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( THE MORNING NEWS.
J Err abuibizi. 1360. Ncosroiianri ISB6. L
} J. H. KSTILL, President, \
GOTHAM'S UGLY FAILURE
THE FIBM UN ABLE TO PRODUCE
ITS COLLATERALS,
The Union Pacific Company Unable to
Get Its Securities When It Wanted
to Pay Off Its Obligations—Delivery
of Rehypothecated Seourltles Or
dered Stopped by the Stock Ex
change.
New York, Nov. 28. —The suspicion that
the Arm of Field, Welohers, Lindley &
Cos., which failed yesterday, had rehypothe
cated securities held by them on a loan of
SOOO,OOO, and amounting to $1,000,000, de
veloped into a certainty this morning. At
the stock exchange SBO,OOO of Union Pa
cific, Denver and Gulf consolidated first
mortgage 5 per cent, bonds were sold out
under the rule on acoount of the firm.
NOT A GOOD DELIVERY.
Upon hearing of this fact Judge Dillon
sent for Assistant Secretary Burnham, of
the stock exchange, and bad a conference
with him at his office. Sydney Dillon was
present. Mr. Burnham was notified that
the entire list of securities are not a good
delivery, and was requested to post a no
tice. A meeting of the committee on se
curities was hurriedly called by Secretary
Ely, and they came to the decision that the
securities would not be a good delivery and
posted a notice to that etfect and sent word
to the various banks.
THE SECURITIES ON THE LIST.
The securities named in the protest sent
to the members of thejexohange include 1,000
chares of Texas Pacific railway stock certi
ficates; 100 shares of Oregon and Short
Liue, 100 shares of Utah aud Northern, first
mortgage bonds of the Union Pacific aud
Gulf (Irogon Rail way and Navigation ;Uniou
Pacific, Denver and Gulf consolidated 5 per
cent, first mortgages bonds, in ail amount
ing to about 81,000,000.
field’s mind wandering.
At the offioe of the firm Assignee Gould
■aid be this morning called at the house of
young Mr. Field, but did not see him. “I
saw his physician, and learned that hie con
dition is very serious. Arrangements are
being made to send him to a private insane
asylum. Cyrus W. Field is also very ill of
nervous prostration. I tried yesterday to
talk with Mr. Field, but found bis mind
wandering, and he was totally incapable of
talking intelligently. His symptoms are not
those of an acute mania, but he cannot
keep bis mind on anything."
AT THE PRODUCE EXCHANGE.
At the produoe exchange this morning
the failure was the general topio of disous
sion. The disposition was one of sympathy,
Taere was an official call at 11:30 o’clock,
hut no business was transacted, and it
was currently understood that all the
grain contracts of the firm had
been settled up. As far as
speculative options go, the outstanding obli
gations of Field, Lindley & Cos. have had
no appreciable effect on the grain market.
A prominent member of the produce ex
change, who saw Mr. Lindley this morn
ing, said: “The papers had a statement
this morning that the firm was short of
November corn in Chicago, but Mr. Lind
ley denies this flat-footed."
$1,710,000 in securities mis appropriated.
After the close of the stock exohange to
day, the exchange officially announced that
the Union Pacific railroad had notified it
that securities of thd face value of 11,710,-
000 bad been misappropriated, and these
securities were accordingly deoiared to be
not good delivered on account of
sales made on the exchange.
The securities include $670,000
Union Paciflo, Denver and Gulf consoli
dated 5s and SS,OOO first mortgage bonds;
1516,000 Oregon Short Line and Utah
Northern ooneolidated ss, and $318,000 col
lateral trust 5s of the same company; $319,-
000 Oregon Navigation collateral trust ss:
1,000 shares Texas Faoific stock and 500
shares Oregon Short Line and Utah North
ern stock.
STATEMENT OF THE COMPANY.
The following statement is made by the
officers of the Union Pacific in regard to the
uotioe given to the etoos exchange: “Of
the securities of its system, which wore held
by Field, Lindley, Weichers & Cos., iu re
lation to which the stock exohange has
a made a ruling that they are not a good
delivery, a large part were
delivered to that firm as
collateral security for three
loans which matured Nov. 13, 24 and 35,
and the balance of the securities for a loan
which matured Jan. 1, next. The company
has repeatedly offered to pay off these loans
since the funding scheme was consummated
and has stood ready to do so, but prepay
ment was refused. Since the three loans
matured the company has mado every
effort to take up the loans, but the
lenders delayed, making various excuses for
not being ready to deliver the collateral on
receipt of payment. The company stands
ready at any time to pay the loans on de
livery of the collateral or to meet any of
its obligations, provided the collaterals are
returned.”
Several of the brokers of the suspended
firm have sold the bonds and must make
delivery on Monday to the buyers. As they
are not good delivery the sellers are endeav
oring to have the buyers cancel the trans
actions.
EVERYBODY IN A SHIVER
The Mercury Takes a Big Tumble In
the Northwest.
Bt. Paul, Minn., Nov. 28. — Dispatches
from fifty Minnesota points indicate that
the temperatures vary from zero at Duluth
to 10 below at Hallock, and 18* below at
Moorehead. A heavy, damp wind is blow
- r, a , ' t w * il b ® much colder. The lerries
at Duluth and Superior have frozen up, and
it is believed that navigation by the lake
cannot last many days longer. Continued
old weather is predicted by the signal serv
ice. At Winnepeg the mercury was 20®
J® . Zoro st midnight, and was constantly
growing colder.
COLD AT BOONE.
* A -> 0V - 28.—The cold wave
. „ ut ?" this place this morning, the mercury
uuching lo below zero. There is no storm
or sind,
SNOWING AT ROCHESTER.
fn,° < i H /t STER - N - Y -. Nov. 28.-Snow is
eix IncheVde ro ®‘ on ftnd “ now
Gold Coming in et 'Frisco.
Francisco, Nov. 28.-The steamer
n^“i brOUKht , hor froru Syduey £550,-
amonrit er I? 8 ' ’ together with the
br °t ght b Y the four preceding
which hi.’ 000,00 ? ln American gold, all of
the ln to the local branches of
*“ U nßed States mint for recoinage.
Councilman Use Their F.s ts.
log oaths'cot*’' 28.—A special meet
!n K a b l g r^ y i C Q 0U “= 1 ‘ to -“‘Fht wound up
severely w hich three couucilraen
tors present* h 6BOll ° ther and e speota
tors present had to separate them.
West Point Beats Annapolis.
cadete —West Point
the Boors’ in Thi Academy cadets 16, was
day. * ID tha foot hall game here to-
m* IHoftiittg ffotog.
G3N. GRAY FINED.
The Mayor Angers Him by an Asper
sion on Hia Bravery.
Columbia, & C„ Nov. 28.-Gen. J. Wal
ter Gray, tbs clerk of the House of Repre
sentatives, was to-day fined $25 in the
mayor’s court for carrying concealed weap
ons, the occasion being the row of Wednes
day night in the lobby of the Grand Central
hotel. Gen. Gray made the following
statement: “I am not in the habit of car
rylng a concealed woapon, nor do I ap
prove of the habit, but on the night in ques
tion, I had every reason to expect a per
sonal attack to be made on me by a man
or men who I had every reason to
believe are my physical superiors.
Before I pulled my pistol I beard someone
say, ’Are you about to pull a pistolf and 1
understood the remark to be addressed to
one of the Messrs, Gonza ez."
THE MAYOR RATHER CAUSTIC.
The mayor then said that this changed
somewhat the aspect of the cane. Continu
ing he remarked: "But this thing of draw
ing pistols on a man cau’t be too severely
condemned. It is more reprehensible in
your carrying a pistol, being au officer of
the state. You ought to have stood up and
fought like a man.’’ This rsmark evidently
made Gen. Gray mad, and be arose
aud said: “Your honor, with all due
respect to you, I don't want you to cast
such aspersions on my character. lam a
gentleman." Gen. Gray was considerably
excited by the remark made by the mayor
anil spoke very determinedly. The mayor,
however, paid no attention to Gen. Gray's
remark, but entered the fine.
CLASH OF THE RAC3B.
Whites Armed to Resist an Attack by
the Negroes.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 28.— A special from
Gourdon, Ark., says: “The excitement here
is Intense, as an attack by negroes is
looked for. They say that the whites have
been exercising superiority too long and
that they will reverse this oondition of
affairs. The white citizens all go armed
prepared to resist any attack that may be
made by the blacks. In Thursday’s rioting,
Marshall Huffman was slashed
with a knife, and while his
wound is not thought to be fatal, yet it is
quite serious. The marshal used his pistol
to good purpose, briuging down his assail
ant with a bullet through his chest. The
negroes are inflamed with rage over Tues
day’s lynching and yesterday’s defeat
Henry Gurley, a negro who was rescued
from the marshal, has fled.”
A RIOT IN OHIO.
Trainmen Provoke Italian Laborers
Into a Fight.
St. Mary’s, 0., Nov. 28.—A riot ocourred
last night at the little village of Yorkville
between Italian railroad laborers and a
train crew on the Chicago and Erie railroad.
The train crew, who have a grudge against
the Italians, have, while switching cars,
several times purposely backed their os
boose with great force into a side-tracked
oar in which the Italians return from
work. When this was repeated last night
the Italians became furious. The trainmen,
having anticipated trouble, had armed
themselves with revolvers, while the Ital
ians had taken a good supply of olubs and
rooks. A pitched battle ensued, and two
Italians were perhaps fatally wounded,
while two of the trolumeu, whose names
could not he ascertained, were dangerously
hurt.
TEXAS’ NEW ALLIANOH.
No Member of Secret Political Or
ganizations Need Apply.
Corsicana, Tex., Nov. 28.— The anti
sub-treasury members of the farmers’ al
liance, in convention here, have reorgan
ized the order under the original charter.
The new constitution provides for prohibit
ing any man from becoming a member who
believes, belongs or aids iu auy way any
secret class organization that makes, or in
any way exercises, any distinctive functions
of a political party. The ritual prohibits
any man from becoming a member who
favors sooiaiism, communism or anarohy.
B. J. Kendrick of Waco was elected presi
dent; J. H. Gilbert of Caddo, vice president,
and J. C. Cass of Bonham, secretary and
treasurer. The movement, it is claimed,
will absorb the sub-treasury organization.
DEBT.
Wbat Bondholders ,I7 ould Realize Un
der the Proposed Settlement.
New York, Nov. 28.— The proposed
settlement of the Virginia debt, if consum
mated, and if the distribution of new bonds
is based upon the aTerage prioe of the old
bonds for a series of years, would give, ac
oordiug to a statement furnished by the
Central Trust Company, the follow
ing proportions to certificate holders,
viz: First olass, 70; second class,
80: third class, 75; fourth class, 45;
and figuring the new bonds at the nomi
nal price of 65, the first class for two-thirds
would have a present cash value of 45%,
tha second class 52, the third class 48%, the
fourth class 29%. Papers and other docu
ments relating to the proposed settlement
were forwarded to London to-day by the
steamship Etruria.
A TRUST COMPANY’S COLLAPSE.
Its Officials Claim That Depositors
Won’t Be Losers.
Boston, Mass., Nov. 28.— When the an
nouncement was made that the Suffolk
Trust Comprny would close its doors, the
officials of the institution made a statement
that the depositors would not suffer; that
with but $162,000 of deposits, there was
SIOO,OOO oash on hand and over $60,000 of
quick assets. The report to the bank com
missioners of the condition of the bank
Nov. 21, showed the deposits to be SIBI,OOO,
aud the cash $17,000, over $2,000 of which
is In the Maverick bank.
CONVICTS DIG A TUNNEL.
Wholesale Jail Breaking Foiled by a
Timely Discovery.
Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 28.—A wholesale
delivery from the western penitentiary was
foiled to-night by the discovery of a tunnel
that the convictß had dug from the interior
leading to the sidewalk outside. The work
was completed, only a stone ln the sidewalk
remaining in it* place. The convicts had
been working in the tunnel for months.
Foot Ball at Richmond.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 28. —The Univer
sity of Virginia and Trinity College, N. C„
foot ball olubs played a highly exciting
game hero ' diday before a large crowd for
the championship of the south. The North
Carolina team defeated the Virginia boys
byasooreof 20 to 0.
Franco’s New Tariff Law.
Paris, Nov. 28.—The Senate to-day
adopted all the articles embraced iu the new
customs tariff relating to animal products.
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES.
RUNDOWN FROM BEHIND.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LAKE
BHORB NEAR TOLEDO,
The Train in Front Two Minutes Late
on Emerging from a Tunnel—A
South bound Express Crashes Into
the Day Coach of the Train Ahead
of It—A Mother and Her Two Chil
dren Among the Unfortunates.
Toledo, 0., Nov. 88.—The Lake Shore
road was the scene of a serious run-in acci
dent this evening on the Boston and Chicago
special going east, which left Chicago at
10:30 a. m. In the edge of the city the road
runs under the Miami and Erie oanal,
through a tunnel some seventy-five feet
long. Borne 230 yards east of the tunnel is
a target. A Lake Shore train passed
through the tunnel, hut not getting a signal
at the target to come ahead put on brakes
and slacked up.
the accident.
The south-bound express on the Flint and
Pere Marquetto road, which goes over the
Lake Shore tracks to the union depot, came
through the tunnel immediately after the
Lake Shore train and plunged into the rear
coach. The Lake Shore train was vesti
buled, but an ordinary coach for the
accommodation of way passengers was
attached at the rear, and it was
this which suffered. The Flint and Pere
Marquette engine plowed its way through
the car until the pilot was more than mid
way of the coaob. The seats and floor were
turned up, aud the unfortunate passengers,
bruised and maimed, were badly scalded by
escaping steam from the broken pipes.
A SEVERED HAND.
The severed hand of a laboring man,
probably as brakeoian, was found in the
wrecked car, but so far the injured man has
not been discovered. It is possible that his
body may be found in the wreck. The ar
entirely envelops the euglue as far as the
cab, the two being wedge l closely together.
The Lake Shore train, as soon as it wos
stopped by the target, sent baok a brake
man. He ran about fifty feet to the mouth
of the tunnel and waved his lantern across
the track. The tunnel was full of smoke
but the engineer of the Flint and Pere Mar
quetto traiu, which was already in the tun
nel, saw the signal and also the rear lights
of the doomed car. He shut off steam and
he and his fireman threw themselves flat on
the floor of the cab so as to be protected by
the boiler. Both escaped unhurt except a
severe shaking up.
THE CASUALTIES.
The list of casualties reported at this
hour is as follows:
Mrs. Susan McCoy of Rawson, 111,
dead.
Her infant, 18 months old. killed in
stantly.
Her son, aged 8, badly scalded and
dying.
Miss Ellen Myers of No. 378 Prospect
street. Cleveland, badly injured and will
probably die.
Mrs. Nelson of Toledo, badly soalded.
S. L. Walker of Goshen, Ind., injured,
but left on the next train for home.
C. J. Anderson of Riverside, 111., bruised
and scalded.
D. Taylor of Hyde Park, Boston, not
fatally injured.
Joseph Ludwtg of Pooria, 111., injured
in the abdomen.
Warren L. Potter, scalded.
H. Vaughan of Auburn, N. Y., en
route for Cambridge, Mass., bruised and
soalded.
Thomas McQueen of Elkhart, Ind.,
badly hurt, probably fatally.
John Conway, bruised.
Miss Dollie Fisher of Toledo, severely
soalded on the arm.
Mrs. Galloway of Toledo, severely
bruised.
No one in either train was hurt save those
in the wrecked day coach and the conduotor
of the Flint and Pere Marquette train.
Lake Shore officials are inclined to put the
blame on the Pere Marquette train. The
engineer of that train is anew man and it
was bis first run over the road.
KENNAN BREAKS DOWN.
Traveling and Work on His Book Too
Much for Him.
Chicago, Nov. 38.—A special from San
Francisoo says: “ George Kennan, the
leoturer and writer on the Siberian exile
system, who is here now, is a victim of
nerveus prostration. For months he has
been working fifteen hours a day on his
now book about Siberia. It has made heavy
drains on his energy and for several
weeks he has beeu traveling and
lecturing at the same time. The result is
that bis nervousjsystem is wholly shattered
and insomanla has secured a grip which he
oannot thane off. Mr. Kennan says he has
great hopes that his disclosures of Russia’s
convict system have killed the extradition
treaty with Russia which is to come before
congress next month.”
A BENEFICIAL ORDER FAILS.
It Was One of the Wild-Cat Get-Rich-
Quick Schemes.
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 28.— Tho Ad
vance Beneficial Order made an assignment
to-day for the benefit of its certificate
holders. This was one of tbe many “get-rich
quick” orders that sprung up here last fall
and has been in existence about fourteen
months. The order has 4,200 certificate
holders, a majority of whom are residents
of this city, but it also had lodges through
out this state, Ohio and Michigan. It is
estimated that the claims of the certificate
holders against tho!order amount to about
$300,000. To meet these claim* the order
has $70,000 in cash and $77,000 locked up
in tbe suspended Spring Garden NoMpnal
Bank.
HELD FOR KIDNAPING.
Lizzie King and Her Husband Ac
cused of Stealing the Beals Child.
Kansas City., Nov. 28.— Albert King
and bis wife, Lizzie King, alas Lizzie
Smith, were brought before Justice
Worthon this morning and charged with
tbe abduction of tbe son of David T.
Beals, David T. Beals, Jr. Tbey pleaded “not
guilty” to the charge. Their bail was fixed
at SIO,OOO for Albert King and $3,000 for
Mrs. King. They could not give bond and
■were committed to the county jail. Their
case is set for Wednesday.
Blew Out His Brains.
Columbia, 8. C.. Nov. 28. —J. C. Spear
man, a farmer living near Pendleton, shot
aud killed himself this morning. He was
charged with forging a note and with sell
ing property undsr mortgage. He declared
that be would “rather die and go to
than to the penitentiary." Spearman was
45 years old and left a family.
A Famous Driver Dead.
Lexington, Ky. , Nov. 28.— George H.
Brasfleld, one of the most noted of the nld
time trotting horse drivers, died here last
evening. Among the Doted horses he drove
was the great Director in 2:11%. He was
formerly the owner of this horse.
FAST TIME ON THE RAILS,
The 328 Miles Between New York and
Washington Made in 340 Minutes.
Washington, Nor. 88.—The fastest time
ever made by a railroad train between New
York and Washington was accomplished
to-day by a special train over the Pennsyl
vania railroad, tendered to a party of hotel
proprietors, theatriosl msnag-rs and news
paper representatives. The train was com
posed of a Pullman combi' ation, dining
car, parlor oar and observation car. The
weight of the three oars aggregated 250,000
pounds, while the locomotive, which was
the Pennsylvania standard, class
“K,” with six and a half
feet driving wheels, weighed,
with its complement of coal and water,
153.000 pounds. The tram loft New York
at 2:49 o’clock p. m. and stopped in the sta
tion in this city at 7 o’clook p. ui. Engines
were changed at Gray's Ferry, oonsumlag
5 minutes, and a stop at Baltimore took up 6
minutes. Deducting the 11 minutes thus
lost the actual running time was 4 hours,
240 minutes for 228 miles, the average run
ning time being 57 miles per hour.
THE BEST PREVIOUS RECORD.
The best previous record between the
two oities was made over this liue on March
18,1890, whou a special train oonveying A.
M. Palmer’s "Aunt Jack" emupany from
New York to Washington in 4 hours and 18
minutes, or at an average rate of 54 miles
an hour. Home very fast bursts of speed
were made on various parts of the line,
reaching in many instances the extraordi
nary rate of 75 miles per hour. From
New York to New Brunswick, 31 miles, was
covered in 30 minutes. Trenton, 56 miles
from New York, was reached in 53 min
utes, and Gray’s Ferry, 91 miles, re
quired only 88 minutes. The 24 miles lie
tween Gray’s Ferry and Wilmingtou were
made in 24 minutes, and the 82 miles
between Havre de Grace and Bay
View were run in as many minutes.
This sohedulo, fast as it is, was run in the
face of a wind which is considered by
engineers a groat obstacle. A full, course
dinner was served ln the dining car during
the run.
BT. LOUIS SELECTED.
The Farmers and Labor Organizations
to Meet There Feb. 23.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 28.—H. E. Taub
eneck of Illinois, of the committee ap
pointed to select the place of meeting for
the national convention of labor and farmer
organizations next February, with W.
S. Morgan, secretary of the Reform
Press Aisociation, met a fooimnitteo of
citizens hero to-day and made arrangements
for holding the convention in St. Louis on
Feb. 22. The convention will be one of the
largest and most important ever held by
the various third parties, as there will be
delegates present from the farmers’ alliance,
Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association, na
tional allianoe, grange, Patrons of Hus
bandry, Patrons of Industry, trades federa
tion, Knights of Labor and Reform
Press Association. The People’s party
will also be represented by its executive
committee, but it is not expected teat it will
seud any delegates to take part in Hie pro
ceedings. The convention will take up a
number of matters left unsettled at the con
vention at Ocala, Fla., and will endeavor to
arrange a federation to insure harmony
during the national campaign.
WORLD’S FAIR REPORT.
A Special Message to Congressmen the
$6,000,000 Loan.
Washington, Nov. 28.—Ex-Senator
Palmer of the national commission of the
world’s Columbian exposition has submitted
to President Harrison the report of the com
mission in regard to the progress aud con
dition of the exposition work. It !s a clear
statement of everything that has been done
by the commission, and concludes
with a strong indorsement of
the action of the hoard of
control in applying for a l->an of $5,000,000
from the government in the Interest of the
project. This report, and the rooort of the
board of lady managers previously sub
mitted to the President, will form the basis
of a special message to congress some time
in December.
ADMIRAL BROWN’3 DEFENSE.
Hla Report Denies That His Trip to
Quintos Helped Balmaceda.
Washington, Nov. 2s. Admiral
Brown’s report upon the circumstances at
tending the landing of the Chilean troops at
Quintos last summer has reached the navy
department. In substance it is a positive
denial of the allegation that his visit to
Quintos led to President Balmaceda’* forces
securing information of the oongressional
ists’ movements.
TENNESSEE’S CONVICTS.
The Prison Inspectors Order Them Re
turned to the Mines.
Nashville, Tenn.,Nov. 28.— Tbe board
of prison inspectors held a consultation to
day lasting several hours. The meeting be
ing private, members of the press were
excluded, but all of the gentlemen in the
conference were interviewed by an
Associated Press rep >rter, and he
learned that the inspectors passed an
order for tbe return of tbe convicts who
were released from Coal Creek and Brioe
ville to these places. The order in general
terms puts no restriction on tha lessees, nor
does it fix tbe time when the convicts shall
be returned.
FIRS IN A NOVELTY WORKS.
Tbe Total Loss About s7o,ooo—New
ark the Scene.
Newark, N. J., Nov. 28.—A fire, the
origin of which is not known, started in the
wood department of the Jerry & Seliger
Plusu and Novelty Goods Company in New
ark to-night. The third and fourth floors
were gutted. Tbe loss on manufactured
stock is $30,000, and on goods in prooess of
manufacture SIO,OOO. Valuable machinery
was also destroyed. Tbe total loss is about
$75,000. The stock is insured for $20,060.
Tbe Kitchell Manufacturing Company in
tbe same building sustained considerable
1088.
Not Sunk.
Liverpool, Nov. 2a— lt has been learned
that the ooasting steamer that was in col
lision with the bark Harmonie, which was
anchored off the bar lightship yesterday,
with her masts gone and her hull damaged,
was the Helen Craig, bound from Garston
for Belfast. The report that the steamer
had sunk and that all on board were lost
proves to be unfounded. Tho steamer dis
appeared in tbe fog. She was badly dam
aged, but reaobed Garston.
a Verdict for SIB,OOO.
Cincinnati, 0., Nov. 28.—A special to
Times-Star from Frankfort, Ky., says that
Mise McEwan, who was shot by a negro
last October while on an excursion train on
the Louisville oad Nashville railroad, and
was permanently iujured, obtained a ver
dict to-d&y for $18,(W0 damages against the
railroad oompauy.
GERMANY FACED BY RUIN
BBBBL ALARMED AT THE ENOR
MOUS KXPENDITUREB.
The Rapid Increase In the Imperial
Debt and of the Army aud Navy
Appropriations Means Bankruptcy
ln Caas of War—The Government’s
Protectionist Policy Criticised.
(Omyright, 1891. by the X Y. Associated Press.)
Berlin, Nov. '2B— The debate in the
Reichstag on tbe budget to-day was un
wonted ly lively. After Herr Buhl, national
liberal, had spoken in defense of tbe polloy
pursued by Prince Bismarck during his
tenure of offioe as cbauoellor of the empire,
and had commented adversely upon the
course adopted by Cbauoellor von Caprivi,
Herr Bebei, the socialist leader, criticised
the rapid Increase of tbe Imperial debt and
of tbe army and navy appropriations.
He contended that it was Inevita
ble in tbe event of war that
a number of the German states should be
come baukrupt. How, he said, could such
immense masses of troops be loug moved
and fed. Exprsesious had recently been
used which conveyed to these masses of sol
diers the idea that they might be employed
not only against a foreign foe, hut also
against an enemy within the empire. Agi
tated murmurs from every part of tbe house
followed this allusion to the reoent utter
auoe of tbe emperor.
SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ARMY.
Herr Bebol, continuiug, said that with
every thousand new recruits social
democracy was being more and mare
strungly infused into the army. As Chan
cellor von Caprivi had pictured journalists
as the only propagators of unrest ha felt
bound to say that wauy orators were also
engaged in the work of agitation, and cited
ns au instance the speech reoently delivered
at Erfurt by a high personage. At this
point the vice president of the Reiohstag,
Count Ballostrom, interrupted tho speaker,
refusing to allow the emperor’s speech to
be subjected to criticism. Herr Behai said
he would leave his comparison iu the hands
of the public, who well knew that it was not
journalism that spread the feeling of unrest
throughout the oountry.
THE PROTECTIONIST POLICY.
Touching the proteotioulst policy, he said
the heavy tariffs imposed by tbs govern
ment, coupled with the military expendi
tures, had created enormous economic diffi
culties. A slight reduction in the oorn
duties in the treaty of commerce with
Austria would not suffice to offset the want
of proper nourishment from which meltons
suffer, the result being an enormous in
crease of disease, mortality and crime.
Tbe structure of tbe middle
olass of society, Herr Bebei
continued, was built in a swamp, in which
it was slowly sinking, probably to make
room for another and better social organiza
tion. The country had got rid of one enemy
of social reform when Prince Bismarok was
driven from power. Here ('ount Bellestrem
again called Herr Bebei to order,
declaring that tho expression used in
connection with the ex chancellor’s name
could not be permitted, being directed
against an absent member of t e house.
Herr Bebei replied that Prince Bismarck
had not yet taken his seat in the h mse and
proceeded with his denunciation of the gov
ernment, which, he asserted, was following,
a* far as it dared, m Prince Bismarck’s foot
steps, while auumlng the role of the pro
tector of the working classes.
the chancellor speaks.
Chancellor von Caprivi said he believed
the country appreciated tho efforts made
by the government for the amelioration of
the lot of tbe working classes. Tbe chan
cellor proceeded to refer to the Guelph
fund bill shortly to be introduced in the
Landtag, maintaining confiscation of
the fund and the leaving of
tha interest arising therefrom free
of control by parliament. According to the
provisions of the bill an aocount is to be
rendered to the audit office, stating bow tbe
moneys have been applied,aud this report is
to be communicated to the Landtag.
RUSSIA AND BERLIN'S BOODLE.
The assurances of peace given by M.
De Giers. the Russian foreign minister,
during his stay in this city, had close con
nection with the negotiations of the Rus
sian government with Berlin financiers.
Despite the recent declarations of the gov
ernment against German capital propping
up ltussinu finances, sevoial big flrtns here
and at Frankfurt sent agents to hold
a secret conference with M. Vigbn'grad
sky, the Russian minister of fliianoe, when
he passed through Frankfort on his way to
Paris. The reports that German financiers
were coquetting with the Russian treasury
becoming known las caused a revival of
the attacks by the press upon Russian
financ es. There attacks are partly inspired
by the government, whose position iu tbe
matter is unchanged.
TO REFORM THE BOURSE.
It is announced that the emperor will
supervise the formation of a commission for
bourse reforms. His majesty asked Herr
Miguel, tne imperial minister of finance, to
preside over the deliberations of the com
mission, but tbe fluauoe minister declined to
act, and suggested that Herr Roche,
president of the Reich’s Bank,
be seleoted in his stead. The
ultra-conservatives are endeavoring to
make bourse reform, ooupled with the Jew
ish question, a plank in their party plat
form. At a mate meeting held here under
the auspices of the autl-aemitio league, at
which 2,000 persons were present, tbe pro
posal to replace tho restrictions upon the
operations of Jewish dealers in finance on
the bourse and in commerce were vigor
ously applauded.
AMERICAN CORN TO THE FRONT.
American oorn promises to assume an
important place in the manufacture of soap
ln Germany. Hitherto manufacturers have
used liuseed oil procured in Russia, but,
owing to tho failure of the crop, they were
compelled to look in other directions for
a supply of oil East Indian linseed oil
was tried, but the experiment was
unsuccessful. An eminent chemist after
many experiments decided that oil obtained
from corn was best suited for the uses of
the manufacturers. The latter are now
obtaining their sunplies from Chicago, and
the ohances are that the trade will now
equal 30,000,000 or 40,000,050 of bushels
yearly.
VON CAPKIVI’B SPEECH.
Berlin Papers Say it Will Strengthen
tbe Confidence ln Peace.
Berlin, Nov. 28. —Many of the news
papers to-day oontain long artioles on the
speech delivered by Chancellor von Caprivi
in the Reiobstog yesterday, during the
course of which, after referring to the re
lations between France and Russia and
Germany and Russia, and tbe universal
desire for peace, ho pointed significantly to
the efficiency of the German army.
The North German Gazette, the organ of
tbe government, says the chancellor’s
speech will have a convincing effect upon
parliament, and that it will have a still
more marked impression abroad
os showing how little are
justified the pessimistic sentiments
which have lately been manifested. The
Gazette declares that the speeob will give a
powerful impulse to the confidence in tbe
general position of international affairs,
and will stimulate prosperity in Germany.
The Vo .tische Zeitung publishes an
article written in a similar strain. It de
clares that the effect of tbe chancellor's
words will be to dissipate any anxiety that
may have beeu felt regarding Germany’s
military or economic relations. The nation.
It says, will chevrfuil j support every step
tasen by tbe monarch, or the government
which is calculated to strengthen peaoe.
Gladstone on labor.
He Hopes for a Better UnderetaDding
Between Employer and Employe.
London, Nov. 88.— Mr. Gladstone was
to-day a participant in the exeroiset attend
ing the formal opening of the Recitation
hall at Port Sunlight near Birkenhead, and
was one of the spoakers. He said the news
papers were teeming with reports of politi
cal addressee. But, however much
he deelred not to speak. it
was impossible that he should
remain altogether silent, because such si
lence might he misconstrued. The ambig
uities of the so-called " Liberal-unionists’’
were now lifted. The last shred of
their pretext of their liberalism
had been removed by Lord Hartlngton's
frankness. This left the battle to be man
fully aud good humoredly, he hoped, fought
out between the liberals and torts*. And
now that tbe field was cleared for actiou he
might say the liberals had no reason to
shrink from the fight.
LABOR QUESTIONS.
After a sarcastic reference to Lord Salis
bury's posittou regarding home rule for
Ireland, Mr. Gladitoue dwelt at length with
the labor questions. Ue said that idle
wealth was far worse than heavy labor.
Labor bad a legitimate place ln God’s crea
tion, but ne place had beeu appointed for idle
wealthy men. To his (Gladstone's) rnlud
there was no cause for alarm as to the
future of tbe workingman. He did not
believe that there would he a permanent
fight between capital and labor, because he
believed in tbe guod sense aud good feeling
of both parties.
THE ONLY SOLUTION.
The problem oould be solved not by magie
or mathematics, but by sound, oivil,
secular aud Christian foellug and respect for
mutual rights. Only within a few years
bad tbe labor parly beo >me strong. The
system of profit sharing was most at
tractive as an adjustment, but
then came a question of haw it was to be
adjusted in those years in which there was
a loss instead of a profit, in auy oats, it
was most important to give the laborer tho
same interest In production a* the capital
ist. To this end he looked with,confidence,
in view of the good disposition displayed
on each side.
EFFECT OF STRIKER.
Doubtless strikes helped the oause of the
workers, but he thought all would agree
that they ware only adapted to what he
might call a rude state of industry. It
was to be hoped that the workman were
now in a better position than to be com
pelled to have recourse to such wasteful
methods. Much might be hoped for from
00-operative distribution and production
toward the solution of the problem, be
oause this would give the laborer the some
position and testing as tho capitalist.
Workers were no more exempt from infirm
ity than other men, and tbe intoxication of
the power they had won might bewilder
•them, as it bewildered others; yet he had
sufficient belief In the character of bis coun
trymen to hold the conviction that these
errors would correct themselves.
AN ELOQUENT PERORATION.
Iu an eloquent peroration Mr. Gladstone
implored employers to give workers, be
sides au inoreaso of wages and a decrease of
hours, a sense of common feeling with their
employes to a brotherhood of man
ana man; to look to the heart and con
science as well as to the appetite and ambi
tion for a solution of these difficulties;above
all to look to the providence that shapes our
ends and recollect.the saored words: “Behold
how good and pleasant a thing it is for
brethren to dwell together in unity.”
CHINA’S DI iOONTANT.
The Recent Outbreaks Due to Eamlty
to the Ruling Dynasty.
London, Nov. 28. —The Times this morn
ing publishes a dispatch from lta correspond
ent at Shanghai which confirms the reports
that the troubles in China are not alone
based oh the anti-foreign feeling entertained
bv some of tho natives. This is but one
phrase of the situation. The underlying
reason for the discontent which prevails ln
many districts of China is the fact
that the natives of the oountry be
lieve the time is ripo to overthrow
the Manchu dynasty and to establish again
the native dynasty, which was overthrown
ln 1844. In that year the Manchuriano,
who had invaded China, deposed the native
sovereign and placed upon the throne the
son of their leader. Hince that tlnje the
Manchu dynasty has ruled and tbe Manchu
language has become tbe court ana official
language, There bos been a constant un
dercurrent of revolutionary feeling on
the part of the natives. This has from time
to time broken out into armed rebellion,
but the Pekin authorities have beea able
heretofore to suppress the rebels. The most
serious revolt was the Talping rebellion,
which broke out in 1850 and oontluued until
1865. It was finally put down by the (m
--jierlal troop*, led by British and American
officers.
WELSH MINERS TO STRIKE.
The Mina Owners Refuse to Continue
tbe Sliding Scale.
London, Nov. 28. —1 tis highly probable
that the action taken to-day by the coal
mino owners in South Wale* and Mon
mouthshire will tend to precipitate a strike
of the miner* ln those sections. Tbe men
employed in the mines there are at present
paid on a sliding scale, prepared by and
agreed to by the representatives of the mine
owners aud the men. The mine owners have
takeu the greund that the existing agree
ment bears unfairly upon them, and
to-day announced that next month they
would abolish the sliding scale and would
thenceforth engage their employes individ
ually. This announcement affects 70,060
men in the coal districts mentioned. As yet
they bate taken no action, but it is believed
that they will make a bitter fight against
the decision of the mins owners, whioh is
practically an anuounoemet that wages will
be reduced.
Conservatives Win.
London, Nov. 28.— The eleotion in the
eastern division of Dorset to fill the vacancy
in the House of Commons caused by the
death of Georgo Hawkesworth Bond, (con
servative), resulted in a victory for the con
servatives, Humphrey Stuart, son of Lord
Arlington. The Ulaastouian candidate was
Hon. Pascoe Glyn. The Uladstonians
gained 402 and tho conservatives 104 votes.
Three Drowned.
London, Nov. 28. — While a customs boat
was attempting to-day to get alougside the
steamer Oriental, belonging to the Peninsu
lar and Oriental Steamship Company, at
Gravesend, it fouled the steamer’s propeller,
was smashed and three onto! its five ooou
pants were drowned. The other two were
rescued.
I DAILY,SIO A YfeAR. ,
* 5 CENTS A OOPT. I
I WEEKLY, 1.20 A YEAR j
RUSSIA’S LACK OF FOOD.
T3JB STARVING AND PENNILE33
PEOPLE TURNING NOMADS.
Hundreds of Them Flocking Into Sl*
bar!a in a Vain Effort to Better Their
Condition The Situation Almost
Without a Bay cf Hope—The Govern*
ment Apparently Powerless.
Bt. Petersburg. Nov. 28.— Stories of
tbe distress caused by the widespread famine
in Russia oontinoe to be reoaived with pain
ful monotony. Death and pestiienoa,
caused by the ohsraoter of tbe food to
which tho people have been compelled to
resort, are doing their work, and the daily
mortality increases. Th# situation for the
thousands of suffering poor is dark and is
uurelieved by a tingle ray of hope. Many
of the inhabitants of the famine-stricken
provinces are migrating from one part of
the country to another, hoping by soma
stroke of fortune to Improve their condi
tion.
FLOCKING TO SIBERIA.
Siberia, which in the belief of many per*
sons is a oold, bleak and desolate oountryj
has attractions for sufferers ln other part*!
of tho Russian empire. Large number®
from the populous province of Kazan
which lies in Eastern European Russia, auck
which has heretofore been one of the great!
wheat aud rye produolng sections of tha
oountry, have already left their homes and!
gone to Siberia, where they hope to better
their oondition. They declare that no mat
ter where they may go they can be no
worse off than in their old province, where
tha fatal affects of the famine become more
apparent day by day. Other people are
making preparations to follow those already
gone ahead to Siberia.
AN EXODUS FROM fcUMHKKMK.
The migratory fever has also struck the
inhabitants of Himbersk. Hundreds of
them have made their way to the towns
along tho river, and others have gone to the
far south and are now in the ports on the
Black sea. T hese pe pin have in no way
bettered themselves; on the contrary they
have only added to their suffer*
ings. It has beeu Impossible for
them to procure employment of any
kind, and they are dependent upon oharity
for every mouthful of food they get. Many
of them Had a little money when they
started from their homes, eager to gat work,
but now they have spent all they possessed
and their oondition is truly pitiable. Tha
authorities have undertaken to return them
to Himbersk, but it 1* hard to see how tbia
will benefit them, for, as they are absolutely
penniless and without money, they will find
tbe task of procuring bread as hard there aa
elsewhere.
The distress among the Tartars is Increas
ing in severity. Many of them who own
homesteads have abandoned them and hava
adopted a roving, nomadio lire.
SHOT DEAD IN A DRUG STOHB.
A Olerk Ktlla a Mon Who Hit Him
With a Cigar Lighter.
Lexinoton, Ky., Nov. 38.— Another
bloody tragedy took place this evening aft
Georgetown, by which Eugene Fitzgerald
lost his life at tbe bands of Alvin Bimms, who
olerked in the drug store of George Fitzger*
aid, au unole of Eugene’s. There bad been
an election for county offices aud Fitzgerald
is said to have beeu intoxicated. He stepped
into tho drug store and called for a cigar.
Simms waited on him and Fitzgerald re
fused to pay for the cigar, tolling tbo clerk
to go to w Ho also grabbed tba
lighter and struck Simms in tho
face. Simms pulled a revolver and
opened fire, shooting four times. Tho
last ball struck Fitzgerald in the hack and
he died soon afterward. Simms walked!
out of the back door and going to City-
Marshal Cole gave himself up. Fitzgerald
was considered a dangerous man nud
several years ago shot and killed Tice Hall,
of tbe same place.
BALFOUR ON IRELAND.
He Don’t Expect a Repetition of tba
Methods of the Past.
Edinburgh, Nov. 28.— Arthur J. Bal
four, first lord of the treasury, attended a
conservative meeting to-day and made an
address, which was enthusiastically re*
oeived. In the course of his remarks, re
ferring to Ireland, he said that he believed
that Great Britain would never again seo
tho gigantic Amerioan conspiracy, fed by
American funds, raise its bead lu Ireland.
He did not believe that again would be seen
anything like tbe obstruction aud defiance
formally thrown into the teeth
of the British parliament by a
few Irish representatives. Mr. Balfour
added that he hoped the country had finally
successfully emerged from lts greatesft
difficulties. Ail that Ireland now wanted
he declared, was a firm, liberal and kindly
government. If only kr. Gladstone
abstained from advocating impossible legis
lative remedies, Mr. Balfour was confident
that the permanent cure of the Irish
troubles was effected.
A MAN-OF-WAR BURNED.
Tbe Rappabannook Lost Off tbe Coast
of Chile.
London, Not. 28.—A dispatch has been
received here from Valparaiso saying that
tbe American ship Rappahannock, Capk.
Dickinson, whioh sailed from Liverpool
July 29 for Han Francisco, has been burned
at sea. Tbe crew of toe Rappabannook
were landed at Juan Fernaudez Island,
about 400 miles off tbe coast of Chile, and
were subsequently brought to Valparaiso.
A NEGRO KILLED.
His Death the Outoome of a Suspicion
That He Stole a Cow.
Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 28.— A special
to the Gaselte from Texarkana, Ark., says:
“W. H. Watkins, a prominent negro, secre
tary of the Miller county republican oentral
committee, was shot and killed this after
noon by J. P. Butler, a Red river cotton
planter. The killing was tbe result of a
charge made by Watkins that Butler had
stolen aoo w. Butler was released on SSOO
bail."
LOOK3 SQUALLY IN BRAZIL.
Rio Grande do Sul’a ex Governor Or
dered Reinstated.
Buenos Ayres, Nov. 28.—A telegram
from Rio Janeiro announces that the gov
ernment has issued a decree reinstating
Senor Castillo as governor of the province
of Rio Grande do Sul. The decree has
created a ferment throughout the provinoe.
Goes to tbe Penitentiary for Life.
Greensboro, Ga., Nov. 28. —ln the
superior court to-ilay Jesse Crumley (col
ored) pleaded guilty to the murder of a
negro woman ln December last and was
sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The
evidence against him was entirely circum
stantial.
