BATTLE OF THE TUB
Protest Against the War on
Chinese Lanndries.
POLICE PROTECTION ASKED
ficlation of the Famous Six Compa
nies to the Trouble.
HOW THE EMPLOYES ARE TREATED
Shen "Wood, the Chinese Consul at New
York, has petitioned the Superintendent ol
Police for protection for his countrymen
who are in the laundry business and who
are just now being threatened by the Amer
ican laundrymen. There are two sides to the
fijht
rEI-ECTA.1. TXLEGBUI TO THE DISPATCH.!
N EW York, March 22. If the Master
Laundrymen's Association, claiming to
represent $25,000,000 capital, carries out its
proposed boycotting of Chinese lanndries,
the dragon flag may yet fir over a fleet of
ironclads which are reducing New York to
ashes. The Chinese Consul at this port,
ever alert to the interests of his wards, has
sent a letter to the Superintendent of Police
in which he says:
I beg to call your attention to recent state
ment in the local papers that the Master Laun
drymen's Association of this city and State has
held meetings for the purpose of devising
means by which it may interfere with, and. If
possible, entirely stop the business now con
ducted by the Chinese laundrymen. and
thereby deprive such of the Chinese
who are engaged in that pursuit
of their means r livelihood. all
iu defiance of the treaty stipulation between
the United States and the empire of China,
which guarantees to all Chinamen resident in
this country equal treatment to that vouch
safed to the most favored nations. Being ap
prehensive that serious consequences may
arise from the action as reported, I feel it my
duty, as the representative of my country in
this citv. to appeal to your high sense of
justice and humanity to afford such protection
to my countrymen as in your good conscience
may seem proper ana just. Any Knowieage
coming to you officially of overt acts, either of
violence of otherwise. "I should like to be made
acquainted with immediately, so that 1 may be
enabled to consult able counsel and take such
steps as will fulfill my duty to my countrymen
fully. Shen Voojt, Consul.
CLAIMS OF THE AMERICANS.
The big steam laundrv proprietors claim
they were moved to action by an attempt of
the Chinese Six Companies to purchase one
of the largest laundries in the
TJnited States and employ none
but Chinamen in it. They assert
that there are 1.300 Chinese laundries in
this city alone; that they are guilty of all
manner of trade violations; and that there
fore the Association of Master Laundry
men have voted to establish a fund ot 00,
000 to be devoted to the suppression ot the
Celestial washerman. They further allege
that every Chinese laundry in this city is
the property of the Chinese Six Companies,
which receive weekly from the nominal
owners a percentage ot receipts.
What constitutes the mysterious Chinese
Six Companies? This corporation combina
tion is a singular demonstration of the lact
that there is nothing new under the sun and
to the many ingenious things whose origin
is ascribed to the Chinese we can add, be
sides gunpowder, the art of printing and the
telephone, that peculiar trade conspiracy
wnich in this country and in
this day we term a "trust," The
Chinese Six Companies had its origin
many jears ago. There wa a body oJ mer
chants doing buincss in Hong Kong, and
five similar commercial associations engaged
in like enterprises in Canton. The rivalry
between them was great, and the competi
tion ruinous, and in consequence they
, finally pooled their issues and made an
amalgamation of interests, the result being
the Chinese Six Companies, which has head
quarters in Canton and in San Francisco,
and financial representatives in every Chi
nese colony of 1,000 or more persons.
The main business of this strong, wealthy
trade combination is supplying coolie labor
iu large fields of industrial occupation where
bo special dexterity is icquired.
PROFITS ON BOTH ENDS.
In furnishing this labor the Chinese cor
poration makes a profit both ways, receiv
ing so much per head from those for whom
they provide the coolies and being paid by
the latter a commission for obtaining them
work, this latter generally being withheld
out of the first two months' wages
of the one employed. Nor does
the profit or the Chinese Six Com
panies end here. These laborers are paid
on the average $30 a month, besides board
and lodging of a certain kind, and the
latter two items are attended to by the six
companies for a remnneration agreed npon
between it and the corporation whose agent
they may be.
This celestial trust is in no way allied to
the various powerful secret societies to
which nearly all Chinamen belong, nor has
it any association, beyond that of an em
ployer, with the much misunderstood "high
binders." There appears to be a popular
impression that the highbinders form
a society of their own, and a
murderous one, too. As a matter of fact,
while all secret societies have their high
binders all the members of those societies
are not highbinders, the latter being really
what might best be termed a sort of deputy
sheriff emploved to perform certain official
functions. Their murderous reputation un
doubtedly arises irom the fact that
they are called upon to officially
execute the sentence of death when cassed
upon a Chinaman by any one of the great
secret societies upon which that terrrible
responsibility rests. Tt is a singular fact,
and one which some people may thick
worthy of American imitation, that at least
three out of four Chinamen against whom
the death penalty has been pronounced, have
been guilty of stealing trust or charitable
funds.
THE CnAKITr FUNDS.
Nearly all of the secret societies in vogue
among these people in this conntrv have
three classes ot charitable funds; one" for the
sick and wounded, one for burying the
dead and one lor the care of widows and
orphans. Embezzlement of these moneys is
considered the most serious crime a man
can commit, and is invariably punished bv
death, and the Chinese do not consider that
they are taking the law ol the United
States in their own hands when they offici
ally order a highbinder to execute' such a
sentence.
After the Chinese Six Companies had been
engaged for some years in supplying coolie
labor to the railroads of this country they
discovered that their countrymen could be
engaged profitably in the occupation of
washing and ironing people's clothes.
A lew men were installed in
the business and the news of their
success being carried to the Flowery
Kingdom there was quite a large num
ber ot their brethren who became
anxious to come to America, but didbot
possess sufficient means to undertake the
journey. "With these the Chinese Six Com
panies made contracts agreeing to bring
them to any point in the TJnited States with
out their expending a penny and to start
tbem in the laundry business.the party of
the other part guaranteeing to re
turn double the amount thus invested
in monthly sums at the expiration of which
payment the business is solely the property
of 'the man engaged in it. Americans
might imagine that without anv further
guarantee of repayment this would seem a
rather risky enterprise for the Chinese Six
Companies, yet they never lose a dollar.
Many of them have'found ere this that the
Chinese are a peculiar people and that they
have notions of honor unknown to many
Americans.
HOW CONTRACTS ABE ENFORCED.
They do not make promissory notes and
therefore know nothing of the beauties of
indorsement, but all that the agent of the
Chinese Six Companies has to do to protect
his employers is to read the contract before
the man's entire family, and then even
should he die immediately after reaching
this country, his relatives in China are
bound under the Chinese law to keep the
contract which he has made.
The Chinese laundry business thus started
has grown to an euormous extent. Charlie
Sing, of Grand street. "Williamsburg, and
G. R. Charles, a Christianized Chinaman,
who can pronounce his "r's" as well as the
most cultured American, have for the last
eight years made an excellent livelihood
by starting laundries, obtainiug leases on the
properties, and then disposing ofthe busi
ness at a handsome profit to their fellow
countrymen. Sing has already started and
sold 50 lanndries. Fook Long and Wong
Ching Poo. the only Chinese reporter, and
who, as well as Long, speaks most admira
ble English, have each made as high as
51,000 yearly by negotiating these transfers.
Chinese laundries in New York vary in
value from $200!upward. The most valuable,
which is on the Bowery,, near Chambers
street, and employs 12 men, had an offer for
it recently of 525000, which the proprietor
refused.
COMPAItlSON OF SYSTEMS.
The laundry system of New York as con
ducted by the Chinamen is managed far dif
ferently from that controlled by Americins,
and the Celestials do not suffer by the com
parison. The Chinese proprietors are
banded together for mutual interest
in what in this country would be
called a "union," and their employes arc as
sociated together in like manner and for
like purposes. The men are given board
and lodging and are paid wages, the latter
varying according to the season of the year,
being often twice as much in summer when
business is brisk, and they work sometimes
14 hours a day, but in winter they are
rarely employed longer than from four to
six hours.
It is interesting to compare the rates of
wages paid in Chinese and American laun
dries. In the former, if it is a place of any
size, a boy of about 15 years is employed.
and he is paid $5 a week. A washer re
ceives from $7 to $12 a week; an ironer
$14 to $23 a week, and in the very large
places, where a bookkeeper is employed.
that master of the mysteries of the Chinese
multiplication table is paid from $8 to
$15 a week. Bear in mind that these
employes are in addition given their
board and lodging. They eat at the same
table and of the same fare as the proprietor.
If one of them is taken sick his employer
nurses mm. and does not cut his wages uur
ing the enforced idleness. If the sickness
is serious or the disease incurable the man
is transferred to the care of one of the three
benevolent uuions which the Chinese in this
city have organized among themselves and
for themselves, independent of American
assistance. The largest of these, the Lon
Gee Tong, has a handsome clubroom at No.
G Molt street, and a membership of 1,800
Chinamen.
RETERSE OF THE PICTURE.
"What about those employed in laundries
conducted by Americans?
The washing and ironing done in these is
by women or machines. The pay is either
by wages or piecework and in the former
case varies from 75 cents to $1 for a dav's
work of from 10 to 12 hours aud neither
board nor lodging is furnished. In
case of sickness there is no pay
for the ill person and if she
is absent more than one day she is dis
charged. Women employed at piecework
have harder toil and earn $5 to $10 a month,
averaging about $7 the year around. Where
machinery is nsed the "whizzer" girl who
runs the centrifugal machine receives from
$4 to $6 a week, and the girl who manipu
lates the ironing machine is paid from $5 to
$7 weekly.
In the matter of prices charged customers
there is very little difference between Chi
nese and American laundries, but where it
exists the American, and not the Chinese, is
found to be the man who is cutting rates.
As to the question of relative cleanliness it
may be interesting to slate-that the China
man alone, when soiled clothing are brought
to him, throws tbem into a weak solution,
which not only has a slight bleaching effect,
bntalso thoroughly disinfects each garment.
All things taken into consideration, it
does seem that, notwithstanding the capi
talized opposition of the Caucasian Master
Laundrymen, his Celestial brother has come
to stay.
A CHIKAMEVS LUCK.
For Ten Yean II n Una Carried a Diamond
Worth $7,500.
(SPECIAL TELIGItAJI TO Till DISPATCH. I
Lexington, Mass, March 22. Hop
Ling, an assistant in the Chinese laundry
here, for ten years past has carried about
him a valuable stone that he has always
looked upon as an ordinary keepsake. Ten
years ago he was a little fellow, 13 years of
age, with a pig tail of only half its present
length. At that time he was passion
ately in love with Kuku, he only daughter
of Tip Ah Lee. Tip put an end to his
aspirations by making use oi a flexible
walking stick. Kuku, as a parting keep
sake, gave him a bright stone that she said
she had picked up. Hop vowed that he
would never part with it, and it would al
ways remind him of her pearl-like eyes aud
her" rretty nose.
A lew days ago Hop's master entertained
a guest from New York. He noticed the
stone that Hop wore and asked to look at it.
He pronounced it a diamond worth $7,500,
and wanted to buy it at that figure. Hop
could not believe his ears, but be hesitated
not a moment and promptly sold the stone
that ten years before he had pledged his
word never to part with. But he is now
older and wiser, and prefers money to senti
ment. He will now go to San Francisco
and seek a bride from among the children
of the Celestial Empire who make the city
their.home.
THE STKIKE STJ.LL ON.
Terr Utile Change In the Situation nt Oliver
rtroE. & riiiiiipi' oiiii.
The condition of the strike at Oliver
Bros. & Phillips' South Tenth street mill
remains unchanged. The conference that
was set for yesterday did not take place,
and, what is more discouraging, there are
no indications of one very soon.
The other workmen in the mill, and those
of the Fifteenth street mill, are very much
afraid thev will be called out on account of
the difficulty. One of them said last night:
"I scarcely believe it's right This strike
hinges on the discbarge of one man and re
instatement of another, and I for one disap
prove ofcalling out 3,000 or 4,000 men just
lor that."
Mr. D. B. Oliver sticks to his statement
that so far as the firm is concerned the other
mills will not be closed; but then the Amal
gamated Association bas something to say.
A SOUTH CAEObLNA CICLOXE
Blow Down Dwelling;". Depots and
Charchps Kills nnd Injures Sovcral.
Chester, S. C. March 22. A destruc
tive cyclone passed over the village of
Edgemoor and Chester this afternoon.
Fourteen houses were blown down, a
negro named James Miller was killed and
several persons seriously injured.
The roof of the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern depot was blown half a mile away.
Robinson & Bros.' establishment and
Dickey's drug store were totally demolished.
Edgemoor's new church was also destroyed.
WHAT PEOFLB AGE DOING.
Soma Who Travel, Some Who Do Not, and
Others Who Talk.
J. M. Speese. of Philadelphia, passed
through the city yesterday on his way to Mich
igan on a business trip. Mr. Speese was for
merly one of the chief poitofflce inspectors,
and was one of the first removed by President
CleTel&nd.
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A FATHER'S L0YE
Brings Him Across the Ocean to Succor nnd
Protrct nil Daughter Mrs. Blrcbnll
Will Retarn lo Enclnnd as
?5oon ns Possible.
New York, March 22. Among the
passengers on the White Star steamship
Germanic, which arrived to-day, was David
Stevenson, the father of Mrs. Birchall,
whose husband is under arrest for
murdering Frederick Benwell at Woodstock,
Canada, on February 17. Mr. Stevenson
is a traffic manager of the London and
Northwestern Bailway nnd is accompanied
by his daughter, Mrs. Jones. When Mr.
Stevenson was asked what he would do to
wards the defense of his son-in-law,
he said that he came to this
country solely to look after
the interests of his daughter. Now that
his daughter was practically free he did
not see whv he shonld remain long in this
country. However, if his daughter had to
remain until the trial of Birchall came
on, ne would see that her interests were
Eroperlv looked after. He intended taking
er back to England as soon as he could.
Mr. Stevenson said that his daughter was
deceived by Birchall with regard to the firm
at Woodstock, and that she knew no more
about it than did either Benwell or Pel
ley. He added that he was opposed
to the marriage of his daughter to
Birchall. He had looked up the
latter's record as a young man at college,
and was greatly shocked when his daughter
ran away with him. From the manner in
which Mr. Stevenson spoke of Birchall, it
dooes not look as if he will do much toward
the defense of his son-in-law.
Mr. Stevenson was driven to the Everett
House, where he will remain until to-morrow,
when he will leave for Woodstock,
Canada.
A SEW LABOR ORGANIZATION
Formed bv the Coal Miners of the Pennsyl
vania Anthracite Region.
Pottsvim,e, Pa., March 22. A new
labor union called the "Workingmen's
Benevolent and Protective As.yciation"
was formed here to-day. Fortune dele
gates representing the entire anthntcite coal
region in this State met in convention and
organized thi association and adopted res
olutions: Resolved, That we favor one organization
covering tho anthracite coal region by center
ing all organized and unorganized men into one
organization to ne known as the Workingmen's
Benevolent and Protective Association, and
that it bo an open organization.
Resolved, That the all-important eight-hour
question, now prevailing and receiving consid
eration from all organized forces, should be
uppermost in the minds of the people of the
anthracite region, and that we favor its adop
tion as soon as practicable.
This new association is to take the place
of the old Miners' and Laborers' Amalga
mated Association, and also of the Knights
of Labor. The new organization will advo
cate and encourage the principal of arbitra
tion on a conciliatory basis, and cultivate a
closer relationship between employer and
employe.
CLOSING THE SHERMAN CASE.
The District Attorney Severely Arraigns the
Defendant's Condnct.
Buffalo, March 22. Counsel began
summing up in the Sherman trial this morn
ing. Counsel for the defendant denied that
any grain had been removed with the inten
tion ot committing a fraud. It had not been
proven that Sherman had appropriated any
money obtained from grain sold. The in
dictment was obtained, he contended,
through a misrepresentation, and no evi
dence had been adduced to show that de
fendant had stolen the grain, as charged in
the specific complaint.
The District Attorney in summing up for
the people said the defendant was specula
ting in grain with other people's money.
He had no right to transfer grain without
warehouse receipts, and yet" it had been
done. Balances were forced and
false statements made. When
the crash came it was discovered that the
defendant had robbed the elevators of $300,
000. Grain had been weighed over and
over, and poor grain mixed with that of a
better quality.
Judge Lambert said that, in view of the
long trial, he would not send the case to the
jury until Monday morning.
CRUSHED BY MONOPOLY.
Secretnnr Cronemeyer Tells Why to Manu
facture Tin Plate Means Rain.
W. C. Cronemeyer, Secretary of the
American Tin Plate Association, having
been quoted as saying that tin plate can be
made here and sold with profit at present
selling prices, was asked yesterday if he
had been quoted correctly.
He said that he had, partly, but he had
gone further and stated that anyone who at
tempted to manufacture tin plate now wonld
share the fate of those who, tempted by the
enormous prices charged the consumer by
the importers' monopoly, had built works
and had made money only to lose it again
when the monopoly bad temporarily, but
long enough, reduced the price so low that
competition meant ruin.
A YICTI3I OF MORPHINE.
Terrible Sufferings and Sudden Death of a
Young; Imdy.
Milwaukee, March 22. Miss Hulda
Young Quist, daughter of William Young
Quisr, the well-known hardware mer
chant, was found dead in bed this
morning. When 17 years old Miss
Young fell and broke her shoulder, and the
physician gave her morphine to ease ter
rible pain. As a result she became ad
dicted to the use of morphine. Her
form was almost a skeleton, and
both arms were found to have been
punctured from shoulder to wrist by the
point of the syringe, with which the fatal
drug had been injected into her system.
FATAL RAILROAD COLLISION.
Passenger nnd Freight Trains Fall to Pass
on the Snmn Track.
Portage, N. Y., March 22. A head
and head collision occurred to-night be
tween a passenger and a freight train on
the Western New York and Pennsylvania
road, about 400 feet north of Portage bridge.
Engineers Warner and Stout were badly
scalded. Brakenieu Riley and G. Olseu
aud a fireman named Hughes were killed.
An unknown man from Rochester had both
his legs ground off and a passenger received
fatal injuries. Conductor Godfrey was
badly hurt.
Ills Disease Wns Fatal.
Albert Frazier, of Greensburg, was
brought to the Mercy Hospital yesterday,
suflering with an internal disease. The
case was very serious, and as a last hope
an operation was decided on. Drs. Dickson,
Stewart and McCann performed the opera
tion, bnt it was futile, Frazier dying before
evening.
Died of Pneumonia.
Maria Toomey, 60 years old, died yester
day morning at Mercy Hospital from pneu
monia and heart failure. She was buried
yesterday afternoon in St. Mary's Ceme
tery. Mrs. Toomey formerly resided in the
Ninth ward, and had been an inmate of
Mercy Hospital for 11 years.
movements of Ocenn Steamers.
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Germanic Mew York Liverpool.
Bcrnlcia New York Hall.
Russian i'rince.. Philadelphia .
Horsford's Acid Pbosphnte.
Useful in ail forms of Dyspepsia.
Imporlnnt Notice.
E. Butterick & Co. 's Patterns, etc., will
be at No. 27 Fifth ave. on and after April
1. A. G. Campbell & Sous, sole
agents.
PITTSBURG- DISPATCH,
ALL FOE CLEVELAND.
Pennsylvania Democratic Leaders
Bound That the Delegates
MUST BE FOR GR0YER IN 1892.
Wallace's Fealty to the Ex-President Now
Under Question.
IIE WILL'XOT GET THE DOMINATION
For Gorernor Unless He Mores Into Line With
Party Majority.
the
A report that ex-Senator Wallace favors
Hill for President is damaging his boom.
The other leaders are a unit for Cleveland
in 1892. No candidate will be nominated
for Governor who is not in harmony with
this idea.
rsr-ECIAL TELEGRAM TO TEE DISTUTCH.'
Philadelphia, March 22. The confer
ence of the Democratic leaders, which was
held on last Tuesday, has been the subject
of discourse among the active party workers
since that time. The declaration which was
made at that time by the participants
in the conference in favor of the nomination
of Grover Cleveland for President in 1892
has been accepted by the local workers to
mean that the State leaders are determined
that the delegates to the National conven
tion shall cast their votes in favor of Cleve
land's nomination.
It seems to be accepted as a fact that the
great masses of the Democratic organization
throughout the Sta'te, who have since the
Cleveland message of 1887 been shouting for
tariff reform, are determined that in the
contest of 1892 the New York statesman who
was the defeated candidate of his party in
1888 shall be chosen as the leader in the
great contest between the two parties for the
control of the Government.
CAUSE OF THE OPPOSITION.
Ex-Senator William A. Wallace, of
Clearfieldcounty, who was defeated for the
Democratic nomination for Governor in
1886 by Chauncey F Black, was the first of
the many candidates for the Democratic
nomination for Governor who was brought
into the contest by his friends.
It was thought by many of
the active party workers throughout
the State that there would be little or no op
position to the choice of Wallace as the
candidate of the Democratic party for Gov
ernor, not only because of his being the first
candidate placed in the field, but because of
his well-known ability as an organizer.
Since the recent conference the story has
been started that ex-Senator Wallace is iu
favor of the nomination of Governor David
B. Hill, of New York, lor President, by
the Democratic party in 1892, instead of ex
President Cleveland', and as a consequence
the Wallace stock, which was above par,
has been slowly dwindling ever since.
Many of the friends of ex-Senator Wallace,
since the conference, have expressed their
indignation at its outcome, and they do not
hesitate to say that it was because of the
opposition of ex-Congressman William L.
Scott, who aspires to the State leadership
of the Democratic party, to the nomination
of ex-Senator Wallace as the Democratic
candidate for Governor, that the story of
Wallace's opposition to Cleveland's nomi
nation was made known.
NOT COMMITTED TO HILL.
Wallace's friends declare that he has
made no declaration regarding his prefer
ences for the Presidental nomination in
1892, and claim that be is willing to abide
by the decision of the State Con
vention, be what it may. They say
mai it me sentiment oi me party
throughout the .State is in favor'
of the nomination of Cleveland, he will
be found in the front rank ot its supporters,
and his wish to become the candidate of his
party for Governor is based on the belief
that there is more than a fighting chance for
winning that office.
It is known that during ex-Senator Wal
lace's brief stay in this city prior to his
leaving for New York his main thought
was regarding the condition of the party's
organization, and particularly in this city.
With his friends he discussed the last two
local elections and their possible effect
upon the coming fall election, and
was seemingly of the opinion that the Re
publican leaders, with an eye to the Guber
natorial election, had so arranged matters
with a view to securing large Bepublican
majorities for their candidates as to make
Democratic aspirants for office feel that
there was little or no chance of securing an
election.
Wallace has, in spite of the fact that his
friends have been shouting his praises as a
candidate, refused to make public any
declaration of his position. He will not say,
even to his intimate friends, that he intends
becoming a candidatefor the nomination for
Governor, but bids them wait until his busi
ness matters have been so arranged as to
permit him to carefully look over the situa
tion. A COMPROMISE POSSIBLE.
It has been given out by local Democratic
leaders that there may yet be a compromise
candidate for Governor agreed upon in
order that the party may present as its
candidate a man who has not been
identified with the factional strug
gles of the past, and whose record
will bring to his support the votes of thou
sands of Republicans who are anxious to
rebuke boss domination. Among the can
didates suggested are Robert BruceRicketts,
of Luzerne county, the commander of
Rickett's Battery during the war; Harry
McCormick, the well-known iron manufac
turer, of Dauphin county; ex-State Senator
Simon P. Wolverton, of Northumberland
county, and Representative Wherry, of
Cumberland county, who was one of the
recognized leaders of the Democratic mi
nority during the last session of the Legis
lature. It is said that the main purpose of the
conference which was held here was to have
the Democratic leaders agree upon such a
candidate as has been mentioned. The
story goes that prior to the
meeting of the coming State
convention that a further conference will be
held, at which not only will a candidate for
Governor be agreed np'on, but also a slate of
the delegates at large to the Democratic
National Convention of 1892, in order to
have Cleveland delegates elected.
A COMPROMISE CAJiDIDATB.
Jnago John Dean, of Blair Coantr, Suggested
for Governor.
rsriCIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Altoona, Pa., March 22. Owing to the
bitterness of the fight for the Republican
nomination for Governor, which, it is feared,
may render either of the present prominent
candidates unavailable to succeed with, it has
been determined to urge the name of Hon.
John Dean, President Judge of Blair
county, as an available compromise candi
date. It is not settled yet whether Judge Dean
will permit his name to be used for any such
purpose, but gentlemen who have assumed
charge of the movement say that he must
yield to the party's wishes for the party's
good.
THEI LEFT TOO SOON.
Pittsbarc Police Asked to Look Oat for Tiro
Women and a Girl.
Inspector McAleese, of the First police
district, last night received a telegram from
the Chief of Police at Wheeling, telling
him to look out for two colored women who
were kidnapping a girl named Mary Gra
ham, also colored and only 14 yean of age.
The telegram said the trio had left Wheel
ing upon the 4:10 P. M. train, but ino trace
could be found of them at Pittsburg,
so it is supposed they left the .train at some
way station.
SUNDAY, MARCH 23,
A MAN AMONG MEN.
Bishop Foster Tells the Methodist minis
ters How to Fill Their Churches
Work of the Altoona Confer
ence Election of Dele
gate.
PrECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCR.l
Capxisle, Pa., March 22. The fourth
day of the Methodist Conference opened
with devotional exercises by Rev. Dr. Gray,
of Dickinson's Seminary. The question of
the election of delegates lo the Ecumenical
Council was in order, and Rev. W. A.Houck,
of Bellefonte, made amotion to reconsider
the decision to make nominations. This
was carried and every man voted for whom
he pleased. The result of the ballot was
the election of Rev. Dr. Grey, of Williams
port, and Dr. B. B." Hamlin, of
Altoona, as clerical, and T. S.
Murray, of Clearfield, and John
Patton, of Curwensville, as lay delegates.
James T. Richardson, of Dickinson College;
John C. Young, of Altoona. and Lyman J.
Mutchmore, of Dickinson College, were1
elected local elders. The traveling deacons
made elders were Simpson B. Evans,
of Lock Haven; Lorenzo D. Ott, of
Shippensburg; H. A. Craslev, of Westport;
B. H. Stine, of New Blooinfield; Charles
A. Biddle, of Lumber City; Wm. Brill,
of Birmingham; S. P. Boone, of Benton;
John W. .Forrest, of Liverpool; John R.
Melroy, jt Buckhorn. The follow
ing were elected to deacon's
orders: Franklin M. Welsh,
ot Altoona; W. F. S. Deavor, of Nescopeck;
William A. Lepley, of Muhlenberg; James
E. Weeks, of Austin; James H. Morgart,
of Picture Rocks, and Richard T. Whitley,
of xork.
Bishop Foster delivered an address to the
ministers who presented themselvei for ad
mission to the conference. He said that the
present day offers advantages which the past
did not, and the times that the men who
stand in the pulpit should be able to
stand a man among men. People will not
go to a church ir they find nothing of im
portance or interest there to attract them.
As a rule, where the preacher is a power in
the pulpit the people will find it out and
cometo bear. The meeting this afternoon
was in the interest of thft Rnnilav fiplinnl
TJuiou and Tract Society. Rev. A. W.'
Guyer presided and J. M. Sayford and Rev.
Dr. J. M. Freeman, Secretary of the society,
delivered addresses. This "evening T. H.
Murray, of Clearfield, lectured on the
heroism of St. Paul.
SANE MEN IN ASYLUM.
Colonel A. II. Rogers Will Commence a
Crusade for Their Benefit.
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
New York, March 22. The court pro
ceedings which Colonel A. H. Rogers.bas
instituted against the authorities of the
Ward's Island Insane Asylum, he de
clares, are only the preliminary skir
mishes of a protracted campaign. He
has opened field headquarters opposite
the Court House, and with three or four ex
lunatics as aids-de-camp, he has mapped
out a lively programme. He has discov
ered, he says, the best cure of insanity in
the world a writ of habeas corpus and
he proposes to provide it for the
benefit of scores of his former associates
among the inmates of the Ward's Island
asylum. He was very busy to-day with his
assistants who were recently discharged
from the same institution, in drawing up
fresh applications for writs of habeas corpus
in favor of more sane men who are unlaw
fully deprived of their liberty.
He now had the names of C2 Ward's
Island patients who he declares are sane.
Those include a few who have been volun
tarily discharged, Colonel Rogers affirms,
since the asylum authorities have re
ceived notice of his intention to com
pel their release. The3e are the men whom
Colonel Rogers said to-day he would have
produced in court this week forexamination
ns to, their sanity. Colonel Rogers says the
G2 patients are inmates of but four of the 30
wards of the Institution, and he has no
doubt that among all the 1,700 inmates of
the asylum there are at least 400 sane men
or men whose delusions are slight and per
fectly harmless.
NEiV BOOKS EECEITED.
Interesting: Volumes Added to tho
Free
Library ot Allegheny City.
Among the new books received at the
Allegheny Library yesterday were the fol
lowing: "Italian Character," by Countess
Martinengo-Cesaresco: "Ancient Cures,
Charms and Usages of Ireland," by Lady
Wilde; "Myths and Folk Lore of Ireland,"
by Cnrtin; "Tintypes Taken in the Streets
ol New York," by Quigg; "Blue Laws,
True and False," by Trumbull; "Polish
Blood," by von Eschstruth; "Life Inside
the Church of Rome," by the Nun of Ken
mare. There was also received a very valuable
book of teference, Scribner's "Statistical
Atlas of the TJnited States," showing sta
tistics of a physical and geographical
nature, of the progress, population, mor.
tality, education, religion, finance and com
merce of the country since the first census
was taken.
KAILEOADS STILL KAMPANT.
The
PostofOco nnd Schcnley Fork Road
Produces Some Archives.
W. G. McCandless, President, and J. W.
Breen, Secretary of the Postoffice and
Schenley Park Passenger Railway Com
pany, yesterday filed in the Recorder's
office copies of minutes of meetings of the
companv, at which extensions of their line
was resolved upon. The extensions are:
First Beginning at the corner of Hill street
and Fourth avenue, along Hill street to Third
avenue, to Ross street, to place of beginning.
Second Beginning at the corner of Wyan
dotte and Soho streets, along Sobo street to
Vadworth street, to Robinson street, to Alle
qulppa street, to the place of beginning.
Third Beginning at the corner of Locust and
Van Braam streets, along Locust street to
Gist street, to Ann street, to the place of begin
ning. Fourth Beginning at tho corner of De Sota
and Terrace streets, along Terrace to Boquet,
to the terminus of the Squirrel Hill Riilway.to
the place of beginning.
SOME PETTY SHOPLIFTING.
Two Young; Men Arrested on the Charge In
n Smithflcld Street Store.
Bone Cornblaum and Julius Stamm, a
pair of 18-year-old boys, were lodged in the
Central station last night, on a complaint
made by Kaufmann Bros, that they had
stolen some goods. Stamm, it seems, had
been employed in the store, and it is charged
managed with the help of Cornblaum to get
away with several handkerchiefs, neckties
aud other goods.
An information will probably be lodged
against the boys to-morrow morning by the
firm. The amount of booty found upon
the youths was very small and its ownership
debatable.
CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT.
X Sonthtlde Man Gets In Jail for the Sake
of a Hundred Dollars.
Joseph E. Murphy was arrested on Fri
day night by Constable Lindner, of Alder
man McGarey's office, on a warrant sworn
out by H. J. Schneider, of the publishing
firm of Schneider & Mingler, charging him
with larceny by bailee.
The prosecutor is one of the firm who -are
the publishers of the Southside Kelts, and
alleges that Murphy, who was employed by
them for a long time as collector, 'appro
priated lo his own use money collected to
the amount of almost $100.
Abont 35 Cents on the Dollar.
Sax Francisco, March 22. The report
of experts was received to-day by the
committee representing the creditors"" of
Bello & Co., private banking firm, which
failed recently. Tbe report placed the
liabilities at 5186,000, and the assets at
$131,000.
1890.
ENDING THE SUBPLUS.
Sherman Attacks a Public Building
Bill as Extravagant, Thus
CAUSING QUITE A DISCUSSION.
The Measure Passed, Notwithstanding the
Strong Objections.
EAYXE AND THE DUTY ON TIN PLATE.
He Answers the Arguments of Hostile Canned Goods
Manufacturers.
A bill appropriating $300,000 for a public
building at San Diego, Cal., caused a lively
debate in the Senate yesterday. Sherman
asked those behind the scheme some very
pointed questions, but the measure was
finally passed.
Washington, March 22. In the Senate
to-day the first bill reached was the one
appropriating $300,000 for a public build
ing at San Diego, Cal. Mr. Sherman sug
gested that that was rather a large appro
priation for a public building in San Diego.
He had been' there a short time ago, and it
was then a comparatively small place. If
there was any special reason for such a
large appropriation he would like to know
it.
There was a general complaint, he said,
in the press of the country that appropria
tions for public buildings were exorbitant
and extravagant, and that provision was
made for public buildings where they were
not needed. The Senate was now consider
ing one of these bills, aud the chairman of
the committee which reported it had very
curtly replied to him that if he referred to
the report he could satisfy himself. He re
spectfully submitted that Senators were
entitled to information on a matter of pub
lic importance before they were called upon
to vote a large sum of $300,000 for building
in San Diego.
HE 'WANTED TO KNOW.
He therefore repeated his request for in
formation as to the number of places in Cal
ifornia for which public buildings had been
provided at the present session and the
amount for each. Mr. Stanford said that
he was not able to bear in mind what appro
priations had been made, and he had there
fore referred the Senator from Ohio to the
report. If the Senator wanted a detailed
report, he (Mr. Stanford) would furnish it
to him, but he could not do so from memory.
Mr. Sherman said that all he desired was
to have some general rule applied to public
buildings. There were three or four public
buildings asked for in the State of Ohio,
but he thought that $100,000 was the largest
appropriation allowed tor them in such
towns as Dayton and Springfield. He
wanted to see what might be called "a fair
divide" and that the same rule should be
applied by the committee in thesecases.
Mr. Spooner, a member of the Committee
on Pnblic Buildings and Grounds, said that
the propriety ol tbe appropriation for ban
Diego was not affected by appropriations for
other places in California. The Senator
from California (Mr. Stanford) had brought
the atteutiou of the committee to facts
which he could not now recall in detail;
and had satisfied the committee that the ap
propriation for San Diego, a place rapidly
growing in importance, was not too large.
BEYOND EASTERN COMPREHENSION.
Mr. Piatt spoke of the recent remarkable
growth of San Diego and other towns in
Southern California, which Eastern men
could hardly comprehend. Senators might
as well understand that this was a great
country, and that it had great needs. San
Diego' was a very important place. Its bus
iness was increasing rapidly. In regard to
many of the growing Western towns public
buildings had been appropriated for, but
before the buildings were completed they
were found to be entirely inadequate. He
instanced Los Angeles as a case of that kind,
and said that Southern California had so
grown in population since the last appor
tionment that Mr. Yandever, its representa
tive in the House, now represented a constit
uency of about 00,000. San Diego had now
a population of from 35,000 to 40,000, and if
it increased in the same ratio for the next
ten years the building provided for in the
bill would not be large enongh.
Mr. Spooner said that the bill as intro
duced provided for an appropriation of
only $200,000; that he had referred the mat
ter to the Supervising Architect of the
Treasury and that that official had recom
mended appropriation of $500,000.
A GROWING COMMUNITY.
Mr, Morgan said six years ago San Diego
had not more than 4,000 inhabitants, while
now .it had 35,000 or 40,000. It was a re
markable instance of the expansion
of American enterprise and indus
try. " Its bouses were on a magnifi
cent scale, and the city surrounding
the beautiful harbor was something to ex
cite the pride of Americans. Its harbornot
only admitted the very largest ships and
steamers on tbe Pacific, but it was perfectly
landlocked.
Mr. Ingalls said that there was a yague
impression not very vague, either, but a
very definite impression in the public
mind, and which he had derived from read
ing the newspapers, that appropriations in
the river and harbor bill and in bills for
public buildings, went by favor, like oscu
lation, and that, in various instances, large
appropriations had been made for which
there was no appparent justification. Pnb
lic attention had been called repeatedly to
the fact that after the foreign business of the
Senate was over tbe session had been con
tinued with far less than a quorum present;
that bills had been taken up ueni con, read
formally aud hastily, and passed without
the reports being read and without the
slightest discussion, and that millions and
millions in appropriations had been piled
up without any reason being given why the
bills should have been passed.
AN INSTRUCTIVE DEBATE.
The debate to-day had been instructive
and advantageous. It justified the action
of the committee on the pending bill, which,
without the explanation given, would have
gone into the same category as those which
had preceded it. He believed that the Gov
ernment of the United States ought never to
be a tenant for the premises it occupies, but
that, wherever there was Government occu
pation there should be Government owner
ship. It would be (he said) an object lesson
in patriotism) for in every town and village
in the Republic there was a place (large or
small) from which every day the flag of the
Republic should fly, as an indication that
there was the visible presence and majesty
and power ot the government.
He had been always in favor of liberal
appropriations for public buildings, and
should be glad to support a measure that
would provide for a postoffice building
wherever the Government had occasion to
hire a building. He condemned, however,
the practice that had grown up of extrava
gance and costliness in public buildings,
and cited, as models of appropriateness, the
buildings for the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, for the Pension Bureau and for
the National Mnseum.
At the close of the discussion the bill was
passed.
TO INVESTIGATE ALCOHOL
4 Committee to be Appointed by Harrison
for That l'nrpose.
Washington, March 22. The House
Committee ou Alcohol Liquor Traffic bas
authorized a favorable report on a bill pro
viding for the appointment of a commission
on the alcoholic liquor traffic. It provides
that this commission shall consist of five
persons, to be appointed by tbe President,
and who shall be selected solely with refer
ence to their personal fitness and capacity
for an honest, impartial and thorough in-
J restigatfon of the alcoholic liquor traffic,
and who shall hold office until their duties
shall be accomplished, but for not more
than two years. The commission shall in
vestigate the alcoholic, fermented and vin
ous liquor trade in all its phases, its
relation -to revenue and taxation, its
effect upon labor, agricnlture, manufactur
ing and other industries, and its general
economic, criminal, moral and scientific
aspects in connection with pauperism,
crime, social vice, the public health, its
effects on the different nationalities and
races, and on tbe general welfare of the peo
ple, and also, to inquire into the practical
results of license, prohibitory legislation,
and the various methods of restraint and
taxation relied upon for the prevention of
intemperance in tbe several States and Ter
ritories of the Union and in the District of
Columbia.
It is provided that all of the commis
sioners shall not belong to the same politi
cal party, and shall receive a salary of $2,000
a year with per diem expenses.
SILENCED BY BAYNE.
Objections of Canned Goods niannfaetnrcrs
to an Increased Daly on Tin Plate
The Pertinent Question of
Congressman Dingier.
Washington, March 22. A. K. Shriver,
J. N. Nunsen and R. T. Smith, of the Bal
timore Canned Goods Exchange; T. L. Bunt
ing, of the New York Canned Goods Asso
ciation, and S. G. Curtice, of Rochester,
made argument before the Ways and Means
Committee to-day in opposition to the propo
sition contained in the tariff bill to increase
by three-fourths of a cent a pound tbe duty
on tin plate. They contended that one-half
of the price they received for their goods
was made up of tbe cost of the can, and the
present tax amounted to a tax of ten per
cent upon the tomatoes and corn packed.
The canners of this country consumed about
$12 000,000 worth of tin plate per annum,
and the tax upon it was paid almost entirely
by the poor people.
Mr. Dingley wanted to know if the same
thing was not true of the tax imposed upon
imported canned goodi, to which the pack
ers replied that they would be perfectly
willing to have the duty removed on canned
goods if they were given free tin.
Mr. Bayne said that in tbe course of a
year and a half the mills of this country
would be producing all the tin plate needed
for domestic consumption, and at a price
that would compare favorably with the
present price paid for imported tin plate.
Thirty thousand men would also be given
employment and the country would save
the $20,000,000 now sent away to pay for
English tin. This statement was received
with incrednlity by the packers, who said,
however, that if they could be assured that
this result would follow they would have
nothing more to say.
WAiNTED IIIS TICKET.
He Wonld Rather Get to Kansas City Than
Get a Sack of Watches.
A case ol paralyzed drunk was arrested
last evening in the vicinity of Mercy Hos
pital, and the utmost eloquence he could
command when interrogated by Inspector
McAleese was that his name was P. J. Har
ris and he represented a jewelry store of
Philadelphia. He had an idea that he had
a satchel somewhere with 18 gold watches in
it, and was confident that he had several
tickets, one of which was from Philadelphia
to Kansas City.
He expressed a good deal more solicitude
for the safety of the ticket to Kansas Citv
than for the $1,800 worth of gold watches,and
Inspector McAleese, remembering that a
jewelry robbery had taken place within a
week in Philadelphia, decided on detaining
Mr. Harris until further investigations could
be made. The account of the man himself
representing himself as the traveler for a
first-class jewelry store did not accord with
the variegated style of clothing he wore,
which included a first-class overcoat with
exceedingly poor underclothing.
P0E EIGHT H0UES A DAT.
St. Louis Railroad Men Will Make Tbelr
Demand on Mny 1
rSPKCIJU. TELEOBAM TO TUB DISFATCB.1
St. Louis, March 22. It is stated here
that a demand will be made by ail railroad
employes for eight hours' work after May 1.
The switchmen have determined on a de
mand for eight hours' work, to
be sprung on May 1. The men af
fected will be all those in St. Louis
yards, and in all yards of all lines leading
out of St. Louis. The four orders, it is
said, will stick together. These orders are
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and Firemen, the Brotherhood of Railroad
Conductors, the Switchmen's Mutual Aid
Association and the Brotherhood of Brake
men. The O. R. C. S., as they are termed, are
not in. This is the order of railway con
ductors, an old organization of 12 years,
which is claimed to be hand-in-glove with
railroad managers, and which recentlv
contained nearly every superintendent, dis
patcher and roadmaster west of here.
HIGH WATEE AT CIXCIKIf ATI.
The Flood Likely to Cat Off the City's Rail
rond Connections.
ISriCIAI. TELEGRAM TO TUB PISFATCB".
Cincinnati, March 22. The river has
been steadily rising here for several days.
For two days it has rained almost contin
ually at all upriver points. This morning
"Rat Row," along the river grade, was in
the water. The banks all along the city are
fnll and a few feet more of a rise will force
the wholesale men in the bottoms to move
into the upper floors.
It will not take much more water either
to cut off railroad connections into the city.
Such a stage of water is a probability.
'Squire Berlin Critically III.
The well-known 'Squire Berlin, father of
the warden of the county jail, is lying in a
critical condition at his home at 140 Franks-?
town avenue. His sons were called to his
bedside last night, and it is hardly ex
pected that he will survive.
Glnss House Hoys Strike.
The boys employed in Agnew & Co.'s
glass works, at Hulton, struck for a 5 per
cent raise yjesterday. They were granted
their demands inside oi three hours.
Can't Live flinch Longer.
Bishop O'Connor suffered a slight relapse
on Friday night, and. the Mercy Hospital
authorities last night thought his condition
extremely critical.
THE WEATHER.
For We tern
Pennsylvania and
Wett Virginia, rain
or mow, followed by
colder, clearing
weather, northwest
erly winds; fair on
Monday.
For Ohio, fair weather, northwesterly i
winds, lower temperature.
PmsBtmo. March 22, issa
The United States Signal Service omoerla
this city furnishes the following
Time.
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llsilmura temp.
Minimum temp..
Mean temp.
Ksnre .
12:00 X,
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JUver at too r.
UV hoars.
BalnlaU
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A JEALOUS EED MAN f
Shoots His Sweetheart Because She
Wedded Another, Sends
A BULLET THROUGH HIS ElYAL
And Then Kills His Faithful Pony
En'ds His Own Life.
and
WEIED DEATH DANCE OP THE SI0DX.
Ibe Eieltement Orcr the Triple Tragedy May Cause
Srrionj Trouble.
At the Standing Rock agency of the
Sioux an Indian killed a sauaw becausa
she had married a rival. He then killed
her husband, his pony and himself. At tho
death dance which followed another Indian
was stabbed.
ISrECIAL TZLEOBAM TO TUB DISrATCH.I
Standing Rock Agency, Dak.,
March 22. One of the most famous Indian
warriors of the Devil's Lake Agency is
known as No Water. He was a powerful
fellow, with flashing eyes and long hair,
which he used to braid with cigar ribbons
and let hang down his cheeks. Two years
ago he became enamored of a squaw of tha
name of Julia, who was the daughter of
Irish Mike, a half-breed.
No Water was already married, according
to the Sioux custom, and his lodge was
blessed wth several children, but when tha
daughter of the half-breed met him at the
last full-moon dance she fell desperately in
love with the buck and the next day she
consented to marry him. The newly
wedded couple, accompanied by the war
rior's first wife and children, started for
their home on last Wednesday night They
crossed the river just above the agency for
the purpose of getting an early start from
Winona the following morning.
another dusky loteb.
They were followed by a shiftless Indian
from the agency, known as Horn Cloud,
who tried to persuade Julia to return to the
agency and wed him. But the young girl
refused to leave her lover. Horn Cloud,
who is a young buck and one of the most
skillful shots with the Winchester at the
agency, pretended to start for home, and as
he parted with Julia he said: "Well, shake
hands before we part for good."
He seized her hand, kissed it and as she
turned to go in the tepee, where No Water
was smoking his pipe, he fired at her with a
rifle which he had skilfully concealed in the
sage grass. The bullet struck Julia in tha
back and she fell npon the ground a corpse.
As she toppled in front of the tepee the
enraged lover fired again. This time the
bullet pierced the squaw's arm and shat
tered the bones. Horn Cloud was now a
demon. With a Sioux yell he turned his
rifle upon his uony, which he killed with a
siugle shot.
KILLED HIS EIYAL, TOO.
No Water, knowing the desperation of his
rival, took to the woods, but before he could
get to cover, a bullet from Horn Cloud's
rifle pierced him in the back and he fell
over dead. Sweet Grass, a sub-chief at the
agency, tried to knock the rifle from
Horn Cloud's hands, and was himself
wounded in the leg. The chief fell upon
the ground and lay there while the crazy
murderer dashed through the sage brush,
and grease wood to the spot where No
Water had fallen." Then he fired another
bullet into the prostrate warrior, who was
already stone dead.
Satisfied that he had slain hi3 sweetheart
and herbusband. the Sioux, stripping him
self of bis buckskin shirt and head dress,
rushed into the lodge of Iron Frog and
turned his rifle upon himself! He fired
three times at his breast. The first bullet
struck bis collar bone and glanced off, pass
ing through the tent. The second bullet
pierced his chin, shattering tbe lower jaw
and knocking out several teeth. The third
ball entered the warrior's breast aud he fell
into the supper fire which was burning in
the tepee.
CREATED A PANIC.
The shooting created a panic in the agency
and before anybody dared venture into Iron
Frog's tent the murderer and suicide had
been burned from his shoulders to his breast
Bucks from Two Bears' camp bore tha
bodies to the agency house, where they now
lie. Last night the Sioux held a death
dance about the bodies. Fire3 were kindled
outside the tepee and all throngh the night
the Sioux, led by Yellow Hatrk. Big Eagle,
Crow Dog and Iron Frog, shouted and
danced in the most weird fashion.
During the orgie Yellow Feather, a
Sioux, was staobed in the throat by a buck
whose name is unknown. This murder is
supposed to be the outgrowth of some petty
jealousy which has been existing in tha
agency for some time. The relatives of No
Water threaten to go on the warpath against
the family of Horn Cloud, and Irish Mike,
who was absent at the time of the tragedy,
will doubtless seek revenge. Julia No
Water and Horn Cloud were buried to-day.
All the Indians at tbe agency were present,
and to-night the redskins are turbulent and
threatening to attack the whites,wbowerein
no way responsible for tbe tragedy of
Wednesday.
HELD BY TnE ENEMY.
The Victim nnd the Ticllmlzer Botb In tha
Bands of the Police.
James Anderson made the night hideous
with howls for help about 11 P. ai. yester
day and when Captain Henry TJnterbaum
and Officer James BurSe arrived at Second
avenue and Try streets, the scene of tha
disturbance, Mr. Anderson said two men
had been holding him up and taken same
money and a silver watch.
Captain TJnterbaum cJptured a man, who
gave bis name as Martin Carroll, a few.
minutes later, and the watch was fonnd in
his possession, the other man escaping.
Both Anderson and Carroll were held in
Central station, the former as a witness.
A BATTLE BETWEEN WHALES.
Tne Marino CorDici Witnessed by tho Mate
of a Schooner.
IfPICIAL TELIOBAM TO TUS DtSrATCH.1
PniLADELHiA, March 22. The schooner H.
G.Ely, of this city.George Moore, of Delaware,
master, arrived to-day with a cargo of lumber
from North Carolina. Mate John Bennetre-
ported that when in Chesapeake Bay. off Point
No Point, tbat two whales were seen tint on
the port bow, distant about a quarter of a mile,
lashing the water into foam. As the vessel
drew nearer the cetaceans it was seen that one
was about 30 feet in length, the other a little
larger, and that they were engaged In deadly
combat. The whales would rash at each other,
sometimes striking with their huge square
heads, but oltener dodging the blows, and tho
smaller seemed to have tbe best of it.
They sounded often, but as often came afeain
to the surface, throwing tbe water!5 or 20 feet
into tbe air from their blow holes. When
tbey would come together the blows would
sound like tbe fall of a pile driver, only not so
clear, and the thrashing of their tails threw
the water masthead high. The crew of the
Ely watched the combat for nearly half an
hour, daring which the larger whale was
steadily driven toward the shore.
Secnred Practice Grounds.
The new local club bas secured the use of tha
East End Athletics' grounds until Exposition
Park is ready. This will enable the players to
cet daily practice in playln". As soon as tha
weather permits tho players will go out to tho
East End.
The members of the new Brooklyn Associa
tion team reported lor duty yesterday. Man
ager Kennedy met the following players at the
urani Central Hotel: Reipschlager, Lynch,
Bowes, Powers. Gerhardr, Pitz and O'Brien,
Messrs. McCullongh. Toole, Toy, Bailey, Fen
nelly, Sweeney.
Fbank McHuoh is willing to fight Tommla
Miller at 118 pounds.
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