h-fS, i s 3H' THE .PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1890.: A CROCKED CENSUS The St. Paul-Minneapolis Em broglio Assuming a Sen sational Character. A CHARGE -OF NEPOTISM. U. S. District Attorney Hay, Formerly a Law Student of Harrison, CARRIES THINGS HIGH-HANDEDLY Seating of St. Paul's Leading Citizens Call ing for an Investigation. CENSUS KICKS FKOM OTHER CITIES The action of United States District At torney Hay in postponing the case of the arrested Minneapolis census enumerators was the cause of an indignation meeting ieing held in St. Paul, composed of its eading citizens. They waited upon Mr. lay and were snubbed. Detectives have een employed to unearth more irauds. ensus complaints continue to come from rery section. St. Paul, Minn., June 21. Although e city of St. Panl has been charged with ins behind the prosecution ot the seven rested Minneapolis censns enumerators pnblic action or publicly known ac n ol prominent St. Paul citizens war lted such a charge until to-day, when ne 75 leading business men of this city t at Mayor Smith's office to take action the matter. Their action has been inght about by the following te of affairs: United States District At- ney Hav has been for years a resident of inneapofis, and on that account there je St Paul people who severely criticised s actions in favoring a chance ot venue at sterday's hearing before United States ixnmissioner McCaffertj, and in asking a atinuance oi the case until be could more bronghly prepare himself to prosecute id hear from the Department of Justice at rashington, although at the timeof making ;ph request he had been in possession ot the idence against the accused but 24 hours. ngene Hay studied law with the firm ol farrison & Miller, in Indianapolis, and he i said to have been instrumental in the ap- ointment of Census Inspector Davenport, f Minneapolis. The latter 1IABKIED A NIECE OP HABBISON. These facts added to the feeling against llr. Hay, and there were fears expressed that he would be influenced in the matter by his personal feelings. His relations with President Harrison and United States Attorney General Miller add to the sensational nature of to-day's pro ceedings. The meeting was a thoroughly 'representative one, and those present repre sented something over $30,000,000 of the wealth of the city. After hearing- the read ing of affidavits in which specific charges of frauds in the census ennmeration of Minne apolis implicating Supervisor Davenport, are made, a petitiou to United States Attorney Hay was drawn tp and feigned "by 50 of those present, in which he was requested to prosecute the cases without delay. Appended to this pe nnon was tne most important of the affi davits and attention was called to further documentary evidence said to be in the hands of the Government attorney. A'ter stating that thev are acting in defense of the city or St Panl and the State of Min nesota, the petition calls attention to the fact that Congressional and Legislative districting depend on this census and that the TVHOLE UNITED STATES IS REGISTERED. in a lair count For reasons given they ask a vigorous prosecution of the cases. They further ask that certain complaints against other alleged offenders be served at once. It is further stated that the petition ers are informed by their counsel, who are assistants to Mr. Hay in these cases, that the evidence now on hand would speedily convict of conspiracy. General John B. Sanborn acted as spokesman, and read the petition to Mr. Hay, the entire body having marched to his office from the Mayor's office. Hon. C. E. Flandran, ex-Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, supplemented the petition with an address to the United States Attor ney in the same vein. Among others ,this petition was signed by the following: D. K. Noyes, President, and A. S. Tallmadge, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce; General J. W. Bishop, H. P. Upham, President of the First National Bank; O. O. Cullen, President City Council; ex-Governor W. B. Marshall, J. A. Wheclock and Fred Driscoll, of the Pioneer Press; A. H. "Wilder, Dr. David Day; Maurice Auer bach, Corporation Attorney Holman, Cap tain Bussell Blafcely, Walter S. Morton, on of O. P. Morton, of Indiana: Thomas Cochran, D. C. Sheppard, General Sanborn and Judge Flandrau. Alter hearing the petition read, Mr. Hay declined to listen to the reading ol the main affidavit, and REFUSED TOFEOSECUTEFOB CONSPIRACY ns requested. He was asked to seal the evidence in his hands, but, regarding it simply, said that he would "produce it at the proper time unless it was stolen." The citizens then returned to the Mayor's office and held a secret session, the only thing made public from which was the anpoiut ment of an executive committee. Thiel's Detective Agency, of St Louis, through Captain Williams, .stated that thev could not allow one of their detectives to be held as a witness unless an indemnifying bond were filed to secure them against trouble and loss. Immediately a bond was signed and forwarded to St Louis in the SUM OF TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS. - Detective John H. Mason makes affidavit to certain matters in relation to the taking ol the census of the city of Minneapolis, and his affidavit accompanies the petition. It describes the method of operations al leged to have been adopted, and gives in stances of fraud. He says he has written orders rom E. A. Stevens telling him how to proceed, and further implicates Supervisor Davenport in the matter. His affidavit is very long and sires tables showing the nature ot the alleged frauds in the manner ol perpetration. ' PHILADELPHIA FIGUBEF An UnoClcinl Enlmnte Plocrs ibe Present PopnlMlon nt 1,040,449. Philadelphia, Jnue 2L The returns of the census enumerators in this city, with one exception, were all in to-night, and General BobertB. Beath, the supervisor for this district, gives the population of Phila delphia at 1,040,449. the figures being un official. The population in 1880 was 847,170, and the increase therefore is 193,279, or 22 8-10 per cent There has been an increase of over 60,000 in the number of dwelling souses. TOBELIABLE INFOEMATION. The Censns Indicnir. That Cincinnati Han About 300.000 Inhnbltnnts. CINCINNATI, June 2L-The census re turns for Cincinnati and Hamilton countv are still far Irom complete, only one ward in Cincinnati being finished. The indications from these incomplete figures are that the population of Cincinnati is about 300.000 and that I Hamilton county about 400000 JThe returns in their present state, how ever, 'urnish a Terr unreliable source of foforsaaWen. STILL THE METROPOLIS. THE APPROXIMATE CENSUS FIGURES OF NEW YORK. Supervisor Murray Emlmntcs (be Popula tion nt 1,637,327 Twenty District Hnvo Not Yet Been Completed Nearly a million In Brooklyn. TSrXClAI. TZLXQXAX TO THX DlSrATCB.1 NewYobk, June 2L From a careful estimate, made up principally from the daily reports of the census enumerators, Supervisor Murray concluded to-day that New York's population is 1,627,227. There are still 20 districts that have not been com pletely enumerated, but the Supervisor has received reports concerning them which justify his estimating their population, too. The actual figures as to the population of the public institutions have not been re ceived, but calculating upon the basis of recent reports as to these institutions he has fixed their population at 20,000 The entire population will probably foot more than the figures put down by Super visor Murray, but he is sure that the popu lation would be a good deal less than 1,700, 000. The returns in the 20 districts yet to be heard from have been delaved by sick ness and failure to work ou the part of enumerators. In some ot the districts as many as lour enumerators have been sent to do the work that one was expected to do. The returns have been sent on to Wash ington as fast as they came along, and will be tabulated there. No returns bv districts will be made up here. Supervisor Murray expects to shut up shop next week, but just what day he does not know yet With 900, 000 for" Brooklyn, a population of over 2,500,000 is shown for the two cities. INDIANA ENUKEBATOES - Bald to be Combining Political Work With Their Regular Dalles. ntrXCIAI. TKLXOBAX TO TBI DIM-ATCHV. Newcastle, Ind., June 21. George Washington Bunch, a census enumerator of New Castle, while plying a citizen of this place with his multifarious questions, to-day dropped a little book from his pocket On the first page of the book was a list of in structions for DjIIini? nurnoses. The person who picked it up took an abstract of the headings of the book as follows. Name, Postoffice, Bepublican, Democrat, National, Prohibition, Labor Union, Farmers' Alii, ance, Greenbacker, etc. In all the first page of the book there were eight instructions. Instruction No. 4 reads: "In the column for 'remarks' insert what kind of literature will reach him." Instruction No. 8 and the last reads: "Remember that silence is colden, and be very judicious in all things." Evidence comes from other parts of In diana that this scheme is being worked by the Bepublican party. STATE CENSUS A CHECK. The IoulInnn Authorities Are Comparing the Federal Returns With It. rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TRX DISrATCH. Netv Orleans, June 21. To-day was the last day fixed to take the censns in New Orleans, but the work is far from done. Supervisor Baldy reports that only half the enumerators have handed in their lists to him. The work will therefore be continued dnrinc next week. The censns of the coun try districts will also be delayed beyond the f itne fixed, July 1. The overflowed condition of some of the parishes is rendering it a slow and tedious matter to take the enumeration. The State censns taken in March as a check on the Federal one is nearlv completed. It shows a total of about 1,147,000 lor Louisiana, and 236,300 for &ew Orleans. OVEE 400,000 PEOPLE. Even Boston Shows Qnlte a Gain Since the Censns or 1SSO. Boston, June 2L The. Globe says that npon the basis of the census returns already completed it is justified in announcing that the population of Boston approximates 417,720, and that the official figures will vary but little therefrom. This shows a gain of nearly 55,000 since the census of 1880, and 27,327 since the State census of five years ago. HOW TO BUT A H0BSE. An Experienced Denier Advises a. Week's Trlnl of Every Animal. Brooklyn Eagle. A few days since a man whohas had more to do with selling and buying horses than any other man in the country, gave me what he called an infallible receipt for a successlul purchase. "The only way," he said, "for anybody to purchase a horse for a family's use is on the basis of a week's trial, and this can be secured if the pur chaser will go about his work in a sensible manner. The wild ambition which inspires most men to buy a good horse lor a small price is responsible for the most of the un happy purchases which are constantly com ing to life. "A man with an ample income decides to spend say 5250 for a horse. If a superb ani mal is offered to him for $255 he will shake his head at once and declare that he cannot go any higher than the original sum. Then he will go out and spend $10 or thereabouts for luncheon and champagne and subse quently "buy a horse for what he considers a great bargain for $248 or $249. What he onght to do would be to fix upon some fair and liberal price on the horse, giving to the dealer a chance to make a lair commission and then pay for the privilege of trying the horse for a week, paying there fore the sum of $1 a day and the board of the horse at a good livery stable while the trial is going on. The trouble is usually that .here is altogether too much larg.iin ing over horseflesh, and when men begin to bargain too hotly one of the.i is pretty sure to get badly lett This is the purchaser, for he does not know what he's buying. IK0CTJLATIHG CATTLE. Experiments Looking; to the Prevention of Texas Fever That Look Favorable. St Louis Globe-Democrat Experiments are now being made at the Missouri State farm to, test the valne of in oculating as a rueans of preventing, or at least mitigating, the violence of Texas fever. Cattle were inoculated at the station, then shipped to various poinit in Texas where they would be exposed to the pestilence. The experimenters at first found themselves confronted with many obscure difficulties and much labor and many microscopic re searches were required to make any progress. At last, however, partial success crowned their efforts. They now claim to be able to produce in cattle a fever ot more or less virulent form that will act as a partial pro tection against the dreaded maladr. They can also cultivate the germs outside of the body ot the beast and reproduce the fever with this cultivated virus. They have tried all methods, all kinds of inoculation, beginning with a mild virus and proceeding to a more powcrtul and hope in time to afford complete protection to the herds. Texas fever epidemics among cattle may herealter be as rare as epidemics ol small-pox ; long people. Had n Little War. Yesterday afternoon William Law and Mrs. Skawnski had a bellicose altercation in Spring alley, and Mr. Law made a charge of disorderly conduct against Mrs. Skawnski, be ore Alderman Burns. She was arrested ami cave ball for a hearing Tuesday. Wrrn Tleketrd lor SleKe. sport. New Yobk, June 21. Nine Hungarians ticketed tor McKeesport, Pa., were detained at the barge office this afternoon as contract-laborers. KIM 1OLLI.0NS' OFFERED. The Iiontlnnn. Lottery Franchise In Still Bnnslnc In ihr Bnlnnce. rsrECLU. TXLXOEAX TO THX DISPATCH. New Orleans, June 21. Contrary to expectation there was no vote to-day on the extension of the charter of the Lousiaua Lottery Company, and the matter was held over until Tuesday. On Monday a Demo cratic caucus will be held and an attempt made to reach some agreement in regard to the lottery question that will prevent the split threatened in the Democratic ranks on this issue. The lottery men have always favord this caucus idea, and when it was proposed to-day by Mr. Harris, an anti-lottery Ki prres entati ve; they accepted the propo sition and postponed the vote until the cau cus conld be held. Senator Lott, anti-lottery Chairman of the caucus, will not call it, bnt it will be held without him. Mr. Morris, for the lottery company, of fered to-day to advance at once $1,000,000 for levee work and another 1,000,000 in 1892, although the charter ot the company does not expire until 1891. It is said that the charge of bribery upon which Senator Stamant was arrested was made by Gover nor Nichols himself, and that similar charges wili be made against other mem bers who will vote for the lottery bill. It looks now as though the lottery has the requisite vote in the House two-thirds to pass ita bill Tuesday. It will certainly nave a large majority in the Democratic caucus Monday night NO FOOD WITH U.0.TJ0B. The Massachusetts Imir Interpreted Id Fnvor of Ibo Dealers. SFXCTAX. TKLXQKAX TO THX DISFATCR.1 Boston, June 21. Bostonians no longer will be forced to eat food with their eye openers and nightcaps. In a test case to day Judge Balster, of the Eoxbury Dis trict Court, discharged Thomas E. Connors who was charged with maintaining a public bar. The evidence showed that a very small sandwich was furnished with each drink, and although the patrons were seated at tables in conformity to the new regula tions, the police hanled Connors before the court In giving his decision this morning, Jndge Balster said: "No man can keep a saloon without being licensed, and one of the provisions of the license is that the holder shall not keep a public bar. In the Connors case I can see nothing which would indicate a pnblic bar, and in arriving at this conclnsion I do not consider food furnished at all. In my opinion that is not of any consequence. I therefore discharge the defendant" Other liquor dealers will take advantage of this decision to refrain from serving food with liqnor. DEADLY ELECTEIC FLUID Kills n Man and Melts Some Silver Dollars In Bis Test rocket. Newark, O., June 2L During the storm in the northwestern part of the county, Daniel Lake, Harry Fitzell and Frank Crouse, son of George Crouse, a prominent farmer, were in a field hoeing potatoes. When the storm broke the first two took shelter under a small sapling and Crouse under a larger tree. He had been there but a moment when a bolt of ligbtniug struck him on the head, killing him instantly." His clothes were torn off his body. In one vest pocket he had some silver dol lars and a watch in another. The current melted the silver until it ran together, while the watch was not affected. Crouse was aged 21 years. STB1KE BEE WING IN OSCEOLA, Dlssntls faction Prevails Anions Ibe Miners In the Bituminous Coal Region. Huntingdon, June 21. Threatenings of another strike are again heard in the Phillipsburg, Beech Creek and Osceola bi tuminous, coal districts. Meetings have been held by the miners and mine laborers relative to the adoption of a new scale of prices and better and safer labor appliances. At a general meeting to-day a circular was issued demanding of the proprietors abigher scale of prices with increased pay for dead work. A joint meeting is to be held in Phillips burg on the 27th instant, when an effort will be made to adjust the growing difficulties. The present movement affects over 15,000 miners. FOUND F0BTS JULES AWAY. The Body of n Woman Who Jumped Over Klaxara Falls Recovered. rsnCIAL TXtXOBAJt TO TUX DtSrATCB.1 Lockport, June 21. The waters have given up their dead. To-day on the beach of Lake Ontario, just east of Olcott, was found the body of a woman who turned out to be Mrs. Beagau, of Niagara Falls, who committed suicide on June 9 by jumping off Goat Island and passing over the falls. This is the first time a body was iound so far from the river. It must be nearly 40 miles from the place where the woman jumped in to where the body was found ashore. This is accounted for by the high water and swift current. The body was badly bruised and much de composed. HES. STUART BOBSON DEAD. The Wife of the Famous Actor Dies Very nddcnlj- at Cobasser. COHASSET, Mass., June 2L Mrs. Sidart Bobson, wife of the comedian, died sudden ly this afternoon at their summer residence at Cohasset Harbor. She had been in her usual health during the day, and this after noon had been amusing her little grand children upon the lawn. Beturning to the house she was immediately prostrated, dy ing within an hour. Mr. Bobson and his daughter, Mrs. Creshore, were in Boston at the time, and upon their return home were greatly over come by their bereavement The cause of death is believed to be the bursting of a blood vessel near the heart ST. LOUIS NEXT PLACE OF MEETING. The Order of Railroad Telegraphers Ad journ for One Year. New York,- June 21. The Grand Division of the Order of Railway Teleg raphers, which nas been in session here, adjourned to-day to meet in St Louis next June. H. S. Lambin, of Columbus, O., was elected Past Grand Chief Teleirrapher; A. D. Thurston,Graud Chief Telegrapher, and S. O. Fox, Grand Secretary nnd Treasurer. The two last named are from Vinton, la. Three Till Toppers Trnpprd. Three boys A. Fallen, P. Doran and John Campbell were committed" to jail yesterday br Mayor Wyman. of Allegheny, on a charge of larceny. The boys are alleged to have tapped the till of Mrs. Weiss' store, on Beaver avenue, on Monday last for $6 50. The arrests wtre made by Lieutenant MoKelrey. Chnrerd With Insnlilns; I.ndles. Last night a young man named f McMichael was arrested and loekee the Allegheny station on a charge orderly conduct The prisoner is .ed to have amused himself by insuiting lady pedestrians on Taggart street An Unknown Flontrr. ; rxriAt. tlLxobam to tux disfatcbv. INDUSTBT, June 2L The body of s drowned boy, dressed In knee pants and ap parently abont 9 years of age, was caught this evening at Cook's Ferry, one mile, be low here. BOTH COUNTRIES WIN Appears to be the Prevailing Opinion in Berlin Regarding THE ANGLO-GERHAN AGREEMENT, Which Concedes Heligoland to Germany and Zanzibar to England. IMMEDIATE F&IMENT DEMANDED By the Cxar of the Tnrklsh War Indemnity Berlin Sews Hates. Germany's Chancellor is congratulated by the Bundesrath for securing the concession to Germany of Heligoland. The Czar be comes imperative in his demand Irom the Porte lor the Turkish war indemnity. Be quest is made for religious liberty in Bul garia. COFTMQHT, 1880, ST THE NX W TORE ASSOCIATED rnxss. Berlin, June 21. During a prolonged sitting of the Bundesrath, Chancellor.'Von Caprivi explained the aims of the govern ment in concluding the Anglo-German agreement relative to territory in Africa. Although no official statement has been issued, the Chancellor's statement to the Bundesrath is known to bear largely on the immense importance of the strategic value of Heligoland. The Chancellor recalled the fact that during the war ot 1870 it was necessary to detach a large force to guard against a possible French landing at the mouth of the Weser and Elbe rivers and to lay submarine mines to protect the water approaches to Hamburg and Bremen, the trade of which cities was for some time blocked. Chancellor Yon Caprivi produced the opinion of General Count Yon Moltke that Heligoland could be so fortified that it would be equivalent to a large increase in the German army in the event of war. The Bundesrath unanimously approved the compact and congratulated the Emperor and the Chancellor, to whose initiative the cession of the island to Germany by En gland was due. GERMANY DEMANDED THE ISLAND. The reDort that Lord Salisburv spontane ously offered to cede the island fs in direct variance with the fact that Count Von Hatzfeldt handed to Lord Salisbury two weeks ago a formal demand from Chancellor Von Caprivi making the cession of the island an absolute condition of the English piotectorate in Zanzibar. The English Government probably will not like to pro ducohe opinion of military expects on the value of Heligoland. Here the strategic importance of the island is universally recognized. Admiral Henks' paper, written in 1882, is largely quoted as proving how greatly the possession of the island strengthens Germany. Before long Admiral Henks' idea of a great island tort will be realized. The opinion of the people of the island does not count with either Govern ment. Both know that the islanders are opposed to annexation to Germany. PBEFEE EMIGKATION TO GEBMAN EULE During a former discussion regarding the cession of the island by Great Britain, an informal plebiscite resulted in a, deputation waiting upon the Governor and presenting him with the unanimous declaration that every man on the island would prefer to emigrate to America rather than to com puisorily become German subjects. The dread of military service seemed to be the main objection of the people. The Ger man customs regulations was a minor ob jection. The agreement endeavors to mod ify these objections by giving the islanders 20 years' exemption from military service, with the same period of exceptional cus toms privileges. Whether or not these con cessions will reconcile the islanders will not affect the cession ot the island, which adds to the security of a great nation. OPINIONS OP THE GERMAN PBESS. The leading Hamburg journals regret the granting to England of a piotectorate over Zanzibar because it will paralyze the recently formed line of German steamers to East Africa and place the whole trade in the hands of the English East African Colonial Comnany, which lately absorbed the Witu Company, and already claim compensation for the cession of Wituland. Major Wissman, who will arive here to morrow, has telegraphed expressions of his concurrence with the opinions of his old Lieutenant, Baron Gravenrenth, to the ef fect that the surrender of Zanzibar makes the English masters of East Africa, and that the surrender of Uganda into the hands ot tne Hiiigusti gives tbem the key to Cen tral Africa. The Hamburger Nachrichten declares that German commerce in East Africa will be ruined, bnt admits that the acquisition of Heligoland balances any loss elsewhere. England, the Daper says, his doneGermny a real service to the disadvantage of France, which always requires to be closely watched. PLEASED WITH THE COMPACT. Public opinion, influenced by articles dilating upon the strategic and naval value ot Heligoland becomes more and more pleased with the compact It is probable that the opposition of France to a British protectorate in Zanzibar was not overlooked in the negotiation. The Anglo-French agreement of 1862, guaranteeing the inde pendence of Zanzibar was held as lapsed under the French recognition in 1887 ot the German acquisitionsjin East Alrica, com bined with the Britisn treaties with the Sultan or Zanzibar. An ominous note was presented to-day to the Porte by the Russian Ambassador, M. Nelidoff. It suggests the intention or the Czar to actively interfere in the Balkans. The note delivered declines the request of the Porte that Bussia wait until November for the payment of the war indemnity bill of Turkey, and demands immediate pay ment The note declares that, in the event of refusal, Bussia reserves the right' of taking all necessary measures to compel payment BULGARIAN AFPAIBS. Yesterday M. Vulkoritch, the Bulgarian Envoy, presented to the Porte a note from M. Stambuloff demanding an extension 'of religious liberty of Bulgarians in Turkey, and also demanding a recognition oi the Bulgarian Government M. Stambuloff is acting in concert with Bussia without re. gard to the personal interests of Prince Ferdinand, the ruler of Bulgaria, and it is expected that his action will develop a proc lamation of the independence of Bulgaria, under a Prince who will be agreeable to Bnssia, with the absorption ot a part of Macedonia into Bulgaria. THE CLERICAL PAKT5T OFFEB A DEAL. Dr. Windthorst, the leader o" the Clerical party in the Beichstig, has offered the ad hesion of his party to carry the military credits, on condition that the 'Government introduce a measure giving the Catholics effective control of their primary schools, and also that it niodily the army bill by granting extensive leaves of absence. The opponents ot the bill calculate upon having 159 votes. It is certain that the Govern ment will have 154. The fate of the bill turns upon the vote of the Catholic mem bers, and the members from the Bhenish and Westphalian districts, whom Dr. Windthorst manipulates. PERSONALITIES. Count Kalnoky, the Austro-Hungarian Prime Minister, is recovering irom his ill ness. Emperor Francis Joseph visited him to-night. Emperor William will start for Kiel on Thursdav. Thence he will go to Fredens borg. T"he King ol Norway will receive him at Christiana on June 30. On July 0 he will sail from Christiana lor North Cape. ' It has been decided that Qneen Marcher r- ir- At ita will accompany King Humbert to Ber lin in tne autumn. Prime Minister Criipi's family are Carlsbad. He will join them there on July 1. and will afterward have a confer ence with Count Kaluoky. WHABTON BABKEB ABBESTED. The Warrant Served by Telephone Resnlt ol b Neighborhood Qanrrel. ISFXCIAL TILEOBAM TO THE DISFATCII.1 Philadelphia, June 21. Wharton Barker, President of the Finance Company of Pennsylvania, a member of the banking house of Barker Bros. & Co., and the pro prietor of the Anglo-American Bank, with $25,000,000 of capital, was arrested to-day by telephone and through the same instrument was released npon his own recognizance. A warrant was issued by Magistrate Urner, of Norristown, at the instance of Oliver Perry Smith.who charges Mr. Barker with malicious mischief for tearing up a board walk on Wyncote avenue in Chiitenham. The writ was placed in the hands of Con stable Cnster, who served it in the manner indicated, and a hearing was set lor Mon day at 4 o'clock 7. m. It seems that Mr. Smith purchased a house and lot from Mr. Barker. The lormer tenant, one McCall, had laid a walk at his own expense past other premises owned by Mr. Barker. When he vacated the Smith property he offered to sell the board walk to Mr. Barker, bnt that gentleman was not disposed to buv. Mr. McCall then sold the walk to Smith. The walk having got out of repair Mr. Barker caused it to be torn up, and upon this action is based the suit CLOUDBUBST AT WHEELING. Traffic Nearly Suspended Owing- to the Large Number of Washouts. ' nrXCIAI. TILIOIUH TO T11E DISrATCR.1 Wheeling, June 21. A cloudburst occurred about four miles east of the city about noon to-day, and all the creeks in the vicinity, two of which run through Wheel ing, are raging torrents. The town of Cameron, south of the city, is flooded, and great damage has been done, though it can not be learned to what amount Trains from the East, West and Sonth have been delayed on account of the washouts and landslides on the Ohio Biver Bailroad, about ten miles south of the city. A wash out made the road impassable. A landslide near Barnesville, O., has delayed the train from Cincinnati, dne here at 6 o'clock, and it is not yet in. Washouts along the Balti more and Ohio are reported between here and Grafton. Furniture has been seen floating in the Ohio river, but Irom where is not known. The waterfall is one of the greatest known in years. Advices from the interior of the State are to the effect that great damage has been done to property by the storm. The Balti more and Ohio Bailroad is the greatest suf ferer at Bowlesburg. On Cheat river a big washout la reported. CLAIMED HE DBEW A EEV0LVEB. A Can men's Strike In Lone Island Is the Cause of an Arrest, Long Island City, June 21. Foreman Frank Berger, of the Barbara Asphalt Works, in Long Island City, was arrested to-day on a warrant issued by Mayor Glea son and sworn to by Edward Slattery, who alleges that Berger threatened to pull a re volver ou him. Fifty-seven cartmen have been on a strike tor an increase from $3.50 to $4 per day at the asphalt works during the past weet, and when the company at tempted to operate their own horses and carts to-day the strikers jeered, and the newly employed drivers and one Benjamin Bannon was assaulted by striker John Shea, who was accompanied by Edward Slattery. The two latter men were arrested and al lowed to go on their own recognizance, while Foreman Berger, who denies attempt ing to draw his revolver on any of the strikers, was held by Mayor Gleason in $1,000 bonds for examination. CS0KEE ON THE BACK. Tammany's Chief Will Answer Brother-ln-Law ItlcCnnn To-Morrow. rSFXCIAt. TKLXOBJUC TO TIIX DISPATCH.: New York, June 21. Ex-Chamberlain and Tammany Chief Bichard Croker will be examined before the Fassett Inves tigation Committee on Monday. Many sympathetic expressions are heard for Senator Fassett, that he shouldbe obliged to absent himself at this most interesting period; bnt he had no choice unless it was to match a sick witness with a sick inquisitor. The examination of Mr. Croker is likely, it is understood, to be confined to the mat ters brought np by Brother-in-law McCann. TOO NOISY FOB THE NEIGHB0BS. Albert Copper and Ills Stepson Arrested for Making Merry. Albert Gapper and his stepson, John Walton, of Forty-seventh street, were ar rested last night on complaint of their neighbors, who say the two celebrated every Saturday night in a boisterously hilarious manner. The men were locked up in the Seven teenth ward station, where they will have a hearing this morning. ARRESTED FOB THEIR OWN GOOD. Two Soutbslders Gathered In to Bavo Them From Being; Robbed. John Wagoner and Charles Miller, South side men, with their pockets full of money, were on Market street last night while in the company of three women. As the men were intoxicated, Detectives Shore and Bobinsou gathered in the whole party. The men had over $450 with them, which they would probably hare lost if they had not been arrested. Caught Tbem nt Last. Last night Edward Dwyer and a man named Paul were arrested and placed in the Seventeenth ward police station, to await a hearing before Judge Leslie on charges of assault and battery. Some time ago, it is alleged, they 'gave John CoSey a beating, in a fight on Forty-first street. He entered suit against them, but they managed to elude arrest until last evening. The Emma Scbmoiz-r Terdlct. A verdict according to the facts in the case was rendered yesterday by the Coroner in the case of Emma Schmotzer, who died Friday, at the Southside Hospital, from the effect of paris green. The testimony was that she had become despondent because the youug man with whom she had intended to go to Cleveland went there without her. More Smoke Than Fire. A still alarm was sent to Engine Com pany No. 4, yesterday atternoou, tor a small fire in .the house ot Mrs. Jane Smith, on Hope street, between Gist and Miltenburcer streets. The fire, caused by a defective flue between the ratters ot the roof7 was extin guished with several Babcocks. Another JpenkEnsy Closed. Thomas Sugar was arrested by Lieuten ant ShafJer last night and lodged in the Fourteenth ward station, on a charge of running a "speak-easy," at his home, on Lawn street, Fourteenth ward. He will be given a hearing this morning. A Qunrrel and Calling-. In an alley leading Irom West Diamond street, Allegheny, last night George Wash ington, colored, quarreled with Albert Bub inson, cut him, and was arrested. Mvrdrnbniclnns In rrsslon. Chicago, June 21. The general conven tion of the New Jernsalem-(the Sweden borgians church in the United StntpO he. gan this 'ternoon, Bev. Channcey Gilei, of Philadc: ilia, presiding. REED WINS AT LAST. Sadden Tarn in the Tide in Ilonse of Representatives, the BLACK EYE-FOR FREE COINAGE. The Bill is Definitely Referred to a Com mittee Where It WILL BE AMENDED OUT OF ALL SHAPE. It Is Vow Probable That Ko Hestnre Will Go Ihronrh Ibis Eeuloa. The Bepublican majority in the lower House was restored to power yesterday. Beed again decided that the silver bill had been referred to the Coinage Committee, and was sustained by his followers. Many believe that the action will kill all legisla tion oi this nature. . tmOM A STAVT COXBISrONDXKT. Washington, June 21. The result of the wrong track taken by the Democrats from the outset of the discussion of the reference of the silver bill bore its legiti mate fruit to-day in the breaking up of the party organization and the trinmph of the Speaker and his supporters by a large ma jority. The contest of three days has been altogether' on the qnestion whether the bill waa properly referred. Had the Democrats taken for granted at the outset that an improper reference had been made and paid no attention to the rec ord of the matter in the journal of the House, but insisted that the bill should be at once taken up and the question decided whether the House would concur In the Senate amendments, the free coinage men might hare carried the day. Now their case is hardly a doubtful one. FREE COINAGE BEATEN. It is practically certain they are defeated. The bill is decided to be in the committee to which it was referred, and not on the Speaker's table. The party line of the Democrats is broken more disastrously than that of the Bepublicans, and the prospects are that no opportunity will be given for a vote on the question of concurrence until it is plain that the anti-free coinage men hare sure control of the situation. Notwithstanding their utter rout to-day, the Democrats and free coinage men are in very good humor. The turning of the tables was so complete that the bitterest of the enemies of the Speaker appeared to be inspired with admiration for him and his humorous remark in most solemn tones that it was possible some of the gentlemen on the floor of the Honse had discovered that 'riarliamentary law" was not an exact science, was received with shouts of genu ine and hearty langbter as fully on the Democrat as the Bepnblican side. IMPBOPER LEADERSHIP. It is generally admitted that the disas trous rout of the Democrats to-day was due to the fool leadership of Mills, Bland and Springer, three men as wholly lacking the elements of the ideal leader of a parliament ary body as conld be found in the country. Their first little victory so flushed them with importance that they have done noth ing since but strut about and air themselves and ask their Iriends if they had not knocked out Speaker Beed in great style. Meantime Beed merely waited, certain that they would get tangled up in their own vanity berore the end was reached. It is now believed by the friends of the Speaker that the bill will be speedily taken up by the House, and there is no doubt whatever that the House will refuse to concur in the amendments of the Senate, and that the bill will have to "run the gauntlet ot a confer ence committee, one-half at least of which will be unchangeably opposed to lite coin age. It is the opinion of some of the most saga cious andleast partisan observers that there will be no silrer bill enacted into a law at this session. CONGER'S POSITION. Chairman Conger said this evening to The Dispatch correspondent that the Committee on Coinage would meet on Tues day and the silver bill would be at once considered. He was of the opinion that the bill would be reported back not later than Thursday. The only way the bill can be brought up in the House lor consideration is by a resolution of the Committee on Bnles making it a special order, and such resolu tion will be reported as soon as the bill comes in. Wheu asked as to the character of the bill to be reported Mr. Conger said: "Of course we cannot tell what our committee may do, but so far as I am individually concerned, you may say emphatically I am opposed to free coinage, and judging by the attitude of the other members of our committee in the past, I think you may safely say that the free coinage clause will be stricken ont Other amendments will be made, bnt I can not say what they will be. We will not dally over the qnestion, but will meet it fairly and squarely early next week." Lightneb. ONLY A MILD CRITICISM. (Secretary Bf nine Did Not Bitterly Attack the Boose Tariff Bill. rTEOM A 8TAVF COKniSFOXDXlrT.1 Washington, June 2L A report that Secretary Biaine had, while before the Senate Committee on Appropriations, de nounced the McKinley bill in unmeasured terms, caused quite a flutter of excitement around the Capitol to-day. The Secretary was before the committee for the purpose of urging a couple of appropriations for carry ing out the commendations of the Pan American Congress. A near friend of the Secretary who was present at the hearing before the committee, days that the report of Mr. Blaine's intemperate dennnciation of the McKinley bill was absnrd. He merely criticised the measure as not meeting halfway the reciprocal propositions of the South Americans, and indulged in no general denunciation of the bill as reported. This irieud says further that Secretary Blaine is the same good protectionist he always was, and could not be otherwise with his warm affection for Pennsylvania and the institutions. HARBISON DID SAY IT. Tho Man Whom He Told That Ho Would Nat Ran Again. :SFKC!AI. TXLXOBAB TO THX DISP ATOH.I Washington, Juue 21. Beferring to the dispatch published last Wednesday that President Harrison had made a statement to a friend which practically declared him out of the race for President, in "1892, it now transpires that the name ot one at least of the friends to whom the President made these statements was James H. Woodward, of Oakland, Cal the Pacific coast aeent of the waDasn liauroaa system. He was in this city on business and made a personal call on bis old friend, the Presi dent. In the course of friendly conversa tion which followed the President made the statements substantially as published. THE FIGHT OF THE, SESSION. That Federal Elrci'lon Bill Will be Pressed Throash This Wrrlc. .TBOJI A STAFF C0BRXSrO2DIXT.l Washington, June 21. The Federal election bill will fie considered in the House early next week. The Committee on Buies will report a resolution on Monday making it a special order. There is a division ot sentiment among the Beonblicans as to the time to be devoted to the debate. Lodge and the ardent advocates of a Federal elec- tion law are In favor of putting the measure through at once, bnt other prominent Be- finblicans are of the opinion that the widest atitude should be given to the debate on this important "question. The Democrats will resort to every method of filibustering to delay its passage, but this will not avail in the presence of the Bepublican majority. A circular letter has' been addressed br the Chairman of the Caucus Committee re questing every Bepublican to be in bis seat every day next week, and this is taken as sufficient evidence that the party intends to redeem its pledges in its National plat form by passing the measnres to which they hare committed themselves before the peo ple. CONFISCATJONCERTAIN. THE MORMON BILL ONCE MORE PASSES THE SENATE. Several Members Pleaded for a Little De lay, bat the Mnjorlly Was Determined The Neasnro Will Mow go to a Confer ence. Washington. June 21. In the Senate to-day the House bill supplementary to the act of March 22, 1882, in reference to bigamy, was taken1 np. -It provides that all fuudi, or property lately belonging to the Mormon Church shall be devoted to the use and benefits of the common schools in that State. Mr. Butler offered an amendment devoting the funds to the endowment of institutions of learning in Utah, and for that purpose turning them over to the general Board of Education of the Church ot Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, subject to rules and regniations to be ap proved of by the President of the United States, and not to bemused in dissem inating, teaching, upholding or propagating the doctrine and practice of polygamy or plural marriages. Mr. Edmunds, in charge of the bill, on posed the amendment. Mr. Voorhees inti mated that the Senator from Vermont was in too great a hurry to get at the results of a litigation that was not yet concluded. With that litigation still undecided in the Supreme Court of the United States he thought that this was not the proper time to decide where the fruits of the litigation should go. Mr. Bnt ler also argued that the proposed legislation was premature. No harm could happen if the matter went over until the Supreme Court decided' finally about it Mr. Teller also' favored delay at least untiLMr. But ler's amendment shall have been printed. If the Mormon Church could use the money for proper and right purposes, the Mormon Church ought to have lit That was the plain ethics of the matter. A vote was taken on Mr. Butler's amendment and the result was, yeas 9, nays 24. Ail the yeas were Democrats and all the nays were Bepublicans except that Mr. Payne also voted in the negative. There was no quorum voting, but Mr. Butler, in view of the vote taken, withdrew the amend ment Mr. Voorhees moved to postpone the bill till the second Tuesday in December next By that time he said the Supreme Court would have reached a termination of the litigation now pending. Mr. Edmunds opposed the motion and said that the bill did not touch or affect the proposition until after the Supreme Court should have finally disposed ot- everybody's rights. Mr, Voorhees' motion was not agreed to yeas, 20; nays, 25. Messrs. Haw ley, Plumb and Teller voted with the Dem ocrats in the affirmative, no Democrats voting in the negative. The bill was then passed witbont a division. There were some formal amendments made to it, which will require a conference. ATHEISM AND AGNOSTICISM. Important Pastoral Head Front His Eml- nenee Cardlnnl manning. An important pastoral was at the various Catholic churches yesterday from His Emi nence Cardinal Manning, in which, after al luding to the usual Trinity Sunday collection for the Diocesan Building Fond, and to the need of funds, it Is observed: "Among the people of Israel an atheist would have been shunned as insane or stoned as a blasphemer. Is it not, then, a sign of these last days that in the f nil revelation of God, in the face of Jesus Christ in the light and the glory of God In unity and trinity, there should be not only those who deny the Lord that bought them, but those alto who will not trouble themselves so far as to believe or disbelieve His existence? The passive unbelief of the ignorant or the gross-minded is as abnormal as the privation of sight or speech: but the supercilious indiffer ence of those who will not make np their mind whether there is a God or no, or who affect to doubt the evi dence which has convinced the human race. U not enough for their scientific. pre cision. This state is not passive and Indifferent; It is a positive and active mental habit. It is also always intolerant and sarcastic None are so excited against those who believe in God as those who profess to be neither cold nor hot believers nor nnbelievers. It were better to be cold or hot 'He that is not with me is against me' (Luke il. 23). These things we have said for two reasons. "One-half of tbo people can never set their 1 oot in any plice of divine worship. If they live without God la the world it is not chiefly by their own choice but by an inherited url vation. The human soul in all. its miseries, with all Its assailing sins, is crying day and night for rest light and healing, for a drop of water to cool its tongue. 'My people have dona two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and have dieged to themselves citterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.' (Jeremias ii. 13.) And yet no; it is not they, but their forefathers that did this deed. The men of to-day have been born into a state of privation. Into a dry and thirsty land where no water is. Every church we build is a fountain of living water; every altar we raise is the throne of the ever-blessed Trinity." GENERAL STATE NEWS. Havmakiso has been in full blast through out the State dnrinc the past week. The Reading Councils have passed an ordi nance fixing the tax rate at 9 mills. , A BURGLAR enters the bouse of Mrs. Walt man, at VVilllamsport and seenres H00 in cash. Joseph Hyde, of Sharon, sues the Penn sylvania road for $30,000 damages for the loss of an arm, A freight train at Lancaster struck a team and lifting it from the ground, carried it nearly 200 feet away. While Mary Barns was.standing In front of her home, at Sew Brighton, a woman in black came up behind her and snipped the girl's hair off. The Lake Erie Association of Unlversalists will hold their annual nieetingat Conneaut vlUe, Wednesday and Thursday, June 25 and 28. E. W. Smiley is nqw sole proprietor of the Franklin Citizen-Prtu, having purchased the interests of bis partners, Messrs. Mucky, Gil flllan, Dickey and Echols. President Harrison has agreed to spend a day at Mt Gretna encampment of the Na tional Guard this season. General Schofleld will accompany him, and review the Pennsyl vania boys in bine, Judge Brown has again refused to grant licenses in Warren county, and now it is said original package houses will soon be opened all through the county, but more particularly in the borough ol warren. Members of the (Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry will meet in Franklin Tuesday. June 21, at 10 A. x., to mako arrangements for the annual reunion of the Regiment tdbeheld in that city vu septemDer it. Elisua Iv. Kake, or Kane, has purchased 12,000 acres of timber land from the Union Oil Company and the Bingham estate, ou KInzna creek, about 20 miles from Bradford. This makes Mr. Kaue the owner of .22,000 acres in Kfhzua valley. A party of eight jockeys four experienced riders, the balance novices have arrived in Erie from New York, and reported for service at the Algeria farm. The novices are little lads, wbo were picked np by Mr. Scott's men at New xork and Coney Island, and desire to f ol low the turf. A NCMBER of Virginia martins, a rather large and handsome bird, are conspicuous every evening around Market square. Will iamsport and they appear to be looking for a place to nest They utter a call which Is some what musical, and they would be valuable ad dition! to local ornithology. ABDUCTED HIS CHILD. Henry Hardin?, an Englishman.Closesi Another Chapter of a EOJIAhTIC KEAL LIFE SERIAL Br Bailing- Iway From Kew York After Kidnapping His Boj. A MODEL BDT NOT A PAITHPDL WIPE. 0ns More Proof That the Way of the Tnnsgrasir Is Indeed Hard. Henry Harding wedded a New York art ist's model. She eloped, was forgiven, eloped again and died. Now Harding his abducted bis child from hi wife's relati7e( and sailed for England. ntrXCIAL TXLXonAM TO THX DISrATC&t New York, June 2L Henry Harding;, an Englishman in good circumstances, came to this country in 1883 on business. Two weeks ago he kidnapped his own child in, Brooklyn and sailed for England. This closed a strange domestic melodrama in which an artist's model was the principal actor. While in New York the first time Harding met, in the studio of an artist, a young girl whose scarcely matured beauty made her a model much sought after in the studios. Her name was Jennie Hamilton, and her age was 15. Harding fell in love with her. Within a few months they were married. They lived in New York for eight months, and then suddenly the young wife disappeared. ELOPED "WITH AN ABTIST. It was speedily discovered that she had, eloped with an artist, one who had formerly employed her as a model. It was a terrible blow to Harding. He at once abandoned his business in New York and returned to England. He found himself unable to re main there, and a year later he came back to find his wife. He did find her. She was anxious toretnrn to him, and he was glad to 'vskjvc uw auu re-esiaousa tneir nome. During their separation a little girl had been born, and all three went to live- in a Eleasant home in Newark. The home was a anpy one for three years. Then they moved to Brooklyn. It was in connection with fur nishing their new home that the new trouble began. Mrs. Harding, in purchas ing furniture, became acquainted with B. J. Armbeister, who was con nected with a large furniture establishment They met clandestinely. Harding discovered it and again went to England. After remaining in England more than a year, Harding came back here, determined to secure a divorce and get pos session of his little girl. When he arrived Harding employed de tectives to find the couple. Their residence was Iound in a enrions way. Both Arm beister and Mrs. Harding were ex tremely fond of music and they were singers of no mean ability. A female detective remembered having seen among the recent issues of new songs, a piece of music bearing Armbeister' rather peculiar name. The publishers reported that Armbeister was dead, and that bis sup posed wife had been to them to collect the money due him with which to bury him. Later it was found that Mrs. Harding was' also dead and bad been buried in the same -grave with her lover. Harding found his 6-year-old daughter living with hei grand mother in Brooklyn, and stole her away. Meantime the deserted wife and children, Mrs. Armbeister and her little ones are liv ing humbly in narrow apartments on the top floor of 143 Lorimer street, Brooklyn. LOVKnTAXTNG IN CHICAGO. A Gentleman's Had Experience With Tfovir Anxloas Alaldea Xjndles. i ChlcaaroTlmes.1 I "How dare you be seen on the street with, that thing?" The question was addressed to a fashion ably attired gentleman who had stopped for a minute on a popular street corner to con verse with a richly dressed lady of 35. The challenger, anrjarentlv favored bv fnrtnn . in the matter of money at least was of 3 aDoui tne same age as tne gentleman s fe male companion. The two ladies have for years been most intimate friends and have resided at the same house on a fash ionable street. They have wealth and an enviable social position, but neither has been able to secure that which she prizes above all other earthly treasures a husband. For years they have engaged confidences on this, to them, all-absorbing theme, and have designed snares innumera ble to entrap the monster, man, but he got "away. Becently, however, one of them J succeeded in inducing a gentleman to call a second time. Elated with her successsbegnshingly confided all to her friend, andwhen the gentleman called a third time she was so enthusiastic as to bs impndent enough to introduce him to her friend, who at once began, in-that delicate, feminine way, to make love to him herself. The result w'as an invitation for a stroll on the avenue a few evenings later, with tho denouement as at first stated. But it was not actually the denouement. Lady friend No. 1, after the street scene, went home but not to bed. She waited for an hour in the hallway for No. 2 to enter, and when she came she pounced upon her, scratched her oountenance, despoiled her of a well-set of store teeth obtained from the most aristocratic dentist in the city, and otherwise maltreated and despitefnlly used her. Nor was No. 2 idle meanwhile. After 15 min utes, in which there were numerous rounds, she pointed with pride to-a mass of back hair that cost many dollars, and a $10 pair ot kid gloves split at the knuckles so as to show delicate rouge tints on the cuticle it self. Both hair and rouge had belonged to her rival. No. 1 left the honse that night and ha not returned. At least one large social circle on the Southside is badly torn up. BAD CAVE-DX Truffle Suspended on the Plttibarr, Cliela nail and Si. IhiuIs. SrauBENVrxxE, June 21. At 4 o'clock this afternoon a bad cave-in occurred in Gould's tunnel on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St Louis Bailroad, six miles west of this city. Four of a gang of Italians en gaged in repairing the tunnel were severely injured. , Seventy-five men are at work clearing the tracks, but no trains can pass nntil to morrow morning. Health Preservation snd T.nxnry. Persons of sedentary habits, merchants, bankers, lawyers, ministers, clerks, literary men, men of leisure, and gentlemen and la dies of werlth and ease, should take Tnrkish. I baths every week as a means of tireservintr their health, and thns enhancing all the en- ioynients of life. The Natatonum on Du- qnetne way is one of the finest appointed establishments ot its kind iu the United States. Baths are given in an intelligent manner by experienced Turkish bath, at-" tendants, male and female. Open dally from 7 A. si. to 9 P. M. Sunday from 6 A. M. to 12 noon. Tuesdays from 8 A. M. to 2 p. li. and Fridays Irom' 8 A. M. to 6 P. x. reserved lorjadies only. Photooraph Framed Free. An 8x10 photograph, handsomely framed,' of yourself or cbildrn given away with every dozsn of cabinets this week. Come early. Also, good cabinets, SI a dozen. Hendricks & Co., No. 63 Federal at, Allegheny. DIEU. RICHABDBOK At Braddock. at 6 o'clock p. M.. Saturday, June 21,Maooie M., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Richardson, in ner 31s year. Funeral oa Monday at 2 r. v- 1 1 J " " " ."