Evening Gazette

              Mmniua Ittr . _ __j cZD s * NVnBEK 9104. r ) Weekly EftiaklUhed 18341 | PITTSTON, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1889. ( TWO CENn. I Tin Ccnta a. Week ONE MORE BIG FAILURE. HOME, SWEET HOME. HAMERSLEY'S MILLIONS. IN THE BASEBALL WORLD. MRS. MAYBRICK SINKING.! THE NEWS IN BRIEF. VERY LATEST. President Harrison Arrives at Indlanapo- At Boston- Boston. : .8 0 1 0 0 1 4 0 8-10 Hew York 1 0000101 1—4 _BaMertea: Clarkion and Bennett, Crane and League. Fresh Tips from tlio Wires Carefully The Wauregan Cotton Mills Indianapolis, Aug. 23.—The reception given to President Harrison on hit return home to take part in the monument exercises, after six months' absence, was as enthusiastic as wore the parting congratulations when he left for Washington last February. At the Union station there was a great crowd to greet him, and at 9 o'clock, when the train from Cincinnati rolled into the (iepo;, the cheers were moot Cordial. At the satin time a battery from the arsenal, under command of Capt. Rexford, U. 8. A., gave the usual salute of twenty-one guns. In less than twenty minutes after the arrival of the triin the president and his party were at the New Denison, the drive there being witnessed by throngs of cheering people. On leaving the station the governor's guard of the state militia preceded the carriage in which were President Harrison, Governor Hovey and Mayor Denny, aftor which came a hundred or more of the survivors of the president's old reginent, the Seventieth. Following were carriages of the committee that went to Cincinnati, and the committee, likewise, of citizens to meet the distinguished guest. The line was headed by a band, and thus, with the enthusiasm of the populace giving its force to the reception, the march continued. 11s- -An Kntliustastlc Reception. What a Girl Lost by Not Being Even Her Mother Scarcely Recognized Her. The expression "Sick unto death," used in Mrs. May brick's letter to Briorly, is explained to her New York lawyers as being in uife in the south in any case of painful illness, however slight. Culled. Close Their Doors. a Boy. Swing. At Philadelphia— Special Telegrams to 4 P. M. LIABILITIES $800,000 OR $1,000,000 A RICH MAN'S PECULIAR WILL. Philadelphia. Washington. .4 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 8—11 1110 0 0 4 10-8 THE AWFUL SUSPENSE THE CAUSE Batteries: Sanders and Clements, Ferson and Mack. Dr. Robert Lowry, a son of Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, eloped with Miss Mary J. Foote, a California girl, and married her at Jackson, Miss. KILLED BY A BURGLAR, The Failure ATm Canned by the Kinbar- A Real Life Romance In Which Royalty At Cleveland- Intense Interest In the Case in England. % The Home Secretary Still Undecided—A A Brooklyn Grocer Stabbed to the Heart raiunent of Brown, Hteese & Clarke and Takes u Hand—The Fair Duchess of Cleveland Pittsburg. .2 021 00000-5 .0 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 6 Posthumous Letter of Maybrick That The governor has respited Giblin, the New York murderer, for sixty days. No decision has been given as yet in Nolan's case. in the Presence of His Wife—The Lewis Bros.—The Nominal Assets Are Marlborough May Yet Leave Her Mill- ions to Charity. Batteries: Gruber and Zimmer, Qalvin and Carroll. May Seal the Prisoner's Doom. Murderer Captured. •9,000,000—Other Failures. New York, Aug. 32.—The girl baby born to Mr. and Mrs. J. Hooker Hamersley at their summer cottage at *4$llege Point win be famous as the baby who brought joy to numerous charities in the state of New York and whose advent had been anticipated with an interest that extended beyond the usual small circle of immediate relatives and friends. Rarely has a princess or a queen been born whose birth has involved larger properties than that of Miss Hamersley, cousin by marriage, once removed, of Blenheim's mistress, the American duchess of Marlborough. a At Indianapolis- Li VERPOOL, Aug. 22.—Mrs. May brick's condition is much worse, and she is sinking rapidly. Her mother called on her and scarcely recognized her. Her friends attribute her illness to the suspense occasioned by the delay of the home office in coming to a decision as to her fate. James Brennan, the famous leper, escaped from quarantine at St. Louis, where he had been confined fourteen months. He is at large in the city. Brooklyn, Aug. 22.—Cbris'ian Luca, a grocer doin# bus i .ess near the Eist River Briige, was awakened at his residrnoe about half-past three o'clock this immhg, by the entrance of a burglar. Mr. Luca sprang out of bed and grappl :d with the intruder. A desperate struggle ensued, duiiag which the bur*br usnl a large knife with teriibla effect. Mrs. Luc* aroused a servant, and both bravely sprang to Mr. Luca's asti tince, who was strujrg'iog upou one knee with his murderous assailant. Flinging t&e wife a*iie and flowishin* his knife, the burglar sprang out of a window and ran down High street. Providence, Aug. 22.—Two cotton mills, the Wauregan and its leased property, the Nottingham, and the woolen mill of the Thornton Worsted company, have failed, the result of the recent failures of Lewis Bros, and Brown, Stecse & Clarke. The treasurer of the Wauregan mills states that the failure of his concern was due to distrust resulting from tho bankruptcy of Lewis Bros., of the Riverside (Oswego) mills, and of Brown, Bteese & Clarke. Lewis Bros, had been the agents for over fifteen years of the Wauregan bleached goods. When that conoern failed exaggerated reports of their indebtedness in Providence were published in a New York paper. Since then banks holding the pitper of the Wauregan mills had been unwilling in many cases to renew it. The result was that the concern was unable to meet the payments domanded and had voted to BUMpend. The failure was, in short, caused by the injury to its and by the failures before alluded to. It could not borrow to mdet its notes and had to succumb. Indianapolis 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 0 0—0 Chicago 0 0 8 0 2 2 4 1 x—12 Batteries: Eussle and Daly, Sommersand Farrell.Association. Jacob Mott, of Bridgeport, Conn., aged 70, went to a Methodistf camp meeting at Canaan, and when walking home on the railroad track he was run over by an engine and instantly killed. At Cincinnati- Cincinnati  Columbus  .5 2010001 0— 0 .0 02000 1 00—8 Batteries: Petty and Keenan, Widner, Oastright and O'Connor. At Kansas City— If there is one tradition of English journal, ism that possesses the force of law it is that "interviews" must be tabooed. The interview is an institution that may 40 very well for the barbarous inhabitants of American sanctums, but it is altogether too undignified for the British editor. Intense Interest in the Case. All union shoemakers of Cincinnati are on a strike because three of their number were unjustly discharged. Kansas City .....2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0-8 Baltimore 2 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 x—0 Batteries: Conway and Hoover, Kilroy and Tate. Chiof Postofflce Inspector Rath bone, of Washington, is informed of the arrest of Samuel Smith at Denver, Cola., for violating the postal laws. Other Games. At Newark— foewark 40080208 x-18 Norwalk 2 fi Batteries: Baker and Sullivan, Sworback, Gochman and Kelly. At Lowell— D The slirm was promptly given and the murierer was caught by the police. He was in his stockiogp, and the bloody knife, with * six inch blade, wbh found on his person. He proved to be Charles Mellwain. Two of his pccomplics, professional burgltrs, named Cuneen and Quintan, were alsa at rest*). Mellwain drives an »ce cart. He confessed the There died in New York, in 1883, Louis C. Hamersley, Sr., for many years a prominent member of the New York business and social —orlds. A quaint old man, of eowtly bearing and pleasant manners, li4*ras wall known to all the older residents of the city. He had one inseparable companion, his. son, Louis C. Hamersley, Jr. The two men dressed alike, and savo for a wide difference in age, which naturally showed itself, were a counterpart in form and feature. They wefe called "the Hamersley twins," and rarely a day went by in winter that they were not seen walking on Fifth avenue together, engaged in closo and earnest conversation. They becamo almost landmarks, and when the elder man died New York society felt it had lost one of its founders. "The Hanunlty Twins,," The excitement attending the Maybrick sontence, and the popular clamor for its annullment, has, however, effectually knocked the props from under journalistic dignity, and the newspapers are filled with the opinions of all sorts of people as to what Mr. Matthews will do with the woman who lies under the shadow of the gallows in Liverpool.The Standard Oil company has asked the Chautauquaus for permission to convince them that trusts are good things. The iDermission has been accorded. At tho New Denison there was a great crowd blocking the streets and packing the corridors. Alighting, the president was saluted by the governor's guard. He acknowledged tho salute as he did the welcome of the people on the way from the station. As he passed iflto tho hotel the crowds cheerod, and the president, being escorted to the large parlors, was surrounded by the committee, at tho head of which was Mr. Qeorge W. Tanner, president of the board of trade. Lowell  New Haven. .0 20000000-2 .0 01 2 0 0 0 0 x- 8 Batteries: Sullivan and Gunnison, Horner and Cahlll. Alexander Currie, a retired farmer of Franklinville, N. Y., was cheated out of $1,500 in a three-card monte game by a couple of swindlers traveling with Robbins' circus. At Syracuse (First game)— Syracuse 1 021 00104—0 Hamilton 1 0000020 1—4 crime. Frank Morris, John Heil, James O'Brien and Brodie Morris, minors, of Charleston, W. Va., were caught beneath a fall of slato in the mines of the Connellton Coal company in Fayette county and killed. Several other men were injured. Mr. Luca was literally hacked ti pieces, having four terrible gashes on ttie shouldeis and arms, and a deep cut under the heart. He died about tan minutes afier the flight of the burglar Batteries: Murphy and Haffew, Walker and Banning. (Second game)— The Liabilities and Assetw. The home office has been turned inside out for interviews. Not a petty clerk has been allowed to escape. If it will interest anybody in America to know it, the guoss made by the clerks is that Mrs. Maybrick will be allowed to hang. Thu liabilities are variously estimated from $800,000 to $1,000,000, although the treasurer woull neither verify nor contradict this estimate. Nominal assets amount to about $2,- 000,000. The plant alone cost $1,300,000. The mills are doing a good business, manufacturing bleached goods, brown and white goodf and some fancy goods. The company's pay roll amounts to $17,000 per month. There are about fifty stockholders in the concern. Director Arnold thought that if arrangements could be made to run the mills they oould make enough money to more than pay the interest on the debt and in time liquidate all their obligations. The Wauregan company has at present two mills in operation. The first is at Wauregan, near Plamfleld, Conn. It is capitalized to the amount of $600,000 and contains 56,100 spindles and 1,400 looms. About 1,000 hands are employed there. The second mill is that known as the Nottingham mill in this city, which used to be the old steam mill under the James Y. Smith Manufacturing company. This company was chartered in 1864 with a capital of $800,000, and has 33,000 spindles and 656 looms. About 600 hands are now employed in the mill. Mr. Edward P. Taft, the treasurer of the Wauregan company, represents all the stock of the Nottingham'mills corporation and he leases the mills to the Wauregan company. It is therefore regarded as a part of the Wauregan property. Its liabilities are estimated at from $200,000 to $250,000, while nominally the assets exceed this sum. Mr. Tanner in a brief speech welcomed the president to his old home. Qen. J. R. Carnahan then, on behalf of the monument commission, welcomed the distinguished guest. The president in response said he did not know how to expross his feelings at this return to his home. He did not expect to be with old friends so soon again when he left to assume his onerous duties; but ho felt that he could not be absent on an occasion like that-to be observted on the morrow. He had always taken\a dpep interest in the monument to be erecte*lCto the soldiers, and hoped again to be with the people of Indianapolis wheu the capstone is laid. The president then held a reception. Today he will take part in laying the corner stone of the monument. Syracuse 2 4 1 0 0 0—7 HamilM ..0 0 0 1 0 1-2 Batteries: Keefe and Halford, Pfaun and Spies. The Scripps league expedition of American workingmen were entertained at a banquet in the Hotel de Ville by the Paris municipal council, and were the guests of Hon. Whitelaw Reid, American minister, at a breakfast at the United States legation. EXPLOSION IN A SCPANTON MINE, Called to catch train. At Rochester— Supt. Nichols and Five Others Seriously Rochester 0 0 1 6 0 2 0 1 0—4 Buffalo....... 0 0080800 0—5 Batteries: Toole and McKeough, Caliban and Daly. Mr. Matthews himself has been devoting the best part of the day to a consideration of the case. It is assorted that he is in possession of a letter written by Mr. Maybrick not long before his death, in which he wrote: "I am being poisoned. When dead you must see that my body is opened." The existence of this letter was well known to the prosecution, but no attempt was made to introduce it in evidence at tho trial, as the technical objections which the defense would undoubtedly have raised must have been sustained by the court A Letter That May Prove Fatal. Burned in No. 3 Shaft. Scbantox, Aug. 22.—An explosion of gas occurred at about ha'f-past nine o'clock this morning io No. 2 colliery, of the Delaware A Hudson Company, at Olypbant, by which Superintendent Nichrls and four other men, Daniel Wiiliatbs, Richard Mason, John Gavan and John Jones, were so badly burned that their recovery is doubtful. A man of large wealth, there was little discussion as to who would be his beneficiary, and in a faw days it was announced that he had left his vast estate entirely to his son. Lieut. S. L. Graham has been ordered to Pittsburg- as inspector of steel for the new cruisers. At Toledo- Toledo 8 8 3 2 0 2 0 2 0-17 Toronto 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0— 6 Batteries: Cushman and Sage, Titcomb and McGuire. At Detroit- Soon afterward New York society was called upon to welcome as the fiancee of Hamersley, Miss Lily Price, a leading belle of Troy, N. Y., and a daughter of Commander Price. Their marriage soon followed. The death of the elder Hamersley, however, was too great a blow to be borne by so devoted a son, and a few months after his demise the younger Hamersley followed his father to the grave. William T. Higgins, a Republican politician, widely known on the Pacific coast, is dead at San Francisco. Detroit 2 3 0 1 2 4 0 0 2-14 Loudon 0 080001 2 1—7 Batteries: Shreve and Goodfellow, Jones and Coughlln. Truman Kenerson, aged 75, of Barre, Vt., was Btruck by an engine and killed. There had been a fall of rock in the mine, and the superintendent, together with the above force of men, went in to clear it awsy. Gas had accumulated, however, by ttie fall, and it was ignited by their 1 mps, causing the explosion. While speaking in a session of the grand lodge, I. O. F., at Rome, Ga., Col. Adolph Brandt, of Atlimta, fell dead of apoplexy. SHE LOVES THE PRIEST, THOSE LAST CAPTURES- Mike McDonald Receives a Letter from "We Will Keep ltlglit on Seising/* Says A BIG REFINERY AFLAME Dr. L, Parsons, km id to be the oldest practising dentist i ti t lie United States, died at Savannah, Ga. He was born in Northampton, Mass., in 1800. He invented a number of instruments widely used by dentists. Chicago, Aug. 22.—"Mike" McDonald has received a letter from his runaway wife who eloped with the French priest, Father Joseph Moysant. To a reporter Mr. McDonald admitted that he had received a letter dated at Boston Aug. 12. The letter contained neither sorrow nor contrition for her sin, nor a plea for forgivemiess. "All the sorrow she expresses," said Mr. McDonald, "is for these two little boys," and he pointed to his two little sons. "She is still infatuated with that beast of a priest," continued Mr. McDonald, "and says she cannot leave the man she it with. No, I cannot give you the letter, as I must save that for the courts, for I'm going to get a divorce as soon as my lawyer returat from his vacation, which will be in about a week. I have both pity and contempt for the woman whom I once called wife. She has sunk lower than the commonest, vilest woman on earth." His Erring Wife, The Will Was a Snrprlse. Washington, Aug. 22.—The news brought to Victoria by Capt. Alger, of the sealer Allie Alger, had the effect of creating an unusual amount of interest among the few officials of the state and treasury departments who remain in the city. Acting Secretary Batcheller was much interested in the reading of the dispatch, and when it was finished characteristically remarked: "Now there will,be fun." Acting Secretary Batcheller. A Fatal Fire at Allegheny, Pa.—One Man Missing. A Miraculous Kscape, All society eyes were now turned on the young widow, who, it was supposed, would inherit the whole estate. But wills often bring surprises, and the will of Louis C. Hamersley, jr., was the veriest bombshell that has ever been thrown into New York society. It was found that the estate was put in the hands of trustees, who were directed to pay the whole income of the property to Mrs. Hamersley during her life. Then followed this remarkable clause t Pittsburg, Aug. 22.—The last stroke of tho 8 o'clock bell had hardly died away when a sudden and brilliant glare spread over the lower sections of the cities of Allegheny and Pittsburg. It was followed by a dull, heavy boom. For a moment darkness once more covered the sky, and then flame and smoke shot up in vast volumes from the Allegheny side of the Ohio river. The large oil refinery of A. D. Miller was doomed to destruction. Dallas. Texas, Aug. 22 —A boiler exploded this morning in Sjrojgs A Whaljy'a flouring mill, in this city, and the engineer, named Boosley, was blown a di-tince of 200 fa t.JHia Cs?apo without injury was almost miraculous. The wood working establishment of L. M. Weeks & Co,, No. 888 Wallabout street, Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire, together with $12,000 worth of cabinet work and machinery. Loss, $10,000. Mile. Zela, a famous Old World operatic songstress, will renounce the stage and marry Edgar O. Achorn, a Boston attorney. Kllrain Surrender* Baltimore, Aug. 22.—Ktlrain, the pugilist* concluded uot to further refist the ext-adi i n preceeding», and this mornirg staitsd for Mississippi to appear and answer the chtrge Of' participating in a prize fight in that State Gen. Batcheller, when questioned as to the action of the commander of the Rush in placing but one man aboard the seized vessels as a prize crew, said that the Rush had only enough men to navigate her. Her commander could not afford to spare more than one man for each vessel, or, Glen. Batcheller added, he would probably have done so. Fire at Jamestown, N. Y., damaged the building and stock of the Parks & Hazzard shoe manufactory $50,000; insurance, $33,000. In the event that no Issue of mine shall survive my said wife, then on her decease I give my said estate, real and personal, to the male issue of my cousin, J. Hooker Hamersley, then living, and to the male issue of such of thi m as shall have previously died leaving Issue. In the event, however, that my said cousin shall die without leaving male issue him surviving or surviving my wife, then, on the decease of my wife, I give the whole of my said estate to such charitable and benevolent corporations located in the stats of New York, aud in such shares and proportions as my dear wife shall by her last will and testament, etc., etc., designate. Perry Heuck, the night watchman of the refinery, was found lying wounded and dazed on Washington avenue. He could tell nothing of the explosion or how he escaped. Thornton Miller, the engineer of the establishment, is missing, and it is thought he perished in the flames. Numerous severe hail storms are reported from different points in Austria. Many people have been killed and much damage has been done to property. Thornton Worsted Company's Situation. The Thornton Worsted company owed to both the Riverside mills and to Brown, Steese & Clarke their total indebtedness, Which is estimated at about $150,600. If their notes to the Riverside mills and Brown, Steese & Clarke oould have been extended as they ordinarily would have been, they oould have paid every cent of their indebtedness; but being unable to get an extension they were compelled to suspend paying. There is also a mortgage on the property for $50,000, held by Charles Fletcher. The mill Is run by William A. Shaw and Waldo C. Barnes. Purvis, Miss., Aug. 22.—In the Murion county court, today, Bui R-mml, .f New Origins, who had the management of the Sullivan-Kilrain pr Z1 fight, was convicted and santonced to pay a fine of $500. Mississippi Justice. "When the Black Diamond was seized by the Rush," he went on to say, "her captain refused to allow his crew and declined himself to be placed under parole to go to Sitka peaceably. It is likely that the captains of the two seized vessels (the Minnie and the Pathfinder) followed his example, so that they broke no agreement if this surmise should prove to be correct. Starting from the gasoline still, which had exploded, the flames spread in all directions. The tank of white oil was the first to ignite, but was soon followed by a large receptacle of the ordinary brand, and 25,000 barrels were ablaze at once. Alarm after alarm was sent out tr6m fire headquarters and soon every engine In the city was at tbe scene, and streams of water were pouring in from all directions. Horace Shaver, editor of The Boston Investigator for the past fifty-one years, is dead, aged TO years. Mr. Soaver was widely known as a writer on free thought. He was a close frymd of Phillij®, Pillsbury and Garrison. Expelled from the Exchange. Buffalo, Aug. 22.—After a protracted session the trustees of the Merchants' exchange found E. C. Loveridge and Wilson H. Sherman guilty of the charges of fraudulent and irregular transactions and expelled both from membership in the exchange. The trial of the other accused members—Durfee A. Sherman, Stephen F. Sherman, F. H. Tyler end H. L. Fish, Jr.—was postponed till next Monday. Mr. Tyler and Mr. Fish requested an adjournment. The confession of Wilson H. Shorman is to be used in the other cases, and as it contains references to other persona it will not be given out just at present. F. H. Tyler still reposes in the Erie county Jail, and it is reported that he is not anxious to give bail just at present. It is said that he means to force a speedy trial of his case, and is confident of acquittal. In that event, it is said, he will sue the associated elevators for false imprisonment. The period of mourning passed away. Mrs. Hamersley threw off her weeds, took an opera box and became one of the leading figures of the winter social season. Then came the owner of Blenheim, the noted and notorious Duke of Marlborough, to these shores. He gazod upon the widow's beauty, he learned of her estate and returned home only to come back and carry her off in triumph to bis ancestral home. The wedding, at which the then Mayor Hewitt officiated and kissed the bride, the wedding breakfast at Delmonico's, the chase of the reporters, the departure of the pair, their arrival in England, the reception of the new duchess, at first cold, but now, largely due to her own personal influence and charms, a pleasant one—have been written in the daily prints for many months past. Carried Off by tha Duke. THE CRONIN CASE. A Conflict of Authc. icy. San Francisco, Aug. 22.—Ii is reported that Judge Sawyer doubts the right of the Federal authoritirs to interfere ia the irial of Marshal Nagle fjr the killing of Judge Terry. "We will keep right on seizing," he said in conclusion, "and in the meantime will await patieutly the official report of these seizures from the captain of the Rush." Burke Again Identified—The Trial Will Commence Monday Near the corner of Preble avenue and Adams street stood a cooper shop, a long, low, brick building, stored with empty barrels. Within fifteen minutes the entire square, except a narrow strip along Preble avenue, was one mass of flames. The roofs of the neighboring houses were smoking and the occupants, many of them half clad, were standing around half stupefied with fear. At 5)30 o'clock the flames were under oontrol, so far as confining them within their original limits was concerned. The destruction of the refinery was complete. No trace of the engineer has yet been found, and there is no longor a doubt that lie met Cleath at his post. The loss will be $187,000; insurance, $32,000.  Chicago, Aug. 22.—Attorney Forest called on Coughlin, one of the Cronin suspects, and from the ex-detective he went directly to the boys' department, where he had a talk with Burke that lasted fully an hour and a half. The subterfuge of acting as Mr. Kennedy's assistant was no longer in point, for the Wisconsin senator is in town and able to look after his clients' interests now, if he ever will be. Senator Kennedy and Mr. Forest left the jail together, and the latter was looking decidedly worried. As the coils tighten around Burke the danger of his turning back on his fellow conspirators to save his own neck becomes stronger. Senator Kennedy, Burke's lawyer, went from the jail to the state's attorney's office, and had half an hour's chat with Judge Longenecker. Mr. Kennedy became very indignant when it was suggested to him that he had made a proposition to luive Burke turn state's evidence. He said: Edward P. Taft, the treasurer of the Wauregan, Nottingham and Ponemah mills, was asked if the Ponemah was involved by the failure of the Wauregan and Nottingham. He answered emphatically that the Wauregan mills did not 'owe the Ponemah company one dollar. Mr. Taft reiterated this answer when the question was raised with reference to the Ponemah company being at all involved. He added also that the Ponemah company had a surplus of $700,00( In personal property over and above the plant, which is worth $3,250,000. The Poveraah Mills All Right. Mrs. Maybrick's Sentence Commuted to Life Imprisonment. Liverpool, Aug, 22.—The death sentence pronounced upoo Ms Maybriek has been commuted to penal servitude for life. . Acting Secretary Wharton, of the state department, also received his first intimation of the seizures from a United Press reporter. He declined to espress any opinion, however. "It will be time edbugh for such an expression," he said, "when the last seizures come before the department formally." THROUGHOUT THE STATE. Reading, Pa., Aug. 22.—The steel mill, one of nine establishments of the Reading Iron company, and employing 275 bands, has resumed operations after being closed about six months. The other eight mills will gradually resume worL within the next ten tiays, and will give employment to 2,300 hands. The 'company has already received the signatures of over 2,000 men to an agreement to forego strong drink and membership in all labor organizations on condition of being given steady employment according to the condition laid down by President Corbin. The Reading Iron company is the reorganization of the Reading Iron works, which failed six months ago. An Iron Mill Resumes Work. BrlDf News Paragraphs From Here and There , John T. Natchfr, one of the largest painting contractors of Pittsburg, was fatally shot by Benjamin Lee, a journeyman painter. The British Hosiery company located at Thornton is reported involved to some extent, but arrangements will be made to tide them over, as their liabilities are not very heavy. It cannot be determined whether the failure of the Wauregan mills is likely to lead to the suspension of other cotton jnilh, though this Was feared. A Bombshell Kxplodes. Five Thousand Firemen Present The will case was passing into history, and the charitable Institutions had settled down into a reasonable hope of future benefits upon the decease of the duchess, when once more a bombshell was thrown into society by the announcement of the engagement of J. Hooker Hamersley to Miss Margaret Chisholm. The Wedding soon followed, and society has closely watched the social register, which duly records all births, marriages and deaths since that time. Tlie Vanderbllts Kntertaln. The second day's session of the Grand Lodge, KmghU of Pj thias, at Lancaster, waa to consideration of amendments to the constitution and to defining the dut es of the officers. Platthdubg, N. Y., Aug. 22.—In the firemen's convention, G. W. Irish Was re-elected president; F. D. Hall, secretary; L. H. Groat, treasurer. The noxt convention will be held at Watertown. A warm contest on this question was expected, but after an address by Hon. U, P. Flower in favor of Watertown, Senate Clerk Vrooman, who represented Her'iimer's claims, withdraw, and Watertown was selected unanimously. Today the hose and hook and ladder races will occur, and the final session of the convention will be held. The grand parade takes place Friday. Five thousand firemen are in town. Newport, R. I., „\ug. 22,-jThe ball given by Mr. and Mi's. W. K. Vanderbilt was one of the most brilliant events of the season. Tho ball was held on the large ground floor of Mr. Vanderbilt's new stable, the hayloft being used as dressing and smoking rooms. The building was'finely decorated in designs of(grain, fruit, flowers and vegetables. The supper tables were set in the stalls, which were carpeted with straw matting and decorated with Japanese lanterns containing electric lights. The favors for the german were horseshoes, yokes, whips, etc. Nearly all the cottagers attended. "We have been having a general conversation, and our only talk on the Cronin case was when I asked the judge how long he thought the case would last, how many weeks it would take to get a jury, etc." Horsemen at Harrishurg are considerably agitated over the p v Uence of glanders in the city, sever 1 hois s being shot to prevent the spread of tho coLt ftion. . BYRACUSJC, N. Y., Aug. 22.—A dispatch from Oswego Falls to The Herald says that the Riverside and Oswego Falls mills will be started again on Friday or Monday under the The Riverside Mills to Start. The state will have a baker's dozen of witnesses at least to prove Burke's frequent presence in the Carlson cottage. A young bricklayer who lives in the vicftaity saw him there several times as he went home from work, and has identified him in the jail. All the attorneys profess to bo ready to go to trial next Monday. Charitable Institutions Breathe Raster. A Fight That Was a Flizl Dr. Benjamin Lee, secretary of the State Board cf Hen 1th, advised that a lDcal health board be formed in Johnstown, and that Congress be peti i ined for aid in rebuilding the bridges and drodging the streams. it of the new receiver. Once more charitable Institutions breathe easy, and once more the Duchess of Marlborough may in pleasing fancy contemplate the list of charities in New York state to which she still has a chance of becoming at her death a Lady Bountiful. Meanwhile the infant girl will kick and crow as lustily as if she had not put any one's nose out of joint. The proud father will tell of her charms to admiring friends, and another chapter in the famous Hamersley will case comes to an end. Bufpaio, Aug. 22.—After four weeks of oareful training the fight between Jack Smith, featherweight champion of Canada, and Frank Cox, the Australian, for a purse of $200, came oft about 6 o'clock in a ring pitched on Navy Island in the vicinity of Tonawanda. Tbe Canadian was a hot favorite. But few rounds were fought, in the last of which Cox's backers threw up the sponge, the Australian having sprained his hand and become .thoroughly dazed by a swinging blow on the jaw. The Keystoae Furnace Company Assigns. Heading, Pa., Aug. 23.—The Keystone I Furnace company, which operates two large furnaces here with a capacity of 150 tons per week, has made an assignment. The president of the company, Henry Bushong, attributes the failure to dulneas in the iron trade. The product of the furnaces was mostly sent to eastern markets, and they used none bur native ores. ' The assets of the company consist of the two furnaces assigned and some land worth, probably altogether $200,000. Mortgages are recorded against the company amounting to $180,000, and the floating obligations, some of which mature to-morrow, amount to between $C10,000 And $80,000. The failure does not effect any other local cor- Steese and Clarke Insolven t. Organist Hartley Dead, A near friend of E. P. Eisner,  the Democratic Committee, denies the report thai he desires to retire from the position. He has been ill for some time but is now improviug in health Rodfru have been engaged for Mr. Eisner during the meeting of the State Conven ion in September Dedham, Mass., Aug. 22.—At noon Lawyer Dickinson tiled a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in behalf of Edward bteese and Amasa Clarke, of Brookline, of the firm of Brown, Stcese & Clarke, wool dealers, in the insolvency court here. Lawyer Baldwin, counsel for Gideon P. Brown, withdrew all objections to his client entering into insolvency, and he was then declared insolvent. Judge White then issued the warrant, which was placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Colburn, of this town, who immediately proceeded to seize the property of the parties named. The warrant is returnable the first Wednefcday in September. Boston, Aug. 22.—Samuel Dexter Hadley, one of the few remaining organists of the old school, contemporary with Lowell Mason, A. N. Johnson, J. B. Woodbury, George James Webb, and others, died at his home in Somerville, of Bright's disease, at the age of 78 years. He had played in several of the leading Boston churches, and declined au offer from Plymouth church, Brooklyn, preferring to accept a position in Somerville, whore he spent the last years of his life. A STARTLING STORY, A Bootblack Who Saw the Seventh Ave Due Tenement Hoiine Fired. EXAGGERATED REPORTS. New York, Aug. 22.—Joseph Poffa, an Italian bootblack who lived in the Seventh avenue tenement house whore ten people lost their lives by fire, says he saw a man in Snyder's restaurant take some burning pieces of wood and scatter them about the floor of the kitchen and throw something over them from a dish pan. The man then seized a broom and ran out into the street. Presently dense, black smoke began to roll out of the windows and then the flames burst forth furiously. The Krie Wreck Was Not Near so Serious Well Pleased with Woman Suffrage. Self-Defense Against a Dangerous Foe. as Reported, Topbka, Kaii., Aug. 22.—Governor Hutchison, Attorney General Kellogg, Chief Justice Horton and Associate {Supreme Justices Valentine and Johnston have furnished for publication official statements that women suffrage at muuicipal elections in Kansas has proved such a great public beneflt that they advise other states to adopt it. None of these officers are elected by J udge Johnston adds that the suffragists' claims aro fully justified by experience. Forewarned is not forBSTfhed in the ease of those who iDCur the risk of an attack from that dangerous loo, malaria, unprovided wilh a means of defense. Bui Df those in peiil are aided, sustained and reinforced wilb tbe greaD fortifying safeguard, Hosltlter's Stomach B,t-le s, triiinDs, proliflc breeder of evils manifested in tbe shape of bilious, remittont and chills and fever, ague ctke, dumb agr.e and the catnetura ol tbe Isthmus and Ocotrc.1 American co it t. ii nullified and rendered harmless. Our western pioneer sittleia and miners, dwellers in tropic lowhnds, and visitant! of and dwellers i i malaiious localities m this country aid many quarters of the globe, have for years been acquainted with the fact and arj constantly provided with ttisUDpardieted defensive medicine and remedy. All disorder of the stimach, liver and bowels, rheumatic and kidney complaints and rheumatism are conquered by it New York, Aug. A—The Erie railway officials state-that the accident on that road at Big Flats, N. Y., was by no mean#, so serious as at flint reported. There were no lives lost, and only one or two passengers were slightly hurt. The engineer and fireman were badly hurt and scalded. Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 22.—The fourth annual exposition was opened with an imposing street parade and formal ceremonies at the exposition building. 'The oration was delivered by ex-County Attorney Frank F. I/avis, who seconded Gresham's nomination in the last Republican national convention. The exhibits and the art gallery are more complete than ever, and the town is full of visitors. • The Minneapolis Exposition. The Window Olass Trouble. An Klflfol Tower for Kngland. PrrraiiirBG, Aug. 22. — Notwithstanding the agreement of the window glass manufacturers at their meeting in Cleveland, O., that they would uot pay the advance demanded by their workmen, Secretary George Coke, of the Union Glass Workers' association, state* that two firms have already ■igned their scale, and that seven other firms have asked that a copy of the scale CDe sent to them for consideration. No infor nation could be had as to who the applici jjts or ■igners were, other than that none were Pittsburg companies. London, Aug. 22.—Sir Edward Watkinsis engaged in organizing a company to build in England a duplicate of M. Eiffel's famous tower at the Paris exposition. Meteorologists point out that twojj such towers as close together as Paris and London, with permanent government weather stations at their summite, would be of incalculable benefit in aiding weather forecast, and wfth this view the government is expected to subscribe handsomely toward the enterprise. The collision was between two freight trains, and a passenger train ran into the obstruction thus caused. One baggage car was demolished, one express car burned, up and two coai hes slightly damaged. The tracks have been cleared and all trains are running on schedule time. Detective Hayes, who was the first to reach the tenement after the alarm of flre had been given, says that he found Snyder on the sidewalk with a broom in his hand. A Ciycone in Maim? A Matrimonial Crank. W i nth hop, Me., Aug. 22.—A cyclone of thfrty minutes* duration passed over tbrop. The sky was obscured by dense black clouds which hung very low. Rain fell in torrents and the wind blow a gale, accompanied by very heavy thunder. Cora and other crops were seriously injured and many trees were blown down in the orchards. London's Big Strike Growing. Washington, Aug. 22.—The police locked up a man in the Sixth precinct station house who imagines that he is under obligations to marry all the women in the United States. Win name is J. A. Scbach and his home is in Springfield, Mass. He tramped all the way to "Washington, and when arrested by the officer he was inquiring for the White House, with the object of getting the president to repeal the law which compels him to abolish spinsterhcKxi.  A Brooklyn Lady's Traffle Death, London, Aug. 22.—The 30,000 strikers who paraded the streets included several thousand lightermen. They struck work purely out of sympathy for the dock laborers and without any grievance of_ their own. They are as loud in their denunciation of the vessel owners as are tho dock laborers themselves, and deolare that they will not resume work until the demands of the latter are conceded. Wahh-utgon, Aug. 22.—The dead body of Mrs. John Phillips, of Brooklyn, an aged patient at Dr. Hammond's sanitarium at Mount Pleasant, was found in the yard of the snnitarium, near the wall of the building. It is supposed that she fell from a third story window and broke her neck. Mrs. Phillips had a number of prominent and wealr.hv friends in Brooklyn, and was placed with Dr. Hammond for treatment for nervous prostration. The remains will be taken to Brooklyn for interment. Saratoga, N. Y., Aug. 22.—Complaint having been made that gambling was carried on in several club rooms in this village, a rtKd was made on the places designated. No gambling implements were found, although the buildings were searched from cellar to garret. The proprietors were arrested and gave bail to appear before the grand jury, among them being Albert Spencer, of the Saratoga club house. After Saratoga Gamblers, Cihcaoo, Aug. 22.—The announcement is made that W. H. Sherwood, of Boston, who is perhaps the greatest living American exponent of the piano, has accepted tho directorship of the piano department of the Chicago Conservatory. Strong inducements have recently been offered to bim by other musical centers, and his acceptance is regarded as a great feather in the cap of local musical circles. Chicago Gets Pianist Sherwood. She Walked Off a Train. "Don't Worry Me Effingham, Ills., Aug. 2a—While a Vandalia train was running at full speed near here Rose Cassidy, a 13-year-old girl, walked out on the platform and stepped off. The train was stopped and backed up, and the girl was found unhurt. with your complaints about your tietb," s«D!d 'an anno;, ed father to bis "sweet tiitecnir.' 'I tDld you to buy the 80Z0D0NT and use iD, but you didn't and you deserve tj suffer." A ad so she did, and all other sweet-six teeners who att like her. The Johnson Failure. Strikers' Places Filled. Boston, Aug. 23.—The creditors of W. F. Johnson & Co., leather, met here. The report of the assiguee showod the liabilities to be $300,217, of which $155,463 are contingent. Tho assets are $213, 1*12. A committee was Appointed to confer with the assignee relative to a basis of settlement. It is thought the firm will pay ninety cents. Pittsbuho, Aug. 22.—All of tho striking employes of the Allegheny County Electric Light company, thirty in number, have been discharged and their places filled by new men at $1.75 per day. Tho company does not anticipate further trouble. Their system of lights is in operation as usual. A Somnambulist's Kultlag Adventure. BuuU and the Polish Bishopries. A Safe Guard—Always on Duty. The Croqaet Tournament. Effingham, Ills., Aug. 81,—Just before the Vandalla express reached, here at 4:20 o'clock, and while it was running at full speed, Rose Casaidy, a 13-year-old girl,.from South Bend, Ind., en route to Little Rock, Ark., gDt up while asleep, walked out on the platfor.n and stepped off. The train was stopped and backed up. The girl was found unhurt and walking in the opposite direction.8t. Pktkbhbubo, Aug. 21.—Russia will shortly Stfcume negotiations with the Vatican on the subject of the vacant bishoprics in Poland. Thousands make a practice of taking Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Bondout, N. Y., whenever they have symptoms of possible sickness, and through the prompt action of this remarkable medicine they are rjally never ill. It is a perfect safeguard against all forms of malaria, sick and nervous headache, palpitation, dyspepsia and heartburn.Chicago's Fight for the Fair. Norwich, Conn., Aug. 22.—In the croquet tournament Jacobus defeated Germond, Groenslite, of Philadelphia, defeated Driver, of Staten Island; Johnson, of Philadelphia, defeated Champion Bishop, 01 Norwich; Barrett, of Northampton, defeated iicEwer, of Sloversville; Davenport, of North*"npten, defeated Twining, of Philadelphia. CttKAOO, Aug. 22.—Mayor Cregier luu written to Governor Fifer pointing out the importance and urging the necessity for calling together tin legislature of Illinois in special Marion in order that needed legislation may tie bod oa the subject of securing the World's Voir tor Chicago in JS03, A Mull Carrier Betrays His Trust. Manchester, Aug. 22.—The Guardian in its commercial article says: "The market is animated. Quotations for cloth and yarns afe higher Shan on Friday, but little business has been executed and makers fre hungry for orders^' Makers Hungry for Orders, Weather Indications. Richmond, Va., Aug. 81.—A. 8. Hooper, a Richmond letter carrier, has beon arrested hero by Inspectors Wilde and Coghill on tho charge of robbing a registered letter. He was caught by a decoy letter. The weather promises to be clear and warm, but lev humid, with westerly breezes, followed possibly by thunder showers and temporary coolness.