Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — Page 2

SljeJemocraticSentintl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W McEWEN, - - - PUELISHEB.

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REASON WHY HER PEST-HOUSE IS OVERFLOWING. Boston Has * Terrible Conflagration—New Torn in the Highbinders* War —WellsFargo Express Cleverly Swindled - mporting British Bituminous CoaL Shameful if True. Chicago health inspectors claim to have secured positive proof Tuesday night that other cities were contributing Inmates for the pesthouse. Several days ago, according to Health Commissioner Reynolds, a colored man walked into the City Hall •who was afflicted with the disease, and ■who stated that the police of Indianapolis had put him on a train and sent him to Chicago. A few days later a woman suffering with small-pox wandered Into the office of the Health Department, and confessed she had been sent from the same city. Tuesday night Commissioner Reynolds was notified that a Bock Island .train was bringing another small-pox patient to Chicago from the Hoosier capital The news came from Peoria in the form of a telegram » filch stated that Katie Kelley had created a sensation at the poormaster’s office during the day by declaring she was suffering with small-pox. and that she had just arrived from Indianapolis, where she had been in the pesthouse with two small-pox patients. The telegram said she was badly broken out. and that the county physician had pronounced her symptoms to be those of smallpox beyond a doubt, She was turned over to the city physician, and, after being detained in the City hall until night, was then put on board a Bock Island train which left Peoria at 11:4a o’clock at night for Chlcuga FIRE SWEEPS BOSTON. Hundreds of Dwellings Burned, Three Thousand People Homeless. A slgarette butt thrown Into a pile of ■Waste paper under the bleachers or 25-cent seats In the Boston base-ball grounds Tuesday afternoon started a fire which destroyed more than 140 buildings occupying about sixteen acres of land in the crowded tenement-bouse section of the south en 1. The money loss is 8600,000, and In all other respects the conflagration Is the most terrible that Boston has seen since fifty acres were burned over in 1872, for more than 000 families are homeless, and they are the kind of families who seldom Indulge in the lu.xuiy of fire Insurance All the buildings on the following entire streets are In ashes: Burke, Coventry, Walpole, Sarstield, all parallel; all of Berlin street, four blocks on each side of Tremont street, three blocks on each side of Cabot street, three blocks on the west side ot Warwick street, and two blocks on. the north side of Newburn street Besides the Hotel WaJpole two apartment houses on Sterling street were burned, three on Western street, two on Hammond Park, two on Windsor street, and all those on Yendlay place.

BOGUS EXPRESS ORDERS. By Means of a Plausible Tale Sharpers Sell Them All Over the Country. An elaborate, but In a great nieasure futile, attempt to defraud by an extensive forgery of express money-orders has been traced to persons In St. Louis, Mo . and it Is expected that all the guilty ones will be In custody In a day or two. The attempt was made on Wells, Fargo & Oo.’s express, and several of the forged orders for small amounts wore cashed before the discovery was made. The bogus papers have been sold In all sections of the country. The operator being a stranger, professes Inability to collect from the company because ot the alleged Impossibility ot Identification as the owner of the money-order. He usually approaches some teputable house or person, and bls story is so plausible and probable thut the draft is disposed of without difficulty, and the operator Immediately disappears. In such cases the loss falls on the purchaser. and no doubt in this direction the aggregate of losses by these sharpers may be large. BRING COAL FROM ENGLAND. New York Contractors Make Use of Low Ocean Rates. There have been 50.000 tons of English and Nova Scotia coal sold to arrive In New York, a portion of which has already been shipped from Cardiff. Liverpool and Glasgow and from Sidney, Nova Scotia The cost Is within 50 cents per ton of the ordinary price of soft steamer coal delivered at New York. The bulk of this has been taken by the companies supplying steamers to fill their contracts. There are negotiations on foot for the purchase ot 190,000 tons more 10 be delivered here between the Ist and 10th of June by the same parties for the same purpose. From this fact It is inferred that the coal companies Intend fighting the strike to the finish.

Highbinder Murders. The battles of warring highbinders in Chinatown, San Francisco, have taken a new turn. The fury of these murdering bands is now being wreaked uton the helpless women who are the slaves of highbinder masters. It has' long been an unwritten law in Chinatown that life should be taken for life, and whenever a highbinder has been murdered the members of his Tong, or society, have invariably taken the life of some Chinese belonging to the Tong whose members were supposed to have done the killing. O’Grady Dying from Remorse. The chances that Dr. Dominick O’Grady, who shot Mary Gilmartin at Cincinnati, April 25, will ever suffer the legal penalty of his crime are remote. The man seems to be dying from remorse He has lost all interest in life, and is living In a semistarving state When brought into court when the lawyers argued his ple iof abatement, he had to be supported In walking, and when seated his head hung in a listless manner. Strikers Building a Fort. The striking miners of Cripple Creek are building a fdrt at the summit of Bull Hill, a stratevlc point commanding a clear view of the Victor and other mines whose owners refuse to pay the union scale of wages, and who, it 1? reported, are preparing to resume work with non-union men protected by an armed forces Harvard Boys Drowned. Some clothing and a part of a wrecked catboat were found on 1 hompson’s Island and an investigation Indicates that a boat hired by tour Harvard students was overturned and.all of them drowned. Chicago Printer Dies on a Train. D. F. Hollo nd. a printer of Chicago, dial a train at the Pittsburg Union station Friday morning. He was on his way t<*> his brother’s home in Sharpsburg. His three brothers were at the depot to receive him. Death ensued just as the train arrived and resulted from consumption. Congressman Dead. Congressman R. T. Brattau died Thun day morning at his home in Princess Anne, Md. The death of Bepresentatlve Brattan had been expected for many weeks; in tact, be had been lingering between life and death ever since the session began. Fright’s disease caused death I

REPULSED THE DEPUTIES. Industrial* Seise a Train and Fight for Its Possession. A fight took place at North Yakima, Wash., between Marshals and Coxeyltes. Deputy Marshals Chidester and Jolllck. of Tacoma, were shot; the latter may die. Twenty shots were fired In the nxlee. Messrs. Savage, Weaver and McAdee. all Seattle citizens, received flesh wounds from revolver shots. “Buck." a Seattle Coxeyite, who was ths leader of the crowd, had two fingers broken with a club Dispatches say that great excitement reigns In Yakima. The fight was the result of a determination on the part of the Coxey men to not leave a train which had been held by them there. The deputies determined to take the train, and charged on the crowd. Ihe industrials swarmed over > 'the train and outnumbered the Marshals, so that' the latter gave up after two attempts to oust the army, and steamed back to Yakima, two miles from the scene of the scuffle, and side-tracked. The Coxey men retreated, breaking a switch and piling rocks on the track, but afterward removed them. As soon as the fight was begun stones were thrown r t the engineer and fireman in an attempt to dislodge them. '1 he train backed into Selah Station. Adjutant Fitting of Seattle went to Yakima from Elldnsburg later on and demanded food and shelter for the army. The City Council granted the army leave to sleep lu the city ball, and food was given them. ROBS THE MAILS. An Unknown Thief RiHes Scores of Chicago Post Boxes. Capt. McGrath, of the free delivery department of the Chicago postoffice, is using every effort to catch a bold thief who has rifled postal letter boxes of hundreds of valuable letters within vheTast few days. The thief is a shrewd one, and the authorities are as far removed from him as ever. In some unaccountable wav the thief has secured possession of a Yale key to the street letter boxes, and. dressed in the full uniform ot a letter carrier, has managed for a few days to carry on bis thievery without suspicion. The districts In which this bogus collector operated, and perhaps Is still operating, include that in the business center—a rich field for thieves of his kind. The tUscovery that such work was going on was made when various authorized collectors opened the boxes at proper Intervals of time and found that their usual contributions were either ifilsslng entirely or had been reduced by the robbery of everything except circulars and other communications not appearing contain anything which promised cash res turns.

HUMAN SOUL IN COURT. Question of Its Immortality Raised In a Buffalo Will Contest. The Surrogate of Erie County, New York, will be compelled to pass upon the question ot the Immortality ot the soul, by reason of a will contest just brought in his court Last January Mrs Catharine Backus died leaving SI,OOO in the bank and several adult children. In her will she bequeathed the whole sum in trust to Nicholas Dashman, to be used by him to pay for masses for the benefit ot the soul of the deceased and her busband. The children have contested the will, their attorney raising the point that tbo soul of Mrs. Backus cannot receive any benefit from masses; that even If it could a soul has no standing In a temporal court and the trust is illegal, because it is not for the benefit of any human being; that the existence of a soul is not subject to proof, and that any trust for the benefit of something which may not even exist is not warranted in law. Sf. ANOTHER BOND ISSUE COMING. If the Gold Reserve Continues to Decrease It Will Be Unavoidable. A Washington dispatch says that the reduction of the treasury gold below J94,000,000 has started a new speculation as to a new bond issue. The temper of Congress is such that no legislation is expected on financial measures, so it Heaves the Secretary with no discretion except to use the means tlio law gives him by selling bonds to replenish the treasury when it is depleted of gold. So far no steps looking toward a bond issue have been taken, and if the gold output ceases none will be necessary. but among well-informed treasury officials, if the present conditions continue, a bond issue in the near future is looked upon as almost unavoidable.

KILLED IN THE WRECK. Fast Express Derailed and Engineer Edgerle Loses His Life. Through passenger train Na 24 of the Illinois Central, north-bound, was wrecked at Buckley, 111. Engineer Samuel Edgerle was Instantly killed. The engine was derailed and turned on its side, and several of the baggage-cars and coaches were derailed. None of the passengers were injured severely, although they were all shaken up and bruised in in the accident. Aside from the engineer none of the trainmen were killed. The fireman sustained severe Injuriea Worked Like Professionals. At 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon seven men armed with Winchesters and revolvers rode Into Southwest City, Mo., and robbed the bank, getting all the money the" bank contained, between $3,000 and $4,000. They evidently came from the territory and were experts. They did the job in a very business-like manner. Two of them were stationed on the sidewalk, throe entered the bank with a sack and two others guarded the horses. About 100 shots wefe fired by the robbers, and four prominent citizens were badly wounded. The robbers were about ten minutes going through the bank. Afterward they mounted their horses and started for the nation ata gallop As they were leaving the outskirts someone fired several shots at them, killing a horse and wounding a robber. He Immediately secured another horse from a farmer who was passing and followed his pals. No resistance was offered by the citizens. The wounded men were shot while standing on the sidewalk. A posse was made up and started in pursuit, but the robbers had a good start and got away. If *• The NatlonafTjlame.' The clubs of the National and Western Leagues sffnd as follows In the championship racei - Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Clevelands.H *. .176. New Yorks.io 9 .6.6 Baltimore. .14 6 .7«uißrooklvns.. 8 11 .21 Pittsburgh.l3 6 .681 St. L0u18... 8 11 .411 Philadelp'alS 7 .6 <<iCnic*iios... 5 12 .294 Bostons. ...11 8 .S79|Loulsvilles 5 13 .278 Cincinnati, s 8 .SasiWeshlnrt'n 3 18 .143 WESTERN LEAGUE GAMES. _ . Per Per Toledosis u .tisi'Minne'pTls 7 8 ,467 Sioux City. 9 5 .643 IndtanVls 7 11 .339 Grd Rapldsn 7 .631IMilwa’kees 4 8 .333 Kansas C’y 8 7 . 533IDetrolta... 5 13 .278 Troops Ordered Out. The five companies of Alabama State troops were ordered to report at their armories in Birmingham. A dispatch says: People talk of the situation with bated breath. A mob of strikers near Pratt Clly attempted to wreck a number of coal cars, and were only prevenied from accomplishing their endeavors by shut,., from the the guards. A number of shots were exchanged. Seriously Injured a, Child. Mrs. Lizzie Norton was arrested at Cedar Rapids, lowa, for injuring a child. Because her adopted boy, aged 6, had forgotten what she sent him to the grocery for. It Is alleged that she picked him up by the heels, slammed his head on the floor several times, and finally jumped on him. Only Female Mississippi Pilot. A novel proceeding was enacted at a special meeting of Harbor-No. 28. United ttates Associatioii of Pilots. It was the

formal Initiation of Miss Callie French, said to be the only female pilot in the country. Headquarters were crowded with pilots from all parts of the St. Louis district. It was the first time in the history of the organization that a woman was admitted. Miss French is 22 years old, and knows the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers tbourougbly all the way from Cincinnati to New Orleans. She spent fifteen years on the river with her father. Captain O. French, who runs a boat between Cincinnati and New Orleans. THREE TIMES IN FIRE, Dr. T. DeWitt Ttlmsg? Is Again Burned Oat at Brooklyn. Fire seems to be the Nemesis of Bev. T. DeWitt Talmage and the members of bls congregation. Their beautiful new tabernacle at the corner of Clinton and Greene avenues, Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. Tift? Regent Hotel was also burned. The total loss was about $1,003,000. Flanles broke out in the church office just after those who had attended the m’orulng service had left the building. Had the fire broken out one hour earlier, while the building was filled with worshipers, it is almost certain that a dreadful panic and loss of life would have resulted. This is the third time that the Talmage tabernacle has been destroyed by fire. By a singular coincidence each fire occurred on Sunday. WILD RIDE FOR LIBERTY. Woman Eludes a Constable and Makes Hei Escape on a Bareback Horse. Mrs. Sophia Ottenthaler. of Mlivaleboro. Pa., was sued before Squire Madden, and at the hearing in the little office of the justice she was ordered to be ;ommltted to jail for court trial. She managed to walk out without being discovered. Hitched outcide the door stood a borse without saddle or bridle The woman jumped upon the animal's back and lashed the borse to a run with the hitching strap. Sitting astride the animal like a cowboy, her hair aud clothing streaming out behind, she dashed along the road. Constable Beck, with another horse, tried to citch her, but she had too much ot a start and outrode him. She has net been captured.

SLASHES HIS TEACHER. Young Gilbert of .Jeffersonville, Ind., User a Knife on Prof. W. C. Dorr. William Gilbert, aged 15, a Jeffersonville, Ind., high school student, had an altercation with his teacher, Prof. ,W. C. Dorr. It was during recess. The Professor ordered him to go to his rcom, aud he declined; • Sharp words followed, and Gilbert whipped out a knlfa He made an assault upon the teacher and cut him in the left arm. inflicting a slight wound. At this juncture the janito* interfered, and Gilbert cut him on the arm. Gilbert also seized a rock'and hurled it at the Professor, striking him on the left temple The trouble is due to an old grudge on the part of Gilbert GRAND JUROR AN EX-CONVICT. Work of the Body Vitiated and Complications Will Ensue. The Cincinnati Grand Jury was suddenly discharged upon the discovery that Albert Tanner, one of the jurors, was an ox-con-vict who had never been restored to citizenship. Ho served one year for the theft of a watch fifteen years ago aud since then has lived an exemplary life. Among the indictments vitiated by this juror’s service is that of Father O'Grady, charged with the murder of Miss Gilmartin. COAL COMING FROM WALES. Thousands of Tons Being Imported on Ac count of the Strike. New York is already feeling the effects of the big strike in the coal* regions. The scarcity of soft coal has already precipitated heavy Imports of Welsh bituminous coab Heavy orders have been sent, and already thousands of tons are on the way. Among the companies ordering is the Berwind White Coal Company. It was compelled to order 15,000 tons of bituminous coal from Cardiff. In Wales, and 5,000 tens from Nova Ecotla.

WHOLE FAMILY MURDERED. Father, Mother and Four Children Slain— Assassins In Danger of Lynching. Near Browning, Ma. Gus Meeks, his wife and four children were found murdered near a strawstack in an open field. The murderers are under arrest and lynching is talked of. Meeks and his family lived at Milan, and were on their way to Browning to visit relatives. They were waylaid. The cause of the crime is said to Lie in th«fact that Meeks was a damaging witness In a big cattle case last September. Thirty Persons Badly Burned. Several hundred people had a narrow escape from a’terrible death at Bradford, I’a.. Sunday. In the course of a fire In the barrel-bou-o at the Emery Manufacturing Company's refinery a tank of benzine on a siding near by exploded. A panic ensued among the spectators who were watching the fire and they tied in all directions. Thirty or more persons were severely burned. Fortunately the burning benzine which was flung into the air In sheets of liquid fire had consumed Itself before settling down over the crowd. With all the suffering this fire will cause Ahe propert; loss will not exceed $5,900. Hotel Men Snowball in Colorado. The hotel-keepers arrived at Glenwood Springs, Cola, from Manitou, having enjoyed a most delightful ride over the Rockies on the Colorado Midland. A stop was made near the Busk tunnel to give the visitors an opportunity to have a game of snowball

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 to 0 4 75 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 00 0 5 50 Sheep—Fair to Choice 360 0 4 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 57 «a 68 Corn—No. 2 ss & 39 Oats—No. 2 34 ,a ;s Rye—No. 2 46 <a 61 Butter—Choice Creamery 16 0 16 Eggs—Fresh 9 10 Potatoes—Per bu 70 <a so INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3 00 & 4 60 Hogs—Choice Light 4 00 & 5 26 Sheep—Common to Prime 2 00 4 00 , Wheat—No. 2 Red 63 & 54 Cobn—No. 2 White 4084® 41'4 Oats—No. 2 White 68 0 38 Hi ■ ST. LOUiS. Cattle, 3 00-0 4 60 H0G8...i 300 0 6 26 WHEAT—No. 2 IWd 63 (<i 64 Corn—No. 2 38 ’ & 39 Oats—No. 2 33 37 RXE—No. 2.; 49 @ 61 CINCINNATI. Cattle.. 1..’. 2 50 @4 50 Hogs 400 ® 5 25 " , 200 <“>4oo Wheat—No. 2 Red: 64 ® 5414 Corn—No. 2 42 ® 43 Oats—Mixed 40 is 41 Rye—No. 2 63 © 65 DETROIT. Cattle 2 co @ 4 50 Hogs 400 ® 6 26 Sheep 200 ® 4 co WHEAT—No. 2 Bed f« ® 5514 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 42 @ 43 Oats—No. 2 White 3854@ 3914 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 66 @ 57 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 4014«3 nu, Oats—No. 2 White....; 37 @ 38 Rye—No. 2. 49 ® 61 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle—Prime Steers... 300 4 75 Wheat—No. 2 White co 0 61 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 43 44 Oats—No. 2 White 40 (<4 40'., MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 66 (3 67 Corn—No. 3 ss @ 8!) Oats—No. 2 White..... 36 ® 37 Barley—No. 2 1 53 ® 55 Rye—No. 1 49 t 0 Pork—Mess 12 00 012 ho „ NEW YORK. Cattle. 3 00 0 4 75 hogs 3 75 @ e 75 Sheep 3 00 <a 4 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 61 0 61J4 COBN—No. 2k 44 0 45 Oats—Mixed Western 39 @ 41 Butter—Best 14 0 17 POBK-Mess 13 75 014 25

NEW TORPEDO BOAT.

ERICSSON IS LAUNCHED AT DUBUQUE, lOWA. a Pint War Vessel Ever Constructed on Inland Waters—The Ceremony Wltneeeed by an Immense Crowd of People—Shaped Like a Cigar. Glides Off the Ways. The greatest crowd ever seen at Dubuque, lowa, assembled Saturday afternoon along the sloping embankments of the ice harbor to witness the launching of the first regular torpedo boat ever built by the United States Government. It is designated torpedo boat No. 2, but is really No. 1, as the Cushing is simply a yacht altered over and fitted with a torpedo tube. At 3 o’clock in the aftsrnoon a parade formed in front of the government building, in which the employes of the works, the men who built the beautiful craft, took a leading part Capt. Usher, who will command the vessel, and Mrs. Usher, with leading citizens, including the venerable ex-Senator George W. Jcnes, rode in carriages. The exercises began with a speech by M. M. Walker of the Board of Trade. The

First Regiment Band then played “The Star Spangled Banner,’’and an address was made by J. C. Longueville. “Marching Through Georgia” was then rendered by tho band. Judge O’Donnell spoke, and then everything was in readiness for the little boat. Miss Kiene broke the bottle over the stem of the boat and said: “In the name of the city of Dubuoue and in honor of the United States and of our glorious emblem, the Stars and Stripes, and as a remembrance of one who won imperishable renown in our war for the preservation of this great and grand Union, I christen thee Ericsson." As the moment approached when the last stroke was to be given that would set the vessel free there was stillness among the vast crowd; then as it gracefully glided into the water a mighty roar went up and the guns thundered a salute. There was not the least hitch in the work of launching and the boat settled in the water, scarcely disturbing it. The boat is a beauty and will delight the eye of a seaman. It is pronounced by the officers present a model of its kind. The bids for the construction of this vessel were opene.l the 2fith of August, 1891. Bids for a boat differing from this one had been called for before the plans were changed; second bids were asked for and the contract was awarded to the lowa Iron Works of Dubuque, the work to be done for $113,500.

ONE OF THE ERICSSON'S BOILERS.

When the announcement was made that a firm in the interior of the country, a thousand miles from the seaboard, had the boldness to bid on a work of this magnitude, grave doubts were expressed by the seashore bidders. They sai'd the work could not be done there. Officials were, therefore, sent to Dubuque to obtain a thorough understanding of the matter. They reported that every facility for building vessels of this description existed in Dubuque and the contractors were authorized to proceed with the work. Shaped Bike a Cigar* The Ericsson is built of steel plates three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness. Its length is 150 feet: beam, 15j feet; depth. 10 feet 6 inches: and a displacement of 120 tons. In shape it is like a aigar. Its engines are of enormous power, limited at 2,000 horsepower. The boilers are constructed to give the greatest possible amount of heating surface. There are two sets of four-cylinder quadruple-expansion engines of the vertical inverted directacting type, operating twin screws with a capacity of 420 revolutions a minute. The cylinder diameters are 114. 16, 211 and 30 inches. The stroke of all pistons is 16 inches. These engines make 420 revolutions a minute, while

PORT ENGINE OF THE ERICSSON.

those of an ordinary raft-boat make only 26. The equipment will be of the latest and most effective fashion. It will be provided with a dynamo of power sufficient to burn twenty-eight Incandescent lights, including a searchlight, signals, etc. The pilot-house is a small cone-shaped affair, a short distance from the stern. It will be armored, and is arranged to deflect any missile which may strike it. A dingv and a gig will be utilized for the small boats, and will hang from iron davits. There will be amidships four onepounder rapid-firing guns to repel hoarding, its two smokestacks, and a single short spar, more for ornament The chief armament, of course; will be its torpedo guns, one on each side, and the other at the bow. They will be operated with compressed air. The Ericsson will not be ready to leave Dubuque before next month. The launching of this boat marks a new era in the building of warships, as

It demonstrates they can be const meted on inland waters safe from all assaults by a foreign power, just as the arsenal at Reek Island can put 20,000 men to work making arms with every port in the country blockaded.

Dr. Talmage's Brooklyn Church Burnet to the Ground, Just after services at noon Sunday and while Dr. Talmage was shaking hands with members of his congregation. fire burst out between the pipes of the organ and within ten minutes the big Brooklyn tabernacle was doomed to total destruction. Adjoining the church was the Hotel Regent, eight stories in height, with a frontage of ninety feet on Clinton avenue, and extending back 200 feet to Waverly avenue. The fire spread from the tabernacle to this hotel and then to the dwelling houses on Greene and Waverly avenues, opposite the tabernacle. The wind carried the blazing cinders in such quantities in a southeasterly direction that dwelling houses in Washington avenue, two squares away, and also the Summerfield Methodist Church were set on fire by them, but the greatest loss on any one of these structures did not exceed $15,000. The total loss, however, reaches over $2,000,000.

TORPEDO BOAT ERICSSON.

When asked for his opinion as to the cause of the fire Dr. Talmage said emphatically: “Electric light*. Electricity caused this fire, as it did in the last tabernacle on Schermerhorn street." The loss on the church is not far short of $50(*,000. Russell Sage, who

has a mortgage of $125,000 on the church property and is also the owner of the site upon which it stood, is fully insured. Mr. Sage said: “It is probable that the people of Brooklyn will come forward with a big subscription. The insurance will cover the rest If they want to rebuild I will put no obstacle in their way. In other Words, I will let the debt and interest stand over for an indefinite period, let them rebuild on the insurance money and what they can raise in subscriptions and in other ways’.” Was a Beautiful Building. The edifice was, in general, in the Norman style of church architecture, although not of the conventional ecclesiastical type. It was very ornate and imposing in appearance. The church was built of a stone called bastard granite, which is found in Connecticut and possesses the peculiarity of having thread-like veins of dark red running through it. The trimmings and ornamentations were of Lake Superior brownstone, with which the granite harmonized very happily. The striking characteristics of the ex-

terior were a high tower at the corner and two large gables on each facade, with small towers at the extreme ends oi each facade. The corner tower was 160 feet high from the ground to the finials. Its general form was square, but over the two principal entrance ways, one of which is on the Clinton avenue side and the other on the Greene avenue side of the tower, there was a rounded projection carried up for two stories. The interior of the building was very beautiful. A warm rouge tint was the prevailing color, matching the yellow pine timbers of the roof trusses, all of which were left in the natural color of the wood. The general shape of the interior of the church proper was that of a large ampitheater, semicircular shape. There were two galleries. and the whole seating capacity was about 5,000 people, about one-half on the main floor and the remainder was in the galleries.

TABERNACLE IN RUINS.

KEV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE.

THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

POOR, DESERTED KITTEN !

THE NATION’S SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Oar National Lew-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Proposed, Discussed and Acted Upon. Doings ot Congress. The Senate continued Wedne*day to entangle Itself in the amendments to the tariff bill. The House passed the bill to authorize the East St Louis and t-t Louis Bridge and Construction Company to btolld a bridge across the Mississippi River at St Lou la Mr. Springer, of the Committee on Banklog and Currency. reported favorably his bill to suspend the 10 per cent tax on State bank Issues during money stringencies, and gave notice that he would call It up a week later. Mr. Cox gave notice ot an amendment to repeal for all time the 10 per cent tax. The House then went Into committee of the whole on the naval appropriation bill. It having been agreed to limit debate to seven hours, each side to have half. Mr Meiklejobn stated that at the proper time be would offer an amendment providing that if the daniaze sustained br the Government from the substitution by the Carnegie Company of fraudulent plates exceeded the sum of 1140,000. the amount of the damage should be recovered from the company. Mr. Pendleton repllel to the charge that the President was influenced by the publication of Andrew Carnegie’s letter favoring tariff reform. No one would believe that Mr. Cleveland would think a letter from Mr. Carnegie on the tariff question was worth $140,000 or would be worth any sum at all. After some discussion the committee rose and the House at 4:30 adjourned.

John Patton. Jr., the new Senator from Michigan, was sworn In Thursday to succeed the late Senator Stockbridge. The Senate devoted its time to discussion of the amended tariff bill he emblems ot mourning covered the desk of the late Representative Robert F. Brattan, ot Maryland, on which lay a bunch of roses when the House met. ’lbe message of the President transmitting Hawaiian correspondence was laid before the House. Some routine business was transacted, and Mr. Ketn called up the House bill for resurvey of Grant and Hooker Counties, Nebraska, and asked unanimous consent for Its’consideration. The bill was passed. The House bill granting the railroad companies in Indian Territory additional powers to obtain right of way for depot grounds was passed. Mr. Talbot briefly’ announced the death of his colleague, Mr. Brattan. and offered the customary resolutions. The resolutions were adopted, and the Speaker appointed the following committee to attend the funeral’ Messrs. Talbot, of Maryland. Jones, of Virginia; Causey, of Delaware; Berry, of Kentucky; Meyer, of Louisiana; Hepburn, of lowa, and Hudson, ot Kansas. The House then, at 12:33 p m., adjourned.

Friday, after a prosy debate and agreeing that hereafter for an indefinite time the tariff should be taken up at noon each day, the Senate adjourned. After action on some minor bills the House went into committee of the whole to consider general appropriation bills (Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, in the chair), and the naval appropriation bill was taken up. The debate continued some time, taking on a very acrimonious character, and charges and countercharges of “colonization” in the navy yards were freely passed. At 5 o’clock, it being Friday, the House, according to custom, took a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session to be devoted to private bills on the calendar.

onday the Senate made but little progre in the tariff bill discussion. In the House several unimportant bills were passed. The only important one gave the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Electric Railway Company an entrance into Washington. When the District of Columbia bill was taken up the even tenor of business was interrupted by a negro in the center ot the gallery arising In bls place and shouting: “Mr. Si eakerot the House of Representatives.” Instantly the House was in confusion, and all eyes were turned upon the new orator in the gallery. '1 he Speaker, who was the flrst"to regain his composure, directed the doorkeeper to remove the man. He was ot powerful physique, however, and the doorkeeper was unable to oust him for some time, the negro endeavoring to deliver his alleged divinely Inspired message to the effect that the Lord had commanded him to come to the Speaker of the House and order him to pass the Coxey bill Other portions of his message referred to the Capitol, the White House and the treasury, but the exact purport was not learned In the confusion. The interloper was finally ejected and business resumed. The resignation of Representative Barnes Compton, of Maryland, was laid before the House, after which a bill was passed authorizing the Braddock and Homestead Bridge Company to build a bridge over the Monongahela River at Homestead. Pa. At 4:08 the House adjourned.

Consideration of the tariff bill was resumed in the Senate Tuesday after several bills of minor Importance had been passed and a resolution. Introduced by Mr, Allen, calling for information as to the number and class of persons unemployed In protected Industries, had been discussed and laid over. Three items in the chemical schedule were passed and that Mr. Aldrich broke in with an amendment to place a duty of 15 per cent, on coal tar products, which was defeated. Am'onj the bills presented in the House was one from the committee on labor, reported by Mr. McGeen, making Labor Day a holiday. It was placed on the calendar. The naval appropriation bill was then taken up. The paragraph authorizing the secretary of the navy to use 5450,000, appropriated by the act of March 2, 1889, for the construction, armament and equipment of three torpedo boats to cost not more than $450,000, whs adopted, and the bill was then passed. The House then went into committee of the whole and the agricultural-appropria-tion bill was taken up. No amendments had been made in the bill when, at 5:05 o’clock, the committen rose and the House adjourned.

Women Want More Pockets.

At the congress of women on the,subject of improved dress, held in New York the other day, one of the sneakers asserted that the first reform should be in the direction of more pockets. “It is all very well for us to say we are the equals of men,” she added, “but when men move around with from twelve to fourteen convenient pockets in their clothing, while we have only one, and that so hidden away that it is as hard to find as a match in the dark, we are not their equals, and they know it.”—Albany Express.

This and That.

I Coke is sent from West Virginia to Mexico. Coal is dearest in Africa; cheapest in China. i Boston telephones to Milwaukee,; 1,300 miles. The largest locomotive weighs 255,000 pounds. The Bank of England covers nearly three acres. A SILKWORM’S thread is 1-1000 part of an inch thick. Six women of England are engineers of town drainage. Like a beautiful flower full of Color, but without scent, are the firte but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.—Buddha. Wherex er-I find a greart deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would ba as much generosity if he weiearich man.—Pope. The colonies of Spain, once stretching over more than one-half of the new world, are now confined to the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico and a few islets on the east of the latter. Waves exert a force of one ton per square inch when they are only twenty feet high. 1 At Cassin, France, granite blocks of fifteen cubic meters have been moi ed by wave force.

“BOSS" CROKER OUT.

Tammany's Famous Chieftain FormaDy Retires from Leadership. Richard Croker hat resigned •» leader of Tammany Hall. When, save a New York dispatch, he had given

the last hand-shake and walked down Fourteenth street for the first time in ten years without a political weight on his. .shoulder he said: “Never again in my 11 e will 1 direct the pjlicies of Tammany Hall or of any other

RICHARD CHOKER.

hall. Richard Croker was born in Ireland in 1843. When but a few years old he came to America, where he grew up a ward politician. For more than thirty years Richard Croker has taken a more or less active part in Tammany Hall, and since tbe death of John kelly in 1836 he has administered its affairs as its chief with unvarying success. Since he took charge of Tammany the New York Citj’ Democrats have never suffered a reverse. He h,as had the naming of all nominees for citjNpffices and his word has been law lit .the organization. History of Tnmmanv HalL On Saturday last, Tammany Halt celebrated its 105th birthday. But theorganization in it* present form and with its present objects would hardlybe recognized by its founders. Its beginning was as a charitable and patriotic association, without partisan affiliations. As a patron saint, the founders of Tammany chose one of the most noted of Delaware chieftains, whose name thev gave to their organization. Chief Tammany, said tradition, ruled over thirteen tribes. These thirteen tribes, a* well as the original thirteen States, were commemorated by the division of the society into thirteen tribes, each of which had its emblem chosen from the animal king-dom-the buffalo, the eagle, the wolf, the tiger, and so on. The tiger aloneha* survived to modern times a- the symbol of the organization—at least, so far as political cartoons are concerned. The association kept up the Indian analogy throughout. Its meeting place was a “wigwam,” its officers were thirteen “sachems” and a “grand sachem,* a “sagamore” or guardian of its property, a “wiskinskie” or doorkeeper, a “scribe” and a “father of the council,"' to whom were added the modern functionaries, a secretary and treasurer. Partisan politics .'first entered Tammany at the time of the whisky insurrection in 1794. Thus early enlisted in the strife of parties Tammany began to gain power as a political organization. It has had its periods of triumph and defeat until to-day it has the city under more absolute control than ever before. It elects or appoints it* every officer from Mayor to street-sweeper; it in a great degree controls the government of the chief American State by sending to Albany nearly a quarter of the members of its Legi-lature: it has a powerful voice in national affairs with its ten Congressmen, its influence in the Senate, and its representatives high in the departments. With the grip that Tammany now has on the metropolis it is not likely to lose its power very soon.

TO WASHINGTON'S MOTHER.

A Handsome Monument Dedicated atx Fredericksburg, Va. Tardy justice was recently done Mary, the mother of Washington, when a handsome monument to her fame was dedicated on the long-neg-

lected spot where her body lies buried. The ceremonieswere conducted under the auspices of the National Mary [Washington Memorial Association, by whom the marble shaft has been reared, the first instance in history

MARY WASHINGTON.

where a monument to a woman waserected by women. A most notable gathering was present on the occasion, including President Cleveland and his Cabinet, Vice President Stevenson, Chief Justice Fuller, Gov. O’Ferrall. of Virginia, and a host of other promi-

HOME OF WASHINGTON'S MOTHER.

nent personages from all parts of the. country. Senator Daniel and Lawrence Washington, a lineal descendant of Washington’s mother, were the orators of the day. As early as 1830 the idea of erecting a monument to Washington’s motherwas made public and in 1833 the cor-

ner stone of a shait was laid. But the work progressed n o farther, the man who promised to furnish the means having failed. The structure, as it was left, crumbled with slow decay and gradually went to. pieces. Other movements of a similar nature were started", but

MARY WASHINGTON'S MONUMENT

none of them took definite shape? until three years ago, when the National Mary Washington Memorial Association was formed. These patriotic? women immediate.y set out to collect, funds for a monument, and the success which followed their undertaking is. creditable alike to the distinguished woman whom they honored and tothemselves. It is a subject of gratification to all Americans that the motherof our first President should at length, 104 years after her death, have a sui.table token of respect raised above her unheeded grave. 'J he monument is a beautiful obelisk ofiplain white marble, fifty feet high and eleven feet, square at the base. It was executed in. Buffalo and cost SII,OOO.

AMERICAN PARTY WINS.

It Elects Delegates to Hawaii's Constitu--tional Convention. Honolulu advices say the election fordelegates to the constitutional convention passed off in a very quiet manner. No royalist candiates were in the field, and consequently no special interestwas taken in the election. The American Union party had five candidates, and six others ran independently. Of' the regular ticket three were elected, one of whom, A. Kunuiakes, is a descendant of the old reigning family, the Kamehamehas. The cumulative! ballot system was used, and 7,747 votes were cast. The Portuguese voted solidly for their two candidates, and elected both. Returns from otherislands are not yet in, but as there was* very little opposition to the American. Union party there no contest is expected.