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The Washington times., 1894-08-26

''Big Ajax" Griffith, a printer. who has
heretofore acquired considerable notoriety,
oecasioned what seemed for time a genuine
riot at the Baltimore and Ohio depot last night.
capt. A. c. Columbus and a detachment Of
Joseph Caldwell Division Of Knights oE
Pythias. Of the District, were stationed at ths
depot to act as a reception committee 70 their
arriving brethren, when they were dumb
founded al seeing Griffith in their midst IN
full Pythian uniform. nonchalantIy disposin2
Of their secret ritual for % cents per copy.
His appearance and bare-faced audacity for
a moment so astounded the detachment as %
render them incapable OF action or speech,
but only for a moment, however and they
then proceeded to handle Griffith in so rough
a manner as TO cause fear Of a very serious
result 70 Mr.. Griffith.
''AIAx" WAS MAULED.
The crowd Of angry Pythians surrounded
him and proceeded to maui him in the most
approved fashion. stripping of his ornaments
and stripes. and otherwise using him without
gloves. But for the interference Of by
ISLANDERS. who became nearly as excited a. tls
enraged knights. he would certainly have
been seriously injured.
As it was. Grifith escaped with a pretty
rough handling and made his way out Of the
:. Griffith. nicknamed AJAX, Is printer
by trade and has been employed at diTeaenE
times in the composing rooms Of several
newspapers Of this city. He IS a tall, laus,
cadaverous looking fellow with a heavy red
dish brown moustache, and is very well known
about the city.
He was a member Of the Syracusan Lodge
of Pythians No. 10, and was suspended for
conduct which was decidedly unknightIy and
unbecOming q gentleman.
The cause Of this suspension was a letter
which he addressed to Miss Mamie, 2 WE'LL
known and popular young school teacher Ot
this city.
GAVE hin A BLACK EYE.
This letter was decidedly obscene in char
acter and was referred by Miss Mamie" 20
her afflanced husband, VINO took the matter
in hand and finally traced it 20 Mr.. Griffith.
/ Then he proceeded TO take Ajax in hand. and
administered a sound thrashlng with black
. eye trimmings
/ The letter was afterward referred to the
/ pOst-ofIice authorities, but no action has ever
/ been taken in the matter. After the suspen-
I sion by the Pythians Griffith began 20 make
| himself extremely odiOus TO his former com
/ rades by the sale Of their secret
| ritual, which he had in some man
/ ner obtained while in good standing. and
/ he has been warned time and again against
I his course. Griffith, when seen after the oc-
I currence at the depot, said that he had been
\ to the depot for the sole purpose OF soliciting
/ boarders for his wife's boarding-hOuse, buttni5
! looks rather queer in the face Of the fact that
/ Capt. Columbus and sevaraI OF his men state
/ positively that they saw him offer the secret
/ rituals for sale. and that a full Pythian uni
\ form, which be was not entitled to wear, was
/ a rather unsuitable costume for such a
! mercantile pursuit.
The Washington times., 1894-08-26
Across the Ocean.
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Parliament was prorogued yesterday.
Dieler, a Vienna laborer, who declared
that he was an anarchist from conviction and
that he intended to blow up cafes with dyna-
mite bombs. was yesterday sentenced to four
years Imprisonment at hard labor
The Washington times., 1894-08-26
PUMMELLED BY PYTHIANS
Their Rage Excited by Ajax" Grif-
fifth, Brother in Bad 0dOr.
CAUGHT SELLING THE RITUAL

He Was in Full Uniform, Although sus-
pended, and Went to the Baltimore and
Ohio Depot-Msmbers Of Caldwell Di-
vision Handled Him without Care-By-
ISLANDERS Interfered.
The Washington times., 1894-08-26

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IS eents a month
The morning call., 1894-09-22
PARKHURST AND THE POLICE.
The Crusader Pays His Respects to
Superintendent Byrnes.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-Rev. DIR. Park
hurst last night paid his compliments to
Superintendent of Police Byrnes at a
mass-meeting at the Eighteenth-street
Metno odIst Church. 81 see that Mulberry
street has made statement that the So
cial evil is ineradica ble and must always
exist. What has Mr.. Byrnes got to do
with that? 1t makes me angry to the
last drop of my blood to hear them phlos-
ophize on ethical questions. When we
want phlosophizing in Mulberry street we
will hire a philosopher. The police are
paid to enforce the law-not to philos-
opbize.
"Now, just a word about Mr.. Byrnes
There has not been much said about him,
but l think 1t Is time TO begin, and then l
notice a ripening conviction in the minds
of citizens that the time has come to say
something about him. In his letter of Sep
tember s Mr.. Byrnes put the responsibility
for the disability he discovers in the Po-
lice Department upon the shoulders of
every one except the superintendent. In
other words. he puts the fault for failure
in execution everywhere except in the de-
tective department. The fact is. and it
should be emphasized, that Mr.. Byrnes is
the responsible head OF n DEPARTMENT
which has proven inIrinsically rotten.
1.-TWO years ago Mr.. Byrnes told the re-
porters that my so-called crusade was
started through motives of revenge, be-
cause a certain policeman would not give
evidence which and some of my congre-
CATION wanted him to give In divorce
suit. He has found difference now. In
The morning call., 1894-09-22
JAPS up TO DATE.
Admiral Meade Is Great Admirer of
the Little Men,

NEW YORK. Sept. 81. - Rear-Admiral
Meade is great admirer of the Japanese
as race. He said last night: "In the
contest In the East the japanese appear to
have the upper hand. The Japanese are a
most skilful people. They arc progressive
and fin de steele. The Chinese live too
much in the past. They don't know their
power. China is rich and powerful, but
she makes no use Of her resources. /. for
one, am glad that China does not realize
her power, for she might cause our western
nations great deal of trouble with her
40O, 900. 600 eople.
81 am not surprised at the naval vic
tory. The Japanese have been studying
the art of war for the past twenty years.
China has simply been building ships.
Just see what progress the Japanese
have made in forty years l remember
story told me by an old naval
officer. now dead, who visited the Japan
ese coast in an American man-of-
war about forty years ago. At that time
the japanese were allowed to trade only
with the DItch, and to bold cOmmunica-
tion with any ore else meant death. The
American ship fell in with a feet of
Japanese tishipg-boats and the American
officer tried t. purchase one Of the JAP
anese hats as a curiosity to take home. He
was finally successful in persuading the
Japanese to part with his hat. but the fish,
erman drew his fiuger across his throat to
signify that if il were found out ashore
that he had traded with an American his
head would be cut IF.
"rhe Chinese, with all their power. are
bound to be whipped. They are highly
initiative and quite intelligent, but their
ships are of no use to them. They are Ike
workmen who do not know how to use
their tools. In this great naval victory
education and persistence on the part OF
one race have told against wealth and
numbers on the part Of the other"
The morning call., 1894-09-22

master as having been made in the trans
actions named will ultimately be recoy-
cred from some of those who nave
hitherto betrayed your interests.
The work TO which all interested in the
securities OF the company are now looking
is that of reorganization. Hitherto there
has been little encouragement to make
serious efforts in this direction owing to
the enormous and phenomenal decrease in
earnings.
This was not due entirely to the pre-
vailing business depression. Serious
washouts made through travel impossible
for great part of June and the strike
prac ically closed the road for ene first
half of July. In August, however. mat
ters changed and the earnings for the
month showed an increase of $17S,-
400 over August. 1893. Thus far this
month the improvement has been in the
same ratio and there is reason to hope it
msy continue. Nevertheless the serious
decrease of earnings during the year has
affected materially and for the worse the
position of stockholders.
although it is pro bable that every class
of bonds may be called on TO make a con-
cession, more or less, according to their
will have to bear proportonate burdens in
rrder to preserve their holdings. There is
no doubt. however. that plan of reor-
ganization can and will be proposed which
will give them equal consideration for any
sacrifices and contributions they may be
asked to make. But they must understand
that none of the committee thus far formed
are working 10 their interests, while one of
them-that which is known as the Adams
committee-is av0wedly and aggressiyely
hOstile to yhem.
"There is one phase of the present strug-
gle which is so grotesque in its Injustice
and Inconsistency that il should be called
especially to the attent tion OF the stnckhold-
ers. TIE Adams committee under date of
July 81. 1894, made the following extraor-
binary public announcement: 'We agree
with the German bondholders who pub
lished March so, 1894. in Berlin and Frank
fort, tile statement that the present situa-
tion Of the Northern Pacific Railroad had
been brought about through the misman-
agement of the shareholders. and that the
bondholders have t. take the protection of
their Interests 10 hand themselves
1T is manifest that the stock and not
the bonds nave cast the vote electing the
various boards of this company since its
organization. as Is usual in all companies,
but it is notorious. and to none better
known than to the German bondhoIders
of all classes, that Mr.. Wizards main re-
lance for support and influence was upon
foreign connections, through which he was
able TO place vast amounts of securities
and manipulate enormous sums.
"Mr. Willard, as their representative, oc-
cupied a commanding position ia the conn.,
pany's councils, when enabled him to con-
troll the elections prior to 1854, when the
company's collapse and his failure caused
The morning call., 1894-09-22
ENGLISH FRUIT-GROWING.
Not Profitable Because the Foreign
Product Is Preferred.

LONDON, Sept q. The controversy
upon the question of English fruit is grow
ing largely. 1t was stirred up by the recent
invasion of the California fruits and by
Mr. Gladstone's recommendation to small
British farmers to give up growing wheat
and take to fruit-grOwing.
In this connection, Mr.. Richard D.
Blackmore, the novelist, who for years has
been large fruit-grower upon his model
farms in Surrey, has written letter to the
Times, in which he says that it is impossi-
BILE at the present wholesale prices of
English fruit to make fair profit.
He adds that the most magnificent
grapes bring shillings a pound on an
average and that fine peaches bring 2
shillings per dozen. He quotes plums at 1
shilling to shilings per sieve and pears
at 2 shillings pence to shillings per
bushel. and they are scarcely salable at
any price.
Apples alone, says Mr.. Blackmore. would
give fair return if the British farmers
only had them. In the face of these facts,
which become more adverse every year.
Mr.. Blackmore expresses the opinion that
it would be a cruel deception to talk of
profitable fruit-growing in England.
Foreign competition" hs says. sis in
creasing and must be expected to increase.
Covent Garden prefers the finest home
grown fruit, and we suppose it follows the
public taste"
The morning call., 1894-09-22
PREDICTS A VICTORY.
Senator ManderSOn Talks About
the Republicans.
Vermont and Maine Start the Ball
Rolling Toward Success All
Over the Union.

New YORK, Sept Ex-senator Charles
F. MandersOn Of Nebraska, chairman OF
the executive committee of the Republ-
can Congressional committee, is at the
Waldorf. Said he: 81 see it is Morton
and / suppose it will be $4,000 ms aiority.
Weal, this is going to be grand Rspubli-
can year, not only in New York but all
over. Vermont and Maine have set the
ball rolling. The prospect in Nebraska is
good, too. The only thing that looks bad
for US there is the crop failure. Populism
thrives only IN disaster. 1t is not an ele-
ment Of good times and prosperity. Ne
braska's three Republican Congressman,
Mercer, Haines and Meiklejohn, have all
been renomin ated. They are all Jealous
Republicans and there is every prospect of
their reelection.
Bryan, our Democratic Congressman
with POpulistic tendencies, having served
two terms, declined a denomination. He
will try to become a United States Sem
ator if the Populists carry the Legislature.
Dangherty (R p) is running against the
POpulist, KEN, and Andrew Rep.) will try
TO defeat the Populist, McKeighan."
Speaking of the Republican Congress
siOnal outlook Senator Henderson said {:
Republican prospects are very encourag-
ing indeed. We shall make large gains in
the South. Three Republican Congress-
men will be elected in Louisiana, and it
begins to look as if the war by the Demo-
cratic Congress against the sugar planters
of that State woul1 result in the State 60
ing Republican. There is a growing pro-
lection sentiment also IN Georgia and Ala
bsma. There is an astonishing number of
prOtectionists in these States. l have been
among them recently and I was surprised
at the change in sentiment In South
Carolina we shall make a gain Of about
three Congressman. Waits's renomina-
tion makes Colorado perfectly safe as
Republican State, and Wyoming we hope
will swing back into the Republican COL
umn. The election there is important, as
two United States Senators are to be
elected"
The morning call., 1894-09-22

he returned to New York again as the
representative of the DeItsche Bank, grad
ually secured canirol of our property and
began a second career Of ruinous manage
m ent, for which his former connections
now repudiate him.
''We do not impugn the motives of the
foreign bondb olders and their principles.
but they have twice already made serious
blunders in their support of the old North
ern Pacific management, and instead of
their hostility your board considers itself
worthy of their active support. The inde-
iensible accusation that 1t is your fault.
and that you must therefore share the
burden of their changed position toward
Mr.. Willard. and trust TO their selections in
this country from the ranks of the old
management to rehabiitate your property,
seems not only especially unjust to the
stockholders, but against the best interests
of an early reorganization, which can be
brought about only through harmony and
united action, and which the directors have
sought in vain thus far to effect. That
there may be no Misunderstanding as TO
the attitude of your directors for the
future, as well as in the past. it should be
known tha. they are as they have been at
all times, ready and anxious to cooperate
with all, whether boudholders or stock
holders. whose object has been, or may be,
to promote the welfare of the entire prop
erty.
BRAYToN IVES, President"
The morning call., 1894-09-22
DEFENSE OF BEMIS.
The City of Omaha Made Money by
the Land Deal.

OMAHA, Sept. 21.--The defense In the
Mayor Bemis impeachment proceedings be-
gan presenting its side of the case to-day.
The first witness was Guy Doane. secre-
tary of the park commission. who gave a
recorded history OF the purchase of Bemis
park. This Is the tran saction in which il
is sought to impeach the Mayor for par
ticiDating in the sale of property to the
city, while acting in an official capacity.
The commission instructed its secretary to
send to the City Council a recommends
tion that this tract be purchased by the
city for park. DR.. George Miller, ex-
president of the Board Of Park Commits
sloners, testified that the deal was per
fectly legitimate. George w. Lininger, a
former member of the park board, tesli-
fed that during his term as member of
the board the park system of Omaha was
discussed. Bemis Park was eventually
selected and purchased by the city for
about $50, 900, TO carry out and complete
the plans OF the park board for a complete
park and boulevard system. Many other
prominent citizens testified that the city
was more benef ed by the sale than Mayor
Bemis. The issue on gambling will come
up tomorrow.
The morning call., 1894-09-22
NOT A MAN AT WORK.
The Shops of All of Boston's Clothing
Contractors Closed.

BOSTON. Sept. 2l.-The shops of all the
clothing contractors in the city are closed
to-day and not one of the strikers is at
work. At 9 A. NJ a mass-meeting of the
strikers was held and the chairman of
every shops crew accounted for every man
under hin.
Several small contractors have applied
to sign the new agreement which the strik-
ers insist on, but it is not yet mDleted,
and probably will not be before tomorrow.
The determination Of the striking
garment-worker to fight for what they
con slider their Tignts has not grown less
during the day. The contractors were in
conference all day discussing the scale of
prices to be presented to the mannfac-
turers.
The prices finally agreed upon raise the
wages of the employees from so to 60 per
cent, and will be practically a restoration
of rates paid before the business depres-
sion set in year ago. These prices will
be presented 10 the manufacturers to-
morrow, and the contractors seem to feel
confident they will be accepted.
1t was announced Tonight that two of
the leading manufacturing firms of the
city have agreed to raise the price as de-
manded.
The morning call., 1894-09-22
CARBiNE PRACTICE.
The Cavalrymen Shoot Better Than
the Infantry.

OMAHA, Nebr.. Sept. 21.-A special to
the Bee from Bellevue. Nebr., says: The
four days annual caEbine competition
practice of the Department of the East.
Platte and California closed to-day, The
combined work of the ten men who will
represent departments on the army con-
tests reached 5497 points out of a possible
5000. A remarkable feature of the davis
work was the fact that the cavalrymen.
with their carbines, beat the best work of
the infantry with their rifles, very un-
usual feature.
CHICAGO. Sept. 21.-The annual army
shoot at Fort sheridan began in earnest
to-day. Sergeant Thomas O'Rourke, Com
psDy G, Fifteenth Infantry, made the best
record. His score was 40 out of a posi-
BILE 200 points. First Sergeant NJ. J. Muir
ply, Company ID. Fifteenth Infantry. was
close second with 169. The best score
among the cavalry competitors for the
army team was by Private j. L. Martin,
Troop |. Seventh Cavalry. His average
score will be the best. The best average
shooting was done by the infantry.
Seventy-fve competitors took part in the
shooting, forty-three infantry and thirty
two cavalrymen. The firing was at known
distances of 200, 800. 500 and 600 yards.
The morning call., 1894-09-22

his letter of September Mr.. Byrnes ad.
mits all we claimed two years ago."
Superintendent of Police Byrnes, when
asked to-day if he cared to say anything
about the criticism of him by DR.. Park
hurst in the Eighteenth-sreet Methodist
Church last night, said: HE had a per-
feet right to criticize me. as any other citi-
zen has. Further than that have moth
ing to say"
Superintendent Byrnes has made his
report to the Board of Police Commission
ers relative to the alleged frauds in the
civil service examinations. The superin-
tendent says that IN the case of James
Crowley there is evidence of fraud.
The answers to the questions on the pa
pers have been proved not to have been
written by Crowley. He exonerates In
spector mclaughlin from any completely
in the frauds. and states that the papers
were changed after they had passed
through his hands,
The morning call., 1894-09-22
While Much Damage Was Done
to Property.
GREAT DESTRUCTION IN IOWA.
The House of the Family of Foley
Scattered Over the Surround
ing Country.

ST. PAUL. Sept 21.-The town of Leroy,
Minu., is reported 10 have been partially
ruined by cyclone late this evening. The
telegraph-o at Elmore reports three
people killed at Leroy and the whole
eastern part of the town badly damaged.
Fires broke out at the same time, de-
stroying hotel and three stores. This
information was brought to Mcintyre by
the agent of the w. and S. w. Railway
at Leroy.
The officials in this city of the Chi
cage, Milwaukee and ST. Paul Railroad
report that severe windstorm struck the
village of Homer, four miles south of
Winona, demolishing five or six dwellings
and doing considerable damage to railroad
property. wrecking train left this city
for Homer.
The telegraph wires are in bad condition
and details are slow 10 coming. From the
Chicago Great Western Railway it is
learned thatthe storm struck New Haven,
Iowa. doing great damage to property, and
doctors have been called there from Rice
Vile.
1t is thought many people have been in-
Jured. The little village of Lowther,
Mimi, has been wiped out, not building
being left standing.
1t is impossible to obtain anything def
mite here tonight about he Iowa cyclones.
EMMETTsRURG. Iowa, Sept. 21.-A ter
rife cyclone passed over this section this
evening, causing several deaths and the
destruction of much property. The Foley
house, half mile south of this city, is
demolished, daughter S dead, and father,
mother and son are frightfully wounded.
Mrs. Foley's arms are both broken, and
she can hardly recover. Mrs. Alex Golden,
living few miles east of here, is dead,
and Mr.. Golden is not expected to live.
AT the little town Of Cylinder, ten miles
east. two or three houses were blown down
aud several persons seriously injured.
Several Whose names have not been
learned are missing. and many are sup
posed to be killed or wounded.
In Great Oak Township, FIVE miles
southwest. the storm was very. severe.
Many buildings are reported to have been
blown down. In this city the storm was
severe, but no serious damage was done,
The morning call., 1894-09-22
ALL THE LAND SINKS.
Supposed to Be Over an Under
ground River.
Whatever the Cause, IL Has Scared
the Farmers of Kansas Pretty
Badly.

WICHITA, Kans., Sep. H.-Tbe ground
is caviug in toward the center of the earth
in the vicinity of the junction of Harvey,
Butler and Marion counties Great ex-
element prevails among the people and
many of them are getting away. The dis
asters are of the most unaccountable
origin, and the State geOlOgist has been
summoned to investigate The disturbances
of the earth formations.
There was 10 shock felt when the ground
caved in bearing any resemblance to an
earthquake. Near White Water, on the
farm Of Thomas Essington, an area of
40 by 90 feet sunk 10 depth of twenty
eight feet, and when man was let down
into the hole his weight alone sunk the
earth nearly three feet more. This Oc-
Cured yesterday and at about the same
moment an area of seventy five feet square
sunk al Plum Grove to a depth OF $50 feet.
This was on the farm of Sid Jones, the
sliding in carving thrashing machine
and separator with it. Water poured into
the latter hole from underground till it
filled nearly to the top. but the hole at
White Water is still Grg, although it is
supposed that the caved in earth is resting
upon a vast body of water. The places
are some seven or eight miles apart.
AT An nelly. some ten miles from White
Water, there were several cave-ins rang
ing in depth from six to forty feet The
theories are various. but none of them so
far are scientific. Not long since a man
was digging we'll in the vicinity of Plum
Grove and when he had reached a depth
of twenty-six feet the drill shot into an
apparent vacuum and could not be recov-
cred. The supposition is that there is
dried-up subterranean river undefnea tn
the land which has caved In. All the
cave-ins, great ana small, extend in q
crooked stream-like course 8 distance of
about twenty-four miles.