nas afta JRA THE NEW CABINET. The Men Whom President Har. rison Has Appointed. Careers of the Members of His Official Family. Secretary of State. co | defenss in the celebrated Beecher trial large scale, where he owns ono of the finest flocks of Winklsy merino rams and ewes in the world, Throughout the State of Vermont Mr. Proctor is highly respected, and has the reputation of being a ‘square man.” Secretary of the Navy. Goneral Benjamin F. Tracy, who, it is thought, will be the new Secretary of the Navy, is about fifty-nine years old. He was born in Oswego, N. Y., and secured his edu- cation in the common school of his native towr. After ‘eaving the Oswego Academy he entered the law office of Nathaniel W. Davis, where he remained engaged in the study of law until 15851, when he was admitted to the bar and soon made a mark in his profession. In 1853 he ‘Wweame the Xoepublican candidate for Distris- At- torney of Tioga County, and though i\ was #6 Democratic stronghold he was eleftad, Two years later he was again elected to the sams office, 3 He was elected to the Assembly in 1 and a vear later he recruited the 100th and | 187th Regiments and received his commis- } i sion as Colonel of the former regiment from Governor Morgan. He subsequently was tendered and accepted the command of the 127th United States Colored Troops, After the war General Tracy settled in New York and resumed his practice of the | law as one of the firm of Benedict, Tracy & Benedict. He was one of the counsel for the in | 1886 General Tracy was made United States | District-Attorney for the York, Dis posi Eastern triet of New which | tion he held until 1573, when he was forced | to resign because of the growth of his private JAMES 6, BLAINE, James Gillespie Blaine has been so long in public life that his history is an open secret | to every citizen. He was theson of Ephraim L. Blaine and Marie Gillespie, and a grand- son of Ephraim Blaine, who was the trusted friend of General Washington and an officer | in the Continental Army. Mr. Blaine was born in West Brownsville, Washington | County, Penn, January 31, 1530, and is there fore filty-nine years of age. Mr. Blaine received his first schooling in Lancaster, Ohio, where he went in 1841 to reside with a near relative, Thomas Ewing, then Secretary of the Treasury. He pre- pared for Washington College and was graduated from that institution in 1347. While teaching in a military school in Blue Lick Springs, Ky., which was his first venture after graduating from college, Mr. Blaine met Harriet Stanwood, of Maine, and after a brief courtship they were married. Blaine soon removed to Augusta, where he purchased a half interest in the Keanebec Journal and became its editor. Mr. Blaine's debut in the political arena dates back to 1855, when he was chosen a dele gate to the first Hepublican Convention, which nominated General Fremont for the Presidency. After a short experience as editor of the Portland (Me) Adrerfiser, Mr. Blaine launched into a political ca-| veer. In 1858 he was elected a member of the Legislature, and served three terms of two years each, and the last two terms as Speaker, While in the Legis lature he became Chairman of the Stale Committee, which position be held uninter- ruptedly for twenty years. , 192 Mr. Blaine took his seat in Con- gress, whore in ome branch or the other be served for eighteen years From this on Mr. Blaine's biography need scarcely be told. In the brief months of Mr. Garfield's Presidency blaine was Secretary of State. His memorable fight for suprem- | ucy as a leader of the Republican party with | the late Roscoe Conkling is also too well | known to need rehearsing. So, too. is his | defeat when he ran for the Presidency | ainst Grover Cleveland. After this Mr. | Blaine turned his attention toward completing bis book recounting his experi | ence whils in Congress, and, although be did | not take an active part in politics, be never | loosened his grip as the leader of the Repub. | lican party. | Mr. Blaine is possessad of an ample fortune | and fs a familiar figure in Washington so- | ety Secretary of the Treasury. | stud, at Apalachin, Tioga County, N. Jeremiah Melain Rusk, who has bon ap- pointed Secretary of the newly created Des paren of Agriculture, is from Ohlo, hav- ng boen born in Morgan County, in that State, in 1580, His early life was spent in farm work, and upon attaining his majority in 1853 he moved to Wisconsin and engaged in agriculture in Vernon County. Jin 1802, during the war, he entered the Union Army aud was commissioned Major of the 25th Wisconsin Regiment, ross to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and served with General Willlam T. Sherman from the Sop of Vicksburg till the close of the war, 1865 ho received the brevet of Brigadier General of Volunteers for meritorious service at the battle of Salkehatchie, Mr, Rusk was elected Bank Comptroller of Wisconsin in 1866, which post he held till 1870, in which year he wos elocted a member of Congress by the Republicans. He served three terms, and as Chairman on pensions performed important services in read justing the pension rates President Garfield offered him the post of A*Affaires in Paraguay and Uraguay ingraving an ning. both of which offers he declined. 1852 he was elected Governor of Wiscon- sik and served three terms. also chi also chief of the Bureau of En PINOTT COMMITS SUICIDE. The Fopger of the Parnell Letters Kills Himselr, An Englishman supposed to be Richard ! practice. of the Uourt of A Is and sarvod one year. | General Tracy i% a well-known bresder of | trotters and with hisson owns the Ming land Secretary of the Interior. i General John W. Noble, the Secretary of the Interior, is a St. Louis lawyer. He was a general in the army and was honored on several occasions for bravery. Mr. Noble has done a great deal of traveling during the wast ten years of his life, and has a wide nowledge of people an things His man- ners are very refined, and he haz never yed been seen to lose the cool dignity which he | learned so well to control during the years of army service, Mrs. Noble was a Miss Halstead, from Rochester. N. Y., and was married to the General at Northamton, Mass. They cele. brated their silver wedding on the Oth day of February last. Mrs Noble's life has cesn one of energy thoughout. She has frequently brought out and developed home literary talent. Shortly befors Professor W.T. Har- ris loft the West he was associated with her in establishing classes for thorough study of the classics Mrs. Noble's salon bas been frequented by talent of the highest order. While not fond of society, as the word goes, she entertains a great deal, and as a hostess is une jualed in grace and hospitable manner, She has no children living; ber two sisters make their home with her, the Misses Lily and Leonora Halstead, The Postmaster General Jolin Wanamaker, the Postmaster-General, is now in his fifty-second year, having been born in Philadelphia, July 11, 185. Mr Wanamaker is of German stock on his father’s side and s descendant of the Hugue- nots in his mother’s line. He was fashioned for a business career by an inexorable law of circumstances. His education was, there fore. not elaborate, JOAN WANAMAKER, He began work early and from his meagre sarnings managed always to save something | snch week, till at the age of twenly-three he had $100 to his credit. A Jucky investment | in real estate increased this amount to $2000, thas enabling bim to start a clothing store | He soon rose to be one | on his own account. | of the leading clothiers in this country, and WILLIAM WINDOM. Ex-Senator William Windom, appointed Secretary of the Treasury, has filled that responsible position before, having been i shosen by President Garfield in 1581 Hav. ing lived many years in Minnesota and hav- ing represented that Stats in the United States Senate for three terms, the popular impression is that he is a native of that State, whereas he was born in Belmo * County, Ohio, May 10, 1827, | After nating at an academy he studied | faw at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and was ad mitted to the bar in 185). Being of a ial disposition and possessing some legal ability, he was made prosecuting attorney for | Knox County in 1552, He held the position until 1355, when he removed to Minnesota, Soon after his ar rival in that State he decided to mix tics with his law business, and very soon polishes a prominent figure in the Republican | ranks, and in 150 his party sent him to | + He served from 158 to 1500, two terms as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affaire : in 1870 he was appointed to the United States Senate to fill the unexpired term of Daniel 8 Norton, deceased, and subsequently | was chosen for the teri that ended in 1877. | He was again elected for the term that closed | in 15883, but fn 1851 to enter the ne Gari as Becretary of the, Treasury pon the accession of President Arthur in sar Secretary Windom retired ’ Upon his return to Min- | : uarters, bel sngaged in the promotion of Tiiway i schemos. Secretary of War fr Het HE : | 5 aii f Fag §ii: | of the first names mentioned. | with a free and unstinte | tablished several institutions for the benefit | of the poor in Philadelphia afterward gradually converted the business into the drygoods line His appearance in business was almost | | simultaneous with bis advent into public life He became identified with every popular movement, and when the Centennial Cele bration Commission was created his was one He was also wominently identified with the movement I the correction of the abuses in the muni- | cipal government of Philadelphia Mr. Wanamaker is & man of very chari- table instincts and dispenses his bounty hand. He has es Although Mr. Wanamaker has always taken a commend able interest in public affairs be has never held any office. He has been frequently so. licited to permit the use of his name for | Congress an Mayor of Philadelphia, but | bas never been induced to yield In religious movements Mr. Wanamaker takes a lively interest. Ho is an active mem | ber of a Presbyterian community and often | speaks at church gatherings. | terest derived from his vast business, Mr. | | Wanamaker owns $3,000 000 worth of real estate, He was an earnest pleader in the cause of Protection during the last campaign | and contributed largely to the election ex- | penises, The Attorney General Wiliam Henry Harrison Miller is a > 4g eal Indiana lawyer of high standing. oo" fifty years of age. and member of General Harrison's law firm in Indianapolis about ten years, havidg left a large ~e at Fort Wayne, Ind, to join it. He is a man on whom the President has Len accustomed to rely in important cares sr. Miller has never held a prominent tion, President Harrison, the Uhief, it is nowhere that there is any lamily connection between them. Scoretary of Agriculture. Ts rs rthe London Times’ Parnell letters, ; articles § Beside the in- | for | Pigott was wrested at the Hotel des Ambas- In 1551 he was appointed Judge | sadeurs, Madeid, Spain, under the name of § mitted suicide with a revolver, The description of the suicide corresponds with that of Pigots, the fugitive forger of > gy The man vare English only. A small amount of sil haved, found in his pockets. The police ten possesion of the papers and other {1d upon him. don assul? undoubtedly Pigott. He sonby."” becauds the name of “Ronald Pon. | with those on bis bal, a corresponded ML + nn 4 i rtd Hpay i fre =id to the London “The arrest of the sulci. consequence of a telegram froWas mado in Foreign Office. ‘Ponsonby’ artis British Paris on Thursday morning. His 4. from gage was a small handbag. Soon afag arrival he sent a telographic despatch London.” L The London Standard says it is able to confirm the statement that the suicide was Pigott When arrested be took the situation eaimly and threw the officers off the scent With the excuss that be wished to get his overcoat, he retired to an alcove and there shot himself in the mouth with a revoiver He died instantly. His bead was horribly disfigured. Ronald Ponsorbyy, The man afterward i DAKOTA SHORT OF WHEAT. The Deficiency Nearly Three and a Half Million Bushels Territorial Statistician Sheridan, of Dakotas, makes the startling statement that there is a shortage of nearly three and a half million bushels of wheat for bread and seed in Da kota. His recapitulation of this serious state of affairs fs as 1ollows ; Proportion of the wheat crop of 1558 on hand for consumption Or sale, March 1, 1880, twenty per cent. the distribution of wheat in the Territory consumed in the Territory, thirty per cent; shipped out of the Territory, seventy per coat. ; on hand for consumption or sale, grown ia 1587 or previous to last year, six per cent. estimated average weight per bushel for all grades, fiity-thres per cent number of bushels of wheat on band from 18% crop, TRIS pumber of bushels Deossary for bread and seed, | 1,954, 004 namber of bush es shipped out of the Territory, 20,503,544; total number of bushels of wheat raised in the Territory, 189%, 37.04% 54%: shortage of wheat for seed and bread, 3,415,551 —— THE LABOR WORLD. Lovis has a Chinese shoemaker rMAKING fn Toronto fs at a standstill Turny are twenty-two State Labor Bu resus, i A NF formal, Tia w union of musicians has been r Montreal, Canada, is terribly depressed Trene are 40.00) Russian workers in New York city AMAKIRADAM 220 persons Tix Paris and Orleans Railroad of France mn N. Y.) knitting mills employ | shares its profits | Tie poorest class of cigarmakers averages only £58 por week TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND gaged in lacemaking. A Laces of coonerative banks has been formed in Massachusetts A xtyg-movt law has been defeated in the Nebraska Lozisiature Tie oo operative banks of Massachusetts have 2¢,000 co-operative mem bers Tur cigarmakers are winning ali along the line in suits to protect their union label women are en Wiriix ten years nearly hall the rolling mills of New England have gone cut of use, Tue Racine (Wis) basket factory ie claimed to be the largest of its kind in the world Nrarkes ordersd Typographical Union in i $13,000, | Tuxne bas been a heavy increase of the | membership of the silk workers’ unions of by the International 15-8 cost nearly | New Jersey. Tie best cigarmeskers are the Germans | and Bohemians; the Cubans and Spaniards | rank next, | Tuxax is a tendency toward international | so operation in a number of trades in New York city. CARPENTRY has been extremely dull all | over the country the past season, far more | | 30 than usual. Ox American manufacturer of baselalls emp oys ¥% hands and keeps 40,00) dozen balis in stock, No drinker of intoxicants can become men ber the! National Association Marine Engineers Ix South Carolina there ars stringent pro- visions for the enforcement contracts be tween emaployers of labor and laborers. Tag Canadian Pacific Hallway manager dimchn a Montreal employe who had been hired by the year. The employe susd for a your's wages and won. protest of the labor nizations of New York against the the Baturda, Half-boliday law will soon be heard in the Legisiature of the State, Tue Satteners in three to ten les furnanes work on an average of forty hours por week, making from 110 to $0 in a “wettioment” of twenty days. Tur Window Glas Workers’ Union, o , the richest labor organization in resolved to put " of = iuces the rate to §75....The Benate nt resumed consideration of the Army Appro- | priation bill, priation bill providing $150,000 for the chase of 235 acres of land directly south of the military reservation at West Point, was agreed to... The Senate passed the Army Appropriation bill with amendments, | sons who | stroyed the ballot boxes of Plummerville, | | Ark ate proceeded to Senate bill to merce law, bill SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, } { ! The Senate, hSrH DAY.~~A message {rom the President ret urning without his approval a pension bill for Edwin L. Warner, was presented, read, ond Jeterron Pn She 3 witied on Pensions «+» Amon, ghthouse bills passed were thoss for if hts ut the western end of Coney Island, N. Y. ($25,000, for u lightship at the wreck of the steamship Oregon in New York Harbor, and for a lighthouse and fog bell on 0 r Hed shoal, in Hudson River (£35,000), ie House amendments for a lighthouse and fog signal on Orchard Shoals, Princess Bay, New York, were non-concurred in, and a conference was asked... The request for a conference on the House amendments to the Benats bill granting a pension to Mrs. Sheri dan (reducing it from $3500 to $2500) was withdrawn, and the amendments were con- curred in.... Resolutions were agreed to au thorizing the Belect Committes on Irrigation to take testimony at any place in the United Ntates, and authorizing the Committee on Indian Affairs to continue the Indian trader- snip investigation, rr DAY Mr. Dolph reported back the Senate bill (vetoed by the President) for the relief of William I. Wheaton and Charles H. Chamberlain of California, with a recom. mendation that the bill pass notwithstanding the objections of the President, The vote re- sulted: Yeus 35, nays 85 So the bill was assed... The House amendment to lenate bill granting a pension month to the widow of Major-General Kil- patrick was agreed to. The amendment re 12:16 An amendment to the Appro- ur tury Day ~The Benate passed the bill L which prohibits the erection of dams across t rivers in Alaska for the purpose of catch ag salmon... Mr, Platt reported two bills idaho and Wyoming... Mr. Hoar re. or the detection and conviction of the por illegally carrisd away and de On motion of Mr, Cullom, the Ben- the consideration of the amend the Interstate Com. GisT DAY. ~The Fost Office Appropriation was passod with amendments. ...The fenate resumed consideration of the two hase amendinents to the bill to amend the tiomrdate Commerce act, the pending ques the amg Mr. Sherman's motion 10 agres to tion of pement in relation to the transporta- the Senate lsgm. On motion of Mr. Cullom two House amibed on ts disagreement to the ference was ordesents, and a farther con tive sension confirm. The Senate in exec ding those rept many nomins y be Brigadier Gel lliam 8B. Rose mith to be Major, to b&®. and William an Dav.—Secretary Fag mitted the result of the Investig teans alioged sugar frauds M Bhetey into £0 Mr ported back the Senate bill for the § tion of the salmon fisheries in Alaska, a recommendation that the House ament ment tending the provisions the bill to Behring Sea) be d Ls The amend was disagreed to, an ference asl Renate then pr to pam private pension bl Is on the alendar, All the pension bills on the ORieDGAr fnlty two Among then Was one giving a pens $ s month (nstead of ®100. as in the bill introduced by Mr Haw. ley) to the widow of the late General Hunt ip Day. journal time... The House amendment to reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., comcurred in. ... A conference was ordersd on the Deficiency Appropriation bill, and Messrs Hale, Allison and Cockrell nfsrroos Tha « sundry Civil Appropriation bill was The conference report on the Post ( propriation bil was agreed to pros oH Appropriation bill passed and a conference requested - dll At { the rea The the velo voles Tw Fdmunds and Blair President's vel oO which was was pasveed over only ¢ight dissentin wore cast Ly Memrs the bil The entire night was spent on the Deficiency The amendments the Appropriation bill pro for the payment of hy the Uourt viding awardel months’ pay were agreed it was o'clock in the morning when the Senate con | cluded its night sesion, and adjourned The House 63 DAY. ~The Senate amendments to the opriation bill were non "he ast week of the Fiftieth | Congress was ushered in by Sbusteting, het i sr sournal. After a delay of a few minutes Mr Bland withdrew his point of order, in order to enable C. F. Boober to qualify as the soc Burnes, of Mis Mr. Crisp then called up the con Sayers, in the Agricultural Ag concurred in r. Bland, who raised the in motion by M H upon the approval i of no quorum cessor of the late James N post tested election onse, and Mr interest of the Deficiency Appropriation bil House decided —yeas 113, nays | sider the election case, but Mr purpose, to get a quorum to vote tailed G4rst DAY. ~The Speaker's table having been cleared of busines, the Spsaker, acting in conformity with the spacial order, recog: | nized Mr. Abbots, who called up a bill for | blic buliding at Folt | Tux London Figaro says that a sister of Mary Anderson will shortly make her debut in the English provinces or the United the sroction of a Worth, Texas mous consent to report { Mr. Randall asked unan Senate amendments... The recom tion ference was ordered, and ! Forney and Rysh were | forems | won Bill the Deficiency bill was 6518 DAY, ~The con District of Columbia Appropr debated... The indian Appropriations bill | Coolio un sad AT the Academy of Music, in New York found that about two-thirds of the glasses attached to the Lacks of the +... Obstruction actions were on the Cowles bill, the day's session. The day was mainly devoted of $100 a | There was not time 10 read the and the Sepate plunged into the De erary routine business without waste of the bill authorizing the sale of part of the military was were appointed onference report on the agroed te lice Ap The Senate to the consideration of the Indian All the snand ments Pe portad by the commiline were agreed to, the the Senate took a recess until 8.3 President Ingalls inid before the Senate EH with | of these amounts of Claims under the French Spoliations act, and the tet giving ok he He njlores an extre both House snd nate em} ; Bret your. IAS raised the question of consideration. The 102-80 CON Mckenna, who had voted in the affirmative for this moved a reconsideration. All efforts i rom the Committes | of Appropriations the Sundry Civil ball with | appointed con No offort was made to oall up the | ontestad election case, and the House went into Committee of the Whole Mr. Dockery n the Chair on the Deficiency Appropria- After a brief concluding debate, erence report on the jation bill was | U0, 000 10 SNON,000 was agresd 10... Late in the afternoon the President sent in fn message voloing the Direct Tax bill ... At H:i5 a recess was taken until 8p, M,... The conference report on the Postoffice Appro- printion ll was agreed to... . The conference report on the Naval Appropriation bill was agreed Lo... An agreement was reached on the District of Columbis Appropriation bill To ApDrOpriates $5,086,907... .The con- ference report on the bill to amend the Inter. stats Commerce law Wan read to... The conference report on the bill for the p tion of the salmon fisheries of Jig proses, agreed to, aw —— ELEVEN GIRLS KILLED, Terrific Explosion in a Pennsylvania Miners’ Squib Factory. A frightful explosion occurred at about 12:50 in the afternoon in the squib factory of John IL. Powell at Plymouth, Penn, Eleven girls, varying in age trom thirtesi io twenty- two, were killed, The factory employed eighty-three girls, but, work being somewhat siuck, al! were idle except about fifteen, Of were in the factory eating their dinners at the time of the explosion, Foreman Reese wns standing at the | once he hoard a feartul land was almost blinded win He made a rush leading to the room the girls worked, but before could reach it a second more terrific than the first shattered the | building to pieces and knocked him down a | trap door into the cellar beneath, A third explosion followed within a few seconds jof the other two, and when the | smoke cleared away nothing re- | mained but a beap of biszing ruins, under which were buried every soul in the building j 8t the time with the exception of Foreman Roose, who crawled from under the timbers | fire. | for door where he {Mor the formation and admission of the States | 80d was taken home fatally burned, of ported an amendment appropriating $25,000 The building was a two-story structure, and, owing to the combustible nature of the contents, burned so fiercely that escape was impossible. The building was used for the manufacture of miners’ squits, which are small paper or straw tubes about six inches Jong, filled with powder, and used by the miners to fire off blasts in the mines. The business Is extremely dangerous, and necessi- tates the utmost vigl ance to guard ngainst explosion. Ordinarily but a small sup- ply of powder is kept in the factory proper, the greater portion of the supply being kept in a magazine some distance away, 1 be terrific foroe of the explosion, however, scoms to indicate that an unusually large amount of prwder must have been stored in the building The explosion was caused by a pan of powder becoming ignited from an over heated stove and which the instant it flashed up, enveiopad the whole interior of the room in which the operatives were at work, and n n twinkling the whole stablishment was torn into fragments, the tung nto the air i and charred their pm Forty Whe, ftakem off, tale Nao blackened ’ the exoeplion o {riends identified dross, As ne iz od a frightful spec ho eleven charretl and * recognized, with wr Powell whose after another COX found in her disengaged from the sme earriad out the sone was in the extreme. Despairing mofll themselves upon the Diackens what hey were isughters, ; of sire ng sought one bodie: was ins and ponding supposed ew with tears thelr checks angi . ana down Strong men turned away to hide their while little sisters and air with cries for their lost ones, establishment side Ly sida figured remaine ones, Mrect Tax . MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Mus, LascTRy is going to London, Lawnexcr Banners is wordh $720.1 Heirrxa 1544 Huxny Ly) Monigska in Fare it ie said, has ber voice Crara Monn: Oba, in 154 % was born in again until 1x0, only the elects ic light. Hannsgax, the | eRe, L | London Avy doubts that Mod jeska wi now to be removed furor in Madrid in “Lakme front of the curtain twenty times Foun another for profitable patronage in | York city during the sommer months Riates W. Vax Dyxe proprietor of the Minnie Douglass Opera Company. now traveling is Jowa, has become weir to $140,000 by bi ancie's death, with great success, at the | Court Theatre | coming season. city, it is Bn ¢ chairs are nightly used, Fd A Leading Witness Aghinst the Home Rule Leader Confesses. Admitting the Londen “Times” Letters Were Fyrgeries, After a searching ination of sixty days, the Parnell inquiry in London has re- sulted in the most sensational developments. The Parnell Commission, as it is called, was instituted to examine into allegations of the London Times that Mr. Parnell bad written otters sympathizing with criminal efforts murder the use of dynamite—to further the cause of Irish Home Rule. The Times published what purported to be letters of ir. Parnell favoring criminal action in be- these eleven | stove whon all at | noise | smoke and | the | explosion | | examination Pigott involved himwelf | complete networ | Times seemed knocked all Lo pleces frame | | pon testified that trembiingly t here and there about the body for some mark that might lead to identification. ! tenrs brothers rent the When all the bodies had been recovered they were taken to Williams's undertaking ) where they wore lal in a row The whole afternoon crowds of anguish-stricken relatives bent over the dis in search of thélr loved was born in Polam | Invine has just reached his fifty Jost certain notes 0 Cleveland Sana Brrxganot will not visit Americ Manuin theatres are allowed by law to us New York actor-author has just completed a new thresact comedy Mrs W, J. Foonescx will permanent) retire from the stage at the close of the A craspxipcs of Schubert has been giv ing a plano recital with moderate success ir | Il play in con | nection with Edwin Booth pext ssason seer Mamig Vax Zaxnt has made a sensational i being called ir opera compan es will fight om New | A PLAY entitiel “Dammerung.” by the | Queen of Roumania was produced recently, ‘eimar (Germany) W. J. ScaxLax, the American actor, will | play in Great Britain and Ireland during the His tour will begin in Liver half of Ireland's liberation from English domination, The Irish Home Hule leader asserted that these letters were forgeries and | demanded an investigation, A Special Com- mission was appointed to take testimony and the trial begen over two mouths ago. The most important witness upon whom the 7imes relied was one Richerd Pigott, who had furnished the paper with the alleged Far. nell letters and who swore before the Commis sion that they were genuine. Upon cross examination, however, Pigott went to pices completely when confronted with a letter | which be bad written to Archbishop Walsh, | offering for pay to prove that the Parnell letters were fraudulent. In further cross in a of Hes, and the case of the To put a clincher upon the matter Pigott made a confession that the letters were forgeries, and then disappeared. A London dispatch gives these further particulars: Richard Pigott, the principal Times wit ness in the Parnell case, has made a startling confession. He declares the Parnell letters, published by the London Times, absolute forgeries The announcement of this sensational de- velopment was made at the morning session of the Parnell Commission. Bir Charles Hussell, counsel for Parnell, arose shortly after the opening of the court and stated that on Saturday las at the houses of Henry Labouchere, editor of Lon don Truth, Pigott signed a confession. This confession stated in »0 many words that the alleged Parnell letters primed by thé Times, and on which the Times based ita charges against the Irish members, were forgeries. Mr, George Augustus Balas was also preseat when the confession was made, Pigott had, without invitation, called on Mr. Labogchere and offered to confess. Mr, lLabouchere declined to listen with. out witnesses, whereupon Mr fala was summoned and Pigott confessed that be was the forger He admitted that be forged all the letters ascribed to Messrs, Egan, Parnell, Davitt and O'Kelly. He also admitted that he perjured bimwelf before the Commission The statement of Sir Charles Russell was corroborated by the witnesses Having made this extraordinary statement to the court, Sir Charies Husse'l applied for a warrant for the arrest of Pigott. The Presid. ing Justios said that within an hour a war. rant would be ready Mr. Shanson, a Dublin solicitor, who as- sisted the Times in constructing ite case, was thon called to the witness box Mr. Shan. on Bunday night Pigott came to him and gave him a written state ment denying the statement he had made on Haturday to Mr. Labouchere that be had rged all the letters. The first batch Pigott lared be believed to be genuine. Ths sec. ond batch, including two of the Parnell Jet- prs, was forged by himself and Casey. The { batch, which inciudes those of Davitt thatKeily, wore similarly forged confestdded, in his statement to Shannon, should de baving stated the truth and Sir Chariéere the world, the Times sross examinea®tly with him, answer to a q Mr. Parnell's counsel, prevent Pigott froftannon, who stated in fully expected to see ithe took no steps to It was very evident 10 Ang, but that be Times bad met its Waterioonr in court. | case was in a state of complete ot that the | The following cablegram has beteat the | in Chicago from Michasl Davitt by & der Sullivan | “Pigott has bolted. It is the general bi | lief here that the Times and the Government | have paid him to clear out.’ } Abandoning the Case When the Parnell Commissio resumed its | gitting on the Morning alter ths above dis closures. Attorney -Leneral Wolster an nounced that Digott bad written to Mr. Shannon from Usris. The letter was read in court. It contained the at ednllation thal ir Charles Hussell read previous day. , Ary acknowledged that he forged the | facsimile printed by the Times and the other letters. le admitted that be fabricated the jetters which be said he found in a bag, and | Soscrites the process by which be did it used genuine letters of Parneil's and Egan's, | copying closely several words of general character, and tracing the actus) wiiiing tp bolding the letters up agains A Wihac i tollowiog line for lina. The second batch of Parnell's letters be imitated from facsimile. in conclusion, Pigott rays that Mr. la bouchere's account the interview “tween ott and himself is mainly correct. er Pigott's letter had been read Attor- | ney General Webster said: | “Nobody will attach an ott's evidence i - blication of them, and will a little later Vive fuller manifestations of regret over the matter arnell took the witness stand and de- Arh neness of the letters alleged to hy himself and addressed to dictated to Mr. Campbell a ing his desire to have at inter Pigott. This letter was evidently a which imitations were made. After Mr. Parnells testimony the Com- mistion ad of the i nd “0 Ring Bl Walters s or the pamphlets are informed “out of print.” GOLD AND SILVER. The Precious Metal Mined in This Country During 1888 Tur actress. Lotta has been un Eh singe wi 155%, having first appeared on boards dg She Is reported to Avro Toovass “Tem Ln nt tie Parts fand Mauri will dance Miranda. Miss Faxxin in “Sull W won The Director of the Mint reports to Con gross that the gold production in the United States in 1595 was 1,004,027 fine ounces, of 175,00 gr eh gy was 45.78163) fine ounces, of the com value of aout $45.00 1,000 and of the co ning value of i- the bullion value the silver dollar was 72.6 conta, w30 8m 275,007, uy 09], 40a AVErage
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