Evening Gazette

              tucning jygik * HTTMBBB. 1898 I WmUt Batebliahad 188a ( prrrsTON, pa., thgrsimy. January 27. W67. I rWOOBNTS I Ten Cent* Per Week NEW YORK'S BIG STRIKE. and cortmen who stood ready to transfer the coal if it were unloaded. A cargo was consigned to the Brookfleld glass works near that, place. The strikers objected to the employes of the works handling the coal. A force of police drove the strikers from the wharves and allowed the glass works men to gat at the coal They soon quit, however, on the plea that they were not able to handle it The cartraen on these wharves finally refused to cart the coal unless the boats were unloaded by union meu. Probably the men in the glass works would not have used  coal if It had been brought to them. Trouble' is expected along the water front on account of the reception of coal by the sugar refineries. The sugar men now ship coal in their own boats and have their own laborers to handle it It is said that the union men employed in many capacities about these refineries will be called oat Should this report prove true, there is a likelihood that these union men might be able to stop the ferryboats from running by calling out the union men employed on and about the A GHASTLY DISCOVERY. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS 1 GOSCHEN DEFEATED. TREASURER JORDAN. A Small Texas Unpleasantness Causes a He Wilt I«tn the Trtainrj to Brcomt A MUTILATED CORPSE FOUND IN A TRUfoK AT BALTIMORE. Tilt In tbo Senate. 5 THE TORIES BAOUY CRIPPLED AT Bank President. THOU8AND8 OF KNIGHTS OF LABOR INVOLVED IN THE TROUBLE. Washington. Jan. 87.—The following were among the bills reported and placed on the calendar: A bill creating a department of agriculture; bill for completion of a monument to the mother of Washington at Fredericksburg; bill granting right of way for a railroad through the Crow Indian reservation; bill removing the quarantine Station from Ship Island, Miss. A CRITICAL PERIOD. New York, Jan. 27.—The Commercial Advertiser sets at rest the various rumors about United States Treasury- C. D*. Jordan's intentions as to the future, by statins that after tbe adjournment of congrcs-, Mr. Jordan will become president of a now bank in this city, to be called the Western National bank of New York, with $3,000,000 capital. The statement is made on authority of Assistant United States Treasurer C. J. Canda, of this city. The stock of tho new bank was subscribed for two weeks ago. Mr. Canda says the plans for the new bank's operations are completed, but he does not feel at liberty to disclose them. He declined to give his opinion concerning a printed dispatch from Washington which intimates that the new bank will enjoy unusually intimate relations with the government, and will have branches in all the leading cities of the country. District Assembly 40 Managing the Strike—Steamships Cannot Sail tor Wast of Coal—Poles Assaulted by Mistake In Jersey City. The Headless Tronk Wrapped In a Blood Stained Coat—Adams Express Carry the A Severe Bloiw to the Ministry—No Leader In the Commons—Beaten by Eleven Votes—A Forecast of the Body from New York—Is it a Case of Queen's Speech. Murder? Messrs. Hoar, Frye and Pugh were appointed a conference committee on the act relating to contested elections. Liverpool, Jan. 27.—The election for member of parliament for the Exchange division of this city, to fill thij vacancy caused by the death of David Duncan, n i he'd yesterday and resulted as !..»*, .v»: Air. Neville, Gludstonian, 3,838; Mr. Go6chen. Conservative and Unionist, 8,311. Nine votes remain in dispute and there will be a recount At the last election Duncan, Home Ruler, received 8,080, and Baily, Conservative, 2,750. New York, Jan. 87.—The executive committee of District assembly 49, Knights of Labor, yesterday decided to advise all mat employed in any way on steamships or about them in the stowing or placing of their cargoes, or carting or transferring, or supplying coal, to stop work for three daya This action will affect about 17,000 men. Baltimore, Jan. 27.—A ghastly discovery was made yesterday afternoon at the principal office of the Adams Express company in this city. The "find" was the result of a sickening odor being emitted from a trunk which, when broken open, was found to contain the dead body of a man. Superintendent James A. Shuter, of the express company, hastened to police headquarters, and laid the case before Chief Frye. Mr. Shuter stated that the marks on the trunk and way bill stfowed that it had been shipped from New York city, on Saturday night last It reached Calvert station, in this city, Sunday moriiing, and lay at the station until Monday morning, when it was brought to the Baltimore street office. The trunk was consigned to "John A. Wilson, Baltimore, Md., to be called for." It was put in the cellar yesterday. The porters employed in the cellar detected a disagreeable odor which, as the day wore on, became unbearable. The porters had been in the habit of feeding poison to the large family of rodents which infest the cellar, and attributed the smell to dead rata. Mr. Shuter's attention was finally called to it, and he concluded that the stench came from a trunk. He ordered the trunk to be broken open, and was horrified to find the dead body of a man. Marshal Frye sent the patrol wagon to Adams express office and had the trunk and its ghastly contents removed to the back yard of the Central station. Coroner Hill was sent for, and when he arrived the body was taken from the trunk. It was found that the bead, left arm and both legs were missing. The right arm was doubled up under the back. The left arm had been cut off at the shoulder and the legs close to the body. The body was thus mutilated, it is supposed, in order to get it in the trunk. A coat was thrown over the corpse; it was a cutaway, made of a mixed gray and black diagonal material. The coat collar was saturated with blood. Four business cards were found in the pockets, inscribed as follows: "Henry Siegel, meat market, 305 Throop avenue, near Flood street, Brooklyn, & D." On the bottom of the shirt front was the name, "C. Kaufhold." Fhrther examination of the marks on the trunk shows that it was delivered to Adams Express in New York by tile Weatcott Express company, which has offices at No. 8 Park place, 814 Canal street, 785 Broadway, New York, and at 833 Washington street, and 730 Fulton street, Brooklyn. The body is evidently that of a young man. It is now at City hospital and will be kept as long as possible, pending an investigation by the New York and Brooklyn police, who have been notified. The police here think that "John A. Wilson," to whom the trunk was addressed, is an alias or a myth. Mr. Hoar offered an amendment to the rules that would enforce a quorum before the prayer is offered. The resolution reported Tuesday was then taken up instructing the committee on privileges and election to investigate the allegations made by three residents of Washington county, Tex., who claimed that they had been driven from their home and deprived of the right of suffrage. Bag sewers, grain handlers, coal handlers, tugboat men and 'longshoremen are now out Superintendent Murray ordered the off platoons on reserve all over the city yester- The votes were counted three times by the inspectors, and a fourth count was made by six Conservatives. The official announcement of the result was deferred until today. This is a certain indication of the defeat of Mr. Goschen, even if the majority against him first announced should be reduced.&e 'longshoremen had set Friday as the dayfbr a general strike along the river front, but the events of yesterday and Tuesday hastened matters. The tugboat firemen, besides refusing to haul coal boats, yesterday also refused to bnrn coal handled by non-union men. The places of the men on the grain elevators were filled by Italians, and in several instances the crews of steamers were nsed to load the coal from the barges into the steamers' bunkers. The National steamship Erin was to have sailed yesterday, but could not for want of coal, although her crew worked to fill her coal bunkers. Washington, Jan. 37.—Treasurer Jordan, when asked about a published report that he is to become president of a new national bank in New York city, said he knew step* were being taken to organize a new bank in New York, but hv-had not been offered the presidency. He intimated, however, that if Bueh a position were offered to him he would think twice before declining it The 'longshoremen at the Brooklyn docks yesterday refused to handle any of the freight that came from the Old Dominion company, but did not interfere with the green hands at Prentice's and the other stores. ferries. Mr. Coke opposed the resolution, and said It was a matter to be settled by the state, and that congress had no juriudiction. The history of the case was that a respectable white Democrat had been shot by a colored man at the polls near Brenham, Tex.; that the men had been arrested for the crime, jailed and subsequently hanged by a mob; that the three petitioners had been prominent in deluding the negroes of the place, and supposing their lives in danger fled the country. Mr. Coke went on to say that be just received a telegram ft-om Brenham from an ex-member of congress which stated that the petitioners were the worst type of scalawags, and had been instrumental in stirring up strife between the races; that they bad not been driven away, but that their guilty consciences had forced them to leave for their country's good. Concluding he said that he hoped the senate would not consider the resolution as it was a reflection on the fair name of his state. London, Jan. 37.—The defeat of Mr. Gofichen is felt by the members of the Carlton club to b*t great party disaster. All the clubs were crowded at a late hour last night, und there was much excitement over the result of the election. The members of the National Liberal club are Jubilant. The absence of. Mr. Qoschen from the house of commons leaves the government in an awkward position. Even if he should be provided with an uncontested seat he cannot sit in the house for the next ten days, and during that period there will probably be critical debates and divisions. It is reported that Sir John Mowbray is ready to resign his seat in the house of commons for Oxford university, and that he will be raised to the peerage. If he does resign the Liberals will contest the seat, though they have no chance of success. TARIFF REDUCTION. The Bandall Conference Bill—Its Pro- visions Made Public. Stabbed to the Heart. Washington, Jan. 27.—A printed copy of the Randall conference committee's tariff bill is out. It proposes to extend the free list by including in it timber, lumber, etc., bristles, bulbs, coal, coal tar, currants, dates, feathers, figs, hatter's fur, jute and jute butts, mineral waters, nuts, potash, soda, sponges, tar and pitch. It reduces duties on vitrol, dyes, sulphur, iron and steel railway bars, nails, rods, ores, zinc, antimony, soap, glucose, beans and peas, starch, rice, fruits, ready made clothing, hemp, cordage, bagging, cotton, eta On these articles, as on various classes of wool, the- reductions proposed are the same as in the original Randall bill, excepting on iron and steel, where the reductions are greater. The duty on steel rails is fixed at $13 per ton. The bill proposes to remove the tax on tobacco in all its forms. The printed copy given out places the tax on whisky at sixty cente per gallon, a proposed reduction of thirty cento per gallon. This feature of the bill is not vet definitely settled by the conference. Some favor a general reduction of the tax on nil spirits, and others favor n repeal of the tax only on fruit brandies and alcohol usjd in the arts, but whichever proposition prevails, the conference will agree to repeal ull license taxes. The bill incorporates the Hewitt provisions for customs administration.Chicago, Jan. 27.—John Watts, a well known character, attended a ball last night at TJhlich's hall, and while the dance was in progress came to blows with a stranger to whom he gave a black eye. After the ball was over, about S o'clock this morning, Watte, accompanied by a friend and two women, went to a saloon at the corner of South Water and Clark streets. While the party were in the wine room three men entered the saloon and demanded drinks at the bar. One of them, a man with a bruised eye, peered into the wine room, and seeing Watte there, seated with his back to the door, drew a long dirk, rushed in and plunged It into his heart. Watte died almost instantly. The murderer and his two companions fled, and have, as yet, not been captured. At 11:45 in the morning a grain elevator manned by Italians came alongside the Erin. When they began pouring grain Into the Erin the 'longshoremen pat on their coats and walked off. There was some Old Dominion freight on the wharf, but no attempt has been made to load it. With the longshoremen, the carpenters and pump riggtra and bag sewers also left / The steamship Gallia came in yestenfly. There is now a boat loaded with coal anigside of her. The 'longshoremen were at york yesterday afternoon taking her earg(/out The State line steamer State of GeorgiW took •on a supply of coal In Glasgow. She will sail to-day. The White Star steamer Britannic has only about one-third her usual supply of coal. Mr. Cortis, the agent of the line, said he believed that the Britannic would sail on time and put in at Halifax for more coal. The French La Bourgogne will sail on Batunlay. She has • boat loaded .with coal at her stern. The 'longshoremen are busy with her freight. They say that 'the crew will not be asked to put the coal aboard her. Mr. Hoar defended the resolution and said that the petitioners were men of wealth and had been earning their living in a lawful andj»aceful manner; that they had been driven from their homes on American soil and made refugees of. As to the statement that ciolored men ))ad killed a respectable and peaceful white Democrat, he hardly thought that probable. The fact was that the man who was killed was disguised as a Kuklux. The queen's speech is characterized by more than the usual vagueness. The hint* of legislation for Ireland are especially obscure. The only allusion to the conspiracy bill is found in the referenoe to the plan of campaign and the government's Intention to introduce, if neoessary, a* bill altering the existing law so as to enable it to cope with the movement. An Indication of the extension of the Ashbourne act is given in the expression of the hope that the labor* ot the rent commission will have issue in a measure Dallas, Tex., Jan. 27.—A fire originating in T. I* Marsalis & Co.'s large wholesale groaery house about 0 o'clock yesterday morning, destroyed three of the finest buildings in the city. The losses on buildings and stocks will aggregate $400,000, divided principally as follows: L. Marsalis & Co., $200,- 000; Armstrong Brothers, wholesale grocers, (100,000; 8. B. Hopkins & Co., wholesale liquors, $90,000. The firms are insured for about two-thirds of the amount of their losses. Disastrous Fire at Dallas. Mr. Coke said there was no truth in the last statement. Mr. Hoar repeated his statement Mr. Saulsbury, a member of the committee on privileges and elections, objected to the committee being made the dumping ground for every scalawag who chose to make charges against his neighbors. to ameliorate the condition of the country. The leading measure for England and Scotland is a county government bill. The Anchor line steamship Devonia was beiag unloaded at pier 19 by non-union men yesterday, while a large force of policemen looked on. The steamer City of Puebla, which was advertised to sail yesterday, did not sail. A boat loaded with coal lay alongside. It had been expected that non-union coal handle s would begin work on her at 7 .o'clock yesterday morning, but the agents decided that they would rather unload the steamer City of Alexandria, which arrived yesterday morning, and union longshoremen were pat to work unloading her. Messrs. Edmunds, Hawley and Evarta advocated the resolution and Mr. Eustis opposed it, qpying that it was the waving of the bloody shirt a little in advance of the usual season. The following is a forecast of the speech: England's foreign relations are friendly. Affairs in southeastern Europe are in a fair way of settlement, but England must insist upon the observance of the treaty of Berlin. In Burmah and Egypt there is a gratifying improvement. Grave anxiety is caused by the state of Ireland. The system adopted there of combining to force tenants to evade just debts may compel further legislation, and the government will not hesitate to ask additional powers if necessary. Among the bills to be submitted by the government are measures relating to land transfers, railway rates, trade marks and the facilitation of agricultural allotments. Cum of a Kntlroad Accident* Boston, Jail. 27.—The finding of the state iDoard of railroad commissioners is that the recent accident on the'Boston and Albany road at West Springfield was caused primarily by the breaking of a journal in one of the trudks of the tender, which derailed the train into collision with standing freight cars. The broken journal had suffered a partial fracture some time before the final break, but the injury could not have been seen or discovered by sound The axle was of standard size and quality and was properly tested before leaving the shop. It ran 07,000 miles before breaking. Itle stoves which ignited the burned cars were bolted down and one wa» inclosed in a zinc cage. The shock was sufficient to break any cast iron stove and Bcatter the contents. Another method of heating cars is demanded, such as by steam from the engine. The Boston and Albanj company has for a long time been faithfully experimenting in that direction with a view to adopting the system if it should prove successfulThe Indiana Senatorial Deadlock. Indianapolis, Jan. 27.—Representative Dickerson was called home yesterday by sickness in his family, and paired with Connelly, of Clay; otherwise the convention was fully attended. The "Big Four" with immovably gravity voted solidly for Allen. The president then announced the deadlock unbroken, and adjourned. No election is anticipated until after the decision of the supreme court in the Bmith-Roberteon case. After further remarks by Mr. Call, who declared that the senate (separated widely from the sympathies of the people) believed that the people in the djfferent states could not be trusted, the resolution was adopted by a party vote: Yeas, 81; nays, 20. Brooklyn, Jan. 27.—Henry Siegel in Throop avenue is a butcher, doing bnsinese and living at No. 206. He said last night he had only been there about a year, having for thirty years done business in New York. He said he neither knew nor had heard of anybody named Kaufhold. Last Christmas a young man who had been in his employ for a few days went away, taking his small trunk with him. Siegel did not know his name except that he was called Jack. The senate then took up for consideration the bill to establish expertmental stations in connection with agricultural colleges. The 'longshoremen on the Providence line, -who have been getting 25 cents an hour, asked the company to pay them SO cents. The company did not out any passenger boats. There has be£n no trouble on the Sound steamers about coal. The Fall River line has about 1,000 tons on hand, and the Btonington and Providence lines having sufficient to last them for a long time. And She Doesn't Care. IN THE HOUSE. The Gladstonians have not yet decided what shall be their line of action on the ad. drees in reply to the queen's speech. They will meet on Friday to determine their course. The Parnellitea will move an amendment to the address if Mr. Gladstone fails to do so. Philadelphia, Jan. 27.—When Mrs. Langtry was asked if there was'any truth in the report that her husband was dead, she replied: "I really dont know. I've cabled home to ascertain, but the answer came this morning saying that hk could not be found, as he was wandering about under assumed names in the north of Wales. So I really dont know whether Fm a widow or not." The Representatives Wrestling with the Washington, Jan. 27.—The conference report on the army appropriation bill was submitted and agreed to. Kiver and Harbor Bill* At Perth Amboy yesterday a few of the striking brakemen on the Lehigh Valley railroad returned to their work. Until there are more coal handlers upon the docks, howevv, there is little for the brakemen to da The soft ooal handlers at South Amboy yesterday continued firm in their resolution to keep on strike. ' The pill providing for holding terms of the supreme court at Vicksburg, Miss., was passed. Schwarts Mow Charged with Murder. Mr. Chamberlain writes to The Times at considerable length to show the practicability of the adaptation of the Canadian constitution to Ireland to meet the fundamental conditions of Lord Hartington's plan for the government of Ireland. In concluding, Mr. Chamberlain says he never pretended that the Canadian constitution could be bodily transferred so as to settle the relations of •Ireland and Great Britain. The exact nature' of an adaptation which would be suitable for the wants of Ireland is one of the questions on which he hopes that further discussion will throw light. Chicago, Jan. 27.—Thomas F. Withrow, general solicitor for the Rock Island railway, was seen last night regarding the arrest and transfer to Grundy of Schwartz, the exbrakeman. "The charge of bigamy was merely brought for the purpose of holding Schwarts until you could establish his connnection with the murderof Nichols, was it notP' asked the reporter. The resolution calling on the secretary of the interior to procure the opinion of the attorney general as to whether further legislation to prevent the unlawful, fencing of public lands is necessary was adopted. Philadelphia, Jan. 37.—The executive committees of the Lehigh and Schuylkill Coal exchanges have advanced the line and city and harbor prion of coal as follows: February prices: White ash at Schuylkill Haven, (3.75 for lump, steamboat, broken, egg and chestnut; $3 for stove and small stove; (1.40 for pea. Advancing the Pries of CoaL At present the treasury of the coal handlers in South Amboy contains $1,641.80, and the men say that they have offers of large contributions from outside persons. The storekeepers, in almost every instance, say that they are willing to trust the strikers as long as there is anything left on their shelves. Pay Only for Services Rendered. Albany, Jan. 27.—The presiding officers of the senate and assembly have received the following letter: In the morning hour the bill authorising the examination, approval and patenting of certain unconfirmed lands was called up. The measure was vigorously opposed, and the morning hour expired without action. Dear Sir—The legislature customarily meets Monday evening and adjourns Friday noon, less than four days of each week. As at present advised, we cannot allow per diem clerks in either house, for days they' are not actually present pursuing their clerical duties, which will be fivo of the seven days of the week ordinarily, their actual presence to be certified by yourself or your financial cleric, as yeu prefer. You will please advise such of your subordinates as this ruling will affect. Very respect- "We thought the man •should be punished for bigamy. Seriously, however, I have no doubt that Schwartz knows more of the robbery and murder than he appears to, and that he knows who did it. and got part of the money. We have found out enough to show that he is a bad man. Schwartz was arrested and taken to Morris on primary information filed by the prosecuting attorney there. The robbery was committed by some ono who was familiar with the train and the express service. Nichols was killed because the robber was convinced that if the messenger were left alive he would be able to identify his assassins. Schwartz was head brakeman of the train that night He is a dangarous man, and cannot explain certain facts. The house then went into committee o( the whole on the river and harbor appropriation bill, with Mr. McMillan (Tenn.) in the chair. An amendment by Mr. La Follette (Wis.), providing that the appropriations shall be expended under the direction of the president, was rejected. Hellef for Drought Sufferers. The handling of ooal by the green hands at Fort Johnston was further retarded yesterday by the refusal of a lot of the regular brakemen of the Central ""Railroad of New Jersey to work on coal trains. It was said .that the disaffected brakemen acted unier orders from the Knights of Labor. Green hands took their places. Shot Bis Km player. Austin, Tex., Jan. 87.—The senate yesterday passed a bill appropriating $100,000 for the relief of the drought sufferers. The measure received the necessary two-thirds majority to give it immediate effect New York, Jan. ST.—Daniel Gal way, employed as salesman by Tappan & Barton, of the Metropolitan Manufacturing company No. 82 Cortlandt street, ouarreled with Mr. Tappan this morning alout some money matters. During the altercation Gal way shoWappan in the hand, inflicting a wound that will probably result in his death. Lockjaw is feared. Galway was arrested. Mr. Nelson (Minn.) offered an amendment, as a substitute for the entire bill, providing that the sum of $7,500,000 be appropriated, and that it be expended by a board of engineers oonsisting of the chi«f of engineers and the four senior in the service, in such manner as in their judgment shall afford practical and important facilities for interstate commerce, as wall as improvements in the various harbors. Weather Indications. Washington, Jan. 87.—Cold, fair weather, becoming slightly warmer, winds shifting to southerly.  The strikers in Hoboken and Weehawken were much encouraged, and the Delaware and Lackawanna company's officials correspondingly depressed, by the desertion of about sixty of the new ooal handlers, mostly Italians, yesterday afternoon. Their leader said that instead of getting (2.85 a day, which had been promised them by the company, they received only #1.65. They asked for the additional sixty cento and were told that it had been deducted for board. They say they slept on the bare deck of a covered barge and were aroused every morning at 5 o'clock by the Pinkerton detectives kicking them. The sixty deserters declared that the other Italians .would also stop work. The company paid the deserters off, and they quietly left the yard. Reporters are not allowed to go near the coal docks, and they often have to depend on railroad employes for information about the quantity of coal handled by the green hands. The railroad men said last night that the timbers of a barge improperly loaded with coal had sprung and the barge had sunk. There was a rumor that a woman had gone down with the barge. About eighteen brakemen of the Delaware and Lackawanna company, who live in the neighborhood of the strikers, have been induced by them to stop work. tully, C. R. Hall, Deputy Comptroller. Evidently a Crank. An Aetor Dead. TRADE BULLETIN. Washington, Jan. 27.—A woman called ou the senate pension committee yesterday and said that she wanted a pension of (100,- 000 and that she had walked all the way from New York to get it She did not know exactly why she should have so much, but thought that it was principally because she wanted it. No undue haste was asked for, but if by to-day thq pension was not granted s!ie would explode a moral bombshell on the hearthstone of every senator that would forever destroy him socially and politically. After that she proceeded to tackle the representatives with even a direr form of moral destruction. This, interesting individual left town late in the evening. Hot Shrinoc, Ark., Jan. 27.—Rudolph Strong, an actor in Mrs. Bowers' company, died here this morning. New York Money and Produce Market Quotations. New Tonx, Jan. 84.—Money closed at IH per oent The lowest rate was 8 and the highest 4 per cent. Exchange closed easier; ported rates, 88; actual rates, 4.8M{Q4.84 for sixty days and 4.87M®4.87}{ for demand. Governments closed Arm; currency da, 18SJ4 bid; 4a, coup., 128)4 bid; 4stt, coup, 110*4 bid. Washington, Jan. 27.—Secretary Manning has seut to the house estimates for the payment of pensioners under the Mexican pension bill It is estimated that the number of pensioners under the bill will be 84,746 men and 13,820 widows. The amount required for making the flrsVannual payment is C4,603,104, which the commissioner of pensions requests to be made immediately available. He also asks, in order to dispose of thr work created by the bill by June 30 next, a clerical force of one assistant chief of division, at 11,800; fifteen section chiefs, attl,40C each; 160 clerks of class one, at 11,200 each: fifteen'second class clerks, at 11,000 each, and twenty-five messenger*, making an increase of the foroe of 221 employe* at a cost oi $357,000.  Expense* In the Pension Bureau. After a long and heated debate, during which members who supported the substitute were charged with parliamentary trickery, the substitute was agreed to—yeas, 140; nays. 27. The substitute was then reported to the house and the previous question ordered. CONDENSED NEWS. Ice gorges in f lit- Mohawk, Susquehanna and Delaware diC:r f ix have caused heavy freshets and much .l..::Dage to property. The stock market opened firm and higher for most of the stocks, and during three hours to I o'clock dealings dragged along In a listless and uninteresting manner. Nearly all the stocks fluctuated within narrow limits during the period mentioned, and at 1 o'clock prices were irregularly and fractionally changed. The only exceptions to the general Inactivity wen New York autl New England, Richmond and Terminal, Louisville and Nashville, Missouri Pacific, Canada Southern and Union Pacific. These stocks fluctuated over a range of 1 to 1H per cant. New York and New England was about the strongest stock on the list. Union Pacific waa weak, probably on the unfavorable earnings of the Oregon short line. After 1 o'clock the market was dull and weak. Prices sagged steadily to the close, when the bottom figures were generally current. Tbo decline ranged from H to IX Per oent. In reply to a question by Mr. Dingley as to the effect or a refusal on the part of the house to agree to the substitute, the speaker said that the bill would then be before the house for action, and that the question would be on the ordering of the original bill to a third reading. The Anarchists' :ise fund has been pretty well a id the sympathizer* with Spies St Co. are to be asked for more money. The Ren. Father Donui-'.ly is quoted as having found the debt ol' St. Stephen's parish, recently Dr. McGiyiin'i; church, to be not far from $150,000. The reading of the engrossed oopy was demanded, but as the bill had not been engrossed the bouse, at 5:15 p. m., adjourned. The bill will come up for action to-morrow. Connecticut Kaliroad Fred ecu Mrs. Phebe Boyd, who was one of society's acknowledged leaders in Philadelphia half a century ago, died in that city of paralysis. She was bom in 171*4. New Havkn, Jan. 27.—Rumor has it that a syndicate representing the New York and New England railroad has been making proposals to the city authorities for the purchase of the city's interest of $300,000. in tha New Haven and Derby railroad. Obtaining this block of stock, tha story goes, the New England road would extend the Derby's system to a connection with its own main lines somewhere west of Water bury. Xhis is for the purpose of competing with the consolidated road, it is presumed. The city board of flnanoe met last evening and, it is said, discussed the matter fully. Boston Short of Coal. Development In the Bartholomew Default. Boston, Jan. 27.—Some of the large wholesale and retail dealers in coal here were visited in order to find oat the status of the coal market in Boston. All seemed gloomy over the state of affairs. The Austin C. Wellington Coal company, which had the largest stock on h*nd here when the trouble began, is now unable to fill large orders. It is meeting the demand* of old customers only. A prominent dealer says: "We are doing nothing. There is no coal here and the prospect is very poor for the future." Gay & Parker hare little or no coal to sell. They say there will probably be no change in wholesale prioes. Reports from Montreal statu that in the forthcoming Cnnwliun elections bribery will from all appearances be carried out to an extent never before known in the country. It isjalleged that In the county of Glengarry the Liberals are paying from $300 to $300 for votes. Hartford, Jan. 27.—The Commercial National bank of Providence, R. L, yesterday filed an appeal from the recent action ol the Hartford probate court decreeing thai Ueorge M. Bartholomew, the defaulter, non in Canada, is an insolvent debtor; also fron the order of the court appointing a Hartford lawyer as trustee of Mr. Bartholomew's e» tates. The bank had a claim of severa thousand dollars on account of Bartholomew's paper, and at the time of his flight made an attachment. The action of thC court prevents the bank from realizing and leaves it to take its chances with othei creditors. General Markets. A party of men, either strikers or their sympathizers, let the bottoms fall out of five coal cars on the Erie tracks in Weehawken early yesterday morning. New York, Jan. M.-FLOUR-Closed dull and weak; winter wheat extra, $8.15®5.40; Minn% ■ota do., $».16®5,40; city mill extra, $4.80®4 TO; Ohio extra, $H5®5.SS. Southern flour closed steady; common to choice, $S.50®5.23. Philadelphia has a novel strike on hand. Four hundred school children from 5 to 16 years of age "went out" at the George Mo- Clellan school because their teacher hair been dismissed. Fourteen Poles arrived in Jersey City on a Pennsylvania railroad train at midnight on Tuesday. They had come from Winan's Mill, Luzerne county, Pa., and they intended to sail on the Hamburg line steamship Trava, which left Hoboken at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. After leaving the depot they started on foot, carrying heavy bundles of clotliiu:;, to Hoboken. At 2 o'clock they had readied the corner of Grove and Eighteenth streets, which is within half a block of the spot where the boy Hogan was shot and killed by Pinkerton men on Thursday last A gang of men were standing on the corner. The police say they were striking coal trimmers. To make sure they were on the right road the Poles stopped and asked the men the way to the Hamburg pier. The gang at once cat upon the strangers, thinking, it is supposed, that they were on their way to one of the coal docks. They beat them, it is said, brutally. One Pole was found unconscious in the street. He had a number of cuta on iiis head He was sent to the city hospital, and lii* companions, none of whom had bean injured, were sent in charge of officers to Hoboken. WHEAT—Option* were fairly active and Irregular. Priiies closed about steady and unchanged. Spot lota closed steady and un- Two Strikes Amicably Settled. The safe of the express office at Santa Fe station, Tex., wal robbed by three masked men, one of whom held the employe at the muzzle of a double barreled shotgun while his confederates secured over $1,400 in cash and checks. New York, Jan. 87.—The strike of Lorillard's tobacco workers in Jersey City is declared off. The Arm agrees to take back all the old hands and give consideration to their complaints. changed. Spot sales of No. 1 red state at (He., No. a do. at 93c.. No. » red winter at MJ4o. and ungraded red at BO®98c-; No. S red winter, Feb., ' do OMo-i do April, 94 18-18 MJCc The Hudson Bay Kallroad. CORN—Options were moderately active, while prices were Irregular, closing at a slight decline Spot lots closed M°- lower. Spot sales of No. a mixed at 4»Ho. and ungraded mixed at 48® 4BJ4C.: No. a mixed; Feb.. «®46DCo.; da March. «%®4A:.; do. May, 80 M«®50Hc. The strike of the 2,800employes at Higgins' carpet factory has ended in a compromise. The employes accepINt 5 per cant, reduction of wages, but the firm agrees to redress the various grievances of which complaint was nffide. A Famous Towboatman Dead. Winnipeg, Man., Jan. 27.—Hugh Sutherland, president of the Hudson Bay road, running from here to Hudson bay, announced last night that the company would spend •4,000,000 the coming yea? in construction. The company is having three ship* built at Newcastle-on-Tyne for navigation in Hudson bay. Ten locomotives and rails for 200 miles of road are also being constructed. The road will be completed in two years' time. "Doc" Wilson is being sued for divorce by his wife, on the ground of gross acts of cruelty and of non-support. Wilson still languishes in jail, and is penniless. Boston, Jan. 27.—Capt. Thomas Winsoi died here, aged 78. For years he commanded tho famous ship William Wirt and othei noted vessels in the Calcutta trade. In 18M he retired from the sea. In 188ft hs started with the tug William Sprague what ha.' grown to be the largest steam towing line oi the Atlantic coast, the Boston Towboat com pany. All the tugs in the harbor have theii flags half-masted out of respect to the d» cooseJ.  Governor of Ohio, has issued a proclamation of quarantine against the shipping of cattle from Illiaois. OATS- Options were moderately active and clotiml heavy at a trifling decline. Spot lots closed J4c. lower Spot sales of No. I white state at 40® and No. si do. at 88K0-; Vo. 1 mixed, Feb.. IBHfi.; do. March, a«c. Cretan Adjudged Guilty. New York, Jan. 27.—The committee investigating the case against Michael Cregan, who is charged |Dy Allen'Thorndike Rice, the Republican nS|ninee for congress, with having sold him out in the interest of Gen. Spinola, the Democratic nominee during the Inst canvass, by a vote of three to two adjudged Cregan guilty of the charge. A movement has bean started by the politicians and business men of Boston's Bunker Hill district to head off the order of Secretary Whitney converting the Charlestown navy yard into an equipment station. BYE—Quiet, but Arm; western, 88®87o.; state. 88®eou. What Will Ooeur Meat. BARLEY—Nominal. PORK—Dull; mess, $18.0® 13.75. LARD—Closed dull; $8.75, cadi; $8.7#®0.79 Ffeb; $6.63, March. The Interstate Commerce Bill. Washington, Jan. 27.—It is rumored at the Capitol that should the senate again reject the nomination of Matthews to be recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, the president will appoint Gen. Pleasanton to the place. A prohibition amendment to the constitution of the state has been introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature. Washington, Jan. 27.—The interstate com merce bill was reoeived at the executive mansion yesterday. The president referred it tc tho attorney general for consideration and report on the constitutionality of its pro risions. BOTfER—Steady; state, 18®27c.; western, rtt ®Me. France is calm, according to the Park papers, aoicai defy the maneuvers of her enemies. The newspapers of all parts join in accusing the correspondents of the English press of inventing and circulating bellicose canards for the purpose of influencing As stock markets. CHKESK—Dull; western flat, ll®199{c.; state, WJC®18)4c. Alleged Attempt at Jury Fixing. New York, Jan. 27.—Eleven jurors had been secured in the trial of Alderman O'Neill when the court adjourned, owing to the statements by two juror# (hat attempts had l«ea made to Influence thepi. O'Neill was ordered to be confined in tho, Toml» during the rest of the trial, instead ofWns at large Ml bail ly; state, 80s.: western, 8e®3So. Tlie union laborers aa J. T. Storey's v/liarves, Wallabout basin, refused to unload senlD loaded coal yesterday. They did not Interfere with non-union men employed On Net-, town creek, at the head of Grand street, t:Do coal laborers aot only quit work, bat nidi ft dtnoMtntiM inimi Dm bofttmtt Austin Corbln, President. SUGAR-Raw dull; fair refining, 4 9-lSc. Refined steady and unchanged; cut loaf, «Hc.; crushed, #Hc.; cubes, #0.; powdered, C®*Mo.; granulated, 5 IS-ltc.; mould A, 8c.; confec ttooers' A, &Mc; coffee A, standard, 87-10® 8Kc.; coffee off A, 8 5.18c.; white extra C, 8® •He.; extra 0. 4M««Hc.; o, yellow, Tug Burned at Philadelphia. PHILA0KLPHIA, Jan. 27.—The Philadelphia and Heading Coal and Iron company haa elected Austin Corbln president, William A. Church treasurer, and William R. Taylor, Philadelphia, Jan. W.—The tug Anna owned by 8. 8. Godfrey, of Salem, N. J. was burned while lying at her wharf a) Camden last night. The loss is $5,000. The strike among 'the icemen along the Hudson la at an end.