? Tlf'iHRnHR K ifcy " Sw!Kk jWttBBPBgBWg-BWBBBHPBBMr r dS."1 qK&Ttr 9PWff?nsssffrcilfiTMffiP''ffil r .P!rsssssssssssssssn ;": fJnr M$Il BWahV"vSaigss ':;il , A RICH HARVEST Will be reaped by all wtib advertise In the Dispatch. It reaches every borne and is read by everybody. II yon are in business Jt tlie Eublic know it through TH IIEPATPK. M i r- : -: - " : ' ' ' iDKr ZZ FORTY-FOTraTH TEAIL rmnn m n a nua urn as" ss. s -zirr feri.. zr :-- ss.. . g- a But the Office Seekers Are So Persistent and Numerous That He Has NO ROOM TO CUT A SWATH. Solicitor General JenkB' fiesignation at Last Accepted. . SDCCESSOE CHOSEN. Attorney General Miller Writes Jadce Jcnks a Nest Appreciative Note The Freseot Administration Has No Cso for Ex-Cou-eressmen Several Pcnnsylvnnlans Given the Cold Cat on Various Occasions IVesIdent Harrison's Kcplr to a Delega tion of G. A. B. Keancstlnc Thnt Veteran Soldiers be Given Preferment for OQce. President Harrison longs for an opportu nity to prove be is a hustler, but the pes tiferous, ever-uresent and numerous office seeker affords him no opportunity. He can't turn around without tramping all over them, and so hasn't room to work in and do himself or the subject justice. Solicitor General Jenks has at last been relieved from the cares of office, but no man knowetii who'll be his successor. No ex-Congressman has any show with the present admin istration. IBPECIAL TELEGI1JLM TO TDK DISrATCIM "Washington-, May 15. There was very little less of a rush, at the "White Ho'use to day than yesterday, and the consumption of the time of the President is having its effect in preventing consideration of applications for appointment. The President is a very patient man. He has immense self control and a vast deal of obstinacy. Therefore be is neither irritated by the persistency of visitors and the consumption of his time, nor is be to be driven to hasten his move ments by fanlt finding or importunity. He said to-day to one of his visitors: "I am moving as rapidly as I possibly can, when you remember that practically the working hours of the day are to a great extent merely wasted by office seekers or Vfheir solicitous friends. I don't partict v urly object to this. It is unavoidable, as veil as customary. If it is a hindrance, it itisajs occasionally a help. I have a fountain of applications now on file, but I shall aoL'be able to go through with them "apidlvnntil the number of visitors each dayisiargely decreased." The President Wonts a Best. The truth is, it has been almost officially announced that if the office seekers and their friends will but give bim a rest, the President will show himself to be a genuine "hustler. The father and mother and pas tor of Nelson Colbert, the colored yonng man condemned to be hanged Friday, were among the earliest of the visitors this morn ing. They came again to plead for even a brief .respite for the murderer, but the Pres ident again firmly told them that he had fully considered the case, had granted one reprieve for the purpose of full considera tion, and had concluded that the unpro voked murder of an old man could give no excuse for clemency. The party left appar ently more resigned than yesterday, feeling they had done all they possibly could in the matter. Amongthe Senatorial callers were Senator Harris, who is fighting the appointment of Zj. G. Hines, a candidate for District Com missioner, and Senator "Washburn, who is taking a hand, after the model of Senator Quay, in pretty near every appointment, large and small, in his State. Tom Ochiltree Modest as Ever. Bed-headed and jolly Tom Ochiltree was an early visitor, and remained so long in the library that he made the other fellows jealous. "When he came hobbling forth on his crutches he was besieged by the corre spondents to know what office he was after, and answered with his perpetual authority: "I had a talk with the President about Texas anairs. I do not think that he is going to take np those matters right away, but I am pretty sure that he is going to make bis appointments there on the basis of fitness and business qualifications. If he rloes that I shall be perfectlycontented. He knows perfectly well that I had control of the patronage of the State under Grant and Arthur and that every appointment made there was a good one. That is what has made me so popular in the State, and en abled me to come to Congress from a Demo cratic district. Yes, I think that the Presi dent is going to do the right thing by Texas. I haven't presented any names at all, and shall not right away. Thinks Virclnla Will Go Ucpnbllcan. Another distinguished caller was Prof. John M. Langston, the interesting Con gressional contestant from "Virginia. He is an almost daily visitor, and is invariably admitted. Though the President has been universally accused of favoring General Habone by his appointment of Farr instead of Treat theother day. no Virginian is more welcome at the White House than this .eloquent colored man. Prof. Langston ap peared gratified by the result of his" visit, and said to intrusive inquiries that Presi- deat'fiarrison would do the fair thing air aronhd, that his policy would help the Ee publican party in Virginia, and that that State wonld give a sweeping Republican victory at the State elections of next fall. Judge Jeoks nt tnst Allowed to Go. Judge Jenks' resignation was accepted finally yesterday, and tbe distinguished jurist of Indiana county passes into private life, though he will for some time occupy a conspicuous position as a counsel for the Government in the prosecution of the Bell telephone cases. It is said to be necessary that his successor be selected at once, and it is rumored the appointment was made this week, but no one not in the all-kno"wing po ;. litical circle seems to hare the least idea in regard to the identity of that successor. I hough ex-CongressmCK Boand, or the ..Dauphin district, was the chosen candidate rolTJhe friends of BenatorCameron, he is peculiarly nnluckyagun o'fice seeker under s.i:tr,vir-s-ri-rrMsri.T?v-. r. .. sus mmminnissiUM ' '. : zrr . kvtgl ssssi his ambition on the office of Solicitor Gen eral, and as he was a gentleman of dignity, fine legal attainments and experience on the bench, with ample political backing, as ft was thought, many supposed his prospects were of the brightest. For pome reason he sopn abandoned that application probably because he was informed that Attorney Gen eral Miller had another candidate for the successor of Judge Jenks. fill Hopes a Third Time Blasted. Judge Bound then filed his application for the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, only to have his Lopes blasted in a short time by the discovery that Senators Cameron and Quay had indorsed the appli cation of Holliday, of Erie, for that place. Again he transferred his papers, this time applying for the office of Second Controller, but the prospect is that Jndge Gilkeson, notorious as the bone of contention between Quay and Sherman, will get that very com fortable position. Senator Qnay thought he had the slate fixed for Gilkeson to be District Judge in Florida, but the fighting Floridians settled their State quarrel by combining upon Aiuger, of Georgia, and as President Har rison has shown a disposition in all his ap pointments to adhere to the principle of home rule, enunciated in the Republican platform, it is thought Aiuger will get the Judgeship, and that Gilkeson will be made Second Controller, thus again Leaving Jndce Bonnd In tho Gravy. This is so discouraging that it is feared Judge Bound will abandon the contest, but it is possible his papers may bob up serenely in a new place. Ex-Congressman Brumm is another dis tinguished Pennsylvanian who has been dropped out of the favor of ths powers that be. He also was an applicant, successively, for several fat places, but he has apparently retired permanently from (he field. Perhaps the strangest lapse 5n the part of the Pennsylvania Senators was to assume parental care of ex-Congressman "Jack" Hiestand, of Lancaster. Mr. Hiestand has long had a feast of fat things at the public crib, and when he failed of a renomination for Congress on account of his own neglect, it was supposed the Pennsylvania power which does not permit a single sparrow to fall to the ground that can be of any use to it would again take care of the redoubtable Jack. The first dash of Mr. Hiestand was for naval officer at PhiladelDhia. Failing there he transferred his affections to the office of Collector of Internal Bevenne for his district, but with no prospects of suc cess. Like Brother Brumm and Brother Bound, he seems to have been passed oyer to the ranks of the veterans who lag super fluous on the political stage. No Ex-Congressmen Need Apply. It is somewhat remarkable that not one of the ex-Congressmen who are applicants for office under this administration, hare been recognized. The assumption seems to be that a man who could not get nominated or re-elected is not worth wasting an office upon. "William "Walter Phelps is the only one who has been given anything at all, and his office is temporary, and he did not ask for it. Representative Ryan, of Kansas, was appointed Minister to Mexico, but he was a member-elect of the Fifty-first Con gress, and not an ex-Congressman. MOW THEIR BUSINESS. Louisiana Politicians Ablo to Give Points to the Field How They Work Their Little Schemes When to Strike and When to Quit. rErECUi TELEQEJIK TO THE DISPi.TCB.1 Washington, May 15. No man holds on belter to a bad cause than your Louisiana Bepublican politician, and no man knows better than he when to strike and when to abstain. The exception of Packard's recent break for the Liverpool Consul Generalship only proves the rule true, for Packard, liv ing awhile in Iowa, lost allhis cunnine-. A familiar figure at the Treasury and the Postoffice Departments, and in the evening about theWillard Hotel lobby, is P. J. Herwig, or New Orleans, Chairman of the Louisiana Bepublican Committee. "When he come here five or six weeks ago Coleman, the only Bepublican Congressman-elect from the State of Louisiania, was apparently in high feather, especially at the "White House, Coleman was a man of the time young, active, enthusiastic. Late a protectionist Democrat, he had behind him a body of or ganized white laboring men. He was The Knight ofGolden Promise, and to him there was gladsome acclaim. For awhile he went to see the President every day, and gave out long interviews on the Southern policy of the new administra tion to the correspondents of New Orleans papers. All this time Herwig was either immured within the walls of his hotel, complaining of how the weather affected his rheumatism, or making little sallies to the departments. He did not go near the oak table or even peep into the East Boom with the casual visitor. Herwig played a modest role. "When all of the kaleidoscopic views of a Southern policy had been presented to the Pelican eublic, and when news of coming appointments was getting pamiuuy scarce; when nothing of all the golden dreams which had been dreamed since his election had been realized, the Hon. Dndley Cole man save out that he was going home. In terviewed some days later in New Orleans, he boldly asserted that there could be but one Bepublican leader, hud he was the man. His Time to Move. Now moved the phlecmatic Herwig. He called upon the President and made him acquainted with the situation from the standpoint of the old Republicans. Alleg ing that he was told by Mr. Harrison that no one man, even a Senator, should not control the patronage of a State, he pro ceeded to secure a number of removals in the postal service. Meantime Coleman lingered at home or by the wayside. The dispenser of patron age is not dispensing, but patronage is dis pensed. The vender of views has ceased to vend them. The places of Superintendent of the Mint and Supervisor of Public Buildings at New Orleans will soon be filled. A great fight progresses over the postoffice, the collectorship, and the naval office Meantime, the leaders' movements are nnknown to friend and foe alike. The private secretary goes home without inform ation, perhaps in search of it. The day waxes and wanes, and he the torchbearer of the new civilization, cometh not. I AN 0NL0CRT NDMBEE. Pennsylvania Secures Bat Thirteen New Postmasters in a Day. rSFECUL TELSGBJUI TO THE DISFATCH.1 "Washington, May 15. One hundred and forty-three is the sum of new postmas ters made by Mr. Clarkson to-day, the un lucky nnmber of 13 being the total for Uepsylvania, as follows: H. J. Been, Delta: R D. Beams. Fallsincton, J.F.McGrew.FindlayviJle; E. F. Hackman: Hatfield; D. W. Rank, LiraestoncvIIle: Charles Reo, Maud; W. R. Vandercnft.NewportvIIIe: H. B. Groff, Ferkasil; E. M. Snyder, Point Manor; J. M. Pernne, Putnam: Joseph E. Mc Noldf, Schenksville: Charles Merriman, Sheri decrille, and Fhilo Fuller, Tioga. WILL THINE THE MATTER OTEE. President Harrison's Bcply to a Reqaeit of n G. A. R. Committee. Washington, May 15. Comrades Jos. "W. Kay -an 1 George W. Brown, and David XT. Anick to-djy talked to the President as a committee representing the Grand Army of the Bepuhlio of Brooklyn., They laid .Dei ore mm resolutions aaoptea nvtBe Mem- ,omI aad ExHilvc Crait f(HT5ay during April last, urging the carrying out of those provisions of the revised statutes looking to the preferment of veterans of the late war for office under the Government. They asked the President to give full force and effect to the laws now existing or here after to be enacted on this subject. The President replied that he would con sider this question very carefully, and would give the resolutions their due weight. ACCEPTED WITH PB0FDSE THAKKS. Attorney General Sillier Bids Solicitor Gen eral Jenks Adlen. "Washington, May 15. Attorney Gen eral Miller yesterday wrote the following letter to Solicitor General Jenks: Department of J ustice. MayM,J8S3. My Dear Mr, Jenks: The President anthorlzas me to accept your resignation of the office of Solicitor General of the United States, to take effect this date, and I accordincly do so. This resignation you ten dered at the commencement of this adminis tration, but at my request you have remained with ns to this time a time fixed by yourself from the beginning as the possible limit of your retention of the office, and your resigna tion is now accepted, at vour request. In severing our relations, permit me to say that they have been to me exceedingly pleas ant, profitable and satisfactory: and I know that your withdrawal leaves a vacancvintho Snblic service which, it will no very aimcuu to 1L With thanks for your personal courtesy and kindness toward me. and with my very best wishes for your prosperity and liappxi isnes lor your prosperity ana nappini I am your sincere friend, yonr sincere trieno, W.W. H, Mi,eb, Attorney General. THBEE ALBINOS IN ONE PAMILT. A Harrlshnrs Family Preparing to Start a Dime Museum. . rEFECTAI. TELEQBAM TO THE EISrATCIM Habbisbueg, May lti, A third Albino baby made its appearance in the home of a "West Harrisburg family this morning. It is a girl, exceptionally large, finely devel oped, and a more perfect type of the Albino than its brother and sister. Dr. M. K. Bowers, the family physician, says the third little stranger is the most pronounced Al bino he ever saw. i There are two other children born to the same parents, the boy, on May 11, 1886, and the second, a girl,' on August 15, 1887. The three children form an interesting group. All have hair pure snow-white, and pink eyes. The two older ones are healthy youngsters. A great many persons called to see the curiosity to-day. The father of thu children is of dark com plexion, with black eyes and jet-black hair. The mother is also inclined to the brunette type, and has dark hair and eyes. Maternal impressions are doubtless the cause of this singular physiological change, as the history of the mother previous to the birth of the first child is the best possible evidence. MAJORITY AND MINORITY. Both Branches of the United Brethren Are Gathered In Conlerence. tErECIAL TELEQlU.il TO THE DISPATCTf.1 YoitE, Pa., May 15. Bishop "Weaver presided oyer the majority Conference of the United Brethren Church to-day. The motion to license women to preach was adopted after a long discussion. The Secre tary of the "Woman's Missionary Society, Mrs. L. B. Beister, was introduced, and read a paper on the wort. A motion was adopted that no minister should be allowed to preach more than three consecutive years at one point without the consent of the con ference. The minority conference was piesided over by Bishop "Wright Bey. Becker was elected a delegate to bear fraternal greetings to' the American "Wesleyan Methodist Church Convention. , It was agreed that four Bishops should be elected,, one for tha-J Pacific Coast and three for the East. It was recommended to call a congress of Christian churches in the fall in some large city to urge a war against secret societies. A FAITHFUL EMPLOYE MUBDEEED. Mexican Desperadoes Kill and Bob a Ball road Treasurer of 8700. rEFECUI. TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH,! Topeka, Kan., May 16. Details were received to-night by General Manager Rob inson, of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa I Fe Bailway, of a murder and daring robbery at the Santa Fe mines, near Socorro, N. Mex, The miners were being paid their April earnings to-day and a large sum of money had been received from Treasurer "Wilder, of thiscity. At3 o'clock three Mexican desperadoes entered the com pany's office from the rear and deliberately shot and killed Treasurer G. "W. Richards, who was alone, and took all the cash in the office, about 700. They fled on horses to the mountains. A posse of miners is in pursuit. Richards has been a mining engineer and superintendent for five years. He was a graduate of the "University of Illinois. Gen eral Manager Bobinson offers a reward of 51,000 for the murderers and, $500 for the money. CONFLICTING CLAIMS. Two Sides of tho Case fn a Peculiar Breach of Promise Halt. Galena, III, May 15. Samuel Cun ningham, the wealthy bachelor of this city, aged 70, against whom suit was begun yes terday by Louisa Lohrmann, a widow of three score and ten, for 510,000 damages for breach of promise, employed one of the leading lawyers of this city to-day to defend him. Mr. Cunningham to-day said that the widow Lohrmann popped the question to him several times and bored him nearly .to death during his visits at her house with importunities to marry him. Me asserts tnat tne widow is atter bis wealth, and that she has no case whatever. Her attorneys, however, say that a number of witnesses will be produced who will swear thet Cunningham promised to marry their client, apd maintain that his closeness alone prompted him to desert the widow, after duly considering what it would cost him to support her. BAN AWAY WITH A PREACHES, A New York Village Belle Elopes and Mar ries Her Rector. lETECUt TELEGRAM TO THE DISrATCH.i Stbacuse, N. Y., May 15. The BeV. Charles Kimball, rector of the Episcopal Church at Oriskany Falls, N, Y., and his bride, are stopping here at they Empire House, on their honeymoon. Mrs. Kimball was Miss Fannie Putnam, of Oriskany Falls, and she eloped with the rector last Saturday night, her friends being opposed to the match. Miss Putnam was the belle of her town, is 19 years of age, and has money. Mr. Kimball was to be ordained a priest at St. Paul's CatHedral here, on May 29. U0iTANA LIGHTNING. Fire Men Along a Barbed Wire Fence All Strnck at Once. Helena, May 15. News has. reached here that Henry Hoffman, a blacksmith, was killed by lightning at Bed Bluff. He and four others stood near a wire fence when the storm broke. Lightning strnck the fence, knooking down all five. Four soontecovered, but the shock killed Hoff man outright. t What thePabllc Printer' There For. "Washington. May 15. Public Printer Palmer.to-day appointed Thomas J. Lazier,,1 of New Hampshire, chief time.'clerk ofthe uovern ra easiinnuBgtUHice.ijyice uames xtw, Tfigasa.' PITTSBURG, .THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1889. y&jmY4 UJMxa- i DARK mom DAWS. nif i FAMINE Ttf TRFXAND. -TOBY THE JOYIAL. OIL m&U'OU HIGH, fl Lord Lonsdale Tet Uncertain Just How Far North He Eeally Went. HE DIDN'T SEEK THE NOETH POLE, But Ho Secured the Heads of Two Moose Oxen That He Went After. PERFECTLY CONTENT WITH lllS TEIP. ns Describes the Great Blare Late as the largest lake In the World. Lord Lonsdale has arrived in NewSork on bis way -home from an adventurous trip in the Arctic 'regions. He answers those critics who deny that he was inside the Arctic Circle by plainly saying that he was so far North that he doesn't yet know just where he was, but ho will soon be able to ridicule those who are now laughing at him. 1SFSCIAL TXLEOnjUt TO WE DISPATCH.! New Yobk, May 15. Lord Lonsdale, whose long trip ampng polar bears and the Esquimaux has puzzled eyejybody inter ested in arctio geography during the past month, to-day arrived at the Brevoort House, where be. will remain a few days be fore sailing for home. In appearance, Lord Lonsdale shows no trace of the severe hard ships he encountered during 15 months that he spent amid snow and ice. He comes back stalwart and ruddy, and looking quite the trained athlete, save a pound or two of superfluous flesh, which perhaps is the product of the fat-producing blubber diet of extreme northern latitudes, He has learned within two or three days, on his arrival East from the Pacific coast, of the discussion among geographers and others, in this coun try and Jn England, which his journeying in the extreme North has set going. The incredulity and criticism which have been expressed, he says, have by no means of fended him, and he is quite willing to clear up all tjie doubtful points -in the narrative, as far as it lies in his power. NOT YET OUT OF THE DABK. " But as regards some of the geographical details of his movements, Lord Lonsdale is himself somewhat in the dark as yet, and he will not be able to make an exact statement about his journeying from day to day until he has figured out, with the aid of a table of corrections, the readings of his sextant, which he regarded as the result of observa tions taken -whenever the weather permitted. "Whether he actually succeeded in reaching that all-but-inaccessible land, Melville's Island, he does not himself know, but he did reach an island, he says, northeast of Banksland, which the only reliable maps of the region led him to believe was Melville's Island. "A wrong significance and importance has been persistently given to my trip," he said to-day, to a Dispatch reporter. "I know and care little about geography, and I didn't start ont in search of tWe North Pole, as some seem to think. The objects of my trip were entirery zoological, and not in any sense geographical. Perhaps my chief ambition was to secure ... A HEADOP A MOOSE OI, one of the rarest of natural history prizes. There are only three or four in the museums of the -world. I was fortunate enough to se cure two splendid specimens, besides a great number of other ouriosities and speoimens of animal Jifej I went as a representative of the Scottish Society, to which I shall make my report and turn over my speci mens, but I acted upon my own responsi bility from first to last, and personally bore the entire expenses of the trip." In all published reports of Lord Lons dale's most extraordinary feat crossing the ice-covered sea, from the continentto Brule's land, and thence on to Melville's Island the trip has been mentioned only as an inci dent, and without detail. His lordshin was therefore urged to describe for the benefit of The Dispatch readers his experience while undertaking what Fullen, Bae, Parry, McClure and other hardy explorers strove in vain to accomplish. "While unwilling to dwell in much detail upon the personal hardships he encountered, Lord Lonsdale was quite ready to furnish an outline of his party's adventures on the trip. "WHEEE the stbait was crossed. "It has been wrongly stated," he said, "that I crossed to Banksland from near the mouth of the Mackenzie river. Such is not the fact. "We crossed the strait from Cape Bafhrirst, which is a long distance to the east of the Mackenzie. I reached Cape Bathnrst early in August last, and about the 17th of that month we made the start- I thought I saw land to the northeast, and I was told there were reindeer and other animal life there. I was accompanied by my servant and four Esquimaux. "Our boat was an open one, 29 feet long and 10 feet beam amidships. She was light and strong, and could be easily transported over snow and ice. "We took a large team of dogs and sleds for this purpose. Some of the dogs which we took with ns to Banks land and across that country I have in my possession still, and they will reach New York from Montreal to-morrow. The passage of the strait was hazardous and dif ficult, of course, but we were remarkably fortunate. Still, we were caught in a floe of heavy ice for three or four davs. and we were badly pinched. WOULDN'T TET IT AGAIN, ' "I would not attempt the passage of the strait again any more than I would try to fly across. I had been told that the current and drift of the ice was from east to west, but I found it to be in quite the opposite direction, we encountered no icebergs, but only very heavy hummocks and field ice. "We were compelled ty make all sorts of twists and turns, often retracing ourway, but we finally reached Banksland on or about August 25." "What was the distance, as you traveled it, from Cape Bathurst to Banksland?" "I can't give you even an approximate idea. Our course was so crooked, and we drifted so much, that I have no means of judging. As a rough guess it may be 50 or 100 miles possibly more. This map, the last I could find, locates Banksland too far from the continent. I found Banksland to consist of a certain portioir" of rock, around which there are great alluvial deposits, probably from the Mackenzie and other rivers. There is little vegetation save an alluvial growth of gray willow. There are NO TREES THEEE, but a heavy growth of moss. The topog raphy of the region is rolling, with no great elevations. The land is uninhabited, but is sometimes visited by Exquimanxon whaling trips. "We found a few there on that mis sion. "We remained in Banksland until well into September, moving steadily north with boat, sleds and dogs, skirting the west ern coast "We made the trip partly by water, crossing the bays and dragging the boat over the low capes." 'Did you reach Harbor of Mercy, where McClure abandoned his ship Investigator?" "I don't know. I had no means of identi fying any of the pblnts I reached. I simply pushed ahng to the northern coast, collect ing such natural history specimens pf value as came within reach. I Mnmi rpinrWr L the ivory-, black and white gulls and white ;!? "-jv w t Xjx-j 1 fiJ! sib -A j. r n b ftvAi, ; M zru. jTnAi. i s rvra Mj-irs.uS j wmvx, ttwmwu m oo a h save etfcettesttflitframirsAsvBtt faarf VDUHITWB . . .. - ji,ssK". .v. mm ' '.1' n . n jh . . . J . Xl j- HnIffV . . L W sh lnrAr.' UH-iHjtw4 lrrtll SW GOT A FEW SQUEEZES which frightened the Esquimaux with me. The boat kept cracking in an alarming fashion, but keeping on in that direction for a day and a half, we reached land, I don't pretend to say what land it was, but the maps locate nothing in that region except Melville's Island, so I don't know what else it could have been, Possibly it was a sand tnnk( only exposed at low tide. It nus iow ana sanay, coverea wua mma uu ". j. umnE exDioro it. Jur twcp peared to be nothing there of interest. was unlike Banksland, for it was desolate and not even varied enough in topography to be described as rolling. , We turned about and pushed our way back to Banksland, which by great good fortune we were able to reach in 12 hours. We struck a lane of blear water, hofsted a big sail, and made our Way without diffi culty." "What did you find the temperature in that region at that time of the,year?" 'I took the temperature three times daily, and it ranged from 37, the average1 dally maximum while I was in Banksland, to 20. THE XEIP COMING BACK. The return trip from Banksland to the continent was somewhat less difficult than the northern passage. The ice was more compact, but ft was divided into fields, with clear water spaces between. "We consumed a week in getting across, for we were nipped several times. ' "We reached the continental a point nearer Cape Dalhousie -than Cape Bathurst, and thence we made our way overland to Mackenzie late in September." Lord Lonsdale was asked if he bad been correctly reported regarding the size of Great Slave Lake, which he is quoted as declaring to be about four times the size of Lake Superior. "GreatBearLakeis even larger," he re plied. "That is, I quote Bishop Poumpus, of the Mackenzie 'diocese,, who says: 'I be lleve it to be the largest body of fresh water in the world. Great Slave Lake I crossed, probably, at Its point of greatest width, and it is certainly 300 miles broad. I was in formed that its length was 380 miles, but Ogilvie's report on that subject will soon be issued, and that will settle that point. I was IMPRISONED IN THE ICE on Great Slave Lake for 28 days. We didn't move A yard in all that time, and we suffered severely. No, I saw no icebergs on this or any other body of fresh water, but the bodies of field ice are enormous." Lord Lonsdale has brought back with bim many photos of landscapes and curiosi ties taken at many points in his travels. He has a number of negatives, be says, bearing views in Banksland, bnt be has not yet had an opportunity to develop them, r TOPICS FOB TALK Br the Commissioners to the Presbyterian General Assembly, North, to Meet To-Dny la New York An Im- portant Gathering and Its Weighty Subjects of , Discussion. fSFECUt, TELEGSAX TO THE DISPATCH. New Yobk, May 15, A representative gathering of clergymen and laymen, whose proceedings will be of great importance to the Presbyterian Church in every State and Territory in 'America north of Mason and Dixon'sjline, will begin to-morrow in the Fourth Prepbyterian Church, the Eev. Dr. Howar Crosby's. It will discuss 20 questions? and topics on which commit tees wcre'appointed at the last General As sembly of the church to prepare full reports for the General Assembly, about to meet Colonel Elliott F. Shepard will speak on Sabhath observance, and. Mr. "Warner Van Worden on home missions; the Bev. J. L. "Withrow will report on the duties oi the Presbyterian church toward the emigrant population; the Bev. Dr. J. S. Macintosh on the church at home and abroad; the Ber. Dr. J, T. Smith on relig ious instruction in the armyjjthe Bev. John Dixon on division into classes of ministers receiving aid from the board of ministerial relief; the Bev. S. J. Nicolls, of St, Louis, on unemployed ministers and vacant churches, and the Bev. Dr. John Hall on training candidates for the Lord's Supper. , Dr. Crosby's church has a seating capaci ty of 700. As the members of the assembly number 500, there will not be much room for the public. The commissioners, as the delegates are called, will sit in comfortable, low-backed cushion pews, in the body of the church, while the outsiders will sit in the rear of the church or in the galleries. There will be a sermon at 11 A. M. to morrow by the retiring moderator, the Eev. Dr. C. L. Thompson, and in the afternoon there will be an election for the presiding officer for the remainder of the session. There are two prominent candidates for moderator. u.ney are tne itev. Jjra Charles A. Dickey, pastor of the Calvaiy irresbyterian Uhurch, .Philadelphia, a di rector in the "Union Theological Qeminary, and a member of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, and Dr. William C. Bobcrts, of Lake Forest University, formerly trustee of Princeton College, and Secretary of the Board of Home Missions. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be celebrated to morrow evening. DETE01T BREWERIEB ABSOEBED. ' Several More Concerns Gobbled Up by the English Syndicate. Detboit, May 15. The titles in the ex tensive brewing plants ofA. Goebel & Co., the Bavarian Brewing Company, the Endriss brewery and the brewery and bottling works of Jacob Mann, all of Detroit, paesed yester day into the hands of representatives of a company formed in England, and they assumed the management of the newly acquired properties at the close of business last night. , The'price paid is?425000 in oash and bonds.. The stock has all been disposed of in England, and is now quoted at a prem ium. There are other breweries here that are likely to be absorbed within a short time by tne same parties. HE SAYS HE'S NOT CEAZY. An Inmate of the State Insane Asylnm Wants to Get Out. f SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1 Habkisbubg, May 15. Charles Otten, a compositor in the State printing office, re ceived a letter yesterday from a friend named Leonard Krentz, with whom he had worked on the Philadelphia Tageblatt, stating that he had been assaulted and robbed while in this city, and then placed in the Harrisburg Insane Asylnm, and called on Mr. Otten to assist him in proving his identity and sanity, and aid him to a release from custody. Mr. Otten says Mr. Krentz was perfectly sane when he last met him, and intends in vestigating the case. THE SONS OP YETRANS Elect Commanding Officers and Exhibit Themselves on Pnrade. Cincinnati, May 15. The Sons of Vet erans to-day elected William E. Bundy Col onel. He received 175 out of 261 votes cast. He is a son of ex-Congressman B.S. Bundy. This afternoon ahaOdsome parade was made by the Sons of Veterans and by local posts of the Grand Array of the Benublic. The )Bons.wers noticeable for their soldierly beats JsTisl IJWW Hs MnTCK . mMsMal BAH AHA Sat sVlV aJh ub M BJBs9nlliBBBBSBBuKBHiBSBlliBBBBBBBBBl 'ierriDie aniiering Among KTictea " ---.- :PU lua mucui, a.Cuueis aou -hv Tenants in County Donegal. VZ'rwTiZ " Mr- Cooley's Commission. JB 'Coantrr A Jo(ly B A PATHETIC APPEAL FOE HELP. n,, TO waw THE ISYEST16ATI05 COMMENCED. S BAtiiMOBEMay 15. There was a great jB gereral Hundred People Witiont Either eri twiv t WmJwbmj tb,cBnt Chargea Upon Implj Barrels tlie Chief . S u i ni.tt seat of General Felix Anjcm, publiher of , ri,minfnf H Food or Clothing.- the ,, lll(l fon wn!r a re. Cause of Complaint. . RESULT BALFOUR'S OPERATIONS. v,m. ., , , ... r , Everybody TO, Can D 80 Is Lfailnj in tie land Be - yond the Ocean. A terrible state of affairs prevails in County Donegal, Ireland. The evicted ten ants on the Olphert estate are without food or clothing. Aid is needed to prevent awful suffering. All those who are able are preparing to emigrate to the United States. The Farnell Commission resumed its ses sions yesterday. rBT CAM.B TpTnEDJSPATCH,l Dublin, May 15. Donegal is now the cynosure of the civilized world. Balfourism reigns supreme. Around Gweedore martial law, aided by a hiatal police and soldiery, is doing its level best to goad tho starring peasants into rebellion. Jnst now a star chamber court is trying two English gentlemen- (one an M. P.), Messrs. Harrison and Conyheare, for the terrible crime of feeding the hungry by handing in to the inmates of the barricaded houses some loaves of bread. Of course these philanthropists will be con victed. The? following letter from Mr, J. G. Swift MacNeill, M, P. for that division of County Donegal, will give your readers some idea of the state of the county. Sib I have Jnst returned from visiting the seat of war waged against the peasantry of Swoedore and Falcarrah by Mr. Olphert and the Government, with their auxiliary forces the battering ram and the Removables. The scenes of ' HUNQEB, MISEBY AND DESPAIB, described fn the letters of yonr special corre spondent arenot over-colored, but, if anything, toned down, and even understated. The famine-stricken and evicted tenants are not merely destitute of food and expelled from their wretched hovels, they are also destitute of clothing. The priests tell me that these poor creatures make every effort to appear decently clad, and that their outward garments, though threadbare and patched, are procured at the sacrifice of warm and comfort able inner clothing. In nearly every case the women and children, are without shoes. The cast-off garments which are so often in England given to servants and sold by them to dealers in old clothes, or even got rid of by burning, would afford comfort and protection against the bitter cold and wind to many a poor peas ant man, woman and child In perse'uted Cone gal. ' Last Monday Messrs. Conyheare, O'Hea, O'Brien and myself saw a crowd of thinly-clad and shivering women waiting at the door of the priest at Falcarragh for a few pence to pur chase Indian meal, while the piercing wind, accompanied with sleet and heavy rain, was actually penetrating their famishing frame?. Surely, in the intterlts of our common human ity, It is not too much to ask your readers to sendaiewcasjroffgariients to these afflicted belfigs, Such acts will, I believe, gain that blessing of Providence which is promised to those who provide lor the poor and needy. The offerings will, I am sure, be thankfully re ceived, acknowledged and distributed In the best and wisest way by the most ReV. Dr. O'Donnell, Roman Catholic Bishop of Raphoe. or by the Key. John Boyle, Catholic curate of Falcarragh, County Donegal. I may, perhaps, he permitted to say, as one of the members for the county, how heartily I agree with the suggestion of Lord Cavan, that deputations from England should visit the principal scenes of - BAXFOUB'S OPERATIONS in Ireland, It is only by the evidence of the senses that the cruelty of men to men can be realized. In one case in Falcarragh a poor evicted woman was actually robbed of a few ducks her little all by the forces of the crown, protecting landlordism in Donegal. The potato disease is a visitation of Providence. The famine, like the bartering ram, is a visitation of the present Government and the Liberal Unionists. Westward, Hoi Such a rush for the States no one, not even the oldest inhabi tant, remembers. For the month that its past 2,337 left the port of Derry alone, and crowas are stai on tne move, ah the young and the strong are flying as if the land were plague stricken. Dunne the 12 months ending March 2,000 families were-. put out 01 vueir uoiumcs oy toe lanuioras, aided by Balfour, representing over 10,000 human beings. This is extermination with a vengeance. Terrible weather for the past six weeks. Bam, rain and sleet. Very lit tle of the crops in the ground yet. If mat ters don't improve the prospect is indeed black looking for Ireland. A COHPEOMISE EFFECTED. Samoa's New Municipal Council Will Rep resent Amorlcn, Germany nnd England. Berlin, May 15. The sub-Committee of the Samoan Conference has decided that the Muniolpal Council of Apia shall comprise six members, Germany, England and the United States each to appoint one member. The other three members shall be elected by the residents of Apiat This decision displeases the British Com missioners who cali it the "Phelps compro mise." Mr. Phelps, although not a mem ber of the sub-committee, was asked to attend its last meeting. THE LEAGUE ALL EIGHT. Father Egan Gives Emphatic Testimony Before the Pnrnell Commission. London, May 15. Father Egan testified before the Parnell Commission to-day. He said that the leading men of Loughrea belonged to the branch of the League in that district. No serious crime had been committed from the time of the formation of the Loughrea branch uutil it was sup pressed, except the murder of Policeman Lynton. This, crime had been condemned at a meeting ofjthe League and witness had de nounced it from the altar of his church. FEED GRANT PRESENTED. Minister Lnwton Steps Down nnd His Sne cessor Presents Bis Credentials. Vienna, May 15. The Emperor to-day gave an audience td Mr. La.wton, the retir ing United States Minister, who presented his letters of recall. Afterward the Em peror received Col. F. D. Grant, the new Minister, ybo presented his cre'dentials. In Offlce for Sixty Years. Vienna, May IB. Judge Von Schmer ling, President of the Snpreme Court of Austria, completed his 60th year in office to-day. Emperor Francis .Joseph, ac companied by a large nnmber of nigh offi cials, waited upon the Judge In person and tenderedJiis congratulations. -.To Aid the Panama Canal Company. Pabis, May 16. le Farti says that the Government hMrdcidedJo iutroaW.ih; tT 1J ' W 'till Jl Mil! - . , CWlMSWUtSKUHUtt BH X &nB8 LiSjBU LmiMy. caption tendered by General Angus and the 'B Jonrnalixt CInb, of Baltimore, to Vice A BT1TJJMENT MADE BY THE C0P6EL S President Frank B. Thomson, of the Penn 1 B IsylvaniaBallroad. The New Trk Press 1 clabj the Qmioa cfnb ,f -Washington, and the Clover Club of Pbiladelphiawere represented, and secretaries Ulame, Tracy, Noble and Busk came over from Washing ton to take part There were altogether about 500 persons present who spent the afternoon In an en joyable though. Informal manner. Tables were spread on the portico and lawn where a substantial repast was thoroughly enjoyed. After dinner short addresses were made by Secretary Blaine, Mr. Thomson, Governor Jackson, Mayor Latrobe, Joseph Howard, William Bann, of the Clover Club; Fred Powers, of the Gridiron CInb, and others. In his speech Secretary Blaine said the people of the country might be satisfied that fhey bad for their President a man who was, above all things, a just man, and who would give the copntrv a non-partisan ad ministration. Mr. Blaine's poor physical appearance was" much commented upon. The great hero ot the day was Secretary Busk, who was easily persuaded at the sta tion to mount the leader of a team of horses attached to a common hay cart and, with a common whip in hand, drive about 50 howl ing journalists to Nacirema, a distance of ,two miles. The Secretary also, after some solicitation, drove them back when the din ner was over, and had his picture taken seated on the horse. SALE OF THE WABASH B0AD. The Wabash Western People Bay -it In and Will Consolidate. tEFECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Chicago, May 15. It was just 1120 o'clock when Special Master Bluford'WU son, standing on the steps of the Govern ment building, eroded one of the most com plicated railroad litigations on record by selling the entire Wabash Bailway for 115,550,000 to the Wabash Western purchasing committee, represented by J. F. Jay. Special Master A. J. Ricks read the notice of sale as it bad been advertised since Judge Gresbam's decree of foreclosure, and his colleague followed with the ofier for sale. The road, was sold by divisions, with no competition to speak ot, and it brought $15, 510,595 68, According to the decree, the masters were to again offer it for sale as a unit, including the Hannibal and Naples branch, which was originally left out The Popper-Johns- Iton men twisted their mustaches when bids on the entire road and eqnipment were called for. Mr. Jay bid f 15,550,000, and while Mr. Wilson was shouting this vast sum Adams street was blocked with street cars, wagons, vehicles and spectators. A deposit ot 5100,000 for each division, as a guarantee of .good faith, was demanded. The Jay people produced 5900,000 and the road was theirs. President Ashley, of the Wabash Western, said: We will consolidate the Wabash Railroad and the Wabash Western by August 1. We will probably call the complete system the Wabash Rail road Company. We have issued and sold J3J, 000,000 fifty-year 5 per cent bonas on tne consouaaten system, ui tnis we win use jll.7ti.00O to pay the first mortgage on Wabash "Western. We will also issue second mortgage bonds of JliOCO.OOO on the lines east of the Mississippi, making 36,259,000 on these lines. There arrbeside. on the lines east of the Mis sissippi, 20,000.000 bonds depending on the in come and $32,000,000 in stock. The minority bondholders make a great mistake in not ac cepting 5 per cent bonds f or'their 7 per cents, instead of compelling us to buy them out. The new bonds are already at a premium of li per cent, and, I thlntywill go between 6 and 10, AN AMERICAN SINGER Achieve a Great Success la a New Opera at Paris. . Pabis, May 15. Massenet's new opera, "Esclarmonde," was produced at the Opera iComique this evening. Miss Sibyle San derson, an American, took the leading role, and achieved a great success. Presi dent Carrot, the Composers Beyer, Delibes and Godard, and numerous stars, including Nilsson, Melba and Duvivies, were among the audience. Miss Sanderson's voice is not of great volnme, bnt is of the utmost purity and sweetness. She astonished tne andience with the ease with which she took difficult passages, aad critics predict a great future for her. President Carnot complimented. Massenet at tne close ot tne performance. NOT BEFORE AUGUST WII! the fiegislaliva Committee Decide Who Is West Virginia's Governor. ISPECIAL TEI.IOHA1I TO THE DI8PATCH.1 Chableston, W. Va., May 15. The Legislative Committee appointed to hear testimony as to the Gubernatorial contest has reconvened and is going over the- depo sitions taken, beginning with Barbour county and taking the others in regular order. It will certainly take until the 1st of July to read the evidence alone, there being about 6,000 pages of legal cap. Various legal points are still pending and undetermined, and others will be raised, so a report can hardly be expected before August. IN QUICK SUCCESSION Five Brigands Were Swung From the Senffbld Into Eternity. Sofia, May 15. Five brigands were hanged in the courtyard of the prison here to-day They were led separately to the scaffold and were hanged in succession. Each man was enveloped in a bag passed over the head and reaching to the waist Their straggles were prolonged several minutes. A mob broke through the cordon snr ronndinc the jail, and the gendarmes had great difficulty in keeping them away from the scaffold. STILL A DARK SlISTEBY. Crania's Frienf s Firmly Believe That He Met With Font Piny. Chicago, May 15. Cronin is stiU miss ing. His friends' cling to the belief that he has met with foul play. A pair of men's kid or dog skin gloves, almost new, bat torn and stained, were found hidden under some brnsh close by the spot where the mysterious blood-smired trunk thnt was at first connected with the disappearance of Dr. Croaiu was discovered. His friends say they are similar to a pair worn by him. STfiHES ARE SPBEADING. A Number of German Industries Are Af- fected by the Movement. Beblin, May 15. The builders of Sprot tan.jthe carpenters of Bupzlau, Konigsburg, Wurzburgund LubeCk, nnd the brewers of Dortmund, are 6ut on strike. The tailors of Bremcrhavea have obtained an increase of .wanes and. a reduction of the hours of .later,. The", aeitatioa is extending. . In i&rliii the-esployea of the General ,0ai. ii bws xitwpaBy ;, a a sevewu .www; awj a- Eameiraat of a Dispute Orer a Denumd for the Prf B dactionof a Contract. 'B The Inter-State Commission, yesterday commenced its" investigation at Titusville. F. P. Gowen, as counsel for the complain ants, made a statement of their case. It Is claimed that the rates on returned empty ' barrels are excessive, It is also asserted that railroads should furnish tank, cars for all of their patrons. Two witnesses wer examined. VJ ISrZCIAT. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1 TrrusviLLE, May 15. The City Hall of Titusville has to-day been a scene of life and activity, and contained more personages of comparative prominence than at any one! time for a considerable period. The Inter State Commerce Commission, represented by Judge Coojey and Messrs. Morrison and Bragg, met at 10 O'clock this morning to hear the complaints of the Independent Re finers' Association of both Oil City and Titusville, who appeared by their counsel, M. J. Heywang, of Titusville, and F. B. Gowen, of Philadelphia. The defendants, the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad and Pennsyl vania Bailroad. were represented by their counsel, J. D. Hancock, of Franklin; the Erie Bailroad by Judge Williamson, of Cleveland, and J. A. Buchannan, of l.'ew York, and the Lehigh Bailroad by Gowen, of Philadelphia. The complaint includes three issues: First, the rates between the oil region and the seaboard; second, that the difference in freight rates between oil trans ported in tank cars and in barrels amounts to a discrimination against them; third, that the railroad companies are bound to furnish tank cars to shippers, though generally sneh. cars are furnished by' the shippers them selves. A CONTBACT WANTED. The complainants' counsel asked, In open ing, to compel the Pennsylvania Railway' to produce before the commission, at a future hearing fn Washington, a contract alleged to have beenmade-in 1879 between the Pennsylvania Bailway and the National Transit Company, by which the Pennsyl vania Bailway Company was to be guaran teed 26 per cent of all oil traffic from these regions, and the rates were to be the same for pipe lines and railroads. This was op posed by Mr. Hancock, who agreed to prod uce any contract subject to its relevancy to the questions at issue in these cases. Judge Cooley refused to make an order producing this contract He said iho Com mission came to Titusville for the conveni ence of taking local testimony. The testi mony would be continued at Washingtojt and the argument on these cases, wouldie heard at Washington, and whether that al leged contract was relevant and admissable or not would be decided on argument at Washington, where both sides would be heard. He said that the commission might want to inspect the contract, and that it' would be the subject of future considera tion. In opening the case Mr. Gowen went into a history of the inauguration and completion of the Tidewater -Pipe Line,; which led to the establishment of the ssa- board pipe lines and their subsequent ar rangements. The counsel wanted to show that the raising of the rates in oil barrels by the defendants was in consequence of a ruling of the Inter-State Commission about a year ago in.the cases of Bice against the Louisville and Nashville Bailway Com pany, and of Scofield against the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Bailroad, set ting forth that the proper method of fixing rates was to place them on a basis of 100 pounds weight including the package, but that such a decision was inapplicable to ths present conditions of the export trade. THE FIRST TVITNESS, The first witness called was S. Y. Bamage, who went into the general history and con ditions of refining oil, and testified that the new rates of which they complained were, according to the explanations given him by the various trunk line representatives, made in compliance with the rule of the commis sion as aforesaid, and further, that under such ruling and rates they were unable to carry on their business profitably in com petition with the seaboarcr refiners for ex port On cross-examination it was shown . 1 by witness that the new rate was equivalent to about 5 mills per ton per mile from the. oil region to the seaboard. At the 'evening session- wit ness further stated that the present cost of refining oil, exclusive of interest, insurance, depreciation, etc., was 21 to 35 cents per barrel, and that under the present freight tariff the refiners, under the mos? favorable circumstances, could not make a fairliving profit. The rate of shipment to Boston, he also said to be excessive, irre spective of the dinerence between rates on bulk and package oil. He had cor responded with the Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley. New York Central and other roads since the advance, and the roads had an swered that the advance was made in COMPLIANCE WITH A DECISION in the Scofield case at Cleveland, that they were satisfied with the former rates and that refiners had themselves or the commis sion to blame for the increase. He also testified that it was more profitable for the roads to haul oil in packages than in tanks, though a higher rate was charged for the former because the railroads could use the cars for "Western shipments on their return, while 95 percent of the tank cars were re turned empty. The Hon. John Schwartz, a liner of tha Crescent Oil Refinery, was next called and gave testimony as to production of the oil fields and the eflect of tne recent decrease in stocks. At 10 o'clock the commission ad journed till 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. There are 150 witnesses snbpcenaed. Thi3 aiternoon the members of the commission were driven to the adjoining oil fields and witnessed the shooting of an oil well. PBOBABLY DEMOCRATIC. The Election In Montana for Constitutional, Delegates Is Very Close. Helena, May 15. Beturns from yester day's election are too incomplete to deter-1 M:nn Ik. a.haI mATYinArtMn ftf tflfl Cnntfifn.. tional Convention. As far as received thevf- indicate uiakwe cuu.a nu icij rausc, with the chances in faror of the Democrala by a narrow majority. The Labor memjj; f hers from Jefferson county may havetlitf -casting vote. ? '.-, - i W0XAN SUFFRAGE IN MICHIGAN. ,- , jt A Bill Pnurd to Allow Them to Vote at Municipal Elections. ?v Lansing, May 15. The woman's mnnicL ipal suffrage bill was passed by the,Houja to-day. It was made a special orfer,fcT2i30 p. 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