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Republicans Preparing to Get Rid of Him By Depriving Him of Vote in Convention. Southern Representation to Be Reduced. THE COMMIHEE'S WORK. Blalno Men Easily Control the Organization And Could Elect Clarkson if Ho Would Accept. ChrlsMagee and Nels Huston the Candidates. Minneapolis People Greatly Disappointed in the Convention and Its Results No Such Crowds as Had Been Kxpected Office-Holders to Be Barred from Future Conventions Tiig Prices Paid for the Votes of Xecro Delegates, "Who Are Now Having a Glorious Time Harrison's Badges Made or English Tin None but Cleveland Badges to Be Made for Chicago The Columbia Club Puts Up a. Job on Ithody Shiel Gossip About the Convention Heid Does Some Talking. Minneapolis', June 11. Special. The republican crowd has disappeared like magic. The hotel lobbies tonight are deserted; ail the delegates have cone away with the exception of the negroes, who have gone to Minnetonka, where they are splurging in great shape oa Benjamin's money. They are drinking nothing but champagne. One of the lot from Texas was boasting in the West bar-room this moraine that he had been offered $1,800 to vote for Blaine, when an Alabamian of the same color who had been unseated exclaimed: "You'se a chump; why didn't you take it?" "'Cause Tee got $2,000 to vote foah Harrison," triumphantly exclaimed tho Texan. An Arkansas colored delegate, who was no "chump" either, had a great echeme, which he outlined thus: "I knows a house in St. Louis that can be bought foah 110,000." Pid you get that much for your tots?" interrupted the Texan. No, I didn't, but I got moah." You did?" "You just wait I'ae done talkin'" anewered the Arkanean. "This yeah house is right 'mong 'ristocrats in what they call a place. You see a place is whan only high-toned white republicans lire. Now I put in $1,000, you put In another $1,000 and we get tight more delegates to put $1,000 a piece. That makes $10,000. Now get an tgent to buy the house for youse. Then 6 move in that house three or four colored families wif many chillun. We five can rent free and they take in washing and whitewashing. Them .ristocrats will hold up their noses and be foah Ions they buys that house for $20,000. Then we go on with the business and play tue same trick in other cities. You see?" "Can't go in business now," remarked the Texan. "I need rest and I am going to the sea shore to spend the summer." Perhaps tbeee colored men will never get another opportunity to acquire capital ji national conventions At the meeting of the national committee laat night there was an informal discussion on the subject of throwing overboard the solid South in their conventions. Without tho colored delegates of tho South Harrison would have been 100 in the minority ; without the vote of the federal office-holding delegates Harrison would hare been 103 voted short of a majority. TLe national committee, still in the ranks of the antis and Clarkson, says that the next convention wilt be composed f delegates apportioned to states according to the number of republican votes cast As it is now, the southern states with scattering' votes from the North control the republican conventions. An apportionment based on the number of votes cast would dprive hundreds of colored patriots of their quadrennal revenues. Mr. Clarkson said that a rule will also be adopted making federal office-holders ineligible to feats in the convention. These two reforms mutt be accomplished or the party will coon be destroyed by the office-holders and the negroes. The prompt seating of Committeeman Youngblood from Alabama last night by the national committee if recognized as an inti-Harrison victory. The Clarkson kttion on this test vote had eight majority. Huston of Indiana voted with the L nine crowd. Clarkson could hare the chairmanship again, but he does not want it for the reason that he believes that Harrison cannot be elected, and his defeat would not help Clarkson much. The Flame men are inclined to force it upon him again, but it is thought that when they have cooled down some they will aliow Harrison to name a chairman who is in eympathy with him. In such vent Chris Magee of Pennsylvania wi.l probably be the roan. Huston is already making a fight for the place and it would not be surprising if the Blaine men would elect hina juat for ipite. Harrison does not want him; he thinks Huston too small for the p'ace.but be could not well afford to kick against an Indiana man. John C. New on leaving this morning raid that he had returned to attend to some private business and having done so he would make a bee line for London. Micbener and the rest of the boomers. Including Khody Shiel, left for Indiana this evening. P.hodv intended to return ,trith the Columbia club last nkht. but.

they deceived him as to the time o! departure and he got left. As a member explained it, "Khodv would drive us wild continually explaining how 'me and Chauncey fixed it op for Ben.'" Ithody says Chauncey Depew was hia best lieutenant on the floor. Khody boasts that he won $2,000, but when some one offered to put up $100 that be could not name the man from whom he won the money Khody backed out. The fact is that McDonald of Fort Wayne bluffed him off several times. The chief of the badtr o and campaign button brigade, who, as the representative of a Chicago firm, has supplied the peddlers of badges at four national conventions, La a large stock of Harrison badges on hand. He controlled the badge stand at the West himself. In conversation with mo today he said: "I sold all the Blaine badges 1 had on hand before Harrison's nomination. I could not sell Harrison badges. The Indiana committee bought 10,000 badges, which they gave away. They cave me some to dispose of, but nobody called for them. Since the nomination I have euld quite a number of Harrison badged and buttons, but nothing compared to the Bales we made four years ago. I had 8,000 badges on hand, and as Boon as Harrison was nominated I sold them alt. Eixtv-two were sold to members of the Fort Wayne club. It seems that the radical Blaine men want Cleveland badges.' An office-holder from Washington then interrupted our conversation by picking up a large tin button with "Harrison aod Protection" stamped on it, and remarked: "Of course this is American tin. How much? All rignt, here's your 10 cents." When the Harrison man had lixed his button and paid for it the badge man said : "That button is made in Chicago, but w ith imported tin." "What! You have the impudence to cell an English button? Here take it back, you free trader. Why don't you uso American tin?" "Because no American tin has vet been made,'2 replied the badge man. "This has been the smallest convention in point of crowd that I ever 6aw," continued the badge man to me, "I estimate that outside of Minnesota only 10,000 men attended. We have made great preparation for Chicago. This badge business ia a risky one. 1 am stuck here with 5,000 Algers. Our house in Chicago has been watching the drift carefully and we will not make any other than Cleveland badges and buttons. We expect to sell 100,000 of them." "Won't you have any Hill badges?" I asked. "No. We could not sell them, and none but Tammany hall men would wear them. They will come with their own badges," he replied. "It would not pay to go into any but the Cleveland badge business." The people of Minneapolis are disappointed over the result of the convention. They wanted Blaine, and many openly boast that they will vote for Cleveland if nominated. They are disappointed too because the crowd was so small. The committee on accommodations wanted thousands of families to purchase beds and cots and furniture, to board and lodge the visitors. The result is that most of these people .went, in debt and did not lodge a single person. The books of tho committee on information ehow that 23,000 mere people coul 1 have been accommodated. The saloons, however, did a rushing business. While passing the ealoan of Lamooreux late last night I was etopped by the propietor, who invited me to take a drink. "But I don't know you," I remonstrated. "It makes no difference ; you are from Indianapolis, that is enough for me," he insisted. "How do you know I am from Indianapolis?" "Because you have a Columbia club badge on, and I am stuck on that club. Its members were my beet customers. Hurrah for Harrieon." He was wearing a Columbia club badge, too, which he explained ho had been compelled to take in payment of around of drinks, amounting to $1, ordered by a member who was busted. The Alabama delegation was inside, and this alone would have been enough to induce me to decline had I been disposed to accept. They were shooting craps or explaining how they nominated Harrison, from the noise they made. "We must control the patronage of the state and no white men shall get a place," was the only intelligible sentence overheard through the screened door. "That's what John C. New promised," remarked another. Whether caused through the patronage of the Columbia club or the administration of Harrison, it is a fact that the only business places with Harrison's pictures in the windows are the saloons. 1. II. P. ALL QUIET NOW.

Th Crowd IIa Almost Departed from Minneapolis. Minneapolis, June 11. The echoes of last night's hurrahing for Harrison a id Keid were still to be heard in Minneapolis today, Tho crowds hurrying to tho trains, the floral arches still standing and flutterng banners were all a reminder of the exciting scenes which accompanied the nomination of the republican presidential ticket. The executive committee of the National league of republican clubs and the committees to notify tho successful nominees of their selection to lead the republican hosts in November were in session at the West hotel. The political field has cleared np after the battle, and it is fondly hoped by tho leaders that the ministry of time will heal all the wounds and ellace the scars. Tho leaders of the Blaine forces for the most part are counselling harmony and announcing their intention of smothering down the rallied feelings of their disappointed followers, and doing all in their power to secure tho success of the ticket in November. Mr. Clarkson, who has been, perhaps, the roopt prominent leader of the anti-administration forces, was one of the first to announce nis devotion to the nominees of t'e republican party, and his belief that the) were not doomed to defeat in November. The events of the week have shown how futile, after all, is the power of self-constituted leadership among the rank and hie of the delegates. In many instances was this demonstrated by the sudden breaks that occurred in those delegations which the managers of one side or the other supposed were docile to their leader ship. When the contest reached its critical stage the delegate evinced a sudden desire to act on their own responsibility and the persuasions of the leaders were singularly ineffective to change their intentions. The executive committee of the Natitnal league of republican clubs held a session at the West hotel today to decide or the annual meeting of the league. There were four cities contesting for the honor of entertaining the convention L Omaha. New York. Indianapolis and Buf

falo. Buffalo secured the prize on a compromise without a struggle. The date selected was Sept. 1. The requests for recognition from the College republican league and the Women's republican club were referred to a Icommittee. President Clarkson presided j and A. B. Humphrey acted as secretary. The Hon. L. T." Michener said : "It was a great convention in the personnel of the delegations, the distinguished men who formed a part of its body or loolcers-ou and aseisted in their councils; in the dramatic surprise which introduced Mr. Blaine as a formal candidate, and in that meeting at Market hall which demonstrated to the world that the president would be renominated. It was also remarkable because of the fact that there was nothing of bitterness, either ielt or expressed, on the part of those who were supporting the different candidates, although the battle was earnestly fought on both sides. The party is to be congratulated that there are no wounds to heal, but that the nomination was made in euch a way as to make every delegate feel conscious that he has neither done or said anything during the strife which can prove a detriment to the party in the approaching campaign." Clad in his natty, cool gray suit, with his Harrison hat just a trifle tilted, Chauncey M. Depew looked the personification of satisfaction this morning as he etood in the West rotunda. He was just opening a telegram when a reporter asked him the question: "Mr. Depew, is there any foundation for the renewed rumcr that you are to succeed Mr. Blaine as secretary of state?" Mr. Depew answered with much emphasis: "Not a bit of foundation for it, sir; not a bit." "Neither now nor in the future?" "No, sir; not a particle of foundation for it."

ORE AT JKHOSHAPHATt Jutt Hear Tals New Fledged Statesman T.Ik. New York, June 11. According to an evening paper one of its reporters today Eaw the Hon. Whitelaw Keid at his country home and the paper quotes Mr. Reid as having said that ten days before the convention he and Mr. Blaine dined together. In the course of a general conversation they trot down to politics, and Mr. Blaine told him that he (Mr. Keid) was likely to be the next republican candidate for the vice-presidency. Mr. Keid told Mr. Blaine that he did not particularly want the post, and could afford to wait. He wat satisfied with the honors he has had in the 6hape of one of the best posts abroad at the disposal of the government. Mr. Keid turned the conversation on Mr. Blaine himwelf. He said to him: "What's this talk about you?" Mr. t'Blaine said: "I have no wish to be a candidate," and left the imprepsion that his withdrawal was final. Mr. Keid was then asked if he could explain the meaning of Secretary Blaine's witharawal from the cabiuet if it had not in view the nomination for the presidency at the Minneapolis convention. Mr. Keid said that in his opiuion the secretary's resignation had nothing to do with the possible nomination, and that it was something altogether foreign to what might take place at Minneapolis which led Mr. Blaine to take thisetep. An Evening World White Plains special says Mr. Whitelaw Heid this morning, replying to a reporter's questions as to whether his nomination was a surprise or not. said: "I assure you that I had no expectation of being nominated. When I was apprised of the fact last night it was very much of a surprise. I should like to say just here that as I occupy a secondary position on the ticket, it therefore becomes mo to take a secondary position in the matter of interviews." "What, in your opinion, will be Mr. Elaine's attitude ia the coming cam paign?" "Oh, Blaine is all right. Mr. Blaino is a republican, and as such his attitude will bo ono of cordial support to the republican ticket." "Who will be the republican leader in New York?" "There you have me. I know absolutely nothing concerning that" "How about Mr. Piatt?" "I never knew of any real difference botween Mr. Piatt and the administration, and as Mr. Piatt is a republican bred in the bone, 1 think my answer concerning Mr. Blaine's loyalty applies to Mr. Piatt's case." "Shall you enter actively into this campaign, Mr. Keid?" "No, I shall not go into the campaign to any great extent, but will confine myself to work in New York. My throat troubles me, and on that account it will be impossible for me to do very much speaking. My voice gives out very easily." All this time Mr. Heid was busy receiving congratulatory messages orer the telephone and opening the numerous telegrams of the same nature. In bidding the reporter good-by Mr. Keid said: "It is not an easy taek we have before us but we shall make an honett and I hope successful endeavor to win." REID' FIRST SPEECH. II Slakes a Few Itauiikrks to Friends and Neighbors. New York, June 11, The esteem in which Whitelaw Keid, the republican candidato for the vice-presidency, is held by his neighbors in White Plains found expression this evening in a friendly demonstration by the citizens of that town, who, irrespective of party aifiliations, went out on the Ophir farm and serenaded Mr. Keid. Mr. Keid was enjoying a chat with the members of hu family when a party of several hundred, headed by a band, entered the grounds. Mr. Heid, coming from tho main hall, greeted Lis friends heartily, saying: Fbiends and Neighbors For this geoeroua and kindly welcome home, let ma tender at ouce luy inott g rateful thanks. I hare jutt settled down rather I am ia lbs depths of the etlort to settle down again among you, after an absence of between three and lire years. Yon will tee that the house and grounds cannot yet be said to bs quite complete and ready for visitors. But, if you will excuse walks without pavements, doors without handles and halls without light, you nay be tare at any rate of the beartieit of welcomes. Ibis, as 1 understand your purpose, ia an ocoasion for personal greetings, and I know you do not want any speech from me. Besides, wa are just entering on a campaign in wnieh talking is not my role. The speech-maker tor this ticket is at ths heal of it, and lit ii recognized alike by friend and foe, as a past master in that art. lbs ebarm of this greeting to me is that it ia distinctly not political, and that it Includes my White l'lains friends and neighbors, without distinction ef parties. It is most pleasant to be thus mads to fel at boms among you. For soma years I bare oo copied a positiuon which withdrew from partisan politics. It was my prids ss well as my pleasure to represent all American citizens without distinction of party, and it is my tuoit cherished reward on returning t be able

to feel that my fellow citizens, without distinction of party, were fairly satisfied with ray work and not displeased to see me back among them again. Having said this, let me add that I do not wish to sail under say false colors, and therefore now I will not come at you that I am and have been from "way back" that is to say, from 1350 a red hot republican. Bat this shall not be turned into a partisan occasion. Ws are citizens ef this old community. We stand over this foreground, and ws have a common interest in hoping that the name of Westchester shall not suffer at our bands, or during this generation. It only remains for me to repeat my warmest thanks for the great compliment yon pay me by coming so far tonight to make me this visit, and to say that you will afiord both Mrs. Keid and myself pleasure to sea you all in the house and take you by the band. After these words of thanks for the compliment which his friends had paid him the serenading party was invitod to enter the house, where an informal reception was held, with general handshaking and exchanges of friendly words. Light refreshments were served and the party remained for about an hour, Mr. Samuel Hopper, the president of tho village, made a pleasant speech congratulating Mr. Keid in behalf of his neighbors and the party withdrew. LONDON OPINION.

It Geaerallr ftejolcra m the Defeat of lilalne. London, June 11. The burden of the comments of all the evening papers on the renomination ol President Harrison and the selection of Mr. Keid as the republican candidate for vice-president ia joy over the defeat of Mr. Blaine. The Pall Hall Gazette says : "Even those least in eympathy with Mr. Blaine as a politician may spare a passing regret at the cruel disappointment of the man who is the ablest republican and most astute politician in the United States." The Globe says : "For once the American caucus was of real interest to outsiders and especially to England. In view of the dissension in the democratic party the nominee of yesterday stands a good chance of being the next president. It was a happy thing that the caucus decided overwhelmingly against the great wire-puller, whose entire career has been marked with attempts to make party capital out of foreign politics." The Globe then relates at length Mr. Blaine's acts of hostility toward England, as shown in the Chilian aflair, the Bering sea question, the Newfoundland matter, etc., and adds: "Even as it wan. President Harrison pometimes had a difficult taek to check the mischief." The Star publishes a most violent attack on Mr. Blaine on account of his protection principles, and sums up its estimate of President Harrison's qualifications by declaring that he is a quiet, unassuming old gentleman of great personal integrity, but without great ability. It then predicts the nomination of Mr. Cleveland by the democrats, and concludes by saying: "The sympathies of all free traders and liberals should be wltb the champion of reform, Grover Cleveland." "NEXT TO HELL" A Characterization of a City's Official bj a Preacher. Elizabeth, N. J., June 7. Tho board of excise and the saloon-keepers of Elizabeth are exercised over a fierce onslaught made upon them by the Rev. Eather G ebener in St. Patrick's church. Ho said that there were five new saloons under consideration ono tj be run by two of his former school children. They would have no trouble in securing licenses, as the board of excise was rotten. It was composed of an insurance agent, he said, who got clients from tho saloons; a newspaper man, who compelled them to advertise, and a furniture man, who always furnished the furniture for their plrces. "Anyone can get a license here," he said, "for rum holes and gin mills. Elizabeth is next to heil." The politicians, he continued, had no more backbone than a duck. They were at the mercy of the saloonkeepers. The country road9 were closed on Sunday because respectable people used the roads for driving, while in the city politicians allow the saloons to remain open in order to got office. "The mayor of this city," he said, "is as bad as the rent. Ho started in all right, but quickly forgot tho laws." The fearless priest then told how the legislature made laws favoring the rumaoller. and how they were enforced by local officials. He said the most of the saloonkeepers were Koman catholics and they were worse than protestants. RULERS HOBNOB. Tho Czar and Emperor AVilliam Grow Very Polite. Kiel, June 7. This afternoon Emperor William, the czar, the czarowitch and Prince Henry of Prussia were conveyed in a state launch to the German liagship Naden and afterward proceeded to Holtenau to inspect the Baltic sea and works ? On returning to Kiel at 4 :30 p, m., the party boarded the German war ship Beowulf. The czar returned to his yatch at 5:30 p. m. and Emperor William returned to the Hohenzollern. A banquet was given at the castln in the evening at which two empor toasted each others health. At the luncheon given earlier in the day the czar sat on the right and the czarowitch on tho left of Emperor William. Ah present conversed with animation and the usual toasts were drank. The czar departed from this place at 8:30 o'clock this evening. As the Kufian imperial yacht left the harbor the German war ships anchored in the vicinity fired salvos and threw their search lights over the polar star. During the meeting between the two rulers, Emperor William appointed the czar a German admiral and in return for this honor the czar bestowed the insignia of the order of the White eagle on Baron Marshal Von Biterstein, the German imperial minister of foreign affairs. End of the Murphy right. San Francisco, June 8. One thousand, firs hundred people assembled at the Paciuo club tonight to witness the conclusion of the glove contest between Hilly Murphy of New Zealand and Johnnie Murphy of Boston, which was postponed from May SI. Johnnie Murphy entered the ring at 0:03 ready to fight. Hilly Murphy ia street costume, lie announeed bo wa: onahls to continue the fieht on socount of the condition of his right hand, which he disabled in the other contest. He praised the ability of his opponent, whom bs called the best man bs sver met. Billy Murphy announced he was In better condition in the lata (o than when he foutht OrirTui and he hoped to soon fight the Bottonian for the championship of the world, liefere Sullivan then awarded the fight to Johnnie Murphy and said as far as he was eonoerned all wagers were off.

A FINE HISTORY OF INDIANA

"THE SENTINEL'S" GREAT PREMIUM FOR 1892. What Kz-Presl4eat Cleveland and Senators Teorbees and Törpts Say of It, 818 MADISOX'AVE., New York, Nov. 3, 1391. J Mr Dear Mr. Morss Please accept my thanks for the "History of Indiana" which you kindly sent me. The examination I have been able to cive it is sufficient to justify me in expressing tho opinion that it contains a great amount of historical information presented to the reader in a most pleaeant way. I do not see why it should not prove itself a very useful book. Yours truly, What Senator Voorhaea Says. United States Senats, Washington. B. C, Oct. 30. j Indianapolis Sentinel Company: Gentlemen I am just in receipt of the "History of Indiana" which has just been given to the public by Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks. I have looked through it w ith some care, and eay sincerely that I am delighted with it. It ought to go in the hands of all our people. The young will receive instruction from it, and those advanced in lifs wi'leb pleased by the recollecti on et awakens. The people ot Indiana I think are not sufficiently aware of the real growth and greatness of their state. It require?, in fact, but little study to ascertain, and not much effort to ehow, that Indiana according to area is the greatest and most productive state in the Union, and posfepsed of greater and more extensive educational advantages than any other commonwealth of equal population in the world. These facts should be taught everywhere among our people. I fully believe in the doctrine of state pride, especially when there is a solid foundation for it. Such a publication as the one now before me is well calculated to inspire the young and eld alike of Indiana with just and laudable sentiments of pride and gratitude. It is indeed a most charming book. The likenesses, taken altogether, are the best I have ever seen in engravings of their character. Please accept my sincere thanks and believe me always very faithfully yours, What Senator Tnrple Says. Indianapolis, Nov. 7. S. Tj. Morss, Esq., Indianapolis, Ind: Mv Dear Sir I have carefully read "The Popular History of Indiana," and have verified its data by comparison with older and larger works. It is an excellent abridgement of our state annals, elegant, accurate, in style admirably adapted to the character of the book. The table of contents and liet of illustrations make a very complete index, adding to its practical u?e for ready roference. Yours truly, What Ex-Governor Gray Says. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 11, 1891, The Sentinel Compear, Indianapolls, Indiana; Gentlemen I have examined a copy of your illustrated "Popular History of Indiana." It is in my judgment an admirable epitome of leading events and mention of personages in both territorial and state history. It appears to have been carefully and intelligently compiled, and certainly will be inspiring and instructive to the young reader, aa well as favorably received by all who feel a patriotic interest in the subject to which it pertains. I trust it may obtain a wide circula tion. Very respectfully, A REMARKABLE DROWNING. A Fattier, Mother and Two Children Are the Victims. St. Josrtii, Mo., June 7. A remarkable case of drowning occurred in a email pond near Forest City, Mo., yesterday. Stephen fchaler, a boy sixteen yeara of aire, was running across a foot board over the pond when he fell overboard. His mother and sister, the latter a girl of fifteen, witnessed the accident and jumped into the water to rescue him. The water was over their heads, and instead of eavintr the boy they found themselves struggling for their own lives. The father, Stephen Shaler, sr., was summoned to the spot by tb cries of his drowning wife and children, who, although unable to swim, at once jumped into the water. The fleht for life only lasted a short time, and when the neighbors finally reached the spot it was only in time to remove from the water the bodies of father, mother and children. Five other children are left orphans by the accident. ADttr:L7eMn-. APAtAcnicoLA, Fla., June 7. Sunday afternoon William Kaneker, colored, assaulted the eleven-year-old daughter of Joseph Ham of this county. Infuriated citizens strung Kaneker up to a tree and riddled him with bullets.

THE STRICKEN CITIES.

Titnsvillo and Oil City in Receipt of 3Iuch-Xeeded Help. Titcsville, Pa., Juns 8. It is ralnin hard again, but it is hoped that this will not add any additional trouble to this afllicted city. As the debris is being cleared away more dead bodies are found and it may be several weeks before the entire story will be known, as far as the loss of life it eonoerned. Witnesses who were on the top of iron tanks and houses report that thev saw soores of bodies floating down with the rush of waters and it is not known yet where they have been lodeed. Amongst the telegrams which have been reoeived here the past three daya there are about one hundred and fifty which the telegraph companies have been unable to de liver for the reason that person addressed cannot be found. About fifty cablegrams have already been received from Europe making inquiries about friends here. Mayor Washburne has wired e:ir mayor that Chioazo wilt do its part in this hour of our calamity as Titusvilla did ia 1871, when Chio&go called on the world for aid. Tbe mighty rush of waters bas actually changed the ohauuel of the creek so that one of tbe refineriee which was situated 200 feet from the bank of the creeK is now in the center of tbe new channel, and a number of dwellings which were high on the bank fifty feet from the creek are now at its very edee. because the fifty feet ia front of them has been washed completely away. Score of men and teams are kept busy to clear a passsge through the streets, which are filled with piece of bonaes ot all kinds, ot iron and tiniben. The military and police keep perfect order, the saloons are kept closed and there bas been neither plunder nor rioting. Notwithtanding the calamity, our people are full of hope and determination to rise up and prevent as far as possible another repetition of the calamity. Up to 11 o'clock today the relief fund of Oil City amounts to 31,671) and for Titutville $31-, 835. In these are not included the civen by the Standard oil company, to be equally divided between the two cities The work of removing tbe ruins in being actively pronecntrd by a force of 600 men. No etlorts have as yet been made to clear away the ruins along tue west side, and the fires are still burciug among the rubbish. The relief committee has already given aid to almost 700 persons, and it is believed that the number will reaon 600. Many of these will have to bo taken care of for aionths. While the los of life here is probably not much if any larger than that of Oil City, the damage done to property is probably ten timeä greater. The devastated area is nerly three miles in length and four or five blocks in width. For most of that distance, including the tracks and iding of the di.ierent lines of railroads. The severest log, however, is in the destruction of the refineries and manufacturing plant where so many of the survivors earned a livelihood. It is the loss of permanent employment for months to come that will fall heavily upon the working class and whioh will necessarily put them on the list of tbore requiring relief all of these who escaped lost clothing and household effects and many of the little boards of money whicl they were saving up for a rainy day. Many persons were led to believe that the disasters along the valley approximated Johnstown, but bad as it is there ia no ooipari6on between the two places. Johnstown and the connecting towDs were blotted ont, while both at this plaoe and Oil City only portions ot the places were in the track of the devouring elements. Ir. Johnstown the rescuers were all strangers, while in this place and at Oil City the work wa done by citizeus and some of the most heroio detds were performed by those who ottered their lives in their et?orts to nave others. Titusvili.k, IV, Juno P. Another body was found this afternoon under the debris in the lower part of the city, junt beiow the radiator works, and the search h still going cn for the bodies of Mrs. O'Mara, Mrs. Julia Green and child, the (Xsmer boy, Mi.s Nellie Quinn and tho two Engleako children, fcome of the unknown bodies interred at Oil City aresuppot-ed to have belonged here, having lloated down from Titusville. The terrible stench that arises from the ruins indicates that moro corpses are under the debris. The city authorities are active in clearing tho streets, disinfecting, and building a temporary bridge across Oil creek. The south rude has been without city water and the north side without natural fuel pas, but this forenoon fresh connections were made for both purposes. The W. N. Y. fc P, railroad is busily engaged in repairing their tracks and building bridges, but it w ill be ut least a week before trains can be run between here and Corry. Notwithstanding their own great lotoses, they have subscribed SÖ00 toward the relief fund of this city. The Dunkirk & Allegheny Valley road of tho Vanderbilt's gave a like amount. The Enterprise transportation company of Philadelphia, whictjhas an oflico here, has also subscribed $."Ot). The Tide Water pipe company officers have subscribed $2,.xx). Luckily the weather is favorable, so the work of restoration may be begun in earueBt. STORias op GRiaP. Rudolph Ttlankenltqrg- Speaks of What lis Saw tilth Oil ltgin. Pittsburg, June 0. In ppeaking of his visit to tho oil regions liudolph Pdaukenburg of the Philadelphia relief coinmitte, before leaving for home, said: Graphio as are the correspondents their flowing words, fairly afire with correctness, Irave the melancholy picture Incomplete. The desolation at Titusville is gnater than at Oil City, although the Oil C:ty wreek is complete. The diotress there is wideopread. Hundreds of women and children are sutlering for the necessaries of life. Numbed and dulled by their overwhelming misfortune these seem unable to tell the same story of their woes. The dead and dying eeemed to them ai interesting pictures, and tbe unhappy living, priokedto the marrow by their own sutlering, are oblivious to the misery of their fellows, snd even yet they do not appreciate tbe enormity of the calamity that has overtaken them. At Oil City I saw women wearing the weeds of widows, wandering aimlesiily through the ruined section ot that city. Thry seemed to be going nowhere in particular. Their blanehed faees, expressionless as marble, told in a luutely eloquent way tha sutlering; that was consuming them. 1 attempted to talk with some of those unhappy women, but I eould get from them no information. Their eyes, from which no tears had drained, were burning in their sockets, and all seemed paralyzed with grief. Ooe woman eat on the charred and blackened ruins at her former home, ller husband in hii ellorti to save the family had perished, and his remains have not yet been found. With her little boy, probably four years old, this woman sat looking into the ruins. Upon her knee she beld her little son and when I approached ebe was hummiDK incoherently eonie childish lullaby. ue showed no evidence of weeping. She seamed to look longingly into the space like a frightened doe. While ehe carried her little one her body swayed back and forth, inconstant with ber dolelul song. I had to speak to her twioe before she noticed me. Then she said she was waiting for her busband. From a workman near by I learned that her hatband had been lost in the flood. The expression of that poor woman's face seems to b standing out before me now. It was intensely painful. It was distressingly sad. The contributions to the general fund for the relief of the sufferers in the oil country have reached $15,000 in this city and $0,500 in Allegheny. This morning $0,500 was telegraphed to Titusville and $3,500 to Oil CitjN Sltaation at Oil City. Oil ClTT, F, June 8,At a conference today of lbs Pitfsburg, Philadelphia, Oil City and Titusville relief committees it was deoided to give TitaivUit 65 er cent, and Oil City 15

per cent, of tbe relief fund. Rudolph Blanken burg of Philadelphia expressed confidence ia tbe local committee and said as the loss ha i not been exaggerated he thenght the people should be requested to make up a fund of $o0, OCO to relieve the suflerers. An arbitration committee of five citizens of Tituerille and Oil City was appointed the question of distribution. The Philadelphia relief commissioners left fetf horns today. Oil City, Ta., June P. The bodies" found at Kennerdell reached here thia morning and were immediately buried, Thev were horribly decomposed and could not be identified, but are believed to be) the remains of Grant Terwilliger, Willi Stewart, Samuel Kakin, William Hawkins! and William Moran. The undertaker found one body stripped, lie suspected two tramps who were seen in the vicinity,, and he telegraphed to the authorities a8 Kennerdell to place them under arrest Twenty-one tramps were arrested by tha militia last night and driven from town today. If they return it will go hard with them, (iood work is being done in tha burned district in clearing away tho debris. The board of health went over thai part of the town this morning on a tour ot inspection. The work of the board ia ad mirable. and through their ellortu all danger of sickne.s will likely be averted. Three assistant health officers had beea sworn in and the ftate board ha? given authority to the local board to patrol tha creek aa far as three miles north from the city. BYNUM AND THE PINKERT0NS.

Tho Journal, as t'sns!. Misstated tho Pacts in the Case. To the Editor Sir: I notice that the Journal charges that Ivo'ei against the) resolution for the investigation of tha Pinker tun detective agency. As usual, the Ftatement of thai jMper is untrue. I voted for it, not against it, but to.k occasion, when the same was under consideration, to call attention of the hou.-e to the fact that I did not think that congress wax possessed of anv power to legislate upon the question. What I taid appears thus) in the Ucenrd: Mr. speaker, I do not rise for the pnrposs) of making any serious opposition, or in fact, any opposition at all to the pa-sae cf this resolution, although I will state frank iy to the house that it Las not met and does not meet my spprovul. I hai- been unable to see how congriss hes any jurisdiction over the question presented, and 1 have been unable to see wh r. any good, can come out of tho invedijatiou proposed. On the contrary, I desire to enter try protest sgaint these indiscriminate investigations by congress. It seems as if it is only n-cfery to' make some assertion, to aliee that thrra has been some obstruction to the mails or some interference, however remote, with interstate commerce, in order to send out an investigating' coiuiniltes with a drag net to ascertain some--1 thing over which we have no control and migrant no relief. I believe we investigated tber great strike on the s-outhwestern railroad system because of some interference or elleged interference with interstate commerc, and. spent . l.KO or .vS.tOO and did notbiDa. We investigated th Jl-aling railroad strike because it was alleged that it involved to sotnr extent the question of interstate commerce, and the result of li s rnvcsticatii n was a report, from the committee that congress bad nothing" to do with the matter and could not remedy, the evil. In fae allot the investigations whieb, we have undertaken I oun only call to mind one result which has been accomplished and that is the depletion of an already depleted treasury and the exl.sr.ption of a well-nigh exhausted contingent fund of the hous?. I do not understand, Mr. Speaker, that sinW ply because congress has power t regulato luterstats ommerce it thereby has juris1 diction to control the employes of railroad companies engaged in interstate commerce, and,certainly if it bas power to legislate upon thev' subject proposed to be investigated it has this power. 1 look upon this as a mere police regulation, or power of the state. The stats of Indiana bar declared that no polios power shall be ccnferred on I'inkerton detectives; and if tbe peoV pie of the state of New York do not desire sucht powen to be conferred upon them, it is tbe business of the state of New York, or ot any other state which entertains that view, to rtgu late it by its own legislative enactment. It isv not within the purview of congress; it is not th business of congress to interfere with the police powers ot tbe several states ot the Union.I believe that tbe time lias corns when we outfit to squarely draw tbe line between the powers conferred npon the eetieral (tovernmena and those reserved to the state, aud that we ought to stop this indiscriminate invf s'.is-'.tioar where we cier.rly bave no power to le;i'Me. 1 am aa much opposed to tbe use of trie l'iuk--erton detectives, for tho purposes alleged in. this resolution, as other gentlemen, but it is matter over which tue stutes bave exclusive jurisdiction, and if the states wat. to regulate it it is their busiiiefs to do so. In addition I would eay that Icailed aU tention to the tendency of such legislation because I believed it was dangerous to tho rights of the employes of railroads. If the federal government can enact a law for thj punishment of the Pinkertons because tho railroads may bo engaged in carrving interstate commerce, then the federal government ran enact a law for the punishment of employes who may le charged with like ollensps in the federal courts. The railroad corporations would hail with satisfaction the recognition of euch a principle. They would rejoico that those whomichtt-e charged with obstructing the niovement cf trains tshould be amenable to federal instead of state pow er. They would then be able to call upoa the federal authorities backed by the reg uiar army to suppress and puniau olTend ers. The establishment or recognition of such a principle would be the destruction of every labor organization of railroad em ploves throughout the country. Truly, W. b. Pvnl:i. Washington. P. C, Juno 3. A FATAL FIGHT. Several Killed and Injured In a PrU vato Ilctidcncc. pEMixa, N. SL, Juno 7.A terrib! tragedy occurred at Las Palouias, a town, on the border, thirty miles south, Saturday. From what can be learned an official of the Mexican custom house was entertain inganolficer of the regiment which hai been standing since the Ascension revolt, at his residence. The daughter of the official, a beautiful senorita. acted as host ess. In the midst of tho meal, the bouse was entered by. several guards led by two young suitors of the daughter. An attack was made upon the olhcer. Friends ot both parties joined in the Cght, and befora the regiment coald separate the com batanle the father and officer bad been killed and several members of both factions dangerously injured. The battle lasted for several hours and was characterized by desperate fighting. Tore K Iliad ta ss Wreck. WlLWAVKKK, Wis, Jane 8. X freight train on the northern division of the Chicago, Mil wankes !t bit. Paul was wreaked by a wash-oat at Hartford, Wis, thirty-seven miles north of hers last evening. Ihres men, J.ncmeer 1J. Fahl, Fireman George Rood c-a ik-keman Jainji 2iaoau werkUiea. .

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