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MORE TIMETO TALK,
The Limit of Debate Upon the
Silver Bill in the Sen
ate Extended.
FREE COINAGE ADVOCATES
Bitterly Attack the Measure Now
Under Consideration.
THE PRESENT LAW MUCH BETTER,
If Only Properlj Executed, Than the
Amended House BiIL
BEAGAX DENOUNCES THE PEETENDERS
The time for general debate upon the sil
ver bill in the Senate expired at 3 o'clock
yesterday. Quite a number of Senators
were still eager to talk, however, and the
limit was extended. Stewart, of Nevada,
declared that the present law was better for
silver, if its spirit was carried out, than the
proposed measure.
"Washixgtoit, June 12. The Senate
silver bill was again taken up to-day, and
Mr. Morgan resumed the floor and suggested
that the time of Senators in discussing
the amendments (alter the close of general
discussion) should be extended from five
minutes to ten or fifteen minntes. Mr.
Jones, oi Nevada, in charge of the bill,
thought it might be better, as several Sena
tors still desired to speak on the subject, to
extend the time for general debate till 3
o'clock on Monday next, and he asked
unanimous consent lor that proposition.
Mr. Hoar said he had no objection, but
thought that there should be a larger attend
ance of Senators before unanimous consent
was asked. Mr. Teller suggested that Mr.
Morgan should go on with his speech, and
said he had no desire to cutoff any Senator
who might wish to address the Senate on the
hill. "When the time came the limitation, he
had no doubt, would be extended.
FOK FKEE COINAGE.
Mr. Morgan therefore went on with his
remarks. His speech was mainly an argu
ment for free coinage. He objected to the
proposition to limit the continuance of the
set to ten years.
Mr. Aldrich next addressed the Senate.
He recognized the disastrous effects that had
resulted from a contraction of the currency,
but said that an abnormal inflation of the
currency would be equally injurious. There
was no substantial difference between Sen
ators as to the evil effects resulting from the
outlawry of silver. The only question was
as to the remedy that would be lound effect
ive. - A complete remedy could only be found,
he believed, in such action as would open
the mints of all nations to the free coinage
of silver. By that means silver would be
added to the permanent fund of tbe world's
money.
IXTEKXATIONAI, ACTION XECESSABT.
Mr. Aldrich went on to state and defend
the amendments reported by the Finance
Committee to the House silver bill, and as
serted that, instead of demonetizing silver,
tbe system proposed hy the Finance Com
mittee would more effectually monetize it
than the system now in force, under the law
of 1878. Gold was to-day a universal, inter
national money. Silver was not. Congress
could not make it an international money.
That had to be done by the concurrent ac
tion of all the great countries. Until that
action took place there could be no equality
between the two metals. That was the fact
of all facts, and it was useless for Senators
to endeavor to persuade themselves or others
to the contrary. The legislation proposed
by the silver extremists would, he said, be
disastrous to the business interests of the
country.
Mr. Stewart was on the floor replying to
some of Mr. Aldrich's statements when the
presiding officer (Mr. Ingalls) called at
tention to the agreement that general de
bate was to close at 3 o'clock. It was now
fen minutes after that time.
THE DEBATE EXTENDED.
Various propositions were made, and
finally it was agreed, by unanimous con
sent, that the Senate bills should be laid on
the table, the House bill as amended by the
Finance Committee substituted for it, and
general debate be extended till 3 o'clock on
Monday, tbe session to-morrow being for
the consideration of bills on the calendar.
Mr. Stewart resuming the floor, said: "If
the Secretary ot the Treasury had bought
$4,000,000 of silver a month instead of
?2.000,000 we not only would have had a
double standard, but silver would be on a
parity with gold. The present law is good
enough for me if its spirit was carried out.
Mr. Blair "Would the present law, if ex
ecuted to its maximum, be better than any
ofthependiDg measures?
Mr. Stewart Yes, better than any of
them.
Mr. Blair Then why not as a substitute
for the pending bill offer a proposition
making it compulsory to execute, to its
maximum, the existing law?
Mr. Stewart I would be satisfied with
that, at present.
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
Mr. Piatt Does the Senator from Nevada
believe that if the maximum amount of
silver authorized by law to be coined were
coined, tbe result would be to restore the
eouivalcncy between cold and silver dol
lars? If that be the Senator's belief, and if
it be correct, wen u seems to me that that
is a ground on which we might all meet to
gether. Mr. Stewart replied that that was bis be
lief, and concluded by saying that Congress
should cither take a step in advance or else
do nothing.
Mr. Beagan addressed the Senate in ad
vocacy of the unlimitedcoinace of silver.and
compared the pretensions ot its enemies
(who now claimed to bein its favor) to the
Irishman who was hunting for employment,
but was praying to God that be would not
find it. That was the position of the Presi
dent of the United States, the Secretary of
the Treasury and of the Senator rrooi Khoue
Island (Mr. Aldrich).
A FALSE PBETENSE.
They pretended to be hunting for free
coinage of silver, but they hoped never to
find it, and were devising all sorts
of schemes and plans to avoid it.
Mr. Daniel next addressed the Senate. He
stated that in hisjudgment the absolute free
and unlimited coinage of silver was the only
solution of the question. If that was not to
be tbe final solution of the question it would
seem to be an essential anil indispensable
step toward its solution. It could not be
anticipated, he said, that anything less than
free coinage of silver would bring silver to
par.
"Without Concluding his unwell Mr.
Daniel yielded for a motion to go into exec-
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THREE KOBE CONTESTS
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ie
Decided by ifap Ilonse Daring the
Coming Week.
s 'jWABKtyoTOir, June 13. The House
TCoaWefn Election Cases has decided to
nil Is-nhe
: House the Mississippi con.
tested case of Chalmers versus Morgan.
This will be followed during the ensuing
week bv the Virginia case of Langston
versus Venable and the South Carolina case
of Miller versus Elliott.
The committee hs allowed S2.000 each for
expenses to the parties to the cases already
decided, except in the case f Cate,
Arkau&as, who was allowed $1,089.
of
INCREASED EXPENDITURES.
STATUS OF THE VARIOUS APPROPRIATION
BILLS.
Chairman Cntneron &nj That the Igll
Uto Work In Thin Dlrrctlaa ! Well
Advanced HU Exp'anntlon ef Ike
Lnroer Ellmntr Called For.
"Washington, June 13. The House to
day, after the reading of the journal, went
into committee of the whole on tbe sundry
civil appropriation bill. Mr. Cannon said
that the amount of appropriation carried by
the measure was, in round numbers, $28,
000,000. This was 510,000,000 less than the
regular estimates and $13,000,000 less than
the regular and special estimates.
The sundry civil law' for the current year
Tiro vided for an expenditure of $25,000,000.
The apparent excess in this bill was largely
more than accounted for by certain extraor
dinary items. The 14 regular appropriation
bills as reported to the House aggregated an
expenditure of 5300,000,000, showing an ex
cess of $35,000,000 over the appropriations
for the current year. This excess was near
Iv all accounted for in three bills pension,
$18,000,000; postoffice, $12,000,000 and naval
$2,100,000. Tbe other $3,000,000 resulted
from the expansion incident to the growth
of the country.
Mr. Cannon then gave a statement of the
attitude of the appropriation bills. The
only bill not reported to the House was the
general deficiency bill, and this would be
reported before the close of the fiscal year.
There was pending the sundry civil and the
Indian bills. In the Senate Committee on
Appropriations were the agricultural, and
diplomatic and postoffice bills, and in the
Senate Committee on. Commerce the river
and harbor bill. Pending in the Senate was
the legislative bill. The fortification bill
had oassed both Houses with Senate amend
ments. The District of Columbia, naval
and pension bills were in conference. The
army and Military Academy bills were in
the "hands of the President. This was a
favorable showing compared with the con
dition of the bills two years ago.
C05SIDEEED BY THE CABETET.
Two Companies Working; Hnrd for the Con
trnet lor the Bis Crnlter.
"Washington, June 13. The award for
the contract lor the construction ot the 8,100
ton armored cruiser was one of the questions
considered at to-day's Cabinet meeting.
The appropriation for this vessel is $3,500,
000. There are but two competitors for the
work, the Union Iron "Works, of San Fran
cisco, and Cramp & Co., of Philadelphia,
and each is working hard to secure the con
tract. The Union Iron "Works made the
lowest bid on tbe plans prepared by the
Navy Department, while the Cramps made
the lowest bid for the ship under modified
department plans.
Secretary Tracy said to-day that the mat
ter will be settled in a tew days, bnt de
clined to commit himself further. Naval
officers who are conversant with the matter
are inclined to the belief that the chances
of securing the contract are in favor of the
Union Iron Works.
TO CLASSIFY THE CEREALS.
Concreiimnn Butierworth Introduce a BUI
With Thru End In Vlrw.
Washington. June 13. Bepresentative
Butterwortb, of Ohio, to-day introduced a
bill to provide for fixing a uniform stand
ard classification and grading of wheat,
corn and other cereals. The bill authorizes
and directs the Secretary of Agricnlture to
fix, according to such standards as he may
prescribe, the classification of cereals as in
hisjudgment the usages of trade warrant
and permit, having reference to the standard
and grades now recognized b the Chambers
of Commerce and Boards of Trade.
When such standard is fixed it shall be
a matter of record in the Agricultural De
partment, and notice given that such
grades shall be known as tbe United States
Standard.
GREAT FRAUD CHARGED
IN A SCHEME TO DISPOSE OF MILLIONS
WORTH OF PROPERTY.
A Bceelver Asked for tbe Union Slock Yards
Company nnd nn Injunction to Prevent
tbe Transfer to nn English Syndicate.
Chicago, June 13. The anticipated suit
to prevent the consummation of the proposed
$20,000,000 sale of the Union Stock Yards
and Transit Company, of Chicago, to an
English syndicate, was commenced before
Judge Tuley this afternoon. Decidedly sen
sational charges are made in the bill, and
the court is asked to remove the present offi
cers of tbe big corporation, appoint a re
ceiver and issue an injunction restraining
the proposed issue of bondsof the sale of the
plant and stock.
The complainant in the bill is Frank A.
Baker, a shareholder. He makes defend
ants the officers of the company and some of
the best Known railroad magnates in the
United States John Newell, Marvin
Hughitt, J. M. McCullough, J. a McMil
len, H. B. Stone, E. E. Cable, Stuyvesant
Fish, the London Contract Company, to
whom the tiro posed sale was to be made, the
Central Trust Company, to which a mort
gage was to be given, and William K. Van
derbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, John B.
Hoxie, of Texas, and James H. Ashley,
who, with, President Thayer and Manager
Sherman, own a majority of the stock.
Tbe bill charges that it is with no legit
imate and lawful motive that the defendants
are seeking to carry out the scheme of sell
ing the property, but that on the contrary
they are inspired with the sole intention of
selling it in for a little over half its actual
value; that they then propose to depreciate
the value of the stock and run the property
down in value until it reaches minimum.
Then when the small stockholders are
frozen out, it is said, the manipulators will
buy the plant and good will in it for a son.
The bill concludes with the declaration
that on their attempt to wreck the company
the President and directors and officers
should be removed, and the gigantic inter
ests in their hands placed in charge of a re
ceiver appointed by the court.
Judge Tuley sent the bill to Master in
Chancery, and to-night a copy was served
on such of the defendants as present with
notice to attend a hearing to-morrow morn
ing. BY A 8ECEET PBOGESS.
An Allegheny Blnu Invent a Cooling. Ijlqald
to Tnke Iho Plnce of Ice.
At last night's meeting of the Allegheny
Street Committee Hastings & Dunn were
awarded the contract for grading California
avenue. They made the lowest bid, $46,
820. An ordinance was presented asking
for the right of way over streets, lanes and
alleys for the laying of pipes by the Penn
sylvania Cooling Company, who propose to
furnish houses, manufacturing establish
ments, breweries, etc., with a liquid cooling
fluid as a substitute for ice. The ordinance
was referred to a special committee consist
ing of Messrs. Muehlbronner, Neeb, Lowe,
Knox and Smith.
'Company is a secret, and letters patent bv
JSdwara .armuronj:, 01 .ajiegneny, are now
pending in "Washington. Mr. Armstrong
says it is founded on an old principle.
Brine is cooled and passed through insu
lated pipes that are exposed in the bouses.
It will take the place of ice and lower
the temperature to 12 below freezing point.
One hundred and seventy-five thousand dol
lar! has been invested by the, stockholders
of the company in the enterprise.
THE
IN A COMMON GRAYE.
Continued Jrom first Page.
and get a keg of beer, or a $1 bill and get a
quart of Gnckenheimer by return train. To
sum up the general belief is that it ends the
"original package" business here, so far as
selling to minors and men of intemperate
habits.
HOW LAWYERS LOOK AT IT.
JUDQE
FETTERMAN
OVER THE
HIQHLY
RESULT.
ELATED
HU Original Opinion Conflrraed Applica
tion of tbe Law to AH Articles of Inter
state Commerce Some Slightly Conflict
ing Opinions Gleaned.
Judge Fetterman appeared to the average
man to be a few inches taller yesterday
afternoon as he leaned against a post on
Diamond street, dressed in a natty suit of
gray, discussing the acquittal of Silverman
in the Armstrong. county courts, the first
decision in the State under the original
package law.
"It "only confirms," said the Judge, "the
position I took when the decision was first
announced. I then said that a man eould
sell liquors in the original package in this
State, despite the Brooks law. Tbe jury
acquitted Silverman under the instruction
of the court on the main count, but he was
held on the two side issues of selling to
minors and to intemperate people, which do
not affect the question. I will now go farther.
Under the United States law I have tele
graphed to Silverman's lawyer in Kittan
ninsr to make a motion for a new trial on the
ground that the law does not specify to
whom sales are to be made. The original
packaee decision says nothing about minors
or intemperate people."
Revolutionizing the 1,'qnor Burincu.
"But, Judge, aren't you revolutionizing
the whole system of selling liquors?" inter
posed the interviewer.
"Well, that is its logical sequence. In
the face of the jury's acquittal ou the main
count I cannot see that Silverman can be
held on the other two. This acquittal
means that so far as Armstrong county is
concerned a man can sell liquor in the orig
inal packages with impunity. Silverman
was the agent of a Cincinnati brewing com
pany." A number of other lawyers, who were
caught on the fly as they were going home,
do not agree with Judge Fetterman as to
selling to minors and intemperate people,
and they do not think that his motion for a
new trial on the ground of the reasons al
leged will hold. The general opinion
summed up was that the State had a right
to make reasonable police regulations; that
prohibiting the sale of liquor to tne classes
named is not interfering with inter-State
commerce, which is the principle on which
the orieinil package decision is based.
Said B. C.Christy, Esq.: "To speak of
this privilege as a United States license is a
misnomer. It is not a license, but a tax.
Wbere the Stnte Steps In.
"The General Government says to a man,
If you sell liquor we will tax you so much
lor it, but the Government, by that act,
does notmudertike to regulate its sale. It
gives him the right to sell in a general way,
but the State also has the right for its own
protection to impose reasonable restraints.
Tbe police powers of the State have been
recognized by tbe Government.
"I can't see how the Armstrong jury could
have acted otherwise under the original
package decision. It simply gives more
license, and makes the issue a national one.
I think the Senate bill, excluding liquor
from articles of inter-State commerce, will
be passed, and it will be constitutional.
Certainly the same principle will apply to
the sale of oleomargarine. "Why should a
distinction be made between liquor nnd bad
butter? The latter is surely ten times less
narmiess. xne truth is that tbe law will
apply to all objects of inter-State traffic, and
all State regulations are removed thereby."
E. Y. Breck said: "This decision, of
course, will apply to oleomargarine. A few
weeks ago the Supreme Conrt of "Wisconsin,
acting on the principle involved in the
original package case, decided that the
State law prohibiting the sale of dressed
beef except certain conditions were complied
with would not hold. A law had been
passed that no beef should be sold in "Wis
consin unless it had been inspected 24 hours
before it was killed. It was a mere subter
fuge to do up the dressed beef men, for the
framers of the law knew well enongh that
inspectors would not be sent to Chicago to
examine the cattle.
Applies to All Articles.
"The law will in a general way apply to
all the articles of inter-State commerce that
are now shut out by State regulations.
"But I think the State has a right to
make reasonable police regulations. The-
State does control the sale of poisons, and I
can't see why it wonld not be allowed to
prohibit tbe sale of liquor to minors and in
temperate people."
In conclusion Mr. Breck stated that
Judge Eeyburn was a good lawyer, and the
case for the Commonwealth had been han
dled by the ex-Judge, so that it could not
be claimed that the acquittal would not
have much weipht
"When one lawyer was asked what he
he thought of the decision, he remarked:
"Did you ever see the man that made it?"
"No."
"Well.say no more about it until you do.
I don't believe other courts in the State
would decide that way."
However, the fact remains that many of
the lawyers here know Judge Eeyburn, and
he is recognized by most of them as a man
of considerable ability.
S. U. Trent thought that the original de
cision was too sweeping and all at fault to
begin with. He thinks the Supreme Court
will yet modify it.
Purely n. Police Regulation.
Attorney "William Brennen takes excep
tions to Judge Fetterman's declaration, and
says the law does specify to whom liquor
shall be sold. In a conversation with a
representative of The Dispatch last even
ing, Mr. Brennen said: "The conviction of
Mr. Silverman does not in the least affect
the original ruling of the United States
Supreme Court. Silverman was acquitted
of selling liquor without a license, but con
victed for selling to minors. The latter is
purely a police regulation, and is part of the
law. Tbe latter expressly says that persons
who sell liquors must not do so to minors,
insane people and intemperate persons.
Silverman can sell all the liquor be wants
to provided he sells it to persons within the
limit of the law. I do not think the deci
sion will have any effect on persons who
contemplated going into tbe 'original pack
age' business.
"I do not think there will be a great
many people go into tbe business of selling
liquor without a license for the reason that
those who have a license are not making any
money to speak of. The large increase in
the number of drinking places has cut tbe
profits of saloonists to snch an extent that
they are not making half the money' they
supposed they would.
Rather nnExprnslve Exprrlment.
"Another reason for keeping people out
of the 'package' business is the litigation
that is going on. It naturally makes peo
ple timid, and every man. who had any in
tention of opening a shop, is waiting to see
if the cat does not make an unexpected
jump. If the decision from the Supreme
Court had been banded down a year ago,
when we only had 93 saloons and the liquor
business was financially better than
baseball stock, then we would
have had dozens of people who
wonld open 'package' houses. To do so
now would hardly pay, but there is nothing
under the sun to prevent it. I do not think
the saloon business would suffer any by it.
If a man kept an 'original packnge' house,
nnd carried on his business in strict con
formity to the law, he would be like a man
in the cigar business, who conld only sell
tobies cr cigars by the box. A man passing
along a street, and wanting a smoke, would
not think of going into a story and buying
a box of 100 tobies. So it is with the liquor
business. If I wanted a glass of beer I cer
tainly wonld not buy an eighth, but wonld
cro to some place where it was sold bv the
class. TiM conld net be the case in an.
PITTSBURG DISPATCH, '
'original package' house, if itjwasrunin
accordance with the law."
Rnlber Dangrrons In 'Pittsburg.
Mr. S. A. Johnston considered the Silver
man case final, as reearda Armstrong
county. The Commonwealth cannot bring
a writ of error on a criminal case, when the
jury has handed in its verdict. The deci
sion was also a bad blow to
the Prohibition party. It was not a
test case, however, and wonld hardly
justify a man for selling original packages
in Pittsburg. Even with the Supieme Court
to back one, this package business would
prove an extremely precarious one in Pitts
burg, in consequence of the police laws, not
to mention the bitter enmity of other dealers
in liquor.
Mr. Israel, partner of Mr. Josiah Cohen,
spoke much in the same strain. He said:
"The Kittanning Court could do no better
than to support the Supreme Court s de
cision. I think most Pittsburg lawyers
expected this. It is now lawful in the Kit
tanning district to sell these packages to all
but minors and chronic inebriates."
Mr. "William Hunter said: "Yes, this is
final for Armstrong county, but I wouldn't
ad rise any person to set up snch a business
in Pittsburg. The police would, of course,
be watchful to catch the package seller in
any shady transaction, and they would
bribe known drunkards and minors to enter
the establishment, and subsequently give
evidence against the owner."
Some lawyers express disappointment that
Silverman was not convicted under the
original package feature so that the case
might have been taken to the higher court.
TALKING OF TRI1KG IT.
PACKAGE HOUSES MAY SOON BE OPENED
IN THIS CITY.
Disappointed Applicanta Discussing tho
Blatter Prospect That a Meeting mar be
Held to Consider It Licensed Proprie
tors Belling Ont.
Ever since the Supreme Court decided
that liquor sent into this State from another
State could be sold in the packages in which
it was imported, without a local license,
there has been a great deal of quiet canvass
ing of the situation by persons who were re
fused retail and wholesale licenses last
April. Names are mentioned of persons in
various parts of the city who were almost
ready, five weeks ago, to try the experiment.
Then came the arrest ot Silverman, and the
Pittsburg people decided to await the out
come of bis case. Tbe decision at Kittan
ning yesterday caused considerable commo
tion among "these people, and there was
considerable flying around yesterday after
noon and evening.
Inquiry develops the fact that the open
ing of original package houses lias been
seriously considered by quite a number of
people in this city. Each one seems to be
waiting for the other fellow to start. In
several wards, where licenses are plenty, the
idea seems to be that original package
houses would pav little. That part of the
First ward near the Point, the Hill wards,
especially the Thirteenth; the Eighteenth,
the Twentieth, and other wards where
licenses are few and far between, are the
districts most likely to develop original
package houses.
Sounding the Refused Applicants.
Yesterday afternoon two gentlemen who
failed to secure licenses visited a number of
persons who were in the same box, and will
visit others to-day, to sound them on the
question. It is proposed to hold a confer
ence, if enough people express a willingness
to go into the combination, to make ar
rangements for the simultaneous opening of
a large number of houses in the city. A.
A. Mllligan, who was refused a license for
his bouse at No. 1 East Carson street, is
said to be the prime mover in this project.
Mr. Milligan could not be found last night.
It is reported that attorneys for some of the
rejected license applicants have advised
them to go abeid, but that they must be ex
ceedingly careful as to minors and topers.
One of the Lawrenceville individuals
most anxions to essay the experiment is
John House, who was refused a license for
his house near the Forks of the Eoad.
Others on the Hill, notibly one man on
Chatham street, are said to be ready for the
move.
Henry "Wool f, the city agent of the Cin
cinnati Brewing Company, was in town last
evening with Mr. Silverman. Mr. "Woolf
said that he bad just ordered two more car
loads of beer for Silverman, and that the
beer would be sold, in the kegs, in Arm
strong county.
Reluctant to Attempt It.
P. C. Duffy, who was refused a license for
his hotel and restaurant at the corner of
Grant street and "Webster avenue, said:
"Several persons who thought of opening
have been to see me and get my opinion. I
am reluctant to go into the thing, because I
do not want to become a violator of the law
in any way. I have always tried to obey
the law. All my interests are here and I
am permanently identified with the city. I
would rather see somebody else start the
matter. I have no doubt that if one man
would open there would be a great many to
follow. The trouble is that every one is
afraid to make the break."
George Arnold, proprietor of Arnold's
Hotel, at the corner of Seventh avenue and
Grant street, said that he had not consid
ered the matter senonsly. It would be a
great help to him in his hotel if he could
sell liquors, but he said he thought there
would be no money in the original package
business down town, because there are so
many wholesale and retail houses. If he
would open he would prefor to see somebody
else begin the thing.
No Disposition to Try It.
John K. Durr, of Market street, another
man who was refused license, has no dispo
sition to open. He has leased his barroom
for a shoe store.
John Newell said of the general subject:
"There are enough licensed houses now. A
good many people got licenses who don't
want them. A number of them are selling
out and other fellows would be glad to do
so if they could get purchasers. There is
little money in it."
FoUr applications for the transfer of
license are to come before Judge Ewing to
day. Charles Eriebertshauser, at No. 546
Smithfield street, desires to sell to his bar
keeper for 59,000. Colonel A. S. Scribner
wishes to sell out the American House with
its bar license, on Liberty avenue, to a man
named Smith, for 512,000. The Colonel in
tends to return to Brookville. Jefferson
county.
Among the Wholesale Dealers.
Among the wholesale dealers, Mr. Adler,
of Mayer & Adler, on Sixth street, said:
"This original package business, even if
confirmed bv the whole State, will not effect
us wholesalers in the least degree. You see
packages will nay the seller in a prohibition
town, but here in Pittsburg, where there
are loads of saloons and wholesale houses,
and where folks can buy all tbe liquor they
want, there is no use for package agents. I
am convinced that these men will confine
themselves to prohibition towns, and not
worry about setting up in cities where there
is lots of liquor."
Owen McCarthy, of Sixth street, a re
tailer, did not think that the original pack
age shop wonld hurt his branch of the busi
ness at all. "When man a wants a drink,"
he said, "he wonld scarcely go to the trouble
of purchasing a package of beer when he
could get a glassful. It might hurt whole
salers and bottlers, but not saloon keepers."
Mr. J. Dimling, of the Diamond, agreed
with Mr. McCarthy, as did several other
well-known liquor men.
BEADY TO MAKE A TEST CASE.
Inspector McAleese Will Arrest the First
Ortnlnnl Packnge Opermor.
Inspector McAleese said last night: "If
an original package establishment is
opened in this city we shall promptly arrest
the proprietor, as the keeper of a disorderly
house, under the police regulations which
define a disorderly house as a place where
persons congregate in idleness, or where
liquor is illegally sold. This offense is
spe cified in a city ordinance based on an J
SATUKDAY, JUNE 14,
act of Assembly which ante-dates the
Brooks law by a number of years.
"We will obtain a summary conviction,
and if the defendant wishes to test its Iecal
ity he can refuse to pay the fine, go to the
workhouse, and then ask the United States
courts for his release on a writ of habeas
corpus. This will pave the way for a thor
ough and final test of the original package
decision so far as this city is concerned."
0LE0 AGAIN TO BE SOLD.
BOGUS BUTTER DEALERS SEE ANOTHER
SHOW FOR THEM.
One Firm Rendr to Resume Business nnd
aOthers Will Fall In Line Solids as Wrll
ns Liquids to be Had In Original
Packages. ,
The general public has been so busy di
gesting the effect of the original package
decision as regards the selling of liquor that
the sweeping chauges it will make in re
gard to other original packages have not
been fully realized or taken note of. The
conception of an original package so far has
been generally something in a liquid form,
but the decision affects solids as well as
liquids. Few people have thought abont
oleomargarine in original packages, but if
present indications augur of the future, they
will have a chance to not only think about
the matter, but buy the butter substitute in
open market, thanks to the United States
Supreme Court if thanks be due.
"Oleo" has had a hard time of it. Since
the State law went into effect tbe commis
sion merchants have been a little shy abont
selling it, but a number of them now say
they will boom thctrade again in original
package's, and one firm has already entered
the field. Tbe latter is the "Western Butter
Company. The firm is composed of Messrs.
McCann and Scott. Until a short time ago
they had stands in the Market House, uut
have recently opened up a large commission
house at 100 and 101 Water street.
The State l.nw a Dead Letter.
Mr. Scott said yesterday that tbe firm had
consulted the best lawyers in regard to sell
ing oleo, and were told that if they had
United States licenses to go ahead under
the original package decision, which
according to their view, makes the State
law a dead letter. The firm has the agency
for six "oleo" factories in Ohio and Illinois
and Mr. Scott said that they now control the
trade. They still have their stands in the
Market House, where "oleo" in original
packages will be a feature of tbe future.
Mr. Scott said that a number of firms in
Pittsburg had obtained Government li
censes, which cost 5480. "When asked how
many there were or their names he merely
replied that ten would not be an overesti
mate. He said that they did not wish any
newspaper talk on the matter, as it did no
good and only caused trouble and talk.
They prefer to go in the "sweet old way,"
stying nothing to any man and abiding by
what they think is law and their rights.
John K Bea, the commissian niau, said
that the late decision knocked the State
law out, and the trade in "oleo" wonld com
mence again in full sway. Continuing, he
said: "When the warm weather comes we
shall sell oleomargarine in original pack
ages to the retail trade, or to anyone who
wants, to buy it, so far as that goes. When
we sold before we got our goods in Chicago.
Fo doubt all of the old sellers will start up
again."
May be a Test Case.
George S. Martin said that the original
package meant "oleo" as well as liquor.aud
tbe trade would brighten up again. A test
case may be bronght, but there is doubt of
such an action, as the decision of the Su
.prenie Court does not quote liquor, but any
article of merchandise between States, in
original packages.
L. H. Voight, one of tbe largest commis
sion merchants on Liberty street, did not
think the decision would affect the trade in
"oleo" much, as people would rather have
real butter, and that article was sold at such
a figure that there would be no profit in
handling the bogus article. However, be
was of the opiniou that it could be sold if
dealers sojdesired. t
It was no secret on Liberty street that
oleo was now sold, and has been sold, regard
less of the law, since it went into effect.
However, its greatest sale has been in the
country towns, within a radius of 100 miles.
The stuff is sold by traveling agents, who
carry the "oleo" in jelly glasses. In the
small mining towns up the Monongahela
river It has been sold to people who could
not afford to pay for butter. The Pittsburg
houses, it is said, got rid of about five or six
carloads each week, and made a good profit
ont of it.
VIEWS OP ALLEGHENIANS.
HOW
THEY LOOK AT THE
CASE DECISION.
SILVERMAN
Some of Them Think tho Law Should be
Amended The Principles of Prohibition
Defeated by the Decision Fins Legal
Points Involved.
"In the light of recent events I will say
unhesitatingly that the Supreme Court will
most likely speedily reverse its decree in the
original package matter," said Mr. George
Shiras. "The decision does not enforce the
law exactly as the Court intended, and it
should be modified in order to adapt it to
existing circumstances."
Mayor Wyman, of Allegheny, was in the
midst of his daily work nnd said that press
of business prevented him from giving
close attention to tbe original package de
cision. Captain Gerwick, member of Coun
cil, gave his views on the matter.
"As it stands now," he said,
"the law can be so construed that
a man in a neighborine State
can load a wagon with bottles of beer and
transport it to some other commonwealth.
A wagon is a carrying vehicle, and if the
man delivers the bottles separately to cus
tomers he is complying with the require
ments of the law, but at the same time,
the principles of prohibition are defeated.
Tbe time is not iar distant when the origi
nal package decision will be altered to cover
such cases."
Colonel Stone was toiling away like a
beaver when a reporter approached him, but
the Colonel had nothing to say on the orig
inal package question.
Councilman C. C. Scaife said: "Ji is a
very peculiar business, and will involve
some fine legal points before the Supreme
Court reverses its decision."
Mr. Stockman, another member of the
Allegheny.Councii, expressed the following
opinion: "Under the circumstances I be
lieve the original packaee decree ought to
be so changed as to comply with the liquor
laws of the different States. "When a pack
age of spirits is taken to a Prohibition
State and opened, I think tbe original
package is broken and the goods are no
longer under the jurisdiction of the pack
age law."
GAME IK OBIGOTAL PACKAGES.
A Probable Result of the Lute ttnpreme
Court Decision.
At the present time it would seem strange
for a man to say he was going down to
market to buyan original package ot quail,
pheasants or other game out of season ac
cording to law. Nevertheless, such an
action may be just the thing in the not dis
tant future, if the present interpretation of
the original package decision is not changed
at least, so say some commission mer
chants. Mr. Henry, of Aiken & Henry, commis
sion, merchants, brought to notice this
feature of the late decision yesterday, and
said bo did not see why it would not work
as well on game and fish as on liquor, if the
former were sent in from outside tbe State.
During the season that the sale ot some
game and fish is prohibited in this State
there is quite a demand for the same regard
less of the law.
Several other dealers held tbe same views,
and talked strongly of taking advantage oi
the decision.
1890.
YALUABLE POINTERS.
Western Pennsylvania Farmers Have
Some Ideas as to How'
GOOD ROADS CAN BE OBTAINED.
Cost of the Highway Between Dollidays;
bur" and Altoena.
INJUSTICE OP TEE PKESiSNT LAWS.
8. B. Downing Declares That Radical Amendments
Ire Yery Ktcessarj.
Prominent agriculturists show the State
Board the defects of the present system of
road laws. They demand equal justice for
all, The necesity of aid from tbe Legisla
ture is proved by the arguments.
IFBOH A 8TAJT COJIBESFOOTIItT.J
. "WELLSBOBO, June 13 "Western Penn
sylvania farmers gave some very valuable
pointers to tbe State Board of Agriculture,
which has just adjourned here, about the
evils of the present system of making, re
pairing and paying for country roads. One
of the best instances was told in the paper
read by Frederick Jackel, of Holidaysburg.
He described two towns, one with a popula
tion of 6,000 and the other with 35,000, a lit
tle over seven miles apart.
Although Mr. Jacket's paper did not
name the towns, he told me this morning
that they are Holidaysburg and Altoona.
Formerly a turnpike connected tbe two
places over which a buggy might pass for
20 cents both ways. Holidaysburg is tbe
capital ot Blair, and tbe bnsiness people of
Altoona haye to drive there a creat deal,
and likewise Holidaysburg residents drive
to Altoona for much of their shopping or
for pleasnre.
"WASTED A FKEE BOAS.
Tho business men of both towns couceived
the idea of having a free road lor all this
overland travel, and as an ordinary dirt
road could be made at almost a railroad
grade along the Allegheny Mountains, the
courts were asked to order a view. Such a
road was necessary, said the Court; the plan
is entirely feasible, and so an official view
was at once declared. The land- necessary
was condemned, and the road was built.
"This road," continued Mr. Jaekel,
"passes through two townships. It may
have cost 800 or $1,000 per mile to make
and keep in repair. Who pays for it, the
merchants and citizens of Altoona and Hol
lidaysburg? No. It is true they profit by
it and use it the most, but it is free to them.
The 300 property owners in those two town
ships have to pay all the taxes for its main
tenance. Thus is tbe farmer compelled" to
keep up roads for the benefit of two towns."
Mr. Jackel contends this is one of the
class of highways that should be termed a
"State road," and should be entirely
maintained by State money and State
supervision. So also should "county
ronds," which lead from one county to
another.
A NEW OFFICER NEEDED.
Here he would have a connty roadmaster
employed by the State Eoad Department,
merely to superintend the disposition of the
State appropriation, an'd he to appoint
supervisors to superintend the work in each
township,such supervisors to be paid by the
day for only such duty as they actually
perform. For trivial township
lanes Mr. Jackel suggests that school
boards be authorized to levy a
small additional tax and expend it on
those laues.
The gentleman concludes that there are
too many ot such lanes which stand upon
court records as public highways, and thus
have to be kept up by public taxes. He
believes the first work of the proposed State
improvement should be to appoint a board
ot engineers to survey the road system of
the entire State, make good maps and then
decide on the vacation of all unnecessary
lanes and roads. It wonld make the re
maining ones all the better. As his crown
ing argument for financial aid from the
State Treasury, Mr. Jackel declares that
four-fifths of tbe taxable persons in Penn
sylvania never pay taxes for roads.
Some further abstracts from the remark
ably able paper of S. K. Downing, of
Chester county, oq "State Aid for Public
lioaas, are as follows:
SCHOOLS AND ROADS.
Section first article tenth of tbe Constitution
of 1873, reads: '-The General Assembly shall
provide for the maintenance and support of a
thorough system of public schools, and shall
appropriate at least 51.000,000 each year tor that
purpose." Hince tbe adoption of tbe new Con.
stltutlon in 1873, the appropriation for schools
has increased to tbe sum of 82,000.000,
And yet in the years 1831 and 1835 when the
question of accepting tbe common school
system was submitted to the delegates repre
senting the school districts of intelligent Ches
ter connty. a considerable majority in both
years voted not to accept. When the office of
County Superintendent was established, it also
encountered opposition virtually based npon
the same argument ued to-day against com
petent connty supervision ot roads, one class
said It would multiply public offices, another
class deemed tho office useless and
the money paid to tbe officer
would be better expended by adding
it to the school fund. So that between the
years 1S34 and 1890 a vast revolution has oc
curred In the public mind as to schools. State
appropriations have passed from thousands to
millions, tho offices of State and county super
intendent being created and connty institutes
encouraged by bounties, all primarily in the
teeth of popular dissent and by the gradual
yielding of popular opinion. Bhonld we can
vass the matter, I believe we will readily con
clude that if a State can appropriate money
for schools it can with tbe same ease and npon
the same basis oi right and demand appropri
ate monoy for roads.
Land is condemned by authority of tbe State
lor roads, as for school sites. But there is an
inequality between tbe tno. Tlio State takes
our land for roads, but unjustly goes no
further. The State, on behalf of schools, grants
a seizure of lands, but considerately goes
farther than in the case of roads. First, by
giving the schools authority to borrow capital.
Second, by instituting and paying for State
and county supervision. Third, by assisting
directly in the maintenance of schools by ap
propriations ot money. The people are satis
fled with all school legislation, but road legisla
tion seems to be inoperative. Ineffectual, un
satisfactory. EQ TJAI, JUSTICE FOB ALL.
Should a sboal gather across tbe bed of tbe
Delaware river, checking trade between Boston
or Baltimore and Philadelphia, the merchants
of Philadelphia-are" relieved by the Govern
ment from paying toward lifting tbe shoaL
Our General Government also appropriates, as
encouragement to trade. 1200,000,000 in steam
ship subsidies. Now trade Is dot confined to
ships or rivers, or again the passage of armies
is not limited to sea?. Trade is not confined to
railroads, and yet railroads being factors in
trade, the general government, as a principal
of national economy, has lent lavishly of its
credit and given as lavishly of its lands for the
building of lines over tbe great deserts and
mountain ranges of our country for the sake of
trane. Tbe heaviest trade of Pennsylvania is
the wagnn or common road trade. If this be
true, why should it not be as fully a matter of
public policy for a State to encourage local
trade between farm and connty town or town
ship village by a partial building and support
of roads as it is publie policy for the General
Government to subsidize ships and railroads, to
bold rivers clear and erea to appropriate
money in tbe name of creeks that are never
touched alitor tbe sake of general trade.
)And yet the real estate owner of Pennsyl
vania, notuitbstanding bis over-burtben of
taxation equaling ten to one, comparatively,
with that of tbe personal property owner, or
eight to one with tbat of corporations the real
estate owner, with all this over-burthen
amounting almost to cariylng out of the single
tax theory, does not cravo of tbe State any
speci il bounty to his class in asking aid in the
structure and maintenance of roads. He asks
for tbat which will add to the pronperity
of all classes and facilitate all honor
able industry and enterprise. Not
only this, but the granting of State aid for
roads is asked upon the score of an adjustment
of rights, and charges real, personal and cor
porate wealth on account of the common rights
and privileges each may hold in the common
roads. It la not a true principle that one class
shall construct and maintain roads for an en
tire population of a State.
Many real estate owners niayjndeea oppose
a State appropriation for roads, fearing that
such legislation would interfere with any bill
rnnxhzme taxation. Then again certain land
owners may urge that the better way to secure J
the meansto build roads, would be In the plan
of townships collecting equally from personal
as well as real estate for that purpose witbont
any intermeddling bytbe State.
This all seems reasonable lu tbe way of ob
jection to State aid. bat when we come to look
within and know of that streak of oar common
humanity which ever revolts against taxation,
we And that no matter how road taxation may
bo subdivided between all classes of wealth,
any taxation for roads would in too many in
stances be out-voted, defeated by a township
citizenship, and that, too. representing all ele
ments of wealth and trade, paying taxes, and
all simply because of a general repugnance to
increased taxation and a failure to study tbe
economy or proSt of an investment In better
roads. L. E. Stomel.
AN ENGINE'S ANTICS.
IT ENTERS A PASSENGER CAR DOING
SERIOUS DAMAGE.
Half Dozen Personn Badly Hart In a
Wreck nt Cleveland A Misunderstand
ing About the night of Wny otC, Be T.
nnd C. C, Si 8. Train.
Cleveland, June 13. A train load of
passengers on the Cleveland, Canton and
Southern Bailroad had a miraculous escape
from death in an acccident at the
crossing of that road and the Cleve
land and Pittsburg line near Jones avenue,
in this city, this morning. As it was several
persons were more or less seriously injured,
and the ether passengers were badly fright
ened. At 9:35 a Cleveland, Canton and
Southern passenger train, consisting of two
coaches and-a locomotive, and the Cleveland
and Pittsburg locomotive No. 46, drawing
the way freight, both being bound toward
the city, approached the crossing of the
road. Tbe target man at the crossing, James
Clancy, it is alleged, set the signal giving
the passenger train right of way. The pas
senger train approached the crossing, but
the Cleveland and Pittsburg locomotive did
not slacken its speed.
The express engine and half of the for
ward car were over the crossing when the
freight locomotive struck the coach and
crashed into its side. The heavy car was
lifted into the air and then thrown upon its
side on top of the target house, which was
split into kindling wood. The target post
was thrown to the ground, but the signal
remained set for the Cleveland, Canton and
Southern track. The coupling of the
engine was broken and the locomotive of
the train remained on the track. The
Cleveland and Pittsburg locomotive, which
is said to have caused the accident left the
track. The pilot had lifted the car and
turned it upon the side after breaking
through the heavy frame. Had the engine
remained upon the rails it might have cut
the coach in two. As it was the damage
wrought was heavy. The startled passengers
were terribly frightened at the entrance of
the locomotive into their car, and a rush
was made for the doorway, which by this
time was at right angles to its usual posi
tion. One by one the uninjured climbed
through the opening and were assisted fb
the earth bv Patrolman Kelly. The injured
were takeu'to the Jones avenue depot of the
Cleveland, Canton and Southern road,
where their wounds were dressed before
their further removal.
Mr. W. Carver, retired, of Kent, O., was
taken in an ambulance to the house of a
sister, at No. 871 Case avenue. He was se
riously injured abont the head and hips.
Mrs. Joseph Nash.of Kent, was injured in
the spine and also internally. She was
taken in a carriage to the Cataract House.
Mrs. "W. "Westtall, of Bedford, O., was
caught between the seats and her hack in
jured. She was also cut with flying glass.
She was taken to the house of a Iriend. Mrs.
Stephen Parker, of Bedford, was cut on the
head and her back wrenched. Miss Ada
Fisher, of Miles avenue, was seriously
shaken np, the shock rendering her tem
porarily blind. She was taken home in a
carriage. Bev. Dr. D. H. Muller, of Can
ton, was injured painfully but not seriously.
His head and face were deeply cut and his
nervous system greatly shocked. His seat
was near where the locomotive came into
the car and it was a wonder he was not
killed. The engineer of the Canton loco
motive dragged Dr. Muller through the
window and helped him to the street car,
whence he came to Dr. Biggar's office for
"aid.
"Wrecking trains were sent out, but it was
several hours be'ore tbe tracks were cleared
and traffic on both roads was suspended, the
blockade being complete. The Cleveland
and Pittsburg train was in charge of Con
ductor George Budolph and Engineer
George Klarsgye. The engineer says that
the target was "set for him, and when close
to the crossing it was changed to give the
Cleveland, Canton and Southern the right
of way. The passenger engineer and he
bpth believed they had the signal to go
ahead, and both pulled out for the crossing.
A 8EHAT0B GETS HIS FOOT Iff IT.
The' Boston Gentleman Finds Himself Un
able to Deliver the Good.
BOSTOK, June 13. The hearing before
the Senate Committee investigating
charges of corruption in the election with
the passage of the West End Elevated
Bailroad bill was resumed this forenoon,
and the room was crowded. Mr. Hagar
continued his testimony, reiterating posi
tively his denial of having had the inter
view testified to by Sanderson.
P. J. Hutchinson, the attorney for Dr. J.
C. Moore, of tbe Manchester, N. H., Dht'on,
testified that on the day of the alleged in
terview he saw at the office in "Washington
street, Dr. Moore, Mr. Hagar and a gentle
man who has since been pointed out to him as
Senator Fassett. Witness had remarked to
Sanderson during Hagar's testimony that he
(Hagar) was lying.
Colonel Sanderson was recalled and testi
fied tbat when Senator Fassett proposed to
deliver the votes of ten Senators for $100,
000 (witness) referred him to Dr. Moore.
"Witness had no money to bny Senators and
no intention to buy any of them. Senator
Fassett declared to him (witness) that the
Senators could be purchased for $10,000
each.
Senator Fassett testified he had never had
any conversation with Colonel Sanderson
with regard to elevated roads; never had
any conversation with him at all at Dr.
Moore's office, and the alleged $100,000 in
terview never took place.
CUTTING FREIGHT BATES AGADT.
Tbe Lake Shore Will Carry Dressed Beef
at Still Lower Prices.
Chicago, Jnne 13. A special meeting
of tbe Chicago Freight Committee of the
Central Traffic Association was called to
day by tbe Lake Shore people, who gave
notice that they would further reduce the
rate on dressed beef to 39 cents per 100
pounds, Chicago to New York, taking effect
June 20. This is done to meet the action of
the Chicago and Grand Trnnk, which has
filed a new tariff with the Inter-Slate Com
merce Commission, making a date of 39
cents to preserve its 3-cent differential.
The Lake Shore is still determined to
abolish the differential, nnd will continue to
meet the Grand Trunk's rate. Cattle rates
will also be reduced to 22 cents.
A FETE PEESEUT FE0M ALGEE,
An Officer Who Stepped n Runaway Team
Ilnndaomety Rewarded.
New Yobk, June 13 On Memorial Day
Officer Seymour V. .Parker, of the Broad
way squad, gallantly stopped a runaway
team attached to a carriage in which were
'Ex-Governor Bussell A. Alger, of Michi
gan, Congressman J. P. Dolivar and Judge
Van Hoesen.
To-day Officer Parker received, through
Superintendent Murray, a silver bowel,
gold-lined, together with an autograph let
ter from General Alger as a reminder of his
bravo action.
A-Fltubnrser Drowned la Chicago.
Frank A. Allen, Of Chicago, writes to
The Dispatch that he has in his posses
sion the personal efiects of Paul P. Miller,
who formerly lived at or near Pittsburg.
Miller, with a companion from Cincinnati,
was drowned by the capsizing of a skill on
the lake. Mr. Allen would like to hear
Irom.'Millex'i friencU,
AEISEINBULLCKEEK'
Causes a Fatally Disastrous "Wreck
on the Chesapeake and Ohio.
NINE CABS PLDNGE INTO A DITCH.
Several Persons Believed to HaTa Bees
Buried in the Wreck
AND A DOZEN 0TBERS DROWNED
By the Mad Etna of Waters That Swept Dowa tie
Harrow Channel.
A wreck Involving the loss of several
lives and an immense amonnt of property
occurred on the Ohio river division of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Bailroad, at Bull
Creek, near Maysville, Ky., Thursday night.
Incomplete returns picture the affair ai
dreadful.
Matsvtlxe, Ky., June 13. At Bull
creek, six miles above Maysville, last night
two dark clouds met and burst. The creek
jumped over its banks and swept like drift
several dwelling houses and their frightened
occupants. The stone culvert of the Chesa
peake and Ohio Canal over Bull creek waa
washed into the river and about 12 o'clock
last night, while the storm was at its height,
the west-bound freight train ran into a "
washout, causing a fearful wreck.
The engine and nine cars were piled ona
npon top of another almost ont of sight in
the creek bottom.
Engineer C. C. Boadcap, of Greenup
county; Fireman Morris Honaker, of Lewis
county, and Brafceman Charles Baton are
buried beneath the wreck, and their bodies
have not yet been recovered. Conductor "W.
B. "Watts and Brakeman "W. A. Love
jumped from the hind car and escaped un
hurt. A NUMBER DBOWSED.
The train was made- up of 32 cars. Nina
carloads of shoes and boots for Louisville
went down in the wreck. A fast wrecking
train, on the way to the scene, this morning
ran over Frank S:ott, a colored employe,
and killed him. About a dozen persons
living on the bank of Bull creek are re
ported drowned. The following bodies have'
been found: John Buggies, a well-known
fisherman; Lucy P. Estler, a widow, and
her two daughters, Bettie and Julia, and
two sons. She is a sisterof BobertColbnrn,
of Chester.
The 19 cars down in the washout are
mashed into kindling-wood. The train was
the. first section of freight No. 33, drawn by
engine No. 151, which is one of the largest
as well as finest engines on tbe road. The
eneine is now ont of sight in quicksand.
The train was running over 30 miles per
hour. A little later an eastbound mixed
passeuger train would have passed over the
fatal culvert, when the loss of life wonld
have been appalling.
A BAFID RISK.
It seems incredible that so many ears
could be jammed into so small a hole as
the culvert. Two wrecking trains have
been busy all day removing the debris. Tha
workmen have just found two mangled
bodies. James Irwin had a portable saw
mill located several hundred yards up Bull
creek, above the railroad. The clouds, sud
denly bursting, caused a rapid rise in tha
creek, already badly swollen by the storm.
Farmers say the creek rose two feet per
minute, and the water looked like a wall 25
feet high when it got to the railroad fill.
Tbe sawmill was lifted from its fastenings
and, with over 100 big logs, hurled violently
against tbe railroad stone culvert. This is
probably what caused it to give way. Hugs
stones, weighing several tons, were carried
by the creek long distances. The creekrosaV
two feet higher than it has been in 40 years. ,'b
FLED TO THE HIIXS.
The fury of the storm caused many per- .
sous on Bull creek to abandon their homes
and take to the bills, else the loss of life
would have been greater. The storm did
much damage to buildings, fences and
coops in that portion of the country. A
barn on the farm of Dick Dawson (colored)
was struck by lightning and bnrned. Mr.
Tom "Williams dwelling was struck by
lightning and burned to the ground, his
family barely escaping.
Some half dozen persons on Bull creek
arestill missing, but it is believed they will
turn np all right.
SUED HIS WIFE FOB PEBJTOY.
A Soutbilde Alderman' Case Slightly Ont ot
the Ordinary Ran.
A case that is probably withont a parallel
among Aldermen was heard yesterday even
ing before Alderman Beinhauer. Mrs.
Louisa Ebeling was charged by her hus
band, Charles, witbperjury. Charles alleged
that his wife was of intemperate habits, and
hinted that her character is not so unassail
able as that of Caesar's wife, and in order to
draw her away from evil associations in
duced her to sign an affidavit in which she
agreed to stay away from a certain house
and certain persons. It was for a violation
of this that he prosecuted her for perjury.
The bearing showed that Mrs. Ebeling is
a much-abused woman, and did not know
what the affidavit contained. A host of
reputable persons testified to her good
character, and she was discharged.
EACH Y0TED TTMTfl.
How Patriotic Chicago Haulers Boll Up
Die majorllles-
Chicago, June 13. Alderman McAbee
and "Mike" Corcoran, politician, under in
dictment for corruption in connection with
the late Aldermanic election in the Twenty
fourth ward, were on trial in the Criminal
Court to-day. r Steve Collins, a political
"hustler," testLed that, in accordance with
an arrangement witn Corcoran, he got
together a band of 25 repeaters to vote for
McAbee. They voted three times each at
the Seventeenth precinct and several times
at other precincts.
After votinsr each time the gang was
marched to a saloon and there Corcoran
paid them 50 cents each. The witness testified
that he saw McAbee give Captain "Whita
some money and White gave the repeaters
names under which they were to vote.
TRTT TO P0IS0K mXLSELZ.
A First A venae Teamiter'a Tola Attempt to
blinds OIC
George Busenbnrg, 40 years of age, a
teamster, living with his wife and family at
the corner of First avenne and Try street,
made an attempt at self-destruction about 10
o'clock last night by swallowing an ounce
of landanum. His wife worked with him
for some time, and then notified the police,
when he was sent to the Homeopathio
Hospital abont 12 o'clock.
After an examination there it was thought
he would recover. His wife alleges tbat ha
has been drinking considerably lately and
has threatened to poison himself.
TWO HKIHH GET IT ALL.
Tbe Jerome Estate of 8330,000 to be DIs.
poied Ot,
Chicago, Jnne 13. After a sensational
trial, extending over several weeks, the pur
ported will of Mrs. Louisa Jerome, who left
a fortune oi $250,000, was refused probata
to-day by Judge Koblsaat.
Two heirs, Bli Hough and Clarissa Phil
lips, are, as a result ot tbe decision, to re
ceive all the money, whereas the will be
queathed $2,000 apiece to ten charitable in
stitutions and $10,000 each to John O. Coo. '
grove's three infant children.
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