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VOL. X.
HWA IE BTDfE!
Wreck in Pittsburg by an Ex
plosion of Natural Gas.
SEVEN PERSONS KILLED,
THIRTY INJURED AND FIFTEEN
HOUSES DEMOLISHED.
PANIC IN THE SMOKY CITY.
Horrible Catastrophe of Burn*. Fractured
Skulls and Broken Bone* Fearful
Scenes —Pedestrian# killed on the
Street and in a Street Car.
Phtsfubg, Feb 2.—A terrific natural gas
explosion took place at the < u nor of Thirty
fourth an 1 Butler st. reels. The explosion
originated in the cellar of August Mueller’s
saloon, which v.as entirely dene'.shed; else
tff <ah-ons of George Morris u; I Larry Eb
bert, bail-lings on opposite side of the street,
■were badly shattered. Shutters were
torn off and windows br-uen. The
drug store of George Pease was
wrecked. Immediately after the explo
sion t *ol place. The ilw< r and M rris
stdoouß took lire and were burned to me
ground. The explosion was caused by gas
leaking from the gas mains leading frowthe
gas wells at Murraysville, Westmoreland
county, to the’ frofa 'mills in Uii.- city. It is
sup; ■ sed the gas forced its wny through the
Mm l ar's cel ar. and when the lat
ter, with a lighted candle, went to tap an ale
barrel, the explosion took place Fifteen
persons were injured, some of th ■m fatally.
It is now stated that there w t .wo explos
ions, the first in Hermendorfer’s btr cher shop,
the second in Mueller’s cellar, reported in
the first dispatch. People passing on the side
walk w»>re blown across the stm t, and the
entire first floor of the saloon whh blown up.
Dr. Steinert, standing at the bar, was blown
to the ceil ..g, f II bac k i » the ■ Lar and was
ba-lly burned. Fred Quiser bad his skull
fractured and wid die. The barkeeper stan 1-
ing at the saloon door was blown across the
street. Fred Zinser, ptusiug along the street,
vi as struck by dying debris, his > ve knock ■ 1
out and his skull fractured H -will di*.
Amelia Oschenhurst was ba ily burne I and
her left leg broken She will die A butcher
named Ovenhart, driving along the Mr _*t,
was blown from his wagon and badly hurt.
Just a few moment* after the occurrence a
citizens line car paced in front of the
wrecked buildings ' led with passengers,
and a second exp'- > ; occurred, and the car
was thrown from the track by the force of
the uph< al.
The « -rnation among the passengers
was moi an a panic, and scarcely one of
the whoi umber escaped without more or
hiss injury. The driver was blown from his
position and so severely injured that he
may not recover. At the same time pieces
of timber and flying debris of all kind hurled
in the air by the second explosion, and caused
havoc among those who had gathered in the
vicinity, and the list of injured was swelled
UD'il it had reached betweeu twenty and
thirty.
Several other eruptions followed, and the
number of hous *s embraced was increased to
ten or fifteen.
After twenty minutes past twelve the sig
nal that the fire nad been extinguished was
lent in, but s areeiy ten minutes iiad elapsed
until another alarm was sounded from the
lame box, and additional steamers hurried
to the spot, not only to aid in extinguishing
the flames, but to assist in aiding in the care
of the injured and hunting for those who
were supposed to be buried under the build
ings which had been involved in the general
destruction.
The latest news is that seven persons were
killed by the first explosion. The excitement
Ib tearful.
At the recent explosion at Sharpsburg the
Indignant property owners threatened to tear
up the gas mams, but by means of wise coun
sel were dissuaded from their purpose. This
latest explosion is likely to cause a general
outbreak.
Death After the Dance.
Sandusky, 0., Feb 2.—A merry party of
nine were sleighing homeward from a bail at
Fort Clinton to their home in Oak Harbor.
They had just reached the Three-mile cross
ing when the Lake Shore train came thunder
ing down upoh them. Rus Rice, who was
driving, urged the hordes to their utmost en
deav ’s, and with a frightened spring they
jumped across the track, but only in time to
permit, the sleigh to be struck in the middle.
All of the occupants of the sleigh except
Rice were struck and dashed, some on one
side, some on the other. Stephen Hail, of
Detroit, and Jennie Whipple, of Wauseon,
were killed instantly. The wounded, some
fatally, are: Charles Vogel and wife, Abe
Thierwaehter and wife, John Vogel and wife.
Rice escaped uninjured.
The train stopped, backed up, took the
dead and dying on board, and carried them
to Oak Harbor. Arriving there they were
laid tenderly on the floor m the sitting room
till carriages could be sent for. Messengers
were dispatched to notify the families and
other relatives. With daylight the news
spread through the town and nearly the
whole population gathered at the grief
stricken homes with offers of ail, supplies
and care So widespread a calamity has
never before visited the town, ine dead
and wounded are all young people with a
wide circle of friends, relatives and acquain
tances.
A Mother’s Awful Fate.
Altoona, Pa., Feb. 2.—A belated citizen
passing the residence of George Love found
flames issuing from every window on the first
floor. Love and family sleep on the second
floor. The citizen instantly raised the cry of
fire, and rushed to awaken the family. The
shouting in the street awakened Mr. and Mrs.
Love and they rushed to the window. Ascer
taining their danger they hastened back to
the bed-room and seised their children Mr.
Love, with one child under each arm, leaped
to the ground with only a few bruises. Mrs.
Love appeared at the window a
few seconds later with the remaining
child. “Jump!” yelled the dozen of
half-dressed men who had by this time
gathered in the yard. “Jump for your life!
Throw him to me!" shouted the agonized hus
band She stood a moment, seemingly unde
cided, and then, dazed with fear or overcome
by the heat and smoke and the excitement of
the hour, she dropped across the window-sill,
still clasping her child to her bosom. A groan
of agony burst from the crowd which had by
this time gathered, and many turned away,
Sailj) i s* wines.
unable to endure the awful * b.t. No ladders
coui Ibe pro. nr- Y o hull- \ . possible; and
thej j, before :i., eyes oi ter Uu b;i' 1 and
friends and neighbors, Mrs. Love <»u.. her
chi! I burned to death, and foil nto the rel
hot ashes of their home. The husband is
neatly frantic with grief, an.l piteoush calls
Lif dead* rite by name. A kind neighbor has
opened ins h use for him ami the twu sur
viving ehialren.
THE PLUCKY REPORTER
Goes to Jail with His Secret, Committed
for Comempt of Court.
Roches fek, Feb. 2.—John Dennis, jr.,
the reporter who is supposed t.o be the author
of a series of articles on municipal corrup
tion, bribery of juries, etc., which have ap
t-eared in the Democrat and Chronicle, when
Ltefore the grand jury refused to <iivulge the
source from which he derived the informa
tion contained in the article which so excited
the wrath of the Hon. George Raines, who
acted as rouns. 1 for Alderman J. Miller Kelly
in the recent trial of that gentleman for ac
?- pting a bribe from the Baltimore and Ohio
!'■ - , rnpli Company. The article purported
to be an interview between the reporter and
in “oi l political lawyer,” ami the i-lentity of
this “political lawyer” was what the grand
jury desired to discover, and which Dennis
refuse 1 to reveal. The jury then went
into tho supreme court, an 1 District
Attorney Taylor read the qu s‘i >ns pro
pounded to Dennis and his answer st hereto,
tin* Gist ri t attorney th-m a idr sh- I the judge
in b ’half of the reporter, stating that in do
ing to answer he was governed by a rule
.)f his office, and further, that upon the case
is pr-seated by Mr. Raines, he <-ouJd not an
iWt>r vithout criminating himself. Ln regard
th matter->f crimination, Justice Ruin
■y state ! to Dennis that there was no libel in
me as tide ami no action could possibly bo bo
pan there >n. The court then aske 1 Mr. Den
nis if he still refuse Ito answer. Mr. Dennis
replied that, without any disreejn *t to the
X»urt, he must decline to do so. Ju- ice Ram
i' y th- n committed him to tho c amty jail
tor cent, mpt until such tinw as he w,.s pre
crod to answer the question, and Shei iff
i.l.muQn took Dennis to the “Blue Eagle,” ns
:.be jm! is genet ally called.
.kt the jati ho lias become very M much of a
‘l;o!i,” an i was visited by a large number of
visitors, who complimented him upon his
>luck m refusing to reveal the name of tho
party who had given him his information,
wt a meeting of the newspaper men of the
'ity, a series of resolutions was prepared,
‘ailing the attention of the ju Ige to what
hey deemed an injus’ice in committing Den
ns without bail, while mm charged with
;>rilw»ry, perjury and other felonious crimes,
whom he attempted to bring to justice, are
flowed to be at large upon bail.
Mr. George Moss, city e liror of the Union,
was >.’s > subpoenaed before the grand jury to
Xistifv as to the authorship of certain articles
published in Ihe Union concerning municipal
Mrrupti ii, but ns these were not libelous he
iecline I to divulge the names of the writers,
Mid ihe questions were not pn >•-!. Theex
ict cause of this difference in the treatment
)f Lb. two wiim smmi does not appear.
FATAL ENDING TO A DANCE.
%n Aged Fiddler Frozen to Death m d Ills
Throe CompauioßH Badly Frost bi I ion.
Hoi’.nei > sville, Feb. 2. -Royal Stephens,
)f M ir_. vide, I’a , who had played the vio
jn hi all the country dances in that cummu
aity for nearly forty years, startml with a
pary of five others to return h(•me after a
lance at Sleight’s tavern, nice m: ■ distant,
it wa« bitter cold The four ha 1 l>ceri -b ink
ing I;<*.\ilv all night, and were all under the
.niluence of liquor when they left the tav th,
md they took with them in the >,'cigh a half
{nllon diimj- hn of apple whisky. Two hours
ifter the party had left the team came back
;<> the tavern <m a run, with only the fr ont
b l>- of the sleigh attached to them. Two
i en drove out to see what had become of the
ileigh load. They met two of the party,
James Malone a rd Win Jay, walki: ; in the
road toward tho tavern. They were intoxica
ted, but managed to say that th< ir horses had
run away, an i that one of their companions,
Charles Jay, had stopjred at a tarmhouse,
but th- y did not know where the old fiddlr r
was nor the fourth companion, Jerry Ball.
Ihe m-n from the tavern continued on their
way, and a mile from Morey ville found Stev
jns lying by the roadside. There were sins
if life about him, but he whs dea l bef< r e
they reached Moreyville with him. There
were no marks of injury on him, and it is
luppusct that he had frozen to death. The
diea who were with him cun give no cause
M the runaway. Near where tae ol t man
lay there w-re marks of the sleigh being
turned around in the road, and the tracks of
the hors sshow that they began to run at the
top of their speed. The feet and ears of all
four of the men were terribly frozen. Chari- s
Jay’s fe -t will have to be amputated Jerry
Ball was not found till late in th" day, whin
h-i wis discovered in the bay mow of the
Morey ville tavern He knew nothing of the
runaway. He was badly cut about the hea I
and fare, and ha 1 evidently been thrown out
31 the sic gh. Four Angers on his right hand
were so badly frozen that they were am
putated. S evens was seventy years oi l an 1
leaves a daughter in comfortable circuin
itances. He had never been intemperate.
PhPadelphia and Heading Receivers.
Philadelphia, Feb. 2.— Julges McKen
nan and Butier have mn e the fallowing
order m the United States circuit court on
the re civers of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad company: “And now to-wit:
January 30,1865, it is ordered that the rec eiv
ers pay out no money without a special order
of the court providing for the same except
to defray the running expenses of the roads
under tbeir charge, including the wages and
salaries of ail persons imine 'lately connected
with that service, embracing civil engineers,
to keep the property of the railroad company
trucks, buil lings, etc. —in proper repair
and to defray the expenses of operating the
mines a.id other works and transacting the
business generally of the coal and iron com
pany and repairing and preserving the prop
erty of said company.”
The Carnival Over.
Montreal, Feb. 2. Fri ly was comfort-a
bb* warm an 1 bright and outdoor sports were
freely indulged in. The farmers’ drive con
sisted of several hundral sleighs right from
the farm and driven at random through the
principal streets. The grand carnival ball in
the evening was a brilliant affair. Among
the notables here is Lord Ganuoyle. The in
coming trains brought very few visitors and
the outgoing ones were heavily laden with
departing guests. The carnival ( f 1885 is
about over and may be fairly cLassed as a
thoroughly successful one.
Boonlei’s Arrested for Rebellion*
Arkansas City, Kas., Feb. 2.—Late Fri
day night- Capt Cou n h, H. H. Stafford, Geo.
W. Brown and Col. S. E. Wilcox, the leading
spirits of the Oklahoma boomers, were ar
rested by the United States marshal on a dis
patch from Gen. Hatch. The charges against
them are conspiracy and rebellion against the
United States government. They were all
taken to Wichita, where they wiii have a
preliminary hearing. It if understood that
other bacmers are to be arrested. The ar
rests have caused great indignation.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY lORNING, FEBRUARY 3. 1885.
LONIOX’SSHARPBOBBIES
BECOMING RIDICULOUS IN THEIR
ZEAL AGAINST DYNAMITERS.
Goodman, the Suspect, Discharged—A Plot
Against ?' unple Bar- Who In Cunning
hain? ard's Rebolutlon A Bill
for German Workingmen.
London, Feb. J— Aman supposed to be a
dynamiter was arrested on a train near Derby,
and a large quantity of -xpiosive compounds
were sou id in his pOMession He was imme
diately ana ned, charged with writing men
acing letters to the civic authorities of Derby,
threatening the destruction of the town hall.
He gave his name hr Newbald, and admitted
that ho had written the letters. He was re
manded tor a week for further examination.
The police exjiect to establish the prisoner’s
complicity with the London explosions.
Goodman, the susjiected dynamiter who
was arrested on Friday at his lodging in
North street, is still held by the police. He
was arraigned before a magistrate and given
a secret h<-siring. The police informed the
magistrate that they were in possession of
evidence enough against the prisoner to war
rant his further detention, an I the magistrate
accordingly remanded him. The police are
in posw s don of the place in which Goodman
lolged, and are evidently awaiting to arrest
all persons who may cjill. In some instances
detectives have so constructed matters con
nected with this arrest as to make it plain
that they are endeavoring to deceive the
press and throw the reporters off, lest Good
man’s companions should obtain the slightest
information in regard to their doings.|
Goodman was unexpectedly brought before
the ma-.istrate again later in the day and
was released, the police confessing their in
ability to connect him with any conspiracy.
This proceeding on the part of the police is
considered remarkable, and their recent over
zealous efforts to trace and arrest dynamitere
is fast bringing them .nto ridicule.
The new law courts at Temple Bar are
guarded by an extra force of police. These
precautions are take*'* inconsequence of the
receipt by the author ities of a letter which
gives in full the details of a plot to destroy
the buildings by an explosion of dynamite.
The garrison at Tynemouth has been spec
ially oidared to search all visitors to the bar
racks and to guard tho entrances to th • mag
azine The shipping iu the Tyne has been
watched to an unusual extent since the Lon
don explosions to prevent the importation of
dynamite. -
The Irish police who were brought over
from Dublin to aid in solving the mystery of
Saturday’s dynamite outrages have failed to
identify • James Gilbert Cunningham, alias
Dalton, who was arrested and remanded for
a week on suspicion oi' being implicated in
the explosion at the tower. The prisoner has
been photographed, despite his protests, and
copies of the portrait were mailed to New
Ybrk.
The United Irishman, of Dublin, denounces
the re- < !it dynamite outrages in London as
the work of men who pretend to believe that
they can serve Ireland by carrying on a
campaign against stone walls and stained
glass.
Bayard Resolution Denounced.
Chicago, Feb. 2. —A conspicuous member
of the Fenian brotherhood is authority for
the statement that at a meeting of Irish-
Airn ri an here the resolutions introduced in
the United States senate by Senator Bayard
was denounced, and that the Irish supporters
of Congressman Cobb, of Indiana, were re
quested to show their appreciation of his con
duct upon his return homo. It was also de
clared that s7,‘-dO was subscribed this after
noon to be employed as a skirmishing fund
against England.
A newspaper here printed a cablegram
quoting Mr. Labouchere, editor of tho Lon
don Truth, bs saying: “The name of the
man at rhe bottom of tho dynamite outrage
is Met dl'i r y. How I know is no matter, but
I know ’ Capt. John McCafferty alleged to
be the Irish agitator referred to, publishes
the following:
To whom it may concern:
Labouehen-. of the London Truth, Is a shame
less liar-an assassin of character.
John McCafkerty.
Capt. McCafferty, it is said, w is tried in
Dublin in 1867 for high treason, and sen
tenced to death along with many others.
Five or six years later tho sentence was com
mute i to banishment, and since that time he
has worked in this country as a speculator
and mining operator. Capt. McCafferty’s
name has been heretofore coupled with the
dynamiters Some two years ago tho report
was circulated that informer Carey’s dis
clo-ures implicated McCafferty, and it was
even alleged that he was none other than the
mysb rious “Number One.” Capt. McCafferty
strongly denied all connection with Carey,
end protested tdiat he had no sympathy with
assassins and murdereis.
For the Relief of German Worldngnien.
Berlin, Feb. 3.—ln the reiebsh'; members
of the socialistic party brought forward a bill
for the pr<»tcction of workingmen. Among
the provisions of the measure is one, strictly
prohibiting the hiring out of prisoners to
private corporations. The bill also prohibits
employers from compelling their employes to
labor after nightfall without extra compen
sation. Another clause of the bill makes the
employment of children under fourteen years
of ag<s illegal, and provides for the punish
ment by fine and imprisonment, of any em
ployer found guilty of violating this clause.
The introduction of the bill caused consider
able surprise, and it is generally viewed as a
substitute for the workingmen’s protection
bill, recently introduced by Prince Bismarck,
which was opposed because of its impract
ibili’y. The bill fathered by Bismarck,
sought, among other things, to establish a
fixed number of hours to constitute a work
ing day.
Cunningham an Old Plotter.
St. Louis, Feb. 2. —The Post-Dispatch
printed an article based on a statement by a
“well-known local dynamiter,” to the effect
that Cunningham, now under airest in Lon
don in connection with the recent explosions,
is the same young fellow who two years ago
lived here, and who was written up at the
time as an infernal muchine maker, and full
of sch nn s to blo w up all of the public build
ings in London. He was known here as
M nha.-l J Byrne. He also Jived in Chicago,
w’>ere he was known as James Gilbert, and
in Phila lelphia, where he went by the name
of James Cunningham. He claimed to have
been obliged to leave Ireland because he was
implicate lin the murder of a landlord. He
was iu Denver last August, but since then
he has not been heard from.
Bieaking Up a Swindling Game.
Cleveland, Feb. 2. —The government au
thoritb arrested at Hazleton, in this state,
on the charge of using the mails for fraudu
lent pui poH ‘s, a man named Peter Rosenberg
er, formerly chief of police at Kitaning, Pa.,
and subsequently publisher of a news
paper called the Paragon in McKeesport.
Rosenberger has been advertising what he
cads the “boodle game.” He sent letters to
various parties in Ohio and Kentucky, offer
ing to sell them an excellent quality of coun
teifeit money that could not be detected
Bven by experts. His price was thirty-three
cents on tin <l>l Jm In his letter he gave
minute instru' tions to the parties logo to a
first-class I 'tel airl register, and to then in
quire of certain I >. si ness men for his place.
After other mysti •ions movements, Rosen
berger was to meut them with th * amount
of money desired. Some of th» so letters fell
Into the hands of the authorities, and by fol
lowing the directions enclosed Rosenberger
wils arrertu 1. The fact is he never made or
hu I in his p.-s-cssion any counterfeit money.
His victims wore .net at the hooel, ’he money
received from them, and a package of brown
paper coutuinii..: the suppose! counterfeit
bills given in return. The swindled parties
did not dare ■. plain to the police, as they
were them*?!. liable to arrest for attempt
ing to buy the counterfeit money. Rosen
berger played a similar game on saloon kee|>-
ers. He would offer them illi -it whisky at
low rates. When they wont with him to his
house he would collect the money and imme
diately raise an alarm that would frighten
the wuukl-be dealers in illicit liquor out of
the place.
kilpatr7ck's~pretty AIDE.
A Romance of the War Revived In a Chi
cago Police Court.
Chicago, Feb. 2.—A romance of the late
war is revived m the police court. One day
in the spring of when Gen Judson Kil
patrick’s army was marching through South
Uarolina, an unusually engaging; mil pretty
little woman came to the roads, la and in
quired for the general. To him she said sha
was a school teach r from Vermont, stranded
by the war and asked tho privi'e m of moving
with the army. She was put into an ambu
lance, and subsequently occupied a family
carriage “foraged’’ by the soldiers. One day
there was a now ofllcer upon the general’s
staff, a boyish-looking fellow whose face bad
never yet needed a razor. * He sat on his
horse rather awkwardly at first, and oven
after many days was unable to arrive at the
easy gait of the veteran cavalryman.
ho D that young fellow?” «on Id be the
qupstiou along the ranks as tho staff would
iweep by on a gallop
“That’s Capt Charley,” would be the re
mark with a wink. When the truth was
known some men sneered, others bit their
lips. AU agreed it might have been ex
pected. At any rate, it was no man's par
ticular businosH. Very likely the general
would provide for tho girl when a railroad
should be reached, “( apt. Charley” rode
with Kilpatriik through, th--<' iroliu.iM. One
lay there was a stubborn fi.dit in which one
regiment got separate 1 from thb main body.
It was neciissary that orders be s nt it. No
body cared to go, for Ihe vn Bey was swept
with grape, canister and shells, but Capt.
Übarley's bla<*k eyes were blazing. Turning
to Kilpatrick, ho said:
• “Let me go, general.”
“Go, then Take low ground there in the
hollow and ride like the devil.” Ail watched
the dapple-gray as he spun along an unused
wagon-track iu' tho hollow. A redoubled
roar of artillery and the sharp snap of rilles
Lol 1 it was no summer shower through which
Capt. Charley was riding. The rider disap
peared ami cessation of firing by the detached
regiment told that the order had been de
livered. Thon came the regiment sweeping
up the main, road and a cleared field, their
sabres flashing in the sun. ('apt. Cuurley es
Bayed to come back and join his chief. Just
at that moment when the ai le-de-camp
reached tie last elevation in bis perilous path,
an enormous shell exploded, seemingly over
his head. Capt. Charley fell to the earth, but
bis well-trained and faithful horse stood fasl.
Half a dozen of the escorts that now came
up without orders rushed down th" hid,
picked up the unconscious body and conveyed
it to a place of safety, where the brigade sur
geon said no bones were broken, but DiaC
Capt. Ch u'iey would never ag dn hear the
voice of loved ones. He was incurai ly deaf
from concussion. The stirgeon a.so indulged
iu some muttering concerning a gen- ial who
would allow a woman to ride with his staff
officers. “Capt. Charley’’ had seen the last
of the war. A fi*w days in the hospital re
store 1 her to health, but ner unc.-s pre
vented her making a living at her former oc
cupation. She drifted into the alums of
Washin..’ton and New York, and lastly to
Chicago. Dissipation made her an old woman
before her time. She was arraigned for
bt ing drunk and disorderly and was sent to
the house of correction.
Washington Notes.
Washington, Feb. 2. —The president has
sppoin. I Jno. Charlton, of Le v Ya k City,
a member of the board of Indian commission
ers, to Luke the place of Cornelius It. Agnew,
resigned.
The indications are that the demo'ratie side
of the house will a Ijourn to New Y . .as soon
as Mr Cleveland gets there. 'J'hey say that
they uu ■ rstan 1 that his purpose tbero is to be
easy of access to the party leaders and ad
vin rs, and they are making pr<-parations for
pilgrimages to New York. Some are going
in delegations, and others will go quietly and
alone. Mr. Cleveland, it is understood, will
extend speci/d invitations to none except
those whose names he is thinking of in con
nection with the cabinet, or who are recog
nized party leaders, though it will not n<:ces
sarily follow that all those invite 1 to a con
ference are to be fi tally accepted as the
prop t men for the positions. Oth rs will
visit him under what it is understood to be a
general invitati >n to all the democratic states
men who wi h to give him their advice.
As soon as the president-elect takes up his
quarters in New York be will be met there
by a large delegation of members from sev
eral of the w -stern states and territories be
sides the II inuis delegation to push Mr.
Sprin r er for the interior departm nt. The
McDonald men are also gettin ready for a
pilgri nage. Pendleton’s friends are busy
with his boom, and the Virginia delegation
will probably take some action to indicate
their de?ire that Mr. Bui hour should be made
postmaster g neral.
When the president asks a favor of the
senate it is n-t often refused An 1 so Will
iam Mason. Wright, who entered West P int
iu tiie class which will graduate iu 188 b, but
who failed and left the a ademy un i who
was n -inmate I for second lieutenant in the
Second infantry has been confix med. Mean
while bis more capable associates will pur
sue their studies, be graduated in IbSii, and
if the presi lent has not filled too nriny places
with civilians, they may get a place upon the
army register a good many points lower
than the gentlemen who have displayed
greater capacity for mastering the art of
war. The nomination has been denounced
as an outrage even by members of th<* senate,
and as an a t of gross injustice to aspirants
for place who are not “sticka”
Work for Carmakers.
Schenectady, N Y.. Feb. 2—Dr. W.
Seward Webb, president of the Wagner Cal
Company, has inspected the J »n s car worki
boil. Dr. Webb said that he would send a
large number of cars to the works to be re
paired and rebuilt, and would no do ibt sup
ply enough work to keep the wonts running
to their full capacity, with ord rs for new
cars and with cars to be repaired. It is ex
pected that the works in this city will U
made one of tho piincipal manufactories oi
Wagner curs
Articles of incorporation of the Mt. Auburn
cable railroad company, of Cincinnati, havt
bwu filed.
EVANGELICAL POWER?
OR IS MESMER’SM THE SECRET OF
MRS. WOODWORTH’S INFLUENCE?
One of Her Female Converts Explains the
Sensations ol a Trance —And Tel’s of
Her Vetsion of the Heavenly .Jeru
salem The People Puzzled.
Indianapolis, Ind , Feb. 2.—Tho reports
from the Hartlord City religious craze, car
ried on under Mrs. Woo 1 worth, are beyond
belief. Mrs Wood worth is well known in
tho state and enjoys a good reputation. Some
instances of the so-called conversions rival
and outdo the celebrated “Yerks” in Ken
tucky a half century ago. Among the con
versions is a man familiarly known about
town, whose name is withh Id from publica
tion, a man us convivial habits, and who on
one occasion was “loaded to the guards.”
Determined on breaking up the meeting, he
marched within ten feet of the pulpit and be
gan a ton ent of profane abuse until, as he
says, his tongue, tailed him. He sat silent,
annoyed at being overcome by a woman who
had caused th; result without making any
special effort in bis direction. He seems, as
he says, when asked what his sensations are
like, not to un lerstand what it is, but replies
in an injured tone of a man who has been
personally affronted, “Go up yourself and
find out.”
All sorts of theories are out as to the secret
of tae evangi?lic‘al power. Tiie belief gen
erally seems to be that of imismorisin, al
though Mrs. Woodworth denies that she pos
sesses any power of mesmerism. She saya
that it is truly tho power of God. If mes
merisfii it is, she must have some way of se
curing private interviews with her subjects
and boinling them to her will afterw ud, for
she certainly does not have an opportunity,
for it in church. In no instance can the
writer find out that this has been done. A
strange phase of this revival, and one not at
tendant on tho ordinary meetings, is the ef
fect that the revival fever has on persons
away from the church. One young woman
went to an evening service, and at its conclu-'
Bion went home, where she talked on the
usual topics before retiring. A whole night
Intervened, and at breakfast tho young lady
jid not appear. She was found sitting up in
bed, cold mi l apparently stiff, with wile
staring ey; <, her pulse • barely perceptible,
and not •«!».»■ b» speak. VVuen . two or three
hours intel hue came out of the supposed
trance she seemed greatly worried, and whon
rested told t hat with one except’m the scenes
that si! )h i 1 witnessed were glorious. The
exception was that of a body of angels
marching down to hell with lost souls.
Viola M Dermott is a woman above the
average height, with a very pale face that is
saved from b ing plain by a pair of hand
lome bln k eyes, which have anything but a
restful look when she is interviewed. She
Bays: “1 know as W"ll as anything when this
trance is coming on, for I have been in a
trance fivedilfuionttiin : s M»' bauds get cold
as ice an i I feel my arms stiffening. My eyes
get hard and the imide of the church or room
grows Smaller Tha’durkness begiifs at tho
outer e lg -s of the room and comes toward me
from ail si les mid gets closer I become more
Icy and stiff, and then the is gone. I
can’t talk mi l don’t want to talk. 1 am in
both worlds—in this because I can hoar ev
erything tnat is said aroun i m 3, au 1 in the
other because 1 can see the great while
throne.”
“How does it look?” was asked.
“I hardly know how to tell you. It is
something like a chair, only a great deal
larger than I ever saw.”
“D i you boo anything else?”
“Yes; golden streets with angels passing
around turough them. There are habita
tions or paradises as you would cali them.
They rise u » on each side, glorious and mag
nificent. The light is not white, but radiant
and blight -oh, so bright and glorious Igo
there by two ways—one with nothing on my
mind, mid ad is happiness; the other is to
have a sinner to save, and then I am praying
and pleading for him. That is hard work
and I sutT ,r My coining back is just the
tame as my going. There is no time of total
unconsciousness between. lam always very
much worried afterward.”
This young woman has been a member of
the chun h about two years.
To Be Tried for Grave Robbery.
Sycamore BL, Feb. 2—Witnesses in the
grave robbing cases of Waterman and
Rhinkle are b( ig summoned for the Kane
county mi l Winncmago circuit courts The
cases are somewhat noted. Wallace Water
man and Newton Shinkle were students in
Rush medical college, Chicago, the former
living at Sycamore and the latter at Rochelle.
Some tirrif* in January, 1884, Mrs. Mary
Hoyt’s gr ve was found to be desecrated, and
therobb* r.» traced to DeKalb, where it was
discovered that they had shipped the body to
Chi u 'o. D tactive work followed, and the
cap; nr of tne young men was the conse
quence Wat rinan is scarce eighteen, though
iShinkl *is somewhat past his majority. The
feeling f :ii ■ people which was at 'he time
of the c- minitud of thecrirne very indignant,
has su 1 . (led. bympathy is with Waterman,
an i tho belief is lully expressed that he can
not bo convicted, but the rumor is well
founded that Waterman divulged more to
Sheriff Wood than was for his good. .Khinkle
figuied widely iu the Cornell university boat
club’s European tour by selling the race, for
which he was ostracised by the students.
Only a Drop of Nitro-Glycerine.
Wa iio n, Pa., Feb. 2.—Benjamin Grey, a
blacl ini th in the mi idle oil field, was called
ujm» by a weli-shooter to make borne repairs
on the rn mi ng gear of his wagon, which he
used iu carry mg nitroglycerine. Grey
crawled in under the wagon. He found a bolt
broken, aud took his hammer to drive it out
to ma lie room for a new one. A deioening
explosion f lio wed the first stroke ol the ham
mer. The wagon was shattered to pieces,
which were thrown in ev. ry direction Grey
was knocked scnseicss to the ground, and so
badly injured that his life is despaired of.
The owner of the wagon stood several feet
away, but was thrown to the ground. One
wheel of tho wagon was cur rind into a tree
twenty feet distant. The explosion is ac
counted for on the theory that a quantity of
nitru-glycei ine bad leakei out of a can at
some tnn while being truusporteii from the
factory, and ha I coilecte 1 ou the ruimiug
gear of the wagon. The blow from the hum
mer was all that was needed to explode it.
Prentiss Sticks by Grant.
Boston, F b 2.—A Chicago special to the
Record st.y- Gen. B. M. Prentiss, who fought
in the battle of Shiloh, thinks Grant’s account
of the bailie is eminently just, and that the
adverse cri;i< ism which it lias raised is er
roneous. He said: “I have no doubt that
Grant woulu have won the battle without
Buell’s aid, although the latter’s frt sh troops
undoubtedly jxerted a powerful moral influ
ence on the exhausted soldiers. The attack
was a surprise in that Grant, while he knew
the enemy to be near, did not expect them so
soon. Jo: nson’s article in the Century is the
best description of the fight 1 have read,
though some of his opininns regarding the
military tactics are, of course, offered with A
cofilederate bias.”
THE CONDENSER.
Fresh, Plthv News Items Boiled Down for
the Hurried Bender.
The new state off! -ers of Illinois were in
stalled Friday.
John Berry suspected of baru burnlng.waa
arrested at Lexington, Ky.
A reward of Si,(XX) is offered for the arrest
of the Covington (Ky.) diamond robbers.
Irwin Faraiiee, near Juanita, Neb., killed
Harrison Young by a blow of the flat, break
ing his neck
Alex Anderson and Charles Weckstrum
were killed at St. Paul, Minn., by a caving
bank of earth.
Julius Noglefeid and wife, cl Detroit, were
poisoned by drinking peppermint tea, and
the husband died.
Speaker Carlisle has called upon Mr. Cleve
land in obedience to a summons from Cleve
land for (tonsultation.
The Spanish consul general of New York
has remitted SIO,OOO for the relief of sufferers
from earthquakes in Spain.
A. J. Mfclntosh, of Salem, and sheriff of
Washington county, Ind., made an assign
ment, with s2'j, 135 preferences.
The health board of New York claims to
have discovered that quinine is adulterated
to ah enormous extent by druggists in that
city.
The number of failures for the week ended.
January 30, according to R. G. Dun <& Co.,
was 354, a.4 compared with 411 the preceding
week.
The president, vice president and cashier of
the Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank, of Peters
burg, Va.. were acquitted of the charge of
conspiracy.
It has been discovered that white women
In San I’fancisco sell their illegitimate female
offspring to tho Chinese, who train them for
the harem.
An anthracite coal stove in Cincinnati ex
plode I, breaking the windows of the ro<>m,
removing a door from one hinge and demol
ishing furniture.
Two other members of the Krall family,
mysteriously poisoned at Bunker Hill, Pa.,
died, and the remaining three are considered
beyond recovery.
The city clerk, an ex-assistant city sur
veyor and a number of councilnn- > and aider
men <»f R" luster, N. Y., have b"» u indicted
for official bribery.
The iron manufacturers of Cleveland and
the Mahoning valley resolved to shut down
from February 15 till June 1 if prices do not
improve in the meantime.
J. 11. Dietz was arrested at Hi lena, Mon.,
for forgeries committed at New Richmond,
Wis., aggregating SI,BOO. His operations in
Los Angeles, Cal., and Helena amounted to
SB,OOO.
Peter Megmeyer was kille 1 by a south
bound tiai'i at the Harrison avenue crossing
Df theC., W. and B. railroad, near Cincin
nati. He. attempted to cross the track in
front of the train, with actions that indica
ted suicide.
The majority report of the committee on
resolutions of the national silver convention
I reported of the Biand aqt, limiting
the monthly coinage of silver to $4,000,000.
The minority report favored unlimited
coinage.
The family of a St. Louis deaf mute, John
Meyers, was poisoned by eating bread made
of flour that had been purchased for the pur
pose of making paste. Two of the children
died, and the other members of the family
are sick.
Lafayette Melton was hanged at Corning,
Ark., for the murder of Franklin Hale, four
years ago. Melton belonged to the ku-klux
brotherhood, and was convicted on the testi
mony of one of his companions, wuo turned
state’s evidence.
“A WIFE OF MILETUS."
John McCullough’s New Play* Over Which
lie if- Enthusiastic.
New York. Feb. 2.—John McCullough,
the tragedian, is living quietly at the Sturte
vant house, m this city, occasionally taking a
run out of town for a few days, but always
returning to make his home with his old Cali
fornia friend, Lewis Lelend. He appears |to
be in very good health, and his deep, rich
voice was never in better condition than it is
now. Mr. McCullough cherishes the idea of
returning to the stage soon, and be is now en
gaged in studying a new part in a tragedy
which has been written for him by a Greek.
Th' •piece- is entitled “A. Wife of Miletus,”
and the tragt dian is very enthusiastic over it.
He says that it is one of the most beautiful
plays be ever read, and he confidently ex
pected it to tie a great success with both the
critics and the public. He expects to pro
duce it early in the spring, probably in Bos
ton, and he is studying very bard to create a
new character which, be believes, will be
come as famous as bis “Virgin!us” or his
“iSpartacus ”
The story of tbe tragedy is that of a young
married woman who is stolen from Miletus
by a band oi Gauls and falls in love with the
chief of the band, the character designed for
Mr. McCullough. Tbe chief returns her love,
but is too noble minded to take her from her
husband, to whom he has pledged her return
on the payment of a ransom. Tbe hus
band procures the ransom and goes with it to
the chief’s camp, where tbe wife tempts the
chief to murder him in his sleep. The chief
resists the temptation and visits a l>und of
Druids, of whom he asks if he can make any
sufficient a tenement should he take the
woman from her husliand in violation of his
plighted word to allow her to be ra .somed.
The Druids give him no hope, and auv.se him
if he cannot tear his unlawful love from his
heart, to either kill the woman or himself.
He takes th" woman to the spot where her
husbanu is to receive her, when she again
pleads with bun not to send her away and
finally Hire a lens to desert her husband and
make her way back to his camp. Then the
chiet, a< ting on the order of the Druids, kills
the woman and sacrifices himself with the
same dagger. Tbe passionate scenes in this
tragedy, Mi McCullough says, an* full of
power, and be is confident that he will
achieve a grand triumph when he has se
lected bis company and placed the piece on
tbe stage.
Double Murder.
Little Rock, Ark., Feb 2.—A terrible
murder was committed Wednesday night
about 10 o’clock on J. Wakefield s farm, in
Phillips county. Matilda Flannigan, colored,
and an unknown colored man were killed and
partially burned. The woman was kii.ed in
her room and the man in the yard. The
murderer dragged the man into the house
and set fire to the building. Frank Barrel,
colored, is susjiected and is being hotly pur
sue* iby the sheriff. Robbery is th<* supposed
cause.
Horrible Fate of a Miser.
Council Bluffs, la., Feb. 2.- An aged
German woman named Berruiger, who has
been living iu a hovel on Sixth street, was
found in her room with her hands and feet
eaten off by tbe rats during her illness of the
past few days. She is quite wealthy, but Las
refused to have any assistance shown her,
having an idea that the citizens of the vicin
ity are plotting against her. She has been
planed in the hands of tbe authorities.
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