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m THIutlinj 91 Jntdiigeiimr. HE!) AUGUST 24, 1852. WHEELING, W. YA., THU11SDAY M0KN1NG, JULY 12, 1888. VOLUME XXXYI-NUMBER 281. A1W WATERS! FH(TI!i:il .U'COOTS OF the I.KKAT FLOORS. l'csli'nliii?s iteporLs of the Losses in I In- Interior Not Exaggerated, Hut (In' Damage M ill Far Exceed First Estimates, While Ureal. Nulleriiig is liepurled .1 lining till! Losers Ill .III iXTllUin. Tin- Kill in' Damage Will Heath at (.east Two Millions. Tlir l.osscs in Harrison County f AIdiii1 Will Aggregate a .'Jjllioii of Dollars. limit Suffering Among the People ill' Dmlilridge County, tVlio Have Hail Their Homes and Possessions Swept Away hy the Waters. I'iUsbnrgli Iteports That the if.tlmnf (Iviov The Exciting Times Witnessed in the Vicinity of the i:\-Smoky City. >yriii/ lUipilch to the IntcUigrncer. Faikmost, W. Va., July 11.?It is still impossible to arrive at a reliable estimate of the amount of damage done by the late llooils. The immediate effects are not visible here, of course, the main portion of the town and of the neighboring town of Palatine being far above high water mark, but, its stated yesterday, the disaster falls largely upon those least able to bear the loss. Many I have lost their homes and every article of household property they owned. These are Mattered along the rivers, the houses beini! located on low lands above the ordinary stage of water, even in a freshet, hut not nltove the danger line in an extraordinary rise. The town of lUvosville was IsrilIKI.Y INUNDATED, and every family loses more or less from damage to furniture. In addition to the items of lu.-s given in my dispatch of yesterday, the Fairmont, Morgantown Pittsburgh tail road may be mention d as incurring great damage. But one train has passed between this place and Morgantown since Monday. The second train that attempted to go over the line Tuesday got to a point within two miles of Morgantown, when the tires were put out by the overflow.. The plucky engineer and fireman rebuilt the lire, reversed the engine and made a dash for high ground. The passage through the water again extinguished the fire, but the train had readied the desired place of safety and eventually returned to Fairmont. There has been no exchange of mails with Morgantown nor points this side since Monday, and it is stated to-night that the track is not likely to be in condition for the trains inside of a week's time. I la many places the tills are almost COMPLETELY WASHED OCT. A teni|K)rary ferry has been established at the site of the Iiunsaker bridge, uIkivo this place, for the accommodation of the traveling public. No mails have I wn received overland from Clarksburg and intermediate points since! the storm. The reports from all points noted yesterday eonlirtn the tirst estimate, except as to the Worthington bridge and tlouriug mill, Both were saved, although the damage to other property in the town is very great. 11. l>. Fleming's mill, four utiles from town, on the Fairmont & Clarksburg pike, was among those destroyed. No loss of life is reported from any section. The County Court will hold a special sesssion next Monday and will doubtless then take steps toward meeting the emergency eases in the matter of supplying bridges. As an incident of the tlood day it may be stated that the old railroad bridge that spans the Monongahela, on? mile altove this place, was struck by a collectiou of heavy drift ami was moved several inches from its bed, besides having a large section of the side crushC(i. Thin liri.It...Ii-io iua.1 tlio new one was built, it having been previously condemned. TUB lMl'uiK AT WKAiTOX." 1 tr?l Ur|Mtr( Not lltiigKorutetl?Many Clll* "? Driven Front Their Home*. V m ii Dujmteh / > the tntdligencer, Uu.xnox, W. Va., July 11. ?The lion y iI(m><1 which reached its highest jHiiut here at a lew minutes past nine o'clock yesterday morning, has steadily weeded until to-night there is not ?v<t ei?l?t feet in the channel ol Hi;; river, old citizens say the rise was {'illy 7 to io above anything ovci Wa ?wu in this section before. A sunt* luarv <<( the losses is about OS telegraphed last night. The boom which originally ">t about $40,IKK), is a total wrecK, am' tt ii doubtful if it will ever be rebuilt. So less than '.*0,000logs passed througl the breakup. About '2,000 logs lodeet Mm < u here and Fairmont. In addi ti"? to the loss of the boom and othei IuiuIkt interests here, aggregating $100, . mere are a largo number 01 ainallci !'*7" The Fetterman bridge, ereetei in Kk\ M ill cost about $<1,000 to rebuild ''? understood the Commissioners o < ?'iinty will take utciw at once to re l?!aiv it, 1 M'lrv'an a Majjill lose about $600 ii I >u'ri"| and on tlieir planing mill, an< mir V.,fran.a ,ik?' ?*">? owner of tlx Tv,;' W intend to rebuild atonci nuty-Uirvo families in West Graftoi hon to move out of the! i'i , -11,1.;* '? ?'lock yesturdav morning mry Miller and, Michael Moron oacl had a fine piano ruined, besides othf damage. Frank Thayer, \\\ T. Li 11; Prof. Auger, Mrs. Britt and man others suffered considerable damage. I South Grafton W. H. Dent had a fin library almost ruined, beside* ou houses that were washed away and dwelling house overturned. Williai Brown, Henry Swindler, James Allen derand many others suffered largel from the overflow. The Grafton & Greenbrier road los three bridges between here and Phillipi and one or two bridges above Phillipi. Manager Hall arrived from Phillif this evening, having walked a large par of the distance, which is twenty-fiv miles, over his road. Steps will bo a once Liken to place the road again ii running order, although the loss wil reach several thousand dollars and wil prove a heavy strain on its workinj capital. Nearly all the bridges over Sand; creek, a tributary of the Tygarts Valley have been washed away, entailing con siderable loss to that portion of Prestoi and Barbour counties through whicl the stream passes. Numerous losses oe eurred along the Tygarts Valley abovi here, no accurate account of which ha yet been obtained. TERKUILE LOSS IN UODDiUDtiE. 1 1, ... II I la Htrucilun t<? Crojia. Special DUpalch to the Intelligencer. West Union, W. Va., July 11.?Tin Hoods of yesterday far exceeded anythinj of the kind known to our oldest citizens the nearest being that of '52, which fel short of the present one about twenty or thirty inches. The loss to tho peopli of this county in the way of grain, fenc ing, grass and general products has beei very heavy and when you add to thii | ties, lumber, staves and merchandise l together with house-hold goods, bridgei | Ac., the sum would aggregate $o0,000 01 $7">,000. At Blaudville, Wm. Trainer'i store was swept away, carrying with i the postoflice, also lless's blacksmitl shop, the loss in these alone being $2,f>00 Near Smithton Mrs. Clark and chili were rescued from their retreat to th< attic by a boat. The husband, having gone to look after some stock, was uuabh to return. Many families are left homeless anc while hundreds are scrubbing and scour ing their homes, trying to make then; habitable. The furrowed checks of moth era still bear traces of the flood of teart shed over their desolate homes. The clouds have passed and some ray o: hope still brightens the future, flic farmers may vet be able to save theii wheat. The railroad is still blockaded here by the arch in the tunnel having fallen We are huugry for the Ixtki.ligencek, having had no"mail for two days. LVTI&TFlioM CliAHKSBUttG. Tin* liorni In llnrrUon Comity Will Ilenrl Oho Million Dollar*- Relieving the Suf ferine* Social Dispatch to the InlrlUgcnctr. Clarksiiuru, W; Vam July 11.?The greatest Hood that ever occurred in thu country is now a matter of history. Il surpasses in mngnitude and loss any thing of the kind known to the oldest inhabitant of the county. The water* have fallen very rapidly since yesterday, being now only a few feet above low water mark. Telegraphic community tion is entirely cut oil* from the back counties. Tho Clarksburg, Weston A Gleuville railroad, narrow guage, run ning from here to Weston ami Bucklinnnnn id SO liilill V i llimill'i'd fcllJlt il will he fully a month before the roat will be in running operation. KVKHY 11RIDQE IN THE COUNTY is gone, and it will take fully $100,000 tc replace them. The loss to the count) will reach fully $1,000,000. The largesl losers in the town are K. T. Lowndes lumber, $(>0,000; B. X. & N. A. Shuttle worth, $3,000; E. \V. Williams ?!t Co. brick, $1,500; C. M. & J. B. Hart, ma: chinery, $1,-00; J. N. Steel, saw-mill $1,000; J. F. Osborne Sons, $300 Electric Light Company, $500; F. A Lang, marble, $-1,000. About 300 j>oo! people have LOST ALL THEY ASSESSED. I At a meeting of the citizens to-day Mr John .T. Davis wits chosen chairman George Bastablu secretary. A relic committee consisting of 0. J. CiolF, C. S Spates and all the ministers was appoint ed. Five hundred dollars was raised hj contribution in the meeting, and af citizens are contributing generously Clarksburg is fully able to take careol her sullering ones", and the impressioi is that outside assistance win not nav< to be sought. A hack has just arrived from Weston containing six passengers. They sa; that the loss will not he so heavy it Lewis county as wus at first anticipated S. Uinkle&Co., lumber merchants, wil lose $5,000. liuhl Koblegard & Co, wholesale grocers, will lose $2,000, Iwjtl of these of Weston. Clarksburg is en tircly in the durk, not having either ga or electric light. No muils nor no pat seuger trains have arrived since Monda morning. THE VILLAGE OF WORTHINliTON Huntnlnn (irent Lo??oi??Aid Needed forth Sufttirert. Sixrhil DUixileh to the InUUigntcer. WORTHINOTOX, W. VA., July 11.?Til West Fork river reached a point yestei day twenty inches higher than the gren tlood of 1S52. The destruction iu tlii little village is immense. The principi losses iu the town are as follows: C. 1 Cochran, grain and Hour, $1,500; G'ocl ran Kros., lumber, $300; Cyrus Fetricl store-house and stock, $2,1)00; Itlchar Parish, stock of goods and buildinf $1,000; C. E. Purisli, shop and tooli $200; W. II. Koon, stock of goodi 51,000; W. 1. Nutter, dwelling an household goods, $500; Nancy Martit dunnage to dwelling, Ac., $500; Mary Bruno, dwelling, $200; E. F. Sharj damage to dwelling, $200; L. II. Kobe; dwelling, $250; E. Hrumage, jr., dauiag to goods, $350; N. Cochran, damage t ; dwelling, $200; II. & C. Cochran, dan ' age to mill, $500; \\\ II. Manley, mil . $2,000; Minor Hollx>rt, stable, $20( Worthington wagon works, daraag j $200; Sophrona N. Bruno, damage t , furniture, $200. Other losses will swe I the amount to $15,000 or $20,000. T1 bridge across" the West Fork river badly wrecked. A correct statement all the losses cannot be given until tl debris is cleared away. " Aid will probably be needed, as a gre, many persons lost all tliey had. r The Lom In Wood County. 1 Special DUpateh to the Intelligencer. Parksmbukq, W. Va., July 11.?R ; jHjrto of losses frpm the storm are at coming in from tho county. The who 1 and hay crops are al>out ruined, ar I nearly all of the county bridge# are gon 0 The loss in this county is certainly mo . than $100,000. ii No lives were lost and iiuIkhIv r homeless. Wheat is still coming uov j. tho Little Kanawha river. That riv li is out of lock and the C. C. Martin is ?r its headwaters somewhere, but has not f, been heard from for two days, y No Baltimore it Ohio trains con get n through to Grafton for a day or two. e Eastern mails came in to-day over the t- Ohio River road. n TllK MTTSIIimiU END. l* Lomcm Incalculable? scune* that itegiar Dmcrlptlon. |t Pittsbuboii, Pa.,- July 11.?The \t freshet in the Monongahela river is almost unprecedented and great damage > has been done to river craft and proB perty along the river from the headt waters to this city. The suddenness of i the rise took the river men entirely un1 awards and they were not prepared 1 when the great volume of water burst g upon them. Millions of feet of lumber, I scores of coal craft, fences, outhouses y and coal tipples have been floating down , the swift current for the last eighteen - hours. The river at this point is still i rising with 21 feet 9 inches on the marks i at9 o'clock, but it is reported as sta tionury with 45 feet at Greensboro, a i' hundred iniles above here. * At every \xnnt between Greensboro and Pittsburgh the lowlands are under water and the residents have been compelled to live in the upper stories of their houses and in some cases to seek the hills for safety. Many ba?l time to remove their goo?ls as the water rose at the rate of a foot an hour and at GreensL' boro 32 feet of a rise was recorded in less < than twenty-four hours. The damage i, to property cannot be estimated at presI ent, but it will reach a way up into the thousands. A solitary barge which broke away - yesterday caused over $5{0U0 damage - iind this is but one little item. .So far x but one life has been reported lost, that of a man named George Getter who was * struck by a parted cable and instantly ? killed. The scene along the river front i this morning was one of r GREAT EXCITEMENT. i The banks were lined with people t watching the debris as it was swept i down the swift current. The river and . coal men were on the alert fearing that 1 their craft would be torn from its moorings. As fast as one cable would snap ! in twain it wojild be replaced by an? other. Occasionally a floating boat barge ? or tipple would strike one of the piers of the Smithlield street bridge with a loud grating sound and sink from view. 1 Again the helpless craft would pass the ? bridges in safety and continue on its journey to Cincinnati. , The greatest damage to river craft occurred between 1:30 o'clock this morn, ing and daylight. Shortly before '* , o'clock a large number of barges belong\ ing to Jenkins Co. came down the , river from the second pool and struck 1 the Smithlield bridge, the huge barges k turning end over end, breasting the tow boat Barnard in against the steamer Jacobs. Every whistle on the river ' sounded the alarm, and as the livid rays OX IIIU UlUCiriU uguus OIVCJII. iimi] Hide to side across the turbulent Hood it presented A WILD SIGHT. Logs, barges and fuel boats were dashed against the piers of the bridge and ! snapped like twigs by the over-whclmi ing force of the current. Half of one t of Jenkins boats lodged against the bot. torn just below the Monongahela bridge and the water dashed over it, throwing * spray high into the air, while the drift$ wood crushed and crackled over the , wreck, with the grinding noise which . adds to the horrors of a llood. About llfteen minutes after the broken barges " came down, a number of pieces of wreek: age lloated past, in the middle of which ; a shanty boat was swept along with a light on board. The rivermen shouted and the whistles screamed to pit an answer from any persons who might be on , board, but no reply came, and if the I owners were on board itnd asleep, as some of the rivermen thought, they were swept down to 1NKVITA1ILK DESTRUCTION. ' Later, the steamer George Wood broke her moorings above the tenth street L bridge and came dritting down the river, | ' but was finally caught and towed 10 usaie " harbor. The ropes which held the half , sunken Cincinnati wlmrfboat, which th? ; owners had been struggling for twelve hours to save, parted about this time, [ and the luuibersome craft was quickly 5 swept away. A few minutes later a lot . of 0'Neil's barges and twenty-six pieces r belonging to Joseph \Valton*& Co. were cut from their moorings and carried down stream. 'Tolishtown," located along the bank of the Monongahcla . river, between the foot of South Twenty-second and South Twenty-fourth i streets, was a sorry plight. There are nearly seventy-live shanty boats at that point, occupied by over 150 families, ' aggregating a population of more than ' 500 people. All of these, with the ex' ception of about a dozen families, camped out last night. Early yesterday ' morning J THE TKOl'HLB II EG A.V. All day, men, women and children were , busy pumping water out of the boats iUlU iUUJU?(llg kUWK ^wuuu >v r>?vv? 1 safety. By night ton boat houses had j been sunk" or capsized and several carried down the river. The families wl|0 ' moved out piled their goods up along the l>ake Erie railroad and then the ^ men did the best they could to secure h the shanties, while the women watched their possessions by the light of wood tires. Little children crawled under tiicces of furniture and slept on, in ilissful ignorance of the flood anil its incumbent cares. On both sides of the river from the point bridgo' to far above the Tenth street bridge, scenes of the liveliest e description occurred. Many incidents i*. are ludicrous and laughable, and some , serious enough to those who were com- j pelled to be the actors in them, but for8 tunately none ended in a catastrophe.1 il From the Smithticld street bridgo to a ?, considerable distance above the Baltimore Ohio depot were a number of boat houses occupied by families. The sudden rise of the water found these ? occupants J' TOTALLY UNPREPARED, H anil a goodly number of these nuipnioiii ous dwellers were forced to make a V hasty retreat to dry land. The out houses that had their foundation on the * wator or in the mud rode the freshet in ' safety ami kept the feet and possessions e of its occupants dry, but those which ? had been propped high above the slug}" gish low water had every seam and .; crack opened by the sun, and when the ' swiftly flowing waters reached them it rushed in like water through a seive and jj caused tho occupants to ie KI.KK FOR Til BIB LIVES. is They tumbled out beds, tables, chairs, L)* children and babies in the utmost ie confusion. ttt The wharf looks like a tenement row on a general moving day. As the water encroached upon the banks the household utensils were moved farther up towards Water street, and since the rise ?* was so very rapid a number of removes ill had to be made in a short time. Within at a distance of one hundred yards there . were no less than thirteen little lota of moving, and by each of them sat a ' woman and a few children. Williamsburg, Beck's Run, portions j- of McKeesport, California, Monongahela rn City, Belle Vernon,Brownsville, Jayette ,er City and other towns along the river are in [Continued on Fourth Puye.] PMZAli POLITICS And Personalities Give the Tariff Debate a Lively Turn. WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS Telln Plniii Truths, I'litlcr Which the Democratic Minority Sijiiirm. Irrelevant Matters Brought in aa uti Oflfcct. Washington, D. C., July 11?A conference was ordered on the land forfeiture hill, and Mr. Holman, of Indiana, Mr. Stone, of Missouri, and Mr. Payson, of Illinois, were appointed conferees. I Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, submitted a report of disagreement on the agricultural appropriation bill, stating that the point of disagreement was the Senate ... ? amendment making on appropriation 01 $100,000 for sorghum sugar experiments. Mr. Kyan moved a concurrence in the Senate amendment and after debate his motion was agreed to, yeas 120, nays 1MJ. This completes the consideration of the bill and it stands as finally passed. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the tariff bill. The pending amendment was that offered by Mr. l'helps, of New Jersey, fixing at forty per cent ad valorem the duty on llux" or linen thread, and all manufactures of flax, lie did not, be said, expect that anything he could say would chango the vote upon his amendment. He recognized the fact that he was speaking to a court which hail ulri'iulv made ' ita decision. The committee had refused to hit any laborer or any manufacturer tell them about the facts; they bad refused to let any representative of the people make arguments, and then the majority members had gone into the dark and prepared a bill. Mr. Wilson, of Minnesota?Do I understand you to say that this side of the House imposed either an oath or a promise on the Democratic members that every one of them would favor the Mills bill as it stood? Mr. Phelps?I eannot say how binding a caucus resolution may be on the consciences of the Democratic gentlemen who attended, but I am here to say (and I defy any gentleman to contradict it) that a resolution was introduced and a resolution (as I am iuformed and believe) was unanimously passed that no amendment oiTered in the House should receive the support of Democratic votes, unless it was an amendment first passed upon and approved by the Democratic caucus. Am 1 right? "Does the gentleman denv that a resolution was intro duced in the caucus and unanimously agrded to? .Mr. Wilson?That is simply untrue, I stand on my personal honor to say that it is not true. TltUE, NEVERTHELESS. Mr. Phelps?I am glad to hear that a report telegraphed by the Associated Press to every portion of these l.'nited States (which has never before been contradicted) is contradicted to-day by the gentleman; and, however hard it may be to believe it, I accept the contradiction, though I am tilled with wonder and amazement that a result which existed only in the imagination of a reporter has been obeyed by members who 1 never heard of it. [Laughter.] Mr. Weaver, of Iowa, expressed his surprise to find the gentleman from New Jersey advocating an increase on thread and exclaiming in the next breath that he was a friend of the workingman. He sent to the clerk's desk and had read nortions of the interview with Mr. Phelps published soon alter the Chicago convention in which Mr. Phelps states that it was not politic to select a granger candidate?alluding to Senator Allison. Mr. Weaver commented on the interview and said that the farmers of Iowa had been spurned in the convention and they would notfin November ratify their own humiliation. MISCOKSTRUBINO INTERVIEWS. Tho New York candidate had also said, in an interview, that Allison had not been endorsed because he was from a State whose legislation was unfriendly to railroads. Mr. Weaver said that Senator Allison had been punished in Chicago because he lived in a granger State, which passed laws unfriendly to railroads. It was the unkindest cut of all, for the gentleman who had been a candidate for both President and Vice-President ["Only Vice-President," interpolated Mr. Phelps] to say before the American people that he and those with whom he associated?the railroads of the country?had punished Mr. Allison because ho happened to live in Iowa, lie did not know what his colleague, Mr. Henderson, would think of this kind of treatment of his distinguished candidate. lie would like to hear whether Mr. Henderson endorsed what the gentleman from New Jersey had given as the reason for the rejection of the distinguished Senator. Mr. Henderson said he thought he knew the reason for the defeat, not only of Senator Allison but of that equally distinguished uud noble gentleman and soldier, Judge Grcsham, and while he was not here to entertain his colleagues with the incidents of the Republican Convention, he was here to say that he did not believe (and to him it was absolute knowledge) that the attitude of Iowa in respect to railroad legislation had not lost Senator Allison a single vote in the convention. iowa "all right." Iowa, as in the past, would this fall, in spite of rantings and misrepresentations, plant herself in the front rank of Republican States lor Harrison and Morton. [Applause.] Mr. Henderson said he would also give the House a little literature. He then sent to the clerk's desk and had read numerous extracts iroin speecues delivered by Mr. Weaver from 1864) to 1872, in which he bitterly assailed with forcible language the Democratic party as a party full of stench and poison, which should bo blotted from the face of the vocabulary of a civilized land and handed over to the barbarism which it so fitly represented. Mr. Weaver said that the speeches which had been read had been uttered by him in times past, when the situation was entirely diflerent from what it was now. [laughter on the Kepublican side.] He had nothing to take back in regard to his course on the issues then presented. He had followed the standard of the Kepublican party until he was forced to abandon it by reason of its vicious financial policy. He had then turned to the despised Democratic party, and had found that it was opposed to the demonitization of silver and that a Democratic House had remonit -1 II- lia.l n?mA IZtHl II. lie UWI wruiuvmiii party in favor of punishing the Star Route thieves and ol returning to the old Jeffereonian and Jacksonian pathway*. and his heart was with them. He was amemberof the Union Labor party, and it was his duty to affiliate himself with the Democratic party because he 1 beliovod it was nearest tho people he represented. I TIMK TO STOP. Mr. O'Seil, of Missouri, here interrupted to ask for information?if it was possible to have any intelligent, commo sense business done here. It was "tirn to end this slop and rot." Mr. Phelps' Amendments were r* jected. An amendment wan adupted changin the rate of duty on bags and baggin, from fifteen per cent ad valorem to three eighths of a cent oer pound. Othe amendments were offered and rejected The third section of the bill, that re lating to wools and woolen manufac tures, being reached, Mr. Mills proposec that the entire sixty-one lines of the sec tion be read and considered as out paragraph as in the case of the suga: paragraphs, amendments to be in orde: at any place. Mr. Mills tried to reach an agreemen ns to the time to be allowed for debat* on this section, proposing two days, bu1 Mr. Reed objected to tixing any tiuu before the debate had been fairly started THE WOOL SECTION. The entire section was without ob jection, however. Mr. Buchannon, of New Jersey, offer ed an amendment trebling the duties on imj)orte<l made convict goods?which was defeated. The committee then rose and the House took a recess till 8 p. in., the evening session for consideration of the census oill. la the Seuate. The conference rei>ort on the Postoflice Appropriation bill was presented. The item for postoflice clerks for unusual business is fixed at $25,000, in stead oi 5?U,UUU. Tiie item us 10 rent, light and fuel in third-class postoHiccs is retained, with a provision that no controet for rent for such postollices shall be for more than a year. The item an to postage on seeds i* fixed no as to make the postage one cent for every two ounces. On the amendment known aa the subsidy clause, the conference committee haa been unable to agree. After an explanation by Mr. Plumb, the ret>ort waa agreed to, and Mr. Plumb moved that the Senate insist on the subsidy amendment and ask for a further conference. After a long debate, embracing the subjects of subsidies, the tariffthe abort romintra of l>oth the lending parties, the motion to insist on the amendment was agreed to, yeas 28; navs 10. The Senate then jnroceeded to the consideration of the Senate bill to provide for fortifications and other sea coast defences, but without action on the bill the Senate adjourned. ALL BIGHT.'.MK. WILSON, You Are Our Blent?Our Own Free Trader to Spunk for Free Wool. Sprrlal Dispatch In the Intelligencer. Washington*, D. C., July 11.?Congressman Wilson has been selected by Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee to lead the debate resisting the assault on the free wool clause of the Mills bill. The clause will bo reached to-morrow and a motion will be made to strike it out. A long debate mav follow. The Democratic policy will be to give full swing to tho Republicans and such Democratic gentlemen as have the nerve to open out against free wool, and only make a ecneral reply through Mr. Wilson. This tame programme, however, will hardly hold out, as there promises to be a great cry over the wool clause, which will make the members pugnacious. Went Virginia SLilleri) at Washington. SpcrUil Dltpateh to the Intelligencer. Washington, July 11.?Senator Faulkner showed up at tho capital to-day somewhat improved. He had a serious turn of sickness. Mr. Wilson is now certain of a renomination. A letter received this morning says that Hardy will instruct for him next Tuesday. Pendleton, Grant and Ilampshire have already instructed for him. He will have the solid vote east of the mountains, and, in addition, enough strength west to insure success with a big margin. Joseph P. Foutly was to-day appointed postmaster" at Slate. A new ofllee was established at Neel, Marion county, three miles north of Bernard, with George W. I*ake as postmaster. l'atent t? a Went Virginian. Special Di*patch tn the Intrlllijencer. Washington, D. C., July 11.?Hiram C \T..\t;ll,.,, nf Ann-lmlf In P M. Harper, Falling Springs, was granted a patent yesterday for an improved com planter. Mary Jane Davis was yesterday appointed temporary postmistress at Shinnston, Harrison county. MR. KANDALLS ILLNESS. Grunt Concern Among III* Collenffucn. Improvement Noted. Washington, D. C., July 11.?Many of his colleagues in the Ilouse made Hying trips over to Mr. Randall's home, which is only a few blocks distant from the capital, to inquire into his condition, while pages were sent to and fro by other members who could not go personally to the house. When the occasion seemed to require it, Mrs. Lancaster, the eldest daughter of Mr. liandall, came to the doorway and gave the necessary information to the callers. She appeared to be more cheerful than yesterday, and showed a confident belief that her father would recover from the attack, lie has rested quietly during the morning and has taken and apparently assimilates liquid nourishment. NATIONAL l'KOHIMTION. Constitutional Amendment. Washington*, D. C.f July 11.?The proposition to submit to tho people ol the several States n constitutional amendmend to prohibit the,liquor triffic in the United States was favorably reported bj Senator Blair yesterday from the Committee on Education. The report accompanying the bill said: "There are members of the committee who concur in the report recommending! the submission of the proposed amendment to tho States who do not by sucli action indicate their approval of the adoption of the amendment as a part ol the Constitution, nor that they woulc themselves advocate its ratification by the Legislatures of the States." After statiug that a majority of tlx committee think a refusal to submit tin proposed amendment to the States foi ratification would be analogous to the denial of the right of a party to be bean: I in court upon a question of private righ the report continues: "The agitation for National legislator for the extirpation of the traffic it | alcoholic poison made and sold to lx used oh a beverage win uevur whdc w disturb and finally to destroy the grea political parties until thev submit to th< States the question of the enlargemen of National constitutional jurisdiction ? as to include control of the subject When decided, if adversely to the rati lication, the subject will be eliminate' from National politics. at least for man; years. If. on the other hand, the pro posed amendment should be ratified am l>eeome a part of the National law, th chief curse of the world would be sum moned to the block of National justic and die on the hand of the only powe which can wield an ax big and shar; enough to cut off its hydra head. Thei we shall have peace. But agitation to the destruction of the liquor traffic cat not cease until the evils which it inflict upon mankind are removed or the lit man race, is destroyed. It is useless t cry peace, peace, when there is n peace," -IlKPOBTANT CONFEH B Of Republican Loaders in N York City Yesterday. : THE NATIONAL COMMITT 1 Srlect Milliard-*, and dm ('ampul i Ik'lnj; Mapped Oa?-A Lnr^c Keji r rcHcntatloii of,All llraneliea r of the Organization. t ' New York, July 11.?The most i 5 portant Republican campaign conl [ ence of the year met iu this eity toil; nt the Fifth Avenue Hotel. This wn . joint meeting of tho National Comu lee, toe executive uomiuiiiee 01 \ National League of Republican Cli \ and the president* of the various SU leagues, the latter representing o\ > 3,000 clubs and 50,000 voters. ! The object of the joint conference ! to lay out a complete plan of work to done, and when this is accomplish shoulders will be put to the wheel wi a will. The joint conference was preceded _ seperate meeting of each of the bodi named. The most important of thei of course, was that of tne Nation l fr?r rtpiriiliivntimi Tliiu U' called for noon, and during the rnor ing speculation in the corridors of t hotel wis busy as to the outlook ( ofliccmof the coiuinittee. Reliable nei was diflieult to secure; but at 11 o'clo< an apparently authentic report reach) the outside that Hon. Matt. Quay, Pennsylvania, was slated for two 1j places?Chairman of the National Coi mittcc and Chairman of the Executi Committee us well. In the latt position he would, of course, be tl commander-in-chief of the campaign, was also said that J. .S. Clarkson, Iowa, who was much talked of for Chai man of the National Committee, hi withdrawn his name. At the same hour it was reported th Hon. Samuel l'essenden, of Connectici would be unanimously re-elected Sect tary of the National Committee, in ord to secure the Nutmeg State, if possibl for Harrison and Morton, George \ Hooker, of Vermont, wanted the plat but us the Green Mountain Suite is su in any event to give a good Republic* majority, the committee decided to li his name aside. Among the prominent politicians the corridors during the morning we Captain John C. Dougherty, of Ten in see, who was Secretary of the Xotilic tion Committee. Speaking of the Sta he said the Republican ticket met wi great favor, ami many progressive Dei ocrats would quietly vote for Harrist and Morton, being" tired of Clevelai and irrcativ dissatisfied with the St. lx)ii platform." The prospects for carryii the State, lie said, arc excellent, as it rapidly becoming a manufacturing se tion ami therefore must light shy of fr trade principles. The Republican. National Committ to-night elected M.S. Quay, of l'ennsi vania. Chairman, and J. S. Fassett," New York, Secretary. TIIK KirUltMCAN OUTLOOK. Every Indication or n Victory for llurri* and Morton. New York, July 11.?Democrats wl count ou a Republican disaffection < the Pacific coast by reason of actii taken on the Chinese question by Ge eral Benjamin Harrison are nursing delusion. This is the emphatic declai tion uiado by men in this cjfcy who ha spent their lives in California, Nevai and neighboring States, and who ha their information from the very be sources. These men say there is not word heard in California about Gener Harrison's "Chinese record," whit gives so much concern to Eastern Dem cralic stump orators. It seemsappare: fr??m llio nviilnnco nf ritizonH n*lm liiii just come from the Northwest and tl far West that the Republican ticket w make large gains iu these sections ; November. Judge Morris M. Estee, California, when met yesterday at tl Murray Hill Hotel, said: "California will unquestionably j Republican this fall by at least 10,0 majority. The Chinese issue is not i element in the canvass. Harrison record is all right and is entirely sati factory to Californians. He vot* against a law which was at the time violation of treaty stipulations, and doing so his course was upright ai honorable. His vote was cast lit fav of the present system of restriction law Harrison is entirely satisfactory to t and he will have the electoral "vote our State/' C. C. Powning, of Nevada, sai "Nevada will give a larger percenta of Republican votes in proportion to i population than any otner .State in tl Union. I could say a great deal mo about Nevada, but I think this inui should Buflice to reassure the minds our friends in the East." R. S. Norval, of Nebraska, rave e presaion to these views: "The Itepub , can party is growing with steady strid in the Northwest. The people of th Bt'cuun win nuvu iiuiiuug iu uu hi free trade, or any doctrine that tends that direction. Four years ago the II Eublicans carried Nebraska by 28,0( ut this year, you may safely bet, \ ! will have 40,000 majority. The elccti? f in Oregon a few weeks ago gives an id . of bow the tide is running in the Nort , west. In the South we are doing wi1 I too. We have an excellent fighti: . chance this year in Virginia, West V f;inia, North Carolina and Tennessee, ooks all around like a decided Harris* , and Morton Victory." The condition of things in Genei ! Harrison's State was thus dissected I t James M. Huston, of Indiana: "Hr , ing carried the State in 1880 under u I favorable circumstances in an off yi I we have a right to feel confident of si . cess this year. Yet we do not mean rest on our oars, but make us vigoroui , fight as if we were in a desperate batt > Nothing will be left undone, and r mistakes will be made. The party , perfectly united in the State, and Gi j Harrison is a man of wonderful poj I larity, so we luive a right to be si guine." { Colonel John C. Dougherty, of T< , nessee, is hopeful of a liepublican v , tory in his State. He said: "We 1 ] gard the ticket as very strong in Tenn I see, and it is growing in strength eve j day. A great many Democrats are <! I satisfied with Cleveland's ideas on 1 5 tariff, and this is especially so with 1 vnnnn tm?n. vho do tlinir own thinki and uro not bound by party chai Tennessee is rated as a Democratic Stc but I think we can change its compli ion this fall. Four years ago Clevela carried the State by only U.000, and t ? is not a very heavy majority to < L .1 T .1.. ?,. ?)..>? J. uunu. x UU "WW jiiciihu JUU liiut e shall carry the State, hut we have ' r liveliest kind of a lighting chance." P * * n A Cotton liaising Combine. r New York, July 11.?The Timet tta i- The manufacturers and dealers in < & ton bagging have formed a combinat l- for the purpose of controlling the u o ket and putting up the prices. Althoi o the association is not exactly in nature of a trust, it will in all pre nn bility have the same effect that the su lilt E?r "wtaWio ',as anions the refiners UAJ There lire ill the United States abou thirteen large establishments where fh< hanging is made for supplying the plant ew ere and packers with covering for the baled cotton. At the otlices of the Xeu Euglaml and the Brooklyn manufacto ries in this city it was stated that the pp manufacturers and dealers were refusing LL to sell any large amounts of bagging un? til they can regulate the process to suil ijr,, themselves. >- STEUBEN VILLK MAX DKOW.VED While at work on n 1 large?lie ward Offered for the ltody. Special Difjtatch to the Intelligencer. Steuiiknvillb, O., July 11.?John im" Jones, whose home is in this city, was cr" drowned at Black llorae landing this ll^' morning while working on a barge of s.a the Sewer Pipe works. He was dressed in a gingham shirt, striped pants and ie heavy working shoes, and was about lbs tu-nntv-LML'ht vifiirs of aire: had a heart ate picket! on his nrm with his initials in* er side. Twenty-five dollars reward will be paid for the recovery of the body. is Member* of the McCoy Guns Arreted. Jjy Sprrinl Dltpalch to thr lntiUlQrnctT. e,l Charleston, W. Va., July 11.?John tj, Norman and John D. Dotson, participants in the Hattield-McCoy trouble, |)V have been arrested in Pike county and yy lodged in the Logan county jail. One w hundred dollars reward for each was luj offered by Governor Wilson. "* a cmcAtiu mystkuv. ',e Cot pur of n Mini DrenaeU h? Wouien'n ur Clothe* ami it Weight on the l'eet. fhitrAnn. Jnlv 11.?Floating unon the .,1 surface of Lake Michigan, two miles of from short*, was a human body dressed in female clothing and with a fortyVj pound stone tied to its feet. The corpse er was discovered yesterday afternoon, and ,u was towed in by the life-saving crew jt and sent to the morgue. There is no 0f clew to the mystery. It may be a case ;r. of murder, but police opinion favors the U1 theory of suicide. The object in the water was first seen al by the tug Prindiville, while bringing ,t in a tow Sunday afternoon. The cap.eI tain of the tug notified the life-saving er station, and at 4 o'clock Capt. St. Peter. |e with one of his men, manned a boat and started to recover it. The body was >e" found at least two miles out, in a direct ry easterly line from the mouth of the U1 river. The head and shoulders of the ny ghastly thing were standing out of the water, the weight on the feet keeping it jn in an upright position, the head rechnrL. ing limp upon the breast. A noose was ,g. adjusted under the arms, and it was ia. towed in shore. The Central patrolte wagon was called and conveyed the body to the morgue. ,j. The body was clad entirely in female )n attire, underclothes, dress, and gaiter ltj shoes. The hair was short, but the face jg smooth arid complexion light. That it ,,, was the body of a man was notsus? nected until an examination was made. c. lie was evidently forty or forty-five ue years old, and was of large build. No marks of violence were found. There et. was nothing on the body by which it 1. could be identified. 0( "I threw the stone overboard," said Capt. St. Peter. "It weighed al>out forty pounds, and was tied to both feet with a three-quarter inch rope. The hands were free." un Lieut. Horace Elliott, of the Central Station, was asked what he thought of ho the case. "It was probably suicide," he jn replied. "A few years ago a similar jn case occurred. A man tied two stones, each weighing about thirty pounds, one n" to each foot, and jumped oti' the break; a water at the foot of Oak street. A body a- of generous size can easily raise 100 vo pounds weigui unu cuuiu 10 wiu wuriucc . of the water. This body had been in a the water about two weeks. The publi* vo cation of the story may bring us some st clew to work upon." n" A LITTLE UMlV EXPERIENCE. Lost In nStrnnceCity, She WalkH the StroetN All Night. re Chicago, III., July 11.?A pretty little it? girl but seven years of age walked the jH dark streets of this city all alone Saturday night. She went without dinner, lw breakfast or supper Sunday, walking all the time, and was finally picked up ?? that night about 8 o'clock by a private ^ watchman on Twenty-second street. \" The private watchman almost stumbled j 8 over her body in a stairway. Entirely , j exhausted, she had stopped to rest and had fallen asleep. She was taken to the J*~ police station and was there given food and a chance to rest. By dint of much questioning the matron finally got the . little girl's story of her strange trip. Her !" name is Annie Shay, ami she lives in "j Cincinnati with an aunt of the same name, who is housekeeper for Father O'Reilly, the pastor of a Catholic "r|; church in that city. The little girl says that she was well acjj~ ouainted with an older girl named J; Bertha. She can give no definite de. scription of this girl, but from what she f says the police judge this Bertha to be alnrnt 20 years old. Bertha came to her .Saturday morning and asked her if she did not want to take a little ride on the " cars. She was delighted, and got on the , care with Bertha. When they got olT ..j" they were in this city. They took supJ per and walked about a little while. . \ About dusk Bertha left her at the cor* v?" ner of Lake and Clark streets and told her to stand still until she returned. J* She said she would begone but a minute, j The little girl waited several hours, and V" then commenced her long walk. When j," picked up by the watchman she waa n ' completely exhausted. She is small for i her years, has a pretty face, bright eyes, j* and is not poorly dressed. m JICItllKHEl) IIKIt XIEl'L ral Au Indiana Woman ShootM Down nn by K>Rliteen-yenr*oI<l Girl. lv* Tekuk Haute, I.vd., July 11.?The sensational murder of Miss Hattie De,c. baun, aged IS, by her aunt, Mrs. Mary t0 Junkins, at Tecumseh, has created great , a excitement. The Debauns and the le# Junkins have not been friendly for sev00 eral years nnd lately Mrs. Junkins seviH eral times ordered her niece off the ,n premises. .Mommy evening .miss uebaun went to the Junkinii orchard with m. two other cirls to get some apples. Mrs. Junking ordered them away. and during in- a parley of words Mrs. Junkins' 14-yearjc. old l)oy ran out of the house with a ro. musket, which Mrs. Junkiiis took and ,?8_ fired at the girl, inflicting fatal wounds. ,rv Mrs. Junkins gave herself up and was j|?. placed in jail here. She is 33 years old. he j)c Sew IJrldge Opened. ng Portland, Oheoo.v, July 11.?The ns. Oregon Railway Navigation Cornet pany's new iron railroad bridge was formally thrown open to traflie yesteri day. Everything was found to work . most satisfactory. To-day the first east , l>ound train will cross the new bridge, ,1 J; and hereafter trains going east will leave tlie west side of the Wiluamette river. Kx-I'rlsonern uf War. Wasiiixoto.v, d. C., July 11.?w. II. "01 ^owo^? ^reH'^ent ?f ^ie National Assoion elation of Union Ex-Prisoners of War iar- has issued his circular announcing the jgh sixteenth annual convention of the asso thu ciation. to take place in Indianapolis or tbu-1 September 18 and 19 next : THE Liff AND THE LADY. > J High Authority Says the Ducal Wedding is Valid. ; MARLBOROUGH RESTS EASY And Says the Newspaper* Arc Badly Off?O'Brien IleleaM-d ? Tronble Between Frederick** Doctor*. Other Foreign Now*. London, July 11.?A correspondent called on the Duke of Marlborough, at the residence of his mother, in tirosvehor Square, and found him in excellent spirits. The Duke at once pointed to a cablegram from New York, to the effect that many lawyers there were of the opinion that his recent marriage with Mrs. Hammersley was illegal. "I know what you want to see mo about," be said, "but I am afraid that it is a subject upon which I cannot speak just at present. I have no doubt that the lawyers who have so kindly stepped forward and given their opinions in the matter, without any hope of . a fee, are very wise men, indeed, but (here the Dulce Mailed dryly) I nave learned something of law by experience, and am sure that the services performed by Mayor Hewitt, in the presence of the accredited representative of the British Consul General, is without Haw and above cavil." While this conversation was goinj; on in the library carriage after carriage rolled up to the dark house, which seemed to frown upon the rays of sunshine chasing each other across its sombre front. Lackeys, footmen, gentlemen and ushers were scrambling, shoving, elbowing each other to leave cards or call upon the new American Duchess. The crush grew thicker, ami as the correspondent bowed himself out the Duke hastened into the drawing room again to meet his old friends and introduce them to his new and hand, some wife. Later in the evening Mr. Georgo Lewis was interviewed in regard to the validity of the marriage, which New York lawyers have impugned. There is no doubt that Mr. Lewis is the greatest authority on English law, in its relation to divorce, of any livingman, so his decision in favor of the legality of the ceremony should be accepted as final and will bring great relief to Mrs. Ilammersly's friends. "The telegram is nonsense." Faid Mr. Lewis. "The marriage is perfectly valid. American law between whom parties over whom American courts have jurisdiction forbids remarriage of a guilty party during the lifetime of tho petitioner. This American law can in no way bind the Duke, who is an Englishman subject to the dominion of English courts. English law upon this subject is decisive. The 57th section of L'O and 21 Victoria, Chap. 85, enacts that when the time limited for appealing against any decree dissolving a marriage shall have expired and no appeal shall have been presented againBt such decree, it shall be lawful for the respective parties thereto to marry again as if the prior marriage had been dissolved by death. The Duke was consequently free to marry again, and inasmuch as the lady whom he married was a widow suffering from no disability by American law, the marriage is beyond doubt valid." It is rumored that the Marchioness of Blandford, who is at present at Hinard, in France, is coming to England in a few days and that on her arrival hero she will apply to the courts for a summon against her former husband for contempt of the decree of court by which it was expressly stipulated that the respondent was not to marry again. This rumor is probably based upon the popular belief that the Marchioness is a peculiarly revengeful, if not malicious woman. This popular opinion at the time of the divorce case greatly neutralized public sympathy, which otherwise would have been overwhelmingly with the injured wife. Fal?e IleporU About Frederick'* Malady* Bkrms, July 11.?Tho VoMitche ZciUimj declares that the reports printed yesterday of the German physicians who attended the late Emperor Frederick, were in many respects untrue. It says it is understood that independent medical authority will soon show, in a statement based on the record of the late Emperor's case, that the conclusions arrived at by the German physicians were incorrect. The Messrs. Decker, a publishing llrm, have commenced an action against the Xntional Xeituiuj for publishing alleged laise report# ot mo doctors vvjio auenueu Emperor Frederick. Thev claim heavy damages. The Dockers will issue official reports of the case to-morrow. From One Prisoner to Another. Duulin, July 11.?Mr. Patrick Joseph | O'Brien, member of Parliament for the North Division of Tipperary, was released from Tullamoro juil to-day, his sentence of three months' imprisonment imposed oil him for violation of the Crimes act, having expired. Ho was immediately taken in charge by ofllcers and conveyed to the Kikenny jail, where he will unkergo a further imprisonment of three months for an olTense of the same nature. ELKS .MAY LOCK HORN'S. Several Mumlng <Juentlom lirouglit t'p nt Their Convention. New Yokk, July 11.?The delegates constituting the Grand Lodge of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, who were in convention yesterday, sj)ent last evening at the various places of amusement. To-day's session was opened by Chairman Leech. During the day there will be an elaborate scheme presented by the Philadelphia lodge for the creation of a supreme grand lodge. Bv this i? meant that the smaller lodges shall elect delegates to a State convention, or grand lodge, wuicn Kiian in turn eiet-v uiu ueiegates to the supreme grand lodge. This is such a wide divergence from the present mode that it is likely to be defeated. The all-important feature of this year's convention will be the bringing up of the migratory scheme, or plan for the holding of the convention at different places each year. ^ This is the burning question of the Western members, and the wire-pulling for votes on the scheme will only be exceeded by the workers connected with the various political machines. These men claim that it is not fair to make them journey eastward every year, and will make a strong fight to carry their point, llereinfnn> th? from \??u* Ynrlr Pennsylvania and other Ha*tern .States have been able to nip in the bud anything looking to the migratory plan outlined. The result of tne contest over the question is looked for with interest in all parts of the country. Yalunbls Knee Home* llurned. Danviu.k, Ky., July U.?The largo training stable of William Uue was > burned late last night. Thirty>three j bead of line trotters were consumed. The total loss will Ihj *75,(JUU. Some of i the trotters were entered in Ohio and New York races.