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THE NEW YORK POLICE EXPOSED.
THK LEXOW COM MITT 10K INVESTIGATION.
A Cess-Pool of Corruption ami InfUmy?The
Metropolitan Police a
Ilaml of Plunderers.
Tho Lexow investigating committee
in Now York is stifl unearthing tho
cofrtipt practices of tho police in NewYork,
and the revelations last week
were quite astounding. Here are some
of tbein :
Those who woro fortunate enough to
Eain admittance to the sessions c! tho
roxow investigation committee today
witnessod two scones decidedly dramatic
in their nature. Mrs. Urchittel,
tho Russian woman who, almost a
stranger in the country, running a
Binall cigar sUmv^ivhs arrested on tho
charge of ke^i-f^MA disorderly house
^and kept in jail many months, " troat..
- ~ ed as even tho Czar of Russia would
not treat an American," according to
chief counsel Goff, was placed on tho
witness stand. She alleged that her
arrest was duo to her refusal to pay
fcf>0 to tho police. Testimony of tho
witness remained unshaken, but the
oftlcei's who tried to oxplain the story
could -not agroo as to the way the thing
happoned. Mrs. Urehitte's ohildron
are still in tho orphan asylum and the
lamentations and tho upparont mental
sulTerlng of the woman elicited sympathy
from all those who witnessed her
examination. Steps will bo taken to
vccovor her ohildron for hor without
'.oSs of time.
-During her examination in tho court
room, she caught sight of officer llussoy.
She claims that tho wardmau is
the L of her woes. Excitedly
sprin^toSFwp, she started and demanded
her ft^Mlren. It was with difficulty
sho was pacified. Had she boon able |
to understand the English languugc
and the Amorican customs she must
havo enjoyed exquisite rovongo a littlo
later when officer HusBoy wuh called
to tho stand. lie expected to bo called
upon to explain away his connection
with tho case, but chief counsel GofT
indulged in anothor of those dramatic
surprises which ho is continually
springing upon tho Now York public.
Instead of reverting to tho event*- of
tho past few months, Mr. GofT inquired,
" Now, Hussey, havo you just
threatened to shoot a man Id this court
room? The interrogatory was ansvored
with a negative, but officer
Hussey grow red and whlto iu the face
by turns when half a dozen witnesses
testified that ho threatened to shoot
Norbarth PfefTer, an oast side Hebrew
employed by Mr. GolT. Tho witness
nearly fainted in tho court room at the
evidonco presented against him to
show that he threatened to kill PfefTer.
Ho reached for a glass of water and
drank it eagerly, intense silence reigning
in the court room, members of tho
committee, policemen and strangers
-i- ' * intent upon his replies. Tho scene
painful one, Hussey told Mr.
jiOltwcD*e under tho doctor's orders,
tfiat it would not do for him to
get excited, that it was his family he
cared for and not himself. With an
intimation that he would look into the
matter, Mr. GofT allowed the witness
to go.
One other event of unusual interest
occurred. Annie Trywich, a young
woman who is keeping a news stand on
East Broadway, claimed that policeman
Lynch asked her this morning if
sho paid her rent. Receiving a negative
reply, ho told her that she would
havo to pay him $5. Sho failed to raise
tho money and ho arrested her ahd
took hor to Essex Markot, whore sho
was discharged by tho police justico.
Thon she came to tho Loxow committoo
with the story.
Favoritism in the board of police was
tho subioct of a brief statement by Mr.
Moss, tho Parkhurst society's agent,
before the Loxow committee today.
Two policemen had been convicted of
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sorting their boats. One was fined a
few days' pay and the other dismissed
from the force and the supposition is
that the first officer had a pull, which
the other had not.
Then Max Muscowvitch told of tho
arrest of one of his friends and asso*tcd
that before tho prisoner was permitted
to sond word to another friend,
he was compelled to pay the door man
of tho p^r?^ station $5. William T.
Meredith,'J'^bankor of 48 Wall stroot,
who was i.Jontly assaulted on Fifth
avonuo, told the committee about that
affair. He had been sot upon by an
organized mob of 300 men who wore In
advance of a political club procession
and who swept up Fifth avonuo assaulting
and robbing citizens promiscuously.
Mr. Go^saidthat there was no police
< line "in front of tho procession, as the
law provided. Mr. Meredith said the
police had mado no arrest.
The olubblng by Policeman Dunn of
- Thomas Luccas was also taken up by
the committee. Lucas's employer tes1
tittod to his good character and Luccas
told his story. Policeman Dunn sworo
that Luccas attacked him before ho
used his club. The policeman found it
difficult to explain why he used so much
force.
Then a colored woman told a sensaMonoJJffttry
which implicated Captain
SchraTJ-iftrgor and some of his men.
She was SArah Brown of West Thirtyfourth
street, who has a suit for dama"
gos against Isaac Cohon, a lawyer! Another
woman had advised her to drop
tho suit against Cohen, as he was a
friend of Captain Schmittberger. Tho
Captain, she said, would arrest her.
Later, two policemen called and adV?<>r
tn dron tho suit. One of tho
' policemen tried to criminally assault
her daughtor. Thon, Mrs. Brown said,
she was arrested for keeping a disorderly
houso and Policeman Callaghan
told her Captain Schmittbergor would
Bottle for $500.
At this point, Elbridgo T. Gerry on*
terod the court in a great state of excitement.
He was bristling with indignation.
at the statement made yester
JP joy Mr. GofT that the Gerry
society for the prevention of cruelty to
children was vosted with too much
power which was often abused. Commodore
Gerry wanted to read a long
typewritten statement. Tho time for
that, Mr. GofT thought, was not opportune
and Mr. Gorry withdrow.
Sarah Brown continuing her testl'
mony, told how a Gerry agent onco
throatenod to put her child away unlets
she gave nim $50.
At the afternoon session a little wdmfcn
dressed in black took the stand.
Mr. Goff prefaced her examination
I with a retmirkublo statoinont. "This
morning," said he, "an attempt was
made to get this woman out of the
country." Mr. GoiT did not go into dotails.
lie drew from the witness how
sho had lavished her money on exwardman
Frank Wilson, formerly under
Captain Allaire. She was the keeper
of a houso of ill-fame on Elizabeth
street. Under throats of nulling the
house, ho got from hor alxnit everything
sho possossod. Sho furnished
his houso, bought a silver set, diamond
rings for his wife and clothing
for his children. Wilson, sho said,
resigned from the forco the day the
committee opened its campaign. Ho
was now living in Philadelphia.
Then came a sensation. Inspector
McLaughli ,'s name was dragged In.
McLagnlln was formorly captain of the
eleventh product. The woinau swore
that sho paid $300 initiation fee to
Wardman Burus under Captain McLaughlin.
Every mouth sho paid $50
to Hums. When Burns wanted a diamond
stud ho got $105 from her to purchase
it. Sho said sho was now broken
down and ponniloss. Her money had
gone into the police coffers. Referring
to tho Gcory society agonts, sho said
tney coiiectou money irom au nouses |
where the girls under ago woro kept.
Mr. GotT made the most of this testimony.
She told how Captain Cross
had trapped Gerry agents, Becker and
Finn, when they tome &">00 from hor.
The men wero brought to trial. Becker
was acquitted and Finn was sont to
priron for nine months. Bockor escaped,
sho said, becauso ho was the
son-in-law of Superintendent Jenkins
of the society. When sho loft Now
York, tho witness says, sho opened in
Newwark a saloon and was raided by
tho police. Sho wont to Captain Cross
and he sont Alderman Smith of this
city to Newark and tho polico. thore
gave her protection. Sho is now penniless
and lives in Brooklyn.
"This monlng," said sho, "a man
carno up to mo and said: "You are
subpoenaed to go before tho Loxow
committee.'
' How do you know ?' I asked.
41 know,' bo answered.
4 You go right up to Inspector McLaughlin
and ho will* buy you off.
Don't go before the Loxow committee."
441 refused his advice," she said.
When asked by Mr. Goff about how
much sho had paid to tho police, sho
answered from eight to ten thousand
dollars.
Wardon James W. Lodwith of Jefferson
Market prison was then hauled
over tho coals for visitiug David Ponder,
a green goods man. on lllaokwoll's
! Island. Pender was mentioned in tho
testimony of Applogate and it uppoars
i that the warden, who is a friend of
dotoctivo Sorgeant Flanley, interested
himself in ordor to got a statement
from Pondor which would help Hunloy.
He was taken to task for impropor
practios in his prison. Ho was charged
with favoring certain lawyers and
that tho beor cans was pormittod to be
4 rushod at night."
THE GREAT OBELISK.
Erected at the Nation's Capital to the
Mdtimpv of Dot
'I he Pittsburg Catholic.
The Washington monument, In the
capital city of tho United States, istho
loftiest structure over reared by man.
From tho base lino, or, rather, sill of
tho door of tho main ontranco, to tho
apox of tho cap-stone, is exactly 555
feet and 4 iuehos.
Tho famous Cheops pyramid in Egypt
is 013 foot high. As it is of iinmonso
area at tho base, and rises in easy .
slopes to the summit, old Cheops con- 1
voys little more impression to tho eye
than would a loftly mountain from a
plain. Tho great cathedral at Cologno
has a spiro which roaches into tho
heavens 52-1 foot, and there is a cathedral
at Antwerp whose spiro oxtonds
upward 470 foot. St. Peter's
spiro, or rather, dome, at Romo, is only
448 foot.
An elevator carries myralds of sightsteers
to tho top of the monumont, and
long lines of people can be soon at any
hour awaiting their turn. Thousands
have made a^conts on foot, but it is a
dreadful task. There are 900 iron
stops to climb. True, tho staircase is
broad, but the faces of tho steps are
Worn smooth with the uad of many
feet, and tho end?woll, tho end is
afar. Long before you got to tho top
you wish you had not started.
The cornor-stono of the monument
was laid, July 4, 1848. For six years
the work progressed, whon it came to
a stop, in 1845. $250,000 had been
spont upon it. Tho monument was up
165 leet. then it was housed over and
so remained. Nor was it until twenty
years later, to wit, in 1870, that Con.
188 could bo induced to do anything.
The spirit ongondored in tho centennial
year sot the machinery in motion,
a-.d tho press and people took the matter
up in such vigorous shape that Con/vhauo
mu/lA fin fi ?
^ i uoo IUuuw ?WJ'I v/j/l ill.uii/14 VU UUj^lIl
the,work ofcompletion. The result was,
that In oight years thereafter the work
was complete. On December 0, 1884,
the cap-stone was set and the work
ended.
It is a mistake to suppose that tho
great shaft is a ' marble column." It
is not. For tho first 400 foot, the main
structure is of blue granite, the lower
walls being fifteen feet thick. Tho
thicknessiof tho walls decroasos until
about tho 450 feet level, when they
cease, and the rest of the altitude is
reached by solid blocks of marble, from
two and one-half feet thick to eighteen
inches. Inside this, however, is built
an interior structure and arch, with a"
keystone which supports tho capstone,
that weighs just one and one-half tons.
On each of the four faces of tho pyramidal
cap aro two lookout windows.
From the ground thoy do not look
largor than bull's oyos, but once up
thoro, thero is room for ten peoplo at
each window. Fifty people can move
about on tho upper landing and novor
once get in each other's way.
An interesting study of tho monumont
is the tablets?the memorial
stones, which for more than a genera- ,
?lnn o 1 1 _ J..I
V4VU a UOVl AWiV/ (kliU illi ilUUJlUU^
world nave been Bonding to adorn tho
interior of the structure. These tablets
date from away baok in 18-49, and some
of them are immensly funny vlewod
at this late day. All sorts and kinds
of human impulse seem to have prompted
these memorials?national* patriotism,
local pride, corporate vanity and
rivalry, religious zeal, private greed,
and hope of gain, all tnose conditions
visible,,and not only visible but palpa:
ble. Some of the tablets are olabor
CONWAY, S. C.
I uto, and must have cost a grout deal of
I mouoy.
Thoro was ono foreign memorial
stone received in 1854, which does not
appear in the monument. This was u
frift from tho Pope. It was a boautlul
block of African marble which had
been taken from tho Toinple of Concord,
at Uomo, and was inscribed with
the simple words, " Home to America."
At that tiuio, tho Know-Nothing fever
was at its height ; on March 5, 1854,
the block was taken from tho building
whore it was kept, and, it is supposed,
thrown into the Potomac. At any
rate, tho stone was never found,
though tho monument association offered
a large reward for it.
The olovAtor is ono of tho largest
and strongest ever made. It is susStended
by four two-inch cables and is
Irawn by a 175 horse power engine In
tho basement of the shaft. Everything
about tho elevator gives way to
safoty precautions. The safety clutches
are double dutches. The framo of tho
olovator is light, but made of the best
of .steel. Tho olovator is limited to
thirty people, but it would carry in
weight throe times that numbor. It
has often carried forty visitors, or iuet
as many as could squeozo into it. Hut
it runs very slowly?another moasuro
of precaution.
The view from tho lookout windows
is ono of tho grandest ever spread bei
fore the human oyo. Ono certainly
sees all tho glory of vista, all tho beauty
of landscape, all tho stretch of Southern
and northern sky, of river and
I WUs, that George Washington know
oxisted when ho solectcd the capital
city.
WHAT THK SOUTH NMKDS.
A Clear Statement of Our Wants and
the UcnetktH of Immigration.
At tho immigration mooting on
salesday at Yorkvlllo thojfollowlng remark
t, .woro made by Mr. Louis Shorfcsce,
in which tho situation is presented
with groat force and clearness:
Tho country wo live in is ono of tho
finest in the world. Our soil is fortilo
and our climate is porfoot. Our people
aro of tho very best; but tho trouble
is. that they aro too few. We have
more land than wo need, or than wo
can cultivate. Wo need moro people?
enegotic small farmers to take up our
surplus lands, help pay taxes, support
our euijuuis juiu uuier institutions, auu
make our country more prosperous
generally.
The Northwest is tilled with intolligont,
hard working well-to-do-farmers,
who, after hitter experience, have
learned that that section in a poor
place to iivo. These farmers are
mostly from Europo. They came over
to this country from 10 to 110 years ago.
When they arrived at Castle Garden,
they wore mot by shrewd emigration
agents who poisoned their minds
against the South, and induced all who
had money to go West. Those emigrants,
considering the disadvantages
of the country in which they settled,
have performed wonders ; but now, on
uccount of failure of the crops, drouth,
forost fires and the rigorous climate
that will permit only live work months
in a year, they have commenced to
look for hotter locations. All they
want liow is somobody to give them
satisfactory information as to tho best
placo to go.
Theso Northwestern farmers are
gonorally mon of moans. They had
moans when they llrst came to Now
York. It was because they had means
that the shrewd emigration agents
scut them to tho West. They have
moans yet, and are not only ablo tu
vpay thoir way and bring thoir families
into this sootion ; but they are able to
buy lauds and establish themselves
after they got hero.
Now suppose wo could bring into
this county from the Northwest 1,(MX>
families, each having cash to tho
.. e iti 1 aaa rni. * * ?
iiinuuui/ui ti,uuu. x nut wouiu mean
$1,000,000 added to our circulation, and
one-half of this sum expended in lands
for 1,000 families, would make tho romaindor
of York county's land worth
more than all of it was before tho now
sottlers arrived.
But this is not all. Look at Atlanta,
Ashevillo, Birmingham and Chattanooga,
and compare thorn with Charleston,
Columbia, Savannah or Montgomery
for instance. Tho first named
cities havo sprung up sinco tho war,
and outstripped tho othors that havo
boon founded moro than a hundrod
years. And why V Simply because
the old citios have long since fallen
into doop ruts and settled ways, while
the new cites are made up of cosmopolitan
populations, and stimulated with
constant additions of now blood, are
always pushing onward and upward.
Immigration would produce the si-intellects
on this soction. One of tho first
things tho Northwestorners would
demand would be better roads; next
they would show our pooplo how success
lies in the diversification of crops,
and they would infuso new life into
everything.
Some people toll mo that thoy favor
efforts to secure immigration ; but that
they aro opposed to the idea of bringing
in Poles, Hungarians and Slavs.
Very well. Perhaps that is all right:
but you will agree with me when fsay
that the merchants all over tho State
are constantly growing poorer in cash
and richer in lands. Whether they
aro growing richer or not, they aro i
every year getting on hands more
lands. Within fivo or ten years at the
outside, theso merchants can hold
mowu mnuH no longor, ant* inoy win do i
forced to unload thorn choap, probably I
to Home Northern speculator. The i
speculator will certainly not allow the i
lands to remain-idle and unproductive, i
and ho will probably settle thom up i
with Slavs, Polos and Hungarians? I
the very olass of people you don't <
want, lie will do it Docause the labor
of these people is choap. and ho will 1
realize that even if ho aoesn't make, <
he stands but little chance to lose.
In view of those facts, it seems to me <
that it is high time for us to begin to
make a move. If wo wait a few years 1
.longer we are In danger of having I
forced upon us a blass of people that
wo do not want; wheroas if we com* !
menoo at once, we can have our pick i
of the West. Not only that; we. are i
in the position of the possible Northern
speculator. Wo have everything to
gain and nothing to lose. Our efforts, ?
even if unsuccessful, con rosult in no
harm ; and if successful, the. immig- i
rants we bring in will, by increasing
our values and diminishing our expenses,
do more for us than we will
ever have to do for thom.
, THURSDAY, OCTOJ
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WRECKED BY A CYCLONE.
A NIGHT OF TlSUHOlt IN LITTLE
HOCK.
Heavy Loss of Life hiuI Pro^rtyTho
Asylum and tlie Penitentiary
Badly Damaged.
The terriblo storm which visited
Little Bock, Ark., on the 1st Inst, left
doath and destruction in its wake.
Tlio news from the State lunatic
asylum has been continued as to the
damage done that institution by the
tornado. All tho male department
and tho annex was razed U tho ground,
four tloors falling in a iu: ss. Dr. Tngato.
formerly of MobiW, Ala., and
two patlor.ts wore instantly killed and
four other patients serlout ly and perhaps
fatally injured.
The destruction in the residence
part of tho city and tho vicinity of tho
penitentiary is very great. State
Senator Vest's daughter, who lived
in that neighborhood, was injured by
a falling roof. Her house was blown
down and everything destroyed. The
other occupants escaped serious injury.
Stato Engineer Eggleston's house,
in tho same neighborhood, was unroofed.
Thomas Warner's house was
demolished and a two-story tenement
near tho penitentiary and Peter
English's two-story house were wrecked.
Tho Dibroll house, ono of tho oldest
in tho city, was demolished. Young's
grocery was unroofed and tho boarding
house at Second and Broadway,
whs blown down, but no one there was
'ejuri d.
i no i 'roBbyterian church at Fourth
iritl State streets, was unroofed.
Abraham Olleneimmor's resldenco
was wrecked. Tho damage to the reBidonco
property in Went End will exceed
$r>0,000.
The name of tho convict killed at
the penitentiary is Griffin. Two
guards, Smith and Witt, wero badly
injured and Beven trusty prisoners
wore seriously hurt. Tno property
Iobb to the State there is $^0,00U.
Tho lint of killed us fur as can bo
learned iH as follows: l)r. .J. T. Innate,
Mobile, Ala.; two inHitno asylum
patients; tho convict Gritlln; Jack
Lloyd and baby, colored. Joseph Holloway,
colored. The injured are : Lienrcsontativo-elcct
C. T. M< uroo, nrobably
fatally; John Eaton, employee
at the Martin block, fatally hurt;
Capt. S. O. Smith, hurt on head; Mrs.
Janko, fatally injured ; John Fouterouwcz,
fatally injured ; James Swift,
injured in the head; Guards Smith
and Witt, badly injur id. Many
others are injured whose names were
not learned. Several children wore
covered with debris in tho ruins of the
St. Charles Ilotol, but they have all
been accounted for. The bell over the
Torrent engine house, weighing 7(H)
riounds, fell into tho street and doinoished
tho engine house.
The worst effects of the storm are
to be seen at tho insane asylum, which
is throe miles west of tao business
center of the citv. The ? ntire south
hulf of the main building Was boon
demolished. The tower foil through
Superintendent Itobinon's rooms,
burying Dr. Ingate in the ruins. Mrs.
Robertson escaped with -flight injuries.
All but twenty in nates have
boon discovered. Many voro found
down town aud placed in jail, and
some, it is feared, are buried in tho
ruins.
The loss to tho asylum will roach
$loO,(KX). Tho storm oaiuo from tho
southwest and swept n< arly everything
in its path. lJod? strians and
toamstors hastily sought shelter and
places of safety, but tho velocity of
tho wind was terrible and the list of
injured w ill bo very largo. Ltoofs, signs
and treos wore tossed about like paper.
The path of tho tornado was not
more than two hundred yards wide
and its course was zigzag. Its duration
wits not ever throe minutes, though
the rain continued to pour afterwards
for hours.
Tho damago caused by tho tornado
will undoubtedly roach thoofirst oatimate
of $1,000,000.
A most miraculous thing occurred
at Fourth and Martin stroots. A carpenter
named Clark, with his wife and
baby, were occupying a room in tho
house when tho storm struck it, blowing
tho roof from over their heads
and tearing away tho walls around
thorn, leaving tho inmates untouched
and unharmed in tho conter of tho
floor.
The insane asylum authorities roport
tho following patients missing ;
iVroy Jones, Dennis Callahan, Jamos
M Doctors, William M. Mlllor, Willi
um Suith tt, Joseph W. Johnson and (
George A. Askorman. Thousands of
people went out to tho asylum, whore ,
a large force of mon were at work removing
tho dobris.
A RAILROAD MAN'S VERSION. ,
Charles Joseph, a railroad man who ,
lives in Memphis, was in Littie Kock ]
during tho cyclone and makes the following
statement: ]
"I was standing on tho cornor of }
Main and Third streets," said ho, ;
" about 7:30 o'clock when I heard an
awful noise and roaring. It was unlike
any ordinary sound. In a moment
thore was a Durst of wind and I ran 1
across tho street into a stairway. Like '
lightning the storm burfet in all its J
fury. Tho roar of tho building in '
which I stood was torn away. Across 1
tho streot I saw a telegraph polo torn *
to pieces. A horse and buggy stood 1
near the sidewalk. Thoy wore blown j
across tho pavomont and slammed '
against tho side of tho wall. Main 1
street, from Third to Mnrkham, was
torn to pieces and filled with debris. '
On Mara ham street opposito tho State (
building several houses wore unroofed. 1
Down Markham, oast, tho wind tore
Dlf tho roofs of houses and toro down
many others as far as Book street, a 1
distance of half a milo. This is tho t
heart of tho businoss portion of Ldttlo <
I took. Between Markham street and 1
tho river from tho State buildings as i
far east as tho Littlo Bock and Fort 1
Smith depot great damage was done, <
a number of buildings being torn 1
down. Out third street, west from <
Main, tho wind did great damago, un- '
roofing many residences and tearing 1
down others. i
" After two minutes tho wind ceased
and then tho rain fell in torrents. I
walked out into the streot and moved 1
up towards Markham stroet. All of i
the oloctrlo light wires were blown 1
down and tho olty was in darkness, i
3ER 11, 1894
Around tho Western I'nlon telegraph
oHlee every building was wrecked.
Mark hum street was tilled with torn
timbers, fallen walls, broken glass and
other material. Tho whole city was
In confusion and every one seemed to
hnvo lost his head.
" At 10 o'clock I crossed tho river
into Argonta and the residents of that
town know nothing of the cyclone.
When 1 left all was still confusion."
Out of a total loss of a million dollars
or more, the only insurance held by
tho sulTorers amounts to about $2,.r>00.
Of that amount a plate glass insurance
company of Now York holds policies
amounting to $1,800. Tho remain'ng
$700 was against losses by cyclone. 1
It was at tho insane asylum that the '
most complete wreck was to bo seen. 1
The buildings, built by tho State at a !
cost of $300,000, are located on a prom- 1
inonce tliroo miles west of the business ]
portion of the city and offered a splen- I
did target for the fury of the storm.
KILLINO OK OK. 1NGATE. '
Dr. .1. T. legate, second assistant
physician, and Dr. Kobinson, the super- '
lntendont, were standing in tho hall 1
talking just boforo the storm struck,
and as they separated to go to their 1
Piinmu ll?n urn ... U I .*1 * '
. v?u ir..u w/mno which cru w null '
the mainoffice portion,crashed through 1
the three stories, burying Dr. Ingato 1
under the debris of one of tiiom. Dr. 1
llohinson had a narrow osoapo, but by '
pressing up against the wall while
bricks and uoavy timbors were Hying 1
about his head in the dark, the lights <
having at once been extinguished, ho '
succeeded in getting out without in- 1
jury, yv noavy force of men worked
all night and the forenoon in removing1
the debris to find the body of tiio unfortunate
physician, hut his remains
woro not uncovered until 11 o'clock,
lie was found under a muss of hrick
and tiinlier in the vestibule of the main
building, lying on his face and mangled
beyond recognition. His remains wore
forwardod to his parents at Mobile,
Ala.
the convicts weke in cells.
The storm did damage at the penitentiary
aggregating $.'10,000. The
soutli half of the roof of the cell-house
was completely torn away and carried
outside the walls. Tho windows were
all broken out, but very little damage
was dono to the interior. Manv of the
convicts were in their cells at the time
and wore not hurt. Tho new workhouse,
chapel and kitehon were badly
wrecked. Tho third story and the
oast wall of tho second story were
blown down and are lying between it
and the house, a vast mass of brick
and mortar. The west wall was crucked
at tho lloor and inclined to the east
45 degrees. It was in this building
where the only death occurred. .J. II.
Griffith, a white man sent up from
Clay County for incest, was descending
the stairway from the third story when
tho wall caved in and buried him under
tho debris. His remains, badly
mangled, wore removed from tho ruins.
The hospital building wus uninjured
uxcept for tho wrecking of several
chimneys and a portion of the roof.
Tho two-story stable, blacksmith shop
and woodshed that stood in tho center
of tho yard woro badly wrecked.
Womkn BOUQHT AN1) SOLD.?The "
nows from Carlo that an Egyptian
Pasha has boon arrested for purchas- '
ing women as slaves, is a striking :
illustration of recent Improvement in j
the condition of woman in tho East. (
A few years ago tho purchase of fo-. j
male slaves was openly carried on in ?
Cairo. Now Egypt lias stringent laws
prohibiting the slave trade. Not only v
in Kgypt, but in other Mohammedan "
countries, tiie seclusion to which women
are condemned by Mohammedan f|
custom lias been in some degree alio- (
viated, and there is a tendency to adopt j
tho manners and mothods of tho West.
Among tho higher classes, whoso wo- c
men have some opportunity for educa- j
tion in Western language and literature,
there is a marked loosening of (
tlie bonds which have hold Oriental rj
woman in thraidom for so many centuries,
and tho Turkish and Egyptian }
woman is showing a surprising rosem- t
bianco to her sister of Christian Eu- *
rope. Among tho lower classes in the t
Orient, circumstances have always (
tended to mako woman more of a (
partner and loss of a sla"o in hor domestic
affairs and the greater freedom t
and protection secured to the poor N
under existing conditions are having a
most beneficent influence in tlie infer- '
lor ranks of society. (
?A groat sensation has boon caused \
in Washington by tlie kidnapping v
from their mother in tho night timo of t
1 *
vuu uyt\j nuiivii buhd ui ijr. iinu rnI'B. A. t
H. Glennan, a surgeon in the marine c
service. IIo separated from his wife c
in 1889 and failed in an effort te got a t
divorce. Ho charges Mrs. Glennan f
with unfaithfulness. The two boys at r
the time of tho separation were left in i
charge of the mother and It is sup- v
supposod that the father was instrumental
in the kidnapping, in fact that t
ho was one of tho four kidnannors. He t
has again sued for divorce. Mrs. Glen- e
nan is a sister of Congressman J. K. t
Uaynor, of North Carolina. t
?Tho following, from Tho Spirit of [
the Timos, about horse marks, will
enable many of our readers to call .
them by right names : A white spot t
In the forehead is a star : a white face .
from eye to eye is a bald face ; a white j
eye is a glass eve ; a horse has pastern
not ankles, anil there is no such joint
is hind knee or foro shoulder; white '
fxjlow tho pastern joint is a white
pastern, above tho pastern a white ?
eg ; white around tho top of the hoof
s a cornet; a star, blaze, or bald face
cannot bo anywhere except on the l
nose.
?1 ? 1 -
?Robert Tuleo Toombs, a nephew of ,.
fiobort Toombs, who attained fame as v
i United StateH Senator from
liod on the 1st Inst. at the smallpox
tiospital in Chicago after a weok's 111ioss.
Although he possed an estate 1'
in Atlanta valued at $80,000, which a
wan in the care of his grandmother, ?
tie worked at his trade of a printer 14
when ho first went to Chicago several ^
yrcars ago. For the last two years he ^
had boon associato editor of the World, '
% weekly story paper.
?There Is this diflferenco between v
those two temporal blessings, health I
and monoy : Money is the most envied, e
but tho least enjoyed ; health is tho t
most onjoyed but the least onviod. u
ATAIjK ON I'OIilTICS.
Tho View of a l*rivat? Citizen hh to
tlm Condition of our State- He
Think* Tillman Ifa* Carried Out
tlie ?""i ?
Haiti more Ncwh.
Dr. Thomas T. Karlo of South Caroliuu
in spending tho day In tho oity.
IIo arrived yesterday with his son,
who is u student at the Maryland University.
Dr. Karlo is not only a prom
mem man mtnseir, but Is also the
brother of Ex-Attornoy General Joseph
II. Earlo, ono of tbo loading states*
men of tho I'almotto State. General
Karlo ran against Tillman for the
governorship and is conceded to be the
moat conservative man of ominence in
the State- not in tho sense of re pre*
renting any soculled conservative
party, but as a moderate, who has impartially
weighed tho claims of all
parties and factions.
At this critical time, when there are
avidences of so many radical changes
In Southern polities, Doctor Mario's
opinions are especially valuable as giving
a view of the condition of alTaira
in the State which is considered by
many to he tho political storm centre
if the South. '1 he doctor was averse
to talking politics, and when approachad
hy a News reporter endeavored to
turn the conversation into industrial
channels.
"Our State Is very prosperous just
now," he remarked, cheerfully. " l'lte
3rops are splendid, and wo have even
)odn benefitted by the hard times. Yes,
the money stringency proven tea many
from getting credit, and consequently
mnning into debt, and having been
forced to economize, they find, now
that they have made a line crop, that
they have a good deal of clear money.
[ think tho recovery permanent, and
,hat wo will resume tho progressive
mil prospermia work which was temjorarlly
chocked by the financial deirossion."
iteeurring to politics, he said, spoukn^
reluctantly, but decidedly :
"The state of political affairs in our
itate ia not a very pleasant one for
inyone to contemplate, and isespooialy
distasteful to a patriotic South
Carolinian. The contest begun a few
rears ago with the advent of the Pariusrs'
Allianco into politics has now doreloped
into a state not far removed
rom chaos. There are divisions and
lub-divislons, made not along lineH of
irinoipjes, but wholly upon personalties.
The contest from the beginning
IIM linim .. i .... .4 1 ?
%? . ?/v/v i I * UV/V Kill I UVl'lll 1/1WII I I 1 ri I/' ' ltd III
i political one, despite the superficial
mpourancos uud the ostensible causes
>f quarrel.
"The common people have conquered
the aristocrats and nothing is left,
or the latter have boon completely recoated
to private life. Yet I can not
>lame Tillman. True, he is lacking in
ho spirit of cultivation which one oxloots
in tho chief executive; but then
le has strong provocation. If I had
)oon treated as ho hus boon 1 don't say
Mil that 1 might he as bitter as he is.
When a man who Iiuh been lawfully
deoted governor is ostracised, insulted
md maligned, uh he has boon, it is title
wonder if he remembers his power
md forgets the virtue of forbearance
md leniency.
" Why, In Charleston and other
duces there are those who refuse to
iven speak to him, and are willing to
oin any organized movement to resist
lis lawful authority on tho slightest
ecuslon. And for what? Because ho
wis won. After all, Tillman has only
arried out tho laws.
" Mad as is the state of afTairs in our
ituto, they are not near as had as outiders
think they are. Tho blame for
he erroneous impression which exists
ill over the country as regards tho
:ondition of South Carolina has boon
irought about by our own newspapers.
" Bogardless of the welfare of tho
ituto, they have kept up a hopeless
ight, whose only result has been to
how their impotence for any purpose
ixcopt Injuring the State abroad.
L'hoy have persistently magnified
ivory orror of tho administration, oxiggorutcd
every mistake and belittled
ivery worthy action. I think that, us
.he rillmanitcs arc unquestionably in
ho majority, it would bo bettor, and
iortainly more graceful, for ua of tho
ippoaition to remain In retirement,
ind keep ailont unleaa wo had soinoriling
bettor to offer than criticism,
vhicn ia only futile when It ia not inurious.
" It ia difficult to prophesy aa to tho
lutlook. I think, however, that in tho
litter warfare of factions tho negro
vill again enter the arena of politics,
vhonco ho waa expelled in lH7d. Not
hat ho desires to do ho. Flo only wants
0 bo let alone. Hut the whites will
1 rug hi in in. TJiia will be done bolauae
each faction will think that it
:an get more of him than any other
action. Which can really do so is
noro than I can foretell. If it is a
natter of money, the longer purae will
vin.
'' Ah to tho present contest, 1 think
hat there ia not tho slightest doubt
hat tho Tillman State ticket will lie
ilected. and that Tillman will be sent
o tho Senate. I would rather see him
here than Butler. But'er la as much
>f a populist as Tillman, and I would
athor see tho latter in the Senate.
Vhen Butler waa in the Senate ho did
ill ho could do to conciliate the popuiat
vote, and when they refused Mm
he reward lie thought lie had earned
10 waa ho aore that. Vie Imlt.wl Hut iw.
ias bolted ulone.
" Ho has no backing and 1/ m moral
tanding than ho had before. Matters
n my State will doubtless adjust themolvos
to an orderly basis after awhilo,
iut not before there has been eonsidrablo
more agitation. In the rueanimo
we are prospering, despite the
landicaps which all this turmoil has
in nosed on us. Wo continue to marry
no glvo in marriage, to sow and to
cap, and just now wo are reaping
cry abundantly."
?A clergyman, in a recont sermon
n New York, quoted an anecdote of
n old merchant, who instructed his
lerks : " When a man comes into the
tore and talks of his honesty, watch
ilm ; if he talks of his wealth, don't
ry to sell him ; if ho talks of his reIgion,
don't trust him a dollar."
?" You are always exclaiming
Groat Scott I' and yet you say that
ou have novor read any of the Wavery
novels." "True, but a man of your
ixperionee ought to know that evoryKxly
talks most about what bo least I
inderstands." <
NO 12
G Kit Kit All N KWS N (M M A K V.
Latest Items ixiul Curious Notwt from
Our KicliAiiKOfi.
-The Locust Point Tin Works, Md.,
hiivo closed down indefinitely.
?Chauncoy M. Dopow is building a
$20,(KM) mausoleum at Peoksklll, N.
Y., in momory of Lin wifo.
?Tho Southern Hallway Company
1 haw boon mortgaged to tho Central
Trust Company for $120,000,000.
?Seven of the Herriek family, who
reside in Indiana, will divide an estate
of $;100,000 left by an English
uncle.
? In a deserted house at Florence,
Ala., Luko Lavender, a tramp eighty
years of age, blew off his head with a
shotgun.
? Mrs. Kuthorino Koborts celebrated
her centennial at Topeka, Kan.,
on Sunday, in a gown she had worn
at 1H years of age.
?Tito oldest dally papor in tho
United States is tho Philadelphia
North American. It began on 21st
September, 17K4.
?Secretary Carlisle has appointed
William II. Pugh, of Ohio, superintendent
of the income tux division of
tho treasury department.
- /vproposoi uiochangeor Appomattox
to " Surrender " a Connecticut correspondent
of the Now York Sun suggest*
that Hull llun bo changed to
" Skedaddle."
?A tablet recently sot up at Naples
commemorates the bravest act done by
a king in this century, tho visit of
King Humbert to tho cholera sufferers
In 1884.
?Charles O. Hardin, with confederates,
is on trial at Nashville, Tonn.,
for stealing $36,000 two years ago
while running as Adams Express messenger
between Clncinnrti anil Nashville.
? Sir John Lubbock is authority for
the statement that a single bee, with
all its industry, energy and innumerable
journeys, will not collect more
than a single teaspoonful of honey during
a season.
?Tho Adams Express Company has
paid A. G. Gurney $6,(XX) to compromise
his $25,lXX) suit against the company
for falsely arresting him a year
ago at New Orleans for stealing a packago
containing $2f>,000.
-?A spring in Austin, Lacledo County,
Mo., supposed to be unfuiling, dried
up last week, and when It resumed
business furnished salt water instead
of the fresh water it had supplied over
since it was discovered.
- Dr. Charlotte E. Benton has held
the responsible position of dentul surgeon
at tho New York Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb for over a year,
where she hu? had charge of nearly
DiLl.innt.u i\( ?ill i* ifou orwl
v ??? it^vo uuu i/uvu o^Aun,
?Miss Totnpklns, of Kentucky, an
intelligent young woman who lms been
acting oh purchasing clerk for the
United States Supreme Court, has
been appointed assistant marshul of
the Court, a position never before hold
by a woman.
?Gen. It. E. Colston, a major general
In the Confederate army, and ufter the
war a pasha in the Egyptian army, was
recently stricken with paralysis and
has been carried to the Soldiers' Homo
in Richmond, Va. lie is in destitute
circumstances.
?One of Chattanooga's largest industries
may be removed to St. Gnu is. It
is the Chattanooga Plow Company,
which does am immense business in
South America and keeps a force of
1100 hands at work the year round.
Negotiations are now pending for the
rumuvui m mi*) piant iu r.ii.it At. i xniis.
?About throo miles from tho town
of Cordolo, Gil., in located a body of
water called the " vanishing lake." It
has an area of four square miles, and
every autumn it dries up completely,
although a week before this phenomenon
takes pljw:e it is twelve feet deep
in some places. The water reappears
in the spring.
?Judge Charles A. Gayarro, the
venerable historian of Louisiana, who
has been seriously 111 during tho summer,
is now restored to his usual
health. Judge Gayarro will be bO
years old 011 the 1st of next January.
His home in New Orleans is one of tho
most attractive spots in tho lower
parts of the city.
?Phil I) Armour, when shown tho
report from Hrunswick. Ga., that ho
had offered $1,000,000 for the Jckyl
Island club house and island, characterised
tho story as ridiculous, tie
had never hoard of Jekyl Island, did
not have a million dollars to invest in
anything, and if he had tie would not
invest it in Jekyl Island.
- At a rocont session of tho American
Medical Convention at Montreal
the question of the transmission of disease
by kissing was discussed, having
arisen from a paper against the practice.
While Indiscriminate kissing
did not meet with much favor, tho
physicians did not seem to think well
of the abolition of what may bo termed
" oxclusivo " kissing.
?Mr. Georgo Vanderbilt's palatial
country homo at Ashevllle, N. C., is
ready for occupancy. It is as conveniently
eouippod as a modern hotel,
with its four elevators and complete
suites, that includo private kitchens
and dining rooms. Mr. Vandorbllt
will spend Novembor there, and will
entertain a series of house parties
which will bo composed chiefly of his
relatives.
?Mrs. A. M. Curtlss, a woman of
culture and beauty, is being sued for
ejectment from apartments rented on
State street, Chicago, because it has
b^on learned by the lessors that she
had negro blood in her veins. Suit
was begun by agonts for the property,
who claim that in hiding her antecedent*
Rt thi* t.lmn
w ...w *??W IVUKJV Ul VIIO
apartments was given, Mrs. Curtiss
had acted fraudulently.
?The latest reports from China are
that the emperor will bo deposed and
a son of Prince Kuug placed on the
throne, that Li Hung Chang: has tired
in tho utterost sort of disgust :>< I
that Gen. Sang Twins* has succe< ? d
him in tho command of tho armi.s.
Tho Chinese legation at Washington
discredit all of this. Japan is said to
be raising 100,000 meu who will march
on Pekin. Gen. Yoh of tho Chinese
forces is reported to havo boon .killed
at the battle of Ping Yang.
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