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TIE IRoN MoRKGRA.
Some Further Particulars About Mon.
day'n Conference.


days Conference.
PITTsBuRGH April 17.-At The Amalga.
mated association conference yesterday,
further proceedings leaked out. Now tie
propositions submitted to the men are as
follows: When bar iron sells at q cents per
pound. the pudding prices shall be IS 90
and 2 cents per pound, the price shall be
81 so. This is seli.GxpIanatory. AT pres.
ent the scale provides when iron sells at q
ceuts the pnddling price is S. 80. 1t is said
that II this reduction is made Il will simply
prove the way for further reduction in
iron, which now sells below $40 per ton.
The manufacturers propose an immedi.
ate reduction Of ten per cent on
all labor entering into the common
grades OF iron, and from fifteen
to twenty per cent reduction on the
labor entering into the manufacture OF the
higher grades Of iron. One gentleman,
who attended the conference, said: "The
causes Of the reduction are the tariff re.
ductions made in the east and west and
overstocked market. In the east pudding
has been reduced 10 s. so per ton. Another
gentleman said: "The reduction on iron
ran at 81 40 ton on bars, So, 81 and S. on
sheet, plate and hoop iron. Bar iron can.
not be sold at the present price with profit.
There is certain shrinkage in values, and
the pairing down OF the tariff duties was a
notice from the consumers that they want.
ed the prices reduced, and I think in the
end it will make trade BETTER"
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NEW YoRK rRAGEpY.
A Man shoots AN Imaginary Rival 10
His wife's Affections.


NEW YoRK, April 1.-THE corner oi
Vanderbilt and Park avenues, Brooklyn,
was the scene Of horrible murder this
afternoon. The murderer, Diedrich Ma
huken, has grocery at the corner where
the shooting occurred, and the victim
Diedrich Stefins, was a lager beer
dealer at No. los Ninth street. stef.
fms for long time has been paying
attention to Anna Dorscher, Mahuken's
neice, and who resides with him and his
family over the store. stetlins visited Miss
Dorscher, TO whom he was enpag.
ed 10 be married. Mahuken Was
very suspicious OF him, aud believed
he was unduly intimate with his wife. His
wife knowing his jealously got Miss
Dorscher to move TO friends house and
requested steflins 10 stay away. The mur.
dered man was delivering goods opposite
Mahuken's store, this afternoon and cross.
ed the street In answer to a call from a
friend. He had hardly reached the side.
walk when, Mahuken approached, holding
in his hand revolver. Without word,
he fired five shots at Steflins, four
OF the balls entering his head, and
the fifth bis left breast S;efinE
dropped dead. Mahuken was arrested and
at the station house admitted bis guilt.
Mrs. Mahuken says her husband had no
grounds for JEALOUSY and must have been
insane when he killed Stetiins. ma
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ANormEn xrYLr or puNKo.
Game Played on the Unsophisticntsd of
Peuusyiyaufn for N Year Past


WASHINGTON, April l7.-Reports re.
ceiyed at the secret service division OF the
Treasury Department show that for year
or two there has been carried on Pennsyl.
vania and elsewhere a scheme whereby
farmers and others have lost hundreds
and, in some instances, Thousands OF dol.
lars. There are, perhaps, dozen or more
men engaged in the business, which iH
none other than IN alleged attempt to sell
counterfeit money, drag the victim TO
Washington and there rob him through
false representations. The men first
Sound" their victim. He is generally a
friend, whom they have been associating
with. In his presence roll Of bills is
pulled out. The notes are just as prepared
at the Treasury Department and fresh
from the press. 1t is all good money and
at once attracts the attention OF the intend.
ed victim. .s'
"You wouldn't take that for counterfeit,
would your inquiries the swindler.
Theman, Of course, replies that he would
not, wbereupon the swindler continues:
'They are counterfeit, but the best imi-
tation you ever saw. You can't detect
them." The man ut once sees an opening
for = good speculation with such imita.
tions, and becomes inquisitive. He Is told
that the money is made at different places
for an organization, with headquarters at
Washington, and to purchase 1t man
must become member OF the ORDER He
can then have exchanged at any time any
sum oil good money for several times as
much in the bad. At the. same time he is
told the object OF the organization is to
protect any Of its members who may get
into difficulty from handling the bogus
noney. There is no such organization in
Washington or anywhere else.
The victim, through different representa-
tions, is finally induced to 60 TO the head.
quarters, and is always accompanied by
the man who has had him in tow. On the
sane train, however, Is stool pigeon"
and after the two arrive at Washington
tho third man appears. 1t Is then that the
intended victim Is requested to sign con.
tract before he can become member Of
the alleged organization. The contract be-
ing signed the first gentleman goes to the
alleged headquarters to see about the ap-
pliCani's initiation. He returns, OF course,
disappointed, and stating that there are
not enough members present to
perform the ceremony. A wran-
gle, all prearranged, then ensues
between the two "coppers," each
seemingly mad at the other for dragging
the applicant over to Washington without
first ascertaining that enough members
were nresant. During thia hints were
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MoRRIsrowS, MI, April l7.-Joseph +,
Rigtown, sentenced to be executed to-mor.
row for the murder OF Minnie Chignin,
coniesses that his statements at the time ol
the trial against the girl were false. He
meyer knew anything detrimental TO her
character. He Confesses to having followed
Minnie and Harry James, rival, along q
tow.path and attempting to shoot James,
but his revolver missed fire the first
time and Minnie, stepping between himself
and James, received the second shot.
In the struggle both rolled into the canal,
and when he disepgaged her arms from
his neck she was dead. Then he made
two attempts at selidestrpction, one bullet
passing ip ~ the back Of the ear. The
Sheriff thinks this 10 true statement.
Rigtown busted himself to-day writing let.
tiers 10 his mother, bidding his brother
goodbye and conversing with his spiritual
advisers.
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COMPLAIsrs OF POTTERY MAKERS
DIssatI.aed win u treasury Ruling ON
the Tariff Law.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE American
pottery manufacturers are by no meani
reconciled to the decision Of Secretary Fol-
ger that section Of the new tariff law be.
come operative on March 3, and an argu.
ment in their behalf will be made before
the Secretary tomorrow by ex.Representa.
tive Robeson, with view OF securing, II
possible, q reversal otthe decision.
The manufacturers hold that all the parts
OF the law must be construed together and
that single section cannot be made the
subject OF Beperate construction. They
say that in order to carry out the recent
ruling, It has been necessary for the Treas.
ury officers to improvise form OF oath to
be taken by the agent, importer or con-
signee-a form OF oath which is not pro.
vided by the law as 1t now stands; and
they declare that the officers have no more
right to do that than they would have 10
change another part OF the Tariff law. {
The manufacturers also complain that
the recent decision deprives them Of every
opportunityito appeal to the courts for re-
dress; there is no ground upon which they
can base an appeal. and the importers and
foreign manufacturers will, OF course, not
appeal from a decision wich gives them an
advantage Of about Is per cent on all inn
portations before July1. Had the decision
been against the importers they might
have paid the duties under protest and
then have gone to the courts for judicial
construction OF the law rtI
The American manufacturers complain
not only Of the injustice Of this particular
ruling. They assert that the rulings ofthe
Treasury Department are uniformly ad.
verse to the interests OF American manu-.
iacturers and favorable to the importers
and the agents OF foreign manufacturers.
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THE MlNlNG QuEs rlIoN.
A Reduction 10 Three Cents Made In
Several Mines Yesterday.

PIrrPBuRoH, April l7.-owing to mis-.
understanding only nine railroad operators
attended the meeting in the office Of the
New York & Cleveland Gas Coal Com.
pany, this morning. The object OF the
meeting, as has already been stated, was to
consider Secretary Flannery's communica.
tion asking that the necessary data be fur.
nished showing why the present price can.
not be sustained. II was decided to adj.
journ the meeting until Thursday morning.
Mr.. Hartly said TO reporter to-day that
the operators would undoubtedly show
why they cannot do business during the
summer at 3! cents. The probabilities are
that the miners will agree 10 reduction to
three cents, and that that will be the ruling
price this summer.
The men employed at the following
mines on the Pan Handle went to work
this morning at three cents: Two belong.
ing to the Mansfield Coal and Coke Com.
pany, at Mansfield; the Grant mine Of W.
L. Scott, at Mansfield; the Glenn mines, at
Glendale, on the CHARTERS branch; The
Patterson mine, at McDonald't; the Slope
mines, operated by Clark 4 Co., on the
Charters branch.
None Of the men refused 10 work at the
reduction, and no action will be taken un.
til the result OF the arbitration scheme Is
announced,
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The street car ordinance asked for by
the Citizens Railway Company, 60 as 10
allow ofthe changing Of the present route Of
that company, came up in the First Branch
Of Council last evening, and there met with
some opposition. The public Is already
aware OF the changes that the company de-
sired TO make. The opposition came from
residents along the proposed new route
from the corner OF Twenty first and Market
down Market to Twenty second, up Twenty
second TO Chapline, and down Chapline 10
Twenty fourth. The first section allowed
this to be done. It was stricken out in The
First Branch and the ordinance adopted.
In the Second Branch the ordinance as re-
ceived from the First was amended by In
serting the section stricken out, thus max
ing the ordinance read as asked for. The
First Branch having adjourned, nothing
further could be done with the paper.
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IL Professor Mezzerol, who is described
rs 'the Nihilist leader and head chemist oi
tho Irish dynamite party" is in dead and
terrible earnest, England may as well put
up the shutters and go out Of business.
Tue head chemist outlines plan Of cam.
paign which contemplates the blowing up
Of the British marine, London town, and
all the British soldiers in Ireland, unless
the complete independence OF the Emerald
l,le shall be conceded. The party has
hundreds Of well drilled, determined men,
tie manufacture OF the explosive Is 80
simple that It can be carried on
in a hall bed room, and enough oi
the wrecking material TO blow up any
building in London eau be carried In the
pocket. The professors party does not
propose to do all this at once. By way ol
getting its baud in It will supply British
vessels with internal machines set to run
ior three dSya, then 10 stop with an anihil'
ating crasll, "aud there will be no one left
to tell what happened" This will cheer
the heart Of tho tourist who Is going
beyond seas this summer. The machines
eau be Smuggled on board without Difficult
", because "it is lrishmen that load the
ships in England as well as here" Unless
England is willing 10 buy off the Irish pa
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ApATENr PROCESS
An Important Decision 10 Millers Pend
ing In the United sfates Court.

tuE th tut tuiteu hthttb SOurt.
WASHINGTON, D. O., April l7.-Argument
was begun in the United States Supreme
Court to day in case which may prove
one OF much interest to all millers who
make what is known as "Patent Process
-four. The case is that Of Robert
l. Dauuton, appellant, against the
Yeager Miller Company, which comes here
upon appeal from the Circuit Court Of the
United States for the Eastern District OF
Missouri. 1t is a suit brought for an in
fringement OF u patent granted April 20,
1875, upon the improved process Of manu-.
featuring middlings flour, by crushing the
grain between rollers. Among the points
Of the defense, set up by the Yeager Mill.
ing Company, Is that Dunton's patent is
void for want Of novelty in the
invention. II the decision OF the Court
should turn upon this point rather than
upon one OF many other points Of the law
involved, and thus settle the question Of
the validity Of, the patent the case would
be one Of much importance, since most OF
the mills Of the country have substituted
rollers for stones and are now manutactur.
ing the patent process flour.
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pHGNIx PARK mURDERs.
The Trial OF CurIey-The Evidence Ad'
duccd Yesterday.

uuced festerdhy.
DUBLIN, April 1.-THE trial Of Danie
Curley was resumed this morning. JOSEPH
Smith, one OF the prisoners who turned in
former, was the first witnts, called. Th,
evidence was merely repetition Of tha
given at the trial Of Joe Brady.
Peter Carey, brother Of James Carey
was next placed on the stand. He testified
that after Cavendish and Burke were mur
dered he was detailed to watch the move
ments Of Kavanagh, the car driver, who, Il
was feared by the Invinclbles, would give
information to the authorities, and whom
Curley wanted murdered.
Smith and James Carey differed as tc
the gate by which Carey left the park May
9Th. Two constables on cross-examinatior
could not agree as tothe part OF the fence
they said Ourley could go over. When
asked TO point out the spot on the map
they designated places $50 yards apart
The statements Of kavanagh and Smith
was somewhat in conflict. Kavanagh
sworc Smith told him in the parl
the Chief Secretary was the objec
OF their mission, while Smith testi
fed he was ignorant OF the object OF The
conspirators. A servant girl Of Jane.
Carey, identified Curley as the man whc
frequently visited her employers hous,
and in company with other 1nvincibles
Another girl swore she saw Curley in The
Park, May 9. James Carey's son swore be
saw his father and Curley in the vicinity
Of Dublin Castle the day the murders
were committed. James Carey testified
he originally intended to lay on
Burke's body a card bearing the words
Executed by order OF the Invincibles.' y
Carey said he himself wrote card for that
purpose. The idea was not carried out,
however, and Curley afterwards placed the
card in a mail box to the Dublin Express.
The case for the Grown closed with the
taking Of some formal police eyi.
dence. DR.. Webb, for the defence, com.
pared James Carey to Titus Oates, who,
like Carey, was induced to swear away
the lives. Of innocent men in similar cir.
cumstances by similar system OF lavish
rewards, This plot was o plot with one
conspirator, and that conspirator was Jas
Carey. The young men OF Ireland sheuld
take warning from the fact that nearly all
the prisoners at that bloody assizes were
mere boys. He was prepared clearly Ia
esta blish the innocence OF Curley by an
alibi.
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MYSTERIOUS nuHDEK.
A Brother and Sister OF the Deceased
ArreSted on SuSpieIon. Idt


CLEVELAND, April l7.-At Erie. Pa, some
days ago Ralph Young was found dead
with a arevolver by his side. His pocket
book, containing 5000, was missing. Young
came from Ireland some months ago, with
his brother Samuel and sister Mary Jane.
They came from a good family OF landed
gentry. One uncle is Queens counsellor
engaged for the crown i'll the prosecution
OF the Cavendish murderers; another uncle
is Presbyterian minister In county Down,
Ireland. The family is Protestant and hold
considerable property which was given II
by the Prince Of Orange. Since their ar.
rival in this country the Youngs have
lived by themselves In proud, isolated
way, refusing all offers Of friendship and
neighborly acquaintance. At the funeral
OF the deceased, the brother Samuel and
sister Mary, created quite scene. The
burial took place at night and in secret,
the only persons present being Samuel ana
Mary, q magistrate, undertaken, two repor.
ters and two policemen. Samuel wanted
to make a speech at the grave, a0d he
called upon his dead brother TO rise up to
save UT uhHuu lllu. mary JHne went lnt0
Mysteries, and but Tor the clutch OF an off.
Ger would have fallen in the yawning grave.
Samuel and his sister were arrested on
Friday, charged with wilfully numbering
Ralph Young, their brother, who, they
claim, teok his own life. The brother and
sister were arrested on suspicion, because
after swearing they knew nothing OF the
revolver or the pocketbook Of the deceased,
the woman was detected in the act Of con-
cealing the weapon under the bed and the
pocketbook was found hidden in her pill
low. Alter these discoveries the accused
still maintained their innocence and denied
knowing where the weapon or wallet was
concealed. At the hearing yesterday be.
fore Recorder Marvin Mary broke down
and confessed hiding the revolver where II
was found. Her attorneys pleaded that the
revolver was secreted to hide the cause OF
the death-which was an act Of suicide
being considered disgraceful by them. In
the light Of these startling developments
the magistrate held Samuel and Mary for
trial at the next term OF the court on
charge OF murder. 05.t j f.
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THE BIG FAILURE.
The Causes of tue Break of James Mar.
shall & Co., OF PIttsburgh.

The Causes of tue Break Of James Mar.
shall & Co., OF PIttsburgh.
PIrTsBuRGH, April 1.-THE failure yes.
terday OF James Marshall 1 Co., Iron Pipe
manufacturers, was the all important topic
among financial circles. The liabil.
ties are considerably heavier than
reported, and will not be less than
81, 100000. or this amount 100000 Is to
Marshall and Tate. The assets will cover
all but 100000. The heaviest losen are
Mark Watson, Of this city, brother.in.
law OF James Marshall, Sl20 1000; Hogsett,
Hanna & Co., furnace men Of Uniontown,
500, 900; Marshall Brothers, Philadelphia.
$4,000; leaving $4,000 10 be divided
among the Fairchance Insurance Com.
pany, Fayette county, Brown, the re-.
ceiver Of Blown Bonnell & Co.,
Youngstown, Ohio; the Dunbar Pennsyl.
vania Furnace Company, and Rock Hill
Furnace Company. Almost every bank OF
this city held their paper, but all
but one were well secured and will
lose nothing. The failure was the result
purely Of speculation, and tue condition OF
the iron trade was in no way responsible.
It has no effect whatever upon the trade.
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DIED.

BUCHANAE--At his residence Ia WeliEbuR. ON
Tuesday, April u lsss, at @ O'clock. Ana ION
BUCHANAN, aged o. years, i7''FF . ~ -
Funeral IRON his lGte residence on Thursday.
Ap,Il 10Th, alto o'clsek 4, Il. sf-'i
,wlIlTI-on Tuesday, April u, 1883, at $50 Pm,
a4ho!ESEr . SG. 3. WIG ol John White, In the SSth
Funeral from the residence OF her ha.band, No.
il25 Market street, ThupiAy morning a, Q o,elocs.
Requiem mas at Cathedral Friends o. the IAN,
w are invited 70 attend. lntetmeut At Nj. Cal.
vary CoDstery. .Di a1 -
Z; .AesRAw-7At BellAlte, Ohio, on Monday, Ap,ii
James and Bella McGNN, iS''''~ ~
PuhetalpotiSe hereafter, '' Z vi Hi.pi
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TOLEDO, April no. A. King q Co.,
this city, baye received over 1900 reports,
covering every important wheat growing
county in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan
Kansas and Missouri. 0nequarter re.
port the present condition very favorable,
one quarter fair, one.third poor, one-sixth
very poor. One,quarter report the present
conditionlas mucn better than two weeks
ago, one.half report it slightly better, one.
sixth about the same, one-twelfth worse;
one-sixth Say better than year ago, one.
quarter say as good. Nearly half report il
worse, and one sixth say much worse than
a year ago. The season Is backward and
the acreage and reserve is about the same
as at the corresponding time last year.
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LoNDos, April 17.-In the House oi
Lords the Duke Of Richmond and Gordeu
moved that the papers concerning the foot
and mouth diaease Of cattle be presented
to the House, and asked why the importa.
ton Of cattle from the United States as
well as France was not prohibited. The
Lord President OF the Council and
Minister Of Agriculture denied that the
disease was prevalent to any large extent
in America. Although the disease existed
there the wholesale prohibition OF the i'm.
por,ation OF American cattle was not justi-
fed.
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ROCHESTER,, N. Y, April l7.-Thiry feet
OF the north wall Of the Gallagher building
used for manufacturing purposes, near
Main street, iell at midnight. The Race
sluice was broken by the accident, and
some manufactures stopped. Had the
fall happened in the daytime there would
have been loss Of lie. The printers
in Andrews office, next to Gallagers build.
ing refused to work this morning and the
fire marshall ordered the walls strengthen
ed. A dwelling in the course Of construc-
ton gave way In the Northern part OF the
city yesterday and the fire marshal OF dered
several bulldogs taken down or precautions
taken. ah ..l ~
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sCHELLER CLEARED.
Tho NeWhaii House Case Ends In the
AequlttaI of seheIIer.


MILWAUKEE, WIS, April l7.-George
Scheller, accused Of setting FIRE to the
Newhall house on the morning Of January
10th last was to-day acquitted by the jury
Five ballots were taken aud only one ol
the jurors was for conviction in all that
time, and he finally gave in, because
Judge Mallory instructed that iithere were
any doubts in his mind be must give the
prisoner the benefit Of the doubt. The
court room re.echoed with cheers when the
verdict was announced, and hundreds
crowded about George scheller 10
grasp his hand. The Jury was
out Just two hours- The trial has lasted 3
week, and nearly 100 Witnesses have been
called. The prisoner was traced TO within
half Q block Of the scene, and admitted on
the stand. that he was in front Of the
Newhall House only a few minutes pre-.
vious to the time the alarm was
sounded. The cause assigned by prose.
cution for the tiendish act was that Schelle,
owed over $1,000 and had heavy insur.
gnce on his stock OF liquors In store In The
basement oi the Newhhll House.
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II the Council grant the requests Of the
Citizens Railway company we shall have
improved local transit facilities in the mat
ter Of route and Of time. 1t will be
great convenience to- reach the Fair
grounds by rail, and the Association
and to the Islanders will gain by 1t.
Soon we shall have the fiat rails to
improve the roadway for general travel,
and already we have a return to FIVE cent
fare, move which increased business has
justified. The company is showing signs
Of new life and apparently entering on a
career OF prosperity.
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TRENTON, Nj, ApnIl7.-The Governor
and Comptroller have decided that they
will not pay the personal expenses OF the
various special committees appointed by
the. last legislature, whose members have
probably expected TO do as committees oil
preceding legislatures have done, and carry
on their investigations in aiunketing way,
OF seaside and other resorts,