illiteracy is lower than that of many of the states although we have never had a dollar of public funds capital in utah feels sade eafe bemuse because of the present wise management of the affairs of the territory the clamor against mormonism comes from religious sects beets of the east and west and is promoted by missionaries who have been in utah and failed to accomplish their ends enda by legitimate means and now resort to this method of arousing religious ious Icus animosity against an honest thrifty industrious people because of their heterodoxy it is claimed said your correspondent th at a considerable section of the mormon churchea Church ja in favor of the passage of this measure That statement has not tho the slightest foundation in fact fatt baid eaid cannon the mormon people are unanimous in their opposition to it senator Edin edmund unde who made thia this as assertion ser tion hopes there are enough gentiles and what are called apostate apos apoi tate mor met mons in the territory to obtain control of the government by interrupting or challenging votes of the regular larMor mormons cormons Mor mons the bill places extraordinary tra tta ordinary powers in the hands bands of tho the commission and if it becomes law we may look for very harsh measures at their hands one of the objects of the bill is to preterit preveat pr everit me taking my seat in the hoube house it is merely the consummation of a fraud commenced by governor murray when he withheld my certificate what course will the mormon church take if the bill passes into legislation we will have to submit to it as we have submitted to other acts of persecution we will protest against it in every legitimate way the act will fall heavily upon others besides b eldes tides will wil I 1 be unset tle dand a great many taxation will be increased and mismanagement M an argement take the place of the present wise conduct olour of our territorial affairs people who make this outcry against mormonism care polygamy do you think this action will seriously cripple the mormon church I 1 do not persecution for neil rell religions gions aake aske generally rebounds on the people who start it you cannot crush a af people e ople opie possessing sessi ng thet thee sterling atia qualities fl of mormons cormons and the ad vance of our religion cannot be checked unless pou extirpate our people entirely what are your views as to the tile lation constitutionality for tor propos TO it is the upil opinion plan 0 o of t good doti lawyers erk erh that ati fhi fc Is unconstitutional will vill you i appeal to the supreme court to test this point v I 1 scarcely ly know what wey unido fildo do i at present resent gov 1 arned a great deal by circumstances as they I 1 I 1 f I 1 washington 9 the senate at pm today to day passed the bill 20 1 0 yeas seas against 15 nays MEMPHIS 9 the river iose lose rose two inches since yesterday High ands da the levee leveo at helena aud and friars point boint althe fl The el entire i city detective force was abandoned on account of charges a gained characters V ST louis louls 9 the train w wreckers ek as bf the lon iron ion mountain Mounta iii ro road je arg are arrested 1 here cincinnati gan aan tilter nation al aj tolek telegraphers raphers is to be held here march jath it atwill will number among the delegates pro from an parta parts of the united states and canada responses Response a have haie been already rt received from more than 60 who will attend Te presenting representing telegraph erb era tho made raade ample arrangements A dewer dewe R P the albuquerque riuo luhm yesterday chas chaa shei Shel shelton ton tou jno redmond and harvey french were taken from jail and hanged to the mhd nearest trees by masked men shelton murdered foreman woodruff last fall redmond killed diled JM sam mcdermott last lart january at on the atlantic and pacific railway french alias simpson was one of the band baud of desperadoes who hilled billed deputy sheriff jones jonea at cranes the mob also took two negroes from jail beat them unmercifully and turned them loose CHICAGO 9 A helen heien amon tana tans special says the united states marshal there rec received eltred altred a st dispatch dated march ad from his deputy john healy that he is a prisoner among half balf breeds bleeds and indians in their camp on milk river the country ii full of smugglers and illicit traders and aud he the hal ha hat l 1 arrested six odthe of the leading men and captured worth of robes when whan the indiano indiana captured him and hla hia outfit he be asks aiji all from fort sort assiniboine as there are arct not noi troops enough at poplar river kiver and the sandale indians indiana are ready for war marshal JB botkin has directed aid ald to be sent later information is As that general rucker com commandant mandant mandart abort a fort assin al abline olne oine has sent seven companies of infantry and two companies of cavalry numbering men under captain narwood Nar wool wooi to the scene of the trouble with instructions to rescue healy and drive the half balf breeds and crees back into british territory whence they came it la Is feam neared feared healy and hla hia companions may be butchered before the troops arrive president arthur gave a dinner last night to the members of the cabinet and a number of senator benator sr with their wives in return for the hospitalities of the winter ex Secre secretary laxy lary blaine blaino mrs blaine mrs wadsworth miss misa Freling huysen and miss beale were among the guests NEW youk 9 the awa pua washington special says the polygamy bill may not come up till the house goes to the speakers table and a motion to do that cannot be made until the ex expiration of al another iother morning hour houn llis ills t not nut certain therefore that the subject wili will bo be brought today to day when the speakers table is again reached burrows JB of michigan suggests a point which nie nit nuy y relieve the speaker of his hib difficulty and enable him to rule merely with law of parliamentary proceed ure that the bill is not subject to a of order orders that it makes an ati appropriation burrows on examining the local statutes of utah to which he has been giving much attention in connection With the prospective debate on polygamy discovered that they require time tire territory to make an appropriation for expenses of all election officers the judges whose offices it is liro proposed posed to create by the bill are election officers cersy cerby and aua the query aery naturally arises Wh whether ether Other under aen the territorial law the territory will not be required to pay their sal controlling power simply injects these election off omm leens officers into the legal machinery of the tle tie territory and their eXpense expenses i may mayve mayse fie paid under the territorial law if this point can be sustained anu ana it is the best one yet suggested the polygamy debate may proceed when next the Speak speakers eeb ees tabie table is reached if 11 the speaker does not rule in that manner it will be possible for the republicans still stilt to reach the bill in a tui lUI erent way much interest is manifested man to know how the democrats will vote on this question there is an impression that they have changed their views and und are about determining to vote forthe sor for the bill this at least is impossible ork orl bome some me republic republicans tinh tins who are managing matters but the impression ia is certainly not founded on anything democrats to this time have done or indicated if the polygamy 11 IQ ia itself settle abec the e of cannon with the edmunds bill a law cannon could not ho pe N pep pop epka zep Z ep hij seii seat edh ev eh if f he hop hoi lobo lobe be admitted governor cataili churchill says ashley county reports people ane verg cof lof ja starvation chicot and desba desua have each as many munn if not mbree cross eross C ritten critten den deu mississippi lee bee st arancis Pr ancis monroe aion alon oe and aud counties h av 03 thousand thousands of buner suffer ersi in destitute circumstances instances I 1 should J audgo ah era ere are nearly if not no altogether lle lit needing au aldi iii ili iu the estate today to day I 1 there re are tenants hd and I 1 carmera carsner A aman eman lost lose their therrall the trall Wl bythe bytho by the tho farming arming implement implements sj every hing hang thing has been hW allowed swallowed dp vp in 10 the flow flood T A ahem thias gloomy glop giop my AN ade aed 4 hi atterb lowdus f tildia tv they mayce mediately get employment and must therefore board at the public expense for a time at least LITTLE RUCK rock 9 othere there has been steady rain for three days at arkansas city and the river rose one inch from noon to 6 pm today to day MEMPHIS 9 E H moore an attorney residing at rosedale Eo sedale the county seat of bolivar co miss was passenger on the steamer dean adam adama which arrived tonight to night at midnight he reports breaks in the and lae lake charles levees which occurred on monday night is the largest levee in mississippi is and the three breaks submerge the entire county of bolivar at rosedale Bo sedale the water is 10 feet deella deep in all dwellings of its three hundred inhabitants only three families yet remain and they bre are liciag in the garrets of their housep all the others fled and sought safety elEew elsewhere here bere A portion artion of the levee immediately ra in front of rosedale Bo sedale is crowded with net neA negroes roes mules and cattle rhe the negroes num mum numbering bering about have no shelter and are existing on cattle which they kill their condition Is Wr terrible as they have been for the wt past two days daya exposed to cold drenching showers of rain which have fallen mules cattle and other stock have been dying by hundreds and are hourly dying of starvation washington 10 the chinese bill as passed diners frim the measures reported by the foreign relations committee and telegraphed january ar 0 only in the following particulars tic ulars it is to go into deflect 96 days after the enactment instead of 60 and a corresponding change is made wherever the latter jatter word occurs the second section ia Is amended to make the he fine not more |