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ESTABLISHED JUXE 19 , 1871. OMAHA , THURSDAY MOTWsING20 , 1890 TWELVE PAGES. SIKGLE COPY FIVE CESTS.
WAR OFFICE VACAXT
Sscietary Alger Proffers Formal
of Hi Portfolio.
NO REASON IS ASSIGNED FOR THE ACTION
Announcement Makes a Sensation in Official
Circles of Washington.
RETIREMENT IS NOT EXPECTED SO SOON
Allegiauos with Pingree Supposed to Be
Distasteful to President.
PARTIES TO AFFAIR DISCREETLY SILENT
Alger Will Novr Hitch III" Ambition
to the MIchlKnn Scnntorln.1 Nom
ination Much Speculation n *
to III * Sticceiiimor.
WASHINGTON , July ID. Secretary Algcr
today tendered to the president hie resigna
tion of the War portfolio. The resignation
will become effective August 1. though It
was tendered "at the pleasure of the presi
dent. "
Gossip has begun already as to hie successor
ser , but I * entirely speculative , for notwith
standing the reports that > Mr. Alger would
not long continue at the head of the War
department , his actual resignation came
suddenly and unexpectedly. That It would
_ come by the end or the year was generally
' ; * believed , but eo little was It expected at
' 'i this time that ome of the cabinet officers ,
' . * when the news first became public , were in-
.1 / dined to regard the announcement as pre-
j 9 mature , the fact that It was actually In
7 I hand coming to them In the nature of a
surprise.
Formal acceptance of the resignation had
not been made by the president up to a late
hour tonight , but will be In a letter to be
.written within /he next day or two. No
official statement as to the cause of the
resignation was procurable either from the
president or from Secretary Alger , neither
of whom would talk on the subject ; nor was
the letter of resignation obtainable at this
time. For the present nothing will be made
public concerning the severance of the re
lations of the president and his war min
ister , but later on the official correspond
ence closing the latter's career as chief of
the War department doubtless will be given
to the press.
The belief had prevailed In Washington
for some tlmo that Secretary Alger would
resign from the cabinet , but the date gen
erally set for It was toward the end of the
year , " attor he had submitted bis annual re
port. In which ho had Intended to sum up
what had been accomplished during his brief
but eventful direction of the War depart
ment. Us tender then had been regarded as
armost a foregone conclusion , in view of Mr.
Alger's announcement about a month ago
that ho had concluded to enter into competi
tion for the vacancy in the United Stales
senate to be caused by tbe expiration of the
term of Senator McMlllln.ti Strong supporter
of the administration , and that he had en
listed in his active support Governor Plngrec ,
Co whom had been attributed free criticisms
of the policy that was supposed to be
cherished by the president toward the Fili
pinos.
AlKr MnVcen New Frlendii.
There have been many explanations and
denials of the facts in that case , but In the
end the impression was conveyed that tbe
result ot the Michigan visit of the secretary
had been to change the relations between
the president and himself to such a degree
as to make the restoration of their former
status Impossible and to render the connec
tion of the two as part of the same official
family Impossible.
At one time elnco then has there been
ground for the belief that a rupture might
bo avoided , but this belief ceased to be held
when the now that Vice President Hobart
and Secretary Alger were In conference at
Normonhurst. It was largely at least as a
result of this conference that Secrete ry Al
ger decided to leave the cabinet at this time.
At this conference there were present be
sides Secretary Alger his military aide and
close personal nnd political friend and ad
visor. Major Hopkins , and perhaps some
other persons or person who also felt a.
deep interest in the future of the secretary.
There has been no disclosure of what
passed by the seaside , but it U significant
that the return of the secretary to Wash
ington was followed by prompt action. He
arrived In Washington last night , too late
to make any official calls. Almost before
the executive departments were opened for
business this morning be called at the White
House and visiting the president In his
office announced that he had concluded to
resign hU office. What passed on that point
between himself and the president Is only
n matter ot Burmise , for neither have any
thing to say on this point.
Ili > > - Tvlth Itoutlnc Affair * .
Some rountlne business pertaining to the (
War department was disposed of and then
Mr , Alger went over to his office and spent
some tlmo 'With ' General Wilson , chief "f
engineers , and 'Major ' Hopkins looking Into
the merits of a controversy which had arisen
over the construction of a drawbridge over
a navigable stream In Michigan. Major
Hopkins had Just returned from a personal
Inspection of tbe locality and had prepared
a report on tbe subject. Several times they ;
were Interrupted by Adjutant General Cor
bln , who hud some matters of pressing
current business requiring the personal ac
tion ot the secretary to "bring " tp his atten
tion.
tion.This attended to. Secretary Alger wrote
out his formal letter of resignation , and
personally carried It over to the White
liouoo. Hie call on this occasion was brief ,
and , when ho returned to the War depart
ment he closed the door ot his office to
most of the many callers who were In wait
ing and had a long conference with Adjutant
General Corbin.
To the newspaper men who sought to se
cure some expression from him the secre
tary was courteous , but firm. On tbe one
elde General Corbln und on the other Vic
tor Maeon , hli prlvato tecrctnry , by hie au-
tnorlty as they said , made the announce
ment that Secretary Alger bad submitted bis
resignation to the president to take effect
at tbe pleasure of tbe president.
At his residence in the evening tbe secre
tary waa equally uncommunicative and posi
tively declined to assign any reason for the
action bo had taken , He had called dur
ing the Afternoon upon Secretary Hay at
tbe State department and with him at home
were ( Major Hopkins and -Mr , Mason , but
beyond many newspaper men , few of whom
secured access to the secretary , Mr. Alger
saw no one.
L Aliter'n 1'luim for Future ,
if * HI * plans for the future bare already been
' defined. 'Mr MelUejohn , the Hwlstunt sec
retary ot war , is at present supposed to be
in Wisconsin , whither he went two weeks
bco to make a personal inspection of tha
Fox river Improvements , a scheme which
has given the engineering bureau endless
trouble and which now requires some posl-
rccommendatlon at the hands of the
congress at the next session.
Ifled ot what has happened
i return to Washington to
the War department un-
the president may name n
. Probably that will be
by the end of the present month and by
August 1 Secretary Algor will have liberty
to lay down hlft task.
Ho 1 much wearied "by the weight of re
sponsibility he has borne tor nearly two
years and a halt , he has need many years
In the opinion of his personal friends and
Is In need of rest. He proposes to depart
for the northwest and spend some time in
the lumber campn belonging to him , and
then to pay visits to his children. These
will occupy his time until well along into
next fall. About political matters the sec
retary does not speak now , but it may be
fairly surmised that he will be ready , in
view of his already announced decision , to
take such pan In the 'Michigan senatorial
contest as conditions at the time will war
rant.
il A VICTIM OK AMIUTIOX.
HIM Senatorial Anplrntloim Are Snlrt
tn Have Led to III * Undoing.
WASHINGTON , July 19. ( Special Tele
gram. ) Another breach has been made In
President McKlnley's cabinet by the resigna
tion of Secretary Alger from the war port
folio. For weeks this resignation has been
expected , but not until the secretary should
complete his report to the president inci
dent to the latter's message to congress. The
pressure was too great , however , and Alger
had to succumb to the inevitable , which ia
largely traceable to his co-partnership with
Hazen S. Pingree , governor of Michigan.
"When Afgcr announced his candidacy for
the Benate , " explained a close friend of the
secretary of war this evening , "he antago
nized Senator McMillan and his friends and
when he seemingly joined hands with Pln-
gree , then came the demand from both
Senators McMillan and Burrows that he be
turned out of the cabinet. Following that
came a denial on the part of the secretary
that he was allied with Pingree and a lot
of sensational matter In relation to the sena
torial succession. Secretary Alger told the
president he would give up his senatorial
aspirations if the administration asked it ,
but this wouM not appease the McMillan
people and they demanded their pound of
flesh. Alger retires from the cabinet broken
hearted. "
In connection with this view of the situa
tion by an Alger man , these other facts are
gathered. Vice President Hobart has been
intermediary and for some time there was
hope that the differences between the Mc
Millan and Alger factions might be patched
up , .but finally even the vice president could
do nothing in view of the fact that Senator
McMillan said the attack upon him had gone
too far and he could not support the ad
ministration in Michigan any longer It an
enemy remained in the household of the
president.
Tonight there ore rumors that General
Horace Porter , now ambassador to France ,
is to be recalled and given the war portfolio
and that Editor Whltelaw Reid of the New
York Tribune will be sent In Porter's place.
Major General James Wilson of Delaware
la also spoken of as Alger's successor , but
as New York is without representation In the
cablnut-since OounellUB N . Bliss , . se < vretary-
of the interior , it is generally admitted that
New York will carry off the successorshlp
to Michigan's representative. But among
army people and newspaper men there is
heard a stalwart desire for Assistant Secre
tary Melklejohn , who has signed his name
more times as "secretary ofwar" than that
of his under title and who Is regarded as the
ablest man -who has ever filled the position
of assistant secretary. It Is understood that
Senator Thurston win present Melklejobn's
name to the president in the morning , al
though with little hope of winning out In
view of New York's paramount claim to the
position.
MANY XAMCS FOIL THE VACANCY.
oim SncreiiHorn to AlRcr SUB-
Kentcd , Including Melklcjohn.
WASHINGTON , July 19. The closest in
quiry falls to elicit any details as to the In
tentions of the president respecting the ap
pointment of a successor to Mr. Alger as
secretary of war. Names are mentioned , but
they are only those which have already been
suggested with more or lens plausibility In
the press without securing either confirma
tion or denial from any well Informed per
sons. The members of the cabinet were all
disinclined to talk about the succession ,
though one did remark that the president
'bad made no mention of a name to htm , and
be believed that no decision bad yet 'been
reached. He also conveyed the Impression
that no appointment .would be made im
mediately , but that Mr. Melklejohn would be
allowed to direct affairs for some time to
come.
Among the names which have been men
tioned from time to time , in this succession ,
when talk of Secretary Alger's forthcoming
reblgnatlon bos been in progress , are those
of General Horace Porter of Now York , now
ambassador to France ; Governor Roosevelt
of New York , General Harrison Gray Otis
and Assistant Secretary Melklejohn. The
uame of General Corbln has been mentioned
in connection with an ad interim appoint
ment , pending the selection of a permanent
occupant of the office. ThU gossip also in
cluded questions of locality and the opinion
was expressed In some Tvell posted quartern
that the selection would be made from the
west. All this , however , Is mere speculation ,
and it seems probable from the fact that the
resignation was submitted only today that
tbe president has not yet 'had time to canvass
the fcltuatlou and make a refaction.
As to tbe reports that General Corbln
would be tecretary ad interim , an officer
close to the general Bald there was no basis
for the report ; that the president had never
contemplated naming General Corbln ad In
terim and probably If tendered 'the ' post
would not be accepted. Therti was some talk
this afternoon that General Corbln might be
given the portfolio permanently , though this
wan regarded as improbable , even among
General Corbin's frleuds. There would be
precedent for such a course , however , as In
the case ot General Schofleld's cabinet serv
ice ,
Venn Caucea n Stir.
Tbe news of the resignation caused a imzz
ot comment this evening in all public places ,
but at tbe White 'House ' there was no evi
dence throughout tbe evening that any un
usual event bad occurred. The president
went for a drive with hU niece. Miss Dun
can , late In the afternoon , handling the
reins himself. There were no callers ot im
portance during tbe early part of the even
ing , but about 9 o'clock Secretary Hay. ac
companied by Senator Fairbanks of Indiana ,
who is just back from an inspection at ( be
Alaskan boundary difficulty , come over for
a talk on this subject. Secretary Hitchcock
and Comptroller Da wee called socially for a
few minutes. There was no evidence of a
cabinet conference and no suggestion ot any
progress in that line There was nothing to
clve out for publication , it wac said.
Adjutant General Corblnwas fen during
the evening and , -while not wishing to dli-
( Contlnued on Second Pace. )
DISCORD NEAR THE SURFACE
Illinois Jealousies Obtrnds Themselves in
Democratic Councils ,
RULES AND COMMITTEES WILL BE REVISED
HfTort Will Up Made tn Keep State
Unnrrrln Ont of "National A * enihlr
Hut reeling U Onlr I'nr-
tlnlly Snnprcnned.
CHICAGO , July 19. Acting Chairman Wil
liam J. Stone -Missouri will call to order
the democratic national committee at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning in the Herman
house. The democrats gathered hero expect
to be busy with questions of political mo
ment during the whole of the day. W. J.
Bryan will probably sit aa a , committeeman -
man , arrangements having been made to
furnish him with a proxy. John P. Altgeld
holds the proxy of William 11. White of
Washington. His presence In the committee
may cause trouble , for It Is believed that
Thomas Cohan , member of Ihc committee
from Illinois , may Question Jir. Altgeld's
right to represent a democratic committee-
man. Apparently , Mr. Altgeld is desirous
of avoiding trouble. He eaid today that he
did not care to sit in the committee If any
of the members resented it , and accord
ingly telegraphed Mr. White , suggesting that
some other proxy be named. "If I do not
hear from Mr. White , " said the ex-governor
tonight , "or if he insists that I represent
him , I shall do so. But I have no desire
to bring local affairs Into the committee. "
The discord between the Harrison and Alt-
geld factions ot the local democratic party
was the salient feature of today's talk
around the hotels. If Acting Chairman
Stone's wishes are carried out and ap
parently most of the commltteemcn are with
him , the factional differences local to Chicago
cage and New Tork will not be brought be
fore the committee in any form.
It is probable that a new rule will bu
adopted tomorrow providing that whenever
a vacancy occurs in the national committee
the state committee shall elect a member
of the national committee to fill such va
cancy. Another rule which is under con
sideration gives the national committee the
right to judge of the qualifications of its
own members. Still another rule is being
talked of which would force ex-Governor
Altgeld out of his position as member of
the "auxiliary committee" which was origi
nally composed of Mr. Altgeld , Senators
Jones , Teller and Allen and William J.
Stone. This rule will provide that all com
mittees , auxiliary and otherwise , of the na
tional committee shall be made up only ot
members of the big committee. As Mr.
Altgeld is not a member of the national
committee , the adop < Ion of this rule would
prevent his acrving on any auxiliary com
mittee.
New Arrnnjiement of Commlttecii.
According to the plan of action given out
today there will be two subsidiary commit
tees nr.med the financial committee , which
will take the place of the committee on
ways and means , and the executive commit
tee , -which , in addition to Us other duties ,
will take charge of the press bureau.
It was predicted today that if a subcom
mittee of the finance committee is named
to do. the- work -which , haEj3ccn4ano.br
the ways and means committee , TJrey Wood-
son of Kentucky and Judge Johnson ot Kan
sas will be two of Its members and that
Samuel Boole of Missouri will be made
superintendent.
Mr. Woodson and Mr. Johnson , who were
members of the committee selected to in
quire into the protest made by Thomas
Gahan against P. J. Devlin , press agent of
the national committee , have their report
ready to submit tomorrow. The report IB
understood to censure Mr. Devlin for the
part he took in the 'Harrlson-AItgcld ' cam
paign last spring and to recommend the
abolishment of the press bureau.
It is intimated that the resignations cf
Senators Teller and Allen and ex-GoTernor
Stone as members of the "auxiliary" or
ways nnd means committee will tie handed
In tomorrow. Senator Jones' absence in
Europe will leave Mr. Altgeld the only re
maining member of this committee , and nn
attempt may be made to force him out and
reorganize the committee with only demo
crats as members , leaving out the populists
and silver republicans.
Among the prominent democrats here to
day were George Fred. Williams of Massa
chusetts , Oliver H. P. Belmnnt of New
York , Congressman James A. Norton , Wil
liam J. Stone and Senator Francis Morrell
of Missouri , Colonel Victor Ilaughmun of
Maryland , proxy for Arthur P. Gorman ;
Clark Howell of Georgia , William Goebel ,
democratic candidate for governor of Ken
tucky ; Henry D. Clayton of Alabama ; Wil
liam J. Otey of Virginia. William R. Burke ,
proxy for Commltteeman Dwyer of Cali
fornia ; John F. Shafroth of Colorado , Colonel
John I. Martin of St , Louis ; Frank Camp-
tell of New York , J. C. Johnson of Kansas
and Judge James P. Tarvln of Kentucky ,
president of the Ohio Valley Bimetallic
league.
LEAGUE BANNERS ARE FLYING
Mammoth Tent U Greeted nnd Other
Preimrntlonn Are Mnde for the
IJiMvorth Convention.
INDIANAPOLIS , July 19. All prepara
tions b&ve been completed , the tent raleed
and the city decorated and everything la In
readiness for the opening cession tomorrow
afternoon of the fourth biennial interna
tional convention of the Epwortb league of
the Methodist Episcopal church , the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South und the Ca
nadian Methodist church ,
Orrlng to objections raised against tbe
proposition to erect tbr Epwortb tent on the
state bouse lawn , the court bouse lawn was
brought into service and the mammoth tent
raised , Across tbe street from the tent Is
located Tomllnoon hall , and the opening ses
sion of the league will be held In the tent
I and Tomllnson hall simultaneously tomor
row afternoon.
Friday morning the league meetings will
be extended to tbe English opera bouse ,
three blocks distant , and thereafter sessions
will be conducted in the three placets at the
same time.
Delegates began thronging tbe city about
noon today , 'but the majority arrived on the
early evening trains. The estimates of the
various officials place the number of dele
gates at from 12.000 to 16,000. A registra
tion bureau is conducted at the state capltol.
Tbo first delegates to register today were
from California. The colored delegatee will
arrive tomorrow morning. There will be at
least 600 from Texas , Louisiana , Alabama ,
Georgia and a number of other southern
states. The Mississippi delegation will
number 10S.
Strictly speaking , there IB no business to
come before tbe convention. Bishop W. X.
Nlnde of Detroit eald a "love feast"would
be held In the evening. Probably tbe only
business that will come upMill be the se
lection of the place of meeting In 1901 , Los
Angeles and San FrancUco are both in the
race.
race.PHe
PHe packages of literature agalnit th
seating of Congressman Robert ! have ar
rived directed to Rer. pR. C. Iliff of Salt
Lake , Vtah. U Is stitcdjthat Mr. lllfT will
come as a delegate Vo.the convention , at
which he will attem T-a movement among
the Epworths against tht Mormon congress
man. *
Everything promleca'tcvtnke place accord
ing to the program , excepting that Senator
Fairbanks , who WAS lo have delivered the
address of welcome In omllnwon hall to
morrow , la In Washington and will not be
present. Jf
RICH STRIKE OffJIG SALMON
tlrent Mniiy PronpccforH from Dnwnoti ,
AlniiUn , < ArcUtinhliiR Into the
A'cvr DUtrlct.
SEATTLH , Wash. , July 19. The Bteamrr
Dirego arrived today from Skagway , Alaska ,
with news ot a rich strike on Big Salmon
river. A great many prospectors from Dawson -
son and vicinity were 'rushing Into the
' "
district.
The Dlrlgo had a number ot pamcngcrs
from Dawson who brought out a small
amount of gold dusU The purser of the
steamer estimates the.ouiount on tbo Dlrlgo
at a quarter of a million. The following
news of clean-ups in tLo Atlin district was
brought down by passenggra at Atlln.
J. Wilson and partner dug up a vein
several hundred feet lowland all they got to
show for their work wlis $50.75.
A Swede named Strong , who held an adJoining -
Joining claim , stumbled6n a nugget valued
at $70 and this was about the sum total ot
fils clean-up.
L
"French" Jo mode a clean-up of J4.000 on
No. 19 , below Discovery , ' on Pine creek.
Harry Lunde , on No ; 1. below on Pine
creek , washed out { 8 aday to the man tor
a while. These clean-Up ? were magnified by
reports sent out Into the thousands of del
lars. Another small find by a man named
Beagle was mode onjklroh Creek. He
washed out $16 from ilmier a shoulder. By
the time the news got-around a little the
amount had swelled tor. $116 , and by the
t'me It reached Willow Creek itwas $16,000.
Hardship * on ISdmonton Trnll.
SEATTLE , Waifa. , July 19. J. Wileon of
New York , who arrived' hero today from
Alaska on the steamer Dlrlgo , recounts a
tale of exposure and hardships on the Ed
monton trail. He was thirteen months
going from Edmonton to Dawson.
One year ago the last winter he made camp
on Sturgeon lake , about 100 miles below
Lower Slave lake , in the British possessions.
He lived with the Indians , sleeping as they
slept and eating what they had to offer and
whatever came to hand.f Fish oil and any
other style of refuse which the Indians pos
sessed made a good dinner. When theee
gave out or were not at h-nd a ppny would
be killed and this would fill the larder for a
few days. ,
ONE OF FIVE REACHES HOME
Party Senrclipn for Mythlcnl Diamond
Aline nnd la Attacked l > r Din
t-line nnd Thieve * .
SRATTLE , Wash. , July119. Out of a party
of five which , left New York five years ago
in search of a mythical diamond mine on
the western coast of Alaska but one re
turned. He Is ( H. C. H6ffman-a machinist ,
formerly In the employ of the Baldwin
Locomotive works. Three of the party ,
Walter Dodds cf Paterrmi , , N. J. , James La-
Belleof pnnhdaaD ao jta jytmEdj rifneh , .
died of disease. The fate of the fourth
member , Henry Martin of New York. Is un
known.
According to .Hoffman's remarkable story ,
the party left San Francisco In June , 189J ,
in a small trading schooner 'bound for a
district lying between the Kuhaboo and
Ikpllc Pung rivers , known as the Black
Hole , where the richest diamond mine in
the - worldwas said to exist. They had two
years' provisions. At Kaakak LaBelle died
of a disease resembling smallpox. Dodds
end French were stricken with the same
disease. Rather than suffer as LaBelle did ,
French shot himself through the heart , and
Dodds , with an ample supply of provisions ,
was left Ibehlnd with the understanding
that he < was to overtake Martin and Hoff
mann ehould he recover. Nothing was
heard of him again.
Martin and Hoffmann pushed on to Ke-
voltkog , a village near the Black Hole coun
try. The village -was made up of Russian
refugees from the prisons of Siberia. They
robbed Martin and Hoffmann of everything
of value and kept them prisoners. Hoff
mann was separated from Olartln and taken
to another village , where he was compelled
to do mental work. At the end of a month
he escaped and went to the small town of
Seslan on the Koyukuk river , where he was
111 for several months. He never received
any further tidings of Martin.
TWO FACTIONS REST ON ARMS
Fourth Dentil Ocourn from Phllpot-
.Morriii Kncountcr mill Further
Trouble- I2x | > ccted.
LONDON , Ky. , Jury 19. The death of E.
D. Fisher makes four fatalities in the fight
near . .ManchesterMonday. . The reported
death of Robert Phllpot Is incorrect , but It
Is thought he will be the fifth victim. Green
Griffith , who bad both logs shot off , will
also die. George Phllpot and Alex Fisher
are reported as recovering.
It is claimed that the Phllpots now have
100 friends assembled , armed with rifles ,
awaiting the threatened attack from tha
Morris , Oriffln and Chadwell factions , who
are reported only two miles distant , with an
equally strong armed force ,
Gnoil IVhlNkr n Solution.
FRANKFORT , Ky. , July 19. Governor
Bradley will not call a special session of the
legislature , neither will 'he send troops to
Clay county under present conditions. He
reached this conclusion tonight. He thinks
the legislature would not enact legislation
relating to the judiciary necessary to reach
the Clay county situation and he doubts it
the military would do any good there. A
well-known mountain official who was called
on by the governor as to tbe best measures
to b resorted to for the restoration of order
In Clay county responded that he thought
the whole thing could be settled by introduc
ing a better grade of whisky into Manches
ter to take tbe place of moonshine liquor ,
distilleries for which are on almost every
farm.
"Wounded Itnhber Surrrudrr * .
SPRINGER , N , M. , July 19 , Bam
Ketchum was captured last night at Lam
bert's ranch , on Ute creek , where be came infer
for medical attendance and food. His left
arm is broken near tbe shoulder. He left
Cimarron for tbe railroad at 11 a. m. today ,
In custody ot three guards. He was captured
by Special Officers Reno , McBride , Earl ,
Clouse and Van Aflcn. Officers have been on
the trail ot the other two robbers since yes
terday noon. They bflleve that another of
tbeobberc is wounded. 'Lambert's ranch is
three miles west of the place where the fight
occurred Sunday morning.
Coinr 10 alert Ilewey.
TRIESTE , July 19. Congressman George
E. FOBS of Chicago and Lieutenant Com
mander William H. Dfehler , naval attache
of tbe United States legation at Vienna ,
arrived here today to welcome Admiral
Pawey.
MOBS CONTROL THE STREETS
Thousands of Excited Strikers Throng the
New Tork Thoioughfares.
MANY PERSONS ARE INJURED IN RIOTING
Police VHP Msht Stick * Trppljon
lIUnrilrrlj-CromlK Which Itpnitond
Tilth Mourn Storm Center
Croimpii the Illter.
NEW YORK. July in. Now York trolley
men joined the Brooklyn strikers today ID
their big strike. The renter of operations in
New York City was on Second avenue ; the
excitement in Brooklyn centered in the vi
cinity of Thirty-sixth street and Fifth ave
nue , where early this morning dynamite was
used in an attempt to blow down the ele
vated structure.
The rioting that took place In Now York
this afternoon and tonight was ot a serious
nature. Infinitely fiercer than any that has
taken place yet in the borough across the
river. Scores of people 'were severely In
jured In the Second avcnuo district. Tonight
that great thoroughfare was crowded with a
Jeering , howling mob , almost its entire
length. The great tenements gave forth
workingmen residents , -who backed up the
strikers in many a fierce struggle with the
Police and with the men were many women
and still greater numbers ot children. They
stoned every car that passed over the tracks ;
they hurled rocks and chunks of Iron and
vegetables from roofs and windows ; they
barricaded the streets with paving stones ,
tore up the street iron , choked up the slot
with -wire and eplkes and blocked the thor
oughfares. They had many a hand-to-hand
conflict with the COO patrolmen that had been
placed along the line. Of the injured the
exact number cannot be known. Several
policemen were removed to hospitals with
broken bones and torn scalps. At least one
striker or strike sympathizer had his skull
fractured and a boy had his skull fractured.
Innumerable passengers on the cars receive !
bad wounds and it was Impossible for pas
sengers on Second avenue to go much above
Fourteenth streot.
It was hoped by the strikers to make a
deep effect by their success on Second avcnuo
and so far as rioting was concerned they
made it.
On the other lines In New York the strike
was not at any time prominent during the
day. Tonight , however , the motormen on
the Eighth avenue line .to the number of 100
or more organized and declared a strike.
They thereupon set about to persuade their
fellow workmen to leave their cars , and with
sufficient success to have cars running on
only an hourly schedule before midnight.
Tomorrow , they declare , Eighth avenue will
also be tied up. The officials of the Sixth
avenue line made the statement tonight that
the cars on this avenue were moving about
the same as ever.
' Striker * Score Gain * .
In the borough of Brooklyn the strikers
made some gains so far as tbe diminishing
of .trolley traffic is concerned. Fewer cars
were running on the line.
The dynamite outrage in the early morn
ing hours was undoubtedly a severe set
back to the strikers. The police in con-
nocUonwith thOfiblowlttjE dow'n .of Ihe.tw ?
elevated columns moved'rapidly and mnfle'
more than a score of arrests , sixteen of
the men being held by the courts. The
strikers deny any knowledge of the dyna
miting and General Master Workman Par
sons has offered a reward of $500 if It can
be proved that a striker Is responsible for
it. President Rossitter of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company has offered a reward of
$1,000 for the conviction of the perpetrator.
Several thousand policemen are tonight
guarding the power houses and the plants
of the companies Involved in the strike.
The police arrangements to take care of
rioters have Been excellent EO far , but the
surging mobs on Second avenue tonight were
too much for them. More than 100 persons
were arrested and probably a greater num
ber than that were Injured with the use
of the night stick , but even Chief Devery
believes that more forcible measures than
that will have to be adopted. New York
has not seen such rlotlne in many a day.
Aiipenl to Union Labor.
General Master Workman Parsons an
nounced tonight that he will tomorrow issue
a call to all the presidents and secretaries
of all the labor unions in Greater New York
to meet Friday night in the Grand Central
Palace to take some action to sustain the
etreet car men in their present fight. The
strikes now In progress In this city affect
all the surface lines of the Brooklyn Transit
company in Brooklyn and all the electric
lines of the Metropolitan company on Man
hattan Island. On both Bides of the river
the elevated trains are running as uaual.
In Brooklyn tbe Coney Island and Brooklyn
companies lines have not been Involved , and
on 'Manhattan Island 125 miles of horse and
cable road owned by tbe 'Metropolitan com
pany are open , as well as the lines of the
Third Avenue company. The Union com
pany In Bronx borough and tbe Long Island
City company In Queens twrough have had
no trouble.
RIOTS GENERAL IN NEW YORK
Pollee Force In Kent Tin " 7with
Strike Sympathizer * Who Are
Oat In Force.
NEW YORK , July 19. If the strikers
wanted to make plenty of work for the
police and at "the same time get into a posi
tion where they could depend on popular
sympathy , they mode a wise selection In
taking the Second aveuue line for the prin
cipal fight of tbe strike. Several times dur
ing the afternoon the police were called on
to quell riots in Second avenue , but none
was of serious import. The rear trouble did
not begin until thousands of working people
who live along that thoroughfare came homo
from work.
By 7 o'clock Second avenue , from Tenth
street to the stables , at Ninety-sixth street ,
and even us far as One Hundred and Tenth
Etreet , was filled on both walks with a dense
mass of people , all eager for trouble. Cap
tain Donahue of the East Sixty-first street
station earlier In the evening had sent out
a equad of men to keep people out of tbe
middle ot tbe street BO that no tampering
with the elot might occur. But his men
were like so many chips on a river when tbe
tide Is strong and they < were tosxed hither
and thither. They used their clubs with air
their power and the- only result was to anger
the crowd , so that little discrimination was
shown between the police and the carmen
when briikf , were thrown , At about 8 o'clock
a great crowd gathered between Forty-sec
end and Forty-fifth streets and attempted
to overthrow the cars that came along but
thirty minutes apart.
Throtr llrlcka nt the Police.
Policeman Oren Conlvan , who wan on a
car bound south , was hit on the head vlth a
brick and knocked off bis Beat to tbe pave
ment. Hc ! left eye was almost knocked out.
He was taken to tbe Flower hospital.
Louis Minkus , a 9-year-old boy , got tn
front of * poUccman'e club , and in tbe cz-
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remnernture nt Omnhn je terdn >
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cltemrnt the blurcoat mnde no distinctions.
The boy was knocked over and carried home
with a bad scnlp wound.
Mlko Sheridan , u strike symp.athltcr , ot
East Forty-second street , was taken homo
with a fractured * kuir. A sergeant and forty
reserves were got out on the double quick
nnd dispersed the crowd , making a number
of arrests.
Another crowd got together in a minute
or two at Fifty-fifth street and Second
avenue , and when a car bound down came
along It met a perfept nhowcr of bricks ,
stones nnd other missiles thrown from the
streets and the windows of the flats.
Women were perfect furleji. While a car
was passing Seventy-second street , with Po
liceman Gallagher as escort , a dozen or more
of the mob tried to board It to take oft tbe
conductor nnd motorman. Gallagher got off
and , drawing two revolvers , walked ahead of
the car , clearing the track , the mob retreat
ing sullenly. Some one threw a brick and
hit Gallagher on the log , cutting him badly.
Twervo mounted pollcrment camp down the
avenue to the rescue and dispersed the
crowd for the time being.
Inspector Cross , Inspector Harlcy and Inspector
specter Kane were In charge of the police
at the Ninety-sixth street stables of this
line. They had 600 policemen at the stables
nnd distributed along the avenue at various
points. The cars coming Into the stables
from down town .ooked an It they had run
the gauntlet of Balaklava , Windows were
broken and sides dented In , and more than
one motorman left his post -with the state
ment that he had had all he wanted.
Scvornl I'nHHpnwrii Wouiiilril.
One car which had 111 fares and transfers
rung up at Fourteenth street had only the
motorman , conductor and police escort and
two men aboard when It reached Eighty-
fifth street. Several of the passengers had
been wounded and got off the car further
down torn.
The plaza near St. Mark's church. Second
avenue pear Tenth street , was thronged with
a jeering , riotous crowd of 2,000 or more.
Police Captain Diamond had a large squad
of men there and found It almost impossible
to keep the crowd moving.
A favorite diversion for the mob was to
drag up the heavy Iron covers that cover
the conduit manholes. These were turned
on end and thrown Into the boles , leaving
about half of the cover projecting and mak
ing a most effective barrier. At 9 o'clock
there was a block at Eighty-eighth street.
Someone jammed the slot with wire , and it
was half an hour before the cars could pro
ceed.
ceed.A
A great many men were injured all along
the line. Policeman Olson ot the Kings
Bridge mounted squad was thrown from
his horse during a fight near Ninety-fourth
street. The horse wan titruck en the head
.with , astqnp..and BO frightened that JC
reared"thrbwlng Its rT3er heavily. The po
liceman's leg was 'broken ' and he received1
Internal Injuries. A < motorman was struck
on the cheot with a 'brick ' near the up town
car stable and seriously injured. Several
of the passengers of oneof tbe cars going
up town near Tenth street received nasty
scalp wounds from stones thrown by the
mob.
mob.The
The Brooklyn police on duty along upper
Second avenue declared that tbe riot was in
finitely worse than any that had taken place
in Brooklyn. The crowds were very much
greater and more anxious for a fight.
STRIKE TAKES ON NEW LIFE
Ilrooklyii Street Cnr Service In Inter
rupted nnd Itondi Receive
Scanty I'utroiince.
NEW YORK , July 19. The strike ordered
this morning on tbo lines of the 'Metropoli '
tan street railway In New York infused
now blood into the strike in Brooklyn and
did not tend to Improve matters. The ar
rest of twenty-one men charged with con
spiracy to destroy the elevated railroad this
morning at Fifth avenue and Thirty-sixth
street bad little effect upon the public , al
though it was expected that public sympathy
would turn agalnnt the strikers.
The car service was very poor. In the
early part of the day 95 per cent of the cars
of the Brooklyn Heights system were op
erated , but this was lessened to a consid
erable extent later in the day. On the Nas-
cau lines cars worked on half headway all
day. This embraced Fifth and Seventh av
enues and Douglas and Bergen streets. The
scarcity of passengers on tbe Nassau cars
leaving the foot of South Eighth street for
Cananslo , Hamburg avenue and Browns
ville was more noticeable than any day
fUnce the strike began. The traffic on Flat-
bush avenur , running as far as Vcrnon av
enue , was paralyzed. On the Green Point
and cross-town line hardly more than half
as many cars were running as compared
to the number operated yesterday. Along
Franklin and Manhattan avenues the crowd
was quite active and slight disturbances oc
curred. Only a few Coney Island and Ber
gen Beach cars were running and Brighton
Beach wan so Isolated that the Casino had
to 'be ' closed and the musicians dismissed.
Trial of the IllnterH.
The twenty-one men -who were amsted at
Carberry'E hall , at the coiner of Atlantic
and Rockaway avenue , were arraigned In tbe
afternoon at the Adams street police court
before Magistrate Brenner. They were rep
resented by counsel , who pleaded not guilty
In their behalf and demanded an immediate
hearing. The original charge of vagrancy ,
on which the men were held , was dismissed
and they answered to a charge of conspiracy ,
substituted by the affidavit of WllHnm Asbby ,
an "Investigator , " who deposed that on Monday -
day evening ho had attended a mcotlpg at
Carberry hall and that there was talk of
buying dynamite , the use of the dynamite to
be contingent on the action of tbe engineers
of the elevated road concerning the proposi
tion to strike. If the. elevated employe * re
fused to go out , somebody suggested that
dynamite be u&ed to blow them up. Such
remarks were followed by cries ofVe will ,
we will. "
Ashby further stated that he saw O'Hara
and three otheiH leave the ball , saying they
toad the stuff with them and that they had
In their pockets packages rolled in brown
paper , looking like dynamite. Tbe prisoners'
counsel caused a sensation when be fcald.
"Your honor , I admit a conspiracy , and this
ic a conspiracy by the politicians and tbe
police to deprive these men of their lib
erty , "
Magistrate Brenner overruled him and held
tha prisoner * in bonds of f7f > 0.
O'JInru Tell * HU Hide.
O'Hara , the man whom Ashby said carried
dynamite , stated last night that be and
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ARCUARD HAS A SNAP
Bnjs Up Leases on York County Land
Which Others Have Improved ,
CONTRACTS OF SALE ARE CANCELLED
No Notica Given of Such Action to the
Holders of the Contract * .
MUST PAY ARCHARD TO HOLD THEIR FARMS
Judges of Election Testify to Manipulation
of Amendment Ballots ,
BUNKS RETURNED WITH MARKS ON THEM
Hpnr > n Kvldeitrr of Ilnrlnic Ilccn
Kolded to I'liicrIn Ilnllol Pox-
Do > ot Tnlly with thr Toll
Hook Iletnrnc.
YORK , Neb. , July 19. ( Special. ) Th *
senate Investigating committee arrived
hero last evening and this morning opened a
session at the county clerk's office , whcrr
a number of witnesses vere examined re
lating to thfl ballot frauds. The testimony all
confirmed the reports already published nnd
those present were convinced that If the re
count commission bnd ben allowed to
manipulate the ballots of the entire state , as
was done with those of York county , the two
nddjtlonnl Judges would huvp been counted
In with an overwhelming majority.
The committee also went into a matter of
great interest to York county people , if not
to the entire state , this being the coses of
school land grabbing. The testimony pro
duced , as well ns the face of the public rec
ord , disclosed these facts- That Land Com
missioner Wolfe and Fred Archard , n deputy
from the audltors's office , rame to York on
September 27 , 1&97. declnrced the cancella
tion of three pieces ot school land in this
county and Wolfe quietly auctioned off the
leases to Archard. Then the two public
sen-ants left town as quietly as they had
entered and the men who had all through
the drouth and hard times striven to build
up permanent homes on the Innd were after
ward obliged to pay tribute to the procloua
pair of officials. The land-grabbing scheme
was consummated without the formality of
a notice to the parties either by letter or
newspaper publication.
\o IVotlcc to Welch.
One of the farmers thus wronged was
Jacob Welch , living about six miles east of
this city. He held a sole contract to eighty
acres of school land , upon which he had
paid the state $303.30. The payments were
complete up to January 1 , 1895 , but since
then the bad crops had mn Mr. Welch be
hind , as was the condition of many other
farmers in the state. Still he had a nice
bunch of hoga almost ready for the market
and expected to clear up his land with the
proceeds. The land commissioner and his
allies at the state house , however , paid no
attention to Welch's prospects and gave him
no notice. They came out and grabbed tbe
land and compelled him io buy an ussfcn
ment of a lease instead of the sale- contract
which he had originally held. Wolfe ap
praised the land at ? 4 an acre to Archard ,
making the yearly payments on the eighty
acres $19.20 per year. At this rate Welch
had paid enough cash already to have
squared up a lease for sixteen years nnd
then was compelled to pay Archard $225 ad
ditional.
Another case was that of Henry Rolls ,
living eighteen miles northwest of York.
Rolls held a sale contract to forty acres ,
upon which ho had paid $139.04. the original
appraisement having been $440. Wolfe
turned a lease to the land over to Archard
at an appraisement of $120 , which provided
for a lease payment of $7.20 per year. At
this rate Rolls had already paid enough to
settle the lease for nineteen years , and when
the state house reformers had finished their
performance ho either had to buy a lease
assignment to the land -which he had hoped
to hold In fee , or else allow it to remain
In the hands of the wolfish offiolals.
H. B. Cue , who owned a lease to eighty
acrce about ten miles southwest of town , also
got tripped up by the reformers , accord
ing to tbe evidence and records. Ho hod
paid his lease up to January 1 , 1S93 , but
woke up one morning to learn that he would
have to pay tribute to a etato official be
fore he could hold his land.
The fact that Archard hod once been
deputy county treasurer hero , giving him a
full knowledge of tbe condition of the land ,
and tUe further fact that he came here in
company with the land commissioner , made
it look at the time as if it was a pre
arranged plan to grab the land , and the
evidence today only tended to confirm this
belief.
TnUe llji the Tlnllnt PrnndN.
H. C. Klclnschmldt , deputy county clerk ,
was called to testify as to the manner of
preserving the ballots. Ho Bald that they
were kept in the vault and that the com
bination was kept by the county clerk and
the one deputy.
George W. Post , who was chairman of the
republican state committee In 1S96-7 , testi
fied as to two conversations be hod held
with Governor Holctmib early in the winter
of 1897. He had urged upon the governor
the advisability of having tbe recount of
the ballots conducted In an open manner ,
and tbo appointment of commissioners who
would be beyond suspicion. He submitted
to the govrrnor a list of namrs of promi
nent republicans from which Rejections might
be made. The governor had apparently co
incided with tbe idea that the recount
should be openly and fairly conducted , but
at tbe close of the conversation he said :
"Now , remember. I make no promises. "
Mr , Post further testified that whrn th
governor failed to select any of the men sue-
gestnd and when It wait learned that the
recount was bring conducted In a star cham
ber manner proUsts were nent in. When
it liDcarno apparent that wholesale frauds
were being committed , especially in regard
to the ballotw from York county , a committee -
too of citizens was sent to Lincoln to In-
vostlgato. This committee found what
poemed to them plain evidence not only of
the marking up of ballote , but also of the
forgery of the names of election officers.
Soon after this a reward of $1,000 WUH
offered for the detection of tbe parties re
sponsible for tbe fraud and detectlvra were
employed to watch the further progress of
the recount. The reports made dally by
these men ebowed that tbe attempt wan
being made to Increase the number of
vou-e for the amendment in every county ,
Ilxtru HullMlH In I'acUu - .
W. J. Lynch , one of the judge * of election
for tbe First ward of the city of York In 189G ,
was called to Identify tbe ballots and poll
book of bis ward. He said the poll book ,
which showed 103 vqteo for tbe amendment
and 2S agalnnt. was in tbe same condition
as when certified to roy him In 1S9C ,
The teal on the package of ballots for
tbe Firm ward was then broken and there
were found 199 ballots , n Increase of Mxty-
elgbt over the count made ty tbe UoctUn