mBhBwWBbBBBBBBw jVDHHHJHHEBHn Hff3 aU- JtcjJIHE B.E&tx'-ffit j fciiiiiLlJisitei? J,Jfjj?l jBT3fiJfKfi3Sn?BBtSSJi?w8MBlMff!S jJSlK?! w!HK?Z jBffj3jKBBB8HBW?!8PalMKHB0JMBiBBP OIHIIK f IW AFTER YOU HAVE MOVED LKT THE rtJBLIC KNOW ' WHERE YOU ARE LOCATED. THE EVERY MORNING DISl'ATCHK THE BEST WANT DIRECTORY FORTY-SIXTH YEAR PITTSBURG, SATURDAY,' APRIE 18, 1891 TWELVE PAGES -J Jik . W . W W J: V ALL WHO SEEK INVESTMENTS. .3 . . , , , , . i i -2 THEEE CENTa J CHANCE FOR 1 DUEL To Add a Little Additional Ex citement to the Italian Imbroglio, BARON FAVA'S CONFIDANT Hakes a Bitter Attack on American Institutions and Then Denies His Statements. HE IS GIVEN THE LIE DIEECT And an Appeal to the Code on the Historic Field of Eladensburj Is Now Confidently Expected. BLAISE'S LETTEE EECE1YED AT ROME. The Jhjlcnits Kow Ergiget ia as HTcrl to Estsllah the Carat Contraction cf Is- tcrcaticz&l Lit. KIMSTE2 POETEE HAS NO LEAVE Of ABSEKCE trnOM A 6TATP COnBESPOKDEXT.l Washington, April 17. Possibly the first blood spilled on account of the diplo matic difficulty between the United States and Italy will be right here in Washington, and, if so, donbtless on the famous and his torical duelling ground at Bladensburg. The parties involved are Dr. T. S. Verdi, one of the most prominent physicians of the city, an intimate and confidential friend and adviser of the late Italian Minister, Baron Fava, a gentleman who gets himself quoted on occasion and without occasion, a pentlcman of elegance and pride and ancient family, an elderly dude in costume and action, and a figure of large proportions in Baeiety. The other party to the quarrel is George II. Harries, for years a reporter and corre spondent for the Evening Star. He re cently went through the Indian war, and was on the ground and in the midst of every exciting deed, dangerous episode oi the hest dances, fights, and has just been spoil ing for a row ever since he came home. A Bad, Had Han With a Ran. He is one of the best of the long range riSe marksmen of the world, can snuff a candle at 50 yards with a revolver, is an ex 1ert swordsman and one of the best amateur boxers in the district. Harries had an in terview with Verdi just after the recall of Baroa .Fara. Verdi indulged in some very bitter lancuace acainst Americans, and especially those of Sew Orleans, though he has ostensibly been an American citizen for many years. With the first glimpse of trouble he was all lor Italy and the Mafia, and, if he had been high mogul of the Mafia himself, conld not have been more contemptuous of America. That is, until he found his interviews were about to drive him out of business anU away out of the capital. No more conscientious newspaper man cer lived than Harries, and he was naturally incensed when he found that Verdi was trying to counteract the ef fect of his foolish words by insinuating that tho reporter grossly misrepresented him. In a letter Verdi alleges himself the victim of reporters, and, in professional language, describes a reporter as "a comparatively new animal, which modern anthropologists or psychologists have not been able to de fine." A Believer in the Duello, Harries retorts in an open letter which will compel Verdi to proffer a thallenge or he posted as a coward, as he has boasted of lus fighting qualities, and believes in and has practiced the duello, if his friends speak the truth about him. In his open letter Harries quoted from Dr. Verdi's denial, which concludes as follow: All I can say is that the words reported as coming from me, uz.: "What can c look for from such a coromrmty as Hew Orleans when the 31a or is a murderer, the Sheriff a murder er, the Board of Trade and the clubs are com posed of murderers, where murder has common and open possession of the heart," are untrue sad unuttcred. Mr. Harries then proceeds to knock Dr. Verdi out in four rounds after the following lasbion: That denial is a carefully prepared document; a scries of utterances from which there can be no retreat. For two weeks past you have been cii Lulatiug loose-jointed and negative asser tionsassertions to which I naid no attention, but j oil have at last stated flatly that an inter liew published on the 1st instant is false, and I, in replj, declare most emphatically that the onlj appal ent Difference Dotween Ananias and Yoarself lies in the fact that Ananias is dead. Not only did jou cay all that was attributed to you in that interview, but you said it with such force and evident passion that the primary effect of your denunciations could not be put into type. Your manner was that ot a man whose interest a the question could not easily be measured bv words, and your indignation was at Italian lever heat when j on recited the sentence which you now specifically disclaim responsibility lor. Vhon you charged .New Orleans with be ing a citv of murderers you did so with a vehe mence that compelled belief in your honesty of assertion. AVhen you first attempted denial it waslcraft ily done, and was done because you saw how impolitic jou had been. Tho first of your al leged denials did not deny, and bad j ou rested there this letterwould have never been written, hat, emboldened by ths silence of thosa whose reputations ero attacked, you proceeded to -reiter lengths and have at last reached the end of j our i ope the noose end. For 30 years jou had lecencd your sustenance mainly from llie American people, and as soon as the un popularity of your views spread abroad i: was jilaiu to jour Micbiavellian intellect that some body bad talked too much. You strongly sus. pected yourself of being that unfortunate indi vidual. Thl Surely Calls for Gore. Yoar denial in warp, woof, fiber and finish is a plain, unadorned lie, and not the semi excusable falsehood of a brave man who denies to shield somebody else, bat the lie ot a coward of one whose sentiments are stronger than their creator. The interview jou now complain of is a literal and absolute fact, and BUSINESS Men will find TIIK DIM'ATcH the best advertising medium. All classes can be reached through Its Classified Adrer tlsement Column. If yon vrant anything 70a can get it by this method you know it to be so, but American condemna tion speedily convinced yon that you had made an error of your life, and in your wild rush for shelter you abjured manly principles, wrapped yourself in slavish fear as in a garment, and (-hlvenngly testified to that nebulous some thing which might, in a police court, be termed j our "previous good character." With much bombastic flourish you have re-'-rr.l to your alifged fidelity to the United St- rtrring the past generation. Isitamat . irof iral consequence whether you are a c)iiinof is land, or whether you still owe allegi ce t Italy and her rulers? Would any nation be .lie better for the possession of a citi zen ho is afraid of bis own words, and who arms himself with no more trusty weapon than deliberate untruth? Dr. Verdi mingles almost entirely with the French, Spanish and Italian diplomatic circles, whose members invariably look' upon the duel as the only recourse, when a gentleman is offered eo gross and public an insult as is contained in almost every sen tence of this open letter, and it is their unanimous opinion that Dr. Verdi must fight; not to fight means, at least, social ostracism in these circles and at the fashion able clubs of which he is a member. Verdi and Ills Diplomatic Friends. Dr. Verdi is closeted with several of his diplomatic friends this evening. It is said that he will decline to fight because Harries is not his equal, but this will be a thin sub terfuge, because Harries is at least equal with Verdi in family, reputation and educa tion. In France, where the practice for all the Latin people is regulated, nothing is more common than a duel between even members of the best families of the old no bility and journalists, and Verdi cannot, therefore, claim immunity on the ground that a journalist is not a gentleman. The general opinion, however, is that there is no fight whatever in Verdi, and that he will never be heard of more. Verdi should have remembered the fate of J. War ren Keifer, who, when Speaker of the House of Representatives, for language about re porters much milder than that of the Italian doctor, was disgraced in his office, retired from Congress and driven forever from political life. Lightneb. BLAINE'S LETTER THERE. DIPLOMATS AT HOME ABE CHABY OF EXPBESSING VIEWS. The Leading Italian Journals, However, Arc Not in Love With the Document Minis ter Porter lias No Intention of Leaving the Scene of Action. Home, April 17. The reply of the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Blaine, to the Marquis di Budini's last note on the subject of the New Orleans affair is the only impor tant subject of conversation and newspaper comment throughout Italy. The full text of the reply reached this city to-day. AVhen it became known that the reply had reached here the Marquis di Bndini, the UniteS States Minister, Hon. A. G. Porter, and other persons holding positions which would enable them to express valuable opin ions on the New Orleans dispute were be sieged with interviewers. The substance of the opinions which the gentlemen re ferred to were able to express is that the controversy is in course of adjustment, and that, so far as future negotiations are con cerned, the diplomats will seek chiefly to establish and maintain the correct construc tion of the various points of international law which bear directly or indirectly upon the subject. The Messagcro to-day -says that Mr. Blaine's reply to the Marquis di Budini's last note evinces tho great desire of Mr. Blaine to elude the demands of the Italian Government, to escape from indemnifying the families of the men lynched at New Or leans, and to refrain Irom acceding to the Italian Government's right to intervene in the New Orleans affair. The Fopolo Romano says that in view of the tenor of Mr. Blaine's answer it is difficult to form any idea as to how or where the matter will end. 7t is officially denied that there Is any truth in the report sent from Borne to the Chronicle of London that the Hon. A. G. Porter, United States Minister to Italy, if upon the point of departing irom Borne on a three months' leave of absence. A SAVAGE ATTACK. Tho Editor of an Italian-American News paper Waxes Wroth. . NeV York, April 17. Dr. Luigi Bo verso, editor of II Prqgresso Italo Ameri cano, writes a long editorial on the note of Secretary Blaine to the Italian Govern ment. It reads in part as follows: This note, considered objectively, does not give the least satisfartion, and it clearly reveals a strong disinclination to plve any, or to admit that Italy has the right to demand satisfaction or reparation of any kind. The note of Mr. Blaine is stiff, and not couched in tho usual courteous language of diplomatic forms. It is almost discourteous. Perhaps we aro mistaken as to the object that Mr. Blame has iu view; still it is known, and well know 11, that several, if not all the m en massacred, did not fill all the demands in re gard to character and past life that the new immigration laws of the United States exact. We, for our part, think Mr. Blaine's theories on the protection of aliens in this country are simply stupefjing in their crude and cynical audacity. TEE STBANGLE HOLD. A Playful Joko of Manager Hill Results Seriously for Allen O. Myers. rtPECUI. TELEOKAM TO TOT DISPATCrM Cincinnati, April 17. Allen O. Myers was the victim of a very strange accident and came near losing his life as the result of a little playfulness on the part of J. M. Hill, the noted theatrical manager. Mr. Myers, speaking of the affair, said: "I was standing in the Grand Hotel and had just finished a glass of soda water, when J. M. Hill stepped up behind me and playfully threw his arm about my neck. He gave me the "strangle hold" and bent me back into a chair. I made no resistance and did not notice anything wrong. We started up Fourth street, and on reaching the corner ot Plum I felt as if the soda water was making me belch and began spitting. I felt weak and faint and leaned against the iron railing for support. "My companions now became frightened and led me to Dr. Minor's office, where I had a violent hemorrhage. The doctor, after a careful examination, said that in bending me back Hill ha'd torn my larnyx and injured the bronchial tubes in the lower part of the lungs. He said that I had also broken a blood vessel in the neck." LYHCH LAW THREATENED. A Murderer Granted a Itesplte May Be Hanged Notwithstanding. Omaha, April 17. A large crowd of farmers has gathered at Broken Bow, Custer county, and threaten to lynch Haustine, the murderer, if be is not hanged by this even ing. Haustine was sentenced to be hanged to day, but was respited by Governor Boyd. A PBETTY B0MAHCE In Which Lawrence T. Neal, or Ohio, Is a Prominent Figure. SPECIAL TELCGBA1I TO THE BISPATCH.1 CoLtraiBUS, April 17. Lawrence T. Neal, whose name is prominently mentioned in connection with the next Democratic nomination for Governor and also for United States Senator, is in the line of romance. During the war he was engaged to be mar ried to the daughter of Millionaire Goode, of Springfield, but the engagement was broken on acconnt of the father's objec tions. Great sorrow resulted. He recently died, and Mr. Neal, it is stated, was at Springfield to-day for the purpose of renew ing the engagementand they will be mar ried. Neal hesitates in matrimony long enough to say that the next Fresidental election de pend; on the Gubernatorial result in Ohio. WRECKED THE CIRCUS. A HOWLING -MOB TURNS ITSELF LOOSE ON A POOR SHOW. Everything In Sight Reduced to Kuln and 300 Feople Burled Under tho Canvas A Brick Knocks a Clown Senseless While Singing a Song. .-SPECIAL TBLEQRAU TO TUB BISPATCn.1 Knoxville, Tens-., April 17. Wash burn and Arlington's cirens and Wild West show will leave this city ofi" its route in the futnre. It came Monday for a week's stand, but has gone. Yesterday afternoon a large audience was present. At night another throng packed the tent, which was poorly lighted and bare of conveniences. The show opened with the Wild West performance, which lasted about 25 minutes. It was a tough exhibition and the audi ence began guying the actors, yelling and similar phrases. As the audi ence became more and more excited it worked its way into the space reserved for the show. All attempts to force the crowd back were fruitless and several fights re sulted. Finally a clown mounted a block and began singing a song. He had sung one Terse when some one hit him sqnare in tne lace with a orick oat. lie tell senseless to the ground and was dragged away by his companions. By this time everything was in an uproar. Women screamed and a mad rush for the exit was made. The police were powerless. Scores were knocked down and trampled on. The manager of the show got on the band stand and attempted to quiet the mob with a speech, but it was useless, and he, like the clown, was knocked down. At this point fine mob spirit took command. Everything in sight was seized and wrecked. The band instruments were smashed flat and the seats torn down and broken. Some one cut a rope, and the big tent came down with a rush, burying 200 or more people in its folds. A rush- was ' then made for a dressing room, which was also torn down, leaving the actors and actresses half dressed in the open air. The side shows were next attacked and wrecked. The police were utterly powerless and could only look on. Alter wrecking everything insight, the crowd went away, and the show people, aided by the police, gathered their traps together and left on a midnight train. The damage they sustained will amount to 53,000. Some 20 people were hurt, none seriously, however, except the clown, whose nose is broken and lower jaw fractured. POWDEBLY OPENS UP. A Bitter Attack on the New York State Board of Arbitration. SPECIAL TELIQBAII TO THE DISFATCH.l New Yoke, April 17. General Master Workman Powderly, of the Knights of La bor, has written another open letter, pitch ing into the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration. His attack this time is called forth by the board's report on the trouble between the Knights and the clothing man ufacturers of Bochester. Referring to that section of the report which denounces the boycott system, Mr. Powderly says: "There is ao law, ami there never can be a law, which will oblige a man to purchase that Which he does not want. No law can be framed that will prevent a man from letting his neighbor alone, and when a law is framed, aimed by a Legislature and signed by a Governor, which will punish a man for not buying of his enemy, the time for revo lution has arrived for that State." Beferring to Florence E. Donovan's letter to Chauncey M. Depew's secretary, asking for a pass for his wife and daughter, he says: '"If either of the members of the board accepted the price of a ticket to Buffalo he nould be justly accused of having been bribed. What is the difference between a pass and 59? If a member of the board will accept passes, does any sane man suppose that be will refuse a pair of pants or a sprint: overcoat from the Clothing Exchange of Rochester?" Mr. Powderly urges all labor ing men to assist in the abolition of this board. CUBED BY KOCH'S LYMPH. A Patient in the last Stages of Consumption Now p Well Man. 1SPZCIAL TELEGRAM TO TIIK DISFATCH.l Bridgeport, April 17. One of the most astonishing cures yet effected with the Koch lymph is the case of Charles Balaam, a consumptive who applied three weeks ago for treatment at the Emergency Hospital. He was then apparently in the last stages of the disease, and a distressing cough had so weakened him that he could hardly stand long enough to be examined. Balaam said he had not applied for relief until he had abandoned all hope and felt that death was near. It was a last resort. The physicians consented to try the lymph, but shook their heads and said he could not possibly live a month. The lymph was injected carefully and regularly. On the second day the patient was stronger and showed improvement. His appetite returned and his stomach re tained all he ate. At night be slept soundly and the cough subsided. In a week be gained five pounds in weight and a week later he had improved to such an extent that he wanted to leave the hospital. The physicians do not hesitate to express their surprise at the re covery of Balaam. He takes long walks daily and declares that he never felt better iu his life. His cough has entire.lv disap peared and exercise does not fatigue him in the least. There are no symptoms of a re lapse, and to all appearance Balaam is a well man. SnrRLET DARK has received a letter from a lady who thinks she had found Jthe proper way for an independent woman to live. See THE DISPATCH to-morrow. Twenty pages. WBECKED BY THE WHEAT MABZET. J. M. Shaw & Co., a New Tork and Chicago Grain Firm, Strike a Bock. New Xobk, April 17. The failure of ". M. Shaw & Co., of New York and Chicag was announced to-day on the Stock Ex change. The firm has been mainly inter ested in grain. J. M. Shaw & Co. had no important con tracts outstanding ou Exchange, but carried large accounts in grain for Wall street oper ators, and is believed to have been caught heavily short of wheat on the recent sharp advance. A BAD PITTSBUBGEB Who Deserted Ills Wife Is Finally Arrested at Colnmbns. ISFBCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISFATCB.1 Coltjmbus, April 17. Maurice W. Mack, a picture frame agent, who left his wile in Ptttsbnrg some time since, was ar rested late to-nicht on the strength of a letter received from his wife detailing his conduct. He was at the home oi a young German rtirl nnri Ttoe1nA in m..rv T in twA girl, and expected to marry he in two weeks. 1 EXODUS TQ AMERICA. Mill Owners and Their Employes Leaving Europe Together, FIFTEEN HUNDRED IN ONE SHIP. The McKinley larifl Act Given as Eeason for tho Stub, the NEWFOUNDLAND EEADI TO BE ANNEXED TBT DUNLAP'S CABLE COMrAKT.l Liverpool, April 17. Notwithstanding the increased rate of wages in England at the present time, the emigration to the United States is larger than it was last year. This week thousands of people sailed for Arnerica. The Liverpool Journal of Commerce is of the opinion that the Mc Kinley bill is responsible for this increase, which, however, it says, is not likely to be permanent. The machinery of many British mills is being removed bodily to the United States, but the skill to work it will have to be im ported. It is a strange fact that the exports from Great Britain have not decreased since the passage of the McKinley bill. Nearly 1,600 on a Single Vessel. A telegram from Queenstown says that the Cunard Company has broken the record by dispatching from that port the steamer Cephaloula, bound for Boston, with 1,440 emigrants, the largest number that has yet sailed in a single vessel for America. Of these 856 embarked at Liverpool and 5S4 from Queenstown. A dispatoh from Borne says that 1,200 workmen, together with their families, em ployed at the great woolen mills of Senator Rossi, at Scbio, 15 miles northwest of Vicenza, are preparing to leave in a few weeks for America, the repeated reductions in the rate of wages having made it impossi ble for them to live in their own country. Six hundred left Florence on Sunday on their way to New York, In connection with this enormous emigra tion there is great interest taken in the re newed talk of annexation. Mr. A. B. Moorine, one of the Newfoundland delega tion visiting London, and the leader ot the opposition in that colony, on being asked his yiews on the present situation replied: "Within the last two years, especially with in the last few months, the feeling in favor of annexation to the United States has been growing very rapidly in Newfoundland., The wrench of severing our relation with Jhe mother country would be severe, but we must live, and we cannot live under such conditions as are now being imposed on us. Looklne to the United States. "It is the general belief in Newfoundland (hat France would settle the difficulty with out a moment's hesitation, were the United States and not Great Britain the other party to the controversy. There is not the sligbtes doubt that the United States would gladly take care of Newfoundland Where, then, would Canada be, with Alaska, United States territory, on her western boundary, and Newfoundland, equally American territory, on the eastern? We are, however, still in hopes that British justice will be dealt out to us." Mr. C. H. Emerson, another of the dele gates, also expressed his views on the sub ject. He said: "Let the present line of British policy be persisted in and conflicts must ensue on the west shore. The French would become so odfons that it -would MjLb'ocfcade had not been declared, and notify easy for Interested parties to incite the peo ple to acts of violence. French property would not be safe. There is already consid erable sympathy existing between the United States and Newfoundland. If mat ters come to the worst, it is difficult to see what other outcome there could be than that the connection would become much more sympathetic and intimate." BALLET REFORM, A Bnsslan Professor's Original Method of SlraplifjlDC Dancing. rBTDUl. LAP'S CABLE COMPANT.l London, April 17. As everything In this enlightened period is being reduced to the simplest form of which it is capable, and developed on scientific lines, it will perhaps scarcely surprise people to be told that dancing in its most artistic form, as exemplified by the ballet, is to undergo the fate of those things which have not already been brought into this scientific system. The originator of the idea is Mr. Stepanoff, a somewhat appropriate name, by the by, for a ballet dancer. He is one of the principal male members of the ballet in the Imperial Opera House of St. Peters burg, and he claims that he has invented a method which will gradually simplify the art of dancing. This consists of certain signs, which will be as legible to tbose -who have been initiated into the mysteries as the figures used to signify the notes in music. By means of these symbols the movements of mimic action, which form no inconsider able portion ol instruction in tho early dancing by representing emotion in panto mime, as well as the steps of the dance itself, can be exactly indicated, and thus a student of the art of the poetry of motion can practice by himself all the intricacies of his proiession, with a certainty that he will not have to unlearn anything when next he goes to his master to receive instruc tions. Mr. Stepanoff has already lectured on his invention before the Ecole des Theaters of the Imperial Theater. A FRANTIC LOVER Showers an Austrian Princess With Kisses Against the Lady's WML IBT DCNLAP'S CABLE C0MPANT.J Vienna, April 17. The real cause of the disturbance in front of the Imperial Opera House on last Wednesday night has just been ascertained. It appears that when Countess Von Schoennborn- nee Princess Hohenlobe. and niece to the Governor of Alsace-Lorraine, entered her carriage unat tended and closed the door, two powerful arms seized her in a tight embrace and an unknown person showered kisses on her face and shoulders. The Count ess, a young and beautiful woman, shrieked and struggled, thereby draw ing the attention of the crowd of peo ple leaving the theater. The carriage was stopped and the door pulled open, where upon the Countess jumped out followed by a young fellow dressed like a workingman. He tried to break through the crowd, bnt alter a severe strnggle was caught Being questioned, he confessed that he had entered the carriage at the moment that the footman climbed to the box with the in tention of forcing himself on the Countess, with whom he was frantically in love, and whom he had no chance of addressing in the ordinary way. His name is Joseph Los, and his occupation that of a tailor. The fellow was arrested and the Countess is com pletely prostrated by the fright. LATTER DAY SAINTS. A Manifesto From the English. Branch of the Mormon Church. TBT DUKLAF'S CABLE COMrANT.J London, April 17. Frederic Tnbb, the secretary of the London branch for reorgan izing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, has just written a letter which Jtcannot fail to be read with interest by oV Ktaaftf 4nrA il.nAmlnalTAHa T-Ta ew. least two denominations. He says a "Onr church is not in ajiycejre allied JLMezicoj with the section known as the Mormon Church in Utah. Our President, Joseph Smith, is the eldest.son of the prophet, and persistently denies that bis father either tiught, inculcated or practiced the anti ScriptnraJ innovation of polygamy. We are heartily glad at the recent abandonment of the Utah Mormon Churches." RAVAGES OFJHE GRIP. MANY OP ENGLAND'S BUBAL DIST3ICT8 BIDLY AFFLICTED. It Is Also Spreading in the Manufacturing Towns at an Alarmlnc Bate Industries Paralyzed and School Attendance Greatly Diminished. rilY DCNLAP'S CABLE COMPACT. 1 London, April 17. The grip has again beguu to excite a great deal of attention, not only by reason of the fact that it has ap peared in one or two of the country districts, but because we have been daily inundated with reports of its ravages in America, and even by the publication of the daily death rate of those cities of the United States in which the dread disease has appeared. The Lancet r perhaps the recognized organ of the medical profession, predicts that there will be a severe recurrence of influenza in Eng land unless we get some warm, sunny weather to check the course of the disease which has already appeared. It must be confessed that the weather prophets do not hold 'out any great hope of seeing much of the day god's presence, and therefore, ac cording to the Lancet, we must make up our minds that iu the coming week at least this epidemic of influenza will extend over a mnch wider area. The ravages of the grip in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire are becoming daily more seri ous. It has broken out at Driffield, a town of 8,000 inhabitants, 20 miles from Hull, where it has become epidemic, and at Botherham, six miles from Sheffield; at Sheffield itself, Hull and Leeds it is more or ' less prevalent. The death rate at Shef field last week rose to 42.6 against 24.8 the week before. Iu one public' institution in Hnll there are a dozen well-marked cases. In Botherham and the surrounding district the influenza is spreading, but there has been but one death, and, although several medical men are reported as attacked, the disease appeared in very mild form. .Nothing like a panic exists in any ot the localities named, except at Driffield, where the local industries have been affected and the attendance at the schools diminished. At Leeds there are but few cases and the disease has not become epidemic, but in Lincolnshire, to the south, it is spreading rapidly. At Horncastle, 18 miles from Lincoln, there are scores of people stricken down and also in the surrounding country, where it is especially fatal. In the hamlet of Belchford, only one laborer could be found able to work, all the others being ill. At Halford and the ira- pportant seaport of Great Grimsby, on the Humber, the doctors state that they have never had their hands so full. In the latter town hundreds ot cases are reported. CHILE BACKS BOWN. President Balmaccda's Order Closing Forts Will Not Be Enforced. Paeis, April 17. Advices from Chile State that President Balmaceda's Govern ment, in consequence of the instructions which Lord Salisbury cabled Tuesday last to the British Minister in Chile and to the Admiral in command of the British fleet in Chilean waters, notifying these officials that the closing ot the nitrate ports by President Balmaceda was ultra vires, inasmuch as the Intr English shipowners that the British. Admiral would protect their interests, and that England does not recognize the double exaction of duties by President Balmaceda and by the Congressional party, and also in consequence of protests made by consuls-of the various European power's in Chile, has ordered the Chilean port officials to avoid any complications with the owners and officers of foreign vessels. A RIVAL OF KOCH. He Announces a New Cure for Tubercu losis Successfully Tried. Paeis, April 17. Medical circles in this city and in many other parts of France are greatly interested in a new method of treat ing tuberculosis. The method was discov ered by Prof. Germain See. According to Prof. See's plan, patients pass four or five hours daily in a close cham ber wherein the air is above normal pres sure and is saturated with creosote eucalyp tol. The pressure is gradually increased until it reached a maximum of an atmos phere and a half. Several excellent and permanent results, it is announced, have been obtained. THE LATEST RETURNS. Bismarck Has a Strong 1'lnrnlity, bnt a Sec ond Ballot Necessary. Berlin, April 17. The latest returns from Geestemunde," where the election took place Wednesday for a member of the Belch stag, are as follows; Prince Bismarck, 7,557; Schmalfcld (Socialist). 3,928; Plate (Guelph), 3,343; Adloff (Freisinnigge), 2,619. A second ballot will be necessary between Prince Bismarck and Herr Schmalfcld, the Socialist, as a majority of the votes is nec essary in order to entitle a candidate to election. The apathy of the electors is the most remarkable'feature of the contest. TREATY "WITH SPAIN. Envoy Foster on His Way Here With n Beciproclty Arrangement. rBT DDXLAP'S CABLE COMPANT.l Madrid, April 17. Minister Foster left Madrid last night for Paris, on his way to New York, which be expects to reach by April 30, Mr. Foster carries with him the basis of a reciprocity agreement between Spain and the United States, the final formalities of which will be completed in Washington as soon as the details have been submitted to the President and Mr. Blaine. Complaint From ParnelL IBT DCKLAF'S CABLE COUP ANT.! Dublin, April 17. Mr. Parnell com plains in the Freeman's Journal that Mr. McCarthy has failed to ratify the arrange ment regarding the disposition of the Paris fund that was agreed to over a month ago. FANNIE B. WARD will give some more of her experiences during the war in Chile for THE DISPATCH to-morrow. A letter fresh from the scene of hostilities. MEXICANS TO MEET HARRISON. President Diaz Cannot Come, bnt tho Gov ernor of Chihuahua Will Attend. City oj- Mexico, April 17. Colonel Villanuev'a has left for El Paso to meet President Harrison on his arrival there, and invite him, in the name of the Mexican Z V m, . tT uX''t, m . I States Minister Byan invited President t Diaz to meet tbe President, and the Mex ican chief executive answered that it would be impossible for him to leave Mexico now, owing to a press of official business and be cause Congress is in session. The Goveruor of the State of Chihuahua and the military commandant of that dis trict will also meet President Harrison at El Paso and tender him the hospitality of COKEKS QUIT WOEK When the Protecting Arm of the State Military Is Withdrawn. STRIKERS GREATLY ENCOURAGED. Some of tjie Soldiers Are Again Serving as Sheriff's Deputies. 4 EUMORS OP TROUBLE BDEDEN THE AIR trBOU A STAIT COERESPOXDEKT.l Mi. Pleasant, April 17. On account of the removal of the troops from here to day a number of the men at work at More wood refused to return. -Not much was ac complished. The strikers are glad the soldiers were ordered away, because scores of men are afraid to go to work when they have no protection. The place looks very little like it did yes day, when armed men were to be found on every hand, and sentries passed to and fro on the principal streets. The leading citi zens hoped that the Governor would hear their appeals, but the only consolation is that Company E, of this place, will remain in its armory and be ready to be called out at any time. This sUte of affairs is ex pected to last at least a week, perhaps longer. The reeling A gnlnsLoar's Company. fc Many think this unwise, however, on ac count of the enmity the strikers bear toward Captain Loar and some of his men. It is believed that there will be trouble in a few days, but the leaders of the strikers say they will continue the strike peacefully. Two meetings of strikers were held to-day, one at I Summit and the other at Painter. There were not very large crowds at either place, and tbey were only addressed by the local leaders. The leaders accomplithed one giod piece of work to-day. They convinced the Italians who were taken to Whitney that they had better leave. All but four dl them had plenty of money. Those four were secured tickets by the labor men. They are very jubilant at this victory, and say that others will follow in rapid succession. The strikers are happy, because of the fact that the men are afraid to work at Morewood. They say there is no cause for fear, but are just as glad the men left. A Strong Guard at Morewood. Sheriff Clawson, the Bamsays and Captain Loar had a conference this evening. There is a lino of communication established be tween Morewood and Mt. Pleasant. There are S2 deputies on duty at Morewood. Sheriff Clawson brought over the majority of the members of Company I, of Greensburg, to act as deputies. A dispatch from Scottdale says: Alaige amount of money was distributed among the families of the strikers to-day, and several thousand hearts were gladdened. Labor headquarters here were thronged all day long by different committees of strikers. In one portion of tbe office a large number of boxes were stacked, and tbe greater portion of it was carried away in baskets. A Pole, who had just received a consignment, was asked how the situation looked, and answered: "Me all rieht now. Me got plenty of money and strike like blazes." The exact amount of the available funds is still unknown to tbe general public, but it must be very large. William Hay, a labor, leader, said this evening: "Our financial condition is now satistactory. I have money wagered that the strike will last two months yet, and that we will be the winners. No strike is broken until two- thirds of.the force are at work, and there are only a mere handful at work here. We won the strike of 1886 when one-half the region was running full." Operators Not Nearly So Confident. At the H. O. Fricfc office here to-day no claim? are made for increased forces at any plant except Jimtown, where they state that 294 ovens were all charged and drawn. They say also that their Kyle, Adelaide, Leisen ring No. 2, Stirling, Summit and Morewood plants are sbipping coke in large quanti ties. It is thought their shipments lor the day will reach 110 cars. Tne officers of the McClnre Company are making no extensive claims to-day. There were over 100 men at work at their Painter plant, and coke was shipped on a larger scale. Both the pit and yards at their Coalbrook plant are crowded. The Cora plant of Newmyer, and the Chester plant of Humphries are still said to be in full operation. Whitney continues in part, and with the 200 or more Italians im ported the management predict a full re sumption in the course of a few days. A small start was made at tbe Calumet plant yesterday, and M. K. Salesbury, the owner of the plant, said to-day: "We have only 10 or 15 men at work, but most all of them would resume if they were not afraid ot being attacked by the mob from over the bills." The operators have now placed guards heavily armed at all the places that are making an effort to start up. Yesterday ten deputy sheriff were put on duty at the Sum mit plant Snro'of an Ultimate Triumph. Secretary Parker, of the strikers, spoke 'complacently of the situation to-day. He said: .Latest advices received irom More wood show that the list of workmen there is less than it was yesterday. At Davidson there is only one man at work, while at T.Aiidnrlnff Nft . ihertk art nnlr fivn ttipti in j Leith is as cold as ice. Despite the state ment that Jimtown is in full, we have 200 or 300 men on strike there. The fight of tbe companies seems to be wholly against the leaders, against whom they betray consider able feeling, At the Painter plant this moroing a large number of men who were at work struck, and at the Tyrone there are only a few bark peelers at work." Several hundred eviction notices were served on the men throughout the region to day, and a number of families were thrown out of their houses. At Broadford alone some 80 eviction notices have been served. A few families are reported as having been thrown out at Trotter and Leisenring No. 2. Only one family was evicted at the former place yesterday owing to the strong resist ance offered. The Work of .Eviction to Be Resumed. Affairs were quiet there to-day, bnt depu ties are gathering there, and Sheriff Mc- Cormick will renew the work to-morrow with a large force. One deputy who strncK a woman at Trotter yesterday is be ing searched for by the officers 'on tbe charge of felonious assault and battery. A deputy named John Kyle, who is alleged to have drawn a revolver on a Slay woman whom he evicted at tbe Summit mines yes terday, will be arrested to-day on charges preferred by her. There seems to be a very determined set of strikers at West Overton, near this place. Late last night after serenading two men, one of whom is namet)' Allison, who had been working at the Painter plant, they placed them in wheel barrows, and, attended bv the bucket brigade drum corps, wheeled them all over the little town, and warned them against ever returning to work until the strike is won. Allison resisted, bnt was promptly overpowered by two burl women ho had the afiilr in charge. THE M0EEW00D INQUEST ENDED. No Verdict Will Be Bcndered by the Jury Until Monday. Gbeensbubc, April 17. At the Cor. oner's inquest over the vietlms of the More wood riot the testimonv vu to .the effect that the.ttrik.en were making rftons demon- A Nuisance Which Must Be Abated. strations by firing revolvers, etc. Jacob Zundle testified that he was beside Captain Loar on the night of the riot, and that there was no command to fire, but heard some one in the rear say: "Let them have it." After arguments by counsel on both sides, the case was given to the jury, which ad journed to meet at the National Hotel, Mt. Pleasant, on Monday, April 20, at which time they will render a verdict. 1TKEESP0BT IS IHCBEDUL0U3. Small B. & O. Coke Shipments Indicate tho Strike Is Unbroken. rerKCIAL TXLZOBAM TO THE DISPATCn.S McKeesport, April 17. It is the opin- here that the many reports sent out SsJjriC0ie regions" that many of the 6'4i, "Oj-'imed are overdrawn. - UT " r?r the Baltimore and Ohio, triuJ'-tqri yjfortr Vfr , v?ar no semblance -i.t.- . ... to the heavy sniv wv .,,.' J 1 F me months ago, when the region was iS lig in full CHARGES OF CRUELTY MADE AGAINST OFFICIALS OF OHIO'S BLIND INSTITUTE, Governor Campbell Appoints a Committee to Investigate the Allegations Some Startling Developments Promised Pupils Imprisoned for a Week on Bread and Water. rSPXCIAL TELEOBAV TO THZ SISFATCS.I Columbus, April 17. Governor Camp bell to-day appointed a committee of the State Board of Charities, consisting of Charles Parrott, H. H. McFadden, 0 Steu benville, and John G. Daren, Secretary of the Board, to investigate allegations of cruelty to children at the Ohio Institute for the Blind. The complaint andMemand for an investigation came to the Governor and the Board of Charities through Prof. Starling Loving, President of tbe Colum bus Humane Society, whose agent, C. M. Morris, made a personal investigation of the rumors, at the instance of Daniel Mc Allister, one of the trustees of the institu tion, and in his report details a startling condition of affairs. He says he received complaints that the children were confined in a room for a week at a time, on bread and water, by being shut up in a store box and in a vault He inter viewed the Superintendent, Steward and Assistant Matrons; inveatigated as thor oughly as possible, and found the following fact to exist: Annie Stone, aired 10. was confined in a room from Monday morning till Saturday evening, on bread and water. and required to stay in the room alone at night. The agent could not confirm the story about confining a pupil in a box, but found from one of the matrons that she had con fined Abe Soule, aged 13, in a room by him self for two days, and required him to re main in bed, on bread and water. The boy has since been expelled. The humane officer thus concludes his report: "Solitary con finement, on bread and water, was abolished in the Ohio penitentiary on hardened crim inals some time ago, as being brutal in the extreme." The committee will make its investiga tion next week, and some startling develop ments are anticipated. Governor Campbell is anxious that the charges be thoronghly investigated, and if trne, he will reorganize ins institution. PKOF. DAVID SWING writes a letter for THE DISPATCH to-morrow In which he says this Is tbe golden age of heresy. A live essay on a live subject. A paper for every body. A DISASTER AT SEA Ninety Lives Lost in a Shipwreck Off the Caroline Islands. San Francisco, April 17. The steam ship Monowai, which arrived here. to-day. 25 days from Sydney and seven days from Honolulu, brings intelligence that the Brit ish ship St Catharines has been wrecked off the Caroline Islands aud 90 persons were drowned. ACCEPT THE ISSUE. Nutmeg State Bepntlicans Will Submit to tho Court's Decision. SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1 Hartford, April 17. The Republicans will not raise the plea of "no jurisdiction" to the quo warranto proceedings of the Democratic candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. H. E. Benton, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, said that if tbe conrt itself refuses to take jurisdiction,that is another matter,but it is the Bepublican pnrpose to accept the issne, and to go as far as the conrt will it self care to go. Tbe Republicans wonld have preferred, as they declared early in the legislative session, to ask the advice of the Supreme Court on the disputed question of the General Assembly's constitutional power in the matter of examining the returns, and on the legality of the "for" ballots; but they are satisfied to go to the courts at this late day and in the way proposed by the Demo crats, though questioning tbe mode of pro cedure, and not assuming anv share of the responsibility for its possible failure. Quartermaster General Budd yesterday sent to Controller Stanb another bill for the payment of expense of the Governor and staff and the special committee of tbe House to attend the Sherman funeral ceremonies. The Controller refused to pay.a previous bill of the same kind. BOLD BANDITS CAPTURED. Particulars of a Bloody Battle With Men on a Border Ranch. San Antonio, April .Particulars are at hand of the capture of the band ot six outlaws who have been terrorizing the border near what is known as the Peninsula. These are tbe ontlaws who made a raid two weeks ago on the ranch of Victoriano Her nandez, Presidio county. They arrived at the Hernandez ranch, in tending to kill tbe proprietor. An Ameri can, Frank Duke, who happened to be there, was killed by the first fusillade, and Hernandez was wonnded so that he died later. The bandits were beaten off by a son of the ranchman, who wonnded two of them. One ot the prisoners has confessed. and the gang will be tried in Chihuahna .and be iiiot or be- sent to the salt raises J GOOPER AGAINST IT; "The Ex-Chairman on the Constitn tional Convention Scheme. HE IS AFRAID OF THE CRANES, And Does Not Eejard the Australian Sjrj tem as Perfection. THE NDMBERIXG CLAUSE A SAFEGUARD Ex-Chairmaa Thomas V. Cooper, Col lector of the Port of Philadelphia, arrived in the city at midnight. He leaves this afternoon with, the Tariff Club for Cincin nati to attend the convention of Republican League Clubs. The genial Bepublican leader was not averse to talking ot matter! political. He was asked the question: "Da you favor a constitutional coavea tion. Senator?" "i do not," was tbe answer." It would bar very unwise to call one. The Constitution should be amended, but the proper way to d o would be to appoint a legislative com mission, with the State officers as ex-officio members, to suggest amendments and sub mit them to the next Legislature. If satis factory to two Legislatures, they could then be voted upon by the people." " "What amendments do you consider nec essary?" "There should be an amendment provid ing belter methods for election contests. Wo now have three. In the case of a member of the Legislature he can make a sham contest in the conrts, causing great expense, and then appeal to the Legislature. In judical contests, the judges of the three adjoining; districts are tbe arbiters. The late contest in Lycoming county lasted months, and cost thousands of dollars. The Article relativa to tbe Judiciary should be amended, in tha direction of giving voice to the small coun ties not now entitled to a separate Judge. Particularly ought there to be some general rule by which certain forms of special legis lation could be permitted. For instance, tbeanthracite coal fields require different legislation from the bituminous regions, but it is now forbidden. A Redaction of Legislators. The number of members of the Lower House should be reduced one-balf. Whea the House had only 100 members, fully two- iniros oi mem participated in debate and. framing legislation. Since the membership has been doubled, a much smaller propor tion are fitted for tbe work. The rule is that the larger the constituency the better the representative. I would not favor an--nual sessions. Biennial sessions have worked well enough. There ought also to be S more liberal classification ot counties. A Constitutional Convention would be unwise, because for at least two years it would bring to the front every man with a hobby or cranky notion, and the result would be that all these things would find their vent in the convention. To un settle the Commonwealth for two years oyer agitations these men would cause would paralyze business, and make such a feeling1 of unrest as would result in very great dam age, even if the convention's work could be limited to actual needs. No convention ever met whose members did not think the? were called to revise the entire Constitution. "There are grave political reasons whv a convention should not be agitated at thi3 time, reasons which will commend them selves to all who scan the present mixed condition of politics in many States. If Kansas had chosen a convention last fall, or could choose one this Tall, all. of tbe moneyed and material interests of the coun try would take alarm. Pennsylvania is ia no such plight as is Kansas, and it is tha part of wisdom to avoid any like condition, oi affairs here. The Secrecy or tne Bailor. "The Knights of Labor in Pennsylvania have been induced by their leaders to be lieve that secrecy is tbe only requisite of tho ballot They have enunciated this doctriaa in their resolutions, and last fall made a combination with the Democratic leaders of Pennsylvania by which they were pledged, ,in return for their support of the Demo cratic ticket, a Constitutional Convention, the public object of which should be tha wiping ont of onr present ballot numbering; system. This pledge was a selfish one oi one side and an ignorant one on the other; Secrecy is one of the essentials of a fair ballot because it breaks tbe power of tha trader, cf the intimidator and of him who would buv votes, all cood thintra" in them selves. Butthese would be of no use if tha corrupt election officer is eiven tbe largest freedom to count ballots as he pleases, or substitute ballots for those already in tha box, without anyone having the power to discover the fraud. Such a condition of affairs wonld be like that planted in New York City by Boss Tweed, when he secured the passage of a law to burn the ballots of that city within 24 hours after tbe closing; of the polls. This system was a completa cover for any form of fraud, and for years it proved a dead weight ou any reform mover? ment in Ne,w York. Not a Complete System. "The Australian ballot system is in ilseir right But it is not complete unless tha . numbering system accompanies.it, because, through the latter, we protect tbe contest, which is quite as sacred as the right to vote, and which enables any citizen to unearthv fraud iu the count. Therefore, tbe callioj of a Constitntional Convention npon tha pretense that a secret ballot is wanted is not sensible, and should not be encouraged by anyone wno lavors oauot relorni. "If the gentlemen who compose the BalIo- Reform Association of Philadelphia wera to stand up for their measure and show its completeness when allied with the number ing system, whereby two objects are kept ia view a secret ballot and a pure ballot they would greatly strengthen themselves and tbeir measure. They are now in danger of having a game of shuttlecock played with them, for some of the politicians who oppose ballot reform see an escape from ife through the door of a convention, whiter others, whose desire for a convention is stronger than anything else, weaken ballot"' reform by setting the one against the other. If ballot reform is to be a success this yearr it must come without a convention, for when the people give lull consideration tor the question they will never consent to the abandonment of the only means tbey have, or can ever have, in the discovery aud pnnV ishment of frauds at -elections. Will Not Hurt the Workers. "The supposition that the Australian bal lot system will break the force of the activs workers in politics is erroneous. I need not say that I have the highest regard for this class ot men. They deserve encouragement , in all their work, bnt tbey will not be slow to see that under the Australian system their activities will be elevated instead of injured. In brief, their work will simply ba transferred from the curbstone 'to the fire side, and every legitimate effort they may make will be far more certain of success than under the present 'pull-and-drag' sys tem around the polls." "What do you think as to the chances fop apportionment this session?" "I believe ihat Congressional, Jndieial and Representative apportionment bills will be passed. There will be an effort to pass a Senatorial bill, but it is doubtinl whether will succeed. It is a diffioult thing to do There are certain Senators whom any bill Continued on Seventh Page, WANTS of all kinds are quickly answered through THE DISPATCH. Investors, artt, sans, bargain hunters, buyers aad sellers, closely scan Its Classified Advertising Coh umns. Largest Circulation- -
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