;
BAUSMAN IS BOUNCED
From the Tastorate of the Beaver
Chnrch bj Bis Presbytery.
BE FILES A VIGOROUS OBJECTION
Both in a Heated Speech and in a Formal
Protest in Writing
SEVER PEEACHED HIS BROAD VIEWS
'SFKCIAI. TELEGRAM TO THI DISr-ATCH.
Beaver, April 12. The Bausman heresy
case was igain dragged into public notice
to-day by the proceedings of the Allegheny
Presbytery, which met In this place this
morning. Just before noon the matter was
taken up.
The committee, upon the condition of the
Rochester church, through its Chairman,
Dr. "W. O. Campbell, presented a volum
inous report in which it was declared that,
according to the Rev. Dr. Bailsman's own
statement, his convictions upon certain
mooted points of doctrine had undergone no
change. The report declares, also, that
the financial condition of. the church
Is bad, it having an indebtedness
of 5800, of which ?400 is duo
the pastor. It alleges, further, a
Tory much disturbed and divided condition
of the church, also that while the confidence
of the people generally in Mr. Bausman's
Christian character does not appear to have
been impaired, his influence with those
who hold strongly to evangelical doctrines
is to a considerable extent weakened. The
report concludes as tollows:
Tour commlttoo believe that tho useful
ness of both pastor and people will he best
served by the dissolution of tho pastoral
relation, and do so recommend.
On'y One of the Committee Dissents.
This was concurred in by ull but one mem
ber of the committee, the Bev. Mr. Mc
Cormick. The latter said that Mr. Baus
man's views are doctrinally unsound, but
that this should be judicially ascertained.
A motion to adjourn was met by a counter
motion to fix the time of takinjr up the case
again at a late hour in the afternoon. To
this Mr. Bausman strenuously objected, and
aked as a favor that consideration of his
case be taken up upon reassembling at 1:30
o'clock. A motion to this effect prevailed,
the report having been previously received
" and adopted.
When Presbytery assembled, at 1:30 p. M.,
consideration of the Bausman case was re
sumed. Kev. Mr. McCormick, who had
been elected Moderator to succeed Bev. Mr.
Donaldson, had the latter act for him during
the consideration of the Bausman case, be
ing a member of the committee appointed
to inquire into the condition of the
Rochester Church.
Ransman Makes a Heated Speech.
After the history of the case had been
read and the various meetings and reports
of the committee recounted, a call was made
lor the rereading ot the report presented at
the forenoon session, and this was done by
Bev. Dr. Campbell, Chairman of the com.
mittee.
At its conclusion Bev. Mr. Bausman ad
dressed the Presbytery upon the motion to
adopt the report. He spoke calmly and
with deliberation at the outset, but as he
proceeded bis voice became sharp and clear,
nnd he cave evidence of much excitement.
He said among other thinss:
The history of tho cave Is uefore you. Our
little church In Rochester was two years ago
coins on in a peaceful, happy spirit, dolns
the work of Cnrit. That peaco as broVen.
How? I, jnvself, have made a full breast of
the fct that I hold dlvergins view. How
did Prcsbylery learn this? The first time I
l-emombcr liavin said I'held a belief in a
larger hopp, was in rav room to a man who
lias done more than any other to force my
views upon the Piesbytery. It became
known, not o much by the promulgation of
my own views by me, as by those in opposi
tion to me.
They Ilad 31-fle Trouble Before.
In addition to this, somo who urged my
divergence are persons who are known in
the church of Rochester as bavins been in
uiinleasatit relations with other pastors. In
the case of three of them an alienation had
existed extending back to the time when
the doctrine of complete anotifleation was
preached by a Fhllacelphia evangelist. They
went to the M. E Chuich (where the evan
gelist held fort) lnstend of doing work in
their own church. VTbcn they found I
wouldn't go after their vagary they became
opposed to me.
Thei e are family feuds also, such as will
operate acainst others who follow me. Un
der tho cloak ot purity of doctrine, etc.,
they have been waging wartaie against me.
Theic is but a handful of tbem 13 and
soireof thcearo little children. Some of
them have not paid anything, and not be
cause thev were not able.
Tho great body of the chuich is in my
favor, except this little handful. The others
lielpcd me. They didn't buirow into my
mind to see whether ther was any diverg
ence from the fivo points of Calvanism.
What was the result? 1 pent my letter of
resignation hon e last summer. 1 had re
ceived letters riom my elders urging me to
resign for the good ot the church. The con
gregation refused to nccept it. Thev said it
was not so, and adopted lesolutlons vindi
cating me.
At a later period, when summoned before
Presbytery, these came and testified for me.
A petition fia? been sent hero signed by 160
members aud supporters or tho church, ask
ing that the pastoral relations bo not dis
solved. The Majority's Testimony Is or Weight.
Is the testimony of 103 members to go for
nothing as to my usefulness? Is the testi
mony ot leading business men in their
cliuiches, who havo written in my behalf, to
go for nothing? I call upon those in the
church, except the lew members opposed, to
say whether it is not true that if It weie not
for the lash held over my head theirs would
bo the happiest little church in that com
munity, lloes IS received in the confession
of lultli indicate that my usefulness is at an
end?
If the pastoral relations are dissolvedlt will
be done against my nrotost and in tho face
of ntno-teuths of the paying, praying niem
beis. If von take this action vnn will Tirae-
tically smash the chuich. Friends ol mine
aie in great doubt what to do. I tell you, as
a simple mattei of fact, that there will be a
very consideiable number of these people
who will never darken tho church door
again. Wlij? They -n ill say that the peaco
of the church has not neen distuihcd bv tho
pastor, but those who have opposed the
pastor. It not only seriously affects that
church, it simply means the paralyzing of
the usefulness or that church through a gen
iration to come.
If you want to uphold Piesbvterlal nn
ihority you must take note of the attitudo
or the two tactions in my church. The large
majority have been respectfully hearing
the Presbytery and obeying citations in an
orderly and respectful way. How about the
otliei? With the exception or two the others
disobeyed Presbvterv by absenting them
selves Irom the chnrch meetings.
A Very Animated Colloquy follows.
Bev. Mr. Shaffer here interrupted with
an inquiry as to whether these two were on
trial. Dr. Campbell expressed the opinion
that Brother Bausman was out of work.
Bev. Mr. Milligan, Stated Clerk, was asked
to read a petition from the Rochester
church asking that the pastoral relation be
not dissolved, and signed by 160 members
and supporters. Bev. Mr. Bausman, asked
that certain letters of the same tenor from
oiitside parties be also read, to which Dr.
Dampbell objected, saying that some ot
them w. ere confidential and some of them
were in opposition to Bev. Mr. Bausman.
He insisted it was not fair to read those
favorable unless those in opposition were
also read.
Mr. Bausman yielded the point of issue,
but exclaimed in sharp.decisive tones: ''Are
you going to dissolve the pastoral relations?
5Tou nave no right to turn me over to an
other congregation. "What are you going to
do with me?" He protested against being
sent into another community where the
burden of what had occurred would foHow
him. He admitted that he had, when
drawn out in private, expressed the hope
that mercy might be extended beyond the
verge of this lite.
lie Believes In AH the Essentials.
"I avow my belief," said he, "in all these
things which it seems to me are essential to
the faith In the.Westrainster Confession of
Faith."
He then nsked Presbytery to be allowed
to read a protest against th'e action contem
plated in the report, and that it be spread
upon the records. This caused a spirited
discussion, and many sharp passages be
tween Bev. Mr. Bausman ana his fellow
Presbyters followed." Disposition of the
protest was deferred until action on the re
port should be taken.
Bev. John Fox said Bev. Mr. Bausman
had been given a longer measure of liberty
because he was felt to be In extremes. Hn
remarks as to the doctrinal soundnest ot
Bev. Mr. Bausman were declared by the
Chair out of order, and he took an appeal,
which was not sustained.
Bev. Mr. Gibson came to the aid of Bev.
Mr. Bausman and opposed the dissolution
of the pastoral relation. Bev. Mr. Mc
Cormack said he did not think the facts
lustified the Presbytery in asking Bev. Mr.
Bausman to resign. Kev. Mr. Dickey
claimed that among those opposed to the
minister were some who are the warmest
friends of the church.
Sir. Bausman Loses His Temper.
"When Bev. Mr. Graham referred to the
evidence as showine that Bev. Mr. Bausman
had preached doctrines contrary to the Con
fession of Faith, the latter became very
angry and called Bev. Mr. Graham to order,
saying he didn't want him to make any
statements of falsehood. This caused a
furore, which subsided when Bev. Mr.
Bausman indicated that the remark had
been made in a Pickwickian sense.
Dr. Campbell stated that the committee
had called before it recently persons who
six months ago opposed dissolution, and
learned from them that there were dissen
sions and arrearages. He again put the
question as to the advisability of continu
ing the pastoral relation, and they wouldn't
commit themselves after a long discussion,
which at times became decidedly personal.
A vote was taken on the report, and it
was adopted by a vote of 35 to 27. The fol
lowing protest was then read by the Bev.
Mr. Bausman:
Whereas, The Presbytery of Allegheny,
in session at the Beaver Church April 13,
1892, took action dissolving the pastoral le
lation existing between Bev. J. H. Bausman
nnd thei'irst Presbyterian Chnrch of Roches
ter, he, the Kev. J. n. Bausman, lequests
that the following protest be spread upon
the minutes of the Presbytery in connection
w ith the results of Ills case, to wit.i He pro
tests that this action of the Presbytery is
unjust for the following reasons:
In Opposition to the Local Chnrch.
First It Is in the face of the repeatedly
expressed wish of the congregation at
Rochester, who, by an overwhelming ma
jority of its number, declared Itself
satisfied with the ministerial and pastorial
relations of him, the Bev. J. -H. Bausman,
and urges that the undisputed success of the
church uhder his leadership, in its every re
lation, social, financial and spiritual, is the
seal of God upon his ministry.
Second It is against tho wish of the pas
tor himself. For four years he has held the
most precious relations with the church.
He has constantly received from his people
surprising assurances of their approval and
feels that his probable separation from them
Is a hardship lor which there Is no Justifica
tion in his own conduct.
Third This action of tho Presbytery is an
encouragement to the warring and faotlous
spirits in the church. It says that, no mat
ter what may be the character and standing
or the pastor in the opinion or the congre
gation ne serves, tne t.mauesc aiBconientea
minority may unseat him: and it has In this
case permitted personal pique and prejudice
to obtain their revenue under the cloak of
party zeal and purity of doctrine. This
action of the Presbytery has the effect of
placing upon a member of the Presbytery In
good standing a heavy sentence and penalty
without trial, and is, therefore, unjust.
Wnile It is not technically one of the sen
tences named in the discipline, the forcible
removal of a pastor from a beloved church
is, in fact, a sentenc, and a heavy one. It
should not be inflicted upon any minister
without clear evidence of guilt, upon
charges regularly drawn and sustained. In
this case there were no such charges and no
such evidence of guilt.
No Heresy Preached From the Pulpit,
On the coritfary. It was claimed by the
minister concerned, Bev. J. EC Bausman,
and his claim was no; disproved, that.he
had not preached anything contrary to the
teachings of the Bible or the system of doc
trine or the Presbyterian Church. He
avowed his belief in the fundamental truths
of Christianity, In the Bible as containing
the word of God and being all sufficient, of
faith and practice in the divinity and the
worship of Jesus Christ, in the necessity for
repentance nnd in the future punishment of
the wicked.only qualifying himself In regard
to those doctrines by holding that the
true theory of their inspiration does
not require us to deny the errancy
of the Scriptures in non-eseutIals: that a
true theory of the person of Chi 1st does not
ref-iso to take account of His on n utter
ances and those or His Apostles with refer
ence to the limitations which He had as
sumed In His estato of humiliation, and
that a true theory of God's lelations to His
sinful creatures in eternal ages ages will
not forget In its statement that God was In
the beginning, is now and ever shall be the
God of mercy as well as or Judgment, and
that H13 tender mercies are over all His
works.
It was claimed by the Protestant and ad
mitted by the session of the Rochester
chuich, that he had confined himself in Jiis
public teachings to the things that are com
monly lecelved by evangelical Christians,
and had only given cxpicssiou to nny
bioader views In conversations with broth
ers, in a private nnd pastoral way, in mutual
search tor the tiuthas it may bo found in
God's word; the piovidential leadings of His
people, and the uistoiic developments of
human thought.
The Pastor Is Still Csetnt.
Fifth, and Lastly The reason assigned by
the Presbytery, namely: Tnat the useful
ness of the pastor In his church Is at an end
has no existence in fact. AH the evidence
before the oommittee and Presbytery shows
that his usefulness Is not at an end. Strong
letters from men who are representative
members of other denominations, and of the
business and social interests of Roohester,
testified to the Christian Character
and efficient ministry of Bev. Mr.
Bausman. His Chuich, by nine-tenths of
a majority, lepcatod tor the third time
their testimony as to his laithfiilnessand
success, and petitioned the Presbytery not
to take him fiom them, and it was shown
that, in spite of the drawbacks or the pres
ent disturbance or its peace, the church was
prospering, having lately added 19 members,
17 ot them being received ou confession of
laitb.
In dissolving the pastoral relations in the
face of such evidence the Presbytery has
abased its power, and the pastor solemnly
pi o tests against its action a being an inva
sion of his rights and of the rights of his
congregation, and as threatening the verv
existence of that congregation.
Dr. Campbell objected to the protest, but
after the words tyrannous nnd wanton had
been stricken out by Mr. Bausman it was
adopted. A committee, consisting of Dr.
Campbell and Revs. Fox and McOormack
and Elder Hardison, Mere appointed to pre
pare an answer to ft.
A minority report, presented by Bev. Mr.
McCormack, which took the ground that it
was unfair to remove Bev. Mr. Bausman
without a trial, was tabled. After electing
Bev. Dr. Bobinson, Bev. J. IC McKallip
of Beaver, Henry Disque and George Irvin,
of Allegheny, commissioners to the General
Assembly, Presbytery adjourned down stairs
to supper.
BATES TIKES OUT.
The Bicyclist rails to Beat the Si-Hours'
Record Jn London.
"London, April 12. Bates, the bicyclist,
tried to beat the 24 hours record. At 3
o'clock this afternoon he had ridden 310
miles in 11 minutes inside the record for
that distance, but was compelled through
exhaustion to abandon his attempt alter
riding 23 hours and 24 minutes. In that
time he had covered 353 miles, which was
inside the record.
Gone to Meet John Drown.
Wheeling, April 12. Special Wm.
Wrightstein died at Shepherdstown, "V.
Va., to-night, aged 84. He was one of the
jurors who condemned John Brown to
death, and his death leaves but one of the
12 alive, Wm. Boyer, of Shenandoah
Junction.
DIED.
STUART-On Wednesday. Anril 13,1892, at 3
A. M., at his lesldencc, No. 281 "North avenue,
Allegheny, Jons Stuart, aged 75 years and I
months.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
Hartford, Conn., papers please copy.
PITTSBURG
THE
THE BUSINESS WORLD.
Statistician Dodge Comes Hack at
Cotton Speculators, Who
DISPUTE HIS DATA AND FIGURES.
Hott the Electrical Easiness Is Paying
Ihose Now In It.
FIRES, FAILURES AND RAILWAY SEWS
Washington. April 12. Mr. J. R.
Dodge, Statistician of the Department of
Agriculture, furnishes for publication the
following statement in reply to (he reso
lutions adopted by the St. Loub Cotton
Exchange:
The resolutions passed by the bt. Louis
Cotton Exchange ,are unworthy of the in
telligence of an American commercial as
sociation. That a band of speculators, suf
fering trom their own rashness and madjudg
ment, should so stultify themselves as to
denv the open facts of production and dis
tribution which are published daily by the
commercial press of two continents, passes
comprehension. The statements complained
of in the March report are those of the
National Cotton Exchange and of Ellison, of
Liverpool, an authority no cotton broker
will gaintay.
The movement of the crop of 1890 exceeded
8,500,000 bales, but Mr. Hester, the author
ity of the New Orleans Exchange, savs the
crop was actually 8,100,000 bales, which is
neaily asmuchas the average annual con
sumption of the factories of Europo and
America for five yenrs past, according to
Ellison: and India. Egypt and Brazil added
more than 3,000,000, making a total of 12,
000,000 bales, while the consumption
of Europe, America and India has never
reached 11,000,000. The viBible stocks or Jnn
uary were about 1.600,000 larger than in Jan
uary of 1890, nnd the Liverpool price of mid
dling fell from 6 1-18 pence to 1 penco ns tho
result of ovei-production, aided, possibly,
by the sales or futures by tho St. Louis Ex
change; but not one iota by the Maiou re
port of the Department of Agriculture.
The referonce to the March report of dis
tribution is puerile. That report gives the
expoits, visible supply stocks in farmers'
hands, nnd the consumption, which do not
make a bushel more than as leported in
December, and scarcely more than was in
dicated in the leport of last October. No
intelligent American will claim a smaller
production.
Oi the 171,000,000 bushels of invisible stocks
24,000,000 are in 23 States and Territoiies that
cannot spare a bushel to commerce, and in
the other 15 not less than 65,000,000 bushels
are required for bread and seed, leaving only
82,000,000 bushels available, of which scarcely
00,000.000 bushels can De lorcea into commer
cial distribution by present prices. Par the
largor part or the available supply is now
visible in commercial elevators.
Monday affoidcd an object lesson in refu
tation of these 'charges, when our report
showed a loss of over 4 per cent in the con
dition of growing wheat, and yet the ruture
dealer got in his European canards and beat
down the price 6 oents a bushel in the race
or the report of reduced conditions. Thus
the wolves of speculation charge the inno
cent report with muddying tho stream of
price.
KBTMBHAAB'S ULTIMATUM TO BARES.
Be Tells Several Philadelphia Houses They
Blast Fix Vp Their Capital.
Philadelphia, April IS. State Superin
tendent of Banks Krnmbhaar to-day notifled
half a dozen financial Institutions of this
oity that they must make good Im
pairments in their capital or they
would be closed. Mr. Krumbhaar re
fused to discuss the matter, but
two of the Institutions so notifled by
him are the Finance Company of
PenneylVania,and the Investment Company
of Philadelphia. Both of these companies
were said to have been badly shaken during
the financial panic of the lallor 1890. George
W. Blabon, Pi esident of the Finance Com.
pany, this evening acknowledged that the
company had received a notice
such as the above from Superin
tendent Krnmbhaar. He said that the
company held among its assets $500,000 each
of the bonds of the Oregon and Paciflo Rail
road and the Charleston, Cincinnati and
Chicago Railroad. Ho said Superintendent
Krnmbhaar probably inferred that ir these
securities were forced upon the market they
would be practically worthless, hence hfs
action. Mr. Blabon said that the officers or
the company did not agree with Superinten
dent Krumbhaar in this, but believed that
the securities would be valuable. Mr.Blabon
added that ir it is round that the capital was
impaired it will be reduced sufficiently to
meet the deficit.
A gentleman closely connected with the
Investment company.said that the company
had been embarrassed by the failure ot the
Baring Bios., but that since that time they
had notified all the depositors to withdraw
their accounts, and they had not received
any deposits since. He added that the com
pany was gradually liquidating its liabili
ties, and that stockholders would be the
only losers, if there is any loss.
ST0CKH0LDEKS' MEETIHG.
Annual Reports or the 1, C, C. & St. Loull
Kallwny Company.
The stockholders of the Pittsburg, Cincin
nati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Com
pany held their annual meeting yesteiday
In the general office on Penn avenue. Tne
annual leport for the year ending December
31, 1891, was submitted. The gross earnings
in 1891 were $14,895,591, a decrease of $557,3(1
compared with the year previous. The
operating expenses and taxes aggregated
$10,939,808; a decrease of $527,680 on , the pre
vious year. The net earnings were $3,955,782,
a deci ease of $31,661. The net nrofit for 1891
was $937,631, an Increase of $263,057. Dividends
have been paid out or the net piofltsat the
rate of 4 per cent, per annum ou the pie
ferred stock of the company.
In the report refeience Is made to the late
John A. Hampton, and a worthy tribute
paid to his memory as one who had served
the company as its local solicitor lor a long
term of years. Due mention was made in
the report or the Hon. "V. L. Scott, one or
the directors, who died since the last annual
meeting.
The Board of Directors having been class
ified, three membeis were elected, namely!
Briggs s. Cunningham, of Cincinnati; Ucorge
Willard, of Chicago, and Henry H. Houston,
of Philadelphia. The hoard will organize at
a later date.
THE EEEWEE HAS TO FAT.
An English Syndicate Becovers 85,000
From Thomas A. Harris, of New York.
Nrw Tore, April 12. Special. Thomas A.
Harris, of Kansas City, lecovered a verdict
or $8,741 67 damages in the United States
Circuit Court to-day against Valentine
Loewer, the New York brewer. Mr. Harris
is an Englishman who represented an
English syndicate in negotiations to pur
chase Loewei's brewery. Harris said that,
on the stiength ot Loewer's statement, he
signed the contract to purchase the brewery
for $1,103,100 mi d paid $5.C00 down.
Mr. Hams, however, failed to conclnde
his bargain, and when he returned he was
unable to collect the $5,0G0 that he had paid
Loewer. Harris claimed that Loewer had
misiepresented his profits to him. Loewer
admitted that his piofits had decreased very
much since tho bargain had been made.
Harris thereupon brought suit lor $5,500
damages.
ELECTBICAL BUSINESS PAYS.
Large Profits of the Thomson-Houston
Company for the Past Year.
Middletown, Coxh., April 12. The annual
meeting of tho Thomson-Houston Electric
Company was held here to-day, 380,000 shares
being represented of a fotal of 400,000. The
annual reports of the officers mndo tills
showing: llusine'.s done in 1891, $10,310,580;
piofits, $2,760,780. dividends, $1,M,SC6: assets,
$20,26J.7; burplus, February 1, 1S92, $7,516 917.
An addition of $1,524,414 was made to the
surplus after paying 7 per cent dividends on
the pieleued stock and 4 pel cent quarterly
dividends on the common stock.
The following diipctors were elected: n.
A Peicar, C. A. Coffin, J. X. smith, B. F.
Spinney, C. H. Newhall, S. A. Barton, E.
Giiffln, s. E. Peabody, T. J. Coolidge, Jr., all
of Boston.
The Sugar Trust May Give a Bebate.
Philadelphia, April 12. Seveial agents of
the American Sugar Befihlng Company
(Sugar Ti list) were In this city to-daj and it
was reported that the object of their visit
was to confer with the wholesale grocers
lelativo to making an arrangement by which
the Trust will allow a rebate of about 40
cents a barrel to the grocers who maintain
the retail prices.
Tho Whisky Trust Unterrlfird.
Bo3to April It Liquor dealers in this
DISPATCH. WEDNESrfA
city say that the Vhisky Trust fs still doing
business in this State, in spite of tho recent
indictments. The rebate checks are still be
in" sent out, they say, nnd there seemsto be
no disposition to stop that part of the opera
tions. A New Trades Union.
. Chicago, April 12. A new labor organiza
tion, to be called the International Federa
tion or Machinery Trades, was organized
here to-day with a membership or C0,0O0.
After a warm debate it was decided by the
organizers not to allow anything referring
to politics in the constitution. Late to-night
the constitution of the order was adopted
and officers elected. The most Important
clause of the constltntlon is the one declar
ing that nine hours shall constitute a day's
work. When this shall go into effect will be
decided at the next convention, which will
be field in Chicago on Ootober 3.
BUSINESS BBBVIT1E3.
Navtoatio- is open at Green Bay, Wis.
Uhiow tailors of Youngstown are on a
strike for their scale.
Snoi and leather dealers art arranging for
a combined exhibit at the World's Fair.
Judgm-sts amounting to $11,150 were en
tered Monday against-Simon Shively, the
Newville (Pa.) tanner.
Tub Generale Compagnle Transatlantiqne
has discontinued Its lino of steamers be
tween Marseilles and Colon.
The 800 employes of the Bellairo Stamping
Company have followed the works by
special train to Harvey,' III.
It is expected in London that the restric
tions now nlaccd on cattle on this side will
be taken off in about three weeks.
A xew dlsthlory with a capacity of four
barrels of wiiisky a day, operated by John
J. Hughes, began woik yesterday in Johns
town. The Whito Traction Company atMoKees
port has decided that it can give an advanco
in the wages of the motormen and conduc
tors of the road.
Suit will be brought at once by the Stato
of Wisconsin to annul the oharte rs of five
of tho most extensive logging and boom
companies in that State, because of the le
fusal to pay tho 3 per cent tax.
The Canadian House of Commons Com
mittee on Banking and Commerce has re
ported the act respecting the Bell Tele
phone Company, empowering it to increase
its capital stock from $500,000 originally to
$5,000,000. '
Mounts S. Coor-En has been appointed re
ceiver in supplementary proceedings for
Isaac L. and Georgo W. Falk, who composed
tho New fork firm of Isaac L. Falk & Co.,
wholesale dealers in clothing, who tailed in
October, 1890, for $280,000.
TnE cabinetmakers employed by Herter
Bros., of New York, are on strike. Herter
Bios, are supplying the ornamental
woodwork for the house of George Pullman,
in Chicago. Word was sent to the Chicago
union and a dispatch was leoeived In reply
stating that the men would refuse to put the
work up there when It reached Chicago un
less the strike has been settled.
BAIL-WAY INTEBESTS.
The passenger rate war between Chicago
and Ohio river points goes merrily on, and
the Penney is assuming the offensive.
Haxaqzr Hzixs-, of the New England,
denounces as false the story that a strike on
his load is inevitable, or that he has leduced
the n ages and salaries of employes.
Sweeping reductions in the working force
of Canada's Intei-Colonial ltailroad are im
minent. The road, which has been used as a
political machine by the Government, has
not been paying expenses.
Further papers we,re filed at Wllllams
port yesterday in the bill of equity of
Matthias H. Arnor against the Philadelphia
and Beading Railroad, and the other cor
porations Included in the Heading deal.
It Is said that a general tie-up of the New
York and New England Railroad will follow
any attempt to apply to the engineers and
firemen the 10 per cent reduction in salaries,
which goes into efiect next Monday for most
of the men.
WHEXthe freignt representatives or tho
Central Traffic Association met in regular
session at Chicago they were confronted by
a piqposltlon to reduco the rate on grain
trom Chicago to the seaboaid. It was re
feried to a committee.
The Trunk Line Association met In New
York yesterday and discussed east and west
bound rates. .On account of the early open
ing of navigation, these rates have not been
strictly maintained within the past month.
All the .representatives, piesont pledged
themselves to maintain the tariff rates.
THE FIRE RECORI.
At Findlay, Allison, Thomas, & Co.'s boiler
woiks. Loss, $3,000; partly insuied.
At Paris, the Paris Hosiery Manufacturing
Company's building. Loss, $100,000; insur
ance, $70,000.
At TJniontown, the stables or the Stewart
Iron Company, with ten mules,,four horses
and two cows. Loss, about $7,000.
As alarm of fire was turned In last night
about 10 30 o'clock from box No. 146, at Nine
teenth aud Clitton streets, Southside. The
cause was a slight blaze on the roof of a
house at 1819 Fox alley, occupied by Mar
garet Tonkman. No damage.
At Manaynnk, a Philadelphia suburb, the
Bipka mill building. The occupants and
their losses arc: Forbes & Co., carpet manu
facturers, $10,000: Baker & Holt, manufaotur
eis or plush, $20 ooo. and Elli- & Co.. caiders
aud, spinners, $S,0C0. All aie insured.
ATManitowac, Wis., the works or tho Man
itowac Manufacturing. Company, which
manufactmes opera chairs, school furniture,
etc. Tho company was making chairs for
the Minneapolis convention ball. Loss, $200,
003: insurance, $SO,000. Over 225 men out of
work.
At Springfield, O., the building of the Win
ters' Art Lithographing Company, Chicago.
Loss, about $75,000; insured. Origin unknown.
Tho company had a large World's Fair ad
vertising con ti act, but most of its printed
matter had been pieviously forwarded to
Chicago.
At Butte, Mont., tho smelter of tho Butto
and Boston Company. Loss about $250,000;
insurance, 80, 000. The intense heat of the
furnace caused the fire. Eight O'Hara fur
naces, six Bruckners and four reverberatory
fm naces were totally destroyed, and 500 men
are thrown out of employment.
Kiplet & Co.'s tableware factory on the
Southside was damaged by fire this morn
ing between 1 and a o'clock, to the extent of
about $5,000. The fire originated from a
stove on the third floor of the mold shop.
The loss, as, stated, is about $5,000, confined
chiefly to molds and stock in tho packing
room. There has been an epidemic of glass
house flies lately, this being aDout the sixth
within as many months.
YtSTKROAT afternoon a fire originated in
the cellar of tho Grant engine house, Alle
gheny, and an alarm from station 116 was
sent in. The material in tho cellar con
sisted of shavings, paper and other inflam
mable matter and ut first it looked as if the
building would be burned down. This was
averted by the work ot the fliemen and the
loss sustained will amount to about $100only.
BELIEVES THEBE'S A CO-BINE.
Minority Report of Hon. E. J.' aiotore of
Minnesota on the Wheat Qaestlon.
St. Paui., Minn., April 12. Hou. E. J.
Jloore, the Alliance member of the Legisla
tive Committee that has been for the past
year investigating the alleged wheat com
bine who refused to sign the report that
was prepared last week by the committee,
not agreeing with the findings therein, to
night made public his minority report.
He dissents from the findings ol the ma
jority of the committee, which were that
that there' was no real evidence of a com
bine or steal in the wheat business of this
State, although they were of
the opinion that there was some
manipulation of pricet in Chicago.
Mr. Moore holds that 'there is evidence of a
combine, but is unable to locate it or give
the names of any persons connected there
with, ile also thinks there is a big wheat
steal at Dulutu. He wants the investiga
tion continued until the persons interested
in the combine can be discovered.
An Architect Tarns Forger.
Omaha, April 12. Sidney Smith, ex
President of the-Western Association of
Architects, and a prominent builder, has
disappeared, and it has been discovered that
he has forged notes to the amount of $3,000.
It is expected that more forged paper will
turn up.
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iTodoEliE' swept.
Japan's Bamboo Bni'lt Capital Visited
by a Conflagration and
ONE HUNDRED LIVES ARE LOST.
Six Thousand Houses Destroyed in the'
Poorer Fart of the Cily.
0XLY ONE OP A SC0EE OP DISASTERS
Cut cable to the dispatch.
London, April 12. Advices from Japan
report that Tokio, the capital of Japan, has
been visited by a- most disastrous fire, in
volving great loss of life. The origin of the
fire is not announced, but it appears to have
spread with great rapidity in the older and
more poorly built section of the city, and
did not cease until about 6,000 houses were
destroyed, making many thousands of peo
ple homeless. The police and the fire de
partments of Tokio did excellent work, and
succeeded in preventing, extended damage
to the new and better built portions of the
capital.
The loss of life was chiefly due to the
efforts of the natives to save their effects.
Many of the people remained in their
dwellings until the last moment gathering
their belongings for flight and were
caught by the flames, which licked up the
unsubstantial structures like paper. The
firemen found great difficulty in fighting
the flames, owing to the half-crazed be
havior of tne people. The number of dead
Is probably 100.
Tokio, Japan's Greatest City.
Tokio, the capital of Japan, is a city of
about 1,250,000 of inhabitants, and, with its
suburbs, covers over 60 square miles of
ground. The more compact part of the city
covers about 30 square miles. It is in the
eastern part of the mam island of the Japa
nese group, the Island of Hondo, at the
head of the bay of Yeddo, and on both sides
of the Todagawa or Ogava river. The city
is built for the greater part on abroad plain,
and yet there are many little hills and de
pressions covered with bamboo and pine.
A great part of the area of the city is
taken up with gardens, temples and sacred
groves, and SirEdwin Arnold finds one of
Tokio's chief charms in the fact that one
may live in the city and yet have green
gardens and verdant scenery all around.
The city is also intersected by a network of
canals and cut up by numbers of moats.
Tokio is divided into three districts. Siro
the Imperial citadel .surrounded by stone
walls and a moat; Soto-Siro, "outside the
citadel," also surrounded by stone walls
and a moat; Midzi, ''outer paf-ts," beyond
which there is yet another system of
defenses.
The City Growing European In Style.
Outside of this latter district there are
miles and miles of built-up streets filled
with all manner of buildings, a great many
in the European style of architecture. The
city has changed very much in the last five
or ten years, and every year brings more
and greater changes. Old buildings are
torn down and new ones, generally of
European architecture 'and fire proof con
struction, are built in their place, and the
streets are made more regular and are much
widened. The streets of the modern Tokio
are regular, wide and remarkable clean.
There is an abundant supply of excellent
water, and the city is well policed and well
governed.
r There are still, however, large parts ot
Tokio where the buildings are ot the light
est, flimsiest construction, mere bamboo
shells, where the houses are crowded to
gether in a most compact mass, barely sepa
rated by the narrowest 'of streets and lanes.
It isinone of these sections where the fire oc
curred. t -
Tokio has been- the victim of great fires,
and on more than one occasion the city, or
"Yeddo, as it was known until a few years
ago, has been completely destroyed in this
way. In fact, the history of the city has
been one succession of 'earthquakes, fires,
typhoons, epidemics, floods and drouths.
Tokio's Last Great Fire.
The last great fire in Tokfo was on April
3, 1872, when a fire which started inside the
Castle circuit leaped wall and moat, and in
five hours swept tbe city clean to the bay.
Five thousand houses arid hundreds of
temples were destroyed, and all the foreign
hotels were left in ashes. But the city n as
rebuilt on a modern plan. Prof. Yaznakawa
worked out the mean path of fires in the
city from a date extending back 200 years,
and the authorities compelled tbe people in
certain districts to substitute tiles, zinc and
tin for shingles in roofing their houses. A
very efficient fire brigade was also organ
ized, and every possible precaution taken to
prevent disastrous fires.
In 1601 the entire city was left in ashes.
The great palace of the Sho-Gun, 1;he Gov
ernment ot Yeddo and of Eastern Japan,
was several times completely destroyed and
rebuilt, and was destroyed tne last time in
1863. The Mikado's palace, the Palace of
Nishi-Maru, was destroyed in 1873.
The City's Sad Disasters.
In 1657 the great fire of Mei-Eeki oc
curred, in which 500 mansions, 700 villas,
S50 temples and 1,200 streets of houses were
destroyed. About 107,046 persons are said
to have lost their lives in this fire. In 1668
the city was again almost completely de
stroyed, and also In 1702 and in 1703. The
greatest fire in Tokio or Yeddo in modern
times was in 1815, when several hundred
lives were lost.
In 1703 a great earthquake killed 37,000
people in Yeddo. An epidemic in 1773 car
ried off 190,000 of the city's population.
November 11. 1855, the greatest of Its eartn
quake disasters occurred, when 14,000
dwelling houses and more than 16,000 fire
proof '"go-downs" were thrown down, and
the reports of loss of life was about 100,000.
THE AMEEE DISTBTJSTS BU8SIA.
He Is Anxious to Fight It Oat Now Bather
Than to Walt ana Be Eulned.
Bombay, April 12. The Ameer in his
.paper to the "Noble Chiefs of Afghanis
tan," charges his people not to trust the
Russians if the latter pretend to have an in
tention to attack India through Persia, and
not through Afghanistan. "Such a pro
fession," he savs, "would be a mere blind.
It Russia once gets a foothold in Afghanis
tan the independence of the country will be
ended. Therefore, it is better to fight it
out to-day than to be ruined to-morrow in
the face of our protectors and friends."
It is stated that the document is a repro
duction of the speech made by the Ameer
at a recent criminal court, when three
Jamshidis were tried who had been cap
tured while crossing the frontier with an
offer of allegiance irom their Khan to Rus
sia. C0I0B ETJLED OUT.
Texas Republic ins Hold a Convention
Without an African Present.
Dallas, April 12. The first Republican
Convention without a colored man in it
that ever assembled in the south met in
this city this afternoon. There were 300
delegates, genteelly dressed, sober and
above the ordinary for snch gatherings in
personal appearance.
In calling the convention to order Jndge
A. R. Morton particularly called them Jef
ferson Republicans, in favor of the freedom
of all raoes with the white man in the lead
and on top. Colonel Conrad, a blue stock
ing Democrat, on behalf of the Mayor, elo
quently welcomed the delegates to Dallas,
intimating that as they proposed to stop
associating with Africans tncy were entitled
to the retpect of white people.
A State league Mill be organized, and
then the couvention will resolve into a mass
meeting and perhaps nominate a State
ticket and also send a contesting delegation
to Minneapolis.
J3l de'Glers May Resign.
St. PETEBSBTrEO, Apfil 12. It Js stated
'PW ADVKBTISEMKNT.S
A SCENE
THAT WILL GLADDEN
THE HEARTS OF PARENTS.
. A fitting representation of what EASTER SUNDAY
commemorates. v
Parents' Precious Treasures
Preparing to ascend the Chancel Steps to
Receive' Blessing.
PARENTS whose circumstances are limited, here is an
opportunity seldom offered to the public.
ATTENTION! 'BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING.
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Parents, please pause, and read this clause about Children's Spring
Clothing. We have them in the very lattest patterns and after all the nobby
designs of the season. The double-breasted and single-breasted coat suits
are all the "fad" this spring, and the very latest thing out. Our display of
these suits is an elegant one, varied, of course, by all the lovely designs
which have been so popular, and we would be pleased to quote prices to
you when you call. For a child to see them is delight; to wear them is the
sweetest ecstacy. Prices range
$2, $3, $4, $5 TO $1 2,
OUR STOCK OF BOYS' SUITS IS SIMPLY IMMENSE.
Embraces everything desirable in shade, texture, finish, style and shape, so
no one need go out without making a selection.
PRICES RANGE $5, $8, $10, $12.
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HATS.
Hats in every style and for
any style of man is the way we
sort up our stock of $i, $1.50,
$1.90, $2, $2.90 upward.
Don't buy a hat until you
have seen our stock, for in
quality, variety and' price we
can suit .you best
EISNER&PHILLIPS
COR. FIFTH AVENUE AND WOOD STREET.
apl3-TTT
that the illness of M. do Giers, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, who for some time past has
been suffering from erysipelas in the head
aggravated by a very painful ulcer in the
earr is resulting in permanent deafness, and
that his resignation from office is probable.
A C0WE0T FIGHT IN JSBSEY.
One Member of a Travellnc Tronpe Hnrls a
Touns Alan Against a Wall.
FLEMlSGTOjr, IT. J., April 1Z Two
weeks ago a troupe of cowboys gave an ex
hibition at Collinsville, Hunterdon county.
They got into a row with some of the local
young men. During tho light one of the
cowboys picked up Harry 'Beam, aged 22
years, and threw him so violently against a
partition that he was badly injured. It
was ijpt thought at first that he was danger
oilsly hurt, but he continued to grow worse
until yesterday, when he died.
The show had, meantime, left the town
and the authorities are now trying to get on
the track of the assailant.
A Saltan Way Lose Bit Head.
Zanzibah, April 12. A plot has been
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Everyone purchasing goods
in our Children's and Boys'
Department to the
AMOUNT OF $5.00
Will receive a regulation size
FOOTBALL
discovered to depose the Sultan of Zanzibar
in favor of a prince of Muscat It is report
ed that the British favor the deposition of
the Sultan in order to extend their protec
torate over Muscat.
STILL LAYING 05 HA BBS.
Tbe Reorganized Mormons 'Will Publish a
History to Sail at the Fair.
Independence, Mo., 'April 12. The
Mormon elders in attendance upon the in
ternational conterence of the Reorganized
Church ol Latter Day Saints again adminis
tered unto tbe sick to-day at the Mormon
temple by annointing with oil and the lay
ing on of hands. The number who desired
the treatment was fully as large as it was
yesterday. .
At the business session a resolution was
adopted providing for the publication of a
history of the church to be placed on sale at
the World's Fair.
OVfiltono hundred room rented In last
week's DISPATCH. 'Watch the Wednes
day, Saturday and Snnaay To Let "Booraaf
In the Cent-a-Word advertising columns.
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