Evening Gazette

              Itentng (Sairtt *p\ t: wun m«. [ VwklT IMaklltM ISM. | PITTSTON, PA., SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1888. ixwo OEirn. Ten Vents a Week HasMr. BlaineYieided? MORE TARIFF DISCUSSION. It's ar Knotty Question. HE GAVE HIMSELF AWAY. TABERNACLE SERVICES. Where are the to-kit Where the hatchet! Where the Borew Oliver I Where the nails! Where the window shades! Where la the ■lat to that old bedsteadl Where ye the rollers to that standi The sweet oil has been emptied into the blackberry jam. The plcldes and the plums hare gone out together a swimming. The lard and the butter have united as skillfully as though a grocer bad mixed them. The children who thought It would be grand sport to move are satiated, and one-half the city at the close of May day go to bed worn out, sick and disgusted. It Is a social earthquake that annually shakes the city. MTtatoKillHer. Another Day of Debate on the Mills Dill In the House. Miser Wagner Willed His Relatives Por- tions of His Body. THE TEMPTATIONS AND EXASPERA- Washington, Ma/ S.—The house spent most of yesterday in discussing the tariff bilL Mr. Caswell, of Wisconsin, opposed the bilL Be favored the entire removal of the duty on sugar, which would take at least $1 of tax from- the food of every inhabitant of this country. He criticised the bill because it did not provide for any substantial decrease upon articles of general consumption. Mr. Mac Donald, of Minnesota, favored the bill, and enlarged upon the injuries to the people by the locking up of the great surplus in the treasury. The bill did not go far enough to suit him. Coal, iron ore and sugar should be plaoed on the free list Mr. Guenther, of Wisconsin, said Republicans generally favored the abolition of the tobacco tax, and Cta -pint* used in the art*, and should iurther reduction bo  they proposed to abolish the duty on sugftr, and in order to foster sugar production would pay a bounty to the producer. He was in favor of a revision of the tariff, but he wanted it revised by its friends and not its foes. He favored a restoration of the wool tariff of 1867, and declared himself a firm believer in the tariff that not only met the expenses of government, but at the same time built up and encouraged home manufactures, and developed the inexhaustible resources of the country. He argued that the tax on lumber had been a great benefit to the people of Wisconsin, by keeping out competition from Canada. Barkrville, Ky., May 5.—The will of Dr. Everett Wagner, of this oounty, has been probated here. Dr. Wagner was a miser, and had accumulated considerable property. After declaring himself of hound mind he says: TION8 OF MOVING DAY. A Positive Statement That He Th- Sex Line Still the Issue with the Methodists. He Offered $1,000 for the Mur- Dr. Talmage Makes a Few Timely Remarks Anent the Knickerbocker Cns- der of His Sister. Will Be a Candidate. SOME VERY ANIMATED DEBATES. "I am about to die, and my relatives, who have heretofore shunned me, cannot now do too much for me. Almost every one of them has visited me since I have been sick, and given me a gentle hint that they would like to have a small trinket of some kind by which to remember their beloved relative. On account of their fonder treatment and their quiet hints, I now take this method of satisfying their desire." Into Which We Expect to Move. torn—The House of Many Mansions SHE IS STILL ALIYE, HOWEVER. CHAIRMAN JONES DENIES IV. -Brooilvt*, May 4.—The Friday night talk by the Rev. T. Do Witr Taliuaga, D. D., at the Tabernacle was on "The Temptations and Exasperations of Moving Day." Following is what he said on this Interesting subject:A Philadelphia Newspaper Bars Direct Assurance Has Been Received from Mr. Dr. Leonard Favors the Admission of the His Overtures Were Made to Police Offl- Fair Delegates, bat Several Learned May al] the victims of moving day And their new home attractive! If they have gone Into a smaller house, let them congratulate themselves at the thought that it takes less time to keep a small house clean than a big one. May they have plenty of HpauJding's glue with which to repair breakages! May the carpets St better than they expected, and the family that moved out have taken all their nuisances with them. cers Instead of Banians, and He Is In Maine That He Will Mot Decline If Gentlemen Say It Would Not Be Ao- Jail—His Proposed Victim Surprised Nnulnated—Republican Leaden Silent. oordlhg to Cliurch Law. Why all this procession of furniture carts that began last Tuesday and has hardly yet ceasedl For thousands of families in many of the cities this has been moving week. Though for the last ten years get called to change residence myself. In other years I had such baleful experiences. 1 must confess this May time makes me miserable through sympathy for those who are moving. to Bear of It, Philadelphia, May 5.—The Times publishes this morning a spocial dispatch from New York, of which the following is a part, which it indorses as being from the most authentic sources: New York, May 5.—It was agreed before the beginning of the discussion yesterday upon the question of the admission of women as delegates to the Methodist general conference, now in. session at the Metropolitan Opera house, to prohibit all expressions of approval or disapproval on the part of the audience, and the rule was enforced, although at times with considerable difficulty. The proceedings were none the less full of animation, and the opera house was as crowded as it has been during the whole of this interesting debate. The opening prayer was offered by Rev. H. J. Liebhart Bishop C. D. Fobs presided. He then made the following bequests, each formally set out in a separate section: "To my beloved brother, Napoleon Bonaparte Wagner, my left hand and arm;" to George Washington Wagner, auother brother, his right hancf and arm; to his brother, Patrick Henry Wagner, his right leg and foot; to his brother, Charles Gardner Wagner, his left leg and foot; to his nephew, C. H. Hatfield, his nose; to his niece, Hettie Hatfield, his left ear, and to his niece, Clara Hatfield, his right ear; to his cousin, Henry Edmonts, his teeth; to his cousin, John Edmonts, his gums. The will then continues: Worcester, Mass., May 6.—Emeline B. Holraan, whose murder is said to have been planned by her brother, Luther W. Holman, in Boston, was seen by a reporter yesterday, and she professed entire ignorance of the matter. 8he was greatly shocked at the tidings. She said she had had no quarrel with Luther, and could imagine no motive for such a deed. "Niw Yoke, May 4.—I have entirely reliable information that the friends of Blaine have, within the last three days, reoelvad direct from htm his assent to an  movement for his renomination for president, and'the assurance that if nominated in the tace of !tis Florence letter of declination he would not feel at liberty to decline. And, better than all—and this time In sober earnest—by the time that moving day comes again, may they have made enough money to buy a house, from which they will never have to move until the house of many mansions be ready to receive them I The 1st of May is to many the beginning of the year. From that are dated the breakages, the social startings, the ups and downs, of domestio lifa One half New York and Brooklyn are moving into smaller houses, the other half into larger. The past year's successor failure decides which way the horses of the furniture wagon shall turn their heads. In December last Holman's father died leaving property valued at $26,000, and Miss Emeline B. Holman was appointed executrix Luther W. Holman was to be allowed the use ofj$7,000. Miss Emeline was keeping company with a gentleman, and Mr. Hflman conceived the idea, so he says, that the two would be married, and the property left. by his father squandered. To prevent this1 he conceived the idea of either murderin g his sister himself or getting some one to do so. He could not nerve himself to do the deed. Do yo want a picture of that new house Into which we expect to move! Here la it, wrought with the hand of a mastert "We know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." How much rent will we have to pay for it! We are going to own ltl How much must we pay for ltl bow much cash down! and how much left on mortgage! Our Father is going to give it as a free gift. When are we going to move into it! We are moving now. Heada of families are apt to stay In the old house until they hate* seen everything off. They send ahead the children and they send ahead the treasures and the valuables. Then after a while (hey will come themselves. I remember very well in the country that In boyhood moving day was a jubilation. On almost the first load we, the children, were sent on ahead to the new house, and we arrived with shout and laughter, and in an hour we had ranged through every room in the house, the barn and the granary. Toward night, and perhaps in the last wagon, father and mother would come, looking very tired, and we would come down to the foot of the lane to medt them and tell them of all the wonders we discovered In the new plaoe, and then, the last wagon unloaded, the candles lighted, our neighbors, who had helped us to move— for In those times neighbors helped each other—sat down with us at a table on which there was every luxury they could think of. Well, my dear Lord knows that some of us have been moving a good while. We have sent our children ahead, we have sent many of our valuables ahead, sent many treasures ahead. We cannot go yet. There is work for us to do; but after a while it will be toward night and we will be very tired, and then we will start for our new home; and those who have gone ahead of us, they will see our approach, and they will come down the lane to meet us, and they will have much to tell us of what they have discovered In the "house of many mansions," and of how large the rooms are and of how bright the fountain*. And then, the last load unloaded, the table will be spread and our celestial neighbors will come in to sit down with our reunited families, and the chalice will be full, not with the wine that sweats in the vat of earthly intoxication, but with "the new wine of the kingdom." And there for the first time we will realize what fools we were on earth when we feared to die, since dteth has turned out only to be the moving from a smaller bouse Into a larger one, and the exchange of a pauper's hut for a prince's castlQ, and the going upstairs from a miserable kitchen to a glorious parlor. "Every possiblo pressure has been put upon Mr. Blame to net from bim tbe direct assurance that he will not decline if nominated, AMD THAT ASSURANCE HAS BEEN RECEIVED IW THIS CITY FROM MIX WITHIN THE LAST three dats. In a very few days more it will oease to be a secret that Blaine is in the hands of his friends, a* the Blaine leadev will at once come to the front and make an aggressive campaign for big renorainutlon. Dr. A. B. Leonard, of the Cincinnati conference, opened the debate with a speech in favor of the admission of the women delegates He reviewed and controverted Dr. Buckley's speech. "Women," he said, "have been considered as laymen from the beginning of the church's history, and are subject to all the penalties of male members. The word 'male' was stricken ont of the article which created the lay delegate. When Dr. Queal admitted that the rule was accepted without the word 'male' he admitted all that the omission of that word implied." "It grieves me to have to part with myself in this manner, but then what is a gift without a sacrifice? I am dying with consumption, and the end will soon be here. I will at once remove myself to Nashville, where I will die in the hospital." Days before the work of packing commenced. It is astonishing how many boxes and barrels are required to contain all your wares. You come upon a thousand things that you had forgotten, too good to throw away and too poor to keep; old faded carpet bags that would rouse the mirth of the town If you dared to carry them Into the street; straw hats out of the f&ohion; beavers that yon ou;;ht to have given away while they might have been useful; odd gloves, shoes, coats And slips of carpet that have been the nest of rats, and a thousand things that yon laid away because you some day might want them, but never will. Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, spoke In support of the bill, paying particular attention to the free wool clause. He argued that free wool would furnish cheaper clothing to the people without injuring the sheep industry of the couutry. For the purpose of dissecting his body, Dr. Everett leaves tl,000. The residue of the estate goes to public charities. He was worth (12,000, and the will is dated March 1, 1888. A codicil dated March 8 gives "to my beloved sister-in-law, Mrs. C. O. Wagner, my liver." Holman's wife and five children livis in Golden street, this city. Mrs, Charlotte Holman, the wife, heard the alleged'plot with unbounded surprise. She said her husband left home last Monday to go to Boston, saying he would return yesterday. There was no ill feeling between him and his sister, Bmeline, and they lived together until recently. She spoke of her husband as a good man; of whom no such thing coukt be truthfully said. "The unexpected expressions in Massachusetts and Vermont for Blaine wore not accidental, nor are they unexpected to Blaine's friends. When all the anti-Blame men were reposing on their arms, because they/egarded Blaine as out of the light, the friends of Blaine ware most energetic in their work in the two antl- Blaine New England states, and they got possession of Vermont and Massachusetts while the others were sleeping in fancied seourlty. It was the expression of three hitherto anti-Blaine New England states that made Blaine cast aside his doubts and assent to the importunities of bis friends for his renomination.ANOTHER SOUTHERN RIOT. Troops Called for to Suppress Mob Vio- lence—Cause of the Trouble. Then Dr. Queal arose and said that he was not correctly quoted. Dr. Leonard's inference was wrong. POLITICAL NEWS. Montgomery, Ala., May 6.—There is considerable excitement here over a reported riot in Lowndes county. The governor has received a telegram from citizens of Sandy Ridge, Lowndes county, asking for troops to prevent a threatened riot. The governor referred the sender of the telegram to the Alabama code, and shortly afterward the governor was called upon by telegraph by Sheriff Brinson, of Lowndes county, for troops to repress mob violence. In response CoL Jones, of the Second Alabama regiment, with the Greys and Blues and Mounted Rifles, were ordered to the scene. They left on a special train at 11 pi. m. last niglit Washington Territory Republicans—AO- Dr. Leonard referred to the printed report of Dr. Queal's address, and left the conference to draw their own conclusions. Dr. John M Miley, president of the Drew Theological seminary of New York, and Rev. J. R Day, of the New York conference, followed in addresses against the admission of women, both of them emphasizing the constitutional grounds for their exclusion. "If the question were put to the women of the church," said Dr. Miley, "nine-tenths of them would oppose it;" and Dr. Day said that the question was one of reason and not of heart. PORTLAND, Ore., May 6.—The Republican convention of Washington territory, held at Yakima, rejected a Blaine resolution and sent an uninstructed delegation to Chicago. tions at District Conventions. The property of Moses Holman, deceased, the father, was appraised at $11,300 real and 127,000 personal. Luther W. Holman filed a petition in insolvency May 12, 1886, and received his final discharge Dec. 7 of the same year. Some time ago the polioe were informed by a man whose name is withheld that Holman had made overtures to him to murder Miss Holman. The man said he had an appointment to meet Holman on Boston common during the night of May 1, at which time the details of the conspiracy were to be arranged.Inspector Collins, of the Boston police, disguised himself and met Holm&n, who un folded his plot, giving a photograph of Miss Holman, plans of the bouse, etc., to the inspector in order that there should be no mistake made in committing the crime, and offering him (1,000 for doing the job. He said an easy way to kill her would be to run a darning needle into her heart. Another meeting was then arranged, and Holman was met Thursday night by Inspectors Collins and Houghton, both in disguise, and he again told his plan. The inspectors arrested him when he had finished his story. For the last few days In the old house the accommodations approach the Intolerable. Everything is packed up. The dinner comes to you on shattered crockery which is about to be thrown away, and the knives are only painful reminiscences of what they once were. The teapot that we used before we got our "new set" comes on in time to remind us how common we once were. You can upset the coffee without soiling the table cloth, for there is none. The salt and sugar come to you In cups looking so much dllke that you find out for the first time how coffee tastes when salted, or fish when it is sweetened. There is no place to sit down, and you have no time to do so if you found one. The bedsteads are down, and you roll into the corner at night, a self elected pauper, and all the night long have a quarrel with your pillow, which persists in getting out of bed, and your foot wanders out into the air, feeling for greater length of cover. If the children cry in the night, you will not find the matches nor the lamp, nor anything else save a trunk Just in time to fall over it, getting up with confused notions as to which is the way to go to bed, unless there be some friendly voice to hall yon through the darkness. Springfield, Mass., May 5.—The Democrats of the Twelfth congressional district elected delegates to St. Louis and adopted resolutions in favor of Cleveland for president and Oen. Stevenson, of Illinois, for vice president "It is now a positive fact," the special dispatch concludes, "that Blaine is in the Held, that bis friends have his assent to a movement la his favor, and that he will be nominated at Chicago if hard work and plenty of enthusiasm can accomplish it." Warren, Pa., May 5.—The Republican conferees representing the Twenty-seventh congressional district met here. The candidates nominated are Hon. L Emery, Jr., of McKean; E. W. Smiley, of Venango, and Col. L. F. Watson, of Warreit Hon. A. B. Gould, of Cameron county, was chosen chairman. Cameron county presented no candidate and distributed her three votes among the oppossing candidates. After eight ballots had been taken without a choice the conference adjourned. Recently a negro named Calloway was lynched near Sandy Ridge for tbe murder of a white man named Oreeham, and it is supposed the present trouble grows out of that affair. • . Gen. S. H. Horst, of Ohio, the first layman to speak upon the subject, created considerable amusement by bis characterization of the opponents of the admission of women as "old fogies," whose constant retort as the fair sex gained each successive step upward in the scale of representation was "It's unconstitutional." He quoted from the "Discipline" the following rule as having already settled the question. Chairman Jones Hays It Is a Lie. Pitjsburo, May 5. —Chairman B. F, Jones, when asked about the story that Mr. Blaine had given his consent to an aggressive canvass for his nomination, stamps it as a lie. He reiterates that Mr. Blaine meant just What he said in his letter of withdrawal. He though, parenthetically, that Mr. Blaine is in exoellent health. A report from Sandy Ridge says a posse of whites and about 150 mounted and armed negroes came into conflict yesterday afternoon. Several white men were slightly wounded. Some negroes are reported killed and wounded. The negroes were temporarily dispersed. The general conference holds that in all matters connected with the election of lay delegates the word laymen must be understood to include all members of the church who are not members of the annual conference. New York, May 5.—Tammany delegates to the state convention were elected last night, there being no contests of note in the various districts. In New York. New York, May 5.—Reporters called on many prominent Republicans and several of Mr. Blaine's intimate friends this morning, they all either professed total ignorance C4 the alleged letter, and expressed great surprise at the statement that such a letter had been written, or refused to say anything about tbe matter. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. Professor Charles J. Little, of Syracuse university, denied that the above passage, which seemed so conclusive, was a part of the "Discipline," but appeared only in its appendix, and formed no portion of the constitution of tbe church. He quoted Justice Storey to the effect that women could not be given the rights of men until such rights were expressly granted them, and maintained that such was the rule in the present case. Rev. Jacob Rothweiler, of the Central German conference, and Rev. Thomas B. Neely took strong constitutional ground against the admission of women, for the present at least. The latter offered the following amendment:Dansville, N. Y., May 5.—The Livingstone county Republican delegates to the state convention favor Blaine first, Depew second. A. Terrible Dynamite Explosion in an The murder was to have been committed last nighc. * Rome, May 5.—An awful disaster occurred in a tunnel at Messina yesterday. Italian Tunnel. Schenectady, N. Y., May 5.—The Twentieth district Republican convention is still deadlocked. The 1st of May dawna. The carts come. It threatens rain, but not a drop until you get your best rosewood chairs out of doors, and your bedding on the top of the wagon. Be out at 12 you must, for another family are on your heels, and Thermopylae was a very tame pass compared with the excitement which rises when two families meet in the same hall — these moving out and those moving in. They swear, unless they have positive principles to prohibit. A mere theory on the subject of swearing will be no hindrance. Long established propriety of speech, buttressed up by the most stalwart determination, is the only safety. Men who talk right all the rest of the year sometimes let slip on the 1st of May. We know a member of the church who uses no violence of speech except on moving day, and then he frequently cries out: "By the great United States I" Boston, May 5.—Hon. H. B. IxDvering haa received his commission as United States marshal, and filed his bond for $20,000 in the United States district court. His bondsmen are J. H. French, of Gloucester; A. A. Mower, of Lynn, and William Taylor, of Boston. Mr. Lovering will take the oath of office next Tuesday. He is Now a Full Fledged Marshal. The tunnel was in process of construction. Four hundred men were at work inside the long, narrow and dark excavation and in the shafts. Suddenly there was an explosion of gas, which by concussion exploded a package of dynamite. The effect was terrible. Workmen all along the tunnel were killed by scores. The number of the dead is not yet known, so great is the confusion and so difficult is it to penetrate the tunnel on account of tbe foul air. Clay Centre, Kan., May 5.—The Fifth district Republicans instructed their Chicago delegates for Blaine, and adopted resolutions complimenting Ingalls. Watertown, N. Y., May 5. —The First assembly district Democrats chose delegates to Buffalo, indorsed Cleveland and Hill, and favored the re-election of both. THE STRIKE DECLARED OFF. Bat the Tkouuo Steel Wolti Mast Pa., May 5. —The mass meeting at Edgar Thomson steel works' employes that oonvened yesterday adjourned after (■•▼tog declared the strike off.- It is reported that all Knights who went to work previous to yesterday will be branded as "black •beep" and expelled from the order. The gMMral executive board will now be notified of the end of the strike, and it is expected that the charters of several local assemblies will b« revoked. SMU Beeognlu the Knights. New York, May 5.—The county Democrats held their primaries for delegates to the state convention, and perfect harmony prevailed. The Newspapers Won, of Course. Lockport, N. Y., May 5.—The jury in the 110,000 libel case of Charles L. Nichols against W. ft. Tuttle, city editor of The Journal, and Weed & Knickerbocker, of The Syracuse Times, after an all night session brought in a verdict for the defendants of no cause of action. The case attracted considerable attention. \ Many of the victims who were not killed outright died, from suffocation. There is great wailing and anguish in Messina over the calamity. Thousands are waiting around the mouth of the tunnel in an agony of suspense. Resolved, That we submit to the annual conferences the proposition to amend the second restrictive rule by adding the words, "Said delegates may be either men or women, not to exceed two from each annual conference." * THE WORLD OF SPORT.1 Held for Murder. Boston, May 5.—John Moloney and Richard Grant were arraigned here charged with a fatal assault on Joseph Priestman, alias "Shorty Clarke," in Mott street, April 28. The preponderance of evidence was to the "effect that "Shorty" wanted to raise trouble and that he struck Grant A free fight between the three met\ followed. The Court ordered the discharge of Maloney and sent Grant to jail in default of bail. Events on the Race Track and News Dr. Paxton seconded the amendment. Among the speakers who followed, Dra. Henry Grab run, Frank M Bristol ami Alden S pea re favored the amendment, while Leslie M. Shaw and Dr. Lewis R Fiske, president of Albion college, spoke for the immediate admission of the women. Nashville, May 5.— Argood card, with the Trial stakes as an especial attraction, drew a large crowd to the race track yesterday. First race, si* furlongs; Golightly first, Tara O'Sbanter second, Jim Nave third; time, 1:17X- Second race, one mile; Tudor first, Frederica second, Comodie third; time, 1:43. Third race, Leuck's Hotel sweejwtakes, nine furlongs; Little? Minch first, Marshal Luko second, Wary third; time, 1:55. Fourth race, Trial stakes for 2-year-olds, five furlongs; Kee-vee-na first, Lougtish second, Hub 8. third. Fifth race, six furlongs; Kermesse first, Jennie McFarland second, Biddy Bowling third; time, 1:10%. from the Diamond. Superintendent Jones writes to The Braddock Sun: • "X am glad that nobody was hurt The DM made a great mistake in not aooepting Mr. Carnegie's first proposition, but they tor* fought nobly." District Master Workman Doyle says the strike is declared off on condition that the Labor will be recognized by the llHPMW1 and that the mill committee will have power to settle all grievances, as heretofore. ..This means that the Edgar Thomson .(tesl works will still be a Knight of Labor miU.  All day long the house Is full of racket. "Look out how you scratch that table I" "There I you have dropped the leg out of that piano I" "There goes the looking glass I" "Ouchl you have smashed my finger 1" "Didn't you see you were pushing me against the walir "Get out of our way I It's 1 o'clock, and your things are not half moved! Carmen, take hold and tumble these things into the street I" Our carmen and theirs get into a fight. Our servants on our side, their servants on theirs. We, opposed to anything but peace, try to quiet the strife, yet, if they must go on, felsl we would like to have our men triumph. Like England during our late war, we remain neutral, yet have our preferences as to which Bhall beat. Now dash comes the rain, and the water eools off the heat of the combatants. The carmen must drive fast, so as to get the things out of the wet, but slow, so as not to rub the furniture. As our last load starts we go in to take a farewell look at the old place. In that parlor we have been gay with our friends many a time, and as we glance round the room we seem to see the great group of their faces. The best furniture we ever had in our parlor was a circle of well wishers. Here is the bedroom where we slept off the world's cares, and got up glad as the lark when the morning sky beckons it upward. Many a time this room has been full of sleep from doorsill to ceiling. We always did feel grandly after we had put an eight hour nap between us and life's perplexities. We are accustomed to divide our time into two parts; the first to be devoted to hard, blistering, consuming work, and the rest to be given to the most jubilant fun; and sleep comes under the last head. We step into the nursery for a last look. The crib is gone, and the doll babies and the block houses, but the echoes have not yet stopped galloping; May's laugh, and Edith's glee, and Prank's shout as he urged the hobbyhorse to Its utmost speed, both heete struck into the flanks, till out of his glass eye the horse seemed to say: "Do that again, and I will throw jam to the other side of the trundle bed I" Farewell, old house I It did hot suit os exactly, but thank God for the good times we had in itl They Fear He Has Killed Himself. A Penalon Swindler Arrested. Danbury, Conn., May 5.—Elliott G. Kelly, a tenor singer and member of the Y. M C. A. of Brooklyn, disappeared f*im his place of business in New York Saturday and has not been seen since Monday, when he is known to have been in this city. His relatives fear that he has committed suicide. Washington, May 5,—Robert M. Thompson, formerly of Purdy, Tenn., was arrested' Thursday near Goldsboro, N. C., by Special Examiner Roome, of the pension bureau. Thompson was tried and convicted in May, 1886, at Memphis, Tenn., upon a charge of withholding $1,846 of pension money from the minors of Thomas McCall, whose guardian he was. Before sentence was imposed Thompson absconded. Since then he has been engaged in business in this city and New York, and when arrested was working his way south, engaged in the sale of mining stocks of silver mlnesm Idaho. He was taken before the United States commissioner at Goldsboro, N. C., Thursday, and thence brought to this city. Yesterday morning he was arraigned before United States Commissioner Bundy, and after a hearing was sent to jail. Governor Phlneas C. Lounsbury, of Connecticut, moved that the question be brought to a vote Monday next, but Dr. Buckley objected to fixing a specified time for such a vote. The chair refused to entertain tha motion. Dr. Buckley kept the floor in order to speak upon the main question. The chair recognized him in spite of numerous objec* tions, when another point of order was raised, that the doctor was not speaking from his own seat. It appeared that Dr. Buckley was sitting with the Missouri delegation at their invitation. The chair-again recognized the doctor, but he did not have time to speak, for the hour of adjournment had arrived. Boston, May 5.—Mrs. Mary A Livermore, the lecturer, who was on her way to fill an engagement, fell in alighting from a stage coach at Westminster, Mass. Her dress caught and she was thrown forward, her face striking the pavement and causing a great shock to her system. She went to Melrose, where two stitches were taken in her lip. She will cancel her lecture engagements for the present. Mrs. Mary Livermore Injured. They Think Tan Hours Is Knough. Springfield, Mass., May 5.—The 250 employes of the Curtis & Mayo brick yards struck yesterday for ten hours instead of eleven per day. They were somewhat disorderly in trying to get tye men at Wyani's yard to join them, but no serious trouble occurred. .  Ijljw Tlwy Tried to I.jrneh Mr. Voorhees. • Chicago, May 5.—A special from Milwaukee to The Inter-Ocean says that Alverd Curtis, a' resident of that city, has a distinct r^wiuft'—lf"— °' tbe circumstances referred to by Senator Ingalls in reference to the JkeMoi&CM Staator Voorhees during the war. Mr. Curtis was living at Lafayette, Ind., just 'bafore'ths second election of Lincoln, when VooriMes passed through that place on a stumping tour, and made a speech from thenar platform of the train, in which be scored 'Lincoln in unmeasured terms, and called the northern troops "Lincoln dogs and hirelings." This aroused the old soldiers who were present, and a party of them started for a neighboring grocery store to get a rope, amid cries of "Lynch bimt" but the conductor, becoming alarmed, signaled the engineer to proceed, which he 4Dd just as the men appeared with the rope. Mr. Curtis says that but for the promptness of the conductor in starting the train it would have undoubtedly been another case of too muoh sympathy with rebels. NATIONAL JOCKEY CLUB MEETING CLOSED. Washington, May 5.—The most mccessful meeting in tho history of the National Jockey club closed with, yesterday's races. First race, $500, for beaten horses, six furlongs; Patrocles first, sec .lid, Maroon third; time, 1:15VC. Second race, selling, purse $500, one mile; Sam Brown first, Orlando second, Nellie B. t.iiru; time, 1:40. Third race, purse $500, seven furlongs; Sam Harper, Jr., first, Golden Reel second; Sam Keene third; time, 1 :29. Fourth race, handicap sweepstakes of $20, with $600 added, mile and an eighth; Richmond first, Vosburg second, Ten Booker third; time, Fifth race, over full steeplechase course, purse $500; Wellington first, Bob Miles second, John Henry third; time, 4:17. Trenton, May 5.—Charles J. Rutgers, a well known lawyer, aged 52 years, hanged himself last night. He was one of the twelve co-respondents in the recent suit of J. D. Williamson for divorce, and has suffered from depression of mind since the publicity of that scandal. The Disgrace Was Too Much for Him. A Toons WomaD'H Strange Adventure. Los Angeles, Cal., May 5.—The switchmen of the Southern Pacific road are out on strike, and the freight department is tied up in consequence. The night switchmen work thirteen hours and the day switchmen ten hours for the same pay. The night men demanded shorter hours. The officials of the road say that new men will be employed unless the strikers return to work at once. Southern Faelflo Switchmen Strike. His Melancholy Knded In Suicide. Dks Moiwbs, la., May 5.—A very remarkable case of somnambulism has occurred In the vicinity of Trtire. About a year ago James Patterson committed suicide by jumping into a well. The other night his daughter Ada arose in her sleep at midnight, attired herself in light summer apparel, climbed from upstairs down a post of the'portico, saddled a horse, and rode to the cemetery more than a mile away, where she kneeled beside the grave of her deed parent and wept and prayed. Her hand coming in contact with a briar brush she awoke. A moment's reflection brought her to a full realization of where she was, and she fled toward the nearest house. The dogs here added to her fright, and, screaming, she climbed a tree, from which she was rescued and taken home by friends. Baltimore, May 5.—Thomas G. Woolford, chief clerk in the state comptroller's office at Annapolis, committed filicide last night at Barn urn's hotel in this city. Mr. Woolford had been melancholy for the post few weeks. At the urgent request of friend* who thought a change would do him good, he left Annapolis yesterday afternoon in company with his uncle for a visit to his native home in Somerset county. They engaged rooms at Barnum's for the night, intending to leave Baltimore on the steamer to-day. A few minutes after 6 o'clock the uncle went into his nephew's room and found ham lying on the floor with a razor in his hand and a deep gash in the left side of the neck. Mr. Woolfleld died an hour later. The suicide was 48 years old, was unmarried, and had been chief clerk for eighteen years. CONDENSED NEWS. Joseph Krieg, in jail at Scranton, Pa., for wife beating, hanged himself in his cell. Wahdneb, Idaho, May 5.—A shooting affair occurred at Wardner Junction, in which four man were wounded. The principals were Miles McNally, of the Cricket theatre of this place, on one side, and County Commissioner Pat McGowan and Jack Dillon on the other. Both McGowan and Dillon were badly wounded, and a bystander, named George Owens, is not expected to live. Fatal Shooting Affray. Ex-Chief of Police John H. Atkins, of Hot Springs, Ark., was fatally shot in a saloon there. At Detroit—Detroit, 8; Pittsburg, 2. At Chicago—Chicago, 11; Indianapolis, 7. At Louisville—Louisville, 5; St. Louis, 7. At Cincinnati—Cincinnati, 3; Kansas City, 4. FRIDAY'S BA.IEBALL GAMES. Two unknown men were killed several badly injured at Sorento, Mo., in a railway collision. Professor Mattew Schmalz, a well-known music teacher of Baltimore, banged himself in his bedroom. A Swindling Ex-Senator. Wayni!, Pa., May 5.—A train of forty cars loaded with perishable freight, on a branch of the Pennsylvnia railroad, was wrecked and partially burned here last night. Eighteen box cars, containing high class freight, were destroyed. The accident was caused by a broken axle on an oil tank car. A brakeman was badly burned. The loss cannot yet be estimated. A Hail Freight Wreck. Nxw Yobc, May 5.—Frederick. Gibbs, the ax-senator, in wanted on a charge of obtaining money under fain pretenses in conjunction with John C. Phelps, the son of the Albany lobbyist. A warrant for bis arrest has hog bauad. It is said that Gibbs obtained, with the connivance ot the younger Phelps, $1(0 from Lawyer Gerding a few days age by means of a check drawn by Gibbs on the Xsrth Hirer National bank. The bank people said that Gibbs had no funds there when ids oheck was presented by Lawyer Gegding. The latter is a friend of the elder Phelps, and naid the money to Gibbs on the representation that his father wantejl it Gibbs subsequently compromised the matter, but a check for $110 drawn by him, payable to Gerdingt which was used in the compromise, *w protratari on presentation This aroused the ire /Of Gerding, and he Immediately began crlmiatt yooeWiny.  While breaking into Holton's store, at Partville, N. Y., Edward Morrison, of Pittsburg, one of the burglars, was filled with buckshot and captured. Chicago, May 5.—A violent storm is raging over a large territory in the northwest. Many points are supposed to be cut oft from telegraphic communication, as they have not been heard from to-day. At Bt. Paul there was a considerable snowfall The temperature suddenly dropped to the freezing point there and at {tismarck and Fort Sully. A northwester is blowing here, and the indications are that the thermometer will reach the freezing point The sudden fall of temperature is partly due to the heavy rainfall in the west and northwest. Within twenty-four hours there have fallen at Lacrosse, Wis., almost two inches of rain, at Davenport about the same amount, and at Alpena, Mich., something over one inch. Snow 8torm in the Northwest. Washington, May 5.—The department of state is informed by the United States minister at Teheran that the government of the shah, in addition to sending a Persian minister to the United States, as heretofore reported, has determined to appoint a consul general to reside in New York, and that an American citizen resident in that city will probably be chosen for the office. A Turkish Consul General. One of the Famous Fox Slater* Arrested. Nkw York, May 5.—Kate Fox Jenckin, one of the noted Fox sisters, was held in 1300 bail in the Harlem police oourt for trial on a charge of neglecting her two children, aged respectively 13 and 13 years. She has occupied a comfortable flat at No. 158 East Eighty-fourth street for the past two months, and held spiritualistic seances there. These could not have proven very profitable, as she did what other work she oould when sober. C She has been drink inj heavily of late. The boys were sent to the Juvenile asylum. Gold has been discovered at Fostinlog, North Wale*, assays yielding five ounces to the ton. Speculation Led Hlin to Death. The jury in the trial of Andrew 8. Ford at Hudson, N. Y., for the murder of his wifo, failing to agree, was discharged. New York, May 5.—James H. Hunting, a stock broker, who had lost* money in bucket shop speculation, shot himself dead in the Washington building after leaving »bote to Cyrus W. Field, Jr., in which he said: Capt Thomas C. Ring, treasurer of the Now burg Savings bank, who Was robbed by bunco men last Nov«$nber of $0,000 in Albany eity bonds, has just recovered the securitied. Chicago, May 5.—Chief of Police Hubbard notified "Parson" Davie* that the wrestling match between Jack Wannop and Evan Lewis will not be allowed to take place, unless the stakes are taken down and Lewis' "strangle" hold barred. The match will take place as advertised, even if no money can depend on the result, in order to settle the championship question. Can't Strangle Any Men In Chicago. Moving day Is almost gone. It is almost night. Tumble everything into the new house. Put up the bedstead*. But who has the wrench, and who the screws! Packed up, are they I In what boil It may be any one of the half dozen. Ahl now I know in which box you will find It; la the last one you open I Hungry, are you I No time to talk of food till the crockery is unpacked. True enough, here they come. That last jolt of the cart finished the teacups. The jolt before that fractured some of the plates, and the hired help now drops the rest of them. The Paradise of crockery merchants is moving day. I think, from the results which I see, that they must about the 1st of *toy spend most of their time lq praying for success in business. Seated on the boxes, you taker tea, and then down w(th the carpets. They must be stretched, and pieced, and pulled, and matched. The whole family are on their knees at the work, and red in the faoe, and before the taoks are driven all the fingers have been hammered once aqd are faking 4 seoeod bruising. Nothing is where you e*- jpoted to And 11 Where is the hammer! It seems almost impossible for me to succeed. As a last favor will you send my body home for burial as cheaply as possible, as I have no friend ' —•• JIM. Mrs. Sarah J. Robinson, oonvicted of the murder of her A-other-in-law, Freeman, when informed Thursday night that the full bunch had refused her writ of error, showed no concern, and has, apparently, no dread ot hanging. Washington, ttay 5.—Mrs. Charlotte Smith, president of the Woman's Industrial league, appeared beforo the senate committee on education and labor and preferred a series of charges against the chief olerk of the treasury department*- Mrs. Smith charged that the methods of dealing with the charwomen of that department were not only irregular, but also illegal Hie committee agreed to submit a favorable report on the bill t/j prohibit the employment of aliens on public buildings and other public works. The Treasury Charwomen. Worth Knowing. St. Thomas, Ont, May 6.—The headless body of a man, about 30 years of age, was found on the Michigan Central tracks near the Kettle Creek bridge. From papers fJhind in the pockets of the dead man it is believed he was Jam*s Barnes, of Syracuse, N. Y., this address appearing on the fly leaf of a diary. It is thought he committed suicide. They Found a Headless Corpse. Mr. W. 1L Morgan, merchant, Lake City, Fla., was taken with a severe Cold, attended with a dis.ressiDg Cough and running into Consumption in its first stages. He tried many so-called popular cough remedies and steadily grew worse. Was reduced in flesh, had difficulty in breathing and was unable to sleep. Finally tried Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption and found immediate relief, and after using about a half dosten bottles found himself well and has had do return of the disease. No ether reuedy can show bo grand a record of cures, as Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption Guaranteed to do just what is claimed for it.—Trial bottle free at A. B. Woodward's Drug Store. Maj. Rogers, the discoverer of the Canadian Pacific pass through the Rockies, is to go to Alaska to report to an American syndicate the feasibility of a scheme to build a railway from soma point on the Northern Pacific to Alaska via Calgarry, Edmonton, and the Peace river country. InM Pwple Bsrasd to Daath. -ABUJiqm*, Neb., May 6.—Mrs. Trees, Fred Gratalusohsr, her son-in-law, his wife, three children and a younger brother, Louis, ware burned to death here yesterday The barn on the Trees farm was found by neighbors to lie on fire. It was too late to render 4Dfctaaoe Md the barn burned to the ground, together with some fifteen horses. No trace jot the family could be found, until one of the found a boot protruding from the 4-ulns. if rifII resulted In finding £be Sevan Omit- burned into an unreoogfiinHii mass. A hired man who was em•ployed hy Mrs. Trees is missing, and one theory is that he murdered the entire family, «attrM*d their bodies to the barn and than 4red the building. Detroit, May 4.—Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Nelson, Swedes, of Menominee, have become violently insane on account of religious excitement and are in jaiL Eight persons have lost their reason in that community within a month underthe influence of a Scandinavian female evangelist. Driven Insane bjr Religion. A member of the preas committee of tbe Burlington strikers says that the strike to still on. The rumor that it has been declared off, he says, is true only so far as concerns Fatal Fire )n Lot Angeles. Los AkqxlbS, CaL, May Los Angeles Cracker company's block, with a large amount, of valuable machinery, and tjbe residency of g. Webber, has been burned. John Scbuler. who slept jn the factory, is supposed to ta*e 'perished in the flames. The low will fully $60,600; Insurance not over $10,000. The cause of the fire is unknown. Washington, May 5.—The conferees on the bill providing for a conference of American nations have reached an agreement upon the one point at' issue. The it authorised to appoint the ootamissioners by and With the iadvice and oonsent of the senate. Conference of American Nations. Lying at Death's Poor. the Chicago, Burlington and Northern line. Chiefs Arthur and Sargent practically declared tbe strike off on this road about threa weeks ago. NSW York, May 5. —Ex-Senator Alexander McDonald, who is lying seriously ill at the Hotel St. Maro, is suffering from a relapse. His physjciimp say tfeat it caused by visitors conversing with him. They alss stat$ that to-day will be the critical day. At Bristol, Tenn. was celebrated the 100th Col umbo Bitters sold everywhere. anniversary of the first establishment of a Presbyterian ohurah is salt Tennessee.