TOTS THE BRITISH.
Tlie Effects of tlic McKinley
Tariff Law on England's
Manufacturers '
:mobe evident each day;
The English Press Unable to Hide Its
Chagrin Over ficsnlts.
GREAT HEAPS OP VITUPERATION
Tiled on the ITead of President Harrison
and other Americans
FOR THE TROTF-CIION THAT PROTECTS
!frrrlAX.TLKCRAJJTO TIIEDHrATCU.l
Xew York, Oct. 14. The Republican
.National Committee to-day sent out the
circnlar detailing theeflect of the McKinley
bill upon the Brituh manufacturers, men
tioned in yesterday's telegrams to The
Dispatch. The railing of the British
liress and the vituperation upon the head of
Mr. McKinley are cited as the best test of
money to the efficicy of the Mclvinley
measure in preserving the American mar
kets for American manufacturers. The cir
cular is as iollons:
What hai the Mclvinley act done lor
British inantiiacturcrs'.' The best answerto
ti:e question, the best testimony to the
efficacy or the Mclvinley measure in pre
serving the American market for such
manufactures as Americans can produce as
veil or better than anybody else in the
world, is ionnd in the perpetual railings of
the British pi ess the vituperation which it
heap upon the head ot Mr. McKinley and
the Republicans, its cry tor the repeal of
the act and its consequent avowed desire for
the triumph ot 3Ir. Cleveland in the coming
cleciion.
English newspapers speak with a degree
of frankness and a volume of misinforma
tion and misunderstanding which are the
more ludicious by reason of the vicious
enerpy with uhicli they are delivered. At
the same time, they try to glaze over the
mattrr, to coat the pill, to smile and make
the best of it. The faets, however, ore too
plain to be overlooked. Almost everv issue
ot almost every newspaper tells with ill-concealed
chagrin some uew story of embarrass
ment to British trade caused bv Mclvinley.
Eloquent of woe and lVratlu
The Republican National Committee is
in receipt of an enormous quantity of clip
pings from British journals, eloquent of
woe and wrath. The Hun endeavors not to
howl, but his tail has beyond question,
been vigorously twisted, and the uhineis
audible enouglu The Midland Evening Sines,
published at Yolverhamptou, says:
A Yorkshire firm, scarcely less well
known than tl'at ot Sir Titus halt, have de
termined not to await the calamity that has
fallen upon saltuire. They are in much the
same uayof business as the Salts, manu
facturing plushes, titi:ichuiis, mis and
shawls. Like tne sreat Saltaire house, thcy
have been heavily hit by tho McKinley tar
itt. A lev yeais aso they ncre in the habit
ot doing a lmines with tho United States
which turned oer at least 2(M,O00 a year.
The McKinley tantr has had the effect o. re
ducing their American business by SO per
cent. They hate resolved to close their
lactones m Yoikshirn, one of which has
been in unintenupted cmaration tor 10
years, and bctiu again in the United States.
They have selected Jamestown for their
new home, and ale building their factories,
callable, like tho English mill mid its
branches of employing 1.200 operatives.
Arrangements are being made for the emi
vraiioi', witn the heads ot the Arm, of a
considerable number of their old hand-.
Beginning; to .see "Where They're At.
The firm 01 Salt & Sous, to which first
reference is made in the mournful para
graph above quoted, was considered as solid
as the Bank ol England. When it went to
the wall, on account ot the McKinley act,
.xiiher English manufacturers, it seetus,
tapan to see "where they were at," and to
make provisions accordingly. The same
story of fear and trembling, and of the
shutting down of factories has come from
"Wales, and all the time that the news of
these depressions in British trade is being
published, the editorial fabricators are en
deavoring to reason themselves and the
uneasy British public into a belief that,
after all, things are not as had as they
seem.
The firm of Salt, it has been said, aban
doned business more as a natural result ot
general circumstances than as the outcome
ot the Mclvinley act. The only trouble was
that there are a tew trade organs and other
papers which are frank enough, excited
enough and sore enough to tell the truth
about it before they have considered the
policy of so quickly yielding the point.
A Tale of the Tin Plate Trade,
Here is a bit from the fit. Jama Gazette
concerning the tin question. It tells the
story:
A correspondent or the Exchange Tele
craph Con pany states that the tatal blow
that bus befn struck at tne tin plate uadeof
I boutli Wales bv the McKinley taiiff is non
being felt in its lull foice and the largest
maiket lor tin plates In the world ha been
practically closed to profitable trade. Hop
ing against hope, iiianuiactnrcrs carried ou
their works, looking for the possibility of
tlieubiogatiou ot the taiitT; but tho recent
letter of President llariison, makinu this
protective uiuiiMire a chief plan in nispro-u'l-.umnu
and claiming lor It benefits to home
trade and the labor marker, has left South
Wales no altei native but to face the fact of
its only too probable continuance, and, as
mi immediate consequence, tho stopp.ige of
one tin jilate woi-ks after another' has be
come necestni-y. Wonroam the tlnciio!d
r the winter, with probably 20,000
wnikinen out of employment, toetner
Willi the lnr,e number dependent ou tho
bread earners The mischief will unfortu
nately not be confined to the tin plate trade,
but has wide ramifications uflecting tho
coil, steel and other industries drpnudent
upou the noil being of the tin place busi
ness. Within one ..lontii we shall lmvo 203
tint of u total ol 510 tin mines stopped. How
far the i eduction oi tin plate stocks on the
other side, or a material leductien in the
hib scale of wages now obtaining, mHy on
able Welsh maikets to meet the inevitable
peimnnent reuuction in price of plate re
mains to be ecn. But, in the meantime, a
period of distress and proximate mill to
,inany will have to be experienced, and
many a thriving neighborhood of which the
tin ulate woiks is the center and malustay
will become a scene of desolation.
Fitiiul as AVell as Snarliili.
When such stress is laid, in conjunction
with the facts, upon President Harrison's
letter, efforts like the following from the
Birmingham Argus to depreciate the Presi
dent's communication seem feeble and piti
ful, a3 well as snariisli:
President Harrison is verbose. President
Harrison's ansertions need verification. If
the average American citizen ever troubles
himself tc wade through the lonn-u inded
viecuon auuiess oi tno retiring President
lie must inevitably become a llemocr.it, it
only as a protest against the appointment
nf prosy politicians to the lilirhest office in a
ltcpublican government. The improved
piospectsoftice trade in America since the
linn decimation of. .Mr. Cleveland in lavnr
ot such a fiscal policy mav account for the
iriitiitiou winch Mr Huirison displays and
the luoidinatc length at which he attempts
to make the worse appear tho better reason.
While all impartial observers have declared
the McKinley tiriff lo be an erregious
commeicial Dl under. President Uairison
assumes its success; but be is very wise In
confining liunselr to safe generalizations
and refraining from employment of tacts
and figures to establish bis case.
This well-posted English editorcoucludes
bis ptfilippic with the somewhat surpris
ing statement to- Americans that "Presi
dent Harrison's letter has created an un
favorable impression inAuierica." As lor
the facts and figures which he upbraids the
President for not going into more tully.it
might be well for some of the 'apostles of
free.trad in this country to forward to him
and such'a3 him copies of a report recently
made bv Mr. Peck, of the Bureau ot Labor
Statistics in tbe State of New York, U. &
A. That tarnishes figures which seem to'
iiutc oeeo suracieat ior even me most erm
cal and inquisitive free traders on this side
of the water.
No Need of Coming Here for Figures
But the editor of the Birratncbsm Mgys
will not need, after all, to come to America
for his statistics. An ample supply of
them is furnished by the liia to (London),
of the date of September 10,. in an article
upou "Our Trade with tbe United States."
It speaks frankly in introduction of the sub
ject and tbe figures thereto appertaining.
It says:
The effects of the McKinley tariff upon
British trade are beginning to make them
selves felt In a specific form. For some
time past the Board or Trade returns have
supplied conclusive evidence thut in certain
directions we were suffering from the pro
hibitive duties which came into foice In
the United States two years ago. Prom tbeso
figures It was but too easy to deduce
conclusions as to tho districts, the indus
tries, even the private firms and public
companies likely to be most affected. Now
we have to deal not only with general sta
tistics, but such uglj- tacts as tho proposed
liquidation of the old firm of Sir Titus Salt,
Sons & Co. aud other similar troubles in
the Bradford district and elsewhere. But
the Salt business is not the only one in the
Bradford district that has come to grief re
cently, and in tlio other cases the protec
tionist policy of the United States plays no
minor part.
Then the editor proceeds to the figures
which the Birmingham Arqus man wants so
badly. He takes them lrom the latest pub
lished Board ot Trade returns, and tbey are
here reproduced in tabular lorm:
Mritisb Exports to the -United States.
Jan'ary July. !'"
articLFS. ism. .JSOi. Decre'se
Pounds. I'oqihI. Pounds.
Wool (raw) 183 Ml 8G.2S4 87,667
Cotton, piece roods. .. 7K.7A) 0M.883 392.188
Jute, pleee goods 77:.WI 77.t'l3 J.33S
Unen, piece goods.... 1.02U.7U.1 I,liS.41 HI, M0
hllk, yarn, etc 2IG,to3 bo.821 IJU,b6S
SIIk and other mater
ials IIT.oTTj fil.lSO 5MT7
Woolen tissues., HVJS2 -414.493 32.491
Worsted tissues....... 1, 174, Si i 1. 304. MS 3J),1
Iron, pi?.., ... 113.133) r.7,211 14,178
Till, plates 4.4C79Q 2.155,194 2.177.J96
htrcl, umvruugllt 151,73.) 197.3SS 4;,(C0
.machinery, miscella
neous 5SS.37J fiOW.' i4.I58
Alkali 7I5,P 3.I37 45.95'i
Cement 171,770 1HS.7S6 77.'l-4
I-arilu-nTare 504.543 499.191 5.37
Comparison of Exports lo United States.
After this table is published the follow
ing figures are lurnished bv John C New,
Consul to London, in his report:
rr c r. , . .- , lMI Compared
U. S. Consulate. Staple. Wi 1310.
Belfast Uncus ,S 1 155 SOT,
Bradford Sluft. 12.729 :wj
llardifl 'Jin plates 2,5soi79o
U.as.COW Options 1,719,861
Lpeds Yv ooleus and worsteds, 2.348,018
London Miscellaneous 7, 467,444
Manchester. Cottons 1,893.258
Nottingham I.ace 1,410 3G2
SliettielJ Cutlery 1.050.'c54
"These are ghastlv fizures." continues
the writer, "and it is but colu comfort to
find that the first seven months ot 1892 show
a recovery of part of the loss under certain
headings. The tin plate figures are, of
course, abnormal, and it is the decrease in
18112, not the increase in 1891, which is the
index to the effects of the tariff: It is sat
isfactory, so far as it goes, to find that we
are not losing further ground, but it is un
fortunately only too plain, from the figures
we have given, why our contemporary
should call the present position of affairs in
Bradford a 'crisis.' "
A NAKED LAMP DID IT.
Five Dead and Six Injured, Is the List at
Sterling Colliery Three of tho Wounded
3Iay Live Various Theories or the
Cause.
Shamokin-, Oct. It Five dead and six
injured, three of whom stand chances of re
covery, is the result of yesterday's explos
ion at Sterling colliery, a disaster which
has not had its equal in this section for
many years. The lollowing is a list of the
dead and injured:
Dead Thomas O'Garo, hoy; Benjamin
lliomas, Samuel Collins, James Doney and
John ISaeevi lire, miners.
Injured IToraco .Pricekdoor, boy; William
iLuu-uifi, luaurr, mil hiiu uurneu: William
Iluck, driver.cut and wiist binken; Daniel
Keed, driver, bruised and burned, will
piobnbly die; Michael Wutchrok, bruised
and burned; Patrick SIcDevitt, bruised
und burned.
As to the cause of the explosion, mine
officials advance several theories, but the
most plausible one, as (riven by Super
intendent Veith, of the Philadelphia and
Beading Coal aud Iron Company, is that
a lane quantity of top rock and coal,
loosened by a shot, fell into an old breast
in which was confined a large volume of the
dangerous gas, causing it to sweep through
the pansrway and become ignited from a
naked lamp,' causing tire explosion.
Eye witnesses sav there were two ex
plosions, one following ouickly after the
other. Patrick McDevittj Joseph Ketchie
aud Michael Wetohcrok madcseemingly
miraculous escapes and came out of the
mine with but a few scratches. Although
thev ha'l been at work in the same breast
with the four unfortunates who were en
tombed by the fall of rock and debris and
were taken out deid, the four men left the
breast on the first appearance of gas and
inn. to meet their death. As soon as word
reached John F. Welsh, the inside foreman,
he immediately organized a rescuing party,
and although beaten back several times by
the deadly "blacfc damp" they set to wort:
removing the loose stuff, working inces
santly in relief gangs to recover the dead
and injured and reach the entombed men.
This was finally done at 11 o'clock last
night, when th6 last of those entombed was
reached and brought to the surface.
POLITICAL gossip from tho scenes o
actiiity attractively presented in THE DIS
PATCH to-morrow.
MOBBED AND HEABLY KILLED.
Itongh Experience of a Colored Editor Who
Is Slaking Campaign Speeches.
"Wilmington, Del, Oct. "14. A. Worth
ington Brinkley, colored, editor of the Dela
ware Twdight, who has been addressing meet
ings in the Slate in the interest of the In
dependent Colored Men's party, a political
organization which has filei official notice
of intention to put a' State ticket in the
'field, was mobbed and threatened with
lynching at Dover. Brinkley was in a
store kept by a man named Smith, when a
gang of negroes gathered around and or
dered him out of town forthwith. On
Brinkley's declining to coniplv there were
cries ot "Kill nim, beat lifm," and the
demonstration became so threatening that
the police were called Jinon. Brink-loir
started to his boarding house under the es
cort ot two policemen, followed bv the
mob, some of whom shouted that "Uo negro
should come there and make Democratic
speeches." Finally some bricks were
thrown, one of 11 hich struck Officer Kinna
mon, breaking one of his ribs. Sheriff Cole
was then notified, and he succeeded in dis
persing the rioters.
This morning Joshua Parker, Moses Bias,
Jacob Laws and James Cook, all colored,
were arrested and given a hearing on
charges of rioting and inciting to riot. Par
ker was held in ?W0 and the others in 100
bail each lor trial at the next term of court.
A Xew S3 Connterreit Out.
Washington, Oct. 14. The Chief of the
Secret Service Division, Treasury Depart
ment, announces that a new counterfeit $5
silver certificate was put in circulation in
Chicago October 1L It has the new back,
and is of the series 1891; check letter C;
Bosecrans, Begister; Nebeker, Treasurer.
The paper is iairand an imitation of the new
distinctively distributed fiber paper used
by the Government, the fiber being imitated
in blue and pink ink by the use ot a pen."
Outlaw Christie Flees Through 1'lmnes.
Tahi-equah, I. X, Oct. 11. Ned Chris
tie, the outlaw, who resisted the attack of
Lthe United States Marshals for two days,
escaped yesterday. Jb ailmg to dislodge him
from his stronghold the attacking nartv set
fire to tbe cabin. The desperado leaped
through the flames and made hit eseape.
BUCK BROTHERS WIN
An Alabama Contest in the Congre
gational ConncH, So Far as
THE COMMITTEE CAN SETTLE IT,
Far Westward the Kelt Triennial Meeting
Will 7aVe its Way.
ME BEXEYOLENT SOCIETIES' TOPIC
Minneapolis, Oct. 14. This morning,
when the Congregation Convention relieved
the soberer parts of its work by allowing
tbe advocates of the different cities who
wanted the noxt meeting a chance to speak
in favor of .their respective cities, wave
after wave of Janghter and applause rolled
up from the auditorium at the humorous
speeches made. Thfrmatter came up on the
report of the committee 0041 lace aud time
of next meeting, which was in favor of the
Pacific coast, either at San Francisco or
Taconia.
Grand Bapidi, Mich., was also a candi
date, but the council voted by a large ma
jority to meet on the Pacific coast at the
point to be decided on by the Provisional
Committee.
The Comuiitteee on Credentials made a
report on the Alabama ca.e, the substance
being that the representatives of the Ala
bama association, composed of whites,
should not be admitted.
The Question Hinges on the Color IJne.
The regular association, which has been
in existence for 17 years, is composed of
colored people and is represented in'the
couucil as in former councils. There was a
protracted discussion. The whole matter
hinged on the color line. The discussion
was intense, but with no outspoken words,
of bitterness. It was finally returned to a
committee of five to make a report later in
the meeting.
The committee to whom was rererred the
report of the Committee on Belations of
Our Benevolent Societies to the Churche,-
reported as follows:
Your committee has had the matter under
cavei 111 consideration ana is imanimous in
tho opinion thin important" changes in or
gnnlz.itlons of such large scope and respon
sibility as our benevolent societies slionld
be
mnue witn great care and only alter a
very full eonsideiaftion of the obiectloiiB to
such changes, and that the time has not
come lor recominendin;; so ladical a change
as the consolidation or the home societies
into pne organization. In casos where, as
in the proposed consolidation of the now
West KJucational Commission with the
Amei lean College and Education Society,
consolidation is possible without any dis
turbance of feeling, such consolidation is to
be heartily welcomed; but tlio work of -other
societies is so varied and so extensive
that comparatively little could be gained bv
their consolidation, .while at the best there
w oula be some danger ot serious trouble re
sulting from anv hasty movements chang
ing entirely the constitution as at-picsent
organized.
Changes Should Come From the Committee.
It may or may not become desirable to
unite some of the-o societies after these
societies have become the representatives
ot the church and in the sense intended by
tho council of 1837, when it declared its
opinion in favor of steps which in due time,
will make the societies the representatives
of the cnurclies. Tour committee is further
more unanimous in its opinion that the
changes necessary in order to make the
society loiinallv tho representative of the
churclie, should, if possible, originate in
the societies themselves, und be such as
commend themselves to those who have had
long experience in the management ot their
affairs.
Your committee, therefore, recommend
the adoption of the following resolutions as
a substitute ior tuo recommendation re
feried to them:
Unsolved. That this council earnestly de
sires that all the benevolent societies shall
be made in reality, and not in a figurative
sense only, the lepresontatives of tho
chinches.
Resolved, That this council further ex
pi esses tlio earnest hope that the board,
through its committee, will devise sneb
measuies 11s will show the confidence of the
board in the churches and result In in
creased confidence of the churches in the
board.
Resolved. That the associations of
ohiirches bo advised to make nominations)
during tho coming year to fill vacancies in
the board; that a committee of nine be ap
pointed to whom shall be referred the sub
ject ot lepresemation of the churches in the
societies, with the object of cpmbining sta
bility ith tho principle of representation of
the churches.
JThe report was adopted. The Committee
cm the Relation ol Benefit Societies made an
extensive report that the union should be
effected on terms satisfactory to both sides.
A QUESTION OF MORALITY
Disturbs tho Episcopal Convention and Is
Shelved A Deputy Wants Drunken and
Erring Pastors Constitutionally Sus
pended for One Tear TUo Colored
Missions.
BAltimoke, OcJ. 14. In the House of
Deputies ot the Triennial General Con
vention of the Protestant Episcopal Church
this morning, Bev. William Jones, of
Arkansas, offered a resolution providing
that a clergyman convicted of a serious
offense, such as drunkenness orimmorality,
be prohibited from officiating for at least
one year after the commission of such
offense. It was apparent that the House
was not pleased with this motion. Its
necessity was questioned. When the
threatening rnntterincs and expressions
were stilled by a motion to lay it on tbe
table. President Dix put the question
"No," and it was carried. Dr. Jones said
he had known mauv instances during bis
life in the West ol clergvmea being driven
irom.-their posts in one diocese, and imme
diately assuming their clerical functions in
another diocese.
J. M. Woolworth, Chairman of tbe Com
mittee on Bnles, presented a voluminons
report. The long set of rules proposed by
Mr. Burgwm, ot Pittsburg, to govern the
convention in acting on the report of the
Hymnal, was favorably reported and
adopted by the House.
At 11 o ciock tne nouses met in joint ses
sion as the Board of Missions, A discus
sion followed on the scheme to leave tbe
colored work in the hands of the Southern
bishops. Bishop Dudley's resolution mak
ing the bishops of Delaware, Maryland and
other Southern States a commission to take
charge ot the colored missions was read and
with an amendment was referred back to
the committee. The vote ou the recom
mittal of the colored report was recon
sidered. A motion to remit tbe matter to
the General Board of Managers was carried.
Bev. Dr. Khodes, of Southern Ohio,
offered a motion to add to the canon rela
tive to the renunciation ot the ministry, the
proviso that all said ecclesiastical authori
ties shall, in recording and publishing such
deposition, state that it was honorable and
at tho request of the person deposed. Re
ferred to the Committee on Canons.
THE WHITE HOUSE sufferer and her
career with illustrations by De Grim In
THE DISPATCH to-morrow.
Vengeance of the Law Invoked.
Washington, Oct 14. Attorney Gen
eral Miller has instructed the United States
District Attorney for the "middle district of
Tennessee to vigorously prosecute the cases
against the men implicated in the recent
assassination of revenue officers, nearFlint
ville, Tenn. The-Attorney General says
this officer is one or the best in tbe service,
and that he has not thought it necessary to
appoint a special attorney -to assist him in
the prosecution 'of these cases, especially as
he had not asked for assistance.
A Plnm Tor Pittsburg.
Harkisburg, Oct 14. Special
Nearly all the school districts of the State,
except those of Pittsburg, have received
their share of the (5,000,000 appropriated
bv the Legislature. Pittiburz is entitled
to about $192,000,
, TA-RA-BA TABOOED. -
Only the Choicest Patriotic Airs to Be
Flayed, by the Bands In the Chicago
Parfcde The Manufacture Building
Will Hold 200,000 People.
Chicago, Oct. 14. The accommodations
for the vast crowds that will assemble at the
World's Fair dedication exercises in the
colossal structure knowii as the Manufst
ures Building were rapidly nearing com
pletion to-day. There will be seating ca
pacity for 60,POO .person, with scarcely
one-third of the building occupied for tbe
purpose, so that nearly "00,000 will find
room in the aisles and other parts of tbe
structure. Forty-seven carloads of new
chairs for the spectators have arrived. The
lighting facilities, consisting of 230 electric
lights of 2,000 candle power each, were
being subtended this alter rfoon from the
massive roof in clusters of four and six.
A force of 700 men were employed in the
Manufactures building preparations alone.
Downtown the streets were full of wagons
loaded with decorating material, and every
where ahwig the curbs expressman were on
loading bundles of flags ana bales of bunt
ing, while decorators aud their employes
rushed about in a manner that left no doubt
of their calling.
The committee which has charge of the
arrangements for the dedicatory "ball held
a meeting at General Miles', ofiieelthls after
noon and decided to sell no more tickets for
admission. Three thousand have been sold
already, and, that being the limit fixed, tbe
people who have received invitations and
failed "to pnrchase admission checks before
to-day cannot attend.
All along Michigan avenue windows are
being offered lor rent for the day of the
parades. Priees that seem astounding are
demanded for the privilege of peering
througu one-tenth of a window tor two
hours. In one place 0 was asked for the
use of a small room with two windows
fronting on the line of march. It was ex
plained by the lessee of the building that 20
persons conld view the parade through
these windows, and that, after all, $2 50 per
person for such accommodation was not
exorbitant
A pleasant relief to disagreeable features
was afforded by Chief TomlTns, ot the music
department, who to-day ordered that all
bands marching in the civic paratle should
play, in unison and that all tunes like
"Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-aye" should be discarded.
Only the very best patriotic airs are to be
used.
NEW AMERICAN SHIPS.
It Takes Three Tears for the International
Company to Meet Its Contract.
PiirLADnLPiilA, Oct 14. A visit to
general offices of the International Naviga
tion Company, with which the Postmaster
General yesterday signed a c ptract for
carrying trans-Atlantic mails under the
postal subsidy, act, dis losed the fact that
from one to three months will elapse before
the plans for the new vessels required in the
service will be completed, and that the full
limit of three years allowed for fulfillment
of the contract will be needed to construct
the vessels. At least five new ships must J
oe bum, anu wnue one or two ot tnose may
be finished in 27 months, the weekly arri
age of mails in American built vessels,
according to special specifications, from
New York to Sonthampt n and Antwerp
cannot be accomplished until the whole
fleet is complete, even add ngthe steamship
City of New York and. City of Paris now in
commission.
While the general requirements of speed
and tonnage are specified in the contract,
the details of size, dimensions and equip
ment are to be determined by the company.
"Various suggestions as to these details were
placed in the hands of draughtsmen as soon
as the contract was awarded by the Post
master General, September 10, and prelim
inary plans on these diverse lines for the
first two ships to be constructed are being
prepared for comparison, improvement and
final selection. When this work is accom
plished the designs will be placed with the
William Cramp & Sons' company for exe
cution. The vessels will be passenger steam
ships of the first clasi, of iron or steel, not
less than 8,000 tons burden, maintaining a
20-knot speed at sea in ordinary weather,
and under the postal sudsidy act must be of
American build.
BLAMED OR THE 0P2BAT0H.
Five Men and Several Valuable Race
Horses Killed In a Connecticut Wreck.
New London, Conn., Oct 14. The Bos
ton express freight train, which left the city
this morning at 5:40, collided with the Brat
tleboro freight train, bound south, about
1,000 feet south of the flag station at Harri
son's Landing on the New England Bail
road. The engines came together head and
head. The first car of the train contained
four race horses bound for the races at
Groton to-day. Four' of the five men in
charge of the horses were killed outright,
and one so fearfully injured that he died a
few minutes after reaching the city. The
killed men are: Hiney, Gillen,
Ballston Spa, N. Y.; .Edward" Moore, Nor
wich; McKenna." residence unknown;
of the fifth man nothing is known.
or the tiores milled were Teddy K,
Brockaway, Wonderful Cure and Jennie
Maynard. Nope of the train hands suffered
injury other than that sustained in jumping
from the trains. The train dispatcher of
the road at Norwich is declared to be the
person at fault, and he has been placed un
der arrest
THE F0TJL C0HH0QTJENESSING.
OU and Salt Water Destroying Every Tra ce
of Vegetation on IU Banks.
jtfEW Castle, Oct 14. Special A
gentleman who has just returned from a
trip on foot through the valley of the Con
noqucnessing in Lawrence and Beaver
connties, says that every trace of vegetable
and atiimaj life in that stream has been des
troyed by the oil and salt water irom the
wells near Zelienople and Harmony.
Three years ago this stream was full of fine
bass, pike and salmon; but during tbe past
year thev have been driven out, and the
stream has become so highly impregnated
with salt water that, tbe cattle reluse to
drink it
Owing to the prevailing drouth the smal
ler streams are dry, and stock is beginning
to sutler terribly ior water. The Beaver,
into which the Connoquenessing empties, is
also befouled in the same way, so that the
water is unfit even for steaming purposes,
and unless heavy rains come soon serious
consequences will follow.
A Defaulting Treasurer to Be Pardoned.
YouNGSTOVN, Oct, 14. Special.
Daniel Douglass, tbe defaulting treasurer
of Youngstonrn tornship-, will soon be re
leased from the penitentiary. The Board
of Pardons has recommended to Governor
McKinley that he be pardoned. Douglass
is penniless, the money he stole having
been wasted wheu he was in business here
or spent trying to get a county office.
Chicago In Danger of a Water Famine.
Chicago, Oct 14, One of the large
double-beam pumps at the Chicago avenue
water works was disabled to-day. In conse
quence the city will be deprived of a daily
water supply ot 30,000,000 gallons until re
pairs can be made, which will require 30
days. City officers in charge of the Water
Department profess not to tear a famine.
An Equine Murderer Near Alliance.
Alliance, Oct 14. ISpeeial At
Braceyille to-day a stray horse invaded the
school playground. Harry Templeton. six
years old, was sent to drive tbe animal off the
premises. The little fellow struck tbe
horse with a whip, when it kicked him in
the face, crushing his skull and dashing his
brains oat
THE TALE OF i TAIL.
Philadelphia doctor's Defense
Against a Cruelty Charge.
HE SAYS HE DOESN'T DOCK TAILS,
As He la Entirely Too Tender-lJesTted to Po
an Act of TJiat Kind.
AN INTERESTING CASE TOE JI0RSBMEN
Philadelphia, Oct 14. The tale of
Mrs. Caroline M. Brooks' horse's tail has
another interesting, chapter. Dr. William
L. Zailla, professor of veterinary surgery
at the University, curtailed this appendage
in quetion,but says that he did not dock
it Dr. Zuilla did cut off tbe tip of the
horse's tail on September 24, and the
woman's branch of the 6. P. C A., learning
what had been done, prosecuted him and
Mrs. Brooks before Magistrate McCarty,
who fined them each 23 for "svanton cru
elty." The doctor refused to pay the fine and the
case will be taken into the courts. He is
undoubtedly one-of the most learned and
prominent veterinary surgeons jniPbiladel
phia, and he feels he is justified in per
forming the operation by the diseased con
dition of tbe tail's extremity. He told a
Dispatch reporter all about it to-day.
"I have sin ays opposed the needless
docking of horses' tails," said Dr. Zn-
nia, "so l have always taugut my students
in my clinics. .
A Duty Only of the Groom.
"So strongly do I feel about unnessary
cruelty to animals that I have never even
cut the tails and ears of, puppies. While
there is not a hundredth part ot the pain
associated with this sort of thing that tbe
S. P. C. A. would have people Believe, I
bold that tail-docking .and ear-cutting are
offices to be performed by the hostler or
the groom not by the veterinarian.
But when a horae's tail is diseased,
when there is a tumor on it, or a running sore,
or a bad swelling on it that makes it sensi
tive, then it is the surgeon's duty to remove
the disorder. This is all that I did to Mrs.
Brooks' horse, and if the S. P. C. A. thinks
it can stop me from doing this in the future,
the S. P. P. A. will fina itself yery much
mistaken.
"This is how the thing occurred: Mrs.
Brooks came to me and said she had a bay
horse with a very restless and sensitive tail.
He was constantly switching the tail about,
hitting the dashboard, the reins and the
singletree and the slightest contact with
these thincs. hurt htm. and he crouched
down and prepared to kick. Several times
he did kick, doing considerable damage. I
said I would examine his tail, and called at
the stables a few days later.
A Diseased Tail Curtailed.
iV'l found the extremity of tbe tail swollen
and very sensitive, and when I touched it
the horse kicked. Accordingly I amputated
tbe sensitive part, which was about 5 inches
long, leaving still 14 inches to the horse.
There was no shedding of blond, and no
more pain than it I had given tbe animal a
sharp blow with a whip. I amputated just
enough to prevent the tail from hitting the
shafts and the dashboard. There was no
docking whatever, because when you dock
a tail you leave it only seven inches long.
"Now the society's agent, Mr. Carlyle,
testified before Magistrate McCarty that
the tail was not 5 inches long. His testi
mony was not true. I and. several other
veterinarians have measured it, and find it
144 inches long. He also testified that
atter the operation blood was scattered
about tbe floor. .The fact is that not a drop
of blood flowed at all.
"There have been three hearings in this
case," Dr. Zuilla concluded, "and there are
going to be several more. I don't propose
to allow the S. P. C A. to interfere with
the legitimate work of a surgeon, and I
intend to teach them a lesson."
LATE PUBLICATIONS.
The following new books are among the
publications of the week which have
reached The Dispatch table:
"Wrecked on the Bermudas," the thrilling
adventures of throe boys, Dy Captain W. E.
Meyer, of Bermuda. Illustrated. C. T. Dil
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Pittsburg.
"Sunday Heading for the Touns," with 230
original illustrations, E J. B. Yonntr & Co.,
Cooper Union, Fourth avenue, New York.
J. R. Weldin & Co., Plttabiinr.
"Desserts and Salads," by Uestne 'Leriicfee,
principal of school rorcooklmrln Brooklyn,
N. Y. Charles Dillingham & Co., New York.
J. K. Weldin & Co., Pittsburg. x
, "Mr. Wilts' Widow-A Frivolous Tale,"
by Anthony Hope, author of "Father Staf
ford." United States Book Company. J. B.
Weldin, Pittsburg.
"Joshua Wrav'' novel by Hans Steven
son Benttie. United States Boole Company,
New York. Weldin Co.. Pittsburg.
"The Story or the Life or Maokay, of
Uganda" Told for boys bv his sister. A. C.
ArmstiongiSon, Now York. Weldin & Co.,
Pittsburg.
"Sir Godfrey's Granddaughter." a novel
by llnsn Nonchetto Carey. J. B. Lippincott
v;o., Jt-uiiaaeipuia. j. a. n einin, X'lttsuurg.
"Under -tne Water Oaks," by Marian
Brewster, illustrated, by J. F. Gordrtdge, a
story ior youne people. Boberts Bros., Bos
ton, J. E. Weldin, Pittsburg.
Jane Austen's novels,'Nortban7er Abbey"
and "Porsnaslon," price $t 25 each; Boberts
Bras., Boston. J. It Weldin, Pittsburg.
"Itenerary or General Washington' from
June 15, 1773, to December 2$, 17b3. By Will
iam S. Baker, J. B. Linpincott, PiiUadel
pnta. J. R. Weldin, Plttsbum. This was
originally pnblished in the Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography, and is
now brought together in this single volume
with many additions.
A New Presbyterian Qhnrch.
Beavee Falls, Oct 'li. Specla'.
The Pittsburg Presbytery of the Beformed
Presbyterian Church has granted the peti
tion of about 80 families connected with the
the Eeformed Presbyterian Church of this
piace, to withdraw from that society and
found a congregation of their pwn. The
reason given for the new departure is that
the petitioners live ou College Hill, a suburb
of Beaver Falls, which is too far away from
the present place of worship. The new
society will build a handsome church.
Smallest Specimen of Femininity.
The smallest fully developed woman in
the world and certainly beyond a doubt the
smallest in the United States, is MJss Ellen
Tickel, of Heno postoffice, Butler county,
Ohio. She is 28 inches tall, 29 years of age,
and weighs 3C pounds. She grew like other
children until she reached the age of three.
She is symmetrical, and. has been healthy
and strong all her life.
The Figs in Florida.
Florida fig trees are bearing their third
crop now, this season being an exception
ally favorable one for the fruit; There are
several varieties of figs, which ripened at
different seasons The purple and brown
figs are now at their best, and Florida pa
pers speak enthusiastically of their Ins
ciotisness when eaten right from the trees.
Don't Take the Disk
Of fire or thieves, but keep your valuable
papeis, bonds, etc., in the f life deposit vaults
of tbe Farmers' Deposit National Bank, 66
Fourth avenue. Boxes rented at $5 a year
and upward,
De Witt's Little Early Risers, liest pill
for biliousness, sick headache, malaria.
Sec James II. Aiken & Co.'s novelties in
men's neckwear, 100 Filth avenue.
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CiOOPEU An cxnerlenrd cooper to hesd up uall
kefirs: also several bovs to set ud Kezs. tack
lioons and make rseia; food wags and steariv em
ployment. Apply Monday. Oct. 17, rroin 10 to U
o'clock a. si,, at office of JJradilock Wire Co.,
-Rankin, Pa, '
A C00LEY 6AN8 TRICK.
Tonng Girl Tied to a Post and Gagged on
Marion Street The Story Disbelieved by
the Police-She Is Discharged by Her
distress.
A servant girl in the employ of J. O. Me
Ginness at No. 18 Marion street was the
principal figure in an interesting little
drama -yesterday. Tbe girl is known as
Mamie Nee, and she is only 1G years old.
Shortly before 11 o'clock in the morning
she went to the cellar, leaving Mrs. McGin
ness and her son, a.boy of 12, in the room
directly above. About 15 minutes later the
son also went to the cellar and was fright
ened nearly out of his wits by seeing the
girl tied up to a post with a rope and her
apron tied across her mouth as a gaj.
The boy ran upstairs and told his mother,
who called in a man she knew from tbe
street to go to the cellar and investigate.
When be went down he cat. the girl loose
and untied the bandage from her face.
Then she told a queer story.
Upon going to the cellar she had gone to
a closet and was busily engaged there when
she heard a step behind her, but, supposing
it was her mistress, paid no attention to it
until she was suddenly seized by a man,
who clapped his hand over her month, pre
venting an outcry. While holding her the
man jerked her apron off and gagged her
with it, after which he produced a piece of
clothas line from his pootet and bound her
with her back to a post
Strange to say, the girl could give no
description of the man, said she had been
unable to get a view of his face, and de
clared that farther than as already stated
had not harmed her. How he had escaped
without going out through the house, the
only meansof exit, the young girl could
not explain, though she insisted her state
ment was altogether true.
The police were notified and investigated
the matter. Proceeding on the assumption
'that the girl was not telling the truth, they
.interviewed the man who had (relensed the
girl, who said that it might have been pos
sible for her to have tied herself, although
he was pot sure about it The officers
searched .the house, but they could find no
man or any evidence tnat one had been
there.
. Mrs. McGinness discharged the girl yes
terday p.fter the police investigation. A
singular point in connection with the case
is that last Saturday an installment peddler
visited the house during the absence of the
family and insisted on going upstairs, say
ing he wanted to look at the jewelry. The
girl says she prevented him from going up
stairs, but when he left he said he would re
turn. She cannot identify him as her assail
ant of yesterday. An attempt was made to see
the girl at her home at the Point last night,
but she was not at home. Her right name
is said to be Callahan, thongh she is known
as Mamie Lee, which is stepfather's name.
The police can give no further information
on the story.
BLAMED OH THE IIQU0E 8ELLEB.
He Is Sned for Damages for the Death of
a Man Killed by the Cars.
SandyLake, Pa., Oct'14. fpeeial
Mrs. Anna Walker, of this place, widow ot
O. B. Walker, who was killed on the Lake
Shore track here August 4, has brought
suit for heavy damages against Levi Dur
ban, proprietor of the Lake House, Stone
boro, for selling her husband liquor, thereby
causing his death.
While on his way borne from Stoneboro
that night in an intoxicated condition, he
was killed by a locomotive. Damages will
likely be placed at J5.000. The case will be
tried in November.
THE FIBS RECORD.
Philadelphia E. Morris & Co.'s hat factory
damaged $13,000.
Greenock, Ont The Greenock Cereals
Works. Loss, $150,000.
Plalnfield, Pa. David Allman's house.
Tbe family barely escaped alive.
New York The Sicllllan Asphalt Com
pany's works and Smith & Co.'s planing
mill.
Carlisle Tho live stock, barns and farm
machinery of George Ferry. Loss, $,000.
Origin, incendiary.
Salineville, O. William Faloon's flour and
planing uiills,.tbe leading' Industry of tbe
place. Loss, $15,000. ,
Mechanicsbnrg, Pa. Georgo Ferry's lartre
barn with alanre quantity or crnin and
tobacco. Loss, $3,000; insurance, $2,000. This
was the second. nre on that larui within a
month.
Sallx, la. The loss by Wednesday night's
fire will amount to $125 000, with Insurance
$37,000. Only two elevators, a church nnd
liulta dozen residences escaped destruction;
Every business house, witn all stocks, also
the school bouse, Methodist church and
lumber yards were wiped out The fire was
started by a boy dropping a lighted match
In an empty gasoline barrel.
West Point, Miss. The finest bnslness
block in the city. Total loss, $70,000. includ
ing the following: C. C. Bills, confectionery;
A. H. Fox, grocer; a dozen offices occupied
by lawyers, doctors and dentists: Masonic
Hall: Y. M. C. A. gymnasium; K.E.Carotiier'8
livery stable. Including a large amount of
stook; the Metnodist Church; Knights of
Honor Hall; Forum offices; Knights of
Pythias buildlir": the Chandler building,
and the Leader office. Total Insurance, $10,
000. Winnipeg The western half of Alberta,
the ranching district ot the Northwest, has
been devastated by prairie fires. Thousands
of tons of hay and many buildings have
been burned, and it is feared that many cat
tle have perished. Ranchmen on tlio plains
were compelled in numbers or Instances to
mount their horses and ride for their live?.
Unless ranchers can find new ranges tbey
will scarcely be able to tide stock over the
winter, and the subsequent loss will be
enormous.
A COMPLETE STORY by Beatrice Whit
by In THE DISPATCH to-morrow.
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