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O'BRIEN CREATES A STIR REFUSES TO ASSOCIATE WITH THE DYNAMITERS. Grand Procession in Kia Honor in New York- O’Brien Repudiates Clauses in the Resolutions and Refused to Ap pear on the Stand With Dynamiters and Agitators. New June I.—Arrangements, for grand jMirade, to be participated in by 75,000 men, were made for to-night, in honor of Mr. O'Brien, but less t Iran one-fifth of that number paraded. The line was very slow in forming. Editor O’Brien and Mr. Kilbride were to have been with the Com taittee of Arrangements in tho car riages, but he did not attend, and everywhere was heard the ques tion, “Where is O’Brien?" Mr. O'Brien was at the Hoffman House, and he did not appear in ttie parade. A sub committee of the committee ot arrange ments waited upon him, To them he said he would not leave the hotel. It is under stood that he objected to the presence of Mr. John McMackin, who was to preside at the* peters’ stand. Mr. McMackin presided at the meeting in the Cooper Union Tuesday night, at which P. J. P. Tynan, the “Mysteri ous No. 1,” spoke and applauded his extreme remarks. Mr. O’Brien, who advocates peaceful measures in the righting of Ire land's wrongs, could not afford to place him self in a position to be criticised. O’BRIEN’S GOOD REASONS, He did not care to have it flashed across the ocean that he, a member of Parliament, was consorting with dynamiters and ex tremists in America. It was thought that Mr. O’Brien could be got to appear if Mr. McMackin was removed from the stand, but, the Central Labor Union and the United Labor Party would not agree to that, Thus it was that the procession moved without him. There were at the outside 20,000 men in the line. The line of march was down Fifth avenue to Seventeenth street, then to Union Square, where the procession passed in review and was dismissed. Mr. John McMackin spoke on the grand stand. After an eulogy or Mr. O’Brien, he suddenly changed his manner and closed as follows: WARM LANGUAGE. “One whom we bad expected to see here to-night has not seen fit. to show himself. Perhaps when O’Brien gets through being dined and wined by the Kellys and the O’Donohues and the rest, perhaps then he may find time to greet those who are here to meet him. He may find that the Irish are not, to be led by a corrupt crowd of politi cians.' Diming the time McMackin was Speaking the head of tho procession reached tne stand. Dr. McGlynn stood at the front of the platform and reviewed the line. He was fre quently greeetd with prolonged cheers. The Sixty-ninth regiment came in the van, and following it were several companies of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Then came a large delegation of the Socialistic labor party, with them being parties carry ing a floral pillar inscribed on either side, “Home Rule” and “Welcome, O’Brien. ’ There were numerous halts and waits, hut the paraders came to a halt on the north side of Seventeenth street as fast as they ar rived. Rabbi Brown was intro duced while the parade was passing and spoke briefly. There were fully 40,000 peoble gathered in the vicinity of the stand in Union Square, the crowd overflowing into Broadway and Fourth avenue. Among those on the gaily decorated platform, were Henry George, Rev. Dr. McGlynn, Police Commissioners Voorhis, John McMackin, Dennis Mcßride, ex-Judge Tucker, Rabbi Brown and a host of local labor leaders and agitators. C'apt. Williams end a squad of 150 officers were on hand. But aside from keeping tho crowd within the proper limits, their services were not required. As soon as Dr. McGlynn was espied the crowd cheered itself hoarse. DR. M’GLYNN’B SHARP CRITICISMS. James P. Archibald said that if Mr. O'Brien had any feeling in common with the people he would never have insulted the Labor party by refusing to speak on the same platform with John McMackin. Dr. McGlynn, who was loudly cheered on rising to speak, said that they had assembled to greet Mr. O’Brien, not as a man or an indi vidual, for many of them knew little about him and cared less for his mere personality, but for the sake of the cause he represented. If Mr. O’Brien had been so ill-advised they could not blame him as they did those who advised him. It was a shocking thing after having been honored by tho invitation of the United Labor party, Knights of Labor and the Central Labor Union to dare to dic tate to them and to scratch and cross out portions of the resolutions. The message they wished to send to the people of Ireland was one of sympathy with their wrongs. A great deal of dissatisfaction was expressed about Mr. O’Brien not appearing, and when it was an nounced that the reason for his not appear ing was on account of John McMackin's presiding, a considerable uproar was created. A committee waited on Mr. O'Brien at the Hoffman House yesterday afternoon and submitted to him the r< solutions to be read at the meet ing. He told the committee he could not be present unless certain portions of the resolutions relating to Dr. McGlynn were stricken out. This the committee refused Uj do. Mr. O’Brien then told the gentlemen il John McMackin was permitted to preside he could not come. The following are the resolutions: Re if revolted by the working people of Ai’ic York in muss meeting assembled, That we welcome William O'Brien to our city and assure him of our sympathy with his mis sion to America. We abhor tho system of raillery by which Lord Lansdowne grows rich at, the expense of an impoverished peo p.e We denounce the cruelty of ex|iel'ing Inslimen from tho soil on which they were ,rn, and we condemn those law’s Which, by treating tho land of Ireland as private property, makes such robbery and cruelty ixissible. The land of Ireland be longs of right to the people of Ireland, and >n the impending struggle there we recognize the sarno irrepressible conflict be tween the natural right, and the vostod wrong, in which wo lu this count ry arc en , gaged. J Itesolrerl, That we watch with sympathy Wirt interest tho progress of the revolution ~ rad Britain, inspired by men like Par nell, Davitt and O’Brien aiid HI by Ulad binc, which gives promise to Ireland of a government of the people, by the jieoploand tor the people, under which private owner "f the lands shall be abolished, nil the gifts of nature and nature’s God be equally enjoyed by all. ri i/ 1 , ’ that we proclaim! he God-given °" ev ** r y people to govern themselves without any foreign interference or dicta ' v b,fever, and that v. o denounce tlio in lux* * <> . < ' o<>r, 'i on Ireland now rending the British Parliament, and the threat, of 'ommuniiation niudn from Italy against ihl! ..r • , c American priest who has favored ,1 „ ,ri .sh revolution, ’as meriting the eon ™,on of liberty-loving men Iho world 'l'hat we denounce the brutality the - In huvurd Mr. O’Brien in Canada by o’ tT .. . m a ' , ti ! '.g under tho encouragement ri,., I’' 1 ’' Savior* or Society" thore, ns mi iu ra’c* with the rights of free speech, nil.. ’VV! tU ', tl T t hy lawless violence to shield ,k n , England's ‘‘lords of the cartli” from his ‘; 0u , tom > , t with which sin exposure of him, ailf l plundering must inspire all iootnane and honest men. of hu* 0 ■ >u the further prosecution Inrri,..!? “ipiiust tho iniquity of laml rwti,,.lll' ¥ r ’ lias the sincere aym rw, a , earnest co-operation of the work of Now York, whose hands ore In tt y ll llf l their hearts willing to help f *ttb f Sl1 U F%] C of . the disinherited of the t!l 'UirightjB U citlzcHS their CHEEIUNG GLADSTONE. Ono Hundred Thousand Homs Rulers Welcomel Ex-Premier. London, J; 4.—A monster procession in houor ■' Mr. I <m*. was bold at Swansea, t Way. Mr. Gladstone, wdth the promii -nt il. ibtrals of Wales, oo cupied tu*i stand, from which he viewed the parade. One hundred tliousaad, wearing and bearing banner-. mid accompaniod bv nmniTOtts hands. march*-*# jia.-t the stand. A contingent from Pont-y-Prind. headed the line. Carmdns wore fired and the great est, enuraraaMi prevailed. The day was clear and bright. The procession was five hours passing the review stand. After the men had all passed they massed to hear Mr. Gladstone, who spoke for an hour. He said the waste of time in the House of Commons was due t o the fact that the coercion bill was badly framed, ft was extravagant in its objects and totally mismanaged. Lord Salisbury’s complaint of obstruction was unmanly and effeminate. Fatigued Conservatives would lie given a longer Whitsun holiday. He warned them that they would lie even more tired, for it would be impossible to perma nently govern Ireland coersivelyin the light of this day. Mr. Gladstone asked the M elnkmen to believe that the Irish were hu man beings, and full of noble qualities. He w-as confident that tho Welshmeu would sympathize with them. A banquet was given to Mr. Gladstone this evening by the Welsh members of the House of Comfnons and tho officials of the Liberal party. CHURCHILL ADMONISHED. The “Standard” Advises Him to Fight His Enemies, Not His Friends. London, June 4.—The Standard, com menting on Lord Randolph Churchill’s speech, at Wolverhampton, last night, ad mits the importance of the subject, but com plains that Lord Churchill, while weaking his party at a time when all its strength is re quired to be centred in the Irish difficulty, keeps his grand scheme of reform to him self. Commenting on lord Churchill's speech, it says: “Let Lord Randolph convert his indignation into a steady fire of a reso lute purpose and mature his plan with patient industry. Then he may become a terror to the evil-doers, and some day an op portunity may come for putting his ripened puiposes into execution." WILLIAM A. WHEELER DEAD. Peaceful End of an Ex-Vice President— His Life and Services. Watertown, N. Y., June 4.—Hon. Wil liam A. Wheeler died at his home at 10:10 o'clock this morning. He was in a com posed condition during the night and passed peacefully away without a sign of any recognition of those about him'. THE LAST MOMENTS. Malone, Is. Y., June 4.—The death of ex-Vice President Wheeler, which occurred at 10:10 a. m. to-day, was painless, and his life went out so gradually and quietly that it w 7 as hard to mark the exact moment of its flight. Though his vitality hud been de creasing slow ly through the past six years. Mr. Wheeler retained his vitality up to within perhaps six months ago. From that date he had failed rapidly. He was tortured terribly by insomonia and neu ralgia, and was also afflicted with catarrh of the bladder. The night of March 3 last he was seized with a chill, followed by a sinking spell and then by a fever, and for hours his physician thought, him dying. He never fully rallied from that attack, ami his mind and body have wasted together. There lias probably been soften ing of the brain, too, and for weeks he had been irrational. This brain affliction was the immediate cause of his death. On Mon day last, he sank into a condition of uncon sciousness, from which he never aroused, except for a moment or two at a time, and from which time he had not spoken nor given any sign of recognition of his friends or of what was transpiring about him. Mr. Wheeler had no near relative in the world to minister to him during his illness or to watch by his side at his death, but the relatives of his deceased wife and the friends who have been bound to him from boyhood by the closest ties of affection, who w ere tender in their solicitude for him, and a few of them were grouped with his pastor and the physician about him when the final summons came. The approach of death was so gradual that it caused no public shock, even here at his home though there is universal sorrow among the people. All the flags are at half must, and emblems of mourning w ill be displayed. Tho funeral will lie held at t o’clock Tuesday, June 7, at the Congrega tional church, with a sermon by tho pastor, to whom Mr. Wheeler had been almost a second father. A meeting of citizens will be held this evening to appoint tiie committee to arrange for a citizens’ memorial service to be held on Tuesday evening, and at which the men who were associates and friends of his youth and mature manhood, will voice their own and the country’s love for him. President Cleveland, who is in the Adiron dacks and within a few hours ride from here has been apprised of Mr. Wheeler’s death and the time of the funeral. The follow ing telegram has been received from ex-Presideut Hayes: Tremont. 0.. .Tune 4, 1887. Mrs. Havesand I have heard with the deepest sorrow of the death of oiu friend Mr Wheeler, 1 will attend the funeral with my son. R. B. Hayes. William A. Wheeler was inaugurated Vice President in 1877. He came into con siderable prominence in the Forty-third Congress in connection with troubles in Louisiana, which were adjusted by what is known as the “Wheeler Compromise.” He was born at Malone, X. Y., June SO, 18111. He 8) icnt two years at the University of Vermont, and, at the age of 21, begati the study of the law. At the end of four years he was admitted to practice in his native town. He held a number of minor offices, and in 1.54 b was elected District Attorney of his county. He was sent to the Legisla ture as a Whig iu 1840 and 1850, ■ and was a member of the State Senate in 1850 and 1800. In the latter year he was elected to Congress and served c.ie term. He was President of the Constitutional Convention of Now York in !Bd7. ami in 18bS was again elet ted to Con gress. Ho was three times elected in .-ac cession. In !S7ii lie was nominated fer \ ice President. He acted with the Republican partv from lla organization. He was a man of fair ability, and v-as highly respected by the Republican leaders. As he filled a sec ondnry place lie was not particularly con spicuous during the remarkable contest tor tfie Presidency in 157*1-77 in which the will of the people as expressed at the ballot-box was defeated. HORSES DYING. Serious Epidemic Among Imported Horses in Illinois, Chicago, Juno 4.—A special from Bloom ington, 111., says: The strange disease) which has lrecn reported as doing great damage among the horses in the vicinity of VVapolla, DeWitt county, is looked upon by the horse men of Central Illinois with much concern. Tho Assistant State Veterinarian, at this place, under instructions front tho State Commissioners, has made a thorough ox amination of the disease. Two imported Norman stallions have died and ten are now affected. Thirty-eight man's have died and many arc sick. ’Hu fur as known, the local eases are now all quarantined. No remedy lias been discovered ns yet. Ex-Attorney General Speed Dying. Louisville, Juno 4.—Gen. Janies N. Bneod who was Attorney General under Prerident Urn-ohi, is dangerously ill nt bis homo in this county. The family and phy sicians state he can live but. a few days longer. He is almost 80 years old and i gradually sinking from more exhaustion. TjPffIKJHKIXG NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 1887-TWELVE PAGES. CHAFING 1 XDER Til E BITS GERMANY’S NEW CANAL DIS TURBS THE DEPUTIES. Paris to be Made a Seaport and the Mediterranean to be Connected With the Atlantic by a French Canal Other Important European News. Paris, June 4.—M. Dellatre, member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Seine, lias given notice that he will interpolate the government regarding the construction by Germany of the North Sea and Baltic ca nal. He will ask what the government ex pects will be the result of the construction of this waterway upon French commerce, and also whether the government intends to effect a scheme to make Paris a seaport and construct a canal from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. GEN. BOULANGER TO COMMAND. Gen. Ferron, the new Minister of War, has offered Gen. Boulanger the command of the army. Gen. Boulanger, however, lias asked for a few months rest. THE LIST NOW 180. The final estimate of victims of the bunt ing of the Opera Comlque places the num ber at 130. , A “LINK OF CIVILIZATION” WANTED. A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the Journal Des Debuts says that the Ameer of Bokharahas, dismissed all the officials of his government found in arms against Russia. He has informed the Governor of Turke stan that he and his subjects are impatient ly waiting for the great, link which will connect their country with Russia and dif fuse civilization t hroughout Central Asia. SUGAR TAX BILL PASSED. The sugar tax bill was passed by the Chamber of Deputies to-day by a vote of 378 to 177. GERMANY ACTIVE. Seeking to Form an Alliance of the Three Emperors. Cnpyriqht 1887 by Sen' York Associated Press. Berlin, June 4. —Since the division in the French Chambers have shown that, the Right intends to give a solid vote for the Moder ates, the North German Gazette the Kretiz Zeitung and other government organs are beaming over with articles rejoicing in the prospects of peace, and evince an optimistic tone generally. The advices from the German embassy at Paris are reported to be of a less hopeful tenor now regarding the length of the ex istence of tbe Rouvier ministry. It is as sumed that the spirit of Chauvinism is for a long time at, rest with the retirement, of Gen. Boulanger and that jieai-e is assured for a time. The motive of these pacific utterances, it is asserted, is not the desire to cultivate better relations with France, but to make a resumption of the entente with Russia more pasy. Count Bismarck aims to renew the alliance of the three Emperors and hopes to seal the entente by a specific treaty which would make firmer the under standing between Germany, Austria and Russia than existed under tbe last alliance, for which tbe treaty, though drawn up, was never signed. inside views. A high official of the government here was asked for how long a time peace was secured. His answer was: “For this year, and if the Czar meets the two Emperors in the autumn and consents to sign the treaty of alliance probably for five years.’’ The motive or the Russian response to Bismarck's overtures, however, is doubtful. The assertion of the Kreuz Zeitung, regarding the restoration of the friendly relations with Russia, is borne out by no apparent fact. HOSTILITY TO FOREIGNERS. On the contrary, the Pan-Slavist press continues to display great hostility to Ger many and a practical enmity in the repres sion of the German element, in the Baltic provinces and of the German trade and traders everywhere in Russia, continues un abated. The Infest instance of the Russian exclusivis/n affecting Germans is the pro posed law of naturalization, which has just been submitted to the Council of the Em pire. M. Katkoff urges the government to make the conditions of naturalization so difficult of performance that it would lie impossible for any foreigners to become naturalized citizens, in order to make a fortune and afterwards return home. According to M. Katkoff the industries of Russia are now so strong that tho gov ernment can dispense with granting any special privileges to foreigners, or harboring any foreign traders. The proposed new naturalization law is infused with this spirit, and one of its purposes is to prevent natur alized persons from leaving Russia. Official circles do not share tho sentiments of tiie official press toward Russia, butCount Bismarck is determined to conciliate the Czar, as he considers that by so doing he would to a considerable extent soothe the irritation and settle the differences that now exist. The Austrian Cabinet had asked Germany to join in a protest against the ukase, and Bismarck consented. Szechenyi went the next day to Vienna, supposing the affair had been ar ranged. Count Bismarck’s change of front was communicated to tho Austrian govern ment on Wednesday, and to-day Count Szechenyi’s recall from Berlin is announced The Freidrnhlatt says he resigned for private reasons, but the fact is tho Vienna foreign office resents the sudden alteration in the German policy. VICTIMS OF RUSSIA'S POLICT. Among the German notables who have been victimized by the alien act are Prince Von Hohenlohe and Prince Von Radziwill. Prince Von Hohenlohe holds an extensive property in Galeoia while Prince Radziwill owns about half of tho whole circle of Minsk,and Hir William A. White, the British Minister to Turkey, who has estates in Poland, will take private, yet concerted action to influence the Czar in the case of the failure of the powers to take action against the ukase. Tho Berlin police authorities have prohibited the circulation of a New York publication called the Indepen dent Hibliothek, liecause of an offensive Socialist article entitled “The Hell of Black well's island,” which ji| ■!■* therein. BIG RAILROAD DEAL. A Now System Formed to Extend to the Seaboard. Cincinnati, 0., June 4.—An Associated Hi-ess reporter has obtained information from a semi-official source of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Drayton and Yundalia deal lieing formally eoiisumatod to-day at Terre Haute. Tbe Vitndslfn line will now oiierate its business in connection with the Cincin nati. Hamilton and Dayton and tbe Dayton and Ironton railroad* and these will form, with tho Baltimore and Ohio, one grand system lietween the West, and the sea board cities. Tho Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railroad, recently acquired by the Ives-Staynor syndicate, will be operated in the interest of this largo system as a feeder from Chicago and Lake .Michigan cities and the lumber districts. The Pennsylvania Company will be tendered tho use of the Vunualia line as heretofore, REDUCING THEIR RATES. Tbe C. B. and Q. Reducing Through and Local Fares. St. Louis, June 4.—The Chicago, Bur ling ton and Quincy Railroad Company huve determined to reduce rates between this city, Council Bluffs iuid Omaha. When the interstate commerce law went into effect this road, being the long route to Omaha and Council Bluffs, rather than sacrifice its local joints raised its through rates to the former place about 18 iier cent. After two mouths' trial it found this business woe of too much conseiiucnce to lose. The return to the old rates will necessitate a slaughter of tbe local rates all along the line. LABOR’S DISCONTENT. Tollere Thinking o' Thai r Wrongs More Than of Their Work. Pittsburg, June 4.—A special from Con nelisville. Pa., says: Five more of the Jim town ooke rioters were arrested this morn ing. The wife of one of the prisoners made a savage attack on the Sheriff with a large butcher knife, and would have preliably killed hint, but. for a negro who overpowered the woman and took the knife away. The report of Carlton and Bailev, of the General Committee, of tbe Knights of Labor, has caused much dissat isfaction and is generally condemned. The impression prevails that an early settlement of the strike will be effected. the family quarrel growing. It is rumored that a secret meeting of the officers of the local assemblies of the Knights of Labor that are antagonistic to Mr. Pow derly is to lie held in this city in the course of a few days, at which steps will to taken toward concentrating tbe opposition in I lie different parts of the country for the pur pose of laying the plans of operation at the annual convention next fall The expulsion of District Assembly No. 12, known as the John A. Morrison Carpet Weaver’s Assem bly, has given considerable joy to the anti- Powderlyites who recognize in the tabooed district a great accession of strength. ORGANIZING THE OPPOSITION. Communication has been opened by the officei-s of this assembly with the Denver and Pacific coast assemblies, which already have manifested open hostility to the present administration, undovith numerous other assemblies which, although they have not publicly declared their position, are known to to be willing to join hands with any well organized movement, to “down" the present officers at Philadelphia. It is hinted that this combination is likelv to assume formid able dimensions, anil that Mr. Powderly and the Home Club are likely to lie con fronted at Minneapolis with an opposition much better organized ami more powerful than that with which they had to contend last year at Richmond. COTTON OPERATIVES IN COUNCIL. Manchester, June 4.— Tiie cotton spin ners and operatives have called a meeting to devise some means to counteract the effects of Liverpool cotton. A GUARDED LETTER. What the Executive Board Write When They Mean “Boycott.” New York, June 4. —District Attorney Martine to day gave some attention to the fac simile letter recently issued by the Gen eral Secretary of the Knights of Lalior at Philadelphia, as published in this morning’s Sun, calling upon the members of the va rious assemblies to boycott E. S. Higgins & Go., carpet manufacturers, and their cus tomers. The matter was then turned over by Mr. Martine to his assistant, Mr. Dnvis, who has charge of the placing of matters before the grand jury, upon which indict ment should lie found.' Mr. Davis said that, the letter is very guardedly written, and could not be made a basis of indictment for conspiracy. The matter will, however, be further investigated. The circular does not use the word “boycott.” It says the General Executive Board has decided that the cariiets manufactured hy this firm are not such tlja# the said board can recommend. Accompanying the circular is a list of 32 firms in New York city, 21 in Brooklyn, and 8 in Jersey City and Newark, N.J., who handle Messrs. Higgins A Co.’s carpets. The circular is signed J. W. Hayes, Secre tary of the General Executive Board. NOT EXECUTED YET. The Three Mexicans Now Awaiting Action of the Pardoning Power. St. Louis, June 4.—A special from El Paso, Tex., says: Gen. Lorenzo Vegar, the President of the Mexican Military Court, that sentenced the three Nogales in vaders to death, is in El Paso, and says that Col. Arvizu. Lieut. Guitteree and the third prisoner, a civilian, are still in the jail at Guavinas, (lending an appeal for mercy to the President and the Secretary of War in the City of Mexico. They were tried by a court-martial composed of two Generals and five Colonels, and promptlv sentenced to death, on the two charges of kidnapping and invading a friendly territory. In Mexican official circles it is not thought the intercession of Secretary Bayard for leniency will have the desired effect, for the standing of Col. Arvizu in the Mexican army is not of the best. There is no sympathy for him among his own countrymen, and the sentence of death will undoubtedly be executed. A number of serious charges have been pre ferred against him on a previous occasion. “ASSISTED” EMIGR ANTS. How Some of England's Paupers Are Sont to This Country. New York, June 4.— Seventeen families, in all about seventy-five people, arrived at Castle Garden on the Liman steamer City of Chester from county Kerry, Ireland. So far as known they are friendless, and all are desirous of going to Massachusetts, where they say they have friends. They claim to have received letters from relatives and friends in Massachusetts requesting them to come to this country. These letters, they sav, were confiscated by the Secretary of the Killnrney Emigration Society, who gave them tickets to New York and rail rood tickets to thoii-ilestination. They are now nt Ward’s Island as paupers, awaiting the decision of the Emigration Commis sioners. DYNAMITE DID IT. Eight Men Killed and One Injured by a Premature Explosion. Altoona, Pa., June 4.—Nine men were drilling a hole at the Oambria Iron Company’s stone quarries at Birming ham this afternoon, when an explo sion of dynamite occurred close to them. Eight of them were killed; the ninth is badly hurt, bin may survive. One of the killed wan an Italian, but the others were all Americans. The explosion was occasioned by the men attempting to drawn blast that con tained three kegs of powder nud a lot of dynamite. A BAD STORY. An Escaped Convict Repents but Is Discovered and Arrested. Danville, Va., June 4.—Robert Grove was sent to the North Carolina penitentiary in 1881, from Asheville, for the murder of Janies Alexander, but escaped In 1882, and came to this city, where ho married and set tled down us a good citizen He assumed the name of Edward Williams and was generally regarded as a man of good char acter, but it finally leaked nut that he was an escaped convict and ho was arrested mid is hotel here subject to theorder of the North Curolina authorities. GRIST. Clerks Givon a "Vacation” Interest ing News From tho Capital. Washington, June 4.—Thirteen clerks in the Treasury Department were to-day notified that their names will lie dropjied from the pay rolls July 1, by reason of tiie failure of Congress to make provisions for payment of salarire. How a False Rumor Originated. New York, June 4.—The rumor that Cardinal Gibbon*, who arrived from Rome on the Umbria, of the Canard line, tiffs afternoon, hwl died on tit" voyage was oc casioned by the fart tbe Umbria’* flag was half-mazted in passing Handy Hook, a sig nal that she had taken a pilot aboard SURVEYING THE RUINS. WHAT THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE ACCOMPLISHED. The Governor’s Pen Busy Signing Pills Scores of Bills Yet Loft on the Cal endar Appropriation. Unexpectedly Largo ~ The New Apportionment Tallahassee’s New Railroad. Tallahassee, Fla., June 4. —During the lust few days of the legislative session large numbers of bills, joint resolutions and memorials were passed 114 of which have been sigued by Gov. Ferry, and'as many more are now awaiting his action. The appropriations made for various pur poses are unusually -large, being necessary to cover the expenses incurred by the late constitutional convention and other items for the last two years, while the appropria tions for the next year were increased to meet the extraoi-dinary expenses of the Legislature, nnilroad Commission and other measures incidental to new legislation, in cluding the additional schools, etc. Gov. Perry will approve the Railroad Commission bill, and at once address hint self to the task of selecting suitable jiereons for places on the commission. Applicants continue to increase, but Gov. Perry has made no initiations of his choice for the im portant trust. republican opposition. The new election law’s were opposed hy the Republicans, but wore passed in spite of their opjKisttion with a few negative votes. The new apportionment of representation in the legislature from the several counties give Brevard. Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Frank u, Dade, DeSoto, Lafayettc, Levy, Wash ington, Pasco, Citrus, Wakulla, Walton, Holmes, Manatee, Hernando, Lee, Sumter, Liberty and Taylor, one member of the House each, while all other counties have two each, whether large or small in point of population. This method of apportionment sloes not give entire satisfaction, but it is fairly just in the distribution, and may operate to the ad vantage of the entire State. Gov. Perry has signed no bills to-day. Among the bills now awaiting the Dover nor’R signature are the revenue, the election bill and several appropriation bills. The statement that H. J. McCall was confirmed State’s Attorney for the Third Judicial < Cir cuit w’as not correct, as his name was not sent to the Senate. TALLAHASSEE’S NEW’ RAILROAD. The surveying party on the route of the Gainesville, Tallahassee and Western mil way arrived here last night, having sur veyed the route from Gainesville to this city. what they did. In the House the bills introduced were 388, left on the second rending 113, left on the third reading 4, indefinitely postponed 51, signed by the Speaker and Clerk 75, laid on the table 4, withdrawn 28, vetoed by the Governor 1, milistitutes offered 23, engrossed fil, not reported 52, left in the Senate 22, the House returned 45 hills to the Senate that had not reached their thin! reading when the House adjoured. Three hundred and twenty-nine bills were introduced in tbe Senate and three-fourths of them were left on the calendar. BILLS SIGNED. The Governor has signed the following bills: An act to amend an act entitled an act to establish the municipality of Jack sonville, provide for its government and presents* Its jurisdiction and powers, ap proved May 31, 1887; an act to abolish the corporations of the town of Tainpa and North Tampa, to provide municipal govern ment for tbe city of Tampa, and to define the boundary thereof; an act to incorpo rate the Trustees of the Presbyterian church of St. Augustine; An aot to amend section 4 of ciiapter ltil, laws of Florida; an act to fix the pay of members, officers and attaches of the Legislature of 1887; an act to provide for the claims of the citizens of Ocala against tbe State for certain aid given by the town of Ocala for the establishment of East Florida Seminary in 1852: an act to incorporate the Putnam Club; an act for the relief of Dr. G. M. Vincent, of Columbia county: an act to incorporate the Suwanee and Gulf Railroad Company; an act to prescribe the bonds to be given by certain county officers, and a joint resolution about the mail route from Cottondalo to Carupbellton, In Jnek son county; Hn act dividing the county of Hernado and creating the counties of Pasco and Citrus; also a memorial to Congress relative to tbe mail route from Marianna to Newahitcbka; un act for the relief of S. I). Overstreet and others; an art to amend si*o tion 5 of an act authorizing tho Governor to appoint a committee to Investigate and ascertain what quantity of land and the number of aeres the Atlantic anil Gulf Canal and the Okee chobee land Coinpony has reclaimi'd for the State and other purposes, approved Feb. Ifi, 1885; an act to incorporate a eom jiany to can and deal in fruits and vegetables, oysters and fish at St. Lucie and Crystal river, Fla.; a joint resolution rela tive to the improvement; of Apalachicola Bay and its tributary rivers; an act making appropriations for and ex tending the provisions of chapter 3447, an act approved March 5, 1883; ari act to pro vide for the purchase of all blank books, rec ord book, stationery and paper to lie used in the different departments and counties of the State; an art to incoiqsirate the Chip jiewa, lakeland and Investment < ompany. and to grant, certain privileges to the -ame; an art tor the relief of iAwrcnce Duvall, of Clay county, and other*. Tax Assessors, who took the agricultural statistics in 1*77; an art to provide for the sale, redemption, cancellation and settlement of tax sale cer tificates of lands sold to the State tor tuxe*. and authorizing ttie* Comptroller to refund the amount jiaid tor tax oertifl oates upon lands where the assessment was double or taxes paid; an act to permit the provisional municipality’ of Pensnrola to sell certain of its public property and to quiet the title to certuin other of said prop erty already sold; an act to incorporate the Georgia, Florida and Key West Railway Company; an act to provide for the projier enforcement of the provisions of article II) of the constitution; an act to regulate ap peal* from Justice*’ courts in civil action and the pnveedings at law in this State; a memorial to Congress for a lighthouse at Nt. Andrew's Bay; a concurrent resolution relative to dredging St. Andrew's Bay. A noon sekkion’s work. The Legislature just, adjourned carries with it a record that cun tie |x>inted to with confidence, if only in the particular that it prevented the enactment of many proprw-d measures thut, would have been positively injurious to the people of tlm State, had they been enacted. Several important laws were nossod, and taken us a whole, with the jieculfar condition* that attended It. this session has really not lieeu less productive of good than previous ones. True it is l hat many desired men.'urrs tailed <>n final passag*. and a greater num lier still were never reached on the raleadur, but the body might have done much worse and the people of tlx* State are to lie con gratulated that no positive Injury has been done them. Afmlioztlon* for appointment on the Railroad Commuwion continue to increase. It is stated that the present At torney General of the State, Hon. C. M. Cooper, con have a place on the commission If ho desires it Mr. Cooper is a flint class man in every respect and would niaka A most acceptable commissioner. THIEVES DISCOVERED. Indictments Found by An Arkansas Grand Jury. St. Louis, June4.—A special from Little Rock, Ark.,nay*: There is much excitement at Paris, Ark. Some time ago the county treasury was robbed of several thousand dollars. The grand jury now sitting has indicted thesuaperted thieves, several prom inent persons lieing Implicated. A man named Corbe surrendered himself to escape mob violence. FLEEING FROM YELLOW JACK. Exodus of Unaccliniated Residents of Key West. Key West, Fla., June 4.—Twonewrasex of yellow fever have occurred since yester day. hut no more deaths. The total number of cases to date is 15, convalescent 8, and 8 sick now; deaths 4. A great number of strangers left in the steamer to-day for New York, thus reducing the danger. There is no fear for our own i>eople. The city au thorities urge nil unaecliinnted people to leave. Many mechanics flocked here after the great tire, and have not saved enough to get away with. The weather is rainy. STATE WELL GUARDED. Palatka, Fla., June 4. —Specials from the towns on the coast show that the State is well guarded hy quarantine against, the spread of yellow fever in Key West. Punta Gorda, on Charlotte harbor, enforced the quarantine strictly on the tlrst. receipt of the news. Punta Raisa, at. the mouth of the same harbor, has a fifteen days quarantine. Cedar Keys lias been thoroughly guarded for some days. STRICT MEASURES AT TAMPA. Tampa allows only the mails and the to baivo from Key West and Havana to lie landed, and they are fumigated. The officers and crew of the steamers arc not allowed to land. The revenue cutter Crawford is as sisting the quarantine at Cedar Keys. ORANGE COUNTY QUARANTINES. Kissimmee. Fla., June 4.—The Orange county board of health will establish at once a strict quarantine against Key West and Havana and all towns and counties south of Orange oountv A quarantine station will la* opened at Campbell’s station, five miles below this place at once. Strict quarantine laws will be enforced. will co-operate fully. Washington, June 4. —Surgeon General Hamilton to-day received a telegram from the Governor of Florida, us follows: “Florida lias not a State board of health. I hope you will give Mieh aid as you can to the local county board to prevent the ■oread of the yellow fever.” The Surgeon General replied by telegraph as follows: “ff fjpgwlatore pi in session can they not pa.*tVi# uefeesgry laws' Please state the vs>i m your Command. lam inst ruct (he Sweretwuy Of the Treasury to assure veal of the co Deration of. the department 4n supplementing the Htate forces.” mails m frttfnmiqTEn. The post, ofllcc authorities to-day author < iic Her at. Tampa to de-unui.' n man to Insriect and disinfect the mails coining from Cuba. COLUMBUS' NEW FACTORY- Railroad Interests Ogletrawßen fenc ed to Five Yearn In the 'Fen. Columbus, Ga., June 4. —A. R. Berthe*, a director of the Birmingham and Wlridu railroad, is in the city. He came here fin the purjKise of ascertaining what our busi ness men are willing to nay t o have the imuj come to Columbus. He will remain about a week. The contractors will start, to work Mon day to build a now mill for the Muscogee Manufacturing Company. Tho building will lie built entirely or brick, four stories high and when completed will be In the shape of an L. It will have a capacity of 400 looms. It will lie situated north of the present mill and is to be ready for work by fall. lu the Muscogee Superior Court to-day Judge Smith sentenced Len Ogletree, who was found guilty of assault with intent to murder, to live year* In tho penitentiary. His counsel will carry the ease to the Su preme Court. 0. Gunby Jordan, President of tho Geor gia Midland Construction Company, return ed to this city to-day from New York, where he has been in the interest of the Columbus Southern railroad. President Jordan is quite ill. and will doubtless lie routined to his bed for some time. GAMBLING LEADS TO MURDER. A Trio of Gamblers Fall Out and Two Are Killed. Cedartown, Ga.. June 4.—At Rook Run, Ala., Alf. Woodley shot, and killed William Stone and mortally wounded Bob Mills yesterday. Stone was a professional gambler, and had of late lieen plying his vocation among the furnace operatives, winning all their money. He induced Wood- Icy and Mills to join him in a game of dice. The victims were getting the better of the gambler when Stone, in his rage, slapped Woodley in the face. Without a word Woodley arose and left tho two alone. In a few minutes he returned with a revolver. As became in he exclaimed: “Look out, Mills, l will kill the d—d scoundrel!" He emptied three chambers of the pistol, two shots taking effect iu Stone and killing him instantly. A third shot struck Mills, giving him a mortal wound. Woodley disap peared. SEVENTY PER CENT. DIVIDEND. Prosperous Condition of tho Southern Mutual Insurance Company. Athens, Ga.. Juno 4.—lt is learned this morning from a prominent director of the Southern Mutual Insurance Company that at the annual meeting of the stockholders, which will he held at the office of the com pany on next Tuesday morning, a dividend of 70 | icr cent, will tie declared for the busi ness of the past year. It is understood that, no changes will fie made in the officers by th stockholder* inerting, ns the company was never in a more prosperous condition. Lightning's Sharp Work. Social Circle, Ga., June 4.—Heavy rains have prevailed throughout this section the past few flays, accompanied with unu siiiil display of electricity. Anderson Weaver, a very worthy negro, was instantly killed by lightning this after noon while preparing to leave his cotton field to seek shelter finm the approaching rain. Killed by Lightning at Clayton. JoNEKUono, Ga., Juno 4.—Yesterday evening about 5 o'clock, four miles north of this place, J. C. Barikilight, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. His wife and two children wen: standing ii'Nir him at the time and were knocked down it ml lay senseless for fifteen minutes. His wife and the children have fully recovered from their shock. Col. A. B. Simms Dying. Covington, Ga., June 4. —Col. A. Ben Hltnms was stricken here to-day with jsiraly -11 , mid is now In a dying condition, sup posed to have been superinduced by the se vere strain on his mental and physical sys tem while attending his brother, hi Ins lost Ulna*!, whose death was reported these days ago. CHANOED_CARB How Council Was Outwitted at Hunts ville, Alabama. Montgomery, June 4.—A special from Huntsville report* a xensationthere.lu which W. H. Council (colored), the principal of tho Htate Normal Institute, was a chief actor. Council is tho man who was ejected from a white car on the Western and Atlantic rail ros I ami applied to the Interstate Commis sion for re tress. Today, at Huntsville, ho t-iok some flftei'ii >f his pupils Uito a car of the whites on the M. andC. R. It. One white man and twelve ladies wore in tho cor. Tho colored car was empty and all tho whites wont into that,, leaving the negroes in full j sis session of the white car. 1 lie railroad officials did not Interfere. Safe Arrival ot Cardinal Gibbons. New York, June 4.—Cardinal James Gibbons, of Baltimore, arrived this morn ing on the Cunard stMKUT Umbria and was enthusiastically i CfBMMtoMKi escorted up the buy by a conn uttge uf prominent Cath- SENSATION IS ATLANfA PHELAN’S HEAVY FAILURE TALK OF THE HOUR. .ill .nfcr.^■io-.v W;: * i Mr. Phe ian - Man lantlnns Caught on the MarffiniM|fi Life insurance Company AppllefljHl a Mandamus -A Florida Postmastuf Appeals for Help*-Whitfield Countj Wants Holman Hung. Atlanta, Ga., June 4.— lt was aa nouncsd on the streets this afternoon that. 3 H. Phelan hod failed, and the amiounoemeni produced a sensation in the Imnnees ciiple* The liabilities are about $:jOO,OUO amt thie aa sets are practically nil. His failure capria down the Atlanta Produce and Cotton E* change, of which he was head,and the brand exchanges in Charlotte, Birmingham, Mono gontery, Selma and Havannah. lh\ was sen'll to-nigut by your his office. He was very much dcpnsMHßj but, full of nerve and pluck, lie said: HH failure is complete. I owe about $. usi.OOfl I have nothing on hand with to pay it. I simply paid out every dolllnßQ bail, hoping that the market woultj anil that I could recoup my losses. WTie* my money was gone, and not until then, J closed my business.” “When did you kaow you had failed*" was asked. “Yewet* terday morning I received a telegram from Henry Hsuit.z, of New York, who had often backed me for any amount witjii o reason. I found three days ugo that I would need about $20,000, and wrote 6i> for it. He telegraphed ine that he could no! advance it. I received this dispatch Friday night, and on Saturday morning I kneiv ] must give up. I had mortgaged my prop erty in order to carry on the business, and had no resources. WHERE THE MONEY WENT. “Where did you makn your losses?” asked the reporter. “We lost $.10,000 in pork about, thro* months ago. Then we lost, $38,000; tWMH $12,000 in cotton. In two months we mid out nearly $200,000. VV'e paid lease;; right along, rind might have cd even this storm had it not In coffee market took an upward rise nr. 1 nB us heavily. All this combined, haunted whai, we had made the last six vears." “Von have been very successful in Atlanta," remarked the reporter. “Extremely so. I catne here with l r -s§ than $1.5,000 and before t.heso losses began. I was worth considerably over s,‘ioo,ooo. It has been all swept away in about threa months, leaving me s.'i,ooo liehind.” u “What are you going to do?” fflkVPlow with a mule If I can get nothing better to do. I intend to live in Atlanta, apdi do not intend to be idle. I have nctoii,., RjmtfiJe a day in my life since I was jbj 5, cftOittfbto earn a living, and I shall s-iitifßow u g. f on my feet again.” ~ ; ITHf it At’(TO’ XT. The ropurtod failure of S. H. Phelan, ifjhflK 1 ricUir Uatatkty JtToduce and Cotton c .was sei isalion in Atlanta I hit > 'Wt 81l SHNgL er* stood, the exObauge Bu.--)>end.'d this al'mUffiS noon, cHrrj'hig krith bit the at Monij'oflisiy, Birmingham oho ■, Havannah. '(it* Bobu; ties estimated at S'M,OOU. rhe^H ascribes his failure to Hejnry Henitz ffc UHBj bis New York anil New Orluuo(lia ente, who have cut him off, but. repart to thia that Phelan has lieen going, baa.Skv.U in the market himself. A targe Dumber businessmen here, sc f ttm tieewte R with Phelan, and it is re aided of them, with margins up arc oiSglif, sop of them heavily. Phelan owns Home re estate in and about Atlanta, but that is t rcaily covered with mortgages. APri.v TOR a M AND a Mrs. The Mutual Reserve Fund Life Assocjkr tion of New York, one of the company* whose license to do business in this Stale was revoked in March, because they failed to make their semi-annual returns, applied to Judge Clarke to-day for a mandamus to compel the Comptroller General to issue ja license, claiming that as an association arid a co-operative association they were not, r*-. quirert under the act to make semi anniut] returns. The Comptroller was ordered no show cause on June is why the mandamijp should not ba granted. JI'ST SENTENCE. Several different applications were made to-day for the *5OO executive reward for Henry Pope, thonegro captured near Gads den, Ain., charged with the rape of Miss Kendrick, in C'liattooga county. Pope was convicted and sontenred to lie hung on July I. There will lie a lively squabblo for the reward. LYNCHERR TO BE PROSECUTED. The (lovemor has requested the Attorney General to assist the Solicitor General in tho prosecution of the Moore lynchers is the Bibb Superior Couit next week. A FLORIDA POSTMASTER ASKS AID. L. Jones, postmaster at Apopka, Fla., writes the Governor that an effort is bejaflyg made to oust him, and appeals to Ilia flH|| friend and admirer to help hitn. . The revenue officers have seized packages of corn whisky (4SW gallons) Gilmer coauty, in the bonded warehouae^H J. S. & H. Worley, on the ground thj|M they were suspected of being Interested jig', the illicit still seized near there last, vear.^H A petition is being signed and will lie sAiited to the Executive by a large numhaflH of the citizens of Whitfield county any commutation of the sentence of who is to hang Friday, and his don’t look so bright. ife Among the recent worthy cases of abled Confederates who ask Georgia fdfw assistance a remarkable one is reported toSH day from Gordon county. A one-leggaflH veteran on his back, a paralytic for years and blind, with an invalid wife, word to the Comptroller that hMg family has been supported*" by his two boys, 11 and 1 years old, on the farm, biit they are sick and tho work on the farm is stopped. He wants to liorrow, not beg, money enough (s!is to $35) to clean the crop. Other deserving coses are lieing heard from, and likoly an appeal will lie made to the Legislature for their further relief. The arrest is reported by the post oM* inspector at Jacksosodlle of TV 11. Keiber and P. H. Wanuig, charged with using tho mails to defraud. Chipley Notes. * •*— Chiplev, Fi.a , Juno 4. —Miss Katie Pelt, a most lovable and excellent young lady just blooming into womanhood, th daughter of Mr. aiid Sirs. F. F. Pelt, of thil place, died Wednesday. She wo* o young lady <>f promi.'■>•. • i One of our attorneys, Mr. C. J. Meirlean, lost himself, as be expresses It, in the Choc tawbatchlo river swamp a day or so ago. lie suys that ho was accompanied by t.hres others, and that after crawling upon their knees and hands and literally demolishing their trousers, and getting thoroughly drenched with rain and hrmsiug hiluself from head to toot by a contact with the cane bushes for tivo und one-holf long hours, they brought themselves up at the 'noted eity of (Jcrro Gordo, the capital of Holmes county. In sneaking of the success of a Georgia boy, Mr. Forrester, in my lost dispatch, I neglected to give the initial* of his given name, and aa racre are two or three otlien here by that name, I take occasion to glv them now. His full name is J. D. Ferrets ter, familiarly known as Jim Buck. The strawberry enterprise* in tills section proved success this scasoni Tius is the home of the beet strawberry grown, Them will is' probably several hundred,- acres planted in and around Chipley next fall aud winter. Orange Hill, one of the lovrli-st ;pois in Florida, is situated five miles from t'uipley. Tills tieautiful, strange and grand freak ol nature is owu<sl by Mr. R. I* Hca-t*ti, r* cently from ludiunapolis. He is n acutla man of large means and v*ry hospibttila f < 3