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PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AP2HL. 18, 1891. ONE CENT. 1T I TIT i nni nn COXEYITES AFLOAT. VISITING CREMATORIES.

I 1 I 1J I II IVES LILLIAN MISSING All I HE as lM ULLiUl Day 11 The Army Spends a Delightful Drifting: Down the Canal. Gbkes Spiungs. W. April 17. STRANGE LlAl' NTIS if GIVES IN TO DEATH FOR THREE On long day of floating through the IB 111 till I LIDuulLti Counc lis' Street Cleaning Committee Make a Personal Inspection.

Chairman J. T.Taylor and the members the Street Cleaning Committee of Councils visited three of the crematories yesterday, and lound those ot the First i nd Fourth districts in satisfactory operation. They were accompanied by Director Wlndrim, Chief Martin, ex-SheriB Connell and A. I Crothers, who were 1 iteresied in the American Incinerating Cotnoany, which runs the First He Enters a Catholic Church, beautltul country or uorthwestern Maryland was all that the Coxoy navy had to chronicle to-day In its log book. The two barges secured by Coxey for the canal trip from Cumberland to Wil-liamspert moved out, fnlly loaded, from the head or the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal basin at noon, with Coxey in The Young and Remarkable Financier Dies in North Carolina of Consumption.

Throws Off His Clothes and Demolishes Things. district, crematory. John E. Mack, of Left Her Home at Norristown for Valley Forge and Then Disappeared. Yet Letters Cane to Her Parents Indicating She Is LiTing.

command of one and Browne commanding the other. Violent Slraiirle in the Sacred E'lilics Defare It was like a Heating picture of ictor He Startled All Wall Slrect ly Some- of A Quorum-Counting Eule Adopted and Eeed's Policy Vindi-: cated by Democrats. (hly Forty-seven Votes, Ail Democratic, Recorded Anins. tbe Measure. Hugo the ragged forms swarming like rats over every foot or the eralt, and rough, wild looking laces framed in the Philadelphia Chemical Incinerating Company, which will run the Second nnd Filth districts when it pets ready, and ej-Chier Samuel CHvln, who is the scleral manager.

Direitor Windrim said that they found Edward M. Gannon's crematory, in the Fourth district, well provided His Gigantic Deals. shaggy hair peering through the cabin windows like the victims or the out French galleys. But they were sell ap Then He Landed In Ludlow Street pointed martyrs and were now, to use witt the newest appliances lor doing and in lull operation, and The Girl's Mather Declares the AYiiting She Received to Bo Forgery, and Fears Its Purpose May Be to Conceal a Crime. their own term, "playing iu luck At all the locks and settlements Jail, Where He Paid Enormous Sums for Little Privileges Once l'ree, He Was Starting to Upturn The Minority and the Galleries Browne stopped to distribute his pamphlets, but there was no meeting Wall Street Once More.

Was hfatl With the Aid of Many Policemen He Is Finally Landed in the Station House and Subsequently Transferred to the Philadelphia Hospital. An insane man yesterday alternoon entered St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, on Willing's alley, and demolished about 200 worth of church prop- erty. Shortly after 1 o'clock a young lady who was at prayer saw a man enter one ol the confessionals and a few miu-utes later emerge entirely nude. The man walked to the altar and seizing a gong-mallet began to pound on Tender the Ex-Speaker an Ovation.

that all the unpleasant odors seemed to be suc cessfully consumed. The Philadelphia Chemical crematory. Manager Glvin intormed the committee, would be ready to go Into operation as seon as some of the work about the machinery which had been un-expect Hllv delayed was completed. The Detectives from this city are at work trying to unravel the mystery ronnected with the disappearance of Lillian May Taylor, a bright young woman of 20, whose home is at 19(5 East Oak street. Asheville, N.

April 17. Henry S. Ives, the ot Finance, Parliamentary Wheels Again Move committee leit their visit to tue intra uis- considered one of the most remarkable trict cramatory lor another occasion, and appointed a sub-committee consisting ot of Importance. The chief meeting ot the trip is expecled at Hancock, on Thursday night. Belore leaving Cumberland to-day both Carl Browne and Coxey made short farewell addresses irom the canal bank before they started down stream, thanking the people lor the kindness that had boen shown the army and promising to march back over better roads than Cumberland had ever seen, all ot which was to be tbe result of the bond issue bills the Commonweal was going to have oassed through Congress.

financiers of his here to-night. Mr. Ivej readied Asheville about two Norristown, where her father, John Taylor, resides. (Lillian, according to the story of her father and stepmother, left home on Messrs. Morrow, Uallinger, iietzeu, rnu After a Long Ielay First Test of the New Rule, Which, Although Cumbersome, Is the Same in Principle as That of the Fifty-first months aeo from Florida in an almost and A.

cCoach to prepare a report for Councils at their meeting to-morrow. dying condition, and had hardly left his Early Shad "Well, it strikes me things are differ- ent around here!" bed since. He leased a splendid resi dence in the suburbs and lived quietly with his wife and a tew servants. The cause oJ death was consumption. TIOTOKIA.

AT COBUltG. The Qnnn on Hand to Attend tbe Wettdlnn of Two Grandchildren. CoBt RQ, April 17. Preparations for the welding of Princess Victoria Melita to Erm st Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, are aorot completed, and the royal personage are beginning to arrive. HERE AJSD THERE.

JONES IN MAUYEAND. The Philadelphia Brigade, Thirty Stronir, Cross the State Line. Wilmington, Del April 17. Christo the altar gong. This attracted the attention of sexton, Luke Krespach, who rushed toward the naked man, ordering liim to desist, for answer the crazy man picked up the heavy altar gong and threw it at the sexton's head, but fortunately it missed him.

Mr. Krespach rushod out and notified Policeman Murphy. During his absence the crazy man rushod at the tai er nacle and tried to batter in the doors with his fists. His hands were cut and lacerated from the force ot the blows. Ive and His Title.

Special to The Iaaulrer. The Inquirer Bureau, April 17. Mr. Beed, of Maine, might well have regarded the hour of 2 o'clock this afternoon as marking the proudest moment that his political life has yet known. pher Columous Jones' Philadelphia by his rsrty friends and srlven an ovation.

Some Democrats got up a counter demonstration over Mr. Catchings. A large bunch of, La France roses were carried up the aisle and placed en 5Ir. Keed's desk. Another JLepuhllcan outburst followed.

The flowers were sent with the compliments or Representative Apsley Alass.) The parliamentary wheels then began moving azain in tlie House, and then came the approval of the last three legislative days, which had up to this time remained brigade of Coxey 's Commonweal Army, That was the hour when the Democratic House, by a vwte ot 212 to the quorum-counting rule prepared by numbering thirty men, which camped a Jew miles outside of Newark, took up Its raaroh to-day at 9 o'cleck. They Ives secured the title of Napoleon ot Finance" by his boldness in conceiving and carrying into execution the most gigantio railroad deals ever known in this country. He flashed across the financial firmament like a meteor and dazzled the eyes of such shrewd Wall streot operators as Russell Sage and Jay Gould. He came into the street with practically no capital, but his shrewdness, audacity and ability to carry Speaker Crisp and his associates on the Both the Princess and theGrandDuke are grandchildren of the Quesn of Great Britain, who arrived here this afternoon from Florence. Her Majesty was received in great state by all the royal personages here.

As a compliment to Queen Victoria, who is his grandmother, Emperor William hf sent to Coburg the First Dragoon Guards, of which her Majesty is Rules Committee, Messrs. Cachings and Mumbling block to progress. On the nuth oit question of discharging the sergeant at- uumuaiie. I arms frwm the continuing order io arrest As soon the result was announced members adopted about a month ago. a yea a whirlwind of annlanse sweDt through vote was secured.

and this gave Trolley cars are expected to start on Cidge avenue and Tenth and Kleventh streets to-morrow or Friday. A certified copy of the will of Wrilliam Ellis filed yesterday at the Register's Office represents an estate of $042,635. Edward Weidner, S4 years old, an inmate of the German Home, at 529 York street, died suddenly yesterday. Thomas Borger, 14 yenrs old, of 8S5 Orchard street, lost two fingers while at work in a mill at Fourth and Thompson streets yesterday. Twenty-five knitters of nuderwear at K.

Godslialk mill, Twenty-third and Callowhill streets, are on strike against a reduction in wages. GertrudeWilson.2yearso'd,of Sonth Sixteenth street, was struck by a trolley car at Sixteenth and Tasker streets yesterday and badly injured. Frederick Koenig, years old, of No. 2404 Warnock street, fell from a brewery 7. tne nrst practical illustration of the opera- passed slowly and quietly throueh Newark, stopping at the Deer I'ark Hotel to take a drink of water.

By 9.30 o'clock they were moving out of Newark on the Elkton, road and at 2 o'clock this atternoen crossed the State line into Maryland. They expect to te jnined by a company of forty recruits at some point along the Elkton road. The recruits are said to be quartered near Iron Hill, three miles south ot Newark. He then threw down and hammered the statue of St. Ignatius and overthrew the pedestal on which it stood.

With screams and curses be continued his work of destruction, breaking the Paschal candle and destroying the candelabra and a vase. When Pelicoinau Murphy arrived the maniac was sweating ami cursing, while the lurniture and beautiful altar vestments vere a wreck. Approaching the man he ordered him to go it tne con-lessional and put on his clo" es. The mar. asked Murphy if.

he wan a priest, and receiving an affirmative answer. honorary colonel. These troops will act ed floor. The Republican minority, Speaker named Messrs. Dockery as the scort of her Majesty during her out plans Involving millions made him who have so jrallantlv and lovallv stood I 'o.

and Cogswell Mass.) as wno nave so gauanuy anu loyally bioou to watc), tho COIint. an(i it neces- for a time the leader among the men sojourr. in this city. lie cjueen re January 9. No one can be found who by Mr.

Reed in his daily object lesson sary. count members present, but not viewed the dragoons, alter which sue was driven to the Ducal palace, where she will reside until after tue wedding. who played with railroads as children play with blocks. Like Napoleon 1., his cartor was a succession of victories until of the necessity of counting a quorum to 1 took tnelr places at the side do business, rose almost to a man in 0( tjle vote their seals, cheering wildly. They! In order to force the recording of mem- bis enemies massed themselves in irre ANCIENT BOOKS SHOWN.

crowded about Mr. Reed and shook his accord- sistible forte, and then his schemes col mtw mil KID HM IBinilS Ul HIW IICW flliC, Here t. grand military reception was held. At 8 13 o'clock this evening the Prince of Wains arrived. Queon Victoria this evenin gave a dinner at the palace, at which only eleven guests were present.

lapsed like the breaking of a bubble. the Kepulihcans declined to vote on the said: til, as you are a priest, i wish to confess," and entered th confessional. He was told to put on clothes and confess afterwards. The First of Some Interesting ut the Free Library. A private view was given at the free He Paid Bier Sums.

While Ives was in Ludlow Street Jail, first roll rail. At its conclusion Sir. Livingston Gn.) made the point of order that under the new rule there was no second call of the House, but in lien thereof the list of names library in the City Hill last evening of New York, he paid 10,000 lor the little hand until his arm tuust have beon tired. The Hum Ulated Majority. In the meantime tbe overwhelming Democratic majority, which, notwithstanding their numbers, had thus been forced to open humiliation, sat glumly in their seats.

The votes against the rule adopted te-day were cast by Demo privileges which are sometimes accorded I reported by the tellers as present but not wagon yesterday and was badly injured. He was taken to the German Hospital. A reception was tendered Rev. Dr. Thomas G.

Yarnall at the rectory of St. Mary's P. E. Chnrch, West Philadelphia, last night, over 2000 persons participating. A banquet and literary symposium last night in St.

Vincent's Hall, Oermantown, by the Enterprise Catholic Literary Association marked its twenty-third anniversary. The Health Hoard gave notice yesterday of tho repetition of the house-to-house inspection, its success last year justifies the board in repeating the experiment this has seen her since that time. Mr. laylor has searched without result, and the eflorts of the detectives, who have been employed by the girl's mother, who was divorced some years ago from Mr. Tav-lor and remarried to a business man la this city, have been unavailing1.

Mr. and Mrs. Taylor say that Lillian lelt with her lather's permission to visit a girl friend named Alice, who worked at Valley Forte, and that they wrote to her aiid recoived several letters In reply from that place, the last, dated February 1, declaring that she was well and would be home in a few days. She failed to return, however, and Mr. Taylor, on visiting Valley Forge, was told by Alice that his daughter had never been there.

Lillian's mother has since received a letter from her, purporting to Ve written in Brooklyn, but both she and Mr. Taylor pronounce It a forgery. The former lears that her daughter Is dead, and that the letter was mailed by to prisoners there who have casn to spare. voting should be called. The Warrant Discharged.

Temporarily Subdued. Murphy tried in vain to get him out of the confessional Father Scully, the pastor, here appeared, anil placing his hands on the man's shoulders commanded him to go into the sacristy, which he willingly did, while Policeman Murphy summoned the Third district an exhibition ot hlty of the earliest Illustrated medical books frem the collection of Dr. Stockten-Hough, of Trenton. During the remainder of the week the exhibition, which is the first ot a scries of book displays, will be open to the public. One of the keepers eseortea nim me Finding that a quorum had voted on the first call the Kenublieans changed their Jail gates, and lor this little act ot courtesy the young nuancier gave nun have the tactics on the second call and answered to crats whe would prefer to ten ten-dollar bills.

One of the most remarkable books Once free Ives started Jn a small way ELSONF. EVANS- CASK. Kearsri ments in the Spring Garden Ba lk Case Before the Supreme Court. Washington, April 17. The reargu-mentsin the cases of Nelson F.

Evans, plaintiff in error, vs. the United States were begun in the Supreme Court of the Un ted States to-day, Hampton L. Carson appeariug for evidence and Assistant Attorney-General lor the govern mec t- The plaintiff was indicted on May 16, 189:5 as a director in the Spring Garden National Bank, cf Phila shown is a treatise bv Mundinns, the meir names jia tue result oi tne vote, 2 showed that a quorum was present the tellers made no report. Messrs. Dalzell Pa.) and Johnson instead House sit day after in a jungle of filibustering, making no progress toward doing the business of tbe country, rather first anatomist, published in 1478, and to get control ot more railroads.

Leading men in Wall street say that he would summer. John P. Whipple has been appointed assistant nuisance inspector of rhe Board used fer 200 years as the only text-ooek in the universities. than acknowledge that Mr. Reed was i the warrant issued to the sergeant-right and that they were wroug.

at-arms under date of March 21. i.r, io.rtirr I The Speaker table was then cleared. undoubtedly have succeeded had he not been taken ill. Siuce he was attacked with consump Apart from the medical works are r. 1 arious executive documents which had tion he had beGn resting very quietly in is in principle the same as the quorum- accumulated there were laid before the some one who is endeavoring to hide a various resorts noted for their excellent llonse and several unimportant conference two curiosities in the shape of a leaf from the celebrated Mazarin Bible, a copy of which has been sold lor $19,000, and a copy ef the second newspaper ever issued, printed at Nuremberg, in 1515.

climatic conditions. roorts were ngreed to. crime. Mr. Taylor says he has notified the Brooklyn police, but cannot afford delphia tor alleged acts In violation of prtrol wagon.

It took the combined eflorts of the pastor, sexton and lour policemen to get the man in the wagon. At the station house the maniaa fought fiercely, and it required six policemen to get him In. Doctors Fryer, Anguey, Hickman, and two surgeons from the Pennsylvania Hospital soou arrived, nnd pronounced the man insane. While in the station house awaiting an ambulance from the Philadelphia Hospital the man gave fresh evidences of insanity. He said his name was Shakespeare, Booth, Forrest, Keene and Irving, but finally settled on Deviii.

At 7 o'clock, after being handcuffed and bound securely, he was taken to the Insane ward of the Philadelphia Hqspi-taU The doctors are of the opinion that Section 5209 of the Revised Statutes and of Health: Dr. J. Aubrey Davis, assistant medical inspector, and John F. Prial, assistant disiuieclor. A sneak thiet entered Black's grocery store, southwest corner of Twelfth and Spruce streets, yesterday morning, and made off with a pocketbook belonging to Mr.

Black iu which was $18. George W. Child's Lodge. No, 1074, I. O.

O. was instituted yesterday afternoon at the hall. Bread and Spring Garden streets, at a special session of the Grand Lodge. There arc 37 members. Patrick Council, 2d years old, of 2328 Ilnmmell street, was run over yesterday by a wagon at Twenty-eighth nud Hummed streets, and had his shoulder fractured.

He sentencsd to Imprisonment in the counting rule of the rifty-hrst Congress, It was not opposed by Mr. Reed, although he describes it as cumbersome. Mr. Reed does not regard the prevision that two members, one from each sld9, shall stand in front of the clerk's desk during roll calls and nete members present and not voting, as at all convenient or practicable. Ives' Skyrocket Career.

Henry S. Ives was bern in Litchfield, in lSb9. His lather was a custom house broker and he had two elder sisters, but hevond that little is known ot Eastern Penitentiary for seven years. OVATION TO It EED. The Questions involved are those of The House then went into Committee of the Whole to consider the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill.

Mr. McCreary explained the measure, after which Mr. Hir.t criticised severely Its scanty appropriations. He denounced Democratic cheese paring and scored Cleveland for the Van Aten appointment- He made a general attack on the State Department poliej-, not forgetting the Hawaiian policy of infamy. At 4.40 the House adjourned.

the suQiciency in point of law of the va Wild Applause In a Wa.hlncton Thea rious counts in the Indictment upon which the deiendant was sentenced. tre for the FJx-Speaker. Washington, April 17. Ex-Speaker Reed was the recipient ot a very extra- Tli ACTION WORSTED. ordinary and unusual compliment as be entered the National Theatre to-night.

was taken to St. Agnes' Hospital. The girls of the Normal School have transmitted to the Relief Committee tl-'ti. his early lite. His first employment In this city was with Harper Bretherf, who discharged him for hypothecating postage stamps.

He then worked in several business houses, and about 1881 got his first chance at Wall street lilo, when he went to work at a week, as a clerk with an Investment company. Two years later he was worth 520,000 in cash. This he lost In two unlucky The Park Commission Has No Con the of detectives to prosecute the search there. Mystery Snrroondlner th Case. -Lillian's stepmother, Mrs.

Taylor, says that the girl kissed her several times belore leaving, and also visited her father at the grocery store where he is employed and kissed him good-bye. While" they had a few words between them at times, Mrs. Taylor declares vbere was no trouble. Lillian does not nee to have made preparation for leaving permanently, having but when she went away, while her took, showing a deposit of at the Philadelphia Savins Fund, with her watch and other jewelry, were left at home. When she lelt the house Lillian wore a black cashmere dress, black three-quarters coat, blaik felt hat and black Jersey trol Over Glrard Avenue.

City Solicitor Warwick yesterday gave As he walked down the centre aisle during tbe first act, he was recognized. Some one started to applaud. In en Instant the demonstration spread in all directions, and before he had reached Th Session In Detail. There was a large attendance when the House met. Without single preliminary the contest Mr.

Catchings Miss. from tlie Rules Committee. withdrew the report submitted last Thursday and presented the report just nirreed upon involving the new quorum counting rule, it is as follows: "Amend rule 15 by inserting between clauses one and two the loilowinir as clause two, and change the number of clause two to clause three. every roll-call, and before the be- sn opinion to Director Indrim in raised by a candy sale undvr the supervision of Misses Helen G. I.ovett, Margaret Kollock and JeannettaT.

Broomelk The stockholders of the Electric Traction Company will meet to-morrow, when, it is announced, tho capital stock will be increased from 50,010 to 150.000 shares. The which the law officer held that Glrard be Is a patient escaped irom some asylum. On his person was a bottle supposed to contain bromide ot potassium. Tlie laliel bore the name of Dr. Rven and tho medicine was put up at Evans' drug stote, Chestnut street, above Eleventh.

The man ts an American, about 2-3 years old, ligbt-complexloried aud weighs about 145 pounds. CAPTAINS CAUGHT. Officers Chnrsre on the Dredgers and Make a Number of Arrests An Exeltlng Time. Millville, April 17. The oyster fleet hich has dredged on the forbidden riparian grounds at Fortescue for he past two avenue, from Thirty-first street to the Parkbcundary on the west side of the additional shares will bo distributed pro i rata among the stockholders at par.

speculations. Then he got a desk in a Wall street ofiice and soon he bad aiore cash to spend and started the firm of Henry Ives Co. He seld sme of Broker Baliou's bonds in his own name and ciuuinic thereof, tlia Speaker shall name his seat the whole house was wildly joining In the ovation. It was a most unusual occurrence in a Washington theatre. Mr.

Reed bowed his acknowledgements. TIIKO UGH HIS 1 1 A UT. Bartender Hansen's Bullet Quickly two members, one from each sido of the of sloops'have been arrested. gloves, and carried a package in a shawl- pending question, if practicable, who shall Schuylkill, is a public highway and under le coutrolotthe Department of Public Works. The I'ark Commission had assumed control of the avenue and stopped the People'n Traction Company irom erecting its v.rolley line.

The decision takes the avenue out ot the bands of tbe Park Commission, and is to that extent ad I he oltlcers who made the i.rrests had Mr. Ballou had to put up a pocket lull of ntrap containing an extra set oi unaer clothing, hosiery, collars, cuns ana take their places at tne Clerk desk, to tell the names of at least enough members who are in the hall of the House during the roll-call who do not respond, hen added to tliose respondiug, to make a quorum. If a handkerchiefs. All her dresses with money. Then be meved his desk anu lurnished "i-xperiance" against the cash of Mseker 24 Broad street.

stirring time of it in several cases. In one instance bloodshed was narrowly averted. When the tug containing the officers approached the schooner Annie C. Jioore her captain, Robert Mc(vulggan, defied the offi the exception of that she wore are at her Jiomn in was or They Put Htm Out. verse to the Philadelphia Tractiea Company's interests.

cers to arrest nun, and brandishing an ax swore lie would brain the first officer who boarded his boat. Tried to Kill Himself. An insane man Lwico attempted to throw himself in front of incoming trains at the Broad Street Station last evening. Little attention was paid to him the first time, and lie wan ordered out i tlie In closure. A few hours later lie was seen running along the tracks outside of the train shod, and as he repeated his former attempt to throw himself in front ot a train be was seized by tour ot the railroad hands and handed over to tbe police.

The would-be suicide fought like a demon. The written examination of applicants for positions ns principals and supervising principals In tlie public schools and kindergartens of the city closed yesterday afternoon in tho old Sergeant street building. The papers are now in the hands ot the assistant superintendents for marking. George Mullen, 2S years old, of 1537 Summer street, engaged in a tight last evening with Edward Kelly, of 20W Titan street, at ISroad and Race streets, and had his ankle broken. Mullen was taken to the Hahnemann Hospital and Kelly was locked up.

A special meeting of the members of tlie Philadelphia College of Pharmacy was held yesterday afternoon for the purpose of providing funds for the importation of instruments for use in the recently enlarged microscopical laboratory. It is expected that all of the apparatus needed will be in Euded Driver Gleber's Life. County Physician lszard, of Camden, yesterday held a post mortem examination of the body of John Gleber, the beer waon driver, who was shot by Hans Hansen, bartender at the "itainbier's Club" saloon, in Gloucester City, last Monday, lie lound that the bullet had passed through the The Meekers had about but Ives used their funds in private speculation, and they put him eut in July of Officer Elwell jumped to the deck of the schooner and covered McQuiggan with his that year a wiser and poorer man. medium height, with brown hair and gray eyes, wearing spectacles. Mr.

Tay-ler says she had no male friends, and preferred going out with himselt and wife. Lillian's life was insured for 5100, and her stepmother has continueu the payments on this policy since the girl's disappearance, believing she is Btiil living. Grant, as seen by his friends and com-ratios, forms the basis of an interesting collection of articles in The Susday Inquirer. man ueurt and loaded in tlie spinal column. Hansen is still locked up at the Gloucester City Hall, anu the authorities are inclined to believe his stery that the shooting was accidental.

revolver, our ot iier elllcers followed. McQuiggan still refused to submit to arrest until Klweli threatened to kill him if he did notglve up the ax in two minutes. Then McQuiggan gave up and was taken aboard the tug. He Is still In jail and it is said that a more serious eliarge than that of illegal dredging will be preferred against him. Three other arrests have been made to-day.

A sloop, the owner of which was trying to conceal her name, was run down to-day by a boat iu the service of the owners of riparian rights and had her boom and yawl carried away. Warrants were issued to-day lor a number of other captains, and several who have been arrested will be arrested again. place by the first of October. George Welcome, colored, and Cathn-rine Bailey, white, of 407 South Sixth street, were before Magistrate Kane yesterday charged with drunkenness and neglecting their infant child. They were committed quorum docs not respond on the roll-call titan the names of those so noted as present shall be reported to the Speaker, who shall cause the list to be called from the desk and recorded in the journal, and in determining the presence of a quorum to do.

business thoe who voted, those who unswered present and those so reported present shall be considered. Members noted may, when their names are called, record their votes. notwithstanding the provisions of clause one of this rule. Amend clause one of rule eight by adding thereto the following words: "And on a roll cull should he not vote he shall answer so as to read: 'Kvery member shall be present within the hall of tnn House during its sittings unless excused or necessarily prevented, and shall vote on each question put, unless ho has a direst eisonal or pecuniary interest in the event otstich question, and.on a roll call should he not vote he shall answer 'present. fllr.

Burrows i Midi.) of the Itnles Committee, offered, on beha.lt of himself nnd Mr. Keed, as a substitute for the proposed rule the quorum-counting rule of the Fifty-first Congress. Applying the Gag. The Speaker submitted the request for unanimous consent to close debate at 4 o'clock. To the surprise of all, Mr.

Wells objected. This ended the attempt to reach COLLAPSE OF THE A K. The K'malns of th Brazilian Fleet Surrendered at Buenos Ayrea. Copyright bv the Associated Press. Buenos Ayres, April 17.

The remains ot the Brazilian rebel fleet commanded by Admiral Be Melle, which arrived ofl this port, last niuht, are the Bepubliea, Meteoro, Iris, Urano and Esperanza. They art in a very dilapidated condition. The Brajilian Miuister has received advices fr Bio do Janeiro, saying that a general amnesty will bo granted to the insurgent rank and hie. The five ships were surrendered te the Brazilian Minister, and this means the collapse of De Mello's end of the war. Overcrowded A special meeting the Twenty- Ives went tip-stairs In thesame bunding.

No. 25 Nassau street, and in that famous "little back otlice" began his Intimacy with George U. Stayner. Then Ives dealt in Mutual Union steck. He didn't own any, but Bold right along through Philadelphia and Cincinnati brokers and started the nucleus a fortune.

Tl.en came the brilliant manipulation the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Bay-ton Railroad, which earned ior him the title of The Napoleon of Wall street." He made the road open an account with Henry S. Ives it and obtained about 5800,000 In this way. By means a duplicate seal he issued 5000 shares He refused to give his name, but his demeanor clearly indicated that he was deranged. THE WEATHER Forecast fp.om WAsinwrox. For Eastern New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, New-Jersey and Delaware, clear, followed by cloudy weather in the evening; southeast winds; slightly cooler in northern New York.

YKHTKRDAVS TKVI PER ATrTRK. TIIEItt LIFE WO UK ENDED J. Knabe. the well-known piano manufacturer and musician, died yesterday in Baltimore. Ackeui-v.

Frank Ackerly, one of the lending lawyers of Dutchess eounty, Xe Turk, died at his home in Poughkecpsio yesterday. liEKitEi. George G. Herbein. a well-known citizen of Oley township, Herts in default or a tine, but the Magistrate afterward permitted them to go, ordering that the child be given to the Society.

The lecture for the closing number of the Course ef Hcience Talks of the Central Branch, Young Men's Christian Association, Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, tomorrow evening will be by Prof. E. W. Brown, of Haverford College, whose subject will be "The Planets and the Moon with a Telescope." and will be illustrated with a stereopticon. PREFERRED DEATH TO DISGRACE.

NEW YOttK'S NEWS. The funeral of the late General Henry W. Slocum took place yesterday afternoon from the Church of the Messiah, Green and Clermont avenue, Brooklyn. After a funeral possession, in which army and navy, the Grand Army of the Uenuhlic and other military organizations were represented, tho remains of tue dead soldier were laid in the receiving vault of the Greenwood Cemetery amid salvos of artillery. William Wahl is a man 31 years eld, and he did have a long, flowing black beard, which now, however, is a matter of memory.

Its absei.ee sadly distigures tbe lower part of his face. He charges the absence to his cousin, Herman Wall I. who, lie Says, violently pulled It out by the roots. For the absent heard and facial, disfigurement bo claims $5000 damages, and has bromrht nit for this amount in tho Court of Coin-m on Pleas. In the Adams Street Police Court, Brooklyn, one of the waiting prisoners was a clergyman, the Itev.

F.mll Perhaes, assistant to the ltev. Dr. Kdward Walsh. Both Accused of Theft a Camden Man Killed Himself. i 1 -i I Win I Time.

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20 I 57 1 11 1.00 Clear: county, yesterday of Worried stock and raised The bubble burst when th directors of the road brought a civil euit. Before that happened he had (ailed In an eilort to combine the Baltimore and Ohio, Dayton, by an accusation of theft, and after hours of pacing up and down in a vain A Phlladelphlan Weds. fourth section School Board was held last niglit to take steps to relieve the overcrowded Belmont School. Resolutions making the Belmont School a girls' scbeol, ty which chanice about 200 will a woaceful agreement. Mr.

ditchings ap pealed to the Hotiso to witness the fact fight against the impulse to seek escape Irom disgrace death, l-eander G. Smith fired a bullet into his head at his home, 1027 Francis street, Camden, early yesterday morning. His wile rushed in from an adjoining room and found her husband lying that he had made an honest attempt to afford a reasonable opportunity for debate Jinx. T. P.

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2.M Nothing was left but to applv the gag. lie demanded the previous questiou. The vote New Brighton, N. April 17. The' wedding ot Mr.

Frederick W. Corse, ol Philadelphia, to Miss Carol! Ruth Golden Tracy took place here to-night at Christ's Episcopal Church. Among the bridesmaids was Miss Ethel Corse, ot Philadelphia. E. f.

Comfort, of Philadelphia, was best man. about bo years. Gillktt. Kalph Gillett, one of the bast known insurance men in Connecticut, died at his home in Hartford yesterday, ef heart disease, aired years. IIolloway.

Wolman J. Hollowny, ei-member fer Stratford, Ontario, died at his home in South Bend, yesterday, lifter an illness ot eighteen months. Keim. Isaac W. Kolm, ltecorder.

of Uerks county, died yesterday In lieading. nued 43 years. He was one of the best-known mm in Berks county. He was elected Recorder last tall. was taken by yeas and nays.

Tho demand for the previous question to U. S- Wrallittr Bureau Bulletin, "Philadelphia Inquirer." April 17. ISS4. 8 P. dead on the noor.

For fifteen years Smith had been employed at the Reading Rnilrcad freight depot at Third and Mechanic streets, Camden. A portion of a cask of wine which arrived at the station two weeks ago was stolen and Sniitli was accused of the theft was sustained, 140-120. Under the rule only fifteen minutes were allowed on a side lor debate. are preselytes to Protestantism from the Catholic Cnurch, and are well known Ulie debate then besan. Mr.

Cjitchlngs be taken from thesehool and distributed among le Haverford, Mantua and Warren Schools, were passed. The board also passed a resolution asking the Board of Education to make the Morton McMichiiel School a combined school. Struck With a Hammer. Martin Nevln, 30 years old. of No.

1111 Vine str.Mtt, is in the Pennsylvania Hospital, having beeu assaulted, he alleges, by a man namad Ryan, living near lliir-teenth and Bain bridge streets. Nevin visited van's house yesterday and a and audalia Roads. Some BIsr Suits. Ives was indicted for over-Issuing the $624,000 worth of stock. When he failed his sohed tils showed liabilities and actual asets $11,000,000, Suit was begun by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton lor $7,142,655.32, and by forty banks and 160 other creditors for various Alter a long and sensational trial the jnry disagreed.

After being In jail lourteen months unable to procure $250,000 ball he was released in March, 1890, on $5000 ball. His creditors com premised about eighteen months ago on the basis ef 5 through the widely-published nccouuta of made a brief speech, declaring that the pro- their missionary work. The charge resting against tlie imprisoned minister was paved rule was simple, and in tue nature ot things, lair, because its execution would be left to two members on opposite sides of after a bottle containing some of the liquor was found in his closet. He claimed to be Innocent, and no criminal ch.arge was made against him. The accusation rankled iu his minii.

however, and led him to commit suicide. He five small children. larceny, and it was alleged that he had purloined valuables irom the frequenters of a well-known Turkish bath on Brooklyn James Comfort, of Philadelphia, waa an usher. A Baby's Escape From Death. James Armstrong, 3 years old, of 2717 Hicks street, wandered away from home last evening and fell in a pond of water in a near-by brick yard.

The little one's cries were heard by Patrolman Stout, who soon had the baby out of danger. any pending Question, ueuerai neeier Ala.) protested against the mle as uutagonUtiu to the principles of a delibera Heights, where the two clergymen were taking a bath. The Century War Booh BRANCH OFFICES: 1 rica i 1 5 FastportMe SB E. IX. .00.

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Bryan Neb.) also opposed it and declared that over half the States in the Union, including New York and Penn-svlvania. required tlie affirmative vote of a Fires kept the Department busy yester quarrel ensued, doring which the visitor was badly beaten. Ryan was locked up in tbe Socond District Station House. DYNAMITE'S DEADLY HISS. day.

The Eastern Hotel at the foot of White Hall street caught. It is Ave stories were dismissed about a (against nun high and had sixty persons in It. They Not Mucli Nolso From Elz Guns, But vear ago. were panic stricken and most of them ap- neareil in their nttr lit clothes. One man was Marriage in Potts! own.

to Tho Iaiulrer. FoTTSTowif, April 17. Miss Maude Crosby and William H. Jtuckwalter, of this city, were married to-night at the home of the groom's lather. Thrown From HI Horse and Killed.

so mucn asioep ne nnu to or carrieu out. a tenement. 150 Tenth avenue, with sixteen Washington, April 17. Lieutenant- Clei.rwater Outscores D'Oro. Clf.ve April 17.

In the pool match ti-night the score was: Clearwater, 203; D'Oro. 196. Both iiien played in grand form. The total is ow 4U4 to 360 in D'Oro's favor. majority ot their legislative Assemblies to enact laws.

Mr. Springer I who followed Mr. Bryan, support sd the proposed rule because ho su'd it wo' Id enable the members of the House to trai sact the business which their constituents eut them here to transact. F.x-Speaker Grow Penna.) In a few words upheld the principle incorporated In the proposed rule, but objected to its de families, was wrapped in Haines later, and there were more exciting scenes. Two men Commander D.

Ralael Mnnsilla, naval attache of the Argentine Legation, was here were badly burned. thrown from bis horse to-day while riding with Mr. Zebelalos, son of the Movements of Ocean Steamships. HTKAMSHIPS. SAILKD.

FOR. Their Power Is Prodleou. Saxpy Hook, April 17. Out near the northwestern point of the Hook, between the Hook beacon nnd the fog bell tower, a plant lias been building for years for the testing of pneumatic dynamite guns. The battery consists of one eight-inch and two fifteen-inch guns.

After several preliminary trials a so-called manufacturer's test was made to-day and it proved very satisfactory. hile the large rifled guns fired on the proving ground were creating a noise heard miles away the shots fired from the dynamite guns only gave a hissing sound. WASHINGTON NEAVS NOTES. Argentine Minister, in the Soldiers I Xew York Bremen. bpree Home grounds, and died this evening, Lewlstowu Iron Works Destroyed.

Lkwiswx, April 17. The Logan iron and steel works, near here were almost entirely destroyed by fire tonight. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Alter Held for Trial. CABLK FLASHES.

The Lower House of the Hungarian Diet yesterday passed the remaining clauses of the Civil Marriage bill. The Bering Sea bill was read yester-dav in the English House of Lords for the third time. There was no debate. The British House of Commons yesterday agreed to the amendments to the Bering Sea bill made by the House of Lords. The central portion of the town of Neu-Sandec, Austrian Galicia, forty-nine miles southeast of Cracow, has been destroyed by fire Reginald H.

Alter, whose arrest for the IF YOU WANT OMFORT, WEAK NEW-MEYER SHOES. and 13 North NINTH Street. Our genuine hand-sewed Shoe at has no equal. tails as cumbrous. Russell Ga.) also opposed it.

lie said it was a humiliating spectacle to aee the enormous Democratic majority forced to the adoption ot such a revolutionary expedient. Mr. lteed was greeted with applause. He spoke for on minute. He said the scene here to-day was a more effective address than he could make.

Tho House was about toadopt the principle for which the Republicans had contended since the Fifty- embezzlement or lands irom tlie Dia AFKAIDOF BUL.LETS. inond Coal and Land Company, was exclusively given in yesterday's Inquirer, has been held in $2000 bail for trial by Magistrate Bole. Says She Left Her Husband for Fear For the accommodation of enr readers we have opened the following branch of-nce, where all parts of the Century Wr Book can beobt.iined, as issued, by presenting the necessary coupons and ten cents lor each part: 31. M. Getz, 1403 Columbia aren L.

Hiuknnin, 2123 Uhle avenue. Charles Kloss, i328 south street. H. Cooke Son, 715 North Twenty-third street. Edwin J.

King, 840 South Second street. 11. F. Kosr. northwest center Fifth and Dickinson streets.

T. S. Stuiister, 103 layering street, Jiana- yunk. James MacKay, 3334 llidge avenue. Falls of Edward Keyser.Main and Lafayette streets German town.

Edward Insinjjer, 4627 Wakefield street, Grnnantown. J. Mullen, 4tiu7 Germantown avenae, Xice- towu. IJ. 1'ilkinsrton.

4330 Fmnkford avenue. John W. VlllaiiT. 2G4U Frankford avenue. William Davis, HUH Kensington avenue.

K. J. schoener's, southeast cerner Mnribor-oueh and Glrard avenue. K. J.

2333 Frankford avenue. L. Farley, Js-ftrth Front street. V. G.

Itrlnton, 4jOS Lancaster avenue, West Philadelphia. illiam Hummel, 38(10 Lancaster avenue. West Philadelphia. w. il.

Gadsbv, 3304 Market street, West Philadelphia. George Carter, 137 Kaighn'a avenue, Camden, M. J. Edgar Forrest, 61 State efeet.Cnmden liiotnpsou'a, 441 boutli Fifth street. Cheapest and Best Pure Rye Whiskey, 5 years, 75c; 7 years, $1 per qnart.

Andw. Forbes and 8 X. 11th St. He Would Shoot Her. Among the nominations sent to the Sennte yesterday by the President were the following to be postmasters: George I).

Wetlierill, at Bnrliu-'ton, X. John S. Kintncr, at Newton, X. Thomas W. Pat-ton, at Bristol, Martin J.

Kyau, at Susquehanna. Pa. 1 Fifty-one fourth-class postmasters were appointed yesterday. Among the changes were: New Jersey, Plain ville, C. W.

Wyc-koff. vice A. W. Snyder, resigned: Pennsylvania, Milltown, Dicks, vice Jesse Mattock, dead, nnd Parker Ford, J. F.

Keller, vice A. It. Savidge, resigned. I Representative Diuiphy, of Xew York, introduced a bill fixing the rates of pay of letter carriers in cities of more than 73,009 people at: For the first year of service. 4000: second year, fSCO: third year.

$100, and for the fourth year and thereafter 1200. In cities of less than 75,000 people the pay is to be: First vear, 600t second year, $S00, and third and thereafter, 100. Attorney Wallace, of Pittsburg, who is Emoeror William of Germany has Doath of a Philadelphia Woman. issued an order prohibiting the officers of Chicago, April 17. A woman about50 years of age, thought to be Mrs.

Lang, ot Philadelphia, died suddenly here to-day. THE BEST I THE CHEAPEST. We put the Best Cutting, the Best Trimming, the Best Making into our Clothes. The case of Benjamin Middleton, a retired coal merchant of Burlington, against ids wife, Ellen for divorce, occupied the attention of Vice-Chan eel lor Pitney tn Camden vesterday. Middleton charged his wife with desertion.

Mrs. Middleton iu her defense accused her hnsband of cruelty, and said she was compelled to leave him as be attempted to shoot her. liFst Congress. "I coneratnlate the Fifty-third Congress." said he, impressively, "on the wise decree it is about to make." (Republican applause.) Mr. Outhwaite of the Rules Committee, speke for the rnle.

Mr. Cum-mings X. opposed it, because, he declared, there was no limit to such a rule. The Rule Adopted. The vote was then taken on the adoption of the new rule.

The Republicans all voted in favor of it and it was adopted, 212 to 47. NOTES OF THE COURTS. Eliza Hi.rt.who was thrown from a wagon by her horse stepping into a hole at It road street and Passj-unk avenue, has recovered J225 from he city. Charles H. Ellas has recovered from B.

K. Jamison Co. i28.iO.SS, which he claimed cu stocks which the firm contended th'jy bought for him on margins. James llewson has recovered $500 frem the city fcr "the Joss of the services" of bis wife, who was hurt by falling into an excavation in the sidewalk on Pine street, Franklord. Arthur Willis was non-snited in his attempt to recover from the Poth Brewing Company lor injuries sustained from the blowing out oi a steam valve, which struck him in the face.

The Winter C'ircns Company, for their property 1 1 Broad and Cherry streets, was awarded by the Mint site Jury S42.500. The povernme it appealed and jury gave the Circus Company stC.OOO. FIRE liECOKD. Our At the same time we Guarantee Prices to be as Low as the Lowest. PHiT.APEl.ralA.

A fire yesterday morning the army or navy from betting on the "totalisator" system. Mr. Morton's bill to abolish the power ot the House of Lords to veto legislation passed bv the House of Commons was read in the House of Commons yesterday tor the first time. It is snnonnced that Sir Charles Kns-sell, England's Attorney General, has accepted the post of Lord Justice of Appeal, made vacant by the death of Lord Bo wen. Inquiries made at the German Foreign office resulted in a statement being made by a high official to the effect that Germany has not made any suggestion of a German protectorate over the Samoaa Islands.

in MasliiiiKton with the purpose of presenting to the Navy Department a fnass'of Republicans Carry Illinois Towns. Chicago, April 17. Municipal elections were held at a number of points in Illinois to-day. license being the issue in the ma Upon the announcement of the vote the Republicans cheered. The galleries joined in the demonstration.

While there was in the dyeing end scouring establishment of Joseph Diamond, 41 III Lancaster avenue, was put out with trifHind loss. Tlie dwelling of Dr. J-ongstreth, 4S4S Main street was damaged t'2U0. Thu dwelling of Hymaii Fur, 1032 Mechanic street, was damaged to the extent of tdO. Fire last evening in the hoase of Charles C.

Katz, 1043 South street, did damage to the extent of 100. Paulino Esier, a servant, was slightly burned, Cheapest and Best. Y. M. B.O.

D. Keady Made and Custom Departments. PERRY A CO 1320 CbealaBtMtroot. more or less applause on the Democratic jority of thum. At Peoria, the Republicans elected six of the eeven aldermen.

In new evidence bearing npon the defects In armor plates, does not appear In a hurry. Secretary Herbert arranged to grant htm an interview last night, but the attorney Old not keep the appointment and he failed to turn up at the Department this morning. side It was not or the character which marked the Republican applause. Pekia, the liepublicans rtecteoVtneirentlre ticket. Ms, Keed was surrounded.