wT' tO I to -i I m r 5 a JO o n n o z O 3 2 m "1 01 (0 tC M Xk U1 34 fP Transient AflverHsements ReceiFefl "jV.t Hie Brarieli Ofllecs of Tlio Dispatch. Tor to morrow's If sue up to 9 o'clock P. M. For list of branch offices in the various dis fr'rts ee THIKP PACK FORTT-FIFTH TEAE. Made by the Feople of Mary land Against the Proposed Surrender of VERY VALUABLE PROPERTY Powerful Syndicates Seeking to Gain Possession of the G. & 0. Canal, WHICH COST $11,300,000. A. Legislative Measure Which is Freely Denounced as Most Iniquitous. THIS STATE ALSO INTERESTED. Cumberland Citizens Heartily Indorse the Trans-Allegheny Waterway Pro ject, Hoping i i TO DEFEAT THE B00DLEES' SCHEMES ?the citizens of Cumberland, Md., heartily indorse the proposed scheme of connecting the -waters of the Monongahela with those of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. But the burning question there, as in all of Maryland, is, Will the State be able to re tain possession of the -work built with money furnished by that State, Pennsylvania and the general Government A powerful I railroad syndicate is alter it, ana a Dill which has passed one branch of the Legis lature leases the canal for 99 years at a low rental. rrKOM A SIATT COnEESrOHDEJTT.l Cumberland. Ma, February 28. It -was both fortunate and remarkable that The Pittsburg DisrATCH should hare taken up the subject of a trans-Allegheny canal at this particular time, for almost simultaneously an important discovery has been made in Maryland on the same subject. The fact has been unearthed that away back, about 1628, the Legislature of Penn I sylvania subscribed some $40,000 for stock Win tb Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. It also . Vasd a charter lor the canal com pan v. rat- lifyin the charters which had just been ;iven ttNU-ompany by Maryland, Virginia ind the tinted States Congress. This Tvsrs done to give all encouragement possible o the great enterprise, it then being the indention to connect the canal with the Yougpiogheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers. The general Government, in sub scribing over 1,000,000 to the project, pledged itself to push the canal until it eventually ended at Pittsburg, or on the rivers tributary to Pittsburg. An Investment Overlooked. In the years that have passed since then Pennsylvania's little contribution was en tirely forgotten. Even the United States' appropriation was lost sight of, and the pro- Meet o: a trans-iuiegneny extension is lying dormant. The great Chesapeake and Ohio I Janal has been known to the last genera tion or two as purely Maryland property, F because Maryland's State interests in the ' work amounts to 58,000,000. But here comes the remarkable part of the matter. Since the floods last summer closed up the canal, corporations have been trying to gobble the canal bed with all its valuable bridges and aqueducts. A bill leasing it to one or them has just passed the Lower House of the Maryland Legislature, and was to have come np in the Senate to day. Had The Dispatch delayed one month the publication of those articles about building a canal from Cumberland to Mor gantown, to connect the Monongahcla river with the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, there might have been no Chesapeake canal left, here to connect with. Two State Greatly Interested. The publication was very timely, and the discovery of Pennsylvania's little contribu tion to the building of the canal, and the legislation with regard to extending aid to it at all, is held by many here to give Penn sylvania, even at this late date, some official voice as to whether so valuable a waterway shall be smothered by great railroads. It may result in cheeking the lease bill now being pushed through the Maryland Legisla ture. Here in Cumberland the revival of the trans-Allegheny canal project in The Dis patch has been generally read. All the prominent men I have talked to admit the vast commercial possibilities of such a con nection of the Chesapeake and Ohio with the Monongahela river. Some refer to the engineering obstacles in the way, but for generations Maryland people have been educated to look forward to aa eventual water passage westward through and beyond the Allegheny Mountains. Washington's Youghiogheny Prelect. George Washington was himself the father of the idea to connect a canal from Cumberland with the Youghiogheny river, thus carrying the commerce of Baltimore nd that part of the seaboard to the Ohio iver at Pittsburg for shipment weit. He '- resigned the Presidency of the original "ompany to accept the Presidency of d States. After his death the or waB named the Chesapeake and lal Company, to perpetuate and his idea of a connection of the ke bay with the Ohio river, to-day, in the charter of this corn read its object: "To establish and navigation between the eastern and j waters so as to extend and muBpIy jeans and facilities of internal com ;"&And in the same chest of docu- LOUD PROTESTS ments are the estimates for the extension of the canal from Cumberland to Pittsburg by way of Will's creek, the Castleman, Yough iogheny and Monongahela rivers, bo that Cumberland people were prepared to at once take to the Morgantown project set forth in your columns. The Issne oT the Hour. But the great question of the hour in Cumberland is, "Will the present canal be stolen from us by the railroad boodlers?" And that question becomes of great inter est to Pittsburg all at once, since the Monon gahela has been slack-watered to Morgan town, just 60 miles across the country from this canal. On the outcome ot the present legislation at Annapolis depends the future of any trans-Allegheny canal, no matter how slight or how great the engineering problems surrounding it. Hot only Cum berland, but all Maryland, is aroused over the proposed sale of the waterway. It is the leading item of business at Annapolis, and nothing else is talked about up here. The people of Cumberland openly denounce it as a big steal. For two weeks now a little daily paper has been issued in Cumberland called The Canal Issue. It is capitalized by the coal operators, who shipped by the canal up to last June. Its sensational headlines are startling indeed. Big Men Backins the Rnlirond;. The canal which originally cost exactly $11,300,000, could be repaired and put in running order again for a comparatively Fmall sum. But the bill which has passed the Hone,leases it for99 years to the Wash ington and Cumberland Bailroad for $1,200, 000, and a rental of $15,000 per year. A. P. Gorman heads this new railroad company, but it is said the West Virginia Central, in which Senator Davis, Steve Elkins and James G. Blaine are interested, are back of Gorman. The two roads could connect at this city. Another company, representing the Balti more and Ohio Bailroad, has made an offer for the canal, and it is believed they would simply fill up the big ditch. Judge Alvey, of the Maryland Supreme Court, has just rendered a decision, taking strong grounds against the proposed gobble, and appointing receivers to continue the canal. But this does not seem to check the legislation at Annapolis. Governor Jackson is heartily in favor of giving the canal to the railroad", it is said. Its Importnnco to Cntnbcilnml. Before the flood last summer on an aver age of 75 boats left Cumberland every week on the canal. Each boat left from $45 to $50 in the Cumberland stores, and Icrge numbers of men were employed about the wharvM loading up. This is a tremendous loss to Cumberland. On the other hand, C. E. Hambright, of the Cumberland Courier, informs me that the canal bed is so admirably leveled that, with the exception of a little smoothing off at each of the 75 dams, the entire 184 miles would serve for railroad purposes without grading. This aloue would be a saving of several millions to the new railroad. Mr. Hambright says that where the Balti more and Ohio Bailroad now carries 30 cars to a freight train the new road could carry 50 cars, so much more advantageous is the grade of the canal, and it parallels the Baltimore and Ohio. Mr. Hambright favors a railroad, bnt he wants it independent. L. L Stofiel. DENOUNCED BY ALL. THE RAILROAD SCHEME FINDS VERV FEW FRIENDS. The Damago to tho Cnna' Is Really Com paratively Slight Is Could be Repaired at n Cost of 8150,000 Some Decided Views of MnrTlandrrs. IFT.OM A ETAT7' COBBESPONDEXT. 1 Cumberland, Md., February 28. The Chesapeake and Ohfo Canal is Maryland's great historic landmark, whose great corner stone was laid before the Federal Union was consummated. Inspired by this fact The Canal Issue goes to the Bible for thunder in its desperate fight with the railroads that are trying to gobble the ditch. From Prov erbs xxii.:28 it lets loose this bolt: Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set. "" Geoice Washington was interested in the canal project, and it was his great idea to extend a waterway across the Allegheny mountains for a connection with the streams tributary to the Ohio river. To-day, even in its disabled condition, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal is a colossal work a -marvel of fine engineering. It extends 184 miles from Cumberland to Washington City. Its boats draw six feet of water, many of them being moved by screw propellers, so well do the canal walls withstand the waves. An Expcnoivo Dilcb. The ditch varies from 30 to 40 feet in width. It has 75 dams and locks.' Between $8,000,000 and $10,000,000 were expended on its construction. The State of Maryland contributed 5,000,000 of this, and th'e Na tional Go eminent gave nearly $2,000,000. Pennsylvania and Virginia botli contributed large sums to the construction fund. The city of Baltimore, business corporations and others, gave the balance. Experts value the graded bed to-dav at $3,750,000. The b?g tunnel, 30 miles east of this city, cost over $1,000,000 alone, and the aqueducts and locks $2,500,000 more. The canal property in the District of Columni.i is worth 1,750,000, and it is estimated that the present value of other canal property between Washington and Cumberland is fully a million. Not a Complete Wreck. It is not true that the canal is a complete wreck from the flood of last June. That is the report circulated chiefly by the railroad cobblers. In the interests of The Dispatch I have made personal investigation, and I find that it will actually require less money to repair the entire Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 184 miles long, than it cost the Pcnnsyliania Bailroad to rebuild and repair its tracks" and property from Johnstown, Pa., to Altoona after the same flood. Yes, vastly less! The destruc tion along the Conemaugh well nigh dis couraged engineering genins and great capital. The damage to the canal down here will be covered from sight within a compara tively short time by very willing hands from Cumberland if the Legislature will only let them do it. At firbt it was announced that $500,000 would scarcely repair the damage. But even the railroan opponents let this esti mate drop down to $300,000. The element in Cumberland and the State at large who want the canal maintained guarantee its en tire repair for $150,000. Tho Dnmngo Really Slight. There is no place where the canal was en tirely obliterated by the flood, except at Harper's Ferry and Log Wall, and that w.is a stretch of only one and one-half miles. The other structures have been simply clo;gcd with sand and driftwood or have damaged tow-paths. Actually, the obstacles to repair are so slight, and the eagerness of the people for a resumption of water traffic so marked, that one business firm alone of Cumberland has repaired the canal Tor a distance of 23 miles east of this city, paying all tho expenses itself. This 23-mile stretch has been in operation ever since the flood, but it would be closed up it ,the Slate leases the bed. This firm is F. Mertcns & Son, who have lumber mills along the canal within the distance named. Mr. Mertcns said to me: Denounced ns n Sbnmr. It is a shame to let this canal be taken from the common people up here. If the Legislature will refuse to lease the canal to the railroads, and will appropriate the small sum of 150,000 to repair it, we promise to have the ?06 canal canal boats repaired and ready for operation by the time the work is completed. These boats, we guarantee, will carry from 112 to 118 tons of coal and merchandise each. A boat dispatched from the Washing, ton wharves can make two and a half and three trips a month. Beginning in March we have eight and nine months' boating season. This canal has delivered as high asSOO.000 tons of coal at the Eastern cities in a year, With those 200 boats wo promise to deliver from 500, 000 to 000,000 tons annually hereafter. We must have the canal we will be ruined without it. The railroads cannot more all tho coal oilered In the Cumberland fields. This has been proven since the flood. Because of the suspension of canal traffic the 4,000 miners around here have been working three-quarter time. That affects our prosperity. Lots of Money In the Deal. And here is where our ruin is threatened. Senator Davis' railroad through West Vir ginia tops a coal territory where the coal prop erty was bought up at 25, 50 and 75 cents per acre. In tho Cumberland field here, the coal lands are worth from SI to $500 per acre, and miners are higher paid here. If benator Davis' friend Gorman succeeds in building tho Wash ington and Cumberland Railroid on the canal bed, the unholy alliance of tho road with Davis' line will take that dirt cheap West Virginia coal right under our noses and on to tho East, where it can't help but undersell us. Mr. Mertens is quite charmed with the proposition to continue the canal across the mountains and have it connect with the Monongahela river. He says it may seem colossal in design at first glance, but when the American people make up their minds they generally accomplish great designs, especially if 'the commercial results will justify the boldness of the schemes, and they certainly do in this. OniO LEGISLATION. A Measure Requiring All Electric Wires to bo Placed Underground A Free In telligence Barcuii Ono of the Litest Schomcs. SPECIAL. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 Columbus, February 28. Two import ant bills were introduced in the Senate to day. The first has for its ultimate purpose to require that all electric light wires and electric cables shall be put under ground. It delegates to the Board of Public Improve ments and to Common Councils the author ity to admit to the municipality for the purpose of doing business corporations formed for the purpose of constructing sub ways, laying pipes and operating conduits in which to place cables, wires and other conductor of electric currents. The other provides for the appointment by the State Commissioner of Labor Statistics of an officer in each of the five large cities ot the State, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colnmbus, Toledo and Dayton, whose duty it shall be to conduct a free public intelligence bureau for the benefit of persons seeking employ ment. A bill was introduced to repeal the regis tration law in all cities except Coliimbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Toledo and Sandusky. At the Instance of local mer hants all over the State a law has been en acted fixing a heavy license on transient dealers who come in competition with local merchants. There is such strong feeling among the Democratic members over the redistriction and reorganization measures that it is thought a number which have been projected will fail of passage. PUTTLNG AS JW1T0R 0DT. A Task Thit Got a Big Man Into Consid erable Trouble, tFFZCIAt. TELZG11AM TO TIIE DISPATCH. I New Yoke, February 28. Editor Dan iel Dngan, of the Orange Herald, insisted upon staying to hear the proceedings of a Democratic meeting in the Second district of tho Third ward of Orange last night. The meeting was in the interest of Lewis L. Smith, whom the Herald and its owner and editor, Mr. Dugan. warmly opposes as an nldermanic candidate. The chairman was told that Mr. Dugan was there, and cries of "put him out" were raised. Mr. Dugan re fused to go out. He said he was a Demo crat and a good citizen of the ward, and had as good a right as anybody in this, a public meeting. Edward Cheatham was deputized to put him out. Cheatham is a large man and Dugan is small, but the disparity did not prevent the editor from resisting. Tinally, as he was being pushed out of the hall, he smote Cheatham on the nose and ran. -Cheatham followed with blood run ning down his face. Dngan threw him down and began to pummel him. Just then two policemen inter'ered and arrested the fighters. They were both bailed immediate ly, and when they answered at Justice Davis' court this morning each was fined $10 for breach of the peace. HYPNOTIZED HIS WIPE. A Husbnnd Brlnss uit Agninst iho Adopted Parents of His Helpmate. rSrECIAL TELEGBAM TO'TUE PISPATCH. St. Louis, February 28. Ulysses W. Unsar sues Lorgne G. Johnson and Eugene H. Johnson, ior hypnotizing Mrs. Mary J. Ungar and turning her away from her home and from him. It is the first petition.of the kind filed in the St. Louis courts, and the plaintiff asks for $10,000 damages. Ungar states that the Johnsons hypnotized his wife February 18, 1890, and compelled her and her child to accompany them and abandon Ungar. Mrs. Ungar was maid in the family ot Dr. Lorgne U. Johnson, a retired physi cian. Thejoung lady had been taken into the familv when a ery young child and was raised by Mr, Johnson. She was looked upon as an adopted daughter and one of the family by the neighbors, and was treated as such. An attachment sprang up between Ungar and this young lady, and in less than six months after their meeting they were mar ried. That was 18 months ago. A child was born, and, as the petition states, is now 10 months old. Ungar mortgaged his furni ture, it is said, and tailed to pay the inter est. February 18 last the mortgage was foreclosed, and, saving a few things from the wreck, Mrs. Ungar decamped with her baby, going to the Johnson house, her old home. FANCY PIGEONS STOLEN. Rnro Birds Tnlned nt $50 Disposed of at 25 Cents a Pair. IFPECIAL TEI.EOKAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 Malden, Mass., February 28. Four ragged urchins from East Boston were in court te-day on the charge of stealing $500 worth of fancy pigeons belonging to Mr. William Garvin. Several citizens of Mai den have had valuable pigeons stolen within the past ie'w days and all the thefts are laid to these boys. It seems that the valuable pigeons were sold for 25 cents apiece, Just as occasion offered, and the purchasers ate the pigeons. One Chinaman bought a pair worth $50 for which he paid 25 cents and made a stew of them. Other similar cases are cited where pigeons were eaten which were worth almost their weight in gold. DIED IN THE A11DST OP FILTH. Wortb From 840,000 to S5O.000 nnd Lived Without the Comforts of Life. Boston, February 28. Charles Tufts died in the midst of filth in a repulsive room in tue'rearof 7ffBoyleston street, Cambridge, last night. Fully 85 vears old, and esti mated to be worth $40,000 to S50.000, Tufts had lived in his deu with scarce! v any of the most commonplace comforts of lite. He had lived in Cambridge for 65 years, and accumulated his wealth as a shoemaker, paper carrier,-and - manufacturer of shoe blacking.. - T fflfflmm Wmtfb . PITTSBURG-, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1890 T"EL.VE A WIDOW OF WEALTH And Some 53 Winters JIarries Her Bon's Sailor Boy Comradef WHO IS BDT 19 YEARS OF AGE. She Says She is Taking the Advice of Her First Husband. THE FAMILY IS NOT AT ALL PLEASED, And the Two Former Companions Do Not Speak as They Fass By. Mrs. Matilda L. Case, a wealthy Brook lyn Widow, has wedded George J. Bolles, aged 19. Bolles is learning to be a sailor on board a training ship with a 22-year-old son of his bride. They were comrades, but do not speak now. Mrs. Casejasserts that it is a case of true love. ISFECIAL TSLBQKAM TO Till DISPATCn.1 Brooklyn, February 28. Mrs. Matilda L. Case, the widow of Bufus D. Case,'a wholesale tea dealer, who died three years ago, has just been married to George J. Bolles, a sailor boy on the training ship Minnesota. The bride has a full figure, bright brown eyes and dark hair mixed with gray. She acknowledges her 53 sum mers. Mr. Bolles is 19 years old, fair-haired and blue eyes and has been wearing Uncle Sam's blue uniform sinoe he quarreled with his stepmother three years ago and ran away from his home. The bride has two grown up sons, each older than her husband B. Sherwood Case, aged 22, who is a shipmate of Bolles on the Minnesato, and 19-year-old Frank, who is a shipping clerk in this city. A COMRADE OP HEB SON. The elder son and Bolles made a trip to gether in the schoolship St. Mary's and on their return, a year or more ago, Bolles be came a frequent visitor at MrsvCasc's house in Brooklyn. Before the marriage Mrs. Case consulted Bufus L. Scott, her lawyer, and he and Dr. O. L. Birch, her family phy sician, were the only witnesses of the cere mony which was performed at her house by the llev. A. Stewart Walsh, a retired Bap tist minister, who is at present engaged in the real estate business. There was no wedding trip. On the morn ing after the marriage the youthful husband returned to his duties on the Minnesota. Every other day ha receives permission to visit his wife. It is said Mrs. Bolles' sons were greatly put out by the marriage, and that the young husband and his stepson do not speak when they meet on the Minnesota. The inequality of age in the bride and groom has provoked a cood deal of gossip and Mr. Bolles took occasion yes terday to say: "My first husband was 19 years older than I when I married him, but he was a good man and we lived very hap pily. Before he died he Baid to me: 'Tillie, l'f you ever meet another man you like after I am dead, I want you to marry him. You would make any man happy.' HEB HUSBAND'S ADVICE. "I said I didn't think I would ever marry again, but added, jokingly, if I should marry again, would you min J if he was a young man! He said he did not care what was the age of the man if it would only make me happy- I have known Mr. Bolles four years. He is a manly fellow even if -he is not yef of age. HVused vo" call me mother, and was a brother to my sons. It was about three months' ago he told me that he had a deeper affection than a son for me, and I acknowledged that I loved him other than as a mother. My sons will lose nothing by this, for I made provision for them before I got married. I am well able to do it, as I own several fine houses. "There is a home here for my sons and for their wives, just as soon as they conclude to get married, and there is no cause for any dissension whatever. The ceremony was quietly performed, as I thought the matter was too sacred to invite a crowd of curious persons to wlness it. I don't see thatl have done anything wrong. I am a well-preserved women and my heart is as young as my husband's and his as old as mine, in that we love each other and our tastes are similar." A TELLER'S COSTLY EEE0K. lie Gives a Man S2,0n0 on a Check Calling far $200. rSrECIAL TELEGRAM TO TIIE DISPATCII.3 Newark, N. J., February 28. The pay ing teller of the National Newark Banking Company made a mistake on Wednesday afternoon. A man, whose name the officers of the bank will not reveal, presented a check written in for $200, bnt bearing in the comer the figures $2,000. The teller gave him $2,000, and did not discover the error for some time. A messenger was sent after the man, and he refused to return the money, saying that it was the rule of all banks not to correct' mistakes after a man got out of the bank, and that if the balance had been on the other side he would have been unable to get the difference. Later in the day he compromised with his conscience by sending $900 to the bank. It was received, but President Kockwood said to-day it was not taken in any sense as a compromise, and that there was nothing to prevent the man goinc to Stateprison. It was said that his name was Vrecland. ST. LOUIS BKI11GE COMPLETED. Tho Contractors Will Receive the Handsoino Bonus oTS32,200, St. Louis, February 28. The Merchants' Bridge, which has been in process of con struction across the Mississippi river, oppo site the northern part of this city for tho past year, was completed this evening, and, so far as the bridce itself is concerned, is in readiness for carrying trains. The ap proaches, however, are not yet finished, but work on them is so far progressed that it is believed April 1 will see trains passing over the bridge. Under the contract for construction, the contractors are allowed a bonus of $350 per day for each day the bridge is finished prior tf- the 1st of June. The completion ot the structure, therefore, 92 days before contract time will cive the Union Bridge Company, who did the work, the handsome bonus of $32,200, which will be.cheerlully paid. A BIG FORTUNE IN EUSSIA Awaiting a Man Who pace Kept A Til- lage Clothing Store. rfPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIEPATODM Cabbohdale, February 28. Adolph Joseph, who formerly owned a little cloth ing store in Forest City, a village four miles above Carbondale, left there last October for Chicago, nnd last month left Chicago for St. Louis. The - police of the latter city- have been asked to find Joseph, who by the death of a cousin, Nichols Aaron, of St. Petersburg, inherits a fortune of 800,000 roubles, or nearly ?600, 000. It is said that, to secure possession of the fortune, Joseph must return to Russia on or before April 8 next. ; The Colliery Fire Uurtrr Control. Shamokin, Febraary 28. -The fire' in J the Cameron colliery is to-day thought to be under control. The fire is still burning, but if nothing unforeseen occurs it will be pxttnguunea in a lev days,- - A STOBMY CONFERENCE. a The Resolution to Oast ElderE.licr Adopted. but Ho Refuses to Vacate Confusion Reigns Snprcme A becret Session to Try Oilier Ministers. Shamokiit, February 28. At to-day's session of the Evangelical Conference, after .the usual opening devotional services, Sishop Esher, who was in the chair, re arked that yesterday hadibeen practically wasted, and he hoped that the resolution which had been offered declaring the Pre siding Bishop an improper person to pre side would be withdrawn and the business of the convention acted upon. Bev. Mr. Smoyer objected, and again pre sented the resolution, which the Bishop re fused to recognize. Bev. Breyfogel sugggested that business proceed and the resolution be considered later. The Conference, however, wouldn't agree to this. Bishop Esher then tried to hirrc the Conference go into secret session and examine the personal conduct of min isters during the past year. Mr. Smoyer in sisted that the conduct of the Bishop be first examined. The scenes of yesterday were then repeated amid great confusion. Eev. Smoyer exclaimed: "We insist on express ing our feeling in this matter." "So do I," retorted the Bishop. "Yes; and misconstrue," replied Eev. Smoyer. Th'e Bishop then said: "I have not mis construed. I have been hissed and jeered by this body; remarks derogatory to my char acter have been made. I am not under charges, and will not be thrown out. I can not vacate." Eev. Smoyer Your position isanomalous. Eev. Keif I do not want it said we hissed the Bishop. Great excitement here prevailed during a continued discussion in which it was denied that the Bishop had been hissed. After order had been restored, the Bishop said: "If I am wrong in thinking I was hissed I frankly recall my complaint ot that unkind treatment." Eev. Haman then asked if the Bishop would allow the Secretary to put the resolu tion before the conference, to which the Bishop replied: "Certainly, but the action will be placed on the minutes with mv pro test." The resolution was then put by the Secre tary, and almost unanimously adopted. Bishop Esher then refused to vacate the chair, and the conference went into secret session to consider charges preferred against ministers, tho Bishop teniarking: "Now we shall examine others." SAYS HE IS NOT A GAMBLER. Tho Card Playing on the Train Wns Merely n Friendly Game. Chicago, February 28. A young man representing himself os Mark A. Boren, of Chicago, formerly of Olmstead, 111., called at the Associated Press office here to-night and denied the report that a gambler of his name had been shot by a swindled Ken tuckian named Hatfield in an affray over a poker game on a railroad train near Poplar Bluff, Ark., Tuesday night. The young man declared that the passengers on the train got unnecessarily excited over the in cident of Mr. Hatfield jocosely firing two or three bullets from a revolver through the train window, No one was hurt, according to this ver sion, and the card playing was merely a lit tle game between old acquaintances. Mr. Boren was only $150 ahead when the game ceased. His companion, Jobcs, is said to be the man who stopped off at Poplar Bluff. .rbut it ;s claimed Was not wounded. The Cbicaco young man says the report that he is a gambler is untrue. INSULATION TnE GREAT POINT. What Is Necessary to Prevent Accidents From Electrical Apparatus. ISPECIAL TELEOnAM TO TIIE PISPATCIT. J New York. February 28. The Senate Committee on General Laws resumed to-day its investigations of deaths from electric lighting currents. George W. Hebard, President of the United States Electric Lighting Compauy, which sells apparatus, testified that, if properly insulated, wires underground were less dangerous than wires overhead; if not properly insulated they were quite as dangerous. In large cities, however, he thought the wires might be used with comparative safety. B. E. Bowker, of the Edison Electric Il luminating Company, said a policeman who pushed back a crowd with his club might be considered to represent low tension; when he cot to hitting people he would represent high tension, and two policemen clubbing the same man wonld represent alternating currents. THE E0AD TO BE COMPLETED. Election of Directors and Organization of the Akron and Chicngo. Cleveland, February 28. The organi zation of the Akron and Chicago Junction road was completed to-day. The stock holders met and elected as directors, Thomas M. King, M. E. Dickey, F. J. and William Thornburg, J. T. Joe, J. P. Cavan and J. Bartol. The capital stock was fixed at $500,000. The Board of Directors held a meeting at the same place directly after their election and elected William Thorn burg President of the road, and J. Bartol Secretarv. President Thornburg will push the work of construction at once. Sur veyors are already in the field. Before the close of the year this important 65 mile constrnction in the Baltimore and Ohio system will probably be completed. SILC0TT AERESTED AGAIN. This Time It Is nt Toledo, on tho Northern Pacific Railroid. Portland, Ore., February 28. A re port reached here this evening that Sheriff Deiger, of Winlock, arrested Silcott, the defaulting cashier of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Bepresentatives, this after noon, at Toledo, a town on the line of the Northern Pacific Bailroad, between here and Tacoma. The report states that Silcoti has been palming himself off as an engineer in the employ of the Southern Pacific Company. Sheriff Deiger started for Chehalis with his prisoner. No further particulars are ob tainible. SOLID FINANCIALLY, Bnt Nevertheless a Chicago Film Makes nn Assignment. Chicago, February 28. Following the publication to-day of the disappearance of J. C. Goldthwaite, of the hat manufacturing firm of Ward, Goldthwaite & Co., came the assignment of the firm this afternqon to the American Trust and Savings Bank. The assignment was precipitated by an attach ment suit brought by the Hall & Boss Glove Company. The assets are scheduled at $25,000. No liabilities are named. The firm claim to be solid financially, and are only trying to protect themselves from illegal claims which may have been con tracted by Goldthwaite in the firm's name. Severe Snow Storm. Janesville, Wis., February 28. The severest snow storm that has visited this section since the memorable blizzard of 1881 set in about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and continned with much force until noon to-day. About one foot of snow fell, which has drifted badly, completely demoralizing Sftunaj .in TCI. PAGES, AID FOE THE CADSE. German Socialists Eeceiyins Moral and FinanciaUSupport. THE PARTY IS-A PEACEABLE ONE, Belyins; Entirely Upon the Ballot to Attain Its Objects. YOUNG LINCOLN'S CHANCE FOE LIFE. The llarqnis of Qnccnvberry Is Anxions to Fight a Dr.el With a Lord. The socialistic party in Germany is re ceiving considerable aid from other coun tries. Bismarck had everything ready to resign,,hnt has qow given up the plan. If young Abraham Lincoln lives through the next 48 hours he may recover. .ET CAULE To TIIE DISPATCH.; Berlin, February 28. The German So cialists, in additiou to the moral support which their success has elicited from all parts of the world, are receiving much more substantial and 'immediately available aid in the shape of large sums of money which are coming in to them from their friends and fellow-workers in Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France and Sweden. These financial contributions are designed to help them in continuing the struggle at the polls and pursuing their victory in acquiring a numerical importance in the Eeichstag. material assistance. They are sustained, in encouraging opinion and in material assistance, not by Anarchists and violent agitators, toward whom their distaste is as great as that of any monarchical party, but by all who believe in the rights of the people as opposed to the oppressive predominance of monaichies and oligarchies and aristocracies. Their triumph is a great and important step in the direction of eqnitablo and jnst government after the manner of a constitutional monarchy or a well-balanced Eepublic, and as such, and as a real agent in the direction of law and order, their growing strength is recognized and encouraged by friends o! popular gov ernment everywhere. an astonishing teatube. This is the position of the German Social ists in relation to both imperialism and anarchy, and it is an astonishing and impos posing feature in European politics. The elections for members of the Eeichstag has shown that the expulsion of Socialists from Germany was a grievous mistake, and that Prince Bismarck's policy toward them has been erroneous from the start. The only sur prising feature is that, while opposing the great Chancellor's "blood-and-iron" course in home affairs wjth all the vigor of elo quence and a tremendous popular protest, they should have taken us firm a stand as Bismarck himself against license and dis order, and should have imitated so well the moderation of large and conservative re publican parties under less vigorous mon archical governments than that of this conn try, and should have so admirably copied the constitutional methods of opposition which are characteristic of the Saxon race. BISMARCK'S ERROR. Tho error of expelling their more out spoken compatriots is seen in the effect pro duced by Socialists who have been driven out of Berlin, Leipzig and Hamburg, and who have carried an active propaganda of orderly socialism into the provinces and so spread the power and influence of the grow ing party. The results of this, damaging to Bismarck, but wholesome for Germany, will be seen still more positively in the second ballots. The North German Gazette, Prince Bis mack's organ, Confirms the report that Prince Bismarck intended to resign the Chancellorship, but says that the result of the recent elections'caused him to decide to remain in office. Upon the second ballots for the Eeichstag the returns thus far received show the fol lowing elections: ForLeipsic City, Goetz, National Liberal; for Munich, First dis trict, Birk, Socialist; for Mannheim, Dries bach, Socialist; for Fiankfort-on-the-Maiu, Schmidt, Socialist; Stuttgart, Seigel, National Liberal. TO COURT FOR ?5,000. An English Countess Makes an Offer to the Ambitious Americans. BT DUSLAP'S CABLE coMrAirr. London, February 28. In a weekly paper an unknown woman denounces a Countess who advertises that she is willing to present Americans at court and to society generally during the coming London season in consideration of the sum of $5,00U, paid in advance. The paper says this lady should be rechristened the aristocratic Jeremy Diddler, and trnst3 that few En glish ladies will consent to receive Ameri cans thus chaperoned. It is denied that the Countess is Lady Stradbroke, one of the writers on the staff of the paper of which Edmund Yates is the proprietor, and the mother of the seconder of the address to the Throne in the House of Commons at the reopening of Parliament. A KNIFE IN HIS BEAIN. In That Condition an Englishman Lives for a Number of Years. BT PUJJLAP'S CABLE COMPACT. London, February 28. At an inquest held yesterday on the body of a carman who was killed by falling from his car, the doc tors who made the post mortem were sur prised to find the blade of a knife embedded in his skull and extending into his brain. The appearances indicated that the knife had been in its present place for many years, and yet the brain was quite unin jured, the blade resting in a fissure between two ot the convolutions. EUM0ES OF A" DYNAMITE PLOT. Parncll Is Reported to bo Fcarlnl of Somo Such Disturbance. BY DUNLAl-'S CABLE COMPAXT.l London, February 28. There is a rumor to-night in London that the police have dis covered another dynamite plot. Scotland Yard authorities deny that any fearot vague danger threatens the public tranquility. Detectives are dogging the goings and comings of all Irish Americans and Parnell is reuortcd to have expressed anxiety lest some dreadful explosion should again lilight the hopes of all true friends of Ireland. I Chorns Girls Organize. rBT DUSLAP'S CABLE COMPANY. London, February 28 A new society is being formed called the "Ballet and Chorus Protection Society." It was sug gested by the recent success of the ballet nnd extra girls in their action against Barnum. Not in Fnvor of Eight Hoars. London, February 23. The Northum berland Miners Association has decided by a unanimous vote not to support the moye ment for the reduction of' the working hours t?i'KhtperdaT,t THE LAD'S COURAGE. Young Lincoln Still Lives, nis Vllnllly Being Almost Marvelous If He Sur vives tho Next 48 Hoars IIo May Recover. IBT CABLE TO TOS DISPATCH. I London, February 28. Copyright. Young Abraham Lincoln at midnight is still alive, and although alarmingly weak, is perfectly conscious of what is going on around him. His illness dates just four months ago when, at school at Versailles, he felt some inconvenience from what at first was supposed to be a simple boil, but which on surgical examination was pro nounced to be a malignant carbnnele. It u alleged and believed truthfully that the French surgeons operated too soon, cut the carbuncle in an unscientific manner and did not afterward give the patient proper attention, with the result that a curious kind of blood poisoning set in. The car buncle is situated on the left side below the armpit. The oatient got weaker and weaksr and at length Minister Lincoln called in Brit ish specialists, who pronounced the treat ment radically wrong and urged removal to London as the only means of saving tho boy's life. Specialists were at once called in, among them the famons surgeon, Sir William Paget, and, after a prolonged consultation, they agreed upon the treatment which has been since followed with occasional modi fications necessitated by the varying phases of the disease. For some time past the chief danger has been the probability of ef fusion of corrupt matter to the heart and more particularly to the lungs. This made necessary distressingly frequent operations which had the natural effectof weakeningthe patient. What these operations mean may be estimated from the fact that the result of one of several performed on Wednesday was the tapping of more than three pints of mat ter. It has, therefore, long been necessary to administer opiates to deaden pain, and stimulants, chiefly rye whisky and fluid nourishments, to maintain vitality. Two things have been greatly in the patient's favor; first, there has been no stomach trouble, and second, his indomitable pluck and wonderful spirits. In the absence of either of these he must have died long ago. His courage is shown particularly during the painful business ot dressing his surgical wounds, which now are almost merged.into one large mass covering most of the left side. He scarcely ever flinches, and when conscious, as he generally is, he watches the surgeons with a smiling face. The doctors in immediate attendance are Dr. MacLagan, Dr. Webster Jones, who formerly had a large practice in .Chicago, Dr. Bliss, another well-known American, Dr. T. G. Smith and Dr. Heath, who lives close bv. One of these gentlemen is always by the bedside. The next 48 hours constitute the critical period. If the patient survives them he may finally recover. Minister Lincoln left the house for the first time for several days and paid a short visit to the legation. He has been overwhelmed to-day again by cablegrams of svmpathy and inquiry from all parts of the United States. He is powerless to send Individual replies, and can only repeat through the press his grateful thanks. A CHALLENGE TO A DUEL. The Marqnis of Qaeensberry Very Angry at n Yonng Lordiinff. BY DUXLAP'9 CABLE COMPANY. London, February 28. During the case of Baird (Abingdon) versns the Pelican Club, the Marquis of Qaeensberry refused to swear because he was not a Christian. The witness sent a note to Lord De Clifford, a vicious young Iordling. who immediately showed it to Abingdon (Baird). Queensberry was so incensed that he in tends to challenge De Clifford to fight a duel in France. ENLIGHTENING THE EMPEE0E. Minister Phelps Telia Illm of the Condition of Labor in America. BY DtTSLAP'S CABLE COMPACT.! Berlin, February 28. His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of Germany, has been graciously pleased to accord interviews to Mr. W. W. Phelps, our Minister at the Court of Berlin, who gave His Majesty much valuable Information and many de tails concerning the labor question, not only in America, but also in England, whose Tory Government the Emperor finds too reticent. SULLIVAN MAY WEAE STEIPES. A Possibility That the Big Fighter's Sentence Maybe Reaffirmed. SPECIAL TZLZGSAM TO THE DISPATCU.1 Jackson, Miss., February 28. Thecase of John L. Sullivan, on appeal from the Circuit Court, for prize fighting in Marion county, will be tried by the Supreme Court Monday next, and the Attorner Gen eral is engaged to-day in preparing his brief. Sullivan stands sentenced to one year's confinement in the county jail. The decision in the case will not be pro mulgated before Mondavweck, and may not be that soon, as JudgeWoods is too feeble yet to resume his duties and the court is badly overworked. The Legislature failed to abolish the leasing system, and county convicts are left to be disposed of as heretofore. They are leased out and the sentence of the lower court is affirmed. Sullivan may be wear ing stripes and hoeing cotton or pulling fodder in a July sun before the leaves be gin to fall. THE OHIO SOCIETY. A Committee Will Wnlt Upon the Remains of the Lnte Minister Pendleton. New York, February 28. At a special meeting of the Ohio Society of New York to-night a committee consisting of Hon. George Hoadly, Hon. Calvin S. Brice, Gen eral Wager Swayne.General Thomas Ewing, Hon. Milton I. Southard, General Henry L. Burnett and Hon. Warren Higley, was ap pointed to wait upon the remains of the late Hon. George H. Pendleton, United States Minister to Germany, which arrived at this port on board the United States ship Enter prise. Mayor Mosby, of Cincinnati, and a com mittee of distinguished gentlemen of Ohio will meet the remains at the State line and escort them to Mr. Pendleton's former home, where the funeral will take place on Satur day, March 8. Graham, the Briber, Ilcard Fronj. Chicago, February 28. William A. Pinkerton, of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, says that while in Houston a few days ago, he met Dan Sweeny, a gambler, who told him that he had seen Johnny Graham, the alleged Cronin jnry briber, in tne mines in Chihuahua, Mexico, recently. Vegetation Generally Destroyed. Austin, Tex., February 28. A cold norther prevailed last night and the mer cury went down to 20. Growing corn, oats, fruit and vegetation generally were de stroyed, causing very serious loss to farmers. Huudreds of fig trees loaded with frnit were killed. Home-Seekers' Excursions. Chicago, February 28. The general passenger agents of the Western roads after a two days'session haYeagreed to run a series ot so-called home-seekers' excursions to the West, beginning in April. A rate of fare for the round trip was decided upon, Transient Advertisements, INCLUDING WANTS, TO LETS, FOR SALES, ETC., FOR - TO-MORROW'S ISSUE May be handed in at the main advertisinc; office pflnE Dispatch, Fifth avenue, up to "midnight. , , THEEE CENTS wsmm feud Kr "at Vi Wr . .' Carried L& Vlie Corridor of the U?P ' Capitol. L .Vi A DEADLY PISTOL BALL Inflicts a Probably Fatal Wound Upon an Ex-Congressman. IT WAS A PREMEDITATED CRIME. Brief, bat Brilliant Career of the Stricken Statesman. A WOMAN THE CAUSE OF THE TEAGEDI Ex-Congressman Taulbee, of Kentucky, and Kincaid, a Louisville newspaper cor respondent, renewed au old quarrel in the Capitol yesterday. Kincaid then secured a pistol and an hour later shot Taulbee from behind. The wonnd will probably prove fatal. A scandal circnlated by Kincaid was the cause of the quarrel. 'FHOM A BTAJT COBEJCSPOUDZHT.l Washington, February 28. "It is un fortunate for Taulbee that Kincaid's bullet did not him in the cheek," said a Kentucky Congressman to the correspondent of The DlSPATcn this evening. "Nothing," he said, "could have penetrated that." Ex Congressman Taulbee, who was shot by Kincaid, the correspondent of the Louis yille Timet, in a stairway of the Capitol this afternoon, was noted as one of the most aggressive and intrusive of the new mem bers of Congress. He came in with the ad vent of Carlisle as Speaker. That gentleman recognized his ability and brilliancy and gave him every oppor tunity to distinguish himself. Taulbee was au ex-clergyman and lawyer. The pulpit was too circumscribed ior his powers and more especially for his natural tendencies! In several directions, and he sought the law as being more congenial. A VEEY USEFUL VOICE. Slender, tall, lank, almost comsumptive looking, his vocal organs were phenomenal. No matter what volcanic upheaval occurred in the House his voice could be heard ring ing clear and rich above the uproar, and as he alwavs said something good he was usually recognized, and his voice would still the tumult and his wit would raise a laugh. He had the spiritual and the sen sual temperament of the poeC In the) church he might have played the part of a Bcher bnt he preferred the larger liberty with equal enjoyment of a secular pro fession. To-day Kincaid had sent in his card to see a Kentucky member of Congress, and was" waiting at the east door leading into the floor of the House. There is always a large crowd of people about the corridor. Taul bee, who had a business engagement with Congressman McCreary, of Kentucky, and several others, come out of the House while Kincaid was standing in the outer doorway, and, walking up to him, said a few words in an undertone indistinguishable to the per sons only a few feet away. taulbee's language. It is said the lie was passed. The door keeper who was in the act of closing the doors, as is customary on a call of the House, then noticed Taulbee, who is large framed and muscular, grab Kincaid by the lapel of the coat, anil, with a strong grasp hold him while he said: "Kincaid, come out into the corridor with me." The reports which flew about the capital stited that the ex-Congressman had pulled the corre spondent's nose or ear; but the doorkeeper, who was standing there, denies this. Kincaid is a small, slightly built man, suffering from illness and some nervous ail ment. His reply to Taulbee's invitation to come ont into the corridor wasr "I am in no condition for a physical contest with you. I am unarmed." Taulbee responded that he also was unarmed, and then the men were separated by seme common friends, Kincaid calling upon an acquaintance from Kentucky named Sam Walton to bear wit ness to what had occurred. Walton evidently did not desire to be come involved in trouble between the two men, for he said that he could be a witness to nothing. He knew that some words had been exchanged. AH this time the doorkeeper was vainly endeavoring to get the men out ot the way so that the doors might be closed, but was prevented by Taulbee, who declared that he had a right to enter. WENT AFTER A WEAPON. Taulbee and Kincaid then went their ways, the former into the House and the latter, it is supposed, a.'ter a pistol, for, as he stated, he had nono at the time. This quarrel was not generally known even to the intimate friends of the two men, when about 130 o'clock members and friends dining in the restaurant were startled by the sharp report ot a pistol fired very near the private room attached to the restaurant. They rushed out breathlessly while other persons came tumbling down the stairway, and soon there was an excited crowd sur rounding a man holding his head, from which the blood was rushing in a steady stream, while another man was exclaiming that he had done the shooting. The bullet was fired at a range not the length ot a man's arm. Taulbee, after spending some time in the Honse, had come out and was descending; the eastern marble stairway leading from, the main to the lower floor of the building. He passed Kincaid on his way, and the latter came after him. This stairway is lighted only by one small window, and is dark and gloomy. At the time the affair oc curred there were many people passing up and down. A TAP ON TnE SROULDEB. Taulbee had nearly reached the bottom when he felt a sharp tap on his shoulder. He wheeled quickly around, and as he did so, Kincaid, who touched him from behind, fired without a word of warning, the bullet entering in the right side ot the right eye. The wounded man almost sank to the floor, but rallied, instantly and staggered down the few rem lining steps to the landing, where he was quickly surrounded by a throng, some of whom recognized him. Congressman Yoder, a physician as well as a politician, and Dr. Clarence Adams, a young practicioner of this city, were near at hand. Under their guidance the wounded man was removed to the room of the Com mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds, where he was made comfortable on a lounge till he could be removed to his home. Kin caid made no endeavor to escape, but walked into the crowd surrounding the wounded man, excitedly exclaiming: "I did it. I am the man who did the shooting." Officer Bryan, of the Capitol police force, caught hold of him after he heard those words uttered, and Kincaid was taken to Continued on Seventh I'age. i 1 i J-v
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