The Exeter Advocate, 1890-8-21, Page 2'tree
THE FATAL CHAIR
:limiter Dies a Terrible Death
b Electricity
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PRONOU MED DEAD YET WYE,
He Revives Ater Being Shocked Tato
Being
Insensibility.
g +N SP FAINTS.
• f101tR01�-STRIC L SPECTATOR I�_
El Ourrent Runs Through. Him Until, His
Flesh Burns.
THP DOCTORS' AUTOPSY.
J.OPSY.
s,. Sickening Scene.
Some of the witnesses turned away from
,,the sight. One of them lay down faint and
siok. It takes a long, long time to tell the
story. It seemed e. long time reaching a
climax. .In reality there were only 73 seo.
oxide in the interval whish elapsed between
the moment when the first sound issued
=from Kemmler's lips until the response to
the signal came from the dynamo room.
It same with the same anddenness that
bad marked the first shook which passed
through Kemmler'e body. The sound
•which had horrified the listeners about the
chair was out off -sharplyas the .body once
more became rigid. `.Phe slimy ooze still
dripped from the mouth and ran slowly in
three lines down the beard end on to
the grey vest. Twine therewere twitohings
of the body as the electricians in the
next room threw the warrant on and off.
There was to be no mistake this time about
the killing. The dynamo was run at high
speed and the full current of 2.000 volts
was sent through the body in the chair.
How long it was kept in action no one
knows. To the excited group of men about
the chair it seemed an interminable time.
For the men who stood in front of the volt
metre in the adjoining room and threw the
switch backward and forward time had no
.measurement. Dr. Daniel, who looked at
iiia watch excitedly, and who had an ap.
proximate idea of the time at least, said
that it was four and a half minutes in all.
The warden's assistant, who stood over the
dynamo, said that on the second signal the
.machine was ran three and a half minutes.
It will never be known with any degree of
certainty what the space of time was, No
MIS was anxious to give the signal to stop.
.All dreaded the responsibility of offering to
the man a chance to revive or to give again at
least those appearances of returning anima.
:tion which had startled and sickened the
witnesses a few minutes before.
An Odor or Burning Flesh.
As the anxious group stood silently
watching the body, suddenly there arose
from it a white vapor bearing with it a
pungent and siokening odor. The body was
burning. Again there were cries to stop
the current, and again the warden sprang
to the door and gave the quick order to his
assistants. The current stopped and again
there was the relaxation of the body. No
doubt this time that the current had done
its work, if not well, at least completely.
Dr. Fell said, " Well, there is no doubt
about one thing. Tho man never suffered
an iota of pain." In after consultations
the other physicians expressed the same
belief. It was some mitigation of the
horrors of the situation to believe this.
There was some consolation in the thought
that those heavy, hoarse sounds were not
the evidences of suffering. But mitigation
was slight, extremely slight, when it
developed that on another and just as
important a point, one on which the
success of the experiment seemed
to depend largely, if not altogether, these
same. doctors disagreed very materially.
Was Kemmler dead when his cheat moved
and his lips gave forth those strange,
ghastly sounds ? Was he breathing or was
there involuntary or phenomenal action of
the chest muscles ?
The Doctors Disagree.
Some of the eminent experts in attend-
ance said that while the body was still
warm in the chair there was no doubt that
there were signs of returning rning animation ,
that the respiration (for respiration they
believe it to be) was growing stronger,
and that in time if the current had not
been turned on he would have revived.
Others, and among them Dr. Spitzka,
stated with equal positivenes the conviction
that the first shook killed Kemmler instan-
taneously. Dr. Daniel and Dr. Southwick
(the father of the system of electrioide) be-
lieve that Kemmler was dead, but they
think that the current should have been
continued longer than seventeen seconds,
whish was the official time of the first con-
tact. There is no way in which a positive
determination of this question can be made.
It will always remain a mystery.
The Autopsy.
The autopsy was begun at about 9
o'clock. It was in oharge of Dr. Jenkins,
of New York (who handled the knife), Dr.
Daniel, Dr. McDonald and Dr. Spitzka.
Dr. Fell prepared the blood drawn from the
body for examination under the micros-
cope. It was found when the body was
spread out on the table that a very severe
rigor mortis had set in. There was little
relaxation, and it was with difficulty that
the corpse was straightened oat. On
examination it was found that the second
electrode had burned through the skin and
into the flesh at the base of the opine,
making a soar nearly five inches in
diameter. The heart, lungs and other
organs were taken out and were found to be
in good, healthy condition. They will be
preserved for future examination. Tbe
brain also was taken out, and it, too, will
be carefully examined.
The examination of the brain showed
that the brain was hardened directly under
the spot whore the electric current had
come in contact with the skull, and
that the blood at that spot
was hardened, showing that the
current had direst notion on the brain.
Verdict of the Doctors.
The following brief statement was dia.
tated by Dr. Spitzka before the witnesses
left the execution room :
There is no doubt that consciousness was
abolished instantly at the first contact, The
first current did not destroy all vital phe-
nomena, but some reflex phenomena of vegeta-
tive lift resisted, and that I think you can safely
Bay was due to the fact that the voltage was not
constant or atrong enough.
Concerning the strength of the voltage,
Dr. Spitzka said that he had written to Dr.
McDonald some time ago expressing a fear
*hat it would be too weak, D. Spitzka
mid that he had noticed some carious
phenomena in connection with the experi.
trent--one of them the post mortem signs,
whioh appeared immediately atter the first
chock. It watt shortly after this that Dr.
Spitzka said : "I am no friend of cleatro.
dation. X am sure •*hie' settles eleotroon.
*ion ; that man deserved, if a man ever
did, a quidk death." Later Dr. Spitzka
.*aid to the lipeoiai correspondent of
the United Press (and both of these
eappreeeions of opine= were carefully noted
and aro now eraneoribed from original
noise,) "I believe thio syatew of execution
superior to 'bauging," and to this last ex
pression of opinion Dr, McDonald, Who was
etanding by gave a hearty assent. Dr.
Southwick was eatiefied with the execution
as a first Experiment. D•e said that
Kemmler wee dead at the moment of the
first oontaot, and that there was no:repira•
tion afterward. There was nothing lent
mneoular contraction. Besides, as there
Was no consciousness after this first snook it
did not matter whether or not the current
was kept oa all day. The law provided
that the current should be kept going until
death ccoarred. Dr. McDonald said there
was no doubt that unconsciousness was
instantaneous.
" Had the voltage been higher," said Dr.
McDonald, "the time would have been long
"enough."
Dr. aloh said
The man w
as instantly
unconscious. Sensation
was dead in 'him
after the first shook, but I think that if he.
had been allowed to continue to respire he
would have revived."
Dr. Daniel expressed belief that Kemm-
ler died at the first shook. He said be
thought the execution was a sucoese, and
that it had demonstrated the superiority of
electricido over hanging.
Dead at Last.
Almost immediately attendants began to
unbind the corpse, and finally the mask
was removed. The eyes were found to be
half closed and without a glassy stare. The
lids were lifted and tests of the pupils with
bright lights were made. The optic nerves
were dead. There was no contraotion of
the pupils. Where the mask had pressed
the forehead there was a livid mark. The
nose and the region of its base was of a
deeply livid hue. Purple spots soon began
mottling the hands, arms and nook, and the
doctors said he was surely dead. One of
the Buffalo doctors seven minutes after the
straps were removed out the skin at the
temple for a microscopic specimen of the
dead man's blood. It was examined and
found slightly coagulated. Ward. n Durston
produced his death certificate, whish was
read and signed by each witness of the exe-
cution.
Warden Durston was asked to state the
pressure at the time the current was first
applied. " About 1,700 volts," was the re-
sponse.
A Waif and a Wanderer.
Kemmler was b aria in Philadelphia thirty
years ago, brought up in ignorance, never
learned a trade sod for years has been a
waif and a wanderer. He did not know
whether he had a relative living, although
shortly after he came to Auburn he re-
ceived a letter from a man living in Ohio
who was probably his uncle.
So he grew up like a lost child and natur-
ally, because his father was a batoher,
worked more at that than at anything else.
It was the only business of which he had
the least knowledge. Some three years ago
in Camden, N.Y., he married Ida Porter.
The day after his wedding he learned that
ehe had another husband living. Immedi-
ately ho left her and ran away to Baffalo
with Mrs. Tillie Zeigler. There he became
at once a huckster and a drunkard. The
woman, too, was cursed with a taste for
liquor. They quarreled continually. She
frequently stole his money, and, taken
altogether, their life was to degraded as
could be.
One night, crazy with drink, they bad a
row about a few cents, and he struck her
on the head with an axe. Next day she
was dead. That night, in the station -house
Dell, he was plied with liquor until he grow
talkative, and told enough to convict him-
self. That is the whole story of his life,
common enough in its beginning, and un-
common in its ending only because he was
the first to die this new death ordained by
the law.
Something Wrong With the Dynamo.
While this was proceeding and the wit-
nesses examined the chair of death, the
belt was run upon the dynamo, in the south
wing of the prison, and the incandescent
teat lamps in the ante -chamber glowed
faintly. The current was on : the strange
power was coursing the circuit. The
evidence was there, but how feebly they
burned ! Thu exclaimed Dr. McDonald,
who was the only one who got into the
anteroom, and that while ignorant of the
warden's desire to keep its secrets inviolate.
In responee to Dr. McDonald's comments
Electrician Davis remarked that there was
something wrong about the meabinery
tothe dynamo en
there, referring dot
down
the circuit. This rmark took place before
the electricizing, it is well to remember,
and was undoubtedly as tree a few minutes
later, when the bolt was applied to
Kemmler.
more About the Last Scene.
Two and one-half minutes bad been con-
sumed in securing him with straps after he
sat down in the chair, and from time to the
moment all was ready five and a half
minutes had passed. Then the warden
leaned over and nodded his head to some
one who stood in the secret room at the
fatal switch. There was a quick, convul-
sive start of the bound figure in the chair,
e little squeaking sound of straining straps.
Breathless watchers had every sense bent
upon the moveless wretch bound head, hand
and foot, and no sound save birds' songs in
the bright sunshine outside the windows.
The bar of a heavy shads at one window
was lifted by the straying breeze and fell
back against the bar. The noise was alight,
but to the tense and breathless watchers in
the death chamber it seemed equal to the
sound of clashing arms. Dr. Spitzka and
Dr. Shrady, drawn by deep interest almost
unconsciously from their places, moved on
tiptoe to places by the ohair. Bat all was
still and no man spoke.
Opinions or the New York Journals.
The Herald says in one reaped at least
the execution of Kemmler was a diemal
and unfortunate failure. It will fail to end
the unparalleled controversy that has been
waged over the substitution of the dynamo
for the gallows. On the contrary it
must revive that controversy and give to it
a vigor whish it never had before. The
failure of yesterday's experiment was due
not to the eystem, but the bungling, in.
efficient way in which the execution was
managed. The fault was with the doctors
and eleotrioiane. No baokward step should
be taken hastily. So great a reform is not
to be abandoned without good reason. The
bungling work of yesterday does not war-
rant a return to the barbarity of the gal.
lows. Had the execution been properly
and efficiently managed in would have
proved the mama of the new ayetem bo-
yond all dispute.
The Tribune says there are only two pos.
Bible methods of execution that our civili•
zation will sanction, electricity and the
rope, It is only became we are so familiar
with the hanging that its utterly brutal
conditions are tolerated. To witness the
long and deeperate straggles of a poor
wretch who is undergoing the Blow process
of strangulation is to witness a spectacle of
unspeakable horror. It is probable that
the spectacle of Kemmler's death was
equally dreadfdl, but it ie also probable
that sensation fled at the Brat
approach of the electric onrrent.
This carnation cannot bo regarded de any-
thing More than an experiment, bass an
experiment it wits not eneoeee. Mngaea-
tionably there were serious defects in
Warden Daraton'q meehanioal arrange -
merits, Tho switoblloard should have been
in the mention room, and the hand of an
experienced eleotrioianehould havedireoted
the movements of the lever, There should
have been no failure in the development of
a steady, regular current, To these two
oirounestances, whish can of course easily
bo obviated hereafter, some of the
horrors of thief particular case may be
ascribed. That there will now be a lend
outcry against the new law is to be expected,
and probably all sorts of expedients will be
resorted to to prevent another application.
Suchexpedients ought not to succeed.
While we cannot consider it settled that
the law should endure, further tests of its
desirability should be had. Those will bo
in the interest of meroy and civilization,
The Times says yesterday's trial was of
necessity an experiment, and it was not
oonduoted with that care and coolness that
were requisite to ensure enooees, but it was
current that clear that with the o hoe.
been recommended for the purpose, with
application free from defect in construction
and operation, and with a firm and confi-
dent application of the process, there
could hardly be any question of
instant painless death. It would be
absurd to talk of abandoning the
law and going batik to the barbarism of
hanging, and it would be as puerile to pro-
pose to abolish capital punishment because
the new mode of execution wee botched in
its first application.
The World says the first experiment in
electrocution should be the last. Its re-
sult strongly condemn this method of put-
ting oriminals to death as very cruel and
very shocking.
C1iUELTIES IN SIBERIA.
Judicial Punishment to be Abolished.
but Atrocities Stilt to Continue—Cases
in Point.
A Berlin cable says : The Russian
papers announce that transportation to
Siberia will shortly be abolished as a
judicial punishment. They omit to men-
tion that it will be maintained as now
without a jadioial sentence. The latest
notable instance of this kind is the case
of the celebrated novelist, Glyed Ushiensky.
He was arrested at night, being taken
from his bed, and was confined for a
month in a secluded prison. Any know.
ledge of his whereabouts was refused hie
friends for a long time. Finally they were
told he had been sent to Sartov pending
the pleasure of the police. Itis supposed
his cffenoe was writing a letter to the
Czar in support of the memorandum sent
his Majesty by Madame Tzebrikova.
Ushieneky holds a high literary posi-
tion in Russia, where he is as prominent
as is Daudet in France or Howell in
America. He was, however, treated as a
common criminal.
St. Petersburg is greatly shocked over
the treatment of a young girl who has been
sent to Siberia. The story goes that about
three weeks ago a body of Cossacks marched
to a fashionable boarding school in the
vicinity of the capital, and, having gained
admission, proceeded, despite the protests
of the mistress, to the dormitories where
the pupils slept. They flashed a light in
the faces of the sleepers till they name to
the one they wanted, a girl of eighteen.
They dragged her out of bed, handcuffed
her, and without permitting her even to
put on her slippers, marched her off in her
night dress to prison. To repeated appli-
cations to the head of police made by her
friends, all information was refused until a
few days ago, when it was stated she was
on her way to Siberia. She was eng ed to
a young officer who was suspected of being
a Nihilist, and who committed suicide to
avoid arrest. It ie thought the girl is ban-
ished on the supposition that she is also a
Nihilist or is ,possessed of some of the
officer's secrets.
MISSIONARY RIVALRIES.
Mwanga's County the Theatre of a Sectarian
Difficulty.
A London cable says : A letter has been
received from Rev. E. C. Gordon, one of
the English missionaries at Uganda, in
which he says that the Protestants and
Romaniets combined their forces and
together defeated the Mohammedan party
and set Mwanga again on the throne. This
was in February. It was done without the
aesistanceof the British East African Com-
pany's expedition, which, when the fight-
ing was going on, was in Usoga, on the
north share of Victoria Nyanza, at least 50
miles east of the scene of trouble.
Then Dr. Peters, the German traveller,
appeared on the scene and induced Mwanga
to sign a treaty placing his country under
German proteotion. The Romanistnatives
strongly favored this action, but the Pro.
testants, who areal' converts of the English
missionaries strongly opposed it. They said
that Mwanga had already accepted the flag
of the British East African Company,
which Jackson had sent him, and that the
British Company therefore had a prior
claim. The Protestants, however, were
compelled to yield, and Dr. Peters lett
Uganda and started for the coast with the
signed treaty. Of coarse this treaty has
been nullified by the Anglo -German agree-
ment. •
The dissensions between the Protestant
and Romaniet parties are serious. Before
they combined to reinstate Mwanga, how-
ever each side took an oath that in the
event of its securing the chief antltority
under the King, it would not molest the
other party. In consequence of this com-
pact, though there is much bad feeling, no
pen acts of hostility have occurred between
he parties. The Romaniets, who are
numerically stronger then their rivals,
have the ear of the King, and hold the best
places in the Government.
Lady Dnnlo's;Qictory.
A London gable says : Lady Dunio's vic-
tory in the divorce suit has brought that
fair songstress not only glory but lucre.
She is simply overwhelmed with offore of
all kinds, the latest of whish is one from
Ted Marks to accept $300 a week and
travelling expenses for a tour of America,
in return for which she would be only ex-
pected to do one song and dance each eyen.
ing, with a possible encore, the whole not
to keep her on the stage more than fifteen
minutes. Lady Dunlo refused the offer,
saying she will not appear on the stage for
some time to come. She promised Mr.
Marks, however, that if ever she 'decided
to go to America, he should have her prefer-
ence for acting as her manager.
—Real lightning -bugs ornament cor-
sages.
The Jews in Edinburgh have resolved to
raise a fund to *waist Jowe expelled from
Russia through the Jewieb Society for the
Colonization of Palestine.
The German newspaper directory enum-
erates 3,203 German periodicals, againet
2,982 in 1889 and 2,729 in 1888.
John Wilson, who has just been eleoted
a Liberal moraine of the British Parlia-
ment from ]Ylid•Darham, worked in the
mines of Illinois and Pennsylvania several
yearn ago as a common laborer. Return.
ing tie England he became a strong and
a sttnoessttil champion of workingmen's in.
erode.
LONDD1 'p NEW 11001:11OP.:
.A Very Popular Qanadian Priest to Sue-
seed. A&rohbishop Walsh..
A cable despatch- to the New Yorle
Catholic News from its home correspondent
Says that Rev. Dennis O'Connor, of Sand.
wiob, Ont., Canadian Su erior of the.
Basilican. Fathers and Superior of Aesump.
tion College, of 'Sandwich, has been
appointed Bishop of the Diocese of London,
Ont., to mimed the Most Reverend John,
Walsh, who was appointed Bishop. of
Toronto last year.
Father O'Connor, D. D., is a Canadian
by birth, 50 years of age. He early deter-
mined to devote his life to the Catholic
faith, and entered St. Michael's College at
Toronto, Ont., with the intention of fitting
himself for the roiniatry. He graduated
with high honors at the Toronto college,
studied for two years in France, and after
visiting all places in Europe important for
their o o0 nn i with religious history,
o
g y
,
took orders in the church.
Returning to America, Father O'Connor
was made a professor of St. Miohael's Col-
lege, his alma mater, but soon resigned to
accept the position of superior of the
Aesnmption College at Sandwich. When
he entered upon the duties of his new office
the college was barely in existence. It was
located in some deserted army barracks
below Sandwich, but under the guiding
hand and untiring energy of Father
O'Connor it steadily advanced in efficiency
and prosperity until it has reached the
position that it now holds among Cauadian
educational institutions.
The success of every project that Father
O'Connor has undertaken has been due to
his great ability as an organizer and the
broad and liberal view that he has taken of
everyday affairs. Father O'Connor has
continued at the head of Assumption
College during a period of 22 years, up to
the time of his present appointment, and
his masterly efforts will soon be felt in the
new position that hie profound learning
and liberal ideas has won for him.
THE MISENER MYSTERY. •
Probability That a Clue to Unravel It %las
Moen Discovered.
A Buffalo despatch says : A new and
very probably important witness has bean
found in the Grand Island mystery case.
The witness is a young woman named
Mason, who, when, the murdered man
Misener lived at his home near Port Col-
borne, Ont., resided with her grandfather
at the little German village of Stonebridge,
in the township of Humlterstone, about a
mile from Port Colborne. She there be-
came acquainted with Misener and " kept
company " with him, but lost eight of him
for a couple of years, until she met him
again on Grand Island, where he was
working for Ackerman. She is represented
as claiming that Ackerman was jealous of
Misener. The girl then worked at Sheen -
water, and ono .night when she and Misener
were out walking they met Ackerman.
The Iatter was very angry and swore he
would get even with Misener for taking his
girl away from him. The girl said her
brother told her that Ackerman and
Misener had a fight over chopping some
wood one day. She will be called as a wit-
ness for the State when Ackerman comes up
for trial next September.
COMFORTING DOR SMOKERS.
Lepers Engaged in Turning the Fragrant
Weed Into Cigars.
A Washington despatch says : That
leprosy is prevalent among the Cuban em-
ployees of the great cigar factories at Key
West and Tampa, Fia., there is now no
doubt. Private advices state that leprosy
is known to exist among those at present
working as " strippers" and carters. In
these oases the disease has broken out be-
yond doubt, but the symptoms are not yet
eo serious as to incapacitate them from
work. In other oases the sufferers live at
home while other members of their fami-
lies go out and work, returning home and
spending their evenings with the lepers.
Leprosy has been found to exist lately in
several States, but such oases are under
the control absolutely of the local State
authorities. If it is represented to the
Health Bureau that leprosy exists in Key
Weet or Tampa, or that it has caused the
infection of tobacco, an investigation will be
at once ordered, and steps taken to quar-
antine the tobacco. As yet, however,
nothing has been done, because no infor-
mation of an official 0 or special character
p c
has been received.
PRISONERS REVOLT.
Strange Scene at the Charleston State
Prison Yesterday.
A Boston despatch says : For sometime
trouble has been brewing at the Charleston
State Prison owing to the objection of the
inmates to the Bertillon system of meas-
urements. This afternoon the convicts in
the harness shop, numbering over one hun-
dred, refused to obey orders, and all at
once sot up a terrific yell, and missiles of
every description were sent flying in all
directions. The windows on the north and
west sides wore demoliehed. Then they
dashed forth into the yard and rnehed for
the walla. The sentries began firing, and
other prison officials were quickly at hand,
and with drawn revolvers soon massed the
men in groups. After a hard fight, in
which clubs were freely used and many
convicts' heads badly crushed, about fifty
pity police arrived and the convicts were
finally looked up in their cells. It is feared
several convicts escaped. The rising issaid
to have been instigated by "Chicken"
Walsh, one bf the most desperate members
of the old Albany street gang.
A Well That Was Loaded.
A Norwood, Mich., despatch says : Cont.
Espel, at work on a ohnroh adjacent to O.
Buddemeir's home, was granted the
privilege of drawing all the water he
wanted from Bnddemeir's well. The
statement that it is 60 feet in depth and
contains 45 feet of water was snouted by
Michael Kuenzel and Joe Sebastian. The
former lit a newspaper and dropped it into
the well so he could see. In an instant
there was an explosion and Kuenzel,
Sebastian and a teamster named Barney
Pruee, who were standing on the platform,
were blown into the air and all horribly
burned and bruised. It is doubtful if any
of them will reoover.
A Teacher Charged With Mnnslaughtor.
A Pontiac, Mich., despatch says : Miss
Jennie Webb, sohool teacher, has been ar-
rested on the charge of manslaughter and
ie tint on 400 bail. The warrant states
that she severely punished Frank Cooke, boy
10 years old, and that he died from the
injuries received. The sad affair happened
just at the olose of last year's school, and
opinion se to the guilt of the accused is
equally'divided. The boy suffered intoneoly
for many weeks before death, being unable
to eat anything, and became simply a living
skeleton.,
There are thoeo who are apprehensive of
trouble in France incident to the present
condition of affairs political, and think it
cannot be long deferred,
THOSE CANADIAN RAILWAYS
Probably Befusal to ;Permit Sealing Oars
at Vancouver Will Oome.
A;Washington despatch of Wednesday
says: The Secretary of the Treasury to.
day sent to the Senate his answer
to the resolution introduced by Sena.
for Cullom, on July 16th; relative, to
the Canadian Pacific Railroad, That roso•
lution was very swooping in its terms, and
desired partioularly to know whether
a United States customs agent is stationed
at Vancouver, B.C., who seals the oars of
the Canadian Pacific Railroad containing
merchandise in bond to the United States,
and from what planes that merchan-
dise domes. The resolution also asked
for information as to the manner
in which geode imported by the
Grand Trunk Railroad are bonded and
whether an law is violated onthat account.
Theanewer of
the Secretary of the Treasury
will not be satisfactory to the Canadian
railroads. Tho Secretary does not give any
specific indication as t0 what he intends to
do, but the inferences from his reply are
important. ' The answer shows that it is
the purpose of the Treasury Department to
change the existing method of inspecting
and sealing cars at Vancouver, and that the
United Status customs agent will not here-
after be permitted to bond merchandiee
imported from China and Japan for trans•
portation to the United States in the oars
of the Canadian Pacific under the United
States Treasury seal. It is understood here
that this will be rather it serious matter for
the Canadian Pacifica inasmuoh as a con-
siderable portion of the bonded business,
whish it has transacted through the agency
of the United States customs inepeotor at
Vancouver, consists of importations of
Chinese and Japanese merchandise. It is
evident that the Secretary of the Treasury
intends to forbid the use of the United
States consular seal for any merchandise
imported into British Columbia from China
or Japan, or from any other country, except
such as can be termed a contiguous country
to the United States.
The answer of the Seorotary to the in.
quiry whether or not the Grund Trunk
Railroad is conducting its elevator system
at Port Sarnia, Ont., in violation of the
United States revenue laws, is answered
with less directness by the Secretary. He
refers to the provisions of the law under
which this permit was originally granted,
and states that he does not know that the
privilege is in violation of the law, and is
not prepared to say that to continue this
permit would endanger the revenues of the
United States. It is understood from
information outside of this answer that
further inquiry is to be made in the matter
of the Grand Trunk Railroad. The,
answer of the Secretary of the Treasury
can only be regarded as preliminary to the
general inquiry. All through the letter he
states tent the subject referred to in the
several resolutions of inquiry of the Senate
are under investigation.
AN ITALIAN
Savage Fight Over a Girl—Two 'Killed,
Others Dying.
A Bound Brook, N.J., despatch says : A
terrific fight occurred in the Italian settle.
went, known as the " Gravel Pit," in the
outskirts of Bound Brook yesterday.
Several years ago an Italian girl came to
this country and began to work in the
Bound Brook mills. She was engaged to a
lover in Italy, but in a short time was
married to one of the Bound Brook Italians.
Yesterday a brother of the jilted lover
visited " Gravel Pit" and met the faithless
woman, who carried a child in her arms.
He struck her over the head with a bottle.
The husband interfered, and in a moment
the two men were fighting. A free fight
followed. The occupants of the shanties
all turned out and fought viciously. All
sorts of weapons, including heavy pieces of
split railroad ties, spades, shovels, pickaxes
and knives, were used. In a few minutes
the ground was covered with bleeding and
groaning victime. During the night two
of tho wounded men died in great agony.
Others are in a dying condition. Five
arrests were mads.
TO SEE IIIS GRANDMA.
Emperor William, Meets With a Royal
Reception at London.
A London cable says : Tho German
Imperial yacht Hohenzollern, with Emperor
William and bis brother, Prince Henry, on
board, arrived at Osborne at 10 o'clock this
morning. The Queen signalled " welcome"
to His Majesty from Osborne house, her
palace on the Isle of Wight, as the yaoht
entered Cowes roads,. The Prince of Wales
and the Duke cf Connaught, on board the
royal yacht Albert, went out to meet the
Emperor. A number of members of the
royal family awaited bis arrival on the
private landing stage. One German iron-
clad accompanied the Hohenzollern. It
was also escorted into the harbor by five
British torpedo boats. As the Emperor
landed a salute was fired. Entering a
carriage, His Majesty drove to Osborne
house, where the. Queen, the Princess of
Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh received
him at the entrance. As he entered a
band played the German and English
national anthems. The Emperor wore his
British admiral's uniform.
SAVED FROM THE STARE.
A Little Indian Boy Rescued From To
tare for Witchcraft.
A San Francisco despatch say
William Brown, of the Uni
army, has arrived bore with
Indian boy whom he recent'
torture and death in the h
Capt. Brown went out to e
keen mine region, and whi
the . escape of an
"Little Tom," who
tured for evitohcraf
was e, member of the
nephew of the chief.
killed off many Indian
way the child was hel
prevalence of the disc
nary torture he was
at the stake, when a
McGinnis, defying 11
the lad. After a to
drede of miles Little
white station, whore
Brown and brought
The captain will e
is voter bright, and i
yer or a missionary
AEI the law of Ab
cab -driver was pros.
fined 5 shillings, or
ment, for smoking a
while driving a far
standing on the looks
municipal laws and r,
the smoking of a pij
criminal offence.
A physioian of Pb
Dulles, holds to the
hope for aonsamptly
science will soon b
disease.
THE N. Y. C. STRIKE,
tt Looks as ii' it Would Result in b,•
Plat Failure,,
" RE ULARL$
TRAINS RUNNINGG "-
A New York despatch says : At the
Grand Central depot this morning there no.R
longer existed oven the eemblance of a
strike. Passenger trains were coming in..
and going out with all appearanoe of their
usenet regularity. The inflow and outflow
of passengers was as great as ever, and,..
excepting for the presence of an unueual
number of policemen idle, standing about
the various entrances to the depot, the
most careful observer would be unable 10
perceive any lingering iedioation of the tie.
lip that on Friday night threatened to be,
so formidable.
ALL QUIET.
At midnight all was reported
quiet at the -
Grand Central depot. Superintendent
nt
Voorhees said despatches from all parts of
the lino showed nearly all the trains wers
running on time. No. 6, the feet express
due at 8.50 p.m., had not arrived up to 1
o'clock a. m. It cannot be found where the
train is located. The freight due from..
Albany had not arrived up to midnight.
No CHANGE AT ALBANY.
An Albany despatch eaye : The sitna
tion of the etrike here remains unchanged
on the part of the etriliers. They report
no new accessions to their ranks. One.
prominent Knight this morning stated that,
the K. of L. had ordered cut all of their•
firemen between here and Syracuse, and,•
that the order was now being passed along.
the line from the woet for ail K. of L. fire-
men to leave their engines at their terminie
He said several firemen had dropped but
this morning who had come in from the
west. Investigation in the depot yard does,
not substantiate these statements. Only
one fireman could be found who had
dropped off here, and he refused to say
whether he was a K. of L. ora Brotherhood
man. Another official of the comp any
said by to -morrow night the blockade at
West Albany will have been broken and the
draw of Upper bridge will be closed, ander
the stalled freight trains now lying on the
bridge will be removed. Then the New
York Central freight will be sent on west...
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AVERTED.
A terrible accident was averted to•night-
on the New York Central road. A•
" lighter " engine was started from Schen-
ectady at about 9 o'clock and ran wild on
the up passenger track toward this city.
Superintendent Bissil was informed of its
doming, and telegraphed to the station at
the upper railroad bridge, and had the
engine switched off on the steep grade lead-
ing to the bridge. When the engine reached
this grade its speed was slackened consid-
erably, enabling the engineer, who was
watching for it, to bring it to a stop.
Luckily it was possible to hold the 4.50
pm. west -bound train from New York till
the engine was caught.
NO TROUBLE AT SYRACUSE.
Order has been fully restored at Syra-
cuse, and trains are running without inter-
ruption. Vise -President Webb said pas-
senger trains would bo inn to -day on the,
same schedule as yesterday. Arrange-
menta are being completed to ran out freight
trains from the 65th street and 33rd street
yards. He said the road had all the men
it needed. He did not know whether any of
the old men had bean taken back or not, as
every man employed wee taken on as a new
hand. There is a smaller police force oni
guard at the Grand Central depot than yes-
terday.
THE STRIKE PRACTICALLY ENDED.
Capt. Foley, in charge of Pinkerton's
men at East Syracuse, declares the strike is
ended. No striker has appeared there since
the yard was cleared yesterday afternoon.
THE ENGINEERS NOT INVOLVED.
Chief Engineer Arthur, when asked con-
cerning his views of the New York Central
strike, said : "'There is really nothing
that I can say on the part of the engineers,.
because they are not yet involved. We
have received no official information here
wbatevor, not even as to the cause of the
etrike, and only know what we have read
in the newspapers. So far as we know the
engineers have no grievances, and nothing
has been presented for action. The
engineers aro free from alliance with other
organizations, and would not necessarily be
involved even if the firemen were to join
with the striker
e. So far as I halearned
ed
the etrike has been carried on by the
Knights of Labor. Some of the engineere
may have left their engines, but if snob has•
been the case they have acted simply as
individuals and their action has not been
sanctioned by the Brotherhood. The New
York Central hos always cbeen a good em.
ployer, I know that to be true, beoanse I
worked for the company for twenty years.
It has been one of the best roads in the.
country in tho treatment of its men."
TEE CAUSE OF TEE TROUBLE. •
A Philadelphia despatch says : This,
week's Journal of the Knights of Labor con-
tains an editorial on the New York Cen-
tral Railroad strike. The artiole accuses
Vice -President Webb of baying systemati-
cally provoked the strike by his overbear.
ing, haughty and arbitrary treatment of
the employees.
RETURNING To rooms.
The Now York Central switchmen and
baggagemaeters at Fonda who went on
strike have, with one exception, returned to-
work. '
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-owe f the railroad strike are
in Troy. The
the Troy Union
and all pas --
time.
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