w? . fl "' iU J. :-."-' - Transient AflTertlsements Receiyea JLt the Branch Ofllccs or Tlxe T It-pa tclx Tor to-morrow's issue up to 9 o'clock T. K. Forlinof branch ofhces in the various dis f " "THlriD PAGE. TCETY-ITFTH YEAH. THE BATTLE After a Fierce Conflict the Road Expedition is Slightly Disfigured, BUT IS STILL IN THE RING. Great Demand for Rope for the Wagon and Conrt Plaster for the Explorers. DUET OP THREE DAYS' TRAVEL. A CaraTan Encountered Which Had Covered About 400 Miles in the Fast Three Weeks. THB HIGHWAYS FOUND IN THIS STATE Were Much Worse Than Any Others Between Central Illinois and the Headwaters or the Ohio Elver. 6CESES A5D HTCIDE3TS OF THE MUD CEUISE The Dispach road exploring expedition is now engaged in a sanguinary contest with the mud. Constant repairs are needed by the wagon and the members of the party. A five-wagon caravan was found on the way to Pittsburg irom Illinois. The leader of -the band stated tnat the worst roads en conntered in the entire trip were fonnd after crossing the line into Pennsylvania. IFKClt OUR SrZCIAL COMMISSIONER. tiib Pittsburg Dispatch Cocntrt Road Expedition noN, y ill. J UNIOSTOWN, April Conrt plaster is the principal item of sup plies which we stopped here to purchase. One of the nickel packets usually sold by the drug stores would not suffice. The young photographer will consnmemorethan that himself with in the next 24 hours. So often has the jolting wagon bumped his nose against the camera as he en- F$P&M, that black focus- ing cloth, that his ifeiaZ Mile Foil on Jfa- , tional Road. proboscis retains precious little skin to be court-plastered together. Still, he is not discouraged. A Rathrr Rash Prediction. The chap who wrote that article in last Tuesday morning's Dispatch, statins the objects of this expedition, knew a very minute particle about the subject he was Scribbling upon. He devoted two columns to boasting how easily The Dispatch could win the wagers offered at the En gineers' Society wagers that an overland triD in Western Pennsylvania could not be made at this season ol the year without Trreckmg a wagou and killing the team. seaeioht's This reporter in question rashly com mitted The Dispatch road explorers to scooping in these bets without any trouble. Nothing Sure About It. Well, the explorers will endeavor, to their utmost ability.to fulfill the mission assigned them without wrecking the wagon, and without killing Bucephalus and Beaver. Tint that reporter ought not to have been so sure about it. He could never have guessed what traveling on country roads means. We expected discomfort and delays when we started from Pittsburg. Now we have been on the road nearly three days. We purposely selected the Pittsburg and Washington turnpike, and the Old National road for the first few days' travel in order to gradually break in our horses and test the running gear of the rig. Possibly these are two of the best highways in the State at this season of the year, yet it 0 ?. X, to-day my diary shows these entries lor the three days: A Long- LUt of Repairs. - Woodvlllo Purchased rope for wagon. Canonsburg Had horses re-shod with caulks so. they can get solid footing in mud. City shoes n. g. Bridgeville Bolts In wagon top shook loose. Had them reset. Washington Bought more rope for mud emergencies. Jack's Tavem (National Road) Borrowed a lew drops of arnica for the driver's knuckles. He cut thein with monkey wrench while fixing single-tree. Bexllsrille Reports from ahead alarming, Bought more rope, , , RAGING i TO Hjl 1 If 1 '1 MS Brownsville Had blacksmith supply missing nuts, shook off brake and wagon bolsters. Searigbt's Tried to bny. bee or steal court plaster lor photographer, bnt failed. Uniontown Seat back jarred off. Em ployed carpenter. At sunrise we leave the turnpikes for good, and take inud roads SO miles west through Qreene county. Reports about those roads simply terrible. AH three of us dropped rickets lntotbe slot at Southwest Penn depot for life Insurance policies. P. S. More rope for Greene county's mire. Win the Winers or Die. Yes, certainly, we will win those wagers though we stick to our old land schooner until the last drop of Bucephalus" blood spills by the mossy muddy I mean way side, and until the last stick in the photog rapher's tripod is nailed to the weakening axles, but that reporter ought not to have made the public believe it was going to be such an easy job. On the Pittsburg turnpike near Canons burg we met a curious caravan. It was composed of five canvas-covered wagons. That is, the covers were once canvas. Now they are torn, tattered and patched with rags principally fragments of red flannel garments. All but one were small one horse wagons. The two-borse vehicle, a regular "Western emigrant, contains cooking stove, utensils and supplies. This caravan started from Cole county, 111., exactly three 01 Til illllllh XrfrfjflfWjrfwffl $xt ONE OF THE ILLINOIS CARAVAN. weeks ago, so John Lee, its leader, told me. Lee is accompanied by his wife and two children in the little wagon which he halted long enough for ns to photograph. Mrs. May. a widow, occupies another wagon with three children. A Most Plllful Spectacle. The four children of Joseph Lee (brother of the leader) occupy the third, and what impressed me as the most pitiful spectacle I ever saw. was the fourfli small wagon. It. had springs, it is true, but they were pretty well broken. Stretched at full length in side, on a dirty straw mattress, was the wife of Joseph Lee, sick nigh unto death. Her husband, a delicate-looking man, walked through the mud beside the wagon driving and urging his horse forward. Mrs. Lee had been sick -more than a week too ill to raise her head iromthat mattress J All the horses were lame, skinny and blind. Humane Agent Sam O'Brien would never permit them to enter Pittsburg if he knew they were coming. They had three extra horses limping along in the rear, led by the ragged children. All were bound for Pittsburg. At night the travelers tied up to trees anywhere along the roads, sleep ing in the wagons. .In daytime the women heg from farm to farm. And once these poverty-stricken people were prosperous farmers in Illinois. Now they are gipsies to all intents and purposes. They expect to get homes and employment at Pittsburg. The Worst Roods In This Slate. This man told me that in 400 miles of overland travel from Illinois to Canonsburg they found comparatively good roads until they reached West Alexandria, Pa. Then in Pennsylvania from the State line through old tavern. Washington to the point we met them they had a frightful time, frequently sticking so fast in the mire that one wagou had to be unhitched to allow its horse to help the other out, and then vice versa. Lee anxiously inquired the distance to Pitts burg. This interview occurred before I knew of the presence of a sick woman in the caravan. With her head propped up on pillows, I saw her afterward. Poor woman! Her pallid face, the build of the slight wagon, her hus band driver walking beside the vehicle all mysteriously caused a vision to flash before me. It was that of another vehicle beside which men often walk men with black crape pinned to their arms the vehicle a hearse! After this a quiet someehow fell over our party. Our driver ceased his comments on the Merino sheep grazing in the neighboring fields; the photographer was not humming his usual song; I was busy thinking. We traveled four miles before any of us spoke. Bought n Little Good Road. We had 58 cents worth of very good road yesterday afternoon and this morning. That came about in this way: The tolls charged us on the Old National Road between Washington and TJniontown amounted to exactly 99 cents five gates in 36 miles. In Washington county no possible fault can be found with the maintenance of a magnifi cently preserved highway built more than hall a centurr ago by Congress at the instigation of Henry Clay. Of "the 99 cents 58 was given Washington county toll-eatcs. I W paid 23 cents iu Fayette county. This fP part of the road is not quite so well kept up. I can only put it under the head of passably lair. Let's see;-something's wrong 23 and 58 cents oaly make 81, and we spent 99 cents. Oh, yes; the other 18 cents was toll on the smoothest road we've had since leaving Pittsburg. It was the bridge across the Monongahela river at Brownsville. Some Important Figures. On our route to-day I gathered some valu able facts about the important influence of this well-kept macadamized roadway on agriculture figures and statements that will prove the wisdom of making good every road in the State. These I will give in my next letter, and they will be worth reading. The National road being a good one, The Dis patch exploration was extended over it, more for the purpose of comparison with bad road regions than anything else. In the morning we leave for Waynesburg over mud roads, said to be the worst in Fay ette and Greene counties. It will, no doubt, afford material for at least two letters. . At Cauousburg Mr. T. Reed, of the Sher man House, advised me in a mysterious way to go to Middletown by "the upper road." I didn't understand what he meant. Plenty of Power Needed. Sitting in the Auld House at Washington afterward, an oil operator told us that to haul a derrick engine out to the oil field, eight miles, and to return the wagon eight miles back, requires 8 and 12 horses, costing from 575 to $100. Then I understood the Middletown hint I had received at Canons burg. Two miles past Washington we had gone by a small settlement. I was walking for exercise. A faint yell reached my ears. Again it came on the breeze. Looking away back I saw a white-haired man run out of a house and wildly swing an open newspaper as a signal. I ran forward, and seizing Beaver by the bridle and Bucephalus by the ear, stopped our wagou. Then I yelled back to know what was the age of the child we had killed. Putting both hands to his moult the bellowed: "Take the north road to Middle town 1" Waiting for n Little Reconstruction. But we will wait until we get new .wagon springs Jor that branch excursion. A blinding snow storm Taged all morning to day. Hut we were comfortablv enclosed and were not delaved. We spent thejiight. at.; seeaiisviiie, amen at aearight s old road tavern, which is 80 years old, and is ouilt of solid stone. There Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay stopped over night before railroad days. We pulled up at the Clinton House here at "3:30 p. m. L. e. Stofiel. WARD MUST STAI IN PRISON. He Will Not be Allowed to Attend His Wife's Funeral. Sing Sing, April 11. Convict Ferd Ward, who is deeply affected over the death of his wife, will not be granted permission to attend his wife's funeral. He told the warden he would like to go, and take a last look at his wife, but the warden assured him that the prison rules would not permit to grant Ward's request to attend the funeral. Ward's sister called at the prison yesterday afternoon, and he requested her to take a rose, and place it in the hands of his dead wife. The flower was taken from the conserva tory in the prison grounds, Mrs. Ward was to have visited her husband to-morrow, tnat being the regular visiting day. The friends of the prisoners are allowed to visit the prison every two months. Ward last saw his wife two months ago. She was appar ently very devoted to him, and made regular visits to the prison every two months during his imprisonment. RIVERS STILT, RISING. The Mississippi Benches the Highest Point of tho Yenr. Natchez, Miss., April 11. The river rose three inches in the past 24 hours and is now two inches above the highest point reached this year and still rising. The Government steamer General Newton, from points above, reports all the levees from Vicksburg to Natchez as being considered in a safe condition. A communication from Hap Hazard, Concordia parish, says the water from the Tensas river is running over the levees from Frogmore up and rapidly filling up the fields, so much so that plowing had to be suspended. ONE OFFICE ENOUGH. Collector John F. Dravo Resigns His Seat In the Legislature. Philadelphia, April 11. Speaker Boyer, of the State House of Representa tives, to-day received the resignation of Representative John I". Dravo, of Beaver county, who has been appointed Collector of the Port of Pittsburg. As the Constitution of the State prevents him from holding both offices at the same time, he resigned his seat in the Legisla ture. PRINCESS OF WALES FAILING. She la Suffering From Fits of Extreme Melancholy. BT DUNLAP'S CARLS COMPANY. 1 London, April 11. The Princess of Wales has improved sufficiently to moye to her country residence at Sandringham in Norfolk. Great anxietyis expressed for the failing health of the Princess, who suffers from extreme fits of melancholy, since she has been attacked with deafness. In consequence of this, the Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Albert Vic tor, are returning at once to England. A SWELL AFFAIR. Emperor William Dines With the Empress of Anstrln. Wiesbaden, April 11. Emperor Will iam to-day visited the Empress of Austria at the Villa Langenbeck. He was attired in the uniform of a Colonel of Hungarian Hussars. This evening the Emperor dined with the Austrian Empress, Arch Duchess Valerie and Arch Dnke Francis Salvator. After dinner the Emperor called out the troops of (he garrison for a sham fight. PPfatTjJ PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, APRIL HARBISON FOR 1892. Treasurer Huston, His Close Personal Friend, Announces That HE IS FORMALLY IN THE FIELD. The Party Mnst Nominafe Him in Order to Carry Indiana. INGALLS FAT0ES THE SECOND TER1T. He Thinks the Eepnhllcans Hate Kept AH or Thtlt Campaign Fledzts. United States Treasurer Huston an nounces that President Harrison is a candi date for re-election, and states that Indiana will be for him iu the convention and at the polls. The recent Democratic gains in that State, he says, can be overcome by hard work. Senator Ingalls also declares in favor of a second term for Benjamin. rSTECIAL TELEQEAM TO THE DISPATCH. Washington, April 11. President Harrison has formally announced that he will be a candidate for renomination in 1892. His spokesman is his intimate per sonal and political friend, Hon. J. N. Hus ton, Treasurer of the United States and Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Indiana. Mr. Huston re turned from Indianapolis to-day, having de sisted from his duties in Washington to go to the Hoosier State and endeavor to get out the full Republican vote. He frankly admits that he failed in his mission, bnt explains how it was that the Democrats won nearly all of the township elections. After making his explanation Mr. Huston declared that "Indiana will go Republican in 1892, and she will go for Ben Harrison." A significant announcement. Coming from the real head of the Repub lican party in the President's own State, this announcement is taken to be very sig nificant, and entirely official in all respects. According to Mr. Huston's story the full effect of the Democratic victories in Indiana is not yet appreciated. The township trus tees that were elected hold for fonr years, and for that time will control all the ma chinery of the county elections. Mr. "Huston's full explanation of how the Republicans came to be so Dadly beaten is thus: "The people of our party did not realize the importance of the election. The defeat, I think, came from the lethargy in our own ranks. This is the reasou why I went out there. I did not go from here with the idea that my own vote would do any good in my township, where our candidate always had a big majority. My object was to show our folks that I attached sufficient importance to the election to come all the way irom Washington and thus try to arouse in them an interest and an appreciation of the situation. HABEISON STILL POPCLAE. "But they did not see it as they should. I do not think that the result of the election ,is in any way indicative that President Har rison nas lost any oi nis popularity, x oe lieve that he is just as popular to-day as he ever was. In 1886, when the Lord took charge of elections and I took the Cnairman- 'ship of the, State Committee.-we made a vent "vigorous caUTpaigu on the lines of the town ship trustees and we elected more of them than we ever did before. In 1888 we had our own way and everybody was surprised. We had a wonderlul organization and we began at the bottom. , In this last election we have simply lost our foothold, and it will take a great struggle to get it back." Alter giving this very cheering and san guine account of the situation in President Harrison's State, General Huston enthusi asticallv predicts that nothing can defeat the ambitions of his President al friend in 1892, at least so far as Indiana is concerned. Senator Ingalls is also of the opinion that Benjamin Harrison will be his own succes sor in the Presidentil chair. He says: ALL PLEDGES KEPT. "The Republican party, when President Harrison went into office, promptly com menced to reverse and destroy the policy and to improve on the conduct of Grover Cleveland's administration. We have stood, firmly, with our tsces to the future, squarely uponthe platform of principles and pledges we unhesitatingly made at Chicago. Re publicanism has betrayed no trust, and I think we have won back the public confi dence, after factional eontests had weak ened us in 1884, and by capacity to improve on the past, and the natural progress of our principles, under the wise and just admin istration ot President Harrison, I think we are clearly entitled to retain the confidence of the people. "President Harrisoon has been charged with being a cold man, but the accusation dues not rest on evidence. The tenderness toward Secretary Tracy and his family in their shocking bereavement displayed by the President shows him a man of genuine kindliness of nature. He is strong without ostentation. President Harrison is not an enthusiast about anything, but he moves forward like a star, unhasting and unres -ins, faithful to his own sense- ot justice. But taking the situation as it is, and re gardless ol whom the Democracy may se lect to bear their standard, as at present ad vised, guided by the inexorable logic of the situation, I believe Benjamin Harrison will be renominated and re-elected." A BLACK EYE F0K BUSSET. Secretary Noble nnd Commissioner Raum Are Both Against Him Now. IFItOlt A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.! Washington, April 11. The dismissal to-day of Captain J. Edward Eagle, a one armed Pennsylvania soldier, from the Pen sion Bureau is looked upon by some of those who are on the inside of that conten tious institution as proof that General Ranm and General Noble have pooled their issues against General Bussey. Captain Engle was one of the re-rated pensioners whose resignation wasrequested some months ago. He refused to resign and the case has been hanging fire ever since, because of the fact that General Bussey changed his view of the law under which the re-rating was made aud promised the clerks attacked that he would stand by them. This, as has been stated in these tele grams, caused strained relations between Commissioner Raum and General Bussey, and in this new dispute Secretary Noble was alleged to be in sympathy with the Commissioner. It is alleged that General Bussey gave the one-armed veteran, Engle, personal assurances that he would stand between him and dismissal, and the fact of the dismissal is therefore construed to mean that Bussey has been "sat down upon" by Noble and Raum. CARPETS WILL GO DP If the McKlnlej Tariff mil Is Enacted Into Law. Washington, April 11. Messrs. Dor nan, Crow, Pollock, Bromley and Mason, carpet manufacturers of Philadelphia, rep resenting a producing cariacity of 4,000 car pet looms, had a hearing before the Repub lican members of the Ways and Means Com mittee to-day in reference to the proposed increase of duty on carpet wools. They opposed the proposition, and de clared that the increase would make the raw material for ingrain carpet cost more than the carpets now sold for finished in the open market. j. 12, 1890 TWELVE NEVER PLAYED POKER. The Investigation Into the Actions of Super vising Architect Wlndrlm Ho Em phatically Denies All. of the Allegations Entered. Washington, April 11. The investiga tion of the question of selection of a site for the Springfield, Mo., public building was resumed to-day. Mr. F. H. Murray, of Springfield, said he was a stockholder and director in the Belt Line Railroad that con nected North and South Springfield. B. F. Hobart owned the largest interest in the road, and Messrs. Filkms, Denton, Kerens and himself owned the remainder of the stock. The witness said he did not knov that any ot the persons named owned ground immediately adjoining the new site, but he ! thought some of them owned ground in the vicinity. Supervising Architect Windrim was then sworn. His attention was called bv Sena- tor Spooner to the testimony formerly given concerning nis trip irom oi.Aiouisioopnug field in a private car on the 'Frisco road. Mr. Windrim acknowledged that he went from St. Louis to Springfield with Mr. Kerens at the latter's invitation, and that he h?d do apology to make for having done so. There were also in the car Messrs. Clayton, Hobart, Churchill aud Depray, his clerk, and possibly others. The state ment that he had playe'd poker while in the ,car he declared was an infamous falsehood. There were no cards in the car that he saw, no playing, and no transactions in money. Jt was a quiet trip, just as though he had 'gone in any other car. He never had played a game of poker. Senator Spooner here put in some affida vits from Mr. Kerens and other gentlemen who were in his private car, declaring that there was no poker plaving there, and also a certified statement of the Common Council of Springfield showing that 9 members had Toted in favor of the new site, 5 in favor of the old, and 2 were absent. The committee then adjourned until next week. NO MORE PENSION BILLS To be Passed on Friday Night Until u. Southerner Is Satisfied. Washington, April 11. The House at its evening session did no business, but the few members present resolved themselves into a debating society, the subjects being "pensions" and "war claims." Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee, gave notice that, until the House wonld allow private bills to be con sidered on Fridays, he would allow no pen sion bills to be passed on Friday nights. He then made a speech in favor of the pay ment of Southern war claims. Mr. Boothman, of Ohio, followed with an exhaustive speech in reference to pensions. Both gentlemen were constantly interrupted, and the House was frequently in an uproar, laughter and excitement alternating. On several occasions rather personal and unpar liamentary language was indulged in, but the general good humor of the House pre vailed, and anger and indignation was laughed down. BOUNCING ANOTHER DEMOCEAT. Wise, of Virginia. Will soon Have to Vacate His Scat. Washington, April 11. In the House to-day Mr. Lacey, of Iowa, called up the contested election case of Waddill vs. Wise, from the Third District of Virginia. Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee, raised the question of consideration. The House decided yeas ,124 nays 113 to consider the election case, and Mr. Lacey took the floor with an argu ment in favor of the claims of the con testant. Mr. O'Ferrall, of Virginia, supported the resolution of the minority of the Committee on Elections, which declares the seat vacant. After considerable debate, and without dis posing of the matter, the House took recess. BAfNE ON THE COMMITTEE Appointed to Prepare a Silver Bill for the Republicans. Washington, April 11 Chairman Dingley has appointed the special committee ordered by the Republican caucus last night to prepare a silver bill for the consideration of the caucus next Mocday night. The members are the eight Republican members of the Coinage Committee, and Cannon, Bayne, ilcKenna, Perkins, Henderson, Mc Comas. The committee held its first meeting this afternoon, and was in secret session for sev eral hours. A LOWER RAILROAD RATE. The Ohio Senate Passes a Bill Fixing the Passenger Charges. rEFECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCR.I Columbus, April 11. The Senate to-day passed a bill providing for a 2-cent rail road rate. The bill is a compromise, as the 2-cent fare bill was strongly opposed by the railroad companies. The present bill, should it pass the House and become a law, will fix the ticket rate as given, while on the trains a rate of 3 cents can be collected. It will not he materially different from the rates which now prevail. The bill will pass the House if it can be pushed to the front before adjournment, but the probabilities are it will go over until next winter. The bill became a law, which prevents members from being appointed trustees of public institutions. The bill creating a State Railroad Commission was up in the House, but bad to be postponed one week, owing to the absence of members. The bill has passed the Senate. PORTUGAL'S MISTAKE. It Is About to Fix a Boundary It Before Declared Determined. London, April 11. Despite the fact that the Delagoa Bay Railway was seized by the Portuguese Government on the ground that the terms of the concession calling for its construction to the Transvaal frontier had not been complied with, Portugal then holding that the lrontier line was four miles beyond the end ot the railway and was fixed and known, that Government is about to send a commission, headed by Colonel Hachado, to meet delegates from the Trans vaal Republic for the purpose of fixing the boundary between the Portuguese possessions and the Transvaal. BOMBARDED A GR0CERT. Rock Blasters Cause a Great Commotion In Kansas City. Kansas Cut, April 11. Contractor J. H. Cottrell was blasting rock from a vacant lot at 1025 Main street at noon to-day. One blast produced a concussion sufficient to knock a hole 30x18 feet in the adjoining grocery store of Matthew Bourke. The wall fell inward and carried 40 feet of the second and first story floors into the basement. The stock of groceries was damaged to the extent of $2,500. No one was injured. The explosion caused great excitement, occurring as it did in the heart of the busi ness portion of the city. RIOTS FEARED IN VIENNA. A Gigantic Labor Demonstration to be Held on May 1. Vienna, April 11. The labor disorders of the last few days are for the present at an end, aud the city is quiet. A large number of men are still on strike, however, and there are fears of widespread rioting on May 1, on which day it is 'pro posed to hold a great labor demonstration. . PAGES. BOTH FIRM AS ROCKS. Quay and. Fitler Confer, and Are of the Same Opinion Still, THE MAYOR IS HOT A BOLTER, Bat Will Give His Support to the Choice or the Convention. THIS IS 0NLI A FEIENDLI CONTEST. At Least So Says the Et-cnthe Head of the City of Philadelphia. Senator Quay and Mayor Fitler had a conference at Philadelphia yesterday. The Beaver statesman refused to make any state ment afterwards, but the Mayor said that he was still lor Hastings, and that the Senator had not changed his position. Fitler an nounced that he will support the nominee of the Republican Convention, whoever he may be. rSFECIAt. TXLEORAU TO THE DISFATCH.l Philadelphia, April 11. Senator Quay at noon to-day called upon Mayor Fitler at his residence, and lor over two hours they discussed the availability of the several candidates for the Republican nom ination for Governor, and other subjects re lating to the organization of the party throughout, the State. With reference to the Gubernatorial situation there is not the slightest change. Mayor Fitler h still anxious to see Gen eral Hastings nominated, while Senator Quay continues to declare that he intends to stand by his declaration of non-interference. Senator Quay would like the Mayor to re main nentral in order to prevent any possi ble chance of party disorganization, bnt the Mayor insists upon making a contest, for delegates in favor of Hastings. A friendly contest. Many of Senator Quay's close friends are warm friends of the Mayor, and the local leaders who are friends of both are talking as though they believed the contest lor State delegates will be of the most friendlv char acter. They class both Hastings aud Dela mater as firm friends of Qnay's, and insist that it will make but little difference which of the two named succeeds in winning the delegates. "I want itnnderstood,"said Mayor Hitler to-day, "that while I am in favor of the nomination of General Hastings for Gover nor yet at the same time I will give to the nominee of the convention my most hearty support I am a Republican and as such am naturally interested in the success of our candidates, with the right to declare a preference for the nomination. ALL ABE GOOD MEN. "All of the candidates who have been mentioned," continued the Mayor, "are good men and well worthy of the honor which they seek. The friends of each, I have, not the slightest doubt, will labor to secure the nomination of their favorite, but I feel con fident that when the convention has made its choice the candidate will receive the full support of his party. The first thing to be considered is the party, and for the reason that I believe General Hastings would make the strongest candidateXfavor his nomina tion." The Mayor was very anxious that there should be no misunderstanding of his posi tion, aDd said: "I am not a kicker. I am a Republican and can be counted on to assist in the election of the choice of the conven tion." Senator Quay, upon his return from the conference with Mayor Fitler, stated his in tention of remaining in the city for a few days, but about 3 o'clock he received a tele gram summoning him to Washington. He at once began preparations for leaving and by 4 o'clock he was on his way to the capi tal city. SILENT, AS USUAL. Before leaving Senator Quay was asked as to the resnlt of his conference with Mayor Fitler. "I can tell you nothing. There is nothing in shape for publication," was all that Senator Quay would say. He apparently decided in his own mind that nothing regarding the conference should come from him, as he devoted the interval of time between his return from the Mayor's residence and his departure for Washington to a chat with E. K. Martin, of Lancaster, State Treasurer-elect Boyer, David Martin and Charles A. Porter. Senator Quay will retnrn to this city on Sunday night, prior to his return to Beaver. He expects to get back again to Washington by Wednesday or Thursday of next week. He said that there was considerable legisla tion of importance requiring his attention, and that he would act as a looker-on only in the election of delegates to the State Convention. Senator Bates, oi Lewisburg, Union coun ty, who is at the Washingtou Hotel with Joseph W. Schriner, the well-known Re publican leader of the same county, discuss ing the question of the nomination of the Republican candidate for Governor, said: A DELAMATEB BOOMER. My personal preference for the Repub lican nomination for Governor is Senator Delamater, of Crawford county. In my judgment be possesses the requisite qualifi cations for a proper discharge ot the duties of the office andwould make a competent and honest executive. At the same time I believe that the other men who have been mentioned for the office are of the best char acter, and the people of the State would not suffer if they in their sovereign capacity should choose" any one of them. I am for the nominee ot the convention and will give him my earnest and cordial support. Tne signs of the time, as I read them, at pres ent point to the nomination of Senator Dela mater. Chairman Andrews of the Republican State Committee, arrived here to-night. He found himself too late to meet either Senator Quay or Senator Delamater, the former having left for Washington, and the latter for Pottsville. Senator Wallace who is still at the Continental Hotel, was called upon by a number of out of town friends to-day. He stated that there were no new develop ments regarding the political situation on the Democratic side. RUSSIAN ROYALTY TO TRAVEL. A Trip to be Made Through the Suez Canal to India. St. Peteesbueo, April 11. The Czare witch aud his brother, Grand Duke George, are about to start on a voyage to Vladivos tok, a seaport of Primorsk, in Asiatic Russia. Preparations are now being made for the voyage, which will be made by way of the Suez Canal. Their vessel will call at various ports in India. PROTEST AGAINST" CLERICALISM. The Valencia Riots Were Partly a Repub lican Demonstration. Valencia, April 11. Valencia has been quiet to-day. The Marquis Carralbo and family departed this evening, escorted by guards. The Valencia riots were partly a Republican demonstration against the rapid growth of clericalism in Spain. Melted the Nugget. Denveb, April 11. A fire broke out in the Nugget saloon, In Aspen, Col., early this morning, destroying property yalued at $15,000; partially insured. midnight v HOLD THE RECORDS. The Anti-Eiher Branch of the Evangelical Conference of Illinois Refuse to Give Up the Books A Con f " stable'sFrnltless Errand. Chicago, April 11. The Sheffield Ave nue Church, anti-Esher branch of the Illi nois Conference ot the German Evangelical Church, met this morning. "We are the only Illinois Conference," announced Presi dent Byers, in a church-militant tons of voice, during the session, "and will recog nize no other. We expect to go right on with our business. If any of our officers are served with legal process we will supply their places and see that they are bailed out." Outside of the routine work ot beginning the Conference, appointment of standing committees, etc, the most interesting fea ture of the session was the adoption of a preamble and resolutions setting forth the cause of division, deploring the action of the seceders in withdrawing and setting up a conference of their own; declaring any offices held by them to be vacant, and as suring them that they would be received into the fold again if they should return. As the Conference adjourned at noon for a two-hour recess Constable Mueller, who had been lingering in the rear of the church for half an hour, came forward to serve the writ of replevin on Secretary Stamm for the records or the last Conference. "I haven't got the books," was the re spouse of the bland and smiling German Secretary. And although Constable Mueller made an excited effort to convince Mr. Stamm that the books would be safe in his hands, that official refused to recede from his sa'fe position that he didn't know where they were. The books were in the hall all the time in the possession of a sturdy delegate, and it was evident from whispered expressions that it would take a small regiment to get them away from the "Illinois Conference." DR. GUEVICH APPLAUDED. His Action In the Madame Siglda Case Commended by the Lancer. London, April 11. The well-known English medical journal, The Lancet, in this week's number presents at some length such details of the atrocities to which po litical prisoners at Kara, in Eastern Siberia, were subjected last November as are of es pecial interest to the medical profession. Most attention is devoted to the famous case Madame of Sigida, who died from the effects of flogging. Dr. Gnrvich, the prison physician, was strongly opposed to the flogging. He furnished the governor of the prison with a certificate setting forth that Madame Sigida was receiving treatment at his hands for heart disease. It had long been customary for the gov ernor to accept such a certificate as sufficient warrant for suspending the infliction of corporal punishment. But under the order of Baron Korff, Governor General of the Province ot the Amoor, di recting that the prison rules should be rig idly enforced in the case of political prison ers, the Governor decided that flogging should be administered in spite of the phy sioians. Dr. Gurvich thereupon remon strated strenuously, and refnsed to be pres ent at the flogging. Despite these remon strances the lady was rudely seized, her clothes were stripped from her in the pres ence of soldiers, she was thiown upon a Dench and held down while 100 cruel blows fell upon her bared back. The Lancet applauds Dr. Gurvich for his refusal to be a party to this frightful bar barity. If he is persecuted for the stand he took the Lancet thinks that the physicians of England ought to unite in some action to effect his rescue. BIG BUILDING CONTRACT. A New Yorker Erecting Fifty-One Five Story Tenement Houses. New Yore, April 11. Mechanics' liens aggregating about 143,000 have been filed against Mary E. Bailey, contractor, and Elizabeth W. Aldrich, owner of the block of buildings now in course of erection on Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth streets, and Tenth and Eleventh avenues. This is said to be the largest operation now in process in this city, there being 51 five-story brick tenements, estimated at 18, 000 each, being carried on by Samnel H. Bailey, builder, in the name of his wife. BL1VENS WANTED TO DIE. A Heavy-Welgbt, Suffering From Mensles and Melnncholln, Attempts Suicide. Westerly, R. I., April 11. Nathan Bliven, 45 years old, who weighs 250 pounds and who has been suffering from measles and melancholia, fired both barrels of a shotgun at his head this morning, but failed to kill himself. c He then reloaded the gun and while en deavoring to place the mnzzle in his mouth for a third attempt, was interfered with by his mother. The charge exploded and blew off one of Bllven's shoulders and badly lacerated his mother's hand. Blivens will probably die. A JAMAICA GINGER DRUNK. The Fiery Fluid Drnnk by Two Men With Fatal Results. Dover, N. H., April 1L John Kehoe, aged 23, of Lynn, Mass., and Harry Kim ball, of Northwood.N. H., both shoemakers, obtained at Tricketts drugstore in North wood, last night, a quart of Jamaica ginger, as the best substitute for liquor they could find. They drank it between tbem and Kehoe died in two hours in great agony. Kimball suffered intensely through the night, but is considered out of danger to-day. A METHODICAL SUICIDE. Julia Smith Drowns Herself at Nyack After Preparing Her Gravo Clothes. NYACK, N. Y., April 11. Julia Smith, proprietress of a dining saloon and store in West Nyack, was found drowned in the small cellar of the store to-day. In a room was found a note, telling her friends to notify the undertaker, and a pack age of burial clothes, nicely arranged on a table, marked "My burial clothes." She was about 40 years old and unmarried. EARTHQUAKE IN MAINE. Seismic Disturbances Stop Clocks and Causes Slight Damage at Dover. Dover, Me,, April 11. An earthquake shock was felt here this morning a few min utes before 3 o'clock. A noise like that caused by an explosion was first heard, and then the earth trembled for several seconds. Clocks were stopped and small articles were thrown from their places. The Mea Keens Its Secret. Halifax, N. S., April 11. The French brigantine Niagara, which lelt here January 7, tor St Stervans, France, has not been heard of since and is given up as lost, with Captain Beanleau and her crew of ten men, all Frenchmen. She was 165 tons and owned at St Stervans. Poisoned by Russinn Agents. London, April 1L The Roumanian pa per, Teligragal, says that several persons implicated in the Panitza conspiracy in Bulgaria have confessed that Stoianoff was poisoned in Paris by Russian agents. Canadian Railroad Subsidized. Ottawa, April 1L It is understood that the Government has decided to give a sub sidy to the Hudson Bay Railroad Company. 3 1 Transient Advertisements, INCLUDING WANTS.-TO LETS. FOR SALES. ETC., FOB TO-MORROW'S ISSUE ilay he ha"-"' in at the main advertising office oil G. 'atch. Fifth avenne. ud to 3U4V "Vrv THREE CENTS a- KJRLMD BOTTLE. List 0x wholesale Licenses Granted in Pittsburg. JUST 168 IN THE CITY, Including the Brewers, One Distil ler and 12 Bottlers. ALLEGHENY HAS 122 EETAILERS, Or More Than Three Times as Many as There Were last I ear. LITTLK DANGER NOW OP DROUGHT M Jndgex Ewiug and Magee last evening handed down the list of licenses granted to wholesale liquor dealers in Pittsburg, and also those to the applicants from the last nine wards of Allegheny. This city will have 168 wholesale houses this year as against 43 last year, and Allegheny will be supplied by 122 retailers, instead of 39, as in 1889. At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Judges Ewing and Magee handed down their list of Allegheny retailers, and at 10 o'clock last night issued the list of Pittsburg whole salers. Allegheny has 122 retail licensed houses, and may have two more. In Pitts burg 168 wholesale licenses are granted, out of 350 applications. There are less than two retail honses to each wholesale house in the city, which must drive many wholesalers with small capital to the bottle and jug trade almost exclusively. The Judges have exercised their discre tion in the refusal of wholesale licenses, but apparently within the lines cf the Supreme Court decision of last summer. In many cases the applicants were shown to be men who had violated the laws, either by keep ing a speak-easy during the past year, sell ing irregularly before the era of the Brooks law, or keeping saloon without being natu ralized. Some men were refused because they have no capital and are therefore con sidered improper persons. In a few cases licenses were evidently refnsed because the house was considered unnecessary. No Bottlers License for Brewers. The Judges have refused to grant bottling licenses to any of the brewers. This will alter the business methods of many brewers. Only 12 bottling licenses are granted, all but two being in the city proper. The exceptional two are on Mt. Washington. There are 13 brewers licenses and one dis tiller's license. There are, therefore, 142 strictly wholesale licenses in Pittsburg. Many names of applicants do not appear iu the lists below, either among the names of those granted or those refused. In quits a number of cases those omitted names rep resent either retail licenses, withdrawals or deaths. In other cases the Court last night gave no indication of disposition, and they are probably held over for further inquiry or deliberation. It is safe to say that most of them will be ultimately refused. Last year Judge White granted 43 whole sale licenses, but all of the 110 applicants got in late in the summer under the Supreme Court's decision that the Brooks law did not govern the licensing of wholesalers. Chances for an Appeal. The interesting question now is whether enough applicants, with claims which will stand any scrutiny, have been refused to make a strong appeal to the higher court. Most of those cast out are men without much money. The reputable and experienced wholesalers are nearlv all granted licenses. The Jddges have not yet positively decid ed whether or not they have authority to grant a bottling license to a brewer. They will carefully study the law, and will render a decision later. The brewers may still hope. On Blondav the Conrt will resume the hearing of retail applicants, and will hear the stories of the people from Beltzhoover, Braddock, Chartiers, Etna and Greentrea borouchs, 54 in all. These hearings will probably be slow, as contests will be made against nearly all by the W. C. T. U. or ganizations. The retail hearings will be pushed to completion during the week. The following is the full list of wholesale) licenses granted in the city of Pittsburg: JTEST WABD. Granted. Frank Bonistalll. 10 Diamond square. J. C. Buirnm & Co., 3)9 and 211 Market street Barthold Banman. 403 Kerry street. George II. Bennett & Bros., 135 First avenue. Oito Frey, 7 Diamond square. Joseph FlemlnzSCo.. 413 Market street. A. uuckenbelmer Bros.. S3 and 93 First avenne. Oswald Ileckman, 237 Market street E. Kllnordlinirer. 6 Diamond square. UeorzeA. Kelly 4 Co.. 101, Irs, 105 Wood street. O'Doherty A Co.. Limited. 17 Water street. The Philip Hamburger Co., 29 and 30 Diamond square. Slyer Rosenthal, 403 Ferry street Otto Schmllt 12 Diamond square. Scnnltz.KenjlchauseaACo., 101 and 103 llartot street. .BoMIer. Isaac Joseph. 13 Market street. Thomas Murray, 23 and 30 Fourth arenas. -Breurerj. Darlington & Co., 110 and 112 First avenue. Refused. John Bardesly. 48 and 43 Fourth arenas. J. J. Dougherty, 33 Fourth street. Max Friedman. IS Market street. Michael rlaherty. 32 Water street Michael Uraw. 204 Market street. John P. Ooldthon). 1 Wood street. Patrick McNultr, 314 Ferry street. Granted, retail. Alex. Carson. 83 Third avenue, (iranted, 13; refused, 7; withdraws, 1; toaJ, 24. SECOND WARD. Granted. J. L. Abell & Co , 165 and 168 Water street. Charles and F. H. Bruenlng, 22S and 223 Second avenue. John B. Finch. 13S Water street Isaacs. Finch. 12bmlthfleld street. James Getty. Jr.. ISO and 182 First avenue. Wm. H. Holmes. 12a Water street. John Klllhan, 210 Second avenue. Joseph Kohm. shinglss street and Old avenue. Phllfp Itjan, 159 Second avenue. C. Sunsieln. 133 and 134 Water street and No. t Smltnneld street. J. J. Speck, 305 Smlthdeld street. James Shields, S Grant street. Henry Wolff, Second avenue and Try street. Weller Bros., 157 First avenue. Bottler. Frank Schafer. 6 Grant street Refuted. Bugb McCutcheon, 227 Second avenue. Granted, 15; relused, 1: held aver, 4; total, 39,, THIRD WAED. Granted. K. E. Byers, 61S Market street. W. J. Friday. 633 Smlthfleld street W. J. Glimore A Co.. CO Seventh avenus. A. C. Henderson, 50 Seventh avenne. Leon Hellbronner. 27 Diamond st. Angelo Ivol. S Diamond street. John Kessler. 637Smlthfleld street Uriah E. Llpplncott. 539 Smlthfield street U. W. Schmidt S3 and 97 Firth avenue. Bottler. Joseph Einstein & Co., 52 Sixth avenue. Granted, 10; held. 1. TOtrRTH -WABD, Granted. Adler, Boedelherm A Co., 1001 Liberty street. Adler St Mayer. 7 Sixth street. CA Albert Bertalott, 1015 Liberty street. T. D. Casey & Co.. S71 Liberty avenue. L. H. Harris Drug Company, 813 and SIS Liberty avenne. Abraham Kllnordllntrer. 1C3S Pena avenue. Michael May, 7 Ninth street. Jas. McKay. 1005 Liberty avenue. Mrs. L. CMcCollough. i23 Liberty avenue. O. H. Neely, 1 Sixth street . l Continued on Seventh J?age.l m 4--- WMM WAimmm
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