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taortfc w Sambous.
V .yoao smr totmnnia said to on nun-
I MBnma most inflveska.
t Jk star iMHtw lsj h h' ttnaaber ant Deaths
I from Dleeaaaa That Kay Tie Xbdaeod by
j! tho JTraralUaaT. meoraer Tha Dostora
Ileeltaio to Call II tha Drip, hut tfca
rati rata JDen't-Nev Aetlom Tat y tho
Health Board Kxtaat ( Aavlee JPaoale
Not to N oajleet Their Colae A Waralas;
Ala Acatnat Orarcaatloa In JBreee.
Within the lost two weeks there has swept
over this town n wave of phytloal affliction. In
all the oars, restaurants, cafoa, and ojher placet
or meeting the main subject of conversation ii
the nll-pervadlng sickness. Men and women
alike, havo been affeotod. Age and previous
condition ot health soom to mako no differ
ence. Tho mott cautions appear to be as like
Ir to succumb as the most indifferent lhe
physicians no longer deny the presence ot an
epidemic, although ther still differ as to its na
ture. They admit that Influenza is widespread,
trat speak frith caution about its resemblanco
to tho Bussian crip that has spread ovor Eu
rope. It is difficult to find a person nowadays
Who has not a cold himself or somo friend or
relative who Is laid up with one. Even the
doctors are suffering. Dr. Cyrus Edson of the
Board of Health was unable to report for dntr
yosterday, and romalnod abod all day. Physi
cians are incllnod to be cautious in making
fltatements en tho causo and naturo of tho opl
demlo, but a few havo talkod frankly. One
of those Is Dr. Egbert Quernsoy, who was
prominently before the public only recently in
the quarrel between Dr. Schley of the Now
Tork County Homcoopathlo Medical Boclety
and the Ward's Island Hospital medical staff.
" Thero Is no Question," said Dr. Ouernsoy,
"bout the fact that there has been a very
larceincxease of sickness within tho last week.
I am treating thirty casos of influenza. Tho
disease is very muoh like that now epidemic
In Europe, although it is not so strong hero.
It is the aamo dlsoaso that has been epldomio
lathis country more or loss for tho lost forty
or fifty years. In 1837 it cams to this country
from Bussta, and was known as the Tyler crip.
It was more serious then than it is now. It is
practloally the same thlrig as tho Southern
dengue. The symptoms dlffor in different
oases, Thoro are usually groat muscular pains,
ahd sometimes high ferer, which comes on
middenly-nnd raises the temperature ot tho
body to 105. but usually does not last long.
If taken in time, the influenza ousht to be
aurod in tiro or throo days. In somo cases
thoro is sorere catarrh and watorlng of tho
oyes with pains at the base ot tho skull and
In the hood, bat In others tho head pains and
catarrh aro entirely absent Tho muscular
pain is tho most noticeable, and tho genoral
Indications aro ontirely different from those of
Ian ordinary cold, in my opinion tho trouble
is due to atmosphorlo conditions. It is very
probable that thoro is too muoh ozono or that
thore is on oleotrifled condition of the air. Dr.
Draporof tho Moteorologlcal Department In
Central Park ears that wbon tne temperature
In the autumn months Is betweon 45 and 50
there Is a grout deal of ozone In tho air. Ex
periments in the laboratory show that when
thore 1b too much ozono in tho ntraosphoro
there is a dryness In tho throat and nasal pns
I sages, and this may Indnoo bronchitis and
pneumonia. It is possible that the Influenza
may hao bad rosults. I should not bo sur
prised if bronchitis, pneumonia, and even
typhoid fever should supervene. The epldomio
in lfusBla is vory fntal. I rocelved yosterdny a
letter from tho Secretary of our Location at
St. Fetereburg which atatod tlint thoro wore a
number ot fatal caes thoro. All the mombors
of my own fntnlly aro down with it, and in my
opinion tho disease is llkoly to increase in tho
. Immediate futuro unions thoro Is a great
chnngo in tho atmosphorlo conditions. All
classes are affected by It."
Dr. Alfred Xl Loomls wn oornholmod with
i work whon a Bun reporter called upon hltn
yesterday. Ills reception loom was crowded
( with pntionts. tho majority of whom vtorenD-
1 parently victims of tho prevailing trouble.
! It is truo,"mild Dr. Loomls, " that thoro
has boon a great deal of this slikness In tho
city, but. so fur as my observation goes, all
within tho Inst few days. I hnd not obsorved
any boforo thon. I don't boo how physicians
con toll what tho sickness is due to. Undoubt
edly tho trouble U atmospheric from the foot
that it is so widespread."
unool the gentlemen connected with tho
Medical Record nd ancod tho thoory thnt the
sickness now so prevalent was due entirely to
thewnrni tvonther ami the ovotcautiousness
of tho victims.
."borne peoplo scorn to think," ho snld, "that
they must put on heavy !lanno! find warm
clothe on the 1st of December, whether It ts
cold or not. Tho month, nnd not the weather,
seems to govern thorn. The result I") that in
iho warm weather that wo have hnd people
who have bundled themsolveg up have per
spired frooly and then havo ozposed thom
eelves nnd, nnturally, have caught severe colds.
Of course. In the Irequent nnd rapid changes
of weather that we have been experiencing. It
has been dinicult to dress entirely according
to tho weather, but I think It Is aafor to keep
oir the vory heavy winter clothes until we ha e
settled winter number than tn bundle up. with
almost certain perspiring ns a result. The
ellabtest exposure when one is perspiring Is
very likely to produce a cold unless immediate
ivecnutlons aro taken. 'J he only thing that
will ward It off Is an Immediate bath."
The outdoor department of tho New York
Hospital has probably more patients than that
i ot any other hospital In tho city. The ofllco
1 was so crowded when a reporter called yestor-
I day that ho raodo his way with dllllculty to the
clerk's desk. They had treated live casos of
bronchitis In the morning. Dr. Embree. who is
in charge, said that, while tho number of cases
Watt not greatly Increased, thoro were many
new ones. Dr. Embree thought that cases ot
cold were more likely to bo found among rich
roople. for tho reason that thoy were the met
I cautlouB nnd the most likely to bundle up. He
said thnt he had not noticed so many ensos of
i Influenza, but that all the victims ho had seen
I had suffered greatly from palus In the back.
I He thought It very yrobablo that tho preva
lence of the dlsoider was more largely due to
1 ovefcautlon than to other causes.
A physician In tho Board of Health said that
while there was undoubtedly a good deal of
sIckposB thero appeared to bo no dancer ot
contagion, and tho inattor bad not. tborofore.
I been officially brought to tho attention of the
Hoard. There was undoubtedly, he said, n
great deal of influenza In the city, but ho did
not think It much more sovoro thnn the influ
enza that has been experienced here for many
years. lie thought it possible that pneumonia
and bronchitis plight Btipertone. but he was
qutto certain that typhoid lover would not. and
also gavo no credence to tho theory that the
lnfluunza was bnt , a forerunner of chol
era. It WOb called to bis attention that
Jersoy City, which has been Buffering
considerably from influenza, was now the
seat of a groat deal of typhoid fover. but he was
quite cortaln that the fetor could not have
been n result ottbo Influenza, oxcent la bo far
ns the influenza lowered tho vitality and mado
the system more liable to disease of nil kinds.
Pnoumonfa. he said, mlaht verr eaMlv result.
Tho Hoard ot Health will not net at present,
and only seml-olllclally adviseB peoplo not to
neglect eetero colds. All the pbyslolnns agreo
in Haying that the chief dancer of tho Influenza
iojts weakening effect widen makes the victim
llablo to other and moro complicated dis
i orders. Home of Dr. Guernsey's patients bad
' unusual symptoms which had to be Tery care
fully, watched. Among these was a severe
diarrhoea and vomiting, such as Is observed In
cholera.
Tba Health Board say that thore Is no evi
dence of la grippe in this olty, but Dr. Cyrus
Ldson found seven cases In East I'orty-slxtn
BtroeL .Health Commissioner Ilryant and
Prosldont Wilson, roplled to a telegram from
Surgeon-General Hamilton nn follows: "There
is no la grippe In New York as far as wo nre
Iirtormed omclally." On tno next day Mr. Wil
son was laid tin with the grip. The cold which
first prostrated blm did not yield to treatment.
It deelopel into InlUramntlon of the lunge,
nndonPnilay hiBlirowasdeepalredof, Hornl
Ued.iioweYer.and his physicians now look for his
recnNery. The steamship Wosternland's three
patients In the North llrotbor Island Hospital
orp, supposed to have typhup feer, but the
health ollloors are by no means comlncod that
tliov hao It. Dr. lirynnt says tholr disease Is
ns likely to be In erippe as anything wise. It Ib
U8(iertotlthat5aouu,lnhbllttiits of New York
have tuo inlluonza. but it Is Jlffloult to obtain
ncournte information, aa thoro tan rule in the
Health Department which prohibits subordi
nates from giving news of contagious diseases
to the press.
The Bureau of Vital statistics records that
pnoumonla, bronchitis, and consumption are
largely on the inrreaM), und that the iarce
death rato is due prinolpally to heavy colds
contracted during the euditen chnngos ot
weather. Hero lie a comparative death table
for two weeks;
llrrl UrrL
tiulitiij ruting
Pneumonia ,,. K7 I'm
1 CoriHimptloD 07 111
UruncMtu i'l ui
T0U1 25 ltT
Tba total deaths for tho week ending Dec. 81
i
lirwrw!? - - r
v -mzr ....... --. -k1ijj- f iiiiiniianiialsMiinniliinT i
were 905, and for last week 72, an increase ot
87. The Health Department has never before
recorded in on week so many deaths from
pneumonia.
None of the doctors will undertake to esti
mate the probable duration of tba epidemic.
If the weather should turn soTsrely cold It
would, according to the opinion of eome.who
attribute the trouble to tho atmosphere, havo
a deterrent effoot. ....... . .
Itlsaourtousfaotthatwhlle the doctors, or
at losst a majority of them, are slow to admit
that the influenza is the llussian grip, the patient-no
matter whether his symptoms be se
Tero or not is always thoroughly convinoed
that it Is. Uore Is a sample oonrersstlon on
the subjeot A smiling miss and a young man
entered a Broadway horse car toeother:
" Have you had tho grip ?", askod shp.
" No, I haven't" said he. " What Isjtr
" Oh. It's-lfsjust dreadful" said sho. .
' Aro you qnlto sure you had It r" asked bo.
"You know the doctors say thoro isn't any
such thing".
"Oh I" with a very expressive glanoo from
her dark oyes. "If you'd ovor had, It you
wouldn'thavennydoubt about it Myl It fust
Seems as though you wore going to die surely,
didn't caro a enan whother I lived or not
Bister Jonnle and my two brothers bad It also,
and thoy all felt the same way."
Thsre is no doubt that personssufferjng only
from severe colds aro Inclined to think that
thoy havo somotblng worse, but where the
dootors disagree it is of course only natural
that the layman's opinion should bo turned to
the sldo that ho thinks is Juntlfled by his per
sonal sufferings.
Mrs. Padolford, oneot the leading stngors In
"The Soven Ages" at tbo Htnndard Theatre, is
just recovering from an attack of the grip, and
several other members of tho company aro af
flicted with it less severely. The only ones en
tirely knocked out by It so far are a few mem
bers of the ohorus.
It was reported at the Custom nouse yester
day that Surveyor Lyon and Auditor Ulntoh
ford were sorlouslr III. An unusually largo
numhor of subordinates in all the depart
ments were also absent on sick leave.
Postmaster Van Cott lauched at the rumor
thnt la grippe had struck tbe l'ost Office, and
that a number of letter carriers and clerks
wero laid up with it Ho admitted, howevor,
tbnt moro than tho usual numbor ot men were
absent on stok leave.
Commissioner Mathews sent word that ho
was too ill to attend tbe special meeting ot the
Dock Commissioners yosterday.
Men were drawn from the extra list on tho
Broadway road last nlebt to take the places of
regular conductors nnd drivers who were 111 ot
the grip. Nuperlntendent Newell also has tho
malady, no Is Tory HI, and was not at his
office nil day yesterday.
Elbrldgo T. Oerry has the grin.
About a dozen of the attendants and em
ployees of Bloomlngdalo Asylum have been
taken elcK with lntluenra. Bnporlntondant
Lyon sold yesterday ho did not know whether
it was the Bussian grip or not Nona of the
patients have caught It
Hergeant Thomoc "oyle ot the Wost Forty
seventh street police station, was attacked
with the grip at the station last night, and had
to go homo in a carriage
Justloe Dykman was In bed at White Plains
yesterday with nn nttaok of tho Bussian grin,
and thoro was no session of the Supremo Court
MATOU CltAPIK JUS IT.
It turns out that the disease which drove
Mayor Chapln ot Brooklyn from his office on
Thursday and has slnco confined him to his
Eighth uvenuo Iioubo Is none other thnn the
Bussian Influenza. In bis cose, howevor. tho
grip baa nearly run Its course, and he oxpeots
to be at tho City Hall on Wodnesdny to wel
come New Year's callers. Prosldont McCarthy
of the Brooklyn Board of Aldormen also bus
the grip, but tho symptoms are not so well de
fined as In tho case of tho Mayor. Keeper
Dunn of the City Ball and nenrly all the mem
bers of his family have tho vexatious malady.
BTATEN ISLAND VICTIMS.
District Attorney-elect Thomas W. FItzgor
aid. Col. John A. Duff, proprietor of the Club
House, and thirteen members of the police
forco nre among tbo Staten Island victims.
Ntack. N. Y.. Dec. 28. About one-quarter ol
the peoplo ot Nynck have Influenza. Homo of
the cases aro soere. Tbo disease bus ap
peared In several other places In Rockland
county. In somo lumllles all tho members aro
mulcted.
Oswego, Dec. 28. "La grippe" has struck
this town. Local physicians report 200 ca.os
undor treatment, and tho numbor Is constantly
Increasing. Betweon 90 and 100 employees
of the Homo. Watortown and Ogdensburizh
ltallroad Company are oil duty and sick abed.
Thu numbor comprises trainmen, engineers,
pnsBepceri nnd freight conductors, llremen.
nnd BWltchmnn. Thirty-two switchmen em
ployod In tho company's frelcht yards In this
city aro off duty, and tho freight business Is
nlmost nt n staudstlll. Superintendent Jones
of tho northern division nnd Superintendent
of Trnnsportlon . W. Cunlornnd four train
dospatcherB nre down with tho disease. Unless
thero is a lot up It is feared that morr switch
man employed in the yards will be down. Phy
sicians ropoit ee.eralof tbo cases as serious,
with symptoms of pneumonia.
Tim DISEASE IV KFW JEKSET.
About 125 cases have appeared in New Bruns
wick, some of them very seero. but none con
sidered dangerous. Among those afflicted Is
tho Prosecutor of the Pleas. J. K. like. Tho
disease Is nlo prevalont In bouth Hirer, Mllo
town, and Metuchen.
A few casos of a mild typo havo appeared la
Bordontown.
About 1.600 cases ore reported in Newark.
Nono of thu cases hns been fatal.
25,000 CASKS IN PHILADELPHIA.
PniLAnELrniA, Dee. 2K A prominent physi
cian of this city said tn-day that thero wore
fully 25.000 persons now being treated by local
physicians for influenza In somo form or other.
Ju oNory large buslnoss house, Industrial es
tablishment, or ofilco n porcentnge of the em
ployees me detained nt home, midline doctors
say tlwv wore nevor busier. Tho character of
tho epidemic, physicians sny. Is not productlvo
of fiitnl consequences, and It is merely un at
mospheric disease, duo probably to the heavy
fogs und unsoasonablo woather prevalent for
some time past
According to the Bonrd of Health report for
tbe week ending to-day. there were 15 per
cent less deaths lrom pulmonary trouble dur
ing that tlmo than for tbe corresponding
Serlod of last year, and thus tnr not one death
lrectly tiacenble to Influenza lias occurred.
All olasses of clttzens are numbered among Its
vIctlmB, and some of the leading business men
of tho city havo been compelled to absent
themselves from their places of business on
account of "tho grip." notably Mr. Ueorgo W.
Chllde. who Is only just rocovorlng from an
attack which kept him Indoors for seternl
days. Physicians express tho opinion that the
epldomio has reached Its height, and that with
the coming of cooler, bracing weather the die
agreeable visitation will toko its departure.
A FATAL CASE IN I108T0N.
Boston. Dec. 28. John Tompieton Coolidge.
President of tbe Columbian Dank, died this
morning at his residence of "la grippe." Mr.
Cooltdeo was one of the old bank Presidents
in Boston. He was 80 years of aeo.
Hlnco last Sunday there havo been three
other deaths in this city which wero caused
partly by influenza. In two of tbo cases tho
victims were women, ono being 48 nnd tbe
other i'3 years ot aee. and according to certifi
cates filed at the ofllco of tbo Hoard of Health,
lnlluenrawns tho prlmnry causes of their Ill
ness, whloh doveloped Into pneumonia, tho ac
tual causo ot death. Tbe third casowas that
of an ulght-montbs-old child, who bad a com
plication of Ills, and was altogether ton weak
to Burvhonn attack of lulluonza. It tho dis
ease had anything moro to do with the rather
large number of deaths (tbirty-elcht from pneu
monia) this wcok it Is not so reported In the
certificates which havo beon filed at tbo office
of the Board of Health. With tbe Increase over
tho twoxnao of deaths from pnoumonla, there
has been forty deaths from consumption during
tbo week, which Is considered to bo a larae
number oven for that drendod disoase. During
the corresponding week last your tho report
showed: Pnoumonla, 21 cafes: consumption.
34. Tho total number of deaths reported to tbe
Board of Health this week was 2J2. which Is
tbo largest number for any woek during the
year, save those weeks in July and August
wbon cholera Infantum sent the death rate to
high notch. Tho Increase over thenumborof
deaths during the corresponding week lost
sear Is 40. The death rato this week Is 28.7,
whereas a few weeks ago ft was loss than 20.
THE KUOAll T11U8T HAS IT, TOO.
Washington. Deo. 28. Tho members of tho
Ways and Means Commltteo were on hand
promptly nt 10 o'clock this morning and waited
patloutly for nn hour for the appearance of
some ono interested in the roflnlng ot sugar
and desirous of being heard on that subject.
At 11 o'clock the committee was callod to or
der, and Mr. Flower said thnt be had received
a telegram from J. V. Bearles, Jr., Treasurer of
the Sugar Trust informing him that the gen
tlemen who had Intendod to appear were suf
fering from the grip and asking that tbe hear
ing bs postponed. The committee granted tho
request and will give a hearing to the sugar
ro'lnors on Jan. 4, after tho henrlngs on flax,
hemp, jute, and cotton goods, already set down
tor that day. shall have been completed.
New Havev. Dec 2B. The Influenza Is
spreading In this olty with its charaoterlstlo
rapidity. Tho clerks in the Post Office have
been attacked, and It is believed that tbey
caught the disease by handling malls from
New York. Of thirty-three physicians inter
viewed to-day fifteen have from one to forty
cases of lulluonza which thoy are attending.
A conservative estimato places the number of
persons ntflicted at 800. It is a mild type ot
the disease, and thus far no roally serious
cases have been reported.
Danville, Va.. Dec. 28. Sovernl casos of sup
posed Influenza bave made tbelr nnpoarance
hero, th'HiKh tho doctors have not yet pro
nounced thero such. People aro feeling vory
unxlous.
Ciiii'ACio, Dec. 28. The first fatal case of
acute Influenza In the city was reported to tho
Koalth Dopnrtment to-day. The victim was
Mrs. Julia A. Ingalls. aged 72 years. Dr.
H, H. lllttbop snd to-day. that inlluonzn
had boon prevalent In this olty for two
weeks, though people wem not general
ly aware of ft it vus not. he said,
tho ordinary variety of this discos,1, being
more soiece, coiiip.OIIng tho Hiirfrrs to re
main In bed. ll added that Signer Tumugno,
the tenor nf the l'atti Orurn Company, wits suf
fering from the disease in Its mild form, and
that it was likely to bother him for emne days
to come. Vr. Bishop said, further, that opera
singers were generally unfavorably affected as
to their throats when In Chicago.
Indianapolis. Dec. 28. Beveral hundred
oases of influenza are announced to-day. Eight
telegraph boys were all eoltod simultaneously,
and hundreds of oases are reported among the
employees ot large factories. Many retail
clerks are affected. .
Detroit, Deo. 28, The Influenza has come
to Detroit, andover 6.000 people are down with
the disease. Fifty policemen, mora than half
of tbo olty officers and tholr assistants, are
laid up, nnd thero is hardly a More or factory
in the elty whoso olerloal nnd working, force
Is not seriously crippled. The disease basin
no case proved fatal as yet, but It seems to bo
getting more virulent from day to day.
Ottawa, Doc, 28. A large number of persons
in nnd around this city aro affected with a mild
typo ot influenza. It appears in almost every
case to bo complicated with pneumonia or
nouralglo. m . , , , .,
Paris, Dec 28. Tho reoent mortality in the
city has been ns follows: Wednesday. .118!
Thursday. 898 : Friday, 844. Tho sudden drop
from the figures of Thursday to thoso of Fri
day is taken as an evidenco that the epldemlo
is on tbo wane. . ....
Berlin. Doc. 28. Tho epldomio Is rapidly
decreasing here, but is spreading In othor
places in Germany. The malady very seriously
affeotod the Christmas trade, there being but
few country visltore and the stores doing but
litt'o. ...
Tho Vlonnn doctors say the disease. hns
rcoohod its ollmax thero nnd prevails In three
forms tho nervous, tho gastric and tho
catarrhal. . .
Thore havo been two deaths from Influenza
at Dnnttlc. At Frankfort forty-six members of
tho opera company and ICO soldiors of tho gar
rison aro ill.
jtto mtKCK is rricaT thiqimj.
Elevea Llni r,oat by Spreadlna; Balls oa
the Cheaapeaka and Oalo.
CnAiiLESTON, Vr Vo., Dec. 28. A torriblo
accident occurred this morning on the Chesa
peako and Ohio Ballrood nt Whlto Sulphur
Springs. 125 miles east ot this place. lie ports
have been very hard to get tho only accounts
being received by specials to tho Gazette. Ono
of these from nn eyowltness says that vostlbule
train No, 3 on the Chesapeake and Ohio left
the track two miles west of White Sulphur
Bprlngs at 7:20 o'clock this morning, demol
ishing six cars, killing eleven people, nnd In
juring about twenty-five. Tbo accident was
caused by the rolls spreading. The killod
were:
Hale Morrison of Charleston.
Baggage Master Barksdale ot ProfBt. Va,
Newsboy Thompson of Portsmouth, O.
J. D. West of Howardsville. Va.
Thomas Karlsch ot BlaokBtone, Kan.
Kidder Kldd of Hannibal. Mo.
Two colored men from Allegahany, Vo., and
three others unknown.
Among tho Injured were:
J. It Karlicb. Blackstono. Kan., collar bone
II. , U(UUU, WiaVMtVUI UlUJii UVJiUl uuao
broken. . .
Conductor Bohwolck, Huntington. W. Va., leg
broken.
It S. Blnnton. Farmvllle, Va., cut under tho
oye.
Oustnve n. Klino. Chicago, leg broken.
William H. Dell, New York, compound frac
ture of thigh.
P. P. Bunch, bnck hurt
J. A. Clark, train despatches Clifton Forge.
Vn.
John Woodfolk, Alleghany. Va.. section hand,
right leg crushed: had to be amputated.
w. I). Clark, Nelson Co.. Va.. ecalp wound.
. H. T. Gregory,. Clifftop, Va,: arm crushed,
internally injured.
It was a fearful wreck, and the damage to
the railroad at this tlmo cannot be estlmatod.
Luckily tbe cars did not tako Are as they were
heated by steam. The engine did not loave
tho rails. Tbe rear sleeper also remained on
the rails. Messrs. Dell and Kline were mem
bers of Charles A. Gardner's theatrical com
pany, and were to play In Charleston to-night.
IW the Auoctated Freu
Cincinnati. Dec. 28. Officers of tho Chesa-
fieako and Ohio ltallroad have lnformatfon
roni Whtte Bulpbur Bprlngs that passenger
train No. 3 on that roan going west was
wreckod this morning about two miles west ot
A hlto Sulphur Springs by a broken axle. Tho
mall car. combination car. coach and one
Blooper wero derailed. The sleeperwos turned
on Its sldo Tho other Hloener. Bockbridge.
wns not lninred. 'iho coach telescoped the
combination car. and there the loss of life oc
curred. Tho dend wore sent tuRoncevorte and
tho Injured to tbe Caldwell Hotoi at White
Sulphur taring, whero everything possible
wbb dona for their comfort
Tho train left New iork nt3:30 P. M. yester
day and was dun In Cincinnati nt 5:10 P. M. to
day. The train was behind time and running
forty to fifty miles an hour. The conductor
says ho was running only thirty-five miles, but
others say forty or llfty miles. All of the killed
were In tho smoking car, which was telesooped
by another car. Every person in tbo car was:
killed, except the conductor, who had his leg
broken. He will probably recover.
Dr. W. 1'. Caldwell, tho only physician In
Whlto Sulphur, repaired to thescenoof the ao
cldnnt and did all in his power to nllevlato tbo
sufforlng. After sometime a number of doc
tors from along tbe line arrived, and worked
long and faithful among the suffering. Ladles
turned out, and too much cannot be said In
praise of tbelr noble efforts. The noteworthy
feature was that no ladles nor children wero
injured.
TUB EJtlE ASD ITS BSIPLOTBKH.
Meeting or Brotherhood Heprcsentatlvea
In Jeraey Clly,
Iho question of whother tho trouble be
tween the Erie Bnllroad Company and Its em
ployees will end in a strike will probably bo
sottled before tho middle of the week. To-day
representatives of the men will meet tor final
action, and It will all rest thon with Manager
Thomas. The Grievanos Committee of the
Erie Branch of the Brotherhood ot Engineers,
representatives of tho Grievance Committee of
the Flremon's Brotherhood, tbe Brakemen's
Brotherhood, nnd ono Western conductor, rep
resenting the Conductors' Association, mot in
the hall over tho Third National Bonk
Building In Jersey City yesterday. There were
about forty engineers present Thoy talked
ovor all their grievances. The first was the
dlschargo of the four engineers who refused to
sign tbe engineers' cook. Tho seoond was tbe
existence ot tbe book Itself. The third was
tbo now flromen's book which has just been
issued, and incidentally the brakomen's and
conductors' books wero brought up.
Almost eery engineer had something to
say. and tho session was prolonged until 0
o'clock in the evening. It was decided that
tho four engineers must bs reinstated, and
that all tho bocks must bo abolished. 'J he
discussion over the firemen's book was very
hot. 'this book contains about 200 questions
for firemen who nre promoted to be engineers
to nnswer. The object of the questions relates
to competency, and tbo questions In thotn
boIvos were not objected to by the onguieers so
much as the fnct thnt thoy are asked after
a fireman has been promoted instead of before.
It such questions nro to be asked, the en
gineers argued, they should be abked by tbo
master mechanic boforo tbo promotion, then If
a man canuot answer them ho need not be pro
motod.fl ho englnoers'book came In for a large
shnro of tbe discussion. Tho general opinion
expressed by tho men wasthnt the agreements
demanded by the road In the book were illegal
and would not hold In many btales. An
opinion wns read from counsol that the com
pany could not hold tbe engineer liable for
damages caused by uocldenta. There was
some dlscuBslon as to whether the company
should be naked to strike outcertr.ln questions
lit the book or should abolish the book alto
gether. A committee wns appointed to draw
up n list of the grievances In a form to be pre
sented to Manager Thomas, and then the
mooting was adjourned until this morning ot
10 o'clock.
All tho onglneers nre invited to bo present at
this meeting. .The grievances as drawn up
will be read and the whole matter will be talked
over again before final action.
The Grievance Commltteo will call on Man
ager Thomas to-morrow. Tbey will probably
give him until Wednesday or Thursday to
give them a favorable answer. In ease it Is
not rocelved they tbrraten a strike from ono
ond of the Erie system to the other.
at'aisxY asiono this svEcistuNs,
Ills HtuCTed HklQ will be Met Vp In the Un.
aeum or Natural Illatory.
TaxldermlstJennessIMcliardson has in Ills
workroom In the Musoum ot Natural nistory
the mounting that has been prepared for the
tendor skin ot the lato Mr. McGlnty, son of Mr.
Caliph nndMrs.FatlmaMurphyot Central Park.
Mr, McGlnty will probubly bo ready for exhi
bition by New Year's Day. Ilia skull was sent
to Prof. II. A. Ward of Bochester, who will send
it back cleaned and pollshod ready for exhibi
tion, nnd nlso a wooden copy wblon will bo
used In the stuffed figure. Mr. McGlnty will
have a place on tbo first floor of the building
just at the right of the entrance whero Jumbo's
skeleton was shown.
Mr Blnhardson Is nlso at work on n buffalo
group which will be one of the foaturos ol tho
front extension now building. It is the design
to show the buffalo In different stages of deel
opinent, from the six-weeks-old calf to a full
grown male and female. Tho group will oc
cupy a space I4x8t feet. Mr, ltichardsuii re
cently returned from Indian Teriitory with
hall u car load of suds, grassot, und other
things, which hnwlll use to mako a natural
setting tor the group.
I'llc, I'llr., Flla,
rard wtliiont knltt, itir or pain. No core no cay.
Vr, O. 0. uact and A. a. Ceikim, in Win jut iu-iiv.
TWO DIVIDENDS PASSED.
sous op toe vnr book jiaicroad
BTOCXBULDBK8 PnOTBBXZSa.
Oolnar o Try aad Oaat tha Maaagaaaaat,
TFaleh They Think la Short ol Mloek
Clot Haaa of That Htoek ThemeelTea.
Tho Dry Dock, East Broadway ond Bat
tery Ballrood Company failed to pay its acous
tomed quarterly dividend ot 2 por cent, last
February for the first tlmo in its oxlstenoo ot
twenty odd years. The reason assigned was a
loss occasioned by a strike tbe month boforo.
The next dividend was paid; but In August
again no dividend wan forthcoming, and
thero havo boon reports that no divldond will
bo paid next February. Tho reason given by
tbo directors for not paying the August divi
dend was that tho Quarter's earnings were re
quired to moot a throe-year-ola claim against
the road whloh the Court of Appeals has in a
recent deolslon awarded to tho city.
All tbls tlmo the stock of tho company, whloh
was formerly firm in tho neighborhood of 175,
has been fluctuating, and has finally dropped
to 127. Borne ot the stockholders are dlssatls
flod with tho present management, ond will try
to oust President William Whlto at tho elec
tion on Jon. 14.
No mooting ot the dtsaffeoted stockholders
bas been hold yot, but a meeting will be held
Immediately after New Year's. On Doc, 21
Frank .t J. G. Jenkins, Jr.. Investment brokers
and stockholders In the rood, sent a olroular
letter to stockholders asking for proxies. They
announced that 2,000 ot tho 12,100 shores had
already been deposltod in their hands and that
when tho necossnry number had boon recolvod
they would coll a meotlng to nominate a now
President and Board of Directors. Four thou
sand shares, it is said, are now pledged to this
movement
The olrcuior mado a few comparisons ot ox
penses Incurred by tbo Dry Dock rood and
other roads. In tbe mntter ot keeping tracks
in repair this oxblblt was mado:
Dry Dock. Naw York, SMxaueamlles Brooklyn City.
Brooklyn, twti.70. lorty lecond street and Orandfiraet
yarry. 2uiU Elahin. Avenue, hair lork, 7i7 13: At
lanuo Avanue, Brooklyn, SMo.se; second Avenue, Near
iork, iJ3.10i Bum Avanua, Naw 1 ork. WlMti.
As to lhe cost of management this was tho
comparison:
Dry Hock, three lloea, offlcert and elerka. S.1I.USI en.
Brooklrn City, fourtirn llnaa, MHB37.II; AUacllo ave
nue, aavan llnta, SJO,eiKi4I; nrty aacona eireet and
Urand afreet ferry, SM.2-i: Eighth avenue SMtsiasoi
Mich arenue, S2M1S7; Second arcane, is,au73
The cost of provender and grinding was com
pared this war:
Dry Dook. each horae per year. $90.49; Brooklyn City,
$85 &): AtlauUo Avenue, $ii 33 Portyacond Htreet
and Urand street rerrr. $ei.7i. Eighth Avenue, t7.ri;
blilli Areoue. $89 43; second Avenue, $03.03.
Mr. Whlto has been President nbout twelve
years. The men whom he baa mode directors,
tho maloontenta say, aro chiefly men wbo live
out of town and rnrely attend the meetings, so
that Mr. White has things practically his own
way. The road made a good doal of money,
and put most of its earnings Into improve
ments. About throo yoaro ago this ac
count equalled tbe amount of capital
stock, namoly. $1,200,000. and the directors
Issued to the shareholders pro rata scrip
to that amount which bore ( per cent, interest
At this time, tho malcontents say, Mr. Whlto
and a few associates In tbe Board bold a large
amonnt of stock (which was then quoted nt
from 175 to 2001. and sold most of tbelr
holdings at tho high figures. It ts alleged
that tbo directors had dectded to nay the usual
divldond In February last, and hnd actually
made out the checks, whon Mr. Whlto chunged
hlBmlnd and explained that a strike In Jan
uary made it necessary to withhold the divi
dend. The stock at once tumblod. When the
next following divldond was paid on tlmo it
rallied somewhat, but It fell still lower when no
dividend was paid last August The disaffected
stockholders BBy thnt n sinking iund of
ti 50.000 in two per cent Government
bonds had been provided to meet tho
possible aderse doclston In tbe suit Instituted
dv the city, so that It was unnecessary to hold
bock the August dividend. The rumors that
there would be no dltldend paid next Febru
ary still further affected the stock, which at one
tlmo dropped to 124, It was bought in somo
quantity at those low figures by holders out
side tho Board of Directors, and rallied a little.
At tho present time Mr. W bite It Is said, holds
only 175 shares, nnd less than 1,000 shares aro
owned by the directors,
The disaffected complain that expenses are
too high. Presleent White draws a salary of
$12,000. and a few oars ago made a new ofllco.
that of superintendent, for his son. at a snlary
ot $5,000. ltlchard Kollr is Vice-President of
the road, and tho other directors are Henry A.
Morgan. John W. Bcrlbner, Poter J. Thorno.
Charles A. Hotcbklss, John K. Hoffmlre. Lan
sing ZabtlBkle. John Lowrey. William Blobavd
son. and Mr. Jacobs.
rzcronr foh tub balv breeds.
They Bout Home Hettlera who were Trylag
to Start a New Town.
Pierre, S. D Dec. 28 Great excitement
prevails here because of tho discover? this
morning that a band of about seventy-flvo set
tlers had attempted to found a town site aoross
the Missouri, at the mouth ot Bad Blver. It is
learned tbnt the schome had boon in ombryo
for sevoral weeks, and that a number of prom
inent residents of East Pierre were concerned
in It Tbe work commonced ot 12 o'clock last
night and all night thereafter men with teams
and loads of lumber were crossing and repress
ing the river, the people of Pierre being en
tirely unconscious ot what was going on
All went well until about C A. 11.. when a
half-breed, who farms tbe land whereon tho
squatters bad located, discovered them. Se
curing a band of followers he attnoked the
squntters with guns, pistols, nnd lassoes. Tbey
lassoed tbo boss carpenter, and severely in
jured several ot tho homosoekers. finally, the
latter took flight being unable to hold out In
tbe battlo. To add to their dismay a storm ot
rain and tleet set in, ond one by one they oome
straggling across the rlvor, drenched, almost
frozen, and a numbor ot them bleeding from
bruises und wounds.
Tho half-breeds sooured the lnmber, plied It
up and set fire to It, and now all that marks
the prospective town site is a column of flame
and smoke visible here, while tbe yells of the
victorious half-breeds, ralnglea with pistol
shots, can plainly bo heard on this side.
EXPLOSION OF A StOVLD.
JL Shower of Molten Metal Falls on Nine
Workmen.
Dallas, Dec. 28. Nino men woro horribly
nnd somo fatally burned by a shower of molten
metal from an exploding mould at the Mosher
Machine Company's foundry this afternoon.
The nnmes of tbe victims aro :
J. A. Dobbins, moulder, body nnd head nnd
neck fairly rlddlod by the fUlng metal. In
juries may prove fatal.
John Hughes, moulder, had his clothing
burned from his person and both eyes filled
with red-hot motnl.
Mat son, raouldor nnd foreman of the
foundry, burned about the breast, nock, and
arms.
Charles Hurst two terrible wounds In tho
back, from wnlch tbo fleBh foil In strips.
John Wheeles, burnod about tho iioad and
shoulders und knocked sensoless by a flying
brick.
Ed, Avers, Wiley Jones, Mack Honey. Jnko
Mitchell, slightly burnod about tbe bead and
shoulders.
Tbe causa of tho explosion was tbe goner
ntton of gas Insldo the mould, which was pre
pared to cast a 1,600-pound piece, und when
the hot metal was poured In at tho mouth tho
mould exploded, sending; about a thousand
pounds of molten metal In a perloct shower
among tbe men. The foundrymon say thut an
explosion ot this kind Is ot rare ooourrenoo in
casting and was purely accidental.
HlelBwehr Post will Try AkbIo.
Coroner Levy, who wns recently elected
Commander ot Stelnwebr Post. G. A. It, for the
fifth time, has askod the members of the Post
to roconsldor bis eloction, and at a meotlng to
bo held In Beethoven Hall on M,onday evening
the Post will take nptho raattor. Af tor Coroner
Levy's election thlrty-flvo members out of a
total of 150 resigned and declared tholr Inten
tion of forming a pew post Tholr resigna
tions were laid on tho tabic and last night
about thirty of these mombers mot In cnucus
nnd agreed upon a man whom thoy will sup
port for Commondoroii Mouduy. Jastrp Alex
ander Is said to bo tho man He is n Hebrew.
Coroner Levy 1b said to have a matt for tbo
plaoo himself, In the person of F, A. Lederlo.
Yuchtlna Notea from the Ilpb.
Boston, Doc. 28 A piominont yachtsman
in tbls city has decided to build a 70-footor In
case u British boat ot that class comes over
here uoxt summer. Nounmois mentioned as
ret, but of course Mr, Burgess will be tbe de
signer. It is known thnt Fife has dofdgued a
new70-footer. and Gen. Palno and Mr. BurgcsB
nre certain hor owner Is Sir It W. Cam
eron. Boston yachtsmou are anxious to
bnin her uomo ovor und fanve it brush
with tho crack American "soisitlio."
In the Tltnnla Mr. Burgoss hns a hplondld
boat, hut ho leels sntjbtled that the linos of n
fovi'iity-footer. which he has in bis ofllco. nro
suporior to those of the Titnnia. Thu forty
clues will ut tract attteiitlon. and Mr liurgo's i
I now at work nn the linen ol tho forty for the
Adams hot and he hope to outsnil the Mi
nerva with her. I
TTtB at-AIBtttOITKni' LOCKOUT.
JL Triumph for tho Ilea After Five VTaeka
of Kaatatanee ra. a Bednetloa or Wacra.
Locktort, Deo. 28 Tho Lookport glass
works will resume operations on Monday. The
furnaces havo been started, and all the blowers
will return at tho old standard seals ot wages.
In the struggle to reduce tho wages tho Glass
blowers' Union havo triumphed.
The shut-down took plaoo just five weeks
ago In this city, and wan the result of a general
agroemont by the Glass Manufacturers' Asso
ciation of the Eastern division to roduoe the
wages of tho bio worm on tho ground that tho
condition of tbo market did not guarantee the
prices paid. Tbo real condition of tho Menu
faoturets' AsbocIoUou precluded the sucoess ot
such a move.
Tho glass manufacturers of the United Btatos
are divided Into two divisions, tho Eastern and
Western. Tho Eastorn division resolved on
tho shut down, whloh has cost It dear. While
tho manufacturers oast of tbe Alleghsnlts
bnvo been Idle, tho Western men have been
running night and day, flooding the markets
and supplying the trade the Eastern men look
after.
The members of the Westorn Glass Blowers'
union havo been remitting monoy to support
theli brothers In tho Lnst, maintaining them
in their struggle to retain tholr wages. If
fioeossary, the men could stay out forevor un
ess their demand wns acceded to. They also
required that only two apprentices bs allowed
to one manufactory until their time ws out.
The smallor manufacturers could not ory
well contend against thoso odds, whon It ts con
sidered that the large turn acoa In Pennsylvania
could In lour months blow enough to furnish
all the trado nnd totally cnt them off.
BAHQ JN Fit UN T OF TBE UOFFSfAS.
Not a Snbway Thla Time, Bnt Froiably
a LoncrauKe Cartridge,
Shortly boforo 8 o'clock lnst night, whon
tbe upper part of Broadway was jammed with
pedestrians nnd nil sorts ot conveyances, there
was a shnrp explosion in tho mlddlo of the
street between tho Hoffman nouso and
the Worth Monument A crowd packed It
solf on tho cornors and In tho street
nnd triod to find out from each other what bad
happonod. They blooked tho oars, and highly
Imnglnatlvo mon kept tho oxcltemont up by
hazarding guesses as to what tho explosion
might mean. One man was sure that a mlno
bad been tired under tbo Hoffman House to
blow up Gov. Hill, who hnd started for Albany
several hours before. Another suggestion was
that an attempt had been made to blow up tbe
north Monumont, but no signs of any such
vile doslgu could be discovered.
Policomnn Stewart picked up In the road
way a 38-callbre long-rango rlllo cartridge
which had lost Its bullet The end wns
smashed, but the powder and cap were sound,
which made.it clear that it waa not this cart
ridge that had creatod tbo racket But Its
presenco made It likely that it hnd a compan
ion whloh hnd gono off. Uergoant Tims con
cluded that someporson in the Hoffman House
or in one of the buildings near by bad thrown
a oouple of tho cnrtrldgos Into tbo street One
may have exploded in striking the pavement
or the wheel of a vehicle may have struck the
cap. Just before the explosion was heard a
United States mail wagon had passed through
the street
piy aioxhT foh FABUEjis' virss.
Farm ITonae Sewlas Maehlaaa Unay oa City
Folka' Clothea Thaae Wlater Erenlage.
Jersoy fanners' wives don't got many op
portunities to turn into dollars the long hours
of mldwintor, when the household cares of the
summer and fall havo lightened, Somo New
York employers, who know thnt time is liter
ally money in tho city, regularly take advan
tage of this idleness In tho country from Octo
ber to April. One big clothing manufacturer
regularly omploys scores of women overy win
tor in Hunterdon and Warren counties. Ho
Bonds nn agont once a week with a wagon load
of cut nnd bostod coats, waistcoats, nnd trou
sers up nmong the farmers' wives in the
sparsely settled districts.
Every larm Ihonse has its sewing machine,
and every farmers wife is enough of a seam
stress to know how to make up a good suit of
clothes skilfully. If she Ih on on the main road
the agent brings to her door as much work as
sho Is willing to undertake to do In a week. It
she lives away from tbo thoroughfare she goes
to tbo nearest corner store and meets the
agent there. The completod work Is delivered
nnd fresb work is rocoived at a regular. hour
each week.
The pay Is small, pitifully so, but .tho farm
er's wife Is mlghtyglndtogetlt A. dime looks
as big ns a dollar at that distance from the me
tropolis In that particular direction. Twenty
flvo or thirty cants is all sba gets for flnlsinga
coat It would cost tho clothing man eighty or
ninety cents to get tbe same work done in his
New i ork shop, nnd that is whorn bis profit
comes In. These women are Industrious. Even
at tbe beggarly rates paid, some of them earn
$25 a month, which means a great many com
forts In a New Jersey farmer's household. Tbe
earnings rango from $2 to the $25 maximum,
and pay day comos once a month.
Illlly Myera Wllllaa; to Fight Andy Down.
Bloominqton, 111.. Deo. 28. Loo Cheney,
manager of Billy Meyers, the light weight to
day gives out a proposition addressed to Bud
Benaud, New Orleans, in reply to thnt gentle
man's telegram, saying that ho had a man
whom be desired to matoh against Myers, and
who is believed to be Andy Bowen. Cheney
says:
"I will match Billy Myers against Andy
Bowen for $2,500 n side nnd for tho world's
championship, Dowen to weigh less than 135
pounds nt the ring side, the tight to tnke plaeo
fn Texas any time after March 25 next
1 am willing to accept as referee Fftz
Patrick, .who refereed tho Uulllvan-Kll-rain
fight or Al Smith of Now York,
or two sure men. If this proposition suits you.
cover our deposit of 1500 now in the bands of
Cnpt Cooke of New York and send your arti
cles to be signed. Let tbo rnles bo Queens
berry or London, two-ounce gloves preferred,
but tbls point waived, and accept bare hands.''
Obituary.
Arthur W. Benson of Brooklyn died on Fri
day at EnterprUe, in Florida, aged 77. For a long time
he occupied the house 2I Columbia Heights, lie waa
engaged In tbe ahlpplng builneaa for aereral years be
(ore he became President ot the Brooklyn Oaa Light
Company, whloh office he continued to hold nnUl hla
retirement from active bualnesa a fear years ago. He
waa a director In aereral banks aa alto In several liter
ary and benevolent Inatltutlona, and waa a veitryman
In Orate Eaplacopal Church. The only political otnee he
ever held waa that of Alderman of tbe Klrst ward, ovor
forir ycara ago. Ha waa a Democrat. He liuiia
widow and two daughters Ilia attAteSa-eitlmated at
morethanainlltlou.
Robert Carter, who had been a publlaher In thla city
for more than llfty yaara, died at 47 Meat Hf it third
alreet yetlerday inornlna- lie waa born In Barlalown.
hcoiland alghir-two ycara ago. At the ageofvohe
came to New York, and waa for a brief period a tutor lu
Columbia College, lie afterward eitabllihad a private
achool In OranJ street. In is3 he started In the inib
lulling bualneaa In Canal street After several changes
be removed to hla laal place of business, aJu nroadway.
He pjbllshed chiefly hooka of a theological nature, lie
waa an active member of the Scotah 1'resUylerlan
Church, one of Die directors of the American Itlbie 8o
ctetr. and a member or the Foreign Board of Mlsatona
He leaves a daughter and three aoua The (uosral will
be held on Tuesday inornlug at 10 o'clock In tbe Scotch
l'resbyterlan Church.
Solomnn Paris, proprietor ot the Niagara Fella Mu
seum, died on Friday night. Mr. Davie waa born In ton.
don. England, on March 12. 1bo7 and had been loentl
tided with museuma for over forty yaara tne greater
pait of the time at Table Uock, on tiie Canadian aide.
alias Sjsan L- btanwood died In Augusta. Ma . vaster
day. aged 70 ycara She was a sister of Hire, ttlslneaud
resided with the Ulatne family for many yeare
Edward P. Tulgg. aollrltor ot advertisements for
fiadller's publications, dlrd yesterday In the Catholic
I'obllcatlou Hoclsty a book atore t llarclay street,
ot aponlaxr. lie waa talking with a visitor In the
ofllce when be complained of being lit In Qve mlli
uteahe waa dead He waa a brother of JJlsbou Tulgg or
Pittsburgh, who died some time agaatAltoona and of
Mster Oeata. who waa Haperloresa of the Slitere In Oar.
clay atreet for many yeara, and who Is now la charge of
tho Blstsrs ot the Barred Heart at Clifton, K I. Hla
nephew, the Hev. P. Tulgg, la pastor of bu eliohaelt
Church, houtb Ureokjyn. J
Alaclnc In New Orjcaite.
Nkw Ohleans, Doo. 28, The track was fast
to day.
Uril Race Belling) six furlongs) eight starters.
balance came In an easy winner by a length, UerthA
second. Regardless third. June, l.loit
Becond Race Selling) eleven-sixteenths; six starters!
Tommy It won by two lengths, Itooljack aecond. a head
In rront of Mce-ifegent, third. Tuna 1 ovj.
Third Uace Belli ag,' nre furlungei alx startersi
Winnie Pavla won by a length, I ol. Col second, two
lengtha ahead of rasslon. tfiurd. Time. 1.03,
Fourth Kace Free 'handicap, seven furlongs) Are
atarterai cashlsr won by a nose, Cora I aecond, a nose
In front t Koko, third. Time. I 30.
Arreat of a Forger,
Jackson, Tonn., Dec, 28. J. A. Bube, a wagon
manufacturer, wanted In Ueehe and LUUe Rock. Ark ,
for forgeries aggregating flo.oon, was arrested here to
day. Ha waa polng under the name of Ernest Dr'aney
here, and eatdne eame from New ork The banks In
Jieebe suffered from his forgeries, and about t worn ntlte
ago , aused tha arrest of his wra on a charge af being
an aecessary, but she waa acquitted
Fired a Itevolver lu is Crowd of IVnnien.
Tho buslnst corner In Iinrlem Is ut Third
avenue and W&tli street. It was crowned last evening
with women out shopping when Maurtie Conway be
gan firing a revolver from the centre of the Ibrong in
a few set finds he had the rorner all l bimie't and a
little later Policemen liankln had hlin ai.d his plstot
Conway wa looked us In Ike bail liolhslrsslpoUcs
laUoo.
COBISO FOltBIOK XXPUBUIOIT.
Tho fiertaaa ConatHea Ailva With tho
iJFMtr Ferer.
An Exposition epldomio has broken out In
Germany and Austria. Tho monster ship
whloh German merchants are preparing to
send around the world for a floating oxhlblllon
will perhaps bo duplloated by manufacturers
of Austria and Hungary. The Imperial Boyol
Agricultural Society of Vienna is rapidly com
pleting arrangements tor a general forestry
and agricultural exhibition there next year.
The Gorman Agricultural Booloty has already
Issued circular Invitations to Its Universal
Agricultural Fair at Strasburg In 1890. Tho
Electrotechnlcal Boclety In Frankfort has re
cently announced that next June will be tho
doto for tho opening ot Its International
Electrotechnlcal inhibition there. Many Ger
man dallies are oven advocating tbo holding of
a grand World's Fair at Berlin In the near
futuro, although their suggestions In this re
spect have boon coldly reoulvod in official
circles.
Of the throe exhibitions to be held next year
(1890) tho Austrian Agricultural Exhibition In
Vienna will bo probably tho most uotnorehen
she i nnd Important. Near the south entrance
pf the rotunda thero will oo tho products of tho
imperial domain, nt. the centre a monster
fountain, surrounded by mndol plots ot flowers
nnd shrubs, and around tho outskirts of the
gardens aquariums nnd a broad promenade,
i be principal attraction of this part of the Ex
hibition will probably.be the wine culture divi
sion nnd tha wine collar nnd wlno rooms at
tncbod to It lhe machlnory. crops, nrt litera
ture, and hunt exhlhitamn lw ihnm, In th
'iSfl Th?m03t striking features ot the
inhibition Jn the purk grounds will bo a model
dairy supplied with milk by thirty-two cows In
nn adjoining barn, a bouse of an Austrian gon
tloman farmer, furnishod and decorated by tho
best Austrian house upholstorors and doco
rators, and tho pavilion ot tho Imperial Mints-tr),l0,fuA?rlcul:,7r?-t
The. dltlslona of tho whole
Lxhlbttlon. which havo boon opened to inter
national competition, includo:
Emperor Franz Joseph ha9 recently accepted
tbe Presidency or tbo Lxhlbltlon. and bas con
gratulated tbo management upon tho large
number of applications for spoco already re,
celvod,
.Tih. agricultural exhibition in Straeburg
will be about as comprehensive, though not so
large, as tho iennese Exhibition. Twonty
thousand dollars In money, 300 modals.and
Cnr,inu.mPar r "honornblo mentions" will
bo divided among the exhibitors.
Too object pf. tho projectors of the Electro
tpchnlcal Exhibition In Frankfort is to show
tbo groat .progress made slnco tbe exhibitions
of Munich (1882) and Vienna (1883). Conse
quently, they. will noeopt only exhibits which
in some way Illustrate this progress. Tho ex
hibits will ocoupy ono rontn bulldlijr and two
machlnory halls In tho vicinity Cf tbo big
Frankfort railway station. Applications for
space will bo recolved from persons not living
In Europo till Jan. 15. The applications ol
Luropoans wero refused after Pec. 20. Edtson.
Ounson. Hlemens. and Sir P. Thompson hnvo
been mado honorary members ot tho Exhibition.
GOSSIP FBOSI BBBLOf.
Blamarek III Empreaa Annrriata'a Recap
tion to Mr. Fhelpa.
OvrrioM, 18BO. by the Kn Tor AmtUtfi Frttt.
BuniiiN, Deo. 28 Prince Bismarck is 111
onough to compel him to give up almost en
tirely the effort to transact official business.
Bis doctors oppose his desire to reappear In
the Reichstag and tako part in the debate on
the Socialist law.
In responding to compliments nt tho diplo
ma tlo rocoption on New Tear's Day tho Em
peror will make a short paclflo declaration, tbo
presumption belcg that tho royal and imperial
word on this ocr&slon gives a keynoto for Eu
rope for the year.
On Christmas tho Emperor and Empress
nnd tho Grand Buko and Duchoss of Baden
dined with the Empress Augusta and her
family. The whole Bismarck family celebrated
ChrlatmaB at Frledrlohsruho. Count Herbert
has the Influenza slightly, but it did not pre
vent his presence.
To-night tho Bmpress Augusta gave a spa
olal reception to Mr. Phelps, the United States
Mtnlster, In tbo presence of her lull court.
Countess Perponoher. tho first lady of honor,
attended the Empress, and Count Messolrode,
assisted by Bnron Von Eude, mado tho pres
entation. The Empress. In tbe courso of a oor
dlal conversation with Mr. Phelps, expressed
her life-long Interest In American affairs and
nor groat desire tbattbe people of the United
Btatos should use tbelr immense resources nl.
ways In the Interest of the peace of the world,
All society is now intensely interested in the
coming fancy-dress ball whloh the Emperor is
to give ot tho rJchoss, whero every ono of the
guests muBt appear In an Oriental costume.
Another notnble social event will bo the ball at
the Opera Houbo on Job, 12. This is patron
ized by the imperial family.
Ilerr Peters, brother of Dr. Peters, the ex
plorer, has rooelved n letter from his brother,
written at Eenia. Oot 8. It describes crossing
Sa waterless desert the explorations as for as
enlo, and the construction of a fort The
ootor and bis people were then well and had
abundant supplies. This letter nas not dis
pelled tbe fears caused by tho report of tho
massacre of Dr. Peters which reached Zanzi
bar on Nov. 6.
Mr. Phelps gavo, a farewell dinner to Count
Bylandt, the Secretary of tho Butch Legation,
just nppolnted Minister to Japan.
The Landtag will reopen on, Jan. 14.
JfroelalaalBg JuVlaa Cstrloa,
Lisbon, Doc. 28. Tho ceremony of pro
claiming his Majesty Carlos L as King of Portu
gal and Algarves took place to-day. Tho
weathor waa cloudy, bnt this had no effect
upon the crowds of enthusiastic people who
thronged the streets through whlen the King
passed on his way to tbe Palace ot Necessl
dades. The King. left tbe castio ot Belem at
11 o elook. and the journoy to tbe palaoo whero
the King took the, oath of office Before the Cor
tes was made without any incident of an un
favorable character.
Uueen Amolle. who is suffering from an at
tack of influenza, has so far reoovered that
she was abto to accompany King Carlos in the
procession.
A. Hteamahlp sTolIlelon.
Lojtoow, Dec,, 28,-Tho British steamer
Duchess colUded oa Wednesday with the British steamer
Prior, from Hamburg tor haw Tork, making a large
hole In the Prior's side The latter vessel le atSwaneea
haa eight feet of water In her hold, and part of he?
dXlYo'rri'1- "" W1U alwa"" d go into dry
Fortagal la Africa.
Lisbon, Doo. 28. Tho King to-day signed a
decree oreatlig an admin IstraUve Junta for the district
f' ??m"' Joe Conservative leader. IlmentaJ. writing
'"""k01"''? ". ' taA congratnlatea the JUnistrr
upon the conduct or the Nrassa operations, anderoai.
laea the inenianeoua sopport ot all oartte
A Wealthy Maa's Son Attetapta Salclde.
Nkwcasttje, Pa., Dec 28.-8. J. Wilkinson,
ton of wealthy parents In Baltimore, attempted to com
mit lulclde here thla afternoon by taking morphine
pllla. When found he wee wandering on the streets
In a eeml unconsolons condition, lie Is still In a dan.
gerous condition, and la not likely to recover UUkit
eon's i fa'her It I'resldent of tbe International New ji?.
eey Newcastle and I'hlladelpble Asphalt Faring Block
Works, and ronng Wilkinson waa uero.aaalsilng InpSJ
!!"" ". 'f n,w "pbalt punt ho oauio Is given, other
than that the young mail had been drinking to exeeaa
Ha had bean fnKewcaatletix weeks.'
Gilbert and Nalllran'a Novy Opera,
Pnn.ADEi.rniA, Doe. 28. Arrangements woro
perfected to-day In New York with air. John Bteuon.
giving Mr. Francis Wlion, the comedian, and Messrs.
Mxonand yimnarnau of this clly the solo right of
producing villbert and Sullivan a newopera. "The ion
doners." n I hlladeiphla. The bpera will be produoed
a an early dat. by Mr. rranclt Wilson and hla lorn pan?
flMxon aWiininermao'e new Uroad Street Theatre,
The production will be one of great excellence at to
cast, acenery, and costumes
The Iadlana Cbeta Tournament,
Indianapoub, Dec. 28.-The State chess tout
namsnt closed. tolay. No prlaea were awarded, but It
C. Jtrawn of Anderson made the highest record and waa
elected the delegate to the United btates Chest Aaaocla
ton that wlllmeet lu ht i.oule next February. llTwoa
six games, lost one, and one waa a draw.
Trap Hhootlng Through tho Country.
Datton, Dec. 28.-Thomas II. Keller, repre
sentlng the Featern and Wesleni teams that are to
make a tour of the country In trap-ehootlng contests is
here to arrange for the opening match of ihYeerlea that
la to be shot on the Payton Dun Club groundt on Jan a
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XBTT LAW POEVT UT A BITORCB CASE. '
Caa st tVomtut Teetirr aa to Any Indlctabl
Offcaeo Acalnat Her Ilaabaad I
Pdoyidence, Doc. 28. A peculiar and Im
portant legal question haa been ralsod in tho
hearing of the phuroh divorce oaso in this city.
Carollno IS. Church, tho respondent, wns asked
a question tbo purport of which was to show
that Dr. William P. Church, tho petitioner, had
dobaucbed her whon sho was tho wife of Albert
L. Gardner, and that because ot that Illicit In
tlmaoy her first husband had procured a di
vorce from hor. Church marrying her soon
afterward, Tho objeot ot putting in tbls
pocnllor lino of evidenco was to estab
lish to tho satisfaction ot tho Court
that Dr. Church, being responsible for the wo
man's first downfall, oould not como into court
with dean hands and have any standing. This
was objuoted to, and tho respondent's counsol '
raised tho point ot law that tho Legislature had
recently amended tho dlvorco law so as to per
mit contesting parties to tostlfy orally. Uore-
tof ore they have been deprtvod ot any privilego
except a general denial by affidavit. Counsol
argued that this meant that a respondent
might go into any detail of domestlo life so
long as boor she did not orlminato tbe othor.
Tho Court promptly ruled out this lino ot
ovldance, arguments wore mado. and tho alas
eaobusotts laws wero quoted. Undor tho
Court's ruling the wife oould not testify as to
non-support, assault, or any other acts of cm-
olty. becauso sucb acts woro Indictable ana V
punishable, and therefore tbo wife would bo t
orlmlnatlng tbe husband. The Legislature had,
by amending tbe divorce laws, allowed tho wlfo
to take tho witness stand, but tho working
ot tbo law, as counsel pointed out.
was tho absolute sealing ot bor lips
on tbo very matters which tho defenco
was based on. Counsel will now tnke tho ques-
tlon before tho full bonoh for on lntrepretntion
of tho law. -,
The remarkable foatnre of the ruling Is tbnt
the two Judges sitting on tbeflcaee toon oppo- "
site views. Judco Tllllnghast ohjeoting to tho '
testimony, while Judgo Wilbur Insisted thnt
tbe intent of the amendment wns toonnn tlm
doors wide and to allow too utmost freedom ot
inquiry.
IOXS OP GONDOLIERS AT ONCE.
JeVstncta Wllaoa's Company to Produce tho
Opera la Fhllaaelphla.
A. H. Canby fUTangod yesterday with John
Stetson for the prosontatlon of Gilbert and
Sullivan's "Gondoliers" in Philadelphia by
Francis Wilson and his oompnny. This will bo
tbo first time that Mr. Wilson bas appeared lu
ono of Gilbert nnd Sullivan's productions. Ho
will tako the part of tho Iluke., Tho piece will
be put on at the Broad Street Theatre about
March 1.
. Mr. tltotson has bought tho rleht to produoo t,
the new piece everywhere oaBt of Pittsburgh. i
with tho exception of this city. He will pne H
two companies in his territory as soon as pos- l
sible. The right of presentation everywhere 1
weBt of Pittsburgh belongs to Dave Henderson ' I
of tho Chicago Opera llouso. He will start I
three companies on the road as soon as he con. I
Tbls arrangement has been mado for the pur- I
pose of. heading off tbe pirates.
. In this olty His understood that "The Don- (
dollers" will have a run of about eight weeks
at tbo Park, beginning about Jan. 13, and that
It will then be transferred to Palmer's Theatre,
Sown on "National" ltalldlac Cluba.
Tho Executive Committee of tho Stats
lasagne of Building, Loan and Savings Asso
ciations was In session yesterday at the Hotel ,
BartholdL President J. G. Campbell ot Buffalo
presided. The necessity for legislation In the
Interests of building associations was dls-
cussed, and it was thounht that steps might v
bo taken toward the unification of the twu ' 1
laws under which building and loan associa
tions nre now organized. Last night then
was n oonference at tho hotel between mem
bers of the Executive Committee of the Metco
polltan League and the officers of tbe Stale
organization. As a result of this conference's, ,
committee of three was appointed to ask tAo '
Legislature to pass a law restricting or deny- v
Inc. as should seem best, the right of foreign
building and loan associations ofa ''NaUoniu''
character to do business in this Stat. y
ir l
Thcv President In Richmond. 1
Richmond, Doc. 28. President Harilaoa
and party arrived hero this evening a fow min
utes before C o'clock on Mr. Bnteman's ifaebt.
They were met at the wharf by Mayor EIJyBon,
Col. Blcbard F. Bolrno of tho State, CoL-O.
O'B. Cowardln of tbe Dupatcli. Col. A. fiT Bn
fora. Major James II. Dooley, Messrs. F. It.
Hcott. John P. Branch and othor prominent
citizens. Tbe party wero driven to the real- ,.
dence of John 1. Brand, President of tbo N
Morohants' National Bnnlc, whero they were
bntertalned. The Prosldont left here to-night
for Washington.
IaeatlOed the Man Who Assaulted Her. N
Brazix, Ind Doc. 28. Slisa Clnrn Warner,
tbo 15-yenr-old girl who was assaulted near
Coal City some weekB ago by an unknown
man, to-day recognized James Delcarh as her
assailant. Dolgarn Is tbe forgor arrested hore
a few dais ago and now In jail. Criminal as
saults on suveral other women two boon ,
made near Coal City recently, nil accounts la- i
dlcatlng tbe same assailant. A. mob Ib feared
to-nluht. and extra precaution has been taken
to prevent a lynching.
Carneaie'a l'uddlere on Htrlke.
rrrrsiiDnoir, Dec. 28. OnniPglo's Lower
Union Iron Mills nro closed on account of a
strike of the puddlers, who refused to work tbe
Iron furnished by tho firm, aborting that the
material was too strong. Ponding a pottlemout
of the trouble extenMte Improvements will bo
made, and tho mills will not resume until some
time In Jauuary. About 250 men nro idle, i I
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