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The record-union., 1897-09-06
AFTER WEFERS.
The Chicago Sprinters Think They
Can Capture His Scalp.

NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-Arrangements
have been completed for the sports of
the New Jersey Athletic Club, which
viii be held on the club grounds to-mor-
row. Great interest centers in the ap-
pearance sprints of Champion Wefers
and the two Western cracks, Rush and
Maybury of the Chicago Athletic Asso-
citation. They will meet in the 100
yards dash.
The Western boys, although taking
their defeat in the national champion
ship in true sportsmanlike manner and
offering no excuses, feel that before re-
turning home they would like one more
chance at the champion. The 100-yard
dash is championship affair and the
Chicago men have been given a foot and
half, but the race in which they are
most interested is the 30O-yard scratch.
On this race the boys are placing most
of their hopes, as they are considered
TO be better performers at that dis
lance. The Chicago boys have been
training faithfully at Travers Island.
and have become acclimated since the
championships, and consequently have
hopes of beating Wefers.
At the national championship meeting
on August 2Sth the Judges decided that
Maybury and Rush ran dead heat for
second place. Chairman F'ishburn of
the Chicago Athletic Association has
arranged that Messrs. Rush and May
bury viii run this heat off tomorrow.
This viii be the first event tomorrow
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RICHER THAN KLONDIKE.
Country of the Yaquis, in Mexico,
Full of Gold and Quartz.

KANSAS CITY, Sept. "a special
to the Journal" from Sedalia, Mo-,
says:
J. w. Corkins, a Sedalia capitalist,
and Leo Cloud, an expert mining engi-
neer of Cincinnati, representatives of
a st. Louis and Cincinnati syndicate,
will leave here tomorrow for the west
coast of Mexico to practically verify
the value of gold placer and quartz
mines which have recently been Sc
cured by the syndicate.
Messrs. Corkins and Cloud will go di-
rect to Hermosillo, and from there to
the gold fields in the new Ell Dorado,
located in the Yaqui Indian country,
which has just been opened to entry
to white men. This part of Mexico has
been explored but little by whites, but
if the reports of the syndicate's pros
pectors are true, the inland mountain
ranges along the west coast of Mexico
are richer even than those of the Klon-
dixie. The placer mines are said to be
marVelously rich in scale and nugget
gold while the quartz rock in the up
per lodges contains veins of free mill
ing ore which assay from $50 to 5000
per ton. The syndicate succeeded in
keeping the discovery a secret while
securing its mining patents and conces-
sions, and if the reports received here
are substantially correct, the syndicate
will be able to turn the tide of for
tune hunters from the gold fields of
Alaska to the Ell Dorado of Mexico.
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THE AMEER FRIENDLY.
He Has Drawn His Troops Away
From the Outposts.

LONDON. Sept. 5.-The "Times" this
morning publishes a dispatch from
Simla saying that further evidence has
been obtained of the desire of the
Ameer of Afghanistan to prevent his
subjects from going in the frontier dis
turbances The British agent at Ca
bull submitted, at the Ameer's request,
a written statement showing the points
upon which the Government laid spe-
cial stress. The Ameer replied to this
statement in his own handwriting, en-
phasjzlng his previous statements that
his subjects do not dare to openly take
part in the fighting, but they have been
drawn away secretly by the Mullahs,
whose conduct he strongly condemned.
Not the least doubt is entertained,
the dispatch says, of the Ameer's desire
to fulfill his obligations loyalty. He
has issued orders that his troops be
withdrawn from the detached outposts
so that they may be kept together I'M
der the control of officers who are able
to prevent them from deserving and
joining in the fighting.
An important step has been taken
by Mahaiarah Sir Biz Shamshar Jang
Rama Bahadur, Prime Minister of Ne
paul, who has forbidden the circula-
ton IN the kingdom of native news
papers which he considers seditious
and hostile to the British Government.
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THE AGNES I. GRACE SUNK.
Four Sixteen Ton Guns Broke
Loose and Caused the Trouble.

SAVANNAH (Ga.), Sept. 5.-The
three masted schooner Agnes I. Grace
of Bangor, Maine, capsized and sunk
this morning, twenty-one miles east of
Tybee. Her crew came ashore in
boa I'D landed at Warsaw Island this
afternoon. The schooner sailed from
New York August 2Sth with a cargo Of
salt for Savannah and four 16-ton
guns for the Tybee fortTications All
down the coast, she was driven by a
fierce northeaster, and, on Saturday
night she came off Tybee, laboring
heavily in the gale. An effort was
made to bring her to and save her be-
ing driven further to the southwark.
but when brought to, the wind be-
gan to toss the vessel, and the big
guns which formed part of her deck
load drifted loose from their lashings
and took possession of the deck. The
crew was driven into the rigging and
the iron monsters plunged about as the
vessel heaved IN the sea, making every
effort to recapture them almost
certain DEATH About s o'clock in the
morning an unusually heavy swell
tossed all four guns into the port soup
pers and the vessel heeled under the
immense weight, tried to right, but
staggered as the green water broke
fercely in over the bulwarks. She
capsized and sank
Captain Farrar and his crew, con-
sisting Of seven men, succeeded in
manning the vessels boat after much
| difficulty and rowed away from her
just as she went down. They arrived
at Warsaw Island, twenty miles south
of Tybee Inlet at 4 o'clock this after
noon. The proprietor of the Warsaw
Island took the shipwrecked men in
and did everything possible to make
them comfortable. They will come to
the city to-day either in their boat or
on the sIoop Hartford which is at War
saw on her way to Savannah.
The schooner Agnes I. Grace was
built at Waldorboro, Maine, in 1873,
and hailed from Bangor, Maine. She
was 126 feet in length, 31.5 feet in
breadth and 11.9 feet in depth. Her
gross tonnage was 37469 and net tom
mage 357.S6
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HAMBURG, Sept. 5.-Emperor Will
liam, in proposing the toast to King
Humbert at the banquet at the Kur-
haus last evening, said: My army
thanks your majesty for the honor of
your leading a corps in the review but
not only my army but the whole Ger
man fatherland greets in your majesty
and exalted prince a close friend of my
father and a true ally whose presence
again shows US and the world how
unshakable and firm stands the Drei-
bund which was founded in the inter-
est of peace and which the longer it
lasts Will more firmly and more deep
ly strike its shoots into the minds of
people and bear fruit accordingly"
King Humbert replied in French. He
said:
Il am glad of the opportunity to
give you fresh testimony of the cordial
friendship and alliance between our
Governments and the States. Your
majesty has set your reign a noble task
by devoting your constant efforts tow
ard peace, the maintenance of which
by agreements will end in the unani-
nous wish Of our Governments and
also in my most ardent desires.
4 think l shall always remain faith
full to my countrys mission by giving
loyal support to the accomplishment of
this work-the greatest and most ben
Efficient of all for the welfare of nations
and the progress of civilization"
Emperor William then conferred the
decoration of the Order Of the Black
Eagle upon Count LAMA Di Bososa,
the Italian ambassador to Germany.
The toast proposed by King Humbert
is considered to be so worded as to
make it understood that while Italy
will adhere to the Dreibund, she does
not mean to impair her relations with
other Powers and it was evidently his
view to emphasize this fact.
During the morning King Humbert
held a long conversation with the mill
itary attache of the French Embassy.
An open-air service of the troops
was held to-day, which was attended
by the royalties present at the man
euvers and at which Emperor William
announced that Queen Margherita had
been appointed Chief of the Eleventh
Battalion of Chasseurs. The Queen
then made a brief address, the cere-
mony ending by a march past and the
playing of the Italian royal march.
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DESPERATE CROOK CAPTURED.
HE CUT HIS WAY OUT OF
PRISON SIX YEARS AGO.
Threatened to Kill Policeman
and Is Supposed to Have Car
ried Out His Threat.

NEW YORK, Sept 5.-Eugene
O'Hara, alias Joe Bates, alias James
Brown, burglar, highwayman, despera-
do and probably murderer, who cut his
way out of Jefferson Market Prison
here six years ago and has been hunted
ever since, was recaptured to-day by
detectives After his escape O'Hara,
with another fugitive from justice
named Joe Stanahan, made his way to
Colon, from which place they proceed
ed to Europe, where they committed
a series of bold crimes. Three years
ago OHara returned to the United
States and at Columbus, o., was caught
in the act of burglary. He served
term of two years and half for this
crime and during the period of his i'm
prisonment was not recognized as the
escaped prisoner from this city. O'Hara
was released recently and took up
residence in Jersey City. He made trips
across the North River and at last the
police were informed that O'Hara was
visiting his old haunts here and took
steps to arrest him.
Under the name Of Joe Bates, O'Hara
in 1873 was sentenced to term of
seven years at Sing Sing Prison for
highway robbery committed here.
Again, in 1885, he was caught robbing
a saloon in this city by Policeman VIM.
Ketcham O'Hara made an attempt to
shoot the policeman, but was finally
landed in the station house. Before be-
ing sent to the States prison a second
time O'Hara threatened to kill Ketch
am as soon as he had served his term.
On August Z, 1891, Policeman Ketch-
ans dead body was found floating in
the North River and the mystery of his
tragic death has not yet been cleared
up. AS O'Hara was known to be out of
prison, orders were issued to arrest
him on suspicion of having killed
Ketcham. -Four days after the finding
of the policeman's body, Patrolman
Thomas F. Mcclure was stabbed three
times in the back by O'Hara. After
fight with another policeman named
Sherwood, the murderous crook was
overpowered and arrested He was
then committed in default of $1,000 bail
to the jefferson Market Prison to await
trial for his attack on Mcguire. O'Hara
cut the prison bars with a saw and
ocoopc6
The record-union., 1897-09-06

PITTSBURG, Sept. 5.-Expectations
are high in coal mining circles over the
probable resumption of work in the
mines throughout the country.
In anticipation of a settlement at Co
lumbus next Wednesday another plan
has been suggested by a representative
of one of the largest operators, which
will be agitated Immediately after the
men return to work. 1t Will be for
INFLATED and submitted to the joint con-
vention of operators and miners, which
it is proposed to hold next December.
In order to come to an understanding
on all questions at issue, separate wage
scales are to be formulated for each
mine. The scale is to provide for the
rate to be paid for the entire year and
any special concessions that are to be
made are to be greed upon by the min
ers and the operators and so specified
in the scale The scale is to be an
adjunct to the uniformity agreement
which is expected to be in force. The
proposition will be made by the oper-
ators in the hope of putting all the
safeguards possible against a probable
strike. 1t is well known that there are
not two mines in the entire district
where the conditions are exactly alike.
The uniformity agreement covers the
general points, but even with it in eX-
istence, some operators would be sub
jected to difficulties, while Others have
special advantages. The scale is to
cover all these points, the primary OBJ
ject being to avert differences and Gre
ate a more friendly feeling between the
employees and employers.
Philip Stamburgh, a cousin of Presi-
dent Mckinley and a partner in the
firm of Osborne, Saeger & Co., was in
Pittsburg this afternoon. He said the
men formerly employed in the Eclipse
mine on the Wheeling division Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Road would be
asked to go to work tomorrow at the
sixty-five cent rate. He was not pre-
pared to say how many men would go
to work
David Van Eman, Manager of the
Pittsburg and Chicago Gas Coal Com
pany's mines at Snowden and CASTOR
vile, announced more than a week ago
that he would resume work tomorrow.
Notices were served on all the men liv-
ing in company houses to vacate and
then ten-day limit expires in the morn
ing. AT the mines it was stated yes
terday that more men would go to
work Manager Van Eman could not
be seen but it is generally supposed
that no effort will be made to resume
until after the Columbus convention.
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BOTTO ARRAIGNED.
He Claims That the Check He Was
Arrested for VIII Be Paid.

NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-William Botto.
of Louisville, KY, who was arrested
yesterday for having passed a worthless
check in Philadelphia was arraigned to-
day in a Police Court He was commit
ted to the Tombs to await the arrival
of requisition papers from Kentucky
The alleged bad check was on the
Louisville Trust Company, and was for
$50, and was made payable to Frank c.
Benjamin of Philadelphia. Botto is
said to be the son of the owner of the
Louisville Baseball Club. In court to-
day Botto said that he had been in the
habit of drawing checks against the
Louisville Trust Company, although he
never had an account there. He would
wire to his father that he had drawn a
check, and his father would make it
good The money in the present case
was sent on by him, he said, TO his first
wife. who failed to deposit as he di-
rected.
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showed no receipts for this class and
Crosar volunteered the information that
the projected class had never been
formed.
Since then, however, a number of
persons have turned up who have been
paying into class II for about three
years, and Expert Harding says the
total amount of these payments will
amount to about $1,000. 1t is gener-
ally understood that there will be no
opposition before Vice Chancellor Gray
in Camden on Tuesday to the appoint
ment of a receiver for the wrecked con-
Germs
The shareholders of these classes,
which, according to Croser's books, suf-
fered the greatest loss by the steal
ing, will oppose a distribution of the
remaining assets on the basis of Gro
ser's books, and will insist that the
shareholders of all classes sustain the
loss III proportion to the amount of
money paid in. This matter may not
come up before the Vice Chancellor on
Tuesday, however. 1t may be left to
be disposed of by the court after the
receiver is appointed.
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BIG DEAL IN PROSPECT.
The Thomas-Brice Syndicate May
Buy the c., II. g. ID. System.

CINCINNATI, Sept 5.-The EN-
quirer" announces that two experts
from New York are examining the rec
ords of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad Company in the inter
ests of the Thomas-Brice syndicate.
1t is believed that the Cincinnati.
Hamilton and Dayton system, which
includes the indianapolis and Toledo
divisions, Indiana, Decatur and West
ern, Cleveland, Lorraine and Wheeling,
Dayton and Ironton Railways, is to be
consolidated with the Monon, Lake
Erie and Western, Cincinnati North
ern, Cincinnati, Jackson and Macki-
nav, Cleveland, Akron and Columbus
Roads, which the Thomas rice syndi-
cate now controls. The Thomas Brice
syndicate has already investigated the
physical condition of the road and it is
believed there will be an important
deal announced after the experts re-
port on their return to New York
The record-union., 1897-09-06
BODIES RECOVERED.
Singular Accident That Drowned a
Man and His Wife.

PLATTSBURGH On. ", Sept. s.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Park
er, Jr., who were drowned in Chain
Lake on Saturday were recovered last
night. Dynamite was used and the
bodies came to the surface.
Mr.. Parker and his wife went row.
ing in the morning, Mr.. Parker taking
his gun with him. Not returning,
about noon a party went in search of
them and the boat was found floating
bottom up at the end of the lake. When
Mr.. Parker's body was recovered it was
found that the nose was broken and
the face badly disfgured, which seemed
to indicate that when the gun was dis
charged it had exploded or kicked bad
~ and that Mr.. Parker had been
knocked overheard and had probably
capsized the boat.
The record-union., 1897-09-06
CONSUL LEE.
He Is Only Coming Home to Take
His Annual Vacation.

WASHINGTON, Sept 5-Assistant
Secretary Day of the State Depart
ment, who returned to washington to-
day, was asked whether or not it was
true as reported that Consul Lee was
on his way to the United States and
would not return to Havana when his
vacation was over
Judge Day replied that the regular
thirty days annual leave had been
granted to General Lee, and so far as
he was aware there was no reason TO
suppose the General would not return
to Havana when that time had ex-
pfred The understanding here is that
General Lees visit to the United
States at this time is purely on person.
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sAMPLING REGULATIONS.
New Ones Announced by the
Treasury Department

treasury department..
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-The Treas
AIRY Department has reported the reg
ulauons governing the sampling and
classification of the imported sugars
and moiasses under the new tariff law
and they will be formally promulgated
tomorrow. One of the principal and
most important of the changes made in
the old regulations which We're made
in 1883 is a provision requiring that
the "resamples" of sugars shall be
taken at the time the original sample
is taken. This provision has been ex-
pedient TO prevent any suspicion of
jrregularity
Many new provisions were also in
Guided in the regulations with the OBJ
ject OF securing uniformity at the diff
ferent laboratories where sugars are
tested. As soon as the change can be
made only the half shadow polariscope
viii be employed in making tests, in
stead Of the color instruments now in
use ara all other instruments and ap-
paratus win be standardized by the
ofhcIals of the Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey IN order TO secure uniform results.
The tests for the classification of su-
gars have been changed so that the
average tests agreeing within two
tenths Of l per cent shall govern the
classification.
Under the Act of 1883 the determin-
ing test was the lowest of two tests
agreeing within three-tenths of a de-
gree. This change was made because
the present law provides for a sliding
scale Of duties on fractions of a de-
gree and because it was believed that
this method, which follows the COM
mercial practices. would be fairer to all
concerned Warrant for this change
was obtained from an opinion rendered
The record-union., 1897-09-06
FoREsTERs' HIGH COURT.
It's Biennial Convention VIII Meet
at Cleveland To-Day.

CLEVELAND, Sept. 5.-The biennial
convention of the Subsidiary High
Court of the Ancient Order of Foresters
will begin in this city tomorrow. High
Chief Ranger George Hill of Meriden,
Conn, and a number OF delegates, as
well as the officers, are already here.
The most important business to come
before the convention is a proposal 10
add an insurance feature to the order
and it is believed that viii be done. 1t
is also proposed TO amend the constitu-
ton so as to make the dues uniform in
stead of graduated, according to the
ages of the members. The delegates
present will represent seven or eight
The record-union., 1897-09-06

PITTSBURG- Pa~), Sept. 5.-The
United Labor League of Western Penn
sylvanAl at a largely attended and ex-
citing meeting tonight gave expression
to an open revolt against Samuel Com
pers, President of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, and many reflections
and ugly charges are made He is
credited with making unkind remarks
about the gathering and casting re-
Elections on those who were foremost
IN the meeting. Gompers had a. few
defenders in the meeting and at one
time there We're remarks concerning
somebody being thrown out of the WIN
dow. Turing the discussion on a prop
osition to take some action on the st.
Louis platform, NJ. P. Carrick, Presi-
dent Of the Brotherhood of Painters
and Decorators, referred to Gompers
as plug-hatted, greasy tool of capt.
tai. He said among other things:
President Gompers, through inter-
views and otherwise, had proven him
self no true friend of labor. Gompers
had said that Debs and Sovereign were
trying 20 disrupt trades unions. 1t is
he that is doing his utmost to accom-
pllsh this. [ want to say that it was
not the trades unions that came to the
assistance of the miners in their great
fight, but the great mass of organized
labor and citizens who have no inter
est in organization. Business men. shop
workers and people from all crafts
came to the relief of the miners and
| their cause would have been utterly
lost had it depended on trades unions
and such men as Gompers.
1T is time to call a halt on labor
fakirs who sit in their offices and thank
| God that they are not like the poor
Workingman of the country. Gompers
is disgrace to labor and I believe it
is high time to call down the wouId-be
aristocrats of labor and kick them
bodily cut of the movement
When President Carrick finished he
! was greeted with round after round of
applause The following resolution, Of
fered by John Dykus, representative
| of the Typographical Union, was adopt
ed;
Resolved That the United Labor
League of Western Pennsylvania dis
approve Of the utterances of Mr.. Com
pers for the reason that they are in
imical to the interests of organized la
Dor, and we are liberal enough to be-
lieve that the great battle for the
emancipation of labor cannot be won
by the trades unions alone
1t was decided to send a delegate to
the Chicago convention to be held Sep
TENDER 9th and every delegate present
was instructed to urge his local lodge
to do the same.
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FATAL TRAIN WRECK.
A Broken F1ange Overturns a Car
With Sixty-Five PASSENGERS.

WATERVILLE (Me9. Sept. 5.-An
excursion train on the Maine Central
hallway was wrecked this morning
thirty-two miles west of Etna station
One passenger was killed and thirty two
wounded. The dead: Martin Payne,
aged p. of Plymouth.
Seriously hurt: Charles Getschel, bag
gage master at Newport station; Frank
G. Billings, East Newport; Arthur Fish,
Dexter; Mrs. j. w Townsend Newport;
Joseph Welch, St Adams; Oscar But
terra, Newport; w. II. Earls, Plymouth;
Mrs. Wilbur Miles, Newport.
The train was carrying excursionists
from Dover and Fox Craft to the Etna
camp meeting. The breaking of a f1anga
derailed and overturned d car contain
ing sixty-five persons.
The record-union., 1897-09-06
POSTOFFICE CLERKS.
They Hold Their Sixth Annual
Convention in Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, Sept. 5.-Nearly all
Of the delegates to the eighth annual
convention Of the National Association
of Postoffice Clerks which assemblies
here tomorrow, have arrived in the
city. About 800 delegates from the
different cities of the United States will
represent the 1900 members of the
association. They will remain here I'M
tai Friday and in addition to the reg
ular business session, an elaborate pro-
gramme for the entertainment of the
visitors has been properad
Postmaster-Gener Gary and other
prominent postoffice officials will be
special guests at the banquet to be Civ
en- Wednesday evening.
The record-union., 1897-09-06
BENJAMIN BREWSTER DEAD.
Associated With Rockefeller in the
Standard Oil Company.

NEW YORK, Sept 5.-Benjamin
Brewster. President of the Keol1uk and
Des Moines Railroad, died yesterday at
his summer home in Casenovia N. Y,
aged 50 years. In 1S49 he went to Cali
fornia, where he remained in business
for twenty-five years.
He was closely associated with John
D. Rockefeller in the establishment of
the Standard Oil Company, and was
prominently identified with the con-
struction of the Rock Island system of
railroad.