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jj. H. EtaTILL, Editor and Proprietor. |
railroads ox the rack
JUDGE COOLEY AGAIN EXPLAINS
THE OBJECT OF THE TRIP.
Questioning the Propriety, Justice or
Expediency of the Law Not in the
Jurisdiction of the Commission The
Texas Pacific Case the First Heard in
the Crescent City.
Kkw Orleans, May 2.—The Interstate
Commission met here to day.
Judge Cooley, in opening the proceedings,
said; “Our investigations are not for any
purpose of questioning the propriety, jus
tice or expediency of the recent legislation
of Congress. All that has been settled for
us, and we are here simply for the purpose
of'determining the question whether in the
pursuance of that legislation we shall, in
certain specified cases which have been
brought to our attention, make exceptional
orders which ahull give relief in these
cases from the ordinary operations of the
law That is all we propose to do and all
we have any authority to do. Therefore
anv testimony that might lx? ottered on be
half of parties that should'go beyond that,
or which should seem to question the pro
priety or justice of the legislation would be
out of place altogether, and we trust
will not he offered. The parties
applying for exceptional orders
are railway companies. They have put in
petitions and we shall hear evidence offered
on their behalf, and also on behalf of other
parties who may think they are aggrieved
or in the interrat of communities which may
lie subserved by granting the petition. We
will also accept evidence on behalf of parties
or communities tending to disprove the ap
plications which have been made. We shall
take up fust evidence in support of petitions
and after that evidence in opposition.”
THE TEXAS PACIFIC’S PLEA.
The first case taken up w-as the petition of
the Texas Pacific railroad for a continuance
of present rates, supported by a petition of
the people of Shreveport, presented by a
committee headed by Congressman Blan
chard. The testinlony submitted showed
that if the long and short haul clause is ap
plied to the railroads entering Sln-eveport it
will kill the business of that city.
I. Hardy, Assistant General Freight
Agent, of the Queen and Crescent Line,
stated that immediately on the passage of
the hill the rates of the Anchor Line between
St. Louis and New Orleans had been acl
ranred 100 per cent., and between St. Louis
and Vicksburg 50 tier cent., and that on the
suspension of the fourth section for a short
time rates had immediately been lowered.
J. C. Haskell, Superintendent of the
American Salt Works of New Iberia, La.,
contended that an enforcement of the sec
tion would work an injury.
P. L. Saunders of the Jackson (Miss.)
Board of Trade also opposed the long and
short haul clause in a lengthy paper.
MEMPHIS FAVORED.
A committee of the Cotton Exchange sub
mitted a paper calling attention to discrimi
nation by the Louisville, New Orleans and
Texas railroad against NewkJrleans in favor
of Memphis. The company charges $2 25
per hale on cotton from Shaw’s station,
which is 124 miles this side of Memphis, but
brings cotton from Memphis to New Orleans
for lc. per bale on through cotton, and $1
per bale from Memphis to New Orleans as
the terminal point, The petitioners consider
that this is contrary to the intent and pur
poses of the interstate commerce act.
William Oliver, of the Mississippi Cotton
mills at Wesson, read a paper favoring a
suspension of the law so far as it affected
the product of his mills.
C. Y\. Gibson filed a petition from the
Board of Trade of Aberdeen, Miss., asking
for a suspension of the fourth clause over
the Illinois Central from Aberdeen to New
Ofleans.
THE UNION PACIFIC EXEMPTED.
Frederick Knowland, General Eastern
Agent of the Union Pacific Kiuhvay Com
pany-, of New York, appeared before the
Interstate Commerce Commission to-day-,
and presented a petition from the Union
Pacific Raihvay Company, asking exemp
tion from the ojx>ratiou of the fourth
clause. Exemption was granted in the
Icrm as presented and the same as granted
to the other transcontinental lines.
a-L- Sanders, of the Jackson, Vicksburg
ami Meridian railroad, read a paper favor
ing a suspension of the fourth clause aud it
was filed.
A protest against the suspension of the
hw, drawn up in conformity with the reso
jutioii adopted at the meeting on Friday
il 1 „ ® u ß al ’ Planters and State Agri
cultural Society's executive committees,
was tiled.
TO BE PRESENTED LATER.
Judge Fentress, general solicitor for the
Illinois Central road, said that the road w-as
tot yet prepared to present it* case, but
would do so later, probably at the Memphis
session or in Washington.
.. " e Pacific, Louisville and
.?ashv-iUe, Mississippi Valley and other
loads will also present their cases later.
A - , Houston, of Ban Antonio, Tex.,
piesented a petition from the Sail Antonio
and Aransas Pass road for a suspension in
favor of that road. •
John J. Gragard, of the New Orleans
number of Commerce, presented a resolu
nfo 0 , la * Ixxly favoring the enforcement
4 the law. Mr. Gragard added that the
'■ti mnn.y heretofore given was from luil
raftos and persons whose interests lay in
auroads His observation and experience
tint to show that the sentiment of the peo-
m favor of an enforcement of the
THE PEOPLE NOT ORGANIZED.
i ?'• ®ahlnrn, Vice President of the
uisville and Nashville railroad, asked if
W| W0 ' ,1(1 I*' possible to got people to testify.
: t Gragard sail] the people were not organ
■ an< * were consequently not in a posi
"ii to make a show against the railroad
onievs, intriguer's and bribers.
A , te l a recess, Sidney Bernheim, of Port
's>n, made a statement relative to
''cr iminations against that town
cb D. Wallace, of the Produce Ex
. l ,, ! t "v'tod the memorial of tire Pro
rli,,lit..Sugar- Exchange, Mer
it ami Manufacturers’ Association, and
■ Ircimnies'. Dealers’ and Lumbermen’*
lun ß e i Acting jointly, calling for an in
. ri'ieut, of the law. He called to the
m support of the allegations of tire
"turn as witnesses W. B. Campbell, E. T.
'■"j't:. Hugh MrCloskey , President of the
ROC RxcWkc, and E. Belknap, repm
- ’"lf various mercantile interests, who
P *nitad facts and figures to show dis
oiimiiation in rates.
STEAMBOAT INTERESTS.
In- j lni,M,Hf ' Interests were represented
, ”• Bryant, who read resolutions
v!,.' .'y the National Board of Steam
at its recent imteting in Ne'v
' ■ Bbihhnnn, of the Louisvillomul Nnsh
i ~ ! u ' l ' °n( l , stated that his company
riru i "'lroduoe at Memphis a full stnte*-
K , , °f the relations and eomjxu-atlve
i 118 „ elver and mil transportation.
„ ",‘ n - oheldun, of the Texas and Pacific
i,i, o’ SiUl I"* "'ould file a printed argument
0,1 >** port of his line. |
„ ' Cooley iinnounced that the crommis- 1
. .'yv'ldyit Wednesday isi Memphis And
•non* lr<, c' v o 1 here or iu Washington do-u
--'ntaiy evidence not submitted in New Or
leans. The commission then adjoui-ned to
meet in Memphis, whitlrer they will go to
morrow morning.
SLAIN BY A MANIAC.
Horrible Fate of a Handsome Woman
in the Backwoods of Michigan.
lonia, Mich., May 2.—John A. Snyder,
aged 35 years, was declared recently by
medical examination to be a fit subject for
the insane asylum. He lived in Bushnell
township, near lonia, with his wife and two
children, in a log shanty on his father’s
farm. Sunday morning he did not appear,
and his brother went over, and a horrible
sight met his view. The wife lay dead in
bed, her skull being broken in with an ax;
a child of 2 years was on the bed bathed in
its mother’s blood uninjured, while another,
a little older, yvas iu the crib, both screaming
in terror. Snyder was tracked to a swamp
back of his house. From here he was easily
trailed by blood for, several miles. About
10 o’clock he walked into the house of George
Forsher. He had with a razor cut three
huge gashes in his throat, from which he
will probably die. His wife was younger
than he and'handsome, and there had been
trouble between them. She was afraid of
him, and ha<i told her friends that she had
hid the ax and razor for fear of his using
them on himself and her.
CUT HIS CAROTID ARTERY.
Suicide of a Brother-In-Law of the
Famous Yerkes.
Moorhead, Minn., May 2.—The body
found Saturday on the banks of Red river,
about ten miles south of town, has been
identified as that of C. E. Sayles, of the firm
of Parkhouse & Sayles, of Valley City,
Dak. He 'vas one of the bondsmen of Pease,
Treasurer of Bar nes county, who defaulted
for #30,000, and in consequence Mr. Sayles’
firm had been forced to suspend. He was a
brother-in-law of C. T. Yerkes, the street
railway man of Chicago and Phila
delphia, and returned from a visit
to Chicago Friday. He registered at a
hotel in Fargo that day and went out.
Nothing more was heard of him until his
body was found. He had taken out his
pocket knife and made a single incision in
the carotid artery, from which lie had bled
to death, the bloody knife being still in his
hand. He was evidently laboring under
much depression on account of his business
troubles. He leay-es a widow and tyvo
children.
ATLANTA TOO PREVIOUS.
A Visit to that City by the President
Very Uncertain.
Washington, May 2.—The President is
somewhat surprised to see himself so posi
tively announced as certain to be in various
cities on various occasions during the next
six months. Within a few days he has
been thus announced as to be at New Haven
on June 17 to attend the Yale Com
mencement; at St. Louis in July or August,
and at Atlanta in September. Now, as
a matter of fact. he has male
no plans as to any of these
proposed trips. He would like to go to all
the cities named. He means to go if he can.
He would like to go to New- Haven for simi
lar reasons to those which caused him to go
to Cambridge. He would like to go to St.
Louis to see something of the West and to
Atlanta to see something of the South, but
he does not know yet what he can do in any
of these cases.
DEBT OF THE NATION.
The Total Obligations of the Govern
ment $1,704,174,957 38.
Washington, May 2.—The debt state
ment issued to-day shows the decrease of
theriublio debt during the month of April
to Xe #13,053.098 77; the decrease of the
debt since June 30, 1880, #83,905,923 50; the
cash in the Treasury, #400.105,890 41; the
gold certificates outstanding. #94,434,485;
the silver certificates outstanding, $137,740,-
430; the certificates of deposit outstanding,
$8,350,000; the legal tenders outstanding,
$346,081,016; the fractional currency (not
including the amount estimated as lost or
destroyed) #0,948,472 37; tho total interest
bearing debt, #1,103,459,308 72; the total
debt, $1,704,174,957 38. The net gold in the
Treasury April 80, was #180,902,431, or sl,-
037,410 lass than oil March 31. The circula
tion of standard silver dollars April 30, was
#55,735,205, or #1,006,450 less than the cir
.culation March 31.
McGOWAN’S FLIGHT.
Various Reasons Assigned for His
Misappropriation of the Funds.
New York, May 2. —The actual amount
of the defalcation of District Attorney Mc-
Gowan, of Queen’s county, so far as now
known, is about #19,500. When McGowan
presented his bank books as vouchers to the
Town Board of Audit of Newton prior to
relinquishing his office as Hupervisor last
month, they showed a balance to his
credit of $27,172. It now appears
that all but $7,000 of this was
marie up by accommodating friends,
who lent him cheeks to deposit yvhieh were
immediately afterward withdrawn. It is
reported that Mr. McGowan met with heavy
losses in Philadelphia and Heading stock, in
which he had invested at the suggestion of a
prominent railroad official. Most people
think, however, that the money went in
helping friends ivho were in financial diffi
culties.
EXONERATED BY OVERWORK.
The Jury Excuses the Train Dispatch
er’s Fatal Mistake.
PottsviLLE, Pa, May 2.—Reports sent
out from Tamaqua to the effect that Wil
liarn Scott, assistant dispatcher at Tama
qua, who was charged with responsibility
for the fatal collision at Mintzar’s station
on the Philadelphia and Reading railroad
on Saturday, had fled are unfounded.
Tire coroner’s jur y found that the collision
was caused by “a mistake of William Scot t,
train runner at Tamaqua,” and censured the
railroad for not pr oviding a sufficient force
in the diKjruteller's office.
Several Reported Killed.
Denver, May 2. —Reports have reached
here that awed-bound passenger train on
the Atlantic and Pacific railroad which left
Albuquerque at 3 o’clock this morning,
heavily loaded with passengers, was
derailed fifteen miles west of Coolidgc,
N. M., about 0 o’clock this morning, awl the
train buitly wrecked. Several (lei-sons were
killed aud in jured. As the telegraph offices
along the line are run by employes of the
rood it is ini|>ssiblo to get particulars at
present.
Meridian and Vicksburg.
New York, May 2.—At the annual meet
ing to-duy of tlm Vicksburg and Meridian
null-nail Urn old officer* and director;, wore
re vly te4, with the exception of Otto Plock,
wbiV&t ic< ended in Ww directory by C. C.
I *
Cbc'ianooga’n Now Bank.
Was bib tITON, May &—The Comptroller
of fit? i-V nicy t'.wbiy author ized the Chat
tanooga Rational Hank to Dugin business
i*. .tir a calltul of $300,000.
SAVANNAH, GA„ TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1687.
ERIK’S TERRIBLE ODDS.
SEEING THEIR POWER, THE TORIES
FORCE THE FIGHTING.
A Motion to Enforce the Cloture Clause
Carried by a Vote of 257 to 135
Mr. Healy’s Motions to Amend the
Amendment Unavailing Gladstone
Fighting in the Van.
London, May 2.—The Times, referring to
the charges against Mr-. Parnell and his
party, says: “Our article on Parnellism and
crime and the Parnell letter have sunk deep
into the public mind, and have produced a
conviction that nothing will shake, save
evidence of the kind that Mr. Parnell can
not produce.” The Times also publishes a
long article of tho style of the articles on
Parnellism and crime, purporting to show
that John Dillon, in his defense in the House
of Commons of the Parnellite party against
the charges that they irad had relations yvitli
Dynamiter Sheriden, either offered to Par
liament a tissue of fictions, yvliich he had
never taken the trouble to examine, or
reached a still lower depth of dishonesty.
healy’s new amendment.
In the House of Commons to-night Sir.
Healy moved that the first clause of the
enures bill be so amended as to indicate
clearly to yvhat portions of Ireland the bill
will be applicable. He suggested that the
words “proclaimed districts’' be omitted and
that “Kerry, Londonderry and Belfast” be
inserted in their stead.
Mr. Balfour declined to accede to this pro
posal. He said the government intended
to apply this clause to all parts of Ireland
Yvhere the prevalence of crime justified such
act ion.
Mr. Healy asked if blood stained Belfast,
where troops hail been shot and policemen
murdered, was to go free, yvhile the miser
able rack-rented districts in the Southyvest
yvere to be punished.
Mr, Balfour replied that the government
would exercise perfect impartiality iu sup
pressing disorder everywhere.
aimed at the nationalists.
Mr. Labouchere said the scope and aim of
the bill was to crush out the Nationalists,
leaving the Orangemen to do anything they
liked. Tho administration of the law wus
so bounding yvith the Orange faction that
it could not be impartial.
Mr. Gladstone suggested that the words
“proclaimed districts’’ remain, but that the
districts be defined under other clauses of the
bill. The answer of Mr. Balfour that all
districts would be treated impartially was
not sufficient, because the Ministers had
often referred to particular parts of Ireland
where the bill yvas meant to operate.
BELFAST’S ABHORRENCE.
No doubt the people of Belfast regarded
with disgust and horror the prevalence of
disorder in their midst, but the same apology
was equally good for other districts. [Cries
of “heal - , hear.'] The conduct of some per
sons in Belfast recently stained the name of
Ireland more than the conduct of the people
of any other part of Ireland had. [Cheers.]
Lord Randolph Churchill said that the
suggestion Mr. Gladstone had mude might
have been valuable, but its value had been
destroyed by the raising of points which
were calculated to lead to controversy.
DECLARED INCOMPARABLE.
Mr. Gladstone had made himself a party
to the insinuation that the government in
tended to apply the clause only to certain
parts of Ireland and leave Belfast out.
There had been disorder in Belfast, but the
law had not been arrested. There was
no analogy between the riots in Bel
fast and ‘‘moonlighting” in Kerry, for
which not a single person had been
made amenable to justice. No one would
venture to assert that juries in the north of
Ireland had failed to do their duty, as was
often the case with juries in the south of
Ireland. To put the diabolical outrages of
the south of Ireland, as Mr. Gladstone did,
on the same level as the disturbances in
Belfast yvas to condone and apologize for
those outrages. [Cheers.]
BELFAST’S BLOODY RECORD.
Mr. Healy replied that over 309 persons
yvere maimed for life and some killed in the
Belfast riots, and that only a few of the
rioters had been punished. Ho said the
statement was untrue that there had not
been convictions in Kerry. There had been
over twenty.
Mr. Holmes said that not a single “moon
lighter” had ever been convicted. It was
only by a change of venue that any con
victions could be obtained.
Mr. Healy postponed his motion in defer
ence to Mi - . Gladstone's suggestion.
JOHN BRENON’S LIBEL SUIT.
The libel suit brought against William
Ridgway, publisher of I‘icadilh/, for #25.( NX)
for asserting in a Mock pamphlet on the
Irish question, recently issued by him, that
Sir John Brenon, plaintiff, a former Home
Rule member of Parliament, was a Fenian
and ally of the Invincibles, came up for trial
to-day. The court room was eroyvded. Mr.
Ridgway pleaded that the alleged libel was
true. Mr-. Brenon, being sworn, made an
emphatic denial of tun defendant's statement.
Sir John said he had never been a Fenian.
He left the Land League, he said, in June,
1880, after a quarrel yvith its managers for
openieg his telegrams.
He had not since that time joined any
Irish league or association, or any Fenian
league or- association. He hnd never travel
oil lietween Paris and Ixmdon on Irish
republican business. He had never
interfered yvith tho work of
tracing dynamiters. Sir John declared that
Sir Lyon Playfair told him that Mr. Glad
stone had become converted to the home
rule theory in 1879, anil that he desired Mr.
Parnell to accept tile office of Chief Secre
tary for Ireland. The witne a spoke to Mr.
Parnell about taking the office, but he de
clined even to ontei-tain tho idea.
HARTINGTON to THE UNIONISTS.
The Marquis <■( Hartington writes a letter
to the Lilieral Unionists advising them to
organize as a party for the purpose of main
taining their position. The Marquis soys:
“The Liberals atwtaineJ irenrapa too
long front acts which seemed likely to in
tensify and perpetuate Liberal divisions,
while the prosja-ct of a reunion
of the party, or of reasonable
toleration oti the part of the Liberal ma
jority toward the Liberal Unionists existed.
The establishment of a vigorous Liberal
Unionist association will liest. preserve the
integrity of the Liberal party. Other-yviso
sound Liberals who cannot approve of Mr.
Gladstone's policy may lie driven to join tho
Conservative party.”
INQUIRIES NOT LIMITED.
An amendment proposed by Mr. Healy,
that an inquiry bo held only when evidence
Iras been withheld on account of intimida
tion, was rejected by a vote of 200 to 110,
after a discussion that lasted two hours anil
,i half.
Mr. Healy then moved that the high
court and not the Attorney General be em
poyvered to order an inquiry.
Mr. Gibson, Solicitor General for Ireland,
replied t hat tire government yvas unable to
accept the amendment.
Mr. Gladstone, rising to reply to a state
ment by Mr. Elliot that lie (Gladstone) yvas
responsible for the equally strong system of
five year* ago, said that Mr. Elliot over
looked anesis'ji' ial difference, namely that hi*
bill had hecn directed against crime, while
the one under discussion was not. tCries of
“Ohl” “Oil!”] At least, he added, the pres
ent bill was directod against acts that had
not hitherto been considered crimes. Any
way he would not renew his former pro
posals, because he vas con vim that they
aggravated the evil.
CLOTURE ENFORCED.
The discussion being continued, W. 11.
Smith, First Lord of the Treasury, amid
cries of “shame,” moved to enforce the
cloture rule, and the motion yvus carried by
a vote of 257 to 135.
Mr. Gladstone and the other opposition
loaders tvalked slowly into the opposition
lobby, while the Parnellltes and Gladston
iaus stood cheering wildly.
Mr. Hoaly’s amendment was then rejected
by a vote of 201 to 142.
Mr. Nolan moved to report progress on
the bill.
W. 11. Smith said the government was
unable to agree to this, because only 9 of
the 140 amendments to the first clause had
been disposed of. Later, however, progress
was reported.
A UNIONIST STUMBLINO BLOCK.
A meeting at Devonshire House Saturday
appointed a committee consist ing of Lord
Hartington, John Bright. Joseph Chamber
lain, Sir Henry James and others to dis
cuss the point* of dissension among the
Unionists and to consult with the govern
ment yvith a view of adjusting the differ
ences. At a meeting to-day albdifferences
were arranged except with reference to the
venue clause of the crimes bill, which Mr.
Bright and a majority of the committee
Yvisli to reject, yvhile Lord Hartington and
his followers yvant it retained.
BOYCOTTING A COUNTESS.
Dublin, May 2. —Notices have been posted
in Michelstown, ordering the people to boy
cott the Countess of Kingston.
The Dublin corporation has adopted a res
olution calling upon Canadians to give Mr.
O’Brien ah enthusiastic welcome, in order to
mark their sense of the Marquis of Lans
downe’s conduct. Copies of the resolution
arc to be sent to the members of all the
Canadian Legislatures and municipalities.
ATLANTA’S RALLY FOR ERIN.
Atlanta, Ga., May 2.—DeGive’s Opera
House was packed to-narht with distinguish
ed Georgians, who assanblcd in mass meet
ing to protest against tie coercion bill now
before the British Pamament. Gov. Gor
don left a bed of sickness to preside over
tire meeting, and wo* so ill that he had to
return home before it adjourned. Mayor-
Cooper, of Atlanta, was first Vice Presi
dent.
Hon. Albert H. Cox first addressed the
assemblage and presented the following reso
lutions, which yvere unanimously adopted:
1. That the policy propounded by Mr. (Jlud
stone and Mr. Pai-nelf of home rule for Ireland
has our profound sympathy. Our own expert
cnee has taught us, and we submit to the world
that self-government is the keystone of the arch
of civil liberty and safety.
2. That we sympathise yvith all English and
Irish statesmen and patrjpts who oppose the
policy embodied in the coercion bill, viewing
that policy os subversive oithose ancient Eng
lish principles that men iawd must he tried
hy a jury of their pervPlwicinag*>. that the
freedom of the press must lie preserved, that the
right to peaceably assemble aud discuss griev
ances aud petitions for redress must be
kept inviolate, aud that the writ of habeas
corpus must lie sacred, so that an honorable
judiciary may promptly adjudicate whether
personal liberty shall be restored or lie for
feited to just laws.
3. We express the hope that the signal failure
of all other policies will induce the statesman
ship of England once to try the policy of gener
ons justice toward Ireland.
COLQUITT ADVOCATES INTERFERENCE.
Senator Alfred 11. Colquitt declared in a
speech that it yvas time for tho United States
to stop its policy of isolation and make her
voice heai and in Europe, especially on the
.Irish question, which is a question of hu
’inanity. Tire Irish people presented the
only spectacle of a people w ho, after several
hundred years of oppression, still preserved
its vital spark of nationality and defied
oppression.
Judge Howard Van Epps, a distinguished
jurist, detailod the infamies of the Irish
agmi-ain laws, described their workings aud
gr aphically pictured the struggle of Ireland
for freedom. He referred to the well-known
prodili etlon of the South for England and
Englishmen, but announced amid great ap
plause that the South uas not prepared to
let that prediction blind her to her injustice
to the English-Irish policy.
Senator Joseph E. Brown gave hearty ad
liereuce to the st -ugglo of Mr. Gladstone to
secure homo rule for Ireland.
Henry YV. Grady sjioke of the cause of
Ireland as the causeot humanity. The South
yvas once threatened by a force bill which
wits defeated by the firm work of Samuel J.
Randall. He hcqied that Mr, Ola*lstonecould
do for Ireland yvhat Mr. Randall did for the
South.
Rev. Dr. Hawthorne, the celebrated Bap
tist divine, made tho concluding speech,
paving a high compliment to Mr. Gladstone.
The resolution-) wore ordered to lie cabled
to Messrs. Gallstone and Parnell, after
which the meeting adjourned.
SCHNAEBELES’ ARREST.
His Leave of Absence Extended for
Two Months.
Paris, May 2.—M. Schnaebeles’ leave of
absence from the office of Commissury at
Pagny-sur-Moselle has been extended two
months. At the end of his leave he will be
entitled to retire on a pension. He asserts
that tire German Commissary who invited
him to Ars points and him out to the German
detectives, who arrested him. The Ger
man official report of fire affair says that a
Commissary named Tausch was intrusted
with the task of arresting M. Hchnuebeles,
and it is probable that the numi-s were un
consciously mixed by those who accused
Commissary Gautoch of treachery to M.
BchnaebeliH.
M. Schnaebeles has given notice that he
will not accept ’the diamond cross which it
was proposed to givo him, and t he donation*
yvliich have been made toward its purcliase
Imve been given to the Alsace-Lorraine
flnrteijr
NO STATE OF SIEGE.
Berlin, May 2. —It is officially stated
that Germany has no intention of proclaim
ing a state of siege in Alsace-Lorraine.
RUSSIA'S WARLIKE ACTIVITY.
Brussels, May 2. Advices from Kt.
Petersburg nay that after a fortnights quie
tude the country in again in a state oi un
easiness. Lurne armaments are being
pushed forward yvith feversb activity. An
order of the War Ministry points to the
concentration of groat masses of troops ou
the frontier of Russia.
Papal Appointments.
Rohe, May 2.—Cardinal Pampolla has
been appointed Pu|ml Secretary of State;
Mgr. Agliardin, Secretary of Extraordinary
Ecclesiastical Affairs; Mgr. Potelli, I’apul
Nuncio at Paris; Mgr. Galmiberti, Nuncioafc
Vienna; Mgr. Pietro, Nuncio at Madrid, and
Mgr. Beilin, Nuncio ut Munich. These ap
puiitmeiit* will b confirmed at a consis
tory to he held oil May 23
Goschen’a Tobacco Taxes.
London, May 2.—Mr. Goxcheo's budget
proposes tlrut the import duty on cigars shall
Ik) ss. i>ei- iHiund of teibm-co; on cavendish
toiiacco in leaf. 4s. 6d. per pound; on caven
dish manufactured, 45.; on tobacco con
taining 10 |ier cunt moisture, fix. 2d.; and on
tobacco containing less than !0 {Mr ceuf.
moisture. 3s. hi. rsfr pound.
FLAMES LEAF TO THE SKY
LOUISVILLE LIT BY A W AREHOUSE
AND GRAIN ELEVATOR.
The Latter Building Nine Stories High
Fourteen Loaded Freight Cars
Totally Destroyed, as Well as a Cot
tage, Two-Story Frame House and
Two Stables Blazes in a Coal
Breaker.
Louisville, May 2.—A very disastrous
fire broke out about 3 o’clock this morning
at tho immense warehouse of Brown, John
son & C0.,0n Fourteenth and Maple streets.
Two alarms were turned in calling out the
whole fire deportment. The first was sound
ed five minutes before 3 o'clock and the
second at H;3O o’clock. By the time the
engines arrived the warehouse was beyond
saving. The flames mounted high in the
air and lit up the whole city. The building
contained an immense amount of lruy, rye,
barley, corn and oats.
AN ELEVATOR GOES.
Half an hour after the warehouse had
started burning the nine-story grain elevator
of Struter Brothers, at. Fourteenth street
and BrotvYvny, caught from the thick flying
sparks that the wind carried in immense
quantities for half a mile to the north. The
Strater elevator was within half a block of
the burning warehouse, and could not possi
bly be saved. The tewer first caught and
then tho yvliole structure became envelojicd
in one solid mass of flames. Tho firemen
could do little else but pay attention to sur
rounding residences. xYt the time of the
breaking out of the fire no less than forty
freight cars, mostly loaded, yvere lying on
tho tracks in the vicinity of the burning
building
FOURTEEN CARS BURNED.
All but fourteen of those were saved.
The cars belonged to the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, and were loaded yvith
hay, grain, etc., and the fourteen totally
destroyed with their contents will be a loss
of about $.50,000. The elevator, yvith its
contents, wus valued at about SBO,OOO. Tho
Insurance is $58,000. The loss of Brown,
Johnson & Cos. will be between $90,000
and $100,000.' It is frilly insured. A
cottage, tyvo-story frame house and two
stables were also destroyed. The work of
the fire department was hampered on ac
count of there being an inadequate supply
of yvater in the neighborhood.
A COAL BREAKER BURNED.
YVilkesbarre, Pa., May 2.—The No. 10
breaker of the Lehigh and fvilkesbarre Coal
Company, situated at Sugar Notch, three
miles from here, was burned this morning.
Within three hours from the time the fire
broke out tho enormous structure was
totally destroyed with all its valuable ma
chinery. Tiie breukor hnd not been in
operation for some time past. The cause of
the fire is unknoYvn. The loss is estimated
at $60,000.
STILL BURNING. ,
YYTwckkbarre, Pa., May 2,11 p. m.~
The fire at No. 10 breaker at Sugar Notch
still continues. Tho coal in the mine is now
burning, tho fire having extended down the
shaft to a depth of 700 feet. Preparations
are being made to flood the mine, as this is
the only yvay to extinguish the fire.
This will take a week or more to accomplish
and will entail great exju-nse on the com
pany. The colliery has not been working
for the past two years, owing to the nature
of the coal veins, mining ot which would
not |iay under the present, condition of the
market. The loss so far is estimated at
#IOO,OOO.
A FLOOD OF BURNIXG OIL.
Cincinnati. May 2.—A special from
Lima, 0., received early this morning, says;
“Lightning struck a k 5,000 barrel oil tank,
near town, and set the oil on fire. Twenty
five other tanks in the immediate vicinity
are in danger, and if fired yvi 11 flood the
southern part of the town with burning oil.
BOLT SHOPS BURNED.
Chicago, May 2.—A1l but one of the big
shops of the Cliicago Forge and Bolt Com
pany, on Forty-third street, were burned
to-night. The total loss will reach #125,009.
During the fire Bartlett Haslett, a spectator,
was fatally injured by a falling derrick,
and pipeman William Barber had a leg
crushed.
CAMPAIGNS IN EGYPT.
Osman Digna Reported Captured -
Italy and Her Army.
Buakim, May 2. —Deserters report tliat
tho Hadcudowa Arabs, assisted by other
friendly trilsw, have dislodged the Soudanese
rebels from Kassala, and captured Osman
Digna aud Abu Girga.
ITALY DECLARES WAR.
Rome, May 2. —Gen. Saletta, the new
Italian commander at Massowah, has pro
claimed a states of war in Massowah ana its
dependencies.
The government has introduced in the
Chamber of Deputies a bill to reorganize the
nrmy. The number of regiments f Held
artillery is to lie increased from twelve to
twenty-four, and each regiment is to have
eight flatteries.
Five regiments are added to the mountain
artillery. The number of officers of infantry
is increased by 33 colonels, 87 majors and
100 captains. The cavalry is augmented by
two regiments. A credit of 3,000,000 lira is
demanded by the bill.
Killed by Bursting Boilers.
Pittsburg, May 2.—Tlie lioilevH of the
tow boat J. O. Risher burst at an early hour
this morning while the steamer wits passing
Woods’ Run, a few miles below this city. A
man named Hayes was instantly killed.
Two others, whose names could not bo
learned, were fatally injured.
Hayes, who was killed, was a deck hand.
He was in the cabin just over the boiler room
and was blown through the roof and scat
tered in fragments. Scarcely enough of his
remains could be found for an inquest
Engineer James Cumpliell and hi* fireman
were fatally scalded. The force of the ex
plosion was upward and the upper works of
the boat were wrecked.
Taggart's Peculations.
Philadelphia, May 2.—The officers of
the Union Trust Company announce that
the approximate embezzlement of James N.
Taggart, lately teller of that company, is
#29,000, for- part of which indemnity is held.
CLARK’S BAIL FORGEITKD.
New York, May 2. —Tho bail of Clark,
the ixret office clerk who stole a #IO,OOO
package addressed to the Chemical National
Bank of this city, and who skip{ied to Can
ada, wus forfeited tewlav. The bail was
#2,500, and ill the form of a certified check.
Heavy Shipments of Freight.
Chicago, May 2.—Shipments of Pacific
const freight from Chicago have junqied
from two or tin ce carloads to an average of
twenty carloads daily since tho new r-.to*
were put into effect fast yveek. The increase
is principally in low cUase* of freight, such
a buggies, high wine*, etc.
England to Salute France.
London, My 2.--Special orders have
been sent to the Mediterranean squadron to
salute tjio French flag at .Marseilles whoa
fbe-thrtts of Edinburgh is returning to at
tend tho jubilee festivities.
MUSEUM MASTERPIECES.
Over SIOO,OOO Worth of Paintings
Given to the Metropolitan in a Week.
New York, May 2. —Judge Hilton has
given Meiasonier’s painting of “Friedland,
1807," to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
He has also presented the museum with Dp
taille’s “Defense of Cbiunpigny." The first
was bought by Judge Hilton at the sale of
A. T. Btewart's collection for the purpose to
which it is now devoted.
Judge Horace Russell, Judge Hilton’s son
in-law, has also presented to the
museum Piloty’s painting of “Tliusnelda
at the Triumph of Germanu•us," purchased
at the sale of the Stewart collection.
“1807” cost Jndge'HHton *06,000; Detaille,
from his private collection, purchased from
the salon of 1875, and then regarded by the
artist as his best work, is certainly worth
now in the market *IIO,OOO, so that with
eight additional pictures given by George 1.
Seney, Judge Russell and the Schaus gifts,
paintings representing a value of over *IOO,-
000 have been a, lded to the collection of the
museum during the past week.
HONORING AN EDITOR.
Baltimore’s Council Congratulates
Proprietor Abell of the Sun.
Baltimore, May 2.—Both branches of
the City Council to-day passed a resolution
congratulating A. S. Abell, publisher of the
Nun, on his approaching semi-centennial of
continuous nvumgsment. The resolutions
compliments Mr. A1 ell for his enterprise
and generosity, mentioning his liberal
contributions to charitv, and his
heavy expenditures in improving
and beautifying the city. They speak of
him ns the oldest in ago as well as the oldest
m service of any living journalist, ami espe
cially congratulate him on the marvelous
success of the enterprise to which ho has de
voted his life. The resolutions are to tie en
grossed and presented by a committee of
which the Mayor shall lie chairman.
L ASTERS LOCKED OUT.
An Unfortunate Embrogllo Among
Cincinnati Shoe. Factories.
Cincinnati, May 2. —Avery extensive
and disastrous lockout was inaugurated in
the shoe factories here to-day. It has been
the custom for several years for the pro
prietors and employes to send delegate to
form a board of arbitration for the purpose
of lixing the rato of wages
oaeh year. Six of the eight as
semblies of the employes have appointed dele
gates, but two assemblies, composed of last
era and fitters, the latter women and girls,
have refused to send delegate. Thereupon
the proprietors have shut out all members
of these two assemblies, numbering 2,600
persons. Their stopping will soon cause
other branches to suspend, anil serious inter
ruption will result.
Strike of the Hod Carriers.
Chicago. May 2. —Alxmt 3,000 hod ciyr
riers went out on a strike this morning in
ain in lance with the deeison reacln il !
yesterday. Fully one half of the contractors
declined to accede to the demands upon
them for an increase.
The officers of the Hod Carriers’ Union
claim that only 1,500 men are out, the
others having received what they de
manded .
A meeting of the Master Masons’ and
Builders’ Associations has been called to
meet to-morrow night, for the purpose of
taking action regarding the strike.
Less than 200 wood carvers went out to
day on the threatened general strike.
Coke Workers Out.
Pittsburg, May 2.—A general strike of
the coke workers of the Connellsvllle region
is regarded as certain. One-half of the
men refused to go to work to-day, and the
others, it is thought, will strike after to
morrow's convention. The operators issued
their ultimatum this afternoon, in which
they refused to make any concessions at
present, but promised to consider the mat
ter as soon as there is nn advanoe in the
price of coke, They are preparing to close
down for a long and bittor tight.
Mixers and Teasers Give In.
Pittsburg. May 2.—Tho glass mixers and
teasers who struck two weeks ago for u 10
per cent, advance returned to work to
duy at their old wages. The recent decision
on the coke question was the principal argu
ment against arbihration, and the fact that
the Knights did not support the strike left
the men without resources. All the fac
tories are again in operation.
Carpenters Strike.
Waterbury, Conn., May 2.—A1l the
carpenters in this city, numbering nearly
:JOO. quit work tosiay because the employers
refiiwd to give them the same wages for
nine hours work as they received last season
lor ten hours.
House Painters Strike.
Wilmington, Del., May 2.—The house
painters in all the Wilmington shojis struck
this morning for *2 50 i>er day, a raise of
25c. Two of the largest employers have
granted the increassandit isprolialilo others
will follow.
Plate Matter Objected To.
Hamilton, Ont., May 2.—The printers in
the /'itllndium office are to be culled out be
cause the proprietors refuse to discontinue
tiie of stereotype plate matter. The
Palladium is a labor paper.
Striking at London.
London, Ont., May 2. —Bricklayers, la
liorers and carjienters to the number of 200
have gone on a st rike here for an increase of
wages.
Out at Hamilton.
Hamilton, Ont., May 2.—A large num
ber of carjienters struck to-day for an in
crease in wages to 22 l-3c. an hour ail around.
Fotheringham on Trial.
St. Lons, May 2.—The case of David S.
Fotheringham, the alleged accomplice In
the roblwry of the Adams Express on the
St. Louis and San Francisco railroad by
“Jim Cummings" some months ago, was
call ml in the Criminal Court this morning,
and both sides announcing their readiness
for trial the work of impaneling a jury was
proceeded with at once.
|An Explosion at a Saw Mill.
Chicago, May 3.—A special from Pa
ducah, Ky., says the main steam pipe in tho
suw mill of the Paducah Lumber Company
burst Saturday, and the engineer and three
others were fatally seahled or otherwise in
jured. But little damage was done to the
mill.
Wont Virginia's Senatorship.
Charleston, W. Va., May 2.—The Re
publicans held a caucus to-night and nomi
nated J Jon. VV. H. H. Flick to be voted for
in joint iisa-mbly to-morrow. Mr. Camden
is the DAnocrotic caucus nominee. Ballot
ing will begin at 13 o'clock tomorrow noon.
Cotton In Bad Condition.
Montgomery, Ala., May 2. —The niton
stand lit this neighborhood is laid on ac
count on the drought. Much of it has not
come uim
1 PRIDE <IO A YEAR, i
1 3 UEATS A COPY, f
PERRY STILL IN THE YAK.
BLOXHAM FAILS TO HEAD IN ANY
OF THE FIVE BALLOTS.
Pasco Far Behind the Two Leadors—
Senator Wall Unsuccessfully Tries to
Have tue Caucus Recommend a State
Convention of the Party to Name 9
Candidate.
Tallahassee, Fla., May 3.—The Sen
ate to-iiay passed the bill requiring section
masters to keep a record of the stock killed
by railroads, and spent the entire afternoon
in fruitless discussion of the bill incorpor
ating De fv> ni ijlj m versi ty .
Several important game and fish bill*
were referred to the special committee
which will consider well all bills on that
subject and report one for passage.
The House passed the hill requiring pur
chasers of seed cotton in Gadsden county to
pay a license of *OO, and also the bill pre
scribing tho manner of giving sixty daya
notice of purchase to introduce local and
special legislation.
The House did a good day’s work and iiv
definitely postponed several liaii hills.
Representatives Dyal was excused because
of the death of his daughter.
IN JOINT SESSION.
In joint session to-day, the two houses o t
the Legislature voted for a United State*
Senator us follows;
Hli ix ham 21
Perry 21
Pasco 16
Goodrich 1L
Finley 3
The session then adjourned to 13 o'clock,
to-morrow.
THE DEMOCRATIC C AUCUS.
The joint Democratic caucus met in th<
Assembly hall to night, and at once began
to lull lot for United Stabs Senator.
Following is the result of the first ballots
Perry 8®
Bloxham 8#
Pasco i
The second ballot resulted;
Perry M)
Hloxliam ...331
Pasco 19
The third ballot stood;
Bloxham SB
Perry 33
Pasco \ 1$
A NOVEL SCHEME BEATEN.
After taking two other ballots without!
change, Senator Wall introduced the follow
ing resolution, which was lost by a vote o£
53 to 83:
Resolved, That we, the Democratic caucus,'
realizing the Impracticability of making a satis*
factory solution of the present deadlock in the
Senatorial contest, and desiring to be governed
in our action by the will of the people, hereby
request, the State Exacut ive Committee to ciJkw
convention of the Democratic party of the stfUM
at as early a day as practicable, to
a candidate for United States Senator, snafs
pledge ourselves to be guided by the
such convention. %'
Tiie caucus adjournod to
night.
Last, night about midnight fire was dWj
coveted in the Iwsciuent of the
occupied by Dorr & Bowen, Htatu Printer*,
opposite the capitol, but the flames were ►
tiuguishcd without much ilamage.
CAUSES OK ABSENTEEISM.
The scarcity of members at the sessions
of the Legislature during the past few davW
Is due to the absence of several of the com
mittees apjiointed to visit the various insti
tutions of the Htate. The committees were
made large so as to have every portion of
the .State represented, and as the Senatorial
contest has prevented earlier visi
tations, more of the committees have
Uien away at the same time than was con.
template!l when they were formed. No ma
terial inconvenience has, however, resulted
as tho several standing committees had their
hands full of important bills under consid
eration, and tho time was spent in this way.
Besides this there uro committees at work
preparing necessary measures that, are re
quired to get the new constitution in satis
factory working condition.
amendments to the constitution.
The usual number of proposed amend
ments to the constitution luive txjen made,
and among them is a proposition to-make
Gainesville the capital of the Htate. This,
with nearly all the other suggestions, will
bo lost, as they are not favorably considered
tuid besides the remaining weeks of the ses
sion must lie devoted to perfecting measures
that must pass in order to keep the Htata
govern rrient in a healthy condition—
such us appropriation bills, apportionment
of representation, the iiassage of cnabllM
statute in aid of the constitution, etc.
Special and local measures will in all
liiiity be lightly touched after this, as
portant general matters must be attendMl
to in order to avoid tho necessity of callmflH
an extra session of the Legislature.
judge wkstcott’n worth.
In the dentil of ex-Judge James D.
cott the Htate loses one of its beet legal
minds. His services to the Htate in several
lines have been invaluable and his friends
realize that they have lost one in whom
they could repose confidence and trust. He
was engaged in making a digest of the
Florida Supreme Court reports, and the
work will probably be completed by some
of his friends, and the volume become a use
ful one to practitioners. He left a verf
handsome property, principally in this city,
composed of houses, stores and other realty,
besides one or two plantations in this county.
Dr. John Westcott, of Ht. Augustine, is his
uncle, and presumably will receive the
greater part of the property.
THE RAILROAD SURVEY.
Now that the preliminary survey of ths.
projxxwd Thomasv ille and Tallahassee rail
road iuis been made and is in every way sat
isfactory to tiie office™ of the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway Com (any,
tho work on the road will probably begin la
u short time and the ••apitai city of Florida
connected directly with the gi-eat Georgia
system of roods leading to the market and
business centres of tiie country. The
line jstsses through the most
picturesque and fertile section of Florida,
and as soon ns tfee road is completed this
beautiful country will be rapidly set tied by
white fanners, who will give their [xnnonal
attention to the development of the re
sources of tiie section and to the raising of
fine stock, for which this portion of tiie Ht ata
is so well adapted. Vegetable growing will
then be made more remunerative than ever.
Danville’s Tobacco Salos.
Danville, Va., May 2.— The leaf to
bacco sales here for April were 2,236, til
pounds, at an average of *8 per hundred,
i'he sales to flat® since October, last year,
have been 14.116,318 pounds, at an average
of #3 54 per hundred.
t Plttsburt •’b Scorcher.
Pittsburg, May 2.—At 4 o’clock this
afternoon Die mercury was up to 05” and at
10 o’clock to-night it registered 78’. Many
mills and factories closed down to-night, the
heat being so intense tliat the employee were
Ulicble to work.
M to and Wife Shot.
Vienna, Wis., May B.—Lad night, whil*
riding In a buggy, Mr. and Mrs. John Car
ls'll were shot by sonic unknown person
i sneaking behind the carriage. Mr. Uarbell
1 died instantly aud bis wife will not recover.