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V OL LX -N° 19.692.
LATEST LONDON COMMENT.
A LOW TONED CAMPAIGN— MR. CHAM
BERLAIN'S FUTURE— THE SOUTH
AFRICAN MINES.
fCWpyr*rt»t: 1900: By The New-Tork Tribune.]
[by cable to the tbibune.]
London, Oct. 15, 6 a. m. — There are many signs
of publ?c relief over the close of the canvass.
While it has been a short canvass, there has
been much bitterness. Old politicians describe
It a* a carnival of bad manners and evil pas
sions. Two members of the Ministry have been
charged with having a financial interest in
Government contracts. Members of the Op
position have baen arraigned as traitors. There
have been challenges to libel fults, and Hon
orable Members of Parliament have called one
another liars, and the Colonial Secretary has
been repeatedly portrayed as a craven states
man who condoned Cecil Rhodes's guilt be
cause he knew that the bundle of incriminating
letters would be read in the Commons if he
failed to do co. The ordinary amenities of pub
lic life have been suspended, and it has been a
low toned canvass, with many breaches, of good
taste and fair pay. "Well bred Englishmen
ehrug their shoulders and confess that the
standards of party politics have been lowered
by offensive personalities and malignant as
saults. What was designed by the Ministers as
a patriotic khaki revel has degenerated into a
campaign defamation.
The influence of this canvass upon the per
ronal fortunes of Mr. Ghamberlain is now the
chief topic of political circles. Nobody denies
that he has been ferociously and wantonly at
tacked and that the Birmingham Midland coun
ties, Lancashire and the country generally have
ttood by him and vindicated him. It Is also ad
mitted, even by his admirers, that in forcing the
fighting and resenting foul aspersions he has
erred in judgment and committed a breach of
good taste. Mr. Labouchere is not treated se
riously, even when he drags Abel Thomas for
ward as the custodian of the incriminating let
ters, which wore not read in the Commons be
cause Mr. Hawksley's client was spared.
Thomas and Kawksley are both Radicals, and
do not like Mr. Chamberlain, but they are also
solicitors, and not likely to be so unprofessional
&.s to forget their clients' interests for the sake
of supporting Labouchere's charges. These stale
accusations against Mr. Chamberlain lose much
of their force when it is remembered that
LaLouchere has been smarting under provoca
tions received when his own letters were dug
up in South Africa and brought to light through
the Colonial Office.
Mr. Chamberlain really suffers from his own
real and aggressiveness in the canvass. Men
are paying that he lacks the sober qualities and
serenity of temper required for leadership.
Three weeks ago he was nominated for one office
after another, and described as the dictator of
the Cabinet. He is now by common agreement
of all political gossips left in the Colonial Office
to finish up the job in South Africa, and It is
even whispersd that one of Lord Salisbury's
objects in going to Lancashire will be to pay a
hearty tribute to the services of his maligned
colleague.
In view of the publication of the documents
captured when the official residence of the Vice
roy of Pe-Chi-Li was occupied by the allies, it
v.i be useless for the Chinese Court to assert
any longer. that it did not give Its hearty sup
"pert to the Boxer Movement. ••■-••
X r 't much notice is being taken her** of the
i scheme to erect In London with Ameri
i an capital a hotel for the benefit of feminine
wage earners. The idea of a women's hotel for
D is not a new one, but previous pro
have always fallen through owing to
' financial support.
•ral Buller's impending return from South
ra is understood to be due to a rather un
l call upon his services to reorganize
( • Army Service Corps. His experience In
Africa of the many defects of the ex-
Istiug organization has led to the authorities
r;g him to put the system under which the
r rpa ' "nducts its work upon a proper footing.
w the general be-lief that to General
K.- nener, who is a favorite of Lord Salisbury,
• given tbe task of maintaining order in
the Transvaal and Orange River Colony.
South African mining companies have
itterly disaj. pointed by the delay in ending
Uitary campaign. They sent thtir en
! and agents to Cape Town when Pre
toria was occupied, and there they have re-
I in idleness month after month. A doz-n
• rs, representing the largest mining in
-. have been allowed to go to Johannes
burp and report on the condition of the plant,
. nping operations have not been resumed,
and minera and natives cannot be employed until
ways are prepared to carry coal and
I b on a larye scale. The railways barely
<■ for the ne^-ds of the army, and it is not
: that the mines can be operated with
■:-fore the end of six months. It
twelve months before returns are re
. the immense ma^s of capital in
;n the Transvaal. I. N. F.
BOERS HARASSING BRITISH.
DE WETS COMMAND ACTIVE IX THE OR
ANGE RIVER COLONY.
Cape Town, Oct. 14. The Boers are very ac
tive in the Kroonstad District. General De Wet
has proclaimed that burghers who refuse to
fight ill be made prisoners of war.
British mounted infantry, scouting from Lind
ley, had Captain Wiltehire killed, through mis
taking a party of forty Boers in khaki for
friend.*.
Boc-r commandoes continually harassed the
BritiEh column while marching from Lindley to
Kroonstad.
The Boers captured a detachment of the
Cheshire Pu?giment, which was escorting an
empty wagon near Frankfort. They released
the driver, but kept the wagon.
fA BOER LAAGER SURPRISED.
London. Oct. 14 — The War Office has received
the following from Lord Roberts, dated Pre-
October 13:
A satisfactory little affair occurred near
Frankfort Thursday. Colonel Grove, with the
„,* 6t Kents, surprised a Boer laager at dawn,
•-•ted s*ven, wounded nine and captured eigh
fc Intercession of the Princess of Wales,
* a * B a dispatch from Copenhagen to "The Daily
TelegTaph," has secured the liberation of some
lianeii who were compelled by the Boers to fight
gainst the Erlti.sn and had been imprisoned at
Simon's Town. Cape Colony.
FtLIPIXOS AND THE VATICAN.
T HEEE ATTEMPTS BY THE REBELS TO
OPEN NEGOTIATIONS FAIL.
Geneva, Oct. Bellamy Storer, United
. Minister to Spain, in the course of a con
■**«*tion here to-day regarding his recent in-
with the Pope, eald.
"*° appeared to b* in much better health
than when I saw him two years ago. He Is
full of life, and has lost none of the interest he
has had from the first in matters relating to
the Church of Rome.
"Since Archbishop Ireland's visit to the Vati
can It is clearly understood there that the best
Interests of the Roman Catholic: Church demand
American rule in the Philippines. The United
States and the Catholic Church have the same
aims there, and hope to work together for civ
ilization, order and peace."
Mr. Storer asserted that the Filipinos had
made three attempts to open negotiations with
the Vatican, all of which were refused.
MR. CARNEGIE AND CHINA.
CANNOT COMPLY WITH MINISTER WT'S
SUGGESTION TO BUILD AN IN
STITUTION IN PEKING.
In a Washington dispatch the other day "Wu
Tin«r Fang, the Chinese Minister to the T'nitod
States, was represented as saying: "Why
should I despair that his generous hand will
roach out toward China?" after speaking in
high terms of Andrew Carnegie's work in es
tablishing libraries here and in Great Britain.
The Minister continued:
I believe if Mr. Carnegie knew what good re
pults could be accomplished through the found
ing of such an institution in my country he
would do so without hesitation. What an In
spiration it would b» for an American to build
a splendid library In the city of Peking! Think
how it would draw my people to find tna t your
citizens were capable nf such unselfish interesi
in a race separated from you by thousands of
miles, and v>hat inspirations it would plant In
their breasts. But I make no appi-;;] to Mr.
Carnegie. He is a philanthropist who doubtless
knows to what purpose his benevolf n<-e can best
bf put.
The substance of the foregoing was cabled to
Mr. Carnegie at Skibo Castle, Scotland, by The
New- York Tribune, and the following answer
was received:
In reply I regret to say that I cannot pat
ronize.
I am delighted that the American Republic
alone among nations treats China with the
consideration due the inventor of movable
types and the mariner's compass while the
other Powers, which have already despoiled
her. plot her dismemberment. Fortunately,
thf-y are unlikely to agree among themselves
on a division of the spoil. It is probable that
America will become the mediator of peace— a
great position, worthy of the land o< Wash
ington and Lincoln. CARNEGIE.
WEI-CHOW RECAPTURED.
FORCES OF BUN TAT SEX. THE REFORMER.
SCATTERED.
London, Oct. 15.— The Chinese Imperial troops,
according to a dispatch to "The Daily Chronicle"
from Hong-Kong dated yesterday, have re
captured Wei-Chow, on Fast River, where Sun
Tat Sen. the reformer, had raised his flag, ani
have scattered the rebels.
"The Standard" publishes mail advices from
Tlen-Tsin giving a list of fifty-four documents
that were seized in the Yamen of the Viceroy
after the capture of the city, and fell into the
hands of the correspondents before the military
authorities had seized the Yamen. These in
clude receipts for money paid to Boxer generals
for supplies to their troops of every kind, reports
of actions and lists of casualties and rewards
paid to generals and the families of the ki.>d.
all clearly proving that the authorities main
tained the Boxer movement by lavish expendi
ture.
WARSHIPS ASSEMBLING AT SHANGHAI.
Rome, Oct. 14.— According to a dispatch from
Taku to th- "Tribuna," the expedition to Pao-
Ting-Fu aims to assure, in addition to the
chastisement of the Boxer chiefs, the exploita
tion of the railways. It Is expected to last about
forty days.
The Italian cruiser Vesuvio, the dispatch
says, has left Taku for Shanghai, "when? the
Powers are concentrating numerous warships in
view of possible trouble."
REBELS IN THE EMPEROR'S PATH.
PROGRESS OF THE COURT TOWARD ITS
NEW CAPITAL DELAYED.
•Shanghai, Oct. 14.— The progress of the Chi
nese Court toward Sl-Ngan-Fu, th- n«-w capital,
has been delayed in consequence of the pres-
C supposed Mahometan rebels in the Prov
ince of Shen-Se.
From Canton it is reported that the Quang-Se
have defeated the Imperial troops on the
borders of Quang-Tung, and thnt General Su
has resigned in consequence of hi? requ
reittfurcements being ignored.
Some Chinese soldi.-rs desecrated thr
tery for foreigners at Nam-Shih-Tu, near Can
ton, and the Viceroy had the offenders decapi
tated and dismissed their commander.
The Fourth Brigade, from India, has arrived
at Taku, but, owing: to the gale, has not yet
been abie to land.
Sir Ern< M If. Satow, who succeeds Sir Claude
M. Macdonald a* British Minister to China, has
arrived a; Tien-Tsin
U HUNG CHANG GETS TO WORK.
WITH PRINCE CHXNG HE WILL SEEK TO
OPEN PEACE NEGOTIATION'S.
Peking. Oct. 12.— Li Sung Chang began to
make his formal call upon the legations to-day.
This afternoon he visited the British and Amer
ican representatives. General Chaffee and Gen
eral Wilson assisted rimed States Minister
Conger In receiving Ear! Li. who expressed
anxiety to make peace. Li Hung Chang and
Prince Chlng will shortly address a note to th<
foreign Ministers, asking that a meeting be held
for the purpose of beginning the negotiations
for peace. He expressed a preference for the
Tsung-11- Yamen as a lifeline \
It Is stated that owing to foreign objections
■iung Lv has withdrawn from the poßt of Peace
Commissioner.
Li Hung Chang expresses doubt as to the au
thenticity of the decree banishing Prince Tuun
A STATEMENT FROM YON WALDERBEE.
Tien-Tsln, Oct. 12.— Count yon Waldersee has
issued an official statement summarizing the
military progress* made since he assumed com
mand. Hf explains that the seeming di
due to The difficulties experienced in the dis
embarkation and transportation of th* < !
troops, and also to th<- difficulty of getting the
various commanders to work in ban.'
yon Waldersei lays the condition ia n<
erably satisfactory, and that active operations
are inaugurated with the Pao-Tlng-Fu expedi
tion.
The statement regards the inactivity of the
hostile Chinese merely as a ruse to cover pos
sible further offensive operations. Count yon
Waldersee's military policy is designed to crush
the possibility of further hostilities.
The British contingent started for Pao-Ting-
Fu this morning. There are persistent rumors
that considerable opposition will be made. If
this occurs, It is probable that overwhelming
force* will arrive from the other provinces.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON Till OCEAMC.
Liverpool. Oct. 14.— While the crew of the White
Star liner Oceanic. Captain Cameron, which arrived
here from New-York last Wednesday, were lower
ing anchor to-day, the rhain broke, tearing off the
left leg of one of the carpenters and fracturing the
right He diM soon afterward: Anoihr-r man h;nl
ni «Vft leg fractured.
At th« first sign of Croup, give
JAVXE'S tXI'tCTOIUNT.-
NEW-YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1000.-TWELVE PAGES.-,^^^^,.,^
MACMONNTES TO PAINT.
HE WILL RETIRE FOR A LONG TIME. IF
NOT PERMANENTLY. FROM
SCULPTURE.
According to Frank MacMonnies, who arrived
yesterday at his Brooklyn home. No. i»7f> Qutncy
st., from Paris, his brother, Frederick MacMon
nies, is contemplating retiring ffom the execu
tion of any more large work In sculpture and
will take up painting. The sculptor will come to
America in the spring, and intends to enjoy a
leng period of rest. For some time he has re
fused all orders, and is now engaged in com
pleting his last order in hand, the. equestrian
statue of General Henry W. Slocum. which is to
stand at Bedford-aye. and Eastern Parkway. If
he does not retire from the field of sculpture en
tirely, he will do so for a long period at least.
Painting, it is said, he regards as simple in com
parison with sculpture.
Mr. MacMonnies regards his Oenoral Plocum
as his masterpiece, it represents the subject as
a young man, leading a charge in the Civil War.
The lips are parted as if in exhortation.
A statue of General John B. Woodward, to be
placed in Brooklyn, has Just been completed by
Mr. MacMonnies. He has worked from a mask
of the General, taken some time before the lat
ter's death. Mrs. Woodward saw the completed
cast, which represents her husband with glasses
in hand about to begin an address, when she was
in Paris last summer, and expressed herself as
much pleased with it.
Mr MacMonniea has so far given only a de
sultory attention 10 painting, but now that, he
Intends to take it up more seriously he hns
started an American Academy of Painting in
Paris, in which a number of young women are
studying. When he arrives in this country he
intends to settle In some quiet place on Long
Island and take up the work of portrait
painting.
RTJCKSTUHL'S PARTS STTDTO.
FRIENDS HERE THINK THE SCULPTOR DOES
NOT INTEND TO DESERT AMERICA.
Many friends In this city of F. Wellineton Ru^k
etuhl, the Bculptor, were surprised yesterday when
they read a p'ihlif>hed dispatch from Paris, which
said that he had bought a house and studio there
and Intended to settle permanently in the French
capital and only visit the United States at intervals.
A prominent member of the National Sculpture
Society, who was seen by a Tribune rpporter, said
that Mr. Ruekstuhl hao. often criticised severely
the action of other American painters and sculptors
who have made their homes abroad after winning
fame here. This friend of Mr. R-.ickstuhl thought
the s-ulptor had probably leased a Paris studio
or house for temporary use only, and this fa.-t had
Riven ri=e to the report that he was to tak» up
his permanent abode in Paris.
Mr. Ruckstulil sailed for Paris last July, expect
ing to return next February. He intended to oc
cupy much of the time In modelling some work
which he is to do for the Pan-American Exposition
In Buffalo. Part of this work will be a large
quadriga, somewhat like that which surmounts
the Dewey Arch. Mr. Ruckstuhl gave much of his
time and labor to constructing and adorning that
ar.-h. and the sculptured group on it representing
the Army is the work of his own hands. Oip of
his most Important orodurtions Is the rquestrian
ftHiiie of Governor Rartranft in Harrisburg. f'onn.
Two marble statues at the entrance to the Ap-
Court Buildingr, on Madison Square, also
are his.
Mr. Ruckstuhl hails oripinally from St. Louis,
but has harl a studio for years at No. S'^ Eishth
ave., in this city. He Is unmarried, and about
forty years old. He ii 1 * a member of the Board of
Control of the National Sculpture Society and
vice-president of the Architectural League.
MAJOR DODGE ILL WTTH FEVER.
FEAR LEST DISEASE INCREASE WTTH THE
OPENING OF SEWERS IN HAVANA.
Havana, Oct. 14. — It is generally admitted
that yellow fever will increase in Havana when
the streets are opened for the installation of the
sewers, a work which will probably require
three years.
Major Francis P. Dodge, paymaster of the
Division of Cuba, is down with the fever.
The forthcoming Constitutional convention
will assemble in the Martes Theatre. This will
help to insure the publicity of the proceedings.
To eight former professors of the University
of Havana have been granted pensions of $1. 200
per annum each during the term of the military
occupation.
Mrs. Estes O. Rathbone, who has returned to
Havana, says she is confident of her husband's
ultimate acquittal and vindication.
In consequence of the recent disturbances tn
Matanzaa city between the police and the
United States troops, and of the bitter feeling
which has followed, the I'd I'nifed States Cav
alry has been ordered on practice marches for
ten days. The troops will not be allowed to en
ter the city, and the provost guard will be re
stricted tr> Hamilton Barracks and Panta < ' r',p
tana.
RAILROAD COMMISSION FOR CUBA.
SUGGESTED REMEDY FOR EXCESSIVE TRANS
PORTATION' CHARGES.
Havana, Oct. 14. — Governor-General Wood is
considering the advisability of appointing ■
railroad commission, to fix rat«»s <nd regulate
i onstructlon. This is due tn numerous com
plaints of excessive freight charges, instances
being reported whore the rates for less than
one hundred miles are high."- than those from
New-York to Havana, with the duty added.
Sefior Cancio. Secretary of Finance, urges the
Introduction nf American currency into Cuba
and the doing away altogether with Spanish
coin, lie argues that the fact of there being
four different kinds of currency, all having dif
rates of exchange and none regulated by
law, serves to complicate the financial situation,
and greatly interferes with commercial inter
ests. He recommends a special commission to
deal with the question.
TBK QT-.EFyrti ANXIETY RELIEVED
CONDITION OF EMPRESS FREDERICK XOW SATIS
FACTORY.
London, Oct. 14. — The following announcement
PS to-day In the "Court Circular".
The Queen has been in snnie anxiety for a
week, owing to the unsatisfactory accounts of
the h'-alth <>f Empress Frederick. Reports now,
however, are favorable.
Kronberg, Oct. 14. The condition of Dowager
ESmpress Frederick to-day is satisfactory.
BRITISH SPINNERS RESUMING WORK.
Manchester, Oct. 14.— Considerable Irregularity In
business resulted lest week from the decline in
cotton. In some quarters a fair volume of orders
was executed, but In others there was little prog
ress. Broadly speaking, the difference between buy
ers arid sellers Is narrow, although the first effect
of the drop in cotton was a certain hesitation, which
will continue until it can be seen whether this is
likely to make progress or react.
The depression in Lancashire Is undoubtedly pass-
Ing away, Last week ten thousand looms were idle
at Blackburn. During the present week seven millu
will mart again, anil th« looms remaining idle will
be under four thousand.
y EARLY STRANDED ON A NEW ISLAND.
Marseille?. Oct. 14.— 0n the night of October 9 the
steamer City of Barcelona narrowly escaped going:
ashore on a new Island which formed off th- mouth
of the Rhone in consequence of the recent floods.
It is iijtuated about ten miles from the coast, and
consists cf sand
M'CULLAGH SLAPS POLICE.
THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING TO PRE
VENT COLONIZATION.
NOW HE WILL PROCEED INDEPENDENTLY
ACAIXST THE MEN WHO ARE
TRYING TO PREVENT AN
HONEST ELECTION.
John McCullagh. State Superintendent of
Elections for the Metropolitan District, gave the
police another sharp dig yesterday. It was con
tained in a letter addressed to the Commission
ers. In this letter Mr. McCullagh refers to his
former letter warning the police against more
than two hundred illegal resorts which are being
used to hatch a colonization plot. He reminds
them that the developments of the first two
days of registration verify the existence of such
a plot, and he finally gives formal, notice that
because of their neglect to suppress these re
sorts he will now proceed himself to exhaust
every means at his disposal to do what the
police are sworn to do. The letter reads as fol
lows: • «
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of com
munication from your honorable Board, containing
the resolution adopted on October 11. in reference
to my communication of October 8 in which you
request 'that the State Superintendent of Elec
tions be. and is. respectfully requested to transmit
to the Police Board such information as he states
he is possessed of as to the character of the places
specified in his said communication, before men
tioned, to the end that the Police Board may ••--
quire and adopt such means as may he necessary
to proceed against such places."
In reply I beg to state that, previous to the re
ceipt of your communication of the 11th Instant, I
had already notified the District Attorney of the
County of New- York of the possession of the evi
dence referred to in your communication, and re
questing that he should take immediate steps to
present the same to the Grand Jury of the County
of New- York.
In response to that communication, the District
Attorney has advised me that he Is ready to co
operate with me In the presentation of such evi
dence to the proper court, and has requested me to
meet him for consultation on Monday, October 15,
in reference thereto.
I, "therefore, feel compelled to respectfully decline
to furnish your honorable Board with the evidence
In my possession, but shall reserve It for the con
sideration of the proper tribunal.
Recent developments seem to fully justify the
statements made by me In my communication to
the Chief of Police of October 8. copy of which I
forwarded to your honorable Board, in reference to
certain persons and places specified In said com
munication, which, in my Judgment, vitally affected
the Integrity of the franchise, and I desire to state
that. Irrespective of any action, or failure to act.
on the part of your honorable Board, or the Chief
of Police. In reference to such persons and places, I
propose to exhaust every means at my disposal to
suppress them.
WRITKS TO DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Mr. McCullagh also wrote to District Attor
ney Gardiner in reply to Mr. Gardiner's offer to
co-operate with him to the fullest extent in
prosecuting all persons accused of election
frauds. He said: "It will not be convenient
for me to meet you at 11 o'clock on Monday,
October 15. but I will be able to do so at 2 p. m.
on that date, when I will be pleased to confer
with you." If Mr. Gardiner's offer to lay these
cases before the proper tribunals at oncv» turns
out to be a genuine effort to aid and not a hid
den effort to hinder, his co-oppration will be ac
cepted. If not. McCullagh will prosecute the
cases through a Special Deputy Attorney-Gen
earl. and ignore Mr. Gardiner entirely. When
Mr. McCullagh was complimented yesterday on
the good work done by his deputies last week he
said: 'We may do even better on the last two
days of registration, and the best of all on Elec
tion Da.y." Then he added:
Our efforts are directed to keeping the floaters
away from the registration booths, and the reports
of my deputies show that we attained considerable
success. The knowledge that their plans wer»
known to u«= has held most of them- back, as is
shown by the decreased registration in certain dis
tricts notorious in past years for colonizine. I
think we have given these professional colonizers
all they want for a while. Long before ray office
was created these fellows had worked up'a per
manent and well managed organization. Since I
was appointed Superintendent I have devoted a
great deal of encrpy to finding out who the direc
tors of this organization are. I think I know them
all now The same men do the work year after
year. They seem to be well supplied with money.
but this year they are too badly scared to use it to
buy rpp»aters to any erreat Extent. I hope the
poor dupes who Were tempted by These sharpers to
register unlawfully last week will help us to get at
tho men who bribed them.
M&NY REGISTRY PRISONERS.
NEARLY ALL THOSE ARRESTED BY
MVULI.AGH'S MEN DISMISSED.
The> po Ice courts were busy yesterday with cases
arising- out of last week's registration. Ovr of the
prisoners was a Tammany captain. He Is Anthony
W. Miller, a clerk employed in the Register's office,
living at No. 145 West Thirty-third-st. He was ar
raigned n Jefferson Market court by Patrolman
Lustbader, of the West Thlrtieth-st. station, and
Deputy Superintendent of Elections Fuchs. charged
with disorderly conduct at the polling place No.
IT. West Thirty-third-st, on Saturday night. Mil
ler is the Tammany captain in that election district.
It was stated to Magistrate Cornell by Chairman
Burns of the Board of Inspectors that Miller was
in the polling place, and when James A. Ford, who
was arrested on Friday night for a similar offence,
was admonished not to challenge electors promiscu
ously, Miller raised a disturbance ,-»nd was warned
three times to stop before his arrest was ordered.
Miller denied that he was asked to keep quiet,
and declared that he was on the sidewalk In front
of the booth when he was arrested. The defend
ant's lawyer, Vincent A. Vlckery. did not conduct
the examination to suit the Magistrate, who said:
"I have been on the bench for five years and have
heard many election cases, but I never heard one
so poorly conducted. The defendant has a right
to make an explanation, irrespective of his counsel,
if he sees fit." The attorney promised to follow the
rulings of the Court and the case proceeded. Mil
ler was held for Special Sessions, and was paroled
in thp custody of bis counsel until to-day to give
ball.
Joseph Lossrido. of No. 171 Mulberry-st., who was
•nested on Saturday evening on a charge of Illegal
registration In the Seventh Klection District of the
Vlth Assembly District on complaint of Deputy
Green, of John McCullagh's staff, was discharged
in the Centre-Bt. police court yesterday by Magis
trate Brann, the deputy refusing to make com
plaint against the prisoner. At the time of the
arrest it was suspected by the deputy that Loss
rido's naturalization papers were not correct. In
court the deputy said he was now satisfied the
papers were all right.
Martin Dermody, flfty-four years old, who lives
at the Arlori Hotel, a lodging house at No. 2.331
Thlrd-ave., was arraigned before Magistrate Crane.
In thM Harlem police court, by Deputy Superin
tendent Crow, of McCullagh's staff, on a charge of
Illegal reglsaration. Dermody registered in th-
Sfvt-nth Election District of theXXXIVth Ass mb!y
District on Saturday night, and said he was born
in the I'nlted States. He was challenged, and then
said he was born in Hamilton. Canada. Dermody
insisted to Magistrate Crane that there had been a
ini.«t;,Ke-that he had Uved in the United States for
twenty-clx years and was naturalized in Chicago.
He was discharged with a warning not to vote.
James Hanley. twenty-four years old. of No. 2.U5
Kißhth-ave.. was arrested on Saturday in the Thir
ty-sixth Election District of the XXJst Assembly
District, charged with registering illegally. He was
arrested by Deputy Tachjian. of the Bureau of
Elections, as he showed naturalisation paper* of
this i car, and was understood to say that he- had
only been In the country for three and a half years.
Hanley told Magistrate Crane. In the Harlem po
lice i-ourt. yesterday, that he had been here Mvon
years anil that the papers were •"straight." He
wss pnrol*d until Wednesday.
George C. Rafter, a theological student, twenty
four years old. living at No. 17S Nlnth-ave was a
prisoner at Yorkvill* Court yesterday on a' charge
THE NEW YORK CENTRAL IS FIRST.
No railroad company In Great Britain has »o
many miles of rallroaU protected by the look and
block ?>M<rn a? the New York Central." Extract
from an address by Mr. John P. O'Donnell, the
h.ughsh expert on block alcnala. before tb» Ameri
can Society of Civil Engineers.— Advt
of having acted in a disorderly manner in a polling
place at No. 279 Avenue A on Saturday evening.
Karter denied to Magistrate Flammer that he had
been disorderly, adding that he was in the polling
l^r C^, as * wat( under the Instructions of Mr.
14t?k ™ Ro .Publ{i-an nominee for Congress of the
£ il hh i Dls i r "' - He was arrested, he said, because
t«iri«o th UpOn r « >ma *"ln« in the polling place and
«rr-«F the names of those who registered. The.
PeteUn^" a tl m l d 1 On tho com P'alnt of Syphred
lit f^fili i he chairman of the Board of Inspectors,
and nif?«£° "PP?."" l n court to press his complaint
ana Kafter was discharged
a trn^i. Klrk ' of No - * BBy.o ™-y. win said he was
rV»fft»tli pnt - ■"■«» held In bail for $1,000. H*
Flection n/i^T *J at a ss«*« in the Nineteenth
aIEJS sl ,K lc l iV, he Vlth A***™** District. It
Bowery on October 8. He said that he lived there
«™i y ". When in the c.ty. Frank Carnev. of the
•?™«3 dd /t, 9S -. was hHd in a nk <- sum. He was
c ehV" en v havln ,5 att «- m r>*<?d to register. He Is on"
« w!S wS 8 i- la .K G<>orße No "- of No :s2 Norfolk
reeisTererf^flm". .c. c same amo ' Int - The place ho
s H Sh7h.iT !S! S I? course of reconstruction. He
torn down iX d U ?S? bPfore thp ol(1 burins was.
!;/"' £"*. as , * h< * nPW building is being put
man fi»
SHIELDS AND MEN RESCUED.
THK ENTIRE PARTY OP" SOLDKBB
CAPTURED IX M.\K!\r>lQrE
RECOVERED
Manila, Oct. I9l— Captain Devereaux Shields,
who. with fifty-one men of Company F. 20th
Repiment T'nited Stat-s Votsotteer Infantry,
was captured by the insurgents last month in
the Island of Marinduque. was recovered yester
day by the American r»snip force with all the
members of hi« party.
plague SHIP reaches; port.
FIVE DEATHS ON* BOARD THE HIGHLAND
PRINCE.
Montevideo, Oct. 14. — The British steamer
Highland Prince, from Antwerp August 30, Lon
don September 7 and Bahla October 4. has ar
rived here with bubonic plague aboard.
Five deaths, including those of the captain
and first officer, occurred during the voyage.
FLOODS 7-V XOVA SCOTIA.
HEAVY T.OPS ON SEA AND LAND— THIRTY
VESSELS ASHORE.
Halifax, N. S.. Oct. 14.— Additional disasters
to shipping on this coast are reported. The
known list of vessels driven ashore now num
bers thirty, mostly owned in the Province and
Newfoundland. The loss all ore* the country
and in the neishboring provinces throtigh ter
rific rainfall and washouts and damage to or
chards and buildings by heavy wind will be
many thousands of dollars.
The Canadian Pacific wires connecting Cape
Br?tnn with the rest of Nova Scotia are com
pletely broken at the Straits of Canso. where
the cable was fouled by a schooner dragging her
anchor in the recent gale.
Heavy rain is falling again to-day throughout
Nova Scotia. Rivers and lakes are everywhere
overflowing and destroying property. There
has been no Canadian Pacific train from Mon
treal for four days, and a serious wreck of the
Sydney Express, caused by a washout, is, re
ported in Cape Breton.
The Gloucester schooner Mystery, at Canso,
reports one man lost at sea.
VESSEL THOUGHT TO BE LOST.
London, Oct. 14.— 1t Is feared that the British
schooner Samuel Mos3. Captain Mab!y. which sailed
from Cadiz August 19 for St. John'?. N. F.. is lost.
The Moss Is a wooden vessel of 127 tons, was built
ai Par, England, and is owned by S. Truscott. of
Fowey.
BRTAX MAY LOsF. His OW\ STATE.
GREAT REPUBLICAN ENTHUSIASM IN
NEBRASKA-GOOD EFFECT OF
SPEEC HMAKING.
Omaha, Neb.. Oct. It (Special).— The political
situation in Nebraska is Interesting. Republicans
. are putting forth herculean efforts to redeem the
State. More great men have spoken here than
ever before in a Presidential campaign. Governor
Roosevelt's tour inspired the people. The meet
ings by Postmaster-General Smith and Speaker
Henderson have caused much enthusiasm. Senator
Dolllver and Secretary Wilson have done good
service.
In some counties there la a veritable ground swell
McKinleyward, and the Bryanite Fusionists are
dismayed. In some counties their case Is hopeless.
The attack on the Nebraska City starch works has
caused the people to rise and denounce the State
house officials. The Mid-road Populists are caus
ing great disaffection among the Fusionists, es
pecially on the head of the State ticket. There is
no doubt that Dietrich, the Republican candidate
for Governor, will be elected. Chairman Lindsay
of the State Committee says there Is no doubt
whatever that the Republicans will have a safe ma
jority of the Legislature and that two Republican
United States Senators will be elected in January.
He says he can discount his reports 10 per cent
and then be sure of Republican success on the
Presidential electors and the State ticket. H«
speaks with great confidence, and exhibits his re
ports in proof thereof from nearly every precinct
heretofore regarded as doubtful. The change of
sentiment in Nebraska Is wonderful.
Many farmers will not attend political meetings.
They declare they will not vote, that tim are
good and they do not want a change. Commercial
traders report the high tide of McKinley senti
ment. Bryan's plurality four years ago was about
13,000. He is said to be perfectly confident that his
State will remain steadfast. Dr. P. L. Hall, chair
man of the Democratic State Committee, says
Bryan will carry the State by at least 10,0«jO. and
he expects more.
J. H. Edmisten. the chairman of the National
Populist Committee, has direct charge of Bryan's
campaign in Nebraska, as he had four years" ago
He Is working desperately. His claims are ex
travagant. He predicts Bryan's plurality will
reach 25,000: says imperialism has done it; that all
the foreigners are with Bryan. Weighing all
sources of information, well informed men conclude
that Bryan is likely to lose his own State.
FOUND DYING IN BRYANT PARK.
MAX WHO HAD TAKEN CARBOLIC ACID DrES IV
A HOSPITAL*
An unconscious man was found In Bryant Park,
near Forty-seeond-st.. last night by Policeman
Boern»r, of the West Thlrtleth-st. station. The
man had taken carbolic acid. The empty bottle lay
near, .and his lips were seared by the poison The
man was taken to the New-York Hospital and died
there in a short time.
Papers found on the man indicated that he was a
seaman and had served on the steamship Garth.
Other papers bore the name of R. Petersen. and
were Issued In Denmark. The man was about
forty-six years old. 5 feet I inches tall. 170 pounds
in weight, had brown hair and mustache. blue eyes,
a brown suit, light Fedora hat. Mack laced shoes
and a blue/ striped *hlrt. Th* body was taken to
the fcforgiM.
CORONER FITZPATRICK'S WIFE DEAD.
Mrs. Mary K. Fltzpatrlck. wife of Coroner Ed
ward T. Fltzpatrick, died last night at her home.
No. "53 Henry-st. Mrs. Fltzpatrlck had a stroke of
apoplexy about six weeks a*'" 1 at Sayville. Long
Island, where she was staying for the summer.
She was removed to New- York four weeks ago.
and had been confined to her room ever since.
Mrs. Kitiratrlck was sixty-three years old. She
was married forty-five years ago to the present
Coroner. She was Miss Mary E. Blair, the daugh
ter of Edward Blair, a well known contractor.
The chances for charming Fall Excursions via
Hudson River Day Lin* end with October 20th.
— Advt.
PRICE THREE CENTS.
PLANS TO RECEIVE BRYAN.
THE CANDIDATE TO ARRIVE AT f* TO
MORROW AFTERNOON.
TO SPEAK AT THREE MEETINGS IN THTJ
EVENING. BESIDES THAT IN MADISON
- SQUARE GARDEN— DINNER AT
THE HOFFMAN HOUSE.
The Democratic campaign In this city is M
be started off with a hurrah to-morrow night.
Tammany has plans for making the meeting
which Is to be held in Madison Square Garden
one to be remembered fo- a long tim<» Th»
meetings in Cooper Union and at Tammany
Hall are also expected to he remarkable In
point of attendance and uproar Tammany has
informed every dlvekeeper in the city that h»
must be prepared to give one night's free lodg
ing to as many persons as his place will a- -
commodate to-morrow night. Tammany is go
ing to import hundreds and thousands of per
sons from points near the city to swell the num
ber of shouting followers at these meetings.
William J. Bryan will speak at each of th»
three meetings, and he will be carefully looked
after from the time he arrives In the city until
he starts on his tour of the State.
The candidate will arrive here over the New-
York Central Railroad at 2:4.% o'clock to-morrow
afternoon. He will be met at the station by a
committee, and he and his party, which will in
clude Adlal E. Stevenson and Webster Davis,
will be escorted to the Hoffman House, wher*
suites of rooms have been engaged for them.
Dinner, with Mr. Bryan as the guest of honor,
will be served in the Moorish Room at 5 o'clock
In the afternoon. About twenty-five persons,
besides Colonel Bryan and his party, will b*»
present. Among these will be all the speakers
at the various meetings, the chairmen of the
meetings, The chairman of the Ratification Com
mittee and the chairmen of the sub-committees.
At 6:50 p. m. the party. In open carriages and
escorted by a platoon of mounted police, will
leave the Hoffman House. Each one of th»
guests will be accompanied by a member of th«
Reception Committee. Mr. Croker and W. R.
Hearst will be Mr. Bryan's escorts. All thos*
who are to speak at the Garden will be taken
directly there.
Mr. Ptanchfleld and Senator Mackey will go
directly to Cooper Union, \rhere they will open
the meeting. Charles M. Bulger and Senator
Thomas F. Grady will open the meeting at Tam
many Hall.
"When Mr. Bryan has ended his address In th»
Garden he will be taken charge of by a com
mittee, which will escort him to a stand at
Madison-aye. and Tw»nty-fourth-st.. and after
ward to Tammany Hall and Cooper Union, at all
of which places he is to speak. Mr. Stevenson
will follow Mr. Bryan at all these places. Mr.
Stanchneld and Mr. Mackey will begin their
speaking in Cooper Union, going afterward to
Tammany Hall and Madison Square Garden.
The escorting committees will remain in chary*
of Mr. Bryan and the other guests until th«
meetings are over, when a return will be mad.
to the Hoffman House, and Messrs. Bryan and
Stevenson will become the guests of the Stats
Committee.
As announced in The Tribune yesterday. TV.
Bourke Cockran will not be one of the speakers*
at the Garden. He will remain in the West f»
fill certain dates there. This decision on his part
caused immeasurable relief to Richard Croker.
The antagonism between Croker and Cockran Is
of the most bitter character, and many thought
It would b? unsafe to have Them in the sam»
dining room at the Hoffman Ho- as wa*
planned at first.
The following nrogy*Kin>e was given out last
night for the three his: meeting? to-morrow
night:
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.
Poors open at 3:30 p. m. Meeting begins %t 7p. m.
Payne's 69th Regimen- Band.
Edward M. e<h»pard. chairman.
William J. Bryan. Spea. J^*n B. Ptarchfleld
William J. Bryan John B. Stare: I
Ad'.ai E. Stevenson. •William F. Mackey.
Webster Davis.
TAMMANY HALL. i
Crowl?y'» Bth Rasiraect Band.
George M. Van Ho««en. chairman.
Colonel Bryan will addrcSß this meeting at about 9:15 n m.
Speakers :
Charles N. Bnlser. Elliot Danforth.
William F. Maeke?. Augustus Thomas
John B. Souichfleld. Joseph J. Johnson.
Thomas F. Urady.
COOPER UNION.
Boswald*s Orchestra.
John De Wilt Warner, chairman.
Mr Bryan will address this nesting at about Wp. m.
" ' speakers:
William F. Ma.-key. I^?™"' < Vv.<?"lum''"lV v . < ?"l um ''" l
Jnhn B. Stanchfleld. Franklyn Qulnby.
George Raines.
BRYAN'S STATE TOUR
HIS PRESENCE CERTAIN TO WIN VOTES
FOR M*KINLEY.
tBT TELEGRAPH TO TH* TXIBf!l»,l
Albany. Oct. M (Special).— William J. Bryan*»
tour of the State the present week is welcomed by
the leaders of the Republican party In the interior
of the State. If anything i? needed to bring out *
big vote for MeKlnley and Roosevelt. Mr. Bryan's
presence Is expected to have that effect, although
the big registration figures Indicate clearly enough
an enormous Republican vot» in a!! the Interior
cities and towns.
There has been so little excitement In the In
terior of the State, as compared with previous
years when an election for President was to take
place, that there has been an apprehension on th«
part of some Republicans and Gold Democrats of
prominence that the Republican vote might fall
off. from a feeling of overconfldence. Every Statft
official or clerk In a State department who baa
returned here from a visit to his home elsewhere
in the last three weeks ha.-» reported that every
thing betokens a Republican victory, and yet th«»
quietness made these very men fear a decrease in
the Republican vote They therefore are highly
pleased that Mr. Bryan i* going to make a tour of
the State. His visit, they believe, will arous*»
every supporter of the gold standard. It will bring
to the corisk-lousnes? of every Gold Democrat th«
fact that the peril of the country is as great as In
1MB) when the same proposition to admit to fre*
coinage silver at a ratio of 16 to ! was made by
Mr. Bryan and hi* followers
WHERE BRYAN WILL APPEAR-
Mr. Bryan's tour will be northward along th«»
Hudson River Valley, as f«r as Troy, westward a*
far as Buffalo: and with sid» diversions to Blng
hamton and Elmira In the southern tier, and to
Oswego. on she shore of Lake Ontario. Undoubt
edly he will have lar^p audiences — every candidate
for the- Presidency has— bv.t Mr. Bryan will himself
remember that the .meeting-* he *»ddr#*9«xi
In this State In Ml were well attended, and yet h*
was defeated by a plurality of 268.000 votes. No
Republican here b*»liev*>!« that Mr. Bryan will N»
defeated by such an extraordinary plurality thi»
year and yet they would not be 'surprised if h» t»
defeated by 150.000 plurality.
Republicans here»Jjofw> to make * jtmln for tfce Re
publican party In the CotjrMs di.»tricrs>. Th#y do
not believe, /or Instance, that the New-York and
Kings County districts will s-nd Democrats ex
clusively to WashhiKton: nor that the delegation
from th- State, as a waole. wth consist of eighteen
Democrats and sixteen Republicans. Here In Al
bany the Republicans ar* ennfldeni of e'.actlnjt
George W. Southwlck. Republican, and defeating
for a re-t-l*-on.,n Martin H. 'ii. in. Democrat. Th»
Buff R»rub!!cH!i<> a!» o think they will elect Row
land B. Mahany in the XXXIM District, now r«p-
MSJiMsa by William H. Kyan Democrat.
The present State Senate has a membership of
twenty-seven Republicans and twenty-threa Demo
crats. There is a strong prospect of an election of
at teast thirty Republican Senators this year
James B. McEwan. the Republican candidate for
Btat* Senator In this (Alfcany> district, will In ail
probability be elected, defeating Senator Curtis N.
L>ou«las (Dsm>. who has been r«nomtnat«d Ulca&eJ