BX wgjjWHH?pw5r i"1" iFi'ipvt tj &e?rrrlf -lVz? KrvC 1 - .Jt&i THERE IS A REASON. The small advertisements In The Dispatch's "Booms to let" column increased over 200 per cent in April. They are read and lib erally answered. One cent a word. FORTY SEVENTH YEAB. BIDS FOR VOTES INJHE SOUTH Will Be Met by the Adminis tration Jnst as Fast as They Are Made. BLAXCII BEUCE'S MISSION To Look After Colored Delegates and See That None Get Awav. Further Details of That Anti-Harrison Conference Leak Out Tom Reed's Bitterness One of the Features Alger's Barrel Belied on to Beat the President for a Eenomination The Administration Watching1 Sherman Closely Frailty of the Foster-McKin-ley Combine West Virginia Dele gates Will Vote for Harrison. tsrEciAi. Tr.LFcntM to the DisrATcn. Washington, May S. Hon. Blanch K. Urnce, Recorder of Deeds in the District of Columbia, and who, with Revels and Pinch back, enjoys the distinction of being one of three colored men who were once in the "United States Senate, goes South in a few days on a tour of inspection of the colored delegates thus far selected for Minneapolis. This information seems to be sedulously cir culated by administration adherents, and the reason of this is variously analyzed. The most plausible motive advanced is that the President already has news that col ored delegates are being: tampered with, and desires the fact advertised that an author ized agent will soon be on the ground to meet all bids thus far proffered. It is stated that ex-Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana, is now endeavoring to secure all possible bets, at even, that Harrison will be defeated in the Xational Convention. At the Treasury Department Sherman's conduct is causing consternation, and it is well known that the McKinley-Foster corn nine has recently intimated fear that Ohio's Senator was playing his last desperate haz ard for the Presidency, and, therefore, was blowing hot and cold. Alger's Tat rnrse Relied On. General Alger's fat purse is relied upon by the entire anti-Harrison cabal to accom plish the defeat of the present incumbent, and nil the information which has emanated to-day from the penetralia ol the opposi tion asserts that Michigan's ambitious ex Governor has it in his power to defeat Har rison if he will employ his barrel for this purpose solely, and not attach the pro viso that the usufruct shall be his own. There is no mistaking the intense per sonal dislike of the President among the bit: politicia-s of his party. His, ungrate ful treatment of Dudley, his ignoring of Quay, and the entire familiar gamut of bis turning upon the men who gave so largely of iunds or energy to bis success are constantly being recapitulated. Piatt's hatred is intense, and based upon the broken promise to induct him into a Cabi net place. Blaine, in his pride of deserving recognition as prompt as complete of being the prince in the Republican household, cannot forget that even his own notification of being selected for the State portfolio came the latest in the entire list of Cabinet invitations. Tom Reed the Bitterest of All. Tom Reed is perhaps the most bitter of the whole contingent, and at last night's conference made the statement that Harri son could not secure Xew England. Even Tom Piatt's declaration that New York was an uncertain quantity, if Harrison were re nominated, was modulated in more har monious tones than the ex-Speaker's raspy utterances. The whole story of the conference will gradually ooze out, as there are too many participants to expect any greater secrecy than surrounds an executive session of the Senate. Don Cameron ably backed Quay with hi"! Scotch unrelenting dislike. Even Chauncey Depew was too far capti vated by his own possible attainment ot that ambition so rudely dispelled 4 years ago to refrain from attendance, and Rep resentative Caldwell, of Cincinnati, as proxy for Foraker, was not restrictive upon his sincere convictions being announced. There has been to-dav a wholesale debate over the final crystallization of the anti Harrison movement, and while naturally a majority of the office-holding population feigns to aert the certaintv of the Presidcn't cav conquest at Minneapolis, yet more sagacious politicians now confess imminent danger from the liability to lose Southern delegates by purchase. There is no doubt "that the opposition to the President is fomented by anti-Cleveland men, for the argumen is employed that if Harrison be dumped at Minneapolis, Cleve land will be dropped at Chicago with a promptitude that will outspecd an ocean racer. Blaine Tendered the Amis' Support. A special from New York savs: Every Republican of note in New York City floated through the uptown hotels to-night, anxious for news from the conference of Republicans at Washington, Saturday. The news was to the effect that the Republi cans antagonistic to the President had called upon Mr. Blaine and announced to him that he could have the nomination at Minneapolis if he said the word; other wise it would be offered to some other Re publican than the President. In the event ol the President's renomination, there will be a serious complication in the organiza tion of the New York Republican State Committee. It was announced to-night that the Chairman of the new Re publican State Committee and the Ex ecutive Committee of that body will not be selected until the choice of the Minneapolis convention is made. Should the President be renominated. Chairman Rrookfield and the present Executive Com mittee will retire. The present State Com mittee, elected at the recent convention of the Republicans at Albany, must serve in any event The difference would be that cither Colonel Elliott V. Shepard, Colonel S V. R. Cruger, Colonel George Bliss, Cor nelius N. Bliss or George A. Peabody, Jr., will have to be Chairman. WILL VOTE FOR HARRISON. West Virginia Dele-nt.-. Consider They Are Vnd-r Inhtrnctions. Wheeling. W. Va., May fi. Many false re ports have gone out concerning the itepub lican State Convention held at Martiniburg l.i.t week. Commenting on published lc poits concerning the attitude or the West Virginia delegation to Minneapolis, Charles Burdett Hart, one of tho delogates at large, said to-day that the delegation Is unques tionably for Harrison. Ho said: "The dele gates were not instructed, because that was not necessary. The Indorsement or the President Is as strong as language can make it, represents the sentiment of the party in this State, nnrt mm? hn Accented as suf- I flciently Indicating West Virginia's vote In me convention. "The ract is that the resolution of indorse ment adopted by the convention also con gratulates President Harrison on the pros pect of his renominatlon and re-election." SENATOR STANFORD TO BESIGN If the legislature In California Is Retained by the Republicans. Sax Francisco, May & Special The Ex aminer prints a story, apparently well au thenticated, that Senator Stanford will re sign early next year, should a Republican Legislature be elected this fall in California. He told several Intimate friends of his de termination before he went East, and said this would be done whether the Carls bad waters helped him or not. In cipient apoplexy threatens Mr. Stanford, ana his physicians have warned him that absolute rest and freedom from excitement aie imperative in his present condition. His mind is clear, but be is in an exceptionally nervous state, with unnatural faciaf redness, nnd has much difficulty in walking about, even indoors. Mrs. Stanford is much wor ried in enn-equence, and thinks that he can prolong his life bv retiring from public life altogether, and living quietly at Palo Alto The Senator himselt is much worried at the result of thediagnosis by his physicians, and for this reason is going to Carlsbad this summer. In the hope that ho will get Immediate relief ftom his present difficulty. Another thins which his friends say has induced him to deoido to resign the senatorsliip is the disappoint ment ot his political ambition. He really hoped to be a candidate tor the Presidency, nnd ho attributed his failure to the ridicule nnd abuse henped upon him by Huntington nnd his friends when the change was made in the Southern Pacific Presidency. If he resigns there will be a lively skirmish among California politicians for tho place, with the chance in favor of Editor De Toung or Senator Felton. HAS BUT ONE CANDIDATE. An Ohio Senator Who Won't Think of Any one Except Cleveland. Youxostowit, May 8. State Senator An thony Howells, of Massillon, was here to day. Upon being interviewed regarding his Presldental preference, he said: "I am for Cleveland as against anyone who has been suggested, no gave us four years of clean, successful administration, that was a credit not only to the Democratic narty, but to the entire country, and many Republicans now appreciate this fact. Mr. Cleveland possesses elements of strength that are contained in none of the aspirants for the leadership of the party in 1S91 He possesses a spotless reputation that contact with pnblic life has not tarnished In the slislitest desree, and has been tried in the crucible of public opin ion nnd not found lacking in tho essentials necessary to a successful administration of national atlairs. He is strong in every sec tion of the conntry, and in my opinion the partv will make no mistake in giving him the first place on the Presidental ticket." "Who is vour choice for Congressman In this district?" "As to that I do not care to say until I know definitely whether Congressman War wick de-ires a renominatlon or not. If he wishes a second term he shonld have it, and receive the nomination by acclamation." "Would you accept the nomination?" "Well, I have been treated very gener ously hv the partv, and they might think I have had enough." COLONEL POORMAN IN LTJCK. He Captures Belmont County, Ohio, Almost Solidly for Congress. St. Clairsville, O., May 8. .SJierio.J The only primaries of I he Sixteenth district were held in this (Belmont county) yester dav. Returns were late coining in. but to day it is known that Colonel C It Poorman has 51 out of a possible 63 delegates, and pos sibly more. Both Colonel Poorman and Sen ator Xichols are of this county, and, accord ins to the agreement entered into by them before they began tho Congressional con test. Poorman, having the majority of the delegates, will have the solid support of the entire 63 votes at the Steubenville Conven tion on the 24th of this month. Tims but 21 more votes will be required tor Poorman to secure the prize. The contest promises to be very exciting, however. Harrison countv, also of the new Sixteenth district, with its 20 votes, will pre sent the name of General Holllngsworth; Jefferson, with 47 votes, will present tho name of ex-Lieutenant Governor Richards. of Steubenville: Carroll, with 26 votes, will present the name of Senator Eckley, while Monroe, with its 14 votes, may aNo have a candidate. It is possible these counties may unite on another than the Belmont county candidate. DEMOCRATS GETTING TOGETHER. The Two Pactions in Louisiana .Agree to Consolidate Again. New Orleans, May 8. Special. An under standing has finally been reached that will establish harmony between the two factions of tne Democratic party and rennlte them. There are now two Democratic parties in Louisiana, each claiming to bo the only genuine one. Each had its State Central Committee, nnd each proposed to call a State convention and elect delegates to the Presidental convention at Chicago. The contest over the United States Sena torsliip, which has divided the factions on new lines, has brought the leaders together, and a plan has finally been reached by which a new State Central" Com mittee will De divided equally between the two old ones. These will proceed to reor ganize the party, and will call a sinele con vention and send a single delegation to the National Convention. There will, of course, be only one Demo cratic ticket in the field, whereas a month ago two seemed certain. All the points have been agreed to, and the split in the Democrauc ranks will be healed in a few days. HUSTLING FOE A SENATE SEAT. General Gibson Has Plenty of Opposition to His Ke-Electlon. New Orleans, May S. Special A new candidate for the United States Senate has entered the field in tho person of T. S. Adams, as the representative of the Farmers' Alliance. Adams is President of the Louisiana. State Alliance, nnd was nominated by it for Gov ernor, hut retiied in favor of Foster, who was nominated and elected, Ad ams being elected Secretary of State on the same ticket He claims that there are 40 Alliance members of the Legixlature, enough to elect him, nnd he will ndvoeate the theories of the order before the United States Senate. The Alliance members will vote together in the Legislature on all im portant questions. The new candidates are the present Sena tor, General It. L. Gibson, ex-Senator B. F. Jonas, and Don Caffrey, brother-in-law of Governor-elect Foster, and who expects to have the State patronage to heln him in the contest. The chances favor Gibson, with Caffrey second on the list. People' Party Ilt-fnses f o Fuse. Little Eock, Ark., May 8. The State Cen tral Committee or tho People's party of Arkansas has adopted the following: "Re solved. Thatwc lecommend to our people that they refrain from any fusion or combi nation with other political parties, and that they make a straight contest on the basis of our principles as set forth." Working In Iowa for Boles. Chicago, May 8. Special dispatches from several points in Iowa state that delegates elected in district conventions have been Instructed to vote only for delegates at the State Convention who will pledge them selves to work for the nomination of Gov ernor Boies for President. Ingalls to It ork Tor the Nominees. Atchison, Kax., May 8.-Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls will make his European tour di rectly alter the Minneapolis convention. Ho says he will return in time to participate in the Fresident.il campaign. Two. More Votes for Harrison. Maluex, Mo., Mav 8. William Iloganhardt and M. B. Claude have been selected dele gates to Minneapolis by their Itepublicnn Congressional convention. They were in structed to vote for Harrison, me A GIGANTIC CONSPIRACY. THE "WEST SHORE RAILROAD BEATEK OUT OF A FORTUNE. At Xait Fifty Arrests Expected by This Evening Empty Mileage Ticket Books Sold Over and Over Again and Used by Each Purchaser. Kewbueg, N. Y., May 8. Special Nothing which has happened here in years has so stirred up this town as the arrest on Saturday of Saloonkeeper Michael Horton, Thomas Gillooly, and John J. Pender, on a charge of defrauding the West Shore Railroad Company. Pender has only lived here about six weeks. It has been an open secret for months past that the men were defrauding tho railroad, and that the con ductors on the line were sharing the pro ceeds. The loss of the railroad company is said to aggregate many thousands of dollars, as the swindle has 'been carried on for over a year. The scheme of the men was to use reduced rate ticket book covers. The conductors, instead of turning the books in with the last ticket, handed them over to their confederates, who resold them to passengers. Some books were sold over and over again. One man rode from Newburg to Albany on an empty mileage book which he purchased in this place for $2. Another man paid $2 50 for the outside cover of a rednced-rate ticket book, which had not a ticket In it,and rode on it from here to Buffalo, a distance of almost 100 miles. The three men wore arrahmed before Re corder McCroskrey and admitted to bail in the sum of $1,000 each. Horton and Gillooly were very nervous at their hearing, but Pender was flippant and cool as a cucumber. The suspicion is that he is a Pinkerton man and came here for the ex press purpose or netting into the confidence of Horton and Gillooly and then betraying them. It is said that the corruption extends to every city of any size on the West Shore Railroad. The road authorities say that no less than 60 men will be in custody by to-morrow night, all of them business men on the line of the railroad, who have been making money on the outside by doing a scalper business. It is said that every con ductor on the road has been sharing in the proceeds of the conspiracy, and that every one will be arrested. THE ACI0BS' FUND FAIB PB0FIIS. They Will Amount to About 8170,000, Ac cording to Mr. Palmer. New York, May 8. Special. Just as soon as the Actors' Fund Fair was over last night, the work of demolition was begun, and almost in a trice the miniature city was in ruins. By 2 o'clock this morning the countless articles that were therefor sale or for decoration had been removed to tho restaurant in the Madison Square Gardenbnildimr, and all day to-day men were engaged in sorting the goods and putting everything in readiness for the sale that is to take place tills week. Mr. A M. Palmer reckoned the total receipts to-dav at $181,000 and tho expenses at $20,000. It is thought that $10,000 may also be real ized on articles yet to be sold. Said Mr. Palmer: "The Actors' Fund al ready amounted to $50,010. and with what we have realized from the fair it will amount to a round $200,000. We want to wait until the fund reaches $350,000, and then we shall establish a modest orphanage, which shall also be a home. Then if an actress is left with throe or lour small children, and obliged to travel from Maine to California, she can have the privilege of leaving her children at the home during her absence, and feel at ease." TBIED TO MURDER A GIRL. An Iowa Lawyer's Kevenge for Being Jilted by a Wllkesbarre Lady. WrLKESBAKBE, May 8. Special. Tho queer antics of a wealthy Iowa lawyer are puzzling the police and detectives of this city. M'ss Ethel Johnson, daughter of ex County Treasurer Johnson, resides with her mother in the fashionable part of ye city. A year ago she went to Iowa, where'dhe met the wealthy lawyer in question. The Iowan proposed marriage, but was reiected. Miss Johnson returned home, and since then she has been subjected to all kinds ot potty an noyances. The Western lawyer came to Wilkesbarre.wrote anonymous letters to the young lady, and, disguised as a woman, fol lowed her on the street. Friday evening, while Miss Johnson was alone in the house, the man, disguised as a woman bookagent, attempted to assassinate her. Her violent screams broncht assist ance, but the man escaped. His name is said to be Leonard Harris. To-night the Johnson family offer $500 reward for the man's capture. P0IS0HED BY AN ENEMY. A Tonng Johnstown Man Takes a Glass of Beer That Lays Him Out. JoinfSTOWjr, May 8. Special Edward Benner, a young man, is lying seriously ill at the Memorial Hospital as a result of a mysterious poisoning. A vain attempt has been made to keep the matter quiet. He boards at the home of a friend, George Trent, and yesterday morning he was found by Mrs. Trent lying unconscious on the kitchen floor. Ho was given milk to allay the pains in his stomach, but becoming no better a physician was called, to whom he said he had been downtown the nignt be fore and had taken a tew glasses ot beer, though he was by no means intoxicated. Benner said some one had put the stun in the beer. The youne man suspects an enemy of his, whose name ho will not di vulge. It is hinted a love affair is at the bottom of the trouble. A CONFEDERATE STATESMAN DEAD. Hon.A. It. Boteler, Ex-Member or Congress, Passes Away In TVest Virginia. Wheeliko, May 8. Hon. A. K. Boteler died at his home in Shepherdstown to-day, aged 77. Colonel Boteler was a member of the Thirty-sixth Congress, and came within a few votes of being Speaker. He was on Stonewall Jackson's staff and a member of the Confederate Congress: was a member of the Tariff Commission appointed by President Arthur, and was Pardon Clerk durinir Attorney General Brewster's reign in the Department of Justice. THE LATEST DYNAMITE OUTBADE. The Dwelling of a Hungarian Notary Is Fcalpcd Tor Kevenge, Vienna, May a Theresidence of a district notary named Papp, in Versecz, Hungary, was wrecked to-day by a dynamite explos ion. The roof of the dwelling was blown bodily into the air and the windows of all buildings in its vicinity were shattered. It is supposed the motive of the perpetrator or perpetiators was revenue. A Boumaniun has been arrested on suspicion of being con nected with the affair. Chances of the River and Harbor Bill. Washington, May 8. Special Chairman Blanchard, of the Bivcr and Harbor Com mittee, has announced that in order to in sure the prompt passage of the pending bill he will withdraw the amendment empower ing the Secretary of War to continue work on improvements when contract bids are rejected. The general sentiment is that the House will pass the bill without substantial change. It is stated that Mr. Outhwaite will attempt to have a horizontal reduction of 25 per cent made on each item of the bill. Contract Miners for Pennsylvania. New Yoek, May 8. Five immigrants from the province of Lithuanieon, in Knssia, ar rived here to-day on tho steamer Wieland. They are detained at Ellis Island under the contract labor law. They had been engaged to work in the coal mines at Kingston, Pa., for $1 60 per day. Matto Grosso an Easy Conqnest. Montevideo, May 7. The Brazilian river squadron, en route to the State of Matto Grosso, has arrived here. It is alleged that the revolutionists there are completely de moralized, and their troops have refused to fight against the Government lorces. A London FIro Horror. London, May 8. Scott's oyster bar, in Cov entry street, was burned to-night. Four have been taken from the ruins, and it is feared there are more under the debris. fmfinm Mgpmin . prrrsBURG. Monday, may . 9. 1892. ABBETT IS AROUSED By the Thought That the Beading Deal May Be Legal After All. HE TURNS UP HIS COAT SLEEVES And Instructs His Attorney General to Test the Halter at Once. THE MINERS ALSO TO TAKE A HAND SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.! Tkenton, May 8. Governor Abbett now has his sleeves turned up to prevent the consummation of the Beading deal. His purpose to call an extra session of the Legis lature has been abandoned in favor of a plan to knock the bottom out of the big scheme by simply having the courts declare the recent lease of the Jersey Central to the Port Reading invalid. Control of the former corporation is necessary to the suc cess of the President McLeod project, and, if the tie between these roads is severed, the deal must necessarily come to naught The authorities of this State hold the Port Heading to be a corporation on paper only, created recently for purpose of facil itating the Heading combine. The law of New Jersey prohibits the leasing of its corporations to foreign corporations, and the Central, to get into the deal, which was really planned several years ago, had itself leased to the Port Beading, a company con trolled by the magnates of the Beading and Lackawanna, and yet so insignificant that it has never made any returns ior taxation to the State Board of Assessors, as by law all railroads are bound to do. An Invasion and Fraud Claimed. Now Governor Abbett has instructed At torney General Stockton to file a bill in the Court of Chancery setting up the lease of the Central to the Port Reading, and charg ing that the lense is an invasion and fraud on the law forbidding leasing to foreign cor porations or non-resident owners, and pray ing for an order decreeing the lease to be invalid and directing its cancelation. The present railroad law was passed in 1SSS, the second year of Governor Abbott's first term. The State found it so difficult to collect the taxes due from foreign corpora tions, owing to their habit of appealing to the United States Supreme Court nnd in volving onr authorities in long, vexations and expensive litigations, that Governor Abbett caused to be enacted a law forbid ding companies incorporated here to lease their roads to foreigners, unless the consent or the Legislature of New Jersey was first obtained thereto. The act in question further provided that if any companv In this State should desire to execute such a lease, ic should submit a draft of the proposed lease to the Legisla ture, for its consideration, and no such lease should be of any effect whatever until ap proved by an act of the Legislature, nor un less the corporations should file an agree ment to bo approved by the Governor and Attorney General, surrendering all rights of exemption from taxation. A Change From the Former Law. This law prevented appeals to the United States Courts, and constrained existing cor porations to fUht out their battles with the authorities of New Jersey in this State. Such being tho state of the law, it was im possible for the Central to lease direct to the Reading, which Is a foreign corporation, hence the Port Reading was incorporated and the Central leased to it as it acting within the general railroad act. Attorney General Stockton is now prepar ing the papers, and in, the course of a few days will havo them ready for filing. The prospect is for tho biggest railroad war ever lougiitin tnis btate, wtiicn lias been the sceneofsomnnygretrtrailroad strangles.1 womenls to pose before London society as The Port BeadimnmTcontend that uh as'fieaa,ers r w"nen tn America. Tho fins- mucn a railroad corporation as the Reading or Pennsylvania, and the Beading and Lack awanna will open their coffers to help it sustain its claim. MINERS TO TAKE A HAM). They Say iVages Must Be Reduced or the Price of Coal Raised 40 Per Cent. ViLKxsnARBE, May 8. Murmurlngs of dis content among the miners of the Wyoming valley since consummation of the Beading deal are increasing, and an organized effort is being made by the miners to resist. John Shadrack, one of tho most prominent labor leaders in the anthracite region, said this evening that the spirit of unrest was unusual among the worklnsr men. "They have waited patiently," he continued, "for some bona fide nctlon by the State Gov ernment looking to the enforcement of thn Constitution against'the combine, but have become disgusted at the evident insincerity of those in a position to bring the combine to terms, haw they propose to take the matter in their own hands. The men claim thnt in order to nay the guarantee given by tho Beading, one of two thlngsmust bo done: The price of coal must be advanced 40 cents a ton or the wages of the miners reduced 10 per cent. They cannot seo how it is possible to advance the coal in the market, and they conclude that the only alternative left is a reduction of their wages to the starving point. "This week no less than four delegations of miners from different sections of the coal field waited UDon me in order that the busi ness men who are dependent upon the miners for their prosperity might be in duced to stand by the working men in their fight against the combine. It is the uni versal opinion tht the retrenchment already inaueuratod by the Beading will bear heavily upon the miners, and for the sake of their homes and their little ones the men are determined that the Constitution shall be obeyed, or serious trouble will fol low." A FAKE GRAND JURY. Two Men on It Falsely Personating Well Known Politicians. Philadelphia, May a Speciat Sitting now as members of the grand Jury are two men falsely personating two well-known nnd respectable Thirty-fourth ward tax payers. Similar personations have been successfully carried through in the past without exposure. Further revelations are yot to be made. It is Impossible to tell at present to what extent the most infamous attack upon the Integrity of thejury sys tem has been carried, nor can it yet be de cided what effect the fraud may have upon all the criminal indictments found during the present term of the Court of Quarter Sessions. Michael McReown, one of Sheriff Connell's summons servers, is most seriously involved. The Inception of the fraud in the particular cases disclosed is directly traced to him by unimpeachable testimony. The men per sonated in the present grand Jury are Frank Hoffner, a woll-to-do trucker, and William J. Bradley, a tlmekeoper In Baldwin's Locomo tive Works. COENEBING KENTUCKY WHIBKY. An English Syndicate Negotiating for Com plete Control of the Bourbon. New York, May 8. A deal is about to be consummated which will give an English syndicate complete control of most of the bourbon whisky made in Kentucky. Nathan Hofflieimer, a well-known New York whisky speculator, returned from England two weeks ago, where he has been for several months conferring with London and Liver pool capitalists. He then went to Louis ville, where he is negotiating the deal and securing options on all the great whisky plants in the State. The deal represents an investment of between $6,000,000 and $7,000, 000. The headquarters of the syndicate will be in New York and Louisville. It is expected the syndicate will be able to take control and begin operations at the opening of the next distilling season, about October 1. THE COMING TJNIVEBSITY. It Will Be Open to College Graduates Only, as Explained by Bishop Hurst. Omaha, May 8. "The American Universi ty" and "Christian Education" were the pre vailing themes at the mass meetlngat Expo sition Hall this afternoon. Notwithstand ing the forbidding weather there was an audience of over 25,000 people present. All the addresses were with reference to the proposed great university at Washington, whioh will be open ouly to college graduates and the doors of which are not to be thrown open until an endowment fond of $5,OoO,000 has been secured. The nature of the scheme was set forth by Bishop Hurst, who presided. bishops to designate October 16 as Colum-' ujhii uav, wnen suDscnptions m u " for the American University. The question will come before the General Conference for definite action some time during the present month. RUNNING THE GAUNTLET. A Number of Free Silver Senators Trying to Down Whltelaw Beid's Successor Mr. JCooildge Is Too Much of a Gold Bug to Snlt Some ot Them. "Washington-, May a Special' A de termined eflort is being made by a number of Senators to defeat the confirmation of Jefferson Coolidge, of Boston, as Minister to France. Senators Morgan, Teller and Stewart are the leaders of the opposition. They have discovered that Mr. Coolidge is a monometallist and a gold bug, and that it would therefore be an indelicate thing to send him as American Minister to a country that favors the bi-metallic standard, and would moreover; for the same reason, retard the efforts which the United States Government is making to arrange an international monetary conference. During the sessions of the late Pan-American congress Mr. Coolidge attacked as ridic ulous a proposition made by M. M. Estee, of California, for the coinage of an interna tional silver dollar for use only in the North and South American countries. The speech of Mr. Coolidge has been dug up by the free coinage Senators, and they have succeeded in getting togethera somewhat formidable opposition, composed chiefly of silver and anti-Harrison Senators. The nomination of Mr. Coolidge has al ready been acted upon favorably by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senators Gray and Butler voting with their Repub lican colleagues on the committee for con firmation. The fight ot the opposition, therefore, will be made in the Senate, per haps to-mori ow. The chances are that they will be beaten and the nomination eventu ally confirmed. PRITTS CAN'T BE FOUND. Officers Capture a Moonshine Pal After Finding a Mysterious Trap Door. Somerset, May 8. Special. Sheriff Good and party returned this morning after a fruitless searoh for tho murderer, Bill Pritts, although they captured a member of the moonshine organization who had concealed him, and brought him to Jail. The prison er's name is Wilson Garry.and he had a cozy little bedroom fitted up in the cellar of his house, admission to whioh was only to be had through a trap door opening into a bed room occupied by himself and wife. When the officers detected the trap door and gained admission to the bedroom, Garry ad mitted he had entertained Pritts for a few days, but clHimed that he had not been at 111" house during the past week. The officers then went to Pritts' home, hoping to find htm there, but his wife said he had not been home since the mnrder. There is no longer any doubt that Pritts is hiding in the mountains around his house, and that he is being concealed by members of the moonshine band. AN EXPOSURE RESENTED. Tic Woodbull and Tennie C. Claflin In a Pritttv Bad Row. Chicago, May 8. Viotoria Woodlmll-Mar-tin and Tennie Clafliu-Cook have begun a libel suit for $100,000 against the Evening Mail and Joseph H. Dunlap, Its publisher. The paper devoted a page to a review of the careers of the women and denounced them in the most severe language. Indictments found as long ago as 1864. in Ottawa, 111., against Tennie C Claflin were published. xne paper says tne present touroi tne present bands are denounced as blind, infatu ated man, nnd the paper hopes the issue it has made will be brought into court at once. A score of interviews with old citizens of Ottawa are printed, all showing that the women were of dubious reputation 25 years ago. The paper is keep ing up the attack, and the last issue edito rially reiterates the charges, and pitches into the combination in a manner as vigor ous as it is direct. A FASTOB SUES HIS OWN 0HUBCH, Gets an Execution and Has the Sacred Edi fice Seized by the Sheriff! Philadelphia, May a The Mount Vernon Baptist Church, in Camden, was seized by the Sheriff yesterday on an execution by the pastor, Bev. J. D. Elansburg, for $3,728. The church property is said to be worth $22,000. The congregation was formerly one of the strongest In the city, but, owing to internal dissensions, the membership dwindled down so that the church was no longer self sustaining, and the basement had to be rented out as a shoo factory. Pastor Elans burg's claim is for money advanced to run the church. NO BPEING WATER FOB THE FATE. Waukesha, Wis., Forcibly Objects to the Laying of the Pipe Line. Milwaukee, May 8. Tho efforts of the Chicago Pipe Line Company to lay its pipes in Waukesha to-day to draw the water from the springs to Chicago for World's Fair pur poses was a failure, citizens resisting the attempt so vigorously that the company withdrew its force of men and abandoned the project. Waukesha people object to the pipe line on the ground that it would take away much of the summer resort patronage anticipated next year. AECHBISHOP IRELAND AHEAD. Two of His Missions to Rome About to Be Crowned With Success. Bmoe, May 8. The Vatican is preparing a negativo reply to the petition of foreign Catholics in America for National piiests. The Vatican argues that the Irish, although very numerous in America, have never made a similar demand. It is stated the Pope will send an address later to tho American episcopney, approv ing Archbishop Ireland's education policy. STAEVED IN A FREIGHT CAB. The Fate of a Veteran From, a Soldiers' Home on a Fnrlongh. Philadelphia. May 8. Frederick Leitz, who arrived Friday at the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad depot in a freight car, suffer ing from a 36 hours' enforced fast, died yes terday at the Philadelphia Hospital. Leitz was on fnrlough from the Soldiers' Home, Hampton, Va., and though the doctors tried to revive him with stimulants, he re mained almost speechless till the end. Murder Outs After Five Years. Harrisburq, May a Joseph Keyes, who five years ago murdered his wife at Browns ville, near Chambersburg, was to-day cap tured by Shippensburg officers near the scene of his crime. Keyes was identified by two colored men who talked with him be fore the murder was committed. Ho is a desperate character, and is said to have killed a woman in Maryland about one year ago. A Fatal Riot at Altoonn. Altoona, May a This afternoon a riot was started among the Italians, and for half an hour a general flgut raged, kntyes and clubs being freely used. Joe Partre went into the crowd to quell tl.o disturbance, when he was InBtantly killed by a brick which broke his neck. No one was seen throwing the missile, and the Coroner's Jury was unable to reach any decision. Worse Than the California Earthquake. San Francisco, May a Further accounts of the recent earthquake at Manilla show there wns considerable damage done throughout the lnnd. In some towns all tho churches and colleges wore destroyed. Gronnd Quaking at San Reroo. Paris, May 8. Two slight earthquake shocks were felt nt San Bemo this morning. The shocks caused no damage or alarm. MIRACLES IK A RELIC.J Such a Continued Demand in Sew Jork for the Ste. Anna Bemnant IT WILL STAY TWO DAYS LONGER. Three Miracles Reported to Have Worked by It Yesterday. Been AT LEAST 15,000 PEOPLE ATTRACTED ISPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TIIE DISPATCII.l New Yoek, Maya Mgr. Marquis has consented to stay in New York two days longer than he announced, and to let the relic of Ste. Anna be exposed in the little church of St Jean Baptiste until Wednes day noon. As Mgr. Bernard O'Reilly an nounced to-night, this extending of the term was brought about by the intense re ligious excitement which the exposing of the relic has aronsed, not only among the Catholics of New York, but of all this re gion. The Quebec Catholics have shown signs of some perturbation because of Mgr. Marquis delay in New York, and the Can adian archbishop has sent a telegram asking THE VENEKATXD BELIC. when Mgr. Marquis is coming. As Mgr. Marquis is a man of great fixedness of pur pose. Father Tebean was almost persuaded that his pleadings were in vain, but when Mgr. Marquis learned that three miracles had been performed, and when dispatches began to come in saying that people were coming from Philadelphia and from places even more distant, Mgr. Marquis lent a favorable ear to the entreaties ot the pastor and of Mgr. O'Keilly. Scenes Unprecedented. To-day saw scenes in and around that little church of St. Jean Baptiste that were un precedented in this country. Those who went past Seventy-sixth street to-dav out of curiosity- wer amazed at the-great throngs, at the s'trango and fervent expressions on the faces of those waiting outside, and at the amazing display of faith and veneration within where the relic was to be seen. Early this morning the crowd began to gataer, and when mass began the church wus packed until motion in it wns impos sible, while thousands were in the streets, restrained from pushing into the church bv a dozen policemen guarding the doors and ranged aiong tne siciewanc. Aigr. uernara O'Reilly preached upon miracles and relics, and gave a history of tho relic now in evi dence. His sermon was in French, which be speaks fluently and without accent. After the sermon the relic was exposed, and until 6 o'clock the glass cover was pressed by eager lips as rapidly as the priest who sat at the edge of the chancel conld lift it. The nolice arrangedlmatters so that the church doors were open until all those Inside had passed ont ngaln. The church was filled and emptied about 100 times before 6 o'clock. Those who came out went away lmmediatelv, but the crowd of waiters Increased instead of diminishing. rifteen Thousand Visit tho Relic It is estimated that about 15,000 persons were in and around the church at different times during the day. Many of these were women, but a very large proportion were men. Some came from a considerable dis tance. A few were from Philadelphia and from the western parts of this State. Tickets were raised and sold at $1 apiece by Father Tebean for the evening service. Even this price did not diminish the num ber of those who were easer to enter, and when Mgr. O'lteilly arose to preach in En glish the pews were filled, and also the aisles, down to the doors. Mgr. O'Keilly gave a very eloquent ao couut of the relic He said that immediately after the crucifixion there was a violent persecution of all who had followed Jesus, and especially of all who were related to Him. Even the dead were not safe. And as the body of Ste. Anna, the mother of the Virgin, was the most precious body of all, it was taken away for safety. It was carefully .guarded and brought to Constantinople, and from there to Apt, where it is now buried In tne great catncurai mere, xne ropes or dered an arm to be taken from this body, and that was taken to Borne. From this arm came.the relic. Proof in the Relic's Miracles. "The proof that this is a part of tho body of Sto. Anna," said Mgr. O'Keilly, "is the fact that miracles aro performed through it. Since it has been here no less than three miracles have been performed. A deaf man has been restored to bearing, a young girl has been cured of the palsy, and the third miracle I will not mention, because the person who experienced it is here." The words created the greatest excite ment in the church, as the faces of the people and the eager way in which they bent forward witnessed, and when Mgr. O'Keilly said: "Think of it! We have hero a part of the body of the grandmother of God.flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone," the excitement was shown by audible murmurs and by an uneasy rust ling that ran again and again through the church. Mgr. O'Keilly then said: "I will bless you with this relic," and he took it in his hands and held it up. The whole congregntion fell on their knees, nnd many of the older men and women wept. Mur. O'Keilly called upon the Saint to bless them all in their Journey through life, to Keen them safely and to Intel cede for them. From the close of the evening service until 10 o'clock the crowds poured past the altar, venerated the relic nnd lighted candle to St. Anna. A policeman stood to the right of the priest who held the relic, and directed the movement or tho crowd. When the relic was taken away for tho night, many hundred people had been unable to get in. The relic will be exposed aitain to-monow morning at 8 o'clock and until 10 o'clock to moriow night and during the tame hours Tnesday and until noon Wednesday. SIEIKES PLENTY IN NEW Y0BK Tho Hoard of Walking Delegates Having Its Hands Full. New York, May 8. Special The Board of Walking Delegates is now pioceeding against Contractor David II. King, Jr., and n strike of 500 men has been ordered on one block and two half-blocks of buidings at One Hundred and Thirty-eighth and One Hundred and Thirty-ninth streets, between Sixth and Seventh nvenues. The strike is to be extended by ordering out the men on tho new Dela ware and Lackawanna offices at William street nnd .Exchange place, and on tho Metropolitan Club building, where Mr. King has contracts. The strike is on account of tho use of lion work from non-union shops. In the caso or the buildings at One Hun dred and Thirty-eiahth and One Hun dred and Thirty-ninth streets it Is stated that the strike Is mSfJ ordered because the Iron work Is made by a non-union firm. A committee visited Mr. King, and reported that he had a contract with a firm for the material, but would not order any more from the Arm. Some of the delegates think this strike hasty, and it will be Investigated to-morrow. Filty men will be ordered to strike to morrow on a big house which is being re constructed at Thirteenth street and Fifth avenue. The strike is against the Florida Steam Heater Company, which is pntting in heaters, and it is said to be a non-union con cern. VAST INLAND SEAS FORMED IN TnE WEST BY THE PRES ENT GREAT DELUGE. Waves Eoll So High as to Threaten Bridges, and No Measurement Can Be Taken Dead Stock by the Hundreds Floating In the Streams. Kansas City, May & The past 24 hours have furnished the climax for all the rainy weather of this spring. A heavy downpour of water has been falling all day and since midnight last night, so that the already soaked ground has been giving oft the water in ve swollen creeks and streams. The . fc hat accounts of floods have been j & v. from all oyer AVestern and Many towns have been vi. -. ten .i Vm s. tfnnrt.,yjv li The flfi y. 1A3 suddenly in some dis tricts that "! . - had no time to pre pare for it, aiJyp-. l- eir stock has been drowned and w.f'o 9 Growing crops have been badly al J y ad thousands of fields will have to uC, .nted. In Saline county, Mo., all the 8. .ins are reported out ot their banks, and the whole county has been turned into a lake. Some houses have been washed away. From Clilllicothe to the Iowa line is one sea of water. All the crops have been washed out for miles tbrouzhont tho Grand River Valley. In Oklahoma Territory a steady, ponrlng rain has been tailing for 21 hours, and half the streams in the territory are out of their banks. Many bridges have been washed away. The Missouri river, which is very high for this season of the year, is rising rapidly, and there is much apprehension of a flood here. The Mississippi, also, is be ginning to rise at an alarming rate. Fifteen thousand acres near Yicksburg are over flown. A dispatch from Ft. Wayne, Ind., says: Eeports of extensive devastation by the waters of the St. Joseph, fat, Mary and Mau mee rivers continue to come In. Down stream it is no uncommon sight to see dead cows floating by with the drift. Ho human lives were lost, as the rise of the waters has been gradual, giving all a chance to escape. Thousands of people to-day visited the inun dated districts surrounding Peoria, 111. The Illinois river is still a raging torrent, with a roar that can bo heard tor a long distance. The water is so rough that no measurement can be made now. Waves are rolling higb, and the greatest danger is to be feared. The strong wind which prevails is dashing the water so furiously against the bank that many bridges are liable to be washed out. SMALLPOX BB0UGHT FB0M CHHTA. The City of Pekin Arrives Flying the Dread Yellow Flag. Sjut Frascisco, May & Special The steamer City of Pekin arrived to-day from China with a yellow flag flying, smallpox having been discovered among 1,000 Chinese on board Just as the vesel was leaving Yokohama harbor. One sick Chinamen was found and promptly trans ferred to the shore. Eizht hundred of the Chinese were destined for Honolulu, but were brought here direct. Only one case of varioloid was developed on the voyage. Tho news from China shows that villain ous anti-foreign placards made their ap pearance again on the walls or Kahdlng, 20 miles from Shanghai. Some weie torn down at Shanghai, with tne result that a larger number were put up. Christians there have been warned they are to be driven out, nnd people, when asked whence the placards came, replied that they came from Shanghai. Shanghai authorities or dered the placards torn down, and warned the Kabding mandarin not to allow them to anbearasraln. The Japanese steamer Itouma' Maru w.is cast away durirs-the-vnicrh-ef Aprils, on Entrance Island, off the coast of Korea, with only the captain and twelve people saved, while 50 others, including three Japanese naval officers were lost. The steamer was officered and manned bv Japanese, and it was understood no foreign ers were among the passengers lost. C0HFEDEEATES -WANT PENSIONS Because They Have Cnt Themselves Off From tottery Benefits. Nrw Orleans, May S. Special A meet ing of Confederate veterans held in this city has determined to apply to the Legislature, whioh meets In Baton House to-morrow, for the passage of a pension law that will give all Confederate veterans, cripples, disabled or otherwise, incapable of supporting them selves, a pension of from $6 to ?12 a month. The demand will probahlv be granted, and will cost the State from $30,000 to $100,000 a year. The lottery amendment, defeated at the late election, gave the Confederate vet erans $50,000 pension a year, and $5,000 for their home, notwithstanding these provisions the veterans voted against the amendment and having refused the offer or the lottery to provide for them, they think the State ought to come to their assistance. The State votes a small sum annually for the support of a Confederate Soldiers' home, guarantees artificial limbs to crippled Con federate veterans, and allows then, to select homesteads on State lands. MISS CALDWELL VEBY ILL. Iho Blchest Unmarried Woman In America Has Typhoid Fever. New Yore; May 8 Special. Miss Mary Gwendolen Caldwell, who is repnted to be tho wealthiest unmarried woman in Amer ica, is very ill in this city with typhoid fever. It is thought the disease was caused by drinking the water of Florida, as Miss Cald well has Just returned from a winter resi dence in that State. Miss Caldwell's fortune 13 estimated to be about $10,000 000. She is a devout Catholic, having given liberally to Catholic charities, and endowed tho Catholic University in Washington to tho extent of $500,000. She has been decorated bv the Pope with the Order of the Golden Kose. Miss Caldwell was engaged at one time to Prince Mnrat, or France, but the engagement was broken on. TWO QTJAKEE CITY SUICIDES. Cards Had Been Issued For the Wedding of One Next Thursday. Philadelphia, May 8. Two suicides oc curred here to-day. Samuel Snape, a drug clerk, whose home is in Newark, N. J., shot himseir dead in his boarding house on North Seventeenth street, this morning, during the absence of the family at church. Cards had been issued for his wedding next Thursday with Miss Dabell, of Newark. The other unfortunate was an Eighth district policeman, Ilollis Sogers, who has snffered much pain from recent illness. He shot himself through the heart to-day at ins nome on canton street. SIXTEEN INCHES OF SNOW. Nebraska Weather Not Tropical, but Farm ers Are Still Smiling. Kushville, eb., May 8. Snow has fallen here during the past 23 hours to a depth of 16 inches. It will bo severe on the cattle in the sand hills, and will retard farm work. About three-fourths of the small grain is in, and the first sown is up and looks fine. Typhoid Fever Epidemic at South Fork, South Fork, May 8. Special Typhoid fever is becoming epidemic in this village, two deaths having occurred nero yesterday, while a number of other serious cases are leported. It is believed the sickness is due to impure water, and a sample of the well water used here has been sent to the State Board of Health for analysis. A Pastor Converted to CathollcUm. Masos Crrr, Ia., May 8. Rev. Charles Lutz, rector of St. John's Guild Episcopal, this city, has resigned, and announced that henceforth his allegiance would bo with the Roman Catholic church. Ho has gone to Montreal to enter the order of St. Sulphice to study for the priesthood. A Thousand Horses Killed by Gnats. Xouibville, May 8. A report from Western Kentucky says that buffalo gnats are causing great Joss. It Is estimated that 1,000 horses Have been killed by them. i i THERE-IS AREASON. The small advertisements in The Dispatch's "Rooms to let" column Increased over 200 perltcen In April. They are read andjlih erally answered. One cent a word. THREE GENTS. AN ORDER'S DILEMMA. Odd Fellows Obliged to Tate Step3 to Improve Their Finances. A MOST FORMIDABLE STATEMENT Prepared for Presentation at the Stata Lod;e Jfeit Weefc. SICK BENEFITS IRE FiP. TOO PLENTY. I special telegram to the DISrATCD.l Philadelphia, May 8. A committee of prominent Odd Fellows of this city has completed, for submission to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania at its annual session at Sunbnry next week, a special report that is designed to work a revolution in the finances of the order. The committee has spent the past year in the preparation of this formidable statement, collecting statis tics from hundreds of lodges throughout the State, and from branches of the order in England and Australia. Harry L. Neall is chairman of the committee, and one of its most active members is Isaac A. Shephard, President of the Board ot Education, Past Grand Master of the order, and Treasurer of the Supreme Grand Lodge of the United States. Grand Secretary James B. Nichol son has also devoted his time to the work. The trouble upon which the committee has been working is the most serious one that has ever confronted the order. Lead ing Odd Fellows who have given their at tention to it make no secret of the fact that Odd Fellowship is at a crisis which.tbreat ens the existence of many prosperous lodges. A number of them in this city and elsewhere are now actually on the verge of collapse. Trouble Dne to Sick Benefits. The tronble is due to the payment of sick benefits. There are thousands of incura bles in the orders who are now and have been for years drawing weekly benefits, with the result that many lodge treasuries have been drained, dues from members are inadequate to meet the situation, and some of the lodges are already swamped, the rem edies proposed by the special committee ap pearing to be the onlv resource for a num ber of others that are threatened with early extinction. The craze for get-rich-quick and kindred benefit schemes of recent years is blamed largely for this situation in some of the lodges, which have been promising to pay out to beneficiaries more money than ex perience has shown they could afford. In such cases a proportionate raisinz of dues all around seems to be the only alternative to the surrender of charters, and the sug gestion of increased payments naturally meets with considerable opposition. Some Old todies Ob'Iged to Qnit. The attention of tho Grand Ledge wa3 first called to the situation by two of the oldest lodges in the State going out of existence, leaving unprovided for a number of incur ably sick members who were dependent upon their weekly benefits, and old men whose age prohibited their admission to any other lodge. Inquiry showed that other lodges were on the verge or the same catas trophe. Tho 50 oldest lodges of the State accordingly got together and started an In vestigation of the whole matter. The revelation or the financial conditions existing in the various lodges was appalling. One lodge in this city, with 170 members, had paid in ten years to chronic invalids 4,456 weeks' benefits, representing, accord ing to the ori-rinal provisions of the lodge, more than $13,000. In order to protect itself thelodeehaa been compelled to cut down Jtsqrhdnal promiso of the payment pt?4 a szt&rufiCick me-rcSBrw 41. rtoaac One of the riit prominent ioagesi . city is composed or English residents. It put into operation the most pertect system of dues in existence, modeled aftermethods prevailing in England. It flourished for years, and piled up in its treasury a fund of $40,000. Its members ridiculed any sugges tions of possible embarrassment. Retrenchment a Forced Issne. Oflate years, however, tho claims of mem bers for sick benefits increased with such rapidity that the money in the treasury was exhausted, the lodge being compelled to re trench severely after 40 years of flourishing existence. Odd Fellowship has been in existence In this conntry for 75 years. There are in this State 22 lodges over 60 years old, 20 between 50 and 60 years, 264 between 40 and 50,75 be tween 30 and 40. 200 between 20 and SO, 223 be tween 10 and 20, and 250 under 10. All the old lodges havo been compelled to reduce bene fits to members or increase dues, and in some cases the charters have been surren dered. None of the lodges over 60 years old have been able to keep their original prom ises to members, being confronted with the alternatives of repudiation or greater de mands on paving members. Among 60,000 members theri have been found to be about 6S9 tsc-nrables. In one year thy have taken from their various lodges an aggregate or27.963 weeks' benefit-). Prior to that time they received 123.469 weeks' benefits. One member in this city has been drawing weekly sick benefits for over 30 years. More than SO have received such benefits for over 12 years. The drain thus made upon lodge exchequers has proved more serious with each succeeding year. One Way That Helps a Little. An example showing the exertions neces sary to control the average sick rate by the introduction of new members to the order is given by the present special committee, as follows: In 1S80 tho order had become reduced to 76,369 members. From that time to 1S90 there were introduced into the order 85,790 new members. The committee,decidinz incurable sickness to bean unjnst bnrden upon a sin gle lodge, nit upon a plan of forming a cen tral relief fund, practically an organization by which the lodges may reinsure them selves, each agreeing to pay into tne fund a sum graded according to the actual present ages of the members. Classes of benefits aro formed according to ages. The Central Relief Fund agrees to pay $100 funeral benefits and $2 a week for sickness. To insure this each lodjie pays into the fund each week for each member from 1 cents to 16 cents, according to ages. The com mittee argues that this is putting tho order on as practical a basis as any insurance organization. CAREY'S BODY FOUND. The Mystery of the Death or theFartnerot Banker Paige Being Solved. TVhziuso, May 8. Speciat A body, which, from the description, is probably that ofD. M.Carey, of Paiae, Carey 4Ca, who was drowned here in February, was caught in the river at Clarlngton this evening. An inauest has Just started. Telegraph offices nlfalong the line are closed, and full par ticulars cannot be had before morning. FOE THE BELIEF OF PEAEY. A Steamer Chartered to Proceed to the Arctic Regions In Jane. Philadelphia. May 8. The Academy of Natural Sciences has chartered the steamer Kile for the Peary relief expedition, and she will be placed in serviceable condition as soon as possible. Four thousand dollars hasbeen subscribed for the work, and $6,000 more is needed; but pledges for this amount have been made conditionally, and the work will go on. The Kile is to sail June 10. Eun Over by an Electric Car. Ishpemiso, May 8. Special Mr. Charles H. Klrkwood, a pioneer resident and promi nent business man, owning stores at Ne gauneeand here, fell from the front platform of a rapidly moving electric car coming from Negaunee, last night. Both legs were cut off above the knee. Klrkwood was instantly killed. He leaves a family and a large estate. A Wife Elopes With a Woman. Manchester, N. H.. May a The wife of J. Walter Whiting, a restaurant keeper, has skipped with all her husband's available fnnds, some $300. She left a note, stating that she would never return. It is thought she has fled to Europo with a female friend. A ? 4 f .""1 I5 fc&
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