Ill I PI UN III II II l IIM M l I P !!! I I I II 11 llllllll
JWS31
'Ifwr,
3
3&
s
LARGEST INCREASE YET. '
'small Ads for Two Weeks
Ending
.Sept. 19, 1891 2.7GD
Same Period 1S90..1.981
Increase, 785.
This Is the Best Result Yet.
a wows mi
FORTY-SIXTH YEAR
II SIX BIG STATES
TlicIastlmportantCampaigns
Before 1892 Are Sow Be
ing Contested.
BUDDING BOOMS AT STAKE.
All the Indications Are Encouraging
for the Republicans.
OHIO'S JOINT DEBATE A FEATURE.
Powderly Will Stump the State, but Not
for Greffg and Jlorrison.
ROBINSON'S FRESH CROP OF 3IUSHR00MS
(ETiaU TET.EGBAM TO TOK DISPATCH. 1
Washington, Sept. 20. "There is one
tiling about the campaign this rear," said a
Democratic Congressman who is paying a
brief visit to the capital, "that makes a bad
showing for the Harrison administration.
That is that etcy State in which there is a
real contest now was carried by the Repub
licans in 1.S88. Since the failure of the
force bill the Republicans seem to have
abandoned the South, and in three-fourths
of the States in that section have no ticket
in the field. On the contrary, the Demo
crats are contesting the very strongholds of
their opponents. However, I will admit
that if the Republicans carry all the points
at stake they will be in pretty good shape."
Perhaps half the Commonwealths in the
country hare an election of some kind or
other on this year. The interest, though,
centers :n a half dozen contests, though
there is also some curiosity as to the effect
of the Alliance operations in the South,
where, in one or two sections, they are
openly opposing the regular Democratic
slates.
ALti EYES ARE FIXED ON OHIO.
Naturally the contest in Ohio attracts the
most general attention here. All Republi
cans now claim McKinley's election as a
certainty, andarecven talking of a majority
of 30,000 or more. Buckeye Democrats at
the capital are not doing much shouting,
awl seem to be banking more upon Camp
bell's proverbial luck than any tangible
quantity. .Now that the uovernor is at last
in the field there is no doubt about the
warmth of the canvass from now until No
vember 3.
The coming joint debate of the rival can
didates is a subject of much discussion.
McKinley's friends express amazement that
iris opponent should have had the temerity
to challenge their champion to a public
meeting on the same platform, and confi
dently assert that the affair will be very
one-sided. On the other hand the Demo
crats shake their heads with an attempt at
mystery, and whisper that there are some
surprises in store which will be set to the
tane of "The Campbells Are Coming." They
do not care, though, to back their intima
tions with cash, even when long odds are
offered upon the tariff statesman.
TIIE EMPIRE STATE BATTLE.
Next in importance is the contest in Hew
York, and there the situation is more
mixed. Both Fassett and Flower were
nominated by the machines of their respec
tive parties, but neither is certain of an ab
solutely reliable support. There are many
who think that Hill will take care that no
other Democrat shall carry the State in
order to strengthen his boast that he is the
only man who can surely do it. The anti
Platt contingent, on the other hand, may
make a mark of Fassett, while the ample
barrel of the Tarnmanj' nominee is apt to
litre some weight.
All admit that, everything considered,
the Republican prospects of carrying N ew
York are better than in any State election
for years past. If this can be accomplished
it will mce than offset, in a party sense,
any success tLat the Democratsmay achieve
in other quarters. It is practically certain
that the majority will be small
whichever Eide comes in ahead, and
that the Empire State will be
in 1892 as in 1SSR and 1RS4, close fighting
pround, but with the advantage with this
year's victors. So on election night the re
terns from the big pivotal commonwealth
will be scanned with interest, if not anxiety.
IN TIIE EAST ASI) WEST.
The struggles in to other States, more
than a thousand miles apart, are very simi
lar. In both Massachusetts and Iowa Dem
ocratic Goernors elected during the recent
political upheaval are laboring for a second
term. The tariff is the main issue in each
case, though complicated somew hat by the
prohibition question in the Western cam
paign. In Massachusetts the Democrats
devote most of their attention to a demand
for free raw material for the benefit of the
mills and factories, while in Iowa they are
shouting for a reduced tariff on manufac
tured goods to help the poor farmer.
The Republicans are not idle in either
State, and are making a strong canvass with
candidates aboie the average. It is re
garded here as almost certain that the New
England Commonwealth will be redeemed,
and recent tidings from Iowa are of a hope
ful nature.
Nebraska has quite a three-cornered fight
on hand, though only minor officers are to
be chosen. The three parties, Republican,
Democratic and Alliance, all exhibited
about the same strength last year, and the
vote polled by the farmers in this contest
may be taken as an indication of their per
manent power in "Western politics.
THE PENNSYLVANIA SITUATION".
Strange as it may seem, of the six States
limned, the one the Republican leaders in
"Washington feel the most uncertainty about
is Pentis-lvania. Ofcoursc.no one doubts
the position of the Keystone State upon the
tariff or other national questions, or that it
will roll up a big majority for the Republi
can candidates in 1832. But they say it is
impossible to forecast the result of the re
cent fmaueial revelations upon the popular
mind, ep'-einlly as there are intimations of
more to come.
tiasiy and Mage, however, are under
stood to b- thoroughly in harmony so far as
this year's campaign is concerned at least,
and with this assured Republicans here feel
that the State will be found on the right
side when the otes arc rounted. If Phila
delphia gels well in line, and the treasury
scandals fail to hae any partisan effect, a
pood-sized majority may even be looked for.
All reports indicate tha't there is not a start
ling amount of interest manifested in the
campaign, and that the number of ballots
polled will be rather under the average. It
is regarded here as certain that the Consti
tutional Convention scheme will be buried
deeply, as there does not seem to be the
slightest popular demand for such an insti
tution. BUDDING FRESIDENTAL BOOMS.
The votes cast on November 3 are likely
to affect many personal aspirations, as well
as the general party situation. McKinley's
victory will bring him prominently to the
front, and if by any chance the reciprocity
statesman should not be in the field next
year the author of the tariff law is certain
to be heard from. If Campbell's luck
should by any possibility.pull him through
he could have almost anything in the Demo
cratic gift.
Russell, of Massachusetts, is not old
enough to run for President or Vice Presi
dent, and is a Cleveland adherent, besides,
but Governor Boies, of Iowa, is more am
bitious, and if re-elected will certainly
make a bid for at least second place on the
national ticket Flower, of New York,
has had ambition for some time, and it
would rjrobablv not renuire a verv larrre
majority in New York to make him believe
that there was a general demand for his
services in a broader field.
Another Democratio success in Pennsyl
vania wonld be considered, whether justly
or not, as enhancing Pattison's chances as
a possible compromise. But if the Repub
licans carry all these States, these budding
Democratic booms will be badly nipped,
and the faithful will be obliged to turn
once more to Cleveland, who is keeping
strangely qniet just at present.
THE PLANS OF POWDERLY.
IIE Trm TAKE THE STUMP, BUT NOT
FOR GREGG AND MORRISON.
Tho Master "Workman "Will Only Advocate
a Constitutional Convention He Does
Not Understand Why He Has Been
Made a Campaign Issue.
Philadelphia, Sept. 20. Spftial
Grand Master "Workman Powderly kept
close to his quarters at the "Windsor Hotel
to-day. Captain M. H. Butler did not
tarry long in town after the humiliating de
feat administered by the delegates, but
left for his home in Tidioute. His efforts to
have the convention ratify the compact
made with Senator Quay were a dead
failure, and he had ample chance to go all
over the ground with Republican Chair
man "Wntres, who was on the same train
bound West.
"It is difficult for me to see why I should
be made an issue," Mr. Powderly said, "or
why I should alone be singled ont for dis
cussion. Of course, I am for ballot reform
and constitutional revision. "Why speak
about a compact or agreement with Quay
when there never was such a thing on my
part? I have not met Quay for ten years or
more, and have had no correspondence with
mm. xne itepubiican convention nomi
nated me for delegate at large to the Consti
tutional Convention, it is true, but the 20
Knights of Labor delegates in that conven
tion, at the instance of Captain Butler, in
sisted upon it, and that is the entire story.
The history of the movement is a plain,
every day matter, and open all round."
"And you propose to speak for Gregg and
Morrison this year?"
"I am not under engagement. No, I do
not intend to enter politics, bnt I shall
speak for ballot reform, and shall advocate
a constitutional convention. There is no
other way left me."
""What is in the story about your break
in relations with Governor Pattison? was a
question. ..
"Governor Pattison has my sympathy and
well wishes," said Mr. Powderly. "I sup
ported him last year and see no reason to
change this year. Bnt allow me to say this,
the Democrats nominated "William Weihe
as a delegate at large and he is President of
the Amalgamated Association, an organiza
tion inst as influential as the Knights of Labor.
"Weihe is a Republican, and last year worked
and walked and talked against Pattison.
"Whv should they make an issue of me and
not of "Weihe?"
STILL ORGANIZING CLUES.
President Stuart Refutes SG.OOO In Dues'
From Candidate Robinson.
Philadelphia, Sept 20. The Repub
lican Club League contest came to an issue
yesterday when President Stuart declined
to accept SG.OOO tendered him in dues for
clubs, none of which were on the roll of the
League at the date of the last Executive
Committee meeting, when it was decided
not to allow any such clubs to participate in
the Scranton Convention. This large sum
was offered to secure the admission of 600
clubs organized in the interest of Congress
man Robinson, who called in person to pay
in the monev.
Of the 0000 the sum of 5,000 was for
500 clubs in this city and the other $1,000
was for 100 Robinson clubs in the Sixth
Congressional district Many more clubs
are still to be organized in this city.
HASTINGS DOESN'T WANT IT.
He 'Will Not Be a Compromise Candidate
for the League Presidency.
"West Chester, Pa., Sept 20.
Special Major L. G. McCauley, of this
place, recently wrote to General D. H.
Hastings, inquiring whether, in the event
of a necessity for a compromise candidate
for President of the Republican League of
Clubs, he would allow the use of his name.
General Hastings replied under date of
September 12, stating that he was not a
candidate, and that under no circumstances
would he become a candidate or accept the
position if tendered him.
This peremptory declination on the part
of General Hastings will compel the peace
makers to seek another candidate or leave
Robinson and Dalzell to fight it out, which
both seem entirely willing to do.
Still They Come.
New Castle, Sept. 20. Special
Twenty more Republican clubs have been
organized in this county, and all the del
egates have been instructed for Robinson.
This gives that gentleman 06 votes from
Lawrence county. .
A MALICIOUS WIDOW.
She Invades a nappy Domestic Circle and
Starts a Sensational Fight.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept 10. Mrs.
Elizabeth Moody, a handsome young widow,
was arrested here this afternoon on com
plaint of Mrs. Charles Carpenter, of Stan
fordville, on the charge of malicious mis
chief. There is a sensational story attached
to the arrest Early in the past summer
Mrs. Moody arrived at Stanford ville with
her 3-year-old son Gavlor, and secured sum
mer board at the Carpenter House. Mr.
Carpenter seems to hate been quite inti
mate with the young widow, taking her out
riding frequently
This excited "Mrs. Carpenter's ire, and
there were frequent storniv interviews be
tween Mr. Carpenter and his wife, aud the
quarrels culminated vesterdav, when Mrs.
Moody and Mrs. Carpenter had a bout, Mrs.
Moody being scratched and pounded by
Mrs. Carpenter and told to leave the house,
which she did.
No Enthusiasm Tor Garibaldi.
Paris, Sept. 20. The Garibaldi fetes at
Nice are likely to be w ithout enthusiasm.
Few delegates are present and the best
known members of the Garibaldi Union
are out of the city.
Me
THE KUSH FOE LAND.
Hundreds Still Arriving to Hustle for
Homes in Oklahoma.
SALOONS AX D GAMBLINGDENS OPEN
The Sunday laws Were Forgotten and No
One Went to Church.
SURVEYORS LAYING OUT COUNTY SEATS
Guthrie, O. T., Sept. 20. Sabbath lost
its sanctity in Guthrie to-day. The date set
for the opening of the new lands is only two
days in the future and in the face of that
event affairs sacred aro almost ignored.
The Santa Fe's four regular passenger
trains, two from the North and two from
the South, all came in to-day in four or five
sections of 10 or 12 cars each, each section
carrying hundreds of home seekers. The
latter were hustling around buying outfits
and bargaining for conveyances to the bor
der of the new lands. Others were prepar
ing to start, and still others were just get
ting away. There was bedlam in the
streets and confusion everywhere. The
churches all held the usual services, but
they were slimly attended. Nearly every
one wanted to observe the scenes on the
streets aud learn the latest news concerning
the opening.
Those who waited until to-day before
taking their positions for Tuesday's race
have a decided advantage over those who
rushed pell-mell for the border when the
President's proclamation was first nromnl
gated. They have gained from official pub
lications, which were first made here to-day,
much important information. The list of
those sections of lands reserved for school
purposes and those allotted to the Indians,
all ot which are exempt from pre-emption,
was published to-day. This will be an im
portant guide to all home-seekers and as
sure them against failure to find a home
which might easily result if they should
choose exempted lands.
OVER THE KICKAPOO RESERVATION.
The publication of another important
Siece of official information was made to
ay. It was contained in the following tel
egram from Land Commissioner Carter:
"In answer to your dispatch I have to say
that-settlers can enter the lands from the
Kickapoo reservation."
The Kickapoo reservation is not included
in the lands to be opened for settlement
Tuesday, and lies in the very heart of those
that are to be opened. North of it is the
Iowa reservation, south of it is the Potta
watomie and east of it the Sac and Fox.
This permission will be of immense ad
vantage to the lipme seekers, for it gives
them many more miles of available border
where they may mass for the race.
"When the contents of the telegram be
came known hundred of boomers hurried
into the Kickapoo reservation and have
taken up positions to wait for Tuesday noon.
Hundreds of others are on their way to the
latter border and will arrive there some
time to-morrow. The effect of this per
mission from the land office has been to
lessen the home seekers around the other
borders and to spread them out over a
greater area. This will decrease very
materially the confusion which was ex
pected to accompany Tuesday's race and
will greatly lessen the chances of serious
disturbances and conflicts between proposed
settlers.
LARGE NUSIBE-P -SOLDIER SETTLERS.
Much satisfaction is expressed over Secre
tary Noble's order to the registers and re
ceivers of the land offices to prevent, so far
as may be in their power, fraud in connec
tion with the filing of the declaratory state
ments of old soldiers. The traffic in these
declaratory statements has been suspended,
the home seekers regarding them as an
extra hazardous investment Nevertheless,
the line of old soldiers and old soldiers' at
torneys which formed Friday at the door of
the land office here has lengthened itself
out 50 yards since yesterday, and every
hour adds to its length. There have been
disputes and disturbances in the line, but
none of them has been of a serious nature.
One notable feature of the preparation
for the race is the quiet which attends it.
The only sign of serions disturbance so far
has been atLangston, where the cowboys
object to the negroes massed there, taking
possion of the Cimarron valley. A serious
conflict was threatened there at one
time, but the prompt arrival of a large
force of Deputy united States marshals
from Guthrie has so far prevented an out
break, and it is believed all danger of dis
turbance has now passed away.
The sending of this force from Guthrie
has depleted the supply of officers in this
city, and there are not enough officers here
to enforce the laws. Saloons and gambling
houses are running wide open to-night in
direct violation of the law, but the authori
ties prefer to submit to the violation rather
than run the dangers that would attend an
attempt at their enforcement with an in
sufficient force.
Surveyors have been at work ever since
Friday on the town sites of the new county
seats. It is Governor Steele's desire that
these surveys should be completed before
Tuesday. None of the lots in the sites can
be claimed until the survey is completed,
and a delay after Tuesday would cause the
congregation of eager crowds around the
sites and doubtless have a much serious dis
turbance. MURDERED BY HIS SON.
Before Dying tho Father Offers a Reward
for the Murderer's Arrest.
Memphis, Sept. 20. Special. A dying
father, murdered by his own son, .offers a
reward for the arrest of the murderer. That
is the extraordinary development of a
tragedy which transpired to-day at police
headquarters in this city when Detective
Jenkins, of Bristol, Tenn., walked in with
the murderer in person. William Young,
a farmer, lived until last Monday in Gray
son county, Va. His son, John M. Young,
had a dispute with him as to the division ot
his estate, and on Sunday morning the
trouble culminated in John shooting the
old man. His brother Ellis interfered to
prevent a second shot being fired, and was
himself shot for his pains, as was .also a
stranger who happened to be on the place.
The murderer's wife drove him seven
miles to the nearest railway station, when
he took the train for Bristol, Tenn. On
Monday William Young died, but on his
deathbed he signed a paper offering a reward
of 5200 for his son's capture. The man was
arrested at Jonesboro, Ark. He is now en
route to the scene of his crime. He is, or
pretends to be, crazy.
NOT A POLITICAL MOVE.
Judge Cooley Left the Inter-State Commerce
Commission Because ot Poor Health.
Chicago, Sept 20. Hon. "William R.
Morrison arrived here to-day in advance of
the remaining members of the Inter-State
Commerce Commission, Messrs. Knapp and
Veazey. "Reports claiming that Judge
Cooley's resignation was caused by politics
having influenced appointments on the com
mission are absolutely false," said Mr,
Morrison, emphatically, when questioned
as to such reports, "Judge Cooley was ab
solutely incapable of further work. He wa3
persevering and in love with the work. He
insisted on working long after he should
have stopped, and when in good health in
sisted on doing almost all the work himself.
"The Inter-State Commerce Commission
is yet an experiment and, there being many
tttftftattg
PITTSBURG. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 1891.
who think it has not accomplished all it
should, the presence of a man holding the
complete confidence of the people,Jas did
Judge Cooley, was a source of strength. He
had every confidence in the possibilities of
the act creating the commission.None of the
cases have as yet been taken to the highest
authority in the land. "When any do go
there I presume that it will be found that
we have made a few mistakes. So new a
thing could scarcely be infallible."
STRANGE PENSION CASE.
A SOLDIER SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN
KILLED IN 18G2 TURNS UP.
He Wag Badly Wounded In the Head and
Taken Prisoner After "Wandering In a
Demente'd State for 29 Tears, He Re
appears at Home.
"Washington, Sept. 20. One of the
most remarkable cases that has ever been
brought to the attention of the Bureau of
Pensions is that of "William Newby, a pri
vate of Company D, Fourth Regiment, Illi
nois Volunteers. This regiment was con
spicuous for its gallantry at the battle of
Shiloh. Newby was in this battle, on the
6th of April, 1862, and was reported,
"Killed in action." It seems, how
ever, that instead of being killed he re
ceived a severe wound of the head and
was captured and sent to the rear by the
Confederate forces, and was imprisoned at
Belle Isle and afterward transferred to An
dersonville. He was released in course of time, and
was in poorhouses in various parts of the
Sonth. He was finally taken to Key West
by a gentleman who recognized him as a
kinsman. Here he remained until some
time in 1869, when his uncle died. Newby
wandered from place to place, and
finally 'turned up at Shreveport, La.
"While there the colored people made
up a purse and he was given passage on a
steamboat to Cincinnati. On the way up
the river the steamer landed at Shawnee
town, 111. Newby hearing this name called
out seemed to recognize something that was
familiar and got off the boat From there
he wandered to Kankakee, 111., where he
was in the poorhouse for a time. Leaving
this place he struck out southward and at
last reached McLeansborough, iu Hamilton
county, III., and was sent to the poorhouse.
During these years he was in a demented
state, bordering on insanity, .the supposed
result of the wound in the head. In wan
dering about he finally went over into
White county, and when he got near his
old home he was seen and recognized by two
of his comrades, who had served in the
regiment with him. His wife was sent for
and she identified him, as did his relatives
and many of his friends and comrades.
After Newby was reported as "killed in
action" his wife applied for a pension. It
was granted.and sue has been drawing a
widow's pension from the date of his death
to the present time. This soldier has filed
a claim for a pension, and it is now receiv
ing the consideration of the office, the claim
of the widow being suspended in the mean
time. No discharge has ever been granted
to the soldier and the consideration of his
pension claim is being postponed until such
time as the Secretary of War shall grant
the man a discharge.
THOUSANDS OF GERMANS
IN BUFFALO TO ATTEND THE GREAT
CATHOLIC CONGRESS.
A Church Dedication Yesterday Attended
by an Immense Throng Probable Atti
tude of the Bishops-on, the Question of
the Society's Objects.
Buffalo, Sept. 20. Though the German
Catholic Congress does not open until to
morrow, thousands of visitors are already in
the city and attended the dedication of the
new church edifice.
The chief personage in the spectacle was
strangely in contrast with the multitude
about him a man of marked Celtic physi
ognomy, the Rt Rev. Bishop Ryan, the
administrator of this Catholic diocese.
Seemingly unconscious of the peculiarity of
the surroundings, the prelate, intent upon
his sacred functions, slowly paced the cir
cuit of the church's exterior, blessing the
stones to the services of the Almighty.
Within the church into which the eager
thousands poured there appeared within the
sanctuary as celebrant a German-American
prelate, the Right Rev. Bishop Zardetti, of
St. Cloud, Minn. Father Van Rossum, one
of the faculty in the great German-American
Canicus College, a few squares distant,
addressed the congregation in German. The
theme of the preacher's discourse was the
sacredness of the church of God and what
was connected therewith.
Meanwhile thousands outside waited as
patient as statues. The most solemn mo
ment of the ceremonial, the elevation of the
host, was announced to them in a startling
manner, a heavy cannonading being substi
tuted for the usual tinkling of a bell. All
in all the demonstration was of such a char
acter probably never before witnessed in
America, and elicits much comment
Much curiosity is expressed as to the
number of German-American Bishops who
will attend the meeting of the German
Union and thus supposedly avow them
selves in opposition to their fellow prehftes.
The promoters of the Congress count upon
the presence of six to eight wearers of the
purple and 300 or more priests beside, esti
mating that 10.000 strangers in Buffalo to
morrow night will witness a torchlight pro
cession of another 10,000 uniformed lay ad
herents of the clerical union or "Priesten
Verein," the conclave of which is to be
the center of interest
BALTIMORE SUICIDAL CLUB.
A Young German Member the First to At
tempt to Shuffle Ott
Baltimore, Sept. 20. Charles Seibert, a
young German, is the first member of the
Baltimore Suicidal Club to put himself out
of the way. He cut his throat with a
pocket knife in the cellar of his boarding
house, and then rushed into the street
with the blood streaming from the terrible
gash.
One month ago an organization was
formed here called the Suicidal Club; the
meeting room of the drearv society .is
draped in black and adorned with skeletons.
There is no binding rule, however, requir
ing the members to commit suicide, but the
name of the club is intended as a sort of
ghastly joke. Seibert of late has been a
religious fanatic
A Village Trustee Murdered.
Chicago, Sept. 20. Aaron Minnick, one
of the village trustees of Desplaines, 111.,
was fatally shot at that place last evening
by Jack Thompson, a wood engraver, who
also wounded Officer Robert Cain. Last
evening, armed with a revolvor, Thompson
was seen pacing up and down in front of
the village depot, and it was surmised that
he was waiting to attack Detective Barchard,
who had been watching him for some lime,
he being suspected ot implication in the
murder of old man Brazel last spring? Offi
cer Cain and Trustee Minnick' attempted to
arrest him, when he shot Minnick through
the stomach and Cain in tEe hip. He is now
in the Cook county jail.
Fell From an Eleinted Railway.
Kansas City, Sept. 20. John Roth, an
emploj'e of Armour's packing house, met a
frightful death on the elevated railway to
day. He was late in getting off the car at
Wyoming street, and running to the door
he jumped from the car steps. The train
had passed the station platform, and Roth
fell to the pavement m low, breaking his
neck and causing instant death.
A GREATBUMO GAM.
Plenty of Dupes Caught in a Slick
Secret Society Swindle.
FIVE DOLLARS OFFERED FOR ONE.
Uncle Sam Reported to Be Short on Gold to
Redeem Bonds, and
PROPOSED PAYING THE PAT PREMIUM
rSPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Charleston, W. Va., Sept. 20. L. W.
Naylor, Postoffice Inspector from Washing
ton, who has been in this city for the past
few days, has brought to light, and is now
working up the evidence, a big swindling
scheme which has been in operation in this
section of the State for some time. The
scheme is said to have been operated by a
gang, of which Robert-F. Lively, the son of
a preacher from near Spring Hill, is the
leader, and George W. Rose and Henry
Ash, of this vicinity, and others are confed
erates. Rose and Ash have been arrested and
held under 53,000 bail to answer at the next
term of the United States Court for using
the mails for fraudulent purposes. Lively
is still at large, and is now hiding in the
woods, armed with a Winchester and two
revolvers, but deputy marshals are alter
him, and he will in all probability join his
confederates. Their operations have been
carried on in Kanawha, Boone and Lincoln
counties, and several thousand dollars have
gone from the hard-earned savings Of the
poor to line the pockets of the swindlers.
Charleston, too. numbers some of the vic
tims among its citizens, one man alone in
vesting 219 with no return. Another, a
Kanawha man, lost 5800, while others gave
all they had to the swindlers.
what the scheme was.
The modus operandi is said to be about as
follows: Lively and his associates organ
ized a secret society known as the National
Assembly. To membership in this bogus
society they admitted such of their friends
as they supposed to be reliable and in pos
session of a little money. The organization
was of the most secret character. Their
meetings were held out under the trees, on
the mountain sides, among the forests and
in other secret places. A most solemn oath
of secrecy was administered to every mem
ber, and thus the existence of the swindle
was kept a secret for so long.
The organization was supposed to be a
National one, with its central office at
Washington and branches all over the coun
try. Four "assemblies" were organized in
the State, known respectively as the St.
Albans, Lincoln County, Boone County
and Charleston Assemblies. The induce
ment for entering the assemblies was the
opportunity they afforded their members to
make money rapidly and in a legal and safe
manner.
working the swindle.
The condition of the United States Treas
ury wasmade to' play an important part in
the swindle. The swindlers made up a
glausible storv about the great quantity of
overnment -bonds that were soon to fall
due, which were payable in gold, tne vast
expertations of gold to foreign countries
and the consequent inability of the Govern
ment to meet the payments of the bonds.
The swindlers went on to say that in or
der to save the uation'scredit and.meet the
payment of the bonds when they fell due,
the Government must raise the gold; that
while it had little gold it had plenty of
greenbacks, and that it would pay for everv
dollar in gold 55 in paper. The object of
the National Assembly was to raise the
gold required by the Government, and its
assemblies all over the country were gather
ing in the gold, sending it on'to the change
office at Washington, through which all the
operations were carried on and getting back
five times what they sent on in paper.
gold was plentiful.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway has
been paying off in gold, so it was an" easy
matter to raise considerable gold monev.
One assembly alone put in over a thousand
dollars in hard cash. The money was all
gathered up by the officers, to be, by them,
sent to Washington. When the members
of the assemblies thought it was time to be
getting back some money, the officers ex
hibited letters from the imaginary National
Secretary of the order and from "the Presi
dent of "The Change Office," explaining the
delay and telling them to wait patiently.
In Charleston, where the people are" sup
posed to be somewhat more enlightened on
swindling schemes than they are in the
country, the secret organization feature of
the swindle was dropped. The proposition
to exchange gold for five times its amount
was made by the men, merely as friends of
the victims, who were on the inside and
were willing to put the victims on the right
track to a rapidlv acquired fortune because
of their friendship for them.
One hard working colored man laid by
5150. He drew out 5100 and let Rose send
it to a branch office in the West. In a short
time he got a replv saying that they did not
receive less than $200 at a time and could
fill no order for less than 51,000 in paper.
The colored fellow drew out his remaining
?50, borrowed 550 more and had them send
it on.
SAVED BY AN ANGEL.
Strange Experience of the Subject
of a
Drinking Fountain Memorial.
New York, Sept. 20. Special In the
northeast corner of the outer walls of the
Judson memorial there is a new and pretty
fountain, from which will issue ice water
summer and winter for all who care to
drink. This fountain, which was dedicated
with elaborate ceremonies this afternoon, is
in memory of Duncan Dunbar, who was
pastor of the McDougal Street Baptist
Church for 40 years, and who has been dead
20 years. Duncan Dunbar was born in the
Highlands of Scotland about the time of the
Revolution.
One day when he was indulging his favor
itepastime of lying at the bottom of the
swift and treacherous Spree river he was
seized with a cramp and for a moment lost
consciousness. Then his head suddenly
cleared, and h,e saw an angel of God descend
through the waters. The angel seized him
by the hair and bore him to the burface, in
which he had been gone so long that all had
given him over aslost. This turned his
mind intently to religion.
AN ELECTRIC HOESE STOPFER.
A Chicago Inventor Shows How to Stop a
Runaway Team.
Chicago, Sept. 20. The new system of
stopping runaway horses by electricity was
given a practical test on the lake front yes
terday by A. B. Holson, the inventor.
Michigan avenue was lined with spectators.
Holson got into a carriage to which two
horses were attached, and with no driver
on the box. A man lashed the horses with
a whip, and they dashed away at breakneck
speed. Suddenly the animals raised them
selves on their haunches, and came to a full
stop.
The invention consists of a dry battery
under the driver's box and connected by
wires with metal balls placed in the horses'
nostrils. There are two buttons, one on the
driver's box, the other inside, which will
close the circuit when pressed. The resplt
is a mild shock, which, the in ventor claims,
win invariably bring runaway Horses to a
standstill.
MgmttM
A BULL IX A CHIXA SHOP.
Campbell Declines to Stick to State Issues and Is Destroying Sis Last Chances by RecUcss SanSting
of Xational Question.
NOT MUCH OF A JOKE.
A Serions Menace Behind the Land
ing on Mitylene Island.
EUROPE THOUGHT WAR HAD COME,
And Even Now the Volcano Seems Ready to
Burst at Any Moment.
CREMATING SPANISH FLOOD VICTIMS
London, Sept. 20. The correspondent of
the New York Times cables his paper as
follows: There has been no such other ob
ject lesson in actual European politics for a
decade as that which fluttered the bourses
of the world at the beginning of the present
week. There was a declaration that three
consuls in the Grecian Archipelago had in
formed their Ministers at Constantinople
that a British fleet had landed men and
guns on Sigri, an island by Mitylene.
This story rattled around Europe like a
hailstorm, depressing the markets, fright-enlng-investors-ond
unsettling everything.
For a little while it seemed as if men had
already heard the first sound of a cannonade
with which our dying century's Armaged
don is to be ushered in. Even now the
palpitations have not all subsided, and such
general nervousness exists that very proba
bly the next few days will witness another
panic if the news or a rumor affords the
slightest pretext
THE PEOPLE BELIEVED IT.
For the moment the most interesting
thing about this Sigri scarce was that people
believed it. I do not mean alone on the
Continent, where, as explained last weejj,
distrust of England's good faith is ingrained,
but here in- London the story did not im
press anybody as necessarily impossible. It
turns out now that the report was not strictly
a canard.
Apparently a British fleet cruising around
for exercise in the.bay did land some men,
and the natives who saw and reported this
could not be expected to know that their
mission was entirely pacific and innocent.
Mere in .England people were not a whit
more sure of the character of this mission.
All the ministerial papers the next morning
had leaders discrediting the report, but at
the same time holding themselves poised to
be able to defend the occupation of Sigri if
the rumor proved well founded. Not a Tory
voice was raised to denounce the imputation
of such a high-handed act of piracy as this
occupation would have been.
AN ACTUAL OCCURRENCE.
Speculation runs riot in the weekly
papers to-day as to the possible motives o'f
the canard. As ha3 been pointed out, the
original story was not an invention at all,
but merely a misinterpretation of an actual
occurrence. The reception of its publica
tion here and ou the Continent showed
that public opinion regarded it as quite the
sort of thing Lord Salisbury might be ex
pected to do. More than this, the excite
ment it created has made newly apparent to
every one how easily England can be
forced to the front in any coming European
complication. All this is a clear incitation
to go ahead with that process of squeezing
England which I explained at length last
week. There need be no fear that the hint
will be unimproved.
For months to come it is evident that we
shall have a succession of these sensational-
alarms and semi-panics. People are tired
of taxation, worried about bad crors and
waning business, and disposed to take petu
lant offense at small things. It is with
nations as with men; there are time3 of
amiable patience, mutual accommodation,
and sensible forbearance. There are other
times when one instinctively answers an
intrusive elbow with a resounding cuff.
DANGER SEEMS TO BE IN THE AIR.
This is clearly marked out as Europe's
bad-tempered autumn. There is no one
who deliberately wants war now any more
than a year ago, and, in truth, it is only too
easy to find reasons why all should now
specially desire to conserve the peace, but
moods are independent of reasons, and most
of all mood that of sulky truculency. Con
sciousness Af this lends new excitement to
the task oj watching the young German
Emperor. His impressionable temperament
and his keen interest in the affairs of the
day render! him peculiarly sensitive to the
influence of passing popular moods. Like
everybody else,too, he lecls the effects upon
the imagination which this year's vast mili
tary manoeuvres have produced. Perhaps I
should sly that he, more than anybody else,
feels the effects of the terrible spectacle of
the mojk battle fought before him by 00,000
soldieifc, without a sign of smoke ou the
wholeextended field.
Military critics who saw this, and even
the bigger sham conflicts in France, prof fes
themselves dumfounded. They hurdly dare
guess what is eoing to happen when these
deadly new Mannlichers and Lebels are
uskd in grim earnest, with every detail of
th'e fight exposed to every pair of eyes.
The civilian public have eagerly read the
accounts of these strauge new battles. It
seems to me that these stories, hinting at
rather than describing the weird trans
formation that warfare has undergone, are
in a large measure responsible for this feel
ing of bellicrerent unrest which now stirs
Europe, ana of this feeling AVilliaiu, in J
Xsjtart
snitft nr himself mntfy. J,
Jhe
exponent and mouthpiece. pj"Q
en
BURNING THE B0DIb'j
,
VICTIMS OF THE SPANISH FLOODS
ARE BEING CREMATED.
Hundreds of Them Soaked In Petroleum
and Thrown In to Bonfires At Almerla
1,781 People Have Been Burled Many
Houses Fall Dally.
Madrid, Sept 20. There is no longer
danger of starvation in the afflicted cities.
The workmen who struck on account of the
stench encountered in handling the dead,
have been prevailed upon to resume work.
A liberal supply of disinfectants has
reached the stricken town and the work of
opening up the streets and clearing awar
the ruins is again progressing. The bodies of
the dead so soon as recovered are taken
to-immense crematory bqnfires and are there
soaked in petroleum and reduced to cinders.
Petroleum is also being largely used in
feeding the fires used for consuming dead
bodies. The carcasses of cattle, which
are found almost everywhere, are disposed
of in the same manner. -
The greatest misery-has been caused by
the floods at Camunas and Villafranca. The
pcropsTiaveTjecn lost and it is feared riots
will result if relief is delayed. At Con
suegra there is a demand for more disin
fectants. Many marauders have been im
prisoned there. At Almeria the bodies of
1,781 victims of the floods have been buried.
Many houses undermined by the floods con
tinue to fall.
THE ITALIANS CELEBRATE
Tho Triumphant Entry of Their Army Into
Rome Twenty Years Ago.
Rome, Sept. 20. A feature of the cele
bration in this city to-day was the public
reading by the Mayor at the Porta Pia of a
telegram from King Humbert, received by
the former in reply to congratulations sent
the King on the twentieth anniversary of
the entry of the Italian troops into Rome.
The King, in the dispatch, said he felt
happy that the commemoration of the day
had become a tradition throughout Italy,
and added:
"May God aid the strong and persevering.
By our dignity and valor we shall be ready
to defend our rights. By firmness of pur
pose and a high sense pf duty we shall sur
mount the difficulties impeding the nation's
economic progress."
CAPTURED THE CAPITAL.
The Insurgents in the Province of Yemen
Have Taken Sana.
Constantinople, Sept. 20. The Insur
gents in Yemen harve captured Sana, the
capital of the province. The Grand Vizier
intended to send to Yemen the troops now
stationed in Hedjaz, where cholera is raging.
It is rumored that Kurds are murdering
many Christians in Armenia.
Confidence in the French Army.
PARIS, Sept. 20. The Temps, criti
cizing the recent army maneuvers,
says: Everything was not perfect. The
cavalry was not utilized as it might have
been. Yet it was shown that the French
army is a veritable army, with clever chiefs.
General Saussier has shown himself to be in
reality the head of the army. It is, how-
eves, necessary to free the army of all sys
tems which encumber it The troops are
full of confidence in their chiefs, and we can
fearlessly await the future.
To Feed the Hungry of All Creeds.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 20. The Holy
Synod has directed that assistance be given
to the starving without making any dis
tinction between creeds. The Holy Synod
also directs that food be given to the suffer
ers in preference to money. The govern
ment of Saratoff has provided food and
shelter for the German immigrants of-that
section who are suffering from the famine
now prevailing.
Comp' omlse Between Church and State.
London, Sent 20. The Chronicle's Ber
lin correspondent says: "A prominent
Centrist informs me that Chancellor Von
Caprivi and the Papal Nuncio at Munich
have arrived at an agreement whereby the
Centrists will heartily support the Govern
ment in return for concessions on the edu
cation question and the re-admission of
Catholic orders."
Trade Treaty Between Russia and Persia.
Odessa, Sept. 20. The Russian Minister
to Persia has been instructed to arrange a
trade treaty between Russia and Persia.
The object is to bring about the exclusion
of Persian marked English goods, 1,000,000
roubles worth of cotton textures, so marked
having crossed the Persian frontier in 1890.
To Abolish the Passport Decree.
London, Sept. 21. The Berlin corre
spondent of the Daily Sexes says the German
Government intends to repeal the passport
decree in Alsace-Lorrain, and to abolish the
regulations altogether.
Agop Pasha's Tragic Death.
Constantinople, Sept 20. Agop
Pasha, formerly Minister of Finance, was
thrown from a horse to-day aud killed.
A CENT A WORD
Keeps You Before the
Public Through
THE DISPATCH.
THREE CENTS.
FEAES OF A FAMINE.
The Deficit in the World's Food Sup
ply is an Enormous One.
REAL WANT IN PARTS OF RUSSIA.
Even America's Big Harvests Will Not Fully
Meet the Demand.
PRICES ALMOST SURE TO BE HIGHER
New York, Sept. 20. An exhaustive
study of the world's food supply in the
forthcoming number of the American Agri
culturist emphasizes facts of grave import
ance to both America and Europe. It de
clares that the half has not been told about
the European shortage in breadstuffs, which
not even a bountiful crop this year would
have relieved.
Continental powers, especially Russia,
suppress the facts so far as possible. In
many Russian provinces the scarcity of food
became prononnced as far back aJFebruary
last. In the Konstantinovka district many
families have not cooked a meal since
Easter, but subsist on bread, soaked rye,
grain, etc., bestowed in charity. The pro
hibition of rye exports is followed by a
ukase forbidding the shipment of bran and
other cereal cattle foods.
EVEN MORE THAN SUPPOSED.
The astounding shortage in Russia's yield
of rye, announced a month since by the
Ministry of Finance, proves even greater
than the most extravagant estimates, and
effectually obliterates all possibility of
Russia exporting any of her scant wheat
crop. That Eastern Germany is in practi
cally the same plight admits of no doubt
The European reserves that have hereto
fore eked out insufficient harvests are every-
where exhausted. The parade" made by
Russia of the existence of such stores in the
Baltic provinces is done for effect to con
vey the impression that military stores are
abundant. Such reserves are of small im
portance. Indeed, the danger of famine is
destined to spare Europe the horrors of war
fully a twelve-month hence.
AN ENORMOUS DEFICIT.
Accepting the largest estimates of pro
duction, both at home and abroad, and even
assuming that Canada exports 225,000 bush
els, there is a deficit m the world's food
supply of at least 200,000,000 bushels of
wheat and rye, with a possibility of the
shortage being twice as great. Added to
this is the almost total failure of the potato
crop in Ireland and a serious curtailment in
the yield of potatoes on the ' Continent
Even with the utmost economy of distribu
tion and an unheard of consumption . of
American maize, grave distress is before the
masses of Europe.
Enormous exports of wheat and flbur
from the United States in August prove
that Europe regards the situation as worse
than it has yet been painted. Otherwise,
why should she buy in a single month close
upon the harvest nearly half as much wheat
as she took from the United States during
the entire first eight months of the year fol
lowing one of our largest wheat crops and a
period of bedrock prices? Indeed August
wheat exports were almost treble those of
the same month last year and over four
times as much as the average exports at
this season of last year.
PRICES UNNATURALLY LOW.
For the first time in years, wheat, bran and
middlings are being exported to Europe thu3
early in the season. These circumstances
are accepted as the strongest possible rea
son for believing that prices to-day are un
naturally low. It looks for a sharp advance
in all cereals as soon as the demand realizes
the limited extent of the world's actual sup
ply. Every bushel of high grade wheat is
to-day worth fully 51 on the farm where it
grew.
One of the most marked features of the
prosperity that is already dawning upon
American agriculture, is the extent to
which farmers are planning to unite in co
operative buying and selling.
QUEEN ISABELLA'S THEATER.
Tho Gigantic Scheme of a Kansas Lawyer
for the World's Fair.
Abilene, Kan., Sept 20. William B.
Felts, of Russell Springs, Kan., has a stu
pendous plan for a World's Fair feature.
On elegantly engraved letterheads and with
a profusion of "dictated" circular letter at
tachment he lays his plans before the peo
ple in a regal manner. "Queen Isabella's
Theater," which he absolutely guarantees
to have ready by the opening of the fair, is
to be an elaborate structure, 200x300 feet in
size, and containing a hotel, theater, 21
shops and 24 cafes. The affair is to be a
floating palace and will make daily trips be
tween a city landing and exposition grounds.
He guaranteed that the palace will cost
52,400,000 and Tates are to be 6 per day.
There is an elaborate contract sent out with
the details of the scheme, and the county
treasurers of the State are asked to deposit
596 at once to Felts' credit so that he caa
know what to depend on.
SHOT AND HANGED.
That Was the Fate or the Leader of the
Mexican Revolutionists.
Chicago, Sept 20. A special dispatch
from San Antonio, Texas, say: Jnan
Macorito, who has arrived from Nier, Mexi
co, says the Mexican Revolutionists were
overtaken north of that place Friday by
Government troops and that a battle en
sued in which several on both sides were
killed and wounded.
Catarino Garza, the leader of the revolu
tion, was seriously shot and then hanged to
a tree. General Ruiz Sandoval, Garzas'
chief lieutenant, escaped to the mountains
with a few followers. He is being pursued
and will doubtless be captured.
Tried to Wreck a Passenger Train.
Chicago, Sept. 20. Charles Howard has
confessed that he planned to wreck the fast
express on the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and
Chicago Railroad last Monday night The
confession was made to a detective at Crown
Point, Ind., last evening. Howard piled a
lot of ties on the track about two miles
east of Whiting, Ind., and but for the
promptness of Engineer Pierson the train,
with its passengers, would have been hurled
from the track aud many lives lost How- f
ard is an employe of the Standard Oil Com
pany at Whiting.
Burned to Death In a Prairie Fire.
Bismarck, N. D., Sept. 20. Word has
just reached here that George J. Johnson
and son, living about GO miles south of here,
in Emmons countv, were burned to death,
while fighting one of the worst prairie firea'
ever witnessed ia that county. Owing tft'
the unusually long grass this year the tire
was uncontrollable, and swept over the
country from Winchester, on the Missouri
river, for 50 miles southeast, destroying a
large amount of grain, hay, buildings, eta ,
An estimate of the damage cannot yet ba
made.
Another Inspired German Writer.
Berlin, Sept 20. The Hamburg Xach
richten, inspired by Prince Bismarck, ad
vises the withdrawal of the bill to prevent
drunkenness in order to avoid its reflection
J- by the lialelutaj.
1
1
m
1
i
k
1
to
.)
-y
. "t, -tl.&l
L
nyi
BlHBHHBBH ffHMHaiBlimmilllllllllllHlBHMHIiSKfJ
KffSSSSSS!S5Si!ZAiMtmtBftil9Zm.4
'.irt mdmiimsi idS
.-c?WIiai.W.it.kaWimgB!Wyg5ywffil