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< KsTABLIBHItD I*o. INCORPORATED 1883. V
( J, H. ESTILL. President )
TREMONT TEMPLE AFIRE.
the PARKER HOUSE DAMAGED BY
WATER.
Tbs Fir® Discovered by a Guest of
tha Hotel at 7 O’Cloclc in the Morn
iug—The Guests Aroused by tha
Hotel Gongs—The Tota. l.oea $225,-
000.
Boston, March 19.—Fire broke out about
7 o’clock this morning in Tremont tempie,
oo Tremont street, opposite the Tremont
house, and before noon the entire structure
was gutted, entailing a loss roughly esti
mated at #225,000.
Fireman Patrick Dunn of Engine No. 26
had a leg broken, and another man, whose
name is unknown, is reported seriously In
jured.
Box 729 was rung in al out 7:50 o'olock.
This is the special bo* of the Parker house,
and people pictured with the ringing a big
hotel conflagration and all its attending
horrors. An employe of the Parker house
sounded the gongs of the different floors to
arouse the guests aud quickly the occupants
of the rooms hurried out in great
excitement. When it was seen that there
was no immediate danger of the tire reach
ing the hotel, the guests proceeded to re
move their trunks. The protective depart
ment did much to save the interior of the
house from the water that poured down
through the open stairway. It was not the
Parker house ablaze but Tremont temple,
adjoining.
DISCOVERY OK THE FIRE.
The fire in the temple was discovered by
one of the guests on the fourth floor of the
Parker house. He had first been aroused
by smoke, and on going to his window was
startled by seeing flames darting from the
window fronting him. He thought it was
the hotel, and smashing the glass on one of
the signal boxes on his floor sent in the first
alarm Pedestrians on Tremont street had
noticed the smoke issuing from the upper
story of the temple and they .'-out in an
alarm from box 35, quickly following it
with a second.
Through the open windows in the upper
floors of the hotel great volumes of smoke
poured In from the horning building, which
was a fiery furnace twenty mit u’es after
the first alarm. The blaze poured from ail
the upper windows, threatening the Burn
ham building and W. T. Butler’s building
adjoining on Tremont street, placing the
Parker house and the Park hotel in danger
in the rear, aud alarming the firemen last it
should get down among the rookeries on
Province court. The firemen ran lines
of hose up through the Parker
house and the Park hotel and
both buildings were damaged by water.
At 9;30 o’clock the fire was well under
control.
The loss on the temple is variously esti
mated from $825,000 to $375,000, while the
Parker house is believed to have been
damaged by water to the extent of $50,000.
besides the Union Temple cburoh Rev.
Dr. George C. Lorlmer, pastor,the following
were amung the concerns occupying offices
in the temple building: Polish Hohool of
Oratory, American Baptist Missionary
Mission, Home Mission Hooiety, the busi
ness and editorial departments of the
Watchman and the Baptist Social Union,
office of the Homan’s Voice and Loyal
Women of America.
ORIGIN OF THE FIRE.
The fire originated in the organ loft.
The definite cause is unknown, but is at
tributed to either defective eleotric
ieht wires or overheated steam
pipes. Tremont temple was not
entirely burned. The flames extended to
the roof, destroying it, together with the
organ loft gallery and generally wrecking
the interior, while the remainder of the
building was flooded.
CAPT. J. H. VAN DERHILT iJaiAD.
He Was a Brother of the Late Commo
dore Cornelius Vanderbilt.
New Brighton. S. L, March 19.—Capt.
Jacob Hand Vanderbilt, brother of the late
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, died at
his home on Grimes hill, Btaten Island, at 6
o’clock to-night. He had an attack of con
gestion of the lungs two weeks ago, and for
four or five days wasdelirous and in a criti
cal condition. He recovered from that at
tack, but was left in a very weak condition
and did not rally. For several days his
death was expected. His son, J. H. Van
derbilt, Jr., was alone at the bedside with
the nurses, at the time of bis death,
his daughter and his nephew, Cornelius
' •ndarbilt, having left the house but a
short time before the end came. Capt.
' anderbilt was born on the east shore of
btaten Island onPept. 2, 1807. The funeral
arrangements have not yet been announced
but he will be buried in the Moravian ceme
tery at New Dorp, 8. I.
CLHVELA’vD AT CHURCH.
The President and Hie Wife at the
First Presbyterian.
Washington, March 19.—President and
Mrs. Cleveland attended religious services
this morning at the First Presbyterian
church. During the latter half of bis
former administration President Cleveland
was a regular attendant at this cburoh.
boon after his inauguration he selected a
re\ ami each Sunday morning, with but
is" exceptions, found him in bis aocustomed
P'aca. After his marriage Mrs. Cleveland
brought her letter to this church aud was
carolled as one ef its members. They will
continue to use the pew which was formerly
occupied by them.
DIXON TO FIGHT SIDDONS.
The Men to Meet To-night in a 12-round
Bout for $2,500.
Nkw York, March 19. —The champion
feather-weight George Dixon has agreed to
ake the place left vacant bv Jack Hkelly
ud will meet George Biddons before the
"Onoy island Athletlo Club tomorrow night,
arrangements to this end were oonsum
Dialed this afternoon by officials of the
Diney Island club and both Siddonsand
•uou, after a long and vexing diseu sion
.*J U 9 articles of agreement to battle
waive rounds for the original purse, $2,500.
>xon is in pretty lair condition to put up
hurricane contest for twelve rounds.
SWITCHMEN STRIKE.
D o Big Four Road Accused of Vio
lating Its Agreement.
Springfield, 0., March 19. —The entire
°Tce of the Big Four yard switchmen went
°d* on a strike this morning at 4 o’clock
‘he yards are again tied up. The
’‘fitchmeu claim that they have struck bo
f.® U8 ° the road has not lived up to
, B Kreement to take the men back after
compromise of two weeks ago. The
, ‘, 'huicn demand the discharge of Ynrd
‘ , er Carney, pay for overtime, ar.d reiu-
Dumb** nt Bl * th 9 •Wikoro, thirty-four in
SESSIONS OF THE SENATE.
The Confirmation of Nominations to
Begin This Week.
Washington, March 19.—There is some
reason to expect that the Senate will enter
in earnest this week upon the business for
which it was called together. 8o far not a
single nomination has been acted upon, ex
cept cabinet appointments. Excluding half
dozen army and navy promotions, there are
now sixteen presidential nominations which
have not yet been passed upon even in com
mittee, and therefore it is unlikely that to
morrow’s session will result in any confirm
ations, unless the committees manage to
meet in the morning. It is, however, the
intention of the committees having charge
of these nominations to get together early
in the week, aud it is probable that within
a few days there will be some material in
hand upon which the Senate may act in ex
ecutive session.
Saving the possibility of contest over the
attempt to reorganize the force of em
ployes, the open sessions of the Senate dur
ing the week do not promise to be frequent,
long or interesting, as It is hardly to tie ex
pected that the committee on privileges
and elections will be able to report upon the
senatorial appointment cases, which are
sure to prove a subject of discussion within
that time.
A PERPETUAL OFFICIAL.
If Hobsrt Chatfleld Chatfleld-Taylor
is an applicant for the position of secretary
of legation at Paris, he has changed his
mind. He has been anxious to be ap
pointed second seoretnry of legation at
London, a position which for a time was
held by Mr. McCormick, a son-in-law of
Joseph Mediil. The reason, possibly, why
Mr. Taylor did not aspire to the chief sec
retaryship at London is that the present
incumbent, Mr. White, Is a functionary
who is regarded as so indispensable that he
runs on under all administrations like
Tennyson’s brook, forever. Mr. White is
the goutlemau who tells all our new am
bassadors to London what the social duties
of their positions are and bow to do them;
what clothes to wear and how to wear
them; whom to call upon end when to
call; the persons whom they should intro
duce at court aud those whom they should
snub. He is a sort of lord high chamber
laiu for our ambassadors. He has been
continued in office under many administra
tions. It is said that at times new minis
ters who have gODe there expecting to dis
pense with his services have discovered in
torty-eight hours that the United Htatee
legation in London would be a very lone
some place unless it should be graced by
Mr. White, first secretary. The position is
one to which many may aspire, but which
few Americans, unless they belong to the
class who ‘’have lived so long abroad,”
would care to attempt to fill. Mr. Taylor
is not the kind of man who would be satis
fied with that sort of work.
The position of second seoretary of !ega
tion at Paris is of a different order. It is
one tne inoumbeni of which can enjoy all
the social ad vantage* of tne London mission
with few of its responsibilities. The fact
that there is SI,OOO difference in the salaries
between the two secretaryships would not
be a great drawback to Mr. Taylor, who
has millions in his own right already aud
possibly a fortune by marriage. Mr. Tay
lor is the soa-in-law of ex-Heuator Forwell
of Illinois. Mr. Far well was always on
good relations with Grover Cleveland
even before his rupture with Benja
min Harrison, and is a man who
erally accomplishes what he seeks.
If Hobart Taylor desires to be
secretary of legation auv where the fact that
he is the son-in-law of Charles B. Farwell
would not iujure him in the opinion of Gro
ver Cleveland. The report now is that Mr.
Taylor has transferred his application from
London to Paris. If this is true, the reason
probably is that he has discovered that ttie
position of second secretary at London is
already preempted, and that the Paris sec
retaryship is the only one of those two great
missions which he would be likely to secure.
The position in Paris is also one to which
for many years there has been nn aid at
tached, in the person of an American of
French origin, who performs in great
measure the same function as does Mr.
White in London.
UNDER THE RED CROSS.
The Society Given a Piece of Land In
the Blue Grass Region.
Washington’, March 19.—Miss Clara
Barton, president of the American National
Red Cross Society, in accepting a gift of
land on the borders of the blue grass region
of the state of-Indiana, tendered the associ
ation last month by Dr.
Joseph Gardner of Bedford, Ind., writes:
‘•This land, as the property of the
American National Red Cross, will be the
one piece of ueutral ground on the western
hemisphere, protected by international
treaty against the tread of hostile feet.
It is a perpetual sanctuary against
invading armies and will be so
respected and held sacred by the
military powers of the world. Forty
nations are pledged to hold all material and
stores of the Red Cross and all its followers
neutral in war, and free to go and come as
their duties require.”
CLEVELAND’S SUMMERS.
The President Looking Fora Suburban
Place Near Washington.
Washington, March 19.—President
Cleveland is looking around for a summer
residence within easy riding distance from
the white bouse. He intends to live up to
his former rule of not absenting himself
from Washington and his executive duties
for a longer period than one month in each
year he presides over the white house.
Other public servants are granted one
month's leave of absenoe every year and he
does not propose to go beyond that limit.
One day last week he sent for a prominent
business man who is interested in suburban
real estate and discussed several sites. Later
on he and Mrs. Cleveland took a drive and
casually inspected two or three more or less
desirabis pieces of property.
A FACTORY IN RUINB.
Loss Over @175,000 and Seventy-flvo
Persons Thrown Out of Work.
North Easton. Mass., March 19.—E. J.
Morse & Co.’a large brick cotton thread
factory at South Lastou was burned about
midnight Saturday. The fire, when first
seen, was in or near the engine room. The
loss on the buildings and machinery is esti
mated from .-5175,000 to SBOO,OOO. It was
only partially lusured. It was the largest
fire In the history of the town, and will
throw about seventy-five handß out of
employment.
Little Freddie Lee Dead.
Pbmrroke, Ga., March 19. —Freddie, the
13-year-old son of F. P. Lee, formerly of
Bulloch county but now of Savannah, died
this morning at3 o’clock after a short spell
of typhoid fever at the home of L. M. |
Lanier, two miles from this place.
His father came up from Savannah last
night and reached Mr. Lanier’s about an
hour before bis son died. Mrs. Lee is ill and
is not expected to live. She came to .Mrs.
Lanier’s about two week- ago, Freddiecom
iug with her. At that time he was in per- :
feet health. j
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MARCH 20, 18911.
MIQU6L FAVORS A TRUCE.
He Wants the Country Saved the
Evils of a General Election.
Berlin, March 19. —ln an interview
with the Southern Associated Press cor
respondent Dr. Johannes Miquel, the Prus
sian minister of finance, concerning the
critical situation created by the attitude of
the parties toward the army bill said: “In
the event of the dissolution of the Reichstag,
a majority of the German electors,
I believe, will support tbe army
bill. The South Germans and the
Rhinelanders who would suffer most from
an invasion by a French army would be
especially anxious to return deputies who
would favor strengthening the army to the
full extent demanded by the government.
In my opinion, however, the wisest
course would be to efi'eot a compromise with
the present Reichstag and thus avoid the
disadvantages suffered by the country from
a general election. A majority for the
present measure in a modified form could
be secured by some diplomatic negotiation
with the olerloals and the radicals (freisiu
nigel.” Dr. Miquei's opinions on the sub
ject are regarded as exceptionally Impor
tant, as he is being accused
daily of intriguing to precipi
tate a cabinet crisis in connection with the
bill, to oust Count von Caprivi and to secure
his own elevation to the chancellorship. Dr.
Miquel made no more direct reference to
Count von Caprivi’s policy than that con
tained in his recommendation of a com
promise. The chancellor’s refusal to com
promise, however, is the cause of the
present oritioal condition of affairs.
a catholic rally routed.
The Rioters Spit on the Crucifix and
Rout the Audience.
Paris, March 19.—The socialists at
Roubaix to-day stormed a hall in which
the Catholics were holding a private meet
ing. When the rioters had broken in tbe
doors several Catholics tried to bar lhair
progress into the meeting. The rioters
throw them down and forced their way to
the platform, where the priests bad raised
an altar and placed a oruoiflx. They spit
on tbe crucifix, broke it into fragments
and tossed the pieces into the congregation.
The priests, hoping to allay the excitement,
began to intone anthems. Their calmness
only aggavated the ugliness of the
mob. The priests were attuokod, knocked
down, carried to the doors and thrown into
the streets. While some rioters drove out
the men, women and children of the con
gregation, others smashed the furniture in
tbe hall. Many women and several men
were severely injured by being knocked
down and trampled while tbe rioters were
ejeotiug them. The poiioedid not arrive in
sufficient force to control tne mob nntll
after the hall bad bean emptied of the
Catholios and all the furniture had been
destroyed. Numerous arrests were made
aud more are expected to follow.
OVER TWENTY LIVES LO4T.
Two Families Suffocated and Fifteen
Persons Killed in Jumping at a Fire.
Madrid, March 19.—At 3 o’clock this
morning fire broke out In a pastry cook’s
shop in St. Sebastian. A kog of spirits ex
ploded aud spread the fire to adjoining
houses which were densely tenanted. All
tbe occupants were sleeping and the flames
were arcund them before they could be
warned. Two families on the top floor of
a 4-story house were suffocated in their
beds.
Fifteen persons jumped from windows.
Ten of them were killed and three received
mortal injuries.
Twenty-one persons are known to nave
perished and several others whose fate is
unknown, are believed to have been burned
or crushed in the ruins.
GERMANY’S SOCIALISTS.
The May Day Demonstration Aban
doned.
Berlin, March 19. —Tbo celebration yes
terday in memory of the patriots who fell
in the revolution of 1848 was quiet beyond
all expectations. The police, bad made
elaborate preparations to quell any disturb
ance, but found no need of interfering with
tbe small and orderly groups that went out
to the Friedriohshain to lay wreaths on the
graves of the revolutionary martyr.
The social democrats have decided cot to
observe next May day. They give as their
reason for abandoning their plan for an 8-
hour demonstration the Impoverished con
dition of workingmen throughout tbe em
pire. Tbe men, they say, have no money
to spend on celebrations, as they need all
they oan get to Bave themselves and their
families from starvation.
DILLON ON THE STOMP.
The Irish Willing to Have Protective
Clauses Inserted.
London, March 19. John Dillon,
nationalist, member of parliament for East
Mayo, in speaking to a Glasgow audience
to-night said that, if in the trouble with
Ulster It came to lining ditohes, home rule
Irishmen could hold their own with any
body. He scouted the idea of persecution
of Protestants by Catholios in Ireland.
Nevertheless, he said, the Irish were will
ing to submit to tbe humiliation of having
clauses for the protection of Protestants in
Ireland inserted in the home rule bill.
A ROYAL TRAIN WRECKED.
The King and Queen of Portugal
Aboard, but No Ona Injured.
Lisbon, March 19.—King Carlos, Queen
Marie Amalie and ail tbe members of the
cabinet went on a special train to Caidos da
Bainha to-day to open a hospital. The
train ran off tbe track at Camp
aldie, and all the passengers were
turown off their seat-. Aside from
the fright caused by the shock, however,
nobody Buffered from the accident. After
two hours waiting the royal party proceeded
on another train to Caldas da Bainha.
AN OFFER TO COMPRcMiBE.
The Bpinu ere of Manchester Willing to
Yield Half the Cut.
Manchester, Marah 19.—The operative
cotton spinners of this city have offered to
resume work forthwith if the reduction of
wages be limited to 2>£ per cent. They
also suggest arbitration as the means of
settling future disputes between the mas
ters aid men. The strike of the cotton
spinners, which has lasted almost five
months, was caused by an attempt of the
masters to euforce a 5 per cent, reduction.
A .General Strike In Belgium.
Brussels, March 19.—The general coun
cil of the labor party of Belgium, oompoeed
of delegates from the workingmen’s soci
eties throughout the country, have resolved
unanimously to proclaim a general strike
incase parliament should not vote universal
suffrage. Tbe oouncil bave passed similar
resolutions before, but never have put them
into effect.
LYNCHED BY FIVE MEN.
ONE OF THE MURDERERS OF A
SHERIFF HANGED TO A GATE.
Tbe People of the Village In Ignorance
of the Lynching Until the Corpse
Was Found Dangling in the Air In
the Morning The Jailor Over
powered.
Knoxville, Tbnn., March 19.—Jesse
Jones, one of tbe orowd of desperadoes con
cerned in the murder of Sheriff Burnett on
a Knoxville and Ohio train near New
cornbe yesterday, was taken from jail at
Jackaboro last night and lynched.
Immediately after the killing he jumped
from the train, hut was followed and capt
ured by Deputy Sheriff Dali, who was
himself shot in tbe head. In jumping Jones
fell and broke bis arm. The peculiarity
about the mob was its silence and small
numbers, and although Jacksboro Is
ouly a small village, the citizens
knew nothing of the hanging uutil this
morning, w hen the body was found dang
ling from the cross beam of a large gate a
quarter of a mile east of the town.
Five men went to the house of the jailer,
adjoining the jail, at 10 o'clock last night
and rapped on the kitobeu door, and asked
for food. The jailer opened the door and
was immediately covered by five revolvers.
His keys were seized and the jail doors un
locked. Ho quietly was this done that al
though a large meetiug of citizens was be
ing held in tbe city halt in the
same lot, they knew nothing of
the affair. Jones met death bravely, only
remarking: “He was sorry to go.” A man
was lynched on this same gate about a year
ago.
Deputy Bheriff Dail, who was wounded in
the fight is improving anti may recover.
SAFE IN PORT.
The Sarnia Reaches Halifax With All
on Board Well.
Halifax, Maroh 19.—At 9 o'olock to
night it was announced from signal station
No. 5 that the steamer Sarnia and the
steamer New field were off this port ami
considerable excitement was caused there
by. The Sarnia, of course, had to anchor
at quarantine for inspection by the health
offioers. The Newfield oame on up and
crowds assembled at the marine
and fishers’ wharf to get any news she
bad. The Newfield had sighted the disabled
ship about noon and run down to her. Car
rier pigeons were released at intervals from
then till ft o’clock, but they failed to reach
their lofts. The Newfield encountered a
hurricane yesterday fro n 2 to ti o’clock and
Sustained considerable carnage.
It is learned that the t arma engineers had,
after working night an day, repaired tbe
broken shaft so that tb steamer took in her
sea anohor at ft o’clojj: Friday afternoon
and went ahead unuaJ steam at about
eight knots an hour, reaching here as above
stated. All of the 700 and
odd passengers are well ar.d were well cared
for, the ship’s larder being ample for all
their want*. The ,Sarnia’s offioers say tbo
latitude and longitude given by tbe steamer
American In her report at New York was
totally wrong, the disabled vessel being 200
or 300 miles from the position given 1)7 the
American.
FERRY’S FUNERAL.
The Services to Be in Accordance
With the Augeburg- Uonfoaalon.
Pa rip, March 19.—The body of Jules
Ferry was placed in a coffin to-day, and to
morrow will be removed to the great hall
of the Senate, where it will lie in state on
Tuesday.
Tbe services at the funeral
will be conducted in accordance
with the Augsburg confession, as were
those at the funeral of Renan. Ferry was
reared a Catholic but after his marriage
adopted Protestautism as he said, because
be believed it to be a wise compromise be
tween Catholicism and free thought. An
additional reason w*s that his wife was
a Protestant aud he wished to attend church
with her.
A SENSATION AT THE VATICAN.
The Pope's Physician Believed to Bave
Been Poisoned.
Rome, March 19. —The fttessagero I'atria
says that an inquiry has been ordered to
ascertain the facts concerning tbe recent
death of Dr. Ceiccorelli, the pope’s physi
cian. There is a susDiolon, says the A!es
taijcrn, that he was poisoned at the instance
of his relatives and a woman belonging to
one of the oldest Catholic families in Italy.
Rome’s E xplosions.
Rom*. March 19.—A French anarchist
named Barnard was arrested here to-dav.
He is suspeoted of having caused the ei
plosions at the Palu/.zo Mate! and tbe
Palace Altieri.
Spanish Monarchists Triumphant.
Madrid, Maroh 19. The senatorial ejec
tions have resulted in a sweeping victory
for the monarchists.
IN A*COFFIN IN A TRANCE.
The Man Revives and Claims to Have
Been in Heaven.
Milan, Tenn., March 19.—There is much
exoitement in the community of Marshal
Chapel over the death of Robert Bell. H*
apparently died after a short illness of
typhoid fever. Hi* body was prepared for
burial and preparations made for the
funeral. In the midst of the services a
noiso was hoard in the coffin. Quickly
bursting the lid Bell sat up. was removed to
bis home and in a few hours was feeling
muoh better, lie claimed to bnvo been
in heaven and saw many friends. His won
derful story drew many people to tbo house.
Last night he became sick and suddenly
called out, “ They are oonitng for roe, '■ aud
fell back dead. His physician claims that
he was in a trance, and, awakening in tne
coffin, his mind was wrecked.
Choynakl Challenges Fitzsimmons.
Han Francisco. March 19.—Parson Da
vis has issued the following: “On behalf of
Joe Cboyuski. I challenge Bob Fitz
simmons to fight for a side wager
of $5,1)90 aud the largest purse
obtainable, the match to be at catch
weights to take place in from three to six
months from date.” Davies says ho means
business and that Fitzsimmons can com
municate with him at Los Angeles until
next Wednesday.
Walb.-fG. Wi-a.
New York, March 19. The first game
of the match between Walbredt and Ett
linger was played to-day at the Manhattan
Chess Club, when Walbredt won after
thirty-two moves. Tbe opening wasaßuy
Lopez played by Walbredt.
The second game between Ettlinger and
W albredt opened with a Buy Lopez,andjwai
won by Walbredt after forty-one moves.
THREE CONVIGT3 AT LARGE.
One of Them Worth $20,000 and Faye
1 Hie Victim’s Widow a Pension.
Waycross, Ga., March 19.—News has
reached here of the escape of five white
convicts from the penitentiary camps at
Wnltertown, Ga., yesterday. The prisoners
made their escape at noon. They wore
citizens’ clothes and were armed with pis
tols aud hatchets. The runaways walked
quietly through the place aud no notice
was taken of them till they came near a
certain residence, where they were recog
nized by a lady. The guards were promptly
notified of the escape and they arme<* them
selves and a few other men with Winchester
rifles and started in hot pursuit of tue run
aways. The posse came upon tbe
convicts in a pise thioket near ’A ores
boro. The convicts opened tiro upon tin)
guards with their pistols. The guards con
cealed themselves behind some saplings and
returned the fire with their Winchesters,
and a hot battle ensued. The oonvictß
fought, des orately. The fight lasted sev
eral minutes, when two of the convicts
threw down thrir arms and gave themselves
up as prisoners to the guards. The three
other convicts mado their escape. The two
prisoners were carried back to the camps.
It it generally believed that the runaways
received assistance to make their osoape
from persona outside.
The convicts who are still at large are
desperate men and well armed. Their names
are: Charles Bowden, for life; Twiggs
Haines, for nine years; William McNorton,
for four years. Charles Bowden is a hand
some, well educated voung man, ami is
worth #2O,O(Xi. He was sentenced fur life
two years ago for murdering a white man
in Middle Georgia. He pays the widow of
the murdered man SSOO a year. He is said
to have carried $l2O with him from tho
camps. His behavior in tho camps was
good.
WAYCROHS NEWS WAIFB.
J. 8. Sharp Temporary Receiver for
tbe Stock: of Herschkovltz Bros.
Waycbobs, Ga., March 19. —The potition
for a temporary receiver for the stock of
Herschkovitz Bros, was heard before Judge
Joel L. Hweat in obanoery yesterday. The
court appointed J. H. Sharp as temporary
receiver. The receiver was ordered toopen
up the five stores and commence business.
Tho case will be heard again in the superior
court the first week in April and a perma
nent receiver will be appointed.
Dr. J. R. Dedgeof this city nas received
a present in the form of a rattlesnake four
feet long from a friend in Appling oounty.
The snake is very vioious looking and will
strike at sticks, etc.
There were two ruuaways by teams on
the streets yesterday. The horses beenme
frightened at an incoming train as they
were nearing the Brunswick and Western
crossing on ITant avenue, near the bank.
Thoy created quite an excitement for a few
minutes.
W. K. Hweat, street overseer, ia putting
the sidewalks iu the business portion of tho
city iu a better oondition. The improve
ment is only Intended as temporary. The
sidewalks will he paved in the near future.
SLASHED AT A DANCE.
J. C. Hope Probably Fatally Injured
In Being kjected.
Waycross, Ga., March 19.—A serious
and probably fatal stabbing affray occurred
two miles from this plane about 2 o’clock
this morning. Edward J. Jones, a young
man, was stabbed, receiving eleven deep
gashes in the Btomach and arm. Jones and
J. C. Hope of this place went to the house
of a man named Driggers whore there was
a dance. John and Houry Driggers and
Owen Griffin tried to put Jones out of the
house and that caused a ro w. Jones received
surgical attention us soon as he could be
brought home, it is not i elioved that he
will live. Hheriff Miller arrested (Iwen
Griffin and John and Henry Driggers this
morning on a warrant sworn out by J. C.
Hope and they were put in jail.
HUICIDE OF A POBTMA6T3R
Bad Health Prompted the Deed—Bis
Accounts All Right.
Waycross, Ga., March 19.—Dr. R. W.
Fuller, postmaster at Alapaba, committed
suicide early Haturday morning by taking
an overdose of morphine. The following
note addressed to his father, T. J. Fuller,
postmaster at this place, was found on tho
table near the corpse:
March 17, 1893.
I>kar Father—My office is all right. Give
what the government owes ino to my wife. 1
am not long for ihta world. It may not be hut
for a few hours. R. w. Fuller.
He leaves a wife and two children. Bad
health was the cause of tbe deed. The in
terment of the body took place at Lott cem
etery in this city this evening.
ALL ABOUT AMSHICUS.
A Wedding—The State Medical Asso
elation’s Meeting.
Amerious, Ga., March 19.—At 5:30
o’clock this afternoon Dudley Castleberry
was married to Miss Neva Parker at the
residence of her uuole, E. C. Speer, Esq.,
corner Lee and Church streets, Dr. A. B.
Campbell performing tho ceremony. Mr.
Castleberry is one of the city’s most relia
ble young business men and has many
friends. Miss Parker’s personal charms
and gentleness of manner bave made ber
very popular amung her large olrcle of
friend*.
On April 19 the State {Medical Assocla
will meet in Americus. About 200 mem
liers are expeoted to attend. Ample ar
rangements are In progress. The sessions
of the atsociation will te held in tbe new
city hall
There was a whits frost and considerable
ioe this morning. Much apprehension for
the safety of the fruit crop is felt, but one
of our oldest citizens to-day expressed per
fect confidence that it is not seriously in
jured.
A leading farmer of this county brought
in and sold to meat dealers yesterday $l5O
worth of pork and beef, which i# only a
small part of the surplus yield of his farm.
For the pest three weeks daily me.etings
bave been held In all the white churches
of the city. Attendance upon the services
has been unusually large and quite a num
ber have been added to the church rolls of
membership. Services will be continued
through the present week.
Gon. Thomas at Brunswick.
Brunswick, Ga., Maroh 19.—Some of
the most prominent visitors to Brunswick
this season are at the Oglethorpe to-day.
They are Gen. Ham Thomas, Mrs. Ham
Thomas, Mrs. M. Carpenter, Miss Edilh
Carpenter, Miss Agnes Carpenter, Miss
Alice B. Lee aud Col. B. W. Wrenn.
They leave to-night for The Inn, Lookout
Mountain, and tno Hotel Four Seasons,
Cumberland Gap. In honor of their guests
the Oglethorpe to-dav served Its courses a
la members of tbo party.
A Cloth Cuirass.
Berlin, Maroh 19.—The war office has
decided to adopt the cloth cuirass invented
by a Mar.heim tailor to resist tbe force of a
■moll bullet.
CROKER’S CASH
It Is the Subject of Much Comment tn
New York.
One of those men who without being very ,
high In tbe oounseis of Tammany, say* a
New York special, is nevertheless a good'
deal of a power in the organisation, uidng
his authority in a way wnich ia not manifest
to tne public, said to me this morning that
lu the report made yesterday of tho wealth
of Kinhaid C'roker I had very much under
nstiniat,d bis possessions. Croker, he -aid,
was worth not far from $1,000,000, and in
fact has invested in the i ast year and a half
or two years nearly $500,000 in his racing
stables and his breeding farm at Richfield
Bprmgs, although Honator Murphy has a
part interest with him in that farm.
“Mr. Croker," my informant added,
“was a poor man about sir years ago. 1
don’t think be ever was let Into any of those
profitable arrangements by which others in
Tammany Hall, taking advantage of their
political Influence, wore able to secure
handsome profits, not illegally, whatever
may be said of the morality of tho trans
notion. But for some yrars before Mr..
Croker succeeded John Kelly as the mon
arch of Tammany the;e had been little
chance for profitable association with con
tractors or those who had to do with public
works. Those who bad such opportunities
were in the county democracy.’ The new
aqueduct, which the city needed bad ly
enough, was expeoted to lie a splendid
source of profit to men of influence in that
organization. I do not think, howover
any of them made muoh money. Hubert
•I. Thompson expected to keep control of
the organization and to keep the organiza
tion victorious over Tammany very largely
through the mighty power which these
nquoduot contracts would give. But Cleve
land, by his refusal to help the county
democracy in the way or patronage, and
the course of Abram 8. Hewitt while
mayor, tho death of Thompson, the legis
lating < f the aqueduct commission out of
office, all combined to prevent the realiza
tion of the hope that colossal scheme had
engendered.
“That paved the way for the defeat of
that organization and the restoration to
power of Tammany, which has lieon in full
control of the city less than four years. 1
suppose Mr. Croker’s friends will saT that
by reason of his influence with Tammany
he has been permitted to come in upon the
ground floor in several real estate opera
tions which bave been very profitable.
They may say this perhaps with truth, al
though no on* knows better than Croker
himself that it will Te impossible to moke
tbe public believe that he gained all uis
property by real cb ate or any other spaou
lation.”
Mr. Croker himself testified that tn 1885
ho was obliged In borrow a sum of money
o:i mortgage, and the Intimation iu his t<-
timony was that this step was compelled by
his poverty. Yet four years after that he
whh able to buy the farm at Richfield
Springs—and a vory beautiful pieoe of
property it is—and to invest a year later
$159,000 In stocking It. The investment* in
this projierty and in tbe valuable hores
which lie tins put upon it amount to over
#250,000, and his puruhase on Wednesday
of an Interest iu tbe Belie Meade farm In
volve* an outlay of $250,000 more. His
now house and some adjoining real estate
are estimated to lie worth more than SIOO,-
tX)O, and be has other property In Harlem
worth at least $50,000 more; so that there is
visible, according to thesn reports. $650,000
worth uf property owntd by a man whof
five years ago, won prooticnlly penniless,
and who has hail no other visible occupa
tion than politics in that time. Mr. Croker’s
stylo of living is such as would require an
income of $25,000 or $30,000 a year, and
therefore It does seem as though the esti
mate of iny informant that Mr. Croker is
worth #1,u00,000 or more Is correct.
FORTUNES IN PUQILieM.
Oorbett Says $76,000 or SBO,OOO
Purses are Acceptable.
Indianapolis, Ino., March 19 —James
J. Corbett, champion pugilist of the world,
who is in town, says be thinks ouly good
men can oompete for tho large purses now
being offered, and that the Crescent City
Club was foolish to offer $49,000 for two
Australians.
Asked what was the lowest purse be
would fight for Corbett said: “We have
two offers, one #75,099, the other $80,01)0.
Either would be acceptable. But lam not
going to fight for any small amount.
“The fight between Mitchell and myself,”
he said, "will be the first international light
that has evor taken place in this country
where people oould sit down and see it as if
they were in a theater.”
Of Mitchell,Corbett ssids “I never saw
him fight, lint I know him to be shifty and
tricky, a hard bitter and a good general.
He will be the first man I evor fought any
where near my own weight. Tha light be
tween us will be a hard one and Is likely
to last long.
“Hulllvan will never fight again. He's
done and it’s no use crying about it. I shall
train throe months before the fight with
Mitchell. I don’t have to oome to terms
with any club. They must oome to 'mine.
I did not blow in my money and I am more
independent than the clubs. I have more
money than auy of them and I don’t pro
pose to fight for a cent less than I am
worth.”
AN OUTSPOKEN SENATOR.
Ho Sees Nothin? But Annoyance In
Hawaiian Annexation.
Nktv York, March 11). —Poor Hawaii will
sigh for annexation in rain if aha depends
upon the rote and influence of Senator li.
F. Pettigrew of South Dakota. He Is at the
Fifth Avenue hotel and (poke bis mind
freely on the aubjoot to-day.
“When Senator Chandler." he said, “in
troduced his annexation treaty I was the
only republican opposed to it. Now, eight
or nine are strongly against annexation.
The feeling against annexation is growing.
A number of democratic senators are also
opposed to it. Why, the idea of annexing
those islands is ridiculous. You riaver
heard of soil that produces a banana pro
ducing re and men. It produces a banana
race of males, effete, subject to leprosy and
non-progressive. The tnird clause iu the
proposed treaty was outrageous. It pro
posed to give, after a year, Hawaiian sugar
the benefit of the bounty. That would
amount to $78,000,000 before tie McKinley
law with the sugar bounty olauie expires.
We have already given those islands $70,-
000,000 by admitting sugar free of duty. I
think wo have done enough for a few tropi
cal islands that would be a white elephant
on our hands."
Judge Jackson’s succensor.
Wamhinoton, March 19.—1 t is reported
here to-night, on apparently good author
ity, that among the nominations to be sent
to the Hecate to-morrow will be that of
Chief Justice H. H. Burton of the supreme
court of Tennessee to he judge of the Hixtb
judicial circuit in plaoo of Howell E. Jack
son, promoted to ti.e bench of the United
Htates supreme court.
Salisbury Confined to H's Bed.
Loudon, March 19.—Lord Salisbury is
confined to bis bed and forbidden by bis
physician to attend to any business what
ever. 11s has sent a dispatch to Belfast say
ing that he hopes to lie atla to address a
meeting of unionists there on April 4.
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RELIGION IN THE HOME.
TALM&GE DIBOCU3HBJON A TEXT
FROM JO--HUA.
Despite the Military Career of the
Biblical Hero f.e Found Time to
Serve the Lord—What Religion Will
do for the Household The Pace
That Kills.
Chicago, March 19.—Rev. Or. Talnmgs,
who is now iu this city on a brief vUit, did
not preach to-day. He prepared for tbe
press, however, the following discourse on
“Religion at Home,” the text selected being
Joshua xxiv, 15: “As for me and my house
wa will sorve the Lord.”
Absurd, Joshua’ You will have no time
for family religion; you aie a military
character, and your time will be taken np
with affairs connected with the army; you
are a statesman, and your time will be
tnkon up with publio affairs; you are the
Washington, the Wellington, the McMabou
of the Israelitisb host; you will have a great
many questions to settle; you will hove no
time for religion. Hut Joshua, wit.li the
same voice w ith which he commanded the
sen and moon to halt and stuck arms of
light oo the parade ground of tho heavens,
says “As for me aud my house, we will
serve the Lord.”
Before we adopt tha resolution of this old
soldier, we want to bo certain it is a wise
resolution. If religion is going to put iny
piauo out of tune, and clog She feet of the
children racing through the hall, aud sour
tho bread, and put crape on the door bell, I
do not want it In my bouse. 1 ouoe gave
six dollars to hear Jenny Lind warble, f
have never given u cent to hear any ona
groan. Will this religion spoken of in my
text do anything far the dining hall, for the
nursery, for the parlor, fur the sleeping
apartment?
it it a great deal easier Pi Invito a dis
agreeable guest than lu get rid of him. If
you do not want religion you had better not
ask it to eonio, for after coming it may stay
a great while. Isaac Watts went to visit
Hlr Thomas and i,udy Abuev at their place
iu Theobald, and was to slay a week, and
stayed thirty-five years; and if religion
onoe gets into your household, tbe proba
bility is it will stay there forever.
Now tho question I want todisouss is:
What will reiigicu do for our household!
Question the first. What did It do for your
lather’s home, if you were brought up in a
Christum home?
That whole arena has vanished, but it
cornea baolt to-day. The hour for morning
prayers came. ' You were invited in. riome
what fidgety, you eat and listened. Your
father made no pretention to rhetorical
reading, and he juet went through the
chapter in a plain ttralghforwnrd way.
Then you all knelt, it win about the aauia
prayer morning by morning and night by
night, for he bad the sarao wins to ask par
don for, and be had the same blessings for
which to he grateful day after day and
year after year. The prayer was longer
than you would like to have it, for the game
at hall was watting, or the skates were
lying under the shed, or the
fell uni books needed one or two
more looking at tbe lessons. Your
parents, somewhat rheumatic and stiffened
with age, found it difficult to rise from
their kneeling. Tbo chair at which they
knelt is gone, the ISihle out of whioh they
read has perhaps fallen to pleoes, the
parents are gone, the children scattered
north, east, south and west; but that whole
soenu flashes upon yrmr memory to-d iy.
Was that morning and evening exercise
in your father’s house debasing or elevat
ing* It Is not among the most sacred rem
iniscences* You were not as devotional as
some of tho older members of your father's
house who were kneeling with you at the
time, and you did not bow your head as
closely as they did, and you looked around
and you saw just tbe posture
your father and mother assumed
while they were kneeling on the
floor. The whole scene Is so photographed
on your memory that if you were an artist,
you could draw it now just as they knelt.
For bow much would you have that scene
obliterated from your memory* It alieomes
back to-day, and you are In the homestead
ngulo. Father is there, mother is there, all
of you children are there. It Is the same
old prayer, opening with the same petition,
closing with the same thanksgiving. The
family prayers of 1840, lbf>o as fresh in your
memory os though they were uttered yes
terday. The tear that starts from your eye
melts all that scene. Gone, is Itf Why,
many a time It has held you steady in the
struggles of life. You once started for a
place, and that memory jerked you back,
and you could not enter.
The broken prayer of your father has had
more effect upon you than all you ever read
in Shakeei aaie, and Milton, and Tennyson,
and Dante. You have gone over mountains
and across seas. You never for a moment
got out of sight of that domestic altar. O,
my friend, is it your opinion this morning
that the ten or fifteen minutes subtracted
from each day for family devotion was an
eoonomy, or a waste of time, in your
father’s household? 1 think some of us are
coming to tbe conclusion that tbe religion
whioh was in our father’s bouse would boa
very appropriate religion for our homes.
If family prayers did not damage th .t
household there is no probability that they
will damage our household,
“Is God dead?" said a child to her father.
“No," be repliedwhy do you ask thutf"
“Well,” she said, “when mother was living
we used to have prayers, but since her death
wo haven’t had family prayers, and I didn’t
know but that God was dead, too!" A
family that is launched In the morning with
family prayers is well launched. Breakfast
over, the family scatter, some to school,
soma to household duiios, some to business.
During the day there will be a thousand
peril* abroad—perils of the street car, of tba
scaffolding, of tha uhgovarnod horse, of tha
misstep of the aroused temper, of multuti
dmoue temptations to do wrong. Some
where between seven c'clcok in the morning
and ten o’olock at night there may be a mo
ment when you wil be lin urgent need of
God. Besides that, family prayers will be a
secular advantage. A father went
into the war to serve his coun
try. Hts children stayed and culti
vated the farm. His wife prayed. One
of tbe sons said afterward, “Father is fight
ing, and wo are digging, and mother is
praying.” “Ah'” said someone, “praying
and digging and fighting will bring us out
of our national troubles,” We may pray in
tho morning, “Give me this day our daily
bread,” and sit down In idleuess and starve
to death; but prayer and hard work will
give a livelihood to any family. Family re
ligion pays for both worlds. Let us have an
altar in each one of our households. You
may not be able to formulate a prayer.
Then there are Philip Henry’s prayers, aad
there are McDuffie prayers, and there are
Philip Doddridge’s prayers, and there are
the Episcopal ohurch prayers, end there are
soores of books with supplications just
suited to the domestic cirole.
“O!” says some man, “I don’t feel com*
patent to lend my household in prayer."
Well, I do not know that It Is your duty to
lead. I think perhaps it Is sometimes bet
ter for tbe mother of the household to lead.
She knows better tbe wants of the house
hold. Hhe can read the scriptures with a
more tender enunciation. She knows more
of God. 1 will put it plainly and say sho
prays better. Ui these mothers decide al
most everything. Nero's mother was a
murderess. Lord Byron’s mother was