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MISS PERKINS ALIVE ASTONISHED Hl'.R FAMILY BY SUDDENLY RETURNING HOME. Her Father Wax Certain the IHxm embered Body Found at Rrltlireport YVna that of Hl* Daughter. A GRAVE HAD BEEN PREPARED ♦ • AND THE REMAINS WERE BN ROUTE FOR INTERMENT, When the Young L:i<ly and Her Lover Unexpectedly Appeared—The Case Still n Deep Mystery. MIDDLKBORO, Mass., Sept. 17.—The supposed victim of the Bridgeport, Conn., murder, Miss Marian Grace Perkins, arrived at her home this afternoon in perfect health, to the great joy of the family and the unbounded astonishment of the entire community. Her father was not in town, for at the time of his daughter’s arrival, he was on his way back from Bridgeport with the grewsome remains which he had identified as those of Grace, and for which the funeral arrangements, including the digging of the grave had already been completed. Miss Perkins came from Providence, R. 1., and •was accompanied by her lover, Charles Bourne, and at first It was stated that the couple had been married. This was afterwards denied by young Bourne’s unQle. So unexpected was the coming of Miss Perkin* and young Bourne, that outside of Mr. Thompson and one or two friends who had bden previously notified, there were very few at the railroad station when the train came in. The young lady, however, was immediately recognized by the bystanders at the station und the news spread around tho town with incredible rapidity. There was a. large crowd at the gate as the young lady stepped from the carriage and run into the house. Just across the street from the Perkins house is a little cemetery and only this morning, in response to the request of the uncle of Mrs. Perkins, a grave had been dug by the sexton in the family lot, and the new earth thrown up behind it could be plainly seen from the borne. Half an hour after Miss Perkins arrived home, a local undertaker’s wagon drove up to the house, and in it was the coffin which had been ordered by the family. The funeral arrangements had even gone so far that the family minister had been notified and asked to conduct the services. At the Perkins home to-night an uncle of the young woman, in the absence of her father, gave out the following statement: “We that Grace and Charles Bourne have been married as they have been off on frequent trips during the past two or three months. Grace knew nothing of the sensation until yesterday morning when she read of it in the papers. She sent a letter to h y mother only teq days ago, but the latter . never received it." Later in the evening Miss Perkins herself, after many importunities, consented to epeak, but all that she said was: “I am glad to be here, alive, truly alive, and it is truly me.” j Mr. Perkins arrived from Taunton about 10 o'clock and drove immediately to the Perkins house. The meeting between father and daughter was affecting. Late to-night it was reported that Mr. Perkins was very ill. * The undertaker who brought the body over from Taunton said to-night that from the talk he had with Mr. Perkins he felt sure that the latter was Insane. He also said that he should hold the remains of the woman which Mr. Perkins brought from Bridgeport until some proper authority assumed further charge of them. “Frank Perkins having sworn to the remains," said he, "as those of his daughter, I shall not feel it my duty to release them until he withdraws his sworn statement. Judging from his condition, 1 do not think he will be able to make the withdrawal for some time.”

DEATH CERTIFICATE "WAS FILED. Official" Believed the Body Wit" that o? Minn Perklnx. BRIDGEPORT. Conn., Sept. 17.—The news that Mies Perkins had returned to her home in Middleboro was received with incredulity at first, so general was the belief that the identity of the body had been established. That no doubt existed in the minds of the officials as to the identification is apparent from the tact that the death certificate has been filed, and everything official in connection with the dtath of “Marian Grace Perkins” has been complied with. Superintendent of Police Birmingham ■aid to-night: “I w r as satisfied that the dead woman was not the original of the photograph exhibited by Mr. Perkins, and there were other discrepancies, a great many of them. It was said slight callouses were found on the dead woman’s hands, when Perkins suggested that bis daughters hands were calloused, but beyond a doubt the dead woman’s hands were soft and smooth. I have been actively working on the case, but am obliged to say that thus far I have not been able to secure evidence that w'ould warrant an arrest. I have evidence which I cannot divulge that will play its part when the time comes.” He would not say anything about Dr. Guilford, whose name has been used in connection with the case. In the opinion of Superintendent Birmingham the woman died or was murdered last Sunday. To-night he has sent an official description of the woman. It is presumed that the body will be stnt back to this city without delay and buried by the town authorities. Attorney J. B. Kline is in receipt of a letter from Dr. Nancy Guilford, whose name has been freely used in conneotton with the murder mystery, asking his advice as to whether or not she should return to Bridgeport. The letter bears the date ot Wellsburg, N. Y., Sept. 15. In it Dr. Guilford tells how she is incessantly harassed by reporters questioning her upon the horrible crime. She maintains that she is absolutely innocent of any connection with the crime, but she feels that on account of the strong prejudice against her she would be immediately arrested on suspicion should she return and wouid be obliged to spend months in Jail, probably, before she would be given a trial, though, as she asserts, “the Bridgeport police have not the slightest evidence against me for this crime, Attorney Kline stated that if the authorities demand her presence he will advise her to return, but in his opinion, with the clearing tip of the mystery, it will be shown that Dr. Guilford had nothing to do with It. Chinese Traltw. Letter In New York Post. One of the most striking elements in Chinese life is its solidarity. As is well known, the family has a much larger function than with us. The marriage of a son does not break in upon the family life, but enlarges It, the daughter-in-law becoming incorporated in the family of her husband. Several fenerations may be welded together in one ome, the authority of the elders becoming the more absolute with time. Growing old ie certainly robbed in China of some of the terror* it has among us. The older a man grows the more weight is accorded to his wisdom. A girl may be worse than valueless; a young wife is the hapless servant of her mother-in-law, but a mother is sure of honer, which increases with the years, and

a grandmother rules the generations with a tod of Iron. In tho dan the family idea is again extended and society compacted. The leading members of a clan are held largely responsible for the conduct of the rest, and are often punished for their crimes, although no one may suspect them of personal complicity with the wrongdoers. Yet in other respects Chinese society seems individualistic in the extreme. “Am I my brother's keeper?” was never asked in more incredulous tone than by the Chinese. when brother is used in its larger sense. The doctrine of laissez-faire was never pushed to a greater extreme. A man may drown in the sight of scores of bystanders without cne of them bestirring himself in his behalf. Civic pride - is almost unknown and public spirit cannot be appealed to. Why should a man trouble himself for oth< rs or seek to promote the public weal? The ration has no hold upon Ihe imagination or the conscience of the Chinese. The contrast with the Japanese in this respect is feirly startling. While the latter quivers with patriotic feelipg, and throws his goods and his life into the scale for his country’s glrry. the Ch’nese is not aroused from his apathy by the boom of cannon nor by the disgrace of his dragon flag. DISTRESS IN BARBADOES. Two-Thirds of tho Population tendered Homeless by the Hurricane. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept. 17.—Details of the hurricane are constantly coming in which show the disaster to have been infinitely worse than was at first expected. The destruction at Barbadoes was fully equal to that at St. Vincent, while Saint Lucia also suffered considerably. The Island of Barbadoes, presenting practically a flat surface, was completely swept by the vortex of the cyclone, the result being that' the entire area of cultivation was obliterated, while a majority of the residences and other buildings were destroyed, and two-thirds of the dense population were rendered homeless. The population was seeking shelter at Bridgetown and other centers, only to find them little more than masses of ruin. The consequent distress is unparalleled in the history of the West Indies, and the Governor has cabled that instant and continuous outside relief is absolutely necessary in order to avert widespread famine and possibly a resultant pestilence. The actual extent of the fatalities has not yet been ascertained, owing to the extent of the ruin wrought throughout the island. Apparently the damage in Saint Lucia was comparatively less enormous, although very serious. Many plantations and houses were destroyed, temporarily paralyzing industry. The loss of life in Saint Lucia was comparatively small. No estimate of the shipping casualties is yet possible. NEW ORLEANS INFECTED * CASH OF YELLOW FEVER FOUND IN THE CRESCENT CITY. quarantine Proclaimed by the Lonlliana Board of Health—Many . taxes at Jackxon, Mix*. 1 LOUISVILLE. Ky„ Sept. 17,-Following is an epitome of the yellow-fever situation in the South as it exists to-night: President Souchon, of the Louisiana Board of Health, to-night reported a genuine case of yellow fever in the city of New Orleans. The case referred to is that of Mallory Kennedy; son of Dr. T. S. Kennedy. The patient is said to be on the road to recovery. The Board of Heaith has proclaimed a quarantine against New Orleans. Freight and passenger traffic will be carried on under the regulations of the Atlanta convention. The State of Mississippi has also quarantined against New Orleans. Inspector Harralson to-day telegraphed the Jackson health authorities as follows from that city: “Many cases of yellow fever here. Believe it will be officially announced today or to-night.” The situation at Jackson is quiet. No new cases were reported to-day. About half the population remains in the city. Two new cases were reported at Orwood and one at Taylors. The sick generally are doing well at both places. The Texas health authorities have declared an unconditional quarantine against New' Orleans, and issued orders to all Texas quarantine stations to allow no passenger or freight trains to enter the State from New Orleans until further orders. Surgeon Generul Wyman'* Advices. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Surgeon General Wyman, of the Marine Hospital Service, was to-night informed of a case of yellow fever in New Orleans, La., in the following telegram from President Souchon, of the State Board of Health: “One case of positive yellow fever reported here. All proper precautions taken.”

GLAD HE SHOT HIMSELF MOTHER AND CHILDREN REJOICE OVER FRITZ BEXFIEL’S DEATH. e He Man a “Terror,” nnd Committed Suieiile After Wounding a Woman nnd Boy—Family Celebration. ■ ♦ CHICAGO, Sept. 17.—Fritz Benfiel, a Danish laborer, shot and killed himself to-day immediately after firing two bullets into Mrs. Minnia Youngberger, ana fatally wounding her two-year-old son Emil, whom she was holding in her arms. Benfiel, who was of an ugly, quarrelsome disposition, threatened last night to kill his wife and five chidren, and Mrs. Benfiel caused his arrest to-day. He accused Mrs.. Youngberger, a neighbor, of being a party to his arrest and when she denied it he drew a revolver and opened fire. The first bullet struck Mrs. Youngberger in the side, the second lodged in the little boy’s shoulder, and the third in Mrs. Ycungberger’s hip. The boy died within an hour, the mother will recover. Benfiel then sent a bullet through his own brain, dying instantly. His death, instead of being a grief to his family, was an unqualified joy. Within an hour after the shooting Mrs. Benfiel was holding an impromptu reception and acknowledged the congratulations of the neighbors, who called by dozens. Minnie Benfiel, the oldest daughter, remarked: “l m glad of it. He should have done it long ago.” She and one of her sisters announced their intention of giving a theater party to celebrate their father’s death and their mother went them one better by saying that she wouid not even bury him. The county authorities, she said, couul take the body and give it a pauper’s funeral. She will pay the expenses, but will have nothing more to do with the funeral. Benfiel has kept his family in terror for years and was generally accounted worthless by his neighbors. COLLAPSE OF A BUILDING. Sixteen Persons In the Structure, bat No One Killed. BUTTE, Mont., Sept. 17.—The York building, a three-story brick building on West Park street, collapsed to-day carrying down sixteen persons, burying some of them, but so far as can be learned, killing no one. The building was used for stores on the lower floor and lodging rooms above. The lower floor was being remodeled and used as a dry goods store. The partition through the center, which helped to support the floors above, had been torn out, thus w’eakenlng the uppper part of the building. Suddenly the whole building was felt to quiver. The workmen made a dash for safety, but some of them were caught. The front wall, the floors and roof front to within twenty feet of the rear, came down in a heap. Os the fourteen workmen, P. Q. Yeager. WU-

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Mam Barker, James Myers. Corkell, John Zellner, Henry Shadinger, F. S. Woodcock and John Foote were injured, their hurts consisting principally of bruises and cuts. Mrs. Annie McCaughey, who had charge of the third floor lodgings, wus on the second floor at the time. She went down clear to the bottom of the wreck. Her shoulder blade was broken and she was badly bruised by a beam. The people in charge of the house say all have been accounted for, but it is possible that the search of the ruins, which is now being made, wili reveal some bodies. COWED BY A SENATOR’S WIFE. Robber Forced from a Car Window by Mrs. C. K. Davis. ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 17.—While the wife of Senator C. K. Davis, of this State, was returning over the Northern Pacific from the Pacific coast a robber climbed on the truss rods as the train was leaving Ciyndon, Minn., and attempted to crawl through the window into the stateroom she was occupying. Mrs. Davis w'arned him away, and the fellow made some threatening remarks. In an open satchel on the seat Mrs. Davis had a revolver. She thrust it into the would-be robber’s face, and he dropped from the rapidly-moving train to the ground. The fellow suffered some bruises, but was not seriously injured. SUFFERING IN HAVANA HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE SLOWLY STARVING TO DEATH. Municipal Aulhoritiea Doing Nothing to Relieve the Distress—Blaucu and Aroian ut Outs. HAVANA, via Key West, Sept. 17.—As predicted, the streets and places have again become crowded with beggars since *the closing of the soup kitchens. Nothing could bo more ridiculous than the statement of Civil Governor Fernandez de Castro that want and distress have disappeared. The reasons which caused the opening of the kitchens during the blockade still obtain in the same degree, and the beggars are no better off to-day than they were then. The raising of the blockade did not have the effect of reducing the prices, which continue prohibitive for the poor. In fact, there is almost a total lack of food, clothing and medicine. Hundreds of children, mere skeletons, and hollow-eyed, colorless, naked men and women are dying by inches from disease and hunger, forgotten by all. The municipal authorities are doing absolutely nothing to remedy the evil. Commissions composed of ladies are visiting every store and business house, collecting relief supplies and medicine for the Cuban troops, but the collections are far short of the actual requirements. The Spaniards have contributed generously, even the most rabtu of the Conservatives. The condition of the Spanish troops is hardly better in the country. The average death rate among the Spanish soldiers was one hundred daily during the first fortnight of the present month. The principal causes of death were malaria and dysentery caused by the lack of food and bad quality of that ootaiiiubie. The steamer Chateau Lafitte ieit on Friday for Spain with 1,000 sick soldiers on board. All tne outgoing steamers bound for Spain are full of sick and wretched locking soldiers. Army officers and their families are leaving in great numbers. General Bianco has been sick in bed since yesterday, suffering from colic. It is learned on authority of an official source that, when the American evacuation commissioners arrivtd on the steamer Resolute, General Blanco decided ttf appoint an officer to represent him in receiving the commission, refusing to receive the commissioners in person. General Farr ado, second in command in Cuba, and General Solano argued with him a whole day, pointing out that such action would be a direct affront; that the commission, composed of two generals and one admiral, representing the United States government, had come here in pursuance of an agreement with the government at Madrid, that he was personally expected to receive the commissioners and that a refusal on his part to do so could only be regarded as a slight. General Blanco was finally brought to reason and persuaded to receive the commission in person, doing so In full dress uniform. It is an open secret that Captain General Blanco and Military Governor Arolas are at daggers drawn, General Arolas never going near the palace unless there are urgent official demands for his presence. Ivust night the performance was to have been given at the Tacon Theater for the benefit of the Cuban soldiers. All the seats had been sold and great crowds of Cuban sympathizers were expected to be present. Genet al Blanco had given permission tor the performance to take place, but on Thursday General Arolas went to the palace and had a stormy interview' with the captain general, criticising in strong language his weakness in permitting such a gathering. He protested against allowing the performance to take place, declaring that he, as military governor, was responsible for the preservation of order in the city, and adding that if the captain general persisted in his intention of allowing the performance to be held he would then and there present his resignation as military governor. There wait an extremely stormy scene between the two officials in which the tactful General Solano intervened, with the result that orders were issued for the suspension of the performance. General Arolas was persuaded to withdraw his resignation. Reports from Matanzas state that dreadful conditions prevail there. The poor are dying in the public streets and highways at an average of four or five daily. Besides the twenty-seven .unburied bodies before reported, the bodies of four men and women who have died from starvation were found in the streets. One child, almost dead from hunger, was found close to the wall of El Oriente foundry. This condition of things in the neighboring seaport town demands instant attention. Advices from other towns in the interior and on the coast report that distress and want prevail, principally among the Cuban troops, who are camped on the outskirts, Caibarien is apparently the worst off. Caibarien is the port which General Gomez, in a communication to General Wade, asked should be first evacuated in order to establish a Cuban base of supplies, in order to minister to the wants of the troops in the field. It is reported that on the 12th inst. a skirmish tbok place near Madruga, in the province of Matanzas, between Cuban and Spanish forces. The Cubans lost one officer killed and two men wounded. One of the Cubans was taken prisoner and carried to Matanzas by the civil guard, where he was turned over to the military authorities.

( nbuns Maintaining Order. HAVANA, Sept. 17.—Advices from Matanf.as report that the Cuban troops are maintaining order and enforcing rights of property with rigid severity in that district. The advices state that yesterday afternoon a colored man named Domingo Aldama was tried by court-martial and was shot on the estate Los Angeles for having stolen an ox the day before belonging to the estate. In the same district another prisoner, Domingo Pichardo, who was accused of a minor theft, was delivered to the Spanish outposts at Los Molinos. These acts are looked on as evidencing the sincerity of the Cuban troops in their efforts to enforce law r and order. At the same time the Cuban troops throughout the island are suffering woefully from lack of food and clothing, and their condition demands immediate attention and relief in order to prevent serious outbreaks of disease. Movement" ot Steamer". NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Arrived: Umbria, from Liverpool. Sailed: Campania, for Liverpool; Hekla, for Copenhagen; Werra, for Naples; Spaarndam. for Rotterdam; Rhynland, for Southampton; Anchoria, for Glasgow; Pennsylvania, for Hamburg. MARSEILLES. Sept. 17.—Sailed: Burgundia, for New York. SOUTHAMPTON. Sept. 17.—Sailed: Penniand, for New York. QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 17.—Sailed: Cymric, for New York. LIVERPOOL. Sept. 17.—Arrived: Bltruria, from New York. HAVRE. Sept. 17.—Sailed: La Gascogne, for New York. ANTWERP, Sept. 17.—Sailed: Friesland, for New York. LIVERPOOL, Sept. 17.—Sailed: Lucania, for New York. The Prohibitionists of Blackford county have nominated the following ticket: Auditor, W. L. Ervin; treasurer, T. M. Haney; sheriff. Daniel Rinker; surveyor, Smith Casterline; commissioners, Seth Summington and James McVicker.

DR. JOHN HALL DEAD AN EMINENT AND POPULAR EXPONENT OF PRESBYTERIANISM, Who Filled the Pnlptt of the FifthAvenue Church in New York for Over Thirty Years. 1 FAMOUS AT HOME AND ABROAD ♦ . - ONCE HONORED WITH APPOINTMENT FROM QUEEN VICTORIA. Noted * a Lender in the Connells of His Church, and Chancellor of the University of New York. BELFAST, Ireland, Sept. 17.—The Rev. Dr. John Hall, of New York, died this morning at Bangor, County Dow n. Dr. Hail was on his annual visit to Europe. He died at his sister’s residence. His health had been broken down for more than a year. He had hoped to return to New York shortly and had already engaged passage on a steamer for himself and his wife. Dr. Hail’s death was due to heart failure. His wife and sons, Rev. Thomas Hall and Prof. Robert Hall, were present at the bedside of the deceased when he passed away. HIS LIFE AND WORK. Career of Dr. John Hull in Ireland ami the United States. Dr. John Hall was born in County Armagh, Ireland, on July 31, 1829. When eighteen years of age he entered Belfast College and was repeatedly Hebrew prize man. In 1849 he w'as licenced to preach and at once engaged in labor as a missionary in the west of Ireland. He was installed pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Armagh in 1852 and in LSSB, was called to the Church of Mary’s Abbe (now Rutland square) in Dublin. He received from Queen Victoria the honorary appointment of commissioner of education for Ireland. In 1867 Dr. Hall was a delegate from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland to th Presbyterian Church in the United States, and after his return to Ireland he received a call to the Fifth-avenue Presbyterian Church in New York. He accepted it and entered upon his labors in November, 1867. Anew church edifice was erected for Dr. Hall in 1875 at a cost of abcut $1,000,000 on the'corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-fifth street. He was elected chancellor of the University of the City of New York in 1882. Such, in brief, is the career of one of the foremost divines of the day. Dr. Hall was one of the long generation of Scotch and Scoteh-Irish divines whose racial and individual traits equipped them for stalwart work in the pulpit. Many of them New York has called to the charge of churches. He was one of the first to find his mission there, and for thirty years his personality was a connecting link between the Presbyterian bodies of the old and new worlds, more direct than is always supposed. In the strongholds of that church in the British isles his name was as familiar as it is in this country. To New York Dr. Hall w'as known as the head of the most conspicuous church of his great denomination, as the pastor of find’of and wealthiest congregations in the country , as the active friend of charitable and benevolent agencies and a3 the public-spirited Citizen who studiously refrained from partisanship, while his influence always made itself felt, powerfully if unobtrusively, on the right side.

A GIANT IN STATURE. Through nearly three score and ten Dr. Hall's appearance of manly >vigor, until recently, was such as to make the stranger stand and gaze when he passed on the street. His stature, almost that of a giant, bespoke a reserve of physical strength on which, as the unaided pastor in a charge that would make exacting demands of any one, he had frequent drafts. A ruddy and kindly face framed in white hair surmounted his broad shoulders. That John Hall was a stanch friepd has been abundantly attested, and it never had a msre striking demonstration than in the scenes of Jan. 8, last, at his church, which his announcement of his purpose to retire evoked. The evidences of emotion were general and touching. In the greetings to the pastor at the conclusion of the service outbursts of feeling could not be restrained. Men and women with whose sorrows and joys the venerable minister had been associated, w hose parents had been laid to rest by him, whose children had been baptized and married by him saw suddenly arise before them the inevitable moment of separation, and their quick grief broke the bounds of convention. In the sermon which preluded the tendering of his resignation Dr. Hall urged his church not to be “carried about with divers and strange doctrines.’’ It tvas an exhortation to stand by the Bible as the infallible and inspired word of God. This was typical of the man. John Hall was a steadfast believer in those conservative doctrines against which the latler-day tide of the higher criticism expended itself. But while a conservative by instinct and rearing, his influence in the controversies inside his denomination over the position taken by Dr. Briggs was for peace. When he came to this country as a delegate from the General Assembly of Ireland, in 1867, he counseled church unity upon both the Old School and the New School Presbyterians. His conspicuous position in his denomination entailed upon Dr. Hall what was practically the necessity of traveling widely. He appeared in a representative capacity at hundreds of peaces, meanwhile keeping up Ms pastoral work, without the aid of an assistant. His summers were spent abroad visiting the surviving members of his family in the north of Ireland and occasionally discoursing to congregations in the British islands. These vacation voyages across the Atlantic were practically the only life rer creation of one of the busiest of men. Dr. Hall’s capacity for work as well as his appetite for it was far beyond that of the ordinary man, and he seldom indulged himself in relaxation. He never saw a play or heard an opera. When he was younger he sometimes went boating and fishing. His only exercise at home was walking, for which his pastoral duties afforded him a considerable opportunity. WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. When John Hall was a young man and had the care of a thriving congregation at Armagh, in the north of Ireland, many of his people lived four and five and even six miles away from the town. In pastoral calls it was his custom to have a conveyance take him in the morning the home of his most remote parishioner. There he would dismiss it and set forth on his round of calls, zigzagging afoot across the countryside. It would be evening before he had walked into town again, with more miles to his credit than most men would care to negotiate between daylight and dark, and generally having conducted a service and preached at the house of one of his parishioners. In his trips abroad he loved to walk about the scenes of his youth, as well as to stroll through the stores and bookstalls of the English cities. Dr. Hall was an omnivorous reader. Little of merit in contemporary literature escaped him, and his knowledge of the classics was wide. Few' ministers have so thorough an acquaintance with the Hebrew language and literature. He read rapidly, his mind digesting easily and retaining strongly. Indeed, his memory was regarded as remarkable. When he was a little younger he was prone to set up into the unearthly hours reading or writing. Further evidence of his industry was seen in his activity in pastoral work. The charge of a congregation numbering between 3,000 and 4.000 and containing more than 2,000 communicants is itself, without the burden of preaching and outside writing, a task cf great dimensions. But no minister in the city was more assiduous than Dr. Hail, and no year passed without at least one visit from him in every family of the congregation. It was his custom to have announced each week the street* in which he would make pastoral calls. Hi* day began at 9 o’clock in the morning, when

he was ready to receive visitors. Every hour until a bedtime not of the earliest had its duties and demands. In the pulpit Dr. Hall's predominant characteristics were his sinceritv, ludicity and simplicity of thought. The structure of his sermons showed that progress so vital to entertaining discourse. The manner was like the matter and the man. It was strong and simple and direct with the charm of a rich, deep voice in whose accents some discovered a trace of the land which gave him birth. His language was the purest AngloSaxon. Although he preached without notes or manuscript of any kind, yet his sermons were all carefully written out before their delivery. HIS CAREER IN IRELAND. Dr. Hall was descended from a Scotch family that has lived in the county of Armagh, Ireland, since 1600. While in col v lege he became interested in Sunday school and mission work. He was a missionary before he reached his majority. He graduated with honors. At twenty-one he went to a mission station at Camlin, in the w r est of Ireland, four miles from the town of Boyle. This mission was established by Mrs. Irwin, widow of John Irwin, Esq., whose family, for generations previous, owned the large estates and resided in the family mansion of Camlin. She belonged to the Protestant Episcopal Church, but when it was impossible to secure an Episcopalian mission there Mrs. Irwin had the post established under Presbyterian auspices. When Dr. Hall was called to the First Presbyterian Church at Armagh, some four years later, he took Mrs. Irwin with him as Mrs. Hall. The Armagh church was one of the most prominent in the north of Ireland. There Dr. Hall remained until 1868, when he was called to the Church of St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin, as assistant and successor to the aged Dr. Kirkpatrick. The business district had grown around the church, but its congregation so increased that it erected in a more advantageous neighborhood the handsome edifice which is known as the Rutland-square Presbyterian Church. In 1867 Dr. Hall came to this country with Dr. Denham as the Irish deputation to the Old School Presbyterian Assembly of the United States. He addressed this assembly at Cincinnati, and afterward the New School Assembly at Rochester. Dr. Hall spoke by invitation in the Fifthavenue Presbyterian Church, New York, June 15. 1567. Its pulpit was then vacant, and when he returned to Ireland it cabled him a call. The urgent indorsement of his old friend and distant relative, the late George H,, Stewart, of Philadelphia, was the deciding factor in his acceptance of the call. He came at a salary of $6,0u0 in gold, when gold wa3 at a premium of 130. This was raised to SIO,OOO currency, and afterward increased to $15,000. Meanwhile his congregation erected a church and parsonage at Fifth avenue and Fifty-fifth street, at a cost of more than $1,000,000, giving the old building, at Nineteenth street, to the Central Presbyterian Church, which removed it to West Fifty-seventh street. It has been staled that the fees from marriages he has xeceived amounted to $5,000 in a year. This is a mistake. His fees from this and all other such sources never exceeded and rarely amounted to SSOO a year. The charities of the congregation include the Alexander Chapel, on King street, the Romeyn Chapel, on Fourteenth street, a mission house on Sixty-third street, a Chinese mission on East Fifty-ninth stieet, and a children's home at Atlantic Highlands. Dr. Hall was for ten years chancellor of the New York University, and he was a trustee of Princeton, of tne Union Theological Seminary and of Wellesley College, and chairman of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. He has written largely. Among his book:- are “Family Prayers for Four Weeks” (1868), “Papers for Home Reading” (1871). “Familiar Talks to Boys: Buestions of the Day” (1873), “God's Word irough Preaching” (1875), “Foundation Stones for Young Builders” (1880), and “A Christian Home and How to Maintain It” (1883.)

Rf,v. Thomas Apple, D. D„ LL. D. LANCASTER. Pa.. Sept. 17,-Rev. Thomas Apple, D. D.. LL. D., one of the most eminent theologians in the Reformed Church in America, died to-day from acute kidney trouble. Dr. Apple was sixty-nine years old and had been prominent in the Reformed Church for nearly half a century. He became president of the Mercersburg College in 1565 and filled the position until 1871, when he accepted the chair of church history and New Testament exegesis in the Reformed Theological Seminary in this city, a position he still occupied at the time of his death. He was, in former years, editor of the Mercersburg Review and the Reformed Church Quarterly. Dr. Apple was also a delegate to the Presbyterian Alliance in Belfast, in 1884. Prof. W. R. Da-ly. BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 17.—Prof. William R. Daly, one of the most noted lifesavers of the United States for many years, champion swimmer and champion oarsman of the Pacific slope, in recent years well known in theatrical circles, is dead in South Boston. Death was caused by pneumonia. Forty years ago he went to California, where he began teaching swimming. While in California Mr. Daly gained a world-wide reputation as a swimmer, and during his career saved thirty-eight lives of persons who would surely have drowned had he not gone to their assistance. Besides these he also saved many lives in railroad accidents. In 1884 he was awarded a special gold medal by Congress. To Be Interred at Arlington. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-The War Department has decided that the remains of Brigadier General Haskell, who died suddenly at Columbus yesterday, shall be interred at Arlington, although the exact moment has not been fixed. Major Roberts has been instructed to send one commissioned and six noncommissioned officers frem Colambus as an escort to the remains. MAY BE FLOATED MONDAY. Work, on the Spanish Cruiser Teresa —Ten Gunw Recovered. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Capt. Crowninshield, who was to-day acting as secretary of the navy, received a cablegram from Commodore Watson, at Guantanamo, stating that the wreckers have recovered ten six-inch guns from the Spanish flagship Maria Teresa and placed them on the collier Leonidas. The commodore said it is expected the Spaoish ship will be floated next Monday, and he will start for home Tuesday. He is under orders to take command at the Mare Island navy yard. The reports received at the Navy Department indicate that the big tropical hurricane which did so much damage in Barbadoes did not strike near the United States naval vessels at Caimanera, but passed well to the eastward. it is learned that the monitor Amphitrite, which was recently reported as broken down at Mole St. Nicholas, Haiti, is now on her way to Norfolk in tow of the cruiser Yosemite. She sailed from the mole on tho 11th inst., and. as she has had bad weather and tows slowly, she is not yet due at Norfolk. The Sylvia, at Norfolk, and the Hector and Vesuvius, at Boston, have been ordered out of commission. The Cincinnati sailed to-day from San Juan for St. Thomas. ODD FELLOWS AT BOSTON. Sovereign Grand Lodge to Meet This Week in the Hub. BOSTON, Sept. 17.—Boston is putting on gala attire in honor of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, which will hold its sessions in this city next week. Boston will do triple honors. She will greet the three-link men Monday morning in the Y. M. C. A. Hall, tell what she knows about Odd Fellowship at a banquet Monday evening, and review the big parade Wednesday afternoon. During the past few days the advance guards of the delegation have arrived, but from to-day on the large cantons are expected with delegations aggregating 50.000 persons from every section of the country and Canada. Headquarters have been established at the Hotel Vendome, Pierce Hall and the Y. M. C. A. Hall. Nearly 50,000 are expected to be in the parade. The sessions of the Sovereign Grand Lodge will be held in the Y. M. C. A. building. To-day those delegates who have already arrived visited Salem on a sight-seeing tour. Adulterated Rice. New York Evening Post. So cheap and common an article of food as rice Is adulterated. The purpose Is to give the grains an attractive color, the articles used being oil and paraffin, but the effect on the rice Is deleterious. Those oily substances, a New Orleans paper says, soak into the grain and make it hard. The retult Is that moro cooking is needed, and even then the rice often remains hard, and, to that extent. Is made Indigestible. In addition, the oil adds to the weight of the grain and thua again is the buyer cheated. The

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Louisiana Legislature, at its recent session, undertook to correct, the evil by making the use of oil or paraffin in the cleaning of rice a misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment. The law is more drastic than a German one on the same subject, the German statute merely requiring that the adulterated rice be labelled “oil finish” or “paraffin finish.” ELECTRIC CONSOLIDATION. Walker Company Gobbled by the Westinjt'ltoiiso Corporation. NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—The official announcement was made to-day that the Westinghouse Electrical Manufacturing Company, of Pittsburg, had secured a working consolidation with the Walker Company, of Cleveland. This leaves the field of electrical manufacture to the Westinghouse and General Electrical companies, which have had a working agreement for some time. It will also put an end, it is said, to the long series of litigations which have resulted over patents. The capital stock of the Westinghouse Company is $15,000,000, and that of the Walker Company $2,500,000 with $2,500,000 bonds. The Walker Electric Company has its plant in Cleveland, and numbers among its incorporators and directors ex-Governor Flower, Major Hindkley, former chairman of the New' York State Democratic State committee, and Perry Belmont. The report was current tat the New York Air-brake Company may be let in. That concern has its works at Watertown, this State, the home of ex-Governor Flow'er, who is much interested in its affairs. A FATAL STABBING. Swell Young .Man of Danville in Serious Trouble. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DANVILLE, 111., Sept. 17.—Thurman Russell probably fatally stabbed Harry Cordray to-day. The victim is the son of a Pacific theatrical manager. His recovery Is doubtful. Ho is about eighteen years old, and it is said that the present difficutiy was not entirely unexpected by him. The trouble grew' out of alleged trouble with other members of Russell’s family. Cordray is very popular here. HEBREWS AS A NATIOM. Mr. Zangitill’H View* on the Rehabilitation in Palestine. Philadelphia Press. He thinks the movement looking to the rehabilitation of the Jewish nation under one government In Palestine is beautiful in its conception, but is skeptical of its practicability. , “There are three tremendous difficulties to the proposal,” he explained. "One of them is the lethavgy of the Jews themselves. The great bulk of the Jewish race scattered over the entire world, is not enthusiastic about the movement. The second difficulty Ilea In the nature of Palestine ,t----eels. It is proposed to restore the Jews to a country that happens to be one of the

most ruined countries in the w'orld. I havo recently ridden over a great deal of it myself and so happen to know how desolate it is. On the barren hillsides one can stlil see, here and there, signs of fertility, but on the whole the country is terribly barren. The spots of fertility indicate that there is some hope that, by industry, the land might be made productive, but at present it is desolate enough. “A third and very important difficulty to the reunion movement lies in the fact that the Holy Land happens to be a Holy Land for two other religions; namely, the Christum and Mohammedanism, and so the difficulties of religious controversy hover around the land. Jerusalem is the center of religious hostility. There is groat anxiety on the part of many religions to get possession of the holy ground. The Jew is really the least regarded person in Jerusalem and there Is no hope, in the present state of religious thought, that the Jew' would be allowed to occupy Jerusalem. They would not be allowed to guard the holy sepulcher. “The most the Jews could do for one or two generations would be to settle a large number of colonies within the other parts of Palestine. They might, perhaps, get a home with international guarantees—not from one nation, but from all the powers—that would permit as many of the Jews as wish to, to stream into the country arwl be under a more or less autonomous government. But, after all, the large body of the Jews have no sympathy with the movement. They believe in the emancipation of Jews in the separate countries where they are. Still. I would favor it, if I thought it was practicable, but I really do not think it is at present. There are too many difficulties. I favor it emotionally, but the practical side I distrust.” An Artful Girl. Washington Post. “The artfulness of the modern girl," remarked a woman who was a girl years ago, herself to me. “passeth understanding. I have, for example, a young kinswoman of eighteen, whose mother, knowing that my husband was out of town. Invited me to her house to tea one day last week. The girl was so sweet to me that in the end, though I hadn’t the slightest idea of doing it when I set out, I asked her to come home with me and stay the night. She assented—not too eagerly—and as we walked toward the car together—she lives on Capitol Hillr-she began to talk of young Mr. So-and-so, Commander So-and-so's son. who was so anxious to meet me. No woman is too old to be proof against flattery, so I expressed an Interest In Mr. So-and-so, and told her she might bring him to see me some day. “ ‘lt would be nice If he could come over this evening, wouldn’t It?’ she said, thoughtfully. I agreed that it would. “ ’You might have sent him a note if you had known,’ I said, for ut my age It Isn’t too oftep that young men want to make my acquaintance. " ‘I tell you what,’ she said, quite as if the idea had just occurred to her. ‘l’ll telephone to him and see if he has any other engagement.' “We went into the nearest drug store, ana idly I followed her to the telephone box. though she called my attention to something at the other end of the store. Central gave her the desired number—the young man's brother is a physician. “ ‘ls this Mr. So-and-so?’ she asked. “ ‘lt’s all right about to-night,* she said. ‘Good-bye.’ “That's all she said. And then, and not till then, I realized how that innocent young thing had played it on me. As I said before, the artfulness of the modern girl passeth understanding.”