WATERS SUBSIDING. Belief Boats Always Busj in Res cuing Homeless Sufferers. BAGS OF EARTH FOR REPAIRS Are the Principal Freight on the Missis sippi Boats WHEN EETUBXIKG TO EESCUE CATTLE. Captain Cowajn Eiplalns His Scheme to lower the Hood Level. A large portion of the Mississippi Valley is still submerged. People are, however, beginning to regain confidence. Biver steamers busily ply rescuing men and cattle from dangerous positions. Very high water is looked for in Mad river, where it has rained continnonsly for three months. Cap tain Cowdon tells the United States Senate his scheme for permanently lowering the floodbars of the Mississippi. Batoh Rouge, April 25. The steamer Dacotah, Captain Mitchell in command, has reached here from the overflowed district, and put off 500 or 600 people and a large quantity of stock. The people put off were mostly negroes, who fonnd no difficulty in getting employment Several planters from the interior were here for the purpose of getting labor tor their plantations. The Dacotah yesterday went up as far as New Texas Landing, res cuing people and stock along the route. The boat transported about 1,500 people to this side and could have brought many more, but the people said the river was fall ing and they preferred to stay and take the chances in Pointe Coupee. 1,000 FOOT BREAK. Captain Mitchell said the break in old Morganza at 3 o'clock, yesterday evening, was COO feet wide, while the break in Grand Levee, just below, was 1,000 feet wide, and washing rapidly, the soil being of a sandy nature. As these levees are three miles in length, only comparatively small portion of these great works have yet been destroyed. The boat rescued every living thing from a pig to the dogs and chickens. A refngee was seen on our streets to-day with a dog tied at one end of a rope and a rooster at the other. This was his only property. He carried them alternately in his arms to give them a rest. SACKS OF EAETH FOB BEPAIRS. The Dacotah remained here until i P. M., loading sacks above tne town to carry to the Martinez crevasse. At this hour she left, carrying down 15,000 sacks of earth. The Pargoud is expected down to-night to carry more sacks to the crevasse. "When she gets through unloading, the Dacotah will return to New Orleans, as there is no longer any de mand for a relief boat along the Pointe Coupeen front The tug Will "Wood came up at 6 o'clock this evening with a barge from Martinez for aload of lumber. One line of cribbing outside the break has been completed and work began on a second row. The work is under the supervision of General Manager Harahan, of the Valley road, and Mr. J. D Houston. They are conhdent of closing the break by next Tuesday. Mr. V. L. Clark, of "West Baton .Rouge, was down here this morning to get help to close theLabdell break. Prom what can be learned it is a forlorn hope. CLEARING VP. A Greenville, Miss., special says: After four days ot incessant raining the sun came up brightly this morning. The river fell three inches in the past 24 hours, which is the first permanent lall we have had since the beginning of the high water, three months ago. The same fall was recorded on the back waterof the town and country,and since morning the fall has been fully two inches. Portions of the streets which have been covered for 21 days are being uncovered by the receding waters, which are watched with delight by the citizens. It is safe to say that this fall will be followed by a still greater one in the next 21 hours. A dispatch from Shreveport, La., says: Reports from Upper Red river above Ful ton indicate a big rise, caused by recent heavy rains, which have fallen along the border of Northwestern Texas. The rise is sufficient to cause serious apprehensions. At this point the river fell one-tenth, but the situation is not encouraging. The streams are all bank full and very little more water will flood all low places not thoroughly protected by levees. A nnmber of places are already submerged. A special from Marinouin, La., says: The water is rising along the 30 miles front of this district, but most rapidly below Rose dale. At Barrow's Bridge, near the center of the district, the water has fallen slightly. A BROKEN BRIDGE. The bridge ot the Louisiana Central Rail road has given away and is now jammed into that of the Texas Pacific at Grosse Tete station. If the draw of the latter is in jured, steamboat communication will be sus pended. The levees are lined with laborers and more confidence is felt in holding them. Up the Fordache to Fair Oaks the levee can stand one foot more of water. Prom there to Ravenswood the water is near the crest, but the people are doing their utmost to prevent its running over. Water from the Clarke crevasse in the Atchafalaya is strik ing lower grosse Tete, but the fight there is being manfully maintained. Lower Maringouin is slowly going under, most of the places being submerged. TO PBEVENT FLOODS. The Promoter of a Scheme for Openlne a New Mississippi Outlet Before the Smote lid for tbe Sufferers. Washington, April 25. Captain John Cowdon, promoter of the scheme to open an outlet lor the flood waters of the Mississippi river, through Lake Borgne, irom a point ten miles below New Orleans, which he has been urging upon Congress for the past ten years, and others interested with him, were given a hearing to-day by tbe Senate Committee on Commerce. The bill authorizing Captain Cowdon and associates to proceed with tbe work pending before the enmauuee, pruTiues mat tnev snail be paid the sum of $500,000 for every loot the flood level of the river shall be reduced by the outlet; the figures to be ascertained by a commission appointed by tbe President which shallreport to the Secretary of War. In case the outlet shall not be successful in reducing the flood level, no payment is made by the Government Captain T. P. Seathers, an old steamboat captain and pilot, stated to the committee his objections to the levee system, which he said had resulted in raising up the bottom of the river. The Bads jetties, he said, had not, in his opinion, improved the navigation of the river above New Orleans one bit General J. R. Chalmers told the committee tnat, in his opinion, the levee and outlet systems ought to be used in connection with each other. One alone was not sufficient to deal with tbe difficulties of tbe situation. Captain Cowdon ad dressed the the committee at length in sup port of the bill. He exhibited a great num ber of maps and drawings to illustrate his assertions. Chairman Frye Do you believe, with Captain Leathers, that the bottom of tbe river has been rising with the levees? Captain Cowdon No more doubt ot it than tli it I am talking to you. The captain named several places on the river where rocks that were known to the old pilots are unknown to the new ones, being buried out of sight At his old home, where there was no levee when he was a boy, there is now one six feet high, and there is not as much water in tbe channel as there was then. By the construction of the Lake Borgne ontlet Captain Cowdon said the flood waters of one-quarter of the Mississippi J Valley could be diverted from the present channel, affording great relief to the inun dated districts. A joint-resolution was passed to-day ap propriating $150,000 to enable the Secretary of War to issue rations for the relief of destitute people in the district overflowed by fhe Mississippi and its tributaries. A TEXAN CL0UDBUEST Inundates a Smnll Village nna Destroy Con siderable Property. Gainesville, Tex., April 25. It has been raining almost constantly since last Monday night, and at 8 o'clock last night a cloudburst struck the city, lasting four hours, deluging the town and county to the depth of several feet. The water ran in great rivers through the streets, in many places three feet deep. A small creek left its banks snd swept away numer ous small dwellings. The fire alarm was sounded at 11 o'clock and the departmenf and hundreds of people turned out and helped in rescuing families residing on the lowlands along the creek. The loss to property will run up into the thousands. The whole country is deluged and crops are certainly mined. A Galveston and Kansas City Santa Fe train is water bound six miles south of Gainesville, and the passengers have to be rescued in boats. The storm was the heaviest ever known in this section. Large washouts have occurred op all railroads in this vicinity, and it will be several days before trains can run. The only life lost was that of a woman who died in the arms of a man who was carrying her from her home, which was surrounded by water several feet deep. A CHARGE OF COXSPIEACT With Ibe Intention to Itnln tho Stock ol a Mannfacinrlng Compnny. rSI'XCIAt. TBLXPBAX TO TUB DISPATCH.! Boston, April 25. Detective Phil Riley, of Inspector Byrnes' office, came on from New York this morning armed with an in dictment warrant granted by the grand jury of New York City, authorizing the arrest of Thomas W. Lawson, William L. Vinal and La Selle J. Hayden, on the charge of conspiracy in a case that bids fair to dis close many sensational features. The three men named in the indictment are not the only ones wanted, so the police saj. The conspiracy, if such it proves to be, had for its object the ruin of the big Lawson Consolidated Store Service Com pany, which was incorporated "under the laws of New Jersey but which has its head quarters in Boston. If the charges made can be sustained it was worthy of the genius of Napoleon Ives. The Lawson Cash Car Company, as it was first known to the public, quickly sprang into public favor, and an increase in its stcck from a par value of $10 a share to $53 was reached. Tbe con spiracy consisted in procuring thcpublica tion in New York of articles attacking the solvency of the company, whereby the stock was greatly depressed, to the advantage of the manipulators. The Lawson Company allege that Vinal was the man who se 'ed the publication of the articles, and tha they were concocted bv Hayden, Lawson and one or Wo others. The first warrant was secured for the arrest of these three men and the arrests were to be made simultaneously in Boston and New York. PBINCE KAP0LE0N IKDIGXAXT. He Assails Carnot lor Visiting tbe First 3npolron's BIrtbplaee. Paris. April 24. Prince Napoleon has written to President Carnot a letter which is, to say the least of it, a curious example of princely correspondence. "Monsieur Le President," it begins, "you have made a visit to Corsica. I should have nothing to say to that were it not that in going to the house in which my uncle was born you committed an act of grave impro priety. That house does not belong to the Government You had no right whatever cross its threshold. What is there in 'common between the First Consul, who in the space of a few months made a new France, and your Govern ment, with its work of daily disorganiza tion? What is there in common between the Emperor who fell a victim to the very grandeur of his system and your parlia mentary regime, which is dying of its own impotency? How can you, who without rea son proscribe me, his heir, dare to pay hypo critical homage to the great man? "Confine yourself to being the head of the party and Government which is ruining and degrading France. Enjoy your salary and places, occupied rather than filled, but'leave us our souvenirs and onr misfortunes and do not insult me in my undeserved exile by an act of bravado. Your visit is naught hut a parody; your false respect naught but a profanation, against which it is my duty to protest" A LiTELT CUDKCH K0W Lends to an Offer of 8100 for tbe Corpse of Two Dencons. rSFECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Stratford, Conn., April 25. The financial troubles of the Congregational Church in this village, which for some time had been closely guarded within the circle of the society, have become a sensation of the liveliest kind. Aweekortendaysagothe church held a meeting to consider a propo sition of the paster, the Rev. Joel S. Ives, to get rid of the church debt inside of three years. Alter much discussion it was voted to go ou in the old way, as the debt was not larger than it had been for years, and the conditions of the pastor's scheme were hard ly what the society's committee thought best to impose. Among the most conservative of the church members were Deacon Samuel T. Houghton, one of the most substantial officers, and Mr.Thomas Fairchild, a retired business man, whose generous disposition toward the church was always backed up by his donations. The next morning the attention of passers-Dy was attracted by the following placard: "This church will pay $100 for the corpses of Samuel T. Houghton and Tom Fairchild." An at tempt had been made to disguise the writing, but unsuccessfully. A criminal prosecu tion is almost sure to follow the work of the detective, which is now nearly complete. COXSTJL MATHEWS IX TAXGIEKS. A Hie ttccepllon Accorded tbe Cnlted States Representative. Tanoiers, April 25. Consul Mathews, the incoming United States representative, arrived here to-day on board the Alliance and received a remarkably cordial reception. Mr. Mathews is an old resident in Tangicrs and has previously occupied the United States Consulate. His return, therefore, was made the occasion of an ovation by the many friends he made during his stay here. A great nnmber of people, more especially the Moorish population, were anxious to sbow that, notwithstanding the late un pleasantness in connection with the Consul ship of Lewis, the Moorish Government was in no way unfriendly to the United States. When the Alliance arrived, having the newly nominated Consul aboard, boats in large numbers, with their picturesquely clad Oriental crews, immediately put off to welcome the representative of the United State. The pier was decorated with flags and evergreens and thronged with friends of Mr. Mathews.including the Moorish Vizier of Foreign Aflairs, Mahomet El Mofdel Gar rit The streets, windows and terraces were as crowded as wnen Muley Hassan, the Sul tan, passed through tome time ago. A pro cession was formed, headed by a band, and Mr. Mathews was accompanied by a large crowd along the picturesque streets of the town as far as the Consulate. rfrnnibtp ArrlrulK. Steamer. Arrived at from Aucust Victoria.. .Jew York Hsmburc. Italy .New York Liverpool. Wyoming Qneenitown New York. Orsnmore ....Baltimore London. Weser.... Bremen Baltimore. City of Chicago.. ..London Mew York. THE VICTORIA AND TENNIE. Tho Noted Cloflln Slaters Agnln In Amrrlcn Both Bring; Hatbands and Ono a Title They Will Start Banks. New York, April 25. The North Ger man Lloyd steamer Trave arrived here to day from Bremen, having made an un usually fast voyage. Among the passengers on board were Sir Francis Cook and Lady Cook, the latter better known to the Ameri can public as Miss Tennie C. Claflin, and Mr. John Biddulph Martin, the well-known London banker, and his wife, who,before her marriage to Mr. Martin was Miss Vic toria C. Woodhull. The real object or their visit, Mr. Martin said, was to establish two banks.one in New York and one in Chicago. These establish ments are intended to be used in connection with the banking houses of Cook and of Martin in London. As soon as the banks are properly established Mr. Martin intends to travel for six months and then return to En gland, but only for a few months, after which they will spend their time equally in England and America. The new banking venture is nothing more than an extension of the operations of the English-American company in which Sir Francis and Mrs. Martin have much money invested. Mrs. Martin said to-nieht that Lady Coot: and herself would found two homes one in New York and one in Chicago lor the pre vention of crime, where children will be taught to abhor all that is evil in society. Mrs. Martin says it is possible that she may take the lecture platform again, as she has received many pressing requests. "I have been offered 1,000 a lecture," she said, "but of course I don't want money, and consequently I have no mercenary inducements. My husband is rich enough." Mr. Martin savs if she lectures her sub ject will be, "O," Marriage, What Crimes Are Committed in Thy Name 1" When Sir Francis Cook joins the party they will make a tour ot the United States. Sir Francis is a large land owner in Por tugal. AN EAGLE FIGHTS A RAM. A Combat That Ended "the Life of Both Forilcipnnts. Scbanton, April 25. On Wednesday ot last week, while Farmer Benjamin Shiffer, of Tunkhannock township, Monroe county, was plowing on a side hill, an eagle at tracted his attention far up in the sky. The big bird was hovering over a field on the lowlands, where Farmer Sniffer's little flock of sheep were confined, and in a short time after he had dis covered it the eagle swooped down upon the lot and attempted to carry off a helpless lamb that a ewe had given birth to only a little while before. The mother sheep was licking her lambkin, and the eagle missed its aim and struck, the ewe, knocking her down. Before the eagle had time to recover itself a big Southdown ram, the only one in the flock, backed off a few feet, and then ran swiftly toward the ponderous bird. He hit the eagle in the- breast and keeled it over, instantly backing awav for another butt The eagle rallied quickly, and when the ram sailed toward it again with his head lowered, the savage bird hopped from the ground, fastened its huge claws into tbe wool on the spunky sheep's neck, and began to beat the ram with its great wings. The ram bleated loudly, and ran this way and that until he had shaken the eagle off. The eagle and the sheep were both dead when the battle ended, the farmer having slain the bird and the bird having killed the ram. The eagle measured eight feet. A MEMORIAL TO GENERAL STARK. Patss.ee of Blair's BUI Appropriating $50, OOO for tbo Itlonnment Washington, April 25. After two or three unsuccessful attempts, Senator Blair to-day got through his bill appro priating $50,000 for an equestrian statue of General John Stark, the hero ot the battle of Bennington, to be erected at Manchester, N. H., the home of the projector of the proposed memorial. General Stark died at Manchester, and on the strength of this fact the monument is to go to that well-known New Hampshire man ufacturing center. Senator Hawley protested vigorously the other day against the Government being called ou to build statues all over the coun try, and urged that tho memory of revolu tionary and other patriots, if it was to be honored locally, might best be hon ored at the expense of tbe States or the municipalities in which the monu ments were to be erected. Mr. Blair's bill passed, however, by a vote of 37 to 15. Sev eral other similar measures are pending in Congress, and though the Senate may be disposed to pass them, the House has shown a commendable dispo sition to economize on such mis cellaneous and by no means necessary ap propriations, and thus keep down the'sum total of the expenses of tbe session, which are sure to be swollen in any" case by de mands of the most imperative and legiti mate sort ANOTHER CHECK SWINDLER. A Young Alan Arretted In Brooklyn for Stvlndlinc In Pennsylvania. rrrrciAi. telegram to ina dispatch.1 New York, April 25. Harry L. Will iamson, who was arrested while leaving hib house iu Brooklyn on Wednesday night on a charge of swindling by means of worth less checks, is a dressy young man of striking appearance. He said he was a Wall street broker and it is said he offered to put ud cash for his liberty. He is now in jail awaiting his removal on requisition papers to Easton where he is accused of swindling a merchant out of $900. Williamson is said to be a Brooklyn ite, but he removed to Chicago some time ago. His engaging appearance gained him many friends and unlimited confidence. He became engaged to a wealthy mer chant's daughter in Chicago, but just before the wedding he induced the wealthy mer chant to cash a check for a large amount, and itissaiddisappeared. The prospective father-in-law discovered later that the check was worthless and similar discoveries were made, it is said, by other Chicago friends of the young man. He next appeared in Easton as a broker. He carried a valise when ar rested, and it is thongbt he meant to leave Brooklyn. SALE OP THE SHENANDOAH TALLBf To Satisfy Various Clnims Amounting to Over Fifteen million Dollars. JFrKCIAt. TEXEORAM TO TBS DISPATCH.! Roanoke, Va., April 25. In the City Circuit Court to-day the case ol the Fidelity Insurance, Trust and Safe Deposit Com pany, of Philadelphia, versus the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company, which has been pending five years, was disposed of and a decree will be entered this morning directing the sale of the road to satisfy claims aggregating 15,751,864 20, including interest to July 1, 1800. The claim of the general mortgage boqd holders lor $1,560,000 first mortgages depos ited with the Fidelity Company as collateial security forgeneral mortgage bonds.although resisted by counsel, was sustained, as was that of the Central Improvement Com pany of West Virginia for $771,338 90. It is thought the road will be sold in October and will be purchased by the Norfolk and Western Company. Connnblal .Affections Paid For. New Yoke. April 25. The suit which Mary Vanderliilt brought against her father-in-law, Captain Jacob H. Vander biltto recover 50,000 damaees for the al leged alienation of her husband's affections, was discontinued to-day by Judge Barrett of tbe Supreme Court with tbe consent of both parties, a satisfactory settlement hav ing been effected. PITTSBURG - DISPATCH,' STILL HOLDING OUT. Chicago's Striking Carpenters Show Little Disposition to Yield UflTIL THEIRUNION IS RECOGNIZED. Every Offer to Compromise the Trouble Thus Far Made in Tain. A CONFERENCE TO TAKE PLACE T0-DAI. The Brotherhood President Says the Strikers Will Soon Nnmber 100,000. The President of the Chicago Carpenters' Brotherhood estimates that 100,000 men in that trade will be idle May 1 unless the strikers' demands are agreed to. The res taurant waiters are now threatening to strike unless given shorter hours and better pay. Chicago, April 25. This afternoon the joint committee of the striking carpenters, the new Boss Carpenters' Association and the Citizens' Arbitration Committee sent a note to President Goldie, of the Builders and Trad ers' Exchange, asking him to appoint a time for a meeting, with a view to a settle ment of the pending strike. Mr, Goldie re plied that he, together with the directors and some of the members of the Exchange, would meet and confer with the Citizens' Committee at 12 to-morrow; with the newBoss Carpenters' Committee at 2 p. m., and with the Carpenters Committee at 3 p. m. in the Builders' Exchange. It remains to be seen whether the joint committee will consent to be thus split up into its constituent ele ments. bent on being begognized. Not much is hoped for from the confer ence, should it take place, inasmuch as President Goldie says that the Carpenters' Union will, under no circumstances, be rec ognized, while the strikers declare they will never return to work until such recognition is granted. The best that they expect from the conference is to put the old bosses on record, and when that is done they will probably make terras with the new Dosses' association, which claims to have an em ploying capacity of 4,500 men. The strikers say that, in addition to these, the owners of buildings in course of erec tion are ready, when notified to do so, to take the contracts from the old bosses and turn them over to the carpenters for com pletion, and that in this way, work will be furnished for 1,500 additional men. They say that, allowing that the new bosses can permanently employ 3,000 men, this would leave them with only 1,500 men idle, whom they could easily support indefinitely. AN ABUT OP IDLERS. President' Rowland, of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, esti mates that, unless their demand for eight hours is conceded, at least 100,000 carpen ters will be found on strike in this country on May 1. The chaotic condition of the eight-hour movement at present may lead to a resuscitation of the Eight-Hour Asso ciation, which controlled the similar agita tion in 1888. A meeting will be held some time this week at which an effort will be made to unite all trades in one central or ganization for the purpose of pushing on the eight-hour day movement. The harness makers have gained a victory by their strike. J. Fenton, Studebafcer Bros, and Bossier & Co. are three harness manufacturing firms who have acceded to the demands of the men. The strike is still on at Ortmayer & Son's, Tubbs & Palmer's and A. F. Risser & Co.'s. WAITEKS THREATEN TO STRIKE. The Culinary Alliance, comprising the six waiter unions of Chicago, have an aggre gate of over 1,400 members. The union will demand recognition of a uniform work ing card, providing for ten hours labor in place of from 11 to 13, and a scale of wages of $10 a week in oyster houses and S9 a week in restaurants, six days and one-half to constitute a week's labor, each hour or fraction of an hour of over time to be paid for at 25 cents an hour, with no discount for fractions. The union is willing to snbmit the ques tion of hours of labor to arbitration, but will not the point of wages or the demand for recognition of a uniform working card. The union will strike on May 5 at noon un less its demands are complied with. A PEIA'CE ON SOCIALISM. Ho Thinks T.lbernl Phlebotomy a Sure Curo for Dtssnllsfled Lnbor. Berlin, April 26. Prince Bismarck to day said that if in power he would not in terfere with the workmen on May Day. Neither would he display anxiety, which would only increase the re sistance of the agitators. Antago nism between employer and employe was a natural law and a necessity of human progress. Progress would cease should men ever become satisfied. Content was only possible either with slavery, as in Africa, lor where munificent nature does not ask 'man to work. He dwelt upon the need ot combating socialism, the victory of which he said would mean government by the least intelli gent. He predicted that socialism would give a deal of trouble yet. He said that a man who would yield to the present manifestation was a coward, andithat it was sometimes true benevolence to shed the blood of a riotous minority in defense of a law-abiding majority. He con tinued: "The first requisite in a Government is energy not to be a time server, nor to sacrifice the fu ture to a temporary, or present convenience. Tbe firmness, indeed, the fierceness of the ruling power is a guarantee of peace at home and abroad. A Govern ment which is yielding to the majority and retaining its authority by concessions, thus paving the way for further concessions, is in a sore strait." He deplared that May Day was not a dangerous enemy. The naming of the day for an assault need not be dreaded. It would be merely a sham fight like that of the Salvation Army. Anstrlnns Give Two Weeks Notice. Vienna, April 25. The men employed in the gasjworks here have given notice to their employers that they will strike in two weeks unless they are granted an increase in wages. Though the men have as yet done no more than give the notice the authorities have deemed it prudent to take the greatest precautions to prevent any damage whatever being done to the works. They have therefore placed a guard of mili tary and police about tbe structure. Buffalo Mill Hands' Demands. Buffalo, April 25. The mill' hands and cabinet makers ot this city have de cided to ask for a nine-hour day. Tbe car penters have asked for the appointment of a committee of the bosses to consider the question 'of a nine-hour day. Demanding n Nine-Hoar Dny. Lansing, April 25. The masons, brick layers and plasterers of this city last night decided that after May 12 nine hours shall constitute a day's work. It is understood that the contractors will accede to their de mands. I Assnnlicd by strikers. Chicago, April 25. Thomas Gilmore, a carpenter, lies at his home seriously if not fatally injured. He was this morning the victim ot a murderous assault made by a half dozen strikers as be was going to work. ' Irish Trainmen Strike. Dublin, April 25. The porters and guards on the Great Southern and Western SATURDAY, APRIL 26, Railway have struck for higher wages. Traffic on the line has been brought to a complete standstill by the strike. ALL THE SCHOOLS TO CLOSE. The Houses to be Used ns Barracks Star 1 Train-Wrecking Attempted. Vienna, April 25. Orders have been given for the closing of all schools on May Day. In the manufacturing districts many of the schools will be closed to the pupils for four days, and in the meantime will be used as barracks. The court, in order to inspire confidence, will attend the usual races in the Prater. The workmen have decided to meet elsewhere. Prime Minister von Taafe has drawn the attention of the Governors of provinces to the statutory regulations for the proclaiming of martial law. An attempt was made to-day to wreck an express train on the Vienna and Pressburg Railroad. Large blocks of stone were placed upon the track, and the train had a very narrow escape from destruction. Two per sons have been arrested on suspicion. CHRISTIAN SOCIALISTS MEET. Tho Objects of the Organisation Explained by an Officer. Chicago, April 25. The Chicago be lievers in Christian Socialism met together for the first time this evening. Tbe meeting was held at the Grand Pacific, under the chairmanship of Miles M. Dawson. Rev. H. D. Brown, of Brooklyn, State Secretary of the New York Association of Christian Socialists, explained the working of that body, which is under the presidency of Dr. R. Heber Newton. A committee of 15 was appointed to ar range for the arrival of Mr. Bliss, a leader of the movement in the East, who is ex pected in Chicago on the 16th of May. A second committee will arrange for a perma nent organization in Chicago. A SDIT FOB PICKETT. The Kansas City Club Takes Action Against the Brotherhood. Philadelphia, April 25. The Kansas City Ball Club, through its counsel, brought a bill in equity against John T. Pickett and the Philadelphia Players' Na tional League Baseball Club. The prayer of the Kansas City club's bill is that Pickett be restrained from play ing with the Brotherhood club and that the Brotherhood club be restrained lrom em ploying Pickett. The basis of the club's claim is that Pick ett had signed a contract with the Kansas City club and had received "several hun dred dollars" advance money, and after ward signed another contract and played ball with the rival organization. C0NFEDEEATE MEMORIAL DAY. It Will bo Celebrated In Atlanta and All Over tbe Soutb. Atlanta, April 25. To-morrow, all over Georgia, will be celebrated as Confed erate Memorial Day. General Joseph E. Johnston, General T.Kirby Smith and Gen eral James Longstreet arrived here to-day, and to-morrow morning many others will come. The exercises for to-morrow will consist in laying the corner stone of the Confederate Veterans' Home, an oration by Colonel J.C. C. Black, of Augusta, and appropriate ex ercises in decorating the graves of the Con federate dead. AFTER THEIR HIDES. A Handy Ulan Willi a Gan Bass Lots of Game. Saratoga, April 25.-;John B. Davis lives on the banks of the Rayaderosseras creek, in the town of Malta, where small game must be very abundant, for during the past year he has sold to James Latham, of this village, the skins of 402 muskrats, 3 foxes, 5 mink and 22 skunks, all of which he had himself snot and trapped. Davis got $97 for the skins. A LIFE SENTENCE May be the Result ot California Hob- bery. San Fbancisco, April 25. Frank Williams was convicted iu the United States District Court to-day for robbing the Placerville stige some months ago. The penalty fixed by law is imprisonment for life. Sentence was deferred. CASTAWAYS EESC0ED After Seventeen Days' Diet on Bananas and Cocoonnts. Philadelphia, April 25. After sub sisting for 17 days on bananas and cocoanuts found on the Island of Rio Seco, part of the crew of the wrecked British schooner Bloomfield arrived at this'port to-day from Santiago de Cuba. Father McGlyno Bonnd West. ' New York, April 25. Dr. McGlynn announced at his meeting to-night that 'next week he will start for the Pacific coast. His pnrpose is to go to San Francisco to visit relatives, but he will deliver several lec tures in California at the same time. LITTLE, BUT POINTED, Tbe Chips of News Which Fly From tbe Tel rgrnphlc Bench. Principal McGregor, of the McMaster College. Toronto, is dean. The bricklayers of Havana, who have been on strike, resumed work yesterday. The buildines on seven farms In the State of Hidalgo, Mexico, were burned yesterday. The police of Hamburg and Altoona will probably oppose the demonstrations by tbe workmen on May 1. The .London Chronicle speaks highly in favor of Mr. Farncll's land scheme ana hopes that It will be adopted. The Austrian labor leaders have appealed to workmen to respect the law on May Day and not to molest anyone. Henry M. Stanley and his colleagues paid a visit to Antwerp yesterday. They were re ceived with great enthusiasm. The Mexican Government will to-day pay the Pacific R? II way. in the States of Chiapas and Tabasco, 450,000 subvention money. The Hamburger Jfachrtehten says that Prince Bismarck will not appear in the Upper House of the Diet until politics assume their normal condition. The deficit In the Italian budget is estimated at 35,000,000 lire. Tbe Ministers have agreed upon a retrenchment of 20,000,000 lire in ex penditure for army and navv. , The McCalla trial was adjourned yesterday to give the Court time to decide what constitntes "conduct unbecoming an officer," a question' raised by McCalla's counsel. The Bnndesrath has sanctioned the abroga tion of the law of 1874, by which priests who failed to comply with tbe May laws rendered themselves liable to imprisonment and banish ment. Owing to tho Irish railway porters' strike the night service between Cork and Dublin has been suspended. This somewhat delays tbe American mails. Tbe day service continues, clerks acting as guards. Yesterday was the anniversary of Princess Alice's birth, and Queen Victoria and mem bers rf tho ducal family visited tbe mausoleum where she lies, and Dlaced wreaths npon the tomb. Dispatches fromKotonau says theDaho mlans have advanced and occupied a position only one kilometer from Porto Novo. The war ship Mesango lauded 50 men to reinforce the French troops. The body of Meyer, who was murdered by Soap Merchant Phillipsen. as is alleged, and shipped to this country in a cask, will be sent bacK to Copenhagen to-morrow on tbe steamer Norge, ot tbe Thlngvalla line. Within three weeks the Northern Pacific Railroad will put on a new train to the coastj leavinc St. Paul in the morninc immediately after tbe arrival of the Chicago trains, and ret- ancing ine time from cmcago to tne coast o; aq uourg. n A SOCIAL SENSATION Causecf by the Arrest of One of Hew England's Aristocracy as I EAKK FORGER AND EMBEZZLER. The Accused Han Confesses His Guilt and Goes to Prison. HIS ACCOUNTS ABOUT $125,000 BH0ET. Tne Honey Jim Secured Was All Expended la Extraragant Liring. George Ives, District Attorney and high society man of Salem, Mass., was yesterday arrested for forgery and embezzlement. He at once made a complete confession, and even declined to try and secure bail. The amount of money appropriated is placed at 8125,000. rsrzciAX. tblsoram to ths dispatch.1 Salem, Mass., April 25. George B. Ives, District Attorney of Essex county, and a prince ot good fellows among the aristocratic families of Old Salem and Bos ton, is a self-confessed forger and embezzler to the tune of $125,000. He was arrested for forgery to-day and made a full confession. An earthquake could not have occasioned a greater surprise than the revelations made in connection with the arrest. In ten years Ives has squandered 75,000 of his wife's property, which he held in trust, and has forged and borrowed enough more to ag gregate lully ?125,000. His forgeries alone aggregate at least $30,000. CAUSE OP HIS PALL. Extravagant living and speculation were the cause of his downfall. Nearly all of his wife's splendid property was swallowed up in the slump in Atchison stock. His af fairs are in a badly tangled condition and it will be some days before the full extent of his operations is known. He was trustee for several large estates, in addition to that of his wife, and crookedness has been dis covered in his management of those trusts. The Ives family iu Salem is unquestion ably in the foremost rank of society, and the Boston and New York branches stand equally high. His father was the late'Ste phen Bradsnaw Ives. In 1879 he was ad mitted to the bar and entered upon the prac tice of law with his father. Colonel Lincoln soon afterward retiring. On the death of his father he succeeded to his practice and be came the administrator of a number of pri vate trusts. He was married some ten years ago to Miss Bessie Creamer, who inherited from her father's estate from $70,000 to $75, 000. She was very popular in Salem social circles, and the young couple soon became leaders of society. nr the social swim. It is said that Mr. Ives has lived at the rate of $7,000 to $8,000 a year, maintaining a stylish livery and giving freqnent recep tions and social parties. Mr. Ives specu lated to 'a considerable extent, and was greatly interested in Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Bailroad stock, in which he made some money and lost a great deal more. His extravagant living soon began to dissipate his own means and that of his wife. In 1886 the wife's estate was so much con tracted that he was compelled to resort to desperate means to maintain his establish ment, and it is said that he mortgaged his valuable law library and household furni ture several times. A personal friend as sisted bim at first, but be soon afterward was obliged to apply to brokers for loans and he has renewed his mortgage to them every 15 days to avoid having it placed on record, paving as high as 3 per cent per month in interest. Mr. Ives' checks were continually pro tested and dishonored. For a time he was able to float them and make them good by deposits before the close of backing hours. He borrowed from, everybody who would lend money and has led a life of harrowing anxiety for the oast three years. HIS FIRST POEGEBT. Ives' first forgery was committed, it is be lieved, in 1887. He used tbe names of life long friends of his father, one of them his father's old law partner, Colonel SolomoA Lincoln, and the other a well-known mer chant, who had known him from boyhood. There was a painful scene in the directors' room when Ives was confronted with the evidence of his guilt. After a little hesitancy he broke down and confessed. He said that tbe money had all been spent in extravagant living. He plead ed guilty, refused to furnish $30,000 bail and went to jail. The total amount of Mr. Ives' forgeries and liabilities outside of his wife's property, it is believed, will reach $40,000. He owes a large amount in private loans from personal friends. TUB ETHEREAL ORCHID. How It Grows and Why Some Boots Are TVonli Five Thousand Dollars. Boston Advertiser. 1 "What are orchids? A plant whose borne is in the tropical forests, and yet a plant which is not dependent for its sustenance upon the earth or water in their visible forms. It is a curiosity of the vegetable world, which, perched in the air, sends out its long searching roots and draws its nourishment from the atmosphere. Ethereal in its nature, so far as this characteristic is concerned, it is very substantial in tbe val uation which its owners and raisers place upon plants of rare varieties. The experts in this branch of horticulture sav that some fine roots are well worth $5,000 each, and some have been held at even higher figures. Their rarity, the difficulty with which they are propagated, tbe exauisite delicacy, strange forms and great variety of blossoms, are the reasons given for these extraordinary values. Strange in form, of a delicate, pearly, waxy white ness, daintily lined with pink or purple, they present an unnsual sight even to those unacquainted with their rarity and their costliness. HE SLEW A WHOLE FAMILY. Searching for n Wholesale Olnrderer Thought to be in Lnzorno County. PlTTSTON, April 25. Jan Madvazo, an Austrian detective, is scouring the coal regions in search of a criminal, for whose apprehension 4,000 marks will be paid. His name is Gorg Zapolski, and he is wanted at Verano, Austria, on the charge of murder ing a wealthy German named Thnd, hiswife, two daughters and two servants, making six persons in all. Suspicion at once fell upon Zapolski and almost positive evidence was secured against him. He escaped to Con stantinople and thence to Liveroool, where he took passage to the United States. Madvazo, the detective, is sure that the ruffian is in hiding in Luzerce county, among the coal mines, and is protected by his countrymen because he is a Magyar. The detective says tbe State police have given him no assistance, but if he had $1,000 he could have Zapolski in his hands within a month. Reason for Drinking. Newcastle, Eng-., Chronicle. Five reasons lor drinking have been ad vanced by a high mediaeval authority: . Thirst, or a friend, or being dry, . Or lest you sbould be bv and bye. Or any other reason why. More copious appears to have been the repertory of a Dalston woman who has been charged with the offense of drunkenness for, the two hundred and sixteenth time. She has had as many different excuses. ELECTION METHODS. A New Jersey Heeler Beveals Some Se crets of the Recent State Contest Big Money Offered lor Repeat ers to Carry a Connty. ISFZCIAI. IELIOBJLM TO TUB DISPATCH, t New Yobk, April 25. Michael J. O'Mara appeared before the Senate investi gating committee in Jersey City to-day. He has a State repntation as a handy man about ballot boxes and tally sheets. He said that Thomas McDonough sent him to James C. Young, the Repub lican State Committeeman, and Mr. Young informed him that General Grnbb, the Republican candidate for Governor.was about to put $40,000 into his (Young's) hands to be used to carry the county for the Republican ticket. He (O' Mara) agreed to carry the county for General Grubb, with the aid of repeaters, which he was to get in this city. Young agreed to pay him $10,000 if he suc ceeded iu carrying out bis agreement. Two or three days before election Young told him that Grnbb had failed to send the $40,000, and therefore the agreemeut would not stand. He then instructed O'Mara to get repeaters in this city and vote them in the Tenth dis trict. For this Young, he said, agreed to give him on the nieht before election $1,500. He did not get the money, bnt he got a lit tle at various times, amounting in all to $G0. As O'Mara told the committee the amount, he said, apologetically, "that was merely for car fare, you understand." He got the first money from Young on the occa sion of his first visit to Young's house. "He offered me a check," he said, "and I refused it. I told him I was doing a cash business. He said all he had was $20 and I took that." "Did you tell xonng you had experience in doing crooked work ?" asked Mr. Corbin. "No, I guess he knew that," replied O'Mara. "What did you do for the money?" was the next question. "I didn't do anything," answered O'Mara. "I was only bluffing Young and setting his dust I don't do such things as net re peaters." '"What did you do on election day?" "I rode around in a cab hired by Mr. Young, but not yet paid for. I had 20,000 straight Democratic tickets with the name of General Grubb at the head. I was to leave them at the polling places and see how things were going. I didn't give out a ticket. 1 ami that kind ol a man. The bundles were not opened, and along toward night I chucked them in the sewer. I got no consideration from Mr. Young for my work on election day." HEE BRAYE PP.0TECT0B. A Proud Young Lady nnd iler Canine Com panion Ilnnibled. Detroit Free Press. She was a high stepper herself, and so was the noble looking dog that walked by her side and sniffed the air as if it were not good enough for such as he. She carried his sil ver chain in one tan-kidded hand, and was glad to see that people shrank from the brnte. "Don't touch him," she said sharply to a street gamin who whacked the dog's nose with a newspaper. "I shall not answer for the consequences if you arouse his anger. I could not hold him a moment." "Bats!" said the graceless youth, with a leer. "I kin whip him with both hands tied behind me." At that moment a new element of danger appeared. A snub-nosed bull-dog, mangy and bow-legged, with one eye closed, crossed Grisworld street and saw the smart stranger. There was no tussle at all. The big dog crawled under a banana cart that stood by the sidewalk and lay there howl ing for mercy. The old dog rolled him over, gave bim a bite or two and left him. The high-stepping girl walked on and did not look back for her dog until she reached the ipostoffice. He was just then emerging from under tne cart. KEW DANGER FROM TOBACCO. A Germnn Fbysielnn Finds tbe Tips Loaded With Tnbercle Bacilli. Newcastle. England, Chronicle. A German physician, on examininganum ber of cigar tips, has found that many of them werf infected with tubercle bacilli, and he has come to the conclusion that the persons engaged in their manufacture were tuberculous, and in rolling the cigars had moistened the tips with their saliva. It is to be hoped that this assumption is without justification, for apart from the question of propagating disease by such means, there is something repulsive in the suggestion that it is essential to spit on these articles in the process of making them. No reputable English merchant allows such a filthy practice in his factories, the workpeople being furnished with pots of clear water in which the fingers and end leaf are simultaneously dipped while the cigar is rolled on the machine. Possibly a di Cer ent method is pursued in Germany, but the probability is that a general conclusion has been formed on insufficient data, and that tbe new terror of tobacco is less real than some of the dangers with which we are al ready familiar. EACH PART HAD ITS PRICE. Away Back in English History Men Had Odd Ways of Settling Disputes. Newcastle, Enr., Chronicle. By Ethelbert's laws, not only did every man have his price, but every part of a man had its specific price. The wergild, orprice of the corpse, of a ceorl was 200 shillings; of a lesser tbane, 600 shillings; and of a royal tbane, 1,200. It appears to have been a common practice for men, in those days, to settle their disputes by knocking one another's teeth out, and the law laid down a scale of compensation, according to which a front or canine tooth cost 6 shillings, while a molar might be knocked out fori shilling, until Alfred was considerate enough to raise tbe price to 15. If a man could be satisfied with break ing an opponent's rib, he was onlv fined 3 shillings, but a broken ihich would cost him 12; while, singularly enongb, the loss of a beard was estimated at no less than 20 shillings. The last seems a very heavy penalty when it is remembered that a man might have knocked out his enemy's eye for a matter of a 50-shilling fine. HAILED TO THEIR VEET. Reflaed Crneltr Recorded Agnlnst the Reign of James ibe Flrsr. In a story of retaliatory punishment told by Sir Walter Scott, the natural man will find a pleasant spice of poetical justice. A poor widow, who had received some injury from the head of her clan, determined to walk from Boss to Edinburgh to see the king James I. and obtain redress. The cruel chief, hearing of her intention, had her brought before him, and making the brutal jest that she would need to be well shod lor her journev, nailed her shoes to her feet. Of course the poor woman's journey was long delayed; but eventually she did goto Edinburgh, and, when James heard the story of her wrongs, he sent for the chief and his accomplices, caused iron soles to be nailed to their feet, exposed them for some time to public'derision.and then decapitated them. Has Kever Got Thnwrd Onr. Between The Ural and the Okhotsk seas there is a soot half ns large as the State of Michigan, which is frozen ground to the depth of 94 feet. , That is, it has never thawed out since the world was created, and probably never will, and even if it should nobody would hare any me for it. FOW IN THE FIELD. A Hew Candidate for the late Mr. Handall's Seat in Congress. BECK G1TES DP THE STRUGGLE, After Sending a Parting Shot at Those Who Opposed Dim. SENATOR H'AEEER STILLHAfiD AT WORK Tie Outcome of the Contest Remains Enveloped in Great Uncertainty. James Beck, the young free trader, has withdrawn from the fight for Bandall's seat in Congress. A new candidate has been announced in the person of Representative Fow. He announces that he is in favor of radical tariff revision. 'SPECIAL TSXEGBAM TOTIIE DISPATCH. Philadelphia, April 25. Interest in the contest for the Congressional nomination in the Third district was intensified to-day by James H. Beck's withdrawal from the field, and tbe entering in the race of Legis lator John H. Fow, of the Seventeenth ward. In annonncing his withdrawal Mr. Beck said: "I have never stated that I would be a candidate, and I have not asked any one to support me. It is not true that I moved into the district within a few weeks before Mr. Bandall's death, as has been stated. I have been living in the Fifth ward since early in January, and, with tho exception of about six months, have lived in the neighborhood for two years. I must plead guilty to the objection that has been urged in some quarters against me, viz: That I am a Democrat, and believe in the principles of the party as declared in national and State conventions and by Mr.4 Cleveland. A EEMAKKABLE OBJECTION. "It seems remarkable that this should constitute an objection to any oneii suggested for a Democratic nomination. However, I cheerfully recognize that among ' the names mentioned there are those who, by reason of long experience and residence in the district, are better fitted and entitled to represent you. Recognizing this, I am not a candidate." Samnel A. Foose, of the Sixth Auditor's office, Washington, chairman of a commit tee of the friends of the late Samuel J. Ran dall, has addressed a letter to Hon. John H. Fow, in which he siys: "As many names will be mentioned in connection with the succession to the late lamented Randall, it is only fair to say that his many friends in this city are looking forward and, hoping that the Democratic choice will be a man who will represent the district with honor and ability. "We have very carefully weighed the claims of all the candidates so far men tioned, and now ask you to allow your name to be mentioned as the standard bearer of the Third district" TOW IX THE riELD. In reply to this, Mr. Fow has written a long letter announcing his candidacy. In the course of bis letter Mr. Fow says: "Since the 1st of last November in this city 41 deal ers in woolens have failed, with liabilities amounting to 34,272,100 and assets of 2,407, 540, and 19 of them in the Third district. I am now the auditor appointed by the Court to distribute the fund arising out of tne as signment of one of the largest iron mills along our river front, while another iron firm is settling with its creditors at 50 cents on the dollar. These are stern facts which no sentimentajism about party leadership can wipe out, and the only relief is in Con gress. "I do not believe in free trade, but I be lieve that with proper legislation upon the subject of the tariff we could enlarge the market for American manufactured goods and thereby revive our commerce, our in dustries and give employment the year round to tbe laboring classes. American manufactured goods stand pre-eminent as to art and skill 'displayed, but with all that we will never be able to capture a customer outside ol ourselves until we can give a man as much lor his money as he can get else where." A FIEECE CONTEST. Messrs. McAleer and Faunce, who ara the leaders in tbe contest, are both hard at work going through the district and con sulting with the leaders of influence in the respective wards. The withdrawal of Mr. Beck has left it a somewhat open contest between the two extremes of the district from now until the holding of the conven tion. The effect of Mr. Fow's candidacy will ba to complicate the situation, and particularly in the Seventeenth ward, where John K. Fannce and Matthew Dittman, both of whom are candidates, reside. Fow's friends declare that he will stay in the contest until its final settlement, thns preventing Senator McAleer irom getting any of the delegates from that section. WATER FOE PAXA3IA, And a Chlcnito Ice dlnehlne Will Make the! Islbmliin Happy. Panama, April 25. The walls continue to tumble about our ears, and even hotels and private boarding houses are closing up, following in the wake of stores, of which there are now few remaining. If tbe work on the bigditch is not speedily resumed Panama willg by the close of the' year, present a pitiable parody on herformer condition. At present, however, hope heats high in the breast3 of all and there is as yet little or no apprehension regarding the "fu ture. At any rate, the Panama Ire Company' has imported a fine ice-makiog machine from Chicago, which is in course of erection and work on the Panama aqueduct is being vigorously pushed, so that in two years' time, at the outside, the city will have a full supnly of water, which it has not had in the 300 years of its, existence. A MILLI05AIUES' PICNIC. They Take a Trip to Dlrxlco to Boy a Few Conmles. Laeedo, April 25. Colonel Fordyce and a party of St. Louis millionaires arrived here to-day on a special train over the In ternational and Great Northern Bailway. They were accompanied by General Stanley. In the afternoon the entire party crossed the Bio Grande and called on United States Consul General Sutton in New Laredo, Mexico. On their return they made soma large investments in Laredo realty, and in. the evening they departed for Dallas. Gen eral Stanley stated that he expected to be ordered to San Francisco, but that he pre ferred to remain in Texas. PECOLIAE ACC0DSTS LEFT By a Jersey Official Who Is Supposed M Have Absconded. Newark, N. J., April 25. Deputy Sheriff Davis, of this city, has been missing since Tuesday, and it is rumored that he isV a defaulter. Davis has held office for 21 years, and lor the last ten years has not been required to file bonds. Alter his departure he wrote a letter to his wife from Brooklyn, saying that he would never return to face his disgrace. The amount embezzled is unknown. Davis had a system ol keeping his books which isj unknown to anyone else. Experts are now investigating his accounts. DIED. i VAJJTINE-Atherresidence. Oakmont, Mrs. S. J. Vantie. Funeral on SATtrEDAT, April 26, at 2 o'clocK p. ic. Friends of tho family are respectfully ta .Tited to attend. V I 4 a - ' "
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