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The Fictitious Valuation of Cereals. How the Price of Grain Is Controlled. Production Really Less Than Consumption. THE HOUSE CODE OF RULES-. Senate Amendments to Receive Prompt Consideration. An Important Move lo Expedite Legislation. Director of the Mint Leech on Silver Coinage. He Is Afraid of the Influx of Foreign Silver in Event of a Free Coinage Act Mr. Bland Says the International Agreement Is an Old Cry Which Meets livery Attempt at Reform Cills Passed hy the Senate Senator Powers 111 Capital Notes. Washington', Feb. 3. Tho committee on agriculture of the houso of representatives today began its series of hearings on the various antioption bills pending in congress. The bill which is most likely to receive the sanction of the houso committee is the one presented by Mr. Hatch, the chairman, defining options and futures, and imposing heavy special taxes on dealers therein. C. "Wood Davis, the well-known statisÜcian of Kan:.:, appeared today in advoeacy of the bi'.I. '"My eo!e business," said he, "is that of a farmer and producer. Finding this business unprofitable 'in recent ver.rs I was impelled to in investigation of the causes sf the depression in prices of farm prodjucts. I started to work procuring data Irom all parts of the world, official and otherwise. I found that up to 1SS4 the world wa3 producing more wheat and breadstuifs than it re juired. A large accumulation took place tne world over, but since 1SS4, if numerical data can be relied upon, the world has produced in but ono year since that time as much wheat as it consumed. ThatyearwaslSST. InlSSlthere were 400,000,000 bushels of wheat piled up in the farms and other granaries of the world, Since that time we have in a sense drawn upon that surplus. Now, it follows logically that when the world is producing less than it consumes, the price of wheat and other breadstulls should increase. Yet euch has not been the case. Why is this? I will not fro into the question of the effect of the tariff" or the currency supply upon the price of thc-Fe commodities. I cannot 5ee that the question of the tarilT aüeets the farmer materially (I am a republican and a protectionist), but it does in some cades. I have no doubt, enhance the cost of necessities." "'ow after the year 1870 there had crown tiD on the boards of trade a system of dealing in fictitious or fiat product. This erstem began with the short selling of gold in Wall street during the war and was carried into the exchanges of the country during the eeveuth decade. It became, so far as I can ltarn, a disturbin? factor about the first of the last decade; that is, after issO. Its induence seems to have grown with the years. The gentlemen on the other side of this question tell us that in order to market farm nroduets of the country we must bavo these new methods. Yet we marketed, I think, more breadstulls and pork relatively to population ten years ago, before this method came into vogue, than we do today. If we were then able to market our products without these methods why can't we do it today? They tell us we can't do it without the money. Hut there is more wealth relatively in this country now than there was fifteen years aco. Recently or.e of the bankers of Chicago told me there was more money tied up in margins on these future sales than would pay for the entire visible and invisible supply of wheat three times over. The heaviest visible impply of wheat wo ewer had was 2,000,00 J bushels. If the invisible supply was another '-:.000,000 burhela then i;J4,0iO.0OO would move this entire crop at 1 cent per bushel. Now the consumption oi the world has overtaken the production. If wheat brought J1.70 per bushel in Britain for the nine years ending in 1874, why should it not bring a good price now with a lessened product per capi'A? It is, I think, because of the otlering of unlimited ficticious amounts on the markets without any regard to the real product. As a matter of fact the pricr-.-of prain are frequently ma le in Chicago by three or four men. I have here a telepram, received the other day, which eays: Tardrize is bigger than the market and ha sold freely all day.' "Now I'ardridire La for the last three or four days dominated the market of Chicago and been able not only to determine the price of wheat there, but the price of wheat in the exchanges all over the world. He has made the price for himelf without regard to the amount pro duced. A young man in Chicago who can raise j2.j0 can throw 10,000 bushels of wheat on the market at any time through this system." "Do you think it is possible to put a stop to this method by national legisla tion; inquired Mr. .Lewis. "I think so. I should not be in "Wash ington if I did not think so. The Butter worth bill, the Hatch bill, the Brosius bill or the Washourne bill in the senate will either of them put a stop to this practice." "You stated," sail Chairmnn Hatch, "that since 1VM4 the ratio of consumption of the world has increased over the production of breadstiiira. Now, since 1K8-1, is it not a fact demonstrated by statistics of the world that we have drawn greatly upon the reserves of breadstuff that had accumulated by reason of other conditions up to that time?" "Yes, sir ; tho writers for all the English journal and economists adsa.t that. The

condition which now exists in Russia is due to the fact that the reserve wheat and rye formerly produced is now exhausted. The famine really existed in eighteen provinces of Uussia before the harvest of the past year, thus showing an entire exhaustion of the reserve." The committee on ugriculture will have hearings daily upon this subject for one week, audience being given to representatives of both sides of the question. Just before the adjournment of the committee II. II. Aldrich, Murray Nelson and others representing the Chicago board of trade spread before the committee a voluminous memorial in opposition to anti-option legislation. The arguments contained in this memorial are chiefly that boards of trade are essential to the marketing of the farmers' produce and that the dealing in options and futures is a stimulus necessary to the maintenance of boards of trade.

QUESTION OF FRttE COINAGE. Director Leech of tho Philadelphia Mint Talk! on Pilver. The house committee on coinage, weights and measures today examined Director Leech of the mint bureau on matters relating to the silver question. Mr. Stone of Pennsylvania began the examination. In answer to Mr. Stone Director Leech eaid his minimum estimate of the production of 6ilver in the Uniti States the last year was 58,000,000 ounces the official estimates would probably exceed that amount. Mr. Stone of Pennsylvania "If we deduct the amount used in the arts and sciences, the American product would bo loss than the government purchases." Mr. Leech replied in the affirmative. The amount of currency in circulation in the United States, he paid, was $24.10 per capita. This was larger than in any country except France. Mr. Stone "Is there, in your judgment, any lack of a circulating medium in this country?" Mr. Leech "No sir; the New York banks hold $:V,COO,000 of idle money over and above their reserves." Mr. Letch, having answered in the negative a question of Mr. Stone as to whether any European paper money was bned on silver, Mr. Biand inquired if he held that there was no country in Europe where paper money was based on silver. Mr. Leech's response was that there was no country in Europe where the paper money was redeemable solely in silver. Mr. Bland read from Secretary Windom's reports, stating the bank of Franco had issued many millions of notes ba.sed on gold and silver deposits, and also where other countries had out similar notes. Mr. Leech insisted that his answer had been with reference to silver r.otes alone. Mr. Williams of Illinois called attention to tho fact that Mr. Leech had eaid there was no country except the United States whose notes were based on silver, and asked if the European countries and the United Statt'3 were not on the same basis in this respect. Mr. Leech admitted that this was eo and that here, as in Europe, the notes were bated on both gold and silver. Mr. Williar.s asked it he regarded the issuance of silver certificates to circulate instead of the silver dollars as any obstacle to free coinage. Mr. Leech replied in the negative, and said ho thought the notes preferable. The issuance of gold notes was open to the same objection, but not to the same extent as in th j case of the silver notes, as they could be circulated easier. Mr. Williams inquired why Mr. Leech thought silver coius ot other countries would be dumped here if wo adopted free coinage. Mr. Leech "I think European silver would come here in ehiD loads just as fast as it could be brought in. I think the Eank of France would eend a largo part of its 2."j.s,f 00,000 of silver here. Belgium, would do the same." Mr. "Williams wanted to know how silver coin could bo dumped here when they were in need abroad for circulation in the countries having it. Mr. Leech ' There ia more of it in domestic circulation than is needed. The people reject it and it natnrally gravitates into the vaults of banks, where it is used tor the issue of notes. Resides this is not a question of any slight loss. It is a question of standard of sound currency. All Europe ia practically on a gold standard, partly from choice and partly from necessity. The countries of Hurope are inclined to adapt themselves to the old standard, and I do not believe any loss of a small per cent, would stand in the way of their doing that. Resides they believe it would be a temporary measure; that we could not suetain free coinaee of silver, and that it would be to their interest to täte advantage of it while Ave were making the experiment. That, in my judgment, is the belief of European financiers." To Mr. Bland, Mr. Leech said that he believed the silver would come here as long as wo exchanged gold for it. The shipments would cease when we got on a silver basis. Wo wovld be compelled to pay tho ehippers gold because they could get lecal tender notes, which were practically interconvertible with gold. Mr. Bland suggested that the proposition of Mr. Lett h was that the people of Europe Mould t.ike tho silver from home, where it would buy as much as gold, admilting that it was not worth as much for foreign transactions, and sell it here, where they cou'd not buy as much for it as at home. Mr. Leech insisted that would bo the case because of a desire of Europe to get on a gold basis, and said Austria was contemplating that very thing. Mr. Rland sid that so was Germany contemplating it, but she stopped soon. A querry by Mr. Johnson as to whether or not the United States had any agent abroad with a view of learning the sentiment toward bi-metallism and an international agreement led tho discussion into the field of international agreement. Mr. Leech's reply to the question propounded by Mr. Johnson was that we had requested certain gentlemen who were gofng to travel in Europe and who had a social and financial standing, enabling them to talk with public officers and financiers, to learn the probabilities of some international agreement being secured. Those gentlemen had nothing but a general letter from the treasury department. They received no compensation. Several letters had been received from them and laid bofore the president within the pist few months. England had shown a disposition to act favorably. He (Mr. Leech) ' would regard an international agreement as a very great benetit to ail mankind. Mr. Rland said that it was his experience that for twenty years, every time a free coinage was talked of they had been told to wait for an international agreement, but none had ever come. Sir. K. D. Stark of Cleveland, O., then presented an argument in favor of free coinage. Col. IIerandit. wlin ota. rprAntlv mn. 1 deraned to death by a court martial at Monterey for sympathizing with Garza, made an attempt to escape and was shot by a guard.

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With Fifteen Thousand Seating Capacity The Democratic National Convention Will Meet. SHEERIN ON THE GROUND. He Will Representthe Committee for the Present. Sub-Committees on Arrangement Appointed. The Two Factions of Connecticut's Divided House of Representatives Hold Independent Sessions Ex-Senator Tabor's Free Silver Resolutions The Kansas Alliance Officially Declares That Thero Is No Such Thins as an Alliance Ticket Political Notes. Chicago, Feb. 3. The local committee of democrats to provide for the coming national convention has at last abandoned alll hope in securing the interstate exposition building in which to hold the convention. Chairman Hessing of the committee has been informed by the architects that the use of tho exposition building would delay the construction of tho new art institute building which must be built on the exposition building site before the world's fair opens. This information has had tho effect of putting a stop to ali talk of the exposition building, and tho committee has decided to build a wigwam capable of seating 13,000 people. A committee, consisting of H. E. "Wilkinson, Charles Kern, "Walter Bogle and J. "W. Richards, was appointed to select a site. It is probablo that tho portion of the lake front to the north of Rattery I) may be decided upon. The wigwam will cost at least $27,000. Simon P. Sheerin, secretary of tho democratic national committee arrived tonitriit at the Palmer houso, and will remain for several days upon business connected with the coming national convention. Just before leaving home Mr. Sheerin received a dispatch from Chairman Price, dated Washington, announcing his appointments for the sub-committees to have charge of the arrangements for the convention. This power was given him at tho meeting of the national committee on Jan. 21. Mr. Price announced tho following members of the general sub-committee, of which he wili himself be chairman: Simon 1. Sheerin of Indiana, E.T. Phelps of Illinois, Senator Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland, Michael Doran of Minnesota, Arthur Sewtll of Maine and A. T. Holt of Texas. The appointees on tho transportation committee are J. J. Richardson of Iowa, chairman; Li C. Wall of Wisconsin and Senator Johnson Camdea of Webt Virginia. "Mr. Price telegraphs me that it will be impossible for him to leave Washinizton just at this time," said Mr. Sheerin. "For the present I will represent the committee in doing what can be done in the way of suggestions here in Chicago. There is really no necessity for the committee to do anything until a hall for the convention has been decided upon." THE CONNECTICUT MUDDLE. Eitch of ttte IloniM Holds an Independent Self ion. Hartfokd, Conn., Feb. 3. The bouse of representatives met at 1 p. m. Only ten members were present, nine republicans and one democrat. Many of the democratic representatives were present in the capitol, but did not enter the hall, following out the courae of reasoning they pursued yesterday. They do not recognize that the house could meet at 1 p. m. today, tney themselves having adjourned till 2 p. in. today. In calling the house to order Speaker Paige used the words, "The legally constituted bouse of the state of Connecticut will come to order." After the roll-call he ndjourned the house until tomorrow at 9 a. m. The republicans immediately went into caucus. During the intermission between the adjournment of Speaker Paige's houso and the meeting of the minority house the I journal of yesterday s minority proceedi ings was distributed by Mr. Walker. It I is dated "Eichth Day," thus recognizing the long ' first day" of the session. "Walker's Journal" created a great deal of comment. "When 2 o'clock arrived there were more spectators present than at any time for the past six weeks. A telegram dated Albany, N. Y was received. It read : "Speaker Callahan, hold the fort. Rank on the constitution. Roüekt P. Brsn, Speaker New York Assembly." Tho big crowd which had gathered to see the proceedings of the "Walker House" were disappointed if they expected anything sensational. Minority Speaker Callahan called the house to order when Mr. Walker at once moved an adjournment until tomorrow at 2 p. m. Adjourned. For ni.Mete.mc Coinage. Denver, Feb. 3. At a meeting of the chamber of commerce here tonight exEenator Tabor introduced the following; resolution which was unanimously agreed to: On account of tho unjust discrimination! against the use of silver ia the money currency of the world e.nt henenae tt IK. !..;. - I .u I great political parties to take decisive stand upon iut) question oi uiver coinage, tbereloro be it Resolved, I?y the chamber of commerce and board of trade of Denver, that all political parties be and they are hereby urged to declare ia favor of bi-metalio coinage at all of their oonventiom errat and small, eml t deleyatei and representatives to ua all honoruie means ior me insertion in their sta'a and national party platforms of a pledge for tha free and unlimited coinage of eilver. Lesolved. 'that all commercial organizations throughout the United States and they are hereby requested to co-operate in this pood cause which we believe to be for the interest of the whole country. No .Alliance Ticket. Tor-EKA, Kas.t Feb. 3. The official organ of the farmers' alliance in this state published by the executive committee of the order, thu week contains statements ( authorized by the executive ' committee I showing the distinction between the hoo

pla's party anC the alliance. The two organizations are, tho committee so 6tates, entirely separate, the people's party being outaide and independent of the alliance. The statement oüicially declares thct there is no Euch thing as an alliance ticket. Political Notes. Charles Jd'Autremont, democrat, was elected mayor of Duluth, Minn., by 500 plurality. The council stands eight republicans and four democrats. The Btate farmers' alliance has been organized in Madison, Wis., as an opposition to the secret society political party orgaaization by that name. It is a branch of that seceding part of the national alliance which held a meeting in Chicago recently. THE BOODLE CAMPAIGN.

Opinions of Various Papers on "The Sentinel's" Ilecent Revelations. IChlcngo Times, Pec 13.1 The Times prints this morning an interview which will be published by Tiiq' INDIANAPOLIS Sentinel today concerning the methods by which Indiana was carried for Harrison in 1SSS and the means taken to cover up their crime by men high in the ranks of republicanism. It is true that Dudley mapped out the campaign and raised the money to be used in buying the blocks of five, but it is not pretended that he handled the money. This active management of the work was confided to men close to tho presidential candidate, if this statement of a prominent republican be correct. And there are many Chicagoans who recall their surprise when told by a prominent official that the people would never know the full Bcopo of the frauds perpetrated in the last presidential election. They were wor83 than the crimes by which Hayes was seated and the people cheated out of their rights to a decent administration. This is a story of corruption that raises Dudley so far above the greater scoundrels as to relieve him of a portion of tho odium under which ho has rested. As Shylock has been more respected since the action of the money lords in this country during the rebellion, so will Dudley receive some measure of respect in that he rro longer serves as the illustration of tho lowest degradation. It ia a pitiful story, but reflects no more of republican knavery than has been apparent in the open sessions of congresn and in the secret meetings of tho ways and means committees. When it is admitted that a speaker sustained by a fraudu'ent majority has secured the passage of law and tho adoption of reports through the conniving of members proved to have been outside the District of Columbia at the time, there need be Lttlo surprise at the revelations of corruption in the action of the president iu whose personal interest the crime was committed. In Washington it was openly boasted that in the force bill were a hundred tariffs. The organ making tho boast understood the intent- of the Lodgo in lamy. Its editors believed the people would submit to the urt ater as they had borne the leest-r outrages. They assumed that if the people would not rebel when learning of the election of Garlield through the use of money boldly stolen from the public treasury, if they would submit to the rule of scoundrels placed in power by a proved and coufosse'd purchase of the voters of Indiana, if they would consent to the representation of a minority in the state of New York, they would not rebel when the logic of past frauds was practiced in the attempt to fasten republican misrule on thein for all time. This is not a matter of mere partisanship. It is not a question of higher or lower tariff, or of free coinage, or the maintenance of the gold standard. It is eomething that will demand the best at tention of ihe citizens of all parties who value the institutions for which many sacrifices have been made and in which the hopes of mankind for advanco in civilization are placed. It is not true that any lartre number of republicans wiil couutenance wrong even, for tho benefit of their party. Tho people may be relied upon to defend their rights when convinced of the danger. Not a half-dozen wars with small powers like Chili will serye to divert attention from the frauds traced direct to the president and his advisers. He may think to have established a safeguard by the elevation of his tools, Miller and Woods. Rut, unfortunately for the president, there nro men living with indubitable proofs of the causes which led to the placing of his accomplices in positions of power and responsibility. Mr. Harrison will doubtless deny the story thus given to the public. Rut his voice will be hushed when ha discovers the source of The Sentinel's information. . WITH A VERY TARRY STICK. All Polittcad Ktsc&ls of All Stripes Should He UoMtrthefi. Richmond Independent. The Indianapolis Sentinel yesterday in an expose of the campaign secrets of 1S8S paints President Harrison with a very tarry stick. Rut after all there is nothing so very surprising about The Sentinel's chargoa, for it must indeed bo a very gullible person who could be induced to believe that the political rascality that existed in this state then was without Candidate Harrison's knowledge, and in all probability, consent Candidates who would object to it aro about as plentiful as snowballs at the equator. Election is all they caro for, and if every other voter in tha state cast his ballot for a two-dollar bill, so the majority of them were for his side, he would never dream of corruption. What is peculiar about! this particular case is that Dudley and other republicans have been Harrison's scapegoats as Ion? as they propoio to, and now want to demonstrate tnat he is as much an lS-karat political trickster and rascal as they. Go ahead, eentlemen; you have our undivided permission, and before you linish we hope you will mako this thing eo popular that all political rascals of whatever political stripe will ba positively unearthed. IHK STATEMENTS STARTLING And What Is Thought of County. Tliim In Clay Drazil Democrat. Interviews with prominent republicans re printed in The Indianapolis Sentinel disclos Bing some secrets of the campaign oi The Sentinel editorially vouches for the absolute authority of the reporls of . i a ; Tl.. ,.tt. 4 - - 1 lueso inter viu wo. iiaiciut iu.') lutu are startling, implicating the president in hand ing of the corruption funds. One of the gentlemen interviewed is quoted as saying "Dudley wrote the 'blocks-of-live' letter, it is true, but hf never touched a dollar of the money raised to convert floaters to Harrison, lie mapped out the campaign and indicated where the money could bo had. Can President Harrison and Attorney-General Miller say as much? They would not dare say upon oath that corruption money did not touch their fingers, ior there are too many people living in this stata who remember that Law

Partner Miller attended personally to the distribution of the money to the various counties. Mr. Miller himself handed the allotment to the representative from my county. I was prosent at the time. In one instance, I am told, there was a disagreement as to the amount a certain county should receive and Mr. Harrison settled the matter."

HARRISON'S SHAME. Tho Disclosures Sized Up hy a Micldcan Fa per. Detroit Frea rrei. The Indianapolis Sentinel, publishe! at President Harrison's home, came out yesterday morning with some startling disclosures as to how that infamous boodle campaign of 1RSS was run in the state of Indiana. TnE Sentinel vouches editorially for the absolute accuracy of its exhaustive report, giving as its authority two bright and stalwart republicans, ono of them a close and stanch friend of Judge Gresham. They picture Dudley, who wrote tho blocks-of-five letter, with saintly attributes as compared with President Harrison, Attorney - General Miller and Judge Woods of uusavnry fame. Dudley's wonderful genius as a political manipulator is conceded. He planned the corrupt schemes by which the lioaters and the discontents were bought up for Harrison, but, according to these republican authorities, handled none of the money. He it was who started the report that an army of Kentucky repeaters were on their way to the Indiana border, and thus secured contributions from republican business men who had before refused financial aid. He had secret agents in every township looking up the doubtfuls and kept the practical workers at headquarters posted. Put the same republicans, who have gradually learned of Harrison's part in tho great fraud, and turned their backs upon him. say that Miller handled the money, that Harrison advised the use of it, and that the man who is now president of the L'nited States induced Juduro Woods to reverse tho charge jwhich would have convicted Drfdley. This was done after it had been determined to make a scapejoat of him, but Dudley carried about too much damaging information with him. The president has paid the price of perfidy to his allies, and now more than ever should therjuebtiou of Judge Woods' confirmation by the senate be considered in open session. that villainous campaign. Pauley liaised the Snap Harriion and Milter Were In It. Ar.3orsoa Democrat. The Indianapolis Skntinel contains three columns of what puroorts to be a true statement of tho manner in which the "boodle campaign" ia Indiana was run in 188. The statements were made by two republicans, whose high standing, "politically, socially, personally and professionally," The Sentinel vouches for, edi torially. The statements of these two men nre sensational in the extreme and enough to startle the most stolid. They give a detailed account of that villainous campaign, as conducted by the republicans, and place Harrison at the heal and front of the whole oflending. He, according to these two republicans, was manatrer-in-chief and gave directions as to the disposal of the boodie. The entire expose is a startling pieco of business, and if true, places Harrison in an attitude before tne country, in comparison with which, that of Hayes, the receiver of a stolen presidency, was and is comparatively praiseworthy. Dudley and his agents raised the "soap," Miller, Harrison's law partner, took chnrge of it, and Harrison advised where it should be placed. And in order that tho men who used it might not be seat to the penitentiary, Wods. changed decisions and smoothed the pathway of the boodiers out of the whole outrageous busineps. Woods is indeed a nice man to appoint to a circuit judgeship. A Serious Ctiatrsn. White County Democrat. The Indianapolis Sentinel contained the statement of two prominent republicans in which it was stated that "every man who received a 'blocks-of-five' letter is in onice today;" also that while Dudley mapped out the campaign "Law Partner" Miller handled the boodle. Kepublicans must indeed be feeling sore toward each Other when they make such bold chargos against each other, and that, too, to a leading democratic newspaper. Alter all. however, this information is ouly corroborativo of what was conceded to be the fact at the close of the campaign in 1SSS and emphasized when Judge Woods changed his charge to the grand jury. But what kind of a civil service reform president is it that will turn and leave the room when boodle is to be distributed, remarking that "it micht be as -veil if I am not present when the money is paid?" These are serious chargos, serious enough if made by democrats, but when made by republicans, by men who were on tho insida and who know of tho corruption practiced in 1SSS, they become more so and are well worth the consideration of all who believe in honest elections, honest men and honest government. All II Fft .lobs. Iltrtford City Telegram. The Indianapolis Sentinel has tho "happy faculty" of unearthing dark republican trickeiy. Monday it contained interviews with two prominent republicans, who told of the way tho state was carried in 188. Their statements are not new, for the villainy of Dudley's blocks-oi-fivo scheme that thoy elaborated on is well known ta every democrat in tho state. Harrison and his law partner, now Attorney-General Miller, dealt out tho boodle in Indiana, and it was Harrison himself who influenced Judge Woods to reverse his first charge in the Dudley rase, because Dudley threatened to explode something if made a scapegoat of. No wonder that Benjamin Harrison wants this man Woods on tho supreme bench, and little wonder that all his henchmen who received blocks-of-five letters are now warming Beats of lucrative federal positions. Tho "Journal's" Discretion. MaJifon Herald. 1 The Journal's reply to the revelations of tho boodle campaign of 18S8, furnished The Sentinel by two prominent republicans, is entirely characteristic of that very peculiar i.epspaper. The Journal does not go to the trouble to disprove the interviews, or even deny the truth of them. It is content to denounce them as "preposterous." This answer is not very ingenious, but it is wise. Never Ileitch Ilottom. iFranlfort Crescent The Indianapolis Sentinel is dlvinjr into past political history by publishing the secrets of the republican campaign in this 6tate in 1S83. It will never reach the bottom. The Elder and the Grand Jury, rost-Dispstsu. Elder Harrison is in no dancrer of a church trial, but if this story from'lndianapolls has a grain of truth the grand iurr may have speech with him.

POISONED HIS GIRL WIFE.

YOUNG CARLYLE HARRISON FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER. Details of tho Crime and Fast Act! of Harrison Showing Ills Relations with His Wife Little Time Occupied by tho Jury KCot of the Verdict on Harrison's S lather. New York, Feb. 2. For nearly a month young Carlyle Harrison has been on trial for his life, charged with having poisoned his girl wife, who at the time of her death wps the inmate of a fashionable boarding school for young women in this city. Her name was Helen Potts. The marriage of the two had been kept secret, but the mother of tho girl learned of it and had pressed young Harrison, a medical student, to fix a time when the marriage of her child should be made known. That time was closo at hand when tho young woman died of morphine poisoning. Fifteen days later, rumors of foul play having crept about the Jersey town where the dead girl's home bad been, she was dug up and an autopsy was made. Morphine was found in her system. Then the young man was arrested.the marriage was announced ; he admitted having given her capsules of morphine and quinine as a nervine, but tried to cat the blame of his wife's death tfpon the drujtrist who prepared the capsules upon Harrison's prescription. It transpired that the young woman had been, before her demise, brought close to death by one or more criminal operations made by Harrison. On tho trial which has just ended, it transpired that when the young wife wa3 almost in extremis on one of these occasions Harrison was engaged in libertine orgies with other women, notably in Canaandaigua, X. Y. Evidence that he had wished to b) rid of his girl wife, and that ho dreaded his family should know of his marriage, was introduced. It was proven that he had betrayed other young women and that he had boasted of this power with girls. Much expert testimony has been introduced, tne defense Eeeking to convince tho jury tLat the young wife died of heart disease. Finally at 5:00 o'clock tonight the case was given ta the jury and at 10 :'.10 they returned, the foreman announcing: "Guilty of murder in the first degree." Mrs. Harrison shrieked and fell to the floor. "My God," she cried, "where is justice?" "There i3 no justice on this earth," replied Harrison's younger brother, who held his mother in his arms. "It's a lie that he is guilty, and from such men a3 these," moaned the griefstricken woman. Tho convicted murderer turned to comfort his mother. "Carl is all right," he whispered to her. "There, mother, it is only for time. This won't stand." "The recorder did it," cried Mrs. Harrison. The woman was utterly overcome and it was some time before her younger son and other relatives were able to tako her from tho court-room. The recorder thanked the jury for tho attention they had iven to ttie case, and said that Irom the evidence, he did not see how any othcrverdict could have been found. 2sev York, Feb. 3. The counsel for Carlyle V'. Harris, the wife-poisoner, convicted last night, did not placo him on the witness stand in his own behalf durinc the trial, and the reason was made apparent today when, having fastened on Harris tho murder of the beautiful end confiding youug woman, the prosecuting attorneys made public a statement of the murderer's double life for the paet half dozen years. Assistant District Attorneys Wedman and Sims, on whom devolved the labor of gat herin together the muss of facts that proved Harris' guilt to the jury, were prepared to bring; out the 6ad details of a bad record had Harris gone on the stand. Following are briefly stated some of these alleged clearly ascertained facts in the young man's career: Toward the end of the first week of Harris' trial, a gentleman living in Connecticut sent a letter to Mr. Wellman telling him that he was interested in the newspaper reports of the trial and that he could narrate some peculiar stories about a young man named Harris which mighi bo of. use in the trial. Mr. Wellman at once telegraphed the Conneticut man, whose name is withheld, to coo.e to New York, which the latter did, arriving in the city last Saturday week. He told Mr. Wellman that about seven years ago ho was acquainted with a young girl named Lula Yauzandt, who had been married at the age of fourteen to a young man named Charles Harris, who was then sixteen years old, and that tha marriage took plr.ee in this city. Within a fortnight the girl-wife discovered that her husband's first name was Carlyle. lie took her to Brooklyn to live. Her paients were residents of Plainfield, X. J. Tho Conneticut man said that Harris was wellborn and had an uncle who was a famous physician, (Harris' grandfather. Dr. McCready, was probably the physician refer red to). The pair, it is affirraod, left Prooklyn soon afterward and went to livo in Connecticut, when the young wife, it is said, soon detected her husband in an intrigue with another girl. In disgust she left him andjretiirned to this city.when afterward a criminal operation was performed. She subsequently consulted a lawyer here about obtaining a divorce from Harris, who had then disappeared. A search was made for this girl and it was found that she had been living with her mother in Ii Ninety-second-st, for three years, bat had left there a year ago. It was also discovered that other parties had been looking for this girl a few days previously. These are supposed to be the emissaries of tho defendant then upon the trial. Inspector Lymes' detectives finally found the girl at Perth Amboy, N.J., where she was found to be a physical wreck from the operation performed on her. Nothing, however, could induce her to come to New York to testify against Harris, who had threatened her so she lived in perfect terror of him. To the district attorney it was also affirmed that Harris became engaged to the daughter of a Kentucky clergyman about two or three months after his secret marriage to Helen Potts. A letter was received at the district attorney's office today from a well-known citizen who stated that about the time of Helen Potts' death he saw Harris flirting with a girl on a Broadway car as both rode down town one morning. During Harris' engagement to Helen Potts he wanted to engage himself I to a young lady in Aebury Park, who was

aware of his prior engagement. She said to him. "What are you going to do abouS Helen Potts r Harris replied: "Oh, I am tired of hei and want to shake her." About the same time Harris is said to have betrayed a girl at Asbury Park. It is stated that he was also engaged to marry a young lady !iv'.ng in Brooklyn, who was a cloee friend of his mother. It has also been learned that Harris wronged a servant girl in this city who, ia 188'J, gave birth to a child in one of tha city hospitals. When she got well enough to leave the institution she was pennilest and appealed to Harris who had, meantime, been secretly married to Helen Potta. Harris gave her a trifie and told her ta "get rid of the child" by leaving it oa some doorsten. In July, 1890, Harris is said to have gone to a lawyer and sought his advice about getting a divorce from Heien Potts. This was about the time he performed tho operation which nearly caused her death. Harris was at one time employed as a purser on the Old Dominion eteamshin line, and the officers tell many tales about his habits. It is eaid that his mother once told Mrs. Totts, Helen's mother, that Carlyle had bec-n a constant source of trouble to her all his life, and hi a brother, McCready Harris, told Mrs. Potts that Carlyle was 'a "polished villain," and that he could not be trusted. MYSTERIOUS MURDERS.

Five Persons Killed Apparently by tha Same Hand No Cine. Johnstown, Pa., Feb. 3. Nothing since the awful flood in the spring of 1S9 baa caused so much alarm as a series of mysterous murders that have been committed within a radius of twelve miles. Apparently all the five murders were done by one hand, but so far detectives have been unable to discover its owner. On Dec. 4 the body of a well-dressed man was found in the woods near Gallitzin, with a bullet hole in his head. The remains were those of a prosperous looking man. The theory of suicide, which at first prevailed, was dispelled by tha position in which the body vas found. No clue could be obtained to his identity and he was buried. A week later the body of another man was found about twelve miles away with a hole through his he ah About tais time it m as learned that George Myers, a prosperous citizen of Frugality, had disappeared and the body was identified as his. Myers had 'X) on his person when he left home and he had been murdered for money. Iess than a week ago the decomposed body of another man was found in the woods near Bethel. The clothes were of good quality but nothing could be discovered to establish his identity. The horrible butchery of old man Krinq and his wife and the cremation of their bodies a few nights ago, is attributed to tho same mysterious murderer. He ii evidently hiding in the mountains ready to pounce upon any victim whom he supposes has money. DEADLY FEUD. Several Persons Killed Struggle for Possession of Land. Milan, Tenn., Feb. 2. For a long time a feud has existed in tho Cedar Grove community between Parteeta and Landons and as a result John Parteet shot and killed FrankLandon. Sheriff Fursett and two deputies,. who went in search of John Parteet, met with a stubborn resistance, in which Fursett was killed and Thomas Parteet fatally wounded, dying soon afterward. Caled Parteet. the father of the boys, gave a deed of trust on his land to an attorney to defend the boys. The lawyer allowed him to use the land until his death a ehort time eince. The lawyer attempted to take possession, w hen the remaining son, Henry, barricaded the house and guarded the property day and night. MORRIS WITHDRAWS. He TTonld Not Accept tho Lottery Amendment. New Orleans, Feb. 3. John A. Morris today issued a letter in which he states that in the spring of 1SSS he was approached by a number of prominent democrats who urged him to present to the state legislature a constitutional amendment which would give him lottery privileges in consideration of which he was to pay the state $5( 0,000. This be subsequently increased to f 1,250,001 So much opposition has since developed to it and the U. S. supreme coart having decided that tho anti-lottery postal law is unconstitutional, he has now decided to withdraw his oiler, and he farther states that he would not accept or qualify under the amendment if it was adopted at the general election. CHINESE REBELS OVERTHROWN, Three Hundred Killed and a Loir go Number Killed. San Francisco, Feb. 2.The Chinese papers just received by steamer announce the issuance of an imperial decree announcing the overthrow of rebels at Ngo Hon Chi and Heia Chang Kao in northern China. Tho decree states that tha forces under Gen. Niex Szehing and others made a combined attack at Pa Tsz Fu. The town was carried by 6torm and Wang Ching and other rebels captured. Cavalry pursued the fleeing rebels, killing 300 of them and capturing a large number of guns and ammunition. Wane Fan and two other rebel officers were killed on the field of battle, as were also 1C0 rebels who were hunted down and put to the sword without reserve. WITH THREE SATCHELS. A Crank Who Wants Money ACtc Jay Gould.

New York, Feb. 3. A crank with threa satchels visited the Western Union building today and tried to see Jay Gould. Ha declared that he had a great plan to unfold to the wizard, and he wanted $1,500,000 cash and wanted it today for hU plan. He was finally told that Mr. Goul4 had gone away and could not be seen for a week, and he went away mournfully after defining his plan to be the bui.din of a city at Center tirove. N. J. Ho gavej his name as Lphraim Pine cud his rcci denes as MilivLlla. N. I. j