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PITTSBURG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1892-TWELVE PAGES.
THREE GENTS.
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IS SUGGESTED
As the Best Way for the Dem-
ocrats to Settle the Extra
Session Matter,
A SHORT SPRING MEETING.
Bepresentative Mutchler Advocates
Some Such Move
IP THE TREASURY'S CLEANED OUT.
A Speaker Could Ee Chosen and the
Most Important Committees Named
By the Time Congress Next Met the
Tariff and Revenue Measures Could
Be Blocked Out Speaker Crisp's
Former Opponents Now Working for
His Re-Electlon Governor Sayers
Expects It to Ee by Acclamation
Senator Stockbridgo Says This Senate
Won't Help the Democrats Out of
Their Quandary It Will Stand Pat on
the Tariff Question.
iraoM x STxrr coaaitsrojfniirr"
Washington, Nov. 29. Bepresentative
Mutchler, of the Eighth Pennsylvania dis
trict, is recognized as one of the most cau
tious members ot Congress, and any opinion
by him upon any subject is given great
weight. He gave to-day an interview
which will unquestionably have much in
fluence in sharing the action of the mem
bers of CongreES who move the machine,
and not only they, but citizens generally,
look upon it as the sensible way of solving
the question.
Everyone acquainted with the methods
ot proceedings in Congress is aware that to
call an immediate session to continue until
some legislative action is accomplished
would mean a great waste of time. Any
work in view would inevitably be referred
to a committee, and months wonld be con
sumed in perfecting it. Therefore the proj
ect of calling an extra session simply to
authorize committee work during the re
cess is now admitted by almost everyone to
be the only wise action, and Mr. Mutchler,
in his statement, undoubtedly speaks the
mind of the majority of Democrats, and
practically makes a prediction of the action
of the new Congress.
Restoration Of the Sugar Duty.
Mr. Mntchler's idea of restoring the duty
on sugar is one which is impressing itself
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on memben more and more. fjtj" J
to predict that (his will be the chief method
of increasing the revenues Mr. Mntchler's
view of the situation is as follows!
"The only thing which would render an
extra session of the next Congress really
necessary would be a deficiency in the
Treasury. Whether there is or is not such
a deficiency can only be known after the
coming short session gets to work,
though there Is good reason to believe
that a deficiency exists. In any event,
I think it would be wise to call the Fifty
fhird Congress together next April and
have it organized. The Speaker could be
elected and the committee assignments
made. Then the important committees,
such as that on Ways and Means, Appro
priations, and Pensions, could sit during
the summer, while Congress took a. recess
till October or an adjournment till the reg
ular time of meeting in December. The
Ways and Means Committee, during its
summer sessions, would be able to frame a
tariff bill on careful and conservative lines,
so as gradually to bring us back to a tariff
for revenue without seriously disturbing
the industries that have been built up on
the present tariff.
One Reason for Paying a Bounty.
"Granting there is a deficiency, the first
thine; I would do would be to repeal the
sngar bonnty, and restore the duty on
sugar. Placing sugar on" the free list de
prived the Government of $50,000,000 an
nually in revenue, and the bounty paid to
the planters increased the loss to the Gov
ernment 58,000,000 or f 10,000,000 more. And
this was never done to cheapen the price of
sugar to the consumers. It was done in
order to enable the Republicans to increase
the tariff on woolen goods, carpets and
other articles of absolnte necessity in every
household, and thus protect the favored
manufacturers of those goods.
"I would also, it it was found necessary,
restore the duty on tea and coffee and add a
little to the tax on whisky and tobacco.
In this way vou will get a genuine revenue
ta iff on articles that are not real neces
saries of lite, while you could take off the
duties on articles of clothing, blankets and
carpets, which every human being and
every household must have in a climate
like this. Something of this kind must be
done to meet the vast pension and other ex
penditures of the Government If it is
not, then the alternative would be an in
come tax, in favor of which some strong
arguments can be made.
A "Word About an Income Tax.
"Thev say an income tax is inquisitorial;
that it is not rieht for the assessors to know
how many bonds a man has got But is it
more inquisitorial than a tax on houses and
lots? Is there any better reason why the
assessor should insist on knowing how
many houses you own than on how many
bonas you own? No; the real objection to
the income tax is that it puts a premium on
perjury; that the honest man would pay it,
while the unscrupulous man would escape
it altogether by swearing he did not have
enough income to bring him within its pro
visions." On the pension question Mr. Mutchler
said he iavored a revision of the pension
rolls to find out how many frauds there
were on them; a reorganization of the Pen
sion Office, and making it a bureau of the
War Department, so as to get the whole
pension system out of politics as far as
possible.
A TRICK OF POLITICS.
now the Republicans In Massachusetts
Elected Several Congressmen.
Washington, Nov. 2a Special
Representative Joe O'Neill, of Boston, who
has arrived here, says the Republicans in
.Massachusetts played a sharp but somewhat
Expensive trick at the recent election to
cut down the Democratic representation in
the next Congress. Just after the nomina
tions were made the Democratic stump
sneakers tiroeeeded to anneal to the wnrlri
ingmen in the factories in behalf of tariff re-
JorcK U.he arguments appeared to behav- I
inca'sood effect from a Democratic stand. 1
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COMPROMIS
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point, when suddenly the Republican lead
ers increased the wages of the workingmen
in every direction, and the result was the
election of several Republican Congressmen
In place of Sherman Hoar. J. Fred Will
iams, John F. Andrews and others.
Mr. O'Neill rendered himself somewhat
conspicuous in the organization of the
House last winter by refusing to vote for
any of the regularly entered candidates for
the Speakership, but practically threw his
vote away upon one of bis Massachusetts
colleagues. His reasoc for ao voting was
that he was pledged not to vote for any
man who was not pledged to oppose the
free coinage of silver. O'Neill did not
burst into tears and mingle his sobs with
those of Sherman Hoar and J. Fred Will
iams because Mills was defeated, nor did he
turn three flipflaps backward for joy when
Speaker Crisp was elected. His explana
tion of his peculiar actions appeared to be
satistactory, for he captured an assignment
to the Committee on Appropriations, which
is one oi the star places in the House.
SPEAKER CRISP'S WALKOVER.
The Men Who Formerly Opposed Him
Now Boom Him for Re-Electlon Gov
ernor bayers "Working to Have the
Georgian Honored by Acclamation.
Washington, Nov. 29. Special
Speaker Crisp and his friends have been
making a quiet but important canvass
among the members, with the result that
the semi-official announcement is made to
day that there will be no opposition to the
Georgia man's re-election to the Speaker
ship when the Fifty-third Congress meets.
The Crisp men are led to this belief by the
fact that the gentlemen who voted as Mills'
lieutenants are now the ones to come for
ward with assurances to Mr. Crisp of gen
erous support from what used to be called
the "Mills" set
One of the men closest to Roger Q. Mills
has always been ex-Governor Sayers. of
Texas. It was Sayers who kept the Mills
tally a year ago. and who never gave up tne
contest until the break came which swept
an ay all other candidates and made Judge
Crisp Speaker. It was a hard blow to
Sayers, because the election ot Mills would
have made Sayers the recognized leader of
the floor of the House. As it was, he
failed to receive the Chairmanship of the
Commitfee on Appropriations, to which he
felt entitled by right of seniority, and
AVatchdog Holman became the financial
head of the House. Bnt now Governor
Sayers voices the feeling of the old Mills
set by declaring that Speaker Crisp has
earned a re-election and that he will get it
without any opposition. Governor Sayers
said this afternoon:
I have no doubt tbat Mr. Crisp will succeed
himself. I do not believe tbat there will be
any opposition of a serious nature to his re
election. Mr. Crisp is a man of firmness and
character, and there is more to him than
people have been generally led to believe.
He will not only have the same strength
which secured his elevation in the first in
stauce.'but he has been growing stronger,
lie bas been making friends among the
members of the House, not only by bis uni
form fairness anil impartlalitv, but also by
the fitness which ho bas manilested for the
important position he holds. These friends
will be of great use to him in bis approach
ing contest for re election, as they will sup
port him in a body.
The assurance that Speaker Crisp will
have united support lrom the various ele
ments, as indicated by Governor Savers'
remarks, will bring a harmony to the Dem
ocrats of the Fifty-third Congress which
they have been far from enjoying during
the Fifty-second Congress. The defeat of
Mills left a iactional strife which has run
-Mills len a lactionai stnie wnicn nas run
thrs:ngh aU of th jmp0rtanriegislatiou
and has at times threatened to embarrass
the acomnlishments of the hnlkv maioritv.
Lit is now likely that Speaker Crisp will be
re-elected by acclamation, and tbat Gov
ernor Sayers will be the man to make the
necessary motion.
THE SENATE TO STAND PAT.
It Will Not Help the Democrats to Pass
Tree Wool or Any Other TariffRerorm
Measures Senator Stockbridge Speaks
of the Situation.
Washington, Nov. 29. 'pedal
Senator Stockbridge, of Michigan, is the
first Republican Senator now in Washing
ton who is willing to express an opinion as
to what may be expected of the Senate dur
ing the coming session. John Sherman,
Frank Hiscock, Eugene Hale, Iiedfield
Proctor, Messrs. Chandler, Cullom, Dnlph,
Manderson, Morrill and other Republican
Senators have refrained from saying any
thing for publication on the subject, but
Senator Stockbridge, in his customary
straightforward way, comes out and says
the Republican Senators will hold a caucus
as soon as a sufficient number arrive in
Washington, to map out a line of policy on
the tariff and other questions.
There is no chance tor the passage by the
Senate of the Springer free wool and the
various other Democratic tariff measures
which are now in the Senate Finance Com
mittee. The disposition among the Re
publican Senators is to allow the Demo
crats of the next Congress to assume the
entire burden of tariff legislation. Senator
Stockbridge continued:
I must say that I don't seo how they are
goins to face the question, for the income
of she Government is down to a point where
4 no xreasuiy is unreiy uuie to gee along,
ana it cannot stana any iurtner reanetion
of the tariff, as vie are practically down to
the basis of a revenue tariff already, ir the
single chango to free wool was made it
wonld reduce the revenue about t25.000.000,
and would carry the Incomes of the Govern
ment below the point oi actual expenses.
Under those circumstances I would like to
know how Mr. Cleveland and his revenue
rrrorm advisers intend to net up a tariff bill
which will reduce the duties.
Senator Stockbridge does not think Mr.
Cleveland will make the clean sweep ot
Republican officials that is popularly ex
pected. "This is Mr. Cleveland's last pub
lic service," said he, "and I think he will
feel so independent and untrammeled that he
will serve the people rather than his party.
The place hunters will do considerable
waiting when Mr. Cleveland comes in. I
expect to see most of the Republican post
masters in Michigan and elsewhere serve
out their terms, although the Democrats in
most of the towns are already getting up
petitions for postoffice appointments."
STAGE ROBBERS SHOT.
They Attempted to Scale the Walls of the
California State Prison.
SanQdentin, Cal.,Nov. 29. William
Miner, serving a sentence for stage rob
bery, -and John Marshall, for burglary, at
tempted to escape lrom the State prison
this morning. The guard fired upon them,
killing Marshall and seriously wounding
Miner.
It was subsequently found that the two
prisoners had drilled the locked bolts oil
the inside ot. their cell. They had on long
rubber coats and socks over their boots, and
had a rope and book with which to scale the
walk
A $1,000,000 LAKE
The Bono of Contention Between a States
man and an Ice Company.
BOCHESTEB, N. Y., Nov. 29. The first
steps in what promises to be a long legal
fight haTe just been taken in the commence
xnent of the action by Hon. Frederick Cook
ex-Secretary of State, against the Silver,
Ziake Ice Company to establish" the owner
ship of the lake.
The lake is In Wyoming countv, and is
three miles long. It has a water "surface of
835 acres, and is the principal souTce'"of
supply, ot the Ice company. The plant if
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HOME RULESTORIES
Published in American News
papers Laughed at in
London by Those
WHO OUGHT TO KNOW BEST
Gladstone Pledged to One, Not Four,
Parliaments for Ireland,
AND IRISH ARE TO BE CONSULTED.
Tbfl Real Bill Probably That of 1886, but
Somewhat Uevamped.
ALIj THE MINISTERS ARE OUT OP TOWN
London, Nov. 29l A mild sensation was
caused in English political circles to-day by
a cable dispatch from New York, summa
rizing an article published in American
newspapers purporting to give the details
of Mr. Gladstone's latest home rule plan
for Ireland. It is impossible to say at this
moment how much truth, if any, there is in
the story. Since the Cabinet Councils
ended last week, all of the Cabinet Minis
ters have been out of town, and direct per
sonal communication with them cannot at
present be bad.
In the best informed circles, however, the
story is received with absolnte incredulity.
When a press representative called at the
National Liberal Club this evening, the
concensus of opinion among the members
seemed to be that the outlined plan is an
echo of an old proposition of Joseph Cham
berlain's. The establishment of lour prov
incial councils with a central administra
tive body in Dublin, was suggested by Mr.
Chamberlain before he seceded from the
Liberal party, but finding the suggestion
scouted as impossible by his Liberal col
leagues, he never formulated his plan.
An Old Measure Itevamped.
The Associated Press representative re
cently received from John Dillon and other
Irish leaders assurances that the new home
rule bill is substantially the same as the
bill ot 1886, with, however, some important
alterations affecting the representation of
Ireland in the Imperial Parliament and the
power ot veto. It any further changes are
made in Mr. Gladstone's scheme, the As
sociated Press bas assurance upon which it
can rely that snch chances will be the sub
ject for a special communication for the in
formation of the people of America.
John Morley, Chief Secretary of Ireland,
has in the past few days been holding con
ferences with Irish landlords in Dublin on
the revised draft of the home rule bill The
special correspondent of the Associated
Press in Dublin telegraphed to-night tbat
he is enabled to say tbat there is no ground
for the report that the bill provides for
provincial governors and legislatures.
"Prominent Nationalists," the corres
pondent continues, "laughed at the idea
and said that if a proposition was ever
made the existence of the Gladstone gov
ernment would- Aus terminated within 24
hours."
Fledged Only for a Central Legislature.
Mr. Gladstone has committed himself in
writing to at least two Irish members to
propose only a central legislature. Further
more, both Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Morley
have promised the Irish members that no
measure will be proposed tbat has not be
forehand been assured of the support of the
Irish party in Parliament, as well as the
support ot the Irish in America. Said one
Irish leader to-night:
Yon may rest confident that we will ac
cept no provincial legislatures, and that Mr.
Gladstone will never propose them. Even
the Oraniremen repudiated the idea when
the subject of provincial legislatures was
mooted some years ago, their leader, Colonel
Saunderson, publicly stating that they
would sink or swim with the loyalists of the
south of Ireland.
Possiul the formation of an Irish House
of Lords engages the consideration of the
Cabinet, but, in any case, if Mr. Gladstone
does intend to reeognlzo a House of Lords
as part oi the Irisli legislature, its powers
will be very much circumscilued.
Among the foremost men of the Irish
party whom Mr. Gladstone has consulted
during the progress of the bill through the
Cabinet Committee, are Messrs. Dillon,
Sexton and McCarthy. The Associated
Press can authoritatively state that none of
these gentlemen has heard anything that
would indicate an intention on the part of
the present Government to depart from the
programme to which it is pledged, ot estab
lishing one Irish Parliament
LIZZIE BORDEN INSANE.
Attorney General Pillsbury Thinks
Thero
Is No Doubt of It.
New Bedford, Mass., Nov. 29.
Special Attorney General Pillsbury be
lieves that Lizzie Borden is insane. This
is the secret of the adjournment of the
grand jury in the case from November 21 to
December L The Mercury to-morrow will
publish a story based on this assertion.
The unexpected recess taken by the grand
jury led to the rumor that the Government
evidence was so weak that the Attorney
General ordered an adjournment in order
to strengthen the Government's case with
new evidence, if possible.
The Mercury is authority for the statement
that the evidence submitted to the grand
jury was sufficient for the finding of all the
indictments, and that the members were all
ready to bring in a true bill; that Attorney
General Pillsbury so strongly believed the
prisoner was Insane that he ordered an ex
amination by experts as to her sanity. The
story of her actions at the time of the mur
der, as told by the witnesses, no doubt had
great weight in influencing the Attorney
General. The investigation has been car
ried on since the jury adjourned,
and when the jury meets again in court
thev will be confronted with experts who
will testify as to Lizzie Borden's sanity.
CLEVELAND GETS A PARK.
The Deceased Millionaire Gordon Slakes a
Princely Gift to the City.
Cleveland, Nov. 29. The will of the
deceased millionaire, W. J. Gordon, was
made public to-day. The bulk of his prop
erty goes to his family.
The city of Cleveland gets a bequest of
one of the handsomest private parks in the
West. It comprises 120 acres, and was a
part of the Gordon homestead. It is worth
$1,000,000. The park fronts on the lake,
and has been exquisitely laid out. The city
is required to accept it within a year, as
well as to make certain minor improve
ments. Another Cigarette Victim.
West Chestee, Pa, Nov. 29. Casper
Torchill, a barber, who has been an invet
erate smoker of eigarettes, was suddenly
stricken unconscious to-day, and his death
is momentarily expected.
A Bad New York Failure.
New'Yoek, Novr 2a The schedules of
'Max Scnoftnthal. dealer in hnna .".nil mai
J show liabilities of 1262,873: actual assets.!
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THE VICE PROBLEM.
Dr. Ralnsford Not a 'Believer in Parkhurs
Methods When Vice Is Scattered City
life Is. Worse A SngsesUon for Pitts
burg. NewYobk, Nov. 29. A social purity
meeting has been held here to-day. It was
attended by many divines, one being Dr.
Bainsford. After a brief apology for his
inability to remain with the meeting any
length of time, Dr. Bainsford said that it
seemed to him that the main hope of
eradicating the social evil was in
the education of the children. All
efforts to be -effective must begin at the
fountain-head. The immoral forces were
fed to the city from poor, neglected child
ren. It was not possible to estimate the
harm that comes to the city from the
shameful neglect of the tenement-house
children. Then Dr. Bainsford spoke of the
kindergartens established by his church and
of the good they were doing and saldt
If we do not nil their little lives with use
ful occupations, they will nnd occupations
that are not useful. Thero is no use in our
trying to put the screws on mature
vice. If you cut off the source, then
you can handle the current. Kec
ognlze the duty to the individual
no longer, but to society at large. When any
semi-relUlous agencies say they are going
to begin at the other end, they aie going to
fall. The v. hole idea is wrong. I have seen
attempted immorality at an age you would
not believe, and It is growing worse every
year.
Our whole mission work must be changed,
and the only way to change it is to get rid
of our petty jealousies. What good
would it do to close Up evil houses?
You would only drive the inmates
into the tenement houses, where their
capacity for mi-ohief Is worse. If you
break them up you make Hie in the tene
ment district worse. Thev will invade the
hotels and the parlors or boarding houses,
and what does uch reformation amount to?
Fast attempts have already had the effect of
making other districts impure.
What we want is to find some plan by
which the evil can be thoroughly seques
tered. It would be far better to have vloe
districted by law, where It could not ap
proach near enouzh to contaminate chll
di en. By this method the wholesale bribery
of our police force would be eliminated.
FAIRCHILD FIXED FIRST.
He "Will Accept the Treasury Portfolio, Ac
cording to Friends.
New York, Nov. 29. There is no room
for doubt at piesent tbat Charles S. Fair
child will accept his old portfolio, accord
ing to the Herald. Additional interest at
taches to this fact because it is probably the
first Cabinet position absolutely deter
mined upon. It became generally whis
pered around among Mr. Fairchild'a friends
that he had concluded to accept the posi
tion, and caused no little gratification
among those who led the fight at Chicago
for Mr. Cleveland's nomination through the
May convention movement
The tender of the Treasury portfolio to
Mr. Fairchild is understood to have been
made within a day or two alter the election.
One of the ex-Secretary's friends said: "Mr.
Fairchild has finally decided that he sees
his way clear to become Secretary of the
Treasury if the President insists uponhis
taking the place." The ex-Secretary de
clined to have anything to say about the
matter.
The Senatorship continues to absorb the
attention of politicians, but there is very
little on the surface to imiiU,te any opposi
tion to Mr. Murphy, outside of .Kings
county, where the delegation is unpledged.
THE READIXfi CASE.
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.McLeod Again on 'the Stand President
Koberts Not Up in Freights.
Philadelphia, Nov. 29. The Con
gressional Committee to investigate the
Beading Bailroad .combine met here this
morning. President McLeod said if there
.was no concert of action among the coal
produceas the market would quickly oecome
glutted and it would only be a question
of a short time when the financially
strong operators would drive the weaker
ones to the wall. The result would be
the advancement of prices to a higher rate
than they are now. Mr. McLeod said that
many ot the individual Coal producers in
the anthracite regions were on the verge of
bankruptcy when he arranged to buy their
coal. A nother sufferer b v the lack of con
cert among the coal producers would be
lowering of the miners wages. The Bead
ing Coal Company has never, Mr. McLeod
said, gotten a reasonable profit in the mar
ket for its coal and that is what it is striv
ing to do.
President Boberts, of the P. B. R., said
he wan't conversant with the freight busi
ness and was allowed to step from the
stand. The remainder of the testimony was
of the usual character.
C0MBISIHO FOB SPOILS.
Bleeding Kansas Wants a Fair Share of the
Plumbs to Be Passed Aronnd.
Topeka, Kan., Nov. 29. This was the
day set for the healing of the breach be
tween the Democrats of Kansas. The
straight-outs who bolted the fusion State
ticket called a meeting of all Democrats to
discuss the grand old party and incidentally
to arrange a division of Federal spoils.
The fusion Democrats, comprising the
regular State organization, did not at
tend the meeting. All those present were
Btraight-outs. They discussed the outlook
and apppointed a committee to visit the
national Democratic leaders and get a fair
show at the patronage to be distributed in
Kansas. They also passed a resolution
commending A. A. Harris, of Ft. Scott,
tor election by the Legislature to the
United States Senate.
THE BIBB IH C0TT0JT.
Greater Than Any Since tho "War, and
Charged to the Speculators.
London, Nov. 30. The Timet publishes
a statement from what it deems a trust
worthy source,intended to show that the pres
ent rise in cotton is without a precedent ex
cept duringthe American CivilWar,and that
the movement is wholly speculative. Mid
dlemen are buying as fast as they can in
the teeth of the bad state oi trade and the
strike in Lancashire; and in the absence of
anv proof of. a diminution in supplies, the
estimate ot an American crop of 6,600.000
bales is probably greatly underrated, as
was the case last year.
FIEED INTO & CK0WD. N
A Young Man's Random Shot Kills a Tonne
Lady at Sit. Carmel.
Mt. Carmel, Pa., Nov. 29. The wild
est kind of excitement exists over a shoot
ing affray in a confectionery store yester
day. A crowd of young people were gathered
in the store, laughing and chatting gaily,
when Thomas Moser entered, and, with "a
revolver, fired into the crowd. The bullet
passed through the breast of Miss Mary
Wvtchie, inflicting a fatal wound. Moser
it in custody.
JOLlldNS IU IT.
Lips 1
A $3,000,000 Forune Coming From Cuba
to a Pennsylvania Family.
BEADINO, Nor. 29. Members of the
Geiger family in this end of the Schuylkill
Talleyvare excited over the news that a big
fortune is to be distributed among them.
Their information is that Conrad. Geiger
died In Cuba, leaving $3,000,000 behind him.
'andHhil money was coming to them,, They.
will hold a meeting, V, ' j"
PLANS (HLONDEfi
Conceived by Two Ambitious
Would-Be Bandits in a.
New Jersey Village
SPOILED AT. THE STAET.
They Hold Up Two Bank Officers and
'Carry Off All the Cash, but
COME TO GRIEF ON THE HIGHWAY.
Their
Victims and a Crowd of Farmers
Speedily l.un Them Down.
AN EXCITING CHASE IN A SNOW STORM
Allentown, N. J., Nov. 29. One of the
most daring bank robberies ever perpetrated
in New Jersey took place in this town this
afternoon, and only for the courage of two
of the bank officers, baoked by a score of
townsmen, the robbers would have been
successful.
The Farmers' National Bank is situated
on the main street of the town. In fact,
Allentown has but two roads, one of which
might be called a long alley. The popula
tion is less than 1,000, and the houses are
widely scattered.
Owing to the storm the main street was
practically deserted just before 2 o'clock,
when two men stopped just outside the
bank entrance. After a moment's hesita
tion the men mounted the steps. In the
bank at the time were Cashier Hutchinson
and Teller Smith. They were balancing
the books for the day. Within easy reach
of the cashier was $1,891 in bills and a con
siderable sum ot silver. The men stepped
np to the desk, and when Mr. Hutchinson
looked up his eyes lighted on the barrels of
two revolvers, hel I close to his face.
Loading TJp 'With Paper Money.
'Turn your face to the wall," cried the
elder of the men. The teller glanced up at
the remark, and the other revolver was in
Btantly pointed at him. He understood the
situation, and followed his chief's ex
ample. "Now, then," said the spokesman of the
robbers, "is this all the money vou have?"
"Yes," reDlied the cashier, "that is all."
In the safe were many valuable capers
and quite a sum of money; but, seemingly
satisfied with the bills before them, the
robbers proceeded to fill their pockets with
the bank notes. They shunned the silver.
It was too heavy and might retard their
movements.
"That's all," said the robber who was
conducting the scheme. "Just keep your
face to the wall for five minutes and you'll
not be harmed." Then they started for the
door, and once in the street they broke into
a swift run toward the Imlaystown road,
fiOO yards distant. ' .
An Exciting Chase in a Storm.
They had hardly reached the walk when
Mr. Hutchinson started after them! fol
lowed by his teller. He had on a"iiaen
jacket and a pair of slippers, and although
the snow was lurlously beating down be did
not halt.. Both men cried "Stop thief as
loudly as they could, and, hearing theories,
several shopkeepers flocked into the street,
and dashed back for their' revolvers and
then joined in the chase.
The robbers had quite a start, but the
townspeople, incited by the appearance of
the cashier and teller, gave "Tallyho" and
were quickly out-footing them, when they
were joined by several farmers armed with
shotguns. The 600 yards to the Imlaystown
road were quicKly traversed, and then the
chase was taken up the road toward the
station. The latter is on the road toward
Freehold.
Something less than 500 yards of this road
had been covered when the thieves, who
were almost floundering in the mud, at
tempted to jump the fence, but the rails
were wet and they slipped back. Before
they could arise Cashier Hutchinson was
upon them, and cried out:
"Throw up your hands."
The Two Bandits Surrender.
Turning, the thieves saw themselves con
fronted by more than a score ot revolvers
and shotguns, and they yielded. Mr.
Hutchinson took their revolvers, and the
march to the town was begun. They said
nothinz on the way, bnt when they were
taken before Justice Fly they were searched
and all the money was found upon them.
The elder of the robbers, the one who had
conducted the plan throughout, said his
name was Frederick C Smith, and that his
age was 25. His companion wis J. B.
Morris, aged 20. They wbre "Sunday-go-to-meeting
clothes," as one of the farmers
said afterward, and on Smith was found a
card on which was written "Woodstown
Bank, November 30." From this it was
concluded they had planned several rob
beries, of which the Allentown bank was
to be the initial.
They said they had been working for
some time on the farm ot Thomas Hart,
just south of Allentown. Hart t had hired
them in Philadelphia. Justice Fly com
mitted them to await the action of the
grand jury, and at 4 o'clock they started in
the stage for Newtown station to catch the
train tor Freehold, the seat ot Monmouth
county.
A MONTANA TRAIN ROBBED.
The Bandits Aro Supposed to Have Made
bnt S35 Oat of the Job.
Great Falls, Monoi, Nov. 29. The
Great Northern westbound through passen
ger train was held up by three robbers
near Malta, a small station east of
here, this morning, between 3 and
i "o'clock. A few minutes after leaving
Malta two men climbed over the tender
lrom the front platform of the express car,
covered the engineer and fireman, made
them ask the messenger to open his car,
white the third man held the conductor and
brakeman in the snow at the end of a gun
when they jumped off to see what was the
matter
The messenger was forced to open the
local safe, from which it is claimed only $25
was secured. He did not know the combin
ation ot the big through safe. The robbers
decamped without molesting the passen
gers. PRINCETON'S COMING HERE.
The Famous Football Team Will Play the
P. A. C.'s on Saturday.
Princeton, N. J., .Nov. 29. Arrange
ments have been made by the alumni to
have the Princeton football team play at
Pittsburg next Saturday with the team of
the Pittsburg Athletic Club. The .men
will leave here next Friday afternoon. ,
' A Retired Coal Operator's Suicide.
Bast Liverpool, Nov. 29, Special'
William, Brown, a wealthy retired coal
operator at Saliueville, O., took a dose of
poison yesterday and then cut his throat.
Ee wbald,have survived the poison, but
will die from-'the wounds. Domestic
troubles and 'excessive drinking were the
auses-r
p i j . c ,
THAT BANDIT ON HORSEBACK.
Chicago's Police Trying Desperately to
Catch Him, and Pepper at Innocent
Parties A Hundred Men Added to
the Foror, and Tet Burglaries Continue.
Chicaoo, Nov. 29. The highwayman
and police are still at war, and the taxpay
ers are sur-vortlng them both. To-day's
list of rob' -turpisses in number tbat
of yester tgt Lluberg, a peddler,
was thei- Vllff. Cthe lone highway
man to-da.Vw 't r Ji .the day and
he had not yet 6e, 'goJWffr "he hadno
money. This was InV 9t part
of the town, and the p .jiately
began looking in that direct A I? a man
on horseback. They pepperedVj fellow,
but he did not prove to be a thiel, and that
part of the campaign came to naukht.
we ijuuue ncrc iiiiorincu iiui a aia on
horseback had been seen in Pennock, a lit
tle town northwest of here. Twenty men
with rifles surrounded the place and hen
a man was seen riding rapidly awav a bul
let was sent after him. It brought dotta
the horse and 'the rider then nroved that
he was an hostler returning from a black-
smith shop. He was allowed to
go and the police came back
to town. Mrs. Nettie Warner, of
Boone, la., told the police to-night that she
had beeu chloroformed in a cab and robbed
of diamond rings worth $600. This job was
done by two cab drivers, and as Mrs.
Warner is unable to describe them or give
their numbers, they will continue in busi
ness. Numerous other small robberies are
reported lrom various parts of the city, and
the police, though working desperately
hard, seem unable to check the carnival of
crime.
Masked burglars, also, are still disturbing
Chicago, notwiths;anding the City Council
last night added 100 men to the police force.
This morning brings reports of two saloons
robbed by men wearing handkerchiefs over
their faces. Since Sunday night a trio thus
attired have committed five similar crimes,
in one of which a citizen was fatally
wounded. The suburbs are terrorized by
Diok Turpin's exploits, which have now
been going on for a week without the cul
prit or culprits being arrested.
DISS DEBAR IN JAIL AGAIN.
This Time the Spook Priestess "Worked the
Slate Trick for S735.
Geneva, III., Nov. 29. Special,
Ann Odelia Diss Debar, or Vera P. Ava, is
in jail here. Opposite her name in the
record book is a statement that she is
charged with stealing J735. Mrs. John
Mitchell is an Elgin widow, 55 years
of age, and she was greatly im
pressed with the spook priestess.
She placed great credence in what
Diss Debar said, so when Ann Odelia told
Mrs. Mitchell that her husband, who had
been dead a number of vears, was .in need
of money, Mrs. Mitchell furnished the sum
mentioned, which was placed between two
slates which were tied together, and Ann
Odelia placed them beneath the table.
When she removed them and untied the
string the money had disappeared while on
one slate was written the word "thanks."
The slate trick was one too many for Mrs.
Mitchell
Alter consideration, she conoluded to
make inquiries. So it came about that
Mrs. Mitchell decided to cause the arrest of
the spook priestess. This was on October
20, and when the warrant was taken out
Ann Odelia disappeared. Later she was
arrested in Quincy, and brought here and
bound over to the Kane County Court,
which meets in February. Bond w'as placed
at $800. but no one cares to furnish security.
Diss Debar refused to be interviewed to-
day, but she wrote, out a statement denying
the charge, and signed it "Vera P. Ava." '
NO RAIN MADE IN TEXAS.
General Byrenfurth. Stands Aside to Give
Nature a Show.
San Antonio, Nov. 29. Special The
weather bureau predicted rain for San An
tonio and vicinity to-day, and for that rea
son General Dyrenfurth refused to give his
final experiment at rainmaking. If there
are no indications for rain the bombard
ment will take place to-morrow. Governor
Hogg arrived this morning to witness the
proposed tests, and was very much disap
pointed to find that they had again been
postponed. General Dyrenfurth is very
much enthused over the results obtained
from the experiments of last Frnlay He
claims that, while the bombardment did not
cause a very great fall of rain in San An
tonio, yet he has received reports from
points five and ten miles around the city
which state that an exceedingly heavy rain
fell on Friday nieht.
The General in an interview to-day stated
that he had no faith in the theory of the
Chicago man who proposed to produce rain
by means of a liquid carbonic acid gas re
leased at a high altitude. He asserts that
the only practicable method is bv bombard
ment. $10,000 FOR BROWN PAPER.
Express Company Officials Trying to Find
Where the Fraud Was Perp trated.
GALVESTON, Tex, Nov. 29. This morn
ing's 4:30 train from Houston brought
Wells-Fargo & Co.'s express messenger,
Harris, who had in charge a package ad
dressed to Island City Savings Bank, Gal
veston, valued at $10,000. This packag
had been received from the Wells-Fargo
express messenger on the New Orleans
Houston run and had been shipped out by
Kountz Brothers, New York.
The valuable parcel was taken to the
consignees and received and signed for by
the bank's teller, John T. McCarthy.
When Mr. McCarthy opened the bundle it
was found to contain nothing but brown
paper cut in slips about the size of a bank
note and neatly made up into bundles,
fastened with rubber bands.
A RIVAL FOR THE G. A. R,
Kansas Popnlltes Organize a Society to Be
Known as the Boys in Bine.
Topeka, Nov. 29. The "Boys in Blue"
is the name by which an( ex-Union soldiers'
organization will be known, which will be
a rival of the G. A. E. The old soldiers in
the People's party are the originators of the
plan. The charter was filed to-day. It will
be a National order.
Organizations will oe at once effected in
ten States, and more than 60 companies
have already been formed in Kansas. It is
the intention to make the organization non
political. SENATOR GIBSON VERY ILL
The Aged Southern Statesman Stricken
"With Heart Disease.
Hot Springs, Nov. 29. United States
Senator "Gibson, of!New Orleans, is lying
at the Park Hotel in this city dangerously
ill with heart disease. He has been here
three weeks and lor the last 10 days has
been unable to leave his room. His physi
cians are very reticent.
The Senator is 70 odd years of age, and
K'u friends here fear he will not survive
nianyjdays.
A Missouri Case ol Skin Grafting,
Springfield, Ma, Nov, " 29. Miss
Alma Emstott, a young lady of this city,
had 14 pieces of cuticle taken from one of
her legs this morning by a surgical opera
tion. Several weeks ago her brother re
ceived fa painful gunshot wound which
would not heal, and the physician deoided
on this course of treatment. .. t .'
JUSTICE JMEHSCT,
A Bich Contractor With a
Ppwerful Political Pull
Sent to Prison.
2 YEABS FOB WIFE BEATING
The Courts Determined to Break TJp
a Too Common Practice.
RICH AND POOR TREATED ALIKE.
The Wealthy Man With the Full
gered by Bis Punishment.
Stag
OfflEES WHO DATE T0TAKEA LIKEDOSE
tSP XCIAI. TZLZGIUX TO THE DISPATCH.1
NewYobk, Nov. 29. The Patersonian
practice of wife beating will speedily lose
its popularity if the courts keep np the
record made to-day, when the Paterson
General Sessions refused to reconsider its
sentence whereby James Collins, a wealthy
contractor with a powerful political pull,
was sent to State prison for two years for
that oflense.
CollinB is engaged on a large and profit
able sewer building contract for Paterson,
but owing to his frequent confinement in a
hospital his work has been done by adeputy
holding a power of attorney. Believed of
the responsibility of his contract, Collins
teems to have utilized his freedom from
care to get drunk when not in the hospital,
and at such times beat his wife severely.
Several months ago he got drunk and quar
reled with his two daughters, 15 and 18
years of age, because his dinner was
not ready. His wife, who is the second
Mrsi Collins and not the girls' mother,
sought to protect them, and was beaten by
her husband for her good intentions. Itei.
J. B. Galloway happened to be within hear
ing ai stance of the woman's scream', end,
aided by the daughters.overpowered Collins
and prevented a possible murder, as be had
a drawn revolver with which he was beat
ing his wife.
A Pall That Had Its Limit.
Collins' spree continued until he was
taken to the hospital again, but some
neighbo rs insisted upon swearing to a com
plaint of atrocions assault against him. The
policeman who bad the warrant to serve
when Collins should leave the hospital told
the complainants they would have their
trouble for their pains, as Collins had too
strong a "null" to fear the courts.
When Collins left the hospital he was ar
rested and gave bail. By the consent of
the prosecuting attorney the charge against
him was reduced to simple assault. By
advice of his attorney, ex-Judge Francis
Scott, Collins entered a pleaot non-vult
contendere, which, under the practice, the
court considered-as a plea of guilty. The
court consisted of Judge John Hopper,
President Judge James Inglis, Jr., and
Judge Alfred A. Van Horenberg.
Collins lawyer dado a plea for clamencr.
and presented a petition to tne same pur
Dose, signed by many of the prominent
county politicians. The conrt heard some
evidence lor the people, and then sentenced
Collins to two years imprisonment.
The Itich 3Ian Fairly Stagsered.
Collins was staggered and his lawyer
dumtonnded, as they had expected a fine of
$10 or $15 in view of the plea, the defend
ant's prominedce and the petition in his be
half. To-day ex-Judge Scott again ap
peared before the court and made an effort
for a reduction of the sentence, but the
court, without dissent, ordered that the
sentence stand as imposed.
At the same time Frederick Lockhardt, a
laborer, without friends, counsel or money,
received the same sentence for the same
offense.
A reporter to-day talked with Judge
Van Horenberg about the two cases. "We
are determined," said the Judge, "tbat
this thing-shall stop. We believe it can be
slopped by showing no leniency to tins
clasi of offenders. The crime of wife beat
ing has become disgracefully common, and
has excited the law-abMing citizens to such
an extent that a recent grand jury in Mercer
county recommended the re-establishment
of t'ai whipping post as a punishment for
such offenders. Collins has never before
been arrested for this, nor I believe any
other offense, but the people presented evi
dence that he was in the habit of beating
his wife. We hope that, by dealing with
these offenders as severely us the law per
mits us, the frequency of the offense will be
diminished."
"Why Collins "Was So Punished.
Collins was seen in the county jail. He
aaid that he supposed that the fact tbat an
other man who was poor was to be sen
tenced the same day he was sentenced had
something to do with the severity of bis
punishment.
There are two other wife-beaters in the
Paterson county jail waiting trial. While
the sentence of Collins bas called more
than usual attention to the course of the
Paterson judges in such cases, it does not
mark the beginning of that course. A
depnty jailer said to-day that within
a short time eight or ten wife-beaters had
been sent to prison from Paterson to
serve seutences lrom 1 to 2 years
each. Collins has had his full day in
court, his plea not allowing him an appeal
to a higher tribunal His only hope is in
the Board of Parlous and the Governor,
but the sentiment of th best element of
the community and the hiu standing of the
Judges who Imposed the exemplary sent
ence reduce his chances for pardon to the
minimum.
BITTER and seller meet through the me
dlum of THK.. DISPATCH adlets. Tne
cost little and axe effectual.
DESPONDENCY AND DEATH.
A Pretty "Woman, Far From Home, Shoots
Herself Through the Head.
San Diego, Cal., Nov. 29. tptctal
Within sight of the parlors of the Coronado)
Beach Hotel last night, a desperate young
woman committed suicide. She was Mrs.
L. Audertoi Barnard, from Detroit. Her
corpse was found on the terrace reading
from the hotel to the beach with a bullet
through the head. A purse containing
$16 50 was found in her pocket
All that is known of the stranger
is that she arrived with no luggage,
except a satchel, on the 24th. She seemed
ailing and despondent, and said she had
caacer of the stomach and heart trouble.
She explained her lack of means, though,
the hotel bad not yet presented the bill, by
saying she expected remittances from an
Iowa hank, and that her brother was com
ing. She was in her room generally, and
seemed to suffer intensely. She said she
was 24 years of age; she was well dressed
and of dark complexion and comely.
Yesterday she asked repeatedly if a reply
bad come to a telezramshe bad sent to some
bank. This morning, after the body was
found, a reply came saying she could draw
what she needed. Telegrams have been
sent to Detroit.and to.the bank to discover
her friends.
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