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FORTY-FOTJUTH YEAE.
MAY
SURPRISE QUAY
An Independent BepuWican
Bolt Beceives a Boost
OTARTON BABKER IN IT.
A Conference of the Leading Spirits
Soon to be Held.
MB. BAEKEE SAYS IT IS A SURE GO.
He Declares lliat the History of 1SS2 Will
be Eepcated.
MUCH DEPENDS O.N THE DEMOCBATS
Wharton Barker is quoted as tbe Eastern
leader of a proposed bolt of the Republican
Stats ticket this year. He declares there is
an element of the party that will not vote
for a cut-and-dried ticket any more than
they did in 1SS2. He says they will nomi
nate a ticket of their own, as was then done,
if any man of Senator Quay's selection is
nominated for Governor.
(SPECIAL TELEQKAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Philadelphia, January 19. "Any
candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania
who may be nominated by Senator Quav or
his adherents will meet with organized in
dependent Republican opposition." "Whar
tsn Barker puts forth this significant as
sertion in discussing the Gubernatorial
situation, but he declines to speak further
in explanation of his prophecy, saying: "It
is not time yet."
"While Mr. Barker will not speak further
on this topic, his recent utterances and the
threats of a Republican bolt, which have
been attributed to ex-Senator J. W. Lee, of
Venango county, clearly indicate the import
of Mr. Barker's predictions.
BBOEEN PLEDGES ALLEGED.
Mr. Barker has also said: "To the or
dinary observer of politics it might appear
that the process of nominating and electing
the Governor was several months distant
On the contrary, a part of the delegates to
the Bepublican Convention of 1890 have
already been elected, and they are gener
ally, if not entirely, in the control of Mr.
Qnay, to be used for the nomination of his
men. Of course, the procedure by which
the State convention is partly chosen a year
ahead of time is a breach of tbe substance of
the reform arrangement adopted in lS87,and
intended to prevent the repetition of such
scandals as had brought the party to the
verge of complete disruption. It was the
understanding of the party then that the
abuse should cease of choosing the delegates
a year in advance, under circumstances
which only the political manipulators had
b clew to, and where the issues w?re not
presented to the people.
A EEFORM SETBACK.
"But it is a convenient adjunct to tbe
spoils system, and helps to make it more
easy for Mr. Quay to name the Governor of
the State, and reform has had a setback in
Pennsylvania since Mr. Harrison entered
the "WTiite House, so that the good resolu
tions of the party in 1882 and 18S3 are cheap
ly held now by the dominant leaders."
A gentleman who was closely identified
with the Bepublican bolt against General
Beaver in 1882, and who is one of Mr Bark
er's friends, and echoes his views, said to
day: "Eight years ago General Beaver was
arbitrarily presented as a candidate
for Governor by Senator Cameron,
and the result was the nomination
of John Stewart by the independent
element in the Bepublican party, which
rose up against the cut-and-dried method of
naming candidates. The circumstances now
are substantially the same, and if Senator
Quay insists upon arbitrarily choosing a
man to receive the snpport ot the party,
there will be a bolt just as surely as there
was in 1882.
NOT BOLTING THE MAS.
"It makes no difference who the man may
be, it is the principle of the thing. The Be
publican party in Pennsylvania will not
submit to be dictated to by Senator Quay in
this matter. Although we didn't elect eight
years ago, we did succeed in defeating Sen
ator Cameron's man, by turning the inde
pendent vote over to the Democratic candi
date, and in this way we elected Gov
ernor Pattison. The spirit of eight
years ago is not dead, and
Senator Quay may see something that will
surprise him. It is too early yet to tell
definitely what will be done, and the course
of the independent Republicans depends
very largely upon what action the Demo
crats may take. If the Democrats name a
man for whom we can vote we shall turn in
for him, and with the independent Repub
lican vote the Democratic party could easily
carry the State this year."
A conference of the independents, in
cluding Lee, Emery, Phillips and Barker,
will be held in this city in a few weeks.
THE DEMOCBATS IN EARNEST.
There can be no better assurance to Dem
ocratic voters that their party is united and
will make a determined effort to win in this
year's campaigns than in the number of tax
receipts purchased. It is estimated that
30,000 members of the party will need tax
receipts for the February election. Senator
McAleer, ex-Postmaster Harrity and Dallas
Sanders, a committee of the partymanagers
yesterday deposited $8,500 with the Tax Be
ceiver to pay tor tax receipts. This sum
will secure 1T.000 receipts, and does not
represent the pnrchases made by individuals
or ward committees.
MAURICE BARRIH0RE ARRESTED.
Charged Willi Disorderly Conduct, bat Ho
Discomfits n Policeman.
rsrzcux, teuqbah to the DisrATcn.1
New Yobk, January 19. Maurice
Barrymore attended the nsual Saturday
night racket of the Lambs' Clnb. At 4
A. it. to-day be stood in Thirtieth street,
near Broadway, with Gns. Thomas, Colonel
Alfnend, and others, who bad just left the
club with him. Policeman Adams told
Barrymore that he was blocking the side
walk. A dispute arose, and the actor was
arrested for disorderly conduct.
Barrymore's friends testified that he told
the policeman that he would move on, and
that the policeman swore at him. He
started to the station house to complain, and
the policeman followed and arrested him.
Justice "White discharged Barrymore.
SOAKED ON SUNDAY.
Clemens olntlrr Taxed 813,000 for Trifling
With Miss Cnmmei-er's Affections
Colonel Icccrnoll Indlsnnnt
nt tho Tcrdlcr.
.frECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUX DISrATCH.1
New Yoek, January 19. There was
quite a crowd in Jndge Ingraham's court,
even if it was Sunday morning, when he
took the bench to-day to receive the verdict
in Caroline J. Cammercr's suit against
Clemens Muller for 100,000 damages for
breach of promise. The fair plaintiff was
not in court. It was said she was sick in
bed, exhausted by the excitement of the
trial. Dan Dougherty was not there either,
and Mr. Lewis, tbe junior counsel, looked
after Miss Cammerer's interests. The aged
defendent was on hand, and so was Mrs.
Richter. Colonel Ingersoll looked as
though he had had a premonition of bad
news.
The sealed verdict agreed upon by the
jury at 10:15 Saturday evening was opened
by Judge Ingraham, and read. It found
for the plaintiff $12,000 damages. The
spectators wanted to start a demonstration
ot approval, but it was checked. The
court declined to transact any business on
Sunday beyond the mere receiving and re
cording of the verdict, and directed Colonel
Ingersoll to defer his motion for a new trial,
etc, until to-morrow.
"it's an idiotic verdict," declared Colonel
Ingersoll, alter adjournment. ""We were
too high above the jury. If we had been
down nearer their level it would have been
all right "We shall carry the case to the
Court of last resort."
"Such a verdict is as bad as highway
robbery," was the exasperated comment of
the aged defendant, who was about to ex
press his feelings freely when Colonel Inger
soll took him by the arm, whispered con
solingly in his ear, and calmed him down.
"It's just about such a verdict as I ex
pected," was the comment of Mr. Lewis,
junior counsel for Miss Cammerer.
The jury at first stood 8 to 4 in favor of
aitss Uammerer. Xhe four were won over
to the side of the majority before very long,
and then it came to a settlement of the
amount of damages. The highest figure ad
vocated was 30,000 and the lowest 3,000.
MR. CARNEGIE TALKS.
There Is No Quarrel Concerning tho Man
ngeraent of tlio New Library Tho
Beat Plan Will Undoubt
edly be Adopted.
New Yobk, January 19. Andrew Car
negie talked to a reporter to-day about the
difference of opinion that had arisen in Al
legheny over the management of the fine
granite building which he gave that city
lor a public library, art gallery and music
ball.
"There is no auarrcl," said Mr. Carnegie,
"but an interesting discussion is going on
as to the best mode of organizing the insti
tution. Some persons favored having it
managed by a committee, others wanted to
allow the City Council to have full charge.
But the discussion will certainly result in
the best plan being adopted."
The statement that there was a contro
versy in Allegheny between the organiza
tion of American Mechanics and those of
Scotch birth, for the honor of conducting
the opening exercises, Mr. Carnegie said
was incorrect Both parties desired and
would receive representation on the occa
sion. "Do you intend making a similar gift to
Pittsburg?" asked the reporter.
"Yes," replied Mr. Carnegie, "I hope to
arrange with tbe city or Pittsburg to allow
me to bnild a,building something similar,
but on a larger scale there as soon as I get
the Allegheny gift off my hands, which will
be some time next month."
MERELY AN ACCOUNTING WANTED.
Irish National I.cngne Members Bather
Anxlons to See the Book.
rrr-ECiAi. telegkamto the Disr-ATcn.i
New Yobk, January 19. The feeling
among members of the Irish National
League in New York over the delay in call
ing a national convention is a strong one.
The requestor President Fitzgerald and Sec
retary Tutton, of the National League, who
said that a New York gentleman would act
as a member of an auditing committee to
examine Treasurer O'Reilly's accounts is
regarded as indicating the purpose of tbe
National officers not to call such a conven
tion at present
Prominent members of the New York
Municipal Council said to-dav that while
they had no reason to doubt that Treasurer
O'Reilly's accounts are all right, vet they
wanted to know what had been done with
the money, and so did the rank and file of
the League all over the country. All the
contributions of the United States now go
through Treasurer O'Reilly's hands, and
they believe a complete accounting should
be made annually as the constitution re
quires. WITH MURDER IN HIS MIND
John Low Visits Ills Wife, From Whom no
Was 'Separated.
tBFECXAX. TELEGRAM TO TH2 DISPATCH. 1
Rome, N. Y., January 19. A tew min
utes before 10 o'clock this evening the cry
of murder was heard in the house of John
Law, who attempted to murder his wife
Phyllis. The couple are English and about
GO years old. She has not lived with her
husband for some years, owing to his cruel
and inhuman treatment of her. This even
ing Mrs. Law met her husband, who asked
to go in the house with her. She replied:
"Not to-night; come around to-morrow."
To which he responded: "To-morrow won't
do," and he shot her. The ball struck her
in the left temple, and she reeled to the
ground. The would-be murderer then shot
at his young son, who stood by, but failed.
The police lound Law near by. He was in
the act of taking his own life, bavintr one
hand on the hilt ot a pocket-knifo and the
blade thrust in his throat.
CHICAGO COOPERS TO STRIKE.
Their Demand for IHshcr Wnges Refused
by tbe Employers.
Chicago, January 19. It is possible
that the coopers employed in the shops con
nected with the packing house at the stock
yards will strike to-morrow. Delegates
from 40 shops met privately this afternoon
and so decided, according to several of the
delegates. The men are receiving SO cents
for barrels and 35 cents for tierces.
The cause of the proposed strike is the re
fusal of their demand for an increase of 5
cents. This is the busy season and the
coopers are confident of success.
A WEDDING NECESSARILI 0PP.
The Bridegroom Arrested on tbe Eve of Bis
Proposed Marriage.
rBrECIAL TELXOBAIC TO TITS DISPATCH. 1
New Yobk, January 19. Charles Palk
enheim and Charles Falhcky, canvassers in
TJtica for the Prudential Life Insurance
Company, ol Newark, were arrested last
night ou warrants issued bv City Jndge
Gafiney, of Utica, charging them with
swindling the company.
P&Ikenheim was found at the residence of
Miss Bley, his intended bride. He was to
have been married to-day.
BEHIND A BATTLE.
What Was Concealed by tbo Smolto of a
Legal Conflict A Bridge Syndicate
That Wants to Gobblo
tho Reading.
1EFECIAL TELEOBAM TO TUB DISPATCH.!
Philadelphia, January 19. Daring
the battle lately about the control of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany the cannonading was so loud and the
smoke so dense that attention was diverted
from the real character of the aggressors,
and the actual motive for their struggle was
obscured. It is now perfectly clearthat
back of the leeal proceedine is a
syndicate of wealthy Philadclphians
who are deeply in earnest in their effort to
obtain control of the Reading Railroad
Company and its great coal property and
consequent heavy coal tonnage. Thenrin
cipal object is to control the Reading in the
interest of the Poughkeepsie Bridge Com
pany. The preliminary steps were taken
with so much adroitness that the Pough
keepsie bridge syndicate already controls a
majority of Reading stock.
At the Reading annnal meeting everyone
was surprised to see W. "V. Gibbs, one of
the active workers, among the opposition.
Mr. Gibbs' action was very significant He
was formerly President of the Poughkeepsie
Bridge Company, and is regarded as the
father of the present organization. John 8.
Wilson, the present President of the Bridce
Company, was formerly General Traffio
Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, and he understands full well the ad
vantage it would be to his company to have
the Reading as a feeder, supplying anthra
cite coal to be forwarded to New England.
Through an auxiliary corporation known
as the Central New England and Western
Railroad Company the Poughkeepsie
Bridge syndicate is rapidly acquiring the
control of lines of railway on either side of
the Hudson river, and already arrange
ments have been made to connect with the
Reading system. An alliance has been
formed with the Boston and Maine, giving
access to Northern New England, and when
tbe control of tbe Reading is obtained that
road, together with the Baltimore and Ohio,
will give the Poughkeepsie Bridge system
a continuous line of railway over 4.000
miles long, uniting New England, New
York, Pennsylvania and the West
LAWYERS TO BE LICENSED.
A Scheme to Secure a Quorum In tbe North
Dakota Legislature.
Bismabck, N. Dak., January 19. The
House convened yesterday morning before
sunrise, and under a call of the House the
absentees in bed and at breakfast were sum
moned to the Capitol by the Sergeant at
Arms. The farmers thought they had the
best of the lawyers in the unusual hour, but
the lawyers made an extra effort and got
there on time. The business of the forenoon
was the consideration of the revenue bill.
Upon the matter of licensing lawyers two
reports were brought in, the minority
favoring license. Lawyers favored the
adoption of the minority report, which was
adopted and the bill for license recom
mended to pass.
The Senate asked the Attorney General
to give an opinion on this question: "Is
that portion of the main line of the North
ern Pacific in this State taxable as other
Eroperty is taxed?" The railroad company
olds it is exempt under the terms of its
charter when this was a Territory, and the
change of condition has not, in the opinion
of the company, removed the exemption.
FORMING AN ELECTRIC TRUST,
New York Light and I'nwer Companies Cut
Una Each Other's Throats.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO III DISPATCH.!
New Yobk, January 19. There is talk
now of a trust or combination of some sort
among the various electric light and
power companies doing business in and
around New York. An official
of one of the smaller companies
told a Dispatch reporter to-night that the
companies would have to come to it whether
they wished so or not, because of the cut
throat condition of the trade.
"I know one case in Wall street," said he,
"where one company got a contract tor put
ting its plant into a big office building at a
price which left a modest margin of profit.
An opposition Company being old and
wealthy was willing to do the work
at cost, for the sake of keeping it away,from
the other company. The fact of the matter
is that no company has all the good patents.
Some of the newer companies have better
dynamos than the old ones, but the old ones
have more capital; and so the fight has got
down to price cutting. This thing cannot
go on longer."
IN SEARCH OP A HUSBAND.
Birmingham Soclnl Circles Excited Over a
Tcxhb Woman's Story.
ISPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
Bibmikgham, Ala., January 19. This
morning a well-dressed young lady arrived
in tbe city, and at one of the leading hotels
registered as Mrs. Charles R. Miller, Dallas,
Tex. She sent for the manager of the hotel
and explained that she married Charles R.
Miller, of this city, in Texas, seven years
ago. She said he deserted her immediately
alter the ceremony, without a word of ex
planation, and she heard nothing from him
until a few days ago, by accident
Miller is the son of a wealthy banker, and
prominent inbusiness and social circles. He
was supposed to be unmarried, and it is re
ported that he is now engaged to a promi
nent young society lady ot a neighboring
city. "
REPUBLICANS IN OKLAHOMA
Indorse tbe Harrison Administration nnd
Welcome Colored Emigrants.
St. Louis, January 19. The Oklahoma
Republican Convention, after a two days'
session, adjourned last night. A territorial
executive committee of twelve members was
elected to Iookufter the interests of the party,
and resolutions were adopted indorsing the
Republican national platform and the Har
rison administration; thanking friends in
Congress for their efforts in behalf of Okla
homa. The necessity of an early Territorial
Government is urged, and tho party extend
a hearty and cordial welcome to all honest
and industrious colored "men as emigrants to
Oklahoma, and pledges to them the enact
ment of laws, guaranteeing to colored citi
zens the same rights and privileges as those
enjoyed by the whites.
MURDERED BY MEXICANS.
Two Members of n Party of Prospectors
Killed by Robbers.
San Angelo, Tex., January 19. A pri
vate letter from Fort Davis contains the
statement that while three prospectors and
their families were encamped near that
place they were attacked by Mexicans and
two of tbe men killed.
The other man, with the women and
children managed to escape. The murderers
plundered the camp, took the horse3 and es
caped. THOUGHT IT WAS A BLUFF.
DenTer's Sheriff Does Not Sncceed In Clos
ing; Up tbe Saloons.
DENVER, January 19. Notwithstanding
the order issued by Sheriff Barton yesterday
that all saloons should be closed to-day,
with very lew exceptions they remained
open as on week days. No attempt was
made to forcibly close them. It is expected
a number of proprietors will be arrested tomorrow.
PITTSBURG, MONDAY,
A KNIFE IN TIE BRAIN
Removes a Tumor and Changes the
Patient's Temperament.
REMARKABLE SURGERY AT HOME.
The Case of 12-Tcar-0Id Alice Coll, of Oak
land, is Interesting.
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PARALISIS AND CONVULSIONS GONE,
And a Oat-Handed Child Piinlsle
Transformed.
Is Seemingly
It always pays to read a good newspaper.
Reading The Dispatch has led Plumber
Coll, of Oakland, to resort to su6h heroic
surgery as to restore to his household,
unimpaired, his 12-year-old daughter,
Alice, whose brain and body had both
suffered for upwards of 11 years as the
result of a tumor on a chief nerve center
ot the brain. The remarkable surgical
operation which has changed her tempera
ment will go on record.
A wonderful surgical operation with won
derful results has been performed in Pitts
burg, and Disease falls once more before
Science.
In their pleasant Oakland home, on At
wood street near Bates, live Mr. Benard F.
Coll and his interesting family. Mr. Coll
is at present with the Westinghouse Air
brake Co., and is a member of the pinmbing
firm of Payne & Coll. Alice, a child
of 12 years, is one of his joys, and it was
upon the brain of this little girl that this
dangerous operation was successfully per
formed. The surgeon who performed the operation
absolutely refused to give any information
about the matter, saing that it would in
jure him among the profession, as it would
appear like an advertising scheme. His
assistants also refused to give the writer any
further light on the subject than an admis
mission of the fact that the operation had
been performed.
FULL PAKTICULABS OBTAINED.
The father, however, gave the following
particulars to the writer: "When Alice was
6 months of age she suffered a fall, striking
her head on the corner of the stair. For a
week after this accident she writhed in con
vulsions, and after tho convulsions ceased
her left side seemed to be partially para
lyzed. When she was about 4 years old she
began again to have convnlsions. They
were at first slight, of short duration and
not very frequent. But as she grew older
they increased in severity, were of longer
du-stion and came oltener.
. 'These convulsions were likely to come
upon her at any time, and we wero afraid
to allow her out of our sight. Whenever
she was attacked, the muscles of her face
would begin to twitch, she would shriek,
her left arm would begin to work, then her
left leg, and then her whole body would
work likewise. When the convulsion was
over she .would draw a long breatb'and col
lapse, remaining unconscious for probably
an hour or more.
A ONE-HANDED PIANISTE.
"Alice was a bright child. She was very
fond of music, and could play the piano
with her one useful hand. She could press
the keys with her contorted left hand, but
could not turn thehand around or straighten
out the fingers. Her memory was very good.
We never sent her to school, on
account of these terrible convulsions. She
was taught at home. This left arm and hand,
over which she had no control, were always
held in a contracted way, except when she
slept; then the muscles relaxed and the
members conld be straightened.
"Well, I became aware, through an exam
ination made by the doctor some time ago,
that there was something wrong with the
child's brain. At that time an attempt was
made to reach the trouble with medicine.
This, while it helped her, afforded no per
manent relief. About seven weeks ago I
read in The Dispatch of a similar case in
Philadelphia, which had been successfully
operated upon by Dr. Keen. I commenced
to look the matter np then, and determined
to have my child relieved of this torture, if
possible, and I resolved that, if I could get
no surgeon in Pittsburg to perform the op
eration, I wonld take my child to Dr. Keen.
HOW THEY PERFORMED IT.
"One day I met Dr. R. W. Stewart, of
Allegheny, who had treated the case for
some time, and asked him about the opera
tion. The result of this was that an opera
tion was decided upon, to take place n
week agolast Wednesday. At the appointed
time Dr. Stewart and five other doctors ar
rived prepared to perform the operation.
It lasted about one hour. I witnessed it.
After an anaesthetic had been administered
and my little daughter had lost conscious
ness, a circular cut was made in the scalp,
a 'hinge' being left and the flap laid back.
Then, with the trephine, a piece of the skull.
right over the part of the brain in which
center the nerves ot the face, was
removed, disclosing the tumor, tbe cause of
all the little one's sufferings. From Dr.
Stewart's diagnosis he had concluded that
the tumor was at this spot, and there it was.
It was as large as a duck egg. Another
piece of the skull, over the parts of the
brain in which center the nerves of the left
arm and leg, was removed, to make sore that
there was nothing on the brain there. It was
found to be clean. A rubber drain, to take
off any matter that might possibly remain,
was inserted in the wound and the latter was
closed up.
"The operation was a success. The little
patient Is getting along very nicely, her ap
petite is good, and 6he sleeps regularly.
As you saw, in conversing with her,
she has not had a bit of pain, and the
wound is nearly healed. The rubber 'drain
is being removed, little by little. I expect
her to be out ot bed by Sunday. She seems
even brighter than she was before, nnd has
control of her arm.
A 2TATDBAL BELIEF.
"Ton cannot imagine how happy I am
over the complete success of the operation,
and how gratelul I am to science. I be
lieve there are hundreds of bases like that of
my daughter, and I feel it my duty to let
the community know what has been done
for her. As I said before, I first learned of
a successful operation through tho news
paper." Upon being told that Dr. Stewart would
give no information about the case, Mr.
Coll said that he would do nothing that he
thought would injure Dr. Stewart. "I do
not think that this, comine from me, will in
any way injure Dr. Stewart or his assist
ants," said he. Dr. Stewart's assistants
were Drs. Joseph N. Dickson, Brockerhoff,
Robeson, "Ward and Mover.
This branch of surgery, which is called
"regional surgery." is in its inf.mcy. There
have been comparatively few of these oper
ations, and this is believed to have been the
first one in this vicinity. The possibilities
or relief to thousands of wretched sufferers
through this new branch of surgery, are
manifold.
JANUARY 20, 1890.
DE.0'EEILLY EXCITED.
He Indlcnnntly Resents Any Irapntatlon on
Ills Honesty Ho Himself Suggested
an Investigation at Land
Lcngae Accounts.
tSFECIAL TILEOIIAM TO TOB DISPATCH.1
Detboit, .January 19. Dr. Charles
O'Reilly laughed ironically to-day when
The Dispatch correspondent suggested
that an answer to the hint of crookedness in
the financial management of the American
Land league would make interesting read
ing. He replied:
It's very strange that a man wrong in his ac
counts should call for a committee to investi
gate those accounts; that to cover np a defal
cation there isn't the shadow ot an excuse for
tbe intimation that my accounts aro not cor
rect. When I returned from Europe I
went to Lincoln, Neb., and suggested
to the President of the League that
as no convention had been called since 1SS0. a
committee should make a thorough investiga
tion of the financial affairs of the League. This
demand was made by me because of the fact
that incriminations reflecting npon my hon
esty have been in circulation for more than
six months. The purpose is to injure the
League. It has been hinted by irresponsible
persons, and published in some newspapers,
that the League aud the Clan-na-Gael aro
identical: that tho League Is controlled by tbo
Cla n, and, indeed, that the Leagoe is connected
with that particular wing of the Clan-na-Gael,
in the folds of which tho public are still look
ing for the source of the Cronin murder. The
fact is tbe National League Is an open organi
zation, whose moneys must be openly accounted
for. No member of the Clan-na-Uael. known
t o be s neb, has any right to bo in the League,
lliey aro excluded by a by-law passed in 1883.
With a special view to keeping tho League
from any complicity in the acts of any secrot
organization, I called for a board of auditors to
give a pubhe-accounting of the funds intrusted
to me since tho Chicago convention. Tbe se
lection of tho cammittee has been left to tbe
President of the League, and It is to be chosen
from all parts of the United States and
Canada, and I think that when it appears in
Detroit or elsewhere tbe personnel will well
satisfy tho public as to its character for probi
ty. If a shortage shall be discovered; if it
shall bo shown tbat the League has been pay
ing money to any organization other than the
League or Ireland, lor any other purpose
than the attainment of home rnle in
Ireland, then I hope tbat the auditors will
expose the wrong at once. If they don't, I will.
I shall certainly publish a statement of all re
ceipts and disbursements, and will givo this
report to any newspaper tbat will print it
Dr. O'Reilly was greatly excited as he
talked, and denounced his traducers in no
measured terms. He was particularly se
vere upon a Chicago Repnblican newspa
per which, he said, had been noticeably un
fair in the treatment accorded him. Father
O'Reilly's talk is in his own language
throughout.
ANOTHER VICTIM
Of the Influenza Scourco Succnmbi nt
the Nntionnl Capital Death of Or
low W. Cbapman, Solicitor Gen
eral of tbe United States.
"Washington, January 19. Mr. Orlow
W. Cbapman, Solicitor General of the
United States, died at his residence in this
city at 8 o'clock this morning of catarrhal
affection of the kidneys, aggravated by an
attack of the grip. His death was peace
ful and painless, and he passed away sur
rounded by his wife, Attorney General Mil
ler, who has been with him almost con
stantly during bis illness; Mrs. Miller, the
wife of the Attorney General, and Dr.
Johnson, the attending physician, who had
been at the bedside during the greater part
of the night.
Mr. Chapman was first taken ill about
three weeks aco with the grip. He re
covered from this attack and insisted upon
immediately resuming his duties at the of
fice. His exposure resulted in a relapse ac
companied by very serious complications in
atQiioji to the grip. He suffered from
catarrhal trouble of the head and the in
tense pain in his ears made him restless and
prevented sleep. The catarrh extended to
the throat and also to the kidneys, aggra
vating an old tronble from which he had
suffered for some time, but which he incor
rectly attributed to lumbago.
On Friday night he became dangerously
ill. The disease progressed very rapidly
from that time until his death, which came
after he had been unconscious for four or
five hours. Mr. Chapman leaves a wife but
no children. His home was in Binghamton,
N. Y., and the remains will be taken there
to-morrow for interment. Funeral services
will be held here to-morrow afternoon at the
late residence of the deceased and will be
attended by the President, the members of
the Cabinet, the Justices of the Supreme
Court and a few personal friends.
THE UNIVERSITY ASSURED.
Marshall Field Donates the Site for the
New Bnptist Institution.
Chicago, January 19. It was announced
this evening tbat Mr. Marshall Field has
supplied a site for the proposed New Baptist
University. He has done it by donating
for that purpose ten acres of land valued
at 8100,000. The tract is in the
southern part of the city and fronts
on Ellis avenue between Fifty-sixth and
Fifty-seventh streets. Mr. Field's gift fills
the last of the requirements, of tbe origin
ator of the University project, J. D. Rock
efeller, the oil king. Mr. Rockefeller,gave
5600,000 to found a university on condition
that $400,000 more should 'be raised, and
that none of the total of $1,000,000 should
be used for tbe purchase of a site.
The value of Mr. Field's land, together
with the money already raised, more than
completes the million. It is intended, how
ever, to consider it as no part of tbat sum,
but to complete tbe round amount regard
less of the Field donation.
FATALLY SCALDED THEIR BROTHER.
Two Boys Dip n Yonnger Brother In a Tub
of Hot Water.
(SrZCIAt. TELEOBAM TO THB DISPATCH.1
Birmingham, Ala., January 19. Near
Abbeyville, Henry county, F'iday, there
was a hog-killing on the plantation of Mr.
Charles Martin. His three little boys,
from 4 to 10 years of age, were interested
spectators of the killing and scalding of
the hogs. After the work was finished a
large tub of hot water was left at the
slaughter pen. While the men were all in
tbe house the three boys were playing about
the tubs. Tbe ttfo older ones decided it
would be a good joke to dip their 4-year-old
brother in the water, as they had seen the
hogs dipped.
( They did not know hot it was, and
plunged the boy in up to bis neck. Before
they could get him out he was fatally
scalded, and died in a Ur minutes.
ATE THE FOOD OP A JOSS.
An Insane Chtnnmnn Who Had No Fear of a
Hereafter.
(SPECIAL TELErtBAJI TO TH DISPATCH. 1
New York, January 19. Ah Jim, a
Mongolian, was arraigned at the Tombs
Police Court to-day on a charge of insanity.
He went into the Chinese Joss house, on
Mott street, and ate three pigs' feet from the
altar. He was committed. The Joss is a
fine, healthy-looking fellow. His people,
once every week, supply the table in'front
of the shrine where he "hangs, with all the
delicacies of the season.
Until two months ago Joss was supposed
to stay his appetite by inhaling the aroma
of tho feast and the smoke of the incense.
Every Sunday the stale viands were re
placed with iresb food. One Sunday, when
the attendant examined the table, be found
that half of the roast pig bad been devoured.
Ah Jim was lonnd under Joss table.
Snllnbory Needs a Change of Air.
London, January 19. Lord Sa isbury,
who has been suffering from influenza, will
go to the south of France to reouperate.
JOHN KTJSKIN INSANE
Tho Famous English Literary Leader
Hopelessly Afflicted.
SECRECY KO LONGER POSSIBLE.
Twin Sons of a Deceased Earl Claim Their
Father's Title.
A CORKER MADE IN CASHED SARDINES.
Great Disaffection Exists Among the Officers of the
Russian Army.
John Raskin's mind, which has been de
clining for a number of years, is now in a
hopeless condition. .His friends are very
reticent npon the subject. A Russian offi
cer has shot himself to avoid arrest. The
situation at Lisbon remains unchanged.
London, January 19. John Ruskin,
the great leader in English critical litera
ture, has become hopelessly insane. There
has been a great deal of whispered talk in
the upper art circles of London for months
past concerning Mr. Buskin's condition,
and the peculiar circumstances by which he
is environed. There has been no public
comment on the matter because of the gen
eral desire among his most intimate friends,
Swinburne, Burne Jones and others, to
have nothing said about it.
Mr. Ruskin's mind has been gradually
failing for seven or eight years. The first
public suspicion of the fact occurred at
Oxford in 18S6, when, after delivering
several lectures of a series, be broke down
during the delivery of one, became inco
herent on the platform, and greatly
exercised the feelings of the sympathetic
audience. He delivered no more lectures
there, and the matter was hushed up. His
health improved, and in 1888, on the occa
sion of his last visit to London, ha went to
the Academy,Grosvenor and other galleries,
in the company of Oscar Wilde, and was
never more perspicacious in comment or
brilliant in conversation.
HIS LIFE AT BRENTWOOD.
Of his life at Brentwood very little is
known. In July last, however. Miss Kate
Greenaway went to visit him, but her stay
was brought to a sudden termination by an
unfortunate occurrence. In company with
Mr. Ruskin she went out on the moor back
of Brentwood to make some watercolor
sketches. In the midst of her work she
noticed her companion was acting and look
ing strangely and talking incoherently.
Suddenly he seized her colors and large
brush and angrily daubed paints of all
kinds all over her sketches. She ran back
to the house and informed Mrs. Severn, who
sent an attendant out for him, she having
had an attendant in waiting on him ever
since his return.
Since that time Mr. Ruskin has been
necessarily confined to bis own house. No
one outside of Brentwood people has seen
him since August In November reports
reached London of his having had a violent
paroxysm, during which he brbke all tbe
windows of his room. Since that time he
has lain in bed continnously. He refuses
all except liquid food, and manifests no de
sire to get up. He is steadily growing
weaker, and the probability is that if he
ever leaves his bed he at all events will never
go out of the house again.
HIS MEDICAI, ATTENDANT.
Bis doctor" is Charles Powers, a local
practitioner of middle age. There has been
some rather critical comment among the
specialists of London over the fact that so
eminent a man, whose conditions undoubt
edly demand the care of a specialist in
mental disease, should have a physician
who, while a capable general practitioner,
has not the special ability which the case
imperatively needs. Mr. "Buskin's family
physician is Dr. Aclands, of Oxford, a life
long friend, but a difference of opinion be
tween them in 1875, deprived him thereafter
of Dr. Acland's services. Mrs. Severn, Dr.
Powers and two attendants now have him
in charge, andall being reticent in the mat
ter very little is known hero as to what goes
on.
The house is a wonderful treasury of art
and other valuables whose value can not be
estimated. The owner, in 12 years past, has
spent over 100,000 on artistio gems of va
rious kinds, and these, in addition to his
many presents from friends, make a won
derful collection. There are contribntions
from many great English and foreign artists,
sketches innumerable, and a collection of
precious stones. Among his remarkable
possessions are 300 missals, some of them
illuminated, and the rest in grisaille, which
are worth a small fortune in themselves, as
they comprise one-fourth of the entire
number in existence.
THE DUKE OP AOSTA'3 DEATH.
Ho Expires In tbe Arms of His Brother,
King Humbert.
Rome, January 19. On the arrival of
King Humbert at his brother's bedside yes
terday the Duke said: "You see, Humbert,
I allowed myself to be tortured with reme
dies in order to be kept alive to die in your
arms." Tho Duke remained conscious to
the last, encouraging his wife and sons,
whom he recommended to the care of King
Humbert.
By the Dnke's own wish the body will
not be embalmed, there will be no lying in
state, and the remains will be placed in the
family tomb at Superga. If there had been
a state funeral the German Emperor would
have been present.
RUSSIAN OFFICERS ARRESTED.
One of Them Blows Oat His Brains to Avoid
Coming; Imprisonment.
DT DCSLAP'8 CABLE COMPANY.
St. Petersburg, January 19. Great
disaffectionjs reported as existing among
the officers of the Russian army and navy.
Many of them have been arrested and orders
are signed hourly for further arrests.
Colonel Voilikoff, of the Imperial Horse
Guards, blew out his brains with a revolver
to escape imprisonment.
MILITARY IN READINESS.
Troablo Feared in Connection With tho
(strikes In Belsinm.
Brussels, January 19. The infantry
has been confined to the barratks to-day in
readiness for any emergency in connection
with tbe labor tronbles. A squadron of
cavalry has gone to Charleroi, where the
miners are arming themselves with axes and
other implements, and assuming a threat
ening attitude.
Tcrrlflc Galo on tbe Irish Ben.
London, January 19. A terrific gale, ac
companied by thunder and lightning, pre
vailed to-day on the Irish Sea. Much dam
age was done to property along the coast.
Several persons were killed by lightning
and a number were drowned.
Emin Pasha Has nn Abscess.
Zanzibar, January 19. Emin Pasha
is suffering from an abscess of the exterior
of the skull, which has caused partial par
alysis of the tongue. He sees no Europeans
except a German doctor.
Spain Still In BlfflealtleV.
Madbid, January 19. Senor Martinez,
who was summoned by the Queen Regent to
form a Cabinet, has been unable to accom
plish the task.
x x'co.
:Y
A CORNER
NES.
The Price of the Cannes O
Has Been
Raised in EN OC.
PX DUSLAP'S CABLE Ki
London, January 19. Tv & sensa
tion in business circles here -r .iter
national corner in sardines. TV aounce
menthas caused much anxiety among the
fishermen who live by the sardine fishery on
the French-Atlantic seaboard. They trem
ble lest the bread be taken out of their
mouths, and English, Belgian and Germans
unite in a sardine syndicate.
The sardines used for tinning are mostly
canght on the coasts of France and Portugal,
and the headquarters of the market is now
Nantes, in which town the secret of prepar
ing and tinning the delicacies is jealously
guarded. This accounts lor the difficulty in
effecting a monopoly or transferring the
business to another port. The price of
canned sardines is already raised.
A TITLE IN DISPUTE.
Tbo Claims of Twins Slake c Compromise
Arrangement Necessary.
BT DOTTLAP'S CABLE COMPAKY.I
London, January 19. The death of Lord
Napier, of Magdala, has given rise to a
somewhat curious complication. The de
ceased nobleman left two sons, twins, Rob
ert and George. After much discussion
among doctors and nurses, as to which en
tered this world first, the family decided
that Robert shonld inherit the title. George
thought of contesting this decision, and of
appealing to Parliament to divide tbe
honors, as there are two titles.
As a compromise the family council in
fluenced by the fact that Robert, though
married, has no child and that George must
eventually inherit everything, propose to
give George a handsome annuity and one of
the titles. There is no paralel case in the
history of the British peerage.
PORTUGUESE STILL KICKING.
Protests Against the British Ultimatum Are
Being Extensively Slcned.
Lisbon, January 19. Protests against
the British ultimatum are displayed on
tables in the public squares here and
have been signed by many persons. A
meeting was called for to-day in Camoen's
Square to protest against the action of the
British Government, but it proved a fiasco.
Tbe Government organs deny that changes in
the Cabinet are pending.
The Commercial Association has sent a
communication to tbe King expressing re
gret at the dispute which has arisen between
England and Portugal. A number of
British merchants have written to the
Traders' Association saying tbat they hope
that the old friendly understanding between
the two countries will soon be restored.
BRAZIL'S FINANCIAL PLANS.
Three Government Isaac Banks With a Cap
Ital of $250,000,000.
London, January 19. The Brazilian
Government has issued a decree dividing
the country into three banking districts,
and providing for three issue banks with a
capital of $2o0,000,000 in Government stock,,
the circulation of each bank's notes to be
confined to its own district.
The per cent of the earnings will be ap
plied to tbe redemption of the capital stock.
HE WILL NOT ABDICATE,
Tbe Emperor of Austria Will Hold Fast to
His Throne.
BT DUNLAP'S CABLE COMP'AHT.
Vienna, January 19. The report of the
intended abdication of the Emperor of
Austria is officially and emphatically de
nied. The story, though so persistently cir
culated, has no foundation whatever. His
Majesty is much annoyed by these rumors.
A BOLD ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY
Frustrated by a Flacky Porter Who Used
a Loaded Revolver.
Cleveland, January 19. About 9
o'clock this forenoon a colored man walked
up to the front door of the P. L. Miles Jew
elry Company store on Enclid avenue, put a
board against the door, climbed up and
opened the transom, through which he
entered. A few minutes later pistol shots
were heard and the colored man came
from the store, plunging through the plate
glass in the door. He was iollowed by a..
S. Johnson, the porter of the store, with a
smoking revolver in his hand.
The colored man and a confederate who
had been stationed outside took to their
heels and disappeared in the crowd which
collected. It was a bold attempt at burglary
and but for Johnson's pluck in the use of
his revolver it would have succeeded.
Johnson was in bed in the rear end of the
store when the colored man entered, and
was awakened by the noise he made.
MRS. FOSTER'S CAMPAIGN.
She Speaks la Favor of the New Non-Partl-snn
Tcmpernnco Orsanlzatlon.
Cleveland, January 19. Mrs. J. Ellen
Foster, ot Iowa, who is here to attend the
convention of the non-partisan W. C": T. IT.,
which begins on Wednesday next, ad
dressed two large meetings to-day, in the
morning at the First M. E. Church and in
the evening at Mnsic Hall. Mrs. Foster
explained the object of the new organiza
tion to be the promotion of temperance re
form, with no side issues. She said she
believed that women should be allowed to
vote, and was in favor of dress reform, but
these things, she said, would not be sought
for by the non-partisan W. C. T. TJ.
The recent political phase of the W. C.
T. V. work, she said, had driven many
workers from the old order. The new order
would profit by the mistakes of the old,
and wonld wish all godspeed in the work
of reform.
STRIKING FOR A SNUG SUM.
Georce A. Walworth's SultAealasl James
Verner Is for 8100,000.
rBFICTAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
Teot, N. Y., January 19. A motion
will be made Monday, before Judge May
ham, of Albany, for an order to serve by
publication the summons and complaint, in
Troy and New York newspapers, of a notice
of suit against James K. Verner, of Pitts
burg, for $100,000. The complainant is
George A. Walworth, ol New York. A
second application for a referee in divorce
proceedings will be made before the special
term judge at Albany, on the 28th, with
Verner as co-respondent
For some time parties have been making
an effort to serve papers on Verner. but have
been unable to find him.
SECRETARY BLAINE MAI RESIGN.
The Death of His Son nnd His Own Health
the Cause.
ftirECIAL TXLXOBAM TO Till DISPATCH. 1
Washington, January 19. It is gener
ally believed now, that owing to the death
of his son Walker, Secretary Blaine will
soon withdraw fiom the Cabinet.
His health has not been good for some
time, and Walker relieved him of a large
proportion of the exacting duties of the po
sition. A Large DIeetlnz.
Moorhead Hall was crowded last night.
The temperance services were conducted by
Mrs. J. M. Allen. Addresses were made
by Mrs. L Turney, Mrs. B. H. Jones, J. M.
Powell and others. A large number of
pledge signers were obtained.
THREE CENTS
ALL II A QUANDARY.
Ifio Master Builders Yet Divided on
the Eignt-Qour Question.
THEY MAI AGREE KEXT WEEK,
At Their National Convention, Which is to
he Held in St. PanL
FEARS OF A DISTURBANCE OF W0EK
All Tbat PrtTents Them From Agreeing ts Try the
Snorter Day.
President Tucker, of the Building Trades'
Club of New York, talks of the eight-hour
agitation from an employers' standpoint.
He sees advantages and disadvantages in
the proposed change. He thinks the Master
Builders' Association may agree to the
eight-hour working day, but not until after
a spirited discussion.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TITE DIS"ATCII.1
New Yoek, January 19. The National
Convention of the Master Builders' Asso
ciation of the United States will convene in
St. Paul on Monday next. John J. Tucker,
President ot the Building Trades Club, of
this city, and Marc Eidlitz, both of whom
are directors of the National Association,
will start on Thursday for St. Paul. In
speaking of the convention to-day, Presi
dent John J. Tucker said that the most ex
citing topic that would come before it was
the eight-hour work day. He continued:
I mnst confess that I am in a quandary my
selr over tbe matter. In the agitation for
shorter hours I have never been foremost, only
that I have insisted that the workingmen might
give us earlier notice of these things than they
do. Some years a:o, when tbey began the
nine-hoar agitation, we bad an agreement
drawn up and tbe signatures of all of us affixed,
whereby all of ns falthf nlly promised to con
tinue work for the coming year as we had tbo
past Pretty soon the cry for nine hours was
raised, and a committee called to tell ns thas
tbey wanted nine hoars. Our spring contracts
were all made, and it was impossible for us to
change them.
BUSINESS PKOSTEAED.
The men went away and ordered strikes
everywhere. For ten weeks in the busiest sea
son tmslnesswas at a standstill. When work
was resumed less than half tbo men went to
work at nine hours. At my suggestion, when
next spring came, a conference was called of
the workingmen with the builders at the Hotel
Brunswick. We there affected a business ar
rangement that suited both sides. Under it
there cannot be any tronble on a building of
any magnitude.
The stonemasons for vears have worked only
eicht;hours a day. Tbe plasterers worked
eight for awhile, but of their own volition
changed to ten. The bricklayers work nine
hours, and so do tbe laborers. Theframers
work ten hours, so do the carpenters. So you
see tbat there is all sorts of time for beginning
and finishing work on buildings. It is witn
sighs that one set of workmen watch tbe other
depart an hour ahead. I believe that the time
should all be equalized, and I think tbat If the
business of tbe country can stand it, eight
hours is as good as any fixed time to work. But
tbe people have got to understand that there is
going to be a good deal of disturbance before
the eddies subside and business assumes its
normal condition. Anyone can see that it will
create a disturbance.
some disadvantages.
Lessening the hours of labor upon bnildlngs
iby one hour will increase the cost of construc
tion, which means increase of rent and in
creased cost of tho necessaries of life. To men
gattmg a fixed rate of wages this will coma
hard and there is no telling how much of it
tbey will stand. But I am also of the opinion
tbat here in this city there should be a change
to shorter hours. It is not as It was In the days
60 or 60 years ago, when the city was much
smaller than it is and workmen lived close by
their employment and could readily get to and
fro in short time.
Is there not some talk upon the part of some
of the workingmen of making the day nine
and a hall honrs?
I have not yet talked with any of the work
ingmen upon the subject. It is too early. When
we get backfrom tbe convention will be time
enough, but I have heard that the Knights of
Labor are desirous of working nine and a lull
honrs. Whether that is tbe proper time for a
man to work I do not know. It looks very
much like eight now. but I believe that eight
hours will not bo carried through the conven
tion without a great deal of opDosition. I have
noticed that the I'ittsbnrg builders are red-hot
against it, and are going to the convention to
provoke opposition.
ALABMED THEM ALL
Engineers on tbe New York Central Olaeh
Pnt Oat Over Van Tassell's baspension
Tbo Ex. Secretary Fcrsoaally Be'
spoasible for tbo Arrearage,
rSPlCIAL TXLXOBAX TO THE DISPATCXCI
Netv Yoek, January 19. The story
which appeared to-day regarding the sus
pension of Engineer George H. Van Tas
sel, the Insurance Secretary- of Division
145, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
has alarmed the engineers who work on the
New York Central and Hudson Biver Bail
road. NatSawver, the chief engineer of
the division, says tbat they may be easy in
their minds about the matter. He adds:
Ibe basis of our brotherhood is the insurance
system. The first intimation which I got of our
division being in arrears, either for insurance
moneys or strike assessments, came from a
delegate to the Denver convention, from
another division, after tbat convention ad
journed last fall. VanTassell, who was oar
delegate, did not report to us anything about
tbe action of tbe convention regarding
delinquent divisions. I started an in
vestigation on December 5. by appointinc
the investigating committee, without saying
anything to Van Tassell about it He got wind
of the matter, and on January 4 he sent to tho
Grand Secretary of Insurance all the money
dne upon that account Tbat makes ns safo
on that score. Since bis suspension I have act
ed in his place, and 1 shall do so until some
final step is taken. This cannot be taken until
tbo committee reports, probably not before the
February meeting. We cannot tell until tbo
Individual receipts ot tbo members have all
been examined, just how much is dne to the
strike f nnd. The assessments amounted to 53
per man, and I have word that assessment No. 3
bas not been paid over. Tbat was IS per man.
Chief Arthur writes me that our charter will
not be suspended on tbis account, if tbe men
have paid Van Tassell. Neither will the divi
sion have to make tbe sum good, in that case.
He will look to Van Tassell lor the money.
Unfortunately. Van Tassell Is not bonded.
Van Tassell explained his shortage by
saying that he lent several thousands of
dollars to a brother, who died soon after
borrowing it. Said an engineer of the
Central to-day:
We all supposed that our division had paid
all the assessments for tbe strike. We had
paid them gladly. Not only that, bat ours was
one ot the divisions which raised an individual
subscription of its own accord, over
and above the voluntary contribntions which
Chief Arthur called for at the beginning of
tbe strike. We assessed ourselves $3 a month
for three months, and allowing for only 100
members contributing, which is low, that would
make 11.500. Many men did not care for re
ceipts, and others have lost them. So far as I
bear, the Grand Secretary does not know much
about tbis subscription. And then to be re
ported delinquent on the third assessment, and.
to have Grand Secretary Hayes announce that
"tbe New York Central men were not loyal
enough I"
Another Central employe said to The
Dispatch representative:
Quite a number of secretaries of insurance
of other divisions have been deficient lrr their
assessments, and thirty or more divisions are
reported behind on "Q, ' strike money. I never
saw such a way of handling money. It was
sent on to Cleveland by bucketfuls, and ail tho
reports which divisions ever got of it were bulk
remittances. Of course, the only nroper wayiis
for tbe division secretary to send an itemized
statement of what each man pays, and for tho
Grand Secretary to issna a list to eachHivlsion
monthly, showing what each man has been
credited with. Kverybodyhas complete con
fidence In tbe Grand officers, and it has simply
been taken for granted that all tbe insurance
money and the 81,500,000 collected for tht"l?
iuuq waa property uaauieu.