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HE MUST STEP ASIDE
And Allow the Ultra Tariff Reform
Idea to Die Out.
SPRINGER AND HOLMAN SOLID.
They Will Respectively Attend to Revenues
and Expenses.
Dalzell and Stone to Secure Good Com
mittee Places Sherman's Friends
Reported to Be on the Amddus Seat
The Forakerites' Loud Claims An
noy the Senator's Workers Where
the Ex-Governor Looks for Some
thing to Drop The Warmcastle
Case Nearing- the End Allegheny's
Congressman at Work for the
Northside's Postofflce.
I6PECIAL TEtEGBArniC LKTTrR.1
Bctckau or The Dispatch, 1
Washington. D. C( Dec 22.
On the eve of the announcement of .the
committees of the House of Representa
tives there does not seem to be much to
add to what has been said already ia regard
to the character of the selections. Every
thing that can be learned bears out the sug
gestions I haTe made heretofore, that the
ultra tariff reform element would be re
manded to a back seat, and the Republicans
to some extent, disarmed of the weapon ot
the free trade argument with which the
Cleveland wing of the party has been as
sailed with such telling force.
Mr. Mills will have to accept the Chair
manship of the Committee on Commerce or
go to the wall At this time he does not
appear to know his own mind in the mat
ter. It is thought that he may accept this
place that he may not appear to be sulking,
and that he will take every opportunity to
avenge himself on Crisp.
Springer and Ilolman Are Solid.
There is almost no doubt that Springer
will be given "Ways and Means, and Hol
man Appropriations. On "Ways and Means
the Northern Democrats will be in a de,
cided majority, and among the Republicans
will be the names of such distinguished
gentlemen as Reed, Burrows and Dalzell.
At least, Dalzell left New York and the
New England dinnerto-day, feeling assured
of his appointment.
Among the Democrats, and on the list
next to Springer, will be McMillin, of Ten
nessee, Turner, of Georgia, and Wilson, of
West Virginia. In point of ability the two
great committees will be much stronger in
their tails than in their heads, but whether
the tail will wag the dog remains to be
seen.
It is pretty well settled, also, that the
Appropriations Committee will stand as
follows: Ilolman, of Indiana; Forney, of
Alabama; Savers, of Texas, Breckinridce,of
Kentucky; Compton, of Maryland; Mutch
ler, of Pennsylvania; Wilson, of Missouri,
and Breckinridge, of Arkansas, Democrats;
and Henderson, ot Iowa; Cogswell, of Mas
sachusetts; Dingley, of Maine; Bingham', of
Pennsylvania, and Grant, of Vermont, Re
publicans. Peaces for Pennsylvanlan.
Reilly, of Pennsylvania, appears to have
been selected for Chairman of Pacific Rail
roads, and Bcltzhoover, though a first term
er, for Committee on War Claims, which is
favorable to a fair consideration of a border
raid bill. Stone, of Allegheny, will have a
place on Rivers and Harbors, of which
Blsncbard, of Mississippi, will be Chair
man. One of the most absurd selections is
Blount, of Georgia, for the head of Foreign
Affairs a committee which is likely to be
conspicuous during the session on account
of the trouble with Chile. Blonnt is igno
rant and cranky, but of course Crisp bad to
present him with anything he wanted in
response for his support. In a general way
it may be said that Crisp has made up his
committees largely to reward his friends.
It will probably be found that they are
weak in their leading members, but etrong
as a whole and decidedly conservative on
the question of the tariff
If the Crisp administration be not a re
vival of Randallism, it will doubtless prove
to be quite as near it as anything can be ex
cept the thing itself. Speaker Crisp tells
me this evening that he is quite certain to
be ready to announce the committees to
morrow. Senator Sherman and Ills Fight.
The triends of Senator Sherman are seri
ously alarmed on account of the outlook of
the election for United States Senate. The
latest reports from Columbus are not at all
reassuring. The following special telegram
from Columbus to the Evening Star will ex
press the situation as it is viewed here by
the Senator's supporters:
At no time since the State election has
Senator 51ierman stood In such imminent
Uanser of losing his seat as ot this time.
Notwithstanding the fact that ho Is incom
parably the superior of the man who is con
testing with him for the seat in the Senate,
it must be admitted, even by the Senator's
-friends, that he i ill find it a difficult task to
prevent his retirement by the Legislature
which meets here iu the first week in Janu
ary. Submitted to a vote of the people,
Flierman would prohaoly be returned to the
Scnnte by an overwhelming voto, but the
matter is now entirely out of the hands of
the jsople and in the hands of the Republi
can politicians. Of the Kepublican new sca
pe rs of theStatotliereaieabout four forSher
nian to one for Foraker, and except in a few
localities, where cx-Govcrnor Foraker is
popular for peculiar reasons the popular ex
pressions as to Senatoiial preferences,
vheiever tbej' have been taken, have in
dicated about the same proportion.
Tho Senator at a Disadvantage,
henator Sherman finds himself woikln;? at
a great disadvantage because of his long
service in the Msnate. The Ohio people are
great politicins, and it conies as a losical
con-equencc that they are oppo-ed to keep
ing one mail for many terms in any office, no
matter how able or useful he may pioye
hlnikclf to be. Senator Sherman found tills
influence operating against him at each of
his many re-elections, and Just now tt
proves to bo unusually strong. Some of his
newspaper orzans recently made the unfor
tunate statement that his re-election was
necessary to save the country." The Fora
ker organs have taken this no in all forms
of ridicnlo and put the Senator and his
friends in a very ridiculous light. Inas
much as almost all of the newspapers that
are actively urginjr the Senator's TC-eleotlon
happen to bo edited by men who hold post
offices or other Federal positions secured
mostly through the kind offices of Senator
Sherman, the Foraker organs suggest that
their nctivity has for Its object rather the
saving of the postofficos than the saving of
the country.
Where Foraker Gels In His Work.
Ono of the surprises of the 'last State elec
tion was the election of the Republican can
didates for the Legislature in counties and
districts that were -resarded as certain
to go Democratic. It -was suspected then
that the hand of Senator Sherman had ac
complished this. Moreover, the Chairman
or the Republican State Committee, Captain
Hahn, was an avowed Sherman man, and
undoubtedly conducted the work of the
campaign, when it could be dono without
causing friction, in the interest of his friend
and neishbor. Senator Sherman. These
unexpected Kepublican members of
tne Legislature constitute tho major
ity or those who have been, un
til this week, non-committal on the Sen
atorial question. They are beginning to an
nounce themselves, and, as they do so, it be
gins to appear that they aremostly Foraker
men. xno managers oi tne ronucer cam
paign here say that these declarations will
continue to be made every lew days now un
til the Legislature meets, and that before
that time it will De very plain to all that ex
Goveror Foraker has a lanre majority of the
members of tho Republican caucus.
A friend of Foraker asserts that Senator
Sherman will recognize his inevitable de
feat before the election and will not appear
as a candidate at all.
The Wnrmcastlo Case Coming to an End.
The end of the Warmcastle case will
probably be reached to-morrow. Commis
sioner Mason, of the Internal Revenue
Bureau, held a consultation with the Presi
dent to-day, and also saw Secretary Foster,
in his sick room, in regard to the matter. It
was decided to not make any announcement
to-day, but it is probable that the decision
of dismissal will be given to the public to
morrow. Mr. Warmcastle has the sym
pathy of all who know him, and the Presi
deut'is severelv criticised for applying a
rigid rnle to his case, while in other cases
of much higher officials he has winked at
far graver offenses. Senator Quay and Rep
resentative Stone had a final talk with the
commissioner this afternoon, bnt failed to
secure any promise that the Collector would
be allowed to resign. The sentence of dis
missal is certain to come.
It is said the President is seriously con
sidering whether he should appoint Mr.
Miller Collector, as a recognition of the
anti-Quay faction. The Senator has had
several pleasant conferences with Mr. Har
rison, but has had no positive promise of a
favorable consideration of the claims of ex
Recorder Graham. He does not deny that
Graham's recommendations far outstrip all
others in weight, but in his own interest,
seems to feel that it would be policy to rec
ognize both Republican factions a shilly
shally policy that will make him more ene
mies than friends.
looking Ont for the Voters.
Senator Quay to-day secured the appoint
ment of Andrew G. White as Postmaster at
Beaver. The office has been held for years
by a woman, but Senator Quay concluded
that it was time the voters had a chance.
To propitiate the women a Miss Stokes is to
beimade assistant.
Representative Stone called to-day at the
office of Assistant Secretary Cronnz, to
complete his information in regard to the
site for the- postoffice in Allegheny. He
finds there is yet a possibility that the en
tire 100,000 appropriated may be made
available instead of 585,000 specifically
named for a site. The matter will be re
ferred to First Comptroller Matthews for a
decision. If it be found that the 35,000
appropriated for "beginning and continua
tion of work" cannot be added to the 85,000
provided for a site; Mr. Stone will intro
duce a new bill appropriating a sufficient
amount to purchase a site in a commend
able place. LlGHTXEB.
CHRISTMAS GIFTS SEIZED.
UNCLE
SAM TAKING CHARGE
BUSHELS OF THEM.
OF
Diamonds, Jewelry and Other Valuables
Sent From Europe and No Duty Paid
Tho Government Fatting a Stop to an
Extensive Practice.
If ew York, Dec. 22. Special.' On the
steamship City of Chester, from Liverpool
to-day, Christmas presents for various some
bodies were collected by TJncle Sam as fol
lows: Two diamond and pearl studs, 1 gold
watch chain, 2 diamond and rublv rings, 2
ladies' gold watches, 17 pairs of kid gloves,
3 diamond scarfpins. a cigar holder, photo
graphs and books. The collection belonged
to one passenger, name withheld.
The mail which came by the Britannic
and Etruria on Sunday and by the Ems to
day was the heaviest "yet received at this
postoffice. Out of this some 12 tubs full of
packages containing Christmas gifts have
been seized under section 3,061, revised
statutes of the United States.
These letters and packages contain jew
elry, paintings, articles of use and orna
ment, and every variety of Christmas pres
ents. Thev come from all parts of Europe,
and are addressed teall parts of this coun
try. Some are addressed to leaders of the
"four hundred" in this city; some to our na
tional legislators; some toprominent people
from Maine to California, from Mexico to
the lakes. The packages are examined, and
if they are dutiable they are retained until
the fine imposed by law is paid. One in
teresting seizure was a Bible. The interior
had been cut out and a razor placed therein.
A CAGE FOB THE DEMOCRATIC BIBS.
St. Paul to Dulld an Immenso Auditorium
for the Convention.
St. Paul, Dec. 22. The Joint City Coun
cil Committee on Auditorium to-night re
ported the result of a competition of archi
tects to the Council. The committee favored
the plan of Architect C A. Reed, whose
plan provides for 12,000 seats and is to be
built on the site of the present market
house. It is proposed to keep the expense
within 100.000.
Work will be begun at once. With this
immense auditorium well under way, a
guarantee fund of 100,000 and great hotel
capacity, St. Paul will continue to urge her
claims lor the Democratic National Con
vention. '
SIB EDWIN WANTS CASH.
A Kansas. City Manager Would Not
Doff
Up and He Wouldn't Lecture.
Kansas Crrr, Dec. 22. Special-
-Sir
Edwin Arnold did not read at the Audi
torium last nightas he had been advertised
to do, but went to Omaha'on the 9 o'clock
train. His engagement here was under a
contract with N. Dushane Cloward, a
musician who sometimes assumes the mana
gerial role as a speculation. His agreement
was to pay Sir Edwin's manager 600 a
night after each performance. Monday
night, although there was some 500 in the
house, he refused to make any settlement.
To-day he declined to disgorge, and to
night's engagement was canceled.
Deacon White Chicago Compromise.
Chicago, Dec. 22. The creditors of the
Chicago branch of a V. White & Co. have
cbmpromised their claims with the firm,
and to-day the suit for a receiver was -dismissed
by agreement It is understood that
theccttlenient,s were made at CO cents, on
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PITTSBURG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23,
DALZELLJIS OUT
And Pays for His Meal
With a Most Heartily
Applauded Toast.
HE WAS THE LION THEEE.
Chauncey Depew Talks of the
Crankiness of the Puritans.
HARD HITS AT MODERN FREAKS.
Eighty-Sixth Anniversary of Forefathers'
Pay in New Tort
AN FTE-OPENEB, FOR THE PILGRIMS
ff FECIAL TELEORAM TO THE DtgrATCII.1
New Yoek, Dec 22. About 550 sons of
New England celebrated Forefathers Day
with the eighty-sixth anniversary dinner at
Sherry's, in Fifth avenne, to-night. It was
a dinner which would have opened the eyes
of the Pilgrims, whose simple manners were
chiefly remembered in the pictures which
ornamated the admission card and the
menu.
J. Pierpont Morgan presided. Among
those present were Senator Frank Hiscock,
General Horace Porter, Lorenzo G. Wood
house, Walter S. Logan, C. P. Huntington,
David McClure, J. Seaver Page, Hon. John
Dalzell and the Presidents of sister socie
ties. Chauncey Depew came late.
In responding to the toast) "Our Fore
fathers," Rev. J. H. Twitchell, of Hart
ford, not only did full honor to the spirit
of the Puritans, but found time for some
jokes.
Tankee Notions Unrealized.
"Unrealized Yankee Notions" was the
topic assigned to Rev. "W. R. Huntington.
He said:
In spite of the prevailing popular opinion
to the contrary, in spite of tho widespread
belief that practicality is the distinguishing
notoof the New Englander, I make bold to
say that the truly representative Yankee
is first, last and always an idealist. The
Yankee notions which best deserve the name
are not those which strew tho counters of
the mercantile world, from China to Peru,
not mousetraps, axhead, claw-hammers,
Vfaltham watches and Waterbury clocks,
but rather of those notions of the mind
which, in the phrase of present day philos
ophy, we call "ideas."
Chauncey M. Depew spoke on "The
Crankiness of the Puritans." He said: .
Dr. Charcot, the most eminent authority
in Europe on diseases of the mind, declares
in an article in our newspapers of yesterday,
that every one who displays unusual intel
lectual activity and superiority, is undoubt-
eaiy insane. Accepting as true tne diagnosis
of this distinguished French alienist, I am
now addressing an exceptional crowd of se
lected lunatics. The crank has become the
most prominent featnre of our civilization.
The newspapers, are incomplete without
daily chronicles of his achievements. He
possesses an adrantago over ordinarv mor
tals in that he has never been interviewed.
Mr. Depew 'Waxes Very Sarcastic.
While Dr. Charcot claims that Shakespeare
and Milton were insane, we, with true
American progress, have advanced much
farther. As wo have evoluted the theory it
threatens to empty our prisons. Tho old
fashioned way was to lock up peonle who
endangered life or property or did deeds of
violence on either, for a statutory period,
but the new idea sends them to an asylum,
to come out in a few months to the itlory of
the professional gentlemen who havo
wrought a wonderful cure, and the terror of
the community who are the victims of those
experiments. Tho man who tries to
assassinate an eminent divine, or to dyna
mite a millionaire, or who makes "ducks
and drakes" of other people's money is, of
course, insane, and therefore irresponsible.
The Puritan was not that kind of a crank.
The most important article of his faith was
individual responsibility. lie believed in
arresting the sinner here as a preparatory
course for matriculation in thatlnrid uni
versity Delow, where, according to his view,
no superiority in athletics would have
secured graduation. The Puritan who
was ready to fight and willing to dio
for the privilege of worshiping God as ho
thought right was tho phenomenal crank of
the period. He was a perambulating can of
moral dynamite, whose explosion might
liberate the souls and minds of men. "Ho
w as, beyond dispute, tho most disagreeable
of human beings to all that constituted the
social and political power of his day. But
the sons of tho Puritans govern half tho
world, and their principles are the vital and
energizing forces with the other haif.
Isaac H. Browley responded to "Con
necticut's part in the business."
Dalzell On an Interesting Subject.
Horace Porter spoke amusingly of "Sires
and Sods," and Hon. John Dalzell, of Pitts
burg, talked entertainingly of "New Eng
land in Congress in Early Days." Mr.
Dalzell said:
New England's strongest mark on the
Federal Constitution is tho clause giving
national control to the regulation of com
merce. Strongest, I say, because of the far
reaching importance ot that power as now
exercised. No man not familiar with this
tremendous reach can appreciate tho extent
to which it makes us a nation ns contra-distinguished
Irom an aggregation ot States.
By means of it we havo free trndo
between 41 States and our Ter
ritories. Fieo ' trado in a commerce
by the side of -nhichthe commerce of any
other nation dwindles down to a compara
tive insignificance; since our internal com
merce, it is stated, is in value 25 times our
foreign commerce; a commerce, therefore,
that is double the entile foreign commeice
of all the other nations on the globe, and
ten times more than that of Great Britain.
fAoplause.1 Free trado upon our railroads
and rivers, upon ocean and Gulf, and upon
the goat lakes.
This power to regulate commeice reaches
not only to traffic, foreign and domestic, but
it has relation to the currency, to the tele
graph and the mail, to immigration, to har
bors and channels, to one rivers and the
bridges over them, to tho men and the ves
sels that navigato them, to tho creation of
corporations in connection with inter-Stato
commerce, and to the exercise of
eminent domain, even without au
chority from the States, and within
their lines. Applause. Tins great andfll
pervading power went into the Constitution
at tho instance of commercial NewEngland,
which agreed with the South in return
therefor that a 20-year lease of lire should
be given to the slave trade. And now the
slave trade and slavery belong to the buried
past, while the nation marches to now con
quests in tho world's great battle for com
mercial supremacy. Applause.
WANTED M0EE THAN THOUSANDS.
A Scheme to Slake Several Millions That
Didn't Pan Ont.
NewYobk, Dec. 22. Special. Charles
J. Peshall, a Jersey City lawyer, was ar
rested to-day by Sherift McPhillips, on a
writ of ne exeat granted by Chancellor Mc
Gill, at the instance of Cassius Reed, of the
Hoffman House. Bail was fixed at
5,000, but Mr. Peshall refused to
make any effort to secure a bondsman, and
he hints at suits for heavy damages. Ac
cording to the papers filed by Mr. Reed in
a suit against Peshall for an accounting,
Mr. Peshall, about four shears ago,
induced Mr. Reed to enter into part
nership with him in a land, speculation.
He painted the possibilities of an
immense fortune to him in such colors that
Reed advanced about 10,000. Reed savs
Peshall told him Robert Garrett was behind
him, and that the property would be taken
hy the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, wh.ich
was seeking gn outlet-, on j.New YorkiBay.
Peshall and Reed entered into partnership
and agreed to divide the profits. There
were at least 5,000,000 in it, Mr. Peshall
said.
A week ago last -Monday Peshall wrote
to Reed that he bid Sold one of the con
tracts for 25,000,;and invited him to come
and get his share of the profits. Mr. Reed,
believing he was! entitled to the entire
amount in part payment of the money he
advanced, procured an injunction from
Chancellor McG ill -restraining Peshall from
Selling any property or disposing of any
proceeds of any sale already made. It be
came rumored that Mr. Peshall wns about to
go to Virginia, and the arrest followed.
RUSSIA ALL READY.
SEALED ORDERS TO BE OPENED AT A
GIVEN WAR SIGNAL
Arming at All Points The Fleets in Chi
nese Waters Moving America Likely
to Be Drawn Into the Trouble England
Not Idle. " , ,
London, Dec 23. The St Petersburg
correspondent of the Times says:'
"The .Russian reserves have received
sealed instructions which are not to be
opened until a certain signal is given from
headquarters. The greatest activity pre
vails in all the Russian armament works and
dockyards."
A Shanghai cable says: Although Great
Britain is substantially represented on the
Yang-Tse-Kiang, the Admiral of the fleet
has not yet appeared at Shanghai. He has
been for several weeks cruising in the
vicinity of Vladivostok and off Corea,
and there is little donbt that he is
acting in accordance with instructions from
the home Government. These operations
practically amount to a reconnoisance, and
ore closely connected with the Russian ad
vance on Pamir-' The British Admiral vis
ited Port Hamilton and left three ships
there, which excited the Coreans, who were
under the belief that the Admiral intended
to acquire Corea. Russia's movements in
Asia undoubtedly changed Great Britain's
intention to join the naval demonstration
in Chinese waters. '
There are 20 American and European
men-of-war here. They will seize and oc
cupy Shanghai and -Woosung, and place
officers in charge of the Chinese customs.
It is the universal opinion that the crisis is
only suspended, and that the British will
be exceptionally active. It is believed that
China is willing to cede Formosa in ex
change for England's support against Rus
sia. Formosa is rich in minerals.
A SUICIDE QUARTET.
Three of Its Members Keep Their Pledges
and Take Their Own Lives Tho Fourth
Gets Married and May Change Her
Mind A Queer Story.
Iojja, Mich.-, Dec 22. Special Less
than a year ago three girls and a young man
residing in this city agreed to commit sui
cide. Three of the cvenan.ters Jiave al
ready jJerisbed by their owShands, and a
fourth is married and may have changed
her mind.
So far as has been ascertained the persons
who entered the terrible compact were
Grace Cook, May Shell, Fred Butler, and a
girl named Rogers. The agreement was
made at a convivial gathering, probably in
fun, but is being kept as though it was a
sacred obligation.
Grace Cook, the first to die, was found in
her room writhing under the effects of mor
phine, and soon expired. Several months
ago Fred Butler attacked a lady clerk with
a clnb. and, on being identified and traced
to his room by officers, fired a bullet into
his brain.
The third life sacrificed in pursuance of
the agreement was that of May Shell,
who died at Battle Creek, Sunday, with
every symptom of poisoning by morphine.
She came from a respectable family, but
when she plunged into the gayest society she
could get, her downfall was rapid. " Her
relatives did their utmost to check her way
ward life, but it was of no avail. She had
evidently determined to have what she
called a "good time," and kill herself when
her money was squandered.
The Rogers girl was recently married,
and, as she has not since associated with her
former companions, is presumed to have
abandoned the idea of sejf-destruction.
B0ST05 POLICE NEATLY BUNKOED.
They Feed and Tako Care of a Bogus Count
for Three Days.
BOSTON, Dec 22. Special It is not
very often that bunko men try their hands
at victimizing the police, but one of their
ilk has made a briljiant success of the new
game in this city. The police of station 2,
from captain down to patrolmen, were com
pletely hoodwinked by a yonng man who
palmed himself off as ConntTrau Scahwoloff,
a Russian lieutenant iu the Czar's navy.and
"worked" the blue-coats for free lodgings
and feed for three days aDd nights.
Nothing was too good for him. He was
hungry, and Cantain Heminway fed him
out of'his own lunch box. He was tired
and wanted lodging, and they offered him
the station to sleep in. Then "they blushed
at their impertinence in offering a lordly
Russian a settee to sleep on, and Lieutenant
Weir took him over to the Sherman House
and put the best the house afforded at his
disposal, saying to the clerk, "Send the bill
to me." That was Saturday, and the scamp
skipped to-day without even saying "thank
you.
F0BESAW HIS OWN. DEATH.
A New York Patent Lawyer Who Always
Carried Papers of Identification.
New Yoek, Dec 22. Special. Will
iam H. King, a patent lawyer, was found
dead in bed in his room in the Grand
Central Hotel to-day. Among his papers
was one indorsed "Who I Am," on the in
side of which was written this:
My name is William H. King. I am a
lawver andj United States Commissioner.
SIv office Is in tho Columbian building, 29
Broadway. While in New York I am stop
ping at the Grand Central Hotel, in Broad
way, opposite Bond. My wife and family
are in East Chatham, Columbia county. New
York. If I am unable to speak, I desire to
De taken to n hospital, and that notice be
sent to my wife in East Chatham, and also
to G. S. Warner, my typewriter, at my office
at 29 Broadway.
This iwos brought to light by friends of
the dead man, who said he carried such a
document about with him ever since he had
a paralytic stroke two years ago. Those
friends'said that death must have been due
to p aralysis. A vial that had contained
strychnine, a remedy used in cases of
parahsis, was among the dead man's pos-
i. sessions.
PEFFEB WEABS NO NECKTIE,
Instead, He Muffles His Throat in a Bed
"Flannel Clotlu
Washington, D. C, Dec 122. Special
A passing breeze in the Senate disclosed
the interesting and much disputed fact that'
SenatorPeffer wears no necktie, but instead
a red flannel cloth about his throat.
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GREED UNO CRUELTY
Combining Against the Miser
able Starring Knssian
Peasantry.
THE KNOUT FOE THIEVES.
Officers Must Be Bribed by Those Wlio
Expect to Get Free Aid.
WICKED VENDEES OP PROVISIONS
Sell to the Famine-Stricken People Bags
of Sand and Bran.
GOVERNMENT EEYENUES DECREASING
St. Petersburg, Dec 22. Reports of
the merciless repression of outlawry are
continually being received from the famine-stricken
districts. The civil authorities
do not depend upon themselves alone to
put down brigandage and other lawless
acts, but upon the merest pretext they sum
mon the military with the intention of
overawing the people.
Three men who were convicted of rob
bery at Simbersk, capital of the govern
ment of that name, were condemned to un
dergo punishment with the knout. So well
did the official play his dreadful weapon that
the poor wretches, who had probably stolen
only to keep life in their miserable bodies,
died under the lash. '
Another case where the sentence, accord
ing to Russian official ideas, was made to fit
the crime, was that of a man who was de
tected in the heinous crime of stealing a
few turnips. He was hauled before a court
of justice and sentenced to penal servitude
for life.
The Bright Side of the Picture.
The correspondent of the London Tele
graph tells a story of the famine that does not
agree with the reports hitherto received re
garding the feeling of the Russian people,
as a whole, toward the famine sufferers. It
is known beyond question that the officers
of many regiments have foregone their
usual regimental banquets in order to de
vote the money, which wonldthus have been
spent, to relieve the poor and distressed.
This action was also followed by the mem
bers of the order of St. George upon the oc
casion of that saint's name-day.
Others have followed the' example thus
set, and large sums have been turned over
to the Relief Committee. It was believed
that the Government was looking closely into
all the expenditures for the relief of the
sufferers.. It is a fact that a number of
grain dealers who were detected in adulter
ating their products, were sentenced to
terms of imprisonment, and it was then
stated that the Government would prose
cute anyope'rho'was'foaiidrfe trading irrH
an unfair or dishonest manner with the
peasants.
Selling Bass of Bran and Sand.
The 'Telegraph's correspondent says that
the distress has not touched the hearts of
the rich merchants of St. Petersburg, and
they refuse to subscribe anything for the
relief of their suffering countrymen. He
cites as an illustration of the apathy with
which the appeals for help have been re
ceived, the fact that the collection boxes
which had been placed about the Corn Ex
change were found, when removed, to be
filled with bits of tin and pieces of paper.
The correspondent further says that in
numerous cases dealers, after receiving ex
orbitant prices for their grain, sent to the
famine-stricken provinces bags filled mostly
with sand and bran. A limited quantity of
maize was placed in each bag after it had
been thoroughly soaked in water to increase
its bulk. These bags caught fire through
spontaneous combustion while en route to
their destination, and most of them were
destroyed. Enough were left, however, to
reveal the swindle the dealers intended to
perpetrate upon the buyers of the grain.
Official Corruption Is Widespread.
The correspondent say3 that corruption is
widespread among the office holders and
that they are little affected by the sights of
distress,sickness and death which are visi
ble on every hand. Many town officials, he
says, refuse to enroll the starving peasants
on the relief list unless they first pay a
bribe to them at the rate of 10 copecks for
every poole of rye given.
Pe'titionsto the provincial assemblies and
the Government, asking that the dramshops
be closed, and that the sale of vodka, the
national drink, be forbidden, have availed
nothing. During the fiscal year of 1891 the
taxes on spirits in Russia amounted to 259,
480,880 roubles. A great part of this reve
nue was derived from vodka, euormous
quantities of which are drank throughout
the country, and the granting of the peti
tion above mentioned was refused on the
ground that by closing the dramshops and
forbidding the sale ot vodka, the revenue
accruing from this source would be reduced
to a great extent.
The BeTenue Falling OS
There has been an enormous falling off
in tne Government revenues irom the
famine-stricken provinces. In the province
of Voronezk alone the deficit for September
was 670,000 roubles; for October it was 800,
000 roubles, and for November it was
1,000,000 roubles. It is calculated that by
the end of December the arrears will reach
the sum of 6,000,000 roubles. Similar con
ditions prevail in other province affected by
the famine, and the prospects are just as
gloomy. The passport, labor and other re
stricting laws have been removed so as to
enable the peasants to migrate.
SOUTH CAB0LI5A UP IN ABHS
Against Its Legislature's Befnsal tar Help a
World's Fair Exhibit
Columbia, a C., Dec 22. Special
The House of Representatives to-day re
jected the bill to provide for the representa
tion oi the State at the World's Fair. The
bill provided for the creation of a commis
sion composed of seven white men, two
women and one negro, and appropriated
15,000 to pay preliminary expenses. It had
passed the Senate.
There is great indignation throughout the
State in consequence of this action in re
form legislation, and a movement will be
inaugurated in all counties of the State
looking to the organization of a commission
and the raising of a fund by popular sub
scription to have the State represented at
the fair. The movement has already been
started in Charleston and other principal
cities.
THE FAMILIES CONSOLIDATED.
Five
Brothers Marry Five Sisters and
Wipe Oat a Local Name.
Montgomery, ALA.,Dec22. Special.
In 'Blount county, lately the Icene of so
many murders, two families have rived near
each other for the past ten years, one named
rWrite and? the ' other Johnson. - Mr. and
'.tfllte ' -
.aMidSBOtmltsiss
HOW THE POBLIC-IS ACCOMMODATED.
Mrs. Write had five daughters about grown
up, and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson had five sons
who had attained their majority. The fam
ilies have been neighbors and intimate for
many years, and people were not surprised,
when, t o years ago, the two eldest John
son boys married two of the Write girls.
Shortly afterward Mrs. Johnson and Mr.
Write died, and the marriage of another
daughter of Mrs. WAxhad to be deferred
for a week or two
it of the grief in
the families. A si
o Mr. John-
son. Sr.. was marriedA K? Write and
one of the two remaining- O- Turfed the
youngest Write girl. TheN.j.'O' vas a
double one Yesterday ttKSfc- fj&ZVZ
Johnson boy was married
oW Wi
maining Write girl, and so
thexir'V
Vrite natJt
y
have consolidated and the Write
longer lives in Blount county.
DEPRIVED OF HER CHILD.
J. O. BLAINE III. CAN'T SPEND CHRIST
MAS WITH HIS MA.
The Dakota Court Won't Allow Him Oat ot
Its Jurisdiction Tho Mother Affected
to Tears Tf hen Told the News Progress
of the Testimony.
New York, Dec 22. Special The
son of James G. Blaine, Jr., is not to spend
Christmas in New York, as his mother had
expected. The Dakota court before which
Mrs. Blaine's divorce suit is pending re
fuses to allow the child out bf its jurisdic
tion until its custody is determined.
The custody of the child is h point over
which the parties to this case and others
back of them are fighting hotly. Young
Mrs. Blaine had the boy in her keeping in
Dakota during her residence there, and
when she: came East she left him in charge
of a nurse in Eargo. On Sunday she tele
graphed to the person in Eargo having
charge of the child to take it to St. Paul,
where Mrs. Blaine's brother waj to take
charge of it and bring it to New York.
A telegram came to-day to Mrs. Blaine's
lawyer, Edgar M. Johnston, informing him
that the Circuit Court of Dead wood refused
to allow the child to be taken out of the
jurisdiction of the court. The child 13 now
the ward of the court, and will remain so
until the divorce suit is" settled, and until
such time, the dispatch iaid, the child must
remain within the court's jurisdiction.
This information was conveyed, to Mrs.
Blaine when she was with her lawyer in the
office of "the referee, Dauiel Lord, Jr.
Young James G. Blaine was present. Mrs.
Blaine left the office with her eyes filled
with tears.
The taking of evidence in the divorce
suit before Referee Lord was continued this
afternoon. Several witnesses were ex
amined. It was said that many days more
may be occupied in the reference before all
the testimony is in.
After Referee Lord and all the witnesses
had gone home Mr. and Mrs. Blaine and
their lawyers were in consultation together
in the office of the referee for an hour.
Rumors were afterward circulated that
efforts and advices were being made look
ing to a compromise in the divorce suit It
was positively learned, on the best author
ity, that there was no truth in the rumors.
THE FAMILY SKELETON
Follows in the Wake of a Hoosier Funeral
The Husband of the Dead Woman
Tries to Assault His Father-ln-Law for
Kissing tho Corpse.
Eort WAYUE, Ind., Dec 22 Special
This afternoon, at the, First United
Brethren Church of this city, occurred the
funeral of Mrs. Titus, the young wife of
Engineer C H. Titus, of the New York
Central Railroad. The father of the de
ceased, Samuel Karriger, together with a
brother and sister, were present, but owing
to ramify troubles were not permitted to
enter carriages although they were allowed
to view the remains in the church.
The father was' greatly affected, and,
stooping over, kissed the brow of his dead
daughter. This enraged the husband, who
shouted "Let me at him," at the same time
trying to take off his coat. Several women
screamed and fainted and a panic ensued,
many running out of the church.
Karriger was finally removed to. a remote
part of the church, where a guard was
placed over him to protect him from his
son-in-law. In the excitement the choir
fled through the back doors and refused to
return. Order was only partiallv restored.
many friends leaving who objected to" the
ruae dragging oi tne iamiiy skeleton to tne
very grave.
An OH Company in Bad Shape.
Chicago, Dec 22. Sidney A. Stevens,
receiver of the Columbia Oil Company,
made a report of the condition of the com
pany to Judge Blodgett to-day. The liabil
ities are $1,132,532, including $1,000,000 in
stock, and the assets are estimated to be
worth 5448,376. The estimate includes the
plants at Onatonna, Mich., and Memphis,
Tenn.
Timothy Hopkins Asks Delay,
Salem, Mass., Dec 22. Counsel for
Timothy Hopkins has filed a motion for de
lay in the issuance of a commission to take
the depositions of Newman and other
prominent witnesses in the Searles will
case The delar is asked for several days
on account of absence of Timothy Hopkins
from the State.
THIS MOKNIXG'S KETfS DIEECT0RT.
Topic Page.
Mills Now Small Potatoes 1
Dalzell at a New England Dinner 1
Awfal Stories From Bassiu 1
A Workhoase Sensation 1
Dowle Attacks Bev. C. E. Locke 3
Bofilncton to Be the Judge 2
A Christinas Shopper's Woes 2
The Glass-Freight Bate War 3
Editorial and Miscellaneous 4
Canada's Bad Muddle.. 5
Political News and Gossip 7
Loss of the Steamship Abyssinia 7
How Myer Whipped Carroll 7
News of Three States '. 8
Sporting Events and Chat 8
'Local Labor Matters , O
The County Courts. 10
Oil Field Review , 10
Financial and Commercial Markets 11
"Yesterday's Senate Proceedings ?;.; la"
THREE CENTS.
A PLANK BED
And Bjead and Water for
6o Days in a Solitary
Cell the Reward
FOR WRITING A BOOK.
The Way the Workhouse Powers
Crush Literary Ambitions.
AUTHORS NOT WANTED THERE.
Speak-Easy Sterling and Pedagogue Reiner
Write on Prison Reform.
Superintendent Hill Appears as Critic,
and Does Not Approve of the Work
Both Placed in the Whitehouse,
Which Corresponds to the Black Hole
. of Other Institutions Sterling- Has
Stood It for Two Months Now A
Statement From the Authorities.
Posteritvhas been robbed of a priceless
work on prisons and prison reform, by
James Sterling and Prof. Reiner. The work
has been stopped, and for their literary as
pirations one of the authors was forced to
live for over 40 days on bread and water,
and the other has just completed his sixtieth
day on a similar diet
The inception of the idea came to them
through circumstances over which they had
no control. By chance and due course of
law they were thrown into each other's
society at the workhouse at Claremont
Sterling is a famous card shary, and for
keeping a gilt-edged speak-easy on Water
street he was sent up on October 11, 1890,
for 10 months. Reiner was there for assault
ing one of his pupils, but the day before
Thanksgiving he was released, as his term
had expired.
Arranging Their Literary Work.
Like all prisoners, they found many irreg
ularities, and, of course, the institution was
hot run according to their tastes and ideas,
and as a consequence was all wrong. Ster
ling was to record facts and incidents, while
the school marm of the male persuasion was
to furnish the heavv philosophical deduc
tions and the scheme for conducting prisons
on the Bellamy plan.
But penal Institutions, like corporations,
are heartless, and have no appreciation for
literature. At the workhouse men are al
lowed to write hut once a month, and
then only under the supervision of the
chaplain. They were separated,. ..but like
young lovers they found a "way. The gam
bler soon became "Jones, the Saint," but
in the meantime they had made an arrange
ment by which they could communicate
with the outside world nearly every day.
They learned of the change in the manage
ment almost as soon as it occurred and be
fore William Hill assumed his duties as
Superintendent of the Workhouse a gentle
man called on him and painted rosy ac
counts of the virtues of two men then con
fined in that institution whom he believed
had been wrongly convicted. They were)
Sterling and Reiner.
He Wanted to Be Educated.
The former, he admitted, had kept a
speak-easy, but confinement and an instinct
ive desire to be good since he was separated
from evil companions had caused a reforma
tion. Sterling was represented as an illiter
ate man who longed to live in the light of
higher education. The gentleman, there
fore, prayed that Sterling be placed in the
same cell with the schoql teacher Reiner,
and by the time his term was ended he
would have sufficient education to earn an
honest living. The request was granted,
but it was soon learned that Sterling was
much more of a scholar than the "birch,
swinger."
It was then the prison management
dropped to Sterling's reformation, and the
prison school was broken up. The men
were watched, and it was learned that Ster
ling was really a ringleader of a kind of so
ciety among the convicts, and was trans
ferring all sorts of stuff in and ont
of the prison. One of the fellows
through whom they worked was an in
nocent country lout, who was unsus
pected. A woman would come to
see him, and the letters and other matters
would be given to him and then turned over
to the woman. One day he was caught in
the act. Among the stuff was a large roll of
manuscript intended for the book. Much
of it was the philosophical stuff written by
Reiner, and the remainder was devoted to
liberally roasting the officers of the work
house and the management in general.
It was alleged that there were maggots in
the meat, animals of unknown- name in
habiting the soup, and various other little
irregularities in the larder of the institu
tion. The "stool pigeon" was asked who
had written the stuff, and he declared the
person who had given it to him did not
know how to write
One Way to Befresh a Memory.
Mr. Reiner was called up, but said he
could not tell who had written it until he
saw the writing. Even then he could not
identify it, and denied everything. - He
was sent to the east wing to refresh his
memory. The east wing means solitary
confinement This did no good, and, acting
on the idea that memory will not refresh it
self so long as the stomach 13 overburdened,
he was sent to the whitehouse This is not
the Executive Mansion, but simply a dimly
lighted cell, absolutely bare save for a nar
row plank which answers as a bed.
There he was given an abundant supply
oi water, and never had any excuse for be
ing thirsty. Added to this luxury, he was
occasionally given some bread. When
ever he was visited he could only talk
philosophy, and carefully avoided the
truth on the matter of the papers. He per
sisted in keeping silent until his full time
was nearly served. Then Superintendent
Hill took pity on him and released him the
day before Thanksgiving.
While Reiner was enjoying the luxuries
of the whitehouse it was discovered that
part of the work was in Sterling's hand
waiting and he was also called up. On that
occasion he made the speech of his life on
unjust arrest and demanded the proof.
Large quantities of paper and envelopes, as
well as postage stamps, were found on his
person and in his cell, together with a few
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