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FORTY-FIFTH YEAH.
A THOUSAND TESTS
Have Been Made of the Mar
velous New Discovery
Which Promises
TO BANISH CONSUMPTION.
Trofessor Koch Himself Reviews the
Whole Series of Remark
able Experiments.
TEE EFFECTS OF THE TBEATMEKT.
A Statement of Exactly What Can he
Accomplished, and the Limits Be
yond Which It Cannot Go.
60ME OF THE LIMPH SENT TO AMEBIC A.
Erjeieaetd PhysicUss ViU it Ohm Hike 1 Trill of
Its Eflcicy Upon This Side of the
AUiatic Oceu.
A STOEY OF THE MOST ABS0BBIK& INTEREST
IBT CABLE TO TOE DISPATCH.!
Berlin, November 14. The following is
the exact translation of Prof. Koch's paper
in the Deutsche Jfedicinisclie Wochinschrtft
of to-day, expressly secured for the Phila
delphia Medical 2s'eics and The Dispatch.
In view of the meaner reports which have
previously been sent out concerning the
new discovery it will be read with intense
interest. The article begins:
"In an address delivered before the Inter
national Medical Congress I mentioned a
remedy which conferred on tbe animals ex
perimented upon an immunity against in
oculation with the tubercle bacillus, and
which arrested tuberculous disease. Inves
tigations have now been carried ont on
human patients and these form the subject
of the following observations.
To Prevent False Impressions.
"It was originally my intention to com
plete the research and especially to gain
sufficient experience regarding the applica
tion of the remedy in practice and its pro
duction on a large scale before publishing
anything on the subject, bnt in spite of all
precautions, so many accounts have reached
the public, and in snch an exaggerated and
distorted form, that it seems imperative in
order to prevent all false impressions to give
at once a review of the position of the sub
ject at the present stage of the inquiry.
"The invtstig ations have been carried on
under the direction by Dr. A. Libberts and
Dr. Piuhl, and are still in progress. Patients
were placed at my disposal by Prof. Bree
ger from his polyclinic, Dr. W. Iievy from
his private surgical clinic, Geheimrath Drs.
Frantzel and Oberstabsarzt Kohler from
the Charite Hospital and Geheimrath T.
Bergmann from the surgical clinic of the
university. I wish to express my thanks to
these gentlemen.
Tlio Origin of tlio Kemedy Reserved.
"As regards the origin and the prepara
tion of tbe remedy, I am unable to make
any statement, as my research is not yet
concluded. I reserve this for a future com
munication. Doctors wishing to make in
vestigations with the remedy at present can
obtain it from Dr. A. Libbertz, Lueneburger
fctrasse 23, Berlin, X. W., who has under
taken the preparation of the remedy with
my own and Dr. Pfnhl's co-operation, but I
must remark that the quantity prepared at
present is small, and that larger quantities
will not be obtainable tor some weeks.
"The remedy is a brownish transparent
liquid, which does not require special care
to prevent decomposition. For use, this
fluid must be more or less diluted, and the
dilutions are liable to undergo decomposi
tion if prepared with distilled water. As
bacterial growths soon develop in them they
become turbid and are then unfit for use.
To prevent this, tbe diluted liquid must be
sterilized by heat and preserved under a
cotton-wool stopper, or more conveniently
prepared with a one-half per cent solntion of
phenol.
The Fresh. Solution the Best.
"It would seem, however, that the effect
is weakened by both freqnent heating and
by mixture with phenol solntion, and I have
therefore always made use of a freshly pre
pared solution. Introduced into the stom
ach the medicine has no effect. In order to
obtain a reliable effect it must be injected
sub-cutaneously. For this purpose we
have exclusively used a small syringe sug
gested by me for bacterialogical work. It
is furnished with a small india rnbber ball
and has no piston.
"This Byringe can easily be kept aseptic
by the use of absolute alcohol, and to this
we attribute the fact that not a single ab
scess has been observed in the course of
more than 1,000 sub-cutaneous injections.
The place chosen for the injections, alter sev
eral trials of other places, was the skin of
the back between the shoulder blades and
the lumbar region, because here the injec
tion led to the least local reaction, generally
none at all, and was almost painless.
One Result of the Experiments.
As regards the effect of the remedy on
the human patient, it was clear from the be
ginning of the research that in one very
important particular the human being re
acts to the remedy differently from the ani
mal generally used in experiments, namely,
the guinea pig a new proof for the experi
menter of the all-important law that experi
ment on animals is not conclusive, for the
haman patient proved extraordinarily more
sensitive than the gninea pig. As regards
the effect of the remedy, a healthy guinea
pig will bear a sub-cntaneous injection of
two cubio centimetres and even more of the
liquid without being sensibly affected, but
in the case of a lull-grown healthy man 0.25
cubic centimetres suffice to produce an in
tense effect. Calculated by the body weight,
one-firteenth thousandth part of, the quanti
ty winch has no npprpciable eftet on the
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guinea pig act powerfully on the human be
ing. Symptoms of a Human Patient.
"The symptoms arising from the injec
tion of 0.25 cubic centimetres I have ob
served after an injection made in my own
upper arm. They were briefly as follows:
Three to four hours after the injection there
came'on'pain in the limbs, fatigue, inclina
tion to cough, difficulty of breathing, which
speedily increased in the fifth hour, and
were unusually violent. A chill followed
which lasted almost an hour. At the same
time there was nausea, vomiting and a rise
of body temperature to 39.Gc After 12
hours all these symptoms abated, the tem
perature fell and on the next day it was
normal. A feeling of fatigue and pain in
the limbs continned for a tew days and for
exactly the same period of time the site of
injection remained slightly painful.
The Smallest Effective Quantity.
"The smallest quantity of the remedy
which will affect the healthy hnman being
is about .01 cubic centimetre, equal to 1
cubic centimetre of the one-hundredth dilu
tion. As has been proved by numerous ex
periments, when this dose is used reaction
in most people shows itself only by slight
pains in the limbs, and transient fatigue.
A few showed a rise of temperature to
about 38.
"Although the effect of the remedy in
eqnal doses is very different in animals and
in human beings of calculated body weight,
in some other qualities there is much simi
larity in tbe symptoms produced, the most
important of these resemblances being tbe
specific action of the remedy on the tuber
culous process, the varieties of which I
will not here describe.
The Really Important Feature.
"I will make no further reference to its
effect on animals, but I will at once turn to
its extraordinary action on tuberculosis in
human beings. The healthy human being
reacts either not at all or scarcely at all, as
we have seen when .01 cnbic centimetre is
used.
"The same holds good with regard to pa
tients suffering from diseases other than
tuberculosis as repeated experiments have
proved, but the case is very di&erent when
the disease is tuberculosis. A dose of .01
cubic centimetre injected sub-cnntaneously
into the tuberculous patient caused a severe
general reaction as well as a local one.
"I gave children aged from 2 to 6 years
one-tenth of the dose, that is to say .001
cnbic centimetres very delicate children
only .0005 cubic centi metre and obtained
powerfnl, but in no way dangerous reaction.
The general reaction consists in an attack of
fever, which usually begins with rigors and
raises the temperature above 39, often up
to 40 and even 41.
Some of the Immediate Effects.
"This is accompanied by vain in the
limbs, coughing, great fatigne, and often
sickness and vomiting. In several cases a
slight icteroid discoloration was observed,
and occasionally an eruption like measles on
the chest and neck. The attack usually
begins 4 or C hours after the injection, and
lasts from 12 to 15 hours. Occasionally it
begins later, and then runs its course with
less intensity.
"The patients are very little affected by
the attack, and as soon as it is over feel
comparatively well generally better than
before. The local reaction can be best ob
served in cases in which the tuberculous
affection is risible, for instance, in cases
where lupus changes take place, which show
the specific anti-tnrberculous action ot the
remedy to a most surprising degree.
A Change In a Few Hours.
"A few hours after injection into the skin
ot the back that is, in a spot far removed
from the diseased area on the face or else
where the lupus begins to swell and to
redden and this it does generally before the
initial rigor. During the fever the swelling
and redness increases and may finally reach
a high degree, so that the lupus tissue be
comes brownish and necrotic in places where
the growth was sharply defined.
"We sometimes found a much swollen
and brownish spot surrounded by a whitish
edge almost one centimetre wide, which
again was surrounded by a broad band of
bright red. After the subsidence of the
fever the swelling of the Inpus tissue gradu
ally decreases and disappears in about two
or three days. The lupus spots themselves
are then covered with a soft deposit, which
filters outward and dries in the air. The
growth then changes to a crust which falls
off after two or three weeks and which some
times after only one injection leaves a
clean, red cecatrix behind.
Several Injections Usually Required.
"Generally,however,several injections are
required for the complete removal of the
lupus tissue; but of this more later on. I
must mention as a point of special import
ance that the changes described are exactly
confined to the parts of the skin affected
with lupus. Even the smallest nodules
and those most deeply hidden in the lupus
tissue go through the process and become
visible in consequence of the swelling and
change of color, while the tissue itself, in
which the lupus changes have entirely
ceased, remains unchanged. The observa
tion of a lupus case treated by the remedy
is so instructive and is necessarily so con
vincing that those who wish to make a trial
of the remedy should, if possible, begin
with a case of lupus. The specific action of
the remedy in these cases is less striking,
but is as perceptible to the eye and touch as
are the local reactions in cases of tubercu
losis of the glands, bones, joints, etc
Some of the Necessary Conclusions.
"In these cases swelling, increased sensi
bility and redness of the superficial parts
are observed. The reaction of the internal
organs, especially of the lungs, is not at once
apparent, unless the increased cough and
expectoration of consumptive patients after
the first injections be considered as pointing
to local reaction in these cases. The general
reaction is dominant.
"Nevertheless we are justified in assum
ing that here, too, changes take place simi
lar to those seen in lupus cases. The symp
tt xns of reaction above described occurred
without exception in all cases in which a
turbercnlous process was present in the or
ganism after aloss of 0.01 cubic centimetres,
and I think I am justified in saying that
the remedy will, therefore, in the future,
form an indispensable aid to diagnosis. By
its aid we shall be able to diacnose doubt
ful cases of phthisis, for instance, cases in
which it is impossible to obtain certainty as
to the nature of the disease by the discovery
of bacilli or elastic fiber in the sputum, or
his physical examination.
One of the Beneficent Features.
"Affections of the glands attend tubercu
losis of the bones, donbtful cases of tubercu
losis of the skin and similar cases will be
easily and with certainty recognized, in
cases of tuberculosis of the lungs or joints
which have been apparently cured, we shall
be able to make sure whether the disease
has really finished its course and whether
there be still soms diseased spot from which
ifp ytpywoi'
PITTSBURG,
it might again arise as a flame from a spark
hidden by ashes.
"The circumstances are somewhat differ
ent in phthisical patients, who constituted
the largest number of our patients. Patients
with decided pulmonary tuberculosis are
much more sensitive to the remedy than
those with surgical, tuberculous affections.
We were obliged to diminish the dose for
the phthisical patients, and found that they
almost all reacted strongly to O.002 cnbic
centimetre and 0.001 cubic centimetre.
An Increase in the Amount.
"From this first small dose even it was
possible to rise more or less quickly to the
amount that is well borne by other patients.
Our course was generally as follows: An
injection of 0.001 cnbic centimetre was first
given to the phthisical patient, and from
this a rise of temperature followed, the same
dose being repeated once a day until
no reaction could be observed.
We then increased the dose
to 0.002 cubic centimetre, until this was
borne without reaction, and so on, increas
ing by 0.001 or at most 0.002 to 0.005 cnbic
centimetre. This mild course Beemed to be
imperative in cases in which there was great
debility. By this mode of treatment the
patient can be brought to tolerate large
doses of the the remedy with scarcely a rise
of temperature. But tbe patients of greater
strength were treated from the first partly
with larger doses and partly with frequent
ly repeated doses. Here it seemed that tbe
beneficial results were more quickly ob
tained. The Action in Certain Cases.
"The action of tbe remedy in cases of
phthisis generally showed itself as follows:
Cough and expectoration were generally in
creased a little after the first injection, then
grew less and less, and in the most favorable
cases entirely disappeared. The expectora
tion also lost its purulent character and be
came mucous as a rnle. The number of
bacilli decreased only when the expectora
tion began to present a mucous appearance,
they then entirely disappeared, but were
again observed occasionally until expectora
tion completely ceased. Simultaneously
the nightsweats ceased, the patients' ap
pearance improved and they increased in
weight within from four to six weeks.
"Patients under treatment for the first
stage of phthisis were free from every symp
tom of disease and might be pronounced
cured, patients with cavities hot too highly
developed improved considerably and were
almost enred, and only in those whose lungs
contained many large cavities conld no im
provement be proved. Objectively, even in
these cases, the expectoration decreased and
tbe subjective condition improved. These
experiences lead me to suppose that phthisis
in the beginning can be cured with cer
tainty by this remedy. This statement re
quires limitation, in so tar as at present no
conclusive experiences can possibly be
brought forward to prove whether the cure
is lasting.
A Possibility of Relapses.
"Relapses naturally may occur, bnt it can
be assumed that they may be cured as early
and quickly as the first attack. Oq the
other hand, it seems possible, that, as in
other infectaons diseases, patients once
cured may retain theii immunity; bnt this,
too, for the present, must remain an open
question In part, this may be assumed
for other cases when not too far advanced,
bnt patients with large cavities who suffer
from complications caused, for instance,
by the incursion of, other pus-forming
micro-organisms'IntV the cavities,
or by Incurable pathological changes in
other organ will probably obtain lasting
benefit from the remedy in only exceptional
cases. Even such patients, however, were
benefited for a time. This seems to prove
that in their cases, too, the original tuber
culous disease is influenced by the remedy
in the same manner as in the other cases,
but that we are unable to remove the ne
crotic masses of tissue with the secondary
suppurative processes.
"Of greater importance, however, than its
diagnostic use, is the therapeutic effect of
the remedy. In a description of the changes
which a sub-cutaneous injection of the
remedy produces in portions of the skin
affected by Inpus, I mentioned that after the
subsidence of the swelling and decrease of
the redness the lupus tissue does not return
to its original condition, but that it is de
stroyed to a greater or less extent and dis
appears. Changes in the Diseased Tissue.
"Observation shows that on some parts
this result is brought about by the diseased
tissue becoming necrotic, even after but one
sufficiently large injection, and at a later
stage it is thrown off as a dead mass. In
other parts a disappearance, or, as it were, a
necrosis of the tissue seems to occur, and in
such ca:e the injection must be repeated to
complete the cure.
"In what way this process of enre occurs
cannot as yet be stated with certainty, as
the necessary histological investigations are
not complete. But this much is certain:
That there is no question of a destruction of
the tubercle bacilli in the tissues, bnt only
that the tissue inclosing the tnbercle bacilli
is affected by the remedy. Beyond this
there is, as is shown by the visible swelling
and redness, considerable disturbance of the
circulation, and evidently in connection
therewith, deeply seated changes in its nu
trition which cause the tissue to die more or
less quickly and deeply according to the
extent of the action of the remedy.
A Review of the Result.
"To recapitulate, the remedy does not kill
the tubercle bacilli bnt the tuberculous
tissue, and this gives us clearly and
definitely the limit that bounds the action
of tbe remedy. It can influence living
tuberculous tissue only, and has no effect on
dead tissue, as, for instance, necrotic
cheesy masses, necrotio bones, etc, nor has
it any effect on tissues made necrotic by the
remedy itself.
"In such masses of dead tissue living
tubercle bacilli may possibly still be pres
ent, and are cither thrown off with the
necrosed tissue, or may possibly enter the
neighboring and still living tissue under
certain circumstances of the tberapntic
activity. If tbe remedy is to be rendered as
fruitful as possible this peculiarity in its
mode of action must be carefully observed.
"At first the living tuberculous tissne
mast be caused to undergo necrosis, and
then everything mnst be done to remove the
dead tissne as soon as possible, as, for in
stance, by surgical interference. Where
this is not possible, and where the organism
is unassisted in throwing off tbe tissue
slowly, the endangered living tissue must
be protected from fresh incursions of the
parasites by continuous applications of tbe
remedy.
A Peculiar Characteristic Explained.
"The fact that tbe remedy makes tuber
culous tissue nicrotic and acts only on the
living tissue, helps to explain another
peculiar characteristic thereof, namely, that
it can be given in rapidly increasing doses.
At first sight this phenomenon would seem
to point to the establishment of tolerance,
but since it is found that the dose can in the
course of about three weeks be increased to
Continued on Sixth PageJ,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1890 TWELVE
BLAINE'S PET PLAN.
The Secretary of State at Wort on a
Reciprocity Eeport.
KEEPIXG HIMSELF IN SECLUSION
To All hut the Diplomats- From South
American Republics.
TEEATI WITH BRAZIL IS PREPARATION
tFROH A STAFF COimESrOJTDEST.l
Washington-, November 14. It is said
that Secretary Blaine is hard at work upop-
anannnal report, which will contain an
elaborate review and further recommendar
tions in the support of his pet scheme of
international reciprooity, which will mpre
than ever impress his personality on the
public. He is secluding himself from the
public to a great extent and is devoting
nearly all hiu time to the work on his great
plan, which, it is said, he believes will be
the salvation of the party, and which will
certainly make him the great man of the
party, if it is snccessfnl. He. would prob,
ably prefer the fame of having developed
onr trade on the American continent and
given a new impulse to our national pros
perity to that ot being President and might
not object to both.
HOLDING DIPLOMATIC LEVEES.
Within the past two weeks he has bad the
east dining room at his house fitted up as an
office and coasulting room, and many times
a day he has received visits there from the
diplomatic representatives of the Spanish
American .Republics. He has denied him
self to other (jailers and has devoted himself
to conferences with these diplomats, and it
may be assumed that these conferences have
not been fruitless, since all parties to them
have had practically the same object in
view.
The presence at Washington of Mr. Pit
kin, Minister to the Argentine Republic,
and Mr. Conger, Minister to Brazil, is not
without significance. There are reasons
why negotiations with the Argentine Fed
eration might be conducted at Buenos
Ayies, and this makes it important that our
Minister theve should confer personally with
the Secretary of State after having been in
conference with the Argentine Government.
The negotiations with Brazil have probably
advanced further than with any of the
others. Senhor Salvador de Mendonca, the
Special Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to this country from Brazil,
has gone to his capital, taking with him
some important papers. He will be absent
no longer than' is required for him to get
there, hare a treaty signed and get back
again.
A TREATY WITH BRAZIL.
Before Congress has been in session a
month, the Senate will , probably have a
treaty with Brazil to consider. The orogress
of friendship and association with Peru and
Columbia is satisfactory also, bnt
Chili is not as cordial in its love of the
United States as are some other Spanish
American nations.
In Cuba, there is a tremendous agitation
of the question of reciprocity with the
United States. Just what is the disposition
at Madrid is yet to be found out. There
has been a change of cabinet there and the
new Spanish Minister here was presented to
tbe President to-day. Tbe United States
Minister to Spain, Mr. Grubb, is on his way
to Madrid, having full instructions in his
carpet bag.
The Governor General of Cuba has called
the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce,
the Economic Society", the Union of Cigar
Mannfacturers and the Board of Trade of
Havana to thepalace and conveyed to them
a communication from the Government at
Madrid, asking them to send to Madrid, in
union with the Chamber of Commerce at
Santiago de Cuba, a delegate representing
each body, to give the foreign office the
views on the subject of negotiations for
reciprecity with the United States and con
fer on the subject
ENTHUSIASTIC POIt RECIPROCITY.
These commercial bodies will net upon
this request, and throughont Cuba there is
great enthusiasm in favor of reciprocity. A
Havana paper, discussing the complaint of
the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs
that the Havana commercial bodies were
injuring the chance of making good terms
with the United States in a treaty, by show
ing their eagerness and the necessity for
such a treaty, states that they cannot tell
Mr. Blaine anything about the condition
and needs of Cuba that he does not already
know.
It says Mr. Blaine is now better informed
upon the snbject of Cuban industry, trade
and commerce than is the Government at
Madrid; that he possesses all the informa
tion on the snbject that is to be bad and
fully appreciates the situation. It says
further that Mr. Blaine has in his power to
practically destroy the Cuban sugar indus
try. Lightner.
A MINISTER'S DOWNFALL.
In a Washington Police Court as an Habitual
Drunkard.
-SPECIAL THLEUniSI TO THE DISFATCB.l
Washington, November 14. Melville
C. Brereton, who has been occupying a room
in the house of Dr. James E. Dexter, on C
street, was arrested last night by Policeman
Groffand locked up at the Sixth Precinct
station on a charge of being an habitual
drunkard. The prisoner was at one time a
chaplain in the army and was
also a lieutenant commander in the
navy. It is also said that he
was once the paster of a church in
this city. This morning he appeared in
the police court and pleaded guilty to the
charge against him, "but if you let me go
this time," he said, "I will "leave tbe city.
I have made arrangements to go to Salfz
burg, Pa., a prohibition town, and with
your Honor's permission I will go to-day."
Judge Miller told him that he had been
before the Court before, and it would not do
for him to go off and get drunk again and
say he forgot to leave the city. The Judge
added that he would give him the permis
sion asked, and accepted his personal boad.
SENATOB INGALLS HOPEFUL.
Ho is Confident of Re-KIection and Quotes
Scripture on nis Case.
IBrBCIAI. TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH. 1
Washington, November 14. Senator
Ingalls himself is now evidently taking
heart of grace in the midst of the general
wreck, and professes to see his way clear to
re-enter the Senate wing of the capital as a
member. Thongh not given to devotion, he
has evidently been brought to his knees by
the terrible experiences through which he
has just passed. Deputy Second Auditor
Franklin received a letter from him this
morning, in which he declares himself to be
hopeful and even confident of re-election.
The epistle concludes with this quotation:
The race is not always to the swift nor tbe
battle to the strong, but he that endureth to
tbe end the same shall be saved.
T.TT.T.TAN SPENCER has written a series
ofletters for THE DISPATCH describing her
Tour of Europe on Foot. The first letter will
appear to-morrow morning. A Mammoth
Newspaper and Magazine, containing 102
columns.
Big Fire at Dallas.
Dallas. November 14. Fire this morn
ing destroyed the Scollard building. Loss,
818,000; Insured for 110,000. Tabor Bros.,
jewelers, lost 16,000; folly insured,
CUBA FOR RECIPROCITY.
HAVANA commercial magnates sum
moned TO MADRID.
Strong Editorial In an Island Newspaper,
Showing the Helplessness of the Colony
I n Vie w of the American Policy Blaine's
Knowledgo of the Country.
Washington, .November 14. The De
partment of State has received a dispatch
from Itamdn O. Williams, Consul General
at Havana, enclosiug a translation of the
announcement in the official journal of the
fact that the Chairman of the Chamber of
Commerce, Chairman of the Economic So
ciety, Chairwau of the Tobacco Growers
and Manufacturers' Association and the
Chairman of the. Board of Sugar Planters of
Havana, have been called to the Palace of
.Instructions from Madrid, and requested to
appoint a committee to go to Madrid and re
port personally the views of these corpora
tions upon the negotiation of a reciprocity
treaty with the United States.
Mr. Williams also encloses the transla
tion of an editorial from La Lucha, a lead
ing paper ot Havana, regarding the action
of the Spanish Cabinet at Madrid as follows:
Air. Canovas del Castillo, according to tbe
telegrams received from onr agent in Madrid,
considers the petitions addressed him from
this island asking for tho negotiation of a
treaty of commerco with the United States as
Imprudent because tending to encourage the
Yankees to be tbe more exacting. It would
seem almost incredible for the Premier of the
Spanish Cabinet to discourse in such a man
ner. Can Sir. Canovas believe that it is possi
ble to hide from tho United States the gravity
of the crisis brought on by the new tariff of tho
great Republic T The United States is admira
bly acquainted with everything relating to this
island. They know its economic, financial and
political condition in a most exact manner.
Even the geography and topography of Cuba
are known in the United States much more
than can perhaps be supposed.
A highly respected gentleman has said that
in tbe offices of the Federal Government there
exist data with refcrenco to the cost of the
island, showing that its most important parts
have been surveyed and sonnded. Mr. Blaine,
the present Secretary of State, is just as well
informed of the affairs of Cuba as if he lived
and labored among ns, or had lived on the
island many years. Our export and import
trade, the state of our agricultural, commercial
and Indnstrial wealth, yield of our customs,
are all known to Blaine. The exposition of the
Cnamber of Commerce ot Havana and Santiago
de Cuba, the report of the Cigarmakcra' Union
and the opinions of the Havana press upon
the great questions now agitating us are all
read in Washington a few days after being
printed in this city. Moreover, tbe Secretary
of State does not even have to order the trans
lation of those documents, because they are
sent to him from here already translated.
Blaine knows everything.
He already possesses that which onr Govern
ment is in want of. namely, facts and data
demonstrative of the real straits of our com
mercial relations with the United States. Has
not a recent telegram published by us from
Madrid told us that the Government has re
quested the Spanish Consols in the United
States to furnish it with Information of the
same kind? The statistical information in tbe
possession of iilaine is of so decisive and ful
minating a character as to enable him to say
to Spain, "Accede, agree, as is just to my
policy of commercial reclDrocity, or I will
sins: tbe sugar plantations of Cuba." And the
day .of our prime industry, that of sugar plant
inn is lost, all the minor industries mil be lost
wiyi " Oar railroads, onr banks, our great
commercial houses, our professions, onr In
dustry, all live and flourish because we plant
cane, make sugar and sell it to the United
States, iilaine knows all this, and acts accord
ingly. What does Mr. Canovas wish? That weshonld
not talk so plain? Tbatwesball mutely cross
onr arms? Tbatwesball quietly stand before
the wave of misery now threatening to swallow
us in its depths? No people, unless degraded
and debased, can resign itself to lose, along
with its wealth and happiness, its culture and
civilization. Our campaign had to be under
taken, and we have realized its ideal publicly
and in the light of day. Our clamors are loud
and energetic, though not so much as we would
-wish, for the danger threatening tig aro great
and imminent. Take heed. Mr: Canovas.
TOMORROWS DISPATCHwill hold lf3
Columns, made up Into 34 Pages and Tlireo
Parts. It Is a big magazine for the homo
circle as well as a Chronicle of all the News
of tho World.
WANTS $50,000 DAMAGES.
An Aged Kentucky "Widower Sned for
Breach of Promise.
tSFKCIAL TELEQUAJI TO THE DISFATcn.l
Lexington, Ky., November 14. This
afternoon there was filed in Paris, Ky., a
suit for 550,000 damages for breach of prom
ise The defendant is Jefferson Bryant, a
widower of 63, and the plaintaiff is Miss
Lettie E. Herman Case, aged 23, of Mont
gomery conntv.
The defendant is very wealthy, and the
plaintiff says in her petition that he prom
ised to marry her on October 16.
JUBY FIXING A PEOFESSION.
Remarkable Advico of a Jury in an Erie
Court to the Judge.
rSFECIAI. TELEOBAM TO THE DIS"ATCH.l
Erie, November 14. During the last
hours of Court to-day, the Grand Jury
created a sensation by advising tbe Court
that the practice ot making public the jury
lists was not to the best interests of justice,
as it gave jury fixers an opportunity.
It is strongly asserted to-night that there
are men in the county who make jury fixing
a business. It is expected that the" Judge
will order tbe drawing of jurors to be done
in secret
A COLLEGE BEVOLDTION.
Resignation of Several of tho Faculty of an
Iowa Institution.
DesMoines, November 14. President
Chamberlain, Prof. Smith, of the Agricul
tural Chair, and Prof. Mount, of the engi
neering department, and Musical Director
Miss Eva Pike have resigned from the
faculty of the State Agricultural College at
Ames.
Prof. E. W. Stanton has been appointed
President temporarily.
FOE CHEISTIAN YOUNG MEN.
Iowa City Will Have a Magnificent T. M. C.
A. Building.
Iowa city, Ia., November 14. The cor
ner stone of the new Young Men's Chris
ian Association building in this city was
laid to-day.
Thirty thousand dollars was raised for the
building by the students of the State Uni
versity and citizens of Iowa City. Mrs. C.
D. Close gave the handsome sum of $10,000.
PENSIONS FOE SCHOOL TEACHEBS.
A Superintendent Proposes to Provide for
Superannuates.
St. Paul, November 14. In the report
of the schools of St. Paul, just made by
Superintendent Gilbert, that gentleman
suggests the feasibility of pensioning old
teachers who have no competency.
He argues strongly in favor of the propo
sition as a duty, both to the superannuated
teachers and to tho schools.
D0CKEBS' FATAL FALL.
Three Loso Their Lives in the Hold of a
Lake Steamer.
Chicago, November 14. At noon to
day John.M.Pntorsski was killed, Joseph
Brandt fatally injured and .Michael Egan
and Fred Dnglass more or less injured on
the steamer D. Whitney.
They had been engaged in unloading coal
from the hold, and when they started to
dinner they tried to ascend by means ot the
rope. Pntorsski's hold slipped and he fell,
knocking the others with: him.
Mgmttfi .
PAGES.
BRUIN'S FATAL RIDE.
A Bear, Struck by a. Train, Travels
Safely on the Cowcatcher
A DISTANCE OF SEVERAL MILES,
Only to ho Hunted to Death at the Con
clusion of His Journey.
WHOLE TILLAGE AFTER THE BEAST
IKPECIALTELEOnAM TO TUB DISPATCH.I
Olcut Bun, Pa., November 14. This
afternoon as the .Warren accommodation
train on the Eldred and Southeast Branch
Bailroad was passing through Wilder's
Cnt, a deep and narrow passage through
the rocks ten miles east of this station, En
gineer Dan Elwood was surprised to see a
bear coming into the cut at the west end,
only 20 yards away. The bear appeared
suddenly around the edge of the rocks and
stopped on the track facing the engine. It
seemed paralyzed at the sight of the locomo
tive rushing toward it, and stood motionless
until the engine was almost upon it, when
it raised up on its hind feet.
The train was running about 15 miles an
hour through the cut, and instantly on see
ing the bear on the track, tbe engineer shut
down the steam. The distance between the
train and the bear was too short for the
speed of the train to be reduced much, and
the pilot plowed under the bear, the sharp
point passing between the animal's wide
spread legs. This quickly threw the hind
part of the bear ahead, and tbe animal fell
with his forepaws and npper patt of his
body forward on the cowcatcher.
BRUIN TAKES A BIDE.
Engineer Elwood put on steam again, and
his fireman climbed out ot the cab window
and ran along tbe gnard rail to the front of
the engine and peeped around to see what
had become of the bear. Bruin was lying
on his stomach against the cowcatcher, his
head nearly tonching the headlight. Both
hind feet were safely planted between the
lower bars of the pilot, one on each side of
the tip, and bis forelegs were tightly hug
ging the bars at the top.
The collision had evidently not done any
injury to the bear. It was plain that he
did not intend to take any chances by vol
untarily getting off the cowcatcher while
the train was in motion, and be was guard
ing himself well against being thrown off;
so the engineer conclnded that he would run
bruin into Olcut and trust to Inck tor the
subsequent proceedings.
Station Agent Dick Jacobs stood in the
depot door at this place when the train
came rolling in, and the sight of a bear
clinging to tbe cowcatcher had such an
effect on him that he stood as though rooted
to the spot, gazing with open mouth and
eyes at the extraordinary spectacle. As
soon as the train stopped, the bear saw that
its opportunity to escape safely from its
perilous position had come, and it dropped
off the cowcatcher and made a break for
liberty.
AN EXCITING BEAR HUNT.
As the bear left the engine. Elwood began
to shout lor somebody to get a gnn. The
advance of the bear aroused Jacobs to the
situation, and he rushed into the depot,
slammed the door shut, dashed out of the
rear door and tore up Dorr street, shouting!
"Bear! Bear! Bear!" at the top of his lungs.
In the meantime the bear, with Elwood
and his fireman at his beels, ran across the
street, jumped on one end of the long piazza
of Long's Hotel, turned into Cady street
and hurried away in the direction of Cady
Creek, which runs along the eastern edge of
the village. A crowd quickly gathered and
followed thebear, yelling and pelting the
poor beast with stones. The bar had gone
but ashort distance down Cady street, when
John Cameron's big shepherd dog bounded
out of the yard and boldly pitched into
bruin.
There was a lively fight for a minnte,
which resulted in the death of the dog. The
bear then hurried on toward the creek, but
at the corner of Cady and Water streets
Lawyer Giles Beers met him with a double
barreled rifle. The bear turned, on being
confronted by Beers and the gun, and ran
down tbe narrow alley leading to Gully's
livery stable.
BRUIN MAKES A GOOD FIGHT.
The alley ends at the stable, and the bear
found bis furtber flight suddenly cnt off.
Beers followed the bear down the alley and
tbe yelling crowd followed Beers. Bruin,
finding that he was brought to bay, backed
himself against the barn, raised on his
haunches, and awaited his foes. Beers sent
two bullets into the animal's .breast. The
bear dropped to his feet and charged on
Beers and the crowd, blood pouring from
his wounds in streams.
The crowd scurried back through the
alley and, in tne rusn, John uarmody, 12
years old, was thrown down and trampled
on, one ol his legs being broken. Beers
managed to slip another cartridge in his
gun before the bear reached him, and sent it
clean through tne animal's bead, killing
the bear in its tracks. The bear weighed
300 pounds. It was not until the bear had
been killed that Engineer Elwood and his
fireman remembered that a trainload of pas
sengers were at the depot waiting for them
to carry them the rest of their journey.
The two railroad men were in at the death
of the bear they had brought in on their
cowcatcher.bnt, as tbe train was held nearly
20 minutes at the station while the chase
was going on, the chances are that the bear
hunt will be a dear one to the engineer and
fireman.
KIPLING'S great serial story, now running
exclusively In the Sunday edition of THE
DISPATCH, is the literary sensation of the
day. The second installment, together with
a synopsis of the first, will appear to-morrow.
A Mammoth Newspaper containing 193 col
umns. Twenty-four Pages. .
A MYSTEBIOu'S CLUB.
Its Mission Is a General Reformation of
About Everything in Sight.
FPECIAI. TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCn.1
Albany, November 14. A curious cer
tificate of incorporation was filed here to
day, which might be taken for either a free
trade, a socialistic organization or a Bellamy
club. It is called "The National Alliance,"
and its stated objects are: "To promote the
establishment of correct and complete per
sonal liberty; to stimulate a constant de
velopment oft he essential principles of true
democracy, and to resist all monopolies and
exclusive legislation for the benefit of the
few at the expense of the many."
The alliance has for trustees Adolph
Luhro, John Gilmore Boyd, Daniel C. Mc
Gowan, B. Bisctroff, ot New York, and
Henrv Nichols, Ealph W. E. Swinton and
John'Hincklin, of Brooklyn.
AT HIS OLD HOME.
Governor-Elect Boyd, of Nebraska, Wel
comed Back to ZanesviUe.
1SFEC1AI. TELXOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Zanesville, November 14. Governor
elect James E. Boyd, of Nebraska, accom
panied by his brother, Thomas F. Boyd, of
Omaha', who attended the Thurman banqnet
at Columbus last night, arrived here to-day,
and were given an informal reception at the
Clarendon Hotel to-night.
There was a large turnout of prominent
citizens of all parties. Governor Boyd was
born here 50 years ago, and his ajed father
is at present City Weighmaster.
THE WALL STREET SITUATION.
A Lively Monkey-and-Parrot Time, but no
Injury to Legitimate Business.
MEN BL0WNJ0 ATOMS.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE AND
GIANT POWDER.
Fragments of Three Men Hurled Into the
Air With Terrific Force and Several
Others Injured Every Building in Lima
Shaken by the Blast.
EPECXAt. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH
Lima, November 14. At 7:30 this morn
ing a terrific explosion of dynamite took
place at the Caster stoue quarry, situated on
tbe southwestern edge of this city across the
rnn from the driving park. Three men
were blown to atoms and four others were
injured. The concussion shook every build
ing in the city, and broke the windows of
tbe houses located nearby, while the shock
was-Ot for ten miles around. Hundreds of
pco "armed, and were soon on their
wa t J.c'tjphe explosion.
TvASIjJ O Joyk in tbe powder
house, Mr&LfjPjfy cifVj9t"iI tbe pU'
preparing a blastr tfJ ied, were
heating the dynamiteaVS r- it let go.
The third man, Archie Buri,;, was just
going into the building when the explosion
took place. George Fisher and Henry
Wisekopf were the men preparing the blast.
Fisher was hurled in the air 50 feet. His
arms and legs were blown off, and all that
was left was the blackened trunk. Wise
kopf was blown fully 200 feet, and clear
over the quarry to the east side His head
was blown from his body, and was not dis
covered unlil this afternoon, when it was
found in a field with hogs rooting it around.
His clothes were all torn off and his arms
and legs were missing. To illustrate the
force of the explosion, it can be seen that
the soles of his shoes were torn off, and his
trunk was horribly torn and blackened.
Burkett's body was the least mutilated of
the three, but his arms and one leg were torn
away.
Burkett was a young man with relatives
at Decatur, Ind., and had only been here
for a short time. Fisher was married and
leaves a wife and two children, and Wise
kopf leaves a wife and four children. Both
families are left destitute.
Jacob Custer, the proprietor, and several
other workmen were iu tbe bottom of the
quarry working at the time of the explo
sion. George Fisher, a nephew of the man
who was killed, was struck on the head by
the flying debris, and badly injured.
Samuel Watt was hit on the chin by a
stone and knocked senseless. William
Houk had his shoulder dislocated, and
Abraham Kiplever had his hand and arm
badly hurt. The' Coroner viewed the re
mains ofthe' men who were killed, as the
pieces ha3 been gathered up by an ambu
lance and taken to his establishment,
where they were made as presentable as
possible for burial. The injured men are all
doing well this evening, and will likely re
cover. The blast was composed of 75 pounds
No.1 Hercules powder,60 percent dynamite,
and 25 pounds of giant powder. Tho Coro
ner decided to-night not to hold an inqnest,
he professing himself as being satisfied as
to the purely accidental natnre of the
fatality.
A CHILD BUBGLAB.
Capture of a Seven-Tear-Old Italian Cracks
man in Boston.
ISPECIAL TELEORAJt TO THE DISPATCH.1
Boston, November 14. A 7-year-old
burglar is an oddity, even in this age of
freaks, bnt that was the age of a little
Italian caught on Doane street by Patrol
man Brown abont 1 o'clock this morning.
The officer noticed three boys ahead of him,
and thinking they were bunking ont, asked
them where they lived. The lads started to
run, but the little fellow was captured. He
acted so suspiciously that the policeman
questioned him closely, and upon searching
his pockets fonnd harmonicas, quite a
number of toy watches and two purses. He
said these bad been given to him by his
companions, but he would not tell where
tbey got them; so, after ascertaining that
his name was Pasqnale, he was taken to his
home.
This morning Patrolman Leary discov
ered a broken window in tbe store of A. C.
Voce, on Hanover street, and from the show
window were missed a number of articles
similar to those found in tbe boy's pocket.
This morning tbe child confessed that he
and his companions broke the window with
a brick and stole the goods, but he main
tained that he had taken but a passive part
in the affair. He refuses to tell the names
of his companions.
THOMAS EDISON has been interviewed
for THE DISPATCH, and in to-morrow's
issne he will tell all abont the future of elec
tricity, the possibility of the flying machine,
and other scientific developments. Twenty
four Pages. All the News.
MOVEMENT FOE CHUECH UNITY.
Meeting of Northwestern Ministers Favor a
Christian Alliance.
Chicago, November 14. A meeting of
ministers and others interested in the unifi
cation of liberal Christian movements in tbe
form of a Christian Alliance, met here to
day. Key. J. T. Sunderland, of Ann
Arbor, spoke of the financial advantages of
combining weak churches and gathering the
church members of various denominations
in small towns into one church, as alone the
members of any one denomination were too
weak to support a church.
The essentials of religion, he said, could
be rery easily agreed upon, and everybody
conld become tolerant of the speculative
tbeologyof his neighbor. Addresses were
also made by Bev. Drs. S. W. Semple, of
Minneapolis; Bev. Dr. B. S. Crowe, of
Newark, N. J., and others.
HEW BATLBOAD PBOJECT.
A Line to Connect Paxton, HL, "frith Cay
uga, Ind., Proposed.
SrKiNGFiELD, III., November 14.
Articles of incorpoiaiion were filed to-day
for the Paxton and Cayuga Bailroad. The
capital stock is $2,000,000.
It is proposed to boild a railroad from
Paxton, 111., to Cayuga, Ind,
Awarded S43S in Damages.
SPECIAL TELIOBAX TO THE DISPATCH.!
Albany, November 14. The Board of
Claims to-day awarded J. W. & H. C.
Wakefield, of Maine, a damage claim of
5425 on their demand for $1,140. Tbe claim
grew out of the repeal of tbe prison con
tract labor law, which prevented the ful
filling of a contract which the Elmira Be
formatory made to supply the Wakefields
with broom handles.
Transient Advertisements,
INCLUDING
WANTS, TO LETS. FOR SALES. ETC., FOR
TO-MORROW'S ISSUE
Star be handed in at the main a'dvertfsins
office of The Dispatch, corner Smithneld
and Diamond streets, np to midnight.
THREE CENTS.
HIS WIFE'S DEFENSE
!
Jameson's Widow Makes Public
Her Husband's Late Writ
ten Statement
DEFENDING HIS CHARACTER
Against the Charge of Cannibalism
Brought by Assad Faran.
NOTHING GAINED CI THE LETTEB,
A3 It Practically Confirms the Terribls
Accusations
AND MAKES AlATTEES STILL W0RSK
1BT DITSLAr'S CABLE COMPANT.I
London, November 14. The following
letter has been written by Mrs. Jameson,
together with the enclosures which are re
ferred to in it:
"As the Emin Pasha Belief Committee
appears to consider the duty of publishing
my late husband's refutation of tbe cruel
charges made against him by Assad Faran
(which charge, long ago withdrawn, Mr.
Stanley has now thought fit to bring for
ward), devolves upon me, I present the
doenments annexed, consisting of a Jetter of
my husband to Sir William Mackinnon on
August 3, 1888. so far as it relates to this
horrible charge and Assad Faran's retrac
tion, dated September 28, 1888.
"I will only add that my poor husband
died within a fortnight after the date of his
letter, therefore he had no opportunity ot
taking further steps to clear his character,
which he at that time contemplated. Tours
faithfully, Ethel Jameson.
JAMESON'S -WRITTEN STORY.
The following is the part of the letter re
ferring to the cannibal story written by Mr.
Jameson at Stanley Falls, August 3, 1888:
IVm. McKlnnon, Esq., President of the Com g it
tee or the hmin 1'asb.i lteller Expedition:
"Sir As you will see by Major Barttelot's
letter, Assad Faran, the dismissed Arabic
interpreter, has written the most false and
cruel statements about me after leaving
Yambuya camp. As an officer of this expe
dition, it is my bounden duty to clear my
character from such statements. I will tell
you now the simple narrative of the whole
matter, whicb, much as it shocked me at the
time, I little dreamed could be turned to
snch use against me. My whole time since
my arrival here has been taken up with the
affairs of the expedition, and I have not had
a moment to get the necessary papers signed
by the witnesses of everything mentioned
by Assad Faran, before a Belgian officer, as
I mean to do and forward them to you.
"Tbe facts of the case are these: On my
return journey from Kasongo, the day after
onr arrival at Biba Biba, the chief sent for
me. On arriving at his house I witnessed a
very curious dance performed by some
Wacasn slaves. He informed me that thse
people, having had a number of deaths
among them, had gone away into the bush
for two months, where no one had seen
them, and returned to-day, having finished
their medicine meeting.
SACRIFICE OF THE SLATE GIRL.
"Tippoo Tib, who was at tbe house, said:
'This dance is generally followed by a lot
of people being eaten,' and be told me a lot
of cannibal stories. I laughed, saying:
'Since I have been in the country I have
heard many such stories, but I do not be
lieve tbem.' Another Arab present, who
had been very kind to me on my way to
Kasongo, told me another horrible story,
which I told him flatly I did not believe
could happen in any country in the world.
He, laughing, said: 'Give me a bit of cloth
and see.' I only thought this was another
of their plans for getting something out of
me, and having some cloth of my own, as
he had been kind to me, I sent my boy for
a small piece ot six handkerchiefs, which I
gave him.
"Then followed tbe most horrible scene I
ever witnessed in my life. Assad Faran
even here cannot help lying. The whole
thing happened so quickly that had I
wished I could not have sketched it. I had
nothing with me to sketch with, they all be
ing in my house. The girl never looked for
help. She seemed to know what was her
fate, and never stirred hand or foot or head,
except when she had to move to the place of
execution. How the girl was obtained I do
not know, hnt I will send you all particu
lars signed by the witnesses as promised."
DENOUNCING ASSAD FAEAN.
Here follow a few lines respecting personal
and famiiy matters. The letter then con
tinues: "Assad Faran openly boasted he had
swindled the English Government out of
300 in hiring camel drivers at Suakim.
He told me on the road to Kasongo he had
had a good chance there. When I asked
him what it was, he told me that whoever
was then in command had stopped all
gambling, bnt be knew the places where It
still went on, and that if he found any
soldier inclined to gamble, with plenty of
money, he used to take him to one of these
places and watch who won the most; then he
would slip ont, get a policeman and point
out the man; the policeman catching the
man with tbe money, and Assad and he
dividing the spoils.
"I told Assad he was nothing better thaa
a low informer and a thief, and an English
man or American would lynch him. It is
a low brute like this whose word the Bel
gian officers take, and who is allowed to de
stroy my character.
"T will write you more fully on this snb
ject when sending yon the necessary papers.
"James 8. Jameson."
The following is the copy of Assad
Faran's retraction of the statements made to
tbe Belgian officers regarding the cannibal
story, but he subsequently repeated it to
Mr. Stanley under oath on March 4, 1890,
at Cairo:
"25th September, 1888.
"I, As3ad Faran, lately interpreter with
tbe Emin Pasha Belief Expedition, declare
most solemnly that tbe story of Mr. Jame
son buying a girl has been altogether mis
understood by the missionary at Lntele.
The story is entirely untrue. Buch a charge
against Mr. Jameson I declare to be un
founded. "Tbe six handkerchiefs given by Mr.
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