ROOMS TO LET.
For East End rooms you must look in
The Dlspatcn's Cent-a-Word Columns.
You cannot find as many elsewhere.
f Jje PfiPmtfl
ROOMS TO LET.
For East End rooms you mustloole Is
The Dispatch's Cent-a-Word Columns
You cannot find as many elsewhere.
Btftrnxri)
FORTY SEVENTH TEAB.
PITTSBURG THURSDAY, MAY 12 1892-TWELVE PAGES.
THREE CENT&
BACK TO BLAINE
' TURNS THE TIDE
No Matter How Many little
Currents Head Toward
Other Possibilities
TO BEAT HABRISON OUT.
The Favorite Scheme Is to Nominate
the Maine Man and Adjourn,
Quay Doesn't See How Such an Honor
Could Be Thrust A Bide Favorite Sons
Not Strong: Enough to Unite on Any
thing: Except an Anti-Harrison Move
mentNo One Has Even His Own
State Solidly No Overwhelming:
Stand for Any Candidate as There Is
for Cleveland The Erie Canal B1U
Likely to Pass the House as It Has
the Senate, but "With a Larger Ap
propriation.
State delegations, aggregating a majority of
the convention, full ot a desire to defeat Har
rison. Not a single man fits the situation
except James G. Blaine. "Whichever way
the organizers turn the pigs-in-clover (or
out-of-clover) puzzle, only one of the herd
can be got into the field without loss of ears
or tail or some other member.
How then can Blaine be nominated? Not
with his consent, certainly.
But will he consent if he be nominated
without his consent?
That is really the query with every one of
the anti-Harrison men.
Quay's Query Mighty Significant.
I put this same query to Senator Quay the
other evening. Alter a moment of hesita
tion he replied slowly, as if he were half
questioning his own mind: "Suppose the
convention should nominate him and ad
journ. "Would he, even in the interest of
his health, absolutely refuse the nomina
tion, and force that great, disintegrated
body to reassemble and do the work all over
again?"
The Senator pursued the subject no
farther, but it was a remark that opened up
great possibilities in case heroic measures
should become necessary to defeat Harrison.
Since then I have spoken about it to many
persons who are soured on Harrison, and
the idea seems to tickle them amazingly.
But how to do it? No one accustomed to
managing conventions seems to have a very
clear opinion on that point Thev admit
that it can only be accomplished by a
shrewd presiding officer in collusion with
consummate strategists, and all of them de
pending upon a spontaneity of the conven
tion, which in all conventions is somewhat
problematic. In the case of Garfield, it
came Decau&e tne convention was tired out
AN OUTDOOR SCHOOL,
Similar to the Chautauqua Assembly,
Is to He Established
UNDER AUSPICES OP CATHOLICS.
Archbishop Corrigan Talks on Rome's
Faribault System Decision-
TEE PLAN CANNOT BE MORE EXTENDED
rsrrciAi. TELKonirmc letter.
Bcbeau op The DtsrATcn, )
Vi ASHIHGTOS, D. C, Hay lL j
No matter what excursions political lead
ers of the "practical" kind make into the
anti -Harrison wilds, somehow they always
find their way back to the old red loansion
on Lafayette square, in whose antique din
ing room James Gillespie Blaine sits at the
head of the table. In those excursions they
have pounced upon every available and
many unavailable candidates. They have
diagnosed them until every sinew and mus
cle of their fighting abilities arc measured
and set down, but they have found no one
who fills the bill which must be written out
within a few weeks for the great drama to
be performed at Minneapolis. '
It is absolutely a mistake to say that at
any "conference" of the anti-Harrison lead
ers this or that man has been decided the
strongest In the fiist place, most of these
"conferences" have been reported in elabo
rate detail from the smallest and most in
significant occurrences, such as two or
three of the leaders being seen entering the
houe of another, and that, where they have
been accustomed to call frequently through
long years for a social chat or a little game
a cards. Often it has been found that a re
ported important and profoundly secret
"conference" has had nothing more of na
tional importance in its proceedings than
the national game of poker.
Impossibility of Keeping a Secret
Any one of these leaders knows that to
decide upon and publish now the identity
of any candidate to oppose Harrison would
be to wipe him out of existence before the
convention; and no conclusion, however se
cretly and exclusively reached, could be
kept from the public for a day. The pur
pose of the leaders is not to single out any
one man and mace him a target for all the
others, and for the army of Harrison dele
gates and Harrison officeholders to boot,
but to force into public notice and discus
sion all the great names they can to divert
attention from Harrison and confuse con
ventions yet to be held and delegatio ns al
ready elected but uninstructed.
TheT want as many delegations as possi
ble on the ground at Minneapolis which
will have no suggestion of what would be
best until that suggestion comes from them.
Consequently they talk of the fine caution,
praise and conservatism of Lincoln, of his
wiaespread popularity and the deep senti
ment that would be stirred up on account
of his parentage.
Beauties of Each Favorite Son.
They dwell upon the long services of
Sherman, the greatness of them, and the
strong fortress of his name, which nould of
itself stand against much of the brunt of
the battle successfully. McKinley's man
ful fight for all that is best in the Republi
can party and his redemption of Ohio from
the Democrats; Alger's standing with the
ex-soldiers and his plethoric barrel; "Uncle
Jerry Busk's popularity, and that his
State ii a doubtful one; Senator Allison's
far-reaching abilities and his doubtful State;
ex-Speaker Beed's able and unique record.
The anti-Harrison leaders leave none of
them out. and for the time their combined
personality overshadows the name of Har
rison. But after all is Eaid and done, each one is
found to have his weakness and none the
prerequisites of ability to defeat both Har
rison and the Democratic party, in anything
like the degree that is awarded to Blaine.
Lincoln is not exactly in touch with the
practical politicians, and might prove to be
a Cleveland or a Harrison. Sherman is
strong in the East, but would be slaughtered
in the "West He might carry New York
and Connecticut and lose Iowa, Kansas,
Colorado and two or three of the new States,
and so on.
"Weak Spots In the Anil's Armor.
Again, who would present the name of
Sherman to the convention? Not Ohio, cer
tainly, and Lincoln could not get a cor
poral's guard of the delegation from Illi
nois. The bosses there are for Harrison.
Unless there is an overwhelming movement
for a candidate, as is the case with Cleve
land, it is virtually fatal to him not to have
a solid delegation lrom his own State, with
prearranged support
"While, therefore, Lincoln and Sherman
would be popular at large, and might have
their names nresented irnm ntlipr Rtntps
theopposing or dividing delegations from
their own States would put a damper upon
tbir booms. Alger and Busk and Allison
and Iteed and others might have their own
delegations, but it is doubtful if a majority
of the convention could even be brought to
the support of any one of them.
All of these things, and a thousand other
minuter ones, are canvassed by the leaders,
and in the end it is admitted that in exist
ing circumstances it may be necessary to
fall back on Blaine or let the convention go
to Harrison in default of organization
against him.
The Value or Organlratlon.
But these leaders, such as Quay and Piatt,
who, with great uelegations at their backs,
are admitted to be looked up to as being
guides and philosophers of the anti-Harrison
movement, are not accustomed to lose
great ventures by default of organization.
Their great talent is for organization. But
not even they can make the man and the
situation to fit hi their own States always,
and a nation of States widely separated 'is
not so easily organized as one State or a
small section of sympathetic compact
States.
and could not nominate anybody who had
said he wanted the nomination. In this
case it would have to be, because the con
vention did not want anybody but the man
wno naa saia ne aia not want the nomina
tion. The Way It Could Be Bone.
"I'll tell you how it could be done," said
an anti-Harrison man to me to-day: "Let
each State which has a candidate present its
candidate. Let the customary spread-eagle
convention talk be exhausted on them, the
platform having been adopted, and all the
routine business, even to the appointment
of committees to notify the successful can
didates completed. Let the anti-Harrison
delegates carefully arrange to divide among
various candidates, to prevent any nomina
tion on the first ballot. Then, just before the
result is announced, let the chairman of
any delegation of a Blaine State shout out
that the delegation of the State of Blank
desires to change its vote and rote solidly
for James G. Blaine. That would settle it
The big and little uninstructed anti-Harrison
delegations would tumble over one an
other in a mad riot to bo recorded for
Blaine. The convention would be swept
into the Blaine fold like a flock of sheep."
That is one way. But would other candi
dates, plainly presented for nomination in
the convention for the sole purpose of de
feating Harrison, permit themselves to be
made catspaws of merely to pull Blaine's
chestnuts from the fire? "Why, of course.
Any man in the country would do so for the
free advertisement, and with the hope ot
being struck by the anti-Harrison lightning.
An Easy Way to Clinch Things.
Of course, too, in spite of fate, Blaine
would have a chance to telegraph a rejection
of the nomination before the contention
could adjourn. In providing for a sudden
adjournment, my friend, who kitfdly tells
me bow it can all be done, forgot that after
the President conies the nomination of the
"Vice President All this might be fixed,
however, by the good offices ot gome anti-
Harrison statesmen who would invite Blaine
to his country seat, far from a telegraph
office, to stay till after an adjournment sine
die.
After all the speculation of the anti-Harrison
people and the speculation n ill be
mighty lhelyfrom now until the conven
tion the President and his official and un
official supporters go on keeping a firm grip
on vi hat they have got, and acting on the
surface just as though there was no anti-
Harrison movement in existence. It has'
been asserted that Harrison would refuse to
permit the use of his name in the conven
tion where he to find any formidable oppo
sition. That is not like Harrison. He is
confident and persistent. He is willing to
put the party to the test and let the world
know whether so clean and able an admin
istration as his is to be condemned and spat
upon by the party which gave it birth.
Harrison on a Second-Term Bucket.
"If it is a second term that is objected
to," says the President, "why, let the party
declare in its platform against a second
term in the future, but don't let these
offended politicians play the second-term
racket on me. Begin with the next
fellow."
It was a remarkable fight that was made
to-day in the House over the section of the
sundry civil bill appropriating $620,000 for
a site for a new Mint at Philadelphia. All
day the battle waged. The extraordinary
spectacle was exhibited of the Chairman
ot the Committee on Appropriations moving
to strike out an item to which he had agreed
in his committee. Holman was hammered
beautifully, but stood it with his usual
stolidity. The Pennsylvimians, O'JSeill,
Bingham, McAleer, Mutchler, Keilly and
others, made a pretty fight against long
odds, and actually, on a vote by tellers,
only lost the game by four points. An
amendment that is defeated in committee ot
the whole may be voted upon "in the
House," as it is technically termed, alter
the committee rises, and. General Bincrham
gave notice that he would demand a vote by
yeas and nays in the House. It is barely
possible the friend of the item may yet win
a victory.
Passage of the take Erie Canal Bill.
In the Senate the bill introduced by
Senator Quay some time ago,authorizing the
Secretary ot War to cause a survey to be
made for a ship canal connecting the waters
of Lake Erie and the Ohio river, was
reached on the calendar and passed. "When
Senator Quay reported it from committee it
was with some slieht chancres from the
original form, which provided for a survey
for a ship canal "through the State of Penn
sylvania." To make it an inter-State
matter, as was necessary, it was amended to
read "extending from a point at or near Con
neaut harbor, or the city of Erie, to a point
at or near the city of Pittsburg, Pa."
The bill appropriates 510,000, and author
izes the Secretary of War to direct engi
neer officers making the survey to report
the most suitable plan for making the im
provement, and also to estimate the cost
The bill will go to the Committee on Rail-
roartsand Canals, of the House, where there
is a similar bill introduced by Representa
tive DalzelL The Senate bill will probably
be reported to the House instead of the
House bill, as it is through the one body.
If it be reported, Mr. Dalzell will probably
ask an amendment appropriating 140,000,
the sum named in his bill. Lightjjek.
HEALTHY GE0WTH OF THE A. 0. H.
An Incr ease of Nearly 30,000 Reported for
the Last Two Tears.
Xetv Orleans, May 1L Special The
convention of the Ancient Order of Hibern
ians met at Grnntwald's Hall -this morning,
but adjourned at 10 A. M. for the grand re
view. There were 19 divisions and 1,200
men in line. A second session was held
after the review. To-night the visiting del
egates attended a reception, ball and sup
per given in their honor at "Washington Ar
tillery Hall.
The National Secretary reported that
since 1880 the membership of the order had
increased to 183,238, again of 27,361; the
divisions, 1.G8G, an increase of 420, and the
military companies to 23L The total re
ceipts "during the two years were $708,982;
exnenditures. Sfi.'Jfl 271 mid tli. rnlnp nfti-ii.
The situation is presented of a number of I property held by the order 687,270.
tPFECIAI, TELIGRXM TO THE DISPATCH.l
New York, May 11. A conference of
Catholic priests and laymen was begun to
day at the Catholic Club, to discuss the
establishment of a summer school for Catho
lics on lines similar to those on which the
Chautauqua Assembly is conducted. Bev.
Morgan M. Sheedy, of Pittsburg, presided
at the meeting, and "Warren S. Mosher, of
Youngstown, was elected Secretary.
The talk at the conference showed that
the general idea was to locate the assembly
in a retired place on the seashore, where,
during the summer months, professors from
Catholic seminaries and colleges would give
lectures. It was said that in time the
assembly would issue textbooks which
would enable people who could not attend
the lecture courses to follow the educational
scheme of the assembly.
Among the places to locate the assembly
spoken of were Carlton Island, in the St
Lawrence, near Cape Vincent; Point Pleas
ant, H. Y., New London and Lake George.
Advocates of the island location drew at
tention to the fact that large numbers of
Canadian Catholics would attend the assem
bly if it was held there. The selection of a
location was referred to a committee com
posed of Father Mullaney, Mr. Hearen, and
Mr. Kosher. The sile the assembly will
probably select will be bought by the
projectors of the educational scheme.
It was decided at a session to-night to
have lectures on ethics, science and re
vealed religion, history, literature and
political economy. Carlton Island was se
lected as the place to hold the assembly.
The first session, to be held this summer, is
to last three weeks. The name of the place
is to be changed to Cnrrollton Island, in
honor of Carroll, of Carrollton, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence.
The Faribault System Decision.
The full text of Rome's decision in re
gard to the attitude of the Holy See toward
Archbishop Ireland's Faribault plan of
education came to this city yesterday. It
was cabled from Rome. A letter from
Cardinal Ledochowski, Prefect of the
Propaganda, accompanied the decree. The
letter spoke so highly of Archbishop Ire
land, and so many seemed to misunderstand
the meaning of the decree, that it was gen
erally believed that Archbishop Ireland had
secured a victory and that the papal author
ities had approved his plan.
Archbishop Corrigan; who opposed Arch
bishop Ireland's educational scheme, showed
in an interview with a reporter, to-night,
that the Faribault plan had been virtually
condemned, but that the Pope had decided
to tolerate the scheme in Faribault, as it is
now in operation. Last Thursday the
Archbishop received aprivate dispatch from
Rome to that effect.
Archbishop Ireland himself originated
the Faribault plan. Faribault is a town in
Minnesota, in the Archbishop'sarchdiocese.
There was a parochial school there, in charge
of the Sisters ot St. Dominic. The Catho
lics in the place were not able to support a
school, and the Archbishop leased it to the
public school authorities of the town for a
year. Catholic and Protestant children are
admitted to it
Expenses Divided and ScliooI( Sustained.
The Sisters of St Dominic are retained
as teachers, but during school hours only
secular instruction is given. After school
hours the Catholic children remain and re
ceive religious instruction. The burden of
supporting the school is thus taken from
the Catholics of the place.
Shortly after the inauguration of the new
order of things at Faribault, Archbishop
Ireland introduced the plan at Stillwater, an
other place in his archdiocese. It was not
long before objectors to Archbishoplreland's
scheme, which became known as the Fari
bault plan, began to speak. Archbishop
Corrigan was the chief. The objectors con
tended, among other things, that the scheme
was unqualifiedly un-Catholic, because it
precludea giving religious and secular in
struction at the same time. Education that
is not tempered with religious instruction,
they declared, is unchristian.
"When Archbishop Ireland went to Rome
several months ago, Catholics in this coun
try awaited with interest the decision ot the
Roman authorities on the Faribault plan.
Oflate.word has frequently come here from
Rome that it looked as if Archbishop Ire-
laud would secure the indorsement of Rome.
His friends in this country were jubilant
Last Friday Archbishop Corrigan re
ceived this dispatch: "Faribault system
condemned. Special cases reserved." This
was interpreted to mean that the educa
tional scheme of Archbishop Ireland had
been condemned, but that he was to be al
lowed to continue the schools at Faribault
and Stillwater.
Archbishop Corrigan More Than rieaen.
When shown the text of Secretary Igna
tius' letter to Archbishop Ireland, pub
lished in The Dispatch this morning,
Archbishop Corrigan to-night said: -"This
decision of the Sacred Congregation of the
Propaganda fully confirms the dispatch re
ceived Friday. The Sacred Congregation
says that, 'taking into consideration all the
circumstances,' the plan can be toler
ated. In giving this decision they
do so without derogating from the
decree of the Council of Baltimore, for a
parochial school should be established
within two years, if possible. Of course,
there are parishes whose financial condition
will not allow them to support a parochial
school. The propaganda intimates, in that
phrase, 'without derogating from the decree
of the Council of Baltimore, that the only
system of education of the Catholio to be
permitted in the United States is the
parochial school system.
"The decree says that Archbishop Ire
land's plan 'can be tolerated.' Toleration.
however, does not signify permission. For
instance, the Catholic Church tolerates di
vorce among the members of the Greek
Church, which is in union with the Holy
See, but the Holy See does not permit di
vorce in the Catholic Church.
The Plan Cannot Be Extended.
"In a few words, the decision means that
the Faribault plan cannot be extended in
this country, and that the parochial school
system is the only authorized one for the
Catholics of America. The Sacred congre
gation has taken into consideration the pe
culiar circumstances in the towns of Fari
bault and Stillwater, and says that
Archbishop Ireland's plan in" those
places is not condemned, but is
only tolerated. Inasmuch as Archbishop
Ireland's intention was to have his scheme
introduced all over this country, and as the
Holy See refuses to permit him" to do so, the
Faribault plan has been condemned. The
question is settled finally by the decision of
the propaganda."
"While Archbishop Ireland has been in
Rome he has been bitterly attacked by a
number of German Catholic newspapers on
account of his plan. Cardinal Ledochowski,
in his letter, says: "When the Holy See
declares that snch provisions may be toler
ated, it thereby puts an end to all indiscreet
attacks upon them." It is believed here
that Cardinal Ledochowski wrote that to
notify the German Catholic newspapers
that they were to discontinue assailing the
Archbishop of St. Paul.
Archbishop Ireland, it is said, will leave
Rome for this country May 18.
APPLYING FOB EMPLOYMENT,
Sisters or Charity Ask for a Continuance
of the Stillwater System.
Stillwater, Minx., May It Special
The result of the school board meeting
to-day is the subject of considerable com
ment. Director Berry, who is opposed to
the public parochial school arrangement,
offered a resolution that on and after the
close of the present school year no Sisters of
Charity wearing the garb" of their order
be employed as teachers in public schools
of the city of Stillwater. The resolution
was tabled until the meeting of June 14.
The applications of the sisters for employ
ment caused considerable surprise, as it was
expected that the St. "Michael's people
would not ask tor a continuance of the
present contract. This, however, would
seem to indicate that they will.
Concerning, the Pope's approval of the
plans formulated by Bishop Ireland pro
mulgated at Stillwater and Faribault, there
are a numbpr of Catholics who do not favor
the arrangement, believing that the paro
chial schools should be maintained, as
formerly. President Mulvey, of "the
Defenders," remarked to-day that the
society now numbers over a 1,000 voters in
the city of Stillwater, and this show of
opposition would probably keep the Board
of Education from making any unsatis
factory contracts in the future.
THE DEVIL'S PARTNER
Gets Into Trouble by Working Voo
dooism on an Italian Woman.
HIS CHARM WOBKED TOO WELL
The Dupe's Missing Husband Returns, but
lie Spoils the Game.
A PAIR OP FIXE EIRDS BEHIND BARS
ST. LOUIS WETS HER FEET.
The Mississippi Creeping Up to the First
Floors of Business Houses The Blvers
Beginning to Fail at Most Other Points
A Toledo Freshet
St. Louis, May 1L The Mississippi
rose nine inches to-day, and to-night stands
at the highest point reached by the flood of
1888. The Missouri is out of its banks, and
is sending Its enormous volume of muddy
water to increase the already overcharged
Mississippi. At this point the river stands
to-night 29.3 feet above low water mark,and
is still rising. The water now covers the
levee and is almost up to the walk on the
levee front. A little higher and it will be
in the first floors. This is in the business
part ot the city. North and south, where
the levee is narrower, it has already reached
the hrst row ot buildings. There is no
probability of any serious damage to prop
erty here, ho ever.
Dispatches lrom many other points in the
flooded districts indicate that the various
rivers are falling, and that unless more rain
falls no real damage will be done by floods.
The river at New Orleans is 16.7 feet, or
two-tenths lower than it was at one time
yesterday, when the wind drove the water
to that side of the river. A break 20 feet
wide occurred at Bousecour, on the east
bank of the river, 34 miles below the city.
The old levee at "Waterloo, about nine
miles south of Bayou Sara, is reported to be
entirely submerged.
A dispatch from Toledo says: The Mau
mee river has been higher for the last week
than it has been since the big flood of 1883.
The heavy rains have swelled its tribu
taries. The farmers along the river have
suffered much by the washing away of live
stock and fencing and the overflow of their
farms.
CAUSED BY NAKED LAMPS.
Tho Mine Horror In Washington Probably
Arose Froni a Pocket of .Gas Not a Man
Escaped Possibly 43 lien Were Killed
Recovering Bodies.
Eoslyn, "Wash., May 11. The exact
cause of the terrible explosion in the coal
mine yesterday, in which at least 34 men
perished, will probably never be known, as'
it is now certain that every man in the
mine was killed. The most reasonable con
clusion is that a miner struck a gas pocket
or feeder, which suddenly filled the slope
and became ignited by the miners' lamps.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon 14 bodies had
been taken out. The work of relief is slow,
owing to the wrecked condition of the in
terior of the mine, and possibly another 48
hours will elapse before the lowest level is
reached. On the day of the explosion gas
was reported, but was removed by the fore
man and the men rut to work. They worked
from 7 A. M. until the explosion occurred,
at 1:40 p. m., with naked lamps. At noon
the mine was reported free from gas.
A corps of undertakers with two carloads
of coffins arrived from Tacoma to-day. The
Coroner's Jury was impaneled, but no
inquest will be held until the remaining
bodies are recovered. The accumulation of
gas in the mine is too great to allow of
pushing the work ot exploration for the
dead, and probably no more bodies will be
recovered beforp to-morrow. John Kangley,
General Manager of the Northern Pacific
Coal Company who arrived this morning,
said:
Possibly 13 men were killed. Tills mine
was in tho best possible condition that any
mine could be for ventilation and safety of
life, and no one heie uttacnes any blame to
tho company.
AN INDIAN OUTBREAK FEARED.
Cheycnnes Off Their Allotments and Driv
ing Some of the VI hites Away.
Guthrie, O. T., May 11. Special
Governor Seay to-day received dispatches
from the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reserva
tion, stating that about 100 Cheyenne In
dians were off their allotments and had
driven a number of people out of
county F. These Indians claim they never
signed the treaty tor the sale ot their lands,
and that the whites must get out ot the
country inside of ten days or be driven out
The Indians are all armed and are acting
very ugly.
At the town of Cheyenne a line of
guards are kept about the town night and
day, ana tne people desire that troops be
sent to protect them at once. A large num
ber of the Indians refuse to come io the
agency, and unless they are controlled at
once serious trouble will surely ensue.
A 6ILVEE S0UVENIB.
(SPECIAL TXLEGRIM TO THE DISPATCK.J
New York, May 11. "Vincenzo Liber
tino, of Mott street, a brother of Pasquale
Libertino, the quack doctor who was ar-
rested recently for practicing medicine
without a license, and is now on Black
well's Island, is now in the toils, having
been arrested to-day on a charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses. The com
plainant is Mrs. Katie Sergi, of Baxter
street. Mrs. Sergi is the wife of Carlo
Sergi, a fruit dealer. They have been mar
ried but a few months, and their domestic
relations have been anything but pleasant
They quarreled and fought until, one morn
ing, Carlo packed up his belongings and left
the house. He did not return that night
nor the next, nor the next, and then the
young wife began to grieve tor him.
In some way the woman's trouble reached
the ears of Libertino, and he called on her
at her home and told her he would bring
her husband back for (100. She told him
she had not that much money, whereupon,
the woman says, he threatened that if she
aia not raise tne amount immediately ne
would call on the devil to burn her house
and spread disease in her family. She was
frightened, and promised to get the money.
She says she sold everything she had and
borrowed all she could, and the next day,
when he called, she handed him $100 in bills.
Voodoolsm With a Vengeance.
"Now," he said "I will find your hus
band for you, will compel him to leave her
and return to his family."
"Her?" exclaimed the woman. "What
do you mean by that?"
Libertino replied that the devil had lust
informed him that her husband had left
her for another woman, with whom he was
living. Mrs. Sergi went into hysterics, but
the doctor soothed her by promising to kill
the other woman. He then gave Ms. Sergi
a receipt for $100, which he said h'ad been
signed by the devil. Before leaving he said:
"In seven days the other woman shall die,
and I will take you to see her body.
Four evenings aftenthis Libertino called
at the house, and, knocking on Mrs. Sergi'i
door, bade her follow him. "I have killed
her," he said. "If you would see her face,
come quickly."
Mrs. Sergi Bays that Libertino led her to
the top floor of a tenement house in Baxter
street, where he opened the door of a room,
in the midst of which, on two props, was a
coffin-shaped box covered with a long white
sheet. Baising the edge of the sheet, he
disclosed the face of a dead woman.
Mrs. Sergi'g Husband Keally Returns,
Mrs. Sergi gave a shriek and ran home as
quickly as she could. Libertino followed
shortly afterward, and told her that her
husband would return to her before the
week was out. The very next day Carlo
Sergi came home and begged his wife to for
give him. She was sot delighted to see him
that she told him nothing about Libertino
and the means she had employed to get him
back. The next day she made some remark
about the woman she supposed he had been
living with. Carlo denied that he had been
with any woman, and said he had gone to
Philadelphia to buy fruit He brought a
friend who corroborated the husband's
story.
That night Libertino called on Mrs.
Sergi in great excitement He demanded a
Erivate interview, and when it was granted
e pulled from his pocket apiece of paper
covered with strange figures, and told her
it was a message from the devil, who de
manded 5400 lor his work in ridding the
earth of her rival. Libertino says the devil
would kill Sergi unless the $400 was forth
coming. The "Wife Worried to Death.
Mrs. Sergi worried over her inability to
raise the money, and finally became sick.
Her husband asked what was the trouble,
and she told him the whole story. Sergi
started out to find Libertino. He did not
find him, and the next day informed the
police. Libertino's arrest followed, and to
day he was arraigned in the Tombs Court
When Mrs. Sergi's story had been told
Camillo Yizzi, a Baxter street barber, testi
fied that he bad seen the woman pay $100 to
Libertino. He had also seen the defendant
give Mrs. Sergi a receipt, which he said had
come from the devil, who promised to pro
tect her through life.
The receipt was offered in evidence, and
admitted. It consisted of a piece of tools
cap paper, on which were meaningless
marks in lead pencil.
Other witnesses corroborated the tes
timony of Vizzi. There were a dozen wit
nesses in court, all of whom had wonderful
stories to tell of Libertino's unearthly
practices. Justice McMahon, at the re
quest of counsel, postponed the examina
tion until to-morrow, and held the prisoner
in J9 .Wl hail-
j will refuse to do so, and be suspended, and
each member ot the white posts win be
similarly suspended, one by one. They
propose at the same time to keep up the
order and claim to be regular G. A. B. I
posts.
REID'S PET SLAUGHTERED.
Whlfelaw's Statesmanship Held Very
Cheaply by the Best Lawyer In the
Senate They Unite, Regardless of Party,
In Rejecting ITU Favorite Extradition
Treaty.
Washington, May 11. Special. The
extradition treaty between the United
States and France, which Whitelaw Beid
brought home with him as one of the ap
parently most creditable accomplishments
of hii three years' career as American Min
ister, was rejected by the Senate in execu
tive session to-day, after being severely
criticised arid defended by Senators on both
sides of the chamber.
Party lines were not drawn, and Demo
crats and Republicans divided upon the
question. Its friends insisted upon forcing
it to a vote, and defeat followed.
Nearly all of the really able lawyers of
the Senate have taken part in the discus
sion ot the terms of the treaty f "-c the
past rew days, and even sued t js 'e
publicans as Messrs. Hoar, Wftv 'o.
Piatt and Mitchell criticised ils.s'A '
CALLEDJJER NAMES,
Dora "Wimer Assailed Dy the
Attorney for McClnre
in His Argument.
EXCITING COUKT SCENES.
The Last Day of the Trial Devoted to
Arguments Pro and Con.
PERJURY DEFINED BY THE COURT.
The Judge in Bis Charge Speaks of the
Freedom of the Press.
A TEEDICT EXPECTED THIS MORNING
.riatt ana Aiitcneu criticised usx 'n. -vq
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its general tone as weak and ineffecUxr Vr fj,
DCHUbura v eb uuu vreurge, xcuiucrais,
joined their Judiciary Cpmmittee colleagues
in attacking the treaty.
One of the lawyers above quoted said the
treaty must be regarded by all diplomats
and authorities or students of international
laws as one of the most vulnerable state
papers ever presented for the consideration
of the Senate.
ANOTHER READING COMBINE.
The Rochester, Buffalo and Pittsbars Deal
Is Officially Announced.
Philadelphia, May 11. Special.
The stories that have been current for sev
eral weeks of some sort of a deal between
the Beading Bailroad and the Buffalo,
Eochester and Pittsburg Bailway, an im
portant soft coal line, were confirmed to
day bv the official announcement that a con
tract had been executed between the Bead
ing and .New York Central and the Buffalo,
Bochester and Pittsburg Bailway, by which
the three systems are united oyer the Beach
Creek road for a general interchange of
traffic.
Under this arrangement the Buffalo,
Bochester and Pittsburg undertakes to com
plete immediately a new line from DuBois
to Clearfield, where a connection will be
made with the Beach Creek Bailway. By
this contract the Beading gains access to a
great soft coal, petroleum-and timber coun
try, and is assured of a much heavier
bituminous coal traffic than it now secures
from the Beach Creek Bailway.
ALL FOB A WOMAN.
and
A Reputable Man Turn Murderer
Shocks a Community.
Lincoln, Neb., May 11. Myron Pratt,
a man 53 years old, employed as an engineer
in the postoffice building, to-night shot and
instantly killed Mrs. Margaret Sperry, a
woman of 42, just as she was enter
ing the gate of her home. Pratt had been
waiting for her and the act was
deliberate. Bystanders overpowered him
and he was taken to the police sta
tion. The only motive for the crime is
found in Pratt's story that the woman had
been extorting money from him by a system
of blackmail. They were at one time inti
mate. Mrs. Sperry is the divorced wife of
a Union Pacific conductor. Pratt has a
family highly regarded, and his reputation
has generally been good.
E0ILEB MAKEES STAND FIEM
They Will Snpport ThelrFellow-Workmen
at Chicago and Elsewhere.
Columbus, O., May 11. Special Two
hundred delegates are in attendance at the
annual session of the National Brotherhood
of Boiler Makers. To-day they decided to
stand by the members of the International
Brotherhood of Boiler Makers in their strike
at Chicago and other points for thp nine
hour system. The Brotherhood adopted
resolutions as follows:
Resolved. That wo will refuse to work with
non-union helpers in shops where a lodge ot
the N. B. of B. M. exist", nnd, further, that
we will encourage organizations of helpers
wherever possible.
Resolved, That no member or this order
shall be allowed to do steam tight work or
any part of boiier-mnking unless be receives
standard boiler maters' wages.
SIX HUNCHED STARVING FAMILIES.
The West Makes Geo. W. Chllds a Hand
aome Present.
Denver, Colo., May XL At the pri
vate reception yesterday given by his
nephew, Mr. George W. Childs was pre
sented with one of the handsomest souvenirs
ever made in the West. It was a solid sil
ver plate half an inch thick ornamented
with nuggets of solid silver and silver as
say buttons. It bore the following inscrip
tion: To George W. Childs, from the Rico-Aspen
Consolidated Mining Comp.my. A. B. Kodeio,
Treasurer.
All the silver used came out of the mines
of the above named company. Mr, Childs
was delighted with it.
A BIO TIN PLATE FACI0BT
in f2,500 bail
Peculiar Care Tor Pneumonia.
The Libertino brothers are well known in
the Italian colony. Pasquale was sent to
prison on a technical charge of violating
the medical law. His method of treatment
had been to cut gashes in the arms of a
patient suffering from pneumonia, and to
rub the blood over the man's chest This
not proving successful, he cut the man's
toes with a razor, dipped a sharp stick in
the blood which flowed, and wrote a letter
with it, addressed to "His Satanic Majesty,
the devil, care of the King of Hades."
Since his brother's conviction Vincenzo
has carried on the business admirably. One
witness says that when she sent for him to
give her something for a cold he made her
drink a pint bottle of cold blood. Another
declares that Vincenzo cut almond-shaped
pieces of skin from her shoulder and wrote
signs on them in blood. He then put the
kin in a bottle and said he was going to
tend it to the deviL
Necroei Learn Too Late That Colony Man
agers Are Not Always Honest.
"Wichita, Kan., May 11. A fearful
state of destitution and starvation exists
among the negro colonists scattered through
the Black Jack country around Kingfisher,
O. T. It is said there are between 500 and
600 families with starvation staring them in
the face.
The negroes blame the men who organ
ized the colonies in the South, and charge
them with misappropriating the funds
which it was thought would tide the immi
grants over till they could raise a crop. An
urgent appeal has been made to Governor
Seay through E. P. McCabe, the colored ex
Auditor of this State.
Being
Bollt at Elizabethport by Welsh
Capital nnd rt elihmen.
Elizabeth, N. J., May 1L Special
Ground was broken at Elizabethport to-day
for the tin plate factory of E. Morewood &
Co., of "Wales, which will cover three acres
of ground fronting on Staten Island Sound,
and have a capacity for turning out 5,000
boxes a cek.
A large force of men has been set to work
grading oft' the ground and getting ready
tor tbebundation. The plant will be in
operation so George B. Morewood, the
American representative of the firm, says
three months hence.
SPLIT ON THE COLOR LINE.
Serious Trouble in Southern Posts or the
Grand Army of the Republic.
New Orleans, May 1L Special The
members of the white posts of the Grand
Army of the Bepublic have determined to
stick by Department Commander Frederick
Speed, who was suspended the other day by
the National Commander for his refusal to
recognize the posts In the district composed
of negroes. Commander Speed has sent a
circular to all the white veterans and mem
bers of the order, prohibiting recognition
of the negro posts, on the ground that they
were hastily organized by their commander
and in a spirit of spite because the order
refused to turn out at Jefferson Davis'
funeral, as he desired ij to do.
The negro posts, he complains, are com
prised ot a motley crew, mainly of teamsters,
cooks, officers' servants and camp followers,'
some of whom served in the Con ederate
camps, and no effort was made when the
posts were organized to determine whether
they had been honorably discharged from
the Federal Army, and they should not
have been recognized by the Grand En
campment. The other white G. A. E. meu will act
with Speed, and refuse, nnder any circum
stances, to recognize the negroes, preferring
suspension to this. Senior Deputy Com
mander jJnrKce will be called on
THE ELECTRIC TRUST CALLED.
It Mast Defend Its World's Fair Scheme
Before Congress.
"Washington, May XL The Electrio
Trust is now the subject matter of a resolu
tion of inquiry offered in the House by Mr.
Crain, of Texas, calling on the Attorney
General for information as to whether the
Edison Electric Company, the Thomson
Houston Electrio Company, or the General
Electric Company, have violated the pro
visions of the anti-trust act in submitting
proposals lor lurnisning lighting lor the
"World's Fair at Chicago.
BNOW IN MID-HAY.
A. Delayed Squall Strikes Pittsburg; ana
Makes Things White.
At 2:40 o'clock this morning a belated
snow squall struck Pittsburg. The flakes
were small, but they were as palpably snow
as any that usually strikes this latitude in
December or January, and there were any
number of them in fact, the air was full of
'em.
THIS MOKNIiNG'S NEWS.
Ztjic Page.
Dialne Still the Mairnetlo Man 1
A Catholic Cliautauqna Proposed 1
Voodoolsm Rampant In New Turk 1
Agent McClnre In the Jory'a Hands X
Powderly's Bright Labor Picture.......... 9
A Sharper Work Sharpibarg 9
Editorial Comment and Miscellaneous.... 4
Timely Topics Touched Up '. 4
The Old Home'i Queer History C
Chief Brown's Polico Review 6
Political Goilp and Mews 7
The Boron for Aged Printers 7
Bow a Ball Gams Was Lost 8
The Kentucky Derby 8
News of the Nearby Towns 8
Labor In Europe and America O
All the News by Cable 9
The Bmlness World's Budget 9
Two Great Surprises In Congress 10
The Oil Scout's Field Report 10
Live Stock and Commercial Markets 11
And the third day was the greatest of alL
"his. refrnrdincr the last dav nf the "Mn-
fO 'riury case, and indeed it was the
iFCri ! seen 'n branch No. 1 of the
(JjS'jfy j. The crowds were the great
est X J aments were the greatest. The
side remain t of the auditors were the great
est. The firstly surged, pushed and
breathed hard. The secondly were long,
forcible and beautifully rhetorical. The
thirdly had neither bounds consistency nor
finale. All three attributes of the day
were the largest, most enthusiastic and in
teresting. The day broke dull, clondy and uninter
esting, so did the trial. The day wore a
tired aspect, and so did the people in the
courtroom. The good Bobbie McClure had
"that tired feeling" conspicuously por
trayed about his person. His clothing wore
that aspect, as did his much bewhiskered
face. His foot, "that foot," was also tired
and was not the source of annoyance it ha3
been on days previous to the irascible Mr.
Marron. The counsel looked tired. The
Court looked tired. The voung sttorneys
who admired Mr. McClure's presence with
their own, looked tired. The people with
out the yellow railing looked tired, and tha
jury was tired.
All Had That TIrecI FoellnR.
A number of character witnesses went on
the stand in a tired way, and were ques
tioned in tired voices. They told how well,
how very well,they knew Mr. McClure, and
what an enviable reputation he bore for
truth and veracity, and they also told of
hearing about his recent troubles with the
stern arm of the law.
This told the story of the defense, and in
rebuttal the principal witness for the
prosecution was put on the stand. Mr.
Sharp said the warrant produced in evi
dence was not the same one served on him
by Alderman Bohe'a bailiff. Then the de
fense asked the Court to charge the jury as
as follows:
That the time the paper was purchased
was not material.
That the person selling the paper was not
material, as the proprietor was respon
sible. If the Jury bellevos that the information
oflered in evidence is not signed by the de
fendant, the verdict shall not be guilty.
That If the jury believe, that what McClure
swore to was that he purchased the paper in
the store and not from Sharp, be is not
Euilty.
ir tho Jury believe that Sharp and hi9 wife
gave four copies of the Press on the Sunday
named and received money on Monday they
did carry on their regular business of
worldly employment as charged in the in
dictment. In order to convict the defendant it is nec
essary for the Commonwealth to produce the
original information or to show satisfactory
explanation of its loss or a certlned copy
thereof.
Marron Boasts the Newspapers.
Then everybody seemed to wake up at
once. Mr. Marron, representing Mr. Mc
Clure, started the game, and like contagion
it spread until even the juryman with the
far-away look in his eyes pinched himself
nnd glanced hurriedly about the courtroom.
From what he said in the opening argu
ment, the people would get the impres
sion that newspapers were made for
the express purpose of leading young,
old and middle-aged people to certain un
pleasant locations by the truth-perverting
routes. Mr. Marron's elocution became
singularly touching when he arrived at the
newspaper reporter point. These beings
exist, according to Mr. Marron, lor the pur
pose of twisting and turning the truth to
satisfy their own beliefs on occasions, and
that the aforesaid reporters were a bad lot,
taken all in all. That the press delighted
in blackening a man's character and doing
other things too awful to mention.
Peijnry Nearly an Unknown Crime.
Then Mr. Marron shifted his course and
sailed on another tack. This course was not
as interesting totheauditors as was the first,
for it was a long, long definition of the
crime of perjury. Mr. Marron thought
there was seldom any perjury committed in
courts ot justice and that every case of false
swearing was not a case of perjury, but that
Derjury must be wilful, false and corrupt.
So thought Mr. Marron and so he said in his
deep Criminal Court tones.
He alluded to the absence of the Prose
cuting Attorney with much sarcasm and
said that that gentleman's actions during
the impaneling ot the jury were of the kind
that the King of England used when he
first originated juries for his personal
benefit. His course after this was on
various tacks, like a little vessel in an East
Indian simoon. He tacked first one way,
then shifted to another. He tried to shatter
Dora "Winter's testimony and said in a most
cutting tone that -she was a hussy, and was
trying to break down the character of a man
who was three times as old as she. Then ha
spoke in soft tones of the old age of Mr.
McClure and told what a good, good man he
was.
Agent McClnre Sheds Tears.
During this poetic recital the eyes of tha
good Mr. McClure filled with a suspicious
moisture. Then on Tent Mr. Marron to
the purchase of that paper bn that Sunday
morning back in February. He said Sharp
had sold papers on Sunday, and consequent
ly was guilty of violating the law, and that
tne jury could not convict Mr. McClure for
perjury in swearing to the information for
Sharp's arrest, which is the first count of
this case. Then he summed up with the
great argument that if McClure had not
been at Sharp's store how was it possible
for him to know about the girl sweeping off
the walk and that papers were on the
counter, and finally, to crown all, about
Sharp eating breakfast Then Mr. Marron
wiped the ardor of! his brow and sate him
self down.
Everybody was interested now and when
Major Brown arose and took his stand be
fore the jurors there were certain half audi
ble and interesting remarks made by tha
watchers. Major Brown did not wax elo
quent at first, but as be became deeper in
the case he did, and the choice English
floated about the courtroom in -little
groups. Major Brown spoke in the follow
ing strain:
Paid to Prosecute Poor Women.
May it please Your Honor ana gentlemen
of the jury, through the courtesy of the
Conrt'and the District Attorney. I have had
the honor of acting as prosecutor in this
to Wnnff.
nize the negro posts in a few days, when he I An Important Tangle in Michigan 13 case, which I deem a most Important one.
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