Evening Gazette

              Stoning JgBt D ROUU igfr. | PITTSTON, PA., MONDAY, MAY 7, 1888. !two cEirrs. fan Cents * Week Seven Burned to Death. McClabs, Awdrew and wife, both painfully injured and crushed. Medina, Chris, injured by falling timbers, not ■eriouslr. The Ailing Emperor. STORY OF A TRAGEDY. TheWeek'sPwgramme SKETCHING THE STATESMEN, LOSS AND GAIN. Murder Thought to Have Instigated a A Celebrated French Artist Doing Promt. Omaha, Neb., May 7.—The rircumstanoes attending the burning of the Widow Freeze and her family in the barn near Arlington Friday are still a mystery, but further investigation tends to remove the suspicion that murder was one of the features of the horrible affair. Another search resulted in the discovery of the eighth victim, Louis Oroteluschen, the hired man. He was found near tbe east end of the barn, among tin remains of some horses. #D Fire Wlileh Killed Eight People. Washington, May 7.—Paul Ronouartl, the French artist, has been making sketches at the capital during the past week, anCl will be employed at the same work for several weeks to come. He was brought over hero by a prominent New York publishing house specially for this work. He will confine himself to sketches of congress exclusively. ■lent People In Washington. DIVINE SERVICES AT THH BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. Hobtuch, Jacob, badly cut on the head. McM&nut, Jambs, cut about the (aoe and body. Tfcrrible Result of an Explosion He Is Believed to Be Worse What Will Be Done in Senate of Dynamite. iujTBBTT, Jamxs, cut and bruised about (be head. Than Is Reported. and House. llev. Dr. Talmago Expound* • Familiar Test with Characteristic Clearness and Rajxxrty, Mrs. Thomas, cut about tb* bead. False and Malicious Re- MftUSES blown to the winds. Raffertt, Mrs. Patrick, cut about the head. UNEASINESS FELT IN BERLIN. IHORE TARIFF DISCUSSION. Catching the expression of the human face Is his great forte. He is sketching all the most prominent individuals and all the moot characteristic groups of both houses. The work he has already completed includes individual sketches of Speaker Carlisle, Messrs. Mills, Cox, Reed and other leading men, and a group of the ways and means committee at work. The subjects look rather Frenchy, and the effect is- Vastly different from the wooden portraits that appear in American newspapers. port Concerning the Doctor Denounced. Kerwick, Simon, terribly injured and burned about the bead and body while trying to nve his family, five of whom are dead. Reabdon, Dennis, badly cut about tbe face and body. Brooklyn, May a.—The'Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D.D., told the oongregatiou at the Tabernacle today that Bk malicious falsehood bad gone through the country, saying that a} a recent meeting of the ofjteers of the Thirteenth regiment at his house, tie bad set before their four kinds of winei He said: "I will pay $1,000 to any charitable Institution if it can be proved chat one drop aI wine or any other intoxicating liquor was offered in my bouse that evening. The twenty-five gentlemen present may be called upon for testimony. Any three respectable clergymen or lawyers or detectives may be selected; they also to decide what charity shall have the money. 1 ask the newspapers all over the land, which have beeix misled by the falsehood, to correct it." 1W Section* of a Broken Train Crash M Mow Up Two Car ball a* bplMiw- Many Buildings Near Rumors of Improvement Doubted, and A (Probable Attempt to Uilug Up tha His Death Expected at Amy Time—All Mrs. Freeze, the old lady, was lying near the door at the west end. All the flesh and hair was burned from her face and head with the exception of a single gray tuft at the back, which was next to the ground when she fell and was thus protected from the flames. Louis Oroteluschen was identified by a part of his woolen shirt, which bore his initials, "L. OJD His watch was found lying by bis side. The hands had stopped at 7:17 o'clock. Blver and Harbor Bill—The Chinese Europe Agitated by Emperor Fred- and Fishery Treaties In the Senate. Other Business. the Traefc Wrecked. Kxrwio. Mrs. Simon, ■offering from ■bock, and is in a critical condition. She gave birth to a child a few hours before the exploBoo, crick's IIIdom—Ocneral Foreign News* Washington, May 7.—The tariff will continue to occupy the attention of the house this week. |Cr. Carmil, Pa., Mas 7.—Late Saturday Bight a terrible accident occurred on tbe Philadelphia' and Beading railroad, near Ld»st (jap. Freight train 87, consisting of oars, bound for Williainsport, beeme disconnected by the breaking of a •oopliqg, and the engine and three cars ran half a mile before'the crew disoovei-ed that the train was divided. The first section awaited Hie arrival of tbe second at the foot of a heavy grade, but the two brukeinen lost control at the secoud section, and it dashed lute the first section, causing au oxplC sion in two oars which were load with dynamite and giant powder. At the scene of the accident tbe railroad runs along • steep hill, at the bottom of which stood two rows of bouses occupied by and Reading Coal and Iron employes On the hillside stood a litH. cottage occupied by John Quinn, a London, May 7.—The cessation of the official bulletins concerning the condition of the emperor, upon which, it may be said, the people have never placed implicit reliance, is causing much uneasiness in Berlin, where it is believed that the patient is much worse than the doctors care to admit. The reports in circulation during the last forty-eight hours of the emperor's renewed strength, evidenced by several attempts to walk across his room and his desire to take out door exercise, are' received with a degree of doubt bordering upon absolute disbelief. Rumors are now abroad that the emperor has had another relapse, and it is generally feared that a slow but sure declino bos set in, which will terminate in death within a very few days. Chairman Blanchard, of the committee on rivers and harbors, if he feels secure in doing so, will move to-day to suspend the rules and put the river and harbor bill on its passage. He believes that he can secure the necessary two-thirds vote, having made a pretty careful canvass and ascertained that it is stronger now than when he last made this proposition. THEY THRASHED THE THIEF. It happened that on Tuesday afternoon the artist went to the senate to sketch Mr. Ingalls, but the only thing he secured was a very vivid and interesting picture of the exterior of one of the doors opening into the "reserved gallery." The sketch shows  throng of men, women and children crushing each other, standing on each other, olimblng on chairs, benches and all sorts of things, and pressing and perspiring only to catctj a glimpse of the interior or to her a few syllables of the speech that was being made. With such a press upon that entrance the painted inscription above the door, "Reserved Gallery," seems quite humorous. The roar of that crowd at the door of the gallery was the nearest approach the French artist could then make to the distinguished gentleman whom he desired to sketoh, and to whom so many people were then listening with such olose attention. Passengers Summarily Punish a Would Mansfield, O., May 7.—A bold but bungling attempt to rob the limited express, Ma 6, on the Baltimore and Ohio road, at an early hour Sunday morning, was frustrated by the prompt action of the train crew and some of the passengers. The train being stopped at this station a man entered the smoking car, where most of tho passengers were dozing, and attempted to snatch the watches of three of tbem in succession. He had only succeeded in obtaining one watch when the occupants of tha car became aroused and the thief made a rush for the door, only to be met by Conductor Corwin, who, taking in the situation at a glance, dealt the scoundrel a tremendous blow ever the head with his lantern, bringing him to the floor senseless. Be Train Bobber. In tho large stall in which the cows were kept, in tbo northeast corner of the barn, were found the bodies of Ned Groteluschen and two of his children, aged 4 and 6 years. The body of the third child, an infant, was found near that of its mother by the door leading into the place where the horses, were kept. A horse had fallen upon them, Mrs. Groteluschen lying under the neck of the animal and the child between its feet. The position in which the horse lay on the woman's breast had partially protected her from the flames, and a portion of her neck was gashed as with some sharp instrument. Two physicians who examined the wounds, however, thought they were not deep enough to have produced death, and were of the opinion that they had been made by the toe calk on the horse's shoe. The tariff bill will not be taken up under the five minute rule before Tuesday of next week. A Democratic caucus of tho houso will be held on Wednesday night next to consider what amendments shall be proposed. The opening hymn of the service begins: 8a) ration I oh, the joyful sound. Tlx pleasure to our ears. Dr. Talmage announced aa tba subject of the sermon "Loss and Gain," and his text was: "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and loss his own soul r—Mark vili, 80. The army appropriation bill will be reported by the house committee on military affairs to the house to-day or to-morrow. Consideration of it is now practically completed, the only cause of delay being the in ability of the chairman to get a quorum together to vote on one or two points which have been hung up for explanation from the war department. It contains no material changes over the appropriations for the current fi'Tal year and no items of special legisluL.uu.Lord Salisbury, speaking at the Royal academy banquet, vory clearly defined the European political situation in the single phrase: 1 am accustomed. Sabbath by Sabbath, to stand before an audience of bargain makers. There may be men in all occupations sitting before me, yet the vast majority of them, I am very well aware, are engaged from MonC- day morning to Saturday night in the store, in many ol the families of my congregation, acrosr the breakfast table and the tea table are discussed questions of loss and gain. Sou are every day asking yourself: "What la the value of tbist What is the value of thatf Vou would not think of giving something of greater value for that which is at lesser valua. Sou would not think of selling that which costs you 910 for $& If you had • property that was worth $15,000, you would not sell it for $4,000. You are intelligent In all matters of bargain making. Are you aa wise in the things that pertain to the matters of the soul? Christ adapted his instructions to the circumstances of those to whom be spoke. When he talked to fishermen b» spoke of the Gospel net. When he talked to the farmers, be said: "A sower went forth to sow." When be talked to the shepherds, bo told the parable of the lost sheep. And am I not right when speaking this morning to an audienoe made up of bargain makers, that 1 address them in the words ot my text, asking: "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul*" widower, and four children, two boys and fwo girls. Tba force of thu explosion wrecked |be buildings, seventeen in ail, and tbo stoves set Are to the ruins. "Europe is standing hushed by the bedside of its most powerful, most admired and most valued potentate." .Quina and his two little girls were burned to ashes. The two boys escaped with burns. Simon Kerwick's family consisted of Mary and Willie Cavanaugh, adopted children, aged respectively 8 and 14 yeans; Dwicl Kerwick, aged 8; Alice Korwlck, aged 5, and kis wife and a new-born babe. Mr. Kerwick oarriM his wife from the burning building, bat the children were burned to death. A corporal of Company G, Fifth infantry, who was carrying an insane soldier from Fort Keogh, M. T., to the National asylum, quickly produced a pair of handcuirs, and when the prostrate bandit regained consciousness he found himself manacled and among a crowd of passengers who talked excitedly of the bell cord and the nearest telegraph pole. The thief begged piteously for his life, and after he had been searched and weapons found on his person, and there being no policeman within call, the crowd yielded to the counsels of Conductor Corwin. The rascal, after receiving a severe thrashing, was allowed to go and the train proceeded on its way. Two companions ot the scoundrel, who werwtationed on the side of the train opposite the depot, took tp their heels on the ilrst alarm. The stolen watch was of course returned to its owner. This utterance elicited the unanimous acquiescence of the premier's hearers, and it cannot be doubted that it expresses the prevailing feeling at all of the European capitals, however lukewarm may be the public sentiment, with regard to preserving friendly relations with Germany. While the searchers were at work among the ruins a horse, with both eyes burned out and his ears singed to tho head, came staggering toward them and fell among the dead bodies of the other animals. A couple of well directed blows from an ax put the poor brute out of its misery. In the house breakfast dishes were washed and stacked up, and on the table were found three little tin plates from which the children were accustomed to eat. By the side of each was a slice of buttered bread and some sauce; out of one piece several bitos had been taken. In thu pantry were several crocks full of fresh milk which was still warm when the men arrived from Arlington. Mrs. Mary Freeze and her husband, John Freeze, have arrived in Arlington from their home in Kansas. Driven Insane In a Peculiar Way. "*■ Seneca, Kan., May 7. — Two farmers, named Primley, who live about thirteen miles north of this place, had as an assistant one Altbaus. The three got into a violent Aiacusston concerning the taking of the sacrament. jAlthaus exclaimed, in a loud voice, with an oath: "You think when you take the sacrament, you are swallowing Jesus, feathers and alL" No sooner had he uttered the words than he became madly insane, rushed about with frightful groans and. despite the efforts of the Frimleys, escaped and is supposed to be hiding in the woods ilong the Nemeha river. In the senate the pleuro-pneumonia or animal industry bill is unfinished business, and, with tho copyright bill, will sec lire consideration after the morning hours. There was a feeble attempt to renew the Trafalgar square agitation when Commoners Graham, Cony beare and Mr. \V ill Lam tiaunders went thither and faintly endeavored to organize a meeting. The police quickly compelled the crowd to move on, however, and the leaders, after addressing an indignant remonstrance to the constables, retired from the square. The land grant forfeiture bill will continue to receive consideration before 3 o'clock each day. * Thirty fwrtons were Injured, the most seriously being Mrs. Miles Dougherty, leg broken, bruised and cut; her mother, Mrs. Matbeas, out, bruised and internally injured; Mary, daughter of Mrs. Miles, neck cut and brotod; Andrew MoElwee, right eye destroyed and neck cut; John Donlan, left hand amputated and cut about the liinbs, and Mrs. PfcW-ick McManus, injured by mUtiles. Mrs. Simon Kerwick is suffering from shock, and hM* condition Is serious. Several of the In- wen seat to the Miners' hospital. Uk all twelve oars were destroyed, and seventeen houses, with their lurniture. All the Windows in the Locust Gap churches and schools Were broken and the doors blown off.- In X6unt Car me], two and a half miles large store windows uerv broken. Tfce isplttftou was distinctly felt in Hhainokin, Six ipiles »*ay. Tbe Reading railroad at the point of Use •oddest ts about ItU) feet ibove the level of the first street. Nearest the scene of the explosion were one single dwelling on the north side of the strsei, and three double ones on tfceWth aide. Tfcste seven houses were toru to pieces and afterward burned. It was in Dh— that *11 the deaths ooourred. The North .Dakota statehood bill may possibly receive some attention, and also the pension appropriation bill. The senate will be in secret session much of the time during the week, considering the Chinese treaty, and probably the fisheries treaty, the former having been reported several days ago, and the latter being ready to report from the committee on foreign relations. The Chinese treaty will probably be ratified, while the fisheries treaty will in all probability be rejected. Upon the arrival of the steamship Nevada at ijueenstown, the police boarded her and arrested Charles Bowe, of Leeds, upon a warrant charging him with embezzling a large amount of his employer's funds. Rowe bad traveled in America under the name of Lord Charles Beresford, and only recently married an American lady. His wife and father-in-law accompanied him on the voyage. Philadelphia, May 7.—The corner stone of the old Masonic temple in Chestnut street, above Seventh street, which was burned on Dec. 27, 1886, was lifted from its place. This stone was laid Nov. 31, 185a, and in a cavity in it was found a oopper box a foot square at the ends and two feet long. The box was placed in the custody of the Union Trust oompany, for the grand lodge of the Masonic order of this state. The box is heavy, and there Is evidently a number of coins among its contents. Ar Old Corner Stone Opened. NO MORMONS ADMITTED. The Utah Democratic Convention Cone A DRY SUNDAY IN JERSEY. trolled Butlrely by Gentiles. The senate committee on appropriations is holding no meetings now for want of material. The committee now stands adjourned subject to the call of the chairman. First Day of the New JLIquor Law—All Salt Lake Citt, May 7.—The territofAl Democratic convention at Ogden was aJ try inharmonious affair. The Gentiles V /I a majority in the convention, and at on e assumed control, ex-District Judge .Wers taking the temporary chairmanship without even the formality of an election. He appointed a radical anti-Mormon committee on credentials, which reported against admit ting any Mormon whether or not there was a contest for the seat. New York, May 7.—The new liquor law in New Jersey went into effect yesterday, and not a saloon was open nor a drop of liquor sold, openly, in the state, from Hoboken to Camden. At Taylor's hotel, Jersey City, the cashier said it was the first day in the history of that venerable inn that no liquor had been served to guests. At Doyles' famous Old Stone house a sign was bung out: Haloons Closed. "There is every likelihood," said a member of the committee, "that we will not get through with the legislative and sundry civil bills until after the close of the present fiscal year. We shtttl probably have to resort to the makeshift of extending |the present laws from time to tima We may not get through with them all before the middle of August." Twelve hundred Jewish tailors of London have struck work in consequence of a refusal of their demand for shorter hours, and the movement threatens to spread to the inclusion of tailors of other races and nationalities. 1 propose, as far as possible, to estimate and oompare the value of two properties. "First, 1 have to say that the world is a very grand property. Its flowers are God's thoughts in bloom. Its rocks are God's thought* In stone. Its dew drops are God's thoughts in pearL This world is God's child, a wayward child. Indeed; it has wandered off through the heavens. But about 1,888 years ago, one Christmas night, God sent out a sister world to call that wanderer back, and it hung over Bethlehem only long enough to get the promise of the wanderer's return, and now that lost world, with soft feet of light, comes treading back through the heavens. The hills, bow beautiful they billow up, the edge of the wave white with the foam of crocuses! How beautiful the rainbow, the arched bridge on which heaven and earth some and talk to each other in tears, after the storm is overt How nimbi* the feet of the lamplighters that in a few 'minutes set ail the. dome of the night ablase with brackets of Orel How bright the oar of the saffron Cloud that rows across the deep sea of heavenl How beautiful the spring, with bridal blossoms in her hair I I wonder who it is that beats time on a June morning for the bird orchestra. How gently the harebell tolls its fragrance on the airl There may be grander worlds, swarthier worlds, larger worlds than this, but 1 think that this is a most exquisite world—a mignonette on the bosom of immensity! "Oh," you say, "take my soul: give me that worldl 1 am willing to take it in exchange. 1 am ready now for the bargain. It is a beautiful world, so sweet % world, so grand a worldl" Gen. Sir Charles Warren, chief commissioner of the metropolitan police, attempted to deliver a lecture on "Palestine" last night in the Oxford Music halL The hall was packed with Socialists, and when the lecturer began his entertainment the reason of their presence became manifest. They hooted and jeered the speaker and ridiculed the dissolving views with which his lecture was embellished, until not even the presence of the police sufficed to protect the lecturer, and he was compelled to abandon bis purpose and leave the stage. Chicago, May 7.—The statement that Hon. Melville W. Fuller was likely to decline the position of chief justice of the United States is declared a pure invention. Mr. Fuller sayB: "I was greatly surprised to see the dispatch in the papers, and cannot conjecture whence it emanated, as it is incorrect. The office Is one which should neither be sought nor declined, for its acceptance, of course, involves matter of serious reflection in many ways. That is sufficient, I think, to explain my position." Mr. Fnller Has Not Declined. "Closed for the first time in seventy years. Let her go, Gallagher 1" This excluded forty-two Mormons regularly chosen, and left the convention composed of 105 Gentiles. Several of the latter made speeches against the proceeding, but without avail, the majority holding that no man who had heretofore worked with the Mormons could be called Democrats. The resolutions which were adopted oppose the admission of the territory of Utah as a state until the present political and social conditions have been changed; indorse the administration of President Cleveland and instruct the delegates to St. Louis to work for his renomination. There is talk that another convention will b8 held, made up of Mormon Democrats and Gentile Democrats who regard the proceedings as irregular. Mnrder Followed the Girls' Duel. St. LooiS, May 7.—News'from the Lima valley. New Mexico, gives an account of the tragic and fatal result of the difficulties between Miss Sarah Bolton and Mary Le Moore, who fought a duel last week, the result of a quarrel over the affections of a young cowboy named Whitman. In this duel Miss Le Moore was shot through the shoulder, but recovered in a few days, and Saturday evening, closely veiled, went to the house of her hated rival, and meeting her at the gate shot her dead. Returning to her home, she proudly boasted of the crime. She was soon after placed under arrest As a revolver was found on the person of the murdered woman it is believed that she too was awaiting an opportunity to finish the work of the duel Mr. and Mrs. Kerwick, who lost their three ofcUdm, bad a miraculous escape. The man Was blown out of the window, but only slightly injured. He then got his Bick wife out of the burning building, and afterward recovered several ot hit neighbor's children, fefciob, in his dmed condition, he believed to Uhlto**. The pertinency of the legend lays in the fact that Assemblyman Gallagher, of the Jersey City district, was active in having the law passed. Borne of friends remonstrated with the proprietor, with the result that the sign was taken down, and another substituted reading "Closed by the law. Close up the lawmakers." Buffalo Bill, with his troupe, sailed from Hull on a Wilson line steamer for New York yesterday morning. A Donble Murder In New York. About 100 yard* below these buildings there is Mother row of four double house* Thee* Were Wrecked, but fire was averted by the prompt action of the inmates. On the am* street, some 300 yards east, stands nine DIM* houses, four and one single, lijaae were partly wrecked. Boards were tptn'out, roofs broken in, and the furniture ruined. So great was the upward force of thfc explosion that car wheels and axles were (brown a distance of *10 yards. Ooe axle fell tfatoogh the roof of one of the houses on lbs lower strset The saloon keepers of Hoboken, Fort JLee and Jersey City were in despair. Usually thousands of New Yorkers go across on the ferries Sundays to enjoy the luxury of beer and other beverages. Yesterday the pilgrims were few, and the pilgrimage a brief one, the well posted staying away. New York, May 7.—Giovanni Cioni, aged 40 years, and Amalia Montine, aged -35, the latter a ballet dancer in Klralfy's troupe, were stabbed Saturday night by an unknown man at the home of the woman, No. 171 Wooster street. Cioni was stabbed several times in the throat and the woman four times in the breast. Both were removed to the hospital. They are probably fatally hurt. Several men rushed from" the woman's apartments at the time of the stabbing. The queen has forwarded to the women's industrial section of the exhibition at Glasgow a picture painted by her daughter, the German empress. Dispatches from India state that unprecedented hail storms have occurred at and in the vicinity of Moradabad and Delhi, some of the hail stones weighing two pounds. Upwards of 150 persons were killed by being struck by the falling globes of ice, and the damage to property is almost beyond estimation.They Gave Clang a Great Send Off. THE STOLEN PACKAGE. San Francisco, May 7.— Claus Spreckels, the sugar manufacturer, was presented at the Turnverein hall, Saturday evening, by his 1,000 employes, with a set of complimentary resolutions engraved on a plate of silver, set in a mosaic of polished California woods. Eight hundred employes filled the hall, others, comprising the crews of Spreckels' steamers and night force of his sugar refinery, were unable to attend the festivities. Barrels of California wine were rolled in till 11 o'clock, when the elated crowd marched to Spreckels' mansion, headed by several brass bands, and serenaded tho departing manufacturer. He started for Philadelphia this morning. His sons will attend to the sugar refineries and shipping business here. The refinery in 1'hiladelpnia and the new beet sugar refinery at Watsonville, Cal, will give employment to 1,000 more hands. No Clew to the Man Who Substituted St. Helena, CaL, May 7.—John Wright, who shot and killed a young man named Budd Vann, in this town, about two weeks ago, was taken from the jail by a mob of masked men and hanged to a bridge. At the time Vann was killed be and several companions were standing near a house of ill fame, and one of the crowd threw a stone through the window. Wright, who was a brother of .one of the inmates, was in the house at the time, and immediately fired a pistol, striking Vann and inflicting a fatal wound. Wright had been confined in the jail, but it was not thought any attempt wouia be made at lyuching. Lynch Lav In California, New York, May 7.—The package of brown paper, labeled "$41,000," which was delivered to the treasury department on Saturday by the Adams Express company, as that much genuine money, from the American Exchange bank of this city, was returned to the bank yesterday, and the seals and label carefully inspected, in the hope of discovering some clew to the thief who so adroitly made the substitution. The result of the investigation cannot be learned, for everybody who knows anything maintains discreet silence on the subject. Ilrown Faper for S41,000. Paddy Ryan WaMU't Knocked Out. San Francisco, May 7.—Paddy Ryan, the pugilist, is eager to meet the newspaper man who telegraphed that the Trojan had been knocked out at Duluth by John P. Donner. Ryan is still in San Francisco and is an active candidate for a place as watchman in the United States mint. The wreaked train, in annltlon to the cars Of powder and dynamite, contained Singer sewitaf naohlnes, glass, phosphate, oil, lumber Sour and sheet iron. Within a radius of sixty feet there is a perfect litter of these rt, ail broken and mixed up. Trees near train were uprooted, while one large On* was blown half way up the top of a freight oar. The lumber car was loaded with flooring. Where this was blown Up the bill many of the long plaoes are stuck ground. Beneath the wrecked train (few* ip a large hole, probably ilfty feet in dl*aD*iar, the work of the dynamite. , None of the trafn bands were injured, althotigh one is said to have been blown a eeoWderable distance. The engineer of the locomotive, which was very olose at the time Of IB* explosion, was stunned, but soon recovered. The loss is about (75,000. A dispatch from Mandolay says the British garrison at that place was surprised by Dacoits recently, 4hd in the ensuing conflict two officers and two privates were killed. The Old Gold Brick Game, But let us look more minutely Into the valu* of this world. You will not buy property unless you can get a good title to it. A faer you have looked at the property and found out that it suite you you send an attorney to the public office, and he examines the book of deeds, and the book of mortgages, and the book of judgments, and the book of liens, and be decides whether the title is good before yon will have anything tc do with it. There might be a splendid property, and in every way exactly suited to your want, but if you cannot get a good title you will not take it. Mow, I am here this morning to say that it is impossible to get a good title to this world. If I settle down upon it, in the very year I so settle dC)wn upon it as a permanent possession 1 may be driven away from it. Ay, in are minutes after 1 give up my soul for the world I may have to part with the world, and what kind ot a title do yen call thatl There is only-one way in which 1 can hold an earthly possession, and that is through the senses. All beautiful sights through the eye, but the eye may be blotted out; ail captivating sounds through the ear, but my ear may be deafened i all luschiousness of fruits and viands through my taste, but my taste may be destroyed; all appreciation of culture and of art through my mind, but X may lose my mind. What a frail hold, then, I have upon any earthly possession! In courM of law, if yon want to got a man off a property, you must serve Upon him a writ of ejectment, giving him a certain time to vacate the premises; but when death oomer to us and serves a writ of ejectment, be does not give ui one seoond of forewarning. He says: "OS of this placet You have no right any longer in the possession." Wo might cry outi "1 gave you $100,000 for that property;" the plea would be of no avail. We might says "We have a warrantee deed for that property,-" the plea would be ot no avail. We might say: "We have a lien on that store house,-" that would do us no good. Death Is blind, and be cannot see a seal, and be cannot read an indenture. So that, first and last, 1 want tq tell yon that when you propose that 1 give np my soul for the world, you cannot give me the first item of title. Having examined the title of a property, your next question ic about insurance. You would not be silly enough to buy a large warehouse that could notpoasibly be insured. You would not have anything to do with sucb a property. Now, 1 ask you what assurance can you give me that this world is not going tc be burned upl Absolutely none. Geologist! tell us that it is already on fire; that the heart of the war Id is one great living ooal, that it is just like a ship on fire at sea, the flames not burstiug out because the hatcher art kept down. And yet you propose tc palm off on me, in return for my soul, a world for which, in the first place, you give no title, and ill the second plaoe, for which you oan give no insurance. "Oh,* you say. "the water of the ocean* will wash (OONTWOKD ON THUUD PA0*.) Watkrtown, N. Y., May 7.—John B. Chapman, the farmer who was swindled out of $7,040, by being induced to purchase what purported to be two gold bars worth $20,000, is the individual who, only four weeks ago, was the defendant In a suit for breach of promise in the Jefferson county court, in which Miss Chellis, a school teacher of this city, reoeived judgment for $8,000. The game by which the swindlers obtained the money from Chapman was by digging up supposed bars of gold on his farm, where they were claimed to have been deposited by a former resident of the neighborhood, who bad grown rich in the Black Hills, returned home, buried ths treasure there, and going west again died, leaving a friend in possession of the secret of the hiding place. Chapman bought the bars alter a Syracuse jeweler bad declared that the dust which had been kbored out of one of them was genuine gold. . The name of one of the swindlers is Bradley, and another gave his name as Gardner. Trying- to Reopen the Telephone Canes. Washington, May 7.—An effort is to be made to reopen the telephone case in the supreme court. It is understood that counsel for the Drawbaugh people have completed their petition to reopen the case, and that it will be submitted to the court to-day. Just where the package of paper was substituted (or the bills it is hard to say. After the package had been mode up, sealed with five seals and labelled, it was delivered, according to the bank's custom, to two messengers, who took it from the bank, at No. 128 Broadway, to the office of the Adams express company, at No. 59 Broadway. The messengers brought back the express company's receipt and everything was supposed to be all right until the startling news came from W ashington that the bogus package had been received there. Washington, N. C., May 7.—Thomas Frazier, a saloon keeper, shot and instantly killed Joshua H. Cox, a prominent lumber dealer, at. Blount's Creek, near here, and then flecf from the town. He was captured in the evening and put under guard in a farm house, preparatory to being placed in the county jail the next morning. During the night a number of masked men seized Frazier, and, taking him to the spot where he had murdered Cox, killed him with guns and pistols. His body was mutilated almost beyond recognition. Frazier was considered a desperate character. Cox leaves a widow and five small children. A Murderer Killed by a Mob. He Shot Him Through the Heart. The Lilly Hoyle Murder. Chicago, May 7.—Julius Olsen, a Norwegian, living at No. 35 Austin avenue, killed his brother John by shooting him through the heart during a funeral. Julius accused his brother of criminal relations with his wife.' The murderer was arrested. Worcester, Mass., May 7.—Thomas B. McQuaid, who is under arrest at New York for the murder of Lilly Hoyle, is the son of Thomas McQuaid, a wholesale liquor dealer. The young man is 34 years old. He was graduated at the College of the Holy Cross in this city in 1886. Since leaving college he has studied medicine in New York. Last summer he went to Eprope with his father, returning shortly before Lilly Hoyle's disappearance. The detectives will say nothing as to their evidence against McQuaid, but the popular belief is that the girl left her home on the night of Sept. 1, to meet McQuaid, in whose medical knowledge and skill she had confidence, and that she died from an overdose of chloroform. Cowie may have been called in to help dispose of the body. In the town of Locust Gap the loss is also toavy. The large Catholic church was rocked H)»» a cradle, and the costly windows fell In |Mk upon the floor. The public school buildings were damaged, and there are few houses left in the town with the plastor still (•ft on their walls. Store shelves discharged contents, and the town looks as though it hud been subjected to a siege or struck by • cyclone. Students Must Drop Athletics. Hanover, N. H., May 7.—The Dartmouth faculty has decided that the students of that college must drop football, iaseball and general athletics, because of the excessive amount of time and money required to conduct them all. Death Struggles of the Nevada Bank. Chicago, May 7.—A San Francisco special to The Tribune says: The opening of a subscription list in the Nevada l?ank has proved a flat failure. The expected stock subscribers have not come in, and although Senator Fair declares that he will himself take all the stock required, it is thought that the cherished concern of the famous bonanza firm will be gradu»'!y wound up, or else made a substitute branch of the Bank of California, its old and hated rival. W. C. Ralston, the late Senator Sharon, D. O. Mills and others established the Bank of California, which for years controlled the mining stock speculation of the Pacific coast. When Mackay, Flood and Fair became suddenly so rich that they could measure purses with any one, their operations brought the Bank of California to the verge of ruin and drove its president, Ralston, to commit suicide. Now, after fourteen years the old bank is again the prosperous one, and some of the bonanza partners have lately experienced some of the sensations of the desperate Ralston before he swam out Into San Francisco bay, after taking a fatal dose of poison.  In this city the shook was also fruitful of damage. There are few houses on business thoroughfares in which tha French plate glass windows are not shattered. Locust Dale, KeooIsIot and Helfenstein felt the shock distinctly. BUFFALO, May 7.—Next Tuesday Justice Haight will sentence Hiram B. and Charles M. Everest, who were convicted of conspiracy a year ago. The defendants conspired to ruin the business of the Buffalo Lubricating Oil company, blow up its works and do several other illegal acts. On Saturday afternoon Mr. Theodore Bacon, as attorney for the Messrs. Everests, made an appeal before Judge Haight for a lenient sentence. They may be fined $250, of imprisoned in the Erie county penitentiary for one year. An appeal will probably be taken. To Sentence the KverestJ. Death of the Oldest Mason, New York, May 7.—Tho Metropolitan Opera hcmse yesterday was almost as crowded as it is on the opening night of the opera season. The meeting was under the auspices of the new City Churcli ncd Missionary society, and was attended by most of the lueuibers of the Methodist Episcopal conference who were not filling pulpits in the various city churches. Rev. Dr. Ensign McChesney presided, and Rev. Dr. L. M Vernon, of Italy, opened the meeting with a prayer. Rev. J. R Day read from the Scriptures, and Bishop Charles R Fowler, of San Francisco, delivered the sermon. The death of Bev. Charles J. Clarke, of Portland, Me., was announced. He was one of the assistant secretaries of the conference, and for three yean was a presiding elder of the Maine synod. While in attendance at the conference he contracted a severe cold, from which he died at the Sturtevant house Friday night. The Conference's Sunday. Mexico, Mo., May 7.—Alfred Barnes died in this county yesterday at the age of 98. He has been a Mason for 75 years, and is said to have been the oldest member of the order in the world. Tba shock was felt five miles away, and upon the hill, a quarter of a mile from the MM of ttie accident, the ground is littered wtQi debris. Rochester, N. Y., May 7.—The convention of the Turners of the district of western New York was held in this city yesterday. Representatives of the Turn Vereius of Buffalo, [Syracuse, Auburn, Dolgeville and this city were present Herman Pfaeffler, of this city, presided. Hugo Dolge, of Dolgovilla, Dr. tVilliam Meissberger and Paul Werner, both of Buffalo, were elected delegates to the American Turnerbund, to be held in Chicago May 26. Mr. Pfaeffler, of this city, and A. Aman, of Syracuse, were chosen substitutes. The delegates were instructed to favor| the passage of resolutions calling for strict eleotion laws, and the election of the president and the United States senate by the people directly.  Convention of Turners. At Baltimore—Baltimore, 7; Brooklyn, 8. At Cincinnati—Cincinnati, 14; Kansas City, 7.  Sunday Hasebalt Gaines. The full list of the dead is as follows: Ca.vaha.uqh, Mart, 8 years, adopted daughter of Simon Kerwick. For Tuesday, in eastern New York, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and in New England, cooler, partly cloudy to fair weather, preceded by showers, with southerly to westerly winds.  Weather Indications. Cavamauqh, Willie, 14 years, adopted «oa of Bimua Kerwick. A Fly Eating Boy. Knwios, Alice, 5 years old. Kebwick, Daniel, 8 years old. Nashville, Tenn., May 7.—At Indian Creek, near Martin's Mills, a boy about 10 years old has acquired a mania for eating flies, and will tu»n away from the daintiest dishes to this, his favorite diet. All efforts to break him of the disgusting habit have proved useless. He eats them, he says, because he loves them, and resorts to all kinds of scMmes to catch them. He says his little brother likes them as well as he does, but is too lazy to catch them. The boy is a bright little fellow and keeps well and hearty. Xcrwick, infant daughter of Bimonl Kerwick, born a few hours before the explosion. Ovum, John A., widower, aged 40 years. QsIjiK, Kate, John Quinn's daughter, aged CONDENSED NEWS. Harrison Staples varied the programme of a ball at North Bend, O., by murdering Lewis Brown. years. The following name* of injured people have (mo secured, but it is probable that others were hurt: Doxux, John, hand crushed so that it had to be amputated, and otherwise seriously Fatal Wreck of a Circus Train. Stkubknville, 0., May 7.—A land slide on the Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad, near this place, was run into yesterday by Miller & Freeman's circus train. The accident happened in a deep cut known as the "back bone," where a watchman is stationed every day but Sunday. The engine and five cars left the track. The cars are so badly wrecked as be utterly worthies. A. B. Stillwell, of Wellsvilie, O., the engineer, was terribly scalded and received several internal injuries. His condition is precarious. Elmer Ellsworth, of Cincinnati, the colored cook attached to the circus, was instantly killed. None of the sleeping ears, containing the performers, or the stock oars, loaded with horses, left the track. The oars that were wrecked contained the canvas wagons and baggage trucks, and the circus will lose over $8,000. They were on their way frow Zanesville, O., to Newcastle, Pa. Tw) men residing in the neighborhood saw the ohitruottoo, bat failed to notify the railroad oompany or erect la danger signal. .... — The World's Six Say Walk. Adolph Herdegan, a well known lawyer of Milwaukee, was drowned at Phillips, Wis., while fishing. New York, May 7.—The world's championship six days' walk opened at midnight, at Madison Square garden, a large crowd being present. Sullivan's non-appearance caused great discontent, a large part of the assemblage having evidently been attracted by the belief that he would start the race. Jack Dempeey was present, and the announcement that he weald act as a substitute for his heavy weight fellow pugilist partially mollified the wrath of the audience. Washington, May 7.—The members of the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery association, who have been visiting the battlefields of Virginia and are now on their way home, have arrived here, and will remain until to-night. The president and Mr* Cleveland granted them a special reception at the mansion. The visitors will leave here for Baltimore to-night, and expect to reach Boston on Thursday evening Massachusetts Veterans In Washington. Adam Gitts, aged 88, of Shickshinny, Pa., tied a stone to bis neck and drowned himself in the Susquehanna in three feet of water. '"itoanKR, Mrs. A Lie*, injured in the leg. The Loaito County War. PoiUUR, Jambs, leg injured. Montgomery, Ala., May 7.—Additional particulars from Loundes county, where the outbreak of negroes occurred a few days ago, state that two negroes engaged in the collision with the law officers have since been found, one in-the swamps and the other in a negro cabin, both fatally wounded. Nine additional arrests of the ringleaders have been made, making forty-one in all. The officers are (till after the leaders, who have thus far evaded arrest The completion of the great tunnel through the Cascade range, on the Northern Pacific railroad, was celebrated with great enthusiasm in Tacoma. McKlwhk, Andrew, struck by flying debris, one eye knocked out, and badly cut about tli* throat. McManus, Mrs. Patrick, painfully lu- Jwsd bj flying debris. During a fight over the fencing ot land, near Melon Creek, M. T., 8. J. Milroy and bis brother were shot by Pat Dooley, his son John, Jamee Campbell and Blair King. Dovoubtt, Mrs. Milks, leg broken and serious internal injuries. Dodourtt, Mary, daughter of Miles Dougherty, badly out and bruised about the breast; probwbly fatally injured. Matthews, Mrs. Annie, mother of Mrs. MarJ Dougherty, badly cub and bruised; not likely to reoover. . Nead, Janus struck about the head and Ifcoe, and badiv injured. Xbajj, Mrs. Patrick, terribly hurt and not yxpeoteti to survive. Killed His Wife and- Himself. Nebraska City, Neb., May 7.—Mrs. Frank Runyan, of this city, has been arrested, charged with conspiring to murder her husband. *&he engaged two men to kill him, and one of them drew a revolver on him Saturday night, but was prevented. from using It by the arrival of citizens. The only reason assigned is that the woman had become tired of her husband. She Wanted Her Husband Killed. Tixton, Ind., May 7.—James Nixon, • storekeeper at Greentown, a cross road hamlet in the western part of this county, killed Us wife and then committed suicide. He, had been drinking heavily and it is supposed vtiw qn the verge of delirium tremens when he committed the deed. Nothing is known of the circomstances of the crime. The bod The trial of William McCue for the murder of Thomas Brennan at Berwick last November was concluded at Wilkeebarre, Pa., by a verdict of murder in the second degree. ' A Boston Broker Arrested. Boston, May 7.—J. B. Palmer, broker, of IJo. 68 State street, has been arrested, charged bf V. W. Flinn, of this city, with embezzling stocks worth 911,000 belonging to Flinn, for whom Palmer acted as broker. Various barbed wire companies in different sections of the oountry are suing the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing company for the royalties paid them during several years past. ie» were not found until Saturday, and had then been dead some time.