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ESTABLISHED ISM. INCOHP' 'HATED 1888.
l i. U. LaiILL, President.
LONDON LABOR ON PARADE.
Trades Unionists Get Up a Monster
Demonstration.
The Turn Out in Favor of the Em
ployers’ Liability Bill and Against
the House of Lords The Parade
formed Along the Embankment and
Was a Motley One— Speaking in
Hyde Park.
London, ’March 18.—The trades union
ists demonstration in favor of the employ
es liability bill, and against the House
of Lords, was in progress all this after
do! n. It transferred London, the Thames
embankment and the other side of Hyde
park into an indescribable bedlam. The
w hole district was filled with working
nu n and paupers, brass bands, proces
sions, banners and truck loads of specta
tors.
The weather was discouraging. The sun
was obscured by a mist, the air was raw,
and it was unusually dirty under foot.
Before 11 o’clock crowds from the east
and northern quarters began
gathering at the embankment along
the proposed routes of the
the procession. Prom the north district
came the scum of all London. A more
sudden, beer-soaked lot could not be
found in any great city of Europe. The
men Were but half clad in tattered, faded
coats, occasionally contrasting strangely
with brand-new trousers, which had been
purchased for the gala day. The
women came with babies in
arms and small children clinging
to their skirts. Family parties camped
in little open spaces, or in doorways, and
there consumed fruit, nuts or hot pota
ti s. which were sold in great quantities
along the walks. The London rabble
loves a holiday, and despite their pitiablo
poverty, the crowds indulged in much
horse play, dancing and general picnicing.
THE PROCESSION.
The main procession formed on the em
bankment Shortly before noon. Thou
sands took their places in the line, and
thousands more marched beside the regu
lar parade or walked in the rear. The
workingmen in the procession were in
their working clothes, somewhat tidied
for the occasion, and embellished with
bright neckties. Some had new waist
coats. a few new trousers, but the greater
part of every man's suit botrayed extreme
poverty. Mounted marshals, who grinned
sheepishly at their friends along
tho route, led the line. Behind
them came the unions and tho so
cieties marching four, eight or ten abreast.
Many women walked with their hus
bands, some of them leading their little
hoys by the hand. Many more filled the
vans and brakes which accompanied the
parade from the embankment to the park.
The rows of men in the procession were
h'lddc ti together and they marched away
with exceptional rapidity, yet the line re
quTi-d two hours to pass a given point
just off the embankment.
THE BANNERS.
The 100 banners in the procession rep
resented all the trades. Many of them
were twenty feet square and wore con
stantly being tangled with Irish flags,
mounted mottoes and transparencies,
which had been jumbled together with
out se (uonce or system. Vulcans andonep
tunesand blindfold justices, brooms and
rods and little coffins were borne aloft on
platforms or displayed from the tail
hoar ds of carts. One truck carried a
coßin with the Union Jack surmounted
with the sign: "The veto coffin of the
House of Lords.” before and after the
truck came groups of sigss such as
"Town with the Lords;” “No hereditary
lawmakers:” “The Lords threw out the
employers liability hill; let us throw
them out.”
The most troublesome part of the pro
cession was the bands, for there were
more than a hundred of them in the line
and each insisted upon marching in front
of certain unions. Some times four were
playing within 200 feet of each other,
raising such a discordant din as to con
fuse those in the parade and
elicit jeers from the specta
tors. In several cases rival bands
fell in side by side. Some came to blows,
hut most of them fought out the contest
by playing bass drums and trombones
with all the force they could
muster. The crowds along the route were
good natured and applauded and cheered
tlm contestants. This bedlam lasted from
noon tos o’clock, when those who bad not
gone to the park dispersed to their
homes.
THE SPEAK ING IN THE PARK.
The meetings in the park were attend
ed by the first of the thousands.
There were twelve platforms and more
than a hundred speakers. The most no
table addresses were made by Ben Til
t'd. the dockers friend; John Burns, la
ocr, member of parliament for Battersea;
.Joseph Arch, liberal, Member of Parlia
ment for the north west
division of London; James Howlands,
radical, member of parliament for the
division of Finsbury,
Michael Austin, anti-Parnellite
lor the west division of Limerick;
Samuel Woods, miners member of parlia
ment for the Inee division of Lancashire;
Hhurles Fenwick, miners member of par
liament for the Wans beck division of
Northumberland; William C. Remer,
radical reform member of parliament for
the Haggerston division of Shore Ditch,
-t il the speakers were interrupted repeat
edly with cheers.
A SHOT IN A CHURCH.
It Was Fired by Accident and No Ono
Wounded by the Bullet.
Atlanta, Ga., March 18.—To-day was an
ideal Palm Sunday and the church
services were largely attended. Tho
services in tho Bollock Street Baptist
church were suddenly and seriously in
terrupted by the discharge of a pistol in
the congregation during the sermon. It
caused a temporary panic and a police
man was called and carried Will
?',m Roberts to the loc’k-up, where
he gave a. bond for S2OO for his appear
ance before the recorder. Roberts is a
telegraph operator at Jackson Station, S.
G, on the Port Royal railroad, and was
spending Sunday in the city. He had a
Pistol in the side pocket of his sack coat
and on pulling out his hauderchief it was
accidently discharged. The bullet lodged
>n the pew and did no harm. Roberts
"as much mortified by the accident.
W. B. Whiting Dying.
New York, March 18.—The physicians
,, ni * snrgi'tm.H in attendance upon William
V, hitin t have no hope for his recovery,
and say that it is only a question of a few
“"*is until the end comes.
DEATH IN A CYCLONE.
Ten or Twelve Lives Lost in a Mid
night Blow in Texas.
Longview, Tex., March 18.—A cyclone
swept over this place at 1 o’clock this
morning, accompanied by hail stones of
immense site. The greatest fury was (5
miles east of here, where it struck
the large country home of John
Cain, lately occupied by a large
family of negroes. The house was in an
ancient grove of oaks, twenty in number.
Every one of them was torn up, and piled
up in terrible confusion with dead fowls,
dogs and cows, and five dead and eight
badly wounded negroes.
Old man Alexander Lester was found
fifty yards away, entirely nude and dead.
His old wife, Sarah, was pinned under a
tree, mangled and dead.
Alexander Lester, Jr., was mangled
and is dead. *
Robert Lester, 9 years old, was found
near a tree without mark of violence
dead.
Jasper Collins was pinned under a large
oak. snugly covered in bed with his head
crused and limbs broken, dead. Beside
him, crawled painfully out his young
wife, Moilie Collins, with an ugly hole in
the center of her forehead. She will
recover.
Sissy Lester, an infant, was found in a
fallen tree top with her legs and arms
crushed, dead.
Silas Johnson, who was visiting, was
bruised from head to foot, but no bones
broken, and will recover.
Frank Dizer, also visiting, had a leg
broken below the knee. He may recover.
Dock Simmons, who was in bed with
Alexander Lester, Jr., had his head
bruised and will die.
Odessa Lester. 4 years of age, had a leg
and both arms broken, and will die. She
was found many yards away in a field.
Arthur Lester, ti years old, had a leg
broken in two places, above and below
tho knee and was otherwise badly
bruised. Ho will die.
Willie Lester. 5 years old, was slightly
hurt. He says he woke up a long ways
from home in a field suffering from hail
and rain.
Ben Hope, a white man near by,
brought assistance immediately and the
dead and dying were taken to a one room
house to E. C. Edwards, a son-in-law,
where they were laid in bed in strange
confusion umonscious and suffering, side
by side, the correspondent often mistak
ing the living for the dead. Drs. Hall
and Wilson were attendiug the worst
hurt, while the wounded who were able,
hobbled painfully, bleeding about the
yard bemoaning the fate of their relatives
and friends.
A WOMAN’S HOUSE BLOWN AWAT.
Half a mile south of this house, the
house of Mrs. Davis, a white woman,
was completely demolished, but, with the
exception of a few painful bruises, all es
caped.
John Buffett’s wagon house near by was
blown away, and much of it has not been
found yet.
The grainery of Nick Harris, two miles
east, was unroofed.
The house of Sallie Jones, colored, was
wrecked, and her 4-year-old daughter,
Lorilla, was perhaps fatally wounded by
hailstones.
A passenger train passed just as the
cyclone swept by, narrowly escaping it.
All previous accounts of immense hail
stones and wind dwindled into insignifi
cance. Many of these blocks of ice
weighed from fourteen to eighteen ounces,
while others, found as late as 9 o'clock a.
m. to-day, after a warm rain and warm
weather, were larger thau a goose egg.
Two or three missels passed through the
roof of C. l£. Thornton’s residence, mak
ing a hole like a cannon ball, while fowls
roosting in the trees were killed by the
hundreds.
About 300 window lights were broken
in this place, farm fene'es and fruit tree3
were prostrated for miles around.
Full particulas will doubtless swell the
casualty.
HOUSES DEMOLISHED NEAR JACKSON.
Jackson. Tex., March 18.—About 11
o’clock to-night a cyclone coming from
tho southwest struck James Erwin's
place, one mile and a half west of town.
The residence was occupied by J. G. Mor
gau, wife and two children. The house
and all its surroundings were torn com
pletely asunder and scattered for 200
yards in different directions, but all tho
family escaped unhurt except a few slight
bruises.
The path of the eyclono was only about
seventy-five yards wide and about 300
yards "in length at this particular place,
hut it dipped down again about one mile
northeast, completely demolishing an
othsr house occupied by a negro family
named Bill Jones, Mr. White’s barn and
several other out houses. So fat; no one
has been reported killed, though several
were injured.
BELGIUM'S KING MISSING.
After Much Telegraphing He Was
Found at Geneva, Switzerland.
Brussels, March 18.—King Leopold’s re
markable disappearance from his country
house in the province of Namur, some
days ago, is still the subject of much
comment. The ministry sent a dispatch
to him on Friday, announcing that the
chambers’ rejection of the proposal for
proportional representation would cause
a cabinet crisis. The dispatch was ad
dressed to tho king at Montreux,
but he could not be found
there. A similar communica
tion was sent to Aix-Les-Baines. but it
was returned with the notice that the
king was not there. This afternnon his
majesty was found in Geneva. Switzer
land, and was informed that the ministers
would await his return to Brussels before
making an important declaration in par
liament.
The radical and socialist newspapers
condemn the king without measure for
absenting himself so mysteriously during
a grave crisis in state affairs. They say
that he might at least subordinate his
personal affairs to state interests suffici
ently to give his ministers an opportunity
to communicate with him.
ROUGH ON HX3 WIFE.
Having Lost Kis Salary Gambling, a
Man Takes Rough on Rats.
Chattanooga, Tenn., March 18.—Joe
Cardin, an engineer, committed suicide
by taking rough on rats. He lost his
month’s salary Friday night in a gambling
room, and was ashamed to face his wife,
preferring death. He was 32 years of
age and considered an exemplary young
man. this being his first gambling experi
ence. He leaves a wife and young child.
Held as a Bomb Thrower.
Paris, March 18. —An anarchist named
Oritz was arrested here last evening. He
is supposed to have been Emile Henry’s
accomplice in making and placing tho
bomb which exploded iu the Rue des
Bon, Enfants police station in November,
1893.
SAVANNAH, GA., .MONDAY. MARCH 19,1894.
GERMAN AFFAIRS OF STATE.
No Split in the Ministry Over the
Russian Treaty.
No Immediate Changes In the Ex
ternal or Internal Policy of the Em
pire to Follow the Treaty’s Ratifies- '
tion—Changes in the Personnel of
Government Officers-An Anti-Mon
archical Debate in the Reichstag.
(Copyright, 1891, by the United Press.)
Berlin, March 18.—Count Schouvaloff
celebrated the ratification of the recipro
city treaty with a dinner at the Russian
embassy last night. The list of his guests
proves that, as Chancellor von Caprivi
said in the reichstag, the ministers stood
shoulder to shoulder behind him in the
struggle against the agragrians. It in
cluded the names of all the ministers who
were supposed to be opposing the treaty
and trying to preciptate a cabinet
crisis on account of it. There
were no speeches except toasts
to the emperor and czar, which were de
manded by form. Both toasts, however,
were so notably cordial as to show the
heartiness with wbich the entento had
been concluded. Emperor William ap
peared in a Russian uniform at the dinner,
and spoke his toast to the czar's health
in Russian. The Sunday newspapers say
that these facts prove the complete re
vival of the entente between Germany
and Russia.
NO CHANGE IN POLICY.
Whatever departure from his former
policy the emperor may contemplate,
nothing occurred at last night's dinner to
indicate that the new treaty would effect
any immediate changes in tho internal
or external policy of the empire. The
truth is that state affairs will lie fallow
for the next three weeks, which the em
peror will pass with his family in Abba
zia. When the landtag and reichstag
assemble after the Eastor holidays, they
will find everything as they left them.
The parties will not be disturbed for the
present with any alteration of the govern
ment programme, as the ministers aro no
less anxious than their chief for a short
rest.
CHANGES IN PERSONNEL.
The newspapers are filled with rumors
of pending changes in the personnel of the
government officers. Dr. von Boettichere,
imperial secretary of the interior, is ex
pected to retire in favor of Herr von Koel
ler, now under secretary for Alsace and
Lorraine. Herr von Richthoffon,president
of the Berlin police, is said to he on the
point of resigning. The most likely can
didates for his place are Herr Koenigs
doerf, president of the council in Cassel,
or the emperor’s favorite, Herr Staub
benrauch.
All these rumors are approximately cor
rect. Herr von Richthoffen is disliked by
the chancellor, and hated by the social
democrats and radicals, who are in the
large majority in Berlin. He fills well
an office which has become as important
as any in the empire, however, and
neither the chancellor nor emperor is
sure of finding a man equally efficient for
his duties. As soon as the proper suc
cessor shall be found, Herr Richthoffen
will be thrown over.
In official circles many other changes in
the administrative offices are expected
shortly, but none of them will affect the
internal or external policy of the govern
ment. They will be purely personal^
AN ANTI-MONARCHIAL DEMONSTRATION.
While the closing debates in the treaty
were comparatively tame, the grant for
the monument to Emperor William was
discussed with great bitterness by the
deputies. The social democrats and rad
icals surpassed themselves. They made
the debate an anti-monarchical demon
stration, such as the reichstag had
not witnessed before for many years.
August Bebel, the social democratic
leader, had the audacity to declare thaf
tho social democrats, as a party, were
animated by anti-dynastic and antl-mon
archial principles, and could never assent
to vote for the erection of a monument to
a man who represented all that was hos
tile to their sentiments. This and much
more of the same sort the deputies of tHe
right and center greeted with only mild
protests, although former reichstags
would have howled down anybody mak
ing such declaration from the speaker’s
tribune.
THE CURRENCY COMMISSION.
The imperial currency commission will
resume work ou April 6. To simpify the
commission’s deliberations the govern
ment has issued a statement of tho minis
terial attitude on the silver question.
The statement concerns especially the
chancellor’s proposal to remint and issue
in mark pieces some 22,(1)0,000 marks’
worth of thalei s now lying idle in the Im
perial bank. It says that at the end
of December the Imperial hank held
silver valued at 82.720,000 marks.
Since December the bank has
received from its branches applications to
increase their stock by 89,494,000, but
only 9 per cent, of the amounts called for
could be supplied. The trade centers of
the Rhino country, Westphalia and Sax
ony have complained much of tho lack of
the larger silver coins which are used in
paying wages. In view of tlieso com
plaints and the demands of solid business
interests in other parts of tho empire,
Count Von Mirbach, Herr Yon Kardoff
and other agrarian bimetallists are re
garded as hardly justified in their
opposition to the chancellor’s proposals.
Their aim, however, is evident. It is to
drive the government to convene an inter
national conference on the silver ques
tion. As money matters become compli
cated by the changes in progress iu Aus
tria, Italy, and India, it is just possible
that the bimettalists will accomplish
something by their constant nagging. For
political ends, chiefly to appease the
agrarians, the government may assent to
initiate the conference.
CAMEROON’S IIENTERLAND
Men interested in the colonial affairs
think that the foreign office was some
what overreached in the convention with
France as to the Cameroons Hinterland.
Petitions from German firms in the Af
rican trade are pouring into the foreign
office. All beseech the government to
defer the signing of the convention
until after its publication. Tne
E’rcnch newspapers have published
enough of the text to show that France
would acquire the right from the Atlan
tic seaboard of her Congo possessions to
the unlimited interior stretching to the
southern Nile, while Germany would be
limited from her Cameroons seaboard to
a small portion of Lake Tchad. French
reports that the convention has been
signed are not believed. The colonial
offico is overwhelmed daily with inquiries
and protests against such an arrangement.
England's eventual attitudo toward the
convention is uncertain. At present she
gives no sign of assent or rejection.
HYPNOTISTS ON TRIAL.
A court trial which has excited much
interest among medical men, was con
cluded in Strassburg on Wednesday. The
prisoner was a quack named Jost, better
known as "the sleeper of Dortishoim."
He was originally a tailor in Dortisheim,
but he went to Paris two or three years
ago and attended the magnetic circle
under Dr. Dcsjardens. There he was j
filled with ideas concerning the j
powers of hypnotism, and when he
returned to his home, ho began to
practice hypnotic healing He charged
no regular fee, but was wont to get about
40 marks as a “gratituity" from every
body who consulted him. With a woman
sssistant named Wolffe and another named
Grosse, he thus built up an income
of 50.000 marks a year. He and his as
sistants were arrested as quacks The
trial turned on the crucial point of tho
ability of Jost nnd his associates as hyp
notists. Prof. Nanuoy ami Prof. Fuistner,
and counsellor, Dr. Drieger, of Srass
burg, thought all three were impostors.
Gen. Von Berglann. governor of the
Strassburg fortress, Dr. Langsdortf and
Prof. Bernheim, of Nancy, held that the
three were honest and capable. The hyp
notists got the advantage of the doubt,
and Jost was sentenced to serve fourteen
months in prison and to pay a fine of 800
marks. Grosse was sentenced to seven
months and Wolffe five months, besides
being fined 100 marks.
A FAILURE AT NUREMBURG.
William Heidenheimer and Messrs.
Seckendorff & Cos., the largest merchants
in Nuremburg, have gone into liquida
tion. T4ie membors of another hop firm,
Masset & Warner have tied. The col
•lapse is supposed to be a consequence of
the famous Maas failure.
The Wurtemburg deputies have adopt
ed a motion to inquire into tho arrange
ment between their king and tho em
peror concerning the appointment of
officials by the military cabinet. They
think the arrangement violates tho Wur
temburg constitution.
The emperor manifested his usual inter
est in the Oxford-Cambridge boat race.
Oxford was his favorite, and as soon as
he received the special race report which
he had ordered, he sent a dispatch of
congratulation.
CRIPPLE CREEK’S WAR CLOUD.
Grave Dangor of a Fight Between the
Military and the Miners.
Cripple Creek, Col., March 18.—This
afternoon and evening a conference was
held in the Palace hotol, at which about
fifty people were present. C. G. Hatha
way, president of the Bimetallic bank,
occupied the chair. The militia was rep
resented by Adjt. Gen. Tarsney and Col.
E. J. Brooks. The sentiment of all the
speakers was in favor of a military move
ment against the organized labor move
ment that seems now to
have some further object than
the question of eight hours. Adjt.
Gen. Tarsney said that the laws of the
state had been violated in various ways
by mob interference and resistance to ar
rest, that the orders of the court enjoin
ing the minors from interference with
workmen willing to labor in tho mines at
the terms of the companies had been dis
obeyed, and that deputy sheriffs had been
assaulted on Thursday night and some of
them had been wounded.
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THE SHERIFF TO BE SUSTAINED.
All these matters were thoroughly re
viewed and It was the unanimous ex
pression that the sheriff must be sustained
in the performance of his duties, and that
the military powers of the state shall
talce immediate steps to see that the
sheriff is assisted in his work. This
means that an early show of force shall
be made. The militia will be augmented
by hundreds of deputies that have been
sworn in during the past week. When the
movement will be made is uncertain, but
it is intimated by Col. Brooks that there
will be no haste.
ENTRY OF TIIE MILITARY.
The town was quiet when the militia
same in at 8 o'clock this morning. They
had halted out of town in the early morn
ing for a short rest. They were hooted
by some miners in their passage through
the street to their camping place below
the Palace hotel. They number about
800 and present a good appearance.
At a late hour lust night the sheriff
and a posse quietly effected the arrest of
Mayor Martin Dean, of Altman, and
John Calferwood, president of the
miners’ union, upon the charge of resist
ance and assault.
A RALLY BY THE MIXERS.
This morning the news of this arrest
stirred up the miners on the hill and they
flocked over to Altman to discuss the
situation. They are well armed and
have the great advantage of position. It
will be difficult, if not impossible, to movo
the artillery up the steep rounded sides
of the hills covered with undergrowth of
shrubs and trees, the only roads being
burro trails. The programme will be to
attempt to gain possession of the mines
that are working and then protect the
workmen from the violence of the miners.
BRUTAL BUTCHERY.
Two Mexicans Kill a Man of 90 Years
and Two Children.
Guanajuato, Mex., March 18.—This city
is greatly stirred up over a horrible crime
that has just been committed by two men
of the lower class named Jose Flores and
Sixto Martinex. They entered the resi
dence of Pedro Iwtrero, aged 90 years,
and stabbed the old man to death with
knives. The deed was witnessed
by two grandchildren of the mur
dered men, and they began to
scream. The villains thereupon killed
them both, a boy aged 9 years, and his sis
ter, aged live years. They then repeat
edly outraged the murdered giri, and af
ter robbing the house made their escape.
The triple murder was witnessed by a
servunt of tho household, who secreted
herself in a place of safety whilo the hor
rible work was going on. She gave tho
alarm, to the officers, and the two murder
ers were soon apprehended and will bo
shot without any unnecessary formalities.
THROWN OUT AND KILLED.
A Negro Loses His Life While Driving
to Augusta.
Augusta, Ga., March 18.—Tom Berry, a
negro vegetable vender, was accidentally
killed at midnight last night. He was
out selling vegetables in a wagon when
his horse became frightened and ran
away. While coming over Harrisburg
bridge down the embankment, the reins
broke and the horse upset the wagon and
threw Berry out. The negro fell in a
elite'., on his head ho forcibly as to cause
concussion of the brain, from which he
died shortly afterwurds.
Florida’s Pineapple Crop.
Jacksonville, Fla., March 18.—The first
shipment of Florida pineapples will be
made April 15. The crop this year is es
timated at 50,000 crates, an increase of
15,000 over the last crop.
FELTON A GAME FIGHTER. I
He Coes for the Louisville and
Nashville Without Gloves.
He Claims That the Increase in Busi
ness of the Queen and Crescent is
Because the Line is Shorter Than Its
Rival—He Also Points out That the
Louisville Lost Business by Reason
of Floods and Strikes—Doctoring of
Bills of Lading Denied.
Cincinnati. 0.. March IS.—Receiver S.
M. Felton lias given out his answer to tho
accusations of President Smith, of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad bearing
date of Feb. is. in that letter President
Smith, iu giving his reasons for
withdrawing from tho Southern
Railway and Steamship Association,
rather bitterly accused his competi
tors, notable the Queen and Crescent, of
which President Felton is the receiver, of
cutting rates in violation of the compact
and of the federal law. President Fel
ton s reply avoids recrimination and is
wholly con lined to answering President
Smith's statement of grounds for his ad
verse conclusions.
HAlll) SLAPS AT SMITH.
In answer to the argument that tho
Queen and Crescent’s increase of earn
ings in 1893 indicated a cutting of rates,
President Felton says that in 1893, tho
road was for tho hist time in several
years sufficiently equipped to meet all the
demands for business made upon it; that
moreover, it was a llti miles shorter
routo from Cincinnati to Chattanooga
and Florida and seventy miles
shorter to New Orleans than the
Imuisville and Nashville, and further
more that as the Southern was paying an
annual rental to Cincinnati, and tho busi
ness men of tho city cave it the prefer
ence. In regard to the disparity of freight
traffic between the Louisville and Nash
ville, Receiver Felton reminds Presi
dent Smith that the Ixmisvillc
and Nashville during 1893 was
crippled by hoods near New Orleans
and later by a great strike on its lino
which would invalidate any judgment
formed on that basis. He therefore sug
gests that Mr. Smith, in liis comparison
of competitive tonnage assmnmod condi
ditions which did not exist.
Till! KE-SHIPPINU HirSINESS.
To President Smith's charge that tho
Queen and Crescent sets at defiance all
re-shipping rules; that bills of lading,etc.,
are doctored; that pointsof shipments are
falsified; that bills of lading issued at
Chicago are made to read as though the
grain originated at some point in Kansas
or Nebraska, to these charges Receiver
Felton says; “I desire to state most em
phatically that there Is no foundation
whatever for the abovecharges, and adds,
“the vigilance exercised by the commis
sioner and his deputies at Cincinnati and
Louisville over the matter of reshiping
data (which I have no desire or intention
of criticising, but heartily commend), is
in marked contrast to the loose method in
vogue at Nashville.”
Mr. Felton says, cuttingly, that the
policy of the Louisville and Nashville
compelled Ixjuisville and Cincinnati to
open avenues of their own to the south.
Tho letter is very long and full of fig
ures, but the points givon’fcbove are the
salients.
SUPREME COURT CASES.
Those to Be Argued Before the Full
Bench Next Month.
Washington, March 18.—By the ap
pointment of Senator White, of Lousiana,
to be assistant Justice, the supreme court
of tho United States has once more its
legal quota of justices, and the court will
soon take up and hear arguments in
those casos which it has been de
sired shall be heard beforo a full
bench. There are enough of these
cases to occupy tho attention of tho
court for more than a month, and tho
present expectation is that April will be
consumed in that way. All depends,
however, on the condition of Justieo
Jackson, who is now in the south recu
perating his health, but it is believed that
he will have recovered sufficiently to be
able to take his seat on April a, or possi
bly a week earlier, as the reports which
have been received from hitn lately have
been favorable. The court has set the
Indiana tax cases for a hearing before a
full bench on March 26, though it is said
to be probable that the arguments In the
caso will bo heard whethor .1 ustlce Jack
son is here or not. it being tho desire of
those interested to have tho case dis
posed of.
Among the important cases assignod by
the court for hearing beforo a full bench
on April 2, are the following, involving
the constitutionality of the Texas rail
road laws: Oleomargarine cases from
Massachusetts; a reargument of the case
of Constable et al vs. the National Steam
ship Company, limited, which has been
pending for a longtime; reargunent of
tho case of Hilton vs. Gniot. involving tho
question of foreign judgments; Harden
>,s. the Northern Pacific railroad and rail
road cases from Montana.
The cases assigned for hearing
l on April 9, include tho following:
The interstate commerce commis
sion vs. Brimson. from the north
j ern district of Illinois. Ex-Senator Ed
munds appears in this case as tho special
counsel for the commission. The United
; States vs. tho Trans-Missouri Freight As
sociation, from the circuit court of ap
peals of the Eighth circuit, and the
United States appelant vs. the Western
j Union Telegraph Company and tho Union
Pacific Railroad Company.
There are upwards of twenty more
cases awaiting argument before a full
bench, but up to this time no steps have
been taken to assign them for hearing.
SMUGGLINGS CHINESE.
A Former Special Agent of the Repub
licans Under Arrest.
El Paso, Tex., March 18.—For several
| months El Paso has been considered the
| chief port of entry for smuggled Chinese,
I and L. S. Irwin who served as special
| agent under President Harrison, has been
! looked upon as an agent and attorney
for the Chinese Six Companies. Spe
cial agent Wagstaff and his assistants,
as well as the collector's depart
ment have been ou the lookout for
i proof on which to arrest Irwin. On Fri
day night a Chinaman, who has also been
1 regarded as an important factor In tho
smuggling business, told the officers the
whole story of their plans, and yesterday
morning Irwin and six Chinamen were
arrested. Other arrests will follow.
Irwin declares his innocence of any viola
i tion of the law, and is coundent of ac
quittal.
Mrs. John W. Noble Dead.
St. Eouis, March 18. —Mrs. John W.
| Noblo, wife of ex-Presidcrit Harrison’s
Secretary of the Interior, died suddenly
i at her home in this city to-ni 0 -ht.
HENRY APPEL INSANE.
A Popular Savannahian Under Treat
ment in the North.
Mount Vernon. N. Y., March 18.— !
Henry Appel, aged as, who gave his resi
dence as Savannah, Ga., was taken into I
custody t his morning by the local polico
at the Harlem railroad station while lie
was endeavoring to pursuade the station
agent to give him a ticket for New York
city and take in exchange his valuable
gold watch as payment. This excitbd an
officer’s suspicion and ho took Mr.
Appel to the polico station, where
Chief Foley interrogated him and suc
ceeded in learning his name anil address.
The chief soon concluded that Mr Appel
was insane. Later he received a tolo
phone message from Granher's sanita
rium for the insane at Bronxville, N. Y.,
saying that a patient named Appel had
escaped this moruing. Mr. Appel was
returned to the asylum this afternoon.
Mr. Appel is well connected in Savannah.
Mr. Appel was takon north recently for
treatment for what his physicians and
friends here believe is only a temporary
mind trouble. Ho had been acting
strangely for sometime. It was evident
that he needod care and treatment that
lie could not receive hero and ho was
taken to a sanitarium.
GERMANY’S REVOLUTIONISTS.
The Anniversary of their Death 'Cele
brated at Berlin.
Berlin, March 18.—Tho usual March
celebration in honor of tho men who fell
in tho revolution of 1848 was hold here
to-day. Tne weather was bright and
cold and thousands went to the Fried
richsbain cemetery to decorate the
graves of the doad. Hugo masses of
wreaths and loose flowers were piled on
the graves. The socialists and radicals
tied the bouquets with red ribbons and
the anarchists with black. The inscrip
tions on the wreaths refer to the work
of tho March revolutionists and its re
sults. They were examined carefully by
the polico and several wero seized.
Conspicuous in tlie crowd at the ceme
tery wore tho social democratic members
of the city council. Among those visiting
tlie graves during the afternoon were
many students, members of the
rowing clubs, umrketmen and
clerks. The labor unions were
well represented in tlie crowd. The
I'o!es. socialists and Rich tor radicals were
equally demonstrative in doing honor to
tho dead. All were orderly and tho police
found no occasion for interference. The
anarchists delivered the orations which
they had prepared for the day iu the near
by saloons and private halls.
FRANCE’S CABINET.
Credit For a New Ministry Necessary
if They Retain Office.
Paris, ffjarch 18. — I The cabinet has been
placed in an awkward position by tho
Senate’s refusal yesterday to pass at once
the credit for the creation of a ministry
of colonies. The assurance of the repub
lican loaders that this refusal did not
result from any want of con
fidence has not broken tho force
of the refusal, and Premier Casimir-
I’erier still stands by ids
declaration of yesterday that ho cannot
retain his office unless the credit in ques
tion be passed at once. Tho Senate which
was adjourned yesterday until April 15
will meet to-morrow in special session to
act in tho matter. M. Challemel-Lacour,
president of the Senate, sent out the
summons for tlie session last evening im
mediately after an interview with the
premier. Tho republican senators ai>-
parently are confident that the credit will
be voted and the threatened crisis will bo
averted.
GOV. WAITE'S FIGHT.
Tho Attorneys of the Commissioners
Working for Delay.
Denver, March 18.—The attorneys for
Martin and Orr don’t want to argue upon
the merits of the question and statement
submitted before the supreme court by
Gov. Waite, as to who the legal members
of the board are. Their contention has
been all the time that the question of the
right of Judge Graham to issue a writ
of attachment upon tlie governor
should first be discussed. They will ask
on their application beforo Judge Lynn
for the arrest of the governor for con
tempt to-morrow, and will not appear be
fore the supreme court. This is behoved
to lie another pretext for delay. Governor
Waite is very much disgusted with de
lays. This was his reason for calling out
tlie miliiia to force tlie issue. Public sen
timent is setting in strong in favor of a
settlement by the court of final resort.
The federal troops returned to Fort Lo
gan tiiis {Burning.
DENVER’S DEPOT BURNED.
The Structure Reduced to Ruins in
Than an Hour.
Denver, Colo., March 18. - The union
depot was totally destroyed by fire this
moruing, tho loss being SBOO,OOO. The
flames were discovered at 12:30 o’clock
this morning in tlie baggage department
in the south end of the building. Tho tiro
burned fiercely and in spite of all the de
partment could do it gained headway, run
ning along the roof in a manner that de
fied all efforts to check. At 1 o’clock it
reached the central portion of tho build
ing, and in a few minutes the tower was
in Hawes, aiid portions of it began to fall,
in three-quarters of hour from tho time
the blaze was discovered the handsomest
and most costly depot structure in the
west was in ruins. The depot was about
809 feet long, and was built about twelve
years ago.
ROSEBERY AND HOME RULE.
Irish Leaders Satisfied With the
Premiers Last Declaration.
London, March 18.—In addressing
meetings held to-day in honor of St. Pat
rick, .John Dillon, Edward Blake and
Michael Dayitt, expressed themselves as
perfectly satisfied with Lord Rosebery’s
declaration in Edinburg concerning his
attitude to home rule. They agreed that
the premier's attitude proved him to be
an honest borne ruler. Timothy Healy
said ho was glad Lord Rosebery had
withdrawn his parlimentary statement,
“if tlie Parnollites would only join us,”
he added, “it would be better than any
number of English declarations.”
Milan’B Divorce Annulled.
Belgrade, March 18.—Tlie decree of tlie
Episcopal synod annulling the divorce of
ex-King Milan and cx-Queen Natalie, was
published here yesterday. The ox-queen
is expected to come to the city soon to
join her Uust nd.
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DAGAIIA NOT TOBEGIVENUP
Portugal Won’t Accede to Brazil’s
Request.
The Portuguese War Ship Sails Away
From Rio With the Admiral and
Twenty of His Officers on Board.
The Vessel Believed to Be en Route
to Montevideo- Da Gama Would
Have Been Executed.
(Copyrighted 1894, by tho Associated Press.)
Rio Janeiro, March 18.— Judging from
the course of events here, it is thought
by impartial observers that the Portu
guese government does not intend to
honor tho request made iqnm it for the
surrender of Admiral da Gama,
who was latoly in command of
tho insurgent fleet before this
city. Admiral da Gama took refuge on tho
Portuguese corvette Mindejlo when tho
insurrection hero collapsed. President
Pelxoto demanded that the admiral and
the officers, who were with him, be de
livered to him; Tho Portuguese minister
declined to order tho commander of tho
Mindello to surrender the fugitives, and
President Peixoto appealed, it is said, to
tho Portuguese government to instruct
its minister to ordor tho surrender of tho
Insurgent officers.
DA GAMA TAKEN OUT TO SEA.
Whethor a reply lias been received to
this request or not cannot be definitely
stated, but this afternoon tlie Mindello
and the Albuqurquc, another Portuguese
warship, having on board Admiral Da
Gama and seventy of his officers, put to
sea. it had been thought in some quar
ters that if the vessels attempted to
leave the bay with tho fugitives on board
trouble would ensue. There was not, how
ever, the slightest opposition to their de
parture, and, us a matter of fact, trouble
arising from tills source was never prob
able.
The destination of tlie warships is not
known. It is conjectured tliat they will
go south to Montevideo and land the in
surgent officers there. If they ure landed
at Montevideo they can easily, if they aro
so disposed, join tlie insurgents in tho
states of Sao Paulo and Rio Grande do
Sul. who are still in armed opposition to
the government. Anything said regard
ing their movements is, however, merely
speculative.
WOULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED.
The fact that Admiral da Gama and
his officers have succeeded in getting out
of tlie bay is a matter of great rejoicing
among their friends in this city. "Thera
is no doubt in the minds of anybody that
had the admiral surrendered to the gov
ernment his trial by a drum-head court
martial would have quidkly followed.
There could have been only one result of
a trial of this kind—a seutcnce of death.
Yellow fever continues epidemic. Thu
deaths from the disease average 70 a day.
The United States cruiser Sun Fran
cisco, the flagship of Admiral Benham,
has sailed hence. The usual salutes were
exchanged as she left. It is said hero
that her destination is Bluellclds, Nica
ragua. _____
A MINIATURE LYNCHING BEE.
Two Boys Hang a Companion to a
Tree and Leave Him to Die.
Lexington, Ky., March 18.—A couple of
precocious youths had a miniature lynch
ing bee here last night. John Parrott,
who lives at Forest Hill, found his 12-year
old son dangling from the limb of a tree,
swinging to a rope which encircled hia
neck. Blood was gushing from the boy’s
nostrils and cars, and ho was in a doad
faint. The fattier cut the rope, and by
applying restoratives, soon had his
son in a conscious stato. The boy
said that two companions, one of whom
was Dan Slavin, became enragod at him
for some trifling occurrence, and seizing
him. procured a rope, and after fastening
a noose on it, placed it around his neck.
They then throw the rope over a tree and
yanked him up in real lynching style.
The rope was tied to the trunk of the tree
and tho boy left hanging. Mr. Parrott
procured warrants for the arrest of tha
boys.
LABOR’S NEW ORGAN.
The Washington Times Makes It*
First Appearance.
Washington, March 18. —-The Washing
ton Times, a morning daily, appeared for
the first time in this citv to-day, and
made a very favorable impression. Its
appearance was clean and bright, pre
senting pleasing typographical pages. H.
J. Brown, formerly of the l’ost, and later
of the Roanoke, Va., Times, is the busi
ness manager, and 'Marshall Cushing
editor-in-chief.
BACKED BY I.ABOB.
The Times begins its career with a cir
culation iu Washington of 10,000 copies,
I.noo of which are delivered to the em
ployes of the government printing office.
It will be a four page paper on week days
and from eight to twenty-four on Sunday.
It is strongly hacked by the labor organi
zations, and is unique in tho fact that
fully 4,000 persons are interested as stock
holders in its success.
A SPLIT IN A COLONY.
The Americans in Mexico Break Up
Into Two Communities.
Hurmosillo, Mex., March 18. —Mail ad
vices just received here from Topolo
bami o, via Guaimas, state that the dis
[ sension which lias prevailed in that
| American co-operative colony during tho
past seven months, has resulted in a largo
number of the colonists withdrawing
from the settlement to locate u new
colony in the rich valley of the Yagul
river, in the stale of Sonora. It is re
ported here, on other authority, that
about 82,000 of the funds of tho Tojjolo
batnpo colony had mysteriously disap
peared. No arrests have yet been made.
A Can Manufactory Burned.
Brooklyn, N. Y., March 18.—The flve
story brick building, situated at the cor
ner of Adams and York streets, owned
and occupied by Silas Isaley, as a manu
factory of tin cans, was burned tills after
noon. The loss is $200,000; fully covered
by insurance.
Mcsby to Run for President.
El Paso, Tex.. March 18.—Col. John I.
Mosby, the celebrated cavalry leader In
the confederacy, is in the city en route to
Washington. In an interview to-day. ho
announced that he will be a candidate
for tlie presidency at the next election.
Vance Goes to St. Augustine.
Jacksonville, Fla., March IS. —Senator
Vance left here for St. Augustine this af
ternoon. Ho was feeling stronger to-day,
but hi3 health is still precarious.