Evening Gazette

              •A Ztvnina JsgSk' (Safeft NVMBEB 1749. I WMklr BtMtblUM 18M. I PITTSTOKs PA., MONDAY, MAY 14, 1888. (TWO CENTS, fen Oenta ■ Week Fighting Burning I. WEATHER1 CROP BULLETIN. AnotherWeekof Tarif' ELECTRIC RAILROADS. TerribleWesternFioods A DESPERADO CON FEMES. TABERNACLE SERVICES. boMdTi Balnfall Id Mm* Parte of the On* Hutdrad and Th'lrtj Miles 1b Opera.U«n on Till* Continent. Jfxw York, May 14.—The JSIectrlc Age in it* forthcoming tens will say; "Contrary to impression that thine is only an ejeatnc railroad hare and thefe, an examination of electrical railroad statics show that there are alnwdy 1S(Vmiles of road in operation on thMfbontlnent Of this number of mile*, 31 miles i are in operation in the fate of Pennsylvania; Id miles in the state of New York; 10 miles in Ohio and 83; miles in New Jersey, Maryland, Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, California, Alabama, Virginia, Kansas, Delaware, Rhode Island and Ontario oombined. Almost all of thS building has bean done in the past year, and these roads clearly constitute an infant industry. "There are in coarse of construction, or contracted for, 150 additional miles in the state* of New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Tennessee, OhiojCalifomta, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Kentucky and Minnesota. On these various roads, constructed and constructing, in sixty-two different towns and cities, the Van Doepoele system i* used, or to be used, in seventeen cases, the Daft system in fifteen cases, the 8prague systemin seven cases, and the Bentley-Knight, the, Heart, the Henry, the Julien and other systems in the remaining case*. The last named system is to be used on the projected New York and Harlem Fourth avenue eleotrical railroad, while the Daft system Is in use at Los Angelefc, where the first electrical railroad was opened for business in the winter of 1886-7."  One el the Sonora Pui Train Robber* Coutrjr. Nogalm, A. T., May 14--The man Tayler, •Treated Saturday on suspicion of being on* of the Sonora train robbers at Aquararca, hag made a partial confession. He «ya s man named Conrad Rollng, who haa been around town with Taylor for a few days, was the leader of the party. Rollng and a Mexican left here Saturday morning early, and Sunday night camped near Crittenden, A. T., thirty miles from here. A posse was organized here yesterday by Sheriff Shaw, of Tuywn, and United States Marshal Meade, of Tombstone, who left on a special train, about 19 o'clock, in pursuit of Rollng and the Mexican. Gives His l*als Away, REV. Da TALMAGE DI8COURSE3 ON WAvmtOTOM, May 14.—Th* weather crop bulletin-lssned by the signal office reports the rainfafl dqring tb* part weak to bare been in li iiiw(f_1l districts, except from the lower Ohi* vJL-y southward over weat Tanneaaefe, the'northern portions of Altthama, Jliadaslppi and eastern Arkansas. The'ewaeoml rainfall has been in excess generally in the states west of the Mississippi, except Arkansas. Thar* has alsoftsanmore rslh than asoal in New York, Psaugrlranla, New Jera*y and tbe interior of NawjfeglaitfL The weather has been especially favorable for growing "crops daring the week'in the "•central valleys and in the districts on the Atlantic coast Bains which war* much Deeded " in the winter wheat regions and in .Om eastern portion of the' cotton region occurred during the week, and reports'from those sections indicate that the weather has favorably affnated cereals, pasturage and fruit 4 Men rain is needed in the west portion of the ootton region, although the crops in that section are reported aa having improved during the week. The season is reported backward in New England, where the well distributed rains have improved the crop conditions. "OBSCURATION." A Terrible Struggle to Saye Oil Debate on tbe Mills BUI Will The Rivers Rising Rapidly and Whole Towns in Danger. End Saturday. The Bible the Only Restraint Against the Evil Passions of the World—Atheism and Infidelity Arrayed Against Christianity. ' ■ City from Destruction. COMING .WORK IN THE SENATE. RGSHING RIYERS FOR STREETS. HOUSES IN DANGER TORN DOWN. Railroad Track* Submerged nnd Trains Abandoned — Alexandria, JUo., Under Water, and Families Driven to the Up- Thooeande of Barrels of Martin Fotro- The President's Summer DsfiynMats Social Matters In the Capita*—WeSnres la the Press Gallery—A Notable CoHec- Bsootti*. May 18.—This morning the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached at the Tabernacle to an overflowing oongregption. The hymn beginning, leoss Posrlif from the partmeats for Milee Aroand Warned to per Stories of their House* for Refuge. Stand ap, my seal; shake off thy fears. And gird the Gospel armor oo, mm sung with magnlfloent effect. Dr. Talmage's subject was "Obscuration," and his test, "Thosun shall be turned Into darkness," —Acts 11, 90. He said: Watch the Creelr. of Portrait*—Other Items. St. Louis, May 11—Advices from the Bed River country report that damage done to the inhabitants of the Red River valley during the past ten days is almost beyond computation, and the overflow is the largest since 1843. Most of the plantations near the river have been covered with water four to six feet deep, and muny miles of fencing, cribs and barns have been washed down and carried away. Many of the people have lost their household furniture, provisions and corn. In several places the river water extended from the hills of Arkansas to the hills of Texas, a distance of ten to fourteen miles. At West Norwood a negro was drowned trying to swim from the overflow. Two white man were drowned in Mill creek, and quite a number of other deaths are reported. Planting in the bottoms will all have to be done over again. » The levee south of Alexandria, Ma, has broken in several places, and a vast volume of water poured into the town, which is completely inundated. A spasmodic attempt was made to check the irresistible flood, but within a few minutes the laborers quit and accepted the inevitable. It required less than an fc iur to inundate the entire town, which is covered with water from two to six feet, submerging almost every foot of ground. Water having reached half of the houses, their occupants have sought refuge in the upper stories, where they will be imprisoned until the subsidence of the flood in the main streets. The water is fully three feet deep, circumsoribing the movements of the population and rendering transportation from one point to another possible only by means of skiffs or rudely constructed rafts. A telegram from them says that RoUhg was captured at Huachnoa, A T. The Me? ican left Rollng's oompany before the latter reached Huachuca, and several parties are following him. Express Messenger Hay and Passenger Wench are doing nicely, and hopes are entertained for their recovery. The Mexican authorities arrested two more men yesterday who were barricaded la a house In the Mexican part of town. OibCrnr, Pa., May 14—The largest oil fire this olty has seen in firs years began burning, with furious marine** scarcely a mil* and t4 half distant An oil tank containing 18,000 barrels of crude petroleifin was struck by lightning during a heavy storm Saturday. The tank was owned by J. B. Smithman A Ou, formerly prominent in th* Kef*1 -C•« Oil company, and was Insured for $10,000. Hardly had the lightning struck when great volumes of flame smoke burst forth, hissing and leaping far up into the air. An alarm was at once sounded, and a gang of men were detailed to throw up earthen embankments to prevent the burning oil from rushing over the surrounding country when the tank should overflow. WjAHnroroir, May 1^—As arranged Saturday by the way* and means conjmittee, tfte tariff debate on the bill as » whole will continue throughout this week in tbe house, and aloes on Saturday with the speeches of the Bepubllcan leader, Mr. Beed, and Speaker Carlisle. Mr. Randall's speech is now set for Thursday. Mr. says it is not certain when debate can be closed on the bill by sections. It may linger for some time. He thinks that the measure will eventually pass the house substantially as it was reported from the committee.Solar eclipse is here prophesied to take place about the time of the destruction of ancient Jerusalem. Josephus, the historian, says that the prophecy was literally fulfilled, and that about that time there wetestrango appearances in the heavens. The sun was not destroyed, but for a little while hidden. Christianity is the rising 1MB at w time, and men have tried with the ur«l -?g vapor* of skepticism and the smoke of thefr blasphemy to turn the sun into darkness. Suppose the archangels of malioe and horror should be let loose a little while and be allowed to extinguish and destroy the sun In the natural heavens. They would take the oceans from other worlds and poor them on this luminary of the planetary system, aad the waters go hissing down the ravines and the caverns, and there is explosion after explosion until there are only a taw peaks of. fire left in the sun, and these are oooling down and going out until the vast continents of flame are reduced to a small acrsage of fire, and that whitens and oools off until there are only a few ooals left, and these are whitening and going out until thare is not a spark left In all the mountains of ashes and the valleys of ashes and the chasms of ashea. An extinguished sun. A dead sun. A burled sun. Let ail worlds wall, at the stupendous obeequiee. DOUBLE MURDER AND ARSON Two Women Killed and the House Burned—Robbery Supposed to Have In Minnesota and Dakota the season is apparently fifteen days late; the excessive precipitation and unusually low temperature for the season have been unfavorable to crops, and farm work in this section has been greatly retarded. The Senate will take up to-day the question as to whether the fisheries treaty shall be discussed in open senate. Should it be determined to consider the treaty with open doors action on it will be deferred until late in the week. Beon the Otjeet. Potts vtllk, Pa., Kay 11—A shocking tragedy hag occurred at "Busby Tract," near Middleport, eight mile* oast of this city, where there lived a Polish miner n«m«d Anthony Putlavlsh, with his wife and a young countrywoman, Mary Kelt Putlavlsh, with several Pole* who boarded with him, an miners employed at the Big Vein colliery, about a half mile distant Fortunately the tank was situated on flats •sar Oil Creek. Close at band stand dwellings, the Peon, the Independent and the Keystone refineries, oil cars and tanks and pipe lines. LITTLEWOOD WON THE RACE. THE PANAMA CANAL. The ""i""! industry bill stands as the unfinished business in the senate, and as soon as a vote is obtained upon that measure the bill for the admisslqp of Washington territory as a state will come np. Consideration of tlio pension appropriation bill will follow, and it is expected that the point of action will be reached on the bill authorizing the governmental departments to send exhibits to the Cincinnati exhibition in July next The fire department was oalled out, but it was powerless to act tfkcept by wetting down the surrounding property. The tank would have been shot, but no cannon could be procured. Meanwhile the dense smoke arose in elouds which were pieroed by fierce flames flashing eighty feet into the air. Pumps were rigged and started, but sediment in the tank clogged the pips and no oil could be drawn off. Saturday afternoon and night it burned while hundreds of people anxiously awaited the time when the contents of the fierce caldron would overflow. Nathaa Appleton Tells About the Great Prqject—The Work Far Advanoed, and Health on the Isthmus 0«od. Bat He Couldn't Break Champion A|» Guerrero Twenty Miles Behind* bert's Record—He Will Receive S5fOOO. New York, May 14.—The great six day go-as-you-pleaae walking match, which began at midnight - of the 6th in Madison Square garden, ended Saturday night. When they returned from work on Saturday evening they found the house a heap of smoking ruins, and among the embers the charred remains of the two women. There is no doubt that the fire was an incendiary act, designed to cover an atrocious double murder. An ax, which Putlavlsh left at some distance from the house in the morning, was found beside one of the bodies, and a neighbor living half a mile distant, who was attractel by the smoke, and who was first to reach the scene, says that when he arrived be plainly saw the bcxly of one woman lying Just inside the door with blood flowing from a gash in the head. There was between $800 and (1,000 in money in the house, and it is supposed that robbery was the Incentive to the murder and anon. No clew has been obtained to the authors of the crime, though suspicion attaohoj to one of the boarders, who has disappeared. Washington, May 14.—Mr. Nathan Appleton, of Massachusetts, who has spent some time in the United States of Columbia, and who is thoroughly familiar with the operations of the Panama canal, has returned to Washington and joined his wife at the Hotel Arno. The house bill to retire Gen. Alfred Pleasanton, with the rank of colonel, is antagonized by the senate bill to retire him with the rank of major. The senate committee on military affairs has established a rule, or precedent, prohibiting the retirement of army officers at a grade above thair rank in the regular service, no matter now high a rank they may have attained in the volunteer service. That rule, however, has been repeatedly violated. This, and other cognate facts, will be brought to the attention of both houses in due course, and, under the leadership  mainly Qen. Hooker in the house and Senator Butler in the senate, a struggle will be made to give Gen. Pleasanton at least the rank of colonel in recognition of his distinguished services. Gen. Butler, who lost a leg in the cavalry fight at Brandy station fighting against Gun. Pleasanton, is apt to become the especial champion of the latter in this contest, the same as Gen. Hooker has already been in the house. Littlewood, the Englishman, won the race, making 011 miles and 2 lap*. He ran for 141 hours, 44 minutes and 50 seconds. He rested 22 hours, 7 minutes and 47 seconds. Considerable disappointment was expressed among the spectators because he did not break Champion Albert's wonderful record made in February. A representative of The United Press was granted a long interview with Mr. Appleton, in which he said: Of course this withdrawal at the solar heat and light throws oar earth into a universal chill, and the tropics beoome the temperate and the temperate beoomes the Arctic, and there are frosen rivers and fro—n lakes and frozen oceans. PromArctio and Antarctic regions the inhabitants gather in toward the center and find the equator as the poles. The slain forests are piled up into a great bonfire, and around them gather the shivering villages and cities. The wealth of the ooal mines is hastily poured into the furnaces and stirred into rage of combustion, but soon the bonfires begin to lower and the furnaces begin to go out and the nations begin to dfe. Cotopaxi, Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli, Cattf ornian geyeers cease to smoke, and the ice of hall storms remains onmatted in their craters. All the flowers have breathed their last breath. Shipe with sailors frosen at the mast and helmsmen frosen at the wheel, and passengers frosen in the cabin i all nations dying, first at the north and then at the south. Child frosted and dead in the cradle. Octogenarian frosted and dead a* the hearth, workmen with fro—I haad cm the hammer and frosen foot on the shuttle. Winter from sea to sea. Ail coogsaling win- Sunday morning the critical moment arrived. In the bottom of the tank were severe! inches of water. Whfen the oil burned down low enough the water became heated to a boiling point, and the burning oil, seething and roaring, was poured over every side of the tank. Three thousand barrels of flaming petroleum rushed across the flats to Oil crash, near by, consuming all brush and lumbsr in its path. A great sheet of burning oil biased a distanoe of twenty-five yards over the oreek to the opposite shore and ran up the bank, |leupiitg high into the air, until it reaohed another tank containing 85,000 barrels of petroleum. The latter ignited, and another cloud of smoke and flame arose. "The work is now well under way all along the line with the exception of ten miles at the Pacific end, which, however, is easy dredging, and can be dene in a year and a half. The Slaven dredges have dug out fifteen miles from the Atlantic to Bohia Soldado, where the plaoe is now being arranged for the lock. Besides dredging the canal they have also finished many miles of the deviations, or cuts, which are to keep the water of the Chogres river Out of the canal itself. Guerrero finished second and Herty third. Guerrero ran 141 hours and 49 minutes, resting 34 hours and 25 minutes, and Herty ran 141 hours and 40 minutes, resting 24 hours and 29 minutes. Sidewalks are overflowed, and skiffs are landed in the doorways of private residences. Business is entirely suspended. There has been no loss of life nor great damage to property within the town. It was announced that the gross receipt* reached the neighborhood of $20,000, which will give the walkers (10,000 to divide. Of this Littlewood gets half; Guerrero, $2,000) Herty, $1,500; Noremac, $1,500, and Golden, $500. These figures may be reduced or increased a little, but Mr. Colville said that hC could not go any closer Saturday night, and that the above figures were pretty near correct.At this point the Mississippi Is fully seven miles wide, and within the range of vision one vast expanse of water greets the eye. The area of farming land in the Missouri bottoms that Is submerged is estimated at 75,000 acres, and a continuance of the flood will result in an approximated loss to the farming community of that region of at least $300,000. A high wind prevails, which causes the waves to wash openings in the Warsaw levee, affording protection to some 80,000 acres of fertile Illinois land. The report which reached the city that the levee had broken at a point four or five miles south of Warsaw oould not be verified at Keokuk. How the Baseball Clubs )las4 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Far Cent. Won. Lost. Played. Won. Cincinnati it S Si .«* Brooklyn...... 14 0 80 .700 st. Louis u 4 is xer, Baltimore - ft ft 18 400 Afhletlo 8 It 11) .4H Cleveland .. t IS 19 JM8 Louisville 8 14 22 f.fm Kansas City 4 U 10 J10 THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. "In a few months these dredgers will have completed their contract of the canal to its required'depth and width, and also the cuts. Excavating is going on in all parts of the canal which will be embraced between, the locks. There are excavators in abundance of different patterns, with cranes for lifting up buckets of rocks and dumping the material in dirt cars. These and the excavators are moved by steam. Dynamite is extensively used to loosen the rock. There are several hundred miles of track to remove the debris, and deposit it way off in the virgin forest At the Culebra section alone there are seventy-five miles of railroad, with about forty excavators and locomotives, and six of the locks are now under way. There are to be eight of them in all, poesibly ton. Fortunately the wind was blowing away from Oil City then. 80 great was the smoke when both were afire that it reached nearly to Titusville, eighteen miles distant. When an ail tank is burning nothing can stop H. Surrounding property may be wet down, but that is a(l the good water will accomplish, Fears were felt, however, lest when the second tank should overflow the burning oil would rush down the creelc, setting fire to refineries, tanks, tank cars, dwellings and lumber yards, and eventually reach the town. Messages were sent to Meadville and Titusville, where local fire departments were put under ordsrs to await emergency calls to respond in case this should occur. The president and Mrs. Cleveland will take possession of Oakview during this week. President Cleveland has but three engagements for the summer outside of Washington. On June 21 he will go to Germantown, Pa., and attend the 250th anniversary of the Presbyterian church. On Decoration day he will be in New York and Brooklyn, and take part in the celebration of the Grand Army in both these places. On June 1 be will be the guest of the Manhattan club of New York. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland returned to New York on Thursday, after a quiet and restful visit at the executive mansion. Probably the best indication of the effect their efforts had on the men will be shown by the small headway they made in the final hours. Littlewood only made three miles and three laps in the last two hours; Guerrero did a little better—four miles and two laps. But he looked Iniserable. There were big black circles about his eyes. Littlewood's face was bright and without the haggardness that characterized the visages of his rivals. Still was he very slow. Hughes was like a man who had been Mricken with paralysis. Yet he would not yield even to exhausted nature. He kept coming out of his hut and hobbling around the track with marvelous though useless fortitude. Rock Islaito, Ilia., May 14.—Upon the stability of the railroad embankment of the Rook Island and Peoria road, which bounds the city on the south and west, depends the safety of 300 families. Should the Mississippi force its way through this elevation and the dyke which protects it, a large part of the most thickly populated district of the city would be submerged, and hnndreds rendered homeless. The water is still gradually rising, and much anxiety is felt Won. LoM. Plaredf wSt. . 13 8 IB .ta ..IS 9 it, 18 .in - 11 t 17 .647 ,... to 8 # ii jm 1 10 tt .41* 1 10 17 JM B 14 IB .888 8 IS M .186 Chicago. Boston „ New York. Detroit ter. Feapotasd winter. Globe at MgUiMj. Hemisphere shackled to henisphsrs by chains of ion. Universal Wova ImH*. The earth an ice fioe grinding against other ice floe*. The archangels of maUoe and horror have done their work, and now they may their thrones of glacier and look down upon the ruin they have wrought. What the destruction of the sun in the natural heavens would be to our physical earth, the destruction of Christianity would be to the moral world The sun turned into darkness. Infidelity in oar time is considered a great joke. There are people who rejoice to hear Christianity caricatured, and-to hear Christ assailed with quibble and quirk and misrepresentation and Nindlsge and harlequinade. 1 propose this morning to take infidelity and atheism out of the realm of jocularity Into one of tragedy, and show you what they propose; and what, if they are successful, they will accomplish. There are* those in all oar communities who would like to see the Christian religion overthrown, and wb.i say the world would be better without it I want to show you what is the end of this road, and what is the terminus of this crusade, and what this world will be when atheism and infidelity have triumped over It, if they can. I say, if they can. I reiterate it, if tbey oan. In the first place, it will bo the complete and unutterable degradation of womanhood. I will prove it by facia and arguments which no honest man will dispute. In all communities and cities and states and nations where the Christian religion has been dominant, woman's condition has boen ameliorated and improved, and she is deferred to and honored in a thousand things, and every gentleman takes off kis bat before her. U your associations have been good, you know that the name of wife, mother, daughter, suggest gracious surroundings. You know there are no better schools and seminaries to Brooklyn or in any city of this country than the schools and seminaries for young ladies. You know that while woman may suffer Injustice in England and the United States, she has more of her rights in Christendom than she has anywhere else. Philadelphia....... Pittsburg  Indianapolis  Washington  "All the world is watching with deep interest M. De Leesep's last great undertaking, but I km not aware that any governments hare taken any action in relation to it The government of France merely authorizes the new loan, but has nothing further to do about it It has no desire to interfere in any way with what is being done in the American isthmus, and certainly doss not propose to get itself into hot water. The beet guarantee of the absolute neutrality of the banal is that it passes through an independent country, Colombia, which will zealously see that its rights and autonomy are respected. This is the exact meaning of the famous Monroe doctrine. The direction of the wind changed at 8 p. m.. yesterday, and a stiff breeze began blowing toward this city. The smoke tumbled in heavy dense mrnios from the tanks, and overhangs the town. Into the smoke flames burst with furious madness, giving to the clouds a rosy tinge which came and went •very few moments in a most beautiful manner. Great apprehension was felt, for it was possible for the burning oil to come ■weeping down the creek. A dozen booms were thrown novum the creek to prevent the further spread of the oil. Mrs. and Mite Vilas are at Atlantic City, where it is expected the former will regain her strength more speedily than at home, where she has been a complete invalid for several months. SUNDAY tun. Keokuk, la., May 14.— At 2 o'clock yesterday the stag* of water in the river at this point indicated that it had reached the highest marked attained during the flood of 1881. Since that hour the rise has continued. In that portion of the city where all the lumber business is transacted and the planing mills, saw mills, packing houses and railroad shops are located, business is entirely suspended, iDnd hundreds of men hive been thrown out of employment The river at this point axtends from bluff to bluff, all the low land on both sides being submerged, and is fully two miles wide. side of the tracks of all railroads entering the city are under water. In some cases portions of the tracks have beeri washed away. At Cincinnati—Cincinnati, 6; Louisville, 2. Hits: Cincinnati, 10; Louisville, &. Brrors; Cincinnati, 2; Louisville, 8. Batteries: Viao and Baldwin, Ramsey awl Kerlns. Philadelphia, May 14.—Saturday night the printers celebrated the 59th birthdayof M' George W. Child? by a banquet at Dooner's hotel. Around the tables were seated delegates and ex-delegates of the International Typographical union and many others of the craft, besides many prominent in politics and mercantile life. Unknown to those present a self ap- r.— pointed committee had sought Mr. Childs a his residence and requested his presence av the dinner. He was finally persuaded to visit the banquet hall, and his appearance with the committee, just as Mr. Farquhar was concluding a speech extolling Mr. Childs and Mr. Drexel, was the signal for » spontaneous out burst of applause which did not cease for at least five minutes after the entry of the beloved champion of the Typographical union. The printers east of the Mississippi contributed Saturday their pay for setting 1,000 ems to the Childs-Drexel fund, which amounts now to over $16,000. " Many Happy Returns, Mr. Child*, Mrs. Lamont has quite recovered from the tedious illness which had kept her indoors more or less of the spring season, and is making plans to leave town about the middle of June. At Brooklyn—Brooklyn, 8j, Athletic, 1 Hits: Brooklyn, IS) Athletic, 1 Errors: Brooklyn, 8; Athletic, & Batteries: Terry and Peoples, MatUmore and Chinning. Quite a number of the New York delegation in congress were absent from the city yesterday. Messrs. Belden and Delano went to New York, Mr. Sawyer was in Norfolk and Mr. Belmont was on Long Island. Several others went over to the metropolis to take part in the forthcoming state convention.Be Broke the Baby's Keek. Laportb, Ind, May 14—Saturday afternoon Mrs. Sommers, of Scipio township, came to town, leaving two small children in charge of George Cook, a young man Who had been been living with the family two weeks. The youngest child, 11 months old, becoming restless, Cook shook it in such a manner as to break its neck. Prying that he had killed tie child he attempted to escape on an east bound freight train, but was interoepted at Elkhart by a telegram and arrqsted He «w returned to this plikoe and lodged In jail The prisoner says he had no intention of killing ths qfeild Be claims that his homo ta near Toledo Q. Oil City is a flourishing town of 13,000 inhabitants, and the creek flows through the heart of ths place close by oostly hotels, fhs Oil Bmhange, manufactories, stores and resdsnoes. Hoosss near the burning tanks were tors down, pipe lines were banked with mud, «nd many families living quite a distance from the flre moved out of their homes Furniture, bedding, pictures and clothing were piled up in front yards, and teams were few and hard to hire. "The health on the isthmus for the last fear has been exceptionally good, with very few cases of fever. In fact, the average mortality is not so great, all things considered, specially when the conditions of life are so different from those in a temperate zone. I should say that Americans employed on the Cmn»l in various capacities have stood the test of the climate extremely well. Mr. Slaven has a force of about 1,300 men in all, of whom, of course, a great many are negroes or other natives of tropical countries. The captains of his dredges are mostly Americans, as are also his engineers and skilled mechanics, with a sprinkling of whits men from other countries. Among the collections of pictures at the Capitol there is one which visitors are seldom privileged to see, but which is of as much interest as any in the great building. It is the of portraits in the ante rooms of the press gallery of the house of representatives.Oabsvillb, Wis., May 14.—The ware houses along the river front are flooded, and the Burlington and Northern depot and many residences in the lower part of the village can be reached only by boats. Thousands of acres of farming and meadow land are inundated.OKOROE W. CHILDS. JUsidenta of the oU regions have been very much afraid of burning petroleum ever since (he terrible oil flre which occurred near Titus▼111s In 1881. At that time 200,000 barrels burned, the creek was aflame for two miles, and the fire continued three days and three ■ighta. There can be no repetition of that dfcastrous event, for in the meet extreme eases only 1M,000 barrels of fluid can burn. f. T. Welch, gauger for this district of the Vatkmal Transit company, states that including the oil burning, there was a chance for not more than 06,000 barrels of petroleum and 6,000 barrels of naphtha to be ignited. This oould only occur in case the overflow of the seoood tank rushed down the creek towards this city, and then it is by no means certain.  To Mr. C. H. Mann, who is in charge of the press gallery, belongs the credit of collecting theee pictures for its adornment From a small beginning the collection has developed into one of significant valua Dis Moines, la., Ma/ 14.—The Dee Moines and Raocoon rivers oontinue to rise steadily, and are now higher than at aqy former time in ten years. The low lands bordering these streams are all submerged. Fully fifty houses in this city are suft-ounded by water and deserted by their occupants. A Methodist Itass Meaty** Nrw York, May 14—A methodbt mass meeting was held at the Metropolitan opera house yesterday, the audience completely filling the building. Rev. Dr. McChesoey opened the meeting with hymn and prayer, and introduoed Bishop Warren, of Denver, CoL, who preached from the text: '•geek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall bs added unto you." The bishop's view of heaven is that it contains nothing material, bat is a state of righteousness  "Their health is usually good, and they all live on the dredges, which are at work night and day, and often in secluded places out in the jungle, where one might easily get the blues. They are well fed and paid, and every attention given to their comfort Should they fall sick, the hospitals of the canal company offer them the best treatment at a small prioe. On one of the dredges, some three years ago, the captain's wife had a boy born, and the whole family live happily and in perfect health. I believe the digging up of the soil and letting in the salt water is making the isthmus healthier. One of the first Americans to have a canal contract, Mr. Millet, whom I saw in 1883, attacking the high land at Culebra with an Osgood & McNaughton excavator, Is sttyl on the isthmus, engaged at some other contract, and In perfect health." It includes now almost thirty pictures, ranging from the modest photograph in a simple frame to a life size picture in oils encased in ornamented gilt. The proprietors and editors of the notable papers in the country are here in counterfeit presentment, and the eagle eye of the able editor overlooks the work of the busy correspondent as he proceeds on his mission of molding public sentiment, and the telling of the doings of the lawmakers. Burlington, la., May 14.—The river is rising rapidly. It is now fourteen and a half feet above low water mark. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy has abandoned trains between Burlington and Keokuk, and will probably be compelled to withdraw its trains from the Burlington, Carthage and Quincy Una The Iowa Central has abandoned trains east of Keithsburg. Politicians Shouldn't Sleep In Church. Nashville, Tenn., May 14.—William Smith, chairman of the Knox county delegation to the Democratic convention, is the subject of much laughter in the corridors of the hotels. It is told that Mr. Smith attended church yesterday n»rning, took a back seat, and, being very tirafl from the four days' session of the convention, soon fell asleep. The preacher was speaking of the great men of Tennessee, and upon pronouncing the name of "John Knox," once governor of the state. Smith jumped to his feet and shouted: "Thirty-five votes for R. L. Taylor."*Some hisses followed, during which, it is said, Smith escaped. Floor Mills aad Foundry B«m4 Directly opposite the entrance, at the further end of the room, is a modest crayon, showing the benignant face of the editor philanthropist, George W. Childs, Near by, and appropriately, is the portrait of the proprietor of Philadelphia's great penny Record, William M Slngerly. Then comes a life size portrait in oil of the late W. F. Storey, of The Chicago Times, which has the added interest of having been painted by his wife; and next come Maj. Burke, of The New Orleans Times-Democrat, and Crosby Noyes, of The Washington Star. Handsome portraits of George Jones and Whitelaw Reid are close by. On the other side of the room a photograph of Joseph Pulitzer is seen, and a large crayon shows the strong face of John McLean, of The Cincinnati Enquirer. The only Washington correspondent whose photograph has a place in the collection is Major M P. Mandy, chief of The New York World bureau here. His picture was plaoed there when he was a member of the corps of Philadelphia managing editors. Almost every editor of prominence in the country is fittingly represented. Boston is represented by small but strong pictures of Messrs. Pulsifer and Clapp. Hannibal, Mo., May 14.—The dry levee is still intact, but farmers fearing the worst are abandoning their homes, and with their household goods and stuck seeking places of safety. A large force is engaged night and day in strengthening the weak places in the embankment. Hamburg, N. Y., Mivy 14.—Fire destroyed the fine flouring mills of tha Paragon Willing company, at Water Valley, three-quarter* of a mile from here. The flames reached tha Hamburg foundry and agricultural works, owned by E. A. Hunt This establishment was also destroyed. The fire is supposed to have originated in the engine room of tha grist mill Loss estimated, 980,000. Mysterious Banting of a Rolling Mill. Phu-adxlthia, May 14.—Henry Disston & Son's large steel rolling mill at Tacony, a suburb of Philadelphia, was entirely destroyed by fire en Sunday, causing a loss of 1*00,000, on which there was an Insurance of $190,000. The building was a brick structure, 180 feet wide, 800 feet long and 30 feet high, and the rapidity of Its destitution is as much • matter of wonderment to the members of the Arm as is the mysterious origin of the flm There an about 350 men employed in the mill, and they will be thrown out of em- ployment The other 1,400 employes will continue at work, as arrangements are being made to supply ths firm with all the steel It may need until it shall bars rebuilt the rolling mill. Ths work of rebuilding will begin !,at oooe. All the Insurance on the building and oootents It placed In the Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Company of Boston, which comprises a number of New England manufacturers, who have formed a njutual organisation for this purpose. Now. compare this with woman* condition In land* where Christtapitty ha* made tittle or no advance—in China, in Barbery, in Borneo, in Tartary, in Egypt, u» H«»vUv sten. The Burmsse mU their wives mad daughters a* so many sheep. The Hindoo Bible ™*Vj* it disgraceful and an outrage (or a woman to listen to musio or look out of the window in the absence of hsr husband, and gives as a lawful ground for divorce a woman's beginning to eat before hsr husband has his meal. What mean those whits bundles on the poods and rivers in China in the morning! Infanticide following infanticide. Female children destroyed simply becauss they are fseaplo. Woman harnw—id to a plow as an 4a. Woman veiled and and in aO styles of cruel seclusion. Her birth a misfortune. Her life a torture. Hsr death a horror. The missionary of the eross today in heathen land* preaches gmorally to two groups—a group st men who do as they please and- sit where they pteaseC the other group wosnsn hidden and carefully secluded in a side apartment, where they may bear the voice of the preacher but may not be seen. Mo refinement. No liberty. No hope for this life. No hope for the life to come. Ringed nose. Cramped foot. Disfigured faoe. Bmbrutad souL How compare tUoss two conditions. Bow tar toward this latter condition that I speak of would woman go if Christian inflvsooee were withdrawn and Christianity were dsstroysdl It is only a question of dynamics. If an object be lifted to a certain point aqdnot Mwiil there, f"*1 the power oeWithdrawn, bow long before that object will fall down to the point from which It started! It will fall down, and It will go still furthsr than the point from which it etartsd. Christianity has lifted woman up from tbevsry depths of degradation almost totheskisa. If that CathollQ Papera Condemned. Wood villi, N. H., May 14.—The nearly continuous rain of forty-eight hours and melting snew in the mountains have caused the streams in New Hampshire to rise raidly. The Connecticut and its tributaries have risen two feet The titak of the Montreal road is under water in several places. Floods In New England. Montrj£AI., May 14. — A circular from A.rohbisKop Fabre waa read in the Irish Catholic churches in the archdiocese of Montreal yesterday, in which the archbishop denounced the utteranoea and communications published in a so-called Catholic daily and weekly paper which haa formerly been considered trustworthy. The papers referred to are supposed to be The Post and True Witness, which have been attacking the papal reecript on the Irish question. The writer is denounced aD an impious calumniator of the holy father, and parents are warned against reading the papers, and requested to keep them out of the hands of their children. The articles charged the holy father with selling htm—lf to England, the archbishop remarking that England was too poor to induce him to be unjust to his Irish children. CoL Sohleski Talks Temperance. New York, Hay 11—CoL John Sobieski, the Polish temperanoe spsaker, addresssd a large audience at a meeting of the American Temperance union, at Chicksrlng hall He reported that temperanoe ideas are gaining ground In the northwest, among bis countrymen, where he is engaged la the work. Peru, Ind., May 14—John Giphart, a cigarmakerof Pittsburg, a member of the cigarmakers' union, was murdered in the jail here by Adolph Boyer, a fellow prisoner. Both were arrested lor intoxication and locked in the same cell They quarreled because Giphart remonstrated with Boyer for keeping him awake. Boyer, withput any apparent provocation, assaulted him with a sharp knife, cutting several deep gashes across his face, and finally in bis frensy threw him down tfnd stamped on his head, killing him almost instantly. The murderer is not more than 26 years of age. Murdered In a Jail. The mail train for Lancaster only proceeded as far as South Lancaster, where the passengers were transferred in teams. The train remains there. Unless the rain oeases much damage will be done. Chicago, Hay 14.—Joseph Brunswick, the eldest of the three Brunswick brothers, the well-known billiard table manufacturers, died at his resldenoe in this city yesterday. He was born in Bwitserland sixty-five years ago, and has basn a resident of Chioago since 1857.  Death of Joseph Brunswick* Nkw Yob*, May 14.—Miss Pauline Hall has far the past fortnight been lying very ill of gastric fever at her residence in Thirtyninth street To a reporter her mother, who is nursing her, said: "My daughter has been very sick indeed, and is still confined to her bed. She has been obliged in consequence to cancel her engagement with the Carleton opera company in Baltimore, which was to have begun next week. The doctor says she needs a long rest, and she herself has resolved not to appear on the stag* for at least three or four months. I am in hopes that in two or three weeks more she will have wholly recovered." Pauline Hall's Illness. Liuioi, Pa., May 14—William Showers, the sscaped murderer from the Lebanon jail, waa captured yesterday in a deserted sohool bouse, five miles from this city, by three young men, who had a hand to hand struggle with him before ha was captured. He was *hf securely tied and conveyed to Lebanon Jail and placed in a oell under guard- The excitement was intense, and but for the presence of armed officers Showers would have bean lynched. Hi* captors will be paid 9100 each for their work. He seemed vary little affected, and said that he would yet «beat the gallows. He will be hanged some time In July, An Kecaped Murderer Recaptured. The rtrst California Land Patent. Wabhikotok, Hay 11—The first patent issued under the present administration to lands in California was Saturday delivered to the patentees for the BanchoBan Joss Bur ChlquUs, containing two square leagues in Honterey county, CaL The Telephone Case. The latest addition to the collection was made on Thursday. It is the life size crayon of Walter P. Phillips, general manager of the United Press. It is on the right hand of the entrance door of the first ante room, and occupies the place where for years the picture of Gen. Grant hung. It rests immed iately above the small inclosure occupied by the Western Union telegraph operators, and its location is very appropriate, as Mr. Phillips began life aa an operator. Fatally Burned by Molten Lead. W ASHINOTON, May 14.—The members of the supreme court were in oonsultation all Saturday afternoon, and have undoubtedly acted on the telephone appeal case. The decision will be announced fexlay. If the appeal for a reopeplng of the case is refused th6 court will so announce! if granted it will be to stated, and a time set or an order made to send the case over to the next term of the court Both sides are hopeful, but no one will know the result until It is announced. Topkka, Kan., May 14.— An explosion in the Capitol iron works Saturday afternoon resulted in the death of Gus Ackerson, a foundryman. A vat of molten lead was overturned by the explosion, and thrown in all directions. Ackerson was standing near the vat, and was almost covered by the hot metal. His clothes caught fire at once. He jumped into a tank of cold water, but was terribly burned about the head and arms, the metal having burned through tLj flesh to the bone. He was in great agony for more than an hour, and was finally relieved by death. Several Buildings Burned In Blunt, D. T. Mijikiapoljs, Hay 11—A Journal specie from Blunt, D. T., says that a fire burned the eight or ton bnildingson Minnesota street, between the Hughes County bank and the drug store. Loss, 990,000. They Will Ban Their Own Brewery. A lb ant, May 14.—There seems to be a misunderstanding as to whether the Kimball The Kimball Keels* Bill. Cincinnati, May 14.—A controlling interest in the Banner brewery has been purchased by a syndicate of saloon keepers. The new stockholders met and elected a new directory. The non-union employee of the establishmsot were immediately discharged, and all the old union hands and a large number of strikers from the other breweries were given places. JBghiy-sevaa thouaaqd five hundred dollar* was tlx price paid for the excise revision bill passed the legislature, fhe bill passed both houses, and is now before the governor. It appoints as commissioners to revise the excise laws Howard Crosby, Daniel G. Rollins, Gall us Tharmann, Dennis O'Brien, James ft Smart, Frederick W. Kruse and Max D. Stern. There are 41S bills bow in the governor's hands, left by the legislature, to be acted upon by him withiB the next thirty day a I Three Killed srf Fourteen Injured* Washington, May 14.—The programme for the great Baptist gathering to be held in Washington this week, beginning to-morrow, has been completed. The most important of the Baptist sqofetjes wi# be in suasion, including the Woman's Home and Foreign Mission and the Educational and Publication societies. Two or ihree thousand delegates are expected to be present mnetirm». _ The Groat Baptist Gathering. For Tuesday, In sastern New York, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and in New England, slightly warmer fair to partly cloudy wsathar, with variable winds. Weather Indications. Yuxa, A. T., May 14—The west bound OTsrland train on the Southern Pacific was wrecked four miles from Gila Bend. The train jumped the track while passing over ft tfestte, and one sleeping car went down. Mrs. Engineer Freemen and Fireman Biakaly were Instantly killed and fourteen i- J -1 gfein figured, ....  Chicago, May 14.—George Boyd, a negro violin player in a low taloon on Clark street, stabbed and killed John Stephenson, a Danish painter. Stephenson Was drunk and quarrelsome 'and struck the negro, who drew a knife, cut him twice and fled from the saloon. Boyd has been arrested. Killed Id a Salooa Bow. Death af M«J. Israel O. Dewey. Boston, Hay 11—Haj. Israel O. Dewey (retired), of the pay department, V. 8. A., died Saturday, agedM ysara. _ (oormnjaa ok thus riaa.)