'aiw.v 7WW2W THE WHOLEWORLD HEABT OF AFRICA. Soter Casement's article in THE DISPATCH of Sunday next will deal with tome of the wonders of the Dark Continent and the perils of explorers. Contrtbutci to the news columns of THE DISPATCH. Exclusive read ing matter ts guaranteed. Its facili ties arc unequalcd. 11 is progressive ,in,t rtninstakinrj. m I I I. II. I II FORTY-FIFTH TEAR. PITTSBURG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5. 1890. THREE CENTS mwwip j' -- zrrrv'' t r f rw"v,mnnHn9nsaHnMP93: Jrapafcli. """"'"-" f p ITOWtttM MAY MISS THE Fi Chicago is Far Too Slow to Suit tlie Congressmen. IT IS 3I01SEY TEAT TALKS And Ko Guarantee From the Western City is Yet Forthcoming. , THE SENATE WILL TAKE A HAND. V Dalzell Opens a Tierce Debate Upon the Ar kansas Contest. COL. DUDLEY ATTACKED AND DEFENDED The Congressional "World's Fair Commit tee is disgusted because Chicago will give no guarantee that the money for the celebra tion will be ready. The hill will not be pre sented until this is secured. It is reported that Chicago desires tht Government to as sume the entire responsibility. Such a de mand will probably lose the city the fair entirely. rSTECIAI. TELrU KAM TO THE DISFATCII.1 WASHlNGTON,March4. There is trouble ahead over the World's Fair bill, and it be gins to look jnst a trifle as if Chicago might iose the great prize for which she has worked so hard. One week ago to-day the House, after a day of excitement and fighting, voted that the fair should be held at Chicago, and the nest day the bill was sent to the special committee to be put in shape on this basis. Congressmen Ilitt and Springer, of Illi nois, were appointed a sub-committee to draw up a bill that would meet the views of the Chicago people. Up to date they have been unable to do so. The trouble seems to be in raising the 510,000,000 or $15,000,000 that arc necessary before a bill can be pre pared locating the fair at Chicago. AX ANXIOUS COXGKESSMAN. Mr. Ilitt has been for several days in anxious communication with ihc Chicago people, but has not yet secured any tangible result To the members of the committee it begins to look somewhat as if Chicago were preparing to ask Congress to father the whole scheme. The interviews given out by Sir. Joseph Mcdill. in which he intimates th3t a Government appropriation would be a good thing, has set the interested Congressmen to talking, and the fact has been developed that the special World's Fair Committee can and will prepare no bill until Chicago guarantees that the money is ready and that the Government will not be asked for one cent. The New York members of the committee, Messrs. Beldin and Flower have no an tipathy to Chicago, but they do not hesitate to say plainly that no bill will be prepared until theguarantce of money is forthcoming. ax ominous SIIESCE. They say that while Chicago has not yet proposed that the Government take hold of the exposition, their silence is very omin ous. New York lost many votes in the con test for the fair simply because there was delay in the Legislature in passing the $10, 000,000 hill, and Chicago won the prize without having shown a single cent of money, or giving any guarantee whatever that the fair would be pushed forward suc cessfully. The Chicago people have no corporation, and nobody can be found, so far as the com mittee kuows, willing to say that the money will be ready when needed. In reply to the urgent telegrams ol Mr. Ilitt and Mr. Springer no promise of the necessary funds is made, but instead come invitations to the committee to visit Chicago and naze at the site upon which the great fair is to be lo cated, and see lor themselves the resources of the citv. IT IS MONEY THAT TALKS. These invitations have not been accepted and it is probable that they will not be, for the reason that the members of the commit tee prefer to see a guarantee of funds rather than the site, and the former they can see in Washington as well as in Chicago, it" it exists. It is well known that Mr. Hitt has commented on tbe fact that the wealthy men of Chicago have not been heard from, and, while assurances are sent to Washington that everything is all right, the members of committee are beginning to think that the Chicago people are disposed to act on the advice ol Mr. Medill and make an effort to have Congress father the scheme. This plan will never be agreed to by the committee and, even if it should, it is plain to see that a bill drawn on this record would not pass the House. The friends of Chicago are loud in their claims that there is no sig nificance whatever in the delay of their citizens in putting up the necessary guaran tees, and claim that thev are only waiting until a scheme of legislation can be per- ected that will be perfect in all its details. TOE SENATE MAY INTEEFERE. Senator Hiscock, Chairman of the Senate Committee on the quadro-centennial, said to-day to a friend that if the House didn't soon pass the necessary bill the Senate com mittee would take up the question inde pendently and go ahead on the preparation ofabillof itsoA-n. It is not at all likely that if the Senate committee should decide to do this they would bring in a Chicago bill bnt rather that, so far as Senator His cock's influence could make it so, New York would get the first chance. The Senator resents the imputation that he was opposed to a fair;in New York, and he has made known to some of his friends here that he is rather jealous of the notoriety gained by Thomas C. Piatt in connection with the delay of the $10,000,000 bill at Albany. Senator Hiscock, be it known, now claims that he was the original inven tor of the scheme to force a change in the in corporators named in the original hill, and that in calling a halt Piatt was only obeying his orders from Washington. A WHITE ELEIMIAXT. The New York members of the Special World's Fair Committee are not the only ones who think Chicago is in possession of a white elephant. Others on the committee are of tbe opinion that Chicago has more of a task on hand than she bargained for, and are determined to withhold any bill until the Chicago people give a proper guarantee that she has the necessary money ready to carry on the exposition. " , These doubting members of the committee call attention to the fact that in the delega tion that was here from Chicago to boom the fair project, none of the big business men and capitalists of that city were represented, and they are inclined to believe now that Chicago was bluffing a little. They say that there is no evidence that Chicago men have subscribed the 53,000,000 which it is claimed they have, and they say that only 2 per cent of the subscriptions were paid in, and that this money was spent in the preliminary fight which resulted in the choice of Chicago as a site. A POSSIBLE POSTPONEMENT. "Within the past day or tno the proposi tion that the fair be postponed till 1S93 has met with considerable favor. Mr. Mcdill indored it, and thus gave it a sort of Chi cago flavor. The opponents of the postpone ment proposition claim that the vote in the House was in favor ot Chicago and a lair in 1892. The New York men point to the fact that they lost a great many votes because of the political phase of the fight growing out of the fact that the lair was to be held in the same year that the Presidenlal campaign is to be lought. They are confi dent that if this consideration had not been raised New York would have secured many more votes than it did, and they feel certain of their ability to beat Chicago with a proposition to hold the fair in 1893, because they would get the votes of a great many Bepublican members from New England and elsewhere that went to Chicago before. These men plainly sav, in short, that if Chicago is to have the World's Fair she must have it in 1S92, and put up a guarantee for the necessary $15,000,000 to insure its success. On any other basis the bill can't be passed in the House, and at present, therefore, the outlook for a World's Fair in Chicago in 1892 is anything but bright. DUDLEY'S CIIAEACTEE TIIE SUBJECT OF A TIERCE DEBATE IN THE IIOllsE. Dnlzcll Opens tbo Ball on the Arkansas Election Contest Tbo Democrats Reply 1t Slaking n Personal Attnck on the Republican Knllonnl Trensurcr. Wasiiixgtox, March 4. Representa tive Dalzell, of Pittsburg, called up the Ar kansas contested election case of Feather stone against Cate to-day in the House. In supporting the claims ot the contestant he said that in the election in the First district of Arkansas Winchester rifles, re volvers and bowie knives had played un im portant part. This district, he said, was ad joining that in which Mr. Clayton, a man of national reputation, when in the exercise of a right which belonged to the humblest American citizen, had been murdered in cold blood at the very foot ot the altar of liberty. Mr. Dalzell confined his remarks prin cipally to the election methods of the Demo crats in Crittenden county, charging iutimi dation and fraud, and controverting the statement made by Mr. Outhwaite, of Ohio, that there was no evidence that the "double action" ballot box was used in the countv. Mr. Outhwaite challenged the production of any evidence that the box exhibited by mm ycsieruay naa ever been used. BOXES JUST LIKE IT. Mr. Dalzell replied that the contention of the majority of the Committee on Elections was that a ballot box identical with that presented had been used in Crittenden county at three polling places. Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, submitted an argu ment in lavorof the claim? of the contestee. The case, he said, was a peculiar one. The counsel lor the contestant was W. W. Dud ley, better known nerharjs as "Blopks of Five" Dudley. Ii was an interesting thing to'hear that notorious gentleman discussing before the Committee on Elections the im portance of the purity of the ballot and the necessity of giving the voter the untram meled and free right to vote as he pleased. Mr. Cheadle, of Indiana, entered his pro test against the attacking of the character ot a man who in the field of battle had spent his blood in the defense of his country, and whoso life he challenged any huinm "being to attack. Nobody on the other side was able to prove a single oiarge against the Eepublicans of Indiana. Mr. Cheadle de fended the character of Colonel Dudley, and denied the authenticity of the "blocks ot nve letter. THAT CELEBRATED LETTER. Mr. Owens, of Ohio Do you believe that Dudley wrote that letter? Mr. Cheadle No, sir; I am not surprised that the- Democrats hate Colonel Dudiey, because he is the best politician in Amer ica; and I invite for his private or official lile the most searching investigation. He is one of the brightest and noblest men on this continent. Mr. Moore, of Texas, asserted that all the testimony taKen by the contestant in Mem phis, involving the question of conspiracy and the fraudulent ballot box, was a bold, bald forgery in all its particulars. Mr. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, said that if the Committee on Elections had not the power under the law to bring before it every man wanted, he asked it to bring in a bill to give the committee additional power. It it had not power to serve processes under the law, let it call in the military power to sus tain the process of the court. AX TJX-AMERICAX TLEA. At no time should the charge be mad6 that a spirit of assassination pervaded anv community of the American people. What ever might be the crime of the individual. no man could stand before the American people and say that they were lacking in honor or fidelity to law. Applause. Mr. Springer, of Illinois, thought that the case had not been thoroughly investigated, and he favored a resolution which he said he would offer at the proper time, appropri ating $100,000, to enable a sub-committee of the committee on elections to proceed to the first district of Arkansas and investi gate the elections. Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, said that he would move to amend this resolution by doubling the appropriation and by having the investigation extend to the other Arkan sas districts. Mr. Springer agreed to ac cept thie amendment, but before any action was tacen the House adjourned. UNRESTRICTED RECIPROCITY. That Is the Flan Proposed by tbo Fan American Congress. Wasiiixgtox, March 4. The Pan American Conference to-day discussed the report of the Committee on International Law, and finally adopted it. The first com mittee of conference to make majority and minority reports was that on customs union. They were presented to-day. The majority say that the establishment of a customs union as generally understood would require not only a partial sacrifice of the national sovereignty of American nations but more radical changes in their respective constitutions than they are will ing to accept. The majority believe that the principle of unrestricted reciprocity is acceptable, and that its adoption would in all probability bring about as favorable results as those ob tained by free trade among the different States ot this Union. A PIcbtlns Chnnec for RccovcrT. Wasiiixgtox, March 4. At a late hour to-night Mr. Taulbee was resting easier, and his condition was somewhat better than dur ing the day. Dr. Bayne said that Mr. Taul bee has a good fighting chance to recover. BUT ONE HOPE LEFT. This Hope Is That tbo Imprisoned Miners Mar Have Escaped Through Unused Workings Tbo Mines Flooded to Snro Tbcm From Utter Destruction. ISPECtAL TELECBAU TO TIIE PISFATCH.1 Wilxesbarre, March 4. There is now but one hope that the eight men imprisoned by fire in the South Wilkesbarre collieries are alive. That hope is a slight one, but it is clung to by the friends of the missing men with desperate tenacity. This hope is that they may have found their way through old workings unused for years into the work ings of the seam of coal known as the Hillman vein. It is remembered that Frank Cull, one of the imprisoned men, helped to drive the tunnel and work these openings and certainly knows of their existence. If this supposition is correct the unfortunate men are now locked in the workings of Hillman vein and are unreachable until the fire is extinguished and the rock tunnel is once more passable, and this will be the work of several days. Whether they can live so lone is a doubtful question. That they can still be in the lower workings where they were at the time the fire began and be alive is now generally accepted as impossible. The rescuing party that went down the Stanton mine at 2 o'clock this morning seems to settle that question. Half suffo cated by smoke and noxious gases, the ex plorers fought their way and finally reached the very spot where the men had been at work when the fire began. But only the tools ot the missing men were found, show ing plainly that instead of rush ing toward Stanton shaft they had undoubtedly gone in the direction of the tunnel with the probability of being over come by tbe heat, smoke and gas which lay in that direction. Their presence of mind must have been lost in the first moment of danger, for they had about 1,000 feet to go toward the Stanton shaft to reach a place of positive safety. The rescuers pushed on 1,000 feet further until they were stopped by the terrible heat which made a barrier they couldn't pass. To save the mine from utter destruction the fire must be put out. It can only be put out by flooding the lower workings, and so long as there was a hope that the men might still be in there alive the com pany has hesitated to do this. But now if they have not made their way up to the Hillman vein workings they are dead, and the officials decided to go to work and at once Hood the mine. No time was lost. The main of the Crystal Spring Water Company was tapped and a big stream poured down the shaft. By 9 r. M. five streams were pouring a cascade down the deep shaft. Forty-eight hours, it is believed, will suffice to put out the fire, or at least so far check it as to render an exploration of the workings of the Hillman vein possible. DEATH RATHER TIIAN DISGRACE. A Clerk Who Was Being Investigated Ends His Life With FoHon. rFrECIAI. TELEGRAM TO TOE PISrATCTM Georgetown, Del, March 4. Bufus Wheatfey, who for the last five years has been Deputy Clerk of the Peace, of Sussex county, in this State, killed himself here to-day by poison. He had been summoned here from Philadelphia to testify before the Levy C-iurt in the matter of alleged frauds upon the County Treasury, and being im plicated himself in the fraudulent transac tions, became very despondent over the pro bable results of the investigation. He said to a friend: "I suppose I hive got to go to jail and rot there while other people as guilty as I am can walk around in shiny boots and silk hats." On his arrival here last night he sought interviews with the Bepublican leaders who are investigating the lrauds and asked delay in exposing the mismanagement of the office whith which he was connected, promising to give them valuable information. His prayer was denied. , His wife and family who knew nothing of his troubles about the office and whom he had not seen for four months previously sup posed he had taken medicine for cholera morbus. When the effect of the poison be came apparent medical aid was summoned, but it was too late. He died at 3 o'clock this afternoon after being unconscious for six hours. He was connected with the prominent families of the State and leaves a wife and two children. The amount of fraud proven at this time is $1,000. OHIO'S NEW LIQUOR SCHEME. Ono Repnbllcnn Senator FInylns Into tbo Hands of the Democrats. ISrECIAL TELEQItAH TO TIIE PISPATCn.1 Columbus, March 4. The Democrats have induced Senator Schneider, the only Republican member of the Legislature from Cincinnati, to father a bill to amend the Oliver law. It provides that any municipal corporation of the State shall have full power to regulate, restrain or prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors by retail within the limits of such corporation, but if any municipal corporation shall prohibit such sale as above provided a ratable-proportion of the tax paid by the proprietor thereof for the unexpired portion of the year shall be returned to such proprietor. The following bills were introduced in the Senate: Providing that trustees and stew ards of public institutions shall not reside in the county where institution is located; paying persons wrongfully convicted S3 for each day's imprisonment iu penitentiary; abandoning part of the Miami and Erie Canal in Cincinnati; giving Circuit Courts final jurisdiction in cases of forcible entry and detainer, contested election cases, etc. THEY YENTURED ON THIN ICE. Two Fishermen, Disregarding; Friendly Ad vice, Find Watery Graves. rEPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Norwich, N. Y., March 4. George L. Gage, landlord of the Guilford House, at Guilford, this county, and a neighbor of his, named Daniel Fisher, started out last Friday for a day's fishing through the ice at Brackett's Lake, in the town of Oxford. When warned that the ice on the lake had been made thin and rotten by the rains, and that it was dangerous to venture upon it they jestingly disregarded the warning. They continued the sport into the evening, but failed to return to the hotel that night as promised. A search made for them at the lake next day revealed some of their fishing tackle lying on the ice and, near by, a considerable spot where the ice had been broken and churned into fragments, as if by some des perate struggle. The bodies of the two men, rigidly grasped in each other's arms, were brought up from the bottom of the lake. Each of them leaves a wife and children. MORE SYNDICATE MONEY Negotiating for the Purchase oflndlanapo lis IiOuneo Factories. IXDlAxiPOLls, March 4. An English syndicate is negotiating for the purchase of every lounge factory in the city, and should it succeed in making a contract over $1,000, 000 of additional foreign capital will be brought to Indianapolis. It is not the purpose to form a trust, but to make a clean investment, the plan pro posed being similar to the one employed in the brewery purchases. The present owners will be retained as managers, provided they so desire. TO SATE THE CANAL. A Maryland Judge Calls a Sudden Halt on the Bold Schemers. THREE RECEIVERS ARE APPOINTED To Take Charge of the Ditch and Make Estimates for Repairs. SENATOR STAKE'S VIGOROUS LANGUAGE He Denounces the Railroad Deal rolitlcal Steal. 09 Nothing tint a At Annapolis yesterday Chief Judge Alvey appointed a board of three receivers for the Chesapeake and Ohio'Canal. They are to make a thorough investigation of the condition of the property. This is regarded as a set-back to the schemers. State Senator Stake is enthusiastically in favor of the trans-Allegheny plan. 1FEOM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. Axxapolis. Md., March 4. "You Pennsylvanians are progressive. You want canals. So does powerful England. She is to build one at the cost of 51,000,000 per mile from Manchester to Liverpool. Pitts burg has compelled not only her own State Legislature but the National Congress to take the first steps toward building a ship canal from the Ohio river to Lake Erie. Pittsburg goes farther still and seeks to connect the Monongahela river with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. What a con trast is Maryland at this moment! With its magnificent levels, it3 noble stone aque ducts, where will you find a finer canal in the United States than the Chesapeake and Ohio? Yet to-day we are about to close it up forever." Senator Edward Stake, of Washington county, Md., greeted me at his desk in the Maryland Senate chamber with those words. i "But your Governor says canais are no good," I remarked. A SLAP AT JACKSON. "The Governor doesn't know anything about it." said the Senator emphatically. "He lived away down on the eastern shore of Maryland, and for that reason knows more about the ocean than of inland water communication. When he says the day for canals is pasf, he evidently is not aware that after a quarter of a century of marvel ous development of railroads, the tendency is now toward water traffic again because of a demand for cheaper rates than railroads will give." ''But, Senator, your Governor says the majority ot people in Maryland are anxious to end the existence of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. He told me that the Balti more and Ohio Bailroad is furnishing three-fourths of the present applause for a resumption of canal boating, because it is afraid of the parallel railroad which is pro posed for the canal bed." TUB SECRET OP IT. "Here's the secret of that trumped-up charge," he said. "Cowan happens to be the attorney for the Baltimore and Ohio Itailroad. Cowan is a Democrat, but a thoroughly independent one. He has given the ring Democrats muchtrouble.and when ever they run across any opposition to their jobs they imagine they see Cowan in it, and,i oi course, in mis instance tney nna his con nection with the Baltimore and Ohio Bail road very convenient. "Politics have made this, canal a stench in the nostrils of the people," continued Senator Stake." Let me give you a little light on that subject. Away baclr in, 1781 a conference was held here in Annapolis be tween authorities of Maryland and Virginia to settle some disputes about boundary lines along the Potomac river. General George Washington and General Gates attended that conlerence lrom Virginia. It was at this meeting that Washington proposed a plan for joint improvement by the States of Marvland, Virginia and Pennsylvania of the Potomac river as far UP as possible, and thence by a canal to connect it with the Cas tleman and Yonghiogheny rivers. His plan was to join the Chesapeake Bay with the Ohio river at Pittsburg. For this pur pose the 'Potomac Company' was at once formed, with Washington as Chairman. TKOGHESS of the plax. "The project languished until 1827, when the Totomac Company was reorganized as the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Maryland subscribed the largest amount of stoclt tor the construction ot the canal, but the United States. Virginia, Georgetown, the District of Columbia and Alexandria all gave big sums, while Pennsylvania con tributed a small amount, with 'the promise of more if the canal was pushed to her borders. "Marvland took a mortgage on the canal for the $8,000,000 it gave. But the cost of building the work was heavy, and in 1844 Maryland, then nearlv bankrupt itself, is sued bonds to raise mora monev for the canal, offering first lien on the property to those who bought the bonds. In 1851 the canal commenced business, ( carrying coal from the Cumberland fields to tidewater, where it was reshipped to sea vessels. The war came on and Lee's invasion ot Mary land, caused a general suspension of canal business. After the war the canal enjoyed several years of great prosperity. A POLITICAL MACHINE. "But by 186S Maryland had dropped back into the political sentiment most nat ural to her, and the Democrats assumed general control of everything. In that year was formed what was called the 'Demo cratic Canal King.' From that day to this the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal has been operated by the State purely as a political machine, and not as a business corporation. It has been most poorlv managed. Had the economy been practiced which any Dusiness firm would have required, the railroads would not be able to-day to hold so many coal transportation contracts. "Maryland, owning nearly eight-tenths of the stock, elected officers of the canal company, fixed their salaries, and multi plied offices, to please every incoming ad ministration. That was tbe way politicians got spoils. Every lockman, engineer and clerk was chosen to please some Baltimore wire puller. The President was at one time paid a salary of $10,000 per year. The interests of other States and "even the United States, were totally neglected in choosing a Board of Directors. Maryland did as she pleased. IHE BIG STEAL. "Now, that such political management has pretty thoroughly damaged the business of the canal, the ring proposes to cap the climax by leasing the whole canal to Gor man's new railroad compiny for 99 years, at a bonus of only 300,000 and an annuity of 15,000. And that canal cost over $11, 000,000. How's that for a job? It is gen erally known that the proposed Washing ington and Cumberland Railroad is to be simply a connecting link'between Senator Davis' West Virginia Central road at Cumberland and the Pennsylvania Bail road at Washington, and that 'the intention is to open up the cheap coal lands in West Virginia. "I deny that the State has been actually losing money every year on the canal. Its expenses have been paid out of its earnings. The Slate has not been paid interest on its loan, nor have any dividends been paid. In that way the State has lost, but Maryland never expected to get either. In the mean time the canal has developed and nurtured the interior. It should be repaired and operated again. The damage is slight, and it will be an absolute injury to the Cumber land coal fields and to tidewater consumers to lose the waterway. THE TRANS-ALLEGHENY HOPE. "That is a grand scheme to extend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to the Monon gahela river at Morgantown," concluded Senator Stake. "Of course it will have to cross two or three ranges of mountains in the. 65 miles, but it can be done. It should bedone. Especially should it be done if this railroad lease bill is defeated, for then not since the canal's incorporation would there be so pressing a necessity for the carry ing out to their broadest extent the obiects of the charter, which were to connect the Chesapeake with the Ohio. It was Wash ington's idea, you know, but when ho lived the Monongahela was not the noble stream it now is 112 miles from Pittsburg to Mor gantown." The press of Maryland is divided on the canaUssue, of course. But that portion of it which fichts the rnilrnnrl fnhhlers use the headline "Tne Great Canal Steal," and this paragraph from the Baltimore Critic of Saturday is tame to what some of the papers say: Governor Jackson, surrounded by a gang of knaves as he is, ought to ba business man enough to see through this deal, and ho ought to veto the bill and maintain that honor of which his friends .?' are trying to rob him. INTO THE COURTS. The canal steal met with a backset to-day. Chief Judge Alvey appointed Messrs.Eobe'rt Bridges, of Hancock, Washington county; B. D. Johnson, of Cumberland, and Joseph D. Baker, of Frederick, as receivers ot the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. In the order appointing these gentlemen, Judge Alvey di rects them to take charge of all property of the company, and to proceed at the earliest moment at which the same can be properly and advantageously done, to make full and thorough examination, and collect all such information as they may be able to collect, as tothe condition of the canal, the needful repairs thereof and the probable cost of re pairing it. and the feasibility of operating it when repaired, and shall report the same, with the results of their own observation and their own judgment and opinion in the premises thereof, to the court for its informa tion and such further action as it may deem necessary. After the receivers make this report, then Judge Alvey will decide whether to keep the canal qpen as a waterway or legalize the proposed lease of it to a railroad. Bcceiver Johnston, of Cumberland, says if he ac cepted he would favor the continuance of the canal as a waterway and insist upon its being conducted on business principles, aud if properly managed, he thought it would be self-supporting. IN FAVOB OF Till? CANAL. Beceiver Bridges also belongs to a county bordering along the canal, and is in favor of maintaining it forever. Beceiver Baker's attitude is uncertain. The House bill leasing the canal to the railroad was to have come up in the Senate this afternoon, but the news of the Court's appointment caused a delay. The railroad gobblers will now have to feel their way cautiously. They will still try to pass their bill in the Senate. The Governor has already said he will sign it, and then the other parties will try to get the best of a bad bargain in the courts. The Senators who are opposed to a railroad are encouraged by this preliminary step of the Court, and hope now to defeat the rneasure in the Senate. L. E. Stopiel. SEARCHING FOR SAWTEELE'S HEAD. It is Now Believed to be nt tiio Bottom of nn Unnscd Well. rEPECIAL TELEQKAM TO TUB PISPATCrj.1 EocnESTER, N. H., March 4. The search for Hiram Sawtelle's missing head is being pushed in every direction that affords even I .-slightclew, to a successful issue. While the hnding of tbe missing member is not neces sary for identification, it may furnish stronger evidence against the murder or his accomplice:, if he has any. Just now inter est in the search is centered on an old well about an eighth of a mile from the lonely place in the woods in which tbe mutilated body was found. This well has always had a smooth layer of sand on the bottom, but now there are several lumps that seem to be rocks in the bottom, together with a long straight piece of wood. All the information about the condition of the bottom of the well has been gleaned so far by means of a long pole. By prodding with the pole one lump was felt that did not seem as hard as the other lumps. The end of the pole was examined. Once a shred of can vas bagging which was similar to that used in the bag given to Isaac Sawtelle by hard ware dpaler Wallace on the day Hiram was murdered was brought to the surface, and later three hairs stuck in the jagged end of the pole. VIVISECTION N01 CRDEL. A Philadelphia Doctor Discharged After n Brief Hcnrlns In Court. ISrECIAL TELEOKAM TO TUB DISPATCH.! Philadelphia, March 4. A case of peculiar interest to the medical profession and those interested in the advancement of surgery was tried before Magistrate Eisen brown Uu3 morning. The defendant in the case was Dr. Benjamin Shimweil. who was charged by the Anti-Viviseetion Society, of which Mrs. Bichard P. White is President, with cruelty to animals because of an opera tion performed by the doctor before a class of students at the Medico-Chirurgical Hos pital on a dog. The case is the first of the kind in this country and naturally the re sult awakened much interest among medical men, many of the most prominent of which were present at the hearing. Several witnesses were examined and tes tified that after being etherized the dog was cut open and a certain operation performed in the presence of Dr. Sbimwell's class. The prosecution's own witnesses testified that the dog apparently'did not suffer during nor after the operation. The prosecuting attorney practically admitted that the case had broken down, and Dr. Shimweil was discharged by the magistrate. CAMPBELL CALLS A HALT. IIo Can Not Give All of Ills Tims to Offlce SecKlne Deleantlons. rEPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.l Columbus, March 4. Governor Camp bell has been so annoyed with delegations from Cincinnati calling in behalf of appli cants for members of the new Board of Im provements that he to-day posted a notice he would hear no more delegations on that subject or any other appointments, and that a violation ot the request would insure the defeat of any applicant who might send per sons in his interest. He claims his time has been taken by a mob of this character until he has been un able to receive and confer with any of the members of the Legislature with whom he has business, and who have a right in the executive chamber. ALLISON RE-ELECTED. Ho Defeats Bestow and Lnrrnhce for tbo United States Senate. DesJMoines, Ia., March 4. In the Sen ate this afternoon the election of a United States Senator was taken up. Senator Galch nominated William B. Allison, Bolter named S. L. Bestow, Engle nominated William Larrabee. The vote resulted: Al lison 28, Bestow 20. Larrabee 2. Allison was declared elected on the part of the Senate. As Allison was elected in both Houses to-day it will not be necessary to have an election to-morrow, A PPJZEEOB PERJURY 5,000 Offered for Evidence to Sus tain tiio Farnell Letters, AFTER THE FORGERY WASPR0VEN. Telegrams to English Spies in America Read in Parliament. DEMAND FOR ANOTHER INVESTIGATION. The Home Kale Leaders i'lplode an Unexpected Bomb in the lory Camp. There wa3 another animated debate in the House of Commons yesterday over the re port of the Parnell Commission. Mr. Mat thews, Home Secretary, spotce, arguing that the report did not tell all the truth. Mr. Hartington replied. London, March 4. In reply to a ques tion asked by Mr. John O'Connor, member for South Tipperary, in the House of Com mons, Mr. Smith said that if a general de mand arose for the, publication of the evi dence given before the Parnell Commission it would have to be reprinted. This would consume much time and be expensive, as the type from which it had been printed had been distributed. Mr. Frank Lock wood, Home Buler, member for York, represented the debate on Mr. Gladstone's amendment on Mr. Smith's motion that the House adopt the report of the Parnell Com mission. He said he supported the amend ment because it was absolutely and literally true. The Eight Honorable Henry Matthews Home-Secretary contended that the amend ment was only part of the truth stated with passionate and inflammatory adjecti vcs. The Government simply proposed to record the findings both for and against the Par nellites, declining to adopt the course of giving the go-by to all the findings against the Parnellites in order simply to express a condemnation, in which all shared, of the falsity and Jonl origin of the charges which had been dis proved. Cheers. the commission commended. There was nothing against the character of the tribunal to justify a refusal to enter the report in the journals of the House, as it was admitted that the commission had shown zeal and industry and honor and good faith. The report established the truth ot the assertion made by Mr. Gladstone in 1882, that crime, with fatal persistence, dogged the footsteps of the league. He accused Mr. Gladstone of laying down the dangerous and disastrous doctrine the Land Act of 1S81 had been passed on account of agitation of the League, just as he had declared in Midlothian that the Clerk enwell explosion and the shooting of a policeman at Manchester had brought the disestablishment of the Irish Church with in the range of practical politics. Mr. Harrington reminded M.r Matthews of his former close association with Pigott and the South of Ireland Fenians when he was staunchly supported by Patrick Ford. Mr. Harrington declared that in the eight years, during which he had been con nected with the League, not a word had gone forth that would encourage even boy cotting. AN ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. In support of his promise to prove that while the commission was sitting a conspir acy was in progress in which Ministers were deeply involved, to obtain perjured evidence to destroy the character of the Parnellites Mr. "Harringtori'read rf series of telegrams to agents of the Times in America, with reference to Millen and Sheridan. "Did the Attorney General," he added, "see any of these telegrams?" SirB. E. Webster replied: "Sot one." Mr. Harrington continuing "Then you were betrayed by your colleagues. These telegrams prove a conspiracy deeper and fouler than anything proved against the Parnellites. A gross injustice has been done to the Attorney General, if his name was connected with them without his knowledge. Pro ceeding to show that the Government was behind these transactions, Mr. Barrington read a telegram dated April 1, and addressed to a man named Johnston, in New York, to the effect that the British Consul was au thorized to give 'him the names of informers. THE TIMES AXD THE FORGERY. The reply came from Johnston that the Consul was unable to assist him. The next day another telegram told Johnston that all informers' reports since 1884 had passed through the Consul's hands, and, if he did not know the names himself, he could refer to those who did. Was the British Minister responsible for the matter? the speaker asked. Continuing he read further telegrams, showing that even after Sir Bichard Webster had apologized for the forgeries, the Times still endeavored to procure evidence through Sheridan to establish their nuthenticitv. While the Times was offering ns much as 50,000 as a bribe for perjured testi mony nobody connected with the respond ents paid a pennv for evidence. He said he mnst decline to state how he obtained the telegrams unlessa committee of inquiry were granted, in which case still more would be forthcoming. AN ATTEMPT AT JUSTIFICATION. The Times, commenting on Mr. Harring ton's remarks in the House of Commons, says: "We did our duty in trying to put Sheridan in the witness box. It was the duty of the Parnellites and to their interests to bring him if their conduct was fit to bear investigation, but their sympathizers in America directed their efforts toward sup pressing his evidence." Le Caron writes to the Times, denying several assertions made in Mr. Davitt'sarti cle in the Nineteenth Century. He asserts that his written record of the interview re ferred to by Davitt has been in the possession of the Government since the night on which the interview took place. He declares that the letter which Davitt reprints as given to Le Caron from Devoy to Egan was sold, and he accuses Davitt of withholding it from the commission in the interests of Parnell. NATIONAL COMPETITIVE DRILL. Biff Prizes Offered and Open to All States in tbo Union. Jacksonville, March 4. The Florida sub-Tropical Exposition to-day announces a national competitive military drill as the feature of its closing week, April 7 to 12 inclusive. Fire thousand dollars will be oflered in prizes to be divided among the different arms of the service, with a gold medal for the best drilled in an individual contest. The contest is open to companies from any state in the Union and applications for entry have already baen received from 13 different States. GOTHAM SOCIETY SURPRISED. A Mlllionairo Mndo Illnbel Wright's Hus band nt a Boarding House. tSPECIAL TELEGnAM TO THE D IS PATCH. 1 New York, March 4. At the marriage of Miss Mabel Wright to the millionaire Fernando Yznaga to-day,the bride's mother, an invalid, was carried into the room and remained propped up on pillows while Dr. Paxton performed tbe ceremony. The event was a surprise in society circles. The wedding took place at a boarding house, A BROADWAY BLAZE. Destructive Fire In tbo Ilenrt of New York City A Fivo-Slorr nnlldlne Reduced to Ashen Tiio Loss Amounts to S350.000. 7BPECIAI. TELEOKAM TO TIIE DISPATCIt.I Newt York, March 4. At 7 o'clock this evening the automatic signal in William Harvey & Co.'s, manufacturers of canes on the third floor of 31)2 Broadway, sounded an alarm. Before the firemen came flames burst out of the second, third and fourth stories of the five-story building. In a very short time the flames had enveloped the whole upper part and rear of the building which runs back 180 feet to Cortlandt alley. Its front is of white marble, the party and rear walls 18 inches thick. It was 100 deep. Within 'half an hour the flames had got into the basement and the building was burning from cellar to roof. A nuraberof insurance patrolmen went into the basement in which was stored a part of the stock of M. & C. Mayer, dealers in hosiery. They were busy covering it with tarpaulins. Then the smoke became so thick that they had to be notified to leave, it was found that Thomas Murphy, of the patrol, had been left behind. He was taken out much affected by the smoke. The sparks from the burning building came out into Broadway and the air was filled with whirling pieces of burning wood. Some of them fell upon the awning of William Wilson's drugstore, 295 Canal street, and burned it. Every floor of the building was on fire, and the cornices of the adjoining ones were smoking. Then the deluge of water began to tell. First it smothered and blackened the first floor, and one by one the others, until alt the house was a soaked and black ruin ex cept the fourth floor. This was no less a ruin, but it continued to be brightly lighted by burning gas from broken pipes. The fire was confined to 302, which was occupied by stores. The total loss was about $350,000. How the fire originated no one seems to know. The lower part of the building is heated with steam and from the second floor up with stoves. A SON OP COL. REYNOLDS Arrested on n Charco of Forging His Mother's Name to a Check. rSPECIAI-TELEORAM TO TnEDISPATClI.J Providence, B. I., March 4. The ar rest on the charge of forgery of Charles F. Eeynolds, one of the younger sons of Col onel William H. Beynolds, a railway mag nate, and one of the pioneers of the telephone business in Europe, has caused quite a sen sation in the upper circles of society. Bey nolds is fond of good living, and cuts a swell figure among his associates. He came from New York a few days ago, and ha3 been doing the town in royal and expensive style. Yesterday his fundi having given out he called at Booth & Hutchinson's sa loon and asked the junior partner for a loan, offering a check for 100 drawn to his (Bey nolds') order, and signed by his mother, &. B. Beynolds. The check was on one of Henry Scranton's private banking house blanks. Mr. Hutchinson advanced $80 to Beynolds, and soon afterward he saw that the" writing on the check was all apparently done by the same person. He procured a carriage and drove to Mrs. Beynolds' ele gant residence on Broadway, where he was informed by the alleged drawer of the check that her name had been forged. Armed with the evidence of crime Hutch inson sought police headquarters, and soon the police were on a hnnt for tbe young actor. When taken to the Central police station Eeynolds was very fashionably dressed and felt very much aggrieved about his apprehension, but he said there was nothing material in it, as it was all in family. DETECTIVES HIT HARD. the Collector Joel B. ErliariU's Sarcastic Reply to Mr. Corbln. Ke"W York", March 4. Collector Joel B. Erhardt wrote a letter to Austin Corbin to day, in which he speaks pertinently on the civil service rules. It seems that Mr. Cor bin complained that a quantity of fine wines had been stolen while in the public stores, and the railroad magnate asked the Collector what could be done in the matter. In reply Erhardt wrote a lengthy letter to day. He says that it is not the first case of the kind that has been brought to his notice. Many times, the Collector writes, have thefts been committed abroad that were charged to the public stores employes, but unless goods are seen packed it is uimcult to detect the thief. The Government, con tinues the Collector, should employ detec tives to guard against such things, but un fortunately they must first pass a civil service examination before they can receive employment. The last administration had two detectives for this purpose, one being relieved because he was worthless, and the other the Collector discharged for the same cause. "I have applied to the Civil Service Com mission to take detectives out of the classi fied list," says the Collector, "as oftentimes the best detectives are illiterate." IRISH PATRIOTS' EIGHTS. Eloquent Utterances by the First Secretary of tiio T.and Lencue. CniCAGO.March 4. Every seat in Central Music Hall was filled to-night and scores of people were standing. It was a gathering of the Irish Nationalists of Chicago to cele brate Bobert Emmett's anniversary, and the orator of the evening was Thomas Brenan, of Omaha, the first General Secre tary of the Land League iu Ireland. Mr. Brenan was enthusiastically received. He said it was well there was a recognized day when there were gatherings the world over, of those who entertain what might bo called extreme opinions on tbe Irish ques tion opinions so extreme that they are in harmony with those ot the men who established this republic in America. The speaker said he cheerfully recognized the symptoms of a change in English sentiment toward Ireland and he prayed God for the day when each people may live self-governed, each in their own country. The sons of Ireland had the same Tight in this day as the Americans had in 1776 to fight and die if necessary for liberty from En gland and English tyranny. KnvIgatlon Practically Restored. Cincinnati, March 4. The flood in the Ohio here is an event of the past. The stage of the river here at 11 to-night was 49 feet, nearly five feet lower than at the cor responding hour last night. Navigation is practically restored and business by the river will hereafter proceed as usual. All Going to Pendleton's Funeral. ISPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE PISPATCnJ. Columbus, March 4. Governor Camp bell and staff and the members of both branches of the Legislature will attend the luneral of the late Minister Pendleton at Cincinnati Saturday. A special has been provided for their convenience in gping from this city. , The Knnnwha and Ohio Knllroml Sold. Columbus, O., March 4. The Kanawha and Ohio Bailroad was sold to-day under a decree of foreclosure in the United States Court, granted the Mercantile Trnst Com pany or New York. The agents of Homans & Co., New York, secured the road at ?505,000. a3&.. H,K,N H K K .A NH x r'Wl "Vi. VJ - "k .V - . A.M JW S .A.U 1 J A L LAI Li. 'C .1 The xao of His Same Canses a iv.rc. WiiPb.?' 'stration at the KEPCBLICANV jVE meeting. Stnart Withdraws and Judgs Thurston Will be Re-Elected. GEN. GOFF MAKES THE CHIEF ADDRESS He Prophesies Tnat West Virginia Will ba Carried the Kelt Time. The Bepublican National League Con vention at Nashville is very fully attended. A reference to Blaine was received with pronounced applause. Stuart, of Philadel phia, withdrew from the contest for the presidency when he learned that Thurston was a candidate lor re-election. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB PISPATCH. Nashville, Tenn., March 4. The Be publican National League Convention, which began its session in this city to-day, is largely attended, delegates from many States being present and taking an active interest in the proceedings. Amusement Hall, in which the convention is held, 13 tastefully decorated and presented a very attractive appearance. Throughout the hall are displayed national colors, while on the stage are potted plants, pictures of George Washington, General Grant and President Harrison. The convention was called to order at noon, every seat being occupied. Besides the officers of the league and many promi nent citizens of this city, there was a large number of ladies on the stage. President Thurston and General Nathan Goff were greeted with enthusiastic cheering and ap plause upon their entrance, and the ad dresses of welcome and the responses were1 followed by loud clapping of hands. CHEEES FOB BLAINE. When Mr. Tillman, of Tennessee, spoka of the great Southern men and the great men of the East, and mentioned J. G. Blaine among others, the delegates leaped to their feet in an- instant, and for several seconds cheered Blaine and waved hats and handkerchiefs. The mas3 meeting at the hall to-night was very largely attended, and the able ad dresses delivered were listened to with close attention. To-morrow the convention will settle down to business, and an interesting session is looked for. The delegates have been well received, and expressed themselves as greatly pleased. The various committees were hard at work until a late hour to-night, and when the convention assembles to-morrow morning; thev will all be ready to report. There was quite a spirited contest over the location for the next convention between Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Cleveland and Wheeling, bnt the former city had the strongest backing and won the prize. STUAET WITH DRAWS. It is now thought that Judge Thurston will be re-elected to the Presidencv by ac clamation. Edwin S. Stuart, of Philadel phia, had a strong following from Penn sylvania, Illinois," Kentucky and the New England States, but when it was announced that Judge Thurston was a candidate for re-election, Mr. Stuart positively refused to permit the use of his name. In the course of General GofTs address to night he congratulated the Bepublicans upon the great outpouring of representatives ot a great political party, and said the meet ing in behalf of onr grand country was des tined to produce great results. It was in dicative of the feeling now prevailing in the laud. The delegates came from manv sections, from all the States, from the New England States, the Pacific slope and all along the Atlantic coast. While prond of the respective localities and States, the speaker and delegates were prouder still that they were citizens of the United States, made greatly prosperous and happy by the Bepublican party. A POLITICAL PREDICTION. The General spoke in this strain for nearly an hour, and, in concluding. ;d his State of West Virginia, which had given 17,000 Democratic majority a few years ago, would elect a Bepublican Governor at the next election, and give its electoral vote to the Bepublican candidate for President, Addresses were also made by Hon. Harrv Lenhart, of Philadelphia, President Thurs ton and Attorney-General Webster, of Ne braska. It is thought the con vention will complete its work ia time to adjourn finally to-morrow night. On Wednesday the delegates will start on a trip through the State. The trip will occupy two or three days, and it will prob ably be Saturday before they turn their backs on the Snnny South for their home ward journey. Democratic Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, sent word to the convention that he would be pleased to receive the delegates at the State House at noon to-morrow. The State Legislature will hold a joint session for the same purpose immediately after the Gov ernor's reception. STATE TREASURER SUSPENDED. Mr. Nolnnd, of Mlssonrl. Relieved From Office by the Governor. St. Louis, March 4. A special from Jefferson City received to-day says: Gov ernor Frances has formally suspended State Treasurer Noland from office. Telegrams were sent to all the depositories of the State funds by the Governor, notifying them that he had taken charge of the office. This is the first actual news from official source and is at least a temporary relief to public anx ietv. Governor Frances said: "My investiga tion into the affairs of the Treasury Depart ment is not completed, but I have discovered some irregularities and it is mandatory upon me to suspend Treasurer Noland from office." The Governor then quoted the law upon the point In response to the query: Have you found a deficiency of any kind in Mr.Noland's conduct of tfie Treasury? he replied: "I have found certain irregulari ties, but just what they are I cannot now state. It there is a' deficit, it is a small one." Mr. Noland denies any wrongdoing, and opinions are divided as to his guilt. KIDNAPPER ARRESTED, Accused of Abdnctlns the Daughter of South Dakota Farmer. Chicago, March 4. Authur Converse, aged 30 years, was brought to this city to day from Ceres, N. Y., by SherifT Millard, who is taking him to Gary, S. Dak., on a charge of having kidnapped little Annie Converse, the daughter of a farmer living near Gary. Converse is said to be in no way related to the child, and his reason for abducting her and taking her to New York is un known, and he refuses to talk about the matter. The child says he did not mal treat her except that he "once whipped her. Suit Against a Railroad. INDIANATOLI3, March 4. The Loan and Investment Company of West Virginia, principal office in New York, has brought suit against the Midland Bailway, of In dianapolis, for $200,000 on a promissory note for $150,000 due 60 days after June 7, 1889. ' -ITTTin TIATk TIT llTn '. j- 'sX?.J .-fc.
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