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Harrison's Twenty-Day Quar
antine Order Not Looked
Upon at the Capital
AS BEING OUT ON TIME.
A Week Ago It Might Hav Been
Considerably More Fffective.
OXE WAY FOUND TO GET AROUND IT
Froposed Postponement of the Grand Army
Encampment,
WASHINGTON'S POOE'SANITAKI SHAPE
Into jl staff connESPOXDEjrT.t
Washington, Sept. 1. Tbe President
ran down to tbe capital this morning to do
what onght to have been done a week ago,
but it is agreed by pretty nearly everybody
that he has not done as much as he should
have done. The order is to detain all ves
sels carrying immigrants 20 days at quaran
tine. This is subject to the laws of the States
which govern the quarantine at the various
ports. It does not apply to vessels which
have already sailed and which are really
more to be feared that those which have
not sailed. It does not apply to any but
steersge psssengers, apparently, and there
fore all that an ordinary immigrant has to
do to come to the United States with all
the freedom and compliment that is be
stowed on the favored cabin passenger is to
pay the small diflerence of about 515 or 20,
which will get him nn intermediate or sec
ond cabin passage, and armed with this
franchise he can come from an infected
region and walk out upon the shore at the
Custom House or the company's dock with
no inconvenience except that small and
careless detention which all passengers
must suffer at this time.
ot by Any Means Enousb.
Possibly this is all that could be done,
but if anybody thinks this is enough I have
net been able to find that body, and it ia
said the President himself admits it is prob
able that the barrier will not serve to keep
out the dreaded enemy.
"The order sent from the Treasury De
partment to-day may be of some benefit,"
said one of the mast prominent physicians
or the city this evening, "but in my opinion
it will not be effective in keeping out the
cholera. lis the old story of locking the
stable after the; horse is stolen. If the
order is of any benefit at all it should have
been promulgated a week ago. If it is not
radical enough to reach every possible gate
through which the cholera might be intro
duced, why was it not made so? Su ppose it
has the eflect to stop immigration in the
common meaning of the word.
"Apparently any class of persons from an
infected port may escape the 20 days quar
antine it they ship as anything but a steer
age passenger, and the hundreds that will
come by the first and second and intermed
iate cabins are to be subjected to nothing
more than the indifferent inspection and
fumigation that is given to the better classes
of passengers.
'j Vt hat Stiou'd Have Been Done.
"Why were not all passengers not only
from infected ports but from everywhere
compelled to endure the 20 days quarantine.
Surely it is not asking too much of them
when the penalty of any less rigid surveil
lance may be the introduction of the plague
aud the death of thousands who wodld not
otherwise be exposed. Then, there isnoth
ing in the order, or in any of the regula
tions, to prevent a ship with the disease on
board from sailing in among other vessels
which have no sickness, though a plngue-
lutested vescl u ill contaminate the air in
its whole vicinage.
'MJcither is there any prohibition of the
entrance of merchandise which might trans
mit the disease. It is the experience of all
history that in such crises, no matter how
great the danger that thieatens. inspection
and disinfecting are processes that are care
lessly attended to as time wear anayan-l
the first fright passes. The entrance ot all
such merchandise should be prohibited or,
it permitted, the shippers or ship owners
should be compelled to so to the expense of
unloading at some point where the cargo
could not only be fumigated, but also ex
posed to the air for a considerable time.
Fumigation will not destroy cholera germs
in rajs and articles of clothing in the touch,
in the manner in which it is usually ad
ministered. Had for Kl ventli-IIon- Wnrlc.
"But what is the ue of talking? The au
thorities have done all they are going to do,
and we will have to accept what comes.
Their action was tardy everywhere, and the
eleventh-hour order of to-day, going timber
than any other pronunciation, is subject to
the Iaws'of jhe State, the whims ot State
omciais, ana me inainerence ol the em
ployes of the States, appointed usnallv for
the reason that they are good political hele
er. Anvone can see at a glance how
wretchedly ineffeclual it all must be, and if
the cholera rears its ghastly death's head
among us it will be because of the imbecil
ity of the Goterument in dealing with the
question.
"Think of a great nation like this being
compelled to is--ue an order in such a crisis
that is ot no avail unless it commend itself
to the good graces ot a petty State. A few
thousand individuals are permitted to land
because it wou:d be inconvenient for them
to be detained, and 60,000,000 of people are
by tliisi.ieans subjected to contamination.
In the iiuerests ot "business" the ragpick
ers and the old clo' nierphants of the world
are permitted to sow the disease broadcast.
I sincerely hope the precautions, such as
they are, do not come too late, and that
they will be vastly more eflectual than I
think they will be."
Proposed Delay of tlia Encampment
Xot the least anxious lot of people here
abouts are the Grand Armv men and the
thrifty citizens who have gone to consider
able time and expense with the expectation
of turning a pretty penny during the an
nual encampment. One of the leading
members ot the G. A. E. in the District
admitted to me to-dav that if there oc
curred any sort of an outbreak of the
cholera in this country prior to the 19th
ol September, which is the date of the as
sembling of the veterans, the wliole affair
would havo to be abandoned. There are a
number of people here who are more con
cerned for the health of the citv than for
the fleeting enjoyment of the old soldiers,
and who hope that in vie,w of the proximity
ot tlie cholera the encampment will be de
clared off till next year.
While no one would stop to think of the
matter under ordinary circumstances, it has
become a serious question whether the
health authorities should not take some ac
tion in regard to the notoriously inadequate
sanitary provisions at the tree lodging bar
racks. Over 30,000 persons are to be housed
in barracks of the flimsiest character, rooted
with paper and weather-bnarded with can
vas, in which the veterans are to be packed
togetheras closely as sardines in a box, three
tiers deep, the structures looking as though
they would be blown away by 'anything
more than an ordinary breeze. Not an
available lavatory ii within'reach ot any tif
these barracks, and there is no sewer near
them over which closets may be erected.
'It is proposed that for more than 30,000
AROUSED
people there shall be only the most primi
tive of surface arrangements, subject to the
uncertain ana ineffectual visits of carts.
Physicians assert timt this condition is
enough to breed the plague of itself, and it
is being seriously agitated whether, with
the cholera scare "nt our doors this state i?f
things, certain to cause sickness in any
event, should not be prohibited.
Moreover, the provisions for therelief
and care ot the sick are criminally inade
quate, to any nothing of the possibility ot
the presence of the cholera. Two thousand
dollars is beinc spent on an idiotic repro
duction of the old warship Kearsarge, which
destroyed the Alabama, and onlv $3,000 is
set apart for the care of the sick. Under the
most favorable circumstances this is not
one-third of what should have been pro-(
vided, as the hospitals here cannot accom
modate more than from 250 to 300, while it
.is quite certain that there will be from 1,500
to 2,500 ill all the time, among so many
fersons suddenly changing their mode of
ife, sleeping in barracks in malarial atmos
phere, r crowded into rooms so closely that
it will be impossible lor them to breathe
good air.
Those who expect to make money out of
the affair are furious at auy suggestion of
the abandonment of it, even though the
cholera should stalk into our midst, and if
there seem to be danger when the time of
the meeting is at hand, whether the chances
of the invasion of "Washington by the plague
are enhanced will depend on the wisdom of
the veterans individually.which must dictate
that they deuy themselves the pleasure of
the annual meet even in Washineton,
rather than run the risk of some one or more
of them taking the contagion here to spread
it over every part of the country.
TBE LAW IN THE CASE
Iiild Down by the Attorney General for thit
Ptvgldrnt'K Bonefi' State Laws Mast He
Connidered in Cases of Even This Kind
Statutes ns Tuy Are.
Washington, Sept. 1. The following
opinion as to the authority of the Executive
in matters of quarantine regulations was
sent to the President by Attorney General
Miller this alternooc:
Sir. Answering your Inquiry as to the ex
tent of tho powers of the Executive In the
matter of quarantine regulations, I beg to
sav:
On tlieI9-.li or April, 187S. an act of Congress
was approved (20 stats., p. 37). glvinjr to the
Executive certain powers upon this subject.
On the 2d of Juno. 1S79. another octof Con
gress was approved (21 Stats., p. 5), provid
ing for the repeal ot many of the most im
portant provisions of the act of 1S78; but tho
later act was limited in its duration to the
period of four years; that is, the act of Juno
2, 1S73, expiied by limitation on the 2d of
June, 18S3.
It is a well-settled principle of the com
mon law that tho repeal of a repealing act
operates to revive the net repealed, Jnst as
the repeal of an act chauging the common
law restoies the rule of the common law
prevailing bo tore such act was passed, as
to tho lepeal of a repealing net, this rule,
has been changed by section 12 of the Re
vised Statutes or the United States, which
reads as follows: "Whenever nn act is re
pealed which repealed a former act, such
lormer act shall not thereby be revived
unless it shall be expressly so provided."
The Law Under Which to Act.
The act of 1879, however, was not repealed,
bnt expired by limitation, and Section 12 of
the Revised Statutes, therefore, has no ap
plication to this case. In Collins versus
Smith (6 Wharton, p 294), it was decided,
Chief Justice Gibson delivering the opinion,
thai, where a repealing act expires by its
own limitation, the act repealed is revived.
Accordingly, it was held by tho lato Mr.
Secretary Folgor. an eminent jurist, that
this particular act of 1878 as revived on
Jnno 2,1883. The same iew was taken by
my immediate predecessor. Attorney Gen
eral Garland, and was acted upon, no doubt,
under his advice, by President Cleveland
and Secretary Manning in quarantining
against smallpox in Canada in 1835. In this
vlow, I concur.
Jly the law- of 1878 It is provided, among
other things:
First That no vessel coming from any for
eign port or country where anv contagious
orinfectious disease exists, or conveying
any person or persons, merchandise or
animals, affected by any contagions disease,
shall come into the United States, except in
tho manner unci subject to tho regulations
in that act authorized.
Dntl-B or the Snrceon General.
Second The Snrgeon General or tho Mar
ine Hospital shall, under the direction of
the Secretory of the Treasury, be charged
with the execution of the provisions or this
actand shall frame all needful rules and reg
ulations for that purpose. These rules and
regulations shnll bo subject to tho approval
ol the President, but such rules and 1 emula
tions shall not conflict with or impair any
smillarv or quarantine laws or lobulations
of nny State or municipal authorities now
existing, or which may hereafter be en
acted. The policy of Consrress has annarentlv
been to mainly leave this branch of tho
public service with the States, and most of
the seabo.u-d States have statutes more or
less elaborate on the snbject. The State
statutes and regulations, however, may bo
supplemented by the National executive.
My conclusion, thoiefoie, is that the Sui
KPon General, ot the Marine Hospital
Service, and the Secretary of tho Treasury,
with j our approval, have authority to make
needful roles and regulations not inconsist
ent with the Stntolaws and regulations for
the quarantining of ships coming Into our
harbors with a view to tno protection of the
health and lives of our people.
Vet v respectfully,
W. II. H. Miller, Attorney General.
20 DAYS QUARANTINE
Prnvliled for by a Clrcnlar Issned by
Order rf 'lit IVesident Ihi Result of
a Conference at Washington Health
:fflcir Jenkins' Report.
Washington, Sept 1, At the request
of the President, Assistant Secretary
Spanlding, of the Treasury Department,
and Dr. Wyman, Snrgeon General of the
Marine Hospital Service, met the Presi
dent and the members of his Cabinet at a
conference nt 11 o'clock this morning.
Alter an hour's deliberaticn it was decided
not to issue a proclamation at this time,
but to issue a special circular instead.
The circular amounts practical! to a 20
days' quarantine of vessels, or longer de
tention, if necessary. The declaration of a
20-days' quarantine will be notice to foreign
governments that immigrants for the pres
ent arc not desjrable.
At the conference the Treasnry officials ex
plained the situatiou to the President, and
Mr. Wyman indicated what would bs done
by his bureau toward rendering a national
quarantine. The following is the text of the
circular which was issued this afternoon:
Tin Collectors of Customs. Medical Officers of the
,-iianne Hospital service. Foreign steamship
Companies, Mate and Local Boards of Health:
It having been officially declared that
cholera is prevailing In various portions of
Russia, Germany and France, and at certain
points in Great Britain, as well as in Asia;
and U having been made to appear tliRt Im
migrants In large numbers aie coming into
the United States Irani affected districts,
and that they and their personal effects aio
liable to introduce cholera into the United
States,and thatvessels conveying thorn aio a
direct menace to the public health; and it be
ing "further shown that under the laws or the
several States quarantine detentions may be
Imposed upon these teasels a sufficient
length of time to insure against the intro
duction or contagious diseases, It is Hereby
ordered that no vessel Horn any foreign
port containing Immigrants shall ho ad
mitted to enter at any port of tho United
States until said vessel has undergone a
Quarantine detention of 20 tlavs (unless such
etention is forbidden by tho laws of the
Slate or regulations made thereunder), and
or such greater number of days as may bo
fixed in each special caso uy the Stato
authorities.
This circular is to take immediate effoct,
except In cases or vessels' afloat this date,
which will bo made subject ot special con
sideration upon due application to the de
partment. Walt it Vtmas,
Supervising Surgeon General.
Charles Foster,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Apm-oved:
Besjamis Harrison.
Health Officer Jenkins yesterday sent the
following dispatch to Assistant Secretary
Spanlding, in relation to the arrival of the
Moravia at New- York:
Steamship Moravia, from Hamburg, ar
rived at 8.S0 last night. Upon boarding her
this morning the ship's surgeon reported 22
deaths 20 children, two nilnlts, two cases
convalescent. Ship's surgeon diagnoses
cholerine. She was ordered to the lower
Bay and held.
THE PEEEKFrUBG
A FARM HAND'S RAGE
Makes of Him a Triple Mur
derer, After Which He
Kills Himself.
NEAE STEUBENYILLE, 0.
Furious Over a Sudden Discharge
Be Kills His Employer,
SHOOTS DOWN TWO WEAK WOMEN
Jnd Then Makes an End to Himself With
the Same Bloody Weapon.
ALL IIAD B0RXE GOOD REPUTATIONS
fSrzCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Steubexville, Sept L, The most sen
sational murder in the history of Eastern
Ohio was committed in Cross Creek town
ship last night, the facts of which were not
known until this morning. John Skinner,
a farm hand, killed his employer, George
Feitner, a prosperous farmer, and shot down
Feitner's wife and her gray-haired mother.
They all lived together in a cozy little
farm house about four miles from Steuben
ville, where Skinner was employed as a
farm hand. The latter has always been
known as a man of good habits, and wis
not of a quarrelsome disposition, but dur
ing the latter part of this summer frequent
quarrels have taken place between Skinner
and his employer. Feitner himself has
been sick with typhoid fever for some time,
and during his sickness he was nursed by
his wife. She too was taken with the
disease, and Dr. Fisher, their family
physician was called. The doctor, as usual,
called at the house this morning to see his
patient, and upon going in the yard was
surprised to see everything so quiet, but
opening the door he entered.
What the Doctor Saw Inside.
Once inside, a horrible sight met his gaze.
On the floor in front of him lay the bodies
of two men, both of which were covered
from head to foot with blood. The carpet,
furniture and everything in the room
showed signs of a terrible tragedy.
Thinking immediately of his patient, he
ran up stairs, and here, too, he witnessed a
sight that he will never forget. Stretched
out on a bed lay Mrs. Feitner and her
mother, Mrs. Meiske, both with bullet holes
intheirheads. Mrs. Meiske was unconscious,
but Mrs. Feitner had barely enough strength
to tell the doctor what had bappened.
Dr. Fisher hurriedly called in the neigh
bors, and sent word to this city at once, and
notified the Coroner, who with Deputy
Sheriff Vorhes and Marshal Teaff, went
back to the house. By this time the neigh
bors had given the two wounded women all
the attention possible under the circum
stances, and kept the people from entering
the house, as the news spread rapidly.
Mrs. Feitner, although in the care of a
physician, displayeJ wonderful nerve and
presence of mind. After she had been shot
and, as she supposed, fatally, she dressed
her mother's wounds and her own, cot her
mother upstairs in bed and then sat down
and wrote a statement, which was found all
covered with blood on the table in her
room. It read as follows:
Mrs. Feitner Writes a Statement.
3Ist op August.
John Skinner came In this evening, about
9 o'clock; shot George first, and mother and
me, and then said, "What will I do?" and
then got George's revolver and shot him
self. Don't cuss anyone else.
Anhie Feither.
Mrs. Feitner to-day, after recovering her
self eubugh to talk, told the story ot tbe
murder. She said that yesterday was Skin
ner's last day to work on the farm, and he
had been informed that he would not be
needed any longer. This he did not like,
as he wanted to work several months
longer.
Yesterday afternoon he was given a team
to haul his trunkB to Ferhwood, and re
turned late last evening. Mrs. Meiske paid
him what was due him, about $18, and left
Skinner and Mr. Feitner talking in the
front yard. The two men got into a heated
discussion, and Mrs. Feitner called to her
husband to come upstairs and not to talk to
Skinner. Feitner obeyed his wife and went
immediately upstairs to the room over the
sitting room.
Skiuner's anger being aroused, he fol
lowed Feitner upstairs, where the argument
was continued for some time, all taking a
hand trying to pacify the enraged man.
George Feitner sat on a chair near the head
of the stairs when Skinner, who was stand
ing near him, pulled a revolver from his
pocket and shot Feitner in the breast near
the heart. He staggered near the doorway
and fell down the stairs into the sitting
room, dead. Skinner, becoming bewildered,
exclaimed:
"My God, what have I done? "What
will I do?" '
lie Shoots the Two Women .Also.
Then, while bewailing his fate, he turned
the deadly revolver upon poor old Mrs.
Meiske and pulled the trigger, the ball
striking her back of the left car. At that
instant Mrs. Feitner, seeing that tbe villain
shot her mother, tried to stop him. Aim
ing the revolver at the wife, he fired, the
ball taking effect under the left eye.
He waited a moment to see it the shot
had killed her. He fired the second one,
this Bhot taking eflect in her forehead.
Seeing her fall he was apparently satisfied.
Although both women were mortally
wounded and dazed, they went downstairs,
and Skinner, whose revolver was empty
now, went upstairs and got Feitner's re
volver off a nail where he knew it was kept
and returned downstairs, followed by the
two women, ne again exclaimed: 'ydy
God, what have I done!"
Mrs. Feitner was bending over her dead
husband when she was startled by four
shots in quick succession, followed by a
heavy fall on the floor. The murderer had
ended his own life by firing two bullets
into his breast on either side of the heart.
He next placed the revolver to his forehead,
fired two more shots and literally blew out
his brains, falling on the floor, where his
body was-found this morning.
A Strange CoBJxctnrn Is Afloat.
All Steubenville is talking about the
affair, and one of the stories going the
rounds is that Mrs. Feitner, hearing the
men quarreling, went downstairs, and
beiug ill with the fever and being deranged,
as sometimes typhoid patients are, hunted
up her husband's revolver, and going down
stairs, began shooting where the men were
grappling together, shooting both in her
frenzied condition, and then, realizing her
awful crime, shot her mother and herself.
This rumor has not been verified and noth
ing is thought of it
Feitner was 36 years old, and has always
been known as apeacable, law-abiding man,
although the same can be said of the mur
derer. Skinner was 28 years of age and
came from West Virginia. Some time ago
he told some of the boys in the neighbor
hood that although he went by the name of
Skinner his real name was John Carman.
Ho was a steady and excellent farm land
and had been employed by Feitner for
three summers. He has sisters living in
Toronto, and has another sister living in
Fernwood, to whose house it is supposed'he
hauled the trunks.
The Coroner began taking testimony this
l hi
DISPATCH,' FRIDAY,
afternoon, bnt nothing was developed, all
testilying as to the good character of both
men.
Mrs. Meiske and 5irs. Feitner are both
being cared for by kind neighbors. The
undertaker this afternoon prepared the
bodies ot both men for burial, but the time
for the funeral has not been set
DE MOBE'S HOI HEADED ENEHY
Kicked Oat of the Officer' Mess nnd Wants
to Fight All Creation.
JPaeis, Sept 1. Captain Cremiux Foa,
a Hebrew, who engaged to fight a duel with
the Marquis de Mores after the latter had
killed Captain Mayer, the Hebrew's, cham
pion, to-day figured in a violent scene with
fellow officers. Captain Foa, being offended
because of some statements of Lieutenant
Trochu, his second, made at the recent trial
of the Marquis de Mores, had challenged
the latter to a duel. TrocUn's Colonel,
however, forbade the duel. This greatly
enraged Captain Foa, who went to the offi
cers' mess and threw his glove in Trochti's
face. The other officers present thereupon
forcibly expelled him from the foam.
Lieutenant Trochu cays the door sud
denly opened and Captain Foa shouted,
"I'll box your ears." The other officers
present threw bottles and other missiles at
the Captain and struck him on the temple,
inflicting a slight wound. , Then the pug
nacious officer was picked up and forcibly
thrown out of the room. Subsequently
both Lieutenant Trochu and Captain Foa
were taken before the Procurur. Captain
Foa declares he will challenge every officer
who had a hand in the affair.
DYING OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Evil
pirlts llannllnc a Woman Who
Doesn't Kelleve In Doctoring.
Akrojt, O., Sept. 1. Special. Mrs.
Catherine Gross, of this city, was removed
to the Xorthern Asylum for the Insane
at Cleveland to-day. For two years
she has been a hard student at
Christian science, and has worn
herself completely out by close attention to
books and journals. AVhile in poor health
she has refused all medicine and has placed
herself under the care ot Christian scien
tists. Two weeks ago she was taken to her bed,
and a week ago her mind gave away com
pletely. Strange hallucinations took pos
session of her, aud contrary to Christian
science doctrines she believed evil spirits
were pursuing her. Twice she got oat of
bed and wandered around the streets in her
nightclothes to elude the spirits. She is
now so exhausted that physicians say she
cannot live.
CAN'T CHOOSE A CANDIDATE.
Tho Deadlock In Scull's District as Firm as
It Ever Win
Bedford, Pa., Sept. i. ''pedal' The
Democratic Congressional . conference held
two sessions to-day, in which four ballots
were taken, with no material change ex
cepting that the conferees from Bedford and
Somerset voted for Scull and Ashcom at
different times. Hicks still holds his own.
The candidates were called before the con
ference at a late hour to-night, but for what
purpose cannot be learned. Telegrams are
pouring in from all over the district asking
that a nomination be made at once.
A motion was made by the Scull people
for an adjournment, but this Was opposed
by the Hicks people, and the candidates
withdrew from the conference, stating that
they are unable to come to an understand
ing. It is now thought the deadlock will
continue for some time.
A EEAVE WOMAN WITH A PISTOL
Drives Away a Burglar Who Was Cllmb
Inc; Over a Store Transom.
Ne'w Castle. Sept. 1 Special Mrs.
Ollie Davis had a thrilling experience witn
a burglar or burglars, last night She man
ages J. X. Norm' general store at Mahoning
town, and resides above the store. Some time
during the night she was awakened by a
noise as if someone was trying to get into
the store. Mrs. Davis took her revolver
and went quietly down stairs, just in time
to see a man half through the transom
above the front door. She fired at. him,
and instantly the form disappeared. She
ran to the door nnd saw a man staggering
away from the building, aud sent two bul
lets "after him.
In the morning a pool of blood was found
in front of the door, and it is believed that
the shot took effect During the night the
Mahoningtown postoffice was broken into
and robbed ot a quantity of stamps and
money.
CONVICTS' WHOLESALE PLOT.
They Give It A tray on Their Death Beds to
Michigan Prison Official.
Jacksost, Mich., Sept 1. Through the
confessions of Huntley and Davis, the two
convicts who were shot while attempting to
escape from the State prison the other day,
the prison officials have been informed of
one of the deepest laid plots ever attempted
at any prison.
Their plan was not only to get away them
selves, hut to let as many of the prisoners
out with them as possible. -"This explains
why they attempted carrying outtheirplans
so "early in the morning. Huntley and
Davii are now on ttfeir death bedsin the
hospital. Knowing that they have to die,
they became very confidential and revealed
the'entire plot
THREE EPIDEMICS IN ONE PLACE.
Bad Drainnce Having a Terrible
EOet
Upon New Haven Vlllaue.
TJnionto'WN, Sept t Special Diph
theria, typhoid fever and scarlet fever are
raging at New Haven, this county. Over
40 cases "of typhoid have been reported,some
of which have already proven fatal.
There are about as many scarlet fever and
diphtheria victims, but no deaths are yet
reported from the two latter diseases. The
amount of sickness is due to the bad drain
age. Some of the citizens have moved out
of the place with their families to escape
the epidemics. ,
Can Trust Conductors Again.
The Duqucsne Traction Company took up
their old systenof giving transfer tickets
to the passengers who use the different
branch roads yesterday. Several months
ago the company discovered a number of
conductors stealing by the abovo system
and discharged them. The company then
placed men at the different transfer points
whose duty it was to register the number of
transfers daily.
II?Icl Their Recalar Meeting.
The Young Men's Ecpublican Tariff Club
held its regular meeting last night
Twelve new members were elected aud sev
eral others were proposed for membership.
President McCleary read a lengthy letter
irom J. S. Clarkson, President of the Na
tional League of Republican Clubs, urging
them to hard work during tho coming cam
paign. Ths;Cholera nnd OP,
The report that the prevailing cholera in
Russia had seriously interfered with the oil
trade of that country led to a correspondence
on the Bnbject between A D. Wood, Secre
tary of the Producers' Oil Company, nnd
Secretary Foster, of the Treasury Depart
ment The Secretary has recently written
that he will have the matter thoroughly In
vestigated, and will report to the oil trade.
Sto'n a Sot nf II irn.
Nelson Scott, of tho East End, was ar-
toted by Detective Gumbert yesterday on
Charge of larceny preferred by Peter Gib-
i. xne latter alleges acntt, stole a set ot
rness from hit stable on Station street
Kfl
SEPTEMBER 2, 189a
MISS BORDEN HELD
For Trial at November Term
of Court, After the Argu
ments of Counsel.
THE ELEMENT OF TIME
And Absence of Any Hiding Place
'for an Ontsido Assassin
CONTRIBUTE TO THE RESULT.
The Defense Lays Stress Upon the Man Seen
Loitering Nearby.
iLSO THE PALPABLE WANT OF M0TITE
Fall River., Mass., Sept 1. Lizzie
Borden's preliminary hearing ended to-day,
and she was held for trial at the November
term of court.
Mr. Jennings opened the argument for
the defense. He said, among other things,
that Andrew J. Borden was murdered,
there was no doubt, and that the time of
murder has been established, there wa no
doubt The alarm was given at 11:13 to
11:15, and the time between Mr. Borden's
last entrance to the house and the alarm
was about 25 minutes.
What occurred after he got there? Brid
get Sullivan told her story and she left him
in the sitting room reauinga paper. With
in half an hour Andrew J. Borden had to
go in the house, have his talk with Lizzie if
he had one, go upstairs and downstairs and
lie down on the sofa, unless he was killed
and placed on the sofa afterward. The time
must be reduced to from 10 to 15 minutes
for the commission of the deed.
Thn Drfensn Plnd a Man."
It is found that after the alarm had been
given the bodies were where they have been
so often described as being, and any man of
common sense would have said at once, on
seeing them, that this was either the work
of an insane person or one whose heart was
hardened.
The theory of the Government seems to
have been that the crime was committed by
inmates of the house. All their work seems
to have been directed by that one idea. It
is claimed that nobody could get out of the
house without being seen, because there
were persons all around. The State knows
the house has been broken into in the day
time within two years, and the barn broken
into within two months, and the facts are
not disputed.
"We show something the police ought to
have discovered," said Mr. Jennings, "the
stranger within the gate, as told by Mrs.
Manley. They have spent night nnd day
following up clews to conyict Lizzie Bor
den, but know nothing about Mrs. Manley
and the man she saw. Why? Because
they are not looking for anybody outBide.
The extraordinary thing is that "the police
cannot find the man Dr. Handy saw, bnt
they can find the ax or axes Lizzie Borden
killed her father with."
No MoUtd Fonn-I lor tho Crime.
Mr. Jennings laid great stress on the ab
sence ot motive lor the crime. The state
ment that Lizzie was on unfriendly terms
witli her parents, he said, had not been
substantiated by the evidence. She was
not in need of money, 525 having recently
been paid her. The story of her alleged
attempt to procure poison was scouted. He
pointed out that the girl had just 15 min
utes in which to clear herself of all traces
of the crime.
"What did she do with the hatchet?" he
asked. "What became of the spots of blood
that should have been on her clothes?"
Tbe lawyer spoke of the "youngest
daughter" and the servant as being in the
house at the time, and when ha added,
"the one whose hands were last clasped by
the dead father's, and the one whose head
last rested against his breast," Lizzie burst
into tears and Mr. Jennings' voice was
deeply affected.
At 2 o'clock District Attorney Knowlton
proceeded to make the argument lor the
Government Among other things, he
said:
How was tho hatchet which was used as an
instrument used? By some one -who was a
physical, if not a moial coward; by one who
uin not wane any one to see wno aid it. The
blows were stiuck lrom behind. We see in
it a weak, iiresolute, imperfect feminine
hand that only knew tho impulse to strlko
not with the stieugtli of a man. Yet wo
don't know who did it. Those blows wero
not even evidence of malice, because they
weio all weak, irresolute blows.
Ko Place for a Man to Hide.
Tell me not about the appearance of the
hay, that tho barn was locked up by liorden
at night and unlocked in the morning. In
the house, when they got In, whero could
they hide? Xopossiblo hiding places. Xo
way to get anywhere. And that set us to
thinking, nnd who was thore that could Im
agine that everything could be clear for him
who calmly thought he could await in that
house lor an hour aud a half. I can't con
ceive of a villain who is also a fool.
I know no difference between roputable
and honest Lizzie Borden and reputable
and honest Bridget Sullivan. When Lizzie
Borden testified she told different stories-
she contradicted herself. Where wero Airs.
Borden and Lizzie when Bridget came Into
tho house that morning after she had gone
Into the yard? They were uistnlrs alone.
Before that Mrs. Borden had told her to
wash windows. Mr. Borden had gone away,
and when Bridget came to the screen door
Lizzie appeared and was to!d by Bridget she
need not lock the door: that she would be In
tho yari) anil could soo anybody going or
coming; that sho would get her water in the
barn It Lizzie said so.
All the house was clear but of Lizzie and
her stepmother, and when Mr. Borden was
down townand when Morse was away and
wuen isriuijec was at worK in tne yard tuen
the deed was dono in that upper room; and
wlion Mr. Borden was let lit by Bridget, Liz
zie and Abbie Borden were alone In tho
guest chanbor one dead, the other alive;
and when Lizzie was at the head or the
stairs, when Bridget was at the door, she
was where a woman was so killed that when
she lell, with her mass of floah, to the floor,
she bruised her face and made such a noise
it must have been heard.
Not a Bit of Noise VTai Heard.
Then sho takes out her things and begins
to Iron. Bridget went up stairs, leaving
Lizzie ironing at three minutes to 11, nearer
to her father than I am to Your Honor. In
live minutes her father was dead. She conld
not have been down stairs, because she
would havo heard the noise not up stairs,
because sho was ironing. It is now more
difficult than it was to 'imagine the improb
ability of tho story sho toldabout that barn.
Whero tho man wnom Lizzie thinks did tho
deed was all this time, wo don't know.
Speaking of the statement by Lizzie that
she had gone to the barn to get sinkers, he
said:
And she stayed In that barn 20 minutes,
where no woman would have stayed llvo
.minutes. I gave her all tbe chance in the
world, and asked her to account for that
time, and sho said sho went up there and uto
Dears there "or all places In the world; and
she did not feel well, and could not eat any
breakfast. In the hottest part of tho day,
to tho hottest place on the premises she hnd
gono to get sinkers. I have seen all sorts of
alibis, but this Is the most labored one I
over saw or heard of.
The Commonwealth has never said that
these people were not poisoned by prnssic
ncld, but It does not say that that was the
first proposition, because thore was a sug
gestion or a motlvo In Llzzlti j.oinz to tho
drugstore. Prnssic acid could not bo had.
Tho laws urn strictly acainst Is and she gave
It up. The demeanor ot the defendant Is re
markable. We have not yet found the wrap
that covered Lizzie liorden and tnolc tho
blood from those bodies. Wo have not yet
found tho hatchet which did the work. This
thing was conceived in the head of a cool
headed, deliberate woman.
The Prisoner Is He'd for Trial.
Judge Bliisdell said tbat lymjmtby
should be laid aside, and duty, stern duty,
requires upon this evidence bnt one thing
to De done. He continued: .
Supposing a man was seen in the chamber
of Mrs. Borden, the guest chamber of death,
and that he was in the room of tho father
when donth came; suppose that a man
should tell as many dilferent stories as Liz
zie has done the wny would be plain. I
find tbat she Is probably guilty.
The accused was ordered to the county
ail for trial at the November term. All
the witnesses were ordered to recognize for
the November term of court
DELAYED A FEW DAYS.
Allegheny's Poslofllcs Site Still a Subject
nf InvrKtlffitlon.
Washington, Sept I. Special.' Con
sideration of the question of a site tor the
new postoffice in Allegheny will be delayed
for a few days on account ot a wish of some
of the citizens interested, that they may
have more time to present their views in
regard to the question of eligibility. Sev
eral letters have been received from promi
nent citizens withing the lost tevr days
taking various views of the matter and ask
ing more time for investigation.
Some of those who are interested in sites
present the argument against the higher
priced properties that the purchase of them
would require so mnch of tbe appropria
tion there would be little left for the build
in tr, as the limit of the cost of the building is
5250,000. Against this it is argned that the
limit oi the cost of the building will be un
doubtedly increased, as the amount to be
used for a site will be increased when a
presentation of the matter is made to Con
gress. The views are so divergent, how
ever, that Secretary Foster prefers to wait
patiently to see just what is favored by the
larger weight of influence apart from per
sonal interest It is probable tbat the
matter may not be decided for 10 or 15
days.
IT TAKES IHEEE DAYS 10 W2D.
An Arab Weddlns In Cincinnati Seems to
be n Howling Snccpss.
Cincinnati, Sept. 1. An Arabian mar
riage, celebrated exactly as it would be in
Arabia, is in progress here. It requires
three days to complete it The contracting
parties are Raphael Latoof and Lizzie An
tonious. The ceremony began at 8 o'clock
in what is known as the Red Onion tene
ment house, inhabited exclusively by
Arabs. The Jjride is but 14 years old.
In opposite corners sat 15 or 20 men and
as many women. The bride aud groom sat
facing the women. The bKde was covered
with an arch scarf. From a table in the
middle ol the room a brother of the groom
dispensed nuts and beer. All the time the
squatting men and women kept up an exas
perating bowling. Soon near relatives of
the bride and groom appeared at the door,
dressed in Arab costume, aud danced a
stately minuet Then followed all sorts
of performances, wild shrieking, beat
ing of heads, scattering of incense, bowing
under colored lights, accompanied all the
while by the maddening howling. An
immense crowd of spectators is on the
outside and a squad of police is kept busy.
AFGHANS WIN ONE VICTOBY,
Bat
thr Tide of thn War Ag.iinst
the
II zar Is Still Against Them.
Simla, Aug. 31. The troops of the
Ameer of Afghanistan have recaptured
Katnsan, from which place the Governor
was recently driven out by the revolting
Hazaras. The rebels made a stubborn re
sistance, and before they evacuated the
place they inflicted a loss of 460 killed upon
the Ameer's force'. The troops are suffer
ing from a lack of supplies and are desert
ing in large numbers. Though the Hazaras
have been defeated at Kamsan they have
been successful in other encasements that
have taken place with the Ameer's forces
in other parts of the Hazara country.
A mountain battery and several battal
ions of Punjaub infantry and cavalry have
been ordered to hold themselves in readi
ness to reinforce the troops in the Wana
Gomil Valley in the event of the Ameer of
Afghanistan failing to recall his agents who
are disturbing the peace of the Indian fron
tier. CAPIUEED BY MOOKISH PIEATES.
A Spanish Ship Falls Into Their Hands,
bnt Five of the Creir Escape.
London, Aug. 31. A dispatch received
here says that Moorish corsairs boarded and
robbed the Spanish ship Ycard, trading be
tween Cape .Tuby,and Rio Deoro, and cap
tured 11 of the 16 members of thacrew.
.After securing the cargo, consisting of 400
bales of wool, the pirates deserted the ship.
When the trader was boarded by the cor
sairs five of the crew made their escape in a
boat, which was subsequently picked up at
sea by the Spanish schooner Vengauza.
After rescuing the five men the Vengauza
proceeded to the spot where the Ycard was
attacked, a distance of 45 miles, and found
that the vessel had been set adrift.
A dispatch irom Madrid says: A Spanish
gunboat has been dispatched to attempt the
rescue of 11 members of the crew of the
Ycard.
M0EE DOMESTIC TEOUBLE.
TVllIlam Terry Causes His "Wire's Arrest
and She Canses Tils.
William Perry entered suit before Alder
man Kerr yesterday charging his wife,
Lonise Perry, with assault and battery.
Mrs. Perry created quite a sensation in Al
derman Kerr's office Monday night by
striking her husband in the face and kick
ing him at the conclusion of a case in
which he testified to her being of a quarrel
some nature.
She gave S500 bail for a hearing Saturday
and then made an information against her
husband charging him with assault and
battery. She alleges that on Monday night
after their little setto in Alderman Kerr's
office he followed her home and attacked
her directly in front of the house and gave
her a severe beating. ,
THE FIRE RECORD.
ay The railway woric-
shops and lia cars. Loss, 1,000,000 marks.
Laytons. Pa. The large brick works of
William A. Stanton and William Steward,
comprising tbe Fayette Manufactures Com
pany of Pittsburg, employing about 50 mon
and toys. Loss well Insured. The works
will be inbuilt.
Larimer avenue Shortly before 12 o'clock
last night a fire broke out in tho second
story of tho house of Mr. John Stott, on
Larimer avenue. Tho furnitnro and other
effects were damaged to tho extent of $300.
The origin of tho flro is not known.
"Remarkablc how well mamma
looks, aud how she has gained in
flesh. You should da the same."
"The loss of flesh is a trifle. You
think you need not mind it, but you
are gradually running down. Do
like mamma. Use the Carlsbad
Sprudel Salt every morning before
breakfast. It will increase your ap
petite and cure you of that dyspepsia
and biliousness from which you are
suffering. But be sure to get the
genuine imported article. No sub
terfuge," I .
3
LOST Oft .THE LAKE.
A Steel Steamer Founders Near the
Upper Michigan Straits.
BDT 'ONE LEFT TO TELL THE TALE
Oat of a Total of 27 fouls Wbo Were on
Eoard the Hapless Craft.
BOTH OP THE LIFEBOATS CAPSIZED
Sattlt Ste. Marie, Mich., Sept 1.
The fishing tug E. M. B. A. arrived down
to-night, having as a passenger Harry
Stewart, of Algonac, a wheelman, the only
survivor from the mammoth steel steamer
Western Reserve, which foundered Tuesday
morning about 9 o'clock 60 miles above
White Fish Point, on the course to Keewe
naw. The Western Reserve, np-bound and
light, left the Soo Canal Tuesday morning,
haying on beard as passengers Captain
Peter Minch, her owner, his wife, three
children and his wife's sister, beside the
regular crew of 22 hands. The rest ot her
short history is best told in the words ot
Stewart:
Everything went well nntil abont 60 miles
above White Fish, when the first warning of
impending danger was a terrible crash about
9 a. M., caused by the huge craft breaking in
two and breaking the main mast about half
wny up the rigging. She to'blcrn water fast
from the start and the yawl boats wero low
ered. Captain Minch, his family and the
officers and crew of the boat to the number
of IT cot into tbe wooden yawl and tho othera
took tho metallic one.
Doth of the Tawls Capslz?d.
The Reserve sank in ten minutes, and be
fore she had hardly gono out of sight the
metallic yawl capsized. The other went to
her assistance, out only succeeded in rescu
ing two of her occupants, Captain Myer's
son and the steward.
The 19 survivors started for White Fish. 6u
miles away. The yawl weathered the
breakers all night and until 7 In tho morn
ing, when abont a mile lrom the shore lc
capsized. I saw none ot the occupants alter
that. I struck for the shore, but the crle-t
of tha children, the screams of tho women
and the moaning of men were terrible. I
was In tho aater two hours, and struck
shore about ten miles above the station.
A search failed to find trace of any othvr
survivor of the wreck, and there is no ques
tion they were all drowned. The Western
Reserve was one of the largest craft on the
lakes, and has only been on the Lake Su
perior trade a little over a year.
Ilia LUt of the Drag.
She was owned by P. G. Minch, who, witn
h:s family, were lost on her. The others
lost, as near as can be obtained, are:
Albert Myers, Vermillion, O., c iptain: Frod
Engalls, first mate; William Ii. Seam.in,
Cleveland, chief engineer: Charlei Wiles,
second engineer: George Davis. aisUtunt
steward; Daniel Forbes, lookout; Carl Myers,
wheelman: IL Simpson, oiler: C.L.E. Uean, sec
ond mate; Bert Smith, steward; S. T. flatten,
fireman; John Latchain, fireman: Horace
Borough, fireman; Martin Klanson, oiler;
Daniel Stickney, E. Lonefleld. Albert Daven
rort, Daniel O'Connell, At. Coffee and John
Wilson, deck bands.
ITssd Ills Gun Too Treely.
Napoleon R. Beaumont, who lives at 1C0
Water street, got locked up yesterday after
noon on a charge of disorderly conduct.
He came home about 4 o'clock and found
his wife in a skiff on the Monongahela
river. On seeing ner he pulled a revolver
and fired several shots at the boat without
effect Officer Sullivan locked him up.
Jacob Esper's Death Accidental.
The result of Acting Coroner McKenna's
Inquest in the case of Jacob Esper was a
verdict of accidental death. Dr. McCand
less held a post mortem on the body, and
stated that death resulted from the crush
ing of the spine, which was the result of
the cars passing over the body.
fcM0-CiQ?WVr
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Complying with general re-;
jquest, - ;;
BEECH AJH'S FILLS !
will in future for the United ;
States be covered with
A Tasteless and
Soluble Coatinsr,
completely disguising the
taste of the Pill without m any 5
;way impairing its efficacy.
J'nce 25 cents a 5ox.
New York Depot 565 Canal Street. S
-OK-
If you're going to want any
then see at once the BLACK
SATIN BERBER Plaids and
Stripes, but all solid black,
wool, 3S inches wide, that we
are going to sell out at
35c a Yard.
There are only about Soo
yards, and they are so good
and so great a bargain that
they'll sell quicker thananything
that ever went out of this Black
Goods Department
100 dozen LADIES' SILK
WINDSOR TIES two sizes
plain colors pink, blue, yel
low, lavender, orange, navy,
black, garnet and red Pure
Silk at
10c and 15c.
No comments necessary to
emphasize this value. See them.
B0G6S & BUHL,
ALLEGHENY.
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