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, THE MORNING NEWS. t
) FBTABU3HSD 18*0. INCORPORATED 1888. >
j J. H. ESTILL, President. )
LAKE MICHIGAN IN A FURY.
twelve or Fifteen Lives Probably Lost
Off Chicago.
gix Members of the Crew of a Sohooner
Drowned Off Milwaukee—Scores of
Schooners Battling With the Waves
in a Desperate Effort to Keep Afloat.
The Life Savers at Work All Alonir
the Shore.
Chicago, May 18.—Lake Michigan has
not been lashed and churned for months
as she was to-day by the fierce wind that
has been sweeping down from the north
for the past thirty-six hours. Late to
night, it is believed that twelve or fifteen
lives have been lost along the shore off
this city and its suburbs. The only other
point reporting loss of life is .Mil
waukee, where six of the schooner
Cummings’ crew were drowned this after
noon before they could be rescued by the
life savings crew. Half a dozen schooners
and smaller craft have foundered off this
city during the day; a score or more are
dismantled and stove in, making an
almost hopeless tight against the gale and
the huge waves that every few minutes
sweep over them, endangering the lives
of those who are still on board. It has
been a day of heroic effort and great
suffering for the life-saving crews scat
tered along the shore.
BATTLING WITH THE WAVES.
At least thirty vessels are anchored
outside ti e harbor waiting for the storm
to subside. All are more or less dam
ag'd. and the signals of distress that
have appeared among them from time to
time during the day have kept the life
savers busy. Twenty-five or thirty men
have been brought in, all exhausted and
suffering intensely from the expos
ure and cold. In several cases help
arrived too late, and a corpse was
found among the half-conscious
sailors who, benumbed by the cold and
unable to protect themselves, were al
most drowned by the furious waves. All
night the storm has not abated' and
every hour increases the peril of those on
board the numerous vessels outside the
harbor, pulling at their anchors and in
imminent danger of being brought into
collision with each other or of being
pounded to pieces on the beach.
SCENES OF HORROR.
Scenes of horror that chilled the blood
of thousands of spectators were enacted
in theharbor for two miles below the Illi
nois Central depot in the early evening.
As the storm increased in violence during
the afternoon, the waves grew mountain
high, dashing over the breakwater,
deluging the tracks and enveloping the
passing trains with torrents of spray.
Out in the harbor a dozen three-masted
schooners, heavily laden with lumber
from Michigan, were riding at anchor. A
few minutes after 4 o’clock, three of the
number hoisted signals of distress and
on shore telephoned to the
police and fire departments, as well as to
the life saving station at Jackson Park,
and a few minutes later, the three-master,
Evening Star, of this city, drew
her chains and came for the
shore like a rocket. She struck the
heavy piling in the breakwater, and
her timbers crashed in as though they
were eggshells. As the vessel struck the
six • ailors aboard jumped for their lives,
l ive landed on a pile of scrap iron, go
ing down on all fours, but the sixth,
(User missed land by a couple of feet
and went down into the waves. The
cheers that had broken from thousands
of spectators turned into a groan as he
disappeared. The next moment a succes
sion of monster waves had cleaned the
deck of thousands of pine planks which
covered the surface of the water and
made any attempt to rescue the unfortu
nate men impossible.
ANOTHER SCHOONER FOLLOWS.
! here was a shout from the throng of
excited onlookers and it was seen that
another three-master had parted her
ropes and was coming ashore This was
the Jack Thompson, also lumber laden,
•die lollowed the path of the
otar and came helm on the previous
unfortunate. The shook precipitated
into the water the heavy timber on the
starboard side, and upon which the five
members of the crew were standing. Four
tn . clun .K Id .a big plank, to which
thev held on like grim death, meanwhile
.vedmg a t the top of their voices for help,
■he fifth man could not be seen for a
moment, but was finally discovered
hanging by one hand to a spar
?, of hundred yards north. By
uiis tune the lifeboat had arrived from
Jackson Park, but it was evident that
a, Y attempt to launch it would only re
su.t in its being crushed to pieces, and
turned their attention to the
rcsi ue of the men in the water.
A LIFE LINE LANDED.
Several unsuccessful efforts to cast
ines were made, but finally a rocket was
thrown across the raft and was caught by
w°,e s , a * lors - The throng held its
_ 1111 <’ ls the rope was slowly drawn in,
'v . . seemed that every wave would wash
me unfortunates back into the water;
''hen the land was reached and the
numbed men were helped ashore, the
e s i, Prs were rewarded by a roar like
, ‘everberation of artillery.
tl n 'he meantime the other member of
had been washed into a pier
■ umg Twenty-second street, where he
Mnagcii to cling to the piling, and was
I -iiled up by some of the spectators.
• nortly after 6 o’clock 'the two-master
• 11 l‘h,i, lumber laden.came ashore within
j p' -Yards of the Thompson. She was
lire ' Vi! cl °se to land that the crew had
■'dimculty in jumping ashore. The
... ' s "'ept the decks of all three ves
'l'‘°anand within an hour the beach
Th , r m . i,cs "’as strewn with lumber,
hr! ,-. VPnin * Star and the Thompson aro
breaking up to-night.
another schooner follows.
. iinrt'y a fi er g o'clock another big
- e master, which had been riding at
■; h pr about amileout, parted herchains
-iv‘ ' "fumenced to come for the shore at
a street. By this time fully
linoi . thousand men and children
an it 16 a^c ront for a distance of a mile,
tens of thousands more occupied the
de ,T TSan !? roofs of the private resi
vi. ~L S , an< ? hat buildings that command a
B j,'°‘ tl ,re lake. A babel of voices
w *th the shrieking of the wind
■ ip roar of the waves as the schooner
i' ! learer and nearer the shore.
sc. ~ii f ss , was coming on, but it was
r lat ®‘£ht men were clinging to the
v , , lf; ; lor a moment, when the vessel
„, j , hundred yards fromshoro.it
... .. v as though her anchor bad found
■ . biding place, but a moment later
ian,n? Te higger tliau all the rest
an,i ® wo eping down from the northwest,
cm in . n lts crest the boat was carried
the piling. She rebounded like a
tr ball, while another wave came
Hhe intoning ffrtoA.
sweeping over the rigging. In the mean
time, the life-saving crew, reinforced
l j a half dozen of their men
h, ad made ready their lines.
Ihs first rocket took effect, and
one by one the men were brought ashore,
, He the thousands made their voices
heard above the roar of the water. XYhen
the eight men had been rescued, it was
discovered that the ninth member of the
ore ' v .," as missing, and Peter Enright
and Matthew Peterson of the life-saving
crew volunteered to go to the Vessel,
they found the missing man
pinned down in the forecastle by
a pile of lumber, but Just as they
were about to extricate the body,
the vessel made a lurch, and they were
washed into the water. Ropes had been
wrapped around their waists, and floating
timber impended the efforts to pull them
ashore, and it was not until fifteen min
utes later, that more dead than alive, the
gallant men were brought to land. They
were carried insensible to their officers,
and were then taken home. Both were
badly' cut and bruised and in addition,
suffered severely from internal cramps.
The boat was the John Thomas McClaren.
a lumber carrier of Chicago.
SIX MORE DROWNED.
At 9 o'clock another of the lumber fleet,
about two miles out, was throwing out
distress rockets aud was apparently com
ing ashore. About the same time, the
schooner Myrtle was seen drifting ashore
near Twenty-ninth street. Six half
frozen men were clinging to the rigging
with the desperation only the close ap
proach of death can give. The schooner
leaned over on her side, heaving in the
trough of the sea while wave after
wave swept over her. The life
saving crew was busy a mile away and
could give no assistance. Nine officers
and plenty of ropes were on the shore,
but having no rockets with which to cast
their lines thqy could not help the doomed
sailors. The captain, whose name was
Warner, was the first to go. The waves
swept him overboard and he was not seen
again. The men then took refuge in the
cabin on the main deck. The schooner
had drifted to Thirty-fourth street, when
her main mast was carried away, taking
with it as it fell one side of the cabin.
SWEPT AWAY ONE BY ONK.
Deprived of this shelter the remaining
sailors were washed overboard one by one
in full view of the thousands on shore
until but one was left. Ho took off his
clothes duritig a lull in the storm and
jumped overboard striking out for shore.
He had gone but a few yards, however,
when he was carried under by the waves
and did not reappear. Soon after her
decks had been swept clear of this human
freight, the schooner foundered 2QU feet
off Thirty-fifth street.
Forty lives were saved by the crew of
the life-saving boats and the tugs of the
Chicago compauies during the day.
Twenty-two of these lives were saved
from a watery grave by the crew
from the life-saving station at the
Randall viaduct. Only two of the regu
lar crew were available for work in the
morning and the other five members of
the brave crew were made up of volun
teers among seamen and others who hap
pened to be in the neighborhood of the
Station.
The first act was to rescue from the
south pier twelve men who had been in a
perilous position ail night. They had
gone to the pier for fishing during the
dfty. The only man drowned was Thomas
Kerso. a tailor, who had been fishing for
pleasure.
THE CYCLONE AT KUNKEL.
Toledo, 0., May 18.—Much difficulty
is experienced in getting full particulars
o Blast night's cyclone between Kunkel and
Montpelier, O. All modes of communica
tion have been interrupted, but from
meager reports which have come in, it is
learned that two met death, thirteen are
injured and much property is destroyed.
It devasted about a quarter of a" mile
wide and six or seven miles in length. A
great funnel-shaped cloud traveled in ir
regular southeasterly course.
THE STORM OS SHORE.
Washington, May 18.—Severe storms
yesterday visited Massillon, Cleveland
and Alliance, 0., Decatur, 111.. Anderson,
Ind., Naperville. 111., Indianapolis and
Patriot, Ind., Bloomington, 111., Kalama
zoo, Mich., and Wabash, Ind. Consider
able damage was done to property, but no
lives were reported lost.
DEATH ON THE GIBBET.
A Negro Hanged at Mobile for Killing
His Wife.
Mobile, Ala., May 18.—The first legal
hanging in Mobile county since 1806 took
place here to-day, when Willie McNeill, a
mulatto, was executed. He murdered his
wife, Katie McNeill, while she was asleep,
one night last September. He confessed
his crime on the gallows, and made a
twenty minutes speech. Three hundred
people in the jail yard saw the drop fall,
and 8,000 outside were unable to gain ad
mission. Death ensued in ten minutes.
Sheriff Dorlatid sprung the trap.
DIED WITHOUT FEAR.
Eutaw, Ala., May 18.—Armstead Rice
was hanged here to-day for the murder
of Burrell Kimbro last Christmas night.
On the scaffold Rice confessed the crime,
and also to having murdered a man in
Mississippi years ago and afterward
another in Birmingham, and to shooting
a woman in Green county last fall. Rice
died without fear.
A WIFE MURDERER SWUNG OFF.
Astoria, Ore., May 18.—John Hausen
was hanged at noon for wife murder.iThe
execution was private and devoid of un
usual incidents. His neck was broken.
Hausen made no statement and conducted
himself with remarkable composure. He
brutally murdered his wife during a
drunken frenzy on July 20. •
SUGAR TRUST BRIBERY.
The Investigating Committee to Hold
a Session To-day.
Washington, May 18.—The Senate this
afternoon passed a resolution authorizing
the special committee appointed to in
vestigate the charges of bribery and tho
doings of the sugar trust in connection
with senators and tne legislation of con
gress affecting tariff measures,
to meet its necessary expenses, and
granting it permission to sit
during the session of the Senate, it can
be stated upon the authority of the chair
man. Mr. Gray, that no line of policy has
been decided on by the members of the
committoe. nor has any conclusion been
reached as to how the investigation shall
be conducted. The first preliminary
meeting. Mr. Gray said, will bo held,
probably to-morrow.
Dr. Meyer Convicted.
New York,-May 18.-TIIO jury in the
case of Dr. Hc-nry Meyer, accused of hay
ing poisoned Ludwig Brandt, came in
court this morning and rendered a ver
dict of murder in the second degree, the
penalty for which is imprisonment for
life.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATCHDAY. MAY 1!>, 1894.
TAIL END_OU CYCLONE.
Augusta Struck by a Severe Storm
ot Wind and Rain.
Large Buildings Shaken by the First
Gust of Wind and the Inmates Rush
Into the Street —Three New Frame
Houses Blown Down-A Visitor to
the City Felled by a Falling Tree.
The Roof of a School Uplifted.
Augusta, Ga., May 18. —A terrible wind
and rain storm came up at 3:30 o’clock
this afternoon. Augusta received the
tail end of a cyclone. Two great clouds
met over tlie city and immediately the
storm burst forth. Broadway was swept
as clean as a whistle. No signs were
torn down, but trash and rubbish were
rushed ahead of the wind with light
ning speed. The first gust of wind
shook large buildings and caused a stam
pede to the street. No fatal damage was
done in the city. The cycTone, though,
must have gotten in its work somewhere
near here, and news of disaster before
morning is expected. Three new frame
houses just built on Gwinnett street, near
Woodlawn, b.v Mr. Davis, of Greenville,
S. C., were blown down. The roof of the
Haines Industrial Institute was uplifted.
P. W. McDermid, of Gainesville, a visi
tor in the city, was knocked down sense
less by a falling tree on upper Broadway.
He was struck on the shoulder and buried
beneath the limbs and leaves. Ho was
painfully bruised, but is not supposed to
have been seriously injured. The storm
came from the southwest and traveled
northeast.
COXEY’S CONVICTION.
The Trio of Commonwealers to Be
Sentenced To-Day.
Washington, May 18.—Judge Bradley,
of the District supreme court, this after
noon refused to grant the writ of cer
tiorari applied for by Coxey, Browne and
Jones, the commonweal army leaders, and
thus defeated the hope of the Coxe.vites
of bringing up for review the proceedings
in the police court which ended in their
conviction. To-morrow morning, at, 10
o’clock, the convicted Coxeyites will be
brought up before Judge Miller for sen
tence, the judge having received his re
commission.
The concluding argument on the appli
cation for the writ began at 3 o’clock, and
ended an hour later. District Attorney
Birney appeared for the government, and
Congressman Hudson, of Kansas, and
Andrew A. Lipscomb, of this city, for the
Coxeyites. Mr. Birney opposed the grant
ing of the writ on the ground that the
court had no authority to grant tt. Mr.
Hudson contended that the police court
was a tribunal inferior to Judge Brad
ley's court and Mr. Lipscomb held that
the law governing the use of the eapitol
grounds under which the commonwealers
were convicted, was unconstitutional, be
cause it delegated the power of suspen
sion to others than the members of con
gress.
THE JUDGE’S DECISION.
Judge Bradley, in his decision, said
that it was not within his jurisdiction to
consider allegations or errors made in the
lower court. "The prosecution in the po
lice court, it seems,” said the court,
"should be on the oath of the party insti
tuting the prosecution, and not at all on
the oath of the prosecuting officer. The
question of unconstitutionality of
the act appears to me ludicrous—
almost absurd. The right of the people to
peaceably assemble and petition congress
is subordinate to the rights of the people
in general, it is not a right allowing any
individual or individuals to override
others; not one that would enable the
people to assemble in the houses of con
gress. With such a right, all the tramps
of the country, with all the vermin of the
country. would be apt to
come and take practical pos
session of either house of congress.
I have dignified this argument, it seems
to me, by too much reference to it. On
the whole, I don’t think that such a case
has been made out as would justify the
court in exercising jurisdiction. Tne de
fendants had a fair trial in the police court.
If I doubted this fact at all I would issue
the writ. The writ of certiorari is, there
fore, refused.”
Nothing now remains to the men but to
await judgment in the police court. Judge
Miller also received his new commission
to-day, and will probably sentence them
to-morrow morning. The penalty pre
scribed for each of the two offenses of
of which they have b >en found guilty is a
SIOO fine or sixty days in jail, or both.
COXEY TURNED DOWN.
Members of the Clover Club Refuse to
Dine With Him.
New York, May 18.—A special to tho
Sun from Philadelphia says: “Gen.
Coxey made a sensation here last night
by appearing at the Clover Club dinner
fflad in a full dress suit. After he was
invited Col. A. K. McClure, ex-Minister
Charles Emory Smith, Maj. Gen. Snow
den, Col. John 1. Rogers and other mem
bers of the club said they would not sit
at dinner with Gen. Coxey. They were
told that he wouldn't be there, so they
came. But Geu. Coxey came, too.
When Col. McClure walked in with ex-
Gov. Curtin there was a lively row. Gen.
Coxey was enticed from the Bellevue ho
tel, where the dinner was spread, and
taken to the Art Club by Col. Thomas
Donaldson. Then the dinner was re
sumed.
“Gen. Snowden told the Cloverites that
he would not dine with Gen. Coxey, as
he might soon have occasion to meet that
‘general’ in sterner conflict. Gen.
Coxey was angry over the turn-down, but
sought solace with some friends.”
MORE TROUBLE AT KYLE.
Strikers Try to Keep Men from Work
by Surrounding Their Houses.
Union town, Pa., May 18.—The coke
strikers at the Kyle works made another
attempt to prevent the workmen from
going to work this morning. At daybreak
they surrounded the houses of the men
and held them prisoners. The officials
noticing their absence, sent deputies to
inquire into the trouble, and the strikers
dispersed. Only one shot was fired and
no one was injured. The Kyle works are
in operation to-day with an increased
force of men- 'The deputies and officials
deny that the deputies who engaged in
the Kyle-Martin trouble yesterduy were
drunk.
Board of Trade Men Fall.
Chicago. May 18.— S. E. Dunham & Cos.,
moderate traders on the board of trade,
aikiounced their suspension this morning
SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIANS.
A Large Number of Overtures From
the Presbyteries.
Nashville, Tenn.. May 18.—The general
assembly of the Southern Presbyterian
church reassembled to-day, Moderator
Graham presiding. The most important
overtures presented were from the Pres
bytery of Maryland, to unite the mis
sionary and home missionary boards:
of the Presbytery of Louisiana,
to decline to indorse tho action
of the Birmingham conference; from the
Presbytery of Ebeuezcr to separate col
ored workers; from the East H mover
Presbytery to ehangefthe wording of the
baptismal formula; from the Presbytery
of Washburn, to make a deliverance oil
the question of marriage; from the Pres
bytery of Tuscaloosa to transfer the
work of colored evangelization to the
board of home missions, and abolish
the executive committee of the colored
evangelization from the Presbytery of
Holston, asking tho appointment of a
committee on organization to meet a like
committee from the northern assembly.
The last mentioned overture was referred
to a special committee of one mem
ber from each synod. There was
also presented an overture from
the Presbytery of Augusta concerning
the case of Rev. James Woodrow, who b.v
letter was transferred from Augusta, to
the Charleston Presbytery. The Charles
ton Presbytery rejected him. The Ques
tion is 3 constitutional one as to whether
he is entitled to the privilege of member
ship in the Augusta Presbytery until he
has formally returned his letter.
WOULDN’T tJISCUSS BRECKINRIDGE.
The assembly knocked out a memorial
of the National Christian League
for the promotion of social purity,
anent W. C. P. Breckinridge,
almost before it had gotten before
tho body. It came in under the head of
overtures from other bodies and pre
tended that the assembly recognize in
Col. Breckinridge an enemy of the
church, the home, the state and society at
large. On motion of Rev. C. F. Kyle, the
memorial was tabled. Its purport
was understood without being read
through. Among the fifty over
tures was one from the Memphis Presby
tery, asking that the invalid fund be made
larger: from tho Lexington Presbytery,
to declare unconstitutional the action or
the last assembly providing for ordination
of American ministers fn foreign fields by
other than a Presbyterian body.
THE NORTHERN ASSEMBLY.
Saratoga, New York, May 18.—The
opening devotional service of the Presby
terian general assembly was led by Elder
William K. Worrall, of New York. As
usual, on the morning after the election
of anew moderator, the main interest
was felt In the committees to be ap
pointed to attend to the details of the as
sembly’s work. The chairmanship of the
committee otl bills and overtures goes by
custom to the retiring moderator—Dr.
Willis G. Craig.
The committee second in order is that
on judicial business, and the leading un
suecesslul candidate for the moderator
ship is always named for this post. It
came as a surprise that Dr. A. J. Brown
was passed by and Dr. Gardner named
for this important and difficult post.
Dr. Marquis, of Chicago, was placed in
charge of tho coramiteee on church polity.
Dr. Holmes, of Pittsburg, presides over
the interest of education, and Dr. Fox,
of Brooklyn, will present the subject of
ministerial relief
Elder Franklin L. Sheppard, will have
again, for the third time, charge of the
mileage and Elder James Yereanck, of
New York, of finance.
Other chairmen and committees aro to
be named later, according to anew rule of
the body.
The first report read was that on the de
nominational periodical of the church, at
Home and Abroad, Dr. Mclntosh, of Phil
adelphia, speaking.
CHCRCH UNION.
Dr. Joseph T. Smith read the report of
the special committee on church union.
This is the 'committee which has been
conducting negotiations with tho Episco
palian church and the other denomina
tions looking to a reciprocity agreement
between all the churches. Last year the
Houso of Bishops sent a committee
headed by Bishop Cleveland Coxe, of
Western New York, which was received,
and proposed an amendment to the canon
law of the Episcopalian church, whereby
all Presbyterian ministers could be recog
nized by the Episcopal bishops as stand
ing on the same basis of apos
tolic succession with themselves.
Nothing has been heard of
this proposal since, and Dr. Smith’s com
mittee confined his recommendations to a
confederation of all the churches in the
United States having a Presbyterian
form of government. These include the
United Presbyterian church, the Dutch
Reformed church and others, eight in all.
The committee recommended a large
ecclesiastical assembly made up of repre
tentatives of all these churches, and ex
ercising advisory power over the field,
but not interfering with the organic in
tegrity- of each.
Dr. Samuel J. Nichols, of St. Louis, read
a dissent to the proposed ecclesiastical
assembly on council.
Dr. Charles L. Thompson, of New York,
spoke in support of the federation plan
proposed.
The special committee on theological
seminaries made its report to-day. This is
the committee appointed at Portland two
years ago to save the church from such
another experience as the loss of Union
seminary wit h its $200,000 of endowments,
which withdrew from the control of the
general assembly because of its dissatis
faction with the treatment of I)r. Briggs.
The committee low been at work two
years trying to devise some means of
effecting such a change in the differing
charters of the thirteen theological seml
naries under its control as shall
prevent the alienation of their en
dpwments. It was found that
each of the theological seminaries known
as Presbyterian were actually independ
ent of the church to which they owed
their support. The control over them
being exercised by the Presbyterian
church through the general assembly was
nominal only and did not in any degree
affect the funds or property. It was
found that nothing can be done in the
direction desired without the consent of
the seminaries themselves. A plan for
bringing this about was presented.
FIRED BY LIGHTNING.
A House Burned to the Ground Dur
ing the Storm at Macon.
Macon, Ga., May 18.—During a heavy
rain and wind storm this afternoon, light
ning struck the house of J. C. McMillan,
at Bellevue, a suburb of Macon, sotting
it on fire. There being no fire protection,
the house was burned down. Several
members of Mr. McMillan’s family were
shocked. Another house near by wss
also struck, but only slight damage was
done to the root. No other damage has
been reported.
SESSION OF THE SENATE.
A Satisfactory Rate of Progression on
tfie Tariff Bill.
The Remaining Items of the Chemical
Sohedule Disposed Of- Metals and
Manufactures of Iron and Steel
a Taken Up The Resolution Fixing
the Hour of Convening at 10 O’clock
Finally Agreed To.
Washington, May 18.—A very satisfac
tory rate of progression on the tariff bill
was struck In tho Senate to day. and was
kept up from noon until the hour of ad
journment. The dozen items that had
been left on schedule A—“chemirals,-
oils and paints”—on Thursday evening,
were disposed of aud schedule B—
“Earths, earthenware and glassware”—
were taken up and proceeded with to its
close. The next schedule is—“ Metals and
manufactures of iron and steel.”
Tho resolution for the daily meeting of
the Senate at 10 a. m., and for tho taking
up of the tariff bill at 10:30 o’clock was
agreed to, after a good deal of discussion
in which Mr. Frye, rop., of Maine, said
that in his opinion ail parliamentary
methods should be resorted to to defeat
the measure, but 110 had not been able to
get the republican side of the Senate to
take the same view.
DOLPH IN LINE WITn FRYE.
Dolph, rep., of Oregon, professed his
readiness to unite with the senator from
Maine.
Mr. Allison, rep., of lowa, denied the
existence of any understanding on the re
publican side as to action on the bill, and
said the senators would act 011 their indi
vidual judgments.
Mr. Chandler, rep., of New Hampshire,
warned the democratic senators not to
ad on the theory that tliery would he
filibustering against the bill. The ques
tion was an open one. It had not been
decided ; and it was not likely to be de
cided until after there had been tho full
est possible debate on the bill. Then, he
took it, it would be decided.
ALDRICn CRITICISES TITB BILL.
Mr. Aldrich made a statement fortified
by tables showing that some $38,500,000
reduction of revenue had been made in
this bill, on matters of luxury, such as
fine hosiery, wine, brandy, gin, whisky,
cordials, absinthe, vermouth and dia
monds, and a tax of ♦52,000,000 imposed
on sugar. He did not understand on
what principle the bill was made up in
that way.
Mr. Vest, a member of tho finance com
mittee, referred to what he called the
“fallacies” put forward by Mr. Aldrich.
The articles which he referred to, and on
which duties wore reduced, were those
of minimized importation. They were
“insectivorous matters.” That senator,
he said, had but ft poor opinion about tho
intelligence of the American people if lip
thought “such humbug aud rot” would
go down with them for legitimate argu
ment.
AIM OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The finance committee, Mr. Vest said,
had endeavored to decrease the duties on
luxuries and on necessities. They had
endeavored to make a geuoral reduction
so that the living expenses of the people
might be decreased. They could not hope
by a tariff bill to put up tho prices
of agrirullurel products. Tho gold
standard, the demonetization of silver
and the destruction of foreign markets
for American agricultural products had
brought the farmers of the west down to a
point that he was a fortunate individual
who could keep his farm from falling into
the hands of trust companies or banks.
The principle on which he, himself, acted
was to make more market abroad for
American agricultural products. But if
the former could not be relieved in that
or any other way, themhe should be al
lowed to buy in the cheapest market, as
he had to sell in the cheapest market.
MANUFACTURERS GREEDY.
“In this hour of great financial depres
sion,” Mr. Vest continued, “lot our
brethren of the manufacturing states of
tho northeast bear their share of tho mis
fortune that has come to tho whole coun
try. But instead of that, we hear, con
tinually, the cry of the daughters of the
horse-leech, give, give, give—no reduction
of duties. Let wheat go down to 30 cents
a bushel at the railroad stations; let all
the productions of the manufacturer be
minimized to the lowest possible prices.
But the manufacturers, sacred as the
white elephant of Siam, aro not to be
touched as to one single duty.”
THE MARBLE SCHEDULE.
When the items as to marble, stone and
slate (103 to 109) were reached, Mr. Hoar
inquired as to the distinction made be
tween granite, a New England product,
and marble, largely a product of Tennes
see—the latter having a specific rate of
duty and the former an ad valorem rate.
An explanation was made by Mr. Jones,
dem., of Arkansas, a member of the
finance committee, and the discussion was
joiiied in by Messrs. Halo and Frye
of .Maine Hoar of Massachusetts,
and Morrill of Vermont. Mr. Jones as
sumed that the question was raised to
create the idea that the senator from
Tennessee (Mr. Harris), had unduly in
fluenced the finance committee, but tho
fact was that in the hill as It came from
the House the duty on marble was spe
cific and on granite ad valorem. He added
that the two senators from Vermont,
Messrs. Morrill and Broctor. had advo
cated in the committee high rates of duty
on marble.
The rates were fixed as follows:
On marble, in blocks, rough or squared
only. 50 cents per cubic foot.
On marble, sawed or dressed, 85 cents
per cubic foot.
On manufactures of marble, onyx or
alabaster, 45 per cent, ad valorem.
When the metal schedule was reached
the bill went over for tho day, and tho
Senate, at 0:05 o’clock, adjourned.
WORK OF THE HOUSE.
The Legislative, Executive and Judi
cial Appropriation Bill Taken Up.
Washington, May 18.—Tho first half
hour of to-day’s session of the House was
spent in passing a resolution to give tho
committee on railways and canals a clerk.
That having been accomplished, the
legislative, executive and judicial appro
priation bill for the year ending June 30,
1895, was taken up in committee of the
whole, under an agreement reached by
the leaders. After an hour’s skirmish
ing general debate on the bill was closed
at 5 o’clock, arrfl tho House voted to
adjourn over Saturday.
The most of the afternoon was occupied
with a discussion of tho matter of "dock
ing” members for absent days, which
took a wide rahtre. The occasion for the
discussion was t|pr notice by Mr. Boatner,
dem., of Louisiana, of bis intention to
move an amendment to the bill by which
members absent on leave would not be
compelled to suffer a reduction of pay.
At 5 o’clock the House took a recess
under the rules until 8 o’clock, the eve
ning session to bo for the consideration of
private pension and relief bills.
ATLAN rA S APPROPRIATION.
The House Committee to Receive De
tailed Information Monday.
Washington, May 18.—Tho subcom
mittee of the appropriation committee of
the House has been called to meet Mon
day morning at 10 o’clock to receive the
detailed information to be submitted by
Messrs. Spnlding and Howell of the
Cotton States and International Exposi
tion Company of Atlanta. At its last
meeting the subcommittee ssked for
certain details, figures, ete,, bearing on
the application for a government building
and exhibit. This is now being prepared
and will bo submitted on Monday. The
building and exhibit of the government
seems to be assurod.
INDORSED IN WtLMtNGTON.
Wilmington, N. C.. May 18.—The
i reduce Exchange of this city met to-day
and adopted resolutions strongly indors
ing the proposed Cotton States ami Inter
national Exposition, to bo hold in Atlanta,
Ga.,ln 1895, urging thestateof North Car
olina to make a fitting exhibit of Its varied
firoducts, and resources, and requesting
ts representatives in congress to support
the movement for a national exhibit.
WANT MEAT AND BREAD.
The Miners Out at tho Shoddy Mines
on the Verge of Starvation.
Washington, Ma.v 18.—A special from
Chattanooga, Tenn., says: “Tho coal
miners’ strike at the Shoddy mines is be
ginning to bo serious Factories aro
closing down or reduciug their force on
account of the scarcity of coal, but the
miners say they will insist, upon tho resti
tution of pari, if not all, of the 20 per cent,
reduction made. They have been out so
long that distress prevails. Their chil
dren cry for bread. The following appeal
has been received by labor organizations
in this city: ‘Wo struck to restore a 30
percent, reduction. We were not making
enough to live on. Many of us are now
destitute. We ask for meat and bread.’
The organizat ions anpealed to in Chatta
nooga have sent assistance.”
A Fight Over O’Brien’s Real Estate.
Washington, Ma.v 18- A special from
Chattanooga says the Fidelity and Casu
alty Company of New York has filed a
bill in tho chancery court against Ex-
Treasurer M. J. O’Brien, prayiug that
his individual boudsmeu be permanently
enjoined from selling certain real estate
to satisfy judgments rendered against
them. The company also prays that a re
ceiver be appointed to take charge of the
property. '1 he Catholic Knights America
are also mode defendants In the suit.
More Gold for Europe.
Washington, Ma.v 18.—The treasury
department is informod that $2.355.000 in
gold was engaged to-day at the New
York subtreasury for shipment for Eu
ropeon Saturday. This roduecs tho gold
reserve In the treasury to $82,775,000.
METHODISM’S CONFERENCE.
The Children’s Day Collection to Be
Divided.
Memphis, Tenn., May 18.— I The confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal chnfch
south, convened this morning shortly be
fore 9 o’clock, which is tho appointed
hour. Bishop Hendrix was In the chair.
Dr. David Bush conducted the dovotional
services. The minutes of last night’s ses
sion were read and approved.
Bishop Hendrix then retired and
Bishop Key took the chair.
Dr. Hoss obtained unanimous consent
and introduced a resolution of apprecia
tions and thanks to the Rev. Dr. VV. P.
Harrison, who is about to conclude a
long, laborious and brilliant service as
book editor and editor of tho Quarterly
Review of tho Methodist Episcopal
Church, south. 'i’he resolution was
adopted.
Charles B. Long, of the I/misville con
ference, chairman of the committee on
finance, reported enough money in tho
treasury to pay the expenses of the dele
gates until Monday night, including
sqpper.
MONET FOR EDUCATION.
Dr. Napier moved a susp nsion of the
rules in order that he might introduce an
amendment to report No. 3 of the Sunday
school committee. The amendment
amounted to a compromise between the
(Sunday school committee and the com
mittee on education, in regard to the dis
posal of the children’s day collection.
Item two of the rejort of tho com
mittee on education provided for tho
giving of the’children’s day collection to
the board of education to be usod for edu
cational purposes. The amendment b.v
Dr. Napier, which was agreed to by tho
committee on education, provided that 10
percent, of the funds collected on chil
dren’s day should go to tho parent Sun
day school board and 10 per cent, to tho
board of education of tho Methodist Epis
copal church south, and tho remaining *0
per cent to tho Sunday School hoard for
the maintenance and assistance of needy
Sunday schools. Any money that may
remain for the collection after it has thus
been dealt with is to be divided between
the parent Sunday school and tho gen
eral conference board of education. This
was adopted.
RAISING OF MONET.
On motion report No 0, of the commit
tee on education, which recommends a
commissioner of education to raise money
for Payne and Lane Institutes was read,
also a minority report-whieh deemed the
appointment of a commissioner as inex
pedient. and recommended that tho sec
retary of the board of education should
he the commissioner for the colored
Methodist church.
After discussion the minority was
adopted. The following report was sub
mitted: “The committoe appointed to
nominate the book committee beg
leave to submit the following nomi
nations: W. H. Morgan, J. G. Ham
ilton, R. A. Young, T. D. Fite. Collins
Denny. J. M. Brinkley, Paul Whitehead,
R. W. Millsap, J. W. Odell, J. W. Mason,
B. M. IxLVejoy. K. M. Scruggs and W. C.
Kendrick.” The report of tne committee
on education was fully discussed and fin
ally adopted.
The conference then adjourned.
A Hail Storm at Newberry.
Columbia, S. C.. May 18,—A terriflo
hail storm visited Newberry, S. C.. this
afternoon, devastating a slice of territory
two miles wide and fifteen miles long.
Vegetables, fruits and growing crops are
destroyed Cotton must be entirely re
planted and there is a great scarcity of
seed. The hailstones wore as large as
■guinea eggs and covered the ground.
I DAILY. tiO A TEAS, \
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TO BR INC SETTLES SOUTH.
A Powerful Company Organized by
Leading Capitalists.
Its Purpose the Development and Col*
onization of Land in the South— The
Scopo and Plans of the Company on
the Broadest Scale -A List of the
Officers and Directors.
Baltimore, May 18.—Tho Manufacture*
Record states that a powerful associa
tion has been organized by leading capi
talists, bankers and railroad officers,
under tho name: Southern Immigration,
Land and Title Company, the purpose of
which is to colonize and develop southern
lands, and in genoral to direct immigra
tion and investment to the south. Tlie
scope and plans of tho company are on
the broadest scale, and it will have in
the United States and European coun
tries the widest and most influential con
nections. Tho main office will be in Bal
timore, with agencies and branches in
lmnortnnt centers in this country ami in
Canada and Groat Britain, and on thft
continent. The projectors of the company
have been for some years identified with
southern developments, and are all mea
of noted ability and business sagacity.
THE OFFICERS.
The president of tho company is Hon,
Chauncey F. Black, of Pennsylvania(
First Vico president, Julian K. Carr,
• the millionaire tobacco manufacturer of
Durham, N. 0.; second vice president, XI.
Erskine Miller, of Staunton, probably the
largest Individual coal land owner in the
Virginias; third vice president and gen
eral manager. A. A. Arthur, one of ttje
leaders in southern development.
Among tho directors aro (lon. John K.
Proctor, preside nt of the United States
civil service commission; Dr C. W Dab
ney, Jr., assistant secretary of the Untied
States department of agriculture; John
Skelton Vvllllams, a banker of Richmond,
Va.; G. B. Orcum, president of the New
port Nows Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Company; Gov. W. A. MoOorkte, of
West Virginia; W. A. Turk, general pas
senger agent, of the KFhmofid and Dau-
Ville railroad ; li. W. Fuller, general pas
senger agent of tlie Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad; Edward Fitzgerald, traffic, man
ager of the East Tennessee. Virginia and
Georgia railroad, and other leading busi
ness men identified with southern growth.
GEORGIA’S EPISCOPALIANS.
The Coventlon Finished It* Business
and Adjourns.
Griffin, Ga., May 18. The proceedings
of the third (lay of the Episcopal
diocesan convention were the most In
teresting of any during tho wook, and
the delegatus are now en route for their
homes. They will roflect bark on this
occasion with pleasant memories of the
reception received at the hands of
Griffin's hospitable citizens. The meeting
opened at 9 o’clock with a largo at
tendance After prayer, the considera
tion of missionary appropriations cams
np. After discussion it was decided to
appropriate for rnisstons $5,000; mean
while $2,000 more tould be relied upon.
Tho committee report of assessments
was then taken up and tho delegates con
tributed $1,503 for tho bishop’s salary and
convention expenses for next year. A
number of delegates also contributed to
the missions. Tho bishop expressed him
self as highly pleased with tho response
made to the necessities of the diocese.
This afternoon was consumed in tbs
election of committees and further dis
cussion of tho cathedral question, in
wnlch tlie cathedral canon was adopted.
D. Harris argued strongly fur tho
adoption of the cathedral canon, und was
vigorously opposed by Rev. A. O. B.
Dodge, of St. Simons Island.
The standing committee for tho ypar It
as follows: Rev. W. O. Hunter, Messrs,
'l'. Fi. Walker, /.. I). Harrison. Frank If.
Millar, Rev. O. H. Strong and F. F. Reeso.
W. K. Miller, of Augusta, was elected
treasurer of the diocese and C. DeSaua
sure, of Atlanta, registrar.
W. N. Hawks was elected treas
urer of the western horniest fund.
Itev. Win. Walton, arch deacon, and
Gcoqge B. Whiteside were elected dep
uties to the national missionary confer
ence to meet in (San Francisco in October
next.
The Episcopalians have Just cause to b3
proud of the noble work of their earnest
and faithful bishop, and his devoted cler
gymen. aided b.v a strong and influential
laity, in the convention which closed its
seventy-second session to-night.
SAVED FROM THE GIBBET.
Gov. Northen Gets Back From Texas
in the Nick of Tims.
Atlanta, Ga , May 18. -Gov. Northen
returned from Texas last night, and was
at the eapitol this morning Just In the
nick of time to prevent the hanging of a
negro.
latst fall Frank Coleman, the negro in
question, killed Bill Smith, another ne
gro, in Jasper county, and wounded an
other. Tho killing grow out of a fight
over a woman named Ellen Fears, at a
dance. The wonmn, who was the only
eye witness to the killing, disappeared,
and could not be found when Coleman
was tried. The man was convicted and sen
tenced to hang to-da.v, though ho pleaded
self-defense. Last Sunday Ellen Fears,
who was ignorant of the resultof the trial,
turned up in Jasper county again. She
corroborated Coleman’s plea of self-de
fense, slating that he had boon attacked
by Smith and his brother, armod with a
knife and pistol. A petition for a resplta
was at once prepared and sent to At
lanta, but the governor was in Dallas,
and did not get it until this morning.
All the preparations had been made for
tho hanging, and in an hour or two the
unfortunate negro would have been exe
cuted, but the governor used tho wires,
telegraphing a respite until June 2. Cole
man will be given anew trial, and is
very apt to be acquitted.
ORLANDO’S BANK TO RESUME. 1
The First National to Throw Open Its
Doors Next Monday.
Orlando, Fla., May 18.—The suspended
First National Bank, of Orlando, which
has been in the hands of a receiver since
July 34 of last year, will open its doors
for resumption of business on Monday
morning next, under the management of a
new board of directors, and with new
officers in charge The result has been
achieved after an immense amount of
work, and in spite of much opposition.
This is a red letter day for Orlando. It
is the opening day of anew era of pros
perity.