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I VOLUME 57. XO, 2(M. HOCIIESTER, N. Y.t SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 22, 1889.

THREE CENTS PER COPY; TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF. DIGGING DAY AND NIGHT It also by acelamation declared George E. THEY AGREE TO DISAGREE most satisfactory. The response to the rudder was excellent for a ship of her size. The gunboat Yorktown was given her speed trials and made 16.

7 knots per hour. This exceeds the speed called for in the contract. Her work was very satisfactory. a number of Americans were killed, have excited much interest here because a well-known colored man, Jeff Davis, a citizen of Wheeling, has recently returned from the scene of the rebellion and tells a story of shocking cruelty to the slaves who are held in bondage in Navassa. The stories of cruelty and tyranny in the island which he told seem to explain the present revolt.

Jeff predicted that if some bright, bold man ever got sufficient influence to become a leader of the blacks on the island, there would be a general uprising. pare a plan of floor work for the various degrees. The constitution was amended to provide for the election of officers of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, annually instead of biennially, and permitting state and territorial grand bodies to make laws disqualifying persons engaged in the sale of intoxicating beverages from membership in the order. The question of a constitution for Rebekah degree lodges was referred to special committee and postponed for one year. TROUBLE WITH THE MAYORS.

AMONG THE POLITICIANS Preliminary Skirmishes of the State Campaign. DELEGATES AND NOMINATIONS Honors Divided Between the Two Republican Factions of Niagara County Work Done by Party Gatherings in Many Towns and Cities. Domestic Infelicity in a Clergyman's Family. HE WAS A WILD YOUNG MAN In Youth be Married a Mere Girl and Afterward Became a Baptist Minister Divorce Proceedings Begun by Mutual Consent. Franklin, Sept.

21. The wife of Rev. E. B. Rogers filed suit for divorce here this week.

The document is carefully worded, but there is much behind it. Mrs. Rogers is a pleasant-faced little woman of striking brunette type of beauty. She was born in New York and married the Rev. Mr.

Rogers when 1 4 years of age. At that time, she says in her complaint, he was a base ball player, drank hard and was a general rounder. He has a mind of errrtio turn, brilliant but undisciplined. The couple lived together for a number of years in a precarious manner, and she often took in washing to keep them. During this time Mr.

Rogers studied with vigor and sixteen years 'after their marriage became converted, joined the Baptist Church and was ordained a minister. He went to live at Wetdsport, N. Y. and held a small pastorate there. In the spring of 1P87 Mr.

Rogers received a call to the Faanklin Church, moved here with his wife and adopted son and made about $4,000 a year. Mrs. Rogers was active in missionary work, became one of the most esteemed members of the best society in Franklin, and the town was delighted with both until a year ago, when a change was noticeable to the domestic economy of the Rogers household. Mr. and Mrs.

Rogers began to avoid one another, and it was rumored the husband was ill treating the wife. The cause of this was alleged to a young girl in the congregation named Jennie Ross. It was said she was too intimate with Rogers and he tried to induce his wife to procui a divorce. The young woman, according to Mrs. Rogers's attorney, was seen at all hours of the night with Mr.

Rogers, who finally employed her in the capacity of a private secretary and kept her almost constantly at his rectory, despite the the objections of Mrs. Rogers. Once Miss Ross commanded the Rev. Rogers to cease walking on the street with his wife. This was said in the presence of Mrs.

Rogers, who replied hotly. Mr. Rogers after this went about spreading defamatory stories concerning his wife. He asserted he had some letters which would establish her unfaithfulness to him and declared he must ba a divorce. The congregation was alarmed, and, thinking that his mental powers had been disordered from overwork, gave him $1, 000 and advised him to go with his wife to Europe for a rest.

They f.arted, but Mrs. Rogers being, as she aimed, ill treated, left him at New York and leturned. After a stay of a month Sogers -eturned and announced his intention of pi curing a divorce and marrying Miss Ross. A few members of the church remonstrated, af said such a scandal in the church would never do. Rogers then presented his resignation.

The next Sunday he anntunced to the congregation that he was about to leave them. This created a sensa'Jon, ai.d the congregation refused to accept his resigna tion and induced him to withdraw it. On September 6th, Mrs. Rogers left for New York, but hearing that her husband was about to bring suit for divorce on the ground of unfaithfulness" on her part, returned and determined to fight it out. The elders in the church Informed Mr.

Rogers on September 1 4th, that he could not preach further. This surprised him, as he had expected to procure a divorce, marry Miss Ross and continue as pastor. However, liu immediately tendered his resignation, which was accepted. Mrs. Rogers, finding she could do noth ing with her husband, had a meeting witli him Saturday last and agreed to sue for divorce herself.

To this he agreed and the suit was instituted. Rogers has gone to Illinois, where his attorneys say he has received a call from a wealthy congregation. A DAKOTA BANK ROBBED. Forty-five Thousand Dollars Stolen by Expert Burglars. Huron, Sept.

21. The safe ia the State Bank here was blown open last night and over $44, 500 was stolen. The money was sent from Ashland last night at 7 clock and arrived here about o'ciocit. It was intended for the Ashland and Ger- mania miniug companies, who were to pay off their men to-day. The cashier put the money inside of the iron vault and left shortly after 9 o'clock.

The second door of the vault was opened with a key. which indicates the work of experts. A light was left burning in the office and a few minutes after a man was seen working at the vault, but he had on the cashier's oflice coat and nothing was thought of it by those who passed the bank. The cashier returned shortly after 11 o'clock and discovered that the money was missing. No trace of the robbers has been found.

The express company had no receipt for the money from the bank officials. Foot-Ball at Yale. New Haven, Sept. 21 The foot ball sea son opened atYale this afternoon. Forty '93 men appeared as candidates for the Freshman eleven, and a match was played between eleven representing the University, and a team picked from the different classes.

The varsity eleven won easily. The game was very roughly played. Three men were carried off the field and several others were quite badly hurt. Harvey, half back of the University eleven, was roughly tackled and a severely sprained ankle resulted. He was carried from the field suffering great pain.

It will be several weeks before he can play. His loss will cripple the eleven. Association of American Physicians. w.rT.A- 1 a Priest, of the Ithaca Journal, its candidate for state senator, granting him the privilege or naming nis six delegates. He selectea William Bostwick, D.

B. Stewart, G. M. Rockwell, Dana Rhodes, Ezra Marion, and Henry H. Robinson.

F. J. Enz, Edward Stewart, Stephen L. Stone, Nelson W. otevens and U.

M. Titus were chosen dele gates to the state convention. The minor offices on the county ticket were filled, and a new county committee was elected. Middletown, Sept. 21.

The Republican state delegates from Sullivan county are George McLaughlin, James A. Fulton, John Wilier, John E. Decker and Henry Kren-rich. The Republicans of Delaware county to day nominated for Assembly James BaUan-tine. Republican state delegates from the Sec ond Assembly district of Orange Burke PiUsbury, William R.

Richardson. Joshua Oldroyd, Henry Seacord, William Ogden, oseph ohnson. Oswego, Sept. 21. At the Republican First Assemoly district convention held here to-day Nevada N.

Stranahan, of Fulton, was nominated for member of Assembly. The delegates are George B. Sloan, H. H. S.

11. Coon. P. W. Cullman, George M.

Case, Albert Farnham, L. V. S. Mattison. Senatorial delegates.

Georee M. Whitney, H. A. Wilcox, W. D.

Colby. The Senatorial delegates are instructed for George B. Sloan. Rondo ct, Sept. 21.

The Republican convention of the First Assembly district of Ulster to-day elected as delegates to the state convention W. R. Sheffield, William D. Brunnier, C. Overbaugh, James D.

Linslay, Thomas Kempler. The Republi cans of the Second Assembly district of Ulster elected P. A. Schriver, H. G.

Hob-bard, John Broadhead, J. P. Hepworth and I. Ostrander. Schenectady, Sept.

21. Schenectady county delegates to the Republican state convention: Robert Van Valkenburg, John L. Turnbull, A. A. Yates, A.

M. Vedder and Edward Ellis. The delegates to the Republican Senatorial convention are Rob ert J. Lrndon, W. R.

Dedrick, W. Wemple, H. M. Aiken and C. F.

Horst-meyer. Ithaca, Sept. 21. At the Republican county convention this afternoon the following state delegates were elected F. J.

Enz, E. C. Stewart. The convention declared in favor of George E. Priest as its candi date for senator in this distnict, and so instructed the delegation to the senatorial convention.

Syracuse, Sept. 21. Delegates to the Republican state convention from the First district of Onondaga county were elected to-day as follows D. Duane Sherwood, R. Bruce McQueen, J.

W. TJpson, J. A. Baumgras, Thomas E. O'Neill, Q.

H. Duell, C. M. Brand, J. W.

Knapp. Laurens, Sept. 21. The Republicans of the Second Otsego district this afternoon elected Senator F. B.

Arnold, Assemblyman Walter L. Brown, Nathan Briggs, Tilley Blakely and Sheffield Harrigan delegates to the state convention. The senatorial delegates were instructed for Arnold. New York, Sept. 21.

The Republican Twenty-fourth Assembly district convention to-night elected the following delegates to the Republican state convention llham H. Ten Eyck, Thomas J. Rush, William R. Beale, William G. Davis, Thomas Stearn, Henry W.

T. Mali. Newburg, Sept. 21. Delegates to Re publican state convention from the First Assembly district of Orange county: Benja min B.

O'Dell, Joseph M. Dickey, W. S. Westlake, C. S.

Gibb, George Alexan der, William Kent, C. H. C. Beakes. Roslyn, S.

Sept. 21. The Repub licans of the First Assembly district of Queens county to-day elected as delegates to the state convention John Birdsall, William Youngs, John M. Clark, John D. Nostrand and Joseph Oppenheimer.

Poughkeepsie, Sept. 21. The Second Assembly district Republican convention today elected the following delegates to the state convention Ex-Mayor Ezra White, Lewis H. Vail, C. Peeler, A.

H. Hoff man and George Lamore. Democratic Delegates. Utica, Sept. 21.

The Democrats of the Second Oneida district elected Hon. James Stevens, John McMahon and H. S. Kellogg as delegates to the state convention. Resolutions instructing the delegates to support Brien, Tabor and Wemple were passed.

The state convention delegates will favor Judge Samuel A. Beardsley for state committeeman in place of S. Mason Smith, deceased. Ithaca. Sept.

21. The followine were to-day elected delegates from Tompkins county to the Democratic state convention F. M. Leary, G. W.

Apgar. W. B. Crit tenden. To the senatorial convention jn.

Pierson, J. D. Smith. M. Sweetland, C.

J. Rumsey, A. G. Genung, G. B.

Davis. Rvmrasi. Sept. 21. Deleeates to the Democratic state convention, First district.

Onondaga: Daniel U'ririen, tiouse, Spencer Hohn. Second district P. J. Rrrtur Horace K. Kine.

Nicholas Joy. Third district J. H. MoVey, W. T.

Gay- nor, George reeman. Horseheads, Sept. 21. Chemung county Democrats elected the following delegates: State A. C.

Eustice, W. H. Peters, C. L. Hathaway.

Senatorial J. L. McDowell, Calvin R. Woodhouse, John B. Finnigan, William Walsh.

Attica, N. Y. Sept. 21. P.

J. Sully was nominated for state committeeman at the Democratic caucus here to-night. He will go into the Warsaw convention with the delegates from Wyoming. Troy, Sept. 21.

The Democrats of the Second district of Rensselaer county to-day elected Joseph Buckley, C. B. Dunham and J. Thomas Dennin delegates to the state convention. Utica, Sept.

21. P. D. Condon, J. H.

Brown and D. E. Dillenbeck were elected delegates to the state convention by the Democrats of the Third Oneida district today. er.nr.virTATY. Sept.

21. Schenectadv county delegates to the Democratic state convention cnanes jn Yates, and E. C. Stuart. Republican State League.

New York, Sept. 2 1 The convention of the Republican State League will be held in the Town tiall at Saratoga, at noon, September 24th. The headquarters of the league will be at the united States Hotel. Earthquake Shock in California. HEALDSBURG.Cala.

Sept. 21. The heavi- est snocic ol v.a.1 kuquaae experienced nere for several years occurred to-day. No damage is reported. New War Ships at Newport.

Newport, R. Sept. 21. The cruiser fTiitfja.cn bad ti or nmnAtivArini, (r.minT trials to-day. The action of the ship was Leonard Ellis, oil refiners at Shady -ie Hudson county, N.

J. were burned out Friday night. Loss, 500, 000. The break in the aqueduct, four miles west of Fultonville, was repaired Friday night and navigation was resumed Saturday. Twenty-two liquor sellers were arrested Guthrie, I.

T. Friday, by a deputy United States marshal and will be taken to Wichita for trial. In Philadelphia Friday Maggie Tobin, aged 10 years, shot and killed her six-year -old sister Ellen. Maggie found a revolver in a closet, pointed it at her sister, and it was accidentally discharged. Andrew "Wood, a farmer of Edenton, If.

C. was found dead in bed Friday morning with his throat cut. He had been murdered. His wife was asleep in bed with him. The perpetrator is unknown.

The Canal Board will meet in Albany Monday at 2 P. M. to again take up the question of the application of the city of Syracuse to divert the surplus water of bhaneateles lake for that city's water supply. Two freight trains collided early Saturday morning on the Boston Maine railroad between Lancaster and South Lancaster, Mass. Engineer Edward Lawrence of Rochester had his left arm broken.

Fireman Warren was killed, and Peter Tapro was injured about the head. The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that bicyclists cannot be made liable for damages resulting from horses becoming frightened at their wheels, if such runaways cur while the bicyclists are riding upon the highway and doing nothing which shows a lack of regard for the rights of others. A Pittsburg dispatch says the Western Kail Association, which was in existence for many years but was disbanded two years ago, will likely be reorganized. The nail trade is improving and prices are stiffening. This is partly due to the fact that prices of raw material have taken a big jump upwards.

Russell B. Harrison arrived in Chicago Friday evening and registered at the Grand Pacific, where telegrams and mail awaited him. Mr. Harrison will join his father-in-law, ex-Senator Saunders, of Omaha, who is on the Utah commission, to-day, and go with him to Omaha where his family is at present. "William Vainson, Jefferson Keelson, Perry Douglas and David Edwards, colored soldiers, were taken to Tucson, Arizona, Friday, charged with murdering William Fleming, a colored soldier.

It is claimed they belong to a secret organization among the colored troops, who ordered the death of Fleming. The first direct shipment of Duluth wheat to British mills ever made on the merits of the grain as shown by sample, left Duluth Thursday on the steamer Oceanica. It was purchased by John Hardman Sons, of Edinburgh. The identity of the wheat is preserved transit. This is only the be ginning of large shipments.

The best time made by hook and ladder companies was beaten by the Seattle team at tne tournament in Taeoina. WV T. Fri day. The time was 29 seconds for 220 yards. The best amateur time on record was 31 seconds, made at Madison, Wis.

The Seattle team has been in constant drill since the great Kan as City fire. Thomas Green, an express messenger on the Newport News Mississippi Valley railroad, was arrested in Louisville Friday night charged with having stolen $800 worth of diamonds from a trunk ten days ago. The baggagemaster, whose name is White, was arrested at Lexington Friday. When Green was captured he was at the- races and was just cashing a couple of pool tickets on which he had made a big winning. A masked man entered the house of Mrs.

Catherine Stone, a widow 80 years of age, living in Moore county, South Carolina, a few nights ago and shot a colored woman who tried to prevent his entrance. He then walked into the room where Mrs. Stone slept and demanded her money. She told him there was no money in the house. He then struck the old woman on the head with a revolver and after choking her fled.

Mrs. Stone '8 nephew is suspected. S. H. Allen, who has just returned to Van Home, from the Rio Grande river, reports that a number of Mexican citizens had a desparate battle a few days with Mexican officers and soldiers in Hexico, in which 400 participated and many were reported killed.

The citizens routed the soldiers. The governor appeared opon the scene to assist in quieting the rebellion, but was forced to leave or lose his life. The trouble was over the collection of enormous taxes. STORMS IN MEXICO. Cyclones, Cloud-bursts and Landslides Cause Extensive Damage.

St. Loos, Sept. 21. Advices from Mexico say very heavy storms have been sweeping over the country since August 15th, vwitmg different states at different times, ine latest prevailed along the Pacific coast, and reports from Mazatlan and Mazanillo are tnat the steamers Parfirio Diaz and Al-ata have probably been wrecked nf vr day8' steady rain the state town Cyclone P833 over th causin8 reat destruc- Unts terror oi th iaH-tants a great landslide occurs th -Jet of the dW flooled that part ere tad warning and T- the peoPle but the deTtw time to escape, tie wL? and loss of cat- Loss of the British Ship Lily tfaSnrS8-' 21. -Admiral "wT'v telegraphic advices this wat the BritisQ ar-ship Isle Labrador, in the Straits of Belle Saly' William Coates, Deasly and Thre all seamen, no ofi'cers being lost.

The Emerald is expected the "urriTorm next week nd drinWa3.lCttUght ta terrible storm the tl rock8- All escaped with Weather Forecast. Washwgtos, Sept. 21. 8 P. M.

Forecast tiU 8 P. M. Sundays or Western New York: Fair, variable "Wis, stationary temperature. Searching for Victims Under the Roeks at Quebec. BURIED ALIVE IN THE RUINS Some Found Still Breathing After Many Hours of Imprisonment Heroic Work by the Rescuing Parties Many Thrilling Scenes.

Quebec, Sept, 21 The work of digging out the victims of the landslide was carried on the whole night, although it rained incessantly. The efforts of the workers were concentrated on a spot where a man named Kemp was supposed to be. At 4 o'clock this morning the work was far enough advanced to allow him to be seen some fifty feet distant from the operations. Kemp would sing a couple popular songs and then would shout Police, police The man was either insane or in a delirium. A man named Beauchamp, who, with his two brothers, has worked at the wreck without sleep ever since the landslide occurred, crawled into a small opening to get at Kemp, who was lying some fifteen feet under an immense pile of stones, but Beau-champ had not gone six feet when the whole mass crumbled on his back.

Beauchamp, being strong and couragerous, managed to crawl back a couple of feet, but he could not go farther. The exit was intercepted by the corpse of a woman. A Redemptionist Father who passed the night on the scene encouraging the workers kneeled nown and began to recite a prayer. The men, although exhausted by their constant hard struggles and weakened by the pouring rain, which inundated all about them, seeing that Beauchamp was apparently doomed to certain death, rushed to his rescue with all the energy of despair, and after great efforts Beauchamp was pulled out alive, somewhat stunned and bruised, but not seriously hurt. John Nolan, who it was thought had been killed at the beginning of the catastrophe, was found still alive, though he had sojourned under a mass of ruins twenty feet deep for over thirty-six hours.

It will be several hours yet before he can be got out. The men of the Battery and Royal School of Cavalry are still at work. At a meeting of the City Council last night $2, 500 was voted in aid of the surviving victims of the disaster. The city will also bear the expense of the funerals of those killed. The chief city engineer presented a report on the condition of Dufferin Terrace and adjoining grounds.

It shows that as late as 1880 he pointed out the danger that the houses now demolished were exposed to and suggested work costing $27, 000 which would have made that portion of the rock safe. He makes recommendations calculated to prevent further falling away of the cliff, which will probably be carried out. Timothy Berrigan, who was wounded in the landslide, died this morning. The coroner has opened an inquest. Two hundred men were employed to-day on the ruins in Champlain street.

This afternoon a squad of Battery discovered the body of Mrs. Kemp under a solid mass of stones, beams and rafters. The head only was clear. To release the body the men attempted to remove a stone weighing some five hundred pounds, but it deviated and came down on the woman head, crushing it to a jelly. The body was recovered later but a leg was torn off in pulling it out of the wreck.

The corpse of Margarette Welsh was reached under a pile of masonry. The head was almost severed from the body, which was horribly mutilated. These are the only corpses found after twenty-four hours' work. The quantity of rocks, lumber and masonry is so great that three or four hours of hard work does not show any difference in the debris. It is thought about sixteen persons are still missing and were in the basements of buildings at the time of the landslide.

The debris must be cleared level to the ground in order to get at them, and this work will occupy several days Three sailors are supposed to be buried at a place where a huge pile of fallen rocks is about thirty feet above the level of the road. In the guard room of the river police station; twenty corpses have been laid in a row in front of an altar upon which a number of candles are burning. The room is open to the public, which flocks there en masse. Twenty hearses have been secured for the funeral, which takes place to-morrow. A solemn service will be held at St.

Patrick's Church. Members of Parliament, city councillors and other prominent citizens will attend. After Another Cronin Suspect Chicago, Sept. 21. The Journal publishes a special from Oakland, Cala.

to the effect that Chicago officers are there to arrest J. J. Hefferon, secretary of a Clan-na-Gael of that place, on a charge of complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin. The Juurnal says Hefferon came from California with Tom Desmond in April last, that while there he was very intimate with Detective Dan Coughlin, and that he left this citv shortly after the murder.

From a very closd and accurate description furnished by an intimate acquaintance, Mrs. Couklin at whose house Dr. Cronin boarded, and Frank Scanlan, his secretary, Hefferon has been identified as the man who called for Dr. Cronin on the fatal night and drove him to his death. Brotherhood of Railroad Conductors.

Los Angeles, Sept. 21. The Brotherhood of Railroad Conductors closed its first annual convention here yesterday. The following oflieers were elected Grand Chief, George W. Howard, Evansville, Ind.

assistant grand chief, C. T. Moore, Los Angeles grand secretary and treasurer, D. J. Con, Los Angeles.

The headquarters will remain in Los Angeles for the ensuing year. The next session will be held in Toledo Ohio, September 18, 1890. Thrown From Electric Light Poles. New York, Sept. 21.

Two electric light men, Henry Freeman and John Beil, were knocked from the poles where they were at work to-day, and the latter had his skull fractured and may die. Freeman was also badly hurt. An electric shock caused the men to falL Lacrosse at Montreal. Montreal, Sept. 21.

The National Association lacrosse match to-day between the Montreal and Cornwall club was was by the Montreal, five games to two. The Odd Fellows at Columbus. Columbcs, O. 21. The Soverign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows to-day endorsed the action of the Grand Sire in interdicting the promiscuous publication of the degree floor work, and providing for the appointment of a committee of five to pre A CHILD MURDERED.

Horrible Crime Committed by a Woman on a Farm in Kansas. Eldorado, Kans. Sept. 21. Last Tuesday a farmer named Dudley, living three miles from Rosalia, engaged Mr.

and Mrs. Edwards to assist him in gathering his crops. While walking to the farm they were joined by Mr. and Mrs. Bloomer, who were on the way home from Rosalia, accompanied by their three-year-old child.

Arriving at the Dudley farm, Mrs. Bloomer placed her child in Mrs. Edwards's charge while she accompanied her husband to the field to see Mr. Dudley. When they returned to the house the child was missing.

The neighbors were summoned to institute a search, but the child could not be found. Mrs. Edwards's actions aroused suspicion and she was finally charged with having murdered the child. She denied the charge indignantly and the search was continued. The child could not be found.

Mr. and Mrs. Bloomer were satisfied that Mrs. Edwards had made way with it and proposed to extract a confession from her. She was told that she was to be hanged and had better confess.

She maintained that she knew nothing of the child's disappearance. A rope was found, one end placed about her neck and the other thrown over the limb of a tree. Mrs. Edwards then broke down and confessed that during extreme annoyance at the child's of her commands she had killed it and given the body to her husband to dispose of. He carrried it to the creek near by, she said, and threw it the water.

Edwards denied any complicity in the crime, and the same means were resorted to to force a confession from him that had been employed upon his wife. He was strung up for a minute or two and then cut down. He then confessed that he had seen his wife carry the dead body of the child to the creek and dispose of it. He had nothing to do with the crime, except to witness the disposal of the body. A committee of the neighbors was then formed to make a systematic search of the premises and creek.

Mr. Bloomer, the father of the missing child, was made chair man. Edwards and his wife are in danger of lynching. EXCITEMENT IN OKLAHOMA. An Illegal Election Prevented at the Point of the Bayonet.

Oklahoma City, I. T. Sept. 21. Today was one of the most exciting days in the history of the city.

Six weeks ago a faction of the citizens, after failing to induce the Council to call a convention for the purpose of framing an amended charter, framed one themselves and called an election for the people to vote on As it provided for the immediate ousting of the present city government, the United States troops, under the authority of General Memtt, prevented the election. Two or three weeks ago a charter pie-pared by a committee authorized b7 the Council was voted down. The original charter faction then called an election on their charter for to-day, again without the consent of the mayor and Council. General Merritt again sent orders to Colonel Snyder to prevent the election, and this morning Captain Stiles carried out the order at the point of the bayonet. The polls were opened early and a large crowd assembled.

The leaders of the charter faction rushed to another place after being driven out and declared the polls open. Stiles opened on them and cleared the street. Stiles charged the crowd for the third time, and brought the speeches, which were being made, to a close. The Second ward polls were then declared open in another part of the city. Leaving soldiers at the places already closed, Stiles went to the new polls.

The leaders of the charter faction, after consulting with Stiles, advised the crowd to disperse. The advice was followed and the excitement subsided. Nine of the leaders were afterwards arrested on a charge of conspiring against the authority of the United States. Among those arrested were Captain Hammer and udge Brown, who are accused of inciting the mob to resistance. Failed in Business.

Louisville, Ky. Sept. 21. John B. McAlvaine Son assigned this afternoon.

The firm had been in the whisky business here for twenty years. They can pay about 65 cents on the dollar. New York, Sept. 21. The Hatch Lithographic Company has failed.

Liabilities $50, 000. Ah extension will probably be granted. The Mission Ridge Disaster. Chattanooga, Tenn. Sept.

21. It has been found by the coroner's inquest on the body of Mrs. Adams, who was killed yesterday by jumping from an electric car on Mission Ridge, that the current electricity did not fail, but that the cause of the accident was a lack of appliances on the car for preventing the wheels from slipping. Water for Syracuse. New York, Sept.

21. The canal committee of the Produce Exchange this afternoon conferred with representatives of the Water Board of Syracuse relative to the matter of taking water from Lake Skaneate-les for the use of the city of Syracuse. The Syracuse gentlemen endeavored to show that the canal would not be injured by the project. Arrested for. Drunkenness.

Troy, Sept. 21. James Goode, said to be a wealthy manufacturer of patent medicine in New York, was arrested here last night and locked up on a charge of drunkenness. In police court this morning Goode asked the magistrate for a dose of bromide of potassium. He was sent to jail.

For the World's Tennis Championship. Springfield, Sept. 21. The second of the series of tennis matches be tween George Kerr, of Dublin, and Thomas Pettit, of Boston, for the championship of the world, was played here this afternoon. Pettit won the match, taking three sets out of four.

A Sealer Reaches Victoria. Victoria, B. C. 21. The schooner Beatrice has arrived from Behriug Sea with 700 sealskins.

She did not see the United States revenue cutter. Ocean Steamers. New York, Sept. 21. Arrived: The Rugia, from Hamburg the Umbria, from juverpooi.

OVER THE HORSESHOE FALLS. The Trip to be Made in a Rubber Ball Next Spring. Special Dispatch to Democrat and Chronica. Buffalo. Sept.

21. Another Niagara Falls navigator has appeared, this time in the person of William Dalavanti, or Burns, a concert saloon human ostrich, who devours live snakes and frogs, horse-shoe nails, tacks, brads, and awls, lamp chimneys and marbles, and drinks kerosene as an ordinary human being eats bread. He is 21 years of age, came from Syracuse, has been a professional swallower for the last eight years, and is now drawing $200 a week in the Arcade Concert Saloon in this city. He wishes to get $500 a week and in order to accomplish this intends going over the Falls. He has contracted with the Goodyear Rubber Company for a ball 5 feet 9 inches in length and 3 feet wide, inside measure, in which he intends to go over the Horseshoe Falls, starting from Goat Island, at noon on May 23, 1890.

He wished to go over sooner, but the ball cannot be completed before midwinter, and he will defer the trip until the date given, as that is his 22nd birthday. He desires to have the trip well advertised in order to get as large a crowd together as possible, for he wishes no one to cry 'fake. The ball will be padded on the inside, and will be clysed with an air-tight cap which screws on to one end. Dalavanti will be supplied with oxygen from a patent reservoir invented by Lee Rankin of this city. It is calculated that the trip can be made in 25 minutes, and the reservoir will contain an hour's supply of air.

Dalavanti and his friends are very sanguine of success. He means business, and undoubtedly will be killed, a-it is hard to see how he can escape suffocation. THE ASSEMBLY CEILING STEAL. No Indictment Found, by the Grand Jury at Albany. Albany, Sept.

21 The Grand Jury failed to find an indictment in the matter of the alleged Assembly ceiling steal. It is understood that they voted For indictment, against, 10. The Attorney General, with the approval of District Attorney Eeilly, asked that the ceiling case be ordered to be heard by the Grand Jury of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which meets on October 7th. Judge Nott then directed that the order be taken. New York, Sept.

21. A Ilrrald special from Albany says 4 The promised sensation in the ceiling investigation has come, Before the Grand Jury yesterday, Rulaud E. Gove, the dejxsed storekeeper at the capitol, is said to have given testimony of a startling nature implicating ex-Superintendent Charles B. Andrews and Contractor John Snaith in collusion in the ceiling swindle. The full extent of his testimony cannot yet be learned, but it is said to be sustained by ample proof.

Gove, by advice of his counsel, refuses to be interviewed. It is, however; certain that his evidence has been of a most damaging kind, as the excitement among those interested cannot be concealed. It is now stated on good authority that John Snaith has never testified before the Grand Jury. It was said last night that an effort was made to induce Gove to leave the city in order to prevent him from testifying. The friends of the conspirators charge Gove with xnalice and openly defy him.

AT DEER PARK. No Decision Yet Reached Regarding the Pension Commissionership. Deer Park, Sept. 21. Secretary Noble and Major Warner left here this morning, the Secretary for Washington and Major Warner for Kansas City.

The appointment of pension commissioner will not be made to-day. L. T. Michener, attorney-general for Indiana, and John E. Mulholland, of New York, were the only other arrivals at the White House cottage.

Mr. Michener came to discuss state affairs with the President. Senator Plumb, of Kansas, made a long call at the White House cottage. He came to talk over Kansas appointments and said he had only a slight interest in the pension commissionship. Mrs.

McKee, Miss Wana maker and Senator I'lumb were the occupants of the President's carriage in the afternoon drive. Colonel and Mrs. Hanaway, of Baltimore, gave a dinner to-day in Mr. Wanamaker's honor. Lawrence, Sept.

21. Major G. S. Merrill this morning telegraphed Major Warner in Washington, absolutely withdrawing his (Merrill's) name from all consideration in connection with the pension commissionership. Jute Bagging Boycotted.

Jackson, Sept. 21. The bitterness of the farmers of this state against the jute bagging trust seems to increase. A roll of jute bagging belonging to Eli Gilbert of Smith county was taken from his gin and burned. In some counties the Alliance has passed resolutions directing the expulsion from the order of members using jute bagging.

The supply of cotton bagging is very limited and it will be late in the season before it can be procured to any great extent. The farmers in many sections are determined, however, to keep back the cotton until they get cotton bagging. Fire on the Steamer Nashua. New York, Sept. 21.

The steamer Nashua took fire at her pier at the foot of Warner street. The steamer belongs to the Providence line. The Nashua is a freight boat. At 11 o'clock the fire was under control. Fifteen tug boats lent their assistance in extinguishing the flames.

Streams of water were poured on the steamer Providence, of the Fall river line, and the Massachusetts steamer, at their docks at the foot of Murray street. The damage to the vessel was $15,000. The cargo was badly damaged. Strikes of Cigarmakers. New York, Sept.

21. At to-day's session of the International Cigarmakers' con vention the report of the committee on strikes was read. During the past two years 160 strikes occurred and $53,087 was expended. Eighty strikes were sue cessf ui and seventeen were compromised. The State Civil Service Law Still a Subject of Contention.

Albany, Sept. 21. The Civil Service Commission does not yet show any very satisfactory results of its battle against the mayors of smull cities, which began last June. At that time the mayors of Ithaca, Hudson, Watertown, Jamestown, Lock-port, Oswego, Rome, Amsterdam, Schenectady, Middletown and Dunkirk were summoned before the commissioners to show why they had not placed their several officers under the general civil service laws of the state. Their reply, in general, was that they thought that their communities were so small that they should be exempted.

But when they were told that they were not exempt and that any taxpayer might bring suit to withhold the salary of a city officer on the ground that the law had not been complied with, they began to reflect and, one by one, to agree to obey the law. The only obstructionist was Mayor Oliver, of Lockport, who almost defied the commissioners to enforce the law. In his case still further examples were shown him of the compelling power of the law, and he finally agreed to abide by it. Each one of the eleven mayors has sent to the commissioners for a blank containing the rules, but only the cities of Ithaca, Hudson and Watertown have submitted their own rules, which have been approved by the Therefore only these three cities, out of the eleven, are absolutely under the law down to this time. No word has been received from the remaining eight cities and the prospects are that some of them will endeavor, by delay, to keep out of the law until the coming of the Legislature, when they expect to have an amendment passed exempting the smaller cities of the state.

The situation is an interesting one because it shows that the smaller communities have not yet fully given their consent to the law. Since no two of them have charters that are anywhere alike, the coining Legislature is likely, by a hearing or investigation, to bring out this fact and perhaps to pass a uniform charter for all cities containing less than 20, 000 inhabitants. Of course, the civil service commissioners will watch the the situation and will oppose any changes which seek to take the small cities away from their control. ASSAULTED BY RUFFIANS. An Aged Farmer of Chemung County Beaten to Insensibility.

Elmtra, Sept. 21. Charles Brown, a farmer, 70 years of age, and wife, living near Millport, N. Y. twelve miles north of this city, were startled about 8 o'clock last evening by a rap on their door.

Brown asked, "Who's and a voice from the outside replied that it was Mr. Brown's brother wha lives eighty rods from the house. The moment Brown opened the door two masked men sprang in, grabbing Brown, demanding his money. Upon Brown's refusing to give them anything, a third robber outside shouted Snoot him in the heart. Erown struggled hard to free himself and was knocked down and beaten to insensibility.

Mrs. Brown was also knocked down, but managed to escape and aroused her husband's brother and his family. The robbers in the meantime fled. Every man in the vicinity was aroused and searched all night, but found no trace of the assailants. Brown's brother came to this city to-day and says that a man giving the name of Clark, claiming to be a shoemaker from Binghamton, and who was given work by his brother, is suspected of being one of the robbers.

Clark is described as being about 50 years of age, thick set and wearing thin whiskers. Another suspected man is a young, stout man, wearing side whiskers, who was seen in the vicinity at noon yesterday. It is thought Mr. Brown will survive. RACE TROUBLES.

A Charleston Colored Clergyman Proposes to Sue the Georgia Railroad. Charleston, 8. C. Sept. 21.

Rev. George C. Rowe, pastor of the Plymouth Colored Congregational Church of this city, has issued a circular to the colored societies throughout the country asking them for contributions to enable him to bring a case against the Georgia railroad before the Interstate Commerce Commission. He has already raised some funds in Hartford, Connecticut. His complaint is that he and a number of other colored persons who had purchased first class tickets for Chicago, were ejected from a first class coach on that line, and forced to ride in a Jim Crow car.

The colored men of Georgia are dead against the Jim Crow car as most of them had been compelled at one time or another to ride there. There is no Jim Crow car in this state. Birmingham, Ala. Sept. 21.

The negroes living near the recent race troubles have resolved to do no more work for white people. The negro women are in the movement, and white families are unable to obtain cooks or women to do their laundry work. The negroes refuse to work on farms and many farmers will be unable to gather their crops unless they can obtain white labor. The only reason given by the negroes for their action is that they are tired of working for white people. Hammer Throwing Record Broken.

Wilmington, Sept. 21. At the Warren Club fall sports this afternoon W. L. Condon, of the New York Athletic Club, the present holder of the world's record for throwing the sixteen-pound hammer with four foot handle, one hand, seven feet run, exceeded all previous performances by a throw of 120 feet 5' inches.

A Defaulting Bank Teller. Denver, Col. Sept. 21. J.

P. Williams, receiving teller of the First National Bank, is a defaulter to the extent of $8, 000, and hat gone to Mexico. Detectives are of the opinion that Williams is a friend of Wells, who held up this bank several months ago for $21,000, and that he has joined him. The Revolt in Navassa. Wheeling, W.

Sept. 21. The dispatches from Kingston, Jamaica, giving an account of a revolt in Navassa, in which Special IXgratch to Democrat and Chronicle. Lockport, Sept. 21.

Quite an exciting time was had ia the Republican First Assembly district convention held to-day in this city. W. J. Ster-ritt, of Middleport, was made chairman, and Frank P. Weaver and John O.

Jeffery, of Lockport, secretaries. The strife over del egates to the state convention was a sharp one between the Crowley and anti-Crowley men. The Crowley men wanted James Compton, of Middleport, and Chairman Sterritt to go down, but their motions to that effect were lost each time. The delegates elected were: Ex-Senator Timothy E. Ellsworth, ex-Assemblyman John E.

Pound, ex-Assemblyman Burt Van Horn, ex-Assemblyman Isaac E. Babcock, all of this city, and Dr. J. W. Corman of Pendleton.

The delegates to the judicial convention elected were Eugene M. Ashley and A. A. Bradley, both Lockport lawyers, and pledged to the support of County Judge A. K.

Potter for the Supreme Court judgeship. Judge Lambert, of Fredonia, Judge Barker's formidable rival in this race, was here last night and negotiating for the delegates for himself as second choice after Judge Potter was out of the race. The chances however for Judge Potter are brightening every day, and it looks rs if the delegates of the other candidates would naturally go to him rather than give way to either Barker or Lambert. The convention nominated Assemblyman John F. Little for a second term.

udge Lambert, in a conference last night with Judge Potter here, found that his delegates from Niagara for the judicial convention were for him with no second choice. The friends of ex-Congressman Crowley attempted to secure a delegation in the First Assembly district convention, but both men put up were defeated. This gives the Pound-Ellsworth-Cobb faction a majority of the deleeates to the state convention. An effort will be made to secure the state committeemen for Niagara. The Second district Republican Assembly convention was held at Wilson this afternoon.

Major Low, of Suspension Bridge, was defeated in his aspirations to go to the state convention. The Crowley men carried the convention and elected the following delegates to the state convention H. H. Bickford, of Hartland William A. Sawyer, of Somerset William R.

Corwin, of Newfane, and Harvey Sandford, of Wilson. The delegates to the judiciary convention were Eugene Cary, of Niagara Falls, and W. F. Kollet, of Lewiston. Both are for Judge Potter.

Galen Miller, of Lewiston, ex-Bupervisor and a farmer, was nominated for member of Assembly. There is a possibility of Mr. Crowley going to the state convention as a substitute in place of one of his delegates in the econd district. 1 oliticans are turning their attention to the senatorial contest now. Kidder M.

Scott, of Livingston, has the delegates from his county. Van Gorder, of Wyoming, has his county, and Genesee. As Niagara will go, depends the results if to Scott, the result will be a dead-lock if to Van Gorder, a nomination. Kings County Delegates. Brooklyn, Sept.

21. The Kings county Republicans last night elected the following H.l.r.a t.Q t.r th HtAta convention First dis trict Franklin H. Woodruff, S. V. White, K.

11. i-aimiier, x. in. oovee, i. H.

Hoffman. Second James W. Birkett, Vifhutti .1 Dnilv W. J. Beattie.

Third John N. Fordham, James Lee, John Martin, George uru, l. J. smitn. rounn J.

Vandergraw, Edward Sherman, C. W. Swan, J. U. Noonan.

Fifth Alexander 8. Bacon, James Johnson. Sixth James H. Butler, Robert M. Johnson, Charles B.

Caul, Albert R. Booth, William Jones. Seventh Louis E. Nicol, Michael Buchman, George Essig, William Weis. Eighth Francis F.

Williams, William A. Booth, Charles W. Cardwell, Theodore Hall, James Boyd, George. A. Mason, Jonas W.

Farrington, Robert Spitzer, William T. Miller. Ninth Andrew D. Baird, Frederick W. Wurster, William J.

Taylor, William J. Carrick, WUliani H. Beard, R. D. Benedict, Charles Buckley, Frank Gray, W.

H. Leaycraft, Charles Small, Charles H. Rus sell. Tenth John R. Sutton, James Tay lor, James Graham, William E.

1 otter, Erastus HaUan, Charles E. Halliday, Thea-dore L. Lutkin, John J. Goodwin, Philip Zeh, Jr. Eleventh district William E.

Barry, W. A. Anderson, W. H. Barker, T.

C. Cochen, J. R. Allibew, F. H.

Mc-Quincy, William H. Carlson, John G. Kiefer, II. M. Smith, P.

C. Grenning, H. R. Hart, W. D.

Pierson, A. G. Perham, E. A. Doty.

Twelfth Israel F. Fisher, Adolph Kiendl, R. R. Wheeler, Charles B. Jennings, J.

Lott Nostrand, Granville W. Hannan, Robert H. Sharkey, John B. Green, John Worth. Ontario County Republicans.

Special dispatch to Democrat and Chronicle. Canandaigua, Sept. 21. At the Repub lican county convention held here to-day Hon. Oliver C.

Armstrong, of ananaaigua, was nominated for member of Assembly on the twenty-first ballot. Delegates to the state convention were chosen as follows Hon. John Raines, Hon. Robert Moody, Amos T. Winch, Ellery G.

Allen, Willis H. Tuttle. Fred. Baker. W.

L. Parkhurst, H. M. Fisher. Delegates to the senatorial con vention, favoring ths nomination ol lion, S.

Lincoln, of Naples, were chosen as fol lows: Hon. E. P. Babcock' L. L.

Pier pont, J. T. Hathaway, S. B. Douglass, G.

Riker. E. H. Letreett. C.

E. Whitney, S. B. Arden. E.

E. Bond. Dr. A. L.

Bea- han, of Canandaigua, was renominated for coroner, and Lemuel Herendeen, ot Geneva, aud Elkanah Andrews, of Bristol, for superintendents of the poor. Republican Delegates and Nominations Franklinville. Sept. 21. The Repub licans of the First Assembly district of Cat taraugus county convened here to-day.

a. B. Lewis was nominated on the tenth bal lot. Delegates to the state convention were elected as follows Commodore P. Vedder, Alfred Spring, W.

G. Laidlaw, W. O. Lelaud and A. J.

Corbin. F. W. Kruse and W. O.

Laidlaw were elected delegates to the judicial convention. Ithaca, Sept. 21. The Republican convention to-dav unanimously nominated Ne -sonW. Stevens, of West Groton.

for As" sembly, F. J. Enz withdrawing accorded a strong resolution of confidence. II of American Physicians yesterday elected S. C.

Bussey, of Washington, president Heury Hun, of Albany, secretary; W. W. John- son, of Washington, treasurer. The new members elected include Charles Carey and Charl Ci. Stockton of Buffalo.

i' Fierce Forest Fires. Halifax, N. Sept. 21. The largest forest fires ever seen on Prince Edward Island raged Thursday and Friday.

Three saw-mills and a large number of dwelling and outbuildings were destroyed. Several people had narrow escapes. Additional Telegraph on 2nd Paga.