, Ullllll IH WWwOWLiln,, .ithifUi&AJilBMI MHSHEr' ?vT.. " 'sB X I STBICTLY BUSINESS. O'l CIAHF.w9fcA5 sVfrfrlf PUSH AND PROGRESS j 1 THE DISPATCH always aims to advance the mtercstsof Pittsburg and contiguous territory. It spares neither expense nor enterprise in thts direction. M ! srl W iM " Dm ! sU BM H W ! vsm FJI sn HkB .XA sm SB ssl BV J "e mono oj jjir, iiariijtn. a b I fl 1 I WV I I 1 I 1 I R 9 I H 7n I H I I While it furnishes all the news, it also I Ism. W VI II,' -JR kkP MLA., M., 2LM M H Ml M.H. Mi Ja t s MfoJP JeWP Vksk'J'nsV. JK H .A I diocae measures which will re- S Bv vBlv VT'V V vVt T P' fr rWr "' Jf I dound to the benefit 0 Pittsburg. 9 FORTT-3TEFTH HUH H H sks'iS:! srHasl-&s.-4S33 . - -- X: mllj un iiuihj a Now Sweeping Down on Pitts: burg and the Coal Mines in This Vicinity. OVER SIX HUNDREDSTRONG They Slip Through Castle Garden and Will he Here To-Day. K0THING CA1T ST0PTHE1T. All La-wful Questions Were An swered, but the Superintend ent Has 2o Doubt THEY CAME UNDER A CONTRACT. Quite a Xnmber of Them Have Their Wives and Families, and Hare Evident ly Come to Stay. HANI MOKE AEE EXPECTED TO FOLLOW A p"ty of COO Hungarians, bound for Pittsburg, arrived at Castle Garden yester day. They were questioned closely, but were prepared with answers. This being the case, there was nothing to do but let them pass. Superintendent Simpson be lieves, however, that they came under an implied contract. They are miners, and expect to get work in this region. It is be lieved that this will be a big year for im, xnigrants of this class. rrrxciAi. telegilam to mi DisPATcn.i Kew Yokk, Maich 11. Among the 927 imm'grants who landed at Castle Garden to day from the North German Lloyd steam ship Eider were at least 600 swarthy, lusty limbed Hungarians, whose destination, ac cording to their own testimony, and, what is more conclusive, their railroad tickets, is the Pennsylvania coal mines in the neigh borhood of Pittsburg. The Government inspectors were unable to find out whether any of the Hungarian horde came here under contract, although there is little doubt in the minds of those who are familiar with the landing of immigrants that such is the fact. An Anawcr for All Queatlom. The registry clerks at Castle Garden asked the usual questions of the Hungarians as they filed through the narrow wooden-fenced passages into the wide inclosure reserved for immigrants who are allowed to land. Every man ot them declared that he was a laborer or a miner; that he had money, and that he expected to find work in Pennsylvania. The Federal Labor Inspectors questioned a dozen or more of the Hungarians through an interpreter, and got no information from them that would warrant their detention as contract laborers. Like all of their class who arrive here, they evinced s wariness in answering questions that plainly indicated that they bad received instructions as to what they ought and ought not to say. Tlie Superintendent's Opinion. Superintendent Simpson looked at the im migrants as they elbowed and shoved each other on the way to the floats which took them to the Pennsylvania Itailroad station in Jersey City, and remarked: "There goes a gang to take the bread out of the mouths of the miners of Pennsylvania. "We could not detain them, because we found it im possible to get anything from them showing that they had even verbally agreed to work for anybody over here. They are able-bodied nnd have a few dollars, and-that is about all that is required of an immigrant by the law. Some of them have relatives and friends em ployed in the coal regions, and it may be that thev were persuaded to come here by them. But I doubt it. They look to me as if they had been gathered together byagents on the other side and sent here for a pur pose. A Lack or roiUivo Evidence. The Emigration Commissioners told The DisrATCH correspondent that they had no legal right to stop the Hungarians, as they bad not a scintilla of evidence that they were under contract. Every man denied that this was the case, and none bad in his possession any document to show it They might have been detained for a day or so pending investigation, but their release would follow inevitably. This plan of tem porary detention has been tried before, and has resulted always in the liberation of the suspected immigrants. Some of the Hungarians are accompanied by their wives and children. They started west on an afternoon train, and probablv will arrive in Pittsburg to-morrow morning. Labor men here are wondering what the mining companies want with additional men just now when idle miners are craving the bare necessities. TIio Fonlblc Object. They suspect that if the Hungarians really did come here under contract to work in the mines, the mine owners anticipate troutile at the beginning of the busy season and want a lot of cheap men on hand to take the places of the old miners. This is not the first consignment of immigrants that have passed through the gates of Castle Garden this year under suspicion of having come here under contract to labor in the mines or on the railroad. The Emigration Commissioners say that from present indications this year will be a great one for immigrants, especially from Hungary and (contiguous countries. The arrivals at this port for the last two months have greatly exceeded those of last year and there ii little doubt that in April, when the Federal authorities assume charge of im migration here, there will be an unprecen dented influx of slaves, bound for the coal nd iron region. iaB ruojgranoa veouuuwui aj 1 . , ... 'r .!.-.. ...-.. e i-.-STjE... ski a.j.. . s.iJi... .4. .... ,.f&tia&x,t jw, . j- '. i . J .-; -.- ..in Ai.r..sjf6 .L-JC'?-ifcAy J.. . i - , a. . iAjatjL.1iIte'l!Si. : Wj.Jl.vt I i . s ' -r - m TEAK. PITTSBURG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12. 1890. 4, . THREE CENTS 1 : , : - i ' " W ' I no authority to go very deep in investigat ing a suspected lot of immigrants. It is pos sible that when the immigration business is in the hands of the Federal Government a war may be devised of keeping out the kind of men who will be dumped into Pennsyl vania to-morrow morning. KO HUXGAKIANS WANTED. The Hirer Operator Wouldn't Employ the Slavish Forclcncr. It was reported that the river operators intended to run into the Monongahela mines from 800 to 900 Hungarians from New York, as an experiment. The reason given for the move was that the miners were about to ask for a further advance, which the coal men could not stand. "When Captain O'Xeil was asked about it at the Duquesne last evenintr, he laugh ingly replied: ''There is nothing in that report. We are satisfied with our men, and we wouldn't have the ignorant foreigners in the valley. The operators are having no trouble with their men. The latter are satisfied with the wages paid, and we have to be, but nobody is complaining, and everybody is happy." BAY HAS A SMALL E0W With Captain Stone. Who Wants tho Mc- Keesport Fostofllcc It U Fossiblo That the Matter Mar bo Left to n Vote. rP-EOH A STAFF COBltESrOXDENT.l "Washington, Jfarch 11. Captain Stone, who is here to feel the ground in regard to the McKeesport postoffice, does not appear to get much comfort out of the situation. The Postmaster General will give no indi cation of his intentions until he is convinced that Congressman Bay will refuse to make any other recommendation than Captain Thompson. Then, if he carries out his present purpose, he will withdraw Thomp son's name, and then be open to conviction in a new fight. Captain Stone called on Representative Bay this morning and attempted to induce him to take some definite position with re gard to a new candidate. Captain Thomp son was present at the interview and Mr. Bay said in ilr. Thompson's presence that be was lor Thompson as long as there was a possibility of Thompson getting the place, and, that ending in failure, he would be for no one. If the Postmaster General refused to recognize his first recommendation he had no second choice. Stone, whose temper is somewhat fervent, grew wrathy at this, and he and Bay bad a lively tilt tor a few minutes, and if Stone ever stood any chance ot getting a recom mendation from Bay he will hardly get it now. But as Bay has declared that be will resommend anybody this will probably make little difference to Stone. In case Bay persists in his present determination it is probable that a word from Senator Quay will decide the contest, though there is a hint that McKeesporters will be asked to make their own choice through the medium of the ballot box. DABNEI AND CRAIG ARRESTED. Constable Belcher's Murderers Ran Sown nnd Lodged in Jail. rErCCIXL TELEGUAM TO TUB DISPATCH. I PEiNCrrrON, "W. "Va., March 11. Chas. Dabney and John Craig, the two negroes who killed Constable Belcher, near Bram well, Mercer county, about a week ago, and the day after Dabney had murdered a negro companion in cola blood at Pocahontas, just across the Virginia line, were arrested at Baleigh C. H., Saturday, and were brought here to-day and lodged in jail. Constable "Walker and two companions followed the murderers after Belcher was shot, and trailed the men through the woods and over the mountains for a week. Friday night "Walker became satisfied that the men were in a barn on the farm of J. A. Ewart, two miles west of Baleigh C. H., and a posse was summoned, which surrounded the building at daybreak Saturday morning. The negroes were awake, and both being armed, they prepared to make a desperate resistance. Seeing a chance to escape, how ever, Dabney made a break for the woods. Several shots were fired at him, to which he replied, but he got safely away. Craig was captured and taken to jail, and then the posse started after Dabney. He was found at the house of William Abbott, on Dry creek, and was surprised while asleep, with a revolver in his hand. Both men are of the most desperate and brutal character, and it is not impossible that both may be lynched by a mob of miners froji Poca hontas. GE0KGE WASHINGTON BOUNCED. An Infant of That Nnmc Not Allowed to Star In America. rErECIAE TELEGRAM TO TH! DISPATCII.1 New Yobk, March 1L Mary Dever eaux, a young Irish woman, and her American-born infant, George Washington, were sent back to Ireland to-day on the steam ship Wisconsin. The child was born on Ward's Island the day after she got here in November last. She had not been "landed," technically speaking, that is, had not passed the barriers in the way of pauper immigra tion. The Emigration Commissioners wrote to the Secretary ot the Treasury asking if Mary was entitled to stay in this country because her infant had been born here. The Secretary referred the matter to the Solicitor, who has not given any opinion. The Commissioners wrote to the Collector and got no response. Then they decided to send George Washington, a native of the United States, and his alien mother to Ire land. A 11DEDEKER ELECTED. The Friends of an Ex-Convict Stand br Illm at the Foils. (SPECIAL TELIGHAM TO THE DISPATCH.l Moulton, Ia., March 11. One of the most exciting elections ever held in this city took place to-day. The occasion was the choice of School Directors. The pecu liarity of the contest was that all party lines were thrown aside and ths whole fight centered around the issues of a murder. Dr. W. F. S. Murdy, who was sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years for the murder of Silas Tipton, a butcher of this place, has a host of friends who contend he was wrong fully accused. On the other hand, Tipton's friends claim Murdy was coldblooded and malicious in shooting Tipton. The community has taken sides in the matter and the most bitter feel ing exists. This is carried into politics, and the election to-day was fought on that issue. Murdy's friends came off victorious. DE. M'CRAI EETURNS HOME. Owlne to Unpleasantness Ills Wifo Sacs Illtn for Damnses. rfFECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB CISPATCU.l Fbaxkux, March 11. Dr. Mills Mc Cray. whose elopement with Miss Lou Brown created a sensation, returned home this morning. This evening his wife, Mrs. Vinie Tyson McCray, entered suit against him for 55,000 damages, alleging that on his arrival home he proceeded to abuse her ter ribly and attempted to force, her to drink some drug for the purpose of destroying her. Failing in this he turned her into the street. To-night he visited Miss Brown at her home and her parents and brother, it is said, attempted to wreak summary vengeance for the disgrace heaped UDon them bnt iTpfini iBucceeucu au Eiuiuag mem HALSTEAD ON OHIO. Ho Thinks Tbat the Kcpnbllcnns Will Soon Redeem the Slate Oklahoma Shonld Iio Made n Black Terri tory Exclusively rtrECIAL TELIGBAM TO THE DISrATCH.3 New Yokk, March 11. Murat Halstead was in town to-day. Talking ot the gerry mander in Ohio he said: "The Democrats have redistricted the State, it is true, but I do not think the Bepublicans will lose more than two Congressmen by it. The way Hamilton county has been cut up to suit the Democrats is ludicrous in the extreme. The Bepublicans had a line running north and south to make the two districts, but the Democrats have simply run a letter S from east to west to take in Democratic strong holds. I think the Bepublicans will carry the State next time. Governor Campbell will not be re-elected. We were beaten in Ohio the last time by a Sunday closing law, which alienated the German vote in Hamil ton county." Mr. Halstead has a new scheme for paci fying the South. Said he: "A new black State should be made out of the Indian Ter ritory and Oklahoma. If this is done, and I shall urge President Harrison to favor it, all the discontented negroes in the Southern States can migrate to the new State and practically govern themselves. I do not think the white people of the South will object. The plan is perfectly feasible, and I think would materially assist the Eepub lican party. President Harrison, in his Federal appointments in the black State, would doubtless select none but negroes. It would give that race a chance to learn how to govern themselves and be a place of refuge for them. This is no Utonian dream of mine, but a programme I think should be soon carried out. As to the Indians in the Territory, why let them remain and mix with the negroes." -... . . . . si.nnM Tim TAnn n.,1 Vlnnnnt r.ArJ Ann. not beinir intended to be hostile .Tflmne! HfimlHftn HnwpllO JnnPS. M llare Rtaionto Complain i """ A SCORE FOR THE TRUSTS. A Circuit Conrt of Missouri Declares tlio Lnw Unconstitutional. tSrECIAL TELEGEAM TO TUB EISrATCII.l St. Louis, March 11. The Missouri anti trust law came in for a "knock out" in the Circuit Court to-day in the test case against the Simmons Hardware Company. This case will be fought in the courtB to the end and its progress is watched with great inter est by a large n umber of corporations in this State and outside. If the law is not "knocked out" completely in the lower court, the co-respondent will appeal the case to the higher courts, and if it is, Circuit Attorney Clover will lose no time in learn ing the opinion of the Supreme Court Judges. Judge Dillon's is the first decision in the State on any point of law. Last Decem ber Secretary ot State IJeseuer wrote to the Simmons Hardware Company asking them to make an affidavit saying the corporation was not a member of any trust, monopoly or combine whose object was to destroy com petition and raise prices. The company refused to comply to the first or a second letter, and suit was filed in the Circuit Court asking the court to de clare the charter of the company forfeited for not complying with the law. The Sim mons Hardware Company filed a demurrer to the petition questioning the constitution ality of the law, and on this Judge Dil lon "rendered his decision, sustaining the demurrer. THE LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Tbo Anti-Trust Act Receives a Black Eye In Missouri. St. Louis, March 11. The anti-trust law received a black eye, figuratively speak ing, in a decision rendered by Judge Dillon this morning. It was in the case ot the State of Missouri at the relation of Circuit Attorney Ashley Clover against the Sim mons Hardware Company. Last December Secretary of State Leisure wrote to the Sim moos Hardware Company, asking them to make an affidavit saying the corporation was not a member of any trust, monopolywr combine, whose object was to destroy com petition and raise prices. The company re fused to reply to the first or second letter, and suit was filed in the Circuit Court, ask ing the Court to declare the charter ol the company forfeited for not complying with the law. The Simmons Hardware Company filed a demurrer to the petition questioning the constitutionality of the law, and on this Judge Dillon rendered his decision sustain ing the demurrer, and thus virtually de claring the law to be unconstitutional. ACKNOWLEDGES HIS GUILT. Phillip Sellers Confesses That Ho Helped to Rob Farmer Frencle. rEPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.) Maxsfield, O., March, 11. Phillip Sellers, the man arrested for complicity in the attempt to rob farmer F. J. Frengle, near Crestline, February 1G, confessed to Sheriff Tressell about 10 o'clock last night. He said that he and Dcvinney were the only ones concerned in the attempt and that he neverlsaw Devinney before Sunday.February 15, when an acquaintance was struck up while both were near Frengle's residence. Sellers said that he wanted to back out a couple of times before he reached the Fren gle residence but Devinney would not let him. After he was wounded he went to his sister's residence and dressed bis wounded arm, but did not confide his secret to any one. After his arrest he said that he was wounded in a scuffle with his brother. A WILD TALE ABOUT WALLACE. Tho Ex-Senator Allcznd to Have Been In the Country for Weeks. f SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Haebisbueg, March 11. It is reported here to-night, on what seems reliable author ity, that Senator Wallace, who is generally believed to be in Europe, has been in this country for several weeks. He has not reached his Clearfield county home, but is expected there in a few days. It is also reported that Wallace has been quietly looking after his chances for the Democratic nomination for Governor since his alleged arrival in the United States. THE PARDON BOARD. A Commutation of tbo Death Sentence to bo Asked for the Mcely Brotbnrs. rSPECIAL TELEGUAM TO THE DISPATCH.! Someeset, Pa., March 11. When the Pardon Board meets at Harrisburg next week the application for commutation of the death sentence in the case of Joseph and David Nicely will come up for final settle ment. Depositions on the part of the con demned have just been taken before 'Squire Lint at this place. The examination of witnesses was conducted by Messrs. Coffroth and Koontz on the part of the prisoners, and by F. J. Kooser on the part ot the Common wealth. JUDGE M'COMUS DEAD. Wbtlo Lieutenant Governor of Tlreinla Ho 8Iens John Brown's Warrant. Foet Scott, Kan., March 11. Judge McComus, who signed the warrant for the execution of John Brown, died to-day aged 74 years. He was Lieutenant Governor of Virginia at the time John Brown was hanged and the signing of the warrant de volved upon him in the absence of Governor Wise. For some years Judge McComus I was editorof the Chicatro. Times. I - -r n-T- -" . wJMia "mr- " t --v--x v & ONE TOE? CONTESTED UlJ!ilU II l U VJiJlIJiU Lord Bandolph Churchill's speech was a U. YY HI JLUIAL, I 1 LUi 8 mm, auUu " ? '' L fl I UMUL 1 The Young and Eloquent Lord Ran dolph Churchill Bitterly ARRAIGNS PARTY ALLIES J For Their Headstronj: Course in tho Perse cution of Parnell. THE LAW WAS OUTRAGEOUSLY BROKEN la the Futile Endearor to Fasten Crime Upon the Irish Leader. Amid the cheers of the Liberal members, Lord Randolph Churchill last evening at tacked the Tory Government in open Parlia ment. The most bitter assault yet made upon Salisbury's government came from his own camp. The orator denounced the Par nell Commission as violating the Constitu tion, and branded the Pigott forgeries with scathing invectives. London, March 11. In the House of Commons this evening Lord Bandolph Churchill resumed the debate on the report oftheParnell Commission. He said that from the inception of tho commission he bad watched the proceedings with feelitfgs of sorrow and apprehension, which had grown deeper and stronger as the proceedings de veloped. From beginning to end these pro-' ceedings were vitiated by their thoroughly unconstitutional character. Cheers from the opposition. When the Government decided to set aside the ordinary tribunals it must have held that the charges against the Parnellites constituted a prima facie case against the accused. When a Government held that there was a prima facie case it was its duty to prosecute criminally. Parnellite cheers. A LOGICAL CONCLUSION. If this was a prima facie case to justify an extraordinary tribunal, was there a prima facie case to proceed by a criminal prosecution. Hear, hear. In the first place, the Government in order to ascertain the truth of criminal charges agoinst its po litical opponents, discarded and set aside the ordinary law of the land Parnellite cheers. Secondly, the Government con stituted under a special act a commission consisting of three judges to fulfill the functions of judge aud jury, for the purpose of trying a criminal conspiracy. It decided to place political opponents on trial on criminal charges without the pro tection a jury would give. Cheers. Thirdly, the Government nominated the tribunal, so the accused unlike the meanest criminal, would have no voice in selecting and chall enging the jury. It was argued that the commission was a court of arbitration, wherein the whole history of arbitration was one party to a suit left voiceless in the selec tion of arbitrators. Cheers. Fourthly, the Government inflicted a heavy penalty in the shape of a large pecuniary fine on its opponents, amounting to nearly 10,000. WITHOUT ANT PEECFDENT. He argued the matter on constitutional grounds, and defied any lawyer to show a precedent or parallel for anything approach ing the Government's action. Parnellite cheers. He apnealed to the House to vote against proceedings so utterly unprecedent ed. Never within a century and a half had any public man been exposed to such tests and trials as had Mr. ParnelL Parnellite cheers. When certain persons imagined that Mr. Parnell quailed before the proposed inquiry he put such a pressure on the Government that the free gift character of the proposal disappeared and it became a measure forced upon the House at any cost. Opposition cheers. Every clause except the first was forced through without debate by a use of cloture so ruthless that nothing hut the most urgent consideration of public safety could justify it. Opposition cheers. The Constitu tional party that, in 1882 resisted cloture, now applied it. AN INCONSISTENT GOVERNMENT. No Minister could accuse him of incon sistency when the enormous inconsistencies of the Government were considered. In 1882 the Government declared that cloture was a most unconstitutional and dangerous innovation; in 1888 it used cloture in a most unconsittntional and dangerous manner for the purpose of forcing upon its opponents an unprecedented, unparalleled and tremend ous instrument of oppression. A .Nemesis attended tne liovernment lor adopting such methods. What had been the result of this mountainous parturition? A reptile monster Pigott Parnellite cheers. In appointing the commission the Government violated the constitution. In making this motion the Government was violating its own law. The report con demned certain persons and acquitted others. But did it condemn all the guilty parties? It condemned the Parnellites on certain charges. Did it condemn the Times? If the Government insisted upon its motion and compelled the majority to assent to it, he would insist upon his right to vote to condemn not only the Parnellites but also the Times, which had been found guilty of an atrocious and unexampled libel and slander. CHAHBEBLAIN'S EEMiT. Mr. Chamberlain said it was on the invi tation of the Parnellites that the matter was made a subject of inquiry. If the Govern ment had instituted criminal proceedings, it would have been open to all the censure which Lord Bandolph Churchill had be stowed upon it. The Government treated the allegations as libels which might or might not be disproved, and indicated then that the accused should take the usual steps to defend their characters. He denied that the commission was the' result ot bis personal suggestion. Expe rience showed that it was the best and only tribunal to condnct the inquiry. The chief objection to it was that the Judges would not be impartial. That was not said now. Parnellite cries of "Yes." It was urged that the Times, if found guilty, would have absolute immunity in subsequent proceedings Parnellite cheers, but allegations against the commission proved to be baseless. THE TOBY VIEW. No parliamentary committee could have conducted the inquiry so exhaustively and well. He urged that there was no reason for receiving the findings of any consti tutional tribunal with suspicion. Mr. Gladstone had admitted the assiduity, ability, learning and perfect absolute good faith of the Judges. Cheers. Sir Charles Bussell had spoken ot their judgment as im partial. The fact that the Judges were spoken of as having prepossessions and political sentiments should not vitiate their findingston matters of fact The House would simply adopt the gen eral effect of the report without pledging itself to every word. He asked to whom the House would appeal if it refused to adopt the Judges' opinion on matters of fact. He warned the House, with an imperfect recollection of the terms of the report, against assuming judicial functions by de clining to accept the Judges' findings. He urged the House to leave the matter in the hands of the nation. Cheers. Mr. Jennings withdrew his amendment Mr. Caine (Liberal Unionist) moved a sim ilar amendment, condemning the Times, which was rejected 321 to 259. A COMPLETE SUEPEISE, Mr, Jennintra explained -that. ia-bad no desire to stab the Government in the back. Lord Bandolph Churchill's speech was a complete surprise to him and changed his position, his own amendment not being intended to be hostile to the Government. He contended that a commission shonld never have been appointed to inquire into the minor charges against the Parnellites, which in 1885 had not deterred the Government from accepting Irish support Had the serious charges been proved, Mr. Parnell must have been expelled and prosecuted. Mr. Labouchere said he expected to see Lord Bandolph Churchill blossom into a genuine Eadical. He related from his own independent inquiries the circumstance of a meeting between a constable of Pinkerton's men and a British constable, Jarvis, at Kansas City, both employed by the Times as agents, p'roving that the Government had abetted negotiations which amounted to offering Sheridan 25,000 for a document that would incriminate Mr. Parnell. ' AN EXCITING SCENE. A scene of the most intense excitement lasted several minutes. Mr. Goschen taunted air. Sexton in reference to the Salisbury letter, and both rose to their feet and neither would give way. Mr. Goschen and the Parnellites burled such epithets as "coward," etc. Mr. Goschen defended him self with the reproach that the attacks of the Opposition were based upon information which they themselves had purchased. Amid shouts of "adjourn" and calls of "Morley," Mr. Caine moved his amend ment. Mr. Morley congratulated him for the courage ho displayed, and said he would support the amendment, not because it would do much good, but because it was necessary for the dignity of the House. Mr. Smith invoked the cloture rule, and the division was taken on Mr. Caine's amendment. Mr. Smith's motion with ref erence to the commission's report was then agreed to, amid cheers from the Ministerial benches. AMEEICAN CATTLE To bo a Subject lor Lcelslntion In England This Tear Steps to bo TaKon to Insure the Receipt of Uenltfay Animals. London, March 11. Mr. James William Barclay, member for Fordyce, asked in the House of Commons to-day whether the Government would take measures to ascer tain if cattle from the Western States of America were free from contagion, and if they were free, whether they could not be conveyed to England without contact with animals from the Eastern States, among which disease might exist. The Bt. Hon. Henry Chaplin, president of the Board of Agriculture, replied that such an inquiry as that asked for by Mr. Barclay would be impossible. In 1888, he said, pieuro-pneumonia existed in Chicago and the surrounding district. In Illinois alone, 1,425 head of cattle were affected. It was therefore hardly probable that the dis ease had disappeared. He further said that the Government in tended to introduce legislation in connection with the subject, which he hoped would be passed this year. IN THE INTEREST OP ART. Many Students, Including; Americans, Hav ing Trouble Willi tlio German Clericals. BT DUNLAP'S CABLE COMPACT. Munich, March 11. The artists and students here, including many Americans, are greatly incensed at the clerical majority in the Chamber expunging from the budget all grants from the promotion of art and science. Small riotines have taken place daily and are to culminate in a monster pro test meeting, which has been fixed for Luit pold's birthday, on next Wednesday. The Clerical leaders, Dolle Geigerand and Orlcrer, are especially unpopular, and have asked for police protection. Otherwise they are afraid to attend the Chambers. Geiger and states that he fears a renewal of the revolution of 1848. THE LATEST TORT SCHEME. It Is Probablo That the O'Shea Divorce Case Will Come Up Soon. London, March 11. It is improbable that the divorce case in which Mr. Parnell is a co-respondent will be tried bpfore au tumn. Mr. Parnell is entitled to three weeks in which to tile his answer, but he will probably apply for an extension of time. Going to Elovnto tho Stnse. TBT DUNLAP'E CABLE COMPANY. London, March 11. Lady Colin-Campbell is stage struck. She has written a drama in which she will take the leading part, and is negotiating for a London theater in which to produce it. Lo Cnron is Becoming Sensitive. London, March 11. Le Caron denounces as a forgery the letter which Mr. Sexton read in the House of Commons, purporting to be from Le Caron to a son of Mr. Pow derly. TO HEAL A LACERATED HEART. A Chlcoco Womnn Suesn Clothing Merchant for 8100,000 Damages. CniCAGO, March 11. A suit for $100,000 for breach of promise of marriage was com menced in the United States Circuit Court, yesterday, against Louis C. Wachmuth, senior member of the firm of L. C. Wach muth & Co., wholesale clothing dealers. The plaintiff is Miss Jennie M. Paul, a stately brunette of 25, daughter of the late A M. Paul. Miss Paul's attorneys de clined to give any ot the details of the case. Miss Paul is in Washington visiting her sister. Her attorney also said: "I had ex pected that the suit would be settled, but I doubt whether it will now." Wachmuth is single, 37 years old and quite a favorite, belonging to the Farragut, the Union and other clubs. Miss Paul is a member of good society, and has moved in South Side circles quite extensively. Mr. Wachmnth was absent from his place of business to-day. His brother said that it was claimed by Miss Paul that Wachmuth had paid her attention since 1883, and that he had frequently promised to marry her, but had not done so. Wachmuth has en gaged lawyers, and is alleged' to have pre pared to fight Miss Paul's big claim. PENNSYLVANIA PLANS. Tho Issno of 400,000 Additional Shares of Stock Unnnlmouslr Authorized. Philadelphia, March 11. At the an nual meeting of the Pennsylvania Bailroad to-day, after the reading of the annual re port, which has already been published, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That in view of tho statement made In the annual report jnst presented, tho stockholders hereby authorize the Board ot Di rectors of the company to issue from time to time 400.000 additional shares ot the capital stock of this company, tbe said shares to be issued, apportioned and disposed of as the di rectors may deem for tbe best interests of the company. In reply to a question by Mr. William E. Lockwood, President Boberts stated that the amount of stock unissued and authorized by the stockholders was $750,000. The total amount of authorized stock at present is $37,450,550. The increase about to be made of 400,000 shares at $50 a share, amounting to $20,000,000, would still leave the amount unasked for; and which the company is em powered to issue under its charter, $17,500,- ooo. This statement was greeted witnac plaujset a wrrv rumTKr t tmt?q . vt.vwv.k AnnrrRTCKR rsfc ip si i nn umir a James Hamilton Howells Jones, of Pitfeburg, Attempts to END EIS LIFE BY TAKING ETHER In the Church of the Heavenly Eest, at ' New iork City. A LETTER TO HIS TWO SISTERS HERE. He Desired EeT. Maxwell, of Trinity, to Officiate at D:s FnseraL James H. H. Jones, of Pittsburg, took ether with suicidal intent in a. New York church yesterday. He was taken to a hos pital, and will recover, which fact he greatly regrets. He wrote a letter to his two sisters in Pittsburg, explaining his motive. He wished Bev. Maxwell to bury him. rsr CIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 New Yoek, March 11. In Lent the Church ot the Heavenly Eest, in Fifth ave nue, near Forty-fifth street, is open from 10 in the morning until nightfall. It is no uncommon thing for 50 persons to be in the chnrch at once in the afternoon. They pass in and out at will, sit in the pews, kneel on the cushions to pray or wander up and down the aisles. There were several persons in the church at 330 o'clock this afternoon. The janitor's assistant was sitting near the door talking in a low tone of voice to a member of the choir. The door opened and a young man entered slowly. He was well dressed. The door man and the singer merely glanced at him as he walked slowly up the middle aisle and took a seat close to the altar and directly in front of it. Then they went on with their whispered conversation. A noise as of something falling made everyone in the church look toward the altar. STAETLED THE SILENT CHUKCH. The young man had slipped from the seat partly to the floor. A moment later he dropped wholly on the floor. The noise he made would have been inconsiderable any where else, but in the silent church it was startling. The doorman and the choir singer ran to the young man's assistance, They thought he had had a fit until they reached the pew and caught a strong odor of ether. Then they sent people for Dr. Bainey nnd a policeman. The excitement spread outside the church at once and the people ran in from the streets until they were obliged to close the doors. Sexton Alexander Davidson and policeman Joseph Sontheimer came in. The policeman rang for an ambulance. The man seemed stupid at first A surgeon from Belleville hospital gave him a dose of something which woko him up and he ex claimed: "O, why didn't I die?" He con tinued to make this exclamation at in tervals. He had dropped a letter when first picked up. The policeman and the doctor shook him and walked him about in the church, and poked him and did all they could to re vive him. Every now and then he wonld stiffen himself and mutter something. TO DIE AT THE ALTAE. "I came in here to die," he exclaimed. "I wanted to die in church, close to the altar." He had swallowed the ether. He said he was James Hamilton Howells Jones, of Pittsburg. "He had been in New York a week, and was boarding at 36 West Twenty fourth street, where a couple of pawn tickets might be found. He said he had not a cent left, and wanted to die. All this came out in disjointed sentences. The policeman took notes. Tn half an hour the doctor thought ther could move him safely, and he was put in the ambulance and taken to Bellevue. There was a great crowd waiting outside the church and this disturbed Jones greatly. "Oh, LordI Idon'twant to face thatcrowd," he exclaimed. "I'd rather die." At the hospital he was searched and nothing was found but a scarfpin with a tiny diamond in it. He had neither money nor papers The letter which he dropped in the church was written upon Windsor Hotel note paper and enclosed in an envelope bearing the hotel mark. It was unsealed. The address was: "Mrs. Ben Balston, 144 Forty-fifth street, Pittsburg." The letter read: TEXT OF THE LETTER Dear Sisters and Brothers, Emma and Marie: When you read this I will be no more. I was so unhappy that I bad no desire to live. I ask your forgiveness for leaving home. Eliza, yon find my standing in tho lodge of A. O. K. of M. C. is all right 1 paid up in full to 1st of April. The money I want to go you. Have the lodge bury me. I should also like to have my pastor, tbe Rev. Mr. Maxwell, rector of Trinity, to preach my funeral services. You will And in my inside coat pocket two pawn tickets, one for a ring and watch. Excuse the writing of your un happy brother, as I am very nervous. With lovo to all, from your unhappy brother. JAMES HAMILTON HOWELLS J OSES. Mr. Jones will have an opportunity to ex plain the circumstances of his attempted suicide in person to his brothers and sisters, for there is no danger of his death. He did not take much ef the ether, the doctors said. He was put in the cage and will be ar raigned in court on a charge of attempting suicide as soon as he can get out He re fused to talk to the doctors about himself. He said he was 24 years old. HARRISON IS SAFE. A Successful Test of tbe Wbtto Uonse Fire Alarm Apparatus. Washington, March 11. A test was made this morning of the new fire alarm ap paratus in the White House, and of the efficiency of the district fire department Both were highly satisfactory. In two minutes from the time that the alarm hook was pulled a stream of water was flowing from a hose in front of the house, and in 7 minutes and 50 seconds four engines were on the spot and at work. A hook and ladder truck and a reserve squad of police men had also made their appearance, and ladders were raised to the roof. The alarm was a complete surprise to the fire companies, who made wonderful time in getting to the house. Engine No. 6 traveled a distance of 11 squares and a half in 3 min utes and 40 seconds. DALZELL FOE CONGRESS. The Private Thinks He Can Carry One of the Gerrymandered Districts. ISrECIAL TELEOKAM TO THE DISPATOn.1 Caldwell, O., March 11. Private Dalzell is a candidate for Congress in the gerrymandered Sixteenth Ohio district. It is ordinarily Democratic by 500 to 1,000, but the Private's friends claim that inore than that many Democratic soldiers will vote for him, and have no doubt whatever of his election. The soldiers throughout the country, ac cording to Dalzell's triends, would hail the Private's election to Congress as a favorable omen tbat they are to be recognized and re warded politically as they never were be fore. Burglars nave a Hearing. rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.' Scottdale, March 11. At the hearing in the case of Cranbcry and Carling, charged with larceny in entering the Hunter boarding house, the former was released and Jtha latter taken to jail, Confront Captain McCalla ns Men Who Have Rensoa f o Complain of narsh Treatment A Surprise at the Opening of the Trial. 1SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 New Yoek, March 11. The court ap pointed to investigate the charges of cruelty made against Captain Bowman H. McCalla, of the United States sloop-of-war Enter prise was organized at noon to-day in Boom 7 in the navy yard. Bear Admiral Kimberly sat at the head of a table, with Commodore William P. McCann and Captain Oscar F. Stanton, his associates in the tribunal, on either side, while Judge Advocate Perry Garst occupied the end of the table. All were in full uniform. At 12 o'clock Captain McCalla, also in fall uniform, entered, ac companied by his counsel, Joseph H.Choate and Gustavus B. Menzes, a lawyer of Indi ana, formerly in the navy and a classmate in the training school with the defendant The President announced that a visit would be paid to the Enterprise. When the court had boarded the vessel. Commander McCalla mustere'd his men, and Jndge Ad vocate Garst read the orders from Washing ton. Admiral Kimberly then stepped for ward, and commanded all men or officers who had any complaint to make about harsh discipline and cruel treatment during their terms of service on the Enterprise, to step forward to the starboard part of the quarter deck. There was a dead silence. Com mander McCalla looked anxiously over his men. Judge Choate smiled, and the mem bers of the court-martial looked surprised. Suddenlv one seaman stepped forward. This broke the ice, and five more followed him. Then two firemen stepped out, and a marine came down from the bridge. Chief Engineer James Entwist came forward, and Ensign G. W. Cline followed. Eleven men in all stood in a row silently signifying that they had complaints to make of harsh treatment. Their names were: M. Keary, William Fitzpatrick, J. W. Bitner, Paul Henning, J. W. Henning, S. G. West berg, A. C. Neill, Ensign G.W.Kline, Engineer James Entwistle, Jeremiah Shay and J. M. Hughes. After this operation was gone through the court adjourned until 10 A. 21. to-morrow. TO INVESTIGATE TANNEE. A Southern Representative Makes an Appeal for Speedy Action. Washington, March 11. In the House to-day Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee, as a matter of privilege, moved to discharge the Com mittee on Invalid Pensions from the further consideration of a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior for the evi dence taken and report to him by the committee appointed to investigate the management of the Pension Office un der Commissioner Tanner, for information as to what steps have been taken to recover the money paid to persons who were illegally and imDroperlv re-rated: for a list of the employes of the Pension Office who were engaged in re-rating themselves, and for in formation as to whether any ot them have been discharged on account of participation in such frauds upon the Government. Mr. Enloe said that the country desired this information, but that the committee had taken no action upon the resolution which he had offered early in the session. Com missioner Tanner had kept in good faith the promises he had made on the stump, and the country wanted to know the reasons why he had been kicked out The entire administration of the Pension Office should be thoroughly investigated and overhauled by a commit tee of'the House. The day for shaking the bloody shirt as an excuse for robbing the public treasury ought to pass. If there had been robbery and corruption let the light of day be turned on and let the men who were concerned in it be consigned to eternal infamy. A TEEI N07EL WEDDING. Tbe Combined Ages of the Bridal Party Amounting to '-GO Years. rFFECTAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 Wilkesbaeee, Pa., March 11. A novel wedding took place at the Courtright House this city to-day. The combined ages of the bridal party was269 years, as follows: Bridegroom, Shabrack Gregory, 81; bride, Mrs. Mary C. Marr, 61; groom's best man, E. V. "Vanhorn, 63; bridemaid, 64. Justice of the Peace Colen, of Union township, tied the knots. The bride was dressed in her first wedding trousseau, made 42 years ago. She was as frisky as a young girl ofl7, and the bridegroom climbed three flights of stairs on a time bet He performed the task with the agility of a youth. Addressing the 'Squire before the cere mony, he said: "Now, Justice, don't imagine that because I am four-score tbat I am a fool. I don't know how much love theie is in this match, bnt there is enough to make Mame and me happy until we are parted by death. There will" be no divorce in our case. I am lonely; so is tbe woman. We want to enjoy each other's company in our old age, and that is what we are nere lor. Proceed with the ceremony. A EEAL ESTATE AGENT AEEESTED. Accused of Hnvlng Fraudulently Obtained 8200,000 Worth of Land. Chicago, March 11. Jay Boride, a Kansas City real estate agent, who is ac cused of having fradulently obtained a con veyance to himself from two illiterate colored people of that town of $200,000 worth of real estate for $1, is under arrest in this city. An officer lrom Kansas City arrived here this morning with a requisition from Governor Francis, of Missouri, and he will take Boride back with him to-night In his possession were found the deeds given him by the Sweeneys. Examining Treasurer Noland's Books. Jeffeeson Cut, March 1L It is be lieved the commission investigating the books of the State Treasury will complete its labors to-night Finis Marshall, a mem ber of the commission, says the shortage will be in the neighborhood of $32,800. Lou V. Stepbors, of Booneville, Mo., is looked upon as Treasurer Noland's suc cessor. ' Mrs. Storrs Awarded n Limited Divorce. New Yoek, March 11. Judge Ingra ham, of the Supreme Court, has awarded Mrs. Allien F. Storrs a limited divorce from George M. Storrs, son of the late Emory A. Storrs, of Chicago, on the ground of cruel treatment and habitual drnnkenness. AWcalthr Block Broker Dead. CniCAGO, March 11. John T. Lester, the wealthy stock broker, died to-night He has been an invalid for two or three years, having become broken down physically by excessively close attention to business. A Bali Plnver Found Guilty of Murder. New Xoek, March 11. A verdict of murder in the first degree has been found against baseball player James J. Slocum, who murdered his wife in New York on New Year's eve. Denlh of Rev. John F. Cowles. Obeelin, March 11. Bev. John P. Cowles, aged 85, for many years professor in the Oberlln College, died at Ipswich, Mass., yesterday. He had been blind for several years, yi. m via if -rahela's Dams and .orth $4,000,000, Locfe THEFEANCHISE INCLUDED. Argnments of the Navigation Com pany's Counsel Before the EIYER AND HARBOR COMMITTEE. Under the Present System the Extent and Talne of the COAL TRADE HATE GEEATLI INCREASED Attorneys Shiras and Carnahan appeared before the Biver and Harbor Committee at Washington on behalf of the Monongahela Navigation Company. They argued that if the Government appropriated one of the locks, it shonld take all. Full compensa tion for the property, including the fran chise, should be made. The value to the stockholders was placed at $4,000,000. FROM A STAIT COBBISP05DEIT.1 Washington. March lL The repre sentatives of the Monongahela Navigation Company were to-day accorded a hearing by the Biver and Harbor Committee of the Home for the purpose of informing tha committee of the other side of the proposi tion which was submitted to them a few days ago by Mr. John Dravo in behalf of the Pittsburg Coal Exchange. It will be remembered that Mr. Dravo urged the purchase by the Government of all the locks and dams and other improve ments on Monongahela river belonging to the navigation compa ny for the purpose of relieving the coal men of the necessity of paying tolls on the coal passing over the rivpr. Two years ago Congress appropriated $162,000 for the nnrchaseof one of the locks, No. 7. status of the dispute. That sum was not satisfactory to the com pany and the matter was referred to an ap praising committee, which reported in favor of paying $209,000 for the lock, exclusive of the company's franchise. The Government appealed from this decision, and carried the matter into the courts. The hearing of this case is set for the second Monday in May in the Circuit Court of Pittsburg. On account of the enforced absence of Mr, Townsend, the Pennsylvania member of the Biver and Harbor Committee, Congressman Gibson, of Maryland, introduced 3Ir. George Shiras, one of the attorneys of tha navigation company, to the other members. Mr. Shiras' argument was brief and to tha point. He said: I can very shortly stato the position of the Monongahela Navigation Company in this matter. Tbo company simply asks to be let alone. Its stockholders are satisfied with their investment which, after paying nothing for a number of years, is now lucrative. The com munity is satisfied with the work of the com pany, and it Is a very small band ot coal men who are in opposition to us. Our works havo undoubtedly vastly increased the commerce of that neighborhood. And there ara some coal dealers who have been made rich by the exist ence of our system of locks and dams. MIE TOLLS AEE LOW. The community at large is also satisfied with the tolls charged by tbe company, which are lower than those of any similar company in the country. Now the proposition is that Con gress shall acquire the right and title to the property of this company, and make tha Monongahela river a public highway free of tolls. If Congress shonld decide to take this property, there i3 one point on which we all agree, and that is that it shall not be taken by piecemeal. To take one Iockatatimo wo aid involve a, great deal of litigation, and the matter wonld probably extend over -0 years. Such a course also would work an injustice to tbe owners, as they would have no knowledge as to when tha next wonld be taken, and the valne of the property would be considerably affected. If taken at all, we want it taken as a whole. Rat when we come to the question of the necessary appropriation we differ. While it is nothing to the coal men how much or how little we receive for the property, it is, of conrse, a subject which interests both us and this committee. Between the estimates which the coal men give, and the estimates which we give there is a wide difference, and tho committee might find it difficult to decide. AS TO THE FEANCHISE Owing to the legislation of last year a causa originated in the Circuit Court of Western Pennsylvania out of one grotesque feature of tho bill making tbe appropriation. This pre scribes that in estimating the damages ot tha company in the condemnation of lock No. 7, the franchise should not be allowed for. Wa claim that there is no constitutional validity in this clause, and that the value of the property can only ba determined by a reference to its earning capacity. We farther claim that tha question whether a franchise is property is a Judicial and not a legislative question, and, should go to tho courts for a determination. Congress bas no power to settle tbat point Now. 1 don't see why we shonld be called upon to come here while this question is pending be fore a court having jurisdiction over such matters. If this committeo deem it proper that tha United States shonld move in this matter, at least no move should be made. I humbly sug gest, until this question is decided. But if you still decide to move and to take the property, take it at a fair valuation and as a whole. We value it at $1,000,000. There will ba 40,000 shares when tbe existing bonded debt is run into shares, as is raDidly being done, and it pays 12 per cent on this basis. You will see tbat H000,- 000 is little enough. It is admitted that the United States has jurisdiction In this matter, and can make the Monongahela a free highway if it choose to act, but it can only do so after giving a just compensation to tha owners of tha improvements which it proposes to take into its possession. THE EEAL POINT. The earning capacity of those improvements must be taken into consideration in determin ing tbe value of those improvements. Wiea the United States comes to take a valuable series of works to themselves a just compensa tion does not refer to how much tha United States could put the dams there for. The point is the value to those who bava the property, not the value to those who take it I will un dertake to say that the United States could not pnt down seven dams on the McnnogaheL as useful and valuable for reservoir purposes as those now in existence for $4,000,000. En gineers say tbat dams which have stood tha torrents of a river for somo years are more val uable than artificial structures newly put up, because they become stronger. But tbe point 1 particularly make is that in determining tha value of a piece of property the measure of its value is its earning power. With this Mr. Shiras concluded his speech and the committee took a recess until 2 o'clock. Upon reassembling Mr. B. B. Carnahan, another attorney of the company, addressed the commjttee. In commencing he described the condition of the Mononga hela belore the improvements of the com pany had been made, and told how he used to walk across the river barefoot He said that the building of the dams and locks had created a great commerce, and quoted fig ures in snpport of this assertion, showing Continued on JSizth JPoge, pf -aneia s Dams ana 1 a. -.-..- - m , orth. $4,000,000, I iH a I 1
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