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A PERMANENT ORDER
Is to be Established by the Societies
of Work-ins Girls.
WOMEN TO IKSPECT FACTORIES,
The. Contention Makes an Earnest Demand
for Such Action.
THERE WAS A.VI AMOUNT OF TALKING,
Bnt tie Best of Feeling Preniled Thronflicut the
Sctire JlKtio;.
The convention of working girls' societies
held in New York has adjourned. Action
looking to the formation ot a permanent na
tional organization was taken. Female in
spectors lor factories were demanded.
rsrECIXL TELXGKAM TO TH DISrjLTCH.I
'ew York, April 1". The closing
session ot the convention of the Association
of Working Girls' Societies was held in the
assembly rooms of the Metropolitan Opera
House this morning. The girls hare
crowded an immense amount of talk and
business into the conTention hours, but they
have not said nearly all they wanted to.
So Hiss Dodge has invited them to hold
one or two informal talks in the rooms of
the Thirty-eighth Street Club before the
ont-of-town delegates go home.
The fiiiat session of the conrention was
begun by addresses from a few women not
affiliated with the association, but engaged
in helping working girls. Hiss Corner,
of Montreal, told of the Montreal Indus
trial Union; Miss Chapiu read a paper
from Miss Hurley, .of Chicago, describing
the Working Women's Improvement .Asso
ciation there, and Miss Browning, of Law
rence, Mass., described the successful ex
periment conducted by the women of her
town in getting up a club for the mill girls.
THE "WORK OF ORGANIZATION.
Miss Smoot, of Washington, spoke of the
100 assemblies of working girls which the
Knights of Labor have established. Hiss
GraefFread Mrs. Turner's description of the
efforts of the new century guild of Philadel
phia to organize factory women into clubs,
and Miss Holtnan, of Philadelphia, told
about "lend-a hand" clubs in the mining
regions. Miss Jarvis, of DanielsvilIe,Conn.,
and Miss Warner spoke of clubs which had
been successfully maintained in country
towns.
The convention then took up the discus
sion of a proposed constitntion for all the
clnbs, and indulged in some lively talk.
MUs Martha Draper, of the Endeavor So
ciety, read the constitution adopted by her
society and proposed it as a model. It pro
vides for the usual officers of a society and a
governing council of 12 members, including
the officers. This started the question 01
what proportion of officers and members of
conncil should be wage workers, in distinc
tion from those who were members from the
love of the work and were financially be
yond the necessity of working lor a living.
A LITTLE CLASS FEELING.
It was the first suggestion of anything
like class feeling that had appeared in the
convention. Miss Dodge was applauded to
the echo when she gracefully said that as
wage workers and other members were all
simply members, one of no more importance
than the other, and all working side by tide
toward the one end, such a question should
not be recognized. It was with each society
to elect whom its members individually pre
ferred. Miss Draper said that in the Endeavor
Society at least two-thirds of the officers and
council were active wage earners. Miss
Emily M. Morgan, of Hartford, Chairman
of the committee on starting a' journal to
be devoted to the interests of the working
girls, reported favorablv to the scheme, and
it was adopted. Miss Helen Iselin reported
the following resolution about women fac
tory inspectors :
Whereas, Several bills have been present
ed to the Lecislature of the State of New York
providing for the appointment of women as
deputy factorv inspectors.
Resoi -ed. That the convention heartily en
dorses and urges the passage of a bill provid
ing for tbo appointment of women as deputy
factory inspectors; further
IIARMOJfY NECESSARY.
Resolved, That harmonious and effective
action in the department of factory Inspection
imperatively demands that the appointment of
all deputies, male and female, be committed to
the head of the department, the chief factory
inspector.
Resolved. That female deputy factory In
spectors should not be reqnired to inspect fac
tories where women and children are not em
ployed. The resolutions were unanimously passed
amid great applause. The following was
also adopted:
Resolved, That this convention recommends
the formation of a united association of work
ing cirls societies, whose constitution and by
lavs shall be presented to each uniting asso
ciation lor its approval by a committee com
posed of the first directress and secretary of
each association.
This was adopted, thereby making the
association permanent. That closed the
convention.
K0 MORE POSTAL CARDS.
The Factorv is In the Hand or the Sheriff
Now.
rErECIAt. TKLZOBAM TO THI DISPATCH. J
Birmingham, Cons'., April 17. Wil
kinson Bros. & Co. to-day replaced the at
tachment of $40,000 on the stock and appur
tenances of Daggett's postal card factorv,
and Sheriff Wheeler, of HuntiDgton, is in
charge. He began an inventory of all
property in the factory which belongs to Dag
gett,and this is mighty little. It is reported
that the printing presses hive never been
paid for and were purchased on a lease from
flieWbitlock Machine Company, of Shel
don. The postal cards, of which there are
several millions in the vaults, are conceded
by Wilkinson to be Government propertv.
Ihere is not enough left in the factory to
pay Wilkinson's bill, if valued at original
cost.
A carload of paper from this company
arrived in Derby to-dav bv the United
States Express Company, and" they refused
to allow it to be unloaded until arrearages
of expressage, amounting to about $1,000,
had been paid. An effort was made to put
the Government stamp on the car
in the hope that this would protect
it, but the scheme failed. The paper
still remains in the car at the depot. The
luctory is ont of stock, and unless this is re
leased the works will come to- a standstill.
Late this afternoon another attachment was
put on the place by C. F. Cannon, elevator
manufacturer, of New Haven, for $700
Others are hourly expected. Wilkinson is
in New York to garnishee any moneys due
Daggett from the Government
WAKT THL1U PA i FIXED BI LAW.
Railway Foinl Clerks Will Ask Congress
to Krgulate Their Salaries.
Chicago, April 17. Fifty members of
the Executive Committee of the Rational
Association of Railway Postal Clerks held
a meeting here to-day to discuss ways of
having their salaries hxed by law and the
regulation of the same placed in the hands
of Congress. The committee will meet
Congressman W. E. Mason lor a conference
to-morrow.
Chairman John A. Mahar stated at the
meeting that under the existing system of
handling appropriations the clerks, not the
people, are forced to pay for every increase
in the efficiencv of the service. The Ex
ecutive Committee, which acts for over a
thousand members, has sent out circulars to
members of Congress asking their support
to House resolution 6,459, which fixes their
salaries by law, as against two other bills
now under consideration which impose the
deficiency conditions upon the clerks.
A PADBONjTS PBOFITS.
A Rnllrond Contractor Who Has Furnlalied
30,000 Italian Railroad Laborers
nil Builncii Methods and
IlowIIr In Tnld.
rSF-ECIiX TELXaKXM TO THE DlSfATCn.
New York, April 17. Joseph Gallo, an
Italian broker and railroad contractor, gave
to the sub-committee of the Congressional
Committee on Immigration, at its session
to-day, some information that may interrupt
his business prosperity when the sub-committee
frames an immigrant law for Congress
to act on. Gallo said he had abont 300
Italians, 75 Huns and a smaller number of
colored men working for him. The Italians
lived on from 55 to 18 a month, the colored
men lived higher, usually paying from $15
to $20 a month. Mr. Gallo said he had sent
down South, within the past 10 years, about
50,000 Italians who were put to work on
railroads.
He made no profit out of furnishing these
men. He did it merely to advertise his
business as a broker. There was plenty of
work for all. He handled about $1,000,000
a year in his brokerage business. Tom Mc
Guire, Master Workman of District Assem
bly $9, said that Gallo was nothing more nor
less than a padrone. The men whom he sent
away had to pay him and others of his class
$5 for the privilege of getting work on the
railroads. At the end ot a few weeks, cr a
month perhaps, the padrone had the laborer
discharged and the laborer wonld go to the
padrone again and pay $5 more for another
job. The witness knew of men who were
landed at Castle Garden one day and were
found working on the West Shore tracks
the next day.
While Gallo was testifying Mr. McGnire
said he had sent a messenger to Gallo's
place and tbe messenger was told that Gallo
wonld furnish laborers to anybody who
wanted them at $1 25 to $1 45 a day. He
denied Gallo's statement that there was
work for everybody. An American citizen
with a family could not live on the same
money that an Italian without a family
subsisted on. Tee steamship companies
were to blame for mnch of the stimulated
immigration. Mr. McGuire said the immi
gration commissioners had persistently
prevented the representatives of labor from
trying to find out anything about contract
laborers whom the labor organization knew
were about to be landed at Castle Garden.
When the contract labor law was made
President Cleveland was asked to appoint
labor men as inspectors. He did nothing in
the matter. Contract laborers bad been
landed ever since the law had gone into
effect.
FAILED FOB A MILLION.
The Bis New York Silk Firm of Louis
Franke & Co. Goes Under Losses by
Recent Failures and Tight
Money the Canies.
New York, April 17. A big failure in
the silk trade was announced to-day that
of the well-known firm of Louis Franke &
Co., raw silk importers, 110 Grand street,
who are also manufacturers of thrown silk
at Paterson, 27. J. Louis Franke and
Henry W. Strauss, the partners of tbe firm,
made a general assignment without prefer
ences to lawer Adolphus H. Stoiber.J
There were rumors current several days
ago that a silk house was "in trouble," but
the trade had no idea the firm of Louis
Franke & Co. were, embarrassed, as they
were supposed to have a capital of at least
$300,000. Sympathy is expressed for the
firm, and it is hoped they will get an exten
sion of time. The liabilities are said
to be upward of $900,000, with
nominal assets of $1,200,000. The causes
attributed for tbe embarrassment are inabil
ity to raise money to meet maturing obliga
tions, the stringency of the money market,
the stoppage of accommodations by the
banks and losses by recent failures in Pater
son. It is said the firm lost in all the
recent silk trade failures, that they have
been carrying a great many small concerns
who do not pay promptly and find difficulty
in collections. Their outstanding accounts
are large and they were liberal in credits.
They imported the bulk of their raw silk
from France and Japan and bought in the
local market. "
They are said to be one of fie firms who
bought heavily of raw silk in 1888, when
prices were low and made a big profit.
Thev generally carried a stock of about
$500,000. Their paper heretofore had sold
at low rates as gilt edged, but recently, it is
said, they found a difficulty in disposing of
it, although their financial position was un
questioned. A POORUWUNTOU'S TK0DBLES.
Charged With Vng tbo MnlU to Incur Ob.
Hsnlloni lie Cannot OTcet.
Cincinnati, April 17. An interesting
case of alleged misuse of the mails has been
brought before the court by the arrest in
Newport, Ky., of Charles L. Hartsfeld on a
charge of using the United Sta tcs mails for
the purpose of defrauding. The allegation
is that Harstfeld has been sending out long
advertisements of his Schmeidebarengnss
Furnace Company, the Newport Aluminum
and Steel Company.and the Harfsleld Alum
inum and Steel Company, and in this way
incurring many obligations, but when drafts
are made upon him he refuses payment. It
is stated that several hnndred newspapers
have been thus defrauded and Postoffice In
spector Kolden, who has chargct of the pros
ecution, is engaged now in obtaining state
ments of newsnapers of their dealings with
Hartsfeld. "
The defendant has been relea sed on bond
ot $500 to answer before the U nited States
Commissioner. His defense is that he is a
struggling inventor and being out of
money is not evidence of intent to defraud.
He has claimed to discover a process of re
fining aluminum at a very cheap rate, and
later he has claimed the discovery of a new
metal called Schmeidebarenguss which can
be molded into any shape, anil still have
most wonderful strength.
DELEGATES KLECTED.
Closing Session of the Union Preibytery ot
the Cumberland Churisb.
ISrXCIAL TELEOKAM TO THE DII IFATOH.1
McKEESPORT, April 17. l.'he closing
session of the Union Presbytery of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church was held
last evening and the delegates left the city
to-day. The next meeting of the Union will
be held at Vanderbill on September 10.
The delegates elected to represent the dis
trict 'at the GeneraT Assembly at Union
Citv, Tenn., in May are Rev. H. C. Bird,
of Uniontown, and J. D. Armstrong, of
Brownsville. Prof. L. H. Lewellen, of
Connelisville, was received inuo the min
istry. ASKING FOR TARIFF BBVISIOX.
The MniKicbmclli Senate Disclares for
Reduced Duties Upon Necepanrien.
Boston, April 17. The Senate to-day
adopted a resolution to Congress declaring
in favor of a thorough revision of the tariff
and the reduction of duties upon the raw
materials of manulactures and upon the
necessaries of lile, as Jar as the name can be
made with due regard to laboring and man
ufacturing interests.
POBMbHEK EJ1BAUUASBED.
A. H. ITnbbard, ofFhllndelphln, Needs Time
to Meet HU.LInbilltleri.
Philadelphia, April 17. A. H. Hub
bard, the owner of Hubbard IJro.'s Pub
lishing House, No. 406 Bace street, is finan
daily embarrassed and cannot go on with
his business unless he is given an extension
of time. His liabilities amount, it is said,
to $140,000, and he places his assets at about
$200,000.
A Ruislan I'nlnee Burned.
St. Petersburg, April 17. The Impe
rial palace at Oranienbanm, 20 miles west
of this city, has been destroyed by fire.
Seyen of the palace servants wert.burned to
death.
AN AMERICAN VENICE,
With the Practical Dngont in Place
of the Graceful Gondola.
FLOATING SIDEWALKS A FEATURE
Of the Great Flood in the Valley of the
Lower Mississippi.
THERE IS NO FLACK FOR DEDNZARDS.
One-Half of the Populition of Arkansas City Gone to
a Safer Becion.
Tales of destitution and suffering in the
Mississippi Valley are still received.
Arkausas City is almost wholly under
water, and there is practically no com
munication except by dugouts.
nsrXCIAI. TX1XOBAM TO TBI DISPATOH.l
Arkansas City, April 17. This place
is for the time the most thoroughly satura
ted and water-soaked town along the Mis
sissippi. For a month past the remnant of
its inhabitants has been living on scaffold
floors. Everything is under water ex
cept a few patches of levee south of
the city, that stick up like knobs
of mud above a sea of yellow water. Several
colored persons were drowned, and their
friends were compelled to take the bodies in
skiffs to what is known as the Monnd, a
small elevated bit of land less than a quarter
of an acre in extent, where they were buried.
Arkansas City stores and dwellings and
stables are set upon blocks or stone and
brick piers from four to six feet above the
level of the surrounding country. Its side
walks are raised about five feet above the
streets. While the water is from two to three
feet'decp in the stores and over the plank
walks, it is from seven to ten feet deep along
the gullies and in the middle of the streets.
A MODERN VENICE.
Commnnication is by skiffs and plank
batteaus. The water is so high on tbe cor
ner lamps that only the glass portion re
mains visible. Along tbe main thorough
fares, of which there are but four,
planks are laid on top of cross bars
nailed to uprights set in the ground
bringing the pedestrian on a level with the
show windows in the stores. In some places
the board walks have floated. They are
moored by ropes and do duty still as side
walks. Communication by means of some of the
plank thoronghfares is not only unpleasant,
bnt at times dangerous, for when two per
sons meet on one of these floating stages
theircombined weightsmksituntilthe water
pours into their shoe tops. At other places a
single plank, an inch broad, which sags six
inches under water between its supports
when trodden udoo. is the onlv foot wav.
Involuntary immersions are of frequent oc
currence. At present Arkansas City is a
bad place for drunkards.
ONE HALF HAVE VANISHED.
The population of Arkansas City is about
1,800. Not more than one half that num
ber are residing here now, the other half
having left on the advent of high water.
Many places or business, especially on the
streets at right angles with the river,
have been closed. The stores and
dwellings are all frame structures
and instead of being lathed and plastered,
are for the most part lined with flooring
boards. This not only adds strength and
durability to the buildings, but leaves no
mortar mud to be scraped off the floors and
walls after the water has subsided.
Very fewwomen and children are in town.
Tbe merchants and private citizens sent
their families a (ray when the inundation be-'
came complete. Notwithstanding the
greatly reduced populace, the merchants
who remained are nearly all doing business
enough to nay expenses.
300 PERSONS IN ONE BUILDING.
A nnmber of negro refugees took up quar
ters here when the overflow drove them from
their own homes on the adjacent planta
tions. In their rudely improvised craft they
floated into the board yards and built them
selves shanties by laying scantlinc from pile
to pile of sawed lumber, and roofing it
over with the material so plentifully at
hand. Below tbe city abont one mile is a
large red building among trees. It is a cot
ton compress building, about 100 feet
square, in which about 300 colored per
sons are sheltered. These people have saved
considerable of their goods, and under tbe
circumstances are very comfortable. Those
who have not saved anything are being
helped by their more fortunate neighbors.
Tne interior of this compress build
ing is a sight. The place was
alive with a densely packed colored
population. Partitions of quilts and
comforters, in all stages of dilapidation,
had been made, and behind these, "shake
downs, consisting ot ticks stoned with
hay, or piles of bnrlap bags were spread.
They were not, as may be imagined, in a
state of immaculate cleanliness.
AN EDITOR'S TRIBULATIONS.
The Arkansas City Journal has been most
seriously incommoded during the past few
weeks. When the flood reached its full ex
tent the water was within eight inches of
the bed of the Washington hand press on
which the weekly is printed. The treadle
of the Gordon jobber was over two feet
under water. The last three editions
of the Journal have been run off
on tbe press by the compositors, who wore
rubber trousers and stood in water above
their knees. The tickets for the municipal
elections were printed under similar adverse
circumstances, and they were afterward
voted by the citizens, who went to the poll
ing place in skiffs.
The costal service is having a hard time
of it. The water is 18 inches deep on the
floor of the postoffice. A false floor has
been erected which brings the stamp and
delivery window to the height ot one's
knees. The mail is handed out over the toD
of the box' partition, and when a patron
finds it necessary to address a letter in the
office he is compelled to
SIT ON THE COUNTER AND WRITE
at the small desk on top of it One church,
the colored Baptist, was undermined and
washed away by the flood some days aeo.
The white folks' Methodist Episcopal
Church still &tand, bnt it has water in it
over the tops of the pews, and almost on a
level with the sills of its stained glass win
dows. Iu the Opera House a watery'comedy has
held the boards for a month. Chairs and
iurnishing ot the parquet float around in a
muddy pool that reaches within 12 inches
of the footlights. The small staee is piled
full of chairs and scenic properties in the
greatest confusion. At the" hotel the dining
room outfit of tables looks as though it had
been arranged on the top of a fresco painter's
scaflold.
LEVEES Ih DAXGLK.
Flvo Tlionsnnd Men Already at Work and
More Needed.
New Orleans, April 17. Information
having been received of the critical condi
tion of Morganza and other levees along
tbe Point Coupee front Captain John
W. Grant, of the Texas and Pa
cific Railroad, made a requisition
on this .district for 100 men to go to their
relief. Tht requisition was honored Ly
Colonel Sparks, who left at 2 p. at, taking
with him 300 men. They go by special
train to Baton Rouge Junction, thence by
steamer to Morganza. '
Five thousand men are now working on
the levees, but as this is only 90 men to a
mile there is plenty of room lor a few thou
sand more.
Protecting the Worklngmnn's Henlth.
Berlih, April 17. The Government in
tends on May 1 to apply to State workshops
a legislative measure now preparing for the
protection of tbe health and moral well-
being of the workingmen.
GOVERNMENT INSUBANCE.
Novel fceuemo Projected by tbe Canadian
Administration to Aid tbe Working
Classes Annuities for
Men or Women.
Ottawa, April 17. It is understood that
the Government has under consideration an
important measure drawn up by the Secre
tary of State with a view to offering the
working classes the advantages of agigantic
scheme of co-operative insurance, and that
an endeavor will be made to get the bill
through during the present session.
The main idea is to enable the working
people to insure for themselves a competence
in old age. Any person desirous of provid
ing an annuity for himself or herself may do
so by arranging to pay in so mneh
per year to the Government to any age be
tween 0 and 56. At the end of the time
stipulated payments cease and tbe annuity
commences. 'The annuity may take one of
two shapes, either the annuity is paid sim
ply as interest on the deposit, in which case
the deposit itself is paid over to the heirs
of the depositor on his death, or an annuity
is paid to the depositor on a scale calculated
from both the interest and capital of the de
posit, in which case the annuity will be
much larger, but there will be nothing left
at the depositor's death. The largestannuity
that can be provided tor by any one person
will tie $300 per year. In case of sickness
of death before the annuity falls due, the
money paid is available at once for the de-
Eositor or the heirs. The Secretary of State
as availed himself of various features of
the German and French systems. The small
est payments, if continued for a lifetime,
will amply protect the insured in old age.
The scheme is aimed to be a corrective
against improvidence, and will afford to the
working classes protection tbey cannot pay
for to ordinary insurance companies.
Women can enjoy the same advantages as
men by making pavments, and various
clauses in the bill will protect the rights of
married women.
TOOK-HIM BI THE THROAT.
An Angry Wife Follows a Recreant Hoi
band Across the Atlantic.
tSrECtAL TBLEPEAM TO TUB DISPATCtl.l
New York', April 17. Theodore Wilde,
a well-to-do furrier, lived happily with his
wife and seven children in London until
three months ago, when he engaged a good
looking servant girl, Augustine Sunbach.
The wife became so jealous that the girl was
ordered to leave the house. She took her
time about it, and when, early in March, she
sailed for this country, she was accompanied
by Wilde, who took with him his four boys.
Mrs. Wilde followed them and arrived on
Tuesday last, together with her three little
girls. Detective Gordon, ot Castle Garden,
found the husband at 46 First street. To
day Gordon, Mrs. Wilde and the three lit
tle girls went to the house. The husband,
tbe servant girl and the fonr boys were
seated at a table eating their dinner.
The four little boys jumped off their stools
and ran to their mother, who stood glaring
at the woman who had taken her place. The
next moment she had Augustine by tbe
throat. Gordon arrested Wilde and took
him to the Essex Market Police Court,
where Justice Patterson held him to pay his
wife $6 a week. The other woman also came
to court, and, after the husband paid tbe $6
for the coming week and had given bonds,
she linked her arm in his and they walked
off. Mrs. Wilde has now the seven children
to care for.
FaYOR BALLOT REFORM.
Tbo Australian System Adopted by
Ono
Branch of Ohio' Lcslelature.
rarXCIAt. TXLEQRXH TO THE DISFATCH.!
Columbus, April 17. The House occu
pied the entire day, with the exception of
the time the members were in attendance on
the baseball'game, in the consideration of
the Mallon election bill, known as the Aus
tralian system of voting. The bill was
finally passed, many Republicans voting
for it, and it is believed tbe Senate will act
favorably UDon the measure. Tbe bill has
been championed to some extent by Gov
ernor Campbell.'and It is understood that
many Democrats voted for it out of defer
ence to the wishes of the Governor.
The food adulteration bill became a law
as amended. The bill recreating the State
Canal Commission his become a law. It is
to look after the regaining of waste lands.
The Governor has appointed as the com
mission W. C. Boden, of Guernsey, A. H.
Boose, Circleville, and R. M. Rownd, Co
lumbus. A COUXTESS' LAW SUIT.
She
Sayi the Trustee of Her Estate Ilai
Not Accounted Truthfully.
New York, April 17. The Countess von
Linden has instituted suit against Henri
M. Bream, a half-blood relative to cancel
the deed of trust by which her property was
given in care to him for an accounting, and
to have the property returned and a new
trustee appointed.
Her father died in 1873, leaving her $57,
984 in cash and securities valued at $132,
588. She claims that Bream, as trustee,
rendered a false aconnting. He interposed
a demurrer in the Supreme Court, which
Jndge Ingraham to-day overruled.
A MANIAC CREMATED.
She Seta Fire to Her Duelling sod !
Burned to Death.
Quebec, April 17. News has been re
ceived here of the bnrning yesterday of a
school honse at St. John River, on the
Labrador coast. The building was occupied
by Peter Bodman and his wife.
Mrs. Bodman, who had been deranged for
the lost three or fonr months, was locked in
a room in the honse at the time and was
bnrned to death. Her husband left the
house shortly before tbe fire broke out.
More Pennnylvanln Postmaster.
Washington-, April 17. The President
to-day sent to tbe following nominations of
postmasters in Pennsylvania: Bide W.
Wilde, Hazelton; Frank E. Hollar, Ship
pensburg: Nathan Wilson, Downingtown:
Thomas Bitting, Ambler; George W. Stet
son, Cambridgeborough; Milton T. Don
meyer, Kutztown.
If your honse needs papering don't pnt
it off any longer, but go and see the largest
line of all classes of wall paper ever shown
in Pittihnrg or Allegheny at John S. Rob
erts', 414 Wood st. wihrsu
See our special drives in underwear at
81, 81 50, 52 per suit. You will find them
better values than ever at Chas. Pfeiler's,
443 Smithfield and 100 Foderal st., Alle
gheny. At tho People's Store.
Ladies' calico wrappers, plain, 75 cents;
a little lulier and ruffl-d, $1 00
Mother Hnbbards ?1 25. All goods sold
as low as permissable with paying our oper
atives fair wages, and give the merchant a
share of profit. Campbell & Dick.
Special Hot Sale-ThU Week Only.
Our stylish new shapes and colors of hats.
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AFTER MANY TEARS.
An Arrest for a Murder Committed a
Quarter of a Century Ago.
A MOST SENSATIONAL STORY.
The Baby Boy Who Was Dabbled in His
Father's Life Blood
TRACKED THE MDEDEKEE TO THE END.
Justice Is at Last to be Meted Ont to the Villainous
Assassin.
From South Carolina comes the story of
an arrest for a murder committed 25 years
ago. A son of the victim pnrsued the
assassin to tbe end.
tSPICUlL TBLEOBAM TO THZ DISPATCH. I
Gaffney City, S.C., April 17. Samnel
Jefferies, an aged, retired larmer, and one
of the wealthiest men in this State, was
arrested at his home here to-night, charged
with murdering Dr. Alexander White 25
years ago. The revelation is a most sen
sational one, and nearly all tbe prominent
people in the State are deeply interested
in it.
The story dates back to the end of the Re
bellion. At that time Jefferies killed a
neighbor named Shelton Sparks. Jefferies
on account ot his riches did not go
to the war. but hired a substitute.
Sparks was the conscript officer, and
near tbe close of 1864 attempted to
compel Jefferies to go into the army.
He refused to do so and went to the woods
and hid away from the conscript officer.'
Bloodhonnds were put on his track, and by
some mishap he never was apprehended.
Enraged at the conduct of the conscript offi
cer, Jeff eries soon sought a difficulty with
him and killed his official pursuer.
IN TROUBLOUS TIMES.
About the close of the war, when every-
tning was in a cnaotic condition, the trial
of Jefferies for this murder was held.
Everybody was interested' in the
case and great indignation was ex
pressed. Men of means who condemned
tbe murder attempted to have justice
meted out fairly. One of these was Dr.
Alexander White, an influential physician.
He denounced the murder, and worked
until he had obtained some damaging testi
mony against Jefferies.
Thiswas soon made known to Jefferies
and his friends. How to suppress this
damaging evidence and save Jefferies' life
was the qnestion. Various schemes
were hatched to no effect. At last it
was determined to forever silence
the tongue of Dr. White by death. The plot
was conceived and consummated rapidly.
One dark night in August, 1865, while rock
ing his motherless child to sleep in his
country home Dr. White was killed. The
shot was fired through the door.
DABBLED IX BLOOD.
Shortly afterward the prattling child,
seeing the blood of his father, sat down and
dabbled in it. Covered with the gore
of his father, the child fell asleep
and there beside its parent rested peacefully
until the deed was discovered. The murder
ers of Dr. White were unknown, although
suspicion pointed to Jefferies and several
others. However, none of them were ar
rested. Soon afterward the trial of Jefferies for
the slaying of Sparks was held. It resulted
in an acquittal, 'despite the fact that Jef
feries was unanimously condemned by
the people. Since then he has pros
pered, and is to-day a very rich man.
His character has never been good and time
and again he has been accused of murder
ing Dr. White. He and his aseociates kept
their secret well. People who knew Jefferies
declared publicly that he rarely ever slept
and frequently saw apparitions of his vic
tim. When Dr. White was murdered Jefferies
and a man named Medlin were intimate as
sociates. It was believed that Medlin had
either been hired by Jefferies to kill the
doctor or that he was an abettor in the deed.
A DEATHBED STATEMENT.
Medlin had to leave the State and went to
Texas. There he died some years ago. While
on his deathbed he made a statement exon
erating himself and declaring that Jefferies
had murdered Dr. White. This confession
was kept secret by the Medlin family. Not
long ago Medlin's son told the tale related
by his father.
'This started anew the old sensation. The
prattling child who had dabbled uncon
sciously in bis parent's life blood is now a
man. He has secured much testimony and
has wonnd the coil tightly around his
father's murderer. He is penniless but has
been aided by friends in obtaining testi
mony, and the case has been successfully
worked up. When Jefferies was arrested
at his home in uanney (Jity he was sice,
and is now guarded by deputy sheriffs in
his room.
DISPROVING A MURDER,
Tho Alleged Victim Still In the Land of the
Living.
Kansas Citt, April 17. Henry Graves,
a traveling salesman, stated to the Chief of
Police to-day tbat in July, 1887, he saw at
Los Angeles, Cal., William C. Wrighte
man, for whose alleged murder in 18S6, bis
partner, James Sherman, was arrested at
Springfield, Mo., a day or two ago.
Chief Speers regards this as convincing
evidence that Wrighteman was not mur
dered but disappeared in tbe hopes that the
insurance company wonld pay over to bis
heirs 823,000 in policies. The Prosecuting
Attorney refuses to present Sherman's case
to the grand jury.
NEWS IN A NOTkHELL.
Important Event of the Day Coadenaed
Into Short Items.
Henrt M. Stanlet has left Cannes for
Paris.
Pkixce Albert Victor, of Wales, is visit
ing at Athens.
Princess Frederick Leofold, of Prussia,
has a daughter.
Ex-Pkesident Rates and daughter have
gone to Bermuda.
I The Czarewitch'a proposed tour of Siberia
has been postponed.
r There were 1,403 immigrants landed at
Castle Garden to-day. .
John Barnett, tbe musical composer, born
1802, is dead, in London.
Religious instruction in State schools has
been suppressed in Brazil.
New York Produce Exchange members op
pose tbe Butterworth bill.
Fire in the Mackinnon block, at Montreal
to-day cansed a loss of GO, 000.
St. Joseph (Mo.) Water Worts sold to the
Kuelin syndicate lor $2,500,000.
St. Petersburg and Archangel are to be
connected by an electric railway.
The Czar has invitea the Prince of Naples
to visit St, Petersburg in May next.
Trouble expected at Cairo ver an order
closing all tbe Greek rambling houses.
W. S. McLaughlin, the veteran jockeyjdied
at Detroit from a complication of diseases.
The Massachusetts House has rejected tbe
bill cranting municipal suffrage to women.
Prince Bismarck will be assisted by Dr.
Schweninger in tb e preparation of his memoirs,
Chicago Sons of Pennsylvania will see that
the Kej-sttne State is well represented 'at the
World's Fair.
Duluth, Dubuque and St. Lonls Presbyteries
oppose revision of the confession of faith, while
the St. Paul Presbytery favors it.
John C. New. United States Consul to
London, will preside at the banquet to be given
to Stanley by American residents.
The New York Union League Club last night
tendered a banquet to General W. T. Bhermin
on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
NEARINGJTHB CBISIS.
Continued from first Page.
There is fear that the strike may spread and
result in leaving the city iu darkness.
BASEBALL ENTHUSIASM
Camel the Soipenslon of a, Woolen Mill nt
Fall River. Mau.
ruriciAt TXLxaiiAM to tbi dispatch.:
Fall River, Mass., April 17. When
the mule spinners rom the Weetamoe Mill
went ont to dinner yesterday the Boston
Baseball Club had arrived in town, and the
spinners held a meeting and unanimously
voted to stay out. The mules were all
stopped for the afternoon, while 32 spinners
went to see the ball game. This morning
the spinners were ready to go to work,
but a disagreeable surprise was in store
for them. No whistle was blown, none of
the usual signs of starting up were observed,
and no part of the mill has been running to
day. The spinners acknowledge that their
action in going to the ball game was a boy
ish freak, bnt are not ready to make any
apologies, although rezretting that they
were carried o far by baseball enthusiasm.
-treasurer .Lindsay says the spinners gave
no notice of their intention to suspend work
this afternoon, and tbat it was necessary to
stop this morning ou account of lack of fill
in c. He has not yet decided what to do
with the truant spinners, and at present is
not prepared to state when the Weetamoe
mills will start up, but as the spinners took
the matter intotheirown hands Mr. Lindsay
intends to give them time to get over some
of their baseball -fever. At all events tbe
mill will remain idle to-morrow, and quite
probably till the beginning of next week.
In tbe present condition of the print cloth
market Mr. Lindsay is not at all averse to a
three days' curtailment of production.
ON THE TANDERBILT SYSTEM.
The Men Threaten to Go Oat In a Body on
Account of Wholesale DlimlnaalK.
rSFKCIAT. TSLZQKAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Lockport, N. Y., April 17: The trouble
along the New York Central over the
wholesale discharge of men is spreading
rapidly. From private and trustworthy
sources it is learned that the K. of L.
switchmen and freight men of the
whole Yanderbilt system of lines have
been holding secret meetings, and the Ex
ecutive Committees have named a committee
to wait upon the Executive Com
mittee of the company to ask for
the "removal of the General Superin
tendent of that road or else change
his policy against the men. Orders have
been received from New York to remove
some 50 or more men on the Niagara Falls
division. The work trains are to lose from
eight to ten men each.
The men are in earnest in the matter of
a strike. There has been a man here in
conference with the switchmen and brake
men, and every man is made to sign a cast
iron agreement to go out when the
order is given. From the talk among
the men it is thought that tbe whole
Vanderbilt system will be affected. Not
only are the men dissatisfied with the sud
den and unexplained dismissal, butthe heads
of departments condemn the policy in no
unmeasured terms. The result is anxiously
awaited on all sides.
A CONFLICT AT WASHINGTON.
Contractors andCnrprntera Cannot Asrree on
Wages and Hoars of Labor.
rSFKClAI. TEtKOItAJt TO TBI CIS? ATCH.1
WASHijrGioir, Pa., April 17. Both
contractors and carpenters grow nervons as
the 1st of May approaches. On the 1st
of January last, the Carpenters' Union here
informed the builders that on the 1st of
May they wonld demand $2 60 per day, and
tbat nine hours were to constitnte a day's
work, and eight on Saturday. The masons
and otherunionshavedemanded an increase
of wages with shorter hours, and the inter
views with prominent contractors show a
strong spirit ot opposition to these demands.
It is now probable they will unite to fight
these demands. Contractors are refusing to
take any work that will take them longer
than the 5th of May to finish, and will make
no estimate on work until the matter is
finished. The carpenters claim that there
are so few non-union men here that their
demands will be granted, as the work is
very imperative. The men receive some
$5,000 per week from the contractors now,
and that sum will be largely increased when
the weather and roads permit.
THIRTY THOUSAND MINERS OUT.
Conflict Between Troop and Strikers, In
Which Some of the Latter Are Killed.
Vienna, April 17. In the Ostran and
Karwin districts there are 30,000 miners out
on strike. The men demand a working day
of eight hours and the settlement of minor
grievances. The latest news from the dis
turbed districts is that the strikers attacked
a party of soldiers, and that in the figbt that
followed three of tbe miners were killed and
many wonnded. The troops in the mining
districts have been reinforced.
Twelve thousand workmen in the Witt
kovitz'Iron Works have struck. "The troops
at Karwin fired among the rioters. Several
persons were wonnded, one, it is reported
fatally. The mine owners of Rohonitz have
asked the Governor of Prague to send troops.
The Ostran strikers, to-night, attacked a
factory at Kunzendorf and a cellulose
factory at Rtiman, and compelled the
hands to leave work.
RIOTING STRIKERS ARRESTED.
Tbey Pound an Alleged Spy Until He Call
for Police AuUtance.
New York, April 17. A riot on a small
scale took place to-night at the American
Star Hall in East Broadway. A mob of
excited Hebrews were holding a meet
ing to consider whether they should
stay ont on a strike, having left a
tailor shop because tbey could hot get
higher wages when Louis Rnbensky came
along. The strikers called Rubenskv a snv
and pounded him so seriously tbat he ran
bleeding to tbe Eldridge street police sta
tion. Two policemen went ont to look for the
assailants and were attacked by them. Re
inforcements were summoned and four
strikers, including a woman, were arrested
and locked up.
Eight Honra a Day's Work.
Kansas Citt, April 17. The lower
house of City Council to-night passed by a
unanimous vote the ordinance fixing eight
hours as a day's work, for all city employes
and for, laborers employed on city con
tracts. Contractor Yieldine nt Indinnopoll.
. Indianapolis, April,'17, Seven contrac
tors yielded to the demands of the carpenters
to-day, making 33 who have given in thus
far.
Troubles In tbe Labor World.
The strike of the London shoemakers has
been amicably settled.
Non-union carpenters are being Imported to
Wheeling to taKe tbe places of the strikers.
Northern Pacific Railway contractors
have agreed to their employes' demands for a
nine-hour day, with appropriate decrease of
wages.
Tbe 800 employes of tbo Jackson Company's
Mills at Nasbau, N. H., have strnck for an in
crease of wages. The strike has been ex
pected. Fourteen of tbe 70 employers have con
ceded tbe demands of the New York knee
pant makers, and 200 of tbe 1,000 strikers have
returned to work. Tbe other employers are
now ready to settle.
DIED.
MALONE-On Thursday, Anrll 17, at I
o'clock, at her residence in the Thirty-sixth
ward, Mrs. Michael Malone, is her 71st
year.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
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GREAT LAND SALE
-AT-
CARDIFF,
Roane County, Tenn.,
on the Cincinnati Southern H.R.and Tenn.rivef
The Cardiff Coal andiron Co.,
Chartered by the State of Tennessee,
Capital, 85,000,000.
Hon. B. B. Smalley, Burlington, Vt,
President; W. P. Bice. Fort Payne, Ala., ,
Vice President; H. C. Young, Cardiff
Tenn., Vice President.
DIRECTORS:
W. P. Bice. Fort Payne, Ala.; H. C,
Young, of Cordley & Co., Boston; Dr. J. M.
Ford, Kansas City; Hon. Robert Pritchard,
Chattanooga; Hon. J. F. Tarwater, Rock
wood, Tenn.; Charles L. James, of James Ss
Abbott, Boston; Hon. William Warner.
Kansas City; T. G. .Montague, President
First National Bank, of Chattanooga, Tenn.;
Hon. John M. Whipple, CJaremont, N. H.;
Hon. Carlos Heard, Biddeford, Me.; Hon.
S. E. Pingree, Hartford, Vt.; Hon. B. B,
Smalley, Burlington, Vt.
WILL HOLD A
MAMMOTH LAND SALE
-
" of its city lots at CARDIFF
Tuesday, April 22, 1890,
AND FOLLOWING DAYS. .
Excursion trains will be run from New
England, leaving Boston, Saturday,
April 19, 1890.
The Cardiff properties are not experi
mental. The Coal and Iron have been
profitably mined more than 20 years. The
location is in the midst of already devel
oped properties. The Company owns over
50,000 acres of Coal and Iron and Timber
lands, situated in tbe Tennessee Counties of
Roane, Cumberland and Morgan. Its city
of Cardiff contains over 3,000 acres.
There is scarcely any industry which can
not find a favorable chance at Cardiff for
successful establishment and profit. The
development is in charge of men of approved
judgment and experience. Excursions to
Uarditt tor the sale will be arranged from
principal cities of the North and West.
Proceeds of sales to be applied to the devel
opment of the property by tbe erection of
Iron Furnaces, Coke "Ove'ns, Hotel, Water
Works, Motor Line, Electric Lights, Manu
facturing Plants, Public Buildings, etc
A plan will be offered which will enable
purchasers to secure lots at reasonable and
not speculative prices, the intention being;
to give patrons of tbe sale a chance to make)
a profit as well as the Company.
Accommodations will be provided for all'
attending the sale.
For farther information, prospectus, etc., ap
ply to
W. P. RICE, Quincy House, Boston, Mill.
CORDLEY & CO., Bankers, Boston, ;Mni.
or to the company
CARDIFF, ROANE CO., . . TENN.
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