mssxsGsm
Transient Advertisements,
INCLUDING
"WANTS, TO LETS. FOR SALES. ETC, FORTO-
sionnow's issue
May bo banded in at the main advertising
oflice of The InsrATCii, corner Smithfleld and
Diamond -trects, up to midnight.
FORTY -SIXTH YEAR
E
In tlic Club Lcaguo Figlit
That mil Shut Out Dal-
zell and Eouinson.
LEADERS COM TOGETHEE,
With a Determination to Stop the
Bitter "War of Contending
Eepnhlican Factions.
EDITOR SOGERS, OP SUETHrORT,
Betlled on by the Tcace Guardians for
President of the Leagne, in the
Interest of Harmony.
llffO OTIIER AVAILABLE CANDIDATES.
i(Jnar, Cooper and Leeds EaKe a Strong Voice of rrotcst
Against the Stnfe Within the Kcpnb-
lican TiJd.
TBKT BEttD II AS DOWSMGHT 50XSEXSE
rsrSCXAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISrATCH.
"Philadelphia, July 17. The contest
for the Presidency of the State League of
Republican Clubs has attained such acrirao
liious and bitter proportion as to call for
the ftem intervention of the leaders and
ibis new poit on assumed shape to-day in
the form of an ngreinent to introduce a
compromise candidatj in the field at an
early day. The compromise feature is the
outcome of a secret conference held at the
T Kims of the Young Men's Republican Club
late Thursday night, and the suggestion to
ipe out differences and harsh feeling by
the formal retirement of Dalzell and Robin
son is credited to Mav or Stuart, whose in
terest in the success of the League has been
paramount to any personal concern he may
3.ave in the premises
Tile Mayor has no desire to retire from
the President's chair with a divided league
as a legacy to the new management, s.nd he
is earnestly urging upon the factious the
duty of getting together. As the factions
just as earnestly refused to do that, but
grew more contrary every day, only one
course appeared open to a settlement, and
that course is the avenue to compromise.
Quay, Leeds and Cooper Talk.
During the conference Collector Cooper
cspres-ed some terse and vigorous opinions
on the subject. Marshall Leeds, in an un
usually direct way for Leeds, hammered out
a lot of orthodox loL'ie on the "child's nlav."
as he called it, and word was received from I
ftn
Tli compromise candidate is Lucius
lingers, editor of the Smcthport Jinr and
at prevent Trcasurci of JIcKcan county.
Rogers, it is argued, is sufficiently Western
to "uit the ansry Dalzell hosts in the Alle
gheny districts, and just sufficiently out of
the Robinson country to suit the Eastern
division. He is by no means young in years
somewhere between A and 60 and his
jii:et, conservative notions eminently equip
Imn for duty as a political harmonizer. He
lias had some executive training also, hav
ing been "the menibe from McKeau" back
in 1872, and since then Clerk of the Senate,
In the peculiar atmospher! that surrounds
the MuKcan school of polities, with lots of
independent tact:cs and Emery pyrotechnics
thrown in as counter attractions, Rogers
Jias never wavered as to his duty.
A Good Emergency Man.
Rogers is a stalwart Republican, and as an
emergency man the conference for harmony
believes there is none like him. Two other
itan.es liad consideration by the harmony
conference w orkers. I f Roecrs should de
cide not to j ield to the committee appointed
to talk nv er the new scheme w ith him, then
Henry Clay McCormick or Emerson Collins
fv to be cer-bulted. Clay McCormick is
tho ex-Congressman of the Sixteenth dis
trict, whom Millionaire Hopkins succeeded
last year by carrying Democratic Clinton.
He is sharp and shrewd as a lawj er, and
on ti manipulator of booms in the lumber
Hue lias few eauals in the "West Branch
country. His handsome home in Williatns
port is the center of rare hospitalitv. and
bis newspaper organ, the JiepuVJcan, is pub
lished in a fine structure, directly opposite
the Federal building in which John B.
Etnerj-j his masterly assistant ia running
Lycoming politic-, "is postmaster. Emcr
ean Collins is the young man who nomi
nated Henrv Clay McCormick for Governor
in last year's Republican State Convention.
There is lots of backbone in Collins, and he
tighs for a chance to show the stuff he is
made of.
The Politicians View ot It.
A leading Republican politician, in talk
ing with some friends at the Colonnade this
evening, bald: "C. L. Magee's fine hand is
ia all this beautiful business, as he is per
sonally interested in Dalzell, not that He
loves the Congressman any too well, but
Quay's backing of Robinson brought out the
challenge for supremacy, and the two are
determined to lock horns just wherever the
chance oners.
"Dalzell was in the field first, and the
"Western section is reallyeutitled to a show.
But Robinson surprised everybody the day
he popped up, merely as a label on the
Quay box at first, but later the joke was as
serious business as a bunion. If Morrison
and Gregg take the honors at the August
convention, Robinson will at the Septem
ber nicctinc, but the fight is bound to be a
daisy one after alL"
BLISS DOESN'T WANT IT.
Ho Declines to Stand as Gubernatorial Can
didate in New York.
rSrECIAL lUDiUUI TO THE DIsrATCH.
New York, July 17. The definite an
nouncement that Cornelius X. Bliss would
not be a candidate for Governor before the
Republican State Convention was the big
political news item that to-day produced.
The announcement was made through Sir.
Bliss' friend, Horace Russell. It surprised
most of the politicians. They had supposed
that Mr. Bliss was willing. In Mr. Bliss'
letter to Mr. Russell he says:
Tho mention of my name as a candidate
for Govornor has not been by my procure
ment, nor by mj desire. While it has been
mo pleasure formany years to take such
WANTS of all kinds are quickly ansnorcd
through THIS DISPATCH. Investors, arti
tan, bargain hunters, bujers and sellers
closely fecan its Classified Advertising Col
uaiiii. Largokt Circulation.
COMPROMIS
HOW
part in pnbllo affairs as I could, consistently
with mv business engagements and respon
sibilities, it has never been my purpose to
seek or to accept public oflice. Nor is it
now. Until now there has seemed to be no
reason for me to do or to say anything pub
licly in regard to my alleged candidacy, lest
it should bo said I was declining what had
not been and might nev cr be offered to me.
If any thiiiir could move me from my deci
sion it would be all the kind expressions
that have come to mo from personal and
political friends throughout the State. As I
am going abroad soon, and shall not return
until after tho State convention, I must en
trust to you, as my friend, to mako It known
that I could not accept tho nomination if it
wero tendered tome, to tho end that my
name may be quietly dropped, aud the party
unite on some acceptable candidato.
A BUCKEYE SENSATION.
Somo Peculiar Figuring That Defrauded a
Democrat of Ills Office,
rsr-EczAx. telegram to the dispatch.
Columbus, J"iy IT. The biggest kind of
a sensationjwas created here to-night by the
publication in the evening papers of the
fact that an error in the count of a member
of Ohio's State Board of Equalization had
been made, whereby a Democrat had been
defrauded of his election and a Republican
seated. The mistake was discovered in the
official figures of the Secretary of State,
which looks rather bad for the officials in
that office. The official vote as given by the
Secretary of State elected B. F. Hyatt, of
Hancock" county, a Republican, member of
the State Boardof Equalization by 66 votes
overF. R. "Warren, the Democratic candi
date It has just been discovered that a mistake
of 100 votes was made in figuring up the
official vote, and hence the Democratic
member was elected. A resolution will be
introduced in the board, possibly to-morrow,
citing these tacts and calling for an investi
gation. One member of the board having
died and another resigned, the unseating of
Hyatt would make the board Democratic.
It is said the error in figures has been
known by Republican members of the board
for some time.
A BOBINSON MAN'S FAITH.
Ho Thinks Tils Candidato Has a Dead
Sure Thing on the Presidency.
FROM A STAFE CORRESPONDENT.
"Washington, July 17. A genetleman,
who has just returned from a visit to Phila
delphia, during which he was much of the
time in the company of members of the Re
publican League of Clubs, says that the
canvass for the presidency of the League
clubs is practically at an end, and that
Robinson will be elected by a vote of five
to one for any other candidate. The only
possibility ol accomplishing his defeat, this
supporter" of Robinson declares, is in the
admission of a lot of mushroom clubs.
It may not be generally known that Wash
ington will have four representatives in that
convention. There are two Pennsylvania
clubs here, both of them in the League. ' It
is said that the delegates of both clubs will
be for Robinson.
PRETTY SUBE OF DALZELL.
Ex-Sheriff McCandlets Feels Quite Hopeful
After His Extended Tour.
fSPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCTI.1
Hakrisbukg, July 17. Ex-Sheriff Alex;
McCandless, of Pittsburg, was here to-day
in the interest of Congressman Dalzell's
candidacy for President of the State Repub
lican Clubs.
Mr. McCandless has just completel a
tour of the large towns and cities in this
section and expressed himself as being very
confident of Dalzell's success.
GRASSHOPPER PESTS.
THEY HAVE NOT DONE VERY MUCH
DAMAGE IN THE WEST YET.
Official Report of the Scientists Sent to In
vestigate Tlicm Field Crops Scarcely
Touched by the Hoppers Grass Eaten
Up Remarkably Clean.
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Toi'EiCA, Kan., July 17. Chancellor E.
H. Snow and Prof. E. A. Popenoe, who were
commissioned to look into the grasshopper
scare in Eastern Colorado and Western
Kansas, have finished their work and sent
in the result of their investigations to-night
from Arriba, CoL, as follows:
After a two-days wagon ride of 75 miles
tho Burvej of the area infested by the loiur
winged locusts has been completed, and
show s that the district covers an irregular
section of tho northern part of Lincoln
county, containing about 300 square miles.
Within this aiea the two favorite grasses of
the range, Buffaloand theGrama grass, havo
been eaten to the ground. Even here,
however, other vegetation is prac
tically untouched, not excepting tho numer
ous fields of young corn in luxurious growth.
The only injury to any field crop which has
como to our knowledge is the destruction of
a 12-acro field of fodder sugar cane, or
sorghum, only four inches in height.
A o have repeatedly seen the locusts pass
ing through corn fields in swarms without
inflicting tho slightest injury. In several
cases potato vines reported to us as being
eaten by theso locusts were found upon ex
amination to havo been destroyed by the
Colorado beetle, and we have seen no evi
dence that thess locusts will eat tho leaves
of potato plants If it were possible, which
we do not believ e, that tho swarms could in
vade Kansas, our farmers need have no fears
for the staple crops of the State.
Reports agree that the eggs from which
were hatched these armies were deposited
last fall by tho locusts, which flew into this
area in August and September from the
South, audit is a reasonable hypothesis that
tho present generation, upon acquiring
wings, will retire southward toward the
original habitation of their parents,
according to an instinct similar to
that which was observed to govern
tho movements of tho Rooky Mountain
locusts in each of the Kansas invasions. It
appears then that under exceptional cir
cumstances liko the present this species,
hitherto cpnsideied a non-migratory locust,
may temporarily develop a migratory in
stinct. The immature hoppers are now
rapidly undergoing a final transformation
andacquiring wings.and it will be but a short
timo until they will have taken flight toward
the South, leaving their present feedinsr
grounds to be recuperated by tho next good
rain or tw o.
We have thus far observed no signs of in
ternal parasites infesting these locusts, as in
tho case of the Rocky Mountain species.
They will doubtless appear in dut time and
help to keep their numbers in reasonable
limits, should they become unduly numer
ous over a largo area. Wo have, however,
observed a large robber fly capturing and
killing seyoral individuals about the station
at Simon. Tho hogs of the town w ere fatten
ing upon the locusts, which also furnish food
for turkeys, chicks and hawks.
THE PRESIDENT IN CL0VEB.
Ho Takes an Ocean Bath and UIs Duties
Are Chiefly Social.
fSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCII.
Cape Mat, July 17. The President to
day appointed a number of Postmasters
and did his usual routine work. He has
sent for Charles Foster, Secretary of the
Treasury, who will arrive next week and
remain for a day or two. Important mat
ters will be discussed by the two gentle
men. All appointments hereafter will he
giv en out here, until the President removes
his executive oflice to Washington. He re
ceived to-day at the Shoreham about 100
survivors of the third Pennsylvania Cav
alry, and was assisted by his naval aid
Lieutenant Parker.
A message was received to-day concern
ing a reported seizure of American fishing
smacks offEast Point, but an inquiry at the
Executive Mansion this evening revealed the
fact they had not the slightest information
on the subject. United States Senator Alli
son, of Iowa, who arrived last night, dined
with the President to-dav, and after dinner
they hud a long chat. This evening Mrs.
John M. Kitchen, of Indianapolis, a friend
of Mrs. Harrison, stopping at one of the
hotels, took tea with the family. Mrs.
Eaton, the President's sister, who lives in
North Bend, O., and who has just recovered
from a severe accident sustained in a runa
way about a month ago, is expected to visit
the Presidental family next week. Lieu
tenant and Mrs. Parker, who passed about
three weeks at the Presidental cottage, leave
to-morrow for Rockbridge Alum Springs,
Va., where they will remain three
weeks, after which they will return to Cape
May.
The President, accompanied by his niece,
Mrs. Dimmick, took another ocean bath
thisafternoon. In his mail to-day the Pres
ident received word of the death of his inti
mate friend, Colonel Thomas Brown, who
served in Congress for several years from
Indiana. He sent his svmpathv to the fam
ily. D. M. Ransdell, Marshal" of the Dis
trict of Columbia; Manuel Lultcdo and
Senor Guancs, the Spanish Minister, and
D. W. Stevens, Counsellor to the Japanese
legation, arrived to-night and will have con
ferences with the President and his Secre
tary to-morrow.
VIRGINIA KNOX TO WED.
A HANDSOME NEWSPAPER MAN THE
OBJECT OF HER CHOICE.
Tho Wedding to Tako Placo in tho Fall
Quite a Pretty Romance Connected With
tho Affair Writing Up His Future Wife's
Past Troubles.
tSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Baltimore, July 17. The engagement
of Miss Virginia Knox, of Pittsburg (the
Countess Di Montercoli), to John P.
Mackenzie, a newspaper writer, well known
in this city and New York, was announced
here this afternoon. That this engagement
is one of the summer's Bensations goes with
out saying. Miss Knox is the wealthy lady
who several years ago married the Count
Di Montercoii, but who was obliged to
get a divorce on account of her hus
band's cruelty. The gentleman who is
now to be her husband is 2G years of
age and the son of the late Colin Mackenzie,
of this city. He is a fine looking fellow, of
medium height, with dark eyes and smooth
face. His figure is sturdy and well propor
tioned. In his profession he is noted for
the brilliancy of his writing, principally
concerning matters of the turf, hjs letters
appearing over the signature "Druid Hill."
He was for some time on the staff of the
Baltimore Daily Xacs, but he has also been
connected with the New York Evcniug Sun
and the New York Sportsman. The mar
riage will take place this fall and the honey
moon will be passed in Europe, A note
worthy and highly interesting fact in con
nection with this engagement is the publi
cation of a letter by "Druid Hill," from
Grand View House, Pa., last Sunday, tell
ing the story of the Countess' misfortunes,
as the writer of the letter heard it from her
own lips. In his correspondence "Druid
Hill" says:
It was in Florence that Virginia Knox met
the man who shortly aftorward married her
in Pittsburg. A fete of flow ers was in prog
ress, and Miss Knox's carnage was garlanded
with tho beautiful fleur do lis. The Count
saw her, and fell rapturously in love. He
crossed to America on tho same steamer on
which she came. Tho wedding was the crack
society event of that season. Tho "happy
couplo" embarked for Europe, and then
tho fun began. It is a romantic
storv, of peculiar charm when told by the
ripo"lips of tho pretty heroine. Thoy jour
neyed to tho Count's "castle," which lies in
some remote spot in somo part of Italy, ten
miles from the nearest village. On arriving
there, the Count demanded money from his
bride. Ho wnnted to scatter coins upon his
vassels. On the Countess' refusing to shell
out, the Count waxed mad and barred all
the doors and windows.
: The letter tells .-oOho Countess appeal
for protection to a consul and thesubse-
3ucnt proceedings for a divorce. Thus is
isclosed a very pretty little romance. A
newspaper man off for his summer vacation
meets a beautiful heiress, who is also an
Italian Countess? they wonder about the
chaiming mountain glades; they fall in love
and their engagement follows.
IHSMARCK John Rnssell Young tells of
the meeting between Bismarck and Grant
at Berlin for readers of THE DISPATCH to
morrow. .A masterful analysis of tho Iron
Chancellor's character.
PAT FINNEBTY'S HABD LUCK,
Resulting From nig Losing His Temper on
His Wedding Day.
TSrECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Wilkesbaeke, July 17. In 1875 Pat
rick Einnerty came from Ireland to this
country. He settled in Lackawanna county
and established himself in the grocery busi
ness. Within a year he wedded Mary Con
nolly, an Irish lass. There was a big time
at the wedding. Einnerty quarreled with
his wife's brother, William Connolly, and
struck him on the head with a bottle. Con
nolly's skull was fractured. Dr. Welch,
who was one of the wedding guests, said the
man would die. Finnerty overheard the
remark, and without waiting to kiss his
bride fled from the house, made his way to
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad depot and went to New York. He
then took the firEt train he could get for the
West, That was the last heard ot Finnerty
until last Monday, when he called at his
wife's old home. He had undergone such a
change that he was not known. He in
quired for his wife, and was told that she
was dead. He was removed from the place a
few hours later a maniac.
Before he became violent Finnerty told
John Lawlcr, an old shoemaker, whom he
knew before he went West,that on the night
of the wedding when the doctor said his
brother-in-law would have to die, the
gallows loomed up before him, and he re
solved to make his escape. He wandered
in the West for years, and finally settled in
Omaha. He entered the shoe business there
and made some money. He was prompted
to write to his wife every day, but afraid of
detection. Three months ago he met Michael
Lafferty, who lived in Lackawanna county,
and Laflerty told him that his brother-in-law
had not died. He resolved to come
East at once in search of his wife, of whose
death Lafferty was ignorant. Mrs. Finnerty,
the bride, became insane after her husband
deserted her. one died two years later in
the Danville Insane Asylum.
MORGAN'S LATEST MOVE.
Tho Indian Commissioner Ignores tho Cath
olic Indian Bureau.
mOM A STATP CORRESPONDENT. 1
Washington, July 17. Indian Com
missioner Morgan has broken off "diplo
matic relations" between the Government
of the United States aud the Bureau of
Catholic Indian Missions, and the startling
movement, announced this afternoon, is the
talk of the town. Mr. Morgan did
not consult with any of his supe
rior officers before taking the step.
The contracts for educating Indian chil
dren in the Catholic schools for the current
year are being made by the Indian Oflice
directly with the sehools.instead of through
the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions as
heretofore. The amount awarded to the
Catholic Bureau for this purpose last year
wasS360,000. The amount given to the in
dividual Catholic schools this year will ag
gregate more than 400,000.
It was stated in these telegrams that
Father Chappelle would have a talk with
the President in regard to the matter, and
that Cardinal Gibbons would probably take
a hand. When it was announced that the
r.irdinal had paid a visit to the President
it was -supposed the matter had been satis-
Lfactorily arranged,
jl
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PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, JULY
FATE OF A GAMBLER,
A New York Card Sharp Found Dead
in His London Lodgings.
MURDER IS STRONGLY SUSPECTED.
The Man's American Companion Thought to
Have Killed Him.
A BROOELTN W0HAN ALSO IN TEE CASE
BY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, July 17. George Tarker, a
gambler, of Brooklyn, New York, London,
Paris, Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres, com
mitted suicide yesterday morning in his
lodgings in Great Russeli street by shoting
himself through the heart. The weapon he
used was a 42-caliber Smith & Wesson re
volver, and the bullet went clear through
his heart and body and was found on his
bed. Parker came to London three years
ago. He told his friends that he had been
divorced from his wife, who was living
with their four children in Brooklyn.
From London he went to South America,
plying his trade on the steamers and in
Brazil and the Argentine. With him
to South America he took a Mrs. Hamilton,
who is now stopping at the Victoria Hotel,
and is heartbroken over his death.
Parker came back from the Argentine
about a year ago. He seemed to have plen
ty of money and lived and dressed well.
Ho made the acquaintance of the swell
crooks who frequent the Criterion bar and
was hail fellow with them all. He said that
his business here was to purchase the cele
brated stallion King Monmouth, the prop
erty of Hon. John Lowther, to start a stud
farm in Argentine, and he visited Lowther
with this purpose ostensibly in view several
times.
Given a Year for Swindling.
The next that was known of him he was
arrested for swindling. He had been intro
duced to a jeweler in Golden square by
TJllman, a well-known oyster dealer in
London, and had purchased a diamond neck
lace for his inamorate on credit. This neck
lace, valued at 1,000, was soon afterward
pawned, and, the jeweler learning of this,
made a charge of false pretenses against
Parker. He was arrested, tried and sen
tenced to hard labor for one year. Good
behavior reduced the term to nine months,
and he was released two weeks ago.
Mrs. Hamilton remained faithful to him,
but his male acquaintances deserted him.
Parker evidently iiad some money, for he
dined nightly at the Cafe Royal and drank
champagne. He was proud and never made
auy effort to renew the acquaintance of men
who had known him in better days and
now looked askance at him. Nobody ever
dreamed that he contemplated suicide until
his dead body was found yesterday morning
upon his bed.
Parker was a handsome man, between 45
and 50 years of age. He stood more than six
feet in height. His hair and mustache
were white. Ho dressed well and looked
like a prosperous business man. The in
quest will be held on his body to-morrow.
A Theory of Murder.
An American who roomed next to Parker
does not incline to believe the theory of
suicide. This man, who says he is a very
sound sleeper, was awakened about 5 o'clock
in the morning by a noise that he cannot
describe.. The doctors say that it was about
this hour, according to appearances, that the
bullet went through Parker's heart. Parker
had a friend, also an American, named
Whitman, and this man was with him in his
room almost,every night for the last week.
On the night of Parker's death, Whitman
was in the former's room at 11:30 o'clock
drinking whisky. It was Whitman who
gave the alarm at 8 o'clock yesterday morn
ing that Parker was dead.
Parker was found in his night shirt, his
face calm and composed, his right hand over
the wound in his heart and the pistol lying
three feet away on the bed. In his room
was found an affectionate letter from Mrs.
Hamilton. It was dated Paris, July 13,
and stated that she would arrive in London
on the 15th. It was Whitman who met her
at Charing Cross station last night.
The American in the next room, who saw
Parker immediately after the body was
found, says that his false teeth were in a
tumbler on the wash stand, and argues that a
man who was going to committ suicide would
prefer to look his best in death. This same
man was so much impressed by Whitman's
villainous appearance that he gave orders
to his landlady to keep his door locked
night and day.
FOB UNIVERSAL PEACE.
English nnd American Clergymen Favor a
World-Wide Federation.
London, July 17. Rev. Mr. Beyan, of
Melbourne, presided at a meeting of the
ministers held this evening in the City
Temple in support of the formation of a
federation of English-speaking people for
international arbitration and universal
peace Rev. Newman Hall, in dwelling
upon the practicability of arbitration,
instanced the Alabama questipn, the
solution of which, he said, had more closely
allied the people of England and America.
He prayed that the Queen would not suffer
harm, but he would not pray that the
Qiieen would vanquish all her enemies,
when he believed the enemies were in the
right, Ho was willing to risk the charge of
disloyalty, knowing that they were under
higher loyalty.
Rev. $It. Patterson, of Hanover, N. H.,
said that as American Christians they had
come to England, the land of their fathers,
to take counsel how to promote the cause of
permanent universal peace. He regarded
with special pleasure the fact that the high
est legislative powers in England and
America had placed it on record that they
were in favor of a permanent treaty pro
viding for a peaceful arbitration of future
contentions arising betw een them.
A SHIP OWNER'S GRIEVANCE.
Union Sailors Who Draw Advance Pay and
Then Desert Their Vessels.
London, July 17. The Secretary of the
Shipping Federation, Mr, Laws, was ex
amined to-day before Committee "A" of
the Royal Labor Commission. Mr. Laws
urged that there should be alterations in
the merchant shipping act and in the Board
of Trade regulations in order to secure more
effectual protection for freemen.
The Shipping Federation Secretary added
that it was almost impossible for a free
sailor to obtain access to a shipping offifce
unless he was armed with the ticket of the
Seamen's and Firemen's Union. Non
union men were attacked by the emissaries
of the union, and were shockingly ill
treated. Desertions also were very fre
quent, the men in these cases drawing their
advance money. There was no means pun
ishing them. Gangs of men were traveling
around the country drawing advance money,
and then disappearing with the funds, Mr.
Laws thought that an amendment to tho
shipping act should be passed, making n
man who deserted after receiving his ad
vance money liable to summary imprison
ment. A Crew of Sever Men Lost.
London, July 17. A dispatch from the
Orkney Islands reports the loss of a fishing
boat with seven persons oa board.
The Pope Seriously 111.
Rome, July 17. The Pope was seized
with .a -sudden illnes - Thursday, pr. Jprostrated by grief;
,
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Ceccarelli was hastily summoned, and the
Pope afterward recovered. The only dis
quieting symptom is that he is apt to fall
into a profound sleep, even when taking an
airing in the Vatican gardens.
ROMANCE IN R0UMANIA.
THE CROWN PRINCE IS DETERMINED
TO -MARRY THE POETESS HELENE.
Ministers Say Ho Must Not and tho Girl
Departs The Queen 111 in Bed Over tho
Excitement Sho Was in Favor of the
Matclu
London, July 17. The London papers
are mado interesting with the stories of that
royal romance in Roumania wherein the
Crown Prince of that kingdom, the cousin
of King Charles, has ventured to engage
himself to Mile. Helene Vacarescu. and
thereby has brought upon himself the de
termined opposition of the King and the
Ministry. Mile. Vacareseu is the com
panion of the Queen "Carmen Sylva" a
beautiful girl, a poetess, and daughter of
one of the oldest royal families of Rou
mania. She is the daughter of M. Joan
Vacareseu, who since March last has filled
the post of Roumanian Minister at Rome.
The latest information from Bucharest is to
the effect that Queen Elizabeth (Carmen
Sylva) is distinctly in favor of the match.
Queen Elizabeth, says one correspondent,
being a poetess, naturally felt much sym
pathy with the Crown Prince in this roman
tic attachment, and was far from discourag
ing the lovers. The Crown Prince having
at length declared it his firm resolve to
marry the young lady, even the objections
which the King entertained to the match
were overcome. But the course of true
love never does run smooth, and now it was
the turn of the Cabinet to interfere.
A Ministeral council was held on the mat
ter, and the result was that the Ministers
finally declared that the heir to the throne
must marry according to his future rank,
and under no circumstances could he be per
mitted to marry the daughter of any of the
Roumanian boyar families, however ancient
or respected, because the influence that fam
ily would thereby acquire was certain to
entail the jealousy of other boyar families
of equal rank. 'The King was also re
minded that his election to the throne 25
years ago was mainly due to the circum
stance that the great native families of
Roumania would not allow any one of them
selves to rise above the rest, as the expe
rience the country had had with native
Prince had proved most unfortunate. The
same effect, it was urged, would follow if
the Crown Prince married Mile. Vacareseu.
That union, therefore, could not be permit
ted. In order to give effect to their argu
ments the Ministers caused the whole mat
ter to be published.
The marriage is to be abandoned, say the
Ministers, and M. Joan Vacarescu has ar
rived in Bucharest, with the intention of tak
ing his daughter to Rome, out of the way of the
Crown Prince. The Queen, however, who
had set her heart on the match, believing
that thereby the people of Roumania would
becomemore attached to the Hohenzollern
rulers, is said to be more than angry. It i9
said that after she became acquainted with
the state of Mile. Vacarescu's feelings she
has done her best to bring the two lovers
together. She began to drive about with
the pair, she let herself be photographed
with them both sitting at her feet, and
finally, when the secret came out and min
isterial opposition was raised, she spared
neither entreaties nor menaces to gain her
point. The threatened M. Catargi with dis
missal from office, she entered the council
room during a Cabinet council and made a
personal appeal to the Ministers, and sho
actually threw herself on her knees before
Mme-Xahovcry, wife of the Minister of
"War, fanphiring. her to persuade her hus-
uanu. jyu tnis excitement brought on a re
action, and the Queen is now ill in bed.
THE HYENAS LAUGHED,
Dut Keeper Collins Didn't When They Very
Nearly Ate Him Up.
f SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Denver, July 17. William Collins, the
trainer and keeper of Sells Brothers' herd of
elephants, came near being torn to pieces
last evening by the laughing hyenas, and
but for the assistance of the circus employes
he would have been not only killed but
eaten. Collins had been looking after the
hyenas, in addition to caring for the ele
phants, as the regular hyena trainer is off
on a vacation, and had entered the cage
of these fierce beasts preparatory to
taking part in the morning parade. He had
just fastened the doorway or gateway when
the largest animal leaped upon him with
such a soring as only a hyena can give and
fastened her teeth in the thigh of the unfor
tunate man. Collins was, however, col
lected and cool, and, keeping his- gaze fixed
on the other two animals, pulled his club
which he carried in his belt, but the pain of
his wounds became so intense that he lost
his gaze on the other hyenas and in a trice
they were on him.
Collins fought with the energy of despair,
and yelled lustily for help, but the rest of
the menagerie had by this time become so
excited that the employes with difficulty
located the trouble. Collins had become so
exhausted that ho was fast going under and
the fringe of iron bars did not appear
around the cage a moment too soon. The
hyenas were beaten almost to death before
they released their hold, and after Collins
was ' rescued, more dead than alive, the
animals went to fighting with one another.
They were subdued by a stream from the
fire hydrant, and the place looked like a
slaughterhouse. Collins will recover, but
he was terribly beaten and torn about the
legs.
NINE LABOBEBS KILLED.
Meager News of a Disastrous Wreck on tho
Chicago and Erie-
Ltma, July 17. There was a bad wreck
on the Chicago and Erie Railroad at Hep
burn, a station five miles west of Kenton.
Swift's refrigerator meat train east, running
special, ran into the work train pulling into
a siding, killing nine laborers and injuring
many others. Both locomotives were in
ruins with 10 or 12 cars.
The telegraph wire3 along the Erie are
down east of Kenton and west of Marion.
Further details cannot be learned to-night.
A MAFIA AFTEBMATH.
The Wife of One of the New Orleans Lynch
ing Victims Attempts Suicide.
rsrECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCn.
New Orleans, July 17. Mrs. James
Carruso, widow of one of the Italians ac
cused of the murder of Chief of Police Hen
nessy and lynched by the mob when it
broke into the parish prison March 14, at
tempted suicide to-day by taking laudannm,
and has probably succeeded, the cause being
grief over the death of her husband.
Mrs. Carruso was one of the most, vio
lently agitated and most excited of the
women who called at the house of Corte,
the Italian Consul, on the night of the
lynching, and called for revenge. Ac
cording to Corte, she' wanted the
Italians to rise and have revenge
for the action of the mob, and threatened
the lives of the Mayor and Parkerson, the
leader of the mob. It was with the greatest
difficulty, and by threatening to call in the
police, that Corte succeeded in quieting her
and preventing trouble. Since the lynch
ing ot her husband she has been completely
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DO I MOW M WIFE?
The Bride of a Milwaukee Man
Creates a Chicago Sensation.
SUSPICION OP A JEALOUS HUSBAND
He Saw ITer at the Kaces With Another
Man's Ann Aronnd Her.
OTHELLO EETIEES UTTERLY DEFEATED
rSPECIAL TELiORAM TO TnE DISPATCH.
Chicago, July 17. A remarkable case
of mistaken identity, which, for a time,
seemed certain to result in the killing of at
least one guiltless person, the ruin of the
happiness of two families and the famish
ment of the spotless reputation of two in
nocent women, developed at the Tre.nont
House on last Saturday night. Had it not
been for its serious phase the case would
have appeared impossibly ridiculous.
On the previous Wednesday John J. De
Garis, one of the best known of Milwaukee's
young business men, registered with his
bride of but a few days at the Tremont. On
Saturday they attended the Washington
Park races, returning somewhat late to the
hotel and retiring at once to their room.
Without the slightest suspicion on their
part a detective had followed them from the
race track on a mission capable of blighting
the future of many lives. Of the elevator
man he inquired to what room the couple
had gone, but beyond the fact that they had
gotten off at the third floor he knew noth
ing. This meager information the detective
at once communicated to his employer.
Ho Saw Her at the Races.
A few moments afterward, pale and in a
state of excitement evidently with great
difficulty suppressed, John J. Coughlin, the
well-known owner of a string of horses now
at Washington Park, and the proprietor of
the Turkish bath establishment under the
Brevoort House, appeared at the hotel.
With visible embarrassment, but with a
straightforward honesty that commanded
sympathy, he told his story. At the races
he had seen his wife in the company of a
stranger with whom she appeared decidedly
intimate and affectionate. A detective had
located them at the Tremont. Would the
hotel help him? The hotel would and did.
The third floor was carefully searched for
the guilty couple. Every room with a light
in it was entered. The people wanted were
not found.
As Mr. Coughlin excitedly paced the
hotel rotunda, gnashing his teeth at the
thought of his inability to reach a wife
presumably at that moment in the very
house where he stood,
Mr. De Garis calmly
descended the stairway to the othce.
"There's the man! What's the scoundrel's
name?" exclaimed Coughlin in a whisper
to the clerk. He was told.
"You are Mr. De Garis, I believe."
"I am."
"Well, sir, you have my wife in your
room, and I insist upon soeing her at
once."
Mr. De Garis appeared to be absolutely
paralyzed with astonishment. He attempted
a denial, but was not allowed to finish it.
Ho Had His Ann Around Her.
"I know what I'm talking about," ex
claimed Mr. Coughlin. "I saw you with
your arm around her waist at the races, and
a detective followed you to this house.
Great God! man,' don't you suppose I know
my own wife? I stood within, ten feet of
you this afternoon, and there is no hope of
a mistake. I tell you I will not leave, this I ,
.house wjthout her. , "s"i
. jur. xie uaris mainuunea most remaricaDie
composure. He insisted that Mr. Coughlin
was mistaken, and asked if the latter'g wife
had heen at home the night before. She
had. He then called the entire office force
to prove that he and his companion had
been at the hotel for the three previous
nights. Still Mr. Coughlin was far from
satisfied.
"I'd take yon up and by introducinsr vou
to my wife provelthat she isn't yours," said
Mr. De Garis pathetically, "but the trouble
is I've only been married four days and I
don't want to spring this sort of a thing on
her just at the start, Now, isn't there
someone you could call in who knows your
wife and could tell whether or not this is
she or not?"
There were many such persons and Mr.
Coughlin agreed to leave the question to
such a settlement. A boy at Coughlin's
place of business was sent for. On his ar
rival it was decided that he should imper
sonate a bell boy and carry up a pitcher of
ice water to Mr. De Garis' room, where ho
would take a careful look at its occupant.
The Bell Boy Took a Look.
The plan was carried out and the boy re
turned with the positive statement that the
woman was Mrs. Coughlin. He saw her
every day and could not be mistaken. At
this stage Mr. Eden and his employes ex
pected from Mr. Coughlin's movements and
desperate passion to see him draw a revol
ver and kill the snnnosed miner of his
home, while the bystanders wondered at a
suppressed, though evidently dramatic
scene, which had now continued for nearly
an hour. It was, however, decided to send
the boy again to the room, and allow him
to enter into conversation with the occu
pant, unconscious all this time of the ex
citement she was causing below.
On his return the boy said that be had
been mistaken. The face was the same in
every feature and the dress was identical,
but the voice was not that of Mrs. Coughlin.
This but increased Coughlin's indignation.
He insisted that the boy had been bribed.
It was suggested that perhaps his wife was
all this time resting quietly at home and
that he had better go there and discover if
this was not the case. Coughlin, however,
iooked upon this as a trap, believing that
the woman upstairs would be smuggled into
a cab and arrive home before he could reach
there.
She Was Not His Wife.
He agreed, however, to an arrangement
by which he should guard tho door to see
that his wife did not ieave, while the detec
tive should visit the residence. The as
tounded detective returned from No. 32
Sherman street with the intelligence that
the counterpart of the woman upstairs was
really at that address: Mr. Coughlin at
once called a carriage and was driven hastily
to his residence, vowing that if he had been
deceived some one should suffer for it
On Sunday morning Mr. Eden and the
unfortunate Mr. De Garis received letters
of the most sincere apology, and the latter
continued his wedding tour without further
delay in Chicago, the little bride ignorant
of the narrow escape she had had from hav
ingthat tour end in a scene of murder.
GOING FOB HANNIBAL.
Dr. Ladd, of Bangor, Thinks Hamlin Was a
Paltry Oflice Broker.
TSPECIAL TELEGRAM TQ TOE DISPATCH.
Bangob, July 17. Dr. George W. Ladd
furnishe's this information regarding the
McClure-Nicolay discussion: "The integ
rity and exalted character of the Senate has
been chiefly assaulted through the corrupt
use of federal patronage. In the beginning
the Senators were the chosen selected
men of the States, and so th.ey
were through all its earlier his
tory. Such men were Oliver Elsworth and
James Monroe, Robert Morris and "William
Tickney, Andrew Jackson and John Q.
Adams, Dewitt Clinton and Henry Clay,
Thomas H. Benton and Silas Wright, Cal
houn and Webster, Jacob Gallamer and
Hamilton Fish, Reverdy Johnson and Sal
mon P, Chase, Ben 3Vade and John P.
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Hale, William H. Seward andCharle Sum
ner. But in time mere pij:mie.sln sfateij
manship, 'sappers and miners' in "the army
of professional politicians throDgh the;d-'
trous use of office dug their way to this nigh
place. There was Mr. Hamlin, of Maine,
notable example of the success of this class
of men.
"He was very long in the Senate, and
chiefly known for his activity in procuring
office forthe people of the Penobscot, He
raised this office brokerage almost to an art,
nnd by his long service and great success
almost made it respectable, and reaped his
reward in repeated re-elections. It will be
remembered that Mr. Hamlin wasTice.
President during Mr. Lincoln's first fferm,
and so harassed the, patience of that great,
man with his eternal clamor for petty ap
pointments, while Mr. Lincoln was absorbed
in the great issue of the war upon which
trembled the life of the nation, that Mr.
Lincoln could not consent to renomination
when approached on that subject, until Mr.
Defrees, late Public Printer, had been sent
on a confidential mission to the leading Re
publicans of the heavy Western States, and
it was arranged for a new name for the Vice
Presidency."
HE SLEEPS BY THE WEEK.
THE DOCTORS ALL PUZZLED TO AC
COUNT FOR THE TRANCE.
Little Jesse Stritt Onco More Falls Into a
Slumber TVhich Has Already Lasted a
Day, and May Continue for Several
Months.
tSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Columbus, Lnd., July 17. Little Jessie
Stritt, of Seymour, is asleep again.
Eighteen months ago he startled the
medical fraternity in this part " he State
by his constant sleep of 21 day SJa,,, ""H
of which time he could not ty 6-frnr A
few months before he fell asleep Ol
from a barn loft, lighting upon his feet.
was thought at the time that he had sus
tained an injury of the spine which caused
his long sleep. From this sleep he rallied
and imparted the information to his parents
that he had been in heaven, from which
place he looked down upon his father while
engaged at work in Illinois. He related at
that time the exact work in which his father
was engaged, in an adjoining State, while
he was asleep. This caused much comment
at the time and attracted much attention to
young Stritt.
For four months after this awakening he
was natural in his sleep and gained much
strength. Some six months ago he fell into
a sleep from which he was not aroused for
sevenconsecutive days, and daring all this
time fie neither ate nor drank anything.
Arousing from this nap, which is now called
his short one, he again became natural in
his habits and grew very rapidly. Yester
day he asked his mother to cook him a cer
tain vegetable for dinner which she did not
have in the house. This she consented to
do, and asked him to go to a store nearby
and purchase it. Entering the store he
said to the clerk: "I want a quarter's
worth," which he repeated several times
and sank upon the floor, and as he did so
murmured, "Mamma." Since that time he
has been in a profound sleep. He is very
pale, breathes regularly, with natural pul
sations, and not the slightest indications of
fever or pain, and does not move. His eyes
are closed, though the lids are easily turned
back, but close again. No physician can
give a plausible reason for his strange con
duct. FOREIGN Tlie cables that bring tho
news of tho world to THE DISPATCH office
to-night stretch beneath every sea. Most
complete foreign service of any newspaper
West of New York.
SHE 'W20NG MTHE PENf
A Romance or Crime Divnlged by the Tale
of a Colorado Cowboy.
Denver, July 17. A sensational story
comes from Grand Junction, which, if true,
will liberate Samuel Jones from the peni
tentiary where he i3 now serving a life sen
tence. In 1885 John L. Campell and
Samuel Jones were partners in a big cat
tle ranch near Unawp canon, Mesa county,
CoL On the afternoon of May 19 Jones left
tho ranch on horseback for Silverton, ex
pecting to reach there some time the next
day. Several hours later Campbell also
left the cabin for a distant part of the
ranch. Jones wa3 never seen alive after
leaving the house, and days afterward his
body was found in a lonely spot riddled
with bullets.
Campbell was arrested for the murder of
his partner, and though stoutly maintaining
his innocence he was convicted on circum
stantial evidence and sentenced to the peni
tentiary at Canon Cityfor33 years. During
the trial Bob and Ira Smith, two cow
boys, were very zealous in their
eflorts to fasten the crime on Campbell,
and organized a mob to lynch him,
but were frustrated. The boys hung around
Grand Junction for two years, when, with
the aid of three others, they robbed the Rio
Grande express train 10 miles east of that
place. The robbers were finally arrested in
Utah and brought to Denver and lodged in
jail, where they made the acquaintance of
Newt Vorce, a man killer from Deer Trail,
who was awaiting his sentence.
The Smiths and Vorce became
friends and exchanged confidences.
Vorce now says they are the
men who killed Jones, and that Campbell
is innocent. They also drew a diagram,
Vorce showing where Jones' saddle a lot of
valuables and $2,500 in cash are buried four
miles from the Unawp ranch. The matter
will be investigated.
NOT A TRUST. OH! NO!
But a Very Good Imitation of One In tho
Paper Box Line.
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCn.
Newt York, July 17. The proprietors of.
the six largest paper box factories in the
United States have combined and hereafter
their business will be run under the name
of the National Folding Box and Paper Com
pany. The combination was formed on Thurs
day and wiligo into operation August 1. The
firms interested are D. S. Walton &
Co., J. S. Nugent & Co., the Whiting Box
Company, of this city; Benton & Co. and
Munson & Co., of New Haven, and the
Cornell and Shelton Company, of Birming
ham, Conn. The combination was brought
about by Francis H. Wilson and I. C. Lea,
who will be the counsel of the concern.
"It is a corporation, not a trust," said
Mr. Nugent to-ilay. "It is organized under
the laws of New Jersey, with a capital stock
of 1,250,000, in which there is not a drop of
water. The members of the firms of all the
companies interested formed this new com
pany and then bought their own factories,
taking in payment stock of the new
corporation. The stockholders are all
present owners, and none of the
stock will be sold except to em
ployes. Each factory will be maintained
separate, as it is now, and the head of the
firm will be the managing director of what
was his own factory. Instead of each doing
all kinds of work, as it does now, .however,
the factory best fitted to do a certain class
of work will do that kind exclusively. This
will, of course, largely reduce the cost The
officers elected by the new company are D.
S. Walton, President; T. L. Cornell, Vice
President; J. S. Nugent, Secretary; F. H.
Benton, Treasurer.
A New Industrial Organization.
New York, July 17. The American
Master Mechanics' Association has been in
corporated. Its objects are stated to be the
advancement of knowledge concerning the
principles, construction, repair and service
,of the lolling stock of railroads,
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CENTS.
DEHT 'W A DEEMIA.
He'Secrrre'd Cash on a Check" on a
Defnnct Coluinhus Bank, hut
INSPECTOR M'ALEESE GOT HDT
Just 33 He Was Preparing to Take His
Departure for Chicago.
OFFERED TO SETTLE UP IF RELEASED
Inspector McAleese last evening arrested
William J. Dent at the Hotel Duquesne
for obtaining money under false pretenses.
Dent, a fashionably-dressed, attractive
young man, was surrounded by a
party of friends of the best families when
arrested. There was consternation in the
crowd when Inspector McAleese asked for
Dent. The latter was led away amid the
protests of his companions and locked up in
Central police station. About 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon Dent entered Melton's
bank and presented a check on the First
National Bank of Columbus, O., on the order
of W. J. Dent & Co., for 5300. The
check was indorsed by a prominent young
man of Pittsburg, well-known at the bank.
Dent got the money without delay and
immediately left. Half an hour later one
of the clerks discovered that the First
National Bank at Columbus was long since
defunct. He at once jumped at the conclu
sion that Dent had played a game on the
bank.
No Such Bank In Columbus.
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''UOrC J()lrr began a personal investiga-
r'mn WilQ BPnf f atiaa s TntmArtA- r.
" if b- "air. In order to leave no
room i. " itake a telegram was sent to
Columbus. -The answer came that the First
National Bank was no more, and that no
such firm as W. J. Dent & Co. was
known in that city. The Inspector
was convinced that rare game wa3
to be had for the hunting, and he immedi
ately began to hunt vigorously. In several
of the larger hotels he and Detective Conl
son visited they found Dent had been there
for a few days. Keeping up inquiries they
soon learned that he had been in the city
about two weeks, stopping first at one hotel
and then at another, under several names.
Finally he was located at the Hotel
Duquesne, where he wa3 registered as W.J.
Jackson, of Parkersburg, W. Va. He had
ueen there a couple of davs, and was mak
ing preparations to depart for Chicago. It
wa3just 6 o'clock when the Inspector con
fronted Dent, to the great astonishment of
the latter and the fashionable young friends
whose acquaintance he had secured during
his short stay in Pittsburg.
Fat Behind the Station's Bars.
Dent tried the bravado, but seeing the In
spector was firm, took the other tack and
offered to turn over all the money if spared
disgrace and allowed to depart quietly.
The Inspector would hear to no such ar
rangement, and'the unwilling prisoner was
soon behind the bars.
On his person was found the 5300, not a
cent of which he had time to spend. Dent
is about 30 years of age. He was dressed in
the height of fashion, and had the appear
ance and demeanor of a man of culture and
refinement. He told Inspector McAleese
that he was a nephew of Judge Jackson, of
Parkersburg.
Dent's final plea was that he was a de
tective. In proof of this he produced a
badge and certificate of the Eureka De
tective Agency of Charleston, W. Va.,
dated February 20, 189L The certificate
requested - HletectiYes throughout the
globe" to show courtesy to its
bearer. He requested to be allowed
this courtesy until morning, when he
said he could furnish perfectly satisfactory
explanation of his conduct Inspector Mc
Aleese said courtesy was all right in its
place, but when begot hold of a manlike
Dent he usually held to him. With that
he pocketed the flashy badge and ordered
Dent locked up.
A Very Swell Young Man.
Among the papers found on the young
man are letters written by himself to rela
tives in which he tells of having injured a
man whom it was at first supposed he had
killed. But the man had recovered, and
Dent was keeping away from the trouble re
sulting. Another letter from Steubenville,
thought to be from a sister, tells of the
writer having attended a reception at the
residence of the Baroness Lagerfelt on the
previous night. All the correspondence is
of such a character as to show conclusively
that Dent belongs to good society at his
home.
He had with him a number of the printed
blank checks of the defunct bank and In
spector McAleese says he will be surprised
it ltis not developed tnat other persons
have been swindled in the same way. In
spector McAleese will have a conference
with the bank officials and the indorser of
the check before proceeding farther in the
case.
OFFICIAL ARCHIVES MISSING.
Six Weeks' Labor of the Sioax Commission
Goes for Naught,
RusnviLLE, Neb., July 17. The Sioux
Commission appointed by the Government
to investigate the circumstances in connec
tion with the recent general outbreak and
the condition of the Sioux tribal relations,
completed its work yesterday at Pine Ridge.
The members started at once for this place.
On arriving it was discovered that all
the records and evidence of the six weeks
had disappeared. The valise containing all
the papers had been placed in the rear of
the carriage. The commissioners had not
left their seats during the trip, and
the disappearance of the papers is inexpli
cable. It is supposed, however, that as a
number of the Indians, not understanding
the meaning of the investigation and fear
ing that it meant a cutting down of rations,
had some of their number steal the valise
from the buggy en route. The records can
scarcely be duplicated, as many of the wit
nesses who testified have since changed their
minds and look with suspicion upon the
Commission's work.
PICTURE TAKXBS ADJOURN.
Frizes Awarded in the Competitive Exami
nation of Photograph Classes.
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Buffalo, July 17. This afternoon the
picture-takers of America concluded the
work of the twelfth annual conventton with
an excursion to Niagara Falls. The first
business of the session this morning was
the re-election of Adam Hermberger as
Secretary. After the announcement of the
awards, the convention adjourned to meet
in Chicago.
The greatest interest centered on the
competitive groups founded on Tennyson's
Soem "Elaine." The competitors were the
:each Bros , of St. Louis; H. McMichael,
of Buffalo, and M iss Catherine Wood Barnes,
of New York. The first prize was awarded
to Reach Bros., and a diploma to Mr. Mo
MichaeL In air brush portraits the first
prize was given to "W. W. Sherman, of
Milwaukee, for the best portrait in black
and white, and a prize to Mrs. K. D.
Saunders, of Alfred Center, for the best
portrait in colors.
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