DOUBLE NUMBER. FORTY-SEVENTH TEAK. s Gladstones First Home Rule Bill Proposed for the North BEFORE PARLIAMENT. All Scottish and Many English Lib erals Backing the Bill FOR FORCING THE IRISH ISSUE. The Proposition More Democratic Than Any Before Advocate! No Acts of the Legislature to Be Vetoed by the Pnvy Council, Except on Con stitutional Grounds Only a Single House Provided For The Police Pro vision Alone Varies From That In Previous Home Rule Bills, Because Scotland Has No Constabulary The Executive Vested In the Queen and the Secretary for Scotland Full Powers of Taxation Conferred, Except the Levying of Import Duties Other Provisions. Loxdon, March 19. Twelve of the lead ing Scotch members have introduced in Parliament a bill for the creation of a Scot tish legislative body. All the Liberal members returned from Scotland have given their adhesion to the measure, and many of the English members, including some Con servatives, have privately signified their approval. The interest of the world at large in legis lation for Scotland, whether relating to home rule or anything else, is only frac tional, but the bill now before Parliament ill attract attention outside of Scotland ohiedv for its bearings upon the question of Ireland. The group of Scotch members who have prepared it, all of them stadfast Gl.1d5toci2.ns, have had in mind throughout the inception of the bill the probable appli cation of its main proposals to Ireland. Some of them were very prominent home rulers before Mr. Gladstone, and all of them have long been in tonch with the , , . ,., ,, , ., Imh party. one of them would place tne question of home rule for Scotland before that of Ireland, or ignore the fact that any measure giving a Legislature -to-Ireland must give due attention"" to those senti mental considerations which pervade Irish ideas on home rule. othlnr Visionary About the Scheme. But what Scotch Liberal members, and many English, are prepared to argue about the Scotch home rule bill, is that it is a pre eminently practical measure, and that it would give to Ireland that complete man agement of her own affairs which ought to satisfy Nationalists, except those who are separatists. Here is the Scotch bill, in summary, but embracing every point of any consequence: Part first establishes in Scotland a Legis lature consisting of the Queen and a Scottish legislative body, "to make laws for the peace, order and good government of Scotland, and by such laws to alter and repeal any law in Scotland, with the excep tions and subject to the restrictions, after mentioned." The exceptions relate to mat ters of Imperial administration, such as armv and navy, postal telegraph services, treaties of peace and war, trade, navigation, coinage, copyright, patent rights and suc cession to the Crown or Eegency. Io State Religion Provided For. The Scottish Legislature shall not make any law for the establishing or endowing any religion, or prohibiting the free exer cise thereof, or imposing any disability or conlerring any privilege on account of re ligious belief shall not abrogate orderogate from the right to establish and maintain any place of denominational education, institu tion or chanty, or prejudicially affect the right of any child to attend a school receiv ing public money without attending the re ligious instruction of that school; and shall not make laws imposing or relating to du ties of customs or excise. The Scotch Parliament is to consist of the Scotch members returned to the Imperial Parliament, except those returned for Scotch universities. It will meet in autumn and consider all bills, public and private, and pass business exclusively relating to Scotland. Bills passed become law, and will not require the sanction of the Im perial Parliament nor the House of Lords. Neither the Imperial Parliament nor the Government shall have any power to veto any measures passed by the Scottish Legis lature. llllis Vetoable on Constitutional Grounds. Should the question arise whether a meas ure approved by the Scotch Parliament is within its powers, the matter will be re ferred to the judicial committee of the Privy Council, and if that committee de cides that the bill is not within the powers of the Scotch Parliament the assent of the Queen is to be witnheld. The Executive Government of Scotland shall be vested in the Queen and carried on by the Secretary for Scotland, with such officers and council as may be provided by the Scottish Legislature. For the purpose of administration, the Scottish Legislature may impose taxes other than duties of cus toms or excise; shall create a Scottish con solidated fund separate from the consoli dated lund of the United Kingdom. All taxes imposed by the Scottish Legislature, with all other public revenues under the control of the Government of Scotland, shall be paid into ths Scottish consolidated fund and appropriated to the pnblic service of Scotland. The amount annually payable by Scotland toward the maintenance of all imperial ctablishments and defraying imperial charges, shall be proportioned to that pay able by Eugland and Wales, having regard to their relative wealth and popnlation. Provisions for the National Judiciary. Part second, referring to the appointment of judges, or "Lords of Session," as the mi FOR SCOTLAND Scotch term is, provides that all existing civil and criminal courts shall be main tained, subject, however, to abolition and alteration, and "Lords of Session" can be removed from office on an address to Her Majesty from the Scottish Legislature. Then there is a provision that the "power and authority ot the Imperial Parliament" shall in no wise be diminished or restrained by anything herein contained a clause ob viously inserted to soothe the fears of the Unionists, who attach much meaning even to a verbal recognition of the sovereignty of the "Westminster Parliament. Some points in these provisions are nota bly worth comparison with Mr. Gladstone's first home rule bilL First probably In im portance, there is only one legislative body proposed. The Scotch Parliament will be a democratic body, haync no check upon its legislation except the reference to the judicial committee on the Privy Council, which will determine as to the validity of any bill on the simple issue whether it is within the Constitution or not One Foint or Difference From Ireland. 2fext, the bill ignores the question of police control, simply because the powers conferred on the Executive and Legislature give them that control. The matter needs no special dense for its adjustment Ire land, withyits semi-military constabulary, has its peculiar difficulty. Then, as to judges, the appointments shall rest with the crown; but the Parliament evidently, ac cording to the bill, will have power of .pro test and practically of removal The Scotch-Liberal members have been whole-hearted toward their Irish confreres in preparing the bill. If the Irish people accept the main proposals, Mr. Gladstone's way toward his coming home rule measure has now been paved. At the same time, once the mote urgent Irish bill is disposed of, the Scotch members will brook no delay in the acceptance of their proposals. A PARISIAN BANK CRASH. One of the Directors a Suicide, Another a Jail Bird and Two Others Fugitives From Justice Government Securities Are Squandered In Speculation. Paris, March 19. The Banque Gen erale Chemin de Feret Industrie sus pended to-day. One of the directors has committed suicide, two have absconded and one has been arrested. The bank specu lated in French, Spanish and Russian se curities. The liabilities amount to 24,000, 000 francs and the assets to 5,000,000. The failure had no effect on the Bourse. The reason assigned for the suicide and' flight is that the authorities were about to institute legal proceedings against the di rectors of the bank on the charge of fraudu lent bankruptcy and of obtaining moner under false pretenses. The bank dealt largely in theFrench national loan of 1891, and received subscriptions to the loan for upward of 2,000,000 francs. It is alleged that, instead of applving the money thus obtained to the purchase of shares of the loan, the directors used the funds for other purposes, generally in industrial and mining speculations. In July next the bank would have been obliged to hand over to the subscribers to the fund the stock certificates, the money for which the directors had'spent in specu- lation As the directors had other s.uti. W9 IW UiCtt LUC UCUbll, AUU tt9 me i.tpiuw of the concern amounted to only 6,000,000 traces, tne Dane would be placed in a very embarrassing situation when the time ar rived for settling with the creditors. The bank did a considerable business, its opera tions being spread over a large part of the country. It had branches in 16 provincial towns and had two branches beside the central office iu this city. Its clientage was very extensive. BENEFITS OF A 8UGAB BOUNTY. The Western Reserve Goluc to Turn Out Iots of Maple and licet. Cleveland, O., March 19. Special The maple sugar camps of .Northern Ohio are having a busy season, and the 2 cents a pound bounty promises to considerably in crease the production. But as it is only paid to producers who make 500 pounds a year or more, it will benefit only a small fraction of the maple sugar makers of the Reserve. Nearly all the maple sugar made in Ohio comes from the 28 counties composing this in ternal revenue district, the total production of the district exceeding 1,400, 000 pounds last year. Only 198 licenses hae been granted by Collector Gabriel, and the total estimated production by these applicants was 200,000 pounds. Six-sevenths of the sugar made in the Iieserve will derive no beneht from the bounty, and con siderable feeling is manifested by small producers over the discrimination. Politi cally, the bounty gives Collector Gabriel more patronage to distribute, ten weighers being deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of the law. The raising of sugar beets is being vigor ously discussed among the farmers in North ern Ohio, and steps are being taken to build up the beet sugar industry. Between 300 and 400 farmers about Norwalk have pledged themselves to raise sugar beets next year, and a large factory for the manufacture of beet sugar will be built this spring. The interest about Findlay has resulted in plans for a factory, and agitation is going on at other pointF. If Representative Carney's bill to pay a State bounty of a cent a pound besides tb"e Federal bounty, becomes a law, the beet sugar industry will boom in North ern Ohio. NATUBAL GAS GIVES QUI. The Failure ot the Fuel Compels an Indiana Factory to Phut Down. Ft. Wayne, Ind., March 19. The clos ing down of the big window glass factory at Spiceland, Ind., yesterday because of a total failure of its natural gas supply, Tenders the manufacturers in other portions of the In diana gas belt apprehensive lest a similar fate is in store for them. The supply of gas at Spiceland, which is on the eastern edge of the belt, has been failing gradually, and efforts were made to increase the pressure by drilling new wells, but these latter failed to bring about the de sired result, and the shutdown was made imperative. About 300 workmen are affected by the closing of the works. STAKDAED CHANGING ITS NAME. A. Move Made Necrsaary by the Judicial Decision in Ohio. New Yoke, March 19. Special A certificate was filed in the Hudson county clerk's office in Jersey City, to-day, chang ing the title "Standard Oil Company of New Jersey," to the "Standard Oil Com pany." ' It is understood that this is a technical change, made in consequence of the- recenc iudicial decision in Ohio. An Iron Firm Goes to the Wall. Treton, N. J., March 19. The Phoenix Iron Company to-day suspended business and was taken charge of by a receiver. Liabilities $136,000; nominal "assets, J186, 000. of which the real estate counts f 95,000, and the machinery, ?62,64G. Foster Back at the Capital. Washington, March 19. Secretary Foster arrived in Washington from New York, shortly after 9 o'clock this evening. U)c SPIKING NOAH'S ARK That's "What Totten Says Is tlie Sum Total of His Odd Calculations. NAILING UP HIS BOOK To a Telegraph Pole Was Symbolic of What He Has Proyed.- THE END UF THE GOOD AND THE BAD Tale Authorities Are Tired of the Lieuten ant's Theorizing. WET HE HAD HIS WORKS COPIEIGHTED rirxciAL telegram to the dispatch, t New York, March 19. C. A. L. Totten, United States Army, Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the Sheffield Scientific School, was visited by a reporter at his home to-day. He does not look the lunatio that many persons regard him. He is a monomaniac on the subject of the second coming of Chrisf. "I know," he 6aid, "that the college au thorities do not like my teachings, or rather, my theories, though they never have said so to me, even indirectly. My publications annoy them, but I cannot help that. I have never predicted the end of the world, rather, thank God, its grand beginning. The world endureth forever. I do predict the im minence of His return who is the desired of all nations. The chronology that I outline must be right. It cannot be wrong. By that I mean that whether it strikes the absolute end of Gentile time or not, it moves constantly to its hither bourne. It may be the human beginning of that zone of judgment year, though rather do I fear for them on whom I can make no impres sion that it is in the final seven." People Have a Wrong Impression. "Do you know, Prof. Totten, that in New York there are many people who regard you as a man who is crazy on this subject?" asked the reporter. The professor's face relaxed. He swung back in his chair and laughed. "Of course I do. Of course I do," he said. "That is because I have been misquoted. They say I predicted the end of the world. That is not so, as yon know. There are numerous chronological lines by which calculations fetch us down to the year 1899 as the year of the overthrow of anti-Christ and the be ginning of the millenium on the earth. It is needless to republish even an epitome of the several chronological lines. They have all been followed down with utmost care. They all come to the same-point." His eccentric act in spiking a copy of his last book to a telegraph pole on the main street in New Haven was mentioned in the course of the interview. - A Spike Through Nehs Ark.- "I spiked it to the pole," he said, "with deliberate intent. The book was written to combat the works of Huxley and Ingersoll, who tried to disprove the stories of the Flood and of Joshua's long day. It was to com bat them on a scientific basis that the calcu lation was undertaken and has been carried to Its end. The title, 'A Scientific Spike Through Noah's Ark,' is fitting to the topic, and the treatment, and the .way I treated the first copy, X hope has justified or will justify the end in view. A great many persons regarded this act of mine as eccen tric. I see nothing odd in such an act done on the spur of the moment, with deliberate intent as soon as the idea was suggested and literally as explained at the time. Had I the means I would go over the cities of Israel and spike a copy ot that volume on every town post" The professor told something of what he thought the millenium would be like, be ginning with the catching up from the earth of 144,000 Christians as described in the Book of Bevelations. Of hell the pro fessor said: "It is not a lake of fire and brimstone. I think that death to the wicked is annihilation. To the Christian it is merely a sleep. The good will be called up to enjoy the fruits of their obedience. The bad will be never more." The Professor Will Leave Tale. "I will not be here mnch longer," he said; "I was sent here for three years. My time is up on July 4 and I will rejoin my regiment at oiiiauLa. jl uo ' not Know whether I will be appointed to fill a place in some other college than Yale. But whether I put the facts I have discovered before the world as a professor of Yale or as plain citizen C A. X. Totten they are facts all the same, and I will give them to the world as it is my duty and my privilege." In looking over some of the books"lying on the desk ny which Prof. Totten sat, the reporter noticed that they were copy righted. "It you desire this information yon have gained to De ireeiy disseminated over tne world," he asked, "why do you protect your right to publish them by a copyright?" "Your question is a natural one, but easily answered," replied the professor. "It was the part of wisdom to copyright I am personally responsible for this whole system of interpretation; it cannot be understood by the public unless it is correctly set forth. This requires 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.' I could not even contemplate without anxiety the grant ing of a general privilege to excerpt, edit, garble, or even reprint these volumes. They are studies. Will Do the Spiking Himself. "They must come out under my own supervision. I have had sore experience already in cases where I purposely refrained from taking out a copyright, and I regard this legal safeguard as one of the utmost value to all concerned. Moreover, I prefer to do the spiking myself, and believe that means to propagate my message will come quickest and best in the way I have been led to adopt The laborer is worthy of his hire, and as all my wages go back into the work I am iully prepared to anticipate any possi ble growth in the demand. For many years I journeyed in vain from publisher to pub lisher with my manuscript; they not only declined to entertain my addresses, but did not even volunteer to publish the works at my own expense. It was not until I put myself single handed at the plow that the work began to realize the success which has crowned it The effect is now incor porated, entered according to the act of Congress, and upon as sound and legal a business basis as that of your own paper. I have been at this work during 16 years. ' It was a hidden treasure of great price.. Year by year I have spent all that I had, in order to purchase the held, and now that I own it I intend to sell its treasures myself and in God's name to control the proceeds, and to spread and further the cause as I shall be further Enlightened. The Translation of Bii Books. "Finally, I copyrighted this work, because it keeps its object, aim, and results united, and I can thus control the whole. A house divided against itself is doomed to fall and so far as within me lies, this one shall not be invaded by irresponsible parties. I live among the Cssars, and I intend to render them their due. At the tame time I l.iitl5lmra ETTTSBUKG. SUNDAY. MARCH 20. 1892. do not intend to give them a chance to change their name to sellers and so stop the very wheels I have started. Already there are several responsible parties engaged in translating these books into German, Swed ish, etc., and to them I have granted a full letter of privilege in the premises. I am not copyrighted in England, and much of my work is being reprinted there, although the result is very unsatisfactory, enough left out to ruin the whole. So it would be here If I removed the lock, or else4t would be associated with other doctrines which I wonld consider bad company." The college men say that Prof. Totten's departure from Yale will be a matter for re joicing among the friends of the college. They predict the early fall of his doctrine when he no longer has the right to say that he is a teacher in the university. "They will quickly be forgotten," said one. "The fact that he is a teacher in Yale has given him a standing and his theories an attention that neither probably ever couMd have attained, and it has been greatly to the detriment of Yale." NOTED PEOPLE IN A ROW. THS EX-MAYOR OF DETROIT STARTS A SHOOTING SCRAPE. Notorious Johnnie Considine Gets a Ballet Fut Through Him The Ex-Mayor Is Father of One of McAllister's - Four Hundred All Were Sports. Detroit, March 19. Special. A seri ous and probably fatal shooting affray took place here this evening. William G. Thompson, ex-Mayor of Detroit, one of the wealthiest men in the city and leader of the anti-Dickinson faction of the local Democ racy, was at the bottom of it Thompson and several other sporting men, including Bob McCarthy and Johnnie Considine, leader of the notorious gang of crooks, were in the barroom of the Bussell House at 9:30 o'clock. Thompson and McCarthy got into a hot dispute and finally McCarthy hit Thomnson auite a blow. All but Thompson left the place and went to Swan's cafe and saloon, a high-toned resort Here the row was renewed and McCarthy struck one of Thompson's adher ants. Johnnie Considine, who is one of Thompson's henchmen,interfered and struck McCarthy. Quick as lightning McCarthy whipped "out a revolver and shot Considine, the bullet passing through the latter's stomach and coming out at the back. Con sidine fell to the floor and a few minutes later was taken to another room, where he was attended by physicians. McCarthy es caped through a side door. The prominence of Thompson and Consi dine gives the case highly sensational fea tures. Considine is the most notorious man in the State, and members of his gang have been charged with all sorts of crimes. He and four other members of his gang are now out on bail, being charged with the abduction of Joseph Perrien, a millionaire German miller, -last May. The abduction attracted great atten tion, as, the gang nearlv succeeded in getting $30,000 by tie jpb. The chances for Con sidine's recovery are very small. Thomp son is father of Mrs. Harry Legrande Can non, one of Ward McAllister's 400. GORMAN ON THE LIST Of Prominent Men VCho Have Been irately Taken 111 at the Capital Secretary of State Blaine, and Senator Morrill Con tinue to Improve. Washington, March 19. Special Senator Gorman has been confined to hisj residence iorthffpitfweekby a severe cold and a stubborn attack of lumbago. He was a sufferer from the "grjp" last winter, and it was feared that he would have another encounter with" that dreaded disease. His physician has recommended complete rest and a change of climate, hence he is contemplating a short visit to Old Point Comfort as soon, as the weather will permit His Senatorial associates have shown a keen interest in his condition by making frequent calls at his house to ascer tain how he is getting along. He is still confined to his bed, but to-night he was greatly improved, and he hopes to he out next week. Senator Morrill's condition continues to improve. At 10 o'clock to-night he was re- Sorted as being quite as well as at any time uring his illness. Secretary Blaine is gaining strength daily and spent several hours in his library to day attending to his private correspondence. THE SftUEALEE A BLACKMAI1EB. The Investigation of Chicago's rtoodle Al dermen Begins in Earnest. Chicago, March 19. To-day the investi gation in the Chicago aldermanic Doodle methods was begun by the grand jnry in earnest State Attorney Longenecker and Foreman Lieb held a conference, which resulted in a determination to drop everything else and push the investigation as rapidly as possible. Alder man Kunz, the supposed "squealer" who testified yesterday, was again among the witnesses examined to-day. Alderman Kunz was on the rack for an hour and looked crestfallen when be emerged from the jury room. A grand juror was quoted as authority for the statement that Knnz was working both sides, and had tried to get money out of certain Aldermen as the price oi his silence. State Attornev Loncenecker denied the statement that the witnesses were disap pointing to the State. He said: "We got all we expected to get, and even more. All we have done yet is only a feeler. We are going to go slow in the matter and make sure ofevery step. We have got them where they cannot get away, and there is no especial hurry." BUBLESQTJE BLONDES OH A LABS. They Take Their Advertising Into Their Own Hands in Lockport. LOCKPOBT, N". Y., March 19. Special. A novel mode of advertising a burlesque show was resorted to by the girls in the May Davenport Burlesque Blonde com pany to-day here. The agent was enjoined from exhibiting the display paper adver tising the show, on the grounds of it's being immoral, and so the girls, after their arrival this noon, secured carriages and drove all over the city, scattering hand bills. They visited all the large manufacturing shops and personally invited the men to attend. In the Holly company's shops one girl rushed up to an old man at one of the machines, and lifting his cap to see if he was bald-headed, said, "you can sit in ths front row but you will have 'to come early to get a seat They were a frisky lot of females and had a gay lark all the after noon. rOUBTEZIT PEBSORB POISONED. A Discharged Hotel Employe Suspected of Taking a Terrible Bevenge. Montbosz, March 19. Fourteen persons, inoluding the wife and 18-year-old son of Proprietor Gardnerwere poisoned by eat-T ing biscuits at . the Exchange Hotel last evening. Every one of tbe victims was at tacked half an hour after supper, and all the doctors in the town labored half the night with stomach pumps and antidotes. Their prompt action prevented fatal results, though one of the patients may die. It is believed that rough on rats was placed in the flour from which the biscuits were made; and suspicion falls on a servant who was discharged on the previous day. THE ASTORJCANDAL Almost Forgotten by One of the French Seconds of Coleman Drayton. ? TALrfrlTH M. CHERBOQUET ., Who Says He Doesn't Believe the Husband a Complacent One. THE AST0ES STILL SAT NOTHING. A Friend of Mr. Drayton Wants Public Opinion Arrested UNTUi HIS CASE HAS BEEN STATED tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. J Pabis, 'March 19. Your correspondent to-day interviewed M. Francis Cherboquet, one of the seconds in the contemplated Coleman Drayton duel with Mr.'Hallett Alsop Bnrrowe. M. Cherboquet is very well known in the Parisian Salles d'Armes as a professional swordsman. Being ques tioned as to his acquaintance with Mr. Cole man Drayton he said; "It was in my professional capacity as fencing master that I was first brought into contact with Mr. Drayton, and our acqaint- ance soon ripened into cordiality. There I was nothing surprising, therefore, in his asking me to act as his second, and I readily undertook the task. His other second was M. Ferdinand Boisacq, an engineer, with whom he lived on very friendly terms. "You rather astonish me," added M. Cherboquet, "by inquiring into this affair. I had almost forgotten about it "Why, do you know it happened as far back as the end of January? You are probably aware that it is asserted they offered to com promise the affair by referring it to a jury of honor, but as the motive for the en counter was not of a nature to permit of its discission. Boisacq and I did not consider ourselves justified in submitting the ease to a tribunal such as was proposed by the seconds of Mr. Borrowe. A Question That Was Never Raised. 'JWe thereupon wrote to Mr. Drayton, to apprise him that the gentlemen who represented Mr. Hallett Borrowe declared they'jetused to allow their friend to fight Mr. Drayton, on the ground that he (Dray ton) was un mari complaisant All I can say is, that in the course of their negotia tion with M. Boisacq and myself no such question was ever raised. They simply maintained that the grounds for a duel were insufficient Since then I have heard noth ing further of the matter, and can only re peat once more, ttiat during the whole of the negotiation held between the seconds of th two parties, no aspersion was ever cast upon the honor of my client The reason Mr. Borrow e's seconds laid so much stress upon haviti? recourse to a jury of honor is, I take it, 'ecause Mr. Borrowe was not anxious to iht; jior were,, they particularly desirous With reference to this stoint, it may be as well to mention that one ot tne seconds' whether the Englishman or the American is not known to me said to me, 'I have my self taken part in several unfortunate en counters. I killed one man in Germany and another in England, so that both Lon don and Berlin are closed to me. I do not desire, therefore, to have anything to do with a matter which might end badly in this country, as in that case I should not be able to come to France.' " One Thing That Drayton Couldn't Do. "Then you are of the opinion that Mr. Drayton was not guilty of condoning the of fense?" "So far as my brief acquaintance with him goes for he never stopped in Paris, merely paying flying visits there I should say he was incapable of acting thus. You may be sure, if even a suspicion of such a thing were possible, I should have broken off my acquaintance with Drayton and re fused to act as his second. Everything is against the supposition you mention. For instance, it was Drayton himself who found out the hotel at which.his wife and Borrowe were stopping under an assumed name, and thereupon took steps to prove the criminal ity. I believe he is now engaged in ob taining a divorce. Besides, although he is not quite so rich as his wife, he has an easy competence, and had no motive, therefore, for being a complacent husband." "Do you know, or do you think, this affair likely to have any further conse quence?" "As far as I personally am concerned, the whole thing is at an end. It remains to be seen, however, if Drayton, who left Paris toward tbe end of January, will decide to reopen it." ONLY ONE SIDE HEARD. Drayton's Legal Advisers and the Astor ramily Still Kernse to Talk The Hus band's Case Not Tet Stated No Dnel Expected Now. New Yoek, March. 19. Special. The legal advisers ot J. Coleman Drayton, and also of the Astor family, still preserved si lence to-day concerning the affairs of the two men who are in mid-ocean on the steam ship Majestic, bound for this port. A friend of Mr. Drayton said to-day that noth ing but the Borrowe side of the case has yet been heard, and that no one should judge Mr. Drayton until he had had a chance to explain his side of the case. "Mr. Drayton has no relatives In .New York," said the gentleman, "and he prac tically stands alone, while Hallett Bor rowed family can speak with some knowl edge of his side of the story. I don't be lieve that there will be any difficulty he tween the two men on board the ship. I think you will find that outside of Drayton and Borrowe themselves, and the latter's second, Harry Vane Milbank, not a soul aboard the Majestic has an inkling of the trouble between the two ron. "It would not be politic for Drayton or Borrowe to revive their quarrel on board ship, and they are both long-headed enough to see that The English laws are very se vere against dueling, and if a duel or any other encounter should occur aboard the Majestic, which should result in the death or injury of one of the men, the other would be tned'ln England. He would be put in custody of the British' Consul here, and held in prison until the necessary extradi tion papers could be obtained. Even a mm assault of one of the two on the other would make a trial In the English courts necessary." EOBSSWHIFPmO PBEFEBBED To a Dnel, by One of Mr. Drayton's Phila delphia Relative. Philadelphia, March 19. Mrs. G. Doreson Coleman, Mr. Drayton's aunt, when asked about the relations existing be tween Mr. Drayton and his wife, said: "I have absolutely no knowledge of the. affair except the rumors which were in circnlation last fall, when they went to Europe. They were a great surprise to me, as we had re ceived no previous intimation of .the condi tion of things said to have ex- iUSPUtd). ' TWENTY PA6E& j POLITICAL APPLICATION isted abroad between Mr. and Mrs. Drayton and Mr. Borrowe. I can't see why he should want to fight a duel with this man. It's a most foolish idea. He has four children, and if he were to be killed who would take care of them? If he had killed this man or had horsewhipped him, or had done something like that I should think well, this is a great surprise? to me. About a month ago I received f very pleasant letter from Mrs. Drayton, and there was nothing in it showing any dis agreement with her husband." After a moment's pause Mrs. Coleman said: "Mr. Drayton is an orphan. His mother died when he was 7 years old. I see that it is said that Mr. Drayton has taken his children to a friend in Wales, and that his wife is stopping in London. Mr. and Mrs. Astor are in Paris. They intended going to Algiers. I don't know if they have gone or not, but I should think they would looBTafter their daughter. COUNTERFEITERS CAUGHT. An Italian Shover of the Queer Captured in New York An Ohio Peripatetic Con lacker Cleverly Eon Down and Jailed at Toledo. NewYoee, March 19. Special Secret Service Officer Matthew F. Griffin, of Chief Brooks' staff, who has been watching a sus pected Italian for a long time, found that the Italian occasionally met a woman and passed coins to her. To-day he had both the man and tbe woman arrested in Harlem. The man had 23 spurious half dollars in a package in his pocket, with a piece of paper between everv two coins, to keep them from turning black by sweating. The woman, Annie Fagiani, had just passed one ot the counterfeits. CommissionerSbields held her in $2,500 bail, and the man, Frank Moreno, in $5,000. - A special from Toledo, O., says: A. B. Bailey was arrested at Kenton and brought here this afternoon, charged with counterfeiting. He had a complete kit of tools with him and 60 counterfeit dollars. He carried them around in a valise, and whenever he ran out of money .dropped into some barn at night and made a fresh supply. Northwestern Ohio has been flooded with spurious coin for several months, and Bailey is supposed to be part of the gang which has worked thi3 section. Over 10,000 silver dollars, 3,000 half dollars and 3,000 quarters have been detected and reported to the United States authorities at Toledo, Findlay, Tiffin, Lima, Defiance and Detroit. A PITTSBUBQEB IN GEBM ANiV According to a Cablegram He Is Arranging to Build a Factory. A cablegram to The Dispatch from Berlin received last night states that B. S. Waring, of this city, the inventor of the Waring cable system and the head of the Standard Underground Cable Company, is in Berlin arranging to build a cable wire factory there. This step he says is neces sary for the protection of his patent rights in Germany, the laws there not recognizing a right unless the patented article is manu factured in that country. The cablegram continues: Mr. Waring says that the operations of the McKlnley bill have caused Messrs. Siemens & Holske to incorporate and start a large factory in Illinois, a3 they could not otherwise com pete with American manufacturers. He has conferred with several leading European bankers and found them anxious concerning the results of the American silver legisla tion, which has partly caused them to draw heavily upon America for gold. TEE WHISKY TRUST'S ANSWEB, ' Demurrers and a Motion Filed to Quash tbe Indictments. Eosto'n, March 19. The Whisky Trust officials filed to-day in tbe United States District Court a motion to quash the indict ment found against them. The grounds on which the motion is based are that the in dictment is indefinite; that it does not suf ficiently inform the accused of the nature of the offense charged against them, and that it does not charge them with any of fense described in any statute of the United States. Each of the defendants, George J. Gib son, Lewis H. Green, Julius C. French, Warren H. Corning. Peter J. Hennessy, Herbert L. Terrell and William N. Hobart (Greenhut excepted) filed a demurrer to the substance ot the indictment SUICIDE UNDEB A TBIP HAMKEB,- A Gold Beater Takes a Desperate Method of Ending His Troubles. Philadelphia, March 19. Fred Hengle, a German gold beater, employed by Pearce. Kursh & Co., deliberately placed his head under,a heavy trip hammer and let it descend, crushing out his brains. Tne hammer w eighed 100 pounds, and had a fall of six feet Hengle had to use considerable strength to move the pulley holding the hammer in position. He leaves a wife, to whom he was married one year ago. SAXJSBUBY WILL COME DOWN. A British Bering Sea Commissioner Says a New Hodns Vivendi Is Sore. I -Montbeal, Que., March 19. Sir George Baden Powell, one of the British Commis sioners on the Bering Sea arbitration, who is on a visit to Montreal, says that arrange ments have not been completed, but will he shortly, for a new modus vivendi for the coming year pending the final settlement of the question by the arbitration. He is confident' that the matter will ulti mately be amicably and satisfactorily arranged. OF ESOPS FAMILIAR1 FABLPL A BATTLE IN BRAZIL Witnessed by Two Oil Drillers Who Went There a Year Ago. .TING HID OP A GOVERNOR ; , WL'rrO yHs Palaca With Cannon Balls: i Co iting- His Men. "Wr ;- SCENE AFTEE ' iLL NIGHT FIGHT rSPICIAL TELEGRAM To THE DISPATCBT Oil City, March 19. Butler Shaffer, of this city, and Charles Stewart, of Coal Hill, this county, who, with three other drillers and tool dressers, went to Brazil in April last under contract to work there one year for a Brazilian syndicate, arrived home this week. They had fared well physically, but didn't get as much financially out of their contract as they anticipated quit, in fact, because they couldn't get back pay which was due them, and because the pay they did receive was in money which depreciated just one-half in value from the time they arrived in Brazil until they left They were located in the province of Ceara. Mr. Shaffer gave your correspondent some interesting points to-day concerning the bombardment, at the city of Fortaleza, of the palace of the Governor of the pro vince of Ceara, which they witnessed. It was on the 17th of .February, and they were at Fortaleza to take tbe steamer on the 18th inst for home. They were -stopping at the" house of an English friend, but two blocks from the palace when the 'bombardment began. The Governor had declined to re linguish his position and the bombardment was for the purpose of deposing him. The Cadets Led the Attack. It was begun, as Messrs. Shaffer and Stew art understood, by the cadets at the mili tary school, who were reinforced by citi zens, and whose actions were understood to be sanctioned by the Government The Governor supposed he could rely upon 800 men to support him, but his force rapidly deserted him when the first cannon hall banged into the palace at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. His force soon dwindled to the regular police force which stood by him, and which repulsed the first attack of soldiers and citizens, routed the attacking party and almost succeeded in capturing their cannon. The cannon which did the most effective work was' trained on the palace from in front of a cathedral, in the belfry of which sharpshooters were located. When dark ness came on a number of cannons (35-pound-ers) were run up close to the palace, and destructive and deadly work was done with them all night The musketry, too, was busy on both sides. At 8 o'clock the next morning the plucky Governor had but two companions in the palace, and ran up the white flag himself. Thirty men had been killed outright, and the bodies of some of them were lying around the palace when Messrs. Shaffer and Stewart went over to the building after the firing had ceased. Deadly Work of the Gnns. They counted 15 holes made by the can non balls in the palace walls. The body of one man, when removed from the point where it lay in front of the palace, left a complete and horrible profile of blood upon the sidewalk. The man was a deserter and nine bullet holes were found in his back. Scores ot people were wounded. Within the palace, amid blood-spattered wrecsage, was a stritcing picture. 'Xhe life size statue of an ilustrious General Gen eral Dolby bad stood upon a pedestal en circled by a railing before the bombardment began. One cannon ball had shot the pedestal away and another had knocked off one of the General's arms, but the statue of the old hero was still standing. It was caught by the railing and was fonnd leaning against it in the position a living General, wounded but unconquered, might take in contemplation of the death and ruin which he alone had survived. . Messrs. Shaffer and Stewart were natural ly curious to know what would be the fate of the Governor whose refusal to abdicate or be deposed had been the cause of all tbe bloodshed and destruction of property. He was submitted to no ill-treatment by tbe victorious party. He was permitted to have carted away from the palace what be longed to him, and to go to a private resi dence unmolested. On the same day Messrs. Shaffer and Stew art left for the United States. Tbe next day after the fight, the Governor left on a steamer for Bio Janeiro. THE OSSIFIED MAN DEAD. Edward Emmons, the Dime -tfasenm. Wonder, Breathes ills Last. Poet Jeffebson, L. L, March 19. Edward Emmons, -the ossified man, died to-day from the grip. He was taken sick a week ago. He was born in Port Jefferson 38 years ago. One winter he wa afflicted with rheumatism In the legs and arms. He was then 22 years old, and he suffered in tensely and never left the house again, but lay there lor 16 years. His bones gradually ossified and his body became rigid, except one arm, of which he retained the use. His jaws were set and he was fed through a hole in the mouth, where a tooth had been broken out He could talk and read bat was a little deaf. He often wished for death to end his suffer ings. His father was afflicted in identically the same way, bat died before the joints were entirely set All of the family, with the exception of the mother, are subject to rneumausm. FIVE CENTS. 11 real eoLimoi In the Steel Industry at Car negie, Phipps & Co.'s Homestead Mill. THE MW DIEECT PROCESS Has Been in Practical Operation During the Past Week. MANY W0EKEES MISS POSITIONS, ind the Wages of the Others Will Be) Arranged on a New Basis. THE DETAH8 ABE 1 TEADE SWEET Carnegie, Phipps & Co. have in the past week introduced into their Homestead works a new method of making steel with wonderful success, and, it is stated, on the) best authority, that it is destined to revolu tionize the iron and steel industries of the world. Such a change was intimated in The Dispatch ten days ago. when 300 em ployes were discharged, but as the new pro cess was then but in a state of development, nothing definite conldbe learned concerning the new era. The system just inaugurated at the Home stead plant is known as the "direct process" of making steel, and though hitherto experimented with both at home and abroad, has not proved successful until the present time, under the management of the Home stead steel works. That the new process is a success is evidenced by the fact that the management has notified the men in the de partments where the new process has been put into practice that the new scales now being formulated shall be bared with a view to the conditions of affairs to obtain in the future at the works. The Worker Do Not Like It The men in the Homestead works are loud in their denunciation of the new method, as it means tbe cheapening of the product and an incalculable curtailment of furnace crews, and those who contribute their skill and labor toward the production of a ton of steel. It was predicted at first that the ex periment would prove a failure as it had in other places where tried, but those who were free to prophecy such a thing are now filled with concern and consternation. Bat to offset all those who have decried the in novation there were others who more than two years ago were confident of its success. Of course, as this new method in making; steel is still in its infancy being but a week old it would be rash to say that it will at once revolutionize the metal in dustry, but it is past the experimental staga and it will have the effect of arresting pro gress in other plants until a clearer con ception fills the minds of msriulacturere of what this new move on the Carnegie chess board portends. The Details a Trade Secret As the details qf the process are a trads? secret and can only be adapted to such a plant as the one at Homestead, the firm has no fear of competition, and expect a prac tical monopoly of the steel trade of the future. In the old method of making steel by the open-hearth process it was considered good practice to turn out two heats in the 24 hours. With the new process it is possibla to make four heats in the same time, and it is expected that this will be improved upon in time. Some of the steel has already been rolled into plates, beams, shapes and billets and surpasses in quality any hitherto made as the tests have demonstrated. The exact saving in labor and expenses which will be made by this new process has not yet been figured out, but it will be a most decided change. One official stated yesterday that he believed steel could ba produced at least one-third cheaper than under the old method. MANY TYPHUS VICTIMS. The NnmberofFatalitlesatN'orth Brother's Island Understated. NewToek, March 19. It leaked out in the Health Department to-day that Dr. Percival, who is in charge of the hospitals on North Brother's Island, has understated the number of deaths from typhus fever there. Up to yesterday afternoon the num ber of deaths reported was 21. It was sus pected that the number was greater and when Dr. Percival was questioned he ad mitted there were 29 deaths from typhus and he then filed eight additional death certificates. TEE DISPATCH DIBECT0BY. Contents of the lssne Classified for the Con venience of the Header. The issue of The Dispatch to-day consists of 20 pages made up in two parts, the first! containing the live news of the day with edi torial comment and tbe litter containing choice literary features and class news. The arrangement of matter in the second part will be apparent from the table here given: Pago 9. Is VrcTOBiA's Lauwdrt. Fobeiox News. New Plaks fob Caexzgtx Libeaet. JoraiSG Szcbxt Socixtiis.. Sherman, Potter et tX Page 10. the Wants, Fob sales, to Lets. rzai. estatb and miscxllasiocs notices. race 11. the Music Wobld , CW.3 SrxTT Miles A.T HotJE Major vvebo. Face VS. THE NEWS or SOCIETT Marlon C. Gallaher The Geamd abut. EDtJCATioif At Gossip Page 13. Gowxs tok Fleshy 'Womes .... . Ada Bache Cono MtUAHE Cabkot Marie A. Belloo Fine Lines wMANTits An Architect Educated Gdlls at Home Helen "Watteraoa Page 14. EVENTS Or THE DAY. A 'WOMAN FABXEB, BUSINESS CABD3. Page 15. SUNDAY IN PARIS I M. Tartel A brLVEK Cbusadeb Frank G. Carpentet Prot shabing Senator John V. Farweli The Amebican Claimant Mark Twain Page 16. r IN A PablobCab '.. Bob Bnrdetta Cbuzlty in Pittsburg Ker. George Holges Silver to Be cheafib D.L. Wextou Oub Medals or Honob. Page IT- The Sacked "White Elephant Geora Sand How to Draw a Sheep. Caroline H. Klmmar Russian Famine Victims Thomas Steven Late soentieic News. Sculptors eiSnoW Pace 18. Review or Spobts ..JoturD.Prrnl HOwFloubis Made George Ile4 Abt News or New Tors.. VaaBenaselae Page 19. Secret SoaxTirs. The Market Reports, Oil Field News. Late Kewsin Brief, Page 30. Theatcical News. Amcszment-Ioticx. ' t 4 I 1 tl . t. i
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