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THEN AND NOW.
tSmall Ads for Two Months
Compared.
September, 1891 5,911
Same Month 1890.. .3,967
Increase, 1,944.
rOETT-SIXTH TEAR
POISON U DINNER
Served to the Yisiting Dele
gates at the State W. 0.
T. U. Conyention.
FIFTY SUDDENLY SICKEN
While in Session in Church Shortly
After Partaking of the Dan
gerous Meal. '
ALL BOX TWO SURE TO RECOVER,
Although for a Time the Harm and Con
fnsion at the Scene of the Whole
sale Attack Was Intense.
31TSTERT SJJRR0HND1NG THE MATTER.
tone Ladies Are Diepofd to Elaine the Liquor In
terest, but ConserratiTes Admit That
Ihe Idea Is AfcsnnL
EEJUKKABLK SCEJiE IN THE COXTEKTI0X HiLL
rfrrciAL tklegk-m to rnr. dispatch.
Bradford, Pa., Oct 16. Ths whole
sale poisoning of the delegates ti the State
"Woman's Christian Temperance "Union here
to-day created a great sensation, ana while
to-night it is certain that not more than two
fatalities will result the excitements still
intense. A little after noon to-day the
delegates gathered in Armory Hall, where
ihey had been invited to a dinner given by
the leading ladies' committer of the city.
The dinner was altogether a charming af
fair and had been prepared especially by
Mrs. Washburne.
On the bill of fare, coffee, grapes and cold
meats occupied conspicuous places, and the
sole idea to-night is to find which one of
thete delicacies contained the poison which
made nearly half a hundred of the ladies
deathly ill. The ladies ate heartily of the
good thines, and at the opening of the after
noon session of their regular proceedings in
the Methodist Church, all were present and
in apparent good health and spirits.
A Sudden Change in the Hall.
The meeting was regularly called to order
and the programme of work carried out
until about 4 o'clock this afternoon, when a
sudden change came over the assemblage.
Nearly 50 of the most prominent delegates
suddenly rose in their seats, and white
faced and weak, tottered cut of the building,
first one, then another hastily rose, and
after the first half dozen had left the room a
remarkable scene followed. By twos and
threes, and then by the dozens, the well
dressed delegates actually ran frcm the
room, creating a profound sensatioa.
Many delegates and citizens, attra.ed by
the unusual scene, gathered about the suffsr
ersinsideand outide the church, and offered
what care and assistance they couli. A
tremendous crowd gathered befors the
church, and word was spread throughout
the city that a hundred delegates to the
convention had been poisoned.
Every physician in the city was called
upon, and the baemTt of the large Presby
terian Church was mads Into a temporary
hospital, to which a party of 40 ladies were
taken, and as soon as possible the sufferers
were taken to private houses, where they
could each receiv special care. All showed
the same symptoms thej had undoubtedly
been poisoned, though by whom or with
what, no one cared to ask, as all were too
busy trying to alleviate their sufferings to
be able to ascertain
Mystery Surrounding the Matter.
Physicians who had been called said they
had no idea what kind of poison had created
the havoc, and were too busy with the ladies,
who were the most badly affected, to answer
rny questions at first. It was very evident
that the poison had been partaken of at the
dinner, as only those present and who ate
heartily were affected Some writhed in
nsony, while others were merely sick at
heir stomach while all vonned.generally
before they were able to leve the church.
Of course the scene there was so rcrcark
nble in its details that it can best bs left to
the imagination. Sufficient, that the church,
pews, floor and aisles were in such a state
tlie aid of scrubwomen had to be called in
at once in order to make it at all present
able. "When the least seriously affected ladies
were seen this evening, some of them
claimed the coffee had done the damage, and
that poison had been put in their cups,
others said they were certain the grapes
were to blame, and still others that there
was poison in the cold meat. The principal
sufferers, however, cla:m that whatever was
the matter, the secret agents of the liquor
interests here, who are known to be op
posed to holding such a convention, either
placed poison in their food or spread a nox
ious and poisonous gas throughout the
church, thus mating the ladies ill.
The Rumors Without Foundation.
Of course this latter theory is not to be
believed, as only those who had been at the
dinner were taken ill, while the idea that
the liquor interests of the city had delib
erately poisoned the delegates, many of
them nigh unto death, is not believed by a
single citizen here, nor will the idea be en
tertained even by the sufferers themsehes
after they have fully recovered from their
'llness, and consequent fright. Thk Dis
patch correspondent has been busy on the
cose eer since the poisoning, and with the
assistance of physicians and other inesti-gation'-,
places the cause of the serious af
fair entirely on the food used at the dinner
tabic
Whether or not poison had been placed in
this food, is a matter to be learned on Liter
investigation. The poisoning caused the
prcatevt excitement in this city, and amid
the "onfusiou aud suffering it was hard to
ascertain who wah the most seriously af-
"H AXTS or allki nds arc qulcklj answered
through TlIU DIS,TCII. Investors, arti
tans bargiin hnntcrs. btijers and sellers
clorlj Man its Classified Advertising Col
uinr.s. Largest Circulation.
fected, and who it was that was suffering
mostly from fright.
There is trouble, too, in ascertaining the
names of the lady delegates most seriously
affected. Committees of ladies were ap
pointed to sec that the newspapers did not
use them, their claim being that it was use
less to frighten their people at home. This
was done at the request of the sufferers
themselves, as most of those taken ill were
from other parts of the State.
As the afternoon wore on, and every
measure was taken to ease the discomfort
and pain of the afflicted, all began to show
some signs of improvement. Under the
skillful treatment of the local corps of
physicians and an eminent lady practitioner
from Philadelphia, Mrs. Dr. H. S. French,
all the patients began to gradually improve,
and to-night are considered out of danger,
with the exception of two prominent ladies.
Two in a Critical Condition.
By an odd coincidence, both of these who
are feared to be dangerously ill, are two
newspaper women Mrs. W. H. Holvey,
representing the Scranton Truth, and Mrs.
Ada Cable, who was reporting the proceed
ings for the Bradford Era. These two are
reported low to-night, and Mrs. Holvey is
said by her physicians to be in a very criti
cal condition, her recovery being doubtful.
Mrs. Cable, at 9 o'clock, was so low her life
was despaired of, but at this hour (mid.
nght) she is better and improving.
The people of the cit have thrown open
their doors to the afflicted ones, and at every
bedside may be found a careful nurse, with
a physician making hourly calls. The ladies
ask that their friends in the outside world
be not alarmed, as they are recovering
rapidly. Physicians also claim this to be a
fact, and, with the exception of the two
ladies named, all may be said to be on the
road to rapid recovery, with every prospect
of being around in the morning at the open
ing of the regular sessioi of the convention.
Before the ladies became ill with the un
known poison the State convention had
been getting along with its work nicely.
The first session of the day was a prayer
meeting at 10 o'clock A. M., conducted by
Mrs. E. D. C. Mair, of Pittsburg. Presi
dent Mrs. Mary H. Jones, of Philadelphia,
called the meeting to order at a little after
10 o'clock, when they went into regular ses
sion. The annual address of Mrs. Jones
came next, and the report of the Secretary.
STORMING THE CLOUDS.
THE GOVERNMENT RAINMAKERS RE
NEW OPERATIONS IN TEXAS.
A Continnons Fire of Twenty Honrs From
The ir Batteries Brings Good Indications
The Rain Is Looked for To-Day
Ranchmen Will Welcome It.
San Diego, Tex., Oct. 16. Special
Soon after midnight this morning the people
of San Diego were awakened by the opening
gun of another attack on the clouds by
Uncle Jerry Husk's sky-stormers. The
firing has now been in progress for nearly
20 hours, and it seems probable from the
appearance of the sky at this time that the
rain will be here before another day has
passed.
A cold, dry Texas norther, which has
been howling over the plains in this region
for the past ten days, prevented anything
being done until a few days ago, when the
wind subsided and preparations were imme
diately begun for the attack. It opened
with a broadside of dynamite and rocket
rack-a-raci from batteries of 12-pxjuntJ-Kjeaty.
uiuuuu, u uancr ui i-muuuu uiunars, turn
the explosioa of an oxy-hydrogen balloon.
Then the batteries continued at intervals of
a few seconds until daylight, when" guns
were fired. They have .kept up all day and
to-night ths firing was at intervals of about
ten seconds.
The firing began with a clear sky, but it
began to cloud up shortly before daylighi,
and this evening heavy bank, of cloudj sur
roundta the horizon. The people are pre
dicting iu for to-morrow from the sky in
dications, but ths rainfall men will not
commit themselvM to making any
proph -5;i The humidity was 65 per cent
when ths firing began, and 95 per cent at
daylight. Since then it has been betwesn
70 and 90 all day, varying as the firing de
creased or increased. The experiment is on
a far larger scale than any that has yet been
made, and the battle of El Paso is a mere
skirmish compared to it.
The men have worked incessantly with
out sleep. They are willing to suffer, how
ever, if the rain will only come. The
ranchmen in this county have subscribed
$2,500 to pay part of the expenses of the
test, and they say that if it brings rain they
will bcwilling to pay five times that much
to bring it in the future. A good rain is
worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to
them and the farmers.
COMPLETELY REORGANIZED.
The
Stronc New Constitution of the Wo
man's Christian Association.
Chicago, Oct. 16. This was the fourth
day of he biennial conference of the Inter
national "Women's Christian Association.
It was passed in secret session. The fore
noon was taken up in the discussion and
adoption of a new constitution, which now
gives the associations a strong central or
ganization with power to transact business.
Heretofore each local association has ex
isted independently, the conference electing
no permanent officers, simply appointing an
international committee which had power
only to make arrangements for the ensuing
conference. It could not raise funds nor
prosecute anv active aggressive work.
The constitution provides for an Execu
tive Committee. This committee will meet
at the call of the President, and will have
power to push the work of organization and
make plans for general work. In response
to an mi itation From Miss Frances Willard,
the conference elected as fraternal delegates
to the Convention of the "World's "W. C. T.
U.. hich meets in Boston, November 17,
Mrs. S. C. Elliott, of Lincoln, Neb., and
Miss C. V. Drinkwater, of Boston. The
next conference will be held in Buffalo.
" STOFIEL'S letter from the iron ore
regions for THE DISPATCH to-morrow
describes how the great ore boats are
loaded. Illustrated from photographs.
SNAKES AT AUCTION.
Fourteen Boa Constrictors Sold by Cnstom
Officials for a Song.
NEW' York, Oct. 16. Special The
snake market is very much depressed at
present. There is always some smuggling,
but just now there is much more than usual,
and that is how customs officers came to
seize 12 boxes of boa constrictors which
they found upon the steamer Advance on
October 1. They were known as tree boas
and came from the banks of the Amazon.
Tree boas are worth from $10 to $50 each,
according to their size and condition.
The snakes were put up at auction to-dar.
The snakes went for a song. The market "is
glutted and when somebody started off with
a bid of $20 for the lot no one but the auc
tioneer seemed surprised. When H. Hoile
bid $75 there was no further opposition. If
the snake marsctMas not on the verge of
demoralization they would have easily
brought three or four times that amount.
The 14 boas were carried to Mr. Hoile's
shop in a truck. There a bath was gi en
tliem. To-morrow they will be fed. They
are probably hungry, as they have not dined
since leaving Brazil.
fiji poping W$pm
THAT BLAINE LETTER
Which Said McKinley's Bill
Furnishes No Market for
Pork and Flour
EXPLAINED BY ITS AUTHOR
The New Tariff All Eight After the
Senate Inserted Reciprocity!
DEMOCRATIC CHARGES ANSWERED.
The
Maine Statesman Points Ont
Many Benefits of His Flan,
the
GREAT ADVANTAGES FOR THE FARMER-
New York, Oct. 16 An Ohio editor
having written Mr. Blaine that the Demo
cratic papers were parading him as an oppo
nent of the McKinley bill, he replies as
follows:
Augusta, Me., Oct. H, 1891.
John Ropier, Esq., liucjTus, O.:
My Bear Sib Yen inform me that the
Democratic paper in your town, and many
Democratic papers throughout Ohio, keep
the follow'ng paragraph standing' in type:
"But there is not a sectlon-or line in the en
tire bill (McKinley tariff) that will open a
market for another bushel of wheat, or an
otlier barrel of pork." James G. Blaine to
Senator Frye, July 11, 18.
This sentence is garbled and taken fiom
its proper connection. What 1 did say Is the
following: "I do not doubt that in many re
spects the tariff bill pending in the Senate is
a just measure, and that roost of its pro
visions are in accordance with the wise
policy of protection, but there is not a sec
tion or a line in the entire "bill that will open
a market lor another bushel of wheat or
another pound of pork."
Before the Chances Were Made.
The letter in w hich this paragraph occurs
was written to Senator Frye on July 11, 1S90,
ar.d the McKinley bill did not become a law
until October 1 nearly three months there
after. In my letter to Senator frye I ob
jected to the bill because it did not oontain
a reciprocity clause, which would provide
,for wheat and pork, for other product of
the farm and for various fabrics. Before the
(bill was flnal'i ? passed the reciprocity clause
was inserted, and a large addition was made
to the free list. It will therefore be seen
from what I have said in my letter that the
obj .ctlon which I made to the McKinley
bill was entirely removed before the bill
became a law.
Let me further say that the reciprocity
clause has given ample market for many
barrels of flour and many pounds of pork.
Brazil, some months sines, entered into a
treaty by which many American articles are
adm'tted free. Flour Is made free, and pork
is admitted at a nominal duty.
Cuba and Porto Bico havo reduced the
duty on flour from $5 80 a barrel to f 1 (which
gives us the market), besiSu putting nearly
100 articles of American production on tho
free list. San Domingo has mads a reci
procity treaty, with flour and pork upon the
free list, besides a large number of other ar
ticles. Other treaties for reciprocity are in
progress.
The Arrangement With Germany.
has removed the proh'btttoti-TOi
Germany, without negotiating a formal
pork, and our Government In consideration
thereof, has leit her sugar on the free list.
This opens to us an entirely new market
and $15,000.00i) to $20,000,000 of American pork
will be consumed per annsia where not a
pound has beea tak-M for ten yean. The
reciprocity, provision is proving very suc
cessful, and especially in farm products, and
more particularly in the case of the two ar
ticles mentioned in the paragraph quoted
flour and pork.
I am not, therefore, an opponent of the
McKinley bill, as the Democratio papers of
Ohio are constantly alleging. On the con
trary, I have cordially supported it ever
since it was perfected by the insertion of
the reciprocity clause.
Very respectfnlly yours,
James G. Blaine.
WATKES AT HEADQUABTEBS.
He Says the Republican Senators will Not
Obstruct a Fnll Inquiry.
Philadelphia, Oct. 16. Special
Lieutenant Governor Watres turned in per
sonally at Bepublican headquarters to-day
to boom along the work for Gregg and Mor
rison. The Chairman is maturing plans for
the tour of the State that begins next Tues
pay. Chairman Watres says the outlook in
the State is entirely even with his expecta
tions. With reference to the Senate's
investigation he said that "the
position taken by that body I be
lieve to be thoroughly satisfactory
to the people, and we can safely afford to
make our appeal to public judgment and
intelligence on the course already mapped
out and to come. I think our position is a
correct one. The Kepublican party pro
poses to close no avenue to a full, fair and
free inquiry through its proper representa
tives, and our members of the Senate will
not adopt any covered policy.
"It makes no difference who suffers in
this investigation. It will be searching
and thorough, without refuge in the tech
nicalities or quibblings as to procedure. I
think that has already become a demon
strated fact. We want to know everything
and must knowit."
STOE OF M'KIKLEY.
A Sport Who Will Give Odds on Him, bnt
Will Want Odds on Gregg.
Washington, Oct. 16. Special. A
leading "sporting gentleman" of this city
has for some time been gathering informa
tion from the important States to guide him
in betting. He tells The Dispatch cor
respondent that the result of his research
warns him to be very wary at this time, ex
cept perhaps as to Ohio, where he is willing
to lay odds on McKinley's election by a
good majority.
In the other States influences are at work
which make it impossible yet to decide how
to put up money, but from the present out
look he w ill probably look for odds to bet
that Gregg will be elected in Pennsylvania;
the Republican ticket in Iowa aDd New
York, and the Democratic in Massachusetts.
This is his present slate, subject to modifica
tion any time except as to McKinley, who,
he is assured, will win hands down.
COUNTY FIGHTS IN KANSAS.
The Democrats Left by the State Committee
to Their Own Resources.
Topeka, Kan., Oct. 16. Special The
State Democratio Central Committee in its
meeting to-day adopted resolutions declar
ing that it would take no part in the local
county fights and that the Democrats in the
various counties must act as the situation
demands. The committee was confronted
with demands from 57 County Central Com
mittees in which the Democrats had di
vided. In some of these counties the Dem
ocrats had fused with the Alliance, in
others with the Republicans, and the re
mainder of the counties Tad nominated
PITTSBURG-, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1891-TWEIVE
straight Denocratic tickets. A fight' was
made on the' Chairman of the Democratic'
Central Committee by the Democrats who
opposed fusion, and an attempt made to
force hit resignation, but he Was sustained
by the committee.
The State Central Committee of the Peo
ple's and Democratic parties have lhst con
trol of the county fights. The Republican"
State Central Committee has advised fusion
with the Democrats in certain counties, but
is running straight tickets in all counties
where there is any prospect of success.
POWDERLY CONDEMNED
FOB
ALLEGED JOBBERY WITH THE
REPUBLICAN LEADERS.
Wright and Bntler Pilloried With Him
Sweeping Resolutions Against the Three
Adopted at a Convention of Labor Men
Several Counties Send Delegates.
Philadelphia, Oct. 16. Special, A
hand of determined-looking men gathered
to-night in Odd Fellows' HalL So quietly
was their business transacted that not until
after they had adjourned was it known that
an important conference of labor leaders
had been held. About one hundred men
attended the meeting, and they were repre
sentatives of organized labor from Phila
delphia, Northumberland, Lehigh, Schuyl
kill, Berks, Clearfield, Carbon, Lacka
wanna and Westmoreland counties.
A. A. Carlton, a former member of the
General Executive Board of the Knights of
Labor, was chosen chairman, with Frederick
Turner, ex-General Treasurer of the same
organization, as secretary. On taking the
chair Mr. Carlton stated that though he had
always been a Republican he had awakened
to the necessity of some action being taken
by the workingmen to counteract the job
bery of certain labor leaders. Addresses in
the same strain were made by Edward
Moore, who was formerly Master "Workman
of District Assembly No. I ; Michael Moore,
of the Broom Makers' Union; Joseph P.
Cahill, of the Beading Miners' Association,
and others.
Besolutions were adopted declaring;
among other things that "this convention ot
duly accredited delegates representlne the
varied industries of the great State of Penn
sylvania condemn the course pursued by
Messrs. Powderly, Wright, Butler & Co.
in effecting a corrupt deal with the men
who have brought the Republican party so
low in the dust."
"That Messrs. Powderly, Wright, Butler
and their associates deserve the condemna
tion of workingmen everywhere for trailing
in the dust the emblem of an organization it
has been our proud privilege to serve,
through which such great results might
have been and can be secured under compe
tent and worthy leadership; that we pro
claim it our determination to make known
to the workingmen of the country the venal
itv and corruption of Messrs. Powderly,
Wright, Butler & Co., that when the time
comes there shall be such an uprising as to
sweep forever from power unfaithful leaders
in both the industrial and political worlds."
DAIZELL AT ERIE.
He Is Very Enthusiastically Received in a
Robinson Stronghold.
Erie, Oct. 16. Special. The Republi
cans of Erie county opened the campaign
thh evening, introducing Hon. John Dal
zell, of Pittsburg. Mr. Dalzell was very
enthusiastically received here. While this
was a Robinson stronghold during the re
cent league contest, Mr." Dalzell has made
hiciself popular by submitting gracefully to
the result ol tne contest.
In presenting the State ticket he dwelt
rninn the war records of the candidates- and
deprecated Wright's record as a cornpratipiii
of Hon. G. W. Delamater last fall, he re
garded it as a rebuke to the men and the
method? they had used in thwarting the
will of the people in convention. While he
believed that the extra session of the State
Senate wts called for, political effect, he be
lieved in Gwnt's theory, that no guilty man
should escape. The tariff question, the Mc
Kinley bill, the sugar and tin plate in
dustries were freely discussed. References
to Blaine aroused great enthusiasm. The
speaker expressed a fond hope that tho
force bill would be resuscitated by the next
Congress.
THE BEDF0BD JUDICIAL FIGHT.
A Motion to Adjourn Sine Die Laid on the
Table Till Longenecker Arrives.
Bedford, Oct. 16. Special The sensa
tional feature of the Judicial Conference of
this district was enacted to-day when Can
tain Banner, of Somerset, offered the follow
ing resolution:
Inasmuch as this Judicial Conference has
met repeatedly during the past 90 days and
no satisfactory result has been attained or
is likely to be attained: therefore, be it re
solved, that the conference adjourn sine die.
The motion was the occasion of an ani
mated discussion, but resulted in a compro
mise wherebv it was laid on the table until
the return of Mr. Longenecker, who is out
of town to-day.
The Flat Failure of a Conference.
Butler, Oct, 16. SJjerfalL A meeting
of the representatives of the four counties
composing the Twenty-fifth Congressional
district was to have been held in this city
to-day, but none of the delegates from
Mercer, Lawrence or Beaver put in their
appearance. The purpose of the meeting
was to consider the advisability of chang
ing the mode of making Congressional nom
inations from the conferee to the popular
vote system. Each ot the county commit
tees in the district appointed delegates to
a convention to consider the proposition,
but it is likely that no further effort will be
made to consider the matter.
Jerry Simpson Speaks at Lima.
Lima, O., Oct, 16. Special Sockless
Jerry Simpson spoke here this afternoon to
a crowd of 1,100 people. He devoted the
greater part of his speech to Senator Sher
man. Many went to hear him out of curi
osity. Ralph Beaumont, of Washington,
who came here with Mr. Simpson, addressed
a crowd to-night in the public square.
LINCOLN An analysis of the martyr
President's character by Colonel A. K.
McCInre is a feature of THE DISPATCH
for to-morrow.
SLEW OUT HIS BRAINS.
An Illinois High School Professor's Suicide
Canses a Big Sensation.
Qtjincy, ILL., Oct. 16. Special Prof.
J. R, Stevenson, instructor in science and
mathematics in the Quincy High School,
committed suicide this morning by shooting
himself in the head twice with a revolver.
The suicide created a tremendous sensation
and the public schools were closed. Prof.
Stevenson was 43 years of age and had a
wife and child, enjoyed good health, and so
far as known, had not a trouble in the
world. The only cause assigned for his rash
deed is temporary insanity.
He left his home in his usual good spirits
this mornine, kissed his wife and child
good-bye ana started for school. On the
way down he purchased a double-action re
volver and a box of cartriges. He loaded
the five chambers of the revolver and then
made his way to a ravine. As he ap
proached the ravine he broke into a dead
run, and then suddenly halting, placed the
revolver to his head and pulled the trigger
twice. He never recovered consciousness
and died three hours afterward. It is said
that when a boy he received a blow on the
head which at long intervals affected his
brain, and it is supposed that he wa tem
porarily deranged when he took his life.
ECLIPSEJtf EIFFEL,
The World's Fair Will Have
the Highest Tower Ever
Built, and
PITTSBUEG BEATS PAEIS.
The Monster Contract Given to the
Keystone Bridge Company,
BACKED BY ANDREW CARNEGIE.
A Structure That Will Hold Over 25,0
i Persons at One Time.
DETAILS OF THE MAMMOTH DESIGN
Chicago, Oct 16. The.Stars and Stripes,
it was decided to-day, are to wave 1,120 feet
above the ground higher than ever flag has
waved before. It is to be done during the
World's Fair, from an American tower that
will out-Eiffel Paris. The builder is to be
AndreatCarnegie, of Pittsburg.
Over 55,000 people will be accommodated
in the tower at one time, and two of the
many elevators are to start from the ground
and run more than 1,000 feet up without
change or stop, directly to the lookout land
ing. The width of the tower at the founda
tion level is 440 feet in each direction.
A Pittsburg Company to Do It.
After long continued negotiations the
Keystone Bridge Company, of Pittsburg,
one of Andrew Carnegie's concerns, has
made offers in writing that are satisfactory
to the promoters. A conference was held
at the Union League Club to-day with Mr.
A. L. Griffin, President of this company,
and Mr. Edward F. Cragin, representing
the promoters, and several capitalists.
As a result the Keystone Company has
agreed in writing to construct the metal
portion of the tower and to have it com
pleted February 1, 1893. The company will
have to pay heavy forfeits per day for any
delay over that time. President Griffin ex
pects that the tower, however, will be built
by October 12, 1892, less than one year lrom
date. In that case a bonus is exacted for
the time saved.
Options have been secured on grounds im
mediately adjoining the World's Fair site
and arrangements made with the World's
Fair officials so that the tower grounds
shall be Included under their jurisdiction.
After long and careful study the designs
have been completed by Engineer George
L. Morrison, of this city. He estimates
that the earning capacity will be nearly four
times that of the Eiffel tower.
Cost of tha Big Structure.
The actual cost will be about SI. 500,000.
The cost of the Eiffel tower was a little less
than $1,700,000. The difference is in the
greater simplicity of design of the Ameri
can tower and the use of the standard and
merchantable sizes of steel.
Doubts as tothe completion of the tower
in-time are '.largely discounted "by. the fact
that the Carnegie concerns"have a capital of
between 540,000,000 and $50,000,000 and em
ploy 23,000 men. Ihe Keystone Company,
the concern with which the contract is
made, built the St. Louis bridge, the bridge
at Keokuk, Dubuque, Kansas City and
other places. Subscriptions and pledges
have been received from Chicago, St. Louis,
Cincinnati, Pittsburg and elsewhere.
The three landings will be circular plat
forms, the first 250 feet in diameter, and 200
feet from the ground. The second will be
150 feet in diameter, 400 from the ground
and the upper landing, more properly
called the "lantern," will be 60 feet in
diameter and 1,000 feet above the ground.
Details of the Design.
At the first landing there will be a grand
colonnade around the outside, 15 feet wide
and 738 feet mean circumference. On this
colonnade 4,000 or 5,000 people can be ac
commodated at one time. Inside of this
colonnade will be space 'in addition to the
space required for elevators and machinery,
sufficient to build four hotels or restau
rants. In addition to the restaurants there
will be provided numerous kiosks or booths,
constructed in accordance with the archi
tecture, styles and customs of the various
countries, which will be used for the sale of
curios, ornaments, fabrics and other articles
produced and manufactured in all lands.
Capacity of the Restaurants.
Within the restaurants 6,000 or 8,000
guests may be comfortably seated and
served at one time. Within and about the
booths and surrounding platforms 3,000
more people will have room to move about,
make purchases, etc. The second landing
is designed as a grand promenade and pic
nic quarters in the day time, and as a
dancing hall in the evening. It will accom
modate at one time 5,000 or 6,000.
The upper landing is to be finished as the
grand lookout, wall be two or three stories
high and accommodate at one time 1,200 to
1,500. Above this will be four offices for
signal service and scientific investigation.
Above this will be the circular electric
railway, earring electric lights at night and
signals by day.
Above this is the lighthouse, to be pro
vided with the most powerful revolving
light ever constructed, surmounted by the
flagstaff and the Stars and Stripes.
ANARCHISTS HELD FOR TRIAL.
Their Wild Creed as Voiced in the Words
For Which They Were Tried.
Philadelphia, Oct. 16. Before Judge
Biddle to-day hearing was had on habeas
corpus in the cases of Julius Moskowitz,
Louis Jacobs, lead ore Prenner and Morris
Gillis, charged with breach of the peace,
distributing anarchistic circulars, making
incendiary speeches and inciting to riot,
and Jacob Apple, charged with intimidat
ing a witness. It appeared from the evi
dence that a party of Russian Hebrews
calling themselves "Knights of Labor,"
rented a hall in which to hold a socialist
meeting. It was alleged that the meeting
was to be a seditious one and the matter
was placed in the hands of the police.
"What was the subjeet of their dis
course?" asked the Assistant District At
torney of one of the officers on the witness
stand to-day.
"Don't listen to rabbis; don't listen to
Iiriests; don't believe in God, and don't be
ieve in the police. They condemned re
ligion by atheism and anarchv. They said
that everything should be free. They did
not know any Government, and thev ridi
culed the devout Hebrews. Thev also con
demned the President of the United States,
and said that his position was useless and
that he ought to be killed."
The Judge declared he had no doubt that
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the practicing of their doctrines was sedi
tious. He would hold the tbilr men for
trial.
ANNEXATION THE CRY
In All Parts of Canada, and Premier Abbott
Is Uneasy Over It.
OTTAWA, Oct. 16. Special Premier
Abbott is greatly concerned over the un
mistakable excitement rapidly developing
in every quarter of the Dominion in favor
of political union with the United States.
Several of the most ardent supporters
of Sir John Macdonald .have become
the foremost promoters of the movement.
Organizations in every section of the
country are being completed to lay the case
of "bankruptcy or annexation" sqnarely be
fore the people, and with what success has
been shown by the reception the movement
has met with at Windsor, Belle River and
other points in Western Ontaria.
Dr. Brien,one of the leaders in favor of
political union, said, when a member
of the Dominion Parliament, just before the
last election, that he was an out-and out
annexationist, and would leave Parliament
to announce his platform. As a Liberal he
did not desire to take the initiative step,
Until he was free-from his party and out of
Parliament, so that his action could not be
attacked. There are more than 100 seats in
Parliament protested,and within six months
there will be from 50 to 75 elections, in
which the question of political union with
the United States will be an important
issue.
DEFEW Interesting illustrated letter
from Frank G. Carpenter on the great
after-dinner speaker in THE DISPATCH
to-morrow.
BALTIMORE'S BLUE LAWS.
A Strict Enforcement of Them Brings About
a Very Sudden Reaction.
Baltimore, Oct. 16. Special A week
ago the grand jury directed the police com
missioners to enforce the old Sunday law,
and quoted the provisions of the aged
statute. It almost prohibited the people
from breathing. The police enforced the
law to the letter. This so incensed the
people that from all sides came protests.
The enforcement of the obnoxious
law aroused the church people
also. Fearful that the enforcement
would lead to a repeal of
the existing statute by the next Legis
lature, they prevailed on the grand jury to
modify their order. The grand jury did so,
and to-day all Baltimore is laughing at the
wording of the new order. It allows the
sale of medicine, soda water, bread and
postage stamps, and the delivery of ice
cream and cake, provided they are bought
the night before, but bars out cigars and
confectioners. The order closes thus:
This action Is based on the belief of the
grand jury that in the cases which they
have ignored a large part, of the publio be
lieve that at this time the cases excepted
partake of the nature of necessary work
and traffic, while in the cases which they
have not ignored or excepted they believe
them to be cases of pretence and not a ne
cessity. BOUND FOR ECONOMY.
A Messianic Impostor Who Is After the
Millions of the Economites.
Sait Francisco, Oct. 16. Special.
Prof. Spear, who was Dr. Cyrus Teed's chief
lieutenant in founding the Koreshan Home
in Frisco, is now engaged in exposing the
secret methods of the Chicago messiah. He
declares that Teed's claims are fraudulent;
that he does not love the sisters of the
home with a platonie affection, and
that he absorbs all the coin of
his dupes. Spear said : " L've seen
Teed caress female members all over the
plantation, but when we tried anv Platonic.
affection on the women of the fold there was
trouble. It cost $500 to furnish Teed's bed
room, biit the remainder of us slept on $4
pinebeds." Spear says Teed has gone to Economy,
Pa., to secure possession of the millions in
the Economita treasury. The Economites
expect the coming of the Messiah, and Teed
is readjr to personate the Savior. Teed's
brother is there, and he has also the sup
port of John Duss. one of the trustees, and
of several women who have become mem-i
bers.
EDGAR FAWCEXTS serial, "AMER
ICAN PCSH," is the best story now being
published in aerial form in America. A
chapter of absorbing Interest in THE DIS
PATCH to-morrow.
THEY TRICKED THE OFFICERS.
A Man and Woman Succeed In Smuggling
8200,000 Worth of Cnset Gems.
New York, Oct, 16. Special. The Cus
tom House authorities were notified by let
ter from London a few weeks ago that a4
New York jeweler was investing largelyin
diamonds and other precious stones. It
was thought, the letter said, that he in
tended to smuggle them into New York. A
second and later letter told that the jeweler
and his wife had engaged a suite of roomsi
on a White Star liner and that they carried
with them $200,000 worth of unset gems.
Accordingly, when the ship arrived, the,
pair were carefully searched and all their
baggage examined. Nothing, however, was
found and the officials thought their inform
ant had made a mistake.
Subsequent inquiry neems to show that
the searching officers were tricked and that,
though searched, the jeweler and his wife
succeeded in smuggling in $200,000 worth of
unset gems. The officers said to-day that it
was now too late to do anything in the mat
ter, and it is improbale that any arrests will
be made.
Mrs. Thnrman Thought to be Dying.
Columbus, Oct. 16. Mrs. Allen G.
Thurman's condition is very critical to
night, and it is not thought she will sur
vive till morning. She has laid in a stupor
for three days.
THE NEWS DIRECTORY.
The 12-page Dispatch is just teeming
with live news and special features this
morning. The following index will be found
convenient :
PAGE 1.
Wholesale Poisoning. A Blaine Letter.
A Convention Plan. Pacific Millionaires.
Pittsburg to Eclipse Efhel.
PAGE 2.
Exposition Figures. Missionaries Meet.
PAGE 3.
Want Ads. Miscellaneous Ads.
PAGE i.
Editorial. Foreign Features.
Social and Personal
PAGE 5.
The Trade Situation. Methodist Council.
PAGE 6.
The Labor World. Charges Against Hoey.
PAGE 7.
Copyrighted Cable. The Ohio Campaign.
Roosevelt's Reforms. A Theological Point.
PAGE 8.
General Sports. Highest Waterfall.
News From Neighboring Towns.
PAGE 9.
Court Trials. Latest Fashions.
Wakeman's Letter From Coventry.
PAGE 10.
Church Notes. The Oil Fields.
Chess and Checkers.
PAGE 11.
Iron Trade Review. Market Reports.
PAGE 12.
A Clerk's Conscience. Present Day Issues. I
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A CHANGE OF FKONT.
Kepublican leaders to Turn in for a
Constitntional Convention.
WALTER LYON GIVING THE ORDERS
Which Are Expected to- Greatly Affect the
Present Situation.
THE GRANGERS AREK0TIN THE SCHEME
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Oct. 16. United States
Distal 0 'J .falter Lyon, of Pitts
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Of. 4 j. Tiing, and for sev
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eral hours was
Senators who were s.jy"
fused to talk of his 1n.
Mr. Lyon re-
n, but it was
learned from unquestionable authority that
Mr. Lyon was not here in reference to the
Senatorial inquiry in progress, but had
come with the information that the Re
publican powers had changed front on the
Constitutional Convention question, and
that the electors of the State would be ex
pected to vote for and by their ballot order
a Constitutional Convention.
It is a grave question fiow whether the
proposition for such a convention can be
carried, notwithstanding the orders. Until
this week the leaders of both the great
political parties were opposed to the pro
posed convention. The administration was
partially committed to it, but was not stay
ing up of nights working for its success.
The Grangers Don't Want It.
The grangers and the labor element of the
State had demanded the convention, and
the act providing for it was passed at their
solicitation and by their effort. The bill
had hardly been passed when both the old
parties seemed to forget it, and neither of
them was willing to stand responsible for it.
A study of its peculiar construction later
on convuiceu uie grangers mat iney naa no
interest in it, and now only the labor ele
ment of the State is willing to stand re
sponsible for the birth of tbe measure.
As it now stands there is no politics in it,
but ft majority of the voters in Schuylkill,
Lackawanna, Clearfield, Fayette and Lu
.zeme counties have indicated that the con
vention should be held and to ignore their-
wishes by either party is fraught with dan
.ger and threatens more or less confusion.
It was therefore said to-day that neither
party was willing to assume the responsi
bility for the defeat of the proposed con
vention andtboth parties are afraid to act as
guardian for the measure.
Position of the Western Senators,
The Western Senators to a man arei
either opposed to the convention or are
densely ignorant on the subject. Senator
Sloan, of Indiana, says jpositively that his
people do not want the convention. The
Pittsburg and Allegheny Senators say they
know nothing about the subject. Senator
Bobbins, of Westmoreland, thinks the
voters of his-county will vote against the
convention and Senator Brant, of the
Fayette-Greene district, says he) does not
know what the people of his district will
do.
Senator Showalter, of 'Butler, says hist
constituents are evincing more interest in
4Tia .nlijant TKa Pl,t1(llAlnVi. CannfA-n
M1G OUVJWWH. -k. Jk. lUHUUlUfl ucuatui3,fj
without regard to me party, say tneir city
will vote against the convention,. and only
the Senators from the labor districts say'
their people are forit.
The information that the Republican'
leaders have decided to endeavor to pass '
the measure and have the convention held
comes from-a source that elves it color. It
has recently been decided by the leaders of"
both parties that the ticket for and against
the convention will be. distributed from the 'J
State headquarters to the County Chair
men throughout the State. If either party
decides rhat the convention is or is not to
be held they will distribute only such ticket
as will serve their purpose.
The People Not at All Interested.
Farmer Taggert, the granger leader, who
has been here all week looking after the.in
terest of the Republican State ticket, says
his people have lost all interest in the Con
stitutional Convention. J. B, Thomas,
another granger leader, expressed the same
opinion. But they are all likely to change
their minds if it be true as reported to-day
that Mr. Lyon is issuing orders for its suc
cess. There is not a Senator left in town to
night. They came here expecting that the
extra session would enlbefore this evening.
Before they return on Monday they will
have arranged to remain here at least until
after the election.
The news of the death of Senator Mehard,
of the Mercer-Lawrence district, was re
ceived here this evening. Action on his
death will likely be taken on Monday even
ing. It has been announced here that
Henry'Hall, of Mercer, ex-Representative,
will be a candidate for the dead man's
shoes. Hall has strengthened himself ma
terially since he was whipped for the Lower
House a year ago. He will go into the
Senatorial fight with the unqualified sup
port of the reorganized political firm of
Quay and Magee. Herbert.
EDGAR FAWCETTS serial, "AMERI
CAN PUSH," is the best story now being
published In serial form in America. A
chapter of absorbing interest In THE DIS
PATCH to-morrow.
Children Locked In a Room Cremated.
Helena, Ark., Oct 16. News has been
received here of the burning of three chil
dren on the Crews plantation, across the
river in Mississippi. The parents of the
children left them in the house while they
went out in the field to work. The chil
dren were ordered to bar the door to keep
the house -ttarni. Flames were noticed
coming from the house soon after and no
one was able to break open the doors. The
house fell in and the three children were
cremated.
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THREE CENTS.
How They Went "West and
Grewxtfp With That
Great Country.
PORTLAND DULL AM) DUTY
But Croesuses Are Growing on the
Bnshes Out There.
WEBS SET FOR EASTERN -FLIES.
Taxes and Lot Valnes in the Coast -Cities
Real and Artificial.
GOOD AGRICULTURAL LAND SCARCE
IWKiratX FOR THE DISPATCH. 1
Ever since the Golden Days of '49 tha
Far West has been regarded by peopla
here in the East as a sort of fabled land or
Eldorado where the "golden fleece" grew
within every man's easy reach, combined
with a climate as Elysian as the Floridian
dream of Ponce de Leon's "Fountain of
Perpetual Youth." With that white hatted
old crank, Horace Greeley, urging the
young men to "go West and grow up with
the country," and that accomplished
"boomer," George Francis Train, proclaim
ing from every rostrum in the two con
tinents for a quarter of a century that ere
another generation the Pacific coast
and Puget Sound cities would rival,
if not outrival Kew York and
San Francisco in commercial suprem
acy, was it any wonder that the ambition
youth of the East felt his pulses throb with
They Grow on Bushes.
unwonted vigor, and, leaving the coun'ing
room, the mill and the "exchange," sought
the Northwest
In Search of Big Fortunes.
Much ot this glittering prospectus was
what Lord Castlercagh used to call the Irish
Parliament on College Green "a mockery,
a delusion and a snare." Yet there wa3
Must enough sober reality in it to stim
ulate new efforts and to populate ths
waste places of the Northwest, and
what is now known as the "Inland
Empire" between Council Bluffs and tha
'Cascade Range. Cities grew up out of ths
primeval forest as if by magic, but this
growth was not without difficulties and
drawbacks. Despite the forlorn fact that
Henry Villard and hi3 Amsterdam bankers
and members of the "Blind Pool" dropped
more millions in abandoned "docks" and
acreage and in transcontinental and inter
continental "cross lines" and "short lines'
than have yet been taken out of them and that
Jay Cooke dropped more Quaker City money
in trying to connect "Somewhere with No
where" across the Northern Pacific wastes,
than he got back despite all this the Ore
gon country, and especially Portland,
seemed to grow, if 'for no other reason that
vast transportation business had grown up
and there was no other city in sight to do
the business.
Port! -id a Millionaires' Mecca.
Of the States particularly favored by this
new order of things Oregon got more than
her share, and the city of Portland got;
the lion's share if we may judge by
I her present commercial standing, and tha
almost fabulous wealth of her citizens to
day. It is scarcely a half a century sinca
the foot of the first white settler pressed
the soil where Portland now stands. It
not a site which William Penn, or any
fctCa,.
They Keep the Bag and Give Advice.
city "founder" having an eye for checker
board exactness, would have selected. It
does not seem to the superficial
observer to be laid out with any
special reference to health, as
the backwater from the Columbia river
pushes back sewerage up to its fountain,
and on every known sanitary principle"
ought to be a prolific producer of sewer gas.
It would not seem to meet commercial con.
ditions or requirements, as instead of being;
located on the peninsula between the two
rivers, as Villard wisely or unwisely de
signed, and thus give water front all
around, she grew on one side of
the river only, and this, too, 100
miles from the coast. Had there been
a city where Astoria now stands, when
Portland was selected, the latter in a few
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