!"f-jFFv rB" JJWS ?. -c JTS5 f? W" ? : T A Determined Fight Being Waged for Two Home Rule Members, s WITH THE CHANCES EVEN. HITTING EM HARD 5 Sugar Speculation Crowding Politics in England to the Wall. SEW FORMS OF FEMALE DISSIPATION. Miss Mary Aodenan Recover Her Health X.ondon and Paris Women Smoking; Tea Cignrettes The Duchess or Cambridge Burled With Considerable Qolct Pomp Tbc Saltan a had and Bnnkrupt fcpend thrift Lancashire Cotton Folks See Ruin to Them in Chenp Indian labor Competition Young Kniser Wllhelm Fond of Display and Bright Colors The House of Parliament Too Poorly Venti lated for Health or Work. Two important elections Trill take place in England to-morrow and Tuesday. Both Liberals and -Tories are confident, but the chances seem to favor the latter. However, their opponents say they Trill convict them of -wholesale briberv if they do. The -women of London and Paris have found a new form of dissipation in tea cigarettes, which they smoke frequently. Miss Mary Anderson shows no signs of illness. Sugar speculation is catching a good many English brokers short. IBT CABLE TO THE DISrATCH. LONDON, April 13. Copyright Poll ing for Central Birmingham will take place on Monday, and the next day the electors of Rochester -will record their votes. The sangnine Liberals cherish the hope that they may win both seats, and if they do so, the effect on the Tories will be crush ing, bnt the electoral statisticians consider the chances at Birminsham even, and at Rochester decidedly in favor of the Tories. Most of the leaders of the Tory party in Birmingham are working with apparent en thusiasm for Chamberlain's nominee, young Albert Bright, but the rank and file con tinue to sulk, and it they should abstain from voting to any considerable extent the seat will be won for home rule. The Lib eral "Unionists have been showing scant re gard for the susceptibilities of their Tory allies. Only yesterday Albert Bright pre sented them with another disagreeable pill to swallow by announcing that he wonld strenuously oppose their Government's pet project for increasing the strength of the navy. Imagine the mortification of a blood-and-glory Tory who is compelled to support a "peace-at-any-price" Quaker! The Tories have only one thing to comfort them, but that can be enjoyed only after election. If Bright wins they will claim the whole credit of the victory; if the Glad Etonian be successful they will prove it due to their refusal to support the Unionist can didate. They are whooping things up in Roches ter in a fashion that would cause the elec tioneers of the flamboyant West and savage South to hide their dimantled heads in shame. The crown for abuse, scandal and war goes to Rochester. The local newspapers teem with violent and brutal personalities. Nearly all the editors in the place have been assaulted. The local mag nates are punching one another's noses with unquenched and unquenchable enthusiasm, in the broad light of day, and the local law yers have baa no time to think of politics, owing to the prodigious demands for writs and summons for libel and assault and bat tery. The Liberals believe that whether they win or lose, they will be able to con vict the Tories of wholesale bribery. A SPENDTHRIFT SULTAN. 910067 Borrowed by His Tizier Squandered in High Living. IBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1 London, April 13. The discontent in Turkey is becoming very serious, writes your correspondent at Peru. The officials, especially in the remoter provinces, having received no salaries for nearly two years, are screwing every possible piaster out of the wretched taxpayers, and not half of the proceeds finds its way into the imperial treasury. The army officers and men alike are clamoring loudly for some of their arrears of Day, and their atti tude is at times so threatening as to afford a justification for the fears of military rebel lion which the Ministers are known to en tertain. Meanwhile the Sultan calmly exacts the uttermost farthing due to him, end goes on with his pleasures, with Oriental indifference to the hard fate ol his unhappy subjects. For a week past he has been spending money even faster than his complaisant Ministers could collect it, and there are rumors that the Gr.md Tizier has had to contract a private loan at exorbitant interest. There is some excuse, however, for His Majesty's recent extravagance. There have just been four marriages in his extensive family, husbands having been found for his eldest daughter, aged 14 years, and three nieces, aged 14, 15 and 16, respectively For a week past there has been continuous feasting at the Vildiz Kiosk, and His Majesty has been phenomen ally gay. Every evening he has personally presided at a banquet, served in European style. He has winked at the liberal provision of champagne and other wines for the invited Christian guests, and it is rumored that he privately tasted some of the choice burgundy and pro nounced it good. For 15 days the royal cooks have been working almost night and day, and what with wedding presents, dowries and ban quets, it is estimated that the Sultan has spent in less than a fortnight more than a million dollars. FEMALE DISSIPATIONS. London and Paris Women Smoking- Tea ' Cigarettes and Taking Morphine. fBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.3 LONDON, April 13. The ingenuity of the -women of London and Paris in invent ing new dissipations is without limit. To the morphiue habit the devotees of sensa tionalism have now added the practice of smoking tea cigarettes. Special grades of finest tea are used, and Ihe effect ol the cigarettes is said to be delight ful for fully an hour after one has. been -smoked. After that comes the reaction, in the form of a nervous trembling and excitability which is but subdued, according to a woman of title who rather goes in for all these things, by a thimbleful of frozen absinthe. Thus, by industriously ringing the changes on mor phine, tea, cigarettes and absinthe, with a few intrigues, some scandal and a raft ot white-hot French novels, the woman of society manages to worry through the day. success abroad is not due to her naturalness -and health. There is lack of ruddy cheeks iinXtfndoa now. The riding school are empty, and the people who run the gym nasiums where women formerly fenced and exercised assert that the craze is now over. Perhaps it has gone to America. At all events, there is no such disease as morphine omania there, though it is a recognized and -widely prevalent ailment here. SUGAR ON THE JUMP. Politics In England Driven to the Wall by Speculation In Sweets. ;bt cable to tux dispatch. London, April 13. Sugar has suddenly pushed politics to the wall. To-day every business man in London is talking about it, but the seat of war is elsewhere. Your Greenock correspondent telegraphs this afternoon that all the sugar brokers and refiners are wildly excited at the unsettled condition of the market, which they attribute partly to the reports of deficient crops in Cuba, the West Indies and South America, and partly to the fact which now seems beyond doubt, that all the beet sugar in Europe is in the hands of a few people who are strong enough to wait for a considerable rise. Thousands of tons of sugar have been recently sold in Greenock which had no existence, the sellers speculating on an average crop. Thev have become frightened already, and are trying to buy it back before the expected big rise shall come and overwhelm them. Stocks on the Clyde are now about half what they were at the same period last year. A cablegram just received from New York puts the total stock in America at only 46, 000 tons, and it is estimated here that the stock for the whole world is about 300,000 tons lest than at this time last year. Yes terday 6,000 tons were purchased at Magde burg by one American firm at an advance of $7 50 a ton over Thursday's prices. "When the Clyde market opened this morning the buyers made desperate efforts to purchase at 9 pence advance over yesterday's prices, but the sellers smiled disdaintully, and their faith was soon rewarded by a jump of 1 shilling, at which point thev sold a large quantity. Just before the market closed there were a few transactions at an advance of 1 shilling and 9 pence on the day. Every thing on sale was bought up, and the gen eral opinion of the largest brokers is that the upward movement will continue on Monday, and that the prices will not re cede below the present figures until the re sult of the next'season's crop is known. Probably the wildest and most reckless gamblers in the world are in London, de spite the traditional conservatism of the English people. At short intervals the rage for speculation breaks out in one form or another. This time it looks like sugar. MARY ACTERSON WAS HOMESICK. The Beastly Climate of London Preferred By Her to America. ' rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.! London, April 13. The irony of Mary Anderson's assertion that she has come to dear London on account of jts climate is ex-i( quisitc w ny any one should come to Lon don for health, when there is room to bur row in the soft and muggy ooziness of a misty Newark mnd swamp, is inexplicable. That part of London which is not reeking with the spine-chilling sweat of a perpetual black fog, -wallows under a perennial coat of black mud. Actors can scarcely be heard at the theaters on account of the bone-racking coughing of the audiences, while the snort of the sudden and snorting sneeze rattles over the length and breadth ot the metropo lis. That portion of London which does not use torches to guide it abont the streets at midday is lying ill at home from every ailment known to a most unruly and dis tempered climate, at this season of the year to be found on earth. Miss Anderson, when I saw her to-day, was radiant amid the general gloom. She is stopping with Baroness Von Hugel, and has been receiving her English friends all day. There are absolutely no signs of ill health, mental or physical, to be detected by the casual visitor. Miss Anderson speaks kindly of America, but her heart is evidently here. London society has wel comed her with open arms, whereas New York has been taciturn, reluctant and reserved. Hence, in the slang of the day, New York is not in the movement, as far as Miss Anderson's affections are concerned. TOO WAEM FOE WORE. The Ventilation of the Houso of Parlia ment Severely Criticised. CBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, April 13. The spectacle of a large and usually genial man rising in the House of Parliament and making a piteous appeal to his fellow members to lower the temperature so that he can retain what is left of his hair, is diverting. Mr. Ohea says he has become bald and his beard has growifgrayas the result of. the infernal heat tf the House. Everybody complains, but nothing is accomplished. The ventilation is wretched. Last nizht, for example, the thermometer stood at 65 Fahrenheit in the private members'lobby.at 72 in the strang ers' gallery and at 77 in the ladies'gallery, the dining room and the library. Sir "Wal ter Foster, a medical member, says this is really sick-room temperature, and main tains" that for work the thermometer should never register higher than 50. It is not generally "known that the Minis ters and ex-Mi nisters literally sit over a figantic refrigerator, which 'discharges lasts of icy air through a sieve arrange ment under the table just in front of the Speaker's chair. It is not surprising, there fore, that Leader Smith should be attacked with a chill, Goschen and Balfour laid up with colds, Mr. Gladstone attacked with hoarseness, and Mr. Mundella with the mumps. A PRIVATE BURIAL WITH POMP. Tbe Dncbess ot Cambridge Laid In the Tomb of Her Royal Fathers. CBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, April 13. The late Duchess of Cambridge was buried to-day in the little church at Kew, beside the remains of her husband, who died 40 years ago. The cere mony was supposed to be private and sim ple, but there was a good deal of publicity and a fair amount of pomp. The finest figure in the procession was not the Queen, nor the Prince of Wales, but General Gre ville, carrying, on a gorgeous bullion-covered cushion, the suoerb jewel-flashing coronet of the dead Princess. The funeral would have taken place earlier, but for some unaccountable reason. The ordinary pattern of a royal outer coffin of what court undertakers keep a lew in stock was discarded for a huge oaken casket with exceptionally heavy brass and ormolu fittings, which could not be finished until last evening. When the three inner coffins .had been placed in the casket, the whole weighed a quarter of a ton. . EUIN IN CHEAP LABOR. Lancashire Cotton People Not In Lore With Salisbury's Policy. rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, April 13. The Government ol India have decided it is a good thing for men, women and little children to slave night and day and Sundays in the India cotton mills, and they decline to interfere. The Lancashire cotton people, who are largely Tories, say they will ioon be ruined by Indian cheap labor, and lay the blame on Lord Salisbury. The row may develop, and perhaps lose the Government a few of the many Torv seats in Lancashire. GOING TO CDT A DASH. The Young German Emperor Fond of Pomp and Display. CBT CABLE TO THE SISrATCB.) London, April IS. When the imperial German mourning terminates, the young Kaiser Wilhelm'f court will become the most gorgeous in Europe, His Majesty has -THE ordered that the court dress shall comprise knee breeches, buckle shoes, a three-cornered hat, and colors presumably ad lib. and ac cording to individual fancy. This fondness of Wilhelm for splendor is inherent in him. It is but a development of his rigorous love for brilliant and showy uniforms. Tbe personal equipment of some of the officers of the Kaiser's great army to-day would abash the most fantastic and decorative dreams of Beau Brummel himself. When the craze for gaudy trappings reaches the court there is ground lor the hope that the German women may take it ud. At present the women of "Berlin eniov Hhe reputation of being the worst dressed in all .Europe. STILL A DABK MYSTERY. Nothing Yet Henrd From the mining Crew otthe Doomed Denmark There Is Yet IIope Thnt Thev Are Saved In quiries of Anxious Friends. New Yoek, April 13. The steamer Ice land, which belongs to the same line of steamers with the Denmark, which has been reported abandoned, has arrived here, but brings no news of the latter vessel. On board of her are many of the steerage pas sengers who- intended to sail on the Den mark, but through delay that proved for tunate for them they had to wait for the Iceland. A dispatch to Lloyds from Copenhagen states that the steamer Denmark had on board 628 passengers and 54 officers and crew. Another dispatch from Copenhagen, however, states that. there was on board the sseamer 368 passengers from Copenhagen, 131 from Christian, 79 from Christiansand, 75 from Malmo and 54 from Gottenburg. There were 26 cabin passengers on board, including five children. The balance were steerage passengers, and practically all of them were emigrants. The agents of the steamer, which is by this time probably on the bed of the ocean, are still hopeful that some passing vessel may have taken off the passengers and crew. No other steamers have arrived with any news of having fallen in with drifting boats, and this increases the hope that some steamship has rendered timely assistance and taken the shipwrecked passengers and their boats all on board. . Telegrams are ar riving every hour at the office of the agents, asking for "information concerning friends who were to be on the steamship. One came from Omaha from S. D. Barkelow, asking if Bernadita Persow, of Malmo, Sweden, was a passenger. A glance at the list re vealed the fact that she was. A great number ot people, who by this time had expected to greet their friends, lin ger around the door of the passenger office anxions to hear tidings and yet fearful that the news may reach them may blast all hopes of ever seeing their friends again. They scan the countenances of all who go in and out as if they would try and learn it they had reason to hope. A dispatch from London says: Captain Bond, of the Inman Line steamer City of Chester, which sighted the abandoned steamer Denmark, believes that the passen gers and crew of the Denmark were res cued. He bases his belief on the fact that the Denmark's boats were gone. A chain cable was seen hanging over the bow of the Denmark, and this leads Captain Bond to believe that she had been in tow of anotner YesseL BIG BLAST FURNACES To be Built at SIcKeesport This Summer A Million-Dollar Company Formed Yes terday. The Monongahela Furnace Company, which was organized recently, has just pur chased 21 acres of ground in McKeesport, on whichYthey will build several blast furnaces. The capital stock of the new con cern is $l,Q0d,000, and the amount paid for the ground is !S76,000. The property was purchased from Messrs. Coursin & Drew, SaO ford C. Clark and the White estate, and is located in the Third ward. The companyjwill apply for a charter this week and work will be commenced on the construction of the plant as soon as it is granted. Two of -f he largest blastfurnaces in the world will be built at once, and the plant will be increased to four or six in a short time. These furnaces will turn out when completed about 350 tons of pig metal each every 24 hours and will be in opera tion abont next fall. V The new concern con templates the purchase of the Edith furnace in Allegheny. Among the members of the new company are: Horace Crosby nnd'tC. L O'Connor, of Pittsburg; John H. Flagler, of New York; Joseph R. Jackson, ot this city, and E. C. Converse, qf New York. The directors of the new company consist of the above named capitalists, in connec tion with Edmond W. Converge, of Boston, W. S Eaton and D. W. Hitchcock, of Chicago. Other capitalists of McKeesport. Pittsburg, Boston, New York and the West make up the big company, who expect to find a market in Pittsburg,' McKeesport and also the West for their product. . The com pany will give employment to a large num ber of men. ) AN OHIO GUSHER. S The Largest Oil Well In tbe Oh$o Field Slrnrk YesterdsT. I rSPECIAL TELEOEAM TO THE DISPATt FrNDliAY, April 13. Smith & who own a lease on 18 acres of the farm, a mile south of North Baltimort evening drilled in the largest oil well yet obtained in the Ohio field. The drill p,ene- trated the sand about 5 o'clock, whenithe oil made such a terrible rush as to driver the workmen from the scene. It did 125 barVels perhourall day to-day, and nothing indicates diminution in tbe capacity. This will give new impetus to drilling tin tbe Wood county Held, which had been re ported as losing its value as regards oil. A Busy Night. The patrol wagon on the Southside bail more runs last night than any time since l was put into service. The wagon answerei 23 calls between 8 and 11 o'clock, and 28 prisoners were focked up in the Twenty eighth ward station house in that time. At 10:30, while the wagon was making its twenty-first trip, tbe team gave out on South Twenty-second street, and the day team had to be called into service. That Same Old Game. George Watson, a resident of New Castle, was buncoed out of $10 a few days ago by two men. He was taken to the Pennsylva nia freight depot where No. 1 had a freight bill due. He offered a check, which No. 2, who acted as a clerk, refused. Watson save No. 1 $40, who in turn gave $38 to No. 2. Both then disappeared. Cut In a Fight. A young colored man named Smith, who resides on Webster avenue and works in Clark's mill, was badly cut in the breast in a saloon fight on Penn avenue, near Thirty lourth street, yesterday afternoon. Dr. Clark dressed his wounds. The cut is not serious. A Brnkeman Badly Injured. -SPECIAL TELEOBAK TO THE DISPATCH. West Elizabeth, April 13. J. Mc Cleary, from Lucyville, a brakeman on local freight north on the Pittsburg, Vir- finia and Charleston Railroad, had his arm adly crushed and it is feared that he is in jured internally. Special for elderly ladies: Fine French cassimere wraps, nicely finished and very genteel, sold in the leading drygoods stores for HO, will be offered this week for only $6 at Ka'ufmanns' Easter Bale. Special for elderly ladies: Fine French cassimere wraps, nicely finished and very genteel, sold in the leading drygoods stores for $10, will be offered this week for only $6 at Kaufmanns' Easter Sale. DISPATCHr, PMOTUBINgA FRAUD The Scheme of the Loomis Brothers for Making Money Kapidly IN A FAIR WAY TO BE KUIHED. Several of Their Late Tictims Showing Them Up in the Courts. THBI PRETENDED TO BE PUBLISHERS, And Raxed In .Many Hundred Hard-Karned Dollars From Wonld-Be Agents. A hitherto successful fraud is being ex ploded in New York and Chicago simulta neously. The "VLoomis brothers are under fire, and a hot fire, too. They are accused of obtaining several hundred dollars under false pretenses, but it is said their earnings in a questionable manner will be upward of $100,000. ISPEC1AL TELEOBAK TO THE DISPATCH. Chicago, April 13. An injunction was issued by Judge Collins to-day in a case of more than usual interest. Only a few hun dred dollars were involved in the litigation, but the developments made in the pre liminary hearing may lead to the most im portant revelations. Becent dispatches from New York tell the story of a gigantic swindle engineered by Ernest J. Loomis, who comes from Ver montville, Mich. Loomis was arrested Thursday alternoon and charged with stealing $1,000 worth of furniture from the office of the Buyers' "Union. In 1887 Loomis, a successful book agent, conceived and proceeded to execute a bril liant and original scheme. He organized a joint stock company for the alleged purpose of republishing old and valuable works. He had $5,000 at that time. A year later he was worth $50, 000,. but the stockholders were poorer. The Buyers' Union went out of existence, and Loomis reorganized under the name of the Loomis National Library Association. He managed to get a Bradstrcet rating of $150,000, and stock, plates and copyrights. Albert L. Talcott, a Chicago lawyer, con tributed $6,000, and C. L. Hill, of New York, paid in $5,000 and was made Treas urer. William Jones, the law partner of Robert G. Ingersoll, contributed $15,000. . GOT INTO SEBIOUS TBOTTBLE. Early last week Loomis "announced that the company was losing money. He hired several trucks and moved the office goods to 795 Broadway. There he held a meeting, and organized himself into the Consolidated Buyers' Jobbing Company. He was ar rested for stealing the furniture, and held under $5,000 bail. It is a remarkable coincidence that F. S. Loomis, a Chicago book publisher, should get into a somewhat similar legal fight at the same time. The affair grows more com plicated and interesting when it is under stood that F. S. Loomis, of Chicago, and Ernest J. Loomis, of New York, are brothers. Thursday afternoon At torney Henry McLeary came before Judge Collins and asked that an in junction be granted restricting the Century Book and Paper Company of Chicago from collecting money on a $500 draft signed by Arthur E. English, of Scribner, Neb. The draft was issued by the Continental Bank, of Omaha, and deposited for payment with the Chicago National Bank. - ANOTHER VICTIM SHOWS DP. This afternoon Herman C. Hill filed a petition before Judge, Collins, asking that the Century Book and Paper Company be compelled to return him $100 which he had paid to officers, of the company. He claimed that the money was obtained from him under false pretenses. Both cases will be heard Monday. '' English says hesaw an advertisement in an Omaha paper stating that the Century Book and Paper Company would lite to engage the services of a young man who should act as their general agent in Omaha. It the applioant proved competent he was to receive a salary of $175 a month. English determined to get the agency. The officials of the company told him to bring $500 to-Chicago as a guarantee of good faith. English made a draft for, this amount and came to town. He was warmly received by the officers of the com pany in their big rooms in Wabash avenue. After English had been introduced around and had handed over his $500 draft he was informed that a guarantee of $2,000 was re quired. A long conference followed. Then it was agreed that English should pay the remaining $1,500 on May 1. An agreement was then drawn up, which English claims he signed without reading, being assured that it related simply to his duties as agent of the company. A BEMARKABLE DOCUMENT. This document is a remarkable produc tion. After" describing the multitudinous duties of an agent of the company, it be came very specific in its explanation of how money should be remitted to the con cern, "but ingeniously evades explanation of how the signer can hold out his salary of $175 after having performed all the other obligations. English songht legal counsel when he left the rooms of the concern, and the injunction proceedings were begun id Judge Collins' court. It is estimated that hundreds of men in the West have been caught by the cutthroat agreement of the concern and that their losses will amount to $100,000 or more. THE SURROGATE'S FARM. He Deeded It to tbe Widow Hnrrlngton, Bnt Now He Wants It Bnck. . ISPECIAL TELEOEAM TO THE DISPATCH.l Buffalo, April 13. Hon. Abram Thome, an octogenarian, who was Surro gate of Erie county back in the fifties, has brought to trial a suit to recover a 40 -acre farm in Hamburtr. which he deeded under S restrictions in 1882 to Mrs. Kezia Harring ton. Mr. Thorne, from evidence, seems to have had a tender regard for Widow Har rington. He gave her the deed of the prop erty for the purpose of educating her dangh- ter Aaaie, wno wasattenamg school at Jbre donia, N. Y. TTia furm wna wnrtli aMi 9LA OOrt f ln Uime, and Thome sues because he says he ave ine ueeu so iuai,it wouia only Decome of effect if he did not survive tbe ducational portion of Miss Harrington's ! ife. That passed, he asked for his deed, and - lie mother, instead of giving it to him, went ver to the uounty uierK s omce and had it ecorded. The ex-Snrrocate had onlv the riemedy of a suit, and it is suspected that t&iis was brought because the widow no lo)nger respected the aged Surrogate. I Mrs. Harrington claims that Mr. Thorne gfive her the deed to stop her from bringing a feuit in which his acquaintance with Mri Baldwin, a lady barber, would appear in unuavorable shape. , A Newly-Klected Mayor Suicides. oloeado Speinos, April 13. Mavor- elefct George Hj Thomas, of this city, was fontnd dead in his barn this afternoon with a nullet hole throughthe head. Evidently a case of suicide. No cause is known. The depeased came from Illinois in 1877, was elected Mayor a few weeks ago and would halve taken his office Monday. Glass Works Start Up. ISrjCCTAL TSLXOIlAIt TO THE DUPATCH.1 Maetin's Fesst, April 13. TheElson slass Works, employing over 200 Lands, which has been shut down several weeks bwing to poor trade, will resume in full to- UUIIUIIi P1TTSBUKG-V "gimp AY; APRIL 14 A STAB BOABDEE. While Courting His Landlord's Daughter! Her Mother Fells In Love With Him A Divorce Suit Besulls The FInlntlfT63 Years Old. (SPECIAL TELXQHA1I TO THE DISPATCH-.! Buffalo, April 13. Allegany- has a divorce sensation which will come to trial at the Jnne term of the Supreme Court of Oyer and Terminer. The plaintiff, Charles S. Whitney, of Baltimore, aged 65, sues his wife for an absolute divorce on the ground that she has been too intimate with Lawyer Ira H. Meyers, who is betrothed to his daughter, Florence. Mr. Whitney's coun sel is the Hon. Hamilton Ward, a former Attorney General. Mr. Ward's story of the case includes a rehearsal of Mr. Whitney's financial his tory. At the time of the failure of the Ma rine Bank in New York Mr. Whitney was one of the firm of Wheeler & Whitney, bankers at Bradford, Pa., and the firm lost $700,000 through being correspondents of the Marine Bank. They aho owed their de positors about $350,000, which they paid in full. According to his wife's statement, Mr. Whitney is still a millionaire. On January 1, 1688, a trial balance which he showed his daughter Florence, gave his annual income as $75,000. Mrs. Whitney is worth $2,700 in cash, and her jewelry is valued at $3,000 more. The Supreme Court has ordered that she be paid $200 counsel fees and $20 a week until June 1, when the action will be tried before a jury. Mr. Whitney is a speculator in oil, and his lawyer says that a turn in the market might make him rich or bankrupt him. The co-respondent, Meyers, is a rising yonng lawyer of the Allegany County Bar. He is not handsome, and seems careless about his attire. According to the com plainant's story, after he captivated pretty Florence Whitnev he went to live at the Whitney mansion. The elegant guest room was appropriated for Mr. Meyers, and he was a star boarder for a year or so. Mr. Whitney alleges that Mr. Meyers either took advantage of his hospitality, or else his wife became infatu ated with his daughter's lover. At any rate, when Mr. Whitney made Meyers leave, his wife protested first, and then Sacked her trunks and went to live at a otel. Before that Mrs. Whitney hired a carpenter to plane offthedoorof her room, and relegated her husband to another part of the house. PROMISCUOUS SHOOTING. One Man Fatally Injured In a Fight at the Raco Grounds. Memphis, April 13. It was about ten minutes after the last race at Montgomery Park this afternoon, when the "dummy" trains were waiting for those to get their tickets cashed who had backed the winners, that a difficulty occurred which undoubtedly will result fatally to one of the participants. It seems Tim Cochran and his brother Ed. be came involved in a fight with another young man named Ambrose Mofiatt. The two men were giving Mofiatt a good beatini; when Sergeant Horan of the police force attempted to separate the combatants. The two brothers turned on the officer and he made a motion as if to draw his pistol. Both the Cochran's at once pulled their guns and Tim fired at Horan, who turned and ran. Ed Cochran, with pistol in hand, ran outside the enclosure of the race track, and was caught by Captain of Police O'Haver, who pinioned his arms from behind. His brother Tim at this moment also came from within, with his smoking pistol in his right hand. He was followed by Police Sergeant Hedrick, who came to the rescue of his brother officer. Hedrick, it is alleged, called on Cochran to surrender, and the de mand not being complied with, and fearing Cochran would shoot at him, as he had shot at Sergeant Horan, Hedrick opened fire on Cochran, shooting him three times. The wounds he received are mortal, and al though alive at present, will surely die. SEQUEL TO A SLAVERY ROMANCE. The Death of Lewis Harden Draws Oat an Interesting Story. rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 Boston, April 13. The death of Lewis Hayden, the leader of the colored race in this oity, has, by reason of its widespread announcement, recalled an incident in slaver days which would make an interesting chapter to a book on that period. Mrs. Hayden was owned by Patterson Bain, in Lexington, Ky., and wbs the nurse of George C. Bain, his son. Forty-five years ago Mrs. Hayden ran away, and since then she has not heard from any member of the family until yester day. The following letter, hearing the postmark "St, Louis, April 9, 1889," was delivered to Mrs. Hayden yesterday: Mrs. Harriet Hsyden, 66 Phillip street, Boston:' I cut the inclosed pleco (referring to the account of the death of Lewis Hayden) from one of our pacers to-day, &nd as I feel interested to know if his first wife Harriet, who belonged to Patterson Bain, of Lexington, Ky., is still living, I would like to hear from her. If this shonld fall Into the hands of tbe family they will please commu nicate with me. Respectfully, George C. Bain, 819 North Main street, St. Louis. Mr. Bain, the writer, is a member of the firm of the Meyer-Bain Manufacturing Com pany, at St. Louis, and is the youngster whom Mrs. Hayden cared for before she made her escape from slavery. ROBBING THE REYENUE. How Steel Importers Avoid the Payment of Full Duty. New York, April 13. Special Treasury Agent Neville has been at work for weeks upon a question of steel importation, which has not only involved a considerable loss ot revenue to the Government, but also a great injury to American manufacturers of fine steel wire for crinoline, corsets, hats, etc. Ahalf dozen importers have been bring ing into the country large quantities of this kind of steel by the hundreds of tons every year, and haye been paying only abont 2 cents instead of 7 cents a pound. This pay ment of less duty was due to a construction of the law, which is very complicated, and the result has been to cause from $300,000 to $100,000 worth of machinery to be idle in this1 country, and the enforced idleness of hundreds of workers. Dr. Neville's report is being made out to be submitted to Sec retary Windom. Drowned From a Raft. rSPECIAL TELEOBAK TO THE DISPATCH. Piedmont, W. Va., April 13. While a raft of timber was floating down the river hereto-day, it struck a pier of the bridge and was broken up. The crew were pre cipitated into the river and one of their number named Bobinson was drowned. The others made their escape. The Australian System Adopted? St, Paul, April 13. The House of Eepresentatives by a vote of 63 to 17 to day passed the Keves bill, relating to elections, which provides for what is known as the Australian system. Will Try General Boulanser. Paeis, April 13. M. Merlin has been elected President ot the Commission of the Senate whioh will conduct the trial of -General Boulanger. . A Vlllnge Wiped Out by Fire. Augusta, Kr., April 13. The village of Milton, in Bracken countv, was de stroyed by fire last night. The loss is esti mated at $40,ouo. Scalded Daring- an Eviction. Dublin, April 13. During the evictions on the Olphert estate to-day the agent and a number of emergency men were scalded and otherwise seriously wounded. yeas !'88Q.i AN" APEIL BLIZZARD Prevents the President Prom Taking a Proposed Pleasure Trip. THE OFFICE SEEKERS CATCH ON, Bat hj Shrewd Maneuvering Thej Are Kept at Ann's Length, Jitter AIL THE WHITE HOUSE LADIES ALL WELL. Berreint-lt-Anaj Canady Pleads Kot Chorees Ajaiast Him. Guilty of In the absence of more important news, the Washington correspondent of the The Dispatch telegraphs some interesting so cial gossip. It will be seen that the Presi dent has formed no definite plans for es caping the importunities of the office seeker next summer, but he may spend the heated term at the Soldiers' Home. rSrXCIALTELEORAU TO THE DISPATCH.1 Washington, April 13. The President had fully intended to slip oat of" the clutches of office seekers and take a run down the river to-day on the trim little steam yacht Holly, used as a Government lighthouse tender, but the second mild edi tion of the blizzard of a week ago prevented, and the trip is postponed until fair weather, when Mr. Harrison and two or three mem bers of his Cabinet will run 50 or 60 miles down the Potomac and back again, just for a breath of river air. The office seekers evidently surmised that the weather would keep the President in doors, and they were therefore on hand as usual, but only a few of them gained an au dience. Soon after they began filing in Secretary Windom came and consumed an entire hour of the time sacred to the office seeker, and when that time ended the doors were closed, and soon after the public re ception came on, at which about 300 persons, many of Ihem giggling, gum-ohewing Sun day school girls from Baltimore, shook hands with the President. WHAT FAJLMEB -Will. DO. Ex-Senator Palmer, one of the callers to day, has just returned from a visit to his log cabin home, where he took a last look at his fine stock, previous to sailing for Madrid. In answer to inquiries about his movements, the genial Spanish Minister said: "I shall remain here for abont a week, and then T am going back to Michigan. The good people of Detroit have arranged to give me a farewell banquet on the 25th, and I have been led to understand that my pres ence is necessary to make the thing a suc cess. My present intention is to sail on the 8th of May. Mrs. Palmer may accompany me, and so may my niece, Mrs. Hamilton; they have not definitely decided to do so. Mr. Griffiths, my private secretary, will bo along. He is a valuable man a good lin guist, and a ready-made diplomat? ( In response to a question as to tbe nature of his errand to the White House to-day, Sunset Cox said: "I simply said 'good-by' to my old friend, Benjamin Harrison. I feel well; very much better than a little while ago. I have been through" the valley of THE SHADOW OT POLITICAL DEATH with the rest of the Democrats, and now I am off on a lecturing tour through Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas.. New lectures? No, just a few old ones. Some thing to make the folks smile while I gather in a little money. I trust I shall have no more eggs than I pay for." Colonel Prcd Grant merely came to have a little chat with the President previous to his departure for the magnificent city of Vienna. Coming out of the library he was surrounded by many old acquaintances and held quite a complimentary 'little reception for 20 minutes or so. The ladies' of the White House are all together again, and in good health. Mrs. Harrison seems to have entirely recovered from her late Illness, and endured the re ception of the afternoon with very little fa tigue. Mrs. McKee is feeling much bene fited by her Southern trip, and went with Mrs. Kussell Harrison to Mrs. Charles NordhofTs tea, where Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett read extracts from an unpublished story. Mrs. Har rison wishes to give as much as possible of her personal supervision to the spring clean ing at the White House, which Colonel John M. Wilson will have in charge, and, therefore, the President's family will not go to Deer Park, Md., until the summer is well advanced. -WHEKE HEY WILL SUMMER. It has been decided by the White House family that they will take possession of the President's cottage at the Soldiers' Home for May, and probably for June as well. Lieutenant Parker, of the navy, who has been appointed Secretary to the American Commissioners at Berlin, and sailed to-day, is a nephew of the Presi dent by marriage. Lieutenant Park er returned this spring from a three years' cruise, much of which time was spent among the Samoan Islands. Last week he went with Mrs. Parker, who is the drughterof Mrs. Scott-Lord and the niece of Mrs. Harrison, to visit his parents in Piqna, O: They were suddenly recalled, as the Lieutenant's appointment was in re sponse to a need for a well-equipped secre tary.such as Lieutenant Parker's knowledge of Samoan affairs peculiarly fits him to be. Lieutenant and Mrs. Parker returned from Ohio on Thursday, made all the prep arations, and left for New York last even ing. Mrs. Parker is the author of a clever and interesting article, "Samoa and lb People," which appeared in the Cosmopol itan Magazine in November, last year. Mrs. Dimmick. who Is the widowed daugh ter of Mrs. Scott-Lord, is'in Dresden with some young relatives of her late husband, who are studying music, and will welcome her sister on her arrival in a strange coun try. A PLEASANT ANNIVEKSAET. A company of the friends of Senator Mor rill, of Vermont, among whom were Presi dent and Mrs. Harrison, this evening cele brated the seventy-ninth anniversary of the birth of the Senator at his home on Thomas Circle. The venerable KobertC.Winthrop, a lifelong friend of the Senator, also made one of the company. The Senator was warmly congratulated for his vigorous old age and for the health which has almost continuously attended his 12 years of ser vice in the House of Eepresentatives and his subsequent 23 years in tbe Senate. AN ELEPHANT ON ITS HANDS. The Navy Department Doesn't Know What to Do With the Thurlow Gun. rSPECIAL TELEORA1I TO THE DISPATCH.! Washington, April 13. The Navy De partment seems to be in a quandary to know what to do with the "open-hearth steel cast gun of the Thurlow works, near Chester, wIlipTl Wl tMtpd SHTT1P tim nrrn nl iVta nmtf. ing grounds at Annapolis, The star gauging and bore .impressions were scarcely finishea when the change of administration occurred; and since Secretary Tracy came into the office he has not had time to thoroughly examine into the complex question. It was the impression of the former administration that although the gun did not come up to the requirements of the specifications; and was found to have expanded injhefiringand to have many flaws, tho fact that it endnred the strain would warrant the department in putting a most liberal construction op. the law to the extent of paying the stipulated price for the gnn, putting ft to further and severer tests, and advising' Congress to ap propriate money to continue experiments with the cast trun. The Thurlow Company, has recently writ. ten to the department expressing a'desire to know what is going to be done in the mat ter, and claiming that as the gun stood tho statutory test, tbe $5,300, which was the sum they bid, should be turned over to them. They are perfectly willing to have tbe gun tested to the bursting point byway of experiment, but do not think that has anything to do with the question whether they should be paid for it as it stands. The probabilities are Secretary Tracy will take the view which had almost reached the point of decision by Secretary Whitney, that the eun should be accepted and the experiments continued till the ques tion of the efficacy of the cast gun should reach some tettlement. CLARKS0N DOES HIMSELF PROUD. The Best Day's Work of HousecleaainK Ever Dane in His Department. ISrZCIAI. TELEOBAlf TO THE DISPATCH.l Washington, April 13. Nine hundred and three new postmasters have been ap pointed this week, which makes a grand total of 2,329 in the last three weeks. About 1,000 had been appointed prior to that time. No less than 209 were appointed to-day,which is the best day's work yet, and Mr. Clark son is quite prondof it. Nearly every- ona is a removal. The oldest clerks of the de partment say they have seen nothing like Mr. CI arkson's energy in their experience. Following are the appointments for Penn- Henrv Hamilton, Boyers; Ames Hall.lIBnnch ton: W. B. Craven, Brooklin; W. Woodman, Bncknersvllle; Henry Frev, Center "Valley: T. W. Hosterman. Auburn; George Fnlmer, De riding Rldjre; H. S. Merryman, Lawn Grove; J. E. Angell, Littletown; A. If. Feid.New Galilee; F. B. Hume, New Hamhure; Effle J. Croper, Port Royal; "W.S. Miller. Petersburg: W. S. Banr. Schmerville; S. H. Crissman, Tiglerrille, and E. B. Boyd, Sporting Hill. The following were appointed for West Vir ginia: G. Soulier, Adamston: A. White, Bell ton; ,A. Bright, Braxton; W. J. Carpenter, Bridgeport: J. A Hoge, Barton; J. Schep Egton: G. M. Walters. rJvansville; M. T. Bran don, Glenville; O. J. Tory, Long Beach; James Flamington, LosCreek; V. A. Boggers, Lum berport: A. S. Veast, Mount Storm; J. Wine aron. Proctor: D. C. Adams. Rlppen; J. M, Barte, Ritchie: F. M. Cunningham, Sardls; H. Connor. Viola, and A. W. D. Boyes. Wells, burg. CANADA! PLEADS NGT GUILTY. The Accused Senate Official Says He'll Be Proved Innocent. ISrXCIAL TELXGBAU TO THE DISPATCH.1 Washington, April 13. Sergeant-at-Arms Canady, of the Senate, who has been charged in the New Orleans courts with il legally hypothecating stock of the Creosote Company, of wfiich he is an officer, and with forging the name of Senator Jones, of Nevada, to certificates of stock, returned to the city to-day. While he re fuses to go into any details of the suit, say ing that is a matter for the court alone to settle, he asserts that the trial will establish his personal integrity beyond dispute. The charges against him are believed though, by Senators Jones and Gorman, ex Senator Warner Miller, Representative West, and others associated with the ser-geant-at-arms, and who furnished nearly all the capital of the concern. "VERY MUCH MIXED. Two Little Sensations Turn Up at an Ab duction Trial Annie Redmond Was Not Kidnaped nt All The Accused Acquitted. Chicago, April 13. Two sensations crooped ont to-day in the trial of Harvey Gurley and wife, the alleged kidnapers of little Annie Bedmond. The first surprise came when Harvey Gur ley was ordered acquitted on the ground that nothing had been shown against him but cruelty, and he could not be pun ished forthat onense, having been fined for it in a justice court, Though at the time the fine was paid no one knew that .the persecuted child was the lost Annie Bed- mond. A more astonishing development followed when Mrs. Gurlev was placed on the stand. She testified tba't the little one had not been kidnaped, but had been given her by no less a person than Annie's father, John Bedmond. The theory of the defense is that Redmond's insanity was not brought about by the loss of the child, but that he was insane previously, and formed a dislike to Annie from a delusion that she was not his own. Mixed up in the extraordinary story are intimations that Harvey Gurley was paying attentions to Mr3. Redmond and that John Redmond was fond of Mrs. Gurley. Bedmond is a blacksmith, now in the in sane asylum, Gurley was a roustabout and little Annie is the infant whose disappear ance was for a long time as mysterious and much-talked-of in Chicago as thatofTas cott, the murderer of millionaire Snell, or the "lost Charley Boss." BONPIELD AND THE EDITOR. The inspector Makes a Cowardly Attack Upon His Editorial Enemy. ISPECIAL TELEOBAX TO THE DISPATCH.l Chicago, April 13. Ex-Inspector of Police Bonfield and three friends walked into Billy Bowles' restaurant at 1 o'clock this morning and ordered a light luncheon. They had just finished eating when Editor J. J. West, of the Times, accompanied by three members of his staff, entered the room and sat down at a table. This was the first time Bonfield and West had met face to face since the editor began his attacks on the Inspector, which resulted in his suspen sion from the police force. Bonfield became wildly enraged in an in stant. He arose from his chair, walked over to where Editor West was sitting, and before 25 men accused him of many crimes. West dfd not move. If he had done so he would have been shot where he sat, as the Inspector and his friends were heavily armed and vicious. Bonfield became fiercer everjf moment. He called, the editor a cow ard, a cur and aliar. The rest of people in the house either ran up stairs or went out into the rain and darkness. One. of Bon field'j fr'ends told him not to turn his back on the editor, as the latter would shoot. "He does not dare to shoot me," yelled Bonfield. "I'll turn my back to him. Now let him draw a gun if he dares." Editor West sat quiet and looked very pale. Thereupon Bonfield and his friend walked awa I Is Annie a Suspicious Girl? Apnie Higgins, a yonng resident of the Southside, was arrested last night and locljed up in the Twenty-eighth ward station on charge of being a suspicious character. It is claimed that the girl stole a watch from a jeweler on that side of the river. An information will be made against her to day. Only a Slight One. I A slight blaze in the house at the corner of Craig and Killbuck streets, Allegheny, caused an alarm from box 74 about 6 o'clock 'last evening. A hole was burned in the oor and tbe loss will not exceed $25. I Welsh Elected President. Henry D. Welsh, Esq., of Philadelphia, was elected President ot the Allegheny Valley Railroad, at a meeting of the di rectors in Philadelphia, yesterday. On a Pleasure Tour. J. F. Miller, Superintendent of the Pan handle Railroad, passed through the city last night in his special car with a party of ladies bound for New JTork. Direct from Paris: 325 ladies' most ex quisite and fashionable beaded wraps, lace shoulders, sold in drygoods stores at $9, will be offered for only $3 this week at Kaufmanns' Easter Sale. , Dieect from Paris: 325 ladies' most ex quisite and fashionable beaded -wraps, lace shoulders, sold in drygoods stores, at $9, will he offered for only $5 this week at Kaafmaans' Easter Sale, , tier - . T'?V BISMiECKIff A'HOLE? Emperor William "Wants to Curtail the Power of the Press, bnt THE PEOPLE EEFUSE TO SUBJI1T; M A Decided Protest Made Against Samoaa; Commissioner Bates. THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA IS INSANS 9 And Franz Josfph Himself Woald Prefer to Abdicate Ills Throne. Emperor William is very anxious to restrict the liberty of the press in Germany. Bismarck will not be able to force the meas ure through, as the national party will reJ bel. The appointment of Mr. Bates as one of the American Samoan Commissioners is. not liked at Berlin. Affairs in Austria and Roumania are in a decidedly mixed situ ation. JCOPTEIOHT, 1889, BT SZW TOOK ASSOCIATES PRESS. 1 Bebtjn, April 13. The Court of Ap peals, reversing the police decree against the Volts Zeitung,' and the failure of' the proscntion of the Freissinae Zei tung exasperated the Emperor. The court failing to punish the Tolls ZeU tung's criticisms on the memory of tha late Emperor William or the Freissingi Zeitung's libel upon tbe Chancellor, Em peror William personally directed a prosecu tion of the Yolks Zeitung on an indictment which states that tbe Emperor declares! himself one with his deceased grandfather, an offense against whose memory more in sults the living monarch. , The prosecution of the folks Zeituna is a small matter compared with an intimatioa'' that a press law compromise must ba abandoned, the Government finding it nec essary to press upon the Reichstag a measure) to control criticisms. This decision promises an upheaval of the parties during the re mainder of the session. FEABS TOE THE FUTUBE. The Bundesrath Commission is expected to report soon after Easter. If Bismarck ventures to challenge the vote in tho Reichstag under the present disposition o the Nationals, defeat is certain. The per secution of the press past and impending, created an impression that the Emperor's! future will justify the worst features of his! diplomatic tendencies. The Emperor last night attended a fare well family dinner given by his mother previous to her departure for Homburg to day. His orders for a new court dress in clude knee breeches, buckled shoes, a sword, gold-braided coat and three-cornered hat. The new dress will be first worn at the reception to King Humbert on May 17. The move is designed to check the revolt among the younger officials against the cus tom of appearing at the court and at of-' ficial parties in simple evening dress. The North German Gazette, in an articla confirming the report that only one war ship of each power was to be stat'oned at Apia during the Samoan conference, states! that the corvette Sophie will -remain at Samoa until the arrival of the Alexandrine) in July. The Emperor will inspect tha Alexandrine at Wilhelm's Haven on Mon. day. 'I BATES A BCGBEAB. The press comments on the appointment of Mr. Bates as Commissioner to the Samoan Conference are unfavorable. The press grumblings against Mr. Bates will not, however, affect the issues of the conference New dangers that are confronting the Aus-tro-German alliance will have the greatest influence on Prince Bismarck and tend tj bring about a speedy settlement of the disJ pute with America. "f The triumph of the Bussophile partv itt Roumania paralyzes the power of the Kin jf to execute the secret treaty with Austria. Premier Cartargi has refused to pledge tha ministry against Pan Slavist intrigues to negotiate a compact with Russia allowing the latter liberty to march through Rou mania to occupy Bulgaria. The advices from Vienna state that th Empress of Anstria has been attacked by the family malady insanity. She suffers from long spells of melancholia and enter tains delusions, accusing herself of tha death of Crown Prince Rudolph. She is possessed with ideas of suicide, thinking A leave the Emperor free to marry. Some- times she dandles a cushion or a pillow, thinking it a new born heir to the throne The Emperor is greatly affected. He suffers from insomnia and has no zest for woik, taking only a languid interest in State affairs. FRANZ JOSEPH MAY ABDICATE. It is reported that he has consulted with; Count Kalnocky and Count Von Taafe upon, the advisability of abdicating in favor of his nephew Franz. It is also said that ha wrote to the Pope, declaring that he longed " for rest and wished to retire, and that the Pope's response, urging "upon him tba necessity of submitting to the decrees it God, combined with the protests of tha Ministers, induced him in-the meantime to remain upon the throne. The Bavarian Government, replying to a memorial from the Bavarian Bishops, ask ing to be placed in control of tbe educa tional system, declines to allow a daily school mass, refuses to make a denomina tional division ot the middle schools, and declares that the recall of the Redemption ists is impracticable. The Government promises to consult the Bishops in appoint ing teachers of the elementary schools. The Duke of Nassau, speaking in Lux-ti emburg, uses French or the Luxemburg i patois, as it appears fears were entertained that he intends to Germanize the Duchy. The Pope will in May create the Arch bishops of Breslau and Salsburg Cardinals, ' j The Odd Fellows' Parade. At a meeting of the delegates from tha different lodges of the Odd Fellows, held in their hall on Fifth avenue last night, John W. Haney, Past Grand Master, was elected Chief Marshal of the Odd Fellows' paradt to be held on April 26. A uniform badga for those who will participate was also adopted. The badge consists of an oblona piece of scarlet ribbon bearing the nam and number of the lodge and a silver pin. Death of William B. McEwen. William B. McEwen died on Saturday,' ' at his residence, 144 Ridge avenue, Alio gheny City, after a brief illness. He was a memper of the Sandnsky Street Baptist Church, and from his 14th syear had lived a faithful Christian life. He was a man of sterling integrity, and was held in highest respect by all his associates in business and -social life. .' . A Boom for Martin's Ferry. rSPECIAL TXLEGRAH TO THE DISPATCai Mabtet's Febbt, April 13. In addls : tion to the Union Railroad bridge across! the river, the railroads and the opera housa . being built, Martin ' Ferry is to have an) electric railway and will 'be lighted with electricity. The outlook for a boom isJ good. Relenting- to His Old Congregation. There will probably be a congregational meeting of the West End German Lutheran (JDurch to-day or to-morrow to taee action on the offered resignation of the pastor, Rev. C. A. Herrman. Mr. Herrman accepted a call from his former congregation at Hamil ton, O., where he had conducted service fof 11 years previous to coming to Pittsburg. Ladies, be sure and see the flans! jer seys, in piain colors ana stnpea,cneacea anq piaia patterns; aiso eiegant mosses, which win o ouerea at oniy f i m tali ireeic KauiaufflM' Eatta? Salt, - . 1 I 1 1 1 I u L
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