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"AN EXTRAORDINARY ISSUE.
The Dispatch of Sunday next will, be
made up of
TWENTY PAGES.
"Many new f ratores will be introduced, and all '
tho news of the world presented in attractive
form. ETery body is reading The DISPATCH.
r.ORTY-rOimTH YEAH
For Just Twelve Minutes the Son
of the President Was
in Custody.
NOT MUCH OF A SURPRISE.
Bussell Had Been Duly Informed
What Was in Store for Him.
HEDISCLAIMS ALL RESPONSIBILITY
For Publishing the Alleged Libel Which
Form the Basis of the 'Charge An Ex
GoTernor of Montana hworo Oat the
Warrant Mr. Harrison Conld Have
Settled the Mntter by Maktuc a Per
sonal Retrnciion He Refused to do
This, and Will Fight the Case to a
FinUb Some Terr ContrndlctoryStorles
From Those Interested bpley Corres
pondence. On complaint of ex-Governor John
Schuyler Crosby, of Montana, Bussell Har
rison was yesterday arrested at New York
and placed under a bond of 55,000. The
charge is criminal libel, Mr. Harrison
states that he personally had nothing to do
with the matter in question and refuses a
retraction. On the other hand the com
plainant asserts that he inspired the publi
cation of the objectionable article. The dis
tinguished prisoner was in custody just 12
minutes
rSFXCUX TELZGEAM TO THE DIS PATCH. 1
Sett Yobk, April 11. Eussell B. Har
rison, the son of the President, was a pris
oner for about 12 minutes to-day. He had
made a special journey here in order to be
arrested. The charge against him is that
made by ex-Governor John Schuyler Crosby,
who has begun suit against him for $100,000
for libel. The warrant was issued by Judge
Beach, of the Supreme Court, who fixed bail
at 53,000. Stephen B. Elkins, Yice Presi
dent Bice, of the Park Bank, and W. J.
Arkell, of Judge, became Mr. Harrison's
bondsmen. .
The reported libel was introdnced in the
Montana Livestock Journal by a paragraph
which the complainant translates as follows:
The many Inends of the Dawling (meaning
"Dawdling") Dany (meaning "Dandy") will
folly appreciate the following from the pen of
the Washington correspondent of the Buffalo
Commercial:
Rather Severe Language.
No one who knows the subject of this sketch
will for a moment doubt its truthfulness.
During his (meaning plaintiff's) stay in Mon
tana lie was a loafer and a social leper. No
respectable woman could associate with him
without hTing her reputation seTerely
tarnished. Following as it did upon the heels
of his unsavory records in foreign lands, it
forms a nt chapter in the life of a loafer and
libertine, for to become a diamond thief is the
legitimate end of such a career.
Delancey Nicoll, Colonel Crosby's at
torney, gives his side of the story. Mr.
Nicoll said: "We have the written state
ment of Leslie Sulgrove, editor of the
Journal at that time, that It. B. Harrison
was directly responsible for the publica
tion." Mr. Sulgrove says:
On the morning of Saturday, April 30. 1SST,
which was the day of the publication of the
Montana Live Stock Journal, Mr. Bussel B.
Harrison, the President of the Journal Pub
lishing Company, came to me and asked if I
had seen Colonel McCutcbeon, as he had an
article for me which was to be used as an edi
torial. I said I had not seen him.
The Article In Dispute.
Before noon of the same day Colonel Mc
Cntcheon came into my office and handed me
the manuscript which you now possess, and
which afterward appeared in the paper of that
day. He wanted tbe article to appear in the
editorial columns, as Mr. Harrison had request
ed. To this I objected, as I did not care to
hare the article in any shape in the paper, re
garding it as libelous and. thinking that it
would cause trouble. To my objection Colonel
McCntcheon replied that the libel law did not
affect me, as it related to the editor and pub
lisher, and not the editor.
It had no signature, as you will have noticed,
so I gave it one, although the intention of Mr.
Harrison was to have it appear as if written in
the editor's office, and carry with it the weight
of the editorial opinion of the paper. This was
conclusively shown when, after it had been
published, he seemed very much displeased be
cause it did not appear as an editorial.
"It ii for this malicious, lying and cow
ardly attack upon Governor Crosby by Bus
sell B. Harrison directly and personally,"
Mr. Nicoll continued, "that Governor Cros
by demands a publio apology and retraction
from Bussell B. Harrison personally."
Some Lively Correspondence.
A letter addressed by Colonel Crosby
himself to R. B. Harrison a month ago will
make clear the cause for this, at least up to
that date. It was left at the White House
on March 16 last, in the bands of a trusted
person near to the President. It was stated,
however, by the person receiving the letter,
that Mr. Harrison had just left for the
North, but that the letter would be deliv
ered to him immediately on his return. It
was as follows:
Washington, March 15, 1ES9.
To Enssell B. Harrison, Esq. :
Sib In the month of April,-lSS7, when you
were the President of the Montana Live Stock
Journal, you caused to be published iu an Issue
of that paper of the 30th, a most cruel and
cowardly libel concerning me, wherein among
other things you charged me with being a dia
mond thief. Copies of this libelous article
were sent to different members of my family,
including my aged mother, my. little
canghter and son, and to my friends.
Yon did me an injury which you can never
repair even by the atonement which I now de
mand. That you were the real author of the
libel, thatyou ordered It to bo published in the
Journal, airected' it to be inserted as an edi
torial and complained when it was given promi
nence only as a matter or news are indisputable
facts known of course to you, and which 1 am
aMe to prove by witnesses who cannot be
influenced by any considerations. It is useless
for .you to deny
Your Personal Responsibility
any longer. Some months ago, when I bad
gathered much of my proof after a year's
tedious investigation and search and was ready
to commence proceedings against you, both
civil and criminal, I was dissuaded by friends
of your father, the President, both in and out
. of the Benate, who apprehended that the ex
posure of your malicious conduct to
ward me might in many ways prejudice
1bei Republican cause And in my
'desire, for party success I forebore
"ssgrjmy complaint against yon until the
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HARRISON ARRESTED
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mand that you shall make a personal apology
to me fh writing and publish a retraction over
your own signature in the Montana Journal
WlUyoudoitt I will wait 24 hours after your
reception of this letter for your reply. Yours,
truly, John Schutlee Ckosbv.
The letter also says that Mr. Elkins had
become convinced in December lasi that Mr.
Harrison was responsible for the libel. Mr.
Nicoll said that Mr. Harrison had tried to
induce Mr. Sulgrove not to furnish Governor
Crosby with the facts within his knowledge
fixing the responsibility for the publication.
"The only explanation I have heard,"
Mr. Nicoll continued, "for his refusal to
publish a personal apology is the fear the
confession would hurt his chances for the
United States Senate for Montana. Ima3"
add that as a fancied means of intimida
tion against Governor Crosby, Mr. Harrison
sent'him through a gentleman recently ar
rived from Montana, that he, Mr. Harrison,
owned two newspapers; that Governor
Crosby had best withdraw his suit or I will
make "it warm, for him if it takes 20 years.
Some Farther AHegntlons.
"He has also, I understand, been seeking
to work up various slanderous stories con
cerning the Governor, and has freely an
nounced his intention of making the stories
public. All this only fixes more firmly the
determination of Governor Crosby to estab
lish by due process oi law the infamously
false and malicious character of Mr. Harri
son's public assault upon him."
Colonel Crosby was present when this
statement was afterward read to Bussell
Harrison.
Mr. Bussell Harrison, when asked if he
had anything to say regarding his arrest,
replied:
I have nothing to say at the present time.
The facts and evidence in the matter will be
given to the public in the court proceedings in
due time. I will then be able to show, abso
lutely and conclusively, that I had nothing to
do with the instigation of tho story published
in the paper, and I did not learn of it until the
30th day of April, 1887, six weeks after its pub
lication in the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.
Russell's Statements.
William A. Sweetzer, Mr. Harrison's at
torney, makes the following statement :
Mr. Russell Harrison reached this city from
Washington on an early train this morning. He
learned late last night that his presence in
New York was desired at the instance of J.
Schuyler Crosby for an alleged libel against
him published in the Montana Live Stock Jour
nal in 1887. At once upon learning this, and at
gieat personal inconvenience to himself, he
came to this city quite willing to allow Mr.
Crosby to select his own tribunal and jurisdic
tion, in which to obtain an absolute vindication
of himself or establish the truth of the matter
published.
The public may wish to know why this action
was not brought until so long after the publi
cation of the alleged defamatory matter, and
when Irought why it was not commenced in
Montana, where the paper containing the al
leged libel was and is published and circulated,
or in Washington, where Mr. Crosby resides
most of his time. Now that the action has
been commenced, in justice to the parties in
terested, all the facts relating.to this contro
versy must oe given puDiicity, nowever unior
tunate to individual interests.
Not Personally Concerned.
The duty of Mr. Harrison is manifest and he
is not the person to Bhrink from its perform
ance. Mr. Harrison, as the President of the
company owning and publishing the paper, has
been selected as the person against whom to
institute these proceedings and repover dam
ages. The considerable delay in bringing the
action and then the instituting of the suit in a
locality where the defamatory matter would
never have been known had it not been brought
to public notice by Mr. Crosby himself, are
matters which will doubtless be fully explained
in the trial.
Mr. Harrison disclaims all liability or re-i
sponsibility la this matter, his only connection
with it being that of President of the company
ownfngthepapertbat made the publication. He
leaves tot Washington on his way to Montana-to-night.
Mr. Harrison personally is nof con
cerned as to the resnlt of this action. The
Journal, in which was published the alleged
defamatory article, Is quite able and will de
fend this action.
It has been charged by Mr. Crosby that Mr.
Harrison cansed the libel in question to be
published out of personal hatred or vindictive
ness toward him. In point of fact Mr. Crosby
has not been unfavorably mentioned, only
with this exception, in the Montana Live Slock
Journal since the first day of its publication.
FELL 400 FEET AND DIDN'T DIE
Until a Knife Was Placed to Its Throat,
When It Croaked.
lErrciAL telequam to the disfatch.i
Pittston, April 11. For several days
past tierce forest fires have been raging on the
mountain ridge extending parallel to the
Susquehanna,between this place and Wilkes
barre. Acres upon acres of the finest pine
timber is-consumed, and all efforts to check
the progress of the flames are futile.
The scene at night is indescribably grand.
At Campbell's Ledge the fire reached its
climax, from the base of the mountain to
the summit being literally one vast sheet of
flame, resmbling a cone. On the hillside
directly opposite, the flames took the shape
of a vast horseshoe, the outer rim of fire en
circling a back ground of charred trees.
Squirrels, chipmunks and groundhogs
can be seen scampering in almost every di
rection to avoid the fire. One big ground
hog, weighing nearly 20 pounds, in his
eagerness to escape, jumped off the summit
of Campbell's Ledge, and fell to the valley
below, a perpendicular "distance of nearly
400 feet On being approached it showed
signs of fight, and it required a knife to dis
patch him. '
JEAL0USI AND POISON.
A Farmer Who Had a Pretty Wile Dies
Snddcnly and the Coroner is at Work.
ISFECIAL TELEGBAM TO Till DISrATCH.J
MOSTICELLO, Mo., .April 11. Bobert
"Peacock, a farmer, about 50 years of age, re
siding near Briscoe station, this county,
died suddenly on the 9th inst For quite
a while a young man of the neighborhood
has been paying marked attention to Mrs.
Peacock, who is said to be greatly the junior
of her husband and both handsome and
reckless.
The husband very naturally objected to
these intrusions and breeches of propriety,
which had become the gossip of the neigh
borhood. The result of this was fre
quent quarrels between the two
men. Finally, on the day men
tioned, Mr. Peacock became sick suddenly
after going to work in the field, and, re
turning to the house, died befoie a physi
cian coula reach him. The symptoms of
the case, as viewed by tbe physician who
saw the body shortly after death, indicate
poisoning. An inquest and post-mortem
examination have been ordered.
BROOKS LEFT FAR BEHIND.
The Legislature of Missouri Passes aEalher
Stringent License Law.
Jeffebson City, Mo., April 1L By a
vote of 73 to 62 the lower House ot the Leg
islature passed a bill to-day fixing a mini
mum rate of $550 and a maximum rate of
51,200 per annum for saloon licenses for
State and county purposes in all towns and
cities of the State, and permitting towns
and cities to charge from 100 to 51,500 for
the same purpose.
The bill also prohibits the saloon from
having any billiard tables, or checkers or
any other game of chance or skill in their
property. Railroads and steamboats are de
nied the right to sell liquor under any con
ditions. i --
r!nfifnre After a Lonff Chase.
Mt. Holly, N. J., April 1L Saltzman,
the murderer of Mrs. Matter, at Irvington,
near Newark, recently, was captured last
night near Barnegat by a detective who has
been on his track for several days. The de
tective and his prisoner started at once for
Newark.
We
MINING PABALYZED.
Western Coat Operator! and Miners Com
plain That New Freight Rates Are
RnlnlngTbelr Business Other
Causes for the Depression.
ISFXCLU. TXLIQRAX TO TBI DISFATCH.l -
Des Moines, April 1L The coal mining
industry of Iowa has been paralyzed for the
past six months. Since the middle of Sep
tember but five mines have been running
full time, and ' most of them not half the
time. The result U a large amount of dis
tress among the laboring men in the coal
mining regions. Iowa coal is not as good as
Hlinois coal, and in competing with the lat
ter field for say the Minnesota market, it is
necessary to sell the Iowa product at slower
price, under the old regime this was ren
dered pbssible by the railroads
themselves, who gave special rates
from Iowa ' mines to Minnesota
points, bat now this is not done. Bnt the
stagnation of the coal trade cannot be
ascribed entirely to the withdrawal of spe
cial favors by the railroad companies. The
same situation exists in a greater or less de
gree all over the United States. An expe
rienced miner said to-day that in Illinois
and Nebraska but little more business was
being done than in Iowa. He thought
freight rates in Iowa were partially respon
sible, but not entirely.
Probably What Cheer has suffered most
from the adoption of the Commissioners'
schedule. That city formerly had the same
rates to Minnesota as were given to Des
Moines and Angus. With the adoption of
the new rates, and the strict adherence
thereto, "What Cheer has been practically
killed. More than 500 men have left for
otHer localities since December 1. Those
who remain find employment bat a portion
of the time.
ANOTHER HE ATI FAILURE.
The Fifth Leather Firm in Boston to Suc
cumb This Year.
SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DtSrATCB.l
Boston, April 1L The Boston leather
trade furnished another disastrous failure
to-day, the liabilities being about $700,000.
The embarrassed firm is that ot Billings &
Eaton, wholesale hide and leather dealers
at 246lE?urchase street Ths failure was a
very great surprise to the leather trade and
to the, "street" generally, and many were,
at first incredulous as to the truth of the re
port that the bouse had assigned. Their
credits stood very high, up to within a few
days, and their paper sold readily at 5 ana
6 per cent with a single indorsement. The
principal creditors are Boston and other
Massachusetts hanks, mainly the former.
The causes of the failure are losses incurred
by the failure of other houses, a depreciation
in valuables, an accumulation of stock on
hand, and the consequent inability to raise
money.
There have been five failures here in the
hide and leather trade since this year came
in, but the losses incurred, by Messrs. Bill
ings & Eaton from the 'failure of other
houses have been comparatively insignifi
cant, and in themselves would have had but
little effect npon Messrs. Hillings .baton.
The main cause oi the embarrassment is the
shrinkage of values. This has been going
on steadily during the past two years, and
has amounted to at least 25 per cent. It has
been reneral. both in this country and in
Europe, and the entire leather trade has felt
its depressing enecc.
MARSHALS AFTER MOONSHINERS.
They Captnred Their Stronghold, bnt All
the'Rlnglcndcj Escaped.
Louisville, April 11. The posse under
United States Deputy larshal B. F. War
neck and Revenue Agent E. M. Brown,
which Btarted from Salyersville ihe first
of this week, has captured the moon
shiner's stronghold on Can's creek, near
Hindman, Ky. The leaders of tbe outlaws
had been warned and had made their
escape. Among these were the two Sloans
and two Adams' who were in the party by
which Deputy Marshal Wireman was way
laid and murdered.
Only five men were captured and sent to
Prestonburg as prisoners, and none of them
were of any importance. The illicit distil
leries in the neighborhood, five in number,
were destroyed and one of them burned.
The Deputy "Marshal's party numbered 21
and a fight was expected, but they met with
no resistance whatever.
A MESMERIC MARRIAGE.
One 15-Year-OId Wife Seeks to Break Ibo
Bonds That Hold Her.
SPECIAL TELIQBAM TO THE DISPATCn.l
DETROIT? AprillL Thomas H. Girardm
and Louis C. Davis, of Detroit, were mar
ried in Windsor on the last of February.
Thirty days afterward Girardin began suit
for divorce, claiming that his wife had in
sisted upon frequenting roller skating rinks
against his will; that she did not love him,
and that two weeks after marriage she took
her clothes and went away.
Mrs. Girardin has filed a crossbill setting
forth that she will not be 15 years old until
next Mav: that Girardin at the time, of their
marriage exercised a control over her which.
she was unaoie to resist, ana witnoui wnicrx
she would never have consented to marry
him. .She denies all his charges. A divorce
is alio asked by the wife, who hints that
she was under mesmeric influence when she
was married.
MURDERED FOR HIS MONET.
A Peddler Brutally Butchered by a Gang: of
Mountain Thieves.
Charleston, W. Va., April 1L Peter
Kellv, a peddler, was murdered in Logan
county last Thursday. He was on his way
home to Sheridan, Lincoln county, where
his wife and three children live, from a tour
through the mountain counties of Eastern
Kentucky, and had a large sum of money,
which the men following him knew.
About dark he was overtaken by several
men and one of them demanded his valua
bles. Kelly showed fight and they shot
him, dragged him from his horse, cut his
throat from ear to ear, took his money and
left his body lying in the road, where it was
found the next morning.
SIX CHILDREN AT A TIME.
A Finnish Father Presented With a Fall
Sized Family.
SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THI DISFA.TCII.1
Febgtjs Falls, Minn., April 1L A
report reaches here from Perham that Mrs.
Anton Bubera, a Finnish woman living
near the small settlement known as New
Vnrfc Mills, this county, has given birth to
six children at one time, and that' three of
them are living.
There is a precedent of four at one birth
in this same settlement Iu the case ot the
quadruplets-, which were born two years ago,
the children lived seven days, but finally
all died from want of proper care.
ANTI-TRUST LAW SUSTAINED.
The Kansas Attorney General Places In
surnnce Companies Under lis Provisions.
Topeka, Kan., Aprilll. The Attorney
General of Kansas has decided that under
the anti-trust law, passed by the last Kansas
Legislature, any combination or agreement
between insurance companies to fix rates, or
to agree upon a division of policies in the
insurance of any property in Kansas,, it
illegal.
PITTSBURG, FRIDAY,
OUT IN THE WELD.
Fourteen Evictions Manage to Pass
Off Without Any Bloodshed.
BUT LITTLE OPPOSITION OFFERED.
Bedridden ' Women and Helpless Little
Babes Turned Into the Road,
Jc
AN INANT SATED BY A BRATE M. P.
v
Sir Charles Enssell Continnes Els Denunciation cf
Tory Landlords.
Fourteen evictions out of 70 families were
successfully made on the Olphert estates
yesterday. No blood was shed and but
little resistance, was offered. Some of the
scenes were heartrending. Mr. Russell con
tinues his eloquent speech and Mr. Glad
stone is an attentive auditor. He speaks
pityingly of Pigott and scornfully of that
deluded man's suborners.
tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
"jLondon, April 11. Copyright Tour
correspondent telegraphs- me from Fal
carragh: The evictions on the Olphert estate
have passed off without bloodshed, thanks
to the utter helplessness of the tenants. The
police having ascertained that the houses
had not been fortified, "eft - the battering
ram and the bulk of their military and civil
forces in reserve in the village, only 60
constables accompanying the Sheriff and his
mien. Throughout the distressing day the
chief danger was incurred by some young
Englishmen, mostly undergraduates from
Oxford University, whose indignation more
than once threatened to bring them into
collision with the police.
The bouses visited were grouped together,
rendering easier the work of the crowbar
brigade. In some instances a feeble attempt
at barricading had been made, but there,
was nothing like the fortifications and fierce
detense whieb. at the end of last year was
described in The Dispatch.
The tenants of the first two houi.es found
themselves on the roadside within half an
hour of the'beginning of the attack. At
the third house the painful monotony of the
proceedings was varied by a vigorous at
tack made npon the Sheriff by the tenant's
wife, who, despite the incumbrance of a
7-weeks-old child in her arms, belabored
the minion of the law with a stick until a
policeman came to the rescue. The poor
woman retreated inside, and clung tena
ciously to the bedpost, whence she was
brutally tonfby two burly bailiffs, the baby
being almost killed in the strnggle. Pat
rick O'Brien,. M. P., at the risk of being
sent to prison for another term .for obstruct
ing the police, rescued the infant, and,
nursed it to sleep with matronly skill,
At tbe fourth' house the bailiffs turned
out a bed-ridden old dame, despite a general
and indignant protest that the exposure
would kill her. Real resistance was offered
only at the last two houses visited, but the
defenses were so feeble that they were soon
broken down and the garrisons, consisting;
all told of one' man. and ten women, were,
sent off to prison. , Fourteen ont of 70
familiea were evicted to-day. s
Mr. William OBrien was taken tokGal
. way to-day. TiiapoBce guard allowed a?
one to converse with the prisoner. Several
town 'commissioners who approached him
were struck by the police with their swords.
One man was seriously injured.
ALWAYS ELOQUENT.
Mr. Russell Continues His Speech to tbe
Commission Sirs. Gladstone an At
tentive Auditor Parnell to
Insist on 'Investigation.
;bt cable to toe dispatch.!
London, April 11. Copyright.
When Mr. Russell resumed his speech to
day the court was crowded, but the quiet
corner seat reserved for Mrs. Gladstone and
occupied by her daily since the commence
ment of the speech was empty. She arrived
soon afterward,thougn,and,as usual,foIlowed
tbe orator with the closest attention, in
order to be able to repeat the chief points
to the Grand Old Man at the evening dinner
table. -
Mr. Russell, continuing the analysis of
the evidence bearing on the American
branch of the case, laid special stress upon
the utter failure of the Times to connect
Mr. Parnell with the extreme factions in
the United States. LeCaron's story was
minutely examined, criticised, and finally
pulverized by an array of facts marshaled
in a novel and convincing form, all tending
to prove that at the time the Irish leaders
were alleged to be hand-iu-jjlove with the
dynamiters, they were laboring earnestly
and successfully to keep the National
movement within strictly constitutional
lines.
Then followed the history of the Invinci
ble conspiracy, with a demonstration of the
worthlessness of Informer Delaney's evir
dence. and a touching reference to the
wretched men, suffering for their part in
that conspiracy and scorning to commit per
jury to obtain an alleviation of the terrible
lot
But all this was practically prefatory to
the great subject of the forged letters, in
dealing with which Mr. Russell was by
tnrns indignant, sarcastic, reproachful, de
nunciatory, and always eloquent There was
a good deal more of pitv than of anger in
his references to Pigott. The fiery denun
ciations were reserved for Pigott's suborners
and the suborners' employers. Behind Hous
ton and the Times, it was more than hinted,
were the cowardly Tory lords and landlords
who formed the so-called Irish Loyal and
Patriotic League, and at the back of them,
perhaps even greater and more highly placed
scoundrels.
The impression conveyed by Mr. Eussell
was thatPamell will insist upon a royal
commission to investigate the conspiracy
should the present tribunal declare such an
inquiry beyond its statutory powers.
AFRAID OF OUR SURPLUS.
England Fears It May be Devoted toSngar
Bounties, to Her Detriment.'
London, April 11. Baron Henry De
Worms introduced the sugar . conven
tion bill " in the House of Commons
this evening. In commenting on
the injurious "effects of bounties he
warned the House that the system might be
extended to other than raw materials; that
America's enormous snrplus might be de
voted to bounties on manufacturers, and
thus destroy the Lancashire industries.
Second reading of the bill was fixed for
May 2. Sir Lyon Playfair gave notice that
he would move the rejection of the measure,.
A BOYCOTT ON B0ULANGER.
He Attends a Ball In Brussels and Is Snubbed
on Every Hand.
Bbtjssels, April 11, Upon the appear
ance of General Boulanger at the soiree
given by M. Somzee. 'last evening, the offi
cials of the French embassy who were pres
ent immediately took their departure. The
Prince DeChltnay, Belgian Minister of For-
Anatrs, and most of tne other members
APRIL IS, 1889.
of the Cabinet declined to be introduced to
General Boulanger. and also departed.
Almost all of the diplomatists present
kept aloof from Boulanger during the even
ing. NOT ANARCHY IN DISGUISE.
W. Ferry Sara Franca Possesses the Means
to Vanquish Bo'nlnngerlsm.
Pabis, April 11. M. Ferry delivered an
address before the National Republican As
sociation this evening. He said that
the election of Boulanger in the
Department ot the Seine had awak
ened the Government and the moderates
who did not'desire their throats cuts. Their
principal fault had been to allow the country
to believe that the Government was an
anarchy in disguise.
The dissension amfhg the parties had now
diminished, and the Republicans possessed
means by which toTanquishBoulangerism.
THB fZAR WOUNDED.
Another Attempt on His Life. Daring Which
He Is Hart bv a Shell.
Btjchabest, April 1L It is rumored
here that an attempt was made npon the life
of the Czar on Sunday last, and that His
Majesty was wounded by an exploding
shell.
The affair is said to have been hushed up
by the Russian authorities. .
LIVELY TIMES AHEAD.
All Sorts of Devices Adopted to Get Into
Oklahoma TJefore tho Crowd A Colli
sion is Feared Between tbe Boomers
and tbe Troops Hill's Plan.
(SPECIAL TELEGBA1I TO THE DI8PATC1I.1
"Wichita, Kas., April U. Oklahoma
Hill will leave to-morrow to establish a
cannon ball stare line in Oklahoma from
'Guthrie to King Fisher. All sorts of
schemes to et into the country before the
22d are being employed and Oklahoma Hill
has had four large flatboafs built with
wbich he proposes to float his outfit down
the Arkansas river to within ten miles oi
the northeast corner of the country and
then strike across and get there before the
crowd. The railroads refusing to handle
freights the fiatboat crowd will carry their
own goods. Hill claims that the river is
navigable and anublic right of war. The
I scHeme has created considerable excitement
here.
The military has no jurisdiction as to the
river, and it can be UBed for1 boating pur
poses. A special from Caldwell says: The city
Council to-day directed Mayor Riley to
write to General Merritt, the commander of
Fort Leavenworth, requesting him to per
mit Oklahoma boomers who are camped
here to move across the Cherokee strip to
the northern line of Oklahoma territory be
fore the 22d inst All they want, the
Mayor says, is an equal chance-with the
crowd that will go in from the south and
west and by the railroads. It will take the
boomers here fully three days to cross the
strip, which is 60 mileswide, while those
who are massed along the southern and.
western lines can settle on the best olaims
within "a few hours after the President's
proclamation goes into effect
Many of the boomers here will leave
Caldwell in the night, Blip past the troopers
who are guarding the Bluff creek bridges,
and then make for the timber in the strip
(by the shortest routes. This move, it is
saia, win oe maae on tne .loic. i uenerai
Merritt refuses to grant Mayor Riley's re
quest it now setmi probable that a dash
into the strip will 16 made by all hands,
and that there will be a collision with the
troopers who will be sent in pursuit.
SITTING OUT A SALOON KEEPER.
How a Parly of Indiana Women Are Hav
ing Their Own Way.
ISFECIAL TELEOLAM TO TOE DISPATCUI
Indianapolis, April 11. The women
of Oakland, this county, are having a
plucky fight with a saloon keeper. They
organized themselves into a committee and
set a watch on the saloon. Tbe women, in
squads of four or five, would go in and take
seats near the bar, keeping a record of every
man who bought a drink. As might be ex
pected, this caused business to drop off con
siderably, and efforts were made to force the
plucky women to leave. One man went so
far as to bring a polecat into the room and
place it under the stove, thinking the odors
would drive the women away.
But these women wonldn't be driven out
by insults, skunk odor or anything else un
til they had accomplished their purpose.
One fainted while "on duty," but she was
true blue and would not give up. Then they
went before tbe grand jury themselves and
caused several indictments to be returned
against the saloon keeper. To-day the latter
was indioted and fined because of defects in
license.
COL. CHURCH ISN'T SATISFIED.
He Wants a New Trial and Is Very Angry
at Judge Pa Kb.
rSPECIAL TELEGEAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Coltjmbus, O., April 11. Colonel S. H.
Church this evening filed a motion in the
Common Pleas Court for a new trial in his
divorce case, setting forth that the court
erred on 'the law and evidence as to the cus
tody of the children. The Colonel states
that he proposes to eihausr every means to
seenre the custody of a part of his children.
The alimony feature of the decision he will
carry to a higher court for adjustment He
is very indignant over the decision of the
judge, and claims that he could not have
been treated more unfairly than he has
been, the judge going so far as to reflect
upon his character where there was no
necessity for so doing.
Colonel Church went to Pittsburg to
night to consult with friends, and also on
business in connection with his position on
the Panhandle.
A FAMILY BURNED UP.
Mrs. Wood and Her Five Children Cre
mated While They Slept.
rSPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCn.l .
Clatton, Ga., April 11. The residence'
of W. P. Wood, two miles north of Clayton,
on tbe Franklin road, was consumed by fire
last night after midnight, and with it his
wife and five chilren. The fire is supposed
to have caught from burning leaves near the
yard, set op. fire the day previous. From
the location of the partially consumed,
bodies of the five children it i thought
they were burned while in bed, just in -the
position in which they were sleeping. What
remained of tbe body of the mother was
found midway between the bed and the
door, near the middle of the house.
Mr. Wood is a carpenter and millwright,
and was at the time at work on a mill for
Mr. Jones, six miles away. The oldest,
child was about 8 and the youngest about 2
years old.
PREFERS TO BE KI0KED OUT.
An Office Holder Who Refuses to Vacate
on a Mere Hint.
Washington, April 11. Mr. Jerome
B. Burke, chief of tbe Gazette division in
the Patent Office, has been notified by the
Commissioner of Patents that if he tendered
his resignation it would be accepted. Mr,
Burke, however", declines to resign, and de
clares his intention to allow the commis
sioner to dismiss hinf if he so desires.-
Mr. Burke is a Grand Army man, and
was at one time the Commander of the
FotomajiG. A. E, .
CAN'T EE A SUCCESS.
Ward McAllister Says the Centennial
. Ball Will be a Failure,
SINCE HE ISN'T TO CONDUCT IT.
His Misunderstanding With Committeeman
Fish Spoils All, and
IT WAS TO HATE BEEN SUCH A BEAUTT.
Kow He's Only Floor Manager, Where He Bhonla
Beceire the President
Ward McAllister is out "for keeps" with
the management of the Centennial inaugur
ation ball and banquet He is now simply
floor manager of the ball. Of that position
he has not yet been robbed. He takes his
involuntary retirement coolly, but is sorry
the affair cannot be the success be would
have made it
ISFECIAL TELIGKA3I TO TBS DISFATCH.l
New Yobk, April 11. Mr. Ward Mc
Allister said to-night to a Dispatch re
porter that he had no quarrel whatever with
the Centennial Entertainment Committee,
it was with Mr. Fish only. It was quite a
different account that Mr. McAllister
gave of the times when he was re
quested to resign and did not,
from that given out by Mr. Fish several
days ago. The first meeting, be said, was
at a club. Mr. McAllister had been selling
ball tickets npon the order of the commit
tee. He had received the money and given
the purchasers receipts. Mr. Fish demanded,
as chairman, that he 'give up the ch'ecks.
Mr. McAllister refused, saying that he
had made contracts in tbe committee's name
with the people who purchased of him, who,
until he formally reported to the committee,
could hold him liable. There were some
words, and Mr. Fish exclaimed:
"Yon are in rebellion, sir, to this commit
tee. I demand your resignation."
"I will resign, sir," said Mr. McAllister,
haughtily, "with pleasure at the commit
tee's request, but not at yours, sir,"
THE SCENE EEPEATED.
The second occasion was before the com
mltteef and McAllister answered precisely
in the same words to Mr. Fish's second de
mand for his resignation.
"But sir," said Mr. McAllister to-night,
"the committee never asked me to resign; so
I did not I never would resign at that
man's command, and I haven't The com
mittee can do as he chooses in robbing me
of power, but I shall not take commands
from him in his personalfcapacity."
"Is this personal difference such as to
continue after the centennial?" asked the
reporter.
"Really," said Mr. McAllister, "I must
decline to discuss my relations with the
man. Mr. McAllister said tbat he chal
lenged Mr. Fish or anyone else to name a
single arrangement adopted for the ball
that had not been proposed by him.
"From the selection of the opera house to
the changes -to be made in it," said he, "the
dinner, the supper, the novel arrangement
of tbe tables, tne opening quadrille, all the
cnief features are my conception. I desired
to make the ball not only the
MOaVXAONIFICEKI THina
America ever saw, but a cordial manifesta
tion oi respect for the memory of Washing
ton by the. classes and the masses. It is all
out of my hands now, and I don't know
what either ball or banquet will be. They
will not, of coarse, be what I would have
made them, for though those now in charge
of the events have my written plans to work
npon, they have hot my innate ideas. The
matter is outof my hands."
"What is your exact function now?"
asked the reporter.
"I am floor manager of the ball; that's
all."
"And what- is your position with regard
to the banquet?"
"Really I don't know," laughed Mr. Mc
Allister. "Will you tell me what your conception
of the ball and banquet were?" asked the
reporter.
Mr. McAllister leaned back in bis chair,
and partly closing his eyes, regaled the re
porter with the following description of
THE BALL AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
The ball was the'culmlnatlon of the hope of
years. I saw in it the long-cheristied chance of
my lifetime. I have seen many great balls
abroad, and great dinners, too balls and din
ners such as this country never dreamed of. I
longed to make a ball after my own conception.
I would have given tbe handsomest ball ever
seen on this continent if I had been left alone.
Neither Mr. Fish nor Mr. Gerry has the slight
est conception of ball-giving. They have told
me so. It requires a peculiar talent to given
brilliant ball, you must know. As I have
said, I have ' been to balls abroad. I
have attended the brilliant fortnightly
balls of the Dulre of Tuscany, those balls,
yon know, of which they said the intervening
periods were spent only in preparation for the
next. I have attended many of the Emperor
of Austria's superb balls, and many, many
others. I had formed a conception of a mighty
ball of 10.000, based upon experience of these.
I saw this centennial ball in my mind had it
pictured there to its smallest particular. I saw
the surging masses, never quiet for 1 meant to
put the campagne on one sidethe room and the
refreshments on the other, to keep
the great kaleidoscope ever moving. I saw
in my Imagination the greatest ceremonial
the country has seen, in the entrance of the
President I had planned it to its smallest de
tail. I saw tbe opening quadrille in its every
movement a magnificent thing, as magnificent
to the eye as to tbe fancy and last of
all, tbe grand cotillion. Each detail was
to be like the best similar detail among all the
great foreign balls I had ever seen. Tbe com
mittee has my main ideas. No one knows bow
they will work out though through other minds
than mine.
THE PLANS EOE THE BANQUET.
"Now take the banquet. Ail tbe adopted
plans are mine. That beautiful arrangement
of tables, ring within ring, has never been seen
before in this country. It has been used-in ths
great dinners of Hamburg. It was the form in
which the guests sat down to that world
famous dinner given by tbe Emperor of Russia
to the Emneror of Prussia. It Is called the
"Grecian Border." It is beautiful, is it not? It
grows upon you. I imagine tbat scene. Beau
tiful! I got the Idea and description' from
Bradley Martin, from a dinner wblch he gave
in Edinburgh. Tbe details of that dinner, so
placed, stand ont in ray mind.
"The first dlfficnl ty I had to contend with was
with the Metropolitan Opera House corridors.
They are narrow. Imagine the stately Presl
dental party squeezing into the supper room
throngh a narrow comdor getting its first
view of tbe tables in that way. My Meal was
tbe dinner that the Emperor Napoleon III.
gave the King of Sardinia at tbe Hotel De
Ville. They descended upon the dining room
from above. Imagine thst the stately royal
party the dming room. Tbat was my idea. I
studied the Opera House and decided npon a
ruse 1 0s accomplish the effect. I would have
the Presidental party ascend to the floor above
by flower-strewn and scarlet-carpeted stairs,
from tbe outer corridor advance to the
balcony front where I would place a plat
form, the view from which wonld sweep the
supper room to Seventh avenue, with all its
charming detail of tables and boxes. From
there they turn, and Before the remembrance
of the scene had left their minds, they have
descended by another fileht, passed the narrow
corridors, and entered the room. tTbe effect
of tbe descent Is accomplished.
"So I had evecy detail of both events vividly
in my mind. We will see how the committee
manages the detail of the dinner nf 800. Mr.
Fish might give a Liederkranz. We will see
what he wilt do with 10,XXV"
Practical Sympathy far Parnell.
Scbanton, April 11. Three thousand
dollars was raised at a meeting here to
night for the Parnell fond.
EAST
AltO
WEST
AEM0UB STILL ON TOP.
The Chief Officers of the American Meat
Company SammarHy Withdraw A
Vast Amount of Indignation
i Over the Proceedings.
New Yobk, April 11. Late this after
noon Wall street operators and. investors
generally were amazed at the notice of with
drawal issued by John H. Davis & Co., who
had been receiving subscriptions to the
stock of the American Meat Company, a
gigantic concern owning nearly 2,000,000
acres of land and controlling all the neces-
sary plant to supply meat in large quanti
ties. The subscriptions had poured in in a
volume exceeding thebankers' estimate, one
party alone, subscribing for $500,000, and the
prospects for competing with the Armour
interests became very bright
The Armours, however, are heavy cus
tomers of the product of the American
Cottonseed Trnst, and they are said at once
to have brought pressure to bear on the
Cottonseed Trust to stifle the threatened
competition in the meat business; This
was a vulnerable spot in the development of
the meat company, for President Flagler
and Treasurer Moss, of the Cottonseed
Trust, were respectively President and
Vice President of the American Meat Com
pany. That the pressure was powerful was
shown when to-day Flagler and Moss re
signed their offices in the meat company,
and John H. Davis & Co., the bankers for
the concern, issued a card, which is given
on the financial page of The Dispatch.
Subscriptions were also rejected in Phila
delphia, Boston. Baltimore and Pittsburg,
where Books had been opened. This action,
under the circumstances, is unprecedented.
The fact that the enterprise was stifled sim
ply in the interests of Armour has caused
indignation everywhere.
EASTERN" GLASSXEN MEET.
They Decide Not to Change tbe Date of
the Annual Shat-Dawn.
(SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO TUB DISFATCHJ
New Yobk, April 11. The Eastern As
sociation of Glass Manufacturers held its
quarterly meeting in the Astor House to
day. It was decided to change back the
date for their annual shut-down of the glass
works from June 15 to Tuly 1. They say
that they do not care to -have their reason
for this action made public. It is said by
one of the manufacturers that July 1 had
become so firmly fixed in tbe minds of the
glassmen for shutting down that if the date
was left at June 15 some manufacturers
might forget the date and keep their people
at work, to the disadvantage of the others.
Tbe Jersey glass manufacturers came up
fall of testimony concerning the wicked
ness of Master Workman Coffey, of District
Assembly 149, of the Knights of Labor.
The Jersey men said that they thought the
best place for Master Workman Coffey was
behind prison bars, and they wanted the
other glass manufacturers to help put him
there. The Jersey men got cold comfort
They were told that the present was no time
to raise a row with Mr. Coffe.
It was settled that the annual meeting is
to be held at the Windsor Hotel, this city,
in July,
DESPERATE THIETES
Who Were Only Captnred After a Very
Lively Running Fight.
SPECIAL TEL tapAM TO THE DISPATCHl
New Yobk, April 11. Special Police
man George Hoyt, of East Orange, while
working in the rear of his residence, on
Everett street, saw two strangers who ex
cited his suspicions, stop and sit down on
the- bank of tbe river. Hoyt approached
them, and, after talking to them a few
minutes, picked up a new overcoat which
one of them had laid on the bank. It ap
peared to be fall of plunder and Hoyt made
up his mind that they were thieves.
Going back to his house he got a revolver
and asked William Smith, a foreman in a
neighboring factory, to accompany him.
Together they went to the river and told the
strangers they were under arrest One of
the men instantly drew a revolver and told
Hoyt and his companion to keep off. After
a long and exciting chase in a milk wagon
and the firing of many shots, one of the
thieves was captured and the other escaped.
LIFE HELLVLIGHTLY.
Two Men Quarrel Over a Well and Draw
Blood Instead of Water.
SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH.l
Des Moines, April 1L Yesterday even
ing Herman Smith shot and fatally wounded
his brother-in-law, John McNabb. Both
men are married and live on a farm near
Sigourney and use water out of the same
well. They have been quarreling over some
property and were at swords-points. The
well is on John's ground, and yesterday he
prohibited his sister, Smith's wife, lrom
using water from it.
Smith came from work yesterday and
found no supper on account of McNabb's
order. Smith started out for the well with
the bucket in one hand and a six-shooter in
the other, and was met by McNabb with a
revolver in each hand. The neighbors
heard six shots, and McNabb received three
wounds. Death ensued to-day. Smith is
under arrest
FRANK RINGO'S FALL.
The Popular Baseball Plavcr Takes Mor
phine A Slave to Drink.
Kansas City, April 11. Frank Eingo,
one of the catchers of the Kansas City
Baseball Club, swallowed an enormous
quantity of morphine this afternoon, 'and
at 10:30 o'clock to-night is in a dangerous
condition. After eight months of total ab
stinence he began drinking about two weeks
ago, and has continued it ever since.
Ringo is one of the best-known ball
players in the profession, as well as one of
the most popular. He has played in De
troit, Pittsburg and Philadelphia, bat has
of late years become a slave to drink. His
parents are respectable and well-to-do resi
dents of this city, and he was married only
a few months ago. Much sympathy is ex
pressed for him here for his relatives. He
stated to one of his physicians that he had
taken 40 grains of morphine.
A BATTLE ON THE LAKE.
The Authorities Uavo Sent an Expedition to
Cnptnre That Saw Mill.
St. Ignace, Mich., Apri" 11. At 10
o'clock this morning the tubs Saugatuck
and Cuyler, having on board United
States Marshal Waters, of Grand
Rapids; Sheriff McKenzie, of the
"Soo," and Sheriff Melvier and 30
deputies from here, all heavily armed,
left this port to capture the barges having
the Moiles Brothers' mill aboard, and a des
perate conflict between the opposing factions
is feared.
The barges are now lying behind Trout
Island in American waters. Tbey are badly
cut by ice, and the captains are afraid to
venture out into.the lake with them.
OKLAHOMA OR BUST.
A Boomer's Wngon That Bears the Becord
of a Wonderful Trip.
fSPECTAL TXLIGBUOt TO THE DISPATCH.l
Kansas City, April 11. A wagon
passed through .this city this afternoon,
which bore the following words on its can
vas cover:
Chintz Baged in Illinois, Siclnned:
;ln Newbrasks, White Capped in:
:lndiana, Bald Knobbed in Mis-:
:soury. Prohibited In Kansas. :
: OKLAHOHY OR BUST. :
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BISHOP FHELAIr STANDS WITH HIM
Rev. Father Sheedy and Father Wall
Pleased With the Latest
ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE GREAT ISSUB
The Catholic Church authorities now take
an everr more emphatic position against
Constitutional amendmend. When The
Dispatch's special, commissioner inter
viewed Archbishop Ryan on the subject
two months ago, he showed plainly where
he stood. That Interview led to so much
inquiry from Catholics all over the State0,
that the Archbishop himself wrote an arti
cle in the Catholic Total Abstinence S'etcs,
confirming what he told The' Dispatch
representative. Now he finds it necessary
to substantiate what he then wrote, and in
doing this the prelate makes some very slg
nificant remarks.
A dispatch.from Philadelphia last night
says:
In the Catholic Standard of this week ap
pears rfi statement regarding the position of
Archbishop Ryan and his recent utterances on
the Prohibition amendment. It is as follows:
"His Grace, the Most Reverend Archbishop
of Philadelphia, has received a number of let
ters asking for information on the subject of
prohibition, and particularly as t whether his
letter published in the C. T. A. Sews of this
city is to be regarded as an authoritative of
ficial utterance, or simply as the expression of
His Grace's individual omnion. His Grace,
finding it inconvenient to reply to all these let
ters separately, has requested ns to publish ths
following statement, which he hopes will be
accepted as a general answer to the various in
quiries that have been made:
HOW HE LOOKS AT IT.
"In reply to various letters of inquiry, the
Archbishop of Philadelphia begs to state that
what he wrote on tbe subject of tbe prohibi
tion amendment to the Constitution was lim
ply his personal conviction, although, of
course.it is well understood that in dealing;
with such questions it is difficult for a Catholio
Bishop to separata his personality from his
sacred office.
"The liberty of Catholics-to vote for the
measure wilj depend on the principles on which
they found their convictions. Some of thai
principles urged in the literature of prohibi
tion, such as the one tbat the; use of spirituous
liquors, even as a beverage, is intrinsically
wrong, and should be always prohibited, can
not be held by Catholics. It is only the abuse,
not the use, tbat can be condemned. If tho
use and abase be inseparably connected be
cause of the appetite created by indulgence in
an Individual ease, then the use itself should
be prohibited in such a case- As he cannot
think that this is true of the whole State of
Pennsylvania, and as we have strongrestrictivo
laws, and can enact stm stricter ones, he is up
able to see the need of a Constitutional amend
ment on the subject. In any case, be feels
tbat mere legislation can but regulate overt
"acts, tbe external manifestation of the evil.
"The true remedy must be found In appeal to
the individual conscience, as- in our Catholic
temperance societies, wbich are also religious
organizations."
BISHOP PHELAN APPBOVES IT.
A reporter of The Dispatch called upon a
number of the Catholic clergy of this city, and,
showing them the telegram, asked them
what they thought of the manifesto, RtRev.
Bishop Phelan was first seen, at his residence
on Sherman avenue, Allegheny. He said:
"The Archbishop clearly defines his views In
regard to the subject, and tbey are the same
as tbe officials of tbe Catholic Church have
m rom time to time made public It is simply an
empuauc rciLcrauuii 01 wuat .nis uince saia
some time ago, ana there Is no way of miscon
struing his language. We cannot tell the peo
ple of the church to vote for or against the
prohibitory amendment. It is a matter for
each individual mind to settle for himself, andt
the church is not concerned in it. Not only
are the laity of tbe church supposed to follow
the dictates of their own conscience, but the"
clergy are expected to act and vote in what
ever manner they see fit. My own personal
views are of no consequence. What was sup
posed to be my sentiment in re gard to the
amendment was published some time ago.
Whether they were or were not my views does
not concern anyone. I think the letter of ths
Archbishop is as plain as anyone would want
it. It can be understood by every Catholic
who wants to understand it, and he can then
go and do as he likes about it."
MOEB APPBOBATION.
Rev. Morgan M. Sheedy, pastor of St Mary's
of Mercy Chnrcb, and Vice President of the
national organization of the Catholic total ab
stinence societies, said:
"There is no explanation of the letter neces
sary. It is a very clearcut document, and I
think anybody can understand it The Arch
bishop's views have been published from time
to time, but some persons evidently have been
trying to misconstrue what be has said."
"What does tbe part about it being difficult
for a Catholic bishop tn separate his personality
from his sacred office mean? Can that not be
construed to have some bidden meaning?"
"No; I think tbat is explicit enough. It sim
ply means tbat the individual opinion or utter
ances of any bishop or priest at the bead of a
diocese would be used to good effect by some
people in influencing others to bold
similar views. On account ot the large
following the Archbishop has there
wonld be a great many people guided
bywhatbe says. Tbe reason be will not take
one side or tbe other is tbat be does not wish,
anybody to be influenced by bis course I have
said before tbat the only real solution of the
?uestion is tbe education of the young up to it,
f the appetite of men was taken out of their
children before tbey grew up every one would
be a Prohibitionist In himself. If the idea is in
culcated in children that the abuse of liquor
is harmful they will not touch It at all when
they grow up to be men and women."
FATHEB WALL'S CONVICTIONS.
Very Rev. Fath, er Wall, rector of St. Panl'g
Cathedral, said:
"I have not read the Archbishop's recent let.
ter, but I know what his views are. The
church cannot take hola of the matter and tell
people how to vote. I do not believe that you
can legislate against a man's appetite. Sup
pose we have a prohibitory law, will Itprevent
drinking by those who crave liquor? It might
be a good thing if it was enforced and
it would surely do no harm to give It a trial. I
am not a teetotaler myself, but I am satisfied
that I could get along without tasting liquor.
My Idea of the whisky business is that the Gov
ernment should see tbat nothing but good
whisky was manufactured and the sale of it be
placed in tbe hands of responsible persons. As
the law stands now, if a man has SoOO he can
get a license. Very often the responsible and
respectable person cannot get a license for the
reason that he has not ths 3500. and vice versa.
"As far as giving our views in the hope that
people will be guided by what we say the
church has nothing whatever to do. We nave
our temperance societies in the churches and
preach temperance among our people. I think
tbe amendment can take care of itself. If onr
people want to vote for it that is their business
not ours."
INDORSE THE AMENDMENT.
The Association of Disciple Churches ts
Fight for Temperance.
The Association of Disciple Churches of this
vicinity closed its semi-annual meeting last
evening at McKeesport Robert Latimer, ot
this city, presided. By a unanimous rising vote
the convention indorsed tbe prohibition amend
ment. Kev. W. F. Cinden, who for four and a half
years has been pastor ot tbe Disciples Church,
of Alleghenyrand who has done a very success
ful work there, terminated his connection with
the association. Mr. Cinden has resigned his
charge to take the superintendency ot the
homo mission work of the denomination in Da
kota and Washington territories. He expects
to leave for bis new field of operations the Ut
ter part ot May.
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