SPECIAL TO LET LISTS
Are printed to-day ia THE 1IS.
PATCH. If jon are going to moTe
yon should read them carefully.
They will gaidc horae-hnnters.
FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR
HIT!
HINTS
flTAJlLEE
To Be Held at Chicago,
During Which Hill
Is to Come Out
AS A CLEVELAND MAN
When He Discovers a Majority of the
Delegates Are for Grover.
THESENATORATRUEDEMOCRAT,
In the Opinion" of Governor Pattison's Secre
tary of State.
An Interesting: Interview With the Late
Congressman Scott's Successor on the
Democratic National Committee He
Considers Cleveland the Foremost
Man in His Party He Adds That Hill
"Will Consent to the Nomination Going
to Grover When He Sees How the
Majority of Their Party Feels on the
Subject Democrats Hope to Get a
Few Electoral Votes in Nebraska by a
Fusion With the Farmers' Alliance
The State Divided on the Presidency.
fSFICIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISrATCW.:
Philadelphia, March 20. Secretary or
State "William F. Harrity, the successor of
the late William L. Scott as the Pennsyl
vania member of the Democratic National
Committee, is an ardent friend and support
er of Mr. Cleveland.
Mr. Harrity believes that Mr. Cleveland
will be the Democratic candidate for Presi
dent, and he is understood to be actively at
work to bring about that result. He seems
to pay little or no attention to the efforts
of his political enemies in Pennsylvania,
who, under the inspiration and direction of
ex-Chairman James Kerr, are circulating
reports that Mr. Harrity and other friends
of Governor Pattison are not sincere in
their support of Sir. Cleveland. The real
friends of Mr. Cleveland in Pennsylvania
thoroughly understand the situation, and
are not likely to be misled by the misrepre
sentations of those who are at heart either
openly or secretly hostile to the ex-PresI-dent.
The Alleged Anti-Cleveland Move.
It is generally believed in Democratic
circles that ex-Chairman Kerr, Congressman
Mutcbler, James M. GnfFey and others
actJus villi them, ire engaged in an effort
to prevent Mr. Cleveland from receiving the
support of Pennsylvania in the Democratic
National Convention, but it is stated on
good authority that very little progress has
been made in that direction. It is claimed
by good judges that the friends of Mr.
Cleveland and Governor Pattison will have
an overwhelming majority of the Demo
cratic State Convention, which is to meet iu
Harrisburg on Wednesday, April 13.
"I still consider Mr. Cleveland the fore
most and strongest candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for the Presidency,"
said Secretary Harrity, when asked his
opinion upon the subject Mr. Harrity is
generally believed to be giving close at
tention to the election of delegates to the
coming State Convention, and is regarded
familiar with the Democratic situation iu
Pennsylvania. He continued:
Why Harrity Is for the Ex-President.
"Mr. Cleveland represents the principles
of the Democratic party, and he is especi
ally sound upon the issues which are likely
to have a controlling influence upon the
November elections, especially in the doubt-
iul
States. In my judgment he is our
strongest and most available candidate, not
withstanding the troubles that now seem to
exist in New York, and he is growing
stronger and more available day by day.
"If it shall be ascertained at Chicago that
n majority of the Democratic National Con
vention prefers Mr. Cleveland, as I predict
will be the case, then I regard it as not at
all improbable that the New York delega
tion, under the advice and with the consent
of Senator Hill, will join with others in
giving Mr. Cleveland the necessary two
thirds vote to nominate him. From what I
can learn there is not much bitterness
toward Mr. Cleveland to be found in the New
York delegation, and nearly all the dele
ates from that State could easily go to his
support. Nor do I believe, as has been as
serted, that Senator Hill's chief purpose is
to prevent Mr. Cleveland's nomination.
He is too good a Democrat and too good a
party man to pursue such a course as that.
The secretary's Faith la. Cleveland.
"Furthermore," continued Mr. Harrity,
"I believe that should Mr. Cleveland be
nominated, he will be elected. I feci that
Senator Hill and his friends would not per
mit the State of New York to be lost to the
Democracy, but that they would give the
ticket nominated at Chicago their cordial
and loyal support"
"Will the delegation from Pennsylvania
be likely to support Mr. Cleveland?" was
asked.
"It is quite clear that an overwhelming
majority ot tne democrats ot Pennsylvania
prefers Mr. Cleveland's nomination, and I
am sure the delegates will want to faithfully
represent the views of their constituents. I
have made inquiries and have given the mat
ter some attention, and I feel entirely safe in
saying that unless there shall be a very ma
terial change in the situation before the
meeting of the convention, four-fifths or
more of the Pennsylvania delegation will
vote for Mr. Cleveland and lend their aid to
any movement to bring about his nomina
tion." "Have you any information looking to
the withdrawal of Mr. Cleveland at any
'time prior to the convention?" queried the
correspondent
Grover Xot Expected to Withdraw.
"None whatever," replied' Mr. Harrity.
"On the contrary, I have every reason to
believe that under no circumstances will
his name be withdrawn from consideration.
I am sure that his name will be presented,
and I believe that he will be nominated."
"What of Governor Pattison? He is
frequently and favorably spoken of for the
Presidency. Is he a candidate?" asked The
Dispatch: representative.
"As to that I can only repeat what I
publicly said as far back as July last when
asked a similar question. I stated then and
now repeat," said Mr. Harrity, "that Gov
ernor Pattison is giving his entire time,
attention and energies to the discharge of
his duties as Governor of Pennsylvania.
He has made no effort whatever to invite
attention to himself as a candidate, in fact,
I am disposed to think that he and most of
his friends regard Mr. Cleveland as still the
strongest and most available candidate, not
withstanding the opposition that has ap
peared in some quarters.
rattlson in His Party's Front Bank.
"It is undoubtedly true that Governor
Pattison is regarded by many leading men
of the country, from without as well as
within Pennsylvania, as in the front rank
of those who are being carefully considered
in connection with the Presidental nomina
tion, but that does not alter the opinion
that a majority of the party believes that
Grover Cleveland should be nominated.
Governor Pattison and many of his friends
and supporters share in that belief.
"The tact that Mr. Pattison twice carried
Eepublican Philadelphia as a candidate for
City Controller," continued Mr. Harrity,
"and that he twice carried Republican
Pennsylvania for Governor, gives him a
political record as an available candidate
that is unsurpassed by any other leading
Democrat in this country. Add to this an
unsullied record as a publia official and
private citizen, and yon give the needed
strength and character to make it easily un
derstood why Governor Pattison has been
so frequently and favorably mentioned as a
strong and available candidate for the Presi
dental nomination. But as I have already
said, the Governor is giving himself no
concern about the matter. He believes his
duty is to the State which has twice elected
him Governor, and io that dnty he is con
scientiously applying himself.
The Probable Delegates at Large.
"Who are likely to be the delegates at
large to the National Convention?" was the
next question.
"It is a little too early to even make a
good guess as to that," answered Mr." Har
rity. "There are many candidates, and
those who are best able to help themselves
will doubtless be preferred by the conven
tion. Philadelphia is likely to be con
ceded one or two of the eight delegates at
large, and our friends will probable present
Mr. William M. Singerly for that honor. I
shall certainly give him my best support.
My own name has been frequently men
tioned in the same connection, but I have
no intention of permitting it to be con
sidered, especially as I am a candidate for
election as the Pennsylvania member of the
Democratic National Committee for the
full. term. I have been giving the latter
matter some attention, and I am already as
sured of the support of a majority of those
who are likely to comprise the delegation
to the National Convention. It is not im
probable, however, that I will be in the na
tional delegation by the time it reaches Chi
cago." FUSION FOR NEBRASKA.
Democrats and the Farmers' Alliance to
Come to Terms The Former Hope
Thereby to Gain Several Electoral Votes
Thayer Called a Crank.
Chicago, March 6. A committee of
prominent members of the Jacksonian Club,
of Omaha, arrived to-day at the Sherman
House, and to-morrow will arrange for
headquarters for 1,000 enthusiastic Demo
crats, who will attend the National Con
vention. The committee consists of George
J. Sternsdorff, Judge George Holmes, Jr.,
John F. Murphy, Hugo Melcbolr, J. S.
Walters and Colonel T. J. Hickey. Judge
Holmes and Mr. Murphy are for Hill first,
last and all the time, while the rest favor
Cleveland, with Boies as a possible second
choice.
"Nebraska will send an uninstructed del
egation," said Mr. SternsdorfE "Our clnb
and the Democracy of the whole State is
divided on the Presidental question. We
rdn 11 lnnATTAt e4nn1 nw srriA nAfniliAA yp rift .
ever be may be, and with some possibility
of obtaining a few electoral votes. 'There
is some talk of doing this and gaining the
State election by Michiganizing the State,
but Governor Boyd has refused to call the
necessary special session of the Legislature.
He will," therefore, bring abont a fusion of
the Farmers' Alliance and the Democrats.
The Farmers' Alliance will unquestionably
carry the State, and if they nominate Van
Wyck for Governor he will be our next
United States Senator, beyond any ques
tion. The Republicans are no longer in it,
so far as Nebraska is concerned."
Speaking of the filing of papers on Satur
day by Thayer, reopening the question of
the Governorship, Mr. Sternsdorff said:
"Mr. Thayer has gone crazy. That's the
only explanation I can find for hii actions.
He wants to vindicate himself, it is said. I
don't know what it is he wants to vindicate,
but if he desires to kill the Eepublican
partv any deader than it is already in Ne
braska he has taken the best means to do it
Governor Boyd and the Democrats are only
too happy at this new phase of the case,
knowing that it can only do them good.
Thayer can't count on partisanship. If
Cobb were still on the bench we would not
be surprised at anything he might decide.
But he is not. Even if this disgraceful and
absolutely ridiculous contest were allowed
to go on, it could not be ended until the
term of office has expired, and every official
act of Governor Boyd would then be de
clared legal just as was the case with Thayer
after his short experience in the place."
BEDF0BD COUNTY B0SSISH
Not Relished by the Bank and File of the
Democrats There.
Bedford, March 20. Special Ex
State Chairman Kerr has been writing let
ters to the members of the Democratic
County Committee in this county, appeal
ing to them to vote for Frank Fletcher, E.
F. Kerr, John K. White and Dr. Enfield,
who desire to represent Hill in the State
Convention.
The ex-chairman urges upon them to
down the bosses, while the referred to are
now acting the role of the boss by trying
to deliver this county to Hill, when the
county is overwhelmingly for Grover
Cleveland. Democrats generally are in
dignant at Mr. Kerr's interference in Bed
ford county politics.
CABHEGD3S PROGNOSTICS.
Harrison Will Be Be-Elected and the Demo
crats Will Nanie Hill or Cleveland.
Denver, March 20. Andrew Carnegie
and party arrived here on their return East
ward. This evening Mr. Carnegie said that
Cleveland or Hill would be nominated by
the Democrats, but he thought some West
ern man should be selected, suggesting
Palmer, of Illinois, or Boies, of Iowa.
He said there is nn doubt that Harrison
will be renominated and elected. On the
question of silver he would only say that
"silver is doing well enough the way it now
is." The party left to-night for the East
HEX IS EITBEMELY HAPPY
Over the Manner In Which He Was
Be-
ceived by the Soath.
Washington, March 20. The Southern
tour of Senator Hill came to a close bv the
arrival of the party in this city at 11 o'clock
a. M. o-day. Senator Hill expressed great
gratification at the hospitable manner in
which
South', ;
.was received throughout the
does not conceal his pleasure
me ffitt$m
over the enthusiasm which his visit aroused
in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
Numerous invitations have been received
by Senator Hill within the past week to
visit various Western and Southwestern
cities, and he ii being strongly urged to
make a tour later on through the West and
Southwest
The Antl-HIH Fund Balled.
New York, March 20. Sperfa?. It
was definitely learned yesterday that a fund
of 40,000 hag been raised by the anti
"snap" convention Democrats. Charles S.
Fairchild chipped in 810,000, Francis Lynde
Stetson, the ex-President's law partner, an
other $10,000, Mr. Grace $2,600, in addition
to what he has already contributed, and
seven others contributed $2,600 apiece.
Efforts were made to swell the fund to
$100,000, but it did not reach that
A BIG STRIKE ORDERED.
One Thousand Men to Go Oat in New Tork
To-Day .The Walking Defecates'
Board Supported by a Sleeting of the
Cabinet Makers.
New York, March 20. Speda?. The
fight between Contractor John K. Downey
and the Board of Walking Delegates is to
be renewed, and at 8 o'clock to-morrow over
1,000 men will be ordered out from the
Waldorf and New Netherlands hotels and
other buildings. The trades which will be
affected are the carpenters, cabinet makers,
masons, stone cutters, wood carvers, plumb
ers, steam and gas fitters, and steam and
gas fitters' helpers.
The trouble this time is over a number of
non-union engineers supplied by the Pel
ham Hod Hoisting Company on the Wal
dorf and New Netherlands hotels. Mr.
Downey was- asked by the dele
gates to discharge these men some
days ago, but refused, saying he had not'the
power to do so. The "board of Walking
Delegates then decided to order a strike, but
the cabinetmakers held a shop meeting and
decided not to go out, and the strike was
abandoned.
An appeal was sent from the Board of
Walking Delegates to the Cabinet Makers'
Union, and to-day the cabinet makers
held a big meeting in Clarendon
Hall, where, after four hours of
discussion, they resolved to support
the walking delegates. Bepresentatives of
the walking delegates Vere present, but it
was decided that the board would meet
early to-morrow, assign members to go
through the city and order strikes on the
various buildings where Downey's men are
working.-
.WILL SPREAD SMALLPOX.
Jersey City Excited at the landing of a
Suspicious Patient He Is Hustled Off
to the Hospital, From Which He Takes
French Leave.
Jersey City, N. J., March 20. A well
developed case of smallpox created a lively
scare at the Hoboken police headquarters
to-night The patient was a steamship
steward, name unknown. He was hurried
back to the hospital at Hoffman's Island,
from which institution he took French
leave this afternoon.
The steamship Gellert, of the Hamburg
line, which arrived Monday, brought into
Sort a number of persons suspected of
aving typhus fever. They were detained
at quarantine. The vessel was fumigated
and proceeded to her pier at Hoboken.
Among those detained at Hoffman's Island
were nine of the Gellert's crew, who were,
however, given clean bills of health this
afternoon. They were brought to the Ham
burg dock. No one seems to have noticed
there were ten in the party until Superin
tendent Badenhausen, of the . Hamburg
line, chanced to count them on the pier.
Mr. Badenhausen qnestioned the tenth
man, who was a German.
"I felt good enough to leave," said the
man, "and was told to do so. I'got on the
tug with these other men and came to the
city."
. While the man was talking the sunerin-
tendent noticed that his face was covered
with a peculiar eruption, and a horrible
suspicion dawned npon him. A policeman
was instructed to take the man to head
quarters. Physicians examined the patient
and pronounced the case to be smallpox in
an aggravated form. The man was hurried
aboard the tug again and taken to Hoffman's
Island.
j THE ntVALIDS OF THE CAPITAL.
Springer, Blaine and Morrill Mow Getting
Along Very Nicely.
Washington, March 20. The condition
of Chairman Springer, of the Ways and
Means Committee, continues to improve,
bnt he is still confined to his bed. After
the critical stage of his illness had passed,
and about the middle of the past week,
there was a recurrence of the nervous
cough which the physicians had found to be
dangerous during his greatest prostration.
For some time renewed alarm was
felt, as the harrassing cough made
it impossible for him to sleep, but yester
day morning the cough again abated, and
last night Mr. Springer was enabled to se
cure six hours of restful sleep. He is much
better this evening, and able to eat heartily
of solid food. If the improvement, which is
very slow, continues henceforth, he hopes
to be able to leave here in a week or ten
days for Fortress Monroe, for two weeks of
recuperation. The tariff discussion will
probably close the latter part of April, and
Mr. Springer still expects to make the clos
ing speech.
It was stated at Mr. Blaine's residence
this evening that the Secretary had passed
a comfortable day and that he continues to
improve steadily. Senator Morrill con
tinues to improve slowly. Last night be
rested easily, and to-day he was comfort
able. His physicians report him as doing
nicely.
PATCHING UP A HUMAN BODY.
Severe Surgical Operations Saccessfnlly En
dured by tbe Victim of a Wreck.
New York, March 20. Mrs. Homer
Baldwin, who was injured in the Hastings
railroad wreck Christmas evening, sub
mitted yesterday to a painful operation at
the Getty House, Yonkers. The unfor
tunate woman's sightless eyes were re
moved, as was one hand at the wrist and
the fingers of the other hand. The opera
tion npon her eves was to lessen the pain
that she has suffered, and also to aid the
progress of skin grafting.
The first operation, that of removing the
eyes, lasted 25 minutes. Then Dr. Schopen
amputated four dead bones that protruded
from the right hand, and patched up the
mutilated thumb of the hand. He then cut
away the heart of the dead bone of the left
arm and removed the mortifying flesh
around it The operations on the hands
lasted just eight minutes, and a short time
afterward Mrs. Baldwin came to. Of ten
pieces of skin already grafted upon her
forehead, five have retained their vitality
and have grown into place. One , has al
ready attained the size of a half-dollar. It
is Mrs. Baldwin's intention, if she recovers,
to establish a mission.
JUDGMENT HAS BEGUN.
Prof. Totten Lectures at Boston and Fixes
the Momentous Date.
Boston, March 20. Lieutenant C A. L.
Totten, TJ. 8. A., Professor of Military
Science and Tactics at Yale University,
lectured at Music Hall this afternoon on
"TheNew-StarofthcEasV He said that
March 20, 1892, might be looked upon as the
beginning of judgment
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PITTSBtTRG. MONDAY. MARCH 21. 1892.
QUEER GAS GEYSERS
i
Draw Sightseers and Oil
Field Men to' a Little
Place Near Toledo.
Atf ACRE OF BLUE JETS
Follows an Explosion That Occurred
Miles Away
AND MAKES PEOPLE W0NDEB.
A Once Peaceful Pond Is Now a Waving I
Mass of Hot Flame.
WELLS GOING D0W2 ILL AROUND IT
rRFZdAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Toledo, O., March 20. ;An acre of little
geysers is the phenomenon which 'just now
is exciting thousands of people in the town
of Williston. The quiet little burg is on
the Wheeling and Lake Erie Bailroad, 12
miles east of' Toledo. It is a farming town,
and heretofore has been the scene of noth
ing more thrilling than country weddings,
deaths and births. Its greatest industry has
long been the Dewey Stave Factorv, which
owns a large field adjoining its mills and in
the village, although an unfrequented part
of it The field is 20 rods from the station
It is fully as high as the surrounding land,
but owing to the way iu which the farmer,
who last tilled it, left his back furrows,
there is a ridge which surrounds an acre in
the middle of the field. It has no out
let and water cannot escape except by
sinking into the earth. This It has done '
until the ground has become bottomless'
mud. One can thrust a long pole down its
entire length. This is the case all over the
field. Inside the acre there is from one to
two feet of water above the mud.
On Saturday, March 12, a lad named"
William Fleming was standing on the sta
tion platform. He saw a great commotion
of the water in the pond. Thinking it was
ducks disporting themselves, he remarked
to the station agent:
"There's a of lot ducks having a dickens
of a time down here in the field."
A Scene Worthy or Sheol.
Half an hour later' he looked again and
saw that the commotion was increasing
rather than subsiding. Getting some rub
ber boots he waded to the scene. What he
saw nearly frightened the life out of him.
He ran wildly to the station, telling every
one he saw and gasping for breath. No one
would believe nim until tbe station agent
went out and saw for himself. In a few
minutes everyone in town was at the edge
of the field of mud.
In the middle was the water covered acre,
boiling, tumbling and writhing like an
enormous cauldron. Everywhere spouts of
water burst forth, some ascending as high
as four feet. Foam twisted and leaped in
reckless confusion, and withal the scene was
chaotic and frightening. The villagers re
garded it with amazement and awe.
Never had such a thing been heard
of before, and no one could offer an
explanation. Finally someone happened to.
remember that about an hour before the
Fleming boy saw the splashing of the wat
ers, a dull, rumbling shock had been felt.
Many noticed it and attributed it to an
earthquake. There was a perceptible rat
tling ot windows in some houses.
This shock was explained by the Toledo
evening papers bringing the news of the
nitro-glycerine explosion which occurred in
the Findlay oil field, 50 miles away, at 1
o'clock that afternoon. Towns all over
Northwestern Ohio were shaken, and an
earthquake was generally supposed to be
the cause. In many places windows were
broken, and several bnildings fell to pieces
near the magazine.
A Miniature Sea of Flame.
The foreman of the stave mill had once
lived in the Ohio gas fields, and he had an
idea it might be natural gas forcing its
way through the earth, which caused the
sudden troubling of the waters. He applied
a match to one of the waterspouts, and a
blaze three feet high burst into his face.
The flame Ignited the next water
spout and that the next, so that in
a few minutes the pond was a mass of
waving, leaping, rolling, swaying forks of
fire. They were almott clear blue, indicat
ing but little carbon in the combustion, and
much hydrogen. The foreman planted a
barrel over one of the geysers, after ex
tinguishing the flame by smothering it; he
fixed a tin can over the bnnp hole, punched
some holes in the can and applied a match.
Six feet of solid fire rolled into the air.
Then a sudden gale arose, which blew out
the mass of fire. But before it came, night
had settled round, and the myriad azure
flames cast a sickly glare into the heavy at
mosphere. The effect was one of grandeur.
It was sublime. All was still save the
splashing of the waters, and the spectacle
was one which makes one's blood feel
creepish.
Thousands Drawn to the Gas Iake.
Next morning over 5,000 people had as
sembled and the trains from Toledo were
jammed. The villagers were busily en
gaged planting barrels over geysers, which
they connected with wooden pipes to their
residences. By this crude arrangement
nature's precious fuel was conveyed to their
stoves. The service was almost worthless,
however, because so much gas was lost
through the imperfect fittings.
A careful geological investigation of the
phenomenon has just been completed. It
shows that beyond all doubt natural gas has
collected in a great pool in the vicinity of
Williston. That it is mineral, and not shale
gas, is proven by the remarkably blue
flame. This must have escaped up through
crevices in the limestone strata, the crevices
being opened by the shock of the Findlay
explosion, half a hundred miles distant
There is SO feet of earth over the Upper
Heiderberg stratum ot limestone, and
through this the gas worked its way, coming
up through the pond, because the water
saturated earth offered the least resistance.
The location is about 25 miles from the Gib
sonburg gas and oil field, and 38 from the
famous Wood county fields. It is in a
direct line with these and the Petrolea,
Ont, field, and gas and oil
men believe they are connected. To-day
the territorry for miles around is overrun
with men anxious to obtain the gas and oil
rights of the farmers, and before another
week ends there will be little vacant land
for leasers to work upon. Four derricks
have been ordered, and the drilling of test
wells will be prosecuted with vigor.
A doren wildcats had been drilled
six or eight miles north, with nothing but
light showings of poor oil to result .These
"indications" seem to have been on the
border of the real field, believed now to
have been so miraculously discovered at
Williston. If it nans out as gas men think
it will, Toledo and smaller cities will loudly
rejoice, for their gas supply from the lower
fields has been gradually waning away until
it is nearly exhausted.
1 CAPBIVI WON'T BEBIGW.
The Education Bill to Be Either Dropped
or Postponed for a Time.
Berlin, .March 20. Far fromreslgning,
Chancellor von Caprivi is seeking to pre
vent the .disruption of the Cabinet. He
will seek to effect a compromise. The
first thing to be done is to get rid, once for
all, of the education bill. Another port
folio probably that of the Interior
can then he offered to Connt Zedlitz.
Humors have long been current that Herr
Herrfurth (Minister of the Interior) is jn
bad health, and only retained office at the
express desire of the Emperor. The educa
tion bill could 'be postponed till the next
session of the Landtag, but it cannot be
completely dropped if Count Zedlitz re
mains in the Cabinet The Chancellor de
sires to dispose of the crisis as speedily as
possible. It wil!therefore, be best to post-
Sone the education bill until the country
as pronounced.an opinion.
Before the conclusion of the general elec
tions the Chancellor could reconstruct his
policy and recover from the blow his pres
tige has suffered. If the country woul d ap
prove his action the crisis should be treated
simply as null. If the yerdict is adverse a
new course could be steered. Count Zedlitz
insists that he will resign and is already
preparing to quit his official residence.
A SUCCESSFUL WOLF HUNT.
ELEVEN ANIMALS KIIXED AND NINE
MEN ENJCBED.
One Hnndred Miners and Stockmen Fat in
a lively Snnday The Wolves Preferred
Fighting to Bnnnlng, and the Result
Was Somewhat Serious. ,
Boise City, Idaho, March 20. SpeciaL
In the hills 15 miles north of Boise City
this morning 100 miners and stockmen en
gaged in a wolf hunt It was a great suc
cess from every point of view, 11 wolves
being killed and nine men more or less seri
ously injured.
The wolves were in one pack, snugly en
sconced in a small cave. They were driven
out by hounds sent into their dark retreat,
bnt they killed four fine 'dogs before they
issued forth. The animals were wild with
fear and gaunt with hunger, and several
old mountaineers advised the hunters to
shoot them first, but the advice was not
heeded,and the chase was inaugurated.
The dogs soon had caught one of the
wolves, a savage male. They dragged him
down, but he shook them off and dashed
back toward the men. Joel Hardy was in
his path, and it sprang at his throat and
badly injured him. The shooting of the
wolf saved Hardy's life. A few minutes
later the doga killed two of the wolves,
though not before the hunted animals had
bitten Bill Spreckels, James Gilsey and Q.
L Anderson.
The leader of tbe pack of wolves was a
big black male, with tremendous fangs. The
dogs cornered' it, and Hank Marston and a
man named PfefTer ran up to shoot it. The
wolf sprang over the heads of the dogs, fast
ened its teeth in Marston's arm and nearly
bit that member off. A second later it left
Marston and Attacked PfefTer, who had
managed to get in a shot while the beast
was biting Marston. The wolf badly lac
erated Pfefler's breast before it succumbed.
The men now became more wary, but the
dogs were as savage as ever. A wolf
blinded one hound, and by mistake the dog
bit a boy named Dolan. Before the remain
ing wolves were killed two other men were
slightly wounded by the wolves, who
seemed to prefer fighting to running. Of
the men bitten by the wolves and the dogs
all will recover unless hydrophobia results.
The miners and stockmen will hunt no more
wolves.
THE FUEL FOR THE FAIR.
The Standard Oil Company Offers to Substi
tute OH for Coal.
' 2KTCJtno,-Marc&'20. When bids for fur
nishing fuel for the World's -Fair were
opened yesterday the Standard Oil Com
pany was found to have the lowest bid, on
the basis of three barrels of fuel oil being
equal to a ton of coal. The Standard Oil
Company offered to furnish oil at the rate
of 70 cents a barrel of 42 gallons during
1892, and 72 cents a barrel during 1893.
Various estimates have been furnished of
the amount of coal necessary to keep the
wheels going. The lowest estimate was
75,000 tons. On that basis the big Oil
Trust would deliver 225,000 barrels of oil at
Jackson Park. The new Pittsburg Coal
and Coke Company bid $3.08 a ton for coal.
Officials of tne Fair have not decided yet
whether to use oil or coal for fuel. Agents
of the Standard Oil Company have pro
duced statistics to show that oil is cheaper,
more convenient and cleaner. They agree
to deliver the oil as wanted and to relieve
the Exposition Company of the necessity of
furnishing large warehouses, as would be
necessary in case coal were used. It is
probable that the Standard Company will
get the contract
DEEMTNG'S TELL-TALE BAGGAGE
Identities Him Positively as the Murderer
of the Family at Bain BUI.
Peeth, Australia, March 20. Deem
ing was again before the Magistrate to-day.
The Court House was packed. The prisoner,
who still persists in calling himself Swamt
ston, entered the dook with a jaunty air
but became nervous and fidgety during the
reading of the charges. He was remanded.
The latest news is that he has confessed his
identity. Deeming's luggage has been fully
examined. Among the articles found were
a card certifying to the membership of
Emily Mather in the Bain Hill Band of
Hope; a time table of trains between Bain
Hill and Liverpool; an autograph album be
longing to Emily Mather; a book of 'ad
dresses of persons in England: apocketbook
bearing the monogram, "B. F. IX;" a Ma
sonic apron similarly lettered; a letter card
case and a prayer book containing the name
"Emily." Among the addresses noted are
"McDonald, Birkenhead;" Marshall, New
York," and others of persons in Hull,
Liverpool and Hartlepool, proving the
identity, of Williams, Deeming, Lawson,
etc.
THE BB0KEN BANK AT PABI8.
President Dncouran, the Snlclde, an Honest
Man Victimized ty Rascals.
Paris, March 20. The engagements of
the Guenzburg Branch Bank here, it is now
ascertained, were not large. In regard to
the Banque Generale et Chemin de Fer et
Industrie, which suspended Saturday, it
appears that the institution's "Boursier"
interest was nil. Its nominal capital was
only 6,250,000 francs, and its clientele was
entirely composed of the smallest investors.
The directors were men of no financial
mark.
M. Dueouran, the President of the bank
who committed suicide Thursday, took his
life by blowing out his brains with a re
volver. It appears that he was an honest
man who had been victimized by his col
leagues, Ocrnat, one of the directors of
the bank, and the chief wire-puller nyned
Mollien, alias Calais. The latter bea-s a
bad record, which includes convictions Vor
swindling. He fled a fortnight since wKh
two of the public directors, his confeder
ates. Cardinal Manning's Successor.
London, March 20. The Papal brief,
appointing Dr. Vaughan, at present the
Bishop of Salford, Archbishop of West
minster to succeed the late Cardinal Man
ning, is expected within a few days.
Striking roddleri Give Id.
Danville, Pa., March 20. The strike
of. the employes of the Montour Iron and
Steel Works is ended. The puddlers have
decided to accept the (3 50 basis, and will
return to work Monday.
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A WAR QFTHE BARS,
Quiie a Sensation Caused by
the Statement. That
the last Large
LIST OP REMONSTRANCES
Was Filed on Behalf of the Eetail
Liquor Dealers' Association.
CLERK M'GUNNEGLE'S EVIDESCE.
He Held Bis Office Open at the Bequest of
Attorney Jobn Marron.
1 DENIAL MADE BI PRESIDENT O'NEIL
The developments in the remonstrances
against liquor license applicants are becom
ing more interesting every hour, and sen
sational features are expeoted in open
court. Pittsburg dealers were very much
agitated last night over discoveries that
have been made. The following facts
created the confusion:
The Pittsburg Eetail Liquor Dealers'
Association held a special called meeting at
the County Democracy headquarters last
Wednesday afternoon. Four hundred
and, fifty remonstrances against li
cense applicants, said to be practically
all against persons not in the assoeiation,
were filed Thursday evening. These re
monstrances were filed by B. C. Christy,
Esq., at 9 o'clock. John Marron, the at
torney of the Liquor Dealers' Association,
had requested that the Clerk of Courts'
office be kept open so that a large number
of remonstrances could be presented. When
Mr. Christy presented his papers he stated
that they were the ones referred to by Mr.
Marron.
Marron'a Notification to McGunnegle.
Last Thursday evening, as the reporters
were leaving the Court House, Clerk of
Courts McGunnegle, with his usual gracious
manner, saw them to the door and notified
them that he was going to remain on duty
until 9 o'clock that night in order to give a
show to all remonstrants who desired to file
papers.
"Yon had better come back about that
time," he continued, "for I believe At
torney Marron will be here with a big batch
of remonstrances."
"In whose interest will they be filed?"
he was asked.
"Well, I don't know exactly," was his
reply, "but you kn'ow he is attorney for the
Liquor Dealers' Association, and I suppose
he is doing it for them."
When Mr. Marron failed to come up at
the appointed hour no one thought of con
necting Mr. Christy's presence and his big
bundle df remonstrances with the liquor
league attorney and the circumstance was
almost forgotten until revived by the re
ports afloat yesterday.
Clerk-McGunnegle was seen at his resi
dence last night He again said that Attor
ney Marron had requested him to hold open
in order to file some papers in regard to ap
plicants for licenses, and added: "Later
Mr. Marron and Charles Stevens came and
said the time was too short and asked me to
wait until 9 o'clock."
The Explanation Given by Christy.
"There is a report that Attorney B. C.
Christy called at your office and threw
some pebbles against the window to attract
your attention. Is that correct?"
"Yes, Mr. Christy called about 9 o'clock,
and I said: 'You are not the man we are
waiting for,' and he replied that he had the
papers that Marron wanted to file, and that
he had been requested to bring them up. I
don't know why Marron did not bring the
papers himself, and it looks a little suspi
cious, but of course I don't know anything
further than that the papers were filea1 with
me by Mr. Christy with that explanation."
An effort was made to see Mr. Marron, bnt
he could not be found owing to the lateness
of the hour.
Another feature is that Marron and
Christy were in close consultation on Friday
morning, the day after the remonstrances
wera filed, and on that afternoon the two
met at B. C. Christy's office and then went
away together. They were gone several
hours and later Mr. Marron appeared at the
Clerk of Court's office and informed several
reporters that Christy would not file any
more remonstrances.
A Denial From the President.
President O'Neil, of the Pittsburg Eetail
Liquor Dealers' Association, when asked
last night if Christy's remonstrances were
not filed for the Liquor Dealers' Associa
tion, said: "John Marron is our attorney,
and if Christy has filed any remonstrances
for the organization I do not know of it
He would have to get his authority through
me, and I do not know of any having been
given him."
"Are Hessers remonstrances the only
ones the association has anything to do
with?"
"I did not know that Hesser had filed
any for us; nor do I know that the associa
tion has filed any remonstrances. If Christy
was working for us, he wonld hardly have
hied remonstrances against some ot our
most prominent members."
License Court opens this morning with
Judges Collier and Blagle on the bench,
Judge Stowe advising and B. O. OhnstT in
the box with his "doomsday" book. It is
the intention to dispose of tne retail list of
the first three wards, but, as there are over
100 applicants on the list, this is going to
be doubtful, as-there are a number of re
monstrances filed in these three wards.
AWEIX-KN0WH ABCHITECT DEAD.
John Cramp, Hotel Man and Designer of
the Army and Navy Bnlldinff.
PHiLADEi.PHiA,March20. John Crump,
a .well-known hotel man and architect of
this city, died this evening, aged 65 years.
For many years Crump conducte'd the Col
lonnade Hotel, .in addition to practicing
his profession of architect- In 1880 he
leased the hotel to his sons and practically
retired from business.
In his profession of architecture Mr.
Crump was widely 'known. Among the
buildings erected from his designs are the
Army and Navy building at Washington,
the Union League Clubhouse, the Chestnut
Street Theater, the Chamber of Commerce,
the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in
this city, and a number of stores ana dwell
ing houses in New York.
BBYCE B. BLAIB'S DOUBLE.
A v(6tmnK Discovery Made by Parents or
'. a Missing Carbondale Man.
Ca:bondai,e, PA., March 20. SpeciaL
Tweiye years ago Bryce B. Blair, Jr., son
of a proVainent citizen of this city, went to
Colorado. to seek his fortune. His parents
heard regularly from him for three years.
The last rime he wrote them he was in
Mary vale, Utah, bnt was on 'the point of
T-m ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE? ' jfl
Then read the Special Advertise- JB
neBts in THE DISPATCH Te Let Jfl
Coliiraas to-day. They are meat "U
satisfactory. jB
THREE CENT& 4
going to Idaho. No tidings have come from
him since the. His father inserted an ad
vertisement in a Salt Lake paper describ
ing his son minutely, among other things
say ing he was left banded. A reply was re
ceived from a man in Salt Lake City, who
said a man named Bryce F. Blair, answer
ing exactly the description of the missing
Carbondale man, even to being left handed,
was living in Lander, Wyo., and had been
there abont nine years.
Young Blair's parents, while unable to
account for the long silence of their son,
had no doubt that they had found him at
last The clew was followed up, but, al
though the Bryce Blair in Lander is the ex
act double of the Carbondale man of the
same name, in age, size, weight and
peculiarities, he proved that he was the son
of James Blair, of Nebraska, and was not
even related in the remotest degree to his
missing namesake.
SALISBURY COMES TO TIME.
He Sends a Beply to Uncle Ham's Note
About Bering Sea Matters Secretary
Wharton Refutes to Make Its Content
Pnbilo Harrison Heads It.
Washington, March 20. Lord Salis
bury has sent a communication in reply to
the note of Acting Secretary Wharton, of
the State Department, requesting a re
newal o'-jnodns vivendl for the protection
of seal '"g Sea In the coming season.
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mitted it to the President.
Mr. Wharton declined to indicate the
nature of Lord Salisbury's reply.
HEW YOES'S SHAKE.
Another Effort to He Made to Ealte Funds
for the Grant Monument.
New Yoek, March 20. ISpecUiL So
many letters havq recently been received by
the Grant Monument Association, asking
information as to what is being done to
complete General Grant's tomb, that Gen
eral Horace Porter has published a circular
letter describing some of the new plans of
the association. As President of the as
sociation he says that the neglect to erect
this monument has become a standing re
proach to the good name of this citv, and he
nrges the necessity of raising the ?350, 000 re
quired. The foundations are now finished, and on
April 27, the 70th anniversary of Grant's
birthday, the corner stone will be laid by
President Harrison with ceremonies ap
propriate to the occasion. The Grant
Monument Association has lately been re
organized and has prepared a plan by which
it hopes to enlist the support of every mer
cantile, manufacturing and professional in
terest and every branch of trade in the city.
Each interest will be invited to organize an
auxiliary committee to co-operate with the
association, and it is hoped that in this way
the funds needed can be subscribed within a
few months.
MARCH'S W0BST ST0BM.
Kansas Suddenly Covered to the Depth of
Eight Inclio on the Level.
Kansas CItt, March 20. A snow storm
exceeding in severity any of last winter or
this spring, has been raging in Kansas to
day. The weather has been very cold for
the past few days until last night, when it
moderated considerably. This morning,
with the wind in the northeast, it com
menced snowing and has continued all day,
and at 10 o'clock the snow is still falling
heavily. The storm is not a blizzard. How
ever, the snow lies eight inches deep on the
levei throughout a great part of the State,
and some points report drifting. All the
railways report more or less interference
with their traffic.
Beports of the storm in Kansas have been
received from as far south aa Wichita and
as far west as Liberal. The storm has ex
ceeded in severity any in the memory of the
oldest resident in the city for this season of
the year.
DEAD AT AH OPEN WINDOW.
The
Strange Demise of the Wife of a
Xaborer In Brooklyn.
New Yobk, March 20. Speciall For
three hours Saturday afternoon a woman
sat at an open window on the second floor of
a house on Warren street, Brooklyn. She
appeared to be holding an open book in her
lap. People who passed the house were
surprised to notice one at an open window
when the air was so chilly. The fact that
she did not change her position also at
tracted their attention. From 2:30 until
5:30 she sat there motionless.
She was Mrs. Charlotte McLaughlin, the
wife of Daniel McLauzhlin, a laborer. Mrs.
McLaughlin was 41 years old and had been
troubled with heart disease for a long time.
She evidently sat at the window in order to
get air. It was not until a friend of the
family called at tbe house that it was dis
covered that she was dead.
KEEPING FBANCE SUBBED UP.
Militia to Be Called Ont to Assist the Troops
on the 1st of May.
Brussels, March 20. The police of this
city have made further seizures of An
archists' documents. Fearing disturbances
on May Day, the Government will call out
three classes of militia to assist the troops.
It is reported that the recent mine ex
plosion at Anderlues was the work of a
spiteful miner. At Leige to-day patrols
discovered an infernal machine on the
threshhold of the residence of the First
Commissary of Police. The police have ar
rested a prominent Paris Anarchist named)
Mayepce. Papers found in his rooms prove
that he distributed among accomplices dyna
mite cartridges stolen from Soisy.
Perhaps He Is a Plttsbnrzer.
A dispatch received from Altoona last
night stated that Willjam Swann, supposed
to be from either Pittsburg or Philadelphia,
had had a leg taken off on the railroad there
and subsequently unexpectedly died. In
the local directory appear the names of
William B. Swann, 30 Locust avenue, Alle
gheny, and William Swan, California, ave
nue, Allegheny. Owing to the lateness of
the hour nothing further could be learned
except the statement in the telegram that
he was well supplied with money and was a
high Mason, as shown by papers found on
his person.
Considlne the Crook Is Dying.
Detroit, Mich., March 20. John Con
sidine, who was shot Saturday evening in
the course of a row between two of his
friends, is now in a very precarious condi
tion, and his life is despaired of. It is not
thought that he can live until morning.
Bobert McCarthy, who did the shooting,
has been arrested.
British Tin Plate Worki Closed.
London, March 20. The Abercarne Tin
?fate Works, in Monmouth, have been
closed. At the Abertillery works the
operatives have received a month's notice
of the close of contracts. Three thousand
hands will be thrown out of employment.
France and Spain Will Dicker Again.
Paris, March 20. The negotiations be
tween France and Spain for a commercial
treaty are about to be renewed.
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COWARDS AT ArSHOW.-1
They Throw Hard Snowballs
at the Leading Lady and
"Wait Ontside for Her.
A PARTY OF STUDENTS
Bring Disgrace on the Name of Tale
by Their Rudeness.
A TEIO BEHOVED BI THE POLICE
Renew Their Insult3 When Eeinforctd by
Fifty Friends.
THE YENDETTA COMPANI'S ADYIMTJKB M
rSrECMI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPJLTCH.1
New Haven, Conn., March 20. A.
party of Yale students who occupied the)
six front rows at the Grand Opera House
last evening created a disturbance which is
unprecedented in the annals of college row
dyism. The piece presented was "Fabio
Bomani, or The Vendetta," Miss Frances
Field appearing as the leading lady. At
the outset of the play the students began to
be boisterous, but did not carry their fun
beyond guying the members of the company.
Hardly hod the curtain been raised for
the third act when the students began to
make fun of the participants in the show.
Their boisterousness reached such a point
that services of the special policemen were
called upon, with the result that three stu
dents were forcibly removed from the build
ing. Instead of quieting the students the
expulsion of three of their number seemed
to embolden them, and during the inter
mission which followed nearly all left their
seats.
When they returned, jnst before the
commencement of the fifth or concluding
act, there was a general feeling pervading
the audience that there would be some sort
of demonstration before the performances
was hnisned. Xhis leeling was made evi
dent by the posting of the special police
men at different points in the auditorium,
Nor was the audience disappointed.
Disgraceful Act of a Brawny Student,
It was near the close of the performance,
and only a few lines remained to be spoken,
when up rose a brawnv Yale student, and
with all the force of his right arm, sent a
snowball skimming toward the stage. It
was in the most critical point of the per
formance, when Miss Frances Field, the
leading lady, as the heroine, was engaged iu
her most impressive work. Somehow or
other Miss Field happened to be in range
of the snowball and it struck her fairly and
squarely in the right ear. The snowball
was composed principally of snow, but its
other ingredient was cold'mortar. The blow
stunned Mis Field for a minute, and the
dialogue stopped abruptly.
Upon the stage with Miss Field at the
time was the leading character, taken by
Walter Lawrence. As soon as Miss Field
regained her senses Mr. Lawrence grasped
her by the arm, and. dropping entirely his
role, marched her to the front of the stage,
and remarked in a voice filled with anger:
"The man that did this thing is a low-lived,
cowardly sneak."
Miss "Field apologized fo the audience,
and stated that under the circumstances she
would be unable to continue the perform
ance, and that it was the first time in her
experience when students who professed to
be gentlemen acted in such a manner.
A Good Thrashing Guaranteed.
Harrv Linton, who take3 the part of a
thug, also came to the footlights, and said if
the fellow who threw the snowball would
come out and show himself he could guar
antee him as good a thrashing as he ever
had in his life.
The seiiousness of the affair affected the
whole audience, but none more than the
students seated in front, and one of them
who was in the immediate vicinity from
where the snowball was thrown arose to his
feet and publicly apologized, remarking: "I
did not intend to strike the lady. I threw it
for a guy."
The audience quickly left the hall, ex
cept the students, who formed in a body
and prepared to rush their way to the street
in case of opposition. Near the door one
who afterward gave his name as F. W.
Thompson lit a -cigarette, and acted in an
offensive manner. The ushers called a po
liceman, and Thompson was placed under
arrest.
After the performance Miss Field and
other members of the company made their
preparationsto leave tbecity. It wossometime
after 11 o'clock when they were prepared to
leave the opera house for their hotel.
Another Assault by the Students.
In leaving the Opera House Miss Field
wa3 accompanied by a lady companion and
Harry Linton. As they emerged from the
door they were surprised to see in front of
the Opera House a body of students, num
berinr fully 50. No sooner had Miss Field
made her appearance than one student, who
was in an intoxicated condition, approached
her and grabbed her roughly by the arm, at
the same time addressing insulting remarks
to her. In an instant her escort, Mr.
Linton, was upon him, and with well-directed
blows soon sent him tumbling in the
snow, and at every attempt to rise he was
met with a strong rebuttal in the shape of a
right-hander.
Four police officers made their appear
and, and Mr. Linton and several students
were placed under arrest. All the party
was taken to the police headquarters. The
students surrounded the policemen and
were only kept from rescuing their compan
ions by a vigorous U3e of clubs and "bil
lies." At police headquarters two more
students were placed under arrest when
they appeared to give bonds for their
friends. All gave fictitious names, but
most of them are the wealthiest men in the
college, and belong to what is known as the
"High Boilers' Crowd." -.
DEATH OF BE7. DB. 87B0 DXL.
A Prominent Ixical Divine Passes Away
la
the Early Morning.
Bev. Thomas Sproull, D. D., LL. D.,died
at his late residence, 259 North avenue, Al
legheny, at 1 o'clock this morning. Mr.
Sproull was born September "15, 1803,
about one mile and a half from Free
port. He received bis education
at the Western University, graduating
in 1829, and was licensed to preach in 1833.
He was ma'rried on July 1, 1834, to Miss M.
Wallace, who still survives him. Sis
children are also living. They are : Mrs.
C. W. Newell, Bev. B. D. Sproull, of
Brooklyn; Bev. J. W. Sproull, pastor of
the Central Beformed PresDyterian Church,
Allegheny; Mrs. M- M. S. Trumbull,'; of
Iowa; Prof. W. O. Sproull, of Cs
cinnati, and Theo. -SpronlL
Myers, Shinkle & Co., hb
3Ir. Sproull was prominently -with
the Beformed Presbyter
and it was from his
that all the present brar
ated. He was also prof
Theological Seminary since .
also the author ot a number
works. Mr. Sproull had
health for the past year, and -us deth
suited from tne gradual- b, eating- li
which, owing to his advanced age, he
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