Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Number 125, Bloomington, Monroe County, 16 May 1893 — Page 2

THE TELEPHONE. Br Walter Bradtvt. BLOOMINGTON INDIANA Thb Mayor of Abilene, Kas., receives the munificent salary of $1 per annum and is said to earn th money. A Kans s Judge has rendered a decision in which he holds that the laws of that State are paramount to Federal authority. Kansas is . great State.

An Indianapolis restaurant-keeper became greatly excited over the Liberty Eell demonstration, and inscribed on his street blackboard bill-of-fare the following legend "Liberty or Death! Roast Beef! Pork Chops! Biggest Lunch in Town for 10 cents." Earl Granvils, whose younger sen has recently been appointed lord in waiting to Queen Victoria, was siightlj deaf, and was in the habit of turning his infirmity to a very practical use. Whenever an unacceptable request was made of hix he would insist on its repetition a number of times, and then say: "No use; so sorry; my unfortunate hearing; some other time when there is less

The long-continued adulation of the swells of New York had somewhat turned the young man's head, and given him erroneous ideas of Amer ican character, and it is gratifying to know that his pride was brought down by an encounter with the hig hest type of Western independence. Jenkins kept track of President Cleveland's movements to the minutest detail on the Sunday Grover spent in Chicago previous to the opening day of the World's Fair, and informed an anxiQUS world through the medium of the Associated Press that the President arose at 3 o'clock and partook of breakfast, which consisted of a small tenderloin steak and eggs, but he failed to state whether the great man took horseradish with his eggs or swallowed them straight. This was a great oversight on the part of Jenkiris, and much apprehension was f e) t throughout the country over the matter. There is nothing like accuracy when dealing with affairs of such great (?) importance.

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Thk crop reports from several European countries indicate that bad weather is prevailing' to an Alarming extent and that a serious shortage in all staples is threatened. Providence may thus interfere in ;)ur behalf and the constant drain -ige of gold to Euro pean money centers may be checked in time to avert the serious consequences which financiers have been anticipating should present conditions continue. Ex-Senator Inoalls, in an article in the New York World, announces that Chicago is an "awfully" wicked city, and that the closing of the gates of the Exposition on Sunday means only an increas ed indulgence in all forms of vice and dissipation. At the same time he assures the general public that a i eaceable and well-disposed 'person will be perfectly ssrfe in visiting the modern Sodom, and that if all will keep away from the easily-avoided haunts of wickedness no trouble neeJ be anticipated. The Associated Press employs some first-class romancers, and these brilliant literary geniuses occasionally endeavor to earn their salaries by inventing highly sensational articles which they telegraph over the country as news. One of their latest efforts in this direction was the storv about the 203 Zulus, en route to the World's Fair, capturing a train and imprisoned the train crew in the bag

gage car. It was very thrilling and was generally published and believed. Now comes the Chicago Record and demolishes the whole fabricated lie by ttating that there are just three live Zulus at the Fair.

The Yankee swindler is very bright, and the American con" men are believed to be especially '"smooth," but our best talent in this line would be sadly put out to invent a game more original or s;uccessf xl than an apparently stolid German porter worked in a Prussian town the other day. Staggering along the street under a heavy burden, he fell against a plate glass window of a store, crushing through and ruining it. The proprietor demanded payment. The porter said he had no money, but he was searched and a thousand mark note found on his person, which he protested belonged to his employer. Nevertheless the storekeeper retained one hundred marks to make good his loss and returned nine hundred to the stolid bearer of burdens, who went away in great anger swearing and vowing vengeance for what he termed a shameless robbery. Shortly after the storekeeper discovered that tha thousand mark note was counterfeit and took his turn at swearing.

Key. Sam Small, though nominally a journalist, stiil does odd jobs of evangelistic work as occasion may offer. Recently he conducted a series of meetings at Griffin, Ga. and in the course of his remarks indulged in some very severe reflections upon the characters of young ladies who were habitual dancers and members of the "(rerman" club of that place. The club thereupon appointed a committee of four to wait on the evangelist and demand a retraction and apology. After some diplomatic parley Jlr. Small promised to make ample -amends for bis ungentiemanly remarks, which he claimed were made noon informatien that he had reason tc believe was reliable.

Thk Pennsylvania young woman who set out to collect 1,000,000 cancelled stamps three years ago, believing, that she could find a purchaser for them at $500, has finished the work of collection but can not find a market for her unique merchandise. The task of collecting this vast number of useless bits of paper has not been easy - and all tnanne:? of devices were resorted tc before the required number were obtained. Now that the reward to which 1;bi? young woman had so long looked forward fails to materialize, the revulsion of feeling has unsettled he)" reasoi and it is .feared that she will become permanently insane.

The escape of two condemned murderers, under sentence of death, from the Sing Sing, N. Y,, penitentiary, a few days since, continues to excite unusual comment, although the prison officials have given up all hope of capturing the criminals and abandoned the pursuit. Much has been written concerning the inefficiency of the gnards who were foundjlocked in the escaped prisoners1 cells, but there is a suspicion that these men have been made the scapegoats for officials higher up in the scale of political preferment. In New York, if the metropolitan journals are to be believed, there is a deep-seated conviction that somebody has been paid to wink at the whole transaction It is in evidence that the escaped prisoners traversed the whola length of an extensive prison yard, after leaving the cell louse, and finally quitted the place without once being molested in their progress. Nobody saw them, or apparently wanted to see them, and the entire prison couid have easily een emptied had the prisoners saw it to avail themselves of the opportunity offered. An official inquiry : s urgently demanded, but- is not at ;ill likely to be instituted.

The young Earl of Craven and his parvenu New York bride traveled to Chicago for the World's Fair opening, arriving several days in advance with baggage and a retinue sufficient for the largest opera cornpan y or the road. He was astonished to Ind that he was not 4iin it" t all, and that the great busy city had no time to waste on English dudes nc matter what their pedigree.

William Waldorf Astor, who recently purchased the ancestral estate of the Duke of Westminster in England., known as "Cliveden, " has abandoned his America citizenship and renounced tfre land of his birth. '3e essays to be a molder of public opinion in English society, and will spend some of his millions in literary ventures. He also has an ambij rion to bo, known as a landed proprie xr and a member of the British aristocracy. The nobility of that country do not in many cases take kindly tc the aspiring American, and broadly hint that he is a parvenu, and that vast-wealth does not compensate for lack of high birth and a long line of distinguished ancestors. Such an episode is not creditable to :he good judgment of a man who owes everything to America, whose family have acquired untold walth by reason of the advantages here offered, rtrho has been highly, honored by the Government of the United States, and who by every rule of right or jhonor was bound to cast his lot and expend his fortune in the land :o which he owed so m&uy obligations. Patriotic Americans will read with satisfaction the accounts of the various 4snubbings" that Mr. Astor may from this time on receive from 'hat aristocracy to which he aspires by reason of his dollars gained on American soil.

A Sad Disappointment. Mr. Murry Hill My wife is in iiwful baii humor to-day. Mr, Madison Square What is the anth her? Mr. Murry Hill You see she started out to match some ribbons, and nhe found what she wanted in the very 1irst store she struck.

GARDEN OFTHE LOED. Beautiful Imagery of the Bible. Jfcluyttme Thoughts I-eason of tho Fiold and Woodi-Dr. Talma ge'a Seruiou. Rev. Dr. Talmac was in Philadelphia, last Sunday, participating in the ordination services of his son, Rev. Frank Talmage. He dictated the following sermon subject: Playtime Thoughts." Text: Solomon's Song iv, 15 "A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters and streams from Lebanon." Some of the finest gardens of olden times were to be found at the foot of Mt. Lebanon. Snow descended, and winter whitened the top of the mountain. Then when the warm spring weather came the snows melttjd and poured down the side of the mountain and gave great luxurance no the gardens at the foot, and you see now the allusion of my text when it speaks of the fountain of gardens and streams from Lebanon. Again and again, the church is represented as a garden all up and down che word of God. and it is a figure specially suggestive at this season the year, when the parks and the orchards are about to put forth their olossom and the air is filled with bird voices.

A mother wished to impress her i'hild with the love of God, and so in the springtime, after the ground had been prepared in the garden, she took a handful of flower seeds and scattered these seeds in the shape of letters across the bed of the garden. Weeks passed by, and the rains and the sunshine had done their work, and one day the child came in and said, "Mother, come quickly to the

garden come now." The mother followed the child to the garden, and the little child said: "Look here, mother! See! It is spelled all over the ground in flowers, 'God is Love" Walter S?ott had the great ambition of his life to build Abbotsford and lay out extensive gardens round about it. It broke his heart that he could not complete the work e.s he desired it. At his last payment of 100,000, after laying out those gardens and building that palace of Abbotsford, at that time his heart broke, his health failed, and he died almost an imbecile. A few years ago, when I walked through those gardens and I thought ct what vast expense they had been laid out at the expense of that man's life it seemed I could iee in the crimson flowers the blood of the old man's broken heart. But I have to tell you now of a garden laid out at vaster expense who cm calculate that vast expense? Tell me, ye women ho watched him uang; tell me, ye executioners who lifted and let him down; tell me, thou sun that didst hide and ye rocks that did fJl, what the laying out of this garden cost? This morning amid the aroma and brightness of the springtime, it is appropriate that I show you how the church of Christ is a garden. In this garden of the Lord 1 find the Mexican cactus, loveliness within, thorns without, men with great sharpness of behavior and manner, but within them the peace of God, the love of God, the grace of God. They are hard men to handle, ugly men to touch, very apt to strike back when you strike them, yet within them all loveliness and attraction, while outside so completely unfortunate. Mexican cacti.? all the time. Said a placid elder to a Christian minister, "Doctor, you would do better to control your temper." "Ahl" ;5aid the minister to the placid elder, 'I control more temper in five minutes than you do in five years." These people, gifted men, who have great exasperation of manner and teem to be very different from what they should be really have in their souls that which commends them to the Lord, Mexican cactus all the time. But I remember in boyhood that vre had in our father's garden what we called the Giant of Battle, a peculiar rose, very red and fiery. Suggestive flower, it was call 3d the Giant of Battle. And so in the garden of the Lord we find that kind of flower the Pauls and Martii Luthere, the Wyclifs, the John Knoxes giants of battle. W hat in other men is a spark, in them is a conflagation. When they pray their prayers take fire; when they suffer, th'iy sweat great drops of blood; wfc en they preach it is a pentecost; when they light it is a Thermopylae; whe they die it is martyrdom giants of battle. You sav, "Why have we not more of them in the chirch of Christ at this time?" I answer your question by asking another, "Why have we not more Crcmwells and Humboldts in the world?" God wants only a few giants of battle. They do their work and they do it well. You have seen in some places perhaps a century plant. 1 do not suppose there is a person in this house who has ever seen more than one century plant in full bloom, and when you see the century pla:it your emotions are stirred.- You look at it and say. "This flower has been gathering up its beauty for a whole century, and it will not bloom again for another hundred years." Well, I have to tell you that in this garden of the church spoken of in my text ther is a century plant. It has gathered up its bloom from all the ages of eternity, and nineteen centuries ago it put forth its glory. It is not only a century plant, but a passion flower the passion flower of Chriftt, a crimson flower, blood at the root and blood on the leaves, the

passion flower of Jesus, the century plant of eternity. Come, O winds from the north, and winds from the south, and winds from the east, and winds from the west, and scatter the perfume of this dower through ali nations. I wandered in a garden of Brazilian cashew nut, and I saw the luxuriance of those gardens was helped by the abundant supply of water. I came to it on a day when strangers were not admitted, but by a strange coincidence, at the moment I got in, the king's chariot passed, and the gardener went up on the hill and turned on the water, and it came flashing down the broad stairs of stone until sunlight and wave in glee -some wrestle tumbled at my feet. And so it is with this garden of Christ. Everything comes from above pardon from above, peace from above, comfort from above, sanctification from above. Streams from Lebanon! Oh, the consolation in this thought I Would God that the gardeners turned on the fountain oi! salvation until the place where we sit and stand might beeome Elim with twelve wells of trater and threescore and ten palm trees, but I hear his sound at the garden gate. I hear the lifting of the latch of the gate. Who comes there? It i3 the Gardener who passes in through the garden gate. He comes through this path of the garden, and he comes to the aged man, and he says: "Old. man, I come to help thee; Z come to strengthen thee. Down hoary hairs I will shelter thee; I will give thee strength at the time of old age; I will not leave; I will never forsake thee. Peace, broken heafted old man, I will be thy consolation forever." But you have noticed that around every king's garden there is a high wall. You may have stood at the wall of the king's court and thought, cHow I would like to see that garden!" and while you were watching the gardener opened the gate, and the royal equipage swept through it, and you caught a glimpse of the garden, but only a glimpse, for then the gates closed. I bless God that this garden of Christ has gates on all sides, that they are opened by day, opened by night, and whosoever will may come in. Oh, hoAv many there are who are seeking in the garden of this world that satisfaction which they never can fini It was so with Theodore Hook, who made all nations laugh while he was living. And yet Theodore Hook on a certain day, when in the midst of his revelry he caught a glimpse of his own face and his own apparel in the mirror, said: "That is true. I look just as I am lost, body, mind soul and estate, lost!" And so it is with Shenstone about his garden, of which I spoke in the beginning of my sermon. He sat down amid ali its beauty and wrung his hands and said, "I have lost my way to happi'

.ness; I am frantic; I hate every

thing, I hate myself as a madman ought to." Alas! so many in the gardens of this world are looking for that flower they can never find except in thv garden of Christ. How many have tried all the fountains of this world's pleasure, but never tasted of the stream from Lebanon! How many have reveled in other gardens to their soul's ruin, but never plucked one flower from the garden of our God! I swing open all the ga.tes of the garden and invite you in, whatever your history, whatever your sins, whatever your temptations, whatever your trouble. The invitation comes no more to one than to all. "Whosoever will, let him come." The flowers of earthly gardens soon fade: but, blessed be God, there are garlands that never wither, and through the grace of Christ Jesus we may enter into the joys which are provided for us at God's right hand. Oh, come into the garden. And remember, as the closing thought, that God not only brings us into a garden here, but it is a

garden all the way with those who trust and love and serve him, a garden all through the struggles of this life, a garden all up the slope of heaven. Trading in China. Eli Perkins in Chicago later Ocean. It is amusing to buy things in China. The coolies in China constantly surround you with baskets of brie-a-brac and curios. One will hold up a white Kiukiaig bottle with dragons and worth about $15 in New York, and say pleadingly: "What you givee?" uNo want him John." (1He velly arood lookee. five claws

(pointing to the five clawed drag- j

on) velly old enno. What you givee?" "How much want John?" "Tendolla." "No, too m?ch." "What you givee?" "Oh, f2." "Yank! chi! hop! kee!! no can have yell the whole crowd of curie sellers disdainfully. When the howling subsides John holds up the va.36 again and tays: "What y .u givee?" "Nothing, 1 don't want it. Get out!" "What you givee?" "Oh, a dollar," I say, walking aYay. Then there is a harried consultation, a dozen curio men yelping in discord, when the man runs after us holding out the vase as he cries: "Can havee! Can havce!"

DEATH ON TUGS RAIL. Frightful Catastrophe at LaFay ette.

A Runaway Train Ten Persons Killed Many Injured. The south-bound vestibule passenger train on the Big Four, due at LaFayette at 1:15 a. m. Sunday morning, was wrecked just as it entered the sheds at the Union station, the accident ending ten lives and injuring as many more people. Both employes and passengers were appalled at the terrific speed at which the doomed train dashed across the bridge over the Wabash river. The headlight of theen-

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GEXBRAX VIEW OF TilE WRECK LCOKlAU TOWARD THE BRIDGE. gine glared at them for an instant as It came into view around a short curve at the east end of the bridge. Then there was an immense cloud of dust, the rumble and roar of a swiftly moving train, a terrible crash, and then the cries for help of the injured and dying. The track from the depot west is on up grade and a sharp curve reaches from the depot to the bridge. The down grade begins a mile or ir.ore west of the city and and the air-brakes are applied as soon as the grade is reached so as to slow up for the bridge and the curve at the station. As the train rushed across the yards it tore down the east lino of sheds and they fell on top of the heaped up, broken cars. The engine was buried from sight by the debris. Tho mail c;ir3 went beyond the engine and were dasheci against some Lake Erie fe Western freight cars on a siding. The baggage car and smoker was lifted up and laid on its side on top of the broken heap. The ladies' car lost its front trucks and was eaved in en the left side near the rearejad. The train was a runaway. It is evident from its terrific speed on entering the sta

tion tnat the train was noi under control. The theory as to the came of this, advanced by the railway officials, is that tramps riding on the front end of the first mail car, either accidentally or intentionally, shut off tbte air from the traiti at Templeton, twenty miles west, the last stop made by the trata. Tramps were seen on the train at that point. The lever controlling the air passing from the engine to tho cars can be easily turned, concentrating all the air on the engine. Coming down grade the train coalc force the engine by its weight. The following is a list of the persons killed outright, or who havo died from their injuries: Michael Welsh, engineer, Indianapolis; Fireman McGinnis, Indianapolis: E. D. Myers, Logansport; McMahan, Cincinnati; Charles Myers, Lafayette; John Lennon, Lafayette; Jesse H. Long, Lebanon; Charles S Cahili; Otto Gesselson, Chicago. Twenty or more persons Vt ere injured, some of whom cannot recover. From the officials at Lafavette it wt,s learned, that the train was entering the s tation promptly on time, and they discredit the theory that it was running at any unusual speed, but are at a loss to account for the catastrophe. There were tea coaches in the train, only two of which will be a total loss. The damage to the engine will not exceed I5J0. The tracks were not injured and there was no delay of trains. The depot and train sheds were wrecked badly. AWFUL ANDERSON ACCIDENT.

CAUGHT AT LAST. the Mythical 8e Serpent Vroxmd to Urn m Beauty, A Provincetown (Mass.) special of tb rthsays: The sea serpent is dead. That is, a monster which in many respects re embies tho famous annual visitor at sea

side resorts, was yesterday killed by tho men having ehargo of the beach, Point

Weir. They went to their traps in the morning as usual to remove he night's 2atch of fish, and were considerably surprised to find that the weir was filled with huge sea mouster, at that moment lying quietly on the top. Neither end of th creature was visible, but after waiting a few minutes an ugly, vicious-looking head appeared. Then began a fierce struggle or the mastery, the men trying to haul the monster out of the trap, and the creature trying to pull the boat and crew into it. Finally they shot a bomb lance from a whale gun into the creature's neck just back of the head. The lance exploded and broke the backbone and instantly killed the fish. The creature is shaped like a huge eel, is twenty-nino feet eight inches in length and four feet six and three-fourths inches around tho body at the largest point, which is just back of the head. The head is convex on the top, the mouth is large and furnished with five rows gf saw-like teeth, two rows in the upper jaw which fit snugly between thr three rows in ye lower. Along the bach i serrated fin extends the entire length from head to tall. The latter Is shaped .ike a shark's, with the uper lobes considerably longer than the lower. There are two pectoral and two annal fias, each i triile over three fee?.. Its color on the back is a dark, muddy green, gradually changing to a light color down the sides,, while tho belly is almost white. The tish is entirely devoid of scales, and possesses a very tough skin nearly a quarter of a inch thick. As soon as the fish can be properly cured and mounted it will be sent to Chicago and placed in the Fisheriea building. DEATH OF UUDGE N I BLACK

Hon. W. E. Niblack, for many years prominent figure in the history of Indiana lied at his home in Indianapolis, Sunday afternoon. His death was not unexpecUjd -is he had been confined to his bed for three months. Had Judge Ni black lived until May 19th he would have been seventy -or e years old. Judge Niblackwas born n Dubois county, Ind., and was educated at the State University. He was admitted

JUDGE W. E. NIB LACKto the bar tn Martin county on attaining1 hi3 majority. In 1849 he was elected to the State Legislature. Successively ho served as circuit Judge, member of Congress and Judge of the Supreme court for twelve years. He became a resident of Vincemics in 1855 and continued to ma ke that city his home until 1889, when he removed to Indianapolfs. Few men hava been so long and so conspicuosly identf&ed with the history of Indiana. EXTORTION AT TilE FAIR.

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Natural Gas Explosion Blows a House to Pieces Two Fatally Burned. At 11 o'clock Saturday night the residence of Eli Murray at Anderson was blown to pieces by a natural gas explosion. The family, consisting of husband, wife, daughter and son, were Mown, out Into the yard. Mr. and Mrs. Murray, it is thought, were fatally burned. Elsie, aged sixteen, was more bruised than burned. Charley, aged thirteen, was burned about the face and hands. The injured persons are unable to give tho cause of the explosion. The Murray residence, a line two-story one, was entirely destroyed, with all the household 3iFects. Flames communicated with Geo. Greyer's house, and it was almost destroyed before the tiro department could ?et to the scene. Mr. Greyer also lost most of his household goods.

A GIGANTIC TRIO,

Three mighty twin-screw steamships which will fly tho American Hag arc under instruction by the Cramps, at Philadelphia. They will bo 500 tons heavier than tho Cunarder Campania, but will be eighteen feet shorter on the water line. Their extremo beam, however, will bo sixty-nine feet, or three feet nine inohes Di'oader than tho Campania. Each of tho jiantesses will measure 13,000 tons, and a ill have engines that will develop at least $0,000 horse power.

TWENTY-TWO MEN SCALDED.

Fox Supposing you had raised your horse to jump a wall and he re fused to take it? Hunt I should go right ahead ci.a if nothing had happened.

The steamer Ohio collapsed a riue at Belmont, Mo., Sunday morning, scalding ; wenty-two men, six of whom died before ;!iey could be taken to tho hospital at Tairo. The balance of tho injured were tared ftr and will recover.

The council of administration, Friday, took action on the matter of restaurant charges. It has determined to stop the ro bbery at once. The council, after di scuffing the matter, adopted & resolution Im which it declared it was the unanimous sense of the council that all those enjoy ing restaurant privileges at Jackson park shall be required to formulate full and

complete schedules of prices immediately, and submite the same to the executive committee of the World's exposition for approval. It being the determination ef of the council that the public patronlilag the fair shall not be subjected to any extortion or unjust demand, and it desim to make its purpose in this behalf clearly understood at once so that the offending parties may be advertised ia advance thai it will take, if necessary, the most summary measures to guard the public against all forms of jnjust imposition. In view of the fact -hat so much complaint has been mad i by the public on aecou nt of the exorbitant restaurant charges, Buffalo Bill has come out with an announcement to all comers that to relieve in i pressure he will furnish a table da i.o e dinner including everything from soup to black coffee and a seat to his gn at AVild West show, all fo the sum of H in American coin. BLACK FRIDAY. Wedi Street Panic A Iay of Great Excitement. Friday was a day of exceptional activity and excitement on the New York Stock Exchange. The failures of S. V. White, Ferris & Kimball and W. L. Patton & Co. were announced. Large amounts of stocks, were sold out for the account of the houses and the avalanche of offerings created a more panicky condition of affairs than has been evinced since the time of the Baring panic. According to those wha passed through the Black Friday trouble and all tho tinanciai upheavals sinctt.then, there never has been a time when stock exchange houses were so completely demoralized. Londcn became a heavy buyer of dividend securities, and late in tht day funds became decidedly easier. Con F-orvative financiers believe that tho worst is over. Drexel, Morgan fc Co. and the Vandrbilts are credited with using their influence to avert disaster, and it was through their efforts that the market ral? lied.