Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-02-04
JEM MACE CLAIMS THAT
HE LICKED CONKLING.
HORRIBLE EXPOSE OF AN
EASTERN LUNATIC
ASYLUM.
THE TRIALS IN DUBLIN.
Captured by the PoIygs.

"ASHINutuNs VCO q. -~uOmoSAS Vi
the House Judiciary Committee are
very generally commenting on Judge
Jere Blacks argument on the Mormon
question, which has occupied the at
tention of the Committee to the exciu-
sion of everything else during the last
few meetings Judge Black wants the
Edmunds law repealed, and he is max
ing one of his great efforts to accom-
plush that object. A member of the
Committee, in speaking of Blacks ar
gument to-day, said ut is the most
remarkable argument I ever heard on
the Mormon question. It will be
printed in fewsdays and will create
sensation. Judge Black takes the
ground, Of course. that the law is
unconstitutional. He says that Sena-
tor Edmunds never drew the bill. be-
cause SO able q lawyer would never
have so violated the Constitution. He
says the object OF the law was to plum
der the Mormons of their property and
to bring Utah Territory into the Union
as a Republican State, ana this
in his opinion, will be accom-
plished if the Edmund bill is enforced
and further amended as proposed
by pending amendments. Judge Black
said that the same scheme for acquiring
plunder and political power that was so
succes sfully carried in the South during
the period of reconstruction is cOntem-
plated in Utah, only or smaller
scale.
The committee member further said
that 10 Congressman who voted for the
Edmunds law could read Blacks argu-
mens without hanging his head in
shame, and feeling that he had suIlied
his honor and violated his conscience.
4 Horrible Den
PITrsBURG, Feb. DIR Julius Sew.
in,sa practitioner of Erie, Pa, for half
century, and at one time Fries leading
physician, brings charges against the
management of the Diemont Insane
Asylum, near this city. . The Doctor
went crazy nine years ago, and was in-
carcerated at Diemont. He asserts that
after two years he became perfectly
sane, and notwith standing the manage
,meus knew this, they kept him tor
seven years after, and he has just been
released DR.. SEWN says that while
he was there he saw an old German
named Thumur kicked TO death by
keeper, and the doctors reported his
death as the result of epilepsy. A man
named Constant Menisti, an accom-
plished scholar and perfectly sane, is
prisoner of his wife's paramour, who
regularly pays for her husbands sup.
port at the Asylum. DIR. SEWN asserts
that there are over 6Osane patients there
to-day. The Diemont management
denies. the story, and asserts that the
Doctor was cut OF his mind all the
time he was incarcerated. The people
of Erie believe DR.. Sevin's story.
Mace and Conklins
New YORK, Feb. 3 -Wnen lem
Mace was on the witness stand the
other day, he declared that men of the
highest standing are taking boxing les
SOM. and INDUCED in friendly sparring.
When asked for an instance, he replied:
/" Roscoe Conkting is very good boxer
and very proud of his knowledge of the
Art. Some wears ago he bad little
bout with Senator Chandler of Mchi-
gan, in which he came out the best
man. Mex day Chandler introduced
me to Conkling at dinner. Later in the
ing, Conktlng induced me to put on the
gloves with him. The Senator is good
boxer. as have said, but he quickly
rolled on the floor and discontinued
the lesson In great humor." This little
tale, though interesting, is pronounced
wholly false. Conk!ing posltlv Iy de-
clares he never saw Mace in his life,
and therefore never boxed with him,
aud that he never boxed with Senator
Chandler al any time.
The Canal Scheme
WASHINGTON, Feb 3-The Nicara-
qua canal scheme, and all other isthmus
canal schemes, have an enemy in Rep
resentative Proctor Knott. Ia speak
ing of the Nicaragua canal project TO-
day, Mr.. Knott said "What do we
want canal across the lsthmus OF Pan
anna for. or across Nicaragua? Isn't
the isthmus the very best protection
for cur Pacific Coast that we
can have in the event that we
get into war with Europe? Before
these canal schemes were started we
gave S64 600 900 worth OF land to
secure tbe building of transcontinental
railway, SD that we might gain control
II the trade of Europe with China and
Japan, aud nowic lis proposed toopen up a
canal across the Isthmus in order to
give the ships of Europe short route
TO Chlra and japan, and deprive our.
selves OF the commerce which now
crosses our continent. This would be
ort-sighted policy far Us to pursue,
would it not -
CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-Iuquiry at the
Western Union Telegraph Office at
2 o'clock this afternoon shows all com.
muuicatiou east and south was cut off
about midnight last night. when a
freeZiug s.eet storm ret in. extending
southwark to an unknown distance.
aud eastward to Buffalo. The wires
became encrusted and weighted with
ice al d began going down one by one.
till ct daylight the city was practically
cut of.