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VISIONARY
VICTIMS,
Misguided Communists Lured
to Physical and Finan
cial Destruction.
THE CO-OPERATIVE COLONY
"Which Was to Found a Tropical
Paradise in Mexico a Gigan
tic Bunko Scheme.
STARVATION INSTEAD OP LUXURY,
Poverty in Place of BicheB, and Practical
Slavery "Where Boundless Free
dom Was Expected.
GRAVES MOEE PLENTIFUL THAN'HOMES.
Oct End of Monty Tumtd Out en Printing Press
to Ply tie Toilers, While Another Wu
reminded by the Company.
6T0ME5-0F THOSE WHO ESCAFAD WITH LITE
rprrciAL txlxcbak to thi ni6rATcnvi
Topeka, Kan., Nov. 1Z A coloniza
tion company promising choice fruits, but
yielding only Dead Sea apples, is the In
tegral Co-operative Association of Topolo
bampo, in Mexio, on the Gulf of Cali
fornia. This commnno has been in opera
tion about seven years, and has, so far,
ruined more than 1,000 famill-it, and has
planted graves among the cact' of a desert,
as well as wrecking the fortunes of those
who were deluded by the bright pictures
sent out by those interested in securing the
money of -victims undor the guise of phil
anthropy and communal possessions.
List week another colony, numbering 100
persons, started from this State to join
those who have gone before. As several
parties have returned who have spent a
year or more in that community they were
interviewed in order to ascertain the exact
facts. Among these was Mr. Ezra Comfort,
who has just returned to his old home in
Ottawa county with the sun bting remnant
ff his family after a year's residencs in
Topolobampc.
Bright If opes That Were Blasted.
He i as one year ago an adherent of the
hctrines of the commune, and, joining sonw
70 others, went to Topolobampo with bright
hopes for the future, believing he had at
last fonnd a laud free from all ile Icious
laws of mankind, where selfishness had no
abiding place, and where all the good in
man's nature w as del eloped to the exclusion j
ot evil. He bad listened to the words of
Albert K. Owen, the father of the scheme,
and had followed the advice of C. B. Hofl
matt, the financial head.
Selling all his possessions he departed for
the land where God was recognized as the
good in man's nature, and the devil was a
representative of such qualities as were
left behind. In this new laud there were
to be no individual homes, for the commune
Mas to own all; there was to be no money,
for ai;ain the commune stepped in and sup
plied its script, which was to be the sole
currency; there was to be no disease, for the
commune would so regulate the people and
their lubits that they would dwell in that
delightful climate until a well-spent lite
would carry all into beautiful old age, when
the end would coine and annihilation would
quietly close all.
Suffering and want, famine and fever
awakened him from his dream, and now he
is at his old home a;ain, with his daughter-in-lau,
while in hU memory the most vhid
impresions are of two lonely graves beside
a great cactus on the banks of the Fuerte
river, where venomous life sings requiems
over those who struggled and gave up to
assaults of fever and famine.
Financial Features or the Schem;.
Before Mr. Comfort was permitted to
join this happy family of now some 400 peo
ple he was compelled to purchase stock in
the Kanas-S5naloa Investment Company to
the amount of $10 for each adult in his fam
ily. On arriving at Topolobampo (Pacific
City) he wa assessed 520 to. each member
of his family, which gave him the privilege
of an allotment cl the company's land, not
the ownership, and one-half the amount in
Credit Foncier script, which was good at
the companv's store for the necessaries of
life at such prices as the company deemed
proper to charge.
In dealing with individuals the "com
mune" dropped out of sight and the "com
pany" took its place Mr. Comfort soon
found that he would not be permitted to
sell anything except to the company, not
even his labor, which company would dis
poe of everything for the benefit of the
commune and place the proceeds to the
credit of such iunds as insurance, surplus,
library, sustenance, improvement, etc., "in
uring to the benefit of the whole colony."
Mr. Comfort succeeded in reaching
Topolobampo Bay by taking an open fishing
smack at G nay mas and landed at Pacific
City early in the morning. He was some
what disappointed to find only a sterile,
sandy beach and a gravel plain, whose
'tropical fruits and rich verdure" consisted
of hugestumps of cacti. The "city," which
had been so beautifully pictured, consisted
of one stone house with a thatched roof, the
supply store, three or four adobe or mud
houses covered in the same manner, and
hall a dozen wattled huts which would fail
to keep the sun out during the dry season
and would not shed the rain during the wet
person. He was informed that the energy
of the commune wns first directed to making
homes on the farm at La Logia, oh the
3'uerte, and constructing a canaL to bring
water from that river to the site on the bay,
where the ideal city would soon be a reality.
Printing Money Jnst as Required.
Not discouraged by his first impressions,
Mr. Comfort paid all his fees, some $80, and
was enrolled as part owner and director of
this new Eldorado. He had not yet discov
ered that the Kansas-Sinaloa Company
owned everything and that the Credit Fon
cier Company made all contracts and paid
in scrip, which was limited in issue only by
the capacity of the Gordon press on which
it was printed. The Kansas-Sinaloa Com
pany took in only gold, silver or green
backs and the Credit Foncier Company paid
all bills in scrip. The former owns every
thing, the latter owns nothing. The ar
rangement seems to be as nearly perfect as
it can possibly be made.
Comfort and his sons constructed a hut
similar to those already occupied, which
was to shelter his family. He was placed
on the payroll of the commune while en
gaged in this work, receiving scrip at the
rate of 51 50 a day, eight hours' work. This
he exchanged for'musty flour at 13 a hun
dred, rusty salt pork at 60 cents a pound,
and other supplies in like proportion. The
flour comes from the mill ot the financial
head of the scheme, located at Enterprise,
Kan.
The water was hot and brackish, the only
good water coming from an island in the'
bay, or from the lagoons in the interior. He
was promised sweet water as soon as the
canal to the Fuerte could be completed, which
would irrigate these desolate plains and
make them a blooming paradise. As soon
as the women were sheltered, with such
shelter as he could give them, he and his
sons were assigned to work on the great
ditch, which was to cive life to all. Here
he worked like a Chinaman, hauling and
carrying dirt, Hung in the open air. sleep
ing close beside a huge cactus at night, eat
ing such food as he could get and drinking
such water as could be found.
Death an Early Visitor.
The food supply consisted of cornmeal
and poor coffee, with occasionally stringy
beef, while at all times the water was hot
aud unfit to use. His strong frame and
heretolore regular habits enabled him to
withstand the privations, but his youngest
son soon succumbed and was taken ill away
from medical attendance. In a few weeks
he was laid beneath the gravel and the
Credit Eoncier, the communal paper an
nounced that "our dear young brother Com
fort has fallen a victim to the Mexican
fever, brought on by indiscretion." Labor
in the hot sun, poor food and bad water
killed him.
Mr. Comfort protested against this kind
of work, discouraged rs he was, and de
manded removal to the company farm at
La Logia. After three months the commit
tee ordered the change to be made. Ac
companied by his family he made the trans
fer, believing his troubles at an end. He
was now going to the place where tropical
fruits abounded, and wbere the products of
the temperate zone would bring back health
and strength. He saw the Fuerte for the
first time and had his first taste of pure sweet
water, warm, but refreshing.
The "farm," however, was not productive,
although over five years old, and its oranges
and fruits were of but scant growth, owing
to the drought. The river Was so far below
the surface of the farm lands that water
could be obtained only during the wet
season, when the river was high, and when
water was not needed. He was closer,
though, to another of the company's stores,
and his wages enabled him to give his
family a scant living, but far better than
that obtained at Pacific City.
Betnrncd Without a Dollar.
Unable to withstand the privations the
older son here sickened, and Mr. Comfort
abandoned the colony and hastened home
only to sec his remaining son die as be
reached the village. All that remained of
a once happv family were the father and
daughter-in-law, both broken in health, and
both without a dollar in the world. Mr.
Comfort had Credit FOncier scrip, represent
ing the nominal valus of $1,500, but in fact
worth nothing. He has oflered it to J. W.
Breid.nthall, the Secretary of the Kansas
Sinaloa Company, for 20 cents on the dollar,
but tha: official refuses to redeem it on the
ground that his company had nothing to do
with issuing it. And yet all improvements
havs been made on the kinds-of this coin-
pan-.
The prospectu- of the Credit Fancier
Conupany sa s all impr'rwents made by
thos? desiring to leave the colony will be
purchased at actual cost. Mr, Comfort soon
found that the Credit Foncis. was a New
York myth, without funds, and that the
Kansas-Sinaloa Company was in possession
of e erything, improvements and all. He
discovered another thing by this late inves
tigation. The las', named company received
a royalty from the Mexican Govcr"ent of
$200foreac"j familv brought into that ter
titory.which sum was paid in gold. Nor
nas this all. The same company has pur
chased some 200,000 acres of land from the
Mexican Government, obtaining with it
such concessions that practically rednce to
a system of peonage the unfortunates who
go "there
The Experience of a Woman.
Mrs. Thurston, of Hope, Kan., returned
after a residence there of two years. She
tells a sad story of suffering which comes
from bitter experience. Giving her experi
ence she said: " "When landing, to our sur
prise, instead of the homelike dwellings
which had been pictured in the prospec
tuses and lectures there were nothing but
adobe huts thatched with long grass and
cornstalks, and hard clay for floors. Each
colonist takes stock in Owens' Credit Fon
cier Company. The money is paid into the
treasury, which Owens and the directors
guard, and for all work done the colonists
get scrip payable in food at the commissary,
or a portion of the farm products. As the
farm has produced little or nothing the
commissary is practically abandoned, and
the colonists subsist upon what each one
can raise. The four crops a rear
"told of in the prospectuses have
been found to consist chiefly of
corn, beans and a little oats, and they are
compelled to live on such a variety as they
can conjure up from this list. The condi
tion of the women who are unable to return
would make a stone heart melt with pity.
"Without hope, thousands of miles from
their friends, surrounded bv a strange horde
of natives, they weep themselves to sleep
ana pray ior some aid to come to tnem.
Added to other difficulties the colonists
suffer for pure wafer. They have been com
pelled to carry their water for drinking and
cooking purposes from a little island seven
miles distant in the bay."
"You cannot realize it," she said. "You
do not know anything of it. The lonesome
ncss and the sorrowfulness of the situation
awav among the deserts of that foreign
laud, in an atmosphere that seems to sap
the very life. It is no wonder that women
arc weary with weeping, and that I am glad
to nave escaped wun Health uninjured alter
my experience."
Appeals to Friends for Assistance.
The story told by these two is verified
by the others who have been fortunate
enough to have money on which to return.
One woman writes an appealing letter to
friends in Ottawa county to aid her to re
turn to her old home while she has yet life
left to travel. And so it goes.
The officers all reside in New York and
Kansas, reaping a rich harvest, but never
visiting their victims in that distant land.
The work of their -voluntary peons will
make land costing a few cents an acre
worth dollars. One company owns it
while another company, composed of the
same men, contracts the debts which are
paid in worthless paper. All this is the
practical working ot integral-co-operation.
A. G. SlACEY.
A CINCINNATI BEES TBUBT.
All the Breweries in That City and It Ken
tacky Suburbs to Combine
Cincinnati, Nov. 12. A consolidation
of the 27 breweries in Cincinnati, Coving
ton and'Newport is now said to be agreed
upon by all but two of the 27 breweries in
those cities. These two will undoubtedly
join in the movement if the plan is carried
out
The idea is to accomplish a consolidation
byxincorporation under the laws of Ohio,
Testing the authority in a board of trustees,
who would have a central office, but each
brewery would be managed by its present
owners. A great reduction in expenses is
claimed for the new plan, and also the
virtual control of the beer trade, similar to
that enjoyed by the "Whisky Trust.
SUNDAY AT THE TAR
Spirited Debate Between Pennsyl
vania's Commissioners on the
QUESTION OP SABBATH CLOSING.
It Is Eeferred to the Executive Committee
by Tote of 19 to 13.
(MANI PLANS FOE THE STATE BUILDING
f SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE CISPATCR.1
HaRrisbltrg, Nov. 12. The question of
Sabbath desecration was warmly discussed
by the State Board of "World's Fair Man
agers at its regular monthly meeting in the
Senate chamber this afternoon. The de
bate was precipitated by the motion of
Captain Hasson, to refer to the Executive
Committee communications from the East
Pennsylvania Synod of the Reformed
Church and the Carlisle Presbytery, pro
testing against keeping the Columbian Ex
position open on Sunday.
There was a large attendance of managers
and considerable time was consumed in the
discussion, which finally terminated in the
adoption of Captain Hasson's motion by a
vote of 19 to 13.
Governor Pattison called the Board to
order shortly after 12 o'clock, and it at once
proceeded to business. Executive Commis
sioner "Whitman made a comprehensive re
port of his Office since the last meeting. The
classification of the various interests and in
dustries of the State has so far advanced
that it will probably be completed by the
end of the month. "When this is done, the
purpose Is to make an immediate and per
sistent effort to enlist the aid of all the im
portant firms, corporations and associations
of the State in making Pennsylvania's ex
hibit what its patriotic citizens hope and
dpflire. '
desire.
Great Interest by the Ladles' Branches.
Fifty-five of tha countiei have named
their ladies' auxiliaries societies and the rec
ommendations, as a rule, have been of a
remarkably satisfactory character. In a
majority of the counties a decided interest
is shown in this feature of the work; and
the societies will have the active services of
many of the most prominent and intelli
gent ladies in the commonwealth.
The communications relative to keeping
open the Fair on Sunday were read. Captain
Hasson promptly wired that a report would
be made at their next meeting. Secretary
"Wright offered as a substitute a resolution
that the communication be forwarded to the
Director General, with the recommendation
that the gates be not opened on Sunday.
An animated debate followed, in which
nearly all the mrnagers participated. Sen
ator Gobin contended that Captain Hasson's
plan of disposing of the question at this
time was the proper one. "We are dealing
in futures, without knowing the character
of this exposition," said he. "It occurs to
me at this time that there is no such neces
sity for an opinion of the part of this ques
tion. Certainly I think the matter should
be deferred until we know whether or not
the action of the commissioners of Penn
sylvania will have any effect upon the
Kational Commission. Unless there is an
urgent necessity for our opinion going out
now, our action is premature."
Lieutenant Governor "Watres I am op
posed ta-opening the doors on Sunday. If
this question is referred to a committee it
will be discussed by tbem and then be re-'
ferrcd back to us vlth a recommendation. X
set no reason for referring it to a commit
ter I am willing to meet this question at
any tims.
Kemonstrance-. All Over the Country.
Secretary "Wright Every member has his
opinion on thil subject. Beferring to a
committee would result in no good". The
Question is being discussed in Chicago; re
monstrances are pouring in from all over
the country,and I don'tvsee why Pennsyl
vania should hesitate to express an opinion
now when it may have weight with the Na
tional Commission. I think we ought to
express an opinion at the very earliest
opportunity.
Ex-Senator McAleer I regret that the
question has been raised so eztly. Some
action should be taken now, aud I can see
no reason why it should be referred to the
Executive Committee and then referred
back to us. "We can't ignore what the
members of the Synod and Presbytery have
asked of us. Are we going to set this thing
aside and wait for a month and let them
hear nothing from us? I am prepared to
vote now against the opening of the exposi
tion on Sunday. I sar: take action on this
now; the people are looking to us to decide
this question.
Gobin There is no one question that will
agitate the country more thoroughly than
this, and I agree with Senator McAleer that
we do something. In view of this discus
sion there is going to be antagonistic views,
and I can see no reason why we should in
vitevthe criticisms of persons who favor the
gates being opened oa Sunday, when there
is no necessity for taking the ground now.
A. B. Farquhar We are here to represent
the industries of the State, and not to dis
cuss questions of religion and morality. We
can't represent the State in this matter now.
Mrs. Mabel Cronise Jones Last Septem
ber the ladies' auxiliary of the national
board voted against the opening of the gates
on the Sabbath. Over two months ago their
vote was given on inisquestionj ana 1 tnlnt
we should give our opinion on it as a board
at this time.
The Question As a Sectional One.'
A G. Boenigk I believe this question
a sectional one, and I don't believe, we
ought to hurry up aud hasten these church
people in their opinion. I don't think we
ought decide any important question of this
kind on a few moments' notice. I tn op
posed to this board making a recommenda
tion of this kind to the national directors.
J. W. Woodside This question has never
been discussed in the Xational Commission,
as it has never been officially brought there.
Within the last year almost every village
and hamlet in the commonwealth" where a
chbrch spire points to heaven has suit Us
petitions, asking us to give our vote in op
position to opening the gates on Sunday. I
am opposed to opening tue exposition on
Sunday.
Lewis W. Emery I do not think we
ought to be hasty in deciding this matter.
While I am in harmony with the Christian
religion I think this question should be con
sidered carefully. It is not fair to those
who are opposed to the closing of the gates
that they should not be heard. It will
cause trouble and vexation to the people
who are opposed to the resolution. I shall
vote for this resolution 'to go to the com
mittee. Watres We can't evade this question,
In my opinion, we will make nothing by
postponing it. We must meet it, and we
should do so now. I will vote for the mo
tion offered by the gentleman from Lehigh.
Emery We are" not here as individuals,
but as representatives of the people, and
they are the ones who shall be heard. Mr.
Watres, I do not want to be understood as
favoring the closing of the gates, as ought
to be the case if I vote In favor of the mo
tion of Captain Hasson. The peopleof the
State might misunderstand our position.
Sir. Watres Always a Partisan.
Governor Pattison They may think you
arc a non-partisan
Watres I am always partisan.
Wright I know no great harm may come
from postponing action for thirty daysbut
np flood may come. The longer the ques
tion is held over the more general the dis-
cussion will become. You might wait for
months to deeide it, yet when the time
comes each member will-vote on his con
victions as they are to-day. This question
will probably be decided at Chicago son.
I think there is no donbt that it is the ex
pression of this board that the gates should
bo closed on Sunday. My judgment of the
people of Pennsylvania is that they aie op
posed to ODeuinc them on Sunday. This
sentiment ought to be expressed at the
time when, if it is to have any weight, there
is an opportunity.
A vote was then taken on Mr. "Wright's
resolution, and it was defeated by a vote of
yeas, 13; nays, 19. Captain Hasson's mo
tion was then adopted.
The resignation of J. B. Oliver, of Pitts
burg, was read. Mr. Olive, resigned on ac
count of lack of time to attend to the duties.
Mayor Merritt, of Beading, was elected to
fill the vacancy.
Twenty-seven plans for the Pennsylvania
building at the "World's Fair were sub
mitted bv the following architects. Bobert
Cole, Bellefonte; Miss Ada O'Brien, Erie;
Syrus T. Bean, Erie; James D. Bowyer,
Danville; Hillman & Shirk, Phila
delphia: C Balderston, Philadelphia;
J. D. Allen, Philadelphia; Thomas
N. Frazer, Philadelphia; Miller Smith,
Harrisburg; John P. Brennan, Pittsburg;
J. P. Leach, Pittsburg; W. Lansdale, Phil
adelphia; Furness, Evens & Co., Philadel-
jj mil, a. z. .nc&er, jcmittuciuiua, u. ivcuuuu
White, East Liberty; J. Alvin Jackson,
Philadelphia; Hazleyburst &Trickel, Phil
adelphia; H. Broomfield Barre, Philadel
phia; Addison Buetton, Philadelphia; A
J. "Wagner, Wllliamsport; S. W. Foulk,
New Castle: John Lawrence & Son, Phila
delphia; Ed F. Bertolette, Philadelphia;
Day & Young, Thiladelphia, and three
without signatures.
These designs, which embrace all designs
of architecture, were referred to the Execu
tive Committee, which, in tnrn, referred
them to the sub-committee, with instruc
tions to employ an expert to examine them
and report the next meeting.
DON PIATT IS DEAD.
A FAMOUS JODKXAI.IST PASSES AWAT
MSAR CLEVELAND.
A Complicated Torm or the Grip Cavrles
Him Away His Life Befo-e and After
His Retirement From Active "Work
His Death a Surprise.
Cleveland, Nov. 12. Colonel Don
Piatt died at his home, Mac-o-Chee, at 3
o'clock this afternoon. He had been ill for
two weeks with a form of the grip, but it
was only in the last few days that his in
disposition was regarded as serious. The
announcement of his death came as a com
plete surprise to his friends in this city,
and owing to Imperfect telegraph facilities
it is impossible to learn full particulars.
Since Colonel Piatt's retirement from
active journalistic work he has lived qnietly
at his fine country home in Logan county.
He was called from this retirement in 1888
at the urgent request of Mr. Cleveland to
found JSdford'g Magazine in New York. After
one year at that work he returned to Ohio
and engaged upon an extensive biographical
history ot General George IL Thomas,
which was almost completed at the time of
his death. His latest work for the press was
a series of letters to the Cleveland Plain,
dealer on the issues and candidates of the
late campaign which attracted wide atten
tion. Colonel Piatt was born in Cincinnati,
Juno 19, 1819. He prepared for the law
and was elevated to the Common Pleas
Bench at a very early age. His subsequent
public career needs no recapitulation. As
a journalist and editor of his paper in
Washington he worked a revolution in cer
tain ways of the profession and pained a
reputation that Is world t?e. 'feoloncl
Piatt has been twice married and his second
wife, for many years an invalid, survives
him. The funeral will be held Sunday.
A 1EMPEEANCE BESTA.TTBANT CLOSED:
The Sheriff Swoops Down on a W. C. T. V.
Enterprise In Chicago.
CnicAGO, Nov. 12. ferial The Cen
tral W. C. T. TJ. restaurant was closed by
the Sheriff to-day. The corporation owning
the restaurant was composed of 30 members
of the Women's Christian Temperance
Union, Mrs. M. B. Corse being the Presi
dent. The assignment is due to some old
indebtedness which has embarrassed the
concern for a long time. The liabilities are
518,000, of which amount J8.000 is due var
ious supply houses. The President of the
company holds a claim for $8,000 for money
loaned to the business, and Mr. and Mrs. J.
B. Hobbs, prominent temperance, workers,
arc creditors for $2,000. The assets consist
of the plant and stock, the cost of the former
being $20,000.
For many months the restaurant thrived
upon the trade df shop girls in the great
downtown retail stores, but when the mer
chants established -lunch rooms in their
houses the mission of the temperance res
taurant was at an end, and trade fell off
until the indebtedness called for the pres
ence of the Sheriff.
CHICAGO NOT A C0MPETIT0B,
Jttat if the Republican Convention Host
Meet There It "Will Be Welcome.
Chicago, Nov. 12. One hundred and
fifty o Chicago's prominent business men,
with a sprinkling of Illinois politicians, as
sembled at the Grand Pacific Hotel this
afternoon to consider ways and means for
capturing the Bepublican National Conven
tion for Chicago. After some discussion
the following resolutions were passed by
the meeting:
Wuereas, Chicago has been specially hon
ored in being selected as the place of hold
ins the Columbian Exposition, and
Whereas, The ohoico was largely duo to
the friendly support of the 'representatives
in Congress of the great Central empiro.tliat
developed and made Chicago possible, there
fore, Eesolved, That in grateful appreciation of
the aid tendered in securing the Columbian
Exposition, Chicago is not a competitor lor
the next Bepublican National Convention.
Kesolved.ln the event the National Ke
publican Committee should select this city
as the place for the convention, Hon. Will
lam J. Cbambell, member of the National
Committee from Illinois, is authorized to
state that Chicago will liberally provide for
its accommodation.
A FATAL CASE OF TOOTHACHE.
Arnin Friedman Shoots Himself, Because
He Couldn't Stand the Pain.
Net- York, Nov. 12. Special A Cen
tral Park policeman found the dead body
of a young man, with a bullet hole in his
right temple, in the shrubbery at Ninety
ninth Btreet to-day. A 38-caliber revolver
was in the suicide's right hand, and the
small hand mirror with which he had di
rected the shot was in his left hand. He
was Arnin Friedman, formerly a lieutenant
in the Austro-Hungarian army. His father
is the foreman of a machine shop in Hun
gary, and one of his brothers, Charles, is a
machinist in this city.
Arnin came to this country about eight
months ago and worked for his brother un
til recently. He fiaally ,-ave up on the
score that the work was too hard. An
aching tooth brokeoff when being extracted
Thursday, and the pain in the remaining
root became agonizing. H; had also neu
ralgia. The pain, it is supposed, drove him
to suicide.
A Judge Kills a Litigant.
Paso Robles, Cal., Nov. 12. Judge
John Kelshaw yesterday shot and killed A.
M. Sherwood, the defendant In a case which
was tried before Kelshaw. Sherwood at
tacked the Judge, who shot in self-defense.
II I III ATlr 'fASSBrt' LjJ h,.
WEERE JURISDIOTIOy BEGINS AND ENDS.
MILLS OH THE MOVE.
The
Texas Candidate for Speaker
Goaded to a Declaration
BE BAS BAD NO SILVER BARGAIN.
Dis Denial of a Humored Conference Hade
Decidedly Emphatic.
LITELt CONTEST FOE THE CLERKSHIP
trr.oM x stait coerespondkt.
Washington, Nov. 12. The Baltimore
Herald of this morning, in a dispatch from
Washington, undertook to explain the ap
parently inconsistent attitude on the sub
ject of free silver by a circumstantial ac
count of how Mr. Mills had agreed to or
ganize the House of Bepreseniatives against
free silver as the price of his elevation to
the Speakership. The story, in more or
less detail, has been in circulation in Wash
ington ever since Mills made his memora
ble speech In Ohio dnringthe late campaign
deprecating the agitation of the silver
question at this time. The story has been
widely believed, and has been used as an
effective argument against Mills among the
free silver men of the party. Mr. Mills had
doubtless heard the story, but he let it pass
unnoticed until it was printed this morn
ing, when he proceeded to denounce it and
its author in the following emphatio letter,
which he has caused to be generally circu
lated to-night:
House op Kftresbstatives. l
"Waswhotos, D. a. Nor. li, 1891,
Editor Morning Ueraldi
' Sly-ftttcntjon Juts bem-cnHcd to a dlspateh.
sont from here dated November 11 by your
correspondent. In which he charges I went
to New York prior to the lato election at the
invitation of certain anti-silver Democrats,
the editor of the New York Times and
several other strong opponents of fiee sil
ver, and Colonel Jones, of the St. Louis Mc
jmbiic; that 1 pledged myself, if elected
bpeaker, to frame the committee on cotnago
legislation, and that the names of members
to constitute the committeo were dictated
tome and I agreed to appoint them as
named. Every word of the dispatch is raise.
I have had no conference with anti-silver
men in New York ill leferenco to the organ
ization of the House; I haven't seen Colonel
Jones stnCo last June.and then in St.louis: I
have never bad anyone propose to me that I
organize the House, if elected, ajrainst a sil
ver legislation. In short, the dispatch is
false from beginning to ending. Your cor
respondent has imposed a palpable false
hood upon you. You owe it to yourself to
retract the false statement to which yon
have given circulation. Yours truly,
In spite of the vigorous and characteristic
denial front Mr. Mills some of the friends
of other candidates for the Speakership
still profess to believe the story, and it will
probably figure quite largely in the contest
for the gaveL
TBE CONTEST FOR CLERK
OPENS UP EABLTAT WASHINGTON IN
FELL BLAST.
Four Candidates Bnttonhollnc Members of
Congress for a Desirable Position Two
Pennsylvanlans Catting; Each Other's
Throats All the Applicants Are Ex
Congressmen. Washington, Nov. 12. Special. The
contest of the clerkship of the House of
Bepresentatives, which is one of the most
desirable offices within the gift of Congress,
has opened up here, and promises to be as
lively as the speakership fight. Already
there are four candidates in the field, and
there will no doubt be more before the first
Monday in December, when the present
clerk, Edward McPherson, will call the
House to order. The clerkship carries with
it a salary of $5,000, with a few desirable
perquisites thrown in, and the duties are
not onerous.'
Mr. McPherson has been the clerk of
every Eepublican'House since he ceased to
represent the Gettysburg district, shortly
after the close of the war. The four men
who have already expressed their desire to
succeed him are the ex-Clerk and ex-Representative
John B. Clark, Jr. of Missouri,
and ex-Bepresentatives Kerr and Maish, of
Pennsylvania, and Gibson, of Maryland.
The three last named were members of the
last House. It Messrs. Kerr aud Maish
both remain the field the chances of either
of them will not be flattering, and they
might as well count themselves out on the
start.
Mr. Clark will be supported by some of
the old members who were his colleagues in
the Forty-third, Forty fourth, Forty-fifth,
.Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses,
and by some of those whose friendship he
gaincotwniie uierK. Many oi tne new mem
bers, however and they will bj in a large
majority in the incoming House do not
know Mr. Clark, neither do they care to
waste their strength in supporting either of
the Pennsylvania candidates, who, bvdivid
ing their own delegation, will be fighting a
losing battle. These men will be apt to sup
port Mr. Gibson, who was one of the most
genial, popular and eloquent members of
the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first
Congresses.
Mr. Maish has not yet put in an appear
ance, but Mr. Clark, who lives in the su
burbs of Washington, has a fine opportunity
to buttonhole every member who comes to
town, and he is not without hope, that he
will again be chosen.
IUPBOYEKEBT 0? THE'BITEBS.
Estimates on the Amount of Money to Be
Needed Next Year.
Washington, Not. 12. Special Gen-
eral T. L. Casey, Chief Engineer, has sub
mitted to the Secretary of War his annual
report of the work done under the direction
of the corps of engineers, together with
estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1893. The review of the work is substan
tially the same as in the reports of the en
gineers published in July. The estimates
have not before been made pub"". Among
tne latter are tne louowing:
For the general improvero rt
Ohio
-r l i -rn.i : o-rf. m& t
Me
dim in tho Ohio river near th" vfiU
river ueiuw .ruisuurir. cjuu.. "i. 7. -ih
DiMinr rio Pn SWrt fUM- tmnnt
nprbv" -'
the Allesheny river. $50,000: dam atj
P.tZ
Island, Allegheny river, $200,000; impru,. '0 y.rt,
ment of falls of the Ohio river, $30O,00OK'ft, 'fc.
Indiana chute, falls of the Ohio, $75,000;
Erie Pa., harbor, $430,000. For work on
fortifications, including gun and mortar
batteries, casemates for sub-marine mines
and other items, General Casey submits an
estimate of $3,489,500.
SAM SMALL IN A FIGHT.
ASSAULTED AND KICKED IN AN AT
LANTA BABBEK SHOP.
The Evangelist Thinks Things Would Have
Gone Differently if He Had Had Warn
ing; A Saloonkeeper Takes Him at a
Disadvantage and Beats Him.
Atlanta, Nov. 12. Special. Her. Sam
Small was assaulted, beaten and kicked by
Dom Minor, a saloonkeeper, in Nash's
barber shop on Peachtree street, just after
1 o'clock to-day. George Yarborough, one
of the barbers, told a reporter that the fight
was brought about as foilows:
Mr. Small came in the shop. Ope of the
barbers said: "Shave, sir." Small said no,
that he would wait for Yarborough, who
was then busy, and then Small took a seat
in an unoccupied barber chair. Yar
borough socn finished shaving his man and
Small then took his seat. While Small was
getting his share Minor walked ,'in and
took a seat, also waiting for Yarborongb.
When Small was through shaving he
arose and stood up while the boy brushed
him off Yarborough turned to Minor and
asked him if he wanted a shave. Minor
said: "No, here is the man I want to see,"
and walked np to Small and struck him a
stunning blow in the face. The two men
clinched and fell to the floor, and rolled
over and over." Two barbers and a customer
ran up, and, after some trouble, pulled the
two men apart. Yarborough says as the two
men were pulled apart Minor kicked Small
in the month. The two men left the shop,
and soon the officers wfere looking for them,
Mr. Small was seen in the office of Mr. A.
A. Murphy. His lip was bruised and some
what swollen.but otherwise he was all right.
"I will be out to speaU at the meeting to
night," he said to a reporter. In speaking
of the fight, he said: "I'm having a state
ment written out on that type-writer for
publication," and then, turning to some of
his friends who were present, Mr. Small
said: "If I'd known the fellow was coming
at me we would have had more fun than a
box of monkeys. I'd have grabbed one of
those razors, opened it, and said, 'Now, you
dirty skunk, come on if you want to.'" "
AH EX-EVAHGEllSrS ELOQUENCE
Saves Him From a Term In the Missouri
Penitentiary for Bigamy.
Sedalia. Mo., Nov. 12. Special. The
most pathetic appeal for mercy ever heard
in Pettis county was made to-day in the
criminal court room by Charles Shelby
Hughes, the printer-evangelist, who pleaded
guilty to the charge of bigamy,-he having
married Miss Mollie Borngesser in St.Louis
last summer while he had a wife living at
Mt. Vernon, I1L Hushes is a morphine
fiend, and has wasted away to almost a
skeleton during his four months' confine
ment in jail. He looked like atorpsc as he
arose to address the court, and a pin could
have been heard to drop, so quiet was it.
For 20 minutes the ex-evangelist spoke,
and before he had half concluded his re
marks Judge Byland and one-half the mem
bers of the bar and spectators were in tears.
At the close there was scarcely a dry eye in
the courtroom, and the effort had had its
effect, for the Court meted out the minimum
sentence three months in the county jail
and a fine of $100, which fine can be served
out at $1 a day. Hughes has worked in
nearly every city in the Country as a print
er, and at the time he contractedhis biga
mous marriase was employed as city editor
of the Bazoo here. He had expected to go
to the penitentiary, and is highly elated at
the success of his appeal for mercy.
TABLE OP CONTENTS.
Page.
Communist Colonists Victimized 1
Pennsylvania at the World's Fair......... I
Milts Denies a Sliver Charge 1
Anarchist Balded by Police 1
A Conscience-Stricken Chinaman 2
Foreign Factories Coming to America.... S
Henry Dallmeyer's Death 3
Classified Advertisements 3
Editorial ,. 4
The lo!ngs of Society 4
Bankers Discuss Free Coinage 5
Deaths Here and Elsewhere.... S
Sherman Aheaa In Ohio.,,... 6
industrial Intol'g-nce C
The Situation in Chile.... 7
News From Neighboring Towns...... .... 7
Yellow Fever On Board Ship 7
Hotel Arrivals and Personals. S
Sporting; Features and Weather Outlook.. S
Denials of the Brazilian Revolution 9
China's Rebel Leader Captured 9
Train Robbery In Wisconsin 9
The Latest in Fashions 10
Work in the OH Fields 10
Mrs. Toomey's Lire and Death 10
Financial and Commercial Markets 11
Court Proceedings 12
...... .A I
man ior me name...... ia i
Alleghany Committees at War IS I
BOMB THIS TIME
Chicago Police Baida Meeting
of the Again Violent
Anarchists.
GUNS AM) PISTOLS DBATO.
Only the Prompt Action of the Offi
cers Prevents Bloodshed.
MANTOPTBE LEADERS ARRESTED.
Allegations Hade That Startling Plots Hare
Eeen Discovered.
THE FEOHT OF A BUILDING TOES OUT
rSFZCIAX, TXLXOEA3I TO TUX nlSPAK R.J
Chicago, Nov. 12. One hundred po
licemen marched down upon an An
archist meeting to-night in Grief's Hall, and
the scenes that took place inside the hall,
reminded some of the officers of that awful
night when the bomb was thrown in Hay
market square. A crashing of glass and the
bursting in of the street door followed by
the heavy tramp of the police as they
rushed in was the first intimation the An
archists had that the meeting was to be
broken np.
Every officer grasped his night stick in
his left hand and his right hand was buried
in the breast of his great coat with a firm
clutch on his revolver. Determination was
.written on the faces of the officers, for some
of them had lost brothers in flesh as well as
in name, at the Haymarket square riot.
The Power of the Police Denied.
"M , " moment ine nrst squao. oi police,
I mt. x.t. . - ,.
neaaea Dy Lieutenant wneeier, Durst in
" the Anarchists who were sitting at
?. nntini. Viu. f rf 4tin . hm.m
v '",.
UA..U ,tA, UilCI, .UO IJlUJUCIlUi
VO'. V."
e, shouted: "Get out of here.
jyV v- .0 Dusmess lnterienng witn our
mees: ' Grief was standing guard at the
door leading to the hall above the saloon,
where two meetings were in progress. A
man named Daniel Snctter, who claims to
hail from Buffalo, was standing at his side.
"Come on men," commanded the Inspect
or, and in rushed the police in double file,
Officers Trehorn, Gary and Simscott were in
civilian dress and were standing within a
few feet of Grief and Suetter. The latter
quickly reached for a revolver in his hip
pocket when the command wo3 given by In
spector Lewis, but before he could use it
Trehorn, Gary and Simscott had over
powered him. The two first named officers
grasped him by either arm and Simscott
took the weapon from his pocket. It was
an ugly looking seven-shooter, and a cart
ridge reposed in every barrel.
A Desperate Anarchist.
Sutter made a desperate resistance biting
and kicking the officers, until the irons
were put on his wrists and be was hustled
off to the Desplaines street station. On the
way to the station he fought like a mad man
ana at every step he took he cursed the
jiolice from the chief down. "Anarchy for
ever is my motto"" he screamed at the top
of his voice as the officers' dragged him
along. "Shoot me" he exclaimed witha
derisive lauch, as he stood before the desk
at the station. "Shoot me, and I'll be like
the other heros, Parsons, Fielding and the
rest of them who were murdered."
The 25 or 30 men who were sitting in the
barroom tried to force their wjt out to the
street, but it was like going against an iron
wall to get past the police. It seemed as
though the last officer would never get in
side the place, so long did the line extend
west op Lake street from the saloon door.
Officers in citizens dress who had mingled
with the crowd all evening formed a barrier
in the rear and prevented any of the An
archists from escaping. Every man was
then searched for weapons. While this was
going on the first squad of police with Inspec
tor Lewis, Captain 3Iahoney and Lieutenant
Wheeler leading the way rushed up the
narrow stairway into the halls above.
Tried to Lock the Door.
"The police are coming, lock the door,"
shouted a man in the meeting on the second
floor. The dooi was quickly barred and the
men who were assembled in this dingy, lit
tle hall making inflammatory speeches
waited for the attack. Inspector Lewis
and Captain Mahoney threw their com
bined weight against the door and it flew
from its hinges. In rushed the police 13
Of them with drawn revolvers, and if any
Anarchists there intended to resent the at
tack he quickly changed his mind at sight
of the brass buttons and gleaming stars.
August Kieckner, seemed to be the Chair
man of the meeting.
"If we had known a mob of police like
these was coming," Kieckner declared, in a
loud voice, "we would have been prepared
to meet you." Bed bunting that hung from
tne walls and ceiling was seized by the
police and dragsed down. In a dark closet
was found a truuk, and, upon opening it,
two silk banners of a fiery red hue were dis
covered. On one was inscribed: "In Union
There Is Strength," and on the other "Our
Martyrs." These, with the 'bunting and
numerous other banners found in the build
ing, were taken to the police station.
A Charge With Drawn Revolvers.
While the first squad of officers were in
this hall another" force of men headed by
Lieutenants Beard and Pensen tramped np
the stairs to the hall above. When the
Anarchists heard the police coming they
made a rush tor the stairway and attempted
to force their way down. The police charged
upon them with drawn revolvers and
captured seven of them, who were armed.
During the rioting the entire front of the
famous den of the anarchists was torn out.
Twenty-five of the reds were arrested. On
their way to the station they threatened the
lives of the Mayor and Chief of Police, and
declared that within a short time the city
would be rocked as it has not rocked sines
the bomb exploded at Haymarket, Several
guns were taken from the arsenal.
The hall is in the center of town and was
famous as the place where the dynamite
outrages of 1886 were plotted. The police,
it is uid, are in possession of information
of a most startling character as to the plans
of the reds.
MBS. CXBVEIAND'S P0BJBAIT.
Bell, the Washington Photographer, Loses
His Cincinnati Copyright Suit.
CINCINNATI, Not. 12. The case of C
M. Bell, the Washington photographer,
against the Henderson-Achert-Krebs Lith
graphing Company, of this city, for $34,000,
as penalty for an alleged infringement of
Mr. Bell's copyright on the pictures of Mrs.
ex-President Cleveland, was ended to-day
by a verdict for the defendants under in
structions from Judge Sage, of the United
States District Court.
The defendants, when they bought out
the lithographing establishment, found a
large quantity of Mrs. Cleveland's pictures
in the stock. Upon being advised that they
were illegally made they destroyed them.
The court directed the jury to find for.tht
J.fJ.,
, , .
aeiencants.