Several Southern Kansas
Towns "Wiped Entirely
Out of Existence,
"WITH WlSY LIYES LOST.
Hurricanes 'Work Havoc in tbe
Larsje Missouri River Cities.
AUGUSTA AND TOWAXDA RUINED.
Almost Ever' State ia the West and
Southwest lias Us Story.
MEAGER SEWS FROM FALLEN WIRES
ICaxsas Citv, April 1. A tornado of
mad detructiveness pa&ed over Kansas
lat night. Butler county seems to ba e
been the scene of the greatest havoc. The
town of Towanda -was entirely wiped off the
face of the earth, and Augusta, a few miles
distant, was buffeted out of all semblance to
its former elf.
Not a house or building was left standing
in Towanda. The town was asleep when
the storm swept down upon it, and razed
everything in its path and left dead bodies
lying in its wake. Four dead bodies have
been iecoered from the ruins already
searched. Twenty persons are fatallv hurt
and 40 moie seriously injured, beside a
large number more or less maimed.
At Augusta three were killrd outright,
Tames Barnes and the infant child of AVill
Uiodes who va blown out of his mother's
arms and dashed aiainst a brick wall.
Rhodes himself is fatally injured, as is also
the wife of Harmon Hoskins. Fifteen
Others were hurt more or less seriously, ac
cording to present reports, but all wires are
ilowii, and it is impossible to get any de
tailed account from either place.
Mvira! Weie Killed at Wellington.
Apparently the same storm touched at
Kiowa and 'Wellington. In Kiowa the
Missouri Pacific depot and a number of
dwellings and buildings were demolished.
IWllington and icinity suflered consider-
iMy. nnd several people were killed. Will
iam Little's house at South of Wellington
was blown to splinters, and Little and four
children were killed Ioe alter s house
nas nicked ut, and 13 of the occupants
vere more or less injured. Sam Butter
worth's house and its occupants were car
ried 300 yards in the air, and some of the
fatrilv were seriously hurt.
The storm, as tar as can be determined,
swept across the country from the Indian
Territory into the Southwestern part of Bar
ber eouutv, taking the little town of Kiowa
in its path. In a northeasterly direction it
(massed through Frazier county and through
he center of Sumner count. Bending as a
bow it piscel almost directly north through
the remainder ot Sumner county and along
ihe Western part of Butler county. Vil
lages and farm houses were carried awav as
it swept along The tornado continued in
Kansas and the northwestern part of Mis
souri to-dav, but was less destructive, A
disnatch fiom Fort Scott states that South
eastern Kansas was visited last night by one
of the strongest wind storms for years.
In tlie 3I!ssonri Kiter Towns.
At Atchison the cale began at midnight
last night but no damage was done to speak
of until nearly noon to-day, when a tornado
visited the city and unroofed and demol
ished several large buildings and scattering
sictis and awnings in everv direction. The
Santa Fe depot was unroofed and the Schol
astic Consent was demolished. The ware
house of the Thralland Company was de
stroyed, and the grocery store of the Sav
ior Company is in roins. The roof of the
prison was "carried oil and a part of the
(wilding demolished. A small house in
tire Missouri Pacific yards was blown into
the river.
The wind at Leavenworth at noon had
become a hurricane and blew away part of
thToof of the Great Western Stove Works,
where work was suspended for the dav. The
roof of the Great Western Machine Works
wa lifted several feet at once and dropped
again. The tin roof of Crawford's Opera
House and the roof of the Caldwell build
ing on Delaware street were blown away at
noon.
At St Joseph nearly every telegraph and
telephone wire in the city has been torn
down, numerous small houses demolished
and many large ones unroofed. Thousands
of dollar w orth of damage was caused by
the breaking of plate class in store win
dows. In the eastern r.art of the city a
brick house was blown down, burying Tillie
Knshneil, aged 7 years, and seriously in
filling her.
In Lawrence and Kansas City,
A dispatch from Lawrence, Kan., says:
Tl wind has been blowing a gale here since
midnight. Observations taken bv Chan
cellor Snow, of the State University,
showed that the wind at times attained a
velocity of 84 miles an hour. Many build
ings were unroofed and outhouses demol
ished. The roof of the Haskell hospital
was blown awav and it was necessarj- to
anchor the building with cables.
In Kansas City the wind reached a
"-elocity of about 04 miles. The dam
aire consisted principally of roofs blown
away and plate glass windows broken. The
root the High school at Locust and Twelfth
streets was blown oft. There was no panic,
but school was dismissed, it being feared
that the building was unsafe. The roof of
an apartment house at Tenth and Charlotte
streets was blown away, and a grocery
store, Xinth and Troost avenue, lost its
roof and a part of its front. Signs were
blown down all oer the city, some of them
crashing through cotlv plate glass windows
in the center of the business section of the
city. Other windows were crushed in by
the force of the wind.
tVires Gonerallj Liid Oat.
Telephone wires throughout the city were
prostrated. The greatest damage was suf
fered by the the telegraph companies. The
Western Union reports no communication
whatever with points west of the center of
the State of Kansas, and has but a few
workable wires east. Messiges are being
received subject to indefinite delay.
A dispatch from Norfolk, in the northern'
part of Nebraska, says a tornado struck the
town about 11 o'clock last night and did
considerable damage. If thisshould prove to
be the same tornado which devastated Xel
ton, the destruction must have been great.
The storm traversed 139 miles over the
richest farming section of the State, dotted
with small cities and villages. The wind is
blowing a gale at Omaha and wires are down
on all sides.
A terrific wind storm prevails to-day
throughout Kansas, Missouri and southern
ebraskx The AVestern Union reports
that they have been losing wires eterr
minute lor the last four hour, until atl
o'clock thev have only three wires left out
300. Ies "Moines, la., reports that the
wind is still blow ing a hurricane there. A
5-torni, which amounted almost to a tornado,
is also leported from Galesburg, 111. Frag
mentary storm news is coming in from
Missouri.
The Worst Afflicted Town.
Towanda, Kan., is a small village of 1,300
inhabitants, ten miles west of Eldorado.
The storm laid the whole town flat with the
earth, and left not a single house standing.
Ol the 80 families comprising the popula
tion there is not one to-night that is not
either mourning for a dead ordying member
or sorrowing with the suffering. Four per
iT !?, ir'fcft nftr
sons were killed outright, and several are
so badly injured that they cannot live.
The killed are: Herschel Cupp, William
Bartley, Dr. D. D. Godfrey and an infant
child of John Blake. The fatally wounded
are: A little girl blown from second story
window of a hotel 150 feet, badly crushed;
JJrs. G. A. Bobbins, skull fractured by fly
ing timbers; Elmer Haine, internally in
jured; Mrs. Walter Mooney, side crashed;
Alice Thornton, George Conelias and wife,
badly crushed.
South Haven suffered severely from the
storm, both in the wav of material damage
and in the number of lives lost The house
of John Moorhousc was leveled to the
ground and Moorhouse and one child were
killed, other members of the family escap
ing. John Burmaster's house was crushed
like an eggshell and the whole family killed
in an instant. They are John Burmaster,
wife and three children. Mrs. Frank Shep
pard was killed by flying timbers, sustain
ing a fracture of the skull.
CHICAGO VISITED, TOO.
A lingo Waterspout llurls Scren-Story
Building Upon Worklngmen'o Homes
With Fatal Results Thirteen at One
Table Crushed Only Three Killed Ont
right. Ciiicago, April 1. At about 6:30 o'clock
this evening the sky, which had been
threatening all the afternoon, became black
as night and in another minute a terrible
cloudburst occurred. The wind blew a hur
ricane, sweeping every moveable object be
fore it. At the corner of Halstead and
Pearce streets it tore down a seven-story
brick structure. It was Btirrounded by one
and two-story frame and brick buildings,
the homes of humble laborers, and, crash
ing upon them, instantly crushed out the
lives of three unfortunates and fatally or
seriouslv injured many others. Those in
stantly killed arc:
David Ilullctt. acred 6 months: Horace
Slott, aged 5 years; Eddie ilott, aged 2 years.
The fatally injured are:
Alice Hullett, aged 8 years, crushed about
the head and shoulders; Sirs. Ada Keown,
buiied beneath a mas of biicks, which
crashed liet through the chair In which sho
was sittlns: Horace Wigant, whole bod'
foarfullvbruised:Marv Wisnnt, arms broken
and body badly crushed; James Mott, head
ci uslied: Mrs. James Mott, head and should
ers crushed; James Mott. Jr., back strained
and injured internally; Mamie Mott, badl7
wounded about the fuce.headand shoulders:
James McGowan, his wife, son William and
Marv Walsh aio missing, and supposed to be
in the ruins. Theie Is but little hope that
tncy are alive.
Thomas Hullett lived immediately in the
rear of the ruined seven-story brick build
ing. He and his family, together with two
guests, w ere at supper. When the immense
mass of brick, iron, wood and plaster fell,
its force seemed to be directed to the rear,
immediately upon the Hullett house. The
dead and injured were at once removed to
the residences near bv. The Hullett family
occupied only one side of their dwelling,
and on this the rained building descended
like an avalanche. The 6-month-old baby,
David, was instantly crushed into a shape
less mass. Of the 13 people seated at the
table the infant was the only one instantly
killed. The others, who were pinioned
under broken timbers and brick, were soon
released by firemen, police and citizens.
In the tw o-story residence adjoining the
demolished structure lived the iamilies of
Horace Wigant, James Mott and James
McGowan. All were in the building ex
cept 8-year-old Lizzie Mott, and none es
caped serious injury. James McGowan,
his invalid wife, and Mrs. Walsh, Mrs.
McGowan's nurse, are believed to be buried
in the ruins. Up to this hour, 11 o'clock,
no trace of them has been discovered by the
diligent searchers, and it is leared all are
dead.
An unknown man employed as a watch
man in the ruined building is missing and
is supposed to be buried in the ruins. The
loss from the destruction of the building is
about S35.000. Losses sustained by the
crushing of the smaller buildings are not
vet estimated.
MOSTLY LIGHTNING N0ETHWJSSX.
Rain and the Electric Fluid Do Much
Damage in Minnesota.
St. Paul, Miss., April 1. The storm
in Minnesota is not so severe as further
south, but considerable damage is reported
by lightning, and farmers in many parts of
this State and the Dakotas complain that
there is too much rain, and that shocked
grain is completely destroyed and that in the
stacks badly damaged. The storm extended
clear across this State from the Dakotas,
and up to the lake regions a hard blow was
reported during the day.
At Merrill, Wis., lightning this morning
struck the German Lutheran Church, and
four children were knocked to the floor,
two being seriously burned. At James
town, X. D., the storm has continued since
Tuesday. A terrific wind has been raging
all d3y at Blunt, S. D., with rain and snow,
and it is growing colder. At Marshalltown,
Ix, the wind-storm is unabated, after rag
ing all day. A large amount of damage has
been done to various buildings. This after
noon the west end of the Marshall furniture
factory was blown in.
KEAELT OVERCOME BY GAS.
Narrow Escape or Three Men From Death
In the Capitol Building.
Washington, April 1. Henry W.
Taylor,Law rence Mills and IfedfordFitzsim
mons, employes at the Capitol building,
were nearly asphyxiated to-day, by escap
ing gas. Fitzsimmons and Mills had gone
into a cavity below a flight of stairs leading
to the building to connect a lateral gas pipe
with the main pipe. They neglected to
turn off the gas at the stopcock of the main
pipe before uncapping it, and as a result,
when the cap came off the gas rushed out in
such volume as to entirely overcome Fitz
simmons. Mills, who was further away
from the pipe than Fitzsimmons, was not
so badly affected as he, and rushed out into
a corridor ol the building and gave the
alarm.
Henry W. Taylor, the assistant engineer
at the House end of the Capitol, and C P.
Glynn, heard Mills' cries and rushed into
the hole to rescue Fitzsimmons. Taylor
reached the man first. He had dragged
Fitzsimmons but a short distance, however,
before he too fell almost helpless. Just
above the spot where the two men fell is an
iron grating, and Taylor retained sufficient
consciousness to rap on it to attract atten
tion. The grating was quickly broken and
the two men were taken out They were in
a very bad condition but bv the liberal use
of stimulants they gradually regained con
sciousness and were sent home. Mills also
required considerable attention before he
was restored to his normal condition.
CHANGES IN ABM0E PLATE.
Only a Slight Alteration In the Curvature of
Certain Kinds.
Wasiii2"GT02T, April L Special! The
statement has appeared in print that the
2avy Department has authorized the ac
ceptance of belt armor for the battle ships
Indiana, Massachusetts and Oregon, from
the firm of Carnegie, Phipps & Co., without
its being shaped, the firm having stated the
impracticability of shaping heavy 18-iucli
armor plates hardened as they are on one
side by the celebrated Harvey process. This
would give the impression that tnose ves
sels arc to be finished "on the square," to
look like cigar boxes on the edge. The lact
is that the alteration is but a slight one, the
vertical curvature in certain of the side
armed plates being omitted, while the lon
gitudinal curve is left.
The curves aft of the bows and forward of
the stern cannot be dispensed with, but the
vessels will be rather more "nall"-sided
than was originally intended by the designs
of the Bureau of Construction. In other
words, the upper part of the plates, in the
center of the vessels at least, will follow the
bend below, and lie like a straight-up-and-down
bulwark above. It will make very
little difference in the appearance of the
vessels.
n - f ,rJ 11 ii-fttffiffii WMjg,
ALL POINT ONE WAY.
The Cleveland-Paltison People in a
Pretty Large Majority.
A REVIEW OP THE SITUATION
As It Is With Only Twelve Counties in the
State to Hear Prom.
325 OF THE 463 DELEGATES GKOYIR'S
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCn.1
Hakrisbtjeg, April L All the informa
tion received here clearly indicates that the
Democratic State Convention, to be held in
this city Wednesday, April 13, will be un
der the influence of the Cleveland-Pattison
leaders of the party; indeed, it is safe to pre
dict that not less than 325 of the 4G3 dele
gates will be found in the ranks of the State
administration people.
A careful and impartial review of the
situation will soon satisfy any reasonable
man that they will have from 35 to 40
friends on each of the committees, which
will consist of 50 members each; and that 54
and probably more" of the 64 national dele
gates that will be chosen will be Cleveland-Pattison
supporters.
There are but twelve counties which have
not yet elected delegates to the State Con
vention. They are as follows: Armstrong,
Schuylkill, Union, Greene, Mercer, Mont
gomery, Venango, Crawford, Berks, Lan
caster, Westmoreland and Bradford. There
is reason to believe that of the 97 delegates
to be elected from the' counties named, at
least 85 of them will be friends of the State
administration.
Only One County In the Cold.
The State administration is likely to be
indorsed in every county, with possibly one
exception. It is so generally understood
throughout tbe State that the contestants
for seats in the convention from Philadel
phia have no substantial basis upon which
lo iouuu lueir claim mm iue- win uc given
very little consideration. The motives of
the'philadelphia leaders of the movement
against Governor Pattison are so well
known that they and their followers will re
ceive cold comfort at the hands of the con
vention. Besides; the gentlemen who
intend to come here with "paper contests,
as they are called, are unfortunate in hav
ing ex-Representative George McGowan as
a leader. He will have to face a Cleveland
Pattison convention, and in view of his
open declarations against Cleveland and his
hostility to Governor Pattison, he will not
find his task a pleasant'one.
Ex-Secretary W. S. Stenger and ex-Chairman
Dallas Sanders will also find it quite
lonesome. Both are known to be un
friendly to both Cleveland and Pattison,
and Mr. Sanders refused to vote for Cleve
land in 1888.
Preparations for the Convention.
State Chairman J. Marshall Wright has
been giving attention to the details,' and the
arrangements for the convention will be
found complete. He is being assisted by a
local committee, ofwhich Mayor John A.
Fritchey is Chairman.
Little attention is paid to tbe wails of de
feated leaders and applicants for official
favors of various kinds. Some of them,
after vainly striving for the aid of the State
administration, have joined the opposition,
but the accessions to their ranks have been
small. This will be disclosed as soon as the
delegates get upon the ground; indeed, the
weakness of the opposition is getting to be
widely known, and it is having its effect
upon the doubtful delegates. It is plain
that the doubtful delegates will not be mis
led, as were some of the County Chairmen
in the contest which took place here last
January.
Bearing upon this subject the remark of
a County Chairman from one of the Western
counties in interesting. In speaking of the
claims made br ex-Chairman James Kerr,
James M. Guffey, B. F. Meyers and others,
this County Chairman said:
Not to Da Tooled More Than Once.
"I will be a delegate in the State Con
vention, and I do not intend to be fooled as
I was at the meeting of the Democratic
State Central Committee. I came here last
January and was told by Mr. Kerr that he
would not have less than two-thirds of the
votes of the State Committee, and that Mr.
Gufley would be elected the member of the
Democratic National Committee. When
the meeting was held Mr. Kerr was badly
beaten and Mr. Guffey's name was not even
mentioned, Mr. Harrity being unanimously
elected. It looks to me as it the result will
be about the same this time, for I can see
nothing to justify the belief that Messrs.
Guffey, Mutchler and Kerr will be sup
ported by more than a small minority of
the convention. I accepted their state
ments as correct the last time, but they will
have to excuse me this time."
AMES STATES HIS POSITION.
lie Considers 'j'lmselt as Good a Republican
as An High Tariff Adherent.
Boston, April L Special Ex
Governor Ames will be a candidate for del
egate at large before the Republican conven
tion. He says:
I understand that my name was con
sidered by the State central committee, but
was rejected because, in the opinion of the
committee, I was not sound on the tariff
question. As that statement has gone forth,
I am willing to go before the State Conven
tion as a candidate, that I may ascertain
how large a piopoitlon of delegates aio with
me In my views on the tariff. Prominent
Representatives have assuiedme that thev
agiee withnie, and many of those who left
the Republican paity on the tariff issue have
said to me that If the party should Indorse
my stand on the question tney would be
pleased to leave their Demooratie associa
tions and leturn to the Republican party. I
do not believe In making the party any
smaller than It Is. If a man is to he read
out of the party because he does not believe
in every line of the McKinley
bill, because he believes in tree lion
ore and ample dntioa on pig iron
and is opposed to prohibitive duties, then
the Republican party will soon bo small
enough.
A MEEEY WAR IN OIL CITY.
Ex-Mayor Paine Canses a Sensation by Pub
lishing a Tart Card.
On, ClTT,April 1. Special There is a
merry war on here in the Democratic camp,
as the following card, published by ex
Mayor J. H. Payne, will indicate:
I don't think it necessary lor me to say
that when I enter a political contest I do it
on the squaie. It has como to my attention
that certain parties in tills city are making
an energetic, though secret canvass. They
allege that I am the tool of a clique, and that
my candidacy is tor the purpose of obtaining
some dreadful end. That is all nonsense as
I am not a member nor am I connected with
any cliaue. I shall be a candidate on Satur
day and ask the support of my friends and
all who oppose sucli scuriilous and under
hand political work.
An Alabama Alliance Convention.
Birmingham, Ala., April L Presi
dent Adams, of the State Alliance, has is
sued a call for a State Convention of all
labor organizations to meet in Birmingham
May 30, to consider the platform adopted at
St. Louis. The date is only ten days prior
to the Democratic State Convention, and
the conference is expected to have an im
portant bearing, one way or the other, on
State politics.
Delaware County for Cleveland.
Media, April L The Delaware County
Democratic Convention has indorsed Cleve
land and Governor Pattison's administra
tion. Acheson Lett TVltHout Opposition.
Washington, Pa., April L Special
The Itepublican primaries will be held in
this county to-morrow afternoon, and a con
vention will be held in this place on Mon
1 - I ) ftf'
day. It is to nominate a candidate for Con
gress and to elect four delegates to the State
and 16 delegates to the district convention.
No one has announced for Congress against
Mr. Acheson and it is probable that he will
have no opposition.
QUAY'S UPS STILL 8EALED.
Philadelphia Reporters Utterly Unable to
Get Onto the Combination.
Philadelphia, April 1. Special
Senator Quay slipped into town this morn
ing very quietly, and established reception
rooms in parlors 124 and 125, Continental
Hotel. The boys never found it out until
late in fhe afternoon. Then they came along
swiftly enough, only to learn that the Sena
tor was out looking after traction company
interests, with incidental reference to small
city politics in which the leaders want
direction. The Senator strolled up Chest
nut street with State Treasurer Boyer, and
showed defiance to the weather by carrying
instead of wearing his overcoat. About
every other big ward worker in town ap
peared to be in the Chestnut street swim at
the hour the stroll began, and Mr. Quay was
kept quite busy recognizing friends.
It was during this walk also that State
Treasurer Boyer learned definitely that he
was expected to return to the Legislature
again with this year's Philadelphia delega
tion. The Senator did not get back to the
Continental until 4 o'clock, but the.late
hour was just sufficiently early to bring
together the gentlemen he most wanted to
sec, and like a king on his throne not a
moment was lost in hearing reports froir
those who make up his most trusted fo,
lowers. Nearly all the cit leaders an
several from the country JRled. Whei
asked if he had anything to say for publica
tion Senator Quay replied in his customary
sententious style: "Nothing whatever. My
lips are sealed."
PRINTERS OPPOSED TO SINOEHLY.
The Philadelphia leader's Office Fight Car
ried Into the Political Arena.
Haerisbueg, April 1. Special. The
union printers of Pennsylvania will pre
vent, if possible, the selection of William
M. Singerly, of the Philadelphia Record, by
the State Democratic Convention as a dele
gate to the National Democratic Conven
tion at Chicago. Petitions protesting
against the election of Mr. Singerly are be
ing circulated in every city and town in the
State in which there is a typographical
union, and these petitions will be presented
to the convention.
The objections to Mr. Singerly are that
he has put himself in a position antagon
istic to organized labor; he has deprived
nearly 100 Philadelphia union printers on
his paper of situations and filled their
places with non-union men and boys, and
by his action he has cast contempt on the
claims of the Democratic party to be the
friend of the workingmen.
TTJSI0H AL0HG THE LINK
Democrats and People's Party Men Coming
Together in Missouri.
Kansas City, Mo., April L The com
mittee appointed by the Democratic and
People's party Congressional committees of
the Second Kansas district met here to-day
to consider the question of fusion. After a
harmonious discussion of the question at
issue it was decided that the two parties
should combine their strength in the Second
Congressional district in the effort to defeat
Mr. Funston, the present incumbent.
The Democrats will be allowed to nom
inate the candidate, who will be indorsed
by the People's party. The sentiment of
the meeting was favorable to fusion all
along the line.
Illinois Coming Over to Harrison.
Chicago, April L The Kepublicans of
the Second Congressional district last night
selected Earnest J. Magerstadt and Williapi
Lorimer as delegates, and Michael F.
Barrett and Charles W. Woodman as al
ternates to the Minneapolis convention.
Resolutions were passed indorsing the
present, national administration, and in
structing the above named delegates to vote
for Harrison for President.
TA-RA-RA SUNG IN COURT.
The Spectators Attempt to Join in the
Chorus An English Firm Wanted an
Injunction on a Song America Knew
Over Twenty Tears Ago.
fax CABLE TO THE DtSPATCn.l
London, April 1. The court presided
over by Justice Sir James Stirling to-day
had before it a motion by Sheard & Co.
to restrain Hart, Pazton and others from
publishing the latest popular song, known
by its refrain, "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay."
The piece has been running the music
halls like wildfire, and the hearing of the
case brought a large crowd to court to-dav.
The plaintiffs sought to show that Lottie
Collins, a concert hall favorite, secured the
song in America, and that they had bought
it ot her. They then -had it rewritten and
reproduced it from the new words and
score.
Affidavits in support of their claims were
read irom Clement Scott, the eminent
critic, Prof. MacFarron, the composer, and
others.- Affidavits taken in America were
presented by the defendants, declaring that
the song had been suDg in the United States
as early as 1878, and Florence Moore's affi
davit stated that she had sung the song in
the United States in 1884.
When counsel, with his dry, legal voice,
read the words of the original song.
with allusions to "Tuxedo" and other local
American hits, the spectators roared, and
there was an attempt to join in at the cho
rus, which was sternly repressed by the
court.
The Judge held" that the plaintiffs had not
proved the title to the song, and refused to
grant this motion to restrain others from
publishing it.
FIEED BIS BOARDING HOUSE.
A Lodjjer Leaves After Soaking His Room
With Oil and Applying a Slatch.
Philadelphia, April 1. Early this
morning Wilmer Mullen, a boarder, sat
urated the stair carpet trom the front door
to the fourth floor ot his boarding house
with kerosene oil, and soaking the bed in
his room on the fourth floor with the same
inflammable fluid, set the bed on fire with a
lamp. He then left the house and its 15
sleeping inmates to their fate.
The discovery of the fire by a neighbor
and the prompt arrival of the fire depart
ment prevented the flames from spreading
beyond Mullen's room. Mullen was ar
rested and committed to prison without
bail. He was sober at the time he set the
room afire, and before the magistrate re
fused to say what motive had prompted
him.
250,000 words or solid reading In the
mammoth 34-page istne of the THE DIS
PATCH to-morrow.
YOUNG F0BGEE AT THE CAPITAL.
He Gets In His Work on a Check and Some
Other Papers.
Washington, April 1. Yesterday
a young man presented at the bank
ing house of Kich & Co., of this city,a certi
fied check on the National Exchange Bank of
New York for ?685, drawn by Mary V.
Morse, guardian, to the order of A. F.
Morse. He also presented a letter of intro
duction to the bankers from Representative
John M. Allen, of Mississippi The check
was accepted and 5185 were placed to the
credit of the young man. He also received
a certificate of deposit for 5500, payable in
one year with interest
Tlie check, the certification and the letter
of introduction have all been pronounced
forgeries, and the payment of the certifi
cate of deposit has been stopped.
Fittsbunr's Congressman Makes a
Big Hit in a Speech on a Subject
ON WHICH HE IS FULLY POSTED.
The McKinley law Upheld by a Compari
son of Statistic!.
PE0TECTI0N NOT ON TRIAL JDST NOW
rrBOM A STAPT COBBESFONDENT.l
Washington. April 1. The feature of
to-day's tariff debate was the speech of Hon.
John Dalzell. He was given one hour, but
when the Speaker's gavel fell he was
granted unanimous consent to continue at
his pleasure. Following are a few of the
main points of the speeoh. After a eulogy
of Speaker Reed and the McKinley bill,
Mr. Dalzell said of the tariff:
The protective tariff is not on trial at this
time. That which represents the protective
system, to-wit, our existing tariff law, is not
on trial. No man up to this time has dared
to suggest its repeal. It has been made the
text for tho airing of tawdry rhetoric, the
excuse for much vituperation, the safety
vnl"- v Qflies re-
tneiiuuuoi tuo . i
aisoraer, ana undermines me iuui ui
the State.
The Tariff n Governmental Policy.
The tariff question is one of Governmental
policy, a business question which is capable
of and merits calm and logical discussion.
It is not a new question. The protective
system is not, as one gentleman uncovered
his ignoranco in declaring, "one created by
tho necessities of war and continued by
favoritism," but a system reaching far back
into the -world's history and capable of being
tested and weighed in the light of its experi
ence. Thore is no man within the sound of my
voice who does not Know that a revenue
tailff -would strike down American manu
factures, In which millions of money are in
vested and hundreds of thonsands .of men
employed; would shut furnace doors and
make their smokeless stacks the sad monu
ments of Industrial ruin; would still the
music of the loom and the spindle, bankrupt
American capital and put out the flro upon
the hearthstone of American labor. For
many a workman without work it would
give the alternative of starvation or beg
jiary. It would cro wd our farms with super
fluous laborers, take from tbe farmer his
home market and multiply his products
without multiplying the mouths to feed.
Over and above and beyond all, it would
strip us of our independence and make us
the hewers of wood and drawers of water
lor all the world besides.
I appeal to history. I might summon as
witnesses many men and appeal to the rec
ords of many years. A sinsle man and a
single year will sufflco to toll the story. In
1S57 we had had a revenue tariff for 11 years.
James Buchanan, from his chair in the
White House, thus pictures its effects:
President Buchanan's Pen Pictnre.
"The earth has yielded her fruits abun
dantly and has bountifully rewarded the
toil of the husbandman. Our great staples
have commanded high prices, and until
within a brief period our manufacturing,
mineral and meohanical occupations have
hugely partaken of the general prosperity.
Wo possessed all the elements of material
wealth in rich abundance, and yet, notwith
standing all these advantages, our country
in its monetary interests is at the present
moment in a deplorable condition. In the
midst of unsurpassed plenty in all tho pi o
ductions nnd in all the elements of natural
wealth we And our manufactures suspended,
our public works retarded, our private en
terprises of different kinds abandoned, and
thousands of useful laborers thrown out of
employment and reduced to want."
And four years after this declaration the
crisis came, when, in the hour of its supreme
need, with the hand of treason upon its
throat, the nation found its Treasury empty,
its obligations scorned in the money mar
kets of the world and its credit gone.
Between the Morrill tariff Dill or 1861,
passed to recuperate a treasury bankrupted
bv tho free trade system of the Democratic
uaity. and the McKinley bill of 1890, passed
to relieve the surplus in a treasury filled by
the protective system of the Itepublican
nartv. what a change, mv countrymen.
Our present taiiff law is drafted consist
ently anu logically upon mo lines mat uis
tinguish a protective fiom a revenue tariff.
It aims to give to us, free of tax, all those
articles necessary to our oomfort that we
either do not or 'cannot successfully pro
duce at homo. It gives'to us a tree list un
piecedentedin tho history of tariff legisla
tion. Big Free Use of the Present Law.
The revenue tariff vof 1810, tbe Idol of
Democratic worship, gave us but 12 per cent
of our importations free. The tariff of 1S57
gave us but 18 per cent of our importations
free. The present law gives us in the neigh
borhood ot one-half of all that we import
unburdened by any tax, for, as I have
already said, a revenue tariff, unlike a pro
tective tariff, is a tax paid by the consumer.
A comparative statement of the free and
dutiable imports published by the Treasury
Department for the 12 months ending witn
February, 1891. and February, 1892, respect
ively, which I will not read, Dut will print
as an appendix, shows that whereas for the
ill st-named year our freeimports aggregated
35 81 per cent, for the year just ended they
aggregated 83.10 per cent.
A single item, that of sugar, transferred by
the McKinley bill from the dutiable to the
fiee list, relieved the taxpayers of this coun
try of burdens to the amount of $60,000,000.
It effected a refoim that reached into every
home, lofty or humble. A bundled vears or
moie of expense and experiment had de
monstrated that for the present, at least, -n e
could not raise more than one-eighth of our
consumption of sugar. The duty paid
thereon was therefore a revenue duty and a
tax affecting the price of both the loreign
and the domestic product.
The Growing Tin Plate Industry.
For years we have been dependent upon
England, without reason and against reason,
for that which, by proper protection, we
have the ability to make with profit to our
selves. The total quantity of tin plates im
ported into this country in the 20 years from
1871 to 1S91 was 3,622,750 gioss tons, and the
total foieign valuo $307,541,404. In addition
wo paid.fieight& and impoiters' profits. As
to pi ices, England has dealt with us as she
ould, for as to this article wo have been ab
solutely dependent upon her. Can any man
assign any reason why this princely sum or
money should have been diverted fiom the
channels of our domestic trade to enrich for
eign manufacturers and feed foreign work
men instead of disseminating its blessings
among our own? There are to-day in this
country established and projected, over -20
tin plate establishments. Tliey have a capi
tal or $3,000,000. They have an estimated
capacity or 30,500 boxes per week.
Prior to 1870 c had no steel rail industry,
but were wholly dependent on England for
our supply. She chaiged us for steel rails
$150 per ton in gold. Congross put on a tariff
duty or $28 per ton. Maik the result. We
now produce more steel rails por annum
than does England, and the cost is nearly
the same in New York as in London,
Close of a Remarkable Speech.
Mr. Dalzell followed with a similar array
of figures in regard to cotton ties, binding
twine, etc, and closed as follows:
Mr. Chairman, I have said nothing, except
incidentally, of the lesults of the legislation
now so unscientifically attacked by these
extraordinary measures, lepiesenting a
mongrel policy, nor do I propose to do so. It
is sufficient to say that every promise made
for it by its friends and champions has been
fully lealized in practice, and every calami
tous propheoy of its opponents proven false
nnd unioundod. Under its beneficent in
fluence our foieign trade, instead or dimin
ishing, has grown as it never grew berore,
and to proportions magnificent to con
template. In the aggregate of the world's trafflo an
increasing balance of profit has come to us,
home industries have been revived and new
ones have sprung up, labor has continued to
receive its fair share of reward, and the
country has in comparison with others,
kept its place in all that contributes to tbe
national and individual welfare. All
things have combined to indorse, as wise
and beneficent, the economic policy which
is linked with every prosperous period in
our history and with its houoied names,
which has made us great, and which will, I
doubt not, continued by an intelligent peo-
At the suggestion of Mr. McMillin, it was
ordered that the general debate on the free
wool bill close with to-morrow's session.
The House then took a recessTintil 8 o'clock,
the evening session being for the considera
tion of private pension bills.
STAGE FAVORITES MATED.
Ionise Allen. theKanearoo Dancer, Weds
Willie Collier.
New York, April 1. News of a quiet
mariage between well-known theatrical per
formers was circulated on the Kialto vester
day. The news was that William F. Collier,
who is the joint star with Charles Eeed in
"Hoss and Hoss," and Miss Louise Allen,
the dancer, were married in this city last
week. Collier is quite young. He is a
son of Edmund Kean Collier, the tragedian,
and a grandnephew of James W. Collier, the
ex-manager, formerly ot Shook & Collier.
Youug Collier Began as a call boy in Daly's
Theater, and used to play small parts in
Daly's pieces. He made his first hit as the
stage manager in "The City Director?," in
which he gave a capital imitation of Daly's
eccentric manners. Then he became one of
the stars in "Hoss and Hoss." He is good
looking and lively, as well as ambitious. A
year or so ago it wa3 reported that he had
secretly married Jennie Yeamans, but Miss
Yeamans denied the story, and since then
she has become the wife ot Charles Dillincr-
' bam, of Milwaukee.
Louise Allen, Mr. Collier's bride, comes
if a family of dancers. The sisters, Kicca,
'ay and Louise, have for many vears fig-
ed conspicuously in Kiralfy ballets and
ctacles, and last season Louise made a
at hit in "Dr. Bill," by doing the gro-
iue "Kangaroo dance" after Edith Ken-
d, its originator, had returned to Eng-
"j'd. Miss Allen traveled with the com-
ny all the season, and afterwaid she
jined the Eeed & Collier trouee, in which
he repeated the "Kangaroo dance" and
added several new terpsichorean move
ments. She is a few years older than young
Collier, and is a pretty brunette. The mar
riage was strictly private, only the imme
diate friends and families of the contracting
parties being present
ASHAMED OF SLEEP WALKING.
A Niagara Falls Widow Tries Hard to
Horsewhip a Newsdealer.
IiOCKPOBT, K. Y., April 1. Special
Mrs. Alice Shurray, of Niagara Falls, was
discovered walking in her sleep at tbe New
York Central station, last night. She was
clad in a night dress. The night watchman
locked her in the stationmaster's room and
summoned the night telegraph operator.
When they returned she had awakened and
told the men who she was. The operator
gave her coats and blankets and took her
to her home on First street. She is a young
and handsome widow, with property.
The story of her somnambulism soon became
known. The Buffalo papers to-day pub
lished an account of it, and Mrs. Shurray
was angry. She heard that John Doherty,
the Niagara Falls newsdealer, was at one
time a correspondent of the Buffalo papers.
Armed with a whip she raided Doherty's
newsroom to-day, cornered him, and began
beating him on the head and shoulders.
Doherty wrenched the whip out of her
hand. He denied having anything to do
with the publication, and she finally ac
cepted his explanation. She is still after
the newspaper men and threatens to horse
whip the one who caused the publication.
COPY for SUNDAY DISPATCH aillolo
must como In by 9 P. M. After that hour
they can only be received for "Too lata to
classify."
27 Difference
The" "Royal" the Strongest and
Purest Baking Powder;
Whether any other baking powder is equal to
"Royal," let the official reports decide. When
the different powders were purchased on the open
market and examined by Prof. Chandler, of the
New-York Board of Health, the result showed that
Royal Baking Powder contained twenty-seven
per cent, greater strength than any other brand.
When compared in money value, this difference
would be as follows :
If one pound' of Royal Baking Powder sells
for 50 cents,
One pound of no other powder is worth over
36 cents.
If another baking powder is forced upon you
by the grocer in place of the Royal, see that you
are charged the correspondingly lower price.
AT LATIMER'S.
Looking at this new Spring stock one might suppose we
were going to clothe all the women of Allegheny and Pittsburg.
It's mountainuos large it's handsome it's all new.
9,864 YARDS ARMENIAN SERGES
AT 71-2C.
For price, prettiness and durability are not equaled elsewhere
for less than i2c
5,868 YARDS
ALL-WOOL BEDFORD CORDS
AT
Were made to sell at 75c 40 inches wide. You'll find saving
prices here. The styles are just fresh from the looms.
T. M. LATIMER,
138 and 140 Federal Street
AXXISGHCE;3C-5r, EA.
The Body of John Petre lying Un
attended in a Shanty Boat
WHILE CITY AND COUNTY DISPUTE
As to Which Shall Defray the Cost of the
Pauper's Funeral.
AN0THEE ARGUMENT FOR A MORGUE
John M. Petre, 46 years old, and single,
died of consumption in' a Monongahela
river shanty boat, under the Smithfield
street bridge yesterday morning. He had
no money. He died without medical atten
tion, and the remains of the dead man
are still in the little floating hovel. The
Charity Department of Pittsburg wants the
county to bury the maD, and the
county insists that the unfortunate
should be buried by the city. Pending the
dispute, death and its victim are locked
together just where they met. There have
been no preparations for buriaL Even the
undertaker has not been summoned. A few
former associates of the dead man have
called at the little boat through curiosity,
but they, too, were poor and unable to
assume the responsibility that both the city
and the county have so far refused to as
sume. Steeped in squalor, filth and poverty,
scarcely big enough to contain tbe nar
row, hard bunk upon which the
dead man lies, John Petre's shanty
boat and its delicate occupant have shifted
about the Monongahela wharf for years.
Petre was known as a river rat. When in
health he shipped on the Ohio river boats,
but for a year he has been sick, and he had
devoted himself to work on the wharf.
Fetre Never Spoke of Himself.
He was a mild-mannered, careful man of
good character. All the rivermen knew
him to see him, but none of them had ever
become intimate with him. None of them
know when he came to Pittsburg
or where he came from, and none
of them had ever heard him
refer to the family. They only knew him
as Jack Petre. ii o one ever attempted to
break in upon his seclusion and when want
came to him, he had no friends to serve
him or no one upon whom to call for aid.
The dead man had been confined to his
bunk in his floating house for two weeks.
His former associates supplied him with
what he could eat. Yesterday morning he
was much worse. The Department of
Charities was notified and Dr. McDonald
of the Third district was ordered
to visit the place, but before
the physician arrived the man had died.
The case was reported by the doctor to the
Department of Charities, and the Depart
ment of Charities notified the Coroner. The
Coroner insisted that the case did not come
within his jurisdiction, and he refused to
issue a certificate of death. The citv
authorities concluded that the death certifi
cate should issue from the Coroner's office,
which wonld place the expense of burial
upon the county, and the Coroner in return
contended that the case belonged to the
city and that the unfortunate man should
be buried at the expense of the city.
The Body Still Awaits Burial.
The dispute was not definitely settled last
night, but the Department of Charities will
likely tako charge of the remains this morn
ing. "This is truly a sad case," Coroner Me-
ATA
35,
apZ-ria
I lULi
Dowell said last night. "Petre, however,
died of slow consumption, and is not, there
fore, a subject for the Coroner. As I under
stand it the Department of Charities
was more anxious to have the re
mains of the dead man takes
away from their present diney homo
then they were to have the county assumo
the expense of burial. If I am correct ia
my understanding this case demonstrates
better than anything I can say the burninff
need of a public morgue for Pittsburg and
Allegheny county. This maa was poor.
Death found him without friends and when
the end came there was no one to smooth
his pillow or dampen his parched lips.
There was no minister to console him and
no prayer to light his way into the great
beyond. There was nothine about him but
crnel want and when the lifo
escaped from the sickening place the body
was compelled to remain there. We have)
no place to take it now bat to the grave.
The burial would seem more decent if tha
dead man could be removed to a respectable
morgue from which the funeral could tako
place."
PHOPOSALS.
"VTOTICE TO COXTEACTOES SEALED
ll proposals will be received by the un
dersigned for furnishing material and
erection of an Iron and brick car and power
house for the PittsburK and West End Pas
senger Hallway Company until APEIL 9, 1892.
Plans and specifications may be seen at tho
office of tho engineer, S. L. Tone, 108 Fourth
av., room 68. The right is reserved to rejeoe
any orall proposals. J. C. EEILLY, Presi
dent, 77 Diamond st. ma31-73-TT3
NOTICE TO
CEMENT DEALERS I
OFJTCE OT COVTTTY COSTHOI.I.BK, )
Pittsbueo, Pa., April 2, 1893.
Sealed pronosals will be received at this
Office until 3 o'clock p. jr., SATUEDAY,
April 9, 1892, for furnishing the cement neces
sary for the construction and repair of
county structures for tbe onsulnz season.
Any of the followins brands of cement
will be considered: Norton's cement, New
York and Eosendale cement and Hoffman's
cement.
Amount needed, about 2.000 barrels.
Bids must bo by the barrel, loaded on cars
at any depot in the cities of Pittsburg and
Alicijnenv that the County Engineer may
direct. Each proposal to be accompanied
by a bidder's bond In the sum of J 1,500, exe
cuted by the holder as principal and two
responsible persons as sureties.
The party to wliom tbe contract is awarded
shall give bond, with two sufficient sureties,
in double the amount of the contract for tha
faithful performance of said contract.
Tbe Commissioners reoerve the right to re
ject any or all bids. For further information
inquire at the office of the Countv Engineer.
JAS. A. GE1EE,
ap2 96 County Controller.
PROPOSALS
Bridge Superstructure and Masonry.
Office of Comrrr Cotroixek,
PirrsBUito, Pa., April 2, 1S9J. (
Scaled proposals will be received at tbl3
office until 3 o'clock p. jr. SATURDAY, April
9, 1892, for the superstructure and masony of
six wrought Iron through plate-girder high
way bridges, and for the construction of two
siono arc n uriage?, locateuas ioiiows:
No. 2, over Plum creek, at Gerlock's.
Bridge, 39 feet extreme length; static load,
730 pounds per lineal loot.
No. 3, over Plum creek, at TJnity Church.
Bridge, 30 feet extreme length; static load,
700 pounds per lineal foot.
No. 5. over Cnnningham's run, at II. Snltzer's.
Bridge, 30.5 feet extreme length; statlo
load, 70O pounds per lineal foot.
No. 6, over Hums run, at Grler's.
Bridge. 33 feet extreme length; static load,
720 pounds per lineal foot
No. 7, over Bull creek, above scboolhousa
No. 3.
Bridge, 36 feet extreme length; static load.
780 pounds por lineal foot.
Xo. 8, over Turtle creek, at Berry's ford
ing. Bridge, 64 feet extreme length; static load,
990 pounds per lineal foot.
Live load for all bridges, 2,000 pounds per
lineal foot.
All skew bridges.
All to do built in accordance with plans
and specifications on file in County Engin
eer's office.
No. 1, over Bull creek, at Tarentum.
Stone arch bridge, 10 feet span. Semicircu
lar arch. '
No. t, over Gillespie run. Stone arch
bridge, 10 feet span. Semicircular arch.
Also for placing heavy stone rip-rap
around piers of Neville Island bridge.
Bridge contractors should examine tha
sites for themselves, to ascertain their pecu
liarities, the extent ot false work required,
etc., before bidding.
3IASONEY.
The approximate quantity of masonry Is
about 3,000 cubic yards, and must bo or good
quality and conform to gpecifle-itions.
Bids to be by the cubio yard, in place, pnea
to include excavation, pumping, shoring,
coffer-dams, centering, etc
Contractors must visit the sites of pro
posed bridges before submitting a bid.
The county will furnish the cement loaded
on cars at any railroad depot in the cities of
Pittsburg or Allegheny, the contractor to
pay the freight.
AH bids must be addressed to the County
Commissioners, and Indorsed "proposals for
bridge superstructure," "bridge masonry"
or "rip-raplnir," as the case may be.each pro
posal to be accompanied by a bidder's bond,
with two sufficient sureties, in the sum of
not less than 50 per cent of tbe amount of
the bid. Bidders must bid for each bridge
separately, and may. In addition, bid for tha
lot as a whole.
Bids for bridge No. 8 must be addressed in
separate envelopes to the Commissioners of
tv estuioreiana ana .uiegneny counties.
The right to reject any or all bids is re
served. Thepartv to whom the contract is awarded
shall give bond, with two sufficient sureties,
in double the amount of the contract, for
the faithful performance of said contract.
Plans may be seen and specifications and
forms of bond obtained at the office of
Charles I)avi, County Engineer, after Mon
day, April i, 1892. JA1IES A. GRIEK,
ap2-95 County Controller.
EDUCATIONAL.
OOKKEEPING BY THE VOUCHEE AND
other modern systems, penmanship and
arithmetic thorougly taught at the Park
Institute. 204 North av.. Allegheny, Pa. New
rapid phonography and tvpewrltlng.
LEVI LUDDEN, A. JL, Principal.
Ja29-TT3
CURRY UNIVERSITY
KINDERGARTEN TRAINING CLASS
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special normal classes. Address
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