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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
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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
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VNthree cents.
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TENURES OF FLAME
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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.
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