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I THE MORNING NEWS, )
1 Estxbubhxb ISM). Ijicosporatxd 1888.
{ J. H. ESTILL, President. f
OUR VICTORY AT BERLIN.
UNCLE SAM COMBB OUT OP THE
CONFERENCE FIRST BEST.
The London Times Points Out Some
of the Significant Pacts of the Re
sult—Germany Must Think Twice
jEetoro Provoking a Collision With
'This Country.
London, June 15.—The Berlin corre
spondent of the Times says the Americans
have undoubtedly emerged from the Sa
moan conference with flying colors. Ger
many has to content herself with much less
political predominance in Samoa than she
claimed at Washington two years ago.
This result is much more due to the firm
and inexorable attitude of Mr. Blaine than
to any political leanings of Engla and toward
the power which it is her highest aim to
conciliate.
The Times, in an editorial on the Samoan
agreement, says: “Perhaps it is as well that
Prince Bismarck has been mode to realize
that where American interests are con
cerned, the American government is very
little affected by many of those considera
tions which restrain the action of those
European governments with which he is
more accustomed to deal. It is easy to see
that there might be many reasons why it
would be inexpedient for England to follow
the line of policy in regard to German
action in Samoa which it is natural and
necessary for America to pursue. It is
not less plain that even Germanv must
think twice or thnoe before provoking a
collision with America over such a ques
tion. Therefore we rejoice at the influence
of America so moderately and effectually
exerted.”
ENFORCEMENT OF ITS PROVISIONS.
Berlin, June 15. —Several provisions of
the Samoan treaty will be enforced before
the treaty is formally ratified. The consuls
at Apia will forthwith invite Samoa’s ad
hesion to the treaty.
' MUCH COMPLIMENTED.
Copyright 1889, by the New York Associated
Press.
Berlin, June 15.—The American dele
gates to the Samoan conference are much
complimented on the result of their labors.
Mr. Phelps is regarded by every one as the
coming United States minister, though he
himself denies that he has been offered
the position. The official press is
disinclined to dwell upon the matter of tbe
Samoan settlement, all the glory of which
is lost to Germany, and a brief paragraph
in the North German Gazette , on the con
clusion of the conference states that an
agreement was arrived at with perfect
unanimity by thejpowers represented, and
to the satisfaction of all the parties con
cered.
FARMERS AND CROPS.
The Weather of the Past Week Not
Unfavorable.
Washington, June 15.—The weather
crop bulletin of the signal service for the
past week is as follows:
The weeK ending Juno 15 has been
warmer than usual in the states on the
Atlantic coast, and cooler in the central
valleys from the gulf coast northward to
the lakci region and Minnesota. There
has been more rain than usual gen
erally throughout the agricultural
districts m the central valleys and on the
Atlantic coast, except in Southeast New
England and along the South Atlantic
coast, where numerous showers are reported.
Rains were unusually heavy over the cen
tral and western portions of the cotton re
gion and over the tobacco regions of Ten
nessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia
and Southern Indiana, the heaviest rains
occurring in the lower Mississippi valley,
where they were greatly needed. The large
deficiency in the rainfall for the season pre
viously reported over the cotton region and
Tennessee has been greatly reduced by the
recent heavy rains, where the rainfall for
the season now exceeds 70 per cent, of the
normal.
MORE THAN THE USUAL FALL.
Generally throughout the Middle Atlantic
states, Eastern North Carolina, and from
lowa and Nebraska southward to the West
Gulf coast there has been more rain than
usual. Crops were generally retarded in
Kentucky and Tennessee, owing to
heavy daily rains and little sun
shine. In some sections of these
states wheat has been damaged by
insects and injured by excessive rains,
although corn, cotton and tobacco aro re
ported as growing well, but dry weather
is needed for cultivation. Reports from
.iorth Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama
and Louisiana indicate that the weather
was favorable to all crops, which show a
decided improvement since the recent rains.
In Mississippi and Texas the rainfall was
excessive, and crops have been more or less
injured in some sections, especially in
Texas, where the weather has been too cool
for cotton.
MONTANA A DOUBTFUL STATE.
President Harrison Afraid that It Will
Go Democratic.
" ashington, June 15. —President Har
fison is troubled about Montana. His in
formation is that the outcome of the first
•lection to be held in the now state is likely
to be the selection of two democratic sena
tors and a democrat representative. Ha
ooes not want to see three m re democrats
jn congress, but moreover he does not want
to be held partly responsible for their elec
tion as he fears that he will be because he
nas giv en his son Russell controll of the
Oiontana patronage. Yosterday in talking
with Senator Quay he expressed a wish that
me republican national committee would
look after Montana,and Senator Quay and he
outlined a plan of action calculated to save it
j 0 ™ republicans unless Chairman Brice
•uu the local Montana leaders outwit them.
*o-day Senator Quay, as chairman, was in
communication with a member of the
executive committee, one of whom. Mr.
conger, spent some time with him. Chair
man Cuay will probably send someone,
Possibly Col. W. W. Dudley, out to Mon
jmia with money from the surplus won by
He national committee’s bets on Harrison
ere last fall to help the local republican
leaders to pull through.
A PAYMASTER COURT-MARTIALED
6 tnlth of the Essex to be Tried at
New York This Week.
Washington, June 15.—A naval court
aitial has been ordered to assemble at
* aw York navy yard, Weduesday, June 19,
to try Paymaster Henry R. Smith, late of
06 Essex, on a charge of absenting himself
ith°ut leave on the return of his vessel
a J °ng cruise. It was Paymaster
"hose mysterious disappearance
unri funeral search to be made for him,
foiflplay gu PP°® itioatl:lat he had mot with
Trial of the PetreL
June 15.—The Secretarv
nav.i 8 bas a PP o inted the board of
“vai offic rs to attend the trial trip of the
withi P“ boa t Petrol, which will come off
J “ ten days at Baltimore.
IHofning fietofi.
CHICAGO 3 GREAT CHIMB.
The Special Grand Jury Begins Its In
vestigation.
Chicago, June 15.—The special grand
jury in the Cronin case begun its fourth
days’ session this morning, and the indica
tions are that several days’ yet will be con
sumed before the jury is prepared to make
its final report. A long array of witnesses
have been subpoenaed, and the jury evinces
a determination to inquire into the minutest
details of the case.
Judge Tuloy received the following letter
this morning:
„ Pittsburg, June 13,1889.
Judge Tuley, Court House:
Dear Sir— l am in Pittsburg. lam the man
who rented the cottage in Lakeview. Revelle
& Cos. sold the furniture to me. If you know
me. I am Williams, the man that threw Cronin
in the catch-basin. I haven’t much time to
write. Yours, William Williams,
9 Garfield street, Pittsburg.
FITZGERALD SPEAKS OUT.
P. W. Dune of Penkin, 111., formerly of
Chicago, received to-day a letter in re
sponse, he says, to a “request for the presi
dent of the Irish National League of Amer
ica, to speak out publicly." Dune claims to
be the person who made the origi
nal charges against Alexander Sulli
van as tar back as 1882. The
year following Sullivan was elected as first
president of the league in this country.
Dune this eveningexpressed dissatisfaction
with the tone of the letter from Sullivan’s
successor, intimating that it was not as rad
ical as was desired. The letter is as fol
lows:
Lincoln, Neb., June 14,1889.
P. \V. Pune. Esq.:
Dear Sir: The memhers of the Irish National
Land League of America are law-abiding citi
zens of the United States, and hold murder in
as much abhorenca as any other element of the
community can possibly do so. Honest men
are not necessitated to protest their honesty,
and the league has not need to pro
test its sorrow of murder. None but
those whose wish is father to the thought would
for and instant couple the name of the Irish
National League of America with crime of any
kind, much less with the deplorable tragedy of
which your city has been the theater. There is,
therefore, no necessity for protests or
apologies of dnjr kind from the
Irish National League of America in connection
with the murder of Dr. Cronin. A foul crime
has been committed, the laws of the country
have been outraged, arid it is the duty of the
officers of the law to find out and punish crimi
nals. Yours faithfuly,
John Fitzgerald,
President Irish National Lriague of America.
TEXAS’ FATAL ROW.
Four White Men and Five Negroes
Were Killed.
Chicago, June 15.—A dispatch from
Austin, Tex., says: “There are conflicting
reportes about the cause of the bloody
shooting affray which occurred eighteen
miles southeast of this city Thursday even
ing, in Which four white men and five
negroes were killed and many others
wounded. From one version it appears
that in the neighborhood where the trouble
occurred a colored justice of the peace,
uamed Orange Wickes. and a colored con
stable, named Isaac Wilson, were recently
elected. The justice had issued a
warraut tor one A. D. Litten,
(white), and it was put into the hands of
Wilson. Soon after the latter met Litten
and informed him that ho had a warrant
for his arrest and proceeded to read it.
Litten remarked that it was no use to read
the warrant, for he would not be arrested
by a nigger. Quite a crowd had
gathered, and Wilson’s friends advised that
he place the warrant in the hands of a
white constable. This he did and Litten
was arrested, but declared that he would
not be tried before a colored justice.
HIS PROTEST OF NO AVAIL.
“Notwithstanding his protest, he was car
ried before Justice Wickes, whose court was
in session. The room was crowded with
blacks and whites. In the court room Lit
ten was very abusive, and finally words led
to blows, and th n to the use of six-shooters
and Winchesters. Justice Wickes and Lit
ten were riddled with bullets, and died im
mediately. A colored constable was also
killed, as was a negro uamed Bell. A spec
tator was filled with lead,and died soon alter.
Houston Moore, a colored boy, was also
killed by a stray bullet. Alexander Nolan
and George Sohopf, both white men, were
shot down and instantly killed, a3 was
another white man whose name could not
be learned. The affair created intense ex
citement in the neighborhood, and it is said
that at least 100 armed men gathered on the
ground ready to renew the fight, but all
has been quiet so far as known here.
Sheriff White of this city sent a strong
force to the scene of the trouble yesterday,
and he anticipates no further fighting.”
BARRY'S NEW LABOR ORDER.
It is Radically Different from the
Knights of Labor.
Chicago, June 15.—The organized com
mittee of the new labor organization known
as the Brotherhood of United Labor met
last night. T. B. Barry presided. It wa3
reported that labor organizations represent
ing about 7,000 membors had signified their
intention of uniting with the new order.
Mr. Barry presented his plan of govern
ment for the new order, which is a radical
departure from the methods used by the
Knights of Labor. All power is vested in
the local organizations, and the annual con
vention and executive officers can only ad vise
measures, having no power to formulate
a policy of their own. They cannot order
a strike or draw one off, nor can they levy
an assessment of any kind, but may recom
mend one, though they cannot enforce it.
The organization contemplates local, cen
tral, state and not national branches. John
E. Abies of Davenport, la., and George E.
Detwilor of Chicago were elected delegates
to the world’s congress of labor which is to
meet in Paris July 14.
ALASKA’S BOUNDARY.
Two Parties Sent by the Government
to Make a Survey.
San Francisco, June 15.—The Alaska’s
Commercial Company's steamer Bertha
sailed yesterdiy morning for Alaska. She
took with her two parties of men from the
United States coast and geodetic sur
vey, who will define the 141st meridian
part of the boundary line between Alaska
and British Columbia. The work will extend
from Mount St. Elias to the Artie ocean,
and will take eighteen months. One party,
under J. E. McGrath, will survey the
Yukon river, and the other, under "J. H.
Turner, the Porcupine river. Accompany
ing the expedition is Prof. J. H. Russell,
sent by the United States Geographical So
ciety and Smithsonian Institute, who will
examine the whole region from a geo
graphical standpoint.
Exports of Specie.
New York, June 15.—The exports of
specie from the port of New York during
the past week amounted to $4,675,493, of
which $4,530,343 was ia gold aud $145,150
in silver. All the silver and $4,661,902 in
gold went to Europe and $13,571 in gold
went to South America. Of the gold
shipped to Europe $4,513,272 went to
France. The imports of specie for the
week amounted to $34,855, of which $25,294
was ia cold aud $9,561 ia silver. I
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1889.
BLOWING PP THE DEBRIS
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE BY
THE EXPLOSIONB.
Complaints From Several Quarters
NV ill Result in Much Lighter Charges
Being Used—Eight Bodies Recovered
Under the Ruins on Frldav—Prog
ress of the Relief Work.
Johnstown, Pa., Juue 15. —Sunshine
succeeded the morning showers, and this
was the first bright noontide Johnstown has
seen for a week. On the general principle
that rain cannot fall perpetually, several
thousand men, who are anxious to clean up
the ruined city, are hoping for fair weather
from this on. The Conemaugh is swollen
and its rushing current serves to re
mind Johnstown of the day preceding
the flood. The water is an advantage
however, as it carries away a gi'eat portion
of the impurities lodged along the river
banks. The engineers resorted to 300-pound
dynamite cartridges to clear up that por
tion of the wreck known as the raft. This
morning the first charge of that size fright
ened the town, and shook houses. Half of
the windows in the Millvale schoolhouse
were shattered, and in Prospect, just
opposite, chimneys came rattling
down upon the housetops. The next
charge was diminished somewhat.
Adjt. Gen. Hastings was in
formed to-day that the Philadelphia
delegation of Gov. Beaver’s commission
had started west this morning. Their mis
sion is understood to be the distribution of
the governor’s $1,000,050. This morning
tbe state board of health began a sanitary
survey of the towns of the Conemaugh
valley from South Fork to Nineveh. A com
plete census of families and a report of the
oondition of health and living will be made.
OBJECTIONS TO THE BLASTS.
Maj. Phillips’ dynamiters have had
Johnstown in a state of nervous terror all
day, and this evening General Manager
John Fulton, of the Cambria Iron Com
pany, dictated a forcible protest to Gov.
Beaver, stating that the mills and offices of
the company were being ruiued by
the blasts, that Adjt. Gen.
Hastings had paid no attention
to two requests for it3 discontinuance, and
that the state would bo held responsible for
any further damage done. The message
was filed in the telegraph office with in
structions that it be put upon thq wire as
soon as another blast was fired. In tbe
meantime, Adjt. Gen. Hastings had gaiued
communication with Maj. Phillips, aud an
order tn discontinue blasting went into ef
fect. The me sage did not go the governor,
but General Manager Fulton showed
it to the Associated Press representative,
and said: “I do not hold Gen. Hastings re
sponsible for this dynamiting. It is the
hight of nonsense, however, to make such
heavy blasts so near valuable buildings.
My superintendent reports that the damp
walls of the mills are giving way under tho
shocks, and here in my own office the ceil
ing has opened a quarter of an inch within
the past three hours. Buildings in Johns
town aro in too delicate a condition to be
trifled with by dynamiters.”
TERRIFIC EXPLOSIONS.
Maj. Phillips has been engaged since
Wednesday in blowing out the wreckage in
the channel of the C'onomaugh above the
Pennsylvania railroad stone bridge. He
was anxious to have passage for the water
by this evening, and to that end put in a
500-pound blast of dynamite at noon. The
blast was placed under two buildings, one
of which was lying upon the other, and
both of them covered with logs. The ex
plosion was terrific, and one log, large
enough for a mainmast, was hurled 300 feet
in the air. Tne next blast uot being placed
so deep, was a 400-pounder. This one did
all the damage. The report was awful, and
the strongest houses in the city trembled
like leaves. All the glass was blown out of
the windows of the Odd Fellows’ hall, which
seems to have stood over a stratum of un
usual disturbance. In the same neighbor
hood the rear wall of a half wrecked Cath
olic church fell upon the Baltimore and
Ohio tracks, blocking them. Chimneys
rattled down all about, and dishes were
broken iu houses in Kernville, half a mile
away.
When asked about the mattor, Maj. Phil
lips said: “We have used only 2,000 pounds
of dynamite to-day. I have ordered several
tons of it. The charges will not bo so heavy
herealter. I bad no idea that we were do
ing any damage. So far as I know, no per
sons were injured.”
Soon after the last blast, which opened
the channel of the river, logs formed a
gorge. A gang of lumbermen were put to
work with cant-hooks to clear the stream.
CLOTHING FROM MORTON’S CHILDREN.
Adjt. Gen. Hastings is in receipt of the
following:
Ei.lersi.ie, I
f ptniNECLiffe-on-Hudson, June 10,1889. f
My Dear General: On my return to my
country home I find that my little girls, from
Bto 14 years of age, have been hard at work
since the terrible flood at Johnstown, making
articles of clothing for the poor, homeless
children who have survived the recent floods in
your state. lam forwarding to-day by the
American Express Company, free of
charge, 127 articles of wearingJapparel, as
per list inclosed, made by their hands, or pur
chased with their own money, with some of
their dresses. My children will feel greatly ob
liged if you will cause the clothing to be distrib
uted among the little sufferers by the recent
calamity, for whom they feel the deepet sympa
thy. I am, dear general, very raithully yours,
Levi P. Morton.
EIGHT BODIES RECOVERED.
Eight bodies were recovered from the
ruins yesterday, three being identified.
They were William B. Hess, a prominent
merchant, fcapt. O’Connel, an old resident,
and Mary Hollsman, his housekeeper. The
bodies of an elderly lady and a fair young
girl were found clasped in each other’s arms
and reclining on a sofa. The others were
so charred as to be unrecognizable.
AN ENGINEERING FEAT.
The opening of the wedgo-like raft above
the stone bridge was an engineering feat.
For ten days several hundred men had been
at work upon the heterogeneous matter,
but only 60 feet of channel nad been cleared
when, on Wednesday, William Phillips of
Lewiston and a force of dynamiters were
put on the work. Six acres of solidly
packed wreckage wedged between the river
banks by a hydraulic force that cannot be
estimated, have in three days melted away.
Large frame houses, hundreds of logs and
monster trees were tangled up and bound
together with wire and iron bars brought
down with the flood. The scene this after
noon when the great mass moved down the
river wa3 a remarkable one. The crowds
that lined the shores and now famous stone
bridge raised a shout that was heard the
length and breadth of the valley.
PHILLIPS’ WINNINGS.
Maj. Phillips won a basket of champagne
and a suit of clothes, besides many con
gratulations. He is the same engineer who
cleaned up the wreck in Pittsburg after the
riots in 1877. The west bank of the Coae
maugh is again a furnace of fire to-night.
The wreckage torn up by the dynamite to
day was piled up and the torch applied, and
the whole valley is illuminated. Adjt. Gen.
Hastings was complimented by Gov. Beaver
to-night on bis success in opening the chan
nel.
The Philadelphia contingent of tho gov
ernor s $1,000,000 loan commission did not
arrive to-day, aud it ia now said that they
will defer thrir visit until the latter part of
next week.
The state board of health issued a bulletin
to-day. Dr. Groff says there is but little
change in the situation, and all that ia
necessary is a continuance of strict sani
tary supervision. Measles are very preva
lent among the children, and the Bedford
street hospital has two cases of pneumonia.
Bronchitis and diarrhoea aro very general
among the workmen. There ia ro sickness
of consequence among the militia.
Thirteen bodies were taken out to-day.
There is a slight falling off in the number
of prescriptions issued at the hospitals. Dr.
Fry of the the state board of health iu
*oected the river towns as far down as
Bang Hollow to-day. The worst discovery
made was tho large number of dead horses
and cows floating iu the river. The dyna
mite explosions have brought the carcases
to the suriaoe.
temporary sheds.
Several carloads of lumber were delivered
to-day and it was dealt out to merchants
who wish to resume business. Rough sheds
are already being erected in the heart of
the city, to be used as stores. Among the
buildings to go up is an office for the bur
gess. Twenty-two cars are en route
from Grand Rapids, Mich. This will
also go toward putting merchants
on their feet again. The city
wholesale dealers are offering liberal
inducements. A Rochester soap firm which
had large dealings here to-day canceled all
debts of Johnstown merchants and offered
to give them fresh stocks on long credits.
Sadie S. Ludington of Rochester, N. Y.,
arrived this evening in behalf of the Rad
Cross Society. That organization is doing
a notable work here.
There will not be a pick raised in Johns
town or vicinity to-morrow. The Sabbath
will be well kept. All tho clergymen in
the city and a number especially engaged
will conduct open-air services.
GOV. BEAVER’S PROCLAMATION.
Harrisburg, Pa., June 15.—Today
Gov. Beaver issued a proclamation iu refer
ence to tho request of the state board of
health which made an official report declar
ing the drift in the Conemaugh river at
Johnstown and at other points in and about
said locality a public nuisance, aud direct
ing said nuisance to be immediately abated.
To this end he directs that men and means
be immediately employed and continued at
work until the nuisance has been entirely
abated and danger to the public health aud
safety removed, and he pledges the faith of
the state to provide the necessary funds
therefor.
Tho total amount of the contributions re
ceived by Gov. Beaver for the flood suf
ferers to date is about $700,009.
NEW YORK’S GENEROSITY.
New York, June 15.—Mayor Grant this
morning transferred tho work of receiving
subscriptions for the Johnstown sufferers
to J. Edward Simmons, president of the
Fourth National Bank, treasurer of the
fund. At 3 o’clock this afternoon the total
sum received at the bank was $405,749 85.
The Master Plumber’s Association to-day
contributed SI,OOO aud the Fifth Avenue
Bank SSOO.
WASHINGTON’S RECORD.
Washington, June 15.— Sixty thousand
dollars is the amount of Washington’s con
tributions for the flood sufferers to date,
$53,000 being in money. For a population
of 225,000, 75,000 bring colored, this is re
garded as remarkable. The carriage horses
of E. M. Chapin, a winter resident here,
who lost very heavily in Johnstown, were
donated by him for tho relief fund, aud
were sold at auction to-day for $4lO.
A REMITTANCE FROM DUBLIN.
Dublin, June 15.—fl'he lord mayor to-day
remitted to America £I,OOO for the boneiit
of the Johnstown sufferers.
A SEA LAWYER’S DISMISSAL.
The Unique Case of Ensign Ormsby
Finally Disposed ot
Washington, June 15.—The case of En
sign George F. Ormsby, which was finally
disposed of to-day by his dismissal from tho
navnl service, is the first occurring in a
number of years which has had t hat result.
Ensign Ormsby was regarded in the service
as “a sea lawyer,” and he greatly vexed the
department by his lawsuits and erratic oon
duct. The formal charges upon which he was
tried by court-martial were disobedience of
orders and clisrepect toward the Secretary
and Acting Secretary of the Navy. It ap
pears from the record that when he was
ordered from Richfield Springs and later
from Cincinnati to join the Monongahela,
then under orders to proceed to Samoa, he
pleaded illness, and when the department
refused to accept this excuse he disregarded
his orders, proceeded south and
asked to have his resignation ac
cepted. In some of his letteis addressed
to the Secretary of the Navy he complains
that he was being humiliated contrary to
the revised statutes, aud requests the secre
tary either to leave the decision of his case
to the civil courts, where he had begun an
action looking to revocation of his orders,
or to a court-martial.
PLACED UNDER ARREST.
Subsequently he was found at Los An
geles. Cal., placed under arrest and con
veyed to Mare I-land, where he was tried
by Icourt-martial. In one of bis letters
Ensign O msby says that Commodore Hur
mony, acting secretary, has made untrue
and scandalous statements about his case,
which were contrived to serve as false evi
dence before the medical board.
This failing of its purpose, too en
sign next attacked Secretary Whit
ney, directly charging him with
neglect or omission to carry out the laws
and regulations, and with stopping him
from prosecuting his law suit to a just con
clusion by ordering him away from the
country. Of all of the charges and specifi
cations the court-martial found him guilty,
and upon the secretary’s approval of the
sentence, the President to-day formally
dismissed Ensign Ormsby from the naval
service.
HARRISON’S GIFTS.
Several Consuls General and Two
Consuls Appointed.
Washington, June 15.—The President
to-day made the following appointmeuts:
To be Consuls General— Joseph A.
Leona** of Minnesota, at Shanghai;
Wakbwei.d F. Frte of Maine,at Halifax;
Zachary T. Sweeny of Indiana, at Con
stantinople; Oliver H. Dockery of North
Carolina, at Rio De Janeiro; Oliver H.
Simons of Colorado, at St. Petersburg.
To be Consuls— George W. Roosevelt
of Pennsylvania, at Brussels; Levi W.
Brown of Ohio, at Glasgow.
Down the Potomac.
Washington. June 15.—The President
and Secretaries Blaine and Windom went
down the Pototnao river this morning in
Posmnster General Wanarnaker’s yacht
Restless. The vessel wiil go down as far as
Chesapeake bay, and lie at anchor during
Sunday and return to Washington Monday.
Acceptances of Bonds.
Washington, June 15.—The bond offer
ings to-day aggregated $81,150. The Sec
retary accepted $80,150 4* at 129 and 4>s
at mu.
AT THE TOMBAT POTSDAM
ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF
EMPEROR FREDERICK.
All the Members of the German Royal
Family at the Memorial Exeroleee—
Events In the Balkans Not Maturing
as Rapidly aa Was Feared.
(Copyrighted 1689 by the New York Associated
Press.)
Berlin, June 15. —T0-day being the an
niversary of the death of Emperor Fred
erick a memorial service was held in the
Friedenskiroh at Potsdam. The exercises
were conducted by Dr. VYindell. AU the
mombers of tbe royal family, ministers and
high officials were present. Tho choir of
the Church of tbe Twelve Apostles sung the
late emperor's favorite hymns. The em
peror and empress placed wreaths upon
the tomb, and remained kneeling beside it
for a long time.
The lieichsa nzeiger dwells upon the recol
lection of Emperor Frederick’s fruitful labor
for tho empire, “which, in royal circles, In
German and Prussian history and in the
hearts of all Germans have left ineffaceable
traces, wnich will ever be a source of patri
otic inspiration." A majority of tho papers
make respectful and reverential allusions
te the anniversary, but a fow revive the un
seemly strife of a year ago.
The shah to-day, instead of paying his
expected visit to Krupp’s Essen Works,
spent another day at Wilhelmlshohe in
specting all the points of interest, including
the room which Napoleon 111. occupied
after Sedan.
EVENTS IN THE BALKANS.
The statement that M. Pei siani, the Rus
sian minister at Belgrade, had proposed a
Russo-Servian convention caused uneasi
ness here. The receipt of semi-official
telegrams from Belgrade to-night, declar
ing the story unfounded, has tended to re
store confidence.
Events in the Balkans do not mature as
rapidly as it was feared they would. That
alarm is felt is evidenced by the removal of
the official press attacks upon Hussiau
credit during the past week, which reacted
unfavorably upon German securities. The
Russian minister of finance was negotiating
with leading houses hore, including the
Disconto-Gesellsohaft, in relation to tho
conversion of certain private Russian rail
ways. Tho North German Gazette point
edly referred to the proposed opera
tions as illegal, and evon the liberal
Vossische Zeitung warned government
investors to unload Russian stock as speedily
as possible, in readiness for the inevitable
life and death struggle between Russia and
Germany. The committee of the Bourse is
expected to deliver an opinion to-morrow
on tho legality of tho proposed conversion,
but it is felt that the government would
not have exposed Gorman capital to heavy
losses except to avert still greater dangers,
and that had Balkan affairs boon peaceful
nothing would have been heard of tho ille
gality of the conversion scheme.
The Servian government has refused to
renew its commercial treaty with Austria-
Hungary, which expiree in 1890. Every
thing indicates that the Russian party in
Belgrade, confident of its ascendancy, is
working to effect some definite aim, and
that its schemes can only end in precipitat
ing war or in peaceable partition of the
Balkan states between Austria aud Russia.
THE SWISS INCIDENT.
It is expected that a compromise will be
effected in the Wohlgemuth affair. Italy
and England have not yet spoken on the
subject, but should they support the de
mand of the other powers Switzerland will
likely remove the reproach of harboring
revolutionists.
Asa result of the dispute between
the Prussian government and the
Vatican there was no German
among the dardinals recently ap
pointed. The Vatican favored Archbishop
[Cremmuz of Cologno, but Prussia wanted
Ur. Kopp of Breslau. Tne pope was will
ing to create both of them cardinals, but
owing to the persistent Prussian opposition
to Archbishop Krementz negotiations on
the subject wore broken off. The carpen
ters of Frankfort have decided to strike.
The committee having in charge the fund
for the relief of the Couemaugh valley suf
ferers will meet on Monday.
"BEB NAPLES AND DIE.' 1
King Humbert Will Try to Have the
City Made Healthier.
Naples, June 15.—King Humbert, ac
companied by Queen Marguerite and the
crown prince, assisted at tbe inauguration
to-day of the work of improving the sani
tary condition of this city. They
were given an enthusiastic reception.
Under the plaus adopted, the poorest
districts of the eity, where the cholera
epidemic of 1888 made such ravages, will
bo thoroughly renovated. Seventeen
thousand houses will be demolished, new
streets will be erected, and a main street
from the Central depot will intersect the
district, which now contains the lowest and
most pestilential dwellings. It will take ten
years to complete the work.
GERMANY’S EMPEROR.
A Sensation Over an Alleged Letter
From the Prince of Wale*.
Vienna, June 15. —A sensation has been
caused here by the announcement that the
A ’ouvelle Revue will shortly publish a letter
purporting to be from the Prince of Wales
to King Leopold, in which tbe prince states
that Emperor William’s body is seriously at
tacked by disease; that he cannot get
sleep save what drugs procure
for him, that he suffers from intense head
aches, compelling him to resort to mor
phine, and that he easily loses his temper.
The letter continues: “I shall never for
give or forget his treatment of me on the
occasion of the funeral of his father, nor
the insults printed in tbe Raichanzeiger.
Prosecution of Gen. Boulanger.
Paris, June 15. —Tho senate has for
warded to the public prosecutor a report on
the case of Gen. Boulanger. The senate ad
vises that proceedings be at once begun
against Gen. Boulanger. Tbe letters
from Gen. Boulanger to the
Boulangist national committee, which
were found in the house of
Mm. Bonlou yesterday, have not yet been
examin'd. Deputy Dreyfus has wiihdrawn
his proposal that the sum of 3,000,000 francs
be added to the estimates for the secret ser
vice.
A Russian Denial.
St. Petersburg, June 15.—The Journal
do St. Petereburg makes emphatic denial
of the alarmist reports circulated by foreign
newspapers attributing war like intentions
to itussia.
French Exposition Prizes.
Paris, June 15.—The awarding of prizes
at the exhibition will taka place Sept. 30.
Visit of the Shah to Pari*.
Paris, June 15.—The Shah of Persia will
arrive in Paris July 20.
STRIKE OP THE CABMEN.
The Government Endeavoring to Ef
fect a Compromise.
Paris, June 15.—1n the Chamber of
Doputies tbil evening M. Baely* attempted
to discuss the strike of the Paris cabmen.
M. Constant), minister of the interior, ob
jected to present consideration of the mat
ter, and moved that the discussion be post
poned until Monday. The motion was re
jected ly a voto of 289 to 212. M. Basly
thereupon demanded that the government
compel the cah owners so concede the de
mands of the strikers.
M. Coustans explained that the govern
ment was doing its utmost to effect a settle
ment between the proprietors and their
employes. The government, he declared,
would not tolerate any rioting. He then
moved that the subject be dismissed, and
the motion was lost by a vote of 287 to 233.
A motion calling upon the government to
continue its mediation was carried by a
vote of 227 to 224
WOHLGEMUTH’S EXPULSION.
Switzerland Replies to Germany’s
Note About the Matter.
Berlin, June 15.—Switzerland has sent
a reply to Germany regarding the oase of
the German police inspector, Wohlgemuth,
who was expelled from Switzerland on a
charge of bribing a Swiss to act as agent
provocateur. Switzerland upholds the ex
pulsion of Herr Wohlgemuth and reminds
Germany that a social hill regarding
foreign police has already boon submitted
to the Swiss chamber.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Hundreds of People Have a Narrow
Escape.
New York, Juno 15.—While rain was
falling in torrents this evening and neigh
boring doorways wore crowded with people,
seeking shelter, the Homan Catholic
ohurch of the Immaculate Conception
was struck by lightning. The bolt
struck the wooden cupola, soudlng its
sides in splinters to the side walk, shat
tering the roof, but loaving its
golden cross unharmed. Beveral priests
were conducting confessionals at the time,
and nearly 100 persons, mostly women,
were iu the church. The shook was plainly
felt and the women wore frightened. They
were dismissed at once by the pastor. Not
until those in the church passed out among
the excited throng in the street did they
learn that the bolt had struck above them.
No one was severely hurt. An eye-wituess
said that immediately after tho shook two
large hails of fire fell from the roof to the
ground. The cornice was traversed by tho
fluid, apd at one corner a stone weighing
300 pounds was moved several inches. The
damage will amount to suverubbundred
dollars. Heavy thunder storms prevailed
all over Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey and New England this afternoon,
and considerable damage was done to tele
phone wires, trees, plants, etc.
LIGHTNING STARTS FIRES.
Jersey City, June 15.—Two serious
fires, both caused by lightning, occurred
here this morning. A bolt struok a large
tank in the oil yard of the National Books
(Storage Company at Cavan Point. The
tank was 00 feet in diameter, 30 feet In
hight, and contained about 200,000 gallons
of crude petroleum, which biased up like a
huge torch. The force of the oxplosion
hurled tho top of the tank about 60 feet in
the air. It fell upon the railroad track in
tho yard >b mt 20 feet from the tank.
Yard engine N0.3 was passing on the track at
tho time nnd ran into the cover before the
engineer could stop it. The locomotive
was thrown from the track and bndlv dam
aged. No one was seriously hurt." The
tank cost about $15,000 to construct .and the
loss on the oil is estimated at SIO,OOO more.
The other fire occurred in tho heart of tho
lumber district in the lower section of the
city, and for a time it caused much anxiety.
Property worth millions of dollars was en
dangered, but only about SIO,OOO worth was
destroyed.
TENNESSEE ELECTIONS.
Result of the Investigation la the
Tenth District.
Memphis, Tenn., June 15.—The United
States grand jury, which bos been investi
gating the manner in which elections in the
Tenth congressional district have been con
ducted during the past four years, submit
ted its report to the court this morning.
Indictments were returned against neurly
all the judges and clerks, some 200 in num
ber, of the last election in this
congressional district. The particular
offenso for which meat of these men are in
dicted is for not returning the poll list and
count to the clerks of tbe circuit courts of
their respective counties, as tbe law re-
2 [litres. The balance ef them are indicted
or taking election books away from the
polling places to conduct the count. When
Badenili and others were indicted here at
the last term of the United State* circuit
court for refusing to allow an
elector to be present at the
count of the rote, the judgment of
the court was that no offense bas been com
mitted upon the technical ground that tbe
court was conduct' and in a private room, and
that the judges had a right to exclude any
one. It is for counting the vote at places
other than tbe poling places that many of
these indictments are found.
Legitime’s Claims.
Washington, Juno 15.—The Haytlan
legation here received this noon the follow
ing cable from the secretary of war at Port
au-Prince:
Port-au-Prince, via Mole St. Nicholas, 1
June 14,1889. f
Hayiian Contul, New York:
The situation is good. The reports of Nordlst
(Hy oolite's i successes are false. Perfect Iran
quality reigns in the west and south. All our
hues are efficiently guarded.
In Danger of Lynching.
Sandersville, Ga., June 15.—News has
been received her* that there Is danger of
Bell, the murderer of Evans at Matthews,
being taken from the Louisville jail, where
be is confined, and lyncned.and accordingly
Judge J. K. Hiues to-day telegraphed for
him to be taken to Macon under a strong
guard and placed in safe keeping there.
Murder and fciulcicle.
St. Louis, June 15.—At Kirkville, Mo.,
yesterday morning, Frank Propst, an ex
school commissioner, was shot dead by his
brother, Joseph Propst, who then put a
bullet through his own heart. No cause
can be assigned, save that tbe murderer
and suicide was temporarily insane.
A Market Falls In.
Citt o Mexico, June 15.—The roof of
the Merced market fell in yesterday, bury
ing nearly forty persons. Eight dead and
fourteen wounded have already been taken
out. Holdiers are romoving the rubbish
and searching for bodies.
A Cyclone in Cuba.
Havana, June 15.—A cyclone swept
over tbe southwest portion of the island
to-day.
Black Vomit at Vera Crujs,
C:tt or Mexico, June 15.—Tbe black
vomit has mode its appearance at Vera
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CAPITAL OF THE STATE.
THERETURNS OF TWO RAILROADS
LARGELY INCREASED.
Tho East and West and the Alabama
Groat Southern the Alleged Under
valuers—Last of a Prosecution for
Bending Obscene Matter Through
the Mails—Other Items.
Atlanta, Ga., June 15. —The Hast and
IV est railroad and the Alabama Greatt
Southern, whose tax returns were rejected
by the comptroller, have been appraised by
a board of assessors appointed by the gov
ernor. The valuation in the report filed
to-day shows a considerable increase. Tha
board appraised the property of the East
and West in Georgia at $217,125. It was
returned by the company at $161,955. The
hoard also found a private telegraph line in
operation not returned, which they ap
praised at $1,250. Tho board appraised
the property of the Alabama Great South
ern In this state at $390,479, which the com
pany returned at $264,084.
OBSCENE MAIL MATTER.
hB - c^. of . the eovernraent vs. Alvin H.
Gall of Winchester, N. H., was nol pressed
iu the federal o >urt to-day. The defendant
was charged with sending obscene matter
through the mails under the following cir
cumstances: Call left his home for a trip
through Georgia about two years ago. H*
heard that W. C. Hardy was paving atten
tion to bis wife. Whoa he reached Dalton
he stopped off and wrote Hardy
a letter. Tho letter was a very
threatening one and was couched
In the most obscene terms.
Call continued hls trip and when it was
finished returned home, but was arrested
as soon as be stepped from the train on a
ohnrge of sending obscene matter through
the mails. Ho gave a SB,OOO bond which
was forfeited, the money being paid in
cash to the court at Atlanta. The charge
against Call was still standing, and Hardy,
who was still attentive to Mrs. Call, began
tak ing • t P to have Call rearrestad, at
which he packed up and went to Europe,
leaving his wife behind, and just s2<oo out
of pocket for writing an obscene letter.
A RAILROAD MORTGAGE.
A mortgage was recorded to-day in the
clerk’s office from the Georgia, Carolina
ami Northern Railroad Company to the
Mercantile and Trust Deposit Company of
Baltimore. Tho mortgage covers the entire
line from Atlanta to Monroe, and provides
for “a continuous line of railroad extend
ing from the city of Atlanta through the
state to Athens in the state of Georgia, and
through tho towns of Abhevillo, Green
wood, Clinton and Chester in the state of
South Carolina to a point on tho Carolina
Central railroad at or near Monroe
in the state of North Carolina,
and by means of the Carolina
Central railroad, the Raleigh and Gaston
Atr-Line railroad to connect with the
Raleigh and Gaston railroad and the Sea
board and Roanoke railroad, so as to form
a continuous line of railroad from the city
of Atlanta to the city of Portsmouth, in
tho state of Virginia.” Tho mortgage pro
vides that it is to secure 5.360 bonds of
SI,OOO each, to be used in the complotiou and
equipment of the railroad.
A bill of injunction was filed to-day by
J. C. Jenkins against the Atlanta and
Florida railroad to restrain the company
from issuing 500 feet of right of way in the
city limits, alleging that the road has not
paid for it and is Insolvent. The hearing
will occur next Saturday.
OFF FOR ATHENS.
Senator Dupree of the Fourteenth dis
trict, president pro tem. of the Senate and
chairman of the Senate committee to visit
the university commencement, went
through to Athens to-day. The other room
bers of the committee are: Senators Gibbs,
Harper, Lylle and McCarthy, and Repre
sentatives Howell, Felton of Bartow, Smith
of Decatur, Clifton, Fleming, Perry, Pat
terson, Humphreys of Scnven, Tatum,
Twitty, Gilbert and Johnson of Floyd.
CHARGED WITH OUTRAGE.
Tho police arrested this afternoon Philip
Bbell, a negro, suspected of attempted out
rago on Mias Burdett near Ponca do Leon
springs Thursday. The officers carried the
negro before Miss Burdett and she imme
diately identified him. The presence of tha
negro created considerable excitement in
the neighborhood and he was hurried in to
town to the station to avoid trouble. Ha
denies the crime.
A FIGHT OVER A CHILD.
Cincinnati Haa Need of a King Solo
mon's Wisdom.
Cincinnati, June 15.—A sensational
scene was enacted this morning in Judge
Outcalt’s court, of common pleas. He has
bad on hearing and under consideration for
several months an uuusual habeas corpus
cose, where two women claim to be the
mother of a child for whom a writ was
issued. Miss Kate Sc halier averred that
she gave birth to an illegitimate child, and
placed it in tbe hands of Mrs. Humser,
a midwife, to dispose of, and that
Mrs. Humser placed it ia the
family of W. J. White to be
adopted. Subsequently, Mis* Schaller
wished to recover poseesslon of her child,
and applied to Mrs.’ White, when that lady
informed her that the baby she had was not
an adopted child, but was her own. The
testimony before tbe court was most con
flicting, but Mr. and Mrs. White brought
many witnesses to show that the bnby was
theirs. They have had it in charge during
the trial. To-day the judge was to render
his decision, but Mrs. White appeared in
court without the child.
REFUSES TO PRODUCE IT,
When asked by the court where it was
Mrs. White, in a determined manner,
answered: “Judge Outcalt, I was submitted
to a severe examination the other day. I
understand that you were going to decide
against me, and I have protected my child.
I know the consequences and I am hers
to abide by them, and if I have to stay in
prison ten years I am satisfied, so at the
end of that time I shall have my
darling.” This reply, of course,
made a sensation. Her attorney
promptly disclaimed having advised this
course of action and asked that his client
have time to reflect. The court said that if
Mrs. White did not produce the child she
must suffer tho consequences of contempt
of court, and he allowed her until noon to
consider. The resolute mother for two
hours was urged by her attorney and
friends to produce the child, but at the end
of the time she remained firm and went
bravely to jail under the sentence of the
court for contempt. Meantime toe judge
withholds his decision on the morits of th
cose.
Cigar Manufacturers Assign. V
Reading, Pa., June 15.—The Reading
Co-operative Cigar Manufacturing Com
pany .started several years ago by a number
of cigarniakers who were at the time on a
strike, was levied upon by the sheriff to
day. Immediately afterward the manage
ment made an assignment for the benefit of
their creditors. A number of stookhoidsrs
worked iu tho factory.