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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
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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, , ,
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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
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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
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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.
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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 .
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