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FORTY-FIFTH TEAR.
Daring and Successful Escape of
Two Desperate Criminals
From Riverside,
TERRIFIC SLIDE FOR LIFE
Down a Seventy-Foot Kope, After
Breaking Through the Eoof of
the New South Wing.
ONE BREASTS THE OHIO'S FLOOD.
The Fugitives Mingle With the Citizen
Workmen and Pass the Guards
in the Dusk.
TINY ShOAX'S MUKDEEEK AT LAKGE.
Viiij McGraw ltd Junes Eobsoa Giia freedom as
the Result cf a Long sad Csrefnlly
Planned Conspiracy.
A PLOT CAKEIED OUT XNAVEEY TEW MOUNTS
A murderer and a burglar made their
escape from the Western Penitentiary last
evening in a style that would shed a luster
ou the exploits of Jack Sheppard and other
myths of the mediaeval age.
This is the first escape from the new build
ing, and the dare-devil nature-of it was
such as to entitle the actors to a place in
dime-novel literature.
The heroes of this daring exploit were
"Paddy" McGraw, who shot "Tiny" Sloan
at 3 o'clock on the morning of August 22,
1SS7, and James Dobson, convicted with
others of the burglary of Keek's shoe store
at Scottdale, "Westmoreland county, some
six years ago.
The men were at work building a fire
story tier of cells in the new wing oi the
penitentiary, ana have for some time been
in possession of the tools necessary
to cut their way out, and it is not known
bow long they may have been at work. In
the wing were a scaffolding and three skele
ton stairways. There was also a "traveler,"
on which the painters worked, and this was
used by the prisoners in their operations.
How tlio Escape Was Made,
They had cut a bole through the iron ceil
ing and cement from the cell block, and
thus reached the roof. Here tbey broke the
lock of a trap door, and cot out on the roof.
One story is that they then secured a rope
that had been used to draw up material, and
another that they got the rope from the
"traveler." It will suffice to say they got it.
The men were noticed at work between 4
and 5 o'clock. At 5 o'clock they were
missed at roll call, but the escape was not
discovered until ten minutes later, when
the method of egress was found, it
being supposed up to that time that they
were still in the institution. .Securing a
rope, they slid down to the outside, a
distance of 70 feet, on the south or river
side, under the shadow of a tower, and one
theory is that they mingled with a crowd of
Italians and other laborers and thus got
away, some saying that McGraw swam
the river to McKee's Hocks, and others
holding, among them "Warden "Wright,
that they jumped a Western bound freight
train.
Assistant Superintendent Eoger O'Mara
holds to the idea that the escape had been
arranged for some time, and that friends
were on the outside prepared with clothing
and disguises. Dobson had shed the greater
part of his clothing on the roof.
Record of a Bad, Bad Man.
McGraw, the more important fugitive,
fs a hard character from 'way back.
Tears ago he shot and killed a
woman named Dot Fegley, and got a
six-year term for it, and was pardoned
out after serving four years, showing that
"mercv murders in pardoning him that
kills," and in more senses than one. He
also "did time" for a series of burglar
ies committed in this neighborhood. He
was an intimate friend and associate of
Hawley Harrington and "Blinkey" Morgan,
the men who murdered Detective Hulligao at
ltavenna, O., in February, 18S7. He was
also a boon companion of Ed Coffey, who
murdered Policeman Evans, and then
pleaded guilty after conviction by cutting
bis throat in jail.
On the 22d of August, 18S7, at 3 o'clock
A. M., "Tiny" Sloan, clerk to Chief of
Police Brokaw, went into "Oyster Paddv's"
den, at the corner of First avenue and Ferry
street, with three women. One of them knew
the Hulligan murderers, and McGraw,
thinking she had told Sloan something,
picked a quarrel out of him, and to prevent
his telling, and acting on the adage that
"dead men tell no tales," shot him. Sloan
died at the Homeopathic Hospital a few
hours later.
Sentenced for a Dozen Years.
An average Allegheny county jury found
McGraw guilty of murder in the" second
degree and he was sentenced in Mav, 1888,
the full term of 12 years, so that he had
nearly ten years yet to serve.
James Dobson and others both robbed and
burglarized the shoe store which was also
the mansion bouse of a man named Keck, in
Scottdale, Westmoreland county, some half
dozen years ago, and had eight years to
serve, all told. Keck had in his
employ, previous to the time,
a workman who had learned his
trade in the penitentiary, and be is supposed
to have arranged the details of the robbery.
Keck was badly used up in the tneiee, but
managed to pull through.
Dobson had not long to serve but a
few months having shortened his time by
his saint-like behavior and strict attention
to business. So Warden Wright supposes
bemust have had some other charge hanging
over him, which made present liberty
sweeter than it otherwise would be, for if
not urgent on this account, it would be poor
policy for him to skip and take the chances
ol rearrest. A member of the gang named
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Casey weakened and confessed the crime,
implicating others.
Both McGraw and Dobson have been
working in the construction shop and has
good characters that is, good prison char
acters being well-behaved and good work
men. Rewards Offered for the Refugees.
There was a meeting of some of the peni
tentiary inspectors last night, at the resi
dence of President George A. Kelly, 218
Western avenue, Allegheny. Messrs. Mc
Cutcheon and Seed were present, and
Warden Wright reported the escape. The
Inspectors ordered a reward of $100 to be
offered lor the capture ot the fugitives.
Unless, McGraw gets a new face he should
not be hard to identify. Like "Liberty,"
his "brow, glorious though it be in
beauty, is scarred with tokens of old
wars." He has a vertical scar on
his forehead and a horizontal one, or rather
diagonal one, running from his ear to his
mouth, and there are divers other cicatrices
on his person, but these are the most pro
nounced. He has brown hair and eyes, and
weighs nearly 200 pounds.
Dobson is a young man, and as he is not
regarded with so much interest as McGraw,
bis keepers did not note his appearance so
closely.
Warden Wright states that he made in
quiry of people in the vicinity regarding
the escape, and none of them seemed to wish
to see the prisoners retaken. Some even ex
pressed a desire to have them make good
their escape.
News Tlut Didn't Travel Rapidly.
-A Dispatch reporter made some inquiry
ir. the neighborhood and found that the
escape did not seem to be known widely,
several people stating that they had- not
heard of it people who live within a stone's
throw of the penitentiary.
On the other hand, a story gained wide
circulation and was to the effect that while
Dobson faded from sight after reaching terra
firma, McGraw shed his outer garments,
leaped into the icy Ohio and swam to Mc
Kee's Bocks. Such a feat seems incredible,
and one that would appal a Leander, but
some people who know "Paddy" express the
opinion that he could do it, as they say he
is a real water dog.
THE DISPATCH to-morrow win hold 24
Pages. Just think, 102 columns of reading;
matter for 5 cents.
SYMPATHY EXTENDED
THE SEVEN UNITED PRESBYTERIAN MIN
ISTERS OF PITTSBURG PRESBYTERY,
Now Besting Under Charges of Heresy for
Toting Sew York Brethren Denounce
the Action in Their Cases Bight of
Private Judgment Demanded.
.SPECIAL TELXGBAU TO THE DISPATCH. 1
New Yobk, November 28. In the Ee
formed Presbyterian Church in Forty
eighth street, near Ninth avenue, this even
ing two score of officers of three churches of
the denomination in town and of one in
Brooklyn met in response to a call for sym
pathy for seven oppressed ministers in Penn
sylvania. The opposition consists, as it
was said, of the charge of heresy and in
subordination, because the Pennsylvania
ministers desired to violate the constitution
of the church, which forbids them exercis
ing the right of snflrace.
There was a sharp division on the subject
in the synod which met .inNew York, and
only 17 ministers against 129 voted to revise
the constitntion and let their members exer
cise the right of suffrage. The 17 ministers
subsequently, on July 2, met in Pittsburg,
and alter debate formed a plattorm of princi
ples, holding it to be the duty of the Church
to be guided by the Bible rather than by
human laws.
In consequence of this procedure, charges
were made agajnst 7 of the 17 ministers a
fortnight ago who belonged to the Pittsburg
Presbytery. They are:
AY". L.C. Samson, of McKeesport; W. H.
Temple, Leechburg; E, M. Milligan, Par
nassus; A. W. McClurkin, New Alexan
dria; -O. B. Milligan, East End, Pittsburg,
H. W. Beed, Youngstown, O., and J. B. J.
Milligan, Allegheny. The Bev. Mr. Mc
Clurkin was discharged by his congregation
a few days ago, and was at last night's meet
ing. The trial of the charges will come up
in Fittburg on December 9.
David Torres presided to-night, and
speeches were made in favor of free speech
and against tyranny, as the action of the
Pittsburg brethren was called. Elders Pol
lock and McAfee were especially vigorous
in their denunciations. Resolutions were
adopted declaring that the chnrch whose
members were the descendents of the old
Scotch Covenanters demand the right of
private judgment and free discussion;
denouncing the restriction of tree dis
cussion, and the enforcing of human
interpretations as expressly contrary to the
Word of God and the standards" of the
Covenanter Chnrch; maintaining the right
of members of the church to meet in orderly
conference to formulate their opinions on
disputed points of doctrine and practice;
deprecating the Pittsburgers resort to dis
ciplinary action, and regarding that action
as tending to division of the church and
impairing her nsefulness, and, finally, ex
tending sympathy to the seven ministers.
The officers signed the resolutions ana they
are to be sent to the Pittsburg Presbytery.
WORLD'S FAIB NOMINEES.
Rumor That President Palmer Has Ap
pointed the Board of Control.
GniCAGO, November 28. Bumor at the
National Commissioners' headquarters has
it that President Palmer, after consulta
tion,with Colonel Davis and "Vice Chairman
McKenzie, has announced his appointments
for the Board of Control. '
By the express conditions of the act of
the Commission, Mr. Palmer and Colonel
McKenzie are members of this body of
eight. The other members will, it is re
ported, be: Governor Waller, of Connecti
cut; Judze Lindsay, of Kentucky, and
General St. Clair, of West Virginia, Demo
crats, and Mr. Massey, of Delaware; Judge
Martindale, of Indiana, and Senator Sew
ell, of New Jersey, Bepublicans. Accord
ing to different authority, Messrs. De
Young and Groner will be among the ap
pointees. It is understood that the names
will be made public early next week.
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Pages. Just think, 102 columns of reading
matter for 5 cents.
TEE PACIFIC SH0BT LINE.
More of til's Scheme to Build a Road Prom
the Great Takes to Utah.
Duluth, Noyember 28. A prominent
official of the so-catted Pacific Short Line
stated in an interview here to-day: "While
I do not think Mr. Hill has secured control
of the road in question, I do look for very
close and friendly relations between it, the
Sioux City and Northern and the Great
Northern, which will practically establish a
through route between Duluth and Ogden.
"The Pacific Short Line is being built under
three corporate title?", viz.: The Nebraska
and Western, extending from the Missouri
river westerly to the Wyoming Stite line;
the Wvoinius and Eist'crii, across Wyoming
to the Utah line, and the Salt Lake Valley
and Eastern, extending into Utah to Ogden.
It' Js the intention to 'eventually merge the
three companies into one, to be known as
the Pacific Short Line."
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' ' "' -' and Diamond streets, tip to midnight. 'M
PITTSBURG,
FORCED TO SUSPEND.
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Philadelphia Banking House of B. K.
Jamison & Co. Closed.
BESET BY DEMANDS FOE LOANS
From All Sides, the Firm is Compelled to
Make an Assignment,
BDT G0B3 UNDER MOST HOXOKABLI
rSFECULI. TZLZOBAX TO THB DISPJLTCII.1
Philadelphia, November 28. An
other old established and highly respected
financial house, B. K. Jamison & Co.,
closed its doors at 2 o'clock to-day, and was
forced to add its name to the list of firms
that have been compelled to suspend by
reason of the long continued stringency of
the money market The head of the house
has been one of the most prominent figures
on the street for 36 years, and has always
enjoyed the warmest esteem of his fellows.
Beginning when a mere boy in the house of
which he afterward became the head, by the
exercise of indefatigable energy and pluck,
he finds himself at (the end forced to the
wall by an extraordinary condition of
affairs.
A ftw months ago B. K. Jamison was
generally rated as worth fully 500,000. For
nearly a month the firm has been fairly
talked about on the street. On several oc
casions there was talk of its inability to ob
tain money, but, as it was ascertained that
all calls were met, confidence was in a meas
ure restored, The result was that the firm
was beset on all sides by calls for loans.
These they were nnableto stand. Some of
the largest enterprises in which the firm
was interested have been unproductive. The
firm was also fiscal agent for a large num
ber of country banks, and many of these
withdrew theirdeposits since the stringency
in the market began. The result was that
the assignment was determined upon as a
matter of justice to all concerned.
ANNOUNCEMENT OP THE FAILURE.
About 2 o'clock this afternoon the assign
ment papers were filed in the Becorder of
Deed's office. The instrument was filed by
Lawyer George L. Crawford, and is in the
nature of a general assignment for the bene
fit of the creditors. It is to Samuel Gustave
Thompson, the well-known lawyer and poli
tician. The members of the firm are given
as B. K. Jamison, J. Henry Kershaw,
Phillip J. Keller, A. G. Plummer and
William M. Stewart. Everything owned
by the firm, including real" estate, is con
veyed under the provisions of the papers.
The firm has been doing a large banking
and investment business for yearspast The
firm acted as correspondent for between 60
and 100 banks in various parts of the State.
Large sums of money deposited with the
firm were invested in numerous enterprises.
One of these was the Center Iron Company,
of Bellelonte, which failed a few days ago.
This company had e. mortgage on their
property of $600,000, but defaulted in their
interest and a compromise was made for 4
per cent. It is understood that the firm lost
a large sum upon this transaction. An
other iron company in which they were in
terested was the Valentine Iron Company,
of Tvrone. Thev were also interested in
the uEtna Iron Company.
SOME OTJIEE LOSING- INVESTMENTS.
One of the most promising investments of
the firm was the Edison Electric Light Cora-'
pany. Colonel Jamison was one of the
original incorporators and held a large
block of the stock. While it. has been a
paying property, it has not declared any
dividends, nearly all the profits beinsr used
in extending the business. Considerable
money was invested by B. K. Jamison &
Co. in the St. Paul and Minneapolis Mort
gage and Trust Company. This concern
has a capital of $500,000, of which E0 per
cent was paid in. The company has lost
money and has never prospered since its in
ception. In addition to these enterprises in which
the firm was concerned, it had large inter
ests in the northern part of Georgia and coal
lands in Tennessee. Tnese investments have
like the others been non-productive. In ad
dition to these the firm has been large hold
ers of stocks in various corporations, Mr.
Jamison himself being connected with a
number of banking institutions as director.
To sustain all these various enterprises re
quired vast sums of money, which the firm
were compelled to put up. A large com
mission business was also done on the Stock
Exchange and many of the firm's customers
were nnable to carry themselves through
the present trouble and the firm went to
their relief.
POBCED TO BOKEO'W MONET.
To maintain their various enterprises and
to carry their business along like all other
firms, tbey went into the market and bor
rowed heavily. When the stringency took
place, one by one the depositors began to
withdraw their funds. The Barker Bros.
& Co. failure added to the apprehension
among the firm's many country customers,
and heavy drafts from 'these sources had to
be met daily.
This process soon milked the firm of its
ready cash and they were compelled to go
outside to borrow money to meet calls for
loans due various banking houses and trust
companies. For some time they were able
to make these loans, but so thick and fast
did the demands for money come that the
firm was unable to meet them.
After the failure a conference was held by
the members of the firm with the assignee
and Lawyer George L. Crawford. It was
determined to issue a statement as soon as
possible to the creditors, showing the exact
condition of affairs. The clerks were at
once pnt to work and it is expected to be
ready within the next few days.
THE MAEKET NOT AFFECTED.
The firm has been rapidly liquidating its
holdings in the current local stocks in order
to obtain funds, so that when the failure
was announced from the rostrum of the
Stock Exchange the effect was compara
tively small. It occurred Iate-in the day,
and such contracts as were outstanding
were at once disposed of. There are several
other lots that will probably be disposed of
to-morrow. These sales will leave Mr.
Jamison clear of all personal debt to the
members of the Exchange and thus secure
his future membership in the board.
Colonel Jamison remained in his office
late in the afternoon looking after the
affairs of his suspended house. He seemed
very much overcome by the failure and
looked with sadenss upon the wreck of so
manv years of hard work.
"Do you think that you will beableto
resume alter the assignee straightens things
out?" he was asked. "I hope so. That
will depend in a great measure on the way
my creditors act" "Will your assets ex
ceed your liabilities?" "That will also de
pend in a great measure upon my creditors.
If tbey come in here and demand their
money, and not receiving it, sell out the
collateral, they will not. In the present
condition of things tbey are hound to be
sacrificed."
DENYING SOME STBEET BTTMOB3.
Among the current rumors on the streets
was one that the house had been heavily in
terested in Hestonville Passenger Bailway
stock, and had loit heavily in carrying it
for customers. This Colonel Jamison em
phatically denied. "There is one thing that
is an untruth," said the Colonel. "Several
weeks ago it was rumored that we were com
pelled to borrow 8100,000 of Brown Bros. &
Co., paying 51,000 lor the use of it We
did nothing of the kind.. On .the contrary,
on Uwhtt day that rumor was 1b circula
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1890 TWELVE
tion we paid a loan to the firia from whom
it was alleged we were borrowers."
Assignee Thompson spent most ot his
time in the office ot the suspended firm. He
said: "I have every hope that the matter
will be arranged satisfactorily. There has
been but little time to do anything. I can
f urnisB no statement cveu of the most gen
eral character as yet As a rough statement
I can say the firm has been unable to realize
upon its'assets. There ia every hope that
all interests will be fully cared for as soon
as we have had time to get matters into,
shape."
BANKERS NOT ALARMED.
JAMISON & CO.'S FAILURE NOT LIKELY TO
AFFECT PITTSBURG.
Some Knral Institutions May Suffer A Good
Time for Investment Once the City's
Financial Agents-Danger of Paying In
terest on Daily Balances.
Pittsburg bankers do not feel much
alarmed over the failure of B. K. Jamison
& Co. as regards Pittsburg, but out through
Allegheny county and all over Western
Pennsylvania there is danger -of
the country banks being hard
pushed. In Pittsburg itself one
banker said he did not believe there was
any danger. In fact be thought there never
was such an opportunity lor investment in
local securities because they are now down
so low that the original cost of the various
plants would pay off all the stock. Said he,
"All the water has been squeezed out, and il
I were not a banker I would invest
every cent of the money I now
have deposited to my personal account,
but I always keep that to make me doubly
safe in case of a run. The Philadelphia
Company stock is down so low that its en
tire valuation is not over 52,500.000. The
old iron they have in the ground and their
patents would more than cover this, so it
would be impossible to lose anything. It is
about the same case with most of the other
Pittsburg tecurities."
William K. Thompson, of the banking
house of William B. Thompson & Co., was
seen at his home last night and said: "The
failure of Jamison & Co. will not affect
Pittsburg to any great extent, because I do
not think auy of the Pittsburg banks have
accounts with them. B. K. Jamison & Co.
were not bankers in the real sense of the
the word. Their earnings were nearly all
from stock sales. The firm were brokers
and did not depend so much on deposits and
discounts. The house,however, was considered
a strong one. I have been led to understand
that many of the banks throughout the coun
ty, and in all the towns in Western Penn
sylvania, had accounts with B. K. Jamison
& Co. The firm secured accounts with them
by giving a large rate of interest on daily
balances. Two per cent on daily balances is -I
as much as any conservative banter can
pay, but as high as 4 per cent has been paid
by some. I do not know that Jamison & Co.
paid that rate. The idea of interest in any
thing but savings banks is wrong. Savings
banks can always avert a run by refusing to
pay only on two weeks' notice, while In
other banks, we have to pay when the
check is presented. Banks would be
stronger if they diet not pay interest on
deposits.
"Jamison & Co. may pay dollar fordollar,
but if any of the country banks have large
amounts there they may be forced to the
wall for want oi funds at the proper time.
I, however, do not think any of them will
suffer much."
B. Patrick, of K. Patrick & Son, was con
fined to his roomwith rheumatism, but
through Mrs. Patrick be said none of the
Pittsburg banks would suffer. He said B.
K. Jamison was more of a mock broker than
a banker, and he wondered that he had not
failed long before.
B. K. JamisoniA -Co. were nt one timj
fiscal agents for the city, but that was many
years since, bow long ago Controller Mor
row could not recall last evening. Several
years ago Jamison & Co. held a large
amount of city bonds, which had been
placed with them as collateral by the Lin
coln Trust Company. This company failed
and Jamison & Co. held the bonds until
they were liquidated by the city.
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pages and 192 columns.
POSTAL CLEEK GONE WE0NG.
no Baised SI Money Orders to $100 and
Was Arrested.
Spkingfield Mass., November 28.
William M. Donahue, clerk in the Boston
postoffice, was arrested in the postoffice here
this evening when he presented three money
orders for 5100 each, payable to "George B.
Smelt" The arrest was made at the direc
tion ot Boston postoffice authorities, and
officers have been watching him for three
days.
Before leaving the money order depart
ment of the Boston office last week, Donahue
sent out a number of orders for money pay
able to fictitious persons. The officers claim
he has raised 51 orders to 5100, and the work
is very plain on the orders. He waived
identification in sending the orders, and has
thus been able to harvest his money on ficti
tious names. He came from Worcester.
When arrested he had a bottle of laudanum,
a new revolver, loaded, and a box of cart
ridges in his clothes. It is thought that he
was meditating suicide.
AFTEB TEE STABDABD.
An Amended Petition in the Salt to Bevoke
Its Charter.
' rBPECIAL TELKonAM TO TUB DI8PATCH.1
'Columbus, November 28. Attorney
General Watson filed in the Supreme Court
to-day an amended petition in the case of
Ohio against the Standard Oil Company, to
revoke its charter. The action against the
Standard is on the ground that it has ex
tended beyond its charter and merged into
another corporation. JudgeKline, of Cleve
land, consented to the filing of the amend
ments on the ground that the company
be given till Jannary'l to answer. The
amended petition alleges there are now in
existence only seven of the original 35,000
shares of Standard Oil stock; that by the
agreements entered into between the directors
of the Standard and the trustees of the
Trust, the former conveyed to the latter
34,993 shares of stock and the trustees in re
turn immediately issued an equal number of
certificates of the Standard Oil Trust The
petition further sets up that none of the
nine trustees are residents of Ohio.
HEBBING Fisheries of Scotland will be
described in THE DISPATCH to-morrow by
the noted traveler and fascinating writer,
Edgar I- Wakeman. A mammoth news
paper and magazine combined. One of the
largest and the best newspapers in Pennsyl
vania. SEDUCING THE FOECE.
Union Pacific Baflroad Company Laying Off
a Number of Men.
ISTZCIAT. TXLXOBAK TO TUX DISPATCK.J
Omaha, November 28. Orders have
been issued for the reduction of force and
hours at the Union Pacific machine shops
here. About 150 men will be laid off here
and CO in the shops at Cheyenne. The
working hours will be reduced from 9 per
day to 8i per day in most cases, and in
some shops to 8 hours.
BUDTABD KIPLING'S great serial story,
The light That Failed," Is creating a sensa
tion. Another fascinating Installment In
THE DISPATCH: to-morrow. Vo other
paper.hu.lt. Twenty-four page, 103 coK
mil to-morrow.
FEELING- OF DISGUST
U'UU Mfi. HIj' mVJf-J I.VIT II A IBIVi I I I MMIA I Ml AfUl m II M
Amons: Farmers' Alliance Men Over
Senator Push's Election.
TUEHING TO FLORIDA AHD KANSAS.
Alliance and (Knights of Labor Presidental
Ticket for 1892
EXPECTED TO CARET F1YE STATES
rrnoix a staft connxsFoirox'iT.i
WASHINGTONNovember 28. Farmers'
Alliance people here are very much dis
gusted with the re-election to-day of Senator
Pugb, of Alabama. "We are throwing
away all the possibilities we gained in the
late elections," said one of them to-day, who
ia also a Knight of Labor. "The ease with
which out-and-out Alliance members of the
Legislatures of North and South Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama have been won over
to vote for old Senators, who are their de
clared enemies, merely on account of their
past services and prestige in the Senate and
on the battle field, is something which is, to
say the least, discouraging and somewhat
disgusting.
"Jn each one of the States named an Al
liance Senator, pure and simple, might have
been elected. Our only hope now for break
ing into the old party lines in the Senate
lies in Florida and Kansas. I think Call
will certainly be defeated in Florida by the
President of the State Alliance. The
Kansas Alliance people have been a long
time making their minds up to turn down
the Bepublican party, but they were driven
to it in the last election, and having won
the victory, they propose to send one of their
own members to represent them in the
United States Senate.-
"I was' in the think of the fight in Kansas.
I never saw people more in earnest than the
Alliance and Knights of Labor. I cam
paigned for some days with Balph Beau
mont, the Chairman of the Legislative Com
mittee of the Knights of Labor. It is an
actual fact that Beaumont, although com
paratively unknown in Kansas, drew larger
crowds than even the picturesque John
James Ingalls. Oh, we are in politics to
stay, and the two old parties might as well
clear the track for us.
"It is a foregone conclusion that there
will be three tickets in the field in 1892, un
less the Bepublicans conclude to drop out of
the race and give way to the Peoples' party;
that is,' the Alliance and Knights of Labor..
I am certain that the Alliance will put a
ticket in the field, and then it will receive
the indorsement of the Knights. You may
laugh, but I make the prediction that the
Alliance and the Knights will carry at
least five States in 1892, and four years
later will elect their President"
Lightneb.
glad"heescaped.
CONGRESSMAN ATKINSON FEELING GOOD
OVER PULLING THROUGH SAFELY.
He Tells Some Amusing Stories of Gains and
Losses in His District Insignificant
Postoffice Fights That Made and Lost
Him Totes Looking for a Contest
rrnoM a btavp cobbespohdzxt.i
Washington, November 28. Dr. At
kinson, of the Huntingdon Congressional
district, arrived to-day and was. beaming
with smiles as he ,met bis friends, to think
that he worried through by six hundred and
odd majority, instead of upwards of 3,000,
and that he did not go under in the terrible
slump. While the genial Doctor, of course,
attributes most of his loss to the general
groutiness of Bepublican voters, he tells
some amusing stories of losses from other
reasons.
"For instance," said the doctor, "there
came before the election from Mazeppa,
in Union county, two petitions with regard
to the postmaster, one for the retention of
the Democrat and another for the appoint
ment of a Bepublican. I was advised by
those who ought to know, that it would be a
good thing for me to appoint a Bepublican,
and I did so. The change cost me 100 votes.
The Democrat was supported by a lot ot
good old Bepublicans, who looked upon bis
removal as a personal affront, and the trans
fer of the office irom a store to a private
dwelling, which made many of the citizens
walk 100 yards further for their mail, did
the rest. The office is worth about 580 a
year. The place is so small that I had never
heard ot it before, and yet that one thing
might have caused my defeat."
"A day or two before the .election," con
tinued the doctor, "a friend of mine asked
me if I had any stickers, or Democratic
tickets with my name ou them. I furnished
him all he wanted, curious to know what he
would do with them. In the little town
where he lived he got 20 Democratic votes
for me, and all because Skinner, my oppo
nent, had taken a band in a postmaster
fight at the place and the fellow he opposed
wanted to get even with him."
The doctor is of the opinion that his seat,
as well as Scull's and Stewart's, will be con
tested, he having a little more than 600 ma
jority, Scull a little more than 500, and
Stewart about 150.
AN INCOME TAX HEASTOE.
Congressman Oates Has a Bill Beady for
That Purpose.
FROM A STAFF CORRESPOND EXT.
Washington, November 28. One of
the most persistent filibusterers and one
most fertile in expedients in the House
last session was William C. Oates, of Ala
bama. He fights for any idea which he
supports as valiantly as he did when con
tending desperately for the lost cause in
front ot Bichmond when his right arm was
shot away. Mr. Oates is greatly opposed to
the lavish expenditure for pensions, though
not to pensioning deserving persons, and he
is specially indignant that the South should
pay about 550,000,000 of the 1150,000,000 ex
pended and get only about a million of it
back. .That this immense tax may fall on
those most able to bear it as far as possible,
Mr. Oates says:
To relieve the masses somewhat I am pre
paring and will at an early day introduce in
the Honse a bill to provide f ora tax on Incomes
of $10,000 a year and UDward. I have not yet
worked out all the details of the plan, but will
soon do so. I am aware of the objections made
in certain quarters to an income tax, but I
think it is the proper source of government
revenue when it is fairly and equitably laid
and collected.
BEHATOB QUAY BETUBNS.
Back In Washington for the Opening; of
Congress, With Little to Say.
fFBOX A BTATO COERESPOOTEXT.1
Washington, November 28. Senator
Quay arrived from the South this morning,
fatigued with his journey, but as brown of
skin and bright of eye as the disciple of
Walton could possibly look. He went
directly to his home, after a brief chat with,
a few friends who met him on his arrival,
rattling off a'fish story or two, and remained
with his family and busied himself with bis
bushels of accumulated mail all day and
evening.
To hurried inquiries, he said the elections
were ancient history, that Cameron would
be elected Senator, and that if be intended
to resign his place on the National Com-
mittee, aa he had contemplated doing long
ago, he supposed he should "firat say so to
the committee, '
PAGES.
lllfflftll''
A FOOTBALL UNIFORM.
Armor as Badly Deeded in College Contests as
In Ancient Wars.
GROWING RICHER.
FACTS REVEALED BY THE SECRETARY
OF THE TREASURY.
Money Circulation for the Last 10 Tears
and for the Last Three Months Shows a
Gratifying Increase, Both In Aggregate
and Per Capita.
Washington, November 28. The forth
coming report of the Secretary of the Treas
ury will contain several tabnlated state
ments showing as nearly as possible the ex
-- wu.WMM.tt W. .UG f Ai.VUa A..UUO vl UlwUw.
In actual circulation among the people at
several different periodsfrom 1870 to the
present time.
'From these tables it is shown that during
the 20 years from October 1, 1870, to October
1, 1890, the total increase of circulation was
over 5727,000,000, making an average in
crease per month of 83,032,336, and an in
crease per capita of Si 99, the total
circulation per capita in 1870 being
519 70, and m 1890 523 96. During the
last ten years the average monthly increase
was 53,966,992, and the increase per capita
53 59. For the period of 19 months from
March 4, 1889, to October 1, 1890, the aggre
gate increase of circulation' among the
people was 593,866,813, making an average
monthly increase of $4,910,358, an increase per
capita of about 51 50, while for the corre
sponding period from March 4, 1885, to
October 1, 1886, the aggregate decrease in
circulation was 21,895,493, and the average
monthly decrease was 51,150,500, making a
total difference in favor of the last 19 mouths
of over 56,000,000 per month.
For three months, from July 1 to October
1, 1890, the aggregate increase in actual use
among the people was 568,354,339. making
an average monthly increase ot 522,784,778.
It is stated that this large increase since
March 4, 1889, is mainly due to the present
policy of keeping the surplus as low as pos
sible by the purchase and redemption of
bonds, thereby saving interest and restoring
the money to circulation, while the large
decrease in circulation for the corresponding
period from March 4, 1885, to October 1,
1886, was due to the opposite policy.
OENEBAL TBACETS VIEWS.
He Says There Will be No Opposition to
Cleveland in New York.
tSFXCIAX. TZLEOEAX TO TOE DI8FATCH.1
Washington, November 28. General
Tracey, Congressman from the Albany dis
trict, who js reputed to be 'a'most intimate
friend or ex-President Cleveland, has been
talking to a Dispatch reporter about po
litical affairs ia New York. In an inter
view to-day he said that Governor Hill was
wisely saying nothing about the Senator
ship, but that he could be a candidate and
would go to the Senate. As for Cleveland,
he said that if there was a demand for his
nomination in 1892 there would be no oppo
sition to him in the State of New York
which would prevent his getting the nom
ination. "There is," he said, "no such antagonism
to Cleveland in the State of New York as
many people outside of the State suspect.
There are many friends of Governor Hill
who would like to see him in the Presi
dency, but they wonld not bolt the ticket if
Cleveland were to be nominated. There is
no such feeling to amount to anything.
Cleveland would lose no more Democratic
votes than Hill would if he were running."
BELYING OU MAH0NE.
A Bepublican Congressman Who
WUl
Contest a Democrat's Seat
rSFXCIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Washington, November 28. Congress
man Bowden, of the Norfolk, Va., district,
has determined to tempfrfate and endeavor
to have himself seated as a member of the
Fifty-second Congress, in spite of the fact
that a Democrat was declared elected.
Bowdeu is one of the few Virginia Bepub
licans who have remained true to Mahone,
and it is thought that the ex-Senator is
behind Bowden in his attempt
Bowden says that he will contest the
election of his competitor, Mr. Lawson, on
the ground that voters in the Bepublican
precincts oi the district were prevented
from voting by, dilatory tactics by Demo
cratic election officers.
SAILING the Pacific off the coast of South
America is the subject of Fannie B. Ward's
letter to THE DISPATCH for to-morrow.
A street car line on which the wind is the
motive power is one of the novelties she de
scribes. All the news, 103 colnmns of read
ing matter.
I
HEW Y0BX SEtfATOBSBTP.
Governor Hill May Conclude to Stand as
Everts Successor.
rsrBCTAI. TH.IOEAM TO TM DISPATCH.!
AlbInt, November 28. Colonel Daniel
S. Lamont's visit to the Executive Chamber
on Wednesday afternoon, which has given
rise to so much speculation iu politital cir
cles, is believed to have been due to an in
vitation from Governor Hill conveyed to
Colonel Lamont early this week. The
statement that the latter came to Albany for
the purpose of proffering to the Governor the
olive branch ou behalf of the Cleveland
Democrats is therefore rendered ridiculous.
The conference was in the nature of an in
formal talk, in the course of which the gen
eral political situation was reviewed, and a
free and frank interchange of views on the
outlook for the party in the State and in the
country at large was had.
Colonel Lamont did not urge upon the
Governor the acceptance of the Senatorship,
nor did the Governor express himself defi
nitely on that subject But the impression
to be gained as a result of their conference
is that Governor Hill basjtbout determined
in his own mind on ,the advisability of be
coming Senator Evarts' successor.
A LITTLE PBEVIOUS.
Workmen Born a Honse They Thought
Italians Were to Live In.
ISrECtAL THIOUAlI TO Tm MsrATCn.1
Mooeestown, N. J., November 28.
Because of the fact that Pierre Loriliard
was about to bring a lot of Italian laborers
from Tuxedo Park to work on his. stock
farm at Bancocas, some of the men who ex-
nftA tvtlA disr.hftrped hnrnul a Itidldinw
I that had jnt been built on the. farm for the
'jtalians to live In, last nihtf
. THREE CENTS. 1
NOW
He Turns Upon His Late Liberal Allies and Eeveals
Secret Political History.
BISHOP WALSH SPEAKS FOR THE 0HUECH.
He Thinks. It Wise Kot to Form Too Hasty a Judgment in the Matter The Irish Leader
in a Lengthy Manifesto Asserts That the Home Enle Favored by Gladstone and His
Friends is of a Tery Limited Description An Appeal to the People to Sustain an
Independent Party The Eesnlts of Former Conferences Given to the Pubiic The
Irish Delegates in America Get Together, bat Fail to Eeach a Conclusion Even if
Defeated at Monday's Meeting, Parnell Will Eemain in Parliament,
LET CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, November 28. The political
situation has in no way improved. In the
opinion of friends of Ireland it has indeed
become distinctly worse. Americans will
be able to form their own opinioD of Mr.
-tnell's manifesto. Here it ia evident
!, immediate effect will be to pre-
fiy- r and deplorable internecine
teif,&.rQ "--.already be seen moving
into opjl VVr f preparing for the
struggle whivCg , 'Vo.M.cannot now be
avoided, whatsoe.? i ' c the decision
taken at Cincinnati tov and at Westmin
ster on Monday.
All Irishmen will soon have to take sides,
and all are anxiously waiting to hear from
Ireland's patriotic prelates and priests. I
am assured that the former have already
made up their minds, and would have
spoken before now in a voice to be heard of
all men, but that they preferred not to em
bitter the situation so long as there seemed
any chance of Mr. Parnell's voluntary re
tirement A Probability of Immediate Action.
Up till to-day they had intended to wait
until after Monday's meeting, but it is con
sidered probable that their action will be
precipitated by the publication of Mr. Par
nell's manifesto. Mr. Parnell continues to
maintain the attitude which he assumed
when the storm first broke over his head.
He declines to recognize Mr. Gladstone's
right to dictate to the Irish party and his
manifesto is absolutely the only reply which
he has vouchsafed to the Liberal leader's
letter.
Mr. Gladstone, on his part, in conversa
tion with his friends, has repeatedly denied
that his letter wes meant to dictate to any
one, and he denies that the wording of it is
open tosuch an interpretation, but be does
not swerve trom the position that home rule
could not be gained in his life time if Mr.
Parnell should retain the Irish leadership,
and therefore the closing days of his life
could be best spent in some some quieter
manner than leading a political forlorn
hope..
The following is the full text of the Par
nell manifesto:
An' Appeal for Independence.
To the Irish People :
The integrity and independence of a section
of the Irish Parliamentary party having been
apparently sapped and destroyed by the wire
pullers of the Liberal party, it has become nec
essary for me, as leader of the Irish party, to
take counsel with you. and, having given you
the knowledge which Is in my possession, to
ask your judgment upon a matter which now
solely devolves upon you to decide. The letter
from Mr. Gladstone to Mr. Morley, written for
the purpose of influencing the decision of the
Irish party in the choice of their leader and
claiming for the Liberals and their leaders
the right of veto upon the choice
is the immediate cause of this ad
dress, the purpose of which is to remind
you and your Parliamentary representatives
that Ireland considers the independence of ber
party as her only safeguard within the Consti
tution, and above and beyond all other consid
erations whatever. The threat in that letter, re
peated so insolently on many English platforms,
and in numerous British newspaoers, that unless
Ireland concedes the right of veto to England,
she will indefinitely postpone her chance of ob
taining home rule, compels, while not for a
moment admitting the slightest possibility of
snch a' loss, to put before -you information
which, until now, so far as my colleagues are
concerned, has been solely in my possession, and
which will enable you to understand the meas
ure of loss with which you are threatened unless
you consent to throw me to the English wolves
now howling for my destruction.
Some Secret Political History.
In November of last year, In response to a
repeated and long standing request, I visited
Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden and received the
details ot the intended proposal of himself and
his colleagues of the late Liberal Cabinet with
regard to home rule in the event of the next
general election favoring the Liberal party. It
is unnecessary for me to domore at present
than to direct your attention to certain points
of these details, which will be generally recog
nized as embracing elements vital for yonr in
formation and the formation of yoar judgment
These vital points of difficulty may be suit
ably arranged and considered under the follow
ing heads:
First The retention of Irish members in the
Imperial Parliament
Second The settlement of the land or agra
rian difficult in Ireland.
Third The control of the Irish constabulary.
Fourth The appointment of the judiciary,
including Judges of the Supreme Court county
conrt judges and resident magistrates.
To Beduce the Irish Representation.
Upon the subject of the retention of Irish
members in Parliament Mr. Gladstone told me
that the opinion, and the nnanimous opinion,
of his colleagues and himself recently arrived
at, after most mature consideration of alterna
tive proposals, was that in order to conciliate
English public opinion It would be necessary to
reduce Irish representation from 103 to 32.
Upon the settlement of the land question it
was held that this was one of, the questions
which must be regarded as questions reserved
from the control of the Irish Legislature, but
at the same tame Mr. Gladstone intimated that
while he would renew his attempt to settle the
matter by imperial legislation on the lines of the
land purchase bill of 1SSS, he would not under
take to put any .pressure upon his own side or
insist upon their adopting his views In other
and shorter words that the Irish Legislature
was not be given the power of solving the
agrarian difficulty.
With regard to the control of the Irish con
stabulary. It was stated by Mr. Gladstone that
in view of the necessity of conciliating English
public opinion be and his colleagues felt that it
would be necessary to leave this t orca to the
appointment of its officers,under control of the
imperial authority, for an indefinite period,
while funds for its maintenance, payment and
equipment wonld be compulsorlly provided out
of the Irish revenues. A period of 10 or 12
years was suggested as the limit of the time
during which the appointment of judges and
resident magistrates should be retained in the
hands of the Imperial authority.
The Opinions of Parnell.
X have-uoir given short" account of what I
THE ACCUSER.
gathered of Mr. Gladstone's views and those of
his colleagues durin- the two hours' conversa
tion at Hawarden, a conversation which I am
bonnd to admit was mainly monopolized by
Mr. Gladstone, and will pass to my own ex
pressions of opinion npon these communica
tions, which represent my views then and now;
and, firstly, with regard to the retention of tha
Irish members, the position which I have always
adopted and which I then represented, is that,
with the concession of full power to an Irish
Legislature equivalent to those enjoyed
by a States of the American Union,
the number and position of the
members so retained would become
a question of imperial concern and not of press
ing or immediate importance for the interests
of Ireland, but that with the important and all
engrossing sunjpets of agrarian reform, con
stabulary control and judiciary appointments,
left either under imperial control or totally un
provided for, it would be the height of madness
for any Irish leader to imitate Grattan's
example and consent to disband an army which
had cleared the way to victory.
1 further undertook to use every legitimate
irifluenceto reconcile public opinion to tho
gradual coming into forre of new privileges
and to the postponementsnecesaryforEnglish
opinion with regard to constabulary control
and judicial appointments, but I strongly dis
sented from the proposed reduction of the
number of members during the interval of
probation, and I pointed to the absence of any
suitable prospect of land settlement by either
Parliament as a constitutional and overwhelm
ing drag upon the prospects of permanent
peace ana prosperity In the land.
Silence Upon Points of Difference.
At the conclusion ot the interview I was in.
formed that Mr. Gladstone and all his col
leagues were entirely agreed that pending a
general election silence should be absolutely
preserved with regard to any points of differ
ence on the question of the retention of the
Irish members. 1 have dwelt at some length
upon these subjects, but not, I think, dispro
portionately to their importance. Let me say
in addition that if and when full powers are
conceded to Ireland over her own domestio
affairs, the Integrity.numberandmdepenaenca
ot the Irish party will be a matter of no im
portance. But untd this ideal is reached, it is
your duty and mine to bold fast to every sale
guard. I need not say that tho question, the vital
and Important question, of the retention of
the Irish members on one hand, and the indef
inite delay in granting f nil powers to an Irish
Legislature on the other, gave great concern.
The absence ol any provision for the settle
ment of the agrarian question of any policy
on the part of the Liberal leaders, rille,d mo
with concern and apprehension. On the intro
duction of the land purchase bill by the Gov
ernment at the commencement ot tbo last ses
sion, Mr. Morley communicated with me as to
the conrse to be adopted having regard to the
avowed absence of policy of the Liberal leader
and party with regard to the matter of tho
land bill.
The Principle of Local Control.
I strongly advised Mr. Morley against any
direct challenge ot the principle of State-aided
land purchase, and, finding that the fears and
alarm of the English taxpayers to State aid by
the hypothecation of grants for local purposes
in Ireland, as a counter guarantee, had been
assuaged, that the hopeless struggle against
the principle of the measure should not be
maintained, and that we should direct our sole
effort on tbe second reading of the bill to the
assertion of the principle of local control.
In this. I am bound to say. Mr. Morley en
tirely agreed with me, but he was at the same
time mnch hampered, and expressed his sense
of bis position in that direction by tbe attitude
of the extreme section of his party, led by Mr.
Laboucbere, and in a subscanent interview he
impressed upon me the necessity of meeting
the second reading of the bill with a direct
negative and asked me to undertake the motion.
I agreed to this, but only on condition that I
was not to attack tbe principle of the measure,
but to confine myself to criticisms of its de
tails. A Piece of False Strategy.
I think this was false strategy, but it was tha
strategy adopted out of regard to English
prejudices and Radical peculiarities. I did the
best possible under the circumstances, and tha
several days' debate on the second reading con
trasts favorably with Mr. Labouchere's recent
abortive attempt to interpose a direct negative
to the first reading of a similar bill yesterday.
Time went on; the Government allowed their
attention to be distracted from tbe question of
land purchase by a bill compensating English
publicans, and the agrarian difficulty in Ireland
was again relegated to the future of another
session.
Just before tbe commencement of the ses
sion I was again favored .with another Inter
view with Mr. Morley. I impressed upon him
the policy of an oblique method of procedure
with reference to land purchase and tbe neces
sity and importance of providing for the ques
tion of local control and of limitation in tha
application of tbe funds. He agreed with ma
and I offered to move on tbe first reading of
the bill an amendment in favor of this local
control advising that if this were rejected it
might be left to the Radicals on the second
reading to oppose the principle of the measure.
A Remarkable Proposal Made.
This appeared to be a proper course, and I left
Mr. Morley under tbe impression that this
would fall to my duty, but in addition he mada
me a remarkable proposal. Referring to tha
probable approaching victory of the Liberal
party at the polls, he suggested some consider
ations as to the future of tbe Irish party, and
he asked me whether I would be willing to as
sume tha office of Chief Secretary for Ireland
or whether I wonld allow another member of
my party to take the position. He also put be
fore me the desirability of filling one of the
law offices of the Crown in Ireland by a legal
member of my party.
I told him, amazed as I was at the proposal,
that I could not agree to forfeit in any way tha
independence of the party or any of its mem
bers; that the Irish people had trusted me in
this movement because they iVieved that tbo
declaration I had made to them at Cork in 1S$0
was a true one, and represented my conviction
and that I would on no account depart from it
I considered that after the declaration we bad
repeatedly made the proposal of Mr. Morley
that we should allow ourselves to be absorbed,
into English 'politics was one based upon an en
tire misconception of our position with regard
to our Irish constituencies and the pledges wa
had given.
Nothing for Evicted Tenants.
In conclusion he directed my attention to tha
plan of campaign estates. Ha said that it
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