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PITTSBURG, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1890.
THREE CENTSi
V..
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11 PERSONAL APPEAL
From Ex-Governor Patlison to
the Voters of the State
the Feature of
THE DEMOCRATIC CANVASS
He
Will Make Bis Appearance on
the Stump Early and Often.
PLENTY OF BIG GUNS EXPECTED
If the Eepublicans Decide to Institute
& Hurrah Campaign.
"vYHX HAEEITI WAS CHOSEN CHAIBHAK.
Pattison will take the stump in person
daring the coining campaign, accompanied
by leading Democratic orators. The Re
publican leaders have not definitely decided
whether to make a still-hunt or inaugurate
a red-fire canvass. If the latter plan is
adopted speakers of national importance
trill be adopted. The incidents which led
to the selection of Harrity as the Demo
cratic Chairman are interesting.
IFBOM A STAl'F COEIiESFOSDEirr.3
Habbisbubg, July C Field work in
the Gubernatorial campaign will not begin
in earnest for nearly two months yet When
the fight docs commence heavy cannonading
all along the two lines may be listened for.
The indications are that the battle will be
one of the fiercest ever waged in the State
of Pennsylvania. It is true the two politic
al armies are unevenly matched, the He
publicans at the last great roll-call counting
over 80.000 more men than the rival party.
But it is this very inequality that will
make the struggle this fall exciting. The
Democrats have an exceptionally strong
standard bearer the same man who once
before overwhelmed the enemy in its Repub
lican stronghold. His war cry is one bound
to prove popular with the masses.
u PATTISOX ON THE 8TTJMP.
J Governor Pattison will himself take the
stump for his party. "When the warm
jgweather is over he will traverse the whole
U State. His remarkable speech at Scranton,
T accepting the nomination, is a sample of
W what may be expected trom him in the way
I cf oratorical thunder.
Mr. Pattison has improved wen derf ally
in every particular in the four years since
he occupied the Executive Chamber at
Harrisburc He has grown taller, if any
thing; ins iraine nas Droauenea, ana be is
not now the slender gentleman he was
several years ago. He is a giant, indeed.
This vigorous physical condition of his
seems tt hare given twice as much power
to his Bitellectual capacities. He speaks
with more force than he used to, and the
political rostrum this year promises to be
all the stronger and more eloquent for Mr.
Pattison's four years' rest from pnblio life.
Jndge Gordon, of Philadelphia, and
some other noted orators of the Democratic
party, will assist the ex-Governor in his
tour of speeck-making.
BEPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN- PLANS.
The campaign plans of the Republicans
are not yet fully developed. They have not
determined whether to make a still hunt for
votes along the same line as their quiet but
eminently successful work in Cambria
connty before the nominating convention, or
whether to go into the speech-making hur-rab-mass-meetings
and nocturnal-fireworks
sort of a fight.
If they should decide in favor of the latter
they may be depended upon to go into it on
the wholesale plan. They will probably
bring into the State some prominent Con
gressmen and Senators from "Washington
who are of national reputation as stump
speakers. They can get all such orators
that they need this year without any
trouble.
It will be represented at Washington that
the campaign in Pennsylvania is ot national
importance, on account of the influence
which a Democratic victory here would
have on the Presidental campaign of 1892.
James G. Blaine made a series of speeches
for Governor Beaver's benefit, it will be re
membered, in a three-days' tour between
Pittsburg and Scranton four years ago, but
he is now a member of the Cabinet, and
ofEcialetiquette prevents any invitation be
ing sent him to repeat that tour.
BLAINE OUT OF THE QUESTION.
He made it in 1887 because he agreed with
the leaders of his party that Pennsylvania
must be restored to the Republican party on
the eve of a Presidental election. The at
tempt to be made now to wrest the State
from Republican hands would no donbt
bring the Plumed Knight back to his native
soil again if he were free to come.
But be is out of the question, and Demo
crats are just as glad of it, for they admit a
more dangerous man for their hopes in
Pennsylvania could not be brought here
than Blaine.
It is rumored that Charles S. Wolfe, the
former leader of the Independent Republi
cans, has veered around again, and will de
liver speeches this fall for Delamater. He
will hardly do that, alfbongh it is well
known that he has a very warm feeling,
personally, for Quay, and that he hates
Pattison like a snake. He charges Patti
eon with ingratitude during his administra
tion, to him, "the one man in Pennsylvania
who did more to bring about his election
than all others." These are Wolfe's own
words. It is possible that he will vote for
Delemater, bat he will remain passive dur
ing the campaign.
THE NEW CAMPAIGNEB.
Hon. A illiam P. Harrity, the new State
Chairman of the Democratic party, will
manage the campaign with an ability and
sn adroitness that is apt to surprise State
Chairman Andrews. An interesting story
is told by a friend of William H. Sineerly,
of Philadelphia, as to how Harrity was
brought to the front so suddenly." The
night before the Scranton Convention a" con
ference was held on the top floor of the
"Westminster Hotel by the friends of Mr.
Pattison to deadt some preliminarias of the
convention.
Up to that time there had been no dispo
sition to make a show of strength in the
opening business C the convention. Both
sides" had apparently acquiesced In the
proposition to maje EckleyB. Coxe Temno--s1
. .
rary Chairman and then continne him as
Permanent Chairman. Bat-while this con
ference was in session at midnight W. U.
Hensel, of Lancaster, passed through the
hallway, and, although he was generally
regarded as a Wallace man, he was court
eously invited inside. He said he had
come authorized to speak for the friends of
Mr. Wallace that Judge Church, of Mead
ville, would be an acceptable Permanent
Chairman for them, and he therefore pro
posed that Mr. Coxe simply be made Tempo
rary Chairman.
SOMETHING OP A SUBPBISE.
Tho idea was a surprise to Mr. Pattison's
friends, and they- proceeded to discuss it,
Mr. T. O'Leary, of Pittsburg, was one of
the first to object to the proposition.
Governor Pattison, who was himself pres
ent at the time, finally intimated that while
Judge Church was, as a delegate from
Crawford county, instructed for him, he was
also a warm personal friend of Mr. Wallace's,
and that in matters of organization and par
liamentary difference, the. Judge might lean
to the side of his personal friendship with
the Clearfield candidate, although an honor
able man.
As a matter of courtesy, it was decided to
appoint a committee to confer with Mr.
Wallace about the matter. Partially satis
fied, Mr. Hensel then withdrew. Governor
Pattison appointed William H. Singerly
and ex-Secretary Stenger, of Philadelphia,
and ex-Postmaster Larzin, of Pittsburg, as
the committee to go to the Wallace camp.
Mr. Larkin asked to bo excused. He stated
that, in his judgment, there should be no
conference between the two factions. What
was the use of treating with the representa
tives of the field on one of their own propo
sitions when the Pattison side was strong
enough to defeat any of those propositions
in convention, anyhow? It might be mis
taken for a sign of weakness.
LABKIN'S TLAN ADOPTED.
This view of the matter was then dis
cussed. The gentlemen present apparently
thougiit less and less of the idea of compro
mising on Judge Church. Finally. Mr.
Larkin said quietly to Mr. Pattison:
"What's the matter with Harrity for Per
manent Chairman?"
Instantly the idea was taken up by every
body in attendance. Singerly said that was
the solution of the whole matter, and in a
lew moments it was decided that there
would be no committee on conference with
the field, and that in the convention the
next day all the Pattison delegates should
vote for Harrity for Permanent Chairman.
The happy medium between bulldozing
and indecisiveness which Harrity struck
the next day in his management ot the con
vention so charmed everybody, that recog
nizing his magnificent work the previous
month in laying out Pattison's fight in so
masterly a manner as to almost completely
annihilate the Wallace opposition, the
State Committee that evening Baid: "Here
is an organizer!" and elected Harrity State
Chairman also.
Of course it turned out that Hensel's
scheme to have Church elected Permanent
Chairman was to secure for Wallace ithe
opportunity to both let himself down easy
and to make a combination on some dark
horse, who, with favorable rulings and a
hall packed with Wallace shouters, might
have turned the tide against Patterson.
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
Actually, the scheme had been worked
out so fine that if Church had been elected
chairman he was to have given the Wallace
shouters every privilege until he had them
worked up to a fever heat of expectancy.
Then Wallace himself was to have appeared
in the convention, and in a macnanimous
speech withdraw trom the contest in favor
of a third candidate on whom both factions
conld agree without fear of dissension.
That man was to hi.ve been Judge Silas M.
Clark, of the Supreme Court. Then
Chauncey Black was to have appeared, and
also withdraw in favor of Clark. After
that Hensel was to have come in and made
p. speech which would have made him
solid for the nomination of first or second
place if Clark should afterwards decline the
nomination.
The whole purpose was to demoralize the
Pattison delegates by a false show of
strength, until, in the confusion, the
Wallace combiners could have effected some
sort of a nomination to defeat the will of the
delegates. Undoubtedly, the Pattison
managers displayed their foresight in hold
ing on to the grip they had of the power to
organize the convention themselves. If they
had been caught in the net the convention
would have been stolen from them.
Stofiel.
THE SOUTH AROUSED.
BY THE PASSAGE OF THE FEDERAL
ELECTION BILL.
Commercial as Well an Political Action to
be Taken In Revenge The North to bo
Boycotted nnd White Laborers Imported
From Europe.
tSriXIJU. TELEGBAM TO TUB DISPATCn.1
Cincinnati, July 6. A prominent
wholesale merchant of Charleston, S. C,
who does not wish to be named, is in the
city, and talked freely to-day on Southern
sentiment regarding the Federal election
bill. He says the people of the North have
no idea of the intense fealing that exists
among all classes in the Sauth
over the proposed measure. There is no dis
position to talk about it or make threats, but
the passage of the bill will be the signal for
the creation of the most extreme bitterness
a feeling that will nndo all that the years
of peace have accomplished, and that will
find manifestation in action.
.First of all every Northern product as far
as possible will be boycotted. Merchants
will import from Europe, and the people
will be eager to buy even at advanced
prices, so that Northern merchants and
manufacturers shall suffer. Follow
ing this will come the most ex
tensive and effective boycott on class
labor the world has ever known.
Arrangements are already under way to
secure ahead fhousandsof white laborers,
and every neero employe in the entire South
will be discharged and no Southern man
will, under any pretext, give one of them
employment, the object being to drive them
into the North and West
The gentleman declared his people are de
termined on this course. They are quite
certain the hill will pass and are preparing
for it. Nearly all Southern attorneys de
clare the bill unconstitutional, and say that
instead of 350,000 extra Government officers
to carry out the law. it will require 400.000
to properly execute it, unless it be a farce
in the North, and that is what all Southern
ers believe it is intended so to be.
B1TEN TO DEATH BY FLIES.
A Cook Tortured by Flies nnd Itlojqnltocs In
a Lumber Camp.
ESPECIAL TELBOBAM TO THE DISPATCH. I
Ottawa, July 6. A singular occurrence
is reported from Pembroke. Last week
Thomas Young, aged 23, of Clark river, who
was engaged as cook in one of the .lumber
camps above Chapleau, feeling unwell, de
cided to go home. On arriving at Chapleau
he found that the train he wished to take
bad not arrived and thinking a walk might
do him good, determined to try it to the
next station. About half way he became so
sick that he was obliged to seek refuge at a
deserted camp.
There he lay for five days, a prey to the
mosquitoes and black flies, unable to sum
mon assistance, and without anything to
eat. Finally he managed to drag himselr
two miles to tbe railroad track, where he
met station men, who placed him on the
train for home. He died soon after reach
ing his destination, so disfigured by the
bites of insects as to be hardly recognizable.
THE USUAL CAUSE.
A LIVELY ENCOUNTER AT ATLANTIC CITY
BETWEEN TWO WASHINQTONIANS.
A Fend of Four Tears Standing Cnlralnntes
In a Fight Doth Parties Arrested
Prominence of Those Implicated Caases
Great SnrprUe.
ISFECI.IL TELEQBAM TO THB DI8PAT0II.1
Atlantic Cut, July 6. There was a
lively fight in a barber shop to-day, in
whioh two well-known Washingtonians were
the participants. They were J. P. Manning
and Kavanaugh IT. Kennedy. Manning
is the proprietor of extensive marble works,
and is reported to be worth considerable
money. Kennedy is a 81,000 clerk in the
OPostoffice Department and hails from Ox-
tord,Miss. His wile is the granadangnter or
Senator Rowan, of Kentucky. Her father
is the veteran Commodore Reed, of the
navy. Manning and Kennedy have not
spoken in four years, owing to an old fend,
and when they met in the barber shop this
morning the surprise was mutual. Man
ning reached for his coat, which hung just
back of Kennedy, and the latter struck him
a stinging blow in tho face as he did so.
Then followed a desperate struggle in
which showcases, chairs and mirrors were
smashed. The police were called in and
both men, who were still rolling over each
other on the floor, were arrested. Ken
nedy's collar bone was dislocated and his
face and head badly brnised, and Manning
was also bruised and bleeding. They
were taken to the City Hall where
the former was charged with
assault and battery and locked up in
default of 5500 bail. His wife was present
and tearfully pleaded that her rings and
jewelry, which she valued at $1,500, be
taken in lieu of bail, but Justice Irving re
fused to take such, and Kennedy still
languishes in a prison cell, and will have a
hearing to-morrow morning. Manning was
released on bail to appear at the trial.
Manning's story of the feud existing be
tween Kennedy and himself is that about
four years ago he had in his employe a
pretty German-American girl. He had
reason to suspect that Kennedy was bother
ing the girl, and he watched him. His
vigilance was rewarded and a personal en
counter ensued.
Manning warned Kennedy to leave town,
which the latter agreed to do. He re
mained away for a few weeks, but
returned, and since then has often threat
ened to kill Manning, and indulged in a
general denunciation of him. Kennedy
says he had just come from church and was
sitting peaceably in the barber shop when
Manning reached towards him. He looked
upon him as his enemy, and, thinking he
meant to hit him, endeavored to get the first
blow in himself.
LOTTERY BILL VETO
WILL BE
GIVEN TO-DAY
. NICHOLS.
BY GOVERNOR
Nevertheless, It Will Be Passed by Ibo
Necessary Two-Thirds Mnjority Tho
Sunday Law Bill Will be Sicned by tbe
Governor.
Baton Rouge, La., July 6. To-morrow
evening at 4 o'clock the fifth day will
have expired on which Gov. Nichols has to
return the lottery bill, either with or with
out his approval. There is hardly a doubt
as to what the executive intends to do in
the matter, it being tbe chief topic of con
versation among the Antis and Pros, a
number of the former admitting that the
Governor will veto the bill. One
of Governor Nichols' advisers stated
that not only would the Governor veto the
bill, but that the action of the Legislature
would be strongly condemned. As both
branches of the General Assembly stand ad
journed until 2:15 P. m. to-morrow, the
veto message will hardly be forthcoming
until tbe House and Senate have com
menced business. The veto message will be
met with the necessary two-thirds, as the
leaders in both houses have aligned their
forces and will be ready for any emergency.
UThe Sunday law bill, now in thelhands of
the.Governor, will, in all probability, be re
turned with his approval, as the report of
the Attorney General on the present law was
favorable to its abolishment. The question
arose whether or not the law as enacted was
unconstitutional, because of the classifica
tion of cities of 10,000 inhabitants and over.
Those who opposed the passage of the act
contend that the General Assembly cannot
legislate in favor ot any particular city or
town, thereby discriminating against those
having a less population than 10,000. Law
yers versed in constitutional law say that
the decision of the Supreme Court bears
them out in the position they assumed in
support of the bill.
STRANGLED BY A MADMAN.
A Crowd Kept at Bar for Hoars by an In
nno Olardcrer.
Delhi, N. Y., July C In the hamlet of
Barbourville, Delaware county, on July 4,
Adelbert Cumming, who is undoubtedly in
sane, inflicted wounds upon Sylvanus Palm
erton, which resnlted in his death in less
than 24 hours. When the neighbors tried
to arrest Cumming he attacked them with a
knife. Three or four times he made the
crowd flee before bini. The farmers armed
themselves with shotguns, and Cumming
was shot in the legs and wounded in the
head. He continued to slash right and
left, but finally the farmers pointing their
shotguns at his head, and telling him they
would kill him if he didn't surrender, he
threw down his knife. He was brought to
jail here last night.
This morning while Sheriff McArthur
was giving him food he would in all proba
bility have been strangled by the madman
had it not been for the assistance rendered
by the prisoners, who had just been let out
of their cells into the corridor. Cumming
is about 40 years of age.
BURNED THE COOK.
Fire In n Steam Bnrco Causes Loss of Life
and Great Dnmngo to Fropcrtr.
East Tawas, Mich., July 6. Late last
night the steam barge Sea Gull was discov
ered on fire. No means were at hand to ex
tinguish the flames. The cook, Maggie Cor
nell, was unable to get ashore and was
burned to death. The Sea Gull's lines were
burned off, and she drifted across tbe slip,
setting fire to the steam barge Calvin, which,
however, was saved. Further on, the burn
ing vessel set Emory's dock and mills on
fire, which were destroyed, the loss being
$30,000; also Lock & Stevens' docks, Sibley
& Bcaringer's lumber dock, whoseloss cannot
be ascertained. Sixteen million feet of lum
ber were consumed. The Sea Gull is a total
wreck. The origin of the fire is believed to
be incendiary.
WTT.TETi BY THE EDITOR.
A Colorado Cowboy Mnkes nn Attack on tbe
Wrong Person.
rSFECIAI. TELEORAM TO TOE DISPATCH.
Manitoh Springs, Col., July 6.
Several months aco Durango Was visited by
a severe connagration and two children
were burned np. Isaac Yoho, a cowboy
from Silverton, was among the spectators,
and when George Raymond, the editor of the
Durango .Herafd.requested the use of Yoho's
horse so as to secure aid, the latter refused,
and the consequence was Raymond attacked
Yoho through the columns of the Herald.
On the Fourth Raymond visited Silver
ton, where he met Yoho, who at once as
saulted him. In self defense Raymond
picked up a rock, which, he fired at Yoho,
Jailing Mn instantly.
AKIYALTOBKIGHAM.
Pinkerton Detectives Chasing a Man
With a Bost of Brides,
ALE OP TBEJI BEING BEJBESSES.
Be Would Appropriate the Property and
Then Wed Another.
LITELT CAEEEE ON BOTH CONTINENTS.
Kow Wanted la
Philadelphia on
His Third Wift.
the Complaint of
Detectives have jnst unearthed the secrets
of George W. Silcox, who is apparently an
ardent disciple of Brigham Young. He
haswedded many times, on each occasion
securing an heiress. The money once ob
tained he would seek fresh fields and
pastures new.
rSFECTAI. TEIEORAM TO TBB DISPATCH.!
Steactjse, N. Y., July 6. A Syracuse
man has distanced Brigham Young in the
number of wives. At least this is the dis
covery made by a Pinkerton detective who
has been at work here for over'a week past
in unraveling the curious apd complicated
career of George W. Silcox, formerly a
printer of this city. Silcox is about as slick
an individual as comes to the surface, but
despite his shrewd winning ways, has en
countered more or less reverses sinco he left
Syracuse nearly 20 years ago.
The detective who has devoted a great deal
of time upon the case, says that Silcox was
wanted in Philadelphia to answer a serious
charge. The woman referred to is a Miss
Georgiana Parker, who was married to Sil
cox about a year ago. This was his fourth
matrimonial venture.
the third -wipe kicked.
The couple resided in Philadelphia, where
they were arrested a month ago upon the
charge of Silcox's third wife, who resides in
Brooklyn, and whose suit for absolute
divorce is now pending. Silcox gave bail
to appear for examination in Philadelphia
to-morrow. He has skipped in the mean
time and is supposed to have gone to Europe
by way of Montreal.
The announcement will not surprise many
acquaintances of Silcox in this city, who
have kept tract of his seeming erratic
career. Possibly no young man in this
community started out in life with better
prospects or better advantages than George
W. Silcox. His parents are old respected
citizens of Syracuse, and young Silcox was
the personification of grace, form and en
ergy. He dressed according to the book and
accumulated money with ease.
In 1870 be married Miss Clara Groff.
daughter of John Groff, of this city. The
ceremony took place at St. Paul's Church
and was considered one of the great society
events of that year. The couple lived at
the Yanderbilt house for some months after
ward, and subsequently at the Globe Hotel.
A DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENT.
Several years of marital life followed. In
1874, Silcox received an appointment as
honorary commissioner to the Vienna Ex
position, and went to Europe, leaving his
wife in this city. His position proved a
source of considerable revenue. Many large
firms paid him a commission for looking
after their interests at this renowned fair.
In the whirl of European gayety Silcox
neglected his Syracuse wife, and upon certain-
information which "had reached Mrs.
Silcox, a suit for divorce was instituted and
an absolute divorce was granted upon trial.
At the close of the Vienna fair Silcox de
cided to spend the rest of his life in Europe,
and secured lucrative employment as agent
for agricultural implements.
His headquarters were located at Bremen.
He established a good paying business and
succeeded in finding favor among the best
circles of that city. He wooed and won an
heiress to a large estate, who died about a
year after the ceremony, leaving a child as
a result of their union. The mother had
taken the precaution to leave the bulk of
her property to the child, and in the cus
tody of his immediate relatives. The estate
was valued at ?30,000.
NOTHING SLOW ABOUT HIM.
In his meek, slick way, Silcox succeeded
in securing a portion of this money for the
purpose of investment. His failure to re
turn it to the proper custodians since May
resuitea in causing inconvenience to Sil
cox's future arrangements. He returned to
this country about six years ago and ob
tained the agency of the Rombert Gas En
gine Company, afterward known as the
Korting Engine Company.
His pleasing manners and Apollo form
had captivated another heiress, and Silcox
launched upon a third matrimonial venture,
the ceremony taking place at Key West,
Fla. The couple located in Brooklyn. Mrs.
Silcox erected a handsome edifice, where
they lived in luxury. Mr. and Mrs, Silcox
mingled in the best society, and Silcox him
self was a leading member of the Montauk
Club.
The summer season usually found Mr.
and Mrs. Silcox at their handsome cottage
at Lake George. It would seem that Silcox
had become tired of this easy manner of
living and yearned for new fields to conquer.
During his wife's absence at Lake Georee
in July last, he caused valuable bric-a-brac
to be removed from his Brooklyn residence
to a storage warehouse. He rented a house
at Yonkers, to which he transferred a bulk
of the furniture. All this was preparatory
to a European trip, which he had pre
arranged without the knowledge of his wife.
APTEBANOTHEB ONE.
He had laid siege to the heart of a young
woman well known in Brooklyn society cir
cles as Miss Geoririana Parker. They went
to Europe on the same vessel. As they were
ascending the gang plank Silcox mailed a
letter to nis wile at jake George notifying
her that by the time she received his epistle
he would be on the sad sea waves, never
again to return to America. He had previ
ously secured title to the Brooklyn property
under pretense that he was temporarily em
barrassed and needed a deed in orderto es
tablish credit.
Mrs. Silcox returned to Brooklyn at once
after hearing ofjher husband's escapade and
sought the advice of an attorney. Proceed
ings were instituted to set aside the deed,
and also for absolute divorce on the usual
grounds. It was said that Silcox had
launched out in his fourth marital experi
ence by uniting his hand and fortune with
Miss Parker. The couple after a brief tour
on the continent returned to New York and
then to Philadelphia and later to Balti
more.
During all this time Silcox made a com
fortable living as a representative ot the en
gine concern. In December last they es
tablished a residence at Newark, N. J., and
fitted their home up in a gorgeous style.
The bric-a-bsac and costly furniture taken
from the former wife's residence in Brook
lyn were transferred to the Newark edifice.
The couple tired of Newark before tbe ex
piration of a month, and they moved to TJp
sells station, a suburb ot Philadelphia.
TLACED UJTDEB ARREST.
The divorce proceedings instituted by
Mrs. Silcox No. 3 had not yet been deter
mined. In May last she learned of her hus
band's whereabouts and swore out warrants
for the arrest of the husband and his alleged
wife. Both parties were placed under $1,600
bonds to appear for examination at Phila
delphia to-morrow. The detective, who is
gathering the details of Silcox's swift
career, visited Silcox's mother this after
noon, at the corner of EasJ Genesee and
Orange streets, and also Mr. Silcox'No. X,
who has assumed her maiden name Miss
Groff and who lives with relatives here.
The detective oarries a picture of a woman
who is said to have traveled with Silcox on
one of his trips across the ocean and who is
supposed to be a girl formerly known in
this city as Kittie Dinsmore. He is said to
have also introduced this woman to society
as his wife. Silcox's mother and first wiio
both failed to recognize it as a reproduction
of any person that they had ever seen. Some
spicy developments are promised as a result
of the police investigation in this vicinity.
THE B. P. 0. E'S.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE MEETING
CLEVELAND THIS WEEK.
IN
Prominent Officials of Ibo OrdcClalm Tbnt
bnt Little Trouble Is Anticipated Record
Ing tho Action of the New York Lodge
Tbo Order In a Flonrlsblne Condition.
Cleveland, July 6. The fourth annual
reunion and Grand Lodge meeting of Hhe
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
which will begin in this city to-morrow and
continue Tuesday and Wednesday, promises
to be the most largely attended and inter
esting ever held by the organization. This
will be the first time that the Grand
Lodge has met outside of New York, but
the reunions have been held in Cincinnati,
Pittsburg and other cities. A number of
delegates to the Grand Lodge from Boston
and other New Eogland cities arrived to-day.
Many more arrived on the night trains, and
they will continue to come in all day to
morrow. Dr. Samuel Quiulan, of Chicago,
the Exalted Grand Ruler of the order, and
John White, of the same city, the Acting
Grand Secretary, arrived early this morn
ing. Acting Grand Secretary White, in an
interview, said:
"As far as heard from, this will be the most
largely attended rennion and Grand Lodge
meeting ever held by the order. Wo now have
198 subordinate lodges scattered from Maine to
Texas, with an aggregate membership of 25,
000 In round numbers. The Grand Lodge
is composed of abont 1,000 delegates
and at least 350 of them will be In attendance.
Thero Is no doubt that about 5.000 Elks will bo
In Cleveland dunne this week. The order Is
growine very fast, 44 lodges having been insti
tuted during the past 12 months.
When asked what would be the result of
the injunction sued out by New York Lodge
No. 1 to prevent the meeting of the Grand
Lodge in Cleveland and the subsequent sus
pension of tbe New York Lodge by Exalted
Grand Ruler Quinlan, Mr. White said:
''The Grand Lodge does not meet until Tues
day, and wo are not crossing over bridges when
thero is no water within 100 miles.
The only inconvenience that we will suffer
will bo that the property of the Grand Lodge
will be kept away from us, but we can get along
without It. Almost tho entire membership of
the order, of coarse with the exception of New
"i ork, is in sympathy with tho ruling of Dr.
Quinlan.''
BADLY BUSHED WITH VITRIOL.
Peculiar Caso ol Titrlol Throwing In New
York Snndny.
IBPSCIAI. TELEQBAK TO TUB DISFATCB.l
New York, July 6. Ernst Miller, an
inoffensive looking young man, was badly
burned about the face and neck and dis
figured for life early this morning by a
vitriol thrower. Young Miller is employed
ae a clerk in a tea store. When
he quit work, just after midnight, on
Saturday he, with Charles Matthews, a fel
low employe, went to an oyster saloon and
ordered some oysters. "After we were
through," said Miller, "Charley asked me
to go part way home with him. I went
and returned by way of Rivington. I had
olmost reached Willett's when I heard
some loud talking in a house across the
way. I thought there was a fight, and
stopped for a moment to listen. Just then
a man spoke up and said: "What are you
doing here?" Nothing at all, I answered,
and started to go away. "Without another
word the man flung something at me from a
cup or glass. Then my face and neck
began to burn as though a hot iron had
touched them."
His assailant was lying on the basement
steps, and did not move from his reclining
ppsture to throw the drug, and this prob
ably accounts for his bad aim, as most of
the liquid went wide of its mark. As it
was, Miller's left ear, part of his left cheek,
and here and there the neck and scalp, were
badly burned. There is no clue yet to his
assailant's identity.
BLEW HIS BRAINS OUT
Katber Than Submit to Arrest for tho Mar.
dcr of n Friend.
rSFECIAI. TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Berkeley Springs, W. Va., July 6.
During a dance on the night of the Fourth
at Goshen's Grove, a few miles from
here, James West, a young Texan,
who recently came here, became in
volved in a quarrel with William Trit
apoe. From words they came to blows
and when they closed on each other West
drew a revolver from his boot, and pressing
it against Tritapoe's left side fired. The
ball went straight through the body and
came out on the right side. West immedi
ately fled, with a posse in pursuit.
After a long search he was discovered to
day hiding in the woods near his house.
When he found that his capture was cer
tain, he lay at full length on tbe ground,
and placing the barrel of his rifle against
his left temple, he blew his brains out.
Tritapoe, whom be wounded, still lives, bnt
will probably die.
TOOK WTFE AND CHUDBEN.
Tbe Style In Which Elopements Are Con.
ducted In Ibo Wild West.
rSrXCIAIi TELEOBJLM TO THE DISFATCn.1
Manitotj Speings, Col., July 6.
Southern Colorado has just enjoyed the nov
elty of an elopement. John S. Stewart, a
young man living on a ranch near Rock
ford, this morning kissed his wife goodby,
saying that she would never see him again.
Then he drove away and stopped at his
neighbor's, O. H. Peed, a prominent ranch
man. Mrs. Peed got into the wagon with
her three youngest children, and the eloping
couple then hurriedly drove north to the
open country.
Peed has sent officers after thecouple, and
swears he will kill Stewart. It is thought
the runaways are headed for the mountains.
Stewart left his wife destitute, only a cow
remaining on his ranch. N
BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR THE DAK0TAS.
Crops nave Attained Rapid Growth Darlnn;
tho Fast Month.
Hubon, S. Dak., July C. Crops
throughout South Dakota have made more
rapid growth during the past week than
ever before known in the state. Corn has
made wonderful progress, while wheat, oats
.and other grain have attained an unusual
growth.
Reports from all parts of the siaie received
at the United States Signal office last even
ing indicate a glowing outlook, and a yield
that promises greater than ever before
known in the state. The same will apply
to many localities in North Dakota.
WEHDLAKDrS BODY RECOVERED.
The Fanernl of Father, Mother and Child
Will Occur To-Day.
Hoboken. N. J., July 6. The body of
Franz Wendlandt, the young author, who,
with his wife and infant child committed
suicide by jumping into the "" arth river one
day last week, was recovered to-day. The
bodies of the woman and child were taken
from, the water on Thursday.
The three bodies are now lying side by
sidejin the morgue. They will be buried
to-idonw.
QUAY IN THE SADDLE.
He Will Urge tbe Passage of the Fed
eral Election Measure
THE0DGH THE DILATORY SEME.
Bergeant-at-Arms Valentine la abolishing
. 'the Sinecures.
A POSSIBLE SILVER BILL C0MPE0HISE.
The Prospect for
Subsidy Legislation
Present Week.
Darin; tbe
Senator Quay is again in Washington,
and it is intimated that he will take a hand
in the Federal election bill contest. He
does not believe Cameron will vote against
the measure. A compromise on the silver
qncstion has already been arranged.
IFItOM A STAFJ' COBEESFOHDINT.l
Washington, July C Senator Quay
and his son Dick returned to the Capitol
to-day, and in the same sleeping car was
Representative Dalzell. returning from a
brief visit to Pittsburg. The three gentle
men had a very pleasant smoke and chat
together, but Pennsylvania politics was one
of the subjects which did not happen to
come up for discussion.
Senator Quay regrets very much the de
feat of Townsend for the nomination for Con
gress in Beaver district.but as it was an open
fight" to see who could get a majority of the
delegates he supposed every one should feel
satisfied.
THE ELECTION MEASURE.
The Senator is very much gratified with
the passage of the Federal elections bill by
the House and hopes it will get through the
Senate. He does not believe the rumor
that Senator Cameron will vote against the
bill, and feels assured that the Senator will
vote with his party on the measure if he
gets a chance.
Quay's recent opponent, Colonel Valen
tine, the new Sergeant-at-Arms of the Sen
ate, has been in office only since the first of
this month, but the time has been long
enough for him to make the bones of some
of the ossified hangers on now carried on his
payroll resume their original consistency,
He has required each employe to give his
war record, if a soldier, his politics, State
in which he votes and his political backing.
It is a matter of comment that it is now
difficult to gain entrance to either the floor
of the Senate or the galleries, because there
are so many doorkeepers in attendance, one
third of whom have shirked their work for
five or six months.
A SILTEE AGREEMENT.
A member of the conference committee on
the silver bill said to The Dispatch cor
respondent to-day that he expected the con
ference would result in an agreement this
week, and that possibly before the end
of the week a silver bill would be
in the hands of the President. It would
contain neither the free coinage provision
of the Senate nor the bullion redemption
feature of the House, and would doubtless
provide for the purchase and coinage of
$1,500,000 worth of bullion a month and the
issue ot certificates redeemable in legal ten
ders. He did not think the Senate would insist
on free coinage, or the House on bullion re
demption. Of course there would be no
bullion redemption possible if no more
bullion wire purchased than coined, which
is the favored proposition. Lightner.
THE WEEK IN CONGRESS.
FRYE'S SHIPPING BILLS STILL
THE SENATE.
BEFORE
Tho Tariff Mensnro Mny bo Postponed for
S3- Another Week A Contested Election
Caso Up In tbo Hoasc Status of the
Appropriation Bills.
H Washington, July 6. Senator Frye's
shipping bills, .upon which a vote was not
taken last Thursday because of the lack of
a quorum, are the unfinished business on
the Senate calendar for to-morrow, and he
hopes to have them disposed of, without
further delay. He will then ask
to have the river and harbor bill taken up.
This bill, with the amendments which the
Committee en Commerce has authorized Mr.
Frye to offer, carries a total appropriation
of about 323,000,000, and he says it is the
best bill of the kind ever prepared. Two
days, he thinks, will be sufficient for its
consideration.
Senator Morrill, Chairman of the Finance
Committee, will endeavor to have the tariff
hill made tbe order of business after the
shipping bills are out of the way. The in
dications, however, are that the river and
harbor bill will be first taken up. The tariff
bill, it is understood, will be in charge of
Senator Aldrich.
TAEIFP FIGHT DELAYED.
If the river and harbor bill gets the right
of way it is more than probable that the
tariff debate will not be begun in earnest
until next week, as there are three appro
priation bills to come before the Senate this
week, one of which tho sundry civil is
likely to precipitate a debate of some length.
It will be reported Tuesday or Wednesday.
Among its provisions as it passed the
House is an appropriation of $720,000 for
the geological and irrigation surveys to be
expended under the direction of Director J.
W. Powell, and will be antagonized by Sen
ator Stewart and possibly by other Western
Senators, who want the irrigation survey to
be conducted by the Agricultural Depart
ment. The other two appropriation bills are the
Indian and consular and diplomatic. These
exhaust the list of regular appropriation
bills, except the deficiency bill, which will
not come np before the Senate until the
close of the session.
The report of the Conference Committeo on
the silver bill, which is a privileged matter,
is likely to be -presented before the close of
the week, and it will' probably give rise to.
a debate of some length.
A CAUCUS EXPECTED.
The election bill will be received from
the House probably to-morrow, and be re
ferred tdUhe Committee on Privileges and
Elections. A caucus of Republican Sena
tors is expected some time this week, at
which it will be decided whether or not to
take up the bill at this session.
The proceedings in the House this week
promise to be comparatively uninteresting
and quiet Probably tbe general deficiency
appropriation bill the last of the appro
priation bills will be reported and acted
upon before the week is ended. The Elec
tions Committee is desirous of securing con
sideration for the two contested election
cases Miller vs Elliott, of South Carolina,
and Langston vs Venable, of Virginia
which have been for some time on the
calendars.
In addition to these cases, the friends of
the bankruptcy bill expect to be able to get
that measure before the House while there
arc indications that during the week the
conferees on the silver bill will have ad
justed their differences and presented to tho
House a compromise measure which it will
be called upon to consider.
SENATORS UP TO BNUFF.
Tbey Toko Cnre That the Government Shall
Fay for It, However.
trEOM A STAIT COBEXSFOXPEirr.
Washington,- July 6. The United
States Senators charge the contlnseat'fund
&.
ff flio fiiiiiifan.(..t-
... wuu.VMW.UU1V W.
C.-is. rOJl4iar,
ginger ale, lemons and slfe, &
'as "S. MM . - .
9V,
vwith
their snuff. It is pretty X O vfbat
on a ledge in the wall behim'b WC
omoer oi mo Denate there are L,ijj O'x'
plain black snuff boxes, one on Pr "
lican and one on the Democratic si
well known that the crave and n
wmu uioi-v Duuii utiiPR nnnnn .", tj
or
Senators patronize these snuff boxes
liberally and appear to appreciate t-em
quite highly. Bat where the snuff comes
rrora is not generally known. The notion
probably prevails that some good fairy with
a particular interest in Senators, fills the
snuff boxes during the night or when the
Senate is not in session.
It may have occurred to some that this
snuff was a donation from some millionaire
Senator, like Stanford, to his brother
Senators, or it may have been tj,1"
posed that the snuff was furnf
by the venerable and amiable cHJj -Bassett
as a token of his regard forthe
august body which he has carefully watched
over for so many years. It would hardly
occur to any one that such an item would be
charged to the contingent fund of the Sen
ate. But so it is. The last annual report of
the Secretary of the Senate showed that on
a certain day the sum of ?5.50 was paid to
Isaac Bassett "for five pounds and a quarter
o f Copenhagen snuff for the use of the Senate
chamber."
MILWAUKEE'S GALA WEEK,
THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS GIVEN THE
FREEDOM OF THE CITY.
The Pennsylvania Delegation Will Arrive
To -Day Fifteen Tbonsand Uniformed
Knights Will Parade Tbe Grand Lodge
Will Hold a Two Weeks' Session.
Milwaukee, Wis., July 6. Camp
Carnahan is occupied to-night by over 1,000
members of Uniform Rank, Knights of
Pythias, and before Monday noon the num
ber in camp will reach five times that
amount The railways running to
Milwaukee have received notice from
connecting lines that nearly 400 cars will
be delivered to them at Chicago before noon
on Monday for transhipment to Milwaukee.
These include delegations from nearly every
State in the Union. Tbe New England
delegation will reach Milwaukee at 11
o'clock to-morrow morning. The Ne
braska contingent, numbering 1,500 or
more, will arrive in the evening. Large
delegations from Pennsylvania, New York,
New Jersey, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana,
Texas, Iowa, California, Colorado, Michi
gan, and other States are reported on the
way. Two trains with the Chicago Uni
formed Knights, to the number of 1,000, will
reach Milwaukee in the evening.
The programme of the week will not open
until Tuesday morning, when there will be
given at the Exposition building a monster
reception to the Supreme Lodge, which im
mediately afterward go into session and will
hold daily meetings for two weeks. The
great parade will start at 4 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon, when it is expected that nearly
15,000 uniformed Knights and half that num
ber of uniformed members of the order will
be in line. On Wednesday the prize drills
will open, for which 38 divisions and seven
battalions have entered. The prize band
contest will occur Wednesday evening and
the fire works display, which will be the
finest ever attemDted in the West will at
tract the crowd Thursday night The mam
moth band concert at the Exposition build
ing will occur Friday night, and the award
ing of prizes will take up the time oa Sat
urday. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
Of
Ydnng Japanese Student Who Was
Attending: Colnrabln Collese.
rSPECUi. TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH. 3
New York, July C N. Okamato, a
young Japanese, who was one of the law
students at Columbia College last
term, and who had been in
America three years, has alarmed his
friends by his continued absence during
the past month. He received money orders
regularly from his father, who is said to be
a Government official in Japan. The father
desired to have the boy educated forthe law,
in order that he might take a Government
post when he returned to Japan. Okamato
is about 23 years old, of slight build and
short in stature. He walked out of bis
boarding house a month ago, leaving a gold
watch and chain and other valuables be
hind, and diligent search made by acquaint
ances iias laiieu to reveal nis wnereaoouts.
An order for 200 arrived from Japan
some time after his disappearance, but the
postal autnorities were also unable to
find him. His watch and chain
and other property were removed
from his rooms some days afterwards
and a letter addressed to him was fonnd
opened on the bed in his room. It is sup
posed that he made a secret visit to his lodg
ings, but nobody saw him enter or leave.
The young Japanese was always well
dressed and had plenty of money.
A rOOLISH, PATAL WAGES,
He Attempted to Climb a Tree on a Wager
and Will Frobnbly Die.
rBPECIAI. TILEOBAJf TO THI DISPATCn.1
Bloomsbueg, July 6. On Fourth of
July Samuel Clipnick went to German Val
ley to spend the holiday with his parents.
He had intended to return to this
city to-day, where he is employed
as a carpenter. On the outskirts of
the town there is a very tall tree which
some of his companions who were with him
coming back wagered he could not climb.
He undertook the task and on ncaring the
top a branch upon which he stood gave way
precipitating him to the ground, a distance
of 54"feet
Beside breaking his ribs, arms and sus
taining other injuries, four fingers of ono
hand were jerked out at the joints by grasp
ing a limb of the tree in his descent He
will probably die.
CHICAGO TO NEW ORLEANS
In Thirty Hours Is tbe Fast Time That Will
be ttlade Hereafter.
Chicago, July 6. The fast mail service
between Chicago and New Orleans will be
inaugurated to-morrow morning at 3:lj
o'clock. The train is to make theruu from
Chicago to the Crescent City, a distance of
915 miles, in 29 hours, which is six hours
less than the time now consumed by the
lightning express.
Leaving here at 3:15 A. 31. the southbound
train will reach New Orleans at 9 A. M. tbe
second day, and the northbound train will
leave New Orleans at 7 P.M. and reach Chi
cago at 1 A.M. the second morning.
HELD TJP THE CONDUCTOR.
Two Highwaymen lloldly Take Possession
of a Freight Train.
Nokth Yakima, Wash., July 6. An
east-bound Northern Pacific freight train
was boarded near here to-day by two men.
When the conductor asked for their tickets
they drew revolvers and compelled the con
ductor and brakeman to hand over $120.
The robbers then jumped rom the train and
escaped. A posse went in pursuit when
news reached here and soon captured the
robbers.
PENNBx'S GRETNA GREEN.
Shows Up a Goodly Number of Marriages
for the Month Jnst Closed.
YOUNGSTOWN, July 6. The socialstatis
tics for the past year, compiled by Judge
Wilson, for the county, show that 475 deaths
occurred, 601 marriages and 1,257 births. Of
the deaths 33 were caused by accident
During the year naturalization papers
were isned to 195 p-r;on, 61 wills admitted
and 1-1 -.'s.aws administered upon.
BEER WILL BE DEAB,
Or of a Poorer Quality, if the Mo
Kinley Bill Goes Through.
THE BREWERS ENTER A PROTEST
Against the Great Increase of Dnfy oa
Canadian Barley.
A3IEEICAN PRODUCT K0T GOOD ENOUGH
Uanslactnre of the Superior Grades of Malt
Esterases.
The tariff on barley is trebled by the Mo
Kinley bill. Brewers assert that the im
portation of the Canadian article is abso
lutely necessary to the production of good
beer. The only result will be the increase
of the cost of the malt liquids.
rSFZClAL TELZGBAM TO THZ DISPATCH.1
Philadelphia, July 6. Philadelphia
brewers are just now considerably agitated
over the proposition in the McKinley tariff
bill now pending in the United States Sen
ate to raise the import duty on barley
from 10 cents to 50 cents a bushel. The
number of bushels ot barley imported year
ly by the extensive system of breweries in
Philadelphia is close to a million.
All of this comes from Canada, which
raises a grade or barley, it is said, superior
to any product in this country, and a grade
the place of which no American raised bar
ley can take. The consequence therefore of
snehan increase as that proposed would be,
so the brewers of Philadelphia unanimously
say, merely to make them purchase the
Canada barley, which they must have at an
exorbitant rate and stand the loss.
BEEK WILL BE BAD.
Another direct effect will be to make the
brewers who may prove unwilling to suffer
the loss, flood the market with an inferior
quality of beer. A. W. Waebken, secre
tary of the Bergner and Engel Brewing
Company, has some decided opinions on the
matter, and spoke them yesterday very
freely. The Bergner and Engel Company
have about the largest breVing establish
ment in this city. They have a plant worth
about 84,000,000 and import every year
about 300,000 bushels of Canada barley.
Mr. Waebken said that in saying what he
did he voiced the opinions of the other
members of the firm, and of many city
brewers.
"The effect of .an increased duty on bar
ley," said Mr. Waebken, "will be just this:
If we are to brew the same quality of beer
as we now are doing we shall be forced to
pay the advanced price for imported barley
and stand the loss. We do not buy Canada
barley for fun. We have no particular in
terest in sending our money to Canada, but
the point lies just here, we can never get
along without it Canada barley yields mnch
more malt; than Western barley, and, what
is more important, in order to make onr
finer beers and fine grades of tanuhauser we
absolutely must have it, just as in order to
give the fine, delicate flavor to other beers
we must have German hops.
ALL GO TO CANADA.
"There is one thing which shows pretty
conclusively how absolutely necessary
Canada barley is. Even the Western brew
ers, especially the better brewers ot St
Louis, Milwaukee and'Chicago, use Canada
barley. Wisconsin is a great barley-growing
State, and.brewers)there who could buy
their grain right at home and save trans
portation, certainly would not use Canada
barley if it were not necessary.
"It will be the better brewers, those who
have a reputation to maintain and some
thing at stake," Mr. Waebken continued,
"who will snfler. Of course we all use
grrat quantities of Western barley, but it is
inferior staff, and have to nse it in con
nection with the better quality which is im
ported. There is a certain amount of the
Canada barley which we will use anyhow.
Unless we should stand " loss we should
have to drop the better graues or Deer. We
would make the best we could out of the
American barley and say, here, youv'e got
to take this."
In conclnsion Mr. Waebken said : "As
the duty on barley is to be increased as a
means to raise revenue I think it will be
very successful, but as a protective measure.
I don't think it will work very well. There
is one snre thing-about it anyhow and that
is that it will benefit nobody but tbe United
States Treasury. It would not benefit so
much our Western producers, for there is a
certain amount of Canadian barley which
we must have."
SUBE TO SUITER.
Mr. Albert Baltz of the J. & P. Bait
Brewing Company, was seen next He
said: "If the duty is raised on barley of
course we will suffer by it We use about
100,000 bushels of Canadian barley every
year. The competition at present is so
great that it would be hard to raise the price
ot beer and consequently there would be a
great los3 to u."
A number of other brewers, when ques--tioned
as to the probable effect of the
passzge of this clause of the McKinley bill,
stated their opinions substantially as those
given above. All gave emphatic indorse
ment of the view that the only result of the
proposed change will be to entail loss on
the brewers, or cause an inferior article to
be furnished the consumers.
FATHER CRETLLY RETURNED.
The Champion of tbo Irlih Cauao at Rome
Homo Again.
New Yobk, July 6. Among the pas-
S3nger3 who arrived here, to-day, on. the
French steamer La Bretagne, was Mgr.
Bernard O'Reilly, who left here eight yearIB'
ago to champion the Irish question in Rome,
and who faithfully- defended it at the
Vatican. While abroad Mgr. O'Reilly
wrote the life of Pope Leo XIH in
French and English, and also the life
of the famous Archbishop of Tuam. The
Monsignor said that the English are mak
ing every endeavor to influence the Vatican
on the Irish question, but that the friends
of Ireland are constantly on the outlook,
and have thus far, with the aid of the Pope,
managed to hold the upper hand.
The general public, he said, have no idea
of the moves the English are making, as
only the big ones come to the surface. The
controversy between Dr. Bnrtsell and Arch
bishop Corrigan, he said, concerning Dr.
McGlynn, as he was not in Rome when it
came up, he could say nothing further than
that it was better understood here than
across the water.
QUIETLY OBSERVED.
The National Educators Fass tho Day la
Sight-Seeing at St. FnoL
St. Paul, Minn., July 6. To-day waa
quietly devoted to rest and sight-seeing by
those of the attendants on the National Ed
ucational Association Convention who had
already arrived, and several hundred more
were received by the local committee at
their Endicott Arcade headquarters and
promptly assigned to quarters. The only
thing like a meeting was a lecture by Prof.
Alexander Winchell, of Michigan Univers
ity, on the subject "Is Evolution Godless?"
which was delivered by request to a great
crowd at the House of Hope Presbyterian
Church.
The regular convention will be called tq
order Tuesday, but the Educational Coun4
cil continuea its icssijus to-morrow.
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