Evening Gazette

              -29. ISSit. ' ' t* NVKIBEH 308:t. | cckly EtlaklMiiK 1(430. f I TWtimn. TnOniia Wwk. THE ELECTION IN RARI8. DUQUESNE'S FIRE BUGS. TELE€R/PHIC BREVITIES. DR. TALMAGW SERMON. these sick ones were brought out did he sayt "Do not brine me these sores; do not trouble me with these leprosies!" No, no; there was • kind look, them was a gentle word, tlum was a healing touch. They could not keep •way from him. CHICAGO'S AWFUL STORM HE WON $1,000. AMERICA'S FUEL SUPPLY Neire Notes of Interest Carefully Con* But Nearly Roasted Himself Alive While BoalnBger Con testa 451 Cantons—He Is 8umasoned te Court. Alleged Attempt to Burn and Rob the Village. denned. While Away on His Summer Doluft So. Where It Will Come From in Paris, July 2D. —The elections for the councils general were held throughout France. Boulanger contest*#" 451 cantons out of the 1,429. He was returned in Bordeaux by a vote of 8,818 to 2,001. He wo* defeated in Hontpoliier and Bouao. Other returns arc still incomplete. The Bchooner Rallle 8. Derby, bound from Philadelphia to Newburyport with coal, was run into aud tunk in Delaware bay i y the steamer Whilldin, from Baltimore for Cape May. The steamer took the schooner's crew to Cape Uay. Vacation. Over Four Inches of Rainfall Ruthww, Ont, July 29.—William H. Marvin i isked his life to obtain a reward of •1,000 and won after a terrible experience. The Ruthven gas well had been set o,\ fire. The cap over 1 ,ipe was so fixed thai the escaping gas rusned out directly to warn the ground and made approach all but impossible, aud the roar could be heard three miles away. The owners offered to give $1,000 to any one who would stop the flow. Marvin made himself a suit of asbestos, intending to go up to the well through the flame and cut the cap oil with a chiseL the Future. In addition to this softness of character, there was a fiery momentum. How the kings of the earth turned pale I Here is a plain man, with a few sailors at his back, coming off the sea of Gnlilee, going up to the palace of the Caesars, making that palace quake to the foundations, and uttering a word of mercy and kindness which throbs through all the earth, and through all the heavens, and through all ages. Oh, he was a loving Christ I But it was not effeminacy or Insipidity of character; it was accompanied with majesty, infinite and omnipotent. Lest the world should not realize his earnestness, this Christ mounts the cross. in Three Hours. WHO ARE THE GUILTY PARTIES? SUBJECT: BELIEVE AND BE SATED. COAL WILL LAST FOB CENTURIES, The Noted Brooklyn Divine Paeaches In St. Pan', Minn., Before an Immense and Appreciative Congregation-Fall Text of a Memorable and Interesting Dlirours. ■ORE LIVES LOST IN THE CITY. Duquesne Had • Strike a Short Time Typographical Union No. 0 mot at New York, and after discussing the recent troubles between the printers and the newspapers appointed a committee of three from each chapel with full power to act The sentiment at the meeting was strongly in favor of resisting any attempt to lower tho rates of compensation. And the Present Generation Need Mot The time ha* expired within which Boulanger, Dillon and Roche fort were summoned to answer before the high court of the senate the charge* preferred against them. The accused, having failed to respond, the decree of the court was read before the residence of each, ordering them to appear within ten days, and in the event of their failing so to do sequestering their property and depriving them of their civil rights. Ago and Many People Think the Strik- Wind and an Immense Amount of Dam- Many Heuses Were Blown Down bjr the Worry About Keeping Warm In Winter. en Are at the Bottom of the Incen- ace Done—A Yacht Struck by Lightning Professor HcGee's Interesting Talk About Oral, OH and Caa. diary Business. St. Paul, Minn., July 88.—The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., of Brooklyn,' N. Y.t preached in this city today. His subject was "The Earthquake," and he took for his text: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and tbou shalt be saved."—Acts xvi, 81. The sermon was as follows; and Snnk. Washington, July 20.—The recent dl»- oovery of rich coal oil deposits in the Rockr mountains, near the northern border of the United States, has revived the interesting question of the probable quantity of fuel deposits in this country. The Fust publishes an interview with Professor W. J. McGee, of the United States army, on- l&ls subject, in which he says: Pittsburg, July 29.—A most daring attempt was made to burn tbe village of Duquesne, in this county, and to rob the houses and stores of a number of villagers. Both attempts were partially successful. The only Methodist Episcopal church in the place was completely destroyed by Are, and the rear of the house of Ur. Gray, chief clerk of the Allegheny Bessemer Bteel work*, was badly scorched. Three other buildings were entered and robbed. Chicago, July 29.—The storm which swept across the prairies and struck Chicago' was without a parallel in the historybf this section of the country. The records of the local signal servioe station show nothing approaching the night's deluge. From 6:30 to 4:30 four and twelve-one-hundreths inches of rain fell. Without going into figures, it may be stated that the volume of water which fell inside the city limits would make a lake on which could be floated the greatest navy in the world. It is impossible to estimate the damage with any degree of accuracy. Hardly a house in the city escaped the fury of the storm. Buildings were blown down, basements flooded, plate glass windows shattered and valuable shade trees uprooted or broken by the fury of the gale. It is safe to say that the loss will reach into the hundreds of thousands. The first attempt was a failure. For his next trial he covered his boots with asbestos. Eis coat ol asbestos was fashioned like a cone and bad holes, through which his arms were thrust His arms were covered with several thicknesses of wet cloth and asbestos. His contrivance for cutting the pipe consisted of a long chisel fastened at right angles to an iron staff. He went into the flre and came as nearly roasted as a man could be and live. He fixed up another chisel, saying that he would succeed or perish. The Y. M. C. A. building at Fourth aveuue and Twenty-third street, New York, was damaged by flro to the extent of $25,000. The publication by tbe Boulangist organ, Lb Cocarde, of hum of the depositions made before the high court of the senate, which is to try Bouianger, causes a great sensation in Paris, As the depositions published are only such ai wero favorable to tbe accused, the government is vary much incensed, and by tbe orders of tbe ministry If. Met uiiex, tbe editor of the paper, was taken into custody. O.her ur rests are expected to follow. The Kepler building, occupied by Reilly Bros. & Haul), hardware, at Lancaster, Pa., was burned. Loss, $40,00j; iusurance, $37,COO. Jails are dark, dull, damp, loutbsome planes oven now; but they were worse in the apostolic times. I imagine today we are standing in the Phiiippian dungeon. Do you not feel the chill! Do you not hear the groan of those Incarcerated ones who for ten years bave not seen the sunlight and the deep sigh of women who remember their father's house, and mourn over their wasted estate! Listen again. It is the cough of a consumptive, or the struggle of one in the nightmare of a great horror. You listen again and hear a culprit, his chains rattling as he rolls over in his dreams, and you say: "God pity the prisoner." But there is another sound in that prison, I( is a song of Jot and gladness. What a place to sing in I The music comes winding through the corridors of the prison, and iu all the dark wards the whisper is heard: "What's that! What's that!" THE DEATH OF CHRIST. You say: "If Christ has to die, why not let him take some deadly potion and lie on a couch in some bright and beautiful home! If he must die, let him expire all kindly intentions." No, the world must hear the hammers on the heads of the Spikes. The world must listen to the death rattle of the sufferer. The world must feel his warm blood dropping on each cheek, while it looks up Into the face of his anguish. And so the cross must be lifted, and a hole is dug on the top of Calvary. It must be dug three feet deep, and then the cross is laid on the ground, and the sufferer is stretched upon it, and the nailt are pounded through nerve and muscle and bone, through the right hand, through the left hand; and then they shake his right hand to see If it is fast, and they heave up the wood, half a dozen shoulders under the weight, and Stay put the end of the cross in the mouth of the hole, and they plunge it in, all the weight of his body ooming down for the first time owthe spikes; and while some hold the cross upright, others throw in the dirt and trample It down, and trample it hard. Oh, plant that tree well and thoroughly, for it is to bear fruit such as no other tree ever bore. Why did Christ endure it! He could have taken those rocks, and with th£m crushed his cruciflera. He could have reached up and grasped the sword of the omnipotent God, and with one clean cut have tumbled them into perdition. But no; he was to die. Ho must die. His life for yoar life. In an European city • young man died on the scaffold for the crime of murder. Some time after, the mother of this young man was dying, and the priest came in, alul sho made confession to the priest that she was the murderer and not her son; in a moment of anger sho had struck her husband a blow that slew him. Tho son came suddenly into the room, and was wash* ing away tho wounds and trying to resuscitate his father, when some one lookod through the window and saw him, and supposed him to be the criminal. That young man died for his own mother. You say, "It was wonderful that he never exposed her." But I tell you of a grander thing. Christ, the Son of God, died not for his mother, nor for his father, but for his j-vorn enemies. OB, such a Christ as that—so loving, so patient, so self sacrificing—can you not trust him! I think there are many under the infiuenco of the Spirit of God who are saying, "I will trust Him if you will only tell me how;" and the great question asked by thousands is, "Howl how!" And while I answer your question I look up and utter the prayer which Rowland Hill so often uttered in the midst of his sermons, "Master, help I" How are you to trust in Christ! Just as you trust any one. You trust your partner in business with important things. If a commercial houso gives you a note payable three months hence, you expect the payment of that note at the end of three months You have perfect confidence in their word and in their ability. Or again, you go home expecting there will be food on tho table. You have confidence in that. Now, I ask you to have the same confidence In the Lord Jesus Christ. Hs says: "You believe I take away your sins and they are all taken away." "Whatl"you say, "before I pray any more! before I read my Bible any more! before I cry over my sins any more!" Yes, this moment. Believe with all your heart and you are saved. Why, Christ is only waiting to get from you what you give to scores of people every day. What is that! Confidence. If these people whotq you trust day by day are mora worthy than Christ, if they are more faithful than Christ, if they have done more than Christ evOr did, then give them the preference; but if you really think that Christ is as trustworthy as they are, then deal with him as fairly. "Oh," says some one tn a light way, "I believe that Christ was born in Bethlehem, and I believe that he died oh the cross." Do you believe it with your head or your lieart! I will illustrate the difference. You nre in your own house. In the morning you C pen a newspaper and you read how Capt. Bravafaeart ou the sea risked his life for the salvation of his passengers. YOu say, "What a grand fellow he must have been 1 His family deserve very well of the com try." You fold the newspaper and sit down at the tabls, and perhaps do not think of that incident again. That is historical faith. Capt. William Hall, aged .60, a native of Liverpool, dropped dead of apoplexy while disputing about wages with two sailors aboard his ship, the Spendthrift, at Brooklyn. "The known deposits of ooal, coal oil and natural gas, the fuel of the day, are not so great as many people supfOM. There are many localities in the United States which are s'range to the geological survey. What wealth may be developed in them 1s very largely unknown, but a calculation of the amount of anthracite coal of the country and the probable consumption results In A very wall demonstrate 1 conclusion that supb deposits will bo exhausted within a century, while bituminous coal will not last longer than three or four centuries, if there fire no more new finds." Tl»« rertD»tratp» Would Ha** Swung- Capt, Albert F. Church, well known along tbe Atlantio c«a»t as an adjuster of ships' compasFes, is dead at New Bedford. Duqufent) was the soene, two month* ago, of a most stubbornly contested strike of steel workers. Since the settlement of that difficulty the people of the place have enjoyed peace and quiet, except wben an occasional, fight between tbo strikers and non-union men disturbed the village affaire. It is not too much to say that if at any time the perpetrators ot this last outrage upon the happiness and security of the people had been cauglft a lynching party would have fol)ow«4. Again the hammer and chisel were brought into play, and all at once the roar changed to a shrill whi stle and the cap was blown 100 feet upward. The thing was a success, and Marvin had earned his $1,000. BISHOP M'QUAID WELCOMED. Norton's Point, the western extremity of Coney Island, has been purchased by a syndicate of capitalists, who propose to convert this hitherto unimproved spot into a modol popular seaside resort, at an outlay of $1,000,- "OjO. Rochester Tarns Oat En Masse la His .Honor—The Lambert Controversy, The company estimate that over 198,000,000 feet of gas has been consumed. Marvin's lipj are so swollen that he cannot open them without forcing something between them, and Us eyebrows and whiskers are entirely gone.  Rochestkb, N. Y., July 29.—Right Rot. Bernard J. McQuaid, the Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Rochester, has returned home after an absence of several months in Rome *nd °B the pontinent of Europe. Bingo Thursday hg has been at his summer residence at Hemlock I/ake. A committee composed of about 100 Cattaolle olepgymen and laymen, representing ail of the fourteen ohurpbes of the pity, took a special train on the Brlp road fop Avon, where they met the bishop (M»d i|im tp tfc i city. The bishop wmi #opomp»a!p4 by Arehbishop Williams, of Boston) Rov, lP.ithar Rossi, of Brighton, Han., ana PJV- Father Gray, of 8aleii), Mass, Kev. Dr. Joseph France, aged 81 years, one of the oldest and most prominent members qf the Baltimore M. E. conference, is dead at JIagerstown, Md. Blinded by Bain and Killed. The First Fife of the Night. «« BUNU US' I'AUL. AND SI LAB. Ernest Bloctor, the owner of a lumber yard, was instantly killed by an Eastern Illinois engine during the storm, and Henry Dues, one of his employes, was badly hurt The men were crossing the track at Sixtysixth street They waited for a freight train to pass and then started to cross. The rain blinded them. An engine approaching from the opposite direction struck thorn. Blocter -was about 48 years old and single. Dues' recovery is doubtful DOWN ON THE CERNEAU. When Gas and Oil Will Be K|hi»t|4D France Clray| the phlef clerk at {fee A'lC" gheny bessemer steel works, live* In 4 pretty frame bouse on tho' hillside. He was awakened at 1 a. m. by the smell of smoke, &ud found his portico covered with stroking cotton waste, fortunately the crew of a passing train had lf)ft their parg tuifi had extinguished the (tames. Mr. Gray (ncurr d the enmity pf tho strikers and spems disposed to charge the incendiarism to their nympathizjrs,Daniel J. Townsend, of Niagara Falls, aged 79 years, and one of the direct descendants of Henry Townsend, one of the three brothei-8 who settled at Oyster Bay in 1001, is dead. It is the song of Paul and Silas. They cannot sleep. They have been whipped, very badly whipped. The long gashes on their backs are bleeding yet They lie Oat on the cold ground, their feet fast in wooden sockets, and of course they cannot sleep. Bnt they can sing. Jailer, what are you doing with these people! Why have they been put In here! Oh, they have been trying to make the world better. Is that all) That ii all. A pit (or Joseph. A lion's cave for Daniel A blazing furnace for Shadrach. Club* for John Wesley. Au anathema for Philip Melancthon. A dungeon for Paul and SUas. But while we are standing in the gloom of the Philippian dungeon, and we hear the mingling voices of sob and groan and blasphemy and hallelujah, suddenly an earthquake 1 The iron bars of the prison twist, the pillars crack off, the solid masonry begins to heave and all the doors swing open. The jailer, feeling himself responsible for these prisoners, and believing, in his pagan ignorance, suicide to be honorable—since Brutus killed himself, and Cata killed himself, and Cassius killed his sword to his own heart, proposing with one strong, keen thrust to put ad end to his excitement and agitation. But Paul cries out: ''Stop I stop I Do thyself no harm. Wo are all here." Then I seb the jailer running through the dust and amid the ruin of that prison, and I see him throwing himself down at the feet of these prisoners, crying out: "What shall I dot What shall I do?" Did Paul answer: "Get out of this place before there Is another earthquake; put handcuffs and hopples on these other' prisoners, lest they get awnyl" No word of that kind. His compact, thrilling, tremendous answer, answer memorable all through earth and heaven, was: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Well, we have all read of the earthquake in Lisbon, in Lima, in Aleppo and in Caraccas; but we live in a latitudo where severe volcanic disturbances are rare. And yet we have seen fifty earthquakes. Here is a man who has been building up a large fortune. His bid on the money market was felt in all the cities. He thinks he has got - beyond all annoying rivalries in trade, and he says to himself: "Now I am free and safe from all possible perturbation." But in 1887 or in 1857 or in 1878 a national paulo strlkss the foundations of the commercial world, and crash I goes all that magnificent business establishment. Here is a man who has built up a very beautiful home. His daughters have just come from the seininary with diplomas of graduation. His sons have started in life, honert, temperate and pyre. When the evening lightB are struck, there is a happy and unbroken family circle. But there has been an accident down at Long Branch. The young man ventured too far out in the surf. The telegraph hurled the terror up to the city. Au earthquake struck under tho foundations of that beautiful home. The piano closed, the curtains dropped, the laughter hushed, Crash t go all those domestic hope* and prospects and expectations. 8o, my friends, we have all felt the shaking eown of some great trouble, and there was a tiro* rC en we were as mu'-h excited as this ui ■ ii* ill ux», and we cried out, as he did, * W n« »• all I d DT What »*«ll I do?" The a.iuu leply u.at the apostle i ale to him is sppropiiate o is; Believe on the Lord Jeeus Christ and thou shalt be saved." Grand Blaster Dingman Declares That "When will the coal oil and natural gas probably be exhausted}" "That is impossible to calculate. We can approximate the amount of deposits of the coal beds very closely, but with oil and gas It is different, as there is no way to tell how much a well will yield. We have only to wait, and we have no warning of tbs exhaustion of a supply in advance The pressure forcing out the gas or oil is exactly the same throughout the time it Isbsing worked, * "Is the report of the discovery of oil In the Rockies plausiblef' "It is not at all unlikely, as oil has already been found in that region at very near the altitude of 4,SOU feet, which is the figure given in describing the location of the new find. But it is rather more Hkely to be met in a rolling country. The formation of theee deposits is very interesting. Apyou know the rocky stratas of the earth on plains run quite level or only undglftting, while in mountainous regious they are often found wry much broken up, sometime* the rocks standing on end or heaved up in ft broken IJow. the condition that beat invites theg*Ban4 oil deposits is very readily understood. Where the rocky strata is undulating it forms great domes, which act as reservoir* for gas, which accumulates there as well a* oil. The former, naturally 'the lighter, Is ftrtt found, and then often when that is exhausted the oil below tpouts up, and below that, heaviest of the three articles, comes salt water. So that when an oil well gives up briny fluid it ia safe to say its wealth baa been practically exhausted, though in some instances there is a second yield far a limited period of oil." Masonic Organisation Clandestine. Washington, July 29.—The controversy which has been general among the Masonic fraternity throughout the country respecting the Cerneau Scott sh rite has culminated Jure in the issue of an edict by Harrison Dingman, most worshipful grand master of Masons of the District of Columbia, pronouncing the Cerneau organization clandestine, and warning all members of that rite that they are liable to discipline from the grand lodge unless they at once withdraw from the Cerneau body. William Merriam, the eccentric school teacher of Riverbead, L L, died suddenly a short time ago, and by his will left his entire estate, valued at *93,000, to the United State* government An inventory of his property has been died with the surrogate, Before whom the sisters of the testator are contesting his will. When the train reapbed this city the party w#s greeted by an immense prowd of people of all shades of religious belief, After reviewing a propeesion of full* 2,000 persona the bishop, In a carriage drawn by four horses, was driven to the oathedral, where he oonducted uervioes. His subjept was devoted prinoipally to the Lambert oontroversy, and in the course of bis remarks he intimated that Father Lambert would acquiesce in the decision of the propaganda, and would be given a minor parish in the dioce. * of Rochester. A Boy Strnck by Lightning- Mrs, Same Oat the nrop on Hliii, Charles Shaffer, a boy 6 years old, who lived with his parents at 8,333 York town street, was killed by lightning during the storm. He was sitting by the fireplace of liis home when lightning struck the house and, going down the chimney, killed the lnd instantly. The bouse was damaged to the extent of several hundred dollars. Other members of the family were considerably shocked. Twenty minutes later the Methodist Episcopal church, which stood across the way frirn the hiu ® °( H. F, Smith, a directur of the steel, company, was set on tire and destroyed, Meu had been in Mr. Smith's yard, with the object, it is supposed, of setting Are to his house, but they were frightened away by Twenty other buildings near by were endangered by the flames. One of the marauders about the same time visited the house of Willi am Same,but before his object could be ascertained Mrs. Same opened the shutter and thrust a revolver in the intruder's face, and he fled. Charles A. Lewis,-a purser on tho steamer City of Albany, running between Newark and Coney Island, has disappeared from Newark, takjjig with him ttiOO of his employers' money and leaving behind him three wives, all of which he had married during the past twelve months. It is also said that be has taken with him a young girl living at Bath Beach. The main reasjn for the edict, Mr. Dingman explains, aside from other questions arising in the Scottish rite controversy, is that the Cerneau organisation has established relations of amity and correspondence with the Orand Orient of France, the governing body of Masons in that country, which i» under the ban of at least every English speaking grand lodge in the world, because the Grand Orient has stricken the name of God from its rituals. The Killed and Injured. A corrected list of the killed ia as follows: Albert Boch, aged 6. August Booh, aged IS (died in hospital). Mrs. Christina Boch, aged 39. Hannah Boch, aged 8. Ada Ferdinandchus, aged 7 (died in hospital).STANDING OF THE CLUBS. ARSENIC IN THEIR COFFEE. Bammary Up to Date of the leading Jlafebaf}  fhe (tftftding of tjie t'lups in tl Who Are the Fire Bugs? Dastardly Attempt to Poison the South's Richest Colored Woman. The grand lodges of this country have an additional grievance against tbs Grand Orient of France, because the latter persists in recognizing the negro grand lodges of the United Status. Grand Master Dingman'* edict directs that all visitors to lodges in the District of Columbia shall be require! to state before admission that they are not members of a Cerneau organization. The meeting of a Cerneau organization in any Masonic hall is also prohibited. he thr -e Iowa; There is a division of opinion as to whether pr not robbers or friends of the strikers tr.od to bum tlje town. William Qliver, wi}q pwns 1)00,000 worth of houses at Puquegna. apii to whqm belonged the CJray anq Smith houses, blames the strikers, and moil, tions two men who are under suspicion, Mr. Oray and Mr. Bmith are cautiou* fu tbetr expression*, The town peon e deD Oline to believe that the strikers him lu any way guilty, as the striken all lire at PuD quesne, and would be the worst sufferers. The loss on the churoh is $4,000. The triple attempt to burn the towta has aroused intense indignation, and mass meetings will be held to raise funds and employ detectivos tc run the perpetrators down. Nashville, Tenn., July 29.—Lucy Bedford, aged 85, und Emily Parsons, her niece, both colored, have been poisoned by arsenic which was plaped In their ooffue. Miss Parsons died last night and Miss Bedford is in a critical oondition. Lucy Bedford is probably the richest colored woman in thu south, having been given an estate worth (100,000 by the will of her former owner. Four negro servants of Miss Bedford are under arrest on suspicion of the crime, the object of which is unknown. It is said that on Miss Bedford's death her property is to rovert to relatives of her former master. Alida Ferdinandchus, aged 3. Christopher Ferdinandchus, aged 33. Mil. C. Ferdinandchus, aged 31. Cora Ferdinandchus, aged 5. Mary Ferdinandchus, aged 4. Charles Shaffer, aged 0. Ernest Bloctor, aged 48. The injured are: Charles Boch, aged 43. Luda Ferdinandchus, aged 8. Henry Duer. An Klectrlo Bolt Strikes a Yaclit. larger baseball associations ig jjs fo| The National ci,una r Boston 5 7 8 8 ? 4 HENRY GEORGE HOME AGAIN, N»w York... Fhlladulpliia Cleveland ... Chicago .... Pituburg  Indianapolis. Washington 0 .. 4 7 4 8 3 6 in •1 4 1 He Is Well Pleased with the Result of While the storm was at 1U height here E. R. Walsh, superintendent of the Union News ■company, saw a yacht between the Lake Shore and outer pier off Peck court struck by lightning, the sails catch Are and the vessel, to all appearances, go down. Mr. Walsh, with bis glass, could distinctly see the sails burning and flapping in the wind and the vessel making rapidly for shore, but he oould not distinguish any one on board. The sails burned brightly for a few minutes, and suddenly the blaze was extinguished. It seemed to Mr. Walsh and his wife that the boat had sunk. Ills Tour. Mother Karth Is Full of Fire Wood. "What will be done when these deposits are exhausted t" Catherine Small, a negro woman who had formally been employed a* cook, confessed that she put arsenic in the coffee in order to kill Gracey-Hunter, a negre&j who now cooks for the old women, and whom Catherine accused of taking her place in their employ. She is in jail. New York, July 29.—Henry George, in an interview, expressed himself as greatly pleased wita the result of his tour abroad. He says his views as to the taxation of land values are much more widely accepted in England now than they were when he was in that country several yoars ago. Members of parliament, leading business men and clergymen were chairmen of the meetings he addressed, and great interest teemed to be taken among all classes in the single tax question. Or. Thackeray, of the University of Cambridge, had come out in favor of the single tax and had written a book called "The Land and the Community," for which Mr. George had written a preface. On his arrival here Mr. George was met by about 200 single tax friends and escorted to his home. A banquet will be tendered him at the Brighton Beach hotel this evening. |*j*| *8. "My opinion is that that emergency will be met by extracting the bituminous matter oootained in rooks, and wbteb I* found ail over the country. It would astonish those who have not given the subject thought to learn the incredible amount of this matter there is. The earth would- yield many hundred thousand barrels per square mile, and It is not extravagant to say this amount would sum up to a million barrels per square mile for the United States. At present only a very small portion of it can be extracted chemically, and f must confess that I don't see how it can ever be extracted on a commercial baDU But it oould iff son)e way be done when the demand would warrant & This, with gas and petroleum, will be the great fuel of the future, and probably event* ually the former alone will be the article of consumption." Games lost The American tlon. H HE SWORE HE WAS INNOCENT And Then Stabbed with a Pocket Knife. Himself Seriously Chicago, July 89. — Judge McConnell'i QPIirt was the tcene of an attempted suicide » few minutes bpfors midnight, iu whiob Janr.ee W. Smith, on trial for rape, stabbed hiu.self. Smith has been on trial for the last few days and the case was given to the Jurj between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon. At 11:45 the jury returned with a verdict of guilt,y and fixed the sentence at nine ye&ra. Smiuh was much affected, and after his attornoy had bad the jury polled and made a motion for a new trial, the prisoner arose and exclaimed wildly: FLOODS IN WEST VIRGINIA. The l.lttle Kanawlia Gets Its Hack Up. St. I .oats,. . Brooklyn _. Baltimore.. Athletic  Cincinnati Kaunas City Columbus. . Louisville .. m Losses, #050,000. ..8 8 5 4 5 * a i 8 4 8 8 Parkbrsburg, W. Va., July 2B.—Telephone reports show that there was a terrible rain and flood in the upper waters ef the Little Kanawha. Reports froniGrantsville say Calhoun county was devaS%ted and crops, fences and houses were washed away during the night. Several live;) were also reported lost Many Houses Blown Down. Four unfinished brick houses at Bockwell and Sixteenth streets were blown down. Shortly before 8 p. m. the storm struck the row. They swayed for a few seconds and then fell. About fifteen minutes before the crash came a pedestrian was seen to take refuge from the rain in one of the houses, but it is thought he eecaped the falling bricks and timber. There were no workmen in the building at the time, and it is not thought that any one was injured. The houses are wrecked completely, nothing but the foundations remaining, with a pile of ruins on top. A fifth house, similar in construction to the other four and adjoining theui, remained standing. The wrecked home? were two stories high, with basement. The outside walls and roofs were completed, but none of the inside Work was done. The houses will be almost a total loss. A brick building in the course of construction at the northeast corner of Oakley avenue and Twenty-first street, not far from the Leavitt street di» aster, was blown down and sto-uck a cottage in the rear, but fortunately none of the occupants were killed. The families of W. H. Keefe, the owner of the building, and John Hayes occupied the cottage. The only persons seriously hurt were a little girl of 12 years, who received a cut two inches long across the side of her head, and a boy whose spine was injured. Neither wound is necessarily fatal.  4 6 3 18 8 Games lost l«M llie Atlantic i J 'i * fj "I am innocent! I swear before my God, wbom J am about to meet, J am innocent 1" Particulars are hard to get The river at Grantsville is reported to be fifteen feet high and rising rapidly. Reports from other sections along the Little Kanawha state that a fearful storm occurred during the night and much property was destroyed. Middle Island and all creeks above iu Pleasant county are reported rising rapidly. Bear Run, Ritchie county, suffered terribly. The loss is reported at not less than $050,000. WISH TO SELL LIQUOR SUNDAYS. One Hundred~and Thirty-two Saloon Pro- "Where is the greatest gas region of the United States now located?" Indiana the Great Gas Field* CLUBS. As be finished be brought bis right band down qulokly to his breast and fell backward.prleters Locked Up at Cincinnati. Cinomnati, July 89.— Nothing of a sensational nature has developed in regard to the action taken by the executive committee appointed at the mass meeting of saloon keepers last Friday. It was decided to open wide their doors Sunday as on any other day and transact business as usual. "It is included within 2,000 square miles in Indiana. There the rocky strata of the earth forms a great dome, which not only oontalus gas, but also has an accumulation of oil." Wilkesbarre. Jersey City.. Newark  # 8 « r .. 7 5 & His wife, who was first at bis sidg, discovered in the hand of the prisoner an ivory handled pooket knife with a bloody blade. Doctors were at once sent for and the would be suicide removed to a lury room, where a wound of one and one half inches deep was found in his left breast about three inches above the nipple. The wound was pronounced serious. Worcester Hartford.. Lowell,... 8 8.. lit SIS 4 4 4 "Where will we get our oil in the future!" "That is difficult to answer, but the most promising part of the United States, I should say, is found on the weptern slope of the Appalachian mountains, running frum southern Pennsylvania through West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, Into southern Alabama. This is. a very broad belt and I think in the future it will yield etormous quantities of petroleum. There .we other isolated areas west of the Missouri river in the Rocky mountains which promise very well, though they are much smadkr in the territory covered. New Haven Eastou  S 1 G The Ounboat Petrel's Last Failure. A majority of the saloons were closed Sunday, however, but the polioe were kept busy making arrests. The proprietors of 140 saloons were taken to the different police stations and held until they could secure bail for their release. Quite a number returned to their places and opened up again, some of them three or four times, but they were promptly rearrested. In the evening every saloon in the city was cloeed and no trouble is anticipated  Games lost su| Washington, July 39.—The Herald, in speaking of the trials of the gunboat Petrel, says: There can be no doubt but what somebody has been fooled in regard to the performance of the guuboat Petrol, which has failed again on her official trial trip. It was given out with a great flourish of trumpets that the gunboat had far exceeded in every respect her stipulated horse power and speed. But this occurred before the trial board took charge. First it was bad coal, then green and inexperienced firemen in the ftre room, and now unfuuiiiiarity with forced draught The department has decided, however, to give her another trial. It would be au .exoellent suggestion to the Columbia iron works to see that the coal supplied the Petrel on her next trip is of the best quality; that none but experienced and tried men be used in the engine and fire rooms, and above all see that the vessel is thoroughly equipped in every respect before she again starts out A member of the trial board told a Herald reporter that he believed the little vessel would perform all right eventually, but that there was a degree of carelessness shown by the contractors In arranging these trials that was lamentable. 1 Sunday's Otrnw. At Newark— .? Fully 8,000 people witnessed the game between Newark and St. Loulfc. Newark..-: .......0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 x—I St Louis 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0-1 Batteries: Dooms and Duffy, Rainsqy and Milligan.At Columbus- Mary Anderson Not Insane. Nkw York, July iA— Henry E. Abbey brings the glad tidings that there Is no truth in the stories that Miss Mary Anderson is suffering from paresis, or that she is losing her memory. He declares that she is only worn out; that she has improved In health since she left here, and he doe* not anticipate that she will remain off the stage longer than the coming season. Mr. Abbey also brings the announcement of a grand revival of Italian opera with Patti, Albanl and Tarn* agno as leading voices. He will also bring D'Albert, the famous young pianist, and Barasate, the leading violinist of the world. Other attractions which this manager has engaged are the Gaiety Theatre Light Opera company |and Otto Hegner, the 13-year-old pianist prodigy, said to surpass young Joaef Hofman. There are some document* of to little importance ihat you do not care to pot any more than your last name under them,, or even your initials; but there are some documents of so great importance that you write out your full name. 80 the Saviour in some puts of the bible is called ' Lord," and in oiber parts of the Bble he is called "Jesus," and in other parts of the Bibla he is called "Ohrist;" but that there might be no mistake about this passage, all three Dames come together—"The Lord Jesus Ohrist." But now you are on the sea, and it is night, and you are. asleep, and you ore awakened by the shriek of "Fire!" You rush out on the deck. You hear amid the wringing of the bands and the fainting, the cry: "No hope I no hope I We are lost I we are lostl" The sail putt out Its wing of Are, the ropes make a burning ladder in the night heavens, the .spirit of wrecks hisses in the wave, and ou the hurricane drck shakes out its banner of smoke and da k D•«* "Down with the life boats!" cries ili' r, r 'aio. "Down with the life boats" IV C • D-h into them. The boats are about f 1 Room only for one more man. Yon are standing on the deck beside the Oi plain Who shall it be? You or the captain ? The r- p" in says, '-You." You jump, and are sno 1. lie stands there and d 1". Now, you bfl 1 va that Capt. Brave- Lenri sacrificed himx- t for his passengers, t ut you believe it *i' I v \ with tears, with hot nod lAng coutioucu exclamations; with gri»-f tod his losi and joy at your deliverance. Tli 11 is saving faith. In other words, what you believe with" all the hear' aid believe in regard to yourself. On tli-c im ge turns my sermon; aye, the salvation »t your immovtal soul. You often go across a bridge yon know nothing about. You do not know wLo built the bridge; you do not know what material il is made of: but you come to it and walk over it and ask no questions. And here is an arched bridge blasted from the "Rock of Ages," and built by the architect o! the whole universe, spanning the dark gulf be-1 ween sin and righteousness, snd all God asks you is to walk across it; and you start, and yon come to it, and you stop, and you go • little way on aud ymi atop, and you fall back and you experim' Vou say, "How do I knoiv that bridge »■ 1 ' "H me?" instead of marching on with 1 nn '• p, asking no questions, but feeling ihm , strength of the eternal God is under you. Oh, was there ever a price proffered so cheap as pardon and heaven are offered to vou ? For how much ? A million dollars? It la certainly worth more than that But Cheaper than that you can have It. Ten thousand dollars? lies than that Five thousand dollars? Leu than that One dollar ? Leas than that- One farthing ? Leas than that "Without money and without price." No money to pey. No journey to toke. No penance to auffer. Only (oommnJKD on swxwd paqs) TOO ABB SAVES. Columbus., Louisville. .0 0 0 0 8 1 0 1 6-10 .301S0014 x—11 Vienna, July 29.—The most disastrous cyclone of many years has been raging for several days in Southern Hungary, Transylvania and Bukovina. The destruction of property is enormous. There is reason to fear that hundreds of lives have been lost The area of the disturbance is several thousand square miles. Many bodies of men, women, children and cattle have been recovered from the Danube, Theism and other rivers. Many animals have been killed by bail and lightning. The majority of deaths were caused by the flood. Several churches are in ruins. ' Threo of twenty-four mills on the Danube remain. A crowded ferryboat was blown against a steamer near Pesth and nearly all aboard were drowned. A circus was swept away at Szegedin. The crops are destroyed or greatly injured. Disastrous Floods Abroad. A law Student Snlcides. Batteries: Widner and O'Connor, Hecker and Cook. Buffalo, July 29.—F. B. Meisner left a note addressed to ErnesrH. Weaver, 270 Main street, at the police station. Mr, Meisner stated that he found it tied to the foot bridge at Park lake. Tbe letter read as follows: t At Gloucester— The Athletic-Kansas City game was postponed on aeoount of rain. At Brooklyn— Pittsburg, July 2V».—William Corcoran and Joe Shannahan engaged in a bare knuckle contest, Marquis of Queensberry rules, (or a purse of f 135, in a barn, near Mansfield station ob the Panhandle railroad. The principals were In excellent condition and evenly matched at ISO pounds. Eleven terrific rounds were foaght, Bhanuahan having the best of it. In another round or two he would have been the victor had not the trainers of the principals become involved in a quarrel, which soon became general, and the wildest oonfusion followed. The antagonists were finally separated, forced into their cabs and were driven to this city. The fight was witnessed and participated in by a number of Pitts burgers, some of them prominent in business circles, who presented a decidedly dilapidated appoaranco upon their arrival home at 8 o'clock in the morning. Eleven Rounds, but a Draw. Brooklyn 0 00001000—1 Cincinnati 0 0000000 8—3 Batteries: Terry and Clark, Duryea and Keenan. YOU CAN SAVE BIM. Mr Dkas Ernest—Please have my body incinerated as soon after recovery as possible. Do not preserve my ashes. I desire no further ceremony nor any grave or monument. Sincerely yours, Alfoeo B. Chafix. Jolt 97, 1889. Now, who is tbil Being that yon want me 10 trust In and believe iu? Men sometime* come to me with credential aod certificates of gcod character, but I ctnnot trait them. There ia some dishooesty in their looks thai makes me know I shall be cheated if I confide ia them. Tou cannot put ji ur hjart's confidence in a man uatil jou kbow what stuff he is made of, aod am I unreasonable to-day when I stop to ask you who this is that you want me to trust in? No maa would think of venturing his life on a vessel going out to sea that had never been inspected No, you must have the certificate hung am) ships, telling how maay tons it cairim tu.il bowlonh ago it was built, and who built it, and all about it. Aod you cannot expret m to risk the cargo of my immortal iiiicruais on board any craft till you tell me what it is made of, and where it was made, and what t is. When, then, I ask you who this is you want me to trust in, you tell me he was a very attractive person. Contemporary writers describe his whole sppearanoe as being resplendent, I There was no need for Gbrir to tell the children to come to htm. "fuil- r little children to come unto me" was not tpoken to lbs children; it was spoken to the disciple*. 'The children came readily enough without any invitation. No sooner did Jesus appear than the little ones Jar aped from their jnother'« arms, an avalanche of beauty and love, into his lap. Christ did not ask John to put bis head down on his bosasn; John ooald not help bat prrt Us head there. I suppose to look at Christ was to love htm Oh, how attractive bis manner! Why, when they saw Christ coding along the street, they ran into their bouses, and they wrapped op their Invalids as quick as they could and brought them oot that he might look at tbeffl. There was sonwtiung so pleasant, so inviting, so cheering in everything he did, in his very look. Worn Washhifton Deserted by the Cabinet. Washington, July 20.—Only two members of the cabinet are now in the city— Secretaries Noble and Rusk. Secretary Blaine is at Bar Harbor. Attorney Qeneral Miller, at Deer Park, has been Joined by Secretary Windom, and tbe secretary of war is at bis home in Vermont Secretary Tracy paid a visit to the navy department, but left on a lata train tor Brooklyn, and Postmaster Qeneral Wanamaker has been in Philadelphia for several days. Secretary Rusk, when he becomes bored with office seekers, hurries to the Interior department for relief, and Secretary Noble returns the compliment the first opportunity that presents itself. Secretary Noble will probably leave Washington early in the week for a vacation of several days.  An Oleomargarine Factory Partly Hurned. Hammond, Ind., July 29.—About W p. m. lightning struck tbe oleomargarine factory connected with G. H. Hammonds & Co.'s slaughter house, igniting it. The flames spread rapidly, but by 12 o'clock the Are was under oontroL The loss on building and machinery is about $10,000; not insured. It Is estimated that $25,000 will cover the loss on stock; partly Insured. The capacity of the factory was 80,000 pounds per day. It will be rebuilt Immediately. No one was seriously injured. Tbe company employed about 700 men. The fire will not affect the killing department.  On the back of tbe letter was written with lead pencil: "I have no relatives to notify of my death." Chapin was i#years old and was a student in tbe law office of Swift & Weaver. He left the i ffice at 9:30 a m. and has not been seen tince. His Alleged Shortage Is •60,000. Kansas Citt, Mo., July 29.— Charles 8. Crysler, a prominent lawyer of Independence, is a defaulter to tbe amount of $50,000. Crysler has been a financial agent for eastern parties, and an administrator, executor and guardian In estates ill Independence for a number of years. A few days ago an attachment suit was filed against him for the recovery of $1,500 by E. R Jewett, of Vermont, for money sent him to be loaned and never accounted for. This transaction brought matters to a crisis, and Crysler left for the east It is believed that the total amount of his defalcation will exceed $50,- 000. Of this $10,000 is money sent him by Philadelphia Jewett, of Vermont, to be ioaued. Five Men Killed by Dynamite. Kllrala Will Go If Indicted. Wabash, Ind., July 29.—News has reached here of a terrific explosion of dynamite twelve miles west of this city on the Wabash railway by which five men lost their Uvea and others were injured. The men were said to have been at work excavating in the lime stone rock for proposed improvements on the railroad when the|dynamito, which had been brought thither for blasting purposes, accidentally exploded, wrecking the building in which the men bad retired for shelter from the storm, and Instantly killing five workmen. No particulars as to the rumored disaster are at this time attainable. Baltimore, July 29.—Friends of Jake Kilrain, the prise fighter, met Detective John T. Norris at an uptown hotel and assured him that Kilrain would himself go to Missasippi and give himself up if he were Indicted by the grand jury of Marion county, Mississippi. This assuranco satisfied Norris and he left for the south. It is known now that Governor Jackson would not issue a warrant for Kitrain's arrest without an indictment being returned by the grand jury of Marion county against Kilrain. When that is done the governor will no longer hesitate. Run Down In a Sharpie. Distinguished Steamer Arrivals. Ansonia, Conn., July 29.—A sailing party in a two masted sharpie waa run down at 8:30 p. m. by the steamer Housatonic near Stratford. W. B. Thompson, Henry Thompson, William Healy and Frank Beaman, all of Birmingham, were .in the sharpie, which was turned over, and William Healy, unmarried, aged 22, was drowned. Niw York, July 29.—Mr. and Mrv Henry George and Mr. and Mrs. Haberton (Margaret Mather) were among the passengers who arrived on the steamship Umbria, from Liverpool. Mrs. Alexander Sullivan arrived on the steamship City of Berlin, from Liverpool. She declined to be interviewed. Henry E. Abbey arrived on the steamship La Bourgogne, from Havre. The steamer Thetis, with sugar, from the Philippines, which was overdue and for whose safety there had been anxiety, has also arrived. She was delayed by an accident to her machinery. Baseball Players Arrested. Canton, O., July 29.—At tbe conclusion of the Can ton-Wheeling ball gaiae the players of both teams and Umpire Barrett were arrested for playing ball on Sunday and released on their own recognisance for appearance. Tbe arrests were made to head off tho Law and Order league, which was expected to cause the arrests of the players. To Inspect New Cruisers. A Battle Imminent In Egypt. Is It Hogan's Body? Hall by the Harrow Load. Washington, July 29.—Chief Naval Constructor Wilson of the navy will shortly leave on an inspection tour to the Pacific coast, when he will take a look at the new cruisers Charleston and San Francisco and the new coast defense vessel, all of which are contracted for by the Union iron works, of San Francisco. London, July 29.—News of a decisive engagement with the dervishes in Egypt is expected very soon, as the arrival of CoL Kitchener at the front with re-enforcements will undoubtedly be the signal for aggressive operations on the part of the British and Egyptian troop*. New York, July 29.—Two young men who were out fishing off Fire Island discovered a body which they believe to be that of Hogan, the missing aeronaut They were nearing the island when they saw the body tossing on the waves, and it waa «pon washed ashore on the beach. The body waa dressed in blue trousers, and there was a wound in the neck under the right jaw. It was not far from this neighborhood that the airship was said to have been seen biuking in the waves. If Hogan went down with it, It seems not imjt hjliable that the body recovered may be his. Prairie Duchien, July 20.—The severest hail storm of tun season has vIsMmI this locality. Hail fell continuously for tweifeft minutes and people gathered it up in wheefflu-row loads. Great damage has been done to smaH grain, corn and vegetables all over this county. Burglars Make a Big Hank Newark, N. J., July 29.— Mm Mary E'am, of Sand lord street, Kist Orange, reported to tbe Newark police that her house had been entered by sneak thieves and robbed of $1,500 worth of jewelry. Six other robberies in the same neighborhood have also been discovered. The thieves are believed to be New Yorkers. Divine Healers In Convention. Old Orchard, Me., July 29.—Tbe Christian Alliance Convention of Divine Healing, in charge of Rev. A. R Simpson, of New York, is holding a ten dnyif session on the camp ground. About 3,000 persons attended the first meeting. Prom inont workers are at the convention from Bosttn, New York, Toronto and other cities. More British Investments. Over Three 11 u ml red Men Discharged. Chicago, July 29.—During a storm a big tree blew across a Van ituren street car near Sagamore street and nearly demolished the car, which was crowded with passengers, but uo one was seriously injured. A Tree Strikes a Street Car. New York, July 29.—English capitalists are trying to secure control of the leather manufactories of Newark, N. J. Eighty per cent, of the patent leather manufactured In this country is make In Newark. Sacramento, CaL, July 29.—The Southern Pacific Railroad company has discharged 890 of its employes here, 160 being machinists. Tke officials say that this action Is taken to lusssn the expenses of ths road. Weather Indications. The weather promises to be warmer and (air, preceded by a fall of temperature.