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FORTY-i'lbTH YEAR.
BEAVER in BLAZE.
That Congressional Scandal Has
Now Raised Excitement to
a Fever Heat.
THE CHARGES OF BOODLE
Are Supported by the Confessions
and Affidavits of tbo Ac
cased Delegates.
M'DOWELL REFUSES TO CONSENT
To a Kew Conference or the Withdrawal
of His Kame as a Candidate Under
Any Circumstances.
CALL FOE THE COMMITTEE MEETING,
Which
Will M:ke a Complete Invtstlratloa
all the Accusation and Decide u t,o
the Count j'i Course.
of
SOME DECIDEDLT EEKSITIOSAL IKTEEVIEWS
The allegations of bribery in connection
with the nomination for Congress in the
3eaver- Bntler- Lawrence - Mercer district
hare raited a tempest One delegate has
made an affidavit, and others have issued
sensational statements. The official call for
the investigation has been promulgated.
rsrxciAL telegram: to the dirfatcim
New Brighton, July 12. Bearer
county, and in fact the entire Congressional
district, is now in a fever heat of excite
ment concerning the nomination of Major
McDowell. As exclusively announced in
to-day's Dispatch the official call for the
investigation has been issued. It is as fol
lows: To the Members of the Republican County Com
mittee: Charges of corruption having been made
publicly through the press against certain
members of the Beaver County Congressional
delegates at the delegate cenvention recently
beld at New Castle. Fa., you are requested to
meet at the arbitration room in the Court
House, Beaver, Pi, Saturday the 19th day of
July, at 2 o'clock P. M., to take such action in
relation thereto as may be considered ei
pedident, and to attend to such other and gen
eral business as may be brought before the
committee. A. P. Marshall,
Chairman.
McDowell Will Kever Withdraw.
Major McDowell asserted positively this
afternoon that no matter what was done or
what wer proved in connection with the
alleged purchase of the three Townsend con
ferees he would under no circumstances
withdraw or consent to a new conference.
The most important development of the
day, however, was the sworn confession of
one of the boodle delegates in the form of an
affidavit. John B. Tate is the individual
in question. He made a clean breast of the
matter, sparing no single detail of the trans
action. After this was done and it was pnt in
writing he proceeded to the office of Justice
Piper and swore to the truth of his story,
and here it is:
The Affidavit of Delegate Tate.
I, John K. Tate, one of the conferees from
Beaver county In the late Congressional confer
ence, do make the following statement of my
own free will: On Wednesday, July 2, 1890. Ed
ward Shaffer and Tom Downing, two of
the Beaver county conferees, approached
me on the street In New Castle with
this propositioa. That If I would join them in
casting my vote for Alexander McDowell in
stead of for Charles C Townsend they
would see that I received 25a I replied,
"Caa't you make it S3U0? One of them
replied that he would see. By the
above question I thought to discour
se their proposition. We conversed farther
about the matter for awhile and then the sub
ject Cropped. They wanted me to cast my vote
on a certain ballot with them lor McDowell,
but I refused to do so. Later in the even
ing as Shaffer. Duerr, another Beaver con
feree. Donning and myself were walking
up street in Newcastle William Wallace, an
attorney of that place, approached. We
walked into a side street, where Mr. Wallace
aid that if we wonld vote for McDowell he
would give us $1,200, He told me then and
there that he would
Write a Chrrk for 81,000
payable to me; that he had only about 100 or
COO in cash about him. 1 said that X wouldn't
go into the arrangement without the money.
He said hi" wonld see me before the conven
tion, or that he wonld have it for me after
the convention adjourned. He failed to see
me that night, and we did not vote for McDow
ell that night as a result. I did not see
Mr. Wallace again until noon on Thursday. I
was up near Wallace's office in company with
Downing when he said to me that Wallace
wanted to see me. I went into Wallace's
office. Downing remarking that he wanted to
see another party. While I was talking with
Wallace. Downing returned. Then Wallace
said: "I've got the cash right here," and he
produced four envelopes, in each or which he
said there was f300. I then and there promised
to vote for McDowell. Previous to that time I
bad made no promise to vote for McDowell.
Wallace wanted to know if we would change
our votes from Townsend to McDowell on the
first ballot after assembling. "Do it on
the first ballot and be done with it," were
his words. I objected and said that it ought to
be done on the secend or third ballot. He
said: "All right; I'll have it fixed on the third
ballot." In
Consideration of ThU Promise
of Mr. Wallace I voted for McDowell that
eight. After we got to Beaver Falls Downing
handedme an envelope in which there were
1645. After we came out of the convention
halt Shaffer told me that he had the money.
Wallace told me In his office that be wonld
leave the money in a certain saloon not far
from the convention halL I do not know where
the extra $310 came from which was in my
envelope.
This affidavit is signed by John B. Tate and
gworn to before a justice of tho peace.
SGeorge N. McCain is in the district in
vestigating the matter for the Philadelphia
' "Prtss. His account of the discovery of the
transaction bears out in detail that first given
in The Dispatch from "Washington sev
eral days ago. He telegraphs his paper as
follows:
r " The Detail of the Discovery.
yTJiere were so many indications that
.Downing, Shaffer and Tate had been cor
'rupted that some iriemfs of Captain Town-
wad la Beaver Palls, in New Brighton and
Beaver determined to probe the matter
to the bottom, and in this they resorted
to subterfuge with the greatest success.
Pour gentlemen, one of whom was Dr. H.
S. McConnell, of New Brighton, a neighbor
of Captain Townsend, and another, Mr. B.
S. Kennedy, drove out on Friday night
last to the home of Thomas Downing, in
North Sewickley township.
The party reached the farm house about
11 o'clock and routed Downing from bed.
When he met the party be was informed
that they had called on him to learu juit
how much he had received for his action in
helping to sell out Captain Townsend and
the Beaver delegation. Downing at first was
inclined to deny that there was any financial
consideration, but when pressed, confessed
to his visitors that he had received a cash
consideration for the vote which he cast
for McDowell. He said that Lawyer
William Wallace had promised him $1,200,
and that a prominent merchant of New Cas
tle had supplemented this amount with
fl.000 more. Wallace left the money for
them in a saloon nnder the Opera Home in
New Cattle, and the rest of the money was
left in another saloon at or near the Foun
tain House.
Front a Premlnent Politician.
Downing said that he understood that the
$1,000 came into the merchant's hand from
one of the most prominent politicians in
Lawrence connty. He said that when they
divided the money instead of $2,200 there
was only ?1,9S0. Somebody had taken $250
from the package, presumably as commis
sion for the transaction of the business.
The three. Downing, Shsffer and Tate,
each received $G50. Of this share Downing
said that he had given Duerr $250 to keep
his mouth shut
On Sunday afternoon last three gentle
men, one of whom was Dr. McConnell,
drove up to Freedom and had a
long talk with Duerr. the man who
got mixed and therefore lost his share
of the boodle. Duerr in a half-hearted
way denied that he had been in the
deal to sell out Beaver county. He finally
got tangled up, a chronic failing, apparent
ly, and confessed that Downing had given
him $250.
When pressed for a further statement he
said that he couldu' t talk any more then,
but if his visitors would call on Tuesday he
could give them some additional informa
tion, as Downing was coming to visit him
on Monday with some more money. When
asked why Downing was furnishing him
with money Duerr replied: "So that I won't
tell anybody that he voted lor McDowell."
This last remark was made when Mr. Duerr
was in a very tangled state of mind.
Downing' Story Corroborated.
On Sunday night the same party of gen
tlemen called on Conferee Edward Shaffer,
at his home in the upper part, of Beaver
Falls. He confessed to them that he had
received money for bis vote and described
how it had been delivered to him through
Wallace's band. His description of the
transaction coincided with the confession
made by Downing. The fourth man, John
B. Tate, was not seen, but on Thursday
night last he voluntarily called on Dr. Mc
Connell at New Brighton and gave him a
full history of the case.
Tate said that he knew how great a wrong
had been done and he was willing to do all
he could to remedy jt His.stateroent was
on the same line with the confessions of
Downing and Shaffer and the utterances of
Duerr.
The statement
a comparatively
ax roller by
Dr. McConnell.
of Tate, who is
young man and an
occupation, made to
was substantially
the same as his affidavit, which was made
subsequently. A call was made upon the
repentant delegate by the correspondent
Tate is a heavily built msn about 31
years of age with a light mustache. He is
intelligent and a good talker, but he is
greatly perturbed and excited over the
position in which he finds himself. He did
not deny a single statement made by him in
his talk with Dr. McConnell the night
previous, instead he emphasized some' of
them anew. He said:
His Conscience Has Troubled Htm.
"I wouldn't care if it wasn't that I went
back on Townsend. I never thought of
such a thing until I was faced directly
with the proposition, even then
I wouldn't agree to it, but when
Wallace in his office displayed the money
I gave my consent. Such a sum of money
was a great temptation to a man with
others depending on him, and who had been
in pretty hard straits for a year. It's
useless to say that I regret the whole thing
now that it is done, and I appreciate its full
signincance, out i can conscientiously say
that I haven't had a minute's peace since I
took that money."
Just before dark Edward Shaffer, another
of the conferees involved, was seen at his
store, on Seventh avenue, near the
western boundary line of the city of
Beaver Falls. Shaffer is a grocer in a
small way and lives in a pretty house next
door the one-story building used as the
store. He is a tall, slender man with a
flowing brown mustache, and is about 40
years of age. He sat on a flour barrel with
his feet against a molasses barrel and during
the interview chewed a bit of wood, biting
pieces from it every few minutes. He was
nervous and excited.
ShnflVr May Blake Some Revelations.
"If vou've got the story that von say you
have," he said, after the correspondent had
explained the object ol his visit, "then
tbere's no use in my saying anything.
If it's a penitentiary offense then there
are a lot who will have to take it together.
I'm sick and tired of the whole business. I
wish to God I had never known anything
about politics. This thing has worried my
wife so that she can't eat or sleep." As he
spoke he nodded toward the door ontside of
which, on the flagstone walk, a pale-laced
little woman was pacing restlessly to and
fro and nervously weaving a piece of cord
through her fingers.
"If there is going to be any trouble for
anybody over this you can bet vour life that
there will be some lively revelations about
other political deals in this district. I
won t give anytnmg in ,the way of a state
ment. I way trying to throw the blame
on somebody else and so I'll keep my head
shut"
BABAT0GA IS SELECTED.
Tha National Educational Association Will
Meet nt the Watering Place.
St. Paul, July 12. Great interest has
been manifested in the next meeting place
of the National Educational Association,
and it has been practically determined to
hold the next session at Saratoga, N. Y.
State Superintendent McElroy, of
Oregon, has extended an official and ear
nest invitation to the officers and members
or the National Association to hold their
meeting in 1694 at Portland, Ore. Superin
tendent Gault of the Washington schools,
is heartily co-operating in this effort This
move to bold the next session at Portland is
met with approbation by the delegates
recently assembled in St Paul, and the ef
fort will no doubt be successful.
Superintendent McElroy has already re
ceived the heartiest assurances of encour
agement and assistance from the transcon
tinental lines of railway and from many
other lines represented by the several pas
senger railway aasociations now represented
here. i "
IN A MANIAC'S GRASP.
FRIGHTFUL EXPERIENCE pF A NORTH
WESTERN ENGINEER.
A Fireman Become. Suddenly Insane and
Makes a Murderous Attack Upon His
Companion Toe Wild Rids on a Through
Train Overpowered at Last,
rsractu. telegram to tm sisrATca.t
Janesvtllb, Wis., July 13. One bun
dred passengers thundered toward death on
the Chicago and Northwestern through ex
press .north of this city to-day. Over
switches that were clanged shut barely in
time to keep the train from destruction,
along stretches of track where other trains
were rushed into side tracks anj out of dan
ger by frightened train men, who realized
something to he wrong, and past depot plat
forms where people watched in wonder,
the train sped without a pause.
On the floor of 'the tender lay Engineer
Bteve Uotalllnir. a man of massive build.
fiowerless in the grasp of a maniac. The
nsane man bis face blackened by coal
dust, bis clothing stripped almost from his
body in the life and death struggle, and his
shoulders covered with blood brandished a
wrench, which he had clutched
from the engine tool box. Both
his arms were in the grasp of
the almost despairing man beneath him,
but men on the depot platform at Clyman,
one of the towns through which the train
shot, could see that he had nearly ireed
himself nnd that in another moment, unless
some help should come, the murderous blow
of the wrench would fall.
The maniac was Engineer Hotalling's fire
man, O. L. Hastings. Near Water town he
had stepped from the cab to coal up. He
did not return' and Engineer Hotalling
reached back from his seat, pulled aside, the
cab curtain and looked out As the curtain
moved aside Hastings bounded in from the
tender; his face was distorted as if in agony
and there was in his eyes a look which En
gineer Hotalling could only liken to that of
a wild beast He clutched the engineer
about the neck and threw him headlong to
the swaying footboard. There the two
struggled as the train dashed on under a full
head of steam.
One time the engineer all bnt dropped to
the rails beneath. He recovered himself
by a desperate effort, but could do nothing
more than to save himself from the blows of
the ins.ine man's weapon. The engine Ieit
without fresh fuel, was slowly losing steam,
but still rushed on at a rate that could mean
nothing less than a fearful tragedy at the
first switch left unturned. As the train swept
past Ciyman without stopping, however,
the passengers and train crew realized that
something was wrong and a party hurried
forward. Writhing and struggling along
the blocks of coal on the tender, they saw
the engineer and his maniac assailant
Hastings was overpowered and taken to
the baggage car. A moment afterward he
fainted nnd consciousness did not return
until 12 hours later. The intensely hot
weather, made more trying bv the tempera
ture of the cab, is given as the canse of his
insanity, and there are fears that he cannot
recover.
LAWYER THOMPSON'S SUICIDE.
Ill Health is the Only Came so far At,.
signed far the Deed.
rsrzcui. telegram to the dispatch.i
Philadelphia, July 12. The news
that H. C. Thompson, until recently solici
tor of the Beal Estate Title Insurance Com
pany, of this citv, bad shot himself in Jer
sey City created great surprise here.
Mr. Thompson's residence is at Bev
erly, N. J. It is situated on "the""river
bahk just bejow Warren street. From its
porches a beautiful view up and down the
river can be obtained. It is large, of much
architectural beauty and is surrounded by
prettily laid-out grounds. Everything
marks'it as the residence of a man of taste
and culture.
Charles D. Thompson, his eldest son,
seemid very much unnerved to-day, and
answered all questions in a low husky voice.
"I am afraid, said he, "that the next news
from Jersey City will be the tidings of
father's death. What makes it so much
more distressing for us is the fact
that last Wednesday my mother and
sister sailed for Europe on the Ohio.
It was immediately after seeing them off
that father started on this trip to New York.
When he did not return on Thursday my
brother, H. C. Thompson, Jr., went over-
Friday morning, bnt could find no trace of
him. What reason he had for the act I
don't know. He has been suffering from
diabetes for some time and this made him
very low spirited. In addition, he has been
overworked of late."
Craig D. Bitchie, President of the Beal
Estate Title Insurance and Trust Company,
said that Mr. Thompson had been solicitor
for the company for over five years. He
was also a director of the company. In
May he handed in his resignation, giving
as his reason his continued ill health. At
that time Mr. Bitchie told him that he was
expected to finish up all cases then on hand.
To this he assented, and in consequence the
company had not elected any one to succeed
him.
BOTH ABE PREACHERS.
A Highly Sensational Divorce Suit In Which
n Pennsylvania Figures.
Wilmington, O., July 12. A minister
who is well known in Western Pennsyl
vania is on the defensive in a very sen
sstional divorce case now in progress
here. It is the suit of Mary V.
Andrews against William M. An
drews, now residing at Blanchester. Both
are ministers. The plaintiff has charge of
the TJniversallst congregation at Cuba and
Farmer's station, in this county, and at
Washington Court House, in Fayette
Couuty, and the defendant officiates for the
same denomination at Blanchester, Ed-
....vtlla onri .Tpffprcnnville.
The wife charges cruelty and inordinate
jealousy and the husband has a cross peti
tion making a charge which the wife says is
the result of bis jealous nature. On the
stand she denied her guilt and testified to
various kicks and blows she had received
from the defendant and many cruel remarks
he had passed. She alsocbarged her husband
with appropriating church funds.
Mr. Andrews entered a deuial of crnelty
and testified that his wife often beat him
with a cane. He also swore that his wife
bad on two or three occasions found pocket
books containing $35 eacb, but the last time
she found one he discovered that the money
had been stolen by his wife from a honse
wlire they had attended a funeral.
Mr. Andrews has preached at Claysbnrg,
Du Bois and Washington in Pennsylvania,
and in towns of several other States
OVER 2,000 LOCKED OUT.
The Clothing; Cutters of New York Placed
on the Defensive.
New York. July 12. Over 2,000 cloth
ing cutters and others of the Knights of
Labor were locked out at noon to-dav in the
shops of 80 clothing manufacturers
in this city. This course was de
cided upon by the clothing manu
facturers to comply with one of the
bylaws of the association, rather than for
the purpose of precipitating a fight between
the association and the Knignts or Labor.
The bylaws provide that the association
shall uphold any member in trouble with
its employes, and this lockout is to comply
with the bylaws in the case or Benjamin &
Co., boycotted by the Knights of Labor.
The locked-ont men are expected to return
to work Monday noon, sfter signing cer
tificates to the effect that thev do not belong
l to any organization.
PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1890.
STANLEY A BENEDICT.
The Marriage of the Bold African
Explorer Celebrated With
A MAGNIFICENCE ALMOST EOTAL
The Nobility and tho Kabblo Alike Tarn
Oat In Fall Force.
MB. GLADSTONE ONE OF THE GUESTS.
This.sar.ds Will Barely be Rained by the PotaU Blight
In Ireland.
Henry M. Stanley and Mill Dorothy
Tennant were yesterday afternoon pro
nounoed man and wife with great ceremony.
The couple are now enjoying the honeymoon
at a rural castle placed at their disposal.
IBT CABLE TO TOE DISPATCH.
London, July 12 Copyright Miss
Dorothy Tennant became Mrs. Henry M.
Stanley this alternoon before an interested
and arlstocratio throng in Westminster
Abbey, which was surrounded by a tumultu
ous and eager mob. The ceremony was not
advertised to take place until 2 o'clock, but
as early ns 10 crowds began to gather abont
the Abbey, and at 1 o'clock both sides of
the pavement from the Square to Victoria
street were completely blocked.
Every available position was seized upon
by thousands of spectators eager to obtain a
glimpse of the explorer and his bride. Be
fore 1 o'clock the guests began to arrive,
not at the main entrance, as the crowd ap
peared to expect, but by way of Dansyard
and through the cloisters of the old monas
tery. THE GROOM UNRECOGNIZED.
Stanley arrived shortly be ore 2 o'clock
and passed unrecognized into the yard. Im
mediately after Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone
drove up in an open carriage and were an.
plauded to the echo, and scarcely was the
tumult of their reception stilled when the
bride's carriage suddenly swept up to the
western door, which until that moment had
not been opened, and before the waiting
throng was mlly aware of her presence, had
passed into the abbey.
Six boys and six girls of the little waifs
from Mgged school whom Miss Tennant
had befriended, all wearing white rosettes
and their best clothes, were admitted by the
cloister entrance, and the rest ol the wedding
party followed promptly. At 2 o'clock the
choir marched up the aisle followed by
Bishop of Bipon and the canons, while the
great organ filled the abbey with sound.
Stanley met his bride at the altar. He
looked worn and ill and leaned heavily on a
stout ebony stick. Miss Tennant, stately
and tall, came in on her brother's arm.
Canon Farrar opened the service. Then
the Bishop of Bipon, coming down from the
altar to the steps, the two plighted their
troth.
THE BRIDE IN TEAKS.
The tears came into the bride's eyes, but
she bore herself with fortitude and made the
responses in a clear soft tone. A ter the
ring was placed in its proper place bride
and bridegroom walked to the altar, accom
panied bv Mr.Tennant and five groomsman
Messrs. Parke, Bonny, Nelson, Stairs a.'"
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VGJUWU .uu iut.i raa aiugiu auu LuaViU,,.'
lor-halt an hour, ur. .sutler matin)- m, avA,
dress, bringing tne ceremony to a cioe.
The bride's costume' was wonderfully
effective, being an exact reproduction of
the magnificent dress of the Tudor period.
A competent expert informs me that the
pettt icoat and long court train were of
white duchess satin and corded silk, while
the bodice was of white satin, trimmed with
lace. The front of the skirt and corsage
were embroidered with white silk and
pearls, while the edge of the petticoat and
train were trimmed with a garland of
orange blossoms. The bodice was set off
with a high medici collar embroidered
with pearls.
The bridal yeil of tulle was fastened to
her hair by diamond stars and snrmounted
byawreith of natural orange blossoms.
Her shoes wore of silver leather, with dia
mond bucklet. Bound her neck she wore a
magnificent diamond necklace, the gift of
Sir W. Mackinnon, and Irom this depended
an enameled miniature of the Queen, the
gift of that estimable lady.
DIAMONDS WERE NUMEROUS.
Among the ornaments she wore were a
diamond aigrette and a diamond brooch, the
gift of the bridegroom. Her long train was
borne by her two nephews, Master Leopold
and Harold Myers, dressed as pages in the
costume of the period of Charles I., white
satin cavalier suits and large white hats,
with ostrich leather plumes. The two
bridesmaids were Miss Silvia Myers, the
niece of the bride, and Miss Finlay, two
little girls who looked very pretty in white
satin sacques, with overskirt of crepe lisse
and broad sashes. They wore narrow roses
tied with white ribbon.
Among those present at the ceremony
were Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, the Baroness
Burdett Coutts, Mr. Burdett Contts, the
Lord Chancellor, Mr. and Mrs. Ashmead
Bartlett, Sir W. and Lady Harcourt, Sir B.
Temple, M. P.; Mr. and Mrs. Harrv Law
son, M. P.; Sir Frederick Leighton, Sir
Louis and Lady Pelly, the Duke and
Duchess of Abercorn, Sir Charles Bussell,
Lord Arthur Hill, Sir John Swinborn, M.
P.; Sir William Mackinnon, Viscount
Lymington, M. P.; American Minister and
Mrs. Lincoln nnd something like COO others
of Briton's nobility and gentry.
A TREMENDOUS CRUSH.
There was a tremendous rush and crush
after the ceremony, and Mrs. Tennant,
among others, only found her carriage after
a long delay, with the result that she ar
rived at her house in Richmond Terrace be-
nind many ol her guests. The house is not
an ideil one for big social innctions, but
everything passed off well. 1 he guests went
straight upstairs to the rooms in which the
presents were laid out, and having observed
and admired, proceeded to the garden
where a crack military band played for a.
couple of hours.
In accordance with the new fashion, there
was no wedding breakfast, but refreshments
were provided at three buffets placed under
large tents. A large proportion of those
present in Westminster Abbey proceeded Jo
Richmond Terrace, among them Mr. and
Mrs. Gladstone and his political lieutenant,
John Morley.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley and Mrs. Tennant
received their guests in a marquet in the
garden, and for half an hour they were kept
bnsjly engaged, but at the end of that time
Stanley, pleading fatieue, went into the
bouse,accompanied by his wife and Surgeon
Parke. Stanley really looked ill, and the ru
mor quickly spread that the honevmoon
journey would have to be postponed. At
4:30 o'clock, however, the bride and bride
groom started in a close carriage lor Water
loo station, and left at 6 o'clock for Bomsey,
in Hampshire.
Great efforts had been made to keep the
time of the arrival at Bomsey secret, and
the proposed official reception by the Mayor
and corporation had been declined on the
score of the bridegoom's illness.. But the se
cret was not well kept, and when the train
arrived at 7:SQ o'clock a big crowd of coun
try folk had assembled. Honors usually
reserved for royalty were accorded the
couple. Th,e common people were excluded
from the station and the country constabu
lary were in attendance to preserve order.
A few local notabilities on the platform
set an example of rudeness, which whs sub
sequently followed by those outside, by"
rushine to the car when the train had
stopped, and thrusting their heads through I
the windows in order to get a glimpse of the
famous couple, and Stanley's lace plainly
showed his annoyanoe. When they had
m e? Pa'r horse carriage, waiting out
side, the crowd pressed around so persist
ently that the police had forcibly to clear a
passage.
It was after 8 o'clock when Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley arrived at Metchet Court a beauti
ful 3Iirabethian mansion placed at their
disposal for the honeymoon by Lady Ash
burton. They were received by the entire
household in great etate and condacted to a
suite of rooms set apart for their nse.
TORIES IN A TANGLE.
ALL OF THEIR CHERISHED PLANS MEET
WITH DEFEAT.
Only One Measure of, Any Importance lias
Been Passed by Parliament Tho HumlN
latlon or the Ministry Now Compute
The Future Proarnmrn-.
rr CABLE TO THE DISPATCn.1
London, July 12. The humiliation of
Salisbury's muddling Ministry was com.
pleted this week by the formal abandon
meutofthe remaining important measures
in their legislative programme. Of the
principal bills referred to in the Queen's
speech attheopening of thesession only one,
th'at for improving the laws relating to arti
sans' dwellings, will have become a law
when the session ends, and that measure
would have shared the general fate but for
the good will of the Liberals. Several other
bills and projects Introduced since the
Queen's speech have also been sacrificed.
The failure could not well have been more
complete, and it is positively astounding in
view of the fact that, nominally at any rate,
the government still has a large parliamen
tary minority. The only explanation, and
it is the true one, is that the ministerial,
ists know that they are in a mi
nority in the country, and there
fore dare not attempt to force their
measure through Parliament because such
action might result so disastrously as to
leave them no alterative but to dissolve Par
liament They can and do now say that the
Irish land bill and other fine schemes are
merely deferred until the next session when
if the people will only wait they shall wit
ness prodigies of legislation and the rout of
the wicked Gladstonians.
This policy ol make-believe has kept the
Government going for a long time now, and
it may serve to keep them in office perhaps
another six months. 'Unless the Ministers
again change their minds, which is by no
means improbable, the new session will,
commence at the end of November. Within'
six months from that date this kingdom
ought to be iu the throes of a general
election.
THE PSIR0EBS AS A CRACK SHOT.
Ens-land's Future Queen Hits the Ball's.Eye
Without Any Trouble.
TBT CABLX TO IHI DtSFATCB.1
London, July 12. The Prince and
Princess of Wales were unable to attend
Stanley's wedding, owing to a long stand
ing engagement to open the National Ilifle
Association's annual meetingat the new camp
at Bisley, whither the riflemen have been
compelled to move because their shooting at
Wimbledon, with its occasional accompani
ment of stray bullets, deteriorated the value
of the Duke of Cambridge's property in
district The ceremony consisted in the
Princess firing the first "shot, and very pret
tily she performed it
A new magazine rifle was supplied for her
i;-v, ana careiuuy monmea on a stand to
Y vent kicking. Sir Henry. Halford, tha
lamous shot, sighted the rifle to 500 yards
range. The Princes pulled the trigger and,
heigh, presto,' the marker, signaled the
bnllseye. The royal markswoman was
uprorionsly cheered and no one ventured to
snicker or in any way to throw doubt upon
her performance.
DYING OF STABVATI0N.
Two Thousand Arabs Made Destitute
by
the British Policy.
IBT CABLE TO THE PISPATCH.
London, July 12. Two thousand Arab
men, children and women are dying of
starvation just ontside Suakim. The town
is under British protection, but the British
Government, who waged war upon the un
happy people, destroyed their crops, flocks
and herds, aud thereby brought about the
present misery, says it can do nothing for
them.
The Aborigines' Protection Society issue
an appeil for money to help the victims,
but it is feared hundreds will be dead
before succor can reach them.
ASSASSINATION CHEAPER.
Bulgarian Patriots Who Do Not Want to
Prnslon Ex-Kins; Milnn.
IBT CABLE TO THE DlSPATCn.1
London, July 12. Prince Ferdinand, of
Bulgaria, is still taking the waters at Carls
bad. The report is revived that a wife has
been found for him, but the lady's name is
still a mystery. King Milan declines to
leave 8ervia, and the impression strength
ens that he is planning mischief. He is
certainly in want of money, and the radical
Government is being urged to bribe Him to
return to Paris, even it it costs 600,000
francs.
Some patriots hint, not obscurely, that
assassination would be easier and cheaper.
BTJIN TO THOUSANDS.
No Doubt That tho Potato Bligbt Is Preva
lent In Ireland.
CBT CABLX TO THE DISPATCH.1
London, July 12. There is now no
doubt that the potato disease has attacked
the crop in the south and west of Ireland.
Tne district most-affected up to the present is
the country arouud Skibbereen andSchul),
county Cork, which the famine of 1818
ravaged so terribly.
There is no fear of a famine now, but the
disease means ruin to thousands.
WHEAT ADVANCING.
TJnfavornble Weather Has Aflectnd the Crop
Prosprcts Throuchout Europe.
IBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, July 12. A fortnight of al
most daily rain in England and equally un
favorable weather in many European dis
tricts has rendered corn prospects anything
but bright, and the price of wheat is ad
vancing at every market, holders .being
strong in their demands.
LINCOLN MAT RESIGN.
The Minister's Wife and Daughters Go to
Chicago Next Month.
CBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.:
London, July 12. Mrs. Lincoln, wife
of the American Minister, with her daugh
ters, will leave London for their home in
Chicago early in August. The Minister
will not take his leave before November,
and it is hinted that he will then resign his
position.
CONSTANTINOPLE ON EIRE.
One
Thousand Shops and Bouses Have
Already Been Destroyed.
Constantinople, July 12. A great fire
is now raging iu the Stamboul quarter of
this city. The conflagration began in a
timber yard, and the flames, fanned by a
strong wind, spread rapidly to the adjo'in
ng property.
Fully 1,000 houses and shops have already
been destroyed.-, , , ,
INHARRISON'SHANDS.
The Amended Silver Bill Passes the
Honse of Representatives
BT A STBICTLY PARTISAN VOTE.
A Enmor That the President Hay Decide to
Teto the Measure.
FEDERAL ELECTION LAW PE0SPE0TS.
A Orowlag Sentiment Ataosg the Senttcrs In Faior
cf the Scheme.
The sliver bill has now passed both
branches of Congress, and is at the disposi
tion of President Harrison. The vote in
the Hous'j was strictly on party lines.
There is a report that the measure may be
vetoed, bnt such action is not considered
probable.
ITBOM X STAVr COIIBESPOirDEXT.I
WASniNOTOa, July 12. As forecast in
these telegrams, the House followed closely
in the wake of the Senate, and the compro
mise silver bill reported by the conference
committee of the two bouses was passed this
afternoon by a vote of 122 to 90, each mem
bT voting adhering strictly to his party.
No time was allowed for buncombe speeches
in the Senate, where several days of vain
able time was consamed without changing a
single vote. The measure, under the effect
ive rules of the House, was pressed to a
prompt passage.
Now the question recurs, what will the
President do with it? There are rumors
abroad saying that he will interpose his
veto, but this wonld be unprecedented, in
view of the fact that not a single Bepubll
can in either branch of Congress voted
against it, though some were not satisfied
with it
ALMOST SURE TOSION IT.
Notwithstanding the rumors, which are
said to have their origin in words spoken in
the White House, no one appears to think
the President can do anything safely but
attach his signature to the bill without any
explanatory phrases or unnecessary ser
monizing. When the measure was called up in the
House to-day Chairman Conger, of the Car
riage Committee, took the floor and said
that the bill presented in the report was (as
all conference bills must be) in the nature
of a compromise. It was not just such a
bill as he thought Congress ought to pass.
It was not just such a bill, perhaps, as an v
member of the House would like to pass if
he were preparing a measure to state his
convictions.
But it was a bill that would answer the
demands of the country, that would answer
the demands of the silver miners, that
would answer the demands qt the agricul
turists, the laborers and the business men of
the country. The gentleman from Missouri
(Mr. Bland) wonld tell the House that tho
bill demonetized silver.
A DIRECT CONTRADICTION.
It did nothing of the kind. On the con
trary the whole tenor of the measure re
mouetizrd silver. An additional circula-
!nn hnri
been demanded. The bill' would
give the country at the present prices ot sil
ver an ltn.ieai.ejf 557,7o0,000 a year. If
silver went up to a parity with gold it
would give an increase of $70,000,000.
The pending measure had been ae-reed
upon by Bepnblicans only. It bad been
passed in the Senate bv Bepublican votes
only, and it might pass here by Bepublican
votes only. It would then go where- it
would be signed by a Bepublican President,
and thence it would go to a country that
would give such a Bepublican endorsement
that many gentlemen on the other side
would not be here to vote in the next Con
gress. Mr. Cutcheon, of Michigan, regarded the
conference bill as a vast improvement over
the monstrosity sent here by the Senate,
which proposed to make the United States
mints the dumping grounds lor all the sil
ver of the world fur the benefit of specula
tion. It was also an improvement over the
bill as it originally passed the House. It
would give the country an additional cur
rency ot metal and paper for the uses of
business.
A VOICE FROM OREGON.
Mr. Hermann, of Oregon, said that he
favored the bill. Although it did not con
tain the ullest recognition of the equality
of gold and silver as money metals it was
a concession on both sides of the question,
and it was a victory for the popular de
mand. It was a long step toward free coin
age. He was no doubt that after the tall
elections there would be a strong representa
tion here on the line of the free coinage ot
silver.
Mr. Bland, of Missouri, concurred with
the gentleman in hoping that the next
House would be a free coinage House. But
that House would be composed of those
who advocated free coinage and who stood
by their colors. It would not be composed
of the Bepublican party, which, by gag
rule, had voted down and stifled free coin
age. II free coinage came at all, it would
come from that party which has stood firm
to the flag of free coinage and which bad
not surrendered its principles at the
back of Wall street He denied lhat the
bill was the result ot a free and fair confer
ence. It was the result of secret meetings
of the Bepublican conferees.
MR. BLAND'S IDEA.
The bill was one which practically de-
monetized silver. It was, a sugar-coated
quinine pill. On the first reading it seemed
that the Secretary was to purchase 4,600,000
ounces every montn, out wnen a man rolled
the pill around in his mouth he began to
taste the bitterness of "or so "luuch thereof
as may be offered." ,
There could be traced in this measure a
stealthy and Italian hand. The bill sur
rendered every principle ot bi-metalism. It
surrendered free coinage. It made a com
bination with the bullion speculators of
Wall street. In the interest of Wall street
It departed from the legal ratio and changed
that ratio from 16 to 1 to 20 to 1. To chaujfe
the ratio was to pile up so much capital in
the treasury at the expense of the people
and irfthe interest of Wall street and the
bullion owners, and he denounced it as a
fraud and a cheat on the people who were
demanding the ratio of 16 to 1. The bill
made silver simply a commodity to be
measured by gold, upon which money shall
be issued at its gold value.
an international agreement.
Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, favored the re
port, and hoped that an international agree
ment could oe reached that would establish
a fixed ratio between silver and gold. Mr.
Williams, of Illinois, contended that the
committee of conference had overstepped its
jurisdiction, and bad acted upon matters
upon which, under the rules of tbe House,
it had no authority to act
In reply to some remarks by Mr. Allen,
of Mississippi, Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, said
that since the close ot the war everything
had appreciated in value except the Demo
cratic party.
Mr. Peel, of Arkansas, suggested that the
Democratic party had increased somewhat
in value recently in the State of Ohio.
Mr. Grosvenor replied that while the
Democratic administration of Ohio mightbe
a good one, under it the taxable value of
property had depreciated.
AN OUTSIDE QUESTION.
Mr. Bland inquired whether tbe gentle
man wonid like to see Mr. Foraker Gov-
ernor again in order that property in Ohio
might be appreciated.
Mr. Grosvenor retorted that he would
rather see Mr. Foraker Governor than his
friend from Missouri. .
Mr. Bland No doubt that is your taste.
Mr. Grosvenor That is my taste and I
stand by it, and I am sorry for anybody
whose taste differs from mine. Laughter
Mr.jwnsend, or Colorado, said that he
nds " Republicans had voted for
f ree 7 fin r "ff0- --utlemen on the other
side WfW fl-V JO , ;,- coinage bill
would have'" n.. ""tijn.urhm tliev
L had recognized thV JJOdn'J- i to ge't
silver legislation at this V was to go
back to the Bepubllcan party,"-.here they
had always belonged, and get it Irom that
party.
After farther debate the conference report
was agreed to by a strict party vote yeas,
122; nays, 00. v 3
A CHANGE OF RULES
TO BE RECOMMENDED BY THE 8ENATE
CAUCUS COMMITTEE.
A Determined EfTurt WIIJ be Mnde to Pass
lie Federal Election Bill McComas Slay
Not be Ilrnomlnated Because Ho Advo.
cnted the Hchemr.
Ivroh x STArr conRESroxnEirr.l
Washington, July 12. A tremendous
amount of work is being done in the inter
ests of the election bill, and the workers do
not meet with any serious obstacle. The
great'thiog to accomplish is to excite some
enthusiasm among the Senators. Those
grave and reverend gentlemen are not emo
tional and are slow to move, but there are
signs of awakening among them. The
committee of Senators appointed to con
sider by what means the Federal election
bill could be passed through the Senate, if
it is determined to take it up and press it to
passage, have been con erring during the
day. The proposition submitted Jo the next
caucus Will probably be to have a
motion made in the Senate to fix
a time for taking a vote on the
measure and to let the fight come up on this
motion. There wonld be no parliamentary
means of limiting the debate upon this re
strictive proposition, but the majority would,
if they adopted this course of procedure,
relyupon a test of physical endurance to
force a vote. They will prevent an ad
journment, and then see which party would
et tired first, at least this is one proposi
tion. This plan will in all probability be pre
sented to the next caucus fur consideration.
There will be strong opposition to it, but
just how strong is a question. It is reported
to-day that if the majority do resort to a
change of rules then they will determine to
go the lull length and wilLtake up the
apportionment bill also. Superintendent of
Census Porter and some of the Senators
have been talking over the progress ol the
work of the census, and it is said that he
has informed tbem that the census enumera
tion will be complpfed and verified in a
short time. The cauens will be held on
Monday night The committee hHsdefinitelv
decided on such a change of rules as will
permit of the calling for the previous ques
tion. A rumor that there was danger of the
defeat of the nomination of McComas, the
brilliant representative from the Cumber
land district in Maryland, on account of bis
support of the Lodge bill, is pronounced by
that gentleman to be without foundation.
Speaking of the prospects of the Lodge bill
to-day Judge Payson. of Illinois, ons of
the ablest and wisest of the members of
the House, said: "The Federal election bill
will be takeu up by the Senate and
will be passed, this is certain as anythinc
can be that has not been actually accom
plished. It is nonsense to talk of laying
back and saying that the Honse has per
formed its duty and there let it rest If
there was reason to pass the bill by the
Honse then it must become a law and be ap
plied to the elections this fait. The bill will
be passed by a party vote. Having taken
hold of the plow it will not do to stop and
look back."
A GARFIELD GATHERING.
Secretary Wisdom's Daughters and Others
nt the Residence In Mentor.
1FBOM A STATT COBBESFOXPXXT.J
Washington, July 12. The Misses
Windom, daughters of Secretary and Mrs.
Windom, left here on Thursday night to go
Mentor, O., where they are now the guests
of Mrs. Garfield. They expect to remain
through' July in that delightful Buckeye
village. Mrs. Garfield's home will be quite
gay lor the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Garfield live in Cleveland, where the
brothers practice law, Mr. James Garfield
residing with his mother on the home place.
Mrs. Stanley Brown is with her mother, and
the fiancee of James is in Mentor lor the
summer.
Then the two younger sons, who are at
college, Irving and Ahram, well grown
young men, are relieved from tbeir college
studies for the present. So that with the
charming accession they have this week re
ceived from Washington the party at Mrs.
Garfield's will be a most agreeable one.
Secretary and Mrs. Windom expect to re
main here until Congress adjourns.
JOINING THE AMERICAS.
Gronnd Broken lor the South American
Road nt Brownsville.
Brownsville, Tex., July 12. The first
practical step toward the great Pan-American
Bailway from North to South America
has just been taken here. Ground was
broken for the Corpus Christi and South
American Bailway. The first division is 160
miles long and extends from the Bio Grande
to Corpus Christi, at which point it con
nects with the railway systems of the
United States. Tbe Bio Grande is to be
bridged from here to Matamoras, and the
line extended first to the City nf Mexico
over a route several hundred miles shorter
from St. Louis, Chicago or New York than
any existing line.
From Mexico City it continues south to
the Guatemalan line and beyond. Work is
now in progress at both ends of the first di
vision, which will be completed in about
nine months. The Jleiicm and United
States authorities participated and an inter
national salute was fired across the Bio
Grande.
TOOK A NEW TURN.
Tho Freight Handlers at Toledo Join
the
Federation.
Toledo, July 12. The freight handlers
strike took a new phase to-day. The men of
the Lake Shore and the Wabash roads, the
only ones yet out, joined the Federation of
Labor. This, it is believed, will lead
to a strike of the brakejien and switchmen
of the two roads, who belong to the Feder
ation, in order to compel a yielding to tho
demands of the roads. The'roads have se
cured about 90 men to take the place of tbe
400 strikers.
THE OLD BOARD BE-ELECTED.
v
The Glassworkers nt Baltimore Hold Exec
utlve Session.
Baltimore, July 12. The Improved
Green Glass Pressers' Leagne to-day re
elected the old board of officers. The execu
tive board chosen is as follows: William J.
Maneely, James A. Hart, Bichard Burns
and Henry Hamill. of Philadelphia, and
James A. Hope of Muncie Ind. Six of the
11 comniittees have made reports.
The American Flint Glassworkers' Union
held the nsnal executive sessions to-day.
MVE CENTS.
JUST TOO INNOCENT.
The Standard Oil Company Says it is
Not a Trust and Docs
NOTHING INJURIOUS TO TEADE.
An Answer Filed to the Salt to Revoke
the Ohio Charter.
ME STATUTE OP LIMITATION. TOO.
Will be Tried by tba Corporation If the Other Fleu
Du Hot Aral).
The Standard Oil Company has filed an
answer in the Ohio Supreme Court to the
suit for the revoking or its charter. Tne
lawyers of the concern strongly aver that It
never did anything unlawful, aud that If it
did it was so long ago that the charges are
barred by the statute of limitations.
rSPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH
Columbus, July 12. M. E. Keith and
Virgil P. Kline, attorneys for the Standard
Oil Company, this evening filed iu the Su
preme Court the answer of the company in
the suit brongbt by Attorney General Wut
son to revoke iu charter. The answer ad
mits only the allegations as to the organiza
tion of the company, its purposes and sub
sequent increase iu the capital stock, and
denies all other averment, in the petition.
The company makes a direct and positive
deuial ol the allegation contained in the pe
tition of the Attorney General to the eflect
that the defendant January 2, 1882, became
a party to the trust agreement The com
pany has not, says the auswer, through its
officers, directors or stockholders, become a
party to the trust agreement, nor has it car
ried out, observed or performed the obliga
tions imposed by such agreement, and did
not become a party to a supplemental trust
agreement, as alleged iu the petition.
denial, op everything.
It is further denied that the property, real
or personal assets or business of the corpora
tions, or limited partnerships within Ohio
and mentioned in clas first of said trut
agreement, were transferred to or Tested in
the defendant, either by the corporations in
cluded in the first class ot agreement or the
individuals ot the second class. The answer
declares that the company did not issue its
stock to the trustees named in the agreement
at par value to the appraised value of the
money and property and business of several
corporations and limited partnerships in
Ohio.
Tne trustees mentioned in the agreement
do not, according to the answer, exercise
general supervision over the affairs o. the
defendant company, but its business is
managed aud controlled by a' board of di
rectors chosen by its stockholders. The de
lendant denies that the trustees are enabled
to and do control the action ot the defend
ant company in the conduct of its business,
anil the defendant denies that it has sur
rendered its corporate powers, business and
property to the trustees named.
NOTHING INJURIOUS TO TRADE.
It denies the allegation that it chooses no
directors or officers, has no capital stock and
issues no certificates ot stock, but avers that
the directors, a majority of whom are citi
zens of Ohio, are annually elected by its
stockholders, that it his capital stock for
which certificates are issued to and held by
its stockholders, and the defendant denies it
is a party to any agreement creating or con
stituting a combination and monopoly in
jurious to trade and commerce.
In the second ground for answer the
Standard Company falls oackon the statutes
of limitation for its plea, the language used
in this part of the answer being as follows:
By way of further answer and defense de
fendant says that on orabont the time alleged
in the petition, certain individuals then being
holders an downers of stock in tha .Standard
Oil Company, made and entered into with oth
ers, the several agreements set forth in the pe
tition. Tnat they did this solely in tbeir indi
vidual capacity, and iu reference to tbeir indi
vidual property, and not as officers of the di
rectors of defendant, but defendant says that
if said aciion of stockholders in becoming par
ties to
THE SEVERAL AGREEMENTS
alleged in the petition in their individual
capacity and with reference to their Individual
property shall be deemed and held by this
court to have been the corporate act of defend
ant, and if the signing of the said stock
holders of the said several agreement aforesaid,
shall be deemed and held by this Conrt to be a
canse for forfeiture of the charter of this de
fendant, then this defendant says that such act
was done and committed more than five years
before the filing ot the petition herein and
that the canse of action therefore is barred.
NEW COMPLICATIONS ARISE.
The Cloakmnkers' 'trike Still la an Unset
tied Condition.
New York, July 12. The prospect of a
speedy settlement of the cloakmakers
strike was not so bright last night as it
seemed on Friday an account of the ex
treme demand made by the cloak
cutters, operators and contractors'
unions, relative to the discharge of non
union men and the payment of wages to
the strikers for the time they have been idle
on account of the lockout.
It was decided to hold one more confer
ence Monday, and make a last attempt to
settle the strike. Meanwhile both commit
tees will confer with tbeir respective organ
ization. THE DISPATCH DIRECTORY.
Contents Classified for the Convenience of
Hasty Render.
To-day's Issue of The Dispatch consists of
20 pages, in three parts. The first contains all
the news. The other two are made up as
follows:
PART II.
Pace 9.
South PennKain? L. E. STOFIXV
Cleveland and Hill Charles T. MurkaT
A Plunger's Advice FKAXC (). C'AnpEXTErt
Stand Fast, Cralg-Royston William ISlacs
Page 10.
Cities or Bolivia Fasie B. TVabo
Heroism Unrecorded James C. PcbdT
Page 11.
To Let Column.
The Want Column.
Page 12.
The Summer Resorts.
The Militia Boys.
Page IX.
The Grand Army.
Markets by leiegraph.
Page li.
Real Estate Notices.
For bale Column.
Doings or Society
Business Cards
Local Trade News
Late News la Brief
. JOHX D. P3IXOLS
Baseball In England .
Late Diamond Gossip Charles J. FoleT
Everyday Science ASrArrWRiTt
Bathinc for Show JexMeJcx
Secret Societies.
Page IS.
Turkish Atrocities Dr. TnouASL. Write
Trlrks Even in Art V. E.S. FALE9
Press and Pulpit A COCKTRT PARSON
Our Genius Abroad ELI PIBKIX3
Page IS.
The Chartiers Valley VT. G. Kactxajs-
Three Noted Tombs Lawrence C GOODRICH
Lake Chautauqua. A SKETCH
PART III.
Page IT.
In the Congo State Georoe W. WILLIAMS
Stanley's Love Affairs EDWARD B. PHELPS
President or the World's Fair Carpenter,
In the Dark Da. Philip Wools'
Page U.
That New Jersey Pup HOWARTO Tirldwq
Women In Charities Bissie Bramble
ilreslde Ponies E. K. CHADBOCBX
Page 13.
The Iron Candlestick PATSIS
A Foot for Summer Ellice Serena
Tbe Effect of Hope ..KEV. Geoege Hodocs
a Suburban store B. W. SHorrxt.
Page 30.
Dress for an Outlug Mao
Character and Physique Shirlet.Daxbl
CJoalt of tbe MetroDolls LT.iKA'Hct.t'al
Bouse Decoration.... AC.K. CUXrosau
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