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I FINELY LI PLOT
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William Henry Hurlburt Says,
Was That Recent Breach
of Promise Case.
BLACKMAIL THE OBJECT
Sonsjlit to He Attained by the Several
Conspirators Charged With
Ueing Allied
AGAINST MR.HURLBURT'S WEALTH
Hints of Some Possible Sensational EeTe-
lations in the Case, Involving Some
Prominent People.
3 HE IDE-NIITI OF WILFRED 11UEKAI.
DUectiTEl Esre En Cu la Eati, Eattsit Eiyi, tzd
TtUs Ecaetlkg f tit Hyitaircs Hit's
lacuna Cinei
BED JIM K'DEKXOTT'B YIGCB0U3 ISKIiL
f BY CABLE TO THX BISFATCn.
Lokdox, April 25. Copyright The
blackmailing conspiracy against "William
Henry Hurlbnrt continues to occupy space
in the newspapers and in the publio mind.
It has become a matter of newspaper con
troversy because Hurlburt has to a certain
extent identified himself with English poli
tics, his book, "Ireland Under Coercion,"
having treated much bitter discussion be
tween Conservatives and Liberals. It is of
interest to society at large, because it
shows how easily, under present conditions,
dangerous conspiracies may be formed
against men of prominence.
This afternoon the woman in the case pub
lished a letter, In which she bewails the
circumstance that a fallen woman, as she
puts it, should be deemed incapable of tell
ing the truth. But she fails to make her
position in the matter any better. A cor
respondent called upon Hr. Hnrlbut to-day
to ask about the report that web printed in
the London newspapers to the effect that he
is going to America to look up Wilfred
Murray.
The Identity ol Murray.
Mr. Hurlburt said that he should prob
anly go to New York, as he has intended
to for some months past, on important busi
ness, as soon as his wife returned to Italy;
but that the Murray matter was in good
hands, as it had been for some time.
"Some ourious and unexpected light,"
said Mr. Hurlburt, "was thrown upon
Murray and his career by some of
the statements made by the plaintiff
during tLe trial. It was stated, for
example, that the plaintiff received remit
tances from a certain house in Philadelphia,
the number of which was Riven and the
name of the street Oddly enough, this ap
pears to be the house to which, in a letter
written to me from "Washington ten years
ago, Murray, who was then in my service
in New York, asked me to send in
structions for him. Furthermore, the
plaintiff appears from disclosures made
during the trial to have been born in the
English "West Indies, and you will remem
ber tbat in a memorandum indorsed on the
back of a photo given to me by Murray in
New York in 1882, Murray plainly says
that he was at Morant Bay in Jamaica as a
youth during the execution there of several
negroes for taking part in the (Jordan insur
rection. Novel "Writers In It.
"These things may be coincidences, or
they may not; but they are interesting sev
eral people, who, for good and sufficient
reasons that will be disclosed in proper
time, were not brought into daylight at the
trial by George Lewis, who had part in the
conspiracy. He collected a good deal of
evidence which he could not use, the trial
having come on very much earlier in the
year than he had expected.
"Among these people still in the back
ground are two or three novel writers, not
of the highest class, one of them a near rela
tive of the plaintiff. You will remember
that the Attorney General commented upon
the strong family likeness between the al
leged diary ot the plaintiff produced in
court and a sensational novellette cur
rent on the boos: stalls. Should he
take further action at any time it may be
found that the style of this diary bears a
very close resemblance to that of a small
work oi fiction which had a considerable run
four or five years ago. Only yesterday mora
ine, as I was leaving my house and getting
into a hansom, I was accosted by a rather
well-dressed man under middle age, who
asked to speak to me.
An Effort at Blackmail.
"I turned and walked a few steps, when
he informed me that I must know who he
W4S, and gave me the name of the person
who had come to Mr. Lewis soma time be
fore the trial began with a proposition
to the effect that if we would give
him a sum of money he would
compel the plaintiff to withdraw the
suit. I remembered this when he gave the
name and asked what he wanted with me
now. He hesitated for a reply, upon which
I told him that I had no farther interest in
listening to him and advised him if he had
anything to say of any interest to himself
to find George Lewis. He looked rather
crestlallen, bowed very civilly and walked
sway.
'The truth is that blackmailing, under
cover of suit for breach of promise of mar
riage, seems to have become an established
industry in the British metropolis. Unless
something resolute is done to break it up, it
may become necessary for married men of
other nations, temporarily resident in Lon
don, to get themselves and their domestio
rights put under consular jurisdiction, just
as is done with those of Christians in Tur
key." J lines McDermott (Bed Jim) writes from
tue Victoria Hotel, deuying that he had
anything to do with Mr. Hurlburt and with
tue setting up of the case. He furthermore
.;- that he had no connection with the
Tt fries commission trial, and offers a reward
of 2,500 to anyone who will prove the con
trary. Died Id Poverty.
;BT CABLE TO Till DI8PATCH.1
London, April 25. The last desoendant
of the once powerful tamily of the Borgias
died this week in distressed circumstances.
He was the greit-grindon of Don Alberto
Calisto di Borzin. ad I'uring the last 20
vein has gained a
tographcr.
pojr
living as a pho-
TORIES FEEL JOYFUL
OVEE I0KD BANDOLPH CHURCHILL'S DE
PASTURE JOB AFBICA.
He Was a Disagreeable Factor In the Party
Opposed to Bajlnc Oat Irish land
lords His Tilp May iiesult In a Matho
naland Boom.
:bt cable to the msrATon.i
London, April 25. Since Lord Ean
dolph Churchill left London en route for
Africa, old-fashioned Tories are very happy
at the prospect of his prolonged absence
from England. Churchill has been from
the first strongly opposed to the Government
scheme for buying out Irish land owners,
and he carried his hostility to the length of
writing a series of public letters, pointing
out the serious defects in the land bill. He
was very restless early this year. His
friends with difficulty prevented him from
taking the stump against the Government,
and there seemed every prospect that he
would lead the opposition in the House ot
Commons to Balfour's pet bill. It became
imperatively necessary to gag him, and
Lord Salisbury is credited with the happy
idea of getting him away to Africa.
It is at anvrate certain that Cecil Rhodes,
President of the British South Africa Com
pany, and Prime Minister of Cape Colony,
after one of his interviews with Lord Salis
bury, a couple of months ago, suggested a
trip to Mashonaland and depicted the
wonders of the land of Ophir in such glow
ing colors that Lord Randolph's imagina
tion, which is always fervid, was greatly and
successfully excited.
The cost of the expedition is being de
frayed bv a syndicate, in which Leopold de
Rothschild and several of his relatives have
contributed 5,000, and an equal amount
has been found by Lord Churchill and his
friends, among whom, it is whispered, is the
Prince ot "Wales, whose name is down in the
ist for the modest sum of 500. Ostensibly
the objects of the excedition are travel and
sport; but a good idea of its real business
may be gathered from the fact that the bag
gage includes the latest and most improved
machinery for getting sold.
Lord Bandolph will be back next Novem
ber with big land and mineral concessions
from the British South Africa Company
and probably with a Jew treaties with the
native kings in his pocket. By that time
there is every reason to expect a Mashonaland
boom, which Lord Randolph's letters, which
be has contracted to write for a paper here,
will help along, and there will be little
difficulty in floating a limited liability,
with 1,000,000 capital, to take the place of
the little syndicate.
The reporters saw Lord Bandolph on
board the Cape mail steamer just before it
left Dartmouth. He was quite certain that
a general election would take place during
his absence; but he had every confidence
that his Paddington constituents would
stand by him. As a matter of fact, Lord
Bandolph does not care much whether he be
re-elected or no, as he is sick of politics.
But those who know him say that after the
African trip he will return to Parliamentry
life with greater zest.
SEWS FEOM ISLAND COLONISTS.
Stories of the "World Which Created a
Sensation Among Them.
(BT DUXLJLT'S CABLE COMPAXT.I
London, April 25. Attention is being
once more attracted to that remote island in
the South Atlantic, Tristan d'Acunha, by
reason of a letter which has just been re
ceived from the head of the colony, Peter
Green. The old man who is at the head
of this colony of 80 souls was wrecked
on the island in 'S3, and is now
85 years of age. In his letter he says that
he in common with the rest of the flook has
been very pleased at receiving a batch ol
newspapers from England, some of which
contained the former letter he wrote, but as
ships come to his island only at very rare
intervals, he gets but scraps of in'ormation
of the huge world outside his domain.
Someone here sent him two books of pho
tos of the most remarkable buildings
in England, America, France, Germany
and other countries of the world. All the
islanders are exceedingly delighted with
these pictures, for they had never seen any
thing like them "before. The event,
however, which has given them
such pleasure and has stirred their
Imagination, has been a visit tney have
lately received from two of their former
friends who left in an American whaler 35
years ago, and who have returned with great
stories of the world ontsidc, which have
produced a wonderful impression on the
simple folk who lived on the island where
the British kept a garrison during the time
the great Napoleon was imprisoned at St.
Helena.
THE CANDIDATES SETTLED IT.
An English Election In "Which the Totera
"Were Greatly Surprised.
TBT DU.SLAP'B CABLE COMPART.
London, April 25. A curious case is
just now exercising the minds of the legal
fraternity in connection with the election of
the Dingwall School Board. Fourteen
candidates were nominated in order to 11
seven vacancies, and the popular excite
ment was very great, as everybody was ex
pecting a closely contested election,
and the voters were anxiously looking for
ward to a great deal of excitement at the
polls. The candidates, however, for some
reason or other do not look at the matter
from the same point of view as the electors,
and they determined to save themstlves a
lot of worry and excitement and the School
Board the cost of a contested election. They
met and determined by a private ballot the
seven who were to renresent the interests of
the rate payers and the unlucky seven re
tired graciously and with no more ado in
favor of the more fortunate brethren.
The electors were dumfouuded when
they heard of what the candidates had done,
and have expressed their dissatisfaction at
the result. "Whether the law will permit
this simple but summary method remains to
be seen, and it is probable that the court
will be asked to give a decision in the mat
ter. THE BYEON TITLE.
It Has Not Become Extinct as Most People
Have Believed.
rBT D DSL AT' 8 CABLE COMPAHT.1
London, April 25. Many people are
under the impression that when Lord
Byron, the famous poet, died at Misso
longhi, the title beoame extinct. This, of
course, is not the case, but no Byron
having lately taken any prominent
part in the affairs of the country the mis
take can easily be understood. The Lord
Byron who took the oath, and has a seat in
the House of Lords, on Thursday revives
for a moment publio interest in the name.
Although directly descended from his
famous namesake the present Lord can
boast but the ancestry which he hat in
common with the poet, to whom he stands
in the relationship of the first cousin twice
removed.
The poet bad no son to inherit his title,
but his daughter, Ada, married the Earl of
Lovelace, and lelt two children ' when she
died in 1852. Her widowed husband, al
though a very old man of 86, is still alive,
and his son is Tiscount Octham. Their
daughter married Mr. "Wilfred Beaten
Blunt
KEEPING IT UP.
The British Minister of Agriculture
Still
Opposed to American Cattle.
rBT CABLI TO T1IXDIS1-ATCK.1
London, April 25. Although the re
port that diseased cattle had been landed at
Deptford hat been proved to be Incorrect,
the incident came so opportunely for the
opponents of the importation of lire stock",
THBJ
as to justify the suspicion that it was de
liberately arranged. The belief that the
existing restrictions close a very profitable
business to British farmers had begun to
make headway and petitions in favor of their
relaxation or abolition were being signed
in different parts of the country.
It became imperative, therefore, to
trot out the plenro-pnenmonio bogieman,
and this has been done once more with
striking success. Mr. Chaplin is as deter
mined as ever not to allow American live
cattle to compete with British-bred beasts.
It is necessary to reDeat the warning pre
viously given in this correspondence, that,
no matter what precautions may be taken
in America to ship only sound cattle, the
preseut regulations will be maintained so
long as Mr. Chaplin is Minister of Agricul
ture, but the department will be conducted
on protectionist lines nntil the Liberals
return to power.
MR. GOSCHEN'S BUDGET.
HE ATTEMPTED TO PLEASE EVEBYBODY
AHD PLEASED NONE.
"What liberals and Tories Complain of
Effect of the Liquor Slovement The Op
position to Free Education The Middle
Class Wanted Lighter Burdens.
tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.l
London, April 25. Mr. Goschen's bud
get has disanpointed his political friends,
without giving much satisfaction to his op
ponents. He reasoned that if he gratified
no class by remitting taxation he offended
nobody by increasing the existing imposts
or importing fresh ones. But, as the usual
attempt to sit upon two stools has proved
to be neither safe nor dignified, the
extreme Tories are raging against the social
istic scheme for making edncatiou free, in
which tbey cau plainly see the handiwork
of Joseph Chambeilain, and threaten to
vote against it even if their action involve
the fall of the Government The
Liberals are preparing to fight the
Government on the same subject because
they know that the bill, when introduced,
will be found to favor the established
Church ot England at the expense of the
non-conformists. The great middle classes,
who expected a reduction of the income
tax, are loudly complaining tbat the Gov
ernment cares nothing for them and the
liquor sellers are vehemently denouncing
the Chancellor of Exchequer for breaking a
promise to reduce their burdens.
The words and actions of the latter are
indicative of open mutiny, and may nave
interesting political results. In the ex
pectation that Mr. Goschen would betray
them, the tens of thousands of voters con
nected more or less direotly with the liquor
traffic had resolved to disassociate them
selves irom the Tory party, with
which tbey have been closely identi
fied for half a century, and to form an
independent party. Their formal organiza
tion is now in course of completion, and as
there is plenty of money behind it, candi
dates will find themselves confronted in
every constituency by a compact body of
electors whose votes will be cast irrespective
of party considerations for the man who
will accept the most planks in their plat
form. The movement is very in
teresting, but it has come too late.
Twenty-five years ago when the ma
jority of the Liberals were of the
muderate type it might have achieved a
large measure of success, but now four-fifths
of the Liberal party are Badicals, most of
them pledged to extreme temperance re
form, and not a few to the extirpation of the
liquor trade, root and branch. In nine
tenths of the constituencies, therefore, a new
party will simply have to choose between an
avowed and olteu uncompromising Liberal
opponent or a Tory friend of a varying de
gree of zeal, and it is not difficult to see
what the choice must be.
A remarkable feature of the present
political situation is the opposition of the
Standard, the most influential of the Con
servative newspapers, to free education. It
has editorially denounced the Government
scheme in unmeasured terms, and is daily
printing hostile letters from indignant
Tories. "I am calling a meeting of onr
local Conservative Association, "'says one of
these gentlemen in a letter published to-day,
"to send in my resignation as Chairman.
"Why should I pay to educate other people's
children?"
FEEBECUTED PROTESTANTS.
Worshipers Taken From Churches and
Thrown Into Jails.
TBT EUMLAP'S CABLE C0MFJLHT.1
Odessa, April 25. The persecution ol
the Bussian Protestants is proceeding with
unabated rigor. From Kieff comes the news
that a detachment, of police and soldiers
lately marched to a house on the outskirts
of the city where Protestant services were
being held. Twenty worshipers were fonnd
inside, five of whom were women. The
names and addresses were taken, and they
were tried on a charge of unlawfully meet
ing together for religious purposes. They
were sentenced to two months' imprison
ment. The leader bad already been for tome
time in jail on a similar accusation.
Similar reports come from various parts
of the country, detachments whose business
it is to harry Protestants being tent every
month to the Caucasus and other remote
districts, where the unfortunate religionists
had hoped that they would be allowed to
live unmolested.
ONE POEOED TO CLOSE,
The Failure of alLarge Italian Company
Eaves a Competitor.
CUT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, April 25. The failure of the
Lavarello Company at Genoa hat taved its
competitor, the Yeloce Company, from a
similar fate. It has transpired that with
the fall in exchange and reckless competi
tion these companies were carrying emi
grants to New Orleans and Sonth American
ports for 75 to 80 francs per head, compared
with 200 to 250 francs charged up to a year
ago. The Veloce Company's receipts last
year were a million francs less than in 1889,
and there was a deficit of 800,000 francs on
tbe year's business.
The Lavarellos were in a still worse
plight, so that it wat time that one or the
other closed.
MAN1PUBI8 SUING FOB PEACE.
One Thousand of Them Fat to Boat In an
Artillery Battle.
Simla, April 25. A dispatch lrom the
front says tbat the British forces advancing
on Manipur met and engaged a force of
about 1,000 Manipuris on the 23d inst The
latter commenced hostilities by opening fire
on tbe British column. The latter replied
with the fire of their field artillery and the
enemy flrd in disorder.
Several messengers from the tribesmen
have arrived in the British camp, suing for
peace for the insurgents.
AS BEITISH SUBJECTS
The Newfoundland Delegates Wilt Be Be
oelved While In France.
Paeis, April 25. A telegram announces
that the Newfoundland delegates will
shortly visit this oity and be received by
M. Bibot, the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
but nothing has. yet been heard at the
Foreign Office of the proposed interview.
should tbe delegates present themselves,
they will be received simply at British sub
jects. She X.ott the Case.
1ST DDNLAP'S CABL COMPACT.
London, April 25. In the Queen's
Bench division to-day jndgment for the
defendants, with costs, was delivered in the
action brought by the Marchioness of Hunt
ley against the Bed lord Hotel, Convent
Garden, to recover 1,000, being the value
of certain jewelry stolen trom the plaintiff
while stopping in the house.
PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
LURED TO HIS DEATH.
A Favored Coachman Murdered by
tbe Son of His Employer.
AVEKG1KG HIS MOTHER'S HONOR.
A Eemartable Crime Tbat Has Bet All
Hangar to Talking.
THEHUEDEEEE A I0UTB OP BEYEXTEEN
tBT DtTXLAF! CABLI COMPAJfT.l
BUDA Pesth, April 25. One of the
most extraordinary crimes that has recently
been brought to light through a series of
events tbat can safely be said to have no
precedent in this country, was made public
by tbe arrest this week of Albin, the 1T-yesr-old
son of Noclai MoressI, at Battassek,
a town of Southern Hungary, about 70 miles
from here. Albin is charged with the mur
der of one Sassevale, his father's coachman,
a young fellow of good address, who had
been some five Tears in Moressi'i employ.
It was this arrest that led to the revela
tion of the following facts: Some 20 years
ago there resided in Vienna a French money
broker named Dumond. He was in easv
circumstances, and spent his evenings
chiefly in the education of his only daugh
ter, Estelle, and in strewing her pathway
through life with flowers. Nothing was too
good for his pet, who, having no brothers
nor sisters to share her good lortune, grew
up intensely vain and selfish.
Harried a Wealthy Merchant.
In her father's opinion Estelle was worthy
of a prince, it not a little too good for him,
but, although his paternal afiection led him
to put an absurdly high valuation upon his
daughter's gifts and grace, he was too com
petent a man of business to reject a good offer
lor her hand, especially when it came from
so prosperous a merchant as M. Moressi,
who was also the tax collector ot his district
Estelle, thus, in due course, became Mme.
Moressi, with a fine establishment and all
the worldly com ort that her heart could
sigh for. Yet there wat one bitter in
gredient in her cup of happiness. She
lacked society and that opportunity for
achieving the social triumphs that her
Vienna experience and her vanity alike"
taught her were hers by right Nor was it
strange that one o"f the belles of the Prater
should find in the rural dullness of an Hun
garian market town scarcely the background
that she craved on whioh to display her
charms.
Saved by the Coachman.
There is no knowing what Mme. Moressi's
discontent might have led to, when a very
serious accident opened the way for an
intrigue that soon monopolized all the in
tellect that this pretty, but shallow, woman
possessed. As she wat driving one day in
the outskirts of Battaszeto, the horses shied
and ran away. After going for some dis
tance, the coaobman, Sassevale, was again
able to control them, and by his earnest en
treaties succeeded in inducing Mme. Moressi
to remain in the carriage and thus taved her
life.
Sassevale's coolness under these trying
circumstances naturally aroused all the ad
miration and gratitude tbat Mme. Moressi
was capable of. Up to tbat time she had
paid but slight attention to this faithful
servitor, but now she observed that he was
fine looking, and that, it not exactly hand
some, he had the indefinable manner and
cast of features tbat indicated noble birth.
Impressed with this idea, Estelle set to work
to inquire into the youth's antecedents and
was soon rewarded by the discovery that he
was indeed the scion of an aristocratic, but
impoverished, home, who had been reduced
to the hard nectsslty of accepting menial
employment
She Led Him Captive.
Being thus interested in her rescuer, and
finding that he wat really entitled to move
on a social plane above her own, Estelle
set about the pleasing task of bringing him
a willing captive to her feet. Nor was she
deterred from carrying out this plan by any
overweening affection for her husband.
M. Moressi, several years her senior, was
not an ideal prenx chevalier, or calculated
to fix the affections of one who was now
attracted by pnysioal rather than mental
attributes.
In short, M. Moressi was merely a pros
perous money grubber, with no nobility and
character and no tastes nor interests outside
of his business. Fortune thus smiled on
Mme. Moressi's intrigue, and the aristo
cratic coachman was glad enough of au op
portunity to escape for a soason from his
humble surroundings. But if young Sasse
vale expected that hit romance was to last
forever he little knew Mme. Moressi's fickle
ness ot disposition. Perhaps tbe very ease
with which she had attained her end made
it lest valuable to her.
Turned Against Her Lover.
She soon tired of her whim, and actually,
having taken umbrage at some jest remark
of ber lover's, planned that her husband
should discover her with hit servant When
the critical moment came, her husband
turned out to be an arrant coward. He
lacked the nerve to kill the betrayer of his
wife, and his disappointed spouse was forced
to devise yet another scheme to obtain re
venge for a fancied slight.
Finding her husband spineless, she
plotted to avail herself of the conrage of her
only son, Albin, and induced M. Moressi to
promise the youth a purse of 500 florins for
avenging his mother's honor. Tbe poor boy
performed his part or the terrible contract
only too well. The unfortunate coaebman
was lured to Mme. Moressi's apartment, but
this time he did not escape alive. "When
the story was first circulated, as it was by
Mme. Moressi, the boy Albin was hailed as
a young hero, bnt when, angered by his
father's refusal to pay him tbe mf ney prom
ised, be revealed the plot, the "praise wis
turned to blame. These disclosures have
caused the greatest excitement throughout
H ungary.
AN AETFDL FRENCHMAN.
He Walks Into Abyssinian Affections by
an Aot of Gallantry.
BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, April 25. Italian newspapers
have discovered a new reason for tbe slow
progress made by them in the affections of
the Emperor of Abyssinia. It seems that
the Emperor's favorite young wife lost her
beautiful hair during a severe, illness, and
in her distress appealed to Count Autouelli
and Dr. Traversi, then on a special mission
in the country, for some cosmetic which
would save herfrom baldness. The envoys
promised freely enough and then forgot all
about the matter. But there was a bold,
artful French agent at the Abyssinian
court, who wept bitter tears over the Em
press' tad disfigurement and swore that
France would remedy it, if it should cost a
million francs.
Bpecial messengers were sent to Egypt
and returned with a couple of luxuriant
wigs and a choice assortment of cosmetics,
which were presented to the delighted and
grateful Empress with great pomp and cere
mony. That agent thereby walked straight
into the imperial affections, and his influ
ence in Abyssinia bas since been para
mount Such is the story as dished up by
the disappointed Italians, and it may be
taken with or without salt
DOOMED TO FAILURE.
Strikes In England and Germany That Will
Besnlt.ra a Defeat.
rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.1
London, April 25. A miners' strike is in
progress in the Bhintland and "Westphalia,
which it entirely unjustifiable, and it
doomed to Ignominious failure. The present
tear i: that the striken will get into serious
trouble on the 1st of May. Elsewhere the
prospects are more peaceful, workmen in
most countries thowing a disinclination to
provoke the authorities.
Here in London 6,000 carpenters and
STTNDAtf, APRIL fll8W.
joinert will strlte on the 1st of May for
shorter hours and better pay, bnt the condi
tions are very unfavorable to .the success of
the men.
BLAME AMERICA FOR IT.
ALL LONDON HAS THE-GEIP AND IS
VERY ANGBY ABOUT IT.
The Tearful-Eyed Say They Love Us, but
Not Our Diseases No Doubt About Our
Besponslbillty for Their Suffering Ex
tent of the Sneezing;.
TBT DDNLAP'S CABLE COJirAXT.
London, April 25. Wo have it. And
unlike the hero of tbe popular comio song,
we cannot say "It does not hnrt us much."
"We hope it won't last long. It it the in
fluenza which, although in a lighter form
than it took last year, is again with us. It
is the season when America sends over to us
all that it holds dear and, there
fore, perhaps we ought not to kick
at having received the grip as one of
the first installments from yon. But suoh
it the perversity of humanitv that we do
verv seriously object to your kindness and
wish with all our hearts you had been less
generous, for much as we love your men,
and we love them verv dearly and admire
your men lor their pluck, energy and gen
eral go-aheadness, we do not care for your
diseases and would prefer you to keep them
for home consumption only.
True it it that most of the patients are
able to get about, but pleasant as this may
be for them, it is not nearly so delightful
for the rest of us. These wretched victims
everywhere wear faces as long as one's arm
and as sad as Niche's after the death of her
children; and their eyes are nearly as red
and tearful. Tbey carry a handkerchief in
a very open manner, and at every street
corner you may see a small crowd waiting
to get a sneezing fit over before attempting
to cross.
'Terhaps it is the resnlt of the climate, but
it is a fact that the effect on the temper of snf
ferers is greater than it was last year.
Men's moods have changed, and tbey have
become morose most to a point of savagery,
so that it is not safe to address even.your
best friend when he has the grip, as tnere
is no knowing whether he will not
turn and rend you. Thus, unfortu
nate public men, lawyers, members
of Parliament and the like who have
to speak much in public have had to yield
to tbe demon and retire vanquished from tbe
field to seek the seclusion of their fireside
grates. Thus Sir Edward Clark, one of the
most noted lawyers of the House, is one of
the victims who has been compelled to
withdraw for a time from the publio gaze,
and Mr. Noble Wilson, the Conservative
member for Hastings,is also an unfortunate.
ITALY'S BAD CONDUCT.
It Is Irritating; to Austria and Bather Dan
gerous for the Triple Alliance.
IBT CABLE TO TUE DISPATCH.l
London, April 25. The parties to the
Triple Alliance lose no opportunity of in
forming tbe world what excellent friends
they are. But the fact is beyond donbt that,
since Crispi't downfall, Italy's conduct has
not been altogether to the liking of her dear
friend, Austria. Marquis Budiui is not
only lending a ready ear to France, but he it
thowing culpable leniency toward tbe Irri
dentist agitation, the object of which is to
obtain from Austria a retrocession of Trieste.
Among tbe specific complaints are that re
cently in the course of a speeoh
in the Chamber of Deputies, Budini re
ferred to "tbe Italian provinces under Aus
trian rule which are not yet incorporated in
the kingdom of Italy;" that be recently de
clared that Italians, natives of Trieste or
Nice, settling in Italy, became ipso facto
Italian subjects, and that he has ohosen as
his personal press organ an Irrldentlst jour
nal, the editor oi which is one of the leaders
of the Irridentist party.
IN EXCELLENT HEALTH.
Queen Victoria Will Betnrn From the Ri
viera Improved In Health.
IBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, April 25. The Queen returns
to England next week with health and spir
its immensely improved by her sojourn in
the Biviera. Everybody combined to make
her comfortable with what tuccest may be
measured by the fact that the only canse
given her for dissatisfaction wat the omis
sion of the municipality of Grasse to tend
Princess Beatrice a bouquet on her birth
day. The Queen is now physically to ttrong
that it will be difficult for her to give a de
cent excuse for not attending the two draw
ing rooms fixed for next month, a matter of
grave importance over here.
TE0UBLE FOB NATALIE.
The Servian Government Hay Expel Her
Bodily From the Kingdom.
BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
LONDON, April 25. The Servian Gov
ernment is about to make another effort to
get rid of Queen Natalie, and there is wild
talk of forcibly conducting the plncky little
woman to the frontier. The Queen has
armed her household, and herself carries a
dainty little revolver, which it not likely to
do much execution.
The young King Alexander it completely
dominated by the regents, and it not likely
to interfere to tave hit mother trom Insult
AN UNFOUNDED BUKOB.
Addison Cammaok'i Beported Advent In
London Causes a Stock Flurry.
tBT CABLE TO TBB DISPATCH.
London, April 25. There was a rumo'r
in the city last Thnrsday that Addison
Cammack was in Loudon, and that the rise
in American stocks was due to his manipula
tions. There wat much running about and
tearching of hotel registers before it was dis
covered that he was in New York, but the
rumor gave the market a bull impetus while
it lasted.
TENANTS DBIVEN OUT.
They Complain of Being; Deserted by the
Clergy and League.
tBT DDKLAFJg CABLE COKPAKT.l
Dublin, April 25. The evictions on the
Ponsonby estates in Ireland finished to-day.
Teu tenants were driven from their hold;
ings, leaving only, seven out of the 250
original tenants. There was no excitement
or enthusiasm,and tbe evicted people loudly
declared that they had been deserted in their
sore need by both the clergy and the
National League.
A Profitable Boom.
tBT CABLE TO THE 1JI8PATCH.1
London, April 25. The breaking-the-bank
boom has proved to profitable to the
administration of Monte Carlo, that they
have decided to devote tome of the extra
gains to the building of an enormout new
hotel on the lite of the Hotel de Parit, whioh
is to be demolished.
Stock Brokers FaU.
tBT DUSLAP'S CABLE COMPANT.1
London, April 25. In the bankruptcy
department to-day, a receiving order was
made under the petition of Hughes, Cam
eron & Co., stock and share dealers. No
liabilities or assets were given.
"Brown's jssohciiial Tbochss" are widely
known as an admirable remedy for broncbltla,
hoarieness. congUi and tnroat troubtej. Sold
onlr la bom.
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Five New Patterns Just In Where?
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Hanovek A-wninos At Mamaux St
Sou's, 539 Penn avenue.
THE COKE'STRUGGLE.
How Errors on Both Sides Keep Up
the Present Trouble.
DEPUTIES DEFY THE STRIKERS,
And Injuuicions Workers Persist in Parad
ing as Hobs.
PACTS ABOCT THE DISTORTED EEGION
IFKOM A STAFF COBBESPOXDEITT. 1
Connellsville, April 25. In these
progressive days of. riot in the coke country
there must be bldodshed before a fight with
the officers of the law becomes at all im
portant. . During the past few days the
coke workers have thrown themselves into
disrepute, and tbe women of the region have
unsexed themselves in their acts against the
eviction officers. Long before a Slavish
man or woman it able to talk English they
have wasted the complete category of swear
words, and these tbey cast about in the
wildest prolusion, the women probably
leading the men in the art.
It is certainly a most unpleasant duty,
this eviction business, and for that reason
it is a verv poor class of deputies who are
seenred to do the work. Deputies who act
as guard are also sometimes decidedly the
wrong kind of men, bnt tbe Sheriff gives as
an excuse that It is impossible to get suit
able men in required numbers. Tbey are
usually company clerks and others paid by
tbe operators and, of course, work and act
(and often think) entirely in the interest of
those who employ them when not on duty.
This is one of the causes of trouble. For
instance, at Leisenring No. 2 tbe other day,
when a crowd of strikers were holding a
meeting, it was feared they were going to
make a raid. Consequently, a line of dep
uties was drawn up to protect the works.
One of the deputies dared the strikers to
make an attack, calling them cowards
and heaping all kinds of abuse upon their
luckless heads, until at last it was found
necessary to deprive him of the use of his
gun. There are numerous other instances
of where the deputies have been insulting to
the strikers, and in the face of such occur
rences is it any wonder that there are riots?
How the Workers Have Erred.
Now, don't imagine this is a justification
ot the strikers' actions, for it certainly is
not. By their lawless congregatinnsaround
the varlons works, and their general riotous
conduct, they have lost valuable ground,
which may have a most telling effect in the
roundup of the strike. They are the pri
mary canse of all the trouble, because tbey
go about in crowds, and if the deputies in
tuit them and incite them to riot they must
stand the brunt for coming ont. Had they
remained at homeand kept quiet, this strike
would have been settled long ago. But now
it equals, if not eclipses, all previous
records of long coke strikes, and as yet they
have gained no decided advantage. At
present the laboring men are simply wait
ing for the demand for coke to compel the
operators to resume, and the operators are
waiting for the pangs of hunger to force the
men to return to work. The coke supply
teems to be good, and there are very lew
hungry men in the region, so the fight is
still on and will continue unless something
occurs to change the aspect of affairs.
In the coke region as well as anywhere
else it is the worst element which comet to
the turface, and for that reason tome people
believe that the whole class is bad.
There are over 16,000 workmen and
their families in the region, and probably
not over one-fifteenth get out and raise
disturbances on every opportunity. At
the tronble at Morgan, White Mine and
Summit yesterday, not over 200 men, women
and children were engaged; yet there are
over 500 men employed at the various works.
This it the way it runt all the way round;
still, those who stay at home and mind their
own business, as all should, get just at much
blame at their boisterous comrades.
How Slavs Save House Bent,
As it is very difficult to see how the people
live in this region, the evictions serve as a
sort of a revelation. Tbe Slavs are crowded
into houses like sardines, and apparently
must be put in crosswise in layers. In one
house of eight small rooms there were 22
men, and in another of fonr rooms 15 people
were accommodated. From one, evidently
a boarding house, the deputies took 41 jugs,
to sty nothing of bottles, and all had a little
whiskey in them.
The Slavish style of curing pork teems to
belong to a progressive age. It is hung out
of the window on the side of the house, and
there it hangs sometimes for weeks. At
Morewood the side of one honse was found
almost completely plastered with meat. Its
odor when taken down it not the most in
viting, as the deputies found when the
were making the evictions.
Italians are being forwarded into the
region as fast as they can be secured. They
are put in the houses vacated by theevictive
process. Italians in tbe coke' region don't
live, they merely bnnlc, eat and work.
Those now being shipped here are villain
ous looking. What an interesting fight it
would make to turn them and tbe Slavs
loose in a large field I Very few strikers
are breaking over now, and the only tourcet
for recruits teem to be the city's slums,
where Italians are found willing to step
into the shoes of tbe workers.
There is one great mistake made in classi
fying tbe people in this region. In all the
traveling over the region I have yet to find
a man who says he is a Hungarian. Tbey
are all Slavish people, about as near a Hun
garian as a Mexican is to an American.
There are perhaps, not over 30 true Hunga
rians in the district. The few who are here
are said to be of a better disposition than
their Slavish neighbors, and seldom get
into tronble. However, Hungary is charged
with having produced the whole lot of Slavs
found here.
Operators Breaking Away.
The operators are having just as much
trouble on account of breaks in their ranks
as the strikers. W. J. Bainey, with his
four plants Fort Hill, Grace, Paull and
Bainey is reaping a rich harvest from the
fight by running full at last year's wages
and commanding a good price for the coke.
There are a number of other plants working
at last year's scale, and several are oper
ated under the organization.
It is a question who is the most hurt by
these works running, tbe operators or the
strikers. It bas a double-effect. It injures
the operators, inasmuch as it shows tbat it
it possible to make money on last Tear's
scale, aud it injures the cokers because it
prevents the demand for coke forcing the
price so high as to compel h resnmption.
The small operators could do a great deal
toward breaking the strike if they only
would, but breaking a strike is an expensive
luxury, and tbev prefer to wait for tbe big
men to do it Very few of the small opera
tors are trying to run, except those who pay
the scale demanded. It is almost, if not
more, expensive to run coke works partially
during a strike than to keep them going in
full when everything runs smoothly.
Deputies must be kept on guard, and there
are a dozen and one minor details tbat must
be paid lor.
Eviction is usually the court of last resort
with operators to compel the men to go to
work. So far it has been decidedly unsuc
cessful, and tbe men show a steady deter
mination to stay with tbe strike nntil it
wins. They stand all sorts of privation, and
their devotion to the cause is certainly com
mendable. More Than Wages at Stake.
If the strikers win the battle the 10 days'
notice clause in the leases lor the company
houses will doubtless be stricken out. At
present it is impossible even to rent a house
from tbe company. Dozens of bouses stand
empty all over the region, but the operators
continue to evict the men and will not ac
cept the usual amount of rent charged, bnt
demand that tbe premises be vacated.
The men advance at an argument that the
wages are not sufficient the fact that the
average daily wage at the Standard last year
was 0214 csnts. At some of the other works
the average was also very low. The opera
tors reply that there were more men than
there was work, so the men were allowed to
do as they chose, and divided it uu. Ad
mitting this, the men claim that all must
live. The works are closed part of this
time; at other times they run in part, and
then again the plant runs full. They say
that it is sometimes necessary to have the
full number of men, and if they were al
lowed to go somewhere else and others come
when work was good, the work wonld be
shifted around. New men would be coming
and going at all timet, and their organiza
tion could not be kept intact.
If the men lose this ttrike tbe coke
workert will have seen their best days, and
wages will at least never go mnch higher
than allowed by tbe sliding scale. Their
organization would go down in the general
break up and they would be working with
out a" he id, unless they reorganize. There
are a dozen ways of getting below a scale,
and without a doubt tbe coke operators
know every one of them, and would use
'their knowledge if they get the organization
broken up. One of the operators said to me
the other day that supply and demand
should and will regulate the wages of this
country, and that organization has seen its
palmiest days. Fbank A. PAEKEE.
A PIT OF HUMAN BONES,
THB BETBEAT OF AN OLD BAND OF ROB
BERS DISC0VBED,
Probably the Dismembered Bemalns of
Their Victims Fragments of East Indian
Pottery Buried With Them Kecollec
tlont of the Son of an Old Settler.
BALTIMOBE, April 25. The finding or
human bones, old crockery and other cari
ous relics ia a bricked pit under the rear
portion of tbe old Barnum's Hotel attracts
crowds of persons to the spot to-day. They
consist or leg bones and ribs. A huge jaw
bone with teeth was also nnearthed. Two
old bottles, filled with what had once been
some sort of liquor, were discovered resting
on a flat stone. A large quantity of frag
ments of old East Indian blue and white
crockery was unearthed, as well as a couple
of curiously shaped earthen pots.
The bones were pronounced by doctors to
be the remains of men and women. They
had evidently been buried for many years.
A pair of slippers, of peculiar pointed shape,
almost falling apart with age, were picked
up by one of the relic hunters. Tbey no
'doubt belonged to a woman. How the
bones or pit came there it at present a
mystery. The bodies appear to have been
thrown in perfectly naked. There was not
the slightest tnce'of any wearing apparel
discovered, with the 'exception of the
slippers.
One who '"knows it all" said to-dav that
many years ago his father had told him of
a notorious gambling den that had existed
on the site of Barnum's Hotel. That was
long before the hotel wat built. The place
bore a verv bad character, and several mur
ders were known to have been committed
within its walls. It stood on the edge of the
woods, and was surrounded by a high wall.
It was also rumored at that time that there
wat a secret passage or tunnel nnder the
place, at many tucn places had in those
davs.
To-day a box containing old com was
found near the old vault, and it is possible
that the place may have been the hoadquar
tersofaband of outlaws or robbers who
lured men into their dea and then mur
dered them.
A PREACHES SUBFENDED
Because He Got a Divorce After Fifteen
Tears and Married A sain.
rariciAL telxobax to tbe dispatosm
WrxMiNOTON, April 25. Tne Bev.
James B. Campbell, of Snow Hill, Md., was
to-day eonvieted before the Presbytery of
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it is the very best of policy
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ing tbe ministerial functions. The case his
been before the Synod and Presbytery since
October 3, 1883. It bas been thrice settled
and twice reopened on complaints to Synod,
and judgment of Presbytery in the present
trial is suspended pending the hearing of an
appeal made by counsel for the defense to
the Svnod of Baltimore.
It was alleged that the defendant is guilty
of unministenal conduct by having secured
a divorce contrary to the canons of ths
Church and mirrying again. The divorced
parties had been separated :orl5 years prior
to the divorce. Healleged willial desertion
on her part and wat granted a divorce.
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