SPECIAL TO LET LISTS Appear TO-DAT In THE DISPATCH'S CLASSIFIED COLUMN'S. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR. WORKING TOO HARD, Members of the Legislature Vote Themselves Ten Days' Vacation, ON ACCOUNT OF THE GRIP. More Than Forty of the SolonsSick, and About as Many More on the Danger Line. DEMOCRATS SOUND A WAU5IKG, Declaring lhat the Tublic Interests Will Surelj Suffer Because of the Unusual Adjournment. SO CHANGES IN BROOKS' EETAIL LAW. Tt Tnesii of th. Btii Bill Hut EUsd EhcoUtr to Ehndder if The; Intcsi to Frescrre Tilt TiUl Uetnit. cHAffroRDcorair is ncKEra tor tencxs rrEOM A BTMTT COBUE5rO!.TnNT.l Hakkisbukg, March 25. The Legisla ture is going to take a lay-off, and from to morrow until Monday evening, April 6, silence will brood over the legislative halls. Not since the adjournment on the oar Governor Pattison called the Legisla ture back in extra session in 1883 has so lengthy a vacation been taken. The Senate this morning adopted a concurrent resolu tion that when the Legislature adjourned it thould be to meet again at 8 o'clock r. M. on Monday, April G. "When it came to the House Mr. Lytle jBOT-.'d to amend by making it read "when the Legislature adjourns to-morrow." This would cut off Friday morning's session. Mr. Gillan favored the amendment because 1'riday is Good Friday, a legal holiday, and ,' u day which many of the members observe ' as a religious holiday. j The Reason for the Recess. The first of April was the date on which a great deal of business, particularly in the country districts, was transacted, transfers of laud made, contracts entered into, and money paid, and it was absolutely neces sary that many of the members should be at home en that day. As it fell on 'Wednes day, it would be meless to bring members all the way back for two short sessions, Thursday and Friday. In addition, many of the members were sick, leaving the attendance so slim that important Dills had been postponed because there were not enough present to pass them. A week's vacation would do everybody good. Captain Skinner sounded a note of warn ing. The adoption ot this resolution meant the defeat ot 300 bills. It was well known that the last three weeks oi the session were tdken up by appropriations and Senate bills. The dominant party had declared the Legis lature would adjourn not later than May 15. This meant death to a constitutional con vention. Mr. Bliss warned the country members against adjournment. As yet there were no Senate, appropriation or apportionment bills on the calendar. Ail this must be done. If they wanted to get their bills through they should not adjourn. Denial of Any Sinister Purpose, Mr. Lvtle said the majority had no inten tion of killing off necessary legislation by adjournment. They would remain here until lall if it were necessary to do the work, and, what was more, they would see that the Democrats stayed with them. Mr. Lytic' amendment was adopted, and the vote recurred on the resolution. Mr. Finley said that every day added to the session cost the State iron! 5300 to 5000. The debate be came almost disorderly, but the resolution was concurred in by a ote of SO to CS. There is considerable dissatismction over the adjournment, but it is a question whether much harm will be dont by it. Some bills will not be reached in conse quence, but it is safe to say that those ulnch must go through will be taken care of, and the people will not be much the loser by the failure of the others. It is a fact, too, that there is a great deal of sick ness among the members, particularly in the House. The ventilation of the hall is miser able and is having its effect. Dr. Towler, ot Forest, stated to-day that there ire 43 members oi the House sick and 40 more who should not be in their seats. In one day he had prescribed for 23 members. Hexby Hall. TO HEAD OFF SWEATEES. Three Additional Women Factory Inspect ors Are AsUed For. rFBOM A STAFr COBBESrOXDEXT.j llAKKlSBnBG. March 23. Mrs. Bertha Wer ner and Miss De vereux. representing the Work ins Women's Association of Philadelphia, ap peared before ihe House Judiciary General Committee to-day on the Senate bill amending tlie factory inspector law. The bill provides that of the 12 additional deputy inspectors three may bo women. These ladies ask that it ls amended to read that six of tbem thall be women. The bill strikes out or the present law the section providing tbaiuo establishment employing less than ten persons shall be deemed a factory and lis sub ject to inspection. The Working Women's Association objects to this, because thoro would then be no legal definition of a factory, and in bis that a provision be inserted that no person, linn or corporation, employing exclusively members of the family of the employer, shall bo deemed a factory. This, they claim, would strike at the sweaters." Under the present law the in spector cannot go into the v. orst "sweating" den if le-s than ten persons are employed, but this provision would enable him to go where a single woman, octside ot the employer's family, was employed. The committee took no action. WHOLESALE LICENSE BILL. Some Important Amendments Mado to tho Brooks Measure. IrCOM A STAFF COUBEErOXDElfT.2 ' HAEBlBBDna. March 25. The Ways and Means Committee held a meeting to-night and mado some important amendments to the Brooks wholesale license bill, recommitted last week. As it now reads, bottlers, wholesale dealers and brewers who bottle their own prod ucts are authorized to sell m quantities not Ws than one dozsn bottles of brewed or malt liquors. Wholesale dealers may, as at present, tell spirituous or vinous liquors in quantities not less than one quart. Distillers may sell not les than a gallon. The proTision authorizing brewers and dis tillers to deliver their product anywhere within the Bute is amended to permit delivery only within the countv wherein they are licensed. The provision that before a wholesale license is granted it must be established that the place to be licensed Is necessary for the accommoda tion of the public was also stricken out. BROOKS LAW INTACT, 170 CHARGE TO BE MADE AT THIS LEG ISLATIVE SESSION. The Franklin Amendment Laid Ont Cold in the Senate No Change In the License Fee in Third Class Cities Deferring to Pobllc Sentiment. IFltOK A STAFF COBKESFONDEXT. HaebiSbdko, March 25. Public senti ment has had its effect, and there will be no changes in the Brooks law. The Franklin bill to amend it, by permitting bondsmen to be taken from the county at large, and reducing the fee in third-class cities from 5500 to 5300, which passed the House by a big vote, came up in the Senate to-day and was knocked cold on the first round. As soon as the first section was read Sena tor Robinson, of Delaware, moved that the bill be indefinitely postponed. He said that his object was to kill the bill. The people were adverse to any interference with the provisions of the Brooks law. They rested easy under its provisions, and wanted no en tering wedge which might work its rnin. The trend of publio opinion, irrespective of parties was toward higher license. The pres ent law had operated in the luterests'ot peace, cood order and sobriety,and the people wanted no changes in it. Senators Green and tfenninger argued that the provision relative to bondsmen was a j ust and fair one, and that to reduce the fees in third class cities to BOO was merely to place it where the law at first fixed it ana where it had stood until the decision of the Suoreme Court changed it. Senator Gobln argued that the Senate should be consistent, and as it had this session passed a bill fixing the tee in third class cities at $500. to pass the present measure would be to go back on their action. In the vote on Prohibition the people had approved the Brooks law, and it should be let stand as tby bad approved it. Senator iivlia said it was not fair to say that tho people bad indorsed the Brooks law as it now stands. Wnen the prohibitory amend ment was voted upon, the foe in third-class cities was only 300: If the people had then in dorsed the 1300 tee, as it now stood, licensed nersons in cities of the third class were simply fined 200 by the Supreme Court for Keeping a hotel. He asked that a chance be given to discuss the bill. The roll was called, and tbe motion to in definitely postpone passed by one majority, the vote standing 23 to 22. It is not likely that any effort will be made to resurrect the bill. The action of the House in passing It raised such a storm of protest that the Senate would not venture to put it through. A UNIFORM SYSTEM For Koeplngtlio Accounts of Charitable and Correctional Institutions. IFBOH A STAFF COBBESFONDE1TT.1 Hakkisbubo, March 25. As one of the re sults of tbe investigation made by the Legisla tive Commission on Charitable and Correction al Institutions, Senator Mylin will to-morrow introduce a bill to authorize the Auditor Gen eral to formulate a system of uniform accounts to be kept in the institutions owned in whole or in part by tho State. The Auditor General is to prepare a plan of keeping accounts with forms of vouchers upon which all moneys shall be drawn from the State Treasury, and on requisitions npon which all stores and supplies for asylums, hospitals, penitentiaries, reforma tories, are to be furnished. All appropriations to these institutions shall remain in tbe State Treasury and b o paid out upon these vouchers and requisitions. The Auditor General shall have power to examine all books and acconnts quarterly, or oftener, and may appoint special examiners for this purpose, at a compensation of S3 a day and traveling expenses. Tho heads of these institutions shall submit estimates of expenditures to tbe Auditor Gen eral, who shall transmit them to tho Assembly, as a basi for appropriations. Air balances of appropriations at tbe end of the period appro priated for shall be covered into the State Treasury, unless needed for the fulfilment of contracts made or expenses incurred within that period. DON'T WANT IT STRANGLED. Senator Logan Slakes an Effort to Save His Railroad Fence Bill. fFROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.! Habrzsbubo. March 23. Tbe bill to compel railroads in Crawford county to fence along their tracks caused a little flare up in the Sen ate this morning. Senator Logan, of Craw ford, who introduced it, offered a resolution that the Committee on Railroadsbe discharged from further consideration of the bill. Sen ator Fllnn said that the bill had not been will fully delayed. If the motion were withdrawn he could attend a meeting any time to take ac tion upon it, Senator Logan said he regretted having to offer the resolution, but the bill had been intro duced two months and a half aro, and be feared that tbe process of digestion through which it was passing in the committee would leave nothing of it bnt the brass tacks which held its pages together. The people of Craw ford county wanted the bill. Two thousand voters had petitioned for Its passage. If the promise was made to take actio.i on it he would withdraw his resolution, but he did not want to see it die by the slow process of stran gulation in committee. Senator Handy Smith said he would make no promise. If he voted on the bill at all it wonld be to negative it. The resolution was then defeated by a vote of 23tol6. POSTPONED FOB AWHILE. Flinn's Bill for Transferring Liquor Licenses Is Laid Aside. IFItOM A ETAFT COBBESPOXDENT.l Haerisbukq. March 25. Senator Flinn's bill to authorize the Courts to transfer licenses to the execntor or administrator of a deceased licensee, or an applicant who dies before the license is granted, came up in the Senate to night. Senator Ross objected, on the ground that while the licensee must have been a per son of gool character and considered by tbe Court a proper person to be licensed, the bill would transfer the license to an exeoutor or administrator who might be very unfit, and who could not himself obtain a license. With the consent of Mr. Flinn, Senator Boss had it amended by providing that the license might be transferred to the executor or adminis trator, or to a person duly qualified and desig nated by such executor or administrator. Senator Osborn objected to the section authorizing the police department or bureau to remonstrate against tbe granting of licenses as placing too much power in their hands. There was qnite an animated discussion, which abruptly ended In the bill being postponed for the present. PROTECTING MINORS. A Bill Providing for Habeas Corpus Pro ceedings In Their Cases. r-FKCIAI. TELKGBAX TO TUB PIBPATCH.! Habbisbuko, March 25. In the Senate to-day Mr. Nceb, by request, introduced a bill to prevent impairment of contracts by me chanics' liens. The following bills were also introduced: By Penrose, Philadelphia, to provide a more certain remedy by writ of habeas corpus for tbe control of the persons of minor children. Tbe following bills were introduced in the House: By Bain, Philadelphia, prohibiting aliens from serving as notaries public By Stocking, Washington, to allow constables to tax costs for care of prisoners in their charge. BAIN INSURANCE BILL. It Gets a Bough, Deal From Senate and House Committees. IFT.OM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. J HARElsnCEG. March 25. A delegation rep resenting the Philadelphia Real instate Title Insurance Companies appeared before tbe Sen ate Insurance Committee this afternoon and the House Corporations Committee to-night, in opposition to Bain's bill requiring these companies to accumulate a permanent reserve fund of I percent of the sum insured by all the policies in force. . Their argument was that the companies charge one-fourth of 1 per cent for Insuring. flje Upon a $10,000 policy this amounts to $25, an a if they are required to add $100 to their reserve fund every time they earn 25, they must soon go our of tbe business. The Senate Committee negatived the bill and the House Committee amended it vitally. A WEARISOME DEBATE. THE HOUSE PUTS IN FIVE HOURS OVER THE ROAD BILL. Some Feeling Raised Against the Measure by the Long Discussion Wherry In a Hypercritical Mood Mr. McCallongh TVi"! Try to Remedy Certain Defects. IFBOII A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.! Hakkisbubg, March 25. All of this afternoon's session of the House was spent in consideration of the road bill, and, as was predicted in The DisrATCH, it was a wearisome and profitless discussion. Its opponents fought it at every step, and, while they did not succeed in engrafting any very important changes in it, they dirt succeed in raising a feeling which cannot bnt hurt the measure. Mr. McCullougb, of Allegheny, bad the bill in charge, and was ably assisted by Mr. Shillito, of York, while Mr. Wherry, seconded by Messrs. Bliss, J, C. Johnson, Potter and Bitter, en deavored to amend it. The first section was amended by Mr. Mc Cullough by a provision that no one shall be eligible for the office of supervisor unless he be a qualified elector of the township. He also had the third section amended by striking out the provision that no unnatu ralized person shall be employed on the roads. On Section 7, which provided that the road-bed shall be not less than 16 feet wide, and 10 Inches higher in the center than at the side, with drains on either side a foot wide and deep, there was a protracted discussion. Mr. Wherry said that one-half the roads in one half of tbe State could not be built under this provision. Roads In his county which had cost 81,200 a mile, would cost $3,600 a mile more to futtbem in thecondition this section required, f a road should be one-half an inch lower in tbe center than the section prescribed, tbe sup ervisors could not only be fined, but sent to prison. Dr. Shillito said that such a provision was imperatively needed. Hitherto no standard bad ever been set up and the taxes had been wasted. This section was intended as a guiao to show the peoplo how roads ought to be con structed. Ihe section was finally stricken out altogether. This leaves the bill in a very de fective condition, bnt Mr. McCullongh will to morrow present a substitute section which it is thought will be satisfactory. Section 8 was amended to give each of the threo supervisors 830 a year compensation. The original section provided for $100 for the three, so that this amendment will save the large bnt nut unwieldy sum of 10 a year. Section 11 was amended so as to make the letting of the roads by contract optional with the supervisors instead of obligatory. Mr. Wherry, who seemed to be in a somewhat hypercritical mood, attacked section 10 as ungrammatleal and ob scure, and had it stricken ont and a substitute Inserted. Section 15, which provided for the appoint ment by the Connty Commissioners of a com petent person to inspect the work dono by con tractors on highways on which State funds were expended was amended to require the su pervisors to inspect the work. Mr. Johnson endeavored to have section 16, which fixes tbe amount of moneys expended for roads in each township as tbe basis lor the distribution of the btate appropriation, amended so that tbe amount of Indebtedness incurred for road purposes should be added to this basis. Pendine tbe disposal of the amend ment tho Honso adjourned. It behooves the friends of this measure in the House to "get together." A GUBERNATORIAL VETO Of the BUI to Validate Certain Sales of Real Estato of Decedents. ISFBCIAL TELEGRAM TO TBS DISPATCB.1 Habbisbttro, March 25. Governor Pattison to-day disapproved Representative Flicking er's bill to' validate private 'sales of real estate of decedents -heretofore made under authority of Orphans' Court upon petition of executors or administrators for payment of debts. In bis veto tbe Governor says: I have hereto fore announced the principle governing me in passing upon Buch legislation that in all mat ters pertaining to property or estates, particu larly decedents' estates, ex-post facto laws are of dangerous tendency. In the absence of any general pressing demand for-such legislation, I am disposed to think this bill has been intro duced to meet some special or local case. It miclit possibly. In a single instance, give more defects of form and give equitable relief to some clonded title, but its terms are so general and the effects so far-reaching that it would certainly bo Invoked in many cases to divest tho legal rights of actual own ers and to transfer them to purchasers at in valid sales. If it aims to do this it is calculated to work wrong against the policy of the law. tbe spirit of the Constitution and the repeated decisions of tbe courts. If it does not seek to effect this, then it will afford no relief that cannot be secured under existtnclaws through tbe equitable powers of the courts. PATTISON SENDS HE3RET3. He Could Not Attend the Palmer Jollifica tion at Springfield, Illinois. rFBOM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. Habbisbuko, March 25. Governor Patti son sent to-day the following telegram. In re sponse loan invitation to attend the jollifica tion at Springfield, 111., over the election of General Palmer: "I wish 1 could accept your invitation to be with you tnls evening when you will publicly and in mass meeting rejoice over the election of General John M. Palmer to the United States Senate, but important official duties prevent, "The Democracy of Penn sylvania congratulates the Democracy of Illinois, as woll as General Palmer, himself, upon the elevation of her sterling and sturdy representative. Your State has honored herself by the election of General Palmer, and I am sure the people of the entire country give emphatic indorsement of her action. Please remember me kindly to the Senator. "Robert E. pattison." A FAVORABLE REPORT On Neeb's Bill to Abolish Poor Directors In Second Class Cities. miOSl A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.! Harrisbueo, March 25. The Senate Mu nicipal Corporations Committee reported af firmatively Senator Neeb's bill to abolish poor directors In citieo of the second class. The House Railroads Committee to-night decided to report negatively the bill introduced by Mr. Burke, of Lackawanna, requiring all railroads in the State to fence along their tracks. The House Education Committee reported affirmatively a bill to prohibit county superin tendents of schools to receive pay for teaching during their term of office. It reported nega tively the bill to authorize tbe election of school directors in Philadelphia by the people, instead oi having them appointed by the judges, as at present. LEGAL TENDER PAYMENT. The Bill Providing for It Passed Finally by the Senate. "KrECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DIB PATCH.' Habbisbubq, March 25. In the Senate bills were passed finally as follows: To divide and consolidate tbe wards of Phila delphia: providing that all obligations of debt contracted to be paid in money shall be paya ble (all stipulations lo the contiary notwith standing) in either notes, gold or certain silver coin authorized by Congress as a legal tender; authorizing the appointment of two deputy registers in counties having a separate Orphans' Court and fixing the salary at S2.500 and (2,000, respectively; appropriating 6,000 to pay the expenses incident to tbe inauguration of Gov ernor Pattison: to provide for tbe Increase of tbe efficiency of the Fishery Commissioners of the State by providing that all their terms shall expire at the same time. PITTSBURG STREET BILLS. They Are Read tho First Time and Will BO Read Again To-Day. IFKOSI A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. 1 Haeeisbubo, March 25. The Pittsburg street bills were reported affirmatively to-day and read a first line. It is likely that they will be read a second time to-morrow, which will IContinued on Sixth page,' tfpmrtf PITTSBURG, THURSDAY, MARCH 26. 1891. DRIYEN FROM ITALY Year's Asjo tho Mnrilerons Mafia Re organized on American Soil. HIST0KY OP THE DREAD SOCIETY. The Government at Rome Will Scarcely Do More Than Protest. A JUSTIFICATION OP TAB LIflCHIiiG rpr dunlap'8 cable courANT.l London, March 25. Mr. Edward St. John Brenon, the editor of Piccadilly, an old fesident'in Italy, gives to-day in his paper a long account of the Mafia. He says: "Ihe cradle of the Mafia is Sicily. The first jwe hear of its dangerous working is in 1353, since when.to the conquestof Sicily by Gari baldi in 1860, it has been the secret directing power of the island and brought justice into contempt. "The Mafia first intended to protect its members against the cruelty ot the Govern ment, but it gradually developed into an assassination society. Garibaldi weak ened its Influence by severe repressive measures, when dozens of its members were shot down; but it reappeared and terrorized the Sicilians and alarmed tbe Government of Rome. Crimes of all kinds were com mitted by it'in Palermo, Girgenti and Tre pan!. It also supported a terrible system of brigandage. The Sicilians tried to hunt the Maffiosl out of the country, and finally, in 1877, Antonio Leone, one of the most dangerous of the Maffiosl, was killed. Thus began the violent, but just expulsion from Sicily of hundreds of the vilest scoundrels on earth. Assassination was of daily occurrence and law-abiding citizens were at tho mercy of these insatiible wretches." Deportation rid the country of the scoun drels, who then sought an asylum In America, going chiefly to New York and New Orleans. Many of those who thus left Italy 15 or 20 years ago left for tho country's good. The law could not punish tbem for well-grounded suspicion, but it did not hesitate to exile those who were tbe disseminators of disorder and moving spirits in illegal combinations. Tbe Govern ment of Italy in this way let loose on the United States a band of ruffians, who again soon clubbed together in the laud of their adoption, and re-formed tbe old secret societies, hoping to carry out, without fear of judicial penalties, their nefarious designs against tbe peaceful citizens in whose midst they resided. The citi zens did right in lynching tbem. I am satisfied, though Italy protests she will not admit this wild kind of justice was a necessity." ON TO SLIGO. Davltt Leaves London to Take a Hand In the Election Oat There., rnT DUNLAP'S CABLE COMTAKT.I London, March 25. Michael Davitt loft London to-day to take part In the North Sligo election. He Is confident that the anti-Par-nellltes will retain tbe seat, his only doubt being whether the majority will be 2.000 or 3,000. He thinks that there are only two seats in Ire land on which the Parnellltes can count with absolute certainty. One is East Wicklow, in which the district of Avondale, Parnell's seat, is situated. The other is North Dublin, for which Mr. Clancy sits at present. Should Par nell resign his seat for Cork cltyand be beaten there, Mr. Davitt thinks that one ot these seats will be vacated in his favor, Mr. Davitt Is of the opinion that Parnell issued bis challenge to resign because, being in Cork on St. Patrick's Day and witnessing tbe temperance parades and other demonstrations, be thought his presence might cause excite ment and to, in a hnrrled moment. Issued a challenge, out of which he has tried hard to wriggle. OP GREAT IMPORTANCE. A Meeting That Will Affect the Labor Ques tion In All Countries. mr DUNLAP'S CABLE COMFAXT.l LONDON, March 25. The approaching ses sion of tbe Labor Commission is exciting wide spread interest, ind a great deal ot disappoint ment is expressed that the Government has made no announcement of its programme prior to the Easter recess. The appointment of the Right Honorable the Marquis ot Hartington as Chairman oi the commission is very gen erally approved, but the labor party is angry at not knowing what will he the aotual course of procedure and the scope'of Inquiry. It is uni versally anticipated that this commission will be the most important and far-reaching of any during the past 40 years, and the result of its deliberations will affect tbe labor question in all countries. It has been arranged that tbe commission will assemble in the new wing on the right of Westminster Hall, which was formerly occu pied by the old law courts. This will be the first time this anclont site will be utilized since the new building was erected. THE TJJPPEJBARY TRIAL. John Morley Testifies In Regard to the Brutality of the Police. TBT DUNLAP'S CABLE. COMPANT.l CORK, March 25. At the Assizes to-day tho Tipperary rioc trials were resumed. A large number of police constables were examined with reference to the incidents.of tbe disturb ances which occurred on September 25 last. The defendants' case was opened at noon. Mr. Adams said that undonbtedly there was a riot, bnt those who should have preserved the peace were tho disturbers of it. Mr. Morley, in giving his evidence, said a most unwarranted attack was made on the people. The court house was empty and people were refused ad mission Into it. Outside, however, there was a scene of excitement and confusion, bnt noth ing which could be termed a storming of the gates. He saw peoplo hustled violently, and also observed Harrison and tho defendant, Keating, receiving murderous blows from the police. Tbe trial was adjourned. TALLEYRAND'S MEMOIRS. A Doubt Thrown on the Authenticity of Them by French Judges, BT DUNLAP'S CABLE COMPANT.l Paris, March 25. The Due do Broglle re plies to the statements ot Prof. Aulard, with regard to' tbe genuineness of the just published Talleyrand memoirs, and admits that he has neverseen the original, having edited a copy left him by M. de Bacourt, one of tbe execu tors. He doesn't, however, believe that tbe dead editor would have been so dlsbdhest as to suppress or fabricate the memoirs. As a matter of fact, M. de Bacourt is repre sented as not only being utterly unscrupulous In a literary way, but as holding very decided opinions with regard to what Talleyrand owed to himself and to the (government of Louis Philippe, under whoso reign he was the Repre sentative of France at the Court of St. James. As a result of the controversy, all good judges new express doubt as to the authenticity of the memoirs. IN MEISSONIER'S HONOR. A Subscription Opened In Paris for rt Monument to the Artist. rBT DUNLAP'S CABLE COMFANT.l PARIS, Slarch 25. The Baron Alphonso de Rothschild has opened a subscription 'for tbe erection of a monument in honor of Meissonler. Among the subscribers are Due d'Autnalo, M. De Frxscinet, Minister ot War; tbo Town Coun cil of Pane. Marshal Canrobert, General Galli let. M. Couchard, who ownsL'Angelus and M. Ciffel. Tbe papers comment, on the fact that al though many of tbe dead artist's pictures are owned by Americans, no American has yet subscribed. TORN TO PIECES. Horrible Death of a Young Woman Under a Bloodhound's Teeth. f Bf DUNLAP'S CABLE COMPANT.l Berlin, March 25. A most horrible event has created a great deal of sympathy and dis tress in the village of Erkner. The young wife nf aflshnrman named Lemnnhl chanced'to en- I'terthn vard of a butcher called Hellc'mann. -f ' She wvs instantly seized by an Immense blood hound, thrown to tbe ground and ber neck and breast torn open. The wretched woman died under the dog's teeth. - THE BREACrLWIDENED. .BISMARCK AND THE EMPEROR FARTHER APART THAN 'EVER. A Fresh Estrangement Caused by the Von Boettlcher Affair Bismarck's Disposal of a Fund of 87,000,000 May Bo In quired Into by William. . 1BT CCNLAP'S CABLE COUFAXT.I Berlin, March 25. The Von Boetticher incident continues to excite comment. It will be remembered that the Doctor, who is Vice President of the Ministry and Secre tary of State for Home Affiairs, and holds the highest post In the State after Chancellor von Caprivi, six years ago offered his resig nation on account of the failure of his brother-in-law, a merchant of Dantzig, although not himself personally involved. Prince Bismarck held the Doctor in such high esteem, that he so pressed the matter to the Emperor that soon aftewards a high court official handed the amount of the relative's liabilities to the Home Secretary (SS7.500), the latter supposing, as he now de clares, that it came direct from His Majesty's private purse. All over Germany tho press is criticising the action ot Prince Bismarck in referring tn tbe statements ef the Cologne Gazette, believed to be officially Inspired, from which the Boettlcher donation is supposed to have been drawn by Prince Bismarck, and tbe alleged burning of all accounts of expenditure. ' The Borsen Zei lung says that the whole question will shortly be reoneued by tbo Emperor, and in view-of tbe present state of public opinion, it is evident that something must be done to efface tbe pain ful Impression causedby recent revelations. To put tbe matterplainly.lt may be stated that Prince Bismarck, between the years 1S6S and 1890, had at his uncontrolled disposal 30, 000,000 marks (7,000,000). Of the disburse ments of this Immense amount, not a single Item can now be traced. Owing to this new scandal, it is less than ever probable that there will be any rapprochement between the Em peror and the late Chancellor, as the Kaiser is said to hold the latter responsible for its pub lication. This he considers as a perfidious at tempt to overthrow Dr. von Boetticher, as having contributed to hi) own disgrace. A FAVORABLE TURN. The Manchester Ship Canal Is Pretty Sore of Being Completed. TBT DUNLAP'S CABLE COMPANT.l Manchester, March 25. TheN Manchester ship canal is saved. This work, which is re garded as the greatest engineering feat of the century, has been in jeopardy throuch. lack of funds. Baron de Rothschild recently told tbe Chairman that if funds were wanted he would personally come forward and prevent tho dis aster of leaving tbe work unfinished. This afternoon, however, the City Council unanimously passed a resolution amid loud cheers, by which it was decided to ask Parlia ment to grant power to the city to raise money for the purpose of prosecuting the enterprise to tho finish. A DETECTIVE'S FATE. He Is Found Murdered on the Highway in Russian Poland. TBT DUKLAP'S CABLE.COUFAirT.I Warsaw, March 25. A detective was found murdered on the highway between the cities of Dobra and Kalisch in Russian Poland. He had been deputed to associate with Nihilists and Polish Socialists, who were holding meet ings In that district. Scraps of an anarchistic newspaper were found near the body of the murdered man. The assassins had stolen their victim's offi cial papers and passport, but left his valuables untouched. AFRAID, OF DEFEAT. The Marquis of Lome Will Not Stand as a Unionist Candidate. fBT DUKLAP'S CABLE COMPAXT.l Lonbon, March 25. Tho Marquis of Lome, who was nominated as the Unionist candidate at tbe next general election for one of the electoral divisions of Birmingham, writes to day Intimating his desire to retire from the candidature, ;for as he says, "purely private reasons." It is privately reported that the Queen inter vened to prerent his standing, as Her Majesty feared be might be defeated. The Parnell-Hoaly Controversy, TBT DUNLAP'S CABLE COM PAST. 1 LONDON, March 25. As both Sir Thomas Esmondo and Colonel Joseph Nolan, tbe Irish "whips," who respectively represent South Dublin and North Louth in Parliament, are absent, tho Farnell-Healy controversv is nat urally at a standstill, and nothing further can be done in the matter until the return of those gentlemen, A Royal Wedding Oft fBT DtTNLAP'S CABLE COMPANT.l Berlin, March 25. The engagement be tween tbe reigning Prince of Rudolstadt, and the Princess Louise, of Altenburg, has been declared off, on account of the erratic notions of the bridegroom, although all preparations for tho wedding had been completed. Population of Germany. IBT DCNLAF'S CABLE COUFANT. Berlin, March 25. The statistics of the re cent census shows that the population of the German Empire, exclusive of Helgoland, is 49,120,812 against 46,855.704 In 18S5. The increase in Prussia alone is over 1,500,000, Ratified the Deed. tBT DUKLAP'S CABLE COMPANT.l Brussels, March 25. The Senate to-day unanimously adopted the act of the Antl .Slavery Congress, which was held here. Bel gium was the first State to ratify this impor tant international deed. r A Missing Ship. IBT DUKLAP'S CABLE COMPANT.l Greenock, March 25. The ship Cloucaird, of Greenock, which left Cisco on tbe 22d of November, has not been heard of since and much anxiety is felt for her safety. BOUND P0R CALD70RNIA. Several Hundred Portuguese to Engage in tho Wine Maklng'Industry. SPECIAL-TELEGBAM TO THE OISPATCIM New York, .March 25. Sevoral hundred Portuguese immigrants have arrived in this city, bound for the Santa Barbara Valley, Cal ifornia, where they aro to be employed in vine growinc, crape pressing and wine making. The owners of vineyards In California are evi dently desirous of testing tbe skill of many races ot people in tneso delicate industries. A good many Americans have gone out there to enter their service and recently they have brought over from Yokohama several hundred Japanese. It is to.be presumed that tho Portuguese, the Americans and the Japanese will be apt to make different varieties of wine in California, the workers ot each country making kinds re sembling those which they have beon accus tomed to make in their own country. In Cali fornia there is no scarcity of ordinary labor, and there are always many laborers out of em ployment, but it is hard to find trained men who are skilled in tbo work of grape culture and wine making. BAD TAILOR BILLS AT AUCIIONt Over S700 Worth of Accounts Sold to a Man for One Dollar. New York, March 25. There was quite an exciting scene at tbe Real Estate Exchange to day, when Martin P. Hatch, acting for the Merchant Tailors' Society, stood with gavel in hand before a crowd of several hundred promi nent business and society men and sold to the highest bidder about So unpaid tailor bills. Tbese bills bore the names of well-known New Yorkers, and those who did not seize tbe op portunity to pay up before the sale were held up to public ridicnle. The lucky fellows who conld settle up bad their names stricken from tbe list. The ridlqulonsness ot tbe.sale can be realized when several bills amounting to over 5700 were sold in a bunch to a Hebrew tailor for L Mp$tm ONLY TWO ARE IN IT. The Kace for the Speaker's Gavel Lies Between. Hills and Crisp, BOTH BELIEVE IS FREE TRADE, And Ilaro Already Opened Their Canvass Upon That Platform. ' GOEMAN MAI TAKE PART IN THE FIGHT (SPECIAL TZLEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH. Washington, March 23. The Speakei ship canvass is going merrily along, al though it is more than eight months before Congress will meet Notwithstanding tbe great confidence displayed by all the candi dates, it is evident to any close observer that the contest lies between Crisp and Mills, as things now stand, and that tbe only ground the other candidates can have for hope is in tbe danger that each of the two great rivals may have strength enough to destroy the other, leaving the way clear for men of lesser magnitude. If the Speakership were to be bestowed as a reward for party services, without regard to the question of personal qualification no candidate wonld have any show for a mo ment against Millsand if there were an issue in the fight involving the principle for which Mills stands champion, he would doubtless win, but in the absence of that issue the Georgian seems to have a decided advantage at the start. Both Eager for Free Trade. To overcome this advantage an effort is being made very insidiously to give out the Impression that Mr. Crisp is not an earnest tariff reformer. The fact that he has not been a member of tbe Ways and Means Committee has kept him from' being con spicuously associated with any of the tariff measures which the Democrats have pro posed, and, taking advantage of this, some of those opposed to his election have been whispering about that he is "another Randall;" that he is not a tariff reformer, etc He certainly possesses some of the qualities of Randall, those which made tbo great Penn. svlvanlan a power in his party In spite of bis disagreement with the majority on the revenue question, but he was not a follower of Randall on the tariff. On the contrary, he disagreed with him radically on that question. When this charge was first started, in a whisper before it got into print, I bad a long talk with Mr. Crisp on the subject, and confi dential talk, and the declaration of principles he then made (if such a declaration were nec essary) proved him to be as radical on tbe tariff qnestion as any free trader could want bim to be. Gorman's Position in the Contest. The fact that Mr. Gorman is supposed to bo working for Mr. Crisp is beiDg nsed as an argu ment that there is some mysterious compact or conspiracy for tbe inoculation of the Demo cratic party with tbe "virus of protection." Mr. Gorman told me not long ago that he was not working for any candidate for the Speak ersbls, as that was a matter for the members of tbe House. If he does prefer Mr. Crisp to tbe other can didates,-as he probably does, there is very good reason for it in tbe fact that it was through Crisp, or by his assistance chiefly, that Mr. Gorman pnt into execution in tbe House those plans which defeated the force bill. There was bard work done by both Gorman and Crisp for the defeat of that measure which other leaders knew nothing of, or saw without understand ing. If Gorman now wants Crisp made Speaker a mere personal preference 4t is because he discovered during the last Congress tbat the young Georgian possessed the wisdom and sagacity which is necessary In a leader. . NICARAGUA CANAL BILL. -i It Is Not Altogether Satisfactory to the Nlcaraguan Government. Washington, March 25. Senor Guzman, tbe NIcaraguan Minister, was seen to-day re specting the published statement from Panama in regard to opposition by the Government of Nicaragua to the Sherman Nicaragua Canal bill, as being contradictory to the rights ceded under the Gardenas-Menocal agreement in 18S7, and the possibility of the bill being re jected by Nicaragua should it become a law. The Hberman bill was on the Senate "order of business," but there was not enough time re maining ot the Fifty -first Congress to pass it. In answer.to the question whether Nicaragua would accept tbe bill as proDosed by the Senato Committee on Foreign Relations', the Minister said tbat he could not say until he had heard directlv from his own Government. The Minister was asked if tbere was anything in the bill tbat he thought would not be ac ceptable to his Government, and in answer said; "Yes, there are two things in tbe bill tbat Nicaragua cannot admit. First, the validity of the Costa Rlcan canal concession, which is referred to in tbe bill as a valid docu ment, Nicaragua being tbe only sovereign of the route, could never allow a foreign govern ment to give concessions for a canal through her territory; and, secondly, Nicaragua has, according to article 50 of her own concession, the right to demand 6 per cent of the amount of bonds issued by tbe company, 2s well as 6 per cent of tbe stock. SANTO DOMINGO AHEAD. The First Foreign Nation to Take Action on tho World's Fair. Washington, March 25. It is a curious fact that the first action taken by any foreign na tion In connection with the celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America should be by the republic of SantoDo mlugo, in which was located tbe first settle ment of Spaniards in tbe New World, Cap tain Nathan Appleton, a well-known citizen of Boston, who is engaged in the construction of a railway in Santo Domingo, has been re quested to take charge of a large number of the exhibits showing tbe resources of that re public. Csptaln Appleton will also seenre a loan collection of historic implements of stone and clay idols, etc., made by the Indians before the arrival of Colnmbus, curios of the Span lards, photozraphs of buildings, ruins, eta The Spanish Government has notified the Department of State tbat it will participate at tbe World's Columbian Exposition. Minister Lincoln bas cabled a brief announcement to day tbat the Government of Great Britain had accepted the, invitation to make a display at the fair. FOE BETTER RELATION! Opinions Asked for From Ministers of South. American Republics. WASHlNOTON.March 25. Some days ago the Postmaster General sent an invitation to each ot the Ministers of the South American gov ernments to meet him at any time and place to suit their convenience and submit to him their views as to what might be done under the pro visions of tbe new postal subsidy act to pro mote communication between the United States and those countries. Quite a number have already replied, accepting the Postmas ter General's invitation, but in some instances disclaiming power to act, in the absonce of di rect authority from their respective govern ments. Minister Guzman, of Nicaragua, called at tbe department to-day and bad a brief conference with the Postmaster General, and later Minis ter Quesada. of tlie' Argentine Republiccalled. Other conferences will follow from time to time. No general conference of the represent atives of the South American countries is ex pected. CLASH OF AUTHORITY. Lleutenat Casey's Slayers Most Bo Turned Over to State Officials. Washington, March 25. The War Depart ment has not yet been formally advised of tbe alleged conflict of authority at Sioux Falls, S. D between tbe army 6fficers aud State judicial officials growing out of tbe demand of tbe Mar shal for the fUrrender oj tho two Indians who are held.by the army officers as the slayers of Lieutenant Casey. The vlow of the latter taken at the denartmeut is that no trouble will ensue. As the crime was committed outside of the reservation limits the department oru cers say there can be no question that the State lMISiiliftl TBE PARLIA1IENT-AB yJsITUA TION. judiciary has jurisdiction.--The Indians conld not be held as prisoners of war, and if tbe offi cers have declined to Surrender them to the Marshal it is obly!ecanse they wish to make sure that the cuV jiire'turned over to the proper authority f ,4$fu DISTANCErFS. M j -... "W. THE COLORED RACE HAS BEHIND IN THE SOUTH. In the Matter of Natural Increase, the Whlto Race Is Largely In the Lead Some Interesting Figures on the Popu lation of Southern States. Washington, March 23. Superintend ent Porter, of the Census Bureau, has in preparation an important bulletin giving tbe population of the South Atlantic and Sonth Central States, .Missouri aud Kansas, by races. The total population embraced in this count is given as 23.375.25D. of which 1G.8G8.205 were white. 6,996,106 col ored, and 10,838 Chinese, Japanese, and In dians. In the States included were found in 1890 fifteen-sixteenths of the entire col ored population of the United States. For tbe purpose of immediately ascertaining the percentage of increase of colored population tho returns of these States are adequate, and not likely to be materially affected by tbe-re-turns of the other States and Territorics,where the colored population is small. Jlio facts as ascertained sustain the theory that the high rato of increase in the growth of the colored population as shown in 1880, was apparent, not real, and that it was due to tbe imperfect enumeration in the Southern States in 1870. During tbe past decade tho colored race has not held its own against tbe whites in a region where tbe climate and conditions are, of all those which tbe country affords, the best suited to its development. In but three decades, that Is. from 1800 to 1830. during a part of which time the slave trade was in progress, has the colored raco increased more rapidly than the white. Since 1830 the whites have steadily in creased at a more rapid-rate than the colored people. This Increase has not been effected by the aid of immigration, for with tbe exception of Kansas and Missouri, these States have re ceived comparatively few emigrants either from foreign countries or from Northern States. The following table give? the present white and colored population of the several'States under consideration: White. Colored. Alabama fSa.TM 631,431 Arkansas 816,517 311,T7 Delaware )K).4i) 23,022 District Of Columbia 134,332 75.927 Florida.. 224.481 1C8.C73 Georgia 972,462 SC3.7I0 Kansas 1.374.SS2 SI.2.U Kentucky 1,585,528 272,981 Louisiana 554,712 5C2.S93 Maryland 8J4.1-W 218.004 Mississippi 593, 7J8 747.720 Missouri 2.52L4S3 154.131 rfh Carolina 1,049,191 5C7.I70 Bouth Carolina 453.454 692,503 Tennessee I,sS2,ti7I 434,300 Texas 1,741,190 492.837 Virginia 1,014.660 640.867 West Virginia 729,262 1,503 JEFFERSON'S BIRTHDAY. Democrats Throughout the Country Are Urged to Celebrate It. Washington, March 25. The National As sociation of Democratic Clubs have issued a circular lotter, addressed to Democratic clubs throuehout the United States, inviting them to appropriately celebrate tbe anniversary of the birthday of Thomas Jefferson on Thursday, April 2. In tbe circular the simplicity which characterized tbe life of Jefferson Is pointed out and contrasted with what they term the "centralization, prodigality, favoritism and corruption of the last Congress." They could eo no further." says tbe circu lar, "for they have exbansted the surplus in tbe Treasury, and in the McKmley bill raised taxes and prices to the last point of endurance. NEGROES INDORSE HARRISON, Bnt They Also Declare Against Those Who Opposed tho Force BUI. Washington, March 25. The Inter-State Civil and Political Rights Association of the United States, an organization of colored men, has issued an address to the negro voters of tbe North, in which they say that tbe President bas dono all that be "could do to influence such action in Congress as would result in the holding of fair elections in the South," bnt that some few Senators "have seen fit to vote in such a way as to rerivet the political chains upon our brethren In the South, and negative tho influence of tbe negro voters in the North." Important elections are to be held this autumn in Northern States, where the negro vote is tbo balance of power, and each negro in tbe North is urged to "constitute himself a commltteelof one to see some otber voter and urge upon him the importance of refusing to vote for any can didate on any ticket unless he is known to bo a firm friend ot tbe negro and tbe casting ot a free ballot and having it fairly counted. Ihe negroes are urged to organize for offensive and defensive purposes and allow the Anglo-Saxon to fight bis political battles alone, whenever bo is one of those men who have said that tho negroes are an inferior class of people to tbe Anglo-Saxon race. NEVER HEARD OF IT. . Edmunds Laughs Over the Supremo Court Report About Him. fjrECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.! WASHINGTON, March 25. Senator Ed munds, who left Washington for the South on tbe day Congress adjourned, returned this morning. The Senator's attention was then called to the statement published to-day that he is to go on the bench of tbe Supreme Court in placo of one of the Justices who Is to retire and create a vacancy. The Senator laughed heartily at this report. Then be replied: "Really. I never heard this thing mentioned before." MRS. GRANT'S BUSINESS RELATIONS. She. Denies That She Accused W. C. An drews of Unfairness. New York, March 25. In relation to tbe re ported transactions between Mrs. General Orant and W. C. Andrews, In the matter of the New York Steam Company and Standard OH Trust stocks, a letter from Mrs. Grant was to night given for publication. Shesays: "A statement has been made so unjust to Mr. Andrews that I wish to correct it. It is not true that I accuse Mr. Andrews of anv unfair dealings with mo. Tbe tranaction referred to (tho purchase of steam stock) was ordered by me, as was also a purchase of Standard Oil Trust stock. I do not cast any reflections on Mr. Andrews in the transaction." RENTERS WILL FIND SPECIAL TO LET LISTS IN TJBEE DISPATCH MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS. BIMMSISSBBJSfliBSSWSSiiSSSnSSSSSSBSSiEiSiBSSlSlSiM THREE CENTS. A LITTLE LIEUTENANT All by Himself Makes a Raid Upon the Rebel Chilean Havy, HAS CAPTBRED THREE GUNBOATS, And 13 Sow Sailing Around Looking for Mora Worlds to Conquer. THE SAD FATE OP A TEI0 OP CAPTAI53 rSPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCn.1 New Yoetc, March 25. Some of the New York houses in the Chile trade re ceive all tbe news to tbe effect that the Chilean insurgents are on top. Others get only the news that President Balmaceda and the Government are in the ascendent. To-day both tbe insurgents and Balmaceda had shearing-. Id the first place, and for the fnsnrgents, it was announced that the .Governors of Antofagasta and Taltal had gone over to the insurgents. This, it was averred, was especially important as these two governors are in charge of two of the most important nitrate towns in the Re public, and have direct supervision of tbe railroads leading to the Chilean silver mines. The Balmaceda folks took hope when they received dispatches relating how the cause of Balmaceda and his Government was very mysteriously aided by tbe efforts of one little Chilean lieutenant aboard the gun boat Almirante Lynch. The lientenaut was especially vigilant, as the gunboat with the Andalnsian-Milesian name was supposed to have a captain in hearty sympathy with the rebels, and so one dark night the little lieut enant went down to the Captain's cabin, wbere the Captain was asleep, and tied tbe Captain's legs, together and strapped his arms behind him. A Capture That Was EusUy Effected. Then the little lientenant shouldered the big captain and lngged him ashore and left him there. The little lientenant is a Bal maceda man, and so after this exploit tbe gunboat and crew were for tbe Government. But the little lieutenant was not through with his heroics. He ran np a friendly en sign to the captain of another Chilean gun boat, tbe Pilcomayo. The Pilcomayo promptly returned the greeting ot the little lieutenant's boat and ran alongside to say How?" '1 hen the little, lieutenant captured the rebel captain of the Pilcomayo and tied his legs and arms and dumbed him ashore. After that the crews of the Almirante Lynch and the Pilcomayo were for Balmaceda and the Gov ernment every time. Tbe little lieutenantset sail with the two gun boats.Tbey captured the Admlrante ConaeH.au other zunboat commanded by a rebel. He wa3 corralled by tbe little lieutenant, and after his legs and arms bad been bonnd he. too, was pus asbore. Then the little lieutenant and his three gunboats sailed and. according to tbe Bal maceda dispatcher, they are still sailing, bunt ing for tbe rebels. Nobody knows what be came of the three trnsicd insurrectionist Cap tains. An Uprising Against an Oligarchy. A dispatch from St. Louis says: Dr. W. A. Edwards, of Denver, Col., who was for ten year3 a resident of Valparaiso, Chile, and who has studied the course of events in Chile, ar rived in this city to-day. "The present revolt and tbo manner In which tho warfare is car ried on," said Dr. Edwards to a reporter, 'cinnnt surprise anyone- who i3 at all familiar with tho Chileans, as they call themselves, or the syBtem of Government, Chile is nomi nally a republic but practically it bas long been an oligarchy, governed by SO or 40 rich and influential families. While the rislnzls nominally one against the President it is in reality directed against the system, of which he is the representative and. while the personal causes of complain t.broughtmatters to a focu3 they had little to' do. with tho origin of the troubles. "When I first went to Chile in 187S the hos tility between the inhabitants of the sea coast cities and those who lived inland was ex tremely bitter. The landlords for tbe most partllred in Valpairaiso and tbe feeling was verv similar to that in Ireland. This land holding class, which has practically controlled tbe Government for 30 years have in variably chosen the president. All legislation has been in tbe hands of a few people and un til recently all commissions in the army and navy were given to those in sympathy with the ruling caste. By holding control of the army and navy the ruling classes were able to pre vent any rebellion from breaking out and by declaring war against Peru and Bolivia, the Government did much to make itself popular Really a Piratical Expedition. "Tbe true history of that war bas never been written. Such a piratical expedition Is un known in modern times; and it was carried on with a barbarity worthy of our wild Indians. When the war broke the army was largely In creased, which accoants for the fine showing made by those in rebellion against the Gov ernment at tbe present time, as nearly all tho leaders are men who gained reputation in that contest. "Chile did not try to conquer Peru, but to destroy it, in order tbat the Peruvians, who hate the Chilenos might bo compelled to ask for annexation. What had once been a rich and f ertde country had been transformed into a desert. Plantations were destroyed, houses burned, irrigation canals blown up Ionz after peace had been declared. But tbe object was accomplished and while Peru was notannexed it is no lonjrer a rival of Chile. No one can estimate tbe amount ot plunder tbat was taken ont of the country. "With tbe removal of Fern as a dangerous rival and the annexation of the Peruvian guano fields, the young men of tbe ruling families abandoned tbe army and navy and obtained employment as Government agents in manag ing newly acquired property, with which they did pretty much as they pleased. This opened promotion to men who never before bad been ablo to obtain commissions tn the military or naval service and changed its whole complex ion. Tho great weapon of tbe Government was thus brought to a condition in which it could be turned acainst it, and this has oc curred. The army and navy are now in close sympathy with the people, and together they seem to control tbe situation. As to the ruth less slaughter of prisoners and non-combatants, it is only carrying out the rules of tbe Peruvian war." ALLIES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. The Massachusetts Republican League Favors Limited Woman Suffrage. Boston, March 25. At the Convention of the Republican State League of Massachusetts this morning, the following resolutions were offered: Whereas. The women voters of Boston have, for three years, kept the School Com mittee in the hands of the Republican party. Whereas, Wyoming, in which women vote, is tbe only Western State wherein tbe Repub licans did not meet with reverses at the last election, therefore, be it Resolved, That tbese facts suggest tbe im portance of extending the full municipal suf frage to qualified women voters.and ot inviting the aid of Massachusetts to secure the future ascendancy of tbe Republican party In this Commonwealth. Hon. William McKinley was then intro duced, receiving an ovation, and delivered an address. Hon. John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, also spoke. Resolutions were afterward adopted for a strong platform of Republican principles; commended the work of tbe House of Repre sentatives on the elections bill in the face of Democratic opposition, and pledged the sup port of tbe league to the cause of freedom, equal rights and home production. DIVIDED BY LAW. A Celebrated Wedding Recalled by a Di vorce Just Granted. , rFFKCIAt. TELEOBASI TO THE DlSPATCH.1 NewYoee", MarchiS. Mrs. MaudE. Jenks has obtained a divorce at Newport from Aimer F. Jenks. Abandonment and non-support were tbe only allegations against the defend ant, but these, according to tbo law ot Rhode Island, constitute sufficient ground for absolute divorce. Mrs. Jenks now resumes her maiden name of Maude Littlejohn. She is a daughter of Bishop Littlejohn, and was in ber 22d year wben she married Mr. Jenks in December, 1878. Mr. Jenks was only a few years older. He is the only son of the late Granville T. Jenks and a nephew of tne Rev. Dr. R.S.Stnrrs,aswelIasor the late Wendell Phillips. The Jenks-Littlejohn weddin; was the fasblnnable event of tbe winter of 1873. Walker Blaine, who was a classmate of Mr. Jenks in Xale College, was best man.
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