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FORTY-SEVENTH TEAR.
DRY AND DREARY
PITTSBURG. FRIDAY, APRIL 1. 1892-TWELVE PAGES.
THREE CENTS.
WDEBATE
Driving Congressmen and
Spectators From the
Lower House.
It was brought In before the read
me journal and put through by a Be-
TOO MUCH CHIN-CHIN,
Nobody at All Inspired Nowadays by
the Cry of Tariff Reform,
SOME BRILLIANT SPEECHES
listened to by Few Who Take Any In
terest in the Subject.
Colonel Stone's Fine Argument Makes
. an Impression Brosius' Rhetorical
Effort Speech-Making for Home Con
sumption During the Campaign The
Speaker's Life Made Miserable by
Criticisms of Free Coinage People
Morgan the Most Learned Senator
Pennsylvania Politicians Conferring
on the Presidents! Question Republi
can Congressional Campaign Com
mittee Organizes A Sample of Baum's
Pension Office Clerks.
rBFECIAt. TELEGRAPHIC LETTKR.
Bureau or Thb Dispatch,
WASiiurGTOir. D. c. March 31. t
Dreariness personified is the only adequate
description of the progress of the little tariff
bill in the House. Whether it be day or
evening the attendance is small, the galleries
are almost empty, visitors remain but a few
minutes, the members on the floor attend to
their correspondence, or the speaker is
lucky if he secures two or three attentive
listeners.
Not but that the speeches are able, often
witty, and not seldom eloquent. Public and
members are simply tired of the subject No
conclusion is reached by its agitation. There
is no infallible test except experience to
show whether protection is a good or an evil
thing, and notwithstanding all the hue and
cry raised against the McKinley bill all of
its opponents see that with the act as a law,
in full operation, the country is prosperous
as it has not been before in long years. Con
sequently the best arguments on the subject
on either side fall flat.
Tariff Reform Weak As a War Cry.
Sever was there a weaker campaign war
cry. The Democrats realize now, if not
before, that "tariff reform" is a nerveless
issue on which to go to the people. It In
spires nobody here, neither Capitol habitue
nor casual visitor, and it cannot therefore be
expected to inspire the people at large,
even alter the campaign leads to a rise of
party temperature. I counted to-day forty
members of the House on the floor while a
very effective speech was in progress. Of
the forty, thirty-eight were engaged in con
versation or correspondence, and two were
giving attention to the speaker. They were
two of his intimate friends.
Of the many speeches already made, one
of the most effective was that of Colonel
W. A. Stone, of Allegheny, delivered
toward the close of the session of last even
ing, and then a half hour of time granted to
him at the instance of Chairman Blount, of
the committee of the whole House, in rec
ognition of his ability and of the fact that
he represents a great protective tariffcon
stituency. It was a graceful act on the
part of Sir. Blount and of the gentleman
who surrendered to Mr. Stone a portion of
his time.
Penneylvanians as Tar Id Talkers.
Of course, Colonel Stone made a fine argu
ment Aside from any question of personal
ability, a Pennsylvanian takes to a tariff
argument as naturally as a duck takes to
water. Colonel Stone analyzed and an
Bwered, tersely and thoroughly, the falla
cies of the free traders, especially in regard
to an increase of the cost of articles to the
extent of the amount of the duty, the rock
upon which Cleveland and all of his fol
lowers have split
At one point Colonel Stone was inter
rupted by Jerry Simpson, who, in a few
flighty remarks, instanced the Garden of
Eden as a place where there was no tax on
clothing. "Because everybody was naked
there," retorted Colonel Stone, "and so
everybody r-ould be naked to the end of
time under the policy advocated by the
tan IT reformers.
Of course, the Colonel did not intend this
to be exactly logical, but it was one of the
happiest retorts of the tariff discussion, and
brought a round of laughter from the Dem
ocrats as well as from the Republicans.
Another good speech from a Pennsylva
nian was that of the very rhetorical and
histrionic Brosius, of Lancaster, delivered
to-day. He very happily described in a
sentence one of the most popular speeches
that have been made on the subject of the
tariff, tne "maiden" speech of young Bryan,
of Nebraska. Mr. Brosius character
ized Mr. Bryan's effort as a "brill
iant mosaic of erudition and error, of
rhetorical force and economic fallacy."
An Unanswerable Bit of Speech.
It was unanswerable, because "no logic
can overthrow a simile, a trope is not
indictable, anecdote is superior to reason,
and a verse of rhyme is invulnerable to attack."
Of course, nearly all of this speech-making,
especially on the part of the "reform
ers," is simply for home consumption dur
ing the campaign. It is not expected that
anybody will be converted by it, or that a
tariff bill will be enacted into a law. And
that is the way in which the Democrats of
the House are hurrying along toward the
early adjournment of which they now
speak confidently.
Speaker Crisp's life is made miserable
these days by criticisms of the free coinage
people here and elsewhere. His excuse for
his action in demanding a petition signed
by a majority of Democrats asking a special
order and cloture for the Bland bill, that he
did'not feel at liberty to propose a gag law,
is denounced as very thin. The gag law
v as never applied more savagely1, than it
was when a rule fixing a time torthe con
sideration of the Bland bill vj' "rat re
ported.
ingof the journal
ries of most unparliamentary rulings on the
part of the Speaker. The free coinage peo
ple cannot understand why Mr. Crisp should
be so suddenly awakened to the heinous
character of "gag law."
Morgan and HU Game of Smoke Oat.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, Is another
Democrat who does not want any gag law,
but his fervent advocacy of freedom of
speech is not'for the purpose of suppressing
a silver bill, but to "smoke" out Senators
who take one side or the other as that view
may inrther their perbonal ambitions. His
remarks to-day were so clearly directed at
Hill and Gorman as to cause a broad smile
at the expense of those gentlemen.
Senator Morgan is perhaps the most
learned man who holds a seat in the Senate.
His abounding knowledge of affairs, his
memory of history and his information of
the critiques of history are marvelous. Prob
ably no subject could be suggested upon
n hich he could not speak interestingly for
w & -lie is not a iree coinage man.
Speaking the other dav of the death of
Senator Hearst and of his pioneer work at
silver mining, Senator Morgan said it re
mained to he seen whether those great sil
ver discoveries would prove a blessing or a
curse to mankind. The Senator is in doubt
on the subject and admits it. His opinions
are not formed by the blind demands of
constituents or by ambition for higher office.
The Senator declared to-day that he pro
posed to find out why tne people of Ala-
oaaia cannot get iair prices lor their cotton.
It is to be hoped he will succeed, tor that
problem is a far profounder one than any
question of the relation of silver and gold
or of the volume of the circulating medium.
Cleveland Ills People's Eavorlte.
Ex-Senator Wallace and Hon. Ed. Bigler,
of Clearfield, and D. A. Orr, of Harrisburg,
have been here to-day conferring with
Democratic Congressmen from Pennsylva
nia on the Presidents! Question, and inci
dentally putting in a word with the Demo
cratic inembers of the Committee on Elec
tions in favor of Eeynolds, who is contest
ing the seat of Shonk, of the Luzerne county
district. Mr. "Wallace is "advisory counsel"
Iiuj jwvaoiM, ana is taKing deep interest in
the case. If one of these gentlemen desired
10 taiK upon tne Presidental question, but
they readily admitted that Cleveland is a
favorite with the people at long odds.
A joint caucus of Republican Senators
ana representatives met In the Senate
Chamber this evening for the purpose of
naming members of the Congressional Cam
paign Committee. On motion of Hon.
Wm. A. Stone, Senator Cullom' was elected
Chairman, and on motion of Senator Chand
ler Hon. John Dalzell was elected Secre
tary. Delegations from each State named a
member of the Congressional Committee,
tne cnoice ot Pennsylvania being Hon.
Myron B. "Wright, the clever and active
young member from the Fifteenth district,
composed of the counties of Bradford, Sus
quehanna, Wayne and Wyoming. Wright
is not a lawyer, but is a rich young business
man, and has a practical, business-like way
of looking at things which will make him a
very valuable member of the committee.
The members of the committee chosen this
evening will meet soon for organization.
A Pension Clerk's Sensation.
One Ford, a clerk in the Pension Bureau,
kept there by the influence of W. W. Dud
ley, Pension Attorney, has been particu
larly active in the last few months at mak
ing charges against other clerks who were
objectionable to Raum and Dudley. Among
other things he made outrageous charges of
gross immoral conduct against Captain
Encle, a one-armed soldier from Pennsyl
vania, who has been instrumental in expos
ing certain misconduct in the bureau, which
charges were promptly refuted, even by
Bnm. ftf "Pnitla'o An.mi..n T 1.
MPITCI FY'Q wmi
I UnilUUL-L I II II I 1 1 I I III
And Stealings at Last Fath
omed fcy the Committee
of Investigation.
WANAMAKEB NOT GUILTY.
The Silence of State Officials
Others in Interest
and
KEPT THE EIGHT DOWN LOW
And the Investigators Don't Know Where
the Boodle Went.
OYER A MILLION QUIETLY POCKETED
some ot ingle s enemies. It seems that
J: ord lias been in the habit of borrowing
money right and left from clerks, who
feared to refuse him on account of his influ
ence with Uaum. Among others he bor
rowed $J0 from a lady clerk upward of
75 years of age several months ago, and has
hitherto refused to make repayment. The
old lad.v has been quite needy of late, and
to-day, it being pay day, she went to Ford
and pleaded with him lor the money. He
not only refused it, but threatened to in
volve the poor woman's name in the scan
dals that are floating about the bureau.
The aged clerk tottered back to her desk,
threw herself in her chair, hysterical and in
tears, and for a time the crowd of sympa
thetic clerks by which she was surrounded
thought she would die from feebleness and
excitement. After she recovered a little
she w as sent home in a carriage.
1 wo Scenes That Matched Well.
Ford is one of the kind of creatures by
whom the present conduct of the Pension
Bureau has been sustained and defended
from the beginning. The scene of to-day
at the bureau was a fitting accompaniment
of an admission which was at the same time
being made by Raum before the House In
vestigating Committee that he used em
ployes of the bureau to dog the footsteps of
newspaper men who were exposing the dark
secrets of the bureau to discover what em
ployes of the bureau, if any, they had lor
their associates. Lightner.
WIPING OUT STOCK THIEVES.
An Organized Territorial Party Going Into
the Big Horn Mountains A Red-Hot
Fight in Anticipation Plenty of Strong
Rope Taken Alone.
Billings, Most, March 3L5pria?.
A party of stockmen of Wyoming, Montana
and Utah left Evanston, this State, a week
ago Tuesday on a most startling mission.
They ride and have extra horses, a pack
train, plenty of small artillery and a lot of
rope.
They are going into Big Horn mountains
to wipe out a nest of stock thieves. The
latter number at least 20 and are the flower
of the gang that has levied tribute on
Wyoming and Montana ranges for five
years. They have taken a thousand
horses, annually. They operate systematic
ally, having headquarters at Bed Lodge,
3Iontana, and stations on their routes to
the farming communities in which they
market. In times they have shipped as far
east as Illinois, from Bed Lodge. In their
camp, in a sheltered valley of the Big Horn
mountains, they change brands and fatten
the horses for railway car or trail. As a
gang they have been invulnerable.
The relentless men now on the trail will
kill every mother's son of the outlaws.
Plans for this crusade have been forming
ior two years, anu names mat command re
spect throughout the West are on the trail
of the association. They mean business, in
order to save their business. They feel
that there is nothing else to do. Their work
will be under way within a week, and it will
be thorough and effective. Some of the mob
may meet death, but they go prepared for
figlit, and no mercy will be shown.
GABZA ONLY A FAKE.
He Is Said to Be in San Antonio and Was
ever ut the Head of a Force.
San Antonio, Tex., March 3L The
discovery has been made that Garza, the al
leced Mexican revolutionist, is in this city,
and can be produced with but little trouble.
It is said he has privatclystated that nearly
all of the.matter telegraphed about the al
leged uprising was "faked" by special cor
respondents and frontier sensationalists,
and that tl;e dispatches were wholly false,
so far as thtfv related to him personally.
The facts, As now gleaned, are that Garza
has been at thl head of a eang of smugglers
on the border,but left tfiem a year ago,
and that he has' never been in command of
a revolutionary army or the leader of a
political party.
Philadelphia, March 3L The Com
mittee of Councils which investigated the
affairs of ex-City Treasurer John Bardsley
made its report to-day, advising in it the
passage of an ordinance, now pending, reg
ulating the city's deposits, recommending
the increasing of the City Treasurer's bond
to $250,000, and that the City Controller be
required to audit State as well as city ac
counts. The committee has been engaged in its
work since last April, before John Bards
ley's defalcation was discovered, and has
examined over 200 witnesses, taking 3,000
pages of type-written testimony. No one
appeared voluntarily and made any state
ment in the interest of the municipality.
According to the reports much space is de
voted to the part played by Postmaster
General Wanamaker in the investigation;
but the committee's conclusion is that noth
ing in the course of their examination shows
that Wanamaker had any dealings with
Bardsley or that he was responsible for the
wrecking of the Keystone Bank.
Bardsley's Methods Explained.
Bardsley, they say, entered office in Jan
uary, 1889, and on authority conferred by or
dinances, selected the Keystone National
and Third National Banks as the two active
banks for the city's funds. Both had been
used by his predecessors and both were certi
fied to be in good standing by Bank Exam
iner Drew.
Bardsley's method was to use each bank
alternately for two successive months and
to keep on deposit in the bank not in use
$400,000, and alsoto keep a like sum in the
bank where he deposited his daily balances.
In view of the fact that he was paid 2 or 3
per cent annual interest on these deposits,
his motive is evident Bardsley was over
whelmingly in debt when he entered office,
and his gains from interest and speculation
with public money were largely used for
paying these debts.
Examiner Brew's Honesty Unquestioned.
Alluding to the great run on the itevntnnn
Bank in December, 1890, which drew nearly
51,000,000 from its resources, the committee
savs to meet the drain the bank onfninel
large sums from Bardsley on which it paid
high rates of interest. The exact time
when Bardsley became aware of the bank's
insolvent condition remains a question.
The committee, however, believes that
Drew's opinion was honestly expressed at
the time Bardsley questioned' him, and that
Bardsley believed the bank to be solvent
when he selected it as a depository. Bards
ley admits that he became anxious in
November, 1890, and at that time he
had not exceeded the lawful limit
of deposit $400,000. It was his duty
when he doubted the bank's solv
ency to endeavor to withdraw the city's
deposit Unfortunately when Bardsley first
learned this fact, the bank was his debtor to
such an amount that the dominant thought
in his mind was the welfare of the bank. He
would have been glad to save both the bank
and the city, but his course indicates that
he preferred to endancer the city's dnnsif
rather than endanger the bank by withdraw
ing them. It is true that if he had en
deavored to withdraw during the December
run his effort would have been unsuccessful;
but with a full knowledge of the bank's con
dition, he continued his dealings with it
until its closing in March, 1891. "We be
lieve," says the committee, "that the bank
would have failed long before it did but for
the receipt of State and city moneys."
The Spring Garden BIrectory Censnred.
Concerning the Treasury Department's
refusal to allow the committee to examine
the books of the wrecked Spring Garden
Bank, another of the city depositories, the
report says: "The reason, for refusal was
that experts selected by the Committee of
Fifty were about to investigate the bank.
Inasmuch as this committee was a self-constituted
committee, and had no deposit in
said bank, your committee must regret that
these praiseworthy efforts should be con
strued as a reason for withholding from us
the opportunity of mating an investigation
which would have been beneficial to the in
terests of the community."
Discussing the handling of State money
by the City Treasurer, the report says:
"The law does not require him as an agent
of the State Treasury to make known re
ceipt of these moneys to any city officer
who might act as a check on him. This
was the source of a large portion of the
losses incurred. Bardsley assumed the po
sition that while the money was in his cus
tody he might treat it as his own, and com
.mingling it with his own and the Bradford
Mills Company, of which he uas princi
pal stocKuoioer, ne paid old debts with it,
ioaned it out at interest and appropriated
the interest to his own use. He also used
it in stock and other speculations, thereby
retaining it beyond the lawful time, which
he could not have done had the State Treas
urer and Auditor General enforced the laws
of the State."
State Offlcla's legally Muzzled.
State Treasurer Boyer and Auditor Gen
eral McCainant were called as witnesses,
but by advice of the Attorney General re
fused to testify on certain subjects. State
Cashier Livesy excused himself on account
of sickness, and subsequently fled from the
Jurisdiction.
The total amount of interest received by
Bardsley from nine banks was $202,482 98.
In addition, through the agency of H. H.
Yard, other interest money to a total of
$2,347 85 was received. Bardsley loaned
puono money to various people in tne ag
gregate to upwards of $60,000, and the com
mittee cannot say which of these loans have
been paid. He was interested financially
with certain city contractors, dealing with
them through Charles A. Doerr. as middle
man. Terrence B. Smart had contracts
amounting to $50,000. Walter Peterson
also obtained a valuable contract through
Mark H. Davis, a clerk in Bardsley's office.
Peterson did not perform his work with sat
isfaction, and the contract was rescinded,
causing a loss to Bardsley of over $19,000 of
moneys advanced.
Notwithstanding the denials of all the
city magistrates and constables the commit
tee expresses the belief that Bardsley's re
tention of a portion of their fees was the
result of a previous understanding. Con
cerning the 40 per cent rebates which he
exacted from newspapers for giving them
the city's advertising, the committee is of
the opinion that under similar circum
stances a like conduct on the part of others
the general disapproval of the press, and
justly so.
Over a Million In Speculation.
Briefly as may be summarized, it is shown
that Bardsley Invested in speculation
,$1,116,693. This' money was paid to his
brokers, Gelndlnlng & Co., principally
through checks on the Keystone Bank,
though it appears more than $160,000 was
borrowed by him from the People's Bank
with which to buy stock from William H.
Kemble and others after depositing $104,
307 75 of State funds in the bank. Upon
this total speculation Bardsley made losses
aggregating $51,935 25 net, which should be
increased by the $100,000 of Baltimore
Traction Company bonds. Persons dealing
with a public official in transactions which
involve enormous sums of money should
certainly he put upon inquiry and not al
lowed to shield themselves because of igno
rance when suchinauirv would nnauestion-
ably disclose the truth.
A recapitulation of accounts shows that
Bardsley s net deficiency without counting
$1,121,043 sunk in the Keystone Bank in
due bills and checks is $553,835. In addi
tion to this his unlawful gains swell the
sum to $778,935. This is an exhibit of .
Bardsley's deficiency to the city and State
together. It is not intended to represent
an account as between the city and the
State. There are some differences which
will likely arise when such an account is
made, and there may be a slight reduction
in the account actually chargeable to Bards
ley. Should the city and county of Phila
delphia be finally surcharged with the
amount of personal property tax due and
remaining unpaid to Pennsylvania, June 1,
1891, and should all payments made by
Bardsley out of commingled funds prior to
June 1, 1891, be regarded as legitimate,
irrespective of the sources from which the
moneys paid were derived, the total possi
ble losses to the city ore estimated at
$1,268,509 91.
PANIC ON A STEAMBOAT.
THE GOLDEN RULE BURNS TO
WATER AT CINCINNATI.
THE
One Passenger Loses Her Life by Jumping
Too Soon Into the Blrer Sudden Out
burst of the Flames and Bapld Spread
ot the Fire,
Cincinnati, March 3L As the Golden
Rule was about leaving the big wharfboat
at the public landing this afternoon, while
her passengers were savine eroodbv to
friends, there was a sudden burst of smoke
from the hatchway under the stairs at the
front of the boat, and in a moment the
wildest panic occurred among the passen
gers, irlends, officers, roustabouts and all,
and nobody could account for the sudden
outbreak of the fire nor for its rapid spread.
Only the nearest 'men to the stair
way were able togetdown to the lower deck
and escape to the wharfboat All the rest
were driven to the rear of the cabin, where
the wildest scenes were enacted. Women
shrieked and fainted, and it required all the
courage and presence of mind of the men
to prevent a terrible panic; Lying along
side the stern of the Golden Bule was the
Keystone State, next to the wharfboat To
her the passengeis ran and clambered onto
her upper deck. Some sprang to i fuel
barge. But the fire was so fierce and sud
den that the Keystone State was compelled
to back onto the river.
Then some brave and thoughtful men ran
from the shore, caught the stern of the
Golden Eule and drew jlcSnto the wharf
boat, and thus gave a means of escape to
the few who had not gotten away other
wise. But one unforionatc passenger, Miss
NellieMalon?y, wW) had been visiting
friends'ln Cincinnati, made a rash attempt
to jump too soon, and fell between the boat
and barge. The gallant clerk, F. F. Bond-
urant, who delayed too long to get down
the stairway, and who after vainly trying
to save his books and money had jumped
over the side of the steamer and into the
water and then clambered on the barge,
saw Miss Maloney's body in the water. He
jumped in again and made a heroic effort to
save her, but she disappeared under the
wharfboat and was lost
So far as is known the only loss of life is
that of Miss Nellie Maloney. The great
wharfboat, of course, was soon ablaze from
end to end, and all its upper works were de
stroyed. The steamer Fleetwood, lying
just above, caught fire at the stern, and nar
rowly escaped destruction. Hut for the fact
that it was time for all to leave the wharf,
and had steam up, four steamers instead of
one would have been destroyed.
The Golden Rule, Captain O. P. Shinkle,
was worth from $20,000 to $25,000. She had
a fine cargo estimated at $50,000. Every
thing was burned in Jess than an hour. The
wharfboat was filled with merchandise, the
value of which could only be guessed at AH
the books and office were lost
At midnight fears are felt here that
several lives were lost in the Golden Eule.
It is said that 15 roustabouts and deck hands
were workine in the hold when the hre
broke out Chief Hushes, of the fire depart
ment, says that nobody escaped from the
boat after the fire department got there. It
is now known that Frank Riley, second
mate of the steamer, has not been seen since
the fire, and his family in this city fear he
is lost
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TROYHILUSTERROR.
James Boyle, Aged 9 Tears,
Tries to Cut His Aged
Grandmother's Throat
WITH A SHARPENED BONE.
Chased Her Out of the House With a
Big Butcher Knife.
jo
,;" 'yD TO BURN HER ALIYE
JC(S" j; y
He Levies Iribnte on AM Children in ths
Keighuorhood.
K0W HE WANTS TO TET THE WILD WEST
THE DAY'S DOINGS HEREABOUTS.
A LAUREL HILL CRIME
Almost Equal to the Umberger
Murder of Somerset County.
A GRIZZLED GIANT MOONSHINER
Waylaid, Shot and Clubbed- to Death by a
Gang- of Three.
HIS B0DICAEEIED INTO THE MOUNTAINS
rsprcTAi. txleqiijim to ran dihpatto.i
Eockwood, Pa., March 31. Another
fearful murder opcurred in the wilds of the
Laurel Hill region yesterday that Equals
the Nicely-Umberger homicide that made
Somerset county murders so infamous. The
victim this time was Jonathan Hochstetler,
the Herculean moonshiner and reputed rev
enue agent and Government spy who as
sisted in ferreting out the moonshiners of
Somerset county.
The murder was committed last evening.
in the desolate mountain region north of
Trent, a small postoffice a few miles from
this place. Yesterday afternoon James
Beale, a young man from Westmoreland
county, started to walk from Trent to the
home of his sister, Mrs. Lew Smith, who
lives in this county, three miles from the
Westmoreland county line, and in the very
neart ot tne old jjaurei nidge region. The
road which young Beale was following di
vided right in the wildest and most deso
late part of the country, and stretched up
the ridge in two almost abandoned log
paths.
Witness to a Cold-Blooded Murder.
Beale was wearied and puzzled, not know
ing which was the right way to turn, and
sat down on a log to rest and size up his
location. To this one slight act the young
fellow no doubt owes his life. Disheart
ened, and believing that he had lost his wav
SAD NEWS FROM RUSSIA.
Food Sent From America Tatcen by Offi
cials The Poor loft to Starve No
Hope for Belief KIpe for Revolu
tion, bat Completely Cowed.
Boston, March 31. Herman Friedland,
a newsdealer of Koxbury, has just received
a letter from his father, who lives in the
town of Arogola, upon the Russian frontier,
which tells a horrible tale of suffering
among the Russian people. The letter says
that, in spite of food sent from America,
people are dropping dead in the streets from
starvation.
The food as it is distributed through the
infected country is seized by rabid officials
and shared among them. Impervious to
human suffering they see men and women
dying in all the anguish ot starvation, and
with a curse visit the supply station and
take all the food to their own "homes, leav
ing never a crust lor their starving people.
The famished crowd is desperate. Many
are insane with hunger. It is onlyJthe fear
of prison, or a worse fate, bred in a Russian
from his birth, that prevents rebellion.
He says: "There is no hope for relief.
The power exercised by Russian officials is
absolute. There is nothing for the people
to do but starve unless help shall come
from outside and that speedily."
VICTOET OF A FAITH CUBE D0CTOB
Who Was Made a Batt for All Other Rich
mond PhyslcUns.
Richmond, Va., March 31. SpecUL
The attempt made by Richmond physicians
to prevent Dr. Flower, a faith cure physi
cian, from practicing in' this city failed.
Judge Witt said he was clearly of the opin
ion that the act upon which the proceedings
were based is unconstitionaL so far as it ap
plies to the defendant The section of the
code in question provides that before a per
son shall practice medicine and surgery in
this State he shall receive a certificate from
the Board of Medical Examiners and have
it recorded in the county or city where he
resides.
Had Dr. Flower gotten a certificate he
would have had no place to record it, as he
resides in another State. The defendant,
while pasbing through "Virginia, had treated
patients, and there being noJacility for him
to avail himself of the provisions of the
in this abandoned region, Beale cheered
up a little at the sight of a stranger coming
down one of the old paths. The man was
evidently aged and bent, but came down the
path with surprising agility, clearing an
occasional fallen log with a tremendous
bound. Beale intended hailing him even at
that distance, when another voice broke
the spell.
"Halt." came in fierce, harsh tones, sev
eral rods from where Beale sat partly con
cealed. The command was evidently
directed toward the old stranger, who stop
ped instantly, and peered with anxious face
into the bushes whence the order came.
Though he was some distance away, Beale
had a good opportunity to closely observe,
the man who was thus suddenly ordered to
stop on his road. He was an old man.
slightly bent, at least 55 or 60 winters hay
ing whitened the few scattered locks that
brushed his ears. He carried a rough clnb
or cane which he had evidently cut from
the brush not to assist his steps, as he had
the stride of a giant, bnt perhaps to protect
him from the very attack which he now en
countered. Murdered by Moonshiners.
Beale at once believed he recognized in
the stranger one of whom he had often
heard, old Jonathan Hochstetler, the
grizzled giant of the Laurel Ridge, cele
brated for his herculean strength and fear
lessness. Beale's eyes then followed those
of the old man, and the young fellow was
terrified to see, standing amid the bare
limbed underbrush, two men with rifles to
their shoulders, leveled at old Hochstetler,
who laced the muzzles without a tremor.
Only a moment they stood thus, but it
was long enough to impress the scene upon
young Beale's, mind forever. Then followed
a gutteral exclamation from the moon
shiners, and two whip-like reports rang out,
and old man Hochstetler sank slowly to his
knees, still as firm as steel, but evidently
fatally hit by both bullets.
Then the taller of the moonshine mur
derers ran hastily down the slope and up to
the old man to finish his work. There was
no need, apparently, but the cold blooded
ruffian struck his victim time and again
oyer the head with his clubbed rifle, the old
man never muttering a cry, but settling
down into the mudded road.
Beale is a young fellow of 19, with neither
the bravery of a man nor the rashness of a
youth, and, turning like a coward, he fled
down the mountain side, pursued by the
shouts of the murderers who tried to follow
the youth a short diatance, but soon re
turned to their victim.
Sad News for the Old Man' Folks.
One mile from the scene of the murder
Beale reached a house, where he told the
family of the bloody affair he had unwillingly
seen. He did not even ask the name or the
Harvey was told his father had
left the postoffice at 4 o'clock in
the afternoon, and started directly ior
home, which he should have reached some
time after 5 o'clock. Beale then recognized
voung Harvey as being the one to whom he
nan told the story ot the murder, and saiu
if he had known who it was at the time he
would have bluntly informed him it was
his father whom he had seen murdered.
A posse was at once formed, and thouch
it was then after 10 o'clock at night.lantems
were provided and a search made ot the
mountain where the tragedy occurred. Snow
and ice still covers the -Laurel nidge in
places, and by the dim light of the lanterns,
the searchers discovered the spot where the
murder occurred.
The Body Carried Away.
There was no body to be seen, bat marks
on the snow and in the half-frozen mud
showed that even after Hochstetler had re
ceived his death wound, he had made a
terrible struzgle for life. Blood was
spattered about on the dead leaves, and the
ground was torn up by some mighty man's
lorce, but in the road the struggle evidently
ceased, as a straight track led through the
underbrush and down the mountain side,
where the murderers had dragged the dead
body. ,
Although there were a dozen men in the
crowd of searchers, they feared to go ahead
until a few bolder spirits took up the bloody
track down the mountain. At the bottom
of the ridet, in a dense, woody growth,
tracks in the mud and snow showed that
there were three members of the murderous
gang. All wore gum boots, and traces
could be found at intervals along
the stream where the body of the
dead man had brnshed against the icy
edges of the creek, while the murderers
waded. Several rods further down the
stream the tracks reappeared, with the
marks of the body dragging behind them,
and started again into the undergrowth.
Here even the bolder spirits animating the
searchers failed in courage, and it was de
cided to return to Trent, where the assist
ance of the Government revenue agent3 was
telegraphed ior to find the body and arrest
the murderers.
The Murderers' Gang Well Known.
The members of the gang are well known,
but no one cares to take his life in his
hands and make the arrests, and nothing
will be done until outside assistance arrives.
Two weeks ago Hochstetler was the main
witness for the Government in the United
States courts at Scranton, when three mem
bers of the Somerset and Fayette counties
band of moonshiners were convicted and
sent to jail. The capture of four of the
members of the gang will be remembered
as being a desperate affair, the men fighting
like tigers, while the officers endured great
hardships in the mountains before "they
succeeded in running the moonshiners
down.
Hochstetler was one of the gang, and the
men arrested accused him of playing the
spy and being a paid agent of the Govern
ment Their suspicions were proven to be
correct when Hochstetler appeared in
Scranton and gave the testimony against
them that sent them to the Fayette county
jail. Threats were made then that Hoch
stetler would be killed if he ever came back
to his home, but the old man relied on his
own great strength to save him, and came
back to meet his death at the hands of the
assassins.
Late this afternoon two revenue officers
started for Trent, and word from there to
night states that several parties have been
organized and are scouring the mountains
for the murderers and the body of their hid
den victim.
DROPPED INI0 A FOEIUHK.
A Lease That Is Expiring In Harlem Makes
Two Wisconsin Bots Itlch.
Janesville, Wis.. March 3L Two
Janesville boys have jnst dropped into a
fortune up in the millions. O. C and Will
Ford, of this city, have been notified that
they are heirs to a part of an estate
now valued at $62,000,000, in Harlem, N.
Y. In revolutionary times the Corbets
owned a large tract of land in Harlem, 'of
which they gave a 99 year lease. The lease
is dow expiring. The Messrs. Ford's
mother was a member of the Corbet family
and her two boys come in for a good share.
THIS MORNING'S NEWS.
Ibpic Page.
Ths Tarifl Talk Wearies Congressmen.. 1
Bardsley's Slethods and Stealings 1
A Moonshine Gnus Murders a Spy 1
Troy Hill's Tonthfnl Terror 1
Murderer Mills' Companion Talks 2
Labor to Edit the Directory 2
A Child's Awfnl Treatment 2
Editorial and Miscellaneous 4
Present Day Politics 4
A Prophecy on Bonds 5
Kev. Baniman'i Case Next O
The Paris Anarchists 7
V.ln1 1t.. W ..& M.
people who lived there, and started running I Political News and Gouin T
toward Trent, not knowing that old man A Plttsbnrcer's Peculiar Invention 7
Hochstetler's family lived at the house he
iust left.
Beale ran on into Trent, where he soon
gathered a crowd and related his story.
Even while he was talking young Harvey
Hochstetler dashed among tne party, and
asked anxiously if any one had seen his
father, that he had gone to the Trent post-
law, it was therefore nneonstltntlnnal .11
far as it applied to him. The doctors pro- office in thn nftprnnnn. and nrnmnfr) in
doing public work, would have met with J pose to appeal to the Supreme Court return home early, but had not yet arrived.
WWHHKiMWlWPaffi'wiieara I ,. Sfeja, w,, -. . gva-w Jk
The World of Sport 8
Events In Towns Nearby 8
Yesterdnj's Congressional Proceedings. . O
The Business Budget 0
Ranm Makes Admissions 9
Allegheny In the License Court 10
The Monthly OH Report 10
Iron and Commercial Markets II
Big MWey In a Common Flower 12
A Fashionable Poison 12
An angel-faced boy with heavenly blue
eyes and a disposition drawn from regions
lower lies to-day in a cell in Allegheny Cen
tral station. He is not as angelic as he
looks and in him anti-revisionist Calvinists
will find living proof of infant damnation.
His aged grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Mc
Donald, aged 73, lies in her bed at 49 Troy
Hill road, suffering from wounds inflicted
by her darling grandson in on attempt t-
cut her tbrj-
The
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with tee
bite an.
was onl
grandim
it is that she .
Notwithstanding his
propensities he is a bright b
ly amuses himself by setting
house and those of the neighbor,
his fancy takes a lighter view hesii..,
burns the varnish off the furniture. He
has been in the hands of the police before,
but was so bad that Mayor Wyman even
refused to keep him locked up. Even yes
terday the officers refused to arrest him and
Agent O'Brien finally consented to pit him
out of the way for a few days. This aid
was not needed, however.
The Boy Relented Inquisitive Questions.
While the mother, Sirs. Mary Doyle, was
out after the officers the boy appeared with
hair neatly trimmed and a new suit of
clothes purchased with money he had
stolen. His grandmother questioned him as
to where he had gotten the money, and in a
rage he picked up a large butcher knife
from the table and ran toward his grand
mother. The latter fled to another room
but was closely pursued. She was chased
op stairs and then down again, and finally
into the street Even there she was pursued
by the boy and had it not been for Officer
Beisinger she would probably have been
cut The officer caught the boy and
wrenched the knife from his hand, and took
him to the lock-up.
The boy refused to discuss his actions
last night He put on a bold front and said
that he wanted to cut his grandmother's
throat He declined to tell his reason for
wishing such an opportunity. He told
Superintendent Muth that he would go
West when he was released. The boy seems
to have a mania for murder and arson and
his record afterward learned rivals that of
Jesse Pomeroy,the Boston boy fiend.
A call was made at the mother's bonse, on
the Troy Hill road, last night She is a
good, honest woman, and works out for a
living. From her was gained the following
facts about his record: James is a small
boy, even for his age. The mother Is away
most of the time and he does nearly as he
pleases, as he has his grandmother terror
ized. Very early in life he developed a re
markable faculty for throwing dishes at
people when he got mad. Now he breaks
furniture at his own sweet will.
Absolutely Refuses to Attend School.
He has so far defied every attempt to
make him go to school. Once they tried to
make him attend the Sisters' Parochial
School, but he hid his books in a box car,
and refused to go or tell where the books
were hidden. By the time he confessed,
of course the car was gone. Now he stays
out until as late as 3 o'clock in the morning,
and tbev are afraid to do anything to him
for fear he will kill them. One time they
chided him, and instead of going to bed he
promptly went out and fired the house.
Sweet Jamie Doyle, among his other
accomplishments, steals everything he can
carry off, and whenever he is sent out to
buy anything he takes the money and buys
anything he may happen to desire. On one
occasion a short time ago when he was re
proved for this, he carried in the contents of
the ash barrel and dumped them on the floor.
He also has a delightful way of catching
children smaller than himself and doing
the footpad act when they are being sent
on errands with money, and like a baron of
old he levies toll on all the children of ths
Troy Hill road.
Used a Sharpened Bone to Kill.
Several weeks ago Mrs. Doyle went on a
visit to Steubenville, O. While she was
away Mrs. McDonald missed $2 and charged
the boy witb the theft He at once declared
he would stab her. She was afraid he
would kill her and hid the knives, but he
promptly sharpened a big bone and made a
murderous assault on her. She was too
weak to keep him off, and after beating her
severely about the head he tried to saw a
gash in her throat. She has been in bed
now for two weeks on account of this at
tack, and has her head and throat done up
in bandages.
Since then a friend sent Mrs. McDonald
a basket of apples, and James promptly
stole them and sold them for a cent apiece.
The grandmother was foolish enough to ob
ject, and he got a butcher knife and said if
she didn't shut her mouth he would cut her
throat from ear to ear. Then he repented,
and thought a more humane method would
be to pour oil on the floor and burn down
the honse. He promptly put the idea Into
execution, and had it not been for thi
timely arrival of Mrs. Doyle the old lady
would have been cremated alive.
His mother has become so terror strioken
that she does not know what to do with him.
Once she applied to Mayor Wyman, but
after he had a short experience with the
boy, he gave it up. Agent O'Brien, of the
Humane Society, has promised to take cart
of him, and he will be sent to the Reform
School if it is possible to get him in there.
His latest good quality that has come to
the surface has been displayed during the
last few days by his pouring cold water on
his grandmother while in bed whenever she
aneered him.
BB&ZTX EXPECTS BEV0LTJTI05,
The Troops Kept at the Barracks In Readi
ness for Bloody Work.
Rio de Janeiro, March 3L All troops
here and at Pernambuco are kept confined
to their barracks. The police have been
ordered to be on the watch to suppress ex
pected disturbances. A revolt is feared,
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