Show BY TELEGRAPH pst plak majc A M ME E R rig BIG I 1 C A AN N CHICAGO 29 the inter ocean says in the he io iowa lowa a pool aeeti meeting v yesterday an important question came up roads running from the missouri elven eiver to california have been in the habit of making contracts for 12 months from january each year with leading shippers to the pacific coast in which they were allowed greatly reduced rates these reductions were made so as to prevent the pacific mail mall steamship co from carrying the bulk of the business by way of nf panama rome some how or other the eastern trunk lines have managed to secure greater greaten pro rata rates from these reduced through rates than they are entitled to the iowa lowa lines iines learning of this decided on steps tor for securing a better percentage for themselves and reducing that of the eastern lines iules they appointed a committee comprising commissioner and the general freight agent of each interested road to meet representatives of the eastern trunk lines at a meeting to be held december 10 11 and 12 10 when the question of the pacific mall mali contracts will be considered si the following breezy note was received at the offices office in answer to a query addressed to the rock koch island office if mr merrills threat to run ran fast trains to st paul is carried out the rock bock island will make up to the passenger in fare the loss he sustains in money time la Is money and money in this case will be made to represent time signed ST JOHN JOHs geni gedl passenger agit hock hook had island boad road N Y the express train on the erie hours late ran into the rear of a freight train near greenwood today to day the conductor of ot the freight train was killed hilled and the engineer and fireman of the passenger train severely hurt huit CHICAGO aoe 30 keep and hughitt Hughit tot of the northwestern roads and porter of the omaha line arrived from frow mow mow now work kork the northwestern magnates declined any statement in regard regald to bhe the existing war in the northwest further than to express the opinion that it was was far from a settlement he said eaid the present war had bad not grown out of matters of recent date but was the result of grievances running back for a period of three years he exhibited a letter written to one of his leading officers early in 1881 in which he forecast the present situation the Thet whole trouble he says grows out of reckless extension by the milwaukee bt st paul into the territory of other roads and he does doea not hesitate to assert absent that his fight is entirely against thib this practice lo 10 the action of the st paul road stockholders were not considered in these exten extensions Blons have been largely into territory already occupied that such extensions have been engineered in the interest of construction companies made up of persons interested in the management of the theroa roa yoa dand daud when these extensions were completed comple led they used their influence in the directory to secure the purchase by the main line at a handsome profit over the cost of construction to the detri ment of the interest of the general stockholder these methods in which he charges the me st paul road to be more guilty than the others to be more guilty than the others must he says by duplication be unprofitable lines and bring about a financial crash clash in a short time unless checked it if the bt st paul road builds into thia this territory for foi instance where there Is only busl busi ness for one road the result is two unprofitable lines instead of one paying line to prevent this he asserts is the object of the tho fight and avers that ho he will never listen to any proposition until this p pie e 0 of territorial rr or a r rights 9 Is fully recognized e and a basis for their determination M mi nation is established reasserts ho He asserts that bhe the he has been waiting until fully prepared before going into the that his road has sufficient fully prepared before going into the that his road has sufficient surplus to pay the interest on its indebtedness for three years with out earning a dollar that he is pro pared to carry on tho the war wan to that extent if nels necessary arys to establish the principle which he deems necessary for the reservation preservation not only of rail rall road interests but those of the entire country ST luls MUIS SO 30 A dispatch froni from dallas tex sayd says prominent rail rall road men connected with the texas system who have just arrived from the olty city city of mexico bay say it la Is stated there that the mexican authorities are going to make a claim on the united states at the approaching session of congress for galveston island laland including galveston city it appears in the mexican cession of the republic of texas galveston bay which Is north of the island was taken as the southern bound boundary of the ceedee territory and the t ag mexican claim is in said to bo bo prima facie good it is thought trouble and some bome international complications may grow out of this claim cincinnati SO 30 this afternoons afternoon at the coliseum theatre in the fourth act of the play si slocum Bl ocum frank Fray hray neui nein shooting the apple off the head of laucy lucy slocum per by miss annie von behren missed the apple and shot miss von yon behren nehren in the head she died in fifteen min minutes utez frayne was arrested immediately the curtain fell and the play was stopped the audience supposed the girl only slightly hurt frayne used a rifle of 22 calibre calibe and in executing the backward shot the catch snap of the weapon was imperfect and slip ped as the hammer fell and blew the cartridge out backwards OMAHA 29 the high license liquor law works well saloons are reduced in the city from to 94 the dealers themselves are practically a constabulary to expose licensed d ven tenders ders in the state saloons are reduced two thirds in number OMAHA omara SO 80 this whis evening E 2 shotwell Bh otwell porter at the occidental hotel got into an altercation with henry berting elberding El butcher by trade trades which ended in provoking a street fight and finally shotwell Bh otwell who was getting badly punished drew his revolver and shot eberting in the neck necks inflicting a probably fatal wound shotwell Bh otwell surrendered rendered sur aur to neck necks inflicting a probably fatal wound shotwell Bh otwell surrendered rendered sur aur to the police NEW YORK 30 30 it still snows and sleighing is fine in every direction about eight inches covering the ground this is the first thanksgiving day since 1851 1854 that new york has had san BAN 30 A victoria british columbia dispatch bays says the steamship idaho just jush j ush arrived faw crom from ZO reports that placer miners have stopped work work on ao ac aoi noi 1 count of the alaice boxes freezing the miners at junction city have had h n a d a profitable profitable tabie table season and will m make mabe take lake preparations preparations to go on a large scale next year row now claims clavins have been discovered on douglal island and are reported very rich it Is la re are very rich it Is la re ported por that several new quartz mills will wili be erected next summer the united states steamship adams is still lying at her moorings off the town with all on board A detachment d of men are ares still till stationed at to prevent further troubles with the indians baltimore 29 Corporal bluch er second seco beco ind artillery schoolmaster at fort port mchenry a lineal defendant of the famous marshal has been tendered by baker pasha a staff position tion in the khedives Khe dives army he has served as military of the german legion in egypt NORWICH irs conn 1 samuel Brush brushel eJ the last direct descendant of uncas chief of the mohican indians died yesterday aged 37 years he was a poor besotted ugly de formed royalist his funeral was conducted by white men alone and was very impressive an indian territory special re pons ports the me capture of the tho murderers murderers named walker walkers reynolds and near darlinger after a sharp struggle during which they were nearly killed they had murdered a young man in a comanche county texas and the officers have been in pursuit three weeks cincinnati IA I 1 A Steu steubenville benville special reports the death last even evon ing ol 01 hon J T D updegraff ican fean lean congressman elect of the ohio district at mount pleasant the disease was as stone in the bladder he was treated for brights a disease the true ailment was discovered by post mortem to a disease the true ailment was discovered by post mortem to tonight night NEW yobu york I 1 A washington k special has this it is learned from members of congress Con gross groes who are already here that it ia 19 the intention of the republicans to hold a caucus at both ends of the capitol early in the bess sess session bession loDs perhaps next w week eek to arrango arrange their pro gramme for the session the main issue will bo be the question of tariff reduction or revision the unfinished cont contested ested election cases are to be left to the discretion cret ion lon of the committee on oil elections Mii mil ox 03 03 0 ithe I ithe the slon alon of a paper mill boiler boller killed one and injured three N ya Y 1 awilliam heceman heffernan Heu eman master mason was killed two p persons dersons seriously injured and james Tames murray mason supposed drowned in the saranac river by the fall of a derrick while bridge building NEW N YORK yo 1 arrived the ethiopia and the gellert gel Oel lert the latter is a vessel at one time supposed sunk in a collision in the english channel L 1 saturday night according to reports just received the house of israel eagars wealthy farmer fanner at Clev olev cleveland elands was entered by burglars and worth of notes cash and jewelry taken no clue to the robbers the story having foolishly been kept from the papers CHICAGO I 1 A new york special says A brother of henry ward beecher james beecher Is in mid bleton insane asylum under treatment by skilled physicians for trouble approaching insanity but which his friends hope is only mental prostration brought on by overwork in the last few months among the poor in brooklyn washington 1 L rear admiral wyman U B S navy was stricken with pitra paralysis lysis this morning and he Is 18 in a critical condition little littie hope is entertained tonight to night of the recovery of admiral wyman stricken with paralysis today to tc day democratic congressmen are pretty well agreed democrats this winter should try to prevent action on the tariff until they get control of the house minneapolis polle I 1 A certain canvass of the legislature for the beat zeat of windom for US senator shows he will surely receive 82 out of the republican votes and perhaps more dunnell will get 12 only seventy elx eix votes are required to elect washington I 1 senator lamar laman is unreservedly severe in his hostility to the attempt to refuse kellogg a certificate of election to congress in Loui loul siana he bays says it will hurt the democrats greatly to indulge in such tricks the convention of labor unions elected alexander M kennedy president J H obrien OJ Brien secretary A committee of seven will depre sent the workingmen before the convention nimmo chief of the bureau of statistic giving a clergyman some facts for a thanksgiving sermon writes that the corn crop this year is ia estimated at bushels against bushels in 1681 1881 against bushels in 1681 1881 the latest estimate of the wheat crop for ssi 1881 issi 1 ia la bushels as against in 1881 value of domestic exports for the fiscal year ende ended dJune june as against daning daring 1881 1831 s a falling onn off of this is due almost entirely to the failure of the crops of the country during the season beason of 1881 the imports during the fiscal year were larg lar jar season beason of 1881 the imports during the fiscal year were larg lar jar 9 er than during any previous year in the history of the country number ef of tons transported on the leading railroads of the united states the last fiscal year against i t tons on a during the preceding fiscal year railroad Bail Ball rond road mileage of the united states january 1882 miles the western union un on the company which owns the principal part of the telegraph lines in the united states increased its number of miles of wire from in ISSO to 1 in 1882 the th air wires s operated by that company would reach is 15 times around the world the me garfield board of audit have of audit have virtually concluded the considers of all claims the difficulty in in regard to the claims was the ghyst clans cinns bills were eo so much in excess of the appropriation of all allowances are agreed upon but bui will be withheld for a time the bonds surrender surrendered cd to the united states by the executors of the lewis will amounting to are not included ic le the reduction of the public debt for november washington L I 1 the tho president r washington L I 1 the tho president r titia has the lm following H 1 communication s from eroff stone 6 to JL ii D astronomer of the canadian finance ance department under date ottawa was nov 27 on the ad of septem ber ben berlatt last lasi I 1 announced through the canadian prest press that a great storm would occur in march match next that it would first be felt in the northern pacifies pacific and would appear in the gulf of mexico on the night of the jtb and being deflected by the tha bochy rocky mountains would cross the meridian from the west at noon on sunday bunday march lith 1883 no vessel whatever her dimensions will be safe out of harbor and none small tonnage can hope to survive the tidal wave and fury of 0 this tempest as the wind will blow from the southeast and its for foree force cewill will bo be sufficient to submerge the lowlands of the american coast and especially those bordering on the gulf of mexico and washed by the gulf stream while the air currents for several hundred miles milea along the east side of the rocky mountain range owing to the great atmospheric pressure in those regions will spread universal destruction the new england augland states will also buffer suffer beverly from the wind and floods no points outside tho the harbor in the whole area of the atlantic especially north of the equator will bo be a place of safety for this will be preeminently the greatest storm that has visited the continent since the days of your illustrious first president in view of this event there fore I 1 take the great liberty of representing to your excellency the advisability of ordering all united states ships into safe harbor not later than the ath of marea marcq till this storm be passed wiggins standing as a scientific tie tic authority is somewhat doubtful CHICAGO 30 commissioner midgley of the southwestern rail bail way Asso association associate cinti ciati on has just issued the tho following relating to business to and from el paso southern Mexico and arizona commissioner Commissio nerys nerla circular no 17 dated feb I 1 lith I 1 abs tbs 1882 authorizes th the use of the el paso arizona and new amsico mt aco aeo classification between chicago or mississippi river points on business carried to or from el paso southern new now alexi co and arizona this rule will apply however only in cases where tho the classifications of this association exceed the one above referred to it is not intended freights to or from the territory described shall be charged at more than established local rates Commits commissioner ioner loner bays rays there is nothing whatever new now about the war today managers of the warring road roads swill will meet in the office of the northwestern road tomorrow to morrow president porter of the omaha lines bays says he will tle tie present but will not budge from the position taken by him that the matter of territorial right |