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PITTSBURG, SATURDAY.. NOVEMBER 26, 1892-TWELVE PAGES.
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THE SPOILSMEN
ALL TO GET LEFT,
One of Mr, Cleveland's Near
Friends Predicts That
There Are Lots of
DISAPPOINTMENTSiAHEAD.
The President-Elect to Be His Own
Master as He Always Has.
A Close Adherence to the Merit System
to Be a Feature of the Administra
tionNot a Pleasant Prospect for
Partisans Mr. Cleveland In No Sense
Changed in the Past Four Years An
Egotism That Under the Circum
stances Is Almost Excusable Key
note.of the Political Situation Con
gress to Be the Next President's
Heaviest Load to Carry Tammany
to Suffer the Most Severe Disappoint
ment A Party Bow of Large Dimen
sions Promised for the Next Four
Years.
rFKOJI A STAFF COBRESPONDETT. J
New York, Nov. 25. 'Mr. Cleveland
will inevitably disappoint a great many
people within the next year," was the sig
nificant remark dropned in my presence by
one of the closest friends of the ex-President
and President-elect.
After pondering over it awhile I hunted
np this political confidant and requested
him to file a bill of particulars. If I sb ould
give his name Mr. Cleveland would doubt
less be held responsible, in a measure, for
his utterances.
"When I say that Mr. Cleveland will,
disappoint many," said he, "I do not mean
it in a condemnatory sense. But there will
be grievous disappointments, just the same.
It doesn't take a very smart man to tee that
it could not be otherwise. Yet the disap
pointed will not be altogether among those
friendly or those unfriendly to Ma Cleve
land. They will be found on every hand.
Knowing Mr. Cleveland as I know him, and
Beeing and hearing what is expected of him
I repeat there will be many and grievous
disappointments. "
Mr. Cleveland In Xo Sense Chanced.
It was then pointed out to me as the key
note of the situation that Cleveland has In
no sense changed since he occupied the
Presidental chair. He has neither changed
politically nor personally. His views of the
duties oi a chief magistrate to the people
have undergone no metamorphosis; his ideas
of the relations of a successful leader toward
his party have not been altered by circum--tances;
his convictions on the subject ot his
own particular personality have not been
abandoned.
On all these points he has become more
intense.
In other words, Mr. Cleveland, to use a
familiar expression, is just where he was,
only more so. And, in other words, Mr.
Cleveland's coming administration will -be
but an aggravated form of Mr. Cleveland's
former administration.
Xot a Pleasant Prospect for Partisans.
I am very sorry I cannot hold out a more
promising prospect to my Democratic
friends who are just now engaged in the
pleasant task of formulating apolicy for the
President-elect. Yet I would gently break
the force of the blow that will surely fall
upon their hopes and expectations. In their
great grief that will follow I would remind
them that it was Mr. Cleveland's conserva
tism that made his nomination at Chicago
possible, ana that the great body of the
people who voted for him on the 8th of
November did so because they are better
satisfied with his administration of public
affairs than tbey are with the administra
tion that followed him.
It is an unquestionable fact that Cleve
land's well-known conservatism or rock
ribbed pig-headedness, if you prefer it that
way formed a more efficacious barricade
against the vigorous assaults of his political
foes who advanced various business or com
mercial grounds as reasons for his defeat
than the entire record of the Democratio
party.
Business Not Much of a Factor.
The combined attacks of the so-called
"business interests," so formidable in
former campaigns, had practically no effect
as against Cleveland. Had there been any
real vitality in the wildcat currency scare
it would have first made itself felt in the
financial centers. "Wall street would have
kicked the Democratic fat into the fire be
fore the end of the first month of the cam
paign. The fact that Cleveland had the
confidence of the money market went all
the way to offset the eflect of the State bank
tax plank in the national platform.
A further test ot this confidence was in
fact that, although general prosperity at
tends all classes of business, and the lead
ing issue of the campaign was a proposal to
reverse or at least greatly modify the public
policy relating to business, the overwhelm
ing vote for Cleveland shows that very lit
tle, if any, fear existed that he would sanc
tion any action f his party looking to a
serious business disturbance. This reliance
seems wonderful, even to Mr. Cleveland's
political and personal friends, while to his
defeated foes it appears absolutely marvel
ous. Egotism That Is Almost Excusable,
If, then, in view of all these admissible
facts, Mr. Cleveland's magnificent egotism
has been creatly enlarged, strengthened and
intensified by the result of the recent
election, we must accept it as a matter of
course. As a leader Mr. Cleveland had
long before been made to feel that he was
greater than his party. To this popular
sentiment he believed fully three years ago
be would owe a necessary renominstion
when the time came, and this conviction
assured him of election after the National
Convention had performed its perfunctory
task. It would be a rank violation of every
rule of human nature to assume that he now
feels himself in any degree a less important
factor in national politics than at any other
given time in his remarkable career.
As a 'patter of fact, and aside from the
fulsome and interested adulation of his
immediate friends, Mr. - Cleveland has, as
we have seen, ample reason lor believing
that the late political upheaval is largely
due to his own political personality.
Keynote of the Political Situation,
This may seem trifling to many and to
many others insuflerable. But It is the
keynote of the political situation. If any
man would come to reasonably correct con
clusions as to the character of the coming
Democratio voyage, he must take into full
account the character of the man who is to
be at the helm, must consider the circum
stances that put him there, and weigh him
in his own intellectual and political bal
ance. Any other method of calculation
will lead wildly into unknown seas.
No intelligent man can thus know Mr.
'Cleveland and for a moment suppose that
he would contemplate opening his new ad
ministration of public affairs by invoking the
most hazardous experience ever conceived by
a national executive the calling of Con
gress together in immediate and extraor
dinary session. Under even ordinary cir
cumstances the first session of Congress is
fraught with trials and tribulations to a
new executive like unto nothing else in his
administrative career.
Congress the Ueavlest Load to Carry.
Under the present circumstances Con
gress will be the heaviest load President
Cleveland will have to carry. Flushed with
the victory that brings absolute power
for the first time since the war, and with
this victory apparent license from the peo
ple to make a new departure in our eco
nomic system, Congress Is the real danger
of the country, not Mr. Cleveland. He
cannot say so he cannot even so much
as faintly indicate the fact but no student
of our history can recall the story of the
last era in which both Houses were in
political accord with the Executive branch
ot the Government without realizing what
Mr. Cleveland must now feel. And no
patriotic thinking American remembers
the "reckless radicalism of the two frater
nizing Houses but will thank heaven for a
safe, conservative, stubborn egotist in the
Executive Chair.
There will be music when these two" co
ordinate forces of the Government meet
Mr. Cleveland will not shrink from it; but
to suppose that he will invite the meeting
and hasten it is a logical absurdity. Noth
ing short of war or national bankruptcy
could reasonably impel him to such a
course.
The Hardest Job for Mr. Cleveland.
Mr. Grover Cleveland's chief and most
trying occupation during the next four years
at "Washington will be sitting on the safety
valve of the Democratic machine. He will
have a job of holding Congress down. If
he shall succeed in doing this without an
open rupture between the legislative a'nd
executive branches of the Government,
both sides will be the proper subjects for
congratulation; but the national Demo
cratic party will come in first on the felici
tation. Howevar, it is scarcely necessary for us to
be hunting around for signs of trouble when
there are plenty of indications under our
noses. For there are those here well up in
the party councils who betray the itching
palui for spoils they will never get I
found this Jacksonian idea prevalent in In
diana and elsewhere during the campaign.
It involved Mr. Cleveland's conversion to
the scoils theory. I don't know how such
things get abfoaaV-probably through the
ideaiic paternal system that makes the wish
father to the thought Perhaps it is because
the Vice President-elect wan once a head-
chopper himself. But if Cleveland lives
General Stevenson's services as political
executioner will be limited to an old apple
woman in the Senate corridor, a "page' or
two, and that's all.
A Disappointment for Tammany.
60 we must fall back on visionary pater
nalism. Tammany Hall will find out how
emptv that fo in due time. There will prob
ably be more Mugwumps In Federal'office
here than the difference between the Harri
son and Einstein vote. As for my eager
and enthusiastic friends in Indiana bovs,
put it all aside and go about your legiti
mate occupations, for somebody you never
neara or, nice as not, will get that post-
office.
Call it
patriotism and let it go at
that
Mr. Cleveland, I venture to say, will not
be turned aside from his life-long convic
tions of public duty to become a spoilsman
and the tool of spoilsmen on the last lap.
He is not going to stultify his whole record
to please a lot of political strikers. Ho has
nothing to lose this trip but his great in
dividuality and. believe me, he values this
more highly than he does the approval of
vou fellows who will be left out in the cold.
Don't make any mistake about that. It will
save pain. The "merit" svstera goes, but
it will be no particular merit that vou have
carried a torch in the rain and voted three
times for him.
Cut this out and paste it up somewhere
where yon can get at it once in awhile be
tween now and the 4th of March. Dear.
dear! When I think what a row there will
be six months hence I could almost shed
tears of svmpathy.
Chables Theodore Muebat.
SEATS FOR THE SENATORS.
An Assignment for Members Who Hold
Over and Their New Colleagues.
Hareisbuho, Nov. 25. Special Sen
ate Librarian Miller has assigned seats to
the members of the next session of the Sen
ate. There will be a few changes on the
Democratic side ot the Chamber. Senator
Markley will occupy Senator Sloan's seat
on the extreme right of the main aisle. He
will be flanked on the right by Senators
Brown, Ross and Grady. Senator Herring
will take the seat held for a number of
years by Congressman-elect Hines, of Lu
zerne, in the care of Senator Ross. Senator
Lloyd will sit on the right, and Senator
Green across the aisle on the left. Senator
Laubach will move into Senator Markley's
scat. Senators George Handy Smith,
Gobin, Keefer and Penrose will occupv the
seats in the front row, which were used by
them durinc the extraordinary session.
Senator Winfield Smith will move from
seat No. 3G into that held for so manv
years by Senator Mylin, who retires from
the Senate.
Senator Porter will occupy the seat in
the rear of George Handy Smith, and will
have for his side partner "Billy" Plinn, of
Pittsburs. Several of the ho'ldover Sen
ators and those who have been re-elected
will take the seats they had during the last
session. Senator-elect McCarrell will take
a place in the third row, while Senators
Neeb, Crawford, Cntckfield and Becker will
move one seat nearer the President's desk.
The new Senators will take seats in the
hack row, as has been the custom for rears.
W. V. Brewer, the new Senator from the
Franklin-Huntingdon district, will sit on
the Democratic side of the chamber in the
sect vacated by Senator Dunlap, who takes
a seat in front ot that occupied by him two
years ago.
QUAY MUCH IMPROVED.
He Will Soon Be in Philadelphia on His
"Way to "Washington.
Philadelphia, Nov. 2& Special
Alter a flying visit to Florida, State Sena
tor George Handy Smith returned to Phila
delphia to-day loaded down with the infor
mation that United States Senator Quay is
much benefited by his sojourn in the Land
of flowers, and will return to Washington
next week in order to be present when Con
gress assembles.
Contrary to the generally accepted re-
port, Senator Cameron is not with his col
league in Florida, but is enjoying himself
in South Candida with Senator Butler.
Senator Smith says It is Mr. Quay's in
tention to spend a day or two in Phila
delphia before settling down for the winter
in Washington, and it is generally pre
sumed that his visit to this city will be in
connection with the struggle for official
positions in the next State Legislature. He
is believed to look with favor on the as
pirations of Besideut Clerk Charles E.
Voorhees to be chief clerk, but it is not
known who is his choice for the speaker
ship. Representative "Walton, however, is
not discouraged, but says he is in the fight
and will remain in it to the end.
OHIO'S COUNT COMPLETE.
L. D. Tickers ie Republican Elector "Who
"Won't Get a Vote.
Columbus, O., Nov. 25. Special The
Secretary of State to-night completed the
official count ior Presidental electors, which
discloses that Lorenzo. D. Yickers, of the
Eleventh district, is the defeated Repub
lican elector, having 24 votes less than the
next highest Republican elector.
Hon. H. M. Daugherty, of Fayette
county, was in the city to-day. As attor
ney in the election contest from that county
he was here to see that the mandamus case
get a speedy hearing. It was postponed to
Monday on the application of the relator,
as the reply, which had been sent to "Wash
ington C H., had not been returned.
The abstracts of five counties have been
sent back for correction, and it is possible
that they may imperil two other Republi
can electors, L. M. Stark, of the Twentieth
district, and Luther Allen, of the Twenty
first district, whose margin of plurality is
slight
A NATIONAL QUARANTINE
To Be Advocated by President Harrison In
His Forthcoming Message.
Washington, Nov. 25. In view of the
common expectation that President Harri
son will include in his next message a
recommendation for the establishment of a
national quarantine, Joseph Nimmo, late
Chief the Bureau of Statistics, has sub
mitted to the President certain observa
tions. Mr. Nimmo holds that as the Gov
ernment has assumed entire charge of im
migration, one of the principal sources of
infection from cholera and like diseases, it
must, likewise, take full charge of the sea
board quarantine. He cites Story to show
that it is within the constitutional power of
Congress to do this.
He asserts that State quarantine leads to
an embarrassing conflict of authority, as
was glaringly illustrated in the events of
last fall in New York. He also holds that
the State quarantines are ineffectual, as
shown by the escape of sailors from cholera
ships in New York harbor and the appear
ance of cholera in the city of New York.
Attention is called to the resources of the
General Government, in the navy, the
revenue marine, the customs service and
the boatsand appliances of the immigrant
service; to the successful administration of
quarantine in the past by the Government;
to the injustice of the onerous quarantine
tax now imposed by the States, and to the
incentive to official corruption which State
administration of the quarantine holds out.
Mr. Nimmo estimates the annual cost of a
complete national quarantine at 25,000,
which is very mueh less than the amount
now unfairly exacted from vessels by State
quarantines.
A GRAND ARMY WAR.
Commander Welssart Will Discipline State
Departments In tho-Sonth.
Mietvaukee, Nov'25. Captais- A. G.
Welssart, Commander in Chief of the G.
A. VL, is called upon to' settle a question
that has long kept the organization in a
state of ferment Almost since the forma
tion of the 'Grand Army there has been
trouble whenever- a colored post or
ganized. Charters have often been re
fused by State departments. Protests were
sent to the commander in charge, who
turned them over to the Judge Advocate
General for adjustment A protest came
to-day from Texas. A letter had previ
ously been received from the Depart
ment of Texas, citing the same instance and
asking for instructions. Captain Weissart
immediately ordered the charter to be
issued, and declared that unless it was done
he would take steps to force the, white vet
erans to obedience or drive them out of the
Grand Array.
"There is war in Grand army circles of
the South," said Captain Weissart. "Since
my election to this office I have been col
lecting statistics from Florida to this effect.
It is my intention to make a tour of the
South and make a searching inquiry into
this race war."
UNEMPLOYED UNDER ARMS.
Volunteers Take Guns Home With Them
to Use in Labor Demonstrations.
LONDON, Nov. 25. The St. James Gazelle
says a number of the unemployed work
men who meet at Tower Hill boast of the
possession of firearms, and declare that they
are trained in their use. The Gazette adds
that it has been ascertained that many of
the unemployed men belong to the volun
teer force and nave failed to return their
arms when through drilling in accordance
with the regulations. Orders given for the
restoration 01 tne arms nave been ignored.
Arrangements are being completed for a
midnight march ot contingents of the work
lets men. Centers have been appointed at
which'the several contingents will meet,
and thence torchlight processions will march
to some place in the western part ot the
city. This place is kept a secret by the
leaders. The date of the procession will
not be fixed until the evening of the march.
It can be said the procession will not be
held. The police will prohibit it, and
should the men attempt to hold it despite
the prohibition there will be trouble, for
the authorities will disperse it by force.
THE MODERN BORGIA.
An Iowa Man In Jail Charged With Poison
ing His Four Wives.
Des Moines, La., Nov. 25. Quite a
sensation has been caused at Riverton over
a reputed wife-poisoning case. The modern
Borgia is William Mayhor. Several years
ago, while living in Axtell, Kan., he adver
tised in the Kansas City papers for a house
keeper, and Mrs. Erbecke, a haudsome
widow, was engaged. Three months later
she became Mrs. Mayhor.
She was Mayhor's fifth wife; On October
28 Mrs. Mayhor No. 5 died very suddenly.
Three former wives of Mayhor had died
under suspicions circumstances, and when
the Coroner heard of the death of Mrs.
Mayhor No. 5 he determined to hold an in
quest The result is that Mayhor is under
arrest Mayhor is worth $75,000.
VANISHING NATURAL GAS.
The "City of Wellsvllle Cnt Off; Tct Xot
Enough Left for East Liverpool.
East Liverpool, Nov. 25. Special
The trouble over the scarcity 0 fuel gas in
this city, which began with the first cold
weather of the season, has grown steadily
worse until now the people are returning to
the use of coal as rapidly as practicable.
The Bridgewater and the Ohio Valley
gas companies are both trying to furnish
the city, and to-day the Bridgewater com
pany eut off the entire city of Wellsvllle.
But even this heroio measure has been of
Ijttfo avail, and there has'betn actual suf
fering here.
SAMPSON. IS SLAIN
AWidely-Knoini Lower Kiyer
Pilot Shot While on.
His Wedding Tonr
BY A MAD, JEALOUS WOMAN
Who Then Fatally Shoots Her Sue
cessfal Rival and Herself.
AWFUL TRIPLE TfiAGEDY IN CAIRO
Where ill the Parties in the Case Were
nuvn to Everybody..
A JILTED WOMAN'S TERRIBLE REYJBNGE
rSFECM.1. TFliaHAM TO THE DISPATCH!
Cairo, III., Nov. 25. The mot tragio
event that ever ocourred in this city took
place at the Planters' House about 11
o'clock this forenoon. Captain Ransom
Sampson, a well-known steamboat pilot,
was shot and instantly killed, his bride of a
week is mortally wounded, and the jealous
woman who sent the bullets on their mis
sion of death, lies UDon a cot with a gaping
wound in her own breast.
Captain Sampson has lived in Cairo for
many years and has been employed as har
bor pilot. He had been nnfortunate in his
marital relations, having obtained a divorce
some years ago from his first wife on ac
count ot infidelity. Later, be became ac
quainted with May Sams, of Jonesboro,
111. She has stated to her friends that they
were engaged to be married and Jhnt she
had her wedding clothes made in prepara
tion for that event, which she said was to
have occurred soon.
Sampson did not marry her. On the con
trary, he won the affections of Miss Lizzie
Spiers, a beautiful and highly esteemed
young woman of Hickman, Ky. On
Wednesday of last week they were married.
The Jilted Woman's Revenge.
After a short wedding tour Mr. and Mrs.
Sampson came to this city. This morning
they arrived on an early train, registered at
the Planters' House and were assigned to a
room. About 11 o'clock May Sams ap
peared at the hotel office and asked to see
the bride and groom. She is a pleasant
faced, good looking woman, and was neatly
dressed. There was nothing in her appear
ance to indicate that she was armed and
intent upon an errand so terrible as events
proved.
Thinking her to be a friend of the happy
couple the clerk directed her to the room in
which they were. About half an hour later
the clerks and others in the office below
were started by a pistol shot Before any
one could act there was another shot.
Others followed in rapid succession nntil
six had been: fired.
Simultaneously with the last shot were
heard a woman's screams, and Mrs. Samp-
son came rushing down the stairway with
blood flowing from a wound in her 'bosom.
Guests of the hotel helped her to a seat,
while others rushed up to the room.
Three Victims ofjlnn's Fickleness.
- A ghastly sichb met heir gaze. Samp
son lay on the floor in the agony of death.
Seated on the' side of the bed wai May
Sams, with a hole through the bosom of her
dress directly over the heart, and through
which blood was pouring. Asked who did
the shooting, she replied: "I did it," but
would say no more. Dr. Stevens came, but
was convinced that Captain Sampson
was past human aid. He gave one or two
almost imperceptible gasps and was dead.
The widowed bride was hit bv two of the
bullets, both near the center of the breast,
ranging toward the right and left May
Sams' wound was fatal. Both women were
taken to St Mary's Infirmary.
To-night it was learned that May Sams
had planned the deed deliberately. She
gave a friend 590 in money, with the re
mark: "That will be enough to bury me,"
and then affectionately said goodby. When
she went to the room at the hotel she told
Mrs. Sampson that she had come to tell her
the kind ot a man she ha 1 married and then
to kill him. At the hospital she said she
was sorry she shot Mrs. Sampson; that she
had not gone there to kill her, but in the
excitement after she shot Sampson she shot
the bride also, and then tried to kill her
self. She was glad he was dead, but hoped
Mrs. Sampson w ould get well.
Only slight hopes are entertained of Mrs.
Sampson's reeoerr. May Sams is sinking,
and her death, is expected before morning.
CORBETTATTHEFAIR.
To Appear Three Times Dally In an Opera
House Built for Him.
Ne-W Yohk, Nov. 25. Special Jim
Corbett's scheme ior the construction of a
massive building to hold sparring exhibi
tions and appear daily in plays at the
World's Fair, Chicago, is already a fixture.
P. H. Plauley and" O. H. Matthews, of
Chicago, representing a syndicate of
capitalists ot tnat city ana who are
the promoters of the scheme, arrived
m this city for the sole purpose of securing
Corbett's 'signature to a contract. Corbett
is expected to sign to-morrow. To a Dis
patch reporter to-niaht the representative
of the svndicate said:
"The building is to be put up at a cost of
$100,000. Every known improvement will
be introduced. The building will be lo
cated on Fifty-sixth street, between Cor
nell street and East End avenue.
It will be convenient to all rail
and water routes. William A. Brady
will manage the the theatrical end of the
venture. Corbett is to give three per
formances dailv. The champion believes
the venture will be a profitable one. Ho
will start in to perform at Chicago about
May, and continue incessantly until Sep
tember. He expects to realize over $50,
000. The building will be known as Cor
bett's "Vaudeville and Opera House.
CHICAGO'S BIG 'SCOPE.
A Cleveland Firm "Will Bnlld It and Have
It Readyln a Year.
Cleveland, Nov. 25. Warner &
Swasey, of Cleveland, designers and build
ers of the famous oC-inch Lick telescope
and the 26-inch telescope for the new Naval
Observatory, Washington, will make the
40-inch Yerkes telescope ior the University
of Chicago.
The Lick telescope is now the largest in
the world, but this new instrument will ex
ceed it in power by 25 per cent The tube
of the great telescope will be 75 feet long
and will weigh about six tons, and the in
strument complete not less than GO tons.
It is expected that the telescope will be
completed in one year.
The TontI Order Wins Out.
Philadelphia, Nov. 25. The writ for
quo warranto proceedings against the Order
of Tonti, made by two of its members, has
been refused. This is the thirJ victory
won by the order in various actions and
practically ends the litigatio.i against it
which followed the downfall of the short
term" beneficial societies.
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MORE INTERESTING THAN BEILA'S.
LOOK OUT FOR METEORS.
Astronomers Think There Will Be Show
ers of Them To-Morrow.
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 25 Special,
Prof. Hubert A. Newton, of the Yale Ob
servatory, speaking of the meteoric shower
of last Wednesday evening, says: "About
ten of the numbers seen here, in spite of
floating clouds, were about ten to the min
ute for one observer. It has been
found by trial that one person cannot
see one-sixth of all the meteors vis
ible in the whole sky. Hence the whole
number above correspond to at least 60
per minute, or a rate of 3,600 per hour.
Whether the display continued a whole
hour with that inUnsity cannot be told
from observations here because the sky
became overcast shortly after 10
o'clock. This appearance of the me
teors last Wednesday night should
not discourage, but should rather encour
age those who are expecting them on next
Saturday or Sunday night In 1872 a
sprinkle of these meteors, was seen in New
Haven and in Germantown, Pa., on the
evening of 24th, and a magnificent display
followed in Europe on the night of the
29th. That sprinkle and the display
of last Wednesday night belong unques
tionably Jo-a third fragment .of Bielaone,
never seen in the telescope, and not' to one
of the two principal fragments seen in 1840
and 1832. We shall cross the ,d rk traok ot
the principal fragments about the 27th of
November, and we have a fair chance of
seeing meteors from them on the preceding
or following night"
PAINTING WITH HOSE.
How a Chicago Man Proposes to. Daub
World's Fair Buildings.
Chicago, Nov. 25. Artist Frank Mil
let has invented a machine to naint the
big white buildings at Jackson Park.
With the assistance of this machine, two
men can smear as much paint or calcomine
in a day as 40 men with brushes. It has
the advantage oi never going out on strike.
It is simply a gai pipe about a foot long,
flat at one end so as to leave an opening
about an inch across and wide enough to
insert a sheet of cardboard. This pipe is
attached to a long piece of rubber hose.
The other end of the hose is dipped in a
barrel of paint An electric motor pumps
a current of air and a lot of paint through
the hose. The force ot the air scatters the
paint in a fine spray as it comes from the
gas pipe. A painter simply seizes the gas
pipe, holds it about 18 inches from the sur
face he is decorating, the electric motor is
turned on and the work is done. Several
men were sprinkling the rafters of Elec
tricity Hall to-day with pale blue calco
mine. Tbey covered a greater area than a
whole gang of painters could in a fortnight
. A NEW DEAL IN RUSSIA.
The Presidency of the Czarewltch Means a
More Liberal Policy.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 25. The Czar has
nominated the Czarewitch President of the
Eussian State Council, and this is hailed as
a sign that the Czar desires to infuse a more
liberal policy into his administration.
No immediate change in methods is pos
sible, however, as the President of the
Holy Synod, wjio is a religious fanatic, is
Vice President of the Council. But under
the Presidency of the .Czarewitch, the re
pression ot Hebrews and Catholics will
eventually be relaxed.
A THIEVING COMMISSION 7IBH
Buys on Credit, Sells for Cash, and Polls
Out With 815,000 In Three Weeks.1
Cincinnati, Nov. 25. About the first
of this month Bemis, Stanton & Co., gen
eral commission merchants, established
themselves. The firm took goods on credit
and sold for spot cash below the market
prices, doing a thriving business.
Thursday the members ot the firm disap
peared, leaving numerous creditors. The
real state of anairs did not become known
till to-dav. It is estimated that they made
away with about $15,000 m cash.
BISMARCK WANTED WAR.
Tlie Ems Dispatch Srrtcd His Purpose,
I and He filadly Used It.
Paris, Nov. 25 The new paper, Xe
Journal, sent M. Hugues Leroux to inter
view Prince Bismarck on Count von Ca
privi's exploit of the Ems dispatch.
Prince Bismarck bluntly declared that
he wanted a war in 1870 for putting into the
fire and recasting the German States. The
first pretext, ho said, served his purpose.
Had it not served, he would have found an
other. 4
A Townshio Treasurer Robbed.
COLCMBTJS, O., Nov. 25. Special A.
H. Austin, Treasurer f Harrison township,
liicking county, was robbed of ?1,400 last
night The burglar entered his house and
opened the i-atc. W. M. Heiser, who com
pleted a sentence In the peiillenilary u lew
days since from that county, is suspected.
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A RICH MAN'S WHIMS.
D. Ednar Cronse, a Syracuse Million
aire, Leaves a Peculiar Will.
HIS JOCKEY RECEIVES $100,000,
And $150,000 Goes to His Clerk, hut Bis
J ate Father's College
IS LEFT WITHOUT AXI ENDOWMENT
fSPECIAI. TILEOItAJI TO THE DISFATCn.l
Syracuse, N. 1., Nov. 25. The city of
Syracuse has been on a tiptoe of expecta
tion throughout the day to learn the con
tents ot D. Edgar Crouse's will. Mr.
Cronse was one of the richest men in the
State, his fortune being variously estimated
at from 58,000,000 to 520,000,000. It came
largely to him by inheritance from his
father, John 'Crouse, and his' brother, John
J. Crouse, with whom he was in business in
the wholesale grocery trade rn this city.
" Hls'tatber gave to the Syracuse 'Univer
sity the Crouse Memorial College, a build
ing which, cost 5500,000, but which was left
unendowed by him. He died intestate, as
did also John J. Crouse. both of whose
forturnes X. Edgar Crouse inherited.
As his mother died within the seven
years just past, the brief period which
witnessed the extinction of the entire
family, he became the sole possessor of
everything.
Bnllder of a Palatial Stable.
D. Edgar Crouse became famous in this
country and abroad fonr years ago by erect
ing in Syracuse a stable fitted in palatial
style at a cost ot three quarters of a mil
lion. Its contents are regal In their splen
dor, nothing being regarded as too
costlv to adorn it The building
is in fact a perfectly equipped
clubhouse, but so peculiar was it owner
that perhaps not 50 persons, all told, have
ever crossed its threshold. He continually
talked of opening it for a reception, but
died without carrying out the intention.
His only hobby was fast horses, scores of
which he reared and-raced.
Mr. Crouse had no interests outside of the
custody ot his vast wealth, and so engross
ing was this care that he took no interest in
public affairs. He never resistered or
voted, it being a fact that he did not de
viate from this strange abhorrence of things
political even to asist his brother, the late
John J. Crouse, who was a candidate for
and was elected Mayor of the city in 1876.
Not a Cent Left to the College.
Mr. Crouse s will, when made public to
morrow, will be a source of general disap
pointment, inasmuch as out of bis great
Wealth he does practically nothing of a
philanthropic character. To the several
charitable institution ot importance in Syra
cuse he eives bequest of $5,000 each: to A.
S. Peek, hisjockev. $100,000; to Maurice P..
Grates, his confidential clerTc, $150,000;
tovWilliam L. Bitter, his valet, 550,000; to
a friend, AVilliam H. Jacoby, $50,000; to
Jacob A. Nottingham, his attorney, $50,
000; to Margaret Euright, his housekeeper,
$50,000; to Mary Foley, a servant, $25,000,
and to fire other employes in his household,
SI, 000. The remainder of his estate is to
be divided among his next of kin, chief
among whom are Colonel George N. Crouse,
Jacob Crouse and Charles E. Crouse,
cousins, of this city, and Daniel L. Cronse,
ot TJtica.
The tact that no provision was made for
the maintenance of the Crouse Memoraial
College astonishes everybody who has
heard the news to-night At least $1,000,
000 was expected by the university for this
purpose. Unendowed the memorial college
is a heavy load to carry. It was also ex
pected that the stable would be bequeathed
to the city for some public purpose, bat it
isn't
DR. SCOTT CRITICALLY ILL
Harrison's Pather-ln-Law Probably Too
Old to Survive the Present Attack.
Washington, Nov. 25. There has been
a steady decline in the condition of Itev.
Dr. Scott, the President's father-in-i.iw,
during the day, ana to-night he is consider
ably weaker than hi was this morning.
The iiaticnt is In a very critical condi
tion, and it is extremely doubtful whether
he will be able to rally, as his great age
makes it difficult for him to withstand any
acute illness.
JUBILEE BIH3EE3 DINNEBLESS.
Their Color Against Them In a Restaurant
in Trenton, X. J.
Trenton, N. J., Nor. 25. A party of
colored jubilee singers sang at the Thanks
giving festivities of the" Y. M. G A. here.
Subsequently they went to a restaurant for
dinner, but were reluscd.
Now, it is said, suit will bp begun against
Sheplfer.l & Stoul, the proprietors. Mr.
Shepherd said to-night that personally he
had uodislike lor colored people, but regu
lar , in rons would not come to lilkmtau
raut it eolorcd people patronized iu
BLAINE NOT SO ILL
flOTinTiol "RoTinT-fu "EVvm
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0sp3m Would Lead
J?tr to Belieye.
HE WILL BE TAKEN SOUTH.
Sensibility to Cold and Irresularilies
of Diet Hurt Him,
AS THEY HAYE DONE HERET0F0BE.
The Fi-Secretary's Family Astonished at
the Alarming Humors.
NO MENTAL ABERRATION OR DEEIRIDX
Washington, Nov. 25. Mr. Blaine'
condition was again the subject of universal
interest to-day, made so by the publication
of statements that his aliment had taken a
turn for .the worse and that his life is in im
minent danger. If Mr. Blaine's physician
and the members of his family are to be be
lieved such statements are misleading and
are not warranted by the facts.
Mr. Blaine returned to Washington in
October, to all appearances being better
physically in every way than he was when
he left this city to see his daughter, Mrs.
Damrosch, before she sailed for Europe.
It was on that occasion th3t he felt ill and
was removed to his cottage at Bar Harbor,
where he passed the summer and early fall
in convalescence. The cause of his illness
then was not an organic complaint, unless a
peculiar sensitive stomach can be so re
garded. Iu plain English, he ate what was
not good for him namely, rich food and
ate very much of it.
Being run down in health and mentally
fatigued from the labors of bis office, the af
fairs Of which were then in a critical state,
with the Chilean and Italian imbroglios
then fermenting or about to assume a seri
ous phase, Mr. Blaine, who is by no means
in the vigor of youth, was made very ill
and required several months' time to re
cuperate. Capable of Work but Sensitive to Cold.
Since his return to Washineton he has
been in a state of health that may fairly
.be described as his normal condition ca
pable of earnest work, fond of open air
rides and walks and cheerful, but withal
very sensitive to irregularities of diet and
to sudden changes of weather.
It is said by persons familiar with his
habits that for years he hs been subject to
slight illness from these causes, and having
a wholesome belief in the efficiency ot
doctors and physic he is quick to note the
slightest unfavorable system to take to his
bed and send for his physician. As near as
can be learned the attacK from which Mr.
Blaine is now suffering is very similar and
no more dangerous than those which bays
preceded it
He caught cold and was imprudent in his
diet. Some congestion followed and there
was a lever in train. The etomach was
made torpid and there was a difficulty in
digestion. 'Notwithstanding reports to the
contrary, it ean be said that Mr. Blaino has
shown no signs of mental aberration or de
lirium. There bos been much difficulty
encountered in the effort to get reliable
news as to his condition, and this has fos
tered the origin and spread of exaggerated
stories of Mr. Blaine's condition.
The Patient Passes a Comfortable NIeht
In the morning, it was stated bv the at
tendants who answered the bell at Mr.
Blaine's residence, that Mr. Blaine had
psssed a comfortable nicht and was resting
very easily. The attendant added: "The
family were very much surprised to see the
highly exaggerated accounts of Mr. Blaine's
illness in the papers this morning. They
cannot understand how such reports could
have obtained circulation."
Later in the day Dr. W. W. Johnson, who
is in charge of the case, called at the house
and had a short consultation with Dr.
Hyatt, who has been treating Mr. Blaine
specially for a stubborn bronchial affection.
Subsequently Dr. Johnson informed a rep
resentative of the press that the published
reports that Mr. Blaine is seriously ill are
entirely without foundation.
"The fact is," he said, "there Is nothing
really serious the matter with him. The
slight cold with accompanying fever, from
which he suffered last week, has entirely
passed away, and he is so much improved
to-day that he is able to be dressed and to
move freely about his room."
Dr. Johnson said he did not care to talk
about the case, but in response to persist
ent inquiries he said he lels sure that Air.
Blaine would be able to go out of doors in
a few days and that he is well able even
now to stand a journey in case such a course
is deemed necessary for the better treat
ment of his case. It is learned from an
other source that Mr. Blaine will soon bt
removed to some point in the South, with
the hope that tre warmer climate will have
a beneficial effect on his bronchial troubles,
which seem to have been aggravated since
the cold spell set in here.
TOUR rooms will not Ionfr, be empty If
yon advertise them In TILE DISPATCH
cent-a-word adlets.
A LABOR LAW TO BE TESTED.
Laundry Girls Discharged for Belonging
to a Union PInd a Champion.
Cleveland, Nov. 25. For the past few
weeks an efiort has been made to organize a
union of the girls and women employes of
the steam laundries. Twenty-three girls in
the Troy Steam Laundry joined it, and last
Wednesday they were given the alternative
of leaving their employment or the union.
They stood by the union.
T. B. McGuire, of the General Executive
Board of the Knights of Labor, is prepar
ing to prosecute the proprietors of the
laundry under the new Llewlyn law. which
imposes a penalty for discharging employes
for belonging to labor organizations. It is
claimed that this law is unconstitutional.
A MILLIOHAIBE'S MASHES EON
Prosecuted by His Own Father for Infidelity
to His Deserted "Wile.
Philadelphia, Nov. 25. Henry G.
Moore, a well-known man about town, who
has for years been known as a "masher,"
was sentenced to-day to imprisonment for
two months and fined $500, he having
plesded guilty to a charge of infidelity
preferred by his wife. Moore is the son of
a millionaire whisky distiller.
Mrs. Moore testified to-day that her hus
band was not living with her, but allowed
her $600 a month. She said, further, that
the prosecution was brought at the instance
of Moore's father.
One by One Toledo Boodlers Fall.
'Toledo, Nov. 25L Councilman Geotn
M. Doner, the sixth of the boodllng mem
bers of the City Council, was found guilty
this afternoon, the jury beine out only half
an hour. But one more remains to be tried.
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