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THE PITTSBUEG DISPATCH. WEDNESDAY. MAT 11 189a
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And Easily Explains Aivay
the Charges Made Against
Him by Leake.
JOHN PEELS MUCH ABUSED
Because He and His Sunday School
Were So Widely Advertised.
MB. SHOUP STILL IN CONGRESS.
The Elections Committee Totes That He Is
ot Guilty of Bribery.
HOLHAYS ECONOMY ROTTEN AT THE COKE
Bureau op The Dispatch. )
Washixqtox. D. C. May 10.
No other official connected with this ad
ministration has been accused of baring a
hand in so many schemes - which there
was "pie" as 3Ir. John AVanamaker, Post
master General, a gentleman more, con
spicuous as an example aud instructor in re
ligious ami moral life than even President
Harrison himself. Possibly that is one rea
son why he has been made a constant target
for the shafts of the wicked. Every at
tempt has been made to'associate him with
the Keystone Bank failure and with pecu
liar railroad and business deals, and he has
been constantly accused of a multifarious
use ot his office to boom his Philadelphia
bazaar among the postmasters and the peo
ple of the country.
Forth from the furnace of these charges
he has come without even the smell of fire
on his always elegant costumes, bought of
John AVanamaker. It may be assumed that
be will again emerge unsiuged from the
charge made against him by the Xeake
Pneumatic Tube Company, ot Philadelphia,
that he has favored the Clay Pneumatic
Tube Company instead of theirs, both hav
ing offered to lay experimental ducts in the
Quaker Citv for use in sending mail matter
Irom one place to another.
It nmetltues Pays to Ho Good.
The Leake Company seems to think the
Clay Company was favcred, and they
"turned down," because a member of the
Clay Company, Mr. McHenry, has been a
teacher in Mr. "Wauamaker's Sunday
school for a quarter of a century. 3Ir.
Leake was hovering about the Capitol
all day yesterday, and when a petition
which he bad prepared was introduced, ask
ing an investigation of Mr. AVanamaker,
but not naming his accusers, Mr. Leake
quietly gave the tip to a few correspondents
whom he knew, and "explained" the peti
tion, in his own way, of course. It was too
late when he did so to get the other side of
the story, and so, lor one day, Mr. Leake
has bad a fine revenge on Mr. Wana
maker. The latter disposes of the charees by say
ing that they are absolutely and unquali
fiedly false; that he told both companies in
correspondence that the Postoffice Depart
ment could do nothing in the matter, and
tint the Treasury Department was the
proper place at which to apply, and adds
that an expert had been sent irom that De
partment to look into the inventions, who
had reported the Leake arrangement to lack
sufficient power lor the work required.
r.IiTlit Investigate the Sunday School.
That is all he knows about it. The mat
ter ha caused a good deal of gossip to-day,
hnweer, and there is just enough plausi
bility in the statements of Mr. Leake to al
most insure an investigation. The mere
lact that Mr. Mclienry, ot the Clay Com
pany, is a valued teacher in Mr. "Wana
inaker's valued Sunday school, comes near
adding a spiee of humor to the aflair, and
would certainly give fine opportunity to a
sharp Democratic prosecutor in the event
of an investigation.
Mr. AVanainakerassures me that they can
not begin investigating too soon tor him.
The oulv result, probably, will be a quan
tity of lrce advertising tor both tube com
panies, but at the same time Mr. Leake is
stirring up an antagonism whi;h may be of
negative benefit to him in any favors he
may a&k from the Government in the fu
ture. Shrewd millionaires have long, long
arms, and onners of patent rights some
times have long, long ears.
Democrats Sometimes Do Right.
The Democratic House of Representatives
will again have to wrestle with a Demo
cratic Elections Committee for voting to seat
a Republican. Five Democrats and five
Republicans which is two-thirds of the com
mittee, tn-dav voted to retain in his seat
George Washington Shoup, the memoer
trom the Twelfth, or Luzerne couuty dis
trict, of Pennsylvania. One Republican,
Doan, of Ohio, and one Democrat, Law son,
of Georgia, voted to declare the seat vacant.
Three members did not vote, as they have
not sufficiently examined the case.
Mr. Snoup is a wealthy young lawyer
who practices at Plymouth, and is also
largely int:rested in mines and railroads.
The charees made by the contestant were,
mainly, a corrupt use of money. It has
been thought all along that the committee
would unseat Shoup for bribery, but would
not seat Reynolds. A final vote on the case
has been deferred, and at the last moment
the majority of the committee refused to
Eend Mr. 8houp home with the stigma of
bribery on his name, to be doubtless vindi
cated by an immediate renomination and
election. Of course the House, with its
great Democratic majority, may again de
side adversely to the majority of the com
mittee, as in the Xoycs-Rockwell case.
KrlbeiT Charges to lie Supported.
Lawson and Doan, if not ather members
of the committee, will support the bribery
charees, and Democrats outside the com
mittee will follow them. The debate will be
only of less interest than that in the Noyes
Rockwell case which occupied upward of
four days. There does not seem to be a
shadow of proof that Mr. Shoup bribed
anybody, or had any knowledge of bribery.
The county is normally largely Republi
can, but a great fight was made in it against
Delamater and that affected the vote all
round. Mr. Shoup felt that he bad not the
usual certainty of surcess of a Republican
in that district aud multiplied his exertions.
He admits an expenditure of about ?10,000.
He paid the expenses of Democratic sup
porters to work for him, and also gave
something for meetings and to throw around
among "the boys." ne admits that even
illegal acts may have been committed with
out his knowledge, hut asserts that the same
thing happens at all elections. He had a
tremendous fight and won by about 600 ma
jority. Possibly if the majority had been
less, or possibly if to unseat Shoup would
seat Reynolds, the vote might be against
the contestee. As it is, Shoup will doubt
less be placed firmly in his seat
Miori-I-liwd Economical Measures.
After the Kittling attack of Cogswell, of
Massachusetts, all along the line of the
sundry chil bill to-dav, the feature of in
terest was the briefer "assault of Enloe, of
Tennessee, on that section of the bill mak
ing appropriations for salaries of clerks.
In this bill so many officials, clerks messen
gers, and so forth, of each class, in the vari
ous bureaus are provided lor at certain sal
aries. The estimates are fixed up in these
bureaus bv the clerks affected, and each
year estimates are inserted for increase ot
salaries, increase of the number of clerks
getting the higher salaries, and so on.
It would naturally be supposed that
Chairman Holman would lop off these in
creases by the wholesale, but Mr. Enloe
showed that nearly every bureau estimate
of this character had gone into the bill, and
not only that, but that the Increases had
been offset by a decrease in the salaries and
wages of messengirs, laborers, skilled me
chanics, scrub women, and others of the
poorest paid employes ot the Government
here Economy Seems to Hart.
It was a very damaging, notto say dis
graceful showing, but under it all Mr.
Chairman Holman sat as unemotional as a
stoughton bottle, as inexpressive a3 one of
the hoop poles of his native heath. There
are good reasons for such phenomena as
these in this Fundry civil bill. Nearly
every Congressman has a son, or other near
relative in the Government service. Usually
there is no service given. The city is full
of idle young fellows, whose chief work is
playing the races or patronizing the gin
mills, who draw anywhere from 51,000 to
2,500 salary per year from the Government,
all of them "members of the family, or near
relatives of some Congressman or high Gov
ernment official.
Chairman Holman himself has a son
drawing a snug salary for services in a
bureau whose location he could scarcely
name, so rarely is he on duty. Senator
Cockrell, of Missouri, a sort of Senator
Holman in his economical efforts, has a son
at Harvard College who draws over two
thousand dollars a year as a clerk of a
Senate committee.
The Scrub V omen Have to Suffer.
Some less lucky fellow does the work for
a trifle, and young Cockrell gets the
remainder of the pay. And so on without
number. Ifow, the higher salaried clerks,
chiefs of divisions, aud others in the
bureaus in which most of these favored
ones are carried on the rolls, could make it
very uncomfortable if they wished for
sons of Congressmen and officials so sup
ported, and therefore there is as little
tampering with their estimates as possible,
and Mr. Holman, with all his assumption
of the higher economies, kindly lets them
pass, and is dumb when he is assailed for
it, except to show that the aggregate ex
penses of the bureaus are not increased, bnt
making no reference to the fact that the
aggregate is kept down by cutting off a
portion from the wages of laborers, mechan
ics and scrub women.
Little nope for the Food Bill.
If what is known as the "pure food bill"
passes the House, as it has the Senate, it
will be against the most remarkable and
universal opposition that has attacked any
measure in long years. While Chairman
Hatch's favorable report speaks of the in
dorsement of the bills by agricultural and
labor organizations, the National Board of
Trade and by petitions of millions of citi
zens, there is tremendous opposition from
business men who feel that they may be
victimized and their business ruined by
rivals and blackmailers, and trom person's
who are assured that the bill will be in
effective because it can only be made to ap
ply to articles carried from" one territory or
State into another.
While a portion of this adverse influence
may come from persons who deliberately
engage in food adulteration, the great pres
sure is from firms and persons of the most
reputable character, who undoubtedly pre
sent grave reasons why the bill should not
pass. Yet on the other hand the abuse of
adulteration has admittedly become so
great, and "pure food bill" has so specious
a sound, that it will be strange indeed it
enough members cannot be found to enact
it into a law.
Fare Food a Rarity.
The subject has been agitated in Con
gress for lour years. Volumes of matter
have been published in regard to it. Con
gressional reports contain an alarming
array ot figures showing the prevalence of
adulteration, and that the worst of it is
found in the food which is used by the great
mass of the people. Therefore, while the
bill is certainly faulty and will be ineffective
and will, if it become a law, give oppor
tunity lor unscrupulous persons to do great
damage to reputable firms, it cannot be de
feated by intemperate attack. The evil
will have to be met in some way, and honest
people who oppose the bill for honest
reasons should be able to help out the dem
agogues who cannot devise an effective bill,
but who will have to yote for some bill of
this kind to satisfy a mass of their con
stituents. Lightnee.
JAMES SKIPPED OUT.
The Ohio Legislator Preferred Not to Come
to Pennsylvania A Divorce Plot Laid
Hare Gov. McKinley Convinced That
Fraud Was Practiced.
Columbus, O., May 10. Special The
details of the Pennsylvania trouble which
has demanded by requisition the return to
that State of Hon. B. F. James show that
John H. James deserted his wife, Mary E.
James, in Mercer county, Pa., and came to
Ohio, where be attain married and settled at
Bowling Green. Desiring to obtain a
divorce aud being too well known at
Bowliug Green, he commenced suit in Mor
row county, O., falsely claiming to be a
resident otthat county. He caused a sum
mons with a copy of the petition attached
to issue to his brother George James.
The charge against his wife was infidelity.
George C James made return under oath
that he personally served the papers on
Mrs. James, which transpired afterward to
be a misrepresentation. He was arrested
and entered a plea of guilty to the charge of
perjury. In order to procure evidence oh
which to receive a divorce, John H. James,
went to Venango county, Pa., and himself,
under the assumed name of "Wallace
Shorts," gave depositions to the effect that
he had caught the defendant, Mrs. James,
in a compromising position.
These lacts, through affidavits, were made
so plain to Governor McKinley that he
honored the requisition to Governor Patti
son, and issued his warrant for the arrest of
John H. James on April 2G. This was the
day preceding the Republican State Con
vention in Cleveland. Representative B.
F. James was in the city, but suddenly left,
and his client, John H. James, followed
his example. The latter must have gotten
a tip that the requisition had been honored,
as he skipped out and has not been heard
from since.
A FAMOUS FOEGER DEAD.
William It. Dickerson, or Whittaker Will
Case notoriety, Jib More.
Philadelphia, May 10. William R.
Dickerson, the principal conspirator in the
famous Whittaker will case of a dozen years
ago, died Sunday night in obscurity and
poverty at his lowly home in a poor part of
the city. The Whittaker case was one of
the most famous criminal trials that ever
took place in this city.
When Robert Whittaker. a wealthy mer
chant of this city, died some 12 years ago,
by the will admitted to probate "51,000,000
were left to charities, to the exclusion of
his heirs. The will was discovered to be a
forgery, and William R. Dickerson, a prom
inent member of the bar and William
Whittakcr's lawyer, together with four
other persons, was convicted of forg
ing it. Dickerson was sentenced to
and served ten years in the penitentiary.
It was shown at the trial, which lasted four
months, that Dickerson had forged the will
through spite against certain of Mr. Whit
taker's heirs. Dickerson always claimed he
was innocent, and after his release unavail-
mgly attempted to get the Supreme Court
ot the State to reopen his case.
Sneak Thieves In Luvrrnncevllle.
Sneak thieves have resumed operations in
Lawrencevillc. Two cases were reported at
the Seventeenth ward police station yes
terday. Mrs. Costello, who lives on Harri
son street, had a pocfeetbook containing $15
taken out of her bedroom Sunday atternoon.
Monday afternoon somebody entered the
house of Mrs. Smith at the corner of Forty
seventh street and Plum allev and purloined
a pocketbook with ?9 in it '
How Manning the Minstrel Died.
Columbus, May 10. Coroner Foley, in
the case of Eddie Manning, the well-known
minstrel who died at the Chicago Liquorand
Opium Cure, this city, decided that death
was caused by an overdose of hyoscyamln
administered by Dr. E. A. Thomas and his
assistant ,
INTERLOPING LAYMEN
Hold Seats in the Conference Only on
Clerical Sufferance.
IT'S AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION.
Methodists Are Opposedto the VTorld's Fair
if Open on Sunday.
AFKAID OP THE BISHOPS' INFLUENCE
OMAHA, May 10. The cold rain and
weather that has prevailed for several days,
has cast a gloom over the Methodist Confer
ence that most of the delegates seem deter
mined to shake off. Bishop Fitzgerald pre
sided to-day.
It seems to be the prevailing opinion
among the lay delegates this morning that
there will be no Bishops elected at this ses
sion. The Committee on Episcopacy was
expected to report to-day, but the commit
tee will not be ready, on account of the
fact that the colored brethren are pulling
every possible string to secure the election
of a colored Bishop. The final report of the
Committee on Episcopacy will probably
come about Thursday or Friday of this
week.
The fight over the editorial chair of the
Central Christian Advocate at St Louis is
growing very interesting. It lies between
Dr. Mason, of St. Louis; Dr. Breeder
Masten, of St Louis; Dr. Bowman Young,
of Kausas City; Dr. Creighton, of the
Nebraska Wesleyan University; Dr. Curts,
of Chicago, and Dr. Maffield, of Omaha.
A Day Spent on the Constitution.
The order of the day was a report of the
Committee on Constitution. Dr. Buckley
moved that, inasmuch as Bishop Merrill
was Chairman of the Constitution Commit
tee, he be requested to explain the changes
suggested by the report Dr. Neely was
opposed to the idea of permitting any of
the Bishops to speak. Even explanations
at ere sometimes very strong arguments. Dr.
Miley, of Drew Seminary, said:
I am surprised that Dr. Neely should make
such a speech as that which he has Just
made. Is It possible that we aro afraid to
let our bishops speak upon the topics that
come berore tins oouyi Are tne interests
and doctrines in danger when a bishop takes
the floor? I hope Bishop Merrill will he per
mitted to speak on this subject.
Dr. Buckley took the floor and argued
vehemently for the motion to permit Bishop
Merrill to speak. He referred to the former
action ot the Conference on similar occa
sions. There were two diseases that break
out in a general conference. One was bish
ophobia, a sort of an unnatural fear of bish
ops. The other was bishophomania laugh
ter and applause, an intense desire to be
elected to the episcopacy.
The Bishops' Friends Carry the Day.;
He hoped neither of these would so warp
the minds ot the brethren that they would
not have confidence in the impartiality of
the Bishops to such an extent as to exclude
them from the floor. It is a sad state of
things if the Church has come to such a state
that the supreme officers of the denomina
tion could not be given an opportunity to
speak in the conference upon important
subjects.
The resolution giving Bishop Merrill the
privileges of explaining the report on the
constitution was carried. The rules were
suspended here, however, and the Com
mittee on the Columbian Exposition was
called for. The report declared strongly
against Sunday opening. In closing the re
port said:
Better that Iho Columbian Exposition
nover be opened at all, than that the gates
be opened on Sunday."
The committee heartily favored the ap
propriation of $3,000,000 or Government
lunds, provided tha$ the Kates bo closed on
Sunday; but if the gates ate to be open on
that day, then the confeicnce is asked to op
pose tho appropriation. The committee rec
ommended that a teleirram bearing tho sen
timents of the report bo sent at once to the
President of the United States and to Con
gress. Several vigorous speeches were made fav
oring the resolution. Tne preamble and
resolutions were indorsed, but were recom
mitted for revision. The committee was
instructed to send the proposed telegrams
to Washington.
Laymen's Right to Seats Questioned.
The report of the Committee on Constitu
tion was considered by paragraphs, Dr.
Keeley taking the floor to explain the first
section. The first declaration was that the
first three sections of the present discipline
was unconstitutional. This is combatted,
as it is held that this would compel all acts
of the General Conference to be reviewed
by the Annual Conference. Dr. Little, of
Illinois, Dr. Leonard, of Ohio, and Dr.
Curtis, of Chicago, discussed the matter in
the negative. They held that portions of
the alleged constitution are merely statu
tory laws, and not constitutional provisions.
Under such a holding the laymen legally
could not hold S. seat in the conference.
They are here by sufferance only.
Dr. J. M. Buckley, after several speeches
pro and con. held that the restrictive rules
were not all that belonged to the constitu
tion. If that were the case, the General
Conference could annihilate itself by a
majority yote of one. Dr. Buckley held,
however, that the plan of admitting lay
delegates was never a part of the constitu
tion, but it was endorsed by the restrictive
rules. It was the work of the General Con
ference. The Laymen's Bights are Fecare.
The serious dangers to which other
speakers had referred, relating to the rights
of the laymen to sit in the conference, did
not exist Their rights are secure, even if
they had not been admitted by constitu
tional amendment He continual!:
Dr. Kynett now seems to hold that the
lape of years has taken this power out of
the hands of the General Conference. 1 do
not agree with him. The lapse of years does
not- change historic facts. The General
Conference can change tho plau of lay elec
toral representation, but ennnot abolish it,
because the plan lias been recognized by the
restrictive rules ot the Church, which aro a
part of the constitution. I would die at the
stake before 1 would admit that tho plan of
lay representation was a part of the consti
tution, but I also hold that tho plan has
been indorsed by the constitution in the re
stiictive rules. Applause.
Dr. Huehey. of St Louis, held that the
plan ot lay representation had never been a
part of the constitution, and he was clad it
had never been. He hoped no such plan
should ever be ingrafted into" the constitu
tion of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
It is unfair and unjust to the laymen. He
wanted to see a more equitable plan
adopted.
A Layman's Motion Defeated.
Mr. Field, of Philadelphia, the first lay
man to speak on the subject, said the Con
stitution Commission had kept its work
wonderfully secret They had retired to
the classic 'shades of Chautauqua, and then
to the more quiet shades of Indianapolis,
and finally they had come before the con
ference with a prodigious big black book
that looked like the ark of the covenant
great laughter and applause, and wanted
the conference to make these radical
changes in the constitution without suffi
cient time for consideration. Mr. Field,
therefore, moved that the whole discussion
of changes in the constitution be postponed
until the next General Conference. His
motion was put and lost
Dr. Hartzel and several others called for
Bishop Morrill upon the subject, but as the
hour for adjournment had almost arrived it
was decided to postpone Bishop Morrill's
speech and explanation of the work of the
Constitution Commission until to-morrow.
An effort is being made to bring the
church North and South together, and com
munication has been opened with officers of
the church South by the Committee on State
of the Church.
Doors Closed Against
New YoekJ May
Contract Laborers.
10. Twenty-six
Italians who arrive 1 in the steamer Stura
from Genoa, under contract to work in the
mines at Brazil, Ind., and in the vineyards
of California, will be returned, and also six
Englishmen and four Swedes who came in
the Servia. The Swedes were bound for
Sheffield, Pa., and the Englishmen for
Cleveland, O.
WILL ISSUE NO BONDS.
The Official Adherent! of Increasing; the
City Debt Greatly In tho Minority Tak
ing a Trip Through the Fast to Get
Pointers on Parks.
Mayor Gourley, Controller Morrow, Chief
Bigelow and Street Commissioner Paisley
went to New York last night to inspect
some of the park improvements there and
at Philadelphia, which may be advantage
ously adopted here. While away they will
incidentally investigate street pavements
and other municipal matters to gain infor
mation that may later receive a local appli
cation. A report published yesterday stated that
the object of their visit was to determine
the propriety ol floating 5,000,000 of bonds,
for the issue of which the people of this
citv would soon be called upon to vote in
order to make improvements for parks, free
bridges and street pavements. The elab
orated story was to the effect that the three
officials, the Mayor, Controller and Chief oft
Public Works, favored having all these im
provements made at once, and" that the com
ing generations who will enjoy them pay
for them by redeeming the $5,000,000 of
bonds.
The Dispatch a few months ago printed
an interview with A. F. Keating, then a
member of Select Council, who advocated
this plan of improving the city, and yester
day's publication was an elaboration of that
plan, which is favored by Chiefs Bigelow
and Brown, but is opposed by the Mayor,
Controller and other prominent men who
desire to reduce rather than increase her
debt Before taking a train last night
Chief Bigelow repudiated the interview
accredited to him. though asserting his be
lief in the bond policy, and the Mayor
reiterated his oft-expressed hostility to any
unnecessary increase in the city defit. The
Mayor will return from his Eastern trip on
Friday, and the others Saturday or Monday.
Regarding the refusal of Councils to ap
prove the contract for furnishing cement to
the city by Samuel Garrison because his bus
iness partner is Common Councilman Wil
liams, Mayor Gourley said yesterday that
there was nothing in the law to prevent
making such a contract, but that any citi
zen could prosecute the Councilman after
the contract was let, if evidence to show
the Councilman was an interested party
could be produced.
As to the rejected smoke preventer con
tract, Chief Bigelow said he had awarded
the contract to the Roney Company be
cause they were the lowest and most respon
sible bidders. There were only two other
bidders and their proposals were not in
accord with the law. One was higher in
price and the other was for an apparatus
not in line with the advertisement. Mr.
Bigelow says the contract will be approved.
It is alleged that Chief Bigelow is mak
ing arrangements for the purchase of a
tract of land from John Fite, adjoining
Highland Park, for 565,000. The chief says
he only needs part of it for the park. Fite
paid 548,000 lor the tract recently.
JOHN W. BRECKENRIDGE DEAD.
The Son oT Buchanan's Vice President Be
lieved to Have Suicided He Married tho
Daughter of a California Millionaire
His Wild Western Career.
San Francisco, May 10. Special A
special from Merced says that John W.
Breckenridge, son of the famous ICentuckian
Vice President under Buchanan, died there
last night. His friends believe he com
mitted suicide. He was 43 years of age.
When he came-.to California eight years ago
Breckenridge was received with open arms
by leading Southern families.
He married the daughter of Lloyd Tevis,"
President of the Wells-Fargo Company.
Tevis gave Breckenridge charge of large
ranches near Merced, and he lived there
like a Southern planter. He became a
great favorite with the cowboys on Tevis'
ranch, and soon fell into drinking and
gambling. .His wife tired of this life and
obtained a divorce. The fame of Brecken
ridge's learning and eloquence spread and
he soon had more business than any lawyer
in Merced county. He was elected to the
State Legislature and could have gone to
Congress had not a personal friend ran in
his district His career seemed made when
drink again seized him.
About this time his wife was reported
engaged to Fred Sharon, son of the silver
Senator. Breckenridge swore he would
kill Sharon. Sharon was evidently afraid,
for he was privately married and left at
once. A few months ago Breckenridge
created a sensation by appearing at Lloyd
Tevis' house and demanding his three
children. When denied admittance he
swore to shoot Tevis, and the millionaire
had a body guard for several days.
THE RUSTLERS' VENGEANCE.
Depnry United States Marshal Wellman
Shot From Ambanh and Killed.
Cheyenne, Wycx, May 10. Special.
Deputy United States Marshal Wellman, of
the Blair Cattle Company, was to-day shot
and killed from ambush while on his way to
Buffalo, Wellman has been in the employ
of the cMtlemen and is the first victim of
the rustlers. Depnty United States Marshal
Gibson was with Wellman at the time the
vrliey was fired from ambush and was at
first supposed to be dead. The officers were
on their way to Buffalo to serve an injunc
tion on the illegal roundings of the rustlers
which have been in progress since the first of
the month.
Wellman's crime is known very well. It
is charged that he had knowledge of the
raid on the rustlers. They say he should
have told. It is extremely doubtful if
Wellman had any idea that regulators were
organizing or would operate. His employ
ers say that they did not broach the subject
to him. Wellman helped a distressed news
paper correspondent out of the country
when the siege was on. This was held
against him. The circumstances were
twisted into charges of aiding invaders.
When Wellman came to the railway with
the newspaper man he went on East and
was married April 21. Before leaving here
last Thursday he had his life insured.
AN UNSAFE TED?
For the Concord on tho Mississippi as Far
TJp as St. tools.
Washington, May 10. Commander
Edward White, commanding the gun boat
Concord now at Memphis, has reported to
the Navy Department that he does not re
gard it safe under existing conditions to at
tempt to take that vessel up the Mississippi
river as far as St. Louis.
As the trip is left entirely to the discre-,
tion of this officer it looks as though it will
be abandoned. He has, however, been or
dered to proceed at far as Cairo if possible.
Boiler Makers' Onions May Unite.
Columbus, May 10. Reports to-day at
the annual meeting of the National Broth
erhood of Boiler Makers showed a member
ship of 2,200; receipts from all sources,
$13,719; disbursements, $1,943. The princi
pal proposition before the meeting is to
consolidate with the International Brother
hood. Another Philadelphia Fire Victim.
Philadelphia, May 10. William
Hinchcleffe, the thirteenth victim of the
Central Theater fire, died this morning in
the Pennsylvania Hospital. James Pigeon
is expected to die at any moment.
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DISPATCH.
THE MINNESOTA PLAN
Of Catholic Instruction at the Close
of Sessions of School
APPROVED BY THE CARDINALS.
It Is Only Commended in the Exceptional
Cases of Two Towns.
NEWS FROM THE EUROPEAN CAPITALS
Rome, May 10. The following is the full
text of the deliverances of the Vatican in re
gard to the attitude of the Holy See toward
Archbishop Ireland's educational policy, as
set forth in what is known as the Faribault
Stillwater (Minn.) plank:
Rome, April 30, 1893.
To Most Rov. John Ireland, Archbishop of St. Paul,
Minn:
Most Illustrious aud Reverexd Sir It
has pleased Your Grace to submit to the
judgment of tho Holy See the arrangement
you deemed well to mnfco for elementary
schools at Faribault and Stillwater, Minn.,
In your diocese, in order to provide in the
best manner possible for the spiritual wel
fare of the clilldien confided to your pastoral
care.
This wise resolution of Your Grace seemed
all the more prudent because the aforesaid
arrangement, oven though it regarded only
separate and exceptional cascs.stlll appeared
to many of tho Bishops and to the mem
bers of tho lower clergy and lower laity as
hardly worthy of approval, maybo because
they were not so well acquainted with tho
cirenmstanoes and conditions of the trans
actions as they ought to have been in order
to be able to pronounce thereon a fair
opinion.
Referred to a Committee of Cardinals.
For that reason llis Holiness confided the
examination ot this Important question to a
Committee of Cardinals chosen from the
Sacied Congregation of the Propaganda.
In a meeting held on the 21st Inst., after
weighing carefully the gray o reasons adduced
by Your Grace with so much clearness
which induced you to enter into the arrange
ment mentioned above, and considering the
declarations worthy of every praise, which
show that in the matter of education Your
Grnco has always wished to maintain in
vlnlato tho nrincinlo set forth by the Holy
See and commended to the observance of
the bishops by the Councils of Baltimore,
particularly the Third Council, Their
Eminences gave their decision on the ques
tion submitted to them, as it is found in tho
accompanying document, and His Holiness
has ratified and approved the same.
I hope Your Grace will be gratified by this
decision of the Holy bee, because, though
unusual provisions made Dv the different
Bishops in their respective dioceses accord
ing to the requirement of circumstances
cannot be approved directly by the Holy
See when they imply a departure to a cer
tain extent from a general law, neverthe
less, when the Holy See declares that such
provisions may be tolerated, it therehy puts
an end to all indisoreot attacks upon them
Archbishop Ireland's Course Approved.
Furthermore, by order of His Holiness,and
with great pleasure to myself, I must not
fail to inform Your Grace that your expres
sions of respect, filial obedience and unal
terable adherence to the Holy bee and its
teachings, of which you have given splendid
proofs, have been most acceptable to the
Sovereign Pontilf and myself, and have
strengthened the full confldenco of the
Holy See in your wisdom and piety. Finally,
I prav that God may preserve Your Grace
and protect yonalways.
Your Grace's most devoted servant,
M. Card. Ltdochowski, prefect.
Ignatius, Abcubishop of Damiata,
Secretary.
In special Congregation of the Propa
ganda, held on April 21, 1892, to consider the
question what judgment is to be formed of
the arrangement entered into by Arch
bishop Ireland concerning the two schools
at Faribault and Stillwater. Minn., in this
case they decided to reply affirmatively and
without derogating from tbe decrees of the
Councils of Baltimore on parochial schools,
that the arrangement entered into by Arch
bMioD Irelamd concerning the schools at
Faribault and Stillwater, taking into con
sideration all the circumstances, can be
tolerated. In an audience held on the same
day. His Holiness deigned to approve the
resolution of the Cardinals given above.
Ignatius, Archbishop op Damiata,
Secretary.
LODZ 117 A STATE OF SIEGE.
Hundreds of the Anti-Hebrew Rioters Are
Marched OfT to Prison.
St. Petehsbukg, May 10. A dispatch
from Lodz, in Poland, where 30,000 strikers
have been rioting and making violent at
tacks on the Hebrew quarter, says that hun
dreds of the rioters have been arrested and
taken to Warsaw under a military escort
The town continues in a state of siege.
Nobody is allowed in the streets between 9
p. at and 5 a. m. Business is suspended,
and many manufacturers have become bank
rupt. Additional details received from the
scene of the disorders show that a terrible
state of affairs prevailed at Lodz. The dis
patches say that the strikers, besides loot
ing and demolishing valuable prop
erty, set fire to the buildings, and
that only the zeal displayed by
the fire brigade prevented the whole
town from being burned to the ground. The
united forces of the military and police
were powerless against the mob, and were
unable to prevent them from offering vio
lence to the manufacturers of the place, the
bookkeepers employed in factories and the
Hebrew residents. These persons were
strangled and stabbed by the desperate
rioters. Ten of them were killed outright
and a hundred were badly injured and had
to be carried to the hospital.
GTJAEDIHG THE PABIS BOURSE.
Every Nook and Cranny Scanned for Pos
sible Infernal Machines.
PABIS, May 10. The French Cabinet has
voted 300.0UO francs to pay indemnities
for losses resulting from the recent dynamite
outrages, including a provision for the
widow and daughter of the restaurant
keeper Very, whose place was blown up by
Anarchists.
The number of guards in and about the
Bourse has been doubled. Pickets have
been stationed on the staircases, in the cel
lars, in the lavatories and at every point
where it is possible to place explosives.
The galleries are specially watched, in order
to prevent the throwing of bombs into the
crowd below. Every visitor is carefully
scrutinized by detectives.
Slave Caravans Recaptured.
Zanzibar, May 10. Intelligence has
reached here from the interior of Africa that
the forces of the British East Africa Com
pany, under command of Captain Nelson,
nave had an engazement with the Mabura
tribe near Teita, and that the natiyeawere de
feated after losing many of their number
killed. The British forces have recaptured
a number of slave caravans.
Jaeger, the Defaulter, Captured.
Caip.o, May 10. Eudolph Jaeger, the
defaulting chief cashier of the Messrs.
Rothschild, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Ger
many, whose flight was made public in
April 20, was arrested to-day in a hotel at
Ramleh, Egypt His. defalcation is esti
mated at 1,700,000 German marks.
Tho sultan of Turkey Very HL
Beklin, May 10. Private telegrams
from Constantinople say the Grand Vizier
has notified the Sultan's relatives that the
Sultan is suffering from a serious nervous
illness, and that it is impossible to conceal
the truth any longer.
More Uelvians May Tote.
Bbcssels, May 10. The Chamber of
Deputies has decided, by a yote ol 131 to 7,
to revise the constitution and greatly in
crease the electorate-
Fitful Flashes From Afar.
Cardinal LaYIokrik is said to be dying in
Algiers. ' .
Two poachers wero mortally wounded In a
fight with officer near Llmorick, Monday
night, l
Deeming has confessed the murder of
.Emily Mather.
The latest report from Emln Pasha is that
he has become totally blind.
Kino Humbert has notified Emperor Will
lam that, whatever happens, he will remain
faithful to tbe Drclbund.
The London Commissioner of Parks has
rejected the application of an American
sculptor to erect a statue of Charles Dickens
and little NelL
Hon. Patrick Greville-Nuoent has been
indicted by a London grand j ury for tho as
sault in a railroad carriage compartment of
Miss Marion Lynetta Price.
A pine forest near Bordeaux, France. In
which is located n powder magazine, burned
fiercely, but a disaster was saved by tho
desperate efforts of the city fire department.
Tub two men, Merdjan and Christo, who
were charged at Constantinople with the
murder of Dr. Vulkovitch, the Bulgarian
diplomatic agent to Turkey, have been
found guilty and condemned to death.
The Conservatives are largely signing a
"round robin;' to Mr. Balfour, complaining
of the uncertainty in regard to the date of
the dissolution of the British Parliament,
and intimating that thoy cannot pledge
their attendance in Parliament through the
month of July.
During a review ' Monday, Emperor
William called to the front Private Luecfc,
the sentry who recently shot two civilians
for attempting to pass him without giving
the proper countersign, shook him warmly
by the hand, commended him for his dis
play of correct condnct of duty and pro
moted him to be a lance corporal.
THE FLOOD GROWS WORSE.
Water Runs Over the levees In New Or
leansA COO-Foot Break In Arkansas
Floods the Country The Water Still
Klslng.
New Obleans, May 10. Special. The
river outlook grows daily worse here. An
other heavy rain fell to-day, two inches in
barely an hour. Below New Orleans the
situation Is most critical. The levees
there are comparatively low and in
a very precarious condition in numer
ous places, so that unless a cre
vasse occurs above to reduce the
strain on them they can scarcely
weather the storm. The Mississippi river
rose here to-day to 16 9-10 feet above low
water, within one inch of the highest point
ever known. In March, 1890, the levee in
lront of the city was strengthened and
raised some by the New Orleans Levee
Board, but notwithstanding this the water
ran over it at the foot of Canal street about
noon. It was carried off" by the gutters,
however, and caused no damage.
The United States engineer, who is in
charge ot the Government work at Mor
ganza, telegraphed to-day that the report of
Captain Delhoussaye as to the breaking of
that levee was incorrect, that it was still
intact, and that no break had yet occurred
in the line of levees above New Orleans.
This afternoon a break was reported on the
Little Texas Levee in Bayou La Fourche,
four miles south of Napoleonville, the
county seat of Assumption. The break is
140 feet wide and growing wider, and, as it
is in a very fertile and thickly settled
sugar country, it is likely to do a great deal
of damage to the planters, besides probably
flooding the outskirts of Napoleonville.
In East Carroll, where the danger is re
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is already above the hiehest point known,
the levees are as yet quite safe, but badly
damaged by the washing of the waves. A
large lorce of levee guards have been ap
pointed and are guarding the levee night
and day.
Above, in Arkansas, a bad break 500 feet
wide and six feet deep is reported at the
Hunt landing, five miles above Grand Lake.
It will flood Chicot county, Arkansas, and
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The Weather Bureau, in its special river
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out a great stretch along the lower course
of the Mississippi river is near the top of
the levees. The water is still rising and an
overflow is imminent. The Ohio at Cincin
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SUMMER RESORTS.
HOTEL. KATES
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May Be Obtained at THE DISPATCH'S
Hnslness Office, ?mlthrlelil anil Diamond.
Atlssntic City.
HOTEL ATGLEX-MIchlgan and Pacific
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HOTEL WILTSHIUn,
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$10 to SIS per week. G. W. KEXDKICK.
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house. Opened January 30 lc9i
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Philadelphia, Thursdays of each week, Jnna
9 to 23, Inclnslve.
HOTELS.
RIGGS HOUSE,
WASHINGTON, D, C,
Reopened,
Under new management; refurnished an
redecorated in llrst-class style: table best 1
the city. EIGGS HOUSE CO.,
G. DeWTTT, Proprietors.
Treasurer.
STURTEVANT HOUSE.
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American plan $2 SO to $3 50 per day.
European plan $1 CO per day upward.
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