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FORTY SEVENTH TEAR
THE CLIMAX
IS AT HAND
IN TRANCE
Ten More Tictims of the Bad
Panama Scandal Thrown
in the Hopper.
A DRAMATIC SCENE
IN THE CHAMBER
When the List of the Fire Xcwly Ac
cused Deputies Is Read Out
Loud in the Lobby.
CLEMENCEAU DENOUNCED
BOLDLY BY DEROULEDE,
'And the World's Champion Pnelist Has Ttvo
Affairs of Honor on Band to fet
tle This Morning.
Eouvler's Kage When He Discovers
Eis Name Among: the Accused In
His Anger He Threatens to Uncover
Cabinet Secrets That Will Incite the
People to Revolt Arene, of Corsica,
Has a Unique Explanation of the
Way His Name Is Connected With
the Big Steal Clemenceau Calls
Deroulede a Liar Millevoye Defends
Boulanger's Name and Must Also
ileet the Duelist To-Day The Two
Encounters Expected to Ee Deadly
Great Events for France Portending
The Third Bepubllc in Its Last
Days, Say Many.
tET CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
Paris, Dec. 20. Copyright. Ten more
Tictims of the Panama Canal scandal were
to-day thrown into the hopper of the
Trench mill of justice. All are men of
great prominence in the public affairs of
France, and excitement throughout Paris
and the country is again at fever heat The
official list includes five Senators, two of
them former Cabinet Ministers, and five
Deputies. The official announcement was
made simultaneously in the Senate and the
Chamber this afternoon.
French law forbids criminal prosecution
of a member of Parliament without the
consent of a special committee of each
House. The President of each body an
nounced that he had been notified by the
Minister of Justice that the Government
desired to begin proceedings against Eve
members. Bath branches voted to refer
the matter to the committees instantly and
adjourned with that purpose.
Names of the Senators Given.
In the Senate the names of those impli
plicated were publicly announced. This
is contrary to precedent, but the President
said so many names were in current rumor
that he read the list in order to prevent
mistake. He named Senators Dives, late
Minister of Agriculture; Berale, the inti
xate friend of Gambetta: Thevenet, late
Minister of Justice; Leon Renault, late
Prefect of Police, and Albert Grevy,
brother ot the late President and former
Governor General of Algeria.
In the Chamber the names were- not
read, but there was a rush to the lobby,
where the list was made known amid indis
cribable excitement. Bouvier, the other
day Minister of Finance, headed the lot
Then followed Arene of Corsica, Dngue
dela Fauconerie, Jules Boche and Antonin
Proust. All oi the ten save Fauconerie
arc members of the Left. The special com
mittee of the Chamber was formed by each
of the 11 divisions into which the House is
divided naming one member.
Koavier's Anger Hursts Its Bounds.
Bouvier attended the meeting oi his di
vision, and learning that he was one of the
accused he ' rose to his feet in a desperate
passion and exclaimed:
"I thought till now that I was a respon
sible custodian of State secrets. The time
has come when such secrets are no longer
sacred. I shall go into the Tribune when
the Chamber resumes its sitting, and make
an explicit statement .of my conduct ot the
Department of Finance during my tenure
of office."
This threat carried consternation through
out the Chamber and Government offices. It
meant that Bouvier, in desperate anger,
would uncover in his record of almost ten
years in the Cabinet events which might
easily incite the already exasperated people
to revolt Both committees voted to author
ize prosecutions, and then everybody
waited to see what would happen.
The lobby of the Chamber wai in a great
uproar for two hours. Arene, of Corsica,
trolled in and learned lor the first time
that be was to be prosecuted. He professed
indifference, and remained for nearly an
hour indifferently chatting with friends.
He said to The Dispatch correspondent:
Arene Will Not Fight Andrieux.
"I am much surprised by the action of
the Government I presume they have
made a big list, intending to sift oat the
guilty from the innocent afterward. I am
prepared to justify my conduct I know
now that Z must meet a magistrate and the
Public Prosecutor. I shall not fight a
duel with Andrieux. I can't attend to
everybody."
When the Chamber reassembled the mem
bers were treated not to tbe terrific on
lau"ht which Bouvier had threatened, but
to a sensation of another nature. Bouvier
and.Arene defended themselves with great
vigor, but tbe ex-Minister of Finance con
fined bis revelations to the assertion that
the only suspicious evidence against him
was due to the fact that the Government
had accepted a loan from individuals to the
Eeeret lund for tbe defense of tbe Republic,
And entries of reimbursement of these ad
vances had not been understood.
Then came one of the most sensational
scenes in the history of this Bepublic M.,
Derouledeentered the Tribune and declared j
that the most guilty individual in the whole
Panama scandal was the man who had es
caped accusation because he held ail France
in terror of his sword, his pistol and his
pen.
Clcinenccau Denounced liy Deroulede.
He declared his intention 'to name him,
and amid breathless excitement he pointed
to tbe great Radical, M. Clemenceau, and
called him by name. He proceeded to de
nounce him in scathing terms, and the House
and galleries listened almost breathlessly,
expecting on the spot the tragedy which tbe
words portended.
Clemenceau sat silent till the accused
finished his terrific denuaciatian, then
walked slowly to the Tribune and began in
measured, passionless words, a response.
He made a quiet denial of tbe charges, elo
quent and simple in its tonus. He paid
little attention to his accusier individually
until his very last sentence. Then, in
placid but deadly tones, without any dis
play of feeling, he applied the epithet
"liar" to Deroulede.
Everybody knew what that meant but
Clemenceau was not to escape with one
duel. He had made a slurring allusion to
Boulanger, and Deputy MiMevoye replied,
defending tbe memory of Xe Brave Gen
eral. He resented the imputation of Bou
langer's corrupt connection with Dr. Herz,
now hiding in England, and said the dead
General's only knowledge of Herz was
caused by Clemenceau bringing them to
gether, implying a corrupt purpose on the
latter's part
Two Duels Tor Clemencenn ToJay.
Clemenceau, it is understood, will meet
both his accusers on the field of honor to
morrow mottling. Everybody expects the
encounters to be deadly, for they result
from no ordinary provocation. Clemen
ceau has the reputation of being the most
skillful with the fous, the best pistol shot
in France. It is on everybody's lips that
he will be at the head of the next list of
Deputies to be prosecuted which the Govern
ment will send in. He is everywhere ac
cused. The implication of the great Badical
Deputy will do something to scatter popu
lar search for a leader of tbe moral revolt
The exasperated populace may well feel at
a loss when it looks for a combined probity
and brains among the public men of France
to-day.
The conviction is becoming widespread,
after to-day's excitement, that great events
are impending for France. It will be idle
to prophesy, guesses and opinions are with
out end. Revolution has become a common
word with one or two.
"The Third Bepublic is in'its last days,"
said a prominent Deputy to me in tbe lobby
to-night Carnot will resign, say many.
There will be a military revolution, the
army will revolt in the face of all this cor
ruption, say others.
A Government Overthrow Predicted.
A prominent journalist not connected
with any caper in the venal list of Panama
beneficiaries said confidently that the Gov
ernment overthrow in some form would
take place early next week, after the ad
journment of the Chamber, I indorse none of
these opinions. The expected never hap
pens in France.
A report reached the newspaper offices at
midnight that ex-Minister Bouvier had
shot himselC None of his friends in town
had seen him after tbe adjournment of the
Chamber, and the rumor was generally
credited. The Dispatch reporter reached
the house of Bouvier, in a distant part of
the suburb of Neuilly, at 2 o'clock to-night
An agent of the secret police stationed
there, and a servant both said that Bouvier,
after being out all the evening, bad re
turned at midnight and retired.
The names on the list presented to Par
liament for prosecution which caused the
greatest surprise are Senators Beral and
Thevenet The basis of the charge against
them is the allegation that each received
about 510,000 of the Panama corruption
fund.
Other Names Once on the XJst
There were two other names on the list as
first prepared and handed in by the Govern
ment to-day, it is reported. These were
Senator Hebrard, editor of Le Tempt, and
Deputy Henri Maret, editor of The Radical.
Everybody expects another and longer list
before the end of the week.
Several of the accused were seen by a
Dispatch reporter to-night Senator
Beral denies any connection with Panama,
and said he was ready to prove that the
money he received was merely the return
of funds he had advanced to Baron Beinach
for the latter's private use.
Senator Thevenet pronounced the accusa
tions infamous and based on groundless
suspicions.
Jules Roche, late Minister of Commerce,
strangely enough had not heard of the day's
events in the Chamber until The DIS
PATCH reporter called to-night He was
affected even to tear by the news. He
could not see, he declared, on what ground
any prosecution or investigation could be
brought against him, for he had'nothing to
do with the Panama loan, lottery, or press
bribery.
Necessary to Purge the Bepublic
Minister Loubet said to me to-night that
the prosecutions announced and to come
were absolutely necessary to purge tbe re
public. Some of the accused might clear
themselves, but the others must be expelled
from the Parliament they have dishonored.
Those who criticised the Government for
severity should await developments.
Arrangements for the duels growing out
of to-day's events in the Chamber were
completed to-night Deputies Thompson
and Menard Dorian will second Clemenceau
in both encounters. DuMentiel and
Baries will represent Deroulede, and Jourde
and Coussod will take care of Millevoye's
interests. As all concerned are Deputies
the duel can take place anywhere, as they
are exempt from prosecution.
THE DAY IN DETAIL.
WXLD SCENES OF EXCITEMENT IN
THE LOTVEK HOUSE.
Dramatic Denouement of the Day in the
Chamber Clemenceau Bearded by Two
Colleagues Who Forget for the Time
at Least That He Is the Champion
Duelist Causes of the Coming;, En
counters, UT ASSOCIATED PBXSS.3
Paris, Dec. 20. M. Fioquet, President
of the Chamber of Deputies, to-day an
nounced to the House that he had received
an application lor authority 'to prosecute
M. Bouvier, ex-Minister of Finance; M.
Jules Roche, ex-Minister of Commerce;
Emmanuel Arene, Member for Corsica;
Antonin Proust, Member for Deux Sevres;
Baron Jean de Soubeyran, Member for
Louden, and Joseph Dugue de 'la Faucon
erie, Member for Orne.
This letter, Mr. Fioquet said, was from
the Procureur General. It is stated that
the applicfttionVas && on "the ground1
that the examining magistrate of the Pan
ama Canal cases had "received many check
stubs in which appeared the initials -of
Deputies, and that compromising evidence
against the individuals in question had
been laid before the Parliamentary Investi
gating Commission, and especially t to the
part. they took in the lottery issue.
The application, could -not be granted
without the consent of the Hpuse, as tbe
Deputies under law were exempt from cer
tain legal proceedings. The Chamber de
cided that tne standing committees should
rneet and consider the application. The
sitting was then adjourned.
The Senators Who Are Suspected.
In the Senate M. Le Bover. the Presi
dent, stated that he had received a demand
for the prosecution of Senators Renault,
Albert Grevy, Beral, Thevenot and Deves
for the part they had taken in the affairs of
the canal company. The matter was re
ferred, as in the Lower Chamber, to the
standing -committees. In the Senate and
the Lower Chamber snecial committees were
elected to consider the application ot the
Procureur General, and both were under
stood to favor the prosecution of ex-Minister
Bouvier.
M. Bouvier appeared before the standing
committee, of which he is a member, in his
own defense. He was triad, be said, of an
opportunity to explain his position. There
was nothing in the documents seized to
prove that he had ever received a check
from anybody in the interest of the Panama
Canal Company. He had served the State
in high office forseveral years, and he had
always deemed it his duty to preserve si
lence as regards certain facts. The accusa
tions made against his honor and integrity
had relieved him of such obligation, and he
would now speak out in the Chamber with
out reserve.
Intense Excitement In the Lobbies.
Before the Chamber resumed business,
the statement had gone abroad and caused
intense excitement in tne ioodics. su
Bouvier was expected to refute in detail
M. Clemenceau charges as to the call at
Baron de Beinach s bouse
dh the evening
before the latter's death, and the statement
ot La Libre Parole that his name was on the
stub of M. Thirres check.
The galleries were packed. Deputies who
had intended to absent themselves from the
sitting hurried back to the Chamber. Not
a dozen seats in the whole auditorium were
vacant The report of the special commit
tee, read by Chairman Alexandre Millerand,
fatosed the granting of the application for
authority to prosecute, but in the intense
anxiety of the moment it was hardly
noticed. All waited impatiently for the
explanations of the accused members.
Deputy Arene, charged by M. Andrenx,
late Prefect of Police, with corruption , in
connection with the loan of 1888, was the
first one to protest bis innocence. He
made merely a general denial.
As M. Bouvier ascended tbe speaker's
tribune, every Deputy leaned forward in an
attitude of close attention, and the- first
words of his defense were delivered amid
oppressive stillness.
An Emphatic and General Denial.
After reminding the Chamber of his long
public service, his hitherto unexceptional
record, and the obligations to official
secrecy which had previously closed his
mouth, he made an omphatie general denial
that be had accepted checks from the Pan
ama Canal Company or its agents, or had
any discreditable connection of any sort
with the company's enterprise. Present
circumstances had relievedjus tongue of the
gag upon it by Ministerial duty, and he
was ready to tell the whole truth. "When
he came into power he found that the secret
service fund was entirely inadequate for
the defense of the Republic. As, in order
to govern wen, ne ana his colleagues must
have the money which this secret serviee
fund lacked, he had recourse to his per
sonal friends for sufficient money to tide
over the temporary difficulty.
The confusion grew steadily in the Cham
ber as the Deputies became convinced that
M. Bouvier was evading the issue. Loud
murmurs ot protest greeted his first state
ment as to the secret service fund, and
when he suggested that the suspicious
checks were contributions of his personal
friends to the support of the Government
there was an outbreak of howls and de
risive laughter.
Baising bis voice so as to be heard above
the uproar M. Bouvier shouted: "What I
did, all public men have done. Had I not
adopted that course the men now interrupt
ing me would not be seated on these
benches."
Bedlam Breaks Loose in Earnest.
Bedlam broke loose the moment the
words were uttered. Deputies rose and
shouted back to the Speaker, and others
shouted for the names of the friends. M.
Bouvier made three attempts to be heard,
but his voice was inaudible. After the
demonstration had spent itself he con
tinued: "I am perfectly ready to go before
any tribunal. I have nothing to fear. I
never derived the slightest benefit from the
Panama Canal Company. I never defended I
its interests. I challenge investigation."
This peroration provoked another hostile
demonstration. "When order had been re
stored tbe report of the special committee in
favor of the prosecution was adopted.
M. Paul Deroulede then asked what
action the Disciplinary Council of the
Legion of Honor had decided to take against
DrT Cornelius Herz. "This man," Derou
lede said, "is not to be left with the insigna
of the Legion in his possession, although I
grant he is a most important man to tbe
State, for he truly holds the reins of gov
ernment." A Violent Attack on Clemenceau.
M. Deroulede paused for several minutes.
while the Bight cheered and theXeft tried
to drown the cheers with shouted protests.
Then he proceeded, with perfect coolness,
to make a most violent personal attack upon
M. Clemenceau, "whose relations to M.
Herz," he said, "are too well known to
need detailed description. " Amid renewed
cheers from the Bight and jeers from the
Left he declared that M. Herz tried to buy
the Boulaugists with Panama Canal money,
but they had refused to touch it.
Despite M. Floquet's disputed protests,
cries of "dissolution" and a general tumult
which extended to the topmost gallery,
made Deroulede again addressed himself to
M. Clemenceau. "Why did this Herz give
200,000 francs to La JnstiaT" he Bhouted.
M. Clemenceau, white with rage, sprang
to his feet, and shaking both fists toward M.
Deroulede, shouted back an answer which
nobody could hear in the general confusion.
M. Deroulede closed with an attack on the
Mutual Benefit Association, not of Social
ists and revolutionaries, but of rich men
and rich men's pamperers,
Deroulede Is Called a XJar.
M. Clemenceau replied that M. Derou
lede! attacks were pernicious,shameless and
without foundation. Although he, had no
written proofs'ofjhis innocence he defied M.
Deroulede to substantiate the charges just
made. He would not answer these brazen
slanders in the Chamber, but would de
mand personal satisfaction immediately
after adjournment. The attacks of the last
speaker upon M. Herz were based on false
hood and imagination. Dr. Herz had served
"Frannn fftithfullv as soldier And nhmaif.ian
Boulanger himself had noE a'more devoted,!
menu than vr. utm -u. clemenceau ac
knowledged that La Justice had supported
capitalists occasionally, bat denied that it
had ever promoted business enterprises iu
tbe interest of Dr. Herz.
In conclusion M. Clemenceau cried out:
"Deroulede has accused me of betraying
my country by introducing foreign influ
ence. Deroulede lies."
After another scene of wild disorder
Lucien Millevoye, Boulangist Deputy for
Somme, rose to defend, as he said, the
memory of General Boulanger against the
aspersion cast on it by M. Clemenceau'a
statement concerning the friendship be
tween Herz and this great man. He then
let loose a torrent qf, abuse ou M. Clemen
ceau, accusing him of accepting millions'
PITTSBURG, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1892-TWELVE PAGES.
in bribes and of advising the abandonment
of Egypt by the French Government
M. Floquot Gets It In the Neck.
In the consequent tumult M. Millevoye
turned upon Id. Fioquet, who way trying to
restore order, and shouted at him an insult
ing name. Millevoye closed bis speech
with the assertion that Herz was the paid
emissary of a foreign power.
M. Bourgeois, Minister of Justice, an
nounced, amid applause, that he would
arraign Dr. Herz before tbe Disciplinary
Council of the Legion of Honor. M,
Deroulede declared himself satisfied, and
he withdrew his interpellation. The Cham
ber than adjourned. ,
The meeting of the Canal Company to-day
was devoted to the consideration and adop
tion of resolutions relating to administra
tion of the company's affairs, in order, to
insure the proper conduct of business in
the absence of Charles De Lesteps and
other officials of the company.
De Lesseps Not a Briber.
Victor de Lesseps testified before tho
Parliamentary Investigating Committee to
day that he was not concerned in the lot
tery loan issue, and that he was ignorant of
any attempt made to bribe anybody iu the
interest of the company.
An anonymous letter received by a com
mitteeman yestefday led to a search this
morning among the proofs and negatives of
a photographer. Proofs and negatives of
all tbe Thierree checks were iound. when
confronted with them Thierree revealed the
hiding place of the stubs, and these have
been seized by the committee.
Baron de Beinach'a papers were also ex
amined to-day by the committee. It was
found that many original documents had
been abstracted and replaced with copies.
SATOLLI'S REPORT TO ROME.
The rope Represented to Be Pleased With
the Results of the Conference.
Rome, Dec. 2a Mgr. Satolli sent to
cardinal Bampolla a letter containing the
I decisions and reports of the proceedings of
the American Archbishops' Conference.
Bampolla has replied without delay, ex
pressing the Pope's satisfaction with the
communication and giving further instruc
tions regarding Satolli's mission to the
United States. A high church authority
sayB the "Vatican is well pleased with the
decisions of the conference on the scholastio
question considering them at once moder
ate and tending to union and peace. This
satisfaction is all the more lively, teeing
that the resolutions are in harmony with
the precise instructions given by the Pope
to Mgr. Satolli. The Pope would have op
posed absolutely any result of the confer
ence tending to hamper his policy of
pacification, or to encourage dissension be
tween American sentiment and, the episco
pate between religion and the State. The
high authority says:
I read in the American papers a state
ment that Mitt. Satolli has received rrom
Borne power to decide without appeal ques
tions pending between the bishops and the
priests. This secret has been opportunely
divulged, and I am able to add without in
discretion that Satolli before leaving Borne
was furnished with this power and invested
with other powers held by tbe Prerect of
the Propaganda. The Holy Father, in thus
acting, had desired that the Satolli mission
eliall contribute to the normal development
of the Church and to the peace and prosper
ity of tbe American young democracy.
TAMMANY SATISFIED.
It "Will Stand by Cleveland and Get AD
the Good Things In New York State.
Washington, Dec. 20. Special
"When Colonel John U. Fellows walked
into the House of Bepresentatives this
morning, several of his associates asked
him what he thought about Mr. Crokcr's
declaration that he does not intend to sees
Federal patronage at the hands of the next
administration. "Mr. Croker is correct,"
promptly replied the Colonel. "Tammany, "
he continued, "has never been a supplicant
for Federal patronage. The patronage of
New York City is of far more importance
and value than all the Federal patronage
in the State of New York. Federal patron
age is a source of weakness to any party
that has the distribusion of it, as demon
strated in '88 and also last month.
"Tammany is not going to enter into any
scramble for the places in the postoffices
and the Custom House which are not pro
tected by the civil service law. "We have
the city patronage at our disposal and also
a large portion oi that of the State, so there
is no fear of any conflict, so far as Tam
many is concerned, over the few crumbs
which seem to look as large as full-sized
loaves to certain gentlemen. Tammany
will go right ahead and do as it did in the
recent campaign give Mr. Cleveland loyal
and able support in the interest of the
Democratic party."
GEN. BOOTH A VICTOR.
The Earl of Onshtw'a Investigation a Vindi
cation of His Projects.
London, -Dec. 20. The report of the
committee, ot which the Earl of Onslaw is
Chairman, appointed to investigate the
financial affairs of the Salvation Army as con
ducted by General Booth, was made public
to-day. The report speaks favorably of
General Booth's enterprise for the redemp
tion of "Darkest England," but qualifies
the general verdict ot approval with critic
ism, that too much cash has been sunk in
building operations at the beginning of the
enterprise. The report is a great victory
for General Booth.
As to the social wing of the Salvation
Army work, the report is almost entirely
favorable. The committee states that it is
evident that neither General Booth nor the
members of his family derive any benefit
from the funds of tbe Salvation Army on
either side of the Salvation Army work,
and that General Booth has adequately ex
plained the sources of his personal income.
The committee consider that the property
maintained and acquired for Salvation
Army uses is safe in the control ot General
Booth and his associates. Nevertheless,
they recommend the appointment of 'inde
pendent trustees to hold tbe real estate and
stock investments of tbe Salvation Army iu
trust as an additional safeguard against
fraud.
HARRISON GETS A JOB.
He "Will Become a Professor and Lecture
on Law at the Stanford "University.
San FRANCISCO, Dec 2a The state
ment published this morning that President
Harrison, at the expiration of his term of
office will become a member of the faculty
of the Stanford University, having accepted
a proposition to deliver a aeries ot lectures
on law as a non-resident professor.
This would necessiate occasional visits
to California from Indianapolis, where, It
is understood, President Harrison will
make his home, spending the winter of each
year, however, in California,
THE SAME OLD FIGHT.
Bouvenlr Coins Used to Coerce tho
Chl-
cago Directory.
Chicago, III., Deo. 20. The flow of
souvenir coins to Chicago, whioh began yes
terday, is likely to be suddenly checked.
Director Davis controls this flow. Every
time he puts his Indorsement io a voucher
the sub-treasurer at Philadelphia responds
with a shipment of coins. The Director
General has been given to understand by
the Board of Control that he need not sign
any more vouchers.
This quiet intimation to Colonel Davis
is the result of the refusal of the local di
rectors . to approve ' rule 'for the 'Fair J as:
adopted" by the jKatleaal Cwombtioa.
RUINED BY HIS SON
St. Louis' City Treasurer Re
moved and His Successor
' Is in Charge.
THE CITY CAN'T BE LOSER,
As tbe Late Official's Bond Is a Good
One for- Half a Million.
BACKIHG THE LOSING HORSES
And Letting His Sweetheart Handle
Uoner at the Track
CAUSED TilE DEAD MAS'3 DOWNFALL
i rsnciALTELEaRiu to the pisrvrcn.j
8t. Lotfis, Dec. 20. Acting Mayor C
P. "Walleridge has suspended City Treas
urer Michael Foerstel and appointed Hon.
Charles Parsons, President of the National
Association of Bankers, to 11 the office
temporarily. Mr. Parsons at once gave a
bond worth $10,000,000, and early this
morning commenced a thorough and sys
tematic examination of the accounts of the
looted citv treasury.
Marshal F. McDonald, the lawyer, proba
bly Knows as much about the affairs of ex
Treasurer Foerstel and hii aon Ed as
anyone in the city. He said to-day: "Dur
ing ufy investigation of Tow's case I found
out a great deal. .1 learned that Foerstel
was using 'the public funas to "build up
Foerstelville, and that in the past 12
months the treasury had paid out $15,000 in
interest, at the rate of 5 per cent a month,
to the money lenders of the town.
The Father Very Much to Blame,
"Foerstel had a habit of signing five or
six or a dozen blank notes and leaving them
with his son Ed. There was a shortage in
the cash of the office then, and whenever it
became necessary to have money Ed filled
out the check for $5,000 or $10,000 which
ever was needed.
"Yow was then sent for, and through him
J. B. Yett or J. Brooks Johnson discounted
the note, Yow was on the police force
then, and at times his wife or daughter
would do the negotiating. Then Foerstel
became frightened, and put a mortgage on
his property for $75,000. He thought this
would cover the amount he was short, but
he did not know exactly how much he "was
short
"Tlje dead boy had been doing the -heavy
work and was way in,himsel He had been
playing the races recklessly and was run
ning around with women and speculating
in real estate. His father knew this, but
did not know how much he was short. The
office was run so loose that I know of one
department in the Court House where every
clerk in the place has drawn his salary in
advance for nearly a year. Foerstel was
used as a duck to pluck by members of the
Republican hoodlum push. Men went to
bis office and borrowed thousands of dol
lars, .which tvere given from the city
funds."
Charges Ignored ly;rthe Grand Jury.
At the recent meetine of the srand inrr
Mr. McDonald laid the charges before that
ooay, ne says, Duv tne jury ignored them.
The "woman in the case" is supposed to
be Miss Fannie iLewis, who lives where
young Foerstel roomed. She is a daughter
of the landlady, Mrs. Lizzie Lewis, and is
not pretty, but is plump, vivacious and
shrewd. Her self-possession was shown
tolay when Chief ot Detectives "William
Desmond tried to find out from her. havintr
brought her to his office, how Foerstel had
spent the money he bad taken. She
pleaded illness, and he learned nothing of
value.
"Miss Lewis" is really Mrs. John Bry
ant. Her mother used to keep a lodging
house in St. Louis. She tried to-bring her
daughter up in ignorance of her mother's
mode of life, and had her for vears in the
convent schools of tbe city. The daughter
discovered her mother's character, left the
convent and married Bryant. They went to
Kansas City, and Bryant lost his hold on
his business very soon and began drinking.
Presently be disappeared, and Mrs. Bryant,
returning to St. Louis, took her maiden
name and was understood to be an unmar
ried woman.
Gossip Kept Up by Big Betting.
Nearly two vears aeoshe met vouneFoer-
stel, and since that time the relations of the
couple have been a matter of common re
port Last spring she and Eddie Foerstel
went to the races at the fair grounds. They
went in an open carriage, and both bet so
openly, Eddie carrying the money she
staked, that gossip was again aroused about
them. Eddie told his friends that he had
won about $5,000 on the races, and that he
had bribed a negro stable keeper to give
him successful tips.
Police Captain John Campbell, who was
on duty at the race track and had opportu
nity to watch Foerstel's bettirjr, says the
young man lost probably the amount he
said he had won.
It is said with an air of knowledge by the
men with .whom Foerstel used to talk of
Miss Lewis that he gave her at different
times many valuable presents and taw that
she was always dressed handsomely.
Michael Foerstel, the ex-Treasurer,is worth
a quarter of a million in real estate and his
bond of $500,000 is good for the amount
. Attorney Burns S. Delano, who acted as
Eddie Foerstel's legal ndvistr, was asked
to-day whether he was prepared to name
the man who exacted blackmail from
young Foerstel.
The Blackmailer Still Is Feared.
"No," answered the attorney. "I can
not afford to tell his name, on account of
my peculiar position as Eddie Foerstel's
confidential legal adviser. I believe he
was pursued by a gang of blood-suckers,
who drove him to despair by their slan
ders. I always thought Eddie was labor
ing under the weight of grief which tbe
blackmailer's threats had imposed npon
him. Suppose some one whom you reck
oned as a friend should come to you and
tell you that he had behind your back ex
tracted documents from your desk with
which he now threatened to expose yon,
unless you paid him so many thousand dol
lars; how would you feel?"
Mr. Delano ascribed the blackmailer's in
fluence over Foerstel to what he called the
young man's boyish way of leaving import
ant papers in exposed places and in confid
ing too much in others.
"How long is it since Foerstel's black
mailer demanded hush money?"
"About three Weeks, We wanted to get
him to put his demand in writing and then
prosecute him, but he would not do it I
don't care to divnlge the blackmailer's
name. If the matter becomes public by
frocess of law, all well and good, but what
know, I know. But these men might
make an attack on me If I told what lam
positive of, and it is only prudence for me
to keep clear of the whole business."
The Alleged Husband Poisoner Held.
Geeensbubg, Dec 20. Mrs. Kate
Fainter was held for court to-day on the
charge of poisoning' her husband. Mr.
Handy, the Pittsburv enemitt testified to
.faadlnft&tnMM of arwaio.in the vietia's
siomacn.
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BLAINE IS NO WORSE
But He Sleeps, and the Doctors Fear
No.Danger of Death
WITHOUT A DEFINITE WARNING.
fomethlnj Beside Fright's Piseass Is
ping His Life Away.
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THB FAMILY WOFT TELL WHAT IT IS
"Washington, Dee. 21, 1a. m. Blaine
was sleeping and no worse at midnight
The doctor says there is no danger of his
dying to-night
According to the report that came out
from the Blaine mansion in the morning
the ex-Secretary's condition showed signs
ot a slight but still noticeable improve
ment Dr. Johnston, after his early morn
ing call, hardly went as far as thtf. He told
the reporters that Mr. Blaine was no worse
than he was the day before.
Mr. Blaine passed a fairly comfortable
night and managed to get a considerable
amount of sleep. During the day he felt a
trifle stronger for his rest and seemed to be
quite bright and cheerful. Later in the
day, when the sun came out from behind
the' clouds, his spirits revived accordingly,
for he has a room facing toward the South
find enjoys the genial sunlight, of which
there haJ'Deen so little for the past few
days.
Xittle Hope of a Xasting; .Bally.
Even the physicians and the members of
the family who are about tbe bedside do not
regard the improvement in the great states
man's condition as of such a nature as to
give croueds for hope of any lasting rally.
Another such ease of heart failure as tbe
patient suffered on Sunday, it is admitted,
would probably be more than he could sur
vive. It is said that the members of the Blaine
family have still a hope that he may re
cover sufficiently to be removed from the
citv to tome point in the South, where a
warmer temperature would be beneficial to
the sick man. Intimate friends of the fam
ily fear that any such hopes on their part
are baseless, and they are prepared for the
worst at any time.
Newspaper men again asked of the physi
cians what was the real nature of the dis
ease from which Mr. Blaine is suffering.
They were given to understand that it was
by the wish of the family that this is kept
from the public They think that it it
were made public it would open a large field
for discussion that would be intensely dis
agreeable to bis family and friends.
The opinion has been gaining ground
steadily that there is something more the
matter than-Bright's disease; that if Mr.
Blaine is a sufferer from that malady, at
any rate it s not the only trousle.
The Thread of Faith Is Slight.
Whatever it may be, it is admitted that
the disease has made such inroads upon his
constitution that there can be but the very
slightest thread from which to hang any
hope of his living for even a short space of
time.
The statement that he is no worse than be
was Monday carries with it but little
hope ot improvement It is feared that
there may be another sinking spell at any
time, and the question at once presents it
self whether the sick man has strength
enough to last it through.
A telegram from New York says: Dr.
Alfred L. Loomis, the specialist on cardiac
and pulmonary diseases, who was called in
consultation with Dn. Hyatt and John
ston, Mr. Blaine's physicians, said to-day:
I armnt several hours at Mr. Blaine's bed-
fslae.and after examining thoroughly in to bis
condition, incline to tne opinion tnat ne is
not in any immediate danger, although ho
is a very sick man. His condition is criti
cal in the extreme, yet be may live
for weeks. I found Drs. Hatt and
Johnston's diagnosis of his trouble was
quite correet, and while I do not care to
specify aS to Just what the nature of bis
coflHnlalnt Is, I will lay that his pbslciaus
nm Hnlnc fnr him &11 that la nnsaible tn tin
done. Farther than this 1 am not RtliD-'j
erty to say anything about tbe case. I went
to "Washington at the vequoat of tho
family that a specialist on the disease
from which the ex-Secretary Is suffering
should he called in. Previous to nir going
to Washington I had never before seen Mr.
Blaine. X consider his condition slightlr
improved. HU mind was clear when I left,
and I did not look upon blm us being in nny
immediate danger.
NO RECONCILIATION.
Illarle Kevins Elaine Denies Father Dusrj's
Alircred Mission.
New YORK, Dec. 2a Marie Kevins,wLo
recently secured a divorce from Jun:ci G.
Blaine, Jr., declared to a reporter tn-day
that Eev. Father Ducey did not go to Wash
ington to eaect a reconciliation between her
and young Blaine.
HACKED WITH A HATCH ST.
A Wealthy Wooster Man Ferluips Mort
ally Wounded by a Carpenter.
"WoOStEE, O., Dee. 20. i'riaZ. John
C Talcott, manager of the Quiniby estate,
bad an altercation with a carpenter in his
employ here to-night, and was probably
fatally injured by blows irom a hatchet in
the hands of the workman, Andrew Trunk.
Arteries were cut in his neck and his
spina was injured. Trunk gave himself up
to the police.
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SEVEN MEN SHOT DEAD.
A Straggle Between Two Officers and Five
Cattle Thieves Ends Like the Famous
Kilkenny Cat Fight Not One Left Alive
According to the Story.
Cheyenne, Wro, Dec. 20. Me3ger
particulars have reached here by rail of the
killing of seven persons in tbe Big Horn
basin a few days ago. The basin is near the
Yellowstone park and almost inaccessible
from the south during the winter. Hyatt-
ville, the scene of the trouble, is 12 miles
from the r.iilroad. '
Bill Kutcher and Jim Huff went into the
basin to arrest some cattle thieves. Kutcher
is himself now under bonds on charee of
horse stealing in Fremont county, while
HuS is said to be a Deputy United States
Marshal. It is said these men came across
three alleged cattle thieves. The encoun
ter was desperate from the very start, being
maintained with "Winchesters and six
shooters. Upon its conclusion not only the
cattle thieves, but tbe officers lay dead on
the open prairie, everybody completely rid
dled with bullets. The names ot the cattle
thieves have not been received here.
According to the same story Ira "Walker
and Asa Shuck were found at the head of
Norwood, in the same section, with 60 head
of stolen cattle in their possession. Both
men were subsequently found shot in the
back, but by whom is not known, although
it is believed they met their fate atthe
hands of some officers of the law. Both
men were notorious characters. "Walker is
credited with having killed Hank Love ttou
Shell creek last summer. Lovett was a
Texan and operated at horse stealing in the
Black Hills until the country got too hot
for him..
MUST BURY WIRES.
The City Government of Cincinnati Settles
Its Bight to Order Them There.
Cincinnati, Dec. 20. Corporation
Counsel Horstmann rendered an opinion
to-day that the citv has the right to order
all electric light wires underground. Ex
Governor Foraker, counsel for the Edison
Company, says that company is ready to put
its wires underground whenever the Board
of Public Affairs so orders, but he thinks
other companies should be ordered to do so
at the same time. The City's Engineer's
Department is drafting an ordinance for a
subway, to be finished early in 1893.
The Cincinnati Bell Telepone Company
has for several months had conduits not
only for its own wires, but enough for all
possible demands for all other electric wires
for years to come, laid all over the lower
part of the city. It will not be many
months till the wires in the main body of
the city will be underground.
CUT UP BY A BALL PLAYER.
Abram Blowry, of Erie, Fatally Stabbed In
a saloon Brawl.
Ebie, Dec. 20. Special Abram Mowry,
who was stabbed in a fight here last night
by William Morrison, a man well known in
Western Pennsylvania as a ball player of
some repute, will not live through the
night The men quarreled iu Strieker's
saloon, and went outside to settle the
dispute.
"Witnesses of the affray sav that Morrison
drew a knife and attacked Mowry savagely,
cutting him three times in the neck and
giving him a fatal stab in the side. The
wounded man was tacen to the hospital and
Morrison to jail.
ROTHSCHILD'S BEER TRUST.
The Great Family Will Aim to Control the
Trade of This Continent
New Haven, Dee. 20. The Boths
childs are said to be the leaders in an en
terprise to establish an immense beer trust,
with headquarters in New York and with
branch business offices and warehouses in at
least a dozen New England cities and as
many Western towns. Many millions of
capital will back tbe scheme.
Sites are said to be already assured in
this city, in Bridgeport, Hartford, Water
bury, Chicago, Columbus, San Francisco
and several other cities.
THE DAYS OF '49 RETURN.
Immense Excitement Over the Gold Strike
in Southern Colorado.
DEXVEB, Coi., Dec. 20. Special
Beports received here from Southern Colo
rado and New Mexico sav that those sec
tions have gone crazy over the reported dis
covery of rich placer diggings located 90
miles from Durango.
General Harper, County Surveyor, who
returned to-night from the vicinity of the
digginzs, says that the excitement is un
paralled since the days of 1849, towns along
the Denver and Bio Grande, in the south
west, being almost depopulated.
BITTER AGAINST QUAY.
Two Members-Elect From Chester County
Won't Support the Senator.
West Chester, Dec! 20. Colonel
Daniel Moor, of Fhocnixville, member
elect of the Legislature tor the Northern dis
trict, in an interview says he win do all in
his power to defeat Senator Quay, and has
the promise of support from another mem
ber of tbe Chester county delegation.
Machinists Wages Cnt Down.
Wilmington, Del. Dee. 2a The Betts
Machine Company, employing about 90
men, announced a reduction of wages tc-day
of from 16 to 17 per cent, owinc io unusual
l. dullness oi traae.
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Coroner McDowell Will Ex
hume All Bodies of
Homestead Suspects.
ANALYSES TO BE MADE.
Important Evidence Being Secured
by Pinkerton Detectives.
Painful Experiences of Men Wlio
Worked la the Mill Remedies That
Increased the Pain Dozens of Em
ployes Seized by Sadden Slckse3S at
a Time Terrible Death Agonies of a
Victim What a Physician Found In
the Works Many Mysterious Cases
to Be Investigated The Szlnyer In
questA Speedy Trial for the Accused
Men.
Coroner McDowell proposes to carry his
investigation of the Homestead poisoning
beyond the grave. He intends to exhume
the bodirt of all the men who worked in
the mill and who have since died under cir
cumstances to which the slightest suspicion
is attached. In each case the stomach will
be subjected to the most searching chem
ical test to discover if possible the real
cause of death, and whether any active
poison contributed to it.
The Coroner consulted with the Court
yesterday regarding this important step.
It was agreed among them that the most
rigid investigation possible should be made.
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Coroner MclfvaeU ihwJffjafiitj the Szinyer
Mystery.
The county will bear the expense. It is
not known jast how many of the millmen
have died, possibly 23 or 30. Around the
death of a number of them there were
peculiar, circumstances which at the time
attracted attention, but not suspicion.
Found Dead in Bis Koom.
One of these was the death of one hi?,
strong fellow about a month ago. He was
a boarder at the Carnegie Hotel. One day
he was found dead in his room. He had
been drinking, but not enough to have
caused death. When found he was sitting
next to the stove, with his feet so close to
the fire that they were burned as black as
coal and his legs roasted to the knees. A
post mortem examination Bhowed that death
had resulted lrom heart failure. The in
vestigation was pushed no further.
It is now thought a critical examination
of the stomach would have brougnt to light
something important in connection with1
the alleged poisoning. The dead man had
symptoms similar to those of others said to
have been poisoned at Homestead for a few
days prior to his death.
The First Body to Be Exhumed.
The body of Camus Gemisky lies in St
Peter's Cemetery on the Southside. Ge
misky was a non-union workman in the
Homestead mills. He died under what are
now recognized to be suspicious circum
stances at the Southside Hospital last Au
gust Coroner McDowell thinks Gemisky
mav have been poisoned, and his body will
be the first exhumed. It was buried August
24, but traces of poison might still be dis
covered by chemical analysis. The exami
nation will be made at once.
Camus Gemisky came down from Home
stead where he had been working as a
laborer on August 10, and was discovered
lying on the street by the police of the
Southside. They thought he was drunk
and sent him in the patrbl wagon to the
Twenty-eighth ward police station. Ex
amination there proved Gemisky to be
sick instead of intoxicated, and so seriously
that he was immediately conveyed to the
Southside Hospital. The doctors there
found that Gemisky, who was in a state df
total collapse, was suffering from acute
and chronic diarrhcex His symptoms were
the same as those reported in the case of
Louis Szinyer,which the Coroner is investi
gating He could retain nothing in his
stomach and rapidly wasted away in spite
of all the efforts of the hospital doctors to
stay the course of the dysentery. On
August 23 Gemisky died. The doctors
attributed his death to chronic dlarrhcea
and he was buried without notice to the
Coroner the next day.
Hospital Authorities Iteport the Case.
Yesterday the hospital authorities, in the
light of the alleged revelations of whole
sale poisoning last summer at Homestead,
notified Coroner McDowell of tbe facts
above narrated. He let no grass grow; un
der his feet in preparing to hold an inquest
upon Gemisky. The body will be dug up
ana the essential organs will be turned over
to Messrs. Hunt and Clapp for analysis.
Coroner McDowell said to a Dispatch
reporter yesterday: "I think these cases
demand rigid investigation, and they shall
have it In the first place I think that an
inquest should have been held upon
Gemisky's body when he died. Here wa
have a man who was found in a state 6t
collapse on the streets and carried, as soon
as sickness and not drink is found to be the
cause, to the hospital; there food and medU
cine are louna to pass mroogn mm almost
instantlv and he dies after a few days with
out explaining how he 'came by- his mortal. '
ailment Such cases as this are meet sub
jects for the Coroner, I think. It may gjt
have been that this man was not pollened, .-
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