fiZslHi tXf'JgfgmSm7BMLfi VPi ft, . TWENTY PAGES. wjBffJ"!;'1' T--i m$B&& DOUBLE NUMBER. , .-,,,-,-.-- M. , . . t - .... - FORTY SIXTn TEAR WENT M'KINLEY MAD The People of the Western Reserve "Warm Tip as They 2seyer Have Before. FULLY 25,000 PEOPLE OUT To Dear the First Gun of the Ohio Campaign From the Champion of Protection. A VERY INTERESTING PROCESSION Souvenirs of American Tin and Frodncts From Other Homo Industries Were Features. THE PEETTT GIRLS IX DRESS PARADE, WcLh Singers Enliven the Occasi- and SngfestiTe Mottoes and Decorations Add to tbe Enthusiasm of the Daj. rEOHIXEST JIE5 IISTEX TO THE GEEAT-6PEZCH rsrrcuL Tn.EGn3i to the dispatch. Niles, O.. Aug. 22. Major McKinley got a substantial boom here to-day that gladdened his heart and made him feel that the people of his native town had not for gotten their son. The country at large may wipe out every trace and vestige of McKin leyism a exemplified in his tariff bill, but the friends of his boyhood will never desert iim. The Republican campaign in Ohio was in augurated with a great speech aud a mighty outpouring of people. Fully 23,000 flocked into this place from all the towns within a radius of 50 miles. Thev came wearing Mc Kinley badges, and some were dressed in fantastic costumes that helped to enliven the occasion and break the monotony in the parade. The best of it is that the major portion of the crowd were voters who will cast their ballots in November for the apos tle of protection. The people of this Gibral tar of the tariff and the Republican party have a reputation for intelligence and calm ness. They always vote the right way, but they arc not in the habit of falling on the necks of public candidates. SOT ENTHUSIASTIC BY NATURE. It used to be said that Tom Corwin was the only man that conld make them laugh or elicit a cheer. The fiery Foraker when he first spoke in this section felt that some Artie blast had chilled his blood. There as no applause, no howling, and his most lellinp-(.cntences "id not evn produce a ripple. "- Not so with McKinley to-day. He was one of them, born among them, and if he couldn't stir these distant, intellectual people, then surely the times were out of joint. Like the mother who welcomes her long lost son the citizens were glad to see him. Party lines were thrown to the winds and the venerable Dr. Casper, a simon-pure Democrat, set the example of hospitality when he shook hands with the Major as the parade passed his house. It was McKin ley 's day and it was a succession of ova tions. If the result this fall depended on the vote of the Western Reserve, no further campaign speeches would be needed. Re publican success would be sure. ALMOST A TAET OF PITTSBURG. The Mahoning and Shenango Valleys are full of blast furnaces. Their industrial de velopment is a continuation of the work shops of Pittsburg. The voters are as firm believers in a protective tariff as the Re publicans of Allegheny county. Year after year they roll up majorities that tell nojmcertain tale, and. as a result of their faith and thinking, prospcrity'greets them on every hand. The parade this morning in the interest of McKinley was remarkable for a country town. Not only did the people turn out, but the leaders were here for miles around. Colonel Conger came over from Akron; Senator Snyder, from Canton; Ex-Senator Perkins, from "Warren, Judge Taylor, the Congressman of the district, was ou deck, and General A. W. Jones, J. Morgaa Cole man and other iron manufacturers of Youngstown Mere present. The parade formed about 11 o'clock, and after marching around the town the paraders were re iewed by the Major from the little ivy covered balcony on the old McKinley home stead. THE IDA M'KINLEY CLUB. As the different delegations passed by he was loudly cheered. The Republican can didate returned the greetings with smiles and bows. The list of towns given in The Dispatch of yesterday sent clubs, and a number of others in addition were repre sented. The young ladies from Columbi ania, carrying blue parasols and wearing red sashes, created a furore along the line. An ardent blonde captained the girls, and carried a big banner bearing this inscrip tion: "The Ida McKinley Club." This is the name of Mrs. McKinley, and the Major was much pleased with the courtesy shown his wife. Eienthe women are politicians in Ohio, and this is probably the main reason why the Buckeye State lias produced so many great btatcsmen. McKinley was deeply interested in his old home. The Major visited it early, and took pride in tullinghisfrieudsin what room he slept when a boy. Business houses and private residences were beautilully dei-omted to-day. In front of the house in winch McKinley was born was an evergreen arch bearing the inscrip tion. "Protection means to protect." On top of the arch was the cradle in which Mc Kinley was rocked, a chair supposed to rep resent the Governor's chair, and a picture of the White House at Washington. HOME PRODUCTS IN THE TAIiADE. The demonstration was in the interest of the tariff and calculated to show what pro tection had done for American industries. Only home products were exhibited and the Manufacturers took pain to bring out this la'" i.i 'am nl.ic.nK Tlic Vi'.inrn ilclcji- ..i . : . i I'- i! r 015 feet Ion:; which was plastered with tariff mottoes. Here are a few: Protection is a question of wages. Wo have looked after our own; that is the sum of out-offending. Twonty-two pounds of sugar for $1. Mc Kinley prloes don't scare us. We make tho Iron, will get tho tin; SIcKinley's bill Is bound to win. The best of good money is good enough for us. McKinley to our interests true; Yon stood by us, we'll stand bv you. The industries of the Mahoning Valley are builded on protection; look about you, then vote. New York's alien importers don't run us. It will take more than $500,000 of foreign gold to down us. The new tir plate industry. There were manv others like these. Wherever one looked or turned during the dav some statement about the tariff, Mc Kinley as the next Governor of Ohio, and an honest dollar, greeted the eye with un failing regularity. A great feature was made of the new tin industry, and all sorts of tin souvenirs and designs manufactured at Dcmmler were scattered among the people. The Falcon Iron and Nail Company had a float showing how tin would soon be made in Niles. T. R. Morgan, the Alliance iron man, with a company of Welsh sinsrers from his mill and his own band, arrived early in the day to assist in booming the major. The choir had prepared a number of songs appropriate to the event, and the happy manner in which these Welshmen sang put ever body in good a humor. The burden of their music wass all about McKinley and how he would down Campbell in Novem ber. At the meeting in the afternoon J. H. Sarchct, of Cambridge, an old campaign baritone, closed the proceedings with a topical song, "We'll Be In It." It wound up with the remark that "tho eagle would soar alott, while the cock would only crow next November. THE SPEECH OP THE DAY. The meeting in the afternoon was a howling success, a grand stand had been erected in the school ground. The Major was in good voice and spoke to a large audience for two hours. Most of his hearers were Republicans and in sympathy with him and his cause. A company of Repub lican drummers, who happened to be in the town, led in the annlause and the people followed suit When he appeared on the platform the Major was loudly cheered. He said if he could consult his own wishes he would rather speak on any other sub ject than politics to his fellow townsmen. He was inolined to be in a reminiscent mood, but he shook it off and waded into the issues of the campaign. It was a power ful speech, and when at one stage he talked of quitting, the crowd insisted that he go on. Ex-Senator Perkins, of Warren, in a few words introducedthe Republican candidate. On the platform were noticed: Colonel Conger, Congressman Taylor, Mr. Cope, candidate for State Treasurer; General A. W. Jones and other prominent Ohians. A riTTSBURGER ON DRESS PARADE. In the audience Roger O'Mara flitted about keeping the crooks straight, and there w ere any number of them in the crowd. A partv of slick shell men have been following the Major, and some of them were captured after giving the police a rough and tumble battle. The speech was punctuated frequently with applause and laughter. The Major stined up a good deal of enthusiasm in dis cussing the tariff and in his allusions to the pension question. It amused the vast audi ence when he said he was not running for Governor in Europe, and he knew full well if he was that he wouldn't stand a ghost of a show. This was brought out by the gold which the British are said to be sending to America to knock him out He added that the tariff was not made to please foreigners, and thev feel very sore abont it. Ex-Senator Perkins, of i arren, in talk ing about the situation, said: WHY THE FIGHT 13 SERIOUS. "We are strongly Republican in the Western Reserve and through this section, and if the result depended on our votes, Mc Kinley would be elected. We believe in the tariff and know that our mills and factories could not coniinue without it. It is an easy thing to upset business and it is very hard to re-establish it. A dose of free trade would throw us back lor ten years, and I think our people understand what the fight means. If McKinley should lose this fall, it would be misinterpreted from Maine to the Pacific The whole country would say that Ohio is a free trade State. This is why the fight is so serious. The People's party is not strong in this section, but at present it is hard to say what they will do or from which side they will draw their votes. The Democrats always vote their ticket, while a Republican1, if he is not satisfied, will change his ballot. I think in a short time the lines will be well drawn, and then we will know where we stand." Colonel Conger, who led Foraker's forces to defeat two years ago, wore a very cheer ful smile when he predicted McKinley's election. He said he was not well posted throughout the State, but he thought the People's party wouldn't hurt the Repub licans very miich. COSGER STILL BOOMING BLAINE. The Colonel is one of the original Blaine boomers and when not talking about Mc Kinley the Plumed Knight's name was on his lips. He believes Blaine is the strong est Republican in the country. When asked if it was true that Blaine's popularity was being used to ward off Presiuental candi dates and that at the proper time he would ithdrau in the interest of Harrison, the Colonel replied that such a scheme was news to him. The Colonel was the man who brought news from Bar Harbor to the Blaine gathering that was held in Wash ington some time ago. At that time he gave out the impression that if Blaine was oflered the nomination he 'would accept it. Blaine is very popular in this neck ot Ohio and could have almost anything he wanted. Warner Arms, one of the leading men in the Falcon Iron and Nail Company, in discussing the tariff to-day said: "The duties protect labor, not capital, and I think most of the workingmen understand it The manufacturers cau get along with out the tarift but they would have TO REDUCE THE WAGES of their men. When the British Iron and Steel delegates were in America an English manufacturer visited me, and was here two days. In talking with him I had an excellent chance to make comparisons with English rates. I found what I had often been told but never could prove that the cost of pro duction in the two countries with the ex ception of labor is about the same. Our wages are much higher than the English pay. I discovered also that my English visitor made a big profit on his skelp iron. He explained that this was accomplished through a combination. This was a surprise to me, and I opened my eyes. It has been charged that the tarifl builds up trusts and combina tions, but here are the free trade English making a great deal more on their products than we do. It only shows which system is the best. The Englishman admitted that the tariffwasa good thing for America and it would be better to maintain it than have a fight ith labor. Superintendent F. R. Harris, of the Fal con Iron and Nail Company, ssid that the English profits on bar iron were from $1 to $7,50 per ton. The American is glad to make from Si to $2 on the 6ame amount In this country the men are paid ?5 50 per ton for boiling iron. In Wales the basis of wages, is about SI 75 per ton. These few illustrations are given to point out some of the benefits of the tariff. THE DISTURBING ELEMENT. A County Ticket To Do Nominated by the People's Party at Findlay. rSFECIAL TELEGRAM TO TIIE DISPATCH, Findlay, Aug. 22. A larccly attended incctiuc of the Fariuera' Alliance and l'eo- pie's party was held here to-day, and it I was determined to put a countv ticket in the field. An Executive Committee was appointed j to-day to fix the proper time for nominating i candidates. A People's ticket in this county j this year complicates matters very much, I and the result in the county is hard to pre dict BLAINE A CANDIDATE. EVIDENCE THAT ALGER DID SAX HE WOCLD ACCEPT. He Made the Statement to S. O. Thomas, of San Francisco A "Letter Trom the General Thomas Wroto Out His Inter view for the Press. New York, Aug. 22. Regarding the de nial by General Russell Alger of a reported statement of his that Blaine was to be the next candidate of his party, and that Mr. Blaine had declared himself a candidate, the World will say to-morrow that the state ment was furnished to that paper by Comrade S. O. Thomas, G. A. R., of 420 Kearney street, San Francisco, who de clared that General Alger had made the statement to him during the recent G. A. R. encampment at Detroit The World will also print in fao simile a letter from General Alger of date July 6, 1891, to Comrade Thomas, in which General Alger says: Thank you very much for you esteemed favor. While I know nothing of the future, it now seems tome that Mr. Blaine is cer tain to be nominated and that it is best for us all that ho should be. I appreciate more than I can tell what you say. I hope I shall retain your good opinion and that I shall ho able to see you this fall or winter. Shall you be East probably during that timet Acting on this implied invitation Mr. Thomas visited General Alger at Detroit, where the reported interview took place, The World took the precaution to have Mr. Thomas himself write out the statement and has the original .manuscript. It also stipu lated that in case of denial by General Al ger Mr. Thomas' name should be printed as its authority, as well as the letter in ques tion. CASH FOB SHERMAN ONLY. Business Men ol Northern Ohio Take a Hand in the Senate Fight SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. Cleveland, Aug. 22. At Hon. Mark A. Hanna's residence to-night some earnest words were spoken in support of Senator John Sherman's candicaoy for the Senate. Major McKinley was a listener. He came up from his opening meeting at Niles and was driven to Mr. Hanna's residence. A few hours later Chairman Hahn, of the Republican State Committee, arrived at the Weddell, where Mr. Hanna's carriage was waiting for him. Mr. Hanna, who is much more than a millionaire, talked long and to the point with Chairman Hahn as to the abso lute necessity of sending John Sherman back to the Senate, if the business men of Cleveland were to be looked to for their usual liberal contributions to the Repub lican campaign fund. Major McKinley was weary from his dav's duties, but Mr. Hanna and Chairman Hahn consulted for hours. To your correspondent Mr. Hanna said: "It amounts to just this. The business men of Ohio are not going to stand idly by and see John Sherman supplanted in the United States Senate by anybody. This isn't a'Republican notion it's the .conclu sion of.. the business men of OhioIfit comes to a fight, why we will fight"wV It is generally understood to-night "that the attitude of the Republican committee on the Senatorial fight will have a very im portant effect upon the amount of the fund contributed by the capitalists and business men of Cleveland and Northern Ohio. A PEOPLE'S PARTY POLL. Kansas Managers Claim to Tell Just How Thoj- Stand in the State. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Topeka, Aug. 22. The People's party, with the aid of the machinery of the Farm ers' and Citizens' Alliances, is taking a poll of the State for the purpose of determ ing the exact gains made by the party since the election last November. The managers claim that they have the name and address of every member of the party, as well a3 of everyone who will vote the ticket Each county is divided into districts, of which maps are made, and the names, residences and present and past political faith of voters recorded. Last year, before the system was perfected, the chairman of the State Central Committee announced before election what the ticket would poll and he was out of the way but 3,000 votes on the entire State. Now they claim they reduced the polling to an absolute science and can tell what the results will be, even closer than they did last year. Dr. McLallin, editor of the Advocate, the official organ of the party, said to-day : "We have polled some of the counties of the State and can tell within a dozen votes how we would stand if an election were called to-morrow. Of course there will be changes between now and the election." AFTER THE PRESIDENT JUDGESHIP. The Means Fayette County Democrats Will Employ to Secnre It SPECIAL TELrGltAM TO THE DISPATCn.J TJniontown, Aug. 22. The Democratic County Committee met this afternoon and elected the following delegates to the State Convention: Jacob R. Hough, J. E. Still wagen, Thomas McCullough, Howard Patton, M. W. Franks, C. M. Parker and Charles A. Springer. Hon. Henry Galley, of Franklin township, was nominated for delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and Thomas W. Sharpnock, the nominee for that position in Greene county, was in dorsed by the committee. A resolution calling for the abolition of the conferee system had been prepared, but for some reason it was not submitted to the committee. The judicial contest is near at hand and Fayette wants to becure the Presi dent Judgeship. It is for this reason that she wants the conferee system abolished. It will likely be considered at the next meeting of the committee. All the dele gates elected are anti-Scarightmen. Colonel T. B. Searight was not in attendance. VAEDERBILTS COSTLY YACHT. It Was Built in England and Will Have to Pay 843,987 CO Duty on It rBPZCTAL TELEGRAM TO TOE DISPATCH.1 New York, Aug. 22. Collector Fassett received to-day an important communica tion from Assistant Secretary Nettleton, of the Treasury Department, concerning F. W. Vanderbilt's yacht Conqueror. Mr. Nettleton, in his communication, says that the dispute as to whether the yacht should pay duty as merchandise or not was referred to Solicitor Hepburn, of the Treasury De partment Alter due deliberation, Mr. Hepbnrn decides that the yacht, having been built in England, must pay duty. The yacht cost 15,550, or $77,750. Tho duty is 45 per cent, or $43,987 0 and Col lector Fassett will now take steps to have the yacht officially appraised. Mr. Hep hum's decision is of great importance to w e.ilthy Americans who own yachts built in England. PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, THE CHEST TRAGEDY. Ironton People Believe the Three Children Were Murdered. NO INQUEST PROVIDED FOB. A Johnstown Woman Arrested for Shooting Her Recreant Husband. ALLEGED PATRICIDE AT ALTOONA SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TIIE DISPATCH.) Ironton, O., Aug. 22. The horrible tragedy of yesterday is likely to soon be followed by an other, unless something is done by the authorities to clear up the mys tery surrounding the death of Leslie, Edith and Emma May, the three pretty children of George Hamilton. An exciting scene .occurred this morning, when the three children were laid out in their parents' home, and the Coroner sent word that he must positively decline to hold an inquest A body of leading citizens at once called on the Coroner, intending to demand that an inquest be held, claiming to have evidence that certain persons had at least a knowledge of the children's being smothered. The coroner had absented himself, however, and this fact added to the indignation. This feeling has been growing all day, and may culminate at any time in an attack on the very house where the dead children lie. George Hamilton, the father of the smothered babes, is censured for not urging a speedy investigation. The family has subsisted on the proceeds of the oldest hoy's daily begging trips through tho city and suburbs. This boy is 10 years of age, and he is the only one of the children who escaped death. An officer with a self-constituted body of citizens made a closer investigation into the cause of the children's deaths this after noon, and have established to their own satisfaction at least, the fact that they were deliberately smothered. The chest in which their bodies were found is an old-fashioned tool chest with a light board lid. The position of the limbs of the ohildren, as they lie even now in death, is so unusual, that comment was excited at once. They were all well developed. The chest was too small to hold them com fortably, and their bodies indicate hey had been jammed into the chest by some one, who then firmly forced a stick through the staple and lock to hold them there, as he strength of even tho youngest babe, Emma May, aged 2 years, would have been sufficient to lift the lid had not the fatal lock prevented. The funeral of the innocents will take place to-morrow, unless the Coroner should finally decide to interfere and attempt to clear the mystery. If not, it is feared some hostile demonstration will be made toward those upon whom suspicion seems to have been attached by the gossips. ANOTHER JOHNSTOWN 8ENSATI0N. A Man Snot Dead and His Wife Arrested for His Murder. SPECIAL TELEOBAMS TO THE DlSrATCTI. Johnstown, Aug. 22. The Seventh ward, this city, was the scene of a tragedy last night which-resulted in tho death of Harry E. Miller! A' few days ago a report was published that he had eloped with the hired girl, while his wife was ill," Tho wife entered suit against him for desertion, and last evening Miller returned. He went to his home, and plead with his wife to with draw the suit This she consented to do. What happened after that is a mystery. All that is known, is that about 11 o'clock a pistol shot was heard, and the frightened neighbors rushed over to the place to see Miller fall to the ground beside the pump. Mrs. Miller was at the scene, and though greatly frightened, managed to say that he had gone out to get a drink, and while there fired two bullets into his head, the last penetrating his brain. Mrs. Miller was found bending over him. An investiga tion was ordered by the authorities, and what at first was considered a de liberate suicide, may turn out to be murder. The Coroner held an inquest to night, and the result of their deliber ations was that Mrs.Miller was arrested and will be held until a closer investigation can be made. It is said to-night one circum stance which caused the Coroner's Jury to order the arrest of Mrs. Miller, was that the first bullet, supposed to have been fired by the alleged suicide, missed entirely. A VERY SUSPICIOUS DEATH. The Coroner's Jury Investigating a Mvst terions Caso in Blair County. tSPECIAL TELFGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. Altoona, Aug. 22. At Sinking Valley August Hench, one of the oldest and most respectable citizens of that place, died sud denly Tuesday morning at the home of his son Charles. Hench seemed to be in unus ually good health, and his death was con sidered mvsterious by the neighbors. He was buried the following day. Coroner Pool yi3 notified and asked to make an investigation. To-day that official had the remains exhumed, but found them greatly decomposed. It was found that the man had been buried wrapped in the sheet in which he died, and also in his soiled linen, and that the body, had not been washed in a decent manner. It was stated that his son Charles had mistreated his father the day before lie died, and that in juries had been inflicted on his forehead sufficient to cause death. When the son was questioned about not giving his father a decent burial, lie replied that the heirs wanted the old man's money S10.000 and did not care about investing his money foolishly. An other son, with several members of the fiimily, asked to have the affair investigated. Charles opposed the request, and affirms that his father died from natural causes. A farther examination of witnesses will be held Tuesday, when the coroner's jury will make a final decision in the matter. A COLLEGE TOWN MURDER. Tho Gorilla Mf.n of a Side Show a Partici pant vn a Fatal Brawl. SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. Lima, Aug. 22 The College town of Ada has been in a ferment of excitement over a murder that occurred there shortly after midnight The fair and races attract ed large crowds to town. Jacob S. Stokes bury, a fellow named Stewart and John Frutch became engaged in an altercation in front of Baumon's grocery store. A fight followed, first between Stokesbury and Stewart. The former was knocked down. Frutch then rushed in and strnck Stokes burv in the face with a 'stone. The blow landed on his forehead, crushing his skull and breaking his nose. Seeing what they had done, Stewart and Frutch fled. Stokes bury expired in ten minutes. Officers found Stewart and locked him up. Frutch as found buried in a stall beneath a lof of hav aud straw. A lynching party AUGUST 23, J.891. was quickly organized and would have made short work of the murderer but he was spir ited away to Kenton, where he is now in jail. Stewart, his accomplice, is known as the "Gorilla Man," and has been traveling with a side show. A MAN IN THE AIR. TEST OF A NEW AIR SHIP AT CINCIN NATI YESTERDAY. John C. Itandall Able to Move About by Means of a Balloon and a Bicycle Scheme Couldn't Die His Dynamo Hl Strength Gave Out. f SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCIt.l Cincinnati. Aug. 22. The friends of John C. Randall are jubilant to-night over the showing made by his airship at the Zoo gardens here to-day. Randall's ship consists of a vhuge balloon to which is hung a car. The motive power is a dynamo, but to-day hydrogen being in accessible, common illuminating gas was used and the dynamo discarded. A bicycle arrangement was used to propel the fans. Of course, this power was feeble, but enough was shown to indicate that Randall has made a great advance on any thing yet accomplished in navigating the air. .Nearly 2,000 people assembled to see the first public test. It was announced that the dynamo had been taken out, and Ran dall himself would furnish the power. At a signal he bestrode the bicycle arrange ment and, working the paddles with all his force', a--cendcd about 75 feet. He then propelled the machine forward about 50 feet, and reversing the machinery traveled backward the same distance. He then made partially successful efforts to turn the balloon round, and travel at right angles to its former direction. He then lowered and raised the machine at will, but for slight distances only. It was clear that his strength was not sufficient to wield the balloon and car, but the fact that he was at all able to raise and lower the machine, to drive it forward and backward, is taken as proof he has hit the correct principle, and a new improved bal loon with electric dynamo and silk bag will be immediately constructed. All the metal will be aluminum. Randall was enthusias tically cheered. THE RIGHT MAN AT LAST. Cashier Maple and Many Others Identify the Columbus Grove Bobber. SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. Lima, Aug. 22. The young man, James Roberts, who was arrested at New Wash ington, O., suspected of the Columbus Grove robbery Bnd murder, has been fully identified by Cashier Maple, John Roberts and the hardware dealer who sold him the two revolvers with which he did the shooting. Roberts was also visited by five other prominent citizens of Colum bus Grove, who had seen him at the time of theshooting,and they identified him beyond a doubt. Roberts was brought to Ottawa to-night, where he was placed in jail, tbe officers taking him in so quietly the people did not know of his identity until he was safely be hind the bars. Roberts is sullen and de fiant, and refuses to talk of the affair, or even to deny that he is the man wanted. Personally Roberts is a fine-looking young fellow, and no one would suspect him of being the daring burglar and shooter. He is an edge-tool worker, and was formerly employed in the wagon works of the Mil burn Company, at Toledo, where he bore a good reputation. -' tfoKXGAGES IH KANSAS - The Debt on Real Estate, Including Farms, Now Amounts to 8235,000,000. FBOM A STArr COBBESPONDENT.J Washington, Aug. 22. It is probable hat the reports in regard to the "storm of indignation" aroused by Senator Peffer and Representative Simpson among their con stituents in Kansas by their assertion in re gard to mortgages in that State are much exaggerated, as the truth of their declara tions could easily be established. The statistics at the Census Office in regard to "homes and mortgages" are yet incomplete, but they show that the real estate mort gages of Kansas, independent of all other forms of obligation for debt, amounted, dur ing the past ten years, to 5482,700,000, of which S235,000,000 still remain. The per capita debt in such mortgages is 5160. Seventy-one per cent of mortgages are on farms; 28 per cent are subject to 10 per cent interest; 7 per cent to 12 per cent interest, and some, they say, to 40 per cent interest. The number of mortgages repre senting this deb', is 620,000. HOT AND COLD WEATHER. San Francisco Sweltering and Texas Shiver ing on tho Same Day. San Francisco, Aug. 22. A hot wave predicted by the local branch of the Weath er Bureau to last until Tuesday or Wednes day began yesterday. To-day the signal service thermometer registered 91 at noon, while temperature on the sidewalks was estimated at over 100. A dispatch from Colorado, Tex., says: A most remarkable spell of weather struck this section this morning. Yesterday was extremely warm. The thermometer marked 106 in the bhade at 2 P. M. At midnight a north wind commenced to blow. At day light a cold rain set in, and at 11 o'clock the thermometer registered 63, a fall of 41 in less than 24 hours. This has been a verita ble cold day in August. FE0ST IN THE WEST. Parts of South Dakota and Iowa Slightly Nipped Friday Night. Watertown, S. D., Aug. 22. A fall of 50 in temperature occurred last night, and the frost line was touched. Corn is injured. A dispatch from Fargo, N. D., says that clouds and light wind prevented frost there last night. Farmers made smudges every where. The lowest temperature was 35. A slight frost tell this morning west of Boone, la., and was reported as quite sharp at Dennison and VaiL A BIG AMERICAN SCHEME With a Capital of 8800,000 Successfully Floated In London. BY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, Aug. 22. Isaac TJntermeyer has this week succeeded in floating in Lon don the first large American scheme since the panic last fall He has brought out-the Ludlow Valve Manufacturing Componyt of Troy, for 800,000, the capital stock being retained by the owners in America, and the first mortgage 6 per cent bonds and 8 per cent preferred shares being subscribed for here. LOCUSTS DEVOURED THE CHOPS. A Famine-Strickon Province Ont of the Reach of Russian Government Help. St. Petersburg, Aug. 22. The Ural provinces inhabited by the Kirghese, are the most affected by the failure of the har vest, which was in the greater part de voured by locusts. - Owing to the fact that 'there are no rail roads leading to that part of the Empire, tho Russian Government is unable to re lieve the inhabitants of those provinces, though it is undcratood they are sullering great privations. A HUNDRED. KILLED, Frightful Slaughter of Hu man Beings in New York by a Building's Collapse. ITRE ADDS ITS TERMRS To a Scene of Disaster of the Most Appalling Description. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF A CHILD. Taken Out Alive From Beneath Seven Feet of Brick and Timbers. MANY CHARRED BODIES RECOVERED TSPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCIt.l New York, Aug. 22. This afternoon at 12:31 o'clock the four stores, five stories high, at 68, 70, 72 and 74 Park place, sud denly collapsed. The tall was instantly followed by fire. The four stores were the rear half of .the building 247 Green wich street, which extends 133 feet on Pork place. They were all occupied, and it now seems probable that more than a hundred lives were lost. There is a con siderable difference of opinion as to the cause of the disaster. People in the wrecked buildings who have escaped say there was no explosion, but those who were on the street near the scene say that they heard the report of an explosion. It seems probable that the weight of the printing presses which were located on the upper floors, together with the vibration caused by their motion, proved two much for the building and caused the collapse. Not since the Brooklyn theater fire has there been such a terrible disaster. When the body of the last unfor tunate is removed from the wreck and ranged with its poor fellows in the long line ot those that wait for recognition it will be well if the list is numbered in tens. A MERCIFUL DISASTER. This was a more merciful disaster than the other. To the people who lost their lives by to-day's accident death came almost instantly. Those who were in the building and escaped differ with those who saw it from the street, as to tbe cause of the fire. No one in the building who is now alive heard the report of an explosion. There was a rumble like the roar of thunder, they 6ay, and then the crash was as if some gi gantic truck, with wheels iron laden with tons of steel bars, had rolled over a pave ment of boulders and dropped its tremen dous load with one burst of sound. Then came the fire and smoke. Instantly, before the frightened people in the building could collect themselves to attempt escape, there rolled forth the stifling clouds of smoke and the roaring flames. With one accord the people rushed to the main en trance on Park place. Already it was impassable; and then, almost tumbling over each other, men and women, boys and girls, climbed and fell down the fire escape on the Greenwich street side of the building BOOM Off AN EXPLOSION. Those who were on tha street say they "ward the boom of an explosion. Hardly three seconds after the report 100 feet of the onter wall pitched out into the street It buried in a mound of bricks men retiring from their work, children at their play, and people passing along the "sidewalk. It caught a horse hitched to a truck, and be fore the poor beast could realize where the first brick came from, thousands of other bricks pounded him to death. By one of those rare streaks of fortune the driver es caped. The bricks of the fallen wall had not stopped rolling along the street when the space they had occupied was a red sheet of fire. The black, thick smoke rolled up as from the funnels of a thousand ocean steam ers. Tho south wind wafted it away, but its volume and its color told folks miles away its story of disaster. Then came the engines and the firemen. SOUNDING THE ALARM. The first alarm was sent in from a box at the corner of Barclay and Greenwich streets. Two linemen of the fire department were working at the fire wires and boxes in Greenwich street. One of them ran to the box and pulled it. Presently a second and third alarm followed and fire engines and trucks and hospital ambulances came clat tering madly from all directions. The scene at the time was weirdly, strangely beautiful. The wall was down for four 'store fronts. At the instant that the street wall fell the roof crashed down upon the floors below it The girders gave way under the strain, and the whole interior of that part of the building dropped in a mass. The shell was left standing, like a blast furnace, open in front. Next to the shell stood the three stores, 7G, 78 and 80 Park place. A brick partition -wall between 74 and 76 saved that part from the ruin, but it could not stop the fire. RUSH OF THE FLAMES, Almost before a line of hose could be laid the flames were playing a boisterous game of tag in and out of the window. Long tongues of fire shot out of the -windows in angry defiance of the firemen, like the an gry rattlesnake at his tormenter. The sun stood high over the burning building. Its yellow disk was hidden bv the great colnmn of black .smoke that rolled up out of the blast furnace. Thirteen engines were spouting water on the fire, and down at the foot of Greenwich street the big fire boat New Yorker was doing her bes( to empty the North river into Park Place. Rumors were chasing each other through the streets of the terrible loss of life. But no one could tell accurately anything about the number of people in the building. Those who had escaped were too much ex cited to think of anything else than their own good fortune. Men hugged each other and laughed hysterically. Women sat down on the doorsteps nud cried. On the ground floors were a bronze powder factory, a drugstore and a restaurant. Above them were a blankbook manufactory, n printing shop and a lithographing estab lishment. NUMBER OF IXST UNKNOWN. Nn one could tell how manv neoDle were in the drugstore. In the basement of the bronze powder factory there were five girls employed cutting gold leaf. All are thought to nave been lost The restaurant employed about 15 men, most of whom are missing. There is no reliable information as to the number of persons in the restaurant, but as it was just the noon hour, the number was probably large. It was said that there were 33 of the lithographers employed in the part of the building which felL Eight people were employed in the printing shop; one escaped by a miracle. In the blank book manufactory there were about 15, three or four of whom were girls. It is difficult to see how any of them could have escaped. Four lines of hose were run up on the roof of the building which adjoined the burning building on the south. Holes were cut through the brick walls and water was poured in torrents down into the blazing mass in the pit of the blast furnaces. Down in front of the fallen wall half a dozen streams were playing on the ruins Lines were siamesed, and through five inch hose the water was poured into the seething caldron inside the shell of the wrecked building. RECOVERING THE BODIES. In spite of all these efforts it was almost 3 o'clock before the first efforts could be made toward the recovery of the bodies. The firemen had worked with tire less energy. They had raced to their work without their midday meal, and they were wet and tired. But when the word was given to begin to dig away the wreck they turned to with as great a will as they hod fought the fire with. They had worked but a few minutes when, at 3:10 o'clock, they found the first body. A murmur of "They've got.the first one," ran through the crowd of onlookers, and then a hush fell upon them as they saw the firemen tenderly pick up the bruised body and carry it tojhe sidewalk, where it was laid under a "- -Shortly after that the men working' tgjm """""hie of the fire dis covered rr. 0n , ""-"ring out be tween thectlnJ.- " Juj. up and the hand was . ''Jf7. 'l 'own ,rt pancu as 11 grasping at wni r a r A MOAN FROM BELOW. ' Just as the arm was discovered, men working further out of the street on the pile of bricks thought they heard a faint cry from below. Instantly there was a trans formation in the crowd of tired workers. Some of them had stopped for a few minutes to eat a sandwich. Others were getting a drink of water from the boys who were passing around buckets. But as the word went around that someone under the ruins was alive, with a shout the men fell to work on the pile of bricks and timbers. They had begun to lag before that There was no cause for great hurry after it seemed I clear that everyone still in the ruins was dead. The bricks had been thrown DacK in a desultory way. But now there was life to save. The tired men worked as only men can work when lives are in the balance. Soon the firemen had cleared away a con siderable pile, and a small black hole was exposed, leading into what appeared to be the cellar. In a few minutes, nowever, the firemen saw that a heavy iron shutter had fallen on the sidewalk upon two beams, and that when the bricks showered upon it a claw-like enclosure was formed. A LIVING CHILD FOUND. Through the half darkness they saw the agonized eyes of a little girl, across whose mouth and nose one end of a beam rested. She was able to moan faintly, but the neavy pressure against her mouth would not allow her to talk. It was a wonderful sight to see the firemen work then. Somebody ran and told an ambulance surgeon that a living being was beneath the wreck. The surgeon quickly filled a small hypodermic syringe with a solution that would send the blood coursing faster through the body and stimulate weakened nerves, and stood close by the fast widening aperture, ready to use "it as soon as it was possible. Presently strong hands lifted the beam from the girl's mouth and she spoke. Her first words were: "My little sister is in here." Then she cried from her own pain. Soon they were able to seize her and lift her up and "when the crowd, that stretched for blocks on either side, saw her wave her hands, a loud cheer went up and there was a clapping of hands. HER MOTHER'S INSANE JOT. Fireman Mulligan took her in his arms and carried her to an ambulance that was backed up to the curbnear by; She curled one arm around his neck and waved the other. Her face was bloody and there was an ugly cut beside one eye and on the cheek. At first every one thought that she was waving her hand at tli5 crowd, hut as rfie was carried on the sidewalk there was a loud scream that seemed to.corae from the air above and then the little one began to cry. Everybody looked up, and through an open window on the top floor of the build ing opposite the fire beheld a sad scene. The mother had recognized her daughter, and the revulsion of feeling after the mental tor ment she had gone through had for the moment deprived her of reason, and she was struggling in the clasp of her husband trying to throw herself out of the window. He held her tight and dragged her back into the room, but several times she freed her self and ran to the window's edge. Finally he pushed her into a room, and she did not come out for nearly an hour. CRYING FOR HER MAMMA. But the little girl who had been waving her hands and crying, "Mamma, mamma," was struggling in the fireman's arms and sobbing: "Oh, don't take me to the hos pifcih Mamma will scold me. Please, mister, please." But the fireman patted her and said huskily, "Don't cry, little girl, I'll go along with you." Then they placed her in a Chambers Street Hospital ambulance and drove off. The girl's name is Mary Heagney, and she is 9 years old. The firemen now began to dig for Annie, the little sister, who was still buried beneath the bricks. They were throwing aside all the obstructions as fast as they could, when a woman rushed bare-headed among them and cried in an agonized voice: "Where's Johnnie? Have vou found my Johnnie yet? Oh, God! My Johnnie! He's killed! killed." The police came and dragged her away. She said she was Mrs. Gibbs, and that she lived around the corner in Greenwich street. Her 10-year-old son, she said, had been playing with the Haegney children, and now she couldn't find him anywhere. HER DEAD BOY; FOUND. The firemen found him and ten minutes afterward they found little Annie Haegney close by him. It was 4 o'clock when the city dead wagon, with its load of plain pine coffins, drove up. There were six bodies in waiting for it. At midnight the workers in the ruins were about to take out six more bodies which were in sight. Dominick Birkey, a cook, who was em ployed in the kitchen of Petersen's restau rant, escaped from the ruins, dressed only in his undershirt and trousers. He said: "There were five of us in the kitchen, and we were all busy at work when there was a great crash, it seemed as if the building fell all about us, but we were not hurt. There was a door from the basement into No. 76; but it was closed. I knocked it down and the other cooks fol lowed me out. At the sidewalk we had to crawl through an opening in the wall, which had partly fallen. Fireman Slavin made his second descent into the cellar of the building at half past 9 o'clock, by means of a ladder through a hole in the sidewalk. When he reappeared he reported seeing three bodies, two men and a boy apparently 17 years of age, but their positions, pinned down by timbers and !.... ..! .la m.ilii if A ,l,nmmt,a ininff tr 1IUU UUCia, maul. .N U UUUj,l..WUA U1U i remove them. PAgain a third time, with two to accompany him, Slavin went down. The party were gone ten minutes before they reappeared. Then Slavin came up the ladder, struggling with the mangled and in animate form of a body in his arms. Upon a heap of brick's and debris it was laid and revealed a horrible sight. In life the victim had been a man between 45 and SO years, heavily built and standing probably six feet. From what re mained of his features, which were fear fully mangled, his appearance indicated that he was a German. A considerable sum of money was found on the body. This body had hardly been disposed of when strange sounds, as of some one moan ing, were heard coming from the ruins. Again there was a timeof suspense while the firemen entered the cellar. Soon they Continued on Seventh 1'age. ITVE GENT& ALMY'STOUGHEECOED. Identified as an Escaped Convict From a Vermont Prison. HE IS A DESPEEATE CRIMINAL. His Right Same George H. Abbott, and He Has Served Much Time. FIERCE FIGHTS HELD WITH OFFICERS TSPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 Hanover, N. H., Aug22. It has been established beyond a doubt that Frank O Almy, the murderer of Christie Warden, is none other than George H. Abbott, who escaped from the Vermont State Prison at Windsor about six years ago. Warden Oakes and two superintendents from Wind sor this morning positively identified him as the man sentenced. Abbott is known as an expert burglar and a desperate criminaL His age to-day would be just about that of Almy. When he escaped from the State Prison a reward of M00 was offered for bis capture. At the time of his escape he was serving out a sentence of 15 years, having been convicted on nine different indict ments for breaking and entering, to which he pleaded guilty, in January, 1881. Another strong point in the identifica tion is the fact that Abbott was from Salem, Mass., and Almy is said to have come from that city. Abbott is a son of Harris E. Abbott, of Salem. The father has been dead several years. When Abbott was ar rested in 1881 he was the ringleader of a gang of burglars who operated in the towns up and down the Connecticut river from Barnet, Vt, on the north, to Lym, N. H., on the south. Abbott made his home most of the time the depredations were occurring at the house of his uncle at Fly station. CAPTURED AFTER A FIGHT. In December, 1880, he was captured in the woods near Fly station by a posse of citizens, under the leadership of Deputy SheriffBerry. Stored in the woods were found over 300 different articles which the gang had stolen, and among them was a rifle which he had stolen from his captor, Deputy Sheriff Berry. Abbott had" also taken $800 from him. At the time of his capture he made a desperate and deter mined resistance and received 20 different bullet wounds before he surrendered. Four days afterward he escaped from his captors and ran over a mile and a half, with nothing on but his night-shirt and a bed spread thrown around him. He concealed himself in a railroad culvert, hut was soon found. A prominent citizen of Thetford, Vt, who lives not far from where Abbott's home was in that town, says that Abbott came to Thetford when about 15 years old, to live with his uncle, Israel Abbott Ho was a bright, quick-witted boy, but showed a marked propensity for stealing. He at one time stole a stove and set up a black smith shop on the bank of the Connecticut river. As he grew older he showed a fond ness for girls and was a great favorite, and was always very gentlemanly in his conduct toward them. SENT TO CONCORD PRISON. In 1875, he was arrested for breaking into Hale's jewelry store at Oxford, and sentenced to four years in the State prison at Concord. His term was shortened by good behavior. He returned to Thetford and lived, as faras known, a most exemplary life, Until 1880. Uuring the. arly part of that year the towns of Thetford, Fairlee and Oxford were ransacked by some mid night marauder, who was found to be Abbott He was shot in the hip while making his escape from J. K. Carr's house in Oxford. These depredations were committed with great adroitness, but suspicion fell upon Abbott He had disappeared from his nncle's farm, but glimpses obtained of him by people whose houses he had robbed con firmed their suspicions. It had been noticed that a strange hand car had been seen several times near the railroad near Ely station on the Passumsio Railroad. This, with other things led to the conclu sion that the outlaw had headquarters near that place. ALMY HUNTED DOWN. Next day after the November election in 1880 a general hunt was organized. Seventy-five men, well armed, atter half a day's search, located him in a rudely built hut among the ledges which overlooked the sta tion at Ely, and not more than half a mile away. He resisted and was fired upon, some 27 shots taking effect, He was finally overpowered and taken into custody. He pleaded guilty to charges of burglary and got 15 years. Abbott conducted himself so well in prison that he gained the confidence of everv officer connected with the institution. At the end of-about seven" years a place of trust was given him, and he took advantage of it and escaped. Almy is to betaken to the Hillsboro county jail at Manchester by order of the Court. Almy was guarded lost night in his room at the Wheelock House by officers, who relieved each other at intervals. He rested quietly until 11 o'clock, when he fell into a delirious condition and talked of love, poetry, "natural history, etc He sang with a firm, strong voice several verses of "The Slocking Bird," and when he came to "Singing O'er Her Grave," his voice broke, and ne was completely overcome. THE DISPATCH DIRECTORY. Contents or the Issae Classified for th Convenience of tho Headers. The Issue of The Dispatch to-day consists of 20 pages, made up in two parts. The news of the day occupies the first nine pages. The special features and class news will be found as follows: Fane 9. McKinley's Speech t Niles. News of Europe. Balmaceda's Latest Act Love and Finance, Lincoln as He Was JOHN RUSSELL YOUNO Fane 11. railing the Wires Chables T, Mubbat The Want Column. To Let Column. Tot Sale Notices. Page 13. The Society World. Gossip of the Gaard. Page 13. News of the Stage. Miscellaneous. Points on Salads,, ..Mb. E. W. Sherwood Men Servants to Go Margaret II. Welch Ladles Riding Astride. Household Decoration. Juice of the Urape Ellice Serena Lata Fashion Notes. Pageli. Late News in Brief. Business Cards. PagtlS. Courting in Mexico Frank G. Cabpxntzs France In Cochin-china Fales-Bedloz A Freak Statesman Clinton Lloyd Freda Sonailay Emma V. Sderidax Page IS. The Cape Cod Folks BILL.NTX A Jersey Paradise Amanda M. Douglas. Home Rule for Wales T.K. Roberts Page 17. TheJonrney Ended Charles J". 1.UMMI3 The Windmill PATSM They Taint Corpses Faxnii B. Ward Convinced at Last REV. GtOBOK HODGM Page IS. Review of Hports PBINGLX " Gossip of the Day WILKII Au Old Chronicle Bessie BRAMBLE Speed on tbe Sea. Erery Day Science. Page 13. The Grand Army. A Ta'k for a Nlcket The Markets by Wire. Local Trade "Sews The suoiucr Reports. Secret Societies. 1 1 i
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