People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — Page 2

MORGAN REPORTS.

Views of a Senate Committee on the Hawaiian Muddie. Ex-Minister Stevens Exonerated, Though Be Did W rone, It Says, in Establtshiof a Protectorate—The President’s Coarse Commended. BLAMES NO ONE. Washington, Feb. 28. Senator Morgan, chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations, presented the report of the investigation of that committee made under the following resolution: ‘•Resolved, That the committee on foreign relations shall inquire and report whether any, and, if so, what, irregularities have occurred in the diplomatic or other intercourse between the Doited States and Hawaii in relation to the recent political revolution in Hawaii, and to this end said committee is authorized to send for persons ana papers and to administer oaths to witnesses.” The report prepared by Senator Morgan is concurred in by Senators Sherman, Frye, Dolph and Davis, the republican members of the committee, who also made a supplementary report, taking more positive grounds than the Morgan report, while Senators Butler, Turpie, Daniel and Gray (democrats) submit a minority report. A synopsis of the document is as follows:

Scope of the Investigation. Senator Morgan in his report says that the Inquiry related, first, to the conduct of the government as shown in its official acts and correspondence; and. second, to the conduct of the civil and military offloe'rs of the government in the discharge of their public duties and functions. The report practically begins with a declaration against monarchism in the Hawaiian islands, saying that we exercise at least a moral suzerainty over that country. Hawaii, it says, is an American state and is embraced in the American commercial and military system. In this attitude of the two governments Hawaii must be entitled to demand of the United States an indulgent consideration if not An active sympathy. Stevens’ Course Justified. Coming to the landing of the troops from the United States steamer Boston, Senator Morgan says that a condition of affairs existed in Honolulu which led naturally to the apprehension that violence or civil commotion would ensue, in which the seourlty of American citizens residing in that city would bo put in peril, as had been done on three occasions. There was not in Honolulu at that time any efficient executive power through which the rights of Amencau citizens residing there could be protected. The authority of the queen was not respected by the people. An interregnum existed. •Vas Virtually an Abdication, r There is well-settled authority for the position that at the moment when the queen made publio her decision to absolve herself from her wish and support the constitution of 1887, her abdication was complete, if the people chose so to regard it Liliuokalani had only been kept on her throne by the tolerance of ihe white people, who owned 1511,000,000 of the property on the islands. It required nothing but the determined action of what was known as the missionary party to overthrow the queen, and that action had been taken before the troops from the Boston landed. There was no executive head ot the government of Hawaii. It had perished. The report then calls attention to the fact that in landing tho troops there was no demonstration and that in passing the palace they saluted the queen, who was helpless.

Right of Shelter Under the Flag. In view of this state of facts the report lays down the following proposition: “In a country were there is no power of tho law to protect the citizens of the United States there can be no law of nations nor any rule of comity that can rightfully prevent our flag from giving shelter to them under tho protection of our arms ” The committee agrees that such was the condition of the Hawaiian government at the time the troops were landed, and that it was the right of the United States to land troops upon those islands at any place where it was necessary in the opinion ot our minister to protect the citizens of our country. Stevens and Wlltz Exonerated.

Cogniza r,ce is taken of tho charge that the landing or the troops was intended to overthrow the queen with the purpose of procuring tho ultimate annexation of the islands to the United States, but the report declares that the purpose of Minister Stevens and Capt. 'Wiltz was legitimate and that they acted in good faith and with no interests except protecting American citizens and preserving order. The intensity of the queen’s opposition to tho missionaries is referred to. The report speaks of the queen’s desire for the banishment or death of those who had opposed her and says that America should not hesitate in the support of a government set up to oppose her. Willis I)id His Best. Continuing, the report says: “The president says that on the first intimation of these harsh declarations he at once laid them before congress and abandoned the further exerciso of his good offices to bring about a reconciliation. Mjr. Willis, however, regarding his Instructions as continuing to require his Intercession beyond the point where the president considered that it should cease, held a second and third interview with Lilluokalani. Mr. Willis, in what he did, obeyed what he conceived to be his instructions, and being eo distant from Washington It is a matter of regret but not of surprise that there was an apparent want of harmony between his action in continuing his interviews with Lilluokalani after the president had determined that the full duty of tho government had been performed. When a crown falls in any kingdom of the western hemisphere it Is pulverized, and when a scepter departs it departs forever; and American opinion cannot sustain any American ruler In 'ho attempt to restore them, no matter how virtuous and sincere the reasons may be that seem to justify him."

Stevens’ Duty Was Plain. Mr. Stevens’ recognition of the new government Is justified, the report making the point; “It was his duty at the safest possible period to assist, by his recognition, the termination of the interregnum, so : that citizens of the United States might be safely remitted to tho care of that government for tho care of their rights. Afterward, on February 1, 1893, the American minister caused the flag of the United States to be raised and assumed and declared a protectorate over Hawaii. This net on the part of our minister was without authority and was void for want of power. It was disavowed by Secretary Foster and rebuked by Secretary Gresham, and the order to abandon the protectorate and haul down the flag was in accordance with the duty and honor of the United States." The matter of annexation is discussed at some length, and while the whole tenor of the report relating to Ihe subject is favorable to annexation no direct statement was made therein Effect of Recognition. Next the report states that recognition of the provisional government was lawful and has contributed to the peace of Hawaii. The report takes the side of the provisional government as respects the counter revoluiion which the queen provoked and it is exceedingly severe on the ministers of the queen. Missions of itlount and Willis. The right of the president to appoint Mr. Blount Is discussed, the report stating the conclusions to be that such a right no doubt existed and that tho authority given to Mr. Blount and which be exercised was proper. Then Mr Willis’ mission is taken up and the position of the president referred to in the following: "If, in this course of proceedings, the president of the United Sta’.-s had Intended to rompel obedience to what is termed his ‘decision’ Ak the matter, by using the force ot the United

States to assist the queen in being enthroned, that would have been an act of war. entirely beyond his power. But such was not the intention of the president, as shown by contemporaneous sets, by his declarations and by his subsequent treatment of the subject” The report then goes on as follows: “In the public act by which the provisional government of Hawaii was established there was a distinct declaration that that government was to oentlnue until Hawaii was annexed to the United States. That declaration, apart from every other consideration, would have justified the United States in an interference for the protection for the provisional government, which would not have been tolerated under other circumstances.” The document concludes with quotations of official state papers and comments indorsing the actions of Minister Stevens. Views of the Republicans. Senators Sherman, Frye, Dolph and Davis, the republican members, in-their supplemental report say they are in entire accord with the essential findings of the report of the committee as a whole, but add that it is their opinion that the appointment of Commissioner Blount and his gift of authority, without the advice and consent of the senate, was an unconstitutional action; in the second place, that the orders by which the naval force at Honolulu was placed under the authority of Mr. Blount or Mr. Willis was without authority or warrant by law; thirdly, that Mr. Blount’s order to lower the United States ensign from the government building in Honolulu was made without lawful authority: fourthly, that the right of ihe provisional government to exist had been settled conclusively by President Harrison’s recognition of it, and that the president of ihe United States had no authority to reopen determined questions or by any means whatever to attempt to overthrow the provisional governmeut or restore the monarchy which had been displaced, and, finally, the republican members say: ‘‘The avowed opinion of the president of the United States, in substance that it is the duly of the government to make reparation to the queen by endeavoring to reinstate her upon her throne by all constitutional methods, is a clear definition of the policy of the present administration to that end. The instructions to Messrs. Blount and Willis must be construed to be other and more ample forms of expression of that policy.” The Minority Report.

The minority report denies the correctness of the declaration that the only substantial irregularity in tho conduct of Mr. Stevens was his declaration of a protectorate by the United States over Hawaii The right of the United States to interfere with ‘.he internal affairs of Hawaii is also questioned. Tho commander of the Boston is exonerated, but Stevens is criticised as having been controlled by “inopportune” zeal. In concluding, with reference to Stevens, the report, which is signed by M. C. Butler, David Turpie, John M. Daniel and George Gray, says: “His conduct as ihe public representative of this government was direotly conducive to bring about the condition of affairs which resulted in tho overthrow of the queen, the organization of the provisional government, the landing of the United States troops and the attempted scheme ot annexation, and upon this conclusion his conduct is seriously reprehensible and deserving of public censure.” Butler and Turpie for Annexation. In an independent letter Senator Butler says, and his utterance is indorsed by Senator Turpie: “1 am heartily in favor of the acquisition of those islanus by the government of the United States, and in a proper case and on an appropriate occasion I should earnestly advocate the same But I am unwilling to take advantage of internal dissensions in those islauds, for which I believe we are in a measure responsible, to consummate at this time so desirable an object." The testimony covers 739 printed pages. The witnesses include Stevens, Blount, many naval officers and residents of Hawaii. Stevens’ testimony covers sixty pages and is similar to his public explanations. Mr. Blount said he had no intimation when he went to Hawaii that the ex-qneen was to be restored.

MORE OFFICIALS ARRAIGNED.

Michigan’s Secretary of State Hold in ®7,000 Hall—Date of the Trial. Lansing, Mich , Feb. 27.—John W. Jochim, secretary of state; Marcus Petersen. William May, clerk of Wayne county, and James G. Clark were arraigned at Mason Monday on indictments returned by the grand jury. All stood mute and the court directed the clerk to enter a plea of not guilty in each case. Jochim will have- to answer to indictments for making a false public record, willful neglect of duty and conspiracy. His aggregate bail is $7,000, and Mayor A. O. Bernent and G. W. Bement, of this city, are his sureties. Patrick Blake and Louis Saveigne, of Detroit, signed May’s bond of SI,OOO in each of tho cases, for conspiracy and destruction of the Wayne county records. Peterson and Clark, having been indicted'for conspiracy only, had to give only SI,OOO bail. Jacob Stahl and J. M. Skinner, of Lansing, signed Petersen’s bond. Adolph Buder and Frank Ilonpt, of Detroit, did a similar service for Clark. All of the indicted men have now been released on hail. Some of them will be tried during tho next term of court, which will convene in this city March 12.

MOTHER MANDELBAUM DEAD.

The Notorious New York “Fence'* Ki. pires at Hamilton, Out. Hamilton, Ont., Feb. 28.—Mother Mandelbaum, otherwise Mrs. Frederica Mandelbaum, well-known in New York city as a notorious “fence,” and who did a flourishing business there in this line until driven out by the police, died here. Mrs. Mandelbaum was about 6b years of age. She was very wealthy, having accumulated a considerable fortune as a go-between for thieves and crooks as the receiver of stolen goods in New bork. She came here about ten years ago, when the New York authorities had begun proceedings against her and her conviction was probable.

THREE DROWNED.

School Children Hrealc Through the Ice at Massillon, O. Massillon, 0., Feb. 28.—Seven children were precipitated into the Ohio canal at 4 o’clock Monday afternoon and three were drowned. They are: Carrie Cooper, Jennie Reiks and Katie Batscheider. The children had just been dismissed from St. Mary’s Catholic school, and were taking a short cut home when the ice broke. One man heard their cries and rescued three. Tt was supposed a fourth, Fred Fisher, was also a victim, but it was found later that he had got out of tho water urmoticed and run home.

Electrocuted at Sing Sing.

Sing SfNG, N. Y., Feb. 28.—Matthew Johnson was electrocuted at 11:34 a. m. Monday Johnson killed Emil Kuckelhorn on December 0, 1893. He was burglarizing a New York lithographing establishment when he met his victim, who was the engineer of the building, and murdered him to escape arrest.

ON GOOD FRIDAY.

The Date Set for the Execution of Prendergast. Judge Brentano Sentence* Carter HarrL •on'* Murderer to Be Hanged on March 23—The Doomed Sian's Rambling Speech. SENTENCED TO DEATH. Chicago, Febi 27. Unless the supreme court or the governor of the state interfere Patrick Eugene Prendergast will on March 23, in the courtyard of the county jail, pay the penalty of his life for the murder of Carter H. Harrison. Sentence was passed upon him Saturday by Judge Brentano after his honor had overruled the motion for a new trial, entered by de fendant’s attorneys. As Judge Brentano went upon the bench Prendergast stepped forward and took a seat in the front row of chairs in the jury box. From the expression on his face it was evident that

PATRICK EUGENE PRENDERGAST.

he expected the worst, and was making a strong effort to conceal his fear. The zourtroom was filled with spectators. Judge Brentano read a lengthy decision overruling the motion for a new trial. Prendergast arose in response to the court’s order, and the crowd surged forward. No attention was paid to the orders of the bailiffs, and the anxious spectators could not be quieted. When asked by the court if he knew of any reason why sentence should not be passed upon him, Prendergast arose. Producing a few sheets of paper, he began to read, as follows: “Your honor, I have nothing particular to say. I suppose your honor is under the impression that you have done your duty. But this p,ea of insanity has been set up by my attorneys without my consent. It was an Infamous, a dirty and disreputable plea, and done against my objections. Now as for Juror Murray, it is certain to my mind that from the manner he answered questions he was anxious to be a juror in the case. There was something wrong also in regard to summoning the veniremen. Juror Larkin came here on a written statement. but, of course, the defendant had no control over this part of the court’s work. Newspapers had whole columns about it at the time and it is not necessary for me to go into it further now. We had no opportunity to watch the proceedings in summoning tho jurors.” Here Prendergast laid aside his notes and seemed to become animated with his subject. liaising his voice he extended his long, thin arm, and, gesticulating like a lawyer addressing the court, continued: , “Now, your honor says that Harrison was a great and good man. I deny. this. A good man is generally faithful to his friends, and Harrison was not If he had been a good man he would not have been hostile toward me. Harrison was attacked by the newspaper trust We have been attacked by the newspaper trust, and if the sentence of this court is carried out on me you will all bo at the mercy of this newspaper trust. No mans character or reputation will bo safe. Flattery, blackmail and corruption will prevail. 1 don't know what the result will be. ‘ The issue in this case was whether I did right or wrong; whether I did my duty or not; whether I did the will of God or not. If I did wrong 1 should be condemned, and if I did right X should be justified and acquitted. This was the real issue in the ease, and that issue was never settled. If the court wants to shirk the respoasibility in this case it will not be my fault The most of the motions made by the attorneys for me have been overruled by the court, and that was wrong. “This great grade-crossing issue—if you consent to my death, my execution, my being legally murdered, you also consent to this—that caused me to shoot Harrison as much as his uufailhfulness—l am feeling much better than when I came here.”

He closed by declaring that if he went : to the scaffold the jury and doctors would be infamous throughout all the ages. Then Judge Brentano said: “Patrick Eugene Prendergast, it is my pjin- ; ful duty to sentence you to death. The stutence of the court is that on March 23, between the hours of 10 and 12 a m., In the county jail, you be hanged by the neck till you are dead. ' As the last words left the judge’s lips Prendergast reeled as if he had been struck a heavy blow'. The bailiffs tried to catch his arm, but before they could reach him, he had steadied himself by taking hold of Attorney Gregory’s chair. Resuming his position he again justified his act. He would have spoken further, but the bailiffs led him away to jail. Attorney Darrow, for Prendergast, asked leave to file a bill of exceptions within thirty days to take the case to the supreme court. This was granted, although the court had overruled his motion for an arrest of judgment. New York, Feb. 20.—A communication addressed to the New York Times brings up a coincidence that has not yet been commented on. The writer, who signs himself “Good Friday,” says: “Has the day appointed by Judge Brentano, of Chicago, Maroh 23, for the execution of P.-en-dergast, the assassin of Carter Harrison, t een designedly selected because it will be Good Friday, or was it an accidental selection, and ir so. will the sentence be executed? The sanctity of this holy day, reverenced almost universally for its one preordained execution, has not ia the recollection of man been deseer-ted by such an unhallowed act”

KILLED BY HER NIECE.

WoiD»n Over a Hundred Years Old Murdered 111 Her lied. Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 27.—llostt Haywood, over 100 years old, was found murdered in bed near this city. The crime was committed by her niece, Mary Smith, and Orange Page, an exconvict. Search for the murderers has been conducted quietly and news. eomes of the arrest of Mary Smith near Rocky Mount and of Page on an adjoining farm. It is probable that the Indian supply deoot will be transferred from N«« York to Chicu go.

ARRAIGNED.

Michigan’* Indicted Official* Before the Bar—All Give Ball. Lansing, Mich., Feb. 27. —The most remarkable scene ever witnessed in a Michigan courtroom was enacted in the little courthouse at Mason Saturday when three state officials were called upon to plead to indictments charging them with felonious crimes against the laws of the state. Most of the persons against whom indictments •were voted were notified by their conn* sel Friday night, and five of them— State Treasurer Hambitzer, Land Commissioner Berry, Attorney General Ellis, Sergeant-at-Arms Bussey and Frank A. Potter—went to Mason Saturday morning, accompanied by friends, who were prepared to become sureties on their bonds. After the usual formalities attendant upon the return of bills by a grand Jury Attorney General Ellis was ar-i raigned on three indictments for forgery, conspiracy and destroying the Wayne county records, lie waived the reading of the indictments, as did all of the others save Potter, who pleaded not guilty. In each case where the accused refused to plead a plea of not guilty was entered by the court State Treasurer Hambitzer and Land Commissioner Berry were arraigned on indictments for felony in making a false public record, conspiracy and willful neglect of duty. Ex-Clerks Potter and Warren answered to indictments charging the making of a false public record and corspiracy, and Seargeant-at-Arms Bussey to a charge of conspiracy. Bail was fixed as follows:

Ellis, for forging, 10,000; Ellis and May, for destroying the Wayne couatv records, U.OCO; Potter and Warren, for making a false publto record, 12,000; each of the persons charged with conspiracy, 51.0J0; Jocliim, Hambitzer and Berry, for making a false public record. 55,000; Jochlm, Hambitzer and Berry, willful neglect, *I,OOO. Ellis’ bonds were signed by George W. Webber, A. F. Kelsey, Frank A. Session and Josiah E. Just, of lonia; S. W. Webber, of Lyons, andN. B. Hayes and Chauncey J. Rumsey as sureties. Treasurer Hambitzer’s bonds were signed by Mayor A. O. Bement and James IJ. Judsou, of Lansing. Commissioner Berry’s sureties in the same sum are James D. Berry, his son, Alexander Cameron, Wyatt B. Brown and A. M. Dobbelaire, of Lansing, and Henry L. Henderson, of Mason. Potter gave two bonds, with Lester fc>. Hudson and Alexander Blair, of Lansing, as sureties. Warren’s sureties are his father, W. G. Warren, and II or ace Wilcox, of Charlotte. James B. Judson and Washington G. Wiley, of Lansing, signed the bond required of Bussey. All of the defendants announce their intention of making a vigorous defense and have counsel of more than ordinary ability retained. Another life-sized sensation has developed in connected with the official actions of Secretary of State Joachim, Treasurer Hambitzer and Laud Commissioner Berry. An examination of the ; books of the board of state auditors, of which they are the members, shows that they have been making illegal charges and allowing their own bills therefor ever since they were inducted into office.

NORMAN L. MUNRO DEAD.

The Well-Known New York Publisher Dies from the Effect* of an Operation. New York, Feb. 27.—Norman L. Munro, well known to the American public as a publisher and yachtsman, died at 6:20 o’clock Saturday evening in his apartments in the Hoffman house from the effects of an operation performed on him Friday for the removal of the veriform appendix. (Mr. Munro was born in 1844 at Mill Brook, Pictou county. N. S. Ills father was a farmer and he was brought up on the farm. He left the farm when he was 25 years old and came to this city. He got work in a publishing house and set himself steadily at the business of mastering the details and of saving money to make a start with. The first number of the New York Family Story Paper went to press on black Friday in September, 1873. He erected the Munro building in Vandewater street in 1882 and extended the number of his publications and printed “Munro's Library” and Munro’s Pocket Magazine. About seven years ago he bought ihe Mary Anderson place on Cedar avenue, Long Branch, and about the same time he became interested in the production of fast steam yachts. Mr. Munro's fortune is estimated at from 53,000,000 to $5,000,000. Within a year he refused an offer of $1,500,000 for his publications aud publishing house.]

DECLARES A DIVIDEND.

Under Judge Winters’ Order Iron Ilall Receiver Failey Will Begin Payments. Indianapolis, ind., Feb. 27. —ln Judge Winters’ chambers Receiver Failey, of the Iron Hall, received the order promised by the court. It declares a dividend of 10 per cent, on all unmatured claims, payable at once to all who account to the receiver here on or before April 15, this date being fixed because the Maryland court will April 12 hear members within its jurisdiction as to whether an account will be made with the receiver here or not Payment of approved claims will begiu next week.

WIMAN OUT ON BOND.

C. H. Deere, of Moline, 111., Puts Up 825,- • 000 to Secure His Release. New York, Feb. 27. —Erastus Wiman, who is under indictment for forgery, was released from custody Saturday on 525,000 bail. Charles H. Deere, of Moline, 111., deposited twenty-live f1,,000bills in the office of the city chamberlain as security for the prisoner. Recorder Smyth signed the bail bond. Mr. Deem is the father-in-law of Mr. Wiman’s son William, who is now lying in a precarious condition at his home on Staten Island.

THE DOME IN RUINS.

More of tlie World’s Fair Agricultural Building Burned. Chicago, Feb. 27. —Another incendiary lire took place in the Agricultural building at the world's fair grounds Saturday. The dome was partially destroyed and dropped into the center of the building, but otherwise the damage was small. Few exhibits remained in the structure and the beautiful golden statue of Diana had been removed from the apex of the dome two w eeks ago. An unknown young man was billet by a falling tree at Arpin, Win.

LYNCHED.

Two Murderers Meet Death at the Hands of a Mob. Shot Down In Their Oils In an Arkansas Jail—One of Their Pals Spared— The Story of Their ColdBlooded Crime. VICTIMS OF POPULAR FURY. West Plains, Mo., March 1. —Mon- i day night, about 11:30 several hundred j men, supposed to be inhabitants of Ozark county, Mo., Fulton and Baxter counties. Ark., assembled at Mountain Home, Ark., for the purpose of lynching Anderson Carter and Bud Montgomery, alias Jasper Newton. The mob overpowered the jailer and guards, took their guns and demanded their keys. K. C. Smith, representative of Baxter county, made a half-hour speech and begged that the law be allowed to take its course. The men listened in sullen silence to his talk ancV that of others and then went about their work of vengeance. They unlocked the doors and proceeding to the cells occupied by the murderers fired volley after volley at the helpless men who vainly begged for mercy. After about twenty shots the firing ceased. Carter was dead, but Newton was found to be alive and he asked for water. This was given him, and then the mob riddled his body with bullets. I Both died protesting their innocence, and only asked that they might be released from their shackles. According to a previous agreement the life of Bart Carter, one of the trio who confessed, was spared, and it is thought he will be given a life sentence in the penitentiary. He was forced to do what he did by his father, Anderson Carter. He told where the money was, and went with a posse and recovered SI, 100 of it. Bart Carter says Anderson Carter did the planning and Newton the killing. The crime for which they were held was the killing of Hunter Wilson in Baxter county, Ark., December 18. While Wilson was sitting with his wife by the fire the men entered the house, killed him instantly, very nearly killed his wife, robbed the house of SI,IOO, and after heaping coals ox fire upon Wilson’s body made their escape. Mrs. Wilson crawled xo a neighbor’s and gave the alarm. William McAninch was arrested for the crime, but had been released a few days ago. The crime was a cold-blooded one. The Carters had the reputation of having killed a man in Texas county, and Newton, whose real name was Montgomery, was wanted in Clay county ; for a crime committed fifteen years ago.

FOR ONE BIG CITY.

The Bill to Unite New York and Brook- 1 lyu Passed. Albany, N. Y., March 1. —The Great- ! er New Y r ork bill has passed the senate by a vote of 28 to 2. The proposition j to provide equal taxation on Mr. Butts’ j Greater New York bill had been de- j seated by 18 to 7 previously. The bill which now goes to the governor, sim- ! ply provides that the question of con- , solidating info one municipality the ; places about New York harbor shall be ; submitted next fall to a vote of the ; people. The friends of the project to annex all the territory for 25 miles from the New York city hall were spurred on four years ago by the fact that Chicago had as large a bona fide population as New York, and a commission was appointed by the legislature to inquire into the expediency of consolidating the city of New York and the various municipalities and towns in the state of New York composing what the New Yorkers were pleased to term its suburbs —Brooklyn, for instance, with a population of 1,100,000. After much discussion for and against the project the commission prepared a charter for the incorporations of the consolidated cities. This charter provided for the consolidation of the following towns and counties: The city of New York, the county of Kings (in which Brooklyn is situated), the town of West Chester and portions of the towns of Pelham and East Chester, Long Island City, the towns of Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, Hemsted and Rockaway. The commission in a report last month figured out that the Greater New York would have a population of 3,000,000 and a total area of 317.77 square miles. The population of New York was put at 1,801,739, whi-h is in excess of the census of 1890. Brooklyn and the towns in Kings county that will be taken into the new town by the bill just passed, are credited with a population of 995,276. The towns in West Chester and Richmond counties, which take in Staten Island, furnish the other 300,000, which would give the new city a population of 3,000,000. There is no doubt of the bill becoming a law as the governor has expressed himself in favor of it.

Illinois Farmers Moving to Iowa.

Minonk, 111., March I.—An emigrant train was made up in the Illinois Central yards here Tuesday consisting of twenty-nine cars. There were five additional cars seat out on a regular train. Those leaving are mostly Germans bound for lowa and Nebraska, coming from Woodford, Flanagan, Pontiac, Dana, Benson, Roanoke and this place. This takes not less than 200 people from these places.

Big Land Owner Fails.

Chester, Pa., March I.—Hon. John Broomall, ex-judge of Delaware county, a.nd one of the wealthiest land-owners in the county, has made an assignment to Henry C. Howard and William B. Broomall. The amount of liabilities is not known, but Mr. Broomall feels certain the assets will be J 200,000 in excess of all claims. The failure is due to general business depression.

Baseball for 1894.

New York, March I.—The National Baseball league managers at their meeting here Tuesday adopted a schedule of dates. The season opens April 19.

HISSED MR. BLAND.

Member* of the House DUlike the Mletoari&D’* Bitter Wordfe Washington, Feb 2A —The members of the house under arrest were finally discharged from custody Friday by dispensing with further proceedings under the calL It required four hours to accomplish this and although the scenes of disorderly turbulence which characterized Thursday’s proceedings were not repeated Friday the proceedings were fully as interesting. ~ After the arrested members had been discharged Mr. Bland returned to the silver bill, but his motion failed again for lack of a quorum. He lacked only two votes, however, and this is the highwater mark. After some preliminary skirmishing the speaker pro tern, declared the pending question to be the. motion to discharge Mr. Adams from the custody of the sergean^-at-arms. Mr. Reed called attention to the fact that the question had not been properly stated. It was to discharge Mr. Adams because the warrant under which he was arrested was unauthorized. Mr. Springer attempted to interpose an amendment, which had for its purpose the discharge of all members under arrest, as the most expeditious way out of the tangle, but Mr. Reed demanded the previous question and he was cut off. I The previous question was voted down —95 to 159. Mr. Bland then offered as a substitute for Mr. Reed’s motion a motion to discharge all members arrested by authority of the resolution passed by the house on the 19t,h inst Mr. Reed made the point of order that Mr. Bland’s amendment was not germane, and the point was argued at some length. *■ Mr. Bland decided to withdraw his substitute and confine it to the discharge from custody of Mr. Adams. On this modification of his motion he demanded to be heard. He pot the floor and delivered a scathing arraignment of his side of the house. Mr. Bland’s speech was sensational in its criticism of the disorder which reigned in the house on Thursday. He declared that the men who are obstructing legislation and defying the I house were anarchists and revolutionj ists. They were worse than the crimi- : nal who would throw dynamite bombs ! from the galleries. There were hisses j at this statement which grew louder j and culminated in thecriesof “shame.” Mr. Bland proceeded in his im- | passioned utterance. He said mobocracy had taken possession of the house. The mobism of anarchy ] was being given an object lesson, j The anarchist was being invited to pai rade the streets and c.ommit his deeds lof violence. Mr. Bland proceeded with ! frequent characterization of those | members who had obstructed legisla- ! tion as “anarchists,” and “revolution- ! ists.”

Mr. Bland said that since the deadlock the suggestion that the speaker should count a quorum had been advanced on the democratic side of the house. Quorum counting,he maintained, was an invitation to absenteeism. It was an invitation to members to go fishing and wandering up and down the earth. He insisted that it was the duty of the house to keep members in their seats. The democratic party had a majority of eighty in the house and ought to do business. “I don’t think it is the duty of the gentleman from Missouri,” interjected Mr. Dunn (dem., N. J.) “to lecture the democratic party.” “If that is a lecture,” retorted Mr. Bland, “the people will read it to the gentleman and every other man who is now obstructing business to his heart’s content. [Democratic applause.] While opposition has a perfect right to break the quorum, what a spectacle we present to the country, with eighty majority, rising in our congressional dignity and defying the authority of the house! We should proceed to do business or acknoweledge our incompetency. If we don’t the people will read the riot act to us.” Mr. Biand then drifted into a discussion of the merits of the silver seigniorage bill, which was being opposed by a portion o f the democratic majority, in the course of which he was three times called to order by Mr. Coombs (dem., N. Y.)“I thought the gentlemen on this side,” said Mr. Bland, “would realize ; that they coyld not afford to be revolutionists and anarchists. I say we Bhould either do business or surrender.” [Republican applause and shouts of: “Give it to them*”] “It will be no outrage for the people to rise up in a mob and cast us down, for we are exercising mobocracy here. If this is a bad bill vote it down. If you want more debate we will give it to you, but to slTty here and not vote is Bimply political suicide."

MILLIONS AWAIT GIBBS HEIRS.

Gash and Manor in England Left to the Family of That Name. Springfield, 0., Feb. 26.—John M. Gibbs, who died here Tuesday evening, received a letter a few days before his death from Montgomery E. Gibbs, of Chicago, regarding the alleged fortune coming to the Gibbs family in England. It includes the manor of Instone, near Biddeford, Devonshire, valued at 55,000,000 and also money in the Bank of England. As far .as known there are 250 of the family in this country, Mrs. Prof, A. E. Taylor, Mrs. A. D. Ross, Mrs. J. H. Martin, and John M. Gibbs living in this city,

Grow’s Plurality Grows.

Philadelphia, Feb. 26.—Official returns have been received from every county in the state except Allegheny’, Armstrong, Bradford, Butler, Mercer, Montgomery and Washington. The official figures continue to show increases over previous estimates and at midnight the apparent plurality for Grow (rep.) is 181,973.

Respite for Charles Carleton.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 26.—Friday afternoon the supreme court granted a stay of sentence pending review in the case of Charles Carleton, sentenced to ba hanged at Fremont March 83.