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< THE MORNING NEWS. ,
, Establish ec 1850. Incorporated 1888.1
I J. H. ESTILL, President, f
SIR CDMMING CONVICTED.
the JURY odt only fifteen
MINUTES BEFORE RETURNING.
Every Man Against the Plaintiff Even
Before the Cnarge of the Lord Chief
justice Was Delivered-The i-ympa
thy of the Crowd With S.r Cum
minff.
London, June 9.—On this, the seventh,
nd it was hoped the last day of the famous
baccarat suit, some very familiar scenes
were witnessed outside and inside the court.
Possibly there may have been a change in
the composition of the crowds drawn to the
new law courts in the hop* of being present
at the end of this sensational trial, but to all
general and outward appearauces the same
jeople who were around and about the court
room Monday, June 1, were there again to
day. though this morning a strong repre
sentation from the theatrioal world was
also to be seen sprinkled here and there
through the audience. The Prinoe of
Wales, to the disappointment of many, was
absent. He was at the Ascot races.
A SENSATIONAL. INCIDENT.
The proceedings opened with a most sen
sational incident. The lord chief justice
had hardly taken his Beat when Gea Owen
Williams stepped to the front of the benoh,
and said, his face pale with emotion and his
voice husky with feeling, “My lord, I have
tu ask your protection. Yesterday Sir Ed
ward Clarke thought proper—”
Here the solicitor general, Sir Edward
Clarke, sprang to his feet, and, interrupting
den. Williams, exclaimed: “I ask your
lordship to interfere, and that Gen. Will
iams should not be allowed to make a state
ment, as he has not the privilege of doiug
90.”
To thU Gen. Williams hotly replied in a
ringing voice, all trace of huskiness having
disappeared under the influence of the
angry feelings whioh animated him, “I
was accused of an abominable charge,
and—”
REFUSED A HEARING.
Here the lord chief justice interfered. Bay
ing: ”1 do not remember the expression,
but i do not think that you can be allowed
to speak.”
Gen. Williams persisted in being heard,
lemurking angrily: “We were accused of
■acrificing au innocent man. This state-
I meat was made without any evidence being
brought forward for its justifleation.”
Lord Coleridge, again interrupting Gen.
Williams, remarked witn considerable
warmth, “I cannot hear any statement
from you,” and immediately commenced
bis summing up, while Gen. Williams re
tired, frowning and greatly discontented, to
to his seat, where ho reoeived the condolence
, of friends who had come with him to court
in order to hear him defend himself from
I the allegations made yesterday by the
I solicitor general iu the latter’s summing up
I for the plaintiff.
JUSTICE COLERIDGE’S CHARGE,
i! The lord chief justice at the opening of
I bis speech explained to the jury at length
I the difference in an action for slander, as
I this one is. and an action for libel. His
I lordship added that if the jury found that
I the defendants had spoken the truth their
I verdict should be for the defendants. But
lif the jury thought broadly that
I the charges they made were not true, and
I that Sir William Gordon Cumming did not
I do anything wrong while playing baccarat
I at Tranby Croft in September last, then
I their verd'ict must be for the plaintiff. J us-
I ties Coleridge then entreated the jury to
I keep their minds steadily on the evidence,
I and the evidence only,
j ANALYZING THE EVIDENCE.
I He analyzed at length the evidence given
I by the plaintiff, which evidence, he said,
■ was well worthy of consideration. The
■ piaintiff, he added, had his counters on a
■ piece of white paper, and would have been
■ less likely to have been detected, if he had,
las the otbers did, put their counters on the
■ cloth of the table. During another portion
■ of his summing up. Lord Coleridge said that
■ the Prince of Wales’ presence at Tranby
■ Croft was sufficient to explain Lycett
■ Green’s objection to creating a disturbance
■in the baccarat room or elsewhere by call
■ing attention to the actions which he ob
■ jacted to on the part of Sir Cumming.
I WHAT THEY MUST CONSIDER.
[I Justice Coleridge also called the attention
■of the jury to one particular observation
■which was made on behalf of the plaintiff
■during the course of the trial. It was to
■the effect that there was more in the case
■than appeared on the surface. “Against
■this,” the lord chief justice remarked, “I
■ : 'ist emphatically protest. The jury has
■lotbing to do with things whioh are not on
■the surface. You have to confine yourselves
■to a 6ingle issue, and what you have heard
Bpnd what has been proved during the
I |l n k‘ s remarKS concerning libel and slan
■, er > Justice Coleridge said that Sir William
■Jordon Cumming did not come there to
■n&ku a fortune, and that bis oharaoter
■fould be sufficiently cleared by the jury
■warding him, should the evidence warrant
■t, a small amount of damages.
II SIR CCMMIXO’S HIGH POSITION.
■ Lord Coleridge also described at length
■he high position and brave career of Sir
■j “bam Gordon Cumming, saviug that the
went Tranby Croft as an honored
and, “if j might be permitted to say
as a sort ot a prize guest, of whom any
■cwtess might be proud.”
■ Referring to the Prince of Wales’ con-
°mt,"ith the case, Justice Coleridge
"People may say what they like, but
■ :V are all very much pleased to have such
s as the Prince of Wales, Lord Cov-
and Lord this and Lord that in their
I Laughter.]
II THE DESIRE FOR SECRECY.
as to the position of the Prince of
aQ d os to the desire for secrecy mani
'te.l by the party at Tranby Croft, was
natural, with such monarchical in
volutions as ours, that suoh a wish should
existed? It must be remembered that
incidents were brought before a hard,
w orld, not before the local and sub-
world of the Tudors, but before a
tr!a whose sense and judgment had to be
Surely, it was not to be said
a man that under these ciroum-
he was anxious to keep scandal
luncheon the lord chief justice re
his summing up. While admitting
e improbability of a man of Sir William
■■raon Cammlug’s position and wealth
himself to cheat, and to cheat his
the Prince of Wales, too, Lord
made a strong point against the
in calling the jury’s atiention to
failure to face bis accusers.
H. A STRONG POINT.
rd Coleridge then said: “We have now
to a very important point, in my
I have carefully searched for, but
been unable to And, any contradiction
statement that Sir William Gordon
was informed of Lycett Green's
re to be confronted with bin*. If I am
added the lord chief justice, turn
to Sir Edward Clarke, “I desire to be
Edward Clarke, for the plaintiff,
there was no evidence that Sir
had been informed of Lycett
§£l)j t shtmm ftei&
Green’s desire to be confronted with him,
the plaintiff.
green’s desire brought out.
Thereupon Sir Charles Russell,for the de
fendants, read from Gen. Williams’testi
mony that he had informed Sir Cumming of
Mr. Green’s desire to be confronted with
him. Lord Coleridge, when both Sir Rus
sell and Sir Edward Clarke had said
all that they wished to say
on the above point, dwelt at length
upon it, his remarks not being in favor of
the plaintiff. Continuing his reference to
the Prince of Wales, the lord chief justice
said that the prince was, he presumed, “a
gentleman, and the instinct of an honora
ble man was to rauge himself on the side of
his friends. If the prince did not believe
the story ho would have made it a point to
show the world that he did not believe it.
But he (the prince) has not met the plaintiff
sinoe."
the military tribunal.
A military tribunal, Justice Coleridge
added, in substance would judee if the pro
ceedings with which Geu. Williams and
Lord Coventry were concerned formed an
infraction of the rules and regulations
governing the army, so with that point the
Jury need not trouble themselves. He,
Justice Coleridge, did not kuow if the gentle
men had or had not broken any military
rule, but, if they had done so, In the chief
justice’s opinion they had done so with the
best of motives. Justice Coleridge also said
that he did not know why the jury had been
informed that it was impossible for ths
names of the Prinoe of Wales and Gen.
Owen Williams to remain on the army list
if the name of Sir Cumming was eliminated
therefrom. This had nothing to do with the
case. The jury’s verdiot would not have
the slightest effect upon the military au
thorities in one way or another to far as the
gentlemen mentioned were concerned.
THE AGREEMENT.
Proceeding to consideration of the precis
drawn up at T. anby Croft and setting forth
an outline of the events wbioh took place in
regard to the baccarat scandal, the lord
chief justice said that the precis was not in
evidence in the oase and that it was merely
a statement of the affair written by one of
the witnesses in the suit. Justice Coleridge
then turned his attention to Sir Cumming,
though nis eyes were kept continually
upon the jury and not upon
the plaintiff. Duriug this branch of his
discourse Justice Coleridge severely criti
cised the baronet’s conduct after leaving
Tranby Croft. Referring to the events subse
quent to Sept. 10, the day when the Tranbv
Croft party may be said to have broken
up, his conduct then, according to the lord
chief justice, was not of a nature tending to
Indicate that the plaintiff was innocent of
the charges brought against him.
CRITICISM or THE PRINCE.
At another and later portion of his
charge Justioe Coleridge, referring to the
criticism which has been heaped
upon the Prinoe of Wales since
the affair first beoame public for the
share the heir-apparent had taken
in the Tranby Croft episode, said in the
main that England was not only a free
country, but a censorious one. The life of
the Prinoe of Wales, like that of every other
person of, rank, was continually made the
subject f public comment. The Prince of
Wales, Justice Coleridge added, somewhat
pathetically, it appeared, goes through
mauy boring ceremonies, and what if he
did introduce baccarat Into tbat great
house ?
WOULDN’T HURT THE PRINCE.
In the absence of any portion of the scan
dal being directly conneoted with the
Prinoe of Wales Lord Coleridge could not
imagine bow any harm could be done the
monarchy, to the prince or to anybody
else, adding significantly, “Though some
people might have asked when they heard
of the trouble at Tranby Croft, ‘Why did
he not read his Bible?’ But,” said the
lord chief justice, “nobody was any worse
for the hard working man taking his pleas
ure among bis friends."
Did the jury believe that the plaintiff
signed the dishonoring document in which
he stated that he had cheated at cards, and
did this to save the Prince of Wales? Was
not the consequence far too great for the
cause? Justice Coleridge said in addition
that he could not understand how a man
could give away all for which life was
valued and all which made life worth
living.
The lord cblef justice wound up his
charge to the jury with the following em
phatic, not to be easily misunderstood re
mark, after what he had already said: “I
send you, gentlemen of the jury, to do your
duty, and adapting the noble words of a
great man to this occasion, when you pass
your judgment upon Sir William Gordon
Cumming’s honor I pray you recollect your
own."
AN INATTENTIVE AUDIENCE.
The audience, especially the fashionably
dressed ladies in the galleries, paid but lit
tle attention to the summing up and charge
of the lord chief justice. On the contrary, the
ladies chatted together continually, occa
sionally raising their lorgnettes or opera
glasses in order to obtain another good look
at the principals in the Tranby Croft de
velopments. On the other hand, Sir Cum
ming and all of the defendants gave
their undivided attention to every
word uttered by the lord chief Justice.
When the case was finally giveu to the jury
everybody seemed relieved. The jury were
absent only fifteen minutes. During the
few minutes that the jury were out the
plaintiff sat quietly in his usual seat, read
ing a big batch of letters. His brother-in
law, Lord Middleton, and other friends who
sat near Sir Cumming, were very nervous,
and clearly showed it by their actions and
continuous hurried whisperings.
The five defendants were also nervous and
chatted in low tones with their friends, evi
dently being most anxious to hear the re
sult and to get away from the scene of their
seven days’ of torture.
RETURN OF THE JURY.
When the clerk of the oourt suddenly an
nounced that the jury was ready to report,
there was a movement of surprise through
out the packed audience present. The jury
re-entered their box, looking rather fright
ened and very nervous. After the clerk of
the court bad polled the jury the lord chief
justice, addressing the jury, said: “Gentle
men of the jury, have you agreed upon a
verdict?”
“Yes,” almost whispered the foreman,
standing up and bowing.
"Is it for the plaintiff or for the defend
ants ?’ asked the lord chief justice.
"For the defendants,” answered the fore
man iu a low voice.
RECEIVED WITH HISSES.
The announcement of the verdiot was re
ceived with a slight hissing from the gal
leries, where the ladies congregated, aud
upon the part of some of those in the body
of the court, who were in sympathy with
the plaintiff. The court bad difficulty,
for some time, in Suppressing these
marks (principally feminine) of disap
probation of the verdict. They were,
however, eventually suppressed, and as
the court room began to be vacated by the
deeply interested, ohatting audience, the
curtain may be said to have been lowered
over the Tranby Croft drama. When the
verdiot was announced Sir Cumming, to all
appearance, was tho most unmoved man in
the court. He folded his arms and looked
straight at the jury, but otherwise did not
move a muscle, his face not snowing the
slightest trace of emotion. His brother-in -
law, Lord Middleton, flushed soarlet and
then turned very pale.
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1891.
HOW THE WILSONS TOOK IT.
Mrs. Arthur Wilson and Mrs Lycett
Green were also noticed to turn pale when
the verdict was rendered, and were evi
dently badly frightened when they heard
the hisses which greeted it. The two ladies
stood for several minutes whispering earn
estly with their oounael, and then, accom
panied by their husbands, they passed
slowly out of the court, with bowed heads,
nobody speaking to them, and to
all appearances objects of muoh
dislike. In fact, so . frightened
and downcast was the bearing of the de
fendants, unless Berkely Levett be ex
cepted, that anybody would have taken
them for people who bad just had a crush
ing, withering verdiot rendered agaiust
them, instead of being, according to law.
the victors in a long series of well-oontested
legal battles, in which the honor of an en -
tire family was pitted agaiust the honor of
the man who had just been non-suited.
“THE WILSONS WIN.”
“The Wilsons win,” had as if by magic
spread from the court room to the crowd
outside, and from there all over Loudon,
and it was again made evident, as the de
fendants orove away, by the chilling man
ner in whioh they were regarded, that the
popular sympathy was with the guest of
Tranby Croft, whose future was now as
black looking as that of a man condemned
to a long term of imprisonment for some
heinous crime.
SIB CUMMING’S PROUD BEARING.
In the meanwhile how different was the
greeting extended to Sir W illlam Gordon
Camming. When the Wilsons had disap
peared the baronet etood up gracefully,
smilingly shook hands with Sir Edward
Clarke and with the others who presstd
around him with many cheering words of
sympathy for the man whose oareer was
thus blighted beyond ail hope. The
soldierly form of Sir William,
instead of shrinking beneath the
blow which had been dealt him. seemed
to be proudly drawn up to its full hight,
as he walked slowly but steadily to the little
table near by, do med his overcoat, care
fully placed his bat on his head, and, ac
companied by Lord Middleton, walked out
of the court by oue of the private exits, fol
lowed by the pityiug glances of the ladies,
who still remained in the galleries, anxious
to have a last glimpse of the vlotim of the
Tranby Croft baccarat playing.
CHEERED BY THE CROWD.
Sir William and Lord Middleton were no
sooner recognized as they entered the lat
ter’s carriage than they were loudly, re
peatedly and enthusiastically cheered by
the dense, excited crowds packing every
approach to tho new law courts, this recep
tion contrasting vividly and most signifi
cantly with the totally different manner—
dead silent —with which the Wilsons were
greeted as they drove away. One
of the jurymen, who was inter
viewed after the court had finally
adjourned, said that there was no doubt
from the first momont the jury entered the
private room ai to how the verdict would
go. Each of the jurymen, it is said, was
asked whether he was for the plaintiff or for
the defendants, and each reply was given
without hesitation and immediately, “for
the defendants." One Juryman frankly
admitted that he symnathized with the
plaintiff, but he was so struck with the
unanimity of opinion whioh prevailed in
favor ot the defendants that, although he
would have liked to have found for the plain
tiff, he said that he could not conscien
tiously do so, in the face of the evideuoe
whioh had been presented on behalf of the
defense. The interviewed juryman said,
iu conclusion, that it appeared to him that
the jury had made up their minds as to their
verdiot before lord chief justice summed
up aud made his charge.
EFFECT IN MILITARY CIRCLES.
The effect of the verdict upon military
circles, it is generally understood, is that
Bir Cumming will be promptly cashiered
from the army and expelled from all the
clubs of whioh he is a member. The sum
ming up of the lord chief justice during the
afternoon was undoubtedly more strongly
against Sir Cumming than were his remarks
during the morning. The afternoon utter
ances may be said to have amounted prac
tioally to instructions to find a verdiot
against the plaintiff.
THE PRINCE AT THE RACES.
The Prince of Wales was present at the
Ascot races to-day in company with the
Princess of Wales and her daughters, the
Princesses Victoria and Maud. Th prince
and other “royalties” drove in state from
Windsor castle to the grand stand, being
preceded by the Yeomen Prlckers(volunteor
light horsemen) iu dazzling uniforms of
groan and soarlet, headed by one of the
Baccarat trial witnesses, the Earl of Cov
entry, as master of the buckhouuds. Enor
mous crowds of people lined the route along
which the procession passed. Many people
were carious to know what kind of a re
ception the Prince of Wales would get
from the public on his first public appear
ance after his recent experience in court.
GREETED WITH CHEERS.
Bets were made that the prince would be
received very ooldiy, but the royal pair was
cheered most enthusiastically bv the thou
sauds assembled along the roads between
Windsor aud Ascot. Borne people ascribed
this enthusiasm partly to the fact tbat tho
popular wife of the prince was by his side.
In any case tho prince received a most
hearty and loyal reception from the
people. At Ascot heath, the prince and
his party were met by the carnages of
Prince Christian, Earl Spencer, Earl
Londesborough, Baron Cheylesmore and
the Earl of Cardagan and the dashing,
well-horsed drags of the officers of the
Horse Guards, Life Guards, Grenadier
Guards, Scots Guards, Coldstream Guards
and other “swell" aristocratic organiza
tions.
A SWELL PARADE.
Amid much cheering and tooting of
coaching horns the procession was reformed
and the whole line of vehicles drove slowly
to the royal stand, where, upon the Prince
of Wales’ presence becoming known, there
was a scene of enthusiasm similar to those
witnessed during the drive from Wind
sor, and all doubts as to the manner in
which the prince would be received by the
public after the baccarat trial revelations
were set at rest.
The Baptist Association of Carnarvon
has adopted a resolution censuring the
Prince of Wales for gambling.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
London, June 10,3 a. m. —Referring to
the result of ths baccarat case the Post
says: “We do not desire to add to this
anguish over the sad ending of a brilliant
c ireer, but the fact remains that signing
the documents rendered it impossible for
the eminent and dextrous counsel to re
habilitate the honor which Sir Cumming
himself treated so highly.”
The News says: “In our judgment, no
other verdict was possible. Sir Cumming’s
signing ot the paper was damning. The
public disappointment Is due not to dissat
isfaction but to the iDadequateness of the
verdict to meet the varied aspects of the
scandal. The Prince of Wole* failed m the
middle course he adopted, but it has yet to
be proved that bis attempt was mnre than
a grave indiscretion. The pity of it all is
not there, bat in the presence of the
heir to the throne at the head of a baccarat
table. The prince is bound to a pure, sim
ple and cleanly life as an example to his
future subjects. Woe to monarchy when It
can no longer perform what may fairly
be called its last surviving use. It is gro-
tesquo to have the princa carrying about
baccarat counters wherever he goes as a
Mohammedan carries his praying carpet.”
Tne Telegraph warmly defends the
Prince of Wales against everything but
indiscretion and a great arror of judgment.
From a military point of view it says the
signing of the paper was a condonation, but
the error was prompted by such an obvious
leniency aud kindness of heart that his
generous and true-hearted countrymen will
speedily forgive and forget.
THE CHRONICLE DEFENDS SIR CUMMING.
The Chronicle has a scathing article con
demning tne jury’s finding and Lord Cole
ridge's partiality. It declares tbat no evi
dence was adduced inconsistent with the
hypothesis that Sir Cumming played the
well-known coup de troi*. It says: “The
verdict means, according to the jury,
that Bir Camming deliberately cheated
an illustrious aud impeounious friend by a
trick requiring long and toilsome years of
practice to acquire; that though twenty
years an habitual card player without pro
voking the slightest suspicion, he suddenly
plunged into a wild and cstentatlous orgie,
cheating the only man in the world on
whose patronage his social and professional
life depended. There is nothing incradible
in Bir Cumming’s signing the damniug
document on the strength of the statement
of the Prince of Wales’ cringing minious
dooming him to a fate worse than
death in order to save what the Prince of
Wales is pleaeed to call bis honor. Bir
Cumming is not the Urst gallant Sootcn gen
tleman who has sacrificed both honor and
life to a fervid passion of loyalty to the
prinoe, whose devotion has been
rewarded by cruel ingratitude He has this
satisfaction tbat no other man without the
soul of a flunkey has ever run the smallest
personal risk for the sake of the hoir ap
parent’s honor.”
VIOLATED A PLEDGE.
The article proceeding, aocusos
flatly the Prince of Wales of
violating a pledge of secrecy and
calls upon the authorities to indict Sir Will
iam Gordon Cumming for the criminal of
fense of cheating. It declares that if they
do not the public will know what to think
and says that if tho Duke of Cambridge
shrinks from his duty in regard
to the military offense it is to be
hoped that parliament will not
prove so pusillanimous. The Chronicle
dually asks what steps will be taken to vin
dicate the justice in the crime which the
Prince of Wales compounded by signing a
compact with Sir William Gordon Gum
ming or whether the infamous scandal will
be bushed up forever.
THE DEFENDANTS TARNISHED.
The Standard says: “Even if the plain
tiff comes out the worst in the affair it must
be admitted ttiat the defendants and their
friends have somewhat tarnished reputa
tions. It must be acknowledged that
the Prince of Wales cannot be wholly
exempted from the censure passed upon his
associates, and we are sure he himself is
acutely conscious of this. It will not be
lightly forgotten that the prinoe instigated
the game, and carried the apparatus
about with him. Doubtless this
painful experience will prove a lesson, so
that close and constant circumspection is
required over every member of a family
the lightest stain on whose dignity and del
icacy is felt by us as something of na
tional disgrace.”
ONLY ONE ENDING POSSIBLE,
The limes says the case ended in the only
way in which impartial observers believed
possible. It advises the Wilson family,
which it accuses of being indirectly respon
sible for the tragic rum of a fine career, to
remain in social retirement. In
regard to the important aspect
of the case, the Times says:
“We express the universal feeling
of millions of English men and women
when we say that we profoundly regret the
Prince of Wales’ connection with the affair.
Making every allowance for the monotony
of the royal existence, and admitting the
assiduity and tact with which he performs
his duties, if ha is known to pursue
questionable pleasures the serious public,
who are the backbone of England,
will regret aud resent it. Wa almost wish,
for the sake of English society, that as a re
sult of this unhappy case the Prince of
Wales hod also signed a declaration that he
would never touch a card again.”
ERIN’S STRUGGLE.
Only a Small Area of the Country Now
• in an Excited State.
London, June 9.—Mr. Balfour, chief
secretary of Ireland, in the House of Com
mons to-day, replying to Thomas Sexton,
said that all the clauses of the crimes act
dealing with boycotting and intimidation
can be withdrawn from the whole of Ireland
excepting county Clare and some of the
baronies In which the plan of campaign
still exists.
Upon the debate on the government’s
education bill being resumed, Mr. Balfour
said tiiat Ireland’s share of the budget would
be applied to freeing elementary education
in much the same way as in England. An
early opportunity would be taken to deal
completely with the problem of compulsory
education.
LITTLE HOPE FOR THE IRISH BILL.
He had little hope that the Irish measure
would pass this session, but it had been in
troduced in order to enable the members to
oousider it during the recess. The
minimum grant for Ireland for this
purpose, said Secretary Balfour,
would be £900,000. After a futile
attempt by the radical and Irish members
to defeat the government by stratagem iu
the absence of the members attending the
Ascot races, an acrid discussion arose on
Mr. Lea’s new clause ot the Irish land bill
providing that the land commission be re
constituted. ,
CHARGES OF THE OPPOSITION.
The opposition accused the government
of a desire to decry and thwart the only
body possessing Irish confidence because it
prevented the greedy vender landlordj
from obtaining exorbitant prices.
Mr. Smith repudiated Sir Harcourt’s Im
putation of a fraudulent intention on the
part of the government, and denounced his
violence of language.
Mr. Gladstone challenged Mr. Smith to
?|<iote violent language or words imputing
raud.
Mr. Goeohen warmly defended Mr.
Smith.
Numerous Irish amendments were re
jected and finally Mr. Balfour, after declar
ing that the gorge rose, not from Sir Wil
liam Vernon Harcourt’s unfairness, which
was expected, but from his intolerable te
diousness, carried the clause under cloture,
but at the same time he proposed an amend:
meat which met with Mr. Sexton’s appro
val.
DYNAMITE EXPLODED.
Anarchists Hurl a Bomb in Front of a
French Police Station.
Paris, June 9.—At an early hour this
morning a dynamite cartridge was ex
ploded in front of a police station at Clioby.
The police building was greatly damaged by
the explosions. It also shattered a great
number of windows in the neighborhood of
the police station. The explosion is said by
tee police to have been the work of .anarch
ists, who have fbus sought to revenge them
selves upon the polioe for their activity oa
Mayday.
QUAY OPEN FOR A TRADE.
HE HAS A TALK ABOUT 1893 WITH
PRESIDENT HARRISON.
Their Agreement in the Nature of a
Modus Vivendi Instead of a Treaty.
The President Counts on Getting
Blaine Out of the Way—Quay Talks
Pretty Plain.
Washington, June 9.— lt transpired to
day that Senator Quay spent last evening
at the white house talking politics with
President Harrison, having made au en
gagement at the latter’s request at the in
terview in the morning. As Senator Quay
left here at 8 o’clock this morning and the
President could not be interview a', tl e con
versation of lust night canuot be accurately
given in detail, but enough has leaked out
to warrant the statement that Senator
Quay and President Harrison reached a
mutual understanding. President Harrison
gave Senator Quay plainly to understand
that he was a candidate for reuomiuation
and wanted his assistance, and Senator
Quay told President Harrison that he was
as yet uuoommitted to a candidate, and
that, if President Harrison made it worth
while, he might give him bis support.
NATURE OK HlB AGREEMENT.
The agreement seems to have been a
modus vivei.di rather than a treaty. If
President Harrison respects Senator Quay’s
recommeudation and appoints Brooks
internal revenue collector and Gilkeson
court of claims judge, and such others its
Senator Quay may rooomineud, and treats
Senator Quay publicly with consideration,
Senator Quay will give consideration to
President Harrison’s desire for the Pennsyl
vania delegation. He is understood, how
ever, to have told President Harrison tbat
Pennsylvania was for Secretary Blaine, and
that it must be oonvinoed in some positive
and (lelluite way that Secretary Blaine is
entirely out of the question iu connection
with the nomination or it will be impossi
ble to get a Harrison delegation. President
Harrison is said to have assured him that
in due time Secretary Blaine's unavailabil
ity would be demonstrated publicly.
HARRISON VERY CONCILIATORY.
One thing seems certain about the con
versation, and tbat is that President Harri
son made himself as agreeable as he could
in bis attempt to capture Senator Quay,
and that Senator Quay talked very plainly
to him about the disappointment he bos felt
over the President’s “ingratitude” to him
and about the necessity of convincing him
that it he eleoted President Harrisqn again
be would not be treated in the same luke
warm wav. The President is reported to
have said that he was deterred by charges
agaiust Senator Quay from doing as muca
for him as he would have liked, hut now
that Senator Quay had so satisfactorily an
swered them he would be able to do dlffer-
ently.
THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
He expressed hopes that Senator Quay
would remain at the head of the national
committee, and they talked about national
committee affairs, especially the deficit with
whioh the committee has been struggling
ever since the last campaign. Seuator
Quay told President Harrison that the
scheme of giving chromo-like certificates
for contributions was measurably success
ful, aud tbat a small force of clerks at the
headquarters of the committee here were
still engaged in sending out circulars aud in
acknowledging the receipt of contributions
by sending out the illuminated certificates,
but that there waa still money due on ac
count of President Harrison’s election,
which President Harrison’s friends ought to
pay-
ROMERO NOT CALLED HOME.
He Has Not Been Offered the Secre
taryship of the Treasury.
Washington, June 9.— Minister Kotnero
said this morning that a dispatch from
Mexico published in New Orleans, stating
tbat President Diaz had directed him to
come to Mexico and assume the sec
retaryship of the treasury, bad
its origin in a publication by
a 'Mexican paper about May 30 to that
effect, and so far as he knew was without
foundation. The minister said he had no
reason to believe that be would be oalled
upon to assume the treasury portfolio, as ho
had received no such notice from his
government
GEN. LONGSTbEEr’ei HEALTH.
It is So Good That He Is About to
Resume Work on His Book..
Washington, June 9.—Maj. J. H. Stine
of the trea-ury department at Washington
to-dey received a letter from Gen. Long
street, in which he speaks in an encouraging
manner concerning bis health. He says in
part: “After our home was burned, some
thing more than two years ago, mv health
was feeble, and as much of the material for
my book was desttreyed I lost heart and
almost determined to give up the worj
Now I am getting stronger, and am laying
plans to resume work in September next.”
The letter is dated June 4.
TiHUANTEPEC’S SHIP RAILWAY.
A Treaty Between me United States
and Mexico Proposed.
New York, June 9. —lt is learned that
Simon Steveus of New York, late president
of the Tehuantepec Railway and Ship Canal
Company, has prepared and is about to
submit a project of a treaty which it is
proposed shall be made between
Mexico and the United States, pro
viding that the two governments shall
jointly guarantee so much of the issue of
$100,000,000 of 2 per cent.]loo-year-old bonds
as will be sufficient to insure the completion
of a transit of the Isthmus of Tehauntepec
from the Gulf of Mexioo to the Pacific ocean
by means of a ship canal and marine rail
way, with commodious harbors on both
coasts.
CHINA TRADERS FAIL.
The Assignment of Russell & Cos. Filed
at Last.
New York, June 9.—William H. Forbes
of Hong Kong, John M. Forbes of Morris
town, N. J., Samuel W. Pomeroy of Lon
don, Eng., Charles V. Smith of Shanghai,
and Charles A. Tome of Hong Kong, com
posing the old China firm of Russell & Cos.,
importers of and dealers in silk, teas, etc.,
assigned to-day to Henry Hannah, with
preferences to Gisborne St Cos. of Calcutta
for $2,448; to the Mutual Marine Insurance
Company for $594, and to tho New York
Marine Underwriters for $564.
Russia's Jews.
London, June 9. —Mr. Smith, first lord
of the treasury, stated in the House of Com
mons to-day that consular advioes received
from 3t. Petersburg, Odessa and other
points in Russia of yesterday’s date re
affirmed tbat the reports of wholesale emi
gration of the Jews to England are un
founded.
VIROINIA’B VETERANS.
The Adoption of a Name for the War
Favored.
Richmond, Va., June 9. —The grand
camp of confederate voterana will meet in
Frederioksburg to-morrow. Col. H. P.
Smith, grand commander, will present his
anuual report. This will show that there
are fifteen camps in the state, of which six
have been organized within the past year.
The report will recommend that action bo
taken to secure the remains of Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston for interment in this city, and
that an effort be made to have prepared
and published a southern school history of
the late war.
A NAME FOR THE WAR.
The grand .oomiuander favors the adop
tion of a name by the confederate veterans
for the late war, anil approves the sugges
tion made in a Charleston, S. C., newspaper
that it be called “the war for southern in
dependence." The grand commander will
also urge tho necessity for contributing
funds for the completion of a private
soldiers and sailors’ monument in this city.
Delegations of confederate veterans from
Norfolk, Portsmouth, Uamptou and Peters
burg are here to-night en route for Frede
ricksburg,
A POLICEMAN IN A PICKLE.
He Attempts to Run One of Charles
ton's Reform Clubs.
Charleston, S. C., June 9.— Policeman
Quinn, a six-foot member of the force,
threatens to become an issue in the muni
cipal campaign. Quinn joined a reform
club, and, absenting himself from the sta
tion last night, undertook to run the
Twelfth ward club and reform the Demo
oratic party. The police regulations forbid
tho meinliers of the force from taking an
active part in politics, and do not even
allow them to vote in uniform. To-day
Officer Quinn was suspended from the
force and will probably bo removed by the
mayor to-morrow. The reformers will
take him up.
The reform primary election for delegates
to the June convention to-day was not a
howling success. Only 567 votes were polled
out of a total olub membership of 2,500.
Only seven out of the twelve ward clubs
eleoted delegates. In the Seventh ward the
managers got on a big bender and the
ballot-box disappeared. The bolt from the
regular democracy lias disgusted many of
the solid citizens who joined the reform
movement in its inception, and the now
movement, it is thought, will soon die a
natural death. The convention is to meet
June 11. _______________
WRECKED BY A LANDSLIDE.
Several Trainmen Injured—A Water
Works In Danger.
Kansas City, Mo., Juno 9.—The War's
St. Joseph, Mo., special says: “A serious
wreck occurred on the Burlington and Mis
souri railroad directly across the river from
the water works pump house early this
morning. Just as a passenger train was
passing under the bluff at tbat
poiut an immense mass of dirt and
rock came crashing down the steep bank,
striking the locomotive aud mail car,
knookiug them off of the track and com
pletely wrecking both. The engineer and
fireman were seriously injured. The en
gineer is thought to be fatally hurt. An
other railroad employe suffered a fraotured
arm. Tho resorvoirs of the water works
company, which are directly above the
landslide, are iu great danger of oollaps
ing." _____________
STOOD IN WITH MO3NSHINBRS.
U. S. ( ommlisionor Ferguson of Ala
bama Suspended From Office.
Birmingham, Ala., June 9.— Judge
Bruoe of the United States district court
has ordered the temporary suspension from
office of United States Commissioner Fei
guson of Cleburne county, pending an
investigation ot certain charges brought
against him by District Attorney Parsons.
These charges are eight in number and of
various kinds. It is alleged tbat
Ferguson sold corn from his mill
to illicit distillers; that he knew
by personal knowledge of violations of the
revenue laws which ne did not prosecute;
that he consulted the Interest of prisoners
more than that of the government, and that
be was negligent and careless. Ferguson’s
resignation had been requested before this
motion wbs made, but he refused to give it.
TR AINS COLLIDE.
Tbree Men Burned to a Crisp and Six
Otbers In]ured.
Parsons, Kan., June 9. —The most disas
trous wreck that ever occurred on the L.
K. and T. railroad took place yesterday be
tween Savannah and Frink. Three men
were burned to a crisp and six were injured,
some of them, it is thought, fatally. Two
engiues were totally demolished and the
wreck took fire and thirty cars were burned
Two freight trains were ordered to pass at
Frink. One of them arrived at the station
ahead of the other and the engineer seeing
a train on a side track supposed it was the
train he had orders to pass, Hud did not
slop for ordora. One of the men who was
burned to death was the head brakeman,
and the other two are nnknown. The
brakeman could only be identified by the
finding of a switch key tied to his body.
WORTHLESS DRAFTS.
A Man in Trouble Who Was Once a
Bookkeeper for A. T. Stewart.
New York, June 9.—Clement H. Mc-
Corkle, formerly a bookkeeper in the dry
goods establishment of A. T. Stewart, was
charged in court to-day with passing
worthiest drafts drawn on Davis &
Wiley’s bank, of Salisbury. N. C.,
and receiving in change the differ
ence between the amount of his bills and
the sums called for by the drafts. The
drafts were returned protested. Later a
check for S2B was received from the Salis
bury Bank, with the information tbat it
represented all the money in the bank to
MoCorkle’s credit. Tbe prisoner said that
ho had probably overdrawn his acoount.
He denied that he had dono anything
fraudulent. He was held in SI,OOO ball for
examination.
PROBABLY LYNCHED.
A Negro Reported in Jail by a Posse
Tbat Pursued Him.
Birmingham, Ala., June On Satur
day night a negro named Bill Matthews
entered the room of two young
ladies at Millport and attempt
ed to rape them. Their screams
drew assistance and he was frightened off.
He was pursued with dogs and captured,
and was reported jailed at V ernon. A tele
gram from Vernon to the Age-Herald says
he never reached there at all.
Meeting of tbe Cabinet.
Washington. June 9. —To-day’s session
of the cabinet was devoted principally to
the consideration of the Bering sea question
and tbe advisability of extending the 4)4
[ per cent. loan.
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STRIKE OF THE DRIVERS.
NO CHANGE IN THE BIG TIE-UP AT
LONDON.
Fourteen Hundred Applications on*
File for the Places of the Strikers—
The Company Anxious to Give the
Old Men a Chance to Reconsider
The'.r Action—A Picnic for Pirates.
London, June 9. —There was little change
in the situation of the strike here this morn
ing. Very few road cars were running.
Tho companies say they have received 1,400
applications from men desirous of filling
the places made vacant by the strike of the
drivers and conductors. The couioanies,
however, have engaged none of these men,
their object In declining to employ the
applicants being to give ths strikers time
to reconsider their position and return to
work. In order to prevent the horsea from
suffering through there being few stable
men to care for them a number of police
men have been detailed to assist the com
panies in feeding and In othor ways taking
care of the horses. At Horary 100 of the
men employed about the stables have
abandoned the strike and gone back to their
work.
PIRATES REAPING A HARVEST.
The position of the strike of tho employes
of the omulbus compauv is to all intents
aud purposes unchanged. The Road Car
Company only started twenty-five omni
buses to-day, and tha general omnibus
company’s vehicles are at a complete stand
still. The result, uatuially, U that the
“pirate” or “scab” omnibuses are reaping
a harvest of fares. The “pirates,”
it should be added, are plying with
the oonsent of the omnibus employes’
union, and in addition sevorul minor omni
bus lines have been permitted to start their
vehicles, having conceded the hours of work
aud other terms asked for by the men.
Many of tho owners of “pirate” buses have
sent agents Into the provinces in order to
bring into tho oity as many omnibuses as
possible.
HORSE CAR LINES BESIEGED.
In consequence of the enforced idleness
of the Loudon omnibuses the horse ear
lines are besieged with people, and find
themselves unable to oarry one quarter of
thoss desiring to travel upon the tram cars.
The strikers now show signs of alarm at the
great increase in the number of “pirate”
buses and are discussing the advisibility
of limiting the number of these
vehicles which the union will allow to
ply for paasengors with the idea of putting
tho public to as much inoouveuiance os pos
sible with a view, the strikers claim, of
bringing the public to support the strikers.
Strong smiads of police are guarding all
tha omntous companies' yards, wbioh, as
usual in all strikes, am surrounded by
arowda of loafers in addition to the pickets
stationed there by the strikers. The latter
keep their tamper admirably, and appear to
be sanguine of their ultimate success.
NON-UNION MEN TAKE A RIDE.
A number of road cars loaded with non
union men paraded the streets this after
noon. The occupants sang and cheered
lustily aud were answered with groans by
tho strikers. The excitement was intense,
but the police preserved order. The rail
road oar directors met and explained to the
man to-night that it is impossible at present
to increase their wngus and pay the divi
dend proposed. A resolution pledging the
men to resume work in the morning was
carried unanimously. This will enable the
company to start 100 oars.
. BURNS BOASTFUL
Mr. Burns addressed a mass meeting of
the strikers in the street, and deolared that
he had colleated £BO la three minutes in the
county oounoil in behalf of the strike, and
tbat vlotory was oertain. The speakers
were nooted at by the non -union men, but
mounted police kept order. A concession
of twelve hours means a loss to the Road
Car Company of £90,000 and to the General
Omnibus Company of £70,000 yoarly.
SOLICITING HELP.
The striking omnibus men have sent out
a number of drivers ami conductors hear
ing collection boxes in the streets and are
canvassing pedestrians in the leading thor
oughfares in order to raise funds to assist
them in carrying on their struggle with the
companies.
BAHD3LBY PLEAD 3 GUILTY.
Seventeen Indictments Against Him
Involving $073,406.
Philadelphia, Pa., June 9.—John
Bardsley, ex-city treasurer of Philadelphia,
was brought from Moyamensiug prison this
morning and arraigned in the oourt of
quarter sessions before Judges Fell and
Wilson on seventeen separate indictments
charging him with loaning money as
a public officer, deriving gain from deposits
of public money and converting public
money to his own use. When Bardsley was
asked how he pleaded he pleaded guilty to
every count of tho indictment. District
Attorney Graham addressed the court and
stated that in view of Bardsiev’s plea and
the fact that his counsel has not had time
to examine tho bills of indictmeut be would
not press for sentenoe being pronounced at
onoe. It was then arranged that this day
two weeks should bo set for hearing evi
dence for and against Bardsley, and then
the court could weigh it aild pronounce
sentence. In the seventeen indictments on
which Bardsley pleaded guilty the total
amount of money Involved is $673,405.
A SANCTIMONIOUS SKIN.
The Cashier or a Tank Lins Company
Proves a Thief.
Omaha, Neb., June 9.—J. L. Campion,
who for several years had been cashier at
the Consolidated Tank Line Company here,
has been arrested by Inspector Bowman of
the New York Fidelity Surety Company.
Campion's peculations exceed $5,000 and
cover a long period. He kept two eats of
books, one for the company aDd the other
in a secret drawer for himself. In the latter
he kept a record of hie stealings.
Campion was superintendent of the
SuDday school at the Episcopal Church of
the Good Shepherd, and during a recent ab
sence of the pastor led the services. His
stealings have been known for some time,
but he was spared arrest on account of his
family, he having sous and daughters mar
ried here. Hie pastor, too, interceded for
him, and yesterday the preacher went to
Inspector Bowman and asked him to with
draw his plea for Campion, saylug that the
latter was a thief before he came to Omaha.
Campion was on the point of committing
suicide when taken.
IQOIQUE FIRED ON.
The Bangs Too Great for the Ehlpa
and No Damage Done.
Iquique, June 9.—The armed transport
Imperial and the torpedo cruisers Lynch
and Condell appeared in sight about 4 o’clock
p. m. to-day and began firing on the town,
but the range was too great and no damage
was done. The torpedo vessels were chased
by the congressional ships Huasoar end
Abtao. At 6:30 o’clock all was qaiet again,
the ships having apparently retired.
