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              V . • « t. nl'iTIBlEil 8133. ( Weekly EaUklltbcd IS5C. | PITTSTON, PA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1889. ' TWOCKNrS 1 Teu a Week, TANNER STRIKES BACK. tremely nervous will be able to judge whether, if I had desired to so proceed, I would have voluntarily reported in full to the secretary what I was doing." SHOT BY A POLICEMAN. THE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. HOW THE PEDDLER DIED. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. DR.TALMAGl'i SERMON. VERY LITEST. Members Nov on the Ground Expect an Fresh Tips from the Wires Carefully His Interesting Reply to Sec- The Builet Was Meant for a Interesting Session. Murderer Hillman Tells How The grand jury at New Orleans has found six indictments, three against Maj. E. A. Burke and Maurice Hart jointly for publishing forged bonds as true, and two for forgery and one for embezzlement against ex-Treasurer Burke. Culled, First Seimon Preached After Tlie Investigating Committee. On.the work and report of the committee Mr. Tanner says Footpad, Washington, Oct. 21.—As members-elect to the Fifty-fli'st congress reach the city gossip respecting the organization of the next house of representatives naturally increases. The concensus of opinion among memberselect now here indicates that the speakership will go either to Maine (Mr. Reed) or Ohio (Mr. MeKinley). Messrs. Burroughs (Michigan) and Cannon (Illinois) are both on the ground, however, and, it is said, will at least make the contest interesting before balloting begins. At this writing it would be a very difficult undertaking to pick out the stronger candidate from the first two named. He Killed Seidemann. the Fire. retary Noble's Letter. Special Telegrams to 4 P, M, *40n the 30th of July came notice to me of he fact that the committee of investigation iad been constituted. When they appeared , day or two afterwards I instructed the hief clerk to place the office and all it conained at their disposal if they desired it. ?liat terminated my association with the 'ommittee of investigation right at the comnencement of its existence. I had no word rom them; I was not asked to explain any,hing; I was not offered the slightest opportunity to defend any action I had taken. It was a star chamber proceeding to the utternost degree. In fact the only information I Uad about the result of their operations was tvhen the honorable secretary himself one 3ay when I was in his office asked me if I knew what tho commission said about the operations of the pension bureau. I told him I had not been favored in that respect in tho slightest degree. He replied that»they said that I had granted more pensions and paid out more money in the same time than my distinguished predecessor did. I replied that I hoped to God that charge was true on the re :ord, for I had plastered Indiana with promises last fall that that should be the fa«;t if Gen. Harrison came into power as president. I never saw the report of the committee of investigation until the afternoon of the day 1 resigned, when I found it on the table in the White House and was there told by the president and the secretary that the report contained nothing which in the slightest degree reflected upon my integrity or impeached my honesty of action as commissioner. BUT IT STRUCK THE WRONG MAN. HIS CUPIDITY WAS AROUSED The Baptism of Tire" His Subject) Hli HE WARMLY DEFENDS HIMSELF The senior class at Harvard college has elected Clement G. Morgan, a colored man, class orator. Text, "None of These Things MoT* To-Morrow's Indications. And His Condnct of the Pension Oftlce The Ite«ltless Shooting of a New York At the Chinking of the Peddlsr's Money. Me'1—A Great Congregation Present at Fair. Much Holder horthwetterly winch. He vert frosts to-night. Those Iterated Cases of Employes—His Policeman Likely to Knd an Innocent How the Murder Was Committed and The Newark Tan Bark works have burned. Loss $100,000. the Academy of Music. Administration Compares Favorably Citizen's Life—Another Incident of the How the Unfortunate Mu'l Body Was Brooklyn, Oct. 20.—The Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D. D., preachad at the Academy of Music this morning, his first sermon after the destruction of the Brooklyn Tabernacle by fire. His audience was of vast size, and publio interest was extrao.-dinary. The opening hymn was: COLEMAN MAY DIE. with His Predecessor's, He Says. Klectrlc Light War Concealed, Sheriff Flack, of New York, has appealed from Judge Bookstaver's order annulling his alleged fraudulent divorce. The Innocent Victim of Officer Walsh'* Washington, Oct. 21.—Ex-Commissioner of Pensions Tanner is out in a long statement in reply to Secretary Noble's letter of July 24 on the subject of rerating pensions of pension office employes. Mr. Tanner denies at the outset that he defied Secretary Noble on tho subject of rerating or on the quostion of dominant authority in the administration of the pension bureau. "I did submit," Mr. Tanner says, "to Lira in an unofficial letter a question which arose in my mind as to whether the power to put to the test a pension which might be under suspicion of having been granted in excess rented in the hands of the secretary or of th«3 commissioner, and I quoted to him the tection of the Revised Statutes which had raised that question in my mind; but in submitting that question to tho secretary for liis decision I did it in the most courteous and respectful manner of which I was capable."New Yoiik, Oct. 21.—John Coleman lies at the Chamlnjrs Street hospital suffering from a pistol shot wound in the abdomen, and his death may occur at any time. 1 olieeman Edward Walsh, of the Leonard street station, who is held responsible for Coleman's fhjury, was paroled in the custody of Capt. Sicbert. This case seems indirectly to be due to the electric light war, for had it not become necessary to shut off the electric currents the policeman probably would not have made the mistake he did, and Coleman would be well at his homo, No. 8 Hamilton street. ' Woodbvhy, N. J., Oct 31.—Joseph M. Hillman, who is to be hanged on Nov. 18 for the murder of Peddler Herman Ssideman, has made a confession to a fellow prisoner, who is described as having formerly been a New York lawyer who was ruined by drink, and who is in jail for vagrancy under the assumed name of Jamea Jackson. The following is the confession: Bullet in a Critical Condition. Maj. John M. Carson, of The Philadelphia Ledger, appears to have already practically captured the clerkship of tho next house. He has been working for it all summer, and it is claimed by his friends that he has pledges sufficient to elect on the first ballot. It Is said that $2,500,000 worth of interior debt bonds belonging to Mexico have bet n stolen and placed in London. New York, Oct. 21.—John Coleman, the 'longshoreman who was dangerously wounded by a shot from the revolver of Patrolman Edward Walsh, while innocently standing beside »n Elevated gi liar on the noi thwest corncr of Ltouard street and West Broadway about Ave o'clock yesterday morning, is in a very C ri:ical condition at the Chamfers Street Hospital, and the attending surgeon, Dr. Silnson, ferns he m»y die at any time. James Fitzpatrick, of Wilmington, Del., and James Williams, colored, of Snakesvillo, Pa., were killed in a wreck near Confluence, Pa. God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea. And rides upon the storm. Col. Swords appears to have no rival for the position of sergeant-at-arms, while there are several candidates for the offices of doorkeeper and postmaster. Most of the senators and representatives now here expect a very interesting and busy session during the coming winter. The tariff, trusts, tho civil service law, the interstate commerce law, the educational question, a national election law and subsidies will bo among the subjects that will engage the attention of congress. What are recognized as the great questions of the day will, for the most part, be pre? sented as party measures, and are likely to render the coming session a very important one. Dr. Talmage's subject was "The Baptism oi Fire," and he took as his text Acts xx, 24 "None of these things move me." He said: The Alleged Confession. Hon. George Taylor, senior member of the firm of Taylor Brothers, the largest thermometer manufacturing concern in the United States, died at Rochester, aged 56 year? Mr. Taylor represented Rochester in the assembly in 1874-'i5. "Peddler Seidemau had bean in the habit of stopping over night with me during his periodical trips through west Jersey, Hoideman gave me only about thirty-five oents' worth of his goods for a night's lodging. The last time he came to my home was on the day of the Wood sale, last Novembor. NOT CAST DOWN. But, Paul, have you not enough affliction to move you? Are you not an exile from your native land? With the most genial and loving nature have you not in order to be free for missionary journeys given yourself to celibacy? Have you not turned away from the magnificent worldly successes that would have crowned your illustrioiis genius? Have you not endured the sharp and stinging neuralgias like a thorn in the Cesh? Have you not been mobbed ou the land and shipwrecked on the sea, the Sanhedrim against you, the Roman government against you, all the world and all hell against you? "What of that?" says Paul. "None of these things move me." It was not because he was a hard nature. Gentlest woman was never more easily dissolved into tears. He could not even bear to see anybody cry, for in the midst of his sermon when he saw some one weeping her sobs aloud, "What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be found only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." What, then, did Paul mean when he said: "None of these things move me?" He meant: "I will not be diverted from the work to which I have been called by any and all the adversities and calamities I" The case is exciing great interest in the metropolis From nil accounts Coleman wss •ift doing anything warraoting police interference when Officer Walsh deliberately shot h'm. Coleman is about thirty years of age, is x s ber workman and has always home a good character among bis associates. Wai-h claims he absence of electric lights maoe Coleman's att tude look suspicious and he shot through a mis'ake. Traces of Footpads. Since the shutting down of the electric lights Capt. Sinbert has had men in plain clothes keeping watch in those parts of the Fifth precinct that would most likoly tempt burglars or highwaymen to carry on their work. Policemen Walsh and Fin ken were doing this kind of duty. They found at 5 o'clock Oscar Townes, an employe of an electric lighting company, asleep on the steps of the pension office at Canal and Laight streets. When aroused he said he had been robbed of $15 and a diamond pin worth $100. His clothing was in such condition as to lead to belief that he told tho truth. Two men walking in West Broadway were stopped by the policemen, and when questioned gave evasive answers, and finally ran away. A creditor of Belford, Clarke & Co., the publishers wEbse failure occurred recently, states that tho firm have notified creditors of their readiness to pay all claims iu full. "I hung around till the Wood sale was over, and when I got home Seidoman was still there. He had a big pack with him and he took supper with us. He told me he intended staying all night and wanted to get up early, as he had a long tramp to make thp next day. I made him a bed on the floor of the downstairs room. Me and my wife went up stairs early and went to bad. The livery siables of the Rockland house, atNantaskct beach, were burned with two Worses and other contents. Loss 110,000, partially insured. Senator Dolph thinks that congress will take no step backward in the matter of legislation on interstate commerce and civil service reform. Both tho interstate commerce law anil the civil service law, he thinks, will probably bo amended, but not so as to destroy their efficiency. Such amendments as are made to either will be for the purpose of eradicating defects disclosed by experience, and to make them more effective. HUNDREDS TURNED AWAY, More Conspiracy in Russia. Iterated Cases of Office Clerltw. St. Petersburg, Oct. 21-—Official circles were thrown into an unusual state of excitement this morniDg by the disclosure of a conspiricy in existence among the students of Southern Russa These have effeetpd an affiliation with the Oalician Societies of Ausiria and the plin wss to take advantage of the flrDt Russian defeat and make a general uprising. .  Concerning the rerated pension cases of clerks in the pension office the ex-coxnmissioner says: Rev. T. De Witt Talraace Preaches In the Academy of Music. Too Much Speed and Liberality. Brooklyn, Oct. 21.—Rev. T. De Witt Talmage pnaeh;wl to an immense congregation in the Acadomy of Music, in Brooklyn, Sunday morning. So great was tbo crush that the doors had to be cfosed before the services began, and hundreds of people were unable to gain admission. MI do not propose, in any event, to have an honorable lifetime tarnished in tho slightest degree at this period of my existence, and where I may find well founded reasons for believing that I have bean imposed upon and misled I shall be quick to recommend the condemnation merited by the parties concerned. I simply desire to add furthermore, that, since our interview night before last, I have made a comparison of action in these cases with that taken by my predecessor in a similar class of cases and I find that the comparison is entirely favorable to the present administration. I shall be happy to lay these cases before you at any time when it may suit your convenience.""Granting all to be true that is charged in the report, it sums up too much liberality and too much speed. Of course I dispute the conclusions of tho commission in a vast majority of the cases they cite, but in any case which was open to suspicion at all 1 was ready at any and a Uptimes to put them to test under the well established forms of law. Justice to the gentlemen in the bureau demands that I should state that very early in my experience as commissioner my attention was called to the Fowler case as a precedent. I have not the slightest desire to embarrass the honorable secretary, but he has a right iu judging officials of the pension bureau to bear in mind that only four days before I took office they saw his personal friend, who had been his candidate for the commissiouership, walk into the office, as I am informed, with a note of introduction from the secretary to tho commissioner asking him to do all he could for his friend, Col. Powell The colonel had a gunshot wound in tho shoulder, for which he was a quarter pensioner. Had he been a private it wouid have been $2 a month; as he was a colonel it was $7.50. "I laid there thinking about that big pack and how Seideman tied rattled money in his pockets before I went up stairs. I oouldn't sleep thinking about the thing, and about 11 o'clock I got up and put on my pants and sneaked down stairs without waking up my wife. When 1 got down there Seideman was sound asleep in the corner with his clothes on. His Cupidity Aroused. The race question, Senator Dolph says, will undoubtedly bo discussed in connection, with the contested election cases, and independently of them. It is a live question and will not down at any bidding. He feels confident that the tariff will'ba revised and the service of the revenue diminished. Some measure not very dissimilar to the senate bill will be passed. The policemen pursued them. They were captured, James Kane by Walsh and Michael O'Connor by Finken. Kane was gaining on Walsh when tho latter fired at him, and Coleman, who stood at Leonard street and West Broadway, was shot. He was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. At the station Kane and O'Connor were recognized as men who had been prowling about the neighborhood for some hours. They said they lived in Trenton—Kane working as a bartender and O'Connor being employed by Cooper, Hewitt & Co. Coleman's condition is critical. Shot by Mistake, Speaking of the future of the Tabernacle oongregation, he said that a large plot of ground had been purchased at the corner of Clinton and Greene avenues upon which the new Tabernacle would be erected, the trustees having decided to sell tho old site, upon which two church buildings had been burned. Dr. Talmage said that ground for the new structure would be broken on the 28th inst. at 4 o'clock p. m. Fire in Brooklyn, New York, Oct. 21.—A large three story frame building in Brooklyn burned this morni' g. A feature of the fire was the escape of several children from the upper floor. They wera let down by mesne of a clrthes line. Pwo families lost all their furniture and household effects. How He Murdered Hli Victim. "I picked up a hatchet from near the fireplace and went over to Seideman. I struck him on the head with the hatchet over the eye, and he never moved. I hit him twice more on the head to make sure of it, and he I think this morning I express not only my own feelings, but that of every man, woman and little chiW belonging to Brooklyn Tabernacle, or that was converted there, or comforted there, or blessed there, when I look toward the blackened ruins of the dear and consecrated spot, and with an aroused faith in a loving God, cry out: "None of these things move me I" It is possible, he thinks, that some bill on the subject of trusts will be passed, but the subject must be dealt with in the main, the senator says, by the states. The power of congress over this subject is so limited as to render of little value any law which it may pass to prevent or control trusts in the states. Congressman Browne, of Indiana, regards a revision of the revenue system as the most important question awaiting the action of congress, and favors a repeal of (he tax op tobacco and on alcohol used in the arts, and a reduction of the tax on sugar. was dead. Although Dr.'Talmage did not publicly announce the fact from the stage of the Academy, it was learned that he has decided not to abandon his proposed trip to the Holy Land. The trustees of the Tabernaole have urged Dr. Talmage not to give up his trip, and he has finally decided to follow their advice. He will, therefore, start for Europe, as originally planned, on the 30th inst. Mr. Tanner then in commenting on the great stress laid by Secretary Noble upon section of the law relating to rerating says: "It is proper that I should state that when I took office as commissioner I found that, on the question of rerating, tho office was, and had been since March 23, 1880, operating in accordance with a decision rendered by the Hon. George A. Jenks, then assistant secretary of the interior, who, in the case of Charles A. Watson, in broad terms declared that 4if, in any caff) adjudicated undor tho act of March 3, 1879, the arrears of pension were not graded according to tho pensioners' disability, neither section 4,698)£ nor any other provision of the law prohibits a readjudication of the case.' The claimant's contention was in part for pension on account of sunstroke, but he made no claim for that disability until fifteen years after his discharge."After killing him I wont through his pockets and got $1,120. I then wanted to get rid of the body, and thonght of the mill pond. I took him by the heels and dragged him out of the door to the road, and down the road across the first bridge to the seoond one that crosses the creek. I dumped the body into the creek and then went and opened tho flood gates. The water washed him down to the swamp. I shut the gates and went back home." Concealing the Body. Pismabck, N. D., Oct. 21.—The report of ifslruciive prairie fires threatening this place s untrue. Some fires have been raging on 'he prairie but they at no time reached within appreciable distance of Bismarck or any of its suburbs. There Was No Truth in It. A BASEBALL BENEFIT. When I say that, I do not mean that we have no feeling about it. Instead of standing here today in this brilliant auditorium, it would be more consonant with my feelings to sit down among the ruins and weep at the words of David: "If I forget thee, O, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning I" Why, let me say to the strangers here today in explanation of the deep emotion of my flock, we had there in that building sixteen years of religious revival. I believe that a hundred thousand souls were born there. They came from all parts of the earth, and we shall never see them again until the books are opened. Why, sirs I our children were there baptized, and at those altars our young men and maidens took the marriage vow, and out of those gates we carried our dead. When from the roof of my house last Sunday morning at 8 o'clock I saw our church in flames, I said: "That is the last of the building from which we buried our De Witt on that cold December day when it seemed all Brooklyn wept with my household." And it was just as hard for you to give up your loved ones as for us to give up ours. Why, like the beautiful vines that still cover some of the fallen walls, our affections are clambering all over the ruins, and 1 could kiss the ashes that mark the place where it once stood. Why, now that I think of it, I cannot think of it as an inanimate pile; but as a soul, a mighty soul, an indestructible soul. I am sure that majestic organ had a soul, for we have often heard it speak and sing, and shout and wail, and when the soul of that organ entered heaven I think Handel and Haydn, and Mozart and Mendelssohn, and Beethoven were at the gates to welcome it. So I do not use the words of my text in a heartless way, but in the sense that we must not and will not be diverted from our work by the appalling disasters which have befallen us. We will not turn aside one inch from our determination to do all we can for the present and everlasting happiness of all the people whom we may be able to meet "Nonoof these things move me I None of these things move you I" "The Giants" Presented with the Pcn- New York, Oct. 21. — The Broadway theatre .has seldom been so crowded as it was last evening, when the benefit performance for the victorious New York baseball club was given. After twenty prominent theatrical people had amused the audience by their selections, "the Giants," all in evening dress, marehed upon the stage amid great applause, and stood in a semi circle while Do Wolf Hopper, the star player of the "Five A's," presented Manager Mutrie with the pennant of tho league. Mutrie received the gift with becoming grace, and turning to tho audience, recounted in expressive terms the efforts of his nine and the success which had attended them. His remarks were punctuated with generous appla use. nant Hiid a Fat Purse They Won't Change the Name. The Secretary Arraigned. "Something will probably be done regarding the seal fisheries and also the Canadian fishery dispute," he adds. "These questions, howover, will not divide the parties. I have no doubt that there will be some amendment to the interstate commerce law, and congress will unquestionably legislate on the subject of trusts, if it is possible to define a trust in such a way as not to interfere with legitimate business." Myer and Corroll to Fight. New York, Oct 21—The committee in the Episcopal Convention having under considerat!on the advisability of a change of name was discharged this morning, thus making a change impossible for at least three years. "I am informed that a medical examination by the office board was suggested to him. He declined to submit to it. He had not been examined since Nov. 3, 1876, but his case was reratod then and there and his pension increased to full rate, dating back to the day of discharge, and Commissioner Black and Secretary Noble signed tho certificate which gave Col. Powell a little over $0,300. It seems as if the pace on rerating was get after the secretary took hojd and before I got in."  Bloominotos, Ills., Oct. 21.— Alf Kennedy, of Streaton, backer and manager of Billy Myer, the champion light weight prize fighter, now residing here, has written to Myer saying that he has sent $5,000 to The Police News, New York, the amount of Billy's forfeit, to fight Jimmie Carroll, of Boston. Billy says the fight is a sure thing, and that he never looked forward to a contest with more confidence. He will do some preliminary work here, but will go to El Paso, Tex., Jan. 1, and do his actual training there. He thinks the fight will come off near that place. HIS NAME WELL KNOWN, Death of B. T. Babbitt, the Famous Soap Manufacturer. Assaulted and Robbed. New York, Oct. 21.—B. T. Babbitt, the famous soap manufacturer, diod Sunday evening at his residence, No. 35 West Thirtyfourth street, aged over 80 years. The cause of his death was the general debility of old age. Mr. Babbitt was born in Westmoreland, Oneida county, N. Y., and received a meagre education. Over half a century ago he came here with practically no capital but a pair of willing hands and an extraordinary capacity for business. He began the manutacture of the soaps which have made bis name familiar throughout the world. He invented the substitute for baking soda, known as salaratus, which his house still manufacturas in vast quantities. St. Paul, Oct 21.—A despatch fjom Bismarck Btatos that on Saturday night the agent of the Northwestern Elevator Company was assaulted by highwaymen and relieved of $25,000. Congressman Hitt, of Illinois, thinks it is rather too early to make any predictions about what congress will do at the coming session. No conference of even the most informal kind has yet been held, so that there are no means of judging of what other members are considering. Then the shifting-oC opinion on many important points is so likely that a judgment now is not very apt to hold when actual voting on questions begins in February and March. Something in the way of amendatory legislation to the interstate cominorce law may be expected, he thinks. As to the civil service law too many congressmen of both parties are pledged to its support to allow its repeal. The subject of trusts will probably be involved in the discussion of tho tariff, which will, of course, come up next session. "The legal contention I leave to those eminent gentlemen, Secretary Noble and the late Assistant Secretary Jenks. Mr Jenks' ruling was law through the department until it was revoked, and 1 must say that in so far as it permits a man who has been disabled in the service of the country to prove that disability and receive the condensation which the law provides, I am in hearty accord with it. If Secretary Noble sees fit to construe statutes so as to make them less liberAl to the soldier than did his eminent Democratic predecessor, the responsibility must rest with him; and I am not willing that while so doing he shall, unchallenged, arraign me as operating without reason and beyond the pale of the law." In Favor of Liberality MR. TANNER'S SUCCESSOR. Gen. Green 1). Rhuiii, of Illinois, Is Mexican Mines Sold to a Syndicate. the Man, Mutrie gave great credit to Mr. Day, who backed the club when everyone else to whom application was made refused to do so. John Ward was ioiidly called for after Mutrie had spoken, and he responded briefly and pertinently. Among the actors participating in the benefit were Digby Bell, De Wolf Hopper, Marion Manola, William Terriss and Gus Williams. Tho receips were over $4,500, and each player will receive Huntington, Ind., Oct. 21.—At the Arlington house in this city Mrs. Nora dawson, a fortune teller, of Marion, Ind., was frightfully burned in the face and arms, a portiob of her body being also charred. She is unable to give any definite theory of how the accif'-nt occurred. The most plausible theory t) that she was burning alcohol to cure a toothache. She had prepared to retire and her loose garments caught in the flames. She cannot live. She is separated from her husband, and her mother resides in Indianapolis.A Fortune Teller Aflame, City of Mexico, Oct, 21.—The Zecajuxtia silver mines have been sold to agents representing an English syndicate, for $2,000,000. Washington, Oct. 31.—The mystery surrounding the vacant pension commissionership has at last been dispelled. On Saturday the president named as Mr. Tanner's successor Gen. Green B. Raum, of Illinois. Gen. Raum at once took the oath of office, end was officially presented to Secretary Giblin Gets a Respite. New York, Oct 21 —Murderer Qiblin was to day granted a respite until November 23d. One of the most notable events in his career was the clever manner in which he was swindled by Ellen E. Pack, the "confidence queen." Mr. Babbitt discovered in 1870 that he had been robbed of about $350,- 000 by his cashier, Charles R. Backwith, and two acomplices. Beckwith received $206,000 of the proceeds and was sent to prison for ten years. Mrs. Feck pretended she had recovered large sums of stolen money for different prominent people and Mr. Babbitt commissioned her to endeavor to sacure restitution from the thieving cashier, and she played her game so well that she secured $19,000 in cash for alleged expenses. Mr. Babbitt's fortuue is estimated at several millions. Noble. Greon Berry Raum, best known us an excommissioner of internal revenue, was born in Golconda, Pope county, Ills., Dec. 8, 1829. He received a common school education, tudied law and was admitted to the bar in 853. In 1850 he removed with his family to Kansas, and at once affiliated with the free state party. BeDming obnoxious the pro-slavery ?tion, he returnthe foil owing *r to Illinois and ♦tied at Harrisg. At the open- of the civil war made his first ech as a 4 4 war" emocrat while he as attending irt at Metropolis. Subse- Terrible Slaughter. over $'i00. Thousands of lives were needlessly sacrificed last year in this country, and other lives ✓ ■Dre being as wantonly sacrificed to-day. Disease is Grinding Many Down into the dust of death who might be well. Mark those initials, for thereby hangs a tale: "G. M. D" They stand far Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, which is unequalled for imparting vigor and tone to the liver and kidneys, io purfyiog the blood, and through it cleansing and renewing the whole system. For scrofulous humors, and consumption (or lung-scrofula), in its early stages, it ifD a positive specific. It is gold under a positive guarantee of benefiting or curing in every case, on bting given a lair trial, or money paid for it will be refunded. Mr. Tanner then relates the circumstances preceding the appointment of the committee to investigate the rerated cases, and which led up to it. Gen. Bussey told him that the secretary'* suspicions were aroused as to the correctness of action in the cases of ten employes and that he had been instructed to investigate.Rochester, Oct. 21.—Hon. E. A. Loder has been renominated by acclamation for assembly by the Republican convention of the Third Monroe district. Legislative Nominations. New York, Oct. 31.—The schooner Wishart, which sailed hence Friday for Norfolk, has returned for tho purpose of handing over to the federal authorities a colored seaman named Curtis Maddox, who on Saturday shot and probably fatally wounded the colored cook, George Phillips. Phillips was also landed and sent to a hospital. He is a very religious man, and Maddox ridiculed him for spending hi3 spare moments in reading the Bible. Philliys, after bearing Maddox's abuse for some time, finally ordered him away. Maddox refused to desist, and shot Phillips. He claims that he acted in self defense, and that Phillips was about to stab him. Read the Hible anil Was Shot. A Clergyman Changes Denominations. New York, Oct. 21.—Rev. J. M. Leavitt, for forty-one years a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal church, announced from the pulpit in the First Reformed Kpisoopal church Sunday his reasons for joining the latter denomination. He is unable to continue his adherence to the Episcopal doctrines on infant baptism and various other points, and also objects to the designation of ministers as "priests." Auburn, Oct. 21.—The Democrats of the Twenty-sixth senatorial district have nominated Hon. J. D. Teller. Mr. Teller has ac coptod the nomination. Mr. Tanner placed the papers in nine of the cases on Glen. Bussey's table within an hour and those in the remaining case were sent over the next morning. "I then called his attention," Mr. Tanner says, "to the fact that several cases were disease cases, and it did not seem to me to be the thing to have them reviewed by a non-medical man. I told him, as I afterwards told Secretary Noble, that when I first took office there was a mighty tide of humanity surging into the pension office, and I was thoroughly imbued with the belief of what we expressed in the press and on the stump in the late campaign as to the restrictive policy of tho pension office on the soldier claims; and that 1 had thought that until I became familiar with the workings of the bureau, bo long as I pursued tho practice laid down for me by men of experience in the office, the last thing I was in danger of doing was of doing too much." Rochester, Oct. 31.—'The Seneca county Republican convention at Romulus nominated Dr. J. F. Crosby, of Seneca Falls, for the assembly. Ekca.wba, Mich., Oct. 21.—Ton business buildings and the Lewis house were burned here yesterday. No lives were lost, but several of the guests and employes of the hotel barely escaped in their night elothes. The total loss is about $48,000; insurance, $9,000. The principal losses are as follows: Mrs. S. Daly, $1,500; Cook & Romer, hardware stock, $4,000; Olson & Herrickson, tailors, $4,000; Lewis house and furniture, $1,200; Mi's. B. Moran, building and grocery, $6,000, and John K. Stack, two buildings, $0,500.  A 948,000 Fire at Kacanaba. He lielonged to 4DuuntrCDirfl Gang;. Attempt to Assassinate a Prince. New Orleans, Oct. 21.—The Times-Democrat's Paris, Tex., special says: Sheriff Cox, of Hill countjr, has arrested Kinch West in the Indian territory for the murder of A. D. Martin in that county in 1870. VVTest was one of the notorious Quantrell gang, and after the war located in La Mar county with several other desperadoes. In 1870 West murdered Martin in Hill county and fled. He lms just been discovered after living in the Indian territory for eighteen years. Berlin, Oct. 21.—Prince Wilhelm of Y'urtemberg, nephew of Karl I, king of Wi'' jriberg, and heir presumptive to tho throne, while driving to church in the city of Ludwigsburg, was fired at by a man on the sidewalk. The shot did not take effect. His assailant was arrested. When asked why he sought to kill the prince he exclaimed excitedly: "It is time Wurtemberg had a Catholic king!" It is believed that the man is deranged. When I looked out through the dismal rain from the roof of my house and saw the church crumbling brick by brick and timber by timber, I said to myself: Does this mean that my work in Brooklyn is ended? Does this terminate my association with this city, where I have been more than twenty years glad in all its prosperities and sad in all its misfortunes? And a still, small voice came to me, a voice that is no longer still or small, but most emphatic and commanding, through pressure of hand, and newspaper column and telegram and letter and contributions, saying "Go forward I" la Consumption Incurable T Read the following: Mr. C. H. Morris, Newark, Ark., says: "Was down with Abscess of Lungs, and friends and physicians pronounced me an Incurable Consumptive. Began taking Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, am now on my third bottle, and able to oversee the work on my farm. It is the finest medicine ever made." lently he enter- Deserted, Slie Sought Death ed the army as Evansville, Ind., Oct. 21.—Mrs. Ollie Williams committed suicide here by cutting her throat with a razor. She was a stranger in the city, having come here a week ago with a man named Phillips. The couple came directly here from Council Grove, Kan., where they stole a 9-year-oid son of Mrs. Williams by her divorced husband. On Wednesday last Phillips deserted her, and this is believed to be the cause of her suicide. The child was taken in charge by the local authorities and will be sent back to the father. GREEN B. RAUM, major of the Fiftysixth Illinois regiment, and was promoted lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brevet brigadier general. He was made brigadier general of volunteers on Feb. 15, 1S65, which commission he resigned on May 0. He served under Gen. William 8. ltosecranz in the Mississippi campaign of 1862. A Toung Lawyer Suicides, She Leaped to Death. Banker Moore's Death, Jesse Middleware Decatur, Ohio, says: "Had it not been for Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption I would have died bf Lung Troubles. Was given up by doctors. Am now in best of health." Try it. 8ample bot'les free at Price A Co.'s drag store, Pittsion, aud K. W. Campbell's, drug store, West Pittston. Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 21.—George W. McGuiro, a young lawyer, 84 yoars of age, committed suicide in this city by jumping from a canal bridge. He refused to grasp a pole extended to him and suffered himself to sink to his death. McGuire was talented and well connected but drink and despondency caused him to take his own life. Brooklyn, Oct. 21.—Miss Adelaide Phelps Thompson, aged 30, who has been under treatment for a nervous disease affecting her brain, jumped from a third story window of her home, No. 77 Hancock street and was killed. Members of her family who kept A constant watch oyer her had left her but a moment before, thinking her sound asleep. She was evidently feigning sleep in order to secure a few moments solitude. She was a sister to Joseph H. Thompeoi, a wealthy tobacconist of New York. Hartford, Oct. 31.— Mr. George W. Moore, a leading citizen and prominent banker and broker of Hartford, died Sunday, after a week's illness, aged 03. He was the head of the firm of George W. Moore & Co., president of the Mechanics' Savings bank, a director of the Phoenix Fire and Life Insurance oompanios and president of the Cedar Hill Cemetery association. At the battle of Corinth he ordered and led the charge that broke the Confederate left and captured a battery. He was with Gen. Grant at Vicksburg and was wounded at the battle of Missionary Itidge in November, 18C)3. During the Atlanta campaign he held the line of communication from Dalton to Acworth and from Kingston to Rome, Ga. In October, 18fD4, he re-enforced Resaca, Ga., and held it against Gen. John B Hood. In 18M he obtained a charter for the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad company, aided in securing its construction and became its first president. He was then elected to congress, and served from March 4, 1867, till March 3, 1H69. In 1876 ho was president of the Illinois Republican convention, and in the same year he was a delegate to the national convention of that party in Cincin nati. He was appointed commissioner of internal revenue in 1876, and filled the office for one yoat: During this period he collected $850,000,000 and disbursed $30,000,000 with- I have mado and I now make appeal to all Christendom to help us. We want all Christendom to help and I will acknowledge the receipt of every contribution, great or small, with my own hand. We want to build larger and better. We want it a national church in which people of all creeds and all nations may find a home. The contributions already sent in make a small hearted church forever impossible. Would not I be a sorry spectacle for angels and men if in a ohurch built by Israelites and Catholics, oa well as all the styles of people commonly called evangelical, I should, instead of the banner of the Lord God Almighty, raise a fluttering rag of small sectarianism? If we had three hundred thousand dollars we would put them all in one great monument to the mercy of God. People ask on all sides about what we shall build. I answer, it all depends on the contributions sent in from liere and from the ends of the earth. I say now to all the Baptists, that we shall have in it a Baptistery. I say to all Episcopalians, we shall have in our services as heretofore at our communion table, portions of the liturgy. I say to the Catholics, we shall have a cross over the pulpit and probably on the tower. I say to the Methodists, we mean to sing there like the voice of mighty thunderings. I say to all denominations, we mean to preach a religion as wide as heaven and as good as God. We have said we had a total loss. But there was one exception. The only things we saved were the silver communion chalices, for they happened to be in another building, and I take that fact as typical that we are to be in communion with all Christendom. "I believe in the oommunion of saints I" AN APPEAL FOR AID The Secretary's Scathing llebuke Mr. Tanner says he at once ordered the rerated cases of employes reviewed in the pension office by office experts. Of the thirty-three eases they reported that three wero simply increase cages, and not rerated ca6es; that the action taken in two of the others w;is right in part, and that in one case injustice had been dono the pensioner, and that he had not been granted enough. 8ix cases were reported as having been wrongly favored. All the rest were certified to the commissioner as absolutely correct. "I mentioned these things," Mr. Tanner says, "to the secretary and made a detailed report to him of the action taken in connection with the twonty-four cases, stating that I proposed to take the step the law prescribed to put the impeached cases to the test, and cause the refundment to the treasury of the money paid out, if the cases did not stand the test prescribed by law, suitposing thereby in my heart that I was commending myself to my superior by the zeal I was exhibiting. To my surprise I received a reply from him under date of Aug. 1 in which he stated: 'You have endeavored to hasten for your own means to get a board to arrive at conclusions in anticipation of anything I might do. I consider this not only disrespectful but insubordinate to the last degree, and I hereby direct you to withdraw any cases I have under consideration, and hi regard to which I have heretofore told you that I intended to act, from the consideration of ftuy persons whom you have selected to antedate my action; and you will report your immediate obedience of this order to me. And you will disband any board that you have undertaken to form for tho purpose of investigating business still in my hands, and upon which I am officially engaged.' I replied at once signifying, of course, my obedieuce to his peremptory order, and totally repudiated all thought of insubordination, disobedieuce or the slightest disposition to proceed in any insidious manner. People who are not «x- No Use for the Sugar Trust. Philadelphia, Oct. 21.—Claua Sprockles, the sugar refiner, will at once set to work to make preparations for opening his big refinery here. 44As long as I am alive it is mj intention to engage in businoss entirely upon my own account," he says. 44I never have needed assistance from others, and I cerfc&l:,- This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise.—A purer medicine does not exist and ii is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all disd-wes of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum and other affections caused by impure blood.—Will drive Vlalaria from the system and prevent as well as cure all Ualarial fevers.—For oure of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Klectr'c Bitters—Entire Satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded.—Price 50 eta. and $1.00 per bottle at Price A Ca's drug Btore, Pittston, and E. W. Campbell's drug store, West Pittston.Electric Bitters. Kiglit Thousand Cigarmukern Out. Key West, Fin., Oct. 21.—The lockout of the men by the cigar manu acturers has lus- Lisbon, Oct 21.—King Carlos I of Portugal has issued a proclamation. He promises faithful observance of the political institutes, to try and merit the affection of the people, follow the example of his father, maintain the Catholic religion, and concludes by declaring that it is his pleasure to have the present ministers remain in office. King Carlos' Proclamation, come general. Eight thousand men are now out and over live thousand of them are Cubans. Fears of serious trouble are entertained.Yorlkner's Application Rejected. ly have no use for the sugar trust. Those who refused to join the trust have fared very much better than those who were foolish enough to enter into such an illegal combination. " ngton, Oct. 21.—Patent Commis- . .-:i hell has affirmed the decision of tho exainiuer-in-chief in rejecting the application of Willi* m L. Voelkner for a patent for a speaking telephone. The ground* tor the rejection a e that the combination of elements claimed for the invention were in public use two years prior to the filing of the application by Voelkner. Attempted Murder at Newark. Newark, N. J., Oct. 21.—John Mulvan 7, aged .'JO, was struck on the head with a bri jk and his skull fractured last night by i.n It.ili.in saloon keeper in a quarrel about payment for drinks. HCD will prolDal)ly die. His assailant was arrested. Servia's Skupslitina Opens. He Blew Out the Gas. Belgrade, Oct. 21.—The skupshtina has been formally opened. M. Risties read the message from the regents. It declares that tho relations of Servia with all foreign powers are friendly and emphasizes the desire of the government to cultivate harmony with neighboring states, while it proposes to safeguard the independence of Servia and to watch over and encourage the development of the Balkans. New York, Oct. 21.—George Pfeiffer was found dead in bed at 206 East Thirty-fourth street, having been suffocated by gas. His room mate, Morris A. Redding, was unconscious and may die. Pfeiffer was out of work and it is thought that he left the gas turned on in order to end his life and that Redding was unaware of his action. out lose Bkusseus, Oct. 21.—Governor General Janssen, of the Congo Free State, reports that eighty chiefs have recognised the authority ot the state aud promised to provide men to assist in maintaining order. They also agree to suppress the practice of making human sacrifices. Reform Chiefs. Newark, N. J., Oct. 21.—The funeral of the late Chris Meisel, a victim of the Johnstown disaster and a former manager of the Newark baseball team, took place from the Fair mount Avenue Baptist church. The body was brought from Johnstown on Saturday, having beeu recognized by his widow two days before. llurial of a Johnstown Victim. Yokohama, Oct. 21.—Count Okuma, the Japanese foreign minister, was attacked by an assassin and slightly wounded. Before the would be murderer could be arrested he stabbed himself to the heart. A Japanese Cabinet. Officer Attacked, ELY'S dlmSfr?l|j y, head) °"s E^FEVER,F| J^l Mysterious Manager King. Newark, N. J., Oct. 21.—Charles H. King, manager of the United States Express company here, who has been missing for a week, was seen in New York Saturday by Cashier Sanford, of the company, and it is believed that he is now at Mr. Sanford's house in this city. Mr. King's accounts are said to be oorrect. Cream A Dry Goods Failure, A Minister Drops Dead, IDcatli from Fever at Yale. Clcunaei lb Bei.oit, Wis., Oct. 21.—James M. Carpenter, proprietor of one of the largest dry goods houses in this city, has failed. The liabilities are $0«),(K.KD ami the assets between $:U),'C00 and *35,000. Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 21.—Rev. A. Judson Barrett, D. D., pastor of the Lake Avenue Baptist church, fell dead on the street, while going from his home to the church last night. Dr. Barrett was born in 1832 and was graduated at Rochester university in 1854. It is supposed that death resulted from appoploxy. New Haven, Oct. 21.—Thomas J. Roberts, of Yale, *92 class, died at the New Haven hospital Sunday of ty phoid fever. Robert*' home was at Scranton, Pa. This is the second fatal case of typhoid at Yale in a week. Allay* Pain a ruHftf A Clergyman Struck by a Missile. In flam mat Heals the Si lleaiorea f Red Bank, N. J.. Oct 21.—Rev. O. W. Hoddy, of 216 Canal street, Philadelphia, was seriously injured while riding on the 4:30 express from New York. The train was passing through Morgan when a stone thrown through the car hit Mr. Hoddy in the faoa. New York Won, Governor Foraksr's Illness* Lisbon, Oct. 21.—The fuueral of the late King Luis I will take place at the Royal Pantheon, and probably on next Saturday. A deputation of the German regiment, of which the deceased was honorary colonel, will attend.  Kins: Luis' Funeral. ttrmea of Ti Ney7 Y(*ik, Oct. 21,—The second game between New York and Brooklyn for the world's championship was wou by New York. The score was 6 to 2. For the New Catholic University Columbus, O., Oct. 21.—Governor Foraker has passed the dangerous poir t in his sickness, and is resting finely. His physicians say he is on the road to recovery, but will not be able to be out for three or four days. I think if all the Brooklyn firemen and all insurance companies should search among those ruins on Schermei'born street they would not find a splinter large as the tip end of the little finger marked with bigotry; and as it is said that the exhumed bricks of the walls of Bahylon have on them the letter N, standing for Nebuchadnezzar, I declare to and Suiel A Town Destroyed by Fire. Washington, Oct. 21.—Archbishop Corrigan has informed the right reverend rector of the Catholic University of America that Mr. V. Lou bat, of New York, has ordered a colossal statue of Leo XIII to be executod in Carrara marble by one of the leading sculptors of Italy, and will present it to the university next October. THY THE CD! Marshfield, Wis., Oct. 21.—The little village of Curtiss on the line of the Central railroad, north of here, was destroyed by fire Friday. The loss will amount to at least $100,000. Curtiss is a town of between 300 and 400 inhabitants. Nev York, Oct. 21.—Rev. Win, B. Nairn, of Nu Dley, N. J., a delegate to the Episcopal convention now in session here, has just died in St Luke's hospital of typhoid fever. A Delegate Dies. A particle is applied Into each nostril and Is aereeable. Price 60 cents at Druggists; by mail, ejfclntered, oo ct«. ELY BROTHERS, 58 Warren St. New York. New York, Oct 21.—incoming steamers landed 1,195 immigrants at Castle Gardon Sunday. Hundreds of New Citizens. All kinds of legal blanks for sale at the Gazette officq [CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE ] PEERLES8 DYES Sold if Dauouum