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PIERCE’S COLLEAGUE
Casey of Jamestown Will oe
the Second Senator From
North Dakota.
“The Field” Go to Him on the
Tenth Ballot With a
Rush.
Bismarck, N. D., Special Telegram,
•—Lyman R. Casey was to-niglit elected
United States senator. Four ballots were
taken at noon to-day, but no election. The
balloting gave Johnson 28, 29, 32 and 35
votes; Casey 18, 18, 20 and 26, the rest scat
tering. On the fourth ballot the Demo
crats distributed their votes among the Re
publican candidates. Ordway was still in
the fight when the convention adjourned,
after the fourth ballot, until half past seven
this evening. Casey’s vote was suggestive,
and “the field” saw that the time had come
for concentration. Casey was in the air.
The Sheridan house became the center of
the “combining.” The Dakota chiefs saw
that Casey was the favorite. Walsh an
nounced that he was out of the fight. Jud
Lamoure said he was ready to go over, and
Haggart had been ready for several days,
and after a general understanding of all the
leaders in “the field,” it was determined
that the lines should be drawn on the first
ballot to-night.
THE SESSION DID THAT IT
It got out about G o’clock that Casey’s star
was in the ascendancy, and the hall of the
house of representatives was crowded by an
interested audience. Lieut. Gov. Dickey
presided and promptly ordered the roll call
for the tenth ballot for senator. George
Walsh rose and after thanking his friends
for their support, withdrew his name in
favor of Casey. As the roll call proceeded
it was evident that the field knew what it
wanted to do. Every vote seemed to be
for Casey. Senator Smith voted for
Casey and several for McCumber.
Those votes were taken from Johnson. The
Democrats, except Lutz, voted Maratta.
Lutz was for Casey. Several voted for La
Moure and La Moure voted for McCumber.
When the roll call was finished the tally
showed forty-two votes for Casey. La
Moure at once straightened up and called
out, “I change my vote to Casey.” Randall
(Don.) of Dickey changed his vote to Casey,
as did also Watt and Stcdman of Pembina.
There was then only one wanting to make
it forty-seven, or a majority of the whole
convention. R. N. Stevens of Ransom in a
clear voice said: “I change my vote to
Casey.”
THAT SETTLED IT,
and the crowd responded with the wildest
applause of the session. Other changes fol
lowed until the Casey vote stoodo2. Amo
tion by Senator Smith to make it unani
mous was ruled out of order and the vote
announced as follows: Casey 62, Johnson
20 and Maratta 4. Nine of the Democrats
jumped onto the band wagon after it was
full. A committee, headed by Senator
Dieserc, was sent in search of the nominee,
and after riding a mile to the Sheridan house
found him and brought him before the
convention. He was received with marked
applause, and alter Lieut. Gov. Dickey had
introduced him with a neat little speech,
Mr. Casey responded in one of the most im
pressive talks ever heard in a representative
hall. He spoke without notes, unprepared,
and as a man who had been called from the
plow. He said he was bewildered, but his
thanks were expressed in exquisite lan
guage, and his emotion was so truly real
that his hearers were charmed with both
his words and action. He only talked, but
it was the talk of a Phillips. Farmer Casey
will be a noted man in the United States
senate.
THE NEW senator’s WORDS.
Senator Casey said:
I stand before you bewildered with the
great honor that you have conferred upon
me. I cannot conceive how any man could
stand in the position I now occupy with
calmness, even though he had approached
that position through the gradations of the
lower honors of political life; and when I,
who never sought political preferment, find
myself placed upon this eminence, can you
wonder that I lind myself bewildered? I
am sure that you will tear with me in pa
tience while f scarcely can do more than
thank von.
He followed with fervent words, express
ing appreciation, and concluded:
I accept this honor and this responsibil
ity in the fear of God, and with the purpose
to do my very best to perform my duty. This
much let me say to those of my friends who
from the beginning have sustained my can
didacy. I owe a debt so great that it
can never be repaid, t go to represent
no faction, no locality, no single
interest, but I go to represent our
great State of North Dakota, the
pride of our hearts and the center of our
loyalty and our hopes. I trust 1 shall know
no East, no center, no West, but all the in
terests of this great state. Shrinking as I
do from this great responsibility, I am re
assu.red when 1 remember whom vou have
elected to be my conferee. Together, lam
sure, we shall no our best to discharge our
duties to you all in our sphere. Together
we shall use every effort to the furtherance
of all agricultural interests, for all our in
terests and all our prosperity are based on
these interests.
Mr. Casey lias had no political career; he
never held an office in his life, except by
appointment—county commissioner of Fos
ter county.
HIS r.\ST LIFE.
Lyman R. Casey was born in York, Liv
ingston county, N. Y., in 1837. When very
young he moved to Ypsilanti, Midi.,where
he prepared for Ann Arbor univer
sity, but never entered. He was in
the hardware business in Toledo six or
seven years as a member of the firm of
Lefft, Kellogg & Casey. After he retired he
went to Europe and studied and traveled
for five years. He became a student of for
eign affairs and an accomplished linguist.
He settled in Dakota is 1882 at Carrington,
Foster county, where he opened a farm and
now lias 5,000 acres under cultiva
tion. He is secretary and general man
ager of the Casey Carrington
Land company, which owns over
one hundred thousand acres in the Janies
river valley, with a capital of $500,000. He
now lives in Jamestown. He has a wife
and three children—one son on the farm,
one in business in Baltimore and a girl of
thirteen at school in Detroit, Mich. Mr.
Casey is very much interested in irrigation
and is the chairman of the North Dakota
committee on that subject. He cau talk
irrigation as well as Senator Stewart. T. B.
Casey of Minneapolis is his brother and was
presentto witness the unexpected honor.
HIS first supporter.
Farmer Belden of Logan county was the
first man to vote for him. Farmers Deisam
Df La Moure, Milstad of Stutsman, Bartow
of Foster and Walton of Wells were
the first to boom him. Casey’s
a member of the Farmers’ alliance, and
such men as Dodds, Fancher and Roder
Allen, of the alliance, are delightep with
his nomination. It is a true farmers’ tri
umph of the John Miller kind. Among
the Scandinavians who took a leading part
in his election is A. T. Cole of Dickey, who
broke away from Johnson Saturday night,
and came to Casey this morning. The Red
River valley failed because of the differ
ences among its members. Grand Forks
count}’ lost for the same reason. George B.
Winship could have been elected
if the minority of the Grand Forks
delegation had , gone to him.
When the contest opened here Winship
went into the Johnson camp to defeat Ord
way, and he is satisfied. He would never
have gone there if the Grand Forks delega
tion had acted as a unit. The
Johnson men were all Winship’s
men, and if Johnson had not
become so strong they would have found an
opportunity to help Winship. If his del
egation had united on him, Winship wonld
have got some of the original Casey
men. Grand Forks’ opportunity was in
Winship. It is understood late to-night
that M. N. Johnson is a candidate for
United States district judge. A. D. Thomas
of Fargo has received the endorsement of
the North Dakota bar for that place.
FREE FOR THE PRESENT.
One of the Alleged Hurley Bank Rob-
bers Released on Bail
Ashland, Wis., Special Telegram,
—Phelps Perrin, the assistant cashier of
the Iron Exchange bank, who is one of the
three persons accused of robbing the Ameri
can Express company of s4o,ooo,slept in the
Ashland jail last night. Shortly before
noon to-day he was arraigned in the mu
nicipal court before Judge Calkins on the
complaint of Detective Byrne. The pris
oner seemed to take things cooly, and was
not the least affected throughout the pro
ceedings. Perrin was represented by At
torney Lennon of Hurley, who carefully
guarded his client and allowed no one to
approach him. The lawyer said that Per
rin would say nothing at all except that he
was entirely innocent and would prove the
fact upon his preliminary examination. In
the absence of District Attorney Rossmar
the state asked a continuance, and the de
fense consenting, the preliminary hearing
was set for next Friday. Judge Calkins
said that the case was a serious one, and
that he would fix bail at $4,000. Leonard
Perrin of Ironwood, Mich., one of the
wealthiest men on the Gogebic iron range,
became one of the sureties on his son’s
bonds, and ex-Lieut. Gov. Fifield affixed
his name as the other bondsman. Perrin
returned to Hurley to-day in company
with his attorney, who did not allow the
accused man to get out of his sight for a
minute. When Perrin was searched this
morning a bunch of keys was found on
him. These the prosecution was particu
larly anxious to get as they wish to search
his effects, but when Perrin secured bail the
officers were compelled to give up the keys.
RETURNED TO HURLEY
Hurley, Wis., Special Telegram,
—Perrin returned from Ashland to-day.
Baker is still in jail at Bessemer, the county
seat of Gogebic county. District Attorney
Bossman of Ashland county is here and
trying to induce Baker to come to Wiscon
sin without the formality of a requisition,
which would necessitate a delay of several
days. Perrin’s many friends here tie loud
in their declarations of his innocence and
the sympathy ol the community generally
is with him. It is said that Baker’s mis
tress, Lou Wayer, who was found in Baker’s
room and arrested with him, is not an ac
complice in the crime, but has been work
ing for the detectives and has induced Baker
to reveal the facts of the case to her.
THROUGH A BRIDGE.
Terrible Accident on a Railroad In
Northern lowa.
Waterloo, lowa. Special Telegram,
—The worst accident that has ever hap
pened on the lowa division of the Illinois
Central railroad occurred at Aplington,
about thirty wiles west of here, last night.
A bridge over a small ravine was being re
paired, and a wild freight train, consisting
of thirty-five loaded cars, hauled by two
mogul engines, crashed into it. The danger
signal had not been placed far enough from
the bridge, and when the foreman saw the
train he ran toward it, but the engineer
thinking he was flagging them on account
of a hand car that was on the track, did not
reverse until it was too late. One bent of
the bridge was on jackscrews, and gave way
after the first engine had passed over. The
second engine and fifteen loaded cars were
piled up in the wreck, and under
the debris lay the engineer and fire
man of the second engine, dead,
and their bodies almost crushed out of any
semblance of human forms. Their names
were Engineer Arthur Dubois and Fireman
John Clacey, both of Waterloo. Brakeman
Robert Fee of Masonville was thrown from
the top of the cars and badly but not se
riously bruised. Engineer W. H. Rubel of
Waterloo, who ran the head engine, sus
tained a severe scalp wound and other
hruises. Fireman McSlay, of the head en
gine, escaped without a scratch. Engineer
Dubois leaves a wife and two small chil
dren. The funerals will be held together
Wednesday in charge of the engineers and
firemen’s brotherhoods.
PENDLETON DEAD
The Ex-Minister to Germany Dies in
a Foreign Land.
Brussels, Special—Hon. George H. Pen
dleton, late United States minister at Berlin,
died in this city on the 24th.
Mr. Pendleton was born in Cincinnati,
July 25, 1825. He received an academic ed
ucation, studied law, and was admitted to
the bar in Cincinnati. He was a member of
the state senate in 1854-5, and was elected to
congress on the Democratic ticket in 1856,
serving until 1865. In 1864 he was the nom
inee tor vice president on the ticket of
which Gen. George B. McClellan was the
head. He was the Democratic candidate
for governor of Ohio in 1869. During this
year he was made president of the Ken
tucky Central Railroad company. In 1879
he succeeded Stanley Matthews in the
United States senate, and while a member
of that body became famous for the intro
duction of the civil service reform bill. In
the election of 1884 he was defeated in the
race for the senate by Henry B. Payne. His
wife was the daughter of Francis Scott Key,
the author of the national song, ‘'The Star
Spangled Banner.” Mr. Pendleton was
made minister to Germany by President
Cleveland March 23, 1885, and the senate
confirmed the appointment the same day.
Mr. Pendleton succumbed to a stroke of
apoplexy. His death occurred in the Hotel
Bellevue, where he has been lying sick for
six weeks. His two daughters were present
when he died. The funeral services will be
held in the Protestant church Wednesday.
The body will remain in the church forsev
eral days and will be taken thence to
America.
HENRY M. STANLEY.
He Relates His Adventures in
the Dark Continent in a
Letter to a Friend.
The Hardships ¥kich the
Great Explorer Had to
Undergo.
London, Special.—Mr. Marston. of Samp
son, Lowe & Co., has received a letter from
Henry M. Stanley, dated South End Vic
toria Nyanza, Sept. 3, from which the fol
lowing extracts are taken:
Stanley goes on to recount the arrange
ments made by him to meet Emin and,
after describing how he hunted up the miss
ing rear column, continues:
I have already told you that the rear col
umn was in a deplorable state; that out of
the 102 members remaining I doubted
whether fifty would live to reach the lake;
but having collected a large number of
canoes, the goods and sick men were
transported in these vessels in such a smooth
and expeditious manner that there were re
markably few casualties in the remnant of
the rear column. But wild natives, having
repeatedly defeated the Ugarrowwa’s raiders
and by this discovered the extent of their
own strength, gave considerable trouble and
inflicted considerable loss among our best
men, which had always to hear the
brunt of the fighting and. the fatigue of
paddling. However, we had no reason to
oe dissatisfied with the time wc had made.
When progress by river became too tedious
and difficult, an order to cast off
canoes was given. This was four days’
journey above the Ugarrowwas station,
or about three hundred miles above Bana
laya, we decided that, as the south hank of
the Itura river was pretty well known to us,
it would be best t® try the north bank,
although we should have to traverse for
some days the despoiled lands which had
been a common center for the Ugarrowwas
and bands of raiders. We
were about one hundred miles from Grass
land, which opened up a prospect of future
feasts of beef veal and mutton and a pleas
ing variety of vegetables, as well as oil and
butter for cooking.
IN THE DREADED WILDERNESS.
“On Oct. 30, having cast off the canoes,
the land march lygan in earnest, and we
two days later discovered a large planta
tion in charge of Dwaris. The people Hung
themselves on the plantations to make as
large provision as possible for the dreaded
wilderness ahead. The most enterprising
always secured a fair share, and twelve
hours later would be furnished with a
week’s provision of plantation flour. The
feeble and indolent reveled for the time be
ing in an abundance of roasted fruit, but al
ways neglected providing for the future, and
thus became victims to famine alter moving
from this place. Ten days passed before we
reached another plantation, during which
we lost more men than we had lost between
Banalya and Ugarrowwas. Smollpox
broke out among the Manyema, and the
mortality was terrible. Our Banzibaris es
caped the pest, however, owing to
the vaccination they had undergone on
board the Madura. We were now about
for days’ march above the confluence o ltlie
Ihura and Ituri rivers, and within about a
mile from Ishuru. As there was no possi
bility of crossing this violent tributary
of the Itmi or Arunmwimi, we had
to follow its right bank until a crossing
could be discovered. Four days later we
stumcled across the principal village of the
district, called Andikum. It was sur
rounded by the finest plantation of bananas
and plantins we had yet seen, which all the
Mayemas’ habit of
spoliation and destruction
nas been unable to destroy. There our
people, after severe starvation during four
teen days, gorged themselves to such excess
that it contributed greatly to lesson
our numbers. Every twentieth individ
ual suffered from some complaint which
entirely incapaciated him for duty,
the Ihuru river was about four miles south
southeast from this place, flowing from
east northeast. It was about sixty yards
broad and deep, owing to heavy rains.
From Andikumu sixty day’s march
brought us to another flourishing settle
ment called Indeman, situated about four
hours’ march from a river supposed
to be the llmru. Here I was
considerably non-plussed by a grievous
discrepancy between native accounts and
my own observations. The natives called
it the Ihuru river, and my instruments and
chronometer made it very evident it could
not be the Ihuru. We knew finally. After
capturing some daris we discovered it was
the right branch of the Ihuru, called the
Dui river, this agreeing with my own
views. We searched and found a place
where we could build a bridge across. Bon
ny and our Zanzibari chief threw themselves
into the work, and in a few hours the Dui
river was bridged. We passed from Inde
man into a district entirely unvisited by
Mayerna.
CHANGED ROUTES,
Here the writer describes daily conflicts
with the Wambutti dwarfs, which we found
very numerous in this region. The Warn
buttis clung to the northeast route, which
Stanley wanted to take. Accordingly he
went southeast and followed elephant
tracks. He says:
But on Dec. 9 we were compelled to halt
for lood in the middle of a vast forest at a
spot indicated by my chart to be not more
tnan two or three miles from Ituri river,
where many of our people had been. While
we resided at Fort Bodio I sent 150
rtfles back to a settlement that was
fifteen miles brek on the route we had come,
while manyManyema followers also under
took to follow them. I quote from myjour
nal part of what I wrote on Dec. 14, the
sixth day of the absence of the foragers:
“Six days have transpired since our fbrag
ers left us. For the first four days the time
passed rapidly, I might say almost
pleasantly, being occupied in recalculating
my observations from Ugarrowwa to Lake
Albert down to date, owing to a few dis
crepancies here and there, which my sec
ond and third visit and duplicate and* trip
licate observations enabled me to correct.
My obbupation then ended I was left to
wonder why the large band of foragers did
not return. On the fifth dav_, having dis
tributed all the stock of flour in camp, and
having
KILLED THE ONLY GOAT
we possessed. I was also compelled to open
the otticess’ provision boxes and take a
Sound pot of nutter with t.wo cupfuls of my
our to make an imitation gruel, there be
ing nothing else save tea, coffee, sugar and
pot of sago in the boxes. In the afternoon
a hoy died, and the condition of a majority
of the rest w-as most disheartening. Some
could not stand, falling down in the effort
to do so. These constant sights acted on
my nerves until I began to feel not only
moral but physical sympathy, as though
the weakness was contagious. Before night
a mahdi carrier died. The last of our So
malis gave signs of collapse, and the few Sou
danese witfh us were scarcely able to move.
When the morning of the sixth day dawned
we made broth with the usual pot of but
ter, an abundance of water, a pot of con
denseb milk and a cupfnll of flour for
thirty people. The chiefs and Bonny were
called to a council. At my suggesting
a reverse to the forages of such
a nature as to exclude our men from re
turning with news of the disaster, they were
altogether unable to comprehend such a
possibility. They believe it possible that
these 150 men were searching for food,
without which they would return. They
were asked to consider the supposi
tion that they were five davs searching
food, without which they woufd not return.
They were then asked to' consider the sup
position that they were five five days search
ing food and then had lost the road, per
haps, or, having
NO WHITE LEADER,
had scattered to loot goats and had entirely
forgotten their starving friends and broth
ers in the camp. What would be the state
of the 130 people five days hence? Bonny
offered to stay with ten men in the camp if
I provided ten day’s food for each person,
while I would set out to search for the
missing men. Food to make a light
cupful of gruel for ten men for
ten days was not difficult to procure, but
the sick and feeble remaining must starve
unless I met with good fortune, and accord
ingly a stone of buttermilk, flour and
biscuits were preyared and handed over to
the charge of Boimy.” In the afternoon of
the seventh day we mustered everybody, be
sides the garrison of the camp, tcn'men.
Sadi, a Maneya chief surrendered fourteen
of his men to their doom. Kibbobora, an
other. chiet, abandoned his brother, and
Fundi, another Maneya chief, left one of his
wives and her little boy. We left twenty-six
feeble and sick wretches, already past all
hope unless food could be brought them
within twenty-four hours. In a cheery tone,
though my heart was never heavier; I told
the forty-three hunger-bitten people that I
was going back to hunt for the missing
men. \\ e traveled nine miles that after
noon, having passed several dead people on
the road, and early on the eighth day of
their absence from camp, we
MET THEM MARCHING
in an easy fashion, but when we were met
the pace was altered, so that in twenty-six
hours from leaving Starvation camp we
were back with a cheery abundance around
us of gruel and porridge, boiling banauas,
bpiling plantains, roasting lffeat and sim
mering soup. This had been my nearest
appproach to absolute starvation in all my
African experience. Altogether twenty-one
persons succumbed in this dreadful camp.
On Dec. 17 the Ihuru river was reached in
three hours, and having a presentiment
that the garrison of Fort Bodo were stil
where I left them, the Ihuru was crossed
the next day, and for the two following
days we steered through the forest regard
less of paths. We had the good fortune to
strike the western angle of the Fort Bodo
plantations on the 20th, and found
that my presentiment was true.
Lieut. Stairs and the garrison
were still at Fort Bodo, 51 souls remaining
out of 59. Not a word had been heard of
Emin or of Jeplison during the seven
months of my absence. Knowing the lat
ter to be an energetic man, we were left to
conjecture what detained Jeplison, even if
affairs of his province had detained Emin,
on Dec. 23, the united expedition continued
the march eastward, and as we had now to
work by relays, owing to the fifty extra
loads, we did not reach the Ituri ferry,
which was our last camp in the forest re
gion before emerging on grass land until
Jan. 9. My anxiety about Mr. Jeplison and
Emin would not permit me to dawdle on
on the road.
making double trips
in this manner, so, selecting a rich planta
tion and a good camping site east of the
Ituru river, I left Stairs in command with
124 people, including Parke and Nelson,
and on Jan. 11 continued my march east
ward. The people of the plains, fearing a
repetition of the figliing of De
cember, 1887, flocked to the camp
as we advanced and formally tendered
their submission, agreeing to the contribu
tions and supplies. The blood of brother
hood was made, the exchange of gifts was
made, and a firm friendship established.
The huts of our cam]) were constiucted by
natives, and food, fuel and water were
brought to the expedition as soon
as a halting place was decided on.
We heard no news of white men
on Lake Albert from the plain peo
people until the 16th at a place called Ga
viras. Messengers from Kavalli came with
a packet of letters, with one letter written
on three several dates, with several days’
interval between, from Jeplison, and two
notes from Emin, confirming the news in
Jephson’s letter. You can but imagine the
intense surprise I felt while reading the let
ters by giving you extracts from them in
Sephson’s own words.
Jephson, in his letter from Duffle, dated
Nov. 7, 1888, continued:
When the pasha and I were on our way
to Regaf two men—one an officer, Abdul
Vaal Effendi, and the other a clerk —went
about and told the people they had seen
you, and that you were only an adventurer
and had not come from Egypt: that the let
ters you brought from the khedive and
Lubar were forgeries; that it was untrue
Khartoum had fallen, and that the pasha
and you had made a plot to take them,
their wives and children out of the
country and hand them over as
slaves to the English. Such words in an
ignorant, fanatical country like this acted
like fire among the people, aud the result—
was a general rebellion, and we were made
prisoners. The rebels then collected the of
ficers from the different stations and held a
large meeting here to determine what
measures they should take, and all those
who did not join the movement were so in
sulted and abused that they were obliged for
their own safety to acquiesce in what was
done. The pasha was deposed, and those
officers suspected of being friendly to him
were removed from their posts and those
friendly to the rebels were put in their
places. It was decided to take the pasha as
a prisoner to Regaf, and some of the worst
rebels were even for putting him in irons,
but the officers were afraid to put the plans
into execution, as the soldiers said they
never were to permit any one to lay a hand
on him. Plans were laid •
TO ENTRAP YOU
when you returned and strip you of all vou
had. Things were in this condition when
we were startled by the news that the
Mahdi’s people had arrived at Lado with
three steamers and nine Sandals and Nug
gers and had established themselves on the
site of the old station. Omar Sali, their
general, sent up three peacock dervishes
with a letter to the pasha, demanding the
instant surrender of the country. The rebels
of course, seized them and put them into
prison, and decided on war. After a few
days the Mahdists attacked and captured
Reaaf, killing five officers and numbers of
soldiers and taking many women and chil
dren prisoners and all the stores
and ammunition in the station were
lost. The result of this was a
general stampede of the people from the
stations of Biddons, Kirri and Muggi, who
fled witli their women and children to La
hore, abandoning almost everything. At
Kirri the ammunition was abandoned and
was seized by natives. The pasha reckons
that the Mahdis number 1,500. The officers
and a large number of soldiers have re
turned to Muggi and intend to make a
stand against the Mabdists. Our position
here is extremelv unpleasant, for since the
rebellion all is chaos and confusion. There
is no head, and half a dozen conflicting or
ders are given every day and no one obeys.
The rebels, of course are unable to control
the soldiers. The Barish have joined the
Mahdists. If they come down here with a
rush nothing can save us. The officers are
all frightened at what has taken place and
are anxiously awaiting your arrival, and
desire to leave the country with you, for
they are now really persuaded that
KHARTOUM HAS FALLEN,
and that you have come from the khedive.
We are like rats in a trap. They will nei
ther let us act nor retire; and I fear, unless
you come very soon, yo.u will be too late,
and our fate will be like that of the rest of
the garrisons of the Soudan. Had this re
bellion not happened, the pasha could have
kept the Madliists in check some time, but
now he is powerless to act. I would sug
gest, on your arrival at Kavallis, that you
write a letter in Arabic to Shukri Aga,
chief of the Mswa nation, telling him of
your arrival, and telling him you wish to
see the pasha and myself. Write also to the
pasha or myself, telling us what number of
men you have with you. It would perhaps
be better to write to me, as a letter to him
might be confiscated. Neither the pasha
nor myself think there is the slightest dan
ger now of any attempt to capture you, for
the. people are now fully persuaded that
you have come from Egypt, and they look
to you to get them out of their difficulties.
Still, it would be well for you to make your
camp strong. If we are not able to get out
of the country, please remember me to my
friends, etc.
THE PASHA LIBERATED.
A postscript, dated Nov. 24, says:
Shortly after 1 had written you, the sol
diers were led by their officers to attempt to
retake Regaf, but the Mahdists defended it
and killed skf officers and a large number
of soldiers. Among the officers killed were
some of the pasha’s worst enemies. The
soldiers in all the stations were so panic
stricken and angry at what had happened
that they declared they would not attempt
to fight unless the pasha was set at liberty.
So the rebel officers were obliged to free
him and sent him to Wadelai, where he is
free to do as he pleases, but at present he
has not resumed authority in the
country. He is, I believe, by no means
anxious to do so. We hope in a
few days to be at Tanguru station, on the
lake, two days by steamer from Nsaba, and
I trust when we' hear of your arrival that
the pasha himself will be able to comq
down with me to see you. We hear that
the Mahdists sent steamers down to Khar
toum for reinforcements. If so, they can
not be up here for another six weeks. If
they come up here with reinforcements it
will be all up with us. for the soldiers will
never stand against them and it will be a
mere walk-over. Every one is anxiously
looking for your arrival, for the coming of
the Mahdists has completely cowed them.
We may just manage to get out if you do
not come later than the end of December,
but it is entirely impossible to foresee what
will happen.
SENT FOR REINFORCEMENTS.
Jephson in a second postscript dated Dec.
18, says:
Mogo, the messenger, not having started,
I send a second postscript. We were not at
Tanguru Nov. 25. The Mahdists sur
rounded Duffle station and besieged it for
four days. The soldiers, of whom there
were about 500, managed to repulse them
and they retired to Regaf, their headquar
ters. As they have sent down to Khartoum
for reinforcements they doubtless will at
tack again when strengthened. In our
flight from Wadelai the officers requested
me to destroy our boats and the advances.
I therefore broke them up. Duffle is being
renovated as fast as possible. The pasha is
unable to move hand or foot, as there is
still a very strong party against him, and
officers no longer in immediate fear of the
Mahdists. Do not on any account come
down to us at my former camp on the
lake near Kavallis island, but make your
camp at Kavallis on the plateau above.
Send a letter directly you arrive there, and
as soon as we hear of your arrival 1 will
come to you. I will not disguise facts from
you tliat'you will have a difficult and dan
gerous work before you in dealing with the
pasha’s people. I trust you will arrive be
fore the Mahdists are reinforced or our case
will be deperate.
STANLEY’S ANSWER.
Recalling Emin’s irtdecision wben I left
him whether to quit Wadelai, Stanley con
tinues, be wise, be quick and waste no time.
Bring Buiza and vour own Soudanese with
you. I have read your letters half a dozen
times over, but fail to grasp the situation
thoroughly because, in some important de
tails, one letter contradicts the other. In
one you say the pasha is a close prisoner,
while you are allowed a certain amount of
liberty; in the other you say you will come
to me as soon as you hear of our arrival
here, and “I trust,” you say, “that the pa
sha will be able to accompany me.” Being
prisoners, I fail to see how you could leave
Tanguru at all. All this is not very clear to
us, who are fresh from the bush. If the
pasha can come, send a courier on your ar
rival at our old camp on the lake below
liere’to announce the fact, and I will send a
strong detachment to escort him up to the
plateau, even to carry him if he needs it. I
feel too exhausted after my 1,300 miles of
travel since I parted from you last May to
go down to the lake again. The pasha must
have some pity for me. Don’t be alarmed
or uneasy on our account. Nothing hostile
can approach us within twelve miles with
out my knowing it. I am in the thick
est of
A FRIENDLY POPULATION,
and if I sound a war note, within four hours
I can have 2,OQ£) warriors to assist me to re
pel any force disposed to violence, and if it
is to be a war, why, then I am ready for the
cunningest Arab alive. I have read your
letters half a dozen times, and my opinion
of you varies with each reading. Some
times I fancy you are half Mahdist or
Arabist and then Eminist. I shall be wiser
when I see you. Now, don’t you be per
verse, but obey and let my order to you be
as a frontlet between the eyes, and all, w r ith
God’s gracious help, will end well. I want
to help the pasha somehoiv; but he must
also help me and credit me. On Jan. 16 I
received this batch of letters, two notes from
the pasha himself confirming the
above. But not a word from
either Jephson or the pasha
indicating the pasha’s purpose; did he still
waver, or was he at last resolved with any
other- man than the pasha or Gordon. One
w-ould imagine that being a prisoner, and a
fierce enemy hourly expecting to give the
coup mortal, he would gladly embrace the
first chance to escape from the country
given up by his government, but there was
no hint in these letters what course the
pasha would follow; these few hints of
mine, however, will throw some light on
my postscript, which here follows, and of
my state of mind after reading these letters.
BRAZILIANS ADMITTED.
Credentials of the New Republic’s
International Delegates Accepted.
Washington, Special—ln the Pan-Amer
ican congress to-day a favorable report from
the committee on credentials of the Brazil
ian delegation led to some discussion. Dr.
Nin of Uruguay wanted to know whether
the credentials emanated from the emperor
or from the new government of Brazil. Del
egate Hurtado of Colombia questioned the
propriety of making this inquiry at the
present time; but Dr. Nin insisted that he
could not vote intelligently on the question
of approving the report of the committee
without this information. Senor Romero,
chairman of the committee, then stated that
the credentials originally came from the
emperor, but subsequently, and after the
change of government in Brazil, had been
indorsed by the new government, and the
delegates had been fully empowered to act
for the provisional government. This ex
planation seemed satisfactory to all dele
gates, and the report was adopted unani
mously. The congress then proceeded to
the election of secretaries. F. G. Pierra and
H. Ransom Whiteliouse were nominated by
the foreign and home delegates respective
ly, and were elected to these positions. Mr.
Whitehouse is a citizen of New York, and
is at present secretary of legation at the City
of Mexico. Mr. Pierra is also from New
York, and is connected with the Hpanish-
American Commercial union in that city.
They Are Not Sorry.
New York, Special —The mother of Mrs.
Southworth, who killed Stephen Pettus, ar
rived at the Tombs to-day. “Hannah did
right; the scoundrel got what he deserved,”
wire her first words as she greeted her
daughter’s counsel on entering his office.
The meeting of the mother and daughter
was most affecting. When her mother en
tered the little cell Mrs. Southworth at once
recognized her, and jumping up from her
cot with an exclamation of joy, threw her
arms about the old lady’s neck and burst
into sobbing. “Mamma, I killed him, and
lam not a bit sorry I did it. Are you?” ex
claimed the prisoner. The inquest will be
commenced to-morrow.
Philip D. Armour.
The refusal of Philip D. Armour, to
appear before a congressional com
mittee at Chicago to answer ques
tions about an alleged “beef corn*
bine” and the fact that he will be
compelled to face the music at Wash
ington whether he wants to or not,,
and whether he has been summoned
to appear, brings the world's head
butcher again before the newspaper
reading public.
Mr. Armour is one of the wealthiest
Americans living, and is rapidly add
ing to his “pile.” He is still a com
paratively young man, only about
fifty-one years of age, and began life
under most unpromising conditions.
Shrewd and far-sighted, courageous
and dashing, in him are combined;
the elements of the greatest business
success, and there is no possibilty of
conjecturing how rich Phil Armour
may become. *
When he was a schoolboy at Waters
town Academy, N. Y., he got into
trouble by riding out with a young
girl, also a pupil in that institution,,
and was expelled for the offense.
This misfortune he converted into »
stepping-stone to fortune. Turning
his back upon New York State h»
sought the freedom of the great
West, and after a hard journey, made
in deprivation and interrupted by
serious illness, reached California,.
where he sought gold and found it.
In the course of a few years he had
money enough, made from gold dust,
to start him in business as a pork
packer, in Milwaukee, Wis. Pork
went up to an enormous figure to
wards the end of the war of the Union.
Foreseeing the inevitable collapse of
the Confaderacy Armour sold large
ly, and made a great fortune at a
stroke. A year after he was at the
head of the Chicago business bearing
his name. Many of his transctionß
since that time have bean remark
ably expressive of his sagacity and
pluck. About three years ago he
bought for a million of dollars, the
largest glue factory in the West,
where he works up refuse from his
packing house. When, in the spring,
of 1885, Grant & Ward failed, be
saved Chicago from a threatened
panic. On Wall Street he has made.-
five million dollars by one operations
His wealth is probably among the
scopes of millions.
This powerful financier, the leading
man in Chicago, is of medium height.
and fleshy, but not fat. He lives in »
simple lashion and wears plain ...
clothes, is unpretending in speech and
manner, penial and good natured.
His health is perfect* and he has
seemingly an untiring capacity for
work. The “pig killer’s” residence is
on Prairie Avenue, Chicago. Its ap
pearance does not suggest the wealth
of its proprietor, who strongly pre
fers simplicity to ostentation in
manner of life.
A Fine Distinction:
Those familar with unlearned coun
try folk know that they are not
wanting in ability to analyze and
make a distinction. A lady who was
riding with a New Hampshire farmer,,
and passing a field of newly mown
grass exclaimed: “Oh, how fragrant
that hay smells!” “It smells more of;
hard work,” replied the farmer.
An English rector in a Sussex par
ish once visited a poor old widow,
who had nine or ten children. All of.
them, except one daughter, had gone
out into the world and left her. At
last the daugther married and left
the mother alone.
“Dame,” said the rector, “vow
must feel lonely now, after having had
so large a family.”
“Yes, sir,” she answered, “I do feel
lonesome. I have brought up a largo
family, and now I am living alone.
And I misses 2’em; and I wants ’em?
but I misses ’em more than I wants
’em.”
Cool but Cutting.
They a re telling a story about E.H.
Sothern in New York says the Sun.
He was coming up town in a car
and upon entering, found the car full
though one man to6k more than his
share by stretching bis feet out along
the seat. Sothern held on to the
strap and bore this for awhile, but
when two ladies entered and were
obliged to stand his patience gave
out. Then leaning: over the diffused;
man he said in a clear, loud voice,
with elaborate courtesy, and
with his most honest and innocent-
Dundreary stammer: “Bexcuse
m-me, sir, for addressing you, b-but
I’m very anxious to 1 learn w-what
nerve tonic you take?” A grin
spread over the faces of the passen
gers, the man got red, opened and
shut his mouth two or three times
and then bounced up and left the
car, upon which the actor and the
two ladies sat down, and Sothern
gazed pensively out of the window.