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THE. PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SATURDAY, ATJG-TJST 23, 1890.
"
1MEM TARIFF,
Carlisle Objects to American
Manufacturers Selling
Goods Abroad
CHEAPER THAN AT HOME.
Defending a Prominent Hardware
Merchant's Character.
PRUNING THE APPROPRIATIONS.
The
House Eefuses to Adopt the Senate
Eecommendations.
IXYESTIGATING COMMISSIONER BAUM
The Senate spent another day talking
taring bnt nothing much resulted from it
The House is not pleased with the Senate's
increase of appropriations for rivers and
harbors. The investigation oi Pension
Commissioner Baum is rather lunn y.
"Washington, August 22. The Senate
spent another day considering the tariff!
"When the debate opened the pending ques
tion was on Mr. McPherson's amendment to
paragraph 1G2, relating to files, file blanks
and rasps. The amendment is to substitute
for the classified specific rates, according to
length, a uniform rate of 25 per cent ad
valorem.
Mr. Vest, referring to the discussion last
evening as to the credibility of Mr. A. H.
Saxton, President of the American Hard
ware Association, read several testimonials
from hardware merchants in St. Louis.
Memphis and other cities, to Mr. Saxton's
honorable character.
Mr. Aldrich asserted that there had been
no attack on his side of the chamber, either
on the personal character or the business in
tegrity of Mr. Saxton, or of the Birming
ham or Sheffield manufacturers, whom he
represented.
The amendment was rejected yeas, 19;
nays, 27 a strict party vote.
PASSED OVER FOE A TIME.
Paragraph 1C4, relating to shotguns, was
passed over informally, Mr. Aldrich stat
ing that th: Finance Committee had some
modifications ot it under consideration.
Mr. McPherson moved to amend para
graph 165, pertaining to iron or steel plates,
wares or articles, enameled or glazed, by re
ducing,lhe dnty from 45 to 25 per cent ad
Taloreni. Rejected. v
Mr. McPherson moved to amend para
graph 166, relating to similar articles, en
ameled or glazed with more than one color,
by reducing the duty from 50 to 40 per cent.
In tne course of the dUcussion Mr. Vest
spoke of the firm of Neidringhaus Ss Co., of
St. Louis, as having a monopoly of that
business, having practically no competi
tion either from domestic or foreign manu
facturers. That firm had been eminently and
phenomenally successful in making money,
bo that one ot its members had gone into
public life.
PAID BT CONSUMEBS.
The fact of a proposed increase of dutv
lor its benefit made good the assertion that
the pendinc bill was siniplv to pnfmore
1- : i ..i-... .i : i.:.3...:i. . .u
expense of the consumers o the country,
He denounced it as uttenv inaeiensible,
The amendment was rejected yeas, 19;
nays, 24 a strict party vote.
Mr. McPherson moved to amend para
graph 167, relating to cut nails, by reducing
the rate from 1 cent a pound to 35 per cent
ad valorem. Bejected yeas, 18; nays, 27; a
strict party vote
Amendments were offered to paragraphs
168, 169. 170, 171, 172 and 173, but were re
jected. No amendments were offered to para
praphs 174, 175 or 176 relating to engraved
steel plates, railway fish plates and rivets
of iron or steel.
Mr. Test offered an amendment to para
graph 177, relating to saws, reducing the
rate of 8, 10 and 15 cents per linear foot, ac
cording to sizes, to 5, 7 and 12 cents, and
reducing ad valorem rates of 30 and 40 per
cent to 20 and 25 per cent. Bejected veas,
20; nays, 25. Mr. Paddock voted with the
Democrats.
OBJECTED TO THE POLICT.
The paragraph 178, relating to wood
screws, having been reached, Mr. Carlisle
said that that was an article which Ameri
can manufacturers were selling abroad very
much lower than they were selling at home.
He produced price lists in support of his
statement; also a letter from American
Screw Company of Providence, B. L That
was another illustration, he said, of the
policy adopted by the other side in allow
ing drawbacks on exported articles.
Mr. Aldrich Does the Senator object to
that policy?
Mr. Carlisle I do unless it is extended
farther. I hold that it is not cood policy or
justice to give tb the American manulac
turer free or substantially free, raw material
on their exported products and to refuse it
on the products consumed at home. There
is where I object to your policy. He went
on to say that the offering ot American
goods abroad at cheaper prices than they
were offered at home was not confined to
goods where a drawback was allowed on the
raw material.
JUST LIKE ENGLAND.
Mr. Stewart said that the assumption that
there was anything wrong in the sale of
American manufactured coods in foreign
countries cheaper than at home arose from
a want of information. There was nothing
wrong in it and nothing injurious to Amer
ican consumers. That was the policy which
England had pursued for the last century
and which English statesmen had advised
on all occasions.
Mr. Aldrich commented on the incon
sistency of the Democratic Senators in argu
ing on the one hand that high protective
duties had destroyed foreign commerce, and
that on the other hand it was a great
enormity for American manufacturers to
seek a share of the foreign market in com
petition with manufacturers ot England,
Germany and France.
Mr. Carlisle replied that his complaint
was not against American manufacturers
who sought foreign markets, but against the
policy which enabled them to sell their
goods abroad
, CHEAPER THAN AT HOME,
and his contention was that tree raw materi
als ought to be allowed for all American
manufacturers so as to reduce the cost of
production, and enable American manu
facturers not only to sell their goods cheaper
at home, bnt to export them to all countries
of the world.
.No amendment were agreed to until para
graph 190 was reached, which was on mo
tion of Mr. Aldrich. emended so as to read:
"Bullion of gold, silver or other metal not
specially provided for 25 per cent ad
valorem."
Having reached the paragraph as to lead
ore the Senate adjourned.
P0SIPQHED WITHOUT DATE.
Ko Krowine When the Sleet Armor Plate
Trlnli Will Take Place.
rtMCJAI. TIL EOK AX TO THI DISrjLTClI.l
"Washington, August 22. The steel
armor plate trials have been again post
poned, this time without date. 'The date
eriginalJy fixed vat May 1, and the time I
since then has been consumed by the delays
in receiving plates. These tests are of great
importance. They will develop the ability
of American manufacturers to compete with
loreign loundries, although no direct
comparison will be made between domestic
and foreign product. Three companies have
already signified an intention of submitting
armor plates the Beddeman-Tilford, the
International Steel Company, and Carnegie,
Phipps & Co. No plates are expected from
the Bethlehem Iron Works, as it has the
contract for supplying this material and
present war vessel, and the work will keep
them bnsy tor some years.
The Navv Department will test a newly
invented nickel steel plate from Crensor,
and an old steel plate also from Schneider
& Co. The present delay is said to be due
to the non-arrival of the compound plate
made of wilt iron, faced with steel, pur
chased by Commodore Falger from a Shef
field firm. It is intended to make a relative
test of the Crensor and Sheffield material.
The tests were to take place September 2, at 1
.uijapuiis, wnere two uuge varfccw n
erected some months ago.
CUTTING APPROPRIATIONS.
THE HOUSE OBJECTS TO THE SENATE'S
EXPENDITURES.
Franlns; the River and Bnrbor Bill Con
cressmnn Mason Mokes a Charge
Acnlast the FostolDce Department Ho
Thinks It I Subjected to Improper In
fluences. "Washington, August 22. Mr. Butter
worth, of Ohio, submitted to the House the
Conference report on the bill making the
appropriation for an increased clerical force
to carry out the provisions of the Dependent
Pension law, and it was agreed to.
Mr. Henderson, of Illinois, submitted the
report of the Committee on Rivers and Har
bors on the Senate amendment to the river
and harbor bill, recommending non-concurrence
in these amendments, and agree
ing to the conlerence asked by the Senate.
Mr. Kerr, of Iowa, raised the point of
order that the amendments must first be
considered by committee of the whole. This
point being sustained by the Speaker, the
House resolved itself into committee of the
whole for the consideration ot the measure.
Mr. Henderson said that Senate amend
ments increased the appropriation carried
by the bill abont $5,000,000. It was this in
crease which the committee asked the House
to non-concur in.
LOOKING OUT FOB ASHTABULA.
Mr. Burton, of Ohio, endeavored vainly
to secure a concurrence in the Senate
amendment increasing from $20,000 to $40,
000 the appropriation for the improvement
of Ashtabula harbor.
The Senate amendment providing for the
purchase ot Portage Lake and Biver Im
provement Company canal, and the Lake
Superior ship canal and Bailway and Iron
Company canal was non-concurred in. ,
Mr. Snyder, of Minnesota, advocated the
adoption of the Senate amendment making
an appropriation for improvement ot St
Mary's river. He was seconded by Mr.
Comstockj of Minnesota, but the amend
ment was non-concurred in.
After non-concurring in abont half of the
Senate amendments the committee rose.
Mr. Mason, of Illinois, rising to 'a ques
tion of privilege, said that some days ago a
resolution bad been adopted alleging that a
certain gentleman had been fraudulently
using the mails to create a sentiment in
favor of the Conger lard bill, and calling
on the Postoffice Department for informa
tion on the subject.
A POINTED CHARGE.
The resolution' had been tent to the Post
office Department with the request that the
papers in regard to the matter be trans
mitted promptly. This had not been done.
He had called at the Department three or
four times, and had been informed that
probably the papers would not be sent up
n?"' ""day night, ahen they would be
ol no use,as the previous question on the bill
wa3 ered at 4 P. M. to-morrow, iiis
charge was that lmnroner influence had
been broueht to bear upon a department of
the Government to retain certain papers in
its nossession. InfInence.social or riolitical.
had been brought to bear to withhold from
,the members of the House information in
regard to pending legislation. The Chief
Clerk or the Postoffice Department had
denied him access to the papers for the pur
pose of making copies of them for use in
the debate. He wanted the facts brought
before the House, and he moved that a com
mittee of three members be appointed to
waitppon the Postmaster General and ask
that the papers be furnished in time to be
used in the debate.
PASSING PENSION BILLS.
Before any action was taken the House
took recess, the evening session to be for the
consideration p( private pension bills.
At this session the House passed (on mo
tion of Mr. O'Neill, or Pennsylvania,) a
bill granting a pension of $50 a month to
Caroline H. "White, widow of George B.
"White, late chief of the Bureau of Yards
and Docks. Thirty-two other private pen
sion bills were passed.
V
PENUSYLVAHIA POPTjrtATIOITS.
t
The Fonrlb D strict Census Rrtnrns bbo
n Gratifying- Increase.
IFBO- A EMIT COBEISP0KDKST.1
"Washington, August 22. The Census
Office to-day completed the count of the
Fourth Pennsylvania Supervisors' District
by counties, and the principal towns in those
counties. It is found that the total popu
lation of the district is 425,645. In 1880 it
was 345,598, so that the increase in the ten
years has been 80.047, or at the rate of 23.16
per. cent. The figures in detail are as
follows:
Counties.
Pop
1S90.
lop
ISM.
I In
crease. Columbia
Danphln
lebanon...... ...........
Montour
Iiorttinmberlana
behuylklll
Towns .
Berwick
Uloorasbnrg
Lvkens ..
Uarrlebnrg
illddleton
Meelto.i
Lebanon .,...
Danville
Milton
31t. Carmel
.Northumberland
Bhamokln .....
Banbury '
Uirardrille
Gllberton
Mabanoy.... ............
JUlnersTllle
PotttTlllr
Port Carbon
bt. Clair
Schuylkill Haven
bhenandoah
Tain aqua
86. 844
86,85)
43.(04
15,595
74.539
153.757
2,899
4,033
2.4J9
40. 1M
31409
76,148
33,476
15.458
4. 435
20.708
9,378
127
21,416.
23,783
63.123
173,974
2.093
3.7U2
2.134
S0.76'
664
e?s
275
9,402
1,749
6,783
727
3,203
6,865
450
S.155
1,689
854
570
4,110
249
Ml
310
2,784
379
3,233
1,003
5,100
9,230
14.734
9.0"
6.505
8,243
2,745
14,339
3.331
2.447
8,778
8346
2,102
2.378
2 293
8,184
4.077
2,730
3,093
6.7KI
X.5M
3,653
11.31
S49S
7,181
3.219
13.233
2. 346
4.149
14.194
1,976
6.V.U
2.673
13,445
4.667
3,032
10,147
5,730
AMENDED AND STRENGTHENED.
A New Alien Contracr Labor
Imrr Pre-
enled to Concrras.
"Washington, August22. An amended
alien contract labor law bill was presented
in the House to-day from the Committee on
Labor. Its principal features are as. fol
lows:
It is made nnlawful on the part of an alien to
enter tbe United States under any contract to
perform labor or service.
If a master of a vessel shall bring any such
alien into tbe United States be shall beside be
ing subject to fine and imprisonment, be re-'I
qnired to return tne auea to wo port oi em
barkation. It shall not be lawfol for any person or cor
poration to encourage any alien laborer, me
chanic or artisan to emigrate from any foreign
country to the United States by promise of
employment, through advertisement or other
wise. Any alien tbns encouraged to emigrate
shall not be permitted to remain in tbe United
States.
The provisions of the act shall not apply to
professional actors, artists, lecturers, regularly
ordained ministers of tbe Gospel. learned pro
fessors for colleges and seminaries or prof es
clonal singers.
Beemersio Hard Lock.
"V7ASHlif GTOJT, August 22. The special
agent sent to Oklahoma by Secretary 2Toble
has returned and made bis report. He eon
firms the stories of destitution existing there,
and sayi aid should be sent once.
A FUNNY INVESTIGATION.
COMMISSIONER RAUM HAS A GOOD TIME,
BUT COOPER GETS MAD.
,
The Bookn or the Refrleerator Company
Opened to the Committee, bnt tbo Proa-
ecntor I not Allowed to See Them A
Question of Procedure.
"Washington, August 22. Commis
sioner Baum continued his testimony be
fore the Investigating Committee to-day.
He said that some of the money he obtained
from Lemon went into the refrigerator com
pany, but declined to state how much.
Mr. Cooper presented an article published
June 9, containing a denial of truth of the
charges brought by Mr. Cooper.
The Commissioner denied that the article
had been prepared in his office antfEaken to
General Boyton. He had had a number of
interviews about that time with newspaper
men on this subject.
Commissioner Baum said that probably
Mr. Lemon bad spoken to him about ad
vanced cases before he submitted bis letter.
Certainly other attorneys had done so. As
to the system of completed files, the witness
said that the pension office relied solely
upon the certificate of the attorney, who
was assumed to be a credible person, being
accredited by a conit that the case was com
plete and ready for action.
A LITTLE TILT.
Mr. Cooper remarked that he objected to
that procedure?
"xou didn't always object," replied the
Commissioner.
Mr. Cooper wished to know what he
meant, and the witness replied: "You
have filled hundreds and thousands of slips
for attornevs."
Mr. Cooper As a member of Congress?
"Witness Yes, but for attorneys.
Mr. Cooper Well, I did not do it while
you were in office.
The Commissioner produced a statement
of the cases on the completed files, showing
that there were now 115.E64 such cases, in
cluding 8,110 of Mr. Lemon's cases. Pour
other attorneys had 4,568, 4,101, 3,253 and
1,765 cases respectively on the files. The
pension firm which had present the largest
number ot completed cases this month was
Marriny & Co., Mr. Cooper's friends.
COOPEB GETS MAD.
This concluded the Commissioner's ex
amination, and Martin Bally, Chief of the
Law Division of the Pension Bureau, was
called and gave testimony relative to the
office practice, adding that no particular
consideration had ever been shown in the
treatment ot Mr. Lemon's cases as he knew
absolutely.
Commissioner Baum next produced the
stock book of the refrigerator company and
furnished a list of stockholders, which was
verified by the committee. He testified that
it contained the name of no employe in the
Pension Office except his "own, and that no
stock was ever offered to any employe.
Mr. Cooper deolared that the proceeding
was ex parte; that it was beneath the
dignity of a member of Congress or respect
able attorney to participate iu such an in
vestigation (he had not been permitted to
look at the stock book).
The committ:e offered to allow him to in
spect the verified list, but he refused to do
so unless he could obtain access to the books
themselves. So the committee adjourned to
meet September 1.
HLBED BY UNCLE SAIL
People Who Ilnre Obtained IJIore or Less
Fnt Public Rjhceti.
"Washington, August 22. The follow
ing nominations were sent to the Senate
to-day:
William Grimes, United States Marshal for
Oklahoma.
Abraham X. Parker, of New York, Assistant
to Attorney General.
Peter Bonan, Montana, Indian Agent Flat
head Agency, Montana.
Postmasters Andrew Stranahan, Sigonrney,
la,, George L. Siebrecht, la Grange, Tex.;
John L. Kent, Circleville. O.; Samuel M.
Altenbangb, White Sulphur Springs, Mont.; C.
Elliot 'Moore, Cherrynlle, Kan.
BUYING UP SnVEB.
The Monthly Purchases to be Kept Within
tbe Prescribed Limits.
"Washington, 'A'ugnst 22. The offers
for the sale of silver to-day amounted to 1,
20,000 ounces. The amount purchased was
350,000 ounces as iollows: 100,000 ounces at
SL19.3; 100,000 at $1.19.4; 150,000 ounces
at $1.19.5.
Secretary Nettleton said this afternoon
that tbe silver purchases for the present
month would be limited to a proportionate
percentage of the total months quota of
4,500,000 ounces,' so that hereafter the
amount purchased might be reckoned by
calendar months.
ENOCK-OUT FOB LOTTEBIES.
A North Dakota Man Proposes to Amend
the Constitution.
"Washington, August 22. Eepresenta
tive Hansbrough, of North Dakota, has in
troduced in the House a joint resolution
proposing an amendment to tbe constitu
tion providing that neither the United
States nor any State shall pass a law au
thorizing tbe establishment or maintenance
of a lotterv or any scheme for the distribu
tion of prizes by chance.
More Bond Purchases.
"Washington, August 22. The Secre
tary of the Treasury to-day purchased 5171,
600 4s at 124, and Jl.783,700 4Js, under the
provisions of the department circular of
August 21.
KILLED OK A TLAGSHLP.
Sailors Receive Fatal Wounds by tbe DIs
chnrsre of a Gan
San Francisco, August 22. The
steamer Oceanic arrived this after
noon, 22. days from Hong Kong, 13
from Yokohama. . On. July 31 the
United States flagship Omaha returned
to Yokohama, from target practice outside
of tbe bay and reported Carl Bmanuelson
and J. E. Kirke, of Baltimore, sponger, had
been killed by the premature discharge
from a Dahlgren gun.
Kirke was blown from the vessel and his
remains could not be found. Emanuelson
was terribly mangled.
FROST IN MANITOBA
Reports State That Damntre to Craps Has
Been Tremendoai.
Montbeal, August 22. A cipher dis
patch received to-day from Manitoba by a
leading broker was.. a topic of conversa
tion on 'Change. Tbe dispatch said that
a frost ranging 2 to 5 below had
prevailed over the whole province of
Manitoba and the territories, and that
about 75 per cent of the crop had
been injured more or less severely. The
general opinion here is that estimates of the
extent ot the damage must be purely con
jectural as yet .
THE QUINCY VICTIMS.
Those Injured in tbe Wreck Progressing;
Toward Recovery.
Boston, August 22. The reports from
Quincy Hospital to-night are more favorable
than at any time since the accident. Little
Elizabeth Fenley was to-day able to take
a little nourishment and that was considered
a most favorable sign. Captain Abbott has
impro.ved q little, and Lucy Johnson, the
Fenley's colored nurse, has been promised
that she can sit up in a few days.
Bev. P. Id". Dimmick and his wife, of Los
Angeles, are very low, bnt there are some
ehsnees of their recovery
At $1 a yard silk-faced trimming velvets
a complete assortment of all the new fall
colorings now opened.
otssh Hugus Ss Hag
rt
A FARMER CANDIDATE
Likely to be Chosen to Head
Buckeye Democratic Ticket,
the
to satisfy the aural element.
Tits
Coming Convention Kot Likely
"Develop Any Hig Fights.
to
DELEGATE SCHAfPER IS AEKESTED.
Dr. McKinney Tells Way Ho Preferred the Charge
of Conspiracy.
Ohio Democrats hold their State Conven
tion next Tuesday. The agricultural ele
ment is likely to show considerable strength.
Dr. McKinney says he charged conspiracy
against the alleged Beaver boodlers, so that
no guilty might escape. Delegate Schaffer
was arrested yesterday.
CotUMBtrs, August 22? The Democratic
State Convention, which convenes at Spring
field next Tuesday, promises to be devoid of
interest so far as any contest is concerned.
The leaders of the party seem to have settled
down to the idea that they must nominate
a farmer as a matter of party policy, but be
yond this there is no suggestion as to the
character of a candidate for the head of the
ticket. A big bid is to be made for the sup
port of the rural constituency and an effort
will be made to meet the demands outlined
by the agriculturalists at their recent con
vention' in this city. T. F. Cromley, of
Pickaway county, member of the present
Legislature, will' probably be selected, as
there does not seem any decided opposition
to the mention of his name.
' TO PLEASE THE FAEMEES.
There area few who think it would be
.best to nominate a strong party man and one
who can make himself heard on the stump,
but this element is in tbe minority. Mr.
Cromley makes no pretentions as an orator,
and if selected, it will be solely on tbe
grouud that he is a farmer, though not
prominent in the organizations of his pro
fession. Bobert Blee, ot Cleveland, former
general manager of the Bee Line road, has
been suggested, but th'ere does not appear
anything like an uprising in his behalt. It
is urged he would be strong with the rail
road men, but that element of the party in
the State is hardly of sufficient strength to
go after directly and the ignoring ot other
interests' which appear to be more promi
nent and politic.
Howard Douglas, of Cincinnati, and A.
P. Butterfield, ot the same city, have been
suggested'for tbe head of the ticket. Doug
las was at one time at the head or the
Knights ot Pythias of the United States, an
organization in which it is conceded there
is more politics than any other of the secret
societies, and Butterfield is a traveling man
and formerly a member of the Legislature.
M. Stewart, of Portage county, is mentioned
for Supreme Judge, and the candidates for
Board of Pnblic Works, so far as beard
from, are from Miami and Butler counties.
THE CAMPAIGN KETNOTE.
Kailroad Commissioner Norton, Chair
man of the State Central Committee, and
Warner Opes, Secretary, have arranged
that the district delegations shall hold their
meetings at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening,
v hen members of the various "committees
will be selected, including a new State
Central Committee, hnd "Wednesday morn
ing at 10 o'clock the convention "will be
called to order, and Hon. C. "W. Baker, of
Cincinnati, the temporary chairman, will
make a?speecb, which, it fs designed, shall
be the keynote of the campaign.
There is only one feature of interest
viewed from the present distance, and that
is the make-up of the State Central Com
mittee and the selection of a State Execu
tive Committee. Hon. James E. Keal, of
Hamilton, who wasChairman of the com
mittee which made snch a cood showing for
Governor Campbell, has refused to continue
in the position for the coming campaign, and
the Treasurer, John A. Sarber has also de
clined a re-election. George "W. Meeker,
the Secretary, died a few days since, hence
there will be an entirely new deal so far as
the management of the coming campaign on
the part ot the Democrats is concerned.
DB. JTKINNEY EXPLAINS.
He TnlKs Abont His Cbarae of Consplrncy,
nml l lie Chnrso Attains! Him.
Netv Brighton, August 22. Dr. David
McKinney was seen this evening in regard
to his action in making information yester
day at New Castle against "W. S. "Wallace,
Esq., of that place, and Edward Schaffer,
of Beaver Falls, charging them with con
spiracy to bribe delegates to the last conven
tion at New Castle; also as to the charge
that the doctor, who is President of the
Examining Board of Pension Surgeons of
this district, has refused to grant certificates
to poor and disabled soldiers because the
latter were unable to pay for them. He
said as to the first:
The question being raised by various parties
as to the scope of the special bribery act, on
advice of my attorney, .Messrs. Hurts, ot New
Castle, and ttlce and Bigger, of Beaver, I made
a second information under the common law
of conspiracy, so that none mlplu escape on a
technicality who was guilty. Bo far as we can
gather Schaffer and Wallace, with others un
known, are the conspiring spirits who induced
the men to commit tbe crime. Bchatfer was
master of ceremonies for the "boodlers," and
Wallace acted in the same capacity for the
bribers."
As to the charge affecting himself the
Doctor said:
I never charged for a pension certificate in
my life, but in all cases wnero I give a written
medical opinion or affidavit in my private ca
pacity as a practicing physician I charge the
customary fee of Jo, the same as all other doc
tors do lor like papers, without considering
whether tbe man is a soldier or not. It is the
smallest sum of the (ee bill for written testi
mony, and I would always rather do without
the fee than hava tbe trouble aud responsibili
ty of furnishing the papers. These fellows are
trying to convey the impression that I bare, as
x-enuon surgeon, vioiaiea tne rules ana regula
tions of tbe Pension Department. The object is
to prejudice the minds of jnrors in Lawrence
county against me as prosecutor in tbe bribery
case or to Intimidate me as to the further pros
ecution thereof. It cannot have the effect of in
timidating me, and I don't believe it will influ
ence tbe citizens of Lawrence county.
DELEGATE SCHAFFEB ABBESTED.
Farther Lccnl Action la the Twenty-Fifth
Dislrict Brlberv Case,
Beavee Falls, August 22. This after
noon at a late hour Edwin Schaffer, one of
the delegates from this (Twenty-fifth Con
gressional) district, allesed to .have been
bribed, was arrested by Marshal Stevens, of
New Castle, on a charge of conspiracy. He
at once gave hail in the sum ol $1,000 before
Justice Piper, Titus AVelsh going bis bail.
Schaffer was seen this evening by your re-
Eorter, and in regard to the arrest said he
ad nothing to go on record now. They
could do nothing witn him, and it was all
wind work at any event.
s
An Independent Candidate.
tSrZCllL TELXOBA TO TUX DI8PATCB.fc
Bellefante. Angust 22. Hon. T. P.
Bynder. State Chairman of the United
Labor party, and former candidate for Con
gress on the Bepublican and United Labor
tickets,, has announced his independent
candid-icy for State Seuator. He will also
probably be indorsed by the Bepublicans.
The Conference Tnkea a Rest.
Saltsburo, August 22. The conference
has adjourned to meet at the Chambers
House, Apollo, September 30. Two hnndred
and sixty-two ballots have been taken since
"Wednesday, and the situation still remains
unchanged. '
Independents Indorse Paulson.
rSrXCIAL TXLZSBV TO TBSSISrATOB.
Wbbk. Pa., August 23. A meeting
M i - .-- '-- - r - - -..
of the Independent Bepublicans was held
to-night for permanent organization. It
starts off with over 200 members. Itin
o"ed Pattison for Governor and Chas. H.
ioyesDemocrat, for President Judge.
A C0HTEST P0B CHArBMAIISB3P
Likely to be a Featnro of the Blair County
, Primaries.
rSPICUI, TELXGEAM TO THE DISFATCH.1
Ai.toona, August 22. The Democratic
primary election will be held in this city
to-morrow evening. The factions are hard
at work and each are confident of success.
The principal fight will be over the Chair
manship ot the County Committee.
Thomas J. Burke, a prominent business
man of this city, and John Dunphy, the
present Chairman.are leaders in the contest.
From present indications Burke will carry
this city, and his friends claim that Dunphy
will not be in the fight after the votes are
counted.
In the Third ward an effort will be made
to defeat the delegates who have pronounced
for Thomas A. Greevy for Congress. The
crusade is being made by the friends of
Dunphy. Their opposition will not amount
to mncb, and the Greevy delegates will go
through with a rush. The convention will
be held in Hollidaysburg on Monday, and
it promises to be full of interest on account
of the split on the chairmanship. So far
very few names have been mentioned in
connection with the offices to be filled,
i
CALIFOBHIA DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
List of Nominations Made In the Bis State on
tbe Pacific Slopr.
San Jose, Gal., August 22. The Demo
cratic State Convention completed their
nominations to-day, as follows: As
sociate Justice of the Supreme
Court, Judge J. N. Coffee, of San
Francisco, and George A. Smith, Los
Angeles: Secretary of State, "W. "W. C.
Hendricks; Controller, J. C. Dunn; Treas
urer, Adam Herald; Attorney General, "W.
C. Graces; Surveyor General, S. C. Boon;
Superintendent o'f Schools, Henry C. Hall;
Cleric Supreme Court, J. D. Spencer.
The Filth Congressional district renomi
nated Thomas J. Clunie.
THE JUDICIAL VIEW.
THE QUESTION OF FRANCHISE GIVEN
LEGAL ATTENTION
The Power of the State to Uegulate Suf
frageToo Report of the Judiciary
Committee It Cialms All the Power Re
quired. jACKSON,Miss.,Aucust22.--The judiciary
committee of tbe constitution submitted its
report to-day. It is signed "Wily P. Harris,
chairman, but was written ,by ex-Chief
Justice Simerall, a veteran Bepublican.
The report says in part:
The committee to whom Is referred the fol
lowing resolntion:
Resolved. That the Judiciary Committee
be requested to make a special report at as
early a day as possible upon the effect of tbe
act of Congress, re-admlttlng Mississippi into
tbe Union, limiting the right of' the State of
Mississippi to impose certain restrictions upon
the right of franchise, and otherwise prohibit
ing tbe State from changing the- Constitution
of the State of Mississmoi adopted iirlSOT. so
far as the said act shall affects the work of this
convention, beg leave to rerpectfully submit
the following report:
Without venturing to decide wbat Con cress
might possibly undertake to do by assumed
authority your committee proceeds at once to
consider the legal action submitted. In the
Federal Constitution tbere are several pro
visions which relate to tbe elective franchise.
The fourth section of the first article is as
follows:
"The times, placss and manner of holdins
elections for Senators and Representatives
shall be prescribed in each State by the Legis
lature thereof, bnt tbe Congress may at any
time by law change, make or alter such regula
tions, except as to the place of choosing Sena
tors." The powers onferred by this section is con
fined to a change by Congress of the time,
place and manner of holding an election fur
Representatives, ;. -determined and filed by
thn States. Cdnsress inavannoint a time and
manner for Congressional and Senatorial elec
tions. But who shall vote at the Congressional
elections whether both sexes or one. and at
wbat hour, whether the electors shall own
property, whether educated or not, is left pre
cisely where it was placed by the second sec
tion of tbe same article (1).
Tbo fourteenth amendment in terms recog
nizes the right of tbe State to determine who
shall vote, those classes which reduce the rep
resentation, if any male citizens of the United
States and of tbe State are excluded from tbe
franchise as a class. It is plain. In tbe opinion
of tbe committee, from this section of the Con
stitution that Congress cannot confer suffrage,
cannot make a voter, and that we must look to
the several States and their laws and constitu
tions to ascertain who are legally competent to
vote for federal elective officers.
The fifteenth amendment has but one opera
tion, and was engrafted in tbo Constitution for
tbe single purpose of laying an inhibition on
the State as discriminating against the colored
man, because of race or previous condition of
servitude.
If a property or edncational qualification
shall be thought wise, or expedient, or if the
Saymcnt of taxes, or a longer residence in
tate and county should be expedient either,
or all may be adopted provided they are ap
plied alike to both races. We aro of the
opinion that re-admlssion of this State into tbe
Union fully and forever settled the statutes of
the State thus re-admitted, and tbat
Congress thereby lost all control or
jurisdiction over this matter and
the States thus readmitted into tbe union be
came at once "ipso facto unux" under tbe
Constitution reinvested with all the sovereign
powers passed by any and all tbe other States.
W. H. Habbis, Chairman.
No action was taken on the report and after
disposing o rontlne business tbe convention
adjourned over till Monday.
TWO TRAINSJUN AWAY,
A BRACE OF FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENTS IN
THE FAR WEST. , '
Nineteen Cars Wrecked and Four SIrn
Killed on a California Road Three Men
Meet the Same Palo la a Similar Way
la Colorado.
EmigbantGap, Cal., August 22. A
serious freight wreck occurred at Cascade
early this morning, A train was standing
at Summit with airbrakes set while the
engineer went after more cars. The air
leaked and the band Brakes not being set
up, the caboose and several cars started
down grade. When the runaway train
reached Cascade another freight was pulling
in on a side track. All but tbe caboose and
one car cleared the main trace. The run
away train struck them and a wreck re
sulted. Conductor Kingsley, of the run
away, and Conductor Connelly and Brake
men Beaver and Levi, ot the other train,
were killed, and it is understood one or two
others were badly hurt. ..
Cascade station, a small structure, was
thrown down a precipitous hill, but the op
erator escaped. The snow sheds were de
molished lor some distance. Seventeen cars
of tbe runaway train and two of the other
train were piled up in a mass and the wires
prostrated. Wrecking trains are clearing
away tbe debris.
A dispatch from Denver says: Three men
were killed and three seriously injured by
the running wild of a stock: train in the
vicinity oi Lyons, Col., this morning. The
train was on a down grade, and without ap-
Iiarent reason the engineer found he had
ost control of the engine, whereupon the
whole train started on a wild run down the
mountain side. When Engineer Norton
found he could not control his engine, he
jumped and was killed. The fireman
then climbed back over the tender
and attempted to uncouple the engine
but was nnsaecessfnl.and sustained serious
injuries in jumping from tbe train. ""Both
brakemen jumped, one being almost in
stantly killed and the other sustained inju
ries from which he cannot recover. The
train eontinned on its career until the dump
was reached, when all the cars went over
and piled up in a promiscuous mast of
ruins.
The names of the killed were IT. Norton,
engineer; Ferguson, car repairer; "W. Gur
ken, car repairer. Injured: James Consi-
dme, conductor: J. B. Strayer, brakeman:
i;
James Miller, fireman.
MUD AND PHILOSOPHY
Form the Main Features of Yester
day's Chautanqaan Exercises.
A E0AST FOR MATTHEW ARNOLD.
His Statements iboat America Character
ized as Slanders.
THE FAGT0-I AS A FAMILY DESTE0IEE
Goiernor Bearer to Attend To-Day and Address the
Veterans.
Despite the rain at Chautauqua yesterday
tbe exercises were very entertaining. Dr.
Eairborn spoke on the attitude of literature
to religion, and incidentally fell afoul of
Arnold, Tyndall and Huxley. To-day will
be given up to the G. A. E., who will be
addressed by Governor Beaver.
rSFXCUX. TZLSOBA TO THE DISPATCH.!
Lake Chautauqua, Angust 22. Eain,
mud andv entertainment has made up the
programme of to-day, the former predomi
nating. Little puddles of water stood all
over the grounds, and were continually aug
mented by pouring showers, that made the
youth with the tennis suit and racauet seek
a mackintosh and an umbrella to keep the
little drops of water from his classic brow.
When it rains the name of the Chautauqua
denizen is not "mud," but "stic- in the
mud," and, like everything else at the dem
ocratic assembly, each one gets his share.
This is one thing at least that the assembly
owns exclusively on which there is no per
centage or debate.
Dr. Fairborn pleased many of the orthodox
this morning by his lecture on Matthew
Arnold and the attitude of religion,. in
which he said:
LITEBATUEE AKD EELIOION.
"The attitude of literature to religion is
always n most important and momentous
thing. The present is full of hope, for the
literature orthe present century is better
than that of any other. Compare the litera
ture of to-day with that of tbe Restoration.
Take the poets of the century. Yon find
them conscientious and religions. Take tbe
last halt the present century, and you find
our song presented by snch men of high
character as Tenhyson, who teaches charity
for women and virtue and purity for men,
and Browning, witn his eternal sense of
good. Poetic literature is but the mouth,
piece of God and religion. Newton,
whose works had none of the harshness of
his everyday life, and Charles and John
Wesley, who gave us the finest evangelical
literature, were the poets, indeed, who kept
alive the laith. Newman teaches us of the
life; Whittier makes us feel the kindly
speech of poetry.
"When we pass from poetry to fiction we
see a great difference. In the last century
there were three great novelists Fielding,
marvelous in genius, dealt with the un
cleanly; Sniollet, also very unclean, was no
pure writer for pure minded men. Richard
son is the only one of the three who can be
said to represent tbe good and religious.
EOMANCE AKD EETEBENCE.
"In our century look at Scott. "When
ever a man lives who can follow Scott he
has still faith in men. Thackeray, using his
immense satire to make the mean despised,
and Dickens making the rich In their
parlors feel a kinship with the poor in the
slums, Charles Kingley full of the faith of
God, and George Eliot alike noble iu her
works look at it, and do you not see that
the romance of this century is far better than
that ot the last century? Have not Bryant,.
Longfellow and Tennyson the power to'
show you the truth of God's faith? Among
our historians Hume and Gibbon, who
never missed an occasion to be scornful of a
man of any religion. In tbe present century
we nsve Arnold, wno menus ms religion
and history.
"Between men of the lastcenturv and the
men of this there is no comparison as to tbe
attitude toward religion. There has been a
complete change. In science we find men
the last century impious and irreverent,
while in this century you find scientists of
sceptical tendency.
ANIMATED ENCYCLOPEDIAS.
"There are Tyndall and Huxley, the ani
mated cyclopedias of this world, who know
everything. Huxley astonished himself
wjth his discoveries, though nobody else. It
is an invaluable thing or theory that we
have so many men who are acrnostics hut
only nostics, who, in fact, pretend to know
everything and know nothing. The most
distinguished mathematician in the world is
a most reverent man. In America we do
not forget such men as Agassiz and Gray.
Look at it through and through in poetry,
fiction, history and science, you will find
that authors, though men of genius, are
men of God. You find in ancient times
men like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle,
Sophacles, Empides, were all anxious to do
away with the old style of Greek religion.
Socrates died for his infidelity by tbe pois
onous hemlock.
"I wish to approach and construe
Mntinanr a nnU Ka malt a J i .i!
" .uuiu, nuu maucu iu ineuiaie
prenaturalism and the old faith. Arnold be
gan life as a thinkerpurelyandas an apostle
of culture, and be ended It as a man wbo
found that it was bis duty to interpret the
faith for the people. His life was in exact
contrast with that of Strauss.
COMMON SENSE CHEISTIANITT.
"As Arnold matured, felt the sorrow and
tasted the pain of life he came to believe in
the eternal meaning of Christ. He who
started as an exponent of art instead of re
ligion, ended with religion instead of
art. Matthew Arnold had a great mission
to perform in this age. He came to tell us
that the onl way to get at Christianity
was to get at the kernel, and that
kernel was morality. Many ministers have
forgotten righteodsness in their zeal
for souls. Arnold was often a very blind
man, and a man that cannot understand
living people cannot understand the dead.
He pronounced a most grave judgment when
be said tbat America was not interesting.
If he bad brought instead of an ideal of
culture an open eye that could have seen
all the progress of your institntions he
would not have said so. Then he would
have seen that everything in this county is
lull of interest for a man from England,
and that man a man of culture. He forgot
that the most important element in religious
life is the religious or ethical element. -
A BASELESS BEPEOACH.
"If ever there was a, profane and baseless
reproach pronounced against a people it was
these words oi Arnold's. He had forgotten
the noble Puritans, whose lives were as a
life of the saints, on earth. Arnold's great
mistake was his idea of tbe relation of man
and the deity."
Mrs. Helen Campbell closed the series of
instructive lectures on "Women and Social
Economics." "Looking to-day at the
future of woman, factory employment is a
great destroyer of the family. Children
wbo are put into the lactories at 10 and 12
years of age are olteu useless by the time
they are of age. The mother is
taken away from her children and
they grow up in ignorance and vice. Tbe
experimental lesson of Bellamy's book,"
she said, "has popular sentiment with it,
but it is as wide of tbe mark as the dreams
of tbe past. Each man tor himself is the
sentiment of the past, the present and' im
mortality, no man can acquire for another;
no man can grow for another. At all points
women are banding together for mutual
help in clubs and organizations.
ELEOTBICrXY'a MISSION.
"It is possible that this new and portable
power of electrieity may do away with the
laotory and return us' to borne avocations. It
is certain tbat the processes in factories are
constantly changing. The better day for
which we hope and work is shaping itself
ior the future. An . almost everlasting
ior me inture. an . almost everlasting
jpatienco - needed in the addrw of oar a&Xs
tention to tbe individual. There is not alone
the man, but it is the man and woman to
gether, always equal, but always different,
who shall work out this question."
In tbe afternoon Prof. A. J. Marks, assist
ed by Dr. J. S. 03trander, gave an Oriental
exhibition in the Amphitheater, having some
20 people on the platform dressed in the cos
tumes ol the Holy Laud, making a very
novel entertainment-To-morrow
is G. A. E. Day, and veterans
from all over the country are here to cele?
brate their annual visit to Chautauqua.
Governor Beaver will be tbe orator of the
day. ,
BUILDING WILL STOP.
CHICAGO UNION CARPENTER9 CERTAINLY
BOOKED FOR A STRIKE,
Overtoree Scornfully Rrjectrd by theBoiiee'
Association Thirty Thousand Work
men I.lkolT to Became Idle aad Baslness
Completely Snsprnded.
Chicago, August 22. At a meeting of
tbe Executive Committee of the Master
Builders and Carpenters' Association,
familiarly known as the Old Bosses' Asso
ciation, held this afternoon, the overtures
made by thejourneymen carpenters' council
for an amicable settlement of the differences
existing, was answered by a communication,
which can hardly fail to further separate
the organizations, and the determination on
the part of the carpenters to strike Septem
ber 1. .
At Thursday night'lfmeeting of the Car
penters' Council it was resolved to make
another effort to avert a strike, by offering
to arbitrate with the bosses the existing
troubles. With this object in view, the
council nnanimouslv adonted an address.
which was sent to the master builders,
agreeing to submit all differences to arbi
tration. The reply of the bosses this after
noon sarcastically refers the journeymen to
the latter's relusal to arbitrate in the" spring,
when the bosses were willing to
submit to any tribunal every question
except that of their right to employ
non-unionists. The reply also enumerates"
alleged offenses of the unionists during the
summer in sluertrine non-union men. raidincr
I buildings, etc. It is further declared that
no union men except those wbo have delib
erately lied are in tbe employ of old bosses,
and that the employers would welcome a
strike of all snch.
As the new Bosses' Association have also
refused to arbitrate, there is apparently no
recourse for the Carpenters' Union except
surrender or a new general strike. Should
the 6,000 members of the union qnit, it is
estimated tbat within two weeks 30.000other
L workmen will quit and that building trades
ot unicago will be brouzht to a standstill.
MAKTKQ EAHD STEIDES.
President Polk Gives tbe Farmers' Alliance
a Final Send-Offi
rcriCTAI. TXCGBtf TO THI DISPATCH.1
Mt. Gbetna, August 22. Five thou
sand people were present at the Farmers'
Encampment to-day, which, for a Friday,
is considered a large attendance. Colonel L.
L. Polk, President of the Farmers' Kational
Alliance, addressed a considerable number
of agriculturists and others in the audi
torium. He showed that the order of which be
was the head was making rapid strides, and
that neither of the political parties in tbe
country had done anything to relieve the
farmer. While he did not advocate separate
political action by the alliance, he advised
its members to discriminate in favor or their
friends when thev voted. The Exhibitors'
Union, to whose efforts primarily
the encampment is due, this after
noon adopted a resolntion to have an
other encampment at Mt Gretna next
year, in view of tbe success of the one just
closing. A resolntion' was also adopted
thanking Bobert H. Coleman for the im
portant part he took in making the engage
ment a success in other words, for tbe
money be expended in- providing proper ac
commodations for the display of farm and
other machinery.
This afternoon much of the machinery was
removed, preparatory to being taken to
Williams' Grove. About one-third of the
machinery will be taken to that place, but
tbe manufacturers represented by the Ex
hibitors' Union, will have very little ma
chinery at the old picnic ground.
HOW THEY LIGHT CIGABS.
International Comparisons Made
In
Cunnrd feraokers' Room.
"Did you ever notice," said Dr. Hamil
ton, of the Cunarder Scytbia, just before
her last departure for the other side, "the
peculiarities in cigar-lighting practiced by
men of different nationalities?
"No? Well, there is no better place in
tbe world to note these little oddities than
in the smoking room of an ocean steamer.
"Now, for instance take a Frenchman. If
a party are sitting down for a smoke he will
scratch a match, wait till the brimstone has
exhausted itself, and with a smile and gra
cious bow will pass it to his nearest neigh
bor before lighting his own weed.
"The German, after igniting the match,
will first light his own cigar and then offer
the match to his friend. Bnt the oddest
character of all is tbe Englishman. His
weed ready for use he will inflame his
match, light his cigar, and, without a
thought of the others, will deliberately drop
the Jucifer into the nearest receptacle."
THE BAIL WAT BEATER.
Action of the Slate Commissioners Upheld
by the Iowa Court.
Iowa City, Ia., August 22. Judge
Fairall filed a decision to-day in the case of
ot the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and North
ern Railroad Company against the Iowa
State Railway Commissioners, overruling
a motion to dissolve the temporary injunc
tion restraining the commission of establish
ing and promulgating joint rates authorixed
by act of the last Legislature.
Judge Fairall held that tbe act requires
the companies to perform without regard to
their, ability to comply or to the solvency ol
those to whom their property will be in
trusted. 6TJDDIT DROP T TEMPERATURE.
Within 4 Decrees or the Lowest Point
Beached Daring Angnst.
The temperature lastanight and early this
morning fell to nearly as low a point as it
has been known to reach at this time of the
year in this city. At midnight the mercury
registered 66, and at 3 o'clock 64.
This is within tour points oi the lowest
temperature reached here in the month of
August The indications are that it will be
colder yet
T totaled ibe Insurance Laws,
r SPECIAL TXLXOBa TO THS DISPATCH.
Bbaddock, August 22. -'Squire Holtz
man sent to jail in default of bail to-day R.
R. Powers, who was placed under arrest by
Detective Gibson, tor negotiating contracts
of insurance by placing risk without hav
ing procured a certificate of authority from
tbe Insurance Commissioner. He was a so
licitor for the Commonwealth Beneficial
Association of Philadelphia.
Exposition Notes.
Mattings, linoleums, oif cloths and car
pets made and laid on shortest possible
notice. Muslins, sateens and silk draperies
in stock and put up at short notice.
Hoppee Bbos. & Co.. 307 "Wood street
iiwrssa
Ladles' 50c, 75 o and 81 Fancy Lisle and
Cotton Hose Now at 35c.
Special lot of children's stainless black
ribbed cotton hose 48c, formerly 85c and f 1.
A. G. Campbell & Bon s, 27 Fifth are.
Attend Oar Blaaket Sale.
Buy now against a time of need. You'll
never get such bargains again.
JOS. HOENB & CO. '3
-wt 4JMM Storey
DEATH'S RAPID RIDE' fc-
-J-
Broken Brakes Lose Control of a ' ,
Gravity Railroad Car and It
DASHES DOWN THE MOUNTAIN SIDE
Panic-Strlcken Passengers Leap to Certain
Destruction. -
A PLTJKGB 0TEE A 40-FOi'T CLIFF.
Four Persons Instantly Silled, and Slsar Seriously to
Jnred.
A frightful accident, due to defective
brakes, occurred on the ML 1'enn Gravity
Railroad yesterday. Control was lostof a car
full of passengers, and it ran away down
the mountain side at a frightful speed.
Several jumped and were killed, and thosa
who stayed in the car fared bnt little better,
as it finally left the track and plunged over
a 40-foot embankment
rsrjeCU TXLZOBAH TO THE DI3FATCH.1
Reading, August 22. By an awful
blunder on tbe part ot some person not yet
fixed upon, a horrible accident took place
this forenoon on tne Monut Penn Gravity
Railroad, which resulted in the instant
death ot four persons,' the fatal injury of at
least three, and severe and painful injuries
to a dozen or more.
A closed excursion car containing about
20 passengers, and drawn by a locomotive,
left the gravity station at 10 o'clock and
proceeded up Mt. Penn. The ascent is
gradually made, a distance of 4J miles to
the summit, about 1,200 feet above sea level.
The train reached a level about S00 feet
from the summit, where it stopped. The
engine, according to the custom, uncoupled,
ran ahead to a switch, and returned to get
behind tbe car to push it to the summit
During this time it was noticed that the
brakes of the cardid not hold it, and chocks
of wood were placed under thewheels to pre
vent it rolling backward. The train hands
fell to work- to repair tbe brake, and when
Engineer Kendall was ready to push, the
report was made to him that
ALL WAS EIGHT
and he pnshed the car up to the summit
and there let it go, as the car from that
point descends the mountain alone eight
miles by a circuitous route and by gravity.
Instead of stopping for awhile at the sum
mit tower to allow passengers to view tha
scenery, the car went right ahead, the crew
being "unable to stop it Tbe car rapidly
left tbe summit, and so quickly disappeared
that the engineer, who saw the trouble.
'started his engine to catch the car, but was
nnable to overtake it, .On sped the car, in
creasing in velocity at every second. It
proceeded a mile, safely turned the north
enrve, and then began its frightful descent
Conductor Rettew, fully realizing all,
turned to the panic-stricken passengers, told
them the control of tbe car had been lost,
tbat they could jump for their lives if they
wished, bnt that he would stick to the car.
By this time they were descending at tha
rate of nearly a mile a minute. Women and
children screamed and held on to their hus
bands and fathers, imploring them not to
jump. Frantic efforts were made to operate
the brakes, bnt all in vain. The road
is skirted with stumps and rocks, and
to jump implied probably instant death.
JUMPING TO DEATH.
Finally Brakeman Frank Helter, seeing
Antietam curve ahead, leaped from tbe car,
lauded on his back and lay as if dead. This
incited others, and Mrs. Nathan Scbetler
and Mrs. Cooper, the latter with a babe ia
her arms, all of Allcntown, resolved to
lamp also, and bidding all a hasty good
bye, leaped forward, and to tbe intense hor
ror of the panic-stricken passengers, tbey
saw the two women and babe laud on their
beads and roll over down a bank. They
laid as if dead. Faster and faster the car
flew down the road. It had Been about six
minutes making the four miles traversed.
Another mile remained. Conductor
Rettew looked ahead and saw Cemetery
curve very near. He must have known the
car could not possibly get around that sharp
tnrn. Still he remained, a3 did the others.
The next instant tbe car reached the curve
and with a frightful jump forward and with
a rushing noise it leaped from the rails and
went crashing down a forty foot embank
ment amid trees and rocks, turning upside
down and crushing the people under it into
the stumps and rocks. The heavy car tore
off trees 16 inches in diameter so frightful,
so swift was the velocity of its descent Then
were heard the groans of the dying and tha
mangled victims.
THE WORK OI" EESCTJE.
The scene of the accident was abont a
square up the hill from the place of start
ing, and in a few moments a crowd bad.
gathered and set to work getting out tha
dead and wounded.
The dead conductor, Charles Rettew, aged
S3, who leaves a wife and several children,
was first found dead ten yards from the
wrecked car. He had' been hurled against
a tree. A frightful gash was cat in the left
side of his forehead, and all his limbs were
broken. Under the rear end of tbe wrecked
car, wedged against stumps and rocks,
was next found the frightfullv mangled
body o f Edgar M. Le van, a young lawyer. He
had been instantly killed.
POUETEEJT UfJUBED PASSEXOEES.
All around these dead people lay about a
dozen people in a heap, all badly injured.
They are: ,
MRS. WILLIAM A. H. SCHMEHL; wife of a
Reading lawyer, suffering from concussion of
the brain, rightleg broken, left leg sprained,
head cut, severe Drmses about the body, and
not expected to lire. ,
WILLIE, her 10-year-old son, both legs broken.
MISS KATE HOMAN, milliner, lower limb!
bruised, head cut and body bruised.
MRS. HIRAM SCHETLER, wife of a Read
ing livery man, scalp torn from the back: of
tbe head, gashes in the face, limbs and back
braised very seriously.
MARY GUTHRIE, Wilmington. Del., head
badly cnt and face gashed. Mrs. Guthrie
was visiting Mrs. Scbmehl, and accompanied
heron tbe gravity trip.
MRS. ARNOLD LEWIS, of Allentown, wrist
broken, head and limbs bruised. ,
BESSIE KELLY. West Chester, left leg
broken below the knee.
KATIE KELLY, sister of Bessie, contused
wounds. Both were guests of Miss Kato'
Homan. '
MRS. BYRON SMITH, of Wilmington, skull
fractured and expected to die.
MR. ANDJJKS. CORNELIUS HANLON.ot
Wissahickon, with their two children, 2 and
S years old. Mr. Hanlon sustained slizbt
contused wonnds; Mrs. Hanlon received a
gash to the bone on the right leg midway be
tween the knee aqd ankle. The oldest child
sustained wounds on the bead and face, and
tbe youngest child had concussion of tbe
brain, and may die. This family croncbed
upon tbe car floor when it went down, and
were thrown npon tbe dead.
MISS WEILER, daughter of John WeUer.oI
Allentown, very severe body bruises.
HELPLESS AND UN CONSCIOUS. '
Parties were sent out to bring in the peo
ple in who jumped off. They were found
helpless and unconscious where they felL
Mrs. Cooper bad severe scalp wounds and "
was hurt internally. Her babe was vomit- '
ing blood and it is tbough't will die. Mrs.
Nathan Schletler bad gashes in the face,
both arms lacerated and contused wounds ia
the head, and Brakeman Helter was inter
nally injured. Mrs. Scbmehl is reported
dying to-night Doctors and ambulances
quickly remaved all the victims to the city.
Coroner Hoffman and his jury is now in
vestigating the cause of the accident The "
company has been experimenting with air
brakes, and the fatal car had one of these
attached. Whether experimenting had
anything to do witn tne accident has vet Vj-Jj
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