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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
RUINED BY GAMBLERS,
WHO CONSPIRED AGAINST NELSON,
THE BANK DEFAULTER,

They Worked tho Blackmail Game and
Their Victim Succumbed - Tho Full
Story of the Plot Is Told in the Afa-
davit of q German.
GRAND FORKS, N. D., April 2.-Further
developments in the case of Nelson, the
bank defaulter, are details of an immense
conspiracy among half dozen gamblers
with Nelson as their tool, to steal the funds
of the bank. Archie s. McNabb, German,
whom Nelson in his affidavit duplicates in an
attempt to blackmail him by exposure, has
made an an affidavit corroborating Nelson.
He says that on April IA he had con-
versation with Nelson, and also with
Charles Ramsey, in East Grand Forks
Ramsey stated that Nelson had been playing
poker with Shaw and Dahl, and told afiant
to keep quiet, because he had a straight tip
for some Of the money, Ramsey suggested
that the affiant tip Nelson for money, and
urged him to push the scheme OF blackmaiL
After this conversation McNabb told
Nelson he understood he had been playing
poker and losing considerable of the banks
funds, and that, besides, he had spent money
in buying wine He told Nelson the only
way he could square himself would be to
pay him some money, and if he (Nelson)
did not pay the money McNabb would have
to ''peach." To this Nelson replied, "You
are mistaken. 1 have only played poker
twice" Affiant replied that he knew
Nelson played oftener, and that he would
have to have the money or he would make
the matter public.
Nelson said he would meet MeNabb at 9
o'clock the following evening. McNabb
asked him how much money he thought he
could give him, and said that when he saw
McNabb he would fix the matter up salts
factorily. After this interview McNabb
became frightened at his attempted black
mail and dropped the matter, not attempt
ing to see Nelson again.
The action against the gamblers for con-
spiracy is being reserved pending the out
come of the motion to dismiss, which is to
be argued Monday. If the arrest and bail
proceedings hold, the action for conspiracy
will not be pushed. Nelson's case will not
be pushed further until the New York COM
pany which gave bonds for him.is heard
from It is expected that the Surety COM
pany will take the prosecution of the bank
officials in hand and reimburse the bank to
the extent of Nelson's bond, 81, 500.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
MCULL0UGH's REMAINS BURIED.

His Relatives Believe He Fell Into tho
Reservoir by Accident.
The remains of George s. Mccullough
were buried in Greenwood Cemetery yester-
day. Services were held in Samson s
chapel The remains were accompanied to
Pittsburg by his sister, Mrs. Frazee, Of
ChaIord, and her husband. A. H. Clarke,
guardian of George s. Mccullough, says he
does not believe it was a case of suicide.
He said he had sent Mccullough over
$1,000 and that his share of his mothers
estate would amount to $4,000. Beside
this his father, who is shipping clerk for
the Hostetter Medicine Company, has an
interest in the company, which would 60 to
the four children.
Mrs Frazee said her brother had been
attacked by typhoid fever in Seattle,
Wash, and hid came to St. Louis to re-
cuperate. She says he had been in the
habit of walking near the reservoir. His
left arm was paraly zed and she believes he
fell in and as he could only use one arm he
was drowned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
TIRED OF SPEAK-EASIES.

That's Why staid Old Prohibition Little
Warrington May Have = Saloon This
Year-Remonstrances Are Two to One
on Country License Applicants.
WASHINGTON, PA, April 22-[Spscial
The interest in the License Court is ex-
ceptionally great. This unusual interest in
this stald old prohibition town is caused by
the fact that for more than 20 years retail
licenses have not been granted here, and
now strong application is made for such a
license. The applicant is Charles A Bailey,
proprietor of the European Hotel, the lead
ing hostelry of this place. Mr. Bailey's
application will be considered tomorrow
morning, but Judge McIlvaine will not an
nounce the decision until next week.
Charlie Bailey's petition contains the
names of 250 voters of the ward in which
he lives. 1t is the opinion of many of the
best citizens that speak-easies have been
permitted to flourish too long; that back-alley
drinking and the walking saloon, where
drink of poison is sold to children for 10
cents, must go, and that it is better for the
trade to go to the hands of staid citizen
like Charles Bailey than to have outside
rumsellers deal out their stuff in bottles or
casks to the students, who take it to their
rooms and drink to excess
There is another element, however, which
holds opposite views This is the w. G. T.
q. A remonstrance has been presented
against Mr.. Bailey, which is largely signed
by the women in the ward in which he is
located. Whatever Judge McIlvaine's
views are he has kept them to himself,
thoug the general belief among citizens is
that the court thinks the time has come
when at least one retail application should
be granted here.
This morning Jesse M. Boyd, who desires
to open a wholesale house in Allenport, was
put through the mill. MI. Boyd's chances
of success are not brilliant. It was proved
that Boyd, when he had similar license
two years ago, sold liquor to men of known
intemperate habits and in quantities
of less than one gallon. This after
noon:.the applications for brewers and
wholesale licenses in this place were taken
up. Jacob zelt passed in good shape in his
application for brewers license, but the re-
monstrants outnumbered the petitioners
two to one. Policeman Charles Greer, an
applicant for wholesale license presented
petition signed by about ], 200 citizens; the
remonstrance, however, contained twice
that number. John Wykes and Thomas
Morrison desired wholesale licenses at Fin
leyville and Gastonville respectively. The
outlook for these men is rather blue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
BOYS In REBELLION.
The Recent Reformatory Investiga-
ton Has Made Them Bold.
FIGHTS OF DAILY OCCURRENCE.
Guards, Teachers and Monitors Are Set
Upon Without Mercy.
TwENTY-FOUR SHARP KNIVES FOUND

| ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.l
| HUNTINGDON, PA, April 22.-Ever
since Senator Osbourne instituted An in
quiry into the charges Of alleged cruelty to
inmates Of the Huntingdon Reformatory,
the inmates themselves, led by the rougher
PhiladeIphia element which predominates
among the SIT prisoners, have been conduct
ing affairs in the institution with high
hand. Generally they have manifested su-
preme contempt for the rules of discipline
in the reformatory, and the so-called incor-
| rigible principals from Erie and Philadel-
phia counties aim to pose as masters of the
| situation.
Instances are of almost daily occurrence
where guards and keepers are assaulted by
the prisoners, many of whom, contrary to
the act creating the reformatory, have
served terms before and now pass under as
sumed names. During the present week
the riotous element has been unusually
active.
A Monitor Badly Done Up
Yesterday morning. while a gang of in
mates were working in the brickyard inside
the main walls, George Cato, colored, of
Philadelphia, beat Sylvester Kirk, also of
Philadelphia, into insensibility with an iron
shovel. Kirk lay for two hours unconscious,
and it is believed his injuries are mortal.
Kirk was a monitor in the reformatory, and
reported Cato for violation of the rules
Last evening teacher in the school was
assaulted BY an inmate scholar with heavy
slate and beaten for having simply corrected
o mistake.
This morning the most serious and vio-
lent outbreak occurred. Henry Yarnell, an
outside teamster, who was hauling stone for
the new ward, in demonstrating with some
of a gang of inmate laborers who were teas
ing his horses, was violently attacked by
five of the prisoners led by John Laporte,
of Erie county, and brutally beaten. La
porte first knocked him down with brick,
when the others continued to brutally beat
and kick him on the head and body until
driven off by the guards, to whom resist
ance was also shown.
The Inmates In Open Revolt.
Soon thereafter a revolt occurred among
the inmates in the main corridor, but it was
short lived. Chair rungs and other weapons
were used. The recklessness and vicious
ness of the inmates are more pronounced,
since it was developed during the recent in
vestigation that none of the inside guards or
keepers carry arms They show neither
respect for nor fear of the guards, and the
good discipline of the institution is seriously
threatened.
Since the late investigation nearly two
dozen sharpened knives have been recovered
from the persons and cells of the inmates,
who filched them from their tables and in
the workshops.
Alexander Port, the resident member of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
HOW WATTERSON STANDS.
He Cannot Be for Hill and Fears CIeve-
land Can't win-Good Words for Both,
but he Thinks the Faction Fight Too

he Cannot Be Tor Hill and Fears Cleve-
land Can't win-Good Words for Both,
but he Thinks the Faction Fight Too
Sincere.
WASHINGTON, April 22.-Henry Waiter
son has been interviewed at length on the
political situation from Democratic stand
point by Post reporter. Among other
things he says:
81 have sometimes said, and believe il to
be true, that ii Mr.. Cleveland had been as
earnest in behalf of Governor Hill as Gov
ernor Hill was in behalf of Mr.. Cleveland,
the latter would now occupy the White
House. But in this world wise men take
things as they find them. There are some
times wrongs against which it is idle to pro-
test, and Governor Hill is the victim of one
OF these. Two courses were open to him:
Ignoring himself he might have made the
defeat OF the denomination of Mr.. Cleveland
and revenge, pure pure EF and Simple. TSis
course would not have been very
large or far-seeing, but it would
have been tenable and logical. Or he might
have made peace with Nj. Cleveland, have
put himself at the head of the Cleveland
movement, uniting the party on and identi-
Tying himself with great. advancing issue.
and, thus leading to national victory, have
entered the theater of national affairs q
Warwick, with no bar sinister upon his
escutcheon, but, instead, the enthusiastic
indeed, was urged upon him in a letter
which had the double misfortune to mis-
carry through the mails aud to be mis-
construed when 1t appeared in print New
ertheless, the letter was written in perfect
good faith and good feeling. 1t was not
undertaken without backing and warrant.
and but for the mischances which attended
it,al shades and classes of Democrats might
at this moment be getting together on com
mon ground, Brother Dana himself leading
in prayer"
"Do you think it too late for that?-
"Yes, do. The faction fighting has gone
too far. The breach is too wide. The feel
ing is too embittered. Both sides are too
confident; yet both are equally mistaken,
Give Governor Hill the State OF New York
for the sake Of the argument and what
other of the deDatable and necessary States
of the North could he carry? Subtract the
umn and how could he be elected? 1t seems
to me a demonstrable proposition; so that.
applying to it the familiar rule of Hovle 1
would amend it to read, in case OF doubt,
play neither"
At this point in the conversation the re-
porter ventured to observe: You have been
quoted, Mr.. Watterson, both for and against
Mr. Cleveland. How do you really stand?"
HFor two wears, indeed from the moment
Cleveland, with the distinct proviso that he
should come into the convention with New
York solid behind him, the breaches healed,
and the leaders, big and little, united.
In that default 1 have said late and
early what say now, that his nomtna-
tion would be suicidal. At no time
could 1 have been brought to support
the nomination of Governor Hill, which
should regard as not only suicidal, but in a
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23

to bring up this subject now, but it so far
dwarts, by contrast, the danger to be appre-
hended from the Chinese, that could not
refrain from it"
At the close of Mr.. Davis speech without
any action on the bill the Senate went into
executive session, and soon adjourned till
tomorrow
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
sCAFF0LDs TO THE FORE,

Three Men Injured by Falls and One of
Them Will Die.
The, three accidents reported yesterday
were all caused by falls from scaffolds.
One man fell from the fourth story of a
building and will die.
HoRNERI-Martius Horneri fell from a
scaffold at the new Times building shortly
before o'clock yesterday afternoon. His
skull was fractured. two ribs were broken,
he sustained a severe scalp wound and his
thigh was broken. He was removed to the
Homeopathic Hospital.
WARD-Oliver Ward, an employe at Oliver
Bros. & Co.'s mill, Woods Run, fell from q
scaffold yesterday afternoon. He suffered
internal injuries that may result seriously.
He was removed to his home on Market
street, Allegheny.
HANLEY-Patrick Hanley, laborer, en-
ployed at the McKeesport Iron Mill, was
brought to Mercy Hospital last night, suffer-
ing from compound fracture of the right
leg, which he had received by fall off o scaf-
fold at the works.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
MICHIGAN FOR ALGER,
Mr.. Allen Says Governor Mckinley Would
Not Accept tho Nomination This Time.

Mr.. Allen Says Governor Mckinley Would
Not Accept the Nomination This Time.
Ex-Congressman Allen, of Ypsilanti,
Mich, was at the Union station last even
ing going to Washington. He wants the
rent of the postoffice in his town raised
He says the Government won't put up a
new building and the present Office is too
small. On the subject of politics he had
little to say. The Michigan delegation is
pledged to General Alger, but he doesn't
know to what extent they will support him.
Mr.. Allen thinks that Harrison and Cleve-
land will be the nominees. The ex-Con-
gressman campaigned with Mckinley in
Ohio last fall. He knows the Governor
very well, and he says he will not accept a
nomination this time even if it were offered
to him. Mr.. Allen claims the scheme to
boom Mckinley Is without the Majors
sanction.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
MORGAN HARD AT WORK
Trying to Secure q Congressional Noni1na
tion in McKinley's District.

Trying to Secure q Congressional Non1na-
tion in McKinley's District.
MAssILLoN, O., April 22.-lSpecial IT
r. Morgan, Sr., the Alliance manufacturer
who seeks the Republican nomination for
Congress in this district, spent the day in
the city making the acquaintance of dele
gates to the Salem Convention May 6. Mr..
Morgan told your correspondent this even
ing that he expects to have substantially a
solid delegation from Stark county, and,
without venturing upon figures, hopes to
secure enough additional votes from Colum-
biana and Mahoning to capture the plum,
a nomination being equivalent to an cleo
tion, as the district is good for 2, 200 Repub-
lican majority.
The proposition to make Governor Nc
Kinley the candidate meets with outspoken
disfavor among the Republicans in this
city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
TO HAVE ANOTHER CELEBRATION.
Mayor Gourley Has Big Expectations fc
NEXT Eourth of Univ

Mayor Gourley Has Big Expectations for
Next Fourth of July.
Mayor Gourley proposes to have Fourth
of July celebration this year that will cast
all previous demonstrations in the shade.
The Mayor says this is the last year of his
term of Office and he wants to have the cele-
bration particularly grand on that account.
He expects to attract 250,0O0 people to
Schenley Park on that day, and one of the
features will be $1,000 display of fire.
works. He had a conference with Superin-
tendent Luckey yesterday and arranged for
a chorus of 1000 school children between
the ages of IL and IA years who will take
part in the exercises, and who will be
drilled in singing for the occasion in the
meantime
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
WENT OUT WEST TO DIE.
A New Yorker Fatally Shoots Himself in a
San Francisco Hotel

New Yorker Fatally Shoots Himself in a
San Francisco Hotel.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.-[ Special. J.
Charles D. Smith, of New York, committed
suicide at the Palace Hotel this morning BY
shooting himself through the heart Smith
had been a guest at the hotel for three
weeks, coming here on the China steamer
about March q. He was found lying OIL the
bed in his underclothing, with an old
fashioned revolver in his hand. He left no
letters, but he told one of the hotel clerks
that he felt greatly depressed owing to per-
sistent ill health.
From papers found in his trunk it was
learned that he has brother, A. c. Smith,
Secretary of the Distilled Water Company,
of New York. There were also receipts for
rent of house at Babylon, L. l., and other
papers indicating that he had sold house
and used the proceeds on tour around the
world.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
A PLATFORM LOOKING TO LIBERTY
just Adopted by the Liberal Party in tho
Republic of Mexico.

just A0opteu Dy the LlDer3t forty In tho
Republic of Mexico.
CITY OF MEXICO, April 22.-The COM
mittee appointed to prepare manifesto to
the Liberal party will report tomorrow.
The principal feature of the platform will
be the introduction of economies in all
branches of the Government, especially in
the War Department.; the abolition
of interior custom houses, Us directed by the
late economical Congress; a reduction of
the customs tariff in order to promote COM
mercial intercourse with foreign nations;
the adoption of Judiciary reforms, extend
ing the terms of the magistracy, if possible,
to life tenure; the creation of the Office of
Vice President, in order to avoid complica-
tions in case of the absolute disability or
absence of the President, and reform of the
press laws, granting more liberty, without
license, and subjecting journalists to the
common law.
This is the first time in the history of
Mexico that so liberal platform has been
announced, and it will arouse enthusiasm,
as such liberty has never before been known
in the Republic.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
HURRAH FOR UNCLE SAM.

His Citizens Can Build a New Rome in q
Day Without Single Scratch.
KINGFIsHER, OKLA, April 22.-To-day,
after hearing from every portion of the
Territory, Governor Seay sent the follow
ing telegram to Secretary Noble:
KINGFIsHER, April %. 1892
Hon. J. w. Noble, Secretary of the Interior,
Washington. ID. c.:
All quiet along the Potomac. Not q riot;
not q gunshot wound in all the county.
Churches are already building in the new
towns. All the officers, civil and military,
SO far as known, have done their whole
duty. No complaint has reached me from
anysection. A. j. SEAY, Governor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
MORE REFUGEES SEEK SHELTER.
Tho Russian Mob Who Made Trouble in
Chicago Are Sent North.

The Russian Mob Who Made Trouble in
Chicago Are Sent North.
CHICAGO, April 22.-There has been no
recurrence of the trouble which almost re-
suited in riot at the Shelter House of the
Hebrew Aid Society last evening. The
place bears evidence of the attack made
upon it in broken doors and windows and
the missiles thrown by the Russian immi-
grants. The Shelter House will only &C.
commodate about 70 people, and the society
is receiving about 100 refugees a week.
Thirty-one new arrivals from the Cars s
dominions were at the Union depot this
morning, and they and their cumbersome
luggage were being brought to the Shelter
House in express wagons. This crowd was
made up of families, and ranged from the
shawl-swathed babe to the ferce-whiskered
father with fur cap and belted overcoat,
The men whp caused last nights disturb
ance have been sent to Racine, Wis, where
employment awaits them. The society's
rules only allow the refugees to remain at
the Shelter three days. Since September the
plan has aided z, 1000.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
FOSTERS PLURALITY ABOUT 50, 900.
McEnery Concludes That 1t Will Be Better
Not to Contest

McEnery Concludes That 1t Will Be Better
Not to Contest.
NEW ORLEANS, April 22.-[Special THE
vote of Louisiana, 81 parishes, including
Orleans, official, and seven estimated, is:
Foster, anti-Lottery Democrat, 1851; Nc
Emery, Democrat, 46,7SS; Leonard, regular
Republican, 30, ,1O9; Breaux, Custom House
Republican, 11,112; Tannehill, Peoples
party, Z, SIG. The Legislature stands: Fos-
ter Democrats, 60, including several Farm
ers' Alliance men; McEnery Democrats, 81;
Republicans. 10; Farmers Alliance and
Peoples party,
The McEnery Democrats have decided to
accept the result of the election and not
make formal contest or bring the matter
before Congress, holding that it would be
better to submit to any wrong than to have
the Federal Government interfere in Louisi-
ANA affairs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
YANKEES MAY KEEP ON FISHING.

The Modus Vivendi Act Passes the Domiu
ion Parliament in Committee.
OTTAWA, ONT, April 22.-On motion of
Hon. c. II. Tupper. Minister of Marine and
Fisheries, the House of Commons to-day
went into committee on the act respecting
fishing vessels of the United States, which
gives the Governor General in council the
power of renewing the modus vivendi from
year to year.
This was strenuously objected to by
Colonel O'Brien, who protested against the
House transferring its power to the Gov
ernor General, or in any way acknowledging
the claim of the United States to vested
rights in the Canadian fisheries, but the bill
was passed in committee.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
For Harrison, Blaine and Mckinley.

WATERTowN, N. Y, April 22-At the
First District Republican Convention held
here to-day, delegates were chosen to the
State Convention. Resolutions were passed
indorsing Harrison, Blaine and theMcKinley
bill The Thirtieth District Republican
Convention has selected delegates Resolu-
tions complimentary to Harrison and Blaine
were adopted, but the delegates were not
instructed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23

sense discrediting because possible only as
a result OF organization, not as the climax Of
great popular and party volitlon. But
have not Joined in the senseless abuse of
Governor Hill, whom I regard with entire
friendliness and respect. / merely think he
has made a mistake, not an uncommon oc-
currence with Presidential aspirants. The
truth is, the bauble of the Presidency is so
dazzling to weak eyes that it blinds most
men who get near enough to see it."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
Harrison and Blaine Indorsed.

BRADFORD, April 22-[special 1.-The
Republican Congressional Conference of
the Twenty-seventh district convened to-
day at Kane The proceedings were en-
tirely harmonious Cameron county was
permitted to be represented by five dele
gates. Resolutions indorsing Harrison and
Blaine were passed, after which the entire
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23

THE Republicans of the Sixth Indiana dis
trict have renominated Congressman Harry
N. johnson by acclamation.
The Prohibitionists Of the Pontiac, ILL.,,
Congressional district have nominated E. E.
Day, of Kankakee, for Congress.
TIE Republican Congressional Conven-
tion Of the Metropolis, ILL.,, district has re-
nominated George W. Smith for Congress.
Hon. C. W. STONE was yesterday unani-
mously renominated for Congress by
publicans.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
A Blow at the Prohibitionists.

BOSTON, April 22.-By a vote of 81 to 70
the House to-day refused third reading of
the bill enabling political party holding 2
per cent of the votes for Governor to make
nominations. This bill was in favor of the
Prohibition party, and was supported by
the Democrats and opposed by the Re-
publicans.