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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,
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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.
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