k8iiiBHBi PKv799!KIkB ?ry& - 1 ' Ur . '.. ! 1" THE FIBURJSGL!MB!Nfi. Small Ails Tor Two Weeks Ending V-pt. Utt, 1891 3,014 Same Period 1S90.. 1,090 Increase, 1,018. BEAT THE RKCOKI). i FORTY-SIXTH YEAR DRAMATIC IN DEATH. Poor in Purse, His Lore Lost forever and Every Ambi tion Blighted, GEN. BOULANGER SUICIDES. The Grave of His Mistress Chosen for the last Tragic Act of His Uniqno Career. TEIEXDS OEW OP THE DESIGN, And Had Frustrated Several Previous At tempts, tut Their Vigilance Was at Length Eluded. A TREMENDOUS SENSATION AT PAEIS. Tie Dffjerate Eevclntionist Still Ills 3Iany Friends litre. Who Ewa Jiow Tall -of Creating Fresh Trouble. A .BLOOD-STAIXFJ) riClTEE 'EI HIS STSBX. Brussels, Sept. .!0. Boulanger has fol low ed the example set by Balmaceda. The Man, whose ambition it was to be a second Napoleon and change the destiny of Eu rope, is dead. Disappointed -with, life he ended it with his own hand. The close was dramatic and thoroughly in keeping with the entire career of the man. Noon to-day "was the hour chosen for the deed. The scene he selected for the final act was the grave of his niistress,Madame de Bonne main, who accompanied him to England after his flight from France. Early in July last she was dangeously ill in Brussels suffering from consumption. A Paris physi cian vent there expressly in order to treat her by anew sytem,eonsistiugin inoculating the person affected with the germs of Jihthisis with gayaeol, which is obtained from creosote. However, in spite of the efforts made to save her, she died during the evening of July 17. Madam de Bonne main, at the height of General Boulanger's career, two or three years ago, lived in the Itue de Bern, Pari, where she was contin ually visited ly the General. Spies kept tr&ck of their movements, and soon discov ered that the two persons referred to were very intimate. Hi Fatal Decision Openly Avowed. There are s usual in such cases many contradictory reports circulating in regard io General Boulanger's behavior previous to his suicide. For instance it was -said shortly after his death became known that the General had not in any way allowed Ms .friends to form any idea as to his inten sions. This evening those who formed his tanourri'e admit that the directly contrary Vas the fact. They now bay that recently "he has fre quently openly avowed a desire for death, and it is even added that the General has fceveral times of late e en made attempts to late his own life. The consequence has been that he has been watched as closely as possible by the friends who still remained loval to him at the low water of his for tunes. Even the latter, however, appear to have finally grown tired of their task and to have determined to resign their positions as jrnardians of tho fallen leader's life. "With this object in mind his friends in this city recently warned the General's niece and the latter's husband that the ex-Minister of "War, who at one time was looked upon as the man to lead Ficnch enthusiasts to Ber lin, was so despondent as to be apparently determined to commit suicide. An Kmleator to Frcvent the Act. This niece and her husband arrived some days ago at the General's hotel in the Rue Montoyer, and so impressed were they with his demeanor that one of the first things lha' they did was to cause all they weapons found in hi& apartments to be taken aw ay and hidden where he could not get at them. General Bonlanger mut have noticed the precautions which were being taken to save his life, and, unknown to his niece and her husband, he must hat e managed to secure and hide from them the pistol with which lie eventually shot himself. Even the Gen eral's valet, who had been instructed to use his utmost endeavors to find and obtain pos session of aiiy weapons the General might have about him, seems to have been clev erly deceived in this fatal instance. Gen. Boulanger, according to the stories told this evening, made no secret of his -weariness of liie since the collapse of his party, and particularly so since the death of Mme. de Bonnemain. His friends now recall the fact that when the coffin lid was finally closed over the remains of his mis tress he kept on repeating aloud in heart hroken tones, "Au re voir ct a bientot" A Dailj Visit to the Cemetery. Every day, about 4 in the afternoon, it has now become known, General Boulanger, since Mme. de Bonnemain's death, has gone to the cemetery at Ixelles and has de posited some handsome floral emblem, gen erally a crown, upon her grave. He would ttay by the grave of his beloved friend for some moments, sometime for an hour, either engaged in prayer or in deep thought. Over the grave itself the General had caused a pretty white tombstone to be erected, and at its head stood a broken col mn inscribed, "Marguerite, 1855-1891." A few davs ano the unfortnnatc General de- jxisited on Mme. de Bonnemain's grave a handsome crown of flowers bearing on it the words, "A Bientot Marguerite." The family of the General and the ser vants of hi hotel in the Rue Montoyer were somewhat surprUed when this morningthey heard hiui order his landau at a much earlier hour than usiul, saying that to-day he was going to the Ixelles Cemetery at 10 in the dooming instead ot 4 in the afternoon. The lamily and servants at first paid little attention to the change in the General's plans, and nobody seems to have had the slightest idea that he intended to commit Miicide to-day. Ilia Niece Becomes Alarmed. E entually, the General, accompanied by his valet, left the Rue Montoyer in a landau drawn by two horses. His niece, after the General's departure for Ixelles, seems to ve reflected over the change he had made in the hour of tisiting the tomb of Mine de rm Bonnemain, and she became greatly alarmed. Stopping in Brussels at the present time is one of Boulanger's most attached adher ents. His name is Alfred Dulins, and he had come to this citv Irom Paris on receipt of a letter from General Boulanger about a week ago announcing that' he intended to commit suicide at an early date. M Du- lins came to Brussels tor the express pur pose of endeavoring to persuade the Gen eral to alter his mind. Dulins and his for mer political leader had several long inter views, during which the former did his ut most to persuade the General that he should abandon such urbid ideas and look at mat ters in a brighter light. Boulanger listened to all that his friend had to say on the subject, and Dulins thought that his arguments had caused the General to refrain from taking his own life. The General's niece, knowing the object of M. Dulins' visit to Brussels, and also being aware that he had considerable influence over him, went to fetch M. Dulins so soon GENERAL BOULANGER, as she became convinced that she had good cause for alarm. Friends Start for tho Cemetery. She communicated her tears to the Gen eral's friend and together they started for the cemetery. In the meantime General Boulanger had left the landau at the gate of the cemetery and walked slowly and calmly to the tomb of Mme. Bonnemain. He remained there for some time in deep thought, and was afterward seen to be slo.vlv walking around the cemetery still thinking deeply. All reports agree in the statement that so soon as the General reached the tomb the second time he iram2dict1.lv placed the pis tol to his head and shot himself. The re port of the revolver was heard by the coachman who was driving the General's landau and by the valet who had accom panied the suicide to the cemetery. They both rushed to Mme. Bonnemain's tomb and there found the General quite dead, lying across the grave. Death must have been instantaneous. The weapon which General Boulanger used to destroy himself was a revolver of large caliber, so it is all the more extraordi nary that it should have escaped the vigi lance of his valet, relatives and friends. The dead man held this weapon tightly grasped in his right hand, and it was seen that the bullet had entered the General's head near the right temple, had passed through his head and left it by the lett tem ple. rolice Take Charge of the Remains. Some workmen who were employed in the cemetery, and who had also been attracted to the spot by the report of 'he revolver, notified the inspector in charge of the ceme tery. The latter placed himself in commun ication with the police, who were soon upon the spot, aud took charge of the remains. As the police were bearing the General's body away from the tomb of his mistress with the intention of placing it in the lan dau for conveyance to Brussels the dead man's niece, accompanied by M. Dulin, reached the cemetery. The niece fainted upon hearing the news and M. Dulin's grief at being too late to save the life of his friend was excessive. The body of General Boulanger was then stretched out in the landau, the face cov ered with a white handkerchief. The police in charge caused those of the General's friends who were present to confirm the statements as to his identity, and then per- ;..j x1. 1 - l. ? J -,T: milieu luc uuuv iu uc tumcum iu jiuuue headquarters wb'ere, after another formality had been complied with, the authorities permitted the body to be conveyed to the General's late residence. The body now lies in the General s bed room in the Jtue Montoyer. It has been prepared tor burial, but it is only being viewed by the intimate friends of the fam ily. The'latter, it bhould be said, unani mously desire that the luneral should be of the most simple order. Some of the Gen eral's political friends are in favor of a public demonstration. Decorated With the Cross of Honor. The corpse, as this dispatch is sent, re poses upon a table draped with black cloth The remains are clad in a black frock coat, upon the breast of which are several decora tions, notably the cross of the Legion of Honor, conferred upon the General after he had been wounded in 1859 at Turbigo, in Algeria, when a Lieutenant with only three years' service in the army. Wounds in the General's temple caused by the fatal shot hae been hidden by pieces'of broad white silk ribbon so pasted on the head as to al most completely conceal the cause of death. The General's leatures are placid, and upon them there is not a trace, except the dimly seen white ribbon, of General Boulanger's sad ending. All the property and documents of Gen eral Boulanger have been place in sealed receptacles by the magistrates. Boulanger left a will and political testament in his tesk. It is stated that the latter declares unshaken confidence in his party, enjoins his friends to prosecute the great aims he alwajsheld in view, and ascribes his own death solely to inconsolable grief over the lossofMme.de Bonnemain. The funeral of the General will probably take place on Sunday afternoon. The General's mother, aged 87, is still firm in the belief that her son went to the fete and has. not vet re turned. Mme. de Bouucniajn was an in separable companion of the General during his exile in Jersey. She received his polit ical friends, aud acted always as the ac knowledged mistress of his household. In Poor Pecuniary Circumstances. General Boulanger came to this city from London a few months ago. Recently he has not occupied his former gorgeous resi dence on the Avenue Louise, but ow ing to reduced means had been compelled to live in a small hotel where his apartments were very different from those he had been ac customed to as a general in the French army, as Minister-ot War or as the friend of Mine, de Bonnemain. He was much thinner than during his more prosperous davs. Shortly after Mme. de Bonnemain's death General Boulanger's wife, wrote offering to forgive the General and to share his exile, but her letter was left unanswered. The General was a great favorite with the servants and attendants. A fortnight ago he presented his chef with his portrait as a token of affection. Boulanger had been in communication with the communal authori ties of Ixelles, who had macadamized the path to Mme. de Bonnemain's tomb at his request and also offered a vacant vault in the tomb for the General's own use. On learning of the suicide of the General Prince Victor Bonaparte, called and re mained at the residence tor half, an hour. The room in which the body lies is sumpt uously furnished. It is draped in blue silk and adorned with a large portrait of him self, his daughter and Mme. de Bonnemain. A large photograph of Mme. de Bonnemain was found under the clothing next to his '' " JTOW A SUICIDE. heart. The photograph was staine with blood from the wound. There were no doc uments on the body. A Sensation at the French Capital. A dispatch from Paris says: The suicide of General Boulanger has caused an enor mous sensation in this city. So much so that the evening newspaDers are unablo to meet the demands made upon them. Noth ing else is talked of along the bonlevards, in the hotels and cafes, in the clubs and e ery where. The members of the Patri otic League are talking of jjudHc runerarioi the Gcncml.-nnil they propose to inter his reiu'iinsjn Franco, It-is believed that such action on the part of the league will lead to serious disturbances. The romantic manner in which the General died has touched soft spots in the hearts of Parisians, and many warm expressions of sympathy for the dead soldier are heard in unexpected quarters. The Career of itonlanger. Georges Kniest Jean Marie Boulamrer was born at Kennes in Brittany on April 29, 1S37. His father was a native of Kennes and his mother was a Miss Griffith, a native of Wales, whoso family had settled at Rennes after tho peace of 1S15. The future General was educated at tho College of Nantes, and on January 19, 1815, ueforo he was 18, he en tered St. Cyr, the French West Point. There ho studied hard and In due time Joined the Algerian Tirailleurs, whence he was trans fencd to the army in Italy, one result being that lie was severely wounded at the battle of Turbigo. He ne-rt saw service in Cochin China, w heie he was wounded in the arm by an An nnmite lance. Returning home he was at tached to the St. Cyr corps of instructors fiom 1SG7 to 1S70 and became very popularat tho famons academy. In 1870 he left St. Cyr. and in tho war of that year was wounded in the shoulder at the head of hts regiment and subsequently received a severe wound dur inz the suppression of the Commune. The general and his family returned to Paris in 1S70, and within a short time the happy family ties were severed, never to be reunited. The rupture came gradually but inoitably. Military affairs occupied: the general's entire attention, and be spent little time at home. As the years advanced the daughters learned the truth and clung more closely to their mother. The Most Popular Man in France. At this time the general was undoubtedly the most popular man in France. His por traits were sold by the thousand; his lightest utterances w ero quoted in tho cafes and on the boulevards; his style of dress was copied by ambitious young officers; his favor was sought by high and low; his ante room was thronged by suitors for his favor. As tho savior of France, as the pupil of the great Napoleon, he was honoied and ap plauded to the echo. The Goblet Ministry fell and the General was ordered to retire fr6m Paris nnd take command of the Thirteenth Army .Corps, lie sulkily obeyed, but the attractions of Paris w ere too potent to be resisted, and he soon left his command nnd revisited tho capital in disguise. This act of insubordina tion the Government letused to overlook, and he was promptly deposed from his com mand. The Government having decided in March, 18S8, to cashier the Genoral by placing him on the retired list, lie inaugurated a vigor ous campaign against the Ministry. Vacan cies bhortly after occuried in the lepresenta tion for the Boudogne and the Nord. He wasietrrncdby50,5J0votos to 37,750 polled bv the Oppoitunist candidate. In the Nord his triumph was still more lemaikable, the number of votes polled for him being 172,328, against 75,901 lor M. Foucart, and 9,617 for M. Moreau. The Beginning of the Decline. Subsequently his popularity waned for a time. Tho General's appearance in thQ Chamber of Deputies, in July, 1838, to de mand a dissolution of the chamber, gave rise to a stormy scene. M. Floquet made a vigorous attack on the General, and in the altercation between them General Boulanger exclaimed "You lie." This led M. Floquet to demand satisfaction, and on July 13 a duel was fought between them, with the result that the General leccived a deep wound in thetliroit. After his recovery he appeared (1SS9) as a candidate at bye-electiona in Paris, at tho .Sord, the Somme and Charente inferieure, and was returned by large ma jorities. The Patriotic League, of Which he was tho head, was subsequently suppressed, and tho General w as tried by the Senate on. a charge of having, while War Minister, appropriated $50,000 of public money for purposes of his own propaganda. He was found guilty. To nyoid anct he lied first to Belgium, then to LonUon. ThoGencial was elected at tho general election (September) for Mont uiartre, by a small majority over M. Joffiin, but the election wis annulled. Tho General then retlied to the island of Jersey, and later removed to Brussels, where he rented the palatial residence formerly occupied by the Austrian Ambassador. Madame de Bon nemain devoted an Inherited fortuno of $1,500,000 to the ltutherance of the Goueral's uolitical fortunes. mamm PITTSBURG. THURSDAY. OCTOBER! l; 1891-TWELVE WAR OFSPEECHES. Campbell anol Horr, of Mich igan, Play the Eivals at the Canfield Fair. TWO OPPOSING MEETINGS, At Which There Was Lots ot Excite ment, but No Bad Feeling. THE GOVERNOR HOLDS HIS CROWD. He Talks Tin Tlate and Anti-Protection to His Farmer Audience. A FEEE TRADE SPEECH AT T0UNGST0WX tFBOM A STAFF COBRESPOKDIXT.l YotWGSTOWV, Sept 30. Governor Camp bell and Roswell G. Horr held rival meet ings at the Canfield Fair this afternoon. The best of feeling prevailed, and no blodd was spilt. The speakers paid their'respects to each other at times, but not in uncom plementary terms. It 'seems that all the candidates for Gov ernor had been invited to be present. Mc Kinley couldn't come, and sent Horr. The Republicans claimed that the understanding was for the time to be divided. The Demo crats insisted it was Governor's day, and Mr. Campbell had been specially asked to come. They added that when Horr had seen the large crowd around the Governor's stand he wanted to share the effects of his drawing qualities. Two platforms had been erected, one by each party. "When Mr. Horr and the Republicans ar rived on the ground there was a lengthy confab between the respective chairmen, A. J. "Woolf, of Youngstown, for the Demo crats, and Judge Johnson for the Republi cans, about the arrangements for speaking. The Judge asked if Horr could follow the Governor. Mr. Woolf replied that they had other speakers scheduled to appear. "Then we will hold a meeting of our own," replied the Judge, and they did. He an nounced to the crowd that there was a mis understanding and the Republicans would go to another part of the grounds. ''You can pay your money and take your choice," he concluded, amid laughterl CAMPBELL HOLDS THE CBOWD. The audience in front of the Democratic platform didn't stir, and most of them re mained throughout the Governor's speech. There were at least 15,000 people on the grounds, and plenty of hearers for all the speakers. About the time Mr. "Woolf com menced to introduce the Governor the bind at the Republican stand started up a lively air. An official of the fair was Bent to stop the hubbub. Mr. Woolf stated that he would not speak until the band quit, and Governor Campbell, who doesn't like to be disturbed while talking, applauded this statement with a few vigorous taps of his feet on the floor. tbeitZ, t&c -3C-wjj1ww-j. fc-r idate for Governor, was on hand, and took advantage ot the morning hours to mace his appeal to the people. Mr. Horr had a fair sized audience, and he "kept them amused by cracking jokes, ancient and modern. Mr. Campbell looked out on a mass of faces, and as they were principally farmers, he made a speech for their benefit The GoVernor left Ashtabula early in the morning. He attended a reception given by the Elks the night before, and as the so cial occasions of the society are alwavs en joyable, this was no exception. When Governor Campbell reached Niles, where McKinley made his opening speech, he was met by a delegation from Youngstown, headed by County Chairman J. C. Maloney. They had a band and a special train to take the Governor to Canfield. Vf HERE M'KINLEY. TVAS BOEX. A procession was formed and Mr. Camp bell was escorted across the town from the Pennsylvania to the Hew York, Pennsyl vania and Ohio depot. He passed the house where McKinley was born, and it was pointed out to him. At Canfield the hotel was decorated in his honor. An arch had been erected over his place at a table, and a bantam rooster in a cage was intended to hang over his head. For some reason the game bird was overlooked in the shuffle, and the Governor was just as well pleased. The Youngisown boys had their train adorned with "a banner covered with state ments of James G. Blaine about reciprocity, and another, which read: "Reciprocity, free-trade with all nations will insure our national prosperity." In his speech at Can field the Governor said: I am a candidate for Governor. Voice You are going to be elected, too. I need Bepublican votes, and would like to get some in Mahoning county. Your bountiful crops this year are not due to the protective tariff. They are due to natural causes and hard work. The Republicans are throwing out the insinuation that their policy is re sponsible for the result. As three-fourths of the States are Democratic, we might as well claim some of the credit ourselves. They say you are going to have good prices this year nnd you will. What is the cause? Voice Crops have failed in Hussia and France. I am atraid my friend you haven't heard a Bepublican speech. Laughter. THE HOME MAEKET IDEA Tho opposition claims tho good prices will be fiom tho home market created by the policy of protection. The Europeans will buy their wheat from Siberia and India first, but as their surplus is not sufficient to supply the demand, the foreigners must como to us this year. Why bless you.we always have that home market with us. The surplus must go to Europe. What you need here is to put yourSelf on a basis wheie you can trade successfully with foreign people. Whoro do you sell your products? Where is the price of your wheat fixed? In Liver pool, of course. You sell it at Youngstown, but the buyer gives you a price less than tne New York rate, a reduction sufficient to pay the charges in handling and carrying the tne transput miiuu w me metropolis, ah wheat irom uanueiu io Liverpool are taken off the price you are paid. In Liverpool It- la sold in a free-trade market. NowMcKin. ley has put two cents on wheat to keep out the pauper wheat of Europe. Why, none ever came in. Your wheat comes Into com petition with tho wheat ot the world In Liverpool. Up to that point the Canadian nnd American farmer is on the same plan. They both get their money out of the same bank in England when they take a cargo thei e. You don't have-ships to carry money back. WHERE CANADIANS BENEFIT. The Canadian returns with a shipload of manufactured goods. At New York, he tells the collector they are going to Canada, and nobody interferes with him. His stuff is taken across the country free of duty. The American farmer arrives in port, but he must pay a heavy tax to get his goods through. He must eo home and sell a num ber of bushels more of wheat to get his goods out of pawn. "1 et they say that pro tection benefits the Americans. I think the system was adopted for the good of Cana dians. Now I will show you how your farm lands in this county have decreased in value. Senator Sherman says land has not goiie down around manufacturing centers. Let us see. I propose to read you some Bepub lican figures aud rub them Into you until they make you so sore that yon will wish I had never come Into tho county. I am making a Republican speech. In iSsO.vour fatulluuds In Mahoning county weie ap- come, but Ashenhurat, the Prohibition eanwrnnBirwith a teakettle, a piece of isheet- praised at $9,073,000. In 1890, you are ap praised at $6,511,000. The sum of $3,131,000 has disappeared. What has become of it? xesteiday I showed the people of Lake county how much they had lost, and this morning I am abused for it. This money the farmers have lost has flown into the pockets of men like Andrew Carnegie to tho tnne of $30,000,000. Theso men are taking a great deal 0r Interest in Ohio politics this year. They can't vote here, and it remains for you to sav whether they will pull tho money out of your pockets In the future. McKinley made the fight of his life to have a duty put on turnip seed. The Senate knocked It off, but the Major compromised with them. NO CHANCE FOK FARMERS. When a farmer is elected to tho Senato I will pay your fares to Washington to see him. Indeed, I would be willing to walk there to get a glimpse of him. Laughter. 'The fact Is that few farmers have money enough to carry them 15 feet from their doorsteps. Laughter. It does not protect tho farmer to put trifling duties on tho the farm, but, says McKinley, we put many articles on the free list for the benefit of the fairner. I thought that the theory of pro tection was that the higher tho duty the lower the prices. Let us look at tho free list. First comes acorns: what n boon to the faimers. Laugh ter. You can have them boiled, fried and roasted for nothing. Then comes assa fcotida. While eating vour acorns you can smell the assafcetida, and between the two you ought to be happy. Liughtcr. Bnt I won't waste your timo going over the fieo list. We find sand and spunk maiked on it. If I were you 1 would get enough of these two to vote the Democratic tickot this lull. Laughter. The Governor then said that plows made in Michigan and protected are sold from ?2 to ?6 cheaper in Mexico than in America. The same thing, he said, was true of other articles in Canada and South America. Disston saws, agateware, shovels, axes, etc., were articles mentioned as made here that were sold cheaper abroad. When ex-Congressman Niedringhaus, of St. Louis, was so anxious to have the duty put on tin plate," said the Governor, "he was selling agateware cheaper in Canada than he did in his own city. He bought 30,000 boxes of tin plate before the duty went into effect He wanted it advanced so that he could sell tin plate cheaper in Canada than America. THE PRICE OP SALT. "How about salt? Blaine in 1888 said salt was selling in England for 60 cents a ton. In Mahoning county you say you pay 51 per barrel for the cheapest kind, and this is how the tarifflowers prices. If there isany man here who will dispute Mr. Blaine s statements let him step to the front." The Governor appealed to the ladies to take an interest in politics. He said that Sherman remarked that the women were responsible for the Republcan over-throw last fall. He hoped they would bring down another avalanche on that party this year. Coming through ITiles this evening on his way to Youngstown, the Governor was hailed by a crowd of people at the depot He went out on the platform of the rear car and talked to them for a few minutes. The citizens were good-natured, and stood around on the steps and on the railroad tracks. The Governor said he would wager that he would have 1,000 more votes in Butler, his native county, than McKinley wo lid have in Trumbull, where he was born. Mr. Campbell presumed to have a good deal of quiet sport at the expense of the infant tin industry. He understood they were build ing a plant in Niles. He ventured the asser tion that the youngest child within the sound of his voice would never live to see the day when tin plate would be made in this country. If he was mistaken he would apologize to the Republican party. REVERTING TO TIN PLATES. The Governor said he had a sample of the I'iqua tin examined by a St Louis chemist. According to his report it contained no steel; the tin was lead, and if uted-for-""-.. ' iiole vo prouuceparaly- :".J"r l? He added that any old irou and a little lead could make tinplate like they did at Piqua. Recently Major McKinley read a. letter from Norton Bros., in which they olaimed the price of cans was cheaper than before the tin tariff went into effect At Ashtabula a letter was handed the Governor from Mr. Cummins, a local Republican canner. He said in September, 1889, there was a scarcity of cans and Norton Bros, forced up the price out of proportion to the cost of tin plate. Now there is a plentitude of cans and the situation is reversed. The price of tinplate before the tariff was 51 41 per box; now it is 85 20. In Youngtown the spacious Opera House was jammed with people to greet the Gov ernor. The house wilf hold 2,000 or more. It was an audience chiefly of voters, with a very small sprinkling of women. Three muslin placards was tacked to the first gallery. Two had quotations from William Allen and Blaine. The third bore these words: "Democracy and Schoolhouse versus Republicanism and Custom House." Mr. Dodge, of Cleveland, and Judge Still well, of Homes county, who Tias been with the Governor since he started out, preceded Mr. Campbell with short speeches. A TALE FOR THE FARMER. Governor Campbell was received with cheers and applause. In his speech he said the loss to the farmers of Mahoning county in the last ten years had been made up in the increased wealth of Youngstown. From 1850 to 1860, under the old tariff, the manu factured products increased 72 per cent, while from 1870 to 1880, and under protec tion, the advance was 20 per cent. Under the present system the increase in the wealth is not equally distributed. The country is growing richer in spots. The defeat of McKinley would be the downfall of protection. It is no use for Sherman to say that a silver dollar is "shoddy," and worth only 80 cents, when the paper dollar, which represents it, has full value. Senators Morrill and McPherson were at Cleveland the other day. They consulted with some of the iron menUhere about rec iprocity with Canada. They told Morrill that they could get along without a duty on coal and iron. In 1882 Blaine cited a num ber of products that were made in America as cheaply as anywhere. The Governor wanted to know why the tariff in 1890 on many of the articles should be doubled and trebled. "Some of the infant industries of to-day are 101 years old. They are more than six feet high, wear No. 8 brogans and propose to raise a rumpus in the House if they are not rocked a little faster," said the Gov ernor. This sally produced a laugh. "All the castles on the Rhine," he said, "never plundered the people as much as the tariff in the last 12 months." Continuing, he said: TO CHEAPEN PRICES. We want to cheapen prices and increase production. The first thing to be done i3 to pull down the Bepublican ticket in Ohio and then remove every barrier behind it. Applause. Daniel O'Connell said: "Protec tion means an additional sixpence for a loaf; Were it not for the tariff it would sell for a shilling instead of sixponco higher." Maude asked Claude what reciprocitv was. He replied: "If I kiss vou and you kiss mo that Is reciprocity." "Oh," she added, "it is something nice." Laughter. Now, if you must have reciprocity, why don't you have it with the good-looking girls of tho North, and not with the blacks and half-breed women or San Domingo. Laughter. It is bad taste and bad statesmanship, to say the least. Applause. 1 read in a l'ittsourg paper this morning that Carnegie, Phipps & Co. has given notice of a change in paying wages that bodes no good for the men. Carnegie has made fW. 000,000. We will see to it that in the next ten" yeais he won't make $10,000,000 unless he ;works for it. Laughter. The miners al'O ask an advance of 10 cent. I thought they were protected, but instead ot putting 1 cents in their pockets, it has takon out 10. In a letter from u Pittsburg man, he said: LABOR IN priTSBURO. "Labor had. no demonstration here on Labor Day. Labor never was so poor as under the McKinley bill. The places of striking carpenters and bricklayers ar0 given to tho foreigners." You know that iron workers have lost more strikes in the last six months than in the former )Wrs- Mgmliti . PAGES. , . ; ,'ri This has l-JifSpted since the tariff bill was passed. iSWOTiiiidow glass trade yon will find thafWite l6'V'liient of the workmen ai e American '$$&? V c.ent re fMirf ..-".' cuaLuaaiA.onse-jiot the men who?.- S33J3lorj jo AJUJflirr lAmeri- is in i -IGnfoi -luoiJdSJF& can As feat" 1 tr" - llfcJM lTY,MimLl?' 400 to Sitter, n- - ..- . - . 1 ViWar-iT-TT' mL-iTa turned off their Ameri5ffiHorkPicn i i nor rpiii. ihi iii.li i uuwi.fi j and imported Bohemians to titae in,.,w t st ner week. fApplause. x um glad they are hnving a bad time to keep even with the convict laborers. When the tariff was increased on pottery.the Trenton manu facturers cut tho wages of their men to such an extent that tho people and Board of Trade protested. In the silk plush industry they brought a lot of beef-eating, cheap Englishmen to supplant American w oik men. In the same manner the w ages of men making knit goods were cut alter the tarin bill went Into effect. Wages havo been re duced and prices increased. In an investigationiecentlyintothewagcs paid working girls in Chicago in the cloak industry, one of them said she got 40 cents in three days, and toiled from 7 in the morn ing till 6 at night. And yet these men want more protection Why, they ought to be hanged. Applause. Think of it, 13K cents er day lor mese pours"ui,b"uft ,ui lying Israel. TWO BANKS EMBARRASSED. THE FIHST NATIONAL, OF CLEAB FIELH. SUCCUMBS TO A HUN. A Hontzdale InstltntionUnder the Samo 5Ii,gementAls6 in TronblTho Em oeKiiements of a Former Cashier at tho lioltom of the Trouble. Clearfield, Sept 30. p55eS5?TI-The- mraers-and citizens of thisplace and Hbutz- dalc are wild to-night over the cloajng of the First National Bank, of Clearfield, and the consequent trouble brought on the Houtzdale Bank. For several months this bank has been doing a losing business, and the people have rather regarded it with dis trust The only reason for this feeling was that its former President, John Boynton, father-in-law of Mr. Dill, resigned, and his son, A. F. Boynton, Vice President, not only resigned but sold all his stock. Out siders felt rather suspicious of these moves, and from time to time have withdrawn their deposits until the amount fell from 5235,000 eight months ago to less than S100.000. The financial troubles of last December caused a heavy run, but this was success fully met, since which time troubles have been multiplying. John B. Neveling, cashier, pulled out. Some of the directors withdrew and the stock of the bank wa3 being continually offered for sale. Within the past two weeks the heavy depositors who had stood by the bank all through began to pull out The last run began Saturday and continued up until last even ing, the bank paying over the counter nearly 40,000 when payment stopped. Then, to complicate matters, the Houtz dale Bank, under the same management, be came involved. After the trouble of last spring had been bridged over the Houtzdale Bank, then owned by the Houtz heirs, be came involved owing to the defalcation of their teller, W. B. Hamilton, to the amount of ?45,000, as stated by the bank officers, but now thought to be much larger. He is now in the Western Penitentiary for embezzle ment When his defalcation became known the bank officers wanted to suspend, bnt Mr. Dill heard of their trouble and went over and bought the bank. The bank at once re gained the confidence of the people, and ever since then has been doing an immense business. There is no doubt the Clearfield Bank had drawn largely upon the resources of the Houtzdale institution. A special telegram to The Dispatch from Houtzdale says: There is intense ex citement here to-night over the closing ot the Dill bank at Clearfield and the trouble here with the old Houtzdale Bank. Cashier McGrath is quoted this evening as having stated the bank will pay dollar for dollar. Hundreds of miners are parading the streets or gathering at the street corners, and trouble is feared every moment witH the Huns and Slavs who have their little all in the bank. Threats of violence are frequent Last night a judgment in favor of R. Mc Pherson, in trust lor Mrs. Dill tor 525,000, was placed on record, and suit was brought on several smaller claims. President Dill was interviewed to-night byTllEDlSPATCH correspondent. He said: "An unprece dented run on Saturday, Monday and Tues doy, amounting to about 45,000, on .the First National Bank, made it impossible t continue business, and we decided to sus pend payment There has really been an almost continuous run on this bank ever since last December, when Boynton sold his stock, You can say the banks w 11 pay every dollar in full."' He said a receiver would be appointed at once for the Clear field bank and probably for the Houtzdale bank. THE BIG METHODIST COUNCIL. A Great Kccentlon to Be Given the For- eign Delegates In New York, r New- York, Sept. 30. Special. Alarge number of the foreign delegates to the great Methodist Ecumenical Conference, which begins in Washington this week, have already arrived here, and next Monday evening a reception is to be given them in Carnegie Music Hall. Methodist enthusi asm is to be aroused by congregational sing ing, and addresses will be made by repre sentative Methodists. A large attendance is expected from New York and neighboring cities and the occa sion will be one of the good old-fashioned Methodist sort Many ot the British dele gates will arrive by the Citv of Berlin on Friday, and the last installment is coming on the City of Home, which is .due on Sat urday. , " . Jg&nr COSYERTJNG HIS FOES JIcKinley's Strong Arguments Con vince a Number of Democrats. ""HE CANDIDATE VISITS A i'AlK And Outshines AH of the Other Features on Exhibition. AX AUSTEIAX FURNISHES A FOINT -BrECIAI. TELEGRAM TO TTIE DISrVTCIT.l Winchester, O., Sept 30. -The annual Adams county fair was held at this place to-day. There was a great exhibit of the choicest products of the fertile farms, and there was also an exhibit of American statesmanship in the person of McKiuley, and of all the splendid exhibits the latter attracted all tie attention. When McKin ley began to speak the crowd deserted every other part of the grounds, clustered about the speaking platform and remained spell bound to the close of the address. There were many Democrats in the audi ence perhaps as many as Republicans and the power of McKinley 's argument was illustrated by what followed the conclusion of thejpeech. Dozens of them went for ward to touchJuHls rvjth" -tb -Majory-andr teveral stated tji him that they--were going to give to him their votes. A GOOD PLACE TO VISIT. In no other place thus far visited has more been accomplished. Coming over to Winchester from Portsmouth this morning, Major McKinley went to the residence of Mr. L. J. Fenton, a prominent citizen and Republican, where he took dinner, meeting a number of the active Republicans of the county. The fair grounds were thrown open to all comers at noon, no admission being charged, and there was a very large crowd present when Major McKinley arrived. The speech was an effective presentation of the Republican position with reference to the silver and the tariff, and was listened to with all possible attention. While he was speaking an old Austrian by the, name of Ferdinand Feike interrupted him to say that he approved his protection doctrine and could testify to its benefits because be fore he came to this country in Austria he worked for 1 a week. He was an able hodicd man at that time and did a man's full day's work for such wages. This gave the Major a new text and he directed his remarks to the working men contrasting their condition in this country with that of the working men in Europe. DEMOCRATS GREET THE MAJOR. After the speech when the people were crowding forward to shake hands with the Major a large number of Democrats were in the lead and one of the Republicans called out good-naturedly: "Hurry up and when you Democrats have finished shaking hand3 with McKinley wp hope you will give the Republicans a chance." This was received with the same good nature by the Demo crats who atthat moment were monopoliz ing the Major. A number of them as sured him that they would vote for him in November. They could not stand free trade and free silver and these seemed to be the only issues their old party was fighting forthis year. The Major and General Enochs were en tertained by Ij. J. Fentou and in the Even ing w ere serenaded by the band. A large crowd gathered in the street hoping to hear McKinley again, but General Enochs was pressed into the' service again and made a short speech. Maj or McKinley return ed to Portsmouth this evening and to-morrow will iro into Jackson county to speak at Jackson in the afternoon and Weliston in the evening. THE tfEWS DIRECTORY. This index of the features of to-day's 12 page Dispatch will be of assistance to hurried readers: PAGE 1. Boalanger" Srfclde. The Ohio Campaign Allegheny Kecords Destroyed. PAGE S. In tho New Postofiice. Ministers at War Testing the Liquor Law. TAGE 3. Want Ads. Miscellaneous Ads PAGE 4. Editorial. October Astronomy Kansas Campaign Songs. ' TAGE S. Talk of tho Town. Deaths PAGE C. The Labor "World. Exposition Features PAGE 7. Work of the Democratic Societies. PAGE 8. Baseball. General Sports News From Neighboring Towns. PAGE 0. PattlsonSupptfrted. A Hallway Horror A Minister Flops. Legal Tapers Missing " PAGE IO. OH Field Figures. Court Proceedings PAGE 11. Local Stock Trade. Market Reports PAGE 12. The Power of'Air. A War Narrative An Argument on Silver. ' A CENT A WORD Keeps You Before tha Public Through THE DISPATCH. THERE CENTS. RECORDSJN ASHES, The Books the Allegheny Auditors lire Looking for Hayc Been Burned m THE GAEBAGE FUMACE. Everything is Gone in the "Where Everything Went. City NO ITEMIZED EEPORTS WERE MADE Testimony Before tho Committee Eeveals Interesting" Pacts. A EEPLT TO THE H.EASANT VALLET CO. The Allegheny Auditing Committee held along session last night The principal object was to ascertain what had become of the stub books showing the number of ve hicle licenses issued by various Chiefs of Po lice. Quite anumber of witnesses were exam ined under oath. All the light the committee got on the stub books was that there had been no arrangements for keeping them; that they had been carelessly allowed to lie abont on table and'desks and finally swept out, burned or gotten out of they wav a3 ns"eless matter. It was also learned that there had never been any aud its of these books either by the Controller or the Police Committee, and that officials had been allowed to keep them in a go-as-you-please manner without the slightest at tention from Councils or anybody but those directly in charge of them. The committee is just as far away from securing any of the books as ever, and the chances are none of them will ever be found. The City Treasurer, Controller and Mayor have nothing but general statements of amounts received from vehicle tax. It wan also developed that large sums of street railway and refuse company tax had never been collected. The state ments of every witness were illustrations of the slipshod "manner in w hich branches of the city government have been conducted, startling even to the committeemen who have learned so many things during the past few weeks they should have known lopg ago. The garbage furnace has served as a vault for storing city records, and hid den in its ashes are the secrets the commit tee has used so much time to unearth. ACCOUNTS LONG- STANDING. The first business taken up was a report of the expert auditors. It stated first that the witness books of Mayor Wyman and ex Mayor Pearson had been turned over for their use. In looking into the matter of tax on refuse companies the experts found numerous discrepancies. J. M. Clark began the -business and got a license in 1879. He paid the fee, but his name does not appear on the ' Looks. Peter Barnes' name appears for several years, bnt fees amounting to 1G0 are still due. J. G. Wyman had been carrying on the busines? for years, but there was appar ently an account of S120 against him. 3Ir. Wyman said this had been paid, and showed the receipts after the meeting. Archie Taylor had licenses from 1879 to 189Lbut kSl-r was -fnittfil due on nis ac-" connt. This wonld mean seven years. Albert Datling was found 20 in arrears. The Union Excavating Company was re ported due 120, or six years license fees. Receipts for this amount were also pro duced after the meeting, showing that it had been paid. Isaac Nelson had paid his license in 18S9, but none since. The Star Excavating Company was charged with 20 due. The total amount of these licenses in arrears was 520. The experts also referred to the arrear ages on market stalls and recommended speedv.collection. The report was referred to Councils with the experts suggestions. Chairman Gilliford announced that he desired to make an answer to the published statements of the Pleasant Valley Company in reference to their standing with the city. He had it prepared in writing. It bejjan with the statement that a communication from the Board of Directors of the Federal Street and Pleasant Valley Company had been published which, if given credence, would deceive and befog the public He then took up the points of this commu nication. He denied that the statement in regard to the company's indebtedness was , to injure the company: it was merely the re suit of the audit now in progress. ENORMOUS PROFITS MADE. Continuing, he referred to "the juicy melon" by which each old stockholder in the company got ten of the new shares for one old share without additional cost This meant that either,the company had accumu lated a surplus of 900,000, or that the fran chises from the citywere worth that much. In either case the ten new shares represent a profit and are a dividend. He asked if the company had secured franchises worth 900,000 who could have imagined that they could be so despicably mean and hoggish as to begrudge the city the modest little tax of 1 out of $20? He claimed that the allusion to the Supreme Court decisions was ah admission that the city is morally entitled-to this tax, and said that jhese de cisions were based on technicalities that do not exist in this case. The assertion that double tax had been imposed on cars he denied. Taking op the Auditor's report he said that following the item of stock dividend comes the item of Mtax on cars not reported, 5,900." This was obtained by taking the company's sworn report to'the Secretary o& Internal Affairs and comparing it with the unsworn return of the same officials to the City Controller and charging up the difference in the num ber of cars so reported, at the rate fixed by ordinance. The company, he said, could not question their return to the State or the rates fixed bv recorded ordinances. The next item of $75 tax on dividend for 1890, is based on the report to the City Controller. The next item, Park Passenger Railway Company car tax is obtained from official returns. The two items for ear tax, Pleasant Valley 5,900, and Park Passenger Railway Company, 720 constitutes the total arrearages charged fbr car tax on all the Pleasant Valley system, which he believed was less than a strict in terpretation of the ordinances would show, T'.e Park Passenger Railway Company's tax for cleaning and repairing streets, 4,700, was based on an ordinance which he read and which he said the company had ignored since 1884. He pointed out other provisions of this ordinance that had been neglected. Thfdividendonl'ark Passenger Railway Company is from returns made May 21, 1891- , , i. The item of street cleaning tax on the Ponnlo'i line is also according to ordinance and there is no record of the company ever paying a cent. The item of the same class on the Observatory Hill road is the same, and the same was true as regards the Cross Town road, the Perry street road, the Troy Hill road. ... Dr. Gilliford said the statements made in open council had not been answered,and wound up with the assertion that it would be more creditable if the company, instead of trying to evade the indebtedness, would pay it STATEMENTS UNDER OATH. The inestigation ofthe vehicle license books was then begun. A notary public was present, and each witness was sworn. Con troller Brown took the stand first, la aa- & I ? .- ! I 4 vl '-K T ikjMKjJlk&
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