-1 V DOUBLE NUMBER. JaA .at. 4a V t .- , J," r . i . Mi, 4 mrnmg TWENTY PAGES. . - FORTY-SEVENTH TEAR TIE PRESIDENT ISF He Begins to Appreciate the Extent of the Op position to. Him. HE REGRETS THE LAW That Allows a President to Be Eli gible for a Second Term. . jHIS exact language quoted. He Would Kow Abandon the Field, if He Could Do So With Credit One of His Friends Calls Him One of the Broadest Statesmen of the Time, but a Political Pool Other Politicians Criticise His Fllitins With Quay "While Intending to Down Him Allison as a Presidental Possibility-Alger and Cul lom In the Field for All They Are Worth, and Others to Come Without Huston the President Can't Carry In diana, and Huston Is His Implacable Enemy Other Political Mistakes Made by Harrison. leriCIAL TELEGRAPHIC LXTTFR.l BUREAU OF THE TJlSFATCn. Washington. D. C Feb. 20. ( Since the retiremeDt of Secretary Blaine from the field of possible candidates for the Presidency, little has been said in regard to the nominee of the Republican party. Pub lic and newspapers appear to have almost unanimously concluded that Harrison will, without a doubt, be renominated. Until within the last week or two there appeared to be no question in regard to this result, and nothing has yet really turned up above the surface that would indicate any other conclusion. There is a Tast deal of talking under the rose, however, and in quarters which give it a vast deal of meaning- , Four weeks ago everybody said that with Blaine out of the way Harrison would "win in a walk." Blaine is .out of the way, and it may be said without the least exaggera tion that Harrison is more despondent in re gard to the prospect for his nomination than he has been at any time heretofore. Harrison and Ills Friends Alarmed. He is frightened. His nearest friends and supporters are frightened. They are all the more friehtened because' they have no idea of the able preparations that are in progress to defeat his ambition for a second term. To a triend the other day Mr. Harrison said: "I wish to heaven a constitutional amendment had been long ago adopted making a President ineligible for a second term. "While second terms are possible no President can well avoid expecting and . asking the indorsement of his party, and all "the more for the reason that he is compelled to create enemies within his party who seek his humiliation and overthrow. No man with the pride of manhood in his bosom can surrender to the clamor of the disappointed, and yet he may not desire a second nomina tion at all, but, on the other hand, mav want with all his soul to avoid the strain of a contest, which, even if successful, can add little or nothing to the honors already con ierred upon him, and which will certainly afford him new opportunity for mistakes which he mav successfully have avoided during his first term. I would readily abandon the field if I could, but you can easily see that it is impossible to retire in the face of the enemy." Exact Language oT the President. I am assured by the gentlemen to whom they were spoken, and who has seen these words since they were written, that they are the exact language of the President as he remembers it. How much of this despondent utterance is due to a substantial wish to avoid the contest for a second term, and how much to the fact that he knows there are powerful influences at work to en compass his defeat for the renomination, I am not able to say. The scheme wnich has cropped out within a few days to defeat Sir. Harrison's re nomination originated, possibly, with shrewd and influential politicians of national repute, but it is not now confined to them, by any means. They are joined, in the first place, by friends of rival candi dates like Culloni and Alger. Allison, ot Iowa, has hardly been men tioned as yet, but there is almost nothing more certain than that the Iowa delegation will come to Minneapolis instructed for the great Senator who embodies a larger quan tity of the combined qualities of wisdom, caution and shrewdness than almost any other man in the country. Never sensa tional or spectacular, he is one of the most admirable figures, physically and mentally, that ever sat in a Senatorial chair, and his cenius for conservatism, without loss of Republicanism, would make him a candi date capable of holding the East and the "West together for Republican principles far beyond any other man between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Beginning or a Formidable More. Add to the great politicians who are at odds with Mr. HarrUon on the question of patronage, and for other reasons, the friends of the candidates named, and others who nill be in the field, and further add a most powerful contingent of men high iu private and in public Hie who are not satisfied with the admiuistration as a part of the great party machine, and you hae the sum of the beginning of what is a very quiet but an exceedingly formidable movement to nominate another than Harrison as the "standard bearer" of the '"Grand 'Old Party" in the national campaign of this j tar. Little fault is found withlr. Harrison in matters of real statesmanship. "While he stumbled in the Chilean affair and plainly attempted to use it as a lever to lift bim again into the Presidency, he has made lewtr mistakes than almost any of Ins pre decessors, and criticism of him in regard to tbelarger affairs of state have been for the MET most part wholly impotent. His self-poise, his readiness, his ability to say the right thing in the right place in public, his keen insight into matters of vital importance and extreme delicacy and his shrewdness and clearness in dealing with them, have been the admiration of friends and foes alike. This is high praise, and such qualities would seem to be about all that should be demanded. More Than Statesmanship Needed. But here, as is conspicuously the fact in Great Britain, in the case of the Premier, something more than statesmanship is de manded of the head and chief of the party in power. He must be a great party Header in statesmanship, and a great statesman as a party leader. A Senator of the United States, who is an admirer and supporter of President Harri son, said to me in a burst of frankness, to day: "In broad statesmanship Harrison U one of the foremost men of the time, but in practical politics he is a fool." Another gentleman, pursuing the same vein, said: "It is a fact, whenever Harri son has attempted to meddle in State or local politics, to do what would seem best for himself, he has made a mess of it Look at your Pittsburg collectorship. He has shown a cowardice in that affair which is next to disgraceful. He has been halting between two opinions for months; both sides are cursing him. and he gets no credit for anything but either a lack of judgment or a lack of courage It he started to 'down Quay' and give everything to the other faction, for what is he flirting with Quav? If he is more afraid of Quay than of the other taction, why doesn't he boldly give his support to the faction which can do him the most good?" Not m Cong piracy on Foot. A gentleman who makes a very narrow escape of being a Cabinet officer sa'id to me a day or two ago: "Mr. Harrison has by no means a certalntv of the renomination which he clearly desires above all else. Tne most alert and shrewd politicians in the country are against him, and by these I do not merely include Quay anil Piatt and Clarkron and Dudlev, but a striae of State and national managers, including them and stretching out to everr one of the great States. It is not a conspiracy. Tnese gen tlemen have a right to support whom they please. Many of the high appointments of the President are arrayed against him. Not by any means least is the fact that Hon. J. X. Huston, ex-United States Treasurer,is among the opposition. The Republicans have never carried Indiana without Huston's help. He is now im placable. "When he resigned his office in disgust with Harrison's impractical methods he turned his back upon him for ever and along with Huston went Indiana. If Harrison be the nominee of the party Huston will not lift a finger to re-elect him, and without Indiana the Republicans might as well throw up the sponge. With Indiana and West Virginia and Connecticut we can let the Democrats have New York and Michigan, whose Democratic Legislature will choose the electors. But we must have Indiana. It Is Not a Walkover. "Now, suppose all the big States, and many of the little ones, come to the conven tion uninstructed who will control the convention, Mr. Harrison or the great pol iticians who have largely controlled con ventions in the past? All of the counts aeainst Mr. Harrison will there be em phasized a thousandfold. He will be the one target for criticism. It will be the field against him with all the other aspirants,and all the multitude of disappointed and dis gruntled, and those who are not personally opposed to him, but wco Delieve sincerely that another choice would add to the chances for partv.success. I do not say that Mr. Harrison -will be defeated, 'bat it fstop"-' parent to me that he will not have a walk over. '" Recognizing the presence of these antago nistic influences will Mr. Harrison attempt to placate them? All sorts of reports are in circulation about "deals," but they must be taken with many grains of salt. Harrison is not the kind of man to make-overtures, and much of the opposition cannot be affected by a deal with the few whose quar rel with the President is largely based on disputes in regard to patronage While two weeks ago the indications were that the President would have little opposi tion1 of importance, the prospects are now that he will be met at the Minneapolis con vention by a great force determined upon his defeat, and composed of leaders who can not be placated with deals or drawn off with Eromises of any kind, but which will oppose im to the end, believing that his nomina tion will meet with a iuKewarm response that will be prophetic of defeat at the polls if not at the convention. Senator Quay Getting WeU. The reports telegraphed from Jackson ville this morning in. regard to the health of Senator Quay might have had a sem blance of truth had they been sent a week or ten davs ago, but happily they now have no foundation. While in attendance at court in Pittsburg the Senator caught a bad cold, and for a few days after his ar rival at his cottage near St Lucie was afflicted with a terrible cougb. which, it was feared, might result in pneumonia. A party of his Pennsylvania friends who accom panied him on his trip South arrived in this city to-day on their way home, and say that when they left St. Lucie, on Tuesday, the Senator was in fine health, and that at Wil mington, N. C., on their way northward, last eveuing, they received a telegram from Richard R, Quay, the Senator's son, who remained at St Lucie, giving them good speed, and saying the Senator was well. A telegram was also received bv the Senator's family to-dav, which stited that the Senator and Mrs. Quav were both wclL Hon. Richard R Quay will reach here next Tuesday, aud the Senator and -Mrs. Quay will tome on later in the week. The Senator's Florid Cottage. The Senator's Florida home is delight fully situated on the Indian river, four miles from fat. Lucie and a telegraph office, and 1,700 miles from the Senate chamber, l Titusville, the nearest railwav sta- 24 hours are renuirml to "sail" OY From tion. 21 hours are required to "sail" DO miles in a a freight steamer which goes zig zagging across the river from fish station to fish station, and occasionally sticking in the mud for a day or t o. The party of friends who have been en tertained by the Senator for the last two weeks enjoyed themselves inexpressibly with all the novelties of the region, the mosquitoes, the sharks, the moccasin and rattlesnakes, and not the least of their en joyment was the splendid fishing and the eating of the fish with new potatoes, green peas, strawberries fresh from the vines, with oranges and pineapples to infinity. Moreover, grand excursions were made upon the dreamy waters of the Indian river and out into the ocean in a gracelul little launch owned by the Senator and his son, the motive power of which is furnished by the use of naphtha. Dick Qniy and His Lost Deer. During their stay Representative Quay sught to cive hu guests a change of diet, and sallied out to shoot a deer. He brought douu a fine buck at the first shot and re turned to the cottage to get a horse and cart to bring in the spoils. Making his w'av back to the spot where he had left the buck lying, as he thought, in the throes of death, he lound that the animal had recovered breath and legs, and had lost itself in the trackless pine woods. The guests therefore dined on duck, which are so numerous thereabouts that they can be bagged by the hundreds in a few hours' shooting. Fish can be hauled in as fast as the hook is baited. Chief Henry, of the Division of Indian Accounts in the Treasury Depart ment, a Kittanning young man, tells me he caught IS fish within an hour aud a half, not one of which weighed less than ten pounds, beside many smaller ones. The party which arrived in Washincton this morningtfrom St Lucie includcd.Judge Over and Messrs. Charles McKee, Arthur Kennedv, Olhe Richardson,' Will M. Henry. James H. Willock, Butler'Mahone, son of ex-Senator Mahone, of Virginia, and Hon. Walter Lyon, United States District Attorney. One curious feature connected with the journey, which seemed as though it might be a fatality, so persistent was it in following them, was that there were just 13 in the party, there were just 13 berths in their special car going south, at every place they stopped one of the rooms assigned to them was numbered 13, the only vacant room on the Indian river boat was No. 13, and the number of times they caught just 13 fish was innumerable. To this merry party, at least, the theory of the fatal No. 13 has lost its thrilling significance. Lightneb. BLAIR'S OWN BOOM. THE EX-SENATOB IS A CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY. He Announces the Fact in a Letter to His State Chairman He Says He Was in Twice Before and Refused the Honor. Manchester, N. H., Feb. 20. Spe cial U. S. Senator and rejected Minister to China Henry W. Blair, who has been connted as one of President Harrison's sup porters for renomination, has declared him self a Presidental candidate. Chairman Churchill, of the Republican State Commit tee, has received a letter from Mr. Blair making the formal announcement. He says: Twice have I declined, although strongly pressed, to allowhe use of my name as a candidate for the Bepnbllcan nomination for the Presidency. At one time I was as suied thatnotlessthan59votes werepledned tomysuppoit in tho progiess of the con vention. That was in 1SS4. Yesterday I was called on, on behalf of men from another part of the country, who will be members of the next convention, to consiaer the same question again, and I have decided that I shall accept and deeply appreciate tho honor ofany support which may be Riven me as a candidate for the nomination at Minneapolis. No act of solicitation is pardonable in con nection with this, the highest office in the woild, bntas Chairman of the Republican Committee of my native State, which in tho past has done mo such distinguished honor, and for whose Interests in their broader and higher relations to tho whole country I have given the best and most faithfnl services of which I was capable, I feel that I owe to ou an entile candor in the state ment of mv position. I will rely upon you to make known tho contents of this letter to tho Republicans of New Hampshire in such public manner as commends itself to your discretion. , Henry W. Blair. In New Hampshire the quarrel between Senators Chandler and Gallinger is likely to break out over the election of delegate's to the Minneapolis convention. Peculiarly enough, Senator Chandler will act as a friend of the President, and Senator Gal linger will calmly resign to the election of an anti-Harrison delegation. He carried his State four years ago for Harrison, and seconded his nomination at Chicacro. He was sent for to go to Indianapolis, in' 4GA1U IU LUO JliattC-UU Ul 1116 lBUUld, and expected some consideration as a candidate for the Senate. He got none. All the leading Federal officers of this State were appointed from among the adherents of Mr. -Chandler. It"is gen erally known and understood here in New Hampshire that he is not in favor of Mr. Harrison's renomination. The feeling is gaining some strength, as Gallinger has a larger support among the workers of the party than Chandler, and it would not be strange if the delegates to be chosen for Minneapolis are anti-Harrison men, audwhom thejvrilJ support.-now fhat l jttT. jiiajne nas wiinarawn, no one Knows, unless State pride causes them to .throw their votes for ex-Senator Blair. TOTTR HEW CASES OF TYPHUS Found by the New Tork Health Authorities and Sent to the Island. New Yokk, Feb. 20. SwciaZ. Four new cases of typhus fever developed to-day at 5 Essex street. The patients are Isaac Mermer, husband of Fayer Mermer, who died of the disease on Wednesday; his children, Celia and Sarah, aged 16 and 17 years, and Ella Lebof, aged 10. All were removed to North Brothers Island. There are now 96 patients on the island. Seven are reported to be practically well, and a large proportion are convalescent None of them will be permitted to leave the hospital confines until all danger of further spread of the fever is over. The man sick in Bellevue Hospital.whose illness the doctors have been unable to diagnose, is Max Busch, a stage hand at the Thalia Theater. Inspector Blanvelt ex amined Busch and aid he did not believe that Busch had typhus. He advised that Busch be isolated, to avoid any possible danger. Dr. Edson said that, while he did net believe Busch had typhus, he would not say that he had not As far as can be ascertained, Busch had not come in contact with anv of those known to be affected. EOBSEEXAD BILL AT BAT. A Colored Murderer Hides In a Mine and Swears He Will Starve. Pixeville, Ky., Feb. 20. Special There is a serious state of affairs at one of the big coal mines at this place. A negro murderer, Bill Davis, alias "Dick Gunn," who was under sentence to be hanged in Virginia, subsequently made his escape from jail, and has taken refuge in the mine, refusing to come out Officers are guarding the entrance, and the miners are all thrown out The negro is desperate and is armed, and has declared he will die Delore ne will sur- Tpnpr. Tt is thoilffht thp nnlv wav nnv is to starve him out, and that will talce a week or so. He went by the name of "Horse- li j-n;n "nn rtMnnntArannAAni:.-i.. of his head. He murdered a policeman at Pocahontas, Vc, and came here, and has been working in the coal banks of the Southern Land Improvement Company for three weeks. There is a reward ot 5600 for his capture. STBEATOB CALLED THE MAN Who "Will Succeed the .Late Adjutant General SJcCIelland. Hakrisbtjrg, Feb. 2a Special' The contest for the vacancy caused by the death of Adjutant General McClelland has been a warm one, but is likely to be settled early next week by the appointment of Lieuten ant Colonel J. B. R. Streator, of the Tenth Regiment Colonel Streator is from Wash ington county, and was a ward advocate of Pattison's nomination for Governor. Lieutenant Colonel W. W. Greenland, of Clarion, is undoubtedly the Governor's sec ond choice, and it may be confidently stated that the appointment lies between the two, with Streator in the lead. There has been a strong pressure broueht to bear in favor of Lieutenant Colonel F.rank I. Rutledgep of the Eighteenth Reciment, and Senator Hannibal IC Sloan, of Indiana county, but the Governor's first predelictions were in favor of Streator or Greenland, and his pur pose is not liLelr to be changed. Cook;d to Death by Rolling Dye. . Gloccestek, K. J., Feb. 20. John Roby, empleye of the Gloucester City Dy ing 'orks, If 11 into a cauldron of boiling dye to-day. He was literally cooked to death, for by the time he was gotten out he was so badly burned that he died in a few minutes. PITTSBURG. SUNDAT. MARIE BLAINE WINS She Is Granted a Divorce From J. 6., Jr., and the Cus tody of Their Child. ' ' THE DECISION IK FULL. Little Time Necessary for the Judge to Make Up His Mind. 1 HE SCORES MRS. BLAINE, SENIOR, Whom He Blames for the Estrangement of the Young Conple. YOUNG JIMMY HAS TO PAY ME PIPER rtriCIAL TILIGRAM TO THE PISPATCH.l Deadwood, S. D., Feb. 20. A decision in the Blaine divorce case was rendered rather unexpectedly to-day, Judge Palmer, plaintiff's attorney, not having looked for a decree before next Wednesday. The facts were so plain, however, there was no reason for delay, and much to the pleasure of M.rs. Blaine, her divorce was granted be fore noon to-day. Judge Thomas' decision was as follows: This case was brought by tho plaintiff for the purpose of obtaining a divorce from the defendant upon the grounds of desertion; and the failure to provide, under the testi mony it seems that the marriage was at a very early age, both of plaintiff and defend ant, the defendant being 17 or 18 jears of age, and the plaintiff 19. It seems that the marriage, under these circumstances of ten der ages, was ill-considered and ill-advised, but from their after lite, for a period of two years, it was affectionate and happy, and it would seem it w as a marriage of love mixed with a good deal of romance. The testi mony shows that the first two years of their married life was all that could be wished, and the cause of estrangement and separa tion, so far as the Court is able to judge from tho testimouy, is the unfriendliness on the part of the family of .the defendant, espe cially his mother. The Opposition of the Blaines. It seems that Mrs. Blaine the elder was very much opposed to tho marriage, as was also Mr. Blaine the elder, so no. one can blame them under the circumstances for being opposed to an ill-considered marriage of their son at his ago. It seems that after ward they made up their minds to mako the best of it, at least so far as Mr. Blaine the elder was concerned, and the paitles to this suit have been invited to the home of the elder Blaine at Augusta, Me., and so far as to Mr. Blaine the elder, the plaintiff was properly treated, but it seems that Mrs. Blaine the elder did all in her power to make the life of the plaintiff unhappy. She was evidently opposed to the marriage, andj had concluded that the hest thln for lij- r had concluded that the best thing for hoc son was to have them separated, and it would seem from the evidence in the case she bad laid a shrewd plan and surrounded them by circumstances which would rfti!t in an apparent desertion on tbe part of the plaintiff. In'other words, she so treated the plaintiff, at the same time invitinz her to make tbe house her home, as to caaso Tier ttl-' be j .otibirtvty" the.t"-h vwouI9'3earo'-mlr(Sj tucreioni sue couiu oiuiin on mo part ui uer son that he. -was'deserted by his wire. Jimmy's Condnet Reprehensible. It seems that young Blaine's conduct under the circumstances is very reprehen sible. He was not made out of that stern stuff wo would expect, coming from the family he does. It Is beyond my compre hension how a young man who has placed his love to his fiance and married her on his great insistence could be dominated by bis motfier, however .much respect he might have for her, as to he willing to desert his -wife. Under such circumstances as the evi dence shows in this case, as a rule and so far as my observation goes, most young men who marry a yonng woman against the will and consent of her or his parents stands by her through thick: and thin, however angry tbelr parents may be, even when tho parents .utiii. itt.icu.auin uc, ovcu wueu lUU parents disinherit and cast them off. But it seems to have been otherwise with young Blaine. He seemed to hare been infatuated with his wife for the first two years, and was kind and considerate and affectionate in his treatment of her. As soon as he got under the domination of his mother he seemed to become greatly estranged from his wife, and treated her with neglect and inattention, and the evidence shows that his desertion was the result of the machinations of his mother, and the treatment that tnis plaintiff received from his hands was reprehensible and bad, very bad, In every respect. The evidence shows that soon atter she left Au gusta she lay upon a bed for 10 months; suf fering with tbe most acute and extreme suffering-, and that during all this time he never gave her any recognition whatever, not even writing to her, or visiting her, or sending her anything lu the way of support. The Court's Extreme Indignation. It is hard for the Court to find language to describe its feelings against a young man who would act in this way. The evidence shows that the conduct of the plaintiff was everything that could have been from a wife to her husband. She followed him under the roof of his parents as long as it was bearable, and w hen she left, in one of her letters which was introduced in evi dence, she says: "I am going to leave Au nusta. not you, Jamie." And then again, in a letter which appeared here in evidence, and which I will read and make a part of my le marks, she says: "New York, Sept. 9, 1SSS. "Dkab James Indeed, I am so wietched without you that I can bear it no longer. For the sake of our child, and the one to come. I will go to whatever home you provide, oven under your parents' roof. I want to do what is right for us both, and on receipt of this letter, if you will say come, I will come. Think ol all the future of our child if we live apait! If you could only see the bright little lellow he has grown so cunning. Do write me at once. I shall watch every mail. We go to the New Toik Botel to-morrow. Until I hear, always affectionately, "Maet." The man must have been given over to hardness of heart to resist snen an appeal as that, and all the testimony in the case nost to show that she did everything within her power that was inevmbent on a good wife in order to make her husband return to her. He seems to have been estranged from her by his mother. A Divorce Granted Mrs. Blaine.' As I said bcfoie, it may be natural for his parents to object to a marriage or this kind, it would be natural lor any patent to object to a young son of his age marrying a girl of her ago and under such circumstances, but having once married it was the duty of the younger Blaine, the defendant in this case, to have stood up for his wife thiongh good and evil report, through sickness aud health, for better and worse. Therefore, 1 conclude from tho testimony in tho case, that the plaintiff has been not only deserted, ruthlessly and without justi fiable cause, but that the defendant has ab solutely failed to provide lor more than two years any of the necessaries or comforts of -life for the support of his wile and child. I am therefore ot the opinion that the causes sot forth in the complaint, that of deseitlon and the failure to piovide, are clearly made out by the testimony lu the case, and the plaintiff is entitled to a decree ot divorce irom her husband, J. G. Blaine, Jr. There is another question presented to the Com t by the complainant tne uuatody of the child. The Court takes cognizance of the lact that the delondantin this cans be longs to a most distinguished and influential family, and that weio the child given into tne custody ana tare or tne rather mid mother of the defendant, they would sur lound him by these influences and give him thendantages which can come from wealth and affluence, but under the circumstances it seems to me that tne Court has no light to look beyond the defendant and enter the family of parents, und it concludes from the testimony which or the parties to the anlt FEBRUARY 21. 1892. are best individually calculated to rear and tutor this younj; and tender boy. Xounc Jimmy to Fay the Fiper. Tho Coui t is of the opinion, from the evi dence in the case, that the plaintiff has the capacity tnd the will.-and is a proper person in every sense to take charge of jthis boy and to rear Him as ho should bo. It H therefore the j udgment or the court that the plaintiff. Mrs. Mary Nevins Blaine, be divorced from her husband, J, G. Blaine, Jr., and that she have the care and'enstody of the son, James G. Blaine IIL And it is further ordered that J. G. Blaine, Jr.", pay the plaintiff the sum of tl.OOOsuit money and $4G0 attorneys' fees in this case; and is further ordered that J. G. Blaine, Jr., the defendant in this case, pay to the plaintiff for the supportof herseirand her child, $100 per month until further orders of this court. Mrs. Blaine will leave to-morrow for her home at Sioux Fails. FIFTY SHOTS FIRED ANn THEN THE BDRGETTSTOTVN BURGLARS SURRENDERED. One or the Men Hall From Allegheny The Aggrieved Parties Were Slow to Action Discovery of a Train Crew Some Goods Recovered. BuKGETTSTCrWN, Feb. 20. Special .Thursday night the safes of Bruce, the jeweler, and McClure, the postmaster, were blown open, and 59,000 worth of jewelry obtained from the one and 10,000 2-cent stamps from the other. The work was evi dently that of experts, and suspicion at once attached to a gang of tramps who had been occupying a smail shantv about a mile from town. "These men had apparently been making raids' on the neighboring farms for food. 'Xesterday the robbery was allowed to pass without 'anything being done, the post master expecting the aid of the postal service and Mr. Brnce hoping to obtain in demnity from the safe company, his safe be ing a mammoth Barnes, and warranted burglar-proof. AVhen the Burgettstown accommodation passed the shanty this morning,-C6nductor Brown, seeing suspicious looking men there with saefcs, stopped the train, and withtheaid of train hands, gave chase. The men dropped the sacks and escaped. The sacks were found to contain merchan dise, since identified as belonging to Charles Withelm, of Oakdale, whose store was robbed. Postmaster McClure sent posses of men, headed by sworn deputies with search war rants, in different directions. He also sent out various other private scouts in search, who were to follow the men if seen. He put himself in telegraphic communication with the neighboring towns, and heard at 1 o'clock that the men had passed through Florence, Pa., inquiring their way to Dins more. One other crowd of seven was formed in Burgettstown, headed by William Me Cabe, with a warrant. They found the men in Hunter's mill, near Dinsmore. At their approach two of the men at tempted to escape and were fired upon by the attacking party, one being shot through the ear. After some 50 shots had been fired thev surrendered and the whole gang came to Burgettstown, where the men were given a hearing; There seems to be no doubt as to their being the parties wanted. They gave the following names: James phia, claims to be a G. A- R. man of the - r, - t.t. x x il.i .:i -cttmi! t a. Modg, Bernard F. Dunning, Pniladel- Peter Lyle post ot that city; William Xee, Philadelphia; Thomas Whalen, Chicago, lacks three fingers; Thomas McCauley, 53 Rebecca street, Ninth ward, Allegheny, clainiJ to have worked in Lindsay's &"Mc Cutcheon's mill; William Murray, No, 137 Itace street, fnnadelphia. ''S.icBiaSlJY-iPM.'k That Cannot Be Solved, Without Deep Study, Says Minister Bowell. Ottawa, Ont., 'Feb. 20. Special. "Whatever may be the result of our visit to Washington," remarked Minister Bowell to-day, "we have from the first refused most positively to talk on the subject, and therefore deprecate the attempt that has been made to represent us as displeased with the manner in which we were re ceived by President Harrison, Secre tary Blaine and General Foster. Nothing could have been more cordial than our meetings with Secretary Blaine and General Foster. I was highly impressed with their ability to enter into a discussion of trade questions. The question of recipro city is a broad one that cannot be dealt with in a cursory sort of way, as some of our opponents appear to handle it. Let an attempt be made to carry their theoretical ideas into practical enect and they will then realize the magnitude of the task they have undertaken. "To arrive at the true principle of reci procity mutually advantageous to both the contracting parties offering counter-balancing concessions that will insure, to neither an advantage oyer the other, and at the same time not interfere with the general trade of the country, is not a matter that can be arranged in a day er in a perfunctory manner. Every conflicting interest has to be considered, and it is only after much thought and long deliberation that a satis factory and practical solution1 of the ques tion can be reached." EDISON SAY3 HE'S ALL BIGHL If He Was Frozen Out of the Electric Com bine He Doesn't Enow It. 2f ewYork, Feb. 20. Special Inventor Thomas Edison rays the story published yesterday, that, by the consolidation of the Edison General Electric Company with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, he has been frozen out of the management of any electric company, is all "rot." "Why? I know a good thing when I get it, don't I?" lie asfeed to-day. "Well, then, I'm not opposed to any scheme that is going to increase my profits. The idea of my being dissatisfied with the joining of the Edison General and Th'omson-Houston Company is utterly ridiculous. W'hy, go to the books of the Edison company and you will find that I was the first man to transfer my stock in the Edison company and take stock in the joint company, for my name is the first on the list. "I see that I had a controlling interest In a lot of electric companies and that I have been gradually frozen out Well, well, well. I did not know it I never owned more than 10 per cent of the stock of any of the companies, and'l've got that yet, and it's a mint, compared to what it was. I was elected a director of the big company. I don't know what for. I never attended a meeting. Mayrbe they'll elect me a direc tor of the new company. I don't know. I won't object" THBES 0HILDBEN CBEMATED. A Kerosene Explosion in a Michigan Town TTilh Fatal Bfsults. Ikoiovood, Mich., Feb. 20. Special A store building whose first floor was occu pied as a saloon and the second floor as a residence by Charles De Longcamps, was burned last night, and three children were burned to death. The fire originated in the kitchen, from an explosion of kerosene, and spread liko a flash through the build ing. The mother, with a 2-weeks-old babe in her arms, and the two eldest children were rescued with gr,at difficulty. Albert, Marin and Charles, aged 7, 5 and 3 years, were burned with the building. A Polygamy Victory in TJUh. .Salt Lake, Utah, Feb. 20. In the lower House of the Xegislature yesterday a memorial that had passed the Council, favoring an anti-polygamy amendment to the United States Constitution, was killed. ONE HUNDRED LIVES s Most Marvellously Escaped Destruction Near Pitts burg Last Night. 1 WRECK ON A TRESTLE, The Engine Being Hurled One Way and the Tender Another. BDT ONE PERSON FATALLY HURT. The Train Boiled on With Its Stricken Passengers. Panic- FEATURES TUAT SEEMED MIRACULOUS Probably the most thrilling and remark able railroad accident that has occurred in the vicinity of Pittsburg within many years happened last night on the Wheelinjpslivi sion of-the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, near Whitehall, about 12 miles southpfthis city. A passenger train was wrecked on the high trestle just north of Whitehall. The engine was thrown from the tracks about 40 feet into a-ravine. The engineer was fatally hurt'' The fireman was thrown high intpthe air and alighted on a softembankment on the other side of the tracks, and was seriously injured. - The passengers, numbering about 100, and the train crew, escaped in a most miraculous way. The wrecked train and the thoroughly frightened passengers ar rived in Pittsburg at 1 o'clock this morning, about four hours late. Thrilling Story of the Escape. The story of the accident, the frighi and the narrow escape was told this morning to a Dispatch reporter by one of the passen- Train No. 4,scheduled to leave Wheeling, was 40 minutes late in starting. The train was in charge of Conductor Ball. It was hanled by engine No. 740, Engineer Ed ward Mahon and Fireman Charles Lindsey. The train was made up of two day coaches. a parlor car and a combination mail and baggage car. When the train struck the heavy grade north of White Hall the speed was in creased to about 35 miles an hour. At the foot of the grade is a short, sharp curve, the approach to a deep ravine over which stretches for nearly 300 feet a temporary trestle. While, the train was rounding the curve the engine struck a huge rock which, loosened by frost and thaw, had rolled irom the high embankment above to the railroad, .' The Crossing- of the Trestle, An awlul crash followed. The engine broke from the tender and left the track. The tender partly broke front the train and the separated parts rushed in a mad race for the trestle. The escaping steam, the I Tumbling of he engineover the. ties and the, VCTrtaUof th? train" upon-nieUTie airbrakes nad iastenea when the engine broke away sent out into the dismal night a horrible tickening sound. When, the engine reached the trestle proper i'seemed to stop suddenly, and plunged down the embankment. The train grinding out flashes of fire irom the rails, swept by it safely, being stopped by the air brakes at the other, end of the trestle. As the engine toppled over Engineer Mahan was thrown out. He was found some 40 feet away from the engine in the deep ravine. He was unconscious 'when found. Part of his clothing and one of his overshoes were found some 50 feet away from him. The engine was crushed into a mass of warped and shattered iron. When the engine stopped before its plunge into the ravine it threw Fireman Lindsey high into the air through the cab roof. He alighted on the embankment. His shoulder was dislocated and he was other wise injured. He was brought to his home in Glenwood. The engineer was brought .to the Homeopathic Hospital. Both are single. The tender left the track when the train stopped on the trestle, and plunged into the chasm below, without taking any of the cars with it, making a.second miracu lous escape. The Passengers Fonio-Strlcken. The passengers were horrified. They knew something had happened, and for a time all were unable to move. They finally attempted to leave the train, but were stopped bv the train men, who notwithstanding their fright were able to control the panic-stricken ones. After the first fright passed off the passengers left the train and busied 'themselves in arranging for the safety of all. Fires were built in the rear and in front of the ill-fated train to prevent other trains from approaching. Another engine was sent to the scene and the train was broaght to Pittsburg. The groans of Mahan when he was ten derly carried into the parlor car, a bleeding, unconscious mass of flesh, were sufficient to sicken the lady occupants, who waited in suspense for the renewal of the jour ney.. Dr. Sehultz, of Whitehall, was summoned by a man who made his way over the hills by the light of a torch. He said it was miraculous that the man ever lived a moment after his tremendous plunge down the mountain side. He gave it as his opinion that Mahan had but a short time to live. Tbe accident is pronounced by railroad men and travelers to be one of the most marvelous ever known to them. OHIO FOB 00VEBH0B M'KIHLET. The Major May Get His Own State's xlele gatlon to Minneapolis. Washington, Feb. 20. Special Representative.N. A. Taylor has just re turned from a visit to his home in Ohio, and he reports that the political pot in the "Buckeye" State is rapidly reaching the boiling point He says the Repub licans in Ohio are talking more about Gov ernor McKinley than .any other man at the present time, and irom the present out look it seems as though he might get the State delegation to the Minneapolis Con vention. There was a bitter feeling of disappoint ment among the rank and file of the Ohio Re publicans when Blame's letter came out, and in spite j his declination, there is a strong sentiment in favor of forcing the nomina tion upon him. With Blame out of the way, Governor McKinlev is probably the first choice of the Objo Republicans. Mr. Harrison has many warm friends in the State, bnt there is no disposition in Ohio to insist upon his serving anotner term. DISCOTJSTEST AT SEA. A Steamer's Captain Refuses to Throw a Line to a Llfe-Savlnj; Crew. NouroLK, VA., Feb. 20. Special The Neptune Line steamer Bellina, from Sun derland to Baltimore, to load for Rotter dam, went ashore in front of the weather bureau office at Cape Henry, during afos at 7:10 o'clock this morning; The fog horn was blowing in full force at the time. The steamer floated in 40 minutes without assistance, and, after taking a pilot aboard, proceeded to Baltimore. "Observer Sherry signaled her while ashore, asking her name, but got no reply. Captain Johnson and the crew of life-saving station No. 1 were alongside in a few minutes to offer their servics, but the cap tain of the steamer would not throw him a line. Captain Johnson says it was one of the most discourteous acts ever shown to him in his sea experience. QUAY MUCH IMPROVED. ,nis Condition a Week Ago Was C )tcal, bnt Now He Says He TV 111 Bo injWash iugton Next Week One or lift Langs Congested. Jr Ft. Pieece, Fla., Feb. 20-Special Messengers sent from here Jnis morning to Senator Quay's cottagefn St Lucie re turned about G o'clock 3flnight with news that his condition walmuch improved. In fact, there has been-a steady improvement, with one or two-jrfelapses, for the last seven days. The - --tor's trouble was conges tion of tJapr S$.. result of a severe cold contracje'asy&fv' (? Mle of January in Washington. JJ,.0'' ,q him to the house, with the e- 4 .'"'ur or five days, until February . 'rC.Hfifn'lt for Florida. J Ctkr;ty He was seriously ill when hiiv passed through Jacksonville, but those in isi party and the attendants told the reporters who called that the Senator "was asleep." For several days after his arrival at his cottage he was confined to his bed, closely watched by a physician and nurse, and his condition grew rapidly worse. Lost Saturday Mr. Quay was in a critical condition, and Mrs. Quay was telegraphed -to come at once. She reached the Senator's bedside last Wednesday, hut he had im proved so much that he was able to sit up. He is now able to walk about the house, and has been out of doors once or twice. One lung is still congested, and his cough is severe. His face is still pale and.hag gard. His coughing spells alarm the mem bers of his family very much, and his physician does not yet regard him as out of danger. "Sou may say," said the Senator to one Of the messengers this afternoon, "that I will be back in Washington by March L" This is not regarded possible by members of his family. RIB0T THE NEW PREMIER. President Carnot Intrusts to Him the Task of Forming a French Cabinet. Paris, JFeb. 20. President Carnot had a long interview to-day with M. Ribot, Min ister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet that resigned yesterday. It was definitely announced last evening that M. Ribot has been requested by Presi dent Carnot to form a Cabinet, and that he has agreed to undertake the task. It is believed that M. de Freycinet, the resigned Premier, will resume his portfolio of Minister of War. CAMPBELL THE CHIEF OBATOB At the Seventh Banquet or the Ohio Society or New Tork. New Yokk, Feb. 20. Special "The Ohio Society of New York gave its seventh annual, banquet at Sherry's last night It was expected that the five Ohio-born mem bers of the administration President Har riijln' ami Sccrcfcjries .Foster, ISbble, Rusk, and' Elkins would hi present, but they sent regTets. xwo hundred and lorty other Buckeyes were there, including Calvin S. Brice and Congressmen Outhwaite, Har ter, Pattison and Taylor. Ex-Governor Campbell, in a speech an hour long, told something of the 36 different governors of Ohio. Speaking of the war governors he said that none of them were renominated, because the great war patronage of the office politically killed them. "This shows," he continued, "that the vice of patronage will destroy the greatest statesman the country can produce, if. some remedy be not applied." Mr. Campbell said that ex-Governor Hoadly in scholar ship, character and ability was" not excelled by any Governor of Ohio, and that Foraker was a "gallant young soldier of mercurial and vigorous temperament, and not espec ially struck on the senior Senator from Ohio." Congressmen Outhwaite and Har ter and Murat Halstead also spoke. C0HSTJLTIHO WITH CLEVELAND. Many Democrats of National Importance Visiting the Ei-Presldent. New Yoke, Feb. 20. Special Poli ticians from all over the nation have been in consultation with ex-President Cleve land. Among those who are said to have had a long and earnest consultation with the ex-President is J. M. Guffev, the oil and gas magnate, and Democratic politician of Western Pennsylvania. For a time it was supposed that J. M. Guffey was opposed to Cleveland, but his presence in this city at this time has rather dissipated that belief. Mr. Guffey has been at the Fifth Avenue Hotel for nearly a week. He left for his home to-day. THE DISPATCH DIBECTOSY. Contents ot the Issue Classified for the Convenience ot tho Beader. The issue of The Dispatch to-day consists of 20 pages, made up in two parts. The live news will be found in the first part. Special literary features anbj class news will be found most readily by reference to the table here given: Face 9. CniCAGO's Bio Blow Chsrles T. Murray 3Ian Y IjirORTAKT DEATHS "W. G. Kanrmann Tnr Sux Mat Go Out Camllle 1'lammarion New Taper Moxey. Lieut. Peaky's Ftad. Page 10. Tnx MUSIC TVOKLD C. W. S. ISAIAU AS AX Enrroa Bcv. George Hodges Educational News. Pebsojtal Metiox. Page 11. The "Wajtts. To Lets. Toe Sales, Miscellane ous and Real Estate Notices. Page 12. The society TVobld Marlon C. Gallaher The Gbaud AnMY, Uxiox Veteran Legion. Page 13. Science of Cookixo Zd ward-Atkinson New Masks fob Vegetables.... OctaTe Thanet Beauties fob bruiNG Ada Baebe Cone Mortality among Infants Dr. Frank A HEATHiX Comfobt Helen Watterson Page 14. theatrical news Military Gossip. Page 15. Famine r? Eussia V. Grlbajedoff Republic of Uruguay Fannie B. Ward Wizard of Stockholm. Rudolph Bauroan THE American Claimant Mark Twain Spring Fashions for Men. Page 16. Washington's Birthday, Bob Bnrdetto A Washington Jam Bessie Bramble Moons of Jupiter E. S. Ilolden Pago 17. Progbess in Engines Georgettes THEFACEOFBLDDnA Laftadlo Hearn White Mice of Africa M. DeBalon Tricks With a Bled Benjamin Northrop Page IS. Sailing iv Venice Murat Halstead Felton'b Urs and Downs F. . Carpenter A. Review of Sports John D. rrinrle THE W. It. C. CONVENTION. Page IV. secret societies. the market reports. Oil field News. General Gossip. Page 20. 'A Wonderful Railroad Horace J. Hill "Amusement Notices. FIVE CENTS. 'TWAS, BUT 11 TRUCE ! 76t a Permanent Peace long the Politicians of the iYortliside. A BOLT PE01T A CAUCUS, In Which Oliver Was Defeated and Toegtly Uamed for Mayor. MANY LIVELY SPEECHES MADE. Thirty-Four Conncilmen Indulje in a Yery Ixcitinjr Session. KENNED! MAT STILL BE A CANDIDATE The spirit of many an old-time political fight in Allegheny politics came 'to the surface at a caucus of Northside Council men last night, and for a couple of hours .there was not onlv rumors of'var. but war in reality, in which political gore was shed as freely as have been the promises of peace. It has been the talk aud boast of Allegheny statesmen since Mayor Wyman resigned that in the selection of his successor all the tomahawks would be buried to allow the selection of a new chief magistrate who could be free to act without being encumbered by political strings. It was a plan of a rosy hue, offered with as much outside sincerity as an Indian chief tain signs a treaty of peace, but when the test came, it was shown that Allegheny politicians, like the noble red men, will only smoke the pipe of peace when all the smoke is going their way. There were 34 of Allegheny's 66 Coun cilmen at the caucus in the Teutonia in surance offices last night and each of the 34 had apian to propose. The meeting was with closed doors, "tut there were only ordinary brick walls around the room and a man that couldn't have heard the debate a half a square away would call on the thnnder in s midsummer storm to "speak a little louder, please." Six Members Conclude to Bolt, From the opening of the meeting to tha withdrawal of six indignant members, the increase ot excitement was as gradual as time itself, but, like time, it got there with out any doubt as to identity. Chairman Parke, of Common Council, acted as pre siding officer, but he hadn't his official gavel with him last night, and nothing of less weight than a brick to throw at some of tha objectors would have been useful in keep ing order. It was a meeting of the Reform members to discuss the candidates for the 30-day term and, if possible, agree on one. "Voegtly, Oliver, Cochrauce, Bothwell, Ger wig and McKelvy were placed in nomina tion. Mr. Snaman's name was withdrawn. It was evident frota ijhe startthat Voegtly was in the lead, with Oliver a close second. The proposition was made br some of tfaecembers that on account of only about half the Councilmen being pres ent, it would seem too much like factional work to determine on one candidate, and that, therefore, three names be agreed on and that a selection be made from them in Council meeting. Messrs. Henricks and Drum championed the move, which they claimed was in the interest of harmony, hut the advocates of individual candidates wanted to end tha fight at the caucus, and in vigorous lan guage asserted that they intended to do just what they wanted to do. Wanted an Early Settlement. Mr. Gilliford insisted on a selection at once and after he and several others had made characteristic Allegheny Council manic speeches, the question was put to tha house and resulted in a vote of 21 to 13 in favor of a caucus choice. The other side still objected, however. It was argued that such men as Messrs. Wertheimer, Neeb, Dahlinger and Lindsey, who have not been in favor of the Auditing Commit tee, were still members of Councils, and that next Tuesday tbey might object to be ing frozen out entirely. The arguments were furious for a short time, and resulted in the withdrawal of Henricks, Simon, Pauline, McGearey, Roderick, Han nan and Harbison. While they were out a resolution was passed requiring a two-thirds vote to nominate. Immediately afterward, on a motion made by Mr. Lewis, it was decided to invite the seceding members hack. On the wording of the res olution there is now a question of dispute as deep and mysterious as Allegheny Coun cils itself. The men who withdrew claim they came back with the understanding that tbey were only to express a preference and that next Tuesday night they will be at liberty to support whoever they please. Mr. Lewis says they came back with tbe understand ing that they were to abide by the decision of the caucus. If they should do so Mr, Voegtly's election would be assured but if the seven refuse and join with the members who stayed awav from, or were not invited to the caucus, Mr. Voegtly can be side-tracked and some new man taken up. The factions are now Voegtly and anti-Voesrtly, with little doubt that the former will win. The First Formal Ballot. The first ballot was as follows: Oliver, 6; Voegtly, l'J; Bothwell, 8; McKelvy, 1, Seven others were taken without a choice being made. In the meantime all but the names of Voegtly and Bothwell were withdrawn. The final ballot was Voegtly, 22; Bothwell, lL As soon as the resnlt was announced ther was a flood of resolutions introduced so rapidly that only an occasional one could be considered. Dr. Gilliford wanted the privilege to be given t members to give a complimentary vote to whoever thev pleased on Tuesday night His proposition met with such hot objection that it was withdrawn, only to be followed by another supported by Messrs. Lewis, Gerwig and StaufTer, in which it was pro posed to bind the members to the caucus nominee on the first ballot and ever after. This was voted d,qwn. What the final de cision was is in doubt All but the six' members who withdrew seem to favor sup porting Mr. Voegtly from the start, but be tween now and next Tuesday there is time enough for each member to change his mind a hundred times. Those present at the caucus last night -were; Messrs. Bothwell, Cruikshank, Drum, Eshelman, Henderson, Parke, Gerwig, Harbison, Simon, Stauf fer, Lewis, Knox, McGenry, Thomas, Schondelmeyer, Nesbit, Pauline, Armstrong, Millard, Roderick, Hannan, Freinstein, Frazier, Gilliford, MeAuley, Patton, Albright, Lang, Stockman, Koehler, Stacy, Goettman, Henricks and Einstein. A Candidate for Election, Too. Jf Mr. Voegtly is elected for the short term, it was announced at the caucus last night that he will be candidate for election. to fill the unexpired term. He is an ex- m a fl 1 w w .-?.7. 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