HELPFUL FOR HELPERS
IS THE EVERT 3IORXTNG DISPATCH
IT REACHES EMPLOYERS
as w ell as EMPLOTES.
THE BEST WANT DIRECTORY
FORTY-SIXTH
REALLY THE RIPPER
Or a Most Apt and Fiendish
Imitator, Now at Work
in New York City.
AWOMAN60YEARSOFAGE
Accompanies a Stranger to a. Room,
and Is Cut to Pieces in a Most
Horrible Manner.
DISCOVERED IX THE HORNING,
When the Murderer Had Mysteriously Dis
appeared, Leaviiis Nothing tut a
Bloody Knife Behind.
EVEN TEE TICIIH'S SAME NOT KXOWJf.
Ike Police Have a Good DKcrrjtlcn of Her CcBjirJon
sxd Are Surctmg ttc City tad tie Vtssds
Moorti it tie Docks.
AXTJKBER Or ARRESTS HIDE ON SUSPICION
SrECIAI.TEI.EaiU.MTO TUB DISPATCH.I
New Yoke, April 24. The painted
sirens who &warin on the river front be
tween Roosevelt and Catharine streets have
lost one of their number. An imitator of
Jack the Eipper, if not Jack himself,
butchered her last night and escaped at his
leisure, leaving her mutilated remains in
the -wretched room they had taken for the
night. His victim was a gray headed woman,
who joined the Water street sisterhood sev
eral months ago.
Who she was or -where she came from
nobody seemed to know, and so far as is
known she made no friends whom she in
trusted with her name. In her cups she
talked enough to make it clear that ihe
gravitated naturally toward the river. Her
husband, she said, had been a sea-faring
man. Somebody one day called her
"Shakespeare." The name stuck to her,
and she responded to it.
The Scene of the Tragedy.
The East Eiver' Hotel, on the southeast
corner of Catharine and "Water streets, is a
five-story brick building that presents a
clean and solid front to the street, but the
interior is rickety and dirty. A squat,
black-whiskered man named James Jen
nings keeps the place. It is a lodging
bouse of the lowest order. The corner of
the first floor is taken up by a liquor store
that cau be entered from both streets.
A little after 0 o'clock on Thursday night
the old woman went into the liquor store.
Mary Healey was with her, and the two
women sat in the private room and drank
some beer. They bad both reached the gar
rulous stage ot intoxication.
Mary Miniter, who is an assistant to Mary
Cody, the housekeeper, spoke to the two
wretched old creatures and finally began
chatting with them. Finally Shakespeare
said to Miss Miniter: "My father was a sea
captain and he was drowned on the Pacific
coast. I used to live there and I married
my husband there. Just think, I had two
daughters. The oldest of them is 56 years."
Came to Meet a Tearful Fate.
About 10 o'clock the two old women left
the place. As nearly as the time could
be fixed to-day it was about 11 o'clock when
the woman known as Shakespeare rang the
electric bell on the door leading into the
hotel. Eddy Fitzgerald, 20 years old, usu
ally answers this bell, but the bartender,
Sam Shine, was busy playing cards with a
customer in the barroom and Eddy was be
hind the bar. So Mary Miniter opened
the door, and Shakespeare came in
with the very man that the entire police and
detective force of the city are now looking
for.
Mary Miniter asked the man bis name.
He said something that sounded like "C.
Nicolai." Then she asked him what price
be wanted to pay for a room, and he said SO
cents. The old woman then asked the man
if he wasn't going to treat, and he asked
Mary Miniter if they could take some beer
to the room with them. Mary said they
could. The man pulled out a purse and
handed a dime to Mary Miniter. The fellow
had acted all along in a surly way, as if he
were Texed at something and tired of an
swering questions. It is quite likely that
he was anxious to avoid observation.
A Good Look at tho Fiend.
There is no gas in the cheap rooms in the
hotel, and when Mary Minister gave the old
woman the key of room 31 and a bit of
candle in a tin candlestick she flashed the
light oi the candle in the man's face and
took special notice of bis features. Then
she studied his clothing carefully, and
while he followed the tottering figure of the
old woman up the stairs she-paid particular
attention to his physical appearance.
According to her description of him he
.is about H feet 8 inches in height, and
uhtly built. His features were sharp, and
I s nose was long and came to a sharp point
His mustache was brown in color and was
l-avy, with ends that neither drooped nor
curled, but seemed to stand straight out like
the whiskers of a cat.
The man's clothing was dusty and ranch
worn. lie wore a derby hat tbatwasdented
on the top and was pulled down over the
forehead as if in an effort to conceal his
iace. He wore a cutaway coat, which, like
his vest and trousers, was of a dark ma
terial. He wore a white cotton shirt and
collar that were badly soiled. He seemed
to be about 30 years old.
Tho Discovery or tho Deed.
About 9 o'clock this morning Eddy Fitz
gerald made a tour through the house and
rapped on the doors of all the rooms that
h .i mt been vacated. From those that
en upied he sot answers, and he con
iidii" u May up s'uira until he reached
rnnm 3L The iio"i .is locked and he rap-
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ped upon it softly at first, but when he got
no answer he knocked louder.
Then be applied his skeleton key and
threw open the door. The sight that met
him sickened him. As soon as he was able
lie tore madly down the stairs, felling every
body he met that the old woman in 31 had
been murdered. The hotel people ran up
stairs to the room, but the ghastly sight
drove them all back.
Then the police were notified. Captain
O'Connor sent officers around to the hotel
to guard the body and sent word to the Cor
oner's office. The Coronercame down early.
On the bed lay the body of the old woman,
frightfully covered with blood. She lay on
her right side and was nearly nude.
No Doubt as to the Crime.
It was clear at the first glance that the
woninn had been brutally and horribly
murdered. A knife had been drawn with
great force from the base of the spine 15 or
16 inches' up the abdomen. The woman
was disemboweled. On the left thigh was
marked a cross, made by two loug bloody
scratches! They had pot been cut, but just
scraped with the point of the knife, appar
ently with sufficient force to just break the
skin.
The head seemed to be buried in the
clothing of the bed, but closer inspection
showed that it was bound up in whafa ap
peared to be rags. The Coroner stripped
from around the neck the woman's clothing
and beneath this he had to unwind the end
of one of the sheets, that looked as though it
had been suddenly snatched up and pressed
on b,er face. ,
These things having been removed, it was
soon seen that the woman was at least 60
years old. Her face was thin and wrinkled,
and was contracted in an expression of
agony.
She Was Apparently Choked.
On the thin, wrinkled throat were two
round black and blue marks, such as might
have been caused, ana were, probably, by
the thumb and finger of a murderous hand.
The entire abdomen was slit open, and its
contents had apparently been cut loose by
the murderer, for they were spread out over
a great space of the bed. The gash was
jagged, such as a dull knife or an uncertain
hand might make.
Near the edge of the bed, on the floor, lay
the knife which had done the work. It re
sembled a shoemaker's knife. The blade is
abont four inches long and fairly keen. It
was all over blood. Nothing belonging to
the man who had accompanied the woman
to the room was found save the blood-stained
knife. The body was stiff, and it was clear
that life had left it for several hours.
The police had promptly taken into cus
tody Mary Miniter and Mary Healy, and
when the Coroner got through looking at
the dead body on the bed he went around to
the police station to interrogate thfi prison
ers. Mary Miniter could tell him no more
than she told the reporter, although she was
anxious to do so. Mary Healy was then
brought up from a cell. She was drunk
when she was arrested and she had not yet
got sober. She was surly, and professed to
know nothing of the murdered woman.
A Commotion Among the Police.
The murder caused a stir at police head
quarters, and the afternoon had not half
gone before Inspector "Williams and Acting
Superintendent McLaughlin, of the De
tective Bureau, came down to the Oak street
station with Detective Sergeants Crowley
and Grady. "Ward Detectives Dory and
Griffin were already out on the case, as were
half a dozen policemen In plain clothes.
An alarm had been sent out which gave a
description of the murderer as furnished
by Mary Miniter, and stated that
a brass doorkey with a brass tag bear
ing the number SI would be found
in his possession. The key is miss
ing. One of the women whom Captain
O'Connor spoke to about the murdered
woman told him that she had been told by
the murdered woman that the name of her
husband was Charles S. Brown or Charles S.
Bean, she could not remember which. After
the woman Healy left the barroom of the
hotel with the murdered woman on Thurs
day night it is likely that the two remained
together. Shortly before or shortly after
the coming into the hotel of the murderer
and his victim, the woman Healy came in,
and was sent to room 23 on the floor below
that where Shakespeare was.
A woman named Lizzie, who it is believed
knew the murdered woman, slept in room 16
on the same floor at the Healy woman. The
woman Lizzie has not been arrested. Dep
uty Coronor Jenkins will make the autopsy
at 9:30 to-morrow morning. The police this
afternoon searched the vessels at the docks
in vain tor the murderer.
The detectives were busy to-night bring
ing inmates of the low lodging houses into
the Oak street police station to be cross
questionod. At about 9 o'clock they ar
rested in "Water street, near James, a man
who is known in the Fourth and Sixth
wards, as 'French y." He was taken to the
station and confronted in the Captain's
private room with Inspectors Byrnes and
"Williams. What passed betweeu'tlib police
and the prisoner could not be learned.
Sho Knew tho Murdered Woman.
Mamie Harrington, who keeps a lodging
house in Oliver street, said to-night that
she knew the murdered woman, both as
Shakespeare and Carrie Brown. Becentlv
she was sent to the Island where she served
a term. She was released a wees: or more
ago. She came into Mamie Harrington's
place about 11 o'clock on Thursday morn
ing and remained a few minutes. Shortly
afterward the man known as Frenchy came
in. His description as furnished by the
Harrington woman, tallies fairly with the
description of the man that Mary Miniter
says she saw going upstairs in the East
Elver Hotel late at night of that day with
Shakespeare.
He wanted to see a woman named Mary
Ann Lopez. He just remained long enough
on Thursday to see that Mary Ann wasn't
there and then he went out. The police got
the Lopez woman to go out on a walk about
the streets in sight of two detectives. She
did so, and at 9 o'clock to-night, as she was
passing through Water street, Frenchy ap
peared and spoke to her, and he was ar
rested. Another story is that on Thursday morn
ing Frenchy and the murdered woman went
together into Mary Harrington's place, and
left there about 7 o'clock in the even
ing. Among the other persons arrested this
afternoon and to-night by the police are
Annie Corcoran, Lizzie Meusbron and
Annie Lynch, "who are employed in the
East Eiver Hotel: a tall fellow who is said
to be a Greek and was arrested by Detective
Sergeant Crowley, and three Italian men
who were afterward released.. All the
prisoners were taken before the two Inspec
tors and all of them, with the exception of
the Italians, were afterward locked up.
BYRNES HAD A WASHING.
A Letter In Which the Kipper Said Be Was
Coining to New Xork.
IKPECIAL TELEOKA'TO THE DISPATCH. 1
New Yoitrc, April 24. Inspector Byrnes
has a photograph of a letter said to have
been written by Jack the Eipper and signed
by him. It is dated "Hell," and say that
the writer is coming to New York in order
to complete his list of 15 victims.
The cumber of women that he killed in
White Chapel, London, is nine, but there
were two others that might hare been the
work of the same murderous hand. In any
case he has to add at least 4 more victims to
his list iu order to make the 15.
BUT LITTLE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THIS DEED AND. THOSE OF
TEE ORIGINAL EIPPER.
The Mark Chalked on the Wall In London
Was Scratched on the Body in New York
The Record of tho Most Mysterious
Crimes.
rEPECIAL TELEOBAX TO TUB DI8PATCB.I
Ksw Xokk, April 24.-r-There are only
two respects in which the crime differed
from those of Jack the Eipper in London.
The butcheries ot the Loridon fiend were
in each case begun by cutting the throat of
the victim, and the murders were all com
mitted out of doors or in some hallway or
public place, where the least outcry would
nave attracted attention. Cutting the wind
pipe was perhaps the most effectual way to
silence the victim instantly.
The first of the series of London crimes
was discovered on April 3, 1888, in an alley
near Osborn street west, Whitechapel. The
victim was an abandoned woman of the.
lowest class, Emma Smith by name and
45 years old. The body was mutilated ip
the same way as that of the woman found
to-day.
Four months later, on August 7, the body
oi Martha T. Abranis, 35 years old, a woman
of the same class, was found in the entrance
of a low tenement in Commercial street,
Spitalfields. There were the same charac
teristic marks of the assassin's work. At
the end of the same month the third victim,
Mary Ann Nichols, was killed in Bucks
row, Whitechapel. The Eipper was becom
ing experienced and bolder. He chalked
upon the wall by the side of the victim a
mark similar to that scratched upon the
back of the woman killed to-day in Cath
arine street, and wrote that he in
tended to go on with his bloody
work until 15 had been butchered,
when- he would give himself up. Eight
davs later he killed Annie Chapman, a dis
solute woman of 47 years, in Hamburg
street, Spitalfields, and again, after disem
boweling his victim, he left his chalk sign
and carried away a small portion of the
body. Later in the month, on the same day,
September 30, he slaughtered two women,
Elizabeth Stride, whose body was found in
Berner street, Whitechapel, and Catharine
Eddowes, whose body lay iu Mitre Sqdare,
Aldgate.
By this time the women of the slums had
become panic stricken. This fact probably
compelled the murderer to suspend his work
for a time. A.woman's body, never identi
fied, was found two days later, but the muti
lations were probably not the work ot the
Eipper. On November 9 another crime,
undoubtedly his handiwork, was discovered
in Miler's court, Dorset street, the vic
tim being Mary -Jane Kelly. Late
in December the butchered body of Maud
Millett was found in a yard off High street,
Poplar. Other crimes within a few months
were popularly credited to the same bloody
hnd, including the murder of Alice Mc
Kenzie In Castle alley, Whitechapel, on
July 17, 1889, and that oi1 Elizabeth Jack
son, found in the Thames, on June 4, 1889.
No accurate description of the murdere'r
was ever obtained by the police.
SOLDIERS AS LYNCHERS,
A GAMBLER WHO KILLED A
SHOT TO DEATH.
PBIVATE
Reported That the Guard Fired on the Party
and That Several Were Killed The
Murderer Was jt Gambler'-Meager De
tail. ." '
Portland, Ore., April 24. It is re
ported that 150 soldiers broke open the jail
at Walla Walla, Wash., this evening and
shot to death A. J. Hunt, who shot Private
Miller Wednesday night.
It is also reported that the guards fired on
the soldiers and that several persons were
killed. Hunt was a gambler.
BABIES of the World and how they are
cared for in the mammoth 24-page issue of
THE DISPATCH to-morrow. All tho news.
MINE W0BKEB6' MEETING.
It Will Decide the Qdestlon of a Strike nr
So Strike on Slay 1.
ISFECIAI. TELEGRAM TO TIIB DISPATCB.l
CoiiTJMBUS, April 24. President Eae, of
the United Mine Workers of America, is
anxiously awaitiug the result of the meet
ing of the Executive Board with the Presi
dents of the several districts.'which is to
meet in this city to-morrow. President
Weiss, of the Pennsylvania coke district,
and President Jones, of the Ohio district,
arrived this evenintr, and the other officers
and members are expected in the morning.
More than ordinary importance is at
tached to the" results of the meeting, owing
to the near approach of May 1, and if there
is to be a strike, this meeting will authorize
the same by issuance of a general order to
that effect. While President Eae and the
other officers do not desire a strike, they
state they will issue the order as a last re
sort. Eegarding the Monongahela district,
Mr. Eae thinks a majority of the miners
there will go out, although they are not
very favorable to the eight-hour plan.
A MYSTERIOUS CBIME.
The Bones of the Victim Dng TJp From the
Cellar of an Old House.
rRPKClAI. TELEGRAM TO TH OISFATOn.1
Glens Falls, N. Y., April 24. For
the past week men have been engaged in
excavating a cellar under an old hquse
which is to be remodeled into a tenement.
About 2 p. M. an old chest of uniqne
pattern and locked by padlocks was brought
from the cellar into the light of day. It was
found to contain the bones of a large-sized
man. Several of the bones showed traces of
having been cnt by an ax. The position in
which the bones was found tend to prove
that the body had been cut in pieces before
it was put into the box.
The chest had been burled deep in the
cellar of the old mansion. Over it- had
been placed three inches of cement andoverfl
the cement tne heavy stone nagging ot tbe
cellar. The house was bnilt about 70 years
ac,o.
AFTEB THE DIRECT TAX
Fattlson's Application at Last Itecelved at
the Treasury Department.
rritOM A ETAIT COBBESFOKDZXT.l
Washington, April 24. Application
was made at the Treasury Department to
day by Governor Pattison for the upward of J
Sl,GiO,000 of the direct tax refund due the
State of Pennsylvania under tbe provision
of the direct tax bill.
A draft for tbe amonnt will be promptly
forwarded, as there are no charges against
the State. , .
BIG DEAL IN COPPER,
The Anaconda Mines Sold to a British Syn
dicate for 835,000,000.
:iPECIAL TELEGHA TO TUB DISPATCH.!
Baltimore, April 24. William Keyser,
President of the Baltimore Copper Com
pany, will sail from New York for Europe
on May 6 to transfer the Anaconda mines to
a syndicate represented by the Bothsehilds.
The deal had been in progress for some time.
The price agreed upon for the mines is
$25,000,000;
YON MOLTKE'S DEATH.
Germany's Famous Field Marshal
Expires Very Unexpectedly.
HE ATTENDED THE REICHSTAG
During the Day and Succumbed to Heart
Failure In the Evening.
OUTLINES OF A REHaRKABLE CABEE
Berlin, April 24". The death of Field
Marshal Count von Moltke has just been
announced. Count yon Moltke attended
the session of the Eeichstag this afternoon.
His death was very sudden, and the phy
sicians who weresummoned announced that it
was caused by failure of tbe heart. He
died,at 9:45 r. It., passing away quietly
and painlessly. The news of the Connt's
unexpected death has caused great sorrow
in this city.
The Outlines of Hli Career.
Helmuth Charles Bernard von Moltke, Chief
ot tbe Staff of the Prussian Army, was born at
Parchim, in Mecklenburg, October 26, 1300, tbe
year in which Napoleon won Marengo and
drove tbe Austrians out of northern Italy.
Shortly after life birth his father purchased an
estate In the Danish Duchy of Hofstein, ,where
he passed bis childhood as a Danish subject.
When be was 12 years of age, he was sent with
an elder brother to the Land Cadet Academy
at Copenhagen. For one year, according to
the Danish custom, he filled the post of court
page, and In 1819 joined an infantry regiment at
Renusburg.
In the sear 1822 he tired of the Danlsb serv
ice, where the cbanco ot promotion was small,
and repaired to Uerlin, and after a severe ex
amination entered that of Prussia, the young
est Second Lieutenant in the Eighth Regiment
of Foot Guards stationed at Frankfort-on-tbe-Oder.
His father bad lust all bis property by
wltboutan allowance, bad to make the most of.
uis Bieouer par. xie vtas very amuiuuus tu
study modern language?, and by tbe closest
financial economy accomplisned what would be
regarded a wonder by most people. Although
be is a remarkably taciturn man, It has been
wittily said of bim tbat be knew bow to hold
hli tongue In eight languages.
In 1S35 be was promoted captain, and sent to
Tnrkey with four others to organize the Turk
ish army on the Prussian model. Tbe Turks
would not submit to the rigorous dlscicllnean(
the pUfl u not attended with sno&As. IrfT
1833-39 be made a tour through Asia Minor on
"bOTnebick. riding 6,300 miles. He made many
sketches, and on bis return contributed much
information concerning tbe geograpby of that
province. Eitterthe geographer, used these
sketches, -comparing them with tbe accounts
of Alexander tbn Great's campaigns, tho
travels of -Marco Polo, and the accounts or tbe
Crusades.
Rise in Ills Chosen Profession.
He was gazetted Major in 1811, and soon after
married his niece, Franleln yon Bert, from
Holsteln. His published letters afford some
delightful pictures of his happy domestic rela
tions and a home life charming in itB simplicity.
In 1S50 ho' was made Ltentenant Colonel, a year
later colonel: in 1856 Major General, and in
1859 Lieutenant General. As Cblcf of the Gener
al Staff, to which be was next appointed, it be
came bis duty to Inspect the whole Northern
coast, to arrange a system ot defense which
might be applied to all the States bordering on
the sea. The German Diet voted against
every Prussian proposition, and wero especially
averse to tbe idea of a German fleet pnt under
Prussian direction. When, in January, 1861.
Frederick William IV. died and his brotner
succeeded to tbe tbrone, tbe scbemes)f the
Prussian Government rapidly assumed definlte
ness and consistency. In order to carry them
out an efficient army was needed, and tbe King
and bis three creat Ministers directed all their
energies to this end.
General Von Moltke was In command of the
general staff of tbe Danish war, and after tho
storming uf Duppel. projected tho attack on
AUenandtbe occupation of i Jutland. In this
war Von Moltke had become satisfied that tbe
new arm, tbe needle cun, might be nsed as an
emblem of peace. Von Moltke's characteristic
tactics were seen on tbe field of Sadnwa. Uis
army bad a front of four miles so wide a front
tbat he could not withstand an attack: but ha
turned this disadvantage to an advantage Dy
makinz an aggressive onward movement by
which be was able to concentrate all his divis
ions on tbo b&tttencld and surrouna thB enemtr.
Only once did Von Moltke appear in tbe front
at Sadowa, on tho nay ot tne battle, July 3. He
bad fully masterod tbe lessons afforded thestaff
by the American war, ot combining tbe most
distant field operations by means of tbe elec
tric telegraph.
On his return from the stage, where he bad
plaved such a part, this man of modesty simply
said: "I have but done my duty." On June
22 the three German armies were encamped at
Dresden, Gorlltz and Frankenstein) tbe same
day they began their bold march into Bohemia.
On July 8 these cphorts wero fighting side by
side on the heights of Sadowa, and tbe 22d
they were massed before tbe walls of Prcs
burg and Vionna, with their victorious stand
ard;. In one week tbey bad fought their prin
cipal battles, captured 200 guns, 39,800 prisoners
and in seven weeks had raised Prnssia to tbe
headship of Germany, laid tbe foundations of
a unity tbat should support tbe House of
Hiihenzollern; and Europe bad recognized Von
Moltke as one of the remarkable military lead
ers, and the most consummate tactician of tbo
age.
The Franco-Prussian War.
The next field of his activity was the Franco
German war, the momentous struggle which
cost Napoleon 1IL hU throne and scattered the
second empire. The whole story is remark
able and picturesque, enlisting French chivalry,
Fredenck William, tbe Crown Prince, and
tbat wonderful man of blood and Iron, Bis
marck, but our concern is Count Von Moltke's
share. War was declared July 19, 1S70. Tbe
French Emperor, Leboeuf, his Minister of War,
and Marshar MacMahon were not aware that
Germany could place 550,000 men in tbe field,
while France could barely muster 300,000. Tbey
proposed to overcome tbe numerical majority
by an overwhelming initiative; by placing 150,
000 at Metz. 100,000 at Strasburg, 80,000 at
Chalens; and then by uniting the large armies
cross the Rhine at Maxar. thus force Baden,
Wnrtemburg and Bavaria to preserve their
neutrality. Two days after this somewhat sur
prising declaration of war tbo mobilization of
tbe German army was complete, and tbe dif
ferent corps were uu the march to tbo Rhine
andtheMlsel.
Two months flew by, the trenches at Sedan
and Uravelotte bad been filled with French and
German dead, and Von Moltke had penned up
an army iu Metz. "Naoh Paris" was now bis
watchword, and the army of tbe Crown Prince,
210,000 strong, marched unopposed to tbe south
west. Metz surrendered on October 27, two
days before Von Moltke was 70 and was made
a Count. Proud Paris, extraordinary in vital
ity, remarkable in fertility ot invention, could
not stand starvation and the grip of tbe steel
that Prussia bad been tightening abont ber
for months, and on Jabuary 28, 1871, after a
stubborn and heroic resistance, the arm
istice was concluded at Versailles and
tbe sfege was raised. At the triumphal
entry into Berlin June 18 tbe Emperor created
Von Moltke Goneral Field Marshal, and he be
came a member of Parliament of Maud-Heyde-krag.
In 1S72 be was made a life member of
tbe (Toper Chamber, and in October, 1876, the
colossal statne of the great Field Marshal was
unveiled at Parehim. t
General Field Marshal Count Von Moltke,
jiiP
mmrx' a
Field Marshal von Moltkt.
Chief of the. General Staff of the German Army
since September 18, 1858, on August 3. ISiS, asked
the Errperor to relieve him of his post and per
mit him to spend the remainder of his days in
rnral retirement, saying that at his great ago
ha was no longer able to mount a horse. On
October 28 last his ninetieth birthday was
celebrated with great pomp,
FROrM ITS PEDESTAL.
A BUST OF PARNELL REMOVED FROM A
. ' BELFAST LODGE B00H.
It Is Then Sold at Auction for Two Pence
and a Half His Adherents Greatly Cha
grinedEvicted Tenants Want to Be Re
instated. IBT DUHLAP'S CABLE COMPANY.
London, April 24. The adherents of
Parnell iu Belfast have suffered a serious
blow to their pride. The Belfast branch of
the Irish National Foresters had a lively
discussion as to whether or not tbe bust of
the uncrowned king, which was a prominent
ornament in the lodge room, should continue
to occupy its position. The reason for this
debate is, of course, to be found in the recent
events about which the whole world has
been talking. The argument was heated
for a time,, but the Parnellites were in a dis
tinct minority, for it was eventually decid
ed, with but two dissentient votes, to remove
tbe bust.
This, however, was not the only indignity
it had to nndergo, for after it was removed a
member of the lodge, who is a licensed
auctioneer, put the bust up for sale and it
was knocked down for the sum of twopence
halfpenny. "How are the mighty fallen?"
was the comment which greeted the an
nouncement '"Gone."
The Mitchellstown Board of Guardians
announce the inauguration of a movement
tbat has been started, under the auspices of
the Cork Evicted Tenants' Association, to
have a clause providing for the reinstate
ment of evicted tenantry inserted In the Bal
four land purchase bill. Mr. Parnell is said
to be heartily in favor of the movement.
It is reported that Michael Dwitt, editor
of tbe Labor World, has decided to abandon
his English career and emigrate to Sau
Francisco, with a view of making his home
ou the Pacific slope.
FOB A WOMAN'S LOVE.
Grand Duke Michael Having Lost His Place
Will Do Photographing.
raT DnLAP'S CABLE COHPAXT.J
London, April 24. Everybody is talk
ing about the; poor Grand Duke Michael.
The rumor is that his exile will lead to his
taking up his abode by the Lake of Como,
where he will open a photographic gallery
and put to practical use the skill be ac
quired as an amateur. The reason for this
is to be traced, naturally, to his recent mar
riage and the consequent displeasure of the
Czar, whioh has resulted, in a far more
serious manner tban the poor Grand Duke
ever Imagined was possible.
Hif private property having been confis
cated) his visible means of support require
the use of a telescope, and it is to repair
these ravages, and in a belief that tbe ordi
nary individual will prefer to have his
picture taken by a real live member of the
aristocracy than by an ordinary artist, tbat
he will become a photographer. Everybody
.who has a romantic touch about him is loud
iu his expressions of bope that the Grand
Dnkc will make a success of his new pro
fession, for be certainly has sacrificed a
great deal for the sake of the woman he
lores.
AN HISTORICAL EVENT.
.QuceAiTl-rtojta Will "Honor Derby With a
Noteworthy Visit."
rBr PTTKLAP'S CABLB COMPA3TT.1
LONDON, April 24. Although Her
Majesty, the Qaeer, is still seeking health
and change in the South of France,her
keen interest in kll that concerns the wel
fare of ber people suffers no temporary
abatement. Already preparations are on
foot for her visit to Derby, which will occur
on the 30th of May. The reason for this
visit is to be found in the fact tbat the
Queen has cautiously consented to lay the
foundation stone of the new infirmary, which
will be erected at a cost of 70,000.
But apart from the laying of this founda
tion stone, the Queen's visit is of more than
passing moment, and, consequently, the
people of this important town are exceed
ingly jubilant. It is the first time the sov
ereign has paid an official visit for about
two centuries, and, naturally, a visit so
closely allied to that of au angel's if ill not
be allowed to be made without fitting cele
bration. Besides, this same day has been
fixed as that on which the Queen desires
her birthday to be officially celebrated.
GRIP IS SPREADING.
The Scourge Is Still Severe at Many Places
in England.
IBT DUHLAP'S CABLB COJtPAJTr.l
London, April 24. 7The grip is making
itself felt in the committee rooms of the
House of Commons, the committee in charge
of the railway bill having been compelled
to adjourn for a week in consequence of the
ravages of the disease among the members
of the County Council, who are leading wit
nesses. In the colliery villages in Bedford
shire the epidemic .is spreading, many col
liers being compelled to leave the pits daily
through illness.
The scourge has been especially severe at
Great Grimsby, opposite Hnll, and in the
neighborhood, the death rate in the town
haying Increased from an average of 15 in a
week to between 12 and 15 daily. The phy
sicians who are not themselves attacked
have so many calls that many families are
forced to go without medical attendance.
NOTABLE LETTERS
That Have Been Found Among the Papers
of Prince Napoleon.
rnT nrntLAF's cable compaxt.1
Paris, April 24. Search among the pa
pers left by the late Prince Napoleon has re
sulted in the discovery of a number of inter
esting nnpnblished letters from Napoleon
L, Count Cayour, Kossuth and other promi
nent men. Those from Napoleon order his
generals to burn villages, fire towns and
shoot Spaniards as a punishment for the
stoppage of French convoys. Count Cavour
expresses his aspirations for the nnity of
Italy, while Kossuth refers to tbe dispute
between Austria and Hungary.
There are also several letters from Prince
Bismarck, written prior to the battle of
Sadowa.
HOUSE FOR BISMAROK.
Two of Ills Admirers Each Offer Him Ono
'In Case He Is Elected.
IBT PUSLAP'S CABLE COMFANT.l
Berlin, April 24. Herr Bleiohroder,
the billionaire banker, and Count Guido
Henckel, have each offered Prince Bis
marck a lnrnisbed house, with the use of
servants and carriages, in case he is elected
to the" l.'eichstag, and thus compelled to re
side for a time each year in tbe capital.
The la'test news from Geestemunde is to
the effect tbat the ex-Chancellor will proba
bly be chosen on the second ballot by a ma
jority of several thousand.
Strike of Iron Workers.
-BT PDHCaP'S CABLE COMFAKT.l
London, April 24. Work wa sus
pended in all the iron and steel works at
Swansea to-day, the men haying refused to
accept the 10 per cent reduction,
PISTOLS ARE DRAWN,
Bat No More Actual Bloodshed Dur
ing the Coke Evictions!
SOME BLOWS AND MANY CURSES
Greet Deputies as They Throw tho Furni
ture Into the Street,
SEEMINGLY HO END TO THE STKIZK
IPnOM A STAPT COKnKSPOXOEST.1
Connellsvtlle, April 24. To-day
there was no real rioting in the coke region,
but the people at Morgan Summit and.
White's mines made it decidedly interesting
for the deputies engaged in dumping furni
ture into the streets. The Sheriff was not
on deck, and in his place was Deputy Craw
ford, who with his posse of men succeeded in
unhonsing nearly a score of strikers.
From early morning to the close of the
day'-s work crowds followed the men wher
ever they had work to f do, and hooted and
swore at them, possibly trying to make them
feel at home. There was no great trouble
experienced nntil in the afternoon, though
the woman at the first house seemed inclined
to stand on the house and castle law. Sev
eral days ago the Sheriff was to have evicted
Michael Mclnerney, of Morgan, but he pre
sented a physician's certificate that he is
soon to become a happy father, and in oon
sequence thereof he was allowed to remain
iu his house.
The Scene of the Most Trouble.
Notwithstanding the fact that the certifi
cate is still in force he was evicted and it
was at his house tbat the most tronble'was
experienced. William Nixon, a deputy
from near Hniontown, carried out a rocking
chair and was not as carefnl of it as MrC
Mclnerney thought the case required av
she told him so in language strong at.
clear. She lurther picked up the chair, but
be wrenehed it from' her. This caused tbe
woman to grow very warm and she heaped
bloodthirsty curses on the deputy's head.
Nixon threw down the chair, breaking an
arm off it, and drew a pistol in each hand.
The woman seized the chair arm and started
for the deputy, but Deputy Skiles ran be
tween them and itopped the fuss. Tbe
crowd yelled and formed, but, luckily,
trouble had been- exnected at the nlace and
aline of soldiers had been stationed about
the house to keep the people back. At the
close of the trouble Mclnerney stepped ou
beiore tne crowd and made a speech.
Cannot Make Them Work.
"Don't lef them scare you," ha said.
"They can evict us -and annoy us every
other way, but thank God, they can't force
us to go to work. This is a free country in
that.'r
After finishing the work at this house the
deputies returned to tbe company store,
where qdite a crowd was collected. A
small boy hooted at Nixon for drawing a
revolver, and he made the remark that the
next time he did so some of the strikers
will go down.
At Surnmitt there was also a little trouble
experienced at the house of George Chnw
inski. One of the deputies, a yonng He
brew, was carrying out the kitchen furni
ture and put some coffee in a bucket of
water. This made Mrs. Cbewinski angry
and she gave tbe young man a sound ra'p
with the potato masher. The crowd veiled,
"Give it to him; lay him out," etc, fmt'tbe
other denutles succeeded in quieting the
Irate Slay, and the affair soon blew oyer.
Tbat was next to last bonse, and. at the last
one a line of the National Guard was drawn
up to prevent an outbreak.
"A Claim That Did Not Count,
This was the house of a fatherly-looking
old man, Eobert Trew, who claimed tbat as
his lC-year-old sou had signed the lease it
was no good. However, the deputies in
sisted and he went out without much ado.
The deputies and military went to Broad
ford to spend the night, and the evictions
will continue to-morrow.
To-day there were 11 evictions at White
Mines, 4 at Summitt and 1 at Morgan. The
people in this region are taring better tban
the average for places to live. They have
taken possession of a German Lutheran
schoolhonse and a large hall. There were
also a number of tents placed at their dis
posal, and they are getting along first rate.
The situation is practically unchanged to
night, and the men claim that it will re
main uncbanced until the operators see fit
to treat for peace. The usual slight in
creases are claimed by the operators, but the
strikers, as usual, claim that the statements
are wrong. Pahkeie.
DENOUNCING IKE LAWS.
Socialists Jonas, Delabar and Others Indulge
in Some Red-Hot Talk.
rSPXCML TXLEOEAJI TO Till DUFATOIT.
TJnionto'WN, April 24. A mass meeting
of the strikers held in the fair grounds here
this afternoon, was addressed by August
Delabar and Alexander Jonas, the two
Socialists sent into the region from New
York by that organization, and by Mike
Dysmon, a Slay, James Beeson, Eobert
Sirancy, George Lord, a colored orator, and
others. Jonas and Delabar both denounced
the laws of the United Stales and said they
were framed to benefit the capitalists and to
enslave the people who earned their bread
by the sweat of their brows. They de
nounced the press in the strongest terms
possible, and said that it was biased in
favor of the coke operators in the, present
trouble. '
Jonas wondered why some people raised
such a hullabaloo when they saw n red flag
at the bead of a procession of strikers,
Anarchists, Socialists or whatever they
might be called. He said that only balls
and other lower animals bellowed and
pawed the dust when they saw a red object.'
He urged all foreign-born people living iu
this country to become naturalized as soon
as possible, so that they could cast ballots
tbat would assjst in electing men to office
who would neip pass taws mat wouia
benefit the laboring people as well as the
capitalists.
"BTAYlOF'HOSTILITIES.
Sheriff McCormick, His Deputies and tho
Troops IVill Best.
-prECTAL TELEGRAM TO TBI DISPATCH."
TJnionio'WN, April 24, Company C ar
rived hAe on the 7 o'clock B. & O. train
this evening and wentinto quarters at the
armory. They are a tired set, bodily, but
all are in good spirits. Sheriff McCormick
says their services will not likely be needed
again nntil next Monday, as no more
evictions will take place until then. He
says he and his deputies are tired
and want to rest to-morrow, and for this
reason will put off the rest of the evictions
six at Leith, and nine at other points until
next week.
General McClelland was here for a short
time this afternoon and left on the 5:16 train
for Pittsburg, where he will remain over
Sunday, unless some fresh outbreak should
require his services in the region. He is
loud in his praise of. Company C's action in
the field and says Captain "Frasher may
well feel proud of his company.
STBKEBS BOUND 0VEB.
Twenty-Four of Them Held for Blot and
Stoning a Honse.
1RFECIAL TELEGRAM TO TU DISPATCH.!
TJnionto'WN, April 24. Twenty-nino
men 'and women had a hearing before 'Squire
Dawson here to-day and 21 of them were
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THE SAME OLD STORY.
Thus Early in the Season the Umpire
Speeds a Cape or Similar Protection.
bound over in 100 bail each for their ap
pearance at June court. They were charged
by Mrs. Sarah Eeynolds, of Leith, with riot
and with stoning her house about a week
ago. Mrs. Eeynolds admitted on cross
examination that an agent of the H. C.
Frlck Company had persuaded her to have
the men arrested. Her husband was "black
legging" andthe men and women surrounded
her honse and gave her a scab serenade.
Sheriff McCormick says tbey did not do 10
cents' worth of dam ige, and the feneral im
pression here is that it was a very foolish
thing to do to have these people brought be
fore court for so trivial an offense.
A RED FLAG ADVOCATE
'oV OEDEEED BY CITIZENS TO LEAVE
?Q MT- PLEASANT.
v J
Small fQ,
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WorkinjTorce at
Morev
Ber of nans
Applying
i Deputy Brewer
jgMrs. iVeJinskey.
Arrested
rsPEciAjuersLEk,
to THE DISPATCB.l
ipril 24. Morewood's
MT. -PLEASANT,
report for to-day s work is 105 men at work,
ovtns charged and burning and 3 cars of
coke. This is a small increase over yester
day. Quite a large number of Huns ap
plied for work to-day, and a party of for
eigners from Bessemer will add their num
ber to the force to-morrow. Superintendent
Eobert Eamsay, of the Standard Works,
said this morning that no attempt would be
made to start that plant, but tbat the tenants
would be evicted. These evictions will com
mence next Wednesday.
A Standard man said to your correspond
ent to-night: "We'll surprise the company
when they go to put us out of the houses.
We have decided that when the first man is
put out we will all go outj yes, sir, every
man of us. Where will we go? Why, that's
easily answered. We. wilijust get those
tents at Scottdale, and live in them. The
company can't bluff us, and don't forget it."
Mrs. Wejinskey, the Polish woman who
was evicted a few days ago, has been heard
from again. To-day her husband entered
suit against Deputy Brewer for assault, and
he was arrested. He furnished the neces
sary bail and was released. It is said that
another deputy will be arrested also. Five
Polish families from some unknown place
arrived here to-day, and went to Morewpod.
Tbe red flag that some talk of carrying
here next Monday is still the talk of the
town. One person, Sol Marks, a Hebrew
interpreter, has probably not yet heard the
last of public sentiment here. He thinks
the red flag should be raised at the meeting,
and has said so. But this place is likely to
become so warm for Marks that he will be
glad to leave.
To-night a prominent citizen suggested
that he be notified to leave within a certain
time, and this advice will likely -be taken,
as a committee of citizens will, it is said,
wait upon him and inform him that his ab
sence would be more desirable than his pres
ence1. Marks has made himself particularly
obnoxious by his recent advocacy of the
red flag.
STILL FIGHTING HARD.
Both Sides in the Straggle Continue Claim
ing tho Victory.
rSFECIAL, TELSOBAV TO TOE SISPATCH.1
Scottdale, April 25. Both sides are
holding to tbe coke fight like grim death.
The beginning of next week will indicate
What the outcome will be. If the strikers
hold their ground and prevent a break in
the ranks, unless overtures are made, tbe
strike will be prolonged indefinitely, as aid
is expected from the Federation on May 1.
The labor officials are buoyant, and while
they concede increased forces at Tyrone and
a start being made at Leisenring No. 3, they
say that at Jimtown, Adelaide, More
wood and Davidson tbey have tbe best of
the battle. At Trotter, where one car of
coke was being shipped daily, tbey say
nothing was done yesterday.
The coke men say .they are confident of
victory and it is useless for the men to con
tinue in idleness. They claim additional
forces at all plants, and coke shipments,
they say, increase day by day. There were
oyer 175 'men at work at Frick's Summit
plant to-day. Ten new Italians arrived
there vesterdav and were put to work.
Leisenring No. 3 has also a number of new
men.
TWENTY-FOUR Pages To-morrow. THE
DISPATCH will havo everything from
everywhere in this bis number. Don't miss
it.
FEW DDT, BUT SOME EESIGN.
The Queen of the Census Vpluntarlly Re
linquishes Her Position.
UPrCIAL TZL20KAX TO THE DISPATCHl
Washington, April 24. The "Queen
of the Census" has stirred up considerable
excitement in Superintendent Porter's big
workshop by resigning. It is very unusual
indeed, as everybody knows, for a Govern
ment employe to resign, but it is unusually
remarkable in Mrs. Smith's case because
she bad succeeded by a display of executive
ability of a high order in being put in charge
of the most extensive and important
division of the bureau at a large salary, thus
incurring (he jealousy of the army of less
fortunate ladies who do less work and get
less pay.
Mrs. Smith resigns to accept a more lucra
tive situation in NewTTorb, and a heated ri
valry is in progress for the position. It is
probable that they will pas into the posses
sion of Miss Chamberlain, who has been for
some time Mr. Smith's assistant, and" who
has, moreover, much of her chief's working
ability.
M0EM0N MISSIONARIES EXPELLED.
West Virginia Farmers Threaten Death If
the Elders Return.
ISrECIAL TELIOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Wheeling, April 24. News from Lin
coln county states that the citizens have de
termined to rid the county of Mormon
elders, who have been doing missionary
work there for about a year back.
Last night a band of 60 farmers went to
the home of two of these elders and drove
them away, with threats of death it tbey
should return.
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K if the Woi
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O, " j.--
.-. DYNAMITE FOR FRICK :
A Band of Hungarians, Armed
With Bombs, in Hot Pursuit
of the Coke King
TO AVENGE THE WORKERS
Killed and "Wounded by Deputy
Sheriffs During the Recent Kiots
FILLING THE SHELLS IN A GR0TE.
Thomas Timmons Hakes a .Startling Dis
covery in the East End.
SC0DEISG THECOUSTT FOE TIIEIEPEEI
A band of Hungarians, armed with
bombs, is pursuing H. C. Frick. the Coke
King, to avenge their lellow countrymen
and women who were shot down in tbe coke
region. This is the story told by Thomas
Timmons to a city official who will not
allow his name to be printed, as be works it
hard enough counter-signing wairauts.
Thomas Timmons is a carpenter, and lives
in the Twenty-second ward, near the line
dividing the city from Wilkinsburg. For
some weeks past he has been working at
Homewood. On Thursday evening, after
he had, completed the nice hours' wore
which costitute a day in his craft, he started
through the woods for his home in order to
save distance. The shades of evening were
filling around him as he came to a par-ticiihjjjt-oarr'gr'ov'e
in one of Ine wildest
pots in Allegheny county. Timmons was
tired and not in the humor to appreciate
tbe beauties of nature. Moreover, be is au
Englishman, and was hungry at that, and
there has been a libel published on tbat
nation to the effect tbat all Englishmen ara
out of temper when tbey are out of food.
Slaking Bombs In a Grove.
When Timmons approached the grove
he was somewhat surprised to see a
dozen men, whom he took to be Hungar
ians, busily engaged in-filling wooden cyl
inders, two inches in diameter and six
inches in length. The men were seated
around a couple of large cans, the contenU
ot which they were transferring to tha
wooden tubes. First they stuffed a little
cotton into each cylinder; then they placed
a small quantity of light brown powder on
top of the cotton, filled np the cylinder with
a white, crystalline substance, and then
sealed up the cylinder, or bomb, with a cap
whioh screwed on.
Timmons was interested in the proceed
ings of these men. It opened a wide field
for conjecture, and he browsed iu it for sev
eral minutes before he was observed. At
last two of tbe Hungarians saw him, and
Timmons, findiug that he was discovered
and recognizing that he was in tha
minority, boldly advanced, swinging his
dinner bucket as he went. The Hungarians
recognized the insignia of tbe common
brotherhood of labor. The pronounced
anxiety they had'ihown vhen first they saw
him abated, and they returned to their
work.
Hunting for the Coke King.
Timmons advanced to the men deter
mined to find out the reason for their mys
terious occupation. He was anticipated,
however, by the two Hungarians who first
saw bim. They asked him iu tones which
betrayed their earneslness, "Where livs
Frick, the coke man?"
"Oh," replied Timmons, "he lives miles
away from here. He lives away off in
Pittsburg."
"He a very bad man, bad man. He kill
a girl and lot of men in coke conn try," said
one of the Hungarians. "Can't you tell
where he live?"
"No," replied Timmons. Then he began
asking questions. He wanted to know what
the Hungarians were doing and what they
were making. The men were reticent. They
evaded the questions, and when they be
came too direct merely shrugged their
shoulders. Finally one of the two men
who had acted as spokesmen for tbe party
said with an emphasis which there was no.
mistaking :
Bombs to Blow Up Frlck.
"We maka the bomb. We blow np tha
bad man Frick."
Timmons realized that he was among des
perate men, and said no more, but went
home. He thought oyer the matter a great
part of the night, but conld make nothing
of it, and was more tban half inclined to
consider the whole affair a hoax.
Yesterday morning Timmons had busi
ness in Braddock. As he was walking
along the main street he met two men car
rying a satchel. They were the two Huns
be had talked with in tbe woods on the pre
vious evening, and not far behind them he
saw following a half dozen others whose
faces he failed to recognize. Timmons
hailed the first two Hungarians and jok
ingly asked them if they had found Frick.
Tbe reply was very positive that he had
not been found, but would be, and then
he would be blown up.
Timmons says he notified a couple of cit
izens of Braddock of what he knew concern
ing tbe visiting Hnns, and pointed them
out, remarking that tbey should be locked
up, but he claims he was told to mind his
own business and let the Huns alone.
Timmons watched the Hungarians whila
they were in Braddock, and overheard them
tell several persons they were looking for
Frick and intended to blow him up with
bombs as soon as they fonnd him.
MRS. JOHX SHERWOOD will give thai
usages of polite society In regard to enter
tainments in THE DISPATCH to-morrow.
Twenty-fonr pages. All the news.
THE B. & 0. IN IOWA.
A. Company Formed to Make a Very Im
portant Extension.-
.-SPECIAL TELIQ K Alt TO TUB DISPATCTLI
Fort Madison, Ia., April 24. Within
a year iu all probability the Baltimore and
Ohio will be running trains through this
city into Northwestern Iowa and tha
Dakotas. A meeting of Illinois and Iowa
capitalists formed a company to extend
the B. & O. road from Bcirdstown, 111.,
its western terminus, to Fort Madison. This
company will be incorporated is the
Beardstown, Fort Madison and Sioux City,
with a capital stock of 52,000,000.
From here westward the lines of tha Chi-
cago, Fort Madison and Des Moines road
will be utilized and extended to bioux City.
The object of the Baltimore and Ohio ia
said to be to get into the wheat fields of
Dikota and secure a portion of the Atlantic
seaboard grain business. Work will com
mence at once.
AVAXTS of all kinds are quickly answered
through THE DISPATCH. Investors, arti
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