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S INBIAMAFOLI JOUBNAI J ESTABLISHED 1823. INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 1891. O WI lOl SUNDAYS, r THOSE 810 SUITS FOR A FEW DAYS LONGER AT Seven -Fifty. Theso aro handsomely made up Cashmeres in Sacks and Frocks, in Dark Mixed, Dark Checks, Invisible Plaids, Mixtures, etc. Some of them are all wool. ORIGINAL EAGLE 5 nnd7 W.M St GeieluJ, CircmziU, gjg tlicS0 h St. lOEl IiOUTE?" In accordance with a time-honored custom, the BIG- 4 BOUTE WILL SELL EXCURSION TICKETS ACCOUNT CHRISTMAS t HOLIDAYS, TOR THE HOUND TRIP. Tictsts will be lolrt Tt. 24. 25 and 31. 1S01, 8Bt Jan. l. 1M2. (rood returning r.ntll Jan. 4, imL af. fording every una an xcf;ient opportunity tnrtiUy a M KKllY C11UISTM an vr.i a HAl'PY N KV Y 1". A K Fur full particular! rail on atcrnr of th 1U lftmr Itouto. To, 2 East Wahingtou street, 138 .South 1111 Cola street, Masft&chutetts are. anl Union S'ation. II. il. 11KO.XSOX. A. O. P. A.. Indianapolis, Inl. HERE IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO . YISIT YOUR FRIENDS GRAND ANNUAL FALL EXOUESION" TO CINCINNATI Thursday, Dec. 10, VIA THE C, H. & D. E, E. Tickets good for rtnrn nntil Satnrdar. Desc 13. Ons&leat rity tJcket-Oic? r. corner J lllnoia street and Kentucky avs.. 134 South Illinois street, ana Vnion station. II. J. R1IKIN. General Agent. The Sunday Journal. $2 Per Annum S2.50 for lie Roand Trip. S2.50 VK Slil.I BOSTON HUBBEIt SHOE CO8 OTVT A r . tt r tt UlN JLA-VJT . TllUUr AT KEGULAR TliADE DISCOUNT. M'KEE & CO. , INDIANAPOLIS.- "31. & D." WROUGHT STEEL RANGES All size?, for Coal, Gas or Wood. Prices reasonable from 40 up. Why buy a Cast l'ange when you cau buy a Wrought Steel one for but little more, arid it will Inst a lifetime? I am selling BASE BURNERS at Veuv Low 1'kices. When in want of n, heating 6tove call on me. WOOD AND SLATE MANTELS. WM. H. BENNETT. 2S South Meridian Street n CHRISTMAS SHOPPING Now is tlio time when everybody is consider ing what to buy. People living in Sholhyville, Muneic, Anderson, Grcrncastle, and all the sur rounding towns, are influenced and guided in their purchases by the advertisements in the. INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. ACK I-IORTST32B Yc, it wa luti Jacic Horner, who sat in a corner, with his thumb in a C I.ri'tuia pie. CIIIUSTMAS FUU1T CAKE. O ho! that's better. More plums and all sorts or pood Mull'. Parrott & Tajrjrart have enough to fill u freight car lor t: bovs and pirls. When vour folka bny tho low-criiwii'l-ovii Vienna bread at tho grocers, havo them ask for tho P. & T. Fruit Cake. STATIONARY 1 li I A RTMliNT OK THE INDIANA PAPER COMPANY. W have a very larjro lino of Fine Writing Papers, Tablets, Wedding and Ball Invitations, Programmes, Menu, Calling and Playing Cards. 27 AND si EAST MAKYLAiiD ST1USET. J3raln, followed in the afternoon by cooler To-morrow wo Cheviot Suit in our This places every suit, except Worsteds, at your dis posal, in either the Men's or Youth's Department, at And there are thousands of them. We rob our counters of 18, $20, $26 and $28 Suits to furnish this sale, and with it to-morrow. ELEGABT GOODS. THE BEST To-morrow, at the $1.55 for Short - -nAAmci THE best I JDUU1D MADE BOOTS and SHOES IL weather. YOXJ CAN'T ! offer you tlie clioico of stock for 15.00. 15.00, Pa . 4 Pant Suits, 8 patterns, to WAGON WHEAT. We will to-day pay 91 cents. ICBTE IrllLlrG (CKFAKY, 352 West Washington St STOliT OP TWO WIVES. Deceived by Sheppard Faulkner, Who Wanted Them to Live in the Same IIonso with Mm. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Muncie, Dec. 3. To-day the two wives of Sheppard Faulkner, who desertod them recently, denounced their absconding hus band, calling hiui a bigamist. They fur niahed tho officers with a photograph and tho necessary proof for the man's arrest. The story as told by the first Mrs. Faulk ner, was that Faulkner deserted her and his seven children a year ago, at Old Town, 111., and they were compelled to rind shelter at the poor-houso in Iroquois county, boon she received an Affectionate letter troiu tho man, promising that he would noon be pre pared to send lor her and the children, and care for them. When fsbe received the glad news she was not aware that sho would encounter a second wife and another child here. It was his intention lo keep both of them here, but as soon as the officers began an investigation he left. The second wife, a pretty young woman of twenty, says she was married in good faith as he always alleged that he had a divorce, which ho suowedf o her. hut she now sup poses it was a forgery to blind her. She says tho consented to hi first wife coming here because of tho sympathy sho had for any one in a poor-house." i ho lirst Mrs. Faulkner says sho and Faulkner were mar ried at Covington, ind., under assumed names. Her right name being Miss lfoso . McClure. ller guardian objected to her marrying Faulkner, who took out tho license, giving her name us Hester A. liairdeu. Sho now has a sister residing at Covington, and that is her only known relative. The second wile was Miss Alice (iauor, an orphan girl, working in a restaurant atChampaign. 111., where sho met Fanlkner. and was married Aug. 2, lt&9. The two women nie at the same place where tbo man left them, with no resources except charity. Their condi tion and situation is a pitiful one. TUE SPRING GARDEN BANK. Reply of the President to a Request that the Bocks Be Submitted to Investigation. Philadelphia. Dec. 3. Mayor Stuart to day transmitted to the councils the follow ing reply of the secretary to President Har rison to the Mayor's letter of Nov. 23 re questing permission for the experts of the investigating committee of councils to ex amine the books and papers of the Spring Garden Hank; The Fresideut directs me to acknowl edge the receipt of your letter of the 23d inst.. with the accompanying resolutions of the select and common councils of the city of Philadelphia, with toe transcript cf the proceedings of the sub-committee, uud to say that it lias bad bis attention. The matter is one so purely in the discretion of tho Secretary of the Treasury that the President would with reluctance interfere, but he will call the matter to the attention of the Secretary when ho recovers from his present indisposition. The President is just now too busy with the necessary prep aration for the assembling of Congress to make n personal examination into the matter." The action of councils in passing a reso lution requesting the Mayor to write to the President and ask permission tor the experts to go into the Spring Garden Hank was prompted by the refusal of Secretary of the Treasury Foster to acquicsco In such a request made by the council's committee investigating the city deDosits in the Kov- I Btono and Spring Garde u bankt. any Cassimere or - $22, $24, $25, $15 lets you in IN INDIANA. - morrow, goes. JCIil FINALLY SECURED. Twelvo Men Who Will Decide Whfither Dr. Graves Poisoned Mrs. Darnaby. Denver. Col., Dec. a When Jndgo Ris ing took his seat this morning it was understood tbat the prosecution and de fense had agreed to accept the eleven men In the jury box, and that it required but one more man to complete the Oravos jury. This one name, however, might bo the im portant question over which the attorneys might wrangle and delay the trial for days to come. Tho prosecution had but one peremptory challenge left and the defense two. There were twenty talesmen present out of a venire of seventy-five drawn last night, and the lawyers went to work upon these men with a will which showed they had a sincero desire to finish this work as soon as possible. The talesmen wcro quickly examined and excused until only two remained. The nineteenth man. John J. Feters, from lloboken, was called. Ho had no opinion, was not opposed to capital punishment and could accept circumstantial evidence lie was. in fact, a model juror and was ac cepted by both sides, and the jury in the famous case was complete after nine days of tedious work. The names of the men who are to try Dr. Thatcher Graves for his lite are: M. L. Sterling, hardware-dealer; Kobert Adair, liquor-seller; M. Uorinir, con tractor; J. F. Lower, gnus, etc.; Fdward Grace, hotel; David Liuhart, farmer; T. J. tired; John J. Feters, cabinet-maker. The judge, after swearing them In and giving them some advice as to how they were ex pected to net, gave his instructions to the otlicers who would have chargo of them and adjourned court nntil to-morrow. State's Attorney Stevens will begin the pre sentation of his case to t he jury to-morrow ruorniutf, provided Judge Jiising, who is sutleriug from la grippe, is able to attend court. If he is not, court will be adjourned until Friday. Location of Chicago's New Stock-Yards. Chicago, Dec. 6. There went on record to-day a deed made by Aural Oppeuheimer and wtfe. representing A. 13. Stickney. to the Chicago National Stock-yards Com pany of (W acres, located within what is known as the Stickney tract, on the west side of the city. This completes the already announced deal by which a syndicate of packers, exclusive of the "big four" Ar mour. Morns, Swift and Hammond are to leave tho Union stock-yards, which havo become overcrowded The consideration was $060,000, and it is announced that the work ot bnildine tho necessary yards, packing and slaughtering-houses, will be gin at once. Dwellings for the employes are to be erected on 180 acres adjoining this tract. There are fifteen packing firms in the syndicate, and they are to have r0 Der cent, more room than there is in the pres ent yards. mum Died on a l'assenger Train. PiTTFP.triifl. Dec. 3. Among the passen gers on the Pacific express which left this city on the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne iV Chi cago railway, at 1 o'clock yesterday after noon, was an aged woman named Cusack. As the train was neariiiK Wooster, O., two woman chanced to walk to the forward end of the car, and were alarmed at the eld erly woman's appearance. Thinking she had fainted they grasped her hands, but tiuickly dropped them and screamed for help. Mrs. Cusack was dead. The body was carefully laid out. and at Crestline was taken oil' tbo train to be prepared for burial. Her ticket bore the namo of Mrs. Cusack. of Ireland. Sho left her home in Ireland two weeks ago. and was on her way to Chicago to join her only son, who is in business in that city. Mrs. Cusack's sudden death was probably due to apo-plciy. A. carpenter, cabinet-mauer; I'atnck luordan, miller; M. E. Overton, roal estate; Henry Freston. time-keeper; Wilson Ferrine. re- CHINA'S REBELLIOUS MONGOLS Still Sacking and Looting Villages and Patting to Death Native Christians, Leader of the Rebels in the Kinchow District and COO of Ilis Followers Killed in a Fiht with Government Troops. Soldiers Ilurried Forward to Meet the Hordes Advancing Towards Pekin. The Great Wall Where the Decisive Struggle May Take Place Views of a Chinese Dip ' lemate Real Cause of the Uprising'. CHINA AROUSED TO ACTION. Troops Sent to Stay the Advance of the Mon goliansThe Great Walt Special To tlie In'lanajoli3 JonrnnL London, Dec. 8. A dispatch from Shang hai says: It is stated that the French min ister has made an imperative demand on tho Chinese government for the punish ment of tho rebels who perpetrated tho massacre of the Helgian priests and nnns, and also the exemplary degradation and punishment of the mandarins who feasted and encouraged the rioters. The minister, it is said, stated that France would hold China responsible for tho ontrages, and that it was necessary for his government to know whether China was unable to protect foreigners residing in its territories. The Chinese profess their ability to punish all who were engaged in the massacre, and are summoning tho Manchoo garrisons from in terior towns where there are no signs of disturbance to strengthen the force sent to oppose the rebels. Desultory skirmishes are reported between Hying bands of the -rebels and tho imperial troops. Orders have been given by the government for the im mediate exeeution of all prisoners, except the leaders, who are to bo reserved for flaying alive and other tortures, provided they are caught. No confidence is placed here in the Chinese protests of the insig nificance of the outbreak, which is believed to embrace the greater part of Mancbooria, It is said that Iranga, Governor of northern Mancbooria, is a fugitive at Pekin. CHRISTIANS HUTCHERED. The Chronicle's correspon dent at Tien Tsin telegraphs: "It is reported that a band of rebels has murdered a Mongolian prince. Some more villages have been sacked and looted, and all the native Christian residents have been f ound mur dered. The mandarins are not attempt ing to Btop the butchery, which is being executed by an associa tion called a temperance league, the object of which was tho extermination of foreigners and Christians. The senior Hritish o fticer here has received an otlioial message, from Nuichang stating that the re volt there has betn suppressed and tho rebels dispersed. A laconic dispatch from Chinese sources announces that a number of the rebels have been summarily be headed." A dispatch from Pekin says: ' 'Tho ChU uese government has received an ofliclal report from Brigadier-general Nieb, com manding the troops in tho Kinchow dis trict, announcing that he engaged and de feated the rebels on Nov. 37 and 28, killing their leader and six hundred men. Tho Seneral commanding the imperial forces at eho also announces a successful engage ment with the rebels." Sir John Walsham. HriMsh minister to China, in a telegram to the Foreign Of fice, coniirms tho roport of an out break of brigands, assisted by a secret association, west of Jehol and beyond the great wall. The minister says: "Possibly the insurgents havo also been joined by Chinese Mohammedans from Mongolia. It is reported that two or three important towns have been eapturcd and that hundreds of natives have been mas sacred. There is no reason to believe that any KuroDeans have been killed. The six thousand picked troops which the govern ment has dispatched to the scene ought to be able to quell the rising. No credit should bo given to the sensational stories daily set all oat. There is one British gun boat at Tien Tsen and another has as cended the Yangtse-klang to Ichang." TIIK GKEAT WALL , It is' believed that, notwithstanding the government's attompts to stay the advanc ing hordes of Mongols, the struggle for mastery will eventually take place at the great wall of China. This marvelous work of defense was built by Chi-Wang-ti, more than two thousand years ago, for the par pose of keeping otf the Tartars, who con sisted of numerous tribes who wandered about the barren plains of central Asia , living partly by hunting and partly by plunder. Their mode of life and tho con tinual lighting which they were engaged in made them dau&erous enemies to the less hardy Chinese. The Em peror ordered every third laboring man throughout China to aid in the con struction of the wall, for which labor they received only a baro subsistence. The wall extended 1,500 miles from the Gulf of Lian Tnng, an arm of the Yellow sea, to the most westerly province of Kansuh. It was car ried over the highest mountains, through the deerest valleys, and. hy means of arches, across tbo rivers. Its breadth al lowed six horsemen to ride abreast on its summit, and at short intervals it was forti fied by strong towers, well guarded. The exterior was formed ot stono and brick work, and this shell was tilled with earth. Five years were consumed in completing the work. Notwithstanding tho immensity of the work, the Chinese wall was not able to re sist the wild hordes under Genghis-Khan, who succeed in passing it. Ho was, how ever, stopped at the inner pass of Chn-ynng-kwun. Hut the wall is no more occupied by troops. In the towers there aro generally guns mounted, but they aro of an antiquat ed pattern, and would be almost useless for repelling troops armed with modern weapons. Tbo height of the wall varies, including the parapet, from twenty-six to fifty feet, and depends on the character of the slope that it is built upon. The breadth of the outer parapet is four teen feet on the top, with a gradnal in crease toward the ground, both aspects of the wall having a considerable slope. Each tower has four embrasures, which nreufed as look-out places. The wall is on the whole in good repair. The great wall passes with in thirty miles of Pekin. If the forces of the empire which still remain loyal be con centrated near to where tho rebels innst pans the wall, they may make some use of this clumsy, antiquated bulwark of defence, and save China from the perils attending on a usurpation of the throne. TIKTTS OF A CHINAMAN. lie Tlaa No Fears for the safety of Pekin and frnym tlie Itvolt Is Ex aggerated. Paris, Dec. 8. The situation in China is attracting great attention in political cir cles in all the European capitals. This is not only due to the fact that several of the powers have made demands upon tho Chi nese government regarding the treatment of their respective subjects in that coun try, which the present condition of aft airs prevents being settled, but because of the extreme importance attached to the reports that England has come to an understand ing with China by which mutual aid will be rendered in the event of certain contm- f encies. The Eclair to-dav publishes an nterview had with the Chuicao chargo d'affaires here. Tho representative of tho Chinese government holds optimistic views regarding tho situation of all airs in Chiua, and expresses the most implicit confidence that the government will have no occasion to take any ertremo measures to suppress an attempt at a gen eral uprising, lie declares that tho news of late received from China regarding the disturbances in several parts of the conn try, particularly in the north, is ereatly ex aggerated. The fears expressed that tho rebels in tho north might push on their march past the great wall, and reach and invest tho city of Pekin are calmly brushed aside by the chargo d'affaires who says that instead of the government staking its ex istence on a dccisivo battle with the insur gents, it will only be necessary for the im perial troops to show themselves in battlo array to so frighten the rebels as to causo them to flee. The chargo d'affaires further said that he was not aware that any power had asked explanations fiom China. "Wo are quite ready to assure the powers that we have done and will continue to do our utmost to protect Europeans in China," he said. The correspondent of tho Figaro cables from Shanghai that pourparlers have been opened to bring about an alliance be tween England and China for the purposo of coping with Russia. The correspondent adds tbat China is sending troous to the Pamir to check tho KusMan movements in that part of the world, China claiming that Russia is encroaching on her territory. A eemi-otlicial dispatch to Keuter's Tel egram Company a.iys that the Figaro's story about an Angb-Chineso alliance is a canard and without foundation. REAL CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. Its Uasis Is a Determination to Rid the Nation of Allen Rulers, New York Trtbuue. For many years past a popular supersti tion has prevailed in China to the effect that young Kwangsu, tho reigning Em peror, would be the last of the Manichu dynasty, and, according to the recent dis patches received from Shanghai, it would appear as if matters were tending toward the fulfillment of the belief. For tho revolutionary outbreaks, which are now raging not alone in the north but also in the south, the east, the west and tho cen ter of China, are essentially of an anti dynastio character. The hostility to ward the foreigners, and tho massacres of Christians, are merely secondary con siderations in the movement, and duo partly to a desire to embroil tho Emperor with the western powers, and partly to the blow to national pride caused by the young monarch's concessions to the "for eign devils" in connection with the inter national controversy on tho subject of diplomatic audiences and other disputes.of an analogous character. During the two hundred and fifty years which havo elapsed since the native dynasty of Ming was overthrown by tho Mandchuor Tartar invaders, whose chief ascended the dragon throne nnder the title of Emperor bhunchih, and founded the Tsiug dynasty to which the present mon arch belongs, the national characteristics of the conquering race have undergone a radical change. They have become etl'ete, have lost their military training and in stincts. And to acertain extent have become merged into the native Chinese population. The latter, however, despises them for the inferiority of thoir aptitude for trade and industry, and to-day the prostigo of the Mnnchus has entirely disappeared. They are no longer feared, and are incapable of re taining their position as tho principal basis and support upon which rests tbo preseut alien dynasty. Realizing the weakness of the latter, and tho fact that tho decenerato Manchus con stitute a mero handful of 10,000,000, the 40).000,COO of native and aboriginal Chiseso believe that the moment has come to sup plant the obnoxious Tartar rule by an em peror of their own race. Among tho&e who seem predestined by popular sentiment for the imperial dignity is Chunir Che Tung, Viceroy of Houkwaug. and the leader of the reactionary and retrograde party. In open opposition to the authorities ut Pe kin, where his great rival, Li Hung Chang, the Viceroy of tho metropol itan province of Ftchcli, is tho moving spirit, ho has grouped aronnd him all the disaftected. His name has become a watch word for the malcontents, among the most bitter and desperate of whom are the 100, 000,000 natives engaged in the tea industry, which has been almost ruined by Indian and Cingaleso competition. The fact that the Insurrectionary forces now marching on Pekin should have been raised and organized in Munchuna, and not in Chiua proper, is explained by tho fact that after the Manchu invaders swooped down on China two hundred and fifty years ago and overran the empire, their lands which they left vacant were gradually colonized, and in course of time densely set tled by native Chinese of an adventurous and lawless character. Up to within a lew years ago these settlers availed thenisolvts of the exemption from taxation formerly enjoyed by the Manchus to evade making any contributions toward the imperial revenue. Recently, however, an attempt has been made by tho central government at Pekin to form tho ancient Manchuria into three new provinces, and not only to subject the population thereof to the asme rule, bnt also to the same fiscal obligations as the population of the other provinces of the empire. It was the etlorts on tho part of tho government to bring about this that led to the rise of the Chinese settlers in Manchuria who are now marching on Pekin. OLD BAUON FISHER'S HEIRS. Two Thousand Descendants of a Reprobate Son to Receive an Estate of $31,000,000 Special to the In&anaioils Journal. Peiut, Ind., Dec 2. Scattered over sev enteen States are two thousand descendants of Adam Fisher, who came to this country in 1742, and two thousand hoirs-at-law for the great Fisher estate, held in trust by tho German government, for thoso to whom it rightfully belongs, and for thoso who can prove it. The'nuiouut involved is some thing like ol,O00.O00. and has been in the safe keeping of the German government for upwards of one hundred years. It is the principal and interest of the estate of Baron Fisher, one of the old feudal Barons. The heirs in this country, and of whom there arc four in Miami county, have been for some years past tracing the family his tory down and perfecting their title to ward the possession of their portions of this great property. In January last they held a convention in the city of Cincinnati at the Palace Hotel, at which thero were nearly two hundred present. It was de cided to employ counsel and send to Ger many, which was done. The report since received shows that their claims are just, ami the probability exists that they will live to enjoy the money which has lor so long a timo laid dormant. The story, as told by Joseph Fisher, of this county, is peculiarly interesting. In the year 174ti Adam Fisher, a son of Marou Fisher, landed in tho city of Philadelphia, an outcast from his nativo land owing to some indiscretions committed and fvr which he was obliged to llee. After a timo he became desirous of again seeing his na tive laml. but before he railed took Kirk with small-pox and died there m the year 1 To?. Four sons were left Abraham. Jacob. Daniel and Adatn. Abraham removed to North Carolina and left many descendants. Jacob died in Maryland, leaving four hons and two daughters. Daniel died in the Shenandoah valley, rich and high ly respected. Tho Fisher hill noted in the civil war is on his pot.essions. Adam. the youngest, was apprenticed out as a blacksmith, but tiring of thi ran away. going to Kentucky and from tiicnro to Clermont county, Ohio. There ho lived and died. Ono of his sons. David, rose to high distinction and wan a member of Congress formany yrurs. He was a school mate of Gt-neral Grant and a warm and personal friend nf Abraham Lincoln. What the future will bring is problemati cal, but everythingtends to show that tbey will be successful in tho prosecution of thoir claim. FREE TRADE OR FREE COINAGE Issnes Represented by the Two Leading Candidates for the Speakership. Former lo Be Tcshed to the Front, rith Cleve land's Aid, if Mills Is Elected and the Latter if Crisp Gets the Prize. Snpportersof theGeorgian Say ItlsNow tho Field Against Their Mac, Eflfortof the Iowa Delegation ta Desert Spring er for the Texan Checkmated by Ilocjiere Caucus to ileet Sat crday, at 2 P. IL THE SPEAKERSHIP FIGHT Issues Repreneoted bj 21111s and CrUp Pprlcg er's Ranks Unbroken, Thanks to Hoosleri. Special to the Indl&napoU Journal. Washington, Dec. a Thero has been lit tie change in the speakership fight sinca last night. The live candidates Mills, Crisp. McMillin. Springer and Hatch all remain in the field yet. Tho last three bold the balance of power, but there is no like lihood that either can under any condition of circumstances hold his followers together for many ballots. Some of tho Springe and Hatch men are ready to disintegrate aV any time they can help their second choice Mills or Crisp. It is believed that Mills; will have three-fifths of the support of Hatch and Springer and fully half of thoso of McMillin, It looks as though then would not be much difference between the strength of Mills and Crisp on tho lirst bal lot, if present conditions remain unchanged, but every step taken to break the following of Hatch and Springer by the free-traders from the West will inuro to the benetitr of Mills. Editor Jones, of St. Louis, is here, and has sown seed for tho dissolu tion of the Hatch vote. It is to go largely to Mills, for whom Jones is working. Hatch, and Jones had a breezy interview this morning, in which the former had 'words' to eay to the editor for interference witU his State delegation. Jones thinks Hatch, is frittering away the inlluenceof tho Stato delegation, in which thought hois prolt ably right. The contest is qnito spirited, and considerable feeling is being cngcu derod. Tho headquarters of the various candi dates were open nearly all night. Thero coutinues to be ottered any amount! of mouey on Mills against the held, tho ing the trend of public opinion as to who will win. The contest is largely ono be tween Mills and Cloveland on one side for free trade, and Crisp and Hill on the other for f roe coinage. If Mills is elected thero will be a tarill bill framed and a tariff if su formulated for the Democrats next year. If Crisp is chosen, f reo coiuago is to bo pushed, to the front. THK FIELD AGAINST CM SI. Late to-night tho friends of tho Georgian became more confident, and claimed that the contest has now resolved into tho field against Crisp. Whether the field can cen ter upon any one man now in the race or f new man is tho question asked upon alt sides. His supporters by Crisp has a com- raanding lead, but is dome distance front tio goal, whilo the other candidates are u considerable distauco in tho rear. Wilsor, of Wrfit Virginia, is mentioned as the man most likely to be taken up if McMillin, Springer and Hatch aro dropped by their supporters. No break ia their lines wa etlected to-day, though several etlorts m that direction were made, especially ainoni the Springer forces. The attempt wa made to draw from Springer his Wisconsin contingent, nnd ex-Secretary Vilas was credited with engineering the movement. His friends, however, deny tbat ho is inter fering in the speakership fight. He was at Springer's headquarters several hours to night. Judge Holman, of Indiana, tho caucua chairman, arrived to-night, but did hoc visit any of tho headquarters, lie refused to express his preference, stating that tho Indiana delegation would meet to-morrow to discuss the situation. At tho request of all the candidates, ho issued the following otlicial call to-night for tho meeting of tho caucus: There will be a meeting of the Democratic memncrs of the llou-e of Beprerntatlve-t, ua lLa hall of the HoiiMton hatur&lar. Dec. A. 1 6:1 . nt 2 r. m., for tho purimse of nominating candi dates for tho f:t!ioes of the House of licprescuta tives for the Fitty-second Cnt;rcft. VYM. b. Holman, Chairman. An Associated Press dispatch says: If there is a defection wrious enough to give hope to either Mr. Mills or Mr. Crisp in tho ranks of Messrs. Springer. McMillin or Hutch it was nut this evening apparent. Each of tho turee minorcaudidates is quito as steadfast us ever in his determination to stay to the timsh, and among tho followers of Messrs. Springer and McMillin there is even an apparent feeling of cheerfulness and encouragement over the outlook. At one time to-day there was every indi cation of a gradual disintegration of tho forces of Mr. Springer. The Iowa delearatiou, apprehensive of the election of Mr. Crisp on the first ballot, held a meet ing, and shortly afterwards Mr. Hsves an nounced that he and his colleagues had de cided to drop Mr. Springer, even upon tho first ballot, and support Mr. Mills, in case the election of Mr. Crisp seemed imminent. "If yon are not to go to Mr. Mills until you, are convinced that otherwise Mr. Crisp's election will result upon the first ballot, I am quito content," said Mr. Springer, "be cause neither Mr. Crisp nor any other man will be elected upon the tirst ballot." 1 he i the matter rested, with Mr. Springer acqui escent and the Iowa Congressman hesitat ing. CHECKMATED BY IIOOSIEP.S. For a time it seemed as if the Iowa dele gation held tho key to tho situation. TLcro seemed no likelihood of defection in the ranks of Messrs. McMillm or Hatch, and the break from tho Springer camp, if made at all, was to be initiated by the Hawkeyo men. Just here the unexpected occurred. The threatened move of the Iowa Congress men was checkmated not by tlio Illinois delegation and not by Mr. Spriuger. bat by the little northern Indiana delegation of Springer men, led by Mr. Shiveley. The four gentlemen held a meeting, and ot its conclusion .Mr. Shiveley announced tj tho, Iowa delegation that their desertion of Mr. Springer would bo the hignal for his Indiana followers to c.vst their vote solidly Tor Mr. Crip, who was their second choice, should Mr. Springer's chances be rendered hopeless. This announcement was a thunder-clap to the Iowa delegation. It meant that the action which they proposed to ,t ike as a means of defeating Mr. Crisp woud be the siunal for a counter movement which would give Mr. Crieufour moro vots a siguiticant accession to a tuan whose btrenttth. is already conceded by hi op ponents to be above tho danger line. During the afternoon Mr. Hayes held nn evtendrd conference with Mr. Mills, but at its conclusion ho hid for the first time during the contest subsided into the non-comniit taL 1 am not pre pared." ho said. 'tq take the responsibility ol lieing the first man to desert Mr. Spring er. Ourpren-nt intentions are to remain true to him until the end, unless the break is tirjt led by some of his otter friends." Thi is interprt-ted to mean that Msr.' Filhian. Fonnau, Newberry and Wiko must first desert to the candidate from Texas. Considerable difliculty has been experi enced In nscertaining the complexion of the Wisconsin delegation, und a good deal of missionary work is directed toward that quarter. Tho Alabama delegation vill meet to-night or to-morrow night, and the Michigan delegation to-morrow morning. t