WMMMlMsMMsEMWW?iaiinMsgr'JiMissMssTrssgij JSSTCS35HIBBpHB8ESfl tsssSUBHHHMsS JMSHHJI 4H , S 1EW-H16H-CUSS FICTIOI SMALL ADVERT1SEMEHTS For to-morrow's DISPATCH can be left at main offlca till midnight . or at branch offices till 9 P.M. m ppprttti - -"--ivvbsssssssssssssssbI v- -- " i m "The Colonel's Cards," a purely American novel, will begin in THE DISPATCH of to-morrow. THREE GENTS at -a PORTY-THIKD TEAR BLAINE ELS SAFE. He is so Certain of His Cabinet Calling That He Settles in Washington. NO WESTERN TRIP NEEDED, The Bargain Was Consummated in Indianapolis Last Fall, GEN. WILLIAMSON GETS A FOETUNE. A Rich Stroke of Falo for tlie Ex-Land Commissioner "ew Year's Day Recep tion) In Washington Come Too High Hour a Cat! net Possibility A Private Residence Wanted for the President. The Jefferson Club to Change Its Name A Caso of Lore at First Sight. "While everyone else is in doubt as to Elaine's goiDg into President Harrison's Cabinet the man from Maine doesn't seem to be. He is so certain that he has engaged ta suite of rooms and is going to resume housekeeping in "Washington. The infor mation comes almost from the Plumed JInight himself! General "Williamson strikes something about as rich. Congress may be asked to furnish the President a private residence. Hew Year receptions becoming unfashionable because too costly. A pretty romance is told among a batch of "Washington news and gossip. rSFECIAL TELrGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Washington, January 4. The move ments and associations to-day of the Hon. James G. Blaine were not those of a man who is laying the ropes to get into a Cabinet office, but rather those of one who is assured that he will have business in "Washington for some time to come. The correspondent of The DisrATCH was informed to-day by the best available authority outside of Mr. Blaine himself that there is absolutely n" truth in the report sent out nearly every where last night that Mr. Blaise merely dropped down here on his way to Indianap olis to meet Mr. Harrison. , Mr. Blaine will not go to Indianapolis at all, unless something occurs that cannot be foreseen. He is here solely for the purpose of arranging a home for his family, who will follow him in a few days. His entrance into the Cabinet is regarded as a settled matter by all his friends. No one can be found who expresses the least doubt on that point. It is not only assumed that Har rison could not afford to avoid offering the leading Cabinet position to him, but also that he could now afford to refuse, as it would be quite as fatal to his standing in the party for him to take himself out of active work as it would for Harrison to thrust him out A Little Shadow of Doubt. One development of the visit has caused come doubt that he intends to accept a Cabinet position, and that is that instead of taking a house in keeping with a position of that character, he has arranged for a suite of rooms in an apartment house which are hardly competent for the entertainments of a Secretary of State. But as his arrange ment for the suite is only temporary, and the season for entertainments on his part as a member of the Cabinet will not begin formally until the advent of another winter, this view is deprived of its supposed import ance. Moreover, it is asserted that the pretense of taking rooms in the apartment house men tioned is only a ruse, though it is more than probably true, as the place is a fine one, just being finished. It is the property of John B. McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer,an& McLean and Mr. Blaine are known to have relation of the most intimate character. It is said that he will occupy the suite as the guest of Mr. McLean until he can arrange tor an adequate house for the brilliant re ceptions over which he will preside as Sec retary of State. Everything Settled Last Fall. The authority referred to in the first in stance above asserts that when Blaine vis ited Indiana last fall the understanding be tween him and Harrison in regard to a Cabinet position in the event of the election of the latter was complete, and there was no necessity for further communication touch ing that matter. Mr. Blaine was out most of the day, and caw only his most intimate friends. He ab solutely refused to be interviewed by any one, and the only friends who appear to be wholly in his conference, such as Messrs. Phelps and Hitt, are noted for being quite as secretive as Mr. Blaine himself, and nothing absolutely definite can be got out of them except as they have let words drop here and there to other friends of their own who are not quite so careful. But in so far as the Bepublicans here are concerned, the impressions had from these reports are just as satisfactory to them as if they were facts from Mr. Blaine's own mouth in proof of the conviction that Blaine is going into the Cabinet, and that he is here to arrange for his domestic comfort, with that end in view. Biscock Returns Fccliuc Better. Senator Frank Hiscock left the Senate chamber on "Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock to take the train to Indianapolis. He returned to the chamber at exactly the same hour to-day, having in the intervening 48 hours given President Harrison the ins and outs of the present political situation among the New York big four. Mr. Hiscock had all the outward signs of a con quering hero as he entered through the lobby door and made his way to his seat on the back row. His face was flushed with the excitement of his flying trip. His beau tiful iron-gray hair was in an attractive state of dishcvelmcnt, andhisnoble features wore a smile that seemed to say "I vent, I saw, I conquered." To his newspaper callers the returned pilgrim would say nothing except that he had a voir satisfactory visit. To some of his Senatorial colleagues, however, he was compelled to unbosom himself freely." As soon as he had taken his seat, a dozen Sen ators came forward to shake his hand and jokingly asked for the latest Cabinet news. He gave most of them but joking replies in return, but afterward ho retired to a corner with Senators Aldrich and Hale, and talked confidentially and earnestly for a long time. At the same hour that Mr. Hiscock re turned, State Senator J. Sloat Fassett, of New York, arrived at the Capitol. As firmly determined as the Senator is that Thomas C. Piatt must go into the Cabinet, Mr. Fassett modestly admitted his ignorance as to whether Mr. Piatt would be chosen, but emphatically expressed the opinion that he should be. Senator Plumb returned from Indianap olis on the same train with Mr. Hiscock,but his failure to appear in the Senate was taken by his colleagues as an intimation that he heard no good news about Mr. Blaine there during his short talk with General Harrison. CANAL BUSINESS IN CLOVEE. The Senate Espouses the Cause of One, the House of Another. tPrSCIiL TELECBAX TO THE DISPATCH. "Washington, January 4. The senti ment of American canals for the Ameri cans got quite a sendoff to-day, what with the Senate resolution against foreign Gov ernmental espousal of the interests of the Panama Canal, and the passage in the House of the bill incorporating the company which proposes to construct a canal from ocean to ocean across Nicaragua. The fili bustering in the House against the passago of the latter measure had amounted almost to a scandal. Though only a few engaged in it, they had the sympathy of many more, and yet when the bill finally passed there were only 34 votes recorded against it, "Whatever else can be said of the opposition to the bill, it is generally charged that it had its beginaing in the, influence of the transcontinental railroads, which naturally do not want canals through which ships may pass nithout transfer of freight from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. "While there was undoubtedly honest op position to the bill because, for one thing, it seemed to confer too much power on the in corporators, and to imply indirectly a Gov ernmental supervision of the project, the main opposition came at all times from the interests ot the Pacific railroads, though the fact that it passed the Senate with less opposition than it encountered in the House may seem to suggest a condition of indiffer ence on the part of those roads. The bill will go back to the Senate, that that body may pass upon the amendments. The opinion is that it will become a law this session. LOYE AT FIRST SIGHT. Tho Pretty Romance of Tonus Mr. Hilton and Miss Dorothy Phillips. ISPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 Washington, January 4. One of the prettiestgirls to be seen at the "White House reception on New Year's Day was leaning on the arm of the venerable Judge Mac Arthur, of the District Supreme Court, and she was followed closely by a stout young man with a waxed mustache and an air of proprietorship. He is the son of Judge Hil ton, of New York, and Paris representative of the drygoods house of Sylvester, Hilton & Co., who came to the United States last summer to testify in the great will suit brought by the other Stewart heirs against the Hilton family. The young gentleman, going to Saratoga to rest awhile, met there Miss Dorothy Phillips, of "Washington, who was spending a few weeks at the Grand Union Hotel, chaperoned bv Mrs. Judge MacArthur. It was love at first sight, and an engagement followed soon after, and which is to end in marriage some time in early sprinc. Miss Phillips is the granddaughter of liiram w albridge, who, during the admin istration of Buchanan and Lincoln, repre sented a New York district in Congress. His daughter married for her first husband Commodore Phillips, U. S. N., and Miss Dorothy was the only child Being divorcee! from her first husband, Mrs. Phillips married the late George Corkhill, formerly District Attorney at Washington, and the prosecutor of Guiteau. His first wife was the daughter of Justice Miller, of the Supreme Court, and these two young ladies, Miss Corkhill and Miss Dorothy Phillips, are as charming belles as can be found at the capital. PRIVATE DALZELL'S CHEISTMAS GIFT. Second Auditor Day Denies That Old Sol diers Arc Entitled to aillcnge. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 "Washington, D. C, January 4. Pri vate Dalzell's letter to his old comrades, informing them that they are entitled to 28 cents a day while on furlough or in prison, and 5 cents a mile from the place of dis charge to their homes, is creating a stir in the Pension Department. There have al ready been 4,043 of these claims received. Second Auditor Day, in speaking of the matter, said: The whole thing is the most barefaced false hood imaginable. There is no law allowing 5 cents a mile or any mileage to soldiers or en listed men. Nearly all those soldiers entitled to commutation of subsistence and travel par under the act ot July 22,1861. have already been paid it. No transportation 1 ay is due to soldiers while traveling on furlough. Nearly all volunteer soldiers entitled to extra duty have received it, and section 35, act of March 3, 1SC3, repeals all laws in force as to such pay to volunteers for extra service performed after March 3, 1S63, with only a few exceptional case's. Nearly all soldiers who were prisoners of war and their heirs, under the act of July 25, lSGCand act of March 2, 1807, have received pav for rations allowed under those acts. Dal zell some time ago filed a claim for travel pay on furlough at 3 cents a mile. The claim, how ever, was disallowed for tho reason given above. Nobody knows how much extra work this misrepresentation will cause my bureau, nor how bitter will bo the disappointment of tho poor old Bolsters and their widows and or phans who have been deceived. Mr. Day has issued a circular setting forth these facts. PEIVACI FOE THE PRESIDENT. Congress May be Asked toBnild a Presidcn dental Residence. ISrECIAI. TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. Washington, January 4. It was re ported to-day that President-elect Harrison had purchased the farm of Mrs. Hutchin son, widow of the great Alaska seal fur man. near Silver Spring, Md. Mrs. Hutch inson promptly spoiled the story by saying that the farm had not been sold, and was not for sale. The Mar says that the exam ple set by President Cleveland in having a home near this city will probably be fol lowed by his successors. It has been one of the pleasantest incidents in the life of the present occupants of the "White House that their home is free from the publicity ot the Executive Mansion. Probably the much-talked-of scheme of building a private residence for the Presi dent may be revived, and Congress may be induced to take some action. IIOAR A POSSIBILITY. If Blaine Shonld Decline the Office Need Not Go Begging. (SPECIAL TELEGKAX TO THE DISPATCH. "Washington, January 4. A recent pilgrim from Indianapolis discloses the fact that the name of Senator Hoar "has been under consideration by the President-elect in connection with the State Department, and with considerable favor also. If Mr. Blaine should decline, as many of his friends expect him to, it is not unlikely that the office will be tendered to Mr. Hoar. If so, he will accept it, for it has always been the sunimit.of his ambition to fill that office, which has been held by so many emi nent statesmen from his State. STBUOK IT BIOH. General Williamson Casts Bread Upon tho Waters It Returns More Than a Thousandfold Ho is Now Independently Rich. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DI8FATCH.1 Washington, January 4. The friends of General J. A Williamson, of Connecti cut, formerly Commissioner of the General Land Office, will be glad to learn that he has recently fallen an heir to a large for tune. The exact amonnt is not known, bnt is reported to be from $250,000 to 5500,000. General "Williamson is now general counsel of the Atlantio and Pacific Hallway, with headquarters at Albuquerque, N. Mex. Up to last year he has occupied a house in "Washington, in order that his children might have the advantages of au education here, but now that they have all passed be yond school age they have joined him in Albuquerque. Some years ago an Irishman by the. name af Casey, who had a large contract for con structiou on the Atlantic and Pacific road, failed to comply with the conditions thereof, and the officers of tho road directed General Williamson to prosecute him on his bond. If this had been done Mr. Casey would have been financially ruined, but General Will iamson, after looking over the facts, de cided that Casey's failure was more his mis fortune than his fault, and earnestly recom mended to the company to give him an extension of time and let him finish the job. At first the officers of the company were inexorable, bnt the General kept Ht it until he obtained permission to compromise with Casey, and the latter carried out his con tract, making considerable money, which was afterward largely increased by other profitable contracts and good investments. He was a bachelor, and before he died in Albuquerque, last June, he made a will be queathing his entire property to General Williamson, in consideration of the latter's kindness to him as above described. Most of the estate was in stock, cash and bonds, and immediately available. General Williamson, learning that Casey had relatives in Erie, Pa., visited that city at his earliest convenience, to ascerfain who they were and in what circumstances they were living. He found there were two brothers and three sisters. The former were business men in very good circumstances, and the latter only moderately well off, be ing the wives of laboring men. He gave each of the sisters $10,000 and each of the brothers 85,000, and received from them stipulations in writing that they would not contest the will. General Williamson already had consid erable property, which, together with this unexpected windfall, makes him indepen dently rich, and it is understood that he will soon return to Washington to live. IT COSTS TOO MUCH. Why New Year's Day Receptions Aro Not So Fashionable as They Were. rSPECIAI. TEiEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. Washington, January 4. There was a general surprise at the small number of prominent society ladies in Washington who received on New Year's Day. The houses of the Cabinet, with the exception of the Endicotts, were open, but the wives of only three Senatorsand one or two Bepre sentatives received company. All the doors of houses which have always been open heretofore were closed, and a basket hung on the doorknob. An explanation of this phenomenon was asked from a well known society leader, who said that Hew Year's day receptions had become so ex pensive that they had been abandoned. "In former days we set out a few sand wiches, a bowl of punch, a plate of salad, and a enp of coffee," she said, "but within the last two or three years it has become fashionable to spread a banquet as expensive as a dinnerparty, and we arspompelled to feed hundreds of people that we felt no par ticular interest in, and many of them called for the sole purpose of getting a drink and something good to eat. While we always enjoy extending hospitality to our friends, the hundreds of strangers that call in this wav make it a public nuisance, and we were compelled to close our house or receive in formally. I think that next year there will be a moderation of this sort of display, and that we will return to the old custom of less lunch and more enjoyment." POSITIVELY NO SDREENDEE. Every Proposed Amendment to the Senate Tnriu" Bill Rejected. Washington, January 4. In the de bate on the tariff bill to-day in the Senate a spicy passage-at-arms occurred between Messrs. Vance, Hawley, Eeagan, Hoar, Morgan, Dawes, McPherson, Gray and Coke. It was precipitated by Mr. Hawle y getting Mr. Vance to say that he thought Enriish system was the nearest right of all nations except of our own. Mr. Vance explained that the system he spoke ot as our own was not that under which we live, but that advocated by the Democratic party, "a system of taxation of foreign imports which will yield sufficient revenues to the Government." Mr. Eeagan also defended the Democratic party from the charge of being a free trade party. Mr. Morgan commented upon the free list contained in the substitute, and argued that the Republican Senators who reported this and sustained it were pro tanto free traders, and were not justified in apply ing that term to Democrats. Sir. West read an extract from Garfield's speech in the House to the effect that he was for a protection which led to ultimate free trade; and said that the Republican party had in 1880 elected that gentleman to the Presidency of the United States. As usual, all amendments were rejected, and when tne bill was laid aside the Senate, after an executive session, adjourned. POLICY TO CHANGE ITS NAME. Tho New Administration Has Its Influence on a Cnpltolino Club. ISFECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 Washington, January 4. The best evi dence of a change iu the political atmos phere of Washington is a notice sent around to the members of the Jefferson Club an nouncing that an amendment to the consti tution changing the name of the organiza tion to the "Continental Clnb" will be voted upon at the annual meeting, 'to be held on the 17th instant. This club was or ganized at the beginning of the present ad ministration to be a sort of social head quarters for Democratic officials, and most of the prominent "ones joined it. As the building was centrally located, a number of Bepublicans had their names proposed, so that the list of members now contains the names of about as many Bepublicans as Democrats. The expenses are, however, greater than the revenues, and this proposition to change the name grows out of a hope that the or ganization may be more popular under a Republican Administration by shedding the name of the father of the Democracy. News of Hippoljto's Election. Washington, January 4. The Secre tary of State has received a letter from the United States Consul at Cape Haytien, an nouncing theelection of Hippolyte as Pro visional President of Hayti by a conven tion held at Gonivaes, and saying that no particular damage was done by the recent bombardment of Cape Haytien. Yellow Fever on the. Ynntlc. Washington, January 4. The Navy Department has been informed that yellow fever nas appeared on the Yantic, and that she has left Port-au-Prince for home. The dispatch did not state that any of the officers had been taken with the fever. PITTSfeUBG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1889. BLOODSHED 11 EMU. An Irishman With American Ideas Bravely Defends His Home, THE PRIESTS GROSSLY INSULTED. A Desperate Resistance Made and 14 of tho Evictors Wounded. THE M0EIEE INCIDENT LOOMING UP. English Merchant! Anxious for the Protection of Their forts. There was another lively day at Falcar ragh yesterday. Neale Doogan, having vis ited this country, believed he had some rights and proposed to defend them. Acting upon this, he defended his home from evict ors and repulsed them with more or less loss. He finally surrendered at the request of the priests. Numerous arrests of the sympathizers wjth the tenants are being made daily. The Morier affair is causing Count Herbert to be roughly handled by the English press. BY CABLE TO THE DISFATCH. J London, January 4. Copyright. The proceedings at Falcarragh to-day were al most equal to the most confident expecta tions, and it is wonderful that they did not develop into a terrible tragedy. An attack was made upon the house of Neale Doogan, who, having but recently returned from America, presumably had a fair share of the feeling of a free man. Doogan and a dozen neighbors had strongly intrenched themselves in the house, in the loopholes of which, to the horror of the evictors, could be seen the muzzles of rifles. The Magistrate, with blanched face, turned to the priests in the great crowd and violently reproached them with inducing the tenants to resort to such desperate ex tremes. INSULTING THE PEIESTS. Major Wends, the officer in charge of the soldiers, was beside himself with passion. He denounced the reverend gentlemen as pestilent fellows, an insult which would have cost him his life had it not, been for those same vilified priests, whose efforts throughout the exciting day were directed to calming the passions of the enraged peo ple, and xwhose influence alone has pre vented the tenants from using their rifl es and dying in their homesteads. An hour was given Doogan and his com rades in which to reflect upon their course ot action. During this interval Father Stephens implored the defenders to surren der their rifles, bnt Doogan in a ringing voice said: "I will give my enemy no in formation of what resources I possess." In the subsequent fights, however, rifles were not used. At the expiration of the truce the bailiffs and police made a rush for the house, but were met with such a terrific fusilade of stone and other missiles that they quickly retreated with several of their number badly wounded. THE TE00P3 CALLED UPON. Again and again the assault was renewed,, with the samo results; 'but finally a breach was effected in the wall, the falling masonry badly crushing some of the defenders. A last and determined effort, backed by 100 bayonets, was made; but it failed, too, and the enemy retired, bearing with them their chief inspector, terribly wounded. Then the magistrate called upon the troops to assist the civil power. The soldiers advanced, loaded their rifles, and leveled them at the windows, with orders to fire at the first head that appeared, and under this protection the bailiffs com menced another breach near the ground. The priests made one more appeal, this time successfully. Enough had been done for horror's sake, and Doogan and his 12 gallant friends came forth and surrendered. One had his jaw fractured, and several others were badly knocked about, but all were promptly taken off to prison. Of the evict ing force nofewerthan 14 were injured more or less seriously. The capture of Doogan's fortress occupied the whole day, but the evictors hope to eject the remaining five tenants to-morrow. THE MORIEE AFFAIR. English Newspapers Scoring- Count Herbert Bismarck for Ills Boorish Conduct. London, January 4. The Fall Hall Ga zette, referring to the correspondence be tween Count Herbert Bismarck and Sir Bobert Morier, the British Ambassador to Bussia, in reference to the charges that the latter sent information to Marshal Bazine of German military movements during the war of 1870, says: It regrets that Count Herbert did not profit by the chance Sir Robert Morier gave bun to behivo like a gentleman and a man of honor. It Is sorry hia subterfuge discredits the name he bears. Emperor William, says the Gazette, cannot desire that his father's friend should be insulted by Prlnco Bismarck's son. It trusts the Emperor will offer snch apologies as are necessary to satisfy the sense of honor of the son and grandson of tho most chivalrous gen tlemen whoever lived. The Globe says: Count Herbert Bismark's retort was as rudo a one as ever one statesman made to another. He probably desired to emulate the example of Mr. Bayard, bnt his imitation was clumsy and without motive. He is either a statesman lacking the necessary manners to apologize for allowing himself to be egregiously befooled, or his credulity is de liberate and he secretly approves of the rumor he started and finds enjoyment in insult at the expense of anybody who is known to have been Emperor Frederick's friend. Sir Robert Morier may safely remain silent under such attacks in the future. Tho Star says: Every English man will unhesitatingly acquit Sir Robert Morier of the charge against him, and which has caused him to be subjected to absurd and odious insult. Prince Bfsmarca, it says, is in censed because the publication of Emperor Frederick's diary robbed him of his glory, and he is resolved to convince Germany that Em peror Frederick divulged Information to Ger many's enemies which was used to her detri ment. The Times says: Wo may take the liberty of pointing out to Prince Bismarck and his more youthful imita tors that the easy movement of international intercourse, even between States -which have their main interests in common, is not facili tated by the adoption of a tone of barrack room manners. We are this moment allied with Germany on the coast of Africa, and events may bring about for common objects an alli ance with her on other gronnds. Prince Bis marck knows very well that England, with her naval supremacy and her purse, is not a quan Me neghgeable. The Berliner TarMatt, in reference to' the Morier affair, says that Count Herbert Bis marck, in the interest of Germany's honor, will be obliged to step out of the official limits imposed upon him. WHOLESALE ARRESTS Being Slade In Ireland of the Friends of the Oppressed Tenants. Dublin, January.4. Mr. Finucane, M. P., was to-day sentenced at Castleconnel to one month's Imprisonment without hard labor, on a charge under the crimes act. He 'was accompanied to jail by the Mayor and crowds of cheering citizens. 1 T'ttrn tnmmnntM tiaVA hnn BawnA nnnn "William O'Brien, SI. P., for conspiring to induce tenants not to pay rents. The trial on the first charge will be held a t Batfimlore on February 14, and the trial on the second charge atKillarney on January 29. Excitement was caused in the court at Naas to-dav by Solicitor Hurley, counsel for iho prisoners on trial, shouting that Judge Fitzgerald's conduct on the bench was a scandal. Hurley was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment for contempt of court. Af Ballvmltty to-day Solicitor Moran was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for conspiring to prevent the taking of farms from which tenants had been evicted. Sir Augustine Fitzgerald has notified his tenants in County Glare of his acceptance of the offer they made under the plan of cam paign two years ago. ENGLAND'S DEFENSES. Tho Government Asked to Protect the Mercantile Ports. Tondon, January 4. A deputation headed by Lord Armstrong visited Lord Salisbury to-day to urge the adoption by the Government of a comprehensive scheme for the defense of the British mercantile ports. In reply ta the address of the deputation, Lord Saulsbury stated that he sympathized with their anxiety, and said their request was justified by the circumstances of the day. The enormous offensive powers of foreign countries might be concentrated against England, although that was not likely. Continuing, Lord Saulsbury said: vr uue not tasing a gloomy view oi tne luture we must not fall to take tbo necessary pre cautions fordefonse. The responsibility of de fense rests on the Government, but ft is the nation's duty to bear its share of tho cost. I can not now discuss how far the Government could safely limit the expenditures, hut I will represent mo views oi tne ueputation to my ep: oil colleagues. Lord Saulsbury' speech is believed to foreshadow a large naval and military pro gramme at the next session of Parliament. HAESH DISCOBD. Philadelphia Musicians Object to tho Marine Band Playing In Their City Secre tary Whitney Sustains t Their Objection. rSPECIAI, TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1 Philadelphia, January 4. The annu al ball of the First City Troop will be given in the Academy of Music on the night of January 11. It will be the usual swell af fair. To give it all the more tone, because the City Troop regards itself, in a broad sense, a national organization on account of its age and distinguished social promi nence, it was decided that the brass band music at the ball should be given by the Marine Band, of Washington, which jis composed of enlisted men, and is supposed to furnish music for the Government only. These enlisted men receive the regular rate of pay for any musicians. They are divided into three classes, being allowed $17, $20 and $35, but this pay does not deter many very competent musicians from join ing the organization. They have heretofore made a sufficient amount of extra money to pay amply for their services by filling en gagements to furnish music for swell enter tainments in Washington and various other cities and towns. A row has, moreover, sprung up over the coming of the band, among the city musicians, who have formed themselves into a protective association, about 600 strong, and they protest against the employment of outside musical talent for snch an affair as the city troop ball. Secretary Whitney has said that he is sorry to disappoint so many good people, but on account of trouble with the musical unions in this connection he has established a rnle not to permit the band to accept en gagements outside of Washington. The committee having charge of the music for the ball seems to feel sure that sufficient in fluence can be brought to bear on the Secre tary to have this rule abrogated in the case of the troop. The committee was to have made a report of its arrangements this after noon, but did not do so, and is still in negotiation with Secretary Whitney. PANAMA CANAL ALL EIGHT. One Sinn Found Who Has Abiding Faith In the Project. Chicago, January 4. Francis Spies, the Consul in New York of the Government of Honduras, was at the Grand Pacific Hotel yesterday. Mr. Spies said that the'people of the United States had been told a great many untrnths about the Panama Can al Company by those interested in the Nicaragua canal scheme. He said the French Government could not afford to dis credit the De Lesseps' enterprise because the 800,000 shareholders in France were powerful enough to cause revolution. He said that it was a mistake to suppose that all the money which had been raised by the De Lesseps had been sunk in the ca nal. Thirty millions had been spent in the Panama and Colon Bailroad, which yield ed very large dividends. .He said that the residents on the Panama Canal, who had most reason to know, had great faith in its ultimate success. Seven thousand laborers were still at work, and every one of the ca nal drafts so far issued had been honored. He believed the canal would be a go. MADE THE TINWAEE FLT. A Boston Vixen Throws Dippers nnd Palls at a Police Judge. (SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. Boston, January 4. There was a lively rumpus at the Boxbury Police Court this morning, Judge Bolster being attacked by a young woman whom he had ordered under bail for further examination The decree had hardly passed his lips when the girl, who it appears was well prepared for emergencies, let fly a tin dipper at the Judge, and had her aim been accurate, would probably have marked the Court's face. However, the dipper flew by, harm less. This further enraged the young vixen, and she followed her first shot with another, this time a tin pail, which, owing to the timely interposition of a constable, also went wide of its mark, though it narrowly missed the head of Assistant Clerk Bich. How the young woman managed to carry fo much tinware about her is a mystery. The woman was locked up in Charles Street Jail. HE FEELS BETTER NOW. Benjamin Hopkins Arrives at the Queen City In Improved Spirits. Cincinnati, January 4. Benjamin Hopkins, ex-Cashier of the late Fidelity National Bank, having received his pardon, arrived here from tho Columbus peniten tiary at 6 o'clock this evening. A hospital ambulance was in waiting for him at the depot, and it conveyed him to his home on Bichmond street. His spirits have greatly improved. DESTE0IING PROPERTY. Evicted Settlers and Their Friends Aro Hav ing Their Revenge. Des Moines, January 4. It was discov ered yesterday that several houses on the Snell lands from which settlers have been evicted have been almost totally wrecked. The windows were "broken, sashes and frames cut up, doors and sills sawed through and other serious damage done. Snell says it is the work of river land set tlers or sympathizers. OYER A MILLION OUT. The Gigantic Fraud Perpetrated on a Sugar Refining Company. CLEVER AND SUCCESSFUL SCHEME Worked by a Sharp Knave With an Al leged Electric Process. ETEN THE SUGAE' TEUST WAS POOLED. Interesting Details of the Greatest Confidence Game of the Age. Henry C. Friend organized the Electric Sugar Befinjag.Company to operate a secret process discovered by him. A company was formed, and much slock disposed of in England and America. The Sugar Trust was alarmed by the reported success of the plan. The whole scheme is discovered to be a daring fraud. New Yoek, January 4. The Electrio Sugar Befining Company has been duped to the extent of over a million dollars, and its whole secret process turns out to be a humbug of the most barefaced kind. The secret process was the invention of one Henry C. Friend, who appeared in the trade four years ago with samples of wonder fully pure sugar, which he said had been refined by his ''electrical process." About a year ago he induced a pumber of English and American capitalists to organize a company and buy the "secret process" from him. This was done, factories were erected, but no one was allowed inside of them save Friend, his wife, and a few ignorant work men. The rooms where refining was sup-' posed to be going on where always kept securely locked, as Friend said his process was not patentable", and he could not afford to allow any one to share his secret. In the meantime, the stock of the company had been bouncing up until it was worth nearly $300 per share of $100 par .value. Friend. then began to unload, but suddenly died. INNOCENT OFFICERS. The officers of the company suspected 1 nothing wrong until a few days ago, when it was fonnd that Mrs. Friend and all who had been connected with the factory had disap- E eared, Mrs. Friend leaving word that she ad gone to the West. President Cotterrell, Treasurer Bobertson and a number o'f stock holders proceeded to the factory and invaded the secret rooms. What they discovered made their eyes bulge out, and each and every hair on their heads give imitations of the quills of a porcupine when he is fretful. There were a number of machines used in breaking cnbe sugar into small particles and in granulat ing the coarser grades, and nothing else. There was no mysterious electrical apparatus by which the sweet stuff should be trans formed as by a flash into the purest sacchar ine crystals, no wonderful cylinders, pots or pans charged with purifying electrical cur rent. There were crushers, and that was all. An investigation at once set on foot showed the great scheme had been worked. Not a pound of sugar had been refined in the factory. Quantities of refined sugar, chiefly cubes, had been purchased by the operators and prepared in some secret spot with a chemical liquid' which eliminated the ordinary impurities found in all sugars. This "doctored" sugar was then carted to the factory in bags purporting to contain raw sugar. The chemical used had crys tallized the cubes to a larze extent, and when they were broken they had a finer ap pearance and quality than sugar wasa ever known to posies. Mrs. Friend and those connected with her received a large sum ot money in cash from the company for the process and a heavy block of the" stock, which was disposed of, partly in England and partly here, at a price away beyond its par value. Just how many persons were interested in the scheme does not seem clear, nor will the officers of the company say how much money was paid. They admit that, adding the cash and pro ceeds from stock together, they must have realized a sum approximating $250,000. A BUB3TED BUBBLE. The scheme was cleverly worked to the very last. The stockholders and the officers of the company were kept in perfect confi dence as to the future of the process until the largest possible amount of money could be secured, and then the bubble was allowed to burst. There is no such process as elec trical sugar refining, and the bugbear of the Sugar Trust is dead. Treasurer Bobertson said: "I am heart broken over the discoveries that we have made." and he certainly apneared as if he were. Continuing he said: "I don't care so mnch about losing my own money, but I induced numbers of my friends to invest in the scheme and it is their financial ruin that distresses me. Then I had such high hopes that the scheme would bring fortunes to us all. Oh, we've been shamefully tricked and deceived. It means ruin to us. Its most outrageous thing I ever heard of. Yes, we've been over to the factory and seen the interior of the secret rooms. I had rather not tell all they contain just vet. I'm preparing a statement for the public in which I will set all matters forth just as they are." 'Ms there no prospect of being able to save anything out of the wreck?" "Not that I can see. The revelations found in the factory prove the entire thing to have been a fraud. President Cotterrell left for the West yesterday to try to find Mrs. Friend, and to endeavor to learn what chemical was used in the sugar, in the hope that it may be of some use, for the sugar, after it is treated with it, becomes a remark ably pure product. If this proved to be worth anything it might save a total col lapse, but I cannot have any faith in it. I cannot tell just yet how much stock is held here and in England. That will all come out in my statement." SENSATION IN ENGLAND. A cable from London says: The sensation in Birmingham over the revelations regard ing the Electric Sugar Befining Company has been increased by alarming cablegrams. The local holding of stock is stated to be 20,000 pounds. One of the principal stockholders has departed for America to inquire personally into the matter. The stock fell greatly in Birmingham and Liv erpool to-day. CONTEMPT OP COURT. The West Virginia Election Contest Taking a More Serious Form. rSPECIAI. TELEGBAM TO THE DISFATCn.l Chableston, W. "Va., January 4. In the Circuit Court to-day a rule was awarded against the County Commissioners for cer tifying to the vote on Congressmen con trary to an injunction from the Circuit Court of Cabell county. A writ of certiorari was also awarded, re quiring the commissioners to bring up for review their record on the Gubernatorial recount. A Valuable Present for Mr. Cochran. (SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH.) Habbisbubg, January 4. Ex-Chief Clerk Cochran is to have a testimonial from the members of the State Senate, costing $2,000. It was originally intended to give him $2,000 In cash, but he preferred not to be recognized in that way. A JOUENALIST JAILED. Inspector Bonfleld Has an Editor Arrested at His Desk He Is Locked Up for Several Hours Before Ball Is Secured. CJ-AQO, January 4. The Times this 8Sb ""Wished an interview with the v6A "ijov. T-owenstein, charging that herteWg O yp i ting as a receiver of stolen &Or fe -ognizance of Captain Scbaaa, "!& ?ff Late luii aiternoon warrau x rn out uj Inspector Bonfield for thov tof J. J. West, proprietor, and Joseph lunlap, city editor of the Times, charging them with criminal libel for the publication. Sir. Dunlap was arrested at his desk, and taken to the Harrison street station. On arriving at the station he was thrown into a cell, and treated otherwise with exceedingly scant courtesy. The space behind the bars in which Mr. Dnnlap was confined is nar row, dark and noisome," one of the pens which hold daily an assortment of criminals from some of the worst quarters in the city. Mr. Dunlap remained in the cell until" 8 o'clock, when he was released on bail. At about the same time Mr. West, who had heard of the issuance of the warrant, ap- E eared at the Harrison street station with is bondsmen. The warrant of arrest was at the Central station, and some delav was caused by tbenecessity of sending for it No sooner bad Mr. West and Mr. Dunlop been released than they were again placed under arrest. The charge was the same, bnt in this case, the complaintant was Captain Schaak. Bonds were promptly furnished on the second charge, and the two editors were allowed to leave the station. Sir. Dunlop when first taken into custody was not allowed to tarry even a moment to Eut the affairs of his department in the ands of subordinates. At the police sta tion the desk sergeants were intimating that be might make himself comfortable in the office while awaiting bondsmen, when in structions came direct from police headquar ters to put the prisoner behind the bars in stanter. The order was given by Inspector Bonfield in person. CONFESSED Alf AWFDL CEIME. An Italian Enys He Murdered Contractor MeClnve, bnt He Gets Away. TSPECIAL TELEGBAJI TO THE DISPATCH.! Poughkeefsie, N. Y., January 4. One of the men who aided in the murder of two contractors, one named McClave, in Penn sylvania, a short time ago, and robbed them of $14,000, has been arrested and has made a confession. He is an Italian, and is known as "Bed Nose Slike." He was arrested in Philadelphia on suspicion, but there wasn't sufficient evidence to hold him. He came from Philadelphia to this county and got work on a new railroad connecting with the Poiighkeepsie bridge. A Pinkerton de tective, disguised as an Italian laborer, came here and got work alongside of him. He got enough information from Mike to warrant his rearrest, and got him to visit Philadelphia again, and the two went there Wednesday night of this week. Mike was arrested and he' made a confession of the crime, giving names of two other Italians connected with the murder, and said they too were at work in this county. Accordingly, Captain Dougherty, of the Philadelphia police, and two or three Pinkerton men came here this morning, and with Detectives Scanlon and McCabe, ofthe New York Central, and Officer Decker, of this city, secured a special train and went to Stanford ville over the New Yorkand Massa chusetts Bailway, where it was said the Italians were working,bu t when they got there they were told that the men they wanted had gone to Italy.. The detectives returned ,to New York on an afteruoon train. c ELECTEIC COMBINATIONS. The Edison Manufacturing Companies In corporated Into One Concern. rSPECIAI. TILIGKAM TO TUB DISPATCH. New Yoek, January 4. One of the big gest companies-ever organized under the laws of New Jersey, was incorporated in the Essex County Clerk's office on Thursday. It is to be Known as the Edison General Electric Company. The capital stock is $12,000,000, of which $1,000,000 has been paid in. The stock is divided into 120,000 shares at $100 each. The works are to be in West Orange, with branch offices in all the leading cities. The incorporators, who each hold 200 shares, are Edward H. Johnson, of Greenwich, Conn.; Samuel Insult, Schenec tady; Francis E. Upton, Orange; Charles Batcbelor, jdew xoik, ana Alfred O. Tate, West Orange. The advisability of uniting the Edison manufacturing companies has long been considered, and this seems to be the con summation of the scheme. The officers of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, of this city, have been extremely reticent about the matter. . The several plants can be operated at less expense under a single management and the work more aggressive ly carried forward. M1I0SHI AND SON. Prominent Japanese Citizens Visiting This Country for Educational Purposes. rSPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1 New Yobk, January 4. Scrawled upon the register of the Brevoort House, though not in such a manner as to be illegible, are the words, "Miyoshi and wife and son." Mr. Miyoshi's full name is Taizo Miyoshi, and he is the Senior Judge of the Appeal Court of Tokio. Japan. Yesterday after noon a reporter called upon him, and fonnd him and his son faultlessly attired in gar ments of American cut. Mr. Miyoshi is a small man of perhaps 40 years ot age. His English is meager, but he contrived to make known that he had come to the country to place his son, who is now 20 years old, in school. He will pre pare for college at Wilbraham, Mass., and will afterward enter Yale. After his gradua tion he will return to his native land and begin a professional career. Yesterday Mr. Miyoshi, in company with Lawyer Cepheas Brainerd, made a tour of the various courts of the city. Tokio's Senior Judge has never made a study of our laws, but intends to return to this country within two years, and devote himself to that subject. TROUBLE AT DDLUTH. An Incipient Riot Is Started by the Duluth Dock Laborers. Duluth, January 4. The strike of the laborers on the coal docks to-day assumed a more serious aspect. This morning the Northwestern Fuel Company advertised for men, and a number responded and were put to work. Two or three hun dred strikers thereupon proceeded to oust the new men, but the police blocked the Way. A rush was made by the strikers, but when two or three men had been knocked over by the police men's clubs, the'erowd backed off. An un successful attempt at a compromise was one ofthe occurrences ofthe d3y. The men say they would, accept the re duced pay if they could be sure of getting it all the time, but claim work is not provided and that often they can earn only 35 or 40 cents a day. A dozen extra'policemenhave been sworn in and are now on duty. Returning to the Ten-Hour Rnle. Beading, Pa., January 4. Commenc ing next Monday ten hours will constitute a day's work in the shops of the Beading Bailroad Company instead of eight, to which they were reduced two months ago. The employes will receive a corresponding increase of wages. JOffl B. EEITEKATES That Goy. B. is Certainly in Error About That $1,000,000 Mistake. AN EXTRA SESSION .CONUNDRUM That May Throw a Little Light on. tie Executive Explanation. AMPLE PE00F SAID TO BE AT HAND A Chance for Other Well-Known Leglsla tors to Corroborate or Deny What They Are Alleged to Know In Keeping With the Interesting Contradiction, The flat contradiction of Governor, Beaver's Bevenue Bill explanation is re iterated. Its author names other well known Legislators who, he says, can also correct the Governor, if they will. At all events, he say he is prepared to prove the executive misstatement. He certainly dodges nothing, but talks to the point. The Hon. John B. Bobinson has nothing' to take back in his correction or contra diction of the Governoi's explanation as to why the revenue bill was not signed by the Senate functionary in 1887. He is very polite abont it, but very positive in his con viction that the Governor was wronz. "When a Dispatch reporter saw the well-posted ex-Legislator yesterday, with farther refer ence to the responsibility of the loss of the revenue bill of 1887. Mr. Bobinson said: I was not aware that any word dropped in a hurried interview with The Dispatch man was to be put in print, or I would have been more explicit. I did not intend to reflect on Governor Beaver personally; bnt I certainly was astounded to read in his message that ho had conducted a "quiet investigation" and fixed the onus of the loss of the bill on Message Clerk Taylor of the House. As the Governor has brought the subject up.and wishes to thresh the wheat again. I want to handle the flail too. Message Cleric Taylor, of the last House, was1 my appointee, and I am as jealous of his repu tation as my own, and I say again, and am pre pared to prove it. that neither he nor any House 'official of the session of 18S7 was responsible for the loss of thebilL The responsibility rests between tha officials of the Senate and those of the Execu tive Department. It was In the hands of tha clerks of the Executive Department, signed or unsigned, 43 hours before either body ad journed, and not, as Governor Beaver says, after the upper branch had adjourned sine die. Is it possible that the clerk3 of the Executive could have so important a bill so long AND NOT KNOW IT was unsigned? The Brooks bill was presented to the Governor and be affixed his signature the day it went over; and it was culpable negli gence or criminal connivance that permitted the revenue bill to lay unexamined in the Exec utive Department 43 hours until adjournment killed it. Had the Governor re-convened the Legisla ture, and a majority of both bodies publicly signified their willingness to come hack with out pay and repass the bill. I would have con ducted a noisy investigation from my place In the house and got to the bottom of the matter. For some reason or other the Governor did not call us back, but conducted this star chamber investigation he speaks of, and so noiselessly that the public now hear of it in his own mes sage for the first time. An officer of the Commonwealth now serving at Harrisburg, of the highest repatability. in formed me last year that he had looked into the matter of the lost bdl and was convinced the responsibility rested on the Executive De partment. Now, understand me, this does not lmpnta any connivance, nor carry any reflection on the Governor, except so far as he is liable for his subordinates. A clerk or sub-official could very easily mislay a bill or let the Governor be lieve it had not come over, or hoodwink him some way. My reiterated opinion is that tho Governor was thus imposed upon, and tha facts bear me out, in that tho bill went over to his department so long before the adjourn ment. HE SWOKE; THEY WOULDN'T. Moreover, Mr. Taylor took an affidavit in stanter when the matter came our, clearing his skirts,and no other person in the Senate Or at the Executive Department did the same. Speaker Boyer, Chief Clerk Losch, of last House: John W.Morrison, then Journal Clerk; A. D. Fet terolf, and every official of the last House sus tained Mr. Taylor's integrity and his version of the affair and he bore a clean-handed record before all the House. The loss of the revenue bill was a loss of 31.000,000 to the State. AVhy the Governor did not call us back and have it re-enacted and the mystery openly in- 2 mred into, as we all were anxious to have one, is inexplicable to me. "Quiet investigations" of public matters won't do. The same influences that keep them "quiet," like the peace in Warsaw, keep tha truth bolow the surface. In conclusion, I have no desire to continue this controversy. I simply jumped to the res cue of the character of a friend, assailed in tha message of the Governor most unjustly, and think unwittlnely, by His Excellency. I see that General Beaver pays me the com pliment of beinp: "a good fellow." I kindly re turn this as to him, and did not make the re mark attributed that "he would not be beard of politically after 1S90." There was nothing personal In anything I said. My discussion was of public matters and intended to set him right in that portion of his message where I believe he has been deceived. A BLUNDEB OE A CEIME. In Either Case the -Failure of the Revenue BUI Should Have Beca Investigated. In connection with the subject touched by theimportantinterviewabove, the following special telegram, from Harrisburg last night, will be of absorbing interest: While the opinion here is almost universal that the blander or crimo which caused the loss of the revenue act passed two years ago should have been rigidly Investigated with a view of preventing its recurrence, many prom nent advocates of the bill, among them State officials, are glad that it was not placed among the statutes. This chango of sentiment f. due to the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States has since decided that the tax on gross receipts flowing from inter-State traffic Is unconstitutional, and Judge Simonton has ruled against tho State in a case involving the taxation ot loans, losing to the Commonwealth, if the latter decision should be sustained by the Supreme Court, about 81,000,000 anticipated revenue annually. The lost revenue act would have greatly In. creased this amount, as it provided for the di version of one-half (over 500,000) of the money received from a tax on personal .property into the county treasuries, all of which, under pres-. ent legislation, is paid into the State Treasury. It would also have reduced the amount re ceived from the tax on premiums of foreign in surance companies collected in this State from about $400,000 to half that amount. The Mature equally distributing the amounts received from the tax on personal property be tween the counties and the State and the losses sustained by judicial decisions would have put the public treasury In a bad condi tion. ONE TEUST IS GONE. The Cotton Bagging Combine Has Expired by Limitation. St. Louis, Ma, January 4. It tran spired here to-day that the alleged cotton bagging trust has run its day and quietly died. It appears that the so-called trust was simply an agreement between bagging manufacturers to combine for a certain pur pose until January 1, when the compact was to expire. They say they made a little money, but not so much as they hoped to on account of there being an unexpected large amonnt of bagging in the hands of outsiders. How ever, they are satisfied. The price ol Bag ging has fallen about 2 cents since New xeax s, ana will probably still further de- -"- - . . V 1 V i i I uJlraHsC