iOOLI I Tendered to the State of Mary land by a Private Cor poration for THE CHESAPEAKE CANAL, The Capitalists Who Make the Offer to Maintain the "Waterway. CITIZENS ARE IX EAEXEST And a Strong Figbt Will be Made to Thwart tbe Ilailroad Schemes. -THET WANT AN EXTENSION BUiLT, And Believe That the State or Private Cap italists May Be Induced to In Test a Round Sum IX THE TRANS-ALLEGHENY PROJECT The people of Maryland are thoroughly awake on the canal question. The latest move to prevent the building of a railroad on the canal bed is an offer to the State of 51,000,000 down for the property. This is made by the Tidewater Canal and Trans portation Company, a company recently formed, as a rival to the railroad bidders. It is hinted that, should this effort to pain the waterway succeed, the extension of the canal westward would be only a question of time. irKOM A 6TATF COBBESPOIfDEXT.J Combebland, Md.. March 2. The fu ture of tbe Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is ctill bathed in legislative mist But one thing is sure, and that is if the hi; ditch es capes the embrace of the railroad corpora tions, it will prove the stimnlus of a greater and more substantial revival of the trans Allegheny canal scheme than the country has fivitnessed for half a century. The great South Penn Kailroad suffocation in all its noisy throes, did not create nearly so much commotion in Penn sylvania as exists in Maryland to-day over the thteatened tilling up of this canal. The indications are that the element which wants it maintained as a water highway for the common people is in the minority. The power, influence and boodle all appear to be within the hands of the proposed railroad lessees. Figntlnc to Rave Ifao Canal. Notwithstanding that fact, the canal ad herents are moving all things terrestial, and appealing to everything celestial, to defeat the enormous gobble. At a lucky moment they unearthed the fact that the United States Government had a big share in the building of the canal back in the '20's, and only last week they secured the appoint ment of a committee of Congress to investi gate the extent of the Government's interest in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and just how Maryland's proposed lease of her own interest in the highway would affect that. Then it was suddenly announced that Pennsvlvania gave 538,000 to help build the canal, and that the interest and principal of that has been running unpaid for 40 yean. A Boom for Cannl Men. The Canal Issue, Cumberland's new daily paper, continues to pour hot shot into the so-called railroad boodlers. Beside all this, large lobbies are kept down at the Legis lature in Annapolis. If the canal is saved, all this enthusiasm in its behalf will be continued in its operation, and this will essentially broaden out into a boom for its extension across the mountains to connect with the Monongahcla river. Its friends are now loudly dwelling on the present canal's valuable uses, and prophesying what greater uses it will be. They call this an era of canal revivals. If such boasts as these should win in legis lative halls, they will be seriously agitated subsequently. The old routes proposed and surveyed for & navigable pass of the AUeghenies all con templated costly slackwater improvements of the Castleman and Yonghiogheny rivers their entire lengths. Pittsburgers will ap preciate the significance of these facts. The New and the Old Route. They are familiar with the wiid gorges of those mountain streams and the stupendous rocks of Ohio Pyle. Only within the last year have the slackwater improvements of the Monongahela made it a noble river navigable at all seasons of the year, as far as Morgantown, and Morgantown is only a trifle over 60 miles from the western terminus ot the Chesapeake end Ohio Canal. The people of Cumberland, at least, are just now in the proper mood to take to the scheme. Many believe it would be easier and vastly cheaper to build a connecting canal to Morgantown than to build even the three necessary miles of a Canal to the old Yonghiogheny route and then improve th3t stream. At any rate, the people who are now fighting for the preservation of the main canal grasp at this western possibility to save the greater work. "Then we will find some sort of a route to the "Western waters, sure," concluded "William F. Cow den, of Cumberland, speaking on the sub ject As a Frlrate Enterprise Industrial capital will sometimes attempt what a government is slow to touch. IX the Chesapeake and Ohio canal should pass into the hands of private capitalists, to be continued as a waterway, the same private capitalists might consider the question of connecting it with the Monongahela river, purely as a means of business. Of course, it li hardly reasonable or probable that any business corporation would, in these days of railroads and rapid transit, seriously think of building a new canal from Balti more to Pittsburg. Yet, if that corporation can secure an S11,000,000 caual, already built, and with a steady traffic already established, for the small sum of 51,000,000, it is more than probable that it would be in a condition to talk about adding Cj miles additional canal to the purchase and thus be able to ship Balti more products to Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis entirely by water. Such a private enterprise has now entered the field with a bid for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. A Conal Company Formed. It is a movement of the past week in op position to the two railroad corporations which are struggling for the possession of the ditch. This third bidder is called the Allegheny Tidewater Canal and Transpor tation Company. Senator George Pearre, It. H. Gordon, Park Agnew, John Cham bers and Patrick Carroll, who represent the company, made an offer ol Sl,000,000 to the State. The payment will be made with in two weeks after the passage of their bill and they promise to maintain the canal as a waterway. The railroad com pany's offer to the State for the lease was 515,000 a year for a term of years, or total of 51,200,000. The Tidewater and Transportation Com pany offers 51,000,000 down for the State's interest, making in all nearly 51,000,000 more than the Washington and Cumberland Kailroad Company's offer, considering what the interest would amount to in 99 years. Obstacle)! to be Overcome. A future letter will contain interviews with these gentlemen upon the trans-Allegheny proposition that is, if the railroad ties are not planted across the canal bed by legislative enactment before then. Of such important bearing does the future of the main canal have on any trans-Allegheny canal, that the discussion of its threatened fate has thus far prevented me from giving The DisrATCH readers the opinions of Maryland people on the en gineering questions connected with the pro posed Morgantown route. All that will come later, and the symposium which my note book contains is interesting indeed. Everybody admits the great obstacles in the way of carrying water levels over, or even through, the summit of the AUeghen ies. But many declare that money will do it, and that in this age when such fabulous ly valuable commercial fruit as An InlernnI Water-Way. through the more southerly section of the United States is to be gathered by simply filling a gaD of 65 miles, the United States Government is rich enough and ingenious enough, and should be willing enough to tackle that gap. One opinion, however, which I got in Cumberland, will suffice for the present to indicate the engineering ob stacles to the Morgantown route. It is by Mr. W. Milmore Boberts, who, by the way, is a brother ot Colonel Thomas P. Boberts, of Pittsburg. He has no doubt that, large as would be the sum of money required for the improvement, the mercantile and economic benefits would justify its expenditure. But he.belicves the natural obstacle to such a scheme would be a lack of water. Said he: "Mountain after mountain lies between I this city and Morgantown, "W. Va., short as the distance is. The whole Allegheny range is between us. Such a canal would have to ascend to an altitude of 2,700 feet above tide water or more in its passage from Cumber land to Morgantown. It would cross the summit somewhere about Oakland, Md., which is 54 miles from here, A Big Ficce of Work. "Such a route would be nearly parallel to the main line of tbe B. & O. R. It. auC it has the heaviest grade of any trunk line in the United States. "We call Piedmont the toot of the mountain, and yet from here to Piedmont, a distance of 28 miles, the rail road rises 200 feet in all. From Piedmont to Altmont the railroad climbs 117 feet in every mile for 17 miles. "To carry a canal over these heights is possible if you have enough water, for the number ot locks required would be very large. Could enough water be found to sup ply such a heavily locked canal? There is the whole question. If I remember aright, though, the great difficulty with the trans Allegheny scheme proposed many years as;o the Youghioghenv river routed was this: An actual survey by the Government deter niiued that a scarcity of water would make that project hazardous, and there was not so much canal proposed as this new route. Well Worthy ot Consideration. "A tunnel, as proposed bv 'Kiverman in The Pittsburg Dispatch, would have to be very many miles long, I think, to avoid such a lofty summit. Still the enter prise, vast as the problems in front of it are, is wo.'th looking into. We live in a wonder ful age, you know, and there may be some DeLesseps yet undiscovered in the AUe ghenies." It was Mr. Mertens, the Cumberland lumber merchant, who in casually discuss ing the scheme, mentioned to me an im portant fact. That was that the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, if ex tended to the Monongahela river would be an internal highway even more valuable to commerce than the great Erie Canal in New York, because winter cuts off nearly three months of navigation up there, I IrTllfth flin mnra cntitliarli- in .1 n.l I route to Pittsburg and the "West would en joy. And if the Ohio river and Erie canal is built, Baltimore could thus have the ad vantage of a lake entrance a'ter New York is shut out L. E. SioriEL. HOW WESTERN GIRLS L0TE. Two Missouri Women Overpower Jail Of. Ccinls and Release Their Sweethearts. Lebanon, Mo., March 2. A few days ago the dwelling house of Mr. John Bue, of Franklin township, in this county, was burned to the ground. It was supposed to be incendiary work, and two young sjen named "William Robins and James Moore were arrested, and held in the custody of Constable C. C. Hanley and Deputy W. J. Lindsay. Thursday night, while the constable and a deputy were guarding the prisoners, two youner nomen Swan Lathrom and Belle Smith entered the room and held tbe officers while the prisoners escaped. The young women were arrested and are now oc cupying the cells formerly occupied by their sweethearts. MAI TOTE OK BLAIR'S BILL. That is One of the Possibilities of the Week in Congress. Washington, March 2. Congress, ap parently, has settled down to a strictly busi ness basis, and is making lapid progress in the consideration and disposition of legisla tion. The Senate will duplicate this week, to a great extent, the programme of the last week. It is hopedthat a vote will be reached on the Blair bill. In case a vote is reached be fore the end of the week Mr. Sherman will move to have his bill declaring trusts to be unlawful taken up for discussion. He will be antagonized by Mr. Fryc, who, under instructions troni the committee re porting tbe measure, will ask that the Pa cific Railroad funding bill be made the or der of the day. This contest for position will occur whenever the educational bill it out of the way if not this week, then later. EEADY FOR BUSINESS. Preparations Completed lor tbe Reception of the Republican CInbs at Nnshville Members of Both Parties Con tribute Liberally. Nashville, Tenn., March 2. The Re publican League Convention will be called to order at noon Tuesday by Major "W. J. "Watson, Chairman of the local Executive Committee, who will deliver an address of welcome, and introduce Hon. C.N. Tillman, who will make an address on behalf of the Republicans of Middle Tennessee. He will be followed by Colonel "William Eule, of Knoxville, in behalf of the party in the Esstern, and George "W. Winstead on be half of the "Western divisions. Judge Thurston, of Nebraska, President of the league, will respond on behalf of the league and the convention will be turned over to the league for business. The Amusement Hall has been decorated. The convention will be in session two days transacting business. On both nights mass meetings will be held for general speech making by prominent orators. During the convention the visitors will be shown to points of interest above the city. The committee has arranged to lodge 1,500 visitors easily, and all preparations have been completed, with ample funds on hand from Democrats and Republicans alike. The special Committee of Reception in Major Thomas private car leaves the city in the morning at 10:20 and meets the incoming delegation at Bowling Green, ac companied by the Evansville band, which has been engaged for three days' service. All the Northern and Eastern delegates will assemble in Cincinnati to-morrow, where they will take a special train, which will be ran in sections, and escorted to Nashville by committees of local Republi cans, the press, commercial clubs and State Legislature. A MERCIFUL AGENCY. Cardinal Gibbons Answers tbo Anti-Catholic Objections to Sncramenlnl Con lession A More Potent Agency for Good Than tlio Pulpit. Baltimobe, March 2. Cardinal Gib bons preached, at the high mass to-day, the second of his series of Lenten sermons. It was what may be termed a presentation and refutation of the popular objections against sacramental confession. To the first objec tion, that sacramental confession is a human invention and not a divine ordinance, His Eminence stated that it is an institution dating from apostolic times. To the second objection that it is a blas phemy for a man to presume to forgive his sins His Eminence interposed that it is not a blasphemy, since the priest acts in the name of and by virtue of the authority of Christ. The Cardinal then said that there is another objection which it is difficult to kill, which has been refuted over and over again, and which, like Banquo's ghost, will not down. This was the charge that a price is paid for hearing confessions and giving absolution. After an experience of 30 years the Cardinal said he had j-et to hear ot any clergyman ever receiving the slightest com pensation for absolving penitents in the tribunal of penance, and the priest who would put a price upon such sacred duties would hold himself liable to very severe penalties. The Cardinal closed his sermon by saying that he dinal closed his sermon by saying that he regarded the practice of confession as one of the most merciful agencies ever established by Almightv God to lift t'p souls from the mire of sin. In some respects the confes sional is a more potent aeencv for eood than the pulpit. In tbe pulpit words are ad dressed to all in general. In the confes sional the priest speaks to the heart of the penitent and guards him against the occa sions of sin. Many a man who entered the tribunal of penance with a heavy heart and a troubled conscience, has come lorth with a joyous countenance and clastic step. And if you ask him the cause he will say with the prodigal son: "I was lost and I am found; I was dead and I am come to life again." ' A PRQPOSITIQNMABE By tbe Icndcrs ot tbe Drotherhood to tbo National League Offlclnls Outline of the Basis of the Proposed Agreement. tSPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCn.: Cleveland. March 2. The majority of magnates of the National League are ex pected here on the morning trains. Spald ing and J. Palmer O'Neill will reach here late to-night. In the Weddell House safe to-night there are two letters from the Play ers' League headquarters addressed to N. E. Young, President of the National League. One contains the following, and is signed by Secretary Brunell, of the Players' League: The Players' National League having estab lished itself In the face of difficulties, invites your organization to the consideration of the following proposition: The creation of an agreement between all leagues and associations to contain: First The mutual recognition of all contractual obliga tions between clubs and players. Second Provisions for the proper support of discipline and the enforcement of just and definite pen alties for breaches thereof. Third The maintenance of a uniform code of playing rules. You will of course understand that snonld your organization choose to be come a party to such agreement thero will be no taxation either side, each party to the agree ment entering upon equal terms with the other. PATRIARCHS IN CAMP. Fonr Tliousnnd Uniformed Odd Fellow to Tnsto military Discipline. New York, March 2. The Grand En campment of the Patriarchs Militant, I. O. O. F., to be held at Three Bivers and Syracuse, in this State, July 8 to 12 next, will attract general interest throughout the country. It is expected that fully 4,000 uniformed men will be encamped during the four days under strict military disci pline. More than 40,000 persons are ex pected to visit the city while the encamp ment continues. The parade will take place there on July 12. NOT LIKELX TO STRIKE. Philadelphia Working-men Don't Take Much Stock In the Eight-Hour Movement. fSFECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.! Philadelphia, March 1. There will be no demand made for the universal adop tion of an eight-hour day in trade circles in Philadelphia during the year 1890. This movement, which was started by the Ameri can Federation ot Labor, at their annual convention at St. Louis, in December, 1888, and which they have since been agitating throughout the country, is not favorably re garded by the more conservative workmen of the staid old Quaker city, who have been acting Tery cautiously while they have had this question under consideration. A LAWYER'S FORCIBLE OBJECTION. Ho Thumps a Judge Whose Decisions Were UnfoTorablo to Him. Hastings, Neb., March 2. A sensa tional scene wis enacted late last evening in this city. While Judge William Gastin, of this district, was hearing a case in Cham bers, C. H. Tanner, a prominent member of tbe Hastings bar, taking exception to the Judge's decision, struck him a terrific blow over the left eye. The act may result in the disbarment of tbe attorney. Gastin is the oldest District Judge in Nebraska. ANEGEOINTHENAVY. It is Possible One Will Go to the An napolis Academy, Thus BREAKING ALL THE PRECEDENTS. Congressman Cheatham's Chance to Fash Forward Bis Bace. A NATIONAL BOARD OF ARBITRATION For the IuTestfjatlon and Settlement of All Labor Difficulties. A court of inquiry has ordered the dis missal of Naval Cadet Jenkins, who is from the district represented by Cheatham, tbe only colored man in Congress. If the sen tence is carried out Cheatham will send one of his own race to the Annapolis Academy in bis place. This will be the first case of the kind on record. rSFECIU. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. "Washington-, March 2. Some time ago Commander Henry Glass, the new Com mandant of cadets, who succeeded Com mander Harrington, introduced at the Naval Academy at Annapolis a depart ment of discipline. The outcome of this new system will probably give to the United States navy its first colored officer. A serai-annual examination takes place at the Naval Academy every January. Last January Naval Cadet Jenkins, of North Carolina, left his squad on his way to French recitation to see what marks he had made at this semi-annual examination, which were posted on a bulletin board near by. Cadet Parker, of South Carolina, who was in charge of the squad, reported Cadet Jenkins for this act. A CHALLENGE TO FIGHT. It seems that it is an nnwrittcn law among the cadets that one class man is not expected to report another member of tbe same class, so, in spite of commandant Class' new department of discipline, Cadet Jenkins sent Cadet Richmond with a chal lenge to Cadet Parker. The fight took place. Cadet Parker was whipped, and a court oT inquiry was ordered. This court recommends the dismissal of Cadet Jenkins. The Secretary of the Navy has kindly held the matter back for several days, as he has a leaning toward the boys, and knows they will settle their differences by fist fights in spite of all the regulations on earth. This is of unusual interest in naval circles because Naval Cadet Jenkins is from the "Black" district, which is represented by the only negro in Congress, Mr. Cheatham. Congressman Cheatham is very well satis fied to have Cadet Jenkins remain at the academy because of his father's record as a staunch and consistent Union man during the war, and furthermore, because Mr. Jenkins, senior, was largely instrumental in giving Congressman Cheatham the op portunity ot getting his education. CHEATHAM'S POSITION. Cheatham acknowledges the obligation and is an unswerving friend of Mr. Jenkins' family. The Congressman has asked the Sec retary to decline to indorse the recommenda tion of the court of inquiry. If the Secre tary should indorse, however, Congressman Cheatham w ill immediately nominate a sou of one of his colored constituents to the cadctship tbns made vacant Mr. Cheat ham says, as the only representative of hir rac, which numbers several millions, 'it is due them that he should not appoint by competitive examination, but nominate a negro youth outright, as he has tbe power to do under the law. There has never been a negro naval cadet, and the appearance of one at Annapolis next May will test Commander Glass' new system to the utmost. "West Point has had several experiences with colored cadets, but a negro midshipman will be a new thing in the United States navy. MEASUEESJM LAB0B. A Number of Congressmen Are Pressing Bills in Tlint Line One Mensnro Provides for n National Board of Arbitration. rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Washington, March 2. Several meas ures have been introduced in tbe present Congress for the improvement of the condi tion of the workingmen. The most notable of these bilis is that presented by Mr. Anderson, of Kansas, and is de signed to create a united .states commis sion of arbitration -," strikes or lockouts. This body is to consist of nine members, to be appointed by the President, and no com missioner may be interested in a common carrier, or shall be permitted to accept of passes from one. Each man is to serve three years and is to be paid a salary of 55,000. They will earn their salaries by investigating any disputes arising between railway, steamboat or telegraph companies and their employes, and recommend an amicable equitable settlement of the diflereuces. If the terms ot arbitration are refused, findings of facts are to he sub mitted by the Commissioners to the United States Courts, and if approved by the Judge, the decision must be accepted as final and the contending parties must do as advised, or be punished by the Court. Mr. Shively, of Indiana, has introduced a bill to prohibitthe importation and immi gration of foreigners under contract to per form labor in the United States. Any per sons or corporation violating or assisting in the violation of this law mav be fined 1,000. Mr. Ketcham, of New York, wishes the Government to set an example in favor of eight hours as a day's work by limiting to that time the hours of employment of people engaged in the postoffices. In 1868 an act was passed by Congress making eight hours a day's work in the executive departments and providing that extra pay should be given for extra work. This law has in many instances been ignored, and Mr. Stivers, of New York, has introduced a measure to authorize claim ants under this law to bring suit against the United States in the Court of Claims. The bill has been favorablv reported by the Committee on Labor. The claims unpaid are estimated at about $4,000,000. DENOUNCING THE OLAN-NA-GAEL. A Catholic Priest Says the Order Has Dis graced the Irish People. rsrSCIAL TELEGRAM TP THE DISPATCH 1 Philadelphia, March 2. The distri bution of a four-page paper entitled The Clan-Na-Gael in front of fhe Catholic churches of this city to-day aroused the in dignation of sdme of the Catholic clergy. Eev. James J. Fitzmaurice, of St. Michael's Church, one of the most eminent priests in the city, widely known for his piety, schol arship" and patriotic love of Ireland, drove the distributors away from in front of his church. At the 10:30 mass he made a speech, in which he denounced the Clan-na-Gael in strong language. He said that the organization had brought more disgrace on the Irish people and done more harm to the Irish cause than this or the next generation will be able to repair. "Every man in the congregation," he said, "should consider it an insult as an Irish Catholic to have such trash circulated in front of the church. The Clan-na-Gael has used the Catholic church as a cloak to hide their doings. I ask you to throw those papers in tbe gutter and not let one of them enter your homes." A BELATED WINTER IIERE. New York Cntcbes the Toll End or a Bliz zard Cold Weather General Through one ibe Country Tbo Racing River blowly Falling. tSPECIAL TRLEPHAM TO TUB DISPATCn.l New York, March 2. Uncertain March began her weather pranks again to-day aud by 9 o'clock to-night she had filled the world around about this city with wintry discomfort. A northwest gale whirled through the streets and bore along with it an increasing burden of actual 1890 snow. From the rivers and the harbor the fog whistles sounded notes of alarm, policemen on the streets became distinctly visible in mantles of white, and 'the street car horses began foaming and strain ing as they dragged their loads over tracks which were rapidly disappearing. When the snow began but little of it lodged. It was fine and dry, and the wind caught it up and kept it whirling. Where it did lodge, however, it was packed like sand and offered as much obstruction as much larcer quantities usually do. Cars ran off the tracks, exhausted teams gave out and the sweeping winds made the paving stones so slippery that drivers dared not stop ou steep grades. Down Broadway the1 wind and snow had full sweep and at 11 o'clock many a couple could be seen along the street huddled to gether under the shelter of a doorway waiting to catch breath enough to resume their tramp up the street again in the teeth of the wind. Down Cortiandt stieet the wind had made blizzirdous-looking drifts on the north side. THE RIVERS RECEDING. Cincinnati Expects to Resume Business In a Few DnTS. Cincinnati, March 2. There is but little to be said about the flood in the Ohio to-night. The weather is still cold but is growing slightly warmer. The river at 11 o'clock to-night was 55 feet, 10 inches, having fallen one foot from its maximum height. From Pittsbure to Louisville, or rather to the mouth of the Kentucky river, it is falling. Here since 11 o'clock jt has been receding an inch an hour. The rail roads will begin to use the Central depot to morrow, and by Wednesday, if there is no rain, river navigation will be fully re sumed. Possibly steamers may leave here on Tuesday. At all events within 24 hours, present conditions continuing, it will begin to fall very rapidly. The direct damage has been less than by any former flood, and the indirect and direct damage has been more in the nature of inconvenience than of loss. There are fewer gardens by far than formerlv in the exposed cortions of Mill Creek Valley, and the railways were never before so well prepared against a flood. COLD WEATHER IN THE SOUTH. Savannah Citizens Sec the First Snow Fall for lllnny Years. Savannah, Ga., March 2. The first hard freeze of the winter occured here this morning. Ice formed and vegetation was killed. The damage to the truck crops cannot be estimated yet. Light snow fell in the forenoon, tbe first for many years. Telegrams from St. Augustine, Fla., Charleston, S. C. and Fort Monroe, Va., also tell of unusually cold weather. TEXAS CATTLE SUFFER. The Cold Weather Causes Heavy Loss on the Rnnges. ' St. Louis, March 2. Reports from Northern Texas say that hundreds of range cattle have been frozen to death during the present cold spell, and that unless the weather speedily moderates, the loss of stock will be very severe. Snow Storm Itncinc at Boston. Boston, March 3, 1:30 a. sr. A heavy snow storm has been raging in this city since about 1 P. M. Sunday. About seven inches have fallen up to this time. Advices from points on Cape Cod report the worst storm of the winter, accompanied with a severe northeast gale. A WIFE AND MOTHER INSANE. She Tries to Kill Her Hasbnud and Then Drowns Tier liuby. IBPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCn.1 Monticello, N. Y., March 2. Mrs. Catherine Wolf stole upbehind her husband a few days ago and felled him to the ground with a club. "God ordered me to kill you, John," she exclaimed. Wolf, though stunned, was able to prevent his wife, who had evidently become suddeuly insane, from carryingout her purposeand succeeded in quieting her. Thursdny last he went home from his work. His wife and their youngest child, aged 2 years, were missing. .Late Jfriday aiternoon a person passing through a lonely part of the woods, five miles from Mongaup village, discovered a woman sitting on a big rock in the middle of the Mongaup creek. The water was quite deep between the shore and tne rock. The discoverer ot the woman recognized her as Mrs. Wolf, and beinc unable to get an an swer in response to his calls to her, waded out to the rock and carried her ashore. She was thinly clad, and as she was covered with ice from her feet to her armpits, it was plain that she must have waded to the rock, prob ably the day or night before. The poor woman's mind was entirely gone and she was nearly dead from exposure. The child has not been found and it is believed that Mrs. Wolf threw it into the creek and drowned it. DESERTED TWO CHILDREN In Order to Marry nn Acquaintance Mado by no Advertisement. IBPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 Media, Pa., March 2. Aton Mills, this county, has just been treated to an interest ing drama in which two children are made to play the part of sufferers. A month or so ago a plausibly-worded advertisement in a Western paper attracted the eye of Jerry Gorman, a workman in the mill. It was that of a widow who desired fresh matri monial entanglements. A correspondence was begun, which resulted in an exchange of photos, and a request from the widowthat Gorman inrnish a letter of recommendation from the minister of the church he attended. The matter was settled, and Jerry deserted his home and two children early on Thurs day morning, without even a nod. He left a note, however, stating he was going West to marry, and could not say whether he would return or not. Mrs. Gor man died about three years ago, and the father and two girls, one aged 18 and the other 8 years, have lived together ever since. The action of the father distressed the child ren very much, and when the discovery was made that their father had deserted 'them there was quite an excitement among the neighbors. The day before was pay-day, and he drew his money and left his debts unpaid. KILLED HIS FATHER-IN-LAW. A Qunrrel Over a Doe Lends to a Fatal Fight. Louisville, March 2. On evidence be fore a Coroner's jury at New Albany to day, Edward Kennedy was held without bail for the murder of his father-in-law, Bobert Collins. The testimony of a son of Collins was that Collins and Ken nedy quarreled over a dog on Friday and after a long wrangle Kennedy gave Collins a terrible beating, in which wounds were inflicted which proved fatal the next day. NOT SLICK ENOUGH. A Western Outlaw's Bold Robbery of a Kansas Bank Cashier. THE SLICK UK'S PLEASANT CALL. The Peculiar Dilemma in Which a Official Was Flace J. Bank A DESPERADO'S -'SUDDEN TAKING-OFF. He Foolishly Ecslsted Two Officers Armed With Win chester Kifles. A remarkable story of daring and crime comes from Kansas. A Western ontlaw robs a bank at the muzzle of a revolver, but a few hours later is shot dead while attempt ing to resist arrest. Meeidan, Kan., March 2. "I'm a slick 'un." Telegraph Operator Taylor heard those words addressed to him by a stranger last night while he was receiving messages at the railway station. He paid no attention to the remark until he had completed the mes sage on which he was engaged, which read as follows: To the Sheriff. Merida:i, Kan.: Kicks & Gcphart's Bank robbed this even ing of S3,WK). Bobber unknown. Description as follows: Blonde, Iigbs hair and mustache, blue eyes. 5 feet 11 tall, medium weight. bUEBiFr. The operator looked up, and nearly lost his breath when he saw standing before him the very man described in the dispatch. He did not reveal the fact of the recognition, hut merely agreed with the stranger that he was a "slick one." The stranger inquired the time ot the next train for Atchison and asked where he could put up for the night. The operator directed him to a hotel where the "slick 'un" took a room without registering, requesting that he be called at 5 o'clock in the morning, in time for the Atchison train. Local Policemen Smith and Summerfield, who had also received in structions from Valley Falls to arrest any suspect, were informed by the operator of the presence of the stranger at the hotel. WAITING FOR THE SLICK'TJN. Arming themselves with Winchester rifles, they went to the hotel, waited under the "Slick'un's" window until 12 o'clock, and then, going to the hotel office, ac quainted the proprietor with their inten tions to arrest his guest. A bell-boy was sent to the stranger's room with the message that it was 4:30 o'clock time to get up to catch the Atchison. train. When the stran ger descended to the office be was confronted with the police officers with Winchester rifles pointed squarely at his breast. He never auivered, but looked inquiringly around. "Throw up your hands." Officer Smith gave the command. The stranger seemed to realize his situa tion then, but instead of obeying the com mand he thrust a hand in either side pocket of his overcoat to draw the revolvers which only a few hours before had intimidated Cashier Cohn, of the Valley Falls Bank. As the stranger made the motion toward his weapons, both Winchesters were discharged instantlv at his breast. THE STBANOEB FELL DEAD, with one bullet through his heart. and another through the right luncr. The coroner was notified immediately and before noon tbe verdict was returned ex onerating the officers of any criminality in having caused the death of the bank robber, self defense being their excuse. Up to this time, no search of the dead outlaw's person had been made, but at Cashier Cohn's request the search was made and the stolen money re covered. In the stranger's boots were found two packages ot greenbacks of J500 each. The rest of the money had been dis tributed among his various pockets. The outlaw was positively identified from a registered receipt dated at Burlington, Kan., as one Bobertson. The monev receipted for had been payable to one D. S. Smith, at Ottawa, Kan. In Robertson's pocket was a watch with the initial "B" engraved upon it, and a foot rule bearing the same initial. A DAEING BOBBEBY. Robertson's robbery of the Hicks & Gep hart's Bank, at Valley Falls, Kan., was a daring exploit. He entered the bank about i o'clock yesterday aiternoon and asked Cashier Cohn, who was busy inside the railing verifying the clerks' accounts for the day, that he be allowed to wait there for the arrival of Dr. Gephart, President of the bank. The cashier granted the request. A little later tbe stranger remarked that he was suffering severely from the toothache, placed his hand upon his flannel-bound face in verification of his remark, and requested that he be allowed to sit by the stove, inside the railing. Again the cashier, suspecting nothing, granted the request. The stranger occupied his seat quietly until the cashier, having concluded his work, entered the vault to lock up the money and books. THE CASIIIEB'S DILEMMA. When he turned to leave the vault ho gazed into a brace of revolvers leveled at his head by the neuralgic stranger, who coolly requested hjm to hand over 510,000 on penalty of being imprisoned In the vault. The cashier parleyed for a time, but finding himself wholly at the outlaw's mercy, with death by suffocation in tbe vault as the only alternative, he handed overall the money in the big cash drawer, amounting to about $2,800. The robber pocketed tbe money, locked the front door of the bank, made his exit from the rear door, locking it after him, and made his escape. He neglected to take the front door key with him, and it was only a minute before the cashier released himself and gave the alarm. The whole town turned out in search of the outlaw, but he had made good his escape. Telegrams were sent by the Sheriff to the authorities of the surrounding towns, notifying them of the robbery and asking them to arrest all suspicious persons. The outlaw fled to Meridan, Kan., 15 miles distant from the scene of the robbery, wnere his death followed. A DESPERADO'S DEATH. A Man With a Career Shot Down by One of Ills Own Kind-Ills Exploits Wbilo Posing ns an Offi cer of the Liw, rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.! . Denvek, March 2. Pat J. Desmond was killed at Ogden this morning. His murderer, Thomas Todd, is 38 years of age and was born at Independence, Mo. He was implicated in the Blue Cut train rob bery near Kansas City and skipped his bond of $3,000. Desmond is the second man he has killed. The two had been drinking and passed a few uncomplimentary remarks concerning one another. About midnight the bar tender, while in a rear room beard the men arguing over the ownership of some gloves, Todd claiming that Desmond had stolen them from him. Suddenly a shot was fired closely followed by fonr more and Desmond was fonnd dead on the floor. Desmond was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1841, aud came to the United States in 1SG4. During his residence here he was regardedi as a desperado, and although he had some redeeming traits, he was generally feared and hated, and several atrocious crimes are attributed to him. He was worth nearly 100,000,and leaves a widowand two children to enjoy it. As City Marshal of Pueblo he acquired the reputation of being wholly without fear and he mixed brutality with his official duties in a way that made him a terror not only to the rough element, but also to the law-abiding citizens. Ten years ago when stage robbery was prevalent in Colorado, Desmond was called upon bv the United States authorities to arrest W. H. Burton, whose sincle-handed exploits were the wonder of the day. This he did as Burton alighted from a train at Pueblo. A few afterward, while on his way to Denver with his prisoner, Desmond went to the rear end of the car for a drink of water, and while at the tank bis prisoner seized Desmond's hand satchel and going to the front end o: the car, leaped lrom the train, which was eoing at the rate of 30 miles an hour. Before the bell cord could be pulled by Desmond the train had gone at least a half mile, and when tbe as tonished passengers realized the situation Desmond had recaptured his prisoner, alter riddling him with bullets, and likewise jumping off the train while going at a rapid rate. EIGHTY YEARS OLD. The Podo Gives n. Reception in Honor of the Annlversarj His Holiness Presents ButT.ilo Bill's Indians With homo Medals. Eome, March 2. Pope Leo XII, was 80 years old to-day, and to-morrow will be the twelfth anniversary of his coronation. In honor of these two anniversaries he gave a reception to day, to the College ot Cardinals. Beplying to the congratulations of the cardinals, the Pope declared his intention to give the most earnest study to the social qnestion, and said he hoped to receive the assistance of the European powers in solving this diffi cult proDlem. The Pope has given Buffalo Bill'slndians a lot of medals, chaplets and crosses, and will receive the whole troupe on Monday in the Salle Ducal. GERMAN BREWERS KICKING. They Assert That the Beer Exported to Amprlcn Is Not Adulterated. CBT DUJJLAP'S CABLE COMPANY. Beelin, March 2. The Weiss beer brewers have entered a protest against tbe .action of the New York Board of Health condemning them because of adulteration in tbe beer by salicylic acid. The brewers contend that the beer sent to America is brewed especially for export, and contains no salicyl whatsoever. Unless the New York Health Board re scinds its present action in the matter the brewers propose appealing to the German Legation at Washington to bring the mat ter before the national authorities, demand ing suitable corrections. THE FRENCH CABINET CRISIS. Premier Tirnrd Resigns, But Carnot Will Not Listen to Illm. Paeis, March 2. Premier Tirard has tendered his resignation, but President Carnot refused to accept it. The press is unanimous in the opinion that the Cabinet is weakened by the resignation of Minister Constans, and that his leaving her alds its downfall. M. Bourgeois, the successor of M. Con stans, is an advanced Radical. As a condi tion in his acceptance, he makes special stiputations regarding the Government's policy. EMPEE0R WILLIAM ANXIOUS. Too Second Ballots 'thoTr til 3 Election of Many More Socialists. Berlin, March 2. The returns received up to noon to-day show that on the first and second ballots CO candidates of the Frei singe party and 33 Socialists have been elected. The Carteilers have lost 56 seats. Emperor William was so anxious to learn the results ot the elections in Berlin that he asked Mayor Farckenbeck to telegraph directly to the palace immediately on re ceipt of the returns the names of the suc cessful condidates. A MARITAL ENTANGLEMENT. The Wife DUcoverd to be nu Unconscious Big-nmist Alter 14 Years. tSPECIAL TELEOP.AM TO TUI DISPATCH.l Pittston, Pa., March 2. For 14 years Arthur G. Deacle, of Providence, and Mrs. Adelia Thomas have lived together without knowing that they were not leirally married. They discovered their mistake yesterday, when, as a resultof a family misunderstand ing, Mrs. Thomas brought suit in the Lackawanna County Court against Deacle for the recovery of one-half interest in the four lots of land which she and Deacle had succeeded in accumulating as the result of 14 years of economy and thrift. The manner in which they were led into their mistake is as follows:. Id 1S7G, Deacle, then a prosper ous young laborer, secured a divorce from his first wife. Mrs. Thomas at that time had just separated from her first hnsband, but there had been only a verbal dissolution of tbe marital ties. Thomas had departed leaving his grass widow in possession of a modest little home. When Deacle first met the widow he sup posed that her husband was dead. An in timacy sprang up between them which ulti mately drew from him a proposal of mar riage. A neighborhood 'squire performed the necessary ceremony, but evidently in ignorance of the fact that the bride was not free. The couple lived happily and, as stated, succeeded in buying some property. The present infelicity has been doubly un fortunate for the woman, for it not only de prives her of a husband, but will in all probability result in taking from her all claim to real estate in dispute. PANIC IN A CHURCH. A Wild Rnsh for the Door, bnt Nobody Was Seriously Ilnrt. ISPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THI DISPATCH.l Richmond, Va., March 2. This morn ing while the congregation of the Centenary Methodist Church were worshiping a fire started in their Sunday school room, be neath the church. The flames made consid erable headway, but, strange to say, neither preacher or congregation detected them. A passerby gave the alarm, and one injudicious man opened tbe church door and called to the congregation to come out at once. At the same time the door let in tbe blind ing smoke and a panic ensued. Men, women and children rushed out pell mell. Many ladies fainted, and some were slightly bruised, but no one was serionsly hurt. The fire department soon extinguished the flames. ARMED MEN GUARD A CHURCH. Fears ofn Riot Amons the Greek CoDcrecn tlon at Shenandoah. SnENANDOAH, Pa., March 2. No services were held in the Greek Chnrch to day. Rev. Andrus Howicz, the priest, re mained in his parsonage gazing upon the locked doors ot the edifice. Forty of his friends, all armed, were in and abont the parsonage all day, determined not to allow the friends of Rev. Wolanski to take posses sion. The Chief Burgess and forty police men were also on guard to prevent a riot. Bcv. Wolanski and a number ot his fol lowers attempted to enter tbe church, but desisted upon tbe advice of tbe police. A Hungarian woman was arrested and sent to jail for attempting to force her way into the chnrcb. mROCRlAl SCHOOL A? Don s an Addition to the Public System of the City. TEE PE0P0S1TI0N OF A PfJEST, Which is Prononnced by an Archbishop to be Eminently Fair. THE OFFER CAUSES GREAT SURPRISE, Bat Will be Etported FaTorably and Tery Probably Accepted. The public school accommodations of St. Paul are too limited. A Catholic clergy man has offered to donate a parochial school, teachers and all, if they can pass the usual examinations. No religions instruction is to be given during the regular hour3. The proposition may be accepted. .SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THJt DISPATCTt.1 St. Paul, March 2. In view of the fact that in several cities Catholic priests have recently ordered Catholic parents to send their children to parochial schools exclu sively, an event occurred here last night which is remarkable and may lead to a so lution of the school question. The Catholics have lately fiuished a school building in St. John's parish, Dayton's Bluff. In that sec tion of the city the public schools have been crowded all winter and the Board of Educa tion had been considering what was best to be done until spring, when a building could be erected. somewhat suepeised. Father Fleming, pastor of the parish, learned of the dilemma and staggered Su perintendent Gilbert so that he could hardly believe his senses by offering to donate the Catholic parish school to the city, only re quiring that it pay the absolute and neces sary running expenses, such as payment of teachers, purchase of fuel, etc. Father Fleming said the teachers now in the parish schools could be examined and if they come up to the required standard they should be kept, otherwise not. During school hours the qnestion of re ligion was to be scrupulously banished from the school room. Ot course, if religious instruction was given after school hours he did not think there could be anything objec tionable in that. The clergyman wasso evi dently sincere that the superintendent took the matter seriously under consideration, and will report it lavorably to the board of education. Archbishop Ireland is absent from tbe city, bnt Father Conway was seen at the Cathedral to-night and said the Archbishop had expressed himself as fol lows: AN AECHBISnOP'S OPINION. "I have heard of Father Fleming's offer to the School Board of the city, and I think it will strike all right thinking men as a most fair one. I think the plan is one in full harmony with American ideas, particu larly with the truly American principle of liberty of conscience, which is a Catholic principle as well as an American one. The teachers aud children misht be examined by the school officials of the State. I am sure Catholics would not object to this. Chil dren anil teachers might be subject in everv thing except religion to the Superintendent of Schools. If the State authorities so wish, religion need not be tanct diring whool hours. Catholic teachers could give re ligious instructions before school onens, or . alter it closes, or before and after, as is done ' in England. There the Government school insuectors examine the children in secular branches, and the clergymen give religious instruction in the schools, but outside of school hours, and everything moves with the regularity of a clock." LEAD SMELTERS' TEUST Organized lYilh a Capital of $25,000,000 Three-Fourth ol tbo Stock Subscribed Only Five Companies htay Out Afraid of tbo Lend Trust. CniCAGO, March 2. The big smelting organizations of the United States have formed a trust with a capital of 525,000.000 under the name of the United States Smelt ing and Refining Company. The following smelting and refining companies, which are said to include all but five in the United States, are said to be in tbe combine: Omaha and Grant Smelting and Refining Company, Omaha, Neb.: Kansas City Smelting and RefiniDg Company, Kansas City; The Pennsylvania Lead Company, Mans field, Pa.; Chicago Smelting and Refining Company, Chicago; Aurora Smelting and Refining Company, Aurora, 111.; E. B. Balback & Co., Newark. N. J.; Omaha and Grann Smelting and Refining Company, Denver; Globe-Smelting and Re fining Company, Denver; Pneblo Smelting and Refining Company, Pueblo; Colorado Smelting Company, Pueblo; Philadelphia Smelting and Refining Company, Puetlo; Arkansas Valley Smelting Company, Lead ville; American Mining and Smelting Com pany, Leadville; Manville Company, Lead ville; San Juan Smelting Company, Du rango, Col.; Hanover Smelter, Salt Lake City; Mingo Furnace Company, Salt Lake City; Germania Company, Salt Lake -City; Helena aud Livingston Smelting and Re fining Company, Helena, Mont.; Montana Smelting Company, Great Falls; El Paso Smelter," EI Paso. The capital-stock is 525,000,000. of which 515,000,000 is to be common stock, and tho remaining 610,000,000 preferred stock. The common stock is to be used for the payment of the fixed properties that go into tbe new organization, and the preferred stock for the purchase of ore and such personal property as it may be necessary to have. Three quarters of the preferred stock has been taken, and the final articles of corpora tion will be filed in the several States and Territories within a short time. The chief object of the smelters, it is said, is to place their interests beyond the absolute control o( the lead trust. CLEVELAND'S NEW CATHEDRAL. A MnsnlOccnt Edifice Projected for th Episcopal Diocese of Ohio. Cleveland, March 2. Bishop W. A. Leonard, of tbe Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, having decided to make Cleveland his headquarters, has been tendered and has ac cepted Trinity Church as a cathedral. The old church, on a downtown street, will soon be superseded by a magnificent structure on Euclid avenue, costing 5250,000, and built expressly for cathedral purposes. The venerable Dr. James A. Bolles is to be the Senior Canon; Rev. Y. P. Morgan, Dean, with Quincy Ewinc and Marc Bur ridge as assistants. SUAMOKIN'S SUBTERRANEAN FIRE. Energetic Efforts to Extinguish the Cameron Mine FIro Unsuccessful. Shamokin, March 2. The fire in the Cameron mine is beyond all control. A hole is being bored from the level above tbe fire. When this is completed the slopes on both sides of the fire will be walled up and water will be forced into the mine through the new opening. It will take a week to accomplish this, and in the meantime the work of destruction will go on and other chambers may be ignited. 0L J 1
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers