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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.
A BIG BUCKEYE BLUFF
Ohio's Democratic Legislature
Intimates That
IT IS I0ADED FOR BEAE.
Senator Buchanan Introduces a Kovel
Measure t hich. Will
SPLIT THE PRESIDENTAL VOTE
Of the State if it is Not Declared Un
constitutional. ELECTOES TO BE CHOSEN BY DISTRICTS
Senator Buchanan has introduced a
measure in the Ohio Legislature which trill,
if passed, split the Presidental vote of the
State. The idea is to elect the Presidental
electors by Congressional districts, which
woufd give the Democratic candidate 15
votes. It is intimated that the bill is a re
taliatory measure.
CTECIAL TBLEQKASt TO THE DIEFATCn.l
Columbus, March 10. Senator John A.
Buchanan, of New Philadelphia, this even
ing introduced a bill in the Senate to elect
Presidental electors by Congressional dis
tricts. Should it pass and not be declared un
constitutional, the Democrats of Ohio would
surely elect 15 of the 23 Presidental elec
tors in 1892. Had the electors been chosen
by Congressional districts in 18S8 Cleveland
would have had a majority of 23 electors, as
the vote that year shows that he carried a
majority of that many of the Congressional
districts of the United States.
Senator Buchanan says his bill is consti
tutional, and calls attention to clauses 2
and 4 of that instrument which says:
"Each State shall appoint in such manner
as the Legislature thereof may direct a
number of electors," etc
LOADED TOE BEAB.
"While Wyckham has cone gunning in
Congress for birds, we have loaded for bear
in this Democratic Legislature of Ohio,"
says Buchanan, "and we propose to push
this bill through the Legislature. If it is
not declared unconstitutional Ohio will
.elect IS Democratic electors, that will make
a change of 30."
Here is the bill in full:
A bill to provide for the election of electors
for President and Vice President in the State
of Ohio.
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Ohio, that electors
for President and Vice President of the United
States in and for the State of Ohio he chosen
agreeable to clauses 2 and 4 of the first section
of the second article of the Constitution of the
United States, as follows, to-wit:
HOW XT IS 'WOEKED.
First There shall be two electors for Presi
dent and Vice President chosen at largo by tho
voters of the State, of Ohio and the two persons
who arn candidates Tor said offices having the
highest number of votes shall be declared
elected.
Second There shall be one elector for Presi
dent and Vice President chosen by tho voters
In each Congressional district of Ohio, as de
fined by law, and the person who is a candidate
lor said office receiving the highest number of
votes shall be declared elected.
Third No elector except tho two electors at
large shall be voted for as chosen in or for any
district of which he is not a resident.
Fourth Is o person shall be eligible to tho
office of elector for President and Vice Presi
dent who is not a citizen of the United States
and the State of Ohio, and otherwise meets the
requirements of the Confutation of the United
States.
Said electors shall be chosen on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in November,
A. D. 1892, and every four jcars thereafter on
the said firs: Tuesday after the first Monday of
November.
AVOIDING DANGEROUS SNAGS.
Section 2. All acts and parts of acts in con
flict with the provisions of the foreirolng sec
tion bo and the same arc hereby repealed.
Section 3. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Clauses 2 and 4 of the first section oi the
second article of the Constitution oi the
United States provide as follows:
Clause 2 Each State shall appoint in such
manner as tho Legislature thereof may direct
a number of electors equal to the ho!e num
ber of Senators and Representatives to which
the State may be entitled in the Congress, bnt
no Senator or Representative, or person hold
ing an office of profit or trust under the United
States, shall be appointed an elector.
Clause 4 The Congress may determine the
time of choosing electors and the day on which
they shall give their votes, which day shall be
the same throughout the United States.
ONE-TENTH GIVEN IN CHAE1TI.
Millionaire Uavemeyer's Will Donates1
8250,000 to Benevolent Institutions.
IEI-KCI.II. TKLEPEAM TO TUB DISPATCn.1
Nw Yobk, March 1U The will of Hector
C Havemejer, President of Havemeyer Sugar
Refining Company, who died on December 14.
1SS9, in Paris was filed to-day lor probate. It
is dated July 12, 1SS9. William F. Havemeyer
is appointed sole executor and trustee and is
made residuary legatee. Tho bequests to
chanties are 250,000, about one-tenth of the
estate, and are divided as follows: Methodist
Episcopal Church Home, 25,000; St. Chris
topher's Home, $23 000: to the decedent's
mother, Sarah A. Havemeyer, 8200,000. to pay
to the charitable corporations and associations
In the Charity Organization Societies' cata
locne of ISbS. or to such of them as she may
select, and in such manner or proportions as
she may think proper.
About 11,000,000 is divided among various
relative and their prospective posterity. The
residuary legatee, William F. Havemeyer, is a
brother of the testator. If none of the lega
cies lapse to the residuary estate there will be
abont Jl.500.000 coming to him. Their father
was Mayor William F. Havemeyer. Hector C.
Havemeyer never married.
SHIRT MAKEES STEIKE.
Thry Demand n Uniform Rate and Ten nonri
a Day.
New York, March 10. Two thousand shirt
makers are on strike in this city to-day. Many
of them are women, and they demand a uni
form rate of pay In all tha shops. They also
want the bosses to provide machines for them
to operate. The shirt makers do not intend to
work more than ten hours a day. At present
they work 14 hours. Main of the bosses have
conceded the terms demanded, but others are
holding ant
The pleat makers havo joined the shirt
makers ont of sympathy. A number .of pants
makers have struck, but the strike has not be
come general.
A BREAK IN A LEYEE.
Every Effort to be Mnde ro Stop It A Gen
eral Feeling of Relief nt Greenville,
Ark. The River nt Lake Provi
dence Continue" to Rise.
Arkansas Citt, March 10. The levee broke
about six miles above here at the Sapplrgton
Hoop at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
break occurred at a point where tho levee was
about seven feet high, and was due to the fact
that the levee was built ltrcely of sand.
Since the break the crevasse, has not widened
materially, and a strong effort will be made
to stop it Captain Zollinger, the Government
engineer has cone up to make preparations,
and he proposes to stop It if possibly? Tho
Government boat Vidalia will be up from
Greenville some time to-night with a pile
driver and crew. A barge is beine 1 oaded with
bags of dirt, which will be taken up by tho
Vidalia. A large force of men will co np, and
if it is possible for the crevasse to be stopped
It will be done. Considerable water has come
In already, but it is tilling np tho back
country and so far there is no water in town.
It will be a day or two beforo this place is
flooded, if It Is flooded at all. If the break is
not stopped, the water coming out throuch tho
crevasse will eventually nil up the Tensas
river and overflow the Tensas ditnct there
being no protection bctueen here and Louis
iana and the crevasse. The river has not risen
here to-day, but as the rise continues all tho
way above to Cairo vto cannot hope for a gen
uine decline there for a week or two.
A Greenville special says: News that a break
baa occurred in levee on the Arkansas side
was recen ed here this morning. It occurred
yesterday evening at 5 o'clock, at a place called
fcappington, eight miles abovo Arkansas Citj.
The news was received here with a "general
feeling of relief as tho levees on this side could
not have stood much more of a rise. The
crevasse has had but very little effect on the
river at this point, but the general opinion is
the letees will bold on the Mississippi side
unless the crevasse at Sappmgton is closed,
which is hardly possible.
A Lake Providence, La., dispatch savs that
the river at this point continues to rise two
tenths of a foot every 24 hours. Long ood
protection levee is pronounced comparatively
safe. Levee officials arc devoting their entire
attention to the levees all along the line, and
have a fast tug boat to move men, and ma
terial to the threatened points.
A St. Louis dispatch says: The break in the
levee is now fully 200 feet wide and the waters
of the Mississmpi are pouring in a resist
less flood over Chicat county and down on
East Carroll Parish. La. Ark City is under
water and hemmed in by ru'hing waters.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of
property have already been destroyed and the
work of destruction is increasing hourly.
A TJEEEIBLE DOWNFALL.
An Ex-School Superintendent Convicted of
Robbing EIU Partner in Business.
rcrKCIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.l
Jackson, O , March 10. The most sensa
tional criminal trial in the history of the county
has just closed here,resultmg in finding George
M. Powell, ex superintendent of the schools at
Wellston, this county, guilty of grand larceny.
Po ell was for several years at the head of tho
"Wellston schools and a great favorite. He
holds a life certificate to teach, and is consid
ered a man of great talent. Four j ears ago he
resigned his position, laid ont an addition to
the city, built a flour mill and made consider
able money. Soon after he and J. A. Noon
went to the new town of
Coalton, five miles away, laid out an
addition to it, built a hotel and stove
foundry. Tnefoundry was mysteriously burned.
After collecting J10.000 Insurance, Powell was
arrested for arson, but was acquitted. Noon
then went to Manhattan, Kan., where he in
duced the County Treasurer to go Into a foun
dry with him. The Treasurer became a de
faulter to the amount of 30,000, and ho and
Noon went to Canada.
During this time Powell wasat Sheffield, Mo.,
where he built a foundry, and after getting a
conMoerable property in Ins hands, failed for a
large sum, and returned here, where he oper
ated his flouring mill, and was supposed to be
prosperous. He ordered a car of wheat from
Snodgrass t Co . of Marion, Ind., and when the
car was weighed it was found to be 100 bushels
sboit It was proved bevond all question that
Powell stole the wheat, and has been engaged
in taking similar quantities from wheat bought
of other parties.
TIIEI WILL CALL Off DOCTORS.
Brooklyn Faith Carists Will Not Rely
Wholly on Spiritual Aid.
ISrECIJU. TELKOBAM TO THE DISPATCH,!
New Yokk, March 10. The Brooklyn Nor
wegian sect of believers in faith cure have
promised to conform to the law regarding the
medical care of sick persons. Four delegates
from the Faith Cure Society waited to-day on
Coroner Rooney. and said that their society had
been impressed by the remarks of tho Coroner
at the recent inqaests of the two children, who
had been allowed to die wttbont receiving med
ical attention or medicine. At the Sunday
night meeting of the society the matter
was presented and they bad prayed
together, and called on the Lord to enlighten
them if they were wrong and to put them on
the right path. After long and fervent praying
the Lord had opened their eves and changed
their hearts and shown them that they ere
wrong to conflict w ith the civil laws.
They assured the Coroner that they would in
future obey the letter of the law and employ
doctors and use medicine in case of sickness.
They deeply regretted having transgressed tho
laws and considered that the arrest of their
members and their punishment was entirely
just and proper. Coroner Rooney congratu
lated the visitors on the wise conclusion they
had arrived at.
CAUGHT AFTEE A LONG CHASE.
A Sinn Wanted for Murder In New Tork
Arrested Near Tacoinn.
f SPECIAL TKLEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Denver, March la George King, who is
wanted at Malone, N. Y., for tho murder of
Eugene Vannesman on June 1, 1SS9, was cap
tured at a lumber camD near Tacoma, Wash.,
last Friday and was brought to Denver last
night. The prisoner King Is about 23 years of
age and six feet tall. He is charged with hav
ing killed Van Ncsmau, a popular citizen of
Malone, N. Y., in cold blood and without any
reason whatever for so doing. Immediately
after committing the desperate deed the mur
derer escaped, and for some time not the slight
est trace of him was beard of.
When a reward of 1.000 was recently offered
a Lincoln. Neb., detective agency took hold of
the case, the suspect was traced from there to
Galveston, Tex.; thence to Los Angeles, and
from that cit to San Diego; then toOhmpia,
from which place he went to Tacoina and
thence to the pineries, and the lumber camp
not far from that city, where he was working
when captured. When seen by The Dispatch
correspondent he said ha killed Vau Nesman
in self defense.
ALLEGED EMBEZZLERS CAUGHT.
Two l'cstmasten Arrested for Defrauding;
the National Government.
rFrrciAL telegram to the dispatcii.1
Denver, March 10. The most important
capture of postoffice offenders that ever oc
curred In the Rocky Mountain division of that
branch of the Government service took place
to-day. One of the arrests was made in this
city and the other in Utah. The running down
and capturing of the men was accomplished
after many weeks of work Dy Inspector Law
rence and the police and detectives of this
citv.
The liames of the prisoners are Horace
Greely Stewart and J. J. Truman, who are
wanted for embezzling postoffice f unds as well
as forgery. The former was appointed Post
master at Dalas, CoL, under the name of Dun
ham several months ago, and shortly after em
bezzled 1.100. Truman is accused of robbing
the postoffice at Genoa, la,, while serving as
postmaster there, of 52,000.
LOOKING FOE A LOST GIRL.
The Grnco Darling of Lake Erie Missing
From BnfTalo.
Chicago, March M. Since last November an
active search has been carried on from Buffalo,
with a view of locating the whereabouts of
Miss Almonte Lathrop, "The Grace Darling of
Lake Erie," as well as tho heroine of Buffalo
City. The young woman had rescued seven
children from death during the two years pre
vious to the time of her departure from that
city, and had been presented with two gold
medals by tho citizens of Buffalo. A report
er succeeded in locating her at No. 574 West
Erie street, where she is spending the winter
with some friends. She left Buffalo with the
Wilbur Opera Company, traveled with it for a
while, and then came to this city.
A CORPSE IN A CELLAB.
An Old Woman Discover tho Murdered Re
main! of a Younir Woman No Clew
to ncr Identity Detective
Investigating the Matter.
New Yoke, March 10. A mysterious
murder was discovered by a feeble, tottering
woman of 70 years, in a grimy cellar at No.
3 Eldridge street this afternoon. The mur
dered one was young, good-looking and evi
dently a Hebrew. She was about 2o
vears of age. The body was covered
with bruises, the skull was fractured
and tho noso and jawbone broken. Shreds of
human skin were found hanging m light
threads from her finger nails, and wcro mute
evidences of an awful strugglo with the mur
derer in her fight to save her life. So far the
police have not the leaBt clew as to the identity
of the woman or who the murderer Is.
Old Blnmah Levy, mother of Moses Levy
who manufactures ladies' underwear on tne
floor above, where the corpse was found, was
the first to discover the body. In entering the
cellar to get a beer keg to preserve
pickles In tho old woman stumbled
over something which on examination
she found to ho the body of the woman. Mrs.
Levy told her son of her discovery. He went
to the police station and related what his
mother had told to him. Detectives went to
investigate. The house Is an old four-story
brick building, which had formerly been used
as a tenement. Tor the past year Levy used
the crouod floor as his place of business and
the floor above as the family's sleeping apart
ments. The police are of opinion that the murder
was not done in the cellar, but that the body
was moved there after the deed bad been com
mitted somewhere else. Isaac Goeb, the crazy
Hebrew, who recently shot and killed
Herman Rogozinski and shot hut did
not kill Mrs. Rocozinski, and, when
pursued, shot and killed himself,
was the janitor of the school about a month
ago. It was s-iid that he had a number of
wives. Tho police think now that the murdered
woman was one of Jacob's wlveJ, and that ho
killed her beforo his onslaught on the Bogo
zinskl family. That was three weeks ago and
tho body when found was in a good state of
preservation, but the cellar is a remarkably
cold one and w ould account for this.
A PECULIAE D1V0ECE DECREE.
It Was Issaed by n Rnhbi, and the Stnto is
Asked for Another.
rf PECIAL, TEXEQRAM TO THE DISPATCH 1
New York, March 10. Hyman Goldstein's
application for a divorce from his wife Dora
came up before Judge O'Gorman in the Su
perior Court to-day. They were married in
Saragogitsch, Russia, by a rabbi, and have
already been divorced by a rabbi. This trans
lation of the Hebrew decree given by the Rev.
S. M. Siskind, of 53 Eldridge street, was pro
duced: "Witness that Hyman, son of David, his born
name David Lelb, has caused his wife Debora,
her English name Dora, daughter of Selig, to
bo divorced by us, judges of the Mosaic law,
the same to have been legally written, signed
and granted in the city of New York, on tho
first oay of the week and 13th day of tho
month of Nissan, in the year 5,619 from the be
ginning ot the creation of the world, about the
I4th dav of April, JSS0. Now, according to tho
law of Moses, he may take for himself another
wife, provided that a divorce be granted from
the btate. Written and signed by me, Solo
mon Mordecai, son of Joseph Siskind, rabbi,
congregation MikroKodesh. Witness, Ellohu,
son ot Solomon: Isaac, son of Benjamin."
Mrs. Goldstein made no opposition to the
application and Mr. Goldstein is likely to get
his divorce from the State.
MURDERED FOE HIS HONEY.
Escnpo Through b Sewer of the Tbugs Who
Committed the Deed.
;KrECIALTELEGBAMTOTnSIISPATCH.l
Peoria, III., March 10. The body of Bern
bard Junghaus, awealthy horse importer, was
discovered floating in the river here late Sat
urday night. Tho head had been split open with
an ax. The murder was committed on Friday
by Link Hummel and Bill Luckey. two men
well known as desperate ruffians. Junghaus
was lured Into a house much frequented by
Luckev and Hummel on Friday night. He
had "been drinking all dav. Thurs
day he drew S2.000 from the bank and
started upon a spree with tho money in his
pocket. Friday he continued his debauch.
About 5 o'clock in the afternoon Luckey and
Hummel conducted the doomed man
to the houso already mentioned,
where they split open his head
with an ax. Under the building Is a large
sewer which connects with the river. Into
this sewer tho mutilated body was cast. It,
iioaieu .urougn tne vuuifc mm mo uvui, nuwo
it was picked up.
When the police raided tho houso to-night
Hummel and Luckey were positively known to
bo within, but when an entrance was effected
no trace of them could bo found. The sewer
is large enough to admit a rowboat and it is
supposed the men escaped through it by such
means. Jnnghans was about 53 years old. Ho
has a wife and son living in Germany.
AN INTERMEDIATE CQURT
To be Instituted to Relievo the Presiuro on
, the Snprcmo Court.
Washington, March 10: Tho Senate and
House Judiciary Committees have formulated
a measure for the relief of the Supreme Court.
It establishes an intermediate court and pro
vides for nine additional Circuit Judges at a
salary ot 9,000 each. The intermediato circuit
is to consist of one Justice and two Circuit
Judges in each circuit, and is to havo appellate
jurisdiction only; and is to consider all cases
Involving less than 10000. This, it is esti
mated, will relieve the Supreme Court of 50
per cent of the business.
The following allotment was made for the
various circuits: For the First circuit, Horace
Gray. Associate Justice; for the Second circuit,
Samuel Blatchford. Associate Justice; for tho
Third circuit, Josepn P. Bradley. Associate
Justice; for the Fourth circuit, Melville W.
Fuller, Chief Justice: for the Fifth circuit,
Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Associate Justice; for the
Sixth circuit, David J. Brewer, Associate Jus
tice; for be Seventh circuit, John M. Harlan.
AsApciate Justice; for the Eighth circuit. Sam
uel F. Miller. Associate Justice: for the Ninth
circuit, Stephen J. Field, Associate Justice.
JUMPED THE TRACK.
A Passenger Train Plows its War Nearly
Across the Bridge nt Malnard, O.
rsrECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Wheeling, March 10. The Cleveland,
Loralne and Wheeling passenger train jumped
tho track on a bridge at Malnard, 0 this
afternoon, and there was a narrow escape from
a terrible wreck. The engine left tho rails just
as the train entered the bridge, and plowed its
way nearly across, breaking ties, etc., and
drawing tho tender and baggage car, and pro
aucmg consternation among the passengers.
The Gran Opera Company was on the train,
and the frightened girls made things lively.
The train crew and many passengers jumped
from the cars, and one or two landed in the
creek, but were rescued. Tho road was blocked
for Ave hours.
THE BISMAECK L0TTEEY BILL.
It Mast be Reintroduced To-Day to Make
It Passible to Get It Through.
Bi8ifAECK,N.D, March la Interest in the
revival of the lottery scheme is general to-day.
If the session terminates on March 18 the bill
must be reintroduced to-morrow to make it
possible to get it through. Attorney General
Goodwin said he would render bis opinion to
day upon the duration of the session.
He can decide either way and be right, as far
as precedents are concerned. If he includes
the holiday recess in tho 120 days the session
terminates on the 18th and if be does not It
terminates on May 6. If he is satisfied the lot
tery bill is coming up he may decide that the
Legislature can remain in session in order to
beat the bill.
CLEVELAND THIEFES CAPTUEED.
Cranbery and Curling Arrested for Robbing
a Boarding House.
ISFECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DtSPATCn.l
Ecottdale, March 10. Two desperate day.
light robbers were arrested here to-day by Offi
cer Gay for robbing the Hunter boarding house
of $50 or $60 worth of goods. Their names are
Cranbery and Carling, and they ball from
Cleveland, O.
Since they followed no occupation and have
been here for two or three months past, tho
general impression Is that they made robbing a
business, and other charges will likely be made
against them, as it is believed tbey are impli
cated in the many large robberies that have
been committed In this vicinity. .
PITTSBURG, TUESDAY,
CHICAGO IN DANGEE
Of Losing the World's Fair if it Has to
bo Postponed Until 1893.
NEW T0KK STILL IN TUB RING.
Orange Growers Will Unite With Iron Men
for Protection.
DELAMATEE HELPS A FEIEND ALONG.
Captain Thompson Looking Alter tbo UcKeeiport
I'Datniastcrslilp.
Chicago's prospects for tho World' Fair
are just a little clouded. If tlio oxuonUion
has to be deferred until lM! New York will
be encouraged to try again for the prize.
Democratic orange growers want protection,
and are willing to concede soiiigthlng to
Pennsylvania iron mou if the latter will help
them.
rsrEciAt. TELEonAu to tiim niflFATnit.i
"Washington, March 10, Tlio Special
"World's Fair Committee hits at Inst com
pleted tho preparation of nlilll, nml it will
probably bo reported to the II on so to-morrow.
Its provisions seem to meet with much
satisfaction, butitisnotnt all certain that tho
bill will escape opposition, or that it ill not
be eventually amended or defeated. Mr.
Carlisle, Mr. Mills and other loading Demo
crats have announced their earnest objection
to an appropriation of $1,500,000 for a Gov
ernment exhibit, and there aro a, largo num
ber of members, particularly on the Demo
cratic side, who will join them in their op
position. There is another faction which will not
agree to the proposition that a fair shall be
held in 1893. Mr. Bcldcn, one of the New
York members of the special committee, is
out of the city, and he will probably not
return for a day or two. It is possible that
the bill will not be reported to the House
until after he returns, so that it can be first
submitted to the full committee.
new toek; still alive.
Before Mr. Bclden left "Washington he
stated repeatedly that as the House had
voted for a fair at Chicago in 1892, it was
not in the power of the committee to postpone
the event for a year. He was convinced that
New York lost many votes In contest for the
location because the fair was to be held in 1892,
the Presidental year, and that if it was pro
posed to be held a year later, the question of
selecting a sito must be fought all over again.
It Is not known whether Mr. Belden has re
ceded from this opinion or not,
Mr. Florence, the other New York member
of the committee, was not prepared to-day to
savn hat attitude the New York delegation
would asume with regard to the bilk Tbey
will probably put off deciding upon any courne
of action nntil Mr. Belden gets back. It has,
of course, been taken for granted all along
that the benate would acquiesce in tho action
of the House in choosing Chicago as the place
where the lair shall be held, and this assump
tion may or may not be correct.
KEOPENINO THE QUESTION.
Mr. Belden before ho left tho city had several
conversations with Senator Hiscock on the
subject, and it was hlntodatthe time that the1
Senate committee might possibly bring in a bill
with New York named as the site instead of
Chicago. Now that tho House committoe pro
poses to change the date to lb93, which they
would be compelled to do,as It would bo utterly
impossible for the citizens of Chicago to get
the big show ready Deforo that date, it may be
that Senator Hiscock would feel justified in
bringing the subject into tho Senate as an opeu
question, ignoring altogether the action of the
House. This he can easily do if he sees fit and
tbo situation would then become very much
mixed.
A species of vexation has set in among the
Congressmen, and tha great enthusiasm over
tho subject of the fair, which was so apparent
at the tune the contest over the selection of a
site was in progress, has died away In a very
large measure. Senators and Representatives
both seem to have lost interest in the subject,
and it will be much harder now to get the bill
passed than it would have been when the ex
citement caused by the rivalry of the four com
peting cities was alive and active.
EEFOKM IN PENITEJJTIAEIES.
Warden Wright and Others Interesting
Themsclvei In the bubject.
1FBOM A STAFF COKKESPONDEXT.J
Washington. March 10. Mr. E. S. Wright,
Superintendent of tho Allegheny Penitentiary,
was in the city to-day, accompanied by Major
R. W. McClaughry, Superintendent of tho
Pennsylvania Reformatory at Reading, and
Captain Joseph Nicholson, Superintendent of
tho Detroit House of Correction. They came
hero as a committee from tho National Prison
Association, for tho purpose of assisting in for
warding legislation proposed by the associa
tion. One of the bills suggested at the recent
annual convention of the association was to
provide certain prisons for convicts, and tho
committee was surprised when it reached here
to-day to discover that this measure had al
ready passed tho House, and was making fair
progress in the hands of the Senate Judiciary
Committee.
Satisfied that tbey were too late to bo of any
service with regard to that, the committeo
turned its attention to the other matters
specially recommended by tho association it
represents. One of these was the sending of
two representatives from this country to an
International Prison Reform Convention soon
to be held in St. Petersburg, and Mr. Wright
and his companions went to the State Depart
ment to interest Secretary Blaine in this
matter. Tbey propose to come down here
again beforo long to finish up their work.
It transpires locally that Warden Wright
was specially summoned to Washington to
place the Ways and Means Committee in pos
session of exhaustive information in regard to
tho Bertillion System of criminal registration,
a State law in Pennsylvania. It is based upon
the metrical sj stem, and is such a completo
preventive to the sinking or disguising of
identity as to be practically perfect. Complete
descriptions are interchanged with all peniten
taries. It is proposed to make it a national
law and apply it likewise to matters of extradi
tion. OLD BILLS TO BE PAID.
Tho Border Raids Bill at Last Reported
Fnvorubly to tho Home.
IFEOM A STAFF CORUESPONDENT.
Washington, March 10. The border raids
bill was to-day favorably reported to the Houso
by the War Claims Committee. The whole
morning's session of tho committee was given
up to the consideration of the bill, and al
though there was some opposition developed
on account of the fear that the Davment
of tho claims involved in this case would open
up uu cuuiiuuua uuiuuci ul Biiuuar unes, mo
voto at the close was 6 to 4 in favor of a favora
ble report The four members voting against
the bill were Messrs. Thomas, Gest, Simonds
and Dolliver. Messrs. Grosvenor, Browcr and
Enloe were not present.
Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, by the way, although
a member of the committee, never attends us
sessions, because he was disappointed In the
committee not accepting his recommendation
in the appointment of a clerk.
WATCHING HIS CHANCES.
Captain Thompson Looking After Ills Can
dldncy for the Poilmaaterahlp.
TR01I A STAFF COBRESPONDEHT.l
Washington, March 10, Captain Thomp
son. of McKeesport. is still here awaiting the
finishing touch to be put upon hia candidacy
for the postmastershlp. Mr. Wanamaker de
lays doing this in the hope that Congressman
Ray will accept the situation and recommend
another person for the place. Mr. Ray still ad
heres to his declaration that he will make no
other recommendation, and so the matter
stands.
Messrs. Carrothers and btone arrived here
this evening to bco if ?mcthlng can't bo dune
in the interests of the latter, and other McKees
porters are expected by a later train. It looks
as though there would be another long fight
with tha presont Democratic Incumbent tbo
only fellow to get any tun out of it
MARCH 11, 1890.
A NOVEL COMBINE;
Democratic Orange-Growers From Florida
Want a High TarlfT and Aro Willing to
Meet Republican Iron Blnnnfnc-
tnrcra on Thnt Ground.
rrr.osi a staff correspondent.!
"Washington, March 10. A somewhat
extraordinary delegation of citizens of
.Florida arrived in the city this morning.
3?hey are Lieutenant Governor Mabry, Hon.
John A. Hartridge, President of the Jack
sonville Board of Trade; George "W. "Wilson,
President of tho Sub-Trooical Exhibition; R.
F. Rogers, representing the farmers; J. C. Mc
Klbbin, representing tho farmers and fruit
growers, and Captain John H. Welsh, repre
senting one of tho finest orange-growing dis
tricts of Florida, in Welshton and vicinity,
where the Captain controls about 40 orange
groves. All of these gentlemen are Democrats,
with the exception of Welsh and McKibbin,
who are Republicans. Captain Welsh being
Chairman of tho Republican Executive Com
mittee of his county of Marion, and one of the
flighting Republicans of tho State.
The delegation was appointed at a great mass
mooting, held a few days ago at Jacksonville,
to come on to Washington and urge the Com
mittee on Ways and Means to put a high pro
tective tariff on foreijrn oranges. The Demo
cratic members of the delegation aro not selfish
in their views. To get a high tariff on oranges
thoy aro willing to concede tho justice of Penn
Kylvania asking for a high tariff on iron and
steel manufactures, ami that every interest
which would be jeopardized by free" competi
tion with the cheap labor and material of other
countries should bo protected. Just whether
they would be willing to voto tho Republican
ticket to secure this the Democratic delegates
aro not willing to say, but thay seem to be proud
of tho appellation "Protection Democrats."
Captain Welsh is an old citizen of Erie. At
the outbreak of the war be shipped as a com
mon seaman when a mero boy, and within a
fow years, at the age of 23. v, as put in command
of a vessel by Admiral Porter, in which com
mand he distinguished himself, as he is now
dUtingulsbin himself, in showing the Flori
dians how Northern brains and pluck could
doiclop the Darren soil of their State.
LlGUTHEIi.
DELAMATER IS HAPPI.
His Prospects Aro Rosy and He Has Time
to Help n Friend.
rFROM A 8TAFT CORRESPOKDEXT.l
Washington, March 10, Senator George
W, Delamater, of Pennsylvania, dropped down
upon tho Capitol from Philadelphia to-day,
happy and confident in the rosy prospects for
his nomination for Governor, but not at all in
tho interests of that candidacy. Tho principal
object of his visit was to pat Colonel John B.
Com o ton. of Meadvllle. fairly on the
way to secure the Judgeship of
tne Territory ot uxianoma. ine
fact that the territory is not organized, that no
bill for its organization has passed either House
or Senate, does not deter Colonel Compton
from taking off his coat and rolling up his
sleeves to get the place. He and the Senator
.called on a number of Representatives to urtro
'on them the importance of passing the Okla
boma bill. The Senator called to see Senator
Cameron, but found that statesman out of
town.
A Public Building for Bradford.
FROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
Washington, March 10. Congressman
Watson to day Introduced a bill appropriating
00,000 for a public building at Bradford.
TRAIN SERVICE SUSPENDED.
AH Train Men on the Chicago and North
western Oat on Strike.
Milwaukee, March 10 All the switchmen
employed here by tho Chicago and Northwest
ern Railroad, numbering about GO, struck to
day in sympathy with and to support the
switchmen who struck in Chicago. Master
Workman Ford, of the Milwaukee Brother
hood, was notified of tho demands of the Chi
cago men and asked to called out bis men,
which he did at once. The men stopped work
even before they knew what the trouble was
about. Trains wero greatly delayed and there
wasablnckado here.
The engineers who were asked to help get
trains out refused. The striking switchmen
hung around the yards, but made no demon
stration further than to encourage tbo engi
neers in their refusal to move trains. Freight
traffic is practically at a standstill.
BLOWN FORTY FEET.
Three or Fonr Men Burned and Injured by a
Gns Explosion.
Matjion, Ind Mardi 10. ThoKiley gas well
on the hill west of this city has got beyond con
trol. In drilling tho well a great flow of water
was encountered JOO feet down, which was
cased off. An unusual flow of gas was devel
oped at 900 feet, the force of which lifted out
the casing and lot In the water.
This was in a fair way to bo overcome, but
this morning George Jackson went into
the derrick, which was filled with gas,
and struck a match to light bis
pipe. An explosion followed and Jackson
and the well contractors were blown 40 feet
and all more or less seriously burned and in
jured. The derrick was destroyed, and there
is now risinir from the pipe a volnme of fire
and water which defied all efforts to control it
COTTON WEAVERS STRIKE.
Factories Shut Up on Account of Virginia's
10-Hour Iaw.
rSFECIAZ. TELEOHAM TO THE DtSFATOrr.1
Petersburg, Va, March, 10. To-day 300
operatives, employed in the Ettnck $. Bat
tersea cotton factories, refused to work longer
on account of the 10-hour system, which went
into effect in Virginia to-day, and the reduction
of ten per cent of their wages. The strike be
gun with the day hands and in consequence
both factories had to close. It is believed that
the hands in all the cotton factories in and near
Petersburg will strike on account of this new
system, and the consequent reductions, tbo per
cent on their wages. Tho clothes mado at
theso factories are shipped to Baltimore New
York and other northern cities.
150 LIVES LOST
By a Terrible Explosion In the Marsa Col
liery, Glnmorgnnsblre.
London, March 10. A fearful explosion oc
curred to day in the Morsa colliery, in Glamor
ganshire, Wales. Three hundred miners were
entombed, but many were rescued from tho
workings nearest the main shaft, but several
had received fatal injuries. Eight bodies,
shockingly mutilated, have been recovered.
Tho latest estimate is tha: 150 lives havo been
lost
Great excitement was caused at the pit by a
rumor that appeals for help could be beard from
the entombed men. The rescuers are constantly
succumbing to the effects of the gis and aro
obliged to make a speedy retreat Heavy falls
of rock prevent the explorers from reaching
the more remote workings.
HE FELL FROM GRACE.
Death of Rev. Gcorso Spencer While Under
tho Influence of Liquor.
Chicago, March 10. Rev. George Spencer,
of Boggstown, Ind., a Presbyterian minister,
arrived hero with S30U to buy Sunday school
books for his church on February 20. He was
under the influence of liquor and continued in
that state till February 27, when he died in the
Washinctonian Home. It appears that he had
family troubles; that he was formerly a lawyer
at Attica, N. Y.; that be bore also tbs names of
Fletcher Lawrenco and Albert Sponcei; that
ho has a daughter Alice, 18 years of age, now
living in Buffalo, N. Y., a 9-year-old son at No.
110 East Third street, Cincinnati, and a 12-year-old
son at Lawrencebnrg, Ind.
A DUTY ON COFFEE.
Representative O'Donnell Introduces a Re
taliatory Measure In Conerrsj.
Washington, March 10. Representative
O'Donnell. of Michigan, introduced a bill in
the House to-day providing for the collection
of a duty on coffee equivalent to tho export
duty leved by certain countries.
Coffee coming from those countries not ex
acting export duties shall be admitted free of
duty, and when the nations now collecting
duties on coffee exported to the United States
shall abolish the same, no duty shall be col
lected at any American port.
SIdcb Interest Over a Lecture.
Toronto, March 10. Much interest has been
aroused by the announcement that Hon. C. R.
Pope, U. H. Consul at this place, has consented
to deliver an illustrated lecture on Thursday
next on "Shakespeare. Beach, Donnelly, or
Genius and Philosophy."
DEATH'S ICI TOUCH.
Diphtheria's Ravages in the Ranks of
Zanesville's Children.
A WHOLE FAMILY ANNIHILATED.
Tracing the Origin of the Infection to the
Interment of
A CORPSE SHIPPED FROM CHICAGO.
Iitsg List of the Deal and Dying Victims of the Dread
Diseiic
Diphtheria of a malignant form is raging
in Zanesville, and has carried off many vic
tims, while the infection is spreading. The
origin of the epidemic has been traced to
the corpse of a little cirl who died in Chi
cago of a malignant form of diphtheria,
which was shipped to Zanesville.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISFATCn.1
Zanesville, March 10. Death is stalk
ing about among the little ones here. Its
icy tonch has already been felt in a number
of well-known families. In almost every
instance the silent messenger has not
stopped in his work nntil brother
and sister were added to his long
roll of victims. In one instance in
particular, death not only carried away
four interesting children in one family
but before leaving that household in his ter
rible work a father and a mother gave up
their lives. Now an aged grandfather lies
a helpless victim, awaiting his turn to be
called to join them, and a little grandchild
in an adjoining honse pleads ior the parents
who have gone on before.
Diphtheria seems to Inrk in the air. One
breathes it, at least, in a portion of this
very interesting city. That dread disease it
is that is creating the sad havoc in the
ranks of the children. It has become quite
epidemic Forty-five cases are reported to
the Board of Health, and of that number 1G
have died.
HO-W THE DISEASE CAME IN.
"With the exception of three cases, all
those who have died are resident of what
was UDtil recently known as the village of
Putnam, but which section now forms the
Ninth ward of Zanesville. The disease stole in
here in the corpse of a pretty 13-year-old
girl, which was shipped from Chicago
for interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
There was nothing about it to tell
of the dangerous and contagious complaint
that had carried away the child. The remains
were taken to the bomeof relatives and friends
crowded about the little coffin and whispered
words of smypatby to the bereaved parents.
The remains were uncovered to the gaze of the
friends and that act was the death warrant of
many another.
Tbjere is considerable mystery surrounding
tho shipment of the body. It has caused an
investigation by the members of the Board of
Health, which, before it is through with, may
bring down trouble, not only to the Health
Commission of Cbicaco, but also render mat
ters very uncomfortable for one of that city's
physicians.
THE SPREAD OF THE INFECTION.
The introduction of the disease in its dread
ful form dates back to the night of Sunday,
Decembers. On that night about 10 o'clock
Undertaker George W. Brenholtz removed the
body of Ethel C. Tuttle from the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad station to the homo of
Thomas Gibbons, a traveling salesman,
who lives with his family on Putnam
avenue. In tho Ninth ward. Ethel
was the eldest dauchter of Harry
Tuttle. a brother-in-law of Mr. Gibbons. Her
father is also a traveling man, having been for
a number of years connected with a firm of
this city. He removed with his family to Chi
cago, however, and it was there Ethel died.
The undertaker gave the body bnt
little attention, other than tn see
it carefully removed to the Gibbons
home, from where the funeral was to take
place. The next dav at noon the undertaker
met Health Officer H. T. Sutton and turned
oTer to him tho permits that accompanied tho
remains, also tho doctor's certificate as to the
cause of death. These papers were badly
soiled.
Dr. Button was on his way to his office at the
time, and without cxamlumtr the papers placed
them In bis inside coat pocket Brenholtz,
who lives just opposite the office of the health
officer, in parting informed the physician that
hen ould call at 9 o'clock that evening for tho
burial permit. When he called at that hour
the napers ho had turned over to Dr. Sutton
had been mislaid.
A LONG LIST OF VICTIMS.
They could not be found, and nothing was left
to tell the real cause of death even had the per
mit of the Chicago Health Commissioner stated
just what had caused the taking away of the
child. It was afterward learned that Ethel's
death was due to diphtheria of the
most) malignant form. Friends crowded
the home whero the remains rested
all day Monday and Monday night.
Since then diphtheria has appeared in the
family of almost every person who presented
themselves there, and has spread out to fami
lies ivho were not present, but who afterward
came in contact with those who carried away
the disease. At least 49 people havo been
down with the dreaded disease.
The death roll is one made np almost entirely
of children, and is as follows: Russell Tuttle, 2
years old; Alice Tuttle. 10 years old; May Par
sons, 6 years old; Ray Hollsman, 11 years old;
Ethel Prentice. Byears old; Lizzie Vogel, 4 years
Old; Lillian Barr, 1 year old; James Prentice,
(father of Ethel). 45 years old: Louise Moore, 1
year old; Katie Forrester, 11 years old; Clyde
McGregor, 7 years old; Lydia McGregor, 6 years
old; Marv McGregor. 0 years old; Lizzie Mc
Gregor, 34 years old; Hon. JohnC. McGregor,
45 years old; Mrs. J. C. McGregor, 38 years old.
SAD CASES NUMEEOUS.
There is a touching story connected with the
death of each ono in this list But two days
after little Ethel had passed away then the
sister next in age. Alice was taken ill. ;Then
tho dead girl's 2-year-old brother, Russell
became afflicted. He died 12 days after
Ethel was laid to rest at Woodlawn, and
Alice followed him on the thirteenth day
Two children of the Gibbons family were at
death's door for quite a while, but are now in
a fair way to recover. The sister of Mrs. Tuttle.
Mrs. Parsons, lost her 6-year-old child. May. It
had been playing with the children
at the Gibbons home. Suddenly symp
toms of diphtheria developed and
May lingered only a day after Alice Tuttle.
A few days later 11-year old Roy Hollsman, tho
chUd brother of Mrs. Tuttle, too, died. He,
like the Parsons' child, had been playing with
the Tnttle children and fell a victim. A
brother also became ill. but his life was saved.
The disease was carried In every direction.
Mr. and Mrs. Barr. of Columbus, came here to
visit friends, who live in the Ninth ward.
With them as their 1-year-old babe. The in
fant contracted the disease and in ten days was
laid to rest In Woodlawn Cemetery, a mile
away from the scene of all this illness. Ethel
Prentice, the C-year-old daughter of James
Prentice, contracted the disease. She died,
and hor father, who nursed her in illness, took
to his bed and five days later w as himself a
corpse.
ALMOST A -WHOLE FAMILY TAKEN.
The saddest of all this extremely sad affair is
the wiping out of the creator part of the Mc
Gregor family. The McGregors reside but a
couplo of squares away from the Gibbons
home. Four children became ill about the
same time. Clyde and Lydia died on
tho same day. Mary followed in
three days, and two days later the
foul of Lizzie took flight The mother, broken
hearted, also became ill with diphtheria. Five
days after the remains of her daughter Lizzie
wor. Inr.prmrt at Wnnrflawm tho mnthcr wfia
"laid in the vanlt alongside her child.
Tho husband, tho Hon. John C. McGregor was
Reading Clerk of the House of Representatives,
well known throughout the State, and repre
sented bis county in the Legislature atone
tlmo with distinction to himself and his con
stituents. He hastened homo to sharo with bis
wife the burden Of carlmr for the sick
little ones. It was only to see her also
pass away. Then he wasstncken.hissplritwas
broken. Last Friday he too passed awav. On
the day succeeding the death of his wife he
announced to his friends that he could not livo
beyond the day that proved his last Now his
aged father is expected to breathe his last from
S
the same disease at any moment, and a V,.
son is rapidly sinking. 0-,
OTHEE SOBEOWFUIi HOUSEHOLDS.
Forrester,
V Si
f ourteen-year-old luttio orreaic.
adopted dauchter of a family named Cappis,
"rf" .
wuo live but a short aistanco num. mo ---Grecors.
on Putnam avenue, was stricken the
same day as that upon which the McGregor
rhild.onh.ii,ma 111 rA ttliP toft died. ThO
S-raonths-old infant of tho Tattles also took
diphtheria, but has recovered sufficiently to
he removed to the home ot her heart broken
parents in Chicago.
There is no question among the authorities
and those in position to know as to the origin
ot all those deaths. Dr. Sutton, who is one of
the brightest and ablest physicians in this sec
tion does nnt hesi'ate in accrediting all to the
bringing to Zanesville ot the remains of Ethel
Tuttle and the exposing of them to view.
A TENEMENTJEOUSE FIRE.
A Ludlow Street Building, Containing 30
Families, In Flames The People
Greatly Excited, bat Forta.
nntely No One Is Inlared
Lass Will bo Small.
New Yobk, March 10. The cry of fire
awoke Ludlow street once more in the night.
It came from 137, a hnman bee hive six
stories high, which sheltered 30 families in
its front and rear building. Less than two
years ago the bnilding was ravaged, and a
number of people burned, though none was
killed. It has since been provided with
every means of escape for its teeming
popnlation. The horde of tenants,
chiefly Hebrews, were fast asleep when
Policeman Baker found J. Salzer's fisbstore in
the basement on fire. In no time at all it
spread to Harris Bleak's notion store and Ellas
Weinstein's grocery store on the ground floor.
Halls and stairways filled quickly with smoke
and the tenants were forced to take to the firo
escapes. The iron ladders became choked at
once. The fWmetenints were driven back to
the rear, only to find the firo roaring up there
as through a real chimney, making descent im
possible, a. Hirscherchon threw his baby from
the second floor fire escape into the arms of a
fireman, who caught It flying, and then he
lowered bis wife and three older children to
the street with a rope.
The 50 .tenants rushed to the roof, and wero
joined there by a crowd from the front houso
coming over the iron bridges. They were safe
for tho moment, but the flames roared up the
fire escape. Strong along tho coping in an
agitated, despairing line, men and women
shouted for help. The most desperate climbed
over the edge of the roof, and mado ready to
jump. The roof of 1S9 was the fall height of a
three story house below. TJndertakerHoellerer,
running on his own roof with his men, shouted
to the imperilled tenants not to jump. Ho
shouted until be could shout no more. The
firemen were coming and getting ready their
ladders. By the time they had raised one long
enough from the undertaker's roof to reach
the top of the burning front tenement the
iron bridge that spanned the yard groaned un
der the sudden rush of many feet across it
But it held, and the firemen brought the ten
ants down safe.
A single family had been left A. Goldstein,
his wife Rosa and three children were the last
to qnlt their room on the second floor of the
front building. The stairs were impassable,
and. carrying their children, the father and
mother groped their way to the rear fire escape.
They reached it only to find descent impossible.
Blinded and smothered tbey drooped on the
balcony. Their cries were heard below, and
firemen groped their way through tne dark
ness, following the sound. They reached the
Eerishinc family just in time. Tho children
ad scarcely a stitch of clothing on them. They
were more than half smothered, bnt recovered
with their parents when taken into the street
Tbe whole damage by the fire when it was out
was scarcely 32,000. No one knowsbowitbroko
out
ADRIFT IN AJf ICE PACK.
Tho Terrlblo Experience of the Crow of a
Nova fecotln Bark.
I8PEC1AL TELEORAM TO THE DISPATCItt
New Yoke, March 10. Forty hours'
imprisonment m an ico pack off the
banks came pretty near wreck
ing the Nova Scotian bark Scotland, which got
in to-day from Antwerp. She ran Into the ice
in a dense fog on February 27, just atter losing
her spanking boom, gaff, wheel and binnacle in
a gale that sent a succession of big seas across
her decks. Tbe Ice, hurled agaiost her by a
freezing norther, dented and scarred her bows
and sides. She struggled 12 hours to get clear,
and then took in all but a few bead sails, hove
to and trusted to luck.
After 30 hours' drifting she struck into a
clear lane, passing close to a fleet of icebergs,
ana got into navigable water. Seaman Frank
Scbeke, aged 31, whilo at work on tbe main top
gallant yard, on March 3, fell to the deck and
was killed.
STATE G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT.
General Alger Gives a Public Reception at
the Stato House.
Indianapolis. March 10. The Stato G. A.
R. encampment began to-day. Already several
hundred veterans have arrived, and this after
noon and evening many of the minor
organizations of veterans have been held.
General Alger arrived this morning
and was given a cordial recep
tion. He was entertained at dinner by the
Hon. C. W. Fairbanks. This evening be gave
a public reception at tbe State House. He de
clined to speak, reserving himself for tho
camp fire to-morrow evening. The Service
Pension Association adopted a series of
resolutions, among them the following: "Re
solved, That we claim for the Union soldiers
the right of a service pension, which has been
given to the soldiers of tbe Revolution, the
War of 1812 and the Mexican War."
A LYNCHING PARTY REPULSED.
Tho Mayor nnd Pollco Prevent a Blob From
8ecarlnir a Prisoner.
Columbia, B.C., March 10. A mob of several
hundred men procured a small cannon and rode
into tbe town of Spartansburg to-day, tor the
avowed purpose of attacking tbe jail, and tak
ing therefrom and lynching. George Stemer,
who shot and killed his brother-in-law, Edward
Finger, on Friday. When the mob arrived in
the public square. Mayor Henneman, at the
head of the police force, and with pistol in
hand, repulsed them, spiked the cannon, and
locked It up.
After making further hostile demonstration
and threats of returning later tbe would-bo
lynchers finally dispersed, but further trouble
is feared.
FIRE IN CINCINNATI.
Stern t Meyer's Clothlos House at Third
nnd Tine streets Doomed.
Cincinnati, March 11. A few minutes be
fore 1 o'clock this morning flames burst as if
by an explosion from all the upper
stories of Stern & Meyers' cloth
ing house, at the northeast corner of Third and
Vine streets. Before the engines could get
there the flames were through the roof, and at
present writing the building is doomed. Not a
shred of the stock can be saved.
The loss will be !30O 000 at least It is prob
ably well Insured. The building Is of stone,
six stories high and is one of the most beauti
ful in the city.
YALUABLE RELIC FOR SMALL SUM.
The Martha Wnslilnaion Residence at Fred
ericksbnre Offered for Sale.
New York, March 10 Mayor Grant is in
receipt of a letter from a firm of real estate
dealers at Washington saying tbat the resi
dence of Martha Washington in Fredericks
burg, Va., where George Washington spent
tbe early part of his life, is for sale. The price
asked Is $10,000. Tbe letter states tnat New
York or Chicago would secure a valuable relic
for a small um. Tbe writer prefers that New
York should secure the relic.
Treasurer O'Reilly's Report Delayed.
Detroit. Mien., March 10. The financial
statement of Rev. Charles O'Reilly. Treasurer
of the Irish National League, which was to
have been ready to mail on next Wednesday,
will be delayed about two weeks longer owing
to the fire of last evening.
Btate Encampment G. A. R
Qutnct, III.. March la Tha 8tate En
campment G. A. R. will meet In this city to
morrow. Among the distinguished visitors ex
pected are Governor Fifer, General Alger,
General Post and General Gerst Six thou
sand delegates and visitors are expected.
Taalbee's Condition Critical.
Washington, March lo. Mr. Taulbeo has
been delirious aU day, and at midnight his
Physicians stated that he is beyond all hope of
recovery, and can hardly survive 24 hours.
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GLA rIE'S MOTION DEFEATED.
The Czar and His Court Afraid of a Nihil
istic Insurrection.
TERRIBLE EPIDEMIC IN SLAY0NIA.
A Church of England Dignitary Sentenced to Prison
far .Bobbery.
The debate on the Parnell Commission re
port does not lose any of its acridity. Mr.
Gladstone's amendment to the Government
resolution to adopt tho report was defeated,
but the debate on Mr. Jennings' amend
ment, which is the same general tenor as
3Ir. Gladstone's, will commence to-morrow.
The Czar is still feeling nnxions abont his
personal safety.
London, March 10. Mr. Sexton in re
suming the debate on the Parnell Commis
sion report in the Honse of Commons to
day, protested against the placing on the
records of the House the judges distorted
and perverted views oi the evidence sub
mitted to them. The Conservatives, he
said, were bound to accept Mr. Gladstone's
amendment as an act of moral restitution.
In the course of his speech he said he had
a letter marked "Private," addressed to
Pigott, insinuating that Lord Salisbury was
connected with the forgeries. He said that
he was ready to snbmit the letter and others
with it to a committee of inquiry.
NOTHINQ TO APOLOGIZE FOK.
Mr. Balfour, continning, denied that the
Government assisted the Times to procure
evidence in America. He accused the Par
nellites of withholding from the Commission
every source of authentic evidence. The Gov
ernment made no charges against the Parnell
ites, and be failed to see wby the Government
ought to apologize. Mr. Parnell had obtained
damages, but had asked no apology from the
Times. He (Ballour) would be the last
to attempt to palliate the means
employed to injure Mr. Parnell.
They naturally reacted in his
favor. But Mr. Parnell himself was largely re
sponsible for their effect, because had tho Par
nelhtes adequately denonnced tbe Phoenix
Park murders, nobody would have discredited
the leaders. He denied that any Unionist
member of position bad used the
forged letters to make political capital.
Tne Times had been guilty of culpable credulity,
but the Farnellites were not less guilty in allow
ing suspicious circumstances to point to their
sympathy with rather than to the abhorrence
of crime. While the Parnellites failed to show
a single instance of their offering a reward for
the detection of crime, they accepted dona
tions from tne Clan-na-Gael and tnned their
speeches to conciliate that organization,
A GENERAL ATTACK.
The leaders of a party that did such things
1 ncurred personal d sbonor. He concluded with
a general attack upon the Parnellites.
Sir William Vernon-Harcourt maintained
that the forged letters helped the Government
to pass the crimes act Tho country, perhaps,
had become weaned of tbe debate, but that
was because it regarded tbe Government's
action against the acquitted men as vindi
tive and ungenerous. Coming to tbe Carnarvon
negotiations. Mr. Balfonr interposed to the ef
fect tbat Lord Salisbury had told Lord Car
narvon that he might see Mr. Parnell, but that
he must say nothing. Laughterj.
Sir William, continuing, asked whether Lord
Hartington, ir Henry James or Mr. Goschen
had apologized for their strictures on those ne
gotiations. After denying the authority of the
Judges nn political questions, he asked
what the Government hoped to reap from
this shabby persecution, which would neither
injure the Parnejlite policy nor assist tho
Government Ho proposed a remedial policy.
Instead of a policy of irritation the Govern
ment should pursue a policy of peace and
generality.
Mr. Gladstone's amendment was finally re
jected by a vote of 330 to 263.
Mr. Jennings' amendment will be taken up
to-morrow.
THE CZAR'S LIFE THREATENED
A Nihilist Outbreak Feared and Fortifica
tions Belnc 6trengt!icned.
BT DCNLAP'S CABLE COMPANY.
St. Petersburg, March 10. During the
past few days the Czar has received many
dozens of letters, all of which have come from
women. These communications contain threats
of death for flogging exiles in Siberia. Most
stringent precautions are being taken at court,
as it is believed that a renewal of the Nihilist
outbreak Is iminent Government has re
solved to build the strongest war port in Russia
at Lebau. This will take four years and cost
13,000,000 roubles.
Lebau 13 situated ten miles inland from the
Baltic, and is connected therewith by a channel
which permits the passage of the largest war
Bhips.
A MYSTERIOUS MALADY
Which Seizes the Victims In Their Sleep and
Resales In Immedlnie Decomposition.
lllY DtTJLAr'S CABLE COMPANY.!
Dresden. March 10. A new and startling
epidemic has appeared at Eszeck, Slavonla.
and Freyburg, near this city. It Is greatly puz
zling all tho physicians, as three deaths havo
taken place in two days at Eszeck and two at
Freyburg. No warning symptoms of the dis
ease appear, ana thoso who have been attacked
retire to bed in good spirits and sleep in some
cases 20 to 13 hours. All efforts to awaken the
patients were unavailing, and their bodies ap
peared to have decomposed during sleep.
ftr-eat f Aim arn entertained that tha ynalnrlv
I s contagious, as in many cases several mem
bers in tho same family have been victims of
S his mysterious malady.
A JEALOUS DIPLOMAT
Iasenlonsly Insures the Separation of Hia
Wife From a Too Friendly Ambassador.
BT DUNLAP'S CABLE COMPANY.
London. March 10. The Russian Ambassa
dor in London, Do Staal, has been summoned
to St Petersburg and will probably not return.
He is blamed by tbe Czar for his constant
visits to Mme. Novikoff, at Clandge's Hotel,
and for exerting himself on behalf of the ex
Nihilist Leon Schlmllkoff, her protege.
It is true the Czar pardoned Scbimllkoff. but
M. Novikoff is annoyed by his wife's interest,
ing herself in bis fate, and fearing publicity,
vent his rage on De Staal, so he has informed
Prime Minister Giers tbat De Staal is lax in
watching tbe Nihilists, and is resolved to keep
his too clever wife in Bt Petersburg hence
forth. A CLERICAL SCANDAL.
Canon Baynes Goes to Prison for Stealing
Trunk.
London, March 10. A clerical scandal at
Bristol has caused much comment Canon
Baynes was arrested at that place on the
charge of stealing a trunk from tbe platform
ot the railway station. When arraigned ho
admitted the truth of the charge against him.
but urged mental weakness as tho reason for
his act. "
He was found guUty and sentenced to four
months' imprisonment at hard labor.
FAILED TO PUT UP THE CASH.
The Tlchborne Claimant's Nomination for
Parliament Is Canceled.
London, March 10. Under the name and
title of Roger Doughty Tichborne, Baronet,
Arthur Ortou, tho Tlchborne claimant, was
nominated as the home rule candidate for
Stoke-on-Trent, to fill tbe vacancy tn the House
of Commons made vacant by the resignation of
William Leatham Bright, Home Ruler.
He failed, however, to deposit his share of
tbe election expenses and the nomination was.
therefore, canceled.
minister Lincoln Will Not Reslsn.
(BY DUNLAP'S CABLE COMPANY.
London. March la-Minister Lincoln said
to-day that he had a great many things in con
templation, but the last thins to enter hia
mind was his resignation.