Evening Gazette

              / NV9IREK IBM 1 Heeblr BtMklkbMl 1850 ( PITTSTON, PA., MO DAY. APRIL 15. 1889. t* -Ai | rwociw* f Ten C«««" • W»«k. ENGLAND'S FINANCES. A PILOT rfOAT CUT DOWN. THE DANMARK'S PASSENGERS. ROBBED HIS BENEFACTOR A BAND OF FILIBUSTERS. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. lation the seven trumpets, blowing  at once iii my ear. But with utmost revere! I take up aU the prophecies and hold tb toward heaven and say God never hail never will stop consecrated effort and B determination aud magnificent resolve, a that if the church of God will rise up to full work it can make Daniel's time twee years and his half time ten years. Neitl Isaiah, nor Ezeldel, nor Micah, nor Italao nor Jeremiah, nor any of the major or mil prophets will hinder us a second. Hupp the Bible had announced the millennium begin the year 8889, that would be no h drance. In one sense God rever changes 1 mind, being the same yesterday, today a forever. But in another sense be does chat his mind, and times without number, eve day, and that is when his people pn Didn't he change his mind about Nil vehf By God's command Jonah, at 1 top of his voice, while standing on I steps of the merchants' exchange and t palatial residences of that city, cried oi "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be on thrown." Was it overthrown In forty da; No. The people gave up their sins and cri for mercy, and though Jonah got mad 1 cause his whole course of sermons had be spoiled and wont into a disgraceful poutii we have the record so sublime, I cannot re it without feeling a nervous chill ranni through me. "God saw their works tt they turned from their evil way, and God I pen ted of the evil that he had said he won do unto them, and he did it not." God ii father, and some of us know what that meal and some time when we have promised chi tisement and the child deserved it, the lit darling has put hor arms around our ns and expressed such sorrow and such pro ises of doing better that her tei landed on the lips of • our kiss, and • held her a half hour after on our knee ai would as soon think of slapping an angel the face as of even striking her with t weight of our little finger. God is a fathi and while he has promised this world scoui ings, though they were to be for a thousa years or five thousand years he would, if t world repented, substitute benediction ai divinC5 caress. God changed his mind aba Sodom six times. He had determined on : destruction. Abraham asked him If he won not spare it if fifty righteous people wc found there; and, narrowing down the mil ber, if forty-five people were found there', forty people; if thirty people; if twenty pC pie; if ten people were found there. Ai each of the six times the Lord answered, YC Oh, why didn't Abraham go on just two ste further and say if five be found there and one be found there, for then for the sake Lot, its one good citizen, I think Sodc would have been spared. Eight times dc the Bible say that God repented when he tu promised punishments and withheld t stroke. Was it a slip of Paul'B pen when spoke of God's cutting short the work righteousness? No, Paul's pen never slippi There is nothing in the way of prophecy hinder the crusade I have proposed for t! last decade of the Nineteenth oeutury. PROCRASTINATION IS THE THIEF OF Tim GOSSIP OF THE CAPITAL. Anxiety of the People to Learn What the Kiitlinatei Will Demand. The Bateman Sunk by the Sue- Mo Timh of Them Foand by Incoming Steamers, bat Hope Not Abandoned. Arrest and Disgrace of a New- Men Said to Be Organising In Loi Angeles to Capture Lower California. Reforms Suggested in Affairs ol the Executive Mansion. London, April 15.—The budget will be submitted to the house of commons by Mr. George J. Goschen, the chancellor of the exchequer, today. Surprisingly small interest has been taken in the budget by the press, and no forecast of the provisions is obtainable. The only question exciting the concern of the people anent the submission of the estimates is the one whether the taxes will be increased in order to meat the requirements of tbe new naval scheme. It is hoped, however, and by many expecte 1, that the profits of the recent conversion of the funds will offset the extraordinary expenditure demanded by the government's plans. via Off Nantucket. New York, April 15.— None of the vessels which arrived in port yesterday brought any news of the fate of the passengers of the abandoned steamer Dan mark. The Amsterdam, from Rotterdam, and La Champagne, from Havre, both report heavy weather. The Amsterdam passed the spot where the City of Chester had the day before sighted the Danmark, but nothing wus then visible. Los Angeles, CaL, April 15.—There is a scheme on foot to capture Lower California. A reporter Saturday found two men who had been asked to join In the undertaking. They are Grand Army men, well known and reliable. At their request their names are not given, but if It becomes necessary their identity can be established. He Preaches to a Large Audi- ark Shipping Clerk. ence. ONE PILOT AND THE COOK LOST. MRS. HARRISON HIGHLY HONORED HIS STEALINGS PLACED AT $10,000. THE WOULD SAVED IN TEN YEAR?. A Thick Fog Prevailed at the Time and He Began Two Tears Ago lDy Shipping Tlie Lydecker and Armes Trial*—Interest (he Little Craft Was Not Seen Until It Goods to Parties In New Yolk and They One of them occupies an official poition in this city and the other is a well-know capitalist. To a reporter one said Saturday: A Fitting Clone to One of the Grandest Centuries In the History of the World. Worlt of the Fish Commission—Othe* In the Sunday Rest Question In the Army. Was Too Late—Statement of One of the The agents of the Thlngvalla line hope that the Hslvetia or Servia, which are expected to arrive today, will bring the Danmark's passengers. It is also possible that some ship has picked up the Danmark's people and made for the Azores, 450 miles from the locality where the Danmark is supposed to have become disabled. There is no telegraphic communication with the Azores. Compelled Him to Keep It Up by Washington Mews. Survivors. Threats of Exposure. "Yes, sir, I think there is a scheme to capture the lower peninsula, and if the plan is as well organized and has the powerful backing that the members claim (or it they may make considerable trouble for Mexico. Soul Saving Has Got to Be Done at Washington, April 15.—A local writer contributes an article to The Post in which it is argued that the executive mansion is no proper place for business; that the eastern portion of the house now occupied by the clerical force should be turned over to the family of tbe president, and that the practice of presidential handshaking should be discontinued. In conclusion the writer says: "lam Informed on the highest authority that the president contemplates taking the whole aouth front, first floor of the state department for executive business offices and establishing a routine of office hours." New York, April 15.—The German steamship Sue via of the Hamburg line, which arrived at quarantine last night, had on 'joard a portion of the crew of the pilot bor.o Commodore Bateman, No. 11, which left Newport on Tuesday last. The Bateman was run into and sunk by the Suevia on Saturday morning at about 10:80 o'clock off the Georgia banks, Nantucket, about 810 milles from Sandy Hook. Newark, N. J., April 15—Bernard Schroeder, 33 year o'd, of No. 183 South Orange avenue, was arrested late Saturday night on the complaint of R G. Solomon the wealthy leather manufactur r, for the alleged embezzlement of $10,000. Short llangc. Brooklyn, April 14.—At the Tabernacle today, after expounding passages descriptive of the world as it shall be when gospelized, Dr. Talmage gave out the hymn: People and realms of every tongue Dwell on his love with sweetest song. Text, Revelation xix *= "Amen; Alleluia!"Arrest of Two Boulanglsts. "I was- a-kel to join and was offered suitable rank and pay. Of course I would have nothing to do with such a scheme and did not want to know too much about it" Paris, April 15.—At a Boulangist banquet held at Versailles last evening M. Laguerre read Gen. Boulanger's manifesto, and in a speech contrasted the doings of the sham Republicans of the present with those of the Republicans of 1789. The centennial anniversary of the acts of the latter, he declared, must witness the completion of the reforms then initiated. MM. Laguerre and Herlsse were arrested on leaving the banquet, but were subsequently released. SUICIDE OF A BRAVE OFFICER Over two weeks ago Mr. Solomon became convinced that some one was stealing large quantities of finished leather from him, though who it was he could not determine. He notified the police, and Detective Stainsby was at once put upon the case. The detective familiarized h:mself with the way the business was carried on av.d soon suspected Schroedor, the shipping clork. Saturday night Schrocder was taken to Mr. Solomon's house, where he made a clean breast of the whole matter to Mr. and Mrs. Solomon rind several witneFses. The second Federal officer, when ii:t srrogated by the reporter, admitted having had the same offer made to him. Tli« Commandant at the Plattsburg liar- racks Shoots Hlmtelf. Tho Nineteenth century is departing. After It has taken a few more steps, if each year be a step, it will be gone into the eternitjea. In a short time we shall be in the last decade of this century, which fact makes the solemnest book outside the Bible, the almanac, and the most suggestive and the most tremendous piece of machinery in all the earth, the clock. The last decade of this century upon which we shall soon enter will be the grandest, mightiest and most decisive decade in all the chronologies. I am glad it is not to come immediately, for we need by a new baptism of the Holy Ghost to prepare for it. That last ten years of the Nineteenth century, may we all live to see them! Does any one say that this division of time is arbitrary? Oh, no; in other ages tho divisions of time may have been arbitrary, but our years date from Christ. Does any one say that the grouping of ten together is an arrangement arbitrary! Oh, no; next to the figure seven, ten is with God a favorite number. Abraham dwelt ten years in Canaan. Ten righteous men would have saved Sodom. In the ancient tabernacle were ten curtains, their pillars ten and their sockets ten. In the ancient temple were ten lavers and ten candlesticks and ten tables and a molten sea of ten cubits. And the commandments written on the granite of Mount Sinai were ten, and the kingdom of God was likened to ten virgins, and ten men should lay hold of him that was a Jew, and the reward of tho greatly faithful is that they shall reign over ten cities, and in the effort to take the census of the New Jerusalem the number ten swings around the thousands, crying "ten thousand times ten thousand." So I come to look toward the closing ten years of tho Nineteenth century with an intensity of interest I can hardly describe. A thick fog prevailed, the officers of the steamship say, and the Bateman was under short sail, heading east-southeast, when the Suevia bore down upon her. The officers on the bridge failed to discover the pilot boat, they say, until it was too late to avoid a collision. As soon as the mast of the Bateman was seen the engines of the steamship were reversed, but to little purpose. Plattsbuho, N. Y., April 15.—About 11:30 o'clock Saturday night Capt. Ogden R Read, of the Eleventh United States infantry, stationed at Piattsburg barracks, committed suicide by shooting himelf in the head. He had just returned from town, where he had gone to obtain admission to the court house to hear the arguments in the Harrison murder trial now being conducted there. After greeting his wife he went into the sitting room. A moment later Mrs. Read heard a shot, and ran into the room, where she found her husband lying on the floor with blood flowing from a pistol shot wound in his mouth. He had placed a revolver in his mouth, and the ball penetrated the brain. "Tbe scheme is being worked throu ;h a secret order which has a large meinltcship through the south," he said, "and th y are well organize I and number over 1,000 in n in the military department, while the civil deparfment la! an in many prominent and influential m n. Brussels, April 15.—Gen. Boulanger has taken a house in the Avenue Louise, together with stable accommodation for seven horses. It is expected that his famous black charger will arrive in a day or two. Mrs. Russell Harrison has recovered from her indisposition, and Mrs. Scott-Lord is the latest on the sick list. Col. John Wilson has had the plumbing of the White House thoroughly examined by expert plumbers, and It is pronounced to be in excellent condition. THE WHITE HOUSE PLUMBING. "I refused to have anything to do with the scheme, but expect to hear from It before long. Any one who has watehed the progress of things on the peninsula during the past year, and who hag known of the existence of this society, can easily see that trouble it brewing," Opposition to the Sugar Hill. The bow crashed into the port quarter of the pilot boat, cutting through the timbers below the water line. The pilot boat filled rapidly and began to sink. The officers of the Suevia quickly had a boat lowered, and when the boat reached the pilot boat the latter was disappearing, and the crew were struggling in the water and clinging to the wreckage. Schroeder has been in Mr. Solomon's employ for eight years, the manufacturer having befriended him when a mere boy. Schroeder, in the course of his confession, said he first began his systematic stealing over two years ago, when he billed first class goods to ceri nin of the firm's oust imers in New Y' rk at third class prices. These customers did not hesitate to take advantage of Schroeder's misdemeanor, for tliev began to compel hiin, ho pays, to ship those goods for nothing by mrnacing him constantly with the threat of exposure. London, April 15.—Sir Lyon Playfair has announced his intention to strenuously oppose the second reading of the sugar bill in the house, and will receive assistance in this action from several other prominent members. The bill will come up on Thursday, whon Mr. John B. Maple, Conservative member for Dulwich, will ask the government to submit a list of the other articles fostered by foreign bounties, with a view to having them placed upon the same footing as sugar. This move indicates a decided leaning on the part of many members hitherto ardent free traders toward protection. The invitations for the coming centennial ceremonies at New York have been issued, Mrs. Harrison having the distinguished honor of being the only lady who lias received cards for the entire series of festivities The invitations include nine separate cards of unusual size, with green, red and yellow colors stam| ed in one corner, with the Washington medal fastened in imitation of red, white and blue ribbon. A smaller pasteboard announces that the recipient will be forwarded an extra invitation for the banquet within three days of the celebration. MBS. HARRISON HONORED. THE GROUND SANK. Capt. Read was 46 y.ars old, and a native of Colchester, Vt. He enlistei as a private in the Tenth Vermont volunteers in 1862, and gained promotion by brave and meritorious service to the rank ot brevet major. He took part in many battles, including those of the Wilderness and the nego of Petersburg. He was severely wounded by the explosion of the Petersburg mine in 1864. He was for some time In the general recruiting service in the west, and for two years has been commanding officer at the Plattsburg barracks. He was highly respected in this community. He leaves a widow and throe children. The motive for the suicide is not known. A Freight Train Wrecked by the Collapse of a Coal Mine. St. Louis, Mo., April 15.—A bad wreck occurred on the Gairo Short line, a mile from Belleville, at 1:40 this morning, the train being a freight, bound east, John Hawkins, conductor, and Patrick Tobin, engineer. Without any warning the ground began to sink beneath the engine, and the engineer and fireman jumped and escaped with a few bruises. The Walnut Valley company's coal mine was underneath, and the ground had sunk from six to eight feet for a distance ot sixty feet in length by ten feet in width. The engine and five box cars wore still on the rails, but the thirteen other cars were piled up in confusion, Seven men were picked up, while two were lost One of the latter was James Handran, a pilot belonging to the Bateman and who lived in Brooklyn. He is supposed to have been struck and stunned by falling spars, as he was not seen in the water by any of his shipmates. As time went on the customers got more Imperative in their demands than ever. At first he had divided the profits made by selecting first class goods at third class prices with the dealers and soon he had to give away goods. Only a few weeks ago he was force! to ship three dozen fine alligator skins to a customer who paid nothing for them, and threatened to inform Mr. Solomon of Schroeder's dishonesty if the'skins were not sent. He has shipped large quantities of costly kangaroo skins at the prices paid for imitation skins. He handed over to Detective Stainsby a number of letters written by the unprincipled customers, which show very clcarly the underhanded means they took to keep Schroeder in fear of detection. A Notorious Swindler. ARMY TOPICS. London, Api.'l 15.—A man of distinguished appearance, cal'jfg himself Baron Schellerup, was arrested in Berlin a few days ago for swindling a horse dealer out of 20,000 mat-ks. He was arraigned in court and released on bail pending his trial. While he was in custody he was searched, and Russian money to the amount of 6,000 roubles was found concealed beneath the lining of his coat. After his release on bail the police attempted to arrest him on other charges, but were unsuccessful. Subsequently it was discovered that Schellerup is pone other than the famous swindler "Prince Sevine," who served a term of imprisonment in Brussels in 1885 and afterward escaped from the custody of officers who were conveying him to Russia for trial on the charge of incendiarism. Sinoe hia escape nothing has been known of him until his arrest in Berlin. He has disappeared from the Qerraan capital and it is suspected that he is iu London. The other man who was lost was a cook on the Bateman, and his name was Harry Halford. This was his first trip to sea on the Bateman. With the Lydecker court martial findings in the hands of the secretary of war, the opening of the Armes court martial and the proposed order abolishing Sunday morning inspection, army circles here have been considerably agitated during the past week. Although the sentence of the Lydecker court has not yet been made public, it is quite generally believed the major will get two years suspension from rank and duty. The Armes case has a peculiar side to it, and many think it is liable to stir up old matters that it would be better to allow time to heal. Nothing new was developed during the week in regard to the Sunday rest order. The proposition, it is said, does not come from representative army men. A large number of protests against any change in the existing order of things have been filed at the executive mansion, and President Harrlsan is examining carefully all the papers on the subject. Some decision is looked for within the course of the next few days. Pilot John Phelan was seen last night by a reporter. He said that the steamer's whistle was first heard but three minutes before the collision came. A moment later the steamer loomed up through the thick fog not 200 feet away. The Suevia was bound due west and the pilotboat east southwest. TRAGIC OCCURRENCE. A Girl Shot Willie Preventing Her Father from Committing Suicide. From beneath the pile came agonizing cries, neighboring farmers and miners alter working two hours dug out from under the coal and debris Sam Patton, a brakmmn, fearfully bruised from head to foot nni injured internally. Brakeman Pat Brown received severe cuts on the head and back, but is not thought to be seriously injured. Two of the overturned coal cars with their leads caught fire and were burned, the blaze illuminating the sky for miles around. Twelve flat cars loaded with coal were reduced to splinters and tbe contents of one box cor loaded with boots and shoes, boxer of eggs and other merchandise were scattered along the track. The wreck was cleared this afternoon and a track built around the depression. Cobydom, Ind., April 15.—At the close of the recent White Cap trial at Leavenworth the Gregory family, including Bory Gregory, bis daughter Miss Dora, and his son William L., the alleged captain of the White Caps, started home in a wagon. When they reached home the daughter was in a critical condition, and the father was a maniac. The team had run away and the condition of Mr. Gregory and his daughter was attributed to ii juries received by the runaway. The real facta, towever, are as follows: When within two miles from home Mr. Gregory was seized with a sudden fit of insanity, and, drawing his pistol, he leaped from the wagon. He then cocked the pistol and placed the muzzle to his temple; but before he could flre his children had hold of him. In a scuffle the pistol was discharged, the ball penetrating Gregory's daughter. The team became frightened and ran away. Gregory has not fully reoovered his reason, but it is thought that it will be finally restored. His daughter is in a precarious condition. She was to have been married in a few days.  The Bateman had no wind to carry her out of the approaching danger. She fired a gun, but before the smoke cleared away the bow of the steamer crashed into her port side, striking her aft of the main rigging. The men were thrown into the water, but in about ten minutes they were all picked up by the Suevia's boats, except Handran and Halford. I have also noticed that the favorite time In many of the centuries for great events was the closing fragment of the century. Is America to be discovered, it must be in the last decade of the Fifteenth century, namely 1492. Was free constitutional government to be well established in America, the last years of the Eighteenth century must achieve It. Were three cities to be submerged by one pitch of scoriae, Herculaneum and Strabatae and Pompeii in the latter part of the first century must go under. The Fourth century closed with the most agitating ecclesiastical war of history, Urban the Sixth against Clement the Seventh. Alfred the Great closes the Ninth century and Edward Ironsides the Eleventh century with their nwounding deeds. The Sixteenth century closed ~'ith the establishment of religious independence in the United Netherlands. Aye, almost flvery century has had its peroration of over towering achievements. As the closing years of the centuries seem a favorite time for great scenes of emancipation or disaster, and as the number ten seems a favorite number in the Scriptures written by divine direction, and as we are soon to enter upon the last ten year* of the Nineteenth century, what does the world propose! What does the ohurch of Christ propose? What do reformers propose! I know not; but now in the presence of this consecrated assembly I propose that we make ready, get all our batteries planted and all our plans well laid in what remains of this decade, aud then in the last decade of the Nineteenth century march up and take this round world for God. Mr. Solomon thinks his loss will exceed {10,000. He has always trusted Schroeder implicitly, and has befriended him in time of need. Schroeder's gross ingratitude has determined his employer to make an example of him, and he is now locked up at police headquarters awaiting examination. Capt. Phelan thinks the missing men must have been struck by the falling mast The Bateman filled and went down in a few minutes.It is expected that some of the customers who used him as a cat's paw will be arrested, as one or two of them are expected to visit Newark. The whole trouble Is that we put off the 5 completion of the world's redemption to fueh long and indefinite distances. The old pro- CSf verb that "what is everybody's business Is nobody's business," might be changed a Uttle and bo made truthfully to say what is the ' 1 Gospel business of all the ages is the Gospel ''1 business of no age. We are so constituted we 1 cannot get up much enthusiasm about some- .'fa thing five hundred years from now or a thou- J sand years from now. We are fighting at too long a range. That gun called the "Swamp Angel" was a nuisance. It shot six 1 miles, but it hardly ever hit anything. It did -■ its chief destructive work when it burst : killed those who were setting it off. Short i range is the effective kind of work, whether j it be for worldly or religious purpose. Some ' man with his eyes half shut dronos out to me • the Bible quotation: "A thousand years are as one day;" that is, ten centuries are not long for the Lord. But why do you not quote : the previous sentenoe whioh says th«t one day : is with the Lord as a thousand years! That " is, he could do the work of ton centuries in ' twenty-four hours. The mightiest obstacle ] to Christian work is the impression that the - world's evangelization is away off. And we ' take the tclcscopo and look on and on | through centuries until we see two objects near each other, and we strain a our vision and guess what they are 1C and wo call great conventions to what they are, and we get down our heaviest! :* theological works and balance our tuiesoopsM on the lid and look and look and finally con-f J elude that they are two beasts that we see and the one has hair and the other has wool, ' and we guess it must be the lion and th« \ lamb lying down together. In that great a cradle of postponement and somnolence we I rock the church as though it were an impar 'IS tient child and say, "Hush, my deal", don't 3 be impatient! Dont get excited by rerivabl 1 Don't cry I Your Father's coming! Don't 4 get uneasy! He will be here in two or three 3 or ten or twenty thousand year*." And we act as though we thought that when  caulay'a famous New Zealander in the far distant is seated on a broken arch of London j bridge sketching the ruins of St. Paul's his ' grandchild might break in and jolt his pencil C1 asking him if he thought the millennium ever j would appear. Hen and women of the eter- tI nal God I Sons and daughters of the Lord 'Sj Almighty! We may have it start In the do- .J cade that is soon to commence, and it will be £ done if we can persuade the peopto between now and then to get ready for the work. What makes me think it con be doset ' First, because God is ready. He needs no •' long persuasion to do his work, for if ho is 1 not willing that any should perish, he is. not 4 willing that any of the people of the - decade shall perish; and the whole Bible is a chime of bells ringing out "Come, come, come," and you need not go round the earth to find out how much ho wants the world to come, but just to walk around ono stripped and bare and leafless tree with two branches not arched but horizontal. But be is waiting, as he said he would, for the co-operation j of the church. When we are ready God it ready. And he certainly has all the weap- ; onry ready to capture this world for the truth, all the weapons of kindness er devastation. On the one hand, the Gospel and san~ shine and power to orchardize and gardenias the earth and fountains swinging in rainbow aod Chats wort hian verdure and aromas poured out of the vials of heaven,.while on tho other hand he has the weaponry of do v as tation, thunderbolt and conflagration end forces planetary, solar, lunar, stellar or metoorio, that with loom rein thrown on tho neck for a second would leavo constellations and galaxies so many split and shivered wheels on the boulevards of heaven. And that God is on our side, all on our side. Blessed be his glorious name! Blessed was the hour when through Jesus Christ my sinful soul made peace with him! THBRK 18 NOTHING IMPRACTICABLE ABODT IT. If you continue to ask me why I think that W eeved in tho final decade of the Nineteenth century, I reply, becanso it Is not » great undertaking, considering tho number of workers that will go at it, if once £rsuaded it be done. We have sifte l the Ave hundred million of workers down to tour hundred million and three huufred million and two hundred million and one hundred million and to fifty I went to London, April 15.—The Times' Paris correspondent says that a new Comptoir d'Escompte will be formed upon the lines of the old concern. The capital will be 40,000,000 francs, half paid up, and the shares will be exclusively offered to the old shareholders. There will also be 60,000 founders' shares entitled to 30 per cent profit After 5 per cent has been deducted for a reserve fund two-thirds of these shares will be handed to the liquidators as a contribution to the former company. The remaining 20,000 shares wil' be given to a syndicate, which has guaranteed to subscribe for all the shares not taken by the original stockholders. A New Comptoir d'Kscompte. All of the rescued men were more or less injured by the collision. Boatkeeper Madigan had his collar bone broken, and one of the seamen suffered a fracture of the arm. A BIBULOUS MILLIONAIRE. The colored people of Washington and the District of Columbia will, on Tuesday, celebrate the 27th anniversary of their emancipation. If the weather is fair, the parade will probably be the largest of its kind ever known in Washington. There will be 5,000 men in line. A number of visiting colored militia and clvio organizations from Baltimore, Richmond and other places will form a prominent feature of the parade. CELEBRATING EMANCIPATION DAY. Hh Wife Will Trosecule the LIqaof THREATENED RAILROAD TIE UP. Dealers Who Cater to Hit Appetite. The rescued m3n are: Pilots John Phelan, Bernard Brady, E. Devlin, Charles Samson and Ebon Turnure; Boatkeeper Cornelius G. Madigan and Seamen Julius Jacobean, Fred Neilsen, J. Robinson and Charles Peel Twenty Thousand Men May Stop Work on the Baltimore and Ohio. Michigan City, Ind., April 15.—Mrs. W. O. Leeds, wife of one of the richest men in Indiana, has secured evidence that nineteen saloon keepers in Michigan City have sold liquor to her husband this ye ir after she had, in aocordance with the law, formally notified them not to do so. The notices were served by her in person. Mrs. Leeds attributes Mr. Leed's drinking habits to the influence of politicians and saloou men, who have fastened themselves upon him. Mrs. Leeds says she proposes to have the saloon keepers suffer from $10 to $100 for every drink sold to Mr. Lecd alter uotice was given. Chicago, April 15. — Twenty thousand men threaten to quit the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company and tie up its trains. The trouble grows out of a compulsory contract of employment that, it is asserted, will impose an unjust tax on the men. Quite recently the management created an insurance or relief department. In order to maintain it the employes are required, as a condition of employment, to sign a contract authorizing tho company to deduct from their wages sums varying from $9 to $60 per year. The contract also binds the employee to obey all the regulations now governing the department, or such as the company may hereafter make. The pilots of the Baternan expressed thanks to Capt Ludwig and his officers and crew for using every effort in their power to save life, as well as to save the pilot boat, and for their kindness in furnishing the rescued men with proper clothes and medicines. Boats were lowered and life preservers were thrown overboard, and, In the opinion of the pilots, all were saved that were not injured by falling spars. WALKED OUT OF JAIL. WORK OF THE FISH COMMISSION. No department of scientific work conducted under government auspices shows better or mora satisfactory results than that of the flah commission. Evidences of this came to the commission here frequently. The fish commissioner of Arizona has written to Commissioner McDonald that Indians have oaught shad In tho Colorado river In that territory within the past few weeks of a size that amply repays them for the labor and time involved. The first deposit or planting of fry in that river was made three years ago, and has been followed by a new one every year since. Five Inmates of the Prison at Salem Coolly EJTeot Their Escape. Salem, Mass., April 16.—Five prisoners escaped from the Salem jail yesterday and are still at large. They are William Marlow, E. A Dennis, Felix Goldlng, P. J. Hanley and Thomas W. Flynn, all burglars. Marlow had been employed about the office, and evidently kne w where the safe key was kept The men concealed themselves under their beds yeaterday morning and did not attend chapel. After the watchman had passed their cells they came out, the doors having been unlocked to allow the occupants to join the line going to chapel. They got the safe key, opeued the safe, took out the key to the outer door, and after unlocking the door returned tho key and locked the safe up again. Marlow was the only one who wore a prison suit He went to the clothes closet and put oil another suit, and also took two revolvers and $100 from the safe. The prisoners had been gone hal f an hour before their escape was discovered. London, April 15.—It is reported in Berlin that the position of Or. Von Stephan, the imperial minister of postb, has become exceedingly shaky owing to his recent severe criticism of Herr Von Maybach, the Prussian minister of public works. Von Stephan's utterances are held to have been not only unjustifiable as statements of fact, but also a breach of ministerial courtesy, which Prince Bismarck and, of course, the emperor are not disposed to permit to pass unnoticed. Dr. Von Stephan's Indiscretion. Her investigation showed incidentally that out of sixty-five places in Michigan City where liquor is sold only flfty-one are licensed. She intends to have thj unlicensed fourteen forced to close. Mrs. Leeds adds: "I'm not a prohibitionist; I'm a temperan e woman. I've told them in one place in town that Mr. Leeds can go in there and take bis beer, but he mu t not take too much, and they will not se.l him too much." Mrs. Leeds is well with money and looks like a determined woman. It is rumored I hut Mr. L Ded» lias pro nised to stand back of the dealers in nny pi oocodings and supply the sinews of war. The amount of money he can control is estimated to be $5,000,000.  The Commodore Bate man was a new boat, having been launched in August last to take the place of the pilot boat Phantom No. XI, which was lost, with her entire craw, in the blizzard of March 12, 1888. The Bateman cost $16,000, and was owned jointly by Pilots Edward Hanlon, Bernard Brady, John Phelan and two others. She was insured. Every employe in the service of the company has been given to understand that he must sign the contract or be discharged. A determined and serious opposition to the company's orders is being organized, and if it is persisted in a strike is promised. The men on the Chicago division of the road are thoroughly organized, and in a representative meeting at South Chicago a grievance committee was elected to canvass the men and ascertain their feeling in regard to the objectionable contract and as to the advisability of a general strike. When I say we, I mean the fire hundred million Christians now alive. But, as many of them will not have enough heart for the work, let us copy Gideon, and as he had thirty-two thousand men in his army to fight the Midiauites, but many of them wefe not made ot the right stuff, and he promulgated a military order saying "whosoever is fearful and ufraid let him return and depart early fromGiiead," and twenty-two thousand were afraid of getting hurt and went home and only ten thousand were left, and Qod told them tliat even this reduced number was too largo a number, for they might think they had triumphed independent of divine help, and so the number must be still further reduced and only those should be kept in the ranks who in passing the river should bo so in haste for victory over their enemies that, though very thirsty, they would without stopping a second just scoop up the water in the palm of their right hand and scoop up the water in the palm of their left hand, and only three hundred men did that, and those three hundred men with tho battle shout, "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon," scattered the Midianitea like leaves in an equinox, so out of the five hundred million nominal Christians of today let all unbelievers and cowards go home and get out of the way. And suppose we have only four hundred million left, suppose only two hundred million left, suppose only one hundred million left, yea, suppose we only have fifty million left, with them we will undertake the divine crusade, and each one just scooping up a palm full of the river of God's mercy in one hand and a palm full of the river of God's strength in the other, let us Vith the cry, "Tho sword of the Lord and of Gideon," tho sword of the Lord and of John Knox, the sword of the Lord and of Matthew Simpson, the sword of the Lord and of Bishop Mcllvaine, the sword of the Lord and of Adoniram Judson, the sword of the Lord and of Martin Luther, go into the last decade of the Nineteenth century. Lake Utah, in the territory of that name, has also yielded very satisfactory returns from a planting made only year before last. One of the officials of the commission states that reports from San Francisco are to the effect that shad, the prgduct of eastern fry, planted in the waters of California, are plentiful in the markets of that city, and of reasonable price. The methods and work of the commission are finding favor with the fishermen of the country, who at first not only viewed them with dislike, but were violently opposed to them. There are now nineteen hatching stations operated by the commission, and three new ones are provided for by the appropriation bill of 1889. London, April 15.—The steamship Etruria which arrived from New York today reports that the steamer Wisconsin is returning to Liverpool. She has not as yet, however, arrived at either Liverpool or Queenstown. The Wisconsin Putting Hack. Chicago, April 15.—A special from Indianapolis says: In connection with the western inspection trip of A B. Chandler, of the Postal Telegraph company, and George B. Ward, president of the Commercial Cable company,who were in  the report was published here that arrangements have been made for the consolidation of the Western Union and United Lines Telegraph companies. The local representatives of the two companies say there Is no truth in the rumor regarding a consolidation, but admit that an agreement has been effected and that it will materialize May 1; but they decline to give any information concerning the deal. It is believed that in consideration of the United Lines advancing rates to many points the Western Union will withdraw the old Mutual Union company from the field as a competitor. Rumored Telegraph Deal. The Rochester Car Strike. Ruined the Firm. Filicide of a Doctor. Rochester, N. Y., April 15.—There was comparative quietness yesterday in the car strike. Cars ran on many of the lines without trouble. It was reported that one car had been thrown over on Hudson street, but no one was injured. Several cars hau windows broken by stones thrown. Early last evening a mob surrounded a boarding house on Clinton street, where four drivers live. The four men got frightened, and, as their landlady could not speak English, they were sorely troubled. At last the woman disguised herself, and, getting into another house, succeeded in passing a note to a telephone station asking for aid. The patrol wagon was quickly on hand and six men were arrested. The drivers were taken to the Main street barns, where they will stay in future. Elmira, N. Y., April 15.—Many business men and farmers of Schuyler county have been swindled by Ellsworth Snyder, of the firm of Snyder Brothers, grain, hay and produce dealers, of North Hector. The firm handled a large amount of goods. Two weeks ago Ellsworth left home, ostensibly on business for the farm. He collected accounts, negotiated paper of fictitious value, overdrew the firm's account $900 at the Watkins bank, and managed in one way or another to secure from $14,000 to $18,000. When the situation became known, Clarence Snyder, brother of the absconder and member of the firm, made an assignment to another brother, Joseph Snyder. The assets and liabilities are not known, but the creditors' prospects are very slim indeed. New York, April 15.—Dr. J. R Gyles, aged 65 years, for forty years a piiysioirn in this city, committed suicide at his home No. 417 West Twenty-third s reet, by taking strychnine. His wife was in the room while he was mixing t he poison and he o«kiil her to drink some of it, not saying what it was. She thought it was magnesia, but said she did not need any. After she 1 ft tho room she heard groans, and returning, found her husband dying. He had evidently intended that his wife should die with him. Ho had suffered from melancholia ft r the past few years owing to financial and professional troubles. Cut a Path to Liberty. Elizabeth,N. J., April 15.—John Quinn, a prisoner in the Union county jail charged with assault, cut through the iron bars of the cook house last night and escaped. He crawlod through the aperture, jumped to the jail yard below, scaled the fence, and disappeared hi tho woods toward Rahway. A general alarm has been sent out to t he police of this city, and a'so Rahway and Newark. Quinn when he escaped had nothing on but a red shirt and a pair of striped trousers. He is 22 years old, has light hair and light mustache, is 5 feet 10 inches in height, and weighs 185 pounds. Ho was arrested Jan. 16, and was to be tried in May. Wii.ke8BA.urk, Pa., April 15.—Charles Hodges and Evan Meddie were instantly killed by an explosion of gas in the Grand Tunnel colliery, Nanticoke, yesterday morning. Hodges was an experienced fire boss and Meddie a pump runner. They were examining the mines, looking for dangerous flows of gas in order to warn the miners of danger when they entered the works. Hodges approached an old abandoned working filled with standing gas. He had a naked lamp, and an explosion ensued. Both men were terribly mangled and burned. Death in a Mine. Baltimore, April 15.—The Sun's special from Charleston, S. C., says: A letter has been received by Maj. Gilchrist, of the Washington Light infantry, from Gen. Cruger, saying that the Light infantry will not be given the position of prominence in the Washington parade at New York which had been assigned to it. The matter caused much dissatisfaction in Charleston, as the Light infantry dates from 1807, and it propo.-ed to carry Col. William Washington's banner, the only revolutionary flag in existence. Maj. Gilchrist says the command will go to New York but will not fall into line with the militia, but will parade on its own account To Parade on Its Own Account. Winfield, Kan., April 15.—The Bank of Guthrie, I. T., with a capital stock of $50,000 has been organize!. It will bo open for business at Guthrie April 23 and expccts t D be the Hi's; bank in Oklahoma territory. The principal offlcers'are Hon. M. W. Levy, president of the First National Bank of W cllita; Hon. George W. Robbiu®, vie -president of the First National Bank of Wuifi 'Id, and Hon Horace Speed, of Indianapolis Oklahoma's First Hank. Kl led by a Thunderbolt. A Cool Headed Wife. San Francisco, April 15. — Additional Samoan advices say the admiral commanding the American fleet was the last to leave the Trenton, his flagship. The Americans, officers and aailors, were alike clad in "blue jacket" uniform, that being the only sort of clothing accessible after their trying experience. Admiral Kimberly said ho considered faulty construction of the Trenton's hawse pipes as indirectly the cause of her wreck. Within a few days after the storm a condition of things resembling order had been brought about. The marines and Mataafa's police had been actively at work in this direction. The safes of the Trenton and Vandalia had been recovered, together with eTconsiderable quantity of other property, from tho wrecked vessels. More About the Samoan Disaster. Montgomery, Ala., April 15.—During a thunder storm at 1 o'clock yesterday the residence of Mr. Peter Crump, who lives in the southern suburbs of Montgomery, was struck by lightning and his little son Watson, 12 years old, was instantly killed. Mr. Crump and live of his children were sitting on the portico. The building was struck by the thunderbolts, one penetrating the roof into a front room and shattering the walls, the other descending on the front porch, where the family were sitting. The victim was a haud- Nime and promising youth. Three other children were prostrated by the shock, but recovered.Luther, Mich., April 15.—A pie..3 of bread lodged in Job Brewer's throat and in a few minutes he was unconscious. Mrs. Brewer did not lose her presence of mind and at once poured several dippers of water down his throat. The bread became sufficiently softened and had apparently slid down into Brewer's stonuich, but by that time he was nearly drowned by the water. Mrs. Brewer heroically persevered, however, and by rol ing her husband over a barrel and then substituting artificial respiration for the natural that was lacking she soon had Job on his feet again. He had come vsry near to death twice in an hour, but his brave wife saved him. Attempt to Wreck a Train. Massillon, O., April 15.—An attempt was made to wreck a passenger train on the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling railroad near Tippecanoe Station. A heavy log chain was wrapped around the rail and three or four cross ties were piled on the track. The express train ran over the chain in safety and came to a stop before reaching the ties. Suspicion rests upon a man who was recently ejected from a train by the conductor of this train and who threatened to kill the con- Memorial Services at AnuaptDlh. Baltimore, April 15.—The American Annapolis special says: D'«v. Dr. R H. Will am* of the First Presbyt?rian church preached a memorial service yesterday on the lost of the Samcan disaster, some of whom have worshipped at his church. He took as his text Psa m cvii, 23-24: "They that go down to the sea on ship'', that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep." San Francisco, April 15,—The steamer Alameda brought news that the American bark C. D. Bryant, which was seized by the Hawaiian government for smuggling sixty tins of opium into Honolulu, was condemned on the trial and ordered to be confiscated. The case is now awaiting decision on appeal. The bark has been allowed to load and will sail under bonis of $10,000. The action of the Hawaiian government, it is thought, is notsuch as will stand under the terms of international treaties. £eirure of an American Bark. due tor. John Jackson's Suicide. CONDENSED NEWS. St. Louis, April 15.—The letters left by Mr. John Jackson, who committed suicido Friday night, indicate plainly that the suicide was caused by heavy looses in May ». heat Reports on 'Change placod the loss at $500,000. An investigation into the affairs of tho Elevator company with which Mr. Jackson was connected will be begun at once. Mr. Jackson's real estate holdings, amounting to over half a million dollars, are said to be heavily encumbered. The steamship Alameda, which has arrived at Ban Francisco, reports that the schooner Northern Bell foundered Feb. 28 off the Motlab Island Banks group and four white men and sixteen natives were drowned. Little Rock, April 15.—The United States grand jury adjourned until Monday afternoon without returning indictments against the five men charged with interfering with the election at Plummerviile on Nov. 8. It is known, however, that such indictments have been passed on and will be presented early next week. This action is regarded as the first step toward bringing to punishment the assassins of John M. Clayton. TUe Plummervllle Prisoners. NOTHING IMPRACTICABLE IN THE PROPOSITION. Ia it audacious (or me to propose itl Ob, no; a captive servant in the kitohen of Noaman told the commander-in-chief where he could Ret rid of the blotches of Lis awful leprosy and his oomplexion becamo fair as a babe's. And didn't Christ in order to take the ophthalmia oat of the eyes of the blind man use a mixture of spittle and dustt And who showed Bluchor a short cut for his army «o that iustead of taking the regular road by which be v.'ould have come up too Tate, he came up in time to save Waterloo and Europe* Was it not an unknown lad who pephaps could not write his own name) And so I, "who am loss than the least of all saints," propose a short cut to victory, and am willing to be the expectoration on some blind eye and tell some of the brigadier generals of the Lord of hosts how this leprosied world may in the tinal decade of the Nineteenth century have its flash come again as the flesh of a little child. Burlington Dynamiter* Sentenced. New York, April 15.— Ex-Congressman Simeon B. Chittenden died yesterday at his home in Brooklyn after a long illness. He was 75 years old. Ex-CongreMinan Chittenden Dead. Geneva. Ills., April 15.—The trial of Broderick and Godding, charged with conspiring to injure the property of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad company with dynamite, was concluded Saturday, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Broderick's punishment is fixed at one year in the penitentiary and Godding is fined $500. Charles Griffin, a carpenter, aged 35 years, of Utica, N. Y., cut his throat Sunday evening. The jugular vein was severed and he died in a few minutes. His wife was leading an improper life and after several efforts to reclaim her he became discouraged and ended his life. Ho was born in Guilford, Conn., where his ancestors had resided from 1619. He acquired a fortune in the dry goods business and since 1800 had been prominent in politics, serving several terms in congress. He was a Republican and an ardent protectionist. He was a very liberal contributor to charity and public institutions. Among his gifts were $100,- 000 to Yale college, $50,000 to the Brooklyn Jibrary and $35,000 to Rev. Dr. Storrs, of whoso church he was one of the founders. Conflict Between Blacks and Portuguese. New York, April 15.—According to advices received by Henry McMillan, New York agent of the Lloyds, a serious conflict has broken out between the blacks and Portuguese in Denierara. The shops of the Portuguese, who are the principal tradesmen, have been sacked, entailing an estimated loss of $100,000.  Miners In Want. Suicide of an Old Woman. Bald Knohbers Not to Be Hanged Phillipsburo, Pa., April 15.—The Wage Earners' Journal says: "Many of tho coal miners in the Clearfield coal districts are in destitute circumstances, and from necessity are seriously considering the matter of applying for relief from the township officials. Many of them have been without work sinco Jan. 1, and have not the means to pay for the commonest food." Permission to cross the Cherokee strip to the border of Oklahoma has beep received at Caldwell, Kan. The troops now on the state line have orders to move on the 19th to the south line of the Cherokee strip and hold the boomers back. Tremendous rainfalls west may change the plans of many. Baltimore, April 15.—Mrs. Rosina Midllekampf, aged 72 years, was found hanging from a tree on the farm of her son near fiardenville in Baltimore county. She had tied a plow line to a limb of the tree and with the aid of a ring made the loop in which she strangled herself to death. Springfield, Mo., April 15.—David Walker, the Bald Knobber chief, William Walker and John Matthews, sentenced to hang Friday next, have had their sentence commuted to life imprisonment. They were convicted Qf the murder of Charles Green and William Edens, March 11, 1887. A Big Land Purchase. Probably Fatal Accident. Chattanooga, Tenn., April 15.—A syndicate of capitalists from New York, New Orleans, Memphis and Atlanta consummated the purchase of 63,000 acres of land in Sequachee valley, about thirty miles from Chattanooga, adjoining the city of South Pittsburg, Tenn. The price for the property, which contains coal, iron and timber lands, was $540,000. Washington, April 15.—The wife of ftaar Admiral Febiger was thrown from her carriage while driving along F street last evening and per hap « fatally injured. Her skull was fractured and one of her arms broken. Her physicians express little hopes of her recovery.Ada Armstrong, aged 15, left her home in West Ansonia, Conn., several days ago and oannot be found, She is an expert banjo player and is supposed to have eloped with » member of Hill's Opera company. The girl's parents, who are very respectable people, are greatly grieved over their daughter's disappearance,Ward McAllister Steps Uowq. Newark, N. J., April 15.—It is understood that the Christian Trefz brewery has been sold to the English syndicate for (600,000. A Newark Brewery Sold. A Steamer Damaged by Fire. New York, *.prll 15,Ward MoAlllster baa resigned as manager of the centennial ball and banquet, owing to the action of the entertainment committee in depriving him of the discretion usually vested in the holder of such a position. New York, April 15.—The steamer Rio Grande of the Mallory line was damaged to the extent of $35,000 by fire at her dock yesterday.Is there anything in propheoy to hinder this speedy consummation I Na Some onn begins to quote from Daniel about "time, |imes and a half time," and takes from Reve- Weatller Indications. Fair, followed by light rain; stationary temperature; variable winds. " (CQHTUIOID OK THUD PAGK.)