DOUBLE NUMBER. FORTY SEVENTH TEAR PITTSBURG SUNDAY. i. TV ft LOCOMOTIVE IS On the Erie Bailroad, and the Outrage Is Attributed to Strikers. EXPRESS TEAIN WEECKED Ent Fortunately Io One Aboard Was Injured in the Least. The Only Incident of Note in the Switchmen's Strike, and That Oc curred Late at Night The Roads All Claim to Be in Good Shape Agraln,.but Only One of Them Is Hauling Its Usual Amount of Freight Governor Flower Leaves Albany, Certain That No More Trouble "Will Occur Prose cutions of Rioters Begun by the Reading Road Officials. Buffalo, Aug. 20. The engine of Erie express train No. 1, which left New York at 8 o'clock this morning, and was due here at 10:23 o'clock to-night, was derailed at Linden, near Attica, at 10 o'clock to-night No one was hurt "Wrecking trains have left Buffalo for the scene. The accident is attributed to strikers. Five suspicious characters were seen loiter ing about the scene when the train stopped. They left the vicinity as soon as the passen gers and trainmen began to realize the situ ation. One of the gang was asked what business he had there. The fellow made no reply, but started away from the scene in company with his companions. A fishplate was found spiked to the underside of one rail. Fortunately only the engine ran off the track. The engine left the track and tipped partially on its side, the driving wheels cutting into the bed of the track. It will require several hours to get it back on the track. A train hand was sent to Linden station and Super intendent Brunn was notified. All trains have had orders to run with extra caution since the East Buffalo trouble arose. The Erie has offered a reward of f 10,000 for the apprehension of the persons derail ing the train. THE STORY OF SATURDAY. Only One of the Boads Makes a Proper ltlufl at Doing Its Usual "Work The Others AH Claim They Are In Good bhapa Once More. tBT ASSOCIATED F2ESS. Buffalo, Aug. 20. There is to-night no reason apparent for withdrawing the state ments of theprobable strike by the firemn, which have Been preiented In these dis patches since Thursday. The exclusive and definite information transmitted by the Associated Press from here last night, with .reference to the council ses sion of the firemen in this vicinity, left the men awaiting the arrival of Mr. Sargeant from the "West. The men expected he would be in this city to-day. It is not publicly known now whether he has ar rived. Below will be found, however, the quoted utterances of a railroad man,- whose name shall be anonymous, which indicate that the firemen employed here may go out without the order or consent of Mr. Sar geant. In their meeting last night the firemen were unanimous npon the point, it will be remembered, of declaring themselves then and there on strike. The deference of the matter until Mr. Sargeant's arrival here "as probably more an act of courtesy to the head of the order than a sign that the men would not ultimately do as the majority seemed disposed to strike in sympathy with the switchmen who are out To-Day May bee the Strike Spread. Hence, it may be easily reasoned that should Mr. Sargeant delay coming until to morrow, or should he not come at all, the men may before dawn Sunday have taken the entire subject within their own hands and have gone out The risks they will take, should the firemen of this vicinity strike without official sanction, will be all their own. They will be obliged to make their battle upon their own resources, and without any financial support from the fireman's order at large. So stands the mat ter at present ' No one of the companies whose switch men are on strike have to-day moved a normal quantity of traffic. The Erie has fallen short about one-half; the Lehigh somewhat more than one-half; the Lake Shore made a start for the first time since the strike; the Nickel Plate was doing busi ness, and the Buffalo Creek road was warm ing its engines the first time in a wek, while the Michigan Central, whose jard work is involved with that of the Central, also showed movement "Whether or not a fair allowance made for the inexperience of the new men will cover the difference between what was done to day by the roads and what is their normal traffic movement is something which cannot be measured by a fixed standard. One Itoad Nearly Doei Its Usual TVork. The Central to-day handled traffic nearly equal to its normal freight movement The threatened demand on the part of Erie county officials for the withdrawal of the troops has been deferred at least until Mon day. To-morrow the Sheriff and Super visors of the county will travel about through the city yards, in order that they may see bow nearly business is restored to its usual status, and their determination will rest upon the result of their observa tions. The United States regulars on the front ier here are in readiness to-night for imme diate movement should they be called upon, and this iact, by those who know it, is re garded as an outgrowth of the present rail way complication. There need be no more mincing of terms as to the fate of the striking switchmen here while the status which prevails to-night is maintained. Unless the labor leaders adopt decisive measures in new directions the switchmen in the Buffalo yards are undoubtedly defeated. They know it themselves, but still cling to a conviction that something yet will happen. Their I faith is in tbeir leaders. They hope the firemen may come out, and yet the mass of them, while thus hoping, have little knowledge of the progress of official diplomacy, and to-night, as at the begin ning of the week, they are dumbly awaiting an issue. Bed Taps Business to Follow. A general officer of one of the trnnklines, who has a wide experience with striking employes, said to-day that it was absolutely ridiculous to look for a strike of the firemen as soon as to-morrow. ''If they should strike," he said, "a lot of red tape proceedings will first have to be gone through with. The firemen never strike out of sympathy. They will have to present a formal grievance to Sar geant, their Graud Master) before going on strike. Mr. Sargeant then would have to come here to investigate, and his findings would have to be passed upon by the Executive Committee of the organization before the men could go out" SWEENY AND HIS CAMPAIGN. If One Strike Falls It Is to Be Followed by Others at Tarlons Points His Ofler to Arbitrate Not a Sign of Weakness. Buffalo, Aug. 20. Relative to his ar bitration proposal to the companies, Master Workman Sweeuy was this evening in formed that his communication to the rail road officials is regarged by many as a sign of weakness on the part of the strikers! "I considered that before I wrote it' said Mr. Sweeny. "That was the objection urged by the men when I consulted them, but I overruled them. I desired to put the companies on record as having rejected advances to a fair arbitration, and have done so by this mean. Up to this time they professednot to have received any regular notification of our po sition and grievances. How they have no such excuse. "The switchmen have not weakened by any means. It doos not look like it, does it, when the Suspension bridge men, 60 strong, went out to-dav, with other coun ties to hear from? There are now 475 men on strike," he continued, "and if they don't succeed in getting back their places here there are 4,000 places waiting for them throughout the country. Switchmen are scarce. "The 'scabs' are destroying railroad prop erty by their ignorance. Yesterday one of them smashed the draft irons on eight cars loaded with perishable goods." This is the view taken hv an afternoon paper of the switchmen's campaign: "The plan of Grand Master Sweeny's campaign is gradually coming to view. It is to nag the roads into compliance with his de mands by successive strikes. The Grand Master is said to be not at all sanguine of the result of the present strike, but he is not greatly disturbed at the prob ability of a failure here. If the yards are cleared here, it is said, there will be a stoppage of work at Rochester, then one at Syracuse, and then at "West Albany, where over 1,000 men are employed. "Though Mr. Sweeny does not appear to be able to keep his men from mischief, if his declared intentions are sincere he is a General, there is no question of that," said a close observer of the strike this afternoon. "The Beading road has practically suspended operations along its entire liner This was anticipated by Sweeney. "When he was aRked why he did not call out the men at Pittston 'and other points along the Lehigh, he made the remark that the road would stoD itself at Pittston if Buffalo was stopped. So it proved, within 24 hours. The road has no open terminus for its coal, and dare not move it" The strike of 60 men at Suspension Bridge is taken as proof of the statement about Sweeny's plan of campaign. FLOWER LEAVES ALBANY. The Governor Anticipates So Further Trouble, at Least Jut Sow. Albany, Aug. 20. SpaiaL The two events of the day here were the departure of Adjutant General Porter for Buffalo, and of Governor Flower for "Watertown. As he stepped aboard the train this afternoon Governor Flower said: "You may rest assured I should not have left Albany had not everything been attended to, or had I anticipated any trouble." General Porter left this morning, declin ing to directly state that he was going to Buffalo. Adjutant General Porter's visit to Buffalo is for the purpose of personally in specting the massing of his troops there and the plans of his subordinates lor repelling an attack. The departure of the Governor and Adjutant General centers all "strike news" at Buffalo. Albany is full of rumors of the pros pective calling out of firemen and trainmen on the Central Hudson, but they can be traced to no authentic source. E. J. Lee, the Master "Workman of the Knights of Labor, sent a dlsnatch to Grand Master Sweeny, sayine that no Knight of Labor J naaieu sew jlotk uity or Albany to take the places of the striking switchmen at Buffalo. No further orders had been issued by the Governor or General Porter up to the time of their departure than that the troops still at home should hold themselves in readiness for a call to duty. PROSECUTIONS BEGUN. Tlie Fl-st Arrest Hade at the Instanco of Rending Hoad Officials. Philadelphia, Aug. 20. News was re ceived in this city to-day of the arrest at "Waverly, N. Y., of a striker named Mc Namara, on the charge of interference with the Beading Bailroad Company's employes. The arrest is thought bv Beading officials to be the result of the following letter sent to the company's counsel at Buffalo. "Wednes day: (iENHKAL OFFICE, ) PniLADELruiA..-NDKs.ADi:ia Railroad, J Philadelphia, Aug. 17. ) W. S. BisseU, Buffalo. N. Y.: 1 have no doubt yon are not loslns sisht of the Obligations which are imnnwd nnnn no in the discharge of our duty to this property and tho public, to use every lawful means of bringing to justice all who are sullty of par ticipating in tne l ecent outrages, jlie com pany mnst not spare rut means or expense in vigorously prosecuting to conviction every man who can be proved guilty. A. A.McLeod, Piesident. "This arrest," said a Beading official, "is only the beginning of active criminal pro ceedings against all parties who have been guilty of the destrnction of the company's property or interference with our men or employes." A SPREAD OF THE STRIKE Predicted by a Bailroad Man Who Is Bank ing on the riremen. Buffalo, Aug. 2tt This evening a posi tive statement was made by a railroad man which confirms the indications which have been set forth in these advices since Thurs day. Said this railroad man: "The en gineers and firemen are going out within 43 hours. This is positive. J'd bet $10 on it to 10 cents. I am iu a position to know what I am talking about. An engineer said to me this morning: 'We are going to help these men out. If they lose it will be a deathblow to organized labor.' "I feel certain that the engineers and fire men uill join the strike. And the Erie trainmen are going to quit They are well organized. The Lehigh trainmen are not well organized, and will likely stay at work. ! The firemen may strike without the consent oi sergeant" SOLDIERS AT WAVERLY Find Work to Do in Moving; Train Fires Mysteriously Drawn and CoapUntr Pint Fulled The Militia Guyed-Tha Situa tion at Sayrc Elmtra, N. Y., -Aug. 2a The blockade at Sayre, Pa., and Waverly, N. Y., was virtually raised to-day. The Twentieth Separate Company and the Sixth Battery, of Binghampton, arrived at "Waverly last night Michael McNamara, leader of the strikers, waited upon Captain Rogers to as sure him he would find no trouble. At about 7:30 o'clock this morning the ball was set rolling at '"Waverly, when a train of 26 cars came up the Philadelphia and Reading from Sayre and was stopped in the switch just below the railroad bridge by the'strikers. The Philadelphia and Read ing officials notified the militia and they were marched down Broad street to the railway track; formed a line ten abreast and marohed np the track to clear the crowd. Hundreds of people blocked the tracks and banks along the railway, yelling at the mil itia and guying them at every step. A picket line was formed and men stationed at intervals for about 600 yards east ot the depot "While they were forming the picket line the fire in "the engine was mysteriously dumped and the pins pulled. The fire was rebuilt and at 9:25 one of the coal and iron police turned the switch, as no switchman dared to do it At 9:50 o'clock the train pulled out of the switch on to the Erie's west-bound tracks. Th'e train passed the depot all right, closely followed by a dele- I gation of strikers. Lines of militia guarded the 'rain on either side, and to all appearances it was off for Hornellsville. It had just cleared tne depot, however, when the air brakes were suddenly set, and when the engine took up the "stack" again it was found the pin between some cars had been pnlled. The blockaded train once more started and experienced no further trouble here. A few minutes later another train pulled up from Sayre nnd crossed over to the Erie's west-bound track. Alter being de tained for a while, waiting for the signal, the train wa finally ordered to go ahead, and it pulled out of "Waverly between two lines of militia without any opposition. Two more trains were sent out without any further trouble, and the company claim that the blockade was raised. Michael McNamara, the leader of the strikers, was arrested this morning on a warrant issued August 13, charging him with interfering with the moving of trains. He was later released on 1,000 bail for an examination next Thursday. HDHDEED3 OUT OF W0BE. Nearly a Thousand 3lon In the Shops Have to Lay Off for Awhile. Buffalo, Aug. 20. The Erie shops in Buffalo are closed temporarily, there being a lack of work. In consequence, COO more workmen are idle as the result of the strike. The suspension is bn temporary, and will last only until damaged cars come in. Iu addition, 60 men at the East Buffalo machine shops, comprising about three fourths of the force there,have been laid off. N. T., L. E.& T. Men Slay Strike To-day Susquehaitna, Pa., Aug.20. It is cur rently reported here and generally credited that switchmen, brakemen and firemen on the New York, Lake Erie and "Western Bailroad at this point and along the entire system will go out on a strike before to-morrow morning. ' No Trouble Vet M Flttiton. "Wilkesbaeee, Aug. 20. There are no indications of a strike on the Lehigh Valley at Pittston or Coxton to-day. Everything is quiet, and freight and coal trains have been coming into the Coxton yards for the past ten hours on schedule time. The officials here do not anticipate any trouble. ONE WAY TO MAKE H052Y. An Artist Finds That Certificates Pay Him JIucU Better Than Painting;. fBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. LoiTD02f, Aug. 20. The profession of art is apparently driven to dire extremities in this metropolis. Here is a recent experi ence of a picture buyer who is roused to an indignation easily understood. He says: "I became possessed of a picture alleged to be by a painter who holds a high position in the artistic world, and wrote him asking whether it was really his. An answer was returned that for a great many years he had received a fee of 5 6s. for a certificate of any picture submitted to him. I gave a good 'description of it, but he said he must see the picture itself. I at once sent it, and the answer came back to say that the cer tificate was ready, and that he would be obliged by the immediate receipt of the fee. "I sent'the five guineas and the picture came back, but to my 'surprise and chagrin the man sent a piece of paper with the words printed: 'I certify that the picture submitted to me by was not painted by me,' and lower down there was a note to tfie effect that 234 pictures had been sub mitted to him, and that out of that number only 21 were genuine. In that case he must have obtained over 1,000 for giving nothing whatever in return." WISHES EEB FATHEB DEAD. t n Absent Witness In the Borden Murder Ces Heard Lizzie Say It. Fall Biter, Mass. Aug. 20. Special The authorities are now awaiting with much interest the return of George "W. Hathaway for a verification of the story he told at Craigville on the day after the Borden murder. Mr. Hathaway goes farther than any previous witness, to establish the extent oi Lizzie's bitterness of feeling toward her father, as is Illustrated by the alleged wish that her father was dead, ex pressed a short time before the murder. The sentiment in the city, which was early in the week arrayed on the side ot the defendant has, during the past few days, rapidly drifted around and crystalized into a general support of the police officers. Part of the Government's case will go in at the examination Monday, but the best part of it will probably not, "The defence will not produce any argument, but depend upon an argument that the Government's case does not warrant the holding lor the grand JUT. A VICIIH 07 THE 7L00D. Mrs. Moore, of Oil City, Crazed by Nervous Prostration, Banra Herself. On, Crxy, Aug. 20. Special! Mrs. Susannah A. Moore, wife of J "W.'Moore, ex-Captain of the police force, committed suicide at her home this morning. "While temporarily insane she hanged herself about 6 o'clock in a bank cellar a few steps from her residence. Sickness, over-exertion and nervous ex citement at the time of the fire and flood, and afterward the affliction of Mrs. Moore's mind, are attributed as the causes of her act. bklnnlshlnc; for Mors Homestead Strikers. Pottsville, Aug. 20. A man named Sullivan in the Carnegie's employ is in town trying to induce rolling mill hands to accompany him to Homestead. Thus tar he has been very unsuccessful, THE KAISEfiJS BOSS And He Wants Everybody to Know It, Especially That Man CapriYi. HIS BANQUET. SPEECH In Opposition to the Chancellor's Military Service Measure HAS UPSET THE FATHERLAND. Bismarck Fee3 His Chance and Comes Out Against His Emperor. A REGROUPING 0P PARTIES TO .FOLLOW IcopTmonT 1892 by n. t. associated tress. i Berlin, Aug. 20. The Emperor's decla ration at the banquet following the review of the Garde du Corps on Thursday, that the Government did not intend to adopt the proposal for two years' military service in stead of three year', as at present, is not considered in the official circle to involve the immediate retirement of Chancellor von Caprivi, who supports, and, in fact, brought forward the proposal. The Progressist and National Liberal press insist that the Chan cellor ought to and must resign in view of the Emperor's decision, but it has been an open secret that before the Emperor started on his recent whaling voyage in the North Sea he set his face against the main pro posals of the Chancellor's military bill The estimates prepared on the projected two-years' service bill showed that it would be necessary to demand at the outset a re forming of the army expenditures, amount ing to 150,000,000 marks, with an annual ad dition to the war budget of 20,000, 000 marks. How Caprlvl Would Raise the Money. The Chancellor did not want in audacity in making financial proposals to meet the increased expenditures. Taxes on beer, to bacco and brandy, under which the whole empire would writhe, were suggested by the Chancellor, who was seemingly reckless ot how the Beichstag and the country would receive them. "Within his own entourage the Emperor never concealed the fact that he was radically opposed to auy shortening of the term of military service. General Count yon Waldersee held with the Emperor, while most of the other high military authorities sided with the Chancel lor in favor of short service. Now that the Emperor has publicly spoken out, the political opponents of the Chancellor treat the Imperial delivery as something alto gether new and as altering the Chancellor's position. The Emperor's public rejection of the project does not alter his relations with the Chancellor, though it does seal the fate of his army bill. The Beichstag might have granted a large portion of the proposed additional war budget if it was accompanied with shorter service, but it would never accede to the extraordinary grants without it. No great army bill will, therefore, be placed before the Beichstag at the coming session. ' An OJjpox'txraJJjrior Bismarck. Another result of the, Imperial declara tion wiir be a regrouping of the parties. Prince Bismarck, with a keen eye to the new political transformation, has adopted the two years' principle. The National Liberals, the FreisinnigeB and free Con servatives, every party except the extreme Conservatives, support the short term, which will become the main question on which the next elections will turn. If the present Government survives an earlier conflict -will occur on the question with the present Beichstag. Chancellor von Caprivi, though a submissive servant of the Emperor, will never face the Beich stag with an army bill asking money with out conceding a shorter term of service. Count von Eulenberg, President of tha Prussian Ministerial Council and Prussian Minister of the Interior, would do so and so. "When tho Emperor deems the time opportune some time next year Count von Caprivi will be replaced by a Chan cellor ready to carry out the Imperial will. The Immediate consolation attending the abandonment of the army bill is the with drawal of the threatened increase in taxa tion. It is reported that the Government will withhold from the Beichstag the law for the suppression of drunkenness. The meas ure, which has been iu operation since Jnly 1, relating to Sunday repose, though excel lent in its intention, is causing universal discontent, and its repeal will be agitated in the Beichstag. The probable failure of this paternal law makes the Ministers pause with other measures in tne same line. The Heated Term In Germany. The weather is intently hot throughout Germany, and fatal sunstrokes are occur ring everywhere In the Empire. The hospi tals here record only a slight increase in choleric and other disorders aggravated by the heat. "Work in many shops and fac tories is suspended during the hottest part of the day. The health ofv the city is fairly good, though at noonday in the shade the thermometer has registered 104. The drouth is injuring cattle and crops, and in many distriots the rivers are very low. In the upper reaches of the Biver Elbe navigation is difficult owing to the shallowness of the water. Many American visitors were present at the Emperor's review of the Garde du Corps, at Templehof, Thursday, viewing the spectacle from the privileged carriage place on the field. The Emperor looked bronzed and strong. A group of fishermen from the island of Heligoland, who had been invited by the Emperor to witness the review, attracted much attention by their peculiar costumes. America's Commercial Competition. The TagcUati, inannoucingth conclusion of the commercial treaties between Ger many and Haiti and Venezuela, rejoices in the assumption that American influence in Spanish America will thus receive a check. The Frankfort Zeiiung (Radical), in mak ing a similar announcement, says: The rapid development of the material power of the United States menaces the continuation of the economlo and Intellect ual supremacy of Europe. .The transat lantic) giant tree threatens to overshadow the Old World, depriving it of light and air. The peaceful contest Tor agricultural su premacy which has lasted for many years is sucoeeded by an Industrial contest which Is causing tne destruction of the outposts of the Qerman export trade. Far-seeing ob servers prophecy that within a reasonably time Europe will sustain even heavier de feats in tne arts anu sciences. The Cologne Gazette has begun an agita tian against permitting the use of the French language in the Catholic churches of Alsace-Lorraine. The paper complains that sermons in French are delivered in the Strasburg Cathedral. Prof. Koch, it is announced, intends to found sanitary establishments in Siberia and the Tural Mountains. He considers the dry, cold air of the country especially suited for his treatment of phthisis. How German Br.w.rs Meet Boycotts, Hamburg, Aug. 29. On account of a Socialist boycott of the Wannbecker brew err, the masters of this city have dismissed 1,200 workmen until the boycott is removed. Sinbad conceived the idea of getting rid A SALOON SENT SKYWARD BY B BLAST OF DYNAMITE WHICH WIS PLACED TJNDEK IT. The Explosion Happsns la a Prohibition Yll are In Ohio, But an Evicted Tenant Is Suspected The History of a Rural Local Option Fight. Columburs, O., August 20, Special A saloon operated by S. G. Carson at Gal loway, eight miles west of this city, was blown up by dynamite this morning. It is a little prohibition town of ISO inhabi tants, and a war on the one saloon of the place has been in progress for some time. Carson lived with his family, consisting of a wife and four children, in a large eleven room brick house on the Bame side of the street as the saloon and about 23 feet from it. This morning about 4 o'clock he heard a loud report, immediately followed by a crash and a trembling of the structure in which he was Sleeping. Investigation showed that the saloon building was in ruins. Part of the root and the ceiling had been lilted skyward, the floor had tried an excursion in the stane direction, while thS front was blown out. Glassware was wrecked and the hoops blown off the whisky barrels. Investigation as to the manner in which theHynamite had been placed in position disclosed that the man or men who aid the work were in the alley and had inserted the dynamite under the building by tearing off a piece of siding, attaching the explosive to a board about nine feet long and shoving -the board and explosive under -the struct ure.' The board shows where the fuse burned. A mistake made by the perpetrators was when they placed the dynamite under the center oi the floor, for there the heav iest weight was, by. reason of the whisky barrels. A little further over the resist ance would have been less and the result would probably have been a complete demolition of the building. The people of the hamlet tried to vote the saloon out by the local option law, bnt the larmers and others defeated thsm. They tried to have the place incorporated, ex pecting when they got a "Village Counoil they could abate the nuisance, but owners of farm land nearby fought them befor the County Commissioners and beat them there. A new proposition to incorporate was then presented to the Commissioners. It is pend ing now. A wholesale liquor firm in Columbus owns the building, and they announce they will rebuild and rent for the same purpose. They closed out one W. W. Nen, who had the saloon rented some time ago. The detect ives are working on the theory that the latter knows something about the destruc tive work. THE QUEEN THREATENED. While on a Drive She Encounters a Crank, Who la Looked TJp. London", Aug. 20. The Globe this after noon reports a"n incident that occurred to day to the Queen while she was driving near Osborne House, Isle of wight. As the royal carriage was proceeding along the road a man making violent gestures advanced toward it. The carriage was stopped and the man approached the Queen. He told her he was a foreign count and that he and many others had sworn that if the Queen did not'resign they would kill her. Her Majesty listened in silence to 'the wild harangue, never once betraying any nervousness. She and her attendants at once saw that the man was mentally unbal anced, and though she did not know but what he would attempt to suit his aotions to his words she retained her presence of mind and gazed calmly at him, never utter ing a word. One of her attendants dis mounted, and, quietly talking to the man, removed him from Her Majesty's presence. He was handed over to a constable and lodged in jail. There is no doubt that he is insane. LABELED CHANfiE OF VENUE. A California Murderer Swung Up by a Mob Who Feared Perjured Friends. Santa Anna, Oal., Aug. 20. Francke Torres, the murderer of Captain "William McKelvey, foreman on Madam Modjeska's ranch in San Diego canyon, was taken out of jail by a mob ot 35 men at 12:59 this morning and hanged to a telegraph pole iu a qniet and orderly manner. The lynching fs the result of a belief that his Mexican friends intended to swear him free. Bobert Cogsburn, night watchman at the jail, said that just before 1 o'clock men came to the jail door and demanded admit tance. He refused and they battered in the door with a sledge hammer. Masked men entered and took the keys to the cells away from him. Torres fought like a maniac when thev attempted to take him from his cell, and he was finally gagged and bound hand and foot- Torres was given no time to pray. On Torres' breast was pinned a placard labeled, "Change of "Venue." Gave Him Beer and He Died. McKeesport, Aug. 20. Special Kasper Kolas, a Russian, died here this morning of neglect after an illness of but 24 hours. He was employed in one of the Iron mills and over-exerted himself. At his boarding-bouse he was taken with cramps, and instead of having a doctor called the boarders piled blankets over him, gave him beer and things to eat, and at the last mo ment a physician was called, bnt too late. DID HE DEINK IT? NOT MUCH! of the Old Man of the Sea by making him drunk; so he got Gorman and Bansom to mix him a drink. YACHTS OVERTURNED By Unusually Heavy Seag Off the Coast at Atlantic City, and A KUMBER OP LIVES ARE LOST. The Inlet District a Seem of Great motion and Terror. Com- A VERT SAD ENDING TO A DAT OP SP0BT SPECIAL TELrORAM TO MIE DISPATCH. Atlantic Crrr, Aug. 20. The inlet district was the scene of a commotion this afternoon, when the news was brought in that several yachts had been capsized, with a frightful loss of life. An unusually heavy sea had been sweeping along the coast and tossing in giant waves over the bar all morning, and many veteran yachtsmen gav3 out ominous prophecies as to the fate of the several fishing parties who had started out to sea early in the morning full of bright anticipations of sport Humors of disaster were already afloat when Captain H. Bowen's fishing schooner, Annie H. Godfrey, put in at the inlet with the body of a drowned man iu tow. The sickening sight spread the contagion of fear and. excitement among hundreds of anxious people who crowded 'the inlet pavilions. Captain Bowen reported tint -on his trip in from New York he found the body floating in the ocean near the outside buoy, and that he sighted an upturned skiff a short distance from the corpse. Three Fishermen Drowned. The drowned man was at once identified as Charles Simmons, who had left the inlet about 4 o'clock in the morning accompanied by Benjamin Parker and Fnrman Manning, both of whom also perished beyond a doubt All three were fishermen and residents of this city and all three leave families. "When the first shock ot the skiff calamity was over anxious inquiries were heard on all sides as to the safety of the dozen or more pleasure yachts which had ventured out early in the morning with their precious freight "Not for 15 years" said an old Captain who was the center ot an excited group "has there been such a treacherous sea and unaccompanied or preceded by a storm. There was a very light breeze, 'and no ap parent indication or cause for such a bad sea." It was the general impression among the weather-wise, however, that the terrific agi tation of the ocean was due to a cyclone at sea or some extraordinary atmospheric dis turbance. The waves on the bar had been high all morning, and not a few of the vacht captains refused to venture across, although they had numerous and repeated, requests from ardent and devoted amateur fishermen who were willing to take the risk, A Trying Experience for the Yachts. The several yachts that did make the trip had an eventful and trying experience in going through the boiling surf that raged and tossed violently over the bar. The sea dashed continually over the sides, thoroughly drenching the frightened occupants. Upon attempting the re turn trip the yachtsmen found the sea so turbulent on the bar that they were afraid to run the gauntlet, for it meant sure destruction to plunge into that seething mass. The hours were full of dreadful suspense and foreboding to the passengers on the frail craft tha( were obliged to wait until the afternoon in the hope of the sea sub siding in its fury. Luckily, the hoped-for nacification of the anzrv waves came with the gradnal ebb of the tide and by 4 o'clock in the afternoon all but the yacht Kender ton, Captain Benjamin Loveland, had ar rived safely at the inlet wharf. It was a fortunate circumstance for the passengers on the several beleaguered yachts that Captain H. Bowen and his stanch schooner Godfrey came in among them when the fears of the passengers were worst and promp'tly set about transferring them to the deck of his boat It was a difficult and exciting task to get all the pleasure seekers aboard, but the work was accom plished withoutany mishap. Two Men Adrift In a Skiff. During the morning Absalom Leeds and Larnie Strickland, ot Leed's Point, N. J., were capsized in their skifla, which were in tow of a yacht, and the ropes parting, sent them adrift As the accident occurred in the roughest part of the chan nel, it was Impossible for the captain to turn about and pick them up. Strick land managed to crawl upon the bottom of one of the boats' and in this perilous posi tion drifted out beyond the breakers and was rescued. His companion, Leeds, was supported on an or and taken out in an exhausted condition. A sensational report got abroul this afternoon that Sal Gates' famous champion yacht, the John E. Mehrer, with a large party of pleasure seekers aboard, hnd been swamped in the heavy swell, but Captain Gale came in to-night with the cheering information that his boat had been cruising In the placid waters of the thoroughfare while the other yachts were being tossed about outside. He also re ports having picked up a lady's bine straw hat on his way into the inlet, but it is sup posed to belong to one ot the rescued pas sengers from the other yachts. Oeenpanta of Several Yachts Drowned. Three yachting parties that went out from Somers Point were caught in Great Egg Harbor Inlet by high waves, and the boats capsized. A fishing smack was seen to rescue several people with the assistance of the steamer Florence, which went out from Long Port for the purpose. It is re ported, however, that several of the occu pants of the yacht were drowned. A special from Ocean City says the sloop yacht Sallie and Eliza, of Great Egg Har bor has capsized at the entrance to Great Egg Harbor Inlet. The captain and owner, Enoch Hackett, sank and was lost Stephen Hackney, of Great Egg Harbor, who ac companied him, clung to the wreck and was rescued by a volunteer crew. KILLED BY A CRUMB. Amos Jonrit, an Bast End Resident, Chokes on a Bit of Bread and Fatal Hemorrhages Follow He Was a Soldier and a LIbby Prisoner. Amos Jones, of Murtland avenue, East End, sat on his porch until 9 o'clock Friday evening playing his violin. One oi his neighbors accompanied him. The couple separated, the neighbor retiring. At 10 o'clock the neighbor was aroused by Mrs. Jones knocking frantically at his door. She said her husband was dead. After spending the evening on the porch 'Mr. Jones came into the house and con cluded that he would eat a little lunch be fore retiring. Mrs. Jones and their two children had gone upstairs.'' Mr. Jones choked on a crumb of bread. His wife heard him, but paid no attention to it Then he took to coughing, and Mrs. Jones, becoming alarmed, ran downstairs.. She found her husband leaning over the sink in the kitchen with blood gushing from his mouth. He waved her aside saying: "I believe I have a hemorrhage of the lungs." He stood at the sink a few moments and then walked into the yard. Here the coughing fit seized him again and more blood gushed from his mouth. Then he walked to the front irate and stood leanintr upon it Soon he began coughing again, and this time he lost so much blood that he was unable to walk back into the house without the assistance of his wife. Mrs. Jones called to one of her neighbors, who ran for Br. Carpenter, of Ham ilton avenue. Mr. Jones' condition grew worse and five minutes after the doctor's ar rival he was dead. Mrs. Jones says not over 20 minutes elapsed from the time of the first coughing until her husband breathed his last A simple crumb of bread had caused all the trouble. The deceased was clerk to Master Me chanic "Webb, of the Pittsburg division P. E. E. He served all through the late war, enlisting twice. He waia prisoner at Libby. He worked all day Friday and was in his usual health. "While he was not considered a strong man, his sudden death startled all his acquaintances. The only serious illness he ever had was a year ago last winter, when he was in the hospital some time on account of some trouble on the lungs. A H'ZEESPOBT MTJBDEB. On of the Combatants In a Fight at a Party Is Disemboweled. McKeespobt, Aug. 20. Special Bobert Middlemess, an employe of one of the iron works, this evening invited a num ber of friends to'his home, and among those present was "William McConnell. Middle mess and McConnell got into a fight, when it is Alleged MeConnell drew a knife and disemboweled Middlemess. He was terribly cnt -nd cannot survive many hours. It is asserted that the men had been drink ing. McConnell, Hiokey and others were arrested. Middlemess is a married man and has several children. THE DISPATCH DIRECT0RT. The Issue ofTHX DiarATcn to-day consists of 20 pages in two parts. The contents of second part are tabulated below: Page 9. GLADSTONE'S CABINET. TBI ZEIK DlSTBICT. English Farm Labor ..Henry Tnckley. POLITICAL 3TOEM ClNTIB C. T. MUITaT. Page 10. TnzMcsio "Would C. TT. S. A EZUAEXABLI HALLUCINATION. Page 11. Small ADVxitTissuiNTS Clas jotxd. rage 13. Socixtt Doings Marlon C. Gau&her rocTitAiTS or Mbs. Clxveland, Staqe News, Page 13. Womxk Catchino Teoct A. E. Th&ckrar VY omen on the Boad Howard yielding WOES OF STZPMOTHEBS Bessie Bramble TVomen's Small Talk Marxaret H. "Welch TueBlaenit Stone MaryT. Bayard Pass 14. AMATEUR ATI1LETIC8. 1 Horace I. Hin Lilt Dale BrinrrUALlSTS.... . .I. W. Wheeler Pas 15. In Hubeian Homes Trans: G. Carpenter A Black Belt Cuvbcii MIjiJo. Nary Salt w Hot Wiatitzb....a. E. Atkinson, M. D. Tux Last Signal DoraBossell Pace 16. PANTnEKS Just Her Size Ed Mot: Guardians of Paris. WnJtiTitteil PCe 17. it: '1 ad Keliqion by the Sea T. O. Crawford Musical Crickets LMle K. Hontton Tax Stobt or Columbus. Scientific Hews. PS18. . - Kxvrxwor Sports John D Tingle Into Ancient China Ell Perkins "otis and Queries. Page IU. Trn Market RzrORTS. Oil Fixld News Secret Societiee. The Grand Ahmt Late Kiws in Baixr. Face SO. THS Sumtsrn BXSOKTS, IlATE ELXCTBIO NEWS IMIEDTOAIM. Mrs. Gouger Addresses a Yery ; Enthusiastic Meeting at Homestead. MANY STEIKEBS ATTEND. Her Kemarks Pleased Them Much and iDDlanse Was Frenuent. J LOCKED-OUT MEN BOLSTERED UP. No One Will Father the Alleged Advisory '! Board Statemant ' A MILL T70EKEE HAS BIS BACK BKOKES The feature of the day at Homestead yes- terdsy was the address of Mrs. Helen 31. Gouger. Last night she held an audi- ,' ence of 600 or 700 people for an hour and a half. Her hearers were prin- i cipally mill workers, and Mrs. Gouge? made a hit. The stumpspeaker who follows in her van will have many questions to an , swer. I Mrs. Gouger was there to make a play for i the third party, and she did it. " Her speech was a remarkable one, -' and many references were made to the present troubles at Homestead. The crowd of brawny steel workers gave the woman their closest attention, and when she scored a point in favor of the workingmen the building fairly shook with the cheers of her hearers. She said some things too that the Homestead strikers would allow but few people to say. The way to thesa remarks was so diplomatically paved that nothing could be said. In prefacing her remarks she said that everyone might not agree with her in tha address she would make. She was brought there by the local Prohibitionists, and would try to show the important issues of the present time. She said: , Let Reason Take Passion's Placr. j "We are entering upon a political cam- 4 paign. They are four parties in the field. " They are now sending out their literature to the people of the country, leaving them to be the jury. We want you to be the jury to-night. You are to decide by your votes ' next November the questions now before the people. I believe there has never been a time in the history of this country for. cooler heads than there is to-day. Let reason! take the place of passion if wa would better our condition. In the last two months we have seen Wyoming, M ontana, Tennessee, New Xork and Penn sylvania under martial law. There are 100 daneers every hour to meet. We must think and act wisely. To-day there is great labor unrest. 2so one can tell me that there is not. a cause. Our aim is to remove the cause. It is the money in the hands of a lew. Why do we drift into strikes and riots. You need not tell me men will not strike and suffer without cause. I look withgreat hopes on results coming from organized labor. Any organization tbatspriBSJy! as rapidly as the Knights of Labor or other " labor unions cannot nlway act wisely. They will make some pistakes, but by their mistakes they gain wisdom. If I was a member of a labor organization and capitalists would tell me I would have to leave the organiza tion, I would never do it even if starvation stared me in the lace. "The American workmen holds his des tiny in his hands: You may have what you want if you vote for your best in terests. I am here to-night to appeal to everyone to cut loose from the old parties. I ask to-night-for independent voting. Vote prin ciples instead of party. The Democratic and Bepublican parties are responsible for pres ent conditions. The Kepublican is tha more responsible. She JJlakes Some Strung Statements. 'It is responsible for the labor unrest. A man who buys or sells a vote is a traitor. These two political parties have been con stantly robbing the masses. During tha time of labor troubles uneasy lays the head of the capitalist, "The Prohibition party proposes to have a reigu of the goldeu rule. I believe in foreign immigration. It is the demagogue that causes tha trouble attributed to the immigrant. When they talk about restricting foreign immigration I would not have been here to night. The ballot box is the place to fix this. The expenses of the, cities of the land are wrung from illegitimate revenues. If tha ': Prohibition party is put iu power it will not -J be so. ,; "I am going to tell you something you wiJl not like, but I hope yon will bear with me. I have been asked if I believe In strikes, and I would say that I do. I also believe that non-union men have tha right to take the places of tha j strikers. You have not the right to mob the non-union men, I am glad that you were not the first to shed blood in your present troubles. What I am more glad of is that you have taught the country that laws must be enforced by tha authorities, but not by an organ ized mob of Pinkerton detectives, Tha place to do your striking Is at the ballot box next November. Yoc ask why it is that Carnegie and Trick are able to diktat to labor. It is easy to answer, xou nav built them up by your votes and thus giv them a monopoly in the steel business. I me ask what you have? You have had yc wages cut down, the schedule of wages made to expire in midwinter, a high board fence with three strands of wire on top built around the works, with hundreds of non-union men on the inside at your work, and you on the outside: Too Much Sloney Spent In Uqnor. "Now you see what your votes have dona and I hope you can see what you are to do in the future. You must do away with your rum shops. Eight here in Homestead you spent a million dollars for liquors. If you had that now yon could stay out on your strike as long as you wanted to. I ask you to stand on our platform, workingmen, and destroy the Democratic and Eepublicaa parties." The locked-out men ot Homestead held another meeting yesterday. Its object was to give the steelworkers a bracer. Thera were about 600 people In tha rink, and John Hultz opened the meeting. Vice President W. A, Carney, of tba Amalgamated Association, was chosen President, and David Shannon, Secretary. Seueral times during the meeting Davit Lynch asked the men not to spit on the floor. Mr. Carney was the first speakers. He said the object of the meet ing was not to transact business, but to ex change views and congratulations. His re marks concerning the press were exceeding ly bitter. When he had heaped great mounds of bitter contumely on the publia organs, his attentions were turned to tha militia. "The people of Homestead," said ha,-?; "are law-abiding citizens. They are trying, to avoid trouble. I"or this tha soldiers ara sorry. They wish that the people of thia town would try to drive them out. Z wat 5. HI IIHMM'I W sWMlll 1 1 sH gi53ttarasasKcsagireiB
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