sasMase JWr r7 ppsrer 38 w- HP J D Cooitj, Chambermaids, " - CoacAmen. etc., read THE DISPATCH. The best house servants and active workers can be secured through the Classified Advertisement Columns o THIS JJISPATCH, FORTY-ITFTH TEAS. 10 HOPEFOR TIFF Unless There is, a Very Sudden Change in the Policy of , the Senate. DEMOCRATS NOW DEFIANTi While Many Republican Leaders Are Beginning to Despair. TEST SERVES EMPHATIC KOTICE That ETerj Line of the Measure Will be ' Debated at Length. A BATTLE UPON THE TIN PLATE DUTI Senator Sherman yesterday made a plea for more speed upon the tariff bill. Test replied that the Democrats would insist upon a fall discussion of every feature 01 the measure One Republican Senator, Teller, of Colorado, supported this position, and said he was trilling to stay until Decem ber, if necessaryrlo allow free debate. The tin plate duty is now under consideration. rrcox x staff cOBBEsroxDzirr. Washington, August 11. Each day that passes makes more ludicrously appar ent the "box" in which the Republicans of the Senate find themselves on account of antiquated rules, an-able, aggressive, tire less minority, and a few stiff-necked kickers tn their own party who promise to spill the entire majority in the soup dish of the minority if their peculiar notions are not respected. Senator Sherman intimated to-day that if the Democrats did not stop talking the ma jority would be forced to apply the gag in Eome way, but when Senator Vance declared the Republicans had done their full share of talking, the Ohio man was forced' to agree with him. And this is a fact. JUST FORCED TO TALK. The Republicans have been forced every day by the goading of the Democrats and the unrnly character of some of their own party to do a deal of explaining, and the able misrepresentations of their opponents often render the explanations longer than the attacks. The question that presents itself is not whether there shall be a Federal election bill, but whether there shall be any legisla tion whatever in opposition to the wishes of the Democratic minority. In the absence of any rule to shut off debate, the minority absolutely dominate the roost. If the Republicans refuse to at least at tempt to enact a rule which wonld effectn- J ally, within reason, limit debate, they would go to the country at the end of the session with the stigma upon them of having assisted to defeat tariff bill, election bill and all, out of respect for antiquated precedent. STILL ANOTHER QUESTION. If the Committee on Rules report a rule in the vein of that introduced by Senator Hoar, the question at once arises: "When will debate end on the adoption of the rule?" Senator Vest served notice to-day that the tariff bill would be fought item by item and inch by inch, regardless of the length of the session. The report of a rule limiting debate would be fought with exactly the same persistence. In fact, the Democrats would applaud the introduction of such a measure, as it would afford an agreeable diversion from the tariff, unlimited opportunity for fine speeches, and would defer tariff legislation indefin itely. With a "Tom" Reed in the chair, and some one on the floor with nerve to make motions, the situation wonld be cleared up in no time. It would be the simplest thing in the world tor the committee to report the new rale, let it be debated tor a day or two, then move the previous question. THE NEED OF A REED. Reed would simply put to a vote the nec essary motions regardless of Democratic protests. But it is doubtful If the Repub licans will have the courage to take any such aggressive step. The cry of Sherman to-day was one of despair. It was a virtual admission that nothing conld be done with out a rule limiting debate, and the answer to this was a Democratic, "defy," under which the Senator from Ohio meekly sat down. "The Republican Senators are a lot of sheep without a shepherd," was the way a stalwart member of the House put it to-day. That this indecision will probably be fatal to the tariE bill in so far as this session is concerned, is admitted by many ot the Republican Senators, PLENTY OF TARIFF NOW. "But," they say, "what of that? You have a tariff now. You hare 517 a ton on steel rails while we propose to make it til 20. "What if the present bill fail? The tariff is still amply protective, and we can put upon the Democrats the responsibility of having defeated legislation that looked to a tariff modified in many respects and re lieved of many of its inconsistencies." This is another way of looking at it, and it is about the only comfort the Repub licans get out of the situation. But mean Voile all manufactures suffer from the un certainty in regard to legislation. LlOHTNER. THE DEBATE IN DETAIL. SHERMAN'S PLEA FOR SPEED AND VEST'S TART REPLY. Drmacrnllc Jtorabmi Propoae lo Discuss Every J.lnp of ifae Bill Trllrr Willing lo fetay TJnitl December The Tin Plate Tariff" Camp Op at Cant. "WASHINGTON, August 1L Mr. Sher man spoke of the little progress that was - -.being made with the bill Nearly three weeks, he said, had been spent npon it, and not 'one-fifth of it had been disposed of. Unless Senators on the other side would be satisfied with one vote upon a question, and would then go right alon, the Senate would have to continue in perpetual ses sion.. He did not wish to see any change in the rules of the Senate if it could be avoided. But there was a duly imposed on the majority. It was responsible for the delay. although It dm not cause the delay. Sen- I W e . ' ators would have to perceive, as sensible men, that some time or other the majority would have to take the responsibility of limiting debate. There must tie some way found to get along with business. A PLKA FOR SPEED. If the other side would forego the need less repetition of amendments and of yea and nay votes, Senators might soon see day light and soon be able to go to their respect ive homes. The bill had passed the House of Representatives, and had been considered by a committee of the Senate its general outline being on a scale of protective tariff even of a high protective tariff. Repub lican Senators did not deny that. It was a tariff that would protect American indus tries and build np nearly all the industries that could be employed in this country. It was a pretty high 'protective tariff; and there were some points in it on which he wonld be willing to yield. Still, it-had been reduced in several im portant particulars below the bill passed by the Senate two years ago. It seemed to him that the Senate ought to make more proeress with the bill. The Republican! side of the Senate seemed to be entirely satisfied with the bill, except here and there. Amend ments rarely came from that side. A QUESTION OP FACT. Mr. Vest said that the Senator from Ohio had stated that the bill was acceptable to bis side of the chamber. The record did not show that to be the fact On the other hand the most aggressive attacks ma'de upon the bill had come from that side of the cham ber and from the State that gave the largest majority lor the Republican party in the late election. The record would also show that a pro portionately larger number of Democratic Senators had responded everv time the roll had been called. It was impossible to re strain Senators from discussing items of the bill and calling the yeas and nays on pro posed amendments. He gave notice that every item in the bill would be discussed if necessary unless It was prevented by force applied in some sort of fashion. Democratic Senators in tended to go through the bill just exactly as if there was no legislation behind it or be fore it. It had to be analyzed, and it would be analyzed before the debate was con cluded. CAMERON TO THE FRONT. The discussion having turned on the de preciation of farming property, a statement was made by Mr. Vest as to such deprecia tion in some of the best farming counties in Pennsylvania, and Mr. Cameron remarked that, while the statement was correct, the tariff was not, in his opinion, the cause of it. Its cause was the demonetization of silver in 1873. Ever since that act the price of land and of farm products had decreased. Since the passage of the silver bill prices had risen 20 per cent. Mr. Teller said, that as to the question of baste in passing the bill, be was not dis posed to deny its opponents a fair and free discussion. Nay, he wanted it in the inter est of the bill. He did not want any haste in the matter. He was willing to discuss the tariff question, or allow it to be dis cussed, because he believed that the Ameri can people wanted to know whether the bill was a proper revision of the tariff. If that occupied the Senate till December, Sena tors could not complain, unless there was an undue consumption of time. TIN PLATE CAUSES TROUBLE. Paragraph 137, as to tinned plate having been reached, Mr. Vest said the paragraph was a bold, naked attempt by Pittsburg manufacturers to create another monopoly in their own interest strain-it the consumers I of the United States. Their idea was to keep ont tin plate, and to force the people to use the galvanized sheet iron plates made in Pittsburg. He moved to rednce the rate of 2 2-10 cents per pound to 1 cent the present duty. Mr. Dawes favored the proposed increase of duty on tin plate and Mr. i "Wilson, of Maryland, and Mr. Morgan opposed it. LOTTERY IN DANGER. A NEW LAW NOW ALMOST CERTAIN TO BE ENACTED. The Lobby Is Not as Powerful m Has Been Reported The Censorship ot the Alalia Is the Only Objectionable Fentnre of the Proposed Measure. FEOM X STAFF COHKESPONOENT.l Washington, August 11. Notwith standing quite general predictions that the Louisiana Lattery Company would prove strong enough to influence Congress, itis next to certain that a day will soon be fixed for the consideration of the Caldwell anti-lottery bill in the House, and the Senate Postoffice Committee is abont to report favorably a bill of similar character. All the reports about the sym pathy of General Bingham, of the House Postoffice Committee, with the lottery scheme, and his delaying action on the bill, as well as the reports of a wealthy "lobby." are merely sensational. General Bingham has not delayed the bill. The House Com mittee on Rules have not yet fixed a dav for consideration simply because other matters intervened which would probably require longer disenssion, and because it is quite certain that any reasonable anti-lottery bill will pass Congress with very little delay or debate after it is once called up. The lottery will not have, a score nf mn. porters, all told. The only "lobby" here is composed of the agents of the company and the attorneys. Chandler and Thompson, long and well known as the company's counsel. While they are doing all they can to obi struct the passaged any adverse bill, they know well enouch that any display of them selves in their work, or any attempt to use money unduly would only rebound against themselves. In these days members of Con gress supporting a measure which has a "lobby" againtt it, have ahabitof reading out the names of the lobbyists, if they make themselves conspicuous in the corridors, and such advertisement invariably does injury to the cause for which the lobbyists are working. The difficult feature of the matter to deal with is the detection of the transmission of forbidden matter through the mails. Al ready the absurd statement has cone forth that Mr. Wanamaker proposes by means of this law to go on a bold hunt in the mails for incendiary matter by tearing open let ters and withholding the entire mail of sus pected persons. Nothine of the kind is contemplated or conld be accomnlinhprl The bill simply provides a penalty at the discretion of the courts when anyone is de tected and convicted of sending such matter. If a bill of this character become a law, secret agents will be put upon the watch to "spot" offenders, as thev now do counterfeiters and persons who rifle the mails. Newspapers containing lottery ad vertisements are included in the prohibited matter, and these, el-course, will be easy to detect. It may be said that the most effec tive work of the "lobby" has been in the di rection of alarming the public in regard to intrusive censorship orjthe mails ana inter ference with the "liberty of the press," and the labors in these fields have been remuner ative and unceasing. Money for the Plltsbnrg PostcfBce. Washington, Aueust 11. Senator Quay proposed afl amendment to the gen eral' deficiency bill appropriating $110,000 bu proviue llt;niiiJ uo.o.ua ivi lue JT1I bnrg public building. riurkson Has Resigned nt Last, Washington, August 1L First Assist ant Postmaster General Clarkson to-day ten dered to the President bis resignation, to take effect September 1, next. A DEMOCRATIC SCHEME To Drag the Linden Steel Works Into the Tariff DIseasIop. rrnou a staff coBcxsroiroEXT.1 Washington, August 11. A proposi tion is on foot among the Democrats to take advantage of the forced stamps on steel plates for Government use at the Linden Steel Works to plant another thorn in the side of the tariff people. They think it.will be a good joke just at this time, when steel plates are being discussed in the tariffbill, to offer a resolution requesting the Secretary, of the Navy to transmit for the information of Congress, the report of the board which investigated the trouble at the Linden Steel Works. To pave the way for this Democratic newspapers are to create an impression that something had been suppressed at the Navy Department in regard to the matter, when the fact is the Secretary has given to the press all there is in it, and has exonerated members of the firm from any shadow of suspicion. BuUif the anti-tariff men can say that a protected firm has been caught swindling the Government, and that a pro tective tariff Secretary has whitewashed the firm, their purpose will be accomplished. NOW ESTIMATED AT 64,000,000. Porter Has Revised the Figaros to Ibo Country's Population, Washington, August 11. The popula tion of Kansas City, Kan., as announced by the Censns Bureau to-day. is- 33,170. The same place, In 18S0, contained a population of 9,318. This is, therefore, an increase in ten years of 28,822, or 308.37 per cent. Superintendent Porter expects that the work of counting the population of the coun try will be completed before the end of the present month, and Congress, if it so de sires, can proceed to pass an apportionment bill, and so determine- how many members shall constitute the next House. The popu lation of the country is estimated at 64,000, 000. A DEFICIENCY OF $28,000,000 Predicted by a Missouri Congressman Dar ing nn Appropriation Debate. Washington, August 11. The House to-day proceeded to the consideration of the conference report on the sundry civil appro priation bill. After a brief' debate, in the course of which Mr. Dookery, of Missouri, predicted a deficiency of between $20,000,000 and 528,000,000 in the revenues ot the Gov ernment during the current fiscal year, the conference report was agreed to, and a conference ordered upon the amendments still iu dispute. A HEW CONNECTING LUTE. Formal Organization of the Philadelphia, Harrlsbnrg and Pittsburg Railway. rsrECIAL TKLEPBAH TO Till D1BPATCH.1 Philadelphia, August 1L At the Reading general office to-day the Harris burg Terminal Railroad Company and the Harrisburg and Shippensburz Railroad Company were merged and consolidated into the Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburg Railroad Company. Officers were elected as follows: A. A. McLeod, Presi dent; W. R. Taylor, Secretary: W. A. Church, Treasurer; George B. DeKeim, I. A. Sweigard, Ii. S. Davis, Albert Foster, C. H. Quarles and D. Jones, directors. The line formed by the consolidation is just what its name implies a link connect ing Pittsburg and Philadelphia at Harris burg. The gaps in the link are being rap idly filled. Iron is being placed for the new bridge across the Susquehanna at Har risburg, and a large force of men is engaged at work on the road bed. It is expected that trains will be running from Philadel phia to Pittsburg early in 1891 by way of the Reading to Harrisburg, thence to the Western Maryland over the new road, and from the Western Maryland to Pittsburg over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. ' A LOVES OF HOESES. A Minister Who Will be Tried for Presiding at n Race. Grand Rapids. August 11. The Mich igan Methodist Episcopal Conference will be beld this year at Muskegon, opening on September 10. Aside from the usual routine business and assignments to pastoral duties for the coming year it is expected that at least one matter of difcipline wijl be brought up that will be of mote than local interest. Rev. J. W. Amy, of Saranac, who offi ciated at a little "hoss trot" last month will be asked to give an explanation ot bis con duct He will be given the choice of re maining in the pulpit or giving up his horses. If the case should come to such nn issue it is very likely that he will stick to his horses, regardless oi the church and her decrees. TWO TRAINS COLLIDE. Two Postal Clerks Injured and a Tramp Has His Arm Palled Off. Cincinnati, August 11. At Sparta, Ky., last night there was a collision between the fast mail from Louisville and a freight train on the Louisville and Nashville Rail road. The mail and baggage cars were tele scoped, and three men were caught Will iam Jones, a postal clerk of this oity, was very seriously injured. J. C. .Kennedy, postal clerk, Lebanon, Ky., was also severely injured. An unknown tramp bad his right arm pulled from its socket. The train crew and 'the passengers escaped with very slight in juries. THE B, & 0. SUSTAINED. The Action Against It Under the Inter state Law Is Dismissed. Cincinnati, August 11. Judge Jack son, of the United States Court, has dis missed the action against the B. & O. rail road brought under .the inter-State com merce law, in which the road was charged with violating certain orders of the com mission with rcferecceto "party" or theat rical rates. There was also an allegation that the B. & O. had sold round trip tickets without posting the rates. The dismissal of the suit sustains the road in its treatment of theatrical parties and alto in the method of selling round trip tickets. .SENT BACK TO MEXICO. Toasg Yucatan Student Declared a Leper nnd Sent Home. Nrfw York, August 11. Manual Gar rnta, the Yucatan student who is afflicted with leprosy, was on Saturday taken to his home in his- native country by his parents. Garrutta is 20 years old and was a student at Flushing. Recently he came to spend his vacation with his parents. On July 17 he was -declared a leper and taken to North Brothers Island. The unfortunate young man and his parents lelt Jersey City by the Pennsylva nia road and will travel home through Mexico over the Mexican Central Railroad. Manehuctt Mills Shot Down. Tall River, Mass., August 11. The curtailment of production generally went into effect this morning. Nearly three- -dnjrters of the mills shnt down this morn- j, ing lor 60 ftiurs. - iiEPxttfi JK&Wf). PITTSBURG, TUESDAY, IN AGE AND H0N0BS Cardinal Hewman, the Noted DiYine, Passes Peacefully Ayiaj, SCENES AR0U5D THE DEATHBED. His Chance From the Church of England to That 'of Borne. ALL WALES PAEALTZED BI STEIKES. In Boms Sections the Inhabitants Ate goffering for Food Supplies. Cardinal Newman died at 9 o'clock last evening, in the 90th year of his age. En glish Catholics and Protestants alike mourn his end. The great trike in Wales has paralyzed all business. Nat Goodwin is scoring a great success in London. BT DUTTLAr'8 CABLE COMPANY." Birmingham, August 11. Cardinal Newman died at a few minutes before 9 o'clock this evening, at the head house of the oratory, located at Edgboston, a fashion able suburb of this city. The scene at the bedside was touching in the extreme. Dur ing the entire afternoon the Cardinal's death had been approaching, and his acute attack of pneumonia, that was made doubly dangerous by his advanced age, he having reached his 90th year, was increasingly se vere. News of his condition and the fact that extreme unction had been administered was sent through the country,and called forth tel egrams of inquiry and sympathy from every direction, and from the highest to the lowest in the land. At the moment of his death there were about him all the fathers and clergy of the diocese and many of the high dignitaries of .the church, who had come from a distance, summoned at the first Cardinal Hewman. knowledge of the Cardinal's illness. The Duke of Norfolk was telegraphed for, but owing to an accident, was prevented reach ing the oratory before the Cardinal passed away. The end was peaceful, and almost as though it were the approach of sleep. The Cardinal retained'-, his grand intellectual powers until the very last, only failing in his physical strength and his eyesight The few expressions possible to have been heard since his death are as devout as though he had been a canonized saint. There see ms to be no division in the mourning between the Protestants and Catholics over the great loss. A SKETCH OP HIS LIFE. John Henry Newman, one of the most noted clergymen and authors of Great Bri tain, was born in London, February 21, 1801. He graduated from Trinity-College, Oxford, in 1820. was elected a fellow of Oriel College in 1822 and while there as sistedDr. Whately in the preparation of his "Dialogues on Logic" He was after ward a tutor at Oriel, and in 1828 was ap pointed vicar at St. Mary's. In 1829 he opposed Sir Robert Peel's re election to Parliament because of that statesman's advocacy of Catholic emancipa tion. Iu 1830 he became one of the select university preachers and began writipg the history ot "The Adrians of the Fourth Cen tury." A CHANGE IN THE CHURCH. About this time the spread of liberalism in England gave rise to a strong conserva tive opposition in the English Church, which Newman joined with the purpose of forming an Anglo-Catholic party. A little later he began the publication of "Tracts for the Times," and wrote letters on "Church Reform." His tracts were attacked by the Bishop of Oxford as having a Romanizing influence, and a spirited controversy arose. Finally Dr. Newman's attempt to recon cile the teaching of the Anglican and Roman Catholic doctrines culminated in Tract No. 90 in February, 1841. He was called upon to withdiaw" the tract, but re fused, and in 1813 resigned his office as a clergyman. In 1843 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church, and afterward went to Rome and took orders. A HARD 'WORKER. In 1848 he established two houses of the oratory of St. Philip Neri at Brompton and Birmingham, becoming Superior of the lat ter, which in a few years was transferred to Edgboston. There he built a large convent and church, and established schools ior both sexes and other pious institutions. In 1854 he was appointed by the Pope rector ot the Catholic University of Dublin, and held that position until 1859, when he resigned ana asroieu uiiuseii iu me auties ot his ora tory. In 1879 he was made a Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. His published works, which are many, have attracted the attention of schol ars the world over. Even at the age when most men cease from active labor Cardinal Newman continued to work with all the en ergy and ardor of youth, the productions of his busy pen showing the same brilliancy of intellectual genius that made him famous years ago. THE GREAT STRIKE IN "WALES. London John Bnrns, the great labor agitator, has gone to Wales in order to as sist in carrying out the details relating to the great strike. No words can possibly exaggerate the state of complete and utter paralysis of trade of all sorts in Wales. Huge colliers, sailing vessels and steamers and great ocean liners are lying at the docks in absolute idleness, for there is not a ton of coal in sight to put'into them. There have been bad times during former strikes.butthe appearance of the docks even at the worst has never been nearly so depressing as at this time when the moving of freight has dropped from its lormer average of 10,000 tons per day to less than 2,000. In the docks there are steamers which have a gross register of 59,000 tons, while that of the sailing vessels amounts to 68,000 tons, and none or these ships can possibly get Bway. Meanwhile from the adjoining districts, which are accustomed to.be served by the now idle railway, come cries and AUGUST 12, 1890. complaints of shortness in the supply of provisions, diminished and dwindling trade, as well as grave personal inconvenience to the inhabitants. The tradesmen com plain that their takings on Saturday fall of 75 per cent from the leverage. The markets are really' deserted and the district is filled with police, while the military is held in readiness for any emergencies all along dif ferent points of the line. The directors of the Taff line have resolved to start passen ger trains on Tuesday morning, manned by the chief officials ot the line. APPLAUDING AN AMERICAN ACTOR. Mr. Nat Goodwin has taken London by storm by his performance in The Book maker. All the papers are, enthusiastic on the subject. The Daily Telegraph snys: Mr. Goodwin's performance Is remarkable. In the character of air Joseph Trent he dis played excellent taste, discretion and self control, as well as comic powers of the very highest class. His vulgarity of manner, his gesture, his diction, are intensely natural, and, though unflagging, he is never for a moment offensive. Itis highly creditable to an Ameri can actor that be should hare made so tine, subtle and life-like a study of the dialect, into nation and bearing of a cockney cad, and that ho should hare mastered the tone as well as the slang of the netting ring and sporting har. and should, out of these garish materials have produced a dramatic cabinet pic ture in which not an outline Is coarsely or clumsily drawn, and not a color is laid on too thickly. Mr. Goodwin is an ac complished, painstaking and above all sympa thetic comedian a true artist holding the mirror up to nature, never condescending to buffoonery or extravagance of action and yet making his points with electrifying effective ness. His humor and pathos alike, being per fectly unaffected, are Irresistibly contacious. How uninterruptedly he keeps touch with his audience was abundantly demonstrated on Saturday by the alternating peals of hearty laughter and the spells of breathless silence with which the crowded house paidtribute to his splendid versatility. There can he no keener pleasure in connection with the dra matic entertainment of the present time than to witness Mr. Goodwin's Impersonation of Sir Joseph Trent. AN IMPORTANT VISIT. LONDON The English and the German papers have given various articles recently enlarging upon the importance of the Em peror William's visit to Osborne, where he saw the Queen and had lengthy interviews with her". The Daily Chronicle says that Sweden and Denmark have definitely, al though secretly, joined the central alliance, and the conferences at Osborne bore upon this subject. It intimates its belief that it is a very dangerous matter thus to attempt to isolate Russia. The semi-official Post of Berlin, says: "Just as the Emperor's visit to Osborne in 1888 afforded a starting point for the conclusion of the Anglo-German agreement in regard to Africa so it is now rumored that the Emperor's late presence at Osborne may not be without political significance, and that arrangements are now being made between His Imperial Majesty on one hand .and Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales and Lord Salisbury on the other, the outcome of which may aston ish the world no less than did the recent treaty between Great Britain and Germany for the cession of Heligoland. TROUBLE AMONG METHODISTS Manchester The Manchester Guard ian says: "Great dissatisfaction is expressed in Wesleyan ministerial circles, at the manner in which the lists have been made up of the representatives to attend the forthcoming Methodist Ecumenical Council. It is notorious that among many jf the elected representatives, both clerical and lay, official influence and personal canvass had to do with their election." Several of the more prominent Wesleyans who did not stoop to such practices have failed to obtain a sufficient number of votes and thus American Methodism will be deprived of their presence, at what promises to be one of the most important ecclesiastical confer ences held in modern times. CROPS NOT UP TO AVERAGE. London Authentic reports of the crop to hand state that the new wheat in France, Austria and Hungary is of inferior quality, and the Russian spring wheat is of light weight and altogether below the standard. The latest reports confirm the previous statements as to the deficient yield of the spring crops in Russia, while the winter division is said to be satisfactory. As the latter is grown on half as much laud as the former, the total production will hardly be an average one. In Austria and Hungary though, on the other hand, the yield ap pears to be quite as large as was to have been expected. ROBBING THE CEMETERIES. Paris There is great popular indigna tion at the discovery of the wholesale and systematic robbery of wreaths, immortelles and other ornaments from the tombs and cemeteries that has been going on for a series of years. The proprietors of the manufac tories of mortuary emblems have addressed a protest to the Minister of Public Worship, accusing the cemetery officials of compli city with the thieves. A report says that one firm alone has on hand at the present time a stock of 100 wreaths, 50,000 glass cases and 200,000 kilos of pearls and head ings stolen from the cemeteries of Paris and the environs. A DISASTER IN GERMANY. Crefled A house "in the Gerber strasse collapsed late last night owing to the giving way of a breakwater caused by an unpre cedented -and quite torrential fall of rain. Great excitement prevailed in the neighborhood and loud shrieks and cries for help were heard, but those who were assembled on the spot were unable to render a ny help till daybresk, when it was ascertained that 13 people were dead and 12 others who may be dead or alive, but whose fate it has been so far impossible to deter mine are still burled in the ruins. A CRIMINAL'S STRANGE STORT. Basel Petroff, the man who was ar rested on a charge of commiting several murderous assaults on the passengers in a second-class Russian railway carriage gives the following extremely singular explana tion of the outrages. He declares that he recognized in one of the passengers an old enemy, and stabbed him in order to square the old grudge. The sight of the blood suddenly bereft him of his renson, and he lelt himself irresistibly impelled to use his dagger upon everyone within reach. PASSION PLAT PROFITS. Oberammergau The receipts from the first half of the series of the PasBion Play aggregate 250,000 marks and cover the entire expenditure for the production, with a fair net profit in addition. This is un equaled in the history of the play. A PROTEST AGAINST USURY. Berlin. Petitions to the 'Reichstag praying for the amendment of the usury laws, which will compel the restitution of money-obtained by usurious means, are be ing signed by thousands of people through out the Ehineland and Westphalia. AN AMERICAN BISHOP HONORED. London Bishop Potter, of New York, Continued on Sixth Faqe. A BROKEN BACKBONE Has Practically Settled the Str'ke on the New York Central. OTHER ORDERS REFUSE TO JOIN In the Undertaking Inaugurated by the Knights of Labor, , THEE0AD HAS EESDMED OPERATIONS. A Bare Possibility That a General Tic-tip Hsj Tel be Attempted, The strike o'n the New York Central is practically over, and the passenger service of the road is in full operation. The en gineers and firemen refused to join in the movement Nothing remains for the Knights to do but giVe up the fight or order a general railroad tie-up. SSPZCTAfc TELIQEAM TO TBI DISPATCH.! New York, August 11. The strike upon the New York Central Railroad is practical ly at an end, and the Knights of Labor have suffered the most crushing defeat that has be fallen any big labor organization in many years. The Knights made appeals to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, to the Firemen's Brotherhood, to the Switch men's Unions, and on other roads in the Yanderbilt system and to other kindred organizations, begging them to come to their support in their fight against the Central. These appeals met with a decided refusal in every case. The Knights bad counted so confidently upon this outside support that they had made sweeping threats of extensive tie-ups, which, they said, would take place on various roads. NOT THE NECESSARY BACKING. To the dismay of their leaders it was found that not one of these threats could be carried into execution. The developments to-day had a innch greater significance than the success on the New York Central in the present struggle. It became apparent that the occasion had been seized by other labor organizations to settle some old scores with the autocratic Knights. The revenge is so complete that it prom ises to amount to a deathblow for the or ganization. The squaring of accounts by the Brotherhood of Engineers is the most interesting of all. They have taken ample revenge for the failnre of the Knights to support them in the strike of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. The Knights are now hunting hopelessly for some avenue of "retreat that will save them from utter rout and annihilation. It is quite provable that the General Execu tive Board, which it is announced will meet in Detroit on Wednesday, will declare the strike to have been unauthorized by the general officers, and will attempt to put the responsibility npon the officers of the local assembly, which ordered it. A CHOICE OF EVILS. If that course is not adopted it is quite likely the order will attempt a mammoth demonstration of its power by ordering a general railroad .strike. It seems to be a choice between sudden death cud less rapid, but "h Veas .jure isintejjrutiob. On the New York Central regular passenger service has been fully resumed, the road is in work ing order from New. York to Buffalo, and freight trains were run to-day on all the divisions. The trouble in the company's yards near Syracuse was overcome to-day after a short struggle between Pinkerton men and the mob. The resumption of freight traffic in this city to-day was accomplished almost without incident. Many freight trains will De run to-morrow. The latest threat of the Knights, voiced by Master Workman Lee, that all the other roads in the Yanderbilt system will be tied up to-morrow gives the railroad people no uneasiness. It is not believed there will be any strike west of Buffalo. Holland, of the Executive Board, says the roads terminating on the Jersey shore will be tied np the mo ment the Board gives the order. Most rail road men are confident that it is not in the power of the Knights to cripple any one of those roads. A VERY BUSY DAY. To-day was an extraordinarily busy day at the Grand Central station but the strike had nothing to do with the rush. Hundreds of Grand Army men thronged the station of the Forty-second street side, and heavv trains, regular and special, rolled, out oi the train house at frequent intervals from early morning until late in the atternoon, most of them bound for Boston over the New Haven road. The officers of this road continued to make up and handle their own trains in the yard and station and they grappled with the difficulties of the situation most success fully. Of the Boston trains which were sent out only one failed to leave on time and that one, the 5 o'clock short line, was only 17 minutes late. All regular trains were run except tbat two locals in the afternoon were consolidated in order to give an opportunity to run another special. On the New York Central side of the sta tion there was nothing to indicate that there was a strike. While the leaders of the Knights were soberly declaring across th street that the Central was "as tightly tied up as it was Friday night," the scheduled passenger tr.iins were running in and out of the station almost as regularly as they did a wee ago. NEARLY COMPLETE RESUMPTION. Of 138 passengers scheduled to leave and arrive, 120 were run, theoutward ones prac tically on time and the inward ones with a small average delay. Public confidence in the ability of the road to provide full serv ice has evidently returned, for the number of passengers carried was almost up to the average. The only trains omitted were a few unimportant local trips between the city and White Plains and Croton. All trains were fully manned, and the road refused many applications for employ ment in tbe passenger service. In the yard everything had resumed its normal appear ance. The force of switchmen was increased to a lull complement, and some ot the men who have been working many extra hours since the strike began were given a chance to rest. The men in tbe towers were especi ally glad to be relieved, for the strain of long-continued responsibility upon them hail been great. Experienced help in this department bad come Irom Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburg and other points, and all the switches are now in charge of competent men. Tbe local appli cations lor employment so increased in num ber that only a small proportion of the men applying were engaged. ANY NUMBER OF APPLICANTS. For six hours to-dav the line of appli cants reached Irom the office in the Wagner car building out into the street and along the sidewalk lor some distance. Three po licemen guarded the line. At 2 o'clock the office was closed, and those remaining in line were told to rarae again to-morrow. The road is making it a practice to hire only a small numberof men daily in order to give full opportunity for the training of tbe new-employes in their dutie. Early in the day, when it was expected that some of the firemen might go out in re sponse to ttie latest order of the Knights, some 50 or 60,men were hired for a possible emergency ot this kind. When it became avMfit ihnt thla t nrpnt nf iVia TTnifrtita lit. most or' tbe others which have been made since, the strike began, could not be execu- rememc ted, all subsequent applicants for firemsn's work were turned awav. Vice President Webb and his principal lieutenants came on duty at 6 o'clock this morning, prepared to grapple with an emer gency which the serious threats which tbe leaders of the Knights of Labor had made the previous evening might create. It had been declared so positively by the strike leaders, tbat the firemen on the Central would strike at daybreak, and that all the other roads would be tied up that it was thought there would be at least some result of such aggressive declarations. PRACTICALLY PO"WERLES3. But it soon appered that the Knights were powerless to drive a single man from his post. Instead of further embarrassing the road, repentant strikers began to come in and beg forre-instatement. Then it became evident that the strike was over as far as the New York Central was concerned and the officers of the road began to devote themselves to the problem of the full re sumption of freight traffic. That point and the suppression of riotous demonstrations at Syracuse, were the two subjects demanding attention. Both were treatec" with a deci sive vigor which led to most successful re sults before night-fall. Early in the morning F. F. Donovan, a member of the State Board of Arbitration, called at Mr. Webb's office. He was received courteously and said that as he had received from the strikers the official notification re quired by statute stating tbat they were ready to arbitrate their differences with tbe road, it was his dnty to come and oiler the services of the State Board as mediators. The other members of the board, he ex plained, had telegraphed him authority to represent them in the matter. Mr. Webb thanked Mr. Donovan for his offer, and said he had full confidence in the board he rep resented. NOTHING TO ARBITRATE. "Bnt," said Mr. Webb, "our road is now in almost fnll operation. Some men we dis charged and others have left of their own volition. The company will not re-employ any of these, so there is reallv nothing to arbitrate." Mr. Webb says that after this explanation Mr. Donovan agreed that there was nothing for his board to do, and after a pleasant interval he withdrew. As soon as Com missioner Donovan had gone Mr. Webb, having learned that the plans for moving freight on the Westside had been carried ont, tackled the Syracuse situation. He was advised that the strikers and a mob had suc ceeded in retaining possession of the com pany's yards at Syracuse or Dewitt, and issued the directions which cleared them. LOCAL ROADS NOT AFFECTED. Agents Still Selling Tickets asd Sending Freight Orer the Central. The Pittsburg roads have not yet been aflected by the strike on the New York Cen tral, bnt the chances are that unless it is Boon settled, tbat it will interfere with them a little. A visit to the freight and passen ger departments of the Pennsylvania, Bal timore and Ohio, Lake Erie, Lake Shore, and New York,Lake Erie and Western Rail roads, revealed the fact that the agents are still in a happy frame of mind so far as the New York Central road is coocerned. No body has been officially notified to discon tinue. The ticket agents are selling tickets over the line, but at the Baltimore and Ohio office they stated they hadn't sold any since the strike began. Tbe traffic men of all the local roads are forwarding freight as usual.. One agent in discussing the situation said: "Even if a wheel did not move on the New York Central it would not affect Pittsburg. There are too many other roads reaching the same territory." Men for the Central. A telegram from Ft. Wayne received last evening, stated tbat a carload of men had started from that place to go to work on the New York Central road. Thev left on train No. 8 which is due in Pittsburg this morn- J iug. FLOOD Hf THE MOUNTAINS. Bnrstlog ot a Water Miodt Washes Away a Railroad Trnek. Boulder, Col., August 11. By the bursting ot a water spout in ihe mountains above town last night the water in the river rose to a fearful height in a few minutes. The cabin of W. J. King and wife, which was built on the banks of the river near Silon, was caught by the flood and both were drowned. The railroad track was washed away, so no trains were able to run for three days. Boulders weighing two tons were washed down the side of the mount ains. NearLoveland yesterday evening a hail storm ruined the entire frnit, wheat and corn crop. The territory was ten miles long and two wide. Denver was visited this aft ernoon by a severe rain storm, accompanied by fearful lightning, during which several people were rendered insensible, none fatally. SMALLPOX IN MISSISSrPPL A Case of the Dread Disease Causes an Exodus From tbe Town. Meriden, Miss., August 11. A great deal of excitement is reported at Hatties burg, Miss., over an alleged outbreak of smallpox. A little girl arrived there not long ago from Mexico and soon after was taken sick. On Saturday it was decided that she had smallpox, and about 60 people left town at once. Since then three others have-been taken sick, and all the towns on tbe Northeastern road have become alarmed and several have quarantined against Hattiesburg. iOne physician says it is chicken-pox, but the idea is not credited, and 'the most stringent quarantine has been put in eflect in many places. AMINE ONITEE. Tbo Men In the Shaft Ecnpc, bat the Flames Mill Kag. Bloomsburo, Pa., August 11. At an early hour this morning the mine operated by M. S. Kemmerer & Co., at Sandy Bun, was discovered te be on fire. Tbe only men known to be in tbe mine at the time were the pump engineers, and efforts to rescue them were nt once made. This was accom plished successfully through another open ing. The fire originated in thepumphouse and communicated to the slope, which is now burning. No estimate of the damage can be made at this writing. HALF A MILLION STTBSCBQED. Money Baiscd to Saataln tbo Boycotted Brick Slnmifaciurcr. New York, August 11. At the meeting of the Brick Manufacturers' Association, of New York and New Jersey, held at the Astor House to-day, the members of the association subscribed half a million dollars to sustain the four boycotted brick manu facturing firms at Verplanck's Point, on the Hudson. BEJOICrNG 0VB HIS FALL. Argentine Citizens Celebrntv tbe Retirement of President Celman. Buenos Ayees, August 11. Sixty thou sand persons attended the mass meetings held here to rejoice over the fall of Presi dent Celman. General Mitre was cheered as the future candidate fortha Prpirleni! .The meetings were orderly. UJ A MTC i We Hn 0 J?ome Help II it II 10 aTe promptly supplied through the Classifled Advertisement Columns of TJIB DISPATCH. Sum mer resjrrteyvturnmg home should T . V I VNthree cents. -SCV-) V TENURES OF FLAME Xb Suddenly bProm the Earth in a Peaceftjriiana Valley. GREAT KATDRAL GAS EXPLOSION. Bottom of a Creek Uplifted and Bowlders Hurled Two Miles. DEAD BODIES T0E5 FK0JI THE GEAYES. Thousands ef Panic-Stricken People Are BarronnJ. Ing the Scene. A spontaneous natural gas explosion caused a great upheaval ten miles from Shelbyville, Ind., yesterday. It was at first believed to be an earthquake. Tea acres of seething flame now appear in the place of a little valley. A portion of a cemetery was blown up. rsrzciAi. TKLEORAM TO THZ PTSrATCir.t Shelbyville, Ind., August IL A most remarkable natural gas explosion oc curr,'his morning in this county, about te from this city. The explosion ap peajfi? IJoave been of spontaneous origin, and j vore in the nature of an earth-quake-? e;as confined in the bowels of the eart. Q ) through the earthen fetters which biA and forced its way to free dom. The noise, y.- explosion was heard for miles from tti1 ine. Huge stones were hurled througi ty r as if they were peb bles, and werev .ied distances ranging from three-quarters of a mile to two miles before they fell to earth again. Trees were uprooted for a long distance from the im mediate scene, while every pane of window glass in the farmhouses within a radius of four miles was shattered. PANIC stricken people. In Waldron, two miles and a half from the scene, the earth shook, the houses trem bled and the inhabitants rushed forth in dire alarm. It was thought that an earth quake had occurred, but the mystery of the terrible noise could not be explained. The citizens of Waldron were first startled from their labors by the quaking of the earth? Almost immediately followed the terrible) roar of the explosion followed for several minutes by smaller explosions. It seemed as if a heavy cannonading was in progress during these few minutes. When the first shock was over and the fear and alarm of the affrighted women and children had been quieted an inquiry as to the cause was instituted among the men. The explosion seemed to have come from the Sputh, and a party at once started in that direction., EVIDENCES OF THE EXPLOSION. Scarcely a half mile from the town they came npon the first evidence of the struggle in huge bowlders, which had been hurled across tbe tnrnpike. As they progressed the air became filled with noxious vapors, and a pale glow of red in the horizon gave the searchers some idea of the scene they were about to witness. Dense clouds of black smoke curled high, above the scene and were wafted towards them by the wind which had sprung np. Hurrying onward in a short time the party was upon the ground. The first view they obtained was from tbe top of a little knoll. The scene of the explosion was in a little valley surrounded by wooded slopes and green meadows. Here flowed Comis creek, a little streamlet varying in width from 75 to 35 feet Ordinarily tbe place was one of quiet beauty and repose, and here had been the spot selected as the village cemetery. Now how changed the scene! A SCORCHING BLAST. The hill had heretofore kept back" the fierce heat, but when its summit was reached a scorching blast as if from a 'urnace passed over them. An almost indescribable scene burst forth upon their view. It seemed as if the entire valley was upon fire- Streams ot fire leaped from the earth and shot high into the air. These streams were innumerable and they burnt with a fierce nnd steady glow. Toe trees nearby were felled to the ground and the flames had communicated to tbem, lending additional terror to the scene. The center of this fierce fire seemed to be but a short distance from the graveyard and upon the banks of the creek there was a hold of unknown depth of an area of perhaps U"a acres of laud. Here burnt the flames the brightest and the highest FIFTY STREAMS OF FIRE. ' Fully 50 streams of fire belched forth from the hole. All about blazed smaller streams. The strangest and most unac countable scene was witnessed in the bed of the creek. Through the water shot several streams of blaze burning with great fierce ness. The scene of the explosion covered an area of ten acres, and within that area these streams of fire blazed. People were throng ing in now in vast numbers and several hun dred persons were gathered on the hill. In the little cemetery the party discovered that -the force of the explosion has not alone lev eled the tombstones, but had on the side nearest the flames uncovered the coffins con taining tbe remains. The earth had literally been blown from them in the convnlsions. Notwithstanding the intense and insufferable heat several of tbe men, after securing shovels from a neighboring farmhouse.ventured to cover up the coffins agaiu. THOUSANDS OF SPECTATORS. During the afternoon the crowd about the wonderful scene numbered several thou sand, large parties coming from Shelbyville and Oreensburg. The whole country is ex cited over the explosion. The streams of fire have as yet shown no signs of abate ment, and no means are known by which the flow and burning of the gas can be stopped. The scene of this remarkable explosion ii not far from the line of the Big Four Bail way, between Cincinnati and Indianapolis. It is almost within the natural gas regions of Southeastern Indiana. Several large wells have been struck within a short distance of Waldron, within about five miles of the present upheaval, but it has never been anticipated that natural gas existed in the vicinity of the explosions. The wells at Waldron are controlled by Cincinnati capitalists, who are making preparations to pipe it to that city. PICKED DP AT SEA. Rescue of Cattlenea Who Were oa taa Bnrnlna, Steamer Egypt. New York, August 11. The steamship Canada arrived to-day with some of the cattlemen who were on the National Line steamer Egypt, recently burned at sea. William H. Hammond, one of the men, said the fire started in the cotton and gained rapidly despite the efforts of all hands. When the ship was abandoned the cattle men were at the pumps and were the last to leave. Tbe ship's boats hung from rusty davits and could not be turned to swing the boats out. The boats were lifted out and launched. The seams were badly calked and constant bailing was necessary to keep afloat. If the sea had been rough all wonld have perished. Four boats were so rotten that they were abandoned when the party was picked up. V T . "ML. n A r 1 1 a f, i ' .. . - '
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