n f 24 PAGES. paBg8ggr TT-ffia -n jrr sx' swxwwzrfc W 24 PAGES. FORTY SEVENTH TEAR DR, GREGG FINDS WHAT HE'S WORTH, The Will of His Millionaire Father Cuts Him Off With Ten Cottars. A HATTER OF CONSCIENCE. The Testator Thought That the Cov enanter Church Should Be COMPENSATED FOR ITS LOSS When His Minister Fon Left It for Another Field of Labor. He Estimated the Value at $150,000 All the Children of the Disinherited One Provided for While the Will of His Mother Contained a Provision for Him His Family Will Get a Quarter of a Million The Doctor Bather Ad mires HiB Father for Keeping: His Word How Other Heirs Fare Inter esting: Career of the Brooklyn Divine. The will of the late David Gregg,' of Allegheny, was filed yesterday. It is dated December 12, 1SS7, and the document ,is re markable for the amount of property be queathed to children and grandchildren. Two farms, one in Armstrong and another in Butler county, are left to the wife. The property at 520 and 522 "Wood street is riven to Edna M. McFarland, a grand daughter, since dead; to 3. A. Ster ritt Metheny, a grandson, the prop erty at 102 Liberty street; to D. Y. Metheny, another grandson, two houses and lots, 53 and GO Federal street, Allegheny; to John X. Gresg, a son, property at 506 Market and 29 and 30 Diamond street; to the children of J. N. Gregg, property at 6 Sixth avenue; to his son, Kev. David Gregg, Brooklyn, 510, which is explained by the fact that the iather did not approve ol the son leaving the Covenanter church; to the children of Bev. David Greg?, property at 962 and 964 Liberty street and 442 and 444 Wood; to his daughter Edna, 425, 441 and 443 Wood street, 47 and 47 Fourth avenue and 543 Smithfield street. The widow, Win. Gregg, J. ST. Gregg and James McKee are the executors. All About Church Affiliation. As noted above the testator provides lib erally for the children of his son, the Be v. Dr.David Grepg.of Brooklyn, but he cuts off Dr. Greg? himself with a bequest of flO, "to be paid on demand." Dr. Gregg is the pastor of the Lafayette avenue Presbyterian shurch in Brooklyn, having succeeded the late Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler in December, 1890. The trouble between father and son over financial matters dates back to the year 1887, when Dr. Gregg left the Scotch Cov enanter, or Beformed Presbyterian Church, to accept a call to the Park Street Congrega tional Church in Boston, whose orthodoxy has become so firmly established that the site upon which it stands is often referred to as "Brimstone Corner." The elder Gregg during his entire life was identified with the Scotch Covenanter Church, and at the time of his death, two weeks ago, was one of the elders of the Central Church, Alle gheny City. Found Out "What Be Wat Worth Often he had told his son that in case he left the Covenanter Church, the amount that he should otherwise bestow upon him as patrimony would go to the Covenanter Church to compensate it for the loss it would sustain in being deprived of his ser vices. This gave Dr. Gregg a chance to see what he was worth in his father's estima tion. He finds it to be about 5150,000, which, in the form of real estate, is be queathed by the millionaire to the church with which he was so long identified. The Kev. Dr. Gregg was born a Scotch Covenanter. He entered the ministry in 1870, at the age af 23. He became pastor of the Third Beformed Presbyterian Church in West Twenty-third street, Sew York, succeeding the Bev. Dr. J. B. W. Sloane. But he was too liberal to endure the re strictions imposed by this body. They are close Communists and will not permit their members to vote, or hold office under the United States Government, or to serve on juries, because the Creator is not men tioned in the Constitution. lie Refaurd Several Good Oilers. During Dr. Gregg's pastorate in Twenty third street, S"ew York, he received several flattering oners from Presbyterian and Con gregational churches in different parts of the country.bnt partly owing io his father's wishes he declined them all. For mure than 16 years he remained with the Third Beformed Presbyterian Church, Sew York, where he received 53,000, the highest salary paid to any clergyman in the denomination. After 13 years he edited Our Banner, the official organ of the church, and for some time he was Moderator of the General Assembly. But in 1887 he accepted the call of the Park Street Church in Boston at a salary of 55,000, and a ftr months afterward his father made his will Dr. Gregg stayed with the Park Street Church until the death of Dr. Cuyler, when he accepted a call to the vacant pulpit, in Brooklyn, at a salary of 510,000, although his Boston congregation offered him that sum to remain. Pr. Gregg n Novel Study. Ds. Gregg was seen last evening in his study in the tower of his church, at Brook lyn, by The Dispatch's Isew York corre spondent, who telegraphs that it is reached by a winding iron staircase, and looks out upon the abodes of more than 2,000,000 peo ple. It is an idea of Dr. Gregg's, and was fitted up for him by his parishioners last summer at an expense of 53,000. "I owe it to my sonship," said Dr. Gregg, "to say that I hope that the clause in my father's will refeiricg to me will not be mis construed. That set represented his con science, and his heart was as large as his conscience. With him it was a matter of ' principle. He wished me to remain in the lleformed Presbyterian Church, but I finally concluded to leave that body, because I con sidered that there was a wider field of use fulness for me elsewhere. That clause in the will may be looked upon as severe by those who did not know my father, but it was his way of doing what he thought was right." "Will you claim the ?10?" "Oh, that is a question that I bare not decided," laughed Dr. Gregg. Not a Very Bad rislnherit. The elder Gregg left ample provision for his son's children. There are tour of them, two daughters and two sons, one of whom, Robert, is a sophomore in Harvard Col lege. To the four children is left property amounting to 5150,000. During his life the aged millionaire gave his son, Dr. Grezg, property which now amounts to 575,000 in value, and also dictated to his wile, who has considerable property in her own right, that part of her will which re fers to her son, Dr. Gregg, and which pro vides that some of her most valuable prop erty shall go to him. Dr. Gregg told The Dispatch correspondent last night that he estimates that all told his family will re ceive from his parents 5250,000, so it is not "a very bad disinherit after all." It is understood that there was a division in his father's family when Dr. Gregg left the Covenanter Church, his mother and one of the children taking sides with him and the other two children taking sides with the iather. MR. EVARTS GOING BLIND. IKALEITEE TO WHITEtAW REID HE ADMITS THE FACT. His Son Also Sars the Ex-Senator Is loosing His Eyesight The Misfortune One or Three Tears' Growth He Is Now Resting HiiEjei. New York, April 16. Special Ex Senator William Maxwell Evarts, in de clining an invitation to the dinner given by the Chamber of Commerce to Minister Whitelaw Beid, after expressing hearty rec ognition of Mr. Beid's services, continues: "I regret however, to feel that the impaired condition of my eyesight precludes me from taking part in public assemblages." The reference in this letter is the first pub lic announcement that Mr. Evarts' eyesight has become so impaired that he must forego participation in public assemblages. Three years ago. when his sight began to fail, he went to Europe. After spending some time in Carlsbad Mr. Evarts returned and resumed his public duties. From that time, however, he gradually withdrew from public life, and when he retired from the Senate, last year, he went to a quiet resort in Northern New York and spent two months in rest and recuperation. On his return to New York he withdrew entirely from pnblic life. He ceased to frequent the Union and Union League Clubs, of which he is a member, and de clined invitations to public gatherings. Visitors at his house rarely, if ever, saw him. His son, Mr. Sherman Evarts, said to-night: "It is true that mv father's eye sight is failing him. He desired earnestly to attend the banquet of Mr. Beid to-night, and when he found he could not do so he felt that the real cause of his absence could alone suffice as an explanation. The affec tion of his eyes is incurable." BUN DOWN BY A BEP0BTEB. A Boston Newspaper Man Effects the Cap ture of a Green Goods Man. New Yobk, April 16. Special Chief Inspector C C. James and Inspector J. E. Jacobs, of the New York Postoffice, to-day arrested Oliver Goyett, alias E. Laffogue, a green goods man, in the saloon on the south east corner of Pulton and Nassau streets. Laffogue was arraigned before Commis sioner Shields and held in 52,500 for ex amination on Mouday. The case was worked up by a reporter from a Boston newspaper, in connection with the postoffice inspectors. The reporter answered the green goods men's circular, and came to this city, where he was met by the swindlers and taken to their den in Elizabeth street near Broome. He was given the customary , package of worthless green paper, but in this case the swindlers had a new adjunct to their game. One of them conducted the supposed dupe to a place on Elizabeth street cleverly fatted up as a branch of the Adams Express Com pany, where he deposited "green goods," receiving a receipt therefor. Then he was led to a saloon on Fulton street, near Nassau, and while paying over his good money to the green goods man the latter was arrested by the inspectors who had been shadowing the reporter all the time he was in the hands of the sharpers. HEIBS OF HEAVEN DIDN'T VOTE. A Uniqne Set ot Resolutions Adopted by the Topeka Presbytery. TOPEKA, KAN., April 16. Special The Topeka Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, which has just concluded a week's session, has followed the example of the Methodist State Conference and adopted resolutions condemning the State officers for failure to enforce the Prohibition law. After condoling with certain divines in their futile efforts to suppress joints, the Presby tery makes the following pointed remarks: The present administration has proven a glorious success In defying the law. Gov ernor Humphrey and Attorney General Ives we cannot too strongly condemn with those mishty slips of white paper that educate official conscience. Nor should we forget that lazy Christian temperance people also bear the curse of the drunkard's family. In this town we aie told that h l gained in the last election by a lew dozen votes, while more than a dozen holrs of heaven stayed at home, and this is a sample of Christians at large. When every pulpit and every pew doe its dutv. then and not till then trill prohibition prohibit. The temperance sen timent is a sleeping Samson. BT0BIES OF A JOHNSTOWN HEHD. ' He Is Said o Have Tied His Wife and a Vicions Cow by the Same Rope. John stown, April 16. Special The agents of the Humane Society have been busy to-day subpoenaing witnesses for the hearing next week of Albert Zitman, who is alleged to have treated his children and an old German living in his house ko outrage ously. New stories are told daily of his cruelty. Previous to this prosecution, it now transpires that the farmers in the neighborhood were afraid to say anything regarding the affair, Zitman being known as a man of vile temper. One of the stories now in circulation is about the treatment of his wife. He wanted to take one of his cows to a neighboring town, but after repeated trials was unable to manage the animal. As the story goes, he then tied one end of the rope to the cow's horns and the other around his wife's body. The animal dragged the woman through the bushes and over rocks, break ing her leg, and she would have been killed had the rope not broken. SUICIDE IN A .F0BEST. A Brownsville Mechanic Takes an Ingeni ous Plan to Kill Himseir. Connelmvixie, April 16. Special Several men and boys while cutting bean poles in Blackston's woods, a mile east of town this morning, made a ghastly find in the shape of the dead body of Martin E. Johns ton, a Brownsville blacksmith. He came here on a spree a few days ago and yester dav morning entered a hardware store and purchased a shotgun, alter wnicn ne started out of town and was seen no more until his dead body was found to-day. : After reaching a secluded spot he pre pared to end his earthly existence by tear ing his handkerchief, which he tied together and fastened to the trigger of the gun, mak ing a loop big enough to slip over the toe of bis shoe. It Is thought from the posi tion in which lie lay. that he then put the muzzle of the gun ' in his mouth and polled the string, which fired the gun and sent his soul into eternity. The flesh around his month was blackened and burned by powder, but otherwise his featnres were not much disfigured. His brains were scattered over the ground and bushes for 30 feet He was about 30 years old. He worked for Snowden & Hogg, the Browns ville coal operators. FOR A CARGO OF SLAVES. THE OWNER OF THE TAHITI PRO CURE ANOTHER STEAMER, It Has Been Fitted Tp for the Sam Traffio Six Hundred Gilbert Islanders to Go to Their Boons In the Coffee Fields Toe Contract. "SAN Fbancisco, April 16. Special While a search party is trying to find some trace of over 400 unfortunates who went down last September in the ill fated brig Tahiti at the mouth of the Gulf of California' the owners in New York fitted out another vessel for the same traffic in Gilbert Island slaves to supply Guatemala coffee planta tions. The vessel selected is the tramp steamer Montzerrat, which gained noteriety last year by carrying arms and ammunition to the Chilean insurgents and a cargo of general merchandise on which the con signees made a fortune. ' The Montzerrat sails Monday ostensibly for Nanaimo, British Columbia, but this trip is a mere blind. She will coal there, but will then shape a direct course to the Gilbert Islands, where she will take on board 600 islanders. Her true destination is proved by the fact that she takes, as passen gers the King of Butaritari and his party. There are immense profits in this "black birding," as it is called in the South seas, and the men who lost the Tahita hope to re coup on this new venture. There are agents now on the Gilbert Islands employed In in ducing the simple natives to sign the fatal contracts which consign them to aliving death in far-off coffee plantations. The contract requires them to work on the plantations for five years at from 52 to 55 per month. At the end of that time they are to be returned to their homes free of charge. It,is safe to say that out of 600 or more that will be stowed away in the stif ling hold and bunks of the Montzerrat not 20 will live to see the contract expire. The Gilbert Islanders are home-loving people and have no idea of what the contract they sign calls for, and this the agents carefully conceal from them, as otherwise they know that not one could be induced to jjo on board the steamer. The Montzerrat will fly the Hawaiian flag to avoid complications with American authorities. PATH'S NEPHEW TO BE70BK. He Turns Over a New Leaf and Er Joins His Family In the South. Mabtetta, Ga., April 16. Special Alfredo Barili, the nephew of Patti, who has returned to his wife to escape the vengeance of Dr. Horine, was seen to day. When asked about the scandal that connected his name with that of Mrs. Horine he said: "Oh, I cannot speak of that. I beg of yon not to mention it. I only know that I feel like a schoolboy that, has just been punished, and was glad the chastising was finished. I am happy, though," he said, "and Mrs. Barili is, too. I stood the separation from my family as long as possible, and left Kansas City Tuesday morning. I requested a friend to wire Mrs. Barili to meet nw'Vn Chattanooga, aqd she came, bring the chil dren with her. I am sorry, very sorry, for all that has been done, and shall remain with my family the rest of my davs. "This is a queer world," he suddenly re marked, as he pressed his hands again his head, "and many strange things happen, but when I look back over a few months of life I am unable to understand it. I am not half so black as I have been painted, and all will be right some day, I am sure. My time in the future willl be passed quietly, and will be devoted to my family." When asked if it was true that his aunt, Madame Patti-Nicolini, had disinherited him, he said: "I was never aware that I was to receive any of her fortune. I greatly respect my aunt, and should regret very much to lose her friend ship, but I am a man, and can provide for my family without assistance." NEW SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. A Sick Man Gashed With a ,Bazor and His Wounds Rubbed With Salt. New Yobk, April 16. Special. In the Tombs Court to-day, Vincenzo and Josefo Libertino, of Baxter street, we.re accused of torturing and swindling Paolos Sarsano. of West Sixty-ninth street. Jan uary 13 Sarsano was taken sick. He thought he was going to die. January 15, he says, the Libertino brothers called on him and said they were doctors. They offered to cure him for 5100. He paid them the money, Then they blindfolded him, placed him on the floor, and prayed over him. After that Josefo Libertino drew a razor and gashed Sarsano on the arms, back, chest and neck. They sprinkled salt on the cuts and rubbed the blood over his body. Next they poured a mixture of blood and Ipecac into a cup and made him drink it Then they disappeared, leaving Sarsano nearly dead. Detective English arrested the men yesterday morning at 5 o'clock. They fought desperately. Sarsano was in court with his neck and body covered rith scars. Justice Duffy held the Libfrtine brothers in 51,000 bail for a further exami nation to-morrow. Agent Lorlng, of the County Medical Society, said he expected to have several more victims present then. AN OLD LADT'B HEB0I8K She Shoulders a SlcK WomwAnd a Baby and Beieaes Them From Fire. Detboit, April 10. Special The fire department was called this afternoon to a small cottage with three rooms on the upper floor, the only stairway that leads above being from the rear. Adam Krown and his invalid wife and a little babe occupied the upper floor. The wife's mother, 60 years of age, was nursing her. The old lady had lain down in the front room for a nap. The sick woman got up out of her bed in the center room to make a cup of tea on the oil stove in the kitchen. The stove exploded and in a moment the kitchen was filled with smoke and fire. Screams awoke the old lady, who, while the fire was rapidly spreading to the stair way, ran into the "kitchen and, with almost superhuman effort, shouldered the fainting wife on her back. She returned to the center room and increased her burden by the little child, which lay sleeping in the bed, and carried both through the smoke and fire that had now reached the top ot the stairway, down the stairs in safety. DEATH OF JUDGE M'MICHJEL, He Expired at Midnight After an Illness or Only Two Bays. New Castle, April 17. Special After an illness of only two days, Judge John McMichael expired at midnight , , He was elected in 1884, and was one of the best and most favorably known law Judges in the State. PITTSBURG. SUNDAY APRIL 17. 1892. MAKING CIA SLATE. Bepublican leaders Hold a Confer ence in Philadelphia. PREPARING FOR THE CONTENTION Castor and McDowell Selected for Congress men at Large. CLOSE PBIHARIES IN OLD FAYETTE SPECIAL TELEQBAlf TO TRX DISPATCH.! ' Philadelphia, April 16. An all-day conference of city and State Bepublicans in parlor O of the Continental Hotel to-day, had under consideration a deal by which, at the Bepublican State Convention next Wednesday, George A, Castor is to receive the nomination for Congressman at Large, along with Alexander McDowell, of Mer cer, and an agreement for common action respecting an indorsement of the State dele gation for President Harrison was deferred until the arrival of Senator Quay, who is expected to-morrow. It is generally re garded that both General William "Lilly and Farmer Austin I. Taggart are,out of the question, but no bill of particulars was handed about in the conference. City Chairman Porter was early on the scene, and, curiously enough, the first per son he met with was Judge Harry White, whose arrival on an early train seemed to be known also to ex-Collector Dave Martin. The two adjourned to'the parlor with Judge White shortly before noon, Off and on dur ing the next few hours a number of -local politicians appeared in the charmed .circle, and the hotel oorridors were lively all day. Convention Preliminaries Avoided. General Lilly was not in sight Collector Cooper deemed it best for the Carbon can didate to avoid the convention prelimina ries. Farmer Taggart could not be induced to attend, but may be present at Mr. Qtfay's reception on Monday, if the Senator con cludes to have his conference here instead of at Harrisburg, as some appear to believe may be the case. "If anybody thinks we are not in dead earnest on George A. Castor for Congress man at Large they make a big mistake, said City Chairman Porter, to a group of confidential citv friends, in which some of the State Kepiibllcans had become apart "We want Castor, and intend to nominate him it the thing is possible." To all this Dave Martin nodded a smiling assent, but never said a word. It was openly and repeatedly stated to day that the coming together of so many city and State leaders in an informal con ference was not so much designed to test the pulse on prospective nominations as it was to engineer a trade by which to make sure Mr. Castor's nomination for Congress man at lance. Both Martin and Porter in sist that Philadelphia must have one ot the nominations. They will know definitely how far they can go in the premises after Mr. Quay's arrival. Philadelphia Gets Two Delegates. It was given out this evening that Phila delphia will secure two of the eight dele gates at large to the National Convention, and that the two will be William L. 2Ukins and Magistrate William B. Ahern, although there is some mention of ex-Mayor Fitler. The only other definite nomination is that of Henry W. Oliver, of Pittsburg, whom Senator Quay champions, and State 6nator "Willies; f linn, whom C. L. Magee especi allv indorses. General FranK Eeeder, of Easier, and Assistant'TIj<cdBtates Treasurer Waltelt are almost eertaitf to be named, and with Major Everett 'Warren, of Scranton, and S. A. Davenport, of Erie, the gentlemen named will likely comprise the eight dele gates at large to Minneapolis. The Philadelphia delegates, 58 in num ber, will leave for Harrisburg next Tuesdav morning, on a special train. Prominent in the list of delegates from the State are the following: C L. Magee, Senator Flinn, John A Bell, John Glipp, William MoCleary and Vankirk Scott, tor Allegheny; District Attorney Martin F. Bell, of Blair: Sam McCamant, of the Tyrone end of Blair; Cyrus Elder, so licitor of the Cambria Iron Company at Johnstown; H. H. Mallln, County Chairman of Cameron: E. B. Leisenrinz and Jed J. Hollenbeclc, of Carbon; George B. Chambers and John H. Marshall, of Chester; George B. Lindsoy, William Kane, Albert Green and Robert M. Newhard, whom Congress man Robinson's convention selected for Delaware; Samuel ADavenport and Captain G. F. Walther, of Erie; Alexander Stewart, the son of Judge John Stewart, and A.Nevin Pomeroy, of Franklin; Howard E. Butz, of the Huntingdon Globe; ex-Senator Morgan B. Williams, Bepresentativo E. A Coray, and Dr. R. B. Brunaage, of Luzerne; Joe Logan, of the Milton MiUonian, and J. E. Billingsley, of Washington. The platform will be prepared by Senator Quay and Collector Cooper, conjointly, and it will declare against free coinage of silver, -reassert confidence in the McKinley tariff bill, and indorse the Harrison administra tion. Instructions for the delecates at large will be a matter for consideration during the next day or two. E0CKWELL GAINING SOMEWHAT In HU Strnggle to Retain a Seat in the Present Congress. Washington, April 16. The Noyes versus Bockwell election contest has now displaced almost all other topics of general interest in the House of Bepresentatives. Mr. Bockwell is working earnestly for him self, and has the assistance of a considerable number of his party associates. Mr. O'Fer rall, of Virginia, and other members of the Elections Committee are at work on the other side. There is hardly any question that Mr. Bockwell has gained strength dur ing the last week, and there are a number of Democratic members who expressed the opinion that he will retain bis seat. There was some talk to the effect that a consider able nnmber of Democrats would refrain from voting, and would in this way break a quorum and prevent the nnseating of Mr. Bockwell, but a number of Democrats who will support Mr. Bockwell have dis countenanced any movement ot this sort. All the indications point to an interesting fight when the case is taken up. Chairman O'Ferrall said to-day that he had given notice of his intention to call up the case on Tuesday, and that he expected to do so whether the naval bill is out of the way or not Mr. O'Ferrall rather expects that the question of consideration will be raised against his motion, and that will be antagonized with an appropriation, bill. This move indirectly would make an issue against the report of the majority of the Elections Committee. The members of the Elections Committee will very generally make speeches on the case, and Mr. Lock wood, of New York, one of the committee, speaking for Noyes, will meet Mr. Bellows, of New York, who will support Bockwell. One rather significant indication of the gain made by Mr. Bockwell is the fact that nearly all the Democrats who have thus far paired in the case have paired on the side of Mr. Bockwell District Delegates Selected. Philadelphia, April 16. At a meeting to-day of the conferees of the Sixth Congres sional district, ex-Judge Butler, of Chester, and Enos Verlender, of Delaware county, were chosen as delegates to the Bepublican National Convention. They gonninstruc ted. The Bepreseoativa conterees of the Eighth Congressional district met at Eas ton, and M. 0. Luctenbach and William H. Stroh were unanimously chosen National delegates. , FAYETTE'S PBIMABHS CLOSE. , . Just Now Hard to Tell Who Has Really Come Out Ahead. TJniontown, April 16. Special The Bepublican primaries to-day were warmly contested. The chief fight was over the Sheriffalty and Assembly ticket It is difficult with the meager returns at band to forecast the result of the Sheriffalty con test Samuel M. Graham, of .Belle Vernon, is safely nominated for Assembly, having carries au tne districts neara irom. jonn S. Carroll, of Dunbar, is also likelr chosen as one of the candidates for.Assembly. The third Assembly candidate will be either GeorgeW -Campbell, of Springfield, or George M. Hosack, of TJniontown, the lat ter being a decided Quay man. Bobert Hopwood will receive the instructions for Congress, and it is likely that the delegates to the State Convention will be instructed for Harrison. LAST BAILIES IK HEW 0BLEANS. The Oppoilnc Democrat I o Factions Have Rival Meetings and Parades. New Orleans, April 16. The last grand Democratic rallies of the campaign in this city were held to-night by the opposing factions. Those favoring the State ticket headed by 8. D. McEnery for Governor, and the municipal ticket, headed by Joe Fitzpatrick for Mayor, held their meeting in Lafayette Square. There were several thousand voters in attendance, and half a dozen speeches were made. A grand torch light parade closed the demonstration at midnight The citizens favoring the municipal headed by Hon. Joseph A. Shakespeare for Mayor (present incumbent), held a meeting on Canal street, where speeches were made, followed by a torchlight procession. The McEnery-Fitzpatrlck crowd outnumbered the other by more than two to one. Wisconsin Instructions for Cleveland. Milwaukee, Wis., April 16. Door, Trempealeau and Chippewa County Demo cratic Conventions to-day instrncted their delegates to the State Convention to vote for Cleveland delegates to the National Democratic Convention. TWO BIG BANQUETS. Ex-Minister Whitelaw Beid Welcomed by the New York Chamber or Commerce Secretary Noble Honored by a College Fraternity Ex-Governor Beave Pre sides. New York, April 16. Whitelaw Beid to-night, at Delmonico's, received the wel come of the representatives of the commer cial interests of the United States, the mem bers of the Chamber of Commerce. Chair man Charles S. Smith said in the opening speech: During the century and a quart.r of exist ence of the Chamber of Commerce its honor ary membership has been conferred but 21 timet. It is an American merchant's patent of nobility the "Iron Cross" of American commerce. This marked expression of the obligation of the Chamber to Mr. Beid was conferred upon him because he has con ducted his nigh office with conspicuous ability and fidelity to the interests or Amer ican commerce. Mr. Beid says: ., If there has been any success at the Paris Legation in the past three years to warrant this great kindness of the press and this dis tinguished honor your Chamber now be stows, it is due, first of ally-to Benjamin Har rison and James G.Blalne. They deter mined their policy and stuck to it They gave me their instructions, and then gave n tinnnaaHAnttin -UMiflitaltfM. anH onnnnvf and leit me a free hand. The man whoV,ohvicts whs stayed, but they continued to work, has no good work in him. Speaking on "Modern Diplomacy," Gen eral Horace Porter remarked: Mr. Beid was eminently successful in se curing France as the first nation to ratify our international copyright act. and the first nation to reduce the prohibitory duty on pork: In both Instances he was success ful in securing Justice for the products of the pen. Simultaneous with the Beid banquet, Secretary of the Interior Noble was hon ored by another, tendered by the Beta Theta Phi Fraternity at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor James A. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, presided. In response to the toast "Our Guest," Secretary Noble said: The patriotism that blazes forth in a storm to defend the country from an armed assault, is no worthier than that good will that in silent and brooding care has made the land worth saving. This society is one of the great corps in the army of good citi zens that is carrying forward the standard of pure and wise legislation, elevated and patriotic execution of the laws and their just interpretation by a pure minded and in corruptible judiciary. CABHENCITA IN A NEW BOLE. The Danoer Named as Co-Respondent in a Philadelphia Divorce Case. Philadelphia, Aprill6. Special A divorce suit with the Spanish dancer Car mencita as co-respondent has been brought by Mrs. Josephine Camponi against her husband, Juan, of the firm of F. Miranda & Co., tobacco merchants, No. 222 Pearl street In addition to Carmen clta being named in the bill there was an "unknown co-respondent," who now turns out to be Valoria Martin, of 138 Fifth street, where it is alleged Camponi has fitted up handsome apartments, and where he re sides with the woman as Mr. and Mrs. Mar tin. Carmencita's friends were indignant at her name being involved in the case, and concealed the facts until Tuesday night last, when the last hearing was had before Beferee Thomas Nolan. As soon as the un known co-respondent was revealed, the case was shifted onto her shoulders, and an effort was made to shield Carmencita. PAYING LICENSE AS FINE& Kansas city Officials in Trouble for Not En forcing the Prohibition Law. Topeka, April 16. Thomas Dever, of Junction City, presented a petition to At torney General Ives to-day, signed by 69 taxpayers, asking that steps be taken in the Supreme Court to onst the Mayor, the mem- Ders ot the Cilty uouncii ana an tne ponce officers and appoint a Board of Police Com missioners. The petition recites that at the last elec tion four members of the Council, two con stables and a Justice of the Peace were elected on an Issue demanding that fines should be collected from the "jointists." These men are brought up regularly and "fined," and the attempt will be made to oust the officers on the ground that they do not attempt to enforce the law which they have sworn to maintain. FAVA ORDERED BACK. The Italian Minister Is to Resume His Duties at Washington. Eoiie, April 16. Baron Fava has re celyed orders to return to his post at the Italian Legation at Washington. Flood Sufferers Honseajn Tents. Columbus, MISS., April 16. Four hun dred Government tents were received here to-day, consigned to the Mayor, who is dis tributing them to those made homeless by the recent flood. The Anglesea Fiend Arrested. Madrid, April 16. A man named Al sina, who is identified as the assassin who took Father Martin's life 'in the village church, at Anglesea! has been arrested. CONYICTS IN REVOLT Make a Bold, Determined Effort to Escape From a State Prison. y LED -ET A BRAYEDNKO ARTIST, Thirty InsanCriminals Wage a -""Fight for liberty. Bitter OVERCOME AT LAST .BI THE USE OP HOSE ISFECXIL TKLXOAAK TO THX DISPATCH. Auburn. N. Y., April 16. A general uprising of the inmates of one of the wards in the State asylum for insane criminals in this city took place yesterday. The great est efforts have been made by the asylum officials to keep the matter a close secret, and it was only this afternoon that the facts leaked out Ward 6 in the asylum,T"-ntainj 57 pa tients, among whom are ' the most desperate criminals in u d-CTumer-ous attempts have been pre "; O i- this ward to overpower the atttyf Jo Pj, effect an escape, and on nearly every - '1. slon the ringleader of the revolt has beCjh-VC t ! -T ,T . .i7 Edward Meredith. It is claimed that Mere dith gained admission to the asylum by feigning insanity to escape the arduous la bor of prison routine. He is known as a shrewd rascal, having gained notoriety and a long sentence in State prison by bunkoing Phil Daly, of New York City, out of a large sum of money. Under a Determined Leader. It was Merideth who planned the. revolt of yesterday. Head Attendant Lucie, who was in charge of the ward, was approached by Meredith, who complained of a severe headache. The convict asked for some bay rum and followed Lucia into an adjoining room where the rum was kept locked in a chest When the attendant stopped to insert the keys Mere dith pulled out a slungshot which he had kept concealed in his clothing and dealt Lucie a terrific blow in the back of the neck, rendering him unconscious. The weapon used was a large stone which had been se creted for the purpose, and which had been inserted in one of his stockings, making on ugly instrument At the moment the blow was strcck a number of Meredith's associates who weie in the secret rushed into the room together, and they pillaged the chest of the dozen razors with which the attendants shave the convicts weekly. With these formidable weapons and a number of slung shots sim ilar to the one carried by Meredith, 30 of the inmates ot the ward charged upon the attendants, and made a determined dash for liberty. An Uproar Raised in a Moment. In an instant the entire ward was in an uproar. The men who were not aware of the plot to escape were thrown into the greatest excitement, and joined in the at tack upon the asylum officials. At the first outbreak by Meredith the alarm had been given throughout the asylum, and in a short time 25 physicians, attendants, guards and laborers at work in the building appeared upon the scene. For. 30 minutes pandemonium reigned. The officers grjeped anything within their reach for weapons, and bravely undertook to quell- the disturbance. A number of large oak chairs standing in the corridors were seized and broken over the heads of he rebellious convicts. Pieces of the chairs were nicked nn by other officers, who I used them to good advantage in the hand-to- hand fight The mad rush of the demoniacal brandish their razors and threaten the life of any one who dared to arrest their prog ress. " Many of the convicts lay upon the floor, bruised and bleeding from wounds received in the melee, but those who were uninjured refused to surrender. The Rebellion Subdued,CTlth Water. The ringleaders of the ruction were finally forced from the hall Into au adjoining room, where a number of the attendants rushed up with a line ot hose from a fire plug, and a huge stream of water was turned upon the rebels. This heroic treatment quickly cooled their ardor and the backbone of the revolt was broken. The .convicts quickly capitulated, laid down their weapons add returned peni tently to their cells. Head Attendant Lu cie is the most seriously injured of the asylum officials. He soon recovered from the effects of the blows at the beginning ot the fracas and joined in the fight until its termination. During that time he received several other blows on the head, beside a long razor cut above the left ear. The up rising is alleged to be due to the aversion to the convicts to the proposed removal of Mattewan, which will take place April 25 DESPERATE CONVICTS AT BAY. Over One Hundred of Them Refuse to Work in Southern Coal Mines Starvation Con sidered the Only Meant of Bringing Them to Terms. CHATTANOOGA, April 16. Special One hundred and twenty-five desperate criminals refuse to work and threaten to murder the guards and escape at the Georgia convict camp on Look out Mountain, 16 miles south of Chat tanooga. From a passenger who came up on the Chattanooga Southern Bailroad from Eaglecliff this morning reporters learned 'of a mutiny of the convicts atSurham, the coal mining headquarters of the Chicicamauga Coal and Iron Company. The mutiny, he said, broke out yesterday. Over 125 convicts are employed on the mountain at the coal mines. They utterly refuse to work. They threaten to murder the guards and escape. Messages were Iiassing through the telegraph office here ast night and this morning to Governor Northen, in Atlanta, for instructions about the matter. It is probable that the keeper of the penitentiary will come here to go to the camp. It is stated that a good portion of the guards at the camp at the foot of the moun tain had gone to the top of the mountain to assist the guards there. This made the force 25 or 30 men, but they would be but a handful with the desperate criminals. There are grave fears lest there be a large number killed in case of a conflict. The convicts are in the house in which they sleep, and to starve them may be the only wav in which thejr can be subdued. The leaders in the mutiny are very stub born, and say they will Vll be killed before they will go to work again. Up to mid night to-night nothing further can be learned here, as the camp is seven miles from a railroad station. A bloody conflict may occur at any moment 8TBANGE B0HANCE UNVEILED. ' A Young Man's Effoils t Learn His Identity Crowned by Success. Atlanta, Ga., April 16. Special A young man called upon Chief Detective Wright a few days ago and said: "I want to find out who I am." He had a Bible, old and worn, and In It was written: "George P. Stone, born in Atlanta, Ga., May 25, 1872," and in another place, "I have re ceived news which will cause my death." The detectives have unraveled a strange story. About 22 years ago Miss Harriett N. Benton, of South Carolina, was about to be married to a young man named Pierce, but her father became financially embarrassed, and she consented, to marry Mr. George f Stone, a wealthy old man who lived in Florida. Be died soon afterward. Mrs. Stone gave birth to a boy and became a teacher in Atlanta. Her first lover re newed his suit, and she trave him money to complete his studies la dentistry in Phila delphia, where he fell in love with another lady and married her. Mrs. Stone, when she received the news, fell in a faint The mysterious lines in the yonng man's Bible are attributed to this, as he was the baby who was born after Mrs. Stone came to Atlanta Mrs. Stone died shortly after this, and the baby was taken to the Baptist Orphans' Home, and adopted by Bev. W. M. Montgomery, who died three years ago. HARNESSING NIAGARA. A COMPANY OF CANADIANS ORGAN. IZED TO USE ITS POWER. Bill to Authorize a Lone Lease Introduced in the Legislature of Ontario The Rental Starts at 835,000 a Tear The Capital 83,000,000. Niagara Falls, April 16. Special Another great power project which will aid in developing the commercial interests of Buffalo, Niagara Falls and the Dominion of Canada has been started, A bill has been L introduced in the Legislature of Ontario -Vi h will create the Canadian Niasrara r.l9k.l JLt !!,!. pt of the great cataract on the Canadian - rrSW VAVUIW IVW WV , 1.4UU UH side of the river. Their license will be Irrevocable and they will take the necessary water from the river between the head of Cedar Island and the main land south. The works of the com pany will be erected near the foot of the high bluff between the Carmelite Monastery and the rear of the Table Bock House. The space occupied by the company will be 1,200 feet long and 100 feet in width. The com pany will have the right to excavate tunnels to discharge the water from the "power house into the gorge below the Horse Shoe Fall. For the first ten years the yearly rental is to be 525,000, the rent to be computed from May 1, 1892. The rental thereafter in creases each year until at the end of the twentieth year it reaches $35,000, at which rate it is to be continued. The company undertakes to begin the work on or before May 1, 1897, and to have proceeded so far that on November 1, 1898, they will have completed water connections for the de velopment of 25,009 horse power. The capital stock is to be ?3,000,000 divided into shares of $100 each. AN EXCITING RACE AT SEA. The Normannla Brats the Swift Etrnria by Only a Few Minutes. New York, April 16. Special The twin-screw steamer Normannia finished her first voyage of the season, to-day, by demonstrating that two propellers are better than one, even though that one churns under the counter of the finest single-screw racer, the swift Etrnria. The Normannia came from Hambure and f the Etruria from Liverpool. The big ships saw notning or eacn otner until about 8 o'clock this morning, when the Normannia materialized over the bow of the Etruria apparently six or eight miles ahead. Speed bells were Immediately set j'ngling on both ships. There were over 1,000 passengers on eacn, and the most of them understood there was a race on. That both vessels wererun at top speed is shown by their time from Fire Island to Sandy Hook lightship. This last lap of ocean racers is accounted about 35 land miles, which the Etruria covered in one hour and a half. The Normannia beat this time by only a few minutes. The test showed that the Normannia is not equal to the Furst Bismarck as a flyer, but is a trifle better than the Etruria. BEATING EMPLOYES DISCONTENTED. They Object to Their Working Time Being Cut to Four Bays a Week. New York, April 161 Special There have been reports of discontent among the employes of the Beading Bailroad system, the alleged ground being that on the Le high Valley and Jersey Central branches the force was being reduced and the nnmber of trains diminished, and that the men were allowed to make only four days of working time a week. S. M. Williams, Controller of the Beading Bailroad sys tem, said to-day he had heard no complaints. On April i they had taken nine trains from the regular service on the Lehigh Valley branch, but that was on account ot the usual reduction at this time of the year when bus iness was slack. Mr. Williams called one of the yardmen into his office and asked him if he had heard any complaints among the men. "Yes," said he, "I heard the switch engineers say ing you intend to shut down on the work to four days a week, and they are grumbling about at" Mr. Williams said there was no truth in this, and that the company does not intend to take any such step. THE DISPATCH DIBECI0BY. Contents or the Issue Classified for the Con venience of the Reader. The issue of The Dispatcu to-day consists of 24 cages teade up in two parts. The cable, telegraphic and local news occupies the hulk of the first nine nazes. The class news and the literary features will be found most readily by reference to the table given belowi Page 9. Tna News or EUBOPX. IlLMIGRASTS TOE PiTTSBUItO. Page 10. The Music World C. W. S. TAXI-JO BaciielOhs Edward Von Hartmann. Tele chin am an 's tjtJECE..... Consul Bedloe, JlDKDEB BY POISON. PXOrLIXO JtAES. Page 11. Tot Wants, to lets. FobSalis. Real estate and miscellaneous notices. Page 13. KewsotSociett. Tnx GKA-iD Aiurr. Gossip or the Guard. Educational News. Page 13. DTsrsrsiA and Piety Bessie Bramble IssmEWAsniNOTOX Homes F. G. C. Poisojt ik CAUSED Facrrs Ellen Richards Costumes roB THE Boys Ada Bache-Cone Page 1. AREvrEWOFSro'aTS JohnD. Frlnrla Stobies off Easteb ....Marshall Wilder Page 15. Interviews With Presidents.. .T. C. Crawford AMATECB SrOBTDIO NEWS. SCIENTIFIC GOSSIP. Page 10. Tones or the Time W. G. Kanfmann Easteb Meditations. ...George Henry Thurston Page IT. Among the Moonshiners .L. D. Bancroft Story or the Bsbyl Coronet Conaa Doyle Pago 18. A Jury or Our Peers G. C. J. An Idea of Space Camllle Flammarion Late educational News. Page 10. Winter in Vermont Budyard Kipling Woodland Monarch O.M. Sanford AN Historic Erupbion Cyrus C. Adams Children or Nature Edgar L. Wakeman Page 20. Venezuela's Revolution Horace J. Bill ON Easter MornDiO Bev. George Hodges A Great Busines Block. Business Cards. I age 21. ADASktothePOLE Herbert D. Ward Munich's Puppet how Blchard Gottbell New Games at Marbles Benjamin Northrop How to Catch Buos Prof. Biley Tage 22. In A Novelist's Den Frank G. Carpenter Chin Chin Battles Bob Burdette bTEOLLINO OVER ElO Fannie B. Ward Page 23. secret Societies. The market ItErosTS. oil News. . BcsanB. Anthony Talks. t Page 24. Gossip or the Stage. Late News in Brief. Amusement Notices, FIVE CENTS. FOX AWAITS A FEIEND Before He Wifl Meet Borrowe to Jalk About That Dnel Tliat May UEVEE BE FOUGHT AFTEE ALIV Milbant Gives Out Some letters to ProY8 Hia Declarations. i wimss wira a defectitj hemoex fBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. LONDON, April 16. CopyrigTd. Tha present status of what "began as the Dray ton-Borrowe affair, and ha3 now become temporarily a matter between Borrowe oa one side and Edward Fox and Colonel Tom Ochiltree on the other, remains as it has been since the arrival of Borrowe and Mil bank, Thursday morning. Borrowe has not yet met Ochiltree, because that gentleman is in Paris, and he has not met Fox, because Fox desires a friend who is now out of town for the Easter holidays to act for him. The prospective affair between Milbank and the Duo de Morny, with regard to tha alleged garbling of the former's note to the latter, also remains in statu quo, as Mil bank has not yet visited Paris. Milbank refuses to state whether he will challenge) de Moray or not He says he has been so misquoted by all the S"ew York newspapers, with the exception of the Sim and Herald, that he will not proceed in the matter until he has de Moray's version of the af fair. Milbank and Borrowe will only remain in Europe two or three weeks, and will then return to New York, where Milbank pro poses to have something to say to tha editors of the two newspapers who have, he says, vilified him most unjustly and brutally. Slllbank's Friends Very Indignant. The English and American friends ol Milbank, who is very well known in tho American colonies of both Loudon and Paris, are indignant over his treatment by a part ot ths American press. No one in Europe has a higher reputation among his friends, as a gentleman and a man of abso lute integrity, than Milbank. His only crime, if it be a crime, is that he has been loyal to his friend Borrowe; but Milbank is the sort of man who, having put his hand to the plow, does not turn back. He has im plicit confidence in Borrowe, and declares that he will stick to him until the contro versy Is settled one way or another. It is worth while noting, too, that Mil bank remains neutral with regard to the question between Borrowe and Fox and Ochiltree, as to whether the latter was authorized to publish the correspondence) concerning the duel that did not occur. Borrowe told The Dispatch correspond ent, in whose presence Fox was given per mission to make the letters public in a cer tain contingency, that the idea he (Bor rowe) intended to convey was that the letter should not be published until Dray ton had made a public statement This Fox absolutely denies. Documents to Snpport a Claim. To support his contention that Rowland B. Hazard was one of the subscribing wit nesses to the agreement whereby Drayton accepted money as the price of his wounded honor, which has been denied since Mil bank and Borrowe .left New York, Mil bank this evening gave The Dispatch correspondent the following letters for pub lication: 23 West Seventeenth street, 1 APRIL-. J Mr. H. Vane Milbank presents his compli ments to Mr. Hazard, and. acting on tho pare orifrJI, Aj,P-;rrowe, would be very nch obliged if I.S would inform him if It is tv,. that Mr. Hazard denies that the fact stated in the Herald of yesterday, that his (Mr. Hazard's) name as a subscribing witness to the agreement entered into between 3ir. and Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton, dated October 23, 1891. in which it is asreed that Mrs. J. Cole man Drayton retain half her income of $12,000 the other half for the maintenance of tha children, $5,000 for Mr. J. Coleman Dray ton, Mr. J. Coleman Drayton to keep up tha establishment, and in the event of the terms of the agreement being broken the control of the $13,-00 to pass to Mr. J. Coleman Dray ton, and also the care of the children. An. early answer will much oblige. Mr. Hazard Rather Non-CommlttaL Lawyers' Club, Equitable Building, 1.0 Broadway. ( Mr. Rowland K. Hazard presents his com pliments to Mr. H. Vane Milbanlr, and begs to say in reply to bis note of this date that; Mr. Hazard has not denied that his signa ture was attached as a witness to a paper ex ecuted by the person referred to in Sir. Mil bank's note and others, dated about October 23, 1S01. Mr. Hazard has neither the original nor any copy of the paper, but his recollec tion of it does not agree with Mr. Milbank's version of it as printed in tho New Torlc Herald, either a3 toit3 purport or its con tents. 23 West Sevententh Street. ) April 1, 1302. ( Mr. H. Vane Milbank presents his compli ments to Mr. IS. Ii. Hazard, and begs to thank him for his answer to Mr. Milbank's letter corroborating Mr. Milbank's state ment that Mr. Hazard was a witness to the agreement entered into between Mr. and Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton, dated October 23, 189L Milbank says that, not having received an answer to this last note, he feels justified in believing that Hazard did sign the agree ment JEALOUSY, WHISKY AHD A GTO. The Crack Combination Gets Up a SInrdetf and Suicide at Dayton. Dayton, April 16. Special This af ternoon John Geist, aged 40, shot and killed his wife, and then, turning his revolver on himself, sent a bullet through his heart. The cause of the tragedy was whisky and ' jealousy. Geist came here from Salem, this county, where his parents are well-to-do. His wife's parents are wealthy farmers of Middletown. Both were industrious people and Geist iolloired carpentering. To-day, when he drew $20, he went home and asked his wife to go to market with him, where they made purchases. In the afternoon Geist took several drinks at a neighboring saloon, and got a sevolver, which he con cealed in his pocket At 3 o'clock be went home and entered the side door, which he locked behind him. Miss Edith Huffman had called on his wife while Geist was absent When he saw the visitor he lav down on the lounge, but sud denly a fiendish impulse seized him, and ho arose, drew the revolver from his pocket and started toward his wife. Miss Huffman fled to a livery stable aud gave the alarm. Mrs; Geist tried to follow, but her husband shot her in the back, the ball entering her heart He then shot himself, and before anyone could reach the house both were dead. Geist had accused his wife of accom panying another woman to meet men on tha sly. ALICE MITCHELL'S IHSANITY. Her Attorney in little Washington LooklDg Up Her Farollj History. "Washington, Pa., April l& Special A representative of Miss Alice Mitchell, who . is confined in the jail at Memphis, charged with the murder of Miss Freda Ward, came to this county to ascertain whether or not any insanity exists among -sj the relatives of Miss Mitchell. Several relatives were summoned before Attorney "Wilev, of this place, and exam ined. As yet the result of this hearing has not been announced, aud the attorney has . returned to his home. He is endeavoring to work the insanity dodge in an effort told secure the pardon of the young murderes , M m Lc. M.hi&&&&8teJ&ji$&ai&BitB nJ'' SW1,"T & KbBHBHnHUHHnMHBWMMW&ttnUHHHHHHtfH mi J"!"l"f""!""3ff:ga-tSk-S l -&S wciu3gSiggt5"""S"i5S""Ssii l.fiXxKsSeS&i9iS$ -. -t- &;
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