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William Flinn says that in seven inter views he has had with Quay the latter has not succeeded in making a deal for Allegheny county patronage or knocked Mr. Ford off the track for Postmaster. He adds that ha and his friends expect to nominate Major Iilontooth for Governor next year. So much has been said and printed recently in reference to the Flinn-Qnay "deal" that a visit to the most interested party in Pittsburg was made last night, in onler to secure an authoritative statement ofthepoliticaloutlookhereabouts. Mr.Flinn was at home, and expressed himself quite willing to be interviewed. "You have seen the statement that a meeting was held in the Fast, and also the claim that the details of a 'deal had been agreed upon. Was any one at that confer ence authorized to speak for William Flinn?" he was asked. HE SPEAKS FOB HIMSELF. "No one. William Flinn generally speaks for himself." "Has a 'deal,' giving your adherents a share in Federal patronage, and the post mastership, in exchange for State influence, been made?" "No. No such 'deal' has been made." "Is such a 'deal' possible or probable?" "Weil, we would dicker if we could have all the offices as a consideration. I will tell you just exactly how the case stands: The political situation is entirely un changed. The postmastership fight is. still on, AS YTGOBOUSLT AS EVEB, and I am still a candidate for the State ate, end have no fears whatever as to success before the convention. Abso sly, the only result of my seven inter views with Senator Quay "has been to make his acquaintance very thoroughly." "What do you consider legitimate objects of political barter in Allegheny county politics?" "Not'the postmastership, certainly. We do not consider that anybody but Congress man Dalzell has any rights in that matter. Irrespective of 'deals,' the naming of the Postmaster belongs to him; nor is a 'deal' of any kind necessary to emphasize his rights. Mr. Ford WILL NOT BE WITHDRAWN or sacrificed for anything that can be men tioned. We do not want the Federal offices, lor we don't see what good they would do us." "But might not the possession of Federal patronage make your faction more solid in the State?" mildly suggested the reporter. "Not appreciably, especially as we are not now, and do not expect to be, active in State politics, with the sole exception of the Montooth boom. We serionsly expect to get him nominated, for Allegheny county has cot a dissentient voice against the Major. Much, of course, depends upon Major Moutooth's own work; but it is al ways safe to boom a man who knows how to boom himself." THOSE GLITTERING OFFERS. "Did Senator Qnay make you any glitter ing o0m?" "Now," said Mr. Flinn, laughing, "is that a fair question? Senator Quay is a clam on his part of the negotiations, and I don't feel Justified in saying any more than he does. He is a wonderful man, without any doubt." "So there is neither possibility nor proba bility of a deal between yourself and the junior Senator?" "That's just it. Neither a possibility nor a probability, except that I may say, in a general way, that I am open to any 'deal that won't 'deal' me out. It seems to me that the fact that THE SITUATION' IS UNCHANGED is a refutation of the stories now afloat. I do not see that the present state of affairs offers a fair chance for a trade. Later on, after the postoffice fight has been settled our way, there may be some chance fbr'a dicker." AN EXE ON IIAWLEFS CHAIR. Governor Bnlkley Scheming to Leavo Con necticut for Washington. ' rrrzciAt. telegram to thi nitrATcn.l New Haven, Conn., August 19. Dem ocratic as well as Republican politicians are all agog over the rumors regarding Gov ernor Bulkley's design on Senator Hawley's chair at Washington. Senator Piatt's term of service expires next year, and it is a lore gone conclusion that the Hon. Samuel Fes senden, of Stamford, will make an attempt to become his successor. The scheme to work Governor Bulkley into the Senate is said to be as follows: Influential Republi cans are, it is said, about to ask President Harrison to appoint Senator Hawley Min ister to Bussia. If the favor is granted, then the rest of the scheme is Bimple. Governor Bnlkley will resign, and Lieuten ant Governor Herwin will step up to the gubernatorial chair and appoint Morgan G. Bulkley, Sen., to fill Hawley's vacant seat. Leading Republicans in this city are of the opinion that Hawley cannot be again re elected to the Senate after the expiration of his present term, in 1893. He has many political enemies in the State, and probably would not care to be made a target for their attack in 1893. Bulkley would be satisfied to fill Hawley's unexpired term, with the prospect of a re-election for a full term. The only hitch in this programme is that Hawley might not be willing to accept the Russian mission, and that Lieutenant Gov ernor Herwin might refuse to become a party to the scheme. Friends of General Herwin are of the opinion that he would have nothing to do with it unless Hawley is willing. HILL TO HAYE IT. The Wily Governor Expects to Name the Place for Holding the State Conven tion Harmony to Bnle Abovo All Things Candidates by tfao Dozen. rsrxctii. tzixobam to the DisrA-rciM Sabatoga, N. T., August 19. The Democratic State Committee will meet here to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. Nearly all the members of the committee ore already here, and a lively canvass has been made tor place. The opinion of those best informed is that the State Convention will meet in Syracuse on the 2d of October. This, it is understood, will bo in accordance with the wishes of Governor Hill. The opposition to Syracuse will be, except from local con siderations, chiefly from those who are sensi tive about what they term "Albany domina tion." Rochester and Saratoga will have some votes, but Mayor Kirk, of Syracuse, has been very enthusiastic for that city, and it will probably have the convention. Jt is predicted that when the convention meets it will be as wholly harmonious as has been hoped. Candidates multiply. Those mentioned for Secretary of State are Valen tine Fleckenstein, of Monroe; Diedrick Wil lers, Jr., of Seneca, and Senator Stadlerand Senator Cantor, of New York. The renom ination of Charles F. Taber for Attorney General is conceded. So also is that of Ed ward Wemple for Controller. K, Danforth, of Chenango, and H. L. Childs, of Auburn, are prominently named as candidates for State Treasurer. Danforth is the present deputy. The State Engineer will go to the present incumbent, if he will take it, about which he is undecided. If he declines, Peter Hogan, of Saratoga, is the only other name mentioned for Engineer. The office of Judge of the Court of Ap peals will not lack for candidates. Those most generally and favorably spoken of are ex-Attorney General Dennis O'Brien, of Jefferson, Judge Edgar Cullen, 01 Kings, and Edward S. Rappallo. of New York, son of the late Judge Rappallo. The objection to O'Brien is that he represents a district which already had four jndges on the Ap peals bench. The meeting of the State Committee will probably be quite harmonious in its action on the main purpose which calls them to gether, bnt there is a grouty feeling among some of the members who will constitute the minority, that forebodes lnkewarmness in the canvass, especially if the proceed ings of the State Convention take on too much of the flavor of dictation. Quite unexpected feeling seems to have taken pos session of some members of the committee, who deprecate most of the apprehension that the proceedings of the meeting of the committee and of the State Convention will be governed and made subsidiary to an ulterior purpose, and who wish that only such considerations as pertain solely to the making and electing of a State ticket are to have any prominence. HE EAISEDA BOW. A Southern Colored Preacher Write a Vigorous Editorial Threatening altace War He la to be Banished From . tho Community Republi cans Denounce Him. BlBMINGHAM, ALA., iiugUJt 19. An article in an independent paper, at Selma, Ala., edited by a Colored preacher named Bryan, has created a stir in Alabama. An editorial in the last issue abused the whites for various injustices against the colored race, and concluded as follows: Were yon (the whites) to leave thisBouth Itnd in 20 years it would be one of the grandest sections of the globe. We would show you mossback crackers how to rtin a country. You would never see convicts, baltetarved. depriv ing honest workingmen of an honest living. It is only a matter of time when throughout this whole State affairs will be changed, and I hope to your sorrow. We were never destined al ways to be servants, but like all other races will and must have our day; you now hare yours. You have predicted that at no very distant day we will have our race war, and we hope, as God intends, that we will be strong enonch to wipe you out of existence, and hard ly leave enough of you to tellthe story. It is bound to come, and just such hot-headed cranks as the editors of some of our Demo cratic journals are just the right set to hasten it. It is fate. The whites in Selma are taking steps to prevent the Rev. Mr. Bryan, who is now absent from the city, from ever coming back any more. The Executive Committee of the White Republicans' Protective Tariff Lieagne. witn Headquarters at ISirmintrham. met here to-day and passed a resolution de nouncing the editorial as incendiary and dangerous, and tendering their moral and, if necessary, their physical aid to stop such utterances. THE SUGAR TRUST WINS. Judge Ingrnhnm Decides an Injunction Suit In lis Favor. rsrECIAX, TILZOnjLM TO THTt DISPATCH.! New York, August 19. The application of Receiver Gray, of the North River Sugar Refinery, for an injunction to re strain the Sugar Trust from transferring or disposing of any of its assets (for instance by paying a dividend on its capital stock) was denied to-day by Judge Ingraham. He intended to postpone a decision , until after his vacation, but changed his mind. Judge Ingraham says that as Receiver Gray had been informed that the trust intended to transfer its property, it was clearly the re ceiver's duty to present the matter to the Court But this allegation had .been emphatically denied by the defendants, who are unquestionably respon sible, and no visible harm can come from waiting for the decision of the general term now expected. This -decision is on the appeal lrom the judgment of Judge Barrett, annulling the charter of the North River Company be cause it joined the Sugar Trust Judge Ingraham gives Receiver Gray leave to renew the motion for an injunction if he ascertains any facts that indicate an intent by any one of the defendants to transfer any of the proper ty held by them under the trust agreement, and leave to renew upon the decision of the general term. HES. JIAIBRICK'S P20PERTT. A Suit In the Nnmo of tfao Liverpool Pris oner Besun In Kentucky. Louisville, August 19. The attorneys of Florence Maybrick, now under sen tence of deat at Liverpool for the murder ot her husband, James Maybrick, to-day filed suit in the Federal courts here for the appointment of trustees for her large estate in mountain lands in Breathitt, Pike and neighboring counties in this State. The Sroperty was left "her by her grandfather, larius Blake Hoi brook, of New York. She is joined in the suit by her stepfather, who acts for her mother. The rights of Mrs. Maybrick's children, both under 10 years, are also reviewed and protection is sought for them. The suit is friendly, and its object is to secure relief from the necessity of giving security as trustees for W. H. Gardiner and Hamilton Bradshaw, of New York, and Rev. John Ingraham, of Missouri, who are trustees for Mrs. Maybrlok's property elsewbere in America. They declined to serve for the Kentucky property if required to give BCVUXitJr 1 WW ALMOST PERSUADED. Why President Harrison Begins to Think the Civil Service Reform Movement Is a Good Thins; A Rid dance for Big Bores. rSriCIAL TXLXOBAUTO Till DISPATCH. 1 Washington, August 191 The poli ticians of both parties here who have re cently interested themselves in a movement to break down and have repealed the ci7il service rules are greatly incensed at the pro posal to extend the operation of the competitive examinations to chiefs of divisions. The report that this was the resdlt of a consultation between the President and Civil Service Commissioners Lyman and Thompson, last Saturday, and that the order will soon be made, has set every anti-civil-service reform tongue wagging -against the Commissioners and the President, though the Republican tongues are somewhat modified in their bit terness by the reflection tha it is probable all or nearly all of the chiefs will be of that party before the order is promulgated, It the order be made, the importance of it will not lie so much in the number of addi tional offices it will place under the control of civil service rules, as in the disposition it exhibits in the President to aid the Civil Service, Commissioners in extending the rules to every corner of the service possible. Chiels of divisions get from 2,000 to 2,500 per annum, and these places have been looked upon as the legitimate property of politicians who have a larger number of lieutenants to whom they wish to give good places than there are offices having higher salaries than the chiefs of divisions. It is tyudjby his'friends that the President has stiffened his spinal column considerably of late in bis support of civil service reform, out of sheer disgust and fatigue with the importunities of office seekers who either want office from him or want his influence with the heads of departments and with Congressmen to secure offices not "Presiden tal" in their character. He is said also to have watched keenly the use made of their influence by Congressmen and others, and to be convinced now, if not previously, that it would be a good thing to eliminate from the process of filling the offices the last ves tige of political patronage to the extremest extent available. Whether or not this is giving the Presi dent too much credit for the Teform spirit remains to be demonstrated, but it is cer tain that Mr. Harrison has ot late shown a decidedly increased disposition to listen to the recommendations of the Civil Service Commissioners and to act in sympathy with them. RECOVERING BDEIED CANNON. Digging Up Somo Guns That Were Hidden 27 Years Aao. Albuquerque, N. M., August 19. Last Friday Captain Jack Crawford and Major T. T. Teel arrived in this city for the purpose of having Major Teel locate the place where he had buried some cannon in April, 1862. At that time Albuquerque was in the possession .of the rebels, and Teel's batterv was part of General Sibley's command. To prevent the cannon from falling into the hands of the Union forces, Major Teel and some of his officers buried the cannon at dead of night The common soldiers knew nothing of it The other officers havo since died or were killed, and Major Teel alone knew the spot where the cannon were in terred. He pointed out the spot, and went on his way to El Paso. To-day the digging was commenced, and but a few feet from where he indicated, the cannon were fonnd. Eight were unearthed and it is supposed others will be. found. They were some six feet deep and when taken out, after 27 years' burial. - were as bright as on the day when they were buried. They quickly turned black on exposure. They are 12 pound brass howitzers, three stamped United States, showing that they had been captured from Uncle Sam and bear the mark of the manufacturers, C. A. & Co., Boston. It is supposed they were part of theMcCrea battery captured at Fort Craig. A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING. Catholic Clergy nnd CitlEeufflmposed on by a Smooth-Faced Fraud. rsrycTAj. txieobam to tub DisrATcn.i New Haven, Conn., August 19. For the last two weeks a well-built gentleman with closely cropped red halrt wearing the garb of a Catholic cleriryman, has success fully worked the hotels, Catholic clergy, servants and well-to-do citizens of this city by posing as Rev, Father tToseph Thorpe. Among those whom he succeeded in per suading he was a Catholic clergyman are Rev. Father Lynch, of St. Francis Church, William Neeley. F. E. Brooks and the pro prietor of the Selden House. He claims to some people that he is a professor in Alle gheny College, to others that he is from Niagara College, and is East on a summer vacation, and that having missed remit tances of money is without funds to return. Much of the money which he has collected has been blown in frequenting saloons, the proprietors of which he has also defrauded by not paying for considerable of the stuff he has consumed. A few years ago Thorpe was professor of English in Niagara College, but was forced to give up his professorship on account of his habits. He was next heard of in New York, where he claimed to be connected with a publishing house. He travels under the name of McNamara, Smith, Fields and McDermott, ail of which he used while here. : i CANADIAN CK0ISEBS. Are Rigidly Enforcing; tho Bnlt Laws Upon Foreign Fishermen. Halifax, N. S., August 19. The New foundland Government is enforcing the bait act with, a good deal of vigor. One cruiser, the Lady Glover, has made eight seizures this season. The masters of two of the vessels were sentenced to pay a fine ot $1,000 each or to undergo fire months' imprisonment The others were imprisoned for terms of from five months downward. To show what shifts owners and masters of schooners are now put to and the artifices that have to be resorted to in order to get bait, it is but necessary to describe the plan adopted by one detected French vessel. In her a false bulkhead was built next to the cabin. Three pieces of decking were cut out and the space was filled with her ring. In order to hide all traces of the dodge, a seine was carefully spread over the decks. THE UNIVERSAL PEACE UNION. A National Relief Fund lor Cases of Cn nsual Distress. Philadelphia, August 19. A special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Universal Peace Union was held here to day, at which was adopted an address to the people of the United States suggesting the creation of a national relief fund, to be applied for relieving distress caused by flood or fire, pestilence or famine,-cyclones or earthquakes, or any similar catastrophe. It is suggested that any money remaining of the Johnstown flood after all distress has been relieved be nsedlas the nuclear -for the reception of any donations or legacies that may be bequeathed for this specific object. , It is proposed that the Board of Trustses be composed of the Governors of the several States; ihe chairman thereof to be the Pres ident of the United States. Copies of the address have been sent to the President pd the various Governors. pQncff PiTTSBUHG, TUESDAY, ONE FLASH OF FLAME, And Almost Instantly Nine Lives Were Wiped Out of Existence. CAUGHT IN A TENEMENT TKAP. No Escapo for Those Who Did Not Awake at the First Alarm. ALLEGED TO HATE BEEN INCEpiAEI. Tiro Men Arrested on Suspicion of CommltUnff the Fiendish Crime. ' Early yesterday morning a sudden fire in a New York tenement house destroyed the lives of nine" persons 'and injured others. The flames were subdued in short order, bnt not in time to save many of the sleeping in mates. The fire is charged to incendiary origin: tSrXCIAIi TXLEQBAX To'tIIX TJISrATCIM New Yobk,, August 19i Nine ot the CO persons living in the tenement at 305 Seventh avenue were burned or smothered to death by a fire early this morning, two more were dangerously burned, others nain fully, and all who survived were turned out homeless and half naed, saving no furni ture or clothing to speak of. The fire began in John Snyder's all-night restaurant down stairs, and ha and his negro cook, William Roberts, were arrested on suspicion of arson. The tenement is one of a row that covers the entire block between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth streets, on the east side of the avenue. Each of the floors upstairs is arranged for four families, and most of the tenants are pretty poor. On the ground floor are two stores with the hallway and stairways between them. She fire started a little before 5 A. M., while both Snyder and his negro cook; William Roberts, were wide awake and attending to their business at the restaurant. A DEATH TBAP. Snyder says that there were no customers in the place, and he was sweeping the side wale, while Roberts was in a shed in the back yard. Snyder was near the curb, and turning around, looked into the store, he saw a blaze in the kitchen, which was at the back of the restaurant He ran back and tried to put it out but he declares it was too much for him, and he hurried out to the sidewalk. Then Roberts, the black cook, ran from the yard to the street Snyder ordered him to go upstairs and wake the people. Roberts says he went up two flights and yelled. Snyder sent a colored man to the Thirtieth street station to ring up the fire engines. The flames scourged the sidewalk so that the men couldn't get to the hydrant in front of the store. Whether because they were not sum moned in time, or because the heat was too intense to let the firemen near the building, the firemen were of no avail in saving life. They had engines in plenty,'and there were helmeted men enough to take care of the whole block if it had been ablaze. They got hose pipes in a hurry at the building through the windows and from adjoining roofs, and the fire was put out as easily and. quickly as a burning matoh would be put out by throwing a pitcher of water on it DID NOT 'LAST LONG. Tf vmi Tint mYiT.f a Urn 4Tipnt fnr a fw minutes, but during those minutes it was frightful. Whether there was kerosene on the woodwork in the kitchen or whether it was merely the grease and fat that had been splashed around in Snyder's six years' tenancy Is something Fire Marshal Mitchell will try to find out There were only some light tables and chairs in the restaurant, and these burned quickly. From them the blaze got to the front of the store, blazed out at the rolled-up awning, and cnrling oyer that, spread up the house outside. Through the open windows of the four floors above the fingers of fire stuck into the rooms and set them afire. At these rear windows it was worse than in front From the furnace into which Snyder's kitchen so suddenly had been turned, the leaping flames struck the ceiling and broke through into the room above. In the whole house that was the only flooring which was burned. ' More of the fire from the kitchen burst into the hallway and jumped up the' stairs, licking every bit of the staircase from ground to roof. .It was just at this time when the fire in front, behind and np the staircase had got K this point of suprem acy that the firemen turned on the flood and tlrownea out tne piaze. TWO WEBE AWAKE. There were at least two persons in the flats who were awake when the fire started. One was Mrs. John Flanagan. She was sitting on a sofa in a front room of the third floor, nursing a fretful 7 months baby. She did not fear Roberts' yell in the hall if he yelled at all there but she did hear calls from the street She wakened her husband and then in her night dress stepped out to the fire escape. This is of iron. It has no ladder down, but it rum along the wall to the window of the next house. Mrs. Flanagan wa barefooted. One by one Mr. Flanagau handed out through the smoke their five children. Three are lets than S years old, one Is 12, the other 13. Then he stepped out, leaving behind all the accumulations of 14 years of housekeeping. The other person awake was Frank Wilson. He is a nightwatchman and had got home at 4:30 a. 21, .He sat up reading a paper and smelled smoke. His room was on the third floor front. He called to his wife, who was in a bed room near by. She was already partly suffocated, and he carried her out on the fire escape, and so to the next house. The crowd below cheered when they saw him. Then he returned and carried both his chil dren. Lily, a 2-year-old, and Robert, a 4-year-old. Lily's hair was singed. Mr. Wilson's right hand wasruised and cut as he swung against the fire escape, CnEEBED BY THE CBOWD, When the crowd on the street saw him with the babies they cheered louder than before. The Kloler family on the first floor jnst above the restaurant comprised six per sons. Mrs. Kloter heard the yelling, and they all got out safely to the next house through the fire escape in front Tjiere were more who saved themselves in the same manner, and some who went up to the roof and out there to roofs of other houses, but no one succeeded in going down stairs to the street It was on this staircase that the most hcroio work was done, and the heroes wero young William and John Glennorr. Their people lived on the first floqr back, above the restaurant The smoke awoke John. He put on some clothes, shouting the while to nis tones, xney curried to the fire escape in front It was wrapped In flame. Fire came through the slats of the shut ters on the front windows. They -rushed to the hall. Below -they saw the blaze that filled the lower hall. They had great trouble in getting their mother to go with them to the roof. She was helpless through fear. William led the way np the staircase. Smoke and fire tortured them at every step.' The mother couldn't walk and they carried' her. They got to the roof burned and. blinded. Their father they thought was just behind them, but he was not The two hoys went down toe still more furious burn ing hallways to the second floor, A,HEBOIO ATTEMPT. " ( They had to feel their way, they oould'not see it, so thick was the smote, go stung with aia were their eyes. ' The smoke blew upon AWCST 20, 1889. them hot and thick. Their father was not on the second floor, and William, pushing ahead, went right into what John' described later as a hollow square of flame. He couldn't go any further and rejoined John on the stairs. They climbed slowly back to the roof. William's clothes were on fire when they got there. w niie the ulennons were trying to rescue their father, while the Kloters and the Wilsons and the Flanagans and the others were escaping, there came to others the hor rible deaths of suffocation and of burning. Those nine who succumbed had doubtless been later in waking than the others. It was after the fire was practically all over that they were found. There were -found in the various rooms these dead people: GLENNOF, WILLIAM, 60 years old, burned to death. JEFFREY, JANE. 65 years, smothered. LUSTIG, itABTHA, 40 lyears, burned to death. McQEOOHAN, NELLIE, 20 years old, smothered. MoKEE, WILLIAM, J years old, burned to death. O'CONNOR, ANNIE. 45 years, smothered. WALES, JANE, 4 years, smothered. WALES MARY. Sl MrV .mnrhpT-pd Acting Captain Schmittbercer and many others were Indignant that the Mitchell flats have such wretched flra "escapes." They are only bridges connecting the windows of one house with another. Captain Schmittbercer says they ought to have ladders attached. Those in the rear had wooden floors and those floors were burned away. Tho flra marshal sajs these fire escapes come within the law. A PENflSYLYAOTAPLAN. The Rnllroad .Beneficial Association to be .Supplemented by a Pension System President Roberta Heartily In Favor of the Scheme. Philadelphia, August 19. The Penn sylvania Railroad Company is about to adopt a policy toward its employes more important than any in its history. Ar rangements are being made to establish a pension system, the first of its kind in the United States, and the step will attract wide attention. The pension plan will be introduced in connection with the company's relief association. At the end of the association's last fiscal year, the third of its histo ry, it was found that , there was a surplus in the treasury, after the pay ment of all benefits of 5170,789. The ex istence of this balance suggested the intro duction of pensions to superanuated mem bers of the Relief Association. A special committee of the Advisory Com mittee of the association approved the pro ject, the Advisory Committee itself took the same attitude, and another sub-committee was appointed- to propose a plan. This committee met recently at Cape May, and adjourned after discussing various plans, to meet at a later day. There are certain complications to be adjusted before the pension system can be put in force. Those em ployes who have put their money in to the association did so with the under standing that the fund was to be drawn from only to pay death, accident and sick benefits.- If the new plan, involving the payment of pensions as well, shall be adopted, the con sent of members of the association will first hare to be obtained, but no diffi culty from this source is anticipated. President Roberts has taken a hearty inter est in the plans, and has offered to recom-' mana to tne companies associated in the fund a contribution of $50,000 to help estab lish the pension system. TEIING TO SATE A LIFE. Important New Evidence Discovered la the' j Case of Charles Clblln. &. rtfrcnTAT. nunRlIt TO TS1 nTlplTnn. l j . . .. j$2T"5W 'Yobk, August 19. Counsel for Charles Ulblin, 'who shot and killed Madeline Goetr, the wife of a baker, after an unsuccessful attempt to pass a counter feit bank note at the store, moved to-day in Supreme Court chambers, before Judge Barrett, for an order for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence. This alleged new evidence is to the effect that instead of Giblin being the owner ot the weapon with which the Killing was done, it was the property ot Goetz, and that during a straggle between Goetz and Giblin for the possession ot the pistol it went off. The witnesses who, it was said, could prove this are Fanny and Gussie Nelson, sisters, who lived over the Goetz store. Fanny was a witness on behalf of the people on the trial, bat Gussie was not Decision was reserved. PEESIDEN.TAL CLEMENCY. Mr. Harrison Commutes the Sentence of a Virginia Bank Defaulter. DeebPaek, Md., August 19. President Harrison spent the morning considering a few appointments of postmasters in Indiana and in examining the papers in the case of Linden S. Clarke, sentenced to five years in the Virginia Penitentiary for making false entries on the books of the First National Bank of Richmond, Va. After mature de liberation the President decided, in view of several extenuating circumstances in the case, to commnte the sentence to three years' confinement. General George Crook, United Stales Army, with Lieutenant L. W. Kennon, 'of his staff, came over from. Oakland and called at the Spencer cottage to discuss Sioux matters. At 4 in the afternoon President Harrison and Attorney General Miller went driving. THE TEXAS CATTLE FETEE Alleaedto Have Diode Its Appearance Ex tensively In St. Louis. St. Loins, August 19. Texas cattle fever has made its appearance in St Louis, and there appears to be a conspiracy to prevent the discovery of the fact Some time ago a number of cattle consigned from Texas became afflicted in pens here, and 35 died of the fever. Since then a number of milch cows jn that vicinity have died from the fever, and there is some alarm as to the city's milk supply. Health Commissioner Dudley denied the existence of the fever, while the Dairy In spector does not credit it. Cattlemen, how ever, claim the disease from which the ani mals died was Texas fever, pare and simple. DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE NO BAB. An Important Pension Decision Rendered by Secretary Bossey. Washington, August 19. Assistant Secretary Bufsey to-day made an important decision in pension cases, holding that a dishonorable discbarge inflicted, by court martial for an offense of which the court has jurisdiction did not render a man ineligible to pensions. . In this view he is sustained by a decision of the lato Judge Advocate General, Hon. Joseph Holt The opinion re-establishes the ruling of the department which pre vailed through all administrations ante dating rule 135, by General Black. i1 AN INSANE MAN'S LEAE, While Suffering; From Delirium Tremens He Jumps From a Moving Train. Newabk, N. J., August 19.. An insane man boarded a train at Elizabeth, on the Centra Railroad this afternoon, and while the train was in motion in the meadows jumped off. The train was stopped and search was made, but only the man's coat and hat were found. Afterward . he was fonnd wandering in the tall grass and brought to Newark. -To the police be gave the name ot Christian H. Emling, of Tamaqua, Pa. He is supposed to be sufieriDg from delirium tremens. A EACE ON THE RAIL. The Quick Act of affEngineer Averts a Horrible Disaster. FAST TIME OF A WILD LOCOMOTIVE. It Dashes Madly Through the Crowded Streets of Baltimore WITH AN EXPEESS TEAINJ0ST BEHIND. A Final Crash lata and Thronca a Warehouse and a Lot of Cars. In order to avoid a collision with a fast express afBaltimore yesterday, an engi neer reversed his locomotive, palled .the throttle and jumped for life. A wild' race through tunnels and crowded streets en sued. All loss of life was finally averted, bnt considerable property was destroyed in the final crash. rSrECIAL TXUCQBAX TO TSX DISPATCH. 1 BaltImoee, August 19. About 9 o'clock this morning, locomotive No 88, of the Northern Central Railway, which is a large and heavy engine used as atshifter, stood on one of tho tracks just beyondtafayette station, on the northwestern outskirts of the city. Engineer Ben Flickinger, whose hair has become silvered in the employ or the company, and whose reputation as a careful man is of the very best, sat in the cab with one hand on the throttle with young Ed ward Cox, who has been railroading about two years or more, as his fireman. About 100 yards above the station the rails divide, one pair making a sharp curve to the left. The fast Philadelphia express, known on the road as train No. 92, comes rnmbling-around this curve at a few min ,ntes after 9 every morning at a pretty rapid clip. The railroad people in and about Lafayette station take special pains to give a clear track to the Philadelphia flyer, but somehow things went wrong 'this morning. It will require an official examination to determine upon whose shoulders the blame rests, bnt the fact remains that No. 83 was standing directly in front and not a hun dred yards away from the headlight of the Philadelphia train when it swung around the curve. NO TIME TO LOSE. Engineer Flickingertook in the situa tion at a glance. There was no time to get out of the way except by going in the same direction as the express, and going very fast The shifting engine was facing west, and the express was coming east Eager to avoid a smash-up and possible loss of life, he told Fireman Cox to jump from the engine. Then he palled the throttle the reverse way, and himself took a flying leap, and backward tho engine flew toward the mouth of the tunnel at Fulton station. In was all ddne in an instant Flickinger made the jump in safety, and No. 88 started down the track at a sprinting clip, with the Philadelphia flyer close behind with a full head of steam on and not a hand to offer re straint No. 88, as if exultant irTitsun? wonted freedom, began her race with a de fiant roar and rumble and an utter disregard for consequences. It usually requires V minutes for an ordinary train to get through the first of the three sections of the long tunnels butwecn Lafayette dud Union sta-. tions. This morning No. 88 made the dis tance in about 30 seconds. Then it shot into the yawning mouth of No 2 section, and all that the amazed track walker beheld was a cloud of inky smoke picked out with flaming sparks. A UNIQUE SPECTACLE. When the flying mass of quivering iron, steam and noise flashed out of the last of the tunnelB and into.that bewildering net work of tracks' just b'eyond Union station, the spectacle was, to say the least, unique. From the smokb stack poured clouds of dark smoke, from every valve and escape pipe hissed jets of steam. The furnace doora were swan? aiar bv the tremendons momentum and the slumbering fires were fanned to white heat, and were sending forth tongues of flame. Singularly, enough, the engine stuck to the track and flashed through Union sta tion jnst as passengers were about getting into the 9 o'clock vestibule car train about to go to New York. The passengers were streaming through the station gates, and climbing up the platform of their train. Suddenly they heard a roar like that of thunder. Then they beheld a black mass belching forth steam and smoke, and then nothing but an echo of that selfsame roar and the lingering smoke were left. It re quired but the fraction of a minute for the runaway to swing over thebridge that spans Jones fall;. The rails led her toward Cal vert station. SOMETHING 07 A STAMPEDE. In front and jnst beyond the last sharp curve in her journey loomed up the depot. The rails pass along North street to Center, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the citv. As the wild engine passed along, vehicles on the line made for the pavement, and for a time there was a regular stampede. The man who kept bis wits about him was the switchman at Center street He saw the engine was rnnnlng wild, and then opened the switch, which sent the iron monster into a lot of empty cars which faced the big neathouse of Nelson, Morris & Co., agents lor Armour cc uo. In a twinkling the whole business shot into the side of the warehouse. There was a tremendous report and a sound of crack ing timbers, of falling brioks, and escaping steam. Then everything was shrouded in an impenetrable cloud of smoke and dust. Slowly the smoke cloud parted and the dost settled. Then the frightened spectators rnsHed into the yard. An astonishing sight met their gaze. A big ragged hole had been knocked in the massive wall of the Nelson, Morris & Co. building. The trout end of the car nearest the wall telescoped the rear end of the forward car, XA COMPLETE TVEECK. The ill-fated engine No. 88 layall tangled and twisted, as completely wrecked as though she had passed under a steamsham taer. The rear truck, which had suffered the brnnt of the collision, lay fully 20 feet away from the body of the tender, which was jammed into the front part of car 718. The cab of the locomotive was pressed against the roof of the car, and scraps of iron lay scattered about in every direc tion, while the brasswork entwined the big black boiler like a golden serpent The debris of the wreck was piled up on either side of the track for 100 feet or more. The runaway canted (tbe moat intense ex citement throughout the city. All sorts of reports prevailed with reference to loss of Hie, yet singularly enough, though passing through three crowded stations, through tunnels and an open street, no one was in jured. The damage will not exceed SiO.'OOO. NO DECISION AB IET. The English Government Is Waltlsc for ' Evidence la the Maybrick Case. LonIiok, August 19. Home Secretary Matthews is awaiting farther medical re ports before coming to a decision in the Maybrick case. The report will be snb mjtted to-morrow. The Parliamentary petition in behalf of Mrs. Maybrick, 'has been signed by 01 wembers of toe House of Commons. e uFSSJoWs. Heln 'ircbaers HONEYMOON 0E JAIL. Queer Way In Which an Antique Spinster Caught a Husband He Afterward Prefera Suicide to the Embraces of His Back-Number Spouse. rSFZCLU. TXLXOBXlt TO THX DISf iTCH.l , Vandama, Mo., August 19. The little town of Perry. 13 miles northwest of here, is the scene of a sensation that has set the whole county talking. Two months ago a store in the place was robbed, and about 200 worth of clothing stolen. Suspicion fell on Henry King, a young man of good character, but no arrest was made, as the great majority of the people believed him innocent. Three weeks after the burglary the people were astonished at the news that King had married a woman 15 years his senior. ' To-day the young "husband attempted snicide oy taking poison. While his friends were at work trying to save him he told them it was true that he was guilty of the burglary, and the fact was only known to one other person, the woman he married. She secured proof of his guilt before the marriage, and calling him up showed her E roofs and told him she would give him is choice of marrying her or going to the penitentiary. He pleaded in vain that he was "too young to marry yet," and "she was old enough to be his mother:" The old girl knew the value of her hand, and was relentless. Honeymoon or the jailwas her ultimatum, and the- poor fellow wilted and consented to be married. After hard work the doctors saved him, and he now says he prefers the penitentiary to the embraces ot his antique spouse. "Take me away and lock me up," he said to Constable Goldsmith. The woman was a spinster, and her reputation was without a flaw. The queer way in which she caught a husband has set he whole town laugning. HE PEELS ILL USED. Why Dr. Joseph T. Porter Resigned From the Army Ordered Off the Hetlred List and to Active Daly at a Moment's Notice. Jacksonville, August 19. Dr. Joseph V. Porter, Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army and State Health Officer of Florida, returned to Jacksonville from South Florida to-day. He found an order of the War Department awaiting him, di recting him to proceed to Jackson Barracks, La. He thinks he has been ill used in the matter, and makes the following statement: In 1834 1 was out on army duty at Browns ville. Texas, and got very ill with heart trouble. So bad was my attack that my friends thought I was going to die, and I was ordered home, a surgeon belnc detailed to accompany me. I recovered and returned of my own volition to my post but it as seen that I was not able to stand work, so an army .board of officers decided that I should be retired and a special order wasissned by the War Department June 15, 1585, giving m this release. It was only a qnestion of time before I should be placed on the retired list. This was the relation I bore to the army, and althouKh I bad never been called on since my retirement by the Government I have volun teered my services, and in the Eey West, Tampa and Jacksonville epidemics endeavored to do my duty, and now 1 think it very unjnst, without a word of warning, alter all these years to order me without a moment's notice away to another State, and especially after I bad been told I was never to go into active duty again. Of course bad the country been at war I would not have hesitated a moment bnt in these times it is differ ent There is something about this matter that I cannot understand. Evidently some influence has been at work, thongb what and why I cannot imagine. On Saturday 1 wired a long telegram thoroughly explaining the circumstances to Burgeon General Moore, of the army, but the Secretary of War refused to revoke the order and then, finding there was no other course, and feeling that I owed more to my State, which at present needed my watchful services, 1 sent In my resignation to day. " HAEEIBON AT CINCINNATI. The President Accepts an Invitation to Stop at That City. Cincinhati, August 19. Colonel Sidney D." Maxwell rushed up the stops of the rostrum at the Chamber of Commerce to-day with more than his wonted activity, with a telegraph dispatch in his hand. There was a hasty gathering about, and the Colonel then said: "Gentlemen of the Chamber of Commerce: 1 have just received the follow ing dispatch from Mr, J. R. Brown and the members of the Cincinnati committee who went to Deer Park to invite the. President to Cincinnati." Then he read the following: Colonel Sidney D. Maxwell, Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce: The President and Secretary Rnsk will reach Cincinnati on Wednesday morning, visit the Chamber Of Commerce and spend the day, leaving for Indianapolis in the ovenlng. CAPTDEED BI BLOODHOUNDS. White Convicts In Arkansas Make a Fntlle Attempt to Escape. Little Rock, Abk., August 19. Forty convicts located on the brickyard of the outskirts of this city entered into a con spiracy Saturday to make their escape. Only three of the number were nervy enough to successfully carry out their plana. During the excitement of the "quitting" hour Saturday afternoon these three (white men convicted of horse stealing) made a bolt for liberty, jumping the stockade fence in their flight They werfired upon without effect, bnt with the aid of bloodhounds two were capt ured in the near vicinity and the other near Hot Springs and brought back here. AN ICE MINE DISCOVERED. If These Geologists Could Bring: It Here They Would Soon Sport Diamonds. Portland, Ore., August 19. Latah county, Idaho, comes to the front with an ice mine. The discovery was made in Pine Creek Canyon, 2,000 feet above the sea; A chilling current of air coming from the direction of a bed of moss was the first thing that attracted the attention of a party of geologists to" it They removed the moss and discovered a vein of ice 600 feet long and from four to six inches thick. The several layenof bowlders, debris and ice alternated to a 'depth of 40 feet The geologists think this formation belongs, to the glacial period. HE LOST HIS BET. Nicholas Stoschler Went Ont to Kill But , Was Hilled Himself. Buffalo, N. T August 19. This morning Nicholas Moschler offered to bet $100 that he would kill some one before C p. m. He made the attempt in the after noon upon onoLang, a contractor with whom he had a feud. Lang crnshed Mosch ler's skull with an axe as the latter drew a knife on him. TARIFF EEF0E3I PICNIC. Missouri Enthusiasts Uecelve p. Letter of Regret Prom Graver Cleveland. Plattsbtjbo, Mo., August 19. Prep arations have beta completed here for the entertainment of 2,000 at the Tariff Reform picnic to be held here on Wednesday next The Committee of Arrangements to-day re ceived from ex-President Cleveland a letter expressing regret at his Inability to attend aojt indorsing the purpose of the pionlo. Thomas Edison Mow a Count. Paeis, August 19. A special envoy of King Humbert,"of Italy, to-day presented Thomas A. Edison, the famous American electrioian, with the insignia of a grand officer of the crown of Italy. Mr, Edison thus becomes a count and his wife a countess. 3fSS USSP If yon want Board. Room, Horaea or i, advertise In THE DISPATCH. can b0 found for everything; Sale In THE DISPATCH. 'ATCQ la the belt advertlslnc fLft'estern Pennsylvania. Try It. THREE CENTS HE'S A GAT DECEIVER. To Add to T. Linton Plucker's load of Misfortunes and to Make HIS STAY IN JAIL LESS BEAEABLE, A Beautiful Blonde Brings Salt Against Him for 10,000 Damages. HE WAS TO 1IAEE? HEE, AND DIDN'T. Her Wealthy Old Uncle AVild With Esge at the De sertion of His Pet The young Philadelphia, T. Linton Plucker, .who is in the Camden, N. J., jail, charged with passing a bogus check at John Wanamaker's store, has been sued by a beautiful young blonde for $10,000 dam ages for breach of promise. He laughs heartily at his qscapades. " rSFXCUI. TXLXOBJUC TO TUX DISPATCH.! Philadelphia, August 19. T. Linton Plucker, alias "Hon. Lionel Hareourt Harbury," has another charge to answer for. A young girl by the name of Belle Edwards, of S31 Benson street, Camden, hast entered a suit against him for breach of promise and the recovery of $10,000 dam ages. The case was placed in the hands of Lawyer Thomas P. Curley Saturday morn ing just previous to the young man's ar rest Lawyer Curley said to-day: "It appears that Plucker, under the name of Harbury, met the young girl at a card party in New York a year or more ago. Their acquaintance ripened by mutual con sent, and young Harbury, as the son of an English gentleman, was a frequent visitor at the house of her uncle on Fifty-second street, where she made her home. Tho uncle, Williston Edwards, a retired Chi cagoan, who had come to New York to live, was fascinated with the young man's agree able manners, rare intelligence, and, mora than all, HIS ENGLISH COITNECTIOHS and encouraged their intimacy. Young Harbury regaled them with stories of the beautiful palace house of his father, with its rich conservatory of flowers, its, spacious lawns, of the great numbers of liveried servants ready to do his bidding, of the im mense amount of silver plate, and of the gay life at court, until the uncle fairly doted on. him and the young girl adored him. "After a few visits Harbury proposed, and was accepted. Following the engage ment the two were always seen together. Plucker more than shared the liberal allow ance that was given the niece by her uncle, and freqnent loans were made from the latter on the strength of 'his drafts not having arrived. These were willingly granted, and Plucker was enabled to have a royal time. After indulging in a three weeks' roundof gayeMes, and GETTING AWAT WTOX A BIO AVAD of the ancle's money, Plucker became tired of an engaged life. He told his fiancee and her ancle that he had business Interests which called him to Philadelphia, and that he would not be able to return for several weeks. He seemed perfectly straight, and after a tender parting Plucker cama to Philadelphia. "At the end of the three .weeks Plucker failed to return to the house of his fiancee, and In the meantime his letters had becoma less and less frequent, and there was a cor responding decrease in the flow of affections. This looked rather suspicious, bat tho tender-hearted niece was being constantly assured by her uncle that her. 'dear Har bury' was unable to write more frequently because of the pressing nature of his busi ness, and that he would return as promised.' He didn't return, but A LETTEE-CASIE INSTEAD, stating that he was obliged fo immediately leave for England, as one of his brothers bad suddenly died. He assured his fiancee of his lasting affection, and that the parting, which must necessarily be for some few months, was, as disagreeable to him as to her. "This was the" last letter he ever wrote to her. She frequently sent letters addressed as he had told her, but there never came a reply. This desertion nearly sent the uncle wild with rage, as he fairly idolizes his niece, and does not sea how a man could be unfaithful to her without being a brute. He swore vengeance on Plucker, and deter mined to 'make the rascally Englishman pay for it' "When Miss Edwards, who has been boarding in Camden since May last, met Plucker on the street a few days ago, she at. once recognized her faithless lover, and im mediately wrote to her ancle, who came to Camden and promptly placed the case in my hand-, with instructions to enter suit.' SHE'S A, LOVELY BLONDE. Lawyer Curley describes Miss Edwardsh as being a beantiful blonde, of medium size, with merry blue eye's and light brown har. He says she has charming manners, and expressed great wonder at Plucker's ever breaking the engagement Her ancle was also depicted as an henorable old gen tleman, with kind and easy ways. Plucker passed a quiet day at the Camden jail. He spent the whole day in reading the papers and smoking cigarettes. "I consider the whole thing a joke, you know," he said, "and I am having a quiet laugh on these blawsted Jertoymen at the way I took them In. They are chockfnll of hayseed; it's sticking out of their hair." He is fully ' confident that he will soon be freed, and sends out a general invitation to all his friends to come to see him. IN PATOfi OP A TKTJST. A Philadelphia Table Glassware Man Wants to Organize u Combine. ISrZCXtL TBLIQEAM TO TUX PISrATCH.1 Philadelphia, August 19. In speak ingofthe proposed press glass combina tion or trust, a member of the firm of Glllin der & Sons, whose place, at 125 Oxford street, is the only table glass factory east of the Alleghenies, said to-day that the movement was yet in Its infancy, but that the day was not far distant when all the factories will be as one. "The great trouble in our business," said Mr. Oillinder." arises from competition, ana the sooner this combine is mads, the better is will be for us. Competition in the glass trada is raining us: that is, through or by it we can't f;et a fair remuneration for our output and abor. We make a living, and tbat is all. . Formerly a certain pattern of table ware lasted six or eight years. But now fac tories introduce new patterns each year, and all' In the trade must f ollow.snlt. The magni tude of expense U seen when I state that pat terns cost $3,000 to 110,000 per set Make tho combine, and one factory can use two patterns, and turn ont enoncb of the new design to corer.tbe trade. Tills Is but one of the many Items of expense that conld be ont off. Our factory went into blast to-day, but under tho old, not the new, system. Poisonous Ice Cream at a Picnic St. Paul, August 19. The memberi of the Cleveland Grove, TJ. A. O, D., went on a picnic to Steifel's Grove la West St. Pan! yesterday, and while there partook general ly of ice cream purchased from the proprie tor of the park. As a result over lOOpeopla were poisoned. It is not though tf however, that any of the cases will prove fatal. , Deadly Dynamite. Pesth, Augutt 19. A dmamlto carUx ridge accidentallyexploded in a coal rains " at Doman. 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