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VOLUME LXXIX.-NO. 15.
RUSSIA'S GAME WILL BE READY BY SPRING.
With the Melting of the
Snow Forces Are to
March.
ARMENIA AND BALKANS.
Concerted Revolution Is Now
Being Stirred Up All Over
Macedonia.
DISOKDER AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
Frederic Comments on the Guardships
and Says There Is No Concert
of the Powers.
[Copyright, 1895, by the New York Times. J
LONDON, Eng., Dec. 14— For the
moment apprehensions of renewed dis
order in Constantinople take precedence
of all other notions about the Levantine
situation. There has been for the last
fortnight a steady influx of Kurdian and
other unclassified provincial ruffians into
tie capital, until now it contains many
thousands of dangerous strangers. These
fellows are supposed to come up primarily
for the purpose of selling the booty gained
in remote lootings and bloody raids, but
they are also suspected of the intention of
trying their hand at the bazaars of Con
stantinople if the occasion for a riot occurs.
Yesterday's wild panic, which for hours
threw the whole city into consternation,
and yet had no better excuse than an
original gtreet squabble between an
Armenian creditor and his debtor, shows
how easily an organized mob could
stampede the entire population and seize
control of the town.
To make things worse, if the disturb
ances now feared do come, the Sultan will
be able to say that this is precisely what he
predicted as a result if the powers insisted
on bringing up those extra guardships.
Diplomatists at Constantinople seem to
have felt sure that Europe would regard
their eventual success in this guardship
matter as a triumph of the first magni
tude. They have even told correspondents
that now that their prolonged exertions
over this affair had been crowned with
victory they and the Sultan both need a
rest, and probably there will be no new
developments in the Eastern question
till the Christmas holidays are past.
But Europe, so far from being impressed
by their achievements, laughs in harsh
derision and wants to Know when the real
question, which is the wholesale massacre
of Christians over all sections of the
empire, is to be taken ud. To that there
is no answer, nor is there likely to be one
of a satisfactory sort.
The spectacle of the English Dryad
and the Italian Archimedes steaming
abreast up to the Golden Horn
yesterday furnished, indeed, the foun
dation for a question of another
sort which will soon be asked in earnest.
This display of an understanding on one
side will be matched by the appearance on
the other of French and Russian boats
side by side, if indeed, as speculation hint 3
to-night, they are not kept outside the
Dardanelles altogether as a hint to the
liultan that his true friends abstain from
taking a prejudicial advantage of his re
luctant firmans. The Austrian boat came
in alone to-day, characteristically enough,
and there is no mention of a German boat
anywhere. Thus this very symbol of tri
umph of the European concert is con
verted into a demonstration of the fact
that there is no such thing as concert.
It is believed here, and I gather, on the
Continent as well, that unless an overt
turbulence in Constantinople precipitates
interference, Russia will gather her forces
during the winter and in the early spring
assume an initiative of her own. Six army
corps in Kieff and Odessa are practically
mobilized, and the large Black Sea fleet at
Sebastopol with re-enforcements of marines
from Cronstadt during the week is held
daily ready for sea. Some sixty Bul
garian officers have been within a fortnight
attached to the line regiments in the Kieff
district, and many more are proceeding to
leave Sofia for the same purpose after the
New Year.
It is perfectly understood that in the
spring a concerted revolution will break
out all over Macedonia, the details of
which are being arranged publicly at
mass-meetings throughout Bulgaria.
These things can mean nothing save that
with the melting of the snows Russia's
game will be ready in both Armenia and
the Balkans.
What is called the European concert
signifies merely anxious efforts of the
other powers to preserve a semblance of
peace through the winter by agreeing on
as many non-essentials as possible and
trusting to chance for alliances and to
luck when the tug comes in March.
This nervous fencing for position and
delay so absorbs the British attention that
all other continental happenings are ig
nored. At another time there would have
been much excitement over the assault
of blackmailers upon President Faure
through the antecedents of his greatly re
spected wife, but as it is, the incident gets
scant notice. It would appear that even
in France people are too preoccupied with
tbe eastern war cloud to pay the usual at
tentior to the affair, though it is under
stood that next Thursday -the reception at
the Elysee will be made the occasion for a
great demonstration of personal regard for
the President and his family.
Similarly the catastrophe which has
overtakenthe Italians in Abyssinia passes
with only the briefest comment, most of
which is devoted to wondering how the
dispatching of the reinforcements, already
in hurried progress, will affect Italy's
ability to hold her own in a European war.
The consent of Lord James to act as arbi
trator in the shipbuilders' strike was re
ceived so generally as a sign that the whole
trouble had been disposed of that his com
plete failure to settle anything has the
effect now of emphasizing the general de
pression that the news created. There is a
disposition everywhere, of course, to curse
the obstinacy of the Belfast men and as
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cribe the whole blame to them, but the
fact is that they believe they have the
Government in a cleft stick and see no
reason why they should abandon tlieir ad
vantage. Not only are mercantile orders
increasing in the Northern shipyards, but
the crisis in the Levant makes it certain
that the Government must insist on a big
shipbuilding programme without delay,
and the men think that ihis is a good
reason why they should stand out for the
utmost farthing of their claims.
It is taken for granted that the Clyde
men will follow Belfast's example of re
jecting the masters' offer, and then the
Ministry will have to take up the matter
in serious earnest.
The meeting of Parliament has been
fixed for February 11, a much later date
than usual. On the other hand, deputa
tions of Tories, representing all sorts of
reactionary schemes, are coming to Lon
don and besieging Salisbury and his col
leagues in such numbers that the papers
are as full of politics as if the Westminster
talking-shop were in full blast. These
deputations draw from the Ministers one
by one assurances that the promises of
July will rfot neefessarily bear any relation
to performances of February. All Lanca
shire was given to understand in the last
campaign that the Tories would repeal the
obnoxious Indian cotton duties, and voted
accordingly. Now the Secretary for
India announces that it is an entire de
lusion to suppose that these duties can be
abrogated. The fact that he himself when
in opposition last spring exceeded most
others in the vehemence of his denuncia
tion of these same duties is bitterly com
mented on, but does not affect the situa
tion.
The Tory squires who are flocking to
town in the interest of this, that and other
projects for restoring the prosperity of the
farmer by taxing somebody else all find
the same cold official shoulder turned to
them. In wrath they are pining Jimmy
Lowther's mutinous faction, which openly
spells protection with a big "P," but that,
too, hardly matters. Oddly enough, how
ever, the Times to-day says that had Low
ther contented himself with asking for a
reimposition of the shilling duty on wheat
it would have been thought, perhaps, that
there was nothing unreasonable in the de-
mand. Tins remark is quite out of the
Times' ordinary line, and may indicate a
ministerial desire to see how the country
would take such a proposal. If that is the
purpose there will be no doubt about the
answer that the country will give.
The episode of the Germanic being dis
abled in the Mersey may turn out to have
a rather important bearing on the vexed
question of the American mail service
from this side. When the Germanic
turned back the British postal officials
calmly took out her heavy Wednesday
mail and put it on board the Urubria,
which would not sail till Saturday, but
Thursday morning a letter from George
W. Sm alley appeared in the Times, begin
ning with a detailed attack on the British
Postoffice in connection with the Cunard
and White Star mail contracts, which
make the whole Atlantic service ridiculous,
and the effect was instantaneous. A tele
graphic order was dispatched at once to
hurry the mail southward to Southamp
ton, and it was placed on the Normannia,
which sailed Friday. This use of a non
contracting line to expedite the mails is
unprecedented in the annals of British red
tape, and the postal reformers hail the
precedent as a hopeful sign.
j • Even a quainter illustration of the power
: of the press is afforded from Rome when
! the private chamberlain of the Pope writes
! to the Standard correcting a newspaper re
j port current during the past month that
j the Pontiff once wrote a book, which was
i placed on the Index. The explanation
! given is that the book in question was
I written by an obscure Perugian priest
called Paole f ti, who was well meaning but
: half denier ed, and that Cardinal Pecci,
: then Bishop of Perugia, suppressed it,
; but now, by some careless misreading, he
; becomes credited with its authorship.
\ This is interesting, but that the Vatican
; should compose personal explanations for
j newspapers is perhaps even more so.
What promises to be an unusually note
worthy doctrinal struggle inside the
Church of England has been begun at
Portsmouth, where Dr. Davidson, before
he was hardly settled in his new see of
Winchester, came in conflict with the well
known Father Dolling, one of the hardest
working and most devoted of the parish
priests.
He had a third altar in the church ax a
memorial to a deceased associate in mis
sion work, and had been accustomed to
celebrate before it services for other de
parted souls, which be described as masses
for the dead. The new Bishop abruptly
ordered niin to remove the screen and dis
mantle the altar. This be has done, but
he ha 3 sent in his resignation, and over
5000 signatures were at once obtained
among the parishioners beggins him to
withdraw the resignation. This he de
clines to do, but the parish itself is in re
volt, and a deep feeling is being stirred up
throughout the church. The difficulty, as
may be seen, does not turn on a question
of ceremonial, like most previous ritual
istic prosecutions, but on the dogma of
prayers for the dead, which incidentally
raises the whole question of purgatory
and hell as articles of belief. It is quite
likely that the affair will provoke a mem
orable controversy.
Dean Farrar's profitable skimming over
the summer season sentimental platitude
has been rudeiy interrupted by an unex
pected rock. His Byzantine novel, called
"Gathering Clouds," contains no more
padding scissored from literature at large
than his other works, but it appropriates
in one case from an author that demurs.
Professor Bury of Dublin finds that Farrar
has taken bodily his translation of the
"Decree of Orcadius" without a hint of
obligation, and he has denounced him
roundly in the Athenaeum for contemptible
pilfering and literary dishonesty. The
Dean's answer in the Athenaeum to-day is
merely in the way of apology that ne did
not dream Bury would mind.
Two unexpected links with the past
have turned up during the week in France.
An immense find of Roman remains of
the time of Vespasian has been made in
Aveyron, on the Roman road leading from
Rodez to Montpelier, and under condi
tions which convince archaeologists that a
clew has at last been discovered to the site
of the lost city known to the ancients as
Avirstum. Extensive explorations in the
vicinity will be at once made.
Of much closer human interest is the un
earthing at the Bibliotbeque Nationals in
Paris of a great mass of hitherto unknown
manuscripts of Marguerite of Anguoleme,
author of "Heptameron," and the bright
protecting star of the renaissance in France.
There are 12,000 verses, including four
long works and innumerable shorter com
positions, all written in the gloomy last
years of her life, and for the most part ex
tremely sad in tone. The longest work is
called "Les Prisons," and is devoted to
personal confessions They are to be
edited and published by the Academic de§
Inscriptions.
Sir William Gregory's volumes of remin
iscences have revived the old story of
Caroline Norton's having sold the secret of
Peel's corn-law decision to the Times,
which George Meredith uses with such ef
fect in "Diana of Crosswais." Her nephew,
Lord Dufferin, writes publicly now, ad
ducing what seems to be convincing con
temporary evidence that he had nothing
to do with the disclosure, which was maae
by Lord Aberdeen himself to John Delane.
None the less, the tale will probably out
live this, as it has so many previous con
tradictions.
The development here of interest in
horseless carriages has been considerably
retarded by the existence of a law framed
for control of the road-making engines,
which compels the use of a man walking
in front with a flag. The ordinary diffi
i culties of getting any legislation through
Parliament are so great that the outlook
for the introduction of this novelty here
seemed desperate, and speculators are thus
able to buy the English rights of numer
ous paten .'s for a tithe of what they com
mand elsewhere, but now they and their
friends, combined in an association, have
brought in such numbers of others, at
tracted by the idea, that it is not improba
ble the old law will be rescinded in the
I coming session.
A memorial with 1700 signatares was
lodged with the local government board,
and the chaplain intimated that it was
needless to send a deputation to enforce
its arguments because he was already
entirely favorable. I understand that
most of the patents secured here are
American.
Ward & Downey will publish at the
new year an important photographic fac
simile of William Bradford's manuscript
narrative of the Plymouth settlement. The
task is one of great difficulty, which they
have been for a long time engaged on.
How the manuscript came to England is
still a mystery, but it is only one of many
relating to America which are the property
of the Bishop of London. Many of these
are still unclassified and wholly neglected,
and only the most strenuous, persistent
efforts finally induced Bishop Temple to
permit this to be reproduced. The price
will be $20, and the edition here is already
subscribed for. Houehton, Mifflin & Co.
have it io America. Harold Fredeeic.
AN IRADE BY THE SULTAN.
Persons Found Guilty of Murder, Arson or
Tfioft to Be Punished With the
Utmost Severity.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, Dec. 14.
—The Austrian torpedo cruiser Seoeniek
has arrived here.
The Sultan has issued an irade declar
ing that all persons found guilty of mur
der, arson, cattle-stealing or other mis
deeds, will be prosecuted without mercy
and punished with the utmost severity".
The decree authorizes the troops to forci
bly suppress all disorders and declares
that possession of arms will render all
civilians amenable to martial law.
BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 14.— A communi
cation from Phillipopolis, Bulgaria, says:
The English Consul here has translated as
follows an item in a Turkish paper pub
lished in this city:
"General satisfaction has been caused b
the bringing to light of the seditious in
tention of the American missionaries
who, on tbe pretext of aiding, go about
the villages of Anatola sowing the seeds of
sedition which are in their minds, and we
are glad to hear that the Imperial Govern
ment is taking energetic measures tore
press and drive away such masters of per
nicious opinions."
The missiouaiies meant are those of the
American Board of Boston.
The Rev. Judson Smith, D.D., was
shown the foregoing cablegram and said
that he would interpose a flat contra
diction to the statements that there is
any seditious intention of the American
missionaries and that they go about any
where solving the seeds of sedition and
that they cherish or express any perni
cious opinions. On the contrary, he said,
they inculcate loyalty to the existing
Government.
Mr. Smith added: "The educational
work of the American Board is intellec
tual and Christian for both sides. No
Government has any occasion to fear any
thing from it, in itself considered, in jts
legitimate influences."
More Italian Guards Sent.
ROME, Italy, Dec. 14.— Seven thousand
men and four batteries are ready to em
bark on transports for Massowau, the capi
tal of Erythrea, whence they will proceed
to re-enforce the Italian force that is en
gaged in operations against the Abys
sinians.
ALL READY FOR THE ROAST.
GOMPERS THE LEADER
Elected President of the
American Federation
of Labor.
*
WILL SUCCEED M'BRIDE.
Active Debate on the Report
Relating to Political
Action.
ON RECORD WITH NO PLATFORM.
Means to Bring About the Ameliora
tion of the Condition of the
Workers to Be Aided.
NEW YORK, N. V., Dec. H.-Th© elec
tion of officers of the American Federa
tion of Labor took place this afternoon.
Samuel Gompers of New York was elected
president by a majority of 18 to succeed
John Mcßride. Gompers returns to the
chair after being out one term. He was
defeated by Mcßride, to the surprise of
many, at the last convention, wnich was
held in Denver.
The question of sending fraternal dele
gates to the International Congress of So
cialist Workers at London next August
was discussed at the morning session at
great length and a motion to lay the en
tire matter on the table was carried by a
majority of 52 to 10.
The next thine taken up was the part of
the president's report relating -to political
Samuel Gompers, Elected President of
the American Federation of Labor.
action, which reads: "We believe the
twelve planks which were adopted by the
Denver convention to constitute the plat
form of the American Federation of Labor.
'•It is of little consequence, as the result
would be the same, while we, as wage-work
ers, fail to recognize our interests as sepa
rate and distinct from tbat of capitalistic
employers, and failing to realize that we
cannot hope to be free in the shops, mines
and factories while drudging under the
wage system to the polls."
Delegate Barnes, the socialist representa
tive from Philadelphia, said that the time
had come when some other means than
strikes must be employed for the working
classes.
Delegate Gompers objected to the report,
and moved to strike out all after the word
"employers." He said he was surprised
to hear that the socialistic delegates should
speak as had been done on the floor of a
convention of the Federation of Labor.
John B. Lennon, the treasurer of the
organization, also objected to that part
which reads: "While drudging under the
wage system to the polls."
Delegate Pomeroy offered a substitute
for the report of the committee, declaring
that the failure of the Denver convention
to adopt the twelve planks as a political
programme made it patent that the federa
tion Aas no platform which can be called
political.
After a lengthy discussion the previous
question was called for, and resulted in a
vote on the substitute of 1676 in favor of
and 214 against.
Delegate Pomeroy's substitute motion
was therefore declared carried, and the
convention put itself on record as having
no political platform. Vice- President Mc-
Guire then moved that the twelve planks
adopted by the Denver convention be
printea in the Federationist under the
head of "Our Legislative Demands/ This
was carried.
The part of the president's report re
lating to the mission of trades unions was
taken up next. Delegate Pomeroy said ho
would introduce a resolution in regardjto
the requirements of unions desiring ad
mission to the American Federation of
"/"»•«
Labor. A report from the committee on
Jaw favoring an amendment to the consti
tution, providing that the unions not
affiliating with their National unions be
excluded from the central lodges, was then
read.
When recess was taker, the question was
still under discussion.
After recess Delegate Weisman moved
that the convention go into executive ses
sion ana take up the report of the "griev
ance committee."
After some discussion the motion was
carried, and everybody except the dele
gates was forced to leave the hall. The
executive session lasted until 3p. M. Then
the doors were opened and the crowd filed
in again.
Delegate Pomeroy, who occupied the
temporary chair, then announced that
nominations for the position of president
were in order. Vice-president James Dun
can immediately arose and nominated
President John Mcßride for re-election as
president. The nomination was seconded
by Delegate J. W. Bramwood of the Typo
graphical Union.
Then Delegate Feuracht put in nomina
tion Samuel Gompers for president and
Delegate Linehan seconded the nomina
tion. On motion of W. C. Pomeroy tne
roll was then called. The vote was made
amid enthusiasm and the vote counted.
It was as follows: Gompers 1041, John
Mcßride 1023; majority for Gompers 18
votes.
Gompers was declared elected president
amid great applause. Owen Miller, repre
senting the Mutual Musicians' Benevolent
Association, voted for Mcßride and N. B.
Prescott cast the entire vote of the Typo
graphical Union for Mcßride.
The chair appointed a committee of
three delegates to notify Mr. Gompers of
his election and escort him to the plat
form.
Mr. Gompers, on being introduced to the
delegates, made a speech acknowledging
the honor conferred on him.
"If my past," said he, "shows to you
that your confidence is due me, all I can
say is that I will do all in my power to
keep up the past record. lam a trade
unionist and as such will stand or fall for
that principle. I hope you will join with
me in one grand co-operation to place the
federation on a proper plane. I will do
what I can for the federation and I would
ask your assistance."
Peter J. McGuire was then elected vice
president without opposition.
Ex-President Mcßride made a forcible
address after Gompers 1 speech. He said
he had prepared a speech to deliver, but
that "Sam" Gompers had delivered it for
him.
"No higher honor," said he, "could be
bestowed on any man than his election to
the presidency of the American Federa
tion of Labor. I would be indifferent if I
did not say that my predecessor, now my
worthy successor, is worthy of the confi
dence you have placed in him. I yield to
you completely. To the delegates who
have voted for me 1 give my most sincere
thanks, and those who voted against me I
thank just the same.
"Retiring as I do now, I wish to say that
I shall not again occupy an official position
within the ranks of organized labor. I
shall do my duty as a private within the
fold and shall aid by every possible means
to bring about the amelioration of the con
dition of the working masses."
James Duncan was re-elected second
vice-president, James O'Connell was
elected third vice-president and N. W.
Garland fourth vice-president. John B.
Lennon of the Tailors' National Union
was then re-elected treasurer unanimously
and Augustus McCraith was unanimously
re-elected secretary.
After an address by Joseph Buchanan,
a labor writer, an adjournment was taken
until Monday morning.
The following is a full list of the officers
elected: President, Samuel Gompers of
New York City of the International Cigar
makers' Union, in place of John Mcßride
of Columbus, Ohio; first vice-president, P.
J. McGuire of Philadelphia of the Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners, re-elected ;
second vice-president, James Duncan of
the Granite-cutters' Union, re-elected;
third vice-president, James O'Connell of
C.iicago of the International Association
of Machinists, in place of Rody Kenchan
of Denver, Colo.; fourth vice-president, M.
M. Garland of Pittsburg, Pa., of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers, in place of Thomas J. El
derkin of Chicago; treasurer, John B.
Lennon of JNew York of the Journeymen
Tailors' Union, re-elected; secretary, Au
gustus McCraith of Boston of the Typo
graphical Union, re-elected.
CLEARWA.TEB WIXB.
The "Pool Championship Landed, at Syra
cuse.
SYRACUSE, N. V., Dec. 14.— Clearwater
won the pool championship of the world
to-night by defeating Keogh of| Bingham
ton. The loss of the game to Clearwater
would mean a tie in the present tourna
ment between Clearwater, De Oro and
Keogh. It was a magnificent tight from
first to finish and Keogh would have won
but for a miscue. With only three balls
to run and with a straight shot for the side
pocket the BiDghamtoa m»a fell down
TACOMA REPELLING A CHINESE INVASION.
and Clearwater ran out. Clearwater issues
a challenge to meet anybody in the world
at Pittsburg for the "championship and
$1000.
♦
WILL DIVIDE THE BUSINESS.
Terms of an Agreement Between the
Panama Railroad and the Pacific
Mail Company.
NEW YORK, N. V., Dec. 14.— The di
rectors of the Pacific Mail Company met
to-day and adopted a resolution approving
the terms arranged for settlement of the
differences with the Panama Railroad and
authorizing President C. P. Huntington to
execute the contract prepared by the coun
sel for the two interests. The directors of
the Panama Railroad had previously em
powered President J. Edwards Simmons to
affix his signature.
Under the agreement the Pacific Mail
Company will withdraw its steamers from
the Atlantic and the Panama road will
cease running vessels on the Pacific. The
two companies will pro rate on through
business.
READING TO BE REORGANIZED.
Theodore Kellogg of Philadelphia Pro
poses a Plan.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.— A plan for the
reorganization of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company has been de
vised by Theodore D. Kellogg of this city.
He first proposes to raise $55,000,000 for re
organization purposes. With this sum all
claims, not only aerainst the railroad com
pany, but also the Philadelphia and Read
ing Coal and Iron Company, would be dis
charged. On the completion of the reor
ganization there would be left in the treas
uries of the two companies over $8,000,000
in cash.
JEWELRY FRAUD EXPOSED
Mystery of the Harry Leon
Failure Cleared by the
Pinkertons.
Two of the Principals Arrested and
the Operator of the Scheme
Confesses.
CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 14.— The mystery
of the Harry Leon failure in Chicago, by
which about twenty well-known New
York jewelry-houses were defrauded out
of $90,000 worth of jewelry in September
last, has been cleared by the Pinkerton
Detective Agency, and two of the prin
cipals in the case have been arrested on
capiases issued by the United States
court. Since the failure last September
Harry Leon has been in hiding and was
located only last week by the agency.
Leon was given the preference of telling
how the fraud was carried out and who
was implicated or going to jail. He de
cided he would rather stay out of jail and
told his story. His confession implicates
Alvah A. Ketcham, Peter D. Eberman, O.
C. St. Clair, John E. Bull and a man
named Castlereigh, alias Lyon. It also
makes things rather unpleasant for
Banker Henry D. Tolman of this city,
who aided in the plot, though he possibly
was an innocent tool.
Ketcham and Eberman have been ar
rested. Leon says that he was working for
a Madison-street jewelry firm when he was
approached by Ketcham and E German,
who offered to set him up in business and
make him rich. They explained that he
was to represent that he had inherited
$40,000, and upon such a representation to
obtain a stock of jewelry on credit. The
two men were willing to put up some
money to give coloring to his claims of in
heritance. Eberman went to the Central
Trust Company and deposited $6000 in
Leon's name. As soon as the deposit was
made he took a certificate of deposit from
Leon properly indorsed, bo that while the
property was not in his name it was still
under his control. Ketcham went to the
Royal Trust Company and deposited $8000
in the same manner.
This was not quite enough of a showing,
so Banker Tolman was called on to furnish
$20,000 more. Tolman took the money to
the Commercial National Bank, it is
claimed, and deposited the money to the
credit of Harry Leon, but before he left the
building he had the deposit certificate in
his possession indorsed over by Leon, so
that his money was safe. For this service,
it is said, Mr. Tolman received $750.
This being accomplished Leon wrote to
the New York Jewelers' Association that
he was going to open business in Chicago
and opened negotiations for his stock.
He represented that he had just inher
ited and there was at present
$34,000 to his credit in Chicago banks. His
statements as regards to deposits were in
vestigated and the banks' books showed
that the money was in reality deposited to
the man's credit. As soon as the investi
gation was completed the money was
withdrawn and went back into the coffers
of its rightful owners and Leon remained
penniless. Leon placed his orders, re
ceived the goods and then made away
with them. Other arrests will probably
follow, and it is expected that the New
York jewelers will recover a part at least
of their losses.
Litigation for the Santa Fe.
NEW YORK, N. V., Dec. 14.— There is
more litigation in store for the Santa Fe
Railroad. A suit was to-day begun in the
£ apreme Court by the Atlantic and Pacihc
bondholders' committee representing $17,
--856,000 4 per cent guaranteed bonds against
the corporation and all interests engaged
in reorganizing and financing the great
9ystem to enforce an alleged claim for
$8,750,000 on the Atchison's guarantee of
the Atlantic and Pacific bonds.
St. Xout« and the Conventions.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 14.— The com
mittee representing tne Business Men's
League which secured for St. Louis the
next Republican National Convention
returned home this morniDg and were
given a hearty welcome by enthusiastic
citizens. A meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Business Men's League will
be held next Wednesday to consider the
question of securing the Democratic
National Convention for St. Louis.
Want Married Physician*.
FRANKFORT, Kw, Dec. 14.— Governor
Bradley has received communications from
a large number of ladies throughout the
State protesting against the appointment
of unmarried physicians and others to
places iv the asylums.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Citizens in Mass-Meeting
Oppose the Employing
of Mongols.
RIGGS' ACTION CENSURED
A Protest of Hundreds Against
the Introduction of Cheap
Labor.
BELIEVED TO BE A CONSPIRACY.
Coolies Will Swarm the Factories if
the Unwritten Law Is Once
Broken.
TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 14.— Germania
Hall was packed to the doors Jong before
7:30 o'clock this evening, the time adver
tised for the mass-meeting called by the
anti-Chinese committee of fifteen, ap
pointed by the city of Tacoma on October
3, 1895. The crowd continued to pour
through the doors t until 7:40 o'clock, when
the meeting was "called to order, and W.
H. Harris, President of the City Council,
was elected to the chair by acclamation.
E. R. Hughes and Harry Johnston were
elected secretaries, and the chairman
opened proceedings by stating the pur
poses of the meeting and the situation as
to Mr. Riggs and his two Chinese house
servants.
Only four of the original committee of
fifteen men were present on the stage,
namely: Jacob Ralph, A. U. Mills, Dolph
B. Hannah and John Budlong. They
acted as a committee of the whole, how
ever, and Mr. Mills proceeded to give his
report to the meeting in regard to the visit
they had paid Mr. Riggs on the occasion
when they presented him with a copy of
the resolutions, informing him that the
employment of Chinese domestics was an
infringement of the unwritten law of the
City of Destiny.
Mr. Mills described the visit of the com
mittee with great naivete, and laid par
ticular stress on Mr. Riggs' statement
that he was worth more money than all of
the committee put together. The crowd,
which was a good-humored one, received
Mr. Mills' humorous remarks with fre
quent applause, but was far more inter
ested when the committee's report was
submitted.
Councilman Bulger was called upon to
speak. He dwelt upon the introduction of
Chinamen into this community, pointing
out that it was simply the entering wedge,
and that if the two Mongols in question
were allowed to stay it was only a question
of time when work "in the mills and iac
tories—in fact, all the labor of Tacoma—
would be done by coolies and highbinders.
Mr. Bulger was applauded to the echo,
and the earnestness displayed during the
latter portion of his remarks illustrated
the stern resolution beneath the good
humor the audience displayed. He scored
the Ministerial Alliance for having pro
mulgated pro-Chinese resolutions, and re
minded his hearers that in the former
trouble, in 1885, the same body had worked
diligently to defeat the will of a majority
of the people. The Ledger came in for a
share of his attention for its pro-Chinese
stand.
D. B. Hannah was the next speaker.
He was a member of the original commit
tee of fifteen and told of the exodus in
ISBS very dramatically and with a great
deal of relish. The audience liked this
and the applause was tremendous. A Mr.
Norton, who followed Mr. Hannah, called
the Chamber of Commerce to account for
not backing up the rank and file of the
citizens of Tacoma in what was so evi
dently the wishes of the majority. He
claimed that the two Chinese domestics
employed by Mr. Riggs were forerunners
of a Chinese horde that was to rill Tacoma
with cheap labor.
Mr. Mills spoke again, indorsing Mr.
Norton's views and calling tne attention
of the meeting to the fact that Mr. Rigga
hud told the visiting committee that
George Browne intended also to have two
Chinese servants as soon as his wife re
turned from a visit to the East. He
pointed out that George Browne was con
nected with the St. Paul and Tacoma
Lumber Company and doubted whether
Mr. Browne would stop at employing the
Chinese in his house when he could so
easily and profitably use them in the mill.
Harry Johnson, a reporter on the Even
ing News, upheld Mr. Mills and Mr. Nor
ton as to the Riggs incident being part of
a probable conspiracy aiming toward a
general introduction of Chinese labor, and
read a long set of resolutions to the effect
that the public sentiment of Tacoma and
Pierce County was that Chinamen were
not wanted here.
The general trend of the speeches and
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