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j J. 11. EBTILL, President. J
A big fire at mobile.
over h&le a million in losses
ON THE WATER FRONT.
The Devastated District Bounded by
tbe Water, Royal, Beauregard and
gt. Louis Streets—Tbe Direction of
tbe Wind All That Saved the City
From Destruction.
Mobile. Ala., Oct 26, 9 p. m.—Mobile
red severely by fire to-day. The build
ing* consumed being a shingle mill, three
cotton compresaes, five cotton warehouses,
with 5,630 bales of cotton, the Gulf City oil
mill. Mobile ice factory, three steamboats,
elevin loaded and five empty freight cars,
two ooal aud wood yards, a freight depot
with a small amount of freight and six
wharves. The fire was aided by a strong
northwest wind, but had it been a point or
two nearer north pretty much ail of the
town would have gone. The loss is {650,000,
with about #325,000 insurance.
WHERE IT STARTED.
The fire started in Stewart & Butts’ spin
dle mill, just beyond the city limits on the
north, and destroyed that large establish
ment. Sparks fell in many warehouses
within a radius of naif a mile to the south,
snd many tires broke out simultaneously;
tbe first noticed being among cotton on the
Mobile and Birmingham railroad wharf.
This was at once tumbled off into the slip,
ind. though scorched, was saved. Almost
at the same time the Goodman and Mau
ter’s warehouses were seen to be on fire.
IN THE COTTON QUARTER.
All the northern part of the town is taken
up with property devoted to the handling
and storing of cotton, whole blocks being oc
cupied by warehouses, one-story brick build
ups with dead wails on all sidee except two,
which are pierced with a single gate. All
were covered with slate, but have court
yards in the center, the shed 6 being open to
the court. Fire once introduced, spread
with marvelous rapidity from bale to bale.
CARRIED BV SPARKS.
There was a rain of sparks from the
shingle mill fire and this accounts for the
breaking out of the fire in several ware
houses at once. Dense smoko was blown
steadily down tbe streets and in the faces of
tbe firemen who tried to fight the fire in
front. Very little could be done therefore,
to stop tbe progress of the flames and it was
not until the opon space,quarter of a block,
was met at the foot of Ht. Anthony street
that any success was met with.
ITS SOUTHWARD PROGRESS STOPPED.
There the southward progress of the fire
was stopped, after sweeping away five
blocks along the river front, except one
building, the Mobile and Birmingham pas
senger Spot. The warehouses on the west
side of Commerce street were burned from
Beuregard to State streets, four blocks,
except the Okolona warehouse. The
warehouses on Water street, both
sides between Lipscom . and Adams and
partly on both sides between Adams and
Congress streets were burned, as were also
the warehouses on the northeast corner of
Magnolia and Congress streets.
THE WHARVES ON FIRE.
All the whai f property, which is owned
by private parties, along the river front
from Lips omb to State streets was burned,
and a small portion of one of the wharves
belonging to the city at the foot of St. Louis
street. Lying in the slips were four steam
boats. Tnree of these, the Ruth, Mary
Etizabetn and Jewel, were burned.
Two (f these were out of commission and
were of little value. The Ruth was worth
ffSU.OJU. Several coal and wood yards on
the wharves were destroyed and sundry
freight.
A TRAIN IN DANGER.
There was a passenger train in Commerce
street when the fire broke out, and a train
of freight, all belonging to the Mobile aud
Birmingham Railway Company. All were
saved except five empty freight cars.
Eleven cars of corn belonging to the Mobile
and Ohio railroad on the adjacent tract,
were burned.
THE LOSSES.
Ihe principal losses are distributed as
follows:
Stewart & Butts, shingle mill, #17,000;
dry kiln saved.
Cooley’s compress and warehouse, owned
t . , To ' vnseud of New York, *70,000.
lavlors compress aud warehouse, owned
by John T. Taylor of New York, #25,000.
-Merchants press aud warehouse, owned
by U. U. Thames and others, #30,000.
Brown’s warehouses, owned by Bestorr &
Barker; Goodman’s, owned bv Barker &
D)vy; the Selam warehouse, owned by E.
51. iownsendof New York; the Truwitt
warehouse, owned by John T. Taylor; the
Emanuel warehouse, owned by the Emanuel
estate. Ail valued at $50,000.
5,630 BALES or COTTON GONE.
K n?°, waraho “* contained altogether
5,630 bales of cotton, all of which were de-
Btroyed They were valued at #281,500, but
were fully insured.
t „ m Le aud Birmingham railroad’s
l f 1! "j rar F depot was burned, entailing a
los of about #4,000 in freight. 8
pif„ tXt , ou . Commerce street was the Gulf
value of'ft! 8 ! wbich wero destroyed. The
iot ,b ” building and machinery was
fUjloOO* aU<l ° f the BtOCk ° f 86ed in tbe shed
vhtmlLrS 9 the Mobile Phosphate and
" ni al -Manufacturing Company's fa©-
■>*’ at th ® corner of Bt. Anthony and
v mmerce streets, the last to burn, and
*40,000.
Ira-*•) rl 1 ! 0W Pino Lumber Company’s loss
, x-,000 on lumber.
rood' 1 °’ Doanell loßt *B,OOO °n coal and
Th, 10 lost #3,500 in the same.
■a,, mss l y the Mobile and Birmingham
a !i*ay on freight cars is #2,500.
to 088 the Mobile and Ohio railroad
f im- ? nd their contents is #B.OOO.
.Im,, 81 ' 1 ;- 0 ' the cotton insurance there is
Sr , i° '.OOO on the other pr iperty. The
fe "*°ut at T3;30 o’clock and was un
e' control at 4 o’clock.
Blaine at Chicago.
28 18 K , ia Pon ’ B Quest and Will Re
main With Him Three Days.
' I . I, Ao °, Oct. 26.—Secretary Blaine is
ier/th 6t b ' B SOn ln th* s city. He arrived
o tv, u morain 3 in a special oar attached
i 6 1 e, msy!vania train. The party oon
of Secretary Blaine, Mrs. Blaine,
and William Walter
t ainister to Germany. From the
ions RfeP-f* was driven direct to Em-
B,.ed r Qas J O / 110 -. Emmons Blaine, when
lid- “\jv E f r n to bi ® father’s programme,
rif e Rru f la her is only here to visit my
nd there in Inr * elf f° r a little rest
o pohUn.i no hccpamme.” He said that
seretar l J B P eech would be mado b F the
!h 'cag 0 r bu U t' I \vH hIS A throe day “’ Btft y in
odd ’i,i at vv eduesday en route eas. he
id. rfcSa the people of South Bend,
W re 8 * 1 Time on a p afety.
'-day LA -- Oot 26.-R. G. Betts
rls ~ '*®. tw aty-five and fifty mile
Uts a safety wheel. Twenty-five
dll se-onrf VerS M L“. 1 h,,ur - 32 minutes
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Hje JWofmng
AN ALDERMAN SHOT DEAD.
A Tough Gambler Pulled tbe Trig
ger in a Saloon.
Chicago, 111., Oct. 26.—Alderman Wil
liam P. Whelan was shot and mortally
wounded early this morning by George H.
Hathaway, a gambler, in Mat Hogan's sa
loon at No. 336 State street, a rendezvous
for the shooting element. Alderman Whe
lan, John McGinnis, an officer of the health
department, ana Hogan were sitting at a
table when Hathaway came.
AN ILL-FATED INVITATION.
Whelan, who was under the influence
of liquor, called him aud asked
him to have a drink. At first
he hesitated, but finally sat down aud tak
ing a long range Colt’s revolver from his
pocket, began twirling it around under the
noses of the others. The alderman told him
to put up bis gun and act like a gentleman,
and added that unless he did so, he would
make him.
WHELAN SHOT.
At this Hathaway jumped up just as
Whelan mado a grab for the weaDou and
pointing it straight at him: “Well. you
if you want it, take It.” He then pulled the
trigger. The ball took effect in Whelan’s
left side, immediately over the groin,
passed through the abdomen, shattered
the spine and catne out at the back. The
alderman threw up his hands, and fell upon
the floor, saying “I am bored clean through
and am done for.” After the shooting
Hathaway walked calmly away, but was
arrested later in tbe day. Whelan died at
2:55 o’clock in the afternoon.
A STEAL STAND PIPE BREAKS
A Heavy Destruction of Property at
Temple by the Flood.
St. Louis, Oct. 26,— A dispatch from
Temple. Tex., says: “Two hundred and
eighty thousand gallons of water confined
in a steel stand pipe broke loose from its
confines about 3 o’clock Friday morning
and flooded tbe town. Immense sheets
of boiler steel, hundreds of nieces
of scaffoldings, houses, barns, fences
and all the debris of the surrounding
neighborhood went floating and crashing
in ail directions. The people of the town
were awakened aud stood in frightened
groups about the town watching tbe de
st ruction of their homes and property.
CRUSHED LIKE AN EGG-SHELL.
“The house of O. T. Higdon was crushed
like an egg-shell and afterwards took fire
from an overturned lamp and was burned.
Mr. Rigdon was seriously burned and his
recovery is doubtful.
“Tb* accident is unaccountable. No
flaws were apparent in any of the
broken pieces of pipe, and the workman
ship shows it to be first-class. The founda
tion is still there, solid and unharmed except
in one place, whore a gash two feet long was
cut through the bottom and a couple of
rocks were washed away.”
A CKAZi' FLMALS’d FREAK.
She Leaped From a Train and Wan
dered Like a Wild Woman.
Wheeling, W. Va„ Oct. 26.—Mrs.
Brannan of St. Louis, a demented woman
who jumped from a train at Clarksville,
Oct. 9, and ran to the hills, leaving seven
small children in the car, was accidentally
found to-day. She was hiding in a fodder
shock within three-quarters of a mile of
town. A negro lookiag for a stray colt
heard groans from the shock aud tore it
down, discovering the woman completely
helpless from injuries she had received in
her flight.
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
She had been without food or water for
seventeen days and exposed to the drench
ing rains and cold weather. She was taken
in charge by the authorities, and her friends
notified by telegraph. She is still under the
delusion that someone is following her
to murder her and begs her rescuers not to
inform her St. Louis relatives of her where
abouts. Her children are safe in charge of
relatives near Pnlladelphia. Physicians
say that Mrs. Brannan may recover if
properly cared for,
FRIENDS OF EDUCATION.
The Anniversary of the Freedman’s
Aid Society.
Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 26.—The twenty
fourth anniversary of tho Freedman’s Aid
and Southern Educational Society is being
celebrated in this city, and has brought
together many of the most eminent clergy
men in the Methodist Episcopal church,
among them Bishop John H. Vincent,
Bishop Foss of Philadelphia, Bishop
Ninde of Topeka, Kan.; Rev. Dr. Buckley
aud others. At the opening session Rev.
Dr. Hartzall, corresponding secretary, sub
mitted some interesting figures. Since its
organization in 1886 the society has ex
pended over #2,800,000 in establishing and
maintaining institutions of Christian
education in the south among the
white and colored people. Last year there
was maintained 40 sohools, 815 touchers,
and 8,336 students. The income for the
year was #266,684, an increase of #40,000
over any preceding year. There were
more than 2,000 students in tbe various in
dustrial schools last year and 125 christiau
physicians have been graduated from the
Nashville medical school.
HIGH WATER IN THE HUDSON.
Heavy Losses of Brick in the Yards
Along Its Banks.
Rondout, N. Y., Oct. 26.—The Hudson
to-day showed the highest tide in forty
years.
The briokvards suffered enormously.
Millions of brick were lost.
The yards between Roseton and Albany
are submerged, and green brick awaiting
burning were thrown down by the
flood. It is estimated that 4,600,000 brick
have been lost in the Kingston distr et.
The fires were put out in kilns in process
of burning, green kilns thrown down and
brick underneath the sheds washed away.
The ceme t sheds suffered greatly. The
Newark Lime and Cement Company’s sheds
are submerged with twelve inches of
water. A much higher tide is expected to
night.
REED AT ROCKFORD.
Four Thousand People Listen to His
Defense of His Party.
Rockford, 111., Oct. 2d—Speaker
Reed’s audience here yesterday afternoon,
numbered fully 4,000 people. He spoke
forty minutes. Last night the celebrated
presiding officer of the House of Represents?
tives addressed an immense crowd at Mo
line. A large portion of his audience came
from Davenport,, across the Mississippi
river, to hear Speaker Reed uphold the
McKinley bill aud his course as speaker of
tbe House. ;
Fast Walking.
San Francisco, Oct. 26.—At the Olym
pic Club gam s yesterday G. D. Byrd
walked an exhibition half mile in 2 minutes
aud 54% second-, beating tho world’s record
of 3 minutes and 2 2-5 seconds.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1890.
VARN’S FOES USE FIRE
HIS TURPENTINE STILL AND A
NEGRO'S CABIN BURNED.
His Commissary Riddled with Bullets
While His Agent wae Inside Asleep—
The Mob 160 Strong- -They Threat
ened to Return Last Night to Murder
and Burn.
Waycross, Ga., Oct. 26.—T,ast night 150
men, armed with Winchester rifles, wont to
Varu and fired the turpentine still of L. B.
Yarn, destroying about #I,OOO worth of
property. They also riddled his commis
sary with bullets. Inside the commissary
the clerk was sleeping. He says the balls
flew uncomfortably close to bis body, as he
lay upon the bed in an ague of
fright. The house of Roo Knight,
some distance in the woods, is also
said to have been burned. The party said
they intended to return to-night and finish
their work of destruction. Mr. Yarn has
#4,tWO or #5,000 worth of property in and
near Varn. He says his life has been
threatened and he has been forced to aban
don bis property and leave it to the mercy
of those who are disposed to destroy it.
GOV. GORDON NOTIFIED.
Upon tho information reaching here of
his 1 ss and the threats against his life, he
wired Gov. Gordon for protection to his
property, aud has wired Postmaster General
W anamaker that he has to abandon tho
pcstoflice at Varn in consequence of lawless
acts and violent threats against his life.
Gov. Gordon has wired Sheriff
Hendersou of Ware county to
hold the militia in readiness to
proceed to Varn if the citizens oaunot pre
serve order and protect life and property.
No one could furnish any names, but it is
conceded that the party who deoredated
last night numbered 150 at least. It is not
known where the party came from or
where they went. Sheriff Henderson will
go to the scene of the trouble with a posse
of citizens to investigate the trouble.
THE GOVERNOR NOTIFIED.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 26.—The governor is
in possession of news of a fresh ontbreak in
Ware county. L. B. Varn, the white man
who was reported as the leader of the blacks
in last W ednesday’s trouble, telegraphs
that everything he has in Varn, in Ware
county, is at the mercy of a lawless mob,
who burned hU turpentine still last night,
and threaten to return to-night and com
plete the destruction of several thousand
dollars worth of property and murder him
and his hands. “The authorities,” Mr.
Varn adds, “are powerless and I appeal to
you for immediate protection.”
THE SHERIFF S INSTRUCTIONS.
On receiving the dispatch about noon
the governor telegraphed Sheriff Henderson
at Waycross for an account of the situa
tion. The sheriff replied corroborating Mr.
Varn’s statement eonoerning the burning of
the still and the threats to destr ,y the bal
ance of his property aad murder the owner
and his employes. The officer further
confessed his inability to deal with the mob
and asked for instructions. Tbe following
dispatoh was then forwarded by tbe gover
nor: “Notify the military company at
Waycross to hold itself ready for ac
tion if necessary, but do not call on it if
the civil nnthonties can preserve order.
Keep me advised.”
AN ISLAND OF ICE.
The Steamer Maine Diacovere a Dan
gerous Obstruction
Philadelphia, Pa., Oot. 26.—Capt.
Boequet of the British steamship Maine,
which arrived here to-day from Swansen,
reported that on Oct. 20 in latitude 45.03
aud longtitude 48.20 he passed an island of
ice 2,600 feet long and 450 feet high. Close
around the vicinity of this obstruction
were hundreds of detached piece*, rendering
navigation in the. locality extremely dan
gerous during a fog or at night. During
the last few days of the passage a series of
heavy gales aud high seas were experi
enced, but tbe ship sustained no damage.
AMATEUR ATHLETICS.
Owens’ Record for 100 Yards Ac
cepted by the Union.
Philadelphia, Oet. 26. —The board of
managers of the Amateur Athletic Union
met in this city last night, the session last
ing until 3 o’clock this morning. It was
decided to accept Owens’ reoord of 9 4-5
seconds for 100 yards made at Washington.
The question of accepting the record of 9%
seconds for the same distance was post
poned for future consideration.
AH glove contests under the aus
pices of the Amateur Athletic
Union will hereafter, be of four rounds
duration instead of six as at present. Other
unimportant business was transacted.
CHAMPIONS AT CHEBS.
Tschlgorin Makes His Ninth Move
After Forty-eight Hourß’ Study.
New York, Oct. 26.—M. Tschigorin sent
in his ninth move in “the Evans game" and
his tenth move of “the two knights" de
fense to-night. They were at once for
warded to M. Steinitz, who, it is expected,
will forward the Tschigorin moves, together
with his replies, to-morrow morning. M.
Tschigorin took forty-eight hours’ considera
tion for bis moves.
Impressed by the South.
Washington, Oct. 26.—The English and
German iron and steel men spent to-day
visiting places of interest near tbe c ty.
Those who visited the south were greatly
impressed by tbe immense wealth in the
mines of the south and tbe apparent ease
with which iron ore can be mined there as
contrasted with similar work in England.
Recruits for the Mafia.
New Orleans, Oct. 26.—The steamship
Elysia, from Palermo with 1,038 Italians on
board, arrived this morni. g at the wharf of
the Northeastern railroad, aud the immi
grants all came ashore, tbe inspectors having
found their papers correct. A detachment
of police was on the scene to preserve order.
An Al.lance Cigar Factory.
Tallahassee, Fla., Oct, 26.—Articles
of incorporation of tbe Largo Alliance Cigar
Manufacturing Company were filed with
the secretary of state yesterday. This com
pany will establish a factory at Largo.
Hillsborough county, and has a capita)
stoca of #1,500. The Btock is divided into
shares of #lO each. The incorporators are
W. A. Belcher, president; P. S. Dame, sec
retary and treasurer; Daniel McMullen, N.
N, Friend and E. L. Stovell.
Call at Apalachicola
Apalachicola, Fla, Oct. 26.—Senator
Call addressed a large audience at Ballou’s
opera house W ednesday night. He planted
himself on the side of the people as against
railroad monopoly and landed nobility.
John G. Huge returned Saturday with
his accomplished bride, nee Mies Fannie
Femes Fuller of Boston. The happy
couple were showered with congratulations.
VON MOLTKR’B BIRTHDAY.
All Germany Unltaln Doing Honor to
the Veteran.
Berlin, Oct. 26.—The celebration of the
nlntieth anniversary birth of Count
von|Moltke was continued to-day. At 9
o’clock this morning tbe oount wae sere
naded by tbe Teachers’ Choral Society, and
he received the congratulations of his rela
tives; at 9:30 o’clock he rece.ved army
officers, officials and members of the gen
eral staff, who came in procession. At 11 ;30
o’clock, in the preeeuo- of the emperor,
the guards and cuirassier*, with their
colors, paraded before the offices of the
general staff, where Count vou Moltke is
residing.
BAREHEADED ON THK BALCONY.
The veteran stood bare-headed on the
balcony. The colors were afterward taken
to his room. Then all the German and for
eign genera 8, including Chancellor von
Cuprivi, Gen. Kutussow of Husain, and the
Austrian deputation bearing an autograph
letter from Emperor Francis Joseph assem
bled in the great hall where they were
f rented by tbe emperor. Count von
ioltke led by Count W' al lersee now en
tered, followed by the staff officers aud
there was a general offering of congratula
tions to the old general.
MUNICIPAL TESTIMONIALS.
In tbe afternoon tbe municipal council,
beaded by Burgomaster Uorckmbeck, pre
sented the municipal testimonial and 50,030
marks as a gift in Count von Moltke’s
name to the alms bouses established by tbe
late Emperor William. In thanking them
the oount described this as tbe most valua
ble of his gifts.
Deputations from the municipal counoils
of Muuiob, Breslau, Koenigs be; g, Chemnitz
and Moinel presented addresses conferring
upon Count Moltke the freedom of their
respective cities.
Dresden and Madgeburg presented illum
inated addresses.
Cologne sent a splended Said marshals
baton artistically wrought iu gold in the
style of old Cologne.
Mecklenburg presented a sum of money
subscribad for the purchase of the bouse in
which Count van Moltke was born,at Par
chim, and a portfolio of views.
The Czar, King of Sweden, sultan.
Prince Bismarck and Prince of Wales, tele
graped their congratulations.
A BANQUET AT POTSDAM.
In the evening the oount went to Potsdam
by the imperial train and was greeted on
bis arrival by an enthusiastic crowd. A
banquet was givea in the Hall of Shells in
honor of tbe veteran. The King of Saxony
sat at the count's right and on his left sat
Empress Augusta Vlotoria. Emperor
William sat opposite the count. There
was a large number of guests. Beside
tbe members of the royal family, ministers
and generals, there were present four
nephews of tbe count. The emperor
touched the counts gloss aud drank to hit
pros erity, Tho count returned to Berlin
at 9:15 o’clock to-night on a special train.
Count von Moltke Ijes sent a personal note
to a private soldier thanking htm for verses
which he had sent, and saying that the
array in which privates are able to write
such verses must be well ordered.
CELEBRATED IN NEW YORK.
New York, Oot. 26.—There was a bril
liant gathering of Ge mans at Amberg’s
theater to-night to attend a special pro
gramme given in honor of Gen. von
Moltke’s 9oth birthday. The theater was
crowded. A series of tableaus representing
scene# in the great general’s life were pre
sented and there was an elaborate musical
programme.
THE EMPEROR’S CONGRATULATIONS.
In presenting the field marshal’s baton
the emperor, referring to tho count’s deeds
of glory and renown, said he was proud to
be in such company and to offer the con
gratulations of himself and the army. As
a young man, he wrb unable to add
to the laurels already encircling
the aged warrior’s brow. but he
begged him to accept tbe baton as a me
mento of tnis occasion. The empoxor then
called upon the assembled company for
cheers, and their “knobs” fairly made tbe
building tremble. The emperor then ad
vanoed and kissed Count von Moltke three
times on both cheeks. Bmpress Frederick
visited tbe old count Saturday and paesunted
her congratulations. The veteran evinced
the greatest pteasurs at the visit Queen
Victoria telegraphed her congratulation
from Balmoral. The King of Belgium also
sent a congratulatory telegram. The Grand
Duchess of Ilad-n presented to the Count
the Emperor William’s historic note book,
which he used until his death. The Count
feels in no way fatigued as yet
A CIRCUS IN THE SOUP.
The Bandmaster Scoops ln Some Cash
and Departs).
Atlanta, Ga., Oct 26.—The Washburn
& Arlington circus came to grief in this
city Friday night, the show having been
attached tor aalarie3 due the performers.
Traveling with the concern was a negro
band under Bandmaster Dan Chaveis, who
is now badly wanted by Edward Johnson,
B. D, Morse and Joseph Campbell,
bia assistant horn blowers. Some lit
tle money seems to have been in
the oircus treasury when the show
collapsed, and part of tbe creditors were
settled with by tue management. The band
compromised their elaitn for #93, and
Chavers received the m >ney, but instead of
dividing it with tbe other members he took
the first train for the north with the whole
sum in bis pocket, leaving bis associate)
without a dollar. To-night they appealed
to the police, but being unable to guarantee
the expense, no steps have been taken for
the swindler's arrest.
TBOMA&VILLE TOPICS,
Advantages of the New Railroad
Route to the City.
Thomasville, Ga., Oct. 26.—The ad
vantages of the* Alabama Midland railroad
to Thomasville aro beginning to lie felt.
Among other things it will be known as tbe
Thotr.atville route. Tiokets to Thomasville
will be put on sala at every point of
any consequence throughout the great
west, where thousands of dollare w ill be
spent annually advertising tbe route. Thom
asvilie has spent a good large sum Of money
in advertising and is still making outlays
for that but toe Thomasville route
will give ThomasviUo more free advertis
ing every year than it has had throughout
its whole history.
Ttiomne superior court adjourned over
from Fridav to Monday of next week.
The city is filling up daily ith new faces.
They are coming from widely scattered
points, north, east and west.
Ihe weather is perfect. Trade it better,
Real estate is looking up.
Ttmps’i Piremamc Tournament.
Orlando, Fla., Oct. 26.—Two teams
of firemen started to Tampa to-day to take
part in the tournament. Ttieeup is held here,
having been won last year by a department
team. Four of lat year’s winners will run
with Merchants’ No. 2, this year, and three
with Rescue No. L
A Grand Duke Dying.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 26.—The Grand
Duke CoflstauUue is dying.
AN OUTRAGE IN TURKEY.
AN AMERICAN ARRESTED ON A
FALSE CHARGE.
He Was Dragged From Hie Bed at
Midnight and Carried to Prison
Without Being Allowed to Drees—
Minister Hlrech Securea Hie Release
and Demands Satisfaction.
Constantinople, Oct. 26.—Trouble has
arisen between Mr. Hirsch, the American
minister, and the porte over the arrest of
an American subject on suspicion of being
implicated in tbe Armenian revolutionary
plots. The accused is a graduate of Bowdoin
College. He came to Turkey during the
administration of President Hayes to found
an American college, but the project fell
through and ho has since remalmvl here.
His arrest was effected in the night time
at his residence, and in spite of his protest
that he w as an American and his production
of a passport, he was hurried to the Teros
kier prison without being allowed to dress.
MINISTER HIRSCH NOTIFIED.
In the morning he was aliowmi to com
municate with the American consul and
was soon released on condition that he
should appear and stnnd trial. Minister
Hirsch sent an energetic protest to the
foreign minister against the viola
tion of the right of domioile of
an American citizen and demanded
satisfaction and punishment of the official
who ordered the arrest. Ho further ile
clirel that be would refuse to produoe the
ac msed unless satisfaction was granted and
until informed of the nature of the charge
against him.
THE CHARGE.
A statement was then sent to Minister
Hirsch that the accused had engraved a seal
for tbe secret Armenian committee. Proof
was produced that the man had no
knowledge of the art of engraving, and
that he had recently been acting
as agent for an American firm engaged in
the manufacture of a photograph appar
atus. The government then expressed its
regrets. Minister Hirsoh, however, still
maintains bis demand for satisfaction.
a tariff zdllverein.
England's Refusal to Join It Would
Make the Boheme Futile.
Paris, Oot. 26.—M. de Louclo, a member
of the budget committee and editor of the
Steel#, in au interview on tho report tnat
Germany, Austria and Italy are preparing
a zollverein against America, said Franca
could only join such a aollvereln in the
event of Great Britain joining it. As tide
is highly improbable, l.he scheme will be
futile. Without England’s aseent any
zollverein against America, according to
an expression of Prince Bismarck
when sounded a year ago on such an
eventuality, must necessarily become a
continental blockade. Even if (Spain joined
the zollverein France must act in accord
with England. The scheme iu Franoe re
ceives the support of only a few ultra-pro
tectioniste, while tbe separation of France
and Englaud from the coni Inent will gratify
the French free trade party.
PASTORAL OF THE HIERARCHY.
The Letter Read ln the Catholic
Churchee Throughout Ireland.
Dublin, Oct. 26.—The pastoral letter
adopted at tbe autumnal meeting of the
Roman Catholic hierarchy was read to-day
in the Catholic churches throughout Irelaud.
The letter protests against the attempts to
minimize the extent of the potato crop
failure, as ouch a course was a disastrous
one pursued during former famines.
It appeals to the government for
timely assistance to palliate what
trustworthy reports show to be real wide
spread danger. The letter contains a re
iteration of the paoal prohibition of “the
plan ot campaign’’ and boycotting, and
directs the people to have nothing whatever
to do with politics, and concludes by ex
pressing sympathy with tha evicted tenants,
and hopes that parliament may succeed in
adopting measures to reinstate the evicted
tenants and preventing further evictions.
LONDON’S MURDER MYSTERY.
The Corpse cf tbe Dead Woman’s
Infant Found Beside a Road.
London, Oot. 26.—The dead body of
Mrs. Hobb’s child was found to-day in a
clump of fursee bushes in a field adjacent
to a road in the neighborhood of South
Hampstead, about a miie distant from the
place where its mother’s body was found
Friday night. There are no external
marks of violence on the body, aud
it is believed that the child met death by
smothering. When found the infant’s
clothing was saturated with rain.
ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL.
The Cause of the Recent Hitch in
Their Negotiations.
Paris, Oct. 26,—The Steele publishes an
interview with tbs Portuguese minister, in
which that official says thit the hitch in the
negotiations between England and Portu
gal regarding African territory, was due to
new proposals being made by Portugal. He
said he i.elisvsd Lord Salisbury might con
sent to modify the commercial clausea in
the convention between the two countries,
but not the territorial clauses.
Canada’s New Cardinal.
Kingston, Ont., Oct. 26.—Archbishop
Cleary wn- to-day invested with the pal
lium, Cardinal Taschereau of Quebec c in
ducting the ceremony. The services were
very imposing. Ei ;ht bishops aud over 100
priests were in attendance.
Switzerland's Election.
Berne, Oct. 36.—Tbe elections to-day
have not changed the party strength in the
national council. Tbe national plebiscite
shows a large majority in favor of state in
surance against accident and illness.
Scotland’s New Solicitor General.
London, Oct. 26.—Sir Charles Pearson
has been appointed solicitor general of Boot
land.
know in England.
London, Oct 26.—There whs a slight fall
of snow througnuut England to-day.
ATLANTA’S EXPOSITION.
This is Drummer's Day and To-mor
row Alliance Day.
Atlanta, Ga., Oot. 26.—^To-morrow is
Drummers’ day at tbe exposition. Among
the special features of the programme are
races between Georgia colts and a half-mile
dash between Ketcbum’s trotting dog and
an Indian afoot. Tues lay, the first Alliance
day, there will bs a cavalry tonrnament, an
exhibition drill by tbe zouaves and a repe
tition of the race between tbe dog and pony.
On this day, aiso, tbe gun club contest will
be inaugurated.
DANCED WITH FIRE BlhOW THEM ,
Comedians Avert a Panic ln a New
ark theater.
Newark, Oct 25.—The dangers to which
people are at times exposed without know
ing anything about them until they are
past was never more rlearly demonstrated
than ln VValdman’s theater last night. The
house on this occasion was well filled and
the spectators sat for fully fifteen minutes
applauding the funny afterpieos which con
cludes the performance, while at tbe samo
time firemen were at work directly under
them and also under the stage battling with
flames which had boeu started by an elec
tric wire.
The fire waa first discovered in the upper
part of the building, which is used as a
central station fir the fire alarm system.
Patrolman Richard Lewis at once stati, ned
a man at each door of the theater with or
ders to allow no one to go in or give an
alarm, as a panic would have followed. Tho
chemical engine company adjoining the
theater was quietly summoned aud as
quietly went to work on tbe fire and soon
had it subdued.
Juntas the firemen were congratulating
themselves another blaze wae discovered
under the auditorium floor and stage. As
it was burning fiercely. Chief Astley at
once sent out an alarm from station 24 and
toon tlie engines began to roll uu ln front of
tho theater, while tbe ptal of the big tower
bell, a block away, apprised the
audienoa for the first time there was
a fire somewhere in the neighbor
hood. A fow of those in the thea
ter left, out of curiosity, but the rest of
tlie audience remained iu their seats and
laughed at the antics of the comedians on
tho stage, woo wero the only ones who
knew anything of the state of affairs below.
Their coolness averted a panic, for had they
■hown any inclination to leave the stage
the audience would have become suspicious
and a rush would have followed.
As it was, the audience knew nothing of
the danger until they left the theater and
saw the flrerneu taking up the hose. The
Are in the upper part of the building ruined
the entire fire alarm system.
A MEDICAL "MR. HYDR.”
Berliner* Mob an Unfeeling Physician
Who Ran Over a Woman.
Berlin, Oct. 25.-A* Dr. Sonenberg,
professor of surgery in the university, was
being driven down to the Uuterdoa Linden,
his coachman rau over a woman. Instead
of stopping to luqatre as to the extent of
her injuries, or to offer his professional
eeryicoe, the processor ordered his man to
drive os rapidly away from the
scene as possible, iu order to
avoid roo ignition and prosecution.
Tho physician was, however, not quick
onough, as the avenue was crowded and the
accident had been witnessed by a large
number of passers-by. The horses wero
caught and the door of the carriage forced
open by the howling mob. The professor
was dragged out and badly beaten. The
police had the greatest difficulty in conduct
ing him to the station house while still alive,
his clothes being torn to shreds, and his
body covered with bruises,
The unfortunate victim ot his coachman’*
carelessness was taken to the hospital, both
legs being fractured and amputation nuty
be necessary in one case.
ARTIKTS OBJECT.
Averse to Their e xhibit Being Grouped
With Music and the Drama.
New York, Oct. 26.—The committee on
art of the world’* f*ir met at tho Gilsey
house Friday. Commissioners Breslin,
Palmer and Els worth wero appointed a
sub-committee to confer with the director
general to formulate rules and regulations.
A resolution w*s passed protesting against
the grouping of art, music and th* drama
uuder one bureau. The sub-committee ap
pointed yesterday wns instructed to confer
with the artist* and art collectors of the
oountry, and reporc at the next meeting of
the juint committee lo be hold in Chicago
on Nov. 16
It was reported that Mr. Huntington, tlie
president of the National Aoaderay of De
sign, and Mr. Ward, the sculnter, had in
terested themselves iu tbe work of the com
mittee, which had sent out a circular ask
ing for the co operation and assistance of
artists and art collectors.
TWO ELOP4D PR >M ONE FAMILY
A Matron Pursues Her Runaway Hus
band and Her Ron's Wife.
Rochester, N. Y. Oot 26.—Mrs. Eugene
Dautereville of Astoria, L. L, has been in
this city several days to obtain evidence for
use in a suit for divoroe against her hus
band. She went home to-night. Mrs.
Dautereville is 45 years old and comely.
She alleges that her husband, who la only
28 years old, ran away from home a few
days ago with her son’s wife, Mamie Gard
ner. Gardner was Mrs. Dautereville’s name
before she married the alleged fugitive hus
band.
Tbe pursuing wife’s visit to this place was
due to the fact that the missine Eugene
bought tickets from New York to Rochester
Tuesday night. She failed, however, to
find any trace of the elopers her*.
DEATH OF A NONAGENARIAN.
Never Called In a Doctor, or Drank
Liquor, or Ohewed Tobacco.
Philadelphia, Oct 26.—John Mullen, a
nonagenarian, was buried Saturday, from
his lata home. Mullen was a native of
County Derry, Ireland, aid came to this
country at the age of 38 years. He has
been a widower twelve years. He was the
father of six children, all of whom he sur
vived except two. His grandchildren
number seventeen, and he ha 1 ten great
grandchildren. Mr. Mullen enjoyed re
markably good health, never having called
in a doctor until about three weeks ago.
He never drank spirits nor chewed tobacco,
and to tbe last he enjoyed the whole of his
faculties.
COTTON RUINED BY RAIN.
A Discouraging Mtuatlon on tbe Plan
tations of Newton.
Covington, Ga., Oct. 26.—Farmers say
they will never be able to gather their cot
ton crop if this weather continues as it has
for the past three weeks. There were only
two days in six to pick cotton. There are
fields of eotton here from which there has
not been a lock gathered. Tbe exc ssive
rains have damaged it in value from 10 to
15 per oent, and there is fully 1 percent that
has fallen out aud rotted on the ground.
Ten convicts escai ed from the camp of
W. B. Lee, twelve miles west of this piece,
Wednesday night (all colored). None have
been recaptured up to this writing. Mr. Lee
has gone out with hi* bloodhound* and will
perhaps capture some of them.
A Disagreement ln a Murder Trial.
Orlando, Fla., Oct 26—The jury at
Kisaimrnes injthe c se against Tom Bass for
killing B .rt Johns disagreed. They had
been out nineteen hours. Bass was released
on #6,000 bail
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TALMAGE OX HIS TOUR.
HIS RIDE FROM JORDAN TO THR
DEAD BE A.
His Text Taken From a Psalm-“Ha
Toucheth the h ills and They smoke."
The Wickedness of Pompeii Vol
canlc Action Reeponslble for tha
Nature of the Country at tbe Dead
Sea.
Brooklyn, Oct. 26—Dr. Talmage
preached the fifth sermon of the series on
his tour in the Holy Laud, in the Academy
of Music, in this city this morning. This
evening at the Christian Herald service In
the Academy of Music, Now York, the eer
mon was repeated liefore an audience which
filled the vast luilding iu every part. Dr.
Talmage announced as his text Psalms otv,
32: “He toucheth the hill* aud they smoke”
He said:
David, tho poet, here pictures a volcano
and what Church’s Cotopaxi does on paint
er’s canvas, this author dives iu words. You
soe a lull calm aid still and for ages im
movable, but the Lord out of the heavens
puts bis finger on the top of it and from ie
rise thick vapors intershot with fire. “He
toucheth the hills ami they smoke.”
God ie the only being who can manage a
volcano arid again and again has be em
ployed voicanlo action. Tbe ploturee on
the walls of Pompeii, the exhumed Italian
city, as we saw them last November, dem
onstrate that the city was not fit to live.
In the first ceutury that citv, engirdled
with palaces, euiparadised with gardens,
piilated into architectural exqundteneas,
was at Ike foot of n mountain up the sides
of which it ran with vineyards and villas
of merchant priucee, and all that marble,
and bronze, aud imperial baths, and
arboriculture, and rainbowed fountains,
auil a coliseum at the dedication of which
nine thousand (.easts had been slain, aud
a supernal landscape m which the shore
gave roses to (he sua and tlie see gave crys
tals to the shore; yea, all that beauty, and
pomp, sud wealth could give was there to
lie seen or heard. But the bod moi ale of
the city had shocked the world. In the
year of 79, on the 4th of Angus , a black
column rose abovo ttie adjoining mountains
and spread out, Pliuy says, os he saw it,
like a greet pine tree, wider and wider,
until it began to ram upon the oity, first
thin usbes and tbsn pumice etoue, aud
sulphurous futnee scooped, and streams
of mud ponreil through the streets till few
people ecaid and the olty was buried, aud
some of tbe inhabitants eighteen hundred
veers after were found embalmed in tho
sooriat of that awful doom. The Lord
called upon volcanic force* to obliterate
that profligate city. He touched tbe bills
ami they smoked.
Nothing but volcanic action cau explain
what 1 Khali show you at tli* Dead Sua upon
whicli 1 looked last December, aud ot w hose
water* I took a bitter aud stinging taste.
Concerning all that region there lias been a
controversy enough to fill libraries. bolouoo
saying one thing, revelation saying another
thing. But admit volcanic action divinely
employed and both testimonies are oue and
the same. Geology, oheuiistry, geography,
oe rouorny, ichthyology, ornithology aud
zoology are ©jiuiug one by oue to confirm
the scriptures. Two leaves of one book are
revelation and creation ami the penmanship
is by the sains divine baud. Our horseback
ride will not he so steep to-day and you can
stay ou without clinging to the pommel nf
the saddle, hut the scenes amid which we
rid* shall, if possible, bt more thrilling and
tty tbe time the horses snuff the sulphurous
atmosphere of luske Asphalt!tes, or tbe
Deed .Sea, we will he ready to dismount aud
read from our Bible about what was done
that day by the Lord when he touched tbe
hills and they smoked.
Take a detour and pas* along by tbs rooky
fortress of Masada where occurred some
thing more wonderful In the way of deeper
otion than you liave ever hsaril of, unless
you liave hoard of that, ilerod built a
palace amid these heaps of black and awful
rooks which look like u tumbled midnight.
A great band of robbers, about one thou
sand including their families, afterward
held the fortress. When tbe Roman army
stormed that steep aud the bandits could
no longer hold the place, their chieftain,
Eleazar, made a powerful speech wbioh per
suaded them to die before they were capt
ured. Firs- the men kiss -d their ■ amities
a loving anil tearful good-by aud tlieu put
a dagger into their hearts aud the women
and ihe children were slain. Tben ten men
wore chosen by lot to slay all the other men,
and wioh man lay down by the dead wife
and children and waited for these execu*
tionsrs to do their work. This done, one
man of the teu killed ihe other nine. Then
the survivor sooimitted suicide. Two women
and live children had hid themselves,
and after all was over, came forth to toil of
the nine hundred aud sixty slaughtered.
Great and rugged natural soenery makes
the most tremendous natures for good or
evil. Great statesmen and great robbers,
great orators, and great butchers, were
neurly all born or rested among mountain
precipioea Strong nature* are hardly ever
born upon the plain. IVDen me.i have any
thing greatly good or greatly evil to do
they come down off tho rocks
i’ass on from under tbe shadow of Ma
sada, tbe scene of concentrated diabolism,
and come along where tbe salt crystals
crackle uuder tho horses’ hoofs You are
near the most God-forsaken region of all the
earth. You to whom the word lake has
heretofore suggested those bewitchment* of
beauty. Lucerne or Cayuga, some great
pearl sat by a loving God in the bosom of
the luxuriant val.ey, change all your ideas
about a lake, and see this sheet ot water
which tb* Bible calls the Suit tea,
or Sea of the Plain, and Josephus
calls Lake Aspiialtites. Tbe muleteers
will take care of tbe horses while we got
down to the brink and dip up tbe liquid
mixture in the palm of the hand. Th
waters are a commingling of brimstone
and pitch, and have six times larger per
centage of salt than those of the Atlantic
ocean, the ocean having four per cent, of
salt, and this lake twenty-six aud a quarter
percent. Lake Slr-i-kol of I .dia is the
highest lake in the world. This lake, on
tbe banks of which we kneel, is the lowest
lake. It empties into no sea, among other
things, for tne simple reason that water
cannot run up-hill It swallows up the
river Jordan, aud makes no response of
thanks, and never reports what it doe* with
the twenty million cubic feet of water
annually received from that eacred river.
It takes the tree branches and logs floated
into it by the Jordan and pitches them on
the banks of bitumen to dec iy there.
Th# hot springs near its banks by tbe
name of Caliirhoe, where King Herod came
to Dathe off his illnesses, no sooner pour into
this sea than thsv are poisoned. Not a flsh
sc tie swims it. Notan insect walks it. It
hate* life, and if you attempt to swim there
it lifts you by an unnatural buoyancy to the
surface, as much as to say, “Wi want no
life here, but death is our preference-death.”
Those who attempt to wade into this lake,
aud submerge themselves, come out almost
maddened, as with the sting of a hundred
wasps and hornets, and with lips and eyelids
swollen with the strange ablution. The
sparkle of its waters is not like
the sparkle of beauty on other
lakes, but a metallic luster like
unto tbe flash of a sword that would thrust,
you. The gazelles and tbe ibexes that iivd
