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FORTT-MFTH TEAS.
THE EHDJSHOT YET,
Another Scene in the Bayne
Bynum Battle Ex
pected To-day.
WRATH OF THE DEMOCRATS
At the Disgrace Heaped Upon Their
Big Indiana Colleague.
WILSON WILL TAKE THE FLOOR
To Eeply to the Statements Made in the
Campbell Letter.
THE GLASS WOEKEE STILL IN THE EIKG
The conflict in the House will hardly sub
Bide without iurther trouble. Wilson, of
"West Virginia, will attempt to reopen the
battle to-day. The Democrats are eager to
revenge the censure meted' out to Mr.
Bynum. .More exciting scenes are, there
fore, probable.
ISPECIAL TELEQRAX TO THE EI8PATCH.t
"Washington, May 18. "Whether Mr.
James Campbell will be the main issue to
morrow in the proceedings of the House of
Representatives is not decided yet among
the Democrats, who are still terribly in
censed at the formal censure of Mr. Bynum
-at the bar of the House, and are ready to
take any revenge within their reach. If
it were possible a resolution to call Bayne
before the bar of the House to-morrow would
be offered by the Democrats, but that is not
admissible under the rules.
A resolution will probably be offered to
expunge from the Record all that relates to
the subject, as though in that way the dis
grace! ul proceeding -could be effaced from
memory. It is possible that such a resolu
tion would be adopted, for many Republi
cans would like to see all mention of the
occurrence blotted from the pages of the
official record.
WILSON TO THE FRONT.
It is the intention of Representative "Wil
son, of West Virginia, to rise to-morrow to
a point of personal privilege, and discuss
the Campbell letter and Colonel Bayne's
connection with it, but if he does it is not
probable he will provoke a row, for Mr.
Wilson has always sbowu himself to be a
gentleman of a very refined type in his con
duct on the floor of the House, a very model
of calmness and courtesy. The Campbell
affidavit pnt him and Bvnum in the same
box, but two men more dissimilar in impulse
and action could hardly be found.
If Mr. "Wilson speaks, it is expected that
he will, while reiterating his denial of the
charges ot Campbell, comment severely on
the use that has been made of the matter on
both sides of the House, and deprecate per
sonalities either from one member to an
other or on the part of a member toward a
layman, who has no defense and who can be
insulted and blackguarded with impunity.
ANOTHER SCENE TEOBABLE.
It is also the intention of McMillin, of
Tennessee, who was mentioned in the
Campbell letter, to get the floor if possible
for a personal explanation, and if he does
there may be another scene, though he is
usually parliamentary even while he is
most furious. Many Republicans think
Bayne equally guilty with Bynum, and
fully deserving of censure. Mr. McKinley
intimated in his speech yesterday that if Mr.
Bayne's words had been taken down he
would have voted for censure.
There is also talk among the Republicans
who were stung to the quick by Bynum's
declaration when censure was pronounced
upon him, to the effect that he considered
his punishment a badge of honor, of moving
that Bynum be hauled over the coals
for speaking in contempt of the dignity
of the House. But there is not much likeli
hood of their carrying the war into Africa
by making an pffort to expel the bold man
from Indiana for uttering this dramatic de
finance of the Speaker, for though the re
mark was audacious, it cannot be made to
appear unparliamentary or in contempt of
that indefinite thing known as the dignity
01 tne nouse.
REED BECOMING "WEARY.
Speaker Reed is sick and tired of the
business of disciplining Democrats. The
incident of yesterday came near destroying
the Speaker's famous nerve, and there has
been much comment on his surrender to the
Democrats when the members of the minor
ity gathered about Bynum in front of the
bar of the House, and refused point blank
to take their seats. Reed did not have the
courage to make the fight on them which
every one was expecting him to make, and
he abandoned the field and left the minority
in triumphal possession.
Surprise is expressed that the Speaker
did not direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to
shoulder the big mace and march through
the hall, ordering members to take their
seats. If he had done so every Democrat
would have respected the symbol of author
ity, and order would have been restored.
Reed's nerve appeared to have failed him,
and he suffered Mr. Springer, whom he de
tests more than any of the other Democratic
leaders, to say: ""We won't do it," when
the Speaker called upon the members
standing in front of the Chair to resume
their seats.
EMBBYO DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.
This Bayne-Bynum episode has brought
to the front a number of the Democrats
who are likely to contend for the leadership
of their side or the House, with an eye to
the Speakership of the Congress in case
their party can secure a majority therein.
During Mr. Carlisle's absence Mills and
Springer have been the leaders of the mi
nority, the former taking Mr. Carlisle's
place and the latter doing the active work
on the floor.
It was Springer's fighting qualities which
kept the Democrats up to their work in de
fense of their colleague. He showed him
self more than a match for the Republicans
in parliamentary tactics, and for seven
hours was the leader of a spirited and
brilliant campaign. At the close of the
contest when the Democrats were beaten by
superior numbers he marshaled the
minority and marched them down to the
open space in front of the Chair and
by taking a bold stand there treated the
country to the novel scene of Tom Reed's
backbone in a state of collapse. Kow that
Mr. Carlisle is going over to the Senate,
Springer is likely to becomo the leader of
the Democratic forces in the House, and this
means that he will be a formidable candi
date for the Speakership.
HAVE A LITTLE COMBINATION;
Mills and Springer seem to have an un
derstanding by which the latter is to go for
the Speakership and the former fall into his
old place as Chairman of the "Ways and
Means Committee and leader of the
House. Bynum and "Wilson, the chief
actors in the little drama, are both strong
men, and either of them is likely
to push forward to the leadership. Bynum
has a reputation as a fighter, being a man
of great physical courage and strength. As
Speaker of the Indiana House of Represen
tatives he quelled two or three Republican
insurrections, and gave evidence of the
possession of nerve and ability fully equal
to Speaker Reed's.
Outhwaite, of Ohio, who also was promi
nent in the scrimmage of yesterday, is a ris
ing man and a possible candidate for Speak
er. Judge Crisp, who is generally recog
nized as one of the ablest men of the
minority and likely to be Springer's strong
est rival for leadership, was ill yesterday
and unable to take part in the battle.
CAMPBELL'S STATEMENT.
Ex-President Campbell, of the "Window
Glass "Workers' L-. A. 300, does not seem
anxious to indulge in any continuation of
the acrimonious proceedings which divers
ified Saturday's session of the House of
Representatives. He said, last night, when
asked what he thought of Mr. Bynum:
"Mr. Bynum's gross and unwarranted at
tack uponColonel Bayne could only be ex
pected from an Indiana Democrat, and that
Democrat, Bynum. His brazen attitude
vhen be received the formal censure of
Speaker Reed reveals the moral obtuieness
which enabled him deny the paternity of
his expression about $15 a month. But
there is nothing to be gained in prolonging
the discussion. I may go to "Washington,
but cannot say for certain."
"The Trades Council threatens to oppose
Colonel Bayne because of hisdelense of you,
Mr. Campbell."
"That will be a great piece of good for
tune for Colonel Bayne. But the entire oc
currence cannot but be construed in Colonel
Bayne's favor. To have his opponent iu an
altercation called up and censured is more
glory than the average Congressman reaps
in a life time. The real truth of
this matter is that the Democrats
brought the matter up just before the Jean
nette case was tried in order to affect the
jury. I saw William J. Brennen in Wash
ington two weeks ago and I should not
wonder if he had something to do with it.
As to my reputation, as the opposite of
what Mr. Bynum characterized me, I don't
feel called upon to say anything. Here is a
letter never before published whicb may in
terest the public:"
The letter is from General Master Work
man Powderly to President Harrison, and
treats of some private matters. A q notation
from it is as follows:
I have known Mr. Campbell for many years,
and can heartily recommend him as a man of
sterllnc honesty and rood executive abllltr.
He Is a tried man in labor ranks and a staunch
protectionist. His record stands witbont a
blemish; not even the suspicion of a misdeed
upon It.
SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS
WORKING THE WIRES AGAINST A FEDER
AL ELECTION LAW.
Trying to Effect a Combination With the
Free Coinage Advocates Some of the
Western Members Are Willing to Sac
rifice Ereryihlnc for bllver.
israelii TELEGRAM TO TUB DXBPATCn.1
Washington, May 18. The Democrats
of the House and Senate have been putting
their heads together and have informally
arranged a course of action on the silver
question, by which they feel con
fident of their ability to defeat
the enactment of a federal election
law. The Senate will probably pass a
practrically tree coinage bill, but without
the aid of the Democrats in tbe Honse the
bill cannot become a law. It is well known
that Speaker Reed is opposed to the iree
coinage of silver, and up to the present time
no measure of importance has passed the
House unless sanctioned by this autocrat
lrom Maine.
The Republicans in the House are divided
on this question. The Democrats generally
favor free coinage, but, much as thev desire
to obtain it, they do not propose to vote for
It unless the free coinage Republicans pledge
themselves not to vote for a federal election
law. Western Republicans and Western
Democrats are anxious to pass the free coin
age bill, but owing to the antagonism of
Mr. Reed and Eastern Republicans,
the bill will fail unless Southern
Democrats vote for iL The latter appreciate
the
advantage tney have and intend to
profit by iL While personally they favor
iree coinage, as ao tueir constituents, they
are prepared to take a stand against it and
to go to the stump and say to their people:
"We have voted against this bill, and we
have done it in order to prevent the passage ol
jcutidi ciKt...uu iak. it uicu ivoma you
rather have--free coinage or federal control
of your elections?"
This is the position the Democsats have
taken. Western Senators, as a rule, care
little for the federal election bill, but they
care a great deal for the silver bill, and they
will not be willing to face their
people and admit that the defeat of free
coinage was due to a partisan desire to
fasten on the Southern people federal inter
ference in State elections, a condition which
they irould hardly like to see in their own
States. As far as can be learned no formal
agreement has been entered into, but the
Republicans are well aware of the fact that
if they persist in foisting their obnoxious
election law upon the people of the South,
the Democrats will undoubtedly defeat the
free coinage of silver.
SILYER W THE SENATE.
POSSIBILITIES OF THE COMING WEEK
CONGRESS.
IN
An Election Case Which Will Probably bo
the Came or Some Trouble Opposition
to the Wool Sections ot the Tariff BUI.
Washington, May 18. Silver will be
the principal topic of discussion in the Sen
ate again this week. Senator Stewart has
given notice of his purpose to address the
Senate on this subject Wednesday. The
addresses in memoriam of the late Repre
sentative W. D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania,
will be delivered on Tnesday afternoon,
and Saturday will he devoted to the calen
dar. These are the only probable interrup
tions of the silver debate.
Tbe Naval appropriation bill will; it is
expected, be reported early in the week, but
it will not be called ud for action until the
silver question has been disposed of. If the
Finance Committee can find suitable oppor
tunity the Tariff bill will be taken up in
committee for consideration, so that an early
report may be made thereou to the Senate,
but as tbe members of that committee are
all more or less interested in the silver de
bate it is doubtful if any progress will be
made on the tariff nntil after the Silver bill
is out of the way.
Tbe first three days of tbe week in tbe
House will witness the closing scenes in the
tariff debate, which promises to become
more animated as the end draws near. It is
the present intention of the Ways and
Means Committee to report the bill from the
Committee of the Whole to the House
Wednesday, when yea and nay votes, de
pending in number upon the number of
amendments made to the bill, will be in
order. The wool sections are to be the sub
ject of attack again in this way, and, alto
gether, the proceedings promise to consume
considerable time unless a special rule is re
ported from the Committee on Rulei to
hasten the conclusion.
The Elections Committee intends to call
up the Alabama contested election case of
McDuffie versus Turpin immediately after
the tariff bill is disposed of, and, as the re
port of the committee in favor of the con
testant involves the inversion of an apparent
majority of 8,000, a bitter resistance is apt
to be developed. The river and harbor
people are also waiting the first opportunity
to call up their appropriation bill and get it
through the House.
SENATOR BECK'S WELL.
No
Husband of His Daughters Allowed to
Share In the Estate.
tSTECIAT. TELEQHAM TO THE DlSPATCH-l
Washington. May 18. The will of the
late Senator Beck has been filed, and Wood
bury Blair, of this city, appointed adminis
trator, being required to give bond in the
sum of $30,000. The Senator made this will
over 30 years ago, and by its terms all
property is left -to his wife during her life.
He then makes provision for his children in
the case of the death of their mother, and
the daughters' shares are so protected "that
no husband of any of my daughters mayor
shall have the power to spend or appropri
ate the estate bo as to dispossess my said
children, or any of them, from the benefit of
it"
In concluding he makes his wife executrix
and says: "I desire her to be governed in
the management of my estate by the advice
of my friend, John C. Breckinridge, but
that is optional with her." All the parties
directly interested in the will, which was
made nearly 35 years ago, are dead, except
ing a son and daughter of the testator. It
is understood that while nearly all of the
personal property of tbe deoeased, not ex
ceeding $20,000 in value, is located in this
district, the realty is in Kentucky.
A CASE OP MOTHER-IN-LAW
DIFFERING SOMEWHAT FROM THE USUAL
FAMILY ROW.
A Husband Who Eloped With His Wile's
maternal Parent at the End of tbe
Honeymoon The Deserted Fanner
Takes It Philosophically.
rsrECIAL TELEGRAM TO TBS CISPATCB.1
Harbisburq, May 18. The story of a
very queer elopement comes from Sullivan
county, at the upper end of the Loyalsock
valley. Pounce Bailey, a lumberman, and
a man C5 years old, whose wife died last
winter, fell in love a few weeks ago with a
comely young German girl, who was work
ing as a domestic for a farmer who lived
near Bailey's. The girl had recently ar
rived in this country, spoke hut little En
glish, and was 18 years old. Pounce was so
ardent in his wooing that he won the girl
and they were married last month.
The girl's mother, Mrs. Katberine Kline,
was at the time acting as housekeeper for a
German in Potter county. She knew
nothing of her daughter s marriage until a
week or ten days ago, when she was in
formed of the fact by a letter from tbe girl.
Mrs. Kline at once journeyed to the head
waters of the Loyalsock to see about iL
When she arrived at her soh-ia-IawVli'dfile'
she seemed pleased with Bailey, .and the
marriage was approved of by her. Mrs.
Kline is described as an elderly woman,
very fleshy and by no means prepossessing
in appearance. For all that she bad not been
in her son-in-law's house two days before
sh: had gained his regard to such an degree
that her daughter was forced to protest
against the conduct of her husband and her
mother.
They ignored her protests and she one
day last week told her mother that she must
leave the house. Mrs. Kline did so on Fri
day, but she took her daughter's husband
with her, or at least he followed her as soon
as he heard that she was gone. The pair
are now together in Potter county. Mrs.
Kline cannot speak a word of English and
Bailey knows no German. The deserted
wile is said to have taken the affair philo
sophically, and has disposed of her hus
band's personal property and gone back to
work at the farmer's where Bailey got ac
quainted with her.
RESULTS OF MEECER PRIMARIES.
A 1.1st of tbe Knmes of tho Probable Suc
cessful Nominees.
fSFECIAI. TELEQKAM TO TUB DISPATCIM
Mercer, May 18. The Republican pri
maries were held on Saturday, after one of
the most thorough canvasses ever made in
the county. The result will not be known
officially until Tnesday. Present indica
tions are that the following are nominated:
McDowell, Congress; Hall, Fruit and Har
shaw. Assembly; Burnett, Sheriff; Hay
wood, Prothonotary; Downs, Clerk of
Courts; Biel, Treasurer; Law, Recorder;
Templeton and Babcock, County Commis
sioners. Tbe Soldiers' Orphan School syndicate
fight against the Hon. Henry Hall, resulted
in placing him in the lead on the Assembly
ticket, and with Fruit and Harshaw, he will
be nominated on the first ballot at the
county convention, to ratify the vote Tues
day The delegates to the State Conven
tion will go for Delamater, with Stone as
second choice. The poll was unprecedented
in Mercer at a primary.
MONEY, MACHINERY AHB AGENTS.
Arclidencon Smith Preaches Before the
Charities and Correction Conference.
Baltimore, May 18. The National
Conference of Charities and Correction, Dr.
Byers, the President says, has been a de
cided success, both in the number of attend
ance and the characters of the papers read,
and from all appearances bids fair to sopon
tinue to the close.
The usual Sunday sermon by Archdeacon
Alexander McKay Smith, D. D., of New
York, was largely attended. He said in his
sermon, "Church members rely too much on
money, machinery and agents in the work
of charity. I do not underrate the value,
power, gifts and zeal of the church, hut a
great deal is wasted yearly and many call
that which is nothing more than self indul
troripe bv the saintly name of charity. Men
are not "like cattle, and I plead for more of
that Christ-like interest in humanity. As
Madame Roland said of liberty many years
ago. so might we say of charity, 'How many
sins are committed in thyiame.'"
TWO IMPORTANT LABOR MEETING8.
Horseshoers and Slachlnery Constructors to
InTeet at Cleveland.
Philadelphia, May 18. Two im
portant meetings affecting the interests of
organized labor will be held during the
week at Cleveland. The' Horseshoers'
"Union and tbe Machinery Constructors'
National Trades Assembly each commence
their annual meeting on Monday.
These two organizations having expressed
their willingness to co-operate and assist
the file and rasp makers, it was deemed
advisable by the Executive Committee of
the Filernakers' National Trades Assembly
'to send, ft delegate to attend both meetings.
PITTSBURG, MONDAY, MAT 19, 1890.
A CHANGE OF POLICY.
Very Decided Signs of a Sew Era in
the German Government.
PBINCB BISMARCK'S IBOH RULE
Replaced by an Administration Which Uses
Mild Word Only.
COLONIAL ENTEEPEISE3 IN AFEICA.
Informtlton Gathered by an American Military
Attache is Karope.
Caprivi, Germany's new Prime Minister,
is not trying to rule with a rod of iron. In
stead he has caused great surprise by courte
ously reasoning with his opponents. The
colonial enterprises in Africa will not be
abandoned, however.
rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
Beelin, May 18. Copyright. Tho
past week's debate in tbe German Congress
mark the beginning of a new era in her Par
liamentary life not simply that members
now sit for five instead of three years, as
formerly, or that the relative strength of
parties has altered since the February elec
tions. These alone would markedly modify
the course of events, but not so
much as the unusual sensation
produced by a Prime Minister
who asks money of the people without bully
ing, and who, in short, treats the remarks of
his opponents as entitled to respect.
Caprivi has opened his career by propos
ing to increase the expenditures in East
Africa, and add millions of men to the peace
footing of the army, both measures unpopu
lar in so far as increased taxation always is,
and infensible on the ground of national
necessity.
A QUESTION OP HONOR.
As for the African enterprise Caprivi
practically admitted that, he bad sympathy
for any such ventures, but now that they
'were committed, thanks to his predecessors,
he might have said, of course their honor,
that much-abused word, would not allow
them to retreat Bamberger, One of the Lib
eral leaders, made a forcible speech against
the Government, and Caprivi answered him
with the courtesy that parliamentary usage
demands, but which Bamberger had never
before heard from the Government seat.
In fact, so used had the Liberals become
to offensive language from the elder Bis
marck, that to be treated without insult, let
alone with courtesy, quite embarrassed
them, and we need not be surprised if many
of them vote with Caprivi for his colonial
expenditures out of gratitude for his decent
language. In spite of Caprivi's weak sup
port of this measure, however, tbe Govern
ment have got a fairly strong case in the
highly favorable report made by Major Lie
bert, oi the great general staff, a gentleman
who we may characterize from personal
knowledge as well qualified to describe
what he sees intelligently and truthfully.
THE DABE CONTINENT.
His report gives the most cheering hope
of future prosperity in German Africa, not
merely from wnat ne saw ot the soil, but
from tbe thoroughness with which the
municipal, military and sanitary questions
had been solved. Those who read his re-
nort in full, however, must be nn their
r a .irnihir.iriitgi (Tn itn. i!. :..
Uaihl BMUa ...V.. W.M- VM ...I, .U.JUI Q
part, lor ne is a proiessionat
soldier, was naturally shown about
by officials, anxious to produce a
good impression, and, so far as we know,
has not an extensive acquaintance with
other tropical colonies for purpose of com
parison. But all this is far from the sus
picion that he would seek to convey a wrong
impression. The result of his report was,
however, to give the Liberals the right to
ask "if this country is so rich why do rot
private individuals go and develop it? Why
must our treasury be saddled with further
burdens?"
To this natural query no satisfactory reply
was made. To the proposition for increas
ing the army Dr. Barth, whose two visits to
the United States have confirmed his dis
trust of military rule, made a vigorous pro
test on the ground that ever since 1874 the
Government had been screwing up the de
mands for war, always on the same grounds
and always promising that thi" wonld be
the last time.
TRYING MILD LANGUAGE.
Caprivi here, as before, treated such ob
jections not as coming from personal ene
mies or unpatriotic demagogues, but as
proper suggestions of prudence, and gave
Barth, as well as Bamberger, the novel sen
sation of being answered without a provoca
tion to insult. One conservative member so
far preserved the spirit of the last Parlia
ment as to sneer at Bamberger as being a
Hebrew; but, with this gross exception, the
tone of parliamentary debate has been so
much that of sweet harmony as to quite
startle those who have lived under the iron
regime.
A near kinsman of Emin Pasha in Ber
lin informs us that his family are taking
every possible means to gather together such
material as can serve to illustrate his work
in Africa, either letters, memoranda or pic
tures. They are daily hoping for some
thing from him of a complete nature, but
these hopes are liable to disappointment, for
in a letter dated April 1, from Bagamogo to
the Leipsig publisher, Brockhaus, he denies
having anything yet ready for a boot.
In this letter he requests tbe purchase for
him of a copy of Stanley's book, a request
that does not suggest the existence of cor
dial relations between the two great explor
ers. When Emin's book does appear we
may expect a side light that will illumine
some' "portions , of "Stanley's Darkest
Africa?'.
AN EARNEST INVESTIGATOR.
Captain Zalinski, the perfertor if not the
inventor ot the dynamite gun, has com
pleted his study of European military ar
rangements and will sail for New York
from Hamburg on May 22. He has, under
orders from our War Department, spent a
year abroad making reports upon what he
has seen in England, Spain, Italv, Switzer
land, France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden,
'Denmark, Russia, and, above all, Germany.
He has gained access to establishments jeal
ously guarded from ordinary military at
taches, has worn out the physical and mental
endurence of all the officers detailed by the
Government to watch over him, and has
shown a restless energy in the study of de
tails affecting the soldiers' comfort and effi
ciency in the field that must prove of great
value to us if his letters are not all pigeon
holed. It is not too much to say that Zalinski has
seen more soldier life in Europe than all
the rest of our military attaches put togeth
er, and has done so because his previous
record in onr Oivil War has made him a wel
come guest in qnarters where a newly
fledged graduate from West Point would
have been treated as an intruder.
A FIRST-CLASS FUNERAL
la the Way Bismarck Jokingly Allndei
to
His Retirement.
Pabis, May 18. The Matin publishes an
account of an interview had with the French
journalist Des Soux, who recently spent a
few days afFriedrichsrnhe and was enter
tained at dinner by the ex-Chancellor.
Prince Bismarck referred to his resignation
as a first-class funeral, but added that he
was quite alive still. He did not under
stand the French law compelling retirement
v ' ft "W
from public service at GO to 63 years of age.
He had been forced to retire at 70, but he
was too young to do nothing. His resigna
tion was absolutely final.
He defended himself against the charge
of barbarity in having caused the bombard
ment ot Paris. He declared that Germany
would never attack France or provoke
France to attack her. Germany well under
stood thafcRussla would interfere to protect
France if Attacked, just as Germany would
aid Austria if Russia attacked her.
Alarmed at tbe McKinley BUI.
Berlin, May 18. The McKinley tariff
bill in the United States Congress alarms
exporters of textiles generally and export
ers of hops. In 1889,76,000 centners or
hops went to America, and an advance in
the tariff of from 8 to 15 cents per pound
would be ruinous to the German market.
A FIREMAN'S HEROISM.
HE RESCUES A YOUNG GIRL FROM A
BLAZING HOTEL.
A Fire Shortly After Midnight In One of At
lantic City's Lane Hostelrles All of the
Carats Hanase to Escape Witbont In
lary.
1 SPZCIAL TELLOBAM TO TUB DISPATCH.
j. Atlantic Cut, May IK Shortly
after 1 o'clock this morning fire was dis
covered in a storeroom in the rear wing of
the Osborne House, a large hotel at Arkan
sas and Pacific avenues, and by the time
the fire department reached the scene the
entire wing was enveloped in flames and a
dense mass of smoke was pouring
through the halls of the main build
ing; which was apparently doomed to
destruction. The house was only opened
for the season vesterdav. and fortunately
there were only IS guests in it at the time.
The volunteer firemen got promptly to work
ana the nre was soon extinguished, having
been confined to the wing of the building in
which it originated.
All the guests were gotten out safely,
ihough there were several exciting rescues
of people blinded by smoke and unfamiliar
with the location of the stairways. The
most exciting waa that of Miram, the 13-year-old
daugbter of J. H. Hopper, of 913 Arch
street, Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs.
"Hopper and their son were in
the parlor when the flames were
discovered, while the child was
sleeping in room 22, on the third floor. She
was awakened by the smoke, and fell faint
ing on the floor of the hall. Mr. Hopper
made several attempts to reach her, but was
driven back by the emote, and the girl
would undoubtedly have perished bad not
her groans attracted the attention of Fire
man F. C. Pettit, who was engaged in clos
ing the windows along the corridor to shut
off the draught.
Lifting the child in his arms the brave
fireman carried her through tbe Smoke down
to the front porcb.where her parents were al
most frantic, having given her up for lost.
She was tenderly carried for, and to-day
suffers no ill effects from ber terrible ex
perience. The fire attracted an immense
crowd, and the firemen were re
peatedly cheered for their bravery
in piloting the bewildered people
through the smoke to places of
safety. Those in the hotel nt the time be
sides the employes of the house and Mr.
Hopper and fatnilv, were John Whipple.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Atwood. Mrs. P. T.
Stucke and daughter, William G.. Wheeler,
Mrs. M. Saunders and Miss Clara Saun
ders, all of Philadelphia; H. Johnson Falls,
ot Schuylkill; George Coates, Jr., of Johns
town, and Miss Annie Gerhu. of Egg Har
bor Citv.
CARLISLE'S JEAT JR JCOJTORESS
Row tho Subject of a Bitter Contest Between
Kentucky Democrats.
ISPBCIAI. TXLEORAM TO TUB DISPATCH.'
Covington, Ky., May 18. The little
affair at Frankfort last week which re
sulted in the election of a United States
Senator was a mere diversion beside the
tempest already raging in Carlisle's district
There are at least 30 candidates and combi
nations and cliques abound on all sides.
Kenton county, which has now the bulk of
the good things in tbe way of offices,
ib a target for all the rest of the district, and
the rural counties, some eight or nine in
number, are "agin" both Campbell and
Kenton counties, in which are the cities of
Newport and Covington. The rural coun
ties can nominate the new Senator's suc
cessor if they can combine on a man. At
this writing Hon. Mort. D. Gray, of Grant
county, is the most formidable oi" the rural
candidates. In Campbell county George
Washington is in the lead, with Major Al.
Berry, of Newport, a close second. Judge
Perkins, President of the Latonia Jockey
Club, Hon. Theo. Hallan, Judge Cleary
and Judge O'Hara are the leading Kenton
county candidates.
WILL NOT ATTEND THE TRIAL.
Tbe F cleslnstlcal Hearing of a Minister
Chnrged With Theft and Falsehood.
rSFECIAL TELEQtAM TO THE PISPATCU.I
Reading, May 18. The ecclesiastical
trial of the Rev. M. L, Fritch, of Reading,
a widely known minister of the Reformed
Church, on the charges of theft and
falsehood, will begin at 10 A. M. to
morrow at Womelsdorf, before the Lebanon
Classis. The case is one of the most
extraordinary on record. Fritch had hith
erto always born a high reputation in the
community. It is strange to imagine a
well-to-do minister of .the gospel stealing
pocket knives, but that is exactly what the
Rev. Mr. Fritch is charged with doing.
The Rev. Mr. Fritch has thus far failed to
set forth any material defense. He said to
day: I will not attend the trial, as I have resigned
from the Classis and severed my relations with
the church. Tbe haste with which the trial
has been hurried forward is unbecoming
clergymen in their treatment of a brother min
ister. They should await the result of the civil
trial and then I would have appeared before
them, and the ecclesiastical trial could then
have gone on in decency and without malice. I
have not decided upon any definite coarse. I
have been greatly annoyed by the perseftutlons
of enemies, but am trying to bear up.
RAIROAD GRIEVANCES.
Employes Threaten to Make Trouble for
tbe Baltimore and Ohio.
rsrECIAL TBLEOBAX TO THE DHPATCrt.l
Philadelphia, May 18. A conven
tion of representatives from tbe different
organizations of railroad employes of all
roads centering in Philadelphia, was held
this evening. There were delegates present
representing District Assemblies 212, 81
and 151 of the Knights of Labor,
taking in the following towns: bunbury,
Renovo, Kane, Altoona, Philadelphia,
Keyser, W. Va., Baltimore, Washington
and numerous others, representing in all
over 13,000 railroaders. The object of the
convention was to take action iu endeavor
ing to secure a reasonable adjustment of
grievances which it is claimed the men
have against the different companies by
which they are employed. ,
General Secretary John W. Hayes, be
fore adjournment, made an address, in
which he stated that their order was going
ahead in the matter, and that while there
were grievances on the roads of the various
companies, those of the men of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad Company, on ac
count of their glaring character, would be
delt with first
English Byndlcato Negotiations.
Quinct, Mass., May 18. An English
syndicate is negotiating for tbe purchase of
tbe granite business of this citv. It is said
mat tz,uu,uuo u involved. 'v i - !
TEAIN IS ON TIME.
The One and Only George Francis Ar
rives at Hew York on His
FLYING GI0BE-G1RDLING TOUR.
All Eecords Beaten Out of Sight by the
famous Philosopher. ,
TBENB CHARGED WITH PLAGIARISM.
I la the rail an Altempt Will be Made to Cover the Dis
tance in 42 Days.
George Francis Train arrived at New
York yesterday, 60 days out on his trip
around the world. He is very enthusiastic
over tbe success of the tour, and asserts that
he will start next October to make the
circuit of the globe in 42 days.
lEFECIAI. TELEQKAM TO TBS PtSPATCII.l
New Yoek, May 18. Citizen George
Francis Train came inon the Etrnria this
morning 60 days from Tacoma, Washington,
on his trip' around the world. He has
beaten all globe circling records so soundly
that he thought he could afford to take a
day off in town to-day. He will resume his
journey at 6 o'clock to-morrow by the New
York Central route to Chicago, where he
will take the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad to Tacoma. He expects to reach
Tacoma, which was his starting point, next
Saturday at noon, thus completing tbe circle
of the globe in 65 days.
The Citizen is looking brown and hearty
and is greatly elated over his achievement
He calls himself Phileas Fogg, and says
that in beating tbe time of Jules "Verne's
hero he is now having bis revenge out of the
novelist for having stolen from him tbe idea
of the novel "Around the World in "Eighty
Days."
VEENE A PLAOIAEIST.
"That was my idea," said he. "I went
around tbe world in 1870 in 80 days and
Jules Verne caught up the idea and made a
fiction of it without giving me credit. But
Where's his 80 days now?"
The Citizen then went up town to his
usual headquarters, the Continental Hotel,
and registered himself in blue pencil, thus:
"George Francis Train. Around tbe World
in 59 days. Special $20,000 train fourdays."
The clerk assigned him to room 9, in honor
of his achievement, and this pleased the
Citizen greatly. Citizen Train is travelling
around the world at the expense of tbe
hustling young city of Tacoma, which is
enjoying a boom just at present and hopes
to attract attention by Train's exploits.
The idea wasthe Citizen's. He wrote from
Boston proposing it, and Tacoma raised
$4,000 to start him off. S. W. Wall, editor
of the Tacoma Ledger, accompanied him.
They left Tacoma March 18 at 6 in the
morning upon the Canadian Pacific steamer
Abyssinia to Yokohama, arriving there in
16 days.
Train expected to take the North German
Lloyd steamer General Werder at that point
for Hong Kong, but it had sailed. Citizen
Train was not at all disconcerted. He
simply paid the agent's price to have the
steamer stopped at Kobe, 300 miles south.
The agent telegraphed the desired order and
the Citizen went to Tokio, where be secured
passports for himself and Mr.. Wall from
the American Minister.
STJEJIOUNTZNO DIFFICITLTIES.
He went by train to Kobe, where the
steamer was waiting. This was done jnst
in the nick of time, for the day after they
started was a holiday, and the next day the
Government took bold of tbe railroad to
transport troops. At Hon Kong the Citizen
caught the North German Lloyd steamer,
Preussen, to Colombo, where he intended to
take the Peninsular and Oriental mail
steamer, Arcadia, to Port Said. But here
a new exigency arose. Tho Arcadia did not
intend to start for 18 hours, and Citizen
Train had no mind to lose three-quarters of
a day.
There appeared to be nothing to do but to
charter the Preussen to go on with him.
This was no sooner thought of than done,
and the Prenssen took him through the Suez
Canal. Bnt here the Arcadia, which was a
faster steamer, overtook them, and the Citi
zen and his companion boarded ber and in
four days more found themselves in Brin
disi. At this point Train becitne fearful that if
he depended upon scheduled trains and
steamers, as originally intended, he would
reach Queenstown too late to take the
Etruria. The Citizen telegraphed for a
special steamer and train for London.. A
special India mail train took him to Calais
in 62 hours and a special steamer carried
him over to Dover without tbe loss of an
hour. The regular trains took him to Lon
don and Queenstown, where he found him
self in good time for the Etruria.
INTERESTING THE PASSENGERS.
On the passage over the Atlantic Citizen
Train made himself very interesting to the
passengers. He had a huge bundle of big
maps of Tacoma, and on the back of one of
them he had made an illustrated chart of his
trip. The chart needed a great deal of ex
plaining, and explaining it became hiscbief
occupation. A big circle was the central
figure iu the chart,and pictures of hotels,
steamers and of the Citizen himself were
pasted all over it In tbe center ot the circle
was tnls announcement: xacoma s grand
victorv. Short route, Europe to Japan,
China India, introducing 125,000,000 Pan
Americans to 800,000,000 Asiatics. Colum
bo Cathay dreams realized. Paris to Pek
ing 20 days."
After breakfast every morning Train went
up on deck, spread out his chart and began
to explain it He was at once surrounded
by a crowd of passengers. At meal hours
he would stop explaining long enough to eat
the scanty vegetable repasts on which be
maintains an exuberant life. His explana
tions were often varied by learned digres
sions upon any subject, which entertained
his hears mightily. Occasionally he would
devote 'a few hours to talking specially to
tbe ladies in the cabin, but whether to men
or women Citizen Train talked to someone
every minute he was not asleep.
HIS HELMET A FEATURE.
He wore a brown suit and a huge two
story cork helmet, which looked like a big
mushroom or a little cirens tent It was
white and had inscriptions in good sized
black letters on the front The lettering on
the top story of the helmet spelled out the
Citizen's lull name. On its ground floor
was the motto, "Round the world in 60
days." Underneath this mammoth helmet
he wore a red fez. the unexpected appear
ance of which rather startled people when
he removed the helmet
The Etruria was met at 6 o'clock this
morning at Quarantine by the tug F. W.
Devoe, with some of the Citizen's friends
aboard. Among them were Milton C.
Roach, Eastern Passenger Agent of the
New York Central; H. A, Gross, General
Eastern Passenger Agent of the Chicago
and Northwestern road: E. D. Harrington,
Passenger Agent of the same road; J.
M. Miller, who represented Tacoma,
and a Dispatch reporter. They had'
a permit to take the Citizen off, and they got
him at G:15 o'clock. Train was jubilant
when he cautrht sight of the tng. He
waved bis huge helmet and shouted to his
friends that he was not goinc to stay in
town an hour, and that a $20,000 special
train must start westward with him at once
A good many passengers leaned over the
steamer's rail and shouted goodby to bim as
he climbed down the side into the tug.
EXPRESSING HIS THANKS.
v "This is very thoughtful." said the Citi-
-V
zen, shaking hands with himself heartily
lor everyone of the party that met him.
"Halt tbe British Empire dresses in 'noth
ing but stovepipe hats and strings. This is
a great ad for Tacoma, isn't it? I'm in
splendid health?"
The tug and the big steamer came up the
harbor together, but the tug lande1 her pas
sengers first. Citizen Train stepped on
shore at 6:52 o'clock, and insisted on taking
all his friends to breakfast at tbe Astor
House, i He said he'd learned to swear while
away. ' He had found travelers "so
slow of comprehension" when he talked
tbat he was forced into a habit which he
admitted was low and vulgar. He said that
next October he was going round the world
in 42 days. He produced his chart and
exhibited this programme for the proposed
exploit, as follows: "Days, Tacoma to Yo
kohama, 10J; Yokohama to Hong Kong,
3f, Hong Kong to Singapore, 3; Singa
pore to Colombo, 2; Colombo to Aden, 4J$;
Aden to Suez, ; Suez to Port said, ;
Port Said to Brindisi, 2; Brindisi to
Southampton, 2; Southampton to New
York, 6; New York to Tacoma, 3. Total,
K."
NOT A NOVELTY EOB HIM.
"It is jio novelty to me to circle the
earth," said the Citizen. "I've been round
before. Wall opened his eyes when he
heard me talk the language of every coun
try we went through. I speaks 20 different
languages."
Train rehearsed bis adventures to crowds
of interested listeners at the Continental
Hotel in the alternoon. Those who counted
up tbe days of the trip on the calendar made
it 61 days, but the Citizen said that in
circling the 'globe Westward you make a
day, and that must be deducted. Making
this allowance, the trip had lasted 60 days
and 1 hour when Train stepped on Vesey
street dock ftom the tug this morniug. IU
claimed that it was 59, days because the
steamer was really due on Saturday night
If Train had started west at 6 o'clock last
night, as he might have done, he would
have completed his journey in 64 days and
18 hours.
DISASTER AT HAVANA.
A rJIRE AND EXPLOSION CAUSES DEATH
AND DESTRUCTION.
One Hundred Persons Ipjnred Tho Explo
sion of a Barrel of Gunpowder Kills
Thirty-Two People and Injures One
Hundred Noted Men Among tbe Dead.
Havana, May 18. At 11 o'clock last
night a fire broke out in Ysasis' hardware
store. In a short time the flames reached a
barrel of powder in the building and a terrific
explosion followed. The whole structure
was blown to pieces and 22 persons were
killed. Among the dead arc four chiefs,
Senores Musset Zensoviech, Oscar Conill,
Francesco Ordonez and the Venezuelan Con
sul, Senor Francesco Silva, who happened
to be in front of the building at the time of
the explosion. In addition to the killed
over 100 persons are injured.
The explosion cansed the wildest excite
ment throughout the city and thousands
flocked to tbe scene of the disaster. Tbe
Governor General, the Civil Governor and
all tbe principal authorities of the city were
promptly on the ground and did everything
in their power to aid tbe injured and calm
the grief-stricken relatives of the victims.
Several houses adjacent to the wrecked
building were damaged by the explosion.
Ysasi, the proprietor of tbe wrecked hard
ware store, has been arrested. It is feared
that there are several more victims in the
ruins. Over the theaters and the Chamber
of Commerce and many other buildings flags
are hanging at half mast Everywhere are
signs of mourning. TJp to the present time
the number of dead is 34.
A SOY BEATEN TO DEATH
By a Philadelphia Qluslc Teacher Who Was
Annoyed By Him.
.SPECIAL TELZOBAM TO THE DISPATCH,!
Philadephia, May 18. James War
hurst, an irrascible music teacher of this
city, 24 years of age, took it upon himself on
January 3 last, to beat unmercifully tbe 8
yearold son of his neighbor, Thomas Moore,
living, at 4152 Lancaster avenue, because he
thought the lad had been annoying him.
To-day the child died. The mother ap
peared in court last Wednesday,
and, with tears rolling down her
face, said her boy was dying, but Warhurst
was not committed, and nobody knows
where he is. The court officers thought the
mother exaggerated the story.
All last winter the boys tormented War
hurst by pulling his door bell. He pounced
out one day and seized the Moore boy, who,
with a rope, was palling another
boy on roller skates. He dragged him into
his house, shut the door, kicked him and
beat him until the lad was in a frightful
condition. Warhurst was held in $500 bail
for assault. The boy never left bed after he
was taken home. Warhurst ran away on
Wednesday after he heard of the mother's
story in court
A CHANGE OF CREED.
One Fopalnr Philadelphia Pastor Goes Over
to the Episcopal Church.
rSPICIAL TELEQBAM TO TOE DISPATCII.I
Philadelphia, May 18. The public in
general, and church circles in particular, are
excited over the resignation to-day of Rev.
Edwin A. Gernant as pastor of Zion's Re
formed Church. Mr. Gernant declares that
he has undergone a change of conviction,
and leaves his old chnrch to connect himself
with the Episcopal Church. At the con
clusion of the sermon Mr. Gernant, in a
voice which for a time trembled with emo
tion, presented his resignation, informing
his people that his convictions had under
gone a change.
Mr. Gernant will connect himself with the
Philadelphia diocese, and wiUbe at the dis
posal of the Bishop for work. He cannot be
given ministerial orders for six months, but
in the meanwhile can be assigned to work.
He has been pastor of Zion's Reformed
Church for nine years, and has won distinc
tion in the ministerial profession.
BULLET HOLES IN A VEST.
Discovery Of a Garment Supposed to Have
Been Warn by Sawtelle.
Great Falls, N. H., May 18. Interest
is renewed in the Sawtelle case by tbe find
ing of a vest supposed to have been Hiram
Sawtelle's, by a party of fishermen on the
bank of Keyes brook, not far from the
country road traversed by Isaac on the fatal
night, and not more than 300 yards from
where one of 'Hiram's shoes was fonnd.
There were no bullet holes in the front of
the garment, but in tbe back there was a
hole that might have been made by a bullet.
and the surrounding cloth had the appear
ance of being burned by powder. The col
lar was torn in tbe back and there were dis
tinct blood stains on the front There was
nothing in the pockets save a tew matches
and a button-shaped whistle of tin.
THEY ARE NOT WANTED.
Fifteen Poles and Five Italian Laborers De
tained at Castle Garden.
NetvYobk, May 18. Fifteen Russian
Poles were detained at tbe Barge office yes
terday. They were bound for Connellsville,
Pa., under contract to work in
the mines there. The brother of the
owner of tbe mine where they were to work
was with them and was also detained. It is
probable that a civil suit will be brought
against him.
Five Italians under contract to work in
the potteries at Bethlehem were also de
tained. All these '' detained immigrants
came in the Etruria. . . . '
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SyWVS ONLY ISSUE.
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That Eecent Decision Will Make Pro
hibition Affect Even
THE CHOICE OP COflGRESffllEH.
Original Packages Will Cat a Figure in
tlie Fall Campaign.
AN DNEESTEiCTED LIQU0E TEAFFIC,
For the Present, at Least in tho larger Towns,
Ears to be the EesnIL
The original package decision has taken
prohibition into politics with a vengeanco
in Iowa. Even national contests will be
affected. The coming camoaizn will be an
interesting one.
ISPZCIAI. TSLZGBA1I TO Till DISPATCH, t
Des Moines, Ia., Slay 18. The temper
ance question in Iowa just at present is in a
enrious condition, and jnst what will be the
outcome of it all is hard to determine. There
is no doubt, however, that the sentiment of
the people has changed to a considerable ex
tent from the time when the prohibitory
amendment was submitted to the people and
voted upon, eight years ago next June. It
was a non-partis? n election, and the amend
ment carried by 30,000 majority.
The law went into effect almost immedi
ately, hut the saloon keepers and brewers
fought it to the bitter end, with tbe result of
having it declared unconstitutional bythe
State Supreme Court on a technical error in
its passage. Nothing daunted, the temper
ance people, backed by the Republican par
ty, enacted a prohibitory law at the
next Legislature, and its weaknesses
were cured by succeeding Assem
blies until the present ironclad statute re
sulted. Every device has been resorted to to
evade the law in communities where there
was a disposition to enforce it, among them
being tbe importation of original packages
and the sale of them unbroken. These cases
of alleged violation were taken up to the
State Supreme Court, aud such sales pro
nounced by it to be illegal:
to xtie highest tribunal.
An appeal in a case from Keokuk waa
taken up to the United States Supreme
Court, with tbe result of reversing the State
conrt and declaridg the importation of
original packages to be inter-State com
merce and therefore not amenable to State
laws. There has been a wide diversity of
opinion as to what this really means, but
the general conclusion seems to be that
manufacturers in other States can establish
agencies in this State, and through them the
original packages (meaning anything from
the largest to the smallest quantity) can be
imported and sold to individual consumers.
Under this view of the question original
package houses are being established in
every community, great and small, and
soon will be as plenty as saloons were for
merly. The only material difference will be that
these original package houses will not be
drinking places, especially in places were
tbe enforcing element predominates,and any
attempt to establish the old-style saloons
wHl be vigorously opposed. But these
originalpackage houses will be surrounded
bv a vicious class, and will be in the nature
of supply houses for what are known as
"bootleggers," or persons who carry bottles
in their pockets and sell the liquor out by
the drink in any convenient place.
Previous to this decision the law had be
come a dead letter in all the principal towns
of the State, and, indeed in some of the
towns on the Mississippi and Missouri riv
ers it never was enforced. While there were
no licenses issued, the saloon keepers
were made to pay a nominal hne each
month, amounting to what a license former
ly did, and thus a number of tbe larger
cities continued to derive a revenue. Under
tbe Supreme Court's decision and the estab
lishment of the original package houses
tbis revenue will be cut off, and the sale
bids fair to be absolutely free and untram
meled, except, of course, that all will be
compelled to take ont a Government license.
ojte of the features.
Under the State law, before this decision
interfered, a great many of the cities and
towns were infested with what are known as
"searchers." and so obnoxious did they be
come that tbe people were heartily sick and
tired of it. At the meeting of the Legis
lature last winter an effort was made to
modify the law so as to get rid of these un
desirable individuals, but it failed, and a
strong attempt was made to adopt a high
license statnte, but to no purpose, as the
Republicans stood by the party platform,
which declared prohibition to be the "set
tled policy of the State."
An organization has been formed of anti
saloon (also anti-prohibtion) Republicans
who will make an attempt to secure enough
delegates to the Republican State Conven
tion, which meets at Sioux City, June 25,
to adopt a plank in the platform declaring
for a modification of the law. Tbis organ
ization is composed of representative busi
ness men in every important city, and it is
more than likely" they will succeed in their
designs. The Prohibitionists are also on
the alert, and the temperance question will
be paramount in this tail's conipaign.
THE QUESTION OF THE HOUR.
The question will figure largely in the
Congressional canvass with a view to the
election of representatives who will be in
favor of a law giving the States the right to
control the liquor or any other traffic within-their
own borders. Although the Demo
cratic party in Iowa has always been the
license or anti-prohibition .party, the
Democrats of the State do not seem
to be very much encouraged by the de
cision, tbe prevailing opinion among them
being that it is as much of a blow at license
or control of any sort ait it is to prohibition.
They do not care to have the baleful influ
ences of liquor selling unless some compen
sating benefit can be derived in tbe way of
revenue and lightening of taxation. They
also see that the decision does not interfere
with the prohibition of tbe manufacture of
liqnors, although if the sale of it cannot be
controlled there will undoubtedly be a ma
jority of the people in favor of starting up
the breweries and distilleries again.
But this cannot be done until the present
law is changed, except by common consent
Altogether the question is quite compli
cated, and the people of Iowa will look for
tbe results of this year's campaign with
great deal of interest
SILVER m NEW JERSEY.
A Conplo of Female Speculators Who Think
Tbey Have Struck It.
rSPECIAI. TZUtOBAH TO THE DUrATCH.1
Mat's Landing, N. J., May 18. The
citizens of leasantville, Atlantic county,
are greatly excited over the discovery of
what is supposed to be a valuable silver
mine. The mine is located about three miles
above Pleasantville, on tbe lineof the Read
ing Railroad. The land was recently pur
chased by Mrs. Charles McGIade and Sirs.
Mary A. Riddle, of Atlantic City, who are
greatly encouraged with the progress made,
and have great hopes of ultimately striking
rich deposits of silver.
Experts who have assayed samples have
pronounced It to contain sufficient quanti
ties of silver ore to pay working.the claim,
and a shaft has been sunk about 23 feet with
encouraging progress. . , ,
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