FORTY SEVENTH TEAR. S OF HANDS T0- Republicans Expect to Tell HowTIiey Think tlie Elec tion Will Eesnlt. . A EEFLEX OF OPINIONS Entertained t)y the National Com mittee at the Present Time. Ben Butter-worth More Hopeful Than at Any Time He Says Cleveland la Held In Deservedly High Esteem, but the People Don't Want tho Policy of His Party The Magees Have a Long Conference With Quay The Repub lican National Committee Warns Lodging House Keepers That They Are Watched and Can't Play Any Tricks for Tammany's Benefit A Veteran's Duty Explained by a Veteran. rFPECIAL TELFGRAM TO TFIE DISPATCH.! XeWYork, Oct 29. While numerous tables and figures have been published In the daily papers regarding the probable outcome and the vote of the various States, nothing of an official character has been issued lrom Xational Republican head quarters. It was said there to-day, howeTer, that on Monday, in all probability, certain data would be given out which would be a refler of the opinions entertained by the National Committee. It is supposed this will em brace not only some interesting figures on 2sew York State.but.more than that, a sum mary of the vote of the various States, in which may be found those conceded solid for cither Democratic or Republican tickets, the doubtful States and those given over in whole or in part to the People's party. Ex-Congressman Buiterworth, of Ohio, was a caller at headquarters to-day and spent most of it in consultation with the committee, giving reports of the condition of affairs as he found them in the various sections of country in which he has been. He raid: A Daily Gain for the Republicans. "I have been through Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and several other States, and have talked with repre sentatives of every trade and calling and every shade of political opinion. During the last 40 days the Republican ticket has gained in strength everywhere. The wail of our Democratic friends is a political trick and subterfuge, and the truth has be come obvious to all our people. In point of fact, the country as a whole has never in its history been so prosperous as it is to-day, J "In the Middle v est farmers never had so much money in bank, and are satisfied to continue as they are and want no change of administration, and they are indignant over the attempt to deprecate the value of their property. One intelligent farmer told me that if the calamitous condition described by Governor Boies really existed in Iowa they would all be compelled to move out before winter set in. Xo More Wildcat Money Wanted. "The people dread a return to wildcat money as though it were the plague, while the tariff plank in the Republican platform meets with universal approval There is more intelligent, earnest investigation in the issues of the campaign than ever before, and it all means increased confidence in Republican rule. Cleveland is held in high esteem, and deservedly so, but he repre sents a policy not in favor with the major ity of people." There was a meeting of the committee this afternoon, attended by all the members in town. Secretary of War Elkins was a visitor and gave some important advice concerning the situation in West Virginia. C. L. Magee, of Pennsylvania, and W. A. Magee, were also present, and held a pro tracted interview with Senator Quay. W. H. Michael, Commander of the De partment of the Potomac Union Veterans, embracing the States of Virginia and Mary land, has issued orders from headquarters in Washington setting forth in no uncertain terms what is cooceived to be the veterans' duty under the Constitution of the Union. Among other things he said of article 4: The Duty of Veterans of the War. 'The election of Grover Cleveland, the enemy of soldiers, means the election of a 'Democratic Senate and House, which means the placing in power of a party which has always been dominated by the South, and which has never helped the Union soldier except when the patriotism of the country com pelled it to do so. If the voters would help themselves and each other they must vote for their comrade who stood with them at the front, and with the party that has al ways been the friend of the Union soldier and sailor." Irom national headquarters to-day was issued certain literature which says: Examination of the registry lists by the Kational Committee has been full and com plete, and reveals an andaclous conspiracy which reaches in its operations from Man hattan Island to Kings county, and which proposes to mate the summer scam of Coney Island ao duty at the rail election. The Democrats propose to avail themselves of the services of the fakirs, bunko steer ers and confidence men who infest Long Island in summer, to Increase the vote of Kings county at the coming election. The details of this plan are fully known at Republican headquarters, and the men are closely watched. Any at tempt at repeating will be stopped, and the men speedily brought to Justice. Pledges by certain lodging house keepers to furnish Tammany with a stipulated number or votes will have to be broken, as these gentlemen n ill not be able to d ellrer the goods, owing to tho atcli being kept upon their move ments. Republicans Sure of New York. At Republican headquarters this evening Chairman Carter, General Clarkson, Mr. Jlanley, Mr. Habn, Secretary Elkins, Mr. Fenen'den, Mr. Kerens, Mr. Quay andJMr. Magee held a lengthy conference. At its close Mr. Manley said: "We have carefully considered the sitnation in Uew York State and after discussing the registration as it a pears to us we have telegraphed all our friends that 2few York State will be carried lor Harrison.. We have signed our names t the telegram and, we feel justified in sendinc it forth." It was learned that this step had sot been HOW OR MORROW taken nntil after the national campaigners had conferred with the Republican-State campaigners. One thing can be said posi tively, and that is that the campaigners who conferred at Mr. Carter's bureau to-day were all, men of mettle and experience. Thev are lined up against their Democratic opponents, and in the closing days of this fight they will push every advantage and take every chance for victory, Wntchlng'Each Other's Bank Accounts. There were gathered around the Demo cratic Kational board to-night Mr. Harritv, Senator Gorman, Senator Brice, who fought the battle four years ago; Lieutenant Gov ernor Sheehac, Mr. Whitney and Bradley B. Smaller. Many things were gone over at this conference." In the first place it was generally agreed that their opponents were till plentifullv supplied with funds. It is a curious fact that the two Kational Committees are acquainted with each other's bank balances at the close of each day. The expenses on election day this year will be very much larcer than on any occasion of similar importance since war days. The new ballot laws contribute to this state of affairs, and in -addition those acquainted with the situation say that extra inducements in the way of vehicles and a jug or two of toddy and other necessaries will be required to bring the voters in the country districts to the polls. This not only applies to New York, but to New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana. Strenuous efforts to increase the bank balances have been made in the last week. Most of these efforts have been centered in Boston. Harrity Still Fainting Rainbows. Soon after the conference broke up Chair man Harritv authorized a statement claim ing everything in sight. He claimed New Jersey by 10,000. For Connecticut he said 1,500 majority was about right. As to In diana he put the figure at not less than 7,500 and possibly 15,000. Of course he claims New York, but he gave no figures. Considerable space was devoted to-day in Democratic headquarters literature to the compilation of facts and figures alleged to show that the claims of the Republicans that the laboring man is benefited under the McKinley bill are without foundation. Visits were made to a number of manufact urers of coats, cloaks and various other kin dred industries, and figures obtained from their employes as to the wages received now and before the adoption of the McKin ley bill, and also as to the cost of living and the prices in the market of finished goods. Thero are also some lurid pictures of the way in which toilers are compelled to live, and their condition is set forth as little if any better than the negro when a slave be fore the war. BIGGINS SATS ITS FALSE. The Senator Answers a Charge of Attempted Bribery Made by a Democrat. Wilmington, Oct 2a A story was sent out from here to-day purporting to come from Isaac J. Wooten, Democratic Regis trar in East Little Creek Hundred, Sussex county, to the effect that United States Senator Anthony B. Higgins had tried to bribe him with a promise of office to manip ulate the registration in accordance with a scheme by which he proposed to carry Del aware for the Republicans. To-night Mr. Higgins made this statement: About two weeks ago, while I was at Laurel. TVooten called on me at the house ot Geurga Smith, Informing me that he desired' to change his political connection and to so licit an office under the Government. Hav ing understood him to be a man of lnflueuce and good standing I told him I thought an office oonld be had for him. Nothing was said about what work he should do for the Republican party; nothing was said about his being registrar nor voters' assistant, nor did I know he was regis trar nor even hear that he was until a reporter told me so to-day. Nothing n as saio. as to nis aouse oi any omciai amy whether as registrar, election officor.voters' assistant or otherwise. The abturdltvof tlichan'e becomes apparent from the fact iniLt unuor we lEataie ne voters- assistant Is chosen by his .own. party and then, not until election morning. Anyatatement that I was concerned in any attempt to Influence in the discbarge of official duty is false. Subsequently Mr. Smith wrote to me to know If Wooten could have a place in the Land office held by one "Gcs J. Par sons," and I replied that I could find no snch person's name In the bine book, but only one "John A Parsons." ABBEBTS FOB COLONIZING. Twenty Men Taken In Charge for Illegal Registration in New Tork. New Yobk, Oct. 29. KperiaZ. The police to-day made 16 arrests of colonizers in the Eighth Assembly district, and the United States Marshals four, among them Mart Allen, brother of notorious district leader "The" Allen. The officers claim to have evidence tending to show that Allen and his chief, a man giving the name of Miller, have had a lot of men illegally reg istered. On Miller were found memoran dum books showing plans of lodging houses with the floors marked off and numbered, and in one the beds are numbered up to 75, and 61 names were placed opposite the rooms and beds. One man, arrested as he was coming out of a polling place with two companions, ad mitted that he had registered under a false name and that his companions had furnished the name and addresses and promised him money for registering. John Donohue, a tramp who registered illegally in the Fifty third election district of the Eight Assem bly district, was arrested. He said that he had been induced to register bv John Car ney and John W. Griffin, employes in the General Postoffice, who were also arrested. GOTHAM'S QUALIFIED VOTERS. Less Than 38,000 Added to the Registra tion JLlst Yesterday. Ne-w Yoke; Oct. 29. Special The total registration in New York City is 309,830. Ninety-five per cent of the registration is voted in Presidental years, so that the prob able vote in this city is 294,339. In 1888 the registration was 286,642 and the vote was 274,739. Following the rath) of increase from 1876 to 1888 the registra tion in the city should have been 332.700 and the vote 316,000. The registration to day was 37,667. The final chance was afforded the citizens of Brooklyn to-dav to aaalifv as Tnter. this being the fourth and last day appointed for registration. There were 16,234 ad ditional names enrolled, which, added to the 165, 434 recorded in the three previous days, gives a grand total for four days of 181,668. As compared with the total regis tration of previous years, in 1891 it was 158, 426, in 1890 136,977, and in 1888 156,194. M0BE "bF THE SINEWS. Mr. Frick'g Arrival In New York Starts Tales of Big Contributions. New Yoke, Oct. 29. Special The arrival last night of E Q Frick, of the Carnegie Company, and C L. Magee was construed by the initiated to mean some thing, and to-day it is alleged that, the Re publican coffers hare been enriched by at least $250,000, and many claim $500,000. Postmaster General Wanamaker was the moving lever, and -through his persuasive eloquence Mr. Frick was induced to go forth among the heavy iron men of Penn sylvania and represent that the Republi cans were in need of more funds. The re sult of the gentleman's ability as a collec tor is given above. Mr.Carnegie ws cabled regarding the situation, and part of the money turned over represents his company's share. Ten day Mr. Frick was not to 'be seen, as he was closeted at the Holland House with Secretary Tracy, Chairman Carter, J. C Morse, President of the Illinois Steel Com pany, and Colonel George Bliss, It is gen- erallv asserted that to far nearly 51.000,000 of a campaign fund has been contributed by Pennsylvania. PROGRESS IN ELECTRICrrY; SEARCH UGKTS PLACE GLADSTONE ON CLOUDS. Londoners: Able to See the Grand Old Man In the Skies They Can Also Ride Along Their Streets In an Electrio Omnibus. BY CABLE TO TBS DISPATCH.) London, Oct 29. Copyright. The Mt Washington signal and search light has been outdone in one capacity this week by the electrio apparatus with which experi ments have been made. At Earle's Court the managers have succeeded not only in throwing the distinct forms of gigantic let ters upon the clouds, but they have even made the well-known features of Mr. Gladstone appear in ghostly outline in the heavens. When the man in the moon gets jealous and shines through the olouds the inventor simply makes artificial clouds npon which to throw his announcements. Overlooking the utilitarian possibilities of the invention the papers are lamenting the prospect of the milky way being used as an advertising board. Another invention, which is rejoicing the hearts of London's victims ot omnibus transit, is the advent of electricity as the motive power of ordinary street vehicles. An electrio parcel van has for some time Sli'ed about the streets of the West End. Tow has come a fully equipped electric omnibus. The vehicle is somewhat larger than the familiar 'bus. Instead of the driver's box seat a platform projects in front of the 'bus, and below it a kind of small boy catcher or guard protects the first pair of wheels, which are for steering, the other and larger pair being for driving. The electrio 'bus will carry 12 people inside and 14 outside, exactly like one of the ordinary time. To each 'bus will be allowed three sets of accumulators, the electricalienergy being stored in them. The Electrical Power Storage' Company has engaged to supply the electric 'buses with accumulators. One set consists of 68 cells, each about 50 pounds in weight, bringing up the total weight ot the new bus, ready for running, to rather more than 3J tons, as compared with the heaviest horse 'bus 34 hundred weight and the lightest 28 hundred weight. But the inventor says the electrio omnibus carries its horses on board. Add this to the successful adaptation of pneumatic tires to omnibuses just accom plished at Glasgow and the prospects of comfortable street transit have been won derfully improved. ANARCHISTS RAISING CAIN. The New York Arbelter Zeltung Editor Locked Up In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Oct 29. Editor Ben jamin Feigenbaum, of the New York Arbeiter Zeitung, and Nathan Saggan, a Rus sian Socialist of this city, were held in $600 and $500 bail respectively this morning on charges of inciting to riot, assaulting an officer and breach of the peace. This action was the conclusion of a small riot last night The Socialist Labor party and a delegation, said by the police to be An archists, had both engaged Cosmopolitan HalL The Socialists arrived first, and had opened their meeting when the other dele gation appeared. After some dispute a joint meeting was agreed upon. The first speaker of the evening was Geisneer, of Pittsburg. His remarks' were not very sensational, but when Benjamin Feigen baum, editor of the New York Arbelter Zeit ung, commenced ,hla speech tha audience warmed up, and before he had spoKen ten minutes his remarks stirred up the riot The police'compelled the proprietor of the hall to adjourn the meeting. Shortly after Editor Feigenbaum attacked with his cane the officer who dispersed the meeting. When the policeman arrested his assailant the crowd set upon thej officer. A squad of officers came to the rescue, and both pris oners were locked up. SARCASTIC BISMARCK. He Says Even the Kaiser Shines Through His Transparent Ministry. Bebxin, Oct 29. Prince Bismarck will not re-appear in the Reichstag. If the suc cess of the coalition against the Govern ment was absolutely secure, with himself master of the situation, he would not hesi tate to again take his seat; but the person who latest tried to interview him could not extort even a side light on the Prince's at titude toward the impending struggle. His criticisms were chiefly personalities. The present Ministers, he said, are so insig nificant, and the covering to the shield they represent . is so transparent, that the Em- feror himself always shines through them, t is dangerous to the future of the mon archic idea, he added, for a ruler, even with the best intentions, to appear so frequently in the political field without a decent min isterial covering. Continuing Prince Bis marck said: To flsjht with ministers who are men of straw has no charms for me. Some of them cling through personal necessities to the posts that feed them. They have large families, or there are other things that de mand that they retain their offices. Tho sitnation has no sword for me. My son is much less resigned to be out of office than I am, bnt he has long seen that competition with certain Ministers is only possible, pro vided one previously wears livery for some years. TOO BIG FOR THE CARNEGIES. They Are Obliged to Change Their Contract for Heavy Armor Plate. Bethlehem, Pa, Oct 29. The heaviest armor plate ever made is now in course of preparation at the Bethlehem Iron Works, This 17-inch armor will defend the side of the battleship Indiana, now building. The Carnegie Company secured the contract for this work, but being unable to make armor more than 13 inches in thickness, the con tract was given to the Bethlehem Works in exchange tor lighter work. The plate will be sent to Indian Head in a week or two. The result of this" test will be watched with interest by ordnance and iron men all over the country. The ordnance plant is working night and day, turning out an unprecedented product A7XBB THE HOHIGAH'S CAPIAT. He "Refused to Search for an Alaskan Hall Steamer Which Was Hissing. San Fbanoibco, Oct 29. Special Agent Tihgle, of the Treasury Department, leaves for Washington to-day. He will carry with him papers drawn up by residents of Sitka, Alaska, asking the authorities to investi gate the condect of Captain L. H. Johnson, of the United States steamship 'Mohican, in refusing to assist in a search for the little mail steamer Elsie, which was caught in a gale, having a crank broken -and the lives of the passengers and crew endangered. Captain Johnson, it is stated, replied 'to a petition of the people of Situ that his vessel was unsuitable for the f mission, and that he was under orders to proceed to Mare Island navy yard. Chicago Has Homestead Day. Chicago, Oct 29. To-day was general ly observed by workmen 'here as "Home stead Day.' Each-nnion Ban in the city was requested to donate a day's pay to the Pennsylvania strikers, and it is e'xpteted that $40,000 to $50,000 will- be thus raised. The profits of a big ball at Battery D to- mgat auo go to tne uomHteaatn, EVEN ASHES GONE. Not "a Single Trace Left of the Hundreds of Humble Homes in Milwaukee AFTER FRIDAY'S JBIG EIBE. Third Ward People Are Unable to Locate Within a Block Where ' THEYHAD LIVED THE DAY BEFORE Only Four Fatalities Are Thus Far Erongut to Light, and the INSURANCE LOSS LESS THAN FEARED Milwaukee, Oct 29. It is "now known that" at least fonr lives' were lost during last night's fire. The dead are: Henry Ped denbrock, fireman; Charles 'Stahl, fireman; Mrs. Kalaban, died from shock' after being taken to the Third ward school; unknown man, head smashed by falling wall. Fully 3,000 people were made homeless by the terrible conflagration.- This is a conservative estimate to place on the num ber who found themselves in the street last night, compelled to seek shelter under the roofs of the hospitable citizens who threw their doors open to them. The greatest portion of the loss has fallen on people who are unable to bear it, and who carried no insurance.- Hundreds of families have lost everything they had in the world, and do not know where they will sleep to-night There are now so many hungry people that it was decided to open the doors of the ExDosition building for their accommoda tion. The Third ward school building was the principal place of refuge early last night, but later on the people scattered and were for the most part taken in by kind hearten neighbors. Of those who were.not so fortunate some went to the Northwest ern depot, where -several Italian families spent the night No Call Tet for Outside Aid. The people of Milwaukee have as yet made no special call for aid, and it is yet undecided whether they will do so. Mayor P. J. Somen said this morning: "Of course, we would like to take care of these people as well as we can without troubling outsiders, but they need clothing, bedding and food. They need it badly and they need it now. The main thing at present is to care lor them speedily, and the more help we have the better we can do this." In one place this morning an elderly man stood stook gazing vacantly about him. He said he had either lived where he was stand ing or on the corner above. The earth had been swept so clean that there was.no marki to tell him where he had lived. At another' place1 this morning two pretty girls were poking around, in what had onoe been the cellar of their home. "I have been here an hour," said one of them. "i and this is -erervthine that I have been able to find of all my things." And she held up a twisted and blaokened folk. "I can't tew- .where; etlr house want tS!' Andu she said. "There is not even any ashes lett I suppose,though, the wind carried them out over the lake, but I cannot see how it could make our house disappear so utterly. It doesn't seem possible." The Flames Searched Out Everything." It seems as -if the flames were determined to burn everything in sight, even though they bad to dig through the earth to get it The Northwestern Railroad peoDle are not even able at this time to approximate their loss. One locomotive and about 400 cars is what they lost on the tracks. Many of them were empties and many were loaded. Nothing remains of Hansen's malt house but the.walis and two immense piles of well-cooked grain, most of which will be a total loss. The other business houses saved absolutely nothincr beyond the contents of their vaults, and in some in stances not even that Last night little children were scudding through the streets carrying all manner ot useless things. One little towhead fled frantically along Buffalo street directly in advance ot the fire, which was going 20 feet to her one. Clasped tightly within her tiny fist she held a man's silk hat As she fled sobbing and screaming down the street a policeman made a dash at her and gather ing her up ran into an alley. Some of the Sufferers a Goose Ahead. When the fire reached the Northwestern freight house half a dozen men dashed through the police lines and broke open a double-decked car. The car was filled with geese belonging to Captain Fred Pabst The geese were driven along in a great flock down the track. They screamed and tried to fly away. But long confinement had made them unequal to the emergency. Before a distance of a block was traversed the geese had scattered and a mob was pur suing them among the freight cars. Hun dreds of men, with a live goose under each arm, stood and watched the scene, and no one questioned their right to carry the fowls. Philip D. Armour's subscription came early this morning in the following mes sage: "Draw on me tor 5,000 and place it where it will do the most good. Let me know if the fire was as bad as reported, and if youlwant more, pull mv latch string." "Draw on me for 11,000,000 if need be," was another message from Mr. Armour this morning to President James, 'of the North western National Insurance Company, of Milwaukee. Mr. Armour is a Director of the company, and at its local offices Was told it had suffered a heavy loss. It was alter receiving'this information that he sent his message. What the Insurance Companies Lose. According to a noon estimate the total loss of insurance companies will be between 11,600.000 and (2,000,000. The total loss will be divided among nearly 100 compa nies. "The 100 or more companies involved will not be crippled by this loss, and .they will all carry out their agreements -to the letter," said Secretary Wilson, of the Un derwriters' Association., Among the heavy losers are the North British and Mercantile Fire Insurance Company. The manager of the company said that if the fire is as bad as reported their losses will amount to nearly 5100,000. "Our losses' said the Assistant Secretary of the German American Company,' "will not exceed 25,000." A representative ot ihe London, Liver pool and Globe said: "In the absence of reports from our Chicago offices, I do not think our losses will exceed- (20,000." "The loss of the Guardian Assurance Com pany, of London, will be about 125,000," Manager Bowers said. The agents of the Union Assurance Company, of London, place their loss at 115,000. The Niagara may lose (10,000; the Norwich, (10,000; the United States, about (5,000, and the Broadway Insurance Company, about (7,500. The small losers will be the Amer ican, the Empie City, the Imperial, the Commercial Union, Lancashire and. the London and Manchester, u i ? - The .very.latest dispatch, says: The aggre gate oi tne insurance earned on tne Darned property, exclusive of that' carried by the Northwestern Ballroad. which has a blanket -JdliUII...! -. a ZZU II -"ssssT"iT-r 1-1 r-- -m ', ' - ll I! V "a. I II 111 fit. . J U I U EDnon McCltjee Stand back, boys, policy.is $3,250,000, divided among 175 com panies. MORE CLEVELAND FIRES. Fifteen Alarms Yesterday The Beautiful Euclid Avenue Opera House In Ashes Tho Severance Block Goes Up In Smoke Slany Working Girls Rescued. Cleveland, Oct 29. The Euclid Ave nue Opera House was ruined by fire to-day. At 8:30 o'clock this morning employes saw a little wreath of smoke curl out of the cupola directly over the center of the house. A still -alarm was at once turned in, but be fore the department had responded the flames had burst through the windows, and a furious gale lanned the fire into a roaring tempest of flame. In less time than it takes to tell it, the flames had reached the stage and the rich and expensive scenery was consumed. The flames then spread into the auditorium and broke through the. roof. At 9 o'clock the entire roof fell in. At 10 o'clock, after gutting the theater, the-fire was under con trol. The Opera House was owned by M. A. Hanna. His loss will be about $75,000, and it is covered by insurance. Manager and Lessee Gus Hartz loses about (5,000, which is also insured. The Hanlon "Superba" Company lost all their scenery and bag gage, which cost (25,000, and the actors lose about (10,000 In costumes and clothing. Georee W. Nourse. the nronertv man of the -houe, estimates his loss at (10,000. Sir. Hanna says he will not rebuild the .theater. . Eire broke out in the Severance block at 12:15 7. 21. The building was occupied by Tilotmt &"Co., of' the 'Northern Ohio Nickel Works. r During the work cfrescuing girls from the' Building, a ladder bfoke'ahd a girl was tartly injured. The losses are divided as follows: Mrs. S. H. Severance, on build ing, $6,000: Mount Esco, ou printing stock, by water, $3,000; Fred Tiethering, harness, (1,500; Bishop & Drake, overalls, (2,000; Northern Ohio Plating Company, (500; Charles Semon, tobacco factory in the ad- ioining building, by water, (10,000; total, 23,000. All- the losses are covered by' in surance. There were about 15 fire alarms to-day. MANY LAKE WRECKS. A 60-Mile Gale Flays Havoo With All Kinds of Shipping;. ' Deteoit, Mich., Oct 29. Reports of wrecks and other mishaps to shipping caused by last night's terrific wind storm, are coming in from different points on the lakes. Con sidering the number of vessels blown ashore and wrecked, the loss of life is very light, only two drownings being reported thus far. Many people are reported missing and their names not yet known. At Man istee, Mich., the schooner Nellie Hammond was sunk by striking a pier while entering the harbor. Her captain, Louis Michalt son, was washed overboard and drowned, the remainder of the crew escaping. The wind at one time last night reached 60 miles an hour. The average velocity was 45. The weather during the past 20 hours has been very severe, a 60-mile gale blowing constantly on Lake Erie in the vicinity of Amherstburg, Ont Grave fears are entertained as to the fate of the steam dredge Dominion and her crew. It is thought she either sank entirely or was blown across the lake. She had a crew of six men. PBENCH CATHOLICS I5DI05AHX At an Order Issued by a Socialist Against Their Clergy. CBT CABJ.I TO TBI DISrATCB.1 London, Oct 29. The Socialistic Mayor of St. Denis hks issued a decree forbidding the clergy to accompany funeral processions clad in their surplices, and the Government has aUDroved tne edict The matter has naturally aroused great indignation among Catholics. The first funerals under the new order oc curred yesterday. The order was obeyed, although the Abbe Henri protested strongly against the flagrant violation of the rites of the church and the family. A protestant funeral was accompanied by a clergyman 'clad as an ordinary mourner. Provisional panegyricists may be hired at the principal cemeteries to pronounce a civio eulogy upon the dead. , GEBMAflY'8 DICKEB WITH BTT33IA, Both Empires Seem to Mean, Business Now Plenipotentiaries Chosen. Beblut, Oct 29. The negotiations for a commercial treaty with Bussia are about to be resumed. A dispatch received to-day from St Petersburg announces the appoint ments of the plenipotentiaries. Russia has assented to a reduction of her tariff on German coal, and the Minister of Marine has joined their commission, In order to assist in regulating the coal ques tion. Bussia means business and Germany is ready to respond. Lack of Interest In Ohio. W. K. L. Warwick, of Massillon, a brother-in-law of C. L. Magee, registered at the Duquesne yesterday. Like his father, he is a Democrat, and he fi greatly elated over Cleveland's prospects. In; Obio.be said neither party was taking much interest. And apathetio campaigns always result favorably for the Democracy. ,He wouldn't be surprised to see the Buckeye State sup- port Grover and' Stevenson. 'He says also that T. B. Morgan, 8r ought to be easily Beaten lor Vongres. , - WORKING TSB SAJNBO W RACKET. and watch your uncle paint a rainbow what is while we're at it 1 T01TEN SEES A SIGN. The Conjnnction of the Eclipse and the Columbian Pageant PEESAGES SOMETHING TERRIBLE. It's a Warning for Americans to Cast Their Totes Aright, bat HE DOESKT DECLARE ON WHICH SIDE New Haven. Oct 29. Eeferring to his peculiar views upon events whose shado ws he considers are now being cast betore, Prof. Totten to-day spoke as follows: Ic was not npon the first day of the new era, but upon the last day of the old one, that the sun was darkened, anil that is why time Is so significant, although Mils was by no means that which first di rected my attention to the phenomenon. It was the chronological value or the eclipse that raises it to the importance of that one which occurred upon the battle of Actium and marked the beginning of the Angnstlan era. lam very thankful that ours aid not happen to fall npon the 21st instead or the 20th. But is it not. passing strange that T tolemio value of tb'e eclipse of the 20th Inst, was left L for m to designate, seeing, that the scien- nnc worurcat' large nau witn one consent pronounced the event of "no importance" and hod, forgotten that the chronologlst and historian, can And a scientific value where even an astronomer may nott ' But, aside from Its unique scientific value to the cbronologist and. historian, this Columbian eclipse of October 20, 1893, let ,me so call It has an ominous significance to all who dwell upon the face ot the earth and particularly to us of Manassen, the land of lorgetfulness of all our tolls and our father's house. (Gen. xli. SL) The Meaning of the Columbus Pageant. Let us look more closely at the picture. It was a gala Hay. America was clothed in bunting. Its red, white and blue stream ers decked the land from North to South and from East to West, so that from heaven It might have looked like one grand panorama of old glory. But those that dwell on high and rnle on earth look down with keener eyes than mortals, and see between the bars; and they can see but little for approval, for a land that has forgotten Us traditions in a single oentnry is certainly far on the road to a crisis propor tionate to a degree of Its forxetfulness. And so it cine about, that the fingers of a band appeared upon the walls or heaven and wrote a warning to the world in the sight of all the assembled nations. The repre sentatives of none were missing. For lo, as that ten-mile pageant treaded the broad-avenues of Chicago and entered the Exposition grounds, a bar sinister was drawn across the scene, and an pneanny heraldio mark blurred our bright escutcheon. Where were our augurs then? And where had D aniel been had such a thine bestreaked the plains of Shusban at a festival like that? Think you for one moment that beaven, which hath recorded the number of vonr very hairs, was ignorant of that eclipse? If so ye do deceive yonrselves, for lu the very nature of things there can be no accidents, and certainly none like that. No Partisanship In This. I speak without reference to any party and to the adherent!, of all, and I conjure the freemen of this Ian a to commence the new Columbian era by voting once at least, and at once, according to their consciences, and so leave the result with the Lord of Hosts Himself. It Is only by acting; In earnest singleness of heart at this Juncture, that even we, the most favored nation upon sarin, can at nil recover strength enonzb to see Jnst where this na tion stands, and so perouanee con serve our resources to meet the coming crisis. Jror unless nil signs must go for naught and the voice of history, chronology and astronomy are moofcinsr that of prophecy, we are already nv the edge of days when human hearts will surely melt. except they can Do ronna upon the side of right and justioe and are strong in those eternal principles which gave our land Us pristine glory.' ' HO PLBUBQ-FHEUMOMA. HB& The United States' Official Denial at Last Beaches England. fBT OABUt TO THB DISPATCU.l London,-Oct 29. The -United States Government has to-day sent a denial that 'p leuro-pneumonia still exists in America. It is further denied that the case of the animal which recently arrived on the steamer England -was one of that disease. The affection is declared to have been one of a catarrhal nature only. One or two English experts who examined the lungs of the beast after death are of the same opinion. The animal has been traced to the vicin ity of Cincinnati. It is known -that no plenro-pneumonia exists there, and the dis ease cannot appear spontaneously. It seems probable that the English Board of Agriculture will have to withdraw its hasty allegation. A SHOULDERING WAR. Wyomlne Farmers and Cattlemen Armed and Expecting; Bloodshed. Bapid Cixt, a D., Oct 29. All reports from Wyoming agree that the cattlemen's war yet smoulders, and that the situation is still critical. Parties who arrived "here to-day from Johnson county .say that every ranchman, small stockman and cowboy they met car ried a Winchester and wot side arms. Ail strangers an regarded with suspicion, and the settlers claim to lire in constant fear of their live . i ik as rrvi :! : i i l i-ii" z i w&fcj'si a rainbow I Might as well have a big one SADDEST OF SUICIDES. A Touching Story Told hy a Beantifal Girl Driven to Take Her Life Her Reasons Told in a Letter Left by Her. fBT CABLI TO THX DISPATCH. London, Oct 29. The number of sui cides of young wSmen in England has been appallingly large of late. One of the sad dest was that of Bose Clifford, a beautiful girl who took a fatal dose of chloral at the Charing Cross Hotel, this week. She left one of the most pitiful letters ever penned. She had been deserted by her lover, said to be a prominent man, and after describing his conduct without exposing his identity she wrote: I bavo learned to-day how uttorly alone I am in the world, and it has filled me with a grief and despair I cannot endure and live. There were faults on both sides, but I think: a little forbearance from the stronger would have been more charitable and certainly more honorable and manly. To thrust me, alone as I am and knowing the tendency I have to self-destruction, out in the world without a friend anywhere was the act of a coward, and by refusing to answer any of my appeals for explanation he conduces to my act, and perhaps wonders at the delay. Why do IlingerT What hope can there do in my heart when the curt message sent me was "out of town" only on Wednesday last? I should have crushed and ruined him, but even now, In this bitter hour, I will he more noble than he has proved, and. let his consclenoe be his acouser. "But shall his God or mine adj adge blm the less my murderer because man shall say "temporary insanity!" Tnat condition has Indeed passed over me, leav ing me so weak and irresolute tha I cannot decide on anything, and so conclude the best way ont of ray difficulties Is to go hence and be no more trouble to anyone. I have to day taken back the greater portion or money lie -would buy his- freedom with, keeping only what is required for my last uses. If disclosures make It appear I have been ex travagant, let my Judges remember the miserable poMtlon I was in and think would they have been better than L Will he send a few yellow roses? No, I know he will not, and for years, the sight of them will make him wlh he had less unworthy proved. Dear as remembered kisses after death, and swoet as those In hopeless faney feigned, O death in life, the days that are no morel Goodbye. THE OBIOHf AI0B OF THE CBUSADE Slakes a" Feeling Address to the National W. C. T. V. Convention. Dznvee, Oct 29. In the W. a T. TJ. Convention to-day the change in constitu tion, making the National Secretary or Superintendent of the Young Women's branch a member of the Executive Com mittee was carried. Mother Stewart, of Ohio, the originator of the crnsade move ment, spoke feelingly of the work being done by the Union. Department reports were then given. Telegraphic messages were read from the British Temperanoe Association, the World's W. G. T. TJ., the London editor of the Golden Rvie, the National Christian Endeavor Society, the Mayoress of Man chester, England, and Susan B. Anthony. Telegrams and letters were sent to Neal Dow, ot Portland, and Generals Bidwell and Cranfield, the candidates at the head of the Prohibition ticket In the afternoon services were" held in memory of the poet, J. G. Whittier. Mrs. Mary T. Hill-Willis held a meeting in the morning. JUDGE WALLACE DEAD. The Man Who Defeated McKinley In 1882 Passes Away at New Lisbon. SALEM, O., Oct 29. Special Judge J. H.Wallace, of New Lisbon, this county, died at his home to-day from a shock of paralysis, which attacked him a week ago. He was 61 years old and one of the leading Democrats of Ohio, standing at the head of the profession of the law in Columbiana county, where he had distinguished himself on the bench and at tne bar. In the contest following the election of 1882, In which he was a candidate for Con gress against McKinley, he gained a repu tation as wide as the country by unseating the champion of protection. He leaves a wife and three children. A COINCIDENCE OF DEATH. Two Brothers Drop Dead of Heart Disease Daring the Same Hour. Danburt, Conn., Oct 29. SpeeidL Joseph Leimer, a well-known haUer, died of heart disease in Danbnry last evening. At the same hour his brother Charles, also a hatter, dropped dead in Newark, N. J. His death was also caused by heart dis ease. A mistrial In a Doodling Case. San Fbancisco, Oct 28. After being out 96 hours, the jury in the case of Elwood Bruner, of Sacramento, charged with offer ing to accept a bribe of f 1,000 from Adolph Ottlnzer, a ticket broker of this city, to use his influence to defeat in the Legislature a Mil affecting the ticket scalpers' business, were discharged. The jury stood seven to five for acquittal. I Blaine's Private Secretary Dead. Toledo Oot 29. Special ;-John O. Hervey, the first and one of the most prom inent of Ohio oil producers, died in a hotel in Pindlay yesterday. He was injured in a Baltimore and Ohio wreck six weeks ago, and blood poison set in. Mr. Htrvey was James G. Blaine's private secretary during the camDaifra of 1884. He was 65 years of age. If !! I llN A MAGIC SPELL A Would-Be Murderer Tells His Story of Crime on the Witness Stand. WAYING A SHMM DISK; i A Doctor Ents tho Criminal Into i. Perfect Hypnotic Stat& HE WAS INSENSIBLE TO PAIS i 9. And Belated tho Circumstances of tnt ji Tragedj Without Eeserre. THE SUBJECT ONCE ADJUDGED OSANB rsrXCXAX. TZLEGOA2I TO TUX DISPATCH.! Santa Bosa, Cat., Oct. 29. When Eyraud was on trial in Paris counsel wished to put Gabrielle Bompardinto the hypnotio state in order that she might rehearse the murder tragedy, but the Court refused. Such a hypnotic scene was carried out here to-day in the trial of Edward J. Livermash, an arratic newspaperman, for the attempted murder of Darius Etheridge. Livermash became cranky about one year ago, and his first escapade was to masquerade as a negress in San Francisco. He was arrested and fined. He had carried on successfully several country newspapers and had married the daughter of a rich farmer. After his arrest he became moody and talked of people who were plotting against him. Finally he went to Cloverdale, near Santa Bosa, and made a savage assault upon old Etheridge, who ha declared had promised to bequeath him a fortune. He put six bullets into the old man, but luckily none inflicted a mortal wound. Sent to an Asylum as Insane. When arrested he pretended he mis took Etheridge for the police judge whof1 fined him in San Francisco. He talked in- coherently and at times declared he was King of Siam. His attorney had him brought before the insanity commissioners i and he was sent to the asylum. This was four,' montbiago. Last week he was released and; suit was at once brought against him. Wit nesses told the story of his vagaries. The chief one was his wife. Then his counsel I proposed to put Livermash into the hyp-i notic state in court, and let him live over) again the incident of the night of the at-1 tempted murder. Dr. Gardiner, who has acquired great in fluence over Livermash, hypnotised him by means of waving a shining disk before hisi eyes. Experts for the prosecution tried to' see whether he was shamming. They rah a' needle through his ear, but he never winced. His face was pale as that of a corpse and his limbs rigid, but be answered every question asked and gave in minute detail what he did on the eventful night as well as what ha' thought The Appearance of a Corpse Talking. It was an uncanny sight to seaJhisap- parently lifeless figure relating thirisa aj' improbable as any in Stevenson's "i'sw. Arabian Knights."" Finally the subject began tb escape the doctors control. He gave orders as the King of Siam, where upon the doctor woke him out of the hyp-' notic trance. Dr. Gardiner then explained that Liver mash was a victim of auto-hypnotism, that is he could throw himself into a state which resembled somnambulism, during which hs was not responsible for his actions. It was in such a state he attempted murder. Ha was dangerous unless under control of a. stronger nature. The trial is still on and is exciting great interest BACK IN WASHINGTON. Tho President and His Party Arrive Safely From Their Sad Journey. WASHINGTON, Oct 29. The President and the members of his private and offieial family who accompanied him to Indianapo lis to pay their last eartly tribute of love and respect to the late mistress of tha White House, returned to the Nation:-! Capital at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Secre tary and Mrs. Busk, Secretary Noble and Postmaster General Wanamaker and Mrs. Newcomer didn't return with the paity. Mr. Wanamaker left the train at Harris burg to go to his home in Philadelphia, prior to taking part in the campaign in In diana. The others named proceeded to their respective homes from Indianapolis. Gen-' eral ad Mrs. Schofield and Secretary Charles Foster joined the party at Indianapolis and returned with it to Washingtdn. The so-called "accident" to the train oa its homeward trip, a few miles west of Col umbus, was a trifling affair. The engine struck some heavy object, probably a hand car, breaking two slats of the cowcatcher and slightly disarranging tho coupling gear between the smoking car and the dinine car. The damage was repaired at Columbus. in ten minutes. Quadruple Tracks for the Reading. Beading, Oct 29. There are rumors in; railroad circles here that at no distant day the Beading Ballroad Company will make its entire road lour tracks wide where it ia, not of that width already, in order to acV commodate its rapidly increasing traffic. THE DISPATCH DIRECTORY. The Issue of Te Dispatch to-day consist! of SO pases made up In two parts. Tho conV tents of the second part are tabulated belowj Page O. 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