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PITTSBURG, FRIDAY. APRIL. 18. 1890.--TWELYE PAGES.
THREE CENTS
FIRST PART. Upft
NEINGJE CRISIS,
The Federated Order of Rail
way Employes Expects to
Make To-Day
A LIFE OR DEATH TEST.
The Bailroad Officials Openly Declare
They Will Treat
OKLI WITH THEIR OWN EMPLOYES.
Street Eailway Hen Agree to Lend Their
Support, if Seeded.
A STRIKE AT FBESENX SEEMS CERTAIN
The Executive Council of the Federated
Order of Hallway Employes will come to
Pittsburg from Chicago to-day, with full
power to act in the present difficulty. The
companies still refuse to recognize the Fed
eration, and a strike is confidently expected.
The street railway employes decided last
night to support the Federation.
A crisis in the railroad difficulties is
looked for to-day, when the question of
recognizing the Federated Order of Bail
way Employes will be settled one way or
the other. This is the question upon which
the matter has hinged erer since the griev
ance! were presented to the companies.
The Executive Council did not arrive
in the city yesterday as was expected, but
will be here this morning at 7:20 o'clock.
The board, composed of Grand President F.
P. Sergeant, Grand Master of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers; Grand Vice
President Frank Sweeney, Grand Master of
the Switchmen's Aid Association; Grand
Secretary and Treasurer F. E. O'Shea,
Grand Master of the Brakemen's Brother
hood; G. W. Howard, Grand Chief
of the International Brotherhood of
Bailway Conductors, and John Downey,
held a conference in Chicago yesterday.
They were advised by wire of what has
been, done in Pittsburg during the past
three days and the list of grievances was
laid before them.
A TELEGBAM SETTLES IT.
The conference lasted until A o'clock in
the afternoon, when a telegram
was received here by Thomas
Kane, Chairman of the local Grievance
Committee, stating that Mr. Downey, with
two or three other members of the council,
would be in this city this morning, vested
with full power to act.
It is now confidently expected there will
be some interesting development to-day;
and as the men seem even more determined
to get their demands than they did two days
ago, a general tie-up is more probable.
The local Grievance Committee was in
session all afternoon yesterday, discussing
the situation. There was not much for it to
do, and it adjourned at 5 o'clock. Chairman
Hawley, of the Press Committee, said
nothing could be given out for publication.
As the men were leaving the hall, MrJKane
received the telegram referred to. The men
were called together again, and the message
read to them.
The information that the grand officers
were coming, with full power to act, was
greeted with cheers thai resounded through
out the building and conld be heard on the
opposite side of Fifth avenue. The com
mittee again adjourned and left the hall
on the run. Mr. Hawley said as he passed
out:
TEBY WELL SATISFIED.
"We are very well satisfied with the
manner in which our case has been presented
through the newspapers. "We have been
treated very fairly and we begin to recog
nize the value of a press committee. I am
not in a position to tell you yet what has
been done to-day. Come over to Allegheny
to-night, and we will give you something
interesting."
Last night a general meeting of railway
employes was held at 19 Federal street, Al
legheny. There were more than 500 men
present, but the meeting was very quiet.
The men are considerably worn out from
lots of sleep and rest, but, while they are
less enthusiastic, they are none the
less determined. The general meet
ing last night continued until
about 10:30 o'clock. The situation
was discussed, and the non-union men.
many of whom were present, decided unani
mously to stand by the Federation, in case
the necessity arose.
The federated orders then held a
meeting, and received a committee of
street car men. The latter represented
Local Assembly No. 6003, which held
a meeting on Beaver avenue last night,
and decided to follow in the footsteps of the
railray men should it become necessary to
strike for recognition. The committee noti
fied the railroad men that the street car em
ployes would support the federated order to
a man. This was enthusiastically received
although it had been anticipated all day.
ANOTHER SECEET SESSION.
When the federated order adjourned the
switchmen held a secret meeting, which
lasted until midnight Mr. Hawley said
they had received instructions from the
union not to disclose the proceedings.
They were not averse to letting the
public know what the committee has
been doing, but they do not
want to divulge their plans to the railroad
companies. He stated, however, that the
time has come when the question of whether
the Federation shall survive or perish is to
be settled, and the test is likely to be made to
day. The men hare not shown their
strength, and the railroad managers, know
ing this, are beginning to feel a little
nervous.
Mr. Tobin, of the Press Committee,
gave the following details of the demands
made by the men: They get on an average
of 81 85 per day at present, which makes a
total of $629 per year, counting 340 working
days to the year. Mr. Tobin estimates 5108
for rent, leaving $461 for the support of each
family. Supposing that there are five peo
ple in the family, each member is allowed
$92,22 per year, or on an average of about
26 cents per day. This only provides for
bare necessities. There is no allowance
made for recreation or sickness.
The men are asking for $2 CO per day, of
ten hours each, which will give each an in
come ol $850. The average railroader pays
$14 per month for rent. He would then
have $662 left to divide among five members
of the family, which would allow 37 cents
per day for each member.
Yesterday at noon a meeting of Pennsyl
vania Bailroad yardmen was held at Twenty-eighth
street It was the important move
ot the day, inasmuch as it was regarded as
the agency through which the Pennsylvania
Bailroad Company tried to show its hand.
P. G. Nash, a non-Federation man, and
John Horton, a member of the Federation,
were named as chairman. When the vote
was taken Horton was elected by a large
majority.
ANOTHER SCALE PROPOSED.
Mr. Nash then endeavored to have adopted
a list of grievances entirely different from
those of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid As
sociation, which simply asked for an ad
vance in wages. The pay asked by this
list for yard conductors was $3 15 for 12
hours' work, of yard brakemen $2 25; the
night force to receive 15 cents per day more
than the day force, and the flagmen 10 cents
per day more than the brakemen. Alter a
heated debate thi list was put to a vote and
lost by 100 to 13.
Mr. Nash was dissatisfied with his set
back, and called a meeting of the minority
portion of the employes, and made another
attempt to get his list adopted.
About 20 men remained with him.
The union men regarded the proceedings as
a trick on the part of the non-union men.
It was supposed they either wanted to pre
vent themselves from being called scabs, or
that the Pennsylvania Bailroad Company
was using Nash to get the employes to admit
they had no grievances.
The statement that a committee of Penn
sylvania Bailroad men met Superintendent
Pitcairn yesterday is incorrect; the men
were asked to come to his office, but they
refused to go. They say this is an evidence
of weakness on the company's part, and that
if they had met him it would have been a
like evidence on their part.
NO NEW MEN COMING IN.
It is also not true that men have come
here, as has been claimed, from other cities
with instructions to be ready for duty at any
time. It is difficult for railroad men to get
into the city without the employes knowing
it. It was stated at the meeting in Alle
gheny last night that the arrivals of new
men are cot more numerous than they are
ordinarily.
The following message was received from
McKeesport last night: "Bailroad men at
this point have received notice to hold
themselves in readiness to join with the men
at Pittsburg at any moment. The notice
specifies switchmen and was received to
day. It was not signed, and while it is not
known from whom it came, the supposition
is that it was from those who are at the
head of the movement inaugurated there."
A FLAT EEBUFF.
RAILWAY OFFICIALS DECLARE TIIEIU
POSITION.
As Employes the Men Would bo Met Bait
Way As Member of Labor Organiza
tions They Can Expect No Recognition
No Mistake About It.
The officials of the different roads will not
confer with any labor organizations, and
will only treat with their own employes.
This decision was reached at a meet
ing of the Superintendents of all
the railroads centering in Pittsburg,
held yesterday afternoo-i at the office of
General Superintendent Watts, of the
Pennsylvania Company. The session was a
long one, and it is alleged that some of the
officials wanted to treat with the Federation
of Bailway Employes. They, however, lost,
and alter tne meeting adjourned Superin
tendent Watts dealt out the following in
formation: "We regard this trouble as simply a mat
ter between the officials of each company
and their employes. We have nothing
whatever to do with any labor organization.
We have not received any grievances from
our men. The demands laid before us by
the Federation of Bailway Employes we re
fnse to consider. These men have been
working for over a month to formulate these
demandst and yet they expect us to decide
on them in 24 hours.
"The action on all the roads will be the
same. If the employes have anything to
say they can lay it betore the officials of the
company, and we are willing to meet them
half way. We will arbitrate on the differ
ences, and though all the demands of the
men might not be granted, some of them
verv probably would. As employer, we will
endeavor to arrange matters with them, but
if thev persist in making their demand
through their various labor organizations,
we will make a fight and refuse every
thing." STRIKERS' PABADE.
CHICAGO CARPENTERS TURN ODT BY
THOUSANDS.
Both bide Remain Firm, With but Little
Change In tho Situation No Meeting
Yet of the Proposed CHIzcdi' Commit
tee. ISrECIAI. TELEQEXil TO THE DISPATCH.!
Chicago, April 17. The carpenters'
strike remains unchanged. A few non
union men have been put to work, but they
have been neutralized by the enlistment in
the union's cause of non-union men who
were at work to-day.
Secretary John said this morning that a
letter had been received from a lot of North
Carolina carpenters offering to come here to
work, but that no answer had been made to
them officially. The Secretary, speaking of
the proposed citizens' committee, said that
he supposed that the end would come
through some such body. President Goldie
was still out ot town, however, and until he
returns, the Secretary said no call for a
meeting to consider the proposition to meet
the citizens' committee in arbitration would
be issued. Of the make-up of the committee
he had only the highest praise.
About one-half of the strikers of the city
catbered on Market, between Bandolphand
Washington streets, this afternoon, formed
in parade and mached to the lake front.
There were over 3,500 men in line, and their
progress through the streets produced an oc
casional outburst of cheering demonstra
tion. At the lake front a mass meeting was
organized and addressed by speakers in sym
pathy with the strike.
There will be no strihe by the switchmen
of the Bock Island Yards, the differences
having been settled by arbitration. The
men wanted two men discharged. Tne com
mittee decided that the men did not deserve
such treatment, but recommended their
transfer to other departments. This will be
done.
Not having their demand for back time
recognized, the coopers of the Union Stock
Yards have determined to repeal the de
mand. Should it not be granted a general
stock yard Coopers' strike will result Mav 1.
Forty men at the North ttation of "tho
Chicago Gas Light and Coke Company have
struck becauso two of their number, who
were active organizers, were discharged.
I Continued on Seventh JPage.
THE HEW SOUTH PENN
Duly Organized Vith an Announced
Capital of $20,000,000.
MB. CLEVELAND'S LAW PARTNERS,
Who Are Close to the Yandorbilts, Are En
gaged in the Scheme.
GEORGE F. BAER CHOSEN PRESIDENT.
It is Claimed That the toad Will be Fashed to Com
pletion at Once.
At Beading yesterday "The South Penn
Bailway Company" was reorganized, with
a capital of $20,000,000. George F. Baer
was chosen President. Among the directors
are Bangs and Stetson, who are connected
with the Vanderbilt interests, and belong
to the law firm of which Grover Cleveland
is the head. The Beading road is in the
scheme, and the new line will be pushed to
completion.
tSFECtU. TZLKQRAH TO Tffil rjISrATCH.l
Beading, April 17. The parties inter
ested in the reorganization of the South
Penn Bailroad, which was chartered some
years ago to run from Harrisburg to Pitts
burg, and abont which there has been end
less litigation, met here this afternoon for
the purpose of reorganization. The new
name adopted was the "Soutn Penn Bail-
way Company," and the capital was fixed
at $20,000,000.
George F. Baer, of this city, who pur
chased the road at Sheriffs sale in Fulton
county exactly a month ago, was elected
President. At the time of the purchase Mr.
Baer promised that the road should be reor
ganized in 30 days, and this has now been
accomplished. Mr. Baer until recently was
one of the directors of the Beading Bail
road Company.and is still one of its general
counsel and President of several auxiliary
corporations now under the direction of the
Beading Bailroad.
THOSE IN THE SCHEME.
The following were elected directors:
Francis Lynde Stetson, Francis S. Bangs,
Charles McVeigh, all of New York; James
N. Mohr, Philadelphia, and Jefferson Sny
der and Frank C. Smink, Beading. Messrs.
Stetson and Bangs are members of the well
known law firm with which ex-President
Cleveland is associated. Mr. Stetson has
for a long time been connected with the
Yanderbilt railroad interests.
Mr. Mohr is Vice President of the Bead
ing Paper Companv. and has his headanar-
ters in the Bullitt building.-Philadelphia.
Mr. Snyder is Mr. Baer's law partner,
and Mr. Smink is General Manager of the
Beading Iron Company. The presence of
the representatives of the Vanderbiltsonthe
Board of Directors indicates that they, the
Yanderbilts, will have a large moneyed in
terest in the building of the road, while the
election of Mr. Baer as President assures
that the road, when completed, will be con
nected with the Philadelphia and Beading
system.
SOME OF THE PUTUBE FLAWS.
It is understood that the general office of
the company will be in Philadelphia, but
that the office in Harrisburg will be re
tained. The other officers will be elected by
the directors at a meeting to be held prob
ably in this city in about a week. When
Mr." Baer purchased the road he bought it
for $2,500 subject to a mortgage dated Julr
X, 1885, in favor of the Union Trust Com
pany, or .New xorK, trustee, to secure an
issue of bonds of the said railroad company
to the amount of 520,000.000, of which sum
$5,600,000 of bonds had been issued and are
outstanding.
The parties who have effected the reorgan
ization, it is understood, claim that their
title is good, and that they have- acquired
all the property thus far graded and the en
tire franchise '.f the road between Pittsburg
and Harrisburg.
Work is to be pushed at once and the road
completed at an early day. Lengthy tun
nels have already been completed, several
hundred miles graded and bridges built,
and it is estimated that over $4,000,000 has
already been spent on the South Penn.
THE BEADING INTERESTED.
The Beading Company has for a long
time been seeking for an outlet to the West.
At present all their Western business ends
at Harrisburg and has to be transferred to
the Pennsylvania Bailroad at that point.
The Beading is now building a new line
from Harrisburg to Bowmansdale and this
line lies very close to the South Penn. It
would cost very little to connect them.
This, in connection with the announce
ment that the Harrisburg and Potomac
Bailroad would be sold by order of the
court some time in June, would indicate
that the South Penn completed is an as
sured tact at an early day. The Beading
Company has already under way a large
bridge crossing the Susquehanna at Harris
burg. SALT-WATER SAILORS
Resolve That They Will Aid Their Brethren
Who FIT tbe Lakes.
New York, April 17. At the conven
tion of the International Amalgamated
Sailors and Firemen's Union to-day, Dele
gates Groves and Shilling, of Chicago, who
were about to leave for home, were requested
to give the greetings of the Atlantic Coast
seamen to the lake seamen and to assure
them of their readiness to aid them. It was
resolved that the Atlantic seamen shall not
engagements on lake vessels. The revision
of the constitution was taken up, and among
the sections adopted were two guaranteeing
all shipwrecked sailors and firemen prompt
aid wherever they may be.
The following officers were elected: Gen
eral President, John F. O'Sullivan, of
Boston; First General Vice President,
Alfred Lindgrau; Second Vice President,
Frederick Clark, of Boston; Third Vice
President, Arthur Van Hove, of Phila
delphia; Fourth Vice President, William
Loser, of Baltimore; General Secretary,
Hugh McGregor, of New York; General
Accountant, Edward lung, of .New Xork;
General Treasurer, Michael Van Eiden, of
New York.
K0 WORD PR0H PARNELL.
Irish National League Still Awaiting an
Answer to Its Message.
St. Louis, April 17. The committee of
the Irish National League met again this
morning, with President John Fitzgerald in
the chair. The committee is waiting a reply
to its message sent yesterday to Mr. Parnell
respecting the holding of a national conven
tion in this country next autumn and will
do no important business until it is re
ceived. When that question Is decided the
committee will take up the affairs of the
League and transact such business as its
conditions demand.
At the evening session of the committee
resolutions were adopted indorsing tbe
action of officers of the League and reaffirm
ing confidence in the- policy pursued to se
cure home rule; congratulating members of
the League on recent electoral victories and
favoring a continuance of the good work un
til home rnle is secured. No reply haviug
been received to tbe cablegram sent Mr.
Parnell yesterday, adjournment was taken
until to-morrowl when an answer is ex
pected.
A CELESTIAL'S PLIGHT.
He la Refuted Admission to Cnnnila nnd
Cannot Get Back to the United 8tates
Camping In tho middle of tho
tfnsprnslon Bridcr.
NiAgaea Falls. April 17. Three
Chinamen, two'of whom had attempted to
cross the frontier with Mun Lee a couple of
weeks ago, presented themselves for ad
mission to Canada this morning, all having
been hustled over to , this side bjr
United States' oustoms officers. The
two men belonging to Mun
Leejs party were granted admission,
having Canadian customs certificates in
their possession. The other man not having
the necessary, document and only $10 to pay
the Canadian tax of $50, was denied the
privilege given to his companions and was
sent back to the. American side of the
bridge, but was stopped there and the gates
of the bridge were closed against him. The
only thing the Chinaman could do under
the circumstances was to remain On the
bridge, where he has since lingered and is
likely to stay for some time.
Collector of Customs Flynn communicated
with the Commissioner of Customs at Ottawa
for instructions. The Commissioner's reply
was to have the Chinaman sent back from
whence he oame. Further communication
has been held and no doubt the matter will
be brought to the attention of the Washing
ton authorities. Meanwhile the Celestial
remains on the middle of the bridge. He
can speak very litfle'irany, English, and
it was with a great deal of trouble that it
was learned that his name was Lem Sing,
and that he had been in Toronto, Out., for
seven years. Tbe other two Chinamen left
for parts unknown shortly after they were
admitted. -,
HOT AGAINST DELAHATER.
A Republican Who Thinks Thnt Wallace
Can Carry the State.
rsriciAL TELHomit to the cisPATcn.i
Nsw Yoek, April 17. If the predictions
of Mr. John L. Hill, of Philadelphia, come
to pass every Democrat should put on his
best clothes and go out on a glorious racket
of rejoicing. Mr. Hill, during a conversa
tion with a Dispatch representative, made
the surprising statement that the Democrats
had the best kind of an opportunity for
wiping out the 60,000 Republican majority
which Pennsylvania now enjovs and make
that State Democratic. Mr. Hill said that
Senator Quay's candidate for Governor, Mr.
Delamater, was becoming so unpopular
that if nominated he was willing
to bet any amount that Wallace wonld
carry the State against him. The Repub
licans of Pennsylvania will not vote for
Delamater under any circumstance, and
the dissension is growing louder every day.
The principal reason for torcing Delamater
on the Bepnblican party is that he is rich
and will spend money liberally to be'
elected, but money wili not cut a figure in
the comingcatnpaign to the extent expected.
These statements, coming from one of the
leading Republicans in Pennsylvania, have
caused a great deal of comment in political
circles, because Mr. Hill has always been
one of the most liberal contributors to the
Bepnblican campaign fund of Pennsylva
nia. What makes his statements particu
larly interesting is the fact that he is a
warm friend of Senator Quay and is one of
his staunch supporters.
JUST A LITTLE DIFFERENCE.
Sir. and Mrs. Ward Have Separated, Bat for
an Unknown Reason.
sfeciai. Telegram to the dispatch1.
New Yoek, April 16. The fact that
Mrs. Helen Dauvray-Ward is living apart
from her husband, John M. Ward, the
famous baseball player, and is about to re
turn to the stage; formed the basis for a story
printed to-day that Mrs. Ward and her
husband had quarreled on account of her
unwillingness to give up the stage, and that
patiers for a legal separation were about to
be signed. Mr. Ward, to-day, refused to
talk at all upon the subject, further than to
admit, what has been known for some time,
that he lives at present at a hotel in Brook
lyn, while his wife lives at one in this city.
To a Dispatch reporter, to-night, Mrs.
Ward said:
It is true that Mr. Ward and myself have
been separated for nearly three months. The
whole blame of the separation is pnt upon my
shoulders. It Is charged that the trouble arose
over my desire to return to the stage. That is
not trne. That has nothing to do with nnr
separation, and Mr. Ward knows it. 1 retired
from the stage willingly after our marriage two
years and a half ago. 1 go back to tbe Btage be
causo 1 am separated from my husband. I am
not separated frOm my husband because I want
to go back to tho stage. There is a vast differ
ence between the two. I have never broken a
promise made to my husband, and I liavo never
done anything as a wife that an honest woman
would disclaim.
A JEALOUS HUSBAND'S KEYENQE.
A Court Ofuclnl Shoots tbe Man Beloved
by Ills Wife.
Dubuque, April 17. George Cornell, 29
years old, an engineer on the Milwaukee
and St. Paul railroad, arrived at North Mc
Gregor this afternoon, and was met after
leaving his locomotive by J. J. Griunell,
who was evidently waiting for him. Grin
nell walked up to him and 'without a word
discharged two bullets from a revolver, both
entering the head Just above the eyes.
Cornell had not died up to G o'clock this
evening but is unconscious and it is im
possible lor bim to recover.
Grinnell. who did the shooting, has been
for years official stenographer of the District
Court of the McGregor district, and is well
known. It is alleged that Cornell had been
paying too much attention to 'Grinnell's
wife. Mrs. Grinnell has been stopping in
this city, and in an interview this alternoou
declared she loved Cornell and that he loved
her.
WENT AWAY WITH A DRUMMER,
A Banker's Wlfo Elopes After Being Mar
ried Only Six Weeks.
IBPECIAl. TZLEOEAK TO TUB DISPATCn.l
Omaha, April 17. A sensational elope
ment is reported from Oxford, Neb., where
the handsome young wife of H. P. Camp, of
the Farmers State Bank, of tnat city, has
disappeared with a commercial traveler
named H. N. Ferguson. The couple were
married in Madison, Wis., in the middle of
February last, and the elopement took place
about six weeks afterward, but has just
been made public.
Camp traced the guilty pair as far East
as Chicago, but there gave up the chase and
will now bring suit lor divorce.
A RAILROAD VICTORY.
Taxes to be Paid Only oa Stock Represent
ing Property WAbla the State.
Haeeisbubo. Anril 17. An opinion in
favor of the defendant was handed down
to day in the case of tbe Commonwealth
against the Lehigh Valley Bailroad Com
pany, an appeal from re-settlement for tax
on capital stock. The State's claim was for
$744,000, being tax from 1875 to 1887 inclu
sive. The Court holds that the defendant is not
required to pay tax upon that proportion of
its stock represented in the New Jersey sec
tion of the railroad.
International Parcels Fost,
London, April 17. In the House of
Commons to-day, Postmaster General Baikes
said h'e was in hope that negotiations that
had recently been renewed with the United
States Government looking to the establish
ment of a parcels post between Great Britain
and that country, would be successful,
BITERS AND HARBORS
To
Make a Hole in the Surplus
of About $25,000,000. '
UOTHING FOE THE I0UGHI0GHEKY,
Bat the Allegheny and Ohio Receive Some
Attention, With
ANY NUMBER OP UNKNOWN STREAMS.
McKinlcy Believes His Tanfl Bill Will tie Passed Just
as it Stands.
The river and harbor appropriation bill
has been completed. It makes provision for
the expenditure of abont $25,000,000. The
claims of the Youghiogheny are ignored,
bnt the Ohio and Allegheny are provided
for. Quite a number of small creeks have
secured appropriations.
rSrxclAL TZtXOSAK TO TUX DtSPATdft.l
Washington, April 17. The House
Committee on Bivers and Harbors have
finally completed the preparation of their
big annual river and harbor bill. Each
session of Congress witnesses the launching
of one of these vast appropriation schemes,
and the list of places to be improved at the
expense of the Government never grows
shorter. The bill is of the usual size this
year, carrying an appropriation of about
$25,000,000.
This amount has been judiciously dis
tributed throughout the various sec
tions of the codntry in such a
manner as to gratify all sections
and seenre votes. The meritorious plans of
improvement have been taken care of as
well as the little creeks and rivers, the im
provement of which by the Government is
so very important to the political fortunes
of the Congressmen. t
HABBOBS AND LAKES REMEMBERED.
The large harbors have been well taken
care of, and the vessel interests of the great
lakes have been well provided for. One
section authorizes the Secretary of War to
cause a survey to be made and the approx
imate cost estimated of dredging narrow por
tions of the rivers connecting the lakes, so
that there will be a continuous channel 20
feet deep and ot a proper width over the
whole great northwestern water route be
tween Buffalo, Chicago and Dulnth.
The large sum asked for the improvement
of Galveston harbor is omitted from the bill
under an agreement. The omission of theso
and other items, which may be but tem
porary, reduces the apparent aggregate of
the bill by a little more than $2,000,000.
Several members of the House, who happen
to live in interior towns, have annonnced
their intention to fight thebill on the ground
that it is an extravagant one. If any such
opposition should arise it will not have
much effect.
SOME OF THE FEATTJBES.
The following gives a few specimens from
the long list of out of the way and unheard
of localities that are to be improved at the
expense of Uncle Sam, and which are not
being made very prominent in the reports
sent out in explanation of the various ap
propriations: Moose A Bol Bar, Me.. $15,
000; Hyannis, Mass., $800; Onancock, Va..
$6,000; Winjaw Bay, S. C, $100,000; Jekyl
Creek, Ga., $75,000; Cboctawhatchee river,
Fla.,$12,500;Withlacoochee river, Fla., $5,
400; Tchnla Lake,Miss,$J,O00;Tickfaw river.
La., $1,000; Tchetupcte and Bayou Phalia
(for removal of Inags, trees and etcO,$l,000;
Hiawarsee river. Tenn., $1,500; Umpqua
river, $9,000; 'Klaskuino river, $1,600;
Skagit, Stielaquomisb,Nootsack Snohomish
and Snow Qualme rivers, Washington
State, $12,000. Surveys will be made of the
following projected improvements Sucker
nochee river, Ala.; Mokulumne river, Cal.
(to remove snags); Onapatsit channel and
Menmensia-Bite, Mass.; Pensauken creek,
N.J.
Among the proposed appropriations of
interest to this section are:
Harbors Pennsylvania: Erie, 810,000. Ohio;
Ashtabula. 20,000; Black river, $12,000; Cleve
land, 75,000; Falrnort, 830 000; Huron. S18.000:
Sandusky. $15,000; Toledo, $200,000; Ice Harbor,
mouth ol MnsKlngum river, SBU.uou.
THE LOCAL EIVEBS.
Rivers: Pennsylvania Allegheny river, 20,
000; dam at Herr's Island, Allegheny river, J5,
000; Ohio river, construction of a movable dam
at or below the mouth of the Beaver river,
S250.000. West Virginia Big Sandy river, S31.
000; Great Kanawha river, 200,000; Little Kana
wha river, 815,000. Ohio river ($20,000 may be
used for harbor at Madison, Intl.), 8300.000; falls
of the Ohio river, 860,000; Indiana chute gall,
Ohio river, 815,00a
Mississippi river, from head of passes to
mouth of Ohio river, including salaries ana
traveling expenses of the Misslssisslppi Biver
Commission (provided that no portion of this
appropriation shall be expended to repair or
build levees for the purpose of reclaiming lands
or preventing injury to lands or private proper
ty ty overflows; provided, however, that the
commission is authorized to repair and build
levees if in their judgment it should be done as
part of their plans to afford ease and safety to
the navigation and commerce of the river, and
to deepen the channel), $2,000,000.
M'KINLEY- CONFIDENT
Thnt the Tariff BUI Will Become a Law in
Its Present Shape An Explanation
of the Chances Upon
Sugar nnd Hides.
fSPEClAI. TZLIOEAM TO TUB DIsrATCn.1
Washington, April 17. If any man,
more than another, feels relieved by the
completion ot the tariff bill, it is Chairman
McKinley. He says it has been the hardest
work he has ever had to do, because it was
not only physically taxing, but extremely,
annoying mentally.
"We tried as well as we could to please
everybody and found it was physically im
possible," said he this morning. "Every
class of industries was heard and fully
heard. We had not as much annoyance
from those who wanted to be heard as had
the Democrats, for everybody knew that we
intended to increase instead of decreasing
protection to our industries. I think it is a
good bill a measure that will stand any
amount ot criticism. I think it very likely
that we can and will, within a very few
years, produce all the sugar we want to
consume, and by borne production it will
come cheaper to our people than it will by
placing it on the free list, but tbere was a
greater demand for" free sugar than there
was for a dutiable protection to our home
sugar interests, and as we were catering to
the great majority we concluded to make
sugar free and give protection in the way of
a bounty.
"No, the bounty clause will not be
stricken out on the .floor ot the House, al
though it may be very unpopular in many
quarters. We intend to keep iaith with our
sugar men, and the bounty will, I think,
stand for 15 years. Shoes and leather would
have been no higher in price if we had re
tained the proposed 15 per cent on hides,
but the Democrats could have made a big
bugaboo over a tax on poor people's shoes,
you know, and so we conclnded at the last
moment to make hides free. It is, in my
judgment, the best outline of Bepnblican
principles that I have ever seen in a bill or
platform. We have carried out to the exact
letter the pledges we made at Chicago in
June, 1888, and which the people ratified at
the polls in November of that year. The
hill will become a law substantially as it
stands, and I think will go into effect June
30 next."
NO SHOW FOR SILVER.
Congress Farther Tbnn Ever From an Agree
ment Upon the Subject Tho Friends
of the Metal Aro Fast Be.
coming Indignant.
rvnou A BTXTT COBIIESF01DIST.J
Washington, April 18. The prospects
appear very slender at present for any silver
legislation at this session of Congress which
will either satisfy the silver men or fend to
materially increase the volume of money in
circulation. The caucus committees of the
House and Senate appointed to agree upon
some measure have steadily avoided an
agreement. When one side seemed to be
coming near the other by concession, tbe
other would shy off and vice versa. The
study seems to be how not to agree, and the
general verdict is that Wall street and the
banks are back of it all.
The courtesy of the Senate is apparently
all that has made that body appear to be
more favorable to liberal silver legislation
than the House, as there are so many Sena
tors ot fine personal and social qualities in
terested in silver, but "even in that body
there are plain indications of the working
of powerful influences antagonistic to sil
ver, or any legislation that would make
"cheap money." Both caucus committees
to-day abandoned all attempt to reach com
mon ground, and will report as soon as
feasible to the party caucuses of each body.
The Senate will probably adhere to its ex
treme silver bill, providing for the Issue of
bullion certificates for bullion deposits and
their redemption in any "lawful money" of
the country, possibly mainly for the reason
that it knows the House will not agree to
the redemption ot bullion certificates with
anything but bullion.
The House will probably stay with the
modified Windom bill, which looks some
what more liberal oa its surface than the
present law, but which leaves the Secretary
of the Treasury practically the manipulator
ot the bulk of the floating' circulation of the
country. Among advocates of liberal and
of unlimited coinage, and among the repre
sentatives and friends of the farming and
laboring classes, there is a very bitter feel
ing agaipst not only the open opponents ot
liberal silver legislation, but in tar greater
degree against those who profess to be
iriendly to them but are secretly combating
every approach to the desired legislation.
READI F0K THE T0UK.
The Pan-American Delegate Leave for the
Snnny Month at Midnight.
Washington, April 17. The report of
the Committee on Arbitration was finally
disposed of by the Pan-American Conference
this afternoon, although it is not certain
that the delegates from the Argentine Re
public will sign it. The entire session to
day was required to conclude the considera
tion of the case and questions arising in
connection with it. The reports of the
Committee on International Law, of which
there are three, none of them signed by
the majority ot the members and the sup
plementary report of the Committee on
General Welfare are yet to be considered.
All arrangements have been completed
and everything is in readiness for the de
parture at 11 o'clock Friday night of the
International American Conference on
their Southern tour, provided the con
ference shall adjourn prior to that time.
Upon the return trip it is proposed to have
the wives and daughters of the delegates
meet them at the Natural Bridge, and from
that point the entire party will journey to
gether to Luray, thence to Washington.
SOME TARIFF PROTESTS.
A Number of Senators Present Appeals From
Their Constituents.
Washington, April 17. Senator Cul
lum to-day presented a petition signed by
many citizens of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan,
Colorado, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas,
North and South Dakota and Washington,
praying that sugar, lumber, salt, binding
twine and materials entering into it be ad
mitted free of tariff duties, and that a cut of
at least 50 per cent be made on all woollen,
cotton and linen fabrics. Senator Turpie
presented the'protest of hardware dealers in
Lafayette, Ind, against increasing the duty
on breech-loading guns and cutlery.
Senator Flunib,presented the resolution of
the Newton, Kan., Board of Trade, protest
ing against the imposition of any duty on
ores containing lead imported from Mexico,
and favoring the negotiation of a recipro
city treaty with that country.
A BIG CUT IX KATES.
The Canadian Line Takes n Step Which
Will Causo Trouble.
ISPSCIAI. TELEGRAM TO TBI DISPATCH. 1
New York, April 17. Up to this time
the chief disturbance in rates has been in
the West and Northwest. The "Soo" line
takes a step to-morrow which will probably
cause trouble among the trunk lines. The
"Soo" line, -or Canadian Pacific, via the
Canada Atlantic out of Boston, will to-morrow
reduce all rail rates from that oity and
other New England points to Duluth and
St. Paul 13 cents per 100 pounds on first
class freight and proportionately on other
classes. The "Soo" line already has a dif
ferential of 10 cents on first class, so the
new tariff which was issued on April 14
from the Boston office will make a differ
ence of 23 cents first class between that line
and tbe domestic roads.
The Dispatch reporter was informed
that the "Soo" line has prepared a similar
tariff for freight shipped from New York to
St. Paul, though the rate will be 3 cents per
100 pounds higher in order to conform with
the difference between Boston and New
York. That will make it 77 cents, all rail.
The lake and rail rates via Duluth are only
6 cents lower, first olass, than the new all
rail rates made by the "Soo" out of New
York. It is to be expected that the trunk
lines will stir around and do something.
JUMPED FROM A TRAIN.
A Noted Criminal's Daring Escape While on
His Way to the Penitentiary.
Louisville, April 17. J. W. Heine, a
noted cracksman, on Tuesday escaped from
a train while being taken to Eddyville to
work on contract. He walked forward in
the car to get a drink of water. When near
the door he seized tbe guard, choked him to
insensibility, and with another convict, who
was helping him and shielding him from
observation, jumped off the train and disap
peared In the darkness. Two more convicts
escaped when the other guards had their at
tention, turned to Heine.
Heine was a burglar and operated exten
sively in Cincinnati and other cities. He
was sent from Louisville for six years.
THREW VITRIOL OX JJ1S WIFE.
Deadly Revenge on a Woman Who Refused
to Live With Her Husband.
New Yoek, April 17. In a fit ot jealousy
this evening Joseph Cottrell emptied a
bottle of sulphuric acid in his wife's face, at
No. 31 Boosevelt street. So terrible was
the work of the drug that the woman will be
disfigured for life and probablylose her eye
sight. The acid thrower had a murderous
looking knife concealed on his person when
searched at the station house.
Cottrell and his wife bad been living
apart lor four years. Becently he tried to
get his wife to return to him. She refused,
and when he called this evening he found
her entertaining another man. After again
asking her to return, he threw the acid.
DOES FARMING PAY?
s
Cl3 -story Replies to the
h Given by Lead-
O X
gricuiturists.
T r-
M0N0I.3& A'S VALLEY,
Strangely Eno, the Home of Many
Discontented Farmers,
vL .,
WHILE, WITH FEWER FACILITIES,
Tillers of Greene Coanty Soil Find tie
Business Profitable.
A LETTER WEITTEN IS TflEEE COUNTIES.
The Dispatch's special commissioner
has found time to take note of the condition
of the farm property as Veil as the roads in
the districts he has explored. Farmers
themselves express widely different views on
tbe 'question of tbe profits of agriculture.
Monongahela valley agriculturists, with
good transportation facilities at hand, com
plain more than the residents of the re
moter districts of Greene county.
tfrou oca special commissioxib.
The Pittsbuko Dispatch 1
Countbt Road Expedition, V
Raccoon Crzkk, Pa.. April 17. )
There is something of a curiosity about
the house in which we have just taken din
ner. It is owned by Bobert Witherall. His
farm lies directly on the corner of three
counties Washington, Allegheny and
Beaver. I began to write this just after
lunch. A table had been drawn np in front
of the parlor fire for me. I was writing
then in Washington county. The fire be
came too hot, and, as I wanted to use a dic
tionary in the library at the other end of the
room, I moved my table clear across.
The county line runs directly through the
center of Mr. Witherall's parlor. So I
found I was writing in Beaver county.
Presently a message came from the barn de
manding my atsistance in subduing Bu
cephalus, who had evidently kicked on the
quality of oats given him. I carried my
notes with me, and as the time for writing is
limited to stops on our route, compelling me
to utilize every place and moment, I con
tinued composition in the manger in the
hope of detracting the attention of our
fractious nag.
EAPID CHANGES OF BASE.
The barn stands in Allegheny county,and
therefore this letter has been pieced to
gether in three different counties within the
same hour. The name of tbe creek flowing
beside barn and honse is the most definite
date I can give it without an actual survey,
and the photographer protests that bis cam
era tripod was never intended for such base
purposes as engineering.
We envy the photographer to-day. Hs
has had no work to do. After our awful
ride from Hickory to Burgettstown he
found his apparatus shaken all to pieces.
Tbe screw holding the tripod to
gether was actually loosened by tha
jolts and dropped by the wayside. The
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WASHlNGTOIf CO.
Roheson '
Robert W'itheralCi House, Situated
Counties.
sensitive film-plates, with which exposures
are made, were broken to pieces. It was
fortunate that to-day we have passed
through a wild, forest region, thinly popu
lated, and offering no opportunity for photo
graphy. But at Beaver we will lay in a
new supply of materials, and more pictures
will be made for your readers.
DBEAMS.OF TKOUBLE.
This constant jolting' and plunging of the
wagon is something sickening. We dream
about it at night. Old-fashioned feather
beds in these farm-houses give our backs
and limbs some chance to get rid of aches
and pains, and to regain elasticity, bnt the
softness of a couch, tbe silky paths of an
Ariel expedition through slumberland,
mock our thoughts, and the mind has rough
riding both night and day.
Beaver has the habit of neighing in the
stable regularly at midnight. It awakes
me, and my mind says: "Jolt, thump, swish,
jolt!" The cocks out here crow about three
hours earlier than they do in Pittsburg, and
in my drowsiness I think they are crowing:
"Bump, thump, hump, lumps." Our host,
like all punctual grangers, knocks at the
door not later than 520 a. si. His knuckles
recall the never ceasing, always increasing
noise of those wagon bolsters: "Knock,
shock, knock, block!" No wonder the
driver's face wears a haunted expression
every morning at breakfast.
SIOZTS 07 BOT7GH USAGE.
We are fast going to pieces. The shot
gun, which our youthful photographer
brought along to keep tramps away from
his camera, has been strapped to the slats
along the wagon's canvas roof. The other
day there was a loud and sudden report.
The whole vehicle trembled, and as the
frightened horses bolted forward one wagon
seat, with two persons on it, tumbled back
ward over the end-gate, while over all a
thin, blue smoke trailed serenely in our
rear. The shaking of the wagon over mud
ridges had only discharged the gun. That
was all. But it will never discharge it
again. To-day that horrid jar, jar, jar
of the wagon shook the trigger out of the
gun and it dropped overboard two feet deep
in .Raccoon township mud.
A fishing reel has already been smashed,
the rod being reduced to six-inch sections
and the line utilized to keep the bandages
wrapped tight to our swollen knuckles. The
crowns of three stiff hats have sunk in the
middle from constant contact with the can-
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