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Another Supreme Court Decis-
ion on the Same Line as
the Famous
ORIGINAL PACKAGE RULING.
The Dressed Meat Inspection Acts De
clared Unconstitutional.
MOESION WEALTfl CONFISCATED.
Property of the Corporation to lo Seized by
the Government,
PLAIiS FOE A nX-AMEEICAX EAILWAI
Several decisions were rendered by the
Supreme Court of the United States yester
day. One declares State meat inspection
laws, intended to prevent importations, un
constitutional. Such acts are held to intrude
upon the domain of inter-State commerce.
Another ruling upholds the right of the
Government to confiscate the Mormon
Church property in Utah.
:f rrciAi. telegram to the oisrATcn.i
"Washington-, May 19. The Supreme
Court is evidently determined to maintain
the sanctity of inter-State commerce. A
decision rendered to-day completely knocks
out all the so-called State inspection laws
relating to dressed meat, which was passed
at the demand of the butchers and farmers
of the respective Commonwealths, and the
ruling is considered fully as important as
that relating to original packages. The
cause was entitled the "State of Minnesota
against Henry D. Barber."
Barber was convicted of selling fresh beef
slaughtered in Illinois, which had not been
inspected before slaughter, as required by
the lav ot Minnesota. He alleged that the
law was an unconstitutional interference
with inter-State commerce. The Court, in
an opinion by Justice Harlan, says:
RESULT Or SUCH LAWS.
The enactment of a similar statute by each
one of tue States composing the Union would
result id the destruction of commerce among
the several btates, so far as snch commerce is
involved in the transportation from one part or
the country to another of meat designed for
human food and entirely free from disease.
This act provides that all cattle, sheep ana
En ine shall be inspected within Si hours before
the animals are slaughtered, and that (if snch
be the fact) the inspectors shall certify that
the slaughtered animals were found to be
healthy and fit for human food.
The sale of meat not taucn from au inspected
and certified animal is forbidden under penal
ty of Sne and imprisonment. As the inspec
tion must take place uiihin the 24 hours imme
diately preceding the slaughtering, the act, by its
cecebsary operation, excludes from the Minne
sota, market practically all fresh beef, veal,
mutton, lamb or pork in whatever form, and,
although entirely sound, healthy and fit for
human food, taken from animals slaughtered
in other States; and directly tends to restrict
the slaughtering of animals whose meat is to
)e sold in Mlnnosota for human food to those
engaged in snch business in that btatc.
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
AVlien to this is added tbo fact that the stat
ute by its necessary operation prohibits the
tale in ttc Stale of fresh beef, teal, mutton,
lamb or pork.from animals that may have been
inspected carefully and thoroughly in the
btatc where thej cro slaughtered and before
they were slaughtered, no doubt can remain as
to its effect upon commerce among the several
States, It will not do to saj certainly no
judicial tribunal can with propucty assume
that the peoplo of Minnesota uiaj not with due
regard to their health rely upon inspections in
other States of amuials there slaughtered for
purposes ol human food.
If the object f the statute had been to deny
altogether to the citizens of other btates tho
pmilege or selling ultbiu the limits of ilinnc
f oU for human food, fresh beef, veal, mutton,
lamb or pork, from animals slaushtered out
sido of that State even those wholly free from
disease when slaughtered and to compel tho
people of Minnesota desiring to buy such
meats, either to purchase that taken from ani
mals slaughtered in the State, or to purchase
tlicui, when desired tor their own domestic
uc, at points be ond the State, that object is
attained by the act in question.
IJUTV OF THE COUET.
Our duty to maintain tho Constitution will
not permit us to shut our eyes to these obvious
and necessary results of the Miunesota statute.
If this legislation doesn't mako snch discrim
ination against tho products and business of
other btates in favor of the product, and busi
ness of Minnesota, as interferes with aud bur
dens commecro among the several States, it
vuuid be dithcilt to enact legislation that
would have snch a result.
Another decision rendered by the Supreme
Court to-day u ot vital interest to Utah in
general and the Mormon Church in particu
lar. The case grows out of the passage ot the
Edmunds arti-polygamy law bv the Forty-
ninth Congress. Thislaw.amougother things,
dissolved the Mormon Church corporation,
annulled its charter, directed the appoint
ment of a receiver to wind up its affairs and
escheated to the United States all the real
estate owned by the church in excess of
$50,000, which was not on the date of the
passage of the act held for purposes of wor
ship or burial. "When the United States
under the terms ot this began proceedings
to confiscate about 5750,000 worth of
property belonging to the church, the
Mormons immediately entered suit to have
the Edmunds law declared unconstitutional.
ARGUMENTS OP THE MORMONS.
It was argued before the Supreme Court
in their behalf that Congress, by the disso
lution of the church corporatiou, had as
sumed judicial powers, and that the act of
the .Legislative Assembly of Utah incor
porating the church constituted a contract
which could not be impaired by Congress
under its authority to repeal Territorial en
actments. It was also held that the doc
trine ol escheat was alien to the spirit of
ree institutions, aud that it had never been
Applied in thiscountrv to a church or chari
table corporation.
On the part of the United States it was
contended that Congress had authority to
repeal all Territorial enactments; that the
itct incorporating the church was invalid as
,an attempt to establish a religion contrary
'toithe provisions of the Constitution, and
that, moreover, the charter should be an
nulled for abuse of the granted rights, and,
as when tbe church corporatiou was dis
solved, there was no one to whom to turn
j iorer the property, it was properly escheated
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States. In its opinion the
THE DISTINGUISHING FEATURE.
A distinguishing featuro of Jlormonism 1b
well known to be polygamy, and an absolute
ecclesiastical control of its church members.
Notwithstanding all tho efforts made to sup
press this barbarous practice of polygamy the
sect perseveres, in denance of law, in propa
gating and promoting this nefarious doctrine.
The existence of such a propaganda is ablot on
our civilization. The organization of a com
munity for the spread of polygamy is a return
to barbarism.
Tho question therefore is whether the pro
motion of such an unlawful system, so repug
nant to our laws, is to be allowed to continue,
and whether the enormous funds which have
been accumulated shall bo wielded for the
propagation of the obnoxious practice for the
promotion of an organized rebellion against
the laws of the United States. Tho hinory of
tho Government's dealings with the Mormons
is one of patience on the part of the American
Government and of resistance to law and piti
less atrocities on tho part of theSlormons. The
contention that polvgamy is a part of the Mor
mon's religious belief is a sophistical plea.
A PARALLEL CASE.
No doubt tli ethngs of India imagined that their
belief in assassination was a religious belief,
but that did not make it so. Society has a per
fect right to prohibit offenses against the en
lightened sentiment of mankind. Since the
church persists in claiming the right to use the
funds with which it has been endowed for tbe
purpose of promoting these unlawful practices,
the question arises, has the Go eminent tue
right to seize the funds which the Mormon
leaders are misusing and devote tbcm to worthy
and charitable purposes as nearly akin as pos
sible to those tonhich the funds were dedi
cated! Alter an elaborate historical review of the
common law, the Court comes to the conclu
sion that Congress had tbe right to seize the
property, and says:
Congress bad before it a contnmacions or
ganization, wielding by its resources an im
mense power in tho Territory of Utah, and em-
Diovin - thoso resources in constantlv attempt
ing to oppose, subvert and thwart the legisla
tion of Congress and the will of the Govern
ment of the United States. Under such cir
cumstances wo have no doubt of the right of
Congress to do as it did.
NOT EXA.CTLT UNANIMOUS.
Chief Justice Puller said that he and
Justices Field and Lamar were constrained
to dissent from this decision. The power of
Congress to legislate over the Territories
was not incident to thetreaty-making pow
er, and its power is restricted directly to
that expressed or implied in the Constitu
tion. There is no Buch power granted as
that involved in the act under considera
tion. Congress unquestionably has power to.
suppress polygamy, and it is immaterial
whether the crime was committed in the
name of religion. But Congress has not the
power to seize and confiscate the property of
corporations because they have been guilty
of crime.
The Kemmler case, involving the consti
tutionality of execution by electricity, is to
be argued before the Supreme court to
morrow. A PAX-AMERICAN UAILWAY.
HARRISON RECOMMENDS THAT
GRESS TAKE ACTION.
CON.
Money Should be Appropriated to Secure a
Frclimlnarr survey Tho Flan Declared
Entirely Practicable flinch Has Al
ready Been Accomplished.
Washington, May 19. The President
sent to the Senate to-day a letter from the
Secretary of State submitting the plan for a
preliminary survey of a railway line to con
nect the principal cities of the American
hemisphere in accordance with the recom
mendation of the Pan-American conference.
The share of tbe United States in the cost of
the survey will bo 65,000. In his letter of 1
transmittal tbe President says:
Public attention has chiefly been attractod to
tbe subiect of improved water communication
between tho ports of tho United States and
thoso of Central and bonth America. The
creation of now and improved steamship lines
undoubtedly furnishes the readiest means of
developing an increased trade with the Latin
American nations. But it should not be for
gotten that it is possiblo to travel by land from
Washington to the southernmost capital of
South America, and that the opening of rail
road communication with these friendly States
will givo to them and to us facilities for inter
course and tho exchange of trade that aro of
special value.
The work contemplated Is vast, but entirely
practicable. It will be interesting to all. and
perhaps fcurprising to most of us, to notice
bow much has already been done in the way
of railroad construction in Mexico and South
America, that can bo utilized as part of an in
tercontinental line, I do not hesitate to recom
mend that Congress make tlio vcrv moderate
appropriation for survejs suggested bj the
conference, and authorize the appointment of
commissioners and the detail of engineer oih
cers to direct and conduct tho necessary pre
liminary surveys.
CANDIDATES TO SPARE,
Any Kumber of lbcm Are After Colone
Cnnndy's I'lncc
irrtoM a STArr connEsrojiDzsT. j
"Washington, May 10. The campaign
for the succession to Colonel Canady as
Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate promises to
be a very hot one. So long as the resigna
tion of Canady was not a certamtv. then
did not appear on the surface any candidate
except uencrai xsauey, t Uniontown, Pa.
but to-day rivals of the General bobbed up
on every side, and the prospects are good for
au aspirant from nearly every Republican
State. General Bailey is here and ex
presses his confidence in the substantial
character of his backing, and certainly
lie was in the field long enough w ithout a
rival to secure valuable pledges ahead of all
comers. Senator Allison is said to be very
earnest in his support of Colonel Swords, of
Iowa, but as the great Iowa Senator and
Senator Quay double team on nearly every
matter ot this kind, it i probable tbev will
not antagonize one another.
Mr. Charles B. Reade, the present Deputy
Sergeant at Arms, came out "as a candidate
this morning, and is working the many
friendships he,has made in his present posi
tion for all they are worth. Leeds, of Phil
adelphia, is not looked on as bein" in the
fight. Ex-Congressman Valentine, of
Nebraska, is in the contest to stay, and the
number of other prominent names are sug
gested as almost ready tor announcement.
ORIGINAL PACKAGES.
Tbo Hecate Will TnLe Dp tho Consideration
oftlie (Mibjcci To-dny.
"Washington, May 19. On motion of
Mr. "Wilson, of Iowa, it was ordered that
the Senate bill suojecting liquors to the
provisions of the laws of the several States
shall be taken up to-morrow after the
routine business.
Will Vote on the TnrlfT Bill.
TfrXClAt. TEUObAX TO THE DI6PATCII.1
"Washington. May 19. Mr. Carlisle
was on the floor of the House to-day and
received the congratulations of both Demo
crats and republicans. He will remain in
the Houe until after the vote is taken on
the Tariff bill and will move over to the
Senate on Thursday or Eridav.
Drotli In the Elnrntnr hhnfr.
IPrECtALlELHOKAM TO THE PI8PATCII I
HAKKISBDEG. May 19. This evening,
Charles Meredith, aged 14 years, who lias
charge of the elevator at the Leland House,
was caught between the platform and one of
the upper floors, and injured so badly that
he died within an hour.
A rnssenerr Jumped Overboard.
BT DrSIAT'S CABLE COMPAST.I
QOEENSTOWX, May 19. The American
line steamship Pennsylvania arrived here
to-day from Philadelphia. She reports that
a passenger named Francis Maxwell jumped
overboard on tbe 10th. He was reieued
from drowning but died of exhaustion,
to the United
Court savs:
CAUGHT BOTH tVAYS.
SUDDEN FAILURE OF A WELL-KNOWN
PHILADELPHIA BROKER.
When Readies Went Down Do Was Lone
nnd When It Went Up He Wns Short
Qnlte a Sensation Caused by the Sus
pension Ills Pedigree.
.Sl'ECIAL TXLEPItAH TO .TUB DI8PATCH.I
Philadelphia, May 19. The an
nouncement of the failureof Harry Markoe,
a prominent member of the Philadelphia
and Dew York Stock Exchange, produced a
decided sensation to-day in financial circles.
The suspension was announced at the Ex
change at 2:30 P. M. Mr. Markoes' social
prominence, his personal popularity and his
position in the Exchange all combined to
make the failure a notable one. Mr.
Markoe is a member of the old' Mark oe fam
ily, one of the most prominent in Philadel
phia. He is a son-in-law of Stephen A. Cald
well, the President of the Fidelity Trust
Company, and is a member of the Philadel
phia Club. He has an office in the Drexel
building, first floor, and operated for Ru
dolph Ellis, James P. Scott, Thomas
McKean' and other wealthy gentlemen.
Besides doing a commission business he
operated largely on bis own account. Mr.
Markoe said last night, at his home in
Pennliyn, in reply to a question as to the
amount of his liabilities, that he
could give no definite statement
at present. When informed that the
liabilities had been placed at $50,000 he said
he thought they would fall below that
amount. Mr. Markoe was next asked what
was the immediate cause of the failure. He
said :
The story is not a long one. Mv failuro is
closely related with a history of Heading se
curities for a period of several years. For two
years or more I was long of the market in these
securlties;both in stocks and bonds. The gradual
decline in prices of these securities was a se
vere strain on my capitak Gradually they
kept eating it away, and now a temporary
shortage in these securities at a time of their
sudden and unexpected advance of tho mar
ket, which I did not foresee, and which, I
think no one could foresee, precipitated the
failure. -My misfortune, was a double one. I
was lone when the market was declining and
abort when the market was advancing.
In the Exchange to-day there were
sold under the rules lor Mr. Mar
koe's account, 100 Northern Pacific com
mon, 400 shares of Pennsylvania stock, 16
shares Pennsylvania allotments and
V00 shares or 'St. Paul. Mr. Markoe
was long of these stocks. There were
bought in under the rule for his account
8.800 shares of Beading and 300 shares of
Northern Pacific preferred. He was short
of the market to this extent. Beading has
hid an advance of $3 per share in the last
month, and Northern preferred advanced
$11. This will give some idea of the pres
sure under which Mr. Markoe labored.
THE BIGGEST ONE FAILS.
There Seem to be no End to tbe Slaughter
of the Bucket-shops.
rSPECIAI. TELEORAJI TO TUB DISrATCIM
New York, May 19, Probably the
biggest bucket shop, not only in "Wall
street but in the country, went under to
day whe the public grain and
stock exchange, with offices in
the "Welles building, 18 Broadway
closed its doors. This bucket shop is
known as "The Big Pour," and was organ
ized in Chicago by Uncle Dan
Lorincr nine years ago. In 1884
the New York branch was. started,
and Irom that day until to-day it
has been the pride of the bucket shop owners
and bucket shop-patrons. It wits the boast
of the concern that it had ISO branches
in 120 cities of the United States and
Canada. As a matter of fact little
business was done at the main office. At
this office the quotations were gathered
from stocks, grain, petroleum and cotton
and disseminated among the branches.
It has been said that the Big Pour has
paid as high as 5210,000 a year in tolls to
the "Western Union Telegraph Company.
The capital stock of the concern was $100,
000. The officers are Charles H. Piatt,
president; Alfred F. Hovey, secre
tary and treasurer; Charles B. Fogg,
Assistant Treasurer, and W. W. Under
wood, traveling agent. Mr. Piatt, in speak
ing of the suspensiou, said that ltuasdue to
a claim made upon the parent house by J.
E. Dee, manager of the Oswego branch, for
$30,000. Mr. Piatt was diffident about
speaking of the luture. He was inclined to
think that the concern would pay 100 cents
on the dollar, but ot this there was no cer
tainty.
COSTS TO TAB AND FEATHEB.
An Iownn Recovers Damns'" to tho Amount
of S700 for IliB Infliction.
rSFECUb TKLEOHAM TO TUB DISPATCn.J
Des Moines, Maj 19. It costs just 5700
to tar and feather a man in this State. C.
A. Chambers, a wealthy farmer near Thur
man, was assessed that amount by a jury
to-day. In November last he sent his
wife to Hot Springs, Ark., for treatment
for some nervous affection. "While she
was absent some suspicion was aroused
that all was not right -between her
and a school teacher named "Wolfenberger,
who had come from Monroe county. Alter
the wife started for home a long letter from
"Wolfenberger was picked up and proved her
guilt. On the evening of December 10,
after school hours, the angry husband
and his brother nnd the brother of his wife
met at the school house, and after reading
the letter to "Wolfenberger and after his con
fession that be wrote it, they applied a coat
of tar and feathers.
"Wolfenberger brought an action for dam
ages in tho sum of f 2,500 for assault and his
disgrace and humiliation. The jury was
out eight hours, and came to the conclusion
that 5700 would pay Wolfenberger for his
sufferings.
STAKLET PROPOSES A COLONY
And WIH Try to Induce Sonthem Kecroea
lo Go lo Afrlcn.
TBT DDNLAT'S CABLE COMPANT.
London, May 19. Stanley and tbe
Government are at odds, and a split in the
cabinet is possible on the question of con
cessions to Germany in Africa. A new
Central African Compauy is being formed
under the auspices of Sir Charles Tennant,
and Asbmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts, and
the Barings. The new company is actively
preparing to act, should tho Government
cringe to uermany. v" " wuw uaau,
Germany is rushing to tho Congo. Two
last steamers with the necessary supplies
and crews are fitting out at Antwerp.
Stanley is preparing to transport negroes
from the Southern States of America to the
forest country of the Upper Congo colony,
containing 35,000 square miles of territory,
with a healthy climate, navigable rivers and
wooded hills, which Stanley reports as re
sembling Arkansas, Mississippi and Louis
iana, without the swamps, and calculated
to provide 2,000,000 negroes with a quarter
of a square mile each. Anything can be
grown there, oranges, sugar cane, cotton,
wheat and rice.
A MINISTER NO LONGER.
Kev. Martin L. Filch Formally Deposed by
tho Reformed Church.
Heading, May 19. The Lebanon Classis
of the Kcformed Church at "Womelsdorf, to
day gave an ecclesiastical trial to Rev. Mar
tin E. Erich, charged with falsehood nnd
theft. The former charge was withdrawn,
but Erich's confession in writing that he
bad stolen was read and he was deposed
from ;' ministry. .- ....,
SCOTT HAS SAID IT.
Mr. Pattison Must be the Democratic
Nominee for Governor.
WALLACE IS AGAINST CLEVELAND
And That Pact Alone Will Defeat Him in
the Convention.
DELAMATEB AND TIIE C0KP0KAT105S.
A Call for a rrimary Election Has Been Issned, in
Elalr County.
Ex-Congressmau "William L. Scott be
lieves that Pattison should and will be the
Democratic candidate for Governor. The
Wallace partisans are opposed to Cleveland
and therefore doomed to defeat Scott says
Pattison will carry many Itepublican coun
ties in his section of the State. '
rsrcciAL TELEOimn to the dispatch.
Philadelphia, May 19. Ex-Congress-man
"William E. Scott, of Erie, arrived in
this city to-day, and in discussing the Gu
bernatorial situationon the Democratic side,
said:
In my estimation Pattison is the most avail
able candidate. The Democracy of the State
favor his nomination, and the farmers, irre
spective of party affiliations, want him on the
ticket. 1 am confident that he can carry many
counties in tho section of the State from which
1 come and which usually go Republican.
This would most assuredly be so as against
Delamater or any other candidate that mav
bo nominated by Mr. Quay. Recardmc Mr
Pattison's chances, I think there is little doubt
of his boing tho choice of tho Scranton con
vention. He Is particularly strong in tho
western and northu estern counties. There has
been a good deal of quiet work done in the ex
Governor's behalf thro jghont the State, which
will be made apparent when the State conven
tion meets. I have nothine personal or political
against Sir. Wallace, but I feel he would not be
available as our candidate at this time, as our
duty should be to name the man whom wo
could most likoly elect.
ir. Wallace has mado a qualified denial of
his hostility to Mr. Cleveland. He simply
states that he is not In tho combination against
the ex-President, bnt he is careful not to deny
that he is opposed to him. and that ho intends
to use whatever political Influence he may
nave to defeat Jlr. Cleveland in case ho should
be a candidate. The New York Sun is strongly
backinc Mr. Wallace, and It almost goes with
out sajmg that no one who is notnostilcto
Mr. Cleveland roula receive the Sun's support,
'his is a campaign to elect a Governor of
Pennsylvania, and the enemies of Mr. Cleve
land should not use it to strengthen
themselves In tho fight which they intend
making against him in 1S92. While tho nomina
tion ot Pattison would have no bearing ou the
delegation to the next National Convention
yet Wallace's nomination wouldbe regarded as
a triumph of Mr. Cleveland's enemies, and
would bo heralded as snch throughout the
countrv. Mr. Quay, It is stated, believes that
with Mr. Pattison on the Democratic ticket he
would be able to raise more money from tbe
corporations with which to elect Mr. Delama
ter in other words that Mr. Wallace would be
as acceptable to tho corporations as Mr. Dela
mater. I believe that this is bo. but I have
much more faith in the people, in the larmers
and others who will support Pattison than I
have fear that tho corporations will take an ac
tive part in tbo cauvass.
FOSTER FOR CONGRESS.
The Ex-Gorernor'. Latest bcliemo lo Get
Into Politic! Once More.
1SFECIAL TELEGRAM To THE PISFATCn.1
COLUWDUS, May 19. The Republicans
of the Eighth Ohio district are determined
to elect ex-Governor Poster to Congress from
that district if tall hustling, hard work
and plenty of money will do it. The dis
trict is composed of the countiesxf Seneca,
Hancock, "Wyaudottc, Marion and Union,
and on the last Congressional vote had 1,300
Democratic majority. It has been decided
here at the Republican headquarters that
even should the State ticket fail all the
close Ohio Congressional districts must be
carried by the Republicans or the next
Lower House of Congress will bo Demo
cratic. The Cleveland district is now repre
sented by tho Hon. "W. C. Burton, and
which is also close.
In the Eighth an effort will be made to
renominate the Hon. George E. Seney,
Democrat, although he is now serving his
fourth term. Seney has as much money as
ex-Governor Foiter, and a great deal more
ability. State Senator Adams, of Seneca:
Hon. Boston G. Young, of Marion; Repre
sentative Gear, of Wyandotte, and Dave
Joy and Al Zugschwert, of Hancock, are
tauuiuuics. .tvuauis anu ioung are men
of considerable statesmanlike ability,
but the only man who can suc
cessfully fight the ex-Governor with
his own peculiar weapons is George
E. Seney. It is said that the latter gentle
man does not desire another nomination in
this new district, but his friends are work
ing for him. The Twentieth district is
about 800 Democratic, and a bitter fight
will be made there. The Republican Na
tional Committee has agreed to help the
State Committee financially this fall.
PATTISON'S FRIENDS
LTavo limed a Call for a I'rlmnry Election In
Hlnlr County.
rSPECTAL TELEOBAM TO TUE PISPATCH. I
HoLLiDAYsnuBO, Pa., May 19. The
"Wallace bosses, Greevy and Dively, will
find that they counted without their hosts
when they thought that tbe Democrats of
Blair county would tamely submit to be
represented by the Wallace delegates
elected by a rump convention, when the
county is two to one for Pattison. The Pat
tison men have the best elements of the
party with them. To-morrow morninc; the
following call, signed by the County Com
mittee, J6hn Duupby and Secretary H. A.
McFadden, will be published:
The Democrats of Blair county are hereby
notified that tho primaries will be held on Sat
urday, June 7, to select delegates to tbe County
Convention to be held in Condron's Opera
House, Holirdaysburg. on Monday, June to
elect delegates to the Democratic State Conven
tion, which will meet in Scranton on July 2, and
to elect Congressional conferees. The voters
will instruct their delegates as to their choice
of Robert Pattison or William A. Wallace for
candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania. The
people are tired of bossism In .Blair county, and
are determined that their will and wishes shall
be heeded. They aro thoroughly aroused.
MARTIN'S LITTLE BOOM.
Hols Working Ilnrd for tho Nomination us
Lieutenant Governor.
inPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DtSPATCII.l
"Williamsport, May 19. Martin, Lan
caster's candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
is to make a canvass of the central and
western part of, the State this week. This
forenoon he started in at Lewisburg, where
he was tendered quite an ovation by the
Republicans and Grand Army men of
Union county. At Milton this evening he
met both the rank aud file of Northumbei
land county.
He was tendered an informal reception at
the Park Hotel in this city this evening
where he was greeted by hundreds of L
coming country Republicansicalled on him.
Mr. Martin is tbe favorite among the dele
gates in this part of the State for Lieuten
ant Governor.
A GREAT SLAUGHTER.
Fifteen Ilnndrcd boldlcra Said to Ilavo
Been Killed In Untile.
Pabis, May 19. Advice from Senegal
state that the conflict between tho French
army and Dahomians on April 21 resulted
In 1tA vlaoin nP 1 MA .f lU.I-il... WUa
m mv wvm.u v. ..VUVVI IUB 1UUVI. "M
French loss was IS killed and 72 wounded.,
RECOGNIZED IN DEATH.
SUICIDE OF A LAD WHO BAN AWAY FROM
HERE YEARS AGO.
The Remains Exhumed and Identified bv IIIi
Brother IIo Had Cunnsed UI Name In
Order to Avoid Pursuit Many Friends in
Dli New Home
IBrr.CIAL TEXEOIUM TO TUB DISPATCn.1
CoLTJMBtrs, May 19. One week ago to
day a young man suicided at the Market
Exchange in this city by taking morphine.
His name was given as G. "W. Dent, who
had been teaching school in the vicinity.
The body was taken to New Albany, about
12 miles north. A special from that place
says:
Our people were much surprised on Saturday
last by a young man from Columbus who said
he was a brother of the dead man. On going
to the vault he f ullv identified the dead man as
his brother, and said he was Michael Hart, of
Pittsburg instead of George W. Dent,
as wo had known him for years. He
said he had left home when he was li
years of age and changed his name to Dent so
his father would not tlnd him. He. it seems,
had had some trivial difference with his father
and ran off as bojs do sometimes. He found
his way to Mr. James Cockerel), of near Center
v Ulage. IIo found fast friends in Mr. Cocker
ell and wife, who were deeply grieved to hear
vi ma ouiuiue. no atienueu scuooi at xiey
noldsburg and taught in different places.
He finally worked In the Columbus Buggy
Company works, but this gavo blm colic, so ho
quit, soon after which he was found dead in
Ins room on Fourth street. In looking over his
papers a letter addressed to James Hart was
found. He received this letter Friday morn
ing, abd by noon he was on his way here, get
ting ont hero Saturday noon. On Sunday the
funeral was held. Rev. Mr. Armstrong
preached the sermon, after which tho Masonic
service was conducted by Mr. William T. Tay
lor, of lilondnn. Lodges of AVesterville, Roy
.noldsburc and Sunbury were well represented.
About 200 brothers were present.
SUSPICIOUS ASSETS.
Remit of the Invosilaatlon of tho American
Life InRurnnco Company.
rSP ECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE PISPATCnT. 1
Habbisbukg, May 19. The report of
George Tomkins, who examined into the
business of the American Life Insurance
Company, of Philadelphia, was submitted
to the Insurance Department to-day. It
shows that according to the books and rec
ords of the company on May 1, 1890, the
assets of the company aggregated $2,173,-
852 02, of which $918,943 81 consisted of
loans and collateral. The liabilities reached
51,665,475 80, leaving a surplus for policy
holders of $508,370 22. The present value
of outstanding policies is 81,343,300, while
the unpaid death claims amounts to 537,484.
.Mr. Tomkins says:
ft-unousn me lorejrotnc statements show an
apparent surnlnfl nf SK.T7 1?9. nva f.nitni cni
(amounting to SJ00,UW)), the company haa no.
sucn surplus, many of the items in "assets"
Deinc much greater than tho actual value of
the property owned by tho company or tho
debts due it. It is now Impossible to say bow
much of loans should be excluded as having; no
value. Whatever the actual value of many of
tho securities held by the company may be.
and whatever may be realized from claims
acalnst its debtors, a very largo part of the
apparent assets is undoubtedly of little or no
value.
Among the collateral loans held bv the
company against individuals are the follow
ing: Senator McFarland, President, U7S,
164 79; J. S. Duncen, 5100,000; "W. J. Carte,
574,000; L. E. PeifTer, 500,000. All these
transactions nreTegarded as suspicious. In
surance Commissioner Forster says it looks
bad for the policy holders, as some of the se
curities seem worthless, and only about 50
per cent will be found to be good.
THE TREASURER MISSING.
1 IToIo In ihe ITonrd of ilieAncIeot Order of
Illbornln.nl.
rgriCIAl. TELEOBAlt TO TUB PISrATCIT.1
Philadelphia, May 19. Patrick
Hynes, of Greenport, K. Y., Treasurer of
the Ancient Order of Hibernians, has dis
appeared after confessing to an embezzle
ment of money belonging to tbe order.
The annual convention of Hibernians
met in Hartford last week. The
proceedings are secret, and the story of the
Treasurer's guilt has therefore not leaked
out till now. "When the convention was
called to order on Thursday the Treasurer
was missins. His absence was accounted for
when the President caused to be read a letter
he had that morning received from him, in
which be acknowledged appropriating to
his own use the amount of money intrusted
to him as given above, and further stated
that when the letter was read he would be
beyond the reach of those he had wronged.
Now comes the suspicion a cookini? of
accounts, the overhauling of which may dis
close still greater abstractions. It is
not known whether the Treasurer's
bondsmen will make good the
amount confessed to have been stolen,
the bond being said to be missing, and it is
also not yet known whether the convention
determined to prosecute the defaulting offi
cial. The general belief is that Hynes has
fled the country.
A BIG HAILSTONE FALL.
A Sovoro Storm In Ohio Causes Considera
ble Demrnctlon.
rSFECIAL TELEOBAM TO TUB DISPATCn.1
Cleveland, May 19. A severe hail,
wind and rain storm passed over Chippewa
township, this county, Sunday afternoon,
doing a tremendous amount of damage.
The storm swept a section 3 miles in
width and 18 in length. Tbe most serious
damage was done in and near the villages of
Congress and Rowsburg. In Congress
every pane of glass facing north and west,
unprotected by blinds, was broken by the
hailstones, which ranged in size from a pea to
a hen's egg, and fell to the depth of eight
inches on the level. Entire orchards nnd
strips of oak timber wero blown down or
twisted to the ground. Many houses, barns
and outbuildings were unroofed or blown
down. The hailstones were so large and
fell with such force as to be driven through
roofs covered with oak shingles.
At Rowsburg hail fell to the depth of 8
to 12 inches on the level and drifted to the
depth of 32 inches. Hundreds of sheep
wero killed bv the bail.
WORK OF THE FLAMES.
A Destructive Flro la iho I.arjjcst Coal
mines of Ohio.
rSFXClAL TELEOBAMTO THE DISPATCH.l
MASSILLON, May 19. Fire has control
of tbe Minglewood mine at North Law
rence, seven miles west of this city. "When
tho men entered the mines last Friday
morning two of the rooms were found to be
on fire. The flames have steadily advanced
ever since, and uow hold possession. The
mine being perfectly dry renders the situa
tion alarming, and the direct possible, and
money loss is simply appalling.
Tbe mine is the largest in the valley, and
employs 300 men, aud all work has been
suspended. All of the entries and rooms
aro filled with smoke, thus preventing all
efforts at suppressing the fire for fear of suf
focation. A force of CO men was put on
duty to-day to prevent its progress if possi
ble, buUhev can do but little, being unable
to combat the smoko for more than a few
minutes at a time. The slope extends
more than three-quarters of a mile under
ground.
Chicago Hotel Walters Strike.
Chicago, May 19. About 60 waiters
employed in the Trcmont House and Com
mercial Hotel went on str)ke to-day. Fifty
nine waiters were discharged at the Palmer
Houso for refusing to leave tho Culinary
Alliance. The President of the Waiters'
Union has gone to New iTork to Induce
waiters at tho Gilsov and Hoffman Houses
l.wwilAC, 11 hm
Iniie the union.
.to strike, if the proprietors refuse to recog-
s - ,,
Ai1.
BTBfO MEANS SETTLED
The Revision Question Still Debated
in tho Presbyterian Assembly.
PAIR TLA! FOR BOTH SIDES ASKED
2nd an Enlarged Committee is to Consider
tho Subject Further.
CHAEGES OP DECEIT PDT FORWARD,
An
Eminent Divine Saying That misleading Quota
tions Hate Been Head.
The matter of taking up the question of
revision at the present Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly still hangs fire. Yesterday
a motion was carried to recommit to an en
larged committee the report on the sub
ject. A want of the church ii more minis
ters. .'SPECIAL TILKCRAM TO TUB DISPATClt.t
Saratoga, May 19. After the usual
routine exercises in the Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly this morning a motion was
made to recommit the report of the Commit
mitte on Methods of Altering the Constitu
tion to the committee, the latter to be en
larged by seven new members who should be
so selected as to give both sides a fair rep
resentation. This started a spirited debate,
which grew more spirited as the divines
warmed up to the work before them.
The matter was dropped at the first session
long enough to give Rev. E. D. Morris,
D. D., of Cincinnati, time to report the
progress of the work of the Board of Mis
sions for Freedmen.
GEAND PROGRESS REPORTED.
He said that 25 years ago there
were no schools, churches, edu
cated colored preachers or teachers, while
to-day finds the Presbyterians with 245
churches, 78 schools, 117 colored preachers
'and 133 colored teachers, and not less than
500,000 freedmen are now reached by their
good influence. He dwelt at some length
on the progress of mission work among the
colored people throughout the country.
Tbe motion to recommit the report of the
Committee on Methods of Revision was then
taken up, and Dr. "W. H. Roberts, of Lane
Seminary, Cincinnati, said he did not speak
to the motion, but to the report. The re
port was not shaped to favor oneor the other
view of the revision question. "What the
speakers say is only their opinion; the as
sembly is the supreme court on questions of
interpreting the constitution.
DECEPTION CHARGED.
The adopting act of 1788 has not been
read as a whole in this assembly. He con
tinued: You have been misled as to its character.
What has been read to you is the provision in
the adopting act by which tho Confession of
Faith mav be amended. The Confession of
Faith itself was adopted, not in 17sS, but in
1729, and the Synod, having adopted a fdrm of
government and altered the Confcsinn of
Faith, provided In the form of government
a method for its amendment, and also
in tho adopting act one for the
amendment of the confession. Tho adopting
act of 1783 bad to do mainly with matters of
polity and worship, which were substantially
thoso of the Church of Scotland. That Synod
of 17SS itself exercised tbe power of alteration
and amendment. Surely they did not mean to
deprive the Church of that power. They would
not havo been the lirco haafed men tlioy wero
had they attempted ib.ii. If they bad we
would have been justified in getting re
lief by what oar friends call revolutionary
methods, were there no other way. Notice in
tho adoptlnc act tbo word "unless" and what
follows: "Unless two-third of tho Presby
teries," etc. In fact, what is called the
adopting act is simply a provision for
orderly amendment In the future. Minis
ters at ordination have always been re
quired to "adopt" tho doctrinal standards.
but only to approvo the form of government,
A SHARP DISTINCTION DRAWN.
So the Synod, in making the adopting act,
recognized this sharp distinction between doc
trine and discipline, requiring only a baro ma
jority to propose alterations In tho latter, but
two-thirds for alterations in the doctrinal
standards. We want freedom in details of ad
ministration. The General Assembly has al
ways recognized this difference. Two or three
times tbe Assembly has appointed committees,
of its own motion, to consider the expediency
of alterations In the Confession of Faith, mere
ly requiring two-thlrds ratification by Presby
teries before declaring tho alterations obliga
tory.
Tho Assembly has a right to correspond with
the Presbyteries on any subject It deems of
sufficient importance. All that we aro trying
to do is to unify methods, patting tbcm In one
place and forever beyond controversy. I am
neither old nor new school, but belong to tho
united church, into which I camo as a young
man. Let ns have an authnritativo rnle as to
amendments that will forever relepate private
opinion to the catacombs ot past. There is no
danger of minority rule any more than in our
civil Government. We have a minority Presi
dent ot the United States, bnt we do not de
spair of the Republic or propose to set aside
tho present civil Constitution. This report pro
poses to put tbe assembly in tbe saddle as to a
revision of the doctrinal as well as the govern
mental standards.
THE REPORT RECOMMENDED.
Dr. Taylor, of Indiana, said: "I favor tbo
reference of tbe report to the enlarged com
mittee, but that committee win Do our pupil.
Wo ought to have the opportunity to instruct
it as to the ort of report it shall send back.
Besides, the West, which has some good-sized
men, has not been heard yet, so I think that
we ought to have two hours moro for dis
cussion, and we appeal to tbo chivalry of the
East to give us of tue West a hearing.
Tbe motion to recommit tbo report to the
enlarged committee was then adopted.
The seventy-first annual report of tho
Board ot Education was read by R. M. Pat
terson, D. D., of Philadelphia. It was as
follows:
Nine hundred and thirteen students, S3Z of
them new cases, were recommended to tbe
Board by Presnytorles. Forty-seven of these
were declined for various causes, preference
being generally given to thoso in college or
theological seminaries. The contributions bare
not increased as fast as tbe number ot ap
plicants, 3,551 chnrches having given nothing
NOT ENOUGH MINISTERS.
The fault for this failure is largely with Pres
byteries. We have to pay tho students, even
though the money be borrowed, and we should
have closed the year with a deficiency of JS.700
but for the generous gift of 3,000 at the last
moment, making tbe present deficiency 5,700.
There wero last year 1,143 churches
vacant, nearly one-third of them largo
enough to have the entire services
ot a minister. The average increase in the
number of churches is 150; last year, 188. We
hare perhaps 300 available men among onr
ministers without charges. We havo in annual
average of 113 graduates, with about SO not
fully educated. We draw from other denomi
nations 82 a year; 9J die annually on the aver
age; thus it will be seen we are suro to have a
growing lack of properly qualified pastors.
Dr. D. "W. Poor, of Philadelphia, spoke
earnestly of the evil of tbe condition under
which one-third of tbe ministers are stated
supplies. This, together with the apathof
more than nne-half of tbe churches, deter
men from seeking the ministry.
NOT A BAD SHOWING.
Elder Trumbull, of California, said a
much larger percentage of ministers are
successful than of those entering mercantile
business. He thought a large number of
churches could raise from $1,000 to 53,000
as a permanent fund, the interest to be ap
plied to the education of young men.
The report was adopted, and was followed
by one from S. J. Nichols, D. D Chairman
of a special committee on the increase or
ministers. Resolutions were passed recog
nizing the lack of ministers and the Increase
of pastorless churches, and urging the Pres
byteries to be more diligent in either caring
for or dissolving them, and suggesting that
thev might be eroucad together and sop-
plied with service by ruling elders, eto. '
Dr. Booth, of New York, said he thought J
Church v;&
source of supply for this need
"TKa vnltnr. 1.1 1 U ...
TT Bi.
"Thn mlinn 1.1A. 1 .... 1... nn-r nnsti li
tion, the right to preach, nnd ought to
ciuuu 11 ana assist.
FOR CHDRCH PROTECTION.
Dr. Poor, of Philadelphia, told of a suc
cessful experiment in this line. The sub
ject was further discussed by Elder Pea
cock, of Philadelphia, who thought Presby
teries should appoint as moderators of the
sessions of weak churches, elders from
strong churches.
A resolution proposing an overture to
Presbyteries, urging greater care in receiv
ing ministers irom other denominations,
was introduced by Dr. Nichols, ,and, after
considerable earnest discussion, bad been
passed when the hour for adjournment ar
rived. Just after adjournment a telegram was
received announcing the sudden death at
Utica, N. Y., while on bis way to tbe As
sembly, of one of the Commissioners, Rev.
James Lamb, late pastor at Cadillac, Mich.
A member of the same synod was appointed
to prepare an appropriate resolution.
A popular meeting was held in the even
ing in the interest ot work among the freed
men. Rev. Howard Crosby, D. D., presid
ed, and addresses were made by R. H.
Allen, D. D., Secretary ot the Board; Rev.
"W. A. Allen, Rev. F. C. Potter, Rev. York
Jone3, Rev. J. H. Bergen, a blind preacher,
and Rev. "W. H. Franklin. The last five
named are colored.
TWO BISHOPS ELECTED.
Business Transacted by the Southern DIelh.
odist Conference.
St. Louis, May 19. At the Methodist
Episcopal General Conference to-day Rev.
Dr. Atticus G. Haygood, of Sheffield, Ala.,
wa3 elected Bishop on the first, and Rev.
Oscar P. Fitzgerald, of Nashville, Team,
was elected Bishop on the fourth ballot.
Dr. Haygood has been a conspicuous ad
vocate of the education and evangelization
of the colored people of the South, being the
author of the book called "Our Brother in
Black." He received to-day the largest
majority ever given in the election of a
Methodist Bishop. He is the second man
in the history of American Methodism who
has been elected to the Bishopric twice,
having declined the first offer of the office,
Joshua Soule being the first. Dr. Fitzger
ald has for 12 years past been editor of the
Nashville Christian Advocate, the organ of
his church. He has been 40 years a leader
among the Methodists.
THE IOUISIAKA IOTIEEY SC0EED.
The Presbyterian Church Soath Pasj a
Strong Resolution.
Abbeville, N. C, May 19. At to-day's
session sf the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church South the following
resolutiou was offered and referred:
Resolved, That this General Assembly most
emphatically condemns the Louisiana State
Lottery Company, and warns the members of
our churches throughout tbe land against all
complicity with it in any shape or form, and
especially in the purchase ot its tickets for
themselves or others, believing It to contain all
tbo worst features of gambling, which is sin,
rendered all the more dangerous by its un
blushing publicity and the fact that it is at
present entrenthable iu all tbe forms of law.
SVo call upon all our mimsteis, elders, mem
bers and onr entire constituency to do all they
can legitimately to protect our own people
from and to circumscribe and limit the ravages
of and to destroy this spreading leprosy.
The Assembly adjourned after selecting
Birmingham, Ala., as the place for next
meeting.
MUST SIT D0WK TO DBIHX.
The
Anil-Bar Law Goes Into Effect la
Boston From To-Day.
rspicui. TELioiujt ToiiixDurxicn.i
Boston, May 19. A revolution is going
on in Boston barrooms to-night, and there is
rebellion in every saloon-keeper's heart.
To-morrow the anti-bar law will go into
effect for the first time since it was enacted
fifteen years ago. Very few bars
are being removed but their days
of usefulness are over until another Legis
lature can remove tbe obnoxious law from
the statute book, for that is to be the
Gubernatorial and legislative fight
next fall. Every barroom in the city will
have a screen during the remainder of the
year. It completely encases the bar so that
the enclosure behind the same i3 not unlike
a cage.
All are warned to be careful, particularly
cautioned not to give drinks to the person
who is standing. All must be seated. The
liquor can be drawn behind the bar as
usual, and the glasses when filled may be
deposited upon the table, but the
waiters will be obliged to go
behind the bar and get the liauor
or else pass through arched openings, which
in many instances, are cut for that special
purpose. Several dealers have arranged to
be arrested and their cases will be laid be
fore the Supreme Benches as quickly as the
legal machinery of the law can carry them
there.
AH ENGLISH AUTHOR MISSHIG.
Detectives la Snn Francisco Are on the
Lookoat for DaTld Christie Murray.
ISrXCt AI. TXLEOKAM TO TUB DISPATCH.l
San Francisco, May 19. A local de
tective agency is trying to find clews to tho
strange disappearance of David Christie
Murray, the English no velist, who has gained
considerable reputation during tho last
10 years by his cleverness in writing. Mr.
Murray, who spent his time between the
Savage club in Loudon and the Belgian
Ardenne. became overworked last
vear and arranged for a lecturing
tour in Australia. In June he was given a
farewell dinner in London by his literary
friends. He expected to stay six months in
Australia and return by way of America.
These lectures were not well attended in
Australia, and after November last nothing
was heard irom mm. jus publish
ers and friends made inquiries, but
the only clew was that a passenger
named Murray left Sydney for San Fransisco
in December. His friends then sent word
to a detective agency here, but he has not
been found yet. It is supposed the novelist
wandered from Melbourne, while suffering
from mental aberration, and took a ship for
San Francisco.
BOTH CAPTURED DT CUBA.
Robert Wallace nnd Ills Accomplice Aro
Very Soon la the Tolls.
SrECTAL TU.XOBAM TO THB DISPATCII.1
New York, May 19. District Attorney
Fellows received to-day from the State De
partment at Washington a telegram in
forming him that Robert T. "Wal
lace and Bookmaker J. B. Lowitz,
who, it is alleged, stole $50,000 incash and
securities from John H. Wallace, editor of
Wallace s Monthly, and lied to Havana,
had been arresteJithere, and would be held
to await extradition. Editor "Wallace
has lodged a formal complaint ogaiust
the fugitives with the grand jnry, and it is
believed they will be indicted to-day for for
gery and grand ljrcenv in the first degree,
both extraditable offenses nnderthc Spanish
American treaty.
Extradition papers will be forwarded at
once to "Washington alter the indictments
are filed, and President Harrison's request
for their extradition will be forwarded with
the papers to Havana.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The French war crows off Africa, aro suffer
ing severely of lever.
MnaETF Davis writes she cannot attend
tbe Lee statue unveiling.
Mitchell, Mayor GottreU'i confederate,
has been released c
on ball at Cedar Keys. . ,
the 40,000 elders of the
'OPLE IN i PANIC.
"Vi
-
y,
'd Exodns From a Portion of
fe
City of Shamokin.
CnUfiif AND SCHOOL DESEKTED. J
The Mines Under the Place on Fire and
Filled With Gas.
FATE OF A BOLD- EXPLOITING PAETI.
The Advance Guard Eescned With Great Difficulty
and DaDjer.
A portion of Shamokin has been evacu
ated by the panic-stricken residents. The
mines underneath are burning and an ex
plosion is feared. A party which undertook
an exploration was overcome by gas. One
of the members was recovered with great
difficulty and may die.
ISFECllZ. TXLXOBAX TO TUE DISPATCH.!
Shamokin, May 19. The Nellsoa
breaker, which was destroyed by fire on
Friday night, stood immediately over a
shaft nearly 1,400 feet deep, from which
gangways led across to the different coal veins
under the west end of the city. It was dis
covered on Sunday afternoon that the fire
dropping from the burning breaker had
ignited the mine below. It has long had a
reputation of being a very dangerous mine
on account of the gas.
The company, to prevent the spread of the
flames, stopped the fans aud blocked up the
air passages. They also quickly notified
three families living in the neighborhood of
one of the openings to move away, as
the underground workings were rapidly
filling with gas, which would explode when
the column came in contact with the fire,
and its full force would come up through
the opening near their houses.
A PANIC IN THE CITT.
The hurried moving ot the families caused
a panic in that part of tbe city, and In less
than an hour people were fleeing from
their houses in all directions. Over
C00 families moved out of the neigh
borhood. Henry Fidler rushed into
his house, grasped his wife and
baby in his arms and never stopped until
he had deposited them in the home of a rel
ative six blocks distant. The ministers in
several of the churches were notified by the
panic stricken miners not to hold services
and the congregations turned ont of them
and began hurrying their families to places
of safety.
This morning a committee of merchants
waited on the principal of the schools and
ordered him not to hold a session. The
school directors were called together, and it
was decided that the usual sessions should
be held. As hours passed and no explosion
occurred a party made up of fire and mine
bosses volunteered to go into the traveling
way and explore the condition of affairs.
These men succeeded in passing the first
trap door when they were overcome by
white damp aud fell senseless. Arother
set of volunteers was called for, and James
Noll, Charles Zerby, Uriah Phillips,
Thomas Peart and Thomas Brennan started
in. They took with them a long rope, and
after terrible sufferings, succeeded in bring
ing ail the men out bnt Quinn, who was
the first to enter the mine. He was given
up tor dead, but after the lapse of two hours
the plucky little miner, James Noll, having
recovered from his former trip, volunteered
to go in after Quinn. He- found his man
300 yards beyond the point reached by any
of the others, where he lay as one dead.
Thomas Quinn led off and was followed
at intervals by George Steele, David Roach
and William Shaw. They had been gone
but 20 minutes when a feeble cry for help
was beard through the speakine-tube.
Thomas Moore, Patrick Kelly and William
Rohrback aud Superintendent Gray started
in to rescue the men.
A VEEITABLE DEATn-TBAP.
Noll tied tbe rope about Quinn's body
and signalled those outside to pull. In this
way, by holding the limp form up, he suc
ceeded in bringing him ont of the mine,
where both the rescuer and rescued fell
over as if dead. The thick cable had
drawn so tight about Quinn's body that it
parted very easily when attacked with a
jack knife, while blood gnshed fromhii
eyes, ears, nose and mouth. For some time
it was thought that Quinn was dead, but
when tbe rope was cut a sign of life ap
peared, and unless internally injured he
will recover. The men were all taken home
in an ambulance.
DBTVEir TO SUICIDE
Br the Rcfnsnl of a License for His Floe
New Restaurant.
rFFKCTAI. TSLIOllAJI TO TUX DISrATCIt.1
New York, May 19. Samuel Hazen
Crook, known familiarly as Governor
Crook, one of a family of restauratenrs,com
mitted suicide by shooting himself in the
head. Mr. Crook had taken possession
of the restaurant on December 13 last, In
tending to open it to-day with a great spread.
In fact he had sent out invitations to a
number of city politicians to attend the fes
tivities. Mr. Crook's friends had noticed.
however, that for several weeks he had wor
ried over the refusal of the Excise Board to
grant him a license for his hotel. Tbis
morning Mr. Crook left the restau
rant, saying that he had to prepare
for the opening to-day. Mounting to the
second floor Mr. Crook proceeded to take
out his shaving materials. Seating himself
in front of tbe dressing case he took out his
razor and said to Mrs. Crook: "I'll excuse
you for a minute."
Mrs. Crook left the room and a second
afterward she heard a pistol shot. The bul
let had entered his right temple and had
passed out at the left temple and imbeded
itself in the wall. Mr. Crook 'died about
two hours afterward. Mr. Crook
was very ambitious to succeed in
business in his declining years.
He bad made a good deal of money, and he
was willing to spend it liberally. He laid
out 530,000, it is said, in decorating and
furnishing the restaurant, and looked for
ward to a long period of prosperity. The
refusal of the license broce bis heart.
WHEEUNG WAHTS THE E0AD.
The Wbeelinff nnd LaUo Erie Railroad to
Itua Into That City.
rSrXCUI.TELZORAM TO THB DISPATCH.'
"Wheeling, May 19. At a meeting of
theCnamberof Commerce held this even
ing, at which representatives of the Wheel
ing and Lake Erie Railroad were present,
the Chamber formally and cordially in
dorsed the proposition of the company to
come into the city. This is, of course, pro
vided depot grounds, yard room, etc., is pro
vided for them.
The Chamber argued that a subscription,
aggregating 5100,000 be made, for which the
company will give its common stock for a
like amount, such subscriptions to not be
payable until the cars of the company are
actually running into the city over the
Union railroad bridge.
A Total Wreck.
San Fiiancisco, May 19. The steamer
Karluk arrived to-day from Kodiak,
Alaska, bringing information that the bark
Corea had, gone ashore at Cook's-Inlet, and,
wita ner cargo. wa a total loss. Sio lives i-
, were lost. The venel was valued at $15,000."' .,
Xhe, cargo was, valued atH&.OW. lloth.thej
(vessel ana cargo were inuru.r - -5& V;
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