TJEffi1PpiTTSBTra
TARIFF ONTII PLATE
Upheld Once More in a Wildly-Applauded
Address
Made by McKinley.
THE BEPUBLIGAE LEAGUE
Begins Its Annual Session in the
Music Ball at Buffalo.
FASSETT WAKES UP ALL TEE BOTS
ITL a11ima fiyinrct Aya lTnifta nnj
J J JIB VUllCtID IVUiifcait-io aujuiucu auu
J' Burke Makes a Speech.
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THURSTON "K0ASTS POPDLITE LEADEEB
Buffalo, Sept. 15. The great conven
tion of Republican Leagues of the United
States began in Music Hall this morning,
and will continue until to-morrow night
The business portion of the city has been
profusely decorated in honor of the event,
and the corridors of the hotels have been
thronged with visitors from all portions of
the Union. Music Hall was appropriately
decorated with flags and bunting, and por
traits ot Harrison and Beid occupied promi
nent positions at each end of the stage. The
parquet was occupied by delegates from
the various States, and the gallery by the
college delegates.
The convention was called to order at
11:30 o'clock by John X. Scatcherd, and
after a prayer by Eev. Dr. Hnbbell and a
brief address of welcome by Judge Haight,
it settled itself to business. The roll call
of delegates showed that 34 States and 3
Territories were represented. The follow
ing Committee on Credentials was ap
pointed: Arkansas, W. T. Holt; California, Colonel
Isaac Trutnbo; Colorado. J. F. Byrnes; Con
necticut, D. L. Brtess; Delaware, A. A.
Webster; Florida, F. D. Buck; Illinois, C. H.
Edwards: Indiana, It. E. Mansfield; Iowa,
Y. H. Ilarwood; Kansas, McCabe Moore;
Maryland, A. L. Dryden; Massachusetts, E.
H. Cuaddock; Michigan, Dr. A. K. Owens;
Jfebraska, T. L. Love; Sew Jersey, A. N. Van
Winkle; Ohio, Dr. E. E, Freeman; Kew York,
Charles B, Wheeler: Pennsylvania. Hiram
Toung; Rhode Island, W. IL Gordon; Ten
nessee, 3. W. Brown; Texas, S. L. Haine;
Virginia, P. C Carrlgan; Wisconsin, A. K.
Coatef; Arizona, George Christ: Washing
ton, .Nicholas Treeweek. College League,
John L. Dodge, of Harvard University.
J. r. Barke Makes a Decided nit.
On motion of Mr. Campbell, of Illinois,
the College Club delegates were seated.
President James F. Barke was loudly
called for, and responding assured the con
vention that on the 8th of November they
would be found doing valiant work for the
Republican ticket Cheers.
President Clarkson's annual address was
largely devoted to the organization and
progress of the League and its work as a
w element in politics. In the course of
3 remarks he said:
die question of the time, in my judgment,
! one on which the next national cam
i&n is surely to be fought, is the labor
estion. Bv that time the McKinley bill
11 have fully demonstrated the wisdom of
e Aincricin policy, and will have gained
i approval or a majority of the Ameriean
mes as the permanent policy of the lie
blic Kelt November the workingmen
d larmcrs and business men and all
;ments will join in striking down the
ctaraiion oi tne uemoorauc piatioran oi
)21n invorof fieo trndo as American rule
id freo trade wajjes for American noric
zinen. Tlio same good elements, I am
uz-e, will also strike down trith equal
mpnasis of disapproval the Democratic
eclat ation in favor of destroying ourpres
nt system of currency and finance for a re
urn to the wretched and disastrous form of
state banks and unsound currency.
The Trno Friend of the Worklngman.
After tbe vindication In November next
of these great American ideas and aieaf
flrmation of a fearless, liberal Americanism
for tbe rule in America, I am confident the
Kepubllcan party, which has already done
more for the workingman than any party or
auy nation has ever done for the working
people, will take up the labor question more
ardently, and by such study and investiga
tion through League clubs and other de
tailed forms of discussion will reach by 1893
some method of tranquilizins entirely all
the questions of labor. For my own part I
believe the settlement of all labor troubles
will come by the adoption of the systems of
piofit sharing and co-operation and some
equitable 'orm of arbitration.
i believe I represent faithfully the League
In all its purposes and aspirations when I
eay that it will jrladly follow any and every
good clement of American society, aiming
hinceruU to benefit the American people.
It stands for absolute honesty In politics
and for purity and merit in the civil serv
ice. Civil service reform greatly needs
and irreatly deserves a better leader
ship than it has in these insincere
and sell-appointed overseers now assuming
to be IM sole proprietor8,and will find it inithe
League. Two little practical enactments by
Congi ess would remove nearly the whole
body ana carcass of the spoils system trom
politic. Fiist. a tenuie of office fixed by
law, givini; a certain terra four or six years
to every filcebolder or cleik, to be re
newed when deserved. Second, an act to
emjjower people to elect their own post
masters as thev always should have done.
All other rerorms actually demanded the
Republican party and League aro ready to
help secure.
Sympathy for the President.
At the afternoon session, Samuel B.
Harsh, of Iowa, oOered the following reso
lution, which was unanimously adopted by
a standing vote:
Resolved That this convention learns
with deepest sorrow of the severe illness
that nfllicts the honored wife of President
Harrison, and that we extend to her
and to nim our heartlelt sympathy; and
that we assure the Piesidentand his family
tliatue fervently join in the prayer of the
whole American peoplo that the band of
Him who watches over the sick and suffer
ing may speedily lift the shadow that now
hangs about the bedside of a loved wife and
mother.
Music Hall filled slowly in the evening,
but it was filled at last, and when the exer
cises began every seat was taken. There
was a lair sprinkling of ladies in the audi
ence, and the utmost enthusiasm prevailed.
The college clubs arrived snortly belore 8
o'clock, and after announcing the
fact by college yells, took seats
in the gallery. A brass band en
livened the tedium ot waiting with numer
ous selections, and this, together with cam
paign songs, kept the enthusiasm at a high
let el for 15 or 20 minutes. The entrance of
J. Sloat Fassett was the signal ioran en
thusiastic round of applaue, and hardly
had it subsided when General J. S. Clark
son rapped lor order, and in a brief but ap
propriate speech introduced the first .nk
er of the evening, Hon. J. P. Dolliver of
Iowa. '
An Ioirau't Speech for a Start er.
Mr. Dolliver prefaced his address by ex
pressing his appreciation ot the privilege of
Eiicaking at tins great meeting of the grand
army ot ltepublicaiis. He believed the
campaign was one upon the merits of the
Republican cause. He reviewed the cam
paigns of the past, where Democratic malice
and ialsehood, he said, had maligned Re
publican candidates, and added thatafter30
years of mud casting the Democratic party
yielded to the public demand for a clean
campaign.
The earlier careers of the Democratic
and Republican candidates were con
trasted, and then Mr. Dolliver turned his
attention to a discussion ot Mr. Cleve
land's public record, which he sarcastically
said was hardly north a place in song and
.story. "Let us Republicans keep alive the
memories of past years," said the speaker.
"Let not the history of the United States
become obsolete to meet the demands of the
Democratic party." He then launched
forth in facetious comment upon Democratic
attempts at legislation during the past year.
He eulogized the administration of Presi
dent Harrison, and was cheered with the
utmost enthusiasm. He closed by thanking
the crowd for its attention and interest.
Governor McKinley on a IJvo Topic.
Major McKinley was next introduced,
and for some time the house was in a per
fect uproar, the audience rising en masse
and greeting the speaker with waving hati
and handkerchiefs. ,
The Governor, after expressine the grati
fication he felt at being present with the
League in the opening which it gave'to the
campaign of 1892, said the issues this year
which were to be settled were made by the
national platforms of the two great parties,
both of which, without qualification or
equivocation, stated the principles which
they represented. He continued:
Two striking questions are raised by the
platform of our political adversaries. The
first is its adherence to free trade, and sec
ond, it declares for the abolition of the tax
upon State banks of issue. This tax was im
posed by Congress to destroy the banks,that
they might adopt a national money. It is
proposed by the Democratic leaders not
onlv to go back to free trade, or a revenue
tariff which prevailed in this country from
1S46 to 18G0. and during which. for the greater
portion of the time, the country In its mone
tary, commercial ana Dusiness anairs wns
a most deplorable condition, but it is pro
posed also to return to the use of State bank
circulation with which to measure tho ex
changes of the nennlft. If there was noth
ing else In tho contest but tho proposal for
tne abolition or the tax upon tne state uanas
and their revival, that ought to bo sufficient
to defeat tho Democratic party.
Evils or Free Trade Tointed Ont.
Governor McKinley outlined the evils
which would result from the proposed
change, and then proceeded to discuss the
tariff question thus:
If the Democratic party should be success
ful, and the principles declared at Chicago
should be put into permanent forms of legis
lation, we should have the British system of
free trade, which would reduce the wages of
the laboring man of the United States. Free
trade in this country would ho welcomed by
every European country of the world, by
every commercial rival of the United States,
and by every enemy to our progress and
prosperity. Free rade would inoreaso for
eign production and diminish domestic pro
duction In all competing products until
the laborer of our country would accept the
miserable wages which are paid loreign
workingmen. Freo trade would encourage
the foreign shop and discourage the Ameri
can shop; it would Increase the demand for
workingmen abroad and diminish tho de
m and for woikingmen at home; it would
permit the iorelgn producer to onjoy this
greatest and best market in the world with
out condition or restraint upon exactly tne
same terms tho rjroducors of our country
enjoy this market to-day. And do not for
get that whatever of our market they take
is a loss to our own citizens and a sacrifice
of the Interests of our own laborers for tho
alien and the stranger.
What Protection Is Capablo of Doing.
Free trade or a revenuo tariff, such as is
advocated by Democratic leaders would
make everything free in this markot which
competes with what we produce In this
market, because they aro against protection
in every form, and would tax only those
foreign products which have no compe
tition in our own markets, and which wo
cannot produce among ourselves. Pro
tection imposes its tariffs on exactly oppo
site principles; it permits everything to
come Into this country except luxuries
which we cannot produce at home, and puts
its tariffs upon those products from abioad
which come in competition with the
products of our own labor.
Continuing, the speaker referred at length
to the many advantages to be derived from
protection and the evils resulting from free
trade. Free trade among ourselves in 44
States and with (33,000,000 of people and a
reasonable restraint upon those seeking to
invade our markets with competing products
was the dictate of enlightened patriotism
and the doctrine of the Republican party.
The speaker asserted that all Europe wanted
a Democratic victory, and cited numerous
extracts from European newspapers to
prove the truth of the assertion. He said
the Democratic leaders for more than 30
years had waged their warfare upon tjie
Republican party upon prophecies of fail
ure of Republican measures and policies.
He could not believe any party could long
hold public confidence which based its
claims upon the disappointments of the
people. The new tnrifi law was vindicating
itself, winning its own victories, which
were victories of the people. Oregon, at
its'election in June, spoke for it, and has
been followed bv Vermont4 and Maine.
Regarding the tin plate industry, the
speaker said:
What McKinley Saw at Elwood.
I visited at the city of Elwood, Ind.. Tucs
day the woi lis of the American Tin Plato
Company, as good a plant as can be found
auywhere. I saw with my own eyos, as did
10,000 people, tbe manufacture of tin plate
from tho raw steel, from the raw to the fin
ished pioduct I saw in that factory nil the
machinery had been made in the United
States, and the sheet steel which they rolled
and fiom whioh they made their tin plates
was made In the United States and in Ohio;
a lactory employing 220 men and women at
good living wages, happy and contented
workmen, and yet the Democratic readers
insist that we are not making and could not
make tin plate. But that is not to be won
dered at. They said we could not make
steel; they sold we could not make steel
rails; they said we oould not make watches
and pottery and china and glass and plate
glass, but, undaunted by their predictions,
we aro now making them as good as they are
anywhere in the world, and so it is with tin
plate. aThe American people can make any
thing they want, and with a good protec
tion, w hich we propose to give them, they
will make everything they want.
I must close. Other centiemen are to fol
low me. I have already occupied too much
of your time. I am glad tho Republican
party has enlisted in its cause the energy
and the activity of the young Republicans
of the party, and I am especially glad to
congratulate the Republican National
League npon the matchless leader they have
in the person of General Clarkson. With
him you must be a mighty force in this great
contest for tbe industries and wages' of our
country, and with your co-operation with
all the Republicans of the country, I am con
fident that the 8th ol November will bring
us a triumph and victory; a victory for the
United States.
Sloat Fassett Rouses the Boys.
Mr. McKinley's address was frequently
punctuated with applause, and when he had
finished the Rutgers College Glee Club sang
a few selections. Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, of
Elmira, was next introduced, and said after
listening to the utterances of the high
priest of protection he felt himself un
worthy to say anything on that subject.
He humorously alluded to the disastrous
Republican campaign in New York Slate
last year, saying there was plenty of en
thusiasm then, but somehow it did not get
out of the air into the ballot box. "We
were right then and we are right now, "said
he. "What the Democratic party has done
and what the Republican party has done
in the past entitles the Republican party to
every vote this fall."
The sp'eaker urged earnest and untiring
work in the cause of Republicanism. He
referred to the Maine elections, and when
he mentioned Blaine's name he was greeted
with vociferous applause. Continuing, the
speaker said he believed the Republican
party would carry the State of New York,
and he would call a few witnesses from the
Democratic party to prove the truth cf his
assertion. He did not believe the
25,000 Democratic Union veterans would
ever give Grover Cleveland another chance
to write veto messages with his envenomed
pen. He believed the Republicans should
win, because the Republican party was ab
solutely united, and because our Democratic
friends were handicapped by the general
prosperity of the country, and in that con
nection he referred to the Peck report as an
evidence of that prosperity. He next pro
ceeded to a brief discussion of the tariff
question, and closed by again predicting
Republican success.
Independent Leaders Get a Roast.
Hon. John M. Thurston, of Nebraska,
said that every leader of the so-called In
dependent party of the United States had
been a failure in some other political party.
He congratulated the convention on the
success of its meeting, and closed by re
questing every young man present to vote
ior the party of protection. .
Charles Morris, a mulatto from Kentucky,
was the last speaker. He referred to the
debt oi gratitude he owed the Republican
party, and then proceeded to jehearse the
record of Grover Cleveland. He made sev
eral telling hits and was frequently applauded.
A HUGE DISTILLERY
To Be Erected at Once in Bucks
County by Big Liquor Dealers
OF PHILADELPHIA AND NEW TOflK.
Over A Hundred Acres to Be Covered by the
Company's Plant.
THE SCHEMERS A CO-OPEKITIVE ONE
t rrCTM. TILEOnAM TO TOT DISPATCH.
Philadelphia, Sept 15. Upon the
tract of 103 acres at Eddington, Bucks
county, which has just been purchased from
Mrs. Morris, a wealthy Pottsville widow,
will be erected an enormons distillery for
the production of rye whisky. The plant
will be operated by a new company which
has just been organized with a capital of
53,000,00, and which will be known as the
Philadelphia Pure Rye Whisky Distilling
Company. Nearly every large liquor
dealer in this city holds stock in the com
pany. Despite the fact that the organization of
the company has been accomplished so
quickly, considerable work has already
been done, and the contract for the erection
of the buildings will be awarded at a meet
ing of the Board of Directors to-morrow.
Quite a number of bids have been re
ceived. Under the present laws of Pennsylvania
there can be no president of a liquor com
pany. Angelo Meyers has been elected
Chairman; Henry Van Beil, Secretary, and
James Maguire, Treasurer. These gentle
men, with Samuel Humphrey and Louis
Gillams, constitute the Board of Directors.
The Plant to Bo a Mammoth One.
The plant will have a capacity of 30,000
barrels a year, and will probably be in
operation, bv the first of next May. The
site selected has a large frontage on the
river, and work upon a wharf was begun to
day. At this point the Pennsylvania rail
road is fully a mile from the river, which
will necessitate the building of a branch
road, at the cost of about
7,000. Negotiations are now pending
with General Agent Latta ior the construc
tion of the road, but nothing definite has
been decided upon. The liquor men are
wavering between building tbe road them
selves or allowing the Pennsylvania Rail
road to do it, in which latter case the com
pany would own the property and make it
unpleasant for any future railroad that
might come that way, particularly the Read
ing. Said a prominent member of the new
company to-day: "There are fully 40
of the larcest "liquor dealers in this city
and New York interested in the enterprise,
which will be one of the largest of its kind.
I suppose those 40 firms represent about
530,000,000. All the subscriptions have
been paid in.
Cannot Fight the Whisky Trust.
"No, we will not be antagonistic to the
Whiskv Trust, because the trust does not
make rye whisky. The principal advan
takes to the stockholders will be in estab
lishing a home industry, which will enable
us to economize on shipping. We can prob
ably secure sufficient grain from the farmers
of Bucks county to keep us going, so we
will not suffer from lack of material. Then,
too, we are going to try some new experi
ments in the manufacture of whisky which
are entirely original, and which, if success
ful, will have a tendency to revolutionize
things."
The stockholders will probably control
the whole production. Each stockholder
will virtually be an agent, and will use
extra efforts to sell the whisky, because he
will reap a decided benefit Irom it He
will receive his selling profits,and the
more he sells the larger his dividends on
his stocks will be. The meeting of the
board will be held at James Maguire's
office, Third and Noble streets, to-morrow,
and in addition to transacting the regular
business, will award the contract for the
erection of the plant
COTMlY C0MMISSI0NEES ADJ0TJBN.
They Take a Boat Excursion Up tho Monon
gahela to Braddock.
The County Commissioners' Convention
yesterday completed its work and adjourned
to meet at Wilkesbarre one year hence.
The principal thing before the convention
yesterday was the speech of Joseph Weeks.
He talked on the subject ot "Creating a
Permanent Bureau of Tax Statistics." He
said there are two objects of taxation first,
to provide an income to meet the expenses
of the body levying the tax; second, to re
strict or prohibit the production, sale or
u&e of the article or thing taxed.
Chairman Mercer, of the Executive Com
mittee, made the report on tax revision. He
did not condemn the Baker ballot law' as a
whole, but denounced many parts of it He
favored the abolition of the jury commis
sion and instead hare the Sheriff and
County Commissioners do the work. His
report was favorably indorsed. Several
minor committees made reports also.
In the afternoon the Commissioners were
taken on the City of Pittsburg up the
Monongahela river "to Braddcck, where they
visited the Edgar Thomson Steel works. The
excursionists returned to the city about 7
o'clock. The Executive Committee or
ganized on the boat Hon. Jerome B.
Niles, of Tioga, was elected president,
James M. North, of Luzerne, secretary, and
T. C Martin, of Westmoreland, treasurer.
. FIEST MEETING SINCE MAY.
The Historical Society Appeals for tho En
couragement of tho People.
The Historical Society held its first meet
ing since May in Carnegie Hall last even
ing. The attendance was small, and Presi
dent Lambing deplored that Pittsburgen
took so little interest in the history of their
city and State. He said the people have
wealth, intelligence and a great historical
field in which to work.
Thomas Harper read an interesting paper
on "the first steamboat built in Pittsburg."
It was called the Orleans and built at the
mouth of Suki's run, near where the B. &
O. depot is erected. The Rev. Samuel
Collains" will read a paper on history of
cholera in this country at the next meet
ing, which promises to be of much Interest
Excellent music will be furnished at the
next meeting of the society.
IWO DBIVEBS FIGHT.
They First Collide and One Knocks Out the
Other's IeftEyc.
Charles Esseck, a teamster, entered suit
before Alderman To ole yesterday charging
Daniel Logan, a driver for Oliver, Mc
Clintock & Co., with aggravated assault
and battery. He alleges that yesterday he
and Logan were driving in opposite direc
tions on Forbes street and got too near to
gether when a collision resulted. Hot
words followed and Logan struck him, twice
with a bull whip, the" first blow raising a
large welt on the neck, the other cutting a
gash in his cheek and putting out his left
eye.
Esseck was a sorry looking object as he
presented himself at the Alderman's office.
A warrant was placed in the hands ot Con
stable Carr. Logan, it is expected, will be
arrested this morning.
The Water Too Hard.
While the residents of Allegheny City
are kicking for pure water, the ladies of
sewickiey are petitioning the Borough
Council to abandon the use of well water
with which SeWickley is supplied, on the
ground that the water is too bard to wash
with. At the Council meeting last evening
the members voted against the petition,
claiming that the water cannot be too pure
vow, washing or no washing.
ACCIDENT ON THE BBIDOB,
Two Workmen Fall, One oi Them Being
Badly Injured. '
-The first serious accident on the Sixth
treet bridge occurred yesterday at noon.
Two men, JosehjDunlap and John Burke,
fell from the top of the great traveling
crane, and Burke was seriously Injured. As
tbe whistle blew for noon, the two men
started to descend to the bridge. They
grasped a rope to let themselves down.
The rope was loose and slipped through a
pulley. The men fell rapidly. Dunlap
dropped through an opening in the bridge
and fell into the water. He went under,
but at once arose, and was Tescued by some
men in a boat. He was badly stunned by
striking the water, but .after a short rest he
took a car and went to Bis home in South
Diamond street Allegheny. Burke was not
so fortunate. He struck some of the tim
bers in his tumble, and when he fell and
lay on the top of the piles he was bleeding
at the mouth. It was found that an ankle
was broken, that his head was cut, and that
his back was badly injured. He was un
conscious, and in that condition was re
moved to .his home at No. 75 Corey alley,
Allegheny.
The work on the new bridga is progress
ing rapidly. Ono of the large arches, at
the south end, is half up. As heavy iron
pieces are being litted into position over
the driveway, it was thought best yesterday
morning to "close the bridge to buggies and
wagons. The electric cars continue running.
THEY MET AGAIN.
A Party That Went West Together Held a
Iteunion Yesterday.
A novel reunion was held yesterday at
the elegant residence of Rev. Levi C Risher
and wife, at Draudsburg. It was a gather
ing ot those who had gone from Pittsburg to
Portland last May in the P. P. car Fresnor
to attend the Presbyterian General Assem
bly. Those present were Rev. Dr. Kemler
and wife, Rev. Dr. Gilson and wife, Dr.
T. D. Davis and wife and Major William B.
Negley, of the East End; Rev. Dr. Shrom,
Rev. A. A. Mealy and wife, of Pittsburg;
Rev. O. M. Werner, of McKee's Rocks;
Miss Helen Slack, ot Pittsburg; Miss Mag
gie McDonald, of McDonald; Mrs. Stewart
Scott and Mrs. O. M. Miller, of Allegheny;
Mrs. Cordelia G. Barr, of Indiana; Rev.
Dr. Bracom and wife, of Forest Grove; Rev.
J. It McKallip, of Beaver. Rev. a a Gil
son was made Chairman, Rev. J. K. Mc
Kallip Secretary and Rev. O. M. Werner
Treasurer.
Rev. Levi Risher made an address of
welcome, giving a graphic account of the
trip across the continent A response was
made by the Chairman and also by Dr.
Strom and Mrs. Barr. At noon a sumptu
ous repast was served by Hagans. In the
afternoon several addresses were made and
original poems were read. A perma
nent organization was effected and another
reunion will be held next September. A
resolution of thanks was passed to Rev.
Levi Risher and wife.
THE DELEGATES APPOINTED.
Itandallites Will Bo Well Represented at
the Club Convention.
An adjourned meeting oi the Randall
Club was held last evening, when the cam
paign Committee reported that they are
arranging a ratification meeting to be held
at the clubhouse in about two weeks.
President S. ADuncan appointed the fol
lowing delegates and alternates tq
the annual meeting of Democratic
Societies of Pennsylvania to be held at
Scranton, Tuesday, September 20. The
delecates are D. O. Barr, Morrison Foster;
O. K. Gardner, Colonel F. I. Rutledge, J.
J. McCasker, T, J. Wallace, J. B. McCul
ley, S. A. Duncan, J. B. R, Streator, Jo
seph C Cuneo, C. W. Stevens, Charles B.
Scott, H. A. Orth, Thomas Donahue, J. B.
McGinley, J. J. McCaffrey, H. T.
Morris and A. F. Dennison. The
alternates are : F. P. lams, J. K. Jscobs,
Henry Meyer, W. W. McClelland, J. G.
Vilsack, J. J. O'Leary, James H. Wallace,
W. A. Kelly, James Powers, John Downey,
Ed Freel, George Hopper, Charles Wolfen
date, Lee Frasber, A. Clark Bane, J. E.
O'Donnell, H. S. Floyd and G F. Mc
Kenna. President Duncan announced that he had
made arrangements for ticRets at reduced
rates. A meeting of the delegates and
alternates will be held Saturday evening at
8 o'clock.
fiENOR SEG ASIA'S POLICY.
He Thinks Long Leases of Party Power Are
Unsuitable for Spain.
Madrid, Sept 15. A large meeting of
the Liberal party was held here to-day, at
which Senor Segasta delivered his long
expected.speech, outlining the programme
of the Liberals. He advocated a simul
taneous reform in the economio situation in
Spain and Cuba. He favored the conclus
ion without delay ot commercial treaties;
the adoption of a scheme tor secondary rail
ways, and the suppression or modification
of the ootroi laws.
He denied tbe necessity of each party
having a long lease of power, and declared
that England's system of long Parliaments
under one Government might not suit Spain,
where the prolonged continuance of a party
in office tended to make slaves of the people.
IUENED THE TABLES.
A Saloon Keeper Threatened "With Trouble
Charges Blackmail.
There is a sensational suit pending before
Alderman Madden, of the Thirty-fourth
ward. Joseph Carr, of Carr Bros., the
well-known Liberty street restaurateurs,
is the defendant in one case on a serious
charge made by Joseph Gall, father of
Belle Gall, a popular young lady of the
West End. vThe hearing has been fixed for
next Tuesday.
Yesterday Mr. Carr made an information
before Alderman McMasters against Belle
Gall and Andrew Smelzer, charging them
with conspiracy and blackmail. Smelzer ii
now in jail, but the young lady has not yet
been arrested.
WILL STUDY IHE BALLOT LAW.
The ConUlIng Club to Erect Voting Booths
on the Southside. ,
The senior members of the Conkling Club,
of the Southside, met last night and. elected
Councilman James E. Flinn, John Hennes
sey and Richard Watkins delegates to the
State Convention to be held in Williams
port, Fa., on September 28. Arrangements
were also made at the meeting to locate
election booths on the-6outhside two weeks
previous to the election for the purpose of
instructing tbe voters in the Baker ballot
system. A committee will be appointed to
impart the instruction and the booths will
be kept open at all hours of the day.
Mail Box Thieves In Detroit
DetbOit, Sept 15. The postoffice au
thorities have a number of special detectives
looking for mail box robbers. Seventeen
boxes were pried open Tuesday nigbt, and
several were rifled last night A man in
woman's clothing was detected In the act
of opening a box last night and was chased,
but escaped.
Arrested on Suspicion.
Charles Mills was arrested on Smithfield
street yesterday afternoon by Detective Mc
Tighe, and locked up as a suspicions char
acter. The prisoner was unable to account
for two pairs ot shoes he ha i with him.
Another World's Fair Rumpus.
Chicago. Sept 15. Dion Geraldine,
Superintendent of Construction of the
World's Fair grounds, resigned to-day. It
is stated that he had some differences with
hla chief, Architect Burnham,
A WEEK OF CALAMITY
Culmiuates in a Peculiar Accident to
Forty or Fiftj Visitors
TO THE OHIO FAIR AT COLUMBUS.
A Section of Glass Sidewalk Over the Neil
House Easement Gives Way,
INJURING MAKI PEOPLE, SOMEFATAMI
fBrKCtjLL TILXOHAM TO TBX DISPATCrM
Columbus, O., Sept 15 This seems to
be a calamity week, and the thousands of
visitors to the State fair -will have occasion
to remember their stay in the capital city
of the State. A few minutes after 9 o'clock
to-night, just after the display of fireworks
in the Capitol Square, which was witnessed
by probably 30,000 people, the second
serious accident of the week occurred in
front of the Neil House block.
James Leach, a crippled dwarf, whose
limbs and arms are shriveled up and who
makes his living toy attending fairs and
whistling on the street; was entertaining
the crowd on High street, just south of the
Neil House entrance, when the hnge jam
of people, consisting nf men, women and
children, crowded on the glass grating over
tbe sidewalk. Without a moment's warn
ing a section of the crating, about 8 by 20
feet,gave way and precipitated 40 or 60 peo
ple to the bottom of the basement The
people went down in the mass of broken
glass and twisted iron, piled three and four
deep.
Instantly there was the greatest excite
ment. A heart-rending scream went up
from the women and" mingled with the cries
of the children and the moanings of the in
jured. Assistance Difficult to Itendcr.
A swaying mass of people crowded about
the place, and ior some moments the jam
was so great that no assistance could be
rendered the unfortunate victims of the ac
cident Finally the police pushed the
crowd back, stretched a rope, and the work
ot rescuing commenced. Those who were
last to go down escaped with slight bruises,
but the unfortunate first were crushed,
bruised and battered up, many having
broken arms and legs, with ugly cuts from
which the blood flowed profusely. In the
heap were old and young, women and men
and children.
The most seriously injured was James
Leach, the cripple, aged about 30 years.
He was unable to walk because of his
shriveled limbs, and his arms were almost
useless at best In the fall both of his legs
and left arm were broken, his face cut in a
dozen places, and he was bruised about the
body. His injuries are considered fatal.
His home is at Pleasantville, Ohio.
Moses Rothschild, German, aged about 50
years, received internal injuries that are
considered serious and probably fatal.
Others who were quickly hurried away
are badly injured, and some of these are be
lieved to be fatally hurt Two patrol
wagons and several hacks were summoned,
and the injured taken to the hospital and
their homes.
A List of Those Injured.
As near as could be ascertained a correct
list of those seriously injured, besides those
already mentioned, is as follows:
William Coraons, aced about 16, 562 George
street, right leg badly cut, foot mashed
and internally ininred.
Mrs. E. J. Hates, South Bloomfleld, loft leg
bruised and internal Injuries.
Mas. L. B. Morris, Z3G Nineteenth street,
limb badly bruised.
Mrs. Beebe Fisher, 132 Vine street, bruised
limbs.
Miss Emma Kkomer, South Front street,
limb bruised and injured about body.
Miss Rose Donauue, Giubb street, West
Side, lower limbs bruised and ugly gash in
liip. A lady friend, whoso name was not
learned, went down with Miss Donoliue.
but received only slight cuts and bruises;
their clothing was badly torn in the fall.
MaudRanset, colored, about 15 years old,
or Jjogan. mxnt icg Drnisea ana sprainea.
Rosa ALSPAuan, West Fulton stroot, arm
TERRIBLE
TO TH
Dealers who believe in keeping up exorbitant prices, but
small profit system
KNOCKED THESVi
IN LESS THAN
TWENTY-ONE
It's a system adopted coupled with legitimate principles that has the tendency to capture the Businsss Man, and
HARD-LABOEIjSe WAGE WORKER,
An element that appreciates good substantial goods for little money. EISNER & PHILLIPS are in business to
do a big business and conduct their business to suit themselves and their customers, and not to please the ideas
of those who wish them to keep up high prices,
AMD THESE ARE THE QUOTATIONS THAT SVIAKE THE FIRM POPULAR:
ISf
alii1 a
Overcoats that are nobby
and sensible, in all the latest
shades and styles. Our win
dows contain all the sha es at
prices that are pleasing and
astonishing.
CLOTHIERS.
' Fifth Avenue, Cor. of Wood Street
badly sprained, chin bruised, and com
plained of several Injuries about body.
Probably fatally hurt.
George W. Hekdersoic, 51) West State
street, cut on arm.
John and Daniel CLARr. brothers, 675 East
Naughten street, badly bruised, but no
bones broken.
Ike Merkle, brnised abont limbs.
1. A. Aiwstroxq, 101 North Front, ankle
dislocated. He is a gnard at thepeniten
tiary, fiom Piko county.
Not less than a dozen other persons, the
extent of whose injuries could not be
learned, were dragged out of the wreck
badly cut and bruised, but able to go home
with the assistance of friends.
THROUGH THEIR FINGERS.
A Slick Confidence Man Gets Away From
the Police on a Habeas Corpus Writ
Superintendent 0'3Iara Will Try to
Remedy a Fault.
Rudolph Von Brandt, or "Sheeny Sam,"
who was sent to the workhouse last Satur
day for 00 days, charged with being a
suspicious character, was released yesterday
on a writ of habeas corpus. His release was
secured Hy Attorney William Hunter. Von
Brandt had an .easy time showing that he
had not acted suspiciously.
After leaving the Court House he started
for tbe Union depot He was just board
ing an east bound train when seen by Su
perintendent O'Mara. That official thought
Von Brandt was in the workhouse and was
quietly working up a case aeainst him for
being a confidence man. O'Mara arrested
him and locked him np in Central station.
There was no charge against him and he had
to be given his liberty.
The Superintendent was considerably
wrought up over the matter. He says the
fellowis known as "Sheeny Sam," one of
the slickest confidence men and bunko
stcerers in the country. Since Saturday
Superintendent O'Mara has been working
up the man's record in other cities, and the
above is what he found.- Von Brandt's
Kcheme is to merge silver and gold, making
it to represent solid gold and then
fool capitalists. He was just getting
rightly started on the investigation of
the man's past life when this unexpected
move was made. It is a wonder to the
Superintendent how the fellow secured an
attorney, unless it wa3 done throueh his
Eastern friends. Saturday lie had no
monev, but vestcrday he was able to put up
$100 forfeit
The system under which this man was
released "is injurious to the workings of the
city police department. This morn
ing Mr. O'Mara will call on Judge
Kennedy and ask him to notify the depart
ment hen such ca3es come up. If he had
knonn of this it would have been an easy
manner to have held Von Brandt until the
necessary evidence was gathered.
LIBERTY STBEET AGAIN.
Deinmler & Schenck's Storo Damaged
More by Water Than Flames."
Between 7 and 8 o'clock last night a fire
was discovered in the cellar of the building
624 and G2G Liberty street, occupied as a
tinware store by Demmler & Schenck. An
alarm was turned in from box 17. Chief
Humphries, on arriving at the
scene, considered the dangerous lo
cality ot the fire and sent in a
second alarm. The department
got to work in good shape and in a short
time the fire was extinguished, not having
been allowed to gain any headway. There
was a vast qnantity of water thrown into
the building, so that the loss from water
will exceed that caused by fire.
Mr. Demmler, one of the members of the
firm, said that ?5,000 would about foot up
the total loss, and this is covered by insur
ance placed in different home companies.
Looking Up Rainers Record.
The police are in communication with
Eastern cities to ascertain the record of
Frank Raincr, the Pullman porter arrested
here the other day while pawning a stolen
diamond. Word was received from Chicago
yesterday that the diamond had been stolen
from Miss Charlotte Eayman, of Columbia,
Ind. She lost considerable other valuable
jewelry which has not been found.
IT WAS A
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DESIGNERS OF PASHIOIT,
Vufiar
HATTERS AND GENTLEMEN'S
THS EAST OHIO CQNFBBENCS.
Numerous Changes Made In the ".Classifica
tion of the Clergy.
Steubehville, Sept 15. iTperial
At the second day's session of the East
Ohio Jlethodist Episcopal Conference, T.
3L Dart and D. Hungsley were placed
upon the superannuated list J. R. Season
was granted a location certificate. A. Jil
Billingsley and A. R. Custer were left
without an appointment, to attend school.
E. H. Tingling and J. J. Jackson, who had
be'en circuit riders for 40 years, andN. CL
Worthington, after 45 years' work, were
placed on the list.also.
Dr. J. a Breckenridge made a plea for
the Methodist Hospital at Brooklyn, after
which the conference resolved to endow one
bed. Silas JT. Pergey, Robert F. Sears and
William S. T. Culp were advanced to dea
cons of the first class. Harry B. Allen, W,
G. Lemon, Robert IL Finch, Robert B.
Van Forsan, S. F. Wood, J. O. Randall,
W. L. Askew, J. B, England, N. E, Hul
bert, J. E. Dort, H. M. Conway, J. L.
Neely were advanced to traveling deacons,
second class. A. C Sledfield and E. E.
Whittaker were elected elders.
SOLO EVZ2TWSSSX.
B. F. BROWN & CO..
Boston, USJL. JITJS.J
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AUCTION SALES.
AUCTION SALE.
FISE FURNITURE, CARPETS. UPRIGHT
PIANO, ETC.
FRIDAY, September IB. at lOo'cloefc at the
rooms of the Henry Auction Comany,24and
20 Ninth St., $20,000 worth of fine furnlturo
consigned tor sale at once; chamber suites in
oak and walnut with French mirrors and
Tennessee marBlo wardrones, chiffonier
desks, bookcases, sideboards, ext tables,
chairs, cbina closets, lounges, fine parlor
suites upholstered in brocatello, tapestry,
plush and hnirciotlt; fine upright piano, cost
$150, almost new; clocks.pioturo, tables,cnr
tains, etc.; elegant -carpets for rooms, halls
and stairs; oilcloth, rugs, etc.: sale positive.
HENRY ALCTION COMPANY, Auctioneers.
ASSIGNEE'S SALE TUE PROPERTY,
No. 9 Congress street, 7th ward, Pitts
burg, Pa., 80 teec front and extending back
89 feet to Elm street, on which is erected a
two-story frame dwelling and frame stable,
will bo offered at public auction on SATUR
DAY. September 24. 18t)2, at 10 o'clock A. if.,
on the premises. This property is well situ
ated, being less thnn half a square from Cen
tral traction railway, and within five min
utes of Postolllco, Court House, etc. Terms
or sale: One-fourth cash on delivery of deed;
residue of purchase money in three yearly
payments, secured by bond and mortgage,
with the right to pay and discharge the Ilea
at the pleasuro of the purchaser.
A. J. PENTECOST,
Auctioneer.
THOS. FLOYD,
Assignee.
THOS. M. MARSHALL.
Attorney.
7T EOTC7TEATO LTH
JC LADIES' TAILOR AND DRESSMAKER,
Takes pleasure in announcing that he will
be at the Hotel Anderson, Pittsbnrs, Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday, September
19, 20 and 21, 1392, where he will show a very
flue assortment of cloths and dres3 mate
rials of bis own importation for fait and
winter wear. Will be prepared to take
measures and guarantee fitting and style
superior to any previous season. 1611 Chest
nut street, Philadelphia.
EISNER & PHILLIPS'
OUT
Gentlemen's double-breasted
Dress and Walking Suits at
$15, $12 and $10, equal to
any $28 custom-made suit in
this section of the country
FURNISHERS.
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