i '& ? N -5 V IP ffo Ptt$mrj& A BIQ PRIZE Will be offered by THE DESPATCH 'next Bungay, It will be in the shape of tv pages of the best reading and brightest news obtainable. COMPLETE REPORTS Of every great event are published in THE DISPATCH. All the news u given in addition to features which are exclusive and popular. ow Mpmia ' t $ FORTY-FOURTH YEAR. i h m. Mr. Carnegie Offers Pittsburg - $1,000,000 for a Librarv, ON AN EASY CONDITION. He Asks tlie City to Pay $40-000 Annually for Its Support A FINE CENTRAL BUILDING With Adjuncts in the East Southside and Law renceville. End, PLAKS FOE ITS MANAGEMENT. A Receptacle for Art Collections Eooms for Scientific Societies. and MORE M0NEI OFFERED, IF WANTED Yesterday Mr. Andrew Carnegie decided to make the city an offer of not less than 11,000,000 for the purpose of founding a central library with adjuncts in East Liberty, Lawrenceville, Birmingham and other local places. In return for his princely donation he asks the city to pay $40,000 annually for it maintenance, the money to be raised by taxation. Generosity in this age is not a rarity, but there are not many men who have millions and are willing to contribute lavishly of their wealth for pnblic purposes. Pitts burg fortunately is a rich city, and many of its citizens have amassed princely fort unes within recent years. That many of them are generous goes without saying, and the munificent gifts of "William Thaw, John H. Shoenberger and Andrew Carnegie will always live as monuments to their greatness. On more than one occasion has Mr. Carne gie demonstrated that he is interested in the welfare of his fellows. He has contributed much to the cause of education, is a patron of music, art and other things that contrib ute to refine and embellish life. The Frlncelr Offer. Now the generous millionaire comes for ward and caps the climax of his former donations. As a result of several consulta tions held in the city within the past few days with the library committee of Councils and other gentlemen who were called in, Mr. Andrew Carnegie has decided to make a proposition to the city for the establish ment of a free library, comprehensive in scope and elaborate in every detail. Mr. Carnegie's generous instincts are well known, and he has frequently stated that he would be glad to do something handsome for the grand old city, as he calls it, in which he made the bulk of his fortune and where his extensive interests still exist. A Happy Delay. In 1881, it will be remembered, the mill ionaire iron man proposed to give the city $250,000 to found a library on the condition that Pittsburg would devote $15,000 annu ally for its maintenance. The delay in ac cepting the ofler was generally considered annoying, though the public at large were always interested and anxious to know when the scheme would be consummated. As an illustration of the old adage that all things turn out for the best for the man tbat waits, the delay has resulted advantageously to the city and the people in the production of a project on a more matured scale. Since then Mr. Carnegie has traveled much at home and abroad, always making it a point in his tours to examine and study libraries and the library question, and he now comes to the city with a proposition and plan much wider in scope as a result of his experience and research. At the next meeting of Councils next Monday through its Library Committee ap pointed, a letter will be read from the mill ionaire Pittsburger in which he offers not less than 1,000,000 to establish a public library with local adjuncts. He proposes first to construct and furnish a grand central library building, the works to be used by the people both for reference and circulating purposes. A Fire Proor'Bnlldlng. The central building will be made file, proof, and will contain a fine room for the reception of works of art, and Mr. Carne gie's desire is that in time it will become a magnificent art museum. The building also will contain rooms for the meet ings of the various learned and scientific societies comprised in the Academy of Sciences, full details of which have from time to time appeared in The Dispatcii. Mr. Carnegie has confidence tbat if a fire proof building were constructed other generous and wealthy Pittsburgers would be willing to contribute works of art, and in time the collection would become valuable, attractive and renowned. SuchplabJ have been carried out in the Old World, and many of their famous art museums have been established in this manner. The scientific features ot Mr. Carnesrie's proposition are merely to furnish rooms for the societies to meet in, though it is understood that it had been suggested that it would be an excellent idea to devote part of the fund as an endowment for scientific research. Mr. Carnegie agreed the sug gestion was a good one, but he prefers not to have it included in this project, reasoning most happily that there are other wealthy men in Pittsburg who would be glad to do it. Book ior the People. Mr. Carnegie proposes as a distinct feature to establish a library for the whole people. The location of the central building and the branch libraries has notyet been determined, neither has the number of the adjuncts been fixed, though there will probably be four or five, placed in Lawrenceville, Bast Liberty, Birmingham, and one or two other places that may be selected. These branch build ings will contain portions of the cir culating library from the main structure, and the books will be kept going the rounds as experience may best demonstrate and in accordance with the needs of the people. The plan is the save the readers as much trouble as possible and a long trip to the central building. At present it is not thought necessary1 to duplicate the books, though these details will have to" be worked out after the libraries ara put in operation. These branch libraries, it has been suggested, will also contain rooms for reading and literary societies, or any other organizations that will lead people to read. This is the great object to be attained, and all these side issues of a beneficial character will be carefully fostered. Mr. Carnegie is wisely acting on the principles of the great est good to the greatest number. These minor details are not specified in the prop osition, but they were suggested as growing out of the project. Monumental Buildings. The proposition includes sites and build ings of a monumental character. The cen tral building will be a model of architect ural skill, and the branch buildings won't be far behind, and will be a credit to the community in which they will be located. Concerning the city's part of the contract, Mr. Carnegie always held that the people should support the library, and he will make that statement in his letter to Coun cils. In his original proposition he was will ing to contribute $250,000, and he asked the city to pay $15,000 a year for its maintenance, or 6 per cent on the money put in. Now he will stipulate as the main condition on which he bases his munificent gift tbat the city pay $40,000 a year for the support of the library, or 4 per cent on the money in vested, the above sum to be raised by taxa tion. Atfirstitwas hinted by some tbat the city would refuse to pay this amount yearly, but on making investigation the re porter discovered that before he met the Councilmanic committee Mr. Carnegie had fixed the amount At a Less Sam per year as the people's share, bnt still the committee stated tbat the spirit of Coun cils was such that tbey desired to make the library equal to any in the countrv. They argued that Baltimore paid $50,000 per year and other cities contributed liberally, and that what one city could do, Pittsburg could, and in addition would give them a few points and go them one better, so that after consultation with the commit tee it was decided to make the condition 40,000 per year. As to the control and government of the library, the original plan was to have a commission of 15 appointed, five of whom would be ex-officio city officials, beginning with the Mayor, and the other ten wonld be of Mr. Carnegie's own selection. The millionaire has adhered to his first proposition in gen eral, but he has expanded it as follows: That the commission or Board of Trustees shall consist of 21 members, nine from the city, consisting of the Mayor, the Presidents of Common and Select Councils, the Presi dent of the Central Board of Education and five members of a library committee to be appointed by Councils, and 12 citizens to be chosen by the donator. A Sncccstton Provided. The 12 citizens will provide for the elec tion of their sUccessorsand .of course the city offices are "within the gift of the people and are never vacant. It is understood to be Mr. Carnegie's desire that the present Council manic committee shall be the first one to serve on the commission. How long mem bers of this Board of Trustees will hold office Has not been determined, bnt it is probable that some will be elected every year. This Board of Trustees will under take the work of securing the sites, puttibg up the buildings and managing the libra ries. , A gentleman close to Mr. Carnegie said that the millionaire is anxious to place his wealth where it will do the most good. He says he can't take it with him when he leaves the earth, and if what he has pro duced by his remarkable energy and gifted brain will benefit his fellows, he is ready and willing to donate it lor snch good purposes. Mr. Carnegie's proposition in reality is not confined to $1,000,000. That is the minimum that he will contribute, and if more money is needed to carry ont bis generous ideas on the magnificent scale which he has proposed, he will produce the cash. Ho Will Day Som t Hooks. Mr. Carnegie, also, will furnish some of the books, but the city revenue is de signed to purchase the annual growth of de sirable literature. People generally u nder stand that a library cannot be made in a short time, bnt it must grow gradually. In general the above is the plan for a pub lic library for Pittsburg that Mr. Carnegie and the men he called into consultation have mapped out The breadth ol its scope and the unrivaled generosity of the contrib utor are sources ot great public satisfaction, and there is no doubt tbat the gift, with its one condition, will be accepted by the peo ple. Concerning the selection of the sites and some other interesting details in the posses sion of The Dispatch, it was not thought good policy by those most interested to give to the pnblic at present, Dut in due time all these tacts will be presented to the people through these columns. In giving, otherwise in substance correct ly, an interview with E. B.Carnahan, Esq., upon the Carnegie Library, our reporter yesterdav stated that Mr. Carnahan said "any other account would be a falsehood." Mr. Carnahan wishes it to he understood that this phrase was a reportorial super fluity, as he had no reference to make to what anybody else might say upon the sub ject. SOLD FOE A MEEE 60XG. Too Donglnss Ax Work Enter the Edge Tool Combination., rSFEClAb TELZOn-Ol TO THE DISPXTCB.1 Milfoed, Mass., February 6. The Douglass Ax Works, which were recently sold, were purchased by Messrs. Mann and Hubbard, ol Pennsylvania, and Bixby, of Nashua. The works hereafter will be known as the Douglass branch of the American Ax and Tool Company. Some of the works started up to-day and by next week it is ex pected that all the works will be running. The price paid for the plant is $150,000, which is regarded as a song, for $250,000 would be cheap for such a plant as this with fine mill privileges. It is probable that all the works at Nashua will be trans ferred to Douglass on account of the fine water power there. THE S0C1AI, SEAS0X CLOSED. Ko BIoreEntertnlnmcnts nttbe Wblto House TJmll After Lent. rSrECIAL TEL KQ RAM TO TUX DISPATCH. I Washington, February 6. Upon in quiring at the "White House this evening, definite information was obtained to the effect that all social entertainments previ ously arranged, by both the President and Vice President, have been finally postponed until after Lent. Secretary Tracy drove out this afternoon in company with "the Presi dent to visit his daughter, Mrs. Wiltoerdiug. This, their first meeting since the terrible scenes through which they have passed was a most pathetic one, and the three mourners were left alone with their grief, when Alice Wllmerding for the first time learned ot the death of her grandmother and aunt. AS A MATCH MAKER. Mrs. Cleveland Appears In That Kolo With Entire Success The First to Kiss Lawyer Blssell's Bride A Notable Wedding. SnCCIAX. TXLXGSAJI TO TUX DISFATCn.1 EOCHestbb, N. Y., February 6. Wilson S. Bissell, of Buffalo, ex-President Cleve land's law partner, and Miss Louise Sturges, of Geneva, were married at the home of the latter this evening. The wedding was one of the most brilliant which has been cele brated in this part of the State in years. The guests were limited to very near friends and relatives of the family, but the num ber of these reached over 100. Bev. Samuel Hopkins, of the Auburn Theological Seminary, performed the cere mony in the main parlor of the Sturges mansion. The bride and groom stood under a marriage bell of roses and carnations which was over three feet high. The walls of the room were hidden by masses of flowers alter nating with beautiful designs in ferns. At 8 o'clock tbe newly wedded couple, alter re ceiving the best wishes of their friends, left for New-York bv special train. They will make an extended trip, including the sea board cities, and will then take up their res idence in Buffalo. " Among the guests were ex-President Cleveland and "Mrs. Cleveland, who ar rived at 11 o'clock in the special directors car of the Lehigh Valley Boad. Mrs. Cleveland took an active part in the pre parations for the wedding, and remained with the bride almost constant. v nntil the hour for the ceremony arrived. She was the first to kiss her alter the clergvmau had concluded. Booms had been especially prepared at tbe Franklin House for the ex President and his wife, and during the afternoon many prominent citizens called and paid their respects. Mr. Cleveland appeared to be in good health, and only complained of a slight fatigne. At tbe wedding he appeared in full evening dress, Mrs. Cleveland was charmingly dressed in white with a corsage bouquet. The special car of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland was attached to the bridal train, and the two couples will go together as far as New York. Mrs. Cleveland was a school mate of Miss Sturges at college, and was the one who introduced Mr. Bissell to her. OLD-FASHIONED IDEAS PEEYAIL. Tbe Two Mnnsncumetis Senators Succeed In Coercing President Hnrrison. ISrECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1SIM.TCU.1 WASHINGTON, February 6. The young Bepublicans of Massachusetts, who have been endeavoring to down the machine, re ceived a severe set-back to-day when the President sent to the Senate the nomination of Alanson W. Beard to be Collector at the Port of Boston, instead of tbe apostle of mugwumpery, Mr. Leverett W. Saltonstall. When Henry Cabot Lodge heard the news of this nomination he could hardly believe it was true. Mr. Saltonstall's term does not expire for about three months, and the great est pressure was brought upon the President not to make a change until that time. The Bepublican machine, represented in Wash ington in the persons of Senators Dawes and Hoar, demanded the removal ot Mr. Salton stall and the appointment of Mr. Beard. Tbe Senators based their claim to the con trol of this appointment on the ground of senatorial prerogatives, and made the issue plain between themselves and tbe President as to the power of Senators to insist on hav ing their wishes carried ont. Henry Cabot Lodge and tbe mem back ot him were op posed not only to Saltonstall's removal, but fb the appointment of Beard, whom they claim represented all that Was vlcions and tyrannical and old-fashioned in tho 'Bepub lican party in Massachusetts. ETEN MISSIONARIES TAXED. A Snlt to Enforco (be New York Law Con cerning Charitable Beqacsts. rf FECIAL TELEOKAit TO THE SIEPjLTCDM New Yobk, February 6. Controller Myers began suit to-day to collect from tbe executors of the will of"William H. Van derbilt the 5 per cent tax levied by the statue upon certain classes of bequests. The amount of the tax sued for is $55,000, Mr. Vanderbilt's will bequeathed $1,100,000 to charitable institutions, and made specific legacies to persons of a much larger amount. On June 30, 1885, before Mr. Vanderbilt's death, the law went into effect imposing a tax of 5 per cent on all legacies passing under any will to callateral heirs, strangers to the bloodand to corporations, save such as were specially exempt. The executors petitioned Tor the appoint ment ot an appraiser to ascertain and fix the tax on the personal legacies. 'Thomas Harland was appointed by Surrogate Bol lins. He fixed the tax at 5 per cent on the personal legacies, and reported that none of the corporate legatees had been notified to appear. In his opinion they were exempt. The present action is to collect 5 per cent tax on their legacies. They are mostly col leges and missionary societies. A NATIONAL SILVER CRDSADE Will be Inaugurated by tbo Advocates of Tbat Metal. IBFXCIAI. TELEOBAH TO TUB DISPATCH.) St. Louis, February 6. Mr. L. M. Bum sey, of the National Execntive Silver Com mittee, appointed 'at the National Silver Convention in this city last November, is home from a meeting of the committee held in Washington, at which the plan of the campaign was agreed upon. It was decided that the committee would not do any lobby work at all, though it would have some of its representatives in Washington all the time to give information to members of Con gress who desire it. The work to be done will be in the country at large bringing in fluence to bear on members of Congress in that way. There will be also a series of mass meet ings. The first will be held at an early date in New York, at which Senators Jones and Stewart will be present, and Thomas Fitch, of Nevada, and others of national reputa tion will deliver addresses. This will be followed by meetings at Chicago, St. Paul and other cities. A POSTAGE STAMP FAMINE. Wagon Loads of Mali Held nt St. IiOnli far Tbat Reason. grECIAL TELEQHAU TO TBE DISPATCH' St. Louis, February 6. Another famine in 2-cent stamps prevails here. One week ago tbe supply in the postoffice was ex hausted and the small number received a few days later were all cone last night. The business houses have Fun out and are seri ously impeded in tbe transaction of busi ness. There were several wagon loads of mail left over to-nlgbt on account of the stamp famine. Tbe mail tbat did go ont carried 3 and 4 cent stamps. Postmaster Harlow has tele graphed to Washington repeatedly to-day, and it is just possible that he will have to apply lor succor to East St. Louis or Caho nia. LEFT WITHOUT A Q00EDM. Speaker Heed's Rale Cause Eight Mon tana Senators to Abdicate. Helen a,Mont., February 6. Yesterday afternoon, after tbe adjournment of the Senate, eight Democratic Senators, incensed at the ruling of Lieutenant-Governor JEick ards in counting them present when they refused to vote, took trains going in diffe rent directions. They said they were going beyond the State line to get out of reach of the Ser-geant-at-Arms. Their absence will block all legislation. PITTSBURG, FRIDAY. THE ANARCHIST' CASE Once More Goes to the Supreme Coart of tbe United States. A DECISION TO THAT EFFECT Secured by the Untirihs Lawyer of Neebe, Fielden and Schwab, THE HANGING MAX HAVE BEEN ILLEGAL A Eescrlpt Finally Granted by the Chief Justice of Illinois. Lawyer Moses Salomon, of Chicago, has secured an order for the re-opening of the famous Anarchist case. This is rather too late to benefit those hanged, but is expected to free Neebe, Fielden and Schwab, now in prison. The ground of action is that the defendants were not in court when the case was finally decided. ISrECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.! Spbinofield, III., February 6. The famous Anarchist case, which culminated in the hanging of Spies, Parsons, Engel and Fisher, the suicide of Louis Lingg and the sentencing to the penitentiary of Neebe, Fielden and Schwab, the two latter for life, is to be taken before the United States Su premo Court for review. Lawyer Moses Salomon, of Chicago, has achieved this most unexpected and sensational victory for the revolutionists. AN INDEFATIGABLE ATTORNEY. He has been identified with the case from the start, and has been indefatigable in his efforts to find some loophole for getting hiB clients out of the penitentiary. For months he has been working to secure an Amend ment on the record to show that the prison ers were not present in the Supreme Court when tbe judgment in the lower court which inflicted the dearth penalty was affirmed. When Lawyer Salomon returned to Chi cago to-night be carried with him an order from the Chief Justice of the SupremeCourt granting a writ of error from the United States Snpreme Court to the Supreme Court of Hlinoisfor the pnrposeof allowing the case to again go before the Court for review. Salomon's contention is that the prisoners were deprived of a constitutional right by not being permitted to be present when the Court imposed sentence upon them. A question op jurisdiction. The Court has refused to allow an amend ment ot the record, but, not being satisfied apparently that a Federal question is not involved, has consented to the Federal conrts finally determining the matter. It has, nevertheless, been the practice of the Supreme Court of this State to have prisoners present when that body passes upon the judgments of lower conrts, but if the Federal Court decides that such rights exist it will not only give the An archist prisoners a new trial and possibly freedom, but will vitiatethe judgment which consigned their comrades to the gallows. While prominent lawyers do not think this wjllbe the outcome of the case, Mr. Salomon ancLhi clients feel otherwise. The case will come up for hearing at Washing ton during the October term of court. COLORED MEN ORGANIZE. A Stirring Address Issned to tbe People of tbe United States. f Washington, February 6. The colored men's convention to-day elected ex-Senator Pinchback President of the national organ ization and issued an address to tbe people of the United States. It expresses regret that it is necessary for the colored American citizens to meet in a separate Jjody for the consideration of questions national in their character, but says they are compelled to do so because they have been made special objects of at tack and oppression. Attention is called to the fact that popular elections, federal and local, in many States of the South are for malities, where the votes of the colored men are suppressed or neutralized by fraud, their rights denied and themselves, their wives, daughters, mothers and sisters are made tbe special objects of unfriendly State legisla tion and compelled to travel in separate and inferior cars. Colored American citizens who may be convicted through unfriendly courts are submitted, while undergoing sentence of said courts, to such cruel and inhuman treatment as to make their condition worse than abject slavery. It was resolved that a copy of the address be presented to the Pres ident, and that he be thanked in the name of the convention for his kind allusions to the colored Americans in his message to Congress. THE LATEST IN TRDSTS. A BIk Shoe Combination Is Being Arranged by New York Broken. rSFECIAI. TELEORAM TO TBE DISPATCH. I New Yobk, February 6. The latest thing in trusts is n big shoe trust that the Eastern manufacturers are trying to estab lish. Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer, in whose hands the manufacturers have placed their business for purposes of negotiation and for the consolidation of their interests, said to day that while it was trne that certain large manufacturers were anxious to dispose of their plants, it was not likely that any deal would be closed for a week, or perhaps longer., He denied the rumor that English capi talists were endeavoring to buy up the shoe factories. The shoe men arc "the ones who are making the advances, and to brokers in this city representing American capitalists. It is stated that the brokers are instructed not to consider any offer from shoe men whose business is not worth over $700,000. STILL THE PLAN IS REPUBLICAN, Legislator Barns' Plan to Locnto the World's Fair In New Tark. Albany, N. Y., February C Mr. J. Irving Burns, member of Assembly from Westchester county, has prepared a bill locating the World's Fair at Van Court landt Park in the city of New York. It provides that the Governor, Democrat, the President of the Senate, Bepublican, the Speaker of the Assembly, 'Bepublican, the Mayor of New York, Democrat, and 100 other persons shall be an incorporate body for ten years to hold property to the amount of $50,000,000 for the Fair. The President of the United States, the Governor of this State, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the Assembly and tbe Mayor of New York, shall each name 20 of the 100 incorporators, who, with the ex ception of the President's appointees, shall be residents of this State. Big Hani ot Diamonds. Cleveland, February 6, At 6:30 o'clock to-night while the family of J. B. Perkins were at dinner, a thief climbed "upon the front porch and gaining an en trance to the house stole a jewelry Box con taining $4,600 worth of diamonds and $75 in cash. FEBRUARY 7, 1890. EDMUNDS ONHISEAB. Bicanse of tho Samoan Treaty He Will Quit the Committee on Foreign Eola- lions-Tbe Old Fight With Blaine on Again. TSFECIAL TELEQBAM TO THE DIBP ATCn.l Washington, February 6. An ex ecutive session of the Senate was held this afternoon on a Motion of Senator Sherman, who desired to close the record upon the ratification of the Samoan treaty. After sundry nominations had been disposed of, .the motion of Senator Edmunds to recon sider the vote of Tuesday, by "'which the treaty was ratified, was called up and laid on tbe table by a vote of 39 to 13. ThenMr. Edmunds' resolution declaring the sense of the Senate upon the rights of the United States to the harbor of Pago Pago under the treaty or 1878 to be that those rights are not disturbed by the Berlin treaty of '89 was considered. Senator Sherman, Chairman of the Com mittee on Foreign Belations, made a state ment at some length intended to show that the Berlin treaty did not affect those rights at all. and that the passage of the resolution was therefore unnecessary. A motion to lay the resolution upon the table prevailed by the same vote as that by which the motion to reconsider the ratification was tabled. Thereupon, Mr. Edmunds, who is the sec ond member of the committee, said that he desired to be excused from fnrther service on the Committee on Foreign Belations. It was suggested that this was a matter for action in legislative 'session, and it was dropped. The old quarrel between Blaine and Edmunds wonld seem to have a bearing upon the present trouble. THE FLOODS ARE SUBSIDING. Tho Waters Falling nt Portland, No Exten sive Damage Being Done. Portland, Ore., February 6. The river is falling slowly to-day and all fears of serious local damage from the flood is past. The water reached the highest point, 28 feet 4 inches, at G o'clock this morning. Since then it has fallen four inches in the channel. This is the highest water in the history of the city. The only loss in the business district will be from the presence of the water on the ground floors of the buildings, which will be trifling. Reports from points on tbe Willamette river indi cate tbat the river is falling very rapidly. ' Interruption to travel still continues, but the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Com pany has established steamer service to the Cascade locks, above which the trains are running. No trains have been sent out on the main line of the Southern Pacific, and the Union Pacific is blockaded by heavy slides. Tbe only telegraphic communica tion with the East is by way of the Canadian Pacific and Postal Cable Company. Along the river bottoms considerable of tbe live stock have been drowned, and large quanti ties of grain and hay destroyed. ANOTHER NEGRO EXODUS. Tho Emigrants Scared by Stories Told by Their Own Race. rSPECIAL TEX.EOKAU TO THE DI8PATCH.1 New Orleans, February 6. A large party of negroes, numbering several hun dred, reached here to-day from Goldsboro, en route to Conshatta, on the Bed river. They had been secured by labor agents in North Carolina, and had no idea where they jrere bound. When they were transshipped hereto the steamer Biver Queen to be con- Jrejred to the Hollingsworth' and Hover plantations near uonsnaus, a large crowa ot negro roustabouts gathered on tbe levee 'and began intimidating the' new comers. They told the Carolina darkeys that negroes were shot liKe mad dogs up the river, and they advised them so earnestly to go back home again that the newcomers re fused point blank to go further, and begged to be sent back. Police interference had to be invoked before the colored immigrants could be got aboard the boat. CLARK AND TAILOR TO HANG. The Pardon Board Refuses to Interfere In Behalf of Them. ISPKCIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH. Habbisbubo, February 6. As the time for tbe next regular meeting of the Board of Pardons was on election day it convened in secret session this afternoon and considered tbe cases of George Clark and Zach Taylor, under sentence of death for the mnrder of William McCausland, in Greene county, and James H. Jacobs, of Lancaster, who murdered a relative a few years ago. The board declined to interfere with the hanging of Clark and Taylor by the commutation of the death penalty to imprisonment for life, and they will be executed on the 2Gth in stant unless the Governor should respite them to a later day. In the case of Jacobs, who is alleged to he insane, the granting of another reprieve was recommended. THE CASH AND STAR GOiNE. A Boston Theatrical Company Finds Itself In a Sad Flight. tSPZCIAb TELEGRAM TO TUX DISPATCH.! Boston, February 6. The Gaiety The ater Company, of local aspirants for histri onic fame, was to have started on a tour through Maine to-day, but the sudden dis appearance of pretty Belle Lewis, the star of the company, and W. T. Hodson, the leading juvenile, under circumstances that savor strongly of an elopement, has left the company in a bad fix, especially as Mr. Hodson carried off the cash that had been appropriated for the purchase of tickets. Hodson is married, and his wife and child haven't seen him since Tuesday. Miss Lewis left her home in East Boston in com pany with Hodson this morning, and neither has since been seen around here. DEMANDS OP THEyfiHIPPERS. Tbey Want a New Navy and Scnconst and Lnke Defenses. Washington, February 6. There was good attendance at the meeting of tbe Amer ican Shipping League this morning. The Committee on Besolutions made a report, which was adopted. The Farquhar bill, to promote American shipping by Government aid, was indorsed. Additional resolutions urge Congress to make immediate provision for seaboard and lake defenses, hail with gratification the acts of Congress for tbe rebuilding of the American navy; recommend adequate pro vision for the improvement ot the harbors and rivers of the whole country, concur rently with the restoration and development of our Ocean commerce, so that all sections and States of the Bepnblio shall participate. A BIG DEAL IN IRON MINES. Michigan Property to tbo Vnlae of Sl,730, OOO Hns Changed Hands. tSPECIAI. TEiEGHtAM TO THE DlflrATCILl Cleveland, February 6. The" Cleve land Iron Mining Company has bought seven-tenths of the stock of the Ironcliff Company, which owns 63,000 acres of Iron land near Marquette, Mich, The price paid was $1,750,000 in cash. The purchasers are well known in mining circles and invested as follows: J. H. Wade, $400,000: Selah Chamberlain. $300, 000: Samuel Mather and W. L- Mather, jointly, $300,000; George Howe, $120,000; T. P. Hardy, $50,000, and J. Y. Painter,. $25,000. There are other large investors. , A VOLCANO'S MOUTH. Awful Catastrophe Caused by a Gas Explosion in a Colliery. 300 MINERS CAD6HT IN THE TRAP. At Least Half of That Numbar Earned Beyond Recognition. POPE LEO BUILDING HIS0WN MONUMENT Ihe Details of the finsslan Conspiracy to Mnrder Prince Ferdinand. A terrible explosion occurred in a British colliery yesterday, the mouth of the pit re sembling a volcano. Three hundred miners were caught. Every effort was made to reach them by rescue parties. The latest estimate of the dead places the number at 150. London, February 6. A most terrible colliery disaster occurred to-day at Aber sychan, in Monmouthshire. Three hun dred miners were entombed by an explosion. The cause of the explosion was the flooding of pits adjacent to that in which the ex plosion occurred. By tbe flooding of these pits gas was dislodged and forced into the pit where work was in progress, and there it was ignited and exploded. There must have been a great quantity of gas' as tbe explosion had tremendous force. It was heard at the distance of a mile. All tbe gearing in tbe shaft was thrown into tbe air as if from the month of a volcano, and simultaneously a vasj, bright volume of flame shot upward, followed by a dense, heavy column of smoke. The first party of rescuers organized endeavored to penetrate the pit through the old workings. They got far enough to be able to see groups of the dead, but they could not reach them, and were compelled to retreat by the suffo cating volumes of smoke that rose in that direction. Upon the first appearances of a diminu tion in the volume ot smoke rescuers went down the main shaft and reached the scene of the catastrophe. They rescnedfa large number of miners yet alive, but all very badly burned, and they brought out 60 Cead bodies, nearly all so mutilated that the recognition of their identity is impossible. The latest estimate of the dead is 150. EMPEE0E WILLIAM'S SOCIALISM. Bismarck Is Said to Agree With the Plans of tbe DIonarcb. London, February 6. The Times' Ber lin correspondent says that the semi-official journals are correct in their statement that tbe Chancellor acquiesces in the Emperor's socialistic policy, and observes tbat Prince Bismarck never cared a great deal for politi cal consistency. The Germania, in behalf of the Clerical party, 'accords unbonnded praiie to the Emperor's words. The Socialist oreans are silent. They are unable openly to disapprove of an imperial programme tbat resembles their own, but are conscions that the rescripts must injure their electoral prospects, because they out bid them in their appeal for popular sup port. FRANCE NEEDS FUNDS. A, New Lonn"'B:r"r!n Government Believed to bo on the Programme. Pabis, February 6. M. Boavler, Minis ter of Finance, appeared before the Budget Committee of the Chamber of Deputies to day and urged the necessity of finding fresh resources in order to seenre financial equi librium. His remarks indicated that the issue of a new loan by the Government was imminent. The Government, he said, had resolved to ask the country to jnake needful sacrifices for the expenses 'of the nation. ' A HUEDEK0US CONSPIRACY. Frlnoe FerdlnnndWas to be Killed While nt a Ball. Sofia, February 6. It is now proved that Major Panitza had all things prepared for surroundiug the palace during the ball on Saturday and that the plot was to kill Prince Ferdinand at that time. M. Kalopkoff, a merchant of Bustcbuk, and formerly a Bussian officer, has been arrested for complicity in the Panitza con spiracy. He is believed to be the agent through whom the Bnssian Legation in Bucharest acted with the conspirators. CUBA'S GOVERNOR IN DANGER. Tbo Next in Command lias Assumed Con trol of tbe Island. Havana, February 6. Governor-General Salamanca is seriously ill. A consul tation of 12 physicians' was held to-day, and the patient wa3 pronounced to be in a dan gerous condition. A. meeting of the author ities will be held for the purpose of consid ering what action will be taken in the event of his death. The "Vice-Governor-General has assumed command of the island. A PLEASANT OCCUPATION. The Popo Is Superintending the Erection of HI Own Monument. CBT PUNLAP'S CABLE COMPAST.3 Kome, February 6. His Holiness, the Pope, is at present absorbed in the gloomy task of superintending his own monument, which is a sepulchral urn over which stands a life-size statue of himself, and on either side colossal statues of religion and justice in Carrara marble. The urn' of porphyry will take three years to complete, and will cost 5,000. A HIGH CHURCH SENSATION. Tho Bishop of Lincoln Advocates Candles on tbe Communion Table. LONDON, February 6. A sensation has been caused in clerical circles by the Arch bishop of Canterbury allowing counsel for Dr. King, Bishopof Lincoln, who is charged with ritualistic practices, to urge the pro priety of the use of lighted candles on the communion table before tbe Privy Council, although such a practice has for a long time been pronounced illegal. A BIG BRITISH COMBINE To Keep tbe Colliers Down and Resist tbe I Elght-Uonr Movement. London, February 7. It has been learned tbat tbe owners of coal mines at tbeir recent conference, determined to es tablish a federation of owners, to include all districts In the country, and raise a fund to resist unfair demands. They propose to resist to the utmost the eieht hour move ment. . A LONE HIGHWAYMAN Bobs a Btago In Arizona of the Wells-Forgo Box nnd Escapes. Flobence Abiz., February 6. The down stage to Casa Grande this morning was held up by a masked Mexican, about 12 miles from Florence. The Wells Fargo express box was taken. It is not known how much was secured. The malls were not disturbed. The robber was ot slim build. A posse has been; organized for pursuit. THE POLITICIANS SURPRISED. Mayor Grant Gives His Best Offlce to a Per , sonnl Friend.' ISFXC1AL WLIOKAM TO TM DISPATCH.! New Yobk, February 6. At noon to-day Mayor Grant appointed his Private Secre tary, Thomas Crowell Taylor Crain, City Chamberlain, in place of Biehard Croker. To say that the politicians were surprised would not express their emotions at all. They thought that some of the big chiefs would get this office, which is the richest in the Mayor's gift. Crain is a Tammany man, but not a promi nent one. He is not strong physically and is remarkably slender, and his face is pale and pinched. He looks more like an over worked student than a politician. "Mr. Crain is 30 years old, nd while his age is not proot of his unfitness for the office," said one of Tammany's big guns, "I think tbat ap pointment would appear better to the public if be were 10 years older. Mr. Crain. has a poor presence, but to offset this be has good executive ability, a fair knowledge of law, and he is a man of undoubted integrity. This latter qualification is about r.'l a man need have to perform the duty ot chamberlain satis factorily, for in spite of the big salary tbat goes with it the work is simple and is en tirely free of all those vexations which fall to the lot of the ordinary holder ot a high office. It is a personal appointment. Mr. Crain and Mayor Grant have been warm friends for years. The Mayor has great confidence in Mr. Crain's judgment and fidelity. Mr. Crain spent tbe alternoon in bunting un bondsmen, who must go his surety in the sum of $500,000 and must qualifv in $1,000, 000. The net salary of the office is about $18,000 a year. OUT FOR FREE RAW MATERIAL. A Candidate is Baa la Judge Kelley'a Dis trict on Tbat Platform. rsrxciAz. tiliorau to tub umpatch.' Philadelphia, February 6. An unex pected movement among prominent Bepub lican business men who favor free raw ma terial has been started in opposition to the election of Senator Beyburn to succeed the late Judge Kelley in Congress. In view of this it is generally believed that the Democratic Convection of the Fourth district, which will be held to-morrow evening, will place in nomination William M. Ayres, President of the Tariff Beform Club, as the party's candidate. The letter of business men to Mr. Ayres says: We, tbe undersigned manufacturers, mer chants and bnsjneu men. bare always In the past affiliated with the Bepublican partrand at the last Piesidental election voted for Presi dent Harrison. We now believe it would be to the interest of Philadelphia to have raw materials put on the free list, so onr manufacturers could secure tbeir supplies to better advantage, our worklngmen have more work and the nubile generally cheap er goods. The death of tbe late William v. Kelley leaves a vacancy which is to be filled at tbe election on February 13. Tbe peculiar conditions surrounding tbls election offer the citizens of this district an opportunity to vote on tbis question aside from party prejudices. Wo request you to accept the nomination to fill the unexpired term. Your past efforts in favor of free raw materials, together with tbe fact tbat you have large mercantile and manufacturing interests in our city, would enable us, with you as a candidate, to place the issue fairly before tbe voters of the district distinct from party politics. In addition to this a letter addressed to Mr. Ayres, with the same object in view, is signed by a large number ot well-known Democratic business men. A BURSE ABDUCTS A BABY, And Threaten to Keep It Until Her Wages Are Paid. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCII. St. Louis, February 6. Henry Suther land appeared before a Justice of the Peace to-day and invoked the aid of the law to rescue his child who was held for ran som. Few weeks ago he engaged a girl to take charge of his boy baby, who is G months old. Last week he saw her treat the child ronghly. On last Saturday he told her that he would not require her services any longer. Two hours later he was summoned from business and was told by his frightened wife that the girl had taken the child off with her. The police have been searching for baby for fonr days withont success. To-day Mr. Sutherland found the nurse in a very low quarter ot tne city, sne said she bad tbe child but refused to give him up. When a constable appeared, with a writ of replevin she said she took the child because Sutherland refused to pay her what he owed her; when he paid up he could have tbe baby. The constable did not find the child and Mr. Sutherland had the girl arrested. The baby is with her friends and will be recovered before morn ing. . FORTr FEET IN THE CHANNEL HcmnrUnbly High Binge of Water in tbo Mississippi Hirer. Gbeenville, Miss., February 6. The river registers 40 feet on the gauge here, which is within one foot of the high water of 1882. The levees, however, are higher and stronger than then, and better able to with stand the encroaching waters. The only weak point in the levee is at Clover Hill, in Issaquena county, south of this place, where they are said to be in an unfinished con dition. However, a large force is at work there. Assistant Engineer Somervllle said this evening there was hardly any cause for alarm at any place in this levee district, even though the high-water mark of 1882 should be reached. Preparation's have been made to meet any danger that may arise. AFRAID TO TRUST BANKS. A Widow Bobbed of 85,000 In Cash by Two DInskcd Men. rsraciAi. txlxgkah to tub dispatch t Denver, February 6. At Leadville last night Mrs. O. E. Bailey, a widow, was robbed of $5,000 by two masked men. Short ly after her husband's death, three months ago, Mrs. Bailey received the money from an insurance company, and being afraid to trust in banks kept the money about her person. Yesterday afternoon two masked men at tacked her and got the money. A PROTEST AGAINST ITEINLET. Tbe New York Chamber of Commerce Ob jects to His Tariff Bill. New Yobk, February 6. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to-day action was taken to protest against the McKinley tariff bill unless modified. At tbe Bottom of the Atlantic. fpriCIAl. TELEGRAM TO THE DISr AT0O.1 Baltimore, February 6. All hope for tbe steamship Domira, which left Glasgow on December 31 in ballast for this port with a caDtain and 15 men, has been abandoned. The Domira was due here 19 days after leav ing tbe other side. It is believed she was the vessel which the steamer Brampton saw go down. A Pittsburger Married. rsrxcTAi. txlxqrax to tbi DisrATcn.1 Habbisbubo, February 6. Mr. Joseph A. Weldon, of Pittsburg, and Miss Clare McFadden, daughter of ex-Alderman Mc Fadden, or this city, were married in St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral, to-day, by Bev. M. J. McBride, assisted by Bev. Messrs. Bentoa and Holbin. THREE CENTS 57aS, ; WM THE PLOT, Morp ks Interested in the "iviidiig Conspiracy. THE SITUATION IS SEBIOUS. All Attempts to Compromise the Case Will Surely Fail. MOEE PEOSECDTaOUS 15 0EDER It is now stated that other New York banks than tbe Lenox Hill, Equitable and Sixth National were concerned In the wreck ing conspiracy. Efforts are being made to compound the felony, bnt will fail of suc cess. More prosecutions are expected. rsriexu. TZXzaxAx to tss dispatch, t New York, February 6. Downtown ramifications of the bank troubles ara de veloping into a situation which has a very serious aspect. The gravest reports are now current regarding the relations between the gang which wrecked the uptown banks aud prominent officers of downtown financial in stitutions. One of these reports is to the effect that the syndicate had the backing of the Western National Bank. It is even said that the interest of this in stitution, direct and indirect, in the schemes of Simmons, Claassen, V.'allack, Pell and the others amounted elose to (500,000. Many believe tbat certain features of tbe plans of the combine were known to the officers of the Western National Bank be fore they were carried into effect. The street was even talking to-day about certain social festivities enjoyed not long before the crash at the Sixth National by Simmons, Pell, Claassen, a prominent officer of the Western National Bank and one or two others. OFFICERS 'WILL NOT TALK. All information about the extent and na ture of the Western's interest in tbe present complications has been persistently refused by President Jordan and Vice President Canda. That Mr. Jordan has represented Simmons and his associates, as well as his own bank, in all his negotiations for a com promise, there is no use in denying. Sim mons' own friends admit it, and the progress of the negotiations themselves disclosed it. Nobody will charge against Mr. Jordan thecrimeof seeking immunity from prose cution for Simmons and others as one of the terms of a compromise. On the other hand, nobody doubts tbat just that is the princi pal end sought to be gained by the wreckers as the result of the negotiations still in progress. That this end will fail of accom plishment there is no longer any doubt, for to-day's developments make it certain tbat other prosecutions will be begun. If any evidence against the accused should prove to be missing somebody will be held responsible I for its disappearance. A. CHKEEnrO STATEMENT. Mr. Jordan made public this even in tr a state ment, which, he declared, covered the whole history of bis connection with the crippled banks. This statement was made at a meet ing of the depositors and stockholders of the Lenox Hill Bank, held in Lenox Hall. About 300 persons attended the meeting, and Chairman Moses, of the Depositors' Committee, presided. Mr. Jordan was greeted with a great deal of enthusiasm, and when his first words announced that the bank was in condition to resume busi ness to-morrow, the assembly broke into cheers. After the meeting a Dispatch reporter asked Mr. Jordan, as per the appended dia logue, if he meant to be understood as say ing that the Western National Bank had had no business dealings with Simmons, Claassen and their associates previous to the deposit of Sixth National Bank stock as seenrity by the Equitable. "Precisely that. I wonld not have lent one of them 5 cents," was the reply. "Do you consider James A. Simmons to he an honest man, Mr. Jordan 7" Til answer that by saying that none have been so earnest in their efforts to save these banks as have Mr. Simmons and his asso ciates." "How do they come out, as a result of all that has been done." "Tbey lose more than Mr. Leland does." "Lose more than Mr. Leland I" "Yes, sir, tbey do. They ara literally out of pocket to a greater extent than Mr. Leland." SOME PESTXNENX QUESTIONS. "Now, Mr. Jordan, we know that 500 shares of tbe 1,033 sold bv Mr.Leland were in the Com mercial Bank, and tbat 300 were In tbe West ern; but where were tbe remaining 235 shares?" "In the vaults of the Sixth National Bank." "In whose name did they stand V "Not in Mr. Leland's, I can assure you." "Where are the 100,000 of the Sixth Nation al's bonds, which, it is said, have been locatear" -'In the vaults of the Sixth National Bank." "What banks held the last lot of $124,000 in certified checks On the Lenox Hill Bank, which were unexpectedly presented after the negotia tions were nearly completed I" "I cannot answer tbat question." Mr. Jordan added tbat tbe only reason he had not made the announcement without qualification that the Lenox Bank would open for business to-morrow morning was. that he had been unable to see Superintend ent Preston after completing his negotia tions, and that it remained to secure his formal assent SOMECHECES -WITHHELD. The checks, amounting to $121,000, which unexpectedly appeared after a general plan ol reorganization had been agreed npon, were held by two downtown national banks. These banks held each a single check, and they laid low nntil tbe Gallatin National Bank gave notice that it would act as Clear ing House agent for the reorganized Sixth. Then both the two banks undertook to collect tbe checks from the Gallatin, claiming that it must cash them under the Clearing House rules. President Tappen promptly threw them ont, and the Clearing House will probably sustain him in so doing. The holders then negotiated for their payment with the Sixth and with the Lenox Hill syndicate, and finally they were taken care of, as per Mr. Jordan's statement tbis evening. George H. Pell's examination before Commissioner Shields was postponed until one week from to-morrow by agreement of counsel. Claassen expects to get out on bail to-morrow. His wife has already qualified in?25,000onhisbond. Agreed to Postpone. Chicago, February 6. By agreement of counsel the arguments and various motions made on behalf of the alleged Croninjury bribers that the indictments be quashed, that they be granted a change of venue, etc., were postponed until Monday next. ... i . ,-. !'. .
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