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Fjitabltbbed ln. Incorporated 1888. V
| J. H. EBTILL, President.
VICTIMS OF TIIE FLAMES.
FOUR LIVES LOST IN A BURNING
HOTEL AT CHICAGO.
Crazed With Fright, a Woman Leaps
from a Fifth-Story Window to Her
Death Her Husband and Infant
Escape Unhurt Three Charred
Bodies Taken from the Ruins by the
Firomen-Horror-Stricken Women.
Chicago. Oct 12.—8 y a fire which broke
ut in the Putnam European hotel, at Adams
t nd La Sails streets early this morning, four
ires were lost and a score of persons had
2 arrow escape*. The flro was caused by an
•xplosion of a kerosene lamp which had
oeen left burning in one of the hallways,
fte burning oil set fire to the stairway and
iooa a sheet of flame burst from the
•ear windows. An alarm was im
mediately turned in and a second one
dve minutes later. The inmates of the
aouse were awakened by the noise of rush
er ea gmes and found themselves enveloped
in'smoke, while the flames could plainly be
seen making considerable headway. Lad
ars were run up by the firemen, and those
who did not get out by the stairways de
scended with the aid of the firemen.
LEAPED FROM A WINDOW.
Mrs. Minnie Robinson, who was sleeping
in a front room on the fifth floor, with her
husband and baby, became crazed with
fright, and, rushing to the window, leaped
to the’pavement with her infant in her
arms. She was terribly crushed and lived
ut a short time, but miraculously the in
fant escaped unhurt.
BURNED TO A CRISP.
By 2 o’clock the fire was undor control,
and the firemen began a search of the house
io see if any other casualties had occurred.
In a room on the third floor, Edward Pay
ton, (colored) porter of the hotel, was found
turned to a crisp. The search was con
tinued, and the firemen soon found in
mother room on the third floor the charred
todies of two other men, names unknown,
sho had been caught in a trap and burned
to death.
When the firemen reached the spot the
upper floor was ablaza So rapidly had the
(ire spread that the marshal thought a
second alarm necessary. With increased
forces the lire was quickly put out. The
smoke was still dense and the members of
Engine Company No. 1 had a great dif
ficulty in searching the rooms on the upper
floor.
FINDING THE BODIEB.
Three firemen managed to force tbeir
way into some of these rooms. In each of
the three rooms they found the dead body
of a man. The first was a white man.
Hardly had the patrol wagon left with this
j body when the firemen came down the stair
way carrying the body of a negro. His
I body was partly burned, but it was evident
that death was due to strangulation. He
was carried to the sidewalk and laid out for
a moment for identification. The women who
had escaped from the burning building had
taken refuge in the doorway of the building
east of the Pullman hotel. It was on the
sidewalk in front of this doorway that the
bcdy was laid. As the women caught sight
of the familiar face of the negro they
shrieked, "It’s poor Ed. Peyton!” Peyton
had been general utility man about the
hotel.
A short time after Peyton’s body was
carried out, the firemen found another body
in the building. It was that of a white
man burned almost beyond recognition.
KEPT NO REGISTER.
The hotel was one of those houses where
no register was kept and no questions asked
guests. On this account it is next to im
possible to find out how many people were
in the house or tell to who they
were. When the men and women
who had sought escape by the way of the
iron ladder on the building reached the first
floor they found that the fire escape ended
there. The man who had reached the end
first hung there, while above him, shrieking
and struggling, hung a number of frightened
women. Several came near falling off, but
the prompt arrival of the fire department
with ladders relieved them.
THE KILLED.
The names of those killed were:
Mrs. Minnie Robinson.
Tom Dowler, a barber.
H. K. Sams, formerly a Pinkerton at
tache.
Edward Peyton, the colored porter.
The total loss is about $63,000.
* ota Howler left his room and entered
the flaming hall to meet his death. One of
tho windows opened directly on the fire
escape, and his room-mate made his
escape easily. Presence of mind would
have saved his life as well as that of H. K.
halT 8 ’ Wh ° hlui a room directl y across' the
the baby saved by its father.
The impression prevailed among the po
iioeand firemen present that Mrs. Robinson
thee" h" arms. This was not
he case. Mr. Robinson descended the fire
Mcane carrying the infant. His wife did
’.T ,lm from the,r room along the
hall to the room in front of whicn was the
tandemT; The denß ° smoke ttnd
“hue her lose command of her senses.
BELIEVE THEY HaVB NOT BAILED.
Detectives bcourlng Queenstown
Harbor For Dillon and O’Brien.
Qt-EF.NSTOWN, Oot. 12.-Detectives have
scourmg Queenstown harbor in boats
vn - ih search of Messrs. Dillon and
BneD. They boarded the steamers Um
■naj,a“d Wisconsin and all the tugs and
1 “ey also searched all Incoming
i * Tuo authorities evidently be-
Ipßsrsi ° n have not yet sailed.
J* 1 ® 8 )’ and Lane, members of pur-
Kdma r 1 ’ the Umbria, causing in
curiosity.
■ o’mahonky still seriously ill.
Uct - 13—Mr. O’Mahoney is
KurV" tL 1 ’ and Wl 'l bo unable to appear in
K>mnn i ma >?i ß trate will therefore be
■Llf, 8,111 adjourn the trial or omit his
irom the indictment.
S given a fast run.
■° re ' sn r> ' tallurgiats Leave Pittsburg
for Chicago.
p A > Oot 12.—The 700 dele
■ ’ th ’ iron, steel and engineering
Ulonal oonferenoe, lately in session in
knight for Chicago in three
at 6 o’clock. Each
nr pu *‘ d Dy two fast engines, and
,‘;‘; a! : a “ ou had been made by the
t 8 to glve ibo distinguished
H Chian** P ,?' imonal mu from this city
, Extraordinary precautions
:• J:!,;;; 1 aii nl tiia tu in
i C '°D of Christian Endeavor.
1 CTOonK ’ ocst ‘ 13-—The second
B®ity of pSISm II °L tha You!l g People
'tates of U (j lSUan Endeavor th-oughout
Hd on ( J( , t Alabama will be
■ch S-f n a :‘ and • 18W. at this place.
or rnn J two ®tates is entitled to
Bipedal f r 'i 8 ‘ t ‘ Kat '* besides the pastor.
■ bio “Pastor’l'w 6 0f be programme will
■ Pastors froin H ,V ur ’ Participated in by
!rom “I* over the two states.
fl!)c JHofning
HARRISON AT HOME.
He Arrive* Quietly at Indianapolis
After an Uneventful lrlp.
Indianapolis, Ind., Oot 13.— The Presi
dent’s trip from St Louis last night was
uneventful. The chief executive arose about
half an hour after the train reached In
dianapolis, and while standing on the vesti
bule of the “Haslomere” about 7 o’clock
Mr. and Mrs. R S. McKee and Baby McKee
put in an appearance and were warmly
greeted. Beyoud these and the report
ers there was do one to welooine
the distinguished guest this having
lieen at his earnest request. As soon as re
porters were admitted to the car the Presi
dent inquired for news from Justice Miller
and seemed greatly relieved when the in
formation that he still lived was imoarted
to him. Shortly after the party left the
train, Secretary Tracy going to the Deni
son. Private Secretary Halford to the resi
of W. H. Smith, and the President to the
home of his son-in-law. Mr. McKee.
After breakfasting the President drove to
his old ohurcb, the First Presbyterian, and
occupied his old pew with Secretary Tracv
and Mr. and Mrs. McKee. The church was
crowded both because of the President’s
visit and because of the baptism and admis
sion to the church of a class of young peo
ple. At the conclusion of the sermon holy
communion was received by the congrega
tion in which President Harrison partici
pated. At the conclusion of the services
the President stood for a time in front of
the church exchanging greetings with many
old friends who orowded about him to grasp
bis hand and renew pleasaut acquaintance
ship.
Then the party was driven to the Denison
for dinner. The corridors of the hotel were
crowded, but the President passed through
rapidly, merely bowing to old friends, and
disappeared in the elevator and was
soon seated at dinner. After dinner
the President and Secretary Tracy
repaired to parlor 12, where the President’s
hand was shaken by a large numbor of peo
ple. Ex-Senator Joseph McDouald oalled
about 8 o’olock and took Secretary Tracy
for a drive about the city. President Har
rison and Mrs. McKee followed soon after.
After a short drive supper was taken at
the McKee residence, which was then
thrown open, and until 9:30 o’clock was
thronged with visitors, who called infor
mally upon President Harrison. At 10
o’clock the presidential party was driven to
their special car, aud shortly afterward
retired for the night.
The start for Washington will be made at
6 o’clock to-morrow morning.
THB COUNT OF PARIS.
Yesterday Spent at Richmond and
Petersburg—A Gift to the Poor.
Richmond. Va., Oct. 12.—The Count of
Paris and party arose early this morning
and attended mass at St. Peter’s cathedral.
They then became guests of CoL Archer
Auderson In a drive to different points of
interest in and near Richmond. The capi
tol was opened for their especial benefit and
tho historical recqjds there were produced for
their inspection. included the t rms
of surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
A visit was then paid to the statue of Gen.
Lee and Holly wood cemetery, where a large
numbor of confederate soldiers are buried.
In the afternoon the entire party wen t to
Petersburg and were shown over the city
and battlefields by Maj. Gordon McCabe of
tho confederate army, who afterward en
tertained them at lunch. They remained
at Petersburg one or two hours and took a
drive of about ten miles. The count showed
special interest in the “crater,” as the scene
of Grant’s mine explosion at the siege of
that place is called.
The party returned to Richmond about 7
o’clock, and made preparations for their
departure to-morrow morning for Washing
ton. They will visit the battlefields of
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville en
route, and expect to reach. Washington
about 5 o’clock in the afternoon.
Tuesday morning they will leave the
national capital for Antietam, Gettysburg,
and Philadelphia, remaining in the latter
city "Wednesday evening and leaving for
New York Thursday morning. They will
afterward visit Niagara Falls, and sail for
England Nov. 1.
This evening the Count of Paris sent a SIOO
dollar bill to Bishop Vandevyer of St.
Peter’s cathedral for the benefit of the poor
of Richmond.
FlVd! PERSONS DRJWNSD.
Attempts by Witnesses to Save Their
Lives Unavailing.
Philadelphia, Oot. 12.—A special to the
Ledger trova Kinkora, N. J., says: Five
persons were drowned in the river near the
sluice at the Knickerbocker ice houses at
this plaoe this afternoon by the capsizing
of a boat. They were Solomon Fletcher,
aged 82; John Fletcher, aged 22;
Angelo Fletcher, aged 24, Cbeapus Merry,
aged 43, and Alonzo Cannon, aged 22. The
first three were brothers. All five lived
here and were employed at Murrell Dob
bins’ brick yard.
The men were bringing twenty-three
large pilings, each about fourteen feet long,
from Silver lake ice house in an
open boat with a single sail.
In attempting to make land between the
ice houses aud the sluice the bowsprit of
the boat struck one of the dogs of the
former. The shock of this and the swift
current of the waters of the sluice caused
the boat to careen aud the heavy pilings to
shift to one side, overturning the craft.
The men sank at once, and, although sev
eral persons witnessed the disaster, attempts
made to save their lives were unavailing.
PORTUGAL’S NEW CABINET.
Political and Financial Affaire Dis
cussed at a Conference.
Lisbon, Oot. 12. —The ministry held a
long oonfereuoo yesterday and to-day, dis
cussing political aud financial affairs. The
cabinet concluded that it could not accept
the financial scheme which the late minister
of finance was negotiating with Pails
bankers when be resigned. It is stated
that Senhor Ennes has declined the marine
portfolio, but that Senhor Bocage is willing
to take it temporal iiy, in addition to the
portfolio of foreign affairs. It is still
doubtful whether the ministerial crisis is
ended.
GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS INBANE.
Sudden and Violent Dementia Results
From a Chronic Disease.
London, Oct. 12.—1 t has been learned
that at the close of the Russian military
maneuvers in Volhyna Grand Duke
Nicholas, who had chief oommand of the
army, suddenly became insane from the ef
fects of the disease from which he has long
suffered, and that melancholy and heart
rendering scenes occurred until he was re
moved incognito to Gen. Martyroff’s es
tate in the Don Bteppes. Physicians de
clare his condition hopeless.
It u reported that the czar wishes his son
to abandon his proposed eastern tour.
An Author Drops Dead.
Berlin, Oct. 12.—Amelia Lange, the
author, dropped dead to-day in Lessing
theatre.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1890.
THE END DRAWING NEAR.
JUSTICE MILLER'S DEATH HOURLY
EXPECTED.
In a Comatose Condition Yesterday
With no Indication of Rallying.
Breathing With Difficulty— Beating of
the Heart the Only Sign of Life—The
Supreme Court to Convene To-day.
Important Cases to Be Hear J.
Washington, Oot. 12. Justice Miller
was still alive at 7:30 o’clock this evening,
but still unconoious, and evidently near to
death.
THE END NEAR.
Washington, Oct. 12, 11:80 p. m.—There
has been little change In Justice Miller’s
condition since oarly this morning. His
physicians say that he has boon dying all
day and that the end is not far off. This
morning his respiration became shorter, his
pulse slightly increased, Us lungs filled with
phlegm and he experienced great difficulty
in breathing. Throughout the day he
has been in a oomatos© condition,
with no indication of rallying,
and the beat of his heart indicating the only
sign of life to bis watchers. Fromuaybreak
it was evident that, hisoonditio i was gradu
ally growing worse, though slowly, every
development showing plainly the appruach
of death.
COURT TO CONVENE TO-DAY.
The October term of the U nited States
supreme oourt will begin to-morrow morn
ing. The familiar form of its oldest mem
ber, Justice Miller, will be missing. The
session to-morrow morning will bo brief. A
few preliminary motions will be received
unless tho death of Justice Miller, as is gener
ally expeoted, occurs before the court con
venes, in whioh easealjounime it will beat
once takou in respect to his memory.
Many oases which wore argued at the last
term still remain to be deoided, but no opin
ions will be handed down la any of them
to-morrow and it will probably be two
weeks before the court announces any de
cisions. The coming term of the court, it
is expected, will be a busy one.
IMPORTANT CASES TO BE HEARD.
A number of interesting cases will be
pressed for hearing. Notice has alreadv
been given that an effort will be made to
impeach the constitutionality of the New
York electrocution law on the ground that
it is a “oruel and unusual punishment.”
The Japanese, Jugigs, is the man m whose
behalf this point will be raised. Another
case which will attract attention will be
an appeal brought here to socure the release
of one of the Chicago anarouiats. now in
prison under a heavy sentence. The liquor
laws of the various states, however, will
furnish the largest number of cases of gen
eral interest. The court will early be given
an opportunity to reaffirm thedoctrines'laid
down in the original package decision.
After the court's opinion in the lowa case
three dealers were arrested for opening “orig
inal package” houses in Kansas. Tuey were
arrested and convicted in tha state court,
and the question now to be deo.ded is as
to the legality of the order of o e of the
United States judges declaring their arrest
contrary to law. From Vermont comes
another case arising under the prohibition
statutes, aud other states, it is thought, will
contribute their quota toward swelling the
list of this class of suits.
THE SENATE’S TWIN STARS.
Good Fellows Despite Their Reputa
tion for Austerity.
(Copi/riqht.)
Washington, O-t. U.— lt is popularly
supposed that if Senator Sherman should
happen to pass a condensed milk factory
the ooncern would at once become an ice
cream saloon; and ns for Senator Edmunds
—he is generally believed to be so cold that
Eeople iu his neighborhood have to vear
uffalo overcoats and yarn mittens all
summer.
A man from the west called on Senator
Sherman one evening last winter and
noticed a screen diawn up between the
senator and the fire. Presumably the west
erner did not accomplish the purpose of his
call, for he afterward said;
“Hanged if they don’t have to put a screen
between him aud the stove to keep him from
freezing the fire.
A strauger visiting Washington during
one of the recent hot spelis, when the air
trembled above the bubbling asphalt pave
ment, saw Senator Edmunds passing down
street.
"Look a’ there,” said the visitor, “he
makes the very atmosp lore shiver."
Bo it goes. It is the fashion to make
jokes about the frigidity of tbese two dis
tinguished statesmen, and these jokes have
giveu to Senators Edmunds and Sherman a
reputation whioh they oonld not hi serious
ness have acquired, for really they are not
cold men.
A few weeks ago two newspaper men
who had never seen either of these senators
were engaged to procure interviews with all
tho United States senators on a subject of
national importance. In the division of the
labor both Senator Edmunds and Senator
Sherman fell to one of the correspondents.
“Hold on,” said he, “you must take one of
them. lam willing toDe frost bitten, but
I object to being frozen stiff."
When they had completed their task one
asked:
“Who was the most agreeable senator on
your list to interview!”
“Would you believe itP* said the other;
“Senator Edmunds. He is a charming
man.”
"Yes; I should have guessed so after my
experience with Senator Sherman. He was
one of the must cordial and entertaining
men I met.”
That is the common verdict of men who
go to either of these senators with civil ad
suitable questions: If yon have anything
worth while to ask or to say you oan always,
at proper times, approach tnem without
fear of being received coldly, but rather
with the ussurauoe that you will flud re
spectful and interested listeners, and when
it is their time to speak they will say
something worth hearing. Of course
they have neither taste nor time for
much tittle-tattle. They are very busy men,
and aro not profoundly interested in the
knee measu ement of toe latest style of
trousers. But they are os simple as chil
dren in their mental methods, and so free
from all affectation of greatness that it is a
refreshing pleasure to sit with one of them
after having been in the august presence of
some cheap creature who wears gilt braid
on bis mind and thinks with bis pompous
lungs.
Senator Sherman is much more entertain
ing as a converser than as a speech-maker.
In nis study—a large room just at tho head
of the first flight of stairs in his great, plain
looking house on K street—he is thoroughly
at home. Here be spends most of his even
ings, seated at a flat detk, upon which an
abundanoe of books and papers lie scattered
in that systematic confusion which inukes
everything easy to find. At the left of
the desk stands a vacant, comfortable
ohair for anybody who may have suffi
ciently important business to warrant the
senator’s attention. Since, of course, hii
visitors are always announced to him be
fore they oome to his study, they never have
to go through that embarrassing experi
ence of having to stand and wait until he
has come to a period in his writing or read
ing before be looks up. There is one swua-
tor in Washington —and a very weak
senator be I*—who always affects this
sort of thing after a guest bat been
announoed to him and been invited to his
study. But Seuator Sherman it not built
oa t .css cheap lines. When you enter his
study you meet a polite gentleman who
courteously Invitee you to be seated and is
in no rude baste to have you hurry up and
tell your business and clear out. He makes
you feel easy first and relies ou you to come
to the object of your visit ia your own way.
in the insantime you have his undivided at
tention. There ’is nothing to chill
the most sensitive person. There
are no hints to hurt you, and none
of the petty rudenesses which
are practioed by u many meu who feel the
strength of their positions or the weakness
of yours. Seuator Sherman is simplv a
very earnest man, a bard worker, a close
student and a gentleman. Long experience
in affairs has made him quick to see the
motives if men’s actions, aid a lofty sin
cerity of purpose makes him quick to resent
any attempt to pull the wool over bis oyes,
but his calmness of mind is not ooldness of
heart and his directness of speeoh is not
bluntness.
Senator Edmunds is so far from being
cold that he is genial, convivial even. His
wrinkles are not between ttia eyes. They
are merry wrinkles—crows' test with the
toes toward the tsmpleo. He has in his na
ture a hundred times as mauy smiles as
frowns. Nobody has keener appreciation of
a good joke aud nobody more manifestly en
joys one. How he got and whv he retains the
reputation for austerity are incomprehensi
ble problems to those who know him. Why,
one of his roguish winks is a sufficient
answer to all the chargee of ooldness ever
brought agamst him aud the mis
cuievous twinkle that so often lights
his exprossive eye ought long ago to
iiave gained for him the reputation of a
humorist—not a clown, hut a humorist,
indeed, it is an open question whether seri
ounness aotually preponderates in his nature.
Notwithstanding the careful attention he
gives to nearly every matter that comes
before the Senate, one is sometimes com
pelled to think he regards statecraft as a
capital jcke and the Democratic party as an
organization formed for bis special amuse
ment. Lincoln was in this same loftv sense
a humorist. Henry Ward Beecher was
another. It seems to be essentially neces
sary to the equability of great men engaged
in great works that they nave these humors.
To pass an hour with Bnator Edmunds in
his house on Massachusetts avenue is a great
treat. If you are admitted at all, and you
are sure to be if there is no good reason
why you should not be—you ore at once
made aware that you aro welcome; and if
you have the tact to lead the conversation
to subjects in which your host is inter
ested, the hour will liass before you know
it. Senator Edmunds not only has a mar
velous store of information, but bis men>-
orv so carefully labels and pigeon
holes and indexes everything It lays
hold on that exactly the right thing
is at hand at exactly the right
instant; and his mind is so constituted that
it does not seem to require auy art on his
part to arrange ideas in their most pleasing
combinations. A stenographic report of
one of his hours of mere coat might be pub
lished without rev isio.i and would make as
pleasant an hour’s reading as anyone could
care for. The charm of it all is that Seua
tor Edmunds is apparently careless of repu
tation, dignity and all those vaiu considera
tions, which make most men in high
position strive to seem to be what
they are not. He has no bee in his
bonnet—of that you are soon con
vinced; and he appears to give no
thought to what other men will think
of what he says. In fact he talks and acts
like a man whose thought and conscience
are in so close a harmony that the one does
not know of the existence of the other. But
ho must be a shallow observer who does not
note the difference between this lofty sim
plicity—this simple innooenoy—aud that
aristocratic coldness which merely does not
tiar the ill opinion of the multitu ie. Sena
tor Edmunds would no doubt like to have
the good opinion of every member of his
race, but he would not condescend to got it
by false declarations. This is about as near
to perfect honesty as human beings are per
mitted to approacn.
I imagine one reason why these and other
very busy senators are charged with cold
ness au a with upishness or bluntnossis that
those who make tho charges have met the
senators only at the oapi'.ol. Really that is
the poorest place to meet them ii you wish
to form a judgment of their characters.
Thero they are Deset by all sorts of distrao
tions. The busier tho senator the more
likely his influence is to be sought by every
Torn, Diok and Harry who has a private
interest in gome public measure. At
the capitol the senator has to be
oonstantly on guard. If he pokes
his buttouhole outside the chamber some
body is sure to jab a thumb into it ana if
he once takes down his shield he is likely
to be struck in a fatal spot. The re
sult is that at the capitol you see the sena
tor, but seldom see tho man. The home is
the place to find the character. In this
sanctuary tho man feels that sense of
security which makes him lay aside his
armor. The capitol is also a bad place
to talk business with a senator. Os
tensibly it is where the law-maker transacts
all his public business. Theoretically he
laj s aide his robes of office and thoughts of
public business when he goes from under the
great dome on the bill But really and
praetioally the homes of senators and rep
resentatives are the places where the legis
lation of our land is formulated. The most
successful lobbyists know this and their
faces are seldom seen about the capitol.
Willis B. Hawkins.
DETROIT BRUNETTES
Attacked on the Street and Relieved
of Their Flowing Locks.
Detroit, Oct. 10.—Within the past
month four Detroit girls have had their hah
stolen on the street by a miscreant who
seems to be an adept in the business and who
has earned the name of “Jock, the Hair
cutter. r In each case the victim has beeu
possessed of beuutifui black hair, all other
colors seeming to have no attraction for the
strange thief. The victim last night was
Fannie O’Leary, 17 years old. She was going
but two blocks and bad nearly reached her
destination, when a man sprung out of an
alloy and caught her by the throat, stifling
her screams. By a quick uovemont, as she
describes, he drew her to his breast, and
she felt a slight tug at her hair. Hho could
could not scream nor move, so close was
the embrace. When the pulling ceased she
was pushed rudely into the gutter, and by
the tlmo she arose the hair-cutter was
gone. She describes him as very tall,
slight and wiry, and says be cut her hair
in an instant. AU four cases of hair
cutting happened on the West side, and the
people are greatly excited. The police
have been given orders to arrest on suspi
cion any one answering Miss O'Leary’s de
sorption, but the people wid in ike him a
subject for a doctor rather than a jail if
they catch him.
Store Burglarized.
Irwinton. Ga., Oot. 12.—Thursday night
the store of W. A. Hall, Jr., near here, was
broken into and robbed of dry goods to the
amount of #IOO. The burglar was trucked
for ten miles and the goods recovered, but
be was too swift-footed to be overtaken.
Congressman Blount addressed the peo
ple here Friday.
THE ELECTION IN BRAZIL
RETURNS INDICATE A SWEEPING
OFFICIAL VICTORY.
Nearly All of the Administration Can
didates Elected to Beats in the
Cortes-No Serious Opposition Fx
cept In Bahia—Votes Cast for Mon
archists—Serious Pre-Election Dis
turbance.
New York, Oct. 12.—Advices received
from Rio de Janeiro, under date of Sept. 20,
state that further returns from the elections
confirm previous reports in regard to the
results. Nearly all tho official candidates
have been elected. The ministers of war,
navy. Justice and foreign affairs have been
elected senators; the minister of agriculture
elected deputy, aud the election of tho min
ister of the interior for senator probable.
The election of minister of finanos to ttie
Senate It doubtful, for the state of Bahia,
in which he was a candidate, is showing a
large opposition vote, and will probably
elot one, and perhaps more op]>oitlou
senators and several opposition deputies.
AN ADMINISTRATION TRIUMPH.
In this city all the official candidates for
the Senate and right official candidates for
the Chamber of Deputies are elected. One
Catholic candidate has been elected aud one
independent candidate. Neither of these,
however can be oalled a member of the op
position, os they are not politicians. One of
thorn, Banker Mayrink, may evou be con
sidered a partisan of tho government, from
which he has received many favors, and
with whose financial policy bo has been
connected ever since the tieginning of
the year. He was arrested, it is
true. on the day of the
revolution, hut was detained only a little
while. Since then he has been taken into
favor and in financial circles is considered
the alter ego of tho minister of finance.
His friends raised 126,000 to offer him a ball
In honor of his success, but at his request
they havo decided to give the money to a
benevolent institution. Count de Piguelredo,
the Catholic deputy, is also a rich banker.
Ho st< >od iu the same relation to the om
peror’s last cabinet as M&yrink does to the
present government,
VOTES FOR MONAROHIBTB.
Baron do Ladarlo, minister of the navy
in the emperor’s last cabinet, who was
wounded by the revolutionists, received
5,600 vote* as a candidate for the Senate,
and Carlo* de Ixiet, monarchist, who was
not a candidate, received 3,800 votes for
deputy. This shows that the latent mon
archical feeling here is stronger than gener
ally supposed to be.
The whole vote oast in this city wa little
over 14,000. That is about one-haif the
1 umber of registered voters, whioh Is 28,-
588. The returns thus far received indicate
that the whole vote cast in Brazil is equal
to about nine-tweutletbs of the number of
registered voters, whio i Is estimated be
tween 700,000 and 800,000. Tho vote
east is proportionately light in Rio
Grande da Lul and heaviest in Sao I’aulo,
In many places no elections wore held and
in some others not one-tenth of the voters
went to the polls.
OPPOSITION VOTE LIGHT.
The returns received up to the present
show 180,000 votes for official candidates
and 60,(XX) for those of the opposition.
Bahia is probably tho only state that will
be represented by any real opposition sena
tors and deputies.
Counoillor Rodrigues, leader of the
alleged attempt at revolution in Cerea, Is
said to be a prisoner on the gunboat Carioca.
Some of his frieuds, including the loader of
the workingmen’s party, have been arrested
and are held iu oontluement in the city jail.
VVarrants have boon issued for the arrest of
others.
A SERIOUS DISTURBANCE.
A disturbance took place on tho day be
fore the elections. It is said that 300 pist >1
shots were fired and six policemen aud
several other persons wore wounded. Rod
rigues is said to have been accompanied
by about 400 persons. It is said that
no one is allowed to communicate
with the prisoners. Rodrigues’ friends
say ttie state authorities caused
the disturbance in order to frighten the
opposition from the polls. The other party
says that Rodrigues attempted to ileiKwe
the governor and put himself iu the latter's
place. Some months ugo the governors of
Bahia and Rio Grande were deposed, hut
then the soldiers assisted the insurrection
ists. Rodrigues is a prominent politician
and very popular in Cerea, which before
tho revolution always sleeted him to the
Chamber of Deputies. He was minister of
war some six or seven years ago.
PANTHER STORY.
A Trio of Indiana Hunters Attacked
and the Beast Set on Fire.
Anderson, Ind., Oct. 10.—Monday night
George Adams, Henry Sohalk and Ben
Striker were out ooon-hunting in a strip of
woods adjoining the city. About 11 o’clook
they encountered - hat is believed to have
been a genuine wild-cat or panther. It fol
lowed them for a half hour or more through
the woods. Every now and then the
“painter” would give an unearthly yell,
suarl and tear through tho leaves. The
boys had a couple of lanterns, and they think
that bad it not been for them they would
have been attacked.
They were badly frightened, and upon
leaving the woods the panther made a
spring at young Sclialk and caught him by
the coat tail. Striker hit the animal with
his lantern. The globe burst and ttie oil,
running upon the animals back, became
ignited. The panther be ams about as
thoroughly frigutened as the boys, and
rushed nowling and screaming through the
woods, a veritable ball of firo.
Several months ago a panther attacked
James Black while going in a buggy after
night from Frankfort to Alexandria.
The same animal has been seen by other
reputable persons.
Death of an Aged Redemptorlat.
Baltimore, Md., Oct. 12. —Rev. Albert
Schleffler, the oldest member of the Rodemp
torist order in the United 8 ates.died to-day
at the community house of St. Michael’s
Germon Catholic church in this city. He
was 81 years old, and six years ago cele
brated his 50th anniversary as a priest of
the Redemptorist order.
offered Half Wages.
VIKNNA.Oct. 12. —The masters have offered
the mother-of-pearl workers half tho usual
wages, but the offer was not aco -ptod, as
the workmen tear the result would be a re
duction of wages in future. Relief was
given Saturday to 600 unemployed work
men.
Negro Incendiary Lynched.
Homer, La., Oct. 12.—Frank "Wooten
(oolored), who confessed setting fire to the
residence of Dr. Face at Athens on Oct. 9,
was lynched last night. His body was
found this morning swinging to tha limb of
a tree.
The Barcelona Cholera Epidemic;
Madrid, Oct. 12.—Tho cholera opidemlo
continue*, at Barcelona. A social hospital
ha* been built there for sufferers.
AN ELOPING COUPLE ARRESTED.
The Would-Be Bridegroom Held on a
Charge of Kidnaping.
Atlanta, Oa.. Oct. 12.— David T. Mayo,
a conductor on the Atlanta aud Florida
railroad, caused the arrest in Birmingham
to-night of his sister-in-law, Della Adair,
and L. A. Avaut, her betrothed lover.
Avant is hold on the charge of kidnaping.
He is a traveling enlarger of pictures, ni.d
claims Mac >n as his home; The girl, who
is only 17, lives with her father at, or
near Forrest station, on the Con
trol railroad. Avant, while work
ing in th t neighborhood recently
enlarged souio photographs for old
man Adair aud made tho acquaintance
of Miss Della. Ho at once begau showing
her marked attention, aud finally became
engaged to her. After leaving Forrest he
made frequent trips thither to visit tho girl,
and during the past week had been in her
Company very frequently in this city,
whither she hud come to see her sister, Mng
Mayo, and to prepare her wedding trous
seau.
Yesterday afternoon it was understood by
tho relations of Miss Adair that she and
Avant had ugreed to go to Forrest station
together this moruiug and ask Fattier
Adair’s 00 risen t, who appears to have not
been taken into their oeufideuce Isifore, and
get married Wednesdav. The Mavos, sus
pecting uottiiug, luterposed no objection,
late this afternoon, however, they learned
that Avaut had this moruiug proposed to
his ntUauoed tliat they marry hero and go at
once to Birmingham, as ho was afraid
to travel in the direction of Macon
on account of some money matters, which
he feared might get him into trouble. Mr.
Mayo, who furnished those dot ills, ascer
tained that the pair had indeed gone to
Birmingham, hut satisfied hlnuelf that no
marriage ceremony had taken place. He
therefore laid the matter before the polioe,
and Avant and tho girl were immediately
taken into custody on reaching their desti
nation. The father of the girl has been
notified of tho affair by telegraph.
THE SOCIALIST OONGRBSa.
Assembled at Hello With 303 Dele
gates Present, Mostly from Germany.
Halle, Oct 19. —Tho socialist congress
opened here to-day. Herr Liebkuecht pre
sided, and delivered tho address of woicome
to the delegates. Hernia Singer and Diota
were elooted presidents of the oongross.
Right delegates were elected secre
taries, There were 866 del gate* pres
ent, of whom 341 were from
different parts of Germany, two from
Great Britain, three from France, one from
Switzerland, three from Austria, flvo from
Russia and one from Belgium. Tho moot
ing was conducted publicly. The hail in
which tho oongreM met. was inadequate for
the purpose, and the crowding was so groat
that tho business of the utoetlug was im
peded.
SOCIALIST WORKMAN’S CONGRESS.
Lillis, Oot. 13.—The socialist workman’s
congress, at which were represented 212
associations, opened here to-day. Among
tho delegates wore ropreseulatives of the
English eight hour league. The oongress
adopted resolutions rejoloing over past suc
coesoss, congratulating tho German
socialists upon the expiration of the
anti-socialist law, expressing sympathy
with tho French and Australian strikers,
declaring in fafpr of an international
demonstration by Workmen on coxt May
day, and also in favor of on international
miners’ strike at the earliest possible mo
ment. The congress appointed two dele
gates to the social! ;t c mgross at Halle. The
next oongress will meot at Lyons.
A TERRIFIC RAINSTORM.
Great Damage and Inconvenience In
Wheeling and Vicinity.
Pittsburg, Oot. 18.— A special from
Wheeling, W. Va., says: Another one of
those tremendous rainstorms for whioh
Wheeling Is rapidly acquiring a national
reputation, struok this city at 6 o’clock this
evening aud did a large amount of damage.
In tho valloy of Caldwells run, where a
dozen lives wore lost iu 1888, six or eight
families were flo sled and three bridges cur
ried nwuy, while a number of cattle
drown, -d and much property de
stroyed. Iu the valloy of Wheeling creek
the storm was terrific aud tho people up the
valloy suffered greatly. Two bridges on
the Pittsburg division of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad are gone and no trains are
running. The main line of the Baltimore
anil Ohio railroad is also blocked,
and the Chicago express is stuck
ou the Bellair bridge over the
Ohio. Other roads suffered proportionately.
There is considerable lost throughout tho
city, and the Eighth ward is without illu
minating gas, natural gas or water through
the leaking of the street mains.
CANDLER CHIPS.
Warm Weather—Bunting and Fishing
Excursion—Gathering Oranges.
Candler, Fla., Oct. 12.—Thus far the
present month has been the hottest October
within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
Quite a number of our people will soon
leave for a couple of weeks fishing and hunt
ing on tbo Gulf coast.
Capt. W. J. Huston, who has been visit
ing at Wallerville, Miss., has returned home
accompanied by his two daughters, and
will in the future make this their homo.
The Candler public school has opened
with Mrs. S. M. Scott of Rock Springs os
principal, the attendance is large.
The gathering of oraugos has begun, as
the fruit is beginning to color up, but it is
thought by muny that oranges should not
be sent to market until thoroughly ripe,
half green oranges sent to market will
injure the reputation of Florida oranges
for sweetness and exoellency of flavor.
Everything points to a most prosperous
season for Florida the coming winter. A
great many people will come to this partic
ular section, and every vacant house in
town has been re ited for tho winter.
A COLOSBAL FAILURE.
Property of the Empire Lumber Com
pany in th* (sheriff's Hands.
Macon, Ga , Oct. 12. —Judge Roberts of
tho Dodge county superior oourt has ap -
pointed J. W. Hightower receiver of the
Empire Lumber Company, with headquar
ters at Empire, Dodge county. Tho Empire
oompany is the largest lumber corporation
operating in Georgia. It is u branen of the
Tennessee concern and the failure is said to
be duo to the endeavor to ritise funds for the
mother company. The company had re
cently received an order for 1,000,000 feet of
lumber from Canada. The property's now in
the hands of the sheriff. The liabilities are
supposed to be about $200,000, assets un
known.
Reprisals Against tbe Tariff Advo
cated.
Paris, Oct. 12.—M Burdean, member of
the Chamber of Doputies from Lyons, in a
speech to-lay to the electors of his district
advocated the purchase of mineral oil from
Russia and vats from Austria-Hungary in
reprisal for tbe new United States tariff
laws.
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JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN
REV. TALMAGS’3 THIRD SERMON
ON THE HOLY LAND.
What He Paw of the Grandeurs of the
Holy City—His Visit to Calvary—“ln
the Midst of the Garden and the
Sepulcher”—The Mosque of Omar, a
Throne of Mohammedanism- A nattier
Crusade Wanted to Start for Jeru
salem.
Brooklyn, Oct 12.—This morning Dr.
Talmage delivered his third sermon on his
recent tour In Palestine in the Academy of
Musto in this city. The large building was
crowded, an l numbers went away disap
pointed. This was the more significant
because It had been publicly announced
that the same sermon would be preached iu
the evening at the New York academy,
which the Christian herald had rented for
that purpose: Iu site of this fact, un
precedented since the days of Chalmers,
both buildings were orowded to excess, and
many were turned away from the doors,
both morning and evening. Dr. Talmage
must have preaolied to-day to ten thousand
different persons. Tho doctor spoke as fol
lows from the text: "If I forget thee, O
Jerusalem, let my right band forget h*r
ouuuing. Psiim cxxxvil., 5.
Paralysis of his best hand, the withering
of its muscles and nerves, is here invoked
if the author allows to |>ass out of mind the
graudeu s of the Holy City, where once he
dwelt. Jeremiah, seated by the river Eu
phrates, wrote this psalm and not David.
Afraid 1 am of anything that appproaohes
imprecation, and yet I can understand bow
any one who lias ever been at Jerusalem
should in enthusiasm of soul ory out,
whether he be sitting by tho Euphrates or
the Hudson, or the Thames: “If I forget
thee, O, Jerusalem, mav my right hand
forget her cunning!" Yousse.it is a city
unlike all others for topography, for his
tory, for significance, for style or popula
tion, for water works, for ruins, for towers,
for comes, for ramparts, for literature, for
tragedies, for memorable birthplaces, for
sepulchers, for 0011 Bagrations and famines,
for victories and defeats.
I am hero at last in this very Jerusalem
and on a housetop, just after tho dawn of
the morning of D?c. 8, with an old inhabi
tant to point out the salient features of the
scenery. “Now," I said, “where is Mount
Ziouf’ "Hnroatyour right.” “Where is
Mount Olivet?" “In front of where you
stand” “Where Is the Garden of Geth
semanef” "In yonder valley." Where is
Mount Calvary?” Before he answered I
saw it. No unprejudiced mind can have a
moment s dougbt ai to where it ia Yonder
I see a hill in the shape of a human skull,
and ttu Bible says that Calvary was the
“plaoe of a skull.” Not only 1* it skull
shaped, but just beneath the forehead of
the hill is a cavern that looks like eyeless
sockets. Within the grotto under it Is the
shape of the Inside of a skulL Then the
Bible says that Ch> ut was crucified outside
tho gate, aud this is outside the gate, white
the site formerly selected was inside the
gate. Beside that, this skull hill was for
ages tho place whore malefactors were put
to death, and Christ was slain as a malefac
tor.
The Savior’s assassination took plaoe be
side n thoroughfare, a ong whioh people
went “wagging their heads/’ and there is
tho ancient thoroughfare. I saw at Cairo,
Hgypti a clay mold of that skull hill, made
by the late (Tenoral Gordon, the arbiter of
nations. While Empress Helena, ei Khty
years of age, and Imposed upon by having
three crosses exhumed before her dim eyes,
as though they were tho three crosses of
Bible story, selected another site as Cal
vary, all recent travelers agree that the one
1 point out to you was, without doubt, the
scone of tho most terrific and overwhelming
tragedy this planet ever witnessed.
Thore wore a thousand things wo wanted
to see that third day of December and our
dragoman proposed this and that and the
other journey, but I said: “First of all.
show u. Calvary. Something might happen
if we went elsewhere aud sioknes* or acci
dent might hinder our seeing the sacred
mount, if we sea nothing else, wo must
see that and son it this m .ruing.” Soma of
us in carriage aud somo on mule
baok, we were soon on the way to the most
sacred spot that the world has ever seen or
evar will see. Coming to the base of the
hill wo first went inside the skull of rock a.
It is called Jeremiah's grotto, for thero the
prophet wrote his book of Lamentations.
The grotto is thirty-fivo feet high and its
top and aide are malachite, groan, brown,
black, white, red and gray.
Coming forth from tnose pictured sub
terraneous passages, wa begin to climb the
steep siiies of Calvary. As we go up, we
see cracks and crovicei in the rocks which 1
think were made by the convulsions of na
ture when Je-us diod. On the hill lay a
limestone rock, white, but tinged with
crimson, the white so suggestive of purity
and the crimson of sscnlice, that I said:
"That stone would be beautifully appro
priate for a memorial wall in my church,
now building in America; and tbe stone
now being brought on camel's book from
Sinai across ttie desert, when put under it,
how magnifioant of the law and gospel 1
Aud these lip* of stone will continue
to speak of justice and mercy long
after alt cur living lips have uttered their
last message." So I rolled it down the hill
and transported it. Whon that day comes
for whioh many of you have prayed—the
dedication of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the
third immense structure wo have reared in
tins city, and that makes it somewhat diffi
cult being the third structure, a work suoa
as no other ohurcb was ever called on to un
dertake—we invite you in the main en
trance of that building to look upon a me
morial wall containing tbe most suggestive,
and solemn and tremendous antiquities
ever brought together; this, lent with the
earthquake at tbe giving of the law at
Sinai, the other rent at the crucifixion ou
Calvary.
It is impossible for you to realize what
our emotions were as wo gathered, a group
of men and women, all saved by the blood
of tbe Lamb, on a bluff of Calvary, just
wide enough to contain three crosses. I
said to my family and friends: "I think
here is where stood the cross of the impeni
tent burglar, and there the cross of the mis
creant, and here between, I think stood toe
cross on which all our hopes depend.” As
I opened the nineteenth chapter of John
to read, a c o ill blast struck the hill and a
oloud hovered, the natural sole unity im
pressing the spiritual solemnity. I read a
little, but broke down. I defy any emo
tional Christian man sitting upon
Golgotha to lead aloud and
with unbroken voice, or with any
voice at all, the whole of that account in
Luke and John, of which these sentence*
are a fragment: “They took Jesus and led
him away, and ho bearing his cross went
forth in a place called tho place of a skull,
where they crucified him and two other*
with him, on either side one, and Jesus in
tho midst: “Behold thy mo/her 1” “I
thirst;” “This dav shalt thou be with me ia
earadise,” “Father, forgive them, they
now not what they do;” T ‘lf it be possible,
let this cup pass from me.” VVbat sighs*
what sobs, what tears, what tempests of
sorrdw, what surging ooeans of agony in
those utterances I
While we sat there, the whole scene cam*
