THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1891.
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THE LEADERSPEAKS
--
Gladstone's Address the Event
of the Liberal Federa
tion Meetinjr.
ALL THE LEADING ISSUES
Touched Upon Very Strongly, Irat
Willi Marked Moderation.
f-
THE HOUSE OFLORDS IS MENACED.
3t
31uit T.e blended or Fmled, and the
Termor Seems Impossible.
iHiAXKS IX THE I.IBERAIi TLATrORM
NmTASTi.r, Kxfi., Oct. 2. Over 4.000
persons Mure parked in the Tyneside Thea
ter to-night to liear Mr. Gladstone. Two
liours before the proceeding opened every
inehof -tandiii! room was taken. The ap
pearance of Mr. Gladstone was a signal for
a prolonged ovation. The audience rose
and gave round after round of rapturous
cheers.
Mr. Gladstone, obviously uelichtcd with
lie warmth of his reception, bowed ajrain
and a.saiu in response to the fervid cnthu
Eiftsm of the audience. The cheering con
linueil so long and so loud that the Chair
man, Dr. Spence nton, was anally com
pelled lo make a mute appeal for silence.
"When juiet was restored Dr. Spence
"Watson moved and Mr. Hurt seconded a
resolution esprcins: affection for and nn-dinrini-ned
confidence in Mr. Gladstone.
The resolution was carried with renewed
acclamations.
I'KOTKsnKS Of V1CTOUY.
"When the cheering Mibsided Mr. Glad
stone rose to speak. Looking back to 188fit
he said, the Liberals saw what was believed
to be a crashing defeat: but during the
years tliat had since elapsed the horizon
had brightened. There were many pre
oorsers of certain victory, and that victory
they knew could not " be far distant.
Cheers. Anions the several subjects
whose claim to pnblicattentiou he admitted
if lie cited the question of the shortening of
the period of Parliament, it was onlv to say
tnat the Liberal party was for it anil would
propose it at the earliest opportunity that
could justly and wisely be chosen. Cheers.
If be spoke of a readjustment of taxation,
especially between the various kinds of
property, he would dismiss a subject
abounding in complex details by referring
to speeches and votes already given as an
assurance that when its turn came the sub
ject would have practical and decisive at
tention. Next referring to national economy, Mr.
Gladstone said that much Had been said
about the late conversion of the national
debt. All the savings thereon and more, he
declared, had already been absorbed and
effaced from the public accounts, not only
by enormous increases in the charges for
supply and the necessary ci il rates of the
country, but also by an enormous increase
in tlie naval and military expenditures: and
Etill the relentless appetite of those bring
ing it about had not been satisfied. Hear,
bear.
SALISBURY'S rORniGX l'OLICY.
lie should like to hae spoken on the
Government's foreign policy which has
Many domestic results, but the policy of
the prcciit administration had been well
nigh the inverse and reverse of that of Lord
ItcaeonsfieliL .lust as the Liberals had en
deavored to make the work of" the Heacons
field administration difficult, because they
thought it was doing ill, so had they
striven to make the work of the present ad
ministration, in its foreign policy, easy, be
nse they thought that as far as "their
information went its spirit had undergone a
beneficial change. Appeals to passion and
pride were no longer sent broadcast over
the country. A kinder, juster and more
general spirit had dictated at least the
departmental position of Lord Salisbury!
Cabinet.
"I shall, indeed, rejoice," continued Mr.
Gladstone, "if before the day comes for the
present administration to give tip the
chost laughter and cheers it will be possi
ble for Lord Salisbury to make an ellort to
relieve us of the burdensome and embarrass
ing occupation of Kgypt, which so long as
it Lasts mutt be a cause of weakness.
It is a source of embarrassnient we owe
entirely to engagements contracted by a
fonaer Tonr Government, and which I tear
the present Government may, if it eou
tiuties its piesent foreign policy, hand to
its Liberal successors to deal with.
Cticers.
the Tiain-jiAxci: Qvr&rios.
Looking at the multitude of other topics
calling for notice, Mr. Gladstone said he
almost echoed the w ish of the Father of
Poet for ten months and ten tongues wheie
with to speak. Laughter. He must
bpesk a word of congratulation and hope in
regard to the temperance question. Al
though the I'.irlhunentarj proceedings on the
-object in 1MW weie iiegathe; although
tlr appeared to consist substantially only
in the rejection of a bad plan and not'iu the
adoption of a good one. yet thev had this
ctlert they disposed for all time of the
monstrous and enormous claims for the
compensation of publicans which the pres
ent Government acknowledged. II, upon
the foundation bill which the Government
introduced, it had been possible to make
these claims, they would have proved an
impenetrable fort against every attempt to
deal effectual!) with the drink traffic.
There were some positive results, also.
In various parts of the country new life
and a more equitable spirit had been iufased
into licensing boards.
LOCAL oi'TIOV IS I'lIKmCTEl).
"Those approaching my period of life,"
Mid Mr. Gladstone, "may not witness it,
but many of ydu will see a thorough ami
effective reforni of the liws connected with
the traffic in alt-ohol, with an acknowledge
ment of the rfcht of local populations to
tettle the question whether within their
borders public houses should exist."
Cheere.
Touching the "Welsh and Scotch church
disestablishment question, Mr. Gladstone
aid: "I, a resident of "Wales and a Scotch
representativc?shall not embroil myself in
pitiless controversy. 1 shall simply as
sure Scotland and "Wules that they have the
unanimous .iiijort of the Liberals. Hear,
hear.) It doe-inot depend upon those con
ducting Liberal -affairs in Parliament,
whether Scotch or AVelsh disestablishment
takes precedence. Kach has able, resolute
and active champions who have no inten
tion ot waiting. It would be wrong if they
consented to w-j;it until home rule had be
come a law, or until in the due order of
succession on tlie Liberal programme their
turn came. If the Scotch gam precedence,
Iheirgain will help the "Welslu If the
"Welsh precede, their victory will help the
Scotcli." Cheers.
ON TIU; IIOI-SK OF LORDS.
"I desire to pass lightly over the difficult
luestion of the House of Lords. Prolonged
cheers. Owing to the priority ot the claims
of etuer subjects this question at present is
rather in the shade. "Well, I should not be
sorry if it wuld remain in the shade still
longer, provided the extra lease thns cained
were gamed by its wisdom, forbearance and
moderation in dealing with public senti
ment. "Itut if the njuestion is remote, a mode ex
ist!, whereby itlmay be made approximately
very near indeed, a burning question: that
is, if in an e (1 hour the peers be tempted
to listen to the counsel unsuspiciously given
by Lord Salisbury when he contemplated
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the possibility his mind is open to that ex
tent laughter of a Liberal victory at the
general election, and reminded them that
all would not be over even if the House of
Commons should pass the home rule bill;
that they might still rely I am quoting his
sacred words on the play of other parts of
the Constitution. There is but one other
part of the Constitution that could possibly
perform such a prank as to interpose itself
between the deliberate judgment of the na
tion and the incorporation of the judgment
in the form of a law, and that is the House
of Lords.
THE l'EERS O.V DAXOEROUS GROUNDS.
"They tried that game in 18.31 throughout
the proceedings on the reform, bill. The
consequence was they naa to undergo a
most painful humiliation, as they only suc
ceeded in delaying the measure a year, and
they themselves destroyed whatever confi
dence the people then had in them.
"1 hope and believe that the Lords will
not accept the deplorable suggestion of the
Premier. Unt should they be seduced they
will themselves be the first to repent; and
those who address you from this platform
will not tell you then that the question of
the House of Lords is remote, but they will
tell you that it shall have precedence over
every other question, because then upon
that" alone will depend the question
whether the country is self-governing or
whether there is a "power, not upon or be
hind the throne, but between tlie throne
and the people, able to stop the action of
the constitutional machine which has now
been perfected or brought nearer to perfec
tion by the labors, struggles, 7eal and
wisdom of many generations.
In regard to registration reform, Mr.
Gladstone admitted that there was much to
be said in favor of giving it a forward place
on the Liberal platform.
OX THE LABOR QUESTION.
"Another question undoubtedly forcing
itself upon our attention," continued Mr.
Gladstone, "can be summed up in a single
word labor. Cheers. Tlie great en
franchisement of 18S."! added 3,000,000 to
the constituency, but much remains to be
done. Labor representation in Parliament
must be extended. As far as it has gone it
has been thoroughly satisfactory and has
done enormous good.
I can hardly say it admits of an addition
of moral force. An addition of numerical
force is not onlv desirable, but it is in the
highest degree urgent. Cheers. Nothing
proves more distinctly the soundness of the
heart and mind of the people of England
than the choice made of labor representa
tives. Cheers. Let us give them scope
to choose a few more men of the same kind
not a few, but a good many. Those
charged with the central management of
affairs of the party w ill exhibit the utmost
disposition to assist wherever a constitu
ency is found fa orable to the claims of a
labor candidate.
If we have more labor candidates certain
consequences will follow. Thus, the neces
sary expenses of elections should not be
drawn irom the pockets of the candidates,
but should be charged upon the rate payers
as a public tunction.
the hours or TOIL.
"Coming to the difficult questions lately
raised in regard to the hours of labor,I view
with satisfaction and sympathy and with
the liveliest pleasure the large reductions
in the amount ot toil exacted winch my
fellow-citizens have achieved in the last 20
years. I wish well to all further reductions
that it may be possible to achieve without
a violation of the rights of any man.
Cheers. I wish, in a qualified manner, to
see progress in such changes in the lot of
labor. That lot is certain to continue
sufficiently severe, and it ought to be a
subject for unmixed joy whenever it can be
mitigated by means involving no violation
of the principle of liberty. Cheers.
"Bclore assenting to the principle of a
compulsory law binding laborers to reduce
labor to a certain nuniber of liours daily, I
am glad to be assured and to see a demon
stration that those who now receive for long
hours low wages are to receive at least in
full those wages for shorter hours. Hear,
hear. It isbut an act of common friend
ship to caution our fellow countrymen tint
it will require more than a mere majority
ofall the trades highly organized more
than a mere majority of all the trades over
the country so to "bind the minority that
they shall be subject to coercive penal pro
ceedings. HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.
"1 have noticed that instead of tiring of
it meetings have always hailed any mention
of Ireland with eagerness, doubtless be
cause the people are conscious that other
work will be delayed until this is dealt
witlu Our opponents say that the Govern
ment deserves well of the country, for they
are goiuu to introduce a local government
bill for Ireland, and their policy in Ireland
has been successful. I am glad that they
promi e to introduce the bill, but it is
deathbed repentance.
"Such is the clemency of the Liberal party,
I am sure their resolution will be welcomed
with open arms. I must admit, however,
that the reason 1 rejoice is that local gov
ernment must assist Ireland to obtain na
tional rights. It is certain that popularly
elected local bodies will be a new focus of
thought, you may say of excitement and
agitation, but at any rate, they will be
somethiiiff tending to the direction of the
fulfillment of the national wish. "We shall
sec, as we have already seen in the case of
free education and other reforms, with what
sort of smile and countenance the Tories
w ill present local government, but we know
the bill w ill not be a real affirmation of the
principle of equal rights."
WHAT TORIES CALL CRIME.
In combating the assertion that the Gov
ernment of Ireland had been a success, Mr.
Gladstone reminded his hearers at length
that what the Government called crime in
Ireland was agrarian combination to secure
the tenants' undetermined but often very
real rights. Xo doubt these combinations
sometimes developed real crime, but the
Government had not waited for the devclon-
ment of the crime. Instead, they had inter
fered with private liberty in a manner that
would not be tolerated in a moment in this
country.
They dealt at length in statistics of agra
rian crime in Ireland for the purpose of
displaying that under their regime such
crime was reduced by one-sixth as against
the boasted one-half by the present admin
istration. They admitted that there was
an increase after the Liberal adminstration,
but said that was due to' the exceptional
distress in 1800 and incapacity of the ten
ants to pay rent. Parliament was en
treated and " conjured to make some pro
vision to alleviate the distress, hut abso
lutely refused. That was the sole cause of
the increase.
only oxr cRurn nrroRTAST.
In the eyes of the present Government no
crime is important unless it affects the col
lection of landlord's rents. Another reason
for the increased observance of the law in
Ireland is the friendship ot the people of
Great Pritain. Irishmen have interpreted
the conduct of the Liberal party as a true
index of the sentiment of the country at
large. It is for us to carry to an issue the
question whether they are well justified in
the inference they draw.
Then how strange is their position. The
majority is credited with the diabolical in
tention to oppress the minority. Yet one
would think that this minority was not
wholly incapable of some effort in its own
defense, and especially when it is supported
by .To.HOO.OOO of English, Scotch and Welsh
men, not one of whom, be he Liberal, Con
servative, dissident, or anything else,
would for a moment tolerate "the slightest
indication of such an oppression. Laugh
ter and cheers.
Tlie reputation of a country, measured by
a standard easily gotten at, "means what its
neighbors think of it. The reputation of
Itussia is probably very high with certain
parties in Russia itself" It would not be so
high, however, if measured by the opinion
of the civilized world. Hear, hear. A
condemnatory verdict was long ago pro
nounced on England with reference to her
conduct toward Ireland.
THE ENMITY OI' IRELAND.
You have arrived at a point decisive in
your history. If it is for the future to say,
after thencxt general election, this enmity,
if it continue, wlil be an eamitv with tue
""""""""""""""i wttr'it
peoples and not. with the States. To see
one country oppressed by the rulers of
another country is a heartrending sight.
This is not a question of cruel tyrants,
selfish oligarchies. You are a self-governed
people by your votes determining the course
the imperial policy must follow. "With
this power you must accept the duties and
responsibilities which belong to it. If Ire
land is oppressed hereafter it will be op
pressed by you, people of England. The
spectacle of one people oppressing another
is the saddest, most heartrending and
humbling that can be seen on the surface
of the earth. I can never believe that a
great nation will place itself in such a po
sition. In truth, this question of friendship or
enmity has already been considered in some
degree. A decided declaration in favor of
friendship has been made in a mos. consti
tutional manner by the results of the polls.
Our opponents now begin to admit it to be
something formidable. The elections hon
estly decided are a safe indication of what
is to come as the verdict. The constituen
cies have spoken not only the sober, the
just and the true, but also" the inevitable.
"Cheers. Upon these verdicts Ireland
relics.
THE LIBERAL TLATrORM.
At the National Liberal Federation Con
gress to-day resolutions were adopted as
follows: Condemning the registration laws
as excluding many voters; favoring shorter
sessions of Parliament and providing that
all elections shall take place on the same
day; recommending the principle of paying
members ot the House ot Commons; ue
c'aring that district and parish Councils,
elected by popular vote, should be estab
lished, and that certain powers should be
conceded to local authorities, and other
measures taken, necessary for the better
ment of the condition of the rural popula
tions. Sir "Wilfred Lawson, M. P., President of
the Alliance for the Suppression of the
Liquor Traffic, moved the reaffirmation of
the Council's declarations in favor of mend
ing or ending the House of Lords; favoring
local option: reform of the land laws; re
peal of the laws of primogeniture and en
tail; enfranchisement of leaseholders, and
the disestablishment and disendowment of
the Church of Scotland. Sir "Wilfred said
the period for mending the House of Lords
had passed away, and therefore he advised
its abolition.
Sir "Wilfred's motion was adopted, and
the Congress adjourned until to-morrow.
RELIGIOUS RIOTS IN ROME.
FKEXCn riXGKIMS TO THK POrK IN
SULT THE ME3IORY OF
United Italy's First King A Tnmnlt Fol
lows and Several Clericals Are Ar
restedA Slob Compels Hotel Men to
Display tlio Italian Flag.
Rome, Oct. 2. There has been no little
anxiety for days past lest the presence of
large numbers of zealous pilgrims in Home
might rouse religious passion or popular
prejudice. "What has been apprehended
happened to-day.
A company of pilgrims, after having been
received by the Pope, was visiting the
notable sanctuaries of the city. "While
they w ere at the Pantheon they manifested
open disrespect of the tomb of King Victor
Emanuel. Some of the bystanders protested
vigorously. One "word led to another and a
row between the pilgrims and the defenders
of Victor Emanuel followed. The church
attendants, in alarm, summoned the police,
who entered.the church and placed three of
the pilgrims under arrest.
"When the news of the disturbance and
subsequent arrests spread through Home,
bands of young men began to gather im
mediately in many quarters and marched in
procession through the streets, singing anti
clerical and patriotic airs and hooting and
hissing at pilgrims who chanced to cross
their path.
The processionists marched to the hotels
occupied by the pilgrims and loudly de
manded that the Italian flag be displayed.
The proprietors were quick to accede to
this patriotic demand, and when the Na
tional flag appeared the crowd' raised an en
thusiastic cheer which was long continued.
At the same time the groans from the pil
grims were redoubled.
The pilgrims who caused the original
trouble were French. The accounts of the
insults oflered by the pilgrims to the tomb
of Victor Emmanuel differ in many particulars-
One story is to the effect that when
the officials in charge of the tomb asked the
pilgrims to write their names in the visitors'
hook, as customary, the French pilgrims in
the party not only refused to inscribe their
names, but deliberately and with a great
display of feeling sat "upon the book ques
tion. This story, however, is denied. An
other report declares that the pilgrims
shouted "Vive le Pope," "A has Victor
Emanuel."
ARTIST' A -woman painter ot New York
tells Charles T. Murray of the prejudice
thnt exists against women In art. See his
letter In THE DISPATCH to-morrow.
AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY,
Lawyer Monaghan's Whereabouts Still a
Puzzling Conundrnm.
New York, Oct. 2. Special The dis
appearance of Kobcrt .Tones Monaghan from
theGilsey House is as much of a mystery
now as it was when he was first reported
missing, nearly a week ago. His brother,
James Monaghan, is still at the Gilsey
House, and is very much w orried at getting
no news. "My brother has either met with
foul play or become suddenly demented,"
he said. "He has been working very hard
of late, and has also been troubled with
insomnia. That might have turned his
head and led to his going off somewhere.
He did not, as a rule, carry much money,
and I don't think that he had much when
he disappeared."
The Hon. Joseph Hemphill one of the
Judges of the Fifteenth Judicial district of
Pennsylvania, said: "I have known Rob
ert Monagahan since 1809. He takes an
occasional drink, but I never heard of his
taking too much at any time. I don't know
of a mau who lived a more quiet and steady
life."
NVOMEN Margaret H. 'Welch's practical
hints for practical women are a feature of
THE DISPATCH every Snnclny.
MOUNTED POLICE NEEDED
To Prevent th e Smuggling of Chinese Over
Our Northern Boundary.
Chicago, Oct. 2. Special Treasury
Agent Stone has returned from the Cana
dian border, where he has been located since
last June watching Chinamen who seek to
smuggle themselves into the State. Stone
says the present system for detecting and
sending back the intruders is almost a total
failure.
Uetwecn Pembina, the extreme eastern
point of the Canadian line near Lake Su
perior and Montana, there are not a dozen
inspectors to patrol the vast stretch. Hun
dreds of Chinamen succeed in getting across
the borders. Bands of whites and Canadians
assist them in this at so much a head. "What
is needed is aforce of mounted police.
EAINS IN THE N0RHWEST.
They "Will Delay Threshing and Possibly
Do a Great Deal of Damage.
St. Paul, Oct. 2. General and heavy
rains have fallen yesterday and to-day all
over the Nortliwest. Reports from North
Dakota are that the rain will delay thresh
ing for possibly a mouth.
As the great shortage in threshers and
threshing crews has prevented more than 25
per cent of the crop from being threshed up
to this time this further delay will work
great hardship and loss to the fanners. Just
how much it will diminish the 5150,000,000
value of the crop can't be estimated, but
the
s,-uu,vuuluvu increase in janu values in
Minnesota
lessened.
and the Dakotas will not be
W'-r..Tm MiaAMfaS - ., - - -
AFTER MUM'S SCALP.
Charges Against Dim of Protecting
Guilty Pension Clerks.
DUDLEY' ALSO Iff THE SCAffDAL.
A Grare Criminal Act in Connection With
a Rc-Iiating of His.
PAPERS STOLEN PROM BUREAU FILES.
rrnOM A STAFF CORnESPONDEXT.l
"Washington, Oct. 2. It is rumored
this evening that charges have been made
against Commissioner llaum, of the Pen
sion Bureau, that he has deliberately and
knowingly kept clerks in the pension office
who have been guilty of grave misconduct
in their clerical capacity.
One of these, it is asserted, has been
known to forge grants of pensions. Another,
it is asserted, when in the field as a special
examiner, made it his business to pass
around the circular of Colonel "W. "W. Dud
ley, ex-Commissioner, who now does a large
business as a pension claims attorney, and
that this was done with the knowledge of
Commissioner llaum. The clerks who have
been making these charges are still in office,
and it is inferred from this that they are
protected by Secretary Uoble and President
Harrison.
KAU3TS CLAIM KOI! HACK PAY.
Another report is that General llaum has
filed a claim for back pay as colonel of his
Illinois llegimcnt, in which one of the
statements is that he is impecunious and in
great need of the money, but officials of the
scoond Auditor's office would not admit the
truth of the story when the Dispatch cor
respondent made inquiry to-day. One thing
is certain, affairs are in verj- bad shape at
the Pension Bureau. The clerks seem to be
pretty generally antagonistic to Commis
sioner llaum.
Another and more sensational rumor than
any of those heretofore advanced with ref
erence to Commissioner llaum and the
workings of his bureau is out to-night. It
appears that while Corporal Tanner was
Commissioner Colonel AV. "W. Dudley ap
plied for a re-rating on account of the loss
of his leg below the knee joint, claiming
that the character of the wound rendered it
equivalent to the loss of a leg above the
knee.
A SHADY TRANSACTION.
Tanner signed theordergranting the re-rating,
upon the recommendation ot the proper
officers. "When the committee appointed
by Secretary "Soble to investigate all the
re-rating cases went through the files of the
Pension Bureau the name of Colonel Dud
ley was not found. The papers had been
abstracted from the files and were returned
after the investigation closed.
"Who is guilty of the grave criminal act
of abstracting the papers does not yet ap
pear, but Tun Dispatch correspondent is
assured by an authority that can hardly be
doubted that this is the fact and that Dud
ley afterward got his re-rating as though
he had lost a leg above the knee. Should
the criminal be discovered it will be a
serious affair for him, and it can hardly fail
to be very damaging to Colonel Dudley and
possibly to some of the highest officials of
the Interior Department.
ARMOR PLATE TESTS.
AXOTHEU SKIUF.S OF THKAI TO
MADE THE PRESENT MONTH.
BE
Carnegie, Phipps & Co. and the Dethlehem
Works in Competition All-Steel and
Nickel Steel Ilolled and Torged Plates
to De Fired at.
Washington, Oct. 2. Special. Ar
rangements are now being made for a test
during the present month at the new naval
ordnance proving ground at Indian Head of
eight American-made armor plates. This
test will be of even greater importauce than
the test at Annapolis in September of last
year, and its results will attract the atten
tion of ordnance experts throughout the
world. At the time of the Annapolis test
there was not an establishment in the
United States fully prepared to turn out
thick armor plates.
In the coming test at Indian Head the
work of two firms, Carnegie, Phipps & Co.
and the Bethlehem Iron "Works, will be
represented. Some of the plates will be of
all-steel and others of nickel steel. Some
of them w ill be treated by the Harvev
process of furuacehardening and others will
not, so that the trial will not only show the
relative value of all-steel and nickel steel
as a. material for armor plates, but will
demonstrate the value of the Harvey
process as well. It will also afford an op
portunity for comparison between rolled
and forged plates, as Carnegie, Phipps &
Co. use the former process, while at Bethle
hem the metal is forged.
The plates will be of the same dimensions
as those tested at Annapolis last vear
8 feet high, G feet wide and 10J-J inches
thick. Five shots will be fired at each
plate four from a G-iuch gun and one from
an 8-inch gun. The G-inch gun used will be
one of the new 40 calibre guns intended for
Cruiser No. 12. Tiie 8-inch gun will be 3.
calibre long.
The striking velocity of the G-inch pro
jectiles will be 2,100 feet per second, or 2.
leet per second more than in the Annapolis
trial. This makes the trial somewhat more
sex ere than that at Annapolis, and this
fact will have to be borne in mind in
making comparisons between the two. It
is expected that the first plates will be
fired at about October 15,
Reciprocity With Mexico.
"WASHiNGTON,Oct.2. Xcgotiationslook
ing to an agreement upon a reciprocity
treaty between the United States and Mex
ico are in actrVe progress in the City of
Mexico between the special Commissioner
appointed by tbeEMcxican Government
and United States Minister Hvan.
DIED LIKE BODLANGER.
A Consumptive Truck Driver Admirer of
His Shoots HImscir.
New York, Oct 2. Special. Thomas
McCarthy, a consumptive truck driver,
tried to kill himself at High Bridge some
time ago. He hacked his throat with a
razor, but his courage gave out, and he
made his way down town to Bellevue get
ting there at 2 o'clock the
next morning. This afternoon he
made an end of himself in his rooms. "I
am tired of living," he Faid, and pullod out
his pistol. He pdnted it about the room
in various directions. His wife thought he
was about to Kill her and ran out of the
room. She heard him lock the door and
then she heard a shot. She ran screaming
into the street
Three firemen and Policemen Peter Law
ler went back with her. They found Mc
Carthy sitting bolt upright in a rocking
chair, dead. He had shot himself in the
right temple. He was an admirer of
Boulanger, and had said he would die like
the Frenchman.
ATTACKED BY A BULLDOG.
The Ferocious Brute J n nips on a Woman
and Bites Her Badly.
Baltimore, Oct. 2. Special. Mrs.
Dora Glendenuing is very low, as the result
of a desperate attack made upon her by a
bulldog. Last night Mrs. Glendenning
started to go to the yard of her neighbor,
where two girls were playing with a large
bulldog. "Withont warning the dog sprang
upon her, fastening his tectn in her nip.
' Before she could tear away from the mad
Drute he bit her several times. The shock
drove the poor woman into convulsions.
Yirt - 1rT. - - """"g""rTjW!W
HOLDING DOWN THE FLESH.
How a Fat Girl's Dream ot Happiness Was
Suddenly Interrupted.
New York Press.
There was a society girl who was getting
stout and almost going out of her mind in
consequence. She went on a diet and
stopped drinking champagne, but the flesh
would not melt, it only increased. Finally,
in the privacy of her own apartments one
day, this unhappy creature took a solemn
oath that she would not again let out the
strings of her corset.
"I believe," she said, "that if I do not
give way to the flesh the flesh will give
way tome."
Satisfied that this was a brilliant theory
the young lady had herself weighed and the
scales marked 145 pounds.
"That's my limit," she muttered. "I will
not allow niiother pound to take up an
abiding place upon mv body. The corset
will save me if I never let it out."
Tlie girl at once purchased a wonderful
corset that was calculated to incase and re
strain about all the rebellious developments
that might exist between the shoulders and
the knees. It was a terrible garment that
would have been greatly treasured by the
managers of the Spanish inquisition, and the
young lady contemplated it with a delighted
smile. The corset was religiously worn for
two months, during which time Its strings
were not touched by its fair owner, and
as she did not feel herself crowded be
yond endurance, and her friends, who
realized that she was sensitive concern
ing her stoutness, did not make any re
marks about her personal appearance, she
grew complacent, nnd life was again a
.serene joy to her. At the end of two months
she carefully went to the same scales upon
which she "had before weighed herself.
Dropping in her nickel she waited happily
while the music plaved, and then she picked
up the small card which fell out of the aper
ture of the scale. Then she grew stiff and
pale and awful. Anyone glancing over her
shoulder would have seen that the figures
registered upon the card which she held in
her trembling hand were 157. "With a
great gasp she started for home. Arriving
there she summoned her maid.
"Have you dared to touch these new cor
sets of mine?" she cried, excitedly. "Have
you dared to meddle with the strings dur
ing the last few months?"
''Why yes " stammered the timid
maid; "I have had to let them out repeat
edly, became each time I put them on you
I found you had grown stouter."
EIPPING UP SLABS OF STONE.
A Circular Saw With Teeth Set With Dia
monds Does the Work.
New York Sun.
French ingenuity has contrived an im
proved - stone-cutting saw of remarkable
efficiency a circular saw having its edge
set with black diamonds in the same way
as the straight blades, but as the strain on
the diamond is all in one direction, the
setting can be made much firmer. More
over, as the movement of the circular saw
is far more rapid than that of the straight
one, the effect of the diamond teeth is in
creased by the force of the impact upon the
object to be cut without the exertion of
more power in propulsion.
In order to keep this kind of saw at start
ing in perfect plane, it is made to revolve
between two pairs of guides, but as soon as
the cut in the stone is deep enough to serve
as a guide the temporary ones are removed,
the consequence of this management being
that the cut surfaces of the stone, instead of
being wavy, so as to require subsequent
dressing to a plane surface, are straight
and smooth, lacking only to be pol
ished. The stone to be cut is
pushed against the saw by a carriage
similar to that used in sawing wood,
nnd the rapidity with which it is divided is
very great. At one establishment where
two saws are in use, the green Alpine
granite is sawed at the rate of nearly an
inch a minute, hard marble at three inches
a minute, and marble of moderate hardness,
also hard limestone, four inches a minute.
BEARnCNTING A letter from thePitts
bnrg nlmrods now In Colorado published In
THE DISPATCH to-morrow. They have
killed "Old Longfoot,"a grizzly weighing
000 pounds.
A LION'S CONFIDENCE.
The Trainer Begins to Win It by Simply Sit
ting in the Beast's Cage.
New Zealand News.
In training the animals the first thing I
did was to go into the.ir cage and sit there.
Nothing more than that, sit simply there
hour after hour. You may ask whether I
wasn't afraid to do this. Xo, because as I
say, I had for years been accustomed to be
with wild beasts. I will not say it is a
pleasant experience to go into a lion's den,
but it is not so bad as you might think it
would be if you know the nature of the
animals you deal with. "When I first went
into the caee the lions would growl; now
and then they would act as if they were go
ing to bite me.
AVhen they were kind and quiet I would
talk to them pleasantly, as you would talk
to a vicious dog you were trying to train to
like you. I would call them "good old fel
lows," "fine old fellows," nnd so on, and so
they would get used to a kind tone of voice.
After awhile, some two or three months,
when they were in their quiet moods I would
venture to touch them, finally to pat them
gently on the head, or to stroke them on
the back. "When they were cross I would
stand apart irom them, but without show
ing any signs of fear. I used no force with
them. "Such a method might do in training
some kinds of animal', but it would not do
with lions.
COLORED STBIEEBS SETTLE.
They Are Granted a Slight Advance and
Conclude to Return to Work.
Savannah, Oct. 2. Special. The
mammoth colored laborers' strike, which
has affected the general business of the city
to such a great extent during the past week,
is practically ended. The more thoughtful
and intelligent negroes of the community
appeared before the strikers at a
mass meeting to-night and recommended
an acceptance of the terms offered
by the railroads, which is an advance of 2'4
cents per hour on the old rates. The mass
of the strikers rebelled at first, but finally
agreed to go to work if the railroad would
still offer them the same scale of wages.
A committee was then appointed to wait
on Colonel McBee, General Superintendent
of the Ilichmond and Danville Itailroad,
who informed them that the strikers could
go to work at once and be assured of the
2 cents advance. After receiving this as
surance the strikers quietly dispersed and
the majority of them will report for duty
on Mondaymorning.
A Bojs' Strlko at Beaver Falls.
Bkavek Falls, Oct. 2. Special This
morning the "gathering-in" boys at the Co
operative Glass Works, to the number of
about 40, struck for higher wages. They
have been getting 40 cents a turn of four
and a half hours, and thev demand 4." cents
and a helper on heavy "ware. The strike
has crippled the works".
A Claimant In the Searles Case.
Salkm, Mass., Oct. 2. An appearance
has been filed in the Searles will case by
attorneys of Los Angeles, Cal., in behalf of
Maria E. Bressee, of that city, who claims
to be an heir-at-law of Mrs. Mary F.
Searles.
Beautiful Sterling Silver.
Eoyal pieces in
Pierced silver work,
Kepousse silver work,
Chased silver work,
" , Satin'silver work,
In beautiful new shapes and styles, at
Haruv & Hayes",
Jewelers, Silversmiths and Art Dealers,
529 Smithfield street.
Three doors from city hall.
MILLIKENSWEARSOFF.
The Maine Congressman Yows Never
to Touch Liquor Again.
BID FOR THE TEMPERANCE VOTE.
lie Is Having- a Hard Fight for Congress,
Hence That Promise.
SCORING A P0IXT ON HIS OPPONENT
TSrECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE PISPATCn.
Augusta, Me., Oct. 2. The Congres
sional fight in this district has assumed a
most interesting phase. In order to catch
the Prohibitory vote, Congressman Milli
. ken has sworn off and promises never to
again touch intoxicating liquor if the voters
will return him to Congress. On Septem
ber 12, a life-long friend of Congressman
Milliken wrote that gentleman a letter, in
which, after referring in commendable
terms to the commanding position he had
taken in Congress; his industry and faith
fulness, and the promptne with which he
had attended to all business committed to
his care, said:
You Know, however, that I am an earnest
temperance man, and yon have among us
temperance men many warm friends. Now,
wliilc we leel thankful that, whether In tlio
Legislature of Slaine or in Congress, you
have invariably voted for and ably advo
cated temperance measures whenever you
bad an opportunity to do so, we have been
pained by stories circulated In rcjrard to
vour occasional use of intoxicating
liquors, and I can assure you tbat notlilng
would be more grateful to us, vour sincere
friends, thnn to be assured of your deter
mination to become a total abstainer from
the use of these beverages. I do not write
to vou In the snlrit of criticism or fault-find
ing, but to give expression to the honest
convictions of your friend of many vears
past and 1 trust of many years to come.
To this letter Congressman Milliken made
the following reply:
MILLIKEN SWEARS OFF.
Mr Dear Old FntExn I beg you to accept
my cordial thanks for your frank and
friendly letter. It deserves, and shall re
ceive, as frank a reply. Kvents which have
transpired within a year had nlready
awakened me to the necessity of pursuing
the course which you, with feelings so kind
toward me, lmvo recommended, and I Had
alieady decided upon it as the only safe
way, especially for one in public life.
You may, therefore, be assured that no one
will have cause for a complaint in the direc
tion alluded to, and if ray public career lias
been a source of gratification to you (and I
am more than proud that you say it has
been) you shall have cause to be no less
gratified with my course in other respects.
Now that I am writing to you it may not
be improper I should lefer to another "mat
ter. 1 bear it rumored that I have arranged
with a certain candidate for Congressional
honors to support him in future for his with
drawn! and support of me now. That is ab
solutely false. Though I entered political
life, as yon know, soon after my majority,
and have had the disposal of hundreds of
offices since, I have never made a political
bargain.
A STRONG DENUNCIATION.
If one instance can be shown where I have
caused a person to bo appointed and have
even intimated that I should expect any
favor in return for it, I will never again be a
candidate for public place. Whatever of
public olllcc I have bad has come to me with
out a bargain or a promise, and so it wilt bo
in tlio future if I continue, to hold office at
all.
He who will prostitute the patronage of
an office which he aheady occupied to se
cure another is the worst kind of a
corruptionNt and a dangerous enemy
to our institutions. Ho is even worso
thnn the man who corrupts the suffrage
w ith money, for ho who buys votes directly
from his own pockotbook uses for corrupt
purposes that which is his own, while ho
who bestows office for political support in
return converts to his own use whnt be
longs to the people, to prevent an honest
expiession of tueir will. But he who will do
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Suppose It Is. Why Throw Half of It Away Going to
Merchant Tailors for Your Clothes ?
WE GIVE YOU JUST AS GOOD
FOR HALF THE MONEY!
JUST AS GOOD CLOTHS !
JUST AS GOOD TRIMMINGS ?
JUST AS GOOD STYLE !
JUST AS GOOD MAKE !
JUST AS GOOD FIT !
As any merchant tailor FOR HALF HIS PRICES. Think about it and if you think
for a moment and look at our Beautiful Styles of
SUITS, OVERCOATS AND PANTALOONS
YOU WILL SURELY BUY OF THE
MISFIT CLOTHING PARLORS,
516 SMITHFIELD STREET.
yOTJ WILL FT-ZLNTO -A.T OTJTR, PARLOBS;
SUITS. I
1'rices.
for $12 00
$25 00 Merchant
J3.) W) Merchant
$40 (10 Merchant
$30 00 Merchant
()0 (X) Merchant
70 0oMeichnut
$30 00 Mei chant
Tailor-Tailor-Tailor-Tailor-Tailor-Tailor-Tailor-
Made Suits
3Iade Suits
Made Suits
Made Suits
Made .suits
M.ule Suits
Made huits
for $15 00 I
for t20 00 I
for $25 00 .
for $30 00
for $:i5 00
for r10 09
ALL ALTERATIONS
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NEXT TO MELT.OXS' BANK.
cither will do both, and shonld havo no
place in the people's confidence.
Congressman Jlilliken's friends claim that
in announcing his intention to become a
total abstainer, as well as in his scathing
reference to "a certain candidate for Con
gressional honors," he has scored a big
point on Governor Burleigh, who is the
candidate meant.
A YOUNG BACHEXOH'S EXPENSES.
How He Gets Along at a Salary of 81,300 a
Tear Not Easily to Explain.
"Washington Star.
"What is the cost for a winter in Washing
ton to an ordinarily careful young bachelor?
In the first place, his dancing club takes,
say, S30. Then his own club for half a year
is about ?23. To live for six months at a
moderately expensive boarding house in a
small room is 540 a month, or S240. He
smokes cigats and cigarettes, and if he is a
generous smoker this will amount to about
S."0. Supposing him to be a moderate club
man, his club bill for "sundries" will be
about 510 a month, or fGO. Now for his
clothes. He may not need a new dress suit,
so that can be left oul, but he will be quite
certain to buy two good suits, and hats and
shoes and various other adornments. Of
course, lie must go to a good tailor, and
these two suits will cost 5125. He must
have, say, three pairs of shoes, and not
being over-extravagant, will get them for
521. Cravats, gloves, hat, shirts, collars
and cuffs may be estimated roughly at $10fi.
To add up, then, gives a total of 5417 for
what may be termed luxuries and 5240 for
necessary living. Of the 5417, the dancing
club, the social club and the club bill for
"sundries" are purely unnecessary. The
smoking, if he uses a pipe and only smokes
moderately, need not cost more than
610, and" the clothes could be bought,
together with the cravats, etc., for less than
$100. If he chose to do it, therefore, he
could live for 5110 outside of his board, a
winter would not cost him more than SXO.
How on earth does a young bachelor who
only gets 51,200 a year make two ends meet
at the end of the year? The estimate given
above is a very moderate one, and yet the
six months of" the winter have amounted to
?6j7, without taking into account a single
ticket to the theater or a single ''blowout."
THE MANTJEACTUBE 03? SPOOLS.
Modern Machinery Tnrns Them Oat with
Kemarkable Kapidify.
New York Sun. 3
Almost all the spools now made are pro
duced from birch wood, and the machinery
used in tiieir manufacture has been brought
to such a degree of perfection as to reduce
their cost to the lowest possible figure. The
wood is first sawed into sticks four or five
feet long and seven-eighths of an inch to
three inches square, according to the in
tended size of the spool. These sticks are
thoroughly seasoned, sawed into short
blocks and dried in a hot air kiln, at the
time they are sawed holes being bored per
pendicularly through each block, which is
set on end under a rapidly revolving long
shanked auger.
At this stage one whirl of each little
block against some small knives that are
turning at lightning speed fashions it into a
spool after the manner of the pattern pro
vided, and this, too, at the rata of one a
second for each set of knives. A row ot
small boys feed the spool-making machines
by simply placing the blocks in a spout,
selecting the best, and throwing out the
knotty and defective stock. The machine
is automatic, excepting the operation per
formed by the boys. After turning, the
spools are placed in a large drum and re
volved rapidly until polished.
The American Health Association.
Concord, X. H. Oct. 2. A call for the
nineteenth annual meeting of the American
Public Health Association at Kansas City
October 20, 21, 22 and 23, has been issued by
Secretary Watson, M. D., of this city.
WHY DO
PLENTY
OVERCOATS.
Prices.
00 at $ 9 50
(.Oat $11 M
00 at $14 00
OD at $18 00
00 ut $22 50
00 at $27 50
00 at $.'12 50
Overcoat that
Overcoats that
Ovei coats that
Overcoats that
Overeoatu that
Overcoats that
Overcoats that
were made for $20
w ere made for $23
ncre made fnr$2S
were inadefor$J5
were made for$t5
were made for 55
were made for $05
TO IMPROVE A FIT DONE
It ORDERS ATIENOED TO.
WE ARE OPBN ALL DAY
TO-DAY
UNTIL 10 P..M.
516 Smithfield Street.
OC3-TT3SU
A FIGHT FOR SEALS.
Seizure of an American Schooner by
a linssian JIan-of-War.
THE YANKEES MADE RESISTANCE,
But Were Overpowered, and Are Now Pro
bably in Siberian Dungeons.
CAUGnT IN TIIE VERY ACT OF POACniNG.
rSPrCIAI. TF.LTCIUM TO THE DISPATCH.
San Francisco, Oct. 2. The following
has just been received from Ounalaska:
News has just been brought here by the
steamer Danube that the American scaling
schooner Hamilton Lewis has been seized
by Russia for poaching on Copper Island,
and Captain McLean and crew of 25 Amer
icans carried to Vladivostock for triaL Tha
facts are that the Lewis and two other
schooners were observed cruising off Copper
Island. Tiie I!us-ian man-of-war Aleut
shadowed them and finally caught the Lewis '
red-handed as she was raiding the rookeries
on Bering Island, one of Russia's posses
sions. The American schooner was brought toby
a shot which lodged in her hull. "When the
captain was ordered to come aboard the
Russian man-of-war he took with him all
his crew and a free fight occurred on tha
man-of-war. The Americans were finally
overpowered and sent under guard on the
passenger steamer to Vladivostock, while
the seized schooner was taken there by a
prize crew. The Russians are reported as
much excited over this bold raid on their
seal rookeries, and it is said that severe
punishment will be dealt out to the Ameri
cans. The catch off Copper Island this
season is only 2.1,000 skins, about one-half
the usual number.
The revenue cutter Bear brought down lo
Ounalaska H tame reindeer purchased from
Siberian chukcheers or deer hunters. The.
deer were put on the island in Ounalaska.
harbor in order that th.-ir habits may be
studied to ascertain whether they can be
domesticated or order to furnish food for
the natives of Northern laska. The Bear
also visited Kings' Island isolated commun
ity which was found to be starving, as no
seal or walrus, could be secured. A few
weeks more would have een Kings' Island
natives wiped out by hunger, as was the St.
Lawrence Island community several yeara
ago.
EDUCATIONAL Latest discoveries in ap
plied science, electricity and medicine in
TIIE DLS1WTCH to-morrow: Complete
and able musical and theatrical reviews.
E&ISING MONUMENT MONEY.
Many "Prominent Pnhlie Men Present at a
Grant Associ-itlon Concert.
Nfav York, Oct. 2. A reproduction of
S. G. Pratt's "Allcory of the War in
Song" was given this evening at Madison
Square Garden under tlie auspices of the
Grant Monument Asociation and for tha
Grant Monument fund. Many choral so
cieties and church choirs participated.
The chorus numbered 1,200, the orchestra
100, and the latter was assisted by a military
band. The garden was crowded. ICoswell
P. Flower, candidate for Governor, was a
spectator and was loudly cheered when ha
entered the garden. Among others present
were: Senator Thomas C. Piatt, Senator L.
I. Stewart, General Iji Cesnol3, General O.
O. Howard, General Horace Porter, Daniel
S. Lamont, Judge 1L 1!. Cowing, and a host
of others.
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$ Cat $3 00
t $ at $4 00
$10 at $.5 00
$12 at 16 OO
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$11 at $9 00
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Pantaloons
Pantaloons
Pantaloons
Pantaloons
Pantaloons
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