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J J. H. ESTILL, Proaldent. \
BLAND’S SILVER FIGHT.
B3 explains the nature of
THE CuOSUSE RULE.
It Is Not the Gag Law Measure in
Vogue When the Republicans Were
In Control—Senator Morgan Sprinsa
the Silver Question in tho Senate.
Washington, March B!.— Representative
Eland, the champion of free silver in the
House, in conversation with a report to
day, expressed the opinicn that considerable
misunderstanding existed throughout the
oountry on the subject of the proposed
"cloture” rule, which a large number of
the democratic members of the House
asked to have Uadopted to expedite
a ;tion on the silver bill.
Mr. Bland said: “The difficulty
we have had with the silver bill is an ap
parenl misunderstanding as to the real nat
are of the rule that the speaker had in
tended to report to the House. It is not a
cloture rule further than that it is in aid of
the previous question. The previous ques
tion is the cloture rule of the House. We
have had it for over fifty years. There is
no cloture rule in the Senate.
NATURE OF THE RULE PROPOSED.
“The rule proposed to be reported to pass
the silver bill was simply a rule to prevent
filibustering by declaring it to be out of
order for the speaker to entertain filibuster
ing motions. A standing rule that we have
adopted gives to the committee on rules the
power in this way to stop filibustering.
That is to say, the committee on
rules reports a rule to the
House providing that pending a proposition
on which the House wishes to come to a
vole the speaker is absolutely prohi iced
from entertaining filibustering motions.
When this rule is reported the House itself
mast adopt or reject it, so that it is the
House that must determine whether or not
the House wishes to stop filibustering.
THE RULE IN THE LAST CONGRESS.
"The diffefence between this rule and the
rules of the last congress is teat tho rules of
the Fifty-first congress gave to the speaker
himself absolute power to refuse to enter*
tain any dilatory motions. The rules of the
Fifty-first congress vested this power in the
speaker. The rules of this congress
vest this power in the House itself,
but the House cannot act upon it without
a report from the committee on rules. It
seems that the enemies of the silver bill,
after ascertaining that the speaker in*
tended to report a rule to prevent filibuster
ing, raised a hue and cry against oloture.
A great mauy of our members being new
members were misled as to its aotuai nature,
NOT BITTER AGAINST CRISP.
"Since the matter is over I have learned
to my satisfaction that the speaker was beset
by a good many members who had voted
for free coinage, and they told him they
would not vote for such a rule. Conse
quently he was apprehensive that
a majority of his own party
would vote against him. In view
of this fact he changed his mind and re*
fused to report the oloture rule until a ma
jority osked for it. I criticized his aotion
very severely, but did so without full in
formation as to the true situation. Ido aot
censure him at this time for his action.
AN INCIDENT IN CARLISLE’S TIME.
"During Carlisle's administration as
speaker, filibustering became so common
that it was impossible to pass a bill where a
few active opponents filibustered against it,
and nearly every bill of importance wbb
filibustered against. It was a notable fact
that Mr. Weaver of lowa,
then a member of the House,
acting alone, prevented the transaction
of any business in tho House for three or
four days until the speaker, the House and
the couutry were disgusted with tue scene.
The democrats than realized the necessity of
some rulo by wbioh filibustering could be
prevented by the House, and had the re
publicans in the Fifty-first congress gone
no further than our rules go now, the demo
crats could not have reasonably objected to
them.”
BILVER SPRUNG ON THE SENATE.
In the Senate to-day after some impor
tant procet dings Mr. Morgau offered a
series of resolutions instructing the commit
ted on finance to inquire and report as to
the of the silver act of 189!) on
the price of silver bullion, as to the
issue of legal tender notes, etc.; and in
structing the committee to report promptly
on the matter, inasmuch as great anxiety
existed among tbo industrial classes as to the
causes of the depression of prices and
the paralysis of the markets. The
resolutions having been read, Mr. Mor
gan started a discussion by stating that it
was ids purpose to call them up to-morrow
and to bring about, if he could, some dis
cussion of the financial situation of the
united States. He wished to ascertain the
opinions of the senators in regard to the
necessity and propriety of free coinage of
silver. He wished to ascertain whether on
either or on both sides of the chamber there
w..re senators who permitted the shadows of
coming heroes and presidential combatants
t j come between their duty to the people
and their votes on a question of the highest
possible importance.
WANTS TO LEARN THE TROUBLE.
He wanted to know what the trouble
*as that prevented the people of Alabama
from getting fair prices for their cotton—
whether the cause was a domestic and local
OEe or was a foreign one. He had his own
opinions about it which he would takeoceas-
Joo to express at the proper moment.
Ihere was a serious difficulty present
* hieh ought to be attended to. It did not
make nny material difference
"aether President Harrison or
Myoody else was to be the republican
candidate for the presidency, or whether
‘resilient Cleveland or anybody else was
fo be the democratic candidate. The sena
tors should march straight up to their duty
®od correct the evil as they knew how.
*-o senators might talk about a postpone
®ont °f the remedies, but tte people could
°t afford to wait for speculative advan-
in the political controversy of No
vember next.
CAN’T AFFORD TO WAIT,
hsture itself would not permit the people
I *“t while they were in a deatn struggle
.‘ ' >°verty, br uebt about either by
uiL legislation of oougress or by neglect
f ' cou sriss t° legislate. It was a subject
, r " r,J e consideration and on Its considera
•on tae e was going to be neither cloud nor
Jr °° debate was the duty of every
nator. The senators bad no right
' shrink from full discus
lron of the situation or
ju® free and manly performance of their
tar as ho was concerned, what
- V effect it might have on any political
t 'J’ “ e intended to bring the subjeot for
tpon.ani* t 0 tISTB discussed and voted
SHERMAN’S STAND.
‘ r Sherman said that he bad no objec
ts.; t 0 tbe immediate adoption of the reso
a th ut ** they were merely offered as
' esls on which to base a future discussion
tbs p 3 Jar d!y worth while to refer them to
Mr Ea ?I 10a wmmittee. He suggested that
r '■, Morgan should accompany his
Jiutionj with a bill upon which some ac
tion migtt he takou.
IP )t Motnim
TAKING SHERMAN AT HIS WORD.
Mr. Morgan said that if the senator from
Ohio was ready now to have the resolutions
of instruction adopted, he hoped he would
be quite as ready to discuss them and to
express his views. He should expect the
senator to vote for those Instructions to his
oommittee whenever the resolutions were
called up for aotion. He should also expect
the senator from Ohio to be very aotive in
examining into the question and in
presenting from bis great com.
miltie information on which the country
could rely. Ha wanted to know what the
great finance committee of the Senate had
to recommend as to the silver act of 1890,
which was attacked by some gHitlemen on
his side of the chamber and by some prob
ably on the other side. He wanted to know
something about toe effect of that billon
the price of silver, on the currency of the
country, and on the preservation of the
country from bankruptcy and financial
ruin.
EFFECT ON CANDIDATES.
In the course of his further remarks an
allusion by Mr. Morgan to the effect of
sliver legislation on the democratic aspirants
for the presidential nomination drew from
Mr. Teller the suggestion "and some on our
side.” “I will not.” Mr. Morgan said in re
ply to that suggestion, “accuse the senator
from Ohio on that subject, because he has
made up his mind to die without bekig
President—muob to the regret of the people
of the United .States. When the senator
from Nevada (Mr. Stewart), calls up his
motion next Monday to take his silver bill
from the calendar, the senator from
Ohio will not allow him to utter
a word on the subject. The
rules forbid it. We have got to vote ’aye’
or ‘no’ in dumb silence. No senator will be
able to give the reasons for his vote; but he
will be able to give any reason he pleases
elsewhere and before the people.
Therefore I do not propose to furnish
any cover for these gentlemen.
I want the people of my state at nil events
to have the right to know the votes on the
subjeot of the senators who aspire to the
presidency. I want it to be known whether
they are in favor o£ free ooinage of silver or
whether they are against it, on its merits.
That is what I want to know. Wo may
boast that wo have got bonds upon them as
strong as ropes of steel to h >ld them to
their party allegiance; but tnose
bonds will be cobwebs when wo undertake
to bind them down on what they believe to
be their constitutional rights. They are
not going to be held down. Gentlemen are
reckoning entirely outside of the horoscope
of probabilities when they imagine that the
people of the United States can bo deceived
any longer by their dodging the question.
And so I have brought forward them reso
lutions for that purpose.”
CAUCUS VOTES.
Mr. Sherman —If the senator wants to
find out the position of the democratic can
didates for the presidency, why does be not
take a vote in some democratic oaucus? We
have no difficulty on this side of the house.
Mr. Morgan—Votes in democratic cau
cuses have reference more or less directly
(always pretty directly) to the mere party
schemes of polltlciani: while votes in this
body are not necessarily controlled by party
motives. In a party caucus you can choke
men down and not permit them to mak'e a
record of thoir personal views. Here, I un
derstand from the senator from Ohio, this
iB not a party question. The restoration
of silver to the position from whioti the
senator from Ohio tore it down is not now a
political question. There are free silver
men on that side and free silver men on
tnisside; and there are opponents of free
silver on both sides of the chamber. It not
being a party question, what apprehension
have you got? Simply that one party may
make a party question of it—may intrude
it between someone trying for the presi
dency and the scepter.
SHERMAN’S POLICY.
Mr. Morgan spoke of Mr. Sherman’s anti
silver pol*cv as having received the demo
cratic indorsement, so that that senator, he
said, ought to feel easy and quiet. A man
or his (Morgan’s) caliber and location ought
not to rise in the Senate and disturb the
peace of miud of a senator who had glori
fied himself in his recent triumph and con
quest of the Democratic party of tho coun
try on the subject of free coinage. He
asked that the resolutions should go
over till to-morrow. He asked it
in the hope that some senators who
felt as he did would come to his support and
sustain it; so that while uuder the rules,
they could not express their views on Mr.
Stewart’s motion next Monday (to take up
his silver bill) they would have an oppor
tunity to do so on his (Mr. Morgan’s) reso
lutions and to extract from other senators
their opinions on the subject.
The resolutions were accordingly laid on
the table, and shortly afterwards two of
the republican senators who are reeognized
as foremost among the advocates of silver
legislation—Messrs. Teller and Wolcott—
wore to be seen in eager conference with
Mr. Morgan, as if to assure him that he
would not be without support when his
resolutions came up for discussion.
OPENING OF THE DEBATE POSTPONED.
The debate on silver will not be begun in
the Ben ite to-morrow as intended. Since
the introduction of his resolution, Mr. Mor
gan has ascertained that a number of sena
tors on both sides of the chamber who in
tended to speak upon the stiver bill when
opportunity afforded were not prepared to
begin the debate on such short notice,
Accordingly the resolution will be al
lowed to rest on the table until
Monday, By the adoption of this course
Mr. Morgau feels that he secures a double
advantage. First, ample opportunity will
be afforded other senators to prepare their
speeches (Mr. Morgan himself was fully
prepared to speak to-day if necessary),
and, second, as the resolution will be called
up in advance of Mr. Stewart's motion to
consider tho silver bill the Senate will prac
tically have debate upon the bill before
action on it, thus meeting Mr. Sherman’s
objection that Mr. Morgan’s move would
turn the Senate into a mere debating school,
and that there was no definite proposition
before it. The indications are, therefore,
that a vote will not be reached on Mr.
Stewart’s motion for many days and be
tween 10-duyaod Monday the senators will
endeavor to prepare their speeches, which
will occupy at least a week in delivering,
aocording to the present belief.
Morgan’s i urpose.
Mr. Morgan's purpose Is clearly indicated
in the remarks he made to-day inhis colloquy
with Mr. Sherman. He desires the people
to know the attitude of the senators of both
parties toward the silver bill and to so turn
the debate as to draw out their views, or to
make them suffer from implications to be
drawn from thoir silence. The vote
on his resolutions will not be
of any significance, as they simply propose
an inquiry, to which all the senators are
willing to lend themselves. Certainly, how
ever, Mr. Morgan has succeeded in disquiet
ing the minds of a number of senators by
the introduction of the resolutions.
Tybee’s Signal Station.
Washington, Marcn 31.— 1n the House
to-day, on motion of Representative Lester
of Georgia, a joint resolution was passed
authorizing the Secretary of War to per
mit the use of the Martella tower, on Xy.
bee Island, Georgia, for a signal station.
Valdosta's New Postmaster.
Washington, March 31.—The President
to-day nominated Abner F. Holt for post
master at Valdosta, Ga.
SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1892.
THREE MEN ROB A TRAIN.
FORTY-BIGHT ‘REGISTERED PACK
AGES OBTAINED.
A Man With a Pistol Compelled the
Engineer to Haul Up On a Trestle,
His Confederates Then Attacked the
Mai! Car—Dogs Track the Robbers
Back Nearly to Birmingham.
Birmingham, Ala., March 31.— The Geor.
gia Pacific passenger train which left here
at 11:30 o’clock last night for Atlanta was
held up at Weems’ Station, ten miles out of
Birmingham. A young white man boarded
the engine, and,at the point of a Winchester,
compelled the engineer to „r'ng the train to
a standstill. Another masked man
boarded the mail oar, broke
down the door, shot onoe to bring the
agent to terms and went through the let
ters, taking all the registered packages. He
then ooolly left. Outside the rest
nf the gang were firing off their guns
to keep the passengers quiet, and rot a
soul made a movement exoept thorear flag
man, who was shot at for his trouble.
ALL DONE IN EIGHT MINUTES.
The entire job consumed eight minutes.
The sceue was at Striking creek, which is
crossed by a bigh trestle. The men who
did the work got on this side of the trestle
and brought the train up with the rear
coach on the trestle. The gang outside
were under the embankment. The extent
of tho loss is not known. Dogs were pro
cured and a chase began. Packages which
had been torn open were found 800 yards
off, near the place where the men had evi
dently been camping.
THE CHASE SUSPENDED.
The chase was later temporarily sus
pended, though search is being made for
their trail. The robbery was northeast of
this oity. Two mules were taken from a
lot at IroDdale, six miles out, last night.
This morning the mules wwe found in the
woods a mile or two from this oity, indi
cating that the robbers had first fled toward
Birmingham, and it is believed they
are in this oity. There is no doubt about
its being the same gang that attempted to
wreck a Louisville and Nashville train five
miles out Sunday night, aud with whom
the officers had a fight Monday night at
Boyle’s gap. The robbers got eighty-five
packages of registered mail and threw away
one package, which bad no money In it.
ONLY THREE IN THE GANG.
Birmingham, Ala., Maroh 31, 11:30 p.
M. —A detailed story of the train robbery at
Weems ’.Station last night, shows it to have
been ono of the best planned aud
most successful in the history of those en
terprises. There seems to have been three
men engaged in it. About half a mile be
yond the station is a little trestle, high
above the roar ng creek, with steep banks
on the uorth side and a gulch below. Before
the train had gotten up soeed one man got
up on the step of the engine cab and just as
it started aoross tho trestle he stepped
into the cab and called a stop. He was
strictly obeyed and the train stopped on
the trestle itself. Robber No. 2 got on the
mail car platform and called for the door to
be opened. Mail Agent R. P. Hughes was
slow about obeying and the door was
promptly broken in. Hughes offered re
sistance, but a bullet through his clothing
made him quiet. There were two sacks
with registered packages, ono made up to
go through to New York and the other for
Atlanta. The robbers got the former, con
taining forty-eight packages. The other
contained thirty-seven packages and was
not molested.
When the robbers got off the engineer
again obeyed orders and pulled out. leaving
Flagmau Adams behind tba trestle, where
he had gotten off only to hear a bullet
whistle by him from the gulch below.
DOGS ON THE TRAIL.
It was after l o’clock before the news
reached Birmingham, and after S o’clock
before a special engine bearing Detective
Barnes and his dogs, with policemen and
reporters, reached the sceue. In a few min
utes the and gs had the trail which led
straight up tho mountain side to a fence,
where tho only registered package yet
found was discovered lying by the path. It
was addressed to Munn & Cos., Scientific
American, Broadway, New York, aud was
No. 133.
It was mailed at Carbon Hill, Ala.,
March 29, and contained some drawings or
patterns, but no money. A few yards
further the dogs halted at a burning catnp-
the robbers had left not two
hours before. Tho tracks showed that three
men were in the party. This point was a
mile or moVe uorth of the railroad, and from
the camp the trail turned almost due west,
and was followod over the hills and
hollows and across Stinking creek almost
parallel with the railroad, hack to Irondale,
a suburb five miles west of Birmingham.
Here the does promptly went to the lot of a
citizen named Montgomery and came to a
halt. By this time it was 7 o’clock, and tho
people were astir.
TWO MULES STOLEN.
The pursuing party were informed that
sometime during the night two mules be
longing to 8. H. Smith hud been stolen
from the lot. About 9 o’clock the mules
were found tied in the bushes close to the
street railroad which leads to Birmingham.
In the fight between the offioers and rob
bers at Boyle’s gap Monday night, it is
known that two of the three robbers were
mounted ou mules and they rode off in the
direotion of Irondale.
On Sunday night two men were seen in
the Birmingham suburbs, riding mules and
caused suspicion at the time by their gen
eral appearance and conduct. The indica
tions are that the mea who stole the mules
at irondale are the same who figured on
muleback Sunday and Monday ntghts. Per
fect farailiaritylof the robbers with the rough
oountry northeast of Birmingham and their
selection of mules to climb the mountains
indicates that they are local characters or
have been here studying the situation for
sometime. The amount of money stolen is
not known. The United States postal de
partment has offered the usual reward of
$1,090 for the robbers.
ARMY OFFICfRa AND INDIANS.
The Senate Indorses the Scheme to
Make Them Agents
Washington, March 31. —In tho Senate
to-day the Indian appropriation bill was
taken up and a vote was taken without
further discussion on the House provision for
the assignment of army officers to the du
ties of Indian agents. The amendment rec
ommended by tho committee on appropria
tions to strike out that provision was de
feated. yeas 29, nays 39. So that provi
sion remains incorporated in the bill. With
out completing consideration of the bill the
Senate adjourned.
The Anti-Options Bill.
Washington, March 31.—The Houte
committee on agriculture to-day finished
consideration of the bill regulating dealings
in options and futures, and it will be sub
mitted to the House as soon as tbo report to
accompany it is completed. The bill agree!
upon is in the nature of a substitute for all
the anti-options hills before the oommittee.
It is said to be much milder In its provis
ions than the Hatch bill, and It is believed
that it will meet the objections raised by
many boards of trade against the proposed
legislation.
MINNESOTA FOR CLEVELAND.
Her Delegates to Chicago Instructed
for the Kx-Preddent.
St. Paul, Minn., March 31.—The Minne
sota democratic oonveotion was held in this
city to-day, and throughout was an enthu
siastic Cleveland indorsement meeting.
Every mention of the ex-President’s name
was received with cheers, and the presen
tation of a resolution instrui ting the
delegates to the national oouvention to vote
for him from first to last was carried with
a vim that greatly delighted the old-time
Cleveland supporter*. The delegates are
all enthusiastic for Cleveland, l'hero was
some sharp debating as to the methods at
the first session and a sharp fight was had
on the selection of delegates to Chioago
from tho Third congressional convention,
but the result was aeoopted at once.
Alfred E. Haven was chosen temporary
chairman, and W. B. McKinnon and James
Donnell secretaries. After a long anil, at
times, warm debate as to the method of the
appointment of the committees, it
was decided, as a compromise, that
tho chairman should appoint a committee
on credentials and that the congressional
delegations should get together while that
committee was preparing its report aud
select the members of the otbor committees.
Much time was oonsumed in the selection of
these committees, and it was late in the day
when the convention reassembled and sup
per time had an ived and taken away some
of the delegates before the committee on
resolutions was ready to report.
NO CONTESTS.
The first thing after the recess was the re
port of the o mmittee on credentials, and
no ooutests wore reported.
Auotber recess was taken after the an
nouncement of the committees to allow them
to prepare their reports.
The temporary officers were made perma
nent, aud Senator M. 8. Wilkinson, who
presented the report of the committee, also
presented tho following resolutlous:
1. That we present the name of Grover
Cleveland for the presidency, and we expect
our delegates in the national oonveotion, to be
hereafter presented, to use every honorable
means by their united voices and votes to
assist in his nomination.
2 That In thoir vote In said convention the
delegation shall vote as a unit, a majority of
th : delegation determining what the vote of the
entire dclegat ion shall be.
3. That the delegation shall continue to
vote and work for Grover Cleveland ait long
as there are reasonable hopes for his nomina
tion.
These resolutions were adopted by a rising
and cheering vote that was vigorously unan
imous.
NAMES OF THE DELEGATES.
The convention thea proceeded to the
choice of delegates to the Chicago conven
tion. Four delegates at large were chosen
easily, being: Nliohael Doran, P. B. Win
ston, Lewis Bailer aud Thomas Wilson. The
alternates are: Maj. A. L. Backett, Nathan
Butler, J. D. Markham and Dr. O. W. Gib
son.
The delegates from the congressional dele
gations earlier in the day were then an
nounced and ratified by the oonvention.
Those from the First dUtriot were J. Haines
and Henry it. Wells, and for the Second M.
Muller and James Manning. From the
Third two seta of delegates were presented
and the fight of that delegation was fought
out on tho floor of tho convention, the dele
gation finally being called by counties, and
deciding by a vote of 36 to 34 in favor of
Joseph Roach and Frank Nioolin, whioh
names the convention then ratified.
For the Fourth district, C. D. O’Brien
and James B. O’Brien were chosen; Fifth,
Charles M. Foote and Titus Marcx; Sixth,
Theodore Bruener end John C. Brown;
Seventh, Alex McKinnon and Dennis
O’Brien. While waiting for the arrival of
the committee on reiolTitlons, Camel W.
Lawler of this oily, was called out
and made a strong democratic speech
and again awoke the cheering re
sponses of the convention by his eulogy
of Mr. Cleveland, whose picture on the
platform was the only decoration the hall
contained. Finally a# 6 o’clock the com
mittee on resolutions through Chairman P.
J. Smalley, reported the platform which
was adopted.
THE PLATFORM.
The platform opposes the theory of pro
tection as a manifestation of paternalism
in politics, aud favors gradual reform of
the system of tariff duties. It indorses the
lawi by whioh the revenues of the nation
shall be accommodated to the needs of the
government economically administered. On
coinage it says: “We hold, in accordance
with the traditional policy of our party, to
the use of both gold and silver, and that the
sole coinage function of the government is
to examine the relative values of the metnD
of coinage as established In tho world, and
if there has been sufficient fluctuation in
the value of either to make the existing
ratios unequal, then to readjust
the ratios so that the number of
grains of either metal in the unit of ooin
age, the dollar, shall be equivalent in value,
and then to permit free unrestricted coin
age of both metals. We join the democracy
in New York in demanding the repeal of
the Sherman silver coinage act. We con
demn that aot as an attempt to distract the
friends of honest bimet illism and denounce
it as calculated to debase our currenoy, con
tract the circulating medium aud wreck the
confidence and safety of the business
world. ”
Another Cleveland resolution closed the
platform, whioh went through with a rush.
ANOTHER CLEVELAND VICTORY.
Owosso, Mica., March 31.—Shiawassee
county is the first to hold its oonvention to
elect delegates to the democratic state con
vention. Resolutions were enthusiastically
adopted Instructing the delegates to the
state oonvention to support only Cleveland
men for the national convention.
HILL CAN’T WIN.
Gorman and Brice Concede That
Cleveland is the Moat Available Man.
Washington, March 81.—The partner
ship of Senators Gorman, Brice and Hill has
been dissolved. They are as friendly as
ever personally, but they no longer act to
gether, indeed it is doubted if they have
done very much business as a firm since the
election of Speaker Crisp. It will be re
membered that Speaker Crisp did not carry
out all their suggestions in making up the
committees. Since then Senator Hill has
been operating largely on bis own account,
the trip south taken against the advice of
both Senators Gorman and Brice, being the
thing which finally separated the
triumvirate. Now Senators Gorman
and Brice are saying that they
do not see how Senator Hill can be nomi
nated, aud elected if nominat 'd, and that
they do not see how ex-Preddent Cleve
land’s nomination is to be prevented, nor
how the republicans will be able to keep
him from being elected. They think ex-
President Cleveland oan carry New York
and can probably be elected without New
York. As Senator Gorman says; "That
is the logic of the situation.”
A Lynching at Findlay.
Cleveland, March 31.— A dispatch from
Findlay, 0., says: “About 1 o’clock this
morniDg a mob of 1,000 men took Little,
who assaulted and fatally injured his wife
and two daughters with a hatchet, from
the jail and banged him."
RAVACIIOL is a terror.
HE IS A MURDERER AND GUILTY
OF SCORES OF CRIMES.
No Doubt of His Responsibility for
All the Recent Bomb Explosions at
Faria— Hla Accomplices in Crime Too
Much Afraid of Him to Think of Be
traying Him.
Paris, March 31.—The government looks
upon the arrest of Ravachol as of the
greatest importance and believe his capture
will put an end to dynamite outrages in
Paris. The government has rewarded or in
tends to reward every one in any way oou
neoted with bis arrest. The Echo to-day
says that Ravachol has admitted that he
was the author of the Boulevard St. Ger
main explosion.
ravaohol’s accomplice arrested.
It is reported late to-night that Gustav
Mathien, Ilavaohol’s most daugorous ac
complice, lias been arrested.
Ravachol is now voluble in his cell. He
speaks most fluently, although he is not an
educated man. He promises to reveal
everything to-morrow. Now that they feel
safe from his revenge, Ravaohol’s ncoora
plices are wagging their tongues freely.
There teems no doubt that he is responsible
for nil the recent bomb explosions in Paris.
He planned them all and executed most of
them him-elf. He led the party which stole
the dynamite at Soissy recently.
ALL AFRAID OF HIM.
Many of th" criminal class wore well ac
quainted withßavachol’s crimes,but his reck
less and revengeful disposition kept them in
terror of him so that he was safe from be
trayal. His arrest was brought about
through the proprietor and waiters of the
cafe which he reoeutly frequented. They
called the attention of tho police to their
new customer, and after a short period of
surveillance the police became satisfied be
was the man they had been looking for and
the arrest followed. Ravachol is said to be
the illegitimate child of German parents,
born in France. There Is nothing of the
political agitator about him. He is merely
an extraordinary criminal from choice and
inclination who has taken advantage of cir
cumstances,
RAVACHOL A MURDERER.
The anarchist prisoners who were con
cerned In the explosions iu tie Boulevard
St. Germain and at Lobau barracks, have
made a detaded confession. They say that
Ravachol was concerned in a murder and
robbery at Mont Brison, by which he real
ized 30,000 franca He gave the bnlk
of the money to his associates iu
Bt. Klienne, drawing sums required for
ynamiting purpoies. Ravachol assisted In
tealing aud burying the dynamite taken
from the factory at Soissy, the informers
say. Cbaumartln asks to bo sentenced to
luiDrisonment, us he fears assassination if
released.
UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH.
Investigation has shown Ravachol to
boa professional criminal with along re
cord, and already under sentence of death
under another name. In bis lodgings
counterfeiting tools were found and he
coolly acknowledged that counterfeiting
was part < f his business. He has made
defiant admissions to many of the charges
against him. His oapture iB regarded as of
such valuo to the government that special
rewards have been bestowed upou all con
cerned in his arrest. Murder, robbery and
arson have been pastime to Ravachol, but
his principal and most serious business was
the crime of the anarchist terrorist class.
The Senate has approved the bill impos
ing a penalty of death upon persons using
dynamite for blowing up buildings aud
other unlawful purposes.
ULSTER'S UNIONISTS
Distrust of an Irish Legislative Assem
bly Expressed.
London, March 31. —A conference be
tween the unionist members of the House
of Commons representing various constitu
encies in the province of Ulster and the
delegates of the Ulster electoral associations
waß held to-day, at which was
approver 1 a protest against any legislation
interfering with their Inheritance iu the
imperial legislature. The protest declares
that the people of Ulster baveunohangeahle
distrust of and hostility to an Irish legisla
tive assembly, and expresses their determi
nation to take no part in its prooaedings, to
offer resistance to its laws and to appeal to
tho English and Hootch electors not to com
mit tue two Irelands to a struggle that will
be disastrous to both.
MANDALAY FIRE SWEPT.
The Flames Burn Over a Path Two
and a Half Miles Long.
Rangon, March 31.—Fire at Mandalay,
the capital of Burmah, broke out at 9
o’clock Wednesday morning and raged
fourteen hours. The whole city was de
stroyed for a distance of two and a half
miles. The Central telegraph station was
destroyed. Other government buildings,
bazars and warehouse! escaped. In spite
of the rapid spread of the flames there was
no loss of life. Many thousands are home
less,and extensive relief works will be neces
sary.
The Reichstag Prorogued.
Berlin, March 31.—The Reichstag was
prorogued to-day. The speech closing the
session was delivered by Dr. von BoetUcher,
secretary of the imperial home office and
representative of the chancellor.
A Hunting Pack Killed.
DUBLIN, March 31. —Owing to the spread
of the rabies the whole pack of the Armagh
Hunt Club has been destroyed.
A RIVER STEAMER BURNED.
All the Passengers Escape Except a
Woman Who Fell Overboard.
Cincinnati, 0., March 3*.—Just os the
steamboat Golden Rule was leasing the
Main street landing this afternoon fire broke
out on her directly uuder the stairway lead
ing from the main deck to the cabin. The
iocation of the fire prevented esca|>e from
the upper deck by the stairway and drove
everybody nft. The steamer Keystone State
lay alongside the Golden Rule and
the people on th latter boat
clambered to the Keystone State
excepting one young lady, Miss Nellie Ma
loney, who fell overboard and was drowned.
Clerk Uondurant of the Golden Rule was
nearly drowned in endeavoring to save Miss
Maloney. The Golden Rule was destroyed.
The loss on the boat is 120,000, and on her
cargo $50,600: The wnarf boat filled
with freight was also burned. The loss on
her is not known, but is heavy. The
steamers Keystone State and Fleetwood
were saved with difficulty.
Danville’s Tobacco Sales.
Danville, Va., March 31 .—The sates of
leaf tobacco during the mouth of March
were 5,889,000 pounds—the largest sales
ever made lfere in a single month. The
sal- s for the first half of the tobacco year
were more than 20,000,000 pounds. This is
a slight falling off as oompared with the
same period last year.
BTRUCK BY A CYCLONE.
Heavy Damage to Property at Nelson,
Neb , by a Blow.
Nelson, Nkb. . March 31.—A terrible
cyclonestruok Nelson at 6:15 o’clock to-d y.
It came from the southwest and could bo
seen for at least 10 miles before it struck
the town. Clouds circling round and round
were plainly risible f r several minutes.
: Tue damage is estimated at 8100,000. The
[ Rook Island road's roundhouse was wrooked.
[ The First National bank was
; unroofed. The opera house, three
stories high, was unroofed and badly dam
aged. The Union block was unroofed and
the southwest end torn out. The Arlington
hotel was unroofed. The new school house,
which was oomploted at the beginning of
the year at a cost of SIB,OOO, was almost
destroyed. The Presbyterian ohuroh was
badly wrecked. A large number of resi
dences were completely wrooked, nothing
betug left of them but the foundation. Half
of a frame house was carried a distance of
a furloDg with a woman and two ohildren
inside. They were unhurt.
CENTRAL’S REORGANIZATION.
Daniel Ourrnn for Superintendent of
the Columbus Division.
Columbus, Ga. , Maroh 81.—An appar
ently well founded rumor is afloat to the
effect that division offices will again tie
established here. The relinquishment of the
Columbus aud Western road by the Georgia
Pacific will render revision of the present
divisions neuesaary. The Columbus division.
It is said, will oomprDo 400 miles of road
way , and will include the Columbus aud
Western, Mobile aud Girard, Buena Vista
and Ellaville and Columbus and Rome
roads. The change will not effect
the division office at Macon, but
it is thought here that Daniel Cur
ran will have charge of the Columbus
division. The employes of the Central are
in high feather to-night over the announce
ment that they would be paid off early to
morrow morning. Another stimulating
rumor is to the effeot that the repair shops
will soon ba in full operation here again.
The work formerly done here has been sent
to Atlanta and Birmingham of late, aud the
shops hero were practically abandoned.
TERMINAL’S REORGANIZATION.
Oan. Thomas Denies That The East
Tennessee Is Out of It.
New York, March 31.—An article pub
lished this morning ooncorniug the Rioh
inond Terminal met with a dental of the
most positive oharaoter from all the persons
mentioned In the paper or oonueoted with
the plan. The story in brief was to the ef
fect that Gan. Thomas aud Senator Brtoo,
representing Important interests in
the East Tennessee, had arranged
for a withdrawal of that property
from tho Richmond Terminal system, and
had decided not to deposit their securities
with ttie Control Trust Company, uuder
the Oloott reorganization plan. As the
Richmond Terminal holds almost a major
ity of the East Tennesiee stock it is hard to
soo how Gen. Thomas or any other security
holder outside of that company could effect
Its withdrawal from the system. Gan.
Thomas made a most emphatic denial of the
statement, as did President Oakinan.
LAUNCHING OF THE RALHIGH.
The Cruiser Floated at the Norfolk
Navy Yard.
Portsmouth, Va., March 31.—Construc
tor Francis T. Bowles is the recipient to-dsy
of hundreds of congratulations over the
oomplete success of the launching of the
cruiser Raleigh this morning at the Nor
folk navy yard. Fully 40,000 ,people wit
nessed the interesting event. Tho navy
yard shores of the rivsr and dozens of
Hteairiers, tugs and yachts were covered
with spectators. At 11:36 o’clock tho sig
nal was given and Mrs. Alfred W. Hay
wood, of Raleigh, N. C., daughter
of Gov. Holt of that state, standing hetwoen
tho Secretary of the Navy and Ensign Htlby
P. Jones, broke a bottle of wine ou the bow
of tho cruisor and she began to move off as
easily as under her own propeller. It was
just three-quarters of a minute from the
time the bottle was broken until the Raleigh
was stopped by her anchors iu midstream.
The affair was a great success. The shouts
of tbo multitude aud the salutes of the
steamers were deafonlng for several min
utes. Gov. Holt and his staff, the volunteer
soldiery of tnls section, and many proini
neut people from a dlstauce were iu attend
ance.
A MAIL WEIGHER KILLED.
Hla Train Crashed Into a Runaway
Section of a Freight.
Mobile, Ala., March 31. —A wreck, re.
suiting in the death of one man and the in
jury of two others, took plaoe this morniug
at Sparta, on the Louisville aud Nashville
railroad. The wreck was otused by the
breaking in two of a freight train whioti
left bore last night. The disconnected por
tion, consisting of five cars, ran backward
down the grade eight miles aud collided
with fast mail train No. 6, which
left hero at midnight northbound.
Tho engineer and fireman had
just time to jump. The mail train
was going at a liveiy rate and a terrible
smash resulted, freight oars being splint
ered, the locomotive smashed, aud the mail,
express and baggage cars badly wrecked. In
tho mail car were two mall weighers. It. Ft.
Lyons of Atlanta, and Jeff Williams of Eu
faula, Ala. Lyons was instantly killed.
Willi'.ms escaped with a broken ankle and
a few bruises. Archie Johnson of Mont
gomery, Ala., an express messenger, was
severefy hurt.
DAVIS’ MEMOIRS.
The Petition of Mra. Davis Granted by
the Court.
New York, March 31. —Judge Larombe
in the United Strates district court to-day
filod an opinion granting the petition of
Mrs. Varina Davis for an order restraining
Robert Bolford and the Belford Publishing
Company, from pub 1 hi: g, printing, selling
or assigning any copies of me book of me
moirs of her husband, Jefferson Davis, and
compelling the defendants to show cause on
April 1, why the United States B ok Coma
pany should :.ot be made a party to the
suit on the ground, as alleged, of fraudulent
transfer to that company by the defendants
of tho copyright of the bodk.
ALABAMA’S MURDIRBR3.
One or Both of tho Fugitives Lynched
by Their Pursuers.
Nashville, Tenn., March 31.—A Huots
vilie, Ala., special says: “A report has
reached this city that Pete Martin, one of
the murderers of Thomas A. Ed wards last
Tueslay night, and who also burned his
bouse, bad been shot by the officers in pur
suit, and if able to travel would ba brought
to the oity to-night. Deputy Sheriff
Erskine has just returned and says he was
reliably informed that about fifty men had
captured John Mullins ana banged him at
the locality of the Edwards murders and
house burning.”
< DAILY, SlO A YEAR. I
4 S CENTS A COPY. f
I WEEKLY,SI.2S A YEAR.
CUT A MOLEJNTHE JAIL.
SEVEN PRISONERS ESCAPE FaOlrf
CHARLOTTE’S CELLS.
The Negro Held for Wrecking a Train
at Bostlan’e Bridge Among the Num
ber—The Prisoners Left Unguarded
During the Night—None of the Fugi
tives Recaptured.
Charlotte, N. C., March 31.— At T
o’clock this morning John Orr, a carrier
boy for the Daily Sews, saw a bole high up
in the rear wall of the county jail. From
the hole to the ground, a distance of thirty
feet, dangled a rope medo of prison
blankets. A negro emerged from
the hole slipped down the rooa
and ran away. Orr hurried to
the jail aud gave the alarm.
Seven prisoners had made their escape*
The man seen by Orr proved to have beep
John Boyd, the negro who has been in jail
here for some mouths past charged with
wrecking a train at liostiau's bridge, on the
Western North Caiolina railroad, last
August, when twenty-two persons were
killed. The names of the other prisoners
who escaped are: James Patterson, Robert
Pharr, Will Smith, Abe Johnson aad John
Graham. All are colored exoept the first
named, and all except Boyd were in jail fop
larceny. Five prisoners" were loft in th 4
jail.
A favorable opportunity.
A better time for tho work could not liava
been selected. Sheriff Smith was absent,
having gone to Statesville on business, ap tj
for part of the night Mrs. Smith was away'
attending a wedding. The prisoners hn i,
wrenched a bar from some of the Ironworks
about tho banisters, and with this they du{i
a hole through the oell walls. On one sidaj
of the oorridor throe cells were ocoupied.
The fourth oell on tho oornor was vaoani
aud the door was open. The prisoners oim
this row cut through the wall from oell
No, 1 into No. 2, thence through to No. 3.
thenoe through to No. 4, the vacant coll
and then only the outer wulls euoompassoiz
them on the third floor. McLean and Patter-s
son were confined In a ceil. They bad in
the meantime cut a hole through their oell
door. McLean stayed in, but Patterson
went out and joined the other prisoners.
CTTTING THROUGH THE WALL.
They went to the third floor balcony andl
began work on a slit in the wall, first sus-t
pending a blanket under the window to
catoh the falling brick and mortar. Iu
very short time they had enlarged the open
ing. making a hole ten inches broad and
fifteen Indies long. Then they fastened
their blanket rope and let it down outside,
thus making their escape easily. The ess
oapoof Boyd, the train wrooker, is a mattes
that hat stirred up the people. He was
Jailed here last January aud was to ha< •
been tried at the Juno term of the criminal
court. The railroad meu had a very strong
case against him. None of the escaped
prisoners have been recaptured.
KILLED HIS MOTHER AND AUNT.
Tho Murderer Supposed to Have
Ended His Life by Drowning.
Houston, Txx., March BL—Mrs. Annie
Shaw, an aged lady, and her widowed sister,
Mrs. Johnson, havo resided at No. 273 Prai
ries street for a long time. With them lived
Walter E. Shaw, a son of the former lady,
a luwyer about 35 years old. The young
man has never done any good for himself,
giving up his time to dissipation.
Last night at 8 o’clock Shaw
was at home with the family. This tnoru
tug at 9 o’clock some neighbors who went to
visit the ladies found both of them dead oo
the dialog room floor. Mrs. Shaw’s throat
was cut from ear to ear, while her sister’s
was slashed through the jugular to the wind
pipa.
DONE WITH A RAZOR.
In an adjoining room war found a bloody
razor all hacked to pieoes, with whioh the
worst tragedy ever known In lion-ton was
committed. Beside a wash bowl filled with
bloody water was a half smoked
cigarette with bloody finger Imprints
upon it. Young Shaw, the sou and
nepbow, is missing. This morning at I
o’olock a printer saw a man jump from the
San Jacinto bridge into the Buffalo river,
arid it is supposed this man was Shaw. Tha
oity is wild with excitement, and if Show
has not committed suicido as supposed
he will be lynohed as soon as caught. Dyna
mite is being usod to resurroct the body ir
the bayou, while the country is being
scoured. The family Is one of the oldest and
most respected in Texas. An examination
of the premises shows that all the djora
bad been unlocks! with bloody hands and
all the drawers had been burst opeu, sup
posedly for the purpose of robbsrv.
TELEGRAPH MSN MAY STRIKE.
They Demand t.he Reinstatement cf
One of Their Number.
Wichita, Kan., March 31.—A1l the tele
graph operators on the St. Louis and San
Pranolsoo pledged last night to hold them
selves iu readiness to strike on April 1 i(
the demands of the Order of Railway Teleg
raphers in the matter of the reinstatement
of J. M. Groome were not complied with by
that time. Groorne was depot agent and
operator at Piedmont, Kan., and a month
ago failed to deliver a message in tha
country. Complaint was made aud Grooma
was discharged. A committee of the Order
of Railway Telegraphers investigated and
found that Groome oomplied with the rules
of both the Western Union and railroad
company. Chief Ramsey last night de
manded his reinstatement by April 1.
DOCK HANDS STRIKE.
Two Thousand Colored Bands Quit
Work at St. Louis.
St. Louis, Mo,, March 31. —All the meats
bers of the marine firemen and roustabout
anion ami longshoremen’s association
(colored organizations) to the number of
2,000 went on a strike this morning aud tha
river front has presorted an animated
scene all day. The strike is under tha
auspices of the American Federation of La*
bor. Four steamers came into port this
morning, and as soon as they were moored
to the landing their crews with
the strikers and the latter have since been
keeping close watch to prevent the hiring
of “scab ,oooas" to unload them. So far
everything has boen very quiet, but noboiy
can yet tell what the result of the strika
will be.
McLearn’a Legacy.
Atlanta , Ga, , March 31.—Commissioner
BradwelJ to-day wrote Levi Brown, oonsul
at Glasgow, Scotland, authorizing him to
claim for tba state the $8,500 McLmrn leg
acy, left a century ago, for negro eduoitiun
in Georgia.
Dealings In Futures Authorized.
Charleston, S. C., March 31.—At a
meeting of the cotton exchange to-day a
resolution was adopted authorizing dealings
in futures on the floor of the exchange.
A Cotton Ginnery Burned.
Marianna, Fla., March 31.—A. Merritt
lost bis gin bouse last night by fire. The
origin is unknown. It was insured for
$1,300.