NELLIE BLY BEATEN
Citizen George Francis Train
Nearing the End of a
Journey Which
BREAKS ALL THE RECORDS.
The Famous Philosopher is Now Cer
tain to Make the Tour
AROUND THE WORLD IN 62 DAIS.
McEnley's Tariff Bill is Worrying Vic
toria's Subjects.
THE IEISH TAETICDLAKLI LNDIGNAXT
George Francis Train arrived at London
last evening 52 days out on his trip around
the world. He expects to reach New York
about Hay 17, and Tacoms, the starting
point of the tour, 3 days later. This will
make the time for the entire journey 62
days, breaking all previous records of either
romance or reality.
tBT CABLE TO THE DISFATCII.1
Xondok, May 10. Copyright. Citizen
George Francis Train, wearing a coat with
a fur collar and a huge double-decked
helmet, resembling a magnified mushroom,
stepped off a train from Dover at Charing
Cross station at 3 o'clock this afternoon, 52
days out from Tacoma, on his trip around
the world. The Citizen had three other big
helmets in his arms, hut he pnt these down
and warmly shook hands irith himself upon
meeting The Dispatch reporter.
People do not often stare at strange sights
in the Strand, but everybody who saw Train
knew that they were in the presence of no
ordinary man, and they fell back in admira
tion and awe, and opened a passage for him
tip to Northumberland avenue and thence
to the Hotel Metropole, gazing upon him
with open wonder and reverence.
A TEUr. MIXOSOI'HEK.
Far from destroying the hotel when he
learned that no room had been reserved for
him, the Citizen, like a true philosopher,
only waited for his private secretary to ar
rive with his baggage, from which he selected
& filth big hat, and bearing lour in his arms,
proceeded to the Victoria Hotel, where he
was hospitably received. Half an hour
after the train arrived at Charing Cross,
George Francis was seated in the Victoria
smoking room, with a red fly rakishly dis
posed upon the side of bis head, and its
black tassel dangling before his eyes, with a
big chart before him, relating to a great
throng of Americans the details and inci
dents of his trip.
The chart was one of the Citizen's own
manufacture and was done chiefly in red
and bine crayon, with seen" from Tacoma,
Xoniion, Port Said, Briudisi and other
points he had visited, cut from advertising
cards and pasted on. Train explained that
he lelt Tacoma, the only town in the world
that had any enterprise, on March 18, taking
the Canadian Pacific steamer Abyssinia to
Yokohama, where, in spite of bad winds, he
arrived in 1G days.
SOME OP TIIE OBSTACLES.
Finding that the North German Lloyd
steamer Geneial "Werder, which he had ex
pected to take for Hong Kong, had sailed,
he paid the agent of the line to telegraph
her to await the English mail at Kobe, 300
miles south, and then, before he took the
train for Kobe, ran down to Tokio, where he
secured passports for himself and secretary
from the American Minister. The Citizen
left Hong Kong on April 3, barely missing
a ten days delay, since the 4th was a holi
day, and the next day the Government took
possession of the railroad to transport troops.
At Kobe Train found the agent of the
North German Lloyd with a special steamer
to put him on board of the General "Werder,
and on the way to Hong Kong he en
countered the biggeststorm known in the
Japan Sea in 20 years. Losing a day out
side of the Hong Kong harbor. Train and
his secretary sailed serenely by the Preus
sen to Singapore and Colombo, where he in
tended to take the Peninsular and Oriental
mail steamer Arcadia. She was lying in
the harbor when Colombo was reached, but
was goinc to wait 18 hours before starting.
Accordingly the Citizen chartered thePreus
gen to Aden and Port Said, where the Ar
cardia overlook them, and he transferred
himself, secretary and baggage to her.
AXOTHER JTABEOW ESCAPE.
Train reached Suez last Sauday and ar
rived in Brindisi on Thursday. Here he
found that he ran the risk of losing this
morning's boat from Calais to Dover, which
would prevent his taking the Firing Irish
man for Quecnstown, where he is to embark
on the Etruria for New York to-morrow,
nnd therefore he telegraphed for a special
boat and train for London. A special was
put on to carry the mail, and the Citizen
says they did not charge him for it, because
the English Government was afraid it would
be laughed at if allowed an American to
carry mails for them.
Train left London at 820 to-night for
Quecnstown, and sails on the Etruria for
New York. He expects to arrive in New
York on the 17th, and says that a special
train will take him thence to Tacoma in
three days. Train is looking brown and
healthy, and says that he feels like a boy of
20. His secretary is S. "W". Wall, editor of
the Tocoma Ledger, who, Train says, repre
sents 9,000 American newspapers and 1,000
leading journals in Asia, Africa, Australia,
Europe and Sonth America. "Wall is to
write a book about the journey, to be illus
trated with 3,000 photographs taken en
route.
BHEUHATIC VICT0EIA
Able la Receive no Army Deputation With
n superb Mr mo rial.
BT CABLE TO THE DlSrATCH.
LoxDOjf, May 10. Eain which marred
the drawing room vesterdar also brought
be an
be Qn
the Qneen a return of rhenmatism which
she went abroad last month to cure, but was
able to receive a deputation from theofficers,
who presented her with a superb memorial
of her jubilee in the name of the British
army and navy. The memorial takes the
form of an elaborate and beautiful center
piece of hammered silver 40 inches high.
The materials were gathered from all parts
of the Queen's dominions, and an allegori
cal design illustrates the power and great
ness of the Empire.
THE TORIES IN A TANGLE.
A LICENSE BILL WHICH WILL MAKE
LIBERAL VOTES.
The Government Apparently In Imminent
Danger of Disaster Another Xitbero.1
Victory at n Bjc-EIectlon The Politi
cal Situation.
rnr cable to the dispatch.i
LONDON, May 10. British politics are
getting into a tangle, the unravelling of
which will be accompanied by much strong
language and an amount ot heat sufficient
to set the House of Parliament on fire.
Joseph Chamberlain predicts that the Gov
ernment will have to sacrifice part of the
Irish land purchase bill. He professes to a
despair of carrying the bill through the
Commons, even in an emasculated form,
without the benevolent co-operation of Mr.
Gladstone, and suggests a conference of the
Government and opposition leaders to that
end.
The Tory and Home Rule rank and file
are full ot fight, and the idea of a compro
mise has been received with howls of de
rision from both sides. Chamberlain has
again been snubbed by the Tory leaders, and
it has been considered necessary to issne an
official communication, explaining that his
relations with the Government and Lord
Hartington are ot the most cordial charac
ter. The dissatisfaction of a section of
Unionists with certain clauses ol the Gov
ernment tithes bill has necessitated a pri
vate caucus at Lord Hartington's house, at
which Chamberlain and his friends were
not present.
THE GOVEEXMEXT EIBM.
To that bill there are already 120 amend
ments on the order book and nearly as
m,vuy have been tabled to the land bill.
Tbe Government declares it will carry both
bills substantially in their present form;
but if ever it had chance of doing so, it has
recklessly and fatuously thrown it away by
introducing a third important measure pro
viding for compensation to the publicans
deprived of their liquor license. A politi
cal gale caused by a notice of a licensing
bill has grown during the week into a
howling tempest.
Powerful temperance organizations which
number in their ranks politicians of all
shades of opinion have taken the warpath,
and are panting for ministerial scalps.
Foremost among the water-drinking braves
is W S. Caine, Chamberlain's trusted lieu
tenant, who has proclaimed to the world
that he will not return to his wigwam until
the bill shall have been withdrawn or the
Government smashed up. Scores of meet
ings are being held daily, and the agitation
will culminate with a great teninennce
demonstration in Hyde Park on June 7.
To maintain that in face of public opin
ion the three measures "referred to can be
carried through Parliament intact is the
veriest drivel. The Government must bend'
or break before the storm now raging.
ANOTHER LIBERAL VICTORY.
Their backs will not be stiffened by the
result of the East Bristol election seat.
which was rendered vacant by the death ot
Mr. Cocsham. It was considered safe for the
Liberal candidate, but Tories tried to split
the .Liberal vote by running Wilson, a rad
ical labor candidate. The trick looked as if
it were succeeding, for "Wilson put forward
an attractive programme, which included
home rule, and he proved to be a powerful
sneaker. The Tory candidate was also a good
one, and he was assured of the solid 700
votes of the workmen employed at the great
sugar refinery in the constituency, who
were presupposed to be dissatisfied with the
Liberal attitude on the Tory scheme to neu
tralize the foreign sugar bounties by impos
ing countervailing duties on imported
sugar.
The Liberals had, therefore, prepared
themselves for aTeduced'rnsjoriiyT'and'werc
hugely delichted last night to find that they
had increased their majority from 2,264 in
1885, and 1.73G in 1886, to 3,477. The Tory
poll, which was 2.383 in 1885, and 1,936 in
1886, has fallen to 1,900. The labor candi
date received 002, all, as far as can be
learned, home rule votes. The result is of
immense importance, and is held to justify
and encourage a fighting policy of Home
Rulers iu Parliament. The only unsatis
factory point about it is that it will make
the Tories and Unionists more reiuctani
than ever to dissolve Parliament.
POWEE OF THE UNIONS.
Increasing; la Numbers and Wealth Not
witbstaudtoc tbe Socialistic Attacks.
TBT CABLE TO TIIE DISPATCn.1
London, May 10. The Socialist speakers
at the Hyde Park demonstration last Sun
day devoted a great deal of argument to
show that the trades unions in this country
were slowly declining in power, and that
large numbers of unionists were joining
the Social Democrats as the most
effective way of obtaining the eight
hour day and other reforms. In
quiry among the trades union leaders
leaves little doubt that the Socialists spoke
of that which they would love to see occur
rather than what has happened. Trades
unions were never so prosperous as now, and
accessions to their ranks have been more
numerous in the past 12 months than dur
ing any previous corresponding period. The
Amalgamated Society ot Engineers, for in
stance, formed 21 new branches and enrolled
6,988 new members last vear, the total
membership being now C0.728. The total
receipts for the year were 183,651, and the
society has now in hand the enormous sum
of 209,779.
The London Society of Compositors, a
comparatively small body, enrolled 700
new members last year, and added 1,000
to the reserve fund, which now stands at
26,316. The only trades union in which the
Socialists have made any progress is the
Dock Laborers' Union, and success there is
due chiefly to dissatisfaction among the men
caused by desertion by a union of 450 wharf
laborers whom they had incited to strike
and then threw over because the struggle
was costing too much.
EPISCOPAL OEDERS.
Modified Brotherhood! and Sisterhoods to
be Countenanced by tbe Cbarch.
rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCn.3
LONDON, May 10. The prelates of the
Church of England, assembled in convoca
tion this week, have been discussing the
burning question of permitting brother
hoods and sisterhoods in connection with
the church. Such institutions have been in
existence a good many years, but they have
grown without Episcopal encouragement
and have been beyond Episcopal con
trol. A large number of Protestants
would abolish them root and branch, as
savoring of the Church of Borne, and the
decision taken by the Bishops is already
being fiercely assailed. Brotherhoods are to
be permitted, but members will not be al
lowed to bind themselves by vows of celi
bacy, poverty and obedience a wise pro
vision, seeing that such vows could not be
enforced in this country; and arc, in fact,
contrary to the law.
Upon the more delicate question of sister
hoods, there was much discussion and con
siderable divergence of opinion among the
reverend fathers, but it was finally resolved
to place them under the care and guidance
of the church. Sisters not under 30 years
of age will be permitted, after an adequate
term of probation, to undertake life-long
engagements to the work of the community.
Such engagements will be liable to release
by a competent authority and sisters will
retain control of their private property.
Sarah lias Bern Kneeling Too Blucb.
BY DUXLAF'S CABLE COMPAKT.
PARIS, May 10. Sarah Bernhardt has
been compelled to abandon her proposed
starring tour through Normandy in conse
quence of swelling in her knee, which has
become inflamed by continual kneeling in
her impersonation of Joan of Arc.
AGAINST THE HEW TARIFF.
IRELAND'S LINEN INDUSTRIES SURE TO
BE INJURED.
AH Recognize, However, That It Will Do
No Good to Protest English Merchants
May Take Their Rotcdeo Upon tbo
World's Fair Parliamentary Action.
IBV CABLE TO TIIE DISPATCH.
London, May 10. The members of the
Dundee Chamber of Commerce have their
eyes upon Congress, and would like to have
their hands upon Mr. McKinlev. They
want to bring about a common action upon
tbe part of the British and Irish Chambers
of Commerce with a view to bringing their
influence to bear against the pro
posed hew tariff, but they have
not so far received much encouragement,
British merchants generally recognizing
that any interference on their part would be
unwise and faultless. The Secretary of the
Dundee Chamber, thinking to touch the
Bellast Chamber on a tender spot, wrote to
that body calling attention to the injurious
effect which the new tariff would haye upon
the linen trade, and asking for the co-operation
of the Mayor of Belfast, as the Chair
man of the Chambers Tariff Committee.
He at once replied that any public action
on their part would not be judicious, the
question being a domesticonefor the United
States. At a meeting of the Chamber yes
terday the Mayor's action was unanimously
indorsed. One member remarked that "any
interference on their part might not only be
resented as impertinent, but might furnish
the advocate; ot protection with a very im
portant weapon to use against them," and
the action of the Belfast Chamber is gener
ally approved. Business men know they
are powerless to bring pressure to bear upon
the United States Congress, and they have
adopted an attitude of sorrowful resignation
in tne vague hope that their meekness may
soften the hearts of the ferocious tariff
makers. During the session of the House of Com
mons to-day, Mr. Jesse Collings, Liberal I
Unionist, ascea wnetner tne government
would take any steps to encourage Britisn
manuracturers to send exhibits to the
"World's fair at Chicago if the McKinley
tariff bil!, now before the American Con
gress, should become a law. Mr. Collings
said he asked the question in view of the
fact that tbe bill practically prohibits the
importation of British goods in the United
States.
The Bight Hon. Sir James Fergusson,
Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign
Office, said that the question of official par
ticipation in the proposed fair could only be
determined after consideration of the ad
vantages which would accrue to British in
terests when an invitation to take Dart in
the exhibition was received from the Ameri
can Government. It is probable, he said,
that the manufacturers of great Britaiu
would, to a great extent, be deterred from
sending exhibits to tbe tair if the tariff pre
cluded profitable sales in America.
TO GET A C0PYEIGHT.
Encllsh Authors Will Go Through tbo Form
of Collaborating With Americans.
1BT CABLE TO THE DISrATCII..
London, May 10. Walter Besant has
started a genuine crusade against the pub
lisher on behalf of the author. Next week
there will be issued under his authorship
the first number of a magazine called The
Author, of which I have seen an advance
copy. In a leading editorial Mr. Besant
sayst
The magazine Is founded to bo an organ ot
literary men a., i women ot an Kinds: mo one
paper which will fully review, discuss and ven
tilate all questions connected with tbe profes
sion of literature in all its branches. It will be
the medium by which the Society of Authors
will inform its membsrs generally of their do
ings, and it will become a public record of
transactions conducted in the interests of
literature, which have hitherto been secret ana
bidden for want of such an organ. The chief
aims of the society, which have been advanced
again and again, are: First, to promote tbe
recognition of tbe fact, hitherto most imper
fectly understood, that literary property is as
real a thing as propr-ty In "every other kind of
business; that It should be safe guarded in the
same manner and regarded with the samo jeal
ousy. Besant is particularly bitter upon the
subject of American copyright and Ameri
can publishers. In the article upon "The
Securing of American Bights," he says
there seems to be but one way for the En.
glish author to hold at bay piratical pub
lishers of the United States. It is to enter into
collaboration with the American writer. By
this arrangement perfect copyright is obtain
ableone which will defy the printer's devil
and all bis works. The American members
of the incorporated Society of Authors have
written to offer an honorable partnership of
this kind with the British authors who de
sire to protect their literary property.
AN AMERICAN'S FATE.
He Exhausted Ills Money In Dissipation and
Soasht Death in tbo Thames.
BY CABLE TO TIIE OISrATCH.1
London, May 10. Andrew Dean, of
Kansas City, is a young American who
came over here in January with a limited
amount of money, spent his substance in
riotous living and terminated his earthly
career in the Thames. Dean, who said that
he was a speculator in real estate,
had about '200 in money- and a
draft on the Bank of Scotland, issued
in Montreal, for JE280. On his arrival, he
went to live in Upper George street with an
Englishman, whose acquaintance he had
made on the steamer coming over, and gave
himself up to pleasure, bnt he could not
stand tbe pace, and when his money gave
out in April he left bis lodgings and was
not heard of again until this week, when
his body was found in the river, where it
had evidently been for many days.
The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of
suicide while of unsound mind, and the
body was buried in the churchyard at
Herndon, the expense of the parish. Dean
was about 28 years of age and had told his
acquaintances that he was a widower, with
a sister living in Kansas City. Papers
found at his lodgings show him to have been
a member of Supper and Spoofrie's clubs,
two all night institutions where gilded
youth of masculiue gender repair after mid
night for terpsichorean revels with members
of the other sex who do not retire early.
O'SHEA IN TROUBLE.
Ills Wile Brines Action to Enforce tbo Cop
, tain's Marriage Settlements.
London, May 10. The Irish Master of
the Bolls has authorized a writ against
Captain O'Shea, who. sometime ago,
brought an action for divorce against his
wife, naming Mr. Parnell as co-respondent,
to enforce the provisions of Mrs. O'Shea's
marriage settlement, made in 1867, and to
compel Captain O'Shea to transfer to her the
interests which are menaced by bankruptcy
proceedings, which have been broueht
against him.
rontons of Chicago Flooded.
Chicago, May 10. Between 6 o'clock
last night and 6 o'clock this morning, 2i
inches of rain fell in this city. In the low
lands in some of the outlying districts many
bouses are entirely surrounded by water,
and in some cases it reaches as high as the
first floor.
A Monument to General Sheridan.
Springfield, III., May 10. The Sec
retary of State to-day issned a license for
the incorporation of the Philip H. Sheridan
Monument Association at Chicago, to erect
a statue in Union Park in memory ot Gen
eral Satrtdan.
DELAMATER'S DEFEAT
McKean County is Decidedly Close, but
. Stone is in the Lead.
TEN YOTES COULD TURN. THE TIDE.
Watson Probably Wins for Congress, but
Emery Uas t Chance.
TEEI MEAGEEBETDESS FB0M YENANG0
t
Indications That
the Crawford Candidate Becnred
tbe Delegates.
Ten votes either way would have changed
the resnlt of the Bepnblican primaries in
McKean county. As it is, according to
latest returns, Stone seems to have defeated
Delamffter and Watson has probably beaten
Emery. The latter still has hope of success,
however.
njrXCIAIi TELEGRAM TO THE DIBPATCII.l
Bradford, May 10. Ten Republican
votes distributed in close districts in McKean
county to-day would have decided the con
test for the Governorship. As it is both
sides claim the county. To-morrow may
settle it, and it may not be settled until the
County Convention meets on Tuesday.
Watson apparently is nominated for Con
gress. To show how close the voting was a few
instances may be cited: The First
precinct ot the First ward, in Brad
ford, was carried by Stone by 3
majority, and the Second precinct by Dela
mater by 5 majority. One of Stone's dele
gates in the Third was elected by 1 and the
other by 2 majority in a total vote of 68.
ONE TOWNSHIP A TIB.
Eldred township is a tie. The election
was very orderly and at 11:30 the situation
is this: "With Annin, Ceres, Sergeant and
the first district of Hamilton township to
bear from the count stands 34 for Stowe, 26
for Delamater, eight to hear from, accord
ing to the figuring of the Emery Stowe
people.
According to the Delamater "Watson
arithmetic with the same districts to hear
from the delegates stand Stowe 32, Delama
ter 28, eight to hear from. Of the eight
delegates to come in two are pretty certain
to be for Stowe.
The victory in the county seems to hang
on the question of who owns the dele
gates from the Second precinct of Hamilton.
They are undoubtedly for "Watson, but that
they are lor Delamater also is denied by the
Emery headquarters. The indications are
that the result may be in doubt until the
convention adjourns so far as the Governor
ship is concerned.
BRIGHTER FOE STONE AMD EMEfiV.
At midnight later returns have been re
ceived at the Emery headquarters, claiming
Sergeant township r for Stone and Emery.
This, if correct, carries the county for Stone
and outs Emerv within one vote of victory.
with six delegates to hear from.two of whom
are conceded to Watson.
Another telegram from Bradford says:
Tbe Bepnblican primary election of Mc
Kean county were held this evening. The
fight has been one of the bitterest in the
county's history. The down-pouring rain
during the hours of the caucuses, however,
seriously affected the result. In this city a
full vote was polled, notwithstanding the
- fTJ111'
Ot the 14 delegates elected in tbe
city Stone gets 10 and jJianater 4. .' the
44 delegate; known to be elected in the
county Stone -has 30 and Delamater 14.
There will be 68 delegates in tbe convention
and Stone needs bnt 5 more from the 11
precincts yet to hear from. It is conceded
that a clea. majority of the delegates are for
Watson for Congress.
ERIE FOB DELAMATEB.
The Crawford Candidate Carries
Hi
Neighboring Coantv With Ease.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TJ THE DISPATCH.!
Erie, May 10. The Erie County Eepub
licans held their special primaries for
Gubernatorial delegates to-day. The con
test in this section was between Dela
mater, and ex-Lieutenant Governor
Stowe. The election resulted in the choice
of E. D. Carter, Esq., the Deiamater
delegate in this city, he having car
ried every precinct in the city but one.
The Delamater delegates. Captain "Wm. "W.
Brown, of "Will Creek," and Editor John
McLean, of the Union City Times, were
also elected in the county.
"WATSON'S OWN BOROUGH
Deserted His Standard, bnt Ho Has Cor
tnlnly Carried tbo County.
ISFECIAL TELEQRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Warren, Pa., May 10. In the county
primaries held yesterday Congressman L.
F. Watson carried Warren county and lost
his own precinct and will probably lose the
borongh. O. C. Allen, for Senator, also
carried the county against J. H. Donly. G.
H. Higgins, Allen 's law partner, carried
the county for Presiding Judge of this dis
trict against William Lindsay.
W. "W". Tompson carries the county for
Assembly. It was one of the hottest
primary fights ever known in the county.
THE RESULT IN VENANGO
Is Not Definitely Known, bnt Delamater Is
Frobablr the Winner.
rSPZClAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISFATCU.l
Fbanklin, May 10. The Bepublican
primary election in Venango was held to
day, and a large vote was polled. Owing to
a heavy rain storm the wires are down, and
returns are meager. Indications are that
Messrs. Cooper and Mattern, Delamater
delegates, are elected.
The other winners are: Assembly, F. W.
Hays, K. E. Vannatter; Congress, Hon J.
"W. Lee; balance of the ticket undecided.
Tbe contest for State Senate is close between
W. J. Hulings and B. J. Crawford.
DELAMATER DEFEATED.
Stone Has Probably Carried McKean
County, but It Is Close.
ISFECIAL TELEGRAM TO TIIE DrsPATCH.l
Bradford, May 10. McKean county
is very close, bnt Stone has probably beaten
Delamater. Watson is ahead for Congress,
bnt Emery has a chance yet. Erie went
for Delamater, and Venango has probably'
done likewise. Lee carried Venango for
Congress. .
Tbo Cnncns Called for Monday.
Louisville, May 10. The Democratic
caucus for nominee for Senator will be held
Monday night. Congressman Carlisle is
the strongest candidate: All are busily
canvassing. Ex-Congressman James A.
McKenzie arrived to-day, but has not de
cided to become a candidate.
For the Ohio Republican Convention.
IBFECIAL TELEQKAM TO THE DIIFATCtt.l
Columbus. O., May 10. AllenT. Brins
tnade, of Cleveland, Chairman of the Be
publican State Central Committee, has
called a meeting for this city, Mar 20, when
the time and place of the next Bepublican
Stato Convention will be fixed.
THEY. MUST FIGHT IT OUT.
THE COURT HAS NO JURISDICTION IN
THE CONTEST.
Efforts of tbe Philadelphia Democrats to
Effect a Compromise la the Third Can
ffrcsslonnl District Not Much .Prospect
ofSaccess.
SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISFATCU.l
Philadelphia, May 10. President
Judge Thayer, of Court of Common Pleas
No. 4, -to-day delivered an opinion which
was 'concurred in by Judges "Wilson and
Arnold refusing the mandamus asked for by
the friends of Senator McAleer. In deliv
ering the opinion Judge Thayer said:
it seems to the Court too plain to admit of
argument that before applying for redress Mr.
McAIoeer, it ho has reason to believe that be
is about to be defrauded, should apply to the
tribunal provided by tbe rules of party, it
may be an inadequate tribunal; it may be a
very partial tribnnal, but the fact stands that
It is the tribnnal provided by tbe party, and
for this Court to interfere would seem like an
usurpation of authority.
The outcome of this whole business has
been to intensify the bitter factional feeling,
iu the Third Congressional district.in which
Senator McAleer and ex-Representative
Gentner are tbe leading Democratic candi
dates for the seat made vacant by the death
of Samuel J. Randall. Gentner will prob
ably carry the convention on Monday, but,
in that case, there is sure to be a bolt, and
McAleer and Gentner will go be
fore the people, each claiming
to be the regular nominee. An effort is be
ing made to-night among the better men of
the party to bring about a compromise on
some eminent Democratic outsider of the
district, like George M. Dallas, ex-Mayor
Richard Vaux, or ex-District Attorney
Furman Sheppard, bnt with little prospect
of success. All this will probably result in
the election of a Bepnblican to the seat so
long occupied by Mr. Bandali.
TAKING A PAET IK POLITICS.
A Pennsylvania Society That Has Some In-
' floenco in Chicago.
tSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Chicago, May 10. The "Sons of Penn
sylvania, an organization of natives of
Pennsylvania, residing in Chicago and
vicinity, and made up largely of
former Pittsburgers, has just put
a quietus on a shrewd scheme
of local Democratic politicians to
use it for political curposes. The scheme
was to get up an organization composed of
delegates from this and similar State Organ
izations in Chicago for the ostensible pur
pose of assisting in making a success of the
World's Fair, but really to promote the
political prospects of the present Mayor
Cregier by putting him in the chair and
giving him the prestige of being at the head
of a body of representatives of the whole
United States.
All the States but Pennsylvania had as
sented to the scheme, apparently without
understanding its significance, but at the
monthly meeting of the Keystone State or
ganization on Thursday evening, it was
aired so thoroughly that it was decided by a
unanimoru vote that Pennsylvania would
not go into it. Vermont has taken a similar
stand, and other States are expected to fol
low. The scheme also included putting
several men who were active in getting it
up, into official positions in connection with
the World's Fair.
UNION AGAINST UNION.
I.tytl 'tu cflho Chicaew Waster Carpen
ters to Defeat Eight Hoars.
Chicago, May 10. The old Master Car
penters' Association, which refused to take
part in the arbitration proceedings with the
striking carpenters, is making a strong fight
to secure men. It is forming a union
of non-union men in opposition to the regu
lar union. The Carpenters' Council has
secured the presence here of a Government
agent to look out for Canadian carpenters
imported under contract. In the meantime
the new association is receiving accessions
to its ranks, and nearly all of the union
carpenters are at work.
The old bosses' association is making a
strong fight on the new association, which
is chiefly made up of men of small means.
The old association has madean arrangement
with the dealers in lumber and other building
supplies by which the latter have agreed not
to sell to the new bosses except for cash.
The latter have also decided to bid for all
contracts in competition with the new bosses
at prices which will allow of little or no
profit, and they will take advantage of the
State conspiracy law to fight the strikers at
all possible points.
In view of all these things it seems that
the struggle for an eight-hour day in this
city is only fairly begun instead ot beiDg at
an end.
"gTT.TTTi FOR A BUCKET OF "WATER.
A Father Murdered Whtlo Trying to Save'
Ills Daughter From Assault.
Cleveland, May 10. This afternoon
Mrs. William O'Keefe, of "Washington
street, sent her daughter Kate to a neigh
bor's for a bucket of water. The girl not re
turning O'Keefe went to ascertain the cause
of the delay, and found his daughter at the
hydrant with a neighbor, Mrs. Allie
Daisey. Mrs. Daisev had O'Keefe's
daughter by the hair, and the father rushed
to the rescue.
This brought Jimmie O'Donnell, who had
been watching the women, to the aid of Mrs.
Daisey. O'Donnell struck O'Keefe three
savage blows in the face, knocking him
senseless to the ground. Then, jumping
upon thea prostrate man, the assailant
kicked him viciously in the side, and
leaving him upon the ground, rushed down
Winslow street and out of sight. A doctor
and a priest came upon the scene, but
O'Keefe was dead. The murderer has not
been arrested.
REVERSED THE SUPREME COURT.
A Maine Jndge Has If ot Heard Officially of
Ibo Original Facknge Decision.
Saco, Me., May 10. In the Municipal
Court to-day Lawyer George C. Yeaton, of
Great Falls, put in a claim in behalf of the
Boston and Mainerailroad for liquorswbich
Constable Skillings, of Saco, seized
from a freight car side tracked
at Old Orchard two weeks
ago. The claimant argued that as the car
was sealed and the goods not delivered the
liquors were virtually the property of the
railroad company, by which they were
transported in the original package.
Judge Emmons refused to allow the claim
and ordered the liquors spilled. He gave
as an explanation that he had not received
a copy of the full text of the recent United
States Supreme Court decision, and the
ruling was in accordance with the Maine
statutes. The claimant appealed from the
decision.
PUBLIC NUISANCES.
Kentucky Poolrooms Indicted by tbe Denton
County Grand Jury.
Cincinnati, May 10. The Denton
County Grand Jury, of Covington, Ky.,.
to-day reported indictments against three
poolrooms of Covington, on the charge of
being a public nuisance.
Several weeks ago the Covington Council
refused to grant licenses to the poolsellers,
but in spite of this the poolrooms have con
tinued in acttvo operation.
SWEPT BY A TORNADO
Death and Destruction Mark tlie
Wide Swath of the Wild Wind.
AKRON DEVASTATED BY A STORM.
Dwellings and Stores Wrecked and Bodies
Buried in the Debris.
HEROIC ACTION OP A BEATfi FATHER.
Two Boys Blown Into a Tree Top and Manelously Es
cape Death.
A tornado swooped down upon the busy
city of Akron, O., and, although it did not
stay long, ic destroyed an enormous amount
of property and caused serious damage to
life and limb.
rsFECUx, telegram to tub DisrATcn.i
Akron, May 10. A tornado such as this
city has never seen swept down upon Akron
at 550 o'clock this evening. Preceded by
a low humming sound, it came from the
southwest, attended by thick darkness and
torrents of rain. People who stood watch
ing it saw two clouds meet, and plainly
noticed the revolving motion of objects fly
ing in the air.
The destruction began in the southwest
corner of the city close to the Ohio Canal.
Wilson L. Kipplinger's house was picked
up first, whisked about two or three times
and then left in a heap. ' The family were
all injured, Mr. Kipplinger having bad
gashes about the head, while his aged mother
was burned abont the legs by the tipping
over of a cook stove. His little
daughter was pitched headforemost into a
mud puddle, and when rescued was well
nigh dead. Then in succession the houses
of William Poole, John Austin and a gro
cery of William Vanals were caught up and
lclt wrecked. Passing along to the eastern
part of the city, tne tornado demolished
completely the grocery of O. C. Baker, at
Brown and Exchange streets. The family
took refuge in the cellar and escaped injury.
BUSIED IN THE BT7CNS.
A stranger, who was seen entering the
grocery as tbe storm approached, is supposed
to be buried in the ruins, and workmen are
still searching throngh the debris, but up to
a late hour without discovering any trace of
him. Electric light wires are down and the
part of the town traversed by the storm is in
total darkness. Mr. Baker's daughter is a
raving maniac from the shock.
The Berkhard Brewing Company, about
two squares from Baker's grocery, was
knocked into kindling wood. Thomas
Tompson living nearby.hurried his children
into his cellar and stood bending over
them. A torrent of bricks and timbers fell
upon his back, severely injuring him, but
the three children escaped. Melvin Irish
and wife, living on Carroll street, were
badly injured. Irish's legs were broken
and his wife suffered internal injuries from
flying timbers.
At Cross and Grant streets John Woehler,
a teamster, was blown under a fence and
severely cut up. Two boys named Douglass
were blown into a tree top and were prac
tically unhurt. Fred Smith, driving along
Grant street, was thrown headlong from his
buggy, his horse being instantly killed by
a prostrate trolley wire. The horse of
Catherine Bolte, owner of a meat market,
was killed by flying slate.
SUB TORNADO'S TATII.
For a full mile throngh a thickly settled
part of tbe city the tornado swept, but
darkness set in so quickly that all is chaos
and excitement, probably only a fraction of
the destruction being known. About 40
buildings were destroyed, and scores of
others partially unrooted or otherwise dis
figured. The Ohio Stoneware Company's
potterv was well nigh destroyed. Loss
$6,0001 Turner Hall is a wreck, the wind
having torn every side away. The bouse of
Antonio Manuel, an Italian, was thrown
over on its side, yet Mannel and his son
escaped unhnrt. It is almost a miracle that
a greater loss of life did not result.
The storm's fury seems to have been spent
entirely on this city. It switched off after
riddling the house of Bobert "Watt, a well
known merchant living in the eastern part
ot the city, and left as suddenly as it came.
Its path was about 300 feet wide. The
damage will amount to tens of thousands of
dollars.
ANOTHER STORM COMIMG.
Tbe Signal Service Expects Another Blow
From tbo Rocky Mountains.
"Washington, May 10. The storm cen
tral last night over Iowa has moved east
ward, and is now central over Western
Pennsylvania and has diminished in in
tensity. It has cansed severe northeasterly
gales on Lakes Erie, Huron and Michiguu,
and has been attended by very heavy rain
from Eastern Iowa to New York, and also
by severe local storms, and especially in
Northern Illinois and Eastern Iowa.
Another storm center is developing in the
Northern Bocky Mountain region and will
follow in about the same path as the one
preceding.
CLOUDBURST AT GREENVILLE.
Streets Become Rivers and Railroad Travel
" Becomes Impossible.
ISPECIAL TELEOUAM TO TUB DISPATC1T.1
GEEENVIXI.E, Pa., May 10. A terrible
cloudburst passed over this place this even
ing. In a few minutes East Main street
was flooded two feet deep with water, for
the first time in its history.
Considerable damage was done to the
roads. The New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio, and the Erie and Pittsburg roads are
impassable below town. A mammoth show
hers was obliged to take down its tent.
A KANSAS CYCLONE
Kills Two Persons nnd Injures Two More
Rear Fredonla.
Feedonia, Kan., May 10. It is re
ported that a cyclone yesterday afternoon
killed two people in this county. The
people killed are Mrs. Frank Gledden, Har
vey Wiltz and injured Mr. Gledden and
child. Wires all down.
A PINE SOX MYSTERY.
Mutilated Remains ol n Woman Discovered
at a Knmns City Depot.
Kansas City, May 10. The evidences
of a ghastly crime were discovered at the
Union station this morning. In a pine box
two feet long was found tbe horribly muti
lated body of a woman. Most all the flesh
had been cat from the bones, and the head
and face were mutilated beyond recognition.
The body was packed in charcoal, and
from all appearances life could not have
been extinct for more than 24 hours. The
box was checked throngh over the Wabash
from St Louis lastSiight and arrived here
early this morning. The Coroner will ex
amine the remains this afternoon.
Killed on His Second Trip.
rSFZCIAI. TELEORJkM TO TIIS, DISPATCH.1
MASSILLON, O., May 10. Fred Geston
mair, brakeman on the Cleveland, Lorain
and Wheeling, who was on only his second
rnn, was killed to-night while making a
coupling'. He wsi a tingli mas, sffld 33,
and llrcd la (hit city.
THE PATRI0TIC-S0NS.
A REVOLT AT ELMIRA THAT THREATENS
THE WHOLE ORDER.
Members Withdraw From a 'Camp Allec
Idb That It Is a Knownotbloc Orgnn
Izatloa Both Sides Have Become Terr
Bitter In Denunciation.
tEFECIJLL TELIOKAM TO TDTE DtSriTCn.1
Elmika, N. Y:, May 10. There is a re
volt among the members of Camp No. 7,
Patriotic Sons of America of .this- city,
which threatens to result disastro o the
whole order. Within the last r o.."
oi toe most prominent memucm "o-it, uJr
have withdrawn from the camp, atiJ"j
.. ... 3 ... . .. t: t..'
tneir Denunciation ot lis wor.tug: uu
causinrr the tronble. Thev declare it a
Knownothing body. Camp 7 was organized
last January by National Master ot Forms
and Ceremonies W. J. Stoner, of 4823
Lancaster avenue, Philadelphia; District
President Patterson, of Washington, D. C,
and Clinton Moore, of New Jersey. The
camp now has about 90 members, many of
whom belonged to the camp organized here
in 1883 and which soon collapsed.
Among the revolting members are well
known business men. They first objected
to the statements in the Camp Netos the
national organ of the society. These state
ments reflected severely on foreign born
citizens and the Catholfe Church. Oneof
the prominent members communicated with
Dr. F. W. Hendly, National Secretary of
255 West Eighth street, Cincinnati, inquir
ing if the order was Knownothing. To his
inquiry he claims he received a reply in
which was the statement: "We differ from
the original Knownothings inasmuch as
the member does not swear away his ballot,
but the members always vote right any
way." The gentleman pursued his inquiry
and, he says, obtained facts to further prove
the Knownothing character of the order and
that a favorite motto is, "None but Ameri
cans on Guard."
The feeling in the Elmira lodge has be
come very pronounced and the dissenting
members denounce tbe order as un-American
and unmanly and declare their determi
nation to show it up. The loyal members
denounce the dissenters as vigorously as the
latter do the former.
AFFIDAVITS TO SUIT.
A Southern Deputy Blarsbnl Wbo Has In
dulged la Tall Swearing-.
ISFECIAI. TELEOBAM TO TBE DI3P i.TCH.1
Charleston", S. C, May 10. The famous
Lexington lynching case came up in the
"United States District Court here to-day on
a writ of habeas corpus, praying for tbe
transfer of- Deputy Marshal Miller, who
was arrested in Lexington on the
charge of forgery and felony, from the
State to the Federal Court. The
District Attorney depended in his
argument entirely on the celebrated Nagle
cae decision in California. The State's
Attorney argued that Miller, when arrested
by the State authorities, was not in the dis
charge of bis duties as a Federal deputy
marshal. The Court dismissed the writ,
and ordered the prisoner to be remanded to
the State authorities on the ground that the
affidavit does not show that the prisoner
was arrested by tbe State authorities with
motive or intent to interfere with the serv
ice of processes of the United States during
the progress of the case.
Miller made another affidavit, denying
all his previous affidavits and swearing that
they were made under dures3. He asked to
be transferred from the Lexington jail to the
Columbia jail for fear of lynching. Miller
is the man who first enbmitted the affidavits
upon which the Governor respited the death
sentence of tbe negro who was lynched.
After the lynching he made an affidavit
swearing that his previous affidavits were
untrue. Then he swore that they were true
and that his first affidavit had been made
when he was drunk. Now he says that his
first statement was true.
A LITERARY WOMAN'S TRIALS.
Sho Gets a Divorce From the Dissolute Hus
band Who Had Impoverished Her.
CHICAGO, May 10. Mr. Ada J. Palmer,
authoress and associate editor of the States
man, was granted a decree of divorce to
day from Charles K. Palmer. She was
married November 17, 1874, and for years
lived in her own home, Minneapolis. Here
she worked at her literary tasks and made a
comfortable living for herself, her husband
and boy.
Her husband, however, was a ne'er-do-well,
frequently leaving her and finally
causing ber to lose her home by mortgaging
it. Then she came to Chicago, but subse
quently returned to Minneapolis, and spent
the remainder of her property in saving her
husband from the consequences of an em
bezzlement. This was three years ago, and
she has not seen him since, that time.
THE GATES ARE BARRED
Against Contract Laborers Imported to Fill
tbe Places of Strikers.
Netw Yoke, May 10. The 12 contract
laborers who arrived on the steamer Maas
dan for the purpose of taking the places of
striking Chicago carpenters, were returned
to Europe to-day in the steamer Amsterdam.
TEE DISPATCH DIRECTORY.
Table of Contents for tbe Convenience of
Discriminating- Readers.
To-day's issue of Tue Dispatch consists of
20 pages. Tbe first part is devoted to the news
of tbe day and suitable comments. Rider
Haggard's "Beatrice" is continued, and every
assurance is given that it will not be interrupted
again. The second and third parts contain tho
following:
PART II.
Pane 9. ,
Hew Iron Territory. ..ORLCf M. Sastobd.
Tbe Conscience Fnnd....FHANK U, CAnr-xirrsB.
An Historical .Fete Quaker.
.Beatrice fl. Bidsb HAaQAHD.
Page 10.
Fooling tne Lords HOWABD Fixldeto.
Gambling-at Monte Carlo Mbs. Shxbwood.
Buslnejj Cards.
Page 11.
An Impetus to Art Joair "W. Beattt.
Tbe Want Column. To Let Column.
For Sale notices.
Page 13.
The Social "World. Tbe Grand Army.
Gosaiporthetitaxe. Tbs National Guard.
Educational News.
Page 13.
Secret Societies. Local Trade News.
Markets by Telegraph. Business Cards.
Page U. ,
Tbe Week's Sport. raiKGLi.
Tbe Kentucky Derby Blue Wing.
Tbe Latest Dance F. F. L.
Page 13.
The Dignity orLabor Cabdikai. Masnino.
Visit to Harper's Ferry..... Hiss-Evans.
Kvery Day Science ; Business Cards.
Page IS.
Amusement Notices. Business Cards.
Late News la Brief. ' Musical Events.
PART III.
Page 17.
Mast's Eye for Art WILLI B. HAWKINS.
Gossip or Gotham Clara Belle.
The Ace or Clubs PEINCE JOSSF LUBOMIBSKI.
Page IS.
Products of Ecuador Fannie B. Wakd.
Pittsburg Tears Ago James O. Fubdt.
Tbe Fireside Sphinx E. K, Ciiabboobn.
Page 13.
Tbe Adventures of Paul Patsie.
Thelng-alls' Idea Bessie Bramble.
Theory of Evolution REV. George Hodges.
Homes lor Profit B. W. SHOWLL.
Page 30.
Woman's World .". Meg, etal.
Irtib Peasant Girls... .TIIE Dochess.
Btty on Honstsk,i,.,Mliuaorpr, am
CUUtUUHJoiw,... .......,., , &, 8, WABI,
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The Man Who Marshaled the
Disloyal Men of the North
During the War
TELLS A THRILLING TALE.
CPPE
AD CI
camp, ".'gr 4j -'ration 67,000 Strong Above
workings that -. Pfn-bln,
PEHNSILVANIA FURNISHED 5,000.
Ifarrow Escapes in the Yery Heart of tha
Loyal Section.
SATED FE0JI DEATH BI DIXIE GIBLS
Major "W. C. Gorman now lives at Bir
mingham, Ala. During the war he was the
connecting link between tbe Copperheads ot
the North and the Confederate chiefs. His
narrow escapes, clever strategies and secret
work, below told for the first time, are of
thrilling interest. He gives statiitic3 of
the Copperhead strength.
rSFBCIAI. TELEGRAM TO TUX DISrATCII. I
BiBMiNcnAM, Ala., May 9. The man
who acted as the special emissary of the
Confederate Government to the Copperhead
organizations throughout the North, and
who delivered commissions and obtained
maps and plans of fortifications still lives,
after once having been condemned and sen
tenced to be shot, making his escape from a
dungeon through the connivance of a Catho
lic priest and a beautiful young lady, who
made love to the guards.
Your correspondent has obtained an inter
view with the celebrated rebel spy, Major
"W. C. Gorman, who describes the scenes
with a minuteness of detail that will cause
his experiences, now published for the first
time, to go down to history as an important
feature of tho war, and will present the
facts concerning the Copperhead organiza
tions in a clearer light than has ever yet
been done.
In the Northern States were a large body
of men regularly enlisted in the Confederate
army, regularly drilled, and under oath to
divulge all possible information to the Con
federate Government at Richmond. It was
an organized army of spies, and they sent
most valuable information and collected
large sums of money for the Confederate
Government. Illinois led the list of en
rolled Confederates with 30.000 men, Indiana
16,000 Ohio 4,000, Pennsylvania 5,000 and
Missouri 12,000 an army of 67,000 men,
constantly kept ready for marching orders
in case the Confederate troops in the field
should ever cross the Ohio river, and march
through Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
COMMANDED BT A SEJTATOB.
It was a secret organization, and none
knew its strength except its officers and the
authorities at Richmond. This large army
was commanded by a United States Senator,
who remained in AVashington during the
war, and several prominent men ranked as
high as major general, with regular com
missions from the Confederate Government.
Major Gorman's story is one of the most
thrilling ever written, and was illustrated
by letters, papers and minute details, which
corroborate every statement made. The
story can best be told in the Major's own
words:
I was born in Ireland, bnt raised in tbe State
of Michigan nntil I was nearly grown, theif go
ing to Memphis, where I was educated by Gen
eral Sbelby, and placed In the United States
engineer corps, going to Utah with General
Albert Sydney Johnston in 135G. Returning
South, I enlisted in tbe Confederate service,
being placed in command of a company of
sharpshooters.
After tbe retreat at PorryviUe, in 1862, 1 re
ceived orders to report to General Forrest for
picket dnty on the Cumberland river, between
Sparta and Gallatin. I there received orders
to report to General Forrest at Murfreesboro,
which I did. General Forrest wished me to
undertake a commission entirely foreign to tbs
duties of a soldier, being a trip to St. Louis on
private business for my commander. I went
to St. Louis and returned just prior to the bat
tle of Stone river, in which I participated with
my battalion.
THE MISSOURI COSTISOEITT.
Six days later I was1 ordered to report to Sen
ator Sims at Richmond, Va.. for duty on behalf
ot the Confederate Government. I met Senator
Sims, President Davis, Vice President Stephens
and Winder in conference, and they unfolded
the plans. General Forrest was to make,a raid
throngh West Tennessee, and General Jlarma
duke througn Nortnern Arkansas, tba two
forces meeting at Soringfield, Mo. Scattered
throngh Northern Missouri were 12,000 true
Confederates, as yet unorganized, and it was
their desire that 1 should organize those men
and march them to Sprlngfied at tbe appointed
time as a contingent to Forrest and Marma
duke. This plan was carried out so far as circum
stances would permit. I went to Northern
Missouri and organized the Paw Paw militia:
General Forrest started throngh West Tennes
see and General Marmadnke throngh Northern
Arsansaa. I bad organized 6,000 men at Black;
Feet Hills, ready for marching orders, when I
learned of Forrest's defeat at Jackson, Tenn.,
and Marmaduke's defeat 15 miles from Spring
field, which drove the men back to bushwhack
ing. "There were a number of incidents on my
trip. I returned to General Forrest's command,
and asked him for a pass. In his gruff way ha
said: 'Go to the deuce for a pass: if you can't
steal through tbs Confederate lines, yon can't
steal througn tbe Yankee lines.'
"I started on foot from Franklin, Tenn., for
Hickman, Ky., making the trip in ten days and
stealing through both lines, the Confederates
and Federals being picketed from Gallatin to
Memplls.
HELP FROM TWO OIELS.
"At Hickman, tired, dirty and ragged from
swimming streams and climbing through and
over bushes, I went to a hotel and ate supper.
Thai night I heard music In the parlor, and go
ins np I saw two young laaies, one. playing tho
piano and tho other singing. I knew that U
they were Confederates the ladies would be tha
truest and best of friends to the soldier boys, so
1 asked them to allow me to play. They looked
surprised, but let me have the use of tbe piano,
I sang "Maryland, My Maryland," which at that
time was new. From the effect the song bad'
on them I knew that they were sympathizers
with my cause, and 1 asked their assistance to
get me a pass by steamboat to St. Louis, as tha
step-son of Juage Fitzgerald, of "West Tennes
see, in whose loyalty tha Federal soldiers had,
confidence.
The next morning I got the pass and left for
St. Louis. 1 claimed that I was on my way to
Kansas to visit relatives and that I was aunion
man. Tbe boat was loaded with Federal sol
diers wbo were going home on furloughs or for
the purpose ot re-enlisting. I was well sup
plied with money, and whiled away the tlmo
playing poker with the men wbo, if they bad
known wbo I wax, would have shot me and
thrown my body In the river. My money was
that ol tbe Bank of West Tennessee,and was in
bills, but in those days a to bill conld be cut In
two and each end was good lor 2 30; in fact,
change was scarce, and was generally made in
that way. ach end of a 52 bill was good
forSL
SO NOTICE AT POKES.
When I reached St. Louis I had my West
Tennessee money and $1,600 In greenbacks. I
went to Bingham, Wright A Ccv, with whom I
bad transacted tbe private business for Gen
eral Forrest on my privious trip. Her I bad.
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