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FORTY SEVENTH YEAR
PITTSBURG. THURSDAY, ' MAY 19 ' 1892-TWELVE -PAGES.
THREE CENTS.
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ONE TOO
MANY
OR
HARMONY
Prank leach and George
Pearson. Both Announced
Secretaries of
THE STATE COMMITTEE.
Mther One Willing to Play Second
Fiddle to the Other.
Pearson the Candidates' Choice, While
Boeder Stands by the Former Secre
taryThe New Chairman Thinks
There's Work Enough for Three of
Them Watres Perfectly Pleased
With His Successor Secretary El
klns Confidently Predicts the Presi
dent's Eenomlnatlon McKlnley to Do
the Blaine Letter-Writing Act.
rcnCIAt. TILEOBAH TO TUB DISP.VrCTt.1
Philadelphia, May 18. There is
likely to be a strong tempest before the or
ganization of the Kepublican State Com
mittee for 1S92 becomes a fixed fact, and
the trouble arises in the announcement of
Frank Willing Leach that he was elected
Secretary of the committee, when the can
didates did nothing of the kind. The
choice of the candidates was George Pear
son, of Mercer, and Mr. Pearson's election
stands.
"When Judge John Dean, General Will
iam Lilly, Major Alexander McDowell and
Convention Chairman E. K. Martin came
together at Harrisburg yesterday to carry
out the duty of agreeing upon a State Com
mittee, Chairman and Secretary, Tested in
them by the late convention, they were
unanimous in selecting General Frank
Beeder to succeed Lieutenant Governor
Watres, inasmuch as the latter had posi
tively declined to serve again. Following
this action the election of Secretary came
up, and Major McDowell presented Mr.
Pearson as his personal choice. Judge
Dean entirely agreed with. Major Mc
Dowell. A II Satisfied With Pearson.
"Mr. Pearson is thoroughly satisfactory
to the party workers, while Mr. Leach is
i not," said Mr. McDowell," and we must
recognize the claim they have upon us in
this matter, as they are the ones whose ob
jections' count."
.A division resulted, Lilly and Martin
voting lor Leach. This continued very
briefly, when the candid ates agreed upon
Mr. Pearson, and the four sijn 'd a paper
attesting to his election, and they agreed
on the ground,tbat no compromise on Leach
was possible. The direct information that
Mr. Pearson had been chosen Secretary was
brought to the city by one of the candi
dates, who was not aware of the fact that
Mr. Leach had previously announced his
own appointment, and the candidate in
question at once contradicted Mr. Leach's
assumption.
"If General Beeder appoints Leach as
Secretary of the committee he will hear
from all four of the conference," said one of
the candidates to-day. "The appointment
of Mr. Pearson stands, all statements to the
contrary."
One of the Fddot Features.
One of the funny features of the whole
transaction rests in General Beeder's letter
to Mr. Leach the letter published to-day
along with the action of the conference of
the candidates. It Is given out that General
Beeder's letter to Leach was written ten
days ago and its publication was premature.
General Beeder is 1 n the city, and at
tended an entertainment at the Manu
facturers' Club this evening. He said:
"The situation is simply this. Mr. Pear
eon was named as Secretary of the State
Committee as a result ot a suggestion
thrown out by one of the candidates. It
has been the unbroken custom for the Chair
man to appoint his Secretaries, and if these
gentlemen had presumed to supply me with
Secretaries independent of my direct wishes,
I have quickly told them to look elsewhere
for a Chairman. I appointed Mr. Leach my
Secretary as soon as I was elected, because I
knew his worth, fidelity and ability."
Despite General Beeder's emphatic state
ments, it is believed'that there is a storm
liable to break any moment over the substi
tution of Mr. Leach for Mr. Pearson, who is
unquestionably the popular choice.
Beeder Will Hold on to Leach.
When asked this evening about the candi
dates on tne State ticket, and the Permanent
Chairman of the convention, in reference to
Mr. Pearson, in which they "recommend
to said Chairman the appointment of George
Pearson, oi Mercer county, as one of the
Secretaries of said committee," Chairman
Beeder said:
"I propose to appoint Mr. Pearson as one
of the Secretaries of the committee, and in
this connection I may say that I intend Mr.
Leach to be my chiet of stafE Iu the ap
pointment of Mr. Pearson I shall very
gladly comply with the recommendation of
the candidates and the Permanent Chair
man of the convention, as I thoroughly ap
preciate Mr. Pearson's ability, and have al
ways regarded him among my personal
friends. I take the action of the candidates
in this matter simply as a recom
mendation, as it was. I feel that
the candidates agree with me
in that the Chairman should be accorded
the right to name his own assistants. I un
derstand that until recently there were
always at least three secretaries to the
State Committee. The last campaign being
an ofl year, Chairman Watres found it
necessary to appoint but one secretarv, Mr.
Leach. The extra labor of the Presidental
canvass this year I feel, however, will re
quire three secretaries. I shall have, with
Mr. Leach as chief, another Secretary,
whose name I am not vet prepared to an
nounce, and thev, with" Mr. Pearson, will
make up the staff"
Possibility for the Third Place.
It is probable that Jere B. Bex, of
Huntingdon, will be the third secretary.
Mr. Bex is thoroughly acquainted with
State committee work, and has an excellent
record.
"Pearson will never take second place to
Leach," said a politician, one of a number
in the Continental Hotel cafe to-day.
'Tearson is a strone man. and ha nicer.
tive as well as executive qualities above
any possessed by Leach, and his genial
ways peculiarly equip him for the place."
"You read Beeder's letter to Leach," re
marked a member of the group.
"Yes; that was written before the candi
dates met, and he made just the kind of use
of it to be exneeted in anything intended to
benefit Leach. If that trick fails he has
some more, because he is built that way."
It Ii considered certain that the appoint-
ment of George Pearson as Executive Seo
retary by the candidates will bold good.
Major McDowell insists upon It. Judge
Deaii warmly Indorses it, and the organiza
tion of the State Committee will proceed as
outlined if they can effect it. It is said
General Beeder will resign before submit
ting to the action of the candidates. He
has expressed himself strongly on the sub
ject of selecting his subordinates, and if the
candidates refuse to yield he must either
take Pearson or go.
ELKINS TALKING BOLDLY.
He Is More Confident Than Ever of Harri
son's Benominatlon Thinks Sherman
Ought to Know Whether He's la It or
Kot This Tear.
JTew York, May IS. Special Secre
tary of War FJklns is in the olty for a day
or two to look after the interests of the
West Virginia coal companies which he
controls. To a reporter who asked him re
garding the Presidental nomination, he
said: "I do not believe there is any reason
able doubt of Harrison's renomination, and
my opinion is that it will be done practi
cally by acclamation. Of conrse you hear
talk of opposition here and, there. It is
only natural that there should be. This
opposition reached its climax, however,
some davs ago, and so far as results show,
has not been able to bring ont a candidate
capable either of solidifying the opposition
elements or of embarrassing the President's
prospects. Hence the effort must naturally
fail. All of us have our personal Presi
tal candidates, but beyond that, and dearer
still, lie the best interests of the Republican
party. Every true Republican should give
way to that, and, in mv opinion, when the
delegates get to Minneapolis, those of them
who now believe in other candidates than
Harrison will find the drift toward the
President too strong to be resisted. As I
said before, my opinion is that Harrison
will be named with practical unanimity."
"What about the Sherman boom?" the
Secretary was asked.
"Sherman himself says publicly he is not
in it this year, and he ought to know," was
the response. Most of the Bepublicans of
National renown, whether from New York
or distant States, will have a powwow later
in the week, when John C New, Consul
General at London, arrives from Europe.
By that time General James S. Clarkson
and others will be on hand.
Dr. Channcey M. Depew was in Washing
ton the other day and had a two hours' talk
with the President. He repeated to-day
that he believed Harrison would be re-nominated.
FIXING UP OHIO'S ELATE.
The Buckeye Big Four to Be Brice, McLean,
Campbell and Neal.
Lima, O., May ia Special The Chief
Lieutenants of Senator Calvin S. Brice
have been holding an important secret
meeting here since last evening, in the
rooms of State Senator M. D. Shaw, at the
Lima House. Just what has transpired is
impossible to learn, but it is safe to bet that
a slate has been arranged for the State Con
vention. The delegates at large decided
upon are Senator Brice, John B. McLean,
Lawrence T. Neal and ex-Governor Camp
bell. They will go to the Chicago Conven
tion in Brice's private car, which will be
well nrovided with commissaries. Hon. 1L
A,Smalley,olTJpperSandusky, is to be nom
inated for Secretary of State, but who the
candidates are for the other offices has not
developed. That will probably be decided
upon the return of Hon. J. B. Townsend
erwi
judicial district have also been taken into
consideration, and it is likely that Judge
Day will get the nomination. '
The statesmen present at the conference
were Hon. Walter B. Bitchie, Hon. George
W. Hull, Isaac Motter, Senator Shaw, ex
Speaker Marsb, of Mercer, Nate Ahlefeld,
of Kenton, M. A. Smalley, of Upper San
dnsky, and many lesser luminaries. Sena
tor Shaw was attacked with pleurisy this
evening, and is suffering severely.
1TKINLEY OH THE DECLINE.
Be Is Thinking or Writing a Letter Just
Like Blaine's.
Columbus, O., May 18. Special The
interview with General Clarkson, sent out
from Chicago, attracted a great deal of at
tention here. It has revived the talk of
Governor McKinley's position in case of a
protracted balloting for a Presidental candi
date at the Minneapolis Convention. There
is a well-defined rumor here to-night that
Governor McKinley in a few days will de
clare in an interview that his name will not
be nresented to the National Convention.
An opportune time will be chosen by the
Governor for the purpose, as it is claimed
that such a move would start the drift of
sentiment for President Harrison. The
claim is made that much pressure has been
brought to bear on the Governor in urging
such action.
Governor McKinley refuses to talk about
the matter. Concerning General Clarkson's
statement that there will be many ballets
before a nominee is made, the Governor
adroitly says: "I know nothing about his
statements. He says, I suppose, what' he
thinks and believes from the information he
has. I have no information except what I
see in the press. Whether his statement is
founded upon actual knowledge, I have no
means of knowing."
WATEES PEBFECTLY CONTENT
Wlth the Selection of General Beeder as
His Successor.
Scbanton, May 18. Lieutenant Gov
ernor Watres, who has just returned from a
business trip in the western part of the
State, was asked to-day whether he was
pleased with the selection of General Beeder
for State Chairman. He replied: "I am
highly pleased, not only because he is a
warm personal friend of mine, but because
the party is assured of the service of one of
the best equipped men in the State for the
position. General Beeder will conduct an
aggressive and successful campaign, and
the party is to be congratulated upon its
selection."
"Have you any suggestion to make as to
the idea that General Boeder's candidacy
was antagonistic to you ?"
"There is absolutely nothing in such an
idea. I was moved solely .by business H
motives in my determination not to accept
the chairmanship this year, and so advised
the candidates weeks ago. I know that had
I hen a candidate, General Beeder would
have retired rather than opposed my candi
dacy." M'KINLEY AND DEPEW
To Slake Addresses at the Dedication of
the Big Minneapolis Ball.
Minneapolis, May 18. It has been
definitely decided lhat Governor McKinley
will deliver the-formal opening address at
the dedication of the big convention hall on
the night before the opening of
the Bepublican convention. Channcey M.
Depew(or some other shining light will also
deliver an address. The rest of the pro
gramme will be musical.
The convention band, Weldon's
Second Begiment of Chicago, will play
several selections. There will be It great
chorus of 1,500 voices in patriotic songs,
and some soloists of note from abroad, as
well as local talent The Music Committee
has given -instructions that some seats be
held for filling orders Irom'outiide cities.
A
PULLING DOWN .PORK
At the Dictation of the President for
Political Purposes.
A BLACK EYE FOE SENATOR QUAY
Who Hoped to Embarrass, Harrison bj the
Biver and Harbor Bill.
NOT TBEI MUCH OP i CUT AFTEE ALL
fSrZCTAI, TSXEOBAJt TO TBX DISPATCH.
Washington-, May 18. At the request
of President Harrison, the Kepublican Sen
ate has determinedjto rebuke the extrava
gance of the Democratic House and reduce
the aggregate amount of the (50,000,000
river and harbor bill. The reduction agreed
upon is small, but it serves to put the Be
publicans on record as opposed to abso
lutely wild extravagance, and that is all
they are seeking to accomplish.
The Senate committee reported the river
and harbor bill to the Senate last Saturday,
after adding f 120,000 to its total. Then came
the exposure of the plan to rush the bill
through and have it presented to the Presi
dent before the meeting of the Minneapolis
Convention. This exposure of the combina
tion between the friends of Harrison and
the friends of the bill served to
put a greater check upon its
rapid progress toward passage than
any critcism since the day the bill was re
ported to the House. The anti-Harrison
men were opposed to the idea of cutting
down the bill, preferring to have it go to
the President with its big total of appro
priations, so that he would be forced to an
tagonize either its friends or its enemies.
The Anti-Barrisonites Outgeneraled.
These anti-Harrison men, however, were
outnumbered and outgeneraled, and so thev
gracefully yielded to the inevitable demand
of politics for at least a show of economy
just before the meeting of the National lie
publican Convention.
The friends of the President will not ad
mit that his desire for a reduction in the
total amount of the bill is due in any way
to the depleted condition of the Treasury.
They claim, on the other hand, that the
President is acting from convictions of
duty, and that he wants the bill
reduced because he thinks it carries
too much money. The absurdity of this
claim, however, is show by the statement
that while the bill, as reported to the Sen
ate, carried a straight appropriation of
524,000,000, the total reduction decided
upqn by the Senate Committee amouts to
less than $2,500,000.
The really objectionable clauses in the
bill, moreover that is, the appropriations
for the small creeks and bays situated in the
various Congressional districts of the mem
bers seeking re-election are left intact,
while the reductions are confined to the
plans of improvement which would be of
real and lasting benefit to the commercial
and vessel interests. The reductions on
these items were on the horizontal plan, the
just and unjust schemes being treated alike.
A Flece ot Political Buncombe.
The truth is that the action of the Senate
Committee, so far as the Bepresentatives
are concerned, is a niece of political maneu
vering. They found it necessary to get
some benefit out of the severe and just
criticism heaped upon the Democrats in the
House for the criminal extravagance in the
bill which thev passed and tbey think
that a Bepublican Senate actu&lir reduced
the amount appropriated by a Democratic
House.
When the bill was under consideration in
the Honse one or two of the few Demo
cratic members who opposed it pointed out
the political dancer ot giving the Bepub
licans a chance such as they now have, but
in the mad rush for slices of the "pork" the
words oi the cooler-headed leaders were al
lowed to pass unheeded. It is understood
that there was something of a fight in the
Senate Commerce Committee over the propo
sition to make a horizontal cut in the bill,
the Democratic members who were in favor
of reduction being Messrs. Gorman and
Kenna.
Objects for Supporting the Bill.
Mr. Vest, who has taken such a strong
ground against the appropriation for in
creasing the navy, and who has so severely
rebuked Mr. Gorman for advocating the
amendments providing for the building of
battleships, acting in the committee with
the opponents of the river and harbor re
ductions was lead to do this, undoubtedly,
because of a large amount of money given
to the Mississippi river and other works by
which the people of his section of the coun
try would be largely benefited.
The Bepublicans in the Senate profess to
feel very much gratified at the political
-effect of their coup d'etat. They have been
lor tne past two or three weeks highly
elated at the split in the ranks of the Demo
crats on the question of economy brought
about by the passage of the "pork" bill,
and think that the leaders of toe two fac
tions having strongly committed themselves
it will be impossible for them to get to
gether in time to avoid the disastrous po
litical effects of their extravagant folly.
In order, therefore, to put before the
country in as strong a light as possible the
unheard-of extravagance of the Democrats
the Bepublicans have adopted the plan of
putting themselves in a position to claim
that it was actually necessary for them to
rebuke the Democratic House, which was
elected for the purpose of rebuking the bil
lion Congress.
Slay Kot Now Pass the Senate,
This they think they have accomplished
by their reduction of $1,200,000 below the
amount appropriated by the House. They
may not even be able to put this through
the Senate, as a very large number of Sen
ators think the committee has done a very
foolish thing, and say they will not stand
by it in the fight on the floor of the Sen
ate. It was said to-day, moreover, that Presi
dent Harrison is not satisfied with the
small reduction made, and that be is still
verv much ot the opinion that it is his duty
as President of the United States and as a
L candidate for renomination and re-election
iu veto tne diu, alter ail. nis
decision in this regard, how
ever, will depend very largely upon
whether the bill is presented to him for
signature before or after the meeting of the
National Convention. In the meantime
the political and economic aspect of the
gigantio appropriation bill sent to the Sen
ate by the House will be discussed more
fully than over before in recent years.
DEATH FBOH A DEZAH OF LOVE
A Philadelphia Girl's Sad Awakening
Canses Hfer Suicide.
Philadelphia, May 18. Special
The sudden awakening from a dream of love
was undoubtedly the motive for the tragic
suicide of Miss Emma Aupperle, ofthiscity,
at Niagara Falls,' yesterday. For
some years, Miss Aupperle numbered
among her acquaintances Traube Van
Culin, who up to Monday last resided with
bis mother. Though no engagement had
been announced, it was known that ap
parently a deep attachment for each
other existed. Mr. Van Culln is about
37 years of age. It was about
a month ago decided that he should go to
Denver and assume charge of his brother's
business. Monday was the dsy fixed for his
departure. On Friday evening he visited
Miss Aupperle for the last time at the
residence of Cousin George Miller.
Mrs. Van Culen this afternoon saldi "Mr
ion informed me ot bidding her goodby. I
said to him: 'Are yon sure that all relations
between you and your friend are
at an end?' To this he answered
that the were. He numbered many
lady friends among his acquaintances, and
was a man of warm attachments, and I know
the unfortunate death of this lady will
grieve him very much when he hears of it"
A POWWOW AT ALGER'S.
An All-Nlght Conference Between Clark
son and Some Other Anti-Harrisonltes
A Determination, to Fight a Second
Term, AVIn or Lose.
Detboit, May 18. Special General
Clarkson and those who represent not
only themselye's, but Quay, Piatt and
the old-time forceful elements of the
Bepublican party, met at General
Alger's house to-night, and as this is writ
ten they are still in consultation. But the
end has been reached. It is only the de
tails that are to be arranged.
After to-night there can no longer be a
surmise as to what is to be done by those
who manage the practical end of the Be
publican party. Tile anti-Harrison con
tingent have thrown down the gauntlet,
and the fight begins in earnest from to-day,
win or lose. t
Two nights ago General Alger sent his
private car to Chicago to bring Mr. Clark
sou to Detroit J. Sloat Fassett came to
make an address to the college students, but
his remarks at Mr. Alger's house this after
noon and evening, where he spoke for him
self and Mr. Piatt as well, were far more
powerful, if not so eloquent
John M. Langston. of Virginia: Judge
John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, who pre
sided over the last National Convention,
and ex-Governor Forakers old private sec
retary, Charley Kurtz, who represents and
speaks by the authority of his chief, were
also present
Mr. Clarkson is not anxious to talk, ex
cept to emphasize the belief that General
Harrison cannot be nominated without
a fight, if then. His position is
most pronounced upon this subject
In this, as in most of the details of this
meeting, the fine hand of Senator Quay can
be seen in the voice and manner ot his
friend and successor as Chairman of the
National Committee.
How much this gathering means to Gen
eral Alger's chances it is hard to say to
night The conference is still in session,
and, so far, seems to tend toward a fixed
purpose to beat Harrison, taking any can
didate who shows strength for the finish.
WHO SHALL BE MODERATOR?
The First Question the Presbyterians Must
Face nt Portland, Ore.
Portland, 6re., May 18. The one
hundred and fourth session of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in
the United States of America, which is to
commence in this city to-morrow, will be
one of the most important in the history o
the Church. Various questions are to come
np which are of vital importance to a num
ber of interests. The preliminary question
to be settled is, who shall be Moderator?
Various men have been discussed and their
qualifications canvassed.
Among those named are Dr. McPherson,
of Chicago, and Dr. Mutchmore, ,of Phila
delphia: but by many it is not believed
that either of them will stand for election.
Other names prominently mentioned are
those of Dr. Young, of. Center College,
Ky., and Dr. Banclifie, of Detroit Dr.
Young is said to be related intimately with
one ot the Princeton facultyj-and'H is sup
posed that extremists will stand by him.
Dr. BadcliftV'Ji conservative in theology
and a Princetonian in leatniag and a man
of varied accomplishments.
It is sate to say that the question, "Who
is he?" has been asked concerning Dr.
Young oftener within a week, than concern
ing any other man in the country. An
other man has also been mentioned' in this
connection as a special representative of
the Pacific coast Bey. William Alexan
der, D. D., of the Presbytery ot Benicia,
CaL He is a conservative and a professor
in San Francisco Theological Seminary.
WESTINGHOUSE HAS A SHOW.
Jf Legal Obstacles Can Be Overcome
Be
May Light the Fair.
Chicago, May 18. Special' A mem
ber ot the Buildings and Grounds Commit
tee to-day explained in this fashion the de
lay in letting the contract for 92,000 incan
descent lights at the Fair. "Mr. Westing
house's bond of ?500,000 expressed a great
deal of confidence in his ability to do the
work, but a $500,000 bond won't light the
Fair. The Fair must have light Mr.
Westinghouse proposes to furnish that light
for so much money, but there are injunction
suits pending against him in the United
States Court of Appeals to prevent his
lamps being made. We want to be sure
that the company to which we let this con
tract will'be able to furnish the light.
"No one on this committee is interested
in having the Electric Trust get the -work.
The Westinghouse Company is a good many
thousand dollars below the trust, but the
trust seems to own the patents. All the
committee wants is surety that the people
who get the contract can furnish the
lamps."
No new bids will be advertised for, it is
said, and the contract will go to the West
inghouse company if the legal obstacles can
be removed.
LEFT-THE GRAND ARMY.
The White Veterans In Two States Secede
on the Color Line.
New Orleans, May 18. Special The
eight white camps of the Grand Army of
the Republic met to-night to consider the
situation. The camps whichtare composed
of white veterans have been very much
opposed to recognizing the negro
camps as they were ordered to do by the
national encampment The meeting to
night was to determine whether they would
accept the negro veterans, and
after a long discussion tbey de
cided by a large mafority not to
do so, but to resign the charter of the de
partment and to "retire as members of the
Grand Army, to wind up officers' affairs and
reorganize as a fraternal club. They will
maintain their association, but separate
from the Grand Army. Trustees were se
lected to wind up the department affairs
and dispose of th'e assets of the Louisiana
Missippi Division, G. A. B.
This leaves the two States entirely a col
ored aflair. The present difficulty, which
hasbeen of two years' duration, and which
has frequently been considered by
the national officers, arose over the
refusal of the G. A. B. to take part in the
funeral of Jefferson Davis, when requested
to do so by its district commander.
1THCHEB8 CAPTTJBE A THAIS'.
They Fall to Find Anyone to Bnn It, and
Abandon Their Attempt.
Tollahoma, Tenn., May ia The mob
which started for Manchester early this
morning' gave up the attempt because no
one could be found to run the engine of the
seized train. '
This community is still greatly excited,
and it is feared another attempt will be
made to go to Manchester to-night and take
the negro from the jail and.lynch him.
The Concord's Orders Countermanded
Washington, May ia The orders to
the Concord to go to St. Louis were counter
manded this afternoon on receipt of infor
mation from the pilot of tho vessel that the
trip was unsaie.
FLOOD GATES OPENED,
Drenching Iowa and Causing a Great
Disaster at Sioux City.
AT LEAST 12 PEES0NS DROWNED.
The Weather Growing Colder, Threatening1
a Severe Snow Storm.
ALL THE BIG EIYERS STILL- BISING
I SPECIAL TELEGRAH TO TOE DISPATCH.
Sioux Citt, May 18. This morning a
monster wave came down the Floyd river,
which flows through the center of the city,
and which, was already swollen bank full
In half an hour the water had risen over a
large area in the city to a depth of from
three to ten feet
The Floyd flows into the Missouri at a
point a mile east of the center of the busi
ness part of the city, and close to the St
Paul and Omaha Bailway bridge across the'
Missouri. The Floyd also runs by Morn-
ingside, a suburb, which is conneoted with
ingsiae, a suouro, wnicn is conneoiea wiiiv . . . ,. , ,. . .
Sioux City by the elevated roads. Leeds iffJT Cnrcn "quired that the
- ... rv. Vail aci h nrntflintAf TTiTisr no
about 2)4 miles north of the center of Sioux
City. The packing houses are near the
mouth of the Floyd.
The wave came in a few minutes after 7'
o'clock. Warning had been sent a short
time before to the inhabitants of the low
lands, but only a few of them had been noti
fied. The first intimation was a volume of
water spreading over the banks to a depth
of three feet and throwing a mist of Iba'm
before it
The People Flee In Terror.
In a few minutes the water had risen
above the first floors, and several thousand
people fled in terror to the higher ground.
The water rose four feet in an hour and a
half, and from 9 o'clock continued to rise
steadily but not so rapidly. Probably one
third of the inhabitants of the city live on the
low ground which is overflowed. So rapid
was the rise of the tide that great num
bers were unable to escape, and the work of
rescue engaged every energy of the people.
The wind was blowing a high gale and
made the work of rescuing by boats danger
ous, as well as fatiguing. At 10 o'clock the
fire alarm was sounded to call out more
workers. All the boats from the boat houses
on the Sioux river had been brought in and
are being used to save lite and property.
It Is known that a dozen people, among
them four or five men, have been drowned,
and the number may reach 25. The Mis
souri river is very high, and when the flood
in the Floyd river struck it the water
dammed up and reached over the adjacent
low grounds.
Dead Cattle I'll line the Biver.
The stock yards and packing houses, situ
ated at the confluence of the two rivers,
were instantly inundated. About 2,000
head of live stock were drowned there.
Great numbers of dead stock have also been
found floating down the Floyd river. The
whole railroad yards and switch
ing tracK district is under water,
and there has been immense
damage to the roundhouses and other rail
road property. The roundhouse of the St
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha is damaged
to the extent of f40,000. That road, the
Illinois Central and the Sioux City and
Northern, en ter;the.. city, by the Floyd Val
ley andjjl are stopped: Not a train has
lett Sioux City to-day.
At 1 o'clock p. m. the Hotel Fowle and
Boston Investment Company's building are
surrounded with water. The Union Depot
was cut off at 9 o'clock. It is estimated
that 8,000 people have been driven from
their homes. All business is suspended.
The Chamber of Commerce organized this
morning for relief work. Before noon the
ladies had several soup and lunch houses
opened for the flood sufferers.
Tho Losses of Properly and Lire.
It is impossible yet to estimate loss of
property, but it will be large. Not a rail
road entering here has moved a train this
mornine. The Union Stock Yards Com
pany will be great losers. Not less than 75
houses have been carried into the streets and
into the rivers, and it is estimated that the
foundations and contents ot 50 are ruined.
The following are the names of the
drowned, so far as ascertained: Nellie
West, child; Mrs. Louise Horner, two chil
dren. Others are lost, but so great is the
confusion it is almost impossible to ascertain
anything definite.
The town ot balix, this county, is five feet
nnder water, and has been for 12 hours. No
lives are reported lost, but the damage to
property and stock is immense.
Not only Sioux City, but all Iowa suffered
to-day. The flood-gates of heaven seemed
to have opened up all over the State. The
Floyd river, which caused sucbf devastation
in this city, washed away the
roller mills at Le Mars. The
Sioux valley around Spencer is under
water. The Des Moines river has reached
the highest point since the great floods of
1851. A veritable tempest, too, has pre
vailed through tbe central part of the State,
and as it is growing colder a snow storm is
threatened.
Omaha Is Partly Cnder Water.
Cloudbursts have occurred in various
parts ot Nebraska, driving hundreds of
families from their homes and doing thou
sands of dollars' worth of damage. The
eastern approach of the Union Pacific bridge
at Omaha has been washed out, all tbelower
part ot that city being under water.
The wild rumor at St Louis that the
Bowman dyke had given way proved to be
untrue, but it is believed that safeguard
is in danger. The river is still rising, and
the territory in East St Louis covered by
water is growing larger. The Mississippi
is ten miles wide at Alton.
Owing to the breaks in the levees farther
south, thousands of acres of rich cotton
land in Arkansas are submerged. , The Ar
kansas river, too, is out of its banks, cover
intr vast corn and cottonfields and washing
away fences and houses. Hundreds of farm
ers will find themselves bankrupt before
the floods are over.
Elicwhero Thronchont the South.
Almost every Texas stream is overflowing
its own valley. Losses of crops and live
stock will be enormous.
The Missouri river is rising rapidly,
threatening a repetition of last week's
flood at Kansas City and Leavenworth.
The Mississippi rose at New Orleans
again to-day, passing the 17-foot limit, tbe
highest known. Above, at Vicksburg,
the river is falling, but the re
ports sent out by the United States
Weather Bureau are of the most
alarming, character, declaring that the
floods from the Arkansas and Upper Missis
sippi will catch up to tho lower flood wave
and raise the .level of the river at least a
foot and a ' half above the highest
levee at Vicksburg. The Bonnet Carre
crevasse has widened another hundred
feet, almost entirely on the
northern side, and it has been found impossi
ble as yet to prevent the levee caving
further. Added to the unfortunate situa
tion at Anchor plantation comes discourag
ing reports from other levees along the line.
Just as a feeling of security was beginning
to prevail after the recent numer
ous small breaks on the lower
coast, below New Orleans, two more
crevasses, thH time on the west bank of the
river, occurred. Adarce section of country
under cultivation will be overflowed.
nltaiians for Sunday Opening.
wjo, May IB. The thirty-eighth
session' of the Western Unitarian
CHICi
annual
Conference began' to-day. Resolutions ask
ing that the World's Fair be open on Sun
day will be' laid 'before the Conference to
morrow. This evening FroE Freeman, of
the Meadville Theological School, was
among the principal speakers.
DR. BR1GGS ON DECK.
He Will Be Present at the General
Assembly Sleeting When Bis Case
Conies DpForegoing a Trip to Europe
in Order to Go to Oregon.
Netv Yobk, May 18. Special Prof.
Charles A. Briggs left this morning for
jTfiiifo
Portland, Ore., ac
companied by bis
daughter, Miss Grace
Briggs, to be present
at the Presbyterian
General Assenf&ly,
which begins its ses
sion to-morrow. ProC
Briggs had decided at
first not to go to Port
land, and, in fact, had
made arrangements to
go to Europe to at-
j -,;
"iv
Dr. O.-Al 'Briggt. tend the three hun-
redth anniversary of Dublin. A few days
v found that the hook' of discmline of
pfW9- J - .appeal is tacen to a nigner
judlcfi wto J
Under ;& , ruction of the law the
General AsSp. ''tn, "Miave done nothing
in the absence Vifr '-"j is, and the appeal
ofj the Committees .bsecution from the
decision of the Nevs:ork Presbytery dis
missing the charges against him would
have had to go overfor another vear. Both
Dr. Briggs and his friends in Union Theo
logical Seminary are anxious to have, the
proceedings go forward as speedily as possi
ble, and the directors of tne seminary de
cided at their meeting on Wednesday to
have Prof. Briggs leave for Portland at
once.
Ezra M. Kingsley, secretarv and treas
urer of the seminary, is now in Portland,
with important documents which state the
seminary's position. The case of Union
Seminary and the great question of re
vision must be settled before the appeal in
tbe Briggs case is brought up, so that the
accused professor will arrive in Portland in
ample time.
TEED SOWING THE WIND.
' '? v - , r--jr" : vTi..
And Chicago Indications Are That n Is
About to Kcap the Whirlwind He Is
Arrested on a Serious Charge A Vig
ilance Committee Formed.
Chicago, May 18. "Dr." Cyrus Teed,
the so-called Koreshan Christ, was arrested
to-day on a charge of criminal intimacy
with Mrs. Annie Cole. Mrs. Colt's hus
band has a $100,000 damage suit pending
against Teed for alienating her affections.
The arrest was made near Teed's new
"heaven" at Washington Heights, of which
Mrs. Cole is said to be an inmate, and the
establishment of which has caused such an
uproar among th,e residents of that pretty
suburb.
It is understood that the chief witness
against Teed will be little 7-year-old Walter
Cole, who lived with his mother at Teed s
"College of Life" until taken by his father
at tbe point of a revolver.
Dr. Teed, his home and its occupants had
to be protected from tbe violence of a num
ber of citizens by a strong body oi; police
to-night The citizens bad taken part
in an indignation- meeting held in
the vicinity of Washington Heights,
and resolutions had been passed
appointing a committee to devise means
whereby Teed and his followers could be
forcibly removed. The passion of the
gathering had risen to a point where blood
shed seemed imminent, as Mr. Cole, at whose
instance Teed had been arrested earlier in tbe
dav, entered a series of serious allegations
against the doctor, and as soon as the meet
ing adjourned the more impulsive of its
members rushed to the Sunlight flats, but
found them surrounded by a large force of
police.
During the meeting there were several
suggestions to tar and feather every mem
ber of the community, while others went to
the extent of asking that they be hanged.
A committee of 20 was appointed to carry
out the sentiment of the meeting
as expressed in the resolution. Teed
is said to have made some converts
since his arrivalhere, three sisters in one
family joining his home this week. Five
hundred representative men took part in
the proceedings.
A BATTLE FOB BEATJIT.
Three Men Lay Down Their Lives for the
Sake or a lG-Yoar-OId Girl.
Martsville, Cal., May ia Last even
ing Jesse Foulk, 19 years old, went to a
picnic near town and met 16-year-old May
Lane. Foulk says the girl had hardly
sat down to eat ice cream when her father
approached, accompanied by one Danley.
He grasped the girl by the head and threat
ened to shoot her if she did not go with him.
When Foulk said she should not go, he was
struck and knocked down.
Thereupon Henry Flowert, colored, seized
Danley, and the latter and Lane discharged
their, pistols several times. Foulk fired
twice at Lane, both shots taking effect
Lane and Foulk were brought to this city
fatally wounded. Danley is under arrest,
and from all indications he is the one who
fired the first shot He has been attentive
to the girl and objected to Foulk's atten
tions. The colored man, Flowers, was also
shot and died on the.grounJ.
CURIOSITY SEEKERS BUSIED.
Three Spectators of a Cave-In Are Caught
by a Second Landslide.
Webb City, Mo., May 19. By the cav
ing in of amine at the Troupe lands three
people have been killed. Yesterday morn
ing a cave-in occurred, the earth filling in
from the top and forming a huge furrow on
the surface ot the ground.
This afternoon, while a large crowd of
spectators was viewing tbis phenomenon,
another cave-in occurred, carrying down
three persons to death, heaping upon them
hundreds of tons of earth. They are Harry
D. Boach, Superintendent of the mines,
Charles Bnlett, a merchant of Johnstown,
and a man named Hamlin.
Itoiecrani' Secretary Shoots nimself.
Washington, May ia John M.
Lackey, private secretary to General
Bosecrans, Begister of the Treasury, com
mitted suicide to-day by shooting himself
through the heart, "while laboring under
temporary aberration of the mind.
THIS MORNING'S NEWS.
Topic Page.
A Bepublican State Committee Bow 1
Harrison Carved the Pork Bill 1
Lois of Life in Western Floods. ,r. 1
Allegheny County Matton for the L. & O. 1
Why Parte Investments Pay 2
A Drowning and a Tragedy 2
Both Sides of the Traction Gobble 2
Editorial Comment and Miscellaneous.... 4
Corbin Talks on Swift Stmimohlps.. S
Important Work of thoMethodlam G
Grover Winning South and West 7
, Faith Care Kills Another Victim 7
Baseball and Other Sports..., 8
The Sows of lbs Easiness World.T. 9
The Budget From Towns Near By 9
Free Silver Receives a Death Blow 10
The Last Electrocution Painless ,.,.10
Livestock, Oltand Other Markets ,,.11
Work of the County Courts 12
W V
ALLEGHENY IS ALONE
In the L. and 0. Persecution
Because of Special
legislation.
NO OTHEB COMTY Iff IT.
A Statute Which Would Be Unconsti
tutional if Proposed Now.
INDIGNATION OP THE PEOPLE
At the Present Crusade Toiced by Eecog
nized Public Leaders.
MSAPPE0TAL OF GENUINE REFORMERS
"I cannot understand why Pittsburg and
Allegheny county were selected as the ex
clusive scenes of the present alleged Law
and Order crnsade, which is giving the city
such an undesirable notoriety," remarked a
leading 'downtown business man yesterday.
While tbe situation is thoroughly under
stood by the legal fraternity and attention
has previously been called to the fact, it is
not generally recognized by the public that
In Allegheny alone, of all the counties in
the State, are the financial considerations
such as to be an inducement for tbe opera
tions of McClure and his associates. The
statute under which Alderman Bohe rolls
out '"?25 and costs" so glibly and so regu
larly is a special enactment, which does not
hold good anywhere else between tbe Dela
ware river and the Ohio line.
The original "Blue Law" passed in 1794,
and applicable to the entire State, provides
for a fine of M for participation in amuse
ments or worldly employment on Sunday.
This is the act that is still in force in all
the other counties ot the State, and under
which the Law and Order Societies of Phil
adelphia and other places hare carried on
operations within their legitimate sphere.
A Special Penalty for Allegheny.
But for Allegheny county a special or
deal was prepared at a later date. Shortly
before the legislative session of 1855 Pitts
burg had become such a populous and pro
gressive city that lines of omnibus were es
tablished to run through the farms out to
Lawrenceville and across the river and over
the meadows to Manchester. There rapid
transit facilities were operated seven days
in the week, and immediately there was a
protest from the McClures and Yosts of that
day. The managers of the omnibus line
were repeatedly arrested and fined, but the
sum of $4 proved to be insufficient to stop
the march of progress.
There had also been some trouble with
liquor dealers selling on Sunday, and nnder
cover of the sentiment aroused by this
feature a demand was made on the Legisla
ture for a more stringent law. The rest of
the State, however, protested, against any
snch move, so the Legislature finally com
promised the matter by passing a special
enactment for Allegheny county. The first
two sections are devoted to increasing the
penalties for the illegal selling of liquor,
and it is the third section which, carried to
extremes of which its authors never even
dreamed, causes practically all of the vexa
tion and trouble to tbe general public to
day. This particular section reads as fol
lows:
Text of the Obnoxious Section.
Section 3 That any person violating the
provisions of the first section of said act
lor the suppression or vice and immorality,
and of unlawful gamlnsr, and to restrain dis
orderly sports and dissipation, approved
April 23, 1794, within the county of Alle
gheny, being summarily convlpted thereof
before any mayor, burgess, Justice of tho
pence or alderman, shall forfeit and pay the
sum of $23, with costs, and In default of pay
ment, or of goods to levy upon to satisfy the
same, shall bo committed to the county
prison for not less than ten nor more than
30 days.
It would puzzle a mind not having tbe
advantage of a legal education to determine
what "unlawful gaming, disorderly sports
and dissipation" have to do with the com
pletion and delivery of the news of tbe hour
or in what the running of a street car or
omnibus, or the sale of a glass of soda water
conflict with the "suppression of vice or im
morality," but this is the section under
which Yost, McClure and Bohe hold high
revelry, and it is applicable to no county in
the State save Allegheny. Such a statute
could not possibly be passed now, as the
present Constitution expressly provides
against the enactment of special legislation,
and only laws of this description which were
adopted before the Constitution are allowed
to. remain on the books.
"I think the bill which I introduced In
the Legislature of 1889, and which would
have passed but for a misapprehension,
would have put a stop to the nefarious
operations ot the alleged Law and Order
agents without allowing any undue license
on Sunday," said Hon. Alfred Marland yes
terday. "That measure made it a misde
meanor, punishable by a fine of $100, for
anyone to persuade a person into making a
safe on Sunday lor the purpose of making
an information against the seller. The in
tention was to strike at those who for finan
cial gain make a practice of trying to get
others into trouble. In my argument be
fore the House of Bepresentatives at Har
risbure I cited the case of the spy who se
cured a couple of bananas at the Lake Erie
depot by almost tearful representations
that they were for a sick child on a train in
tbe depot
Beal Iteformers Oppose Pittsburg Method.
"Another thing," continued Mr.Marland,
"that I discovered while the bill was pending
was that the methods of the Pittsburg re
formers are not approved by the genuine
and legitimate Law and Order societies
elsewhere. The President of the Philadel
phia association told me that be realized
fully that the operations of the Pittsburg
extremists were bringing all Sunday laws
into disrepute and making them obnoxious,
and that the effect could not tail to be bad.
Practically the only objection he advanced
to my bill was that the society occasionally
had to employ persons to secure evidence of
illezal liquer selling, and he was afraid that
this" might be interfered with. This same
plea was advanced by "Hon. Jesse Baker on
the floor of the House, and led to the ad
verse result
"I think my bill could be passed now
without any trouble," Mr. Marland said.
"For one thing, the crusade against the Sun
day papers had not yet been inaugurated in
1889, and neither th'e people nor the Legis
lature realized the extremes- to which tbe
informers were capable of going. Why, I
have been a church warden tor 20 years, and
at least fairly regular in attendance on
service, but I would sooner think of doing
without mv breakfast on Sunday than with'
out The Dispatch. It is a necessity of
our civilization, and we cannot do without
it"
Only a Solitary Vote Needed.
"One mqre vote or a little mora time to
get it in would have obviated much if not
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