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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.
BLUE'S
He Promised the Pan-Americans
to Obliterate the
SUGAK AND WOOL TAEIFP,
Bat Harrison and the Majority of the
Cabinet Kefuse to
SAXCTION ANY. SDCH AGREEMENT.
The Secretary Wanted a Special Message
Sent to Congress.
HEARING THE END OP THE CONFERENCE
In the interest of reciprocity Secretary
Blaine promised the South American dele
gates to the Pan-American Conference to
have President Harrison recommend the re
moral of the tariff npon sugar and wool.
The majority of the Cabinet, however, are
opposed to the plan, and no such message
will be sent. The work of the conference is
nearly completed. Some of the foreign dele
gates begin to believe the whole thing is a
farce, as the TJnited States representatives
have no power to act.
IFKOM A STAFF CORKESrOXDEXT.l
Washington, March 14. The Pan
American Congress is nearing the close of
its labors, and the delegates think they may
now be ready to adjourn the first of April.
Most of the committees have completed
their reports, and these haTe either been
presented to the Congress or are at the print
ers being put into type for the use of the
delegates.
This is the case with the report of the
Committees on Customs Union and Customs
Regulations, and to-day the report of the
Committee on Monetary Affairs was sent to
the printer. This is, in fact, two reports,
a majority being in favor of a universal
silver coin, and a minority advocating a
farther conference on this especial subject.
A TROUBLESOME QUESTION.
The important measure on which an
agreement has been reached are the inter
continental railway and the subsidy of lines
of steam vessels between the United States
and the various important ports of the other
1'epublics. There was little or no difference
of opinion in regard to these measures. The
question of commercial reciprocity is a more
troublesome one, and it is probable that no
definite conclusion will be reached on this
subject.
The South American delegates are ready
to promise anything in the way of reciprocity
if the United States members can guarantee
that the duty will be removed from sugar,
wool and other South American products,
which might be exported in vast quantities
from their countries to this if there were no
customs duties. Sugar and wool are two
articles they are particularly desirous shall
be relieved of customs tax.
THE SCHEME PROPOSED.
As it is no w, the South American countries
cannot compete with Cnba and the Sand
wich Islands in the production of sugar, but
if the articles were admitted duty free from
South America, and Cuba and the Sand
wich Islands thus discriminated against, the
production of sugar would become a vast
industry in South America.
In return for these favors South America
would admit United States beei and flour
and other minor articles free, and their con
sumption in South American countries
would increase enormously, as the mass of
the people there cannot now afford to pur
chase either beef or flour, or many of the pro
visions which, were it not for the duty,
would be supplied cheaply from the United
States.
This matter has been a subject of Cabinet
discussion, and, strange as it may seem,
Secretary Blaine favors this kind of recip
rocity, and virtually promised South Amer
ican delegates that the Cabinet would agree
to it, and that the President would recom
mend it in a special message.
a majority against blaine.
It can be authoritatively stated, however,
that a majority of the Cabinet are opposed
to the plan, and that the President will in
dict no such message. In the matter of
sugar snch an agreement might be reached,
but to make the coarse wools of South
America iree would be to arouse the antag
onism of every wool grower in the United
States.
This great question of commercial recip
rocity is yet a subject of earnest discussion,
and to-morrow one of the finest speeches of
the session is expected on this topic from
Senor Saenz-Pena, of the Argentine Repub
.lic, who is noted as a brilliant orator in his
own country.
One of the curious features of the congress,
and one which has caused no little exasper
ation among the foreign delegates, is that
while they invariably come armed with ab
solute power to legislate for their respective
countries, the United States delegates can
promise nothing. They can merely agree
or disagree, and say that the matter will be
submitted to Congress.
SOT VERY SATISFACTORY.
This leaves the foreicn delegate in a con
dition of doubt as to whether after they are
all over the proceedings will not assume
something of the complexion of a farce. A
question possibly more important than any
other before the congress is that of arbitra
tion, and the committee appointed to pre
pare a plan to insure permanentand general
peace ii having a laborious time of it. Each
member of the committee has his own
scheme, and is anxious that in so great a
matter he shall be known as its originator.
The machinery which seems to find most
favor is that of a permanent court of arbi
tration to sit in Washington, as nearly all of
the countries interested have representatives
here at any rate, and to which all disputes
shall be referred, each country to bear its
share of the expense. Another plan is the
old one, that each of the disputants shall
choose one arbitrator and these two select a
third, but this is now considered unequal to
the contingencies that may arise, as very
often other countries are nearly as deeply
interested as the the immediate disputants.
fTw It set for the T&Ja dttire of eaea
member of the committee to be awarded the
credit ot the parentage of the successful
plan, the suggestion of a permanent court at
Washington would undoubtedly be recom
mended, and it may be any way, but just
now the arbitration question is in a chaotic
state. "When it is remembered that a suc
cessful scheme for arbitration means a total
cessation of war between any and all of the
North and South American Kepublics, the
anxiety of each of the delegates to seenre the
adoption of his particular plan is easily ex
cused. In connection with the talk concerning
the revival of the sugar duty it is interest
ing to note that the Republican delegation
from Illinois to-day declared in favor of
such action. . Lightner.
CLEVELAND THE ISSUE
In a Fierce Pension Debate la the House of
Representatives Democratic mem
bers Drlrnd Ono of III Fa.
moa Veto Message.
"Washington, March 14. In the House
the usual Friday evening routine was some
what enlivened to-night by a discussion of a
bill granting a pension of 40 a month to
Francis Deming.of Michigan.on the ground
of blindness. This is one of the bills
vetoed by President Cleveland, and this
veto was sustained by Mr. Stone, of
Missouri. Mr. Cooper, of Indiana,
earnestly advocated the passage of
the bill and referring to the
Presidental veto he 4aid that if
President Cleveland had stood upon his
economical principles and not endeavored
to hunt up some blind man whom he could
jump upon with both feet, he might have
been President of the United States to-day.
He (Cooper) would not follow in Cleve
land's footsteps nor copy his mistakes
Mr. Tarsney, of Missonri, sarcastically
regretted that President Cleveland had not
had the counsel and advice of the
gentleman from Indiana to guide him
and save him from error. Until
it was shown that President Cleveland
had erred his veto message must be con
clusive, unless new evidence was disclosed.
No man could have more sympathy than
he, but he was not warranted in putting his
hand into the public treasury and giving
them money which did not belong to him
cor them.
Mr. Kilgore. of Texas, in opposing the
bill said that if President Cleveland had
been beaten when in the discharge of his
duty, it was better to be beaten on principle
than to succeed on a matter of ex
pediency. Mr. Lane, of Illinois, ex
pressed his high esteem and
respect for the judgment and manhood of
President Cleveland. But it was human to
err, and Grover Cleveland was no exception
to the rule. As a Democrat he (Lane)
would rather make ten errors in favor of a
soldier than disallow one just case. The
House adjourned without reaching a vote
on the bill.
TO FILL HAETRANFT'S PLACE.
The Action of the Congrcsstonul Committees
is Awaited With Interest.
mtOM A STAFF COnBKSFOXDEXT.l
"Washington, March 14. It is ex
pected that in a few days some action will
be taken by the House toward filling the
vacancies on the Board of Managers of the
National Soldiers' Home caused by the
death of General Hartranft, of Pennsyl
vania. These vacancies are filled by a joint
resolution of the House and Senate, and the
committees on military affairs are entrnsted
with the duty of preparing the resolution.
A sub-committee of the House Committee
on Military Affairs has the matter in hand
just now and it is expected that it will be
ready to report to the fall committee within
a day or two.
There are three Pennsylvania candidates
for the place made vacant by the death of
the late General Hartranft, and, as has been
before stated in these dispatches, General
Alger, of Michigan, is trying to capture the
place and shut Pennsylvania out. None of
the members of the sub-committee can be
induced to say in favor of which one of the
several names before them they will report.
MAINE PE0UD OF EL'ED.
A Silver Memorial Representing Ills Recent
Coarse ia Congress.
rraOM A STAFF COBRESrOXDENT.I
"Washington, March 14. The Maine
Republicans have signified their approval of
Sneaker Reed's course with regard to the
change of rules in a very pretty and novel
manner. The members of the Young Men's
Republican Club, of Portland, to-day sent
to the Speaker an old-fashioned candle ex
tinguisher, made of solid silver. The cone
stands about G inches high and its surface is
elegantly engraved with a historical picture
representing the victory of the Speaker over
obstruction.
In the picture an old lady, representing
the Democratic party in the House, is in
dustriously blowing with bellows labeled
"Springer's Mouthpiece," a fire fed by fag
gots labeled"Fihbuster" and"Obstruction of
Public Business." Just as the old lady gets
the fire blazing well, Speaker Reed, in un
mistakable likeness, is represented as step
ping up and putting over the fire a conical
extinguisher labeled "Common Sense:"
NOT OPPOSED BY QUAY.
The Postmaster General Alone Responsible
for tho Fight on Thompson.
tritOM A STATF COBKESPOXDEXT.)
"Washington, March 14. The McKees
Dort matter still hangs fire, and Messrs.
Stone and Carrothers have gone home little
wiser than they came. Captain Thompson
still remains here. It has been suggested in
two or three directions recently that the
reason for the trouble over Captain Thomp
son's nomination might be explained by the
fact that Senator Quay has opposed his ap
pointment. This can be emphatically de
nied. Postmaster General "Wanamaker has told
Congressman Ray that Senator Quay was
not opposing Captain Thompson, and that
he was not in any way interesting himself
in the fight. Before the Senator went to
Florida he assured Captain Thomoson that
ifhewereto receive the nomination with
the support of Congressman Ray, there
would be no difficulty about his confirma
tion by the Senate.
WANAMAKEE'S ELDEST DAUGHTER
Is Going to Marry the Most Handsome
Man In the. Navy.
rSFZCZAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
"Washington, March 14. It is rumored
in the clubs and drawing rooms of Wash
ington, that the engagement of Dr. Ruth, of
the navy, and Miss Minnie "Wanamaker,
eldest daughter of the Postmaster General,
will soon be announced. Dr. Ruth is re
garded as the most handsome man in the
navy, and is the best known, and probably
the most popular society man in Wash
ington. He has been very devoted in his attentions
to various pretty girls for several seasons,
but it is said that he has met his fate in the
person of the pretty and wealtbv Miss
"Wanamaker.
Klncald Will be Indicted.
Washington, March 14. The grand
jury to-day, after examining the witnesses
who testified at the iaijUMt, presented Kin-
caid for the murder of ex-Congressman
Taulbee, and the .District Attorney was
directed to prepare an indictment to be
submitted to the court to-morrow.
NOT OUT OP THE WOODS.
The Friends or the Chicago Fnlr BUI Afrnld
of a Trap In Congress Tho Meas
ure Modified. Dot Still
Unsatisfactory.
tEFECIAL TELEGRA TO THE niSPATCII.l
"Washington, March 14. The Chicago
"World's Fair men have at last agreed noon
the terms of a fair bill and it was discussed
by the special committee this morning. No
action upon it, however, was taken, and it
looks now as though there would be some
interesting skirmishing before the bill gets
into the House. The provision for holding
the fair in 1893, which was in the bill as
originally prepared by the Chicago people,
has been'stricken out and 1892 fixed as the
time for the Exposition proper. The bill is
not yet satisfactory to the committee, how
ever, and as day after day goes by the num
ber of members in favor of the Chicago
plan grows less.
Having eliminated the date 1893 from the
bill, there are two sections that seem to be
generally unpopular. The appropriation of
1,500,000 for a Government exhibit will
meet with a great deal of opposition, especi
ally on the Democratic side. The friends
of the bill really think that $2,000,000 is the
sum that should be appropriated, but they
are afraid to say so and have made provision
for the less amount, in the hope of keeping
the enemies of the bill down to as small a
number as possible. A great many think
also that no bill should pass which accepts
$5,000,000 as the sum to be guaranteed
by the incorporators of the lair be ore
a charter is given them. Mr. Flower
in the committee meeting to-day, represent
ing those members who think that the guar
antee should be at least doubled, offered an
amendment fixing the amount of the guar
antee at 10,000,000. -This amendment and
other suggestions which some of the mem
bers have to make will be considered at the
next meeting.
Mr. Belden, one of the New York mem
bers of the committee, is still absent It is
thought that he will withhold his supportot
the bill unless the guarantee sum is in
creased to $10,000,000, as proposed by Mr.
Flower's amendment. The Chicago people
have become thoroughly convinced that the
New York members, aided, perhaps by
those members who are opposed to holding a
fair at any place, are preparing to spring
some sort of a trap upon them.
A CEACKER COMBINE.
Now York Concerns Bought Up by Ono Com
pany, Which Pays $3,300,000 Tho
Same People Operate ibo Dia
mond Match Trast.
rsrrciAt. telegram to the dispatch.1.
New Yobk, March 14. The cracker bus
iness of New York and vicinity has been
syndicated and over two-thirds of it is now
owned and controlled by the New York
Biscuit Company. The scheme has been
under way for some time, and within a few
days has been consummated by the Biscuit
Company paying over a sum said to have
been about $3,500,000 to the former owners
of the bakeries purchased, and taking pos
session of the property, the general manage
ment of which is now in the hands of George
P. Johnson, who is treasurer of the new
company. The New York Biscuit Company
is composed of about the same men who or
ganized -and control the Diamond Match
Company, which has for several years had a
monopoly of the match manufacturing busi
ness in this country. Mr. Johnson is the
New York manager of the Diamond Match
Company, Judge "William H. Moore is
president of the Biscuit Company and Vice
President of the Match Company. The
secretary ot the Biscuit Company is J. A.
McCormick, president of the Merchants
Loan and Trust Company of Chicago.
There are a number of other Western
capitalists in the concern, and the company
is incorporated in Illinois with 5,000,000
capital. The former owners of the bakeries
are represented in the Board of Directors of
the new company. Treasurer Johnson said to
day. "There is no occasion to fear that the
combination of the bakeries will lead to a
rise in prices; in fact, the effect will be
exactly contrary to that. You can buy
matches now for one-third of what you had
to pay when the Diamond Match Company
first got control of the business. The dif
ference is due not to any reduction in the
cost of the raw materials, but to the saving
effected in the cost of manufacture by the
consolidation of the business and the em
ployment of a large amount of capital. The
effect will be similar in the cracker busi
ness." BLIND BOYS AS WITNESSES.
They Enter a Protest Against Poor Food nnd
Ill-Trentment.
rsr-ECtAi. telegbam to the dispatch, i
Philadelphia, March 14. Thirty
blind boys, inmates of the Pennsylvania
Institution for the Blind, appeared before
the Board of Managers of the Home, this
afternoon, and protested against the poor
food and ill-treatment given them by their
instructors. In addition they brought
charges of a more serious nature. The boys
drew up a resolution asking for the dis
charge of Instructor King and the suspen
pension of Superintendent Battles until the
investigation shall close.
The reason assigned for these requests
were that Mr. Battles should not remain in
charge while he is being investigated, and
that Mr. King had been guilty of gross im
morality. JAPAN PREPARING FOR WAR.
A Conflict With Korea is Asserted to bo
Inevitable.
lEFECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISFATClt.1
Denveh, March 14. The Dispatch
correspondent is in receipt of a letter from
Yokohama, Japan, in which the writer says
there is no disputing of the fact that a war
between Japan and Korea is inevitable.
Already the Japanese Government has
three men-of-war prepared for an emergency.
The militia are being drilled, and at 24
hours' notice 50,000 men could be mustered
into service.
How soon the fatal blow will be struck is
unknown, but there is one thing certain, it
will be very shortly. The writer in con
clusion reports an earthquake on February
20, doing but little damage.
MINERS WEEK UNGRATEFUL.
They Are Charged With Striking After
Obtaining Exceptional Advantages.
Berlin, March 14. The Lower House
of the Diet to-day resumed the mine debate.
Herr Ritter, Director of the Pless mines,
opposed a reduction of the hours of labor.
He said the position of the miners was" cot
worse than that of other workmen.
Minister Maybach stated that the work
men in the Royal mines at Saar had sur
prised the Government by striking after ob
taining exceptional advantages. The aim
of the Government, he said, continued to be
to establish closer relations between work
men and their employers.
striking Miners Defeated.
Hurley, Wis., March 14. The strike at
the Ashland and Norrie mines, at Hurley,
was declared off to-day. The strikers, 3,000
in number, returned to work, except the
leaders, who were discharged.
PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, MARCH 15. 1890 TWELVE
A RUSH TO THE STEIP
Twenty Thousand Excited Boomers
Invade the Cherokee Outlet,
UNDER THE MISTAKEN IMPRESSION
That the Country Was Open to Settlement
by Congress.
NOT TO BE STOPPED BY PRAIRIE FIRES,
lies, Women and Children Press Forward to Secure
Claims.
Acting upon the mistaken impression that
Congress had opened up the Cherokee Oatlet
for settlement, 20,000 boomers have invaded
that territory, and have chosen their claims.
Arkansas Citt, March 14. "On to the
strip."
That was tho signal for the invasion of the
Cherokee Outlet by the anxious "boomers"
who have gathered on the border of the strip
for the past 48 hours. It re-echoed around
the outlet from midnight until dawn this
morning, and when the sun rose over the
promised land the invasion had fairly begun.
To-night it is estimated from the different
points of entrance fully 20,000 people have
passed the border, and half that number
have staked their claims. The strip is in
vaded. For a month past, in fact ever since Presi
dent Harrison issued the noted proclamation
ordering the Cherokee Strip Live Stock As
sociation to vacate the "Outlet," boomers
have been gathering on the frontier anxious
to be among the
FIRST ON THE GROUND
that they might select the choicest land for
their prospective homes and claims when
permitted by the Government. The boom
ers were all sorts of people and they came
in all sorts of ways. The tramps, and there
were plenty of tnem, came on foot; the spec
ulative real estate dealer with his paid
claim agents, and there were plenty of them,
too, came by rail, and the bona fide settlers,
who were in a great majority, came
in their covered farm wagons, converted for
the time being into a combination dwelling
and vehicle. Some of the latter, who could not
afford the luxury even of a wagon, tramped
to the border beside their horses laden with
household goods, and many of them bearing
their children too small to walk and too
heavy to be carried.
The latter were mostly supplied with
tents. The temporary objective points of
the boomers were the rivers and creeks,
whose banks for two weeks past have been
dotted with tents and white-capped wagons.
FORMING ASSOCIATIONS.
The settlers bad not been on the ground
long before the benefits of organization
presented themselves to their minds, and at
all the principal points of assembly boomer
associations of various kinds with various
motives have been formed. A majority of
these associations are formed for the purpose
of taking united action upon the time of
moving into the strip,it being the general be
lief among the leaders that President Harri
son would not insist upon their removal
when once they had established themselves
upon their claims. In meantime the people
have been waiting patiently for the coming
of the day when they would establish them
selves in their new homes.
Yesterday afternoon all was quiet in this
city among the boomers. Six hours later a
scene of excitement was witnessed that
equalled in intensity that which accom
panied the invasion of Oklahoma a year ago.
The news had been received from "Washing
ton that the Oklahoma bill had passed the
House declaring the Outlet to be public do
main and extending the laws of Nebraska
over the strip as well as over Oklahoma.
SCENES OF EXCITEMENT.
The news was spread qnickly from mouth
to mouth, and by 11 o'clock the male
boomers were running to and fro, some of
them only half dressed, in their excitement
making hurried preparations to move at
once over the border. The general
stores were besieged by people anxious to
lay in a store of provisions, and tradesmen
were obliged to take down their window
shutters and supply the demands. The
prairie schooners were hastily made ready
for the voyage, the wagons loaded and horses
hitched in their traces.
The sun was just rising when the first
crack ol the teamster's blacksnake whip was
heard announcing departures for the outlet.
Those of the city had the advantage of
early information over their comrades who
were camped further down the river and
carried to them the news of invasion. Tho
latter made ready quickly to join the pro
cession aud soon a long line of wagons, their
inmates shouting joyously and waving
hats, coats and whatever came to their
hand, was winding its way over the rolling
prairie.
CAME "WITH A BUSH.
The invasion came with a rnsh. No one
expected it, not even the settlers themselves.
The tenants of the s'rip, the Cherokee Live
Stock Association and their agents, were
taken entirely unawares. Chief Mayes, of the
Cherokee Nation, had placed at the disposal
of the former a contingent of Indian police
to drive out occasional settlers, but this was
entirely too insignificant a force to oppose
the invaders, and they were powerless to
cope with the stream ot immigrants invad
ing. The Government, so far as known, had
taken no precautions to arrest a possible
movement of the settlers, and it was, not
uutil early this morning that the military
appeared upon the scene. Captain Bur
bank, in command of a small force of United
Slates Regulars at Oklahoma City, marched
bis force into the strip late last night to stay
the progress of boomers, having been so
ordered by telegraph. So far as known thib
force had no effect in retarding the move
ment, although nothing of the movements
of the military has been heard since last
night. At least, everybody that started
from here got there.
THE CATTLE STAMPEDED.
On entering the strip the cattle grazing
there looked upon the unusual scene with
alarm, turned tail and fled, a stampede en
suing which the cowboys in charge were
unable to either check or control. The cat
tle fled five or six miles before the invaders
from the north, where they were met by the
boomers who were coming up from Okla
homa. Between these two fires they were
driven east and west. Arriving on the strip
the settlers disembarked from their
"schooners" and staked their claims.
"When the news reached other points sur
rounding the strip that the outlet had been
invaded, a mad race for claims was at once
inaugurated. Five hundred boomers
started from Kiowa, Kan., 400 from Cald
well, 800 from Guthrie, and several hun
dred from Hunnewell,
THE BOOMERS' MISTAKE.
Tbo Cherokee Ontlook Has Mot Been
Opened to Settlers.
"Washington, March 14. In the House
to-day Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, stated that an
erroneous impression had gone out that, ac
cording to the provisions of the Oklahoma
bill passed yesterday, the Cherokee outlet
bad been declared open to settlers under the
'homestead laws. Under the provisions of
the bill the Cherokee outlet was cot open to
settlement The, statement should have
been that the public land strip not the
Cherokee outlet had been opened to settle
meat, Tho Cherokee outlet, be said, was
1V&
embraced within the limits of the new Ter
ritory, but was not open to settlement under
the homestead law. '
THE AUCTION BLOCK
Still a Fentaro In Soron Sections of tbo Old
Dominion The Proposed Sale of
White Vagrants Nearly
Causes n Riot.
ISrXClAL TELEPBA2I TO THE DISFATCII.l
Norfolk, "Va., March 14. The practice
of selling human beings' on the auctioneer's
block is not quite out of vogue in Virginia.
The only diflerence cow being that the sales
are not confined to negroes. The statutes of
the State provide for selling the services of
vagrants at auction, with the authority to
work them with ball and chain. Under the
provisions of this law two white men in
this city, named Gilbert Lappan and Thomas
Crelliu, convicted of vagrancy, were to have
been put up to be sold for three months'
service.
Lopg before the hour advertised for the
auction an immense crowd had assembled.
It had been reported around the city that
several colored men were desirous of secur
ing the two prisoners, and this brought out
the race feeling among the whites to quite
an intense degree. The indignation was
very great and the mntterings oi the crowd
became more and more unmistakable. A
large number ot negroes were also attracted
to the sale, and among the latter there was
manifest a spirit of exultation that the un
fortunates to be sold were not of their color.
These chucklings ot" self-congratulation
seemed to all the more incense the white
portion of the crowd, and when the throng
had become almost ripe for an outburst of
its indignation it was announced that the
sale would not take place. It was learned
later that the two vagrants had been pri
vately hired to a white farmer near this
city.
The crowd was dispersed by the police,
but its good humor was not by any means
restored. It is confidently believed that had
the auction been permitted to go on, and a.
uegro man nau ouereu a uiu, ae wouiu. uaye
been promptly knocked down, and a riot
would have ensued.
ONLY ONE FLAG.
The South Gives tho Presidential Party a
Henrty Welcome
Charleston, March 14. The Presi
dental party reached here shortly after 11
A. M. to-day. The Stars and Stripes and
the State colors fluttered to the breeze over
the city. The visitors were taken to Fort
Sumter and were shown around the harbor.
To-night Mrs. Harrison and her friends had
a reception. Later in the night the visitors
were serenaded by the Vanderbilt Benevo
lent Society, of which President Harrison
is an honorary member. Democrats and Re
publicans vied with each other in paying
their respects. The party at midnight re
turned to their car and will leave here for
"Florida in the morning. The Newt and
Courier will say editorially to-morrow:
Thank heaven" there was no politics 'on this
auspicious occasion.' ana for one day there was
a truce to the bitterness ot party strife and to
tbo unchristian manifestation of sectional
feeling. The old flag floated over us all. The
flag that was planted upon the ramparts of
Chapultepec by a South Carolina soldier. Tho
flag whose folds Benjamin Harrison fought for
during the war between the States. The flag
which now floats proudly over the Capitol at
Washington. Mrs. Harrison's flag is our flag,
and the flag of our common country. It was a
day of cordial, earnest, friendly greeting."
TROUBLE FOR M'KINLEY.
Wool Blannfactnrprs Will Combine Against
the Ohio Man's Measure.
Boston, Mass., March 14. The Boston
'Commercial Bulletin will announce to-morrow
the organization of a new association of
wool manufacturers, which will oppose the
old National Association,of which "William
"Whitman is President. The new associa
tion will resign the extreme demands of
wool growers. Some 50 manufacturers re
sponded to the first call, representing every
class of woolen manufactures carpets, flan
nels, blankets, cassimeres, worsteds and over
coatings. Among those present was a large
number who had hitherto stood by the old
regime. A. T. Lyman, of the Lowell Man
ufacturing Company, acted as Chairman,
and will shortly appoint a committee of five
to take charge of the organization and draft
a constitution. The organization will de
mand a reduction of wool duties and their
adjustment on a more equal basis. The
permanent headquarters will be established
probably in this city. The Bulletin will say:
The-original meeting Included representa
tives even from Philadelphia; and if tho ex
treme measures proposed by Mr. McKlnley are
actually incorporated in a bill, it is likely they
will be joined by the carpet manufacturers in a
body.
A CALL TO COLORED CATHOLICS
To Convene nt Cincinnati to Consider the
African Slnvo Trade.
Cincinnati, March 14. Mr. Daniel A.
Rudd, President of the Executive Commit
tee appointed by the Congress of Colored
Catholics of the United States, which was
held at Washington, D. C, January, 1889,
has issued a call for another congress to
meet in Cincinnati July 8, 1890. This has
been done after consultation with the com
mittee, and with the approval of His Emi
nence, Cardinal Gibbons, Most Rev. Will
iam Henry Elder. Rt. Rev. Camilus P.
Maes, Rt. Rev. F. S. Chatard and others.
The basis of representation is one delegate
for every 500 members or fraction thereof in
each colored Catholic organization.
The object is to continue the work set
forth in the address of the former congress
and to take into consideration the great
work of Cardinal Lavigerie in his efforts to
abolish the African slave trade.
A CLERGYMAN'S SON MISSING.
lie Went to New York to Seek Work and
It Is Feared Ho tins Salclded.
New" York, March 14. The police of
this city have been asked to look for Robert
Reddy, the son of Rev. John E. Reddy, a
Baptist clergyman of Areola, David county,
Mo.
Young Reddy is 21 years old, and it is
said came to this city to look for work. It
was said that he was in destitute circum
stances, and it is feared may have taken his
life.
PILLSBURY'S PHILANTHROPY.
He Will Erect n Hospital a a Memorial to
His Wife.
Concord, N. H., March 14. Hon.
George A. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis, ex
Mayor and for 27. years a resident of Con
cord, prior to 1880, has given 30,000 to the
Concord Hospital Association for a new
building, to be named the Margaret Pills
bury Hospital, as a memorial to his wife.
Work will be commenced on the building at
once.
FOREIGN MUSICIANS DEBARRED
From Belonging to Local Unions of the
National Iieagne of Maslclans.
Cincinnati, March 14. The National
League of Musicians to-day re-elected the
old officers, with the exception of Treasurer.
For that office Mr. J. M. Lander, of New
York, was elected. It has been provided
that hereafter all ex-Presidents shall become
honorary members of the league.
A proposition to form a Beneficial Insur
ance Association was defeated. A rule was
adopted that members of local unions shall
be citizens ot the United States.
PAGES.
NOT FOR PATTISON.
Scott, of Erie, Declares That He is
Entirely Unpledged and is
ONLY HUSTLING FOR HARMONY.
B. E. Jamison the Latest Addition to the
Candidates Who Are
AFTER THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.
k Conference of Party Leaders to Try to Seenre an
Undiiided Fiont.
Scott's missionary work for Pattison in
Philadelphia has not been conspicuously
successful. He now announces, therefore,
that he is not pledged to any particular can
didate, but is very, anxious for harmony.
The friends of B. K. Jamison have placed
him in the Gubernatorial race.
rSFICIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCII.I
Philadelphia, March 14. Democratic
circles were stirred up to-day upon reading
the announcement that ex-Coneressman
William L. Scott, of Erie, who is recog
nized as one of the most prominent party
leaders, was in the city and had held con
ferences with Congressmen William Mutch
ler, who is one of the warmest supporters of
"William A. Wallace lor the Democratic
nomination for Governor, and with ex-Postmaster
William F. Harrity, who has many
friends among the city delegates to the
Democratic State Convention. It is known
that nothing definite was agreed upon by the
conferences of Thursday regarding the ar
rangement ot a State ticket that will be
satisfactory to all factions of the party.
NOT FOB ANY CANDIDATE.
Ex-Congressman Scott, who was supposed
to be fathering the boom for the nomination
of ex-Governor Robert E. Pattiso. ias the
Democratic candidate for Governor, Wormed
his friends that he was not committed to any
particular candidate, his greatest wish being
for the leaders to agree among themselves as
to the proper candidate in order to prevent
a fight before the convention.
Attention was called to the known oppo
sition of Scott to ex-Senator "Wallace, and
one of the local leaders who is on the inside
m all such matters, said: "My opinion is
that Scott would like to have Pattison
named as the candidate in order to prevent
the nomination of Wallace, but I feel that
the developments of yesterday have satis
fied Mr. Scott that if he doesn't want Wal
lace nominated an agreement will have to
be rea'ched favoring the nomination of some
candidate other than Mr. Pattison."
A PBOSPECT OF nABMONY.
"At the same time." continued the
speaker, "my belief is that Scott will agree
to the nomination of Wallace, if satisfac
tory arrangements are made regarding the
selection of the delegates from this State to
the National Convention. The delegates
from this city are nearly all unpledged, but
I am assured that those who are known as
in sympathy with the leaders in control of
the local organization will not consent to
any arrangement looking to the nomination
of ex-Governor Pattison as the candidate."
The latest announced candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Governor is B.
K. Jamison, the well-known banker and
tally-ho driver of this city, whose excursions
throughout the State have, in addition to
his business reputation, made him known
in nearly every section of the Common
wealth. The friends of Mr. Jamison have
started to work in his behalf, and it is said
that efforts will be made to have the city
delegates act as a unit in favor of his nomi
nation in the event of the withdrawal of the
ex-Governor's name, it being known that
Mr. Pattison will not make a fight for the
nomination, but .stands ready to accept it if
it comes to him with any considerable de
gree of unanimity.
no show for pattison.
The impression is general in local Dem
ocratic circles that the party leaders in con
trol of the maohinery, who have elected
fully two-thirds of the delegates to the State
convention, will not support ex-Governor
Pattison as the candidate for the nomina
tion for Governor. It is known that the
leaders are unpledged to any particular
candidate, but it is asserted that sooner
than agree to the nomination of Pattison
thev will turn in for the nomination of ex
Senator Wallace.
It is given out authoritatively that after
the Executive Committee of the Democratic
State Committee hold its meeting Scott,
Mutchler and the rest of the leaders will
make known their position regarding the
framing of a ticket, and it is thought that
an agreement will have been entered into
that will permit the Democracy of the State
to present an undivided front
BLACKMAILING A VANDERBILT.
A Brothcr-Iu-I.aw of Cornelias Has a LIttIo
Case in Court.
f SPECIAL TELEGBA5I TO THE DI8PATCTM
New Yobk, March 14. William Fear
ing Gill, who married Edith Gwynne, a
sister of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, had
Ezekiel K. Finch, a coachman, arrested to
day for attempting tp blackmail him. Finch
was employed by the Gills for a time after
the marriage, but Gill discharged him in
February. After discharging him Gill sent
him a check for 17 for wages. A few days
after Finch's dismissal letters came to Mr.
Gill with the coachman's name signed to
them and containing a demand for the im
mediate payment of $40, and intimations
that unpleasant revelations would be made
by the writer unless the money was paid.
Finch demanded an examination and the
justice held him $500 bail meanwhile. Mr.
Gill will produce the other letters at the ex
amination. BAD FOR PERRIN AND BANE.
Damaging Evidence Frodnced Against the
Hurley Bank Robbers.
Minneapolis, March 14. In the ttial
of Perrin, the alleged Hurley bank robber,
at Ashland to-day, Major Alfred Quiaffe
and William F. Williams, two employes of
the Treasury Deportment at "Washington,
identified the roll of money found upon
Baker as a part of the identical package of
$C,000, which was sent by the Treasury De
partment to the National Exchange Bank
of Milwaukee, by them to the First Na
tional Bank of Ashland, and from there de
posited in the Corn Exchange Bank a
Hurley on the day of the robbery.
This is the most damaging evidence that
has yet been brought against Perrin and
Baker.
ENGLISH GOLD IN OHIO.
A Syndicate Gets Options on Flndlay's Glass
Manufactories.
tSFECIAL TELEGBAM TO TO DISPATCS.I
Findlay.O., March 14. Edward Phelps,
the Detroit agent for an English syndicate,
who was here a short time ago for the
purpose of securing options on glass
lactories, put in an appearance here again
last evening.
It is said this evening that he succeeded
to-day in getting a 3(f day option on all but
two of the factories. There is every indica
tion that the sales will be made at the time
specified, for an aggregate consideration of
$800,000; also that the remaining factories
will swing into lipe by that time. There
are 14 glass manufactories here, 13 being in
operation. It is said' the syndicate will
doable the capacity if sold.
SUNDAY LAW SAFE.
The Proposed Amendment Cannot Pass the
Ohio Legislature In Its Present
Form Other Measures
Under Consideration.
rSPSCTAX. TELXGBAH TO THE DISPATCB.1
Columbus, March 14. The Senate bill
by Mr. Ryan, to amend the Owen law, was
on the House calendar for to-day, second
reading, and went to the Committee on
Municipal Affairs. The impression grows
that the bill cannot pass the House unless
amended so that the proposition can be sub
mitted to a vote of the people in the locali
ties sought to be regulated.
Mr. Taylor, of Guernsey, introduced a
bill to appropriate $419,509 to pay the
Morgan raid claims. In 1886 a commission
was appointed to investigate Morgan raid
claims, and the commission allowed 430,
000, bat the Supreme Court declared
the law appropriating that amount un
constitutional, becanse not passed by a
two-thirds vote. Before the decree ot the
court several of the claims were paid. About
20,000 in claims are held by Guernsey
county citizens.
Mr. Hearn's bill to provide that Common
Pleas Judges shall have authority to fix the
value of the stock of minority stockholders,
instead of a majority of the stockholders,
was made a special order in the House for
next "Wednesday. A bill was introduced in
the House to provide that no
United States prisoners, except those
convicted in this Stite, shall be con
fined ic the Ohio Penitentiary. The object
is to reduce the convict and ex-convict pop
ulation,as a great many of those released on
expiration ot sentence remain in this city.
Both branches have adjourned until Mon
day. SUING FOE HEAVY COMMISSIONS.
Chicago Men Want $142,000 for Their Ser
vices In Mnking n Lnnd Deal.
Chicago, March 14. Henry "W. Con
verse and William J. Bell to-day commenced
suit in the Superior Court against Benjamin
C. Saurot, Stephen C. Clark George Sisson,
Mr. Saurot is a wealthy banker, ot Lima,
O.; and is reputed to be worth 4,000,000.
He is president of the International Con
struction Company, and of the Northwestern
Colonization and Improvement Company,
of Chihuahua, Mexico. The suit is for 200,
000. The plaintiffs claim that in October, 1887.
the defendants engaged them to dispose of
10,000 shares in the Northwestern Coloniza
tion Company, which company owned 2,500,
000 acres of land in New Mexico, and it was
desired to improve this land and sell it to
advantage. The defendants, it is alleged,
agreed that if the plaintiffs would get up a
syndicate to buy 10,000 shares of the stock
they would pay them 10,000, and if the
share holders thus obtained would take an
additional quantity of this land at 2 an
acre, would pav the plaintiffs the additional
sum of 132,000. It is said that the delend
ants have failed to keep their promise, hence
this suit for the amount.
A PAN-AMERICAN SUCCE8S.
It Has Increased Trade Between tho
United States and Costa Rica.
Chicago, March 14. President Bernar
do De Soto, of Costa Rica, who has been
stopping at the Palmer House for some
time, expects soon to leave for Washington.
He expects to visit Europe before resuming
the reins of government, which are now in
the hands of the Vice President.
Don Monroe Fernandez, Minister of
Finance and Education of Costa Rica, and
representative of that republic at the Pan
American Congress, is also in the city. He
has been been making a study of the, public
school system of the city with a view to
utilizing it in the public schools of Costa
Rica on his return. In an interview to-day
be aid:
We are delighted at the sacces3 of the Fan
American Congress and are sure that it will
Erove of great benefit to all concerned. We
ave increased trade with you from $500,000 in
1884 to 81,700,000 to-day. We are greatly inter
ested In the Nicaragua Canal, and think that
Captain Menocal is to push it on to a triumph
ant termination. It be does it will be of great
benefit to us all.
NO HOPE FOE NAVASSA RI0TEES.
President Harrison Is A.lted to Allow the
Law to Tako Its Course.
Baltimore, Md., March 14. Thomas
G. Hayes, United States District Attorney,
to-day mailed to President Harrison his re
port on the facts of the murder of the white
officers at Navassa island on the 14th of
September, 1889, and also his opinion and
recommendation as to the extending of
clemency to the condemned murderers,
George S. Key, Henry Jones and Edward
Smith. Mr. Hayes was emphatic in recom
mending that their application to have the
death sentence commuted to life imprison
ment be refused and that the law be per
mitted to take its course.
Judges Bond and Morris, who sat in the
trials, indorsed the letters and concur in the
recommendations of Mr. Hayes that there is
no occasion for the exercise of Executive
clemency. .
N0LAND TO BE PROSECUTED.
His Bondsmen Fall to Make Good the State
Treasurer's Shortage.
Jeffebson City, Mo., March 14. The
bondsmen of the late State Treasurer No
land have taken no action yet toward mak
ing that gentleman's shortage good.
Governor Francis in referring to the mat
ter to-day said: "The defalcation must be
made good. I will wait a few days, and
if the bondsmen do not voluntarily pav the
entire deficit into the treasury, I will direct
the Attorney General to commence suit
against the entire bond."
It is said in Jefferson City that the fail
ure of the bondsmen to pay the shortage
at once is looked upon as positive evidence
that Mr. Noland will be prosecuted and
that he may be arrested at almost any mo
ment. PITTSBUEG TO THE LAEES.
The Central Traffic Association Fixing All
Ball Freight Rates.
Chicago, March 14. At the meeting of
the freight department of the Central Traffic
Association to-day the difference between
all-rail rates from Pittsburg and other terri
tory to lake ports, and the all-rail rates was
considered.
It was agreed that the difference should
not exceed 10 per cent.
LOOKING FOR HER GRANDMOTHER.
Adventures of n Little Girl Sent by Her
Mother From Chicago to Wisconsin.
Ashland. "Wis., March 14. A little
5-year-old girl was put off the train at
Hurley last night by the porter of a sleep
ing car, who stated that she was put in his
charge by ber mother at Chicago, with
directions to leave her at Hurley, where her
grandmother would meet her. The little
girl gave the name of Jennie Hogden.
There was no one to meet her, and Hurley
ladies have taken her in charge.
A New Blast Furnace In Tennessee.
rSPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Chattanooga, March 14. At the regu
lar annual meeting of the Roane Iron
Works to-day it was decided to erect a 100
ton blast furnace at Rockwood, East Ten
nessee. The company has been doing a
large pig iron business in the last 12
months.
Transient Advertisementsf
INCLUDING
WANTS, TO LETS, FOR SALES, ETC., FOB,
TO-MORROW'S ISSUE
May bo handed in at the main advertising
offlca of The Dispatch, Fifth avenue, up to
midnight.
THREE CENTS
LOADS QF DYNAMITE
Fired i f 'es Weishinjj Hun
dt ids Out of
THEMOCTfl . ENT CANNON '
One of These Awful C "3 Thronh
aLart
WITHOUT EXPLODING THE BIG SHELL,
A Eemariably Sncccssfnl Test of a Sew Enrina of
Destruction.
Wonderful experiments were made with
dynamite shells near Utica, N. Y., yester
day. A cannon that had cot been fired
since the war was used for testing new dyna
mite projectiles. One shell weighed 350
pounds and contained a large quantity of
dynamite, which was not exploded until the
projectile struck the rocks, at which it was
aimed.
Utica, March 14. The successfnl test of
the Justin explosive cartridge as fired from
a nine-inch rifled gun took place in a ravine
at Perryville Falls, near Canasotta, to-day.
The rifle used was the Blakesley, made by
Fawcett, Preston & Co., of Liverpool, En
gland, for the Confederates in 1S63. It was
used and captured at the siege of Charles
ton, since which time it had not been fired
until to-day. It had a test of 45 ponnds of
powder with a 273 pound projectile. The
Justin cartridge, which it was used to test,
is the invention of Dr. Justin, of Syracuse,
who has united with him in the work
Messrs. George Dewitt and W. H. Patton,
of Canasotta, N. Y.
The object of the test was to determine
whether a large amount of dynamite could
be fired from a rifle, using gunpowder as
the projectile force, without the dynamite
exploding in the cartridge before it left the
gun.
DYNAMITE FEON A CANNON.
There have been a number of experiments
made in this direction, including those of
Graden, who only used two or three pounds
of dynamite, and who burst two guns and
several shells in an unsuccessful attempt
To-day was the first time that dynamite in
any large quantity has been forced safely
from a cannon, and the last cartridge fired
carried nearly 19 pounds of the deadly stuff,
exploding when the shell struck the solid
quartz cliff over a third of a mile away.
The first test was made at 3 P. M., firing a
shell weighing 250 pounds, and containing
X pounds of dynamite. The charge of
powder was 12 pounds. The shell struck
the cliff, and one-half of the dynamite ex
ploded. The second shell, fired at 4 p. M.,
was the same, using 20 pounds of powder.
The third shell weighed 300 pounds and
contained 8 pounds of dynamite. The
charge was 25 pounds of powder, the service
charge for this gun. This shell did great
execution on striking the rocky side of the
ravine.
BEMAEKABLE TEST.
The shell passed through an eight-inch
tree on the way without exploding the dyna
mite. At the cliff it burst, tore up the rock3
generally aud split the steel bullet in half,
one piece landing nearly a mile off. The
fourth and final shot w"as the largest ever
fired in the gun since testing, 35 pounds of
powder being ued. The shell weighed 350
pounds, or 100 pounds more than
the regulation, acd contained nearly
19 pounds of the best dynamite. This
shell blew to powder the quartz block which
it hit, and the ballet ricocheted up the
cliff out of sight The dynamite all ex
ploded at the moment of contact and would
have blown a ship out of water.
The experiment is a perfect and unquali
fied success A public trial will be given
later, to which Government experts will bo
invited. The invention consists of a grad
uated pressure air-cushion, which protects
the dynamite from exploding at the dis
cbarge of the gun.
SAWTELLE'S CASE CLOSED.
His Attorney Declines to Proceed Before;
the Present Magistrate.
Rochester, N. H., March 14. In the
continued hearing this morning of the case
of Isaac Sawtelle, charged with the murder
of his brother, Sawtelle's counsel com
plained of unfair treatment by the Court
He said he bad expected that witnesses' ex
penses would be paid by the State; that the
prisoner had been deprived of his money, so
that witnesses for the defense could not be
summoned; that nearly all objections
raised by respondent's condsel had been
overruled, while those of the other side were
allowed.
He concluded by stating that under the
existing circumstances he would refuse to
put in any more testimony here and
would go to a higher court Isaac Sawtelle
was then committed without bail to await
the action of the grand jury.
CINCINNATI'S MAY FESTIVAL.
A Classical Programme Arranged and
Famous Soloists Engaged.
Cincinnati, March 14. The directors
of the Musical Festival Association have
announced the programme, seven concerts
of the coming festival, which begins May 20
and continues until May 24. The soloist3
are Edward Lloyd, of London, and Theodore
J. Toedt, tenors; Myron W. Whitney, basso;
Emil Fischer, of New York, baritone; Mile.
Clementina De Vere, New York; Mrs.
Theodore J. Toedt, Mrs. Corinae Moors
Lawson, sopranos, and Miss Emily Winant,
contralto.
The festival opens with Handel's oratorio
"The Messiah." Other choral works to be
given are Dorak's "Stabat Mater," St
Saens' "Deluge," selections from Wagner's
"Flying Dutchman," "Tristan and Isolde,"
"The Valkyrie" and "Gotterdamerung,"
Bach's "Passion Music" and VerdYl
"Requiem."
REOPENING THE CR0NIN CASE.
Tho Supreme Court to be Applied to for
New Trial.
Chicago, March 14. Judge McConnell
to-night signed the bill of exceptions in the
Cronin case. The signature of Clerk Gil
bert is to be obtained to-morrow, and the
document will then be taken at once to the
Supreme Court at Ottawa, where Lawyer
Forrest will apply for a supercedas.
The effect of the supercedas, ii obtained,
will be to return Coughlin, Burke and
O'Sullivan from Joliet Prion to Chicago,
and relieve them of penitentiary labor ami
discipline pending further proceedings.
MORE SOUTHERN IRON PURCHASED.
Carnegie, Fblpps Sc Co. Bought 5,000 Tods
nt !hrfflelil Yesterday.
SPECIAL TILEOEAH TO THE DISrATCB.1
Sheffield, Ala., March 14. Carnegie,
Phipps & Co. made a large purchase of pig
iron from the Sheffield furnaces to-day. The
purchase was for 5,000 tons of No. 1 pig
iron and the pig will be shipped by water
to Pittsburg.
"the delivery of the pig will extend over si
couple of months. The price was cot
stated.
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