TEN OF THE WISEST,
Democrats Are Unable to Find
a Way Ont of the Pres
ent Deadlock.
BLUMES HOT SO BOLD
As They Were Before the Senate
Hade Up Its Mind to Wait.
CONFERENCES COME TO NAUGHT,
'And No Satisfactory Compromise Is round
by Fither Faction.
FEATURES OF 3 HE WORLD'S FAIR FIGHT
irnOM a stxtt coanrsroiroEXT.
Washington, Aug. 2. Ten of the wis
est of the Democrats of the House could not
unravel the tangled skein of legislation this
afternoon,nny more than a hundred promis
cuously gathered up could do it last 'night
One is encouraged, however, to think that a
solution of the difficulty is near at hand
when oDe sees the majority making earnest
and sincere endeavors to compose their dif
ferences. The wise committee of ten,
"Williams and Durborrow, of Illinois;
Beilly, of Pcansylvania; Fellows, of New
York, and Shively, oi Indiana; lor the fair
appropriation an? Culberson, of Texas;
Bankhead, of Alabama: McMillin, of Ten
nessee; McCreary, of Kentucky, and Cum
mings, of New York, agains it; assure all
inquirers in a mysterious way that they will
yet arrive at some conclusion that will en
able all sides to the controversy to get to
gether, but they frankly admit that the
task is difficult and that up to this time it
is too much ior them.
If this contest had not become so bitter,
if feeling between the two factions had not
gone far beyond the 'point of friendly oppo
sition, the work of rounding np the herd of
Congressmen and ol coralline them on com
mon grounds, to use the words of a Texas
member, would not be so apparently hope
less. The "World's Fair people are en
couraged to-day.
Director Davis In a Happy Mood.
Director General Davis said to me this
morning he now had no doubt of the result,
that some way would be found by which
the millions asked would be appropriated
this session, and that they would be able to
go on with the great work without hindrance
in the matter of funds. I asked Mr. Davis
how he expected to overcome the obstruc
tion of such men as Kilgore, of Texas, who
vow they will stay here till December to
, defeat the appropriation. The answer was
that a good deal of binning had been going
on, and that the most persistent of the ob
structionists would give way when the
leaders of the party agreed to some plan
for harmonious action.
The fact that the Senate shows no dispo
sition to hurry, but isperiectly and patient
ly willing to await the slowest action of the
House, disconcerts even the Kilgores and
Bankheads ot the latter body. Since the
caucus of last evening there has been a
visible weakening of the opposing minor
ity. Almost insulting in their manner be
fore, refusing all suggestion of compromise,
they now take the lead in asking for con
ferences, and it was they who asked for re
peated intermissions to-day for conferences
and lor the committee ot ten.
RlscussincCompromiBe Propositions.
All of the old propositions for compro
mise have been rediscussed. Another has
been suggested, and that is to agree to let
the appropriation scheme be voted on as a
separate proposition outside of the sundry I
civil bill. This is looked upon as very
crafty. If the "World's Fair people should
consent to such a movement, any single
member could defeat all action upon the
independent proposition. It is safe to say
that no such terms can be made
The only compromise that seems possible
is a postponement to December, including
a solemn compact that there shall at that
time be no filibustering. Apart irom this,
nothing seems possible but a continned
fight until one side or the other gives up all
it has been battling for.
An influence which has contributed
greatly toward the lack of nerve shown by
the minority to-day is the general criticism
of the press. It is rare that any taction in
Congress has been so belabored as this ob
structive minority has within a day or two.
No matter how brave their front they feel
the ground slipping from beneath them.
The assumption that their constituents de
manded they should take this course was
as they well know, gratituous.
In Too Deep to Get Oar.
They are not rewarded by the generous
and enthusiastic commendation of their peo
ple, as they expected. The find a vast and
general popular sentiment in favor of th
most liberal treatment ot the Fair project,
that it may far outstrip anything of its kin-i
ever before attempted. One of the leaders
in the obstruction showed me to-day, confi
dentially, letters and telegrams he had re
ceived from some of his most valued con
stituents, all tersely criticising him for his
course. One, a telegram from an old and
dear friend, read: "Don't you think you
have made a fool of yourself lor long
enough?"
"Well, what do you think about it?" I
inquired.
"Oh, I think I haven't, but I can't let go.
I'm into it too deep to swim out alone; I
will have to go down with the crowd."
That is the case with many who are nect
deep with the opposition. They can't get
out, and in sheer desperation splash around
until such time as the whole crowd are
ready to go under. With all the lasting
powers of this desperate opposition, how
ever, it is believed that by some means
which nobody has yet clearly defined Con
gress will dispose of the matter and ad
journ Thursday without further extension
of the appropriations of last year.
HTJHTIEO ABSEHT MEHBEES.
Leaves of Absence Revolted and Truants
Ordered to Keturn at Once.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 2. The ques
tion on the motion to adjonrn until
Friday came up in the Honse to-day. This
was defeated by a vote of 2 to 72, and Mr.
Kilgore, of Texas, raised the point no
quorum. A call of the House was ordered.
One hundred and eighty-three members
having responded to their names, further
proceedings under the call were dispensed
with. On motion of Mr. Lanham, of Texas,
the following resolution was adopted:
Besolved, That the condition of the publio
business imperatively demands the Immedi
ate pretence of all absent members of the
House. That the Speaker be and he Is hereby
requested to urge all such absentees to re
turn at once. That all leaves of absence
heretofore granted are revoked. That If
any absent membor shall fall toxpturnor
notify the Speaker that he Is en route to the
Capitol within the next two days, the Ser
geant at Arms shall In person or by deputy
proceed at once to the residence of such
absent member and enforce his attendance.
In obedience to this instruction the
Speaker sent the following telegram to each
oi the absentees:
"I urgently request your Immediate at
tendance here. We cannot break the dead
lock without a full ntterd.mcc, and we can
not adjourn without disposing of the sundry
civil bill. All leaves of absence are revoked."
A HEW SET OF STAMPS.
They Arn to Be Issuer! In Honor of the Dis
covery of America.
Washington, Aug. 2. Third-Assistant
Postmaster General Hazen, pursuant to the
recommendation- of the chiefs of the Post
offico Department, has caused to be issued a
circular to alt countries composing the
postal union, inviting them to make an ex
hibit at the World's Fair, Chicago, It Is
expected that the postal exhibit of this, as
well as that of foreign countries, will be
very complete. Mr. Hazen is preparing
designs for a set of stamps to be issued by
the Postoffice Department in honor of the
four hundredth anniversary of the discovery
of America by Columbus One of the
scenes to be illustrated undoubtedly is the
landing of Columbus.
The convent of La Rabida, where Colum
bus was housed just before' his departure
from Spain on his voyage of discovery, may
be the chief figure of "another. The head of
Columbus will decorate one of the stamps,
probably the 2-cent4 stamp. It is not the
intention of the department to retire per
manently the current issue of stamps, but it
is likely that the issue will be suspended
for a year, and that at the end of that time
the dies and plates ior the jubilee stamps
will be destroyed, and the old dies and
plates will be delivered to the contractor
again The intention now is to have only
one portrait on any of the stamps, that of
Columbus. General Hazen expects to hare
them on sale on January 1.
MESSENGER BOYS STRIKE.
Long Itnns and Little 1'ay tbe Grievance
of Toutbinl Sew Tnrk Kickers A
l'o Iceman ltrqalred to Keep Them In
Ord-r.
srEClAI. TELKOUASt TO TUB DISPATCH. 1
New York, Aug. 2. When the 85 boys
employed in the American District Tele
graph Office, at 9 New street, as messengers
received their pay a week ago last Monday,
the got only ?3 84 instead oi' 54 48. which
they had previously received. They had
been doing a good deal of figuring, and had
discovered that one day's pay had been de
ducted. They concluded that this day was
Sunday, and when Manager Banks ordered
them to go to work they refused and struck
to-day. They assaulted the new boys and
it required a policeman to keep them from
doing other damage.
The boys have been complaining of the
long hours, and that they do not get paid
for messages which are undelivered because
there is no one at the address to receive
them. There is also a report that the com
pany intends to abolish the payment of 2
cents for every message brought back. The
boys have been meeting in the mission in
the Dutch Reformed Church on Fulton
street.
Two other offices, besides the central, are
expected to join in the movement. All
three offices employ about 300 boys. Man
ager llaynes, of the company, however,
when seen at the'central office, was positive
there would be no strike. He said tbe boys
really had no grievance. How long they
worked, as well as how much they made.;
depended entirely upon themselves. They
receive so much for each message theyue
liver. He acknowledged ihat, when messages
are undelivered because there is no one at
the address to leave them, the boys get no
pay. The company has no intention,
though, of abolishing the 2 cents rate for
return messages.
BANKERS AS PUGILISTS.
The rresldent and Paying Teller of a New
York Dank fiav a Rongh and Tumble
Fight It Only Lasted a Konnd and tbe
President Won.
New York, Aug. 2. Special There
was a rough and tumble fight Monday after
noon in the private office of David B.
Powell, President of the National City
Bank, Brooklyn. The battle only lasted
for one round, and was fought without
referee, timekeepers or bottle holders, and
regardless of rules. The contestants were
President Powell and his Payiqg Teller,
Andrew A. Eowe. Each is about 50. Mr.
Powell is a few pounds the heavier.
The story is that the row began at a desk
in the main room of the bank at which Mr.
Bowe was seated. A dozen clerks were
present Mr. Powell, so it is said, went up
to Mr. Bowe, and leaning over, said some
thing to him. "I'll do nothing of the
kind," was the answer. Mr. Powell reached
down, grabbed Mr. Bowe by the coat col
lar, and lifted him from the chair. Mr.
Bowe stretched out on the floor. Mr.
Powell lifted him again and rushed him
into a back room. Mr. Powell jammed Mr.
Bowe's hat on Mr. Bowe's head, pointed to
the street door and said, "Go." Mr. Bowe
went. He has not returned to the bank.
President Powell said to-night:
"This trouble is all caused by Mr. Bowe.
If he had listened to me it never would
have happened. He has been in the bant
25 years and has been promoted from time
to time. His family is in the countrv and
he has been drinking. When I leaned over
him Monday I told him to come into my
office, as his condition rendered him unfit
for business. He wouldn't come, so I took
him by the collar and pulled him in. Tnat's
all there is to it." Mr. Bowe declined to
say anything abont the affair.
COULD NOT STAND HEB SHOES.
She Threw Them at His Head and Ha
"ott Asks for a Dlrorc-.
Chicago, Aug. 2. Special Arthur
Leverson, the comedian, better known as
Alf Whelan, is suing for a divorce from
his wife Kate. They were married June 1,
1876, and separated five years ago. The
wife, Leverson says, had an uncontrolable
temper and threw shoes and cuspidors at
him. In 1877, while living at Morristown,
N. J., she hit him in the eye with a shoe,
laying thcsh open to the bone. Lever
son said thu he gave his wife his salary
that day, that she went out and spent it and
ordered him to draw another week's pay in
advance. Then followed the shoe incident.
Mrs. Leverson or Whalen was fond of
"booze," and got drunk on many occasions.
Leverson said his wife was mixed up with
a theft in London, and alleges that while in
Newark, N. J., she stole 51,000 worth of
goods and robbed stores in Detroit of 5800
worth. There are, he affirms, indictments
out against her in those and other cities.
Attorney HilHs testified that the woman
fired a cuspidor at the husband's head in his
office. Leverson will get a decree.
HEW CHABQES AGAINST HABBIS.
no and His Partner tow Have to Answer
for Their Knbb-rles.
Ottawa, Aug. Z The British Legation
at Washington to-day notified the Minister
of Justice here that the application made
last week for the extradition of the two
Pennsylvania murderer", Harris and Boseu
weig, now held in the Montreal jall,has been
enlarged to cover the charge ot robbery as
well as murder.
The extradition treaty admits only of a
prisoner's being tried on .the offense for
which he was extradited. This enlarge
ment will enable the United States authorities-to
try Harris and Bosenweig for rob
bery, should the prosecution on the charge
of murder fail.
Marching Campaign Clubs to Organize.
New York, Aug. 2. An official notifica
tion was issued to-day from the headquar
ters of the Bepublican National League
calling,, eyery Bepublican club in .the
United States to meet at 7:80 o'clock on the
evening of August 11, and organize
marcning campaign club before adjournlnp.
ANTI-OPTION'S FATE.
Senator Washburn's Bill May Never
Get to a Final Vote.
AMENDMENTS TACKED ON TO IT
That May Keep the Whole Jlct Out of Sight
at the Next Session.
IT MIGHT HAYE BEEN F0DQDT OVER NOW
ISPFCIAL TELEGRAM TO TBI DISr-ATCH.l
Washington, Aug. 2. When the Sen
ate agreed Inst week to tbe postponement of
the anti-option bill under the impression
that the day of adjournment was at hand
they ordered it to be reprinted with the
various amendments made by the Senate.
Copies of the reprint were received
from the printer and distributed
among the Senators to-day. Under
the motion of Senator Washburn
the sponsor of the bill in tbe Senate, it has
been formally agreed that it shall be the
unfinished business for the first Monday in
December next, and that tbe reprinted act
as passed by the Hsuse and amended in tbe
Senate shall be considered as the original
act. Accordingly at the next sesiion the bill
will come up for action every day after the
expiration of the morning hour until dis
posed of or until the final adjournment of
the Fifty-second Congress takes place.
It seems hardly possible that the oppo
nents of the measure can postpone action
upon it for three months, butthey are de
termined and persistent and may be able to
keep the appropriation bills and others en
titled to the right of way before the Senate
so continuously as to prevent a vote upon
the obnoxious anti-option bill. They at
least propose to attempt to do so.
One Amendment TV1II He DIscns(1.
There is oue amendment to the bill
now pending and which will be the first
one debated next winter. -It was offered by
Senator Daniel and proposes to strike out
tbe entire section numbered ten in the re
print. This is the section requiring the
maker of any contract for future delivery
to prove his ownership in the article con
tracted to be sold in case his right
to dispose of them shall be questioned by
the Internal Bevenue Collector or other per
son authorized to examine as to the legality
of contracts. Failure to furnish acceptable
proof of such ownership renders the con
tractor liable to the 1,000 penalty pro
vided for violations of the text.
The most radical amendment, however,
the one that in the opinion of several able
lawyers in the Senate robs the bill of all
its sting, making it practically harmless
and inoperative, has already been adopted
and appears in the reprint as a part ot the
bill and as proposed by Mr. Washburn
himself The credit for its conception and
presentation belongs to Senator Dixon, of
Rhode Island, who at an opportune time
offered it as the result of a careful study of
the provisions of the bill in tbe interests of
tbe public generally and his New England
constituents particularly.
The Clause That Nullifies the Whole.
Mr. Dixon's amendment provides that
the provisions of the act shall not apply,
among other exceptions, "to any contract
or agreement made by or with any person
to furnish and deliver at any time or within
any designated period any of said articles
for use, consumption or traffic in his busi
ness occupation, 'or manufacture, or for the
sustenance ot hi family, quests, servants,
tenants, employes or domestic animals."
When this amendment was originally
offered by Mr. Dixon, Mr. Washburn,
anxious to avoid a conflict with the in
fluences behind it, agreed to accept it with
out debate. Later when the reprint of the
bill was ordered Mr. Washburn presented
the Dixon amendment as his own and it is
now a part of tbe bill. Good lawyers say
that the terms of thisVimendment nullify the
most essential objects of the bill,
although at Mr. Washburn's suggestion
a clause has been added to it, providing
that such contract or agreement shall not
be made in or upon any Board of Trade,
produce, cotton, hop, merchants cr other
exchanges, or other commercial association
Or any place or upon any premises where
price quotations of said articles are an
nounced, bulletined or published, nor be
subject to the rnles or regulations of any
such board, exchange or other commercial'
association.
1-ncky If It Gets Consideration.
Senator Washburn feels sanguine that his
bill will become a law belore the expiration
of the next session, but he is apt to be dis
appointed, especially if he does not exhibit
greater parliamentary skill id handling the
bill than heretofore.
Had he stood firm and declined to enter
tain appeals from numerous colleagues who
desired to interject measures of local inter
est into the anti-option debate, he might
have forced the bill before the Senate sev
eral.weeks ago, before he did, and hod he
not later been misled into thinking
that Congress was ready to adjourn
several days ago, his bill might now be
under discussion instead of being laid away
on the shelf to be committed to the tender
mercies of a three months' session which
does not get down to business until the
second month and which is from that time
on engaged almost constantly in the con
sideration of the privileged appropriation
bills.
MINEEB EEF0SEA PABOLE.
The Present Situation or the Legal Fight
at Cooar d'AIenp.
Waixace, Idaho, Aug. 2. Three of
Sheriff Cunningham's bondsmen withdrew
from his bond, and the County Commssion
ers have declared the office vacant and ap
pointed Coroner W. B. Sims Sheriff The
net of the Commissioners created a sensa
tion. The process of the ensuing term
of the District Court is extremely im
portant, as It is ooenly stated that the
charge of murder will be brought against
many of the miners now under arrest. No
further examinations were held here to-day,
but at Wardner 50 out of 108 prisoners were
given an opportunity to sign a. parole. Only
six signed. The other 44 declared they
wonld-not sign as they were innocent of
crime.
In the contempt cases against the Coeur
d'Alene rioters the defense to-day filed a
general demurrer and a plea in abatement.
They were taken under advisement bv
United States District Judge Beatty.
GBEENIES GULLED BY GBAPEVINE.
How a Windy City Gang Mad9 Money by
- Itogus Mining Telegrams.
St. Louis, Aug. 2. For some time an in
stitution known as "The Public Stock Ex
change" hits been doing business here by
means of arbitrary quotations made up in
Chicago, the tapes shipped here and run
through a machine, thus apparently coming
from a n ire. In the past day or two a gang
of men from Chicago have been here, work
ing the mining quotations, they having
throngh some means obtained the figures
for each day, and pulled handsome profits
out of the game.
It did not take more than a day or so for
the managers to see that they were being
worked: The story on tbe street is that the
game lost some 530,000, but a party inter
ested says the concern has only lost about
$1,600 in all. Only mining quotations were
worked.
HOK-DrTIOlf MEN DBlVEH" OFF.
Only tbe Shorlfl'a Presence Prevents Blood
, shed In IVIsoonsln.
Stevens Point, Wis., Aug. 2. The
sawmill strike is still unsettled. Wallace
& Earner's mill was started this morning,
their crew being satisfied with the wages.
About 9 o'clock the strikers from the other
mills marched down and compelled many of
the crew to flee from the premises.
One man was attacked by a striker and
knocked down with a club, and if the Sheriff
had not been on hand bloodshed would have
been the outcome.,
WITHDREW FOR MONEY.
A Little Sensation Created In Syracuse,
N. X, by the Stoppage of a Contest for
tho Sheriff's Oder Congress Caucuses
Go on Just the Samf. '
Syracuse, Aug. 2. Special Philip S.
Byder's acceptance of a money considera
tion' for the withdrawal of his contest
against John A. Hoxie for possession
of the- Sheriff's office in Onondaga
county is likely to be prolific
in' political scandal. Byder to-day pub
lished an interview, in which he accuses
the Democratic leaders with bad faith in
not supporting him in his case against
Hoxie. He says he was financially unable
to carry the contest through the courts, and
a consideration having been offered him if
he settled, he could see no better way out
of the matter.
In Byder's opinion the Democratic
leaders, including Henry S. Mowryt the
local boss under the Cleveland administra
tion; William B. Kirk, the State Commit-
teeman, and Colonel J. W. Yale, Chairman
of tho County Committee, were afraid to
aid him lest they would Incur the enmity of
of Congressman James J. Belden. Indeed,
Byder intimates that these Democrats en
tered into a deal with the Republicans,
especially Mr. Belden, who is particularly
interested in Hoxie, the Bepublican incum
bent of the Sheriff's office.
The Syracuse Journal condemns the settle
ment as "a move to prevent the exposure of
the persons responsible in November last
for the mutilation ot the ballots in this
county. On the other hand, the faction of
the Bepublican party for whom the Journal
speaks is accused ot being in league to oust
Hoxie because he is an adherent of Mr.
Belden. The Democratic newspapers in
Syracuse are also by the ears over the affair,
the Courier condemninc Byder and the News
approving him.
Notwithstanding this incident the Con
gress caucuses held in Syracuse to-day were
uncontested azainst Mr." Belden. The His-cock-Hendricks
Bepublicans staved away
from the polls and allowed the Belden dele
gales to be elected. His nomination is now
assured without opposition.
POOR PEOPLE SWINDLED.
Three California Sharprrs Sell Them LVind
to TVh'ch They Have No Title One of
the Results of the Boom. In the Golden
State.
San Francisco, Aug. 2. Special
The Indictment ot O. E. Moore, T. H.
Downing and A. A. Hoyt to-day for felony
exposed one of the worst land
swindles ever perpetrated in Cali
fornia, because the victims include
hundreds of laboring peoplo here and
in the east. Five years ago Moore bought
a 1,400-acre tract of land adjoining Senator
Stamford's big vineyard in Tehama county
for 55 an acre. The seller expected the
cash payment, as Moore represented that
his colony scheme would bring hundreds of
settlers and would advance the price of
adjacent land.
Moore obtained a $70,000 loan on the land
from the San Francisco Savings Union. He
transferred part of it to Downing and Hoyt,
forming the California Land Company.
Then tbe three issued circulars, picturing
the rare opportunity offered to poor people
to get a five-acre fruit farm on the instal
ment plan, without cash payment. They
offered land at 515 per acre, with the pay
ment ot 51 per week on each acre.
The bait was eagerly swallowed and about
,400 people began making weekly payments.
Contracts were given which called for deeds
when all the payments had been made.
About two years ago Downing transferred
his interest back to Moore, and soon
after Hoyt fled, to Mexico to escape
the results 6f-emt)ezzlement. Last year
Moore'started a dime savings bank here and
swindled many people before the Bank
Examiners shut him up. The savings bank
has now begun suit for 563,000 which the
land company owes it. When this is paid
there will be nothing left for the poor
people.
TO ROB FIVE BANKS.
The Daring Scheme of Chicago Clerks to
Capture Their Coin.
Chicago, Aug. 25 Special. The dis
honorable discharge of George Bartels, pay
ing teller of the Central Trust
and Savings Bank, and his subse
quent flight with $3,000 of the firm's
cash, has unearthed a gigantic conspiracy to
defraud five Chicago banks. The scheme
was partly successful, and nearly 550,000
was secured from Bartel's former em
ployers, but was made good by the men who
guaranteed the firm's accounts.
William A. Forbes, N. W. Burnside and
Charles Manson, formerly of the Chicago
Bank Note Company, have been arrested
charged with conspiracy to defraud and the
issuance of fraudulent paper. The firm fol
lowed the old scheme' of shinning or kiting
checks, and Bartels stood in with
them. Charles Nichols, a go-between, ex
posed the whole scheme. By collusion
with Bartels the great run of" paper was
dumped on his bank. The system was sim
ple. The teller, in the absence of the
cashier, certified all paper, and the forged
diatts, checks, etc., were only de
posited when the higher officials of
the bank were out The plotters intended
to pull all the banks they had deposited
money with into their net and then break
up and clean out. However, the paper
came to protest too soon to admit of more
extended fraud, and the ring was brought
up with a round turn.
THE RECORD AGAIN BROKEN.
Trie Tentonlc Bectplares the Name of
the Fastest Ocean x-Iner.
New York, Aug. a Special At 1:45
o'clock this morning a big steamship ar
rived at Sandy Hook in the fog. The
observer at the Hook could not make her
out, but believed that she was the Teutonic.
The fog was dense and he had seen
nothing since 7 o'clock distinctly.
If she is the Teutonic, she has recaptured
the record for the passage from Queenstown
to this port. The White Star boat, the
Teutonic, sailed from Queenstown at 2:30
o'clock last Thursday afternoon. She
passed Daunts Bock, the point irom which
her time is taken, at 3:05 o'clock.
Her captain knew that to wrest tbe record
again from the City of Paris he must arrive
at the Sandy Hook lightship before 2 o'clock
this morning. If his ship had been sighted
off the lightship at that precise hour, Cap
tain Irving would have just tied the time of
tbe City of Paris, which was 5 days 15 hours
and 58 seconds.
BOLL W0BHS IN TEXAS.
The Vermin Are Ruining the Cotton Crop
, in Several Counties.
Houston, Tex., Aug. 2. J. M. Pattl
son, one of the most extensive planters inv
Texas, exhibited 'to-day at the Cotton Ex
change a number of cotton plants, every
boll on which had been destroyed by the
boll worm. The plants were cut from a
field ot 150 acres in Ft. Bend county, whioh
gave promise a short while ago of a bale to
the acre, but now the entire crop has been
destroyed.
Mr. Pattison says it has been developed
that on thousands of acres of bottom lands
In Wallace, FL Bend. Harris and other
counties the plant has been attacked by the .
destroyers. This is the first appearance of
the boll worm in this section of Texas.
FOUR FATAL SHOCKS
Administered in Just One II inn to
and 14 Seconds, Suffices for
THE ELECTROCUTION OP WOOD.
Eeligion Kerns Up the Condemned
Murderer to His Last Dour.
AN ACT0PS1 IS HELD APTEB DEATH
Dannemoba, N. Y., Aug. 2.v-It was
exactly 10:50 this morning when, at the
word from Warden Thayer, Murderer Cal
Wood's cell door was unlocked and the
prisoner stepped out into the exercising
corridor upon which the cell of the con
demned opened. The death warrant was
read to the prisoner by the Warden.'
Wood listened to the Warden's words
with a pale and slightly-drawn face, but was
Otherwise unaffected and made no comment.
He was the most collected person present at
the reading. When Warden Thayer gave
the word for the prisoner to be bronght out,
there was grouped the reporters, physicians
and others invited to witness the execu
tion. Four minutes after 11 o'clock, after the
witnesses had entered the deathroom, the
machinery was started, the electric current
turned on, and an instant later the two rows
of electric test lights' placed in the death
chair showed the deadly current was both
quick and powerful enough to satisfactory
lulfill its purpose.
The Murderer Appears In a Natty Salt.
Previous to the test the Warden cautioned
the spectators against any interference.
After the preliminaries were Over, the spec
tators sat in silence, waiting for the coming
of tbe prisoner. The condemned man
walked with a firm and steady step along
the corridor toward the spot where the
Warden and two keepers were waiting for
him.
As the little procession entered tbe room,
a half surpressed murmur of surprise es
caped from some of the witnesses. Wood
was neatly attired in a black suit. His
shirt collar and cuffs were snow white and
a white tie encircled his neck. His face
was smoothly Bhaven, except the mustache,
and with his calm bearing, Wood looked
anything but the desperate murderer half
human, halt brute he has been painted in
some of the printed reports.
Crossing the threshold of the room, the
prisoner turned to tbe right, and with two
or three steps stood in front of the fatal
chair. The room was entered at 11:44.
The condemned man's face was pale and
there was the slightest tremor about the
visibly cool, compressed lips; but he per
mitted no other outward sign of the emo
tions which must have filled his breast.
The Prisoner Thanks Warden Thayer.
When he reached the chair the keepers
stepped to one side, and, without hesita
tion, the prisoner said: "I want to thank
Warden Thaver for his great kindness to
me; also my keepers. My time on earth is
not long enough to return my thanks to
Judge Whitman for his noble efforts. He
has been nearer than a brother to me, and I
hope he will live a long time and die happy
in the Lord."
The religious feeling of the doomed man
found expression in these words:
"I pray that God will now give me the
strength of two men to go to meet him, tor
I know I am going there. God bless you
all. May He make you all happy."
Here Wood's voice trembled a little, the
only indication of any lessening of the won
derful nerve tbe man had shown, and as he
sat down in the chair he said in a strange
voice: "God, remember me."' He repeated
this three times while'the straps were being
adjusten. His last words were, "God bless
me." 4 '
The fatal signal was glVen "by Keeper
Welts, of Auburn prison. As the contact
ceme Wood's body straightened out rigidly
and the hands turned upward on the arms of
tbe chair. Twelve seconds was the dura
tion of the first contact.
Three Other Electric Contacts.
The second contact was two seconds
shorter, and as it reached full power a curl
of blue smoke arose from the murderer's
forehead and an odor of burned rubber filled
the room. This was repeated in the third
and fourth contacts of six seconds each.
Each time Wood's body straightened ont.
This was followed by a relaxation as the
current was shut off.
Wood was in the chair just one minute
and 14 seconds. An interval .of three sec
onds was given between each, contact. The
smoke came from the burning ends of the
rubber tube down which the salt water ran
to the electrodes. There was a slight blis
tering of the flesh on the forehead. The
adjustment of the straps and electrodes
took but 12 seconds, Dr. Bansom superin
tending the four- keepers who per formed
the service.
The physicians in charge made an ex
amination of the body immediately after
the fourth contact. The voltage was 1,560,
witn amperage or i. xne witnesses were
then allowed to make an examination be
fore the prisoner was pronounced dead.
Warden Thayer announced that the post
mortem would be held immediately, and
the body was taken to the post-mortem
room on a stretcher. The autopsy was con
ducted by Dr. Abbott, the other physicians
assisting. The death certificate was next
signed by the witnesses, and the first legal
electrocution at Dannemora was over. The
body was delivered to Wood's wife.
The autopsy was held by Drs. Irving, Bul
lard and Abbott. Dr. Irving said subse
quently that there were no traces of the.
electrical current found upon the remains,
save a slight blistering ot the skin under
the spot where the electrode rested upon
the left calf. The cranium, he added, was
thick, but the brain was large and a good
specimen. The heart was normal, but the
kidneys were slightly affected.
The History or Wood's Crime.
Joseph Wood, better known as Cal Wood,
was convicted on September 17, 1891, of
murdering his father-in-law, Leander
Pasco, a farmer of Warren county, May 10,
1890. Ihe defendant pleaded not guilty,
alleging temporary insanity. The successive
courts adjudged him guilty, and Governor
Flower refused to interfere.
On March 2, previous to the crime, Wood
had seerctly married Pasco's daughter.
Immediately after the marriage they separ
ated, returning to their own homes. Pasco,
who was very severe with his children, was
displeased with the marriage and would not
recognize Wood. About' a month later
Wood told a neighbor that Pasco, who was
then living with his housekeeper, "ought
to be put out of the way so the children
could have his property."
Alter Wood and his wife went to live to
gether they were subjected to some petty
annoyances which they charged to Pasco.
AVood sought to get a warrant out for his
arrest, but being denied, uttered more
threats. About three weeks later Pasco
was murdered by two gunshot wounds. It
was satisfactorily proved that Wood had
lain in ambush lor his father-in-law.
CLEBK CB0WELL WASN'T KILLED.
It Was Aaothor ,Man Who I-ookrd Jost
Like Him.
Elizabeth, N. J., Aug. 2. Special.
An unknown man, well dressed, was killed
on the Pennsylvania Bailroad at Bahway
to-night The body was terribly cut up.
The man's features so closely resembled
County Clerk Crowell that a messenger
was dispatched to the latter's house to not
ify his lamily, and found the county clerk
eating his supper.
Walter Lalng, who keeps a livery stable
near the track, saw the stranger alighting
from the1 train, and thinking it was Mr.
Crowell shouted: "Look out, Jack, here
comes the express." A moment later the
man was struck.
FIRST BALANCE IN YEARS.
Allegheny Paid a Big Increase In Teachers'
Salaries, but Has Money Lett Over He
' port of the Controllrcs to the State Su
perintendent. A. B. Seondrett, Secretary bf the Alle
gheny Board of School Controllers, last
night completed the report of the Board to
the State Superintendent of Public In
struction for the past school year. Tba re
port is interesting and tbe figures it contains
are a creditable showing for the Allegheny
school district. One unnsuil featnre will
be a souce of gratification to the taxpayer.
Last year the new schedule of sal
aries for the teachers went into effect, mak
ing a general increase of $14,000 in the
wages of the ward teachers. At the same
time the millage was reduced one half, yet
at the end of the year the Board of Con
trollers had a balance of 513,000 to its credit,
the first time for many years there has been
a balance. This was dne to the increased
valuation of the district, an increase in tbe
State appropriation, and having no debt to
provide for.
Another odd feature was that while the
school tax levied was only 5313,995 41, the
tax collectors turned in 5372,304 33. The ex
cess was due to an unusually large collection
of delinquent taxes.
The report shows the number of teachers
employed to have been 300. Of these 25
were males and 275 females. The average
salary of the male teachers was 5132 per
month, and of the females 556 71. The num
ber of male scholars attending during the
year was 8,124; females, 8,092; total, 16,216.
The average percentage of attendance was
9. Tbe average cost of each
pupil per month, ' based on the
whole expenditure, was 52 18
The number of mills levied was 2 mills, a
decrease of 2 mills from last year. The
number ot mills levied for building pur
poses was 2 4-10. The whole amount of the
levy was $313,995 41. The State appropria
tion last year was 534,128 29. On account
of the increased liberality of the Legisla
ture, it is expected the city will get 550,000
more than that this year. The total receipts
Irom all sources including the appropria
tion, were 5463,902 75. The expenditures
were: For teachers salaries.5192,875 03; debt
and interest paid, 584.429 14; purchasing
grounds, 55,176 50; building and furnishing
houses, 56,888 60; renting and repairing,
$12,340 91; other expenses make the' total
expenditures 5354,186 60. The cash bal
ance on hand is 5114,716 15 and 533,000 is
due the district from delinquent taxes.
The debt of the "district is 5424,000 mak
ing the liabilities in excess of the resources
5276,283 85. The value ot the school prop
erty of the districts, or city, is 51,303,585 70.
It has increased in value by building, etc.,
in the past five years Rome 5300,000, and
the school district is in debt 5250,000 less
than at that time.
The regular meeting of the Board of
Controllers was called for last night, but a
quorum was not obtained. City Superin
tendent Morrow announced that school
will open on Tuesday, September G, Monday
being Labor Day and a legal holiday.
ICEBERGS ALL AROUND.
Tbe Bark Alice Ketarns From a Danjerons
Crnlse at Cape Horn.
New York, Aug. 2. Captain Joseph
Swain, of the bark Alice, which arrived to
day from Auckland after a trip of 83 days,
had a tale to tell of his experience with ice
bergs in the low latitudes. The Alice
rounded Cape Horn early in Jnne. On
June 18, in latitude 43 40" south and
longitude 33 east, Captain Stvain's look
out sighted a berg which towered 400 feet
in the air. Several more were noticed in
the afternoon, and when daylight broke the
next morning the ice was everywhere. On
the port side was a solid hank of ice, which
extended without a -break for 35 miles as
the ship sailed along it. On the starboard
side the ocean was dotted with floating
bergs, of which 300 were counted during the
day.
At 3 o'clock the next day another big ice
floe was encountered, and the helmsman
was kept bnsy dodging icebergs all tbe
evening. On the morning of the 21st a
sold bank of ice was noticed on the port
side, which Captain' Swain describes as a
long reef, extending for 40 miles and vary
ing from 20 to 400 feet in height. The mate,
in the crosstrees, reported floating ice in
all directions. The Captain said that much
of the ice appeared to be blackeued with
age. The bergs took all sorts of fantastic
forms, representing, among other objects,
trees and houses.
MICHIGAN'S THIBD PABIY.
It Nominates a Fall State Ticket With
J. TV. Ewlng at the Head.
Jackson, Mich., Aug. 2. At the assem
bling of the People's Party Convention to
day an amendment which was peculiarly
distressing to everybody was made. It was
a dispatch addressed to Judge Cole, of
Fowlervllle, notifying him that his brother,
D. S. Cole, of Nebraska, had jnstbeen shot
dead. Judge Cole left at once for Ne
braska and his bereavement created the
deepest sympathy among the delegates:
Judge Cole had been regarded as the sure
nominee for Governor and the shocking in
telligence was all the more keenly felt for
this reason.
The platform of the Omaha convention
was adopted, and a motion' to incorporate a
prohibition plank was made amid great dis
order. Contusion reigned lor ten minutes,
out of which order came in the shape of
suspending the rules, and proceeding to the
nomination of a candidate tor Governor.
Both of the old parties were denounced
and there was no attempt at fusion made,
It was nearly 10 o'clock when the nomina
tions were reached. The following ticket
was nominated:
Governor, John W. Ewlns, a farmer of
Grand Lodge; Lieutenant Governor, Dr.
George 11. Sherman, of Detroit; Secretary of
State, Frank M. Vandorcook, editor of the
St. Louis (Mich,) Independent; Treasurer,
Joseph W. Weltou, of Kent county: Auditor
General, Clinton Peck, of Lapeer; Attorney
General, A. A. Ellis, of Ionia.
A PAEE0N OK' HIS MUSCLE.
lie and His Strong Parishioners Make Short
Work of a Gang or Toning.
West Union, Aug. 2. At Mahogany, a
small town about 20 miles from here, a des
perate row occurred last night in the Meth
odist Church. A young man, whom the
minister had publicly reproved for whisper
ing in church, came in with a number of his
friends and proceeded to create a disturb
ance. He wai warned to leave, but, In
stead of doing so, attacked the minister.
The divine promptly threw off his coat,
and, followed by the muscular members of
his flock-, made war upon the disturbers.
Pews and chairs were broken, windows
smashed, women and children hurt and
some of them thrown through the doorway.
Finally the pastor gained the upper hand
ot the principal disturber and thrashed him
soundly. After the rioter had been thrown
ont the fighting parson, bloody and battered
as he was, mounted to his pulpit again and
resumed his sermon. '
WHITE CAPS BEAT AN OLD MAN.
They Also Dnrfe Ulm in n River and for
No Known Keason.
Louisville, Aug. 2. Special At
Dover, Mason county, B. M. Owens, a man
60 years of age, was last night taken by
White Caps and' ducked in the river until'
he was nearly drowned. Then he was taken
out and given CO blows on the bare back
with a board. He was released more dead
than alive.
Oweds had always born a good reputation
and the outrage is generally denounced.
He says he knows the perpetrators and
will have them arrested.
Clouds Hide tbe Pnco of Mars.
Lick Obsekvatory, Mt. Hamilton,
Cal., Auj.. 2, Cloudy weather and light
rain Inteifered last night with observation
of tbe phnet Mars at the observatory after
10 o'clock.
THE 'SUMMER THIEF.
He Is Sow Enjoying Bis Uarrest,
V hich Is Not Prolific.
THE ALLEGHENY POLICE REPORTS
Show That the FestiTe Sneak Is Abandoning
the Kortbside.
CHIEF J1URPHI APPLAUDS HIS MEN
Summer vacation time is the harvest
hour of the petty house breaker and second
story burglar, but he is not distinguishing
himself this year in Allegheny as is his
wont. Chief Murphy, in consequence, is
patting himself on the back and hailing his
men as good fellows.
The monthly report of the Allegheny
police department for July was finished
yesterday, and in comparison with former
Julys, reflects much credit on the efficiency
of Chief Murphy's men. In an Interview
with a Dispatch man yesterday, the Chief
of Allegheny's police department said ha
was proud of his men.
"The month of July and the first 15 days
of August are trying times for policemen,"
continued the Chief, "as it is at that period
the housebreaker arouses himself. Citizens
leave for the seashore and mountains and
lock np their houses until their return.
None of the household effects are removed,
and it is a great opportunity for the second
story burglar, as the residences are desert
ed and the neighbors often some distance
away. But this season it is different," and
the Chief smiled broadly. -'We have had
bnt two such reports, and one of those was
that of a Southside boy of idiotic tendencies,
who simply broke into the house and car
ried away a bunch of kindling."
The Work They Do.
"What depredations are committed by
the average summer burglar?" was asked.
'They carry away valuable little knick
nacks, bric-a-brac, books, curtains and
things of that sort that are small and can be
sold in old cariosity shops of uncertain
reputation. Then again there are boys who
enter an empty honse with more or less
skill and armed with an ax or a hatchet
proceed to demolish locked cupboards,
secretaries, bookcases, and then break up
furniture; incidental to this sort of con'
temptible work they chop up the lead gas
pipes and work a general havee This latter
class are by far the most expensive as the
damage is considerable. But taken all in
all the summer burglar is much more of a
pest than he is of a dangerous criminal."
A well-known man, who mixes more or
less with criminal classes as a rebnker, de
clares the good report of the last past month
a certain Indication that thieves are becom
ing more clever and are working with more
discretion than formerly. "Thieves learn
as all other people learn," he remarked,
"jnd this learning stands them in good
stead in just such times as these. There
are many cases of burglary and ' lar
ceny that never reach the ears of the
police. Frequently with such occurrences
the victims of the crook think they can
better capture the thief by individual efforts
than by calling on tbe police department
for assistance. Then again it is tbe strong
aversion to attracting newspaper attention
and publicity that makes tnem bear their
loss in silence, and in the majority of cases
the victim thinks the loss too small to report
to the police. In consequence of this some
really good opportunities for an officer or
detective to distinguish himself by credit
able work escapes all notice.."
What the Iteports Show.
The report for the month of July gives
the number of arrests at 321 persons. Of
these 101 were fined, 103 were discharged,
56 were sent to jail, 33 went to the work
house, 16 were held to court, 1 was sent to
the reform school and 5 forfeited their de
posits. Two hundred and twenty-one of
the arrests were of natives of the United
States and the other 100 were of foreign
birth. The total amount of money col
lected for fines, forfeits, eta, amounted to
51,048 75.
In comparison to this the report for July,
1891, shows 454 arrests. Of these 196 were
fined, 73 were sent to jail, 131 were dis
charged, 46 were sent to the workhouse, 2 to
the reform school, 1 to the House of the
Good Shepherd and 3 forfeited their se
curity. Two hundred and eighty-seven
were of United States nativity and the
remaining 167 were from alien lands.
A MIND EEADEK'S F0BETH0DGHT.
He Skips frith Entertainment Proceed,
Leaving Many Unpaid Debts.
San Francisco, Aug. 2. Special
Charles N. Steen, his wife and several
members ot his company sailed suddenly
for Honolulu this morning on a schooner,
leaving many mourning creditors. Steen
made some money here by giving exhibi
tions of mind reading and exposures of
spiritualistic methods. He was very clever,
but receipts didn't equal expenses.
His latest scheme was to advertise a
spiritualistic convention at a half doller a
seat. Steen intended to skip with the box
receipts, but his audience learned of his
plans, raided the doorkeeper and made him
disgorge. Steen's plan is to catch the reg
ular steamer at Honolulu and go on to
Australia. He has obtained a good supply
of wine and canned goods by false pre
tenses, so that his voyage will be pleasant.
BAD SHIN BONE SORE
Grew Worse Onder Many Doctors and
Many Remedies. Entirely Cured
by Cutlcura.
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not enuure U that length of time. I tried his
remedies, and the sore kept growing worse. Then
I tried another doctor, and received no lrelp. Then
another, who was sure he could help me. out still
the ore kept growing worse, kept growing larger
all the time. I bad another doctor examine It. Ha
thought that perhaps the bone was affected, and I
had better go up to Albany. I had a good surgeon,
examine It. ami he said the bone was not affected,
and that It could be cured, but I had to sit with my
foot elevated. A surgeon doctor from the city of
New York, stopping at our house, said the same
thing. In September. 1E89. 1 was about my work
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