wsssm
ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE?
SPECIAL TO LET LISTS
Are printed to-day in THE BIS.
PATCH. It you are going to moTO
yon should read them careinlly.
They will guide home-hunters.
Then read the Special Advertise
ments in THE DISPATCH To fcet
Colnmas to-day. They arc most
satisfactory.
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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAH.
E
SOT AFRAID.
Of an Investigation of the
' Conduct of His Of
fice Just Now.
FOREWARNED IN TIME
To Make Himself Solid With Lots of
Democratic Congressmen.
THE SET-TO OVER FREE SILVER
Putting a Good Many Kew Members on
Their Mettle to Do Battle.
A Eon? Straggle With the Problem Is
Predicted The New Cloth Prefera
ble to the Threadbare Tariff as a Cam
paign Issue A Broad National View
Taken by Soma Members Very Lit
tle Expected to Come of the Pension
Bureau Inquiry Commissioner Baum
Prepared for the Shower by Putting
His Democratic Clerks Into Good
Berths Colonel Howard's Where
abouts Unknown, but They Would Be
Handy Pittsburgers Putting in a
Good Word for George Shiras, Jr., for
Supreme Judge.
trxciAi TEtxGRrnir letter.
hcuemj of The dipatcit,
M ASMIsGTOV. 1). C leb. 14. (
The hitting from the shoulder which has
been going on more or le6s prhately be
tween Springer and Bland for some time is
expected, before the week is ont, to resolve
itself into the larger entertainment of a
plugging match with the open House as the
ring and laige crowds of sport-loving spec
tators well enough divided in sentiment to
sec that there is fair play.
Mr. Springer is determined to exhaust all
the resources of his tactical mind to make
good his announcement to the goldbugs of
the recent Jackson banquet at New York
lliat no free coinage bill shall be pased by
the House during this session of Congress.
Eicrydaythe Democrats of the East and
West are putting new doses of gall and
wormwood into their battle oer the great
question, and the leaders on each side are
urged to new lests of opposition by their
resjectie followers
A Very Lively Timo Coming.
Just when this pretty set-to will begin is
not yet decided, but something very Jively
jcair)M .""3aic ft wur-befor5 tie week
is gone. The time depends largely on tbe
return of many Democratic absentees who
are on the Bland side of the fracas. When
it is once forced to the front, it will very
probably require much more time to gel it
retiicd "again to the rear than many
imagine.
How a long straggle can be avoided those
who predict hort and shaq work nave not
been able to explain to my understanding.
Nearly eierj one will want to hair, not a
little," but a ver great deal to say on one
side or the other While it is an exceeding
ly ticklish question to deal with as a parti
san proposition to go before the country
with, it is, especially to the free coinage
men, a most enticing one to go to their dis
tricts with to insure a reuomination.
Both rnrlies "Way He Split Cp.
It may split both parties disastrously be
tw een the 3 iist andthe West.upon the nation
al candidates but really each Congressman
rares a thousand times more to hit exactly
the popular fancy or the popular ignorance
with glowing stcnip orations sown broad
cast in parts of the Congressional Record, de
scribing how by this or that plan the pock
ets of the dear, impecunious peopleare to
be filled by the prolound inventions of Con
gressional economist":.
It is this desire which is the frontthoueht
in the craniuras of most of the statesmen,
and my word for it, the big majority in the
House, will soon be tumbling over each
other to get to it.
There is hardly any doubt that the mass
of the Democratic constituencies are in
iavor of free coinage. Am thing that seems
favorable to the getting of more money into
circulation is ery commendable to their
fancy. The money lenders, they say, want
money to be scarce, and the borrower, which
is nearly eerybody and his neighbor,
wants it in plentj.
eii Men HaTlng Mnch to Risk.
"Which is the Congressman going to serve,
God or Mammon? They will take their
chances on getting hold of the money and
of its rise or fall in value, if Congress w ill
but shovel the dollars out of the mints.
That all this must weigh tremendously
among the individuals of the top-heavy
majority in the House becomes still more
clear when one remembers that a large
number of them come lrom constituencies
where their re-election is in doubt. They
were elected in an "oil" year," upon a
jumble of contusing representations and
misrepresentations which cannot be suc
cessfully cooked over for a second meal.
Another kind of pretender will have to
be gathered from fresh fields and dumped
into the campaign. The siher question,
rut over from new material more fitted for
homespun people, offers so vastly a more
inviting cloth for the demogogic tailor than
does the patched and seedy tariff question,
that few of the Democratic candidates for
renomination and election can mike a mis
take, excepting those of the Eastern and
Middle States.
Some Men or Broad Views,
While all of the questions which will be
thrust on Congress lor campaign use will be
treated with more or less skill wholly in a
(.elfish and demogogic way for district con
sumption, there are some who take a broad,
national view, for the purpose of deinocrat-
iciring the administration first and then the
Congtess district.
I iancyMr. Springer is one of these, and
possibly Speaker Crisp is another. Possi
bly, too, the fact that they need not be
grcatlr alarmed in regard to their own
fences may have an effect to liberalize their
views. Whatever may be their opinions,
lioVcver, they will need to make herculean
GE
L
RAUM
efforts, even with all the parliamentary ad
vantage to be squeezed from their positions,
to stand successfully against the tide that is
mounting higher every day against them on
the free coinage issue.
While Speaker Crisp has at last gained
sufficient energy to appoint a committee to
take up the vast subject of Commissioner
Kaum and the Pension Bureau generally, I
am told the probabilities are that very lit
tle will come of it.
Kaum Preparing Tor Emergencies.
General Kaum has been heard to say that
he had so many Democratic friends in Con
gress he did not feel alarmed. He has been
very judicious recently in his promotions
in the bureau, which swarms with Demo
cratic clerks. lam assured by persons in
whom I have the utmost confidence that
nearly every promotion in recent months
has been from among the Democratic clerks.
Possibly thev were discovered to be most
deserving. That would be a good discovery
to make while this Houss of Eepresenta
atives has lift.
One feature of the matter attracts atten
tion just now among some who are of
neither the investigators nor the investi
gated. Some time ago I gave considerable
space in these letters to Colonel Howard, a
very bright and agreeable gentleman who
was largely instrumental in having serious
charges filed against General Kaum with
Secretary Noble, and who resigned in dis
gust from the Bureau, where he had a good
clerkship, because no attention was paid
to his affidavits. Colonel Howard started
for Europe immediately before the
laic elections, making conspicuous threats
that while in New York and on the eve of
theelections, he would give to thepnblichis
whole stock of knowledge of the misman
agement of the Pension Bureau. He
stopped in New York, but eidentlv his
party loyalty overcame his moral indigna
tion," for" he has not been heard lrom since,
and his most intimate associates, after much
recent eflort, have failed even to get his
address. It is simply known that he sailed
lor Europe. As Colonel Howard would be
possibly the most important witness in case
an investigation were started, it would be
interesting to know his whereabouts.
A Good "Word for Mr. Shiras.
The President enjoyed a very quiet little
chat yesterday afternoon with several dis
tinguished Pittsburgers, escorted by Hon.
John Dalzell. The visitors w ere Messrs.
J. H. Ilickertson, B. F. Jones, A. IL
Childs, John W. Chalfant and A. E. H.
Painter, and their purpose was to urge
upon the President the appointment of
Hon. George Shiras, Jr., to the vacancy on
the Supreme Bench of the United States,
resulting from the death of Justice Bradley.
The lisit was prolonged much beyond the
usual term of such calls, aud was greatly
enjoyed by all, though of course there was
no indication whether the President had
agreed in his own mind in regard to the ap
pointment. LlGHTXEK.
TARIFF ON IMMIGRANTS.
A PROPOSITION TO CHARGE EACH OF
THE31 S13 ADMISSION.
The Trejent Fee of SO Cents Considered
Too Cheap for the Advantages They
Gain More Discrimination Aimed st
by the Hlchcr l'rice.
Washington-, D. C.,Feb. 14. Special.
It has been suggested to the Commis
sioner of Immigration that a stop can be
put to the practice of importing con
tract laborers and undesirable
immigrants gcrerallv by imposing upon
each new arrival in the United States a poll
tax" ef $13. At present only CO cents per
head is exacted from the steamship
companies for this class of passengers, but
it is qrgued that if the' price should be
raised more discrimination would be exer
cised in the selection of intending citizens
of the United States.
During the past week Commissioner
Owen ha had several conferences with
members of the Board of Immigration Com
missioners as well as the customs officials at
New York.and while he has not et reached
a conclusion on the subject, still he is con
vinced that there is an urgent necessity
for reforms in immigration matters.
His idea is that not less than
fl per head should be paid by the steamship
companies forsteerage passengers emigrating
from European and other ports with a
view to hating a sufficient sum always
on hand to care for such persons at least a
year. Attention has been invited to the
fact that out of the present poll
tax sufficient has been realized to
construct buildings on Eilks island, the
cost of the former being upward of ?G00,
000, and still leave a surplus fund to sup
port immigrants.
One of the greatest abuses to be
corrected, however, in the transporta
tion of immigrants, according to those
well informed on the subject, re
lates to the question of accommodations.
Many ot the inspectors in their reports to
the Immigration Bureau declare that it is
impossible for persons coming to the
United States to be properly cared for
and fed at the rates charged for passage, in
most instances 516 being the ruling rate per
head.
"Immigrants are herded w orse than cat
tle," says one of the inspectors in his
report, "and I doubt very much
whether any person who "owns a
dog would give it such quarters as
are at present assigned human beings by
trans-Atlantic steamship companies."
TEN MINEES LOST IN ALASKA
They Are l'robablj Killed by a Band of
Hostile Indians Therr.
POKT Townsend, Wasil, Feb. 14. Ad
vices from Alaska concerning the fate of
Morris Orton and his party of ten
miiiers indicate that the men have been
murdered by Indians or lost in trying to
cross the stormy waters from Cross"Sound
to Yukilla. Searching parties have hunted
six weeks for the missing miners without
success, and all hope of recovering their
bodies has been abandoned.
Orton's party left Lily Bay for Juneau
in November, but were never heard from
again. Citizens of Sitka organized and be
sought the commander of the warship Pinta
to go to their rescue, it being thought the
men were lost in the woods and in danger of
starvation. Mayuard refused to go. He
said his ship was unseaworthy, and that the
trip would only endangerthe lies of his
crew of 50 men. He considered the missing
men were beyond human aid. Searching
parties were organized and a sailing
vessel sent to search for the let miners, but
no traces were found. Recent hostile acts
of the Indians of the neighborhood confirm
the fears that -the men were killed and
robbed by Indians and their bodies thrown
into the sea.
LESS COTTON IN GE0SGIA.
Tobacco, Tflieat and Corn Will Monopo
lize Many Fields Next Season.
Maco", Ga., Feb. 14. Some time since
the Telegraph mailed inquiries to every cot
ton raising county in Georgia asking for
estimates in the cotton acreage for the
present year. Replies were received from
a large majority of these correspondents.
The replies indicate a general reduction of
the acreage devoted to cotton throughout
the State of about 20 per cent as compared
with the crop or last year. Considering
the early date at hich these estimates w ere
made the Tdegraph will say that a conserva
tive estimate will make the crop at last 15
per cent less than that of last jear.
The acreage devoted to cotton heretofore
will be this year nlanted in corn, wheat,
peas and other food crops. Tobacco culture
will also claim attention from Georgia
farmers, and in some counties where experi
ments have proven successful a large crop
will be planted. For instance in Decatur
county, where it has, been demonstrated that
cigar tobacco may be very successfully pro
duced, the acreage this year will be at least
50,000. The amount of commercial ferti
lizers used this year will be fully 30 per
cent less than last year, and this gives em
phasis to the estimated reduction of the cot
ton crop, as it Is almost out of the question
to raise a successful cotton crop in portions
of State without their use.
SARAH HIEL MISSING.
THE DE51KNTED WOMAN WANDERS
FROM HER FRIENDS. -
She Leaves Editor CnlbTeth's House With
out Saying Goodby Some of Her
Vagaries She Believes She Is Gnided
by the Spirit of Judge Terry.
San Francisco, Feb. 14. Special.
Crazy Sarah Althea Terry, who isinsane on
spiritualism and believes she is directed in
all her actions by the late Judge Terry,disap
peared from Editor Cnlbreth's house at 7
o'clock this morning.and no clew has yet been
secured to her whereabouts. Doctors dosed
her last night with opiates, and she secured
her first sleep for nearly four, days. She
looked better this morning, and surprised
Mr. Culbrcth early, by appearing in full
street costume and saying she wanted to
walk on the sidewalk in front of the house.
As she took no cloak he thought she
meant what she said and waited to dress be
fore following her. He was amazed when
he reached the street to find her gone. He
thinks she has gone to friends in Oakland.
He frankly admitted he was going to have
her put in charge of the authorities to-morrow,
as she had worn him out and damaged
his bouse by her eccentricities.
One of her habits is to stand by the open
window when she gets np in the morning,
and pour a pitcherlul of water over her head.
She has nothing but a night robe on, and
she lets the water splash on the floor, ruin
ing the carpet and damaging the ceiling in
the rooni -below. She says this bath cools
her head. Culbreth says she did this eveiy
morning and night while in his house, and
to this exposure he attributes the afiection
of the lungs from which she is suffering.
He tells some extraordinary stories of her
vagaries. She actually believes Judge
Terry, who wasmurdercd by Deputy Mar
shal Nagle, is in constant communication
with her. She also thinks she is the most
powerful mind reader since Bishop died,
and she declares she is in a trance and that
snrgeons want to cut her up, as they did
Bishop, while she is yet alive. She calls
continually for Porter Ashe, who she claims
is the only one strong enough to rescue her
from this dangerous trance.
AN0THEB JUNKET
Arranged by World's Fair Boomers For
Congressmen antt Their Families.
Washington, Feb. 14. Hon. A. T.
Ewin, Chairman of the Citizen Committee
of Chicago, who is here to invite the mem
bers of Congress and other persons to visit
the city aud inspect the progress of the
work on the World's Fair buildings, said
to-night:
"Wc are meeting with a very flattering
response to the invitations to visit Chicago
on February 22. The wives and daughters
of Senators "and Representatives are taking
great interest in the proposed visit, which
will make the affair a notable social event.
The invitations to the Commercial Club
banquet and cards to Mr. and Mrs. Potter
Palmer's reception at their home have 'ar
rived and will be distributed Monday. I
hope to have snswers from these invitations
by Tuesday morning, and will then be able
to tell just the number who will leave on
Friday afternoon, February 19."
ENGLAND WINS AT CAIRO.
rrcmicr Salisbury Has His Way With the
Khodive in Spite of France.
Paris, Feb. 14. The Secretary of the
British embassy in Constantinople had an
audience with the Sultan yesterday, and it
is semi-officially announced to-day the fir
man of inestiture of the present Khe
dive of Egypt has been prepared, and that
it is worded in the exact terms of the fir
man investing the late Khedive Tewfik
Pasha. This is Jegardcdasa signal success
for English diplomacy, as it defeats the at
temptsto induce the Sultan to insert the
firman instructions to the Khedive reflect
ing upon the English supremacy in Egypt.
The Sultan preferred to adhere to theold
form In order not to embtrass the Khedive.
The ceremony of investiture will take
place in Cairo, in accordance with the de
sire of England and with the concurrence
of the Khedive.
NO HOSE SAWMILLS.
A Huge Knife Splits nnd Dresses Logs Into
Merchantable Lumber.
New YOEK, Feb. 14. A large number of
well-known business men met in the Eagle
Steam Saw Mill Works, Grcenpoint, yes
terday to witness an exhibition of a new
process of cutting boards from the log. The
machine used was a knife that weighed,
with its settings, 450 pounds. It is moved
by a flywheel that weighs six tons. The
entire plant weighs over 40 tons.
The logs cut were spruce, birch, green ash,
Spanish cednr, beech, maple and cherry,aud
were sliced into half-inch planks at the rate
of 25 a minute, and dressed on both sides.
The exhibition was pronounced a success,
and is destined to revolutionize the lumber
trade.
LIVING "WITH LITTLE BBAINS.
A West Virginia Man's Hard Battle to Re
tain Bis Lire.
GLEXVILLE, W. Va., Feb. 14. Special.
Phjsicians in this part of the Stale are
taking great interest in the cise of Doc
Snyder, who was dashed against a post by a
runaway team last Friday.
He is still living, although his skull was
horribly fractuied, a considerable quantity
of brains being left on the post against
which his head struck, and the attending
physician says a handful of brains have
since exuded" from the skull.
NOT C0NSIDEBED DANGEROUS
TJntll no Went at His Wife With
an Axo
and Killed Her.
Ashville, Tenn., Feb. 14. William
Hassell, au insane farmer, killed his wife
with an axe yesterday and then attempted
suicide. Hassell was in the yard and re
quested his wife to bring him an axe. She
did. so and stooped to pick up something
when Hassell struck her, mashing her head
almost to a jelly. He then attempted to cut
his own throa. Hassell has not been in
his right mind for some time but was not
considered dangerous.
SiPors Felled by Yellow Fever.
New York, Feb. 14. Special The
United States and Brazil Mall Company's
passenger steamship Vigilancia, which ar
rived to-day from Brazilian ports, left five
ofbercrcwat Bahva ill with yellow fever,
which they contracted while the vessel was
at Santos. Dr. Whitehead, the ship's sur
geon, also caught the fever. He was treated
bv Dr. Corbin. a passencer. and recovered.
The essel. was permitted to come up to her.
tdeck to-night alter disinfection.
PITTSBURG. MONDAY.
LAST OmECLOSE
"Who Buried Himself for 50
Years in a New York
Tenement House.
POND OF OLD PAINTINGS
And Owner of a Valuable Collection
of Three Hundred.
LITTLE KKOWN OP THE OLD MAN
Who Yesterday Died All Alone, Just as He
Had Lived Go Lon?.
SOME OF TIIE MAX'S PECULIARITIES
rSPECIAL THXGKA31TO TIIE DISPATCH-.!
New York, Feb. 14. In the winter of
1843 a man in the prime of life hired room
59,on the top floor of the University build
ing, on the east side of Washington square.
His name was Henry Ten Broeck Gamngo.
He furnished the room, hung up a lot of old
pictures and lived there. He died there to
day, alone, as he had lived.
The condition of things was diflerent 40
3 cars ago, but the University building
that part of it, at least, which is a bachelors'
lodging house had the same reputation
for independence and reserve that it has to
day. Nobody learned anything about Mr.
Gamage, or cared to learn anything. He
went out early and came back early, and
never told any one where he had been.
Pretty soon the servants whispered to
one another that the gentleman in No. 59
was ery "close." Instead of paving one
of them a small stipend to clean Iiisroom
every morning and bring water upstairs he
attended to these things himself.
Three Hundred Old Palatines.
One day came a tfagon loaded with dusty
old paintings for Mr. Gamage. There were
nearly 300 of them, aud they all showed
signs of age. He had them sent up to his
room, where he hung some of them on the
wall and piled the rest on the floor. There
are to-day a few tenants in the University
who have been there ten years. In this
time they had struck up a nodding acquain
tance with Mr. Gamage. He had grown to
be au old man with snow white hair, though
he still retained much of the vigor of
younger davs.
One of these tenants, who is an artist,
walked into Mr. Gamage's room one even
ing to borrow a match. Mr. Gamage
smiled as he saw the man looking around
the room aud said: "Quite a lot ot pictures
here." The artist asked him what they
were. "Old Italian masters. Some old
English. Very valuable some of them
very valuable."
About seven years ago Mr. Gamage in
formed this artist that he had obtained an
appointment in the nppiaiser's stores.
"Senator Eiarts was a classmate of mine at
Yale," was the only explanation he gave.
He held the office until about four years
ago, when President Cleveland removed
him.
A Dally Visitor at Art Galleries.
His work did not interJereTVifitJr
liabits,.asar asatfy-of the tenants observed,
but when ne lost ms piace one oi mcin
asked him one eeuing how he spent the
day. "Oh. I've .been to the art galleries. I
gothere every day."
It was nearly a year after this that they
learned that it was his habit to visit a pic
ture gallery or an art exhibition or a pub
lic library daily. ""
East Friday afternoon at C o'clock he left
his room and went to his supper. A little
after 8 o'clock his familiar step came
up the stair. The neighbors heard
him deposit the pail of water on the
floor outside his door, and that was the last
they heard. About half past 4 o'clock on
Saturday afternoon one of the servants
coming through the hall noticed that
the door of room 59 was ajar,
and that a bnpket of water
was standing in front of it. It was a most
extraordinary thing; it had not happened
before in the ten years that the servant had
been there. Out of sheer curiosity he
pushed the door open and looked in. The
air was full of a queer odor.
How the Knd Was Reached.
On the edge of the bed under the sky
light, sat the old tenant, leaning for
ward, with his head resting on the oil stove,
right over the flame. He wis dead, and
one side of his head was burned
black. The servant called up the janitor,
who extinguished the flame and removed
the stove, allowing the head to rest
on a pile of books. The face
of the dead man was calm, and
seemed to indicate that death had
been sudden and painless. His left hand
was clenched and rested on the table before
him. In his right hand he held a screw
driver, with which he had evidently been
trying to adjust something about the stove.
An undertaker was sent for and he ob
tained a permit to remove the body. This
morning the coroner examined the body and
said that dcatli had resulted from apoplexy.
Harry Matthews, the janitor's son, looked
through Mr. Gamage's papers and found a
will and some memoranda in which the
name of Key. Abraham S. Gardiner, of
Milford, Pa., was frequently mentioned.
Ho teleeraphed there that Mr. Gamage was
dead and asked what disposition should'be
made of the body.
Story or the Old Man's Life.
Mr. Gardner left Milford nearly two years
ago an invalid, and has been traveling." Tie
is now at 28 West Twentietli street. He
said to-night: "Henry Gamage was born in
New York. As near as I can make out he
juust have been 77 or 78 years old. He
was graduated from Yale College in 1837,
and was a classmate of William M. Evarts.
His father was an enthusiastic collector
of paintings and when he died he
bequeathed them to his two children.
The other child, a daughter, bought a sum
mer residence at Milford, where I was
preaching, and that is how I became ac
quainted with the family. Henry went to
New York, and seldom visited his sister.
When she died she left to him her money
and the paintings she had inherited. The
house went to Miss Dimmick, an old friend
of the family." t
Had Enough Money to Live On.
"Henry knew a great deal about art, and
painted a little himselfthough it did not
amount to much. His incomewas derived
from some S15.000 or 20,000 which he had
invested in railroad bonds. He saved con
siderable money while he worked in the
Custom Honse. -With the exception of
this appointment I never knew him to
do any work. I have seen his will.
He bequeathed 5500 to the Home
Mission Society and $500 to the Foreign
Mission Societyof the Presbyterian Church.
He leaves about 1,000 to the Eastside
Chapel of the University Place Church,
which he attended. The rest ot
his money he leaves to some
aged aunts in the central part of New York
State and to-Miss Fanny Dimmiek, of Mil
ford. He was never married. The body
will be taken to Milford on Tuesday and
buried there."
Sloonshtnlnc In the Lumber Woods.
Grand Rapids, 'Mien., Feb. 14. Kcv
tcnuo officers arc awakening to the fret that
FEBRUARY 15. 1892.
in the lumber counties of lower Michigari
ihere is more or less moonshininggoing on.
Charles W. Fuller and Anson Xewis, of
Echo township, Antrim county, have been
brought before Commissioner McQuean,
charged with running an unregistered still.
Officers made-a descent on an isolated farm
and fonnd several barrels of "mash" ready,
but did not find the still itself.
UP IN THE MILLIONS.
A HIGn VALUATION ON THE BALTI-
MOKE'S SAILORS.
They Want All the Way From 810,000 to
8180,000 Apiece From Chile Their
Liyrysr Looking Out for Good Tees
No Money to Bo Returned.
San Francisco, Feb. 14. Special
The igtate Department will be astonished
"when it gets in a few days a formal claim of
the sailors of the Baltimore who were
wounded by the Valparaiso mob. Lawyer
F. Alleyne Orr has the cases of the 24 men
who were wounded in the Valparaiso streets.
They' are common sailors or coal heavers,
but hey want big money for their rough
handling by the Chileans. Their combined
claims toot up 1,305,000.
Ihe largest-sums are demanded by John
Hamilton, a sailor, and Jeremiah Anderson,
a coal heaver. They apply for 5150,000
apieTce. Hamilton has three bad wounds
ancLdeclared there is still a piece of Chilean
dagger in his wound that refuses to heal.
Anderson is disabled by several wounds, the
most serious being in his lung.
Other claims vary- from fl0,000 to
530,000.
When Orr was asked why these men, who
have never had so much in their livesas
.one years' interest on the amount of the in
demnity demanded, make such big claims,
iictsaid: "We don't want to have any
balance of the indemnity that Chile may
pay go back to Santiago. 'Chile may pay
2.000,000, and if she does we want it all."
The lawyer did not add that he expects a
large contfngent fee.
BETWEEN LOVE AND DUIX
A'
Etrnccle That Nearly Cost
Young
Wonld-Bo Una Her Life.
New York, Feb. 14. Special. Nellie
Driscoll came from Providence six months
ago to learn hairdressing and manicuring.
She was engaged to be married, and Mrs.
Murphy, with whom she lived while here,
speaks of her in the highest terms. Before
she left Providence Miss Driscoll had de
cided to become a nun. Her meeting with
the young man. to whom she was engaged
caused her to alter her plans, but she was
in doubt. She frequently talked to Mrs.
Murphy of the struggle that went on in 'her
heart between love and duty. Last night
she said she was certain no happiness would
follow her marriage.
Mrs. Murphy told her not to be foolish,
and Miss Driscoll vent to her room to pray
lor guidance. She was not up in time for
mass to-day, and Mrs. Murphy rapped at
her bedroom door. Eeceiving no reply she
opened the door. Miss Driscoll was in bed.
Her nightclothes and the bedspread were
stained rith blood and she was unconscious.
Blood flowed from a gaping wound in Miss
Driscoll's throat. The razor with which
the wound had been made was under the
pillow, and blood stains on "Miss Driscoll's
nightrobe showed where it had been care
fully wiped. An ambulance took the girl
to Bellevne Hospital. She may recoer.
PHILADELPHIA'S LICENSE LIST.
;A,Marteil Falllng'bff in Kitalfand Whole
sale Petitions There.
Philadelphia, Feb. 14. The books of
the License Clerk of the Quarter Sessions
Court closed with a bang at 10 o'clock last
night. The total number of applications filed
were: Retail, 3,014; wholesale, 561. In 1891
the retail applications were 3,358, show
ing a falling off of 344 for the present sea
son. The wholesale applicants numbered
5G, against 1,013 last year, a difference of
1,052 in favor of this year. In 1891 there
w'ere 1,253 retail and 538 wholesale licenses
granted.
The difference in the number of applica
tions for wholesale licenses is attributed to
the increase in fee from 200 to 1,000, and
also to the fact that the judges now have
the same discretionary power over the
wholesale dealers as over the retailers.
The "bucket or jug shops" have been com
pletely knocked out, and all or nearly all of
the applications for wholesale licenses this
year are those of genuine wholesale dealers.
NIHILISM AND ANABCHY
In a Measure Patted on the Baclc by New
York Labor Organizations.
New York, Feb. 14. The Central Labor
Federation resolved to-day to recommend
to its affilated unions attendance upon the
memorial mass meeting 'in honor of Pad
lewsky, the nihilist, who killed General
Silverstoff in Paris and committed suicide
in this country. The meeting will be held,
at Cooper Union on the 29th inst.
At the meeting to-day of the New York
Federation of Labor it was reported that
the Anarchists of this city will hold a mass
meeting at Cooper Union on February 19 to
denounce fhe government of Spain for ex
ecuting the Anarchists of Xeres.
SCEANT0N WILL FEEL IT.
The
Coal Consolidation May Hurt
That
City's Business Interests.
SCRASTON, Feb. 14. Special. Business
men here view with alarm the consumma
tion of the Reading deal, which threatens
disaster to the future of this city.
It is seen that the Reading will have
the power to cripple the coal output
here so as to affect all of the city's main
business interests, while it will also be nble
to bankrupt the individual operators, who
are awakening to a realization of the situa
tion. One of the leading men in the city
stated to-day to a reporter that he consid
ered this deal, so far as Scranton is con
cerned, as the worst that had ever been ef
fected. FILLET OF DONKEY GOES UP.
Sines the Kew Tariff on Meats, Paris Fats
More Horse Than Ever.
Paris, Feb. 14. The rise in the price of
beef and mutton, caused by the new tariff,
has led to an enormous demand for horse
flesh in Paris. According to a report of
the police prefecture the horses, asses and
mules now slaughtered represent over one
third of the whole quantity Of meat con
sumed. Fillet of horse or donkey is retailed at 10
pence a pound, steak at 7 pence a pound
and inferior ' parts at 2 pence a pound.'
Wornout animals are rising in value, and
are being bought up everywhere within a
radius of 300 miles of Paris.
DEP0SIT0BS TO THE RESCUE.
They Assess Themselves to Aid a Bank That
Had Recently Suspended.
San Diego, Cal., Feb. 14. It will be
definitely settled in a few days whether the
California National Bank, which suspended
here last tali, will resume business.
A telegram was sent to the Comptroller of
the Currency at Washington, stating that 90
per cent of the stockholders had agreed to
assess themselves to assist the bank. If the
Comptroller returns a favorable answer the
.bank-will resume at once.1 '
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SIGHS IN THE SKIES
"Which Lieutenant Totten In
sists Indicate That the
MillenniunL--"
IS SUBELY APPROACHING.
The Perihelion of the Planets Cans
ins: the Aurora Borealis.
DIRECT RESULT 0P THE SDNSPOT.
Earthquakes, Cyclones and Other
turhances Expected.
Dis-
MK. EDISON AXD HIS SUN TELEPH0NB
ISrzCIAI. TELEGUAM TO THE DISPATCn.1
New Haven, Conn., Feb. 14. The
aurora borealis which was so brilliant
the heavens last evenin has civen Lieu' J
ant Totten au opportunity to expressC
self on its relation to his views of tht
millennium. Among other things he says:
"These things have been expected ever
since February 1. I expected them about
the 3d or 4th. It is undoubtedly due to the
big snnspot, which is directly due to the
perihelion of the planets. Wc are only at
the outer edge of the beginning of these
things. They always appear in periods
from 11 to 12 years, along with earthquakes,
cyclones and all sorts of disturbances. This
is the first aurora I have seen for years, the
last one as pretty as this being away back
in 1868, a period that many will remember
lor its collateral religious excitement.
"Dr. Halley asserts in the Eighteenth cen
tury that no Northern lights were seen in
England for 80 ydars before 15C0, and only a
few of minor magnitude for 140 years be
fore. They began as signs significant in the
heavens from Luther's day. Even Proctor
admits that we can only go back to 15G7 for '
authoritative data on auroras.
The Final Prophetic Time.
"All these signs have occurreiLwithin the
East 300 years, which prophetic students
ave looked upon as being the final pro
phetic time. 'When the snn has measles
look out for plagues on earth,' is the saying
of a generation not very remote, according
kto Browning, in a late article on the
terrific sun-storm now in progress.
"To return to the pc'rihelion theory, this
aurora is the direct result of it. Borne
onward on an ethereal ocean, subject
to such complex consequences, there is
not a form of physical life upon the decks
ot our little planet which does not faith
fully respond to what takes place about it,
as surely as voyagers on a ship borne up by
the waves.
"There are no grander storms than seismic
ones and atmospheric cyclones, and months
3501 pointed ont that it is well into one of
them that our whole system has already
moved, with its center not reached. Every
one of these things comes from solar condi-J
tions. 1 100K upon tucm as inst as natural
as the most materialistic philoso'pher. T
-onlyjdiffer from him in the belief that the
universe is wound up to sing ouf a chime on
every bell at the time of the end.
On the Edgo of a Period of Trial.
"I believe that the world ison the thresh
hold of a period ot trial the like of which
has never before been seen. It will try our
surplus. Those who have jt stored up will
survive; they will be the fittest. Those who
haven't, be they nations, races or individ
uals, will pay the debt to the utmost farth
ing. The Bible expresses this in its own
way. Take, for instance, the expression of
'Shaking the wicked out by laying hold of
the ends of the earth. ' This is a subtle
reference to one way in which the thins
will be accomplished. Anyhow, the ends
of the earth are its poles.
"The earth is nothing but an enormous
magnet, at most. A magnetic storm upon
the sun, which rules our system, literally
lays hold of the earth at the poles and
shakes it to the core and everything upon
it. Of course, the thing shaken breaks af
its weak points. Nations on the point of
anarchy become insane; men in the last
stages of disease succumb; localities where
the germs of disease are lurking become"
plague centers, and so ad infinitum. In
1881 came the wonderful yellow day. un
heralded by science. The heavens from
Michigan to the Atlantic, and from Canada
to Pennsylvania, were overspread with a
curious luminons atmosphere like a vast
flame. The press gave it all sorts of names,
but the fact remains that they are all signs
which the people fail to believe."
Edison Talks of the Phenomenon.
A special from New York says: The
Wizard Edison looked at the aurora borea
lis on Saturday night and mourned. He's
been watching the big spot on the sun ever
since it appeared, and he has been filled
with regret. This is because the wind has
been playing ninepins up around his big
iron mine in3forns county, and has swept
down his ring of big poles as fast as he has
put them up. If the wind had minded its
own business these past two years the peo
ple of New York might now be able to drop
a nickel in the slot and hear the sun spot
roar. They might even hear whispers from
the beautiful aurora borealis. The Wizard
has as great faith in his telephone to the sun
as he bad the day he suggested it, but he
has not got it working yet, and all because
of the wind. "It sweeps around here," said
the Wizard to-day, "in mighty gusts, laying
low all before itj and every time my men
have put up the poles it has taken them
down."
The Telephone to tlio Snn.
This telephone line which is to reproduce
the disturbance on. the sun in sound on the
earth is going to be built now, Mr. Edison
-says, in defiance of the winds, and as soon
as the snow is off the ground. The poles
re to be made of metal and arc to set in the
solid rock. The row will reach around the
big mine and then the finest and most ex
pensive copper wire that can be had is to be
put on them. The disturbances will reach
the earth on waves of electricity a little
more than 8 minutes after they have
occurred, having traveled at the rate of
about 180,000 miles a second. They will be
changed into sotlnd when they reach the
copper wire and then they may be
transferred to wax and worked off in slot
machines at a nickel a listen.
"It was a beautiful sight, 'that aurora
borealis, last night, wasn't it?" said Mr.
Edison before he had explained about his
telephone. "I see by the paper it affected
the telegraph wires between New- York and
Albany. I remember once when I was an
operator there was so much electricity
about, it burned the silktinsulntions off the
wires in some of the offices. I made some
estimates on the amount of electricity there
was there on that occasion, and I found
there was more than 2,000,000 horse-power.
If I remember it, that wasn't as bright an
affair as the one last night, cither."
KILLED BY A FAITH CUBS BB0THEB.
He Orders His Dylnj; Sister to Arise and
Walk, and bho Obeys.
'LIMA, Feb. 14. Special. Mrs. Bentzel
died this morning. She had been sick 'sev
eral weeks, and regular physicians were
doing alLin their power lor her recovery.
Her brother, Henry Thompson, is a faith
cure crank. He arrived here a few
days ago and immediately ordered the
nurse to discontinue giving the doctors
medicine to Mrs. Bentzel. He said he
would cure her with prayer. But the pa
tient cominned to grow weaker, although
Thompson claimed she was getting better.
Half an hour before she died Thompson
ordered her to get np and walk across the
floor. The. exertion completely prostrated
her, and after lying down, she expired.
There is great indignation against Thomp
son and several of the lady's friends are
talking of tar and feathers.
DANGLING FROM ONE POLE
ARE THE CORPSES OF TvVO VICTIMS
OF A2f ARKANSAS MOB.
The Do nble Lynching Takes Place in Full
View of 10,000 People, Many or
" homAro Ladies The Two Culprits
Were Accused or Murder.
Pine Blcff, Ark, Feb. "14. John
Kelly, the negro who murdered J. T. Mc
Adams in this city Tuesday night, was cap
tured at Rison, Ark., by Town Marshal H.
E. Harrison, and he was instructed by Chief
of Police Nelson to bring the prisoner to
this city on the first train. The news of the
capture spread through the town aud a
crowd congregated. The train reached the
yard about 9.35 v. M., and was met by a mob
1 between 300 and 500 people.
t soon as the prisoner was identified
h'Jria a. cry of "To the Court House."
'C. n made a show of resistance.
"re unavailing, ami me u-
had now increased to
. -d the murderer in
their possessivr' ' ' ,
They marchcov' Main street to the
Conrt House steps. A rope was soon
produced. The prisoner was called npon
to speak and say if he were guilty. JIc
claimed that he was innocent. A rope was
speedily placed over the 'cross-arm of a tele
graph pole, and the body of John Kelly was
soon hanging 40 feet in the air and his body
riddled with bullets. The execution took
place in the lull glare of several electric
lights, and was witnessed by about 10,000
people, many of them being ladies hemmed
in by the crowd on their way from church.
As the body of Kelly swung from side to
side cries of "Lynch Culbert Harris, his ac
complice," arose. A rush was made for the
jail in the rear of the Court House, and men
with axes soon effected an entrance, and the
guilty Harris tfas-qnickly pointed out by
the other prisoners. He urged to be heard
a few moments, but his words were not sat
isfactory. "Hang him; hang him," was the
cry, and he was quickly taken to the front
of'the Court House anil another rope was se
cured. The body was jerked to the air.
Simultaneously "there was a report of 100
shots, and the body was a corpse. Both men
were hanging from the same telegraph pole,
and their bodies are now dangling-in the air
a few feet apart-
JOHN BULL BUYING TAHHEBIES.
An English Syndicate Said to Have a Sew
and Quick Process.
Philadelphia, Feb. 14. One of the
most gigantic schemes that has ever been
projected in the leather trade is now being
attempted by a combination of English
capitalists, whose agent or representative
has been for some time in this country. It
is the consolidation of the tanneries of the
United States into a trust or syndicate,
with headquarters in the East and local
office in each State. The English syndicate
has already beep .formed, and 5,000,000 of
its .capital stock has been subscribed for.
The inducement the syndicate holds out
to tanners is an entirely new process of
tanning the leather by means of a liquid
that practically eliminates time from the
operation. Under the old method it takes
from 40 to 50 days to tan a calfskin, while
with the new progress it can be accom
plished within ten hours.
STILL H0BBING SALVATIONISTS.
Eastbourne Police Shut Doifftj on Beach
Meetings, but Can't Stop the Riots.
London, Feb. 14. Eastbourne was to
day again the scene of disorder growing out
of the hostility continually shown there to
members of the Salvation Army. The dis
turbance, however, was not nearly so
marked as that of two weeks ago.
The Eastbourne police to-day dispersed
the gathering members of the army and pre
vented their holding their customary Sun
day services on the beach; but, in spite of
the efiorts of the police, there was much
more disorder than they really witnessed.
The onlookers included the Duke of Port
land and several members of the House of
Commons.
GBIP GAU3ES A DOUBLE TBAGEDY.
Neither Man NorWifo Could Lire When
the Other Was Dead.
Columbus, Ind., Feb. 14. A tragic oc
currence is reported from Napoleon, 20
miles east of here. Two aged people, Mr.
and Mrs. Bonchard, lived alone. Mrs. Bon
chard had a severe" case of the grip, and
the doctor said she must die.
Tnis affected the old man and he wept bit
terly. Going out in the back yard he put a
pistol ball through his brain, causing in
stant death. This so shocked the old lady
that she, too, died. They were natives of
France, but had lived here for years.
A WEALTHY MAN MISSING.
Be nas Iot Keen Seen Since He Left to
Feed His Stock.
ELMIRA, N. Y., Feb. 14. Special.
George Bennett, aged 70 years, a wealthy
farmer of Canton, Bradford county, Pa.,
went out of his house 01 Friday, February
5, to feed his stock about 5 o'clock in the
afternbon. He did not come in to supper,
and has not been seen or heard from since,
although his neighbors, to the number of 70,
have been searching the country for him for
davs.
ihc missing farmer is worth 5150,000, and
his disappearance in a thickly populated
neighborhood has created a great sensation.
TOWNS AND EAILB0ADS AT WA3.
Legal and Clob Armaments Indulged in
Over a Crossing Dlspntv.
Philadelphia, Feb. 14,-There is riv
alry between the Perry County Railroad
and the Newport and Sherman's Valley
Railroad, in Perry county. The first rail
road shaped its course to cross the track of
the latter, and an injunction was issued re
straining the crossing.
Newport and New RIoomfield have taken
sides. James Sntch and Ralph Adams had
an argnment over the rights of the railroad.
Sutch hit Adams over the head with a
club, inflicting fatal injuries. Sutch is in
jail.
A BIVEB HEBO DEAD.
Captain John Stout, or Robert V. Lee
Fame, Goes to the Other Shore.
New Orleans, Feb. 14. Captain John
S. Stout, a famous Mississippi river pilot,
hero of the Robert E. Lee disaster in 1882,
died this afternoon at his residence in this
city, nnd his remains will be taken to Mis
sissippi City on Tuesday for interment.
Captain Stout was 5J years of age and a
native of Frankfort, Ky., brother-in-law of
the late Captain John Cannon. He had
been in poor health for some months. He
.leaves a wife and seven children.
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1.000 orSVAv,,
THREE CENTS
S BIG BILL
Backed Up hy a Long Eeport
Prom the House Com
mittee on Coinage.
A- TALK POE PEEE SILYM
Showing What the Majority Is Ex
pected to Be Working For.
AN EQUALITY IN FOREIGN PORTS,"
It Is Argued. Would Ee Granted Imericaa
farmers if the Measure
COULD BY ANY JIEiXS BECOME A LAW
Washington, D. G. Feb. 14. The re
port of the majority of the Committee ott
Coinage, Weights and Measures, recom
mending the passage of the Bland free coin
age bill, will be presented to the Honse to
morrow by Mr, Bland, and by consent of
the minority of the committee it is made
public to-night. The report is a long and
carefully prepared document, which dis
cusses the various objections made against
free coinage, showing where, in the opinion
of the majority, those objections are ill
founded, and how free coinage of silver
would greatly benefit this country, and
especially the producers.
The report begins with an explanation of
the provisions of the bill reported. Frea
coinage of silver is provided for, and it 13
required that it be of standard fineness to
meet the cost of the alloy nsed, the alloy
being all the expense now exacted of de
positors of gold. Coin notes may be issued
on the gold orsilverdeposited, if demanded;
instead of waiting for the coin.
Large Healers and Banks Aided.
The committee raised the maximum de
nominations of these notes from 500 to
1,000, so as to accommodate dealingin largo
transactions and bank exchanges. These
notes are made legal tender redeemable in
coinage on demand. The bill provides for
the conversion of all our gold and silver"
notes into coin notes, redeemablo in coin,
thus doing away entirely with all legal dis
tinctions. It is believed this will greatly
tend to promote equality in all respects.
There will no longer be issued gold notes or
silver notes, bnt hi-metallic notes, payablo
in either coin, at the pleasure of the
Government.
The report says it is contended that tha
reason we exported silver bullion while our
mints were still open to its free coinage,
was that our ratio was so that our coin and
bullion silver was worth more, as compared
to gold, at European mints than here, and
that the same result would again follow our
ratio, remafning at 16 to 1, with the French,
mints open to free coinage at 15 to 1.
This, it is held, would prevent European
nations, especially France, from again re
turning to the bi-metallic system. To avoid
this the committee provided that our ratio
should be changed to lojftolas soon as
France resumes free silver coinage at thit
ratio.
About That Damp or Silver.
Tne report then, under- the head: "The
Dump of Silver," proceeds to a discussion
of the crv that frpe coinage of silver would
make the United State3the dumping ground
for the silver of the world. The "report
says:
The familiar warning that free coinage
would cause shiploads of silver from other
countries to be brought here and dumped at;
our mint, in exchange for our gold ht still,
urged. How can this be, under the bill or
proposed law? The shipload of silver
brought to our mints by the foreigner would,
be coined into standard dollars, and tlieso
dollars returned to him. but he could not jio
to our treasnry and demand gold for them.
Xor could he compel ono of our citizens to
swap him a gold dollar for a silver
dollar, that is a voluntary trade that no law
ought to interfere with. Should tho for
eigner tnko coin notes for his bullion, in
stead of coin, tho same thing happens. Ho
can take his coin note to the Treasury and
demand redemption, but the note Is redeem
able in coin, and the Secretary of the Treas
ury could hand him back the coin struck
from his shipload of bullion. The foreiznor
then would ascertain that ho had committed
the blunder of bnnrin;r silver to our mints
when it Is worth S cents on tho dollar les
than it was at homo, and that he loses this 3
cents nnd cost of transportation beside.
What, then, will he do with his money! He.
must either invest In property here, or ro
home with it. He could not bny gold with,
it, or gold exchange unless gold and' silver
were at par.
Shipments of Silver In Shiploads.
In this case there could be no reason for
preferring the ono metal to the other. If
gold went to a premium ho would have to
pay the premium on his exchange, thus en
tailing on him additional loss in his enter
prise of sending us shiploads of silver. If
he Invests his shipload of silver in our prop
erty and business enterprises it will at onc,o
stimulate industries, awaken enterprises
and pivo us a healthy business nnd sound,
enrrency. What more could bo desired.
Every shipload of silver thus broucht bora
nnd invested in productive wealth would,
hive a two-fold effect. It would bring un
exampled prosperity to this country. Tha
next effect wouldbe panic In the Old World,
linsmess there would be paralyzed for anc
of money; their prosperity destroyed. Pros
perity here and stagnation in the old coun
tries would force shiploads ot thoir people
to this country In search of tneir lost ship
loads of money. The nations of the old world,
are aware of this. They would see to it that; .
no snch thing occurred: they know the ad
vantages tho free coinage of silver would
guarantee U3, hence their uniform predic
tions that calamity would be tho result in
stead of prosperity. They are not In tho
habit of giving us trustworthy advice as to
the course we should pnrsnein this matter.
The report then quotes from the report of
Mr. Windom. then Secretary of the Treas
ury, for the year 1S89, in which the Secre
tary took the position that no danger need
lie apprehended of a flood of European sil
ver. Says the Secretary:
Some of Vfindom's Words Quoted.
There is, in fact, no known accnmnlatloa
of silver bullion nnvwhere In the world.
Germany long since disposed of her stock
of melted silver coins, partly by sale, partly
by recoinage into her own new subsidiary
coins, and partly by use in coining for
E"vnt. Only recently it becamo necessary
tcTpurchase silver for the Ezvptian coinage .
executed at tho Mint at Berlin. It is plain
then that there is no danger that the silver
product of past years will bo poured Into
oar mints unless new steps be taken for de
monetization, and for this improbable con
ttn"enev ample safeguards can be provided.
Xor nee"d there be any serious apprehension .
that any considerable part of thesto"k of
silver coin of Europe wonld be snipped
to the United States lor deposit for Treas
ury notes. There is much less reason for
shinning coin to this country than bullion,
for while tho leading nations of Europe
havo discontinued the coinage of full legal
tender silver pieces, they havo provided by
Hvr for maintaining their existing stock; or
silver coins at par. ,.,... ....
In England. Portugal and the States of tho
Scandinavian Union, there is no stock of
silver coin except subsidiary coins, required
for change purposes, tho nominal value of
which is fnr in excels of the bnlllon ralne. .
Germany has In circulation about 31C0,CC0,CO0
in old silver thalers, but ten years have
nassod since the sales or bullion arising
under the anti-silverleglsl.itlon of 1S73 woro
discontinued. It Is safe to say there is no
stock or silver coin in Europe which is not
needed for business pnrpoies.
Tho States-of tho Latin Union and Spain,
which has. a similar monetary sysum, are
the only countries in Europe which 1-nvo
any larjjo stock of silver coin, and tho com- ,
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