AWARBIOB
DROWNED
The Celebrated Fighter, Osman
Pasha, Goes Down to the
Bottom of the Sea
WITH 500 OTHER TURKS.
A Man-of-War Sinks After a Career
Abounding in Mishaps.
STARVATION NARROWLY AVERTED
And Officers SeTeral Times on the Verge
of Rebellion.
CAREER. OF THE .NOTED WAR MIXISTER
By the foundering at sea of a Turkish
man-of-war 500 persons are reported to have
been drowned. Anions those lost wis Osman
Pasha, the renowned General. His interest
in? and remarkable career is briefly out
lined below.
London, September 19. An ocean dis
aster, attended with terrible loss of life, was
reported to-day. Advices from Hiogo state
that the Turkish man-of-war Erlzogroul has
loundered atsea, and that 500 of her crew
were drowned.
Oman Pasha, whose victory over the Rus
sians at Plevna gave him a high rank as a
fighting General, was on board, and was
lost He had been on an official visit to
Japan, having been intrusted with a special
mission from the Sultan to the Mikado.
The progress ef the Ertzogroul since she
left Constantinople for the East many
months ago, has been a most undignified
and ludicrous one.
EXD OF MANX ADVENTURES.
Leaving Turkey short of money it was un
derstood that supplies were to be sent for
her use to the ports at which she was to call
with the result that her sojourn in those
countries was indefinitely prolonged, as the
officers at home were not able to keep their
promises. In this way she lost some of her
crew, and her officers were many times
on the verge of rebellion induced
by starvation, while the Governors
of the cities visited refused to remit harbor
dues and grant other privileges that were of
right due ber as a Turkish man-of-war, on
the ground that she was not sailing in that
character. There was not powder enough
on board to enable her crew to fire the regu
lation salutes.
After many adventures, only worthy of
an opera bouffe navy, the Ertzogroul finally
arrived in Japanese waters, and it was on
her return voyage that the disaster oc
curred. osman's eaely life.
Ghazi Pasha was born at Tokat, Asia
Minor, in 1832. He was educated in Con
stantinople, graduating from the military
school in 1853. He entered the army as
a Lieutenant in the cavalry service in the
beginning of the Crimean War, on the staff
of Shumla. He was made a Captain of
the Imperial Guard at Constantinople
at the close of the campaign, for gallant ac
tion. Then he was made .Major and served
with honor from I860 to 1869 in Crete.
"When Crete was subjugated he was made
Colonel, and then was promoted to the rank
of Brigadier General and placed in com
mand of a division of the Fifth Army
Corps. This was in 18T8. In the Turco
Servia war he commanded the division of
the Turkish army at Widdin, and at its
close was made Moschir or Field Marshal.
At the beginning of the war with Russia
he was placed in command of 68 battalions,
16 squadrons and 174 guns, and with this
iorce he won the great victory at Plevna in
July, 1877. He received his title of Ghazi,
or "The "Victorious," in consequence, and
the decoration of the Osmanie, set in
brilliants.
A GENEBAL ASD SIINISTEB.
In December Plevna was surrounded by
Russian troops, and he made an effort to
break through them. He was defeated, and
on December 10, 1877, surrendered uncon
ditionally with 40,000 men and 400 cannon.
Peace was restored in 1878, and in
March of that year he was put in
command of the Imperial Guard of Con
stantinople and made Marshal of the Palace.
He was placed in charge of the defenses of
Constantinople. He served for a time as
Governor General of Crete, and then was
made Minister of "War. While in this
office he remodeled the army. He was ac
cused of maladministration by two Mus
chirs, Faud and Neisret, but succeeded in
clearing himself before the Snltan and
Council of Ministers. He had acquired
great influence over the Sultan. To his
influence was attributed the dismissal of the
Grand Vizier Khereddin Pasha.
Osman was relieved of the office of Min
ister in July, 1880, but the following year
he regained his post.
GALVESTON Iff EAPTUEES.
UnppT Orer Ibe feigning of the Deep Witter
" BilL
Galveston, September 19. This city is
wild with enthusiasm to-night over the re
ceipt of the news that the President has
Eigned the deep water bill, which practically
gives 56,200,000 for the improvement ol her
harbor. The Mayor has issued a proclama
tion doing away with all restrictions as to
the discharge of firearms, and the city is
illuminated with pyrotechnics. Torchlight
processions crowd the streets, brass l-ands
aud tin horns add to the din, and every citi
zen appears intoxicated with joy.
The appropriation will make Galveston a
first-class seaport, which, besides giving
greatB prosperity to this city, will insure
cheap ocean ireights for Denver and all the
country west of the Mississippi.
CENSUS ENUMERATORS AEEESTED.
Indictment Agalntt Altered St. Paul and
Minneapolis Fnddcri.
Minneapolis. September 19. The
United States grand jury thin evening re
turned 19 indictments against alleged cen
sus jiadders in this city and in St. Paul, 6
for Minneapolis and 13 for St. Paul.
The six Minneapolis enumerators were
arrested to-night and gaye $2,000 bail each.
Demli From n Singular JHnlady.
Beading, September 19. Henry "Wan
croft, ot Princeton, this county, died yester
dav, literally starving to death. His teeth
first commenced to ache, and four weeks ago
his throat closed entirely, and although he
often cried for water and food, he was un
able to swallow any. He leaves a widow
and nine children.
SCIENTIFIC new or tlie week, cniefully
collrctcd by n cnpnble contributor, is n
regular feature of the Sunday issue of THE
DISPATCH.
COLONEL DAVIS HONORED.
HE IS ELECTED DIRECTOR GENERAL OF
THE WORLD'S FAIR.
flow the Voting Stood Ilastlnsa Second In
thr 1,1st Some of the Interesting Points
in the Cnrrer of tbe Successful Candi
date. Chicago, September 19. When the Na
tional World's Fair Commissioners began
to ballot to-day for a Director General,
Colonel George R. Davis received 50 votes,
Hastings 32. McKinzie G, Stevenson 3,
Price 1, 14 commissioners .not voting. On
motion of Mr.McClelland, of Pennsylvania,
a formal ballot was distiensed with and the
election of Mr. Davis made unanimons by
acclamation.
Colonel Davis was brought in by a com
mittee appointed for the purpose, and made
a brief speech thanking the commission for
the honor conferred, and added that he ap
preciated the fact that he had been chosen
by a commission equally divided in politics,
and that he would keep that fact in mind.
His conduct in office would be free from par-
Colonel Oeorge JZ. DavU.
tisanship, and its business would be con
ducted on strictly business principles. After
the announcement of various committee
meetings for this evening tbe commission
adjourned till to-morrow.
Colonel George B. Davis, the Dirictor
General, was born at Three Rivers. Hamp
den county, Mass., in 1840. He received a
public school education and took a classical
course at Easthampton, Mass., where he
graduated in 1860. Hestudied law and was
admitted to the bar, and in 1862 entered the
service of his country, being an officer of
the Union army most of tbe time he was in
the service. He was captain of a company
in the Eighth Massachusetts Tolunteer In
fantry and a'terward Major of the Third
Rhode Island Cavalry, commanding the
regiment the most of its service in the field.
He took a leading part in the organization
of the Illinois National. Guard, and was the
first Colonel of the First Infantry and
senior colonel of the Stale.
Colonel Davis was nominated by the Re
publicans of the old Second district for the
Forty-fifth Congress. While being de
feated be ran ahead of the Presidental
ticket. He was elected to the Forty-sixth,
Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses.
In 1884, while being tendered the nomina
tion twice, be declined to be a candidate for
re-election. He then took charge of the
management of the railroad business for the
Frazier Lubricating Company. In 1886 he
was elected County Treasurer aud is still
performing the duties of that office.
Colonel Davis was a delegate to the Re
publican National Convention in 1884 and
a delegate-at-large in 1888. He was elected
a member of the National Committee in
1883, and had a great deal to do with the
management of President Harrison's cam
paign! He had charge of the Chicago forces at
Washington this winter, and it is to his
efforts more than to any other man that Chi
cago was chosen as the place lor holding
the World's Exposition.
A MAN OF MANX BATTLES.
I.lfo Story of n Prominent Phlladelpblan
Who Suicided.
rSFECIXL TELEOEAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Philadelphia, Septemberl9. Colonel
Alexander Duke Bailie, who committed
suicide in Chicago last night, for 20 years
alter the war was a familiar personage in
this city, noticeable on account of his trim,
erect figure, quick military tread, long red
mustache and terribly disfigured face.
Colonel Bailie was born in Lancaster
county. Pa., about CO years ago, and on his
mother's side was connected with one of the
oldest and most distinguished Pennsylvania
families the Muhlenbnrgs. He was also
a relative of the late Franklin B. Cowen.
Before the war Colonel Bailie was a strik
ingly handsome young mau. He entered
the volunteer service as a subaltern in 1861,
and was wounded in the face in one of
the early battles in Virginia. The wound
developed gangrene, and before it was
healed had eaten away many of the bones of
the fare an" entirely destroyed his nose. He
was honorably discharged for disability,
but as soon as he recovered he re-entered
the service as a Captain in the Sixty-filth
United States Colored Inlintry, and did
good service with his regiment as a provost
marshal and agent ot the Freedmen's
Bureau of Louisiana. He was honorably
mustered out in 1866, and soon alterward
received an appointment from President
Johnson as Second Lieutenant in tbe regu
lar army, but owing to his disfigurement tbe
surgeons refused to pass him and he was
never commissioned. Soon afterward his
friends obtained for him an important ap-
E ointment in theNewYorkpostoffice, which
e did not retain long. He lost a number
of other good positions which his friends
obtained lor him throngh habits of in
temperance, which were, no doubt, super
induced by mental depression, the result of
his terrible physical affliction.
A remarkable surgical operation was per
formed on him 20 years ago by the surgeons
at the Univerity of Pennsylvania, by
which his appearance was very much im
proved, but he was so sensitive that he
avoided social intercourse as much as possi
ble, and gradually became estranged Irom
most of his friends. He was a man of fine
ability and for many years maintained him
self by literary work, chiefly for book sellers
and periodical publishers. About four
years :t:o the breaking out of an old wound
necessitated the amputation of one of his
legs, which was done in a New York hos
pital. Some years before this, during a
terrible yellow fever epidemic in the South,
Colonel Bailie voluntered to go there as a
nurse, evidently hoping to jpeet death there
in the discharge of an honorable duty. No
one who knew him well will be surprised at
his tragic death. Just about the close cf
the war he was berveted Lieutenant Colonel
for gallant and meritorious service.
A GHOST AT BAT SH0EE.
What Seems to be a Terltable Haunted
llouie DiscoTered There.
lerr.ciAL telegram to the dispatch.
New York, September 19. The family
of ex-Alderman Olena, at Bay Shore, have
been disturbed for some time past by mys
terious noises in their cottage. Miss Cora
Olena says she was awakened one night last
week by someone slapping her on the face.
The room was dark; she could see. no one
near her bedside. The next instant there
was a terrific crash in tbe hall outside the
door which aroused the family. No cause
for the crash could be discovered. They
frequently hear rapping and noises as if
someone is walking about the house.
On Monday night the agent of the house,
John H. Golding, volunteered to spend a
night in the bouse and catch the ghost.
Several friends of the family agreed to stay
with him. While they were seated about a
table down stain with the family tbe mys
terious tread was heard overhead. A crash
followed. All rushed to where the sound
came from, but nothing could be found.
Tbey searched from the cellar to the garret,
but found nothing.
WRECK AFTER WRECK.
Continued from first Page.
der broken; Frank B. Hall, manager of
Frank Mayo's Dramatic Company,
cut about head and body, bruised
about arms and legs; John Car
roll, SL Clair, back hurt and internally
injured; Joseph Asfield, Mahanoy City,
bruised about body and legs; William
Glassmayer, Port Clinton, badly cut about
the breast; Thomas Cooney, Philadelphia,
head and legs injured; Robert Catton,
Pottstown, injured internally Samuel
Sholenberger, Hamburg, legs injured; B.
W. Cirbler, Girardville, toot and leg
mashed; John Cook, Mount Carmel, hurt
internally and hand mashed; N. J. John
ston, Shenandoah, head badly cut
and leg broken; George Sanders,
Heading, badly hurt about back
and neck; Benjamin Franklin Beecher,
Shenandoah, lelt hip badly cut and leg
hurt; James Bernhart, Shenandoah, left
hip crushed and legs hurt; John Hess,
Mahanoy City, legs badly hurt; David G.
Young, Mahanoy City, head badlvcut and
legs sprained; Lyman Dick, Hamburg, both
legs broken; Dr. B. F. Salade, New Ring
gold, right arm badly hurt; Jacob Ulmer,
Pottsville, both legs broken; Samuel
Coome, Mahanoy City, badly hurt about
body, and leg broken; William Sumers,
Ashland, badly hurt.
TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL.
The special train which was sent from
Reading to Shoemakersville with a corps of
physicians arrived here at 10 o'clock to
night with tbe injured and killed who re
sided here and south of Readme: and they
weretaken to the ReadingHospital in ambul
ances. When word reached here of the
time of arrival of the train with the injured
hundreds rushed to the place within a few
squares of tbe hospital. Though a special
slopping place was designated it was not
very long before it became generally known
and it was with the greatest difficulty that
the injnred were removed from the train.
Willing hands were ready, however, to
lend every assistance, and in a short time
the two dozen coupes and ambulances had
safely delivered their mangled freight in tbe
wards of the hosDital. Anxious friends
flocked to the hospital to learn if any of
their number had been injured, bat it was
impossible under the excitement to admit
anyone, and the exact result of their in
juries will not be known even to the fam
ilies of the injured before to-morrow.
At 10 o'clock a telephone message from
the wreck gives very indefinite particulars
as to the real number killed and injured, and
all that can be ascertained is from the Coro
ner and the one newspaper representative
on the grounds.
OFFICIALS BETICENT.
The railroad officials refuse to give any
information whatever beyond tbe fact that
there was a bad wreck. It is believed that
arrangements will be made with the Penn
sylvania Company to carry the passengers
of the unfortunate company in the morning
from points below and above the wreck, as
the wreckers will be unable to clear the
tracks before to-morrow noon. About 400
men are at work rescuing tbe injured and
dead, and just at this writing word comes
from the scene that there are still some CO
or 60 people under the wrecked cars.
It is simply appalling, every hour swells
the list ot injured and killed. It has just
been discovered that Italians were caught
robbing tbe dead, and County Detective
Wunch at once placed the vandals under ar
rest and locked them up in a horse car.
They will be brought here in the morning
and lodged in jail.
It is reported that George Kaercher, the
counsel for the Reading Railroad Company,
of Pottsville, is under the wrecked parlor
car and it is believed he is dead. The voices
heard earlier in the wreck seem to
grow less and less in number as the
time passes on and no doubt the death list
will swell to 60 by morning. Thirty-five
injured have thus far been removed. The
special train sent down from Pottsville
took many injnred to the Miners' Hospital
at that place. Mail Agent Greenawald has
just been taken from the wreck horribly
crushed. Two firemen, who were returning
home from Philadelphia and supposed to
belong to Mahanoy City, have also been1
taken out and placed aside.
PERHAPS FIFTY KILLED
The Estimate Blade by the UepresontntlTO
of tbe Associated Press.
Reading, September 19. The Associ
ated Press agent has just had direct com
munication with his representative at the
scene of the wreck, and the latter says that
conservative estimates place the number of
killed at 40 to SO.
It is almost impossible to estimate the ex
act number, and the full horror of the situa
tion will not be known before morning.
Up to 2 o'clock 13 bodies have been re
covered. The names of those known have
already been given. Five bodies are ex
posed to view in the wreck. They are
pinned under the timbers.
PROMINENT PERSONS BEAD.
Attorney Knercher nnd Bank Director
liome Are on the Fatal List.
Reading, September 19. George B.
Kaercher, Esq., the eminent railroad law
yer of Pottsville, who has also a law office
in Philadelphia, is among the killed.
Persons who were well acquainted
with him have identified the
crushed body in the debris of the
Pullman car. William D. Shome, one of
Reading's wealthiest citizens, was a passen
ger on the train and was one of the first per
sons reported killed. His family have been
unable to obtain any inlormation concern
ing him. It was unusual for him to leave
home at night, and especially on a Friday
night, as he is a bank director and has never
missed the usual Saturday board day.
A singular fatality induced him to leave
this evening. He has large land interests
in the northern portion ot the county, and
an important business transaction required
his presence in Hamburg. He left home
very unwillingly, with the intention of return
ing on tbe first train in the morning. At
10:15 o'clock to-night word was received
here that his body was one of the first taken
from the wreck. Shome was a reputed
millionaire. He was a bank director and
one-fifth owner of the Reading Academy of
Music.
A SEAMAN'S SCHEME
For the Use of Torpedoes in the Moving of
Stranded Teasels.
(SPECIAL TELEGKAM TO THE DISPATCH.l
Washington, September 19. Com
mander F. M. Barber, of the navy, has
patented a method of moving stranded ves
sels by explosives. His idea is based on the
effect of torpedoes and other submarine ex
plosives on objects of contact. It has been
found that a torpedo will tear a hole in the
bottom of a harbor, which will fill with
water, and this fact is incorporated in the
project of exploding a torpedo under a
stranded vessel, creating an artificial basin
to float the vessel. The patent also includes
the idea of a shock from tbe torpedo dis
charge with tbe consequent jar or concus
sion, in itself often timesasufficient impell
ing force.
This plan embraces many details, the ex
ercise of which are to be governed by cir
cumstances, such as depositing the torpedo
so that tbe force of the discharge shall be in
the direction of the desired relief. The idea
is regarded by some of the officers as merit
orious and if its success is demonstrated,
the patentee is apt to become wealthy since
his papers embrace a good deal, with little
or no expenditure or risk on his part.
TBE DISPATCH for To-morrow will be
the Largest and Best Newspnper Published
In tbe State, east or west of tbe Allejhenles.
It court comparison.
THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
A HERMIT 40 JEARS.
The Career of a Strange Old Mount
aineer Ended by Deatb.
HIS AGE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT.
Able to Walk Thirty Miles a Day and Carry
Heavy Burdens
AFTER PASSISG THE CENTDRI MARK.
His Enforced Retirement from the World the Sequel of a
Bloody Deed,
Old Billy Golden is dead at the age of
108. For 40 years he dwelt alone in a cabin
among the mountains of Alabama. He was
a murderer and a strange character.
rSFECIAL TELIGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.l
Ashland, Ala., September 19. At his
cabin up in the Chulafinee Mountains one
morning this week, "Uncle" Billy Holden
died at the age of 108 years. For 40 years
he had lived the life of a hermit, and would
have died alone had not a party ot hunters
come across his cabin by accident and
found him at the point of deatb. For many
years he had repelled all offers of friendship,
but when found by this party he was too
feeble to protest against the service of a
nurse and physieian. He was too far gone
for permanent relief, and soon breathed his
last.
Bill Holden was the oddest character who
ever lived in this community, and few peo
ple knew anything of his history. He was
a cooper, and during his 40 years' residence
in this county supported himself by mak
ing wooden pails, churns and tubs, which
he carried on his shoulder to the honses of
the farmers down in the valley, and traded
for meat, corn, clothing or money.
LOOKED LIKE A WILD BEAST.
He had carried heavy loads of vessels on
his shoulders until his body was bent al
most double, and he was a hideous looking
object, Long, bushy white hair and beard
covered his head and face, and he looked
more like a wild gorilla than a human be
ing. Mothers would frighten their unruly
children by stories of Billy Holden, and
even grown people were afraid of him,
though he never harmed anyone.
Holden lived alone in a little log cabin
near the summit of the Chulafinee moun
tain, his only companion for years having
been a huge black cat, which was as re
pulsive in appearance and as disagreeable
in manner as its master. His cabin was
his worksbip and his bed was a pile of
shavings in one corcer. Old as he was,
Holden's strength was something wonder
ful. He must have been a man of splendid
physique until the weight of years and his
many heavy burdens bent him out of almost
human shape.
STRONG IN OLD AGE.
Until a few weeks before his death he
would place on his shoulders a load oi ves
sels under which an ordinary man would
stagger, and carry them through the coun
try day after day until the last one was dis
posed of, and often he would return to bis
cabin carrying a load of cornmeal, meat and
goods ol various kinds almost as heavy as
his original burden of wares. His timber
he cut in the valley." miles away from his
cabin, and that, too.'was transported on his
shoulders. He would often walk 30 miles a
day, carrying a load an ordinary man could
not have carried ten miles.
Holden was never known to remove his
load from his shoulder when he stopped to
rest or to negotiate the sale of. some of his
wares. While crossing a river on a boat he
would remain standing with his burden on
his shoulder.
THE WAT HE SEASONED.
Once when asked why he did not lay
aside his burden when he stopped to rest
his reply was that if he put it down it
would feel heavier -than before when he took
it up again. It was a regular custom with
him, when starting on a journey with a load
of his wares, to place a heavy stick of wood
or a stone on his shoulder, carry it several
miles and then throw it off. He said he did
this because his load always felt so much
lighter when the extra weight was thrown
off.
Holden would never talk about himself
and would seldom converse with anyone ex
cept about the sale of his wares. No matter
how many days he was away frem his cabin
when disposing of a stock of his wares he
always carried enough food to last him on
the trip, and nothing could induce him to
eat a meal at the table of a customer.
ROMANCE AND TBAGEDY.
In the life of Billy Holden, the hermit,
there was a bloody romance and its shadow
darkened his path forever and made him an
outcast without a Iriend or companion.
He was born in Korth Carolina, and when
a young man married the girl of his choice.
They lived happily lor a year and then the
serpent entered their Eden. His wife met
one she loved better and this love
grew into an unholy passion. Holden
in time learned of his wife's
infidelity and waiting until he caught her
with her lover he slew them both. Holden
fled from his native State and little effort
was made to capture him. He became a
wanderer on the face of the earth, without a
friend or companion, his faith in humanity
gone. Forty years ago he came to Alabama,
aud in the cane cabin on the bleak summit
of the Chulafinee mountain he lived and
died a friendless hermit.
HE DISCHARGED THE JURORS.
An Unsatisfactory Veidlct In an Alabama
Murder Case.
Birmingham, Ala., September 19.
The jury in the case of Henry St-tnple. col
ored, charged with the murder of Albert
Walker, colored, brought in a verdict
Wednesday afternoon, which has caused
considerable comment and indignation.
Their verdict was, "Not guilty." From
all that can be learned, tbe case was clearly
one of murder in the first degree. The ac
cused man shot his victim five times while
he was asleep, and then boasted of it
When the clerk read the verdict he was
asked to repeat it. The Judge and every
body else thought he had made a mistake.
When court convened yesterday Solicitor
Hawkins moved that the entire venire
summoned for services during this week be
discharged. He explained that he believed
the jury had been honest and intelligent
enough, but that their method of reasoning
was wrong, and he could not accomplish the
ends of justice when matters were left to
their arbitration. The Juage said he was
surprised at the verdict, but he knew the
jnry acted honestly and conscientiously.
However, he discharged the jury, on the
ground that public criticism might influence
them in other cases. This is the first occur
rence of the kind in Alabama.
THE BUCKEYE GEBRYMAUDEB.
Speculation! ns to the Outcome of ihe Storrs
Township Matter. .
Columbus, September 19. Governor
Campbell declines to say whether or not the
Legislature will be called in extraordinary
session to settle beyond all doubt the ques
tion of the constitutionality of the redis
ricting law of last winter raised on account
of the supposed omission of Storrs town
ship, and when asked to-day if there would
be an extra session, eaid:
"Who is the authority on the subject that
any territory is unprovided for, and can it
be demonstrated that any part of Storrs
township is omitted from the Second dis
trict? The Cincinnati Board of Elections,
which has for severalyeart exercised juris
diction over all of Hamilton connty, finds
no fault, nor is there anyone in the district
claiming to be disfranchised. ' I cannot see
how any action is to he taken until an elec
tion in the disputed territory raises the
question of disfranchisement."
PERISHED INJTHE FLAMES.
TERRIBLE NEWS CONVEYED TO AMOTHER
IN A TELEGRAM.
Mrs, Kate McKelvey. of Allegheny, Learns
of tbe Dentb of Her Five Children In an
Orphan Asylum In Lawrence, Knn. The
Mother' Story.
Mrs. Kate McKelvy, a widow, now em
ployed as cook at the Garvin House, on
Sandusky .street, Allegheny, yesterday re
ceived a telegram from Manager Thompson,
of the Lawrence (Kan.) Soldiers' Orphans
Home, stating that that institution had
been burned down and that her five chil
dren perished in the flames.
Mrs. McKelvy arrived in the city last
February, leaving her family in Kansas in
care of the institution, where they had al
ready been a few months. The family con
sisted ot Boss, aged 6; Kitty, aged'7; Tom
my, aged 9; Eddie, aged 11, and Sammy,
aged 14. Tbe husband and father, who was
a soldier drawing a pension, died about
two years ago, leaving the care of the chil
dren to the mother. As she had only v
small supply of savings, she soon concluded
to leave them in the care of an orphans'
asylum, while she came East to make a
home for them,
A short time ago she had a chance to in
vest her savings, but did not do so, saying
she feared one ot the children might take
sick and she would then be compelled to
return to Kansas. Tbe institution would
accommodate about 00 children, but Mrs.
McKelvey says there were not over 300 or
400 there at the time of tbe fire. It is said
that a cyclone first demolished the build
ing and then a fire started in the debris and
a holocaust resulted. The institution was
located three miles from Lawrence.
AN IMPORTANT MEASURE.
JEREMIAH RUSK WILL MANAGE THE
WEATHER NOW.
The Bill Passed Authorizing the Transfer
of the Service From the War to the
Agricultural Department The Main
ProTlsiona of tbo Act.
Washington, September 19. An im
portant measure which passed the House,
and has already passed the Senate some
weeks ago, provides for the transfer of the
weather service from the War Department
to the Department of Agriculture. This
change has been advocated for a nuuber of
years, and when Mr. Colman was Commis
sioner of Agriculture he recommended the
change. The measure was fully discussed
upon various occasions during tbe Forty
ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, but it has
been left for the present Congress to effect
the passage of the transfer.
The bill as passed and as it will no doubt
be approved by the President provides that
the civilian duties now performed by the
Signal Corps of the army shall hereafter de
volve upon a bureau known as the Weather
Bureau, which shall be established in the
Department of Agriculture, but a signal
corps of the army shall remain a part or tbe
military establishment, under the direction
of the Secretary of War. The Chief Signal
Officer, as head of the Signal Corps ot the
army, shall have charge of all military sig
nal duties, and of books, papers and devices
connected therewith, including telegraph
lines and apparatus; and he shall have the
construction and repair and operation of mili
tary telegraph lines, and the duty of collect
ing and transmitting information for the
army.
The Chief of the Weather Bureau, under
the direction of the Secretary of Agri
culture, on and after July 1, 1891, shall
have charge of the forecasting of the
weather, the issue of storm warning, the
display of weather and flood signals for the
benefit ol agriculture, commerce and navi
gation, the gauging and reporting of rivers,
the maintenance and operation ot sea coast
telegraph lines, and the collection and
transmission of marine intelligence for
the benefit of commerce and naviga
tion, the reporting of tempera-
tnr's aud rainfall conditions for the
cotton interests, the display of frost and
cold-wave signals, ' the distribution of
meteorolozieal information in the interest
of agriculture aud commerce, and the tak
ing of such meteorological information as
may be necessary to establish and record
the" climatic conditions of the United
States, or as are essential for the proper
execution of the duties indicated.
The Weather Bureau is to have a chief at
a salary of $4,500 to be appointed by the
President. It is provided, however, that
the Chief Signal Officer of the army may be
detailed by tbe President, aud four other
officers of the army experts in the weather
service may also be assigned to duty to the
bureau. The eulisted force of the Signal
Corps as now constituted is to be
discharged, however, on the 30th of
JuLe, 1891; but such portion of this
force including the civilian employes
of the signal force may be transferred
if they so elect to the Department of Agri
culture, and thus continue in the Signal
Service. Skilled observers in the service at
the date indicated are to have the preference
for appointments in the Weather Bureau
until the expiration of the time lor which
they were last enlisted. Hereafter the Sig
nal Corps of the army shall consist in addi
tion to the Chief Signal Officer of one major,
four captains (mounted) and four lieuten
ants (mounted), who s4iall receive the pay
and allowances of like grades of the army.
SOMEBODY MADE A MISTAKE.
Colombns Tote Taken for Another Man and
Locked Up.
Springfield, Mo., September 19.
Columbus Tate, of Dallas county, was ar
rested by private detectives on Wednesday
and concealed in confinement near Spring
field until last night, when his place of in
carceration was discovered and he was re
leased on a writ of habeas corpus. Mr. Tate
was supposed to be Dick Tate, tbe abscond
ing Treasurer of Kentncky, and the requisi
tion papers for his capture were all in
proper form, but he happened not to have
been the right man.
The arresting party is now in the woods
trying to avoid arrest, it being asserted that
there was more or less chicanery in the pro
curement of the requisition papers.
IN HONOR OF GREELEY.
Preparations for tbe Unveil Inn of His Statae
In New York.
NewYoek, September 19. The statue
of Horace Greeley, at the entrance of the
Tribune building, will be unveiled to-morrow
morning. Colonel John Hay will
preside at the ceremonies. These will
be opened with a priyer by Bishop
Potter. Then the Chairman will introduce
Chauncey M. Depew who will deliver an
address, at the close of which the statue
will be unveiled by Miss Greeley.
Cappa's Seventh Eegiment Band will
play "America" and Bishop Potter will
pronounce the benediction.
TEH LIVES LOST.
Terrible Collision of Two Trains on the
Mexican Railroad.
Cixr op Mexico, September 19. A ter
rible accident happened on the Mexican
Bailroad. Two trains going in opposite
directions ran into each other at Bincouada,
and the cars were piled on one another and
completely wrecked. Ten persons were
killed and several others wounded.
Fnony Dnvenpott III.
. New Yobk, September 19. Fanny Dav
enport, the well-known actress, is very ill at
the Westminster Hotel from the Effects of a
cold caught by sitting near an open window.
Her doctor says the must not start for Min
neapolis as she at first intended.
20, 189,0;
CALLING FOR CASH.
Money in Strong Demand Eyery
where and in Some Places Tight.
REGISTER OP THE WEEK'S TBADE.
Good Business Reported at Leading Western
Points and .
THE RECORD OF LAST IEAE EXCELLED
A Decreua ia the Nuabtr of riflnres Throughout thi
Country
Trade reports show that money has been
close during the past week, but the strin
gency had little effect on general business.
Unfavorable weather and holidays have
affected some branches, but trade, as a
whole, is fair.
fSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCn.l
New Yoek, September 19. Special tele
grams to Bradstreet's show that the volume
of general merchandise moving to consum
ers' hands remains quite large, and that gen
eral trade, as a whole, is fairly satisfactory
for the season, although prolonged rains
have had some influence. There was a
Marked development of conservatism at
New York, Boston, and Philadelphia dur
ing the week, and this was reflected as well
in banking operations at larger Western
and Southern cities. The tight money mar
ket, with fears of disaster in the absence of
special measures for relief, unquestionably
had a temporarily retarding influence upon
the movement of goods.
Prices are practically unchanged for
metals and manufactured articles, but for
the moment are lower for most cereals and
other food products. Tbe Louisiana sugar
crop was never better and harvesting will
begin there in about three weeks. Some
damage to cotton has been reported, but the
rice crop promises well.
FEUIT HIGH AND DULL.
Wheat exports from the Pacific coast are
very much reduced. Ships are scarce there
aud prices lower. Supplies are quite heavy.
California frnit is dull, owing to the fancy
prices asked by speculative holders. The
wine crop on tbe Pacific coast is short and
prices are firm. Iron has remained dnll at
former prices. Southern irons are not com
ing Bast at present. Anthracite coal will
be advanced in price, as the demand is
stronger and the movement beginning to be
active. Petroleum is lower, weak and
neglected. Copper is stronger and a plan to
put lake ingots abqve 17c is being discussed.
The demoralizing influences of stringent
money rates have disappeared from the
New York share market, and prices have
improved, but speculation still hesitates
somewhat in spite of the announcement of
several railroad deals. Moderate gains in
railway company gross receipts in July fail
to offset increased operating expenses grow
ing out of low rates and heavy expenditures
for betterments. The result is the first de
crease in net earnings reported for a year.
The total net earnings of 106 companies for
July aggregated 16,314,105, a decrease of
more than Iyer cent as compared with July
a year ago.
DECLINE IN BAILBOAD RECEIPTS.
One-fourth of all the roads reported show
a decrease in net earnings, the poorest off
being the Grangers and Trunk lines, and
the best the Central, Western and South
western lines. For seven months net earn
ings aggregated $95,495,158, a gain over 1889
of 9.96 per cent, gross receipts gaining 10.47
per cent in the same period.
The price of wheat declined 2 and 3
cents this week on decreased exports, in
creased stocks and easier foreign markets.
Indian corn reacted ljc as well. Pork is
easier, and lard is off a tew points. Exports
of wheat and flour as wheat, both coasts,
equal 985,175 bushels. In the like week
last year the total was Z,09,o77 bnsbelj.
Last week it was 1,480,058 bushels.
At last tbe check to the heavy export
movement since July 1 has set in. The
total exported since that date is 23,010,380
bushels. In a like portion of 1889 the cor
responding total was 22,564,001 bushels,
and in 1888, 26,658,387 bushels. Shipments
of Indian corn thi3 week equal 561,247
bushels. Last week they amounted to 457,
029 bnshels.
TBADE IS FAIR.
Unfavorable weather and holidays have
reduced the drygoods trade at leading East
ern markets. Trade, as a whole, is fair.
The heavy fall rush is over, but demand is
still satisfactory. Prices are firmly held.
Print cloths are still weak. Spring goods
are in good average demand irom agents.
Woolen goods are in quite good demand at
first hands. Prices are strong. Territory
and pulled wools are in better demand at
full prices, with slight advances in some in
stances. Carpet and Ohio and Michigan
varieties are quiet, as are also Australian
wools. Cotton is less active and 3-lGc lower
on spots, owing to free movement and lack
of demand.
Bank clearings at 51 cities tor the week
ended September 18 are $1,275,897,114. a
gain over this week last year ot 18.6 per
cent. New York City's clearings, which
constitute 64 per cent ot the grand total, are
greater than those for tbe like period last
year by 20.5 per cent, while at 50 other cities
the gain is 15 per cent. Business failures re
ported to Bradstreet's number 167 in the
United States this week against 162 last
week and 190 this week last year. Canada
had 30 this week against 22 last week. Th
total number of failures in the United States
Januery 1 to date is 7,267, against 8,126 in a
like portion of 1889.
BOOT OF THE TEOUBLE.
K. G.Dun & Co.'s weeklyreviewof trade:
The root of the difficulty is that wheat is
quoted at 98V at Chicago, 81 02 here, and
only about ?1 03 at Liverpool for the same
grade, so that no free and natural movement
to the seanoara or nence to Europe can taKe
place. Similar obstacles check the move
ment of some other products. Exports of
wheat and corn are not half those of last
year at corresponding dates, but imports are
coming forward in large volume, anxiety to
get goods entered here before the new tariff
goes into effect being great. In half ol Sep
tember the increase of imports over last year
at New York has been 9 per cent, but
the decrease in exports hence has been 19
per cent.
The movement during the past week has
been toward a natural adjustment of prices,
and wheat is 3K cents lower, with sales of
31,000,000 bushels; corn, cents lower,
with sales of 12,000,000 bushels; cotton yi of
a cent lower, with sales of 320,000 bales, and
lard and hogs a shade lower. But oats
have risen a fraction, oil nearly 1 cent, and
butter and some other farm products are
higher.
IMPBOYEMENX IN "WOOL.
The interior money markets are generally
closer, with the strong demand which an
unprecedented volume of business naturally
causes. At Boston the stringency affects
trade somewhat, but wool is in much
better demand, sales reaching 5,
693,000 pounds. Wool also shows im
provement at Philadelphia, and cotton
manufacture is fairly active. The iron trade
is very active and nailmakers advance
prices to $2 per fceg. Chicago has a large
decrease from last year in receipts of grain,
but increase in lard, cheese, hides and wool.
Drygoods and clothing sales exceed last
year's with prompt collections, and the boot
and shoe trade also, though for the week
more quiet.
Monev at Chicago is close and rates
stiffer, the demand being very heavy, but
the stringency does not much affect general
trade. St. Louis notes good fall trade in all
lines, especially drygoods and boots and
shoes, with money at 7 to 8 per cent.
AHEAD OV LAST YEAB.
At all other Western points reporting.
trade is good, exceeding last year's, but
everywhere money is in strongdemand, and
at most places tight Closeness also appears
at'Sou'.bern points. 'Galveston hdpes for
relief as soon as cotton moves; Atlanta re
ports cotton going forward rapidly and not
much trouble caused by tight money, and
Savannah reports a close market, with re
ceipts of 37,000 bales cotton, 15,600 barrels
rosiu and 3,650 spirit!.
The consumption ot iron is enormous, the
largest ever known, but the new business in
bar iron is not heavy and the demand for
rails is dull with some sales at $30 and re
ports of others even lower. Pig iron is
weaker, though qnotations do not change.
The great increase in sales of wodl marks a
revival in the manufacture, and the cotton
manufacture is active, the decline in raw
material helping. Drygoods business is
growing In activity. Even in woolen goods
improvement over last year is conceded.
DBOP IN FAILTJBES.
The movement of freight is heavy and
railroad earnings continue to show an in
crease though failure to adjust the question
of rates raised by the inter-State Commerce
Commission is still a disturbing factor. The
general condition of business is so satis
factory, monetary pressure only hindering,
that the failure at Boston causes no appre
hension. If speculation does not prevent
adjustment of prices to the conditions of
legitimate trade, the monetary difficulty
will soon be overcome by the marketing of
products.
The business failures during the past seven
days number 190 as compared with 193 last
week and 203 the week previous to tbe last.
For the corresponding week of last year the
figures were 198.
ANOTHER WAY TO VOTE.
MISSISSIPPIANS WILL TRY A NEW ELEC
TION SYSTEM.
The Finn Is Slmllnr to Ihe Tennessee Method
Ballots Printed nt Public Expense
Conaldernble Progress BInde by the Con
tltatlonr.l Convention.
Jackson, September 19. The Constitu
tional Convention made considerable prog
ress to-day in the disposition of the report ol
the Franchise Committee. Two branches of
the report were considered and adopted.
First, an ordinance providing for tbe man
ner of holding elections between January 1,
1891, aud Januarv 1, 1896, when the fran
chise article of tbe new Constitution is to go
into effect. The ordinance adopted is sub
stantially a copy of the Dortch law of Ten
nessee. Its salient features follow:
Ballots are to be printed and distributed
at public expense, .and shall be known as
official ballots. On receiving bis ballot the
voter shall forthwith go to one of the voting
shelves, tables or other compartments and
shall prepare his ballot by marking in the
appropriate margin or place a cross op
posite the name of the candidate of his
choice for each office to be filled. He shall
then cast his ballot without undue delay
and quit the voting inclosnre as soon as
voted. Tbe time allowed each voter to pre
pare his ballot is ten minutes, unless others
are waiting when he shall be limited to five
minutes. Election inspectors are required
to assist voters in making ballots who are
disabled by blindness or other physical dis
ability. The apportionment branch of the commit
tee report was now taken up and adopted
without amendment, except snch as were
submitted to the committee itself. It pro
vides for a Senate composed of 45 members
and a House of .Representatives of 133 mem
bers, and by ingenious gerrymandering
white supremacy is assured in both houses.
Efforts were made by various counties to
have the representation increased, but tbe
convention refused to disturb the symmetry
of the committee's report. Ex-Governor
Alcorn made an earnest appeal to the con
vention to so apportion the State as to give
the negroes control of the Lower House
of the Legislature. He argued that such
a course would win the confidence of
the blacks and gradually elevate them to
an appreciation of the responsibility of citi
zenship. The proposition met with no en
couragement and the committee report was
not amended to conform to his views. Mr.
Smith, of Warren connty, submitted tbe
following amendment to the Constitution,
which was referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee: In all criminal dases less than capital, no
error of law shall be ground for reversal, unless
the Court is satisfied from tbe record that the
jnry ought to have found a different verdict on
tbe facts, in all cases of doubt tbe Snpreme
Conrt may Increase or diminish any verdict and
judgment according to the justice ot tbe case.
0'BEIEN'S CASE COMPLICATED.
Claims Tbnt tbe Libelous Dispatch Is Not
on File.
Montbeal, September 19. The case of
B. N. O'Brien, charged with publishing
a libelous statement about Prince George,
came np in the police court this morning.
The whole day was occupied in the examina
tion of the Canadian Pacific Telegraph
manager, by which line the dispatch is said
to have been sent. The indictment charges
O'Brien with publishing the story on Sep
tember 15, but the Canadian Pacific
Telegraph Company has no dispatch
corresponding to that date. Tbe manager
was asked to produce all telegrams from the
10th to 15th inclusive, but he refused to
do so.
An aunctioneer named Duff has opened a
subscription list for funds to prosecute
O'Brien, and 81,000 has already be sub
scribed. This fact has created a feeling in
OlBrien's favor. The important statement
was made in court that O'Brien's letters to
his paper in connection with the case had
been opened during transmission through
mails. O'Brien has retained several law
yers for his defense, and appears to have
plenty of money to pay the costs. The case
is becoming very complicated.
FREMONTS WIDOW DESTITUTE.
Tbe First Repoit Concerning; Her Poverty
Are More Than Confirmed.
ISrCCIAI. THJCORAM TO THX DISFATCH.1
San Fbancisco, September 19. Rumors
of the destitution ot General Fremont's
widow in Los Angeles have been confirmed
by Judge Silent and G. J. Slawson, of that
place, old friends of General Fremont,
who arrived here to-day. Mr. Slaw
son says tbe family have absolutely
nothing they can call their own and
are in debt. Mrs. Fremont is so poor
that when news of the General's death
came she had not money enough to pay for
a telegram expressing her wishes in regard
to tbe disposition of the body. The family
have been counting on the passage of the
bill giving Fremont half pay, and with this
in view have allowed debts amounting to
several hundred dollars to accumulate.
Friends have met the most pressing
claims, but there is a large amount out
standing. Mrs. Freemont is 69 vears old
and is unable to care for herself. Her books
have yielded almost nothing. She bas two
sons, one in the navy and one in the army,
hnt both receive small pay and have larg e
families to support.
A FRIEHD OF CSABITY GONE.
Death of Sir. Lucy Morgan Goodwin In
Connecticut.
Habteobd, September 19. Mrs. Lucy
Morgan Goodwin, widow of Major James
Goodwin, and sister of Junius S. Morgan,
the eminent London banker, died at her
home in this city late. this evening at the
age of 79.
"Mrs. Goodwin was" most attractive per
sonally and has done much for useful char
itable institutions.
YeterdnT'Stcnmnhlp Arrivals.
Steamer. Arrived at From
Bothnia New York Liverpool
Greece New York Lonaon
Normannla New York :.Hmburg
Itotterdam New York Amsterdam
Trave New York Bremen
Ktrnrla -Brow Head New York
Aller Brimeuaves It sw York
GAS FOR THE WINTER.
Mr. Pew Says Bis Company Will
Have as Much as Ever.
L0KG LINES WILL EEACH SUPPLY
And Bring it in for Ten Tears Though Cos.
be Increased.
LOW FBESSUEE WELLS MULTIPLIED
Will b) tha Solid Buis u fa tin Profartiaa
ofOi'.
Mr. Pew, President of the People's Nat
ural Gas Company, is enrolled among the
believers in a continued supply of tha
favorite fuel, though he thinks it may cost
more. It will supply domestic consumers:
and manufacturers for ten years. Long
lines and low pressure production in tha
problem.
Mr. J. N. Pew, President of the People!
Gas Company, is one.of those who believes
that Pittsburg will have an ample supply
of natural gas for some time to come. Mr.
Pew has long been familiar with the oil
business, as a member of the prominent pro
ducing firm of Pew & Emerson, and nat
urally with the kindred product, gas. Ha
said yesterday: "The People's Company
will have as much gas this winter as it has
ever had. Our arrangements are made so
we are sure of that. "We will have an amplo
supply for our patrons."
"x"ou don't think, then, the supply will
be exhausted in the next two or three yeats?"
"No sir. Natural gas is too valuable &
fuel to get along without. It may cost
more, hut people will not do without it on
that score. We trill have to go farther out
for it when the nearby fields are exhausted,
and that will not be for the next ten years.
It will cost more to get it. It is only a
question of cost to maintain the supply for
this city. And people will continue to want
it. Gas fnel is too desirable to be dons
without"
NATTTBAL GAS APPBECIATED.
"The increased cost will shut the manu
facturers out?"
"No, sir. They appreciate natural gas as
much as the rest of the people. They will
continue to use it. They have had the best
of the bargain thus far and they know it.
They know tbe advantage of the fuel as well
as anybody, and will continue to get it. It
is a valuable tuel to them."
'Ton don't think it probable any new
fields will be opened near the city?"
"Not large ones. There may be soma
small ones. The territory has been pretty
well tested all around here, so I don't think
there will be any large fields discovered any
nearer here, like Mnrraysville, Gmpeville
and Canonsburg. No, not in the deep
sands, either1. There have been a good
many deep wells drilled."
A new gasser on the west side of tha
"Wildwood field is another evidence that all
of tbe gas spots have not been opened. This
one may be turned into an oil well as several
of the Wildwood wells have, by deeper
drilling, but the Wildwood field would pro
duce a creditable amount of gas if the oil
was not also present, to prevent utilization,
of the more volatile fluid.
MOBE TEBBITOBT WANTED.
Equal areas, of as promising location aro
yet untested in Allegheny county, which
may prove valuable for either oil or gas,
though they would not be sneh fields as
Mnrraysville or Canonsburg. The hope for
a long continued gas supply, however, must
be vested in the finding of more territory
and a nracticallv interminable supply in
the discovery of enough territory to produce
tbe gas at low pressure. Additions of any
small fields near this city will assist materi
ally in snch a. result, as the shorter the dis
tance the less the cost of providingrequisita
means for transporting the gas produced at
low pressure.
It is a familiar fact in petroleum produc
tion that the greater portion of the great ag
gregate comes from tbe small wells where
tbe high pressure has been exhansted. New
fields, like Wildwood, attract public atten
tion, of course, while producing under high
pressure, single wells yielding hundreds of
barrels a day. But alter all, the 8,000 bar
rels a day ot that field is only a tenth of tha
80,000 barrels aggregate production, and
soon it will dwindle to a much less part of
the total. If these wells were abandoned as
soon as tbe pressure was off, the world
wonld not be supplied with oil. Tbe safa
basis ot that supply is in the 30,000 old wells
producing an average of one barrel a day
each.
A PEOBLEM TO SOLTE.
Means for distributing low pressure sup
ply is the chief problem for tbe suppliers of
natural gas to solve. The large mains being
laid are in this d'rection. Even larger con
duit! may yet be required. There are other
means for utilizing low pressure supply and
experiments are being made all the time
with various devices with this end in view.
The experimenters are natnrally loth to
give information, though several hava
achieved results that warrant the assertion
that natural gas may be assisted in its flaw
through pipes much as the idea of pumping
gas been derided. The idea of pumping oil
instead of hauling it in barrels was also
laughed at once. Chum.
A JURY OP HIS PEERS.
How the Brilliant Drenm Works When It
Cornea Down to Practice.
New York 'World. 1
Eminent Advocate (concluding a sirocco
of eloquence two hours long) And these,
gentlemen of the jury, are plain principles
of the law handed down from the Pandect
of Jnstinian and reverberated from hill-top
to hill-top ever since.
Judge Gentlemen of the jury, do you
desire to ask any questions before receiving,
the charge?
Intelligent Jnror Wal. Tour Honor, I'd
take it mighty kind if you'd sorter explain
the diffrnnce in mean in' between "plaintiff'
an' "deiendant."
There are
many white soaps,
each
represented to be
"just as good as the Ivory,1
They are not,
but like
all counterfeits,
they lack
the peculiar
and remarkable
qualities of
the genuine.
Ask for
Ivory Soap
and
insist upon havinc tt.
'Tis sold everywhere.
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