Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1889 — Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1823.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1889. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR,

BROKE THE RECORD AGAIN

WHVT AXTELL DID ATTERRE HAUTE. The Three-Year-OM nnd Stallion Records Broken at One Time Sold For the Hlgheat Price L"fr Paid For i Horte Turf Kote. Teere Hatte, Ind., Oct. 11. A mile in two minutes and twelve seconds is a preat feat for an aged liorse at any harness gait. When it was done by a three-year-oM stallion at the trotting gait it means a record that will stand for many a day ; it means the acme of physical endurance, courage and all that goes to make a king of all horses. The fourth day of the fall meeting Lrought out a crowd as large and enthusiastic as ever a perfect Indian summer sun fchone unon to witness an event that one is fortunate enough to nee in a life-time the attempt of the great Axtell to heat the three-year-old record, 2:l;;, held by the California till y Sunol. When brought out for the warming-up heat he moved with such freedom and determination that but few thought the record would fdand, but that he would knock one and and three-fourth seconds from it the wildret enthusiast did not dream. Cleorge Starr Fat behind Father John as a helper. "Wiüiams nodded for the w ord at the second attempt, and the great tlight was bejrun. With that smooth action that marks him as the purest-gaited horse that ever lived, the first quarter was reached in thirtv-threc seconds ; the clip is made faster to the half in 1:0-3. "Too fast," fays Col. Con'ey, and a sigh goes up from the crowd, as it is felt that the drive is made too soon; still tho game colt goes on, faster and faster. Thirty-two and a quarter is the gait to the three-quarter post. With never a falter he breasts the hill and turns into the Wretch. A f-hout jroes up, IIe will do it." On he couies and without a wabble or false stroke he finishes the mile in 2:12, thus at one ttroke reducing the three-year-old record one and three-quarter seconds, also the records for stallions at all ages. Pandemonium broke. loose, the etretch was black with a shouting, yelling mob. Williams was taken from the sulky and borne aloft on shoulders and cheer after cheer went up for the gallant colt and tlriver. The official timers were J. II. Steiner, secretary of the American trotting association; A. E. Bush of Detroit, and Col. Conley of Chicago. Their watches agreed exactly on all tractions of the mile. The watches of Juilses Beauchamp and Moran told exactly the same tale. The track is seven feet over a miio by oiEcial survey. The unfinished three-year-old trot, 1 rough! over from yesterday, was quickly disposed of, Fortuna taking the lead and never headed. Egdewood stakes, $700 : lortiina bv FlorMa dam. bv George Wilkes... 1 3 1 Malti" 11.,'br AMailah -Viinibriur. 2 1 2 Jlar"D-ss, bv Harn brino, dam bv Mambrin I'atehen . .". 3 Lucy It., by Suit. in. (i.rni Ladv M.icki y 2 c Mr. lime 2:X; -,:-4'.:; i.V.'i. Five heats were trotted in the 2:27 class; Fedalia boy could not win the lircd heat, laid up the second, and took the remaining three. 2:27 trot, purse $1,000: f-edalia fty rh. W. E. Mcllenry... 10 8 1 1 1 8 1 7 o 3 5 6 jnd:gn t:.v-k in.. Eilsen? llod 1 billy MeGrecor b. h.,cb. Griswold...... 'i .vi ai i). m., Jos. asj s 1 ai.ivrra hr. b.. Gen. iriries 7 Marqui b. g. M. E. I'avi it Poem br. h., J. L. barker 4 ft ID harupioa Medium b. h., S. 1. Pue.... 11 4 10 JaliM br. h., lsa ic ( f ; 5 10 9 Iai-v Qufn gr, rn.. E. Iters ......... 97 cirGar . g,, a. B. H.rr. 9 11 11 i 9 9 1') 8 8 11 Time-2.21; 2:i:.'i; l:2St 2:27; 2:C.:, The 2:16 trot was decided in three beats. Two-sixteen pace; purse, $1,000. .lack. l ud IMi'e 1 1 limdrvx, h... II. A. II li :t 2 2 J. 15. Uicuarils' r, Edgars 2 3 3 Tune-2:17$; 217i; 2:17. But two heats of the four-year-nll trot were decided. In the first. Virginia "Kvans out-finished Noble, but her driver took her back. The filly was taken from Harris and Dobls put behind her. The Fecond heat Noble was steadier and had the most speed. The remaining heats go over for to-morrow. Warren Park stake, $700 (unfinished). Tarrv N. We. b. 1... by Frank Noble 1 1 Mivlr.U F.van. 1.1.1. f., hv Kt-ntucky ViUes... 2 2 -aura bell, h. f.. bv IVlmont 3 3 Tim ,--2:22; 2:22. Acolyte to beat 2:23 went the mile easily in 2:21. The card for to-morrow is 2::'.2 trot, 2:27 trot (unfinished), four-year-old stake, match race between Hussar by Jersev Wilkes and Sunlight by Bartholomew "Wilkes and several specie's. The race track upon wisich the greatest Ftallion race of the age was trotted to-day is a full mile and seven feet over the mile. All horsemen are satisfied that it is 1 full mile track. An affidavit is on file with J. II. kleiner of Detroit, secretary of the American association, and with the secretary of the local association that the distance, three feet from the rail, is 6even feet over a full mile. Henry Simons and other we'.l-known horsemen with split Fecond watches, standing under the w ire, claim that the mile was made in 2:11 J. Mr. Williams, the owner and driver, himeelf c.aims 2:11. Col. Conley and assolates are very conservative and all through the meeting their time Las been elower than spectator's. The town is wild to-night. President Ijams gave a banquet to the horsemen to-night in honor of .Mr. "Williams, the owner of Axtell. Col. ConW of Chicago at 11 :.)0 to-nieht completed the purchase of the great trotter, A xteil, for SIOÖ.UX). It is supposed be represents a syndicate. Andy Walsh of Hartford, and John Madden of Lexington offered Williams $101,000 for the colt, and had a certified check for forfeit to offer him. This ho refused, nd afterward accepted Col. Conley's oiler with much reluctance. "It is like selling a child," said Williams. This is the highest price ever paid in the world for a horse ot any description. TEF.r.n It acte, Oct. 14. The unfinished 2:27 trot of the fall trotting meeting, brought over from .atnrday when darkness interfered after the third heat, wan finished this morning. Three horses entered for the earlier raees at Islington were drawn Saturday. 2:27 trot, parse, $1,000: f .IIa Clay 4 4 3 1 11 Karl ...............M..m..,... 12 15 5 3 M'l.lw.... . 8 1 5 4 4 2 Ifatlie Hawthorn . 3 ft 4 2 3 ro Juni B 2 8 2 dr Col. Walker M Mr John IMckerson 7 8 9 S 2 ro wv;.wt . s 9 n 6 dr r rnk V 7 7 dr Tirae-2:24, 2:21 2:2-2:23,, 2:2354, 2:2i. Comt.tn.Tiw Sold. Jebome Park, N. Y Oct 14. At noon today Col. S. D. Bruce old eighteen thoroughbreds at auction In the paddock. Come-to-Taw wm the feature of the aale. There were plenty of race owners ready and willing to purchase him, tut the hizheit bidden were the Hough üros., who secured Ham Bryant's pet at the not BO'eaaonable fiifure. of $10,100,

ORDERS DISOBEYED.

A Fntnl Railroad Accident Nenr Bridgeport, O Many Injured. Martin's Ferry, 0., Oct. 11. A collision occurred two miles west of Bridgeport at 0:00 o'clock this morning between the miners' train of two passenger coaches, containing about seventy miners en route to the Wheeling creek coal works, and a freieht train of twenty-one cars, southbound. Both locomotives were demolished and also the two passenger cars and eight freight cars. Eight train-men and thirteen miners wero injured, three of the latter fatally. The collision was caused by a misunderstanding of the freight conductor. The freight train had orders to look out for the work train and not to p3S9 the Wheeling creek mines until after the arrival of the work train. This order Mas disregarded and the collision resulted. The engineers and liremen and many miners jumped and saved their lives. The list of killed and injured as far as could be obtained is as follows: Killed: PAVI1 MOOIiE. Injured: S.vMi Er. Tkac y, three ribs broken and injured internally; will die. Nathan Clay," bruised about the head and body; probably fatally hurt. David liu iiakiox, arm broken in two places and shoulder dislocated ; will reI cover. John- Joiixsov, legs crushed. Thomas Mauden, legs crushed; very serious. William Stitt, leg and foot crushed; will recover. Kight or ten others were injured, but their wounds are not serious. HISSED THE STARS AND STRIPES. Wild Demonstration nt ix .Socialist Mass Meeting In Chicago. Chicago, Oct 11 When the stars and 6tri;es were raised at the socialist mass meeting in Vorwacrt's turner hall this afternoon the flag was greeted with hisses. There were prohably a thousand men and women in the ball at the time, ull the seats on the floor and most of the seats in the galleries being filled. The banner was brought out by the janitor, and when he unfurled it to that the red, white and blue could be seen the hissing commenced. He fastened the pole so that the folds of the flag fell on the state at the foot of those who were to be speakers, and as he did 60 the hissing increiioed'in volume. Probably half of those in the hall joined in. The red flag was then unfurled and fastened on the opposite aide of the platform. Immediately the hissing ceased, and was succeeded by a burst of applause. Men cried "Hravo," nnd women dapped their hands and waved handkerchiefs After th;s demonstration, Martin S'chmeidlin'er was chosen chairman of the meeting. He introduced erikrus E. hevitch of New York as the first sp?nker. SheTitch spoke in (ierman, an 1 began by declaring the hanging of the anarchists to be the eravest crime ever perpetrated in America. This statement and every statement of the sort that he uttered was loudly applauded. He snid he was proud of the city in which that execution occurred, because he felt that one .lay it would be the l'aris the city of revolutions of America. An awful discontent wrts smouldering in the hearts of the laborers, and would soon burt forth in fiV ry revolution. He said it was useless and idle to think the revolution would be a peaceful one. The other speakers, Philip Uanpapon of Indianapolis, Mr. Ore!-; of New York, nnd Franz Zeubert of Brooklyn nil took a milder tone. A session of the convention was held during the morning, but was occupied in the appointineut of committees. ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE. A Prominent lcloomiugton (111.) Citizen Run Off With a Married Woman. Bloomincton, HI., Oct. 14. This city was profoundly excited to-day over the sensational disappearance of Lester Green, a prominent citizen and a married man of family, and Mrs. Baker, a well-known matron of the city, a woman of forty, the wife of an engineer of the Chieaso & Alton railway. The couple left Saturday nicht, and there is no doubt of their having eloped together. Green is a man of about forty-five years, and has been in business here twenty-five years. II has for five year been a member of the city council, ami durine the last year was acting mayor. He is the present street commissioner. He failed in business last year and has been drinking heavily of late. He and Mrs. I'aker have openly been infatuated with each other, and the elopement is not a creat surprise. On Saturday Green borrowed money from hi? friends to the extent of perhaps ?1,0iO, and left a lartre number of workmen unpaid. Mrs. Baker took $1,500 of her own money and ?7u0 of her husband's and several hundred of borrowed money. Green leaves his wife and four children penniless. It was learned tonieht that Green and his paramour were seen on .Sunday moruing at Downs, this county, where they drove in a hack and took an east-bound train of the Ohio. Iudiana & Western. Also that their hu ergäbe was checked here for Mansheld, 111., on that road. AN ENTIRE NFW STORY. Mrs. Et Hamilton Telia Her Side of the Kxtranrdinary Srindal. New York, Oct. 9. Mrs. Kva Hamilton has been talking to reporters a?ain, and an entirely new story is the result. She ;ives her side of this extraordinary scandal and tells how she met Robert Ray Hamilton, was married to him, and how, to prevent "Josh" Mann from telling her busbar J of her past life, she submitted to his blackmailing schemes. She says she was an actress once, and was with the Florences for a time. fcjlie says she did not want to marry Hamilton but was forced to do so by "Josh" Mann and his mother, and that that worthy couple profited more by th marriage than she did. She insists that she still loves Ilamiltou, and believes that they wonld have lived happily had it not been for "Josh" Mann and his mother. She protests that she is not es bad as the newspapers would make her out, and most of the stories about her are pure fiction. Mrs. Hamilton still tnys that Beatrice is her child, and explains the purchase of bullies by Mrs. Swiaton by saying that they were for another woman. A TOWN BURNED. Thtrty.Fotir Buildings and Fifty Million Fet of Lumber Destroyed. Saci.t Ste. Marie, Mich., Oct. 13. Fire broke out in Cook's lumberyard at Serpent River, Ont, ninety miles from here, yesterday afternoon. A heavy northwest wind extended the flames to the docks and warehouses of this extensive firm, and at 6 p. m. the whole town was afire. Thirty-four buildings in the town, dwellings and general stores, were consumed. A special train, .with fire encines and a brigade of ault Ste. Marie firemen, left at once for the oene of the conflagration. The Canadian Pacific rail way is usingevtryefort to assist the sufferers. Fitty million feet of lumber, this year's cut. has been consumed. The Joss is estimated at $.0,0o0. The Titinity is strewn with household goods and homeless families for acre. The steamer Africa and schooner Marquis, which were loading at the dorks, pulled out Into the lake and are safe. Special trains with engines and fire brigades have arrived and there is some prospect of saving the mill. Simoans Elect a King. ACCKLA5D, Oct 14. Dispatehes from Samoa say that a public meeting was held there for the election of king. All the foreign rep. resentatives attended. Mslietoa made an address, in which he praised Mataafa and advised the people to elect him their king. As for himself be was content to be vice-king It is understood that Germany will refuse to recognize Mataafa.

THE MINERS AUE GUATEFUL

FOR THE CLOTHING SENT TO THEM Pathetic Incidents Connected With Distribution of "The Sentinel's" Collection Medicine, Food and Clothing Still Madly Needed. Brazil, Oct 11. Special. I etarted out this morning, in company with fa,te Mine Inspector McQuade, to visit several of the Brazil block coal company's shafts. At Cardonia there is no work being done at all, and the littlo hamlet is filled with idle men, who are willing and anxious to go to work when an opportunity offers that will promise more than slow starvation. While here I had my attention called to a most pitiable siht. 'William Mc is a miner who has worked in the 6haft, as a boy and man, nearly thirty years. As he puts it in his own language: "I have always been sober and industrious, and have a wife, mother and three children depending on me for support" His mother very recently took to her bed with chills and fever, which threw the responsibility of caring for the hou?e and little ones on his wife, which she did until yesterday, when she gave birth to a baby. The mother could not furnish the little one with nourishment and it was taken in charge by the neighbors. They are also caring for the poor woman, whose serious condition, the doctors say, was brought about by a lack of wholesome food. If there was but one incident of this kind, (iod knows it would bo serious enough, but such is not the case. Dr. J. Tell of Carbon was attending a sick child of Smith Iiothford's, when the little one died, and he says that beyond a doubt the baby came to its death through bloodpoisoning contracted through its inability to secure a sufficient amount of nourishment from its mother, she not being able to obtain the necesssary food. At Carbon there area few black-legs working in the shaft known as No. 10, which is owned by the Brazil block coal company, but hundreds of men are here idle and are firm in their resolve to hold out against the operators. Meeting an old miner, I asked him if he knew what the condition of the miners' families was in regard to clothing. "God knows we need clothes to cover our nakedness," he said. "Tue Indianapolis Sentinel, in conjunction with the people of Indianapolis, has conferred a blessing on us that we can never forget and you can never fully appreciate." While at Carbon I visited the public schools. The rolls show an attendance of about one hundred and seventy pupils, the oldest of whom was not more than fourteen years of age: not moro than forty of them had shoes. Many had nothing to cover their little forms but a calico slips. The very amiable lady who taught the little fellows, on being asked as to the condition of their parents, said: "It seoms like a sin anil a shame to spend money in keeping up the schools when I know the little dears come here hungry and go back home to get only a smad piece of bread and bacon and a glass of water. 1 tell you, sir," she went on, "the authorities of the state should take this matter in hand and at least provide them with quinine to break the chills and fever from which they are now Buffering. " The condition of the miners has been steadily growing worse for the past four or five years. It has at all times been the aim of the operators to keep more miners on hand than there was work for. This they accomplished by paying the men from the store, the keeper of which kept the shaft "boss" informed as to the amount of the bill the miner owed. If he was found to be frugal and making an endeavor to lay something by, he was laid off for a few days until his savings wero used up. In the meantime sotno other man was allowed to work awhile to square himself at the Btore. Vy this system it lias been impossible for the men, except in rare instances, to get anything at all aheaL When at last the operators came to the conclusion, on account of the weakness of the men in this respect, they could reduce tho price of mining and thereby add to their well-fided coffers they cut the scale. Xo more work than they had had in the past would be promised. They counted without their hosts, as the history of the past tivo months proves, and are "now trying other tactics, claiming, as one of the chief operators did, that it was not a question of the 15 or 20 cents difference in the price of mining, but the question has resolved itself into "who was master and who was man." Incidents of privation and almost starvation are here without number, and as one thinks of the wan faces, bare feet and naked bodies of the women and children, he almost feels like doubting the humanity of some men. Too much can not be said in honor and praise of the officers and members of the central relief committee. The president, Mr. William Gault. is a man of exceptional qualifications. He has spent his life in the mines and hia eflorts at frugality have leen ably seconded by his wife, and yet he has been unable to obtain anything but a little nest in which to live. The eiforts of the committee in their distribution of the stores and conduct of the strike in order to keep order among the men, who are nearly driven to desperation, they are assisted by .State Mine Inspector McQuade, who has gone down in his pocket, when he could ill afford it, to relievo the suffering of his fellow men. To use his own language: "I know what these people have to endure. -I wasa miner all my life until I received the appointment to the office I now hold." There are miners in this place who have been here since mining commenced. They have been fruural, industrious and hard working; some of them have Becured only an humble home in all those years of toil. None ot them have attained a competence, or a palatial mansion to dwell in. Such is the case, and it cannot be controverted. How are they going to live at a reduction of the proportion proposed by the operators? If they merely subsist when working, the poor-house would be their portion when idleness is forced upon them. The clothing collected by The Sentinel arrived all ritfht and was distributed to the needy. The two suits of fine baby clothes donated by a prominent society lady in Indianapolis were given to the little one who first eaw the light of day at Cardonia under 6uch adverse circumstances; and had the generous donors beca present to witness the tears of gratitude that coursed down the bronzed cheeks of these toilers in the bowels of mother earth, and the happy faces of the

little ones, they would have been amply repaid. The Central relief committee, in session Friday, passed the following resolutions: We, the undersigned committee, appointed by the control committee of the Clay county miners, Kesolve, That we extend our sincere thanks to Tue Indianapolis Sentinel for its exertions in behalf of the families of those unfortunate miners who have for six months been struggling to attain their legitimate rights; that we extend our sincere thanks to those benevolent and charitable people of Indianapolis and neighboring towns who so nobly provided for our little ones from the cold blasts of winter. J. K. Kennedy, T. J. KtKSELL, D. Gallagher. The Daily Miner here under the head of "Charity Abroad and Penury at Home," says: "While the charitable people of our neighboring cities are contributing liberally of clothing as well as provisions to aid the destitue people of the county to pass through the rigors of winter without too much suffering, we lind some of our well-to-do merchants, who rather than give their cast-off garments to these destitute people, will, for a few cents, sell them to a second-hand dealer. These same people came here a few short years ago and reaped a harvest from these same people whom they now treat with contumely and contempt. They go to church on Sunday, but they do not seem to have heard the saying of Christ: 'Inasmuch as ye did it not to these little ones, ye did it not unto me.' " A JURY BRIBER INDICTED.

Qatck Work in Chicago Startling; Disclosures l'romised. Chicago, IIL. Oct. 14. In Judge Baker's court to-day a special grand jury, to further investigate the charges of jury-bribing.was sworn. It is composed of well-known citizens. S. B. Chase was chosen as foreman. Judge Baker briefly addressed the jury, telling its members that above all things they must remember to observe strict secrecy in regard to the matters brought under their observation. The judge then read the lar regarding the penalties to be enforced in case of a violation of the secrecy of the grand jury room. At 2 o'clock the grand jury returned an indictment against John Graham, as well as true bills against the six nitn indicted Saturday. The excitement about the criminal court building was so intense this afternoon that it was found necessary to lock and bar the outside door. John Graham, the clerk in A. 9. Trude'a office, who is now under indictment, was arrested Sunday night about 12 o'clock, and has been under lock and key ever since, lie was the man who was to put up the money with which to bribe the jurors, and it is asserted by Judge Longenecker that the evidenoe against him is very conclusive. After presenting the indictments the grand jury adjourned for the afternoon, but the state attorney says the case, by no means, ends with the present indictment, but will be very much more far reaching than the most sanguine can suppose. Other indictments may be expected to follow in short order. When the matter is ripe, the state attorney, or one of his associates, will give to the reporters a detailed account of another branch of the jurybribing conspiracy. 4 The indictment returned by the grand jury this afternoon is a joint bill against John Graham, Mark Salomon, Alexander L. Hanks and Fred V. Smith. But little information about Graham could be secured at the office of Lawyer A. S. Trude, where Graham has a desk. He had been there for the last twelve or fourteen years and had lived in Chicago ever since the great fire. Lawyer A. 15. Jenks said Graham had never been admitted to the bar and had never practiced law. "lie was simply a clerk," said he, "and he occupied a desk in Mr. Trude's reception room." "So, he has never been in trouble before, at least not to my knowledge. I have never heard that he was connected with any jurybribing, nor that he had any trouble with his family. He was the last man that I should supect of being connected with this business. I don't think they will find anything against him. He has not been connected with the Cronin case in any way, so far as I know." This evening it was learned from the state attorney that the clerk. Graham, is the 6urposed "prominent citizen," whose mysterious confinement in the Chicago-ave. and Larraheest. police station jrave rise to so many surmises. Graham gave a ten-thousand-dollar bond this evening and was released. ASSAULTED THE MAYOR. Four Brothers Terrorize n Town and Defy Arrest A Marshal Shot. COLOinrs, O., Oct. 14. Frank Ilesler and his three brothers, members of a family which has long been the terror of its neighborhood, entered Westerville, the seat of Oterbein university, Saturday nitjht, got drunk and assaulted Mayor II. P. Andrus, whom Frank Ilesler knocked down. Then the quartet fltd. A posse was sworn in and pursued the brothers to their home. The drnnken men opened fire on the posse. About thirty shots were fiVd. Marshal J. W. Oyler was shot in the shoulder and will die from the wound. The entire load of shot lodged in his person and at such range that the clothing was carried into the wound. One of the deputies was shot throtipiit the bat, and another throuch the sleeve of his coat. Frank Ilesler received three or four wounds. He escaped to Galena, where he had his wounds dressed. They are pronounced dangerous. It is thought one of the HeRlers was killed, as he cannot be found. AVarrants were sworn out yesterday charging the Heslers with shoo tine to kill, and a stronger posse went after them. Last night old man Ilesler and two young men named Moore w ere arrested. It is supposed they had something to do with the assault. The town is greatly excited. ANDERSON SOCIETY AGITATED. Prof. IsAnogle, Marrlod Int July, About To Claim Ills Bride. Anderson, Oct 13. Special.- Quite a sensation has been produced in society circles over the announcement that is nude public for the first time that Prof. Walter Isanogle of the city schools was married last Fourth of July. The marriage has been a profound secret until to-day. The professor wooed and won a pretty country girl, the daughter of Samuel Bronntnberg, a prominent and wealthy farmer of Union township, this county. From some cause the young lady's parents objected to Prof. Isanocle's attentions and finally forbid the young lady entertaining him. But the Jove between the two was too strong to be thwarted, nnd ao they planned a secret marriage. The Iter. W. H. Zeipler of the presbyterian church of this city married them. The parents are as yet in ignorance of the fact. Mr. Isanogle will make his first visit to his father-in-law to-morrow. They will reside in Anderson. THREE MEN KILLED Ity th Itrenktng; of tho Hoisting; Beam on a Steam Derrick. Lassixg, Mich., Oct 13. While the wrecking crew was engaged in clearing away a freight wreck on the Lansing transit railway to-day the hoisting-beam of the steam derrick broke and fell upon a group of over a dozen men, killing three men: PETKR QUI NN. conductor of the construction train, of West Bay City. GEORGE RUBY of Jackson, a machinist. JOHN TENTILE WEST, brakemao, of Bay City. The two former leave families. The other men escaped serious injury. Kot the Only Tired Town. Chicago Herald. Indianapolis is not the only town that is tired of Harrison. A similar sense of weariness aOects the whole country.

TALMAGE'S CHURCH GONE.

THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BURNED For tho Second Time In Its History the Famous KdiOce Is Destroyed The Origin of the Fire Unexplained Several Residences Burned. New York, Oct. 13. The famous Brooklyn tabernacle, of which the Rev. De Witt Talmage, D. I)., is pastor, was to-day, for the secoud time in its history, totally destroyed by fire. At 2:13 a. ro. a policeman discovered flames issuing from the small windows over the main entrance, and. rushing to the nearest signal box, 6ent an alarm. The firemen found the fire had assumed large proportions and additional alarms were sent in. It became evident that the edifice was doomed to destruction. It burned like a tinder box, and the firemen, despairing of saving it, directed their efforts to the adjoining property. Many of the occupants of the neighboring dwellings were already awake, and the police proceeded to arouse those who were sleeping. The three story frame structure, 3Ö3, chermerhorn-st., adjoining the church on the cast side, was the first to take fire, and 335, a similar structure, followed; 3.17 was also damaged. On the west side of the church the flames extended to two brick dwellings, and on the oposite side of 5cberraerhorn-st. a row of three-story brick dwellings, numbered 33S to 3-iS, suflered from intense heat. Window glass was broken and wood-work scorched. The residents of the neighborhood, awakened either by the roar of the flames or by the pounding of the police upou their doors, became frightened and rushed out half-dressed or In their nicht clothes, and the police had great difficulty in assuring them that they were in no danger. Fortunately there was no loss of life or limb. The police carried out one old lady of eighty years lroni 33" Schermerhorn-st., and placed her in a house at a safe distance. All the other inmates were able to care for themselves. But while the firemen and the police worked for the salvation of property and persons, the doomed church building was rapidly being consumed, and in an hour's time only tottering walls remained. Dr. Talmage wan on the scene soon after the first alarm and did not leave until he had seen the edifice which had been his pride laid in ashes. Then he returned sorrowfully home. Ail day to-day crowds visited the spot and gazed upon the ruins. Nearly ad the members of the tabemac e congregation received their first intimation of the fire this morning upon rounding the adjacent corners and being confronted by the blackened walls and smoldering ruins. No church services were held to-dsy, but a notice upon a tree at the comer of Third and Schermerhorn-sts. announced Sunday-school in the hail of the Y. M. C. A., where about six hundred teachers and scholars assembled in the afternoon. s?upL R. I Eelis told them that the present was no time to cry or mourn. A calamity had befaden the church, and it was the duty of all to work together until a new home was built. The origin of the fire is not known. The sexton denies the rumor that fires had been lighted yesterday in the furnaces, and this explodes the defective flue theory. Edison's men were in the building until 5:30 p. tu. yesterday, arranging a new electric plant, and it is thought that during the thunder shower which prevailed during the night lightning had been carried into the building by the wires, whirtrrtra around thp galiery on a level with where the flames were firt seen. The loss on the church buildinc, including the organ, which was one of the finest in the country, is $ I. 10,000. It is said to be covered by insurance in a number of companies. The building was of fourteenth century gothic architecture, anil was dedicated Feb. '22, 1874. It was of brick with stone trimmings, with a frontage of 150 feet and a depth of 113 feet, to which had been recently added an extension of sixty feet wide and twelve feet deep. The seating capacity was 2,S0O, and it was always fully taxed at the Sunday services. The previous structure, which was built of corrugated iron, was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning, Dec. 22, 1S72. That lire was also of unexplained origin. The trustees were in session at the house of Dr. Talmage to-night and stated the insurance to amount to $129,450. The building originally cst $11S,000, to which improvements costing 'f."),f'"0 have been added. The organ cost $20,000; church furniture, $2(5, 8s); new carpets, etc.. $5,800. lr. Talmage has issued an appeal to the public for help, saying that the church has cever confined its work to its own locality. The church, he says, has never been large enough for the people who came, and he wants $100,0uC besides insurance to build a larger and more suitable structure. "I make appeal." he says, "to all our friends throughout Christendom, to all denominations, to all creeds, and those of no creed at all, to come to our assistance. I ask all readers of my sermons, the world over, to contribute as far as their names will allow." The fire forces Dr. Talmage to postpone his trip to the holy land. The advisory bard adopted resolutions expressing submission to providence and a determination to rebuild, the locality and style of building to be indicated by the amount of contributions made. Services will be held hereafter in the Brooklyn academy of music. A letter was received from Dr. Abbott offering Plymouth church for Sunday evening service. Dr. Talmage's text to-day was to have been "Looking unto Jesus." SOUTH DAKOTA POLITICS. The Fight Over the Senatorial Ouestlon an Exreeilinsly Lively One. Pierre, S. Dak., Oct. 14. The political pot is boiling at a terrific rate here to-night The members of the legislature are all on the ground, and the real estate boom falls into insignificance in comparison with politics. The senatorial question being the only issue, the entire fight centers on the question. Pettigrew, Moody, Ed'ei ton and Wardell are the only candidates enlisted so far, but possibly Mtdette may jump into the swim. The plan concocted this afternoon is to nominate Pettigrew first, and he will undoubtedly be elected with a grand hurrah, leaving Moody and Kdgerton to finish the scrap. Moody is couceded to have the ad vantage, but the result will hinge in the way in which Pettigrew will throw bis influence. Kvery attempt is being made to have Kdirerton withdraw and leave a clear field for Moody. A caucus will be held to-morrow morning, at which time Edgerton will be formally requested to withdraw. It is estimated that there are 10,000 strangers in the city, brought here by the meeting of the legislature and the real estate excitement THROWING OUT VOTES. Ilrpublicans Getting in Their Work In Montana Count lng in Their Men. Helena, Mont, Oct 14. The canvassers in Silver Bow county to-day threw out the vote in what is known as the railroad precinct, which gave the democratic majority of 174. This action, if .t is upheld by the courts, will seat the entire republican delegation from that county (eleven members) and overcome the democratic majority in the legislature, and give the republicans control of the legislature. The democratic managers will ask Judge Dewolfe for a writ of mandamus to compel the canvassers to count the rejected precinct. The throwing out of this vote, while reducingToole's vote for governor, does not overcome his majority. Wanted to be Killed. Prairie Dr Chen. Wis., Oct 13. John Schmidt of Waseca, Minn., threw himself In front of a passenger train on the Milwaukee road last evening and lost an arm. He wanted some one to kill him and was found to be demented, having but two weeks ago cut his throat with a razor, which would burst open when be lost his arm. He has a sister living in Dane county, Wisconsin. There are no hopes of hs recovery. Reverses in Dakota are said to be the causo of bis rata act.

THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS CONCLAVE. Deliver, Col., Captures the Next Grand Kncampment OfHeers Klected. Washington, Oct 10. The grand encampment knights templar of thes United States in secret session to-day at the Masonic temple elected the following officers to serve during the next three years: Very Eminent Sir J. P. S. Gobin of Pennsylvania, most eminent grand master; Very Eminent Sir Hugh McCurdy of Michigan, deputy grand master; Very Eminent Sir Warren La Rue Thomas of Kentucky, grand generalissimo; Very Eminent Sir Reuben Hedley Lloyd of California, grand captain general; Very Eminent Sir Henry Hates Moddard of Texas, grand senior warden; Very Eminent Sir Nicholas Van Slick of Rhode Island, grand junior warden; Very Eminent Sir II. Wales Eines of Connecticut, grand treasurer; Very Eminent Sir William 13. Isaacs of Virginia, grand recorder. CJcn. Gobin is a state senator from Lebanon, Pa., and general of the Third brigade of the National guards of Pennsylvania. The grand encampment voted this afternoon to hold the neit conclave, three years hence, at Denver, Col. The vote stood: 'Denver, 104; Louisville, W. The president and Mrs. Harrison this afternoon received the ladies who accompauied the Indiana commandrios to the conclave, and subsequently the president devoted over an hour to shaking hands with hundreds of visiting knights templars and their ladies who were unable to attend the reception last night. An interesting incident in connection with the conclave was the brigade dress parade of District national guard oa the w hite house lot this afternoon. The parade was at the request of the triennial committee, and they thought it would be of particular interest to the military members of the knights. There was an immense crowd in attendance, and the creditable display of the knights won its applause.

FIVE KILLED. A Train Dispatcher's Error Causes a Rad Wreck. Through an oversight on the part of a train dispatcher at Cincinnati five men lost their lives by a collision on the Big Four Saturday night A wrecking train had been sent out to place on the track a car which had been ditched near Delhi, a few miles from Cincinnati. The wrecking train bad completed its work and started to return to Cincinnati. In the meantime an extra freight train, No. 57, started out from C incinnati. The wrecking train had the right of way, but the train dispatcher forgot to notify the freight that the wrecking train was on the road. Near Rapid Run the two trains ran into each other. The cars were thrown into a heap thirty feet high. The engineer of the freight, J. M. York, who lives at 313 Fletcher-ave., this city, was thrown from bis cab and miraculously escaped. He was seriously injured in the back and received a deep gash on the forehead. His fireman Jake Whetstine, was also badly injured. Fireman Ed Morri", of the wrecking train, was instantly killed. He lived on En-glish-ave. Hank Danieli, whose home is at No. 143 Nordyke-sC, was also killed. He was the brakeman on the freight He leaves a wife, but no children. He was a member of Capital City lodge, No. 07, K. of P., and is a brother-in-law of the famous Detective Culloden, who was killed by Blinkey Morgan and his pals on a train near Ravenna, . Two tramps who were on the trucks of the freight were instantly killed. HIS CHILD WAS STARVING. The Reason (iiven ly it Snealc Thief For His Hold Theft. Chicago, Oct 14. At 2-30 o'clock this afternoon, as Dr. II. A. Johnson was making out a deposit ticket in the First national bank at a desk near the door, a sneak thief 6teppeJ up quietly, grabbed the package of currency and disappeared out of the door. The doctor gave the alarm and the thief was pursued. After a lively chase the fellow was captured. The money was recovered. The amount taken was $255. The fellow refused to give his name to the ofiiccrs, but admitted taking the money and gave as a reason that he had a wife and child starvin2 to death. Turning to the doctor, he said: "I will give you my name and residence in private if you will promise not to rveal my identity, in order that you may make a verification of my statement I am going to give a fictitious name to the police officials, as I do not want my wife and child to bear the disgrace of my action." Dr. Johnson said that he would do so, but would make no promise regarding the prosecution of the case ur.til he bad made an investigation. NO SALOONS WANTED THERE. Citizens of Lafayette, O. , Enforce Their Own Prohibition Laws. Lima, O., Oct. 10. Several weeks ago the neighboring town of Lafayette passed a prohibition ordinance and all of the saloons were closed. A few days ago a saloon-keeper of this city went to Lafayette and opened a place. He was waited npon by a committee who informed him that his business was not required there, but he continued, and the town officials got out an injunction to stop him. The judge decided in his favor, and he resumed business with more openness than ever. Early yesterday morning his saloon was bombarded by a crowd of several hundred persons. They came supplied with stones and sledge-hammers, and, surrounding the jdace commenced to storm it. The doors and windows were broken and the crowd rushed in. The bar was battered down, mirrors broken down, the beads of barrels knocked in and the coutents wasted. The place was almost torn down and everything ruined. VANDALS AT EMERSON'S TOMB. The Grave Opened, but no l'art of the Remains Tnken. Coxconn, Mass., Oct. 14. Yesterday afternoon, while attending a burial at Sleepy Hollow cemetery here, two gentlemen discovered that the grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson had been disturbed. The authorities were notified, and found the grave had been ope ned during Saturday night, exposing the casket A watch was at ouce placed at the grave, and Dr. Edward Emerson sent for. Dr. Emerson returned home to-day, and appears satisfied with the examination made by Selectman Keys, Undertaker Farrar, and Chief of Police Sandford on Snnday, w ho declare that no part of the remains has been taken. The Emerson family desires no further investigation. A watch will be continued at the grave for the present, or until a solid vault of masonry, with stone covering, can be constructed. FOUND ANOTHER BODY. Ghantly Discoveries Jstlll Being Made at Johnstown--Typhoid Fever Kpidemie. Johnstown, Ta., Oct. 14. The. body of a child was found in Stony Creek river yesterday by a party of men who was viewing the work recently done by the state forces. It was not identified. Miss Clara Barton, president of the National red cross, is utilizing so mi of the Oklahoma houses, which have been scattered around the lumber yards for months, as an infirmary. She has had six of these houses erected near her headquarters and supply department and furnished them with everything necessary in caring for the sick. It is estimated that there are 300 cases of typhoid fever in Johnstown, twenty-two eases being taken care of at the hospital of the Philadelphia branch of the Red cross. Admitted To Practice. Washington, Oct 14. The following named attorneys were admitted to practice as attorneys and counselors io the U. 9. supreme court to-day: 8. D. Lucket of Bedford, Ind.; William F. Seversoa of Lafayette, Ind.

L MEMORY OF SUNSET COX.

MEMORIAL SERVICES IN NEW YORK. An Address Tiy Kx-President Cleveland. Who Presided, and the Hon. J. Proctor Knott of Kentucky Many Other Prominent People Present, New York, Oct. 10. No larger assemblage ever gathered within the walls of Cooper union than was present there this evening at the services in memory of the late Congressman Samuel Sullivan Coi. There were pr6ent men and women not only from the district he represented but from all parts of the city. Among those on the platform were ex-President Cleveland, Mayor Grant, ex-Mayors Hewitt and Cooper, Gen. Sherman, Roger A. Pryor, Chaplain Milburn of Washington, Senator Aldrich, George W. Curtis acd John A. CockerrilL . Mrs. Cox sat on the platform in front of a draped portrait of her late husband. The services opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. McSweeney, pastor of St. IJridget's Roman catholio church. Julius Ilarburger, President of the Steckler association, introduced as presiding oflicer of t!ie evening ex-President Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland said: "It is peculiarly lit and proper that among the tributes paid to the w orth and usefulnes of Samuel S, Cox, the most hearty and sincere should How from the hearts of his congressional constituents. These he served faithfully and well, aud they were honored by the honor of his life. It was as their chosen public servant that he gathered fame, and exhibited to the the entire country the strength and the brightness of true American statesmanship. It was while he still served them that be died. All bis fellow-citizens mourn his death and speak in praise of his character and his achievement in pub'ic life; but bis constituents may feel that the affliction of his death is nearer to them than to others, by so much that they are entitled to a greater share of pride in all that he wrought "I should not suit the part allotted to me on this occasion if I were to speak at length of the many traits of character within my personal knowledge that made your friend and mine the wise and efficient legislator, the useful and patriotic citizen and the kind and generous man. These things constitute a theme upon which his fellow-countrymen love to dwell, and they will be presented to you to-night in more eloquent terms than I can command. "1 shall not, however, forbear mentioning the fact that your representative, in all his publio career and in his relations to legislation, wan never actuated by a corrupt or selfish interest. His real was born of public spirit and the motive of his labor was the public good. He was never found among those who cloak their etrorts for personal gain and advantage beneath the disguise of disinterested activity for the welfare of the people. "These are pleasant things for bis friends to remember to-night; and they are without doubt the things upou which rest the greatest share of the honor and respect which his memory exacts from his fel.ow-citizens. "But while we thus contemplate the value of unselfish public usefulness, we cannot restrain a reflection which has a somber coloring. What is the condition of the times when we may justly and fairly exalt the memory ot a deceased public servant because he was true and honest and faithful to his trust? Are we maintaining a safe standard of public duty when the existence of these virtues, instead of being general, are exceptional enough to cause congratulation? All public servants should be as true and honest and faithful as the man whom we mourn to-night "I beg you to take home with you among the reflections which this occasion shall awaken an appreciation of the truth that if we are to secure for ourselves all the blessings of our free institutions we must better apprehend the interest we have at stake in their scrupulous maintenance, and must exact of those whom we trust in public office a more rigid adherence to the demands of public duty." Mr. Cleveland at the close of bis address introduced Congressman Proctor Knott who delivered a eulogy upon his deceased brother congressman. The disposition to honor the dead, Mr. Knott said, was common to humanity everywhere, and innate with every member of our species who is capable of the slightest feeling of respect for his fellow-man. Of Mr. Cox, he said: "The pomp and circumstance of war were not for him. His triumphs were the beneficent but bloodless victories of peace. The name of no man was ever more widely known, or more lovingly revered among his countrymen than his. Thousands who had never looked npon his kindly face nor listened to his friendly voice, read through the blinding mists of bitter tears the mournful tidings that his generous pulse had been ttilled by the icy touch of death. Yet how few there are among all the mighty multitudes who loved him in life, and who mourn for him in death; who fully realized all that was admirable in his marvelous manysided character." Mr. Knott gave a biographical sketch of Mr. Cox, paving graceful tribute to the excellent traits of character and gifted intellect npon which were reared the magnificent structure which brought their possessor fame and honor in his later years. Continuing, he said: "In congress Mr. Cox found bij appropriate sphere; no other forum could have suited his tastes so well, or been more precisely adapted to his talents, and in that his peer in all par ticulars will probably never be seen again. There his remarkable character appeared like a diamond of purest water, fashioned with a thousand facets, each emitting a blaze of iridescent splendor. "The one trait, however, which distinguished him pre-eminently in the estimation of a large majority of his fe'low-men, was the gentle, joyous, lovable disposition, which constantly displayed itself in the playful wit the genial humor, the kindly, sentiments and tender sympathies which welled up from the serene depths of his generous nature like a perennial fountain of bricht and parkliuj waters. "He was, indeed, the gentlest of men, and had he been asked to designate, among all the diversified transactions of his long and brilliant career in congress, those which afforded him the supremest pleasure, he wonld probably have mentioned his repeated and earnest appeals for universal amnesty, his eloquent defense of the homes and firesides of the South against a merciless and unconstitutional act of confiscation; his generous and disinterested service to a large class of ill-paid employee in the bcnbler grades of the publio service; his repented manifestations of an earnest and act.e sympathy in the sufferings of the oppressed and down-trodden kindred of thousands of his fellow citizens of foreign birth, and bis ultimate triumph, after laborious and long-continued effort, in the establishment and ' successful organization of an efficient life-saving service, which has been the means of preserving multitudes of valuable lives, and protecting myriads of happy hearthstones from the grim specters of anguish and desolation. It may be safely said, at least, that by these and similar exhibitions of an enlightened philanthropy, he reared for himself in the grateful hearts of his countrymen a monument of affection which will survive in the memory of their posterity long after the majestic dome beneath whose shadow his beneficent labors were performed shall have crumbled into dust." The service closed with a benediction by Rabbi GottheiL A Mississippi Tragedy. Nicholson, Miss., Oct 14. Dr. W. M. Lett who was under bond charged with complicity in the Osylla tragedy of a year ago, in which Druggist Vertiada was killyd, to-dy shot and killed E. C. Collins, one of the witnesses against him. J. W. Tomer, a brothfr-in-law of Collins, was standing n-ar by, and he opened fire on the doctor, fataily wounding him. Quitman Penton, an innocent bystander, was seriously wounded during the afiray. The shooting occurred on the court house steps. Shot From Ambush. Locisville, Ky., Oct 14. A letter received here to-day states that John Cawood and Hezekiah Hall were shot down from ambush at the home of Cawood, ten miles from Harlan. Cawood Is a brother-in-law of .Judge Lewis, who attempted last summer to arrest Wils Howard and his gang of outlaws, and has bees iderVi'jei with tie Wilson faction.