Pittsburg Dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 1

KJWTijWj "jES THE ADLET8 i ucrt-ased in 11 months to Aag. 1, 83,923, or an average gain of 100 a day. me THE ADLET8 Increased In 11 month to Ang. 1, 33,923, or an average gala of 100 a dor- FORTY SEVENTH TEAR PtTTSBTJRG AUGtlST 9. 1892-TWELVE PAGES.

THREE Birfjntfrt) THE MILLIONAIRE MURDERJ1YSTERY Of Massachusetts Becomes More "Weird and Sensational Eyery Hour. MOTIVE YET BEYEALED For One of the Most Remarkable Crimes of Modern Times, Mrs. Borden Was Killed an Hour Be-fore Her Husband The Assassin Must Have Waited In Broad Daylight "With One Victim for the Return of the Other They Were Killed With a Hatchet, but Other Persons on the Same Floor Claim to Have Heard No Struggle Suspicion Bests on Members of the Family Because It Is Difficult to See How Anyone Else Could Have Accomplished the Deed The House Not Bobbed Progress of the Investigation An Inquest To-Day A Theory That Both Were Drugged Possible Arrests. t6rrCIAL TZXEQalH TO TOT DISPATCH! Fami River, Aug. a The assassination of Millionaire Borden and his wife promises to become one of the most noted of modern murder mysteries.

The discoveries and developments of each passing honr, instead of revealing the secret of the tragedy, only add to its weird and puzzling nature. No motive for the crime has yet been ascertained, Mr. Borden not being robbed, and nothing in the house being disturbed. There is still more to this. Neither the servant girl nor the people in the adjacent houses heard an outcry nor a sound of a struggle.

Tet Mr. Borden was in fair health and Mrs. Borden was a robust, powerful woman. Therefore it is argued that either they must have been under the influence of drugs or their assailant was a person of whom they had no fear. More remarkable than this even, the results of the investigation satisfied Medical Examiner Dolan that Mrs.

Borden was killed at least an hour before her husband. This appears from the statement of Dr. Bowen, that when he arrived Mr. Borden's body was warm and the blood was flowing, but Mrs. Borden's body was cold and stiff During the hour that elapsed where was the murderer? He must have been concealed somewhere about the house.

The murderer mu't, therefore, have stayed npoa the very scene of his first crime, not knowing what moment it might be discovered and he with it, though immediately after bis second murder be disappeared so amazingly that no one can guess bow he went. Remarkable sad Mysterious restores. Mr. Borden owned a great deal of real estate, was president of a savings bank and bad other interests, and the fatal morning, as usual, went about town looking after his affairs. All that is positively known about bis taking off is quickly told.

Ho started for home about 10:30. About 11:15 o'clock bis servant girl ran over to Dr. Bowen, who lives just across the narrow street and told him that her master bad been murdered. Dr. Bowen, going with the girl, found Mr.

Borden lying dead on the lounge in the sitting room, bis head mangled in the manner before described. A few, minutes afterward the body of the wife was discovered in a room upstairs, the second one from the street on the south of the house. There Vere two persons in or about the house at the time of the murder. These were Lizzie Borden, the second daughter, and the servant girl, named Sullivan. District Attorney Knowlton reached here late this afternoon from Marion.

Chief of Police Hilliard met him at the depot and drove direct to police headquarters with him. For five hours the District Attorney, the Chief of Examiner Dolan, Mayor Coughlin and State Detective Seaver were closeted together in Marshal Hllliard's private office. A Judge Produces Some Papers. Judge Blaisdell, who presides over the court of this district, dropped in for a few minutes' talk with a big bulky envelope, and when be came out he had no envelope or papers with him. Dr.

Dolan drove to a private entrance to Marshal Hilliard's office about 5 o'clock. He had with him a box covered with a lap robe. As he lifted the box from his carriage a bundle fell out It was Lizzie Borden's dress on which the police think there is a drop of blood. In the box among the other things was the ax which was found in the cellar of the Borden bouse, and on which there are stains, supposed to be blood stains. A patrolman entered a few minutes later with a register containing the names of all persons who had purchased poison recently in Fall Biver.

He took the book direct to Chief Hilliard. The conference opened with Chief of Police Hilliard beginning with the remotest clew and going over it thoroughly and running it down to the satisfaction of District Attorney "Knowlton. It was learned that clew after clew was taken up and was in turn traced through to its end. Fasptclon Bests on the Daughter. Chief Hilliard reserved the Lizzie Borden theory Until the close.

His purpose was to disprove all other theories, to open out all other clews and then suggest to the District Attorney that the Lizzie Borden theory was the only one left that could not be readily disproved. The whole ground was gone over. The premises were described, all the.snspielons and evidence, direct and circumstantial, were laid before the Attorney. After the entire case had been recited the advisability of making immediate arrests was discussed. It was found that while the evidence might indicate 'whom the police should arrest, yet it is hardly sufficient to guarantee the holding of the prisoner, not to mention a conviction.

It is said late tonight, "however, by good authority, that other evidence not yet brought by Marshal Hilliard will be laid before the District Attorney. 1 tie Inqoret Scheduled for To-Daj. It was decided to hold the inquest to- Ar ajftstoAft. tertfrtririMsr-r 4 morrow morning. It is expected that the testimony and evidence brought out then will once and for all decide definitely whether any persons whose names are mentioned in connection with the case will be arrested.

State Detective Seaver just coming from Marshall Hllliard's room, said there wonld be no arrests to-night The cordon of police guarding the Borden house are neither vigi-land nor shrewd. It was supposed by them and believed by Marshal Hilliard that the servant, Bridget Sullivan, had been la the house from the time of the murder until to-day. The Dispatch reporter learned this evening that the girl left the honse on Saturday afternoon and spent Saturday night, Sunday night and part of to-day at a Mrs. Jessie Harrington's house. Her absence was not known to the police guarding the bouse until they saw ber coming up Second street to-day.

Marshall Hilliard was greatly vexed when he learned of the negligence of his men. It Is argued that if the girl left the house before the police searched It on Saturday she could have taken the hatchets with her had she been so inclined. The Search for a Motive, The police and other official Investigators discussed to-day what possible motives prompted the murderers, irrespective of who they might be. The motive of gain was considered, as was the suggestion that a person who hated one of the victims and was not friendly to the other, did the deed. The insanity theory was considered, bnt the police finally decided that the easiest way to determine the motive was first to catch the murderer.

Color was given to the poisoning theory to-day by the strong rumor that Dr. Dolan had received a report from the experts in Boston, who have analyzed the stomachs of Mr. and Mr Borden, saying that traces of poison was found. Dr. Dolan refused to deny this.

He said that he could not sptak of it He denied, however, the story that he went to the receiving vault In the cemetery to match some hair alleged to have been found on one of the axes picked up in the Borden cellar. There was no hair on any of the instruments found In the cellar. Another Mark Against Uzzle Borden. George B. Fish, of Hartford, who was visiting here some time ago and who is quoted as saying that there was a strong feeling between Mr.

and Mrs. Borden and Lizzie Borden, is the husband of the murdered woman's slater, and is conversant with the true state of the family relations. "With the explosion of the storV that Mrs. Chace and a young French boy saw a strange man in the backyard on the'morn-ing of the murder there comes another black mark against Lizzie Borden, according to the police. After a patient search today a Dispatch reporter found out who the man was tbat Mrs.

Chace saw. He was a stonemason, who was working in a yard adjoining the rear of the Borden yard. He jumped over the fence to get some pears. This was about the time of the murder, and just the time Lizzie Borden should, according to her story, have passed from the house to the stable. But even if Lizzri Borden did not leave the house the stonemason in the rear of the house, Mrs.

Bnf-finton on the north side, Mrs. Chace on the south, and the French boy in the street, surrounded the Borden house. Isohody Could tnter or Leave TJnseen. No one conld have entered the house by the rear 20 feet from her, and the boy, who was watching the mason from the street as he picked pearp, would have seen anyone pass him either in leaving or -entering the house. On the north side, where the side entrance the boy.Hie mason and Mrs.

Buffinton would'" all have seen the murderer as he entered the house. The argue that, with all these people watching, Lizzie Borden could not easily have left the house without'be-lng seen, and, above all, no other person conM have, entered or left the house unobserved. G. M. Hanscom, assistant superintendent of the New agency of the Pinkertons, spent the afternoon at the Borden house with Lizzie and Emma Borden.

His coming here was first regarded as mysterious, but gradually a story leaked out that the Bordens had brought him there to see that the girls were not arrested. This rumor further insinuated that Mr. Hancom's dealings with the police had been singularly successful, and tbat none of the Borden family would be molested. A reporter took this story to police headquarters and asked if it was true. The police at once denied it emphatically.

Burring; Oat a Flnkerton Chief. Late last night it was said that Chief of Police Hilliard had Issued an order which substantially prohibited Mr. Hanscom from entering the Borden house and from seeing Lizzie Borden. 'When the story first came out a futile attempt was made to- deny it, but this afternoon the police admitted that it was true. The order was revoked this morning, and Mr.

Hanscom was allowed to enter the house. Chief Hilliard, when seen this afternoon, said: "I did not give the order, though I know the matter was being considered by the city authorities last night. In any event I see no reason why such orders are not proper at this time. 1 do not believe there is any reason why Mr. Hanscom, who is on expert detective, and in the family's employ, should have access to the Borden House 'any more than the reporters.

The reporters are working as hard to get at the bottom of this case as he is, and no class of unofficial investigators should be discriminated against. "What reason, had the Borden girls to engage detectives. Are they afraid that we will overstep the bounds of law in our investigation of crime? If so, why did they not Come to us and jjhbw where our act might seem or may be inconsistent? I believe that the course pursued has been taken to protect the living. There has been much labor and great effort within the past 24 hours to create sympathy in that direction. In the performance of my duty I do not forget that there is something due to the dead.

Our purpose is to bring the murderer of Mr. and Borden to justice, and our eflofts will be rewarded." Don't Want Outside Interference. The police say they believe that Mr. Hanscom's efforts will retard their work. While it Is doubtful It the police fear this, yet it is a significant fact that as fast as the police suggest suspicious circumstances which might connect Lizzie Borden, just as faBt aro these circumstances answered by Mr.

Hanscom. Since Mr. Hanscom has seen and talked with Lizzie Borden ber story has changed materially in several important points. For instance. In her story, as she first told it, she said that she was in tire barn not more than 20 minutes.

Mr. Hanscom now fixes it at half an hour. But why did Lizzie Borden remain there 30 minutes? Mr. Hanscom answers this by saying that she was hunting for something. But Mr.

Hanscom adds that she was so weak and rambling in her talk that he could not ask her abont such points as why she did not notice her dead stepmother at she passed the door of the room in which Mrs. Borden lay dead. If Lizzie Borden is so weak and so rambling in her mind that she cannot answer perplexing questions like that, how is it, ask the police, tbat she can explain so minutely her trip to the barn, and be so clear about certain other simple points. An Inspection of the Chimneys. People have been commenting freely to-day on the work of the police.

On Thursday, the day of the murder, there was only a partial and incomplete search of the Continued on Seventh Page, PEACE JITH' PUTT a if I One of the Things Desired Tbat Hnrried Harrison From the Capital. THE MPT SOON TO MEET, When the President Hopes to Come to an Understanding With THE STILL SULKING NEW YORKER. Carter's Reputation Oat West as a Mighty Flick Article. GEORGE CAKE NOT IET APPOINTED most A STirr Washhtgtoit, Aug. 8.

It is now known that it was not solely the ill health of Mrs. Harrison tbat led the President to show impatience in his desire to get away from "Washington. Thai estimable woman is shown by the telegraph reports to be in much better health than she was reported to be last Friday, when the Congressional leaders kindly consented to hold an evening session and effect an adjournment In time for Mr. Harrison to take a midnight train for the Adirondacks and Loon Lake. Of course, the President was anxious to see Mrs.

Harrison. He was also anxious to leave Washington temperature behind him. Back of this was another reason less domestic, if not less weighty. Nobody realizes more keenly than Mr. Harrison that Now York must be carried this year if he would succeed himself in the "White House after working so industriously and so shrewdly to compass his renomlnation.

Ever since the Minneapolis Convention attempts have been constantly made to bring together Tom Flatt, of New York, and the President. The lattei, full of the eminence of his position, thinks that Mahomet ought to come to the mountain. Piatt Perfectly Independent. Tom Piatt, not caring particularly whether school keeps or not, is Certain tbat if there is to be a dialogue, friendly or otherwise, the mountain must pick itself up and come to Mahomet. Piatt has of late been several times invited to the White House.

Mr. Harrison has not written him a billet doux. He has not sent an autograph invitation. He has, however, com. missioned trusty friends, such as Steve El-kins, for instance, to procure the delivery to Mr.

Piatt of assurances of the President's most distinguished consideration. John W. Foster, who owes so mnch to Mr. Harrison, for elevating him from an equivocal position as an attorney for the prosecution of foreign claims against the United Btates to the high altitude of Secretary of State, has also employed his well-lubricated tongue and fascinating, semi foreign manner, to the utmost to secure encouraging signs from Mr. Piatt, but as yet to no purpose, so larval Mr.

Harrison is concerned. la New Yorfc 'WhltelaVld and, his friends have also bcen'Arbrkiu'g with Mr. Piatt to excite his State and party pride, and With apparently better success. Three weeks ago (and this story Is entirely authentic) Mr. Beid seat tb Mr.

Piatt ah in lvltation to oalP upon him at the Tribune office. -Mr. Piatt told the messenger, with some show of asperity, that if Mr. Beid wanted to see him he knew where to find him, Meeting Over a Couple of Dottles. There was no meeting at that time, but there are good assurances that the two distinguished gentlemen have since met and extended to each other the most affectionate protestations of personal regard over a little dinner and a bottle of the Widow Cliquot's best But the complimentary adjectives used toward each other are not said to have reached Mr.

Harrison, and that Mr. Piatt gave utterance to some very vigorous expressions about the President, that is to the Vice President that may be. Yet it was possibly due to the meeting of tbat day that Mr. Harrison hurried to Loon Lake, to visit there for a season, cheering Mrs. Harrison and recreating himself, and then to consummate an act tbat is fraught with weal or woe for hi hi in New York and throughout the country.

Tbat act is nothing more and nothing less than a meeting between Mr. Harrison and Mr. Piatt The arrangement is, as I am told to-day by an official who knows as well as any man what is going on nnder the surface, that after Mr. Harrison hss made his visit at Loon Lake, and rhfis down to sniff salt air and take a dip in the Ocean, he shall Stop at New York, consult with the leaders of the party and the managers of the Cam- Eiaign, and, by accident, as itewere, have a ittle meeting with Tom Piatt If the reach can. be healed at all it will be healed then.

'Piatt Wants New York Patronage. It is not believed that Flatt will be satisfied with anything short of a meeting lace to face, and the personal and positive assurances of the President that Piatt and his gang of merry men shall henceforth dictate all that there is of politics and official appointments in New York. Piatt is the man the President is after. If he wins him he tnav possibly ttop there. His friends say that h'e Could not eiidure the strain of getting down on his knees to more than one such 'practical politician" in a season.

If this be a well-thought-out theory, Senator Quay need not expect the President to call upon him at Beaver town. The President is said to have remarked io his friends, when the Shiras appointment was hung up, that he would not step out of his way to placate Cameron or Quay, as Pennsylvania was sure to give a majority for the ltepubllcan electors, no matter what quarrel its boss politicians might have with, him. On the other hand, It is asserted by some tbat Mr. Harrison wiU take practical steps to enlist the friendship and assistance of Quay, who knows so well how to get and Use the sinews of war. Harrison to on Piatt.

A friend of the -President tells me he feels assured tbat when the President comes to New York he will take a run down to his cottage at Cape May Ppint, where there are other members of his family, and that as Senator Quay is expected to be at Cape May or Brigantlne Beach at about the same time, there would possibly occur a melting of the two high officials, both of whom are scanning somewhat nervously the horizon of the near future. Especially it is thought by- the aforesaid friend, that 'this meeting will take place should Piatt and the President in the meantime git on the same side of the deep And precipitous chasm which has for some time separated them. The the checkered career of Tom Carter, Chairman of- the National Be publican Committee, is known, the more it comes to be believed that he, will make a phenomenal campaign manager. A young attorney front Burt county, Nebraska, who has been inr the city for a few days, corroborate! all that has been written of Mr. Carter's exploits there 14 years ago as a book agent, when he sold 1terrilorv'' for a volume called "Footprints got in return for this ''territory" numerous farms, aggregating thousands of acres, besides much other property, all of he tamed into cash and skipped away with before the deluded purchasers of territory could walk back home from the regions where they failed to sell "Footprints of Time." Carter's Western Recommendation.

This attorney did not know Carter personally, but he has heard many of his viotims describe him as the sleekest confidence man in the world. These operations, he says, are attested to by the best citizen of Burt county, as can also be the other Charge, that Carter was a Democrat until be decided to take up bis residence in Montana, when he became, a Republican, because "there was not much use for a Democrat in that country." However mnch" some of the citizens of Burt county suffered on acoount of Mr. Carter's speculative propensities, all who knew him there give him credit for marvelous shrewdness, and are willing to bet their bottom dollar that he can't help but win for the Republican. As for money, they laugh at the idea that he will not be able to get every cent he wants, as he can easily talk any' man who has a bank account into giving him a signed blank check to rill In at his pleasure. The prospeots of Mr.

Cake, for appointment as Immigration Inspeotor, appear to be very poor unles he can thoroughly clear himself of the charge of bigamy. Assistant Secretary Nettleton, of the Treasury De- Eartment, said to-day that the appointment ad not been made and would not be until the charge against Cake had been investigated and disproved. No blame attaches to Quay, Dalzell, Magee and others who recommended Cake's appointment, as it was plain that they simply acted in accordance with the wishes of the Window Glass Workers' Association. i AN HEIR, IN SING SING. A Newspaper Personal Ieads to the Publication of a Peculiar Romance Desalts ot a Search for a Missing Englishman Worth Thousands.

New York, Aug. 8 SpeciaL This personal was printed in a newspaper some weeks azo: Jaxis J. Barkeh Why do you not write? Your father la dead. Bereaved IIothxb. "This advertisement," said Lawyer James J.

Walsh to-Jay, whom relatives of Barker asked to aid them in finding him, "develops a story of a young scamp, whose parents, as a last resort, sent him three years ago from their home in Edinburgh to this country. Young Barker was 19 then. Last June he was arrested for bigamy and sent to Sing Sing. Some time after his conviction, of which I was not at that time aware, friends of his family asked me to institute a search for him. His father, they told me, had died and left him 10,000.

When I learned tbat he was a prisoner tor two vears and five months I aid not tell thatto him." "I recall the marriage of young Barker." said Rev. Mr. EjgUstone, the Methodist ministerat Willis af enue and One Hundred and Forty-first ifreeV "I cross-questioned the young man closely, and as he answered satisfactorily, I performed the ceremony. The bride was a young woman whose parents live on One Hundred and Thitty-ninth street A week later the mother of tbe young woman told me that she had learned that an 1889 Barker had been married to a young Woman in Hoboken. A week before the second marriage he was living with bis first wife In One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street His wife 1b, I believe, In needy ciroumstances." The record in the District Attorney's office choirs' that Barker was sentenced June 27, lactr-by JtfdgfoMartln.

His first wlfetmada the charge against him. The second wife, MaryE. Sampson, of East One Hundred and Thirty -ninth street, told of her marriage to him; AN OHIO MYSTERY. The Body ot a Woman Setred TJp In a Sack Washed Ashore oh the Blvor Bonk. Louisville, Ang.

8. Tbe dead body of a woman was found below the falls, at Willow Point, on the Indiana side, at 7:30 this morning by William Fitlcr, a fisherman. Tbe body had been washed ashore by the waves. A sack made of ordinary bagging covered the entire upper portion of the body. Upon examination of the body Coroner Boss found a frightful wound on top of her head.

The skull was crushed in a most horrible manner. Shortly after 1 o'clock Charles J. Klesse, proprietor of the Falls City Hotel in Jefferson, accompanied by his sister, viewed the remains of the dead woman. Thdugh not certain, they think it is the body or Kittle Diller, a domestic who worked for them two years ago, but had not been heard of in Jefleraonville since. The woman was formerly married, but was thought to have had trouble With her husband.

POLICE PROTECT THE WORKS. The Fires Are Lighted In the West Superior Iron and Steel Ml 1. West Bupbbiob, Aug. a The fires in the West Superior Iron and Steel Works were lighted last night and the whole works are in charge of the police. Sheriff Dan Kennedy of Douglass county Waited on the docks last night In Duluth, with a posse of deputy sheriffs, for the arrival of the steamer Jay Gould from Chicago, which is expected to bring a crew of non-union workmen to take the places of the striker.

They will be taken to Superior nnder charge of the sheriff on their arrival, and set at work. Trouble is expected when the striking workmen find non-union men filling their places at tbe works. A PHffiKfIX PARK WITNESS lNJ0EEfi. Ho Was Bad'y Wanted In EncUnd, bat He TVoo'd Hot Go Over. Monte VIstaj Aug.

8.J-P. J. Sheridan, -a -farmer living eight mills South of town, while driving through bis gate with a hay rack was crashed between the post and. hay Several ribs were broken and it is thought he cannot live. Mr.

Sheridan gained a world-wide reputation a few years ago as being the man who was supposed to kndw something about the Phceflix Park murder. He has been offered large sums of money to go to England and testify as to what he knew of the celebrated murder, but he has steadfastly refused. FLOUR FOR THE STRIKERS, Kansas Farmers' Alliance Men Acres to Forward It to Homestead. Labked, Aug. 8.

The officers of the "Farmers' Alliance are authority for the statement tbat the Alliance has agreed to furnish tbe locked-out men at Homestead with flour enough to tide them over their trouble with Carnegie Company. ANOTHER MILL SIGN8. Thb Amalgamated Scale Ace ptrd bjr a Philadelphia Finn. Philadelphia, Aug. -a The Amalgamated Association scale of wages was signed to-day by Gaulbert, McFadden Caskey.

The mill has been shut down for some weeks. By the signing of the seal 300 nisn will return to ki THOUSUDSOF DEAD And Tons of Thousands Dying From the Cholera in Fated Enssia. PANIC AT ST. No Longer Any Doubt That the Dread Scourge Is at the Capital. HORRIBLE DETAILS PROM MOSCOW.

One Hundred Lashes for Those Who Critl' else the Sanitary flails. PEOGRESS OF THE TERRIBLE PLAGUE CBT CABLE tO TB WSr ATCfl. 1 Bt. Petebsbubo, Aug. a The city is in a panic.

A woman who was seized with cholera yesterday died within a few hours, and all doubt has now disappeared that Cholera has invaded the capital. The rich vrno are able to get away are flying to health resorts, and merchant are closing their shops. The Governor of the city has issued a proclamation begging the people to be calm and give directions as to preventive measures. The latest advices from Moscow state that the panic there is on the increase, notwithstanding the efforts of the authorities to suppress any general evidence of the spread of cholera and of popular terror. The cholera is becoming more virulent at Novgorod, and the people there blame Baranoff, the Governor, for not taking better measures of prevention.

Baranoff, in reply to popular criticism, has increased the severity with wbieh he punishes his critics. Two respectable citizens, by order of the Government, were publicly punished with 100 lashes of the knout for having spoken unfavorably regarding the sanitary arrangements made by Baranoff. Three Thousand Deaths Dally, Appalling Teports have been received of the ravages of the disease in the Government of Saratoff and Samara. It is officially reported that the deaths number hot less tban 3,000 daily. The ignorant mnltitudes in many places resist all sanitary precautions, and attack the doctors and others engaged in attempting to alleviate the disease.

Ten new cases Of cholera appeared at Moscow to-day, and yesterday there were seven deaths. There is no business doing at Klshni Novgorod. The Government, officials in the country are giving the peasants boiled water and red wine to drink. The cholera is raging at Astrabad, tbe capital of the Persian province of that name, and. known, on account of its pestilential atmosphere, is the City of the Plague.

Ittotln; Caused by Terror." Only the lower classes of tbe population remain in Astrabad during the hot weather, and these broke out in riot on account of. the terror and anger caused by the spread of the disease. The mob attacked the shops in which Jiauor was kept for sale, because they believed that the liquor had something to do with the cholera. They broke into the shops, and while some of them drank the liquor and became more riotous, others poured the intoxicating fluid into the street. The mob also stoned American traders, s6me of whom were Russian subjects.

Astrabad is near the Caspian Sea, and is not far from the frontier of Russian Turkestan. The Russians hurried a guard of Cossacks into Strabad to protect the consulate, and a Russian gunboat was ordered instantly to Astrabad Bay. The situation is so serious that the Shah, who is travelling, has been notified and will return at once to Teheran. MOUNTAINS OF ICE AT SEA. Real Giants of Congealed Water Encountered Jn Southern Waters.

New Yonrc, Aug. a Special The icebergs of the North Atlantic, this season, have been unimpressive, compared With those seed in the neighborhood of Cape Horn. The prize berg in Southern waters' Was passed by the British ship New City, Tvhich arrived to-day from Taltal. Captain Bray reports that he saw oft the morning of June 20, two real "mountains Of Ice' so frequently reported and so seldom seen by shippers addicted to the exaggerated vernacular of the sea. The biggest 6f the bergs was about (W0 feet high.

This means that the entire height ot Ihe berg, seven-eighths Of which was submerged, Was about mile and a quarter. There it one other berg on record tbat was taller than this Colossus of the Bouth Atlantic. It Was seen on March 10 by the officers of the steamship Catalonia, bound from Liverpool Tof Boston. It was estimated to have been 1.000 feel high. The-atmosphere in the neighborhood was to cold thstall liquids' oh the Catalonia's deck were frozen.

The sea, however, preserved its aqulfbrni eonJltlon. Captain Bray taw 32 Other big bergs and the lee drift 60 miles long. A WHOLE FAMILY KILLED. Dashed Over a Prrctplce By ft Itunaway Teem end Alt Perish. GtmtfttE, Aug.

a A whole family, consisting pf a man and wife and four children, names unknown, were killed here to-dav. The family had beeh in this city buying provisions, and while returning to their claim, on the Old Cheyenne reservation, their team ran away and over a precipice. Every member of the family1 and both horses were killed. GarX'M ItebeU Btported IteorEkn lzlnf. WASHisriTojr, Aug.

a Tbe Mexican charge d'affaires called on the Secretary of State this morning aud showed him a telegram from the President of Mexico, saying it is rumored at the Mexican eapital that the Garza revolutionists are reorganizing along the border In Webb county, Texas, And asking that the attention of the united States Government be called to the report. The War Department haa ordered an Inves tigation at one. HELP FOR HOMESTEADERS. President Gompers fays the Federation of jLabor Will Ukely Proclaim a Boycott on Carnegie Goods Secretary F. T.

F. T-ovr Joy's Claims Utterly Denied. New York, Aug. a President Samuel Gorqpers, of the American Federation of Labor, was seen at his office this afternoon. Mr.

Gompers said it was more than likely that the American Federation of Labor, 600,000 strong, would boycott the steel made by Andrew Carnegie at Homestead and other places. This means that every employer who uses Cayw'ljsrlll be blacklisted, and tho UWrK-fBnToy w'11 D8 called out dmSllinuOl0 7'paralyie big llSor f'yi- l4il.T.AT.trr If what Mr. GomperjS1 jr-l comes to pass. It will put a stopNiiir0ad building, as the Carnegie works manufacture a a large part of the steel rails used in this country. It will also put a stop in a large measure to Government boat building.

Mr. Gompers said this afternoon: "I was In Homestead and Pittsburg on Saturday. I returned home yesterday. My visit there was to investigate tbe statement made by Secretary Lovejoy regarding the number of men in Carnegie's mill at Homestead, and what he has said in the papers abont there being 6,000 men there. From my own observation I know there are but 1,100 men there.

"I know tbat because I investigated the mill from all quarters from the river, in a skiff, and from ah adjoining roof. Out of these 1,100 men only 40 are skilled workmen." COL. KING'S LAST CHANCE. He Mast Obtain a Commutation From the Governor or the Gallows Will Claim Aim Only One More Road Leading from Death Is Op-n. Memphis, Aug.

a There are possibly two anchors of hope for Colonel H. Clay King, but it is probable that one of these has been cut away. His friends may have recourse to the United States Supreme Court, but from the action of the attorneys and also from tbe opinion that the application was made to the Supreme Court for a writ of error before the steps were taken in the Federal Court in Nashville, this avenue of escape from the gallows is closed. The frinds of King have only one more road leading from death by the rope and John H. Buchanan holds the gate across it.

None of his friends are so sanguine as to hope for Colonel King's pardon by the Governor, but his friends and the lawyers are trying to secure a commutation of his sentence to a life imprisonment. Judge Greer left for Nashville to-night with a batch ot petitions to lay before the Governor aud this morning Hon. a B. Mitchell visited the jail and spent half an honr with the oondemned prisoner. CoL King was in better spirits after the departure of Colonel Mitchell, and the lawyer gave out the information that he had great hopes that Colonel King would be permitted to spend the rest of his days in the penitentiary.

He will probably have for Nashville to-night After the departure ot Colonel Mitchell, Mr. Brooks, King's -son-in-law, called at tbe jail and spent some time with him. In the meantime the construction of the scaffold will be commenced on Wednesday in the Jail yard. The death watch will be-placed on Colonel King to-morrow or the next day. MAX FELBMArt IK JAIL.

tie Arrives In Cleveland to Bo Confronted by One of Ills VVIvea. CleveIiAsd, Ang. a Max" D. Feld-man, alias Max J. Wolff, who was sun-en-dered to Cleveland officers by the authorities In New'Sork, where he had been sent to BlackwelPs Island for "beating" a hotel bill, was to-day landed in the County jail.

Feidman came to Cleveland a few months ago, passing also by the name of Wolff, under which he married Miss Kaliskey, a sister of Mrs. M. H. Cohen. He was very plausible and smooth, and succeeded in getting into good Hebrew society.

A letter, opened by mistake, revealed the fact that he had another wite, and he fled. He is charged here with bigamy, he having married Edith Fox at Adams, N. in also with embezzling (500 loaned him by Cohen and with stealing Mrs Cohen's trunk, which contained f33 and much fine wearing abpareL A CIECTJS TEHX TO BE USED for the Meat Inauguration Ceremonies at ithe National Capitol. Detroit, Aug. a A local paper says the next inauguration at Washington will be held under a circus tent Bert Davis, a former advance agent of the Barnttm Bailey show, is responsible for the story.

About a month ago Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, introduced a bill in Congress to provide a shelter for holding the inauguration oeremony. It is proposed to erect an amphitheater at the east end of the Capitol. Mr. Bailey Offered to furnish the canvas free, on condition tbat the Board of Public Works should pay for the transportation of the canvas from New York City to Washington and that be should have the privilege of using the same plot of ground for putting Up bis tentwhen be showed there next summer. The offer was accepted.

SET HERSELF AFIRE. Demented Girl roars Oil on Her Clothes and Burns to Death. "ShekakdOAH, Ang. a Brownsville! a small village in tbe suburbs of this place, was thrown into a terrible state of excitement this morning. Bridget Kelly, 21 years of age, daughter of Patrick Kelly, went Into a shanty in tbe rear of her house and after saturating her olothing with coal oil set fire to them.

Her screams of pain brought her family to the not until she bad been horribly burned. Medical attendance was summoned, but all the physician's skill could not save her, and she died in terrible agony at noon. It is supposed the woman was temporarily insane, as no excuse can be learned for her rash act. RAINMAKERS FAIL They Couldn't Even Brine a Clond In Days' Bard Work. Grove, Aug.

a --The Goodland Artificial Rain Company, which contracted io produce an inch of rain in four days over aft area of 28 square miles paeked up their outfit and stole away this afternoon. Their time expired to-day and a cloud has been seen lu tbe sky during ail the time bf their operations. TRAIN ROfcBEBS BTJBaOTjNDKD. Fifty Men Overtake Them In Tbelr Monn- I) tain Stronghold. REEflir, Aug.

a A telephone message from Orosl, in the foothills, 13 miles from Reedly, says the Visalia train robbelt are on NigKe oreek, 10 miles from Orosl. surrounded by a posse of over so armed men. The officers are confident of a capture of thedeinirtdow farther la the mountains. All the Old Employes of the DucLuesne Mill Eetnra to Their Labors. A SCRAMBLE FOE PLACES.

Lieutenant-Colonel Streator Unanimously Re-Elected. PRIVATE IAHS HEARS THE The Whole Camp Cheers Wildly When the Feanlt la Announced. BELIEF FOR THE H0HE8TB1D STKIKER3 It seemed as if tbe majority of the striking workmen at the Daquesne mill were fearful that they would not reach the works in time yesterday morning to secure their old positions. As predicted in yesterday's Dispatch, as early as 5 o'clock in the morning the strikers began to make their appearance. At first they came singly, then by twos and threes, and at 6 o'clock probably 200 men had gathered outside of the gate.

The first two Or three workmen who approached the main entrance appeared to bo frightened when they found that no others were there before them. In journeying np the dusty road toward the Duquesne works it was very apparent that they tried to keep out 'of sight as much as possible, clinging Closely to tbe side of the road in the shadow of tbe steep hill that towers above the buildings near the plant After 6 o'clock tbe men began coming in squads Everyone had a dinner pail on bis arm or In his hand, and appeared anxious to return to work. The first hundred workmen to arrive were admitted to the plant shortly before o'clock. At tbat hour the gate was swung open, and the men quietly entered as if it was an everyday occurrence for them to go out on a strike of two weeks. Not the slightest reluctance was exhibited.

They entered without hesitation. Waiting for a Br fair. The workmen who cime after 6 o'clock, however, congregated on the outside until tbey numbered about C00. All of them seemed afraid to make the break until the 7 o'clock whistle blew, then one man stepped from the crowd and facing his companions, said: "Boys the jig is up. We might as well go in." After making this statement he turned and hurried through the gate.

The rest of the men looked into tbe face of his nearest neighbor as if to read the other's thoughts. This took but an instant, and then, as if by a given signal, they all started on a wild stampede across the railroad tracks into the works. At tbe time a number of coke cars attached to a shifting engine barred the way into the mill, but this did not deter the striken in their efforts to get into tbe mill at once. While some ran under the cars others mounted the step and ran over the bumpers. On approaching the office the wild rush quieted down somewhat.

Superintendent Morrison, with his corps of clerks, stood on the veranda of the company's office and reviewed the procession of defeated workmen as it marched by. Went to Their Old Place. The workmen did 'not wait for ordera, but went to their old place and soon everything was in working order except the rolls. These did not start nntil the afternoon. About the time the lost detachment of men entered the mill the steamer Tide landed 87 carpenters, besides a nnmber Of other workmen, on the shore nearest the works.

Out of tbe entire 600 or TOO formerly worked in the Duquense mill only about 60 have not returned and. the majority of these would not have been reinstated at all because they have acted as ring-leaders and influenced the main body ot workmen daring the recent strike. One of the men connected with the office of the plant, when asked if they hod a sufficient number of men to run the works, answered: "We have more than enough. There.are at least C00 of the old workmen back and about 130 new men. With this number we can run tbe regular triple turn and have 100 men to spare.

Lately these old Duquesne workmen were) organized into tbe Amalgamated Association at no little expense to the Kational Lodge, but by their surrender yesterday they are expelled from the organization, and the Carnezie Steel Company, limited, as a result still have their two non-union mills, the one at Dnquesne and tbe other at Braddock. The Amalgamated Association officials are very reticent over the affair. Some sav it will do the organization no harm, while others are willing to admit that it cannot help but prove harmful at Homestead. Bow It Will Help Homestead. At Daquesne steel billets can bemada and sent to Homestead to be rolled into plates by the non-union men.

so the firm is now in a far better condition to fill its contracts and prosecute its fight against its striking employes everywhere. The news of the situation at Daquesne was not very favorably received at tbe Union Mills. Several of the workmsn there said they did not think it was right in the first place to ask men to come out on a sympathetic strike who had already been driven out of the union. One of the Press Committee said: "I expected all along they would make this move. Any man that you have to buy to do a good thing will bear watching." Superintendend Morrison was so elated yesterday morning over his success that he could hardly contain hlmselC He was Inclined to forgive everyone who asked to be allowed to come back, bat he will have" to draw the line upon some of the leaden in the recent movement, as be has received orders to that effect.

Major Rickards, of the Sixteenth Regh hunt, who had a detachment of 100 militiamen located On the hill overlooking the works, said yesterday: "My men were here to suppress any trouble that might arise, but everything so tar has been quiet and orderly. The old workmen began returning before 0 O'clock, but I did not allow my men ofi the, hill, for I did not want It said that the Duquesne workmen had to return under bayonet protection." BELIEP F0S TAB 8TBDIBBS. Giving Orders for Groceries to the Hen With Families. The Advisory Committee last night gap out that since Saturday between 100 and in) non-union men have left the works. Tha committee is greatly pleased over the suc-cess ot committees sent out to solicit relief and other will follow.

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