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iL. NO. 18. STRIKE IS OFF. Exposition Employes Were Idle Only a Few Hours.

RESUME WORK TODAY Final Agreement Reached Late Last Night. CONCESSIONS ARE MADE. Union Men Not to Be Discriminated Against. Four Thousand Men Participate In the Demonstration at the Grounds. Th atrikA that wii ordered at the World's Fair grounds yesterday morning ended last nignt hea the executive committee of the Building Trades Council came to an agree-meat with the council of adminUtratioa of the exposition after a session which lasted even hours.

About 4,000 men took a day off yesterday in obedience to the order issued by the Building Trades Council and to-day they will go to work again. From the text of the agreement below it does not appear that the Worli's Fuir people have maae any important concession, yet the representa-tiTea of the laboring men said at the end of the long session that they were perfectly satisfied with the outcome. After the agreement had been signed by the Executive Committee of the Building Trades Council the orJer for doubling the guard at the fair grounds during the night was countermanded. Previous to that lime Colonel Rice, commandant of the guard, had ordered all his force to remain within the ground, and Bon-field's corps mas held in readiness for any emergency. It was not positively apprehended that the strikers would resort to any violence during the night, but as several bad been riotous during the day it was judged prudent to keep the Columbian Guard prepared for any event during the night.

Greatly to the relief of the guards the agreement was signed before nightfall and the extra men were aispatcbed to their AVer 8 o'clock there wa nothing to interrupt the usual rouHn? of sentry duty. Ni-e of the strikers loitered about the grounds, and as most of them live a distance there was no fear of a call from any one of those dissatisfied with and opposed to the surrender, as the agreement on the part of some is called. Along Sixty-third rjet to 11 o'clock, and especially aboa" the Woudlawn depot a good many striker and their sympathizer were grouped. The prevalent aoati-aoent was pleasure that the strike was ovjr. All who have the success of the fair at heait consderel yes-eriay to ba not exactly a dark day for the exposition, fcr it is entirely too big to ba injured materially by any action taken by any organization, but it was a day of annoyances.

Contractors have none too much in which to complete their woik, and they watched the room where the meetinj was being held with mutrh curiosity and were very well satisfied when the session of tli3 cjmmitteo and the council of administration came to an enl with the following agreement: Mutual Concessions Made. WncRAs, Iil a eonfjrenco this day held between the executive committee or the IiuiMms Trad Council and council of administration of tho World'j Columbian Exp-itioa it Wis and snjritestcd that, in tho employment of workmen in the feveral trades rcpro-srotea ty sai't executifc ccmmittco for work ni.d-rr the direct charge atd fupervisiou of said exposition company, ditcrimination had been mnd3 against representatives of orgauizel labor cr.d. Wbebeas, Srurh allegation, if well founded, suggests a condition contrary to the views and purposes of this council and its director of workF, anrl, in orJer that its views and policy in this teh-ilf max bo clojrly declared and definitely understood, it i. by said council, Sctolved, That, in tho employment of workmon or aitisans in the several trr.de represented by said executive committee for tho pcrforrnanea of work under the direct charge and supervision of tho Woild's Colombian Exposition, representatives of onion or organized labor shall bo entitled to equal consideration with those of non-union labor; and that the workmen heretofore employed by said expjeition company who have this day gone ont on strike shall not be refused employment hereafter on that aceaunt, it being th3 express purpose of the council that organized labor, as such, shall not be discriminated against and, Reeolted, That there shall bo paid to every artisan so employed by the exposition Company at least the minimum rat of wages prescribed for the trade In which he is employed and, Jtrwolved, That an authorized representative, delegate, of each of said trades shall be furnished with a pass entitling him to free admission to the grounds and shall have the right to confer with the workmen of his trade at all time, provided such eonfereaee shall not materially interfere with or retard, the work Seaolved. That the concessions made in and by the forgoing resolutions, are so made with the distinct understanding that they shall be accepted by said executive committee a a full settlement and tolution of the present controversy that the men who have gone ont on a strike shall return to work at once; and that the provisions aud stipulations of said resolutions shall continue in force and be operative luring the whole period of the exposition.

Accepted by the Strikers. The above preamble and resolutions having been adopted and presented to us on this 10th day of April A. D- 1893. we do, on behalf -of the executive committee of the. Building Trades Council, fully accept and agree to observe the same, as witness our hands the day and year foresaid.

A. P. Bcssell, J. R. f'oSIWILL.

Wa. a Stewabt. Geo. W. Geaet.

Pbakk Fakkkll, Edwaio F. II co he, W. T. bbebmam, Xzecutive Committee of the Building Trades Council. The agreement to call a strike was reached after a session of the Building Trades Council, which lasted until a lata hour Sun-daywight.

This organization, in connection with the United Carpenters Council, cam to the agreement that there should be a manifesto issued to the World's Fair directory zcakiog complaint because of certain real or fancied grievances. On Saturday they called cn President Higinbotham and asked that certain allegations set forth in a manifesto," published below, should be made the subject of arbitration. President Higinbotham did not consider their points well taken, and declined to agree with them as to the necessity ot aa arbitration committee, and took the ground that the exposition was created by the United States Government and that -the United States courts have held that there must be so discrimination between union- and non-union labor, and also referred to toe fact that union mto men in the beginning agreed not to Insist upon having only their own class of men employed. With this view of the case from President Higinbotham the committee maae its report, and the result was that, after a session which lasted until late into the night, a strike vas ordered. The communication presented to the council of administration was as follows: rast Records Reviewed.

Chicago, AprU of AdmlntstraUon. Gentlemen At the iaoeption of the World Colombian Exposition organised labor of Chicago was appealed to for its support and co-operation in securing legislation to locate the World a Fair in Chicago and also to assist in making the exposition a slice'. In the same spirit that actuated this appeal did organised labor respond to the call aod most effectively was that response manifested. A mem bar of Congress In the House of 'presentatives Dressnted a petition to Congress from organized labor in every State in the Union, save one, asking Congress to locate the fair in Chicago. From that day to this in everything whether asked for by the eltiuns at l.rm nr hv the exDosition company and it auxiliaries every effort has been made by organised labor to advance the interests of this great enterprise and to make it worthy of the attention of the civilised world.

These facts can not be successfully disputed. After the location of tho World's Fair at Chicago the representatives of labor asked the company to grant to the trades of Chicago who were to be employed in the labor that transformed some miles of swamp into tho present magnificence of the White several concessions, so that the working classes would not be impoverished and injured oy a great wuux of unemployed from all over the world. After much discussion you finally did agree with First, thit eWtbt hours should constitute a day's work; second, to establistt arbitration to settle all disputes between employer and employed on exposition work. No Had Faith Charged. We do not mean to charge any one with bad faith, but wo do mean to say that the two points of concord have never been fnliy adhered to by you.

and now at this time, as we look at it, this council of administration is about to finally refuse to live np to the cardinal principle of our agreement and to declino to arbitrate a difference between organized labor and the exposition. The Building Trades Council of this city, representing more than a score of labor somicably arrange acrecment every spring betweeu themselves and their employers to govern both parties in their mutual relations during the ensuing year. The time has come for them to make their agreements for 1S93-'M. Their requests and propositions have been received with favor by almost every of labor in the city of Cuicago and its environs with the exception of one. and that ono is the exposition company, and this company is now.

at this crisis, taking a position of hostility and animosity toward the very men who, of all others, have made tho existence of that company possible, and who have done more than any other interest in the community to mnke its success assured. If these facts are doubted we ask your judgment aud the jutlgmout of a candid public on the following: Walking Delegates Were KJeeted. On Saturday. April 18, 12. the Building Trades Council submitted it propositions for tho ensuing year to the comp-iny.

As we understood it you declined to accedo to the propositions, although, as we have fx fore stated, almost every larae employer of labor in Chicago considers them reasonable and just, and consented to them, but aj compensation for your refusal you passed a resolution in effect stating that if no agreement was made to settle the points in dispute then they should be forthwith submitted to arbitration. Monday, April 3, 193, you nat only failed to settle the points in dispute, but rescinded the resolution providing for arbitration and then proceeded to take arbitrary moans to rrevent tho business agents of tho Building Trades Council from communicating with any employes of your company. This was done by a force of Uontteld's mon employed under the direction of your Mr. Burnharn. If this act or anything like it had bsea done by a labor organization the whole press of Chicago would have denounced it as an act of treachery and bad faith.

We do not ask you to characterize this conduct, but we do say that that which is morally wrong if dona by us can never bs morally risht evon if done by you. Gentleman of the Council of Administration, the Building Trades representatives, in view of their forrair hearty co-operation with you and in view of your absolute agreemsnt to arbitrate, appeal to you to accept the propositions which have been accepted by the great majority of the employers of Ctiioag.J. If you will not accept, then we nppeal for arbitration by a board of threo arbitrators, the decision to be not later than Wednesday next. We agrea to abide by the decision and you to do the same. If you will neither sign the scale nor arbitrate, then the Building Trades on Monday next at a.

m. will perm it you to deal with individuals, it you can. The Order to Strike Given. Walking delegate, or "business agents," as they are now called, got up earlier yesterday morning than they have for weeks and went out to the grounds to communicate the order to tha men as they came to work. When the laboriug men approached the grounds they found those men at the gates and received the order for a strike.

The customary prcceduro was for the walking delegate to ask each laborer when he approached the gate whether he was a union man, ani whan an affirmative answer was given, tho man was notified of the order for a strike, and in nearly all cases the men turned around and left the grounds. Near the corner of Lake avenue and Fifty-fifth street was where he men spent most of the day, and the leaders of the union transacted their business in a neighboring saloon. There was no serious disturbance, and but little of the customary strike oratory. In a few canes the wagon was called inside tho ground to remove those Who were trying to create dissatisfaction! among the men who chose to work, but there was only one case of assault of serious nature. This occurred in the mines and mining buildinge.nd was between Dennis Healey, a carpenter who denounced the strike, and ESward Morris, a walking dolegate.

Morris pounded Healey over the bead with a piece of scantling, and was ar rested. Thirty carpenters came up from Joliet to go to work yesterday inecnjnfbut as they were nearly all union men they turned around and went home. There was also a large number of workmen from other towns aggregating probably 150 in all that we're to have started in at the World's Fair grounds yesterday morning; but when they found that there was a strike on they went home. What One Man Lost. -Probably the happiest man among the contractors when the news went out that the strike bad ended was Franz Djorup who has the contract for erecting the Austrian department in the manufactures buildiag.

He is to have a bonus if he can finish his work by April 27 and when his 230 workmen siled to appear be was nearly wild. He said that he was afraid that the single day's delay would cost him the bonus, which amounts to 23,000 florins. A. P. Bussell, President of the Building Trades came to the office of the council of administration about 2 p.

n. to meet the council and present a plan for arbitration. President Higinbotham, General St. Clair, George V. Massey, and Charles Schwab, the full membership of the council, were on hand, and soon after Me.

Russell went into the meeting with the council Director of Works Burnham and Director General Davis arrived. The proposition that Mr. Bussell had to offer was that the men should return to work in the' morning and continue pending the action of a committee of arbitration which should be called for Wednesday. The council objected to submitting the Ceabatud om Second PaoJ i ia i sy r. rTTTr-Aan TTTESD AY MANDATE WILL ISSUE Illinois Central Finally Beaton In the Lake Front Case.

JUSTICE FIELDS' DECISION. The Company Will Now In Its Tracks. Fence Citizens Can Not Cross to tha Lake Shore Without Paying; Tribute. Washikotoh, D. April 10.

Special Tel gram. The Illinois Central Railroad will be compelled to resort to some other method to carry out its scheme of appropriating the entire Lake Front of the city of Chicago. The astounding efforts unparalleled for their audacity to induce the United States Su-pre roe Court to reverse its rulings in this matter which were made (wo weeks ago have been of no avail. The United States Supreme Court to-day answered, in a summary way, the petition of the Illinois Central Ril-road for reopening the case by a declaration in open court that the petition of the representatives of the city of Chicago that the mandate shall issue to carry out its recent decree shall at once be granted. The Court took occasion to lend additional emphasis to its decree in this matter by appointing Mr.

Justice Field to make the decision in the case to-day. Mr. Field waa very iustly irritated when the Illinois Central Railroad Company appeared in such large force last week with a combination of talent imported from Chicago and New York to endeavor to induce the United States Supreme Court to reverse its action. Mr. Justice Field had delivered the original opinion in this cae.

aod it is one which has attracted the general attention of the bench and bar becausa of its remarkable ability. It was not unnatural that Justice Field, being human, should resent the statements which were made by the representatives of the Illinois Central Railroad corporation, although they came from such eminent lawyers as Joseph H. Choate and Benjamin Bristow. The decision of to-day, however, settled the matter so far aa the Like Front is concerned on any issue now pending in the C3urt. If the Illinois Central Rulroad has not abandoned its efforts to obtain this frontage it will be compelled to begin from the begiuning, through the City Council of the city of Chicago, or in some other way, by which it can bring the question before the United States Su rircmo Court.

The attorney of the corpora tion has said privately that they ahall not abandon the case until by a change in the complexion of the court they may hope to have a different decision. The only change which they can really expect now in the com position of the court is the retirement or death of Mr. Justip3 Field himself. It is very natural that this grewsome suggestion should not be publicly maae. VICE PKES1DENT WUSTT8 VIEWS.

Ms Ssti the Public Has Trespassed, en Illi nois Central Property. Vice President Dunn, of the Illinois Central Comoanr. called upon Commissioner of Pub'ic Works Kuhns yesterday with reference to the prorMnal to fence in tha Like Front from Park Row to Fifty-first street. What th mull of the interview was could not be learned, but after it Commissioner Kuhns said he would take all necessary stepj to pro tect the interests of the people. According to Vice President Dunn, however, the peoole have no rights there at all.

"For years tha nubhc has had no right to cross our tracks," he said. The tracks were fenced in, and the only means of reaching the tracks was by a stair way at our stations. Theso were put in not for the accommodation of tho people desir- iu. of reaching tho lake shore, but for the use of persons who wanted to take our trains. The public has uatd them nevertheless and become trespassers upon our property.

Though wa need not huva done so we allowed this, and as a result of our consideration we have had to defend suits for heavy damages for every person who has been killed by one of our trains. Now we pro teose to run World's Fair trains about two minutes apart. Besides, there will be many other trains. It would therefore ba fool hardy for any one to try to cross the tracks and foolish for us to allow it. for we would have too many suits on our hands." "Does the Illinois Central own the lake "Practically, yes.

For years we have been in the market for the purchase of the riparian rights along our right of way, for the grant did not embrace that. By the outlay of cold cash we have acquired from time to time the shore property until nearly every foot of ronertv alons the shore between Park Row and F.fty-tirst street belong to us." "What about those persons who do own lake shore Droperty in that district?" "If their property is so valuable they want to reach it often let them build viaducts over our tracks or tunnel under them. lit certainly can not allow them to trespass on our rjroDerty to get there. We do not propose to do anything we have not a perfect right to do. We must fence in our stations, allowing hut one nlace of entrance, in order to Drottct our revenues.

Every big Eastern road having a large suburban traffio does tho same thing. It so happens that we have a fence from Twelfth street to Fifty-first street. Through this but one street. Thirty-seventh, is cut. The terms of the contract by which we acquired the right of way provides that we shall keep that street perpetually open ana we do not propose to attempt to close it.

The other streets run only to our right of way." "Do you propose to make people pay for the nrivilesre of reaching the lake shore?" We take it for granted every person who wants to pass through one of our gates wants to take one of our trains and shall certainly make him pay." Commissioner Kuhns said the company certainly bad the right to fence in its own property, but he will not allow them to close any public street. He does not consider that those persons who have boat houses on the lake shore have any rights. Assistant Corporation Counsel DuPuy says if it is true the company owns the riparian rights the city will have diffiucuUy in preventing the erec tion of the fence. NEW POWEll FOR VESSELS. A New York Han Has an Idea Will Break All Keeords.

Nsw Yobx, April 10. George Sheffield, I srav-haired inventor of this city, to-day an nounced on the Maritime Exchange that he had invented a new marine engine that would enable a Paris or a Teutonic make the trip from New York Co Queenstowa in three days j- and tan hours. Be said the engine was nol prob lematical, but aa accomplished fact, and that it oould propel a vessel of tons at the rate of thir.y-five feiiles an hour. reosra-bieakers, City of Paris Teutonic, have 'AIRIIi 11, MOK 1JN Lr, average speed of less than twenty-one miles per hour. No coal la to be used on this ocean steamer.

www ifiwu wu used. In brier, one part ot too motive power is ordinary sugar. Another barrel will contain chlorate or potasn. xne machinery is somewhat Complicated. The steel chamber into which, the piston bead enters has a small tube entering at opposing sides.

Through one the sugar and through the other the chlorate of potash is injected air pressure. losf mingle as a rod dipped in sulphuric acid; comes in contact with them and causes aa explosion which dnvss the piston. A series of. explosions is kept up by the feeding ei wo ingreaienw. snd so the piston is working oy tne gases instead of steam, OPENED TIlEm.

EXCHANGE. The Ballders aod Trader Take Possession of Qoartera. With music mirth, feasting, and fun the occupancy of its new home was celebrated by the Builders and Traaets' exonange in toe Ogden building last evening. The new quarters are ewaatea upon tne nrst floor of the building, and are moat convenient of access. The exchange a large ball run ning the depth of the block.

This room has been elegantly fitted up, the walls being papered handsomely in a soft and pleasing tint, Along the; east wall of the room are eight tiers of glass-fronted oak mail boxs for the use of the members, while in the center of the Opposite wall is the bulletin board, underneath which, and partitioned off by an antique iron railing, are the president's and secretary's desks. Sat-tered around are large numbers of handsome oak chairs, inviting to ease while business is being discussed. Another entrance at So. 38 Clark street gives admittance to the office and directors' room, communicating h) a passageway with the main hall. These also sre fitted up in the same sumptuous Last evening's entertainment was entirely informal in Hs nature.

Tne programme for the eveniag consisted in instrumental music by Siebig's Orchestra, half-dozen entertaining vocal seieotions by the Columoia quartet, addresses by several tx-presidents of the exchange and other gentlemen, and closed with a cold collation. Almost all the speakers merely congratulated the xchange upon securing such handsome quarters, but one or two gentlemen diverged from the usual style and calied attention of the members to the benefits derived from the workings of the exchange, the advance which it had already assisted, what further advances it might make, the "uniform contract" cade ot practice, and the duty of its establishiag a manual training school. i Those who were heard were C. n. Gindele.

president of the exchange, address of welcome, George Tapper. V. Purington, V. P. Ketchum, W.

U. Alsip, all ex-presidents of the exchange; W. H. IttlT, vice preiiaent of the exchange, J. B.

Blooinfleld. president of the Masons and Builders Exchange; 3. O. McCarthy, president of the Painters' Exchange George Beaumont, secretary of the Illinois Chapter of Arenitecte, William Henry, president of the Cut Stone Contractors' Association and othsc. INDIANA LAW OVERTHROWN.

Board of Children's OaardlsuM Declared I'nconatitatloesU. Iiia5A1-olj8, April 10. Tef. gram. Indiana has until to-day had a law creating in the larger cities a Board of Children's Guardians, with power to take charge of, with the approval of tha Circuit Court, all children of dissolute or vicious parents and children whose surroundings are not what they should be.

Formerly the Jsw applied to this city only, but by the last legislature it was extended to Evansville, Terre Haute, u'aiu. and other cities. To-day the law wa overthrown, when Judge Taylor, of the Superior Court, rendered his final decision in the suit of Shade Thutter against the Board of Children's guardians. The principle poinU of the judge's decision were That the law is unconstitutional in that the Circuit Court has no jurisdiction over the cases; that the board is not a corporation aod can not as such bring suit before the court; that such a corporation could not be legal that the contention of the defense that the general guardian law conferred ample authority en the court to act on the board's'application was without point. The court also held that the act of 1891, under which the boaid operates, is void becauss its import was not fully set forth in the title of it.

The board is dissolved according to the decision of Jidgj Taylor. The decision will be sppealed Iroin and the Supreme Court asked to pass on the questions at issue. MIL STONE SEES THE, PRESIDENT. Our Frank Fears His Mission Means Washington, D. April 10.

Special Tlc-fram. Melville E. Stone had an interview with the President this afternoon. It is understood that the Chicago poetoffioe was under consideration. Stone has declared himself emphatically in public as against the appointment of Lawler.

The latter says, also publicly, that the object of the visit of Mr. Stone is to endeavor to defeat hitv The Chicago candidate for supervising- architect of the Treasury, John J. Cooke, wito was supported by Hopkins and others has been defeated. Secretary Carlisle to-day appointed O'Rourke. of New Jersey.

No confirmation is necessary. Thomas Cloonan, of Chisago, is here and wouid like to be restored to his old place as Treasury inspector. Keboe, of Chicago, to-day filed an application at the Treasury Department for the position of assistant inspector of buildings at Chicago. Thomas Gunmaker, of Chicago, is an applicant for a consulate in Canada. TOOK A CHANGE OP VENUE.

Tbe Dunnlvant Case to Be Heard Before Judge McCoaaell. Another move was made in the celebrated Dannivant cas yesterday, and if nothing unusual happens tbe trial of tbe case will be commenced this morning before Judge Mc Council. The case was 'set for bearing in Judge Dunne's oourt yesterday morning, but Judge Dunne was engaged in hearing tbe arguments in ths ticket brokers' habeas corpus case. He continued the case until 2 o'clock. At that time Dunnivant's attorney presented a formal application for a ohange of venue, setting forth that Judge Dunns was prejudiced sgainst him and could not give a fair trial.

He also declared that Judges Baker, Tutbiil, Clifford, Wiades jrere prejudiced against him. Tbe case was therefore sent to Judge McConneU's oourt for trial, where It was put on the cell for this morning. V. Mrs. McKlnlej III.

Washihgtoh, D. 10. Governor MoKinley, of and' syife arrived in Washington to-day. To a yeiporter Governor McKinley said that be was ea bis way South with his wife, whose health is far from good. If the weather remains good Mrs.

McKinley will probably ioWeehingtoa for week, and the, resume 1 893 TWELVE PAGES. v. 1 i WILL STIR THUSTATE Gigantic Frauds Brought to Light In Minnesota. MILLIONS HAVE BEEN 8TOLEN Many Prominent Persons to Be Said Valuable Timber Lands Disposed Of to the Detriment of the People. St.

Paul. AprU 10. Special TtU-orom. Senator Keller's investigating committee, which for some weeks has been making aa investigation of rumored frauds in the assessment snd collection of taxes in the northern part of tbe and incidentally the charges of corruption in the methods of appraising and selling State swamp lands for school, university, railroid, and other State uses, will make it report to-morrow. Ia the languaze of Senator Donnelly "it will shake the State from center to circumference." It is the most sensational report ever prepared by a legislative committee, and is all based on sworn testimony.

Frauds ana INDEX OF THIS Page One. World's Fair Strike at the amicably settled. Illinois Central finally defeated la tbe Lake Front case. Gross frauds unearthed In Minnesota's Lana Department. Tbe Council passes another street railway ordinance without opposition.

fsf Two. Henry Best Is given the certificate of elec ion. The Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain argues against the Irish home-rule bill.

William Williams kills bis wife and then commits suicide. fage Three. Bad day for the prosecution In the Joliet Prison Inquiry. Philip Ray entertains at the First Presbyterian Church. Miss Dean via ta the harem In the street in Cairo.

conspiracies most gigantic snd far-reaching are said JU have been unearthed. It is claimed that the State has ben defrauded directly and indirectly out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and many penons hitherto above suspicion are said to be in volveJ and besmirched by the committee's findings. One instanca of the committee's fiudings is said to be a case where tbe timber on a piece of s-hool land, estimated by the best "cruisers" to bs.a been worth $7,525, was sold for a paltry $178. Some of the best fine land of the State is said to have been falsely cert i fled as swamp land, aid then patented to tbe railroad and by them to the parties back of tbe deal. Innumerable cases of false homestead entries, soldiers' pre-emptions, and Indian allotments, all made on powers of attorney by men of straw in the interests of corporations, are said to hatsvbeen disclosed.

Vast tracts ot land and vast quantities of standing and cut pin 3 are said to have escaped the tax rolls, and one interesting point is that there are miles of railroad in tbe woods used for other purposes than transporting log alone which are not mentioned by tne assessors, and which are not reached as pirsonal property nor do they pay any gross earnings tax. The law which is designed to prevent corporations from acquiring more than 6.000 acres of land, is aaid to be a dead letter in the pine regions. Toe report says it is hardly possible to calculate the sums tbe State and State institutions have lost in tbe alleged pine land manipulation, nor is it possible that any cocs derabie portion of it can be recovered. The House this afternoon killed the re-apportionment biil by a vote of 39 to 56. WILL MEET IN LOUISVILLE.

Republican National Coi iitt to Con- vene May lO. Bcixxi, April 10. T. H. Carter, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, to-day published a call for a meeting of that body to be held at the Louisville Hotel, Louisville, on May 10 next.

Regarding the object of the meeting Mr. jCarter said "There has not been a meeting of the entire committee since the campaign. Before tbe final adjournment in York it was the sentiment of the executive committee that the full Nstional committee should meet during the year for the purpose of consultation, and with tbe view toward securing uniformity and harmony of action by tbe party in the several States snd Territories. Louisville as the place and May 10 aa the time were suggested by reason of the meeting there and then of the National League of Republican Clubs. Many mem bars of tne committee would be pre sat as delegates to tbe league, while others no doubt would visit Chicago for the opening of the World's Fair, and be within a short distance of Louisville about that time.

I am advised by General Ctarkson that a large number of distinguished Republicans from every section of the Dnion have signified their intention to attend the league meeting." GOTHAM'S NEW BANK. Report That the Mutual Life Is Backing the Ia-tltutlon. Naw Tobx. April 10. -Special Telegram.

Tbe National Union Bank of this city has been organized, and will be open for business on June It is reported that the Mutual Life Insurance Com pan ia backing the new bank. It is also reported that the Mutual Life will deposit $6,000,000 in tbe bank. Joseph Henrix, of Brooklyn, has been selected for President at a reported salary of $25,000. the conditions being that he resign from Co agrees. The Vice President of the bank will be O.

O. Haven. The board of directors sre: S. D. Babcock, John D.

Crimmins, Frederick Cromwell, O. O. Haven, R. Somers Hayes, A. D.

Julliard, Luther Kouatx, Richard A. McCurdy, Frederick P. Olcott, Oliver H. Payne, Joseph Henrix, Henry H. Rogers, H.

McK. Twombly. and William Whitney. TO HONOR GRANT'S MEMORY. Preparations Are Made at Galena for the CelehrskUoe April 7.

OiLtiii, I1L, April ia Special Telegram. The committee, on arrangements for the Grant celebration on AprU 27 met at the council chamber this afternoon and appointed the various committees, and the following officers of day i President of the day, Richard Barrett chief marshal, Dr. B. f. Fowler.

It was decided that tbe eseretses should take place at Great Park if the weather is favorable; otherwise Turner Ball has been engaged for the occasion. H. Model laa was appoiatsd chairmaa of a committee to arrange a programme for a general reception to be held im the evening at Turner Hall. Large delegations are expected from other places ia Illinois, Wiscoasia, and Iowa towns. CARRIES AWAY ITS BANKS.

Raging MUsoart River Cats Off aetleas ef Farm and Tsws Laaea, SiotJX Cm, lows, April 10. Special Tele-gram. The Missouri Hirer at present is higher here than for years at this tims of year. This morning the pile tramway, or false work, of tne Missouri Bridge Company, extending 1,000 feet into the river, was carried away. Three laborers went down with it, but all succeeded in clambering upon a rafter and were rescued a mile down tbe river.

The losi to the company will aggregate several thousand dollars sod long delay will be occasioned to it bridge construction work. Tbe water is cutting sway great areas of farm land at Sioux Be nd. a few miles above the city, and at intervals of a few moments, piece of the Stanton and Covington townsites, serosa tbe riv.r from this city, as largs as town lot have slipped into the river. If the inroads keep up jf.any buildings in Covington will bsvs to be moved back from tbe river to escape destruction. Steamboat traffics is tied up.

The stream ia filled with lozs and indicating MORNING'S NEWS. Page Fosr. Three favorites and three outsiders win at Glouceitar. Chicago team defeats tbe Clevelands on the Atlanta bail grounds. Pmge five.

One of the men who robbsd Orleshelm-er'asafe confesses City In torlflf. Total Abstinence Insurance Association to be brought into court. Page ffs. Superintendent Bonlleld prepares a warm reception for crooks. Page frs.

Manipulation In May wheat advances ths pi Ice to 84 cents. Pasje Eleven. Ju3ge Kohlsait receive a petition from a Tlpperary client Dr. Briggs' heresy ciss to be tried In May Interest it reviving. Pas; Twelve.

Insurance Home collects for the sunken Jerry bo at Baltimore. heavy inroads on the banks above the city. The current is estimated at sixteen miles an hour, and the water is still rising. DON'T LIKE THE IDEA. New York and Northern Bondholders Want to Keep Their Bonds.

New April 10. Special Te'egram. The first-mortgage bondholders of the New fork and NuiMiem -are preparing to oppose the proposed exchange of their bonds for 4 per cent bonds that the New York Central is to guarantee. The present first-mortgage bonds amount to aod their bonds are first lien on the whole property of the road, and tt at they do not propose to accept a reduction of 1 per cent in their interest for tbe sake of the New York Central guarantee when their bonds are perfectly good now. They say there has never been a tims when the road in the market would not sell for more than the amount of tha bojd.

LOOKING FOR A CANDIDATE. Democrats Ask Liwyer II. mill to Accept the Judicial Nomination. IlL, April 10. Spteiil Tile-gram.

A new element has entered into the bitter Democratic fight for tbe judicial nomination in tbe Second District for a candidate to succeed tbe late Supreme Ju ge John Schol field. Despairing of a settlement of the contest bat ween Judges Jones and Piiiilipe, a number of prominent Democratic politicians of the district have written letters to R. E. Ha in ill. a lawyer of this city, ursins him to accept tbe nomination as the Democratic candidate.

Mr. Ham ill has not yet decided. WILL NOT BURY HE It HUSBAND. Ared Widow of William Camphonse Re- fuses to Receive the Body. DxTBorr, April 10.

Special Telegram. The body of an old man, evidently a suicide, picked out of the river Saturday, was identified this morning as that of William Camphouse. His aged wife was told that the body at tbe morgue was that of her husband and she was asked what should be done with it. She announced that hrj could do as they pleased with the body; that she would do nothing toward buryiug it. She would give no reason for her apparent hard hearted nes-.

The body will fcave to be buried at public expense, although the woman has plenty of money. MARGARET'S NEW MOTHER. Mrs. Mather-Pabst'a Father Takes His Third Wife. Dktboit.

AprU 10. Special Te'e- oram. John Finlayson. father of Margaret A Mather-Pabst, to-day sec urea a license wca his third wife. His career began three years ago, when, three weeks after the death of Margaret's mother, he took a Second wife.

Last Saturday he secured a divorce from that one on the ground of cruelty, and to-day be took out a license to marry Bella Urqubart, who ia 48 years old and venturing for the first time on the sea of matrimony. The cere mony takes place to-night. JOHN G. JONES CLAIMS. Colored Men the Only Legal Body of Ma sons la the Coaatry.

St. Pact, April 10. John G. Jones, a thirty-third degree Mason, of Chicago, snd one of the leading Masons of America, Is in the city and organic a consistory of the thirty-second degree, co imposed of the promi nent colored Masons of this city. Hs delivered at the hall to-night an address on the origin and legal status of Masonry among colored men in the United States, arguing that they were the only legal body of Masons in this country.

TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY The New Tork State Assembly Passes i BIIL Albast. N. April la Special Telegram. The House to-night by a vote of 79 to 9 passed Mr. Sullivan's bill for the abolition of the death, penalty, with an amendment providing for solitary imprisonment for life aa the penalty for Mr.

Ainsworth pro tested against the amendment as providing for a punishment more cruel than death, and it was leoonsodarcd and defeated. The Sen ate is bow debating tbe bill PRICE TWO CENTS. ONE MORE ltOAD. Council Grants Another Rail way, Franchise FOR SOUTH CHICAGO. What tho Company Is Empow ered to Do.

PASS HYGEIA ORDINANCE Water to Be Furnished at Three Cents a Gallon. Right of the) Illinois Central Rail road Are to Bs Investigated at Once. riftitinm mnnnait at first but alow BS wearisome at midnight, tho City Councd was l.t nis-hL First of all AUsr- man O'Neill called up the ordinance of the Englewood and Chicago LlecU-is btreet naif way Company. Next tbe ordinance of the Chicago Twin Wire Lang Distance Telephone, and last the much-disputed hygeta ordinance was pawied. Tbe ordinance gives to tne company toe right to control and operate an electric rail, road beginning at Sixty-third street and ran.

ning thence south oo Vernon avenue to S.x:y- seventh street, eest to Vincennes avenue, south to South Chicago avenue, to Cottsgs Grove a venue; also commencing at South Cha cago avenue and running on Keel avenae to (itment avenue, thence west on mxty-nmus street to Calumet avenue, thence to Sixty, seventh street; on Sixty-seventh street from State street to Veroon avenue, and from Via. nnA. in Catimam Grove avenae. tso on Ciemnt avenue; from Keef avenue to Vincennes avenue on inoenne avenue te Seventy-first street, on Svnty.firt street from ste street to tbe F. W.

and C. track, thence to Evans avenue and along it to Seventy-second street, to Cottage urove avenue, on Cottage Orove avenue to Evaas avenue, on Stat street Irom oirj iosrw street to Ninety-fifth street, on Ninety-fifth street to Michigan avenue; also irons State street west on Seventy-ninth street to Vincennes road. thence to On Hundred snd Seventh; slso ow Eighty -seventh street from Cottsgi, tn Vinesnsss road, thenja south to place, tbenoa weal le Sangamon street, thence norm cBay. sixth street, thence west to Front street, thence south to Niaetg fifth street, thenos cast to JTront s'raet, in Ninaiv.ninth street, thence west "to Winston avenue, thencs southeast to Vincennes road also on um nao.rw in Third street from Michigan avenoe west to Wood etreet, thence south to One Hundred and Seventh! also on One Hundred and Eleventh street, from Indiana avenue west to Halsted street, together with curves sad swi'ebes. "I'd lik to ask if aay street or alley escaped the notice of the gentlemen who ask this ordinance," said Alderman Swift.

"Mot of the territory tbrooga waicn toe road passes is vacant property," answer! the Alderman from the Thirty-fourth Ward. Right Ursstsd. The ordinance also gives ths company tbe richt to connect with other railway systems and provides that if such connections sre mads transfer ticket must be given, une ot tbe tracks-on Vernon avenue, ixiy- seventh street, Vincennes road. Sev enty-ninth, gh y-s xth streets. Loom street, from Eigb'y-sixth street to the Bock Island trscks.

State street Irons Sixty.fourth to Seventy-ninth street, snd f. A Ik MMnlJul soura idiob(u stbv si. and ia operation within one year from tbe date the ordinance goea into tnecx, on pen alty of a revocation ol tne ordinance, rare iato be 6 cent for a continuous pas tags from idt Doint to another oo tbe line. Car are to run from 6 a. m.

to 12 p. m. An an nual license fee of toO per car is to be paid to the city. Alderman fTNeill said the line was prao- ically aa extension of the Calumet Electris Boad. The ordinance was passed by a unaai.

roous vote. Alderman Gosaoliu called up the petition of Spa it A Weie to lay wires aero streets in the Seventeenth Ward. Ths Committee on Gas, Oil, and Electric Lights. reported, recommending that the prayer of tbe pe titioners be granted. Alderman Kent made the tK-t ik-r.

was bo order or ordinance and it should therefore be recommitted. The clerk named tbe streets snd alleys tt i de- red to cross, eight s' reels ana two aucys ia all. The motion to recommit was carried. The ordinance of the Morse Ltght, Heat and Power Supply Company wss on request Chairman Mcuiiien laiu over i-r iwo weeks. Alderman Plowman then called up the Ordinance of the Chicago Twin Wire and Long Distance Telephone Company.

More Coadulta. Tbe ordinance authorise tb to construct and maintain for a period of wenty-five year in the streets and allay of the city a hoe of wires snd conduit for telephone purposes. In the district bounded by Fullerton avenus, Westers avenue, Thirty-ninth street, end tne laae these are to bj underground. I he company tn ska -it thaxiirht to use thi too of all the posts, it erect for city telephone and tele graph wires. -No poles are to oe piaovu in streets when alleys can be used.

The rates sre to be not to exceed $72 for each instrument for the first year, $70 for tip and (65 for ths third, snd to the city effloes there are to be no charge. Ths company agrees to lease the pole, wire and eonduUs at a fair rental to any other company. The bond is $50, 00X Five thousand telephones sre to be in by December, 18 Five per cent of tbe gross receipt are to bj paid semi-annually into tbe city treasury. The eiy i given tbe right of purchase after five If tbe franchies is transferred itris to be declared void. Alderman Hepburn, chairman of tho committee to which the ordinance had been referred, explained to the Council that many changes bad been made ia the original document, the object biing to make tbe franchise as valueless as possible for speculative purpose.

The territory in which the wire are to be placed underground was extended by amendment to Belmont and California avenues. Seventy-ninth street and the lake. Alderman Kent moved to stiik out a section allowing tbe'eompaay to bring tt wiies front the conduit to the) surfaos within STJrjr two blocks tot tbe pus,.