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BUSTLING
BOOMS
AT THE CAPITAL
Only Three Candidates to
Rame, "but the Workers
Are Out in Force.
FOE THE SUPKEME BENCH
Judge Dean Is Thought to Be the
Slated Man, but the Others
ARE FIGHTING TO THE LAST.
Many of the Old-Time Leaders Already on
the Battle Ground.
Major McDowell the Only One Who Is
Thought to Have a Sure Cinch The
Platform Already Written, but No
body Is Thinking of It Quay Declares
He Will Keep Hands Off Everything
Except National Politics Mr. Magee
Says the Delegates Will Be Instructed
for Harrison and the Convention Will
Indorse the President A Lively Con
vention in Fayette County.
rpPZCIAI. TELEGBAII TO THE DISFATCn.1
Habkisbukg, April 18. There can only
be two Congressmen at large and one candi
date for Supremo Judge nominated in
Wednesday's convention, but there are a
good many bustling booms here already,
and more on the way. The Capitol Park
trees are studded with placards announcing
the headquarters of would-be judges. Dean,
Sadler and Clayton at the Lochiel Hotel,
while J. W. Roy, ex-Chairman Andrews
and Dr. Flood are nursing Judge Hender
son's boom without placards, .and Captain
Taylor and Senator Watson that-is-to-be.
from Indiana, are distributing Grand Army
literature in favor of Judge Harry White.
Joe Scranton has Judge Archibald's canvass
in charge.
The six candidates for the one judgeship
are being groomed at the same hotel (the
Lochiel), and the wicked are asking
whether it was a mere coincidence that
Quay should be stopping at the same house,
as Major McDowell is understood to he
slated for odc of the places on the ticket for
Congressman at large. He is not here yet,
nor are any of his heelers, but Showalter, of
Butler, who would like to be slated but is
afraid he is not, came in early this morn
ing, and is shaking hands with everybody.
He won't miss a chance to buttonhole a
delegate if he can help it
Candidates In the Usual Tores.
General Lilly is also here nursing his
own boom, and David Martin brought the
Castor boom up with him on the 11:50 train.
Taggart is here, and his boom will come
when the country delegates do.
Considering that it is only Monday night,
the candidates are on hand in usual force,
and the friends of each declare that their
candidate is sure to win, and quote Frank
Willing Leach's assertion that this is to be
a people's convention, "no bossing in it"
For the first night there are a good many
of the old-time party leaders here. General
Frank Reeder, ofEaston, and ex-Chairman
Andrews, of Crawford, came up on the 11:50
train from Philadelphia, along with David
Martin, Magistrate Ahern, Frank Willing
Leach, Eepresentative Keyser, Joseph Hud
dell and others.
The afternoon trainfrom the West brought
ex-Senator Rutan and Senator Neeb from
Allegheny, and ex-Speaker Hewitt and
Senator John Lemon, of Blair. Ex-Senator
Allen and Speaker Thompson, of War
ren, and Chief Senate Clerk Ed. Smiley, of
Venango, came on the early morning train.
The Big Men Coming in Rapidly.
Galusha A. Grow, of Susquehanna, and
Joe Scranton and Chairman Watres, of
Lackawanna, arrived over the Northern
Central road this afternoon, and Quay,
Cooper and Leeds arrived from Philadel
phia this evening.
There won't be as many delegates by
nearly 200 as were in the Democratic con
vention last week, but it looks as if the
workers for the numerous candidates would
more than make up any deficiency. If the
Republican politicians do not run the town
for the next two days all present signs are
at fault
If one undertook to forecast the result of
the convention from the talk he hears
around the hotels he wonld have a chance
to do some lively truessing. There is only
one place conceded, that ot Major Mc
Dowell for Congressman at Large.
To an unprejudiced observer Judge Dean
wonld seem to be in the lead for the nom
ination for Supreme Judge, hut the friends
ol the other five candidates declare very
loudly that the unprejudiced observer
doesn't know anything about it, and perhaps
he does not
No Telling What Trading Will Do.
Apparently, David Martin and the Phil
adelphia delegation are in earnest in their
support of Castor for Congressman, and are
ready to trade ith anybody on the Judge
ship to get votes for their candidate. If
they continue of this mind to the end,
there is no telling where the nomination
will land. Castor has no strength outside
of Philadelphia, except what can be
secured by a trade, and Philadelphia's 58
votes won't nominate. The matter of
locality alone, however, favors Dean, as the
two Congressmen at Large will be taken from
the extreme ends of the State, and when
it comes to trading it is probable that his
i friends will have as many votes to trade as
any other candidate. There is a strong
pressure from the county delegates for
Taggart, but he has no barrel a necessary
political accessory possessed by both Lilly
and Castor.
It ir probable that Martin and the boys
will consider the barrel more indispensable
than the good will of the grangers, and rule
Taggart out
One Fight In the Background.
The urgency with which the friends of
the cradidates forjudge are buttonholing
for votes has for the time left the candidates
for delegates-at-large entirely in the back
ground. Of the eight places on this ticket
four are reasonably certain to go to Elklns
and Ahern, of Philadelphia, and Flinn or
Magee and Oliver, of Allegheny. General
Reeder seems to have a pretty fair chance
lor the fifth place, leaving the other three
to be traded and scrambled for.
Frank Willing Leach has a typewritten
platform in his pocket, but so" far only
Quay and his closest friends have seen it,
and they haven't made up their, minds what
erasures and additions will be made before
it is allowed to go to the Committee on
Resolutions. The delegates and their
friends are too busy talking about candi
dates to care anything about the platform
yet They may get to that later on.
Senator Quav came up on the train that
left Philadelphia at 4:25 this afternoon. It
soonbecame noised around that the Senator
was in town, and his room at the Lochiel
was soon overrun with aspiring statesmen.
Quay Mar Not Be a Delegate.
"I am not certain that I will sit in the
convention," said Senator Quay. "I am
not a delegate, and as the Beaver county
delegation has not yet turned up, I am not
sure that I can get a proxy, even if I want
one."
"Will you take a hand in the fight?" was
asked.
"As far as Congressman at Large and the
.supreme Judge are concerned, replied Jlr.
Quay, "the convention can fight it out I
may take a hand in the convention so far as
national issues are concerned, and will cer
tainly state my preference for delegates at
large and elector. I have just arrived,
however, and have seen nobody yet, conse
quently I am not prepared to say whose
claim I can recognize. To-nijjht I can say
nothing more definite than this, and I will
not be interviewed any further."
Then Senator Quav closed up and turned
his attention to a tall, handsome man, who
represented the firm that had the contract
for erecting the polling booths required by
the new election law.
HARRISON IS SOLID.
Mr. Magee Says the President Will Be In
dorsed To-Morrow and Pennsylvania's
Delegates Instrnoted for Him Quay
Still Playing the Utterly Indifferent.
Philadelphia, April ia Special
Senator Quay made no secret of his pres
ence in the city to-day and bobbed around
on business missions all the morning hours.
His son Dick, after a Sunday hunt of more
or less activity, found him at noon in par
lor ilG of the Lafayette Hotel. Quay re
fused to talk about the State Convention.
Collector John W. Glazier, of the Port of
Erie, suggested the point thfet the Harrison
sentiment was very strong and would con
trol the delegates in their deliberations.
"The delegates will do just as thev
please," said Mr. Qnay. "They are free to
act just as they like."
During the morning Mr. Quay called on
Collector Cooper at the Custom House, in
company with David H. Lane and State
Treasurer Boyer. Cooper urged General
Lillv's claim " on the nomination for Con
gressman at Large, and pointed to a support
for him of at least 140 delegates out of the
26S in the convention, but it is understood
that Quay gave him no encouragement In
fact, it was stated that Quay has refused to
indicate a preference or champion any cause
with which thii convention has to deal.
A visit to the People's Bank ended the
down-town calls, and the senator kept from
public sight as far as convenient until he
took the train at 4:25 p. m. for Harrisburg.
The train was a convention affair all through,
the local politicians having complete pos
session. ,
Among the unexpected visitors to-day
was C L. Magee, who came in from Wash
ington and stopped at the Stratford. W.
H. Seif, business manager of Mr. Matree's
Pittsburg newspaper, and C. H. McKee, his
brother-in-law. comprised the party, while
Sheriff McCleary, of Allegheny, and Chief
John Murphy, ot Pittsburg, comprised the
callers.
"The convention will indorse and In
struct for President Harrison," said Mr.
Magee, "but on the nominations no one can
speak. I am interested more especially in
a strong platform for solid money and'tbe
McKinlev tariff." Mr. Magee did not meet
Senator Quay.
Harry W. Oliver and Mr. Magee are
booked for the two delegates at large
nominations credited, t.6 Allegheny county,
although Senator Flinh has had the call in
that direction, but it is understood that he
has retired. Sheriff McCleary gives that
assurance to inquiries.
QUAY'S FAYETTE CONVENIIOK.
A Little Forerunner ot To-Morrow! Bigger
Meeting at Harrisburg.
Uniontown, April 18. special The
Republican County Convention held here
to-day was a Quay convention. It declared
that Quay represented the great State of
Pennsylvania in the United States Senate
as it ought to be represented, and indorsed
him for re-election. Alter a hot fight, Col
lector P. A. Johns, of this place, was nomi
nated for Sheriff Samuel M. Graham, of
Bellevernon; John S. Carroll, of Dunbar,
and Porter S. Newmeyer, of Connellsville,
were nominated for Assembly. Thev are
friendly to Quay. F. M. Fuller was se
lected as the delegate to the National Con
vention, subject to the decision of the Con
gressional conference, which meets in Pitts
burg to-morrow. The following deletratefi
to tiie State Convention were chosen at the
primaries on Saturday and indorsed by the
contention to-day: "diaries H. Seaton,
Bvron Porter, Gibson Binns and Thomas J.
Holt They go uninstructed. The Con
gressional delegates selected at the prima
ries were formally indorsed by the conven
tion. They meet in Pittsburg to-morrow,
in conference with the delegates from the
other counties the district to nominate a
candidate for Congress and select two dele
gates to the National Convention. Tho
delegation, it is said, will vote for Ernest
F. Acheson, of Washington, after possibly
a complimentary vote to Bobert F. Hop
wood, of this place.
Harrison, Blaine and all the Cabinet were
indorsed amid enthusiasm. The Quay reso
lution was passed without a dissenting
voice. It set forth that in Matthew Stanley
Quay the convention recognized a gentle
man, soldier and statesman, the peer of any
in the land. To him was due, more than to
any other man, the election of President
Harrison. A resolution was also passed
deploring "the theft" of Colonel Andrew
Stewart's seat in Congress, but it carefully
refrained from recommending the Colonel's
renomination for vindication.
Democratic Contests In Hooslerdom.
Indianapolis, April 18. Special
Sharp contests occurred to-night in the
various wards over the selection of delegates
to the Democratic State Convention. The
Cleveland faction claim a majority of the
delegates. A most exciting contest oc
curred in one of the wards. The Gray ad
herents contended that the other side had
acted unfairly. Much confusion and dis
order resulted, and each faction elected del
egates. The 8tate Convention will be
called upon to decide which delegation shall
be admitted. Contests occurred in two
other wards.
Louisiana's Election To-Day.
New Obleans, April 18. There is great
activity in political circles. Candidates and
officials are making preparations for the
general election to-morrow, when a Gov
ernor and other State officers, parish, and
city officials, representatives in both
Houses, and in some instances judicial offi
cer?, will be chosen.
A Little Prohibition Convention.
Carlisle, April" 18. Special The.
Cumberland County Prohibition Conven.
tion met here to-day, with a small attend
ance. The following were elected delegates
to the State Convention: J. C. Rumnell,
D. S. Wagner, A. H. Ege, L K. Fishburn,
F. H. Hoffer and Beuben Danner. A.
Foster Mullin, of Mt. Holly, was elected
delegate to the National Convention at Cin
cinnati. The Presidental elector was con
ceded to York countv. '
HILL HOT OUT FOE GBOVEB.
An Intimation that Is Seconded by the New
Tork Senator's Friends.
Washington, April 18. Special
The friends of Mr. Hill ridicule
the idea of the Senator ever be
ing induoed to support Cleveland la
the national convention, in hopes of getting
Cleveland's support in 1896. They say that
in '88 Hill was asked to step aside until '92,
and that he has done all the stepping aside
he is going to da As far as Hill
himself is concerned, he will not
admit of the possibility of his own defeat
before the convention, and is therefore not
in any state of mind for a compromise with
the Cleveland folks. In conversation with
his most intimate friends be expresses ab
solute confidence that he will get the Presi
dental nomination.
The programme of the ultra-Hill men is
to nominate Hill if possible, to defeat
Cleveland at all events, and if they cannot
nominate Hill to turn to a Western man.
They do not propose to let any Eastern
man have the nomination if Hill cannot get
it 'lhe idea seems to be that the Cleve
land people will be for Cleveland or some
other Eastern man, and that the Hill peo
ple will be for Hill or a Western man.
ALOES ADD HASBISOH
Believed fo Bavo Arrived at an Under
standing on the Presidency.
Washington, April 18. Special
There is little doubt that an agreement has
been reached between General Alger and
President Harrison that the former shall
withdraw from his candidacy for the
Presidency, either before or at the
meeting of the Minneapolis Conven
tion. General Alger has just visited
and lunched with the President, and to
break one's bread and dip one's hand in
one's salt is to pledge one's fealty to the
host General Alger was not slow to un
derstand that he was making no progress in
his candidacy. Like that of Senator Cul
lom, his race was plainly ran before it was
begun. He has received the indorsement
"of the Republicans of his State, and he will
be content with that.
Senator Qu&y did not call on the Presi
dent immediately before leaving for Har
risbnrg to get instructions in regard to reso
lutions, touching the administration, on the
Presidency, but it is assumed that the Sen
ator knows exactly what Mr. Harrison
would like to have.
QUAY CAEKIES TIOGA COUNTY
By a Majority of 2,917 Votes Over Congress
man John Da'zell.
Lawbenceville, PA., April 18.
Special The Republican Convention of
Tioga county was held here to-day. The
direct system of voting prevails in this
county. Resolutions were adopted heartily
indorsing the administration of President
Harrison and approving the official conduct
of the United States Senators.
The canvas of the returns showed the
following results: Matthew S. Quay re
ceived a majority of 2,917 votes over John
Dalzell for United States Senator; Albert
C. Hopkins, of Look Haven, was nominated
for Representative in Congress without
opposition: Horace B. Packer, of Wells
boro, was- renominated for State Sen
ator, without opposition. There were
six candidates for Representative, and
Jerome B. Niles, of Wellsboro, and Walter
T. Werrick, of Bloomsburg, were success
ful. STRANGLED HER CHILD.
The Cruelty of a New Jersey Mother Toward
Her Uttle Girl.
Mt. Holly, N. J., April 18. Louisa
Chockly, a colored woman aged 45, was com
mitted to jail here to-day charged with the
murder of her 9-year-old daughter, Mattie,
on Saturday, The murder was committed
at the home of Mrs. Chockly, near Marl
ton, in the presence of her two other chil
dren, who were powerless to prevent the
commission of the crime.
The girl committed some slight offense
and the mother placed her in a chair, pnt
a rope around her neck and tied one end to
the stove, after which she pulled on the
other end of the rope until she had strangled
the child to death. It fell lifeless to the
floor, whereupon the mother carried the
body into another room and hid it The
other two children were afraid to give the
alarm, and said nothing about the murder
to the neighbors, but it was finally discov
ered by a relative who called to see the
children, and notified the Coroner.
DAVE PAIGE SICE IN DBESDEK,
And His lawyer Says He Is Bound to
Come Home Soon.
New Yoek, April 18. Special Mr.
Smith, of the firm of Kellogg, Rose &
Smith, lawyers in the Equitable building,
said to-day: "The rumor that ex-Congressman
David R. Paige, who is now in Europe,
has left New York for good, is absolutely
false and unfounded. We have heard from
him since he has reached the other side. He
has been sick over there, but expected to be
in Dresden last Saturday to see his brother-in-law,
Mr. John Huntington. He said that
he would be back here by the end of this
month.
"We are counsel for him. and I know that
his interests here are so enormous that he
could not afford to stay away, even if he
lost the $285,000 which is said to be the
amount involved in the dispute as to the
genuineness of Mr. Huntington's signa
ture." BE. PENE0SE C0HBTDENT
Of His Discharge at the Trial on Thursday
at Cheyenne.
Cheyenne, Wyo., April 18. Special
The trial of Dr. Charles Bingham Penrose,
the Philadelphia physician, who was to
have been given a hearing to-day, was post
poned until Thursday, owing to the inabil
ity of the Johnson county authorities to be
present
In an interview the doctor bays he left
the invading party at Tisdale's ranch, on
the second day out, on account of sickness.
He strenuously denies having been with his
party at the time of the killing of Cham
pion and Ray. He will unquestionably be
discharged on Thursday.
Mrs. Clayton's Suit for Divorce.
Chicago, April 18 Special Three
months ago Mrs. Eva L. Clayton, wife of
Samuel L. Clayton, a prominent drygoods
merchant of Media, Pa, instituted a suit
for divorce in the Cook county courts,
alleging desertion. The fsct that divorce
proceedings had been instituted was not
made publio until to-day. Mrs. Clayton is
a daugnter of Charles Pardridge, a wealthy
member ot the Chicago Board of Trade.
Bev. H. P. Smith Not Sound.
Cincinnati, April 18. Special The
committee appointed at the last meeting of
the Presbytery will report to the meeting
to-morrow that there are unsound doctrines
in the writings of the Rev. H. P. Smith,
professor of Hebrew in the Lane Seminary.
FORCE LN FORCITE.
Seven Men .Killed by a Powder Mill
Explosion in New Jersey.
SMALL FRAGMENTS OP HUMANITY,
All That Remain of Six Workmen, Gath
ered Up in a Bucket
the earth shaken for miles around
Mount Arlington, N. J., April 18.
The works of the American Forcite Powder
Company, on the shores of Lake Hopatcong,
about a mile below here, blew up about 3
o'clock this afternoon, and seven men were
blown to atoms and five buildings were
shattered. The names of five of the men
killed are:
J. D. SMITB, Superintendent of the works;
married and leaves a wldowand one child.
JACOB CARLSON, aged S3 years; married
and leaves five children.
WILLIAM PIERCE, used 88 years: married
and leaves a widow and two children.
JAMES VAOH, aired 26 years; unmarried.
A. JOHNSON, aged SO years: unmarried.
Another body has been recognized as that
of a Swede, whose name is unknown.
Two men were injured. One of them,
Benjamin Cassimore, is so terribly burned
and mangled that he will probably die.
The works of the company consist of a
number ot small buildings scattered at a J
distance of about 300 feet from each other.
Most of the buildings were used in the mix
ing process and only one man was employed
in each. The other buildings which stand
further away from the lake on the side of
the mountain are used for the storage of
dynamite, uitro-glyoerine and detonators.
The works have been frequently the scene
of explosions, but never to such an extent
as to-day.
A Fanlo Among tho Men.
The explosion occurred while all the men
were at work and created a panic. The
men working in buildings distant from those
blown up first heard a roar, and the build
ings in which they were working shook: and
trembled for fully a minute, then came an
explosion which sounded far louder than
the simultaneous explosion of half a dozen
of largest cannon. The startled men rushed
from their work and saw a cloud of dust
and smoke flying through the air near the
lower part of the company's ground. They
knew in a moment what had happened, and
fearing that the concussion might set off the
explosives in the other buildings they took
to their heels and ran for the mountain
side.
After a few moments, when they saw that
no further danger was imminent, they cau
tiously advanced to the scene of the explo
sion. The wreckage was already on fire
and was burning fiercely. The men went
to work at once to overhaul the wreck in
search of the men who had been at work in
the ruined buildings. Within a few min
utes they succeeded in finding two men,
both of whom were badly injured. These
were quickly removed to the company's
office and a doctor was sent for.
Meanwhile the company's fire apparatus
was run out and water from the lake was
used to fight the fire. As soon as the flames
were under control the roll of the company's
employes was called and it was found that
seven were missing.
Scattered Prflgmentofllnmanlty.
A search for their, bodies was then begun.
The searchers-Vf ri nSpstlr old employes of
the company, and"kpew that in a case like
the present one itN was useless to search
among the ruins. They found fragments of
flesh and bones scattered over several acres
ot ground. Thev found 150 pounds of flesh
and bones, which is all that remains of the
bodies of the victims. What could be found
was gathered up in boxes and will be buried
by the company.
A representative of the company who
was seen after the' explosion said that it
would be impossible to ascertain what
caused the explosion. There had been
numerous explosions, he said, at the works,
but none so extensive as that to-day. The
same gentleman said that the company had
never expected that such a big explosion
could occur. The buildings being separ
ated and each independent of the other, it
was seldom that more than one man's life
was in danger. All of the explosions of
the past had been in the houses used for
mixing the explosives, and the storage
rooms had never before been affected.
Tho Explosion Felt for Miles.
The explosion shattered all the windows
within two miles of the scene of the explo
sion. The glasses in the barroom of
Schaeffer's Hotel were broken and the
guests in the house were greatly startled.
At the landing tne railroad depot was
shaken until the beams cracked and every
pane ot glass in the building, as well as
those in the houses around, were blown
out.
There are two other powder companies in
this vicinity. The Atlantic Giant Powder
Company is at Kenville, three miles away,
and the United States Storage Department
station is at Dover, which is about seven
miles from the scene of the explosion. The
explosion was plainly felt at Kenville,
and the employes at work, thinking it was
a part of their own works which had blown
up, left their benches.
The explosion was plainly felt at Dover.
At Mt Hope the miners thought it was an
earthquake. No care-ins in the mines re
mlted. EVIDENCE AGAINST A TEUST.
The Cordage Combine Now on the Back In
New Jersey Court.
New Yoek, April 1& Special Vice
Chancellor Vanvleet heard testimony to
day in Jersey City, in the suit of Ernest B.
Balsch against the National Cordage Com
pany. Balsch alleges that the National
Cordage Company na3 incorporated July
21, 1887, with a capital of
$2,500,000. October 9, 1890, a number
ot smaller companies were absorbed by the
National, and the capital was increased to
$16,000,000. At the same time a new
organization was formed, nnder the name of
the Security Corporation, the object of
which, he says, was to secure a monopoly of
the cordage product of the country. He al
leges that dividends have been declared
which had not been earned, and he asks tor
an examination ot the books of the con
cern. Thomas N. McCarter, for the defense,
denounced the Court proceeding as a stock
jobbing movement on the part ot Balsch
aud those behind him. He denied that the
Security Corporation had been organized by
the National Cordage Company or that any
trust had been formed. He also denied
that the dividends had not been earned.
The hearing will be continued next Tues
day.
A C0I0EED JESSE P0KES0Y
Who
Has 18 Brothers and Sisters,
All
Good Boys and Girls.
Boston, April 18. Special Charles
Tyler, of Lincoln, is trying hard to emulate
Jesse Pomeroy's example, and although he
is but 17 years old, he has committed crimes
enough to insure his imprisonment for the
rest of his life, if he received the full term
for each offense. He is locked up in Cam
bridge jail, charged with eight serious
crimes, and he has confessed to three of
them attempted train-wrecking, safe rob
bery and robbery from the person. He is
also charged with Incendiarism and assaults
Innumerable, and more charges of attempted
train wrecking are laid at his door.
When a child- Tyler's greatest delight
seemed to be found in torturing animals
and playmates smaller and weaker than
himself, and he was eventually expelled
from school for his vicious practices. Tyler
is colored, and has 18 brothers and sisters,
none of whom exhibit any of the traits lie
possesses.
CHARGES OF BOODLE
The last Thin? to Greet Ohio's Legislature
The Columbus Bipper BUI Killed
Democrats, Gamblers and Boodle the
Alleged Means A Very Poor Showing.
Columbus, O., April 18. Special The
Legislature concluded business at noon to
day, and adjourned to January, 1893. The
closing hours were fraught with charges of
boodle, and much bad blood was apparent
over mostly partisan measures which should
have been passed in the interest of the ma
jority party. Every effort was made to get
the members of the Senate here to rote on
the Columbus reorganization bill Four,
however, remained away, and it is now
openly charged that $3,000 were distributed
among the four. The bill was defeated by
one vote, a part of the Republican mem
bers voting with the Democrats to secure
the result. It is asserted by one who claims
to be a contributor, that the police and
Democratic) officeholders and the army of
gamblers with which the city is infested
raised a large purse for the defeat of the
bill, and it was not all used.
Senator Iden, of Licking county, who hag
a doubtful claim on his seat, now pending
in court, is more strongly censured than
any other for the defeat of the bilL The
failure to pass the bill turns the city over
to the Democrats for a year at least
The House passed a bill this morning giv
ing to the State Supervisor of Elections a
salary of $1,000. It was introduced in the
House and put through under a suspension
of the rules. The same procedure was
enacted in the Senate, and in less than 20
minutes after budding as a bill it blos
somed into a full-fledged law. The extra
compensation goes to the Secretary of State,
who is made, under the new law, State Su
pervisor of Elections.
The present Legislature has authorized a
local indebtedness of nearly $16,000,000,
and the legislation proposed against cor
porations was wonderful in volume, but lit
tle of it was enacted into law. When tha
Legislature started out it was one of pro
nounced reform, but it is now designated
one of the most inefficient and grasping
that ever assembled in Ohio. Its only
worthy act was the election of John Sher
man to the United States Senate.
MURDER AND SUICIDE,
A Drunken Father Used a Poker on His
Daughter, Then Cnt His Throat
Niles, O., April 18. Special This
evening, about 6 o'clock, Sam Williams, an
omploye of the Falcon Rolling Mill, re
turned from work crazed with liquor, and
attempted to drive his entire family from
their house. His daughter, aged 20, at
tempted to argue with her father, and he
savagely attacked her with a poker. He
struck her two terrible blows, one over the
right eye, laying the entire temple open to
the bone, and one over the top ot the head,
fracturing the skulL
Williams then rushed to the table, seized
a common case knife and made a terrible
slash at his throat, completely severing the
windpipe. The daughter is still alive, but
no hopes are entertained of her recovery.
The father is dead.
CHTJBCH OEODi OS A STBIBX
The Ladles Angry Because the Pastor Said
Their Singing Was Not Good.
New Yoek, April 18. Special The
members of the choir of Christ German
Lutheran Church, in Nineteenth street,
have been on strike since last Thursday
night, when they were offended by reflec-
tions on their singing made by the pastor,
Rev. George W. Wenner. It was at a re
hearsal, and the young women constituting
the choir were hard at work practicing Eas
ter music when the pastor strolled in. "I'm
ashamed of it," he said, "and unless you
can do better you had better not sing at all
on Easter."
The young women were indignant, and
did not appear at the Saturday night re
hearsal, much to Mr. Wenner's annoyance.
The pastor thought they would surely sing
ou Easter, but they did not The only
member of the choir present was Mrs. Mary
Waehner, who had not been at the Thurs
day rehearsal, and she furnished all the
music of the day. The choir members want
Mr. Wenner to apologize. He says their
singing was so poor that he felt he ought to
excuse them, and that, if necessary, he will
form a new choir.
GEE LEE HAY STAY.
A Chinese Merchant In the United States
Has Some Privileges Left.
San Fbancisco, April 18. The United
States Circuit Court of Appeals rendered a
decision to-day allowing Gee Lee, alias Lee
Hoy, a native of China, to remain in the
United States. Hoy was arrested at Port
Angeles, Wash., a year ago on his ar
rival from Vancouver, B. C, on the ground
that he had no certificate of identification,
and he was ordered remanded to China. He
set up the claim, however, that hejhad been
a resident of the United States for ten
years, and engaged for part of that time in
business as a merchant; that his trips to
Vancouver were made for the purpose of
visiting relatives.
The District Court released him, and the
Circuit Court in sustaining that decision to
day held that a Chinese merchant domiciled
in the United States, ou his return thereto
atter a temporary absence therefrom, is not
required to produce the certificate pro
vided for in the act of- July 5, 1884, in the
case of a Chinese first coming into the
United States.
IK A NEW BOLE.
Dr.
Parkhurst'a Escort to the Dives Suing
His YTlte for Divoree.
New Yoek, April 18. Charles W. Gard
ner, the young man who acted as escort for
Rev. Dr. Parkhurst in his tour of investi
gation among the dives, was the plaintiff in
a suit for divorce against his wife, Eleanor,
which was tried to-day in the Supreme
Court.
The parties were married in 1888. Re
cently he discovered that his wife was liv
ing at Guttenbere, near the race track, with
Eugene Leigh, the wealthy horse owner
and turfman. Mrs Leigh is now suing her
husband for a divorce and has been granted
alimony pending the suit Judge Truax
reserved decision.
THE F0BTDNE TELLEK WON.
She Told the "Lucky Lottery Number for
850 and It Didn't Win.
Boston, April 18. Newspaper dis
patches note the arrest in Cleveland ot a
woman known by such names as Mrs. Dr.
Warren, Madame De Forrest, Madame
Prescott, and Mrs. Hall. This woman was
formerly an actress in the Dark Secret
Company. She is wanted by the police of
Boston on the charge ot embezzling some
valuable goods from firms in this city who
do business on the installment plan.
Another charge against her is that ot ob
taining money on false pretenses.
In connection with this charge it is stated 1
that while the woman was in this city she
hired apartments on Shawmut avanue.where
she posed as a fortune teller and asserted
that while in a trance she could name the
numbers which were to win prizes in the
Louisiana lottery. One young woman
called on Mrs. Hall to get the lottery
ticket number which would win a $15,000
prize. Mrs. Hall agreed to state the num
ber In return for J100. The young woman
had only $50, but readily gave that sum,
receiving in return a number which drew
no prize.
FLEEING FROM FLORIDA.
Typhoid Fever Driving Northerners From
the Big Bonthern Hotels The Disease
Puzzling Hew York Doctors Many
Prominent Gothamltei Down With the
Disease.
New York, April ia Special In the
past month or six week3 th'ere has been
quite an exodus of people from the big win
ter hotels at St Augustine and
Tampa, Fla., partly due, it is said,
to a typhoid fever scare. Fever appeared
in two of the big hotels, and when Mr. H.
J. Park died of typhoid at the Hotel Cor
dova, St Augustine, several Northerners
departed as soon as they could. A number
of them appear to have carried away the
germs of the disease v'th them.
More than a dozetV - "'w Yorkers alone.
it is said, came 5y-? v the disease
almost as soon as fiii, rc irae from
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Florida The majority v-t -' up at
the Hotel Cordova, in thtK if, ? "'bor
hood as the more noted Po i'crt '. -.
which is owned by Henry iv c rj
Among them was William Bayard -
who has been seriously ill for about r
weeks. Two physicians nave been in .
tendance at his house.
Several persons whose friends have been
in Florida this spring told a Dispatch re
porter that all or nearly- all
the large hotels at Angus
tine and Tampa have had cases
of malarial or typhoid lever. The"
large hotels are supposed to have perfect
drainage, although some of them are built
on sandbars little above the water level.
The disturbance of the soil in low districts
of the South has been known to be followed
by a prevalence of malarial fever.
AIT INSANE MOTHEB'S BEES.
She Crnelly Mnrders Her Little Daughter
and Then Commits Suicide.
Grand Rapdds, April 18. Emma M.
Hoy, wife of Wells Hoy, a prominent
farmer and Justice of the Peace of Busbell
township, after two unsuccessful attempts,
has murdered her 8-year daughter Ethel
and committed suicide. Marks upon the
child's body show that the mother first
choked her, then smashed in her skull, and
dragging the body into the woods threw it
into a pool, afterward jumping in upon the
little one.
When Mr. Hoy found the bodies several
hours later the mother's clothing wa3
weighted by stones. Mrs. Hoy attempted
to catch her son, two years older than Ethel,
but he succeeded in eluding her. The lad
states that his mother had within a few days
twice attempted to kill the two children.
Mrs. Hoy was suffering from temporary in
sanity. HEW YOKE'S LEGISLATUBB.
Speaker Bush Thinks He Has Beason to Be
Frond of It
Albany, April 18. '"Not only will this
Legislature adjourn several days earlier
than any previous Legislature in many
years," said Speaker Bush to-day, "but it
will also make a record for leaving less un
finished business than any other Legislature
within my knowledge."
It seems no w as though the extra ' session
to reapportion the Senate and Assembly dis
tricts will not be treated until the first part
of next week. Some time will be needed to
reapportion on the basis of the figures of
the recent State enumeration, which will
not be available before Wednesday or
Thursday, and the extra session will not be
called until this matter is practically settled
and the reapportionment bill prepared.
EAILEOAD MEN MAY STKDXE.
The Bock Island Employes Dissatisfied and
TVill Present a Schedule.
St. Joseph, Ma, April 18. The dele
gates of the conductors and trainmens'
orders who have grievances against the
Rock Island held two secret sessions this
morning, but declined to give out details of
their deliberations.
One delegate, however, said in a general
way that the Rock Island had not lived up
to Its old schedule. A new schedule was
now being prepared.he said, and if the road
did not live up to it a general strike would
probably be ordered.
MYSTEEI0US DE0WH1NG.
The Daughter of a Prosperous Minnesota
Farmer Found In Bed Xake Biver.
Ceookston, Minn., April 18. A mys
terious drowning occurred near Gentilly,
this county, yesterday, and foul play is sup
posed. Miss Cora Broulette, the pretty
young daughter of Pierre Broulette, a pros
perous farmer in that section, started yes
terday to visit a neighbor half a mile
distant and did not return.
To-day her body was found in the Red
Lake river. Her clothes were badly torn
and there are several bruises about her
head. The authorities are investigating.
Driven to Suicide by Gosl.
Middletown, N. Y., April 1& Spe
cial Men fishing in the Susquehanna
river near Wellsbridge to-day found the
body of Nellie Brown, a pretty 15-year-old
schoolgirl, whose disappearance from her
home in Otego, January 7, aroused intense
interest throughout the connty. No marks
of violence were found. It is now
thoueht that on leaving her home
she went at onee to the river and threw her
self in, driven to self destruction by sensi
tiveness over gossip derogatory to her
mother.
An Expert Accountant Shore
Gband Foeks, N. D., April 18. Carl
Nelson, an expert accountant, six years a
resident in this citr, employed as assistant
cashier of the Union National Bank, has
been arrested charged with defalcation. He
is now endeavoring to straighten the ac
counts in charge of officers. His shortage is
reported to be from $7,000 to $15,000.
THIS MORNING'S NEWS.
Topic, Page.
Booms at the State Capital 1
Wholesale Slaughter hr Forcite 1
The Boomers at Kingfisher 1
Kalnedby the Land O 2
Qnay to Challenge Dalzell 2
Librarian Stevenson Re-Elected 3
Editorial and Miscellany 4
Society Gossip of a Day 4
The Chamber of Commerce Aggreislvo.. 5
A New GarDage System C
A Hooppole Hoosier's Cheeseparing 7
AH the News Prom Abroad 7
Ex-Clerk Tonne's Challenge to the Senate 7,
Baseball and Other Sports... 8
Nearby News and Gossip 8
The World of Commerce 0
First Night at the a heaters 9
Work of the County Courts 10
Important OU Case Decided 10
Financial and Other Markets 11
The Nation's lawmakers ,..,.13
LIKE A BATTLE LINE.
The Boomers Stand Prepared for the
Bash at Noon To-Day.
SEVERAL TOWN SITES TO BE READY
For the Overflow of Men Unable to Secure
Regulation Claims.
A FEW FIGHTS TO KEEP THINGS HYELY
Kingfisheb, Okla., April 18. Twenty
five thousand boomers are bivouacing to
night on the borders of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe reservation, which will be opened
up to settlement to-morrow. These, together
with the people who will make the race
from the various cities along the Santa Fe
and Rock Island lines, and others who will
attempt to secure claims by filing declara
tory notices, make a total of some 28,000
people, now homeless, who to-morrow will
have located a site for a home on either a
homestead claim or a town site. The legiti
mate settler wants a homestead claim of 160
acres. It is the speculator who wants the
town site lots. There are not enough farms
to go around, and those fail of locating one
will join the speculators.
There will be plenty of town lots and to
spare. Each of the six counties has, of
course, a county seat, and any number of
other towns are proposed. One is to be lo
cated on the line of the Rock Island about
half way between EI Reno and Kingfisher.
It will be called Okarchie. The Rock Isl
and will run special trains to it from both
directions so that they will 03s the line of
the border at exactly noon. Another town
will be located at the terminus of tho
Choctaw branch of the Oklahoma road
west of ErBeno, while various others will
be located at desirable distances from the
county seat to the respective counties. In
numerable rumors are current to-night of
ata.In .i) ..Ann.. .! .. ! ... 2 ?lt
the locating of these towns involving Fed
eral and railway officials, but none can be
traced to reliable sources.
Scat Warmers Still on Duty.
The scenes at the land office to-nieht are
nnique. The seat warmers are passing the
night, some wrapped up in tarpaulins, some
covered with blankets and some sitting up
telling over their war experiences. Most .
of them are old soldiers; the only ones who
are permitted to file declaratory notices,
and they do not mind the hardships inci
dent to a night spent out of doors. The
seat warmers are confident of holding
their own and of being permitted to
make their runs the moment the. Mar
shal's watch points the hour of noon. They
say there is no law prohibiting their form
ing in line before the laud office at any
time they please. They pleased to so form
a week or so ago, ''and," they ask, "what
are you going to do about it."
As a matter of fact nothing can be done
about it except to submit to it. United
States Marshal Grimes is responsible for the
maintenance of order about the Land Office.
He authorized the line and has given its men
their numbers, and nothing can break it
now but an attacking force able to overcome
the Marshal's deputies, a sufficient number
of whom have been sworn in to maintain
order and quell any possible disturbance.
The line now numbers about 400 men
and will probably be added to hereafter. It
is estimated that not more than three filing!
can be made in a minute, so, that ,the last
man in line wouldn't get Ms filing'fif 'until
three hours after noon, by which time the
last of the racers from the border will have
located their claims. Filings after that
time will be of no use. As it is there will
be much disappointment among the racer?
and seatwarmers.
An Interesting Scene on the Border.
The scene on the border to-night is an in.
teresting one. The white tops ot the prairie
schooners, the fires of the camping boomers
and the tethered horses give the scene a
decidely military aspect There was con
siderable confusion early in the evening,
caused bv many new arrivals who were
seeking advantageous starting places for to
morrow's race. Those who have been wait
ing on the border for a day or two looked
upon the newcomers as interlopers, and
would not give way one inch of their ad
vantage. There was much ill feeling in conse
quence and in some instauces tights were
narrowly averted. By 9 o'clock, however,
all was quite along the line of the border
opposite this place, except for the commo
tion occasioneu uy uie arrivui ul buuic uc
lated schooner or party of horsemen- The
weather to-night is colder. The wind has
changed to the north and there are pros
pects of rain to-morrow.
Up to this time no casualties or affrays
among the boomers have been reported
and the indications now are that the con
quest of the new laud to-morrow will be a
bloodless one.
YARD MUST TESTIFY.
The Decision of the Lower Court Affirmed
by the Supreme Court.
Philadelphia, April 18. The Su
preme Court to-day affirmed the decision of
the lower court that Henry H. Yard must
testify before the committee of City Coun
cils that investigated the affairs of ex-City
Treasurer John Bardsley. Yard is alleged
to have had a part in the dealings of Bards
lev and ex-President Marsh, of the looted
Keystone Bank, and was subpoenaed before
the" committee last summer.
He refused to answer certain questions
put to him on the ground that they might
tend to criminate him, he being at the time
under indictment for his connection with,
the bank. The decision of the court to-day
is valuable only in future cases of witnesses
before Councilmanic committees, as the
Bardsley investigating committee concluded
its labor some weeks ago, made its final
report to Councils and adjourned.
ANOTHER STRIKE OFF.
Iron and Steel Men at Lebanon Now Ready
to Go to Work.
Lebanon, Pa., April 18. The strike of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steelworkers, which was inaugurated here
on the 18th of last July and continued ever
since, has been declared off, and the men
are now at liberty to resume work wher
ever they may get it
The benefits of single men were cut off
by the National Association last week,
which led to this action on the part of the
three lodges in this city.
ANOTHER QOEEE BOYCOTT.
Watches Assessed and Trainmen's Befose
to Bay From County Merchants.
Minneapolis, April 18. Railroad train
men centering at Fort Dodge, la., are up in
arms because each has been assessed for the
first time for a watch valued at $150. They
declare that unless the Board of Equaliza
tion releases them tney will Doycott tne
town and buy by the wholesale elsewhere.
The trainmen contend that a watch is
necessary in their trade, and therefore ex
empt Merchants are alarmed, and will endeavor
to get the assessment withdrawn, as thev
would lose the trade of about 200 men if ft
stood and, the workmen carried out their
threat.
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