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\ reservoir on ES W AY
l aß *-a PERSONS DROWNED AND
T hundreds stampeded.
Tte scene Fifteen
Miles Proa Providence, B- 1.-A
Stream the Size of a Barra. Bursting
Through the Masonry the Fvrst In
tmation of Danger.
Providence, R- 1., Aug.
Take reservoir, near Fiskville, in the south-
S corner of Cranston comity. about
gfteea miles from this city, which supplies
the whole row of mill villages along the
Pawtucket river, burst this afternoon.
Three persons were drowned, and some
.Unmre was done to property. A man
mitred Yeaw, who was about a quarter of
- mile utl noticed the water coming through
tne masonrv of th • dam, as he describes it,
in a stream about as big as a barrel.
CAUSE OF TIIE BREAK UNKNOWN.
No examination has yet been made to
ascertain the cause of the break. Nothing
„ known of the three persons drowned in
the woods until the excited villagers, learn
ing the dam had given away hurried up tho
vall,<v and found tho bodies on the wav.
The reservoir was practically emptied. The
drowned were:
Mrs. Greene lew, aged 60.
Mrs. Hawkins, aged 90.
Mrs. Tew’s son, ti or 7 years old.
They were walking through a strip of
wood and were overtaken by the flood and
drowned.
alarm alono the banks.
The river rose rapidly and caused consid
erable alarm among the people along its
banks, who thought that the Ponegansett
reservoir, the biggest in the state, had
gone. Many of them left their houses and
fled, i ut the’ flood subsided as rapidly as it
had come.
The path of the water from the reservoir
was through a thinly settled country, and
th- only damage to property was the
wrecking of a stable belonging to Russell
Matthewson. the capsizing of a carriage
shop belonging to Dr. E. K. Clarke and the
demolishing of three road bridges.
HISTORY ok the dam.
The dam was built in 1877 for the service
of the Pawtucket valley, the company re
deeming a small swampy pond locally
known as Spring lake. The reservoir cov
ered eighteen acres and contained about
35,000,000 gallons of water.
COMMERCIAL CRASH.
A Carriage and Wagon Firm Goes to
the Wall at St. Paul.
St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 25.—The J. H.
Mahler Company of this city, one of the
largest carriage and wagon houses in the
west, made a voluntary assignment
yesterday to ex-Congressman John D.
McDonald. A statement of the
assets and liabilities has not
yetbeen filed, but from the magnitude of
the company’s operations the liabilities will
probably not fall short of $500,000. Tho
failure caused a sensation in com
mercial circles, as the company
has been doing business throughout
the west, second only to one other in im
pel tanco. It is learned that the company
has been in financial straits for several
months, but the officers mortgaged their
property and expected to weather the
st rm until yesterday, when a large amount
ef paper fell duo, and was allowed to go to
protest.
KILRAIN AT PURVIS.
Ho will Give Bond To-day and Be
Released.
Purvis, Miss., Aug. 25. — State Agent
Childs arrived hero at 3:10 o’clock this
morning, having in charge Jake Kiirain,
pugilist. Sheriff Cowart was at the
station when the train pulled in and at
once receipted for the prisoner and Agent
herH S l r ’ ro , ceede 'i t 0 Jackson - Kilrain’s
bond has been fixed at $2,000, and he
i„ , r ? leasecl to-morrow when tho bond
■s signed by two citizens, who will he in
demmh,,,! by Kiirain. He said he intended
WXP* exhibitions after Ins bond
ta liT w proTfil He look * ‘he pic-
r a t l anJ wei f?‘>s nearly 200
„ C T m S souUl KHrain had an
ovation ali along the route.
base ball on Sunday.
A Game at Hamilton, Ohio, Stopped
After Three Innings.
Cincinnati, 0„ Aug. 25.—A base ball
game between the Cincinnati and Brook
lyns was advertised to be played to-day at
Hamilton, 0., twor-ty-five miles north of
AOa C , i. A^out I’5&J 1 ’ S&J people wore present.
1195 30. fl “ ed b5 ’ mk mg a total of
OCEAN AVENUE BLUFF.
A Movement to Protect the Drive at
Long Branch.
pilot H ’ N - J - A “K- -An im
heid last JoT 105 ° f P r °P’' rt y owner? was
tection fi f 110 C ** SCUBS t- 1 © proposed pro
dred miir 0< ", eatl Avenue bluff. One hun
re pro i* rt - v Wftß
decided to ter a " nt t discussion it was
select a clan .Th'" 1 “ 9 P fcClal committee to
tion of a cont.'n l ral9 'V mon y for the ereo
-190 feet apart l * U ° US bulkhead Wlth jetties
v AYa,aID and shot.
TWO Br Km r H „ Km a Man Who Had
Killed Their Brother.
Henry CI T T ’ Au S- 25- James and
,ho ‘an^i„?^’^? th 1 e ? , yesterday waylaid,
nswjck '^ ntly kllled William Miller, at
William M this city ‘ A year a0
during ‘ Shr>t anJ killed Joseph Miles,
resulted from
Quitted of Mr9 ' MUlor - filler was
reveal and TT Ml,e *’ brothers
thr6Bt - l4Cease°aped. eX6CUtad th, -' lr
.. ty marshal, abrbstbd.
8 W Char from W T th A * CO P“* Bribes
lron Two Men.
Ala "’ Au S- 25.—W. a.
de^t ym r r “ *T iDted a Uuited States
wt „ Utten days a S>- Yes
out by two m OB ‘ od on a warrant sworn
f°i Ve ‘ i 120 from’ ZrZ ° harge that he r6 ~
i nd| ctmenta ‘ud. b ’ a . Kreei n g to quash
kting inf a ffmngt them for vio-
Uta t.oni, e^*™ a a ‘rvenuelaw S . His £
-g—g' ao,i be avers his innocence.
Batv JaU9d * or B ur(rlary~
!** 25.~Jady Doug
hy for burghu-j t .committed to jail yester-
IHorning ffetaS,
FIRE AT A PACKING HOUSE.
The Swift Company Suffered a Net
Loss of $30,000 at Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 25. —The im
mense packing home of Swift tic Cos., at the
corner of Reazer avenue and First street
was saved from total destruction by Are to
day by a fortunate shift of the wind. As it
was, the smoke house structure of corru
gated iron, 40 by 40 feet, and the rendering
house, 128 by 40 feet, were consumed. Fire
has broken out several times recently
in the sin ke house and it is supposed that
it originated from some defect in the flues.
During tho fire Master Mechanic Tate fell
fro u the roof of the sin >ke house while at
tempting to descend by a rope and was in
stantly killed. The total loss on buildings,
machinery and stock is placed by Supt.
Young at $150,000 with $120,000 insurance,
placed with forty-two companies.
A BLAZE AT COLUMBUS.
Columbus. 0., Aug. 25.—The Stern-
Cbittonden building was the scene of a Are
to-day. The principal losers are Candv
Bros., restaurant, $15,000; A. N. Hill &
Cos., clothiers, $9,000; Batterson Merrill
Wall Paper Company, $15,000; Theodore
Faulhour, hatter, $8,000: on building,
$45,090; Stern-Chitteuden’s heirs $15,000,
and several o hers $2,000 or less.
a steamer burned.
Cincinnati, 0., Aug. 25.—The fine pas
senger steamer Commonwealth was burned
to the water’s edge in less than three
quarters of an hour here to-night. The
loss is about $30,000. She was pretty well
insured.
FLOOD AND EARTHQUAKE.
So Many Lives Lost in the Orient that
They Can’t be Counted.
San Francisco, Aug. 25. —The steamer
Oceanic arrived to-day from Hong Kong
and Yokohoma, bringing advices to Aug.
10 of further details of the bursting of
the Yellow river embankment in
the province of SUantbug, July 22. Tbe
destruction is widespread. The breach in
the riv er is over 2,000 feet in length, and
the swift current swept throug h flooding
to a depth of 12 feet a large extent of coun
try lying adjacent.
too many drowned to be counted.
Many houses were washed away, and a
dispatch from Chefoo states that the num
ber of persons drowned is too great to be
counted. Ten districts are already sub
merged, and it is feared that more in the
low lying country south will suffer a simi
lar fate.
kummalola’b earthquake.
The latest advices concerning the earth
quake at Kummnlola July 28 place the
number of killed at eighteen and the
wounded at nineteen. Fifty-two dwellings
were demolished. A telegram of July 30
states that fifty-three shocks had been ex
perienced and that they continued to be
felt. The inhabitants were sleeping in the
open air.
SUNDAY AT DEER PARK.
The President to Remain There Until
the Middle of September.
Deer Park, Md., Aug. 25.—Nearly
every part of the little chapel, which seats
11X1 persons, was Ailed when President Har
rison and Mr. and Mrs. McKee came in this
morning. Rev. Reese F. Alsop of Brook
lyn conducted the services.
President Harrison spent part of this aft
ernoon taking a long walk iu the mount
ains. He will remain here until the mid
dle of September, and, meanwhile, will
probably devote part of his time to in*
forthcoming message.
The President has said that ho intends to
appoint two democrats as delegates on the
part of the United States to the congress of
tho three Americas. Ex-Senator Davis de
nies all knowledge of his appointment as a
delegate, and intimates that he would
hardly care tor suen an appointment.
IN THE WHIRPOOL RAPIDS.
Graham Makes His Fourth Trip in His
Barrel.
Niagara Falls, Aug. 25.—Carlisle D.
Graham, of Suspension Bridge, made his
fourth trip through tho whirlpool rapids
this afternoon in his barrel-shaped contri
vance. His purpose was to test it before
essaying the Horsesh e Falls. The barrel
was kept straight by heavy
weights and went through the whirl
pool aud down the river to Lewis
ton, seven miles, in twenty-five minutes.
Graham was badly shaken up. aud says he
was never so glad to get out of any place in
his life. He is determined, however, to try
the fails, and may make the attempt to
morrow.
MUTINY ON SHIPBOARD.
The Officers of a Bark Forced to Flee
for Tneir Lives.
San Francisco, Aug. 25.—The Japan
Gazette states that a mutiny took place at
Manila on board the American bark Fanny
Clare, July 21. The crew drove the captain
into the cabin, and another of the officers
was compelled to sees safety by jump
ing oyeroourd and swimming to
a Spanish vessel near-by. Tho
mutineers set Are to the vessel, but on the
arrival of a force of men from the gunboat
Eleano they surrendered and were handed
over to the United States consul for pun
ishment. The fire was extinguished before
any great damage was done.
FLAT OBaKK’S FIFTH VICTIM.
Alderman Hooking's Dies from tho In
juries Ho Received.
Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 25.— Alderman
Hockings dial to-day. He makes the fifth
victim of the wreck at New Fist creek. Ho
was oue of the most prominent Germans in
the city, and for ten years has been in the
city council. It is now thought that there
may be no more deaths, with the possible
exception of Editor Hearn. Col. Young
and Alexander Reoder were buried to-day
with the most imposing ceremonies, thous
being on tho streets and in the funeral pro
cession.
A GOVERNOR IN A SMASH UP.
His Frightened Horse Carries Him
Down an Embankment.
Charleston. W. Va., Aug. 25.—Gov.
E. W. Wilson and his aged father-in-law,
Dr. J. F. Cotton, met with a very serious
accident last eve ung, while out driving.
The horse took fright at a point where the
road runs along the edge of a bank and
went over the bank. Dr. Cotton had his
left shoulder broken, and Gov. Wilson was
painfully hurt about the legs aud is con
fined to his bed.
Bouth Carolina’s Melon Crop.
Charleston, S. C.. Aug. 25.—The
annual statement of the shipments of
watermelons from the melon re :ion of this
state is out. The area planted was 8,000
acres. The shipments aggregated 1,880
carloads, or about 8,000,000 melons, against
785 carloads last year, and 759 In 1887. Of
these New York took 522, Philadelphia 298,
Baltimore 207, and Boston 68 carloads.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, AUGUST 2<>, 1889.
0U1! MINISTER TO lIAYTI.
RUMORS OF THE REVOCATION OF
HIS APPOINTMENT.
Douglass Says He Does Not Believe
There is Any Ground for Them-He
Would Not Feel Humiliated If the
Cancellation Should Occur.
New York, Aug. 25.—The Galena sailed
to-day for Port au Prince, Hayti, from
Brooklyn. The vessel is under command
of Commander George W. Summers, and
has a full complement of men.
P red Douglass, United States minister to
Hayu, in an interview with a Post re
porter to-day in regard to the rep irts that
appointment was to be revoked, said:
rf I should happen to be recalled I
should not feel humiliated in the least.
I never sought the appointment in
anyway, and the nomination was somewhat
of a surprise. But Ido not believe thero is
any truth in the report. Thero was some
opposition to my appointment prior to the
time the nomination was made by the
1 resident. I know, but that was all thor
oughly considered at the time.”
WHO OPPOSED HIM.
It is understood that the opposition referred
to came from some New York merchants,
who wauted a business man appointed. If
there was any opposition to him on the
part of the residents of Havti, Minister
Douglass said that it was probably
due to the part he took in
Gen. Grant’s Domingo annexation
project. “But,” continued he, “whatever
may have been my views then in regard to
annexation I do not think either San
Domingo or Hayti is in a condition
to ba annexed at the present time,
and any attempt to annex them I
am sure would be futile.” Tho Haytians
might possibly feel that they were
being discriminated against when this gov
ernment selected men of his race, in view
of thecomparatively small proportion hich
the negro Lore to tLe total population of the
1. nited States. No time has yet been fixed
for Minister Douglas.-;’ departure.
RACING IN MIDWINTER.
Plugs and Mudhorses Put Up in Glass
Cases.
(Copi'rinht eri.)
New York, Aug. 24.—N0 such scheme
has ever been broached iu America for the
promotion of sport in the wiuter season as
that which was recently conceived by Mr.
Pierre Lorillard, the veteran patron of the
turf and lover of sport in all its forms. He
has not only conceived au idea which is
startling in its novelty and magnitude, but
he is so sanguine of the feasibility
of it that he proposes to invest
a small fortune—which he is amply
able to do—in making it an ac
complished fact. The plan is briefly to
cover over a race track with a structure of
iron and glass. The announcement in a
paragraph which has already been exten
sively circulated, has excited much com
ment among sporting men, and no small
curiosity has been aroused anent the ques
tions, how far the details of the plan have
been worked out, and what preliminary
work, if any, has been done up to the
present time."
In speaking this week of the proiect Mr.
Lorillard said: “The idea is not exactly a
new oue, for it occurred to me several
years ago when I noticed that the only
available places for racing purposes in the
winter months were on the Pacific slopo
where cold weather is practically unknown
or iu the southern portion of the country,
in the Gulf states. While the expense and
trouble involved in tho transfer of stables
from one part of the country to another is
a consideration of very serious weight,
no genuine lover of the turf would
ever think of making any complaint
on this accouut. There is,
however, another consideration more
weighty than those involved in the moving
of hor es around the county. That is toe
effect upon the horses of the changes of
climate to which they are necessarily sub
ject. What the effect may be of taking
them from one place to another that seems
very like it, no one can say. The tempera
ture may be very much alike in two places,
and yet a horse being taken from one to
the other may fall ill, and it is almost im
possible, very often, to say why he does,
exeepti i g by attributing it to the change.
“Of the hundreds of nprtberu horses that
have run in the winter months at New
Orleans, Mobile and other southern centers,
hardly a single one has ever shown the
same form and condition that he shows in
the north. It is not due to the heat, be
cause the same condition of affairs exists
when English horses are brought to the
United States, or when A rerioan horses
aro sent over to Europe. Capt.
William M. Connor of New York had a
racing stallion which he sold some years
ago to the owner of a stock farm in Hol
land. Tho animal has retained perfect
health since he was removed to the other
side of the ocean, and has produced some
notably good offspring. Ho has never,
however, displayel the high speed and
other qualities that made him famous on
the American turf.
“These effects may be due, to a large ex
tent, to the change in w ater. Horses are
very much like human bangs in many re
spects, and suffer like them from gastric
and enteric troubles. Tho difference in tbe
drinking waters of the various parts of the
country are much greater than is usually
supposed. They are so great, indeed, that
in many instances the change causes sick
ness and weakness in a horse that is sud
denly removed from a high land like New
Jersey to a rich alluvial land liko Louisiana.
Therefore most stable owners are ayerse to
exposing their valuable property to this
form of danger.
“As people would enjoy racing in mid
winter equally as well as in summer, it oc
curred to me that it would be entirely
feasible to inclose an entire race track and
grounds iu a spacious building, which could
be used not alone for this purpose, but for a
score of others. The style of buildiug
would be the iron and glass type, which
•was made familiar to New Yorkers by the
Cbrystal palace in 1856, and which,
since then, has beeu followed in
the construction of numerous large
buildings, both in this country and
in Europe. These buildings were formerly
expensive, but can now be erected at a re
markably small cost. Tttrougb the devel
opment and progress of the iron industries
of the country, architectural iron can be
produced in vast quantitle* at lesser rates
than many kinds of stone, terra-cotta or
eveu brick. A strong, rough glass which
is used for the walls and roofs is no longer
imported, since it is manufactured at home
for almost the same figures as abroad.
“These materials are so light and strong
that an edifice of almost any size, even the
largest, can be constructed without in
curring a proportionate increase of cost
over a smaller structure. Tbe shape of the
building would either be a greai ring In
closing the track or a great circle inclosing
the track, stands, and the oentral ring.
“Such a structure would have many
advantages over the ordinary course. The
track would always be dry, and being
sheltered from the weather could be kept
in such faultless condition as to make it the
fas rest track in the world. While this
would do away with the usefulness of mud
horses, it would put an end to the many risks
now incurred in putting fine animals on the
course. There would be no winds and no
draughts on the track. Of course near the
walls there would be currents of cold air,
but these would be go small iu comparison
with the great volume of air iu the building
that they would not affect either the horses
or spectators.
“The place could bo artificially warmed
and lighted in anv degree that might be
desireJ. It would not be necessary, anil
would be in fact injudicious to have the
atmosphere too warm. The temperature
of a clear spring, or a bright autumn day
would insure perfect comfort to man and
beast, aid would be calculated to bring
about the best racing results. Artificial
illumination would be simple, so that the
building could be used in the night as well
as by day. Besides its employment for turf
purjroses it would be valuable for
athletic societies, base ball clubs aud
similar organizations. It could be kept
open the year through, and on account of
its great size could bo the scene of a dozen
events at (ho same time. At present tho
only place where athletics car. contest in the
cold season of the year is the gymnasium,
which on such occasions is close, poorly ven
tilated, hot and crowded. Under such con
ditions the strongest man is liable to catch
oold or get sick. For this reason our best
athletics refuse to enter contests under such
conditions. In the building I have sug
gested there would be no such dangers and
everything could pass off as nicely and as
well as in tbe op n air in summer-time.
“The cost would, of oourse, bo great on
account of the size, but would not be so
great as to make the soheme impracticable.
I have not had estimates prepared, but
from what I know of such matters, I am
certain that it could las finished for less
than what the Equitable Life or the Potter
building or any one of a dozen other busi
ness palaces have cost. The prime cost would
be the principal consideration, of course.
With an iron and glass edifice of this kind,
the expense of repairs and maintenance
would not amount to any considerable
figure. The track would not require one
quarter of the attention that uu ordinary
one does on any one of our great courses.
The beating and lighting would, however,
lie quite expensive. Iron is a very good
conductor, and in this building would radi
ate the heat of the interior with remarkable
rapidity. The larger amount of the surface,
however, being of glass, whic i is an excel
lent non-conductor, much of this loss would
be counteracted.
“Another item of cost would be the con
struction of the stables, offices and stands.
This, however, would not differ from the
ordinary expense at any other race track.
They could be located inside or outside of
the main building, as might be deomoi
most advisable by the parties who under
take the construction. For tho
stables the inside ring could be
utilized while the sides of the
building could be cut through to any re
quired extent for pool rooms, bookmakers
offices, lavatories, restaurants, cigar stands,
barrooms aud the other industries that al
ways grow up around a race track. The
entrances and exits would bo arrange!
after the usual fashion at any track, but
c mid be made on a far larger scale a id to
afford much greater iacuities to the general
public.
“So far as size is concerned it is ex
tremely easy, nowadays, to erect structures
with a vast span, a.id if it were thought
bost to adopt such a plan, no onginoeri ig
difficulties would stand ii tho way. The
new building* in Paris, ereetod for the ex
position now iu progress, show that it is
possible and economical to make buildings
of 590 or 600 feet span aud of almost any
desired higat. In a building of this size
could be put any base ball field in the
United States, The furthest hit by Roger
Connor would not go “over tbe feuco,” aud
the highest “sky-ro kec” would not touch
the roof. Even, however, If an unusually'
well-batted ball should happen to go
through a pane of glass the iujury would
not bo at all considerable and could bo read
ily repaired.
“As an investment, such a scheme would
undoubtedly be a success, for with tho
active aud constantly growing interest of
the American people in the turf, and in all
athletic sports, there would be no difficulty,
provided tbe location was well chosen, in
utilizing the building, profitably, almost
every day in the year. The receipts at any
great meeting of the turf or
at any great game of base
ball between two first-class clubs
would pay a handsome return on the capital
invested, even were this up to a two or three
million mark. Besides tue receipts from
admission fees there would lie also a large
income from what is commonly known as
privileges, that is to say. the bars, restau
rants, pool-rooms, etc. 'These aro na urally
very large upon the race track aud where
the track is extremely popular roll far up into
the tens of thousands. The book-makers
and mutual machine people would give
almost auy amou it to do business upon tho
ground, and judging from what they pay
every day to the racing associations of the
country, would in themselves yield enough
to make a haudsome return upon the cap
ital invested.
“I have taken no stops thus far toward
putting those ideas int j execution, but tney
have been so warmly received and ap
proved by my frleuds, aud even by
strangers, by ail, in f ct, o !ar as I know,
who have given any attention to tbit mat
ter, that I think of sub pitting them in the
course of the coming autumn to a
number of people who are likely t<>
be willing to join me iu the enterprise.
“As to the health of horses running under
these conditions there can t>e no question.
The wonderfully trained animals that be
long to Baruum’s, Forepaugh’s ar,d the
other great circuses do their work for
years iu crowded exhibition buildiugs and
tents of none too good a construction. Yet
they preserve their heaith, aud I am told,
live to a greater age than do horses engaged
in other work. Iu a great building, such
os i have proposed, they would have an un
limited amount of fresh air, and nothing in
the way of cold, rain, mud or chilling
draughts to impair their physical welfa e.
Falks-Curtis.
DYING FROM BEE STINGS.
A Girl Watching the Insects Sudden
ly Attacked by Them.
Pomona, Cal., Aug. 23.—Alice, the 18-
year-oid daughter of Edward Quimby, lies
at tbe point of death at her father’s home
near Cucamon in Pomona valley. While
watching honey bees on hor father’s ranch
or- Tuesday she was suddenly attacked by
the insects. She tried to drive them away
and flee, but the bees only iucrea*ed in num
bers and there was a perfect cloud of them
about her. She was found lying uncon
scious on the ground, and when carried to
the house a physician was called. Last
evening she became unoongpious and has
since been sinking to her oeath. He face
and neck are so swollen that her friends
would not know her, while her arms and
ankles are more than double their normal
size. Her eyes and mouth are so swollen
that she cannot open them.
Philemon Bliss Dead.
St. Paul, Mink., Aug. 25.—Philemon
Bliss, ex-ju.stioe of the supreme court of
Missouri, and dean of Missouri university,
died in this city this morning, aged 76.
Judge Bliss was one of the early anti
slavery leaders of Ohio.
ST. LOUIS’ BEST FRIEND.
A BIG CITY MOURNS THE DEATH
OF PHILANTHROPIST BHAW.
He Was Born in England Eighty-Nine
Years Ago and Came to This Coun
try When 19 Years Old—ln Twenty
Years He Had Amassed a Fortune
and Retired From Business.
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 25.—Henry Shaw,
a venerable p lilanthropist and the best
friend St. Louis ever had, died early this
moruiug, without showing evidence of phys
ical pain or mental suffering. At his bedside
were Mrs Julius Morri , Mr Shaw’s sister,
and a number of his most intimate friends.
Henry Shaw was an Englishman by birth.
At the age of 19 he came to America and
located in St. Louis, arriving here in 1819.
He first embarked in the hardware bu .moss
on the levee, and for a time was proprietor,
clerk and porter. He also gave some atten
tion to Indian supplies.
retired at 40.
He prospered, aud after twenty years of
commercial life had amassed sufficient
fortune to enable him to retire from busi
ness, which bo did at the age of 40. He
went abroad and visited nearly every
quarter of tne globe, being away from this
country about ten years. It was
upon his return that he commenced
the study aud cultivation of
plants and flowers, and it was in the prose
cution of these studies that the now world
famous botanical gardens had their origin.
Ho made his gardens and beautiful estate
free to the public. With his death tho
gardens become the property of the state of
Missouri.
ANOTHER VALUABLE GIFT.
Another, and perhaps more valuable gift,
was the presentation to the city of Tower
Grove park, a resort of peculiar beauty,
Mr. Shaw’s residence, where he died, was
at Tower Grove park, and he passed but
little time at his down town home. His
estate is valued at $2,500,009 and it is
thought a greater part will be left to the
oily of St. Louis in various bequests, and
it is understood that charitable institutions
of the Episcopal church will bo favored iu
his will. The only relative iu this country
besidss his sister is a cousin, Frank Brad
bury.
THE STORY OF THE TIN BOX.
John .F. fßegga' Part in the Cronin
Mystery.
Chicago, Aug. 22. —The story of tho tin
boT in which it is supposed the clothes of
Dr. Cronin were to have been transported
to England has brought to the surface new
and startling evidence. The disclosure is
startling because of the exactness with
which it fits to the lea ling facts in the
great Cronin murder mystery, aud because
of the fact that it is the first time that an
inkling of the main points iu tne case which
the state has made against John F. Begzs
has leaked out. It was known that John
F. Beggs was senior guardian of Camp 20,
that he was tho friend and protego of
Alexander Sullivan, that he disliked
Dr. Cronin, and it was rumored that he ail
pointed a committoe of Camp 20 to try
Cronin for treason to the cause of Ire and.
But all of this was not alone sufficient to
procure the conviction of Beggs as an ac
cessory in the murder of Cronin. The main
features in the case against Beggs are these:
J ust one week before Dr. Cronin’s body was
found, John F. Beggs and Dennis Ward, a
prominent member of the Irish Republican
Club, started on a tour east, aud reached
New York. In New York oue of the first
men who had a consultation with Beggs
was "Bill” Starkey, the absconding Chi
cagolawyor. Beggs didn’t know that his
movements wore watched, but they were.
“Dick” Powers, of Chicago, accident
ally learned that Beggs and Starkey
wore consulting with each other, and
had the men shadowed. Inspector
Byrnes telegraphed to States Attorney
Longenecker, asking whether he wanted
Starkey arrested in connection with the
Cronin case, and there being no connection
between Starkey and tho case known to
any one outside the conspirators at the
time, Mr. Longenecker replied in the nega
tive. The shadowing was stopped after
this, but there hapiienod to bo another
man in Now York jus: about this time who
knew both Beggs and Starkey, and he is in
a position to declare on oat h, if he is not
intimidated or prevented by considerations
of pers >ual safety, that Beggs a id Starkey
had made every necessary preparation to
tade an ocean liner for Paris the very day
that Dr. Cronin’s dead body was discovered
in the Lake View sewer.
The theory of the prosecution is that the
tin box soldered up by order of Martin
Burke, oil North Clark street, contained the
clothes of the murdered man and these
clothes, box and all, were am mg tbe lug
gago of the two inon who were about to
sail for Europe. All attempts to trace that
luggage from New York have proved futile
thus far, but the search has not yet been
given up. The theory of the prosecution is
that Cronin was to have be>n “seen” in
Paris by Beggs, and shortly after his clothes
were to have been found on the banks of
the Thames In London, and tbe story then
given to the world that he was on his way
to testify before the Times commission, for
which he was removed as a traitor and a
spy. Day by day the proof in confirmation
of"this theory is being picked up. The
story of the tin box is the latest link in the
cnam of evidence, and it brings the proof
stronger than evor homo to Beggs as a tool
of the great conspiracy.
LEFT $5,000 TO A SHOP GIRL.
A Californian Wills That Amount to
Hattie Mlnzenheimer.
New York, Aug. 24.—Probably the hap
piest saleslady iu this city to-day is Miss
Hattie Minzenheimer of 847 Second avenue,
an employe of Lichtenstein & Cos. of Grand
street. A few days ago a letter was re
ceived by Mr. Lichtenstein from San Fran
cisco. The writer requested to know
whether a girl named “Hattie” was still in
the firm’s employ. A gentleman, whose
name was not given, had died six weeks
previous and willed her $5,000. The letter
was signed "H. B. Dsnner, administrator.”
Mr. Danner als >asked that the Grand street
firm write to Mayor Pood of San Francisco,
giving the full name of Hattie.
Tbe girl’s unknown benefactor visited
this city several years ago aud mado a num
ber of purchases in Licntenstein’s. He was
smitten with Hattie and askod her to teil
him her name. She refused. He then begged
her to acoept a present. This she also re
fused. He left and she declares that she
has neither seen nor hoard of him since.
Hattie is anxiously awaiting the arrival of
the $5,000
London’s Strikers.
London, Aug. 25.—Tbe striking dock
laboi ere marched to-day from East End to
Hyde Park, where they held a meeting.
Speeches were made from several plat
forms. Resolutions In favor of continuing
the strike were adopted.
The Princsss of Wales In Denmark.
Copenhagen, Aug. 25,—The Princess of
Wales aud her daugb.ers, Princesses Vic
toria and Jiaud, arrived here today.
AMONG THE ALBANIANS.
Opening of the Cptton Season—A
Bloody Affray Averted.
Albany, Ga., Aug. 25. —The cotton sea
son has fairly opens<l in this city and sec
tion. The opening price in our market
was better this season than for many years
previous. Good cotton sold for 11>6 cents
yesterday, an t the'e is gome hard work be
ing done by the farmers to g't out and
market as much as possible before the prices
go down.
The alliance warehouse is in full bloom.
It is receiving more cotton than any other
in the city, and there are six in all. Just
before the season opened there was fear ex
pressed by the non-alliance warehousemen
that the alliance warehouse would do all
the business, but now it is seen that the
othor warehouses will do a good business.
Albany is still building up. There are
several new buildings under course of con
struction. The Methodist congregation
will have one of the handsomest church
buildings in South Georgia, aud the con
gregation an 1 city owe all praise to the
Rev. 1). F. Riley, the pastor, for it is by
his tiroless energy that the new ohurcb is
built
It is understood that a Rtcam pleasure
yacht will be put ou the Flint at this point
so it by the young men of the city.
R liable parties say Albany is the best lit
up city in the south.
What promised to be a bloody alfray was
amicably settled yesterday botweeu the
contracting parties, Ur. R, A. Shine and
R. K. Smith of thin oily, by their friends.
Rev. M. V. T. Morris, the negro preacher
who has been causing so much troutdo
among the colored Rantista of this city
’ recently, was arrested yesterday on a war
rant charging him with disturbing public
worship.
Prof. G. I. Fitzpatrick is in the city
making arrangements preparatory to open
ing the Albany high school Monday, Sept. 2.
BURNED OUT AT BAINBRIDGE.
The Residence of W. O. Jones De
stroyed with Its Contents.
Bainrridqe, Ga., Aug. 25.—This morn
ing about 1 o’clock the| two-story dwelling
of W. C. Jones was consumed by fire, to
gether with all the household and kitchen
furniture and wearing apparel except the
parlor sofa. The loss is SO,OOO. The
building and its contents were
insured for $4,000, $1,050 of tho total being
in tho Royal Insurance Company, ami
$3,050 in the hartford. The occupants
barely escaped in their night clothes. Two
children would have been lost i ad not Cain
Bowie (colored) rescusl them by imperil
ing bis life. Tho liro originated in the
kitchen, and is supposed to nave been an
incendiary’s work.
JACKSONVILLE'S STRIKE ENDED.
About 160 of the Men Will Resume
W ork 'lbis Morning.
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug,2s.—Theeigar
workers’ strike is practically ended. About
150 men, mostly Americans with a sprink
ling of mulattoes, will resume work to
morrow morning. Without any regular
concerted action by resolution or
otherwise these mou have oorne
to an agreement that the otter of tho
manazor, Mr. Gato, to payoff through a
window cut in the side of the stairway is ail
the concession that can reasonably be ex
pected. The Cuban element among the
workmen may hold out for another week,
but it is predicted that by Sept. I all the
men w.ll be bank in the fact >ry again.
Leesburg Laconics.
Leesbitrq, Fla., Aug. 23.— The railroad
commissioners met here to-duy, and will
leave here for Ouala to-mo-row.
The St. James P. E. chapel will bo fin
ished soon. .Services will be held in tho
new chapel for the first time, Sunday
Sept. 1.
Shot at a Church.
Cedar Keys, Fla., Aug. 25.—William
Bell shot Pago Robinson during a dilficulty
at a negro church this afternoon. Both
parties are colored.
A BOULANUIST SPLIT.
A Meeting Hold to Nominate Candi
dates Adjourns in Dlaordor.
Paris, Aug. 25.—The Boulangists held a
stormy meeting to-day to discuss the selec
tion of candidates for tho coming general
election. M. LaGuerre declared that
although he w. 13 a personal friend of Gen.
Boulanger, ho was not prepared to follow
Gen. Boulanger blindly. His paramount
desire was to witness the triumph of the ideas
which Gen. Boulanger represented. The
meeting disper.od in disorder. No candi
dates were selected.
It is reported that at the urgent request
of frionds Gen. Boulanger will come to
Paris before the elections to stand his trial.
BEHRING BEA SEIZURES.
An English Editorial Opinion on
Blaine’s Policy.
London, Aug. 25.—Commenting qpon
the seizure of Canadian Teasels in Behring
sea, tho Daily News says: ‘‘Secretary
IJlaine is, in a manner, committed to a
policy of unfriondliness toward England.
There are many signs, however, that in the
present dispute he has to reckon with his
own countrymen as well as with ours."
STARVATION IN EGYPT.
Twenty Dying Dally and the Corpses
Used for Food.
London, Aug. 35.—Dispatches from
EgyDt say that a famine prevails at Khar
toum, Kassala, Tokar, and other river
towns. The survivors are said to bo feed
ing upon the bodies of tho dead. About
twenty deaths from starvation daily are re
ported at Tokar.
A Royal Betrothal.
Brussels, Aug. 25.—1 tis announced
positively that the Duka of Nassau has been
betrothed to Princess Margaret of Prussia.
WELL AND PUMP VANISHED.
Great Excitement Over a Remarkable
and Unaccountable Accident.
Reading, Pa., Aug. 23. The section of
the country near Harmony ville, Chester
county, about thirty miles south of this
city, lias been stirred up to great excite
ment by a remarkable and unaccountable
accident. An old well with a pump over it
and a stone wall around it suddenly disap
peared from view yosferday beneath the
earth. Many persons in that neighborhood
believe that a subterranean lake underlies
the fluids in that locality, and attribute the
disappearance of the well to that (act. It
is said, however, that some years ago the
earth thereabout was dug full of shafts in
ase irch for iron ore and copper, and it is
surmised that the cave-in and swallowing
up of the well is due to those shafts.
Several years ago the ore mine of E. & O.
Brooke, near the village of Harmony ville,
had to be aband ned permanently on ac
count of a mysterious and powerful flood of
water, and this strengthens the theory that
a great lake of unknown dimensions sleeps
soma where beneath the surface.
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SPIRITUAL CASTAWAYS.
MULTITUDES LURED TO DESTRUC
TION by false lights.
The Goapel God’s Great Ocean Light
New Inventions for Saving Men'a
Bouls Unavailing —Thousands on
Life’s Bea Lost in the Whirlwind of
Temptation—The Star of Hope Been
Through the Storm-Clouds.
Portland, Ore., Aug. 25.—The Rev. T.
DeVVitt Talmage, I). D., who preached here
to-day to a vas*nudionco, took for bis text
I. f or, ix, 27: ‘‘Lost that by any means X
myself should be cast away." The preacher
said:
In the presence of you who live on the
I acme oast, I who live on the Atlantia
coast may appropriately speak on thifl
marine allusion of the text, for all who
know about the sea know about the cast
away. Ihe text Implies that ministers of
religion may help other* into heaven and
yet miss it themselves. The carpenters that
built, Noah’s ark did nit get into it them
selves. Gown and surplioe, aud diplomas,
and canonicals are no security*
Cardinal Wolsey, after having been
j>ett#d by icings and having
entertained foreign ambassadors at Hamp
ton court, died in darkness. One of the
most eminent ininist rs of religion that this
country has ever knowu plunged into sin
and died; bis heart, by post-mortem ex
amination, found to nave been, not fig
uratively, but literally, broken. We may
have hands of ordination on the head, and
address consecrated assemblages, but that is
no reason why w, shall noces-arily reach
the realm celestial. The olergy >an must
go through tUe same gate of pardon as t s
layman. There have been cases of ship
wreck where all on hiard escaped, except
ing the captain. Alas! if, having “preached
to others, I myself should be a castaway.**
God forbid it.
1 have examined some of the commen
taries t > see what they th ught about thta
word “castaway,” and I find they differ in
regard to the figure used, while they agree
in regard to the meaning. Bo 1 shall make
my own selection, and take it in a nautical
and seafaring sense, and show you that
meu may become spiritual castaways, and
how finally they drift into that calamity.
You and I live in s aboard cities. You
have all stood on the beach. Many of you
have crossed the ocean. Borne of you hav®
managed vessels in gieat stress of weather.
T here is a sea captain, and there is another,
and yonder is another, and there are a
goodly number of you who, though one®
you did not know the difference between a
brig and a bark, and between a diamond
knot and a sprit snoot sail knot, aud
alth’ugh you could not point out th®
weather cross jack brace, and though
you could not man the fore clew gar
uets, now you are as familiar with a ship
as you are with your right hand, and if it
were necossary you could take a vessel
clear across to the mouth of the Mersey
without the loss of a single sail. Well,
there is a dark uiglit in your memory of
the sea. Tho vessel became u .manageable.
You saw it was scudding toward the shore.
You heard tho cry: ‘‘Breakers ahead!
Land on the lee bow! The vessel
struck the rock and you felt the deck
breaking up under your feet, and you
were a castaway, as ** hen the Hercules
drove on the coast of Caffraria, as when
the Portuguese brig went staving, splitting,
griudiug, crashing on the Good a ins. But
whe. tier you have folio wed tho sea or not.
you all understand tha figure when I toll
you that there are men, who, by their sins
and temptations, are thrown helpless t
Driven before tho gale! Wrecked for two
worlds! Castaways! Castaways!
By talking with some sea captains I hav®
found out that there uro three or four
causes for such a calamity to a vessel. I
have been told that it sometimes oomes
from creating false lights on the beach.
This was often so in olden tunos. It is not
many years ago, indeed, that vagabonds
used to wander up and down tho beach,
getting vessels ashore in the night, throw
ing up false lights in thoir presence and de
ceiving them, that they may despoil
and ransack them. All kinds o£
infernal arts were used to accom
plish this. Aud one night, on
the Cornish coast, when the sea was coming,
in fearfully, some villains took a lauteru
and tied it to a horse, and led the horse up
aud down the beach, the lantern swi giug
to tho motion of the horse, and a sea cap
tain in the oiling saw it, and made up his
mind that he was not anywhere near tha
shore, for he said: “There’s a vessel—that
must, be a vessel, for it has a movable light,”
aud ho had no apprehension till ho heard
the rocks grating on the ship’s bottom,
and it went to piocos and the villains
ou shore gathered up th package®
and treasures that were washed to the
laud. And I have to tell you that there
aro a multitude of souls ruined by falsa
lights on the beach. In the dark night of
man’s danger, lalse religion goes up and
down the shore, snaking its lantern, and
nibii look off and take that flickering and
expiring wick as the signal of safety, and
the cry is: “Heave the main topsail to tha
mast! All is well!” when sudden destruc
tion comoth upon them, and they shall not
escape. So there are all kinds of ianterna
swung on the beach—philosophical lanterns,
educational lanterns, humanitarian lan
terns. Men look at them and are de
ceived, when there is nothing but
God’s eternal lighthouse of the gospel that’
can keep them from boc >ming castaways.
Once, on Wolf Crag lighthouse, they tried
to build a copper figure of a wolf with its
mouth open, so that the storms beating into
it, the wolf would howl forth the danger®
to marinors lhatmight tec miug anvwhere
near the coast. Of course it was a failure.
And-so all new inventions Cor the saving of
man’s soul are unavailing. What th®
human race wants is a light burst
ing forth from the cross standing on tha
great beadiantis—the light of pardon, tha
light of comfort, tho light of heaven.
You might better go t -night and destroy
all the great lighthouses on the dangerous
coasts —the Barnegat lighthouse, the Fast
net Rock lighthouse, the Bherryvore light
house, the Longship’s lighthouse, tha Holly
head lighthouse—than to put out God’s
great ocean lamp—the go pel. Woe to
those who swing false lanterns on tha
bench till men crash into ruin. Castaways!
Castaways 1
By talking with sea cap‘ains I hava
heard also that sometimes shipe come to
this calamity by the sudden swoop of a
tempest. For instance, a vessol is sailing
along in the East Indies, and there is not a
single cloud on the sk . ; but suddenly tha
breeze freshens, aud there are swift feet
ou the ratlines# aud tho cry is: “Way,
haul away there!” but before tbay can
square the booms and tarpaulin the hatch
ways, the vessel is groaning and creaksng
in the grip of a tornado, and falls over in
to the trough of tho sea,and broadside it roll*
on to the beach and keels over, leaving tha
crew to struggle in the merciless surf. Cast
away I Castaway! And so I have to tell
you that there are thousands of men de
stroyed through the sudden swoop of
temptations. Borne great inducement to.
worldliness, or to sensuality, or §■> high,
temper, or to some form of disstpati n,
comes up >n them. If they had time to ex
amine their Bible, if they had time to con
sult with their friends, if they had time ta
deliberate, Uiey could stand it; but tha
