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FORTY-SIXTH TEAR
VICTOR MD VICTIM
Tell of the Features "Which
Von and Lost the Great
Ohio Campaign.
THE GOVERNOR'S REASONS
Are Xuniorous, While the Governor
Elect, Who Ought to Know,
THIMS TBE TARIFF DID IT ALL.
Colonel Frank Burr Writes That Foraker
Will Defeat Sherman.
HAKEITI HAS TAKEN A BIG CONTRACT
rRPICIAIi TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Colttmbcs, Nov. 8. The temper of
Ohio politics is 93 degrees. The Republi
cans are as much disturbed as the Demo
crats. Some people think that Mr. JToraker
is making a bluff and does not really intend
to be a candidate. That is entirely a myth.
The controversy between the Sherman and
Foraker forces is as arbitrary and complete
as ever was known in American politics,
and when the fight is ended Ms Foraker
will have the bet of the game.
In the first place Ohio polities is a prob
lem to any human being. The manner of
the defeat of Governor Campbell stumps
the average citizen. In Cincinnati, where
he was expected to lose 6,000 votes, he
gained 4,000. The greatest statesman in
Ohio said that was on account of the liquor
interest'. Hut there are larger lessons in
tbe result in Cincinnati, or the liqnor in
terests. Ohio has settled one question, and
that is that protection to American indus
tries is a part of her cardinal life.
A Mystery That It Was Not Worse.
It is simply a mystery that Campbell was
not beaten by 50,000 instead of 21,000.
There was no support from the outside.
There was little harmony at home. Mr.
McKinley was in a position to own the
earth. Hence the result. Nobody recog
nises that fact better than Governor Camp
bell, who "peaks of the free silver craze as
the "crowning issue of this defeat" Gover
nor Campbell looks upon the result with
much complacency. He feels exceedingly
well for a man who has been turned down
in perhaps one of the most remarkable
fights that has ever been made in this State.
Speaking of the contest he said: "Yes,
we were beaten: there were many instru
mentalities tended in that direction in
fact, many agencies conspired against us.
The Australian ballot system worked
againt the Democracy. "Where we ex
pected to win with the Alliance, or the
People's party, we lost. It was the general
expectation that the Republicans would
follow in the lead in this new idea, as they
did in Kansas, but the result shows that
they did not. It was only Democrats who
vofed for the Farmers Alliance candidates.
.ot-Kanning-After Kds This Tear.
""lais was entirely unexpected, because,
as a rule, the Republicans run off after these
fads instead of tbe Democrats. The Ger
mans, who, in a controversy like this, are
usually our friends, could not fathom the
Australian ballot system, and we lost hun
dreds of votes from that cause. I have hun
dreds of letters stating this to be a fact. As
a rule tbe German character does not hunt
after new arrangements, and especially in
the country districts they are stubborn and
do not like this new-fashioned way of vot
ing. That is the reason that we lost heavily
in the country districts, where we should
have gained."
"WThy did the Democratic farmers take
hold of this combination?"
"That I do not Know, but the fact re
mains that the Farmers' Alliance, as we
find it after the election, was an organiza
tion of Democrats in Decoeritic counties,
and existed only with the people who could
influence the Democratic results. "Wher
ever it existed in Republican districts, it
melted away before the voting began, and
the party ticket was supported with the old
time zeal."
"Tbe Farmers' Alliance cut no figure in
the fight, encept to injure us. Whatever
might Lave been its original purpose, it
simply contributed to Republican success.
I have many letters upon this subject that
furnish some interesting statistics. Here is
one township in Seneca county, in which
there is not a Republican voter, where this
fourth party gets a vote of 106, every one of
which was Democratic. "We got a blacK
eye in every rockribbed Democratic county
in the State in the same way. Even the
Prohibitionists decreased their vote by
7,000 o 8,000, and that helped the Repub
licans." "What about free coinage?"
Silver Kept Away Contributions.
"There was nothing in the silver ques
tion. It lost us the support of the business
men of the East, and closed the gates
against us in all of the financial centers of
the country. This made the State Central
Committee bankrupt from the time it
opened the campaign. Bat after all, this
contest teaches many useful lessons. Nat
urally, Ohio is a Republican State, and
when we carry it it is, to a greater or less
extent, an accident, and therefore I feel
that we have lost nothing in this fight. Mr.
McKinley has carried the State by about
the average plurality, in spite of all of the
differences that have existed in our ranks
upon local questions."
"Governor, what support did you get
fromVirgil P. Kline and Lawrence T;Neal,
who were raudidates against you for the
nomination?"
"Mr. Kline gave me a hearty and loyal
support. He worked hard for the success
of the ticket. As to Mr. Neal, I have noth
ing to say as to what he did to aid the Dem
ocratic party. I am willing to leave that to
others." F. A. Bubb.
IDEAS OF THE VICTOR.
-MnJo
McKinley Talks of the Winning
Fight He Made in Ohio.
New York, Oct. 8. Special Governor-elect
"William McKinley reached
New York from Canton, O., at 11 A. 31. to
day. "With his wife, who accompanied
hire, he went direct to the rooms of his
lirotLcr Abncr, at the Hamilton HoteL
After a dm e about town and through the
j--nrk he returned to the hotel for lunch, and
'Ihonloran hour he talked to the newspa
per men. He was first asked nbout the re
s' cent contest in his native State.
Jt was a very interesting campaign," he
Mid, "and purely impersonal. The great
issues made by both parties were squarely
fought out. They were, of course, the
tariff and silver. There were no side mat
ters of importance. The people showed a
strong interest in both questions. Gov
ernor Campbell made a strong campaign. I
think his personal qualities helped him
much."
Major McKinley was asked which issue,
in his opinion, proved the strongest.
"That is only a matter of conjecture," he
said. "But we made no Republican gain in
either Cincinnati or Cleveland, the great
commercial centers, where the silver ques
tion was more likelv than anvwhere else to
influence the result"
Major McKinley would say nothing about
Presidental possibilities for -1892 in either
party.
HARRITY'S NEW CABINET.
HE WANTS A CLEVELAND DELEGA
TION FROM PENNSYLVANIA.
In Return He Will Be Recognized by Both,
the Ex-Prcsldent and Governor Pattlson
as the Party Leader Chairman Kerr
Very Willing to Retire.
rrr.ot a staff coRRrspojfDEXT.l
Hareisbthig, Nov. a "Who will lead
the Democrats in Pennsylvania, is the ques
tion that is agitating party followers
throughout the State. The answer comes a
trifle indistinct and uncertain, but the an
swer is "William F. Harrity, although he is
more unpopular to-day than he has ever
before been. As the accepted -leader of his
party in the late fight he is of course ex
pected and compelled to stand the brunt of
the defeat and in the accumulation of disas
ters the Secretary of the Commonwealth is
for the time fairly buried under grievances,
petty and profound. Had he won the bat
tle, it would have been different
But while Mr. Harrity may never be the
candidate of his party for Governor, he will,
for a time at least, be the acknowledged
leader, whether his leadership in the last
contest was satisfactory or not His posi
tion fixes that It is an open secret that
Mr. Harrity and State Chairman Kerr were
not pulling together with the harmony of a
well-mated team in the campaign just
closed. Mr. Kerr was a faithful chairman,
however. He worked industriouslv for his
party and he has taken chances that might
tuutiucicuucsperaie, out he has won no
place that gives him power, and as he has
wearied of the chairmanship he will drop
out of command, and if he can be elected
Chief Clerk of the House of Representa
tives at Washington he will be content as a
follower and not a leader of his party.
...... ju a ucpariure jaarruy is su
preme, and he will sooner or later creep out
lrom under the wreckage of last Tuesday,
and will, until the nextPresidental election
at least, be the accepted boss of Pennsyl
vania's Democracy. Harrity is Cleveland's
acknowledged representative in this State.
He will he agreeablv burdened with the re
sponsibility of sending a Cleveland delega
tion to the next National Convention, and
while he is engaged in the ex-President's
campaign he will have no one to question
his authority or to interrupt his leadership.
If Cleveland should be elected, as his nomi
nationseems to" be conceded, then Mr. Har
rity will beyond question become the ad
ministration's sole agent for the distribu
tion of postoffices and other Federal places
in Pennsylvania. No man in Pennsylva
nia stands closer to ex-President Cleveland
than Mr. Harrity, unless it be Governor
Pattison, and the Governor's faith is firmly
fixed on his Secretary of State. With
Governor Pattison and "ex-President Cleve
land both standing firmly at Mr. Harrity's
racK ne is ine jeaaer oi me .Democracy in
this State, and he will continue to be the
leader for several vears Jto come. As Grover
ClevelanbTwTJhTar'sayhal's'coirdiTion,""
nota theory,'" and that condition supplies
a positive answer to the question that is
just now agitating the Pennsylvania De
mocracy GREAT REFORMS PROMISED
IN BEHALF OF THE NEWLT-ELECTED
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
Congratulatory Addreis of the State Com
mitteeWhat Slay Be Expected or the
New Body The State to Be Again Redis
tricted Political Jealousy.
Columbus, Nov. 8. ,SperiaZ. Chairman
Hahu and-Secretary Matthews, of the Re
publican State Committee, have issued a cir
cular to the Republicans of Ohio, as follows:
You have won a glorious victory in a cam
paign of national importance. It was a
contest for principle, and its effect cannot
be hounded by State lines nor limited to a
single campaign. Ohio has again pointed
tho way to the nation, and the Republicans
of every State are rejoicing with you in the
significant Indorsement of the Araericnn
principle of protection, as embodied in the
McKinley tariff law and the sound doctrine
of honest money, as enunciated by the legis
lation of the last Republican Congress.
It is upon these issues that the next na
tional campaign will be waged. With a can
didate for Governor conceded bv men of
all parties to have conducted his ranvass on
a plane commensurate with tho gravo Im
portance of the issues Involved, and tho
dignity for the higli office for which he was
nominated, your triumph! is indeed signifi
cant and gratitying. Your matchless stand
ard bearer and the whole of your excellent
State ticket are elected by majoritiesgreater
than those usually given in Presidental
years. You have chosen a Legislature more
strongly Republican in both branches than
ever before elected in the history of the
party. Upon this splendid achievement, in
behalf of the Hepublican State Executive
Committee, we heartily congratulate you.
The incoming Hepublican administration
can confidently ho depended upon to cor
rect the partisan abuse, mismanagement
and extravagance which have characterized
Democratic rule in Ohio during the past two
years. The next Legislature can be lelicd
upon to promptly repeal the in famous gerry
mander bv which the majority party of this
State has been deprived of its rightful and
equitable representation in the popular
branch of Congress. The election of a United
States Senator will be accomplished with
due regard to law, ana witnous corruption,
scandie or disgrace. The infamous scheme
of the Democracy of Ohio, proposed in the
last General Assembly, to steal 15 or 1G of
Ohio's electoral votes for a Democratic
President, will bo consummated, and Ohio
will In the future, as in the past, be per
mitted to cast her electoral vote as the ma
jority of her people decides. In these results
you may well rejoice, for they are just cause
for congratulation.
There is not a little jealousy between the
State Committee and the Republican League
over who did the work of the campaign, and
they are watching each other with a great
deal of anxiety.
THE SCHEME TO OUST BBICE.
Ohio's State Senators See One Way to Settle
the Senatorship.
Columbus, Nov. 8. Special Tele
graphic interviews have been had with a
number of members-elect of the new Re
publican Legislature which will in January
elect a United States Senator to succeed
John Sherman. Including Hamilton county,
and not counting Cuyahoga, as no members
were talked to in Cleveland, the roll stands
as follows: Foraker, 20; Sherman, 13; re
ported for Foraker, 8; reported for Sherman,
9; declined to talk, 10; undecided, 4. Other
counties are vet to hear from, but this is a
fair index of the feeling in Ohio, and the
probable result
One ofthe Senators-elect, John Bain, of
the Sixteenth district, ?aid he was in favor
of unseating Calvin S. Brice and choosing
both Sherman and Foraker. Senator
Hildebrandt, of Ashland, remarked: "The
convention at which I was nominated in
dorsed Senator Shermau and pledged the
support of this, his own district, to him for'
re-election. 1 shall be guided by the wishes
ofmypjrty in this regard, but I am for
oiMmg Brice and electing both Shermau
and Foraker."
MINERS 'WILL FIGHT
To the Bitter End Against the Prom
ised Return of Convicts.
AGGRESSIVE ATTITUDE ASSUMED.
Imprisoned Toilers in Neighboring States
to be Beleased.
ONE COMPANY ABANDONS THE CONTEST
rsFECIAL TXLEOBAU TO THE DISPATCH.
Knoxvhae, Tenx., Nov. 8. Any one
who might have visited Coal Creek yester
day or tolled up the six miles of mountain
climb to Briceville, would have found the
miners and mountaineers lounging about as
though it was a holiday. In fact little work
was doing in the mines, as everybody was
waiting to find out what the companies pro
posed to do about the demands made upon
them for better and more legal treatment
At Coal Creek the miners looked rather
hopeful, hut at Briceville the men stood
about, chewing slowly and silently, while
the women denounced the State, the con
victs and the owners of mines in shrill
voices and with much twiUing of their
mouths.
Late in the afternoon a miner toiled up
the steep and wild valley from Coal Creek
to tell about the surprising way in which
the owners of mines in and arotnd Coal
Creek had agreed to the demands of their
employes. Briceville was glad to hear this,
and glad to know that their friends aown
the valley were to have work and fair play.
But Briceville had too much doubt as to tie
way the Tennessee Coal Mining Company
proposed to act to be loudly enthusiastic.
The Proposed Return of the Convicts.
Late in the evening, ju6t before dark, a
bit of pews came which set them -all in a
turmoil, made the happy faces at Coal
Creek sad and wrathful, made the doubtful
faces at Briceville lower with rage, mingled
with that look of satisfaction which' comes
at the fulfillment of a prophecy of any
kind. Briceville had prophesied the worst
and the worst had come.
The news which the operator at Coal
Creek had spelled from the wire was that
the Governor proposed to send the convicts
back at once and under a sufficient guard.
When the operator announced it to a group
of miners, there was an outburst of wrath,
and when a messenger bore it to Briceville,
which is most noticeably concerned in the
convict matter, men and women shouted
and swore and indulged in one-sided argu
ments and threats.
Here was all their work undone or rather
to be done over again. Here was another
long struggle and perhaps a bloody insur
rection. At first tbe miners said they
would attack the guards at the beginning
and drive them back. The unnecessary
danger of this became apparent, and it was
informally decided thai they would simply
await developments. If there was a chance
to overthrow the stockades while they were
building, this would be done. If they had
to wait until everything was restored and a
feeling of security came to the guards, than
that time would he patiently and watchfully
awaited. One thing was apparent, the
miners and mountaineers were determined
that never again should convicts labor in
the mines of Walden's Range for, any length
of.time.
Determined to Drive Them Ont.
"Itaint asif we was -young men with no
families," said one miner who has dug tons
of coal from the Briceville mines. "If we
was that way, we'd pick up and get, but
we've got families and we've bought land
and built nests for our little ones. We
can't give up everything and go away.
Now I ain't got no money to move and I've
got six young ones, not to speak of ma.
She's nigh 80, but as hearty as a squirrel,
and ma and pa lived here and pa died here,
and now I'm here and I'm going to stay,
and I've got to stay, what's more. So young
man, you kin bet a dollar that there ain't
goin' to be no convicts here, not if the
whole State comes with them."
The only place in the Walden's range
that rejoiced without any bad news at all
was Oliver Springs. Colonel Renfro, the
manager ofthe big mountain mine standing
near the ruins of the stockade, yesterday
said that he and his company had done with
the convict labor forever. He said that it
was not only risky, but unprofitable, even
under the best circumstances. When this
news got around among the free miners
there was great joy. They are to have a
check weighman on equitable arrangement
of car weights and no convicts. But the
outlook for Briceville is dark indeed.
Going to Invade Other States.
The miners there say, and this may or
may not be true, that the releasing of the
convicts of the three stockades was but the
beginning of an organized movement
which will release not only all the con
victs in the mines of Tennessee, but those
of Georgia and Alabama as well. It is
certain that the miners of all sections and
States look upon the leasing of "zebras"
with equal hatred. Whether such widely
scattered plans could be brought into a
general movement is extremely doubtful.
There is no doubt, however,' that the
Briceville and Coal Creek miners will not
submit to the return of the convicts with
out a struggle. Up to the present time
these miners have never said they would do
anything without doing it. Last" July they
said the convicts would be sent back if they
came. The convicts were sent back, and
when they returned under military guard
were sent back again. Then the miners
agreed to an armistice to give the
law a chance to relieve them. When
the law failed to do anything they
redeemed their threat and loosed the con
victs. Now they have renewed their prom
ise that convicts shall not work in the
Waldeu's Range district The State will
give them a chance to prove whether that
promise is as good as the former promises.
As the latest news is that the Governor
proposes sending the skilled convicts under
a heavy guard to the mines at once, trouble
is expected before the week is ont Knox
ville citizens expect that the dismantled
stockade at Coal Creek, which has been left
standing on account of a dying woman in an
adjoining house, will be burned to-night, or
to-morrow night at the latest
COBBY DEPOSITORS ABE NERVOUS.
The Equitable Aid Union Badly Bitten by
the Bank Failure.
Erie, Nov. 8. Special. Attorney C C
Thompson, of Warren, Pa., representing
the Equitable Aid Union, came here late
last night and entered up the bond against
the Union Treasurer, W. B. Howard, and
his sureties. The bond is for $50,000, the
Treasurer having had on deposit in the
Corry First National Bank, which was
closed yesterday, 518,000. The sureties of
Treasurer Howard are President Allen and
Cashier C. G. Harmon, of the defunct bank,
and C H. Bagley and L. L. Bliss, also resi
dents of Corry.
The Equitable Aid Union was instituted
at Columbus, Warren county, by Dr.
Seaver, the Supreme President, 10 or 15
years ago, and has always made the Corry
Bank its depository. The bank's attorneys
state that the institution will be able to pay
dollar for dollar one year from now', as it is
thought the hcavv line of securities will all
be realized upon by that time. Officials of
the Equitable Aid Union say the order will
only sufier temporary inconvenience, and
that an extra assessment may be required to"
tide them over. Notwithstanding all re-
PITTSBURG, MONDAY,
ports that the bank will be able to payoff
all indebtedness, depositors are becoming
very nervous and may take some sort of
action to protect themselves, unless Bank
Examiner Miller makes some sort of
favorable statement very soon. A prom
inent Spartansburg merchant had just drawn
511,000 from his local bank and deposited it
in the Corry Bank the day before its closing.
CRISPI'S NOVEL ADVICE.
HE URGES FRANCE TO JOIN HANDS
WITH THE DRE1BUND,
And Accept in Return the Neutralization
of Alsace-Lorraine Northern Miners
Threaten to Strike on the Insurance
Question The Gambetta Monument.
Pabis, Nov. 6. L Matin prints a letter
from Signor Crispi to M. Desmarets, of the
Paris bar, in which, after saying that the
Pope "is consumed with ambition and would
sell his soul to regain temporal poVer for
the Papacy," Signor Crispi expresses ap
proval of the neutralizing of Alsace-Lor
raine on the condition that France join the
Dreibund. "Alsace, then," he says, "will
be a 'bufler' between France and Germany."
The Dreibund agreement, he adds, contains
no word againstFrance. He concludes by
appealing to all men to unite to preserve
Europe from the scourge of war.
A large number of miners' delegates met
at Calais to-day and decided that unless the
demands of the miners are conceded in a
fortnight all of the miners of the North of
France shall strike. They want the sick
and pension funds to be managed by the
Government instead of by the mining com
panies, accusing the companies of a malad
ministration of the funds. They also de
mand a modification of the system of com
pulsory cessation of pit work, which was
arranged in order to reduce the outpnt.
There were 120 delegates present, represent
ing one-third of the miners of France, who
are pledged to strike.
The Gambetta monument was inaugurated
atVille d'Auvray to-day. Gambetta's heart,
preserved, was placed a't the base of the
st&tue.
THE SOMMEBFrELD TRAGEDY.
One ofthe Wonld-Be Suicides Is Dead and
the Other Probably Dying.
Berlin, Nov. 8. The Sommerfields,
father and son, who tried to commit suicide
yesterday, opened the veins of their arms
besides shooting themselves with a revolver.
When found, both were bathed in blood.
Felix expired Saturday evening. Sigmund
still lives, although there is a bullet im
bed(v,ci in his brain. Sigmund is conscious
at interva, d there ;g a bare chance of
his recoverv.
lnSilS?T. Wished in 1873. It was
1 t s3i 5Tersion of a large num
ber of private industnaoncer ,,
panies during the -trSS:
ing money lor the development or Tj;nr a
seaside resort on the island of Ruges. HiZ.
assets will thus be slow of realization. Sig
mund's wife recently filed a petition for
divorce. Both Sigmund and Felix married
heiresses. Felix's wife is a daughter of tho
millionaire Pinkus. All have been person
ally extravagant Felix was an epicure
and wrote cookery articles for Boencn Cour
ier. Many creditors and small capitalists
were attracted to the firm by the high inter
est offered on deposits.
WOODHUXLISM IN FRANCE.
TennleC. Chaflln Says She Was Offered
Colonelcy in the U. S. Army.
PABia,-Npv. A Victoria Woodhull sod J
Tennie C. Chaflin.are' about to opetTthelf
propaganda in Paris. M. Vacquerie, Victor
'Hugo's executor, in a leader in the Sappel
E raises Mrs. Woodhnll and predicts that
er lectures will meet with such success
that the Grand Hall of the Borbonne will
not be large enough to hold the audiences.
Miss Chaflin Lady Cook is credited
with telling an interviewer that she had
been offered a Colonelcy in the United
States regular army.
Dillon's Advice to ParnelUtes.
Dublin, Nov. 8. John Dillon, speaking
at Templemore, Tipperary county, to-day
said that Irishmen the whole world over
are' burning with pride and gratitude that
the people of Cork had performed their
duty so nobly. He appealed to the Par
nellites to consider the hopelessness of their
position and seek for a reconciliation.
Timothy Healy declared that the landlord
Orangemen supported the Parnellites and
that Mr. Redmond had received fully 1,000
Conservative votes.
France and the World's Fair.
Pabis, Nov. 8. M. Fayette, Chief of the
Ministry of Commerce, will probably be the
Head Commissioner from France to the
Columbian Exposition. He is the only offi
cial thoroughly informed about the Chicago
Fair. His appointment is opposed, how
ever, in some quarters. M. Lourdelet, a
leading member of the Chamber of Com
merce, said: "I shall resign from the
Chamber's Chicago Committee, as a business
man ought to head the Commission."
Another British Cabinet Promotion;
London, Not. 8. Sir John Gorst, Under
Secretary of State for India, has been ap
pointed Financial Secretary to the Treas
ury, in succession to William L. Jackson,
recently appointed Chief Secretary for Ire
land. A Socialist Elected to the Chamber.
Pabis, Nov. 8. The Socialist La Fargue
has been elected to the Chamber of Depu
ties for Tille, capital of the Department of
the Nord. Much excitement prevails in
the town in consequence of his election.
Limerick Now the Seat of War.
Limerick, Nov. 8. This city to-day
was the scene of a fierce conflict in which
40 soldiers and a mob of people engaged.
Four soldiers were seriously wounded with
knives. Six civilians were arrested.
KILLED BY AN IDIOT SON.
Walter Dooke Protests With an Ax Against
a Nickname.
OzAUK, Abk., Nov. 8. Sfrerfat News
reached this city this morning of one of the
most horrible murders ever committed in
this county. The coroner was notified, a
jury of inquisition summoned, and upon in
vestigation it was found that J. C Locke
came to his death from the effects of two
blows on the head from the edge and one
from the back of an ax in the hands of his
son Walter.
The deceased's head was split wide open
and his blood and brains were all over the
bed on which he was found. He was of un
sound mind and about 80 years old. Walter
Locke was a natural-born idiot and about 20
years old. He was taken into custody by
the officers and will be confined in the
county jail. The only cause given for the
murder by the son was that his father had
called him "Bud," a name that he ab
horred. Three of the family were of un
sound mind.
Investifratinc Abnses on Americans.
Cur of Mexico, Nov. a Mr. Sutton,
United States Consul General in Laredo,,
has arrived here for the purpose, it is said,
of obtaining information concerning the
abuses committed upon American citizens
in Mexican territory in connection with
the Garcia affair.
NOVEMBER 9, 1891.
THE HUNT FOR HERESY
Gives Rev. R. Heher Newton the Topic
for One of His Sunday Talks.
WHAT HE THINKS IT ALL MEANS.
Dr.
Briggrs Defended and Praised
Escaping From a 'Storm.
for
THE ONCE BAPID GROWTH OF CREEDS
rSPXCXAI. TILEOBAH TO THX DISPATCH.
New Yobk, Nov. .8. Rev. R. Heber
Newton preached on "Heresy Hunting" at
the morning serviee in All Souls' Episcopal
Church this morning. Speaking of the
Briggscase he said: "Doubtless this sud
den escape from the storm, which is a de
cidedly good thing, has been largely due
to the ability of Dr. .Briggs. The
light that he turned on scattered
the clouds, and men saw the truth
as they had not seen it before. This was to
have been expected by those who knew
him and who saw the mental confusion
evinced by his opponents. But heresy
hunters, as a rule, arc not disarmed by the
force of reasoning. They are hardened,
not softened, by the warm light of truth.
They are not the more inclined toward
peace when they discover their mistakes,
but too often made the madder thereby.
"But this storm must spend itself some
where, and we are not to deceive ourselves
by imagining all the danger is past The
Presbyterian Church has simply struck the
region of the theological trade winds, and
she is called upon to readjust her rigging
and move forward on a new course.
Drift in a Dangerous Direction.
"The trouble was that this sudden tack
ing ol sails portended to many a drift in a
dangerous direction. Now, there is a great
call for a change of course on the part of
the entire Christian church. New found
knowledges compel the restudy ofthe dog
mas and institutions of the church in the
light of historic criticism and comparative
religion. The.unbelieving croak at this, but
churches are multiplying on every hand.
We want more faith, but faith that is sim
pler, freer, and more substantially fixed.
Faith has been too much expanded in the
past It has lost vitality by its over
growth. "The church has "watered its stock of
dogmas, and now it must liquidates Once
creeds grew with such bewildering multi
plicity that it would have defied any man
from month to month to tell his own theo
logical status. Learned bishops subscribed
to directly contradictory creeds, ignorant of
their mental confusion. From all this rank
luxuriance of creed-making we are epitom
1,Ilsl our faith. We are moving into re-
fions ortKonfrht where forms of faith must
e elastic, where mty cannot be permitted
to construct the faith itself.
WUHk x- ""iys Demanded.
"Men will no longer be bound w th Ut
ter of tbe form, but by its, ...k.3!!?6 in
spirit Then the dead hand of the past may
not bo outreached upon us of the living,
and our minds be compelled to square our
thoughts by thoughts of the past
"It has been abundantly proved by these
discussions in the Presbyterian Church
that no man can be found who thinks at all
who is not heretical upon some point of the
Westmiajster cpnfession.A.round three
gilunils of faith, which 'Dr. Briggs has
pjucituy auu auir mamiainea, me contest
has been waged. Dr. Briggs could -not
receive the Bible as the very word
of God, and the reality of a revelation which
Bible worshipers are clamoring for can
never he conceded by modern thought to
the Book as a whole. Again, some men are
more impressed by the authority of the
church than by that of the Bible, but the
questionings of our age have dealt a fatal
blow to any merely superstitious notion of
the church. Men prefer the consensus of
judgment on the part of competent men.
Finally, reason must be the rockbed of onr
faith, and Bible and church alike rest on it
Only by reason can records of revelation
and church philosophies be tested and tested
satisfactorily."
CHASED BY AN ALLIGATOR.
THE EXCITING EXPERIENCE OF A EOT
IN GEORGIA.
He Finds a Mammoth Saurian Sunning
Himself and Tries to Measure Him
The 'Gater Gets Mad and Rnns the Lad
for Two Miles The Capture.
SriwANIA, Ga., Nov. 8. Special
Young Stafford Jenkins, who lives at Egypt,
this county, and goes to school in Sylvania,
had a very exciting experience with an
alligator, while driving from his home here
to-day. The old saurian was lying by the
side of the road, sunning himself, and Staf
ford thought he was dead. As it was the
largest one he had ever seen he thought he
would measure it, and accordingly got out
of the buggy, and, getting a fence rail for a
measuring rod, he laid it down alongside
the sleeping alligator.
It was a ten-foot rail, and the end reached
a little over half way alone his body. Staf
ford pulled it up fora second measurement,
and was just cutting a notch in the rail at
the end of the animal's head when the
'gator awoke and yawned.
To say the bow was frightened would but
feebly express it He says it seemed to him
that he was at the mouth of some dark and
lonely cave. He recovered sufficiently be
fore the alligator was completely awake to
spring for the buggy and put whip to the
horse. By this time, however, the alligator
was alive to the situation, and gave hot
pursuit For nearly, two miles pursuer and
pursued went at lightning speed down the
road, the distance neither lessening nor in
creasing between them. Finally they came
upon a party of men, and the mad saurian
halted. The party gathered poles and fence
rails, and advanced to attack him.
A terrific fight ensued, and for awhile it
looked as if the half dozen men would be
vanquished and destroyed. Sometimes,
with a sweep of his infuriated tail, the alli
gator would cut completely in half a rail in
the hands of one of his opponents. At last
one of the crowd very thoughtfully punched
out the eyes of the monster, and after that
he was soon conquered. The alligator, they
say, measured after he was dead over 16
feet inlength, and as to his circumference
the writer would be afraid to venture an as
sertion. This is the largest and most sav
age alligator ever heard from in this section.
GOT THEIB GOODS CHEAP.
Retailers and a Clerk Conspire to Swindle a
New Jersey Pottery.
Tkenton, N. J., Nov. 8. Joseph Mayer,
proprietor of the Arsenal pottery, for rob
bing which several arrests were made yes
terday in Philadelphia, estimates his loss
at more than 573,000. He says that a con
spiracy between his invoice clerk, William
Sweet, and crockery dealers in Philadel
phia and Trenton has been in existence
about six years, and that they divided the
profits on wares which he was accustomed
to forward to them.
Sweet would charge them on Mayer's
books with only a small fraction of the
value of the goods shipped. Sweet and his
wife are held here, and besides the c:ockery
dealers arrested Vesterdav. others will be
arrested to-morrow.
FtfES
RtAITTb
A DAT OF
UNCLE JERRI'S WORK.
The Agricultural Secretary's Third
Eeport Ready for Reading.
FARMERS TO BE CONGRATULATED
Because of Aoundant Crops and let Very
Well Sustained Prices.
HOW RAINMAKERS ARE GETTING ALONG
Washington, Nov. 8. Secretary Rusk,
in his third annual report as Secretary of
Agriculture, says that notwithstanding the
inJ..t -"i.lrl of crops this year, values
are well sustained, xie? emulates .uoif mo
increase in the value of agricultural pro
ducts over last year will be not less than
$700,000,000. He states that during the
first three months of the present fiscal year
our exports in cereals alone have aggregated
$76,000,000, adding that the indications now
are that the jalesabroad.o .the surplus
from our farms will, during the present
year, largely exceed those of any previous
year.
Mr. Rusk notes the increase, by some
$28,000,000 in the imports of agricultural pro
ducts during the first ten months under the
present law, by comparison with the same
period during the last year of the old law,
but emphasizes the fact that the increase is
confined largely to articles not competing
with home products, such as sugar, tea,
coffee, etc. At the same time he states
that the change in the rates has checked
the importation of products which may be
produced at home.
Decrease in a Number of Imports.
A decrease in tobacco is noted from $17,
000,000 to $6,000,000; a falling off In foreign
barley of nearly $3,500,000; in eggs, $1,250,
000; in horses, a falling off of nearly $1,500,
000, and a gradual decline in the imports of
all live stock. .
Referring to the import of hides, ad
mitted free of duty, he states that this
causes a great depreciation in prices real
ized for hides for home production, and
earnestly recommends that the duty pro
vided for in section 3 of the tariff act, ap
proved October 1, 1890, be imposed in all
cases where the Countries from which such
hides are shipped have not granted equal
concessions in regard to the admission of
the agricultural products of the United
States.
In speaking ofthe inspection of meat for
exportation the Secretary says:
Our people demand something more than
protection from communicable diseases. In
most, if not all European countries, in
spectors according to their reports, freely
pass for consumption the meat of animals
affected with foot and month disease, pleuro
pneumonia, localized, tuberculosis, actino
mycosis, and similar diseases which accord
ing to the views and customs of this country
must be condemned. But all the meat for
the foreign market is inspected the same as
tnat designed lor nome consumption. In this
respect, as in others, wo have met the ob
jections which have been raised to Ameri
can products, and have not only removed
tbe cause, but have gone beyond what was
asked by onr critics. I am of the opinion
that the inspection of animals, and their
marking for identification, may he accomp
lished for a sum not exceeding 3 cents per
head, and that the cost of microscopical ex
amination oj nogs win not exceed o cents
per bead.
More Money Asked for Inspectors.
He earnestly recommends that Congress
be asked to make an appropriation suffi
ciently large to extend the inspection to all
applicants.
He estimates that the losses to our pork
raisers during the pastten years owing to
the prohibition by foreign countries aggre
gate over $260,000,000. Pleuro pneumonia
he regards as quite under control and lim
ited in territory to two or three counties on
.Long Island and in New Jersey, over which
a morougii quarantine is e-xerciseo. Anc
inspection of imported animals has been
rigidly maintained.
The Secretary points out the fact that for
more than a year there has been no well
authenticated case of pleuro pneumonia in
American cattle exported to foreign coun
tries. Mr. Rusk regards it highly probable that
tbe people of foreign countries should be
informed of our resources and facilities for
supplying their wants, and refers to the
work done in great Britain during the past
year by the special agent of the department
charged with introducing Indian corn and
its products to the attention of Europeans
as an economic and nutritions substitute for
other cereal foods, and highly commends
the work already done in this direction.
The Secretary deems it the duty of his de
partment to keep the farmer fully informed
of the market value of his wares, in order
that he may know before he markets his
goods just what their value is.
He congratulates the country on the suc
cess of the experiments in the extraction of
sugar from Borghum.
Good Work of the Weather Bureau.
In all our efforts toward diversifying our
crops, climatic conditions must play an im
portant part, and in this connection he de
clares his conviction of the importance and
I value to agricultural interests ot the trans-
VEHICLE LICENSE
PAID HERE::
BECKONING.
fer to his department of the Weather
KnnM W f ,be neensinn in hlVhlv rnm.
mend the selection by the President of
Prof. Harrington
as the "-bief
of the
Bureau.
V
Ji?
The Secretary notes witT(SVmjlne
general and growing inte 'n jf
classes in this country in i''V
culture and the work of hi.ar v
ii til
In reviewing the work of the'Jr::K "VOrf
chemistry with reference to tlai. iV
tion of foods, the Secretary emtlhasrzii3
neciallv the adulterations of coffee, which
are found to extend to a very large percent
age not only ofthe ground cofiee, but ofthe
coffee bean, wholly artificial beans having
been introduced into the market, of which
many samples bought on the open market
were found to largely consist These arti
ficial beans are sold to the trade at i cents a
pound. In large measure they are im
ported, and the Secretary urges that such
importations, as well as their manufacture
and use in this country, be absolutely pro-
Thereport reviews the work of the sev
eral divisions of the department, and con
cludes with the statement, made advisedlv,
"that each one of more than a dozen divis
ions whose work I have reviewed has re
turned in actual value to the conntry dur
ing the past year far more than the entire
annual appropriation accorded to this de
partment.'' Tho Experiments in Ralnmakinjr.
Tonehing the experiments in producing
rain, he states briefly that they have been
made, but thaf he has no data yet at hand
.which would justify him in expressing any
conclusions on the subject
In concluding his report Secretary Busk
states that from the time he assumed
the reins of office he has devoted
his personal attention to a general
enlargement ofthe scope ofthe work ofthe
department In the interest of practical agri
culture, especially to the extension of mar
kets for the disposal of the surplus of our
great staple crops. He points out that to
fully carry out his views will unquestion
ably involve liberal expenditure, but
he says that within 20 years the efforts of
the department on such lines as he has laid
down will have increased the value of our
annual aericultural products from between
$3,000,000,000 and 4,000,000,000 to at least
twice that enormotn sum.
rBicnoir in lacey's offiox.
The Comptroller's Position Is Not at Pres
ent a Bed of Roses.
Washington, Nov. 8. Special It is
understood that certain prominent bankers
have urged the President to take some ac
tion to restore that confidence in the na
tional banking system which has been
badly shaken by the recent exhibitions of
thefact that theGovernment supervision,
which is the basis of public confidence in
the national banks, is not, as at present con
ducted, efficient enough to protect
the public In addition to the outside in.
fluence brought to bear lor the removal of
Comptroller or the Currency Lacey, there
is said to be friction in his office. Deputy
Comptroller Nixon and Chief Clerk Han
ford are understood to be hostile to each
other, and the Comptroller Is said to rather
side with the chief clerk, while the deputy,
who is from Indiana, has the ear of the
President. Whether this friction in the
office is sufficient to result in the removal of
Mr. Lacey it is impossible to say. Secre
tary Foster declines to discuss the matter at
all, saying that the appointment is one
made by the President and he has no voice
in the matter.
How far a mere change in the head of the
Comptroller's office would go to restore pub
lic confidence is a question, though it would
seem that there is room for improvement in
the methods of some at least of the bank ex
aminers and that a greater measure of pro
tection could be afforded by a more strict
observance of the present laws. There is no
doubt, however, that better results could be
attained with certain modifications of the
national banking laws, especially in the di
rection of increasing the responsibility of
uiremurs auu making it certain tnat every
director will attend to the duties assigned
him under the law.
GOING TO WEB A DUKE.
A Daughter of Senator Mitchell to Become
a Dnchess by Marriajre.
Washington, Nov. 8. Special
Washington society is greatly interested in
the announcement to-day of the engage
ment, in Paris, of Miss Mattie,M. JVIitchell
to Duke Francois de la Bochefoucauld, of
France. The date of the marriage has not
yet been definitely fixed, but it will take
place in the near future. Miss Mitchell has
been one of the most popular young ladies
in Washington society. To a graceful fig
ure and beautiful face she adds a grace and
charm of manner, a refined taste and much
cultivation. The family of la Rochefou
cauld is one of great celebrity, whose orig
idal seat was the town of la Rochefoucauld,
near Angouleme.
Miss Mitchell, who is now with her
mother in Paris, where she was educated, is
the youngest daughter of Senator J. H.
Mitchell, of Oregon. The elder daughter,
who possesses much of the same stvle of
beauty that has made her sister the be'lle of
several seasons, ishe wife of a Navv De
partment clerk, a member of an old Wash
ington family, having married him when
very young a'nd during her father's first
terrn as Senator, about 14 years ago. She
was in her girlhood, and is yet prominent
and popular in Washington society.
THREE CENTS
HORBORJU ML
Eight Men lose Their Iiye3
and Several Others Can
not SnrriYe.
A mmcoKE EXPLOSIM,
Caused, it is Thought, by a Defec- 4
tive or Broken Safety Lamp. j
THE RECOVERY OP SLX CORPSES.
Heartrending Scenes About the Mouth of
the Fatal Shaft.
AIL OF THE YICTI1IS WELL-KNOWN 3IE5
rSrICIAI. TZLXCBAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
WrLKZSBAEEE, Nov. 8. A terrible mino
accident, which resulted in the immediate
death of six men and the fatal injury of five
others, two of whom since died, occurred in
No. 1 shaft of the Susquehanna Coal Com
pany at Nanticoke, late this afternoon. Tha
following is a list ol the dead, with the fam
ilies they have left:
CALEB GETHTNGS, wife and six children.
JOHN AB"OT, wife and three children.
WILLIAM JONATHAN, wife and threa
children.
JOHN J. WILLIAMS, wife and four chil
dren. HENRY R. JONES, wife and two children.
THOMAS LLOYD, aged 15 years.
DAVID L. SMITH, died to-night.
WILLIAM WlLLIAMSsoh of John J. Will,
iams, died to-nighf"
The fatally injured ar.e: Thomas Thomas,
David Powelfand David W. Evans. Tha
others opthe party were burned severely.
.vT , i , It. " ,, .,i , i
-r" 9 1& this morning 15 of the best
Jen in the employ of the company were
sent down to the bottom of the shaft to do
some necessary work. Good progress had
been made until about 4 o'clock, when the
engineer heard a violent explosion that
jinde the earth quake under his feet. Ho
,-fnre realized what had happened.
& j. '' - Fearful Scene in the Shaft.
rsV ',
P irriage, with several employes who
wereNy .nging about the engine room, was at
once powered. When the men on the car
riage, reached the bottom of the shaft a hor
rible' sight met their gnze. All the men
were lying on the ground. Some were dead
outright, being burned and mangled in a
horrible manner. Othere were in the
agonies of death, suffering the most excru
ciating pain from their burns. Help was
at once sent for. Two physicians were tha
first to be lowered down into the pit They
were accompanied by the mine officials, who
brought cotton, oil and blankets with them.
As quickly as possible tbe clothes were
taken from the injured and their bodies
bathed in oil and afterward wrapped in cot
ton and blankets. They were then taken to
the surface, placed in ambulances and con
veyed to their home?.
The dead were the last to be brought up.
There were six of them. Four of the num
ber were burned almost to a crisp Th
other two were-badly disfigured bat their
features were recognizable.
FitiaDle Grief of the Bereaved.
Heartrending scenes were witnessed at
the mouth ofthe shaft when the dead bodic3
were brought up. The news of the disaster
had spread like wildfire, and thousands of
people had collected. In the throng were
the wives and children of the victims. Their
grief was pitiable to behold. Every time
the cage wa3 hoisted from the bottom ofthe
mine containing the dark form of one ofthe
victims, women and children would crowd,
around, and, despite the efforts ot the mino
employes, insisted upon clasping the blacic
forms to their bosoms.
The little girl recognized her father where
the wife had failed. "Yes, mamma, that'
papa; don't yon see his new shoes?" This
morning the little girl's father had put on
a new pair of shoes which he purchased last
evening.
The dead were placed in the engine house
and the Coroner telegraphed for. Later a
Justice of the Peace swore in a jury and the-
remains were viewed and then ordered re.
moved to the homes of the afflicted families
A large concourse of people followed tho
ambulance.
AH Were Representative Citizens.
The dead men were representative citi
zens in the town of Nanticoke. They all
owned their own property. Henry R. Jones
was the Town Clerk. William Jonathan
was considered one of the best miners in the
anthracite region. Caleb Gethings, another'
victim, was an expert on mine gases.
Thomas Lloyd, the driver boy, had just
gone down the shaft. Five minutes after
ward the explosion occurred. The men had
almost completed their day's labor when
death came upon them.
General Superintendent Morgan arrived
on the ground a half hour after the ex
plosion occurred. He said the accident was
a deplorable one, but he was not prepared
to say, until an investigation was made, who
was the cause of it.
"They were all expert men who were at
work in the shaft," he continued. "They
needed no overseeing. They knew as)
much about the management of gas as I
did. The men were engaged in making a.
new opening between the old and new
shafts. There were some gas, of course,
but I don't think, owing to tha excellent
ventilation, that it had a chance to accumu
late. All h3nds were working with safety
lamps. The fact that thev did work with
such lamps was a preventive against any
gas explosion."
One of the injured men said to-night:
"I think the explosion was caused by a
defective safety lamp carried by one of
men. A minute before the explosion X
felt a heavy cloud of gas coming toward
where I was standing. In a twinkling I
saw a flash, all lights were out, and I was
lying on my back on the ground. I knew
I was burned bad. I could hear the agoniz
ing cries of my companions, but I was
powerless to render any assistance."
THE DAY ANAECHI3IS CELEBRATE.
Chicago Police Hani Down a Red Flag
From Lucy Parson's House.
Chicago, Nov. 8. In spite of a drizzling
rain 2,000 people participated in the dem
onstration and memorial to-day in honor of
Parsons, Spies, Engel, Fi3her and Lingg,
the executed anarchists. There wa3 a.street
parade, with red flags lurled and draped in
mourning, followed by speech making at
Waldheihi cemetery over tne graves of the
dead anarehists. Addresses were made by
Henry W. Eismonn, editor of the New
York Baker's Journal; Morris Schultze,
editor of the Arbeiter 'leittmg, and H. Miko
lander, and they were all of the most revo
lutionary character.
The dead men were extolled as martyrs of
the labor cause, and their graves were
covered with flowers. Eighteen societies
were represented, every one of which
brought its floral ofleriug. One of these
was a scaffolds of roses with the legend in
German, "Though dead, they still live;.
Long live Anarchy." Mrs. Lucy Parsons
house was decorated with crape. Early in
the day a red flag floated over the roof, but
the police went to the house and took down
the flag before it had been long in position.