The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1895, Page 1

J FIRESISE COMPANION. tis true ‘= you see itin THE BEE. —————$_______ A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. | poI~r BORROW THIs ParPErR * Sik, WASHINGTON ~ t. ios ans charg, GREAT ADVERTISING MEDION. Do you want reliable news? Do you want a fearless race advocate? Do you want colored trade? Che Bee | ‘Read and advertise tu THE BEE! | =rIv. Vol DEFEATED BY FRAUD. CONGRE MEN—HON, RAY’S CONTEST. Geo. W. Murray, of South who is acontestant for a seat gainst Hon. Wm. Elliott, of Congress by voting dead Chinee f the most remarkable cases e. Cunningham, against whom it had been prepared and two days before the election, him from voting, by one J. and when he was placed on j and cross-examined by Law- ler, he was made to forget he amemory. It was the finest cross-examination that one nt to read. eeler makes the man say, at nning of his cross examination, wore to the affidavit, and be- concludes Duffie says, relative me affidavit as to whether he he, among other things, said, t recollect.”” cases of fraud against Con- n Murray is shown where dead been voted, men who had for two years or more, ac- the evidence which Mr. presents in his brief. st congressional district of Sout rolina is composed of six the white voting population 1,451 and the colored 32,878. ihstanding the great colored on in the first congressional Elliott claims to have ratic election officers had Chang, a Chinaman, to 1d vote in one county when he another (Charleston). The admitted himself that he n the county in which the have had him registered n Murray claims that he 1 by 2,704 majority over F s no doubt that fraud of the 1 has been perpetrated gressman Murray, and the e should by all means seat (ik EIGHT-PAGE BEE. T AND BE BLISHED. JOURNAL e is no doubt the best journal published \merican in this country. nington BE contains more news than eklies published anywhere ted States. what our exchanges say: Zz Alexandria Leader.] hington BEE has purchased v outfit. The Bee will be t e paper. May suc- eer, the = t wat the Evening Star.] ro E1rGut PaGes. — BEE appeared Sat- id substantially im- ' eight ge paper. It , many illustrated fea- ¢ portraits of Major issioner Ross and other x sand prominent citizens. £R and character of the ace and name it has under the editorial ‘ 1 William Calvin Chase. g itorial Saturd: con wt to Goy. McKinley's sident. D. C., BEE is out type, and with its 10w tanks with the wspapers in Amer- improve each shin- sant appear- eight page: ling matter. ~ none of his old 7 ling the pen. The — ; \ gent’ or may live many comes to us sage form, and Editor A. M. E. Record. BEE came out last proved. It is a. Ee the ‘A DEMOCRATS GEO. \ rhomas H. Wheeler, attorney ared a very able brief in the Mr. Murray, which shows how scrats of South Carolina elect | ing ones, is pla Mr. Wheeler’s brief is that of DISTRICT REPUBLICANS. OUTLOOK FOR DELEGATES—CARSON’S DEFEAT WILL COME—TWO CONVEN- TIONS—HIS CLAIMS TO THE NATION- AL CONVENTION WILL BE IGNORED. The opposition to the member of the national committee who represents the District of Columbia is almost unani- mous in the twenty-two election di tricts. Mr. Carson, reports the know- ying a great bluff game, and that there is no earthly show for Carson’s election. In the event he is defeated, he has already said that he will carry a contest to the national con- vention, and that Messrs. Quay, Clark- son and others wlll admit him. is all Mr. Carson has to base his hopes of admission on, the BEE is of the opinion that he will not be admitted to the next national convention. Mr. Carson has no idea of winning ; he knows that it is just as impossible for him to overcome the great opposi- | tion to him as it was to retain his posi- | tion under this democratic administra- jtion. Col. M. M. Parker and Col. | Truesdale are working in conjunction |with Carson. The moment that the | politicians found out that Col. Trues- | dale had a hand in the pie the opposi- | tion became more intense. Mr. Robert | H. Key is building up a strong opposi- j tion to Carson in South Washington. | Mr. Key is very popular in that section If Mr. Key is defeated it | of the city. will be by false friends There are men in whom Carson has |the most implicit confidence who .;.'! {at the proper time throw him over- board. Carson is in the second district, and from present outlook there will bea {triple set of delegates from that dis- trict. Andrew Gleason is very strong in that, the second. made some very bad breaks recently by appointing one of Carson’s chief lieutenants on the works. The friends jof Mr. Key look upon such an appoint | ment with suspicion. | The Bee will not be surprised to see jtwo sets of delegates from every dis- \ trict in the city. At any rate the claims of Carson’s with a contest will be ignored. | | From the Washington Times.] GEORGE PRYOR IS WHITE. CYCLE CORPS OF THE NATION- AL GUARD SO DECIDES. RETAINED AS A MEMBER. The cycle corps of the National Guard at its meeting at the f street armory last night determined that its treasurer, Geore H. Pryor, is a white man so far | as has been learned, and that he be re- tained as a much-abused member of | the corps. | The question was raised upon the | grounds that Mr. Pryor’s mother is em- | ployed in one of the departments, and |is put down upon the pay-roll as col- j ored. Capt. Samuel H. Wiggin presided at ‘the meeting, and after the routine mat- ters had been disposed of, Mr. Pryor retired from the room. } Lieut. Libbey made a brief statement of the facts in the case. He said sev- jeral members of the corps had visited | Mr. Pryor’s home and his mother and sisters are as whit anybody. Mr. Pryor had shown himself in every way a gentleman and w de When the question was raised he had come forward at once and offered to resign rather than in any way interfere | With the success of the company. HIM ANY WAY. WANTS TO K For one, said Lieut. Libbey, he was | in favor of retaining Mr. Prior in the company, even if it could be proved that there was some far off tinge of col- ered blood in him; but if any one felt} otherwise now was the time to speak. The matter was now up once for all, and any who wanted to object to the member's color must make known his | objection or forever hold his peace. Sergt. Gibson said he had called at Pryor’s home, and seen his mother and sisters, and so far as he could see they were white. Mr. Pryor was white, as they all knew, and a clever gentleman. haviour than some men who had been inthe company. He was in favor of re- taining him in the membership. Other members indicated their approval. The only suggestion of dissent heard was when a member asked if the reten- . ry 5 a ig ” ates the Bee and | tion of Mr. Pryor might not tend to pre-| which your child happens to be is not the army had no better. vent men from joining the corps. It mies Of the race. | was answered that probably very few|them. The principal of the school or! of General Harrison will present his | persons not directly interested in the company had read the article further than to glance at the headlines. It was not probable that any likely to prove useful would be hindered from joining for such a cause. NO BLEMISH ON HIS REPUTATION. Capt. Wiggin said Mr. Pryor had ioined the cycle corps nearly three years ago under Capt. Crouch, and so far as he knew the question of his color had never been raised before. There Upon | as at the time he joined a recruiting | than the teacher of your child. Make / structive addresses were delivered. |committee, whose business it was to l investigate the eligibility of gentlemen ic | who were being considered for mem- |; has another side to her nature than that ; to increase the measure of his useful- |bership. There was every reason to | believe that these men had done their | | duty faithfully and had found Mr. Pryor | a If this | Mr. Otlet has | rthy of the confi-} ce and respect of his comrades. | WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, AUGUST Si, 1895. Wo. 10. GEN. BENJAMIN HARRISON. ‘in every respect a proper person to be- ‘come associated with the members of the corps. | : Resa | | Mr. Pryor has always behaved so as Ex-President Harrison is to-day one | to deserve the respect of his compan- of the most distinguished personages eee ena Hewes 2 avon ot Seop pins: | in the American republic. He is looked | all investigation as to his color. any} g | {one felt differently, a motion for the ap- | UWPOn More and feared more by the! | pointment of an investigating commit-| Politicians of the country than any man |tee was now in order. Otherwise no} who has been thus far mentioned as a | One must ever raise the question again. | candidate for the presidential honors. | After a short pause Lieut. Libbey }made a motion that the question be} If fortune should strike Genl. Marrison | | dropped, and that Mr. Pryor be invited | for a renomination he will no doubt} to return to the room and informed of| pursue a more liberal policy toward | jtheir action, This was unanimously | his party than he did before he was| | carried, and Sergt. Gibson was request- | eded he Seal: = eda ane Peron jsucceeded by Mr. Cleveland. Who-} | When he came in Capt. Wiggin said: | ever is elected president on the repub- | ““We have decided, Comrade Pryor, | lican ticket, it is not likely that he will | that you are so valuable to the corps | allow Mr, Cleveland’s civil service | and we want you with us so much that | Tee inintoree General Harel we will drop the investigation entirely | ™les to remain in force. General Harri- |and invite you to retain your member- | sonis a very positive man and no doubt | ship.” . , | hard for the politicians to manage. With this he extended his hand,which | Mr. Harrison’ entered the Senate at was cordially grasped by the returning | |” b ate f tt Sod eee eb | member, while he expressed his thanks | the eginning of the F orty -seventh Then the other members crowded | Congress in 1881, and sat till March 4, around and shook hands, while Mr./| 1887. April 27, 1882, a discussion was Pryor thanked them for their good will. | ,44q in the Senate on House Bill $0. The meeting closed after sundry rou- 5 woe ued S | a bill to execute certain treaty stipula- tine heads had been disposed of. d ih dns Gith fs ; ee tions with the Chinese. He made two Capt. Wiggin is th st son of our 5 zs ene eaeeinhs the eldesuse speeches, which can he found in the} poet Samuel Adams Wiggin, and aj i | ean . , |Congressional Record, at pages 3359} graduate of the Washington High | é School and late member of the George- | and 3360. isk Gotan sd oe tine treaty: | town College of Law, who has attained | used phe Wword jegla DOret gant wasy not his present rank as captain of the mili- | tary cyclists of the National Guard by his perseverance and pluck, serving as first sergeant during the entire period the company has been in the servi over four years. nr in the power of Congress to enlarge the meaning of that same word; it | would be held to have the same mean- ing in any law that Congress might p HON. BE HARRISON. RECOGNIZING THE COLORED | eral Harrison’s lead in a good many [From The Boston Daily Globe.] | hard places during the war, is a great The directors of the Atlanta exposi- | admirer of his old commander's sol- tion have done the right thing at the | dierly qualities. No man, he right tim They have invited that/ was dearer to the boys in the line than able representative of “the colored | General Harrison, and it rose from one south,”’ Booker T. Washington of the! Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Insti- | single elementin the man s character— tute, to deliver one of the special ad-| his determination to take the leading dresses on the occasion of the opening | part in whatever he asked his men to of the great fair. do. He, too, recalls the bloody charge In the development of the resources | of the South, the negro is destined to | @t Resaca, where his own right arm |take no small or unimportant part. He, was shot away , and the sight of Gen-i is in America to stay, and the more/ eral Harrison waiving his sword aloft, encouragement he receives from the) and shouting in that shrill voice for white man in his efforts to advance 5 = Aes <a the better it will be for both races and | Which he was noted: “Come on, boys.”’| Continuing, he said: ‘‘One scene has ; The wide action of the Atlanta di-} always lived in my memory. Our old rectors ought to be a potent factor in chaplain, Allen, a man who was. be- jallaying race suspicions and jealousies ioved by alllthe Bove Gadlieeat 1 throughout the south, and thus bring- | 'OV€¢ by all the boys and for whom al- jing about an era of good feeling be-| most every man in the regiment would jtween white and black throughout’ have given his life, conducted service Dixie land. on Sunday with Colonel Harrison, as 1 {for the whole South. TOU + it was then, and Lieut.-Col. Sam. Mer- | | CULTIV YOUR CHILD’S| it was then, anc -ieut.-Col. Sam. Mer- | | TEACHER. rill assisting. I have often heard Gen- | eee eral Harrison offer up the prayer for} \ INVITE HER TO YOUR HOME—STUDY THE | the boys’ welfare and protection down || ATMOSPHERE OF THE SCHOOLROOM. | there on those Southern fields, so far SS away from home, and many times have The first thing to do is to visit the | heard him address the boys in place of hool which your children attend. aa vou ae 5 5 aed the chaplain. Never to my yledge Make a point of this, even if it means a! P ISO RY) ESOS: | | wn }ward W. Bok in an article on ‘Our! ever see one thing from him unbecom- jtember Ladies’ Home Journal. Few and the camp bring out what there is | things can be more important than to bs see for yourself the surroundings of i? @man about as well as anything can, |your child during school hours. Ob-|and I have seen General Harrison | serve quietly yet keenly, but remember | tested in every way. As a soldier, that observations or comments you ympathetic and enduring, | have to make, the teacher of the class in : courageous, s |the proper person to whom to make! There is no doubt but that the friends ‘the superintendent is the proper func- | | tionary forsuch purposes. The teacher | |. Bras \is helpless; she must accept conditions tional Convention. las she finds them. She isanemployee, } pure andsimple. Butseek her outand | : : | win her acquaintance and confidence.| The convention of colored Baptist j | Show her that you mean to co-operate | ministers at Mt. Zion Church, north- | | with her. She knows that the best re- | east, was a great success, and great} | sults can only be obtained when teacher credit is due Rev. Wilbanks for the | jand parent co-operate. Invite her to very interesting and complete program | | your home—not in a general way, but provided. A large amount of impor- |at a definite time. Make her feel that tant business was transacted and a you want her to be something more/ number of very interesting and in- name before the next Republican Na-| |a friend of her if you can; at least give Rev. Wilbanks is doing a great work, her the opportunity to show that she/ and it is hoped that he may continue which she showsintheclassroom. The | ness. sacrifice of something else, writes Ed-| i” all the trying times of the war, did Ij: | Schools and Our Teachers,’’ in the Sep- jing a Christian. I think the battlefield |: was a good deal whiter in his be-} MISSIONS DRAW IMPOSTORS. CHINESE NEWSPAPER GIVES A CAUSE OF THE RECENT OUTRAGES. It Says Motives of Robbery Were One of the Causes of the Attack—Also That the Missionaries Are Surrounded by Crim- inals and Soctal Outcasty Who Often Kid- nmap Children and Take Them to the Mission—Testimouy That No Really Sin- cere Converts Are Ever Made in Chins. Chicago, Aug. 26.—Sam Moye, @ prominent merchant of this city, has received a copy of a Chinese newspaper published at Foo Chow which gives four columns of space to an account of can missionaries in June. The article shows that the attack on the mission houses arose first from motives of rob- bery, caused by the building of houses with basements, and, second, by the stations. Houses with basements are something unusual in China. There is a large camp of bandits near Ku-Cheng, composed of the wild tribes and fugitives from the civilzed parts of the robbery. it was found that the basements of the missionary houses were closely guarded of the missions. The missionaries can- not talk the att and hire inter- preters. The Chinese in the interior who have a smattering of any foreign language, are almost always young men who have run awey to avoid pun- ishment for petty crimes or to shirk the support of their families, going to some treaty port until their offenses are forgotten. They are regarded as social outcasts. The advent of the mission- lous. terpreter, and also to become a convert —anything for an easy living. He be- comes a member of the_ missionary ary wants converts, the hangers- on want some luxuries. There are, the paper s , only two ways to get con- verts im China. One is to hire them; the other is by kidnapping children and keeping and teaching them. missionaries don’t allow any kidnap- ping, but most of the missionaries, while good people themselves, do not | twelve years old, and finds out that her | parents are poor or careless people, not likely to make much of a fuss at her disappearance. He coaxes the child to visit the mis- sion, and often force has to be used. The missionary is tol« that the child wishes to become a Christian; ‘hat she wants to live in the mission a. d be in- | structed, or some other invention which seems plausible to the ignorance and zeal of the missionary, and something added to show the importance of ‘guarding the new candidate from re- capture by the heathen relatives, who, tthe missionary 1s asured, would do so poprevent the perversion of the child’s ‘aith. | As the misstonary cannot talk te the child, he trusts bis interpreter. The latter practically gets the girl. She is his slave for the time being, and he in- | one-armed soldier, who followed Gen- jduces the missionary to keep her safely and out of sight until he can se~ her and get the money for her. The burning of the misstum, freed some of the girls, who told the stories of their kidnapping, confinement and the indignities to which they were sub- jected. The stories spread and aroused the ferocity of the Chinese. This start- ed the riot and the mob attacked the missionaries and interpreters indiscrim- inately. The Governor of Fo-Kien sent 1,000 soldiers up to Min River to queil the joined with the rabble and whipped the soldiers. The soldiers lost half their number and had to retreat. At the time the paper was printed it was said the mob. —_ THIRTY ANARCHISTS ARRESTED. French Police Believe Them Responsible for the Rothschild Bomb. Paris, Aug. 26.—The efforts of the police to discover the authors of upon the life of Baron Alphonse de Roths- child, on Saturday afternoon, last, by send- ing him an infernal machine, disguised as a mall package, whieh e the present. The police authorities, we ever, are confident that it was the work archists have been arrested, examined and obliged to give the police specimens of handwerk. They were subsequently harged. M. Jodowitz continues to im- don, Aug. 26.—A special dispatch re ived here from Paris says that an An- archist has been arrested at Vie-Sur-Cere, partment of Cantal, upon the informa- n of the postmistress o: declares that the man taken into custody sted a letter similar to the one received he Rothschflds banking house on Sa- turday. Paris, Aug. a al clerk of Baron Alphonse de Roths- child, who was badly injured Saturday by the explosion of an Infernal mackine that bad been sent to the Baron by post, is pro- ing as well as could be expected. T doctors attending him performed an operation last evening, and hbpe to be able to save his sight. The Prefect of Police, who was absent from Paris on @ holiday, returned to the city as soon as he heard of the outrage. He is ¢'recting the in- quiries that ane being mao into the case. ee LABORER INHERITS $750,000. 26.—M. Jacobsky, the confi- Heir toa Large Estate in Toledo. Indianapolia, Aug. 26.—Maithew Mc- Ginnis, a laborer, living at No. 249 West Maryland street, has just discovered that he is the hetr of his brother, Dan- iel McGinnis, who died in Toledo, in 1890, leaving an estate valued at $750,000. "fhe two bre ‘:ers separated in Ireland when boys, and Daniel spent years try- irg to find his lost brother, who emi- grated to the far West and came here seven years ago. oeen found the estate would have gone teacher’s burden is a heavy one rather} : than a light one. ! Subscribe to the BEE. | will. ~# the Roman Catholic church under the Had Matthew not} the attack upon the English and Ameri- | revelation of the corrupt practices of | some of the hangers-on of the mission | of Foo Kien. These bandits heard of | | the peculiarities of the construction of | the missionary houses, and conceiving | that the basements were intended to} store treasures, the bandits planned and | executed the first raid for the purpose | Matthew McGinnis, of Indianapolis, Falls According to the China newspaper | by the disreputable Chinese hangers-on | | | | | | ary opens a new field for the unscrupu- | The outcast {s ready to act as an in- | staff and the household. The mission- | Good | know how bad their native staff is. An | jinterpreter sees a child, a girl ten or | iot and restore order, but the bandits | whole section was in the control of the | jr | by the attempt | | expleded = when | ed by the banker’s confidential clerk, | .,Jodkowitz, seriously injuring the iat- | _Tight eye, and blowing off some ot | fingers, have praved unavailing oy te | 0 of Anarchists, and thirty suspected An- | that place, who! | their services should be neces & 7. { BRIE 1S TO BE SOLIDIFIED. ITS REORGANIZATION PLAN ISSUED BY MORGAN & 0O., THE BANKERS. New York, Pennsylvan™ and Ohio Property to be Operated With the New York, Lake Erie and Western and Chicago and Erie, Making One Compact System Between New York and Chi- cago — Syndicate of $25,000,000 to Subscribe for $15,000,000 of the Prior Lien Bonds of the New Company. New York, Aug. 26—The Erie reor- ganization plan has been issued by Messrs. J. P. Morgan and Co., of New York, and J. S. Morgan & Co., of Lon- don, who accompany it with an explan- atory circular. The reorganization committee consists of C. H. Coster, Louis Fitzgerald and Anthony J. Thomas. The plan says that the Erie system is made up of the lines known as the New York, Lake Erie and Western, the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and Chi- cago and Erie roads. These two latter are operated by or for the Erie. An arrangement has been made with the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohia railroad voting trustees, whereby, sub- ject to ratification by their beneficiaries, they undertake to foreclose and deliver the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio property, ,subject only to the prior lien, equipment and leased line gecurities, for which reservation is made. It is understood that Messrs Morgan & Co. have also practically secured the Chicago and Erie, so that the Erie sys- tem will be consolidated into one com- pact organization from New Yark to Chicago. New securities are to be created on the entire line, from Chicago with all branches, coal roads as follows: (1) $175,000,000, first consolidated mort- gages, 100-year gold bonds, secured by mortgages and pledge of all property acquired under the plan of reorganiza- | tion by the new company. Of these bonds $45,000,000 will be four per cent prior lien bonds and $140,000,000 will be three to four per cent general kien bonds. | @) $30,000,000 first preferred, per cent noncumulative stock. (3) $16,000,000 second preferred four Ppecent non-cumulative stock. (4) $19,000,000 common stock. The mileage of the new company will be 1,937 miles. Of the prior lien bonds $18,000,000 are reserved for enlargement and improvement of terminal facilities, including elevation of tracks, and addi- tional wharf facilities at New York, reducing grades, constructing 4 tracks and purchasing additional e ment, to be used only with the co of the voting truste four Of the general lien bond ulti are reserved for th of all bonds and gud now left undistributed on various parts of the system, and $17,000,000 for new construotion, betterments addition, etc., after 1897, not over $1,000,000 to be used in_any one year. The reorganization converts into new securities everything on the Erie sub- sequent to the first consols, everything on the New York, Pennsy and Ohio except $8,000,000 4%% per cent. bonds and everything on the Chicago 1 Erie subsequent to first mortgag The present Erie second 15 per cent. in new gener: and 55 per cent. in new pref The funded coupon bon 100 per cent. in new ¢ r 10 per cent in new first pr and 10 i v get rie incomes get 40 p ral lien bonds an be put Erie reorganiz: len @ collateral trust bon paid ¢ The as deposited by share on common, and $8 per st mn preferred, payable in four installments, when called for, at least thirty days epart. A syndicate of $25,000,000 in money has been formed to subscribe for $15,000,000 of the prior lien bonds of the new com- pany and to take the place and sueceed to all the rights of holders of preferred and common stock of the New York Lake Erie and Western Company, who shall not deposit their stock and pay the assessment thereon. The net earn- ing this year will not differ materially from last year. POURING TROOPS INTO CUBA. Spain is Preparing to Send Out 50,000 More Soldiers. Madrid, Aug. 26.—Eight tho; cav- alry, forming the first body of a total of 20,000, will be landed in Cuba before Sep- tember 2. Phough Captain-Genaral Cam- pos declared that 30,000 would Bb. sufficient the Government will prepare %,606 more, who Will embark at the end of Gotaber, it e ost of the war in Cuba up to ty present time has been about $20,000,000. Since Feb- ruary the transport service alone _ as cost es received from Havana are eur --at in several recent encoun- ters the Government troops have been suc . On August 22 fifty-nine sol ed 3560 men led by Maceo, who an attack on the Union S —— es ——— Insane Mother Drowns Her Child. , Ore. Aug. 2%.—The wit James Tethrow, a farmer living mee the Lackiamite river, arose before the other: f family were awake and wrapping year-old boy in a quilt, took hin rT and held his head under wates ‘fe was gone. She thi self into the river, but was pO ad see