' - T&1F ' -' " - ' ' '- --'- Jt'Ci e f " ' "iSSJi rVEKTBODT READS AND REFERS TO THE DISPATCH. IT IS THE rEoruE-s FORTY-FIFTH YEAk 1 FlifflL SHOCK Caused by the Failure of About the Oldest Bank of the Quaker City. LOSSES UPON RAILROADS Force the Well-Knowu Firm of Parker Bros. & Co. lo Make a Com plete Assignment. LIABILITIES NEARLY $5,000,000, While the Trescnt Talnation of the Avail able Assets is as let Only a Matter of Conjecture. DTHER INSTITUTIONS ARE AFFECTED, Hvi T?m Pitiably Pall Thnngh All Eight, ted Gn- tril Bositrss Has Kot Beet Px- Ucsl&x'y Disturbed. fCCsnniCN or affairs at other centers ESPECIAL TELEtWHAM TO THE DI1PATCH.1 Philadelphia, November 20. Finan cial circles were astonished and shocked arlien it was officially announced from the rostrum of the Stock Exchange at noon to day that the old established and hitherto invincible firm or Barker Bros. & Co. were unable to met their obligations, had suspended payment and made an assign meat to Rdward Mtllor. The financial atmosphere was assuming a much healthier tone, hut when it was learned th.it this firm, which had for a period of over 4 S years enjoyed the highest reputation and had successfully stemmed every financial storm daring that time, was unable to meet its obligations, the excite ment on the street was intense. Ramon of Trouble Some Dajs Ago. Several days aco there were rumors ou the street that Wharton Barker was com pelled to borrow large sums of money to carry through a great many investments in which his firm was interested. So large were these loans that the rumors extended to an actnal statement that the firm was involved. This was emphatically denied and the street gave credence to the denial, and it was generally accepted that the ru mors had arisen because the firm were the agents of the Baring Bros., of London. The business of the suspended firm was immense, and those who are familiar with its affair were of the opinion lS".t their liabilities would reach full $5,000,000. The assets to offset this are unknown. A few days ago "Wharton Barker, when he heard that the solvency of his house was questioned, said that his assets would ex ceed his liabilities by at least 51,000,000. In response to many inquiries the Messrs. Barter said that they would be unable to furnish any ttatement whatever until to morrow or Saturday. A Sliock to tho Senior Member. No one was admitted to the building after the place closed except upon the invitation of a member of the firm. Both of the Barkers returned to their private office. Abraham Barker, father of Wharton Barker, and senior member of the firm, was completely overwhelmed. With the failure of the firm, the Invest ment Company of Philadelphia, the finance CoaiDanv of Pennsylvania, and the Investment Trust Company were at once considered by financiers. All of these com panies were identified with the firm, inas much as Wharton Barker was directly in terested in them. Their aggregate author ized capital stock is 510,000,000, but the In vestment Trust Company has done little or no business. It is believed that all three of these com panies will weather the gale. Mr. Barker lias not been a factor in the Investment Company of Philadelphia lor some time, and a wealthy syndicate has guaranteed ? 1,000.000 to the Finance Company of Penn sylvania to see it through any difficulties thai may arise. The directors o. these companies are among the richest men in the city. No Stock Exchange Contracts. Darker Bros. & Co. had no contracts of the Stock Exchange. The firm did a bank ing business, but the amount ol the liabili ties to depositors will remain unknown until the promised statement is made public It was said after the failure that it had been known in inner financial circles for some time that several great enterprises backed by Barker Bros. & Co. had proved not only unprofitable, but, in reality, failures, and that recently the firm had expended large Finn; in supporting the price of the stock of the im finance companies with which they were identified. Other securities in which they were interested were also raided, and were supported by the firm at heavy loss. The firm is believed to have goue to the limit on their marketable securities in bor rowing. They were also the owners of a large number of securities which are per !rctly coot!, but which at this time they could neitner borrow upon nor sell. Arcoiic the corporations which Barker Bros. & Co. were particularly identified with were Ohio and Northwestern Railroad Company, Oregon Pacific Railroad Com pany, San Antonio and Arkansas Passen ger Railroad Company, Charleston, Cincin nati and Chicago Railroad Company, be sides the Philadelphia Investment Com pany and the Finance Company of Phila delphia and the Philadelphia Trust Com pany. A Number of Other Interests. They also held 2,055 shares of the Lehigh Navigation Company, which has declined over $8 a share within the past few days, Richmond Termiual, Pennsylvania and a lot of Baltimore and Ohio Car Trust certifi cate'. The firm also held a controlling in terest in the Wharton Switch Companv, which has an extensive plant. One of the most unfortunate movements is the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad. The firm is very heavily inter ested in t, Wharton Barker being oneofthe directors. The road is familiarly known on NT rArrn. the street as the three "C's." It runs from Charleston, S. C, to Marion, a station on the western North Carolina division of the Richmond and Danville system. The road runs through South Carolina and North Carolina. There is a break in the road in North Carolina and it does not begin again until the survey lines are reached in Tennessee. Here it runs for quite a long distance to a point in Kentucky where it is now in course of construction. The road bed has been graded lor some distance into Ohio. Not a Very Good Im estment. The road has never been viewed with much favor by railroad men for the reason that if it is ever completed it is believed it will not be able to earn its running ex penses. When first projected it was thought that the country through which it was to run was filled with valuable deposits of coal. This has proven to be a disappoint ment Abraham Barker, bursting into tears, said this afternoon that the firm's affairs were in very bad shape. Wharton Barker this afternoon resigned the Presidency of the Finance Company of Pennsylvania. Charlemagne Tower, Jr., was elected iu his place. Wharton Barker held 5700,000 worth of its capital stock. The company has an office at 135 and 137 South Fourth streeet. It was incorporated June 7, 1887, its charter being perpetual. It has an authorized capital stock of $5,000,000. full paid. On April 2, 1890, its surplus and undivided profiU were given as $1T0,5"2 63. Coming to tho Company's Rescue. To the board it was announced that a num ber of leading financial institutions were into a plan to protect the company from go ing into liquidation, the purpose of the syndicate being to raise $1,000,000 to tide the companv over its present difficulties. The syndicate are expected to protect all the outstanding obligations of the company. The lull amouut of SI 000,000 had not been entirel. raised at the close ol business. The In-olvent firm is, with one exception, the oldest financial bouse in Philadelphia, having been in existence since 1842, al though Abraham Barker had been a banker much longer. Abraham Barker, the found r of the firm, is now in the 70th year of his age. He began bis financial careerin New Orleans in 1837, and when onlv 17 years of ace was active in the firm of Hor ace Bean & Co. The Barkers were Quakers and as a rule intermarried in other Quaker families. Abraham Barker has always claimed de scent from the same ancestral stock as Ben jamin Franklin, through John Folger. He has been twice married, his first wife being Sarah Wharton, by Whom he had four chil dren, two daughters, both married, one son dead and Wharton Barker, the other mem ber of the firm. Agents of the Russian Government. In 1877 thev became financial agents of the Russian Government in the United States, and in carryins out instructions they procured four ships of war and completely armed and equipped them. For this service Wharton Barker was decorated by the Czar with a second rank of the Order of St. Stan islaus, and afterward went to Russia, where he entered into negotiations for the develop ment of the coal resources of Southeastern Russia, but thev finally fell through. The project with which the name of Barker Bros., but more especially of Wharton Bark er, has been most prominently identified was that in which, with the Russian adventurer, Connt Mitklewicz, as an intermedi ary, they expected to receive from the Chinese Government a grant for the man agement and control of the entire financial, telegraph rd "telephone priviirys of the i.mptre. This prTject was carried to far that it is claimed a decree granting the con cessions was made, but before it could be carried out such antagonism was show .against it iu influential quarters that the decree was held in abeyance or annulled. But the latest financial enterprise in which the firm was extensively engaged, and the one that is thought by "many who are in a position to know contributed most to their lailure, was the effort to either gain control of or bridge over the difficulties of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. The firm negotiated loans and took, it is said, the entire amount of the Baltimore and Ohio car trust certificates. NO LONGER NERVOUS. GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE WALL STREET SITUATION. Tho Failure in Philadelphia Now the Onl; I'eature "Which Causes Uneasiness Jay Gould's Operations in Union Pacific Suc cessfully Concluded. rSFCIAL TZLEGEAJI TO THE DISPATCH.1 New YORK, November 20. The affairs of the Union Pacific, which are now to be settled definitely on a new basis, will be publicly rearranged toward the close of next week, probably on Thursday. At the meet ing for reorganization Charles Francis Adams will retire, to be succeeded probably bv Sydney Dillon, and the new Board of Directors will include Russell Sage, Jay Gould, Alex. E. Orr and probably Henry B. Hyde. The Vice President, who will be the manager, Iivine at Omaha, has not yet been determined upon. This brings the two great systems of the Union Pacific and Mis souri 1'acitic into practical agreement, and is a long step toward the perfection of an other presidents' agreement the undoubted purpose of Mr. Gould's recent efforts. Except in the prices recorded on the Stock Exchange there were no traces iu the stock market to-day of the events of the last two weeks. At times the market was actually dull. The feeling of nervousness that has aged the Wall street community since the stock market began early in the month to loreshadow the embarrassment of Baring Bros. & Co. disappeared altogether to-day. While no one was willing to assert that there could not be a further retreat, the feel ing was general that hereafter it would be desultory and not under fire. The suspension of Barker Bros., ol Philadelphia, and the run ou the Citizens' Savings Bank made the street reflect upon the possibilities of the present shaken condition of credit the world over. Only a few stocks fluctuated widely, notably Rock Island and Missouri Pacific. The first named declined three points and the last narrowed the difference between them by moving up nearly 2 per cent There is now a difference" of less than 3 per cent in the prices of the two stocks, and it looks as if Mr. Gould's prediction that the price of Missouri Pacific would cross that of Rock Island before the end of the year might be fulfilled any day. Reading stocks and bonds were heavy upon the announcement of the suspension of Barker Bros. & Co., though it is not under stood that the concern had any interest iu securities that are actively dealt in. Its troubles have arisen from its intimate con nection with a number of undertakiugs to which it has advanced money upon securities which had been unmarketable and are now unavailable as collateral. Chief among these are the insolvent Oregon Pacific Railroad, and the incipientCharleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad. The financial community will await with deep interest news of the actual relations between the bankrupt firm and the two financial institutions in which the bead of the house is understood to have been the controling power. DANGER OF A COLLAPSE. Tho Howard Bank Successfully Bears the Run, Which Is Abating. Newark, N. J., November 20. The run on the Howard Savings Bank abated some what this morning. Many of the depositors, learning that they could have the safety of their deposits guaranteed, went to a guar anty companv and insured them. The bank directois made an official state ment, declaring that its stocks and securi ties were all safe, and there was no danger of a collapse. THE STANDARD'S INTERESTS. Control or North American nas Not Prac tically Changed Hands. New York, November 20. A statement that the Rockefeller interests and the Stand ard Oil party had increased their holdings of North Pacific preerred by 100,000 shares has caused much discussion in regard to Villard's interest In the property. The capital stock of the Northern Pacific Com pany amounts to SS6.143.193 or 861,431 shares. Of this the North American Com pany held 210,151 shares of common stock and"l27,430 shares of preferred stock. These holdings, with the large block of stock held by C. B. AYright, ot Philadelphia, con trolled the property, and as Villard gen erally voted on the North American as it was in other years, the Oregon Transconti nental proxies and alargeamountof proxies from German holders, he was the most powerful factor at the annual elections. It has been stated, however, that "Villard wa8 aided in obtaining control of the Oregon Transcontinental Companv by the Standard Oil party, and that Colgate Hoyt repre sented the Rockefeller interests in both the Northern Pacific and North American Com panies. As the Rockefellers are said to have been heavily interested in North American, the control cannot be said to have changed hands. SITE QUESTION SETTLED. IMPORTANT BUSINESS BY THE NATIONAL COMMISSION. The Quarrel With the Foreign Affairs Committee Amicably Arranged Protest Against tho Director General's Assump tion of Authority. Chicago, November 20. At to-day's ses sion of the National "World's Fair Commis sion the first task was the straightening out of the tangle into which the Executive Com mittee got itself by passiug a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury not to honor dralts made on him by the Foreign Affairs Committee. A resolution was passed to the effect that the action of the Executive Committee was not intended as a discourtesy to the Foreign Affairs Commit tee, bat had for its object to notify the Secretary that the state of the funda availa ble for the use of the Commission for the remainder of the year was such that strict economv on the part of all committeee would be required. The Auditing Committee reported the ex penses of the commission to date to be 51, 000. Chairman Grower, of the Committer on Traffic and Transportation, presented a de tailed report covering the correspondence between himself and the Director General, Davis, relative to the appointment of E. F. Jaycox by the Director General without consulting the committee. The report con cluded with a protest against what was claimed to be an unwarranted assumption of authority by the Director General. The matter went over without action. Then the report of the Conimitte on Buildings and Grounds, presented yester day, came up. This report was one of the bombs which was expected to explode with unusual violence, as it embraced the much mooted question of what proportion of the fair should be placed on the Lake Front. It recommended that the fine art and deco rative art bnildings, the music hallthe electrics.' displav, water palace and steel tower, with: other germane exhibits, be placed on the Lake Front with the main department buildings, together with the Government and State exhibits in Jackson Park, and the overflow on the Midway Plaisance and Washington Park. Commissioner De Young, of California, asked that the words "decorative art build ing" be stricken out of the Lake Front apportionment. Coinmissione Mercer, of Wyoming, offered a resolution to cut the electrical display out. The amendments were voted down and the report of the com mittee adopted, finally settling the vexa tious site question. WOMANLY INEXPERIENCE. Lady Managers Spend nn Entire Session Electing a President. CHICAGO, November 20. The lady man. agers met this morning and proceeded to the formation of a permanent organization. Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, was elected President The only other nomination iu connection with the position was that ot Mrs. John A. Logan. She, however, declined the honor in favor of Mrs. Palmer. The new Presi dent was conducted to the presiding officer's chair by Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Cantrell. Owing "to inexperience in parliamentary usuages, the entire session was consumed in this single item of business, and at its con clusion a recess was taken until this after noon. CINCINNATI'S ROTTEN BOARD. The Legislate o Committee Begins Its In quiry Into Corrupt Methods. Cincinnati, November 20. The Legis lative committee appointed to investigate the methods of the late Board of Public Im provements of Cincinnati, began its exam ination of witnesses to-day. Solomon P. Kineyon testified that John Kilgour, Pres ident of the Consolidated Street Railroad Company, had told him that it would be worth 52,000 to have an amendment to a street railroad ordinance adopted by the board. Kineyon answered that Montgomery (Kineyon's particular friend on the board) nas not to be bought. Subsequently Judge Harmon came to him and said tnat, unless he induced Reemelin and Montgomery to resign, Governor Campbell would get him into trouble, with an affidavit from John Kilgour, charging him with offering the votes of the board for $5,000. He replied to Harmon that he would send an affidavit to the Governor, telling of Kilgour's $2,000 offer. Mr. Reemelin, late member of the board, whose resignation was demanded by the Governor, asked the committee to examine his bank account and private books and papers, as well as all telegrams or letters bearing on his official conduct. A long list of witnesses will be examined. CLEVELAND ON OTJH COUNTRY. Ho Responds to the Toast at the Jewelers' Annual Banquet. New York, Noveinber20.Thp jewelers' annual banquet was spread at Delmonico's to-night, and ex-President Cleveland was one of the guests. He responded to "Our Country." "This is 'our country," he said, "because the people have established it, because they rule it, because they have developed it, because they have fought for it and because they love it. And still each generation of Americans bold it only in trust for those who shall come after them; and they arc" charged for the obligation to transmit it as strong and sound as it came to their hands. "It is not ours to destroy; it is not ours to sell, and it is not onrs to neglect and injure. It is ours as our families are ours, and as our churches and schools are ours to pro ject and defend, to foster aud improve." ipputs PITTSBURG, FRIDAY, A COMPLETE CABINET Already Selected by -Governor-Elect Pattison, Together With a COUPLE OP MIK0E APPOINTMENTS. Captain McClelland, of Pittsburg, is the - Adjutant General. GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION CONSIDERED fFEOM A STAFF COBKESPONDEST.'. Habkisburg, November 20. The agpny is about over in regard to the formation of the jiew Governor's Cabinet. Here is the way it will stand : Secretary ot State William F. Harrity, ot Philadelphia. Deputy Secretary of toe Commonwealth Ex-Collector Iligler, of Clearfield county. Attorney General W. IT. Hensel, Esq., ol Lancaster. Deputy Attornej General James K. Strana lian, of Mercer county. Adjutant General Captain "William Mc Clelland, of Pittsburg, Stick a pin in these names and see if they are not correct when the official announce ment is made. In the first place, the geo graphical problem is settled by such a choice as I have named. Mr. Harrity represents the eastern end of the State, and Captain McClelland the western extremity. KEPEESENSfATIVES OF THE INTERIOR. Messrs. Heusel and Bigler hold up the in terior counties for credit, and Mr. Strana hau's appointment would show that the northwest was not snubbed. Thus the ap pointments named stretch clear over the whole State. If harmony within the party was to be the only purpose in the selection of a Cabinet, then it would be completely won, for all Democrats to whom I have shown this slate say it includes every faction and wing. Perhaps the only representative of Governor Pattison's personal friendship in the list is ex-Postmaster Harrity, of Phila delphia. At the latter part of Pattison's former administration there was anything but a friendly attitude on the part of ex State Chairman Hensel toward the Gov ernor. Now he will, without doubt, accept the Governor' proposed appointment of Attorney General. This appointment will also please Hon. W. A. Wallace and his friends. Captain McClelland is a warm personal friend of "William L. Scott, the Erie Congressman, and so here, too, the Scott people will feel happy. TOT MEYERS IS NOT IN IT. The various candidates thui( far mentioned for Secretary of State were B. F. Meyers, of this city; State Chairman Kerr, of Clear field; ex-Secretar Stenger and Major Wright, of Lnzerne county. In trying to properly satisfy the demands of the State for Cabinet honors, it is inferred that Mr. Meyers' name was dropped, not because he was lukewarm1"' iu the matter of Pattison's nominatipn, but because Philadelphia was more justly entitled to the place, from a geographical point of view. Mr. Kerr, of Clearfield, declared he did not want any plac?, nor was Mr. "Wright very anxious for sucn hone's. Mr. Stenger has built up a big law practice since he was Sec retary of the Commonwealth four years ago, and did not want to Icavejt. Nor did Mr. Pattison desire to appoint Stenger. He wished to avoid all appearances of a family Cabinet, like which a renewal of his asso ciations of eight years ago might seem. A Harr!sburg gentleman has seen the Gov ernor recently, and Mr. Pattison rema.ked to him that the people demanded good gov ernment, and he would try to civc it to them. He wished to be surround i by com peten person;, and while he did not lo?k to the tallyshee; of the Scrautoi convention to see who were against him there, neither did he intend to make appointment merely to conciliate factions. He wished solely to put the State Government on a high plane, and his appointments would be with that end in view. I.ARKIN NOT A CANDIDATE. For Deputy Secretary of the Common wealth, ex-Postmaster Larkin had been mentioned. He no doubt could have had the place, but he quickly made it known that he was not open to any offices. His able part in the Scranton convention was purely through disinterested friendship for Governor Pattison. So Mr. Bigler is doubtless the lucky man. For Attoraey General, Judge Gordon, of Philadelphia, and Attorneys Echols and D. T. "Watson, of Pittsburg, had been men tioned. Besides these, Mr. Stranahan, of Mercer; Chauncey Black, of York; Monahan, of Chester, and two or three others. Gordon was too intimately associated with 'tfie old cabinet; "Watson, of Pittsburg, wDnH hardly have given the matter a thought on account of his remunerative law practice; Black would have declined in an instant when he knewhis triend Hensel was being considered. Hensel and Stranahan therefore had the best running chances from the start. PITTSBURG REMEMBERED. Pittsburg sent no pilgrims to the Governor-elect's residence in Philadelphia. She sought no honors, and the forthcoming ap pointment of Captain William JlcCle'Jand as Adjutant General is a compliment to the city. The persons named in addition to Captain McClelland were Colonel Streator, of Washington; Colonel Magee, of Chester; Colonel F. Rutledge, General P. N.Guthrie and Major Hudson, all of Pittsburg. Iu the National Guard the Democratic party has not got much to choose from. General Guthrie, while a splendid soldier, was connected with the former Pattison regime; so was Hudson. Messrs. Rutledge and Magee had good following, but Cap tain McClelland's fine military record in the War ot the Rebellion, his services to the party, and the backing of Scott are said to have won him the lead of all candidates. He has been be friended by a great many Pittsburg and Allegheny people in letters to the Governor elect. True, it is a departure from the custom of giving the Adjutant Generalship to some member of the National Guard, but, not withstanding that Captain McClelland is not in the N. G. P., he will be apt to sur prise the citizen soldier as a tactician. He stands as a type of the men whom Pattison has about named to place the State govern ment on a high plane. L. E. Stofiel. "WANAIIAKEB MAY RUN As a Candidate for the Senate In Tlace of Don Cameron. rSrZCTAI. TELKOBAM TO TUX EIRFATCIT.-. Washington, November 20. Politi ticians in Washington who profess to be posted say that the movement looking to the defeat of Don Cameron for re-election to the United States Senate is a formidable one, and that the Senator is badly frightened at the outlook. It is said also that the man who is likely to come out as a candidate against him is Postmaster Gen eral John Wanamaker. The trusted friends of Wanamaker freely admit that he is ambitious to be the con trolling man in the Republican party of Pennsylvania, and they are not snre out that he cherishes a desire to occupy a seat in the Senate ai a meant to that end. NOVEMBER 21, 1890, wouldn't talk politics. PiunnillP' NIP Plinr RUMORS OF A RATTLE 1 SENATORQUAY ENJOYING HIMSELF TAR PON FISHING IN FLORIDA. Ho Says Politics Can Do Without Dim for Awhile, and Contents Himself With Tell ing About Some of His Big Catches of Tarpon. rsrrxLix. txxzquam to the dispatch.: St. Lucie, Fla., November 20. Though stubbornly inaccessible to reporters, Senator. Quay did condescend to talk to The Dis patch correspondent a bit this morning. The Senator was just going out to fish. His face is a good deal sun-burned and he evidently has not shaven for a week or more. On the back of his hands and on his arms below the elbow the skin was peeling from exposure to the tropical sun. He had on a flannel shirt with sleeves rolled up, a badly worn pair of trousers tucked into rubber boots, a soft round hat and a leather belt. He was about half way be tween his boarding house and the shore. When accosted with a request for a few words on Pennsylvania politics, he shrugged his shoulders and replied : "Humph, you know more about it than I do, I guess. I'm out of the world here. Haven't seen a newspaper for ten days. Don't want to. Pennsylvania politics can do without me for awhile and not suffer, I'm sure. At any rate I can do without it." "Have you sawed any of that wood which you spoke ni at Pittsburg on your way down here?" "Well, I've been fishing most of the time. Perhaps you might call that sawing wood." "I understand, Senator, that you have beaten your record of last year at hooking tarpon." "That's not so. I have not come near it yet, though I've hooked some big fish. The largest measured C feet 9 inches and weighed 155 pounds. I have caught six in all, but two of them were only small ones. The biggest tarpon I ever hooked was one day last winter off 'Punto Rassa. H was 7 feet and 1 inch long and weighed 187J pounds." All this time Mr. Quay was moving slowly toward the boat landing. As he loosened the painter he was asked if that story from Harrisburg about dissensions in the Na- tional Republican Committee had any truth in it. He answered: "I don't know any thing about it; ask Leach," and then he pushed off into deep water with his oar, Frank Willing Leach is Senator Quay's private secretary. He appeared on the scene just then, but was as dumb as an oyster on the committee question. He was not at all "wiliing" to talk poli tics. He said, however, that he opens all the Senator's mail and that the Senator has given strict orders not to be shown a letter or a newspaper. "Occasionally," he added, "I have to bieak the rule, of course, but I have done so only twice in a week." Dick Quay is here, but he does not fish much. The cottage where they boafd is back from the water about 100 yards, and is a private boarding house and hotel com bined, therj being no other inn in the village. St. Lucie contains about 100 in habitants, mostly fishermen and orange growers. Senator Quay will remain here until Congress convenes. A NICE SOCIAL LEADER, He Attempts to Shake Off His Wife, but Falls. rSPECIAL TILEOKAJI TO THE DISPATCH.! New York, November 20. Theodore C. Goesser, employed by Herman Sontag at 12 Park Place, is defendant in a suit brought by his wife, May Goesser, for permanent support. In her affidavit, which was read in proceedings before Vice Chancellor Van Fleet at Jersey City on Tuesdav, Mrs. Goes- -ser- sets forth that the defendant Ictxaved her under promise of marriage; that when her condition became known to her family, Theodore, bis brother Henry, her father, James W. Cspbsll, and her uncle came to to her and made her sign a paper, in which she renounced all claims against Theodore C. Goesi'tr, after he should have married htr. The party then went to the Rev. J. R. Day, who married her and Goesser. Immediately after her husband left her. Goesser set up the paper wherein his wife renounced all claim against him. Vice Chancellor Van Fleet disposed of the mat ter by ordering the husband to pay $3 50 a week alimony and $50 counsel fees, remark ing that the State did not recognize any such release as that set up by the delense, Goes ser is a social leader. STANFORD'S AMBITION. Tho California Senator After the Nomination for President. rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUE DISPATCH. San Francisco. November 20. C. P. Huntington left for New York last night and Senator Stanford will follow in a few days. Their quarrel is as fierce as ever, but it is sail their wives have secured a promise that neither will talk about the other in public. Senator Stanford is prettytcertaiu of re-electiou to the Senate, and since the result of the State elections he has been sanguine of securing the next nomination for the Presidency. The indorsement of his scheme of loaning Government funds to farmers by the Farmers' Alliance makes the Senator be lieve that he can secure the backing of this formidable political power for the Presi dency. He is prepared to use money and influence to attain his end, and if he fails to get the Republican nomination, he counts on obtaining that ot the Alliance. At a meeting of the California Farmers' Alliance at San Jose in a few days, the first move in Stanford's Presidential game will be made. OSTRACIZING SOFT DRINKS. Fearful Results of a W. C. T. U. Investiga- tion in Detroit. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.". Detroit, November 20. All the city is laughing over the action of the Woman's Central Christian Temperance Union in convention this afternoon. The organization is made up from delegates from all branches in the city, and to-day met to settle the question of soft drinks, ginger ale, root beer, etc., being against the pledge. One woman told of the amount of alcohol there was in these driuks and described the horrible effects. Finally a resolution was offered and passed that ginger ale, root beer, ginger beer and raspberry sherbet were all in the line of in toxicating drinks and the taking of them is in violation of the pledge. One woman said she bad smelled ot a glass containing ginger ale at a local drug store and wanted to be absolved from her crime. The meeting decided that as she had not drank it there was uo need of abso lution. WANTS TO COMPROMISE. Isaac Sawtelle Ready to Plead to Murder In the Second Degree. ISrECIAL TELXOUAM TO TUE DISPATCH.! Dover, N. H., November20. It is stated upon reliable authority that Isaac Sawtelle, who is to be tried December 16, for the al leged murder of his brother Hiram, will plead guilty to murder in the second degree, rather than risk his neck in a trial. It is said his counsel are afraid to face the strong chain of evidence which the Government has prepared, and that they are now trying to compromise, by sending Isaac for life. Chief Justice Doe in the past has not been opposed to similar settlements ot cases, though what his judgment would be in this affair is only a conjecture. Attorney Gen eral Barnard and County Solicitor Kival state their positive opposition to any compromise. " fc 4A.4k. g-P -AWA." "I TIIE ADVERTISEMENTS I l MIB Bli' VB I L I'V ' I AND BUSINESS CARDS IN I S 91 ,51 11 CLJLL'l l'i I THE DISPATCH 9 W tr rr Br W 'vf W AKE SEES EY everybody. LiUftnuiHu mo uunti gs -i Sr""""""" Between the Troops and Hostile W n i u tii, i.w.i..i.. lSy?15 Indians Lack Confirmation. M Dr. Koch Talks Interestingly, JcLosFrjS 1 but Modestly, About His pUJ gjsp' agitation in the northwest 1 Great Discovery, ST I- 4 M Letter of an AmT u situation 1 ' -nflrakv ' Pi? i in That Kegion. M BUT HOLPS THE SECRET Mik sfr I I WmlmimAw TUEBULENT SDET1T0E5 OP SIASSACEES 1 From the World Dntil Further Ex perimonts Have Been Made. GREAT HOMAGE Patients in the Hospitals Hall Their Deliverer. PABmii ISSUES STATEMENT TBV DCXLAP'S CABLE COMFAST.l Berlin. November 20. Following is a statement of the result of an investi gation ot Prof. Koch's consumption cure by a special correspondent, sent to Berlin for that purpose: In compliance with the mission given me, I have spent something over a week in this city, and hare been afforded by Prof. Koch and his fonr assistants most ample opportunities to give a verdict upon the new and astonishing discovery of the already famous scientist and father of modem, very modern, science of bacteriology. It reads like a chapter from fic tion, or a leaf from a medical romance, to say so; yet after what I have seen, it is only a legal medical verdict, in accordance with the facts, to say that consumption, whether leprous or pulmonary, internal or external, can, nhen taken in season before bacilli have done tbelr L terrible work of destruction, be cured, aud is fnow being cured in Berlin by a new treatment of Pror. Koch. In the Charity Hospital, on the Carl Embankment, I have seen over 100 patients convalescing under the new treatment which, though put into practice on September 7, can point to not a few patients who are cured, ana sa tar as numan ioretoougnt can ioresee, are definitely cured. CURES THAT 'HAVE BEEN MADE. Naturally, the external or enfrous tuber culosis has responded much more quickly to the inoculating treatment than the internal and more mysterious manifestation of the terrible malady; yet, wbilo there are many lupus vulgaris patients who have already left the hosnital and the several private clinics where Prof. Koch has personally pnt into practice or superintended his treatment, there are also many, a score at least, of lung con sumption patients, though many of them have not been six weeks under treatment, whose organs are quite free from the deadly bacilli, which on their entering into the wards, simply swarmed in their sputa and other defecta. A healthy color has replaced the hectic flush; appetite and joy in life have replaced the languid melancholy, indicative of the later stages of the deadly scourge. Whether this is complete extermination of the deadly para sites, and whether it will be followed by im munity from their reappearance iu the future is a question which only time will decide, yet careful medical luminaries who have lollowed the new treatment from Its very inception, are inclined to the belief, which they openly ex press, that when the bacilli are destroyed be fore any organ, vital and necessary to life, has been seriously injured, there will not be in the majority of cases a reappearance of the deadly parasite. A PICTURE Or PROF. KOCH. I have twice been received by Prof. Koch, and be extended the warm welcome be always gives his old pupils. He is, as ever, lrom early morning until far into the nlsht at bis laboratory, in the Klosterstrassc. where, it may be said, with his assistance, but ten years aco the science of bacteriology, which has already scored snch epoch-making triumphs, was horn. I will endeavor to picture you the appearance of the man whose name will go Into historr and story, echoing down the years when the great ones of this world have long been for gotten, for his fame is built on the solid rock of science. He is small, not more than 5 feet 6 inches in height, bat sturdily built. His flair is on the gray, bis features distinctly commonplace; in deed there is something mean in the sense of not striking or imposing in his whole general appearance. His eyes, once wonderfully sharp and penetrating, were formerly his strong feat ure. They were gray, large, luminous, but hours of microscopic work dally through a long period ot years has robbed tbem ot their brightness, as well as much, of their charm and their power. He must now wear at all times triple X glasses ' great power, which disfig ures his appearance and Gives him the particu larly stern, uncompromising look which at first half frightens his patients to death, then in spires them with confidence, and, as I have per sonally had opportunity to see in the consump tive wards of the Charity Hospital, finally with hero-worshipping idolatry. AN ALARMING CHANGE VISIBLE. Before leaving the role to the professor to describe the success and limitations of the new treatment, I must mention the shocking change in his personal appearance which has takenplace during the arduous work of the last six months. One would hardly recognize in him the healthy man I left hardly a year ago. His complexion is slaty and his skin dry as parchment. Even bis assistants, who see him every day, are as tounded and fall of anxious forebodings to which this change gives rise. They whisper to one another that the pro fessor will have to spare himself more, and, in fact, several of them believe that during the last six months the professor has lived so con stantly in an atmosphere impregnated with tubercular bacilli that finally his lnnjrs have been attacked also. While tho professor was out of the room this morning I took the liberty of putting the question to Prof.Von Bergmann, who called. "Let us hope," said he, "that the professor is only suffering from overfatigue and great mental strain." But he shook his head dubiously, a? though ho were personally far from being reassured. EXPLAINING HIS GREAT CURE. "I shall endeavor to be short and concise In my statement," said Prof. Koch, as he kindly proceeded to fulfill the promise he made a week ago. "You have seen for yourself the treatment inpractice;I will therefore give some facts as to its origin, and also outline my hopes and my fears as to its efficacy, as far as one can, speaking in the abstract and in this early staze of its developments. 1 discovered the tubercu lar bacillus eight years ago. It was at first warmly disputed, but it is now generally ad mitted. I have ever since then been engaged in the study of the deadly parasite, and have been endeavoring to obtain an inocnlating fluid which would kill tho bacilli and bring about a sufficiently strong and healthy local reaction to dispel it from the body without, at the same time, destroying healthy organisms. Of course this latter has been the difficulty. "I believe I have it here," and Prof. Koch held up to view a vial of tho inoculating fluid. It is of a dark-brown color, and easily decom posed; not of a light yollow. and not easily de composed, as the papers have it. Then be con tinued: STILL GUARDING THE SECRET. "There is very little use of my saying just now what the inoculating fluid is, or how I ob tained it. It has cost me years of life, and I propose to retain the secret for a few weeks longer from publicity; though it is already known to my assistants and to many of my pro fessional friends. Its preparation demands in finite pains and exactness, and it is being pre pared by my assistant. Dr. Libbertz, to whom I have confided this important part of my work. I believe I am discreet on this subject with good aud sufficient reason. "The experience of my premature disclosures has made me wise. I calculate I have wasted one year of my lifo in combating some cap tious, and not perfectly conscientious, criti cisms of my original work. Were I to publish how the first stage of the discovery was made, the exact ingredients and the method of the preparation of the fluid, thousands of medical men, from Moscow to Bnenos Ayres, would to morrow be engaged in concocting it, and in jecting it, too. for that matter. Is it unreason able then for me to suppose, as I do, that more than half these gentlemen are Incompetent to prepare the fluid which, with special study and special opportunities, it has taken me years to prepare? Then these experiments might cause incalculable barm to thousands of Innocent patients, and at the same time bring into dis credit a system of treatment which I believe will prove a boon to all mankind. STANDING FOB HIS EIGHTS. Then the Professor added earnestly and PAID TO HIM. HUH! MeT Wl'i,. V A ' W N 'MflUl I F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," this evening told fill i Ut III (ill mt II l 2 a press representative that General Miles 4 iiivj... iv feji i r VihiM IM' l! B7jtiKfii Jlil th's afternoon between Rushville and Pin H l H MIYWt Him as 'W'liUl "fff -"' -. FINANCIAL RECIPROCITY. Banks With Boodle Nowadays sseem Eager to Help Those Which Are Short. warmly: "l"''eve I have the right to say that the first e.y its in Us U3e shall be made before mr Aj ind wltn the tools which I have rnadt- Om. "VV If these experiments turn out succv .7) VO the medical world will find me ant. " J ' assistants only too ready to initiate t. p0 l'8 intricacies of the treatment withov 'rf)j ' reserve. But until then, although iu 'oJ'fjb PS selfish, I really claim it is at once w Vf -fa ' the purest unselfishness, that tbeyY It-''"1 them selves with being patient. Iv sr ir Antime, 1 advise them to be very chary i the state ments which appear in the press, jgardlng our progress. "And right here I will speak about the poor child who died on Friday in Dr. Levy's clinic under the Koch treat ment, as the paper had it. Now thl3 statement, like most misstatements, has a grain of truth in it. The poor child bad the most terrible case of lupus I have ever seen, while her physical condition was next door to dying. She was the child of a pair of paupers and they bad not been able even to slacken the progress of the disease by giving her proper ana sumcient nourishment. svnr inE child died. "When brought to the clinic she was in a hope less, almost a dying state, and at any moment when the disease reached some vital organ, death was to be expected. Dr. Levy stated the case bluntly to the parents and told them inocu lation conld do no good, and yet no harm, at the same time he would like to make the inocu lation, as in no case could the child live a week, and in case of her death be would like to have the opportunity of studying the effect of the inocnlation pathologically. They consented. The inoculation of the two millegrammes of tbe ;fluld was made, and in three days the child die. The pathological ro- Fiort, which nas not yet Deen compietea, win us nvaluable to us at this moment. Now we will snm up the results of the treatment so far in the case in which the physical condition of the patient was good. Lupus has yielded easily to the inocnlating treatment, even when the cases have been of many years standing. The bacilli have been destroyed completely after a number of injections, of course, varying with each case, and the web of lupus has in some cases been sloughed off, but in tho majority it has been easily removed surgically. EFFECT OF THE TREATMENT . The narbe, or star, which marks the spot where it existed. Is not so large or the dis figurement anything like so great as 13 the case with the sharp spoon treatment in which the tissue is scooped out, consequently the danger of lessening the usefulness of the affected limb is much less, and 1 think the danger of a recur rence is also lessened. Now, as to the effect upon living tuberculosis. Though the disclosure is premature, I will state. iast bow we stand. I have 20 patients to whom personally apply the treatmentrainutely, and they represent (and I have of course chosen them on this account) the graduated stages of the disease. "In 15 ot these patients the bacilli have com pletely disappeared from the sputa. They have trained much in weight, in general appearance and in spirits, which last is not to be a neglected symptom. In the remalnlnc five cases, I regret to say. there is not the slightest indication that tbe ordinary course of the disease has been stopped. These are cases in which I found already large cavities in the lungs. In these tbe cough, tne rattle in tbe throat and the almost undiminished number of bacilli in the sputa continues. All of these symptoms, I re peat, have disappeared iu tho other cases. Of course nothing can be considered final: yet the first injection to a human being having only been made 70 days ago, I hope for good results In all cases in which the vital organs are In tact " Itis impossible for me to reproduce here Prof. Koch's modest, striking manner and tbe skillful way in which be avoids all personal mention of himself in relating tho story of bis unique discovery. The patients in the Chanty Hospital aud the private clinics worship him like a god. When he appears in their wards he ia hailed as a deliverer. HOMAGE TO DR. KOCH. To-day I saw a patient stoop down swiftly and kiss bis hand, which homage, however, made tbe professor very angry. I find I have nothing to add to the discoverer's relation of the results of his new treatment, except to accentuate the fact that it is most modest and almost pessi mistic, in view of the results which have been obtained. The capital is simply consumption crazy. It is very much to be doubtd whether the hospi tal and clinical facilities, though they are being greatly enlarged, will suffice for tbe great num ber of patients who are arriving every day. The preparation ot the inoculating fluid also takes much time, and those who can wait bad better watch the course of events for a few weeks before coming to Berlin; and. especially, a3 it cannot be too often repeated, those pa tients whose lungs are gone bad better remain at home. Such cases are merely being experi mented on here.but without tbe slightest hope or pretention of curing them. I find the doors of Prof. Koch's laboratory open to all properly accredited students from all countries. Prof. Koch is too busy himself to do so, but in the course of the next week or ten days his assist ants, Pfuhl, Von Esmarck ana Pfeiffer, will inaugurate a series of lectures, dealing with tho new discovery of the master. It is unDleasant to read the frivolous com ments of the French press upon Koch's work andithe comparison they make with Pasteur. To-day Koch spoke in the highest terms of his great conferee, and then added: "We both began to study bacterioloey about the same time, but we came to it bv different ways: he began with chemistry: I with botany and the study of plant parasites." ALL FOR PARNELL. MANY RESOLUTIONS AND SPEECHES FOR THE IRISH LEADER. Enthusiastic County Meetings Held in Ire land Attended by Many rromlnent People nealy Makes a Strong Speech and Replies to Davitt's Criticism of Famell. TBT DtntLAP'S CABLE COltPAtT.l Dublin, November 20. Three great county conventions, Galway, Kings and Meatb, were held to-day, attended by dele gates from all the important branches of the National League and many priests. Resolutions of confidence in the Irish party leader, Charles Stewart Par nell, were unanimously and enthusiasti cally passed. At the Heath Convention the Rev. Father Behan, a distinguished ecclesi astic, said that when a curate, he had pro posed Mr. Parnell as member for Meath and was not ashamed ot his choice to-day. When Mr. Parnell entered public life he bad few men whom he could trust; now he had nearly 90 members of Parliament, all loyal to their leader. Public bodies and the League, with all its branches, continue to pass resolutions of confidence At a monster meeting in sup port of the tenants' defense .fund held in Leinster Hall, Dublin, the meeting looked forward with much interest to the conse quence of the verdict against Parnell. The hall was packed from floor to ceiling, Continued on Sixth JPagc THREE CENTS. M Chicago, November 20. Hon. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," this evening told a press representative that General Miles had just received word that the troops under General Brook had a fight with the Indians this afternoon between Rushville and Pine Ridge. The extent of the casualties and result of engagement has not yet been learned. General Miles was seen by a re porter about midnight. He said positively that be knew nothing about tbe reported battle. At army headquarters this afternoon General Miles received a letter dated Camp Poplar River.Montana, November 17, 1890, which qamc from one of the army officers at the post, which contained considerable mat ter of interest with reference to the agitation among the Indiana in the far Northwest, concerning the new "Messiah." The army officer says: ALL THE INDIANS AFrECTED. I arriTed here last night at 12 o'clock, and ex pect to continue my journey westward to morrow. CaDtain WheatoD, commanding here, thinks that all the Indians on tbe reservation believe in the "Messiah" craze. He says that even the more intelligent half-breeds believo in it. Some of tbe younger Indians have re cently procured new Winchesters, where he does not know. Tbe Indians here, as a whole, are not well armed, but If they had money they could soon arm themselves. I had a talk with Mr. Scobey, tbe Indian agent here, who thinks that tbe belief in the "Messiah" is practically unanimous. He un derstands that one of the most prominent In dians believes in it. There has been no very great excitement here yet upon the subject, nor any religious dances, but there is a deep aud universal interest, and a belief that there will bo astonishing supernatural manifestation in their behalf before long. The agent says that at the time of the trouble with the Gros Ventres, three years ago, al though the Sioux were unfriendly to the crowd, still there was universal sympathy with Sword Bearer, and disappointment when his supernatural claims proved to be false. TURBULENT "WHITE GUT. On tbe 22d of October last, one of Sitting Bull's lieutenants, White Gut, and two other Sioux came here and preached the new doe trine. They denounced tbe schools and told the Indians here to provide themselves with arms and ammunition and meet the other In dians next spring in the Black Hill country. They were ordered off the reservation, but in stead of eoing back to Sitting Bull, they went to Woody Mountain, north of the British line, to carry the tidings to the remnants of tbe Ogallas and Uncapapos that are still there. A loyal Indian who lives lb miles away was at the agency to-day, and have jnst had a long talk with blm. Whatever he may have said to others, he has no belief in the new craze. He says that Sitting Bull has been particularly "bad hearted" ever since the death of his only surviving; child, one year ago. He has a lot of very ugly Indians about him, who encourage each other, and they talk and pow wow and keep up tbe excitement to such a pitch that there is danger of bloodshed before things can be quieted. LOOKING FOR MIRACLES. He says that if tbe Indians with Sitting Bull should start a disturbance or outbreak, and were not very quickly jquelled, a party of younz warriors from here would very likely start across the country to join them. He agrees that the belief in the Messiah is practically unanimous. There la uo intention of committing any out rage at present, but the Indians are hoping for something wonderf oL There are still 43 lodges of Ogallas and UncaDopas north of the bound ary line about Woody Mountain. They have no chief, but their principal spokesman is a Brnle-Sioux, named Black Bull. There are about 300 of these Indians. Two of the Inkpaduta Indians who were in the Custer affair on the Little Big Horn, and four. other Indians concerned In the Minnesota massacre of 1862, are at some distance east of Woody Mountain, north of Turtle Mountain. One of these warriors claims to have Geneial Custer's horse, a medium-sized sorrel, aad it is believed that his claim is genuine. The Inka padnta massacre was 23 years ago. and only 13 or 11 warriors were engaged in it. GROS VENTURES THE "WORST. Two of the men wero killed, and probably the two referred to are the Only survivors. Most of the warriors at Woody Mountain have been guilty of the particularly barbarious act and afraid to come in when tbe others did. He also said that the Gros Ventres on the Fort Belknap reservation are excited over the Messiah, and are more ugly than the Indians here. After White Gut's visit, a small party of Indians started from here to visit Sittinc Bull, and also to find, if possible, the new Mes siah. On tbe way to Standing Rock Agency one of them. Yellow Hawk, said be had a revelation ordering him to kill himself as a test of faith, with the promise that he should be raised from the dead. He committed snicide accordingly, and the party went on without blm. When they reached Standing Hock Agency they found Yellow Hawk there alive and well, having been resurrected and assisted by the great Messiah. GENERAL MILES' VIEWS. In conversation with General Miles re garding the importance of the letter, the General referred to the fact that in 1862, duricg the War of the Rebellion this In dian Chief Inkapuda, who is at the head of his band, was concerned in tbe massacre, which is a matter of history, where, within the space ot ten years, 800 persons were massacred in cold blood. The General has no hesitancy in saying that he regards this Indian Inkapuda," above referred to, as one oi the most dangerous aud bloodthirsty red skins in that part of the country. "One thing which is most satisfactory to me," said the General, "is the fact that tha troops which made the forced march, under cover of the night, reached their destina tion before the Indians had inaugurated hostilities, and the further fact that they are not committing any serious acts of vio lence is favorable, and now they nave to attack our troops in our own positions, or else resort to breaking away from tha reservation." ECLIPSING ALL RECORDS. Fast Mall Train to Run From New York to Cliicago In 24 Hours. rSFECIAL TELEOUAM TO TUX DISPATCH. 1 Chicago, November 20. The Postoffica Department has made arrangements for a new fast mail train that for speed will beat all the efforts heretofore made in that line. It will run over the New York Central and Lake Shore roads and will cover the dis tance between New Yore and Chicago in just 24 hours. The new train will be made np wholly of postal cars, and will leave New York at 9:10 a. m., and at the same hour next'morning it will reach Chicago. This will be one hour aud 40 minutes less time than is consumed by the present fast mail. All the mail matte'r will be. made np en route and deliveries will be made at all ths stations between this city and Buffalo, but no stops will be made. The new tram will take the place of tha fast train which now reaches Chicago at 11 A. M. This will be an advantage, particu larly to bankers, who, bv getting their let ters before VJ o'clock, can get tneir Dull ness through the Clearing House tha same dav. The new train will furnlsaia'stlll greater advautage.horever, to bnsiiiesmea;2 will be made with tbe last trains wesffroav here. 1 .ai BBBBBpjBBBBpBpBBppP I
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