THE LICENSE COURT
Will be fully covered by reporters for
THE DISPATCH. All persona inter
ested can rclv on it or all the details
and incidents.
In NEXT BUNDA PS ISSUE Sir
ilorell Mackenzie will tell all about
the effects of tobacco on the human
system. Everybody should read it.
FORTY-ITFTII YEAH.
PITTSBURG, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1890.
. THREE CENTS
y.
10 WOIKM SUNDAY.
A Walking Delegate Has an
Obnoxious Employer and
SIXTEEN KOOTKION MEN
Arrested for Performing Ordinary
Labor Upon the Sabbath.
THE CASE THROWN OUT OF COURT,
And the Magistrate May be Impeached in
Consequence
BARS OP MAS I SOCIAL CLUBS CLOSED
An employing marble cutter was arrested
ia NeT York yesterday for 'working non
union men on Sunday. Justice Gorman
promptly discharged him. The labor ele
ment will endeavor to have Gorman im
peached for disregarding the law. The bars
of many Philadelphia clubs yesterday closed
down suddenly.
IFrKCtAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISF ATCII.1
New York, March 1G. "Walking Dele
irate Charles P. Eogers. of the Reliance
Labor club, caused the arrest this morning
of Otto Volkening, of "Volkemng & Co.,
marble cutlers, of Forty-fourth street, on a
charge of violating the Sunday law. Jus
tice Gorman, at the Tombs, discharged Vol
kening. Delegate Rogers says that the Reliance
Labor Club has been at loggerheads for a
long time with Yolkening & Co. because
the firm refuse to employ union working
men. On Monday last the walking dele
gate went to the new Temple Court build
ing on Nassau street, where Yolkening &
Co. are finishing up the marble work, and
ordered that no union man should work
there. He went away and called again the
next day and each succeeding day to see
that no union men are employed.
ALL. HARD AT WORK.
"Walking Delegate Rogers found to-day
when he called at the building that Mr.
Yolkening had 1G non-union men at
work. Rogers went around to the Oak
street station and notified Captain Carpen
ter that the Sunday law was being violated.
Accompanied by Rogers, policemen went
around to Temple Court building and ar
rested Yolkening.
"When Yolkening was released he returned
to the building. The Sunday work was not
interrnpted. Eogers reported to-day to the
Central Labor Union. Tftis union resolved
that Mayor Grant, District Attorney Fel
lows and Governor Hill be informed ss to
the facts of the release of Mr. Volkening by
Justice Gorman, and that Justice Gorman's
impeachment be asked for.
"Warrants for the 16 men who were at
work will be applied for. The penal code
says: "All trades, manufactures and mechan
ical employments upon the first day of the
week are prohibited." Sabbath breaking is
a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not
less than $1 or not more than $10. or by im
prisonment in a county jail not exceeding
five days, or both.
A rOSSIBLE EXCUSE.
It is a sufficient defense tbat the person
accused keeps Saturday holy if his labor
does not disturb the SuDday quiet Mr.
Volkening said to-day: "The walking del
egates have been annoying us greatly for
some time, but without much satisfaction
to themselves or those they represent.
Usually they come just as I am finish
ing up my work and order strikes.
No union man will remain at work when
directed by these delegates not to do so. As
a result their employers come to me and
beseech me to hurry up my work. I was to
accommodate these employers to-day by
rushing my work. I was taken to the
Tombs, but upon hearing the facts Jnstice
Gorman dismissed the charge. It was a good
thing for Mr. Rogers that he did dismiss it,
for had he held me I would surely have
made a complaint against "Walking Dele
gate Rogers. He was doing his work on
Sunday, the same as I was.
A SUDDEN DRYNESS
Strikes tbe Social Clnb of Philadelphia on
Bandar Great Surprise Caused by
the Order home Consolation
Yet for Topers.
rSFZCIAL TELEOKAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
Philadelphia, March 1G. About 10
o'clock this morning, while the church bells
were ringing and the snow flakes softly
falling on the heads of devout worshipers on
their way to their morning devotions, a
grouD of young gentlemen were seated
around a cosy table in the Art Club cafe,
when their discussions were abruptly ended
by the entrance of a short, stout mem
ber, who dropped into the nearest
seat and called for a cocktail, in a
voice full of emotion. At onco he was sur
rounded by a sjmpatbizing crowd, who asked
what was the matter. When the drink was
brought and gulped down ho wiped his eyes
and said: "I went to the Union League this
morning, and, gentlemen, if you'll be
lieve me, the bar was closed not
a cocktail, not a whisky, nor even a
glass of beer. Nor is this alL At first I thought
tt was all a dream, but no. 1 went to tho Manu
facturers' Club resolved on banishing the idea,
and upon calling for a drink, found that orders
bad been given to sell nothing under any pre
tense." The relation of this story, as was natural,
produced a startling effect. At first it was
thought that a mistake, perhaps a cruel joke,
had been played upon a credulous and good
natured clubman. Subsequent investigation
however, only confirmed tho story. At the
League Stewart Dunbar was found surrounded
by bis nympattizing staff, and spoke freely of
the order. "Last night," he said, -the
House Committee beta a meeting and
about 9 o'clock informed mo that I
was to, un no account, furnish to the members
ot the club, or their guests, any spirituous
liquors on Sunday henceforward. Idouotknow
why tho order was given, but of course gave
word to have it promptly obeed. This morn
ing there havo been between S3 and 60 members
in the club asking for drinks, and have had to
refuse them all."
Tho news traveled fast, and by noon tho
House Committee of the Art Club heard of the
action of the League and Manufacturers Clubs.
The committee at once met, and as a result
Messrs. Robert It. Corson and Charles Q. Flem
ing paid a visit to the Onion League and held a
consultation with tho authoiitics of the btter
club. When they returned they cave orders to
clo-o the cafe, and a notice to "that effect was
placarded in the room. The Itlttenhouse
Club, its younger brother, the Kejstone. and
the University Club, although hearing of the
action of the other clubs, were not affected bv
the scare, nor was the extremely swell Phila
delphia, w&ich received ltamcribers as usual.
PEEFECT KING IN JAIL
As tho Resnlt of ibo Iuvestientlon ' ,no
Pennsylvania Iottitntlon lor the Ttlind
by tho State Bonrd of Charities
A Speedy Trial Promird.
Philadelphia, March 1G. Harry "W.
King, Prefect of the Pennsylvania Institu
tion for the Instruction of the Blind,
was arrested to-day on a warrant
sworn out by Thomas "W. Barlow,
a member of the State Board ot Charities.
The arrest is the outcome of an investigation
begun on Tuesday last by the Board of Mana
gers of the institution of charges made against
the management bv one of tlio instructors.
The investigation has created intense interest
bv reason of the character of the testimony
offered by a number of tho blind boys who
are inmates of the institution. King was
arrested this morning at the home of bis
lather, at Rutledge, near this city,
whither he had gone on Friday.
Ho was taken from his bed and brought
to the Central station here and given
an immediate hearing before a magistrate.
John W. Ganes. aged 17 years, a blind pupil,
told the story ot a series of crimes extending
over a period of three years. Ganes was the
only witness produced, and at the conclusion of
Ins testimony, Kine. after declining to cross
question, was locked up in default of 2,000
bail.
King, when Interviewed in bis cell, gave his
bis version of the state of affairs at the in
stitution. He denied the charge made against
him, and expressed the belief it was the re
sult of a conspiracy. Ho denied the
charges of misappropriation of funds,
cruel treatment of the inmates, and supplying
them with insufficient and poor food as being
aosolutely false. During the talk the prisoner
broko down several times, and wept bitterly.
He fully realizes his position, bnt hones to be
able to clear himself. He will probably be in
dicted by the grand jury to morrow, and the
belief is that his trial will take placo in the
afternoon or po-sibly on Tuesday.
King has been connected with the institution
for nine years, beginning as a teacher. His
position as Prefect gave him general charge of
the pupils. Charges of mismanagement in tho
girls' department are yet to be investigated.
LOST AT SEA.
The Crew of a Shipwrecked Schooner At
tempt to Reach a Llahtbousr, but
Their float Is Capsized and
All nre Drowned.
Baltimore, March 16. Capt. Burgess, of the
river steamer Defiance,telegraphs the Sun that
on passing York Spit lighthouse this after
noon, be saw a schooner on the Spit, near
the northwest buoy. About the same time a
yawl boat was seen containing; five men leaving
the sinking schooner and pulling for the light
house. The -wind was blowing with terrific
force, and as the boat approached the light
house it was thrown against the iron piles and
swamped, and all five men were thrown over
board. The men grasped the iron rods of the
piles in a desperate struggle for life, but the
sea dashed over them with ucb fury that they
were soon benumbed, fell off and were drowned.
A short time previously a boat had been low
crcd from the lighthouse, and a man was seen
to descend a pile and jump into the boat,
which, on getting loose, immediately drifted
awav. The Defiance went alongside the drift
ing boat and threw tho man a line, and he was
hauled on board, and proved to be James li.
Hurst, the second keeper of the lighthouse.
He stated that all five of the shipwrecked men
w ere drowned. Ho was unable to render any
assistance on account of tbe violent seas dash
ing over everything.
It is supposed the schooner is an oyster
vessel, but it is impossible to learn her name or
the names of tbe drowned men.
A BKATE GIRL'S LANTERN
Slops a Passenger Train la Time to Prevent
a Smahnp.
rsrECIALTELIOHAM TO TUB DISPATCH.1
Atjgusta. GA., March 16. A railroad acci
dent was prevented last night by a brave young
country girl who endangered her own life to
prevent the destruction of many passengers.
Miss Daisy Garnett, who lives at White House,
a crossroad on the Port Eoyal and West
ern Alabama Railroad, 40 miles from Au
gusta, while walking on tho track at
dusk last evening, by the Ifgbt of "her lantern,
discovered a broken rail. It was time for the
up passencer train to roll by, and ro Miss Gar
nett ran down the road until she was about 300
yards off to signal the train. Soon the train
came along and the engineer saw tbe girl in tho
center of the track with a lantern waving adis
tress f ignal. The tram was brought to a dead
halt before the girl was reached.
It did not take long for the story of the
danger just ahead to be told, and in a short
time the engineer and his force of men were at
the spot, which, but for the warning of Miss
Garnett, would have been their death. Cheers
were Eent up for Miss Garnett and a purse was
raised by the passengers. Miss Garnett will
also receive a handsome testimonial from tho
railroad company.
104 TEARS OLD T0-DAT.
How a Native of New "York City Will Cele
brate St. Patrick's.
tSPECIAL TELEOKAM TO TUB DISPATCH.1
New Yoke, March 10. In a cottage in Bay
onne, lives Mrs. AnaBtasia Parsells, a native
and almost life-long resident of this city. To
morrow she and her score or more of descend
ants will celebrate ber one hundred and fourth
birthday, for the family genealogical chart
shows that sho was born on St. Patrick's day,
178G. Her birthplace was a Manhattan Island
farm house.
Last ear she was wont to declare with ani
mation that, abide from her siege with yellow
fever, she had seldom required a phjsician.
Her body is bent and for two months she has
been confined almost continuously to bed. She
is very fond ot strong coffeee and she drinks
large quantities of it at every meal. She also
takes a hot cup of the be veragc. which is the
strongest stimulant sbe ever used, just before
going to sleep every night.
THOUSANDS OP DOLLARS LOST.
Tho Confidential Clerk of n Chicago Finn
Also Disappears.
Chicago, March 16. William M. Craig, tho
confidential man of the C. J. L. Meyer A Sons
Lumber Company, is missing, and it is charged
that the books of the company show Irregulari
ties on bis part, amounting to many thousand
dollars. The recent failure of Meyer & Sons is
said to havo been due in part it least toCraig's
operations. Craig has been specnlating in real
estate to the extent ot nearly 250.000.
Soon after the Meyer fail uro Craig was cited
in court to answer questions in rcgird to tho
firm and its collapse. He swore tbat be bad
executed a number of notes to the order of tho
company, as accommodation paper, to help it
tide over a crisis. The company, he said, really
owed him about 2,000. Tho books of the com
pany seemed to support his statement, but the
books were kept by him, and it i9 now explained
were wrong. Attachment suits aggregating
50,000 have been commenced against Craig.
SECRETARY TRACY SHIPWRECKED.
Tbo Chief of the Navy lias Bad Lnek as
n Navigator.
Baltimore, March 16. Captain William
Geoghegin, of the steamer Sue, reports that
the United States steamer Dispatch went
ashore at 4 P. M. Saturday on Cedar Point
shoal. Captain Geoghegan pnllcd on the Dis
patch until 3:30 o'clock this morning, but failed
to move her. It is thought the vessel will remain
ashore till a lull in the northwest wind permits
the water to rise In the river.
Secretary Tracy and a party are on Doard,
bound to Norfolk. Tho Secretary Is accompa
nied by Mrs. Wilmerding and Miss Wilmer
ding and Lieutenant and Mrs. Mason.
TWO BURGLARS CAPTDRED.
A Policeman With n Revolver Persuades
Them to Surrender.
ISrEClAL TELE3BAM TO THE DISPATCn.l
OH. City. March 16. About 2 o'clock this
morning Policeman Suttley discovered two
burglars attempiing to break in McCuen 4
Simon's gents' furnishing store. In answer to a
demand to stop the men ran. bnt surrendered
after one had been shot through the hand by
the officer.
The thieves are James Hill and Mike Hag
gerty, both residents of this city. Tbey are sup
posed to belong to the gang of burglars and
footpads who have lately terrorized the town.
Some Go and -oin Will stny.
Buda-Pesth. March 18. Tbe new Cabinet Is
officially announced. Count fezapary becomes
Prime Minister and Minister of tho Interior
and Herr Bethlen becomes Minister of Hus
bandry. The other Cabinet offices will bo re
tained by the present incumbents.
BLACK IS WILLING.
Ho Soys Ho Is Not Hustling, bnt Wonld
Not Decline tbo Democratic Nomina
tion for Governor No Letter
Received Prom Scott.
ISrXCIAL TELEOKA1I TO THE DISPATCH.!
Yoke, Pa., March 16. A Dispatch
representative called the attention of ex
Licutenant Governor Black to the state
ments and speculations current in the Phila
delphia and Pittsburg newspapers for sev
eral weeks past relative to an alleged letter,
addressed to him by Hon. "William L. Scott,
requesting hira to withdraw from the Guber
natorial campaign in favor of ex-Governor
Pattison.
"If Mr. Scott has written me such a letter,"
said Mr. Black, "it has, up to this date, unac
countably failed to come to hand. 1 havo no
knowledge of Mr. Scott's choice for Governor,
and have had no communication with him for
many months. I havo not changed my attitudo
toward the nomination since my interview in
Beptember last, in which I tried to make It
plain that, personally, I was neither in nor out,
and, of course, no one wonld undertake to ad
vise mo to retire from a position which I never
occupied. Tbe Democratic nomination, under
existing circumstances, is, in my judg
ment, one neither to be sought nor declined.
There ought especially to be no considera
tion at such a time for pushing aspirants, who
are candidates only when they think they see
a chance of success' for themselves, but who
are conveniently 'out of politics,' and let tbe
party and its nominees stagger alone without
their valuable help, when they happen to havo
no individual stake in the result."
"It is said that Colonel Ricketts, your col
league on the ticket of 18S8, may be a candidate
for Governor this year."
"I don't believe Colonel Ricketts is a candi
date for anything. But heneter declines tho
call of duty; and ho would make a splendid can
didato and a sound and honest Governor. Ho
doesn't speak, it is true; but the Gettysburg
speech he made some years ago from the
mouths of bis cannon would probably answer
for all present purposes."
THE MISSING ll'GOWAN
Is Encased in Dredging nnd Mnklng Lovo in
South Ametlca.
IRPECtAL TELEOKAM TO THE DIHPATCH.1
New York, March 16. Frank Folger. who
has just returned from the United States of
Colombia, South America, where he was en
gaged in dredcing the Magdalena river, re
ports that Frank McGowan, one of Edison's
assistants in bis laboratory at Orange, N. J., is
now at work on tho samo dredging
vessel, Christopher Colon. McGowan is
tbe man who went to South America in search
of a mysterious plant for Edison to use in mak
ing carbons for his incandescent light. He
disappeared on January IS last. He had J1.S00
with him and f onl play was suspected.
Each bad signed a contract with officials of
the Colombian Government to take part In
certain dredging operations in the Magdalena
river. Folger said he had charge of the engine,
and McGowan and a man named Quigley, who
went down with them, were the engineers
proper in charge of tho expedition. McGowan,
he said, bad plenty of money and spent it
freely. Two years ago when in the same conn
try McGowan fell in love with a Spanish girl,
and ho promised to return to her as soon as
opportunity offered. Folger returned because
his duties compelled him to remain on tho
river, and the insect pests of the country wore
too fond of him.
A PALATIAL HOSTELRY.
Tho City of Mexico to Have a Hotel Costing
Two million Dollars.
St. Louis, March 10. The City of Mexico is
to have the finest hotel on the American con
tinent. It is to be erected by a syndicate of
Mexican capitalists, and its cost, at the lowest
estimate, will exceed 2,000.000. Of this sum
tho Diaz government will provide 1,000,000 In
the form of a suosidy in addition to granting
the free importation of matter to be used in
the construction. The hotel when completed
will be five stories in height, and will contain
400 guest chambers, built about a court, the
dimensions of which will be 100x225 feet. It
will be constructed of stono quarried 70 miles
from the City of Mexico, and its interior finish
will be arranged on a scale of Oriental magmfi
cencp. The floors will be of mosaic marble, and the
walls inlaid with Mexican onyx, which takes a
remarkable polish, wbilo the woodwork will bo
of cedar, mahogany and rosewood. The entiro
structure will bo absolutely fireproof, and tho
outside dimensions will be 450x150 feet. Tbe
rotunda of tho hotel will bo taken in charge by
the Federal Government, and is the intention
to decorate it with precious stones represent
ing historical subjects. Isaac Tavlor. the archi
tect, left to-night for the City of Mexico with
the plans which have been accepted, and work
will bo begun in tho near future.
A PLEA FROM KANSAS,
Tbo Farmers' Alliance Issues nn Address to
tbe Congressional Delccntton.
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISrATCH.l
Topeka, Kas., March 16. Tho Farmers' Al
lianco, which has within six months become
the most powerful farmers' organization that
Kansas has ever known, has, through its Presi
dent, addressed an open letter to tho Kansas
delegation in Congress, calling their attention
to the alarming condition of the agricultural
interests of this State, and demanding legisla
tion for their relief. The letter says:
"Wo call attention to tbo fact that a single
law firm in ono city in Southern Kansas now
has tho contract tor the foreclosure of 1,800
mortgages. This means l.feOOhomesteadstrans
ferred from the hands of so many industrious
families to the hands of capitalists, either
domestio or foreign. Tho foreclosure of these
mortgages in accordance with a pre-conceivcd
purpose is to gain possession of these farms and
people them with a more servile tenantry im
ported from foreign lands for this especial pur
pose. Foreclosures and evictions are taking
placo in very many parts of our State, and wn
need not go all the way to Europe to witness
scenes of cruelty in matters of this kind. All
over tho Stato tho homes -of our people aro
imperilled."
TO CARRY SHIPS BY RAIL.
A Road For This Parposo Now Being Ballt
Across Chicnecto Isthinns.
rSPECIAL TELEOUAU TO TUB DISPATCH.1
St. Johns, N. B.. March 16. A ship railroad
is now being constructed across tho narrow
Isthmus of Chicnecto, which connects Nova
Scotia with New Brunswick. The isthmus is
17 miles wide, and while the road will bo on a
smaller scale than tho proposed Eads ship rail
road across tbo Isthmus of Tehauntepec, it has
this advantage over that enterprise that tho
project Is now actually under way. The road
is to be capable of carrying a ship of 1,000 tons
dead weight, bhips are to be raised by
htdranlic rams and placed on tho railroad.
English engineers are watching the enter
prise with much interest, because it is thought
that if a ship railroad can be made a success
on this scale, it is practicable for tbo transoor
tation of larger vessels, and may eventually be
used to carry ships Inland to Birmingham,
Eug., for Instance, at a large saving of cost of
unloading and other expenses.
WILL NOT STRIKE THIS WEEK.
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Men
Will Ask for Another Conference.
Danville, III., March 10. Nothing now
was tho answer given by tho Chicago and East
ern Illinois men when asked what was the re
sult of tho meetings held by tho Brotherhood
of Firemen, the Brotherhood of Trainmen and
a joint committee of both lodges in this city
this afternoon. Harmony and moderation
governed the three meetings. A Grlevanco
Committee was appointed, who will at once
present the requests of tho men to the road of
ficials, tho main point being the raising of
wages paid trainmen between Chicago and
Terro Haute to correspond with wages paid
between Terre Haute and Evansvillo and the
reinstatement of Engineer John Myers as a
secondary matter.
Unless something unexpected happens tho
strike signal will not bo given during this
week.
A Narrow Esenpe.
rBFECIAL TELEORAX TO THE DISPATCH.1
Bedford, Pa., March 18. Last night Doug
las Beegle, a farmsr, while on his way home
from here, attempted to cross tho river, which
is very much swollen from tbe recent raius,and
was almost drowned.' His horse and buggy
were lost and be made a very narrow escape.
Front In South Carolina.
Charleston, S. C, March 16. The mercury
was down to 21 here this morning, and it is
feared that great damage has been done to the
truck crop.
PRATING FOE DEATH.
Fearful Scenes of Destitution Wit
nessed by Bishop Shanley
AMONG THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS.
The Government Charged With Robbing
the Red Men and
LEAVING THEM TO DIE OP STARVATION.
Words of the nation Existing on $2 SO Fer Bead rtr
Annuel.
Bishop Shanley, of North Dakota, is
filled with indignation at the treatment ac
corded tho Chippewa Indians by tho Gov
ernment, and he boldly charges the latter
with robbing the red man of his inheritance.
He says the scenes of destitution among the
Indians are distressing in the extreme.
PuiLADrLrniA, March 16. Right Bev.
John Shanley, D. D., Bishop of North Da
kota, occupied the pulpit of the Cathedral
here to-day, and told a pitiful story of the
privations and sufferings of the Chippewa
Indians occupying the reservation at the
extreme northern part of his diocese. His
object was to secure assistance for their
relief, and with that end in view he de
scribed most vividly the condition of these
Indians as witnessed by himself during the
recent cold weather when the thermometer
marked 40 below zero. He charged the
Government with having stolen the 11,000,
000 acres of land this tribe possessed when
Dakota Territory was divided between the
Sioux and Chippewa Indians.
A BIO STEAL.
Eleven million acres stolen boldly, and not
one cent paid in return for it, said His Grace,
and the owners sent to the northern border
of tbe State, the coldest and bleakest spot in
the country, where two townships were organ
ized with 5,000 acres of land. This is filled with
bad timber forests and lakes, swamps and
rocks. On tbeso 5.000 acres were put 1,930 In
dians, who are trying to make tbeir living: these
wards of tbe United States living where 100
white men could scarcely ralso enongh to keep
them alive.
His Grace then described a personal visit to
these township', where, ho said, he witnessed
scenes that would havo disgraced Siberia.
"I spent over a week with these people, with
the thermometer registering 40, and sometimes
44, decrees below zero. Tho Indian houses are
log huts, constructed by the Indians them
selves, without flooring, and with sheets and
quilts covering the windows and doorways.
ESrOSED TO THE BITING BLASTS.
"The crevices between tbe logs aro filled with
mud that cracks and falls out by tho summer
heat, and is blown out by the northern winter
blasts, so that tho occupants may as well be
sleeping outside. In these huts it is not in
frequent to find six families living. These
1,930 Indians can't make their own living there.
They have never been supplied with proper
agricultural implements. Last sprine the direc
tor of tbo Catholic Indian Bureau sent 24 plows
to ttese Indians, and with tbeso they managed
to break acres of this virgin soil. But there was
no rain, and to-day they aro absolutely desti
tute; no grain, no food, no clothing, no money:
1,930 Christians, 1,930 of God's children are
living on this continent to-day on tho point of
starvation.
"Wbilo visiting those people I entered tho
house of an old Indian. There was no food in
tbo house that day, but there were tears and
desperation. A poor old Indian woman bad a
puny, sickly child in her arms. Sho wept for
joy when she saw ine, thinking God had sent
relief to ber children. She showed me her
child. There was not a nonnd of flesh on its
bones. I am sure that child is dead. I am not
easily moved, used as I am to scenes of misery
In large cities, but I couldnot but cry on tbat
occasion.
FRAYING FOR DEATH.
"In one corner of the room there was a boy 6
years of ago, another was crying by the chimney-place,
trying to warm his shivering form,
while an old Indian was kneeling by the fire
place muttering, probably vowing vengeance
on the white race.
"At another hovel a poor old man of 95 years
of age was lying on tho frozen ground dying
of consumption, no ono near him but bis poor
old wife, who knelt over him with a rosary in
her bands, praying for God to take her hus
band. Night was setting in, no light, no can
dle, no one to say a kind word to the poor old
muplo. And this in a Christian country, in tho
United States of America, the land of the free,
the land or plenty. In another hovel 1 found
the children without clothing, gathered around
tho fireplace plucking out tbe charred sticks
that they might roll in tho warm ashes.
DYING OF STARVATION.
"Tho United States appropriates E5.O0O to
these Indians about $2 60 to each one. This
amount is spent in flour and fat pork, and dis
tributed among them. The pork is sickening.
I mjself would not have believed tho truth of
tho story if I had not witnessed it During tho
18 months previous to the first of January. 1S90,
out of 1,400 Indians 100 died. During tho
month of January 27 died. These deaths aro
almost invariably of starvation. Tho women
aro almost universally clad in ono garment
a calico dress to protect them, and lot it bo
said to their credit that not one woman was
missing from tbo little parish church on
Sunday."
The reverend speaker closed by appealing to
tho congregation to extend to these poor
people their unfortunate brethren a portion
of their substance for the relief of these poor
Indians.
MAD DOGS IN THE METROPOLIS.
Several Persons Bitten by Canines Supposed
to ITave Hydrophobia.
tSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TmtPISPATCn.1
New Yobk. March 16. Mad dogs aro becom
ing unpleasantly common. A yellow mongrel
on the Eastside on Saturday bit two children
and a man, injuring tho children seriously,
while to-day a Westsido dog tore down
from Grand street to West street, on his
way biting two small boys and a man before
he was shot by a policeman. A mob ot boys
chased and tormented a street dog in Grand
street this afternoon, and finally got a ropo
about tbo mongrel's neck. Tho dog became
frantic and finally broke away and ran with
a piece of the rope still dangling from his neck.
John McNulty, a deaf and dumb boy aged 8
years, stood in tho frightened dog's tracks, and
the dog closed his teeth in the child's thigh,
and tho boy was taken to Gouvernour Hospital
for treatment.
Ten minutes later George Dwyer was bitten
in the legs by tbe same dog and then taken to
the hospital, where he told Dr. Merrigan that
a companion had tried in vain to seize tho dog
which had then sprung at Dwyer, biting him in
tbe right lee and in the left. Tbe wounds of
both boys were cauterized and the boys sent to
their homes. The dog was killed by Policeman
John J. Campbell.
TEMPERANCE PEOPLE INACTIVE.
No Remonstrances Against Johnstown Ap
plicants forLIqnor Licenses.
ISPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH, t
Johnstown, Fa., March 16. No general re
monstrance has been filed against applicants
for liquor liconso in this city and vicinity this
year, and it is presumed, under the former
rnlings of tbe Court, all who present their
cases properly will bo granted tho necessary
permit. It is known that in a few instances In
formation has been quietly furnished the
Jndgo against certain applicants, but what
effect this will have remaius to bo seen.
Tho temperance people have niado no stir
whatever this ear, their former experieuco in
making remonstrance not having beon very en
couraging. A Pennsylvnnlan's Sadden Death.
St. Paul, March 16. Captain Jonathan R.
Jenks, a clerk at headquarters of the Depart
ment of Dakota, U. S. A, died at the Ryan
Hotel in this city at 620 o'clock this evening of
heart disease. Captain Jenks was a nativo of
Newton, Bucks county. Pa., a son of Judge and
ex-Congressman Jenks, and brother-in-law of
cx-Govcrnor Alexander Ramsey, of this city.
Dnnsers of Minting.
St. Paul, March 16. Two boys, whose iden
tity has not been established, while skating on
the river to-day, went under the ice and were
drowned,
AND STILL THEY COME.
Bloro Laborers Supposed to bo Under Con
tract Landed nt Castle Garden A
Threatening Letter Received
Prom Brnddock.
tSPECIAL TELEOKAM TO TUB DISPATCH.',
New York; March 16. Chief Labor In
spector Croden called at Castlo Garden to-day,
found out that no ships had got in and then
wont away. If be had stopped a while and
looked around ho would have found six immi
grants whoso cases needed investigation.Tw oof
them were, by tbeir own confession, going
to work in tho coal mines at Hazelton,
Pa., and two others were bound for
Tuxedo Park. A largo proportion of the immi
grants who arrived on the Aller went to tho
Pennsylvania coal region. Fifty Hungarians,
after being passed by tbe registry clerks,
crowded into tho bureau of information, and
asked to be allowed to remain at the Garden
until a man who had accompanied them across
the ocean called lor them. Ho had left tbo
ship at Hobokeu. Tho men in charge of tho
bureau told them to get out, and tbey wandered
Into Battery Park, where tho immigration
agent found them. Thirty of them said tbey
wero going to Wilkesbarre, where wonc in tho
mines had been promised them. The rest were
bound for other Pennsylvania mining towns.
Ono or the officials at Castle Garden has re
ceived a letter from Braddock, Pa., savinc that
the Huns already employed there, who belong
to unions, will mako it pretty lively for any of
their cut-rato fellow countrymen who may
come there. Other contincents of mine labor
ers aro expected on tbo Werra and the Saale,
due respectively to-day and Friday. About
600 were landed on Wednesday from the Werra
and went to the coal region.
When the Congressional Committee on Im
migration meets at Castle Garden on Friday
next it may witness tho landing of 1,858 Italians
who sailed for this port on March 6 on tho
steamship Belgravia. Commissioner Stephen
son says that these Italians, or a majority of
them, come here under contract. Ho says that
the big influx of contract laborers is caused
partly by tho apathy of Uncle barn's S5-a-day
inspectors, who have not stopped within tho
last year moro than a dozen immigrants.
THAT SOUTH PENN SALE.
SInch Speculation as to Whnt Will be Dono
Willi tbo Road.
rSPSClAL TELEGEAM TO TUB DlBPATCn.1
Heading, Pa.. March 16. Considerable
speculation is rife here as to the ultimate ob
ject of tho purchase of tho South Penn Rail
i oad Saturday by George F. Baer, Esq., ot this
city, who is also attorney for the Reading Bail
road Company. It was generally believed that
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company had, in a
"quiet manner, obtained control of this road, or
at least that tbat company would be tho
purchaser at tho sale yesterday. A Dispatch
representative called at the mansion of Mr.
Baer at a lato hour to-night, but tbat gentle
man bad not yet returned, and is not expected
to be back before Monday night or Tuesday
morning. Consequently nothing definite could
be ascertained as to what he intended doing
with theroad, or for whose interest he made tho
purchase.
It is generally understood, howeve-. tbat the
road will be transferred to tbe Reading Com
pany at an early date, and tbat work will be
pushed forward as rapidly as possible to com
plete tho road to Pittsburg or near there, whero
the road is supposed to connect with a branch
now under tho control of Mr. Carnegie. The
completion of the road will bo considerably re
tarded, however, owing to many legal suits now
pending for work done on the road by con
tractors, and land damages which havo not yet
teen adjusted. i.
THE BRIDEGROOM CAME K0T.
A Weddlne Which Did Not Trnosplro Ac
cording to Programme.
tBPECIAl. TELEOKAM TO THE DISPATCn.1
ElktOn, Md., March 16. A very unusual
Incident is creating much talk in some sections
of Cecil county, Md., and New Castle county,
Del. Cards were Issued sometime ago for the
wedding of Miss Maggie Elison, daughter of
Thomas B. Elison. a well-known farmer resid
ing in New Castle county, Del., about half a
mile from tho Maryland line, to Veasey Webb,
of Mt. Pleasant, Del., a village about six miles
away. The ceremony was fixed for 8 o'clock
on Thursday evening last. At that tune about
forty guests had assembled to witness the mar
riage. Tbe Rev. Mr. Anderson was present to
perform the ceremony. The groom failea to
arrivo when expected and his arrival was
anxiously awaited.
Tho time for tho ceremony passed, but it was
still thought that some accident had delayed
bis arrival. After a time, however, the guests
departed. Up to this evening Webb had not
appeared to give an excuse. Miss Elison is a
particularly handsome blonde of 13 years and
an only daughter. Sho was greatly attached
tn Webb, who had been paying her attention
for 18 months. Ho was her first lover, and she
is almost hoart broken. A seamstress bad
been at the house a number of weeks prepar
ing her trousseau, while the father of the bride
had made great preparations for the fes
tivities. Webb's father is a leading citizen of
Mt. Pleasant
THREE DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE.
New Castlo'a Accident Record for Twenty
Four Hours.
SPECIAL TELEPBAJt TO THE DIBPATCIM
New Castle, March 16. Within the past 24
hours thcro have been three deaths from acci
dents in this vicinity. Richard Lynn was
killed by tho falling of some bricks at the
Wampum Cement Works. Frank Gardner, a
Pittsburg and Lake Erie brakeman, was killed
at New Castle junction at an early hour this
morning, and E. T. Hart, an Erie and Pitts
burg brakeman, met the samo fate. Gardner
resides at Chartiers. Hart's friends wero all
killed or drowned in tbo Johnstown flood.
LIACHED BY A MOB.
A Colored Criminal Taken From Jail and
Summarily Executed.
Nashville, March 10. At Gadsden, this
State, at 3.30 r. jr. to-day, Henry Williams,
colored, was taken from jail by a mob and shot
to death for an attempted assault on Miss
Tinder, an aged whito lady living near that
place, on February 26 last. Williams entered
ber house at night, and after beating ber
nearly to death, was frightened away from
some cause.
Since tbat time he has been at large, bnt was
captured at Springfield, Tenn., Saturday, and
officers reached Gadsden with him this morn
ing. FROZEN TO DEATH.
Sad Fate of a Younc Couplo Wbo Lost
Their Rond.
mPjrCIAZ, TELEOKAM TO TUB DISPATCn.l
Weston, W. VA., March 16. Saturday morn
ing Charles Shaffer and Ida Conrad wero found
lying in an open field in tbe snow near town.
Both were unconscious, and the woman's body
was so badly frozen it had begun to turn black.
They wore put In charge of physicians, and
Shaffer's life may bo saved, but tho woman li
dead.
Tbey must have wandered from tho path dur
ing tho storm.
THE NEW FRENCH CABINET.
01; Do Preyclnct Takes Hold of tho Reins
of Government.
Paris, March 16. Tho new Cabinet is com
posed as follows: President of the Council and
Minister of War, M. Do Freyclnet; Minister of
Foreign Affairs, M. Ribot; Minister of tho In
terior, M. Constand; Minister of Finance, M.
Rouvier; Minister of Justice, M. Fallieras;
Minister of Commerce, SI. Roche; Minister of
Public Instruction, M. Bourgeois; Minister of
Agriculture. M. Develle; Minister of Publio
Works, M. Guyot; Minister of Marine, M. Bar
bey; Minister of Colonies, M. jticnne.
Lost on Lake Mlchlcnn.
CHICAGO, March 16. Three fishermen, An
drew Scronson, Andrew Nelson and an un
known, wbo wero out on Lake Michigan in the
storm of Friday night, wero given up to-day as
lost. It is believed they were caught in an ice
floe, and either frozen to death or capsized and
drowned.
Censored tho Governor.
Salt Lake, Utah. March 16. The Utah
Legislature adjourned last night after passing
a memorial to Congress censuring the Governor
for vetoing tho election bill designed to super
cede the Congressional enactments, and asking
Congress to enact the vetoed measure.
Female Seminary Bnrncd.
Las Vegas, N. M, March 10. Tho Las
Vegas Female Seminary was destroyed by firo
last night. Origin unknown. Loss, 512,000; in
surance, 5,000. No loss ol life.
A FIGHT FOE A PEW
leads to a Disgraceful Scene in
Church Sunday Morning,
THE PKIEST QUITE A PUGILIST.
He i3 Alleged to Hare Knocked. Down a
Parishioner, and
CUT OPEN HIS CHEEE TO THE BONE.
Warrants Issued for the Arrest ol a Portion of the
Combatants.
George Hughes wanted to take a pew in
Father Early's church, which the pastor
had reserved for another person. A scuffle
ensued in which the clerical combatant and
those who came to his assistance were victo
rious. Hughes will retaliate by appealing
to the law.
ISrEClAL TELEQBAM TO THE niSPATCrM
Pougukeepsie, March 16. A disgrace
ful scene occurred in St. Mary's Catholic
Church in this city this morning. George
Hughes' a prominent merchant of Pough
keepsie, according to his statement, hired a
pew in St. Mary's Church other than the
one Father Terrance Early, the pastor, had
selected for him, Hughes' own selection hav
ing been pew No. 11. On the 1st of Feb
ruary, the day before the church was dedi
cated, Hughes visited Father Early to pay
for the rent of his pew.
Father Early told him he had not time to
attend to it then, and invited him into his
house, where, so Hnghes says, Father Early
asked him to indorse a note (or 1,500, which
Hughes declined to do, then Father Early
asked him to indorse one for $G00, and again
Hughe3 declined, and again told Early he
wanted to pay for his pew.
EATIIEK EMPHATIC LANGUAGE.
Hughes says that during this interview
Early called him a liar and ordered him out
of the house. On the 17th of February
Hnghes sent Early his check for $25 for his
pew rent, and Early returned it. On Sunday,
tho 2d of March, Hughes' son went to the
church to attend services and found a chain
across the entrance to tbo pew. He 'eaned
against it and it gave way, when be catered
tbo pew and took bis scat.
On Saturday night, March 8, the son went to
tho church again, and found that the whole
seat in tbe pew bad been torn out, tbe cushion
removed and again a chain had been placed
across the entrance and nailed. Sunday morn
ing, March 9, Mr Hughes went to the church to
attend service, and carried with him two camp
stools and a screwdriver. With tbo screw
driver he removed tho chain, and he and his
son entered the pew and seated themselves on
tbo camp stools and remained during the serv
ice THE CLIMAX EEACnED.
This morning, according to Mr. Hughes'
statement, ho and his son wont to tho church
again, but before tbo time for tbe regular
morning service to begin, and found that tbe
seat of his pew and tbe cushion had been re
turned all right. They entered the pew and be
came seated, when Father Early came to them
and told them they bad no business there, tbat
tho pew belonged to a Mrs. McCabe. of Man
chester, and showed Hnghes a card on tho end
of the pew with Mrs. McCabe's name on it.
Hughes rays he reached over to pull the card
off, when Father Early struck him a swinging
blow in the face, opening the flesh on his cheek
bone. He rose to his feet and attempted to
ward off Father Early's blows with his bands,
when Pbilln Sullivan and John Cullen, nephews
of Father Early, and another man came from
the vestry to the pew, one of them thro wine his
arms around Alusnes' neck ana iorcmg mm
into the other end of tho pew, where be held
Hughes' bead down by his whiskers while John
Cullen got up on tho seat of tbe pew in front
and hammered Hughes on the face, head and
neck with his fists till he got so tired he could
hammer no longer, and then, Hughes says.
Father Early and tbe three men left. Hughes,
with his face coverod with blood, resumed his
seat in the pew with his son.
A DETERMINED INDIVIDUAL.
Before the service commenced Father Early
again said to Hughes that mass would not bo
celebrated till Hughes left tho church.
Hughes told tho Father that he came to the
church for tho purpose of attending mass and
ho was going to stay as long as it took to con
duct tho services and perform his individual
part of it. The service then went on without
any further trouble. After it was over Hugbc3
went to bis home and summoned Drs. Parker
and Morrill to attend to his wonnds.
To-night ho has sworn out warrants for tbe
arrest of Father Early, Sullivan, Cullen and
tho other man. Father Early denies tbe most
of Hughes' statements and says Hnghes' son
struck him first, and tbat Cullen. Sulli
van and tho other man camo to his as
sistance. Mr. Hughes savs that when ho
had tho conversation with Father Early in tho
tatter's house, ho told Early that he bad ap
pealed to the trustees, and tbey told him tbey
had beseecbed Father Early to let Hughes
have tho pew, but tbat now ho would probably
havo to appeal to the Bishop. Early replied :
"You had better appeal to the Pope."
Mr. Hughes is at home, with his face and
head covered with bandages. The whole town
is talking about the affair, and it Is said that
some of the former members of St. Mary's
Church applied for admission to bt, Peter's,
but Father Noland told them to go back and
remain in their own church.
A PHILANTHROPIC WORK.
Ohio Citizens Interested In the Establish
ment of a Woman's Stato Hospital.
6PECtAL TELEQBAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
Newark, O., March 16. A new movement is
on foot to establish a woman's State hospital
and medical college. Tbe interests of this new
and n oblo philanthropic venture are being ably
presented to the various churches throughout
the State bv Mrs. Louisa Lyle, widow of tho
late Rev. Joseph G. Lyle, of Wheeling, and
daughter & the late Hon. A. Watring, ot Penn
sylvania. Co-operative bands are being organized in all
the towns and cities, and they aro composed of
the most prominent women of the State. Hos
pital day is being established in most of the
churches, and boxes of fruits, jellies, etc., will
be sent by ladies interested in the work. Newark
has dutifully fallen into line, and marked inter
est is manifested.
VERY FAVORABLE KEP0RTS.
Biennial Convention of tbo Jewish Theolocl
cal Seminary Association.
New Yokk, March 16. The biennial con
vention of tho Jewish Thoological Seminary
Association was held hero to-day, Joseph
Blumenthal presiding. The reports received
were very favorable. The seminary now has 14
students.
Tbe following trustees were elected to servo
for six years: Dr. A. Fricdennch, Baltimore;
Edward L. Rothschild, Philadelphia, and New
man Cow en, D. M. Ipiza, S. Jarmulowsky. D.
P. Hays and aitus L. Bush, ot New York.
Moses Oettinger and Julias Sands. New York;
Jacob Singer. Pittsburg, were elected trustees
for four years.
TO SHOOT THE BOOMERS.
Tbo Chief of tbe Cherokees la Vhvor of
Radical Measure.
Washington, March 16. Joel B. Mayos,
principal chief of the Cherokee nation, is in
tho city, having como on here for tho
purposo of protesting against tbe Gov
ernment's taking tho Cherokco strip.
The news of tho occupation of tho
strip by tho boomers has angered him, and to
day be very forcibly expressed bis Opinion tbat
Some of them should bo shot down.
It would teach tbe others to respect people's
rights, he said. He expressed bis pleasure at
tho President's proclamation and his hope tbat
tho boomers would all be cleaned out.
Result of a Miners' Strike.
London, March 16. Tho price of coal is ad
vancing rapidly in consequenco of tbe miners'
strike. It Is the general opinion that tbe strike
will not be of long duration, but if it lasts even
a week it will cause the stoppage of scores of
factories and throw thousands of hands out of
employment.
THE BE0KEN LEVEE
Flooding Severn! Parishes in Louisiana
People Slovlne Their block to Higher
Gronml Tbe Break Relieves
tlio Pressure on tbo
Other Levees.
Vicksbueg, March 16. At 3 o'clock
this evening the crevasse at Raleigh was
1,000 feet or more wide, and the ends were
caving so rapidly that it was foolhardi
ncss to approach them. The levee is nearly
15 ieet high, and the immense volume of
water was rushing through it in a stream ten
or more feet deep. Tho extent of the crevasse
and the immense amount of water delivered by
it may be estimated by the fact that in the 24
hours ending this evening the river has fallen
three inches at Vicksburg and four inches at
Lake Providence. Though rising steadilyprlor
to tho crevasse. Assistant Engineer Thomp
son, who arrived at the crevasse this
evening is quoted as saying that no crevasse at
any point along the line of Fifth levee district
could occasion sucb serious results as tbe one
at Raleigh. Tho steamer O'ceola, which took
Captain Willard Young, of United States En
gineers, to Greenville last night, was due there
this evening with a large quantity of material
to be used holding ends ot tbe levee, and pre
vent further caving and enlargement.
The water from tho crevasse has backed up
several inches and flooded some plantations.
It will overflow fully one-fourth of East Car
roll parish and the greater part of Tensas and
Madison parishes. Tbe eastern part of the
latter will escape. Tbe crevasse has excited
much consternation in these parishes, and
stock is being and will bo removed. A
fall of five inches occurred at Alsatia levee,
five miles above the crevasse, to-day greatly im
proving tho situation there. This levee was
considered in greatest danger of all heretofore.
Advices from other Louisiana leveet and from
Mississippi show that crevasses relieved the
pressure on them. A levee inspector, the soli
tary witness ot the break at Raleigh, says 75
feet of the levee caved off at once into the
river.
A telephono message from Kitlars, Miss.,
states the water fell eight inches there, one
inch at Skipwiths, and six inches at Brunswick
in the past 24 hours.
Henry Berger. of Duval, Misi., seeing some
negro houses on tbe Louisiana side floating
away, crossed over in a skiff, avoiding tbe
crevasse by pulling his boat over tbe levees,
and reached the bouses just in time to save a
negro who was in one of them. A moment
later the building was swept away by the flood.
LEAVING THE STRIP.
Boomers Who Havo Heard the President's
Proclamation Are Obeying the Or
der to Go Those Who Mean
to Stay Are Laving Oat
Towns.
Gutheie, I. T., March 1C The Presi
dent's proclamation ordering all settlers on
the Cherokee strip to vacate is already having
the desired effect. This, together with
the orders received by General Meriitt at Fort
Leavenworth to use troops if necessary to eject
tbe boomers has already caused considerable
of an exodus from the forbidden territory. All
day long tbe trains were loaded with boomers
leaving the strip. A large number of them
went to Arkansas City and about 100 came to
this point. Many poor people who flocked to the
Cberokeo strip nnder tbe wrong impression
that it was open to settlement havo not the
means to run and will remain till the troops
escort them out.
At Willow Springs neither tho President's
proclamation nor the order for troops to oust
tho boomers has yet been received. Conse
quently tho boomers are still arriving in their
prairie schooner". Some are returning to Kan
sas and Oklahoma, but for everyone tbat leaves
there is a new couple to take bis place. Many
town site boomers are here, and considerable
of a town has been laid off and surveyed. A
large tent has been erected, where the
boomers held a meeting to-day, and organized
the town of Willow Springs. Tbe streets are
to be laid off to-morrow, and town lots are to be
secured by lottery. Two female boomers were
accorded the privilege of making first and sec
ond choice of corner lots. A large lumber
yard is to be erected and building will begin at
once.
PANIC IN A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION".
Firo Breaks Oat la tbe Chlcano Honse of
Ibe Good Shepherd.
Chicago, March 10. A wild panic was occa
sioned at 2.30 A. ir. by tho breaking ont of fire
in the Houso of the Good Shepherd, corner
of Hill and Market stroe ts. The fire broke out
In tbe storeroom on the first floor of
the big building from some unknown
cause. The hallway filled with smoke
and the thick clouds rolled up in tho rooms
above in which a dozen Sisters were sleeping.
They were awakened by tho smoke, and tbeir
first act was to arouse the sleeping inmates
in the rear wing of tho building.
Half clad, the sisters ran into tho dormitories
whero tbo 300 girls confined in the institution
were slumbering.and raised tbe alarm, assuring
the girls tbat there was no immediate danger,
and led them to acomparatively safe place.from
where tbe girls could escape tho more readily
in case the fire spread throughout tbe building.
After the girls had been taken care of, the
Sisters gave tho alarm outside the institution
and tbe fire engines were sent for. Before tbe
apparatus arrived the Sisters attempted to ex
tinguish tbe Dlaze, but it gained on them
rapidly, and was soon eating its way through
the ceiling to the floors above. Tbe Sisters
wero nearly choked by tbe smoko when tho
firemen arrived and quickly put tbe blazo out.
CHURCHILL DEPENDS HIMSELF.
Ho Gives His Reasons for Protesting;
Asalnst tbe Paracll Commission.
London, March 16. Lord Randolph Church
ill, publishing his original protest against tbo
Parncll Commission bill, says bo tails to seo how
this and his recent speech can be con
strued as disloyalty to the Unionist party
It seems to him that the charge of disloyalty
might bo more forcibly urged against those
who, in spito of every warning, forced upon
Parliament a measure which by it's his
tory and results obviously dealt a heavy
blow at the cause and party of tbe union. He
explains tbat when ho sent his protest tbe com
mission bill was in embryo, and tho Govern
ment contemplated abandoning it, or at least
withdrawing it. if it led to a protracted debate.
The chief objections urged by Lord Ran
dolph in his protest were as follows: In the first
place, the offer of tho commission to a large
extent recognized tho wisdom of the
accused in avoiding a trial by jury. In tbe
second place it was unprecedented, and in the
third place unwise and illegal, to encage
Judges in a political conflict which was certain
to result in a loss of respect. In a fonrtb objec
tion Lord Randolph dealt with the unconstitu
tionality of tho tribunal.
STOCK YARD MEN'S DEMANDS.
Tbey Want an Elght-IIonr Day and the
Abolition of home Grievances.
CHICAGO, March 1C At a meeting of Stock
Yard laborers and packing bouse employes,
this afternoon. President O'Neill, of the
packers' union, intimated that a formal de
mand would be mado within a fortnight for tho
establishment of tho eight-hour day for as
classes of labor In Packlngtown commencing
Slay 1. Tho continuous retention of two weeks'
pay from the men bv tbe larger firms is another
griovance which, with the so-called iron-clad
contract, there is a desire to have abolished at
the same time.
It was asserted at tbe meeting that nearly
4,000 men are already pledged to ask these con
cessions. President O'Neill apparently voiced
the sentiment of those present when he de
clared tbat arbitration, not a strike, was
wanted, and tbat be believed arbitration would
not be refused.
A SOMNAMBULIST'S MISHAP.
Tbo Wifo of Ex-Governor Cheney, of New
Hampshire. Falls 20 Feet.
Manchester N. H., March 16. Mrs.
Chcnoy, the wife of ex-Governor Cheney, whilo
in a somnambulistic stato this morning, fell
over the railing of the stairs to a landing be
neath, a distance of 20 feet, and was very seri
ously injured. Her condition to-night 13 con
sidered very critical.
Miners' Bodlci Cremated.
London, March 16. Tho Morsa mine, in
Glamorganshire, Wales, where a disastrous ex
plosion recently occurred, is again on fire. Tho
mice will be flooded. Tbo bodies of 43 victims
of tbe late disaster bave been taken out, but it
is impossible to get the others.
A New Railroad Opened.
8t. Augustine. Fla., March 16. The first
train on tbe Georgia Southern i.nd Florida
Railroad, which has just been completed to
Palatka, arrived here this morning.
WE TI IN BLOOD.
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Threatenif ives Pieceived by
PrincirS, es From the
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COWBOYS OP uE HIGH SCHOOL.
Bedford Youths Form an Organization to
Drive Him Away.
B0USD TOGETHER BY A SECRET OATH
To Eland by Each Other, and Well Armed With
Eerolrers.
Bedford is excited by the discovery of a
secret organization in the High School, the
members of which go heavily armed, and
send letters written in blood to obnoxious
individuals.
tFPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISFATCH.l
Bedford, March 16. There is great ex
citement here over the discovery of an or
ganized band bearing the title of "The Cow
boys of the High School," and composed of
some 10 or 15 pupils of that institution.
The object of this organization is to force
the Principal of the High School, J. K.
Heikes, to resign, because he gave one of
members a very severe flogging. This was
more than these haughty spirits could
brook, and a search being made of the rec
ords of the lives of numerous dime novel he
roes, and it being discovered that the latter
would not tamely submit to any such indig
nity, but would resent it to the death, it was
at once determined to organize an armed re
sistance to the tyrant who sought by one
operation to subdue their spirits and raised
welt3 on tender portions of their anatomy.
Had it not been for the action of the
father of the boy who was whipped in en
gaging Hon. R. C. McNamara to prosecute
the wielder of the birch for assault and bat
tery, it is probable that tbe dark secrets of the
mysterious and bloodthirsty organization might
never have been brought to light to startle tho
peaceful citizens of Bedford.
WRITTEN IN BLOOD.
When the School Directors were informed
of tbe threatened suit they began an investiga
tion, whereupon Principal Heise produced a
number of threatening letters from this band
of yonthful desperadoes, one of which was
wrl tten in hot blood taken from the arm of one
of the gang. Then, for the first time, were the
existence and workings of this terrible organi
zation established.
Taking his life in one band and a pencil in the
other, your correspondent approached one of
tbe members of the High School and asked him
whether or not be was a member or tho "High.
School Cowboys."
After some hesitation he replied that he was,
and after a promise tbat his name should not
be divulged, he gave an outline of tbe working
of the organization, which has partly demoral
ized tbe schools of Bedford, which contain
more than 600 scholars. He went on to say that
tho professor, at tbo least provocation, would
double their studies and this was what brought
about tbo organization of tho gang, each mem
ber of which was bound by a solemn oatb to
divulge none of their workings, and in caso
any member got into trouble the others were
bonud to stick by him.
AHMED TO inE TEETH.
Ho said some of them carried revolvers, not
with the intention of doing the professor
bodily harm, but merely to use as a scare and
in every way possible make the position ot Pro
fessor Heikes one nut to be envied.
A letter which was received by the professor
and was handed to the School Board was
shown to your correspondent last night by
President John XI. Reynolds, which threatened
tbo professor with death if be did not resign
and be again attempted to enter the school
building. President Reynolds, when asked
wbat action the board had taken, said the
board has explicit confidence in the ability of
Professor Heikes and will stick by blm through
thick and thin.
FLOGGED BY WHITE CAPS.
Tho Experience of n Young Farmer Who
Beat His Wife.
Hancock, N. Y., March 16. William Ber
caw. aged 23, of East Branch, a vdlage on tbe
Ontario and Western Railroad, a few miles
from Hancock, was taken from Charlio Wy
gart's hotel barroom by six White Cap3 on
Tuesday evening of la3t week, conducted
across the river to a point on the beach in front
of his own home and terribly fiogged by the
mob. Tbe crack of tbe whip and Bercaw's
groans were heard by tho villagers, who did not
interfere. After the flogging Bercaw was
taken by tho White Caps into the house, but
not until he had sworn by all that wa3 great
and good that he would treat bis wife and
family decently and go to work. Bercaw was
laid up from his injuries till Friday morning,
when he boarded a freight train and left for
parts unknown.
Bercaw bas shamefully abnsed his wifo and
threo children, having frequently choked and
beaten tbe former to make her give blm the
money she earned by washing clothes. The cli
max was reached last Sunday morning, when
Bercaw ordered his wifo to get npand get
breakfast. She refused because there was no
wood to start tbe fire with. He threatened to
kill her nuless she obeved. She went off on the
mountain a half mile and picked up sticks
enough to cook their scanty breakfast of pan
cakes. Mrs. Bercaw earned 50 cents on Monday
by washing stone quarrymen's clothes, but
Bercaw choked ber till sbe gave it to him.
This was too much for the stalwart young
farmers, quarrymen and lumbermen of this
village, and they took immediate steps to pun
ish him. Mrs. Bercaw says she is glad of it, and
declares she can get along all right if her hus
band will only keep away. No arrests will bo
made.
HOW A RACE WAS LOST.
Testimony Given by President Archer, of tho
Rochester Driving Park.
Buffalo, March IB. Tho order to show
cause why the National Trotting Association
and its President should not be punished for
eontempt for an alleged violation of an injunc
tion order Issued in tbo Alcyron-Nelson snlU
was argued before Judge Corlett at bis
chambers Saturday morning. Tho plaintiffs ap
peared by Attorney M. J. Smiley, of Grand
Rapids, Mich., and Norris Morrey, oi this city.
The defendants by D. N. Lockwood and Will
iam B. Hoyt.
i The most Interesting affidavit submitted
was that of G. W. Archer, President of the
Rochester Driving Park, a member of tbe
Board of Review, and one of tho judges of
the Alcyron-Nelson $10,000 race. He
affirmed 'That on or about October
4, 1833. after said race, he met Frank L.
Noble at the Murray House, in New York, and
at said race tbat deponent stated to N oole tbat
it was fortunate for him that Alcyron threw
bis toe weights in the last beat; tbat Noble
replied that tbat made no difference, that be
bad had tbo horse shod a few days before so
tbat no driver could drive him to win
the race, and that, if they had taken off
Robcns the horse would havo lost just tho
same. Noblo further stated tbat before tbo
race began he had agreed to let Nelson win the
race and bad Nelson's check for 5,000 before
the race began; that he (Noble) bad won sec
ond money and had got $7,500 out of the race.
Deponent said that if tbey bad known of the
fraud at the time tbe judges would have de
clared tbe pools and the race off."
G. A. B. POST AT MONTREAL.
Canadians Who Foagbt farUncto Sam Effect
an Organization.
Montreal, March 16. A post of the Grand
Army of the Republic will be formed here.
During tho war large numbers of Canadians
served on tho Northern side, attracted by the
generous bounty offered.
A meeting was held this afternoon and steps
were taken to form a post. There were present
32 men eligible for membership.
Reception to the Labor Delegates.
Berlin; March 16. Baron Von Berlepsch,
Prussian Minister of the Interior, to-day re
ceived tbe labor conference delegates at tbe
Hotel de Rome.
Orleans Won't Sne for Pardon.
Paris, March 16. The Duke of Orleans;
writes that ho is opposed to tbe presentation to
President Carnot of a petition for his release.