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THREE GENTS.
EVERYONE HAPPY
AND ALL'S WELL,
A Unanimity of Sentiment
Among Pennsylvanians at
the Nation's Capital
THE KEYSTONE PLATF0E5T
Considered a Work of Art, Especially
by Free Silver People.
DEMOCRATS CAN'T t DO MORE.
Dalzell and Btone Delighted With the
State Convention.
McDowell's Nomination a Peculiarly
Happy One A Queer Situation in
Politics Harrison Tickled "With His
Indorsement, Even without Instruc
tionsThe 1888 Ticket a Sure Re
peater Free Coinage Republicans
Take Hope Once More Bland on the
Pennsylvania Platform The Noyes
Eockwell Case Eeady for a Vote To
Day History and Possibilities.
rEFECIAL TELEGRAPHIC X.ETTXB.
Btoeau or The Dispatch, )
WASHnfOToa. D. C. April 31. J
Both of the Allegheny county Congress
men expressed themselves to-day as being
highly pleased with the -work of the con
vention. Mr. Stone did not think it
was possible that a convention -which had to
deal with several candidates for Supreme
Judge and many aspirants for Congressmen
and delegates at large could have done its
work to leave fewer sore spots, enmities
and evil reflections. Mr. Dalrell declared
himbclfto be entirely satisfied. The plat
form was an admirable one, the ticket ex
cellent. Mr. Dalzell paid a warm tribute to Judge
Dean for dignity, integrity and ability, and
pronounced his nomination an honor to the
convention and to the State. The nomina
tion of Alexander McDowell, the Mercer
county banker, for one of the Congressmen
at large -will give the Twenty-fifth district
two Congressmen, though, of course, Mc
Dowell will represent the State at large.
He will be a Senator in the House, as it
were.
A Very Rare Situation In Politics.
It is a rare "situation" in politics, that of
the Twenty-fifth district at this time. Two
years ago 'McDowell and Thomas W. Phil
lips ran for the same office in the same dis
trict. The entire Republican vote cast was
upward Df 21,000, nearly 8,000 mwrrtera;
the Democratic vote, yet GillespieTlhe sit
ting Congressman, a Democrat, was
elected. McDowell and Phillips re
ceived nearly equal support Sow
McDowell will be elected as a Con
gressman at large and Phillips will be
elected to represent the district. The
voters who fought against one or the other
two years ago so bitterly will next Novem
ber vote for both.
Mr. McDowell's nomination is a peculiar
ly happy one, in view of the cruel circum
stances by which he was deprived of his seat
two years ago. All unconsciously on his
part three of the Beaver delegates were
bribed to vote for him by persons in Law
rence county, who, while they cared nothing
for McDowell, were willing to run any
risk to defeat the nomination of Townsend,
the Beaver county nominee.
McDowell's Former Lack of Judgment.
Innocent himself of any wrong in the
affair, McDowell, with a lack of judgment
which I would never have thought possible
in him, persisted in accepting and insisting
upon his nomination, though it could not
have been his without the three bribed
voters. Innocent as he was, to claim the
nomination under such circumstances could
not result otherwise than fatally.
Mr. Phillips was nominated as an inde
pendent Republican candidate, and of the
three candidates in the field McDowell had
the smallest number of votes, though he
fell short of Phillips only 10S votes in more
than 21,000. It was a cruel rebuke, which,
however well deserved, was expiated in the
suffering it entailed. All the candidates
were wrong,and there sbouldjbe no lingering
grudge to gratify next falL
McDowell is one of the most genial and
companionable of men. He is chockfull of
wit and humor, and for witty sallies, apt
stories and good jokes, will dispute in the
House the ground now occupied jointly by
John Allen, of Mississippi, and John
O'Neil, of Missouri.
Pennsylvania Republicans Well Pleased.
Pennsylvania Republicans in this city
also appear to be much pleased with the re
sult of the convention. Some of them seem
to have expected there would be some fric
tion, either in the organization, in the reso
lutions, or in some manner expressive of
the antagonism which is supposed to exist
in regard to the re-election of Senator Quay,
and are much surprised that the only flurry
of excitement should have been the injudi
cious attempt of Phillips, of SchuylKill, to
force the Senatorial questicn upon the con
vention, which was promptly squelched
by both the friends and the opponents of
Senator Quay.
I am informed directly from the "White
House that the President and his closest
friends are profoundly pleased by the
hearty and unqualified indorsement of his
administration. They are not disappointed
at the failure o'f the convention to instruct
the delegation to vote for the renomination
of Harrison.
Harrison Not at All Alarmed.
That was not expected, and the President
is not in the least alarmed at the omission.
He is well convinced that the only thing
that can defeat his renomination will be the
intervention of death, and he is a firm be
liever that manifest destiny and a judicious
courting of good health, by liberal duck
shooting will dispose of any pretensions the
specter on the pale horse may have in his
direction.
Of course, the failure of the convention to
instruct is seized, upon by the sensational
ists who are determined to develop a con
spiracy to defeat Harrison, as new proof of
the correctness of their theory, and they
launch forth with new bugaboos in regard
to the extent of the movement of Quay,
Piatt, Olarkson, Dudley and others to de
feat the renomination of Harrison, bat it is
plain that these theorists have no facts, but
merely a conspiracy of the imagination.
Every candidate who has been thought in
opposition to Harrison has dropped out,
either formally or informally, and at this
late day it would be almost impossible for
the most astute managers, and with the
arms of the machine reaching to every
State, to arrange any scheme to defeat the
renomination of the President
Harrison and Morton Once More.
Harrison and Morton is generally ad
mitted to be the nearly inevitable ticket of
the Republicans and Cleveland and Gray
that of the Democrats, though believers in
the Cleveland slate are somewhat discon
certed by the new favor with which the
silver men look noon Senator Hill since his
cunning vote upon the Arizona funding act
bill.
The free coinage Republicans of the House
and Senate are greatly pleased by the reso
lution of the Harrisburg convention pro
nouncing for the issue ot certificates for
silver bullion. Even Senator Teller, who
yesterday warned the Republican antwree
coinage people and the anti-free coinage
President that sevwal Republican States
will go over to the Democrats if something
be not done to propitiate the free coinage
element, admitted to-day that the Pennsyl
vania convention had doubtless sounded the
keynote of the party on the silver question,
and that the silver plank probably repre
sented the most tbat can be expected from
the Republican party in the direction of free
coinage. He doubted if the Democrats
would go farther, in view of the treatment
free coinage had received in the House with
its enormous Democratic majority.
Bland on the Keystone Platform.
Mr. Bland also admitted to me that the
silver plank in the Harrisburg platform is a
very shrewd one. intended to discount the
possible action of the Demooratio National
Convention. He does not believe the Dem
ocrats will go farther, and assumes that the
Nation Republican Convention will adopt a
similar plank, and thus rob the Democrats
of any advantage they might secure on that
question, aside from the personal views of
the candidates, which are of very little im
portance, so long as Congress and parties
fear to adopt the free coinage view.
Three days of the time of the House have
been already occupied by the Noves-Rock-well
contested election case, and two or
three hours of to-morrow will be consumed
before the vote is taken. It is one of the
most remarkable cases ever contested in the
House, and is well worth the time con
sumed. It is practically a contest of the
majority of the committee for the sustain
ing vote of the House, which is apparently
growing in the opposite direction.
A Brief Statement of the Case.
The Committee on Eleotions consists of
15 members, nine Democrats and six
Republicans. All the Republicans and
seven of the Democrats voted to seat the
contestant, Noyes. Two Democrats, Cobb,
of Alabama, and Gillespie, of the Twenty
fifth Pennsylvania district, made a minority
report in favor of Rockwell. Inadvertently,
in writing a day or two ago of this case, I
stated that Gillespie stood alone as Rock
well's defender in the committee. This
was true up to the last moment before the
reports were made. Gillespie is the man
who will have saved Rockwell if he be
saved. It was upon points brought out by
him that Cobb signed the minority report
with him, and which led Paynter, of
Kentucky, to vote with the majority with a
reservation that he would change his atti
tude on the final vote if he desired.
The case can be stated in a few sentences:
Noyes and Hockwell were opposing candi
dates in the Twenty-eighth New York,
known as the Elmira district Rockwell
was given the certificate of election on the
ground that certain votes which would give
Noyes'anuxjority w HlcgsL --
r s The Matter Left to Congress.
Noyes took the matter from the district
authorities to the Court of Appeals, which
issued a mandamus requiring the votes
shown on the face ot the returns should be
counted. The Court simply refused to go
behind the returns. At the conclusion of
the opinion, however, the Court said that
"it it be claimed that the actual result at
the polls was different in fact from that
shown by this statement, the question must
be left for the determination of a higher
tribunal," meaning, of course, Congress.
On the face of the returns Noyes had a
majority ot 6, but it was shown beyond dis
pute that 1G votes cast for him had been
marked in a manner by which the voter
could be identified, which was a direct In
fraction of the law, and which rendered the
votes void, and imposed a heavy penalty on
the offender in case he could be found.
Rockwell's counsel made a poor present
ment of his case. They assumed that the
Court of Appeals bad erred, and that'itsde
cision must be overthrown. The Commit
tee on Elections almost unanimously disa
greed with this view, holding that prece
dent and practice precluded it proceeding
counter to the decision of the court
A Pennsylvsnian Makes a'Point
Gillespie, coming into the case at the last
moment, he having been at home in atten
dance at the court of his countv, hotly con
tended that the court itself had remanded
the whole case to Congress, the "higher
tribunal," that it was competent to go be
hind the returns and act upon evidence
much of which was not disputed by the con
testant There was no doubt that 16 votes had
been marked in a manner contrary to law.
Bribery had been charged and had not been
disputed, une person, snown upon sworn
evidence to have been guilty of bribery of
several of the 16, brought a suit for libel
azainst a newspaper which procured and
published the facts, but when the suit was
speedily brought to a trial he failed to ap
pear in his own defense.
In one of the clearest legal arguments
that have been made in the House this
session, Representative Gillespie to-day
E resented the facts as to marked ballots and
ribery, the plain letter of the law bearing
on the case, and summed up in an admirable
plea for Rockwell. It was his first speech
in Congress, but its clearness and force, and
the fact that he had saved the committee
from going unanimously for Npyes, got him
the very complimentary attention of the
House, and the congratulations of members
of all parties.
Present Prospects of the Tote.
As the feeling runs to-night the vote to
morrow will fix Rockwell firmly in his seat
If so, the result will not be due to any in
fluence of Senator Hill, but to the plain
view of the case adopted by Gillespie and
taken up by some of the ablest and fairest
Democrats in the House, who were at first
inclined to go with the majority of the com
mittee, before their attention was called to
the fact in the case.
Democratic members of the committee
who support Noyes are making a desperate
plea for the support of the House. O'Fer
rall, of Virginia, the fiery Chairman, will
make a last effort to-morrow to stem the
tide tbat has been setting strongly against
him. On the power of his closing speech
depends the indorsement or rebuke ot the
committee. The outlook to-night is that
the majority of the House will adopt the
view ot Gillespie. Lightner.
T0XTEN BACK IN THE BANKS.
He Will at Once Rejoin His Old Command,
the Fourth Artillery.
New Haven, Conk., April 21. Special
Lieutenant Charles A. L. Totten has re
ceived orders from Secretary Elkins in
forming him of the appointment of Captain
James S. Pettlt, of the Pint Infantry, aa
military instrnctor at Yale. Captain Pet
tlt will report at the school July 18, and the
orders will go into effect on August 1.
Lieutenant Totten will rejoin his com
mand, the Fourth Artillery. He has been
military instructor in the Sheffield scientific
department for four years.
THE LION WILL ROAR
If the Very latest French Outrage on
a Loyal'British Subject
IS EOT SPEEDILY REDRESSED.
An Innocent Man Arrested Without. War
rant as an English Spy.
HE IS THE0WN IN RAYACHOI3 CELL
London, April 21. Another arrest of an
Englishman has been made in Paris, which,
coming as it does so shortly after the arrest
of Mr. Pardie and his brother, the two En
glishmen taken into custody at the Auteuil
races on suspicion of being pickpockets,
which arrest led to diplomatic correspond
ence, is likely to result in tension between
England and France. France refused to
make either reparation or apology for the
arrest of the Purdies, but in this last case it
is believed that England will take such
steps as will leave no doubt as to her inten
tions in the matter.
The latest victim of the extraordinary
vigilance of the French police is a Mr. Del
mard. He was the agent of an English pro
jectile company, and had previously been
employed by the Nordenfeldt Company.
On" March 31 he was discharged, the man
ager of the company saying 'he was in bad
odor with the police, and that it would be
best for him to leave Paris.
The Particulars of Delmard's Arrest
The following Monday he started to visit
Madame Rougeron, for whom he was writing
the music for a ballet which had been ac
cepted for production in Vienna. As he
was entering Madame Rougeron's residence
he was stopped at the door by a gendarme,
who seized him, chained his wrists and
bustled him into a cah. The cendarme took
him to the Prefecture of Police, and, not
withstanding Delmard's request for an ex
planation, no reason was given for his
arrest He was put into a wretched cell,
where he was confined until the next morn
ing. He was then taken to his lodgings.
Once there he declined to move until a
warrant for his arrest was shown. Delmard
said he was a British subject, and that he
would appeal to the 'British Embassy for
protection. Chief Detective Goron said he'
did not care a fig for the British Embassy,
which would not dare to interfere in the
matter. Delmard refused to move, where
upon he was struck in the face and knocked
down. His captors then took him back to
the Prefecture, where part of his clothing
was taken from him,andhe was again placed
in a cell filled with vermin.
Anarchists His Cell Companions.
The next morning he was examined by a
judge, who said he had proof a that Del
mard's presence in France was detrimental
to the Government The following day he
was taken to the Mazas prison. Here he
was stripped and kept naked for an hour
and a halt. Then he was put in a cell
measuring 6x2 feet His companion in
this cell was Anastay, who was executed a
few days ago for the brutal murder of his
benefactress, Baroness Dellard.
At night he slept in a dormitory, with
Anastay on one side of him and Ravachol,
the Anarchist, on the other. The next
morning he was placed in a cell with Rava
chol. The latter expressed much sympathy
for Delmard, and said that his arrest was a
most uniust and unwarranted proceeding.'
Ravachol, in discussing the Englishman's
arreit'astSdWniV "Do .you wonder now why
we wish to blow up these people. He ad
ded, "That is the only redress we have for
our wrongs. There have been thousands of
arrests similar to yours."
Ravachol Threatens the Prefecture.
Ravachol declared that it was the inten
tion of the Anarchists to blow up the Pre
fecture. Ravachol was very excited, and
kept dashing his head against the wall. On
the wall of the cell Ravachol had scratched
the words, "Vive l'Anarchistj" "Ni Dieu,
nl Roi. ni Judge."
Delmard was subsequently subjected to
another examination by the Jndge, who said
that he had letters addressed to him (Del
mard) by foreign governments, asking in
formation in regard to the French Balloon
ing Corps. Delmard proved that these let
ters were old and of no importance: The
Judge, nevertheless, said he had proofs that
the Englishman was a spy, and sent him
back to prison.
On April 14 Delmard was liberated.
The Judge apologized to him for his arrest
and said that the police were to blame.
Delmard was penniless, the police having
taken everything from him. He procured
money and has now returned to London.
The matter has been laid before the Foreign
Office.
Delmard asks heavy compensation from
France for his outrageous treatment
SHORT A HALF MILLION.
Heavy Defalcation In Hone; Kong A Trust
ed Banker Gets Away With Over
350,000 No Trace or the Defaulter
How He Worked It
New Yoek, April 21. Special Mea
ger details of a big defalcation in Hong
Kong reached New York to-day by way of
San Francisco, and were corroborated by A.
M. Townsend, the New York agent of the
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corpora
tion. The comprador of the bank, a' trusted
Chinaman, who had been in the bank's
service many yeart, was said in the press
dispatches to be a defaulter to the extent of
(600,000, but Mr. Townsend says his tele
graphic advices put the amount at 500,000
Mexican. dollars, or about $350,000.
The 'compradoris a very important per
son in the big English banks in China. He
is always a Chinaman, and places all the
bank's loans at the Chinese firms. The
comprador personally secures the bank for
the amount loaned through him, and in
loaning the money, obtains satisfactory se
curity from the Chinese merchants to in
demnify himself.
There has been a great depreciation in the
price of silver in Hong Kong recently,
which, with the failure of several enter
prises, has put some of the native firms in a
very tight place. The bank had loaned out
with several of the native banks, and the
last mall advices received by Mr. Townsend
were to the effect that it was going to call
in these loans.
In the absence of particulars, Mr. Town
send thinks the calling of these loans dis
closed the deficit The comprador was
heavily interested in the native banks, and
it is supposed the securities which he had
placed with the Hongkong bank to cover
the loans have proved to be bad.
BACK TO HER FIRST LOVE.
A Divorced Wife Weds the Man Whom She
Rejected 21 Tears Ago.
Sioux Falls, a D., April 21. E. A.
Demauriac, a New York banker, and Mrs.
Laura W. Leavitt,' formerly of Flushing,
L. L, but for the past year a resident of
this city, were married to-day. Mrs.
Leavitt is the daughter of the late Judge
White, a prominent New York lawyer.
Twenty-one years ago, when 17 years old,
she married Leavitt at Cooperstown, N. Y.,v
through the influence of her family. De
mauriac was a rejected suitor, who after
ward married a wealthy New York lady
who died 11 years ago. Demauriac is a
member of the Stock Exchange, a banker,
and is rated at over 11,000,000. Leavitt be
came a very wealthy wine merchant at
Flushing, L. L About two years ago Mrs.
Leavitt visited her mother at Cooperstown
for three weeks, and on her return her hus
band refnsed to admit her to the house or
longer support her. She returned to Coop
erstown and a year ago came to South Da
kota. A few months ago, at Brookings, she
seoured a divorce on the ground of deser
tion and non-support Her former lover
wrote her here, renewing his offer of 21
years ago. He was accepted and the wed
ding followed.
HARRISON'S REVENGE.
Piatt's Lieutenants Who Refuse to Look
Oat for the President Made to Resign
One Way to Take Care of One's Own
Boom. v
New York, April 21 Special It be
gins io look as If President Harrison had at
last declared war against the New York
State leaders who are opposed to his renom
ination at Minneapolis. They think it is a
little late'in the day, for the reason that
they have already captured the majority of
the delegates to the National Convention.
Secretary Foster took John B. Milhol
land's head off, on the ground that he had
"failed to arrange matters satisfactorily
with a N. Bliss." The night this was done
Mr. Bliss entertained at dinner in
his home the enemies of Har
rison. Mllholland, with H. O. Armour,
was promptly elected a delegate to the Na
tional Convention from the Sixth Con
gressional district Charles H. Murray,
the leader of the Third, Assembly district,
and a delegate with John D. Lawson from
the Seventh Congressional district to Minne
apolis, announced to-night that he had been
removed from his place as special attorney
for the Immigration Bureau in United
States Attorney Mitchell's office.
Colonel 8. V. R. Cruger, on his visit to
Washington duripg the height of the Mil-holland-Bliss
Eleventh district row, in
formed Secretary Foster that Mr. Murray
and Bernard Biglin were the chief support
ers of Milholland in his fight to control the
district. Secretary Foster,before he started
for Ohio on his trip" to capture the conven
tion of the Buckeye State on April 28 for
Harrison, signed the letter removing Mur
ray. But one meaning was put upon the re
moval of Murray, that the Harrison ad
ministration bad declared war upon Piatt
and everybody in New York opposed to the
President's renomination. Mr. Piatt is not
any the more inclined to come to terms, all
the same.
MISPLACED CONFIDENCE.
The Tiffany, of New York, Systematically
Bobbed by a Man With Whom They
Dealt The Culprit's Father an Old
Friend of the Firm.
New Yoek, April 2L James A. Palmer,
of this city, was arrested this afternoon,
charged with the larceny of $50,000 from
Tiffany & Co., the jewelers. Palmer was
captured at his warerooms, on West Seven
teenth street, and when he learned that bis
misdeeds had been found out, he exclaimed,
"O God! I wish I had shot myself!"
He acknowledged his guilt to Inspector
Steers later at police headquarters. The
stealing had been carried on for more than
five years in a very systematic manner.
Charles L. Tiffany, the head of the "firm of
Tiffany & Co., and James F. Palmer, the
prisoner's father, were close friends from
boyhood days until Mr.Palmer died in 1878.
leaving his business to his son. The Pal
mers manufactured fine bronze goods for
Tiffany Ss Co. He rendered the'firm many
large bills. The son sras manager for the
elderPalmer.and. dhtTh great deal of the
business.
On account of the warm friendship which
existed between the elder Palmer and
Charles Tiffany, the usual system of audit
ing bills was not used In the settling of ac
counts. When old Mr. Palmer died the
same courtesy and loose way of conducting
business was continued with the son. On
Monday a discrepancy was discovered in
a bill rendered by the prisoner on the 16th
instant for $240. The items only footed up
$220. The bill had been checked with the
initials of T. C. Cook, a member of the firm
of Tiffany &,Co. When Mr. Cook was
shown the initials he pronounced them a
forgery. The case was then reported to the
police. Mr. Palmer's wife is completely
prostrated at the turn affairs have taken.
Palmer has been playing the races heavily.
He was drunk when arrested.
A NEW CANADIAN VIEW
Exposed by a Conservative Member of the
Present Parliament
Boston, April 21 Special Hon. K.
F. Burns, a Conservative member of the
Canadian Parliament who is visiting Bos
ton, gave a new version of the Canadian
situation in an interview to-day. He said
that Canada would never be annexed to the
United States. "I think," he said, "that
at some distant time there will be a separa
tion from Great Britain, but it will be a
friendly one. Canada will remain in
dependent and not be united with
the United States. Canadians have great
faith in the possibilities of their country,
and when the time comes, will prefer a sep
arate political existence. We want no com
mercial union that will compel us to dis
criminate against Great Britain. That was
the alternate submitted to the delegation
we sent to Washington in favor of reciproc
ity." "We see more benefit in being under the
protection of England than the United
States. England is a greater maritime
power. Her navy protects our merchant
marine the world over, and we gain access
to her markets at no cost whatever. We
govern ourselves completely. We pay no
imperial taxes. Every cent we pay goes to
the support of our own institutions. What
better arrangement can we ask?"
LIGHTNING AND FLOODS.
Destructive Thunder Storms Visit Tennessee
and Louisiana.
Milan, Tenn., April 2L A terrible
rain storm has prevailed in this seotion for
the past 24 hours, and fences, houses,
bridges and other property have been swept
away and travel suspended. Dr. Bryant
and two negroes are believed to have been
drowned, and a great cro wd of people are
now dragging the submerged bottoms tor
their bodies. Several washouts are re
ported on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad.
A dispatch from New Orleans says: Dur
ing the thunder storm here at 8 A. M., Jean
nette Pernadet was struck by lightning and
killed and half a dozen persons in his com
pany were prostrated. At Abbeville at
noon.to-day ihe barn on Mr. Leblanche's
lace was struck bv lightning and Aristode
lOnglingan was killed and two other per
sons injured. The rainfall from 6 A. M. to
noon to-day was four inches, most of which
fell between 7 and 9 o'clock, flooding the
streets throughout tne city.
The First Wbaleback No More.
Deteoit, April 2L Whaleback barge
No. 101, coal laden, in tow of tbfe steamer
Tokima, sprung a leak last night and sank
near Lime Kiln crossing. She will doubt
less soon be raised. This boat is the first of
its kind built, having been turned out at
West Superior in 1888. She is 412 tons reg
ister and is valued at $40,000.
.Ex-Congressman Yardley a JBrldecroom.
Doylesxown, April 2L Ex-Congressman
Yardley was married this evening at
the residence of the bride to Mrs. Rebe
James, daughter of ex-Sheriff Purdy.
QUAKING CALIFORNIA.
More Shocks Yesterday, in Some
Places -Severer Than Before.
RUINS ALREADY MADfi FINISHED.
The Buildings In the Afflicted Towns Very
Flimsy Affairs.
PE0F. DAYIDS0N EXPOUNDS HIS THEOET
San Francisco, April 21. There was a
recurrence ' of an earthquake wave in the
central part of the State this forenoon,
which was perceptible in this .city and was
noticeable as far east as Reno. Telegraphic
reports show that it was felt as far north as
Red Bluff in the San Joaquin Valley. This
shock was not so severe as that of, Monday
night, and the only damage of any con
sequence reported was to the buildings in
the towns of Winters, Woodland, Dixon and
Vacaville, which had been weakened by
Monday's shock.
The shock was sharper at Sacramento
than any 'previous one, and caused some
excitement in the State Capitol building,
owing to the Over-turning of one of the
plaster figures over the main portico and its
precipitation to the ground.
'The shock was chiefly felt at Vacaville,
but at Woodland several brick walls fell
down and a number of chimneys were over
turned. At Dixon and Davisville several
brick buildings fell which had been injured
Monday.
A Very Poor Class of Buildings.
A survey of the damages at six towns
in the Vaca and Sacramento valleys shows
that the buildings injured were of frail
character, the construction of which would
not have been permitted in any city with
building regulations, and a number of which
would have collapsed in the event of a
severe storm of anyharacter.
In this city and in Sacramento the shock
was not noticeable in strong business blocks,
nor in the mission churches, many of which
are over 100 years old. Several of the
country houses which partly collapsed
were lightly constrncted and could not have
withstood any shock,
The only personal injury reported is that
of a workman at Dixon, who was struck by
part of a falling wall. Governor Markham
offered to send tents to people at Winters,
whose houses were destroyed.
This morning's shock at Winters com
pleted the destruction of the two-story Ma
sonic Hall, of the Chadwick building, Ber
tholet's two-story stone building, Humprey
Brothers' one-story stone building, and gen
erally demolished goods, fixtures, etc One
man was badly Injured by a falling wall.
Three brick and stone farmhouses west of
town, injured Monday night, were ' com
pletely wrecked to-day.
Even Worse Than the First Shock.
At Davisville the shock lasted no more
than five seconds, vet in severity it seemed
to exceed that of tne morning of the 19th.
The additional damage is ' scarcely notice
able, save in the rear of the Masonic and
Odd Fellows' halls, where' the fissures show
considerable enlargement and are now really
dangerous. In Campbell's drug store sev
eral bottles were thrown from the shelves,
and at B. F. Liggett's glass was crushed in
the front Many brick chimneys will have
to be torn down and rebuilt
.Dixwi. reports -that. oidytWwtta1rfT;??C-' " Bto-tef Eat
brick buildings in town are safe. . The occu
pants of bnck buildings who remained after
tne preceding shocks moved out to-day.
There were many narrow escapes. The
people are panic-stricken, and believe the
ruin of the town will be completed before
the shocks cease. Every available mechanic
and laborer is at work attempting to clear
awav the wreckage and taking down the
condemned buildings.
Finished the Rains Already Made.
At Woodland the quake was fully equal
to that of Tuesday night The damage is
light, so far as ascertained. The buildings
were cracked in many new places and the
recent breaks somewhat enlarged. The
most noticeable effects are seen in the Capi
tal Hotel, Christian Church, Odd Fellows'
Hall and the express office.
The earthquake at Vacaville was not as
severe as those of the preceding days. Some
shaky walls were demolished and a number
of ceilings were cracked, but no serious
damage was done.
A dispatch from Esparto says: A severe
earthquake shock occurred here this morn-,
ing, completely leveling the brick portion'
of the town. Every brick chimney was
thrown to the ground, and the wooden
buildings were wrenched out of shape. W.
H. Shultz, engineer, was seriously, if not
fatally, injured by a part of the walls of his
blacksmith shop falling upon him. .Levy &
Schwab's brick store is almost a complete
wreck, the entire firewall and part of the
east and west walls being down. Barnes'
Hotel suffered a severe loss, making a hole
eight by six in the 'east wall. The brioks
crashed through the roof and the floor of
the balcony, and the cement walk was torn
out of shape. Mrs. J. R. Davison was
taken out ot the debris of Levy & Schwab's
store unconscious. A baby in her arms was
unhurt Reports from the surrounding
country show great destruction of property.
Teams broke and ran away, wrecking valu
able vehicles and injuring stock. Exten
sive fissures are reported between here and
Woodland.
Another slight shock of earthquake oc
curred here (San Francisco) at 7:15 this
evening. Shocks this evening are also re
ported from a number of other places in the
northern part of the State, and also from
Carson, Nev., but no damage is reported.
THE SCIENCE OF IT.
Prof. Davidson Says the Shocks Were
Caused by the Continual Shrlnkace of
the Earth's Surface Evldenoe of Lava
Overflows la' the Sierras.
San Teancisco, April ZL Special
Prof. George Davidson,of the United States
Geodetic Survey, who has made a special
study of earthquakes on the coast, says of
the shakes which have done so much damage:
The consensus of Judgment? among physi
cists is that the earthquakes lesult from
shrinking of the surface of tho earth, and
from the ceaseless dissipation of its heat
into the cold of space. As this loss of heat
progresses, strains are inaugurated through
out the surface ot the earth, and on account
of that surface being of unequal strength,
there arrives a moment when a breaking or
a part of the surface takes place along the
weakest part thereof.
Every miner Is familiar with "faults"
which he encounters In the line of his drifts.
Rarely can ho tell whether the continuation
of bis vein 1 above or below him, when he
comes to a bare wall at the abrupt end of
bis vein.
Along this roast, lines of rupture of weak
Snrts of the earth's crust are shown in tne
cpression of the plateau of the Pnciuo
ocean bed, and the parallelism of at least
four lines of the Sierra Nevada end Cascade
ranges: and these Hues and the closely ad
jacent country must be tho seat of seismic
obanges, as each gradually loses its heat
We have evidence clearly before, us tbat
along the rupture of these ranges there have
been many overflows of lava, forming
basaltic lavers visible In the Sierra Nevada
in certain localities, and especially In many
outflows along the northern part of the Cas
cade ranse. The dynamical tbeoryaccounts
for these- exhibitions, and it is easy to
Imagine there must have been many other
exhibitions of electrical and volcanic
forces.
In the great chain of the Aleutian Islands,
where so many extinct and active volcanoes
exist, every earthquake along this weak
line In the earth's surface is accompanied by
THE SAME OLD CHARMER.
renewed activity in the living volcanoes,
and It may be safely assumed tbat all tho
phenomena may be traced to contraction
and rupture of some part of the surface or
crust from the ceaseless but slow cooling of
our planet.
THE RUSTLER'S SIDE
Presented in the Form of a Petition to the
President They Ask, Not for Venge
ance, but for Justice Ramon of a
Cattlemen's Victory.
Buffalo! Wyo.. April 21. The follow
ing is the first part of a telegram from the
citizens of Buffalo t(r"v5 President:
We do solemnly fc, "-it, contrary to
all lawB of God af &n '"d body of
capitalists with hlrfl, Q . -4 our
county with the open an-17 . jr ."
nf talHncnnapqafnn nt and " f J .""'I..
anmA In thnlr nam IntATflfltS! thi& f
their Rim vim to terrorize and det
o 3 !
the ennntv to their own aegrnndizeraeu.
murder and kill any and all person o.
persons resisting them, regardless of
reputation or calling; that they have
been deterred in the , act or com
mitment of such murders and killings;
that they have with firearms resisted arrest
by the civil authorities and have defied all
laws; that when surrounded bv the Sheriff's
posse and their capture certain, they were
arrested bv the military, which military Is
now ordered to escort them safely to the
railroad. The band comprises some of the
wealthiest people of the State, and they
ODenly aver that their wealth will buy them
protection from the Government. Our peo-
File have been, calm, patient and miraculous
y submissive to law and order all through
the troubled ordeal. They ask not lor
vengeance, but Justice.
The petition concludes:
We most respectfully ask, will It be the
pleasure of the President to receive a com
mittee of our people who desire to explain
the true condition of our county and how
grossly our people have been maligned?
The habeas corpus hearing of Dr. Charles
B. Penrose at Cheyenne was again post
poned to-day until May 23.
A dispatch from Deadwood, S. D., says:
Word has been brought to this city that a
battle between rustlers and cowboys was
fought Monday near Little Powder river,
resulting in a repulse for the rustlers who
had been emboldened by their recent victory
over the cattlemen. It is expected that
trouble will ensue again, and the rustlers
are determined to get into the spring round
up and the cowboys are equally determined
to keep them out
100 YOUNG FOR A FBEAK.
A Little Deformed Refugee's Hard Strngcle
NEW YOEK, April 2L Special Samuel
Kautman, 9 years old, came here from
Austria six months ago with a number of
Russians, one of whom fraudulently passed
the boy off as his son. Young Kautman
went to work for a man named Schachlman,
on Rivington street, from which house he
was taken three weeks ago and sent to
North Brothers Island to be treated for
typhus. He was discharged as cured three
days ago. He applied for aid at the He
brew Charities Society and was not ad
mitted. Being homeless and without
friends he wandered about begging, and
finally brought up at police headquarters
Wednesday night.
This morning he was taken to the Jeffer
son Market Court, where he aroused great
interest from the fact that hehad six toes
on each foot and five fingers,besides thumbs,
on each band. He said that a Bowery dime
museum manager had offered him $18 a
week to exhibit himself, but afterward
withdrew the offer because the boy was not
old enough to come within the legal limit
Justice Grady sent the boy to the Commis
sioners ot Immigration.
A CTOI0TJS SI0EY DENIED.
Senator McMlUIn Says That He Is a Folly
Naturalized Citizen.
Washington, April 2L Special A
curious story is flying around to-night, that
charges have been made against Senator Mc
Millin, of Michigan, that he is sitting in the
Senate as ah alien, having never been
naturalized. The story is an outgrowth
of the great political fight tbat has been
going on in Michigan for some years,
and the charges are said to emanate from
ths friends of Mayor Pingree, of Detroit,
who is a candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor and who is op
posed by McMillin.
When asked to-night in regard to his
citizenship, the Senator replied that he is a
native of New Brunswick, but was
naturalized in 1864, and that he has all the
papers in his possession for Mayor Pingree
or any otner man wno wisnes to see tnem.
Three Deaths From Coal Gas.
Saleii, N. J., April 2L Three fisher
men were fonnd in their cabin at Hope
Creek this morning, suffocated by coal gas.
When taken out they were in a dying con
dition. The men were Edward Press, Ed
ward Turner and William Grosscup, ill liv
ing at Hancock's Bridge, six miles from
Salem.
An Opium Victim's Suicide.
DAOTON, April 21. Dr. Albert H.
Gable, a physician, addicted to the opium
habit, committed suicide this evening by
shooting. He was unmarried and a protege
of the late Mrs. Thomas Ster, sister of the
late General George Crook.
THIS JIOENING'S NEWS.
Topic Page.
Washington Views on the Ticket. 1
England Growling at France 1
California Towns Still Shaking 1
A Little Ohio Eloper Caught 1
Women After the Smoke Makers 2
Hunting Opium Dens In Pittsburg 3
Allegheny County Realty Jumping 2
Editorial and Miscellaneous 4
Republican Convention Gossip 4
News ot the National Capital S
Kennedy Oat ot Allegheny Council 6
Indiana Cheers for Cleveland 7
Lieut. Hetherington Defended 7
France Will Conqner Dahomey 7
Intombed Miners Probably Dead 7
The Baseball Disappointment 8
A Clubhonse for Amateur Athletes 8
Emigrants Mangled on the B. O .-r. 8
A Grand Wedding in Now fork 9
News of the Business World 9
A Bigamist With Thirteen Wives 9
The Trimble Estate Fight 10
Chess and Checker Problems ...10
Oil and Commercial Markets 11
The Chinese Defended In Congress IS
Allegheny Finances Explained 13
MAY HOWELL HMD.
The Little Girl From Alliance, 0.,
Who Ran Away to Be Married,
TURNS UP IN NEW YORK CITY.
She Was' Fonnd There Tuesday and Has
'Had the Best of Care.
THE SINGULAE ST0EI I0LD BT HER
ISFKCIAr, TZLEQEAM TO TITE DISPATCH.!
New Yoek, April 2L May Howell, the
lost girl of Alliance, O., was picked up on
the street here Tuesday. She left home
Monday evening, under peculiar circum
stances. She is 13 years old. May and
Chaaley Vosper, who is 12, had' planned for
their elopement, and were boarding a train,
when Officer Spicer arrested the boy. The
girl escaped. The boy has served a term in
the House of Correction. .
May's mother is a widow, and highly re
spected. She was much relieved when she
was notified that her daughter is safe. Be
fore the girl left home she broke into her
brother's trunk and took $15. May whis
pered to a girl companion on Sunday that she
would soon be Charley's wife. Chief of Police
McFarland, of Alliance, has notified the
New York authorities to hold the girl until
he reaches this city and takes charge of her.
He left lor New" York to-night She will
be taken home and put in the reform school.
As Black as a Little Neipress.
It was impossible to tell whether May
Howell was a white girl or a negress when
she was found on Tuesday afternoon wan
dering about the Grand Central station in
tears. She wore a dotted calico dress, and
' T fna nnil hanrla hfd iiTitwrTitlir Tint hApn
J Ashed lor weeks. A vigorous aDDlication
A vigorous application
I-
f soap with a scrub brash at the Gerry
society's rooms took off the disguise and
revealed a rosy-cheeked country girl, about
13 or 14 years old, whose thick, black hair
fell in a heavy bang over her forehead. She
told the policeman who found her that
Robert Johnson, her uncle, had brought her
over from his farm outside of Brooklyn and
had left her at the station, sayinsr he would
return. He did not come back.
Superintendent Jenkins found 56 09 in
May's pocket', and May said she had
found $2 of the amount She told the
Superintendent she was 11 years old and
had come from her home at Mt Union, near
Alliance, O., a month ago, with her uncle
on a visit She stuck to her story, and in
sisted that her mother knew she was going
away with Johnson.
Another Case of the Same Kind.
Johnson had told her he would come back
and get her a ticket and send her home, be
cause he had received a letter from Mrs.
Minerva Howell, her mother, saying she
was ill, and wanted the child to return.
May said her mother kept a boarding house
for students of a college in Mt. Union. No
trace of Johnson has been discovered.
Superintendent Jenkins says May is in
the same category as a girl of about the
same age who says she lives in Indiana, and
who was found wandering in the city six
months ago. A woman brought her to the
society, saying she had found her in the
street. Subsequently the woman returned
and said she was the girl's mother. The
girl denied it, and the society has "been try
ing ever since to find who the girl
really belongs to. A dispatch was
received from an Indiana man, last week,
threatening to sue the Eocietyit Jixe girl
was not instantly sent to him in the charge
of a train condnctor. Word was telegraphed
him to prove his right to claim the waif.
She has been living at the society's rooms.
"It is a case," said Superintendent
Jenkins, "where a girl has been brought to
this big city and deliberately abandoned.
Such cases are not uncommon."
M'KINLEY NOT A CANDIDATE.
For Congress, bnt His Friends Are Boom
ing Him for President.
Columbus, O., April 21. Special
Governor McKinley denies the report sent
all over the country that he is a candidate
for his old seat in Congress from the Stark-Columbiana-Mahonlng
district. To a re
porter the Governor said to-day:
"No, I am not a candidate. I have
not thought of such a thing. The story
tbat I was is news to me. The idea never
entered my mind, and probably never
would had I not seen a suggestion to that
effect in the papers."
"But, Governor, if you were urged to
accept the nomination would you give the
matter further consideration?"
"No, I am in ho sense a candidate," was
his reply.
The anti-Harrison men do not want Mc
Kinley to go as a delegate to the Repub
lican National Convention, for they intend
to spring the Governor oh the convention as
a candidate for President, and do not want
him to be in a position where he can rise
and decline. They expect to use the magic
of the great protectionist's name to defeat
Harrison. There will be a lively time over
the selection of the four delegates at large
to the National Convention. Already the
storm flag is flying at Cleveland, and next
week the battle will take place. If the
Sherman faction controls the State Repub
lican Convention no Foraker man need ap
ply, and vice versa.
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY CONFAB
Likely to Be He'd in the United States Be
fore Many Months.
Washington; April 2L Special
The announciment made in THEDlsrATCH
this morning that President Harrison had
invited the nations of the werld to a mone
tary conference is confirmed to-day from an
official authority that is beyond question.
Private Secretary Halford admits that th
arrangements for the proposed conference
have been completed, and a bureau officer of
the Treasury says that all "necessary steps
have been taken, that the conference is now
an assured fact, and that within a fortnight
the responses will be received and made
public.
It is known that the United States Gov
ernment has the co-operation of England
and France in her proposition for the con
ference, and it is further known that cer
tain changes and concessions in the propo
sition of the United States were made at
the request of Chancellor Goschen, who
talked over the whole subject with Secre
tary Foster when the latter was in England
last month. The President has inlormally
received assurance from nearly all the gov
ernments to whom his invitations were ad
dressed that they would be accepted.
SHE TORE TJF THE WILL.
A Pretty Nebraska Girl Would Accept
Neither a Lover Nor His Money.
Lincoln, Neb., April 2L Some six
months ago Arend Arends, a well-to-do
farmer, hanged himself because pretty
Mary Van Hove, a neighbor's daughter, did
not return his love. Arends left a will in
which he bequeathed his farm and posses
sions, valued at 510,000, to Mary.
To-day she came into court in response to
a summons, but positively declined to file
the will for probate, dramatically tearing
up the document before the astonished rela
tives, and renouncing her claims in favor of
Arend's mother, who lives in Reynold
county, Mo.