$&, v&?mtmP& Yi ill wmwm nUP AU etasaeo of Adrertlstn hare Und u opportunity- to utilise the clns- UUdealsnu pCHTof THE DIS PATCH. The Uttl I imH "Ads" are well read. Thaj area good A UflRn aad-sare Investment? IfUnU. - UaVNTC or aIt vlnds "re nppliod If All I O throneli the ONE CENT A 1VOKD columns lIflDI ofTHEDIs PAICH Sltua I UfllV, t Ions nra f cnrtU quickly. Tho "AdleU" UCI D are growing In popularity, nt-ui I gm&m mfm$mrzw&-?m xmmssssmsrs- me FORTY-SIXTH TEAK. VOICE (HUE SAGE, John. Sherman Analyzes the Election Eesults and Speaks of His Own BATTLE FOE THE SENATE. He Thinks Honest Money Was the Great Winning Issue in Ohio. THE 11'KINLEY TARIFF ALL EIGHT, Eut the One Prepared by the Oliver Com mission Was FerfecL IOWA HAS PUT AX EXD TO rRODIBITIOX prECIAL TtLl.CnA.JT TO THE DI3rATCB.l Mansfield, O., Nov. 5. There was white snow on the ground this morning as I walked jp the graveled road through the big trees which front Senator Sherman's house. But there was no frost on the in side. Breakfast was over even at 7, and the statesman Mas in his library dictating to his secretary. There -were more than 100 telegrams'of congratulation on the table, and Mr. Shornian was answering them by mail. I never saw him in a better humor or looking betterandhegreeted iue cordiallVj as he does all people who call to see him, for it is easiar to see John Sherman than almost ant mail of mark I have known in public life. He said: '"Inever felt better inmy life. Thereliave been some allegations that I am getting old, and so I am, but I have found no difficulty in this contest in meeting every appoint ment and doing my share of the work, and I believe that we have won a great victory. In many respect! it s ibut an indorsement or echo of the fight of 1875 upon the finan cial question. President Hayes and myself then made an issue for the honest dollar, and this election in our commonwealth only show s that the people of this State are true to the best elementsof all life. Greenbacks and free silver mean the same thing, and for the second time in our political history the State of Ohio has spoken and decided that question so far as it can. I do not mean to say that the tariff has not played an im portant part in the came, but that matter I will discuss fnrther on." "What eflect will this have upon the elec tion next year?" A Free Silver Hill to Tass Congress. "A very favorable one. This campaign teaches niany useful lessons, which I will endeavor to point out. In the first place,so far as tho Republican party is concerned, this result in Ohio fixes the silver question as one of the issues of the next Presidental contest and decides it so far as this State is concerned. I am convinced that a free coinage bill will be passed by the Congress which assembles in December. I also be lieve that such a bill as will be framed will he -vetoed by President Harrison. That will naturally make free silver the feature of the next Presidental fight. In feet it will le the leading issue upon which there are vast differences of opinion in both par lies It is exactly like the tariff local con ditions arid interests govern the sentiment and action. I doubt very much whether the Democracy in national convention will pro claim for free coinage. If they should there will be no other issue of significance in the next campaign. The financial battle that we have fought in Ohio will then be trans ferred to the nation, and a contest, such as we have never seen, will be the result. The tariff will be prominent, but not the vital point of the contest," "Then the McKinlcy bill is not the only thing in sight?" "Not by any means. Its principles in the main are correct. Protection is a rela tive term, with many degrees, that pleases one section or one interest, excites the ire of another, and it is extremely difficult to frame a measure that will be acceptable alike to the consumer, producer and manu facturer. The Best Tariff Ever Framed. "The best and mosi equitable tariff bill that was ever framei was sent into Congress by the commission of which Harry Oliver, of Pittsburg, was the President, but the manufacturers knocked it to pieces, insert ing into it all sorts of petty characters of protection for penknives, pearl buttons and other Yankee notions, until I am free to say that it was in many respects a Yankee notion bill dealing with small jnatters that needed no protection, instead of leaving protection to large industries that were en titled to it. For instance, the tin plate question is one that I am in favor of, and there are other important business enter prises that I believe should be taken under onr wing, but the Eastern manufacturers are constantly making au effort to insert themselves into the tariff question when theyneed no protection. "Let no man say that I shirk the contro versy upon these economic questions, but these are my views, and if you will remem ber that when the tariff bill of the commis sion was up in the Senate, I fought for its adoption as it wr.s presented, but the ma jority was against me, and perhaps one of the mistakes J. have made in my public career was when I voted for the bill after it had been mutilated. The vote, you know, was very close, and perhaps my voice de cided it. But after all things will right themselves, and the contest over the tariff will brine such changes as will be beneficial to the country. But, in the main, the prin ciples of t he JfcKinley bill are right and have been sustained by the people this year." "What lessons does thiscampaign teach?" The Lessons or the Campaign. "Many. In the first place the Republican party has at times been running off after too manv isms, and has had many controversies inside the lines that have disturbed it lam not at all troubled as to the result in New York. To my mind it simply indicates the fact that Mr. Piatt's power lies in the great city, and that the country districts are get ting a little tired ot the intrigues of the metropolis, and wanted to make that fact manifest this year when there was no great national issue on hand. They took this year to do it, and Mr. Fassett, Mr. Plait's friend, was the target at which they shot I do not think it will have any bearing what--rer upon the next Presidental contest, and it will be a warning to many that at least more than one man shall be consulted, in a party organization." "How about Massachusetts?" "There inothimr significant in that bal lot. Governor Russell is practically a Be- j publican and a very able and popular man. lie is only a Democrat upon the tariff ques tion, and this fact is borne out bpthe other fact that everything is Republican by the usual majority except the Governor. I im agine, without knowing the details, that so far as the head of the two tickets were con cerned it was a sort of personal contest de rending largely upon the popularity of the candidate. I make the prediction that in the Presidental election Massachusetts will be as soundly Republican as ever." "Tiie remit in low a is a singular one,isu't it?" Significance of the Iowa Result. "Not parlicularly'so. I think by the re turns that it is simply a controversy upon the temperance question. Governor Boies is a Republican practically and has not been elected in a square contest between the two great party organizations. I think this election in" Iowa teaches the Republican party a lesson that will make Iowa a de cided Republican State in the Presidental election. The leading elements of the Re publican party of the State haie made an Kvuc of prohibition and the contest for ages has shown that the attempt to regulate the appetites of people cannot be successful. The s-ooner any community appreciates that fact the better, and no party can carry that load on its shoulders and succeed very long. Wchave got to get away from such non sense. It has been tried for many, many years, and nothing but disaster to any party organization has ever come of it. That is all the result in Iowa n cans, and it may scre us a good purposj in other directions. In fact the result in Ohio and Pennsylvania states the Republican case." "We have talked about many questions, but what does the result in Ohio mean?" Ohio Is Aiwa) Sound. "Just what any other would concede. Tpoi- the economic and financial questions this State is sensitive, but always sound, so far a the Republican party is concerned. It is only the Democrats that run off after new doctrines and that is only in the hope of beating us at a single election. More than half of tin Democrats ot this State do nol believe in free coinage, and yet the com ention made it a part of their platform 10 catch the Farmers' Alliance vote. Gov ernor Campbell, who is an able and popular man. and who has made a splendid canvass, frankly admits that he was beaten upon this isue. He says but for free coinage in the Democratic platform he would nave won. Without knowing, I imagine that ho w.s always opposed to the free silver craze, and to the Alliance or what is called the People's party, which by the way has -cut a mot sorry figure in Jbfa battle. "You will remember that I told vou two months ago that I regarded it as folly for persons from abroad to come into this State and tell people how poor they were, who had more money in their pocket than they have ever borrowed in their lives, and more products in their barns than they knew what to do with. One of the best results of this. campaign is the evidence that has been fur 'nished that freak organizations like the Farmers' Alliance cannot live. In Kansas, the home of such movements, it seems to have gone to pieces, and as I said before in Ohio it has cut no figure whatever, as I anticipated. Sometimes, however, they do. great damage for the movement, lite the defeat of Wade Hampton in South Carolina and leaving out ef the Senate that splendid figure, Mr. Ingalls." "The issues of the next campaign are then clearly fixed by the one just ended?" A Sectional Division Possible. "Ye, the tariff question is practically settled for the time being. It will always be a source of agitation as long as the Gov ernment lasts. During the next sessionof Congress it can hardly be considered, but in the next campaign it will be a leading issue with the silver question, just as it has been in Ohio this year. Then the nation will settle the question with the East being op posed to the West and South. Yet, I dis cover quite a change of sentiment in the two tatter sections, but not enough, I fear, 'to disturb the feeling in Congress that the free coinage of silver means greater pros perity to the country. Nothing could be farther from the fact, andyetthe more these questions are agitated the nearer we come to the truth. It'takes time, but, as a rule, the people reach the right conclusion." "What about your own canvass?" "I have enjoyed it immensely. This is the sixth time that we have had a square and open fight for the Legislature when I have been a candidate for the Senate. I took the financial end of the controversy, as I should have done, and made the battle in every doubtful county. We won them all, not so much from my efforts as on the good sense of our people. We have an un usually intelligent community to deal with in Ohio. That is rhy so many significant political battles have been fought out here. If you remember, the Greenback craze started in this State and ended nowhere after its defeat here." "Does this election point toward Presi dental candidates?" The Popularity or Blaine. "That I do not know. I see smiling signs toward Mr. Blaine. He seems to be exceed ingly popular in very many States, but I imagine that his health and inclinations will -very much depend upon his nomina tion. I am not particularly disturbed as to the next Presidental canvass. I am con vinced that the Republicans will win it under any circumstances."" "How about the Democratic candidate?" "About that I have no concern. It is evident that Mr. Cleveland has the matter in his hands if he wants to use it, but Gov ernor Hill may have something to say in New York, and Mr. Cleveland's bold utter ances on the silver question will doubtless affect his position in the West and South." "You have carried the Legislature by a big majority?" "The Legislature is Republican. What it will do I do not know. Whatever it shall choose to do I have no doubt that the Legislature will act from the best motives. My personality in the matter I do not care to discus6." There are many things about this inter view that are interesting. It isn't often that you can call on a statesmen at 8 o'clock in the morning and find him up and work, and as I passed out of the front door of the Sherman mansion, just before 10 o'cloek, which was my usual hour for arising, I couldn't help but recall the old story about the bird and the worm. FnAXKA.BrjEE. INVESTIGATIONS ON THE BOEDER. Inquiry Into the Citizenship of Two Men Who Were Shot in Mexico. Rio Geande Citi, Tex.. Nov. .5. Spe cial American Consul Sutton, at Mata moias, arrived here on the 30th and has been consulting with the Federal authorities investigating the recent elocutions by the Mexican military of suspected revolutionists who were supposed to have been American citizens. The Starr county polling lists show that Josef Angel Vera and Juan Bazan voted in precinet 4. These were two of the men shot on October 10 at Guaradao ranch, in Mexico, by orders of General Garcia. The vote at precinct 4 was unaccountablylarge at the last elec tion, owing to the importation of voters from across the Rip Grande, and it has not vet been ascertained whether Vera and Bazan were citizens and entitled to Amer ican protection or fraudulent voters. Vera was a smuggler, and his death causes no regret, but indignation exists over the taking off of Bazan, who was -an inoffensive butcher and leaves a family. Luis Yzaguirre, who, contrary tor his wishes, furnished revolutionists with mutton on September 12, hu been finally released at Monterey. ' PITTSBURG-, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1891 CAUSTIC AND CRITICAL Attack Made on Governor Pattison by Attorney Lyman D. Gilbert. TRYING TO CHANGE THE FIGURES. Nearly Five Hours Devoted to the Pero ration", in Two Sessions. HENSEL EEPLIES AT LENGTH" TO-DAY rrrOM A STAFF COEBKSPOJiDZXT.l Hakkisbdbo, Nov. S. Two sessions of the Senate were held to-day. In the morn ins Lyman D. Gilbert devoted two hours to a criticism of the Governor's message ar raigning State Treasurer Boy er and Auditor GeneralMcCamantforofficialdelinquencics, and in trying to show the Senate that the charges against his client, the State Treas urer, were unfounded. Mr. Gilbert was suflering from a hoarse throat, aud at noon the Senate adjourned until 2:30 o'clock at his instance. His plea was then continued for two hours and a half, without a con clusion. Rufus E. Shapley, Judge Orvis and R. C. Dale, of Philadelphia, who are associated with Mr. Gilbert in defending the State Treasurer and Auditor General, were pres ent during the argument, aud Attorney General Hensel occupied much of his time in taking notes for use inlthe argument he will make to the Senate after Mr. Gilbert shall have completed his argument. Although three speeches have been made denying the jurisdiction of the Senate, Mr. Gilbert prefaced his remarks by stating that the power claimed by the Governor, if exercised, would be a usurpation ot the rights of the people, and that he was in full accord with his colleagues in this matter. ' Paulson's Message Roughly Criticised." The message of the Governor was criti cised because it failed to give the State Treasurer and Auditor General credit for their sworn statements in vindication of the conduct of their office. The State Treasurer was fully excused for paying Bardsley 5420,000 which the latter embezzled, and the Governor was mildly censured lor men tioning this little matter. The Senate was treated to refreshing information in the shape of a statement that the State could not in any event lose more than 87,000 by Bardsley's embezzlement. This is nearly 51,300,000 less than the calculation made by the Governor. He held that the State Treasurer could not rightfully be held re sponsible for the misdoings of his subordin ates, which remarks had reference to Will iam Livsey, his missing Chief Clerk. It was sadly true, he said, that Livsey was not here to explain the correspondence that passed between him and Bardsley, but if here was a questionable relationship" between these two men there was no evidence to show that Mr. Boyer had any part in it. The State Treasurer 'was excused for trusting Bardsley, because similar confi dence had been reposed in him by acute and large minded business men of Philadelphia. There was nothing in the conduct of Mr. Bardsley, Mr. Gilbert said, so far as the opinion and impression of the mercantile world were concerned, that deserved treat ment at the hands of Mr. Boyer other than that which he -extended, and other than that which the innumerable predecessors of John Bardsley and the whole line of cbunty treasurers had received from the various accounting departments ot this Commonwealth. v.3Toro.or.Mr Gilbert' TieasoiiinE. F As to the $150,000 which were paid Bards-" ley on the same day the school warrant was cashed, without the State Treasurer's knowledge, Mr. Gilbert held that if the Senate believed Mr. Boyer, he was no more liable for. the withdrawal of the State money from the Treasury than for the amounts he had deposited with Jamison ($25,000) and with Delamater ($100,000). "You have believed all his testimony heretofore," said Mr. Gilbert, "and there is absolutely not a line or a syllable of any testimony to contradict it. it is true that the Attorney General rightfully asked him whether he had discharged William Livsey when he discovered this payment, and he answered that he had not done so; that he did not, discover the transaction until three or four months had passed. This act was done by the Auditor General and the State Treasurer, and was. done in pursuance of what they believed to be the proper con struction of law. Now, I ask you, what ad vantage would it have been to Henry IC Boyer to have paid to John Bardsley 150, 000 of money John .Bardsley was not en titled to receive? As I said this morning, if it had been the thought or desire of Henry K. Boyer to speculate in the public moneys and abuse bis trust and stain his name, he did not need John Bardsley as the agency in the commission of that crime. It would have been far better for him, talking on the plans of profit to be gained from a criminal act, to have withheld that money and in vested it himself, and singly and solely have appropriated the profits. Submissions to the Senate's Thought. "If the purpose of Henry K. Boyer had been to speculate in the public moneys, it was an absolute disadvantage to him, in the perpetration or successiui crime, to pay $150,000 on one account and $420,000 on another account to John Bardsley; and his advantage and profit, if profit from a criminal act were to be considered, laid not in the payment to John Bardsley ,of those moneys, but in their retention by himself, so that he might invest them at his pleasure and singly enjoy the advantages received from them. "I submit that this is conclusive proof that whin he made payment of 420,000 on account of the appropriation to common schools he made' it with the single-hearted purpose he has mentioned to prevent it from going into the sinking fund.' Not that it would have been to his disad vantage to permit it to go into that fund, but it would have been to your disadvant age", as members 'of the Legislature of Penn sylvania, and to the disadvantage of the citizens of the State whom you, as the Senate of Pennsylvania represent, for the instant that it passed into the sinking fund it did not pass out of his control, if he had a desire to make a corrupt use of it, but it passed from your control as a fund over which it had legislative direction, and which you could devote to the educational and charitable institutions of the Common wealth. A Waste or the Public Money. "I pass now to the payment of 420,000 made in December, 1890, on .account of school appropriations. I have not quite understood the attitude that my friend, the Attorney General, has assumed toward that payment." In the part of the message of the Go'vernor that is alluded to as a mere act of turpitude on the part of the State Treas urer. In another part of that message, un less I misread it, it has been alluded to as being a waste by the State Treasurer of the public money. I submit that whatever be the view in which that transaction has been exhibited by the message of His Excellency, the Governor, there is ample rule of law to show that in making that payment in De cember, 1890, Henry K. Boyer followed the settled usage and construction of the school department, whose duty it was to adminis ter the school law in this respect, and in following that settled usage aud construc tion he obeyed the law." Attorney General Hensel is hard at work to-night preparing himself for the argument he will make to-morrow. Although he in (Heated repeatedly toihe Senate whca,the question of jurisdiction was raised, that, he would not discuss 't before that body, the able pleas made by Mr. Shapley, Judge Orvis and Mayer Sulzberger have induced him to reconsider his determination. Hensfl to Speak Five Hours. He h.as given thcjse arguments a thorough examination and has consulted many au thorities to sustain him in the views he en tertains that the Senate has undoubted juris diction, and. that the business before it is purely executive. He will probably speak on jurisdiction first, and will supplement his argument with a searching analysis of the testimony in the Boyer ease. The Attorney General will make his argu ment as brief as possible, but it isnot likely that he will be able to' compress it w ithin five hours. A night session will be held to morrow, if it should be necessary to enable him to complete his address. A number of Senators are preparing speeches to be delivered next week on the question of jurisdiction, among them Sena tor Ross. INDIANA LAPS THE LINE. CORKKCTEO BOUXDAIir SOKVKT GIVES OHIO A Sf.lCE. The Disputed Territory Has a Population or 200,000 nnd Includes I't, Wayne, lilchinond and Union City The Hoosler Can Becoup on a Fart of Chicago. IxDlANArOLls, Not'. 5. During the last two months a surveyjparty sent out by the National Government has been at work locating the boundary line between Ohio and Indiana, which -has been in dispute for some time. The work under Prof. Menden- hall has been completed and the survey has its report ready for submission. The facts found by the surveyors are, as, heretofore alleged, that-the true line, as de clared when Ohio Was organized into a State, commences 12 miles west of the pres ent boundary line at the north and runs directly south to the pre sent line between Ohio and Indiana, thus making a stripy 200 miles long and of an average width.of six miles 1,200 square miles to which the State of Ohio. lays claim. The strip includes the cities of Ft Wayne, Richmond and Union City and has a population altogether of about 200, 000. An inquiry into the causes that led to the juggling of these boundary lines discloses that at the time Ohio was made a State there were post traders located at Rich mond and F.t Wayne whose trade with the Indians was very profitable. Had the line been run correctly these posts would have been taken into the new State of Ohio, and the occupa tion of these traders would have been gone. The post traders, it is said, bribed the survey party which located the line, and Richmond and Ft.. Wayne were left on the Indiana side. The question is a very important and complicated one, for should Ohio's claims on Indiana be enforced Indiana would, on the same grounds, have cause fit action against Illinois. f -p, BRIGGS' CASE NOT ENDED. IT MAY BE SCVEBAI. TEABS BEFORE IT IS SETTLED. The roarvi It Ha "to Take-Ttie Doctor Satisfied With HU Present Position Sure of -His Ultimate Acquittal of Heret ical Charges. New York, Nov. 5. Special. "The Briggs case is far from ended," said Rev. Robert R. Booth to-day to a reporter. "The action of the Presbytery in dismissing" the case without permitting any trial will delay and complicate matters, but this is the only effect it will have. The Prosecut ing Committee will appeal to the Synod, and the whole matter will have to be gone over again there. Then the decision of the Synod, whether it upholds the action of the Presbytery or to the con trary, will in turn probably be appealed from, and the question will bo brought be fore the General Assembly for final settle ment. The next Synod does not meet until October, 1892, and the General Assembly to which the appeal would go meets in May, 1893, so the end of the matter is a long way off. Bnt the questions involved are too important to be allowed to drop, and sooner or later a conclusion is sure to be reached." Dr. Briggs, when questioned in regard to the action of the Presbyterv in dismissing his case without a trial' said: "I am satis fied with the action the Presbytery saw fit to take, but only because I believe it was for the peace, and unity of the church. From a personal point of view I should have preferred a thorough investigation. I flatter myself that I know the Bible and the Westminster confession as well as any of them, and there is not a single valid charge or specification they could have brought against me. I feel sure I should have been acquitted of the charge of heresy by more votes than were cast lor the dismissal of the case." "You are not of the opinion, then, that 4he whole case will be taken up again and gone over by the Synod in .in entirely different way?" "The questions to go before the Synod are altogether legal ones, and I shall probably take no active part in, them. It is the Presbytery now, that is called upon to defend its action in dismissing the case without going through with the trial. There is very little chance of my being called upon to represent it in this defense." A WHALING BABE LOST. Its CrewBescued; Return Home1 and Re port A Poor Season. San Feancisco, Nov. 5. The whaling bark Northern Light arrived from the Arctic Ocean this afternoon with a catch of 11 whales taken in the Beriug Sea. The bark reports the loss of the steam whaler William Lewis, which went ashore in a snow storm at Point Barrow. The boat steerer and three of the crew of the Lewis came down on the whaler John W. West, which also arrived this afternoon and re ports a catch of six whales. The sailors of the Lewis state that the vessel went ashore on the night of October 3. The steam whaler Belvidere was anchored at Point Barrow, and rescued the crew and. 0,000 pounds of bone. The Belvidere encountered the rest of the wnaling fleet 200 miles west of Point Barrow and distributed the shipwrecked sailors among the vessels of the fleet. The Lewis is valued at $75,000. The barks re port the whaling season poor, and that some of the fleet will return without a catch. Fofetmaster Aik Better Salaries. Columbus, Nov. B. The fourth class postmasters of Ohio held a meeting to-day and adopted resolutions requesting Congress to pass a bilt increasing the compensation of postmasters in that class. Delegates to the national convention.of this class were selected and other steps taken to influence legislation, in the direction indicated; - TWELYE PAGES. WILL THEY OLASP HANDS FOIt 1891 7 COAL AT GOLD PRICES. Cincinn(itians Treated to a Weekly Eise in Fuel Bates, Nowadays, BECAUSE THE BITER WON'T RISE. Twenty Cents a Bushel Soon Looked for, and Perhaps Even More. THE PBESENT STOCK OF COAL ON HAND rSPECIALTM.EGBAM TO THE DISFATCH.l Cincinnati, Nov. 5. The Cincinnati coal dealers are preparing for a demand for a pound of flesh from each citizen. Coal to families and small consumers has recently stepped from $3 per ton up to 3 50, and next Monday the dealers will give it an other 50 cent boost up the tree of high prices. One Coal and mining company has flung out Its 4 announcement to the breezes, but other dealers allege that the move is simply one to curtail its retail orders for the present. All of them are holding back on coal contracts, anxious to have as many bushels as possible for sale to families at a big profit. Present Supply of Coal In Cincinnati. r At present there are the"-following estU mated amounts of coal in the yards aud river; Bushels. Phillips' elevator -. 80,000 Queen City 200,000 Brown '. 300,000 Marmet . 650.000 Klneon....... 400,000 Consolidated Coal and Mining Com pany KO.000 Scattering 200,000 Total 2,280,000 Yet there is to be a squeeze, said Sol. P. Kineon this morning. "There is ten days' supply of coal in the city, provided the weather turns cold. If it keeps warm, the supply will last from two weeks to 20 days. I think that the retail price will advance next Monday to t delivered." "Suppose that no flood comes within the next 30 days, where will coal go?" was asked. No Rise Looked for in November. "Well," replied the coal magnate, can didly, ('it will doubtless go to 20 cents, and perhaps higher. The last coal received was by river, August 29. We seldom have a rise in November. Mr. Marmet, head of the big Marmet Coal Company, was also outspoken in the mat ter. "There will be another increase in the retail price of coal," he remarked. "It should be selling now for $4 instead of ?3 50. We have coal now due by railroad, and it actually costs us S3 03 per ton on the track. I do not look for any coal famine. We have always made it a point to keep Cincinnati supplied with coal, regardless of cost." A tramp along the river front revealed many empty barges and few loaded ones. Most of the coal is .yarded. Yesterday there were but two barges of coal for sale, , and not for a nominal price, either. CHBISTIAN W0BKEBS IK COUNCIL. A Novel Religious Convention Is Welcomed by the Postmaster General. Washington, Nov. 5. The .sixth an ual assembly of the International Christian Workers' Association began its session in this city to-day. The convention is a union of all Protestant churches. Women are prominent as delegates. Several addresses of welcome were, made, among them one by Postmaster General Wanamaket. He said that whatever was the word expressing love and welcome, that was the word that he wished to be understood as saying to them. Rev. J. C. Collins, of New Haven, Secre tary of the International Christian Work ers' Association, read an informal report of what had been done by lhe organization. There Has been an increase in the member ship since the last convention at Hartford from S28 to 820. The Secretary said that, in his opinion, the members of the convention had accomplished a great deal toward the solution ot the difficult problem of how to 'reach the masses. The. headquarters of the association are now located at New Haven, and Mrs. Collins announced that the people of that city had alreadv subscribed $17,000 toward the erection of $50,000 building for the use of the association. A Movement Against Silver Coinace. ' New Yoke, Nov. 5. The New York Chamber of Commerce to-day appointed a committee of five, including ex-Mayor Hewitt and Cari Schurz, to urge upon Con gress such modification of the act of July 14,1891, as will suspend the further pur chase of silver and any additional coinage of the same until an international agree ment is arrived at between the United States and other- commercial nations of the world. President Harrison was also peti- uuucu vo caii iue aiiennon oi congress to. me Buojcci in nis next message. NICKEL -ri - - "- ttftiPi roil ALL THE X ' In ffoi,. lto VESSELS EXCE One of the the Indian Hej- Test- rhlpps & Co. Receive Instrnsffbns on This Point Importance or,tMe Deferred Tests. Washington, Nov. S. Special. Though the comparative triaU of American armor commenced at Indian Head last Saturday have not yet been completed, the results on that day, taken in connection with, those obtained from previous tests during tho past year, show so conclusively the superiority of nickel steel over all steel for armor plates, that . orders were to-day sent from the Navy Department to both Carnegie, Phipps & Co. and the Bethlehem Iron Works, directing that all armor under the present contracts be made of nickel steel. This means that all the armored vessels of the navy, except the Miantonomah and(he Monterey, will be armored entirely with nickel steel. The Mianotonomah carries Cammel compound armor made at Sheffield. The Monterey's water line belt is now being made of nickel steel, but her tarbctte armor was too for-advanced before the superiority of nickel steel had been clearly demon strated for any change to be made, and con sequently it has been made of all steel. All the armor of this vessel will be delivered in a short time, and she will have the distinc tion of being the first vessel having any part of her armor of nickel steel. No orders have yet been given for the treatment of any of this armor by the Har vey process of surface hardening, and noth ing will be done in that direction until a more extended study has been made of its efficiency and the best methods of applying it. The completion of the Indian Head tests will throw much light on this subject, SUED FOB OVER TWO MILLIOI'S. The Government Wants a Big Royalty From a Minlnc Company. Topeka'Kan., Nov. 5. Special. Suit was brought by the United States this after noon to recover a royalty from the Leaven worth Coal Mining Qompany, estimated at 2,500,Q00. An accounting is demanded for all the coal mined on the Government reservation at Ft. Leavenworth since 1868. In 1868, Congress, by a special art, leased to the Leavenworth Coal Mining Company the privilege of mining coal under all the lands owned by the Government at the military reservation. The company agreed in fnrnish nil iht pnnl Tpnnirpd hv th ftnv- ernment departments, and in addition paya rovaltv of one-fourth of a cent per ton. The output of the mines' has been 'enormous, and the petition alleges that the Government has never received any royalty. , SHOW SIX INCHES SEEP. The Feathery Flakes Fall All Day Long at Bellefonte, Pa. Bellfonte, Nov. 6. Special The first snow began falling here early this morning and has continued at intervals all day, with no signs of cessation. It is now nearly 6 inches deep. It will do some damage to the com crop, which is not quite all in and will probably be lost. No More Steam Traffic In Chicago. Chicago, Nov. S. The City Council to night granted a right of way to the Chicago "Elevated Terminal Railway Company." Mayor Washburne's signature is a foregone conclusion. The purpose is to practically abolish surface steam traffic in Chicago and establish a central freight clearing house for all railroads entering the city. TABLE OP CONTENTS. Pace. Senator Sherman Talks 1 The State Senate Trial 1 A Coal Famine Down the River 1 England CausesBrazH's Troubles 1 Monlooth Now Cloae to Quay 3 Allegheny lJe tho 8100,000 Find 3 Street Contracts Awaiting a Decision 3 Figures on Pltttburg'a Taxation -3 Classified Advertisements 3 Editorial Articles and Comment 4 The Realm of Society 4 Interesting Facts About Pensions 5 Deaths Here and Elsewhere S The High Street Suit -. '. 6 Indnstrial Intelligence.! 8 Election Rioting In Ireland 7 The Trouble With Chile 7 Conger Reveals Unwritten History 7 A Ghastly Discovery 7 Sporting, State Mews and Weather 8 Hotel Arrivals and Personals 8 Fate of a Keely Disciple 9 Still Congratulating McKInley 9 Tennessee's Convict Crisis 9 Present Day Issues 10 J Work in the Oil Fields 10 Witchcraft In Berks County 10 The Metal Situation 10 Financial and Commercial Markets 11 Court Proceedings ;...... .12 The Latest Fashions 13 Investments In Ocean Cables. 13 k Jr Mr-i Resn)SB of larnagie THREE CENTS. BLAMED ON BRITAIN. The Brazilian Crisis Is Now Charged to English Intrigues. WORKING AGAINST RECIPROCITY. President Fonseca Gives His Eeasons for the Conp d' Etat. THE NEWS OFFJCIALLI CONFIRMED Bio Janeeio, Nov. 5. It is officially announced that the President has convened the nation to eleet new Representatives at a date to be determined upon later. The Federal capital (Rio Janerio) and the town of Nitheroy, or Praia Grando, five mile east of the capital, have been declared to bo in a state of siege for two months. The President has been provoked to take these steps by the proceedings of Congress and by the efforts of the promoters of a restoration to overturn Republican institu tions. The President, in a manifesto is sued to the nation, declares himself to be fully justified. The army and nayy sup port the Government, and public tranquil ity, according to the official announcement, is perfect throughout the States. In conclusion, it is said the Government is ready to maintain order by every means; that the Constitution will be respected, and that the Government will also be answer able for all national engagements. The Governors of the leading provinces have congratulated President Da Fonseca upon his success in maintaining order. The Opinion of a Brazilian Sew Torker. A dispatch from New York says: Senor A. IL De Paulo- Coelho, editor of the United States of Brazil, and until Dom Pedro's overthrow an exile from Brazil, a promoter of Americo-Brazihan enterprises and a con stant correspondent of the most important officials at'Rio, had the following to say this afternoon relative to the trouble now ex istkfg in the South American Republic: "There is no revolution in Brazil, nor will ere be one. I do not hesitate to say that the existing troubles may be traced to the English and the great chagrin at the treaty of reciprocity recently made with this coun try. Ever since President Fonseca signed the treaty English agents have been howl jng into the ears of the younger Congress- n the great injustice done to .Brazil and it snms ot money thereby lost, and, it r J', not without effect. Inus impelled, the younger uongres?- men nave carrieu on iue ngm, ana in some respects it resembled the Platt-Conkling in cident of a few years ago here. When this became apparent to Fonseca he said to these Congressmen, 'Go,' and to prevent the send ing of unfounded and lying reports he placed a censorship on the cable. The Patriotism of the President. "Fonseca accepted the Presidency much against his will. It was positively a sacrifice on his part, but he is a patriot, and went where he was called. They say they fear he wants to succeed himself when his term expires. Bosh! He does not. He will do naught else but what will advance BrazilN interest. Soon the smoke will clear away and yon will find the outcome to be one of peace and progress. The markets are open to America, and England is, as ever, envi ous but discreet." The latest cable rumors received in Lon don before the censorship was established over the telegraph offices was that there was no room for doubting that a revolution had broken out. The capital was said to be full of soldiers quartered in the barracks, in the public buildings, camped in public squares and billeted upon the hotels and other places. The continued ill health of President Fonseca and political intrigues as to the choice of his successor are said to be at , the bottom of the uprising. It is said thai there has bsen fighting in the streets of Rio Janeiro, but the report cannot be verified. A Scramble for the Presidency. Another dispatch asserts that the Presi dent is suflering severely from a cancer. It is presumed that this fact has become public and that it has led to an outbreak which has been smoldering for some time past and which owed its origin to the jealousy of political parties and to the intrigues of public men anxious to succeed to the Presi dency. In addition to these disturbing fac tors there are the workings of the old Horn Pedro party, which still counts for a great deal in the affairs of the republic A dispatch from Washington says: The Department of State has received "a cable gram from Minister Copger, confirming the report of the dissolution of Congress, and declaration of martial law in Brazil. The disturbed state of affairs in Brazil is viewed with deep concern here, in view of the im portance of American interests in that coun try and our close trade relations with it, HAEEIS0N AN ABBITBAT0B. The Good Effects ol Reciprocity With Brazil Already Discernible. Washington, Nov. 5. The Congress of Brazil having refused to ratify the plan for settlement of the boundary disputed with the Argentine Republic, the question has been referred to the President of the United States as arbitrator. Thearbitration proceed ings will be held in Washington this win ter. The Bureau of American Republics is informed that the Brazilian Government has reorganfzed its diplomatic and consular ser vice, reducing expenditures very considera bly by abolishing the legations at St. Pe tersburg, Vienna and at the Vatican. Tho Government has also consolidated the Vene zuelan Legation with that of Mexico, tho Bolivian Legation with that of Pern and the Legation of Portugal with that of Spain. The importance attached to the United States Legation is shown by the fact that it is elevated to the first class and the staff of the ministry increased by the addition of second and tnird secretaries, with a force of clerks. The South American Journal, of Lon don, England, ssys: "The business results of the reciprocity measures of Mr. Blaine are already discernible in the trade of tho United States. Even English companies, operating" in Brazil, are now purchasing tfieir supplies largely in the United States to secure tbe benefit of the reduction of 25 per cent in duties." A GBAVITY BOAD ACCIDENT. The Track So Slippery That the Brakes Failed to Hold the Train. Reading, Nov. 5. While a train of two cars was coming down the Mount Fenn Gravity Railroad late this afternoon thp rails were so slippery at a steep grade, owing to the rain, that the cars could not bo held, and while coming around a curve they jumped the track, dashed into an embank ment and were Daaiy proven. j.no list of casualties is as follows: 'Irwin Houck, conductor, Killed; Anthony Keely, brakeman, injnred about the head, legs and feet, expected to die; Mary Beck, Philadelphia, severely cut about head and body; Frank Klemmer, Philadelphia, badly injured about the head, condition critical; Thomas M. Ganther, badly cut. The wheels were locked by the brakes, but the rails were so slppery that the cars slirl alnmrthvm like a. sled. George John son, the onlv remaining passenger, jumped i miles an hour wnue mc iiaiiiniM fev" and escaped injury. '. ' 1j it- AS
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