PrTSjv -V r.SB1 Pttfttttfi PAGES f TO 9. r V r 4t FORTY SEVENTH YEAR CHOLERA NOW IK ENGLAND ANDBERLIN. Unmistakable Cases Are Now Isolated at Gravesend, Near London Itself THE ATER SUPPLY POOE, And Port Officials Overworked Warding Off the Plague. in STEAMSHIP INSPECTION IS BAD. The Horrors of the Epidemic Fast Increas ing in Altona. No Panic in the British Metropolis Dr. Edson, the Sanitary -Physician, Bays New York Will Have the Disease in a Week or Ten Days Frightened Ham bur? Citizens Boycott the Waters of the Elbe A General Baid on Filth In Gotham What the Atlantic Liners Are Doing German States to Hold an Anti-Cholera Convention The Ant werp Cases Isolated. London, Aug. 26. The officials of the Local Government Board, charged to watch the progress of cholera, are to-night less confident of the metropolis escaping a visi tation of the disease. The Gravesend cases are undoubtedly cases of Asiatic cholera. The medical officers who inspected the steamer Gamma, on which the cholera-stricken passengers were landed, permitted a num ber of other passengers to proceed to Lon don under the excuse that they had not been in contact with that part of the vessel in which was the contagious disease. It was said precautionary measures were taken to disinfect the passengers, but this statement, which has only been made since the character of the disease declared itself, is discredited. With cholera at Gravesend and infected persons probably roaming about in our midst, some outbreak of the disease in London is considered inevitable. London Fort Officials Overworked. The port of London is not properly watched. The Sanitary Committee has ap plied for a vast increase of staff, otherwise it cannot undertake the surveillance of ships entering the Thames from infected continental ports. The port staff is daily being reinforced, as the officers are over worked, inspecting, disinfecting and burn ing clothing, bedding, etc. But no Thames cordon will suffice to shut out the danger of infection. - A stream of arrivals from the continent comes via Harwich, Southampton and other ports by train without inspection. Hall ways and steamship companies, excepting the transatlantic lines, show no intention of suspending their ordinary arrangements. In spite of the setting up of quarantine in foreign ports traffic will continue, making supervision on the Thames almost value less. The Water Snpply Is Bad. The authorities expect an outbreak and are preparing to meet it Never were the slum districts so -pestered by emissaries of the Sanitary Boards. In the East End, where the last epidemic, that of 18G6, killed 16,000 persons in a few weeks, the water supply has been tested and found to be of doubtful quality, and changes hare been ordered in the filtering apparatus. The people of South London have been warned that their water is a source of danger. Withal there is not the slightest panic apparent. The chances of a visitation will' diminish as the weather cools, and public confidence in the sanitary arrangements and vigilance of the authorities is absolute. The authorities at Gravesend have caused posters to be put ud advising the residents of the town to take precautions to guard against the disease. Prince Esterhazy, attache of the Austrian Embassy here, has been suffering from au attack of cholerine but is now recovering. All the boarding houses in Liverpool are subjected daily to a rigorous inspection to see that they are kept cleau and ail the sanitarT regulations complied with. now Ibe Plague Entered England. The disease was brought here by the steamer Gemma, which arrived at Graves end yesterday from Hamburg. It was re ported that the steamer was infected, but the authorities, after examining the pas sengers, allowed them to land. A few hours after two aliens who had arrived on the Gemma were taken sick. They were at once removed to the hospital at Gravesend, where the doctors pronounced their malady cholera. In spite of everything that was done for them, they died shortly after they were admitted. Sixty passengers on board the Hamburg American steamer Columbia, from Hew York, which arrived at Southampton yes terday, changed their minds abont proceed ing to Hamburg when they learned of the cholera epidemic there. They left the Co lumbia when they found that the company had ordered that she proceed no further, and look passage for Flushing, in the Neth erlands. WATCHING STEAMSHIPS. Boston, Ktw Haven and Montreal Fort Authorities Take Prompt A ctlon. BOSTON, Aug: 2a The steamer Kehr weider, from Hamburg was boarded by the port physicians when she reached quaran tine this morning. She had 70 passenger, all of whom with their baggage were trans ferred to Galioupes island, where the pass engers will be cleansed and the clothing and haggage fumigated. The captain of the steamer reported that there had been no sickness whatever on board, and she was al lowed to proceed to wharf in Boston. The Italian hart Giuseppe Castagliola arrived in New Ilaven this morning, 101 days from Alexandria, Egypt. She was given a clean bill of health and permitted to lind her cargo of rag. A dispatch from Ottawa, Ont, says: The Department of Agriculture has been noti fied of the departure of the Hansa line steamer Wacdrahm from Hamburg for Montreal yesterday. As cholera has ap peared at Hamburg, the vessel, immediate! v upon her arrival at Grose Isle, will be placed in quarantine and her passengers rd their effects .thoroughly disinfected. The ship also will be fumigated and no pre caution will be neglected to prerent danger of contagion, notwithstanding the iact that the Wandrahm is likely to bring a clean bill of health. DUE IN GOTHAM IN 10 DAYS. That Is the Cholera Opinion or Dr. Edson, Sanitary Superintendent rr pored for the Arrival of the La Tonralne A Gen eral Bald on Dirt. NewYobk, Aug. 27 The health officials in New York are to-day prepared to fight off the scourge of cholera should it make its appearance here, and they fully realize that every vessel which from this time on ar rives in port from the infected districts in Europe is a source of danger, and that each one must be watched with the closest scru tiny. Br. Edson, Sanitary Superintendent of the City Board of Health, thinks cholera will undoubtedly reach this port- within the next week or ten days. Since the disease became so virulent both in Hamburg and Antwerp, no steamships have arrived here from these ports. As stated exclusively in The Dispatch the La Tonraine from Havre, with suspicious cases on board, is due in this port to-morrow. The Board of Health has prepared a cir cular, which is now in the hands of the printer, to be published In English, German, French and Italian and distributed broadcast as soon as the nrst case of cholera is reported here. It con tains instructions as to food and the proper care of the person and premises to prevent the spread of the contagion. In addition to this an inspection of all the tenement houses in the city has been ordered to see if the plumbing is in order and that there is no accumulation of dirt and refuse in any of them Which might breed the disease. Extraordinary precau tions are being taken by the Board of Health to insure the cleanliness of the city, and this morning an extensive raid is being made on the Eastside in search of decayed fruit and vegetables In the poor quarter. This raid is likely to hreae the record in the quantity of stuff that will be con demned to the offal dock. Quarantine Commissioner Miller said this morning that everything possible was being done to protect the city from prob able danger from incoming 'ships. The quarantine boat Illinois was sent down the bay this morning with Superintendent, Martin, who will examine into the condi tion of hospitals on the islands. The Quarantine Board will mate personal in spections to satisfy them that all is well. The ship Werkendam passed in yesterday with 600 in the steerage. The manager of the Bed Star Line said they had no official notice of cholera at Antwerp. The ma jority of their immigrants were from the northern parts of Europe. ,No suspicious cases would be taken tor transportation. The best-known methods of fumigation are being used, and the passengers are being thoroughly inspected. The officials of the French lines say that every precaution is being taken at Havre. They have refused immigrants from Palestine, Svna and Rus sia. "Our European agents,1' said one of the officers, ''have been warned through a specially prepared circular to refuse all such applications for passage." THE ELBE BOYCOTTED. Hamburg People Forbidden to Drink Its Water Unless It Is Boiled. Hambubo, Aug. 26. The police have issued orders forbilding the inhabitants of this city to drink water from the Elbe un less it has been previonsly boiled. The bathing places along the river have been closed. The police will make a house-to-house Inspection to ensure their being clean", and to enforce sanitary measures wherever they are required. A special corps has been organized to disinfect houses infected with cholera. The Socialist paper, the Echo, advises the workingmen of the city not to become alarmed, but to remain perfectly quiet. The official statistics show that on Wed nesday there were 188 new cases of the dis ease reported, while the deaths numbered 32. TJp to noon Thursday there were 90 new cases and 41 deaths. There were eight deaths from the disease at Altona yesterday. Host of the deaths have occurred among the laborers employed about the docks, boatmen, eta The Water Side Provident Society, which has 6,500 members, reports 1G0 deaths among its numbers. Other so cieties with a membership of 15,500 record only two deaths. ONE CASE IN BERLIN. x A Woman Taken III In an Omnlbns and Carried to a Hospital. Bablin, Aug. 26. This afternoon a woman became suddenly ill in an omnibus and was taken to the Central railway sta tion and thence to the Moabilt Hospital, where she was pronounced to be suffering from Asiatic cholera. The authorities have ordered that the woman's lodgings and the Central railway station be disin fected and the omnibus stopped. The Mu nicipal Sanitary Commission, summoned to consider. the situation, has decided that the Moabit Hospital shall be reserved for cholera patients.' All trade in second hand clothing has been ordered to be stopped. A workman on a train was seized with Asiatic cholera to-day at Wittenberg, on the Hamburg-Berlin Railway, and died in a few hours. Twenty-eight new cases of cholera and 12 deaths have been reported in Altona since yesterday noon. An artisan has died of Asiatic cholera in Pinneberg, and a child belonging to a family that fled from Hamburg has died of the same disease in Kiel. SOME CALL IT C0LERINE. .Nevertheless tbe City Hospitals Are FIII lnc TJp Tilth Patients. Bkblin, Aug. 2& The officials here deny that tne Asiatic cholera is in this city. They say that the merchant's wife who it was sup posed yesterday died of cholera was a vic tim of cholerina. Several suspicious cases were removed to the hospital to-day. The physicians state that they found that the patients were only suffering with diarrhcea, accompanied by vomiting. Two Days Record In Havre. Havbe, Aug. 2a The official figures show that on Wednesday there were 18 new cases of cholera and nine deaths from the disease here. Yesterday there were 48 new cases and 21 deaths. All Cases Isolated In Antwerp. Bbussels, Aug. 2a The Monileur (offi cial) denies that cholera is epidemio in any part of Belgium. The imported cases in Antwerp, it says, have been isolated and disease is abating. Bremen Keeps Its Steamship Service. Bbemen, Aug. 2a As the Weser river is free from cholera it has been decided that North-German Lloyd fast steamship serv ices shall continue as hitherto. German Antl-Cholrr Convention. Beblin, Aug. 2a The Federal States have appointed delegates to meet in Berlin to concert measures tor fighting cholera. steamships to -han Cholera Districts. l,ivebpool, Aug. ztx The Liverpool . I JsHaouh comjuaajts hare iasjrucheixt$ agents on the Continent to cease booking emigrants from cholera-infected districts. The North German Lloyd Steamship Com pany has announced that its vessels will carry no steerage passengers who come from Bussia during the cholera epidemic. RUSSIAN CHOLERA RIOTS. it Takes Three Days for Cossacks and Artillery to Subdue the Hob. St. PbtebbBubq, Aug. 2a The recent rioting at the Hughes Steel Works and collieries near Mariapol originated in the anger caused among the lower classes by the precautions taken against cholera. A mob stoned policemen who were taking a woman to a hospital, and a detachment of Cossacks was dispatched to protect the police. The mob resisted the Cossacks with stones, cudgels and iron rails, one officer being knocked from his horse and severely in jured. The Cossacks attacked the people with swords, and fierce fighting ensued, 200 rioters and 20 soldiers being disabled. The crowd then sacked the hospital phar macy. Later in the evening the mob, ex cited bv drink, tried to set fire to the vil laze. The rioting was resumed the next morning, when a mob of 10,000 terrorized the village, killing several Hebrews. They burned a village inhabited by people em ployed in the Hughes works, not a house being spared. They then invaded the factories, destroying everything. The damage amounts to several million roubles. Order was not restored until the third day, when two regiments and a battery of ar tillery arrived on the scene. The agitation continues and is spreading to the mining districts. Further troubles are feared. SIX PERSONS' BLOOD Sought by an Infuriated Husband Near a.t Palestine Be Murders His Brother-ln-Law and Commits Suicide The Offi cers Prevent Two Other Tragedies. East Palestine, a, Aug; 26. Special Yesterday Samuel Unger shot and killed his brother-in-law, J. Hoffmaster) attempted to kill his father-in-law, John Muhlenberg; endeavored to murder bis wife; shot twice at the Marshal and Constable of East Pal estine, and then sent a bullet through his brain, falling dead on the road. TJnger and Hoffmaster married sisters, daughters of John Muhlenberg, a farmer living on the road between Petersburg and East Palestine. TJnger and his wife did not get along well together. He drank to excess and was very quarrelsome. Mrs. TJnger usually looked for sympathy to her sister, Mrs. Joshua Hoffmaster. This turned TJnger against his brother-in-law. The two men quarreled some time ago, and ever since then had feeling has existed. TJnger at one time stabbed a man named Walter Ertzinger. . Finally his wife resolved to leave, stor ing some Of the household goods at Hofl master's and others at Mulenberg's, her father's home, where she has since resided. Joshua Hoffmaster was hauling stone, and TJnger, knowing where he passed, went to a livery stable and hired a horse and buggy. He took a direct route over the road, where he knew be would meet the man he intended to murder, and, coming upon him a short distance from town, drew a revolver. One shot rapidly followed another until four bullets had entered the victim's body, pro ducing wounds from, which death soon en sued, "f Then the blood-thirsty man proceeded in the direction of Muhlenberg's farm. Old man Muhlenberg and Mrs. TJnger had both been notified of the murderer's coming, and the woman fled. Mr. Muhlenberg went to the barn and procured a large corn-knife. While this was going on the marshal And constable were closing in on the murderer, and they arrived just in time to prevent another- horrible crime. When-theydrew near the buggy which contained TJnger they shouted to him to throw up his hands, but his .reply Was two shots, which passed very close to both officers. Then, looking at the revolver and smiling, TJnger said: "Yes, I will throw up my hands." Instead of doing so he pointed the revolver toward himself and pulled the trigger, the ' ball crashing into his brain. SOUTHERN IRON RATES. Commissioners of the Western Truffle- As sociation Refuse to Increase Them In terested Railroads Dlskarlsfl.d With the Decision A Factor Which No Longer Exists. Chicago, Aug. 2a Chairman Walker, on behalf of the Commissioners of the West ern Traffic Association, handed down a de cision to-day which is calling out consider able adverse criticism from parties inter ested. It is in regard to a proposed re vision of the sales and divisions on pig and manufactured iron from the Birmingham and Chattanooga districts to Colorado and Utah common points. These rates are made upon a special basis, which gives producers a lower rate than would be made by the employment of the usual method of constructing" rates to such points from points east of the Missis sippi river. It appears that in its incep tion the method adopted tor making these rates was influenced by competition through Memphis by way of Ft Worth. This factor no longer exists, and the rates in question are complained of as being ab normally and unreasonably low, and as having the effect of compelling lines west of St. Louis to accept an unreasonably small-proportion of the through rate. After a review of the situation, the Com missioners conclnde that it would not be expedient at present to attempt to force upon an unwilling line the adoption of the reform desired. The commissioners admit that the complaints have some foundation, and that if the tariffs in question were fully within their jurisdiction, and no reason ap peared to the contrary, they wonld be glad to terminate the praotice employed in re spect to this single commodity. EDWIN ARNOLD IN PERIL The Steamship on Which Ha Crossed the Pacific Was on Fire In Mid Oeean. Vancouveb, B. a, August 2a The steamer Empress of Japan has arrived from China and Japan. On August 10 fire was caused in the after hold by the fusing of the electric light wires. The vessel was then 800 miles from Yokohoma. Without giving alarm the captain put about and steamed for Hokodate, thenearest port, and began fighting the fire through a hole made in the bulkhead. The vessel was in the utmost peril. At one time It was thought she must be abandoned, and the boats were lowered and provisioned, but the crew managed to bring the vessel to Hokodate, where the flames were extinguished after ten tons of sugar and tea had been con sumed. The steamer then resumed her voyage. Among the passengers was Sir Edwin Arnold, who is returning to resume the editorship of the London- Tdtgraph. He brings with him a finished copy of the new Japanese drama he has just written. Be fore leaving Japan he was decorated by the Emperor with the order of the Bising Sun of Chokunia of tbe Empire of Japan. CROWNED HE IDS or Europe and how they have to work, with fine portraits, tn THE DISPATCH to-morrow. A Wonld-Bs President to Be hot New Orleans, Aug. 2a Advices from Puro Cortcz state that Bonila, the would-bo President of Spanish Honduras, was cap tured at San Francisca, near "Tegucigalpa, tne cupit.il oi me iicpuDiic. tie was sur- rolllli ,1!ina starved out. audttillduLbllesj IIIC Uilllll shwU PITTSBURG SATURDAY. AUGUST 27. 1892. PLATT GJ LI, No Donot At all Now About the Attitude of the Infln-. ential Leader. A CALL AT HEADQUARTERS Settles a Question That Republicans Dave Wanted Answered. PLANNING NEW Y0RKSTATE WORK. How the Important Conference; Was Brought About Just Noif. ME. EEID AND HIS LATE WESTERN TRIP rlPICULL TXlXGBJJt TO TBI PISMTCH.1 NewYoek, Aug. 26. Thomas Collier Piatt visited the National Republican headquarters to-day and conferred with the campaign managers regarding the work to be done In this State. Mr. Piatt walked up the avenue with his overcoat on his arm, and mounted the steps of S18, to the great surprise of several men who had turned to watch, curious as to his destination. The conference which be went to attend was ar ranged several days ago by Chairman Will iam Brookfield, of the New York State Committee. Beside Chairman Carter and Mr. Piatt there were present Senator Frank HIscock, Whitelaw Keid, Colonel E. NA. McAlpine, President of the State League of Bepubli can Clubs; General Clarkson, Jacob M. Patterson, Chairman1 of the County Cam paign Committee; ,W. W. Goodrich, Chair man of the Kings County Eepublican Gen eral Committee; General Horace Porter, and Treasurer Bliss and Secretary Mc Comas, of the National Committee. Mr. Beid came down from Opblr Farm at 11 o'clock, and was the first of tbe con ferees, outside of the committee's offioers. to arrive at headquarters Mr. Piatt did not appear until the afternoon. He re mained more than an hour, a part of the time in private talk with Chairman Carter. Mr. Piatt, on leaving, had nothing to say regarding his presence at headquarters, but Chairman Carter acknowledged that there had been a conference, that the ex-Senator had taken part in it, and that the talk was specially regarding the campaign in this State and the share which 'the National Committee may take in it. Harmony in the Brooklyn Ranks. The presence of W. W. Goodrich, of Brooklyn, is taken as evidence that the Ee publican discord in that city is practically at an end, and that tbe National Committee has given assurance that Secretary of the Navy Tracy and Naval Officer Willis will no longer fight the local organization and its leader, Internal Bevenue Collector Ernest Nathan. General Bussell A. Alger, of Michigan, left headquarters before tbe conference was held. He went there from the Filth Ave nue Hotel about the same time with Sena tor Hiscock. The latter traveled in one of Colodel Shepard's stages, and Geneva! Al ger In a coupe. General Alger hatf befn shy of the colonel's vehicles ainoe Jse was interviewed against his 'will at Colonel Shepard's luncheon. The General lunched with Mr. Beid, Senator Hiscock, Chairman Carter, Treasurer Bliss, General Clarkson, and National Committeeman Sam Fessen den, of Connecticut, in the refectory which Mr. Carter has caused to be established on the third floor at headquarters. Mr. Beid told of his experience in his recent Western trip, of the speech he made at Bloomlngton and of his reception at every place he stopped. A Hearty Welcome Everywhere. "I found a very hearty response," he said, "to my suggestion that the campaign was to be fought on the lines of the tariff and on the financial question, in resistance to the Democratic proposition of the repeal of the ' McKUnley bill, to upset our reci procity and to abandon the national banks anil ita Imnlr tn ihf. 'irildpfit' BvBtpnL Everybody considers these the serious features of the campaign, the serious ques tions at Issue. The country has adjusted it self to the McKinley tariff, and she has no reason for upsetting things; the people are prosperous and do not want a change. Beturning to New York," he continued, "I am agreeably surprised to find the vigor and life which have been in fused into the canvass; to find that every body is getting into line, and that the can vass in moving vigorously. I see no reason to doubt the correctness of the general be lief that New York is the battlefield. If we carry New York we can carry the elec tion, and while I do not disguise from my self the fact that it is always a serious un dertaking to attempt to carry New York, and it can't be done if we should be too con fident in the beginning, yet we have Be publicans enough here to carry the State, and I believe we have The Organization and the Interest which are going to get them out and so in sure victory. I believe we should continue it as a campaign discussion, and I hope to see the State covered very soon with great meetings addressed by the leading speakers of this State and of the nation." Senator Hiscock added his quota of talk on the same line, and spoke particularly of the state of the canvass in New York as he had seen it in his visit to several parts of the State. He said that the absence of a 'State ticket this fall, and, in consequence, tbe total elimination of all State Issues from the canvass, will result in great benefit to the Republican national ticket "Four years ago," he said, "we were de feated on the State issue, and were success ful on the national issue. Doubtless the State issue and the candidacy of Governor Hill had the effect of Increasing Cleveland's vote, and the absence of any sneh complica tions this year will, in my judgment, ereatlv affect and increase the Be publican result I think tbe tariff is the paramount issue of the canvass." Indiana Reported as All Right. Captain Moses G. McLain, of Indian apolis, President of President Harrison's Begimental Association, and one of the friends of the administration, was a caller at headquarters. He said that he is very sanguine of Republican success in Indiana In November, and bases his opinion on the benefits which have accrued to the State through the operation of the new tariff law. Chairman Carter's press bureau issued a long interview with ex-Congressman Vidol, of Louisiana, in defense of French-Canadian naturalized citizens, who claimed they had been unjustly attacked by the New York World, whioh he characterized as a Democratio organ. 'This Is expected to prove a first-rate campaign argument for circulation in the northern counties of this State, .where the French-Canadian ele ment is strong and Democratic. General Alger left for home on the 1:30 New York Central train. ' Croker Says Tammany Is True Blue. Chairman Don M. Dickinson, of the Democratio National Campaign Committee, left to-night to visit Mr. Cleveland at Buz zard s Bay, and consult with him regarding the campaign. Ha will remain at Gray Gables nntil Monday, when he will go direct toChiaw H wufixytlikn&98JJ committeemen concerning the canvass to be made in the doubtful States of the Northwest from branch head quarters in Chicago. Western headquar ters by the committee have been established in the Palmer .Hotite, and work has already begun there. The National Committeemen from the seven States in which special missionary work is to be done will be present at tbe conference. Mr. Dickinson expects to be back at his desk at national headquarters in this city next Thursday. , The news which comes from Buffalo of the action of the Erie county anti-Snappers, or rather of the Secretary of their County Committee, John 0. Collins, calling for in dependent action on the part of "Mr. Cleve land's friends" for the purpose of seeing mat tne Democratio national tioeet "re ceives the support to which it is entitled," was received with indignant surprise in this city to-day by all good Demo crats. .This outcome of the May Conven tion, and the determination of the leaders in that movement to keep its organization intact, was severely condemned. Richard Croker said that he knew nothing about tbe situation in Buffalo, but so far as the regu lar Democraoy Of New York City is con cerned, it is true blue. Tammany Hall will make the greatest effort to roll up a majority for Cleveland and Stevenson such as was never before given for a Presidents! ticket in the history of the organization. A YACHT GOES DOWN, Carrying With It Eight lives to the Bottom of Georgian Bay Mew York and Michi gan Capitalists Amos; the Lost The Vessel Cost 833,000. Saoh-aw, Mich., Aug. 2a The steam yacht Wapiti, which left here two weeks ago on a pleasure trip, is reported lost in Georgian Bay. It is said she went down in a gale to-day near Collingwood, Ont, and that eight persons were drowned. On board were H. W. Sibley, a New York capitalist, his wife, son and daughter, and two ladies of Rochester, N. Y., whose names are unknown, Captain Ellsworth, the engineer, fireman and cook. The cook and one other person were saved. The yacht belonged to Isaao Bearinger, of Saginaw, a partner in lumbering of Mr. Sibley. Two years ago the vessel was built in Cleve land at a Cost of (35,000, and was then named Straightaway. After coming into the possession of Bearinger it was named the Wapiti. Sibley & Bearinger have large pine in terests in Michigan and Canada, their headquarters being in this rity. lhe captain and engineer of the ill-fated boat are from this city, while the cookand fireman are said to have been shipped at Mackinaw. BDPFAL0 EVACUATED By Grand Master Sweeny and Most or the State Troops Collapse of the Last Vestige of the Strike Sweeny Denies That He Sold Ont Hi Followers. Buffalo, Aug. 28. Alone, unfriended and melancholy, Grand Master Sweeny sat on his satchel in an obscure 'Corner of the Central train shed this morning, reading an account of the assault upon him yesterday. Upon being questioned he explained that alter the meeting which resolved to go ahead with the strike the men got cool and saw that they practically outlawed themselves lrom their order and that any how there were not enough cf them to cut any great figure. "So they called another meeting, at which, I understand, they have called off tbe 'rump' strike which they ordered on yesterday" he concluded. -4.1b.eyauy,-Mt".- Sweeny, you soldtbel cause to the railroads." "I have not seen the color of railroad money. This being a labor leader, I guess, doesn't pay. If you win you're all right If vou lose you're no good and yon've been bought and all that sort of thing. I believe I shall go into newspaper work. I could command $40 a week in Chicago and I conld get along with labor folks very welL", After this talk with Mr. Sweeny, the strikers lingering about their meeting hall confirmed Mr. Sweeny's statement The men had declared a "rump" strike yester dav, they had called it off this morning, and about the time Mr. Sweeny was leaving for the West the last striker left the meet ing hall and a chapter in strike history seemed to have closed. Orders for the movement homeward of the troops have been issued. These orders send away from the elty all but the mem bers of the Eourth Brigade, which numbers abont 2,000 men. AN ASYLUM EPIDEMIC. Terrible Ravages of Tjphoid-Ualaria In a Mew York Institution. Sykacuse, N. Y., Aug. 26. An epidemio of typhojd-malarial fever has broken out at tbe State Institute for Feeble Minded Chil dren. It is just learned that a dozen pupils are convalescing from the disease, while 22 others, 7 attendants and 15 pupils are ill. The condition of none of them is as yet dangerous. A year ago there was an epidemio of ty phoid in the institution. Thirty pupils were stricken at that time and four died. At the same time there were IS cases in the Shelter. Both institutions used oity water from a special main. The cause at that time was attributed to this. Since then the Institute for Feeble Minded Children has used water from three wells. These have been closed. SOMERBi' BACK AGAIN. He Still Thinks tbe Order fit the Iron Hall Is as Sound as a Dollar. Philadelphia, Aug. 26. This after noon Jndge Bregy appointed Distriot At torney George S. Graham receiver of the Iron Hall in this State. The Judge is him self a member of the order. Supreme Justice Somerby, of the order, returned to-day, but was uncommunicative. Being pressed, he asserted that the Iron Hall is as finauciallp sound as any institu tion in the country. He admitted that the (88,000 tied up in the Mutual Bank is prob ably lost FELL 500 FEET BUT LIVES. Aeronaut Williams' Faraehnte Was Too Wet to W ork at Blannton. Stauntoit, VA., Aug. 28. H. L. Williams, of Michigan, had a fall of COO feet last evening from a balloon. He as cended from the fair grounds, and was to descend in a parachute. ' The parachute was wet from a hard rain and would not open. Williams came down like an arrow, fall ing about 20 feet from where he ascended. He was pioked up unconscious, but is now thougSt to be out of danger. HUHIIBQ EXPEEIEHCE. A Bright Rnnaway Youngster From Pitts burg Captured In Chicago. Chicago, Aug 26 ipsriaij Edward Mittler, 16 years old, who ran away from his home at Pittsburg August IS and was captured in this city yesterday, was sent back to his parents to-day. He Is the son of the Superintendent of Street Lamps in Pittsburg, and this Is his third expedition from the parental roof. The boy is a bright looking youngster, and at the Central sta tion this morning would give no reason for leaving his home. He said that he had been reading dime novels ana cams out jJWjgt tyJlUlt ajpsritaoa. KEEPING OUT -M CHOLERA. Prompt Action by the Inter national .Conference of . " Boards of Wm xr flff, .""n i'urw-' . A CALL ON THE PEESli; To Prohibit All Immigration From Infected Foreign Ports. The Coast Inspection aV Some Points Declared Inadequate Steps to Be Taken to Remedy the Matter No Immediate Danger of the Disease Beaching' America Is Feared, But Precaution Judged Highly Neces sary Ordera Issued by the New York Board of Health CleanllnesB to Be Insisted on The State and Treas ury Departments Not Idle Instruc tions Cabled to Consuls at Places Where Cholera Is Epidemic. Indianapolis, Aug. 20. The possibil ity of cholera reaching American shores has become so alarming that the Executive Committee of the International Conference of State Boards of Health Is meeting in this city to-day to take precautionary meas ures. The committee is not an executive body, but it is a part of its duty on an oc casion like this to take the initiative in recommending to local, State and national officials and boards of health what should be done. Mr. J. N. McCormick, of Bowling Green, Ky.t President of the International Con ference, arrived last night, and this morn ing, while awaiting the coming of other members ot the committee, had a long con ference with Secretary Metcalf, of the Indiana S(tate Board of Health, as to what should be done. It was the opinion of both that, while there was no immediate danger of the disease reaching America, it would be well to take radical precautionary measures. Dr. McCormick said the coast inspectors were inadequate at some places, and it should be a part of the International Con ference to visit these weak places and see that the possibility of disease being brought in was stopped. He said there should be special precautions taken at the port of Long Island, which is directly under the supervision of the local authorities who, only a few months ago, permitted smallpox to be brought into this country. Visiting Sanitary Experts Wanted. Dr. McOormiok expressed the opinion that the committee ought to appoint a num ber of sanitary experts to visit and inspect -all portion the Atlantic, and the California State Board of Health be instructed to look after the ports of, the Pacific coast, and see that the proper precautions are taken to prevent the landing of any cholera-infected persona, Early in the forenoon Dr. Probst, of Co lumbus O., arrived and the three members of the committee spent a couple of hours in outlining what they thought should be done. A telegram was sent to Dr. Beilly, Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Health, who hss been active in advising that precautionary measures should be taken, urging him to set on foot a move ment to secure the co-operation of commer cial clubs, boards of trade, Congressmen, and any and all bodies with influence, with a request that the President of the United States', stop all immigration to this coun try from the infected countries dnring the period of the epidemic. It was the opinion of the three members of the committee that tbe President could exercise such power, and it was agreed that a measure of that sort would be the most effective block to letting this disease in. At 11 o'clock the fourth member, Dr. H. A. Baker, of Michigan, arrived, and the committee then went to work to formulate some sort of a general order. Steps Nec.ssary to Keep Oat Cholera. Dr. Baker said he thought the danger of the disease being carried to this country was so great that no time should be lost in taking radical steps to keep it out He said that, in addition to taking stringent measures to prevent the landing of infected persons, he was in favor of taking some steps to prevent the disease spreading in the country in case it should reach the coast He thought there should be tome well-defined system ot training and inspec tion established. President McCormick presided at the meeting of the International Health Board Conference, which was held in the Bates House. A Quarantine Inspection Commis sion was appointed to inspect all quarantine stations of the United States, Canada and Mexico. This commission is to report to the International Board. A telegram Was received from the Illinois State Board of Health and the Sanitary Board, of Chicago. requesting that steps be taken to memorial ize President Harrison, asking for the pro hibition of all immigration during the prev alence of Asiatic cholera as an epidemio in other countries. This telegram was referred to the Inspection Commission, with in structions to report alter its investigations. INSTRUCTIONS TO CONSULS. The State and Treasurv Departments Working. Hand-In-Hand to Prevent Cholera Getting; In No More Russian Licorice to Be Allowed In for Awhile. Washington, Aug. 26. In accordance with tbe recommendations of the Marine Supervising Surgeon General the collector of customs at New York has been directed to refuse to allow the entry of licorice com ing from Batoum, Bussia, inasmuch as Batoum is the center of the infected district in Kutsla, and cholera has been prevailing in that city in epidemio form during the present season. While the licorice in itself is not likely to convey the infection, the bagging used in covering the bales is a source of danger, and tbe Surgeon General does not deem it advisable to allow the im portation thereof. The Treasury Department is advised that the United States Consul at Odessa, Russia, has given Consul Martin, at Boston, in structions to refuse to certify all invoioes, without any exception, presumably on ac count of the prevalence of cholera in that district The department has requested Secretary Eoster, of the State Department, to Instruct the Consul at Odessa that eertifl- cates WJUiTolces' should not b refused forj Jt i DON'T LET IT LAND. the reason stated, and the requirement of the certificates ot disinfection prescribed by the Treasury Department circulars of July 8 last and the 19th Inst does not affect the issuance of tne ordinary certificate to in voices. In replying to a letter from the New York Shipping Company, No. 4 Broadway, stating that United States Consuls are not sufficiently posted as to the rules and regu lations regarding the prohibition of impor tation or goods likely to convey cholera infection, Assistant Secretary Spanlding says that oopies of the Department's cir culars of the 8th ult and 17th and 19th lusts, have been sent to the Secretary of State with a request that tbe officers be fur nished therewith. The Secretary of State was alto requested to communicate by cablegram with the Consul General at Lon don. A SWEEPING SHUT-OUT. All Immigrants Likely to Be Forbidden ntrance to the United States Canada Expected to Adopt Fatly as Radical Measures Power of the President. Washington; Aug. 28. Speciar. Though no hint of the faot has yet been given to the public, it is probable that within a day or two an order will be issued prohibiting altogether the landing of im migrants in this country. The Information that cholera has been developed among im migrants on shipboard when there was no knowledge of their having been exposed to the contagion has led the health authorities of the States and of the Government to ad Vise this action, which, in connection with the fumigation and disinfecting of the clothing nd luggage of all passengers ar riving from foreign countries, and of all articles of merchandise which would In any probability transmit the cholera germs, forms about as rigid protective measures as could be devised. Information has been received by the State department from Canada that the Canadian Government will co-operate with the United States in the adoption of the most drastic methods to prevent the introduction of the scourge. In the Interest of inland cities it is probable a land quarantine will be established on the seaboard, and It is possible if any cases of the disease are developed in eastern cities every person and every shred of baggage going west will have to be detained, fumigated, disinfected and thoroughly put into pickle before being permitted to start on his or her journey. The stoppage of all Immigration, how ever, Is considered the most important movement yet contemplated. The matter has been examined, and it is decided that nnder existing treaties the President has fall power to proclaim an interdiction of this country. PRECAUTIONS TO TAKE Rules Laid Down by the Jlw York Board ot Health The City to Be Thoroughly Cleaned and Kept Clean Details of the Work to Be Done. New Yobk, Aug. 26. The Board of Health to-day issued the following order in reference to preparations being made to fight cholera! The attention of the sanitary bureau is to be particularly directed to the following matters: The chief sanitary in spector will cause a thorough Investigation to be made and sanitary defects remedied as follows: 1. Old wells to be closed. 2. Old out-house vaults to be cleaned and disinfected. 3. Old lavatories to be cleaned and disin fected. A Gutters to be cleaned and atsinxected and graded. 5. Old tenement houses, rookeries, etc, to be thoroughly Inspected and all sanitary de fects therein remedied; also, to thoroughly clean all walls and ceilings. A Depressed yards, areas and sidewalks to be cleaned, disinfected and graded. 7. Yard hydrants and sinks to be placed in thorough repair, and the pavements about them. 8. Defective 'water pipes, waste Pipes, sinks, etc., to be put in thorough repair. s. Roofs of all buildings, esoeciallv tene ments, to be cleansed and kep elean. ' 10. Covers to be provided lor water tanks on roof's. New Orders to Steamship Companies. A new order has been issued to all 'steam ship companies in reference to the disposi tion of anything that may contain the germs of contagious diseases. Section 141 of the sanitary code says that such articles should be cleansed and disinfected. The new code insists that they shall be destroyed. This is the order: No person shall sell, exchange, remove, or in any way make exposure of any straw, bedding or other articles used by Immi grants upon any vessel bringing immigrants to this pore until It has been properly cleansed and disinfected, and all straw, bedding or other articles that have been ex posed In any vessel to contagion or Infection of any contagious disease, or have been liable to communicate such disease, shall be destroyed bynre on said vessel. Sanitary Superintendent Edson said this morning that he had paid a visit to quar antine and that he had found every precau tion was being taken to prevent the incom ing of the disease. 'It will be a miracle," said Dr. Edson, 'If the disease does not reach quarantine, but we will undertake to see that it will not pass there, and expect to be successful." Work of 'the State Department A dispatch from Washington says: Dur ing the afternoon the State Department was advised bv the health officers at quarantine, Staten Island, that stringent regulations will be adopted to prevent the introduction oi cholera. Health Officer Jenkins com municated to the department the contents of his telegram sent from Quarantine, N.Y., and published this afternoon. Later Secre tary Foster sent to the Consul at Hamburg the recommendation of Dr. Jenkins that ail immigrants undergo a most thorough Inspec tion abroad, with detention of those from infected or suspected districts for at least five days; that they be bathed, and all cloth ing and baggage be disinfected by steam, and that a certificate of such cleansing and disinfection, signed by the Consul, be given to tbe ship's surgeon for presentation to the health officer at the port of entry. The Treasury Department is much gratified at the attitude of the steamship companies in so promptly manifesting a desire to assist the department in all ways possible to keep cholera on of the country. KTJ-BXTJX KLAN and tha story of Its organisation, by T. C. Crawford, la THE DISPATCH to-morro-av vb. " - -iitra THREE OENTa TROOPS TO REMAIN, The Soldiers Are- Not to Be EecalledFromHomestead for Some Time. HUGH O'DOMELL BETUMSV: He Comes Home to Best and Telia of His Work in the East. DOERR BOYCOTT EXPLAINED. The Walker Firs T7a3 tha Work of a JWl iciona Incendiary. SOLDIERS BETURX FR01T f0ELOCaHS "The troops will not be removed from Homestead," said Adjutant General Green, land yesterday afternoon to a DISPATCH reporter at General Wiley's heaJquarters, "The story sent ont by the Associated Press from Harrisbnrg Thursday night is false. The militia will stay in Homestead, nntil in the opinion of General Wiley and myself, it is wise to re call them. I mean by this the soldiers will be there all winter if necessary. There la yet a very lawless spirit in Homestead. Until it dies away the presence of the militia is an absolute necessity." "General, 'will the Fifteenth and Six teenth Begiments be relieved from duty September 1?" was asked. "We look at that question from an economio standpoint," said he. "Those regiments are quartered here now. To remove them and bring others here means a large expenditure of money, which to the taxpayers would look unwise. These troops thoroughly understand their business and know; how the strikers have to be dealt with. True, other regiments could be brought here that would soon fall Into the line of duty and do the work as well as these two, but to my mind it is the better plan to keep f he present troops here. Soldiers Do Not Want to Leave Homestead. "Then the men are not dying to leave Homestead. It is true they would like to go to their homes, but so long as they feel there is work for them to do here they will remain. Colonel Kreps, of the Fifteenth, told me to-day that he and his men wanted to see the thing to a finish. Tha men have stood the long ser vice welL Some of them are much in need of clothing, but physically they are as healthy a lot of men as you could find." "How much has the State expended so far in the maintenance of troops at Home stead?" "It has cost Pennsylvania $200,000 up to this time," said the General. "Out of this amount I have paid all the troops in full that bave been called home, but Battery B and four companies of the Tenth Regi ment and settled the other expenses of the camp. I think the cost of keeping the militia here will keep within my original estimate 300,000. Monday or Tuesday I am coming back to Homestead and will then give ths men 20 days' pay. Troops Hay Have a Month's Work Yet "My visit here to-day is merely one of In spection and I am highly pleased with ths way I have found things. The rather green men of nearly CO days ago are now veterans and camp life seems to be a very familiar thing to them." Tbe soldiers all spoke yesterday as though they wanted to stay in Homestead until a finish. Men who some ten days ago were given 30-day furloughs are coming back in droves. Major Crawford said yes. terday afternoon that he would consider himself a coward if he were to leave Home stead at this time. Chairman Crawford, of the Advisory Committee, said: "The trouble of Adolpn Doerr came about in this wayt The Ad visory Board is in the habit of Issuing orders of relief to Its men. The orders ars made payable only to the merchant to whom they, are made and for. Crawford's Version of ths Doerr Boycott. "Some of the foreigners who had plenty of food, bnt were short of money, got orders. They took them to Doerr's branch shop, on Dixon street, and the man in charge cashed them at a SO or 75 per cent discount When he had collected a batch of them Doerr brought the orders to us and wanted them cashed. This we refused to do, as they were not made payable to him. This is what caused his enmity toward us. If ho failed to do business it was no fault of the Advisory Committee. Many of us buy meat from him yet" "Is there not a bitter feeling between the Advisory Committee and Hugh 0Donnell7" was asked Mr. Crawford. "No, sir," said he. 'It has been often intimated that there was. To-day Hugh O'Donnell is ju't as highly respected by the Homestead people as he ever was." Last mgnt at 11 o ciocs ilngn u uonneu quietly slipped into Homestead from the East He came into Pittsburg on the lim ited and went out to Homestead over tha Baltimore and Ohio. O'Donnell Comes Home From" the Fast. When seen he said: "I spoke in ths. Cooper Union in New York last night I have also talked in Lowell, Mass., Boston and numerous other Eastern cities. I have i raised considerable money, and everywhere fonnd the people friendly to the-locked-ont men of Homestead. All through the Eos' the people were eager to see Th; Dispatch, because the Carneg agents have suppressed ait news sent East from Homes and Pittsburg. We have not giver the fight vet and our chances are bright A regular system has been adc Dy tne .Eastern laporing men dj money is to be collected and It will in to us until the strike is won. 1 1 going to stay at home and get a rest u.he burning of Aaron wauers the wort of an Incendiary, so ne i was at the stable 20 minutes befos bioke out, and when he left tht fire of any kind left there. A Man Rides Rapidly As He was vesterdar told that seen ridlncr ont of the allev alongside stable just before the blaze broke out His horse was going; at its highest speed and never stopped nntil he was ont ot sight. Mr. Walker thinks that oil was thrown on tha outside of the stable and ignited. Hehasnoidea who t was and does not believe It was a striker. He said that he did not think he had an enemy in Homestead. This makes the case all the. more mvstenon. He will investigate it thoron?hlr. A fc watched the firs Thurs day night someone stole 9123 from hiss, A There is a sWht clew to the thlst The 85-ineb mill was started yesterdsT and the 28-lnch mill will be in operation to day. Then all the departments win De in motion. A mtanrant big enough to seat i 250 men Is' being built It will beaperfk. manent structure. Stxty-nve men were roj neivef) vm4hi?v a Chairman Crawford said last night that i he had rnf tlva nroof that 40 men left tM1 mill yesterday. They went down on ts boat to Gleawood. and then took the i J TV t - jbted union 3 fcf sent 9 aia now 3 earn was J ays. am A h the fire 1 tb was no f fay. j ' a man was 3 of tha 1 l.into mtiowg. tA i ft i 1
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