aggem Z3p&m$riw. .ILL FBAICE SHAKEN By the Startling EeTelations Made in tlie Panama Canal Scandal A SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. The Socialists and Monarchists Are Both Endeavoring to PROFIT BY THE DISTURBANCE. Germany by JTo Means Without a Share of Political Troubles. OPPOSITION TO THE BIG AEMI BILL fBT CABLE TO TIIE DISPATCH.1 Londox, 2fov. 26. UopynglJ, It is a question whether Pans or Berlin has com manded the more prominent place in the at tention of Europe and the world this week It is no ordinary situation which presents itself in either capital. Germany has lis tened to the demand of the Emperor and Prime Minister for legislation to place the Empire upon the highest war footing. The cloud of public scandal which I described last w eek has burst over France, and with in efiect bo disheartening that the public journals in Paris to-day point out the dan ger ot another coup d' etat. Although the provisions of the German army bill hae been thoroughly discussed in advance, the speeches of the Emperor and Count Von Caprit i in support of the meas ure have made a profound impression throughout Europe. The broad, calm, non aggressive presentation of the subject by the Government has had a deeper effect out side of Germany than if more warlike argu ments had been used. Germany Expects to Ee Attacked. The inference has been drawn that while Germany has no offensive plans, she does definitely expect to be attacked. If this belief can be communicated to the Iteichs tajr the bill will undoubtedly pass, but evidently its members have not yet been ronvmced. In ether European capitals the majority opinion is that the measure will eentually become a law, perhaps after tome substantial concessions by the Gov ernment In the rapid kaleidescope of French af fairs all things have given place to the Panama scandal. The French people did cot learn until this week the vast scope of the allegations and the number and char acter of those who are implicated. "When Deputy de Labaye launched his charge Irom the tribune last Monday and asserted that more than 100 of his associates in the national chamber, beside high Government officials and journalists, had been cor rupted by the Panama millions, the coun try, thouph scarcely believing, was ready to overturn the Government if proof was forthcoming. The conviction has since iized itself in the popular mind that the charge?, though exaggerated, have faots upon w hich to rest A Sensational Suicide. The death of Baron Eeinach, which everybody now believes was a case of suicide, did much to confirm this impres sion. The result has been to, divert the popular anger in a great measure irom the directors of the Panama Company to the official receivers of bribes. The public resentment goes farther Jn some measure to the very lorm of Govern ment itself. It was this danger, it is said, wliich led Mr. Loubet and some of his associates to oppose the Panama prosecu tions until their official lives depended upon the withdrawal of further opposition. That public opinion has been swayed to a critical extreme is shown by such utter ances as those of M. Magnard in Figaro yesterday. He declares that the Democ racy has been tried and found wanting and that he is sure there must be a change of some sort in the nation. Deputy Dreyfus affirms that "if a pre tender were present and prepared to take up the inheritance of the Republic, it must te confessed that just now a splendid opportunity would oiler." Socialism Instead oTSIonarchy. The Gazette de France replies that Dreyfus is right on every point but one, namely, that a leader is at hand meaning, of coui'-e, the Comte de Paris. There is not a pram of sense in this last suggestion. The .Bourgeois republic is undoubtedly in a bad way, but in the present temper of" France a Socialist republic would, in a crisis, be given an innings before any revulsion of sentiment would carry the people back to a monaichy. So story of corruption has been too ex travagant to find circulation and credence in Pans this week, and no name has been tile from assault JL Arton is credited by eiervbcdy w ith being the go-between in the corruption of- the accused deputies. Senator Arton has discreetly disappeared, and ins principal, Baron Iteinach, is dead. The French police believe Arton is in Lon 3on. Search and curiosity arc principally directed tow ard the stubs ot an old check book ued by the deceased Baron. The bums represented, according to lobby re port, amount to more than 5,000,000 francs. There is much interest in London to know who is meaut by the story that the Paris representative of a London journal re ceived no less than 500,000 francs as the prict- of his silence regarding the Panama management Plenty of Moral Proof. A Paris correspondent of The Dispatch telegraphs that he had an interview with Deputy Delahaye regarding the latter's charges made in the Chamber last Monday and before the investigating committee. Delahayc said that he had no legal proof of l.ss allegations, but he had plenty of moral proof. "It the committee, says he, "n ill summon the witnesses I have privately named to them, and ask the questions which 1 nave si'geested, they will have laid Te Jore theci complete proof of all my charges. The members of the Chamber opposed to my party arc doing their best to damage niv reputation. I have only to say he iaiighs best who laughs last. I did" not make my accusations without knowing where the proofs could be lound." There is a strong impression, neverthe less, that the inesiigation by '"the thirty three," the special commission already named, will.prove a fiasco. If the charges r . linlpKAle corruption are true the srAnrial is so gigantic that even the innocent men- nfis oi l'aniatnenv wuuiu uesuaie to lace !'! ctiect of a complete exposure. Tiie Government is not stable enough, to put it bluntly, to survive the sbock. There 'av be a few scapegoats found among pab- c men, but strong efforts will be made to divert attention once more to the part r iaved in the game by the directors and contractors of the Panama Company. tVhat IVas Done Yesterday. The Panama Scandal Commission held three sittings to-day. Two important wit i ..sfces were heard. One of them, 31. Dru nioat, editor of Litire Farole, did not appear, '-(ccial Oommiesaryof Police Clement told - President of the commission that Dru ' i..af re I use J income to the Chamber on i" ground that he had deposited the docn-m-its in a secret place ana did not Wish the ilice to knoir where. This was considered bad excuse, as Delahayc possesses no loots. 'ilie other witness was Bovalist DtDntv ie Provost de Launay, who declared that 1 no names of deputies were known to him, and when interviewed by a reporter after the sitting ot the commission he said that, although he cannot give proof of his col league's guilt, "Yet, if the commission will fairly help me I am certain that those who squared can be detected." Most sensational was the account made to the commission by President Brisson, of his morning visit to Minister Bicard. '1 cannot," said the keeper of the seals, "set Drumont free. It is true that Carnot can pardon, but this is not the coarse I would advise." The Mystery ot Itelnach's Death Questioned as to the steps taken to de tect the truth about Baron Reinach's death, the Minister said: "I would order an in vestigation, but there is good authority for saving that the Government will not give permission to exhume the body for that purpose." Lobby rumors are now converging on the behavior of Drumont, Delahaye, and De Provost de Launay. The gentlemen are openly accused ot" blackmailing, without proof." Nevertheless, a careful perusal of Delahaye's declaration makes people say that there is no smoke without fire, and if the commission follows the suggestion of Deputy Delahaye more than one honorable will have to hide his face. Deputy Pourquerry was most violent acraiust Delahaye in to-day's sitting. Three members, Deroulede, Jouruart and Laver tujon, have resigned their scats on the com mission. They will, most probably, be re placed bv Bonnepy, Pourquerry and Al bert Terrv. AK0THEE CARDINAL DEAD. The Famous Prelate Who Made the Pres ent I'ope a Friend of Republics. Algiers. Nov. 2G. The great French Cardinal Lavigere is dead. Cardinal Charles Martial Allemand Lavigere, Apos tolic Delegate for Equatorial Africa, the Sahara and Soudan, Archbishop of Algiers and Carthage and Primate of Africa, has been called the Apostle to the Africans, because of his devotion to the cause of freedom on the Dark Continent Hen as born at Bavonne, France, 4n 1825. He gained world-wide fame, not only as one of the most distinguished prelates ot the Roman Church, but more especially on account of his efforts to reconcile the Papacy to the French Republic. It is through him that the present Pope was led to issne his famous statement that the Catholics ot France should recognize and obey the Re public, and substantially that there was no cause for difference between the church and the republican institutions. ( Phelps Compliments Bismarck. Berlin, Nov. 26. Slinister Phelps, in his toast to President Harrison at the Thanksgiving banquet at the Kaiserhof, ex tolled Emperor William, and concluded by saying: "One word about Prince Bismarck: His opponents say he is growing old, but if the old lion roars in the woods of Varzin or Fredericksruhe, all the world listens." A SCHOOL FOB AM ATE UK TABS, The Chicago Tacht Men Set tho ISall Roll ing for a Naval Academy. Chicago, Nov. 26. The Chicago Yacht Club, it is announced to-day, are arranging the establishment of a Western Naval Academy at East End Park on the lake front The park will also contain a superb club building. George M. Pullman, Potter Palmer and many other wealthy citizens are members of the club. Incidentally the project provides facilities for receiving the foreign achts that will visit Chicago dur ing the World's Fair. It is proposed that two instructors be sent to Cnicago by the United States Government, and that once a year the cadets from Annapolis visit the institution to obtain a little lake practice. The graduates proper of the Chicago Academy, unlike the Annapolis men, are not intended primarily for service in the ederal navy, but, nevertheless, win on leaving be equally competent if necessary, to fill the office of lieutenant or midship uau on a man-of-war or take a place -on a merchantman. FATAL STBEET CAB ACCIDENT. Tliomat, Jones Killed Last Evening; on the Tenth Street Bridge. m Thomas Jones, aged about 30 years, was killed on the Tenth street bridge about 11 o'clock last night by car No. 35 of the Short Line. Joues and a friend named Jenkins were going to the Southside. It is claimed that Jones was intoxicated, and he sat down in the middle of the bridge to rest His companion saw the car ap proaching, and instead of trying to get the unfortunate man off the track, Jenkins ran back through the bridge to stop the car. The motorman tried to stop, but before his car came to a standstill it had hit the man and passed partly over him. He was killed almost instantly. Jones was a mill worker employed at Oliver's South Fifteenth street mill and lived at the head of the Knoxvil'e Incline. Frank Letzkus, the motorman, was ar rested, and after taking his car to the stable was taken to the Twenty-eighth ward sta tion house. PEOPLE COMIKG AND GOING. Mrs. Frank Whitesell, of Sewickley, witn Mis. Andrew Easton, of Allegheny, sailed yesteiday on the steamer Kansas City from Sew York for St. Augustine, Fla., where Mrs. Easton will stay until April on account of hqr health and Mrs. Whitesell will leturn in January after a brief stay with her sister. E. T. McDonald, of New York, was at the An Serson yesterday. He was ono of the siuets at a surprise banquet given by Mrs. W. II. Lnmbeit to her husband at his home on Wylie avenue last evening. Mr.Lambert la connected with the Prothonotary's office. W. C Rodgers and wife, of Washington, and 'at Hurst, of Uniontown, were regis tered at the Central Hotel yesterday. Charles W. Mathews, of Media, and Deputy Collector J. B. Kinebart, of Waynes burg, are stopping at the St Charles. D. H. Courtney, of Jlorgantown, and J. L. Piul'. of Somerset, put up attbeMonon uahcla House last night. Leland T. Powers, a Boston lecturer, and II. M. Huffman, of Latrobe, are at the Sev enth Avenue Hotel. J. AV. Bloss, of Titusville, and E. 3L Settler, of Wheeling, registered at the An derson yeeterday. CAUGHT IS THE POLICE BET. Fhed Fahh Is charged with embezzling $34 he collected for a Liberty street installment house John Rtajt, of Penn Avenue, was sent to the workhouse yesterday for 93 days for abusing his wife. Tucntas B ado er cnarges Terence McMor row -Aitn keeping a disorderly house. Mc Morrow lives on Penn avenue, near Twenty ninth stieet. Georoe Tcium, who was brought back from Zanesville, O., by Detective Deminel, was to have been given a hearing before Alderman McKenna j Osterday, but on ac count ot the detective's absence the case was postponed. Turner is charsed with stealing an overcoat out of a Liberty street boarding house. Masterpieces In Pianos. At Mellor & Hoene's, 77 Fifth Avenue. Superb pianos, the products of modern artistic ingenuity, attuned to the fresh, crisp vigor of Invention, study and re search. Chickenng and Hardman pianos, Tose, Erakauer and Kimball pianos. Pianos of IHVINCIBLE DCBABIUrr and of marvelous tone and action. Personal inspection of our pianos by all wlio-contemplate purchasing ls'inv'ited, aim their unbounded stjrnuoRirr -ntlll ia nrnmviit. m nil T1i.ua Yrm.t,lfl tent instruments for tale for cash or in stallment!,. Catalogues free to any ad diess. If you cannot visit us, write us lor aiuaoiQiuiorinaiion. JIellor A Hokse, Founded 1831, Waiurooms, 77 Fifth avenue. THE PrTTSBUKG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27,. 1892. LOOKING FOR A BOOM. Seal Estate Speculators in Washing ton Expect Business TO GET ANOTHER MOVE ON ITSELF When Cleveland and His Wealthy Friends Ketnm to the Capital. THEY MADE MFE PLEASANT LAST TIME rs rrrtAt, nrtitoRAH to the dispatch.1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. Business men, real estate dealers and citizens generally of Washington city and its suburbs are busily asking themselves at this time whether the return to power of Grover Cleveland and a Democratic administration will cause a re vival of the boom in real estate which made the property owners and speculators to happy a few years ago. For several years preceding the advent of the Cleveland administration there had been a steady increase in the price of prop erty, governed altogether by the growing demand for residence and business sites, and it was becoming daily more apparent that, owing to the climate and various other causes, Washington was slowly but surely becoming a most popular city with resi dents of all parts ot the.Unlted States, the bulk of whom read about it constantly and visited it afterward in great numbers. But it was while Mr. Cleveland was President that the great boom came which made Washington what it' is to-day. In 1889, when President Harrison was inau gurated, the citv had settled down into the enjoyment of the good things that had come to it as a result of what was gener ally known as "the Democratic boom," which started in soon alter Mr. Cleveland became President Whitney and Cleveland In Luck. His purchase of a country house turned the eyes of.speculators and property owners to the beautiful suburban region which he and Secretary Whitney had selected at their temporary summer homes, and in an almost incredibly short space of time several syndicates of capitalists had been formed, and the broad acres in the neighborhood of Oak View and Grasslands were subdivided into town lots and selling at town lot prices. Many of them have been sold over and over again since that time, yet there are not to-day one dozen more houses in the Immediate region of these two estates than there were in 1885. Town lot prices, and stiff ones at that, still prevail, however, and so confident arc the capitalists who own the lots that Washington will grew until this country property will no longer be suburban that they are holding prices np and spending money without stint on street railways'and other costly and extensive im provements. Washington Fairly Pounced Down Upon. The success of the "Woodley lane" spec ulators was so great that local and foreign capitalists at once pounced upon Washing ton as a good field for investment, and money came from almost every State in the TJnionand, as if by magic, suburban prices went up to the city mark, and city prices almost out ot sight An elaborate system of street extension, electric and cable and railroad building, electric lighting, sanitary sewerage, eta, was put into operation in the suburbs un til now the villages around and about Washington that ten years ago were com pletely isolated are now almost within the citv itself. Many menrew rich out of the sudden development ot 'Washington's flat scraggy nindhole of 1865 into the City of Magnifi cent Distances'of 1880, but many men grew more suddenly and more honestly rich when the second. transformation occurred, anil the luckiest ones of the lot were Grover Cleve land and William CL Whitney. They were pioneers in their testifying to their belief in the future greatness of Washington, and each was a great gainer'thereby. Speculator Keep Up the Spirit When Mr. Cleveland left Washington he sold Oak View at a net profit of $100,000, and Mr. Whitney fared correspondingly well. When Benjamin Harrison came to the White House some real estate specu lators, more enterprising than discreet, at tempted to repeat the success which some of their rivals had met with through their dealings with the property of President Cleveland and his Secretary of the Navy. A tract of suburban land was selected that has since become the headquarters ot a branch Chatauqua society, add so well did the 'real estate boomers manipulate pre liminary matters that the citizens of Wash ington were able to read at their breakfasts one morning that almost every inmate of the White House, with the exception of the President himself, had pur chased a corner lot at Glen Echo, the consideration in most cases being a merely nominal sum. Even old Dr. Scott, the ladies of the household, and Miss Sanger, the typewriter, had not been for gotten, and the published accounts of the transaction, compiled from the official rec ords of the adjoining county, stated with crnel exactness the full details of the latest real estate dicker. The 31 ark Fairly Overshot The boomers overshot the mark, however, and the proprietorship of the Presidental household killed the whole project of the building-up ot this particular suburban re treat almost as effectually as the famous gift of the Harrison cottage killed Cape May Point, drove its owner into bank ruptcy and left little remaining 6n the lonesome point of sand beside the gift cot tage and the mosquitoes. Since Harrison has been President, how ever, Washington proper has gone on Eroudly, prices have not fallen, and capital as continned to pour in seemingly from everywhere. Change of administration is variously regarded as benefiting the real estate market, as giving it a setback, and as having no effect whatever upon it The majority of the operations, however.of those who are supposed to have information on the subject is that a new administration adds new life to the real estate business and adds materially to the prominent growth of the city. It is claimed'by those of this opinion that at least nine-tenths of all discharged Government officials remain in Washington to make it their permanent home, and their places being taken by others, there is a corresponding increase in the population. PBAYIHG AGAINST EABTHQTJAKB. A City In Salvador Practically Destroyed by the Shaking Earth. La Union, Salvadob, Nov. 26. An earthquake has laid low nearly all the houses in the city, and those left standing had their walls so cracked that it is not safe to remain in them. The people are living in tents, and are in fear ot further disturbances. The residents of the city were almost driven to a frenzy,, and processions were parading the streets with ringing bells, headed by priests, praying for an abatement of the disturbances. Many persons were killed and mauy seriously injured. TO GENTLEBIEN Attending Parties, Balls and Receptions. SoLOMon & Rhden Have a superior line of fall dress coats, with shawl, roll and pointed lapels. Coats, and vests from $15 up. Vose A Sons' Piakos. Universal favorites. Cash or payment. Only to be had at Mellor &Jloeno's, 77sf'ifth avenue. Portraits for the Holidays. Cabinet photos flSOperdoz. Panel pict ure given with every doz. better grade. Craons irom $2 SO up. Large assortment of irames. Lies' Portrait Studio, 10 and IS Sixth stieet t PEEDICT3 A SEVERE- WINTEB. Veterinarian Bennlng Proves It by an Old fashioned Sign. "This will be the severest winterwe have had for many years,"remarked Veterinarian Beunlng, of the Public Safety Department yesterday, "and there is the best evidence of it," he continued, pointing to the brown horse which Chief Brown drives in his buggy. "Nature always provides dumb brutes against the cold of theiratural climate. When wc are about to have a severe winter the hairy coat on horses and otherlive stock begins to grow with amazing rapidity dur ing the fall months. It not only grows long but thick, so that by the beginning of win ter if you were to pour water on. a horse's back it" will "run off without pene trating the coat In all my 'experience I have never seen such a heavy coating as the horses have this year. All the horses in the fire and police departments are in my charge and I have noted the same peculiar ity on every one of thea. Last year the growth of t'He hair was very little heavier than it had been during the summer. So I have noted in previous years. It is not a new idea, however. It was known centuries ago and'as far as 1 can see has always been a reliable indication." WANTAN0THEB REPRESENTATIVE. A Mandamus to Be Served on the Alle gheny Apportionment Committee. Detective Kornman, of "Allegheny, on Monday will serve on Councilmen'Born, Staufier, Neeb, Einstein and Armstrong the mandamus granted by Court directing them as the Apportionment Committee to make a reapportionment of the Twelfth ward, Al legheny. John Gleicb, the assessor .of the ward, is also directed to make a reassess ment apd a full and correct return to the President of Common Council of the num ber of resident taxables in the ward. The mandamus was granted on the peti tion of B. A. OverbecK and others, who represented that the apportionment which gave the ward only one Common Council man was based on an incorrect assessment and that the nnmber of taxables entitled the ward to two Common Councilmen. Tho discrepancy is- explained with the state ment that W. C Bea, the former Assessor, died in office and his books when turned into the County Commissioners were in complete. Gleich, the present Assessor, is Bea's successor, and will have to make a new assessment WILL L00E AFIEB POLITICS. Tho Trades Assembly Willing to Do All It Can to Help Labor Candidates. The regular meeting of the Trades Assembly of Western Pennsylvania was held last night A much larger representa tion than usual was present, and delegates from several new organizations were ad mitted including flint glassworkers and teamsters. The five delegates to the Citizens' Industrial Alliauce,appointed four weeks ago, were continued as permanent for this year. They are Hugh Dempsey, D. Mcintosh, Isaac Stewart, S. N. Mc Carthy and George S. Smith. They were also appointed a legislative committee to work in conjunction with the Alliance, in the securing of legislation, eta It is the intention of the Assembly to work with the Alliance in all its movements and unity of action will be arrived at Thus far the Assembly has taken no part in politics but, it is stated, they realize the necessity of it and are willing to lend aid to secure what ever benefits may be obtained by the efforts of the Alliance and similar bodies in that line. SOKE UNTIMELY RESIGNATIONS. Colonel Whitfield's Old Assistants Leave the Jobs to, Join nim. Washington, Nov. 26. The resigna tions ot Major W. S. McGinnis, Assistant Superintendent of the Kailway Mail Serv ice, and of Messrs. O. Wr-Fisher and N. W. Leonard, postoffice inspec'ors,,were handed in at the Postoffice Department to-day. Their services have for some time been in demand for the United States Postage Stamp Delivery Company, of Boston, of which Colonel & A. Whitfield, lately First As sistant Postmaster General, is now Western manager, with headquarters at Chicago, and they have finally yitlded'to the pressure. These make, it is said at the department, an important loss to- the service, and it is intimated that other resignations are to be expected soon. YOUR rooms will not long ho empty If you advertise them In TILE DISPATCH cent-a-word adlets. DASHED TO IHE EARTH. Two Menjall Over CO Foet and Are Badly Hurt Henry Kemp and Edward Haus, East End carpenters, were probably fatally in jured yesterday morning. The men were working on a scaffold on the third story of a building in course of erection on Edmund street. The scaffold gave way and the men fell to the ground, a distance of about 50 seet Kemp received a fracture of the right leg and a number of severe internal injuries. Haus had his left hip dislocated and was otherwise badly hurt Both men may re- cover. Pennsylvania Trains Late. Most of the through trains were morefor less behind time last evening. The St Louis express was an hour late, having been held by slow connections. The lim ited left Harrfsburg an hour and ahalt behind the schedule and tailed to make ud an any time to Pittsburg. The ratis were wet from the snow and it was impossible to keep up with the scheduled runs. SCALING DOWN A MAJORITY. Republican Figures Give tho House to the Democrats by 82. Washikotow, Nov. 26. Since tho publica tlon, November 19, of their table showing the composition of the next House of Repre sentatives, establishing a Democratic ma jority of 92 over the combined foi cos of the llepublicans and Populists, the Democratic Congressional Committee has rested con tent and has not tried 'to revise Us lists, which at the time of preparation agreed with those made by tile Clerk of the House. Clerk Kerr has also abandoned' any further tabulation for the present and has gone out ot town. But at the Bepublican Congressional Com mittee rooms. Captain McKee has been doing some quiet figuring with a purpose or scal ing that majority down somewhat, and he claims to have succeeded. The figures used by him as a basis of calculation were, be says, collected in all but a very few In stances from the returns mado to the Secre taries of State of tho various States, and the table will be -printed as tho official state ment of tho Bepublican Congressional Com ,nilttce. The two Rhode Island districts, where there was no election, have been' omitted from the calculation, which results as follows: Democrats elected, 218: Republi cans elected, 12S; Populist? elected, 8, leav ing the Democratic majority over tiie Re publicans and Populists combined, 82. IHE FIRE BECOBD. Muriel street A small blaze In tho house oi B. Jackson, 1312 Muriel street, yesterday, called out engines Nos. 11 and 12. The loss was $23. Atlantic The Atlantio grain elevator and several small houses adjoining. Loss, $10,000. The elevator was about to be torn down; several recent attempts to injure It failed. London An enormous block of ware houses. At one time tho flames were burst ing out ot 2C0 windows. Losj, 210,000. Six fliemen working near the sulphur stoies were neatly suffocated. MahnfTey, Pa. A Are that started In J. D. Hepburn's restaurant destroyed all iho buildings from the river to the Maliafluy Ho tel. The loss falls heaviest on A." D. i,ydlck, who owned five of tho burned buildings. A. Spencer and J. D. Hepburn are also heavy losers. MORE LIBERAL VIEWS Held by Those Congregalionalists TVbo Hack Up Dr. Abbott. THE HEATHEN TO H AYE SOME SHOW Under the Kule of 1 hose Who Uaye Caused the bensatiou NOW AGITATING PLYMOUTH CHURCH rSPZCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. New Yobk, Nov. 26. Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott was seen to-day in" regard to the action of the congregation ot Plymouth Church, n Brooklyn, which decided not to send any more of the money oat of the board for foreign mission work to" the American Board ot Foreign Missions. Dr. Abbott, pastor of the church, introduced the resolution to that eflect, against the passage of which there was but one vote. That was cast by Bev. Mr. Bliss, assistant pastor of the church. Prof. Baymond, in speaking for the passage of Dr. Abbott's resolution, sailed into the American Board of Foreign Missions for its narrow-minded views of theological questions. Dr. Abbott, in his remarks characterized the board as a close corporation. The action of Plymouth Church, which will undoubtedly be followed by smaller congregations, marks the open fighting in a battle that has been brewing between-the liberal and conservative elements of the Congressional Chuicb for five or six years. Dr. Abbott, who is in the front rank of the liberals, said to-day: Dr. ADbott in Favor of Liberality. "I think that Plymouth Church would have taken the same'action three years ago if the matter had been presented as it was Thursday night We more liberal ones who have been contributing to the fundfor foreign missionary work believe it was time we withdrew from all connectfon with an institution which denied recognition to mis sionaries holding liberal views." The burden of Dr. Abbott's remarks to day was that what was wanted was modera tion, and not antiquated religion. "What we are striving to do," said he, "is to substitute the love of God lor the fear of God. The conservative element in the Congregational Church maintains there -is no redemption bevond the grave for any body. We believe God's love to be infinite and eternal." Tho Bock Upon Which They Split That is the rock urion which Plymouth Church and the .Board of Missions have split. The board wants those it sends out as missionaries to tell ttie heathen in foreign lands that unless he repents and is saved in mighty short order he will be eternally scorched by the fire of Hades. Unless the intending missionary holds those views the board will not appoint him. If the appli cant displays a liberal moderation tendency when being examined, he is dismissed as worthy of no lurthcr consideration. He need never hope for an appointment Those who do not hold such extreme views, such as Dr. Abbott for instance, consider it 'no more than right that men holding the same views of their own should be appointed as missionaries as well as the others. They call attention to the fact that in the church generally, and no denomina tion in particular, the tendency is becom ing more liberal all the time. Dr. Abbott commented on that. He said it nas due to the democratic spirit of the age. (He did not have in mind the late election when he said it.) Dr. Abbott was of the opinion that the board would within a comparatively short time recognize the Noyes mission, which represents the liberal element "He was of the opinion that the board had made a mistake, but it did not care to acknowledge it "Saints don't like to do that any better than citizens," he said. For the present at least Plymouth Church will turn its missionary contribution over to the Noyes mission. SNAPSHOTS AT LOCAL NEWS. Jacob Fkiedmas, of Braddoolr, gave 600 clnckoiu to tho poor on Thanksgiving Day. There were 2G deaths in Alloheny City last u eek. This is the lowest weelt during the year. CnAnxEs Hoover, a blind man, who for years has been a broom peddler, was yester day sent to tlio Allegheny City Home. The Sowickiey Valley lecture course will be opened next Thursday evening in the Methodist Chinch, Sewickley, by the Rev. Mr. Georgo Wendling. Qnr.nE were six new cases ot scarlatina and sixteen' of diphtherin lcportedito the Buieau or Health yesterday. They are scat, tered over the city generally. Michael J. Hake, a brakeman on the Alle gheny Valley Railroad, had his arm crushed at Verona yesterday while coupling cars. Hare is single and lives in Oakmont. A. E. Nobtox, an engineer on tho Junction Railroad, was Friday night using an open lamp while ho was coupling some cars near Sixteenth street when tho oil ignited and the flames blazed up, scorching his eyeball. He may lose his sight Horses and Mules. The Arnheim Uve Stock t ompany, limi ted, have just received Irom some or tho liugest stock bleeders of Norman horses In OliloZOhead of full blood Norman Percheron horses, bought for the Pittsuurg market, 20 head of which are dapplo grays, mated in pan s from 1,250 to 1,800 pounds each. They are without doubt the best lot or horses shipped to Pittsburg th.s year. "The Arn heim Live Stock Company, limited, have also.ln their mule pens 100 head of choice mules, from the smallest pit mule to the largest draught mule". Anyone wishing to purchase a horse or mule should not fail to call at their stables betoie buying and In spect their siock.aj they take pleasure in ex hibiting tneir horaes and mules to all that come. Their motto for dealing is to give everyone value iur cueir money, aneoniy stables in Pittsburg which are condncted on these principles. Every horse guaianteed as represented and sold for 25 per cent less than any stable in the city. Buying such largo droves gives them the advantaeo over all other dealers in horses on the maikot. Draught, driving, saddle, currluae and Can ada cobs. Horses alwaj sin stock. Shetland ponies, Indian ponies always on hand. Mules any size. Call and see them, you can save money. Aiinheim Live Stock Co , Limited, 62 Second avonue, Pittsburg, Pa. Christmas Is Almost Here. Our claim on the holiday purchaser Is that wo show goods which aie useful us well as ornamental. A partial list of suitable gifts are: Book Cases.. Euchre Tables, Easy Chairs, Fancy Chairs, Gold Divans, Gold Chairs, Hat Racks, Hall Glasses, Hall Chests, Hanging Cabinets, Mantel Cabinets, Music Cabinets, Music Portfolios, Keed Chairs, Blacking Cases, Butlers' Trays, China CJosets, Curtain Cases, Card Tables, Chiffoniers, Chevnls, Cabinets, Chairs, Dressing Tables, Dining Tables, Divans, Desks, , jiocKers. For lurther particulars, call at warerooms, .uespectiuiiy, P. C. ScaoKKicK & Sow, " , 711 Liberty street. nOMDAT SNAPS. Solomon & Ruben Offer a splendid variety of umbrellas In plain, natural wood, gold and stiver-mounted nanuiu-viroin ' up iu i uu. a superior line of mufflers, from 50c to $3 00. Initial hand kerchieis in linen and silk, from 18c to 75c each. Nothing like them lor an acceptable holiday gift. Klebcrs' Pianos In tho Lead. ' Buyers Prefer to Deal at Klcbers. Twenty-tlvo pianos and organs sold al ready (dteinwa)s, Conovers Operas) lor Olutstmas irilts at Klebers'. fcjavo money and buy at Klebers", 608 Wood street. Don't lorgot 60U Wood street Eiohtt-hiite kersoy overcoats, all colors, regular price $13 50, special price to-morrow $9 76, at Sailer's, corner Smithfleld and Dia mond streets. Brass front. FAULT8 IN THE CIVIL 8EBVIC& General Kosecrans Points Out the Defects of tho Examination System. WashinotosNov. 26. General Kosecrans, Begisterof the Treasury, in his annnal re port to the Secretary of the Treasury, makes tho following caustic remarks In regard to the operations of the Civil Service lawr "Among tho betterments of the service undertaken during the year, the most im portant are those Initiated by the Presi dent's order or December , 1891. They have been aiming to put eaoh clerk's efficiency record beyond the Teach of momentary Im pressions, lapses of memory, caprices nnd transient feelings to which tlie minds of chiefs may be liable in making up standings. To embrace the chief elements of the olericnl efficiency record, some deliberation was lequlred, but within two or three months the liends of divisions found difficulties in their markings, in their being compelled to give attention to these fact) and mental process which are necessary elements of any Judgment concerning a clerk's official merit. This schooling or the minds or division or acting chiefs Is going on successfully in this bureau, and will soon make a clerk's monthly record or efficiency a portrait of his official work drawn by him self. Important defeots to be remedied are: "First Division or acting chiefs should be required to record eaoh clerk's performance at the close or each day and allow tho clerks to see the dally record, to avoid comp'aluts, correct records and excite emulation. "Second Provision should be made for an adequate expression by the head of tho buieau of his responsibility as legal chief. This becomes all the more important since the competitive system, as now practiced, absolutely exclud'es heads of bureaus Irom participation In making appointments and promotions in their own bureaus. Their vital defect causes :hem to regard these great betterments ot tho clerical service contemplattd in the department circulars as evils to be borne. "Third Competitive examinations for promotion, as conducted In tills bureau, have given very unsatisfactory result-. These results commend the system to neither supeiiois nor the clerical force in this bureau. "Fourth The publie service does not, as prime qualities, demand that employes should be quick-witted, of all-around intelli gence, able to give pedagogic Instruction on the department and general matters. It re quites efficient olerical service. Therefore, the monthly record of efficiency is greatly superior to the haphazard results of the competitive examinations, which command noiespectof chlers or subordinates In this office. "Proper provision for the exercise of the best judgment of the responsible head of tho bureau In the matter of promotions should be made. Neither the interests or tho public service nor or troe economy are sub served by injustice, but gross injustice re sults to 2SLcIerks or the copyist grade in this bureau irom the requlienicnt that all pro motions shall be by successive grades In each bureau." IT pays to advertise for a situation in THE DISPATCH. One cent a. word Is the cost. WAS PAYING AN ELECTION BET. Chicago's Highwayman Terrorized People Under the Terms of a Wager. Chicaoo, III., Nov. 26. It Is now said that the Industrious highwayman on a dark bay horse who has been ravaging Lake View and "holding up" people is nothing more nor less than a bloodedyoutn of Evanstown who has been paying an election bet This youth is a momber or the swell club of the town and several days before election ho made a bet in the clubhouse with a triendto this effect: "If Harrison Is not elected I'll put on a mask, steal a horse and hold up every man I meet in Lake View lor four days." "Done!" the otboryoung man shouted, nnd the ridiculons wager caused no end of a hub bub among those present. Arrangements were soon completed, and all agreed to keep the bet a secret. The young man borrowed a horse In Evanston from the barn of A. Schwall Monday night and se cured a black mask and a revolver. Tho loser of the bet continued his career until Wednesday evening, when he concluded ho had enough of holding people up. Ho quietly rode to a livery stable at No. 138 North avenue and requested tho proprietor to stable his horse lor a short time. The piopiietor had leadot the exploits or the mounted' robber yesterday, and as no one had called for the horse, he notified the police. Mr. Schwall identified the animal this morning as the one taken from his barn in Evanston. Inspector Schnak learned of the election bet, unit immediately sent men to Evanston to try and discover the young men. All of them are now thoroughly scared over the outcome ot tbe matter, and are doln everything possible to shield tho vnntlifiil robber. It is quite likely the police will have a hard time finding him. With the exception of being shot at by Officer Fred Bucklov, who chased him some distance in a baker' 1 wagon, the amateur highwayman told his friends that his trip was highly successful and amusing. SHE CAN CUKE HEADACHES. Peculiar Power Vested In the Icy Touch of a San Francisco Maiden. San Francisco Examiner.! There is a girl in San Francisco who can cure headaches cure them without a bit of medicine. She just lays her hand on the ache's head and that settles the whole mat ter. There's something peculiar about the girl's hands. They are white and shapely and very nice to look at, but to touch ugh! they're cold as ice. More than that, they are always dripping wet, these strange hands. It's an eerie thing to see a hand some, healthy girl lilt her hands and let an icy dew fall irom the ends of her fingers. She can do thai any time she wants to, and never feels the least anuoyed at the awe of the behblders. She is a tali, handsome young woman, who has never been ill in her life. She is rosy-cheeked and bright-eyed, and she isn't the slightest particle like the typical healer. She works in a big, hot factory downtown, anil she can cure any girl in the place of headache or any kind of pain. She doesn't go through strange evolutions or weird in cantations. She just pushes back her sleeves and lays her cold, wet hands on the aching head. Tbe patient feels a queer, creepy, shivery sensation crawling down her back. The cold hands move slowly across the hot forehead of the sufferer, the throbbing pain stops, the nervous twitch ing of the eyelids ceases and the headache is gone. KOBE FSESH AIR WANTED. An 4musing Anecdote Told About Unmas Pere and Dnmas Flls. New York World. Alexandre Dumas, the great French nov elist, had in his character much of the natural comicality of the negro race, from which he was .in part sprung. His son, Alexandre Dumas tils, was notably lacking in this quality, and the father was fond ot making pleasant little jokes at his ex pense. Once when the father was visiting the son, Alexandre junior invited Alexandre senior into his garden, which is said to have been somewhat larger than a good-sized fiocket handkerchief. They sat under one (ttle tree in this garden and fanned them selves. "I am suffocating," said Alexandre senior. "What shall I do, pere?" said Alexandre junior. "Better open your chamber window and let a little air out into your garden!" said Alexandre pere. Avoid Coffee or Tea if you have a Bilious or Nervous Tempefament. is a most Delicious Substitute; not only a Stimulant but a Nourisher ' ' and Highly Digestible. THE RAIN DESCENDED, But tbe Floods Refused to Come at Gen. Dryenfurth's Command. THE "WIND DEAD AGAINST HIM, Which Convinces the Teians There Is Some thing in the Theory. A EEST TAKEN Iff TIIE EXPERIMENTS Sa AirrcHflO, Tex., Nov. 2G. The ex periments at rain-making which were begun here yesterday afternoon byB. G. Dryen furtji and party, were kept up until 3 o'clock this morning with results, which, not so suc cessful as they might have been, were suf ficient to demonstrate that the theory of pro ducing rain by means of concussion is a cor rect one. When the work of bombarding began at 5 j o'clock last evening, a few .clouds hung I overhead and in the southeastern and west ern portion there were banks of thnnder- heails piled up. By 9 o'clock the heavens were cleared, and moon and stars shone brightly. Eight hydrogen-oxygen balloons were sent up during the night at intervals of about every 45 minutes. These balloons rose to a height of from 1,000 to 2.000 feet, where they exploded with ternnc lorce, the concussion being felt lor several miles around. The banks of clouds in the southeast hor izon began to, move upward by 11 o'clock and being propelled by a strong wind from that quarter, tbe heavens were soon over cast It wax 12 o'clock when a particularly ominous cloud came up and was soon direct ly overhead. One of the etherial monsters was let go with a fuse timed at two minutes. The balloon contained 1,000 cubic feet of hydrogen-oxygen and aroie almost perpen dicularly to a height of 3,000 feet, when it exploded in the very center of the clond. , A slirfht sprinkling rain had begun to fall a few minutes before, but the balloon's explosion was followed by a drenching downpour, which, however, lasted but a few minutes, when a slow drizzle set in and was kept' up until i o'clock this morning. In addition to the balloons, about 4,000 pounds of roselite ware exploded on the ground and 150 shells in Viidair. The wind during the time when experi ments were in progress was blowing a gale from the southeast, and as it has never been known to rain before here with the wind from that quarter, the old inhabitants give General Dryenfurth and party credit for the slight fall last night There were no experiments to-day, it having been decided to discontinue opera tions until next Tuesday, when arrange ments will be completed for a more exten sive and thorough test LATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Costa Bleaks swept by floods. Another street car strike is threatened In Tennessee. Tnirty persons were hurt In a French railroad wreck. Milwaukee broom makers have com bined and advanced prices. Sonthern cotton planters are losing faith In tbe Hatch anti-option bill. Rumored that "Napoleon" Ives has se cured control or the Ohio Southern. "Lizzie." the scrub woman or the Emory Arcade In Cincinnati, is worth $50,000. Tho shortage of Wilson, the Bellairo water works absconder, has grown to $15, 000. Eight "scab" sailors at Tacoma, Wash., wore kidnaped Wednesday night by union men. Gold mines of fabulous wealth are said to have been found in the Mexican State of Sonora. Venezuelans aro still fuming over the escape of Mljarcs on the steamship Phlla delpnla. Tho 20 World's Fair restaurateurs are to pay 25 per cent of their receipts for tbe privileges. General Anderson, Commander at Coal Creek, Tenn., expects another attack from the miners. The Georgia Legislature is considering a bill to punish the wreckers of railroad com panies' properties Bismarck's latest Interview about the Ems dlspttch, has created a sensation, both In Paris and in Berlin. Miami Indians In Wabash county, Intl., allowed their taxes to become delinquent and will light levies In the courts. The proposal that both tne white and tbe black; .Epworth Leagues of Tennessee occupy the same quarters nt tbe World's Fair threatens to spilt the society wide open. The son of. T. A. Lee, of Northville, Va., who was seized with hydrophobia some days since, is dead. Forty other persons who were bitten by the same dog are much alarmed. South Carolina is not likely to make much sliowinir at tho World's Fair, no ap propriation having been made. It will, however, cuntrlbntesomelnteresting things to the Colonial exhibit. Herr Ahlwardt, tho notorious anti Semitic, now in a Berlin prison for slander, has been elected to the Iteicnstag from a dis trict which heretofore bus cast but very few ami-Semitic votes. A voodoo doctor at Charleston, S. C, B. W. bite, has been held for trial for the murder ot a mulatto girl. His defense was that she died of lizard?, and effected to pro duce the reptiles by "cupping" her head. Three of the Ave men who robbed the Boslyn, Wash., bank oi $10,000, September 21, weie captured Saturday in the Cascade mountains, in the central purt of Oregon. Tho prisoners have been lully Identified by the bank officurs. Fourvoung men were arrested at John sou City, Tenn., yesteiday, lor attempting to rob tlie Wuutauga Bank, of that place. Their names are: John Crouch, John Orr. Will Campbell and Mack Bray. They hall dng a tunnel under tho bank. President Bass, of the Southern Female University, has gotten hltTnoIf into trouble, is he alleges, because he frequently rebuked a fair student for misbehavior. She charged him with trying to enter her room, but the laculty, after investigation, acquitted him. Dr. Sayre.of Wabash, and Grant Wilson, of Peru, Ind., visited the winter quarters of Wallace's circus Friday night. A large leopard escaped from its cage. The two men escaped by locking themselves In an Iron cage. The keepers escaped through a door. After a hard fight, in which a dog was killed by the Infuriated beast, it was llnatlv subdued by the use of red-hot irons and pitchforks. Two years ago Nora Johnson quietly left her home at New Salem, Pa., and disap peared. She was the daughter ot Dr. John son, 19 years old, intelligent and attractive She had tor somo time before been telling her father that she was going to leave, but ho treated It as a joke, not dreaming that slio meant it Since then not a word has been heard from her until tnis week, when the doctor received a letter from his daugh ter at Ebeusburg, where she Is going to school. EiouTT-itraE kersey overcoats, all colors, regular price $13 50, apodal price to-morrow $9 75, at Sailer1?, corner amithfiold and Dia mond streets. Brass front. Vose & Soxs Piajios. Universal favorites. Caih or payments. Only to be had at Mellor & Hoene',77 Filth-avenue. 243 suits of natural wool and camel's hair underwear, heavy weights, sell to morrow at 86 cents a mir, at Sailer's, corner Smith field nnd Diamond streets. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. VSMAiAiM THISREDUGTION Is intended to KEEP IIP THE EXCITEMENT in the GLOAK ROOM. Odds and ends in $s Jackets go at $2.50. Odd sizes and broken lots ol Jackets, worth 15, J 18, $20, placed on the $10 table. This is truly a great bargain sale of Jackets. We are overstocked in Coats. Misses' Russian Blouses in colors, plain and fancy. BARGAINS GREAT PRICES WEE. g Children's .Gretchens, with full Military Cape, sizes 4 to 14 years, at prices your own. "We will continue our Fur Sale. No advance from last week's prices. Best Quality and Low Prices artf comrades in this department. 435 MARKET ST. 437. no27-9 64d.e0 C-4 . t- REGARDLESS OF YOUR SHAPE MAY possibly strike y mi as a reckless expression. It's nothing of the kind. We won't attempt to interfere with your shape or ask you to alter' it; it's yours, andyou, ars bound to travel "zihth it to the end of yiur chapter. Our business ts to help you to good shape clothing, and we are. producing the most shapely Suits and Overcoats in Hits burg and Allegheny. It's an ill shape or figure that we can't adorn, w'hile ordinary andnormal figures are bright ened by our fashionable gar ments. GENTLEMEN in want of Clothing will find ours the only kind to buy. While we don't give a Suit with every toy pistol, or an Over coat with every magic lantern, we guarantee to save you the price of a real big gun on. every Suitor Overcoat. Come in, look over our stock, get our fnices; if you see good value, and only then, buy our cloth ing. Remember, you are noi importuned to buy. 954 and 956 Liberty St, Star Corner. no27-25-TTSsn THE ONLY REASON For the continued increase of THE DISPATCH adlets is that they gto satisfactory returns. It- 1 1 4W9i 3 - 4 v
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