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GREATAGONY
For Speaker Crisp to Keep
Customary Control of
His Emotions.
MILLS HIS NEMESIS.
Turn Which Way He Will, His Late
Rival Faces Him.
THE SULLEN AND SILENT TEXAN
Won't Help Oat by Signifying What He'd
Like to Have.
Spring-er the Probable Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee A Bet
ter Man For the Place Than Mills
Would Be The Little Alliance Party
and Its Programme Labor as a
Joke in Congress Collector "Warm
castle's Case and Its Hang: Up
The Raum Matter of Far More Im
portance, Yet Less Attention Is
Paid to It.
rsrrciAi. telegr innc letter.
Bureau or The dispatch. 1
VA6Hi(QTOX. D. C, Dec. 14 J
Speaker Crisp, w ho usually has very good
control of his emotions, is now "wrestling
with an anxiety that is little less than
agony. He is trying to solve the riddle of
what to do with Roger Q. Mills, Illustrat
ing his trouble by the "pigs in clover" puz
zle, he m?y be said to have manipulated all
of the chairmanship little pigs through the
intricate labyrinths of the machine, except
this obstreperous little pig from Texas,
who refuses to be corralled and yet must be
got in somewhere before the thing is done.
If Mr. Mills would condescend to assist
the Speaker by the jerking of a thumb or
the winking of an eye the work would be
greatly simplified, but the great man sulks
and sulks and says nothing. His eyes are
expressionless, his face is a blank. True,
there is a contraction of the muscles at the
corner of his mouth, which would seem to
suggest a vast determination to do a very
vast something; but what that something is
is locked up in the vastiness of the great
man's mind.
Sir. Hills Sad, Silent and Sullen.
Mr. Mills has been rarely in his seat
since the organization of the House, and
when there he has been sad, silent and
sullen. One might as well try to interpret
the rapt, far-oil expression of the sphinx,
as to divine the thoughts of this mighty
man suddenly laid so low. There is a sug
gestion of a threat of vengeance if some
thing be not done, and -of contemptuous,
withering refusal if that something be done.
The Speaker must lay some great honor at
his feet, but he v ill kick it back in the
giver's face if it be laid there.
This is a dilemma which must naturally
be tiresome, if not impossible of analysis,
even to so cunning a mind as that which
conceived and carried out the marvelous
campaign which has just elevated Mr. Crisp
to the chair. One thing is certain, and that
is that Mr. Mills will accept nothing but
the chairmanship of the great political and
legislative committee of the House, the
"Ways and Means. I am assured of this by
oDe of Mr. Mills most intimate friends.
To be chairman of that committee is to be
the party leader on the floor, which is a
position next in power, and little less in
honor, to that of the Speaker in the chair.
TVork That Is Hard to Forgive.
Shall the Speaker deliver this high posi
tion to the man who fought him, not openly
and friendly, but bitterly and in ways not
usual in honorable warfare? Mr. Mills cer
tainly played one of the most desperate
games for the Speakership ever witnessed.
He stole into his adversary's camp at mid
night to run off votes by main force, and
toward the last there was little of his work
that wooed the honest sunshine.
He crawled whiningly to the graves of a
dead administration and begged the very
corpses to rise and speak in his behalf, and,
amazing to say, this man who conducted
himself to defeat in a weak and wretched
campaign, had power to galvanize into
action those distinguished inhabitants of a
very respectable cemetery. "When this adT
ministration was alive it proceeded to make
Mr. Mills, and as soon as it was dead Mr.
Mills uninade himself and then prayed de
funct power to come out of the grave and
make him once again. I am really curious to
know if Speaker Crisp will voluntarily
take into his own hands this difficult work
of rejuvenation.
Springer Now Has the Call.
It is the impression to-day that Mr.
Springer, of Illinois, will be given the
Chairmanship of "Ways and Means and the
Democratic leadership. I fear this will
result in many a fatiguing moment for the
House. Mr. Springer is very genial, ad
mirable and able, but he is not happy. He
lacks that repose which is so beautiful a
quality in high art or in human leadership.
He will multiply himself appallingly as a
leader, and will insist on performing all the
labor of the committee.
His redundant energy has a terribly re
tarding effect upon the proceedings of any
body of which lie is a part, and he is so
electric in his action and invulnerable in
his sensibilities, that he can neither be sat
down upon nor punctured, yet he is so fine
a character, and so honest in his earnest
ness, that it is a real pain to attempt to sup
press or to say aught against him, while it
is something indescribable to endure him.
A Better Chairman Than 31111s.
"With all bis weaknesses he would be a
pleasanter and safer leader than Mr. Mills
wonld be, and he is far less fanatical on the
question of the tariff At any rate, he
should have the place if place were ever
ghenasa reward for friendly action to a
successful aspirant. He played fair all
through the fight for the Speakership, and
behaved like a gentleman afterward, while
Mr. Mills, speak it as softly as you may,
employed campaign methods of which he
ought to be ashamed, and he has acted like
a boor ever since.
If Mr. Mills be not offered the chairman
ship he will probably be listed farther down
on the Committee on "Ways and Means.
Possibly then he would refuse this and all
else, and sulk throughout the session. That
would be quite in accord with the .temper
ha seems to have developed lately. It
would be an interesting spectacle to see
this gentleman who posed so conspicuously
during the last two congresses, first as the
mouthpiece of the Cleveland administra
tion on the floor of the House, and then, on
the same spot, as the unruly and insulting
assailant of Speaker Reed, sitting mum in
his seat, or sulking in his room, and letting
his colleagues go to the deuce in their own
way without lifting his mighty hand to
save them.
The-Alliance Party and Its Programme.
Kb party now in Congress has more
clearly marked out its policy than has the
partv of the Farmer's Alliance. It is not
numerous, but it knows what it wants, and
will do its utmost to get it. Small as it is
in numbers, it finds some difficulty in dis
covering its real size at least, that was the
case previous to the publication of its name
in that admirable compendium of all things
Congressional, the Congressional Directory.
"When I look there, however, and find
Hon. Jerry Simpson put down as Simpson
with a p not only in his name, but with one
after it, indicating that he was elected as a
Prohibitionist, I am ready to believe that
thevAlliance party is as big as it said it was
before Congress met. but that it did not
understand the directory business, and so
had itself misquoted all along the line. As
it is, only Senator Pefler and two Repre
sentatives Clover, of Kansas, and Hal
tcrson, of Minnesota, are put down as
Alliance men.
Whether It is these three whs have met
and formulated the clear and ringing policy
announced, or whether the sockless Simp
ton and others unsuggested have been
taken in. I do not know, but the policy is
lonely and is simply one which reforms
everything in the world that anybody
tmnks ought to be reformed.
Intentions of the Little Party.
This is so lucid in comparison with the
lumbering and complicated propositions of
the old and effete parties, that it is really
refreshing. In one breath to-day Senator
Pefler told a reporter that they would put a
stop to the money-issuing power that is in
the form of national banks, would amend
the naturalization laws, modify the tariff
schedules in the interests of farmers and
laborers, amake Senators and Presidents
elective by a direct vote of the people, re
vise the pension business, increase the
rigidity and force of the immigration laws,
irrigate all and creation except Kansas and
Iowa and Maine, and revolutionize the en
tire financial system of the country. There
was much more coming, evidently, but the
reporter's leisure time seems to have been
exhausted.
In this connection I may say that the
labor party seems to have but one lonely
representative, the widely-known O'Neill,
of St. Louis, the joker of the House. It is
one of his jokes to be a champion of labor,
aud it is a joke that has always got him the
chairmanship of the Labor Committee when
he wanted it He wants it now, and will
doubtless get it, but it is somewhat lament
able to reflect that the Labor party in the
House has been whittled down to a mere
joke. It has not yet been announced
whether the Labor partywill lorm an offen
sive or defensive coalition with the Alli-
1 once party. The matter is under serious
consideration.
Delay in the Wnrmeastle Affair.
Collector "Warmcastle's dismissal, which
Mas announced to be absolute, is still un
announced, and there is not a little inquiry
as to the reason of the delay. It is said by
Fome to be ou account of a request of Sena
tor Quay to await his return, but why the
Senator's return should, be awaited to dis
cuss a dismissal which, is declared to be
absolutely and emphatically decide'd lipon,
thCfOfficial dismissed or to be dismissed still
remaining in charge of the" office whose
mismanaged affairs brought such deplorable
punishment to him, is beyond comprehen
sion. It seems to me the "President might have
exercised in this case a little more of that
broad and obstinate indifference which has
resulted in profit and content to some who
are guilty of gross misconduct in office
vastly more important. The son of Com
missioner Raum, of the Pension Bureau,
was permitted to resign from office, and was
not prosecuted for a very grave offense and
the most serious charges against the Com
missio'ner have lain dormant for months in
the President's private desk and will proba
bly onlv see the light of day in a Congres
sional investigation. It is rumored that
the Commissioner will resign previous to
the investigation, but if so it will be only a
severe comment on the manner in which the
President has treated his case as compared
with his treatment of Mr. Warmcastle's
case.
A Worse Caie Than the Collector's.
I could cite numerous instances in which
offenses greater than the Collector's have
been condoned. A former Congressional
investigation ot General Raum brought out
a scandalous state of affairs which should
have caused the instant dismissal of the
Commissioner. Neither does it put the
matter in a more favorable light when it is
known that the President was fully aware
of the facts brought out in the investigation
long before the searchlight was turned on.
"What, then, shall bo said of the case,
when it is remembered that after the dis
graceful disclosures by the Congressional
committee the President persisted in his
loyalty to Raum? and what shall be said of
his continued affection, when it is further
remembered that he has for months held in
his keeping affidavits made by employes of
ine xensiou xmreau containing cuarges more
disgraceful than any made before, and yet
refusing to even ask the misguided Commis
sioner to resign, much less to declare his
dismissal? Does Mr. Harrison believe he
can purchase pardon for standing accessory
to General Raum by assuming a colossal
righteousness in the case of Collector "Warm
castle? A Good Chance for Senator Quay.
Senator Quay is to-be congratulated for
the change that has been made in his Chair
manship. In the last Congress' he was at
the head of the Committee on Transporta
tion Routes to the Seaboard a committee
which, with the building of great ship
canals, will be of more moment in the
future than now. The Committee on Library,
the Chairmanship of which has been
assigned to Senator Quay, is the one really
aesthetic committee of Congress. Its main
work is to decide upon works of art to be
accepted by the Government, and it often
hes imposed upon it arduous, but delightful
work.
The late Chairman of the Committee was
Senator Evarts, of New York. It is safe
to say, however, that if the acceptance of
the Lafayette monument, had depended on
the fine judgment in art matters of Senator
Quay, it would have been in better form, or
would not have been at alL The Library
Committee will have a new room on the
west side, looking over the marble terrace
and far down Pennsylvania avenue and
over the city one ot the most beautiful
views from the Capitol. Lightner.
A BUZZARD 5 ROUTE.
One Has Developed In Colorado That Blow
Down Homes and "Wires. '
Pueblo, Col., Dec. It The severest
storm ever known here raged six hours from
4 o'clock. "Wires of all kinds are down and
traffic generally is suspended. A regular
blizzard is blowing. Two houses have been
blown down, but nobody was hurt. The
houses were in the Hatter terrace. The op
cu pants escaped, but a dog beside one of the
beds was mashed flat.
QUAY'S QUEER TALI
He Says With Emphasis He
Is Not a Candidate for ,
the TJ. S. Senate.
A PUZZLE TO POLITICIANS.
Local Leaders and Campaigners From
Other Counties
CONFER WITH THE BEAVER MAN.
Harry Walton Wants to Be Speaker of the
Next Legislature.
REFERENCES TO WARMCASTLE'S CASE
"Are you a
States Senate?'
candidate for the United
was asked Senator M. S.
Quay yesterday.
"No, sir," -was
the Senator's positive
answer.
Senator Quay arrived
at his rooms in the
Duquesne Hotel at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning. An hour before he csme Repub
lican politicians from all pointsln "Western
Pennsylvania began arriving and the hotel
lobby looked like a political convention
when the Beaver statesman appeared. The
Senator did not register at the hotel. He
went in the elevator from the street to par
lor C, and before he was relieved of his
great coat he 'was handed a silver salver
covered with cards, upon which were writ
ten names of men who, politically, carry
anything from a township to a County. All
wanted a conference with Mr. Quay.
Among them were applicants for Federal,
places, candidates for the Senate, for the
Legislature and for county offices. They
wanted from the Senator his advice and
counsel, and, most of all, they wanted his
influence. Like a band of Sunday school
children they brought their stockings with
them for the political Santa Claus to fill.
Looking 'or Christmas Prizes.
"Whether they drew prizes or not, each,
as he was passed through from parlor C to
parlor B, where the Senator sat in an easy
chair receiving, and, in turn, was hurried
out into the hallway, left the hotel wearing
a broad smile and a contented, satisfied air.
The Senator's son, Dick Quay, genial and
pleasant, acted as usher. He is an adept in
the business, and he kept the visitors on a
lively jump from the time the Senator ar
rived in the morning until he left the hotel
at 6:30 in the evening. The father and son
lunched in their room, and in the evening
dined with friends in the Bast End.
Among those who called upon the Senator
yesterday were C. L. Magee, Senators Flinn
and Neeb, Dr. Donaldson, Captain Billings
ley and E. F. Acheson, of "Washington
county. Mr. Acheson wants to go to Con
gress, the other "Washington county gentle
men want to return to the Legislature!.
Colonel Stone called with his mend Gra
ham, who wants to succeed Collector "Warm
castle, Collector of Taxes Sam Grjer, City
Assessor Hetzel, Chief Grubbs, of the De
partment of Charities, and Chief Murphy,
of-the Department of Publio Safety, called
to talk over the candidates for the Legisla
ture in the First aud Second districts, Alle
gheny. James Bradley, Joseph Home, Jr.,
and one or two others accompanied the Al
legheny county delegation.
"Walton Watching; Speakership Chances.
Harry "Walton, a member of the Legisla
ture from Philadelphia, who wants to be
Speaker of the next House, arrived during
the afternoon with a friend. They dis
cussed the speakership with the Senator
and left looking happy. Mr. Barnes, who
was a candidate for Bank Examiner, to suc
ceed George Shepard, came early and
stayed late, but secured an audience before
he left. Thdmas H. B. Patterson, who was
elected a member of the Constitutional Con
vention, that was not held, from Sewick
ley, passed through the Senator's room and
shook hands with him. Arthur Kennedy,
who is anxious to be Mayor of Allegheny,
called, but grew impatient and left before
seeing Mr. Quay. Sheriff McCleary, who
wants no other office, but likes agreeable
company, entertained tnose wno waited in
parlor C and finally was rewarded by a
pleasant greeting from the Senator. There
were many others who came and went dur
ing the day, but none seemed to get closer
or remained longer than Collector Warmcas
.lle. He talked long and earnestly with the
Senator and when he left he looked re
lieved. For the first time since his trouble
he wore a pleasant smile when he hurried
away from the hotel.
Kept the Cheek Book Handy.
Twice during the afternoon the Senator
attempted to receive the delegation of
newspaper men who awaited him, but each
time he was called away by some one who
begged for "just a moment's time." .
After the politicians, aspiring and satis
fied, had been heard the reporters were ad
mitted. The Senator sat in his big chair.
In front of him, on a small table, was a
glass of water, some writing paper, pen and
ink and a checkbook. He was in a delight
ful mood, and seemed little worried or an
noyed by his day's hard work. He received
the newspaper people in the most cheerful
way, and throwing himself back into a com
fortable position he said: "Now fire
away."
"What do yon know of the "Warmcastle
case?" was the first question.
"I have not heard anything in Mr. "Warm
castle's case since I left here lost week," he
answered.
""Will Mr. "Warmcastle be removed?"
"I don't know. I think they are holding
his case until I return to "Washington.
They promised that I shonld be heard be
fore action was taken. In the department
they feel kindly to Mr. Warmcastle, and
I don't think the authorities there will re
move him."
Warmcastle Fears Only Harrison.
"Who, then, will remove him?" was
asked.
"If he is removed, the President wHl do
the work,"
"Have you a candidate for the place?"
"I probably will have." As yet I have
not indorsed anyone. George W. Miller,
of Pittsburg, 'has been mentioned for the
place. I understand he has been indorsed
by many good men. But," concluded the
Senator, "I don't think Mr. Warmcastle
will be removed. If he must go he will be
allowed to resign."
"What do you think of the report that
Mr. "Blaine will not be candidate tor Presi
dent?" "I have heard the report. I really don't
know much about it Mr. Jones seems to
think Mr. Blaine will not be a candidate.
I believe the information Mr. Jones has is
a little ancient." ..
"Then you think Mr. Blaine will be a
candidate?"
"I say I don't know anything about it,"
"Will Mr. Dalzell be a candidate for
United States Senatoragainst you?"
"You will have to get that information
from Mr. Dalzell. I am not prepared to
talk for him."
Quay Is Not a Candidate.
"Will you be a candidate for the United
States Senate?"
"No, sir," the Senator replied.
The answer seemed to stun the reporters.
It covered the whole ground, however, and
the interview ended. The Senator then
asked the reporters a few questions about
the case of Collector Warmcastle, and then
politely showed his visitors out.
The Pittsburg leaders who had been in
conference with the Senator were-astounded
when told that the Senator had positively
stated that he was not a candidate for re
election. Few of 'them believed that Mr.
Quay meant what he said.
A mysterious stranger was among the
Senator s callers. He refused to give his
name, and asked Senator Quay ana his son
Dick that his home be kept from the re
porters. "He is from another State. We
can't give his name," Dick Quay said. It
was the only information that could be ob
tained. The, stranger looked like a min
ister. . The meeting of the politicians was more
in the nature of arcception than a confer
ence. The Senator and his son Dick left
for Washington last night
COL. MERRILL DROPS DEAD
WHILE A PASSENGER OX BOABD A
TRAIN AT ENFIELD, ILL.
J
The Builder of the Davis Island Dam Leaves
His Newport Home In Apparently Per
fect Health His Career In the Army and
on the Elvers.
Cincinnati, Dec 14. Colonel William
E. Merrill, U. S. A. Engineering Corps,
has had his headquarters in this city for
several years, daring which he has been in
charge of the improvements , of the Ohio
river and all its navigable tributaries. He
took leave of his wife and children at their
Newport home this morping and set out for
Shawneetown, 111., in excellent health.
At dark to-night the wires flashed the
news to his home that he had dropped dead
on the train at Enfield, I1L, and that his
body was left in that tpwn. His body will
be returned to Newport.
Wn.Lii.if Emert MzRRiLLwas born at Fort
Howard, Wis , in 1837, and in 1859 graduated
at tlie United States Military Academy. He
whs assigned to the engineer corps. He
served as instructor at .West "Point for
nearly a year. During the war Jie acted
as Assistant Engineer of the Army of the
Potomac and afterwards achiefofthe ser
vice in the Armies of Kentucky and the
Cumberland taking part in most of the
battles in which those armies engaged. He
was hrevetted Captain for gallantry at
Torktown, and afterward in turn as Major,
Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel. When
peace letnrned he became Chief Engineer of
General Sherman's staff. lit 1878 he paid an
official visit to Europe to study the subject
ot movable dams. He has since been sta
tioned at Cincinnati in cbarse of improve
ments in the Ohio, Allegheny, Monongahela
and Muskineum rivers. In this capacity he
had charge of the construction of the Davis
Island dam In the Ohio near Pittsburg. He
is the author of two hooks "Iron Truss
Bridges for Bailroads" and "Improvements
Xon-ldal Elvers."
SULLIVAN STILL ON A TARE.
He Plpks Up Paddy Kya'n and Throws
Him Over a Table Jac Banetf Also J
ubs a aeiiu will 1110 .Dig xcuow a.
Duel Averted.
San Francisco, Dec. 14. Special
Sullivan struck town again last night and
at once got drunk He made the saloon of
a friend on Bush street his headquarters
and while there had a set-to with Jack Bar
nett He also wanted to fight the bar
keeper, and had it not been for Paddy Byon
serious trouble might have ensued. Bar
nett wanted Sullivan to settle the matter
"over the table," but John L. had no pistol,
and so a duel hod to be postponed.
Sullivan opened to-night at the Bush
Street Theater, in "Broderick Agra."
Manager Gottlieb, of the theater, wanted to
see Sullivan, and Barnett agreed to fetch
John L. It proved a mighty contract, for
Sullivan knocked him down twice and was
dragging him about the floor when Paddy
Byan appeared and thrust himself between
the two men.
Sullivan took Byan and threw him
over the table. Then Barnett wanted
to fight a duel with pistols oyer the table,
but as he had only one pistol this proved
impossible. Then Sullivan made him get
out, and when he didn't move fast enough
John hit him in the jaw and knocked him,
as well as a stranger standing by Barnett,
into a pile of spittoons in the corner.
When Barnett left, Sullivan sang songs,
abused the newspapers and offered to fight
the big barkeeper. The latter refused,
when Sullivan called for a hack and left the
saloon.
KNOTTING A E0PB FOB QBAVZS.
Important Testimony Adduced in the Bar
naby Trial at Denver.
Denver, Dec. 14. Special Toay
was the most important, so far, in the
famous Barnaby case. The prosecution put
on three of their strongest witnesses, Mrs.
and Mrs. E. S. Worrell, Jr., and Mrs. E.
H. Carrier, mother of Mrs. Wor
rell, Jr. The two ladies told
of conversations with Mrs. Barnaby
in which she said she was dissatisfied with
Dr. Graves' management of her affairs, and
of her suspicion that the doctor might have
sent the poisoned bottle. They testified
that Mrs. Barnaby declared the Bennetts
could not have done it, as they were her
best friends.
Mrs. Carrier pathetically detailed the
death of Mrs. Barnaby and went into the
details of Mrs. Barnaby's will as far as she
knew, showing Dr. Graves the only one
suspicion iellon at the time as having a
motive for the crime, as he had been
kindly remembered in the sum of
$50,000 in her will, and that a second will
had been made. Mr. Worrell testified to
the long delay of Dr. Graves in reaching
Denver after being notified of Mrs. Barn
aby's death, and of his nervous manner
when trying to explain the delay.
J1MY BLAINE MUST PAT.
His Wife Draws First Blood in the Sioux
City Divorce Suit.
DEADWOOD, S. D., Dec. 14. Special
The case of Mary Nevins Blaine vs. J. G.
Blaine, Jr., in which the plaintiff prays for
temporary alimony and enough money to
carry on her coming suit, was heard in
Chambers before Judge Thomas to-day.
The Court allowed her ?500 temporary ali
mony, 5300 for attorney's fees aud 5800 with
in 30 days after service of this order upon
attorneys for defendant.
XKBEZZLEBS SENTENCED.
Aibertson and Chandler Each' Given Five
Years In the Penitentiary.
Tacoma, Wash., Dec 14. Edward
Aibertson, who in September last embezzled
520,000 in security from the Fidelity Trust
Company, was to-day sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary."
Fred W. Chandler, an .accomplice of
Aibertson, was given fine years in the
penitentiary. They were captured three
weeks after the theft and returned to this
city, where both pleaded guilty.
ALONE IN HIS CRIME,
Norcross the Broker Bomb
Thrower, Had No Accom-
plices at All
HE ONLY MEAN? SUICIDE.
A
Bold Play for $1,200,000
Didn't Comprise Murder.
That
THE TALE. TOLD BY HIS TEETH.
His Head Identified by His Heart-Broken
Old Parents.
REMNANTS OF THE BODY TO BE CREMATED
rBPECIAI. TILEGBAU TO THE DISrATCK.l
Boston, Dec. 14. The only important
bit of evidence which might have revealed
the causes that led to the attempt of Bussell
Sage's life by Broker Henry L. Norcross, of
Boston, has been destroyed. The long let
ter which he wrote to his mother, and which
was found in his desk a week after
the tragedy, was burned yesterday by
Mrs. Norcross, in order to prevent its pub
lication. The father and mother were the
only ones who knew all its contents. Two
trusted friends saw the document, but they
did not read it. Mrs. and Mr. Norcross,
however, told them enough of its contents
to establish these facts.
Young Mr. Norcross was alone in his
bold, crime He had no accomplice. He
stated distinctly that he intended to go to
New York for the purpose of getting
1,200,000. That sum was specified. If he
did not get the money, he stated that it was
his intention to utterly annihilate himself.
Last "Wishes of the Bomb Thrower.
He told his mother that he had disguised
himself so that every trace of his identity
was removea. ne noa prepared an ex
plosive which was expected to shatter his
body into such small fragments that nothing
should remain. If, however, there was a
miscarriage of his plans, and his body or
any portion of it remained, it was his wish
that it should be cremated. He bade his
mother goodbv, without offering any hope
that he should return, and he did not want
anybody but his parents to know what had
become of him.
The letter explained one point with re
gard to the bomb-throwing which' has here
tofore been a mystery. It will be remem
bered that the bomb was thrown directly at
his own feet, and not at Mr. Sage's, as
would be the most natural act of a man who
desired to take Mr. Sage's life.
Didn't Mean to Kill Mr. Sage.
It is now known Norcross' chief purpose
was not to take Mr. Sage's life, but his own.
His letter contained no threat against Mr.
Sage or anyone else. He intended to make
a bold stroke for wealth. If he succeeded
his mother and father would live inluxury
the remainder of their lives.
The'Tutt vtharojiHwthe Tkad remains
shows how carefully the dynamiter had laid
his plans. He alone knew what- explosive
he used, but he. must have .been familiar
with its terrible power.
.Mr. and Mrs. norcross went to New York
on the limited express this afternoon.
They went to formally claim the head of
their son, and to make such arrangements
as were within their means of carrying out
the son's last expressed wish with regard to
cremation.
It was learned to-day that within a month
preceding his death Mr. Norcross had be
come acquainted with a young lady and was
pushing his suit vigorously. This young
lady is Miss Bacon, aged 16, a student at
Dean Academy.
Identified by His Parents.
A special from New York says: Mr. and
Mrs. Norcross went to the morgue to-night
and identified the head ot the bomb thrower
as that of their son.
The first thorough examination of the
teeth in the head of Norcross was made
at the morgue, today, by Coroner Messe
nger and Dr. Joseph Dunham, of the
Carnegie Laboratory. Previous examina
tions had been merely an inspection of the
outside of the teeth as they showed without
opening the jaw.
This time the jaws were pried open. To
day, also, Dr. Edward Coggins, in Boston,
who was Norcross' dentist, produced his
record book showing the fillings of Nor
cross' teeth. The result of the two exam
inations leave hardly any possible doubt
that the head is Norcross'. Here it is:
Bzact Comparison or FUled Teeth.
Coroner Messemer's examination:
Mine teeth filled with gold, six on the
upper jaw ana three on the lower, namely:
Upper Jaw, Tight side, two molars and sec
ond bicuspid: upper jaw, left side, first and
second molar and second bicusDld. Lower
Jaw, right side, first and second molars;
lower Jaw; lefs side, second molar. The
second molar on the right lower Jaw is black
in parts, either from decay or amalgam or
cement nuing. jjiacK spots in center or
crown of third molar. Wisdom tooth of
right upper jaw missing. Outer surface of
left upper eanine broken off, possibly by the
explosion, leaving a depression.
Dr. Coggins' record:
Nine teeth filled with gold, six on the up
ner Jaw and three on the lower, namely:
Upper jaw, right side, first and secondmo
lars and second bicuspid: upper Jaw, left
side, first and second molars and second
bienspid. Lower Jaw, right side, first and
second molars; lower jaw, left side, second
molar. The first molar on the right lower
jaw has two fillings, one ot gold and one of
silver amalgam. No other teeth have any
thing but a gold filling.
Dr. Coggins has no cast of Norcross'
mouth, ana could not speak definitely fur
ther. Examination of the Brain.
The result of the examination made by
Coroner Messemer and Drs. Landon, Carter,
Gray, Dunham and McAlpin of the brain
taken from the head, In the morgue, was
made public to-day. As stated, the general
indications are that the brain is that of a
man who has been insane for some time, but
the doctors refuse to make any decided
statement to that effect. A microscopical
examination cannot be made until the brain
has become properly hardened. The exam
ination was made 53 hours after the ex
plosion, and after the brain had been in
preserving fluid 24 hours. The report says:
"The entire weight of the brain was 1.210
grammes, about 100 grammes, or three
ounces below the average. The cerebellum
weighed 154 grammes, slightly above the
average."
According to statements made by inti
mate Boston friends of Norcross. there is
substantial evidence that the latter's brain
had been affected by his excessive use of
drugs, which he claimed had a great effect
in keeping a man in excellent physical con
dihV.gSL Camphor, alum and sulphur he
used i3$plarly, say these gentlemen.
Norcross used to say that camphor, owing
to its penetrating qualities, was a most
efficacious preventive of disease. He kept
it In a small bottle, and in taking it, he
would remove the cork, wet the end of his
finger, then remove the liquid with his
tongue, repeating ?he process several times.
A RattliDg Fight Stopped by Police.
San Francisco, Dec 14. George Xa
Blanche (the Marine) and Alexander Greg-
gains, of San Francisco, met in what was to
be a finish fight at the Occidental Club to
night for a parse of $2,000. It was a rat
tling fight from the start. The fight was
stopped by the police in the eighteenth
round. Referee Danny Needham gave the
fight to, Greggains, but was roundly hissed.
BLAINE AND NEW YORK.
REPUBLICANS THINK HE'D
THE STATE BY 50,000.
CABBY
The Big Four Would Probably Be His
Delegates The Only Man to Unite the
Two Great Factions In the Empire
State.
New York, Dec 13. Special. A story
from Washington telling of the visit of
JoVxW. Vrooman lately candidate for
L nt Governor on the Fassett ticket
fc'te House, a few days since, and
rSL
c&. .. . "V conversations he is said to
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W ptartr Trnv nrA int rpt-
lngKepv j-0
mfln 0f tf 4T-(b viaif
, uier wing over tne
Piatt wing oNf sk 'n this State was
inferred. X ' fr V
Ex-Senator Piatt h. , returned from
Washington, and from .f that could be
learned he also had been invited to eat at
the White House. He preferred, he said,
to allow his associates in the Bepublican
cartj in tbe'State to talk, if they were so
inclined. He said he was attending strictly
to business. An eminent Bepublican, op
posed in times past to the domination of
Mr. Piatt, said:
Whether Mr. Piatt Is for Harrison again or
not I do not know. Bat if Harrison is a
candidate for renomination he certainly is
not going to attempt a reorganization of the
w -- , .,- ,
party in tnis qtate, at tnis time, dv unseat
ing jur. i-iatt;
and recognizing- the
faction that
has
not been .in control
for several
years.
If Harrison is renom-
inated he'll
be beaten out of his boots,
If
Blaine is named he will carry this State by
60,000. I firmly believe that Mr. Blaine will
be nominated. I do not now see anything to
stop it. I do not believe Mr. Blaine will or
can attempt to check the movement in his
favor. His name alone will bring ont every
Bepublican voter in the State.
Other Bepublicans firmly believe that if
it was generally understood that Mr. Blaine
was to be named at Minneapolis the big
four Piatt, Miller, Hiscock and Depew
would again be selected as the dele-gates-at-large
to the National Convention,
although Hiscock and Piatt have not been
on harmonious political terms with Miller
and Depew. The Bepublicans spoken to
would not conjecture what the situation
would be should Mr. Blaine decline the
nomination.
A WAR COUNCIL
CALLED BY BUSSIA TO MAKE A SHIFT
OF SOME SORT.
Is
the Indian Affair Urgent? The Natives
There Still Worrying the British A
Hard Set to Handle Reassuring News
From Canton.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 14. The Minis
ter of War has summoned all the chiefs of
the general staff to attend a council which
will be held for the purpose of making a
new disposition of the Russian forces.
A Calcutta dispatch says: The Hunza
Niger tribesmen though driven out of Nilt,
their fortified stronghold, by Indian troops
under command of Colonel Durand, and
'compelled to retreat UTihe'rhounialns, have
not been entirely subdued. They have re
covered in a measure from the punishment
inflicted on them by the British forces, and
are conducting a sort of guerrilla warfare
that is very exasperating. The country
around Gilgit, near which place the tribes
men made their first menaces against the
British, is one of the wildest mountainous
regions in the world, and the inhabitants of
the region are noted for their barbarism and
warlike habits. Desultory firing is carried
on daily, but thus far there have been no
casualties since the first engagement.
In Canton the opinion is expressed that
the trouble be amicably settled.
PBEMIEB M0WAT OH ANNEXATION.
He Combats the Idea That the Liberal
Party Favors it.
Toronto, Dec 14. Special Oliver
Mowat, Premier of the Ontario Xiberal
Government for 20 years without inter
mission, in a letter vigorously combats the
notion that the Canadian Liberal
party favors annexation or any
policy that will develop political
union with the United States. He says
the Liberals will only support unrestricted
reciprocity in trade with the United States
0 far as it is consistent with Canada's con
nection with Great Britain, and that as
British subjects they will not be coerced
into political union with the States by the
juciuniey tann or otner untriendly meas
ures. The Globe, the chief Liberal organ, takes
issue with Mowat, and says it would be
treason to subordinate Canada's interests to
those of the British merchant, and fatal to
British connection to boot, for, while
sentiment is a potent force, it would be no
match for the storm that would sweep over
Canada if its well-being were sacrificed to
the venerable supposition that Canadians
exist to serve others rather than to serve
themselves.
NOW AFTEB the ltihsbahs.
The Latest Phase of Religions Fanaticism
In the Czar's Dominions.
St. Petersburg, Dec 14. A decree has
been issued that from January 1 the
Lutheran clergy will be deprived of the
right to appoint or discharge the masters of
Lutheran schools in Russia.
A special commission has been appointed
to examine teachers in the German schools.
Should any of the teachers display an im
perfect knowledge of the Bussian language
they will be dismissed.
Youn; Logan's Condition Improving.
YOUNGSTOWN, Dec 14. Special. John
A. Logan, Jr., is resting easier to-night, and
it is now believed the critical period of his
illness has passed. His condition was so
much improved that Dr. Ritchie left for
Washington to-night.
THIS MORNING'S NEWS DIRECTORY. '
"fbpic Page.
Crisp In Deep Water 1
Qnay Causes a Sensation , 1
The Bomb Thrower's Plot 1
A Novel Church Idea 1
Allegheny Reformers Stirred Up 2
.n Heir of Ben Trimble Contests 3
Suicid of an East End Doctor 2
Doerflinger'a Stealings Still Crow 2
Saintly Relic Arrive Here 3
Editorial and Society 4
Live Scraps From Washington k
News of the Labor World ." &
City Council Proceedings. 6
President Gompers' Report 7.
Field's Son Under Arrest , T
More New Senate Bills T
The 8portIng Events 8
Neighborhood News 8
Hotel Arrivals t 8
The Senate Committees O
This Week's Plays Criticised 9
Florida's Awful Tragedy O
Grler Again. Attacks Salaries 10
News or the Oil Fields ....,..,.,10
Livestock, Produce and Finance 11
The Valley Koad Sale 13
CHURCH
BILLIARDS
Proposedby Methodist Preach
ers, in Order to Off
set Saloons.
BOWLING ALLEY ANNEXES
Urged to Make Religion as Attractive
as Worldly Rivals.
THE IDEA CATCHES RIGHT ON.
Only One Pastor Entering Mnen of an Ob
jection to Its Trial
PLANS TO CARET IT INTO EFFECT
fSPICIAI. TXLEQBAX TO THI DHrATCa.1
New York, Dec 14. A meeting of the
Methodist preachers of New York, Jersey
City, Brooklyn and vicinity was held at
the Methodist Book Concern, this morning.
Over 300 ministers were in attendance, Bev.
Dr. J. G. Bates, of this city, presiding.
A paper was read by H. W. Knight In
relation to the condition of the Church and
church work in the lower part of the city
as compared with the upper part and the
necessity for employing means to counter
act the influence of the ealoonsi Mr.
Knight suggested that pool and billiard
tables, bowling alleys, etc, be put into the
basements of the churches to Induce young
men to frequent the churches and thus come
under Christian influence
The Methodist Church Arraigned.
"Ever since I was a boy," he said, 'T
have been so busy, working hard and en
deavoring to make money and to declare
dividend to the worn-out preachers of the
M. E. Church, that I have had little time
to prepare my mind for anything like the
effort which 1 am going to make here this
morning.
"I was born in the lap of poverty. I am
a plebean by birth, and my sympathies go
out to the poor and wretched and the out
cast. I have known what it is to go hun
gry. Now, brethren, I want to say that I
owe allegiance first to God, second to my
family and third to the Methodist Church,
which I believe was ordained to work
among the poor and down-trodden, and I
stand here this morning to arraign the M.
E. Church before the bar of Almighty God,
and to say that Methodism is neglecting her
duty all over the country, and especially in
the larger cities, and particularly in the
downtown sections of our cities.
Novel Plans for Church Amusements.
'1 would erect a building not necessa
rily a church building, a building more in
the nature of a hall and there should be a
place for an orchestra and a place for a choir.
The audience room should contain 2,500
sittings. I would put underwit bowling
alleys, and I -would put in and about it
billiard tables, pool tables, gymnasiums,
swimming baths, sewing schools, cooking
schools, boys' clubs, men's clubs, women's
clubs, girls' clubs. I would make it, in
other words, jnst a3 attractive as possible,
and would make it come in direct competi
tion with the saloons. I belong to the
Union League Club of Brooklyn, and a
good many laymen of the Methodist church
belong to it. There are several ministers
who belong to it, and in that club they play
billiards. I do not say that the ministers
play.
Billiards at a Wesleyan Postroom.
"If we belong to such things there cannot
be anything very serious against it. I be
long to the U. S. Grant Post, G. A- B.,
which is sometimes called the John Wesley
Post, because there are so,many Methodists
in it. You can go into the headquarters
any evening and see these Methodist
brethren playing a game of billiasds."
The paper was listened to with great in
terest, and was followed by a vigorous dis
cussion. Bev. Dr. David Downey, of
Mamaroneck, and Bev. Dr. John Reed, of
this city, agreed with Mr. Knight's views.
Dr. J. A. Boche took the opposite side.
He declared that men could be lured-from
virtue, but could not be wheedled into
piety. He defended the downtown
churches, and said that the Forsyth Street
Church had held its own, while St. Paul's
had been sold out.
Bev. C J. North, who said he was a "pro
gressive conservative," took a middle
ground.
A C0IABZD CATHOLIC PBIEST.
The
First to Be Confirmed and Ordained
in This Country.
Baltimore, Dec 14. Special The
first colored man to be raised to theCatholio
priesthood in the United States will be
ordained Saturday morning, in the Cathedral
in this city, by Cardinal Gibbons. Another
colored priest has been laboring for several
years. He is ,Rev. "A- Folton, of St.
Monica's Church, Chicago, but he was or
dained in Borne Charles K Uncles is the
name of the man to be ordained Saturday.
Mr. Uncles is a quadroon, and was born in
Baltimore, 31 years ago. He was baptized,
confirmed, and made his first communion in
St. Francis Xavier's Church, this city,
where he is to celebrate his first mass at 5
o'clock Christmas morning.
In 1888 he entered St. Joseph's Seminary,
where special attention is given to training
missionaries for work- among the colored
people of the United States. The students
of St. Joseph's attend lectures at St. Mary's
Seminary, in this city, the mother Catholic
seminary of this country. As it was a new
thing for a colored man to attend lectures
at St. Mary's Church, the Sulpician Fathers,
who direct it, put the question ot Mr.
Uncles' entrance to the vote of their 160
seminarians, and none of them voted against
him.
BB1GGS BEF0BH THE SYNOD.
The Question of Jurisdiction Is to Be
Fought Over in That Body.
New York, Dec 14. Bev. H.B. Elliott,
Chairman of the committee appointed at a
previous meeting of the Presbytery to pre
pare an answer to the protest of Rev.. Dr.
Van Dyke in the case of Bev. Dr. Briggs,
submitted an answer at the meeting of the
Presbytery to-day. This answer, which wjll
go to the Synod along wth Dr. Van Dyke's
answer, is signed by all. the members of the
committee: Dr. Elliott, Bev. Dr. Charles A.
Stoddart and Robert Briggs.
The answer maintains that the Presbytery
committee which prosecuted the charges
against Prof. Charles A. Briggs is a commit
tee of original jurisdiction, and may carry
these charges before the higher legislative
bodies of the Church" without farther refer
ence to the Presbytery. It is against this
View, taken by the Presbytery, that Bey.
Dr. Van Dyke protested,
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