flje Wft$m& mgpmii PUSH AND PROGRESS It the motto of THE Ji PATCH. While it urniihet all t , it also advocates measures ua pill re dound to the benefit of Ig & a. STRICTLY BTJSINES& THE DISPATCH altrayt aims to advance the interests of Pittsburg and contiguous territory- It spares neither expense nor enterprise In this direction. n V7 55 m FORTY-FIFTH TEAR. Ill II Of the Boodlers Who Seek to, Destroy the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. WASHINGTON'S FOND HOPE That the Trans-Allegheny Plan Wonld he Carried on to Snccess. OYER SIXTY YEABS AGO Pittsburg Pioneeers Met in Conven vention and Urged the Adop tion of the Scheme. THE ESTIMATES OF THE EXPENSE, Colonel Merrill Figures the Cost of the Ditch From Cumberland to This Citj at $25,000,000. THREE DISTINCT SURVEYS WERE MADE In 1S76 Congress was told by Colonel "William E. Morrill, the United States En gineer in charge of the Ohio river and tributaries, that a canal could be built across the Allegheny Mountains, from Cum berland to rittsburg, for $25,000,000. The plans he mapped out were for a canal greater than the famous Erie Canal in New York. Two earlier plans and estimates placed the cost at a smaller sum than this, but they were Tor a canal no larger than the present canal running from Cumberland to Washington City. The Dispatch has had collated the fullest possible data from the reports of all three of these surveys, and has secured a copy of the map on file in the "War Department, giving an outline of the three routes proposed. At this time this information is uselul in two ways, viz: It shows the belief of all the prominent men of the country, from George "Washington down to the members of a recent Congress, that a trans-Allegheny canal would be of incalculable value to internal commerce; and, second, how wanton would be the de struction which now threatens the Chesa peake and Ohio Canal. trfcOM A 6TATF COWlESrOXDEXT.: "Washington', March 9. The age stained minute book of a convention held in this city on November 6, 1823, con tains some information that will be inter esting to Pittsburgers at this time. It was a gathering of delegates appointed by va rious States to take steps toward carrying into execution the objects of "The Potomac Company," formed years before by George Washington, to connect the Potomac Valley navigation with that of tne Ohio river. At this convention these resolutions were adopted: A GRAND OBJECT. Whereas, A connection of the Atlantic and Western waters by a canal leading from the seat of the general government to the River Ohio, regarded as a local object, is one of the highest importance to the States immediately interested therein, and, considered in a national view, is of inestimable consequence to the future union, security, and happiness of the United States: Resolved, unanimously. That it is expedient to substitute for the present defective naviga tion of tho Potomac river above tidewater, a navigable canal by Cumberland to the mouth of Savage creek, at the eastern base of the Alle gheny Mountain, and to extend such canal, as soon thereafter as practicable to tho highest constant steamboat navigation of the Ohio or Monongahela rivers. Resolved, That the most eligible mode of attaining this object will be by the incorporation of a joint stock company, empowered to cut the said canal through the States interested, and with this enlarged purpose to change the name of the corporation to "The Chesapeake ana Ohio Canal Company." PITTSBUBQ PIONEEES INTERESTED. The second convention was held at Wash incton, December 6, 1826, and the following Pennsylvania delegates attended: Allegheny county Judge Alex. Brecken ridge, .Neville B. Craig. James S. Crafts, James Adams, J. S. Stevenson and It. T. Stewart. Beaver county John Dickey, Wm. Marks, Robert Moore. Butle j county John Bredin and John Neg ley. Somerset county Chauncey Forward and Abraham Morrison. Greene county Joseph Morrison. Payette county John Dawson. George Craft, Andrew Stewart, James Todd and Samuel Trevor. Westmoreland county J. B. Alexander, A. W. Foster, George Plummer and Jacob M. Wise. Washington county Thomas M. T. McKen nan, George W. Reed. T. H. Baird. Joseph Lawrence and Thomas McGnffln, Adams county Thaddeus Stevens, J. I.. Ful ler and James Wilson. Cumberland county Samuel Alexander. Andrew Carothers and John Reed. Dauphin county Joel Bailey, Jacob Beecher, William Grimshaw, Robert Harris and Valen tine Hummel. OF PBOFIT AND ADVANTAGE. These conventions resulted in the surren der of the Potomac Company's charter to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Hew charters were at once obtained from the States of Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, and the United States. The pre amble in all these charters stated that "a navigable canal from the tidewater of the Potomac to the mouth of Savage creek, and extending thence across the Allegheny Mountain, to some convenient point of the navigable waters of the river Ohio, or some one of its tributary streams, would be a work ofgreat profit and advantage to the people o! this State and adjoining States, and will ultimately iena to establish connected navi- I gatloa between the eastern and western I waters, so as to benefit the two great sec tions of the United States. THE EABLIEST SURVEY. Here among tba archives of the War De partment I findjthe report of a survey of the route for the proposed canal made in 1825 and revised in 1826 by General Bernard, Chief of the United States Corps of Engi neers. He reported all the facts and figures to the President, who messaged them to Congress on December 7, 1826. In this early survey the Board of Engi neers divided the line into three sections, which they denominated eastern, middle and western. The eastern began at George town, D. C, and, pursuing the Maryland side of the Potomac, ended at Cumberland. The middle division began at Cumberland and ended at the mouth of the Castleman river, on the Youghiogheny river. The western division extended from that point to Pittsburg. The dimensions assumed by i KJ ',&.". A t K . lft . A MSTAVRGNIA) is at. J V :iw ny-? Mxrw.t && : .v r-Jr e f 'vs iVff xy,w b 'iv-w a r r jcti ' ii -n v j.. i . s-. m ir m i J9 .i jr r x v 3 - ?n P" i 2 "-Ov-wm.-. V. ',i trX.f rf:AJi stfi&CZL MAP ON PILE AT THE WAB DEPAET3IENT, SIIOWXSQ THE THREE BOUTES PROPOSED. Survey No. L A canal from Cnmberland along Will's creek to tho Castleman river at Meyersdale, thence to tho Youghiogheny at Con fluence, thence to Connelisville and thence by slackwater on the Youghiogheny to the Monongabela at McKeesport. The summit tunnel would' only be at 1.940 feet altitude. Scrvey No. 2. A canal from Cumberland down the Potomac's north branch to the Savage river beyond Piedmont, thence by a tunnel, 2.100 feet elevation, to the Castleman river at Salisbury, and thence by way of Castleman and Yonchiogbeny rivers to McKeesport. Sdevey No. 3. A canal from Cnmberland by routo No. 2 to Crab creek and Deep creek, with a tunnel at 2,400 feet altitude, to the Yonghlo pheny river a shore dixtance north of Oakland; thence north to Confluence by way of above routes to McKeesport. General Bernard were for a canal 48 feet at the water line, 33 feet at the bottom and S feet deep. He estimated the cost of con structing the entire work from Georgetown to Pittsburg, which by the route proposed was stated to be 341 miles, with an ascent and descent of 3,158 feet, to be overcome by 398 locks, at 122,375,427, exclusive of land purchases, "condemnations and contingen cies. The following table made in the re port of that surrey exhibits the respective lengths, lockage and computed cost of these several sections: Ascent Dls- or Unccs. Descent ho. Estimated Sections. Miles. Feet. L'ks Cost. Eastern 188 ST3 74 S 8.177,081 05 Middle 70 1,961 246 10,023,1.2 88 Western.... 65 619 7 .170,23 78 341 lii 39s'?2.375,427 G9 In 1829 the western section to Pittsburg was resurveyed by James Geddes and Na than S. Roberts, two engineers in the em ploy of the newly organized canal company, and they made the distance 310 miles, and estimated the total copt of the work from Cumberland to Pittsburg at 83,048,673, or 52,401 per mile, or $12,528,019 entire be tween Georgetown aud Pittsburg, which was vastly less than General Bernard's esti mate. THE SECOND SURVEY. To dismiss this part of the subject, it may be merely added that when the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was completed from George town to Cumberland the total cost of the work that far had been 811,071,176. The State of Maryland gave the great .bulk of the money. Passengers by the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad and freight by the canal were hauled to Cumberland, reshipped there by wagons and stages on the national turn pike to Brownsville, Pa., and from there sent down the Monongahela river by steam navigation. This route of 312J miles from Washington City to Pittsburg seemed to answer all purposes for many years. Ap parently the scheme to extend the Chesa peake and Ohio Caual across the mountains had been forgotten. But the act of Congress approved March 3, 1873, making appropriations for rivers and harbors contained the following clause: "And not to exceed $5,000 of the above ap propriation may be expended in an explora tion of routes for the extension of the Ches apeake and Ohio Canal to the Ohio river by the north and south branches of the Poto mac river." The next session of the same Congress increased this appropriation to 825,000, and the surveys which began in July of 1873 were continued through 1874 and 1875. Colonel William E. Merrill, the United States engineer in charge of the Ohio river and its tributaries, employed Colonel T. S. Sedgwick to take charge of the explorations. NEARLY 100 MAPS ON FILE. The reports of Colonels Merrill and Sedg wick of these surveys embrace nearly 100 maps, all of which are filed away in the office of the Chief Engineer of the United States Army at this city. The descriptive matter accompanying these maps was printed several years ago for the informa tion of Congressmen, and all together would form a printed book of 141 pages. All this data will be immensely useful if a future sprvey of the Alleghenies is ever under taken for a navigable water passage of the mountains to Pittsburg. For a canal to connect the Chesapeake and Ohio, at Cumberland, with the Ohio river at Pittsburg, the Board of Engineers, in 1825, reported a feasible route via North Potomac Branch, Savage river, Crabtree creek, Deep creek, and the Youghiogheny. In 182G they reported a much better route, at a lower ele vation, by way of Will's creek.Flaugherty's creek and Castleman river to its junction with the Youghiogheny and the other canal line. The route over the mountains, which Colonel Sedgwick selected in 1873 for ex amination, was intermediate between these two. Commencing at Cumberland, it fol lowed the North Branch, Savage river and Blue Lick, and then, by a five-mile tunnel, struck Castleman river at Plueher reser voir of the Will's creek route; thence it fol lowed down the Castleman until it joined the Will's creek route at the mouth ot Flaugherty, at Meyersdale, Pa. PLENTY OF WATEE. The summit level of this route was taken at an elevation of 2,100 feet above tide. Cumberland has an elevation of C03 feet, and the mouth of Savage river 900 feet above tide, while the Castleman river, at the mouth of Piney run, has an elevation of 1,990 feet above tide. Castleman river is a large stream amply sufficient to feed the canal westward from the summit. The ascent from the mouth of Savage river to the summit is at the rate of 65 feet per mile, and the tunnel was designed to pierce the mountains at an elevation about 100 feet higher than tho month of Piney run. There is not a sufficiency of water to feed the canal on the eastern slone of the mountain, above the mouth of Savage river, and a por tion of the canal must be supplied from the summit level and reservoirs. Colonel Sedg wick stated there would be ample supply for such a trans-Allegheny canal, and Colonel Merrill indorsed his opinion. COLONEL SEDGWICK'S ESTIMATE. This "Savage and Blue Lick Boute," as it was called, made the distance from Cumber land, Md., to Connelisville, Pa., 127 miles. Colonel Sedgwick estimated that a canal built on tint route would cost$20,268, 085, of which $8,316,168 was lor the tunnel ?8t Hi? Yaw .JpT) msFhSlv.?) &j& tertr-' v-iv .s-y-vry-s frsf?,. Itr.frJM'i t h .IlSl jJ$A& m II Yf.?t vmr&tjy xi v$& Pr'JT tf & P and 805,000 for reservoirs and feeders. The idea was to slackwater the Youghiogheny river from Connelisville down to McKees port, thus ending the canal atConnellsville. In this survey, however, Colonel Merrill did not think Colonel Sedgwick had contem plated a large enough size for the canal from Cumberland to Connelisville, and that his estimate therefore was under the work. So, with the increased appropriation for survey ing purposes in 1874-5, Colonel Merrill di rected the Sedgwick exploring party to ex amine the Will's creek route and report an estimate for a canal westward by that pass of the mountains. II. Tho Bent Itoato Surveyed. The route by Will's creek and Flaugherty creek to Meyerdale, on Castleman river, and thence by Castleman river and the Youghiogheny and Monongahela rivers to Pittsburg, was 50 years before this time fully demonstrated to be the best and most practicable route be tween Cumberland and Pittsburg, but 1874 found it occupied and controlled through out its entire length by the Pittsburg branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad and partially by a Pennsylvania Railroad branch road. This added to the difficulties of building a canal in the narrow Will's Valley, but the advantages in other respects, both Colonels Merrill and Sedgwick thought, made it the most practicable route to the western rivers. In his report of the survey of the Will's creek route in 1874-5, Colonel Sedgwick says: The difficulties encountered on the survey were many and troublesome. Nearly the whole route from Meyersdale to Ohio Jfylo Falls lay through an unbrolvcn woods with a dense and heavy growth of laurel, through which tbe lino of the survey had to be cut day by day and mile by mile, as was the case also on the first di vision as far east as Bridgeport. The section from Ohio Pyle Falls to Connelisville was very difficult to survey, being extremely rough, and along steep mountain slopes, covered with rocks, and with a dense growth of laurel reach ing down to the edge of tho rivpr, and the party had to cross the river twice each dav in a frail boat built for that purpose at Ohio Pyle. To persons unfamiliar with the wild char acter of the mountains in that part ot Penn sylvania the above abstracts will be of some aid in forming their conclusions. A geeat canal. This survev was for a first-class canal, having a width at the water-surface of 70 feet, and a depth of 7 feet, with locks 120 feet long, and 20 feet wide. This size of lock will pass boats carrying 180 tons, and themselves weighing about 94 tons. The summit tunnel is located at the same place, and on the same line selected by the surveys of 1824, the design being to take the feed water from a large reservoir to be provided on Castleman river. The elevation of the bottom ot the tunnel above tide at George town, D. C, is 1,944 feet. The line for the tunnel was carelully surveyed and its length was found to be Zfi miles, the tunnel being 46 feet in clear width, and 28 feet in clear height. The cut at the western approach is 6,800 feet in length, and that at the eastern approach 1,450 feet. A basin 1,300 feet long is provided in the village of Meyersdale. DOWN TIIE -WESTEBN SLOPE. Continuing westward, the line is often laid close along the bank of the river at the foot of steep, rocky slopes, and frequently re quires to be supported by a retaining wall founded on the rocky bed of the river. Three inclined planes have been located on this portion of the lin; one of 54 feet height at 2 miles below Garrett station, Pittsburg and Connelisville Bailroad; one of 38 teet heignt just opposite Castleman station, and one just below Pinkerton of 36 feet height Between Meyersdale and Confluence the caual is fed from the river at three places, at about equal distances, by dams to be built acros the river with heights ot from 16 leet to 18 feet, forming reservoir pools. The canal line is planned to cross the Castleman just above the town of Confluence, by an aque duct 330 feet long, to the tongue of land Continued on Eighth Page. PITTSBURG, MONDAY, A EEY0LT IN HAITI, With tho Usual Blood and Fire, Likely to Break Ont any Time. THE ISLAND'S WASTED WEALTH Is Sufficient to Sustain a Population of Twenty Million. THE HORRIBLE KITES OP T00D00ISM. Tales of the Sacrifice ot naman Beings rrononncM Literally True. The British Minister to Hayti states that there will be another revolution in that dis tracted island soon. If it were not for these disturbances the country would be a verit able Garden of Eden. The terrible practice of voodooism still prevails, however. rSFECIAL TILKOBAM TO THB DISrATCIt.l New York, March 9. Mr. James Zohrab, British Minister to Hayti, was in the city to-day, being on his way to En gland. During the afternoon he talked with a Dispatch reporter. "What was the condition of affairs in Hayti when you left?" "Everything was very quiet, but it seems to me to be the calm before a storm. I loon ior another revolution there very soon. It seems to me that the people are in a condition that must precipi tate another fight. It is too had that it should be so. Hayti is naturally one of the very richest countries in the world for its area. I believe that, under a firmly organized government, a government where property was secured the island would support in comfort a population of 20,000, 000 souls. One can form no idea of the CUAjMftLlA ; p'tk-j fpsMmm 0" wealth of the island without a visit there. There are tbe coffee forests, for instance. The coffee bush is not cultivated at all but the tree grows wild in such luiuriance that it is utterly impossible for a man to pen etrate them. It is a very conservative esti mate when I say that for every .1,000 tons gathered 800 tons go to waste. aSsSt LIVE LIKE THE BIBDS. "It is much the same with the sugar cane. The people do not cultivate the sngar cane. It grows wild. Everything grows in such profusion that the people live in spite of revolutions. In no other country could the drain in such constant warfare be sustained. The ordinary government is terribly expen sive. Every year wlun the coffee season comes around the Government collects from 84,000,000 to 85,000,000. "But under the system there the officials in power know that their turn to go into exile will soon come. I have been there two years, but the third set of officials is in power. Each set, knowing that its time would soon end had to prepare to go so they pocketed all the money in sight." "What is the real feeling there in the matter of the talked of acquisition of a coal ing station by the American Government?' ' "To understand that yon must remember that Dr. Nemours Auguste came to the United States as a representative of the revolutionary party. His letters to vour State Department were all published in the white book. There is just now undoubtedly a prejudice against the United States among the people." THE P.ECEPTION OF DOUGLAS. "You were there when Mr. Douglas ar rived. How was he received?" "There was no demonstration over his ar rival. He was received as any Minister might have been." "But was there nothing said one way or the other about his color?" "Oh, yes. They are like people in the East in that respect. We have to send white natives of England to all but the most fanatical Mohammedans among tbe people of the East. If we send one oi their own countrymen to them they ask why they are not treated as well as other nations are; why an Englishman is not sent to represent theEnglish Government?" "To return to the subject of the prosperity of the island it is a peculiarity of the people that they seem to think that the proper way to promote peace in a revolution is to fire the towns. In my two years there I have seen thiee revolutions and three fires. Tffe last fire was a little one only 30 of the 40 houses were destroyed. Something like 1,300 were burned in the others. Each fac tion accused the other of setting the fire. The fact is the town of Port au Prince was burned by both factions. ' A HAED PIBE TO FIGHT. "I was there trying to fight the fire, but while I would be at work at one end of a house the other would mysteriously hurst into a blaze. The fire would mysteriously travel against the wind. A house 200 yards up wind from tbe fire would burst into flames. Put the smoke was always pitch black and smelled of kerosene." Mr. Zohrab had his family consisting of his wile, three daughters and a son, all old enough to go in society, but they found no society in Hayti, hesaid. The only people there "whom the family conld visit.were the French Minister and the Spanish Consul. It was a pretty stupid place socially, though exciting enough during the revolutions. Mr. Zorab talked bneflv of the voodoo worship. He said that tales told in Sir Spencer St. John's book about the sacrifice ot human beingswere true. He had seen the Voodoo practice in their worst forms, and in towns at that, and not in the coun try, where Mr. St. John supposed the prac tice alone existed. ltnbbrrn ZllnUf n Gncd Ilini. GnnEKVlLl.E, Tfx., March 9. The postoifice at this place was robbed of several thousand dollars Friday night. The thieves succeeded in breaking open the mail boxes of the First National Bank and other firms, and abstracted the contents. No clew obtained. MAROH 10, 1890. BATTLE WITH INDIANS, United States Troopi Kill Two, Wonnd Ono nnd Capture Two Tho Marder of a Mormon Freighter Avenscd A 300-Mile Cbasc. rSPECIAI, TSLXGKAM TO TBS DISPATCH. 1 Denveb, March 9. The pursuing party of United States troops and Indian scouts who followed the trail of the renegade In dians who murdered George Herbert, a Mormon freighter, on Sunday last, for over 300 miles of the.roughest and most rugged country of Arizona, overtook them to-day on Salt river, about 30 miles north of Globe, in an almost impenetrable locality, and as could be expected, a fight immediately com menced. After the first shots were ex changed the Indians took the rocks and continued the firing, evidently determined to sell their lives dearly. The fight was kept up until two of the renegades were killed and a third wounded and the two re maining, seeing their efforts were useless, surrendered. The troops and scouts, although exposed, miraculously escaped any casualties. The dead were buried where they fell, and the prisoners were taken to Globe, where they arrived this afternoon. The two horses stolen from their victim were the only ones the Indians had, and were almost fagged to death on account of being so hard pushed by the troops. To-morrow the prisoners will be escorted to San Carlos and placed in close confinement, and the soldiers will proceed to their respective stations. It is safe to predict that the days of wild riot and revolting crimes of this particular lot of Apaches have passed away, and in due time they will meet, by the hemp route, their forefathers in those happy hunting grounds. SHE DENIES TIIE CHARGE. A Younc Girl Arrested for Poisoning Her Employer's Two Children. IBrECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCn.t Bockville, Md., March 9. Alice Page, a little girl in the employ of William Smith, of this city, was arrested here to-day,charged with poisoning her employer's two children. The girl, who is only 13 years old, had been in the family's employ about a month and appeared to be very attentive to her duties. Several days ago one of the children was taken ill from the effects, it is thought, of something it had eaten while away from home. The girl was reprimanded for not taking better care of her charges. She made no reply, but it was noticed that she became very sullen. She continued, however, to play with the children. On Friday night the youngest became verv ill, and the doctor who atteuded her said tne symptoms were arsenical poisoning. Immediately after the other child was similiarly affected and tbe girl was then taken into custody. It was remembered that she had given the children some bread with sugar, and the inference is the arsenic was mixed with the sacharinc batter. The girl was taken to jail where the authorities tried to obtain a confessiou from her. She stoutly maintained her innocence, however, and said that her mother advised her to say nothing. She is remarkably bright and controls herself in the presence of strangers. When alone she moans and cries. One of the poisoned children may recover, but there is little hope for the other. IT LODES LIKE M0EDEK K0W. Chicago Police Aro looking for the Dead Body of Rowland Leach. Chicago, March 9. If is now believed that Bowland Leach, the young New York commercial traveler who disappeared from the Palmer House several days ago, has been murdered. It has been discovered that alter leaving his room at the hotel last Sunday night Leach wa3 in a saloon known as the "Little Auditorium" and went out the rear door, which opens into a dark, lone some alley leading alongside some of the toughest dives in Chicago. The identity of the mysterious woman, "Edith," has been established. She lives in the vicinity of the "Little Auditorium" saloon, and acknowledges that she met Leach Sunday afternoon and was to see him again at 8 o'clock. It was then she sent that note which has excited interest, and falling to get an answer that she called personally at the hotel. Leach had a gold watch and probably $100 iu money, a sufficient sum to tempt a murderer in that vicinity, particularly if the victim showed fight against a' covetous assailant, HIS WITES TOO NUMEROUS. A Fortone Teller Said to flavo Exposed n Young Bigamist. ISPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB PISPATCIL 1 Netv Yoek, March 9. Eugene W. Worden, a blonde young conductor on the street cars, was charged with bigamy at Jefferson Market Police Court this morning by Maggie E. Worden. She became hysteri cal while making the complaint. She is a little woman. Wife No. 2, a tall, graceful and good-looking young woman of 22, soothed her, and thev compared their mar riage certificates. Worden married Maggie E. Sherwood at Stamford, Conn., on July 20, 1884, and Margaret Heffermau at Jersey City on November 13, 1887. The Bev. W. C. Snodgiass tied the second knot. Wife No. 1 said that Worden abandoned her in Stamford four years ago, but wrote to her occasionally. Detective Madden said that Mrs. Worden confided to him that she learned of her husband's second marriage from a fortune teller. Each of the wives has a child. Wife No. 2 had hers in court. Worden pleaded not guilty, and Justice White held him to await the arrival of an officer from New Jersey with a requisition. ADRIF1 FOE FITE DAIS. Fishermen Rescued Jam as They Wcro About to End Their Suffering. Gloucestee, Mass., March 9. The schooner Blanche, which has arrived from Grand Bank, had on board Edward Fogarty and William Wilson, members of the crew of the schooner Nellie G. Thurston, who were picked up in a dory. They went adrift February 27, while at tending trawls during a thick fog. The weather continued thick for five days. Their feet, hands and tongues became swollen and they lay in the dory and prayed for death to relieve their sufferings. "'They had three raw fish in the dory which they tried to eat, but were made sick. They be came delirous and about made up their mind to jump overboard and end their sufferings when the Blanche rescued them. A MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY. The Body of an Unknown Young linn Found With His Throat Cut. rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH-.! Alexandeia, Mo., March 9. A terri ble tragedy has happened in this neighbor hood. The frozen body of an unknown young man was found in a thicket near the Des Moines river bridge, north of this place, with his throat cut from ear to ear and his wrists and arms terribly lacerated. The deepest mystery surrounds the tragedy. A Glailjlonlnn Rcalgns. LrJNDON, March 9. John Sinclair has decided to resign his seat in Parliament lor the Ayr district. He is an advanced Lib eral and a strong supporter of Mr; Glad stone's Irish policy. A FAMILY m FLAMES. Mother and Seven Children Bnrned in Their Beds, While the FATHER'S EFFORTS AT A EESCDE Cause Him to Receive Injuries Which May Prove to be Fatal. THE EXPLOSION OF A KEROSENE CAN, Is Supposed to Hare Been tbe Origin of tne Horrible Holocaust. The wife and seven children of a well-to-do French Canadian living near Montreal were burned to death yesterday morning. The husband and father made a desperate attempt at rescue, and is seriously injured. One child managed to escape. SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCn.l Montbeal, March 9. Cote St. Michael, a flourishing little country parish about five miles from Montreal, was the scene of a most heartrending fatality to-day, by which a whole family, consisting of a mother and seven young children, were literally roasted to death, while a grief-stricken husband and father stood by unable to save his loved ones from the devouring flames. News of the terrible affair only reached this city to-night and The Dispatch corres pondent at once drove out to Cote St. Mi chael in order to gather the facts. To-day Onezime Collerette, a French Canadian of about 40 years of age, was one oi the most well-to-do and prosperous farm ers on the Isladd of Montreal. NO EESCUE POSSIBLE. He lived with his wife and seven young children in a large stone house on the main road leading from the city. About 5 o'clock this morning Collerette rose as usual, and, after starting the fires, proceeded, as was bis custom, to look after the cattle. He had not been long engaged in this work when he was startled by a cry of fire, and, rush ing out, was appalled to find the whole house in flames. Begardless of danger he rushed into the bnrning structure and made a desperate effort to rescue his wife and children. His efforts, however, were vain, as the fire had secured too great a headway and Collerette himself was rescued from 'the flames more dead than alive. Within an in credibly short space of time the honse was reduced to ashes and all that re mained of the inmates were a few charred bones, which were carefully gathered to gether, placed in two coffins and then re moved to Collerette's brother-in-law's place. ALL LOST BUT TWO. His family was composed of nine chil dren, four girls and fiue boys, the oldest of whom was 13 years of age. The oldest girl was absent attending coonvent and thus escaped the dreadful fate of the others, while another of the girls, 13 years old. succeeded in escaping from the house. The remaining seven were burned to death with their mother. Collerette himself, in attempting to rescue hi3 family, was dread fully burned, and was removed to a neighbor's house, where he now lies in a very precarious con dition, and it is very doubtful whether he will ever recover. The tragedy had caused a tremendous sensation in the city and surrounding country, and vast crowds of people were gathered around the ill-fated house all to day. The fire is supposed to have been caused by the'explosion of a can of kerosense oil which was left standing near the fire place, and is supposed to have been ignited by a spark. AELACK CONSPIEACY. Sensation Caused by tbe Sudden Disap pearance of tho SberiflT's Wife Tho Entire Police Force Called Into Requisition. rSPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE PISPATCn.: New Yoek, March 9. There was an other sensational development in the sensational Flack case to-day. Mrs. Flacc was brought down from Little Britain, Orange county, on Saturday by detective sergeants Von Grecthen and Kiernan, to insnre her at tendance at the trial of the great case to-morrow. She came to the city unwillingly, and confessed to Assistant District Attorney Goff that she had forgiven her husband and son, and did not want to prosecute them. Mrs. Flackis counsel, Trcadwell Cleveland, of Evarts, Choate & Beaman, who was present at the interview in the District Attorney's office agreed to escort Mrs. Flack to the house of her niece, Mrs. Bingham. She left the office at 3 P. m. and went to Park Bow. There Mr. Cleveland put Mrs. Flack on a Third avenue car, saying he just remembered an engagement he must keep and the woman was driven away. It had been arranged for the detectives to go straight to the Bingham House. They waited there in vain lor Mrs. Flack. Late at night they reported that she was missing. Tnere .was a wild time in the Central office when Assistant District Attorney Goff called for all the assistance possible to aid him in searching for Mrs. Flack. Her disappearance meant ruin for Col. Fellows. Detectives were sent to the ferries, the depots, everywhere. Men were delegated to go to the house of every close friend of the sheriff and hunt for the missing woman. To-day she was found at the house of William L. Hill, a political lieutenant of Flacks'. She was taken away, and is now under police guard at the Vanderbilt Hotel. She will be brought to, court by the detectives in the morning. There is no donbt that a plot had been Tormed to spirit her away and keep her in hiding until the case could be set aside. A R0IAL MAUSOLEUM DEDICATED. Emperor William Pavs Tribute Co the Memory of His Grandpnrents. Berlin, March 9. The imperial mauso leum at Charlottenburg was dedicated to day. The route to the tomb was lined with sightseers, who respectfully uncovered their heads as the imperial party passed on its wav to attend the ceremonies. Before returning to the palace the Em peror and members of his family placed wreaths upon the coffins of William and Augusta, which were completely hidden from sight by the quantities of fresh flowers heaped upon them. A Ccntrnnnrlan Dead. Cleveland, March 9. Mary Gallagher, aged 102 years, died here to-day. She was born January 12, 1788, in Acbille Parish, County Mayo, Ireland, and came to this country in 18G2. She did not know a word of English. Parncll Still After IJbelers. London, March 9. Mr. Parnell will prosecute the Exeter Gazette for publishing the first forged letter printed by the Times In its articles on "Parnellism and Crime," and copying the Times' articles day by day. Tho War With Dnhomey. Paeis, March 9. The Bepublican papen approve M. Etienne's proposal of vigorous measures against the King and people of Dahomey, but are opposed to carrying war into the Interior. ' TWO 0ENTSA MONTH. That Was the Net Earning of a Scranton Coal Miner Last Month Organized Efforts to Relievo the Destitute In tho Anthracite Region. c 1SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO TIIE DWATCnV Scbanton, March 9. Lack of work in the coal mines of this section for several months has resulted in much destitution among the miners of the Lackawanna Val ley, All that one Delaware, Lackawanna and Western miner earned last month, after the price of his family's coal had been de ducted, was 2 cents, which he drew last week. A number oi others received less than 81, over and above the price of the coal which the company had furnished them during the month- Hundreds of miners earned less than 88 in February, and the outlook is not bright. The Scranton Poor Board has been giving outdoor relief to four times as many poor people as it formerly did, and the citizens have organized a relief committee, with one member in each of the 21 wards. A thor ough canvass of needy persons is being made in each ward, and they will all be supplied with the necessaries of life as soon as possible. Yesterday a large store was opened on Washington avenue for the re ceipt of contributions of food and as a head quarters for its distribution among the poor. A flour fund was started a few days ago, and in two days nearly 200 barrels of flour were contributed. Members of the relief committee say that so far they hive found those families who are the most in need of immediate help are the last to make their wants known. Owing to the light coal traffic the Dela ware, Lackawanna and Western Bailroid Company suspended 100 trainmen here last week. Several conductors went back to their old occupation of breaking, and a number of engineers to firing. The com pany's payments of February wages will be 8100,000 less than it paid out last month, and the indications are that the total pay ments next month will be even smaller. A NEW TRADES ALLIANCE. The Induslrlnt Senate Organized by the Grangers and K. of Jj. (SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO IHj DIHFATCII.1 Tkenton, N. J., March 9. A secret meeting was held here to-day of members of the Knights of Labor and of the Farmers' Alliance. They created a new organization which was christened tbe "Industrial Senate." There were 40 delegates at the meeting, representing every Assembly dis trict in the State. The Farmers' Alliance was represented by only two or three dele gates, but letters were read from the lodges ot the Patrons of Husbandry throughout the State, expressing approval of the new organization and pleduing hearty co-operation. John W. Hayes, Secretary ot the national organization of the Knights of Labor, and Charles H. Zimmerman, Secre tary of the State Labor Bureau, were present, nnd took an active part in the pro ceedings. The new organization has for its object the betterment of the condition of the wage workers and tillers of the soil. The follow ing officers were elected: President, Henry A. Beckmer, of New York; Vice President, J. A. Craig, of Paterson; Secretary and Treasurer, F. W. Merritt, of New Bruns wick. The ballot reform bill, now before the Legislature, was discussed, and it was agreed to urge amendments providing for non-partisan election board3 and the exclnsive use of au official ballot to be kept in the election booths and handed to voters only. The ballot box frauds were vigorously denounced. The meeting indorsed tbe bill compelling the payment of weekly wages and a committee was appointed to lobby lor it inthe Senate. The bill has already passed the Assembly. BUILDERS THREATEN TO STRIKE. The Trouble Arises Oror the Employment of Ken-Union Men. ISrECIAL TELEGBAM TO TUB DISPATCn.l New Yoek, March 9. At the request of the Building Trades Union, the Central Labor Union decided to-day that circu lars be sent to the architects in this city, asking them to have inserted in their contracts a stipulation that only union workmen must be employed on the work. It was reported that a strike would take place to-morrow on the new building that Eugene Kelly is putting up on Nassau street, adjoining Temple Court. The marble cutters say that A. Volken ing & Co., with whom thev have had much trouble because of their employment of non union men, are at work there, and will not hire union men. ELECTIONS IN FRANCE Result In Victory for tho Radical and Socialist Candidates. Paeis, March 9. Elections were held in a number of districts to-day formembers of the Chamber of Deputies. In the First district of Toulouse, M. Leygue, Badical and Socialist, received 5,292 votes, and M. Susini, 3,255. In the Second district, M. Calvinhac, Badical and Socialist, who was unseated by tbe Chamber of Deputies some time ago, received 4,390; M. Labat, Con servative, 5,124, and M. Sirwen, Oppor tunist, 4,058. Second ballots are necessary. M. Loreau, who was unseated for Gien, is re-elected, receiving 7,633, against 7,224 ior M. Portalis. KILLED BY BURROWS' GANG. The Dead Body of a Detective Found Rid dled With Bullets. tSPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THB DISPATCn.l Biemingham, Ala., March 9. A de tective named Jackson, who has been following the outlaw for months, has been murdered by Bubo Bur rows or his gang. Jackson went to Lamar county several weeks ago, and dis guised as a foot peddler, started alone to the hills where Burrows was supposed to be in hiding. Nothing more was seen of the de tective until last Saturday when his dead body was found in the woods riddled with bullets. He had evidently been dead five qr six days. GONrl UP IN SMOKE. Detroit Ham a. Sunday Bonfire Which Costs 8230,000. DETBOrr, March 9. Fire to-night de stroyed Gray & Baffy's six-story brick furniture factory, 98, 100 and 102 West Con gress street, Carroll & Hunt's chair factory, at Nos. 104 and 106, and gutted the Ostler Printing Company's house and Carroll's cigar factory adjoining. At midnight the fire was under control, but still burning fiercely. The total loss is estimated at $250,000, partially covered by insurance. The burned buildings were the property of Senator James McMillan and valued at $70,000. BEAVER TO START A BANK la tho New State of Washington Secretary Stone in It. SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1 Haebisbubg, March 9. Governor Bea ver and Secretary Stone, and several of their friends, have incontemplation the es tablishment of a banc at Seattle in the near future. George Pearson, private secretary to the Governor, has been asked to assume the management of the proposed institution, and the surrender of his present position is probable. CENTS - ACRES tKRON TENT Proposed by Ci i2 for the Slain Structure forvJTc World's Fair. A.R00F0VER 1,000 FEETIN HEIGHT, Surmounted by a Tower Rising 50 Further Into the Air. Feet PARIS AUD PHILADELPHIA ECLIPSED. Dstails of a Flan for the Expenditure of Kearly Six Million Dollars. Chicago is talking about the buildings she will erect for the World's Fair pro vided she gets it. The plans are magnifi cently grand, and include a main structure to cover 193 acres. Chicago, March 9. A magnificent scheme in connection with the World's Fair has been suggested, being nothing more nor less than a plan to put the exposition ex hibits under one roof, which is to cover 193 acres. In fact, the project is simply a mam moth circular iron and glass tent As all the buildings of the Paris Exposition cov ered only 75J acres and those of the Cen tennial at Philadelphia CO acres, the im mensity of the present scheme at once be comes apparent. It is acknowledged that Chicago cannot compete with the late Paris Exposition in the architectural features of any building it might erect, 33 it ha3 not the artists competent to do the work. It is intended, however, to rival Pans in a truly American or Chicago way by erecting the largest building ever put up, which shall be four times bigcer than any exposition build ing the world has ever seen. iiy constructing such a building without any inside columns it would be possible to produce br the aid of electric lights a dream of magnificence at night never before thought of. The idea, it will be acknowl edged, is peculiarly Chicagoan. This Scheme is claimed to be feasible whether the site for the fair be on the lake front and harbor or Jackson Park. A STUPENDOUS PEOJECT.. A huge steel tower, capable of holding eight elevators, and supporting the whole roof, is to be erected in the center of the circle 3,000 feet in diameter. From the top of this tower, 1,100 feet high, steel cables are to be run out to the circumference. On these cables the roof i3 to be laid. The outer wall around the circumference is to be of brick. The idea of the construction of such a building is simplicity itself, as can be readily seen. It is the idea of a tent en larged to the necessary extent with corru gated iron and glass substituted for the can vas covering. There is no doubt of the possibility of constructing such a building. The Brook lyn bridge has a span of 1,560 feet, while the cables of this will be but 1,500. This will enable one to form a comparative no tion. The Brooklyn bridge will support a moving load of 100 pounds to the square foot, while in this building there will never be a load ot over 10 pounds plus tbe wind pressure. The wind pressure has been care fully considered. The conclusion is that it is perfectly practicable to resist the wind pressure on a round building by tension rods on the inside. The whole roof may be strung together on the principle of a bicycle wbecl. The building would provide amply for exhibition purposes. A COST OF NEABLT SIX MILLIONS. The area of the main floor would be 162 acres, and of the two galleries 75 feet around the whole building 31 2-3 acres. The central tower is also to be provided with galleries at different stages, affording the visitors different bird's-eye views of the entire place. A feature of the construction is that hardly any special material is required. Bailroad bars and rods, glass, brick and tiling are al most the only material. The cost on careful estimates would be ?5,8G5,000, or $36,204 per acre. This would be by far the cheapest main building of any exposition, tbe Machinery Hall at Pari3 having cost $75,080 per aero, the main build ing at the Philadelphia Centennial $73,591 and the Crystal Palace, London, $42,500. The roof on tbe central circle trom the tower would be 700 feet above the head3 of the visitors on the floor. Surrounding the tower an amphitheater larger than the Coliseum could be arranged, in which spectacles on a grand scale might be pro duced before half a million spectators. The tower, it is suggested, might be extended COO feet above the roof, thus beating the Eiffel Tower by an eighth of a mile. CONSTITUTIONAL DIFFICULTY. A demand is made upon Governor Fifer to call a special session of the Legislature to attend to needed legislation upon the World's Fair matter as soon as President Harrison signs tbe bill, which will no be before the middle of April at the least. This is, Df course, provided that Chicago makes a sufficient showing and gets the World's Fair after all. The regular session of the Legislature does not convene until next winter, and then it will be too late to do any thing fcr Chicago. There is need of an amendment to the Contitution authorizing this city, whose bonded debt is only $12, 600,000. to add $5,000,000 to it for fair pur poses. . So far as known nobody in this place has to say a word in opposition. But if such an amendment is not voted on this fall it can hot be submitted till 1892, when it will ba useless. As any amendment has to be pub lished at least 90 days before election it is evident that the special session cannot b put off till fall. THE STATE MUST ACT. Chicago also wants legislation which will enable it to use one of the parks for a site if it is thought best to do so. There are other sites which cannot be utilized unless some action is had by the General Assembly. It will be impossible for tbe corporators, after they have agreed on what may seem to them the best location, to go ahead and ask for plans and prepare estimates till they know that they can have it. They cannot afford to wait till 1891 to know whether the Park Commissioners will be authorized to let them use a portion of their grounds. It is also desirable that the State should make an appropriation for an exhibit of its own and for the erection of a building in which to place it. But whether the Governor, who was beaten in Chicago and Cook county at tho late Gubernatorial election, will consent to call a special session of the Legislature is problematical. The farmers won't like to leave their spring work to go to Springfield for the purpose of amending the State Con stitution to please Chicago, particularly as it may be a hard task to convince them that they are to be benefited by the loss of their time during the busy season. Things are not so easy for Chicago as they were. ISYAD1NG THE CHEROKEE STRIP. Raiders Getting; Ready to Movo In Largo Numbers. ) Wichita, Kan., March 9. It has quietly come to the surface that E. B. Boll will hold a company of 120 strong at Caldwell, and leave Monday for a point 20 miles south in the Cherokee strip to locate and eom mence farming. There are no soldiers to interfere at present, and it is also believed that other points along the border may in tend to be entered on the same day. The Cherokee Live Stock Association meeting, on the 18th Inst, is for the pur pose of devising soma means of protecting their cattle from, the raider. o h: 4 ,1 1 9 , jnsfse. -..
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