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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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