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              Hucntncj iV' '-a * UBjS TWOCE1T*. Ten ObdIi a Week. If (J ill REK 8043 I W eeklv Emabllkliva 4830 j PITTSTON, PA., MONDAY, JUNE 10. 1889. . i GRAPHIC STORY. C#oii8 can be made without stone walla. Hii church Sunday was under the blue sky in Patrick Matthews' side yard. The grass was his footstool and the June roses that swung in the air were his censors. The Matthews' residence and yard commands a view of the wrecked walls pud shattered tower of St. John's and the ruined and torn parish cemetery, now filled with trunks of tree*, stones, broken pillars and crosses. Before the preacher stood a pitiful remnant of his parishoners, whom he touchingly exhorted to a performance of prayer and duty. Many ojt his listeners were moved to tears. - is a sacred trust, will be expended wholly Mid absolutely for the leneflt of individual sufferera No part of it will be expended in work which is legitimately the domain of the state under its police powere. This I wish to emphasize, so that all contributors to the fund may feel assured that their money will be judiciously and economically expended for the benefit of suffering humanity, and not to work which should and will bo undertaken by the state or municipal authorities." STANDING OF THE CLUBS. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON EX-SENATOR SABIN'S DlVvi RCE SUIT DR. TALMAGt'j SERMON. the boy took hold one side of the th and his father the other side of it, pulled it to the right size? Is that any 1 wonderful than that after growing to ] hood he folded up, as easily as you w(p«i fan, a Galilean hurricane? Or the uninq Nummary Up lb Date Baseball Anoi of the I ending :latlons. The Georgetown Reservoir in a Dangerous Condition. The Scandal Has Been Carefully Con- The standing of the c] larger baseball association! The National 1 lubs in . tlie 9 is as follows :hrC e cealed for Many Yearn and the Legal Frank Hatton Relates His Es- Proceedings Were Carried Out with the Se vices at the Brooklyn Tabernacle Yesterday Morning. story thdt his comrades in their play broo( flowers and crowned him as a king! I shoi think they would have done so. Or the on spired story that a boy, hunting for eggs 1 partridge nest, was stung of a viper, and I poisoned lad was brought on a couch to I boy Christ, and Christ asked to be tali with the afflicted child to where the ch was bitten, and at Christ's comma the serpent, with its own mouth, dr forth the poison from the wound? W1 Christ has been doing that through all 1 ages; namoly, compelling the very thii that wound us, under his sanctifying pow to bring us to health and reinvigoration a eternal life. Or the uninspired story tl children were playing on the housetop a the boy Christ was there and one of the cl dren was shoved from the roof and fell to ( ground and died and the other childl charged Christ with the misdemeanor a the boy Christ said: "Charge not me wi the crime, but let us leave it to the de child to settle the controversy," and the b Christ said: "Zeinumus! Zeinumus! w threw thee down from the housetop?" Th the dead child spake and said: "Not thou, b such a one did." Was that more wonder! than Paul's resuscitation of Eutychi who fell from the window while t apostle was preaching? Or the uni spired story in the apocryphal NC Testament- which says that Christ the h was taken to school and Zaccheus, the teac er, told him the first three letters of t alphabet, whereupon Christ the boy ask* his teacher such profound questions concer iug the alphabet that the teacher was oo founded, and the boy Christ himself explai ed all to the teacher, until Zacchous said Josoph, the father of the wondrous bo "Thou hast brought a boy to me to be taug who is more learned than any master." Thi the boy was taken to a more learned mastc who, angered at the boy's questions, lift bis hand to whip him, and the hand withC ed, as will all the hands lifted agaii Christ. Is that more wonderful than tl scene positively recorded by Matthew wbc the D. D.'s and the LL. D.'s stood arotu Christ at twelve years of age in the temp utterly confounded at his precociousnew? I that story that Christ the boy, questioned 1 astronomers, told them the number of t worlds, their size, their circuits; and qu tioned by physicians told them more aba anatomy and physiology than they ev dreamed of, the number of veins, arteri nerves and bones. If Christ were divine w he not able at ten or twelve years to desorl the huiqan system as well as though he hi been fifty years standing at an operate table or in a dissecting room? cape from the Flood. 'IS i !: MRS. HARRISON AT CAPE MAY. Greatest Secrecy. St. Paul, Minn., June 10-Ex-Senator Dwigbt. M. Sal In, of Stillwater, has reached the culmination of a series of domestic misfortunes which have been weighing him down and clouding his life for a tbng time. He has secured a divorce in the district court of Washington county from his wife, E. Amelia Sabin. The suit was instituted March 23. A11 information concerning it was suppressed and the divorce was granted late Saturday night by Judge McCluer, at Stillwater. GOVERNOR BEAVER WEPT. CLUBS. Where Blaine Will Rest — Those New AT WILLIAMSPORT Army Regulations—Thu Trenton and "CHRIST, THE YILLIAHE LAD." Pennsylvania Will Appropriate Ono Million Dollars for the Sufferers. Identified by a Bracelet. More Wodlef) Found—Railroad Travol Will Bostou Cleveland ... Philadelphia. New York... Chicago — Yandalta Abandoned—Wlio Will Be the On Sunday of last week the body of a young lady was found near the Gautier steel works, and was buried among the unknown dead. The body is now believed to be that of Miss Elizabeth M. Bran, of German town, Pa. She was last seen with Miss Paulsen, of Pittsburg, a passenger on th6 day express. What led to the identification was a bracelet and a locket found on the body, the locket having the initials "E. M. B." on it. The father of the young lady has been telegraphed for. At the Bedford street hospital six flood victims were received. After having their wounds dressed they were sent to the Mercy hospital, in Pittsburg, with the exception of W. C. Wolf, who was sent to Connellsville, Everything is progressing nicely, and the condition of all the patients is favorable. Williamsport, Pa., June 10.—The body of Jacob Jerronger has been feund in the creek, be!ow the Dodge mill turner, by two boys, Charley Grier and Harry Houch. Jerronger was a brother of Mrs. Eddinger and resided at Newberry. He was drowned in the flood, and when the body was discovered by the boys it was floating face down with his coat over it and both arms extended. The boys will receive a reward of $50. The deceased left $2,000 in the bank. Soon Be Resumed. Next Chief uI the Ordnance Bureau? He IDescribe8 Christ as a Village Lad, and Holds That the Lord's Character Then Pittsburg  Indianapolis Washington Washington, June 10. —The Sunday Herald has received information from a person whose means of knowledge give crelit to his statements that the distributing reservoir in Georgetown, in which is usually held a vast volume of water, is really in a precarious condition and liable to give way at any moment. This matter should be investigated, for should a break occur the result would be another appalling disaster. to the bursting of the dam which caus W such havoo at Johnstown the people were informed of the danger, but they laughed at the cry of "Wolf!" Let not this be repeated at George- Wiw tlio Slime as Wlien He Was a The Project Criticised by The Pittsburg: Man. Times—The Verdict of the Nineveh Jury. Games lost Brooklyn, June 9.—A vast concourse of people, filling all the available places, joined in the opening doxology at Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning. The pastor, tHe Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., expounded the passage in John about the unwritten works of Christ which the world itself could not have contained. The subject of Dr. Talmage's sermon was "Christ, the Village Lad." He took for his text Luke ii, 40: "And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon him." The preacher said: Good Health at Johnstown—A MIn- i»t«r Preaches Twenty-seven Funeral The American Sermons in One Day—Private Detective* The charge made in the complaint is that of habitual drunkenness. This allegation in itself will be most shocking to the society of Washington and other cities where Mrs. Sabin has long been a shining social light, but it is credibly asserted that there were ither allegations made by Mr. Sabin and his intimate friends which have become known in Stillwater and St. Paul For some time past, ranging into years, Mrs. Sabin has been the victim of a craving for stimulants which amounted to a disease. The strongest brandies would alone satisfy these cravings, and from alcoholic stimulants the unfortunate lady was led into the use of opium, and fiad become a confirmed slave to that powerful drug. Her nervous system was shattered and her mind so weakened liy the excessive use of stimulants and opiutjs that her reason was affected and she committed various acts for which she was scarcely responsible. It finally became necessary to commit her to an asylum where she is n w confined. A Confirmed Inebriate. Placed Under Arrent—A Soldier, De- pressed by the Scene of Horror, Com- CLUBS. 5 SI 5 Qi mltn Suicide. The work of clearing up, disinfecting, repairing:, etc., will be prosecuted with vigor. The people here are determined to rise from the ruins and make the city more prosperous 4 8 1 2 3 5 . 5 Washington, June 10.—Frank Hatton, editor of The Washington Post, who was one of the passengers on the Chicago limited train at Johnstown, contributes to The Post a graphic description of the manner of his escape from death. St. Louis.. Athletic  Brooklyn .. Baltimore.. Kansas City than ever. Two boys found the.mangled and decomposed body of Henry Creigher among the ruins of the Market street bridge at one of the cribs in the river, where it had lodged. Creigher was a resident of South Williamspovt and was 10 years old. It is supposed that he went down with the Maynard street bridge a week ago. The Pennsylvania and Reading railroad men have been working hard and both roads are nearly ready for the resumption of through travel. Cincinnati Columbus. Louisville town. Rev. Charles A. Bragdon, the general missionary of the diocese of Pittsburg, attended twenty-seven different funerals in one day and gave that number a Christian burial. Another large lot of coffins were received yesterday from Pittsburg. Twenty-seven Funerals In One Day, Mrs. Harrison Will Visit Cape May. About Christ as a village lad I speak. There is for the most part a silence more than eighteen centuries long about Christ between infancy and manhood. What kind of a boy was he? Was he a genuine boy at all, or did there settle upon him from the start all the Intensities of martyrdom? We have on this subject only a little guessing, a few surmises, here and there an unimportant "perhaps." Concerning what bounded that boyhood on both sides we have whole libraries of books and whole galleries of canvas and sculpture. Before the infant Christ in Mary's arms, or taking his first sleep in the rough outhouse, all the painters boiv, and we have Phul Veronese's "Holy Family," and Perugino's "Nativity," and Angelico da Fiesole's "Infant Christ," and Rubens' "Adoration of the Magi," and Tintorpt's "Adoration of the Magi," and -Chirlandjo's "Adoration of the Magi," and Raphael's "Madonna," and Orcagna'8 "Madonna," and Murillo's "Madonna" and Madonnas by all the schools of painting in all lights and shades and with all styes of attractive feature and impressive surroundings; but pen and pencil and chisel have, with few exceptions, passed by Christ, the village lad. Yet by three conjoined evidences I think we can come to as accurate an idea of what Christ was as a boy as we can of what Christ was as a man. Frank Hatton'g Thrilling Experience. Games lost Washington, June 10.—Mrs. Harrison, nccompaniod by the children of her daughter, Mrs. McKee, will set out for Cape May, N. J., one day this week to visit friends who have a cottage at that place. The duration of the visit bas not been determined, but will probably extend through one or more weeks. Part of the time will be spent in the cottage of Mr. Wanamaker. "When the limited pulled into Johnstown it was found that the place was flooded. Only a few minutes were wasted there, then the train moved cautiously on. The Atlantic «r 3 I f s? Private Detectives Arrested. 4'Mineral Point was passed. From this spot on the speed of the train decreased. The Horace Mannt a private delective, has come up from Philadelphia with seven of his men in response to a request from Gen. Hastings. Counterfeit policemen and deputy sheriffs, in the full panoply of a tin star and a club, were as easy to find as old tin cans. A pair of shears and a piece of stair bannister wa3 all that was required, and they could not be told from the genuine. Chairman Scott and Gen. Hastings issued a supply of cards to Chief of Police Hart, to be given to all officers, and told him all without them would be arrested. The chief put them in his pocket, and four of his men who couldn't show cards were arrested by Mann's men. Chief Hart got angry and ordered his men to shoot anybody who interfered with them. He was thereupon arrested himself, taken before Chairman Scott and taught the limits of his authority. CLUBS. m Wasiiixoton, June 10.— Miss Jessie Wehn has just anivjil in Washington from Johnstown, where her home, with so many others, had beon swept away by the flood. MlMH.Jessta WehtiN Fscnpe, Jersey City.. W ilkesburre. Worcester... Hartford — Newark  ..\ x 1 .. 0 2 0 8 81 0 2 1 01 1 0 0 Where Secretary Blaine Will Rest. Washington, June 10.—Secretary Blaine and family will leave the latter part of the month to spend the season at Bar Harbor. .. a i .. i i 0 » 1 0 "During the evening, just before the floods swept down upon us," she said, "I was standing in my brother's store, which is in ibecen tor of the city, talking to my sister*-in-law and playing with the baby. My brother was in the front of the store attending to customers whon we heard the bells at the mills ring the alarm. Wo at onco ran out of the building, but before we ooufd reach the hills the waters were upon us, and had it not been for some gentleman in the party I wou!d have been drowned. As it was, the waters hod risen to my neck before I was pulled up out of its reach. One of the gentlemen who was talking to my brother, a Mr. Ra dolph, was drowned, the storo was swept away, and all I saved wtis a light wrapper and a pair of gum shoes." Easton Lowell A Leading Social Light. New IIaveq M Hie Trrntoii and Vgud«li» Abandoned. Washington, June 1U.—The Trenton and Vandalia, which were wrecked at Bamoa last March, have been abandoned by the govern inent, and their names will be stricken from the navy lift- All of the valuables of both vessels, including the batteries, have baen recovered and are now en route to San Francisco on the Alameda. Admiral Kimberly and the remaining survivors are on board, and expect to reach this country about July 8. Mrs. Sabin's ra&ideu name was E. Amelia Hutch ins, and she was the adopted daughter of Dr. Hutchins, a prominent physician of DanielsonviJle, Conn. She was married to Mr. Sabiu at that place about twenty years ago at the age of 20 years. Socially, Mrs. Sabin is a most fascinating lady, and during Mr. Sabin's senatorial career iu Washington she gave weekly receptions, which were among the most popular given by any lady in that city, and were attended by the most distinguished people. It is doubtful whether the fault of which she is charged in the complaint ever became apj arent to any of her Washington guests or came to the knowledge of her friends there. Indeed, it was so much of a secret that no one in Stillwater, except, poatibly, very intimate liiends, were aware of it, though she has lived there many years. Mr. and Mrs. Sabin have no children of their own, but they have adopted three. Two of. these wore the children of the 1 ito John B. Raymond, of Fargo, N. D., formerly United States marshal aud afterward delegate in congress from Dakota, and the other is a little daughter of a relative of Mrs. Sabin's. There is no place where thi:D sad affair will be as startling as sn the city of Stillwater, where Mr. and Mrs. Sabin have resided since their marriage. A1 Stillwater believed them to be a happy pair. The first intimation that ail was not well began to force itself upon the people during Mr. Sabin's last senatorial contest. One or two of the mtimate fi jends of the exsenator made the remark during the heat of that memorable contest that if the senator had nothing but that contest to worry him he would be a happy man. 'Ihis opened the way to ir.qu ries, and Mr. Sabin's real cause for trouble began to CJawn upon the people. However, the fact that a divorce has been granted will bo news to all. rkP * Games lost Mupfluy'n I9|1N2 At Colqmbus— Columbus . „ Cincinnati  VIEW FROM PRESENT LAKE BOTTOM LOOKING J 8 5 0 H 0 0 6 0-17 J 0 0 0 } 0 8 0 0— i THROUGH SITE OF THE DAM. fury of the torrent, the roar of tte waters seemed to intimidate the two great iron monsters that were dragging the train. Faces blanched with fear pressed against the windows of the cars. BatUiries: Baldwin and Peeplt*8; puryea, Mullane aod Baldwin, At Jersey Oity— Lowell Jersey City 0 0 0 1 4 0 1 0 8—0 0 1 0 0 5 0 4 0 0-10 Mann's men found six barrels of whisky and $500 worth of silverware hidden in some of the workmen's tents. They stove in the heads of the whisky barrels, poured it out and confiscated the silver. Batteries; pally and HafTord; Williams and Bui kD\ Sulltvao, German and Ouineaao. At Newark- Newark. .. Worcester More New Array Regulations. "As great bodies of water rolled down the gorges and over the track, covering the car3 with spray, terrified passenger «ould jump back, expecting the cars to be overturned. The speed of the train gradually decreased, and then, as if the engines had given up in despair, the train stopped. Passengers alighted to ascertain our location. It was found that we were at the south end of the bridge which spanned the Conemaugh, at the little town of South Fork, and at the point where South and Ncrth Forks come together, and near a telegraph tower. But no orders came to move forward. .10 0 14 8 4 0 5—10 11090124 0—U Washington, June 10.—It is discovered that in the new revised army regulations, wh.ch the war department has been dist ibuting, the provision for the payment of troops monthly, a reform which Paymaster General Rochester worked bard to secure, and which he has Anally had adopted by the war department, has been omitted. It is said at the war department that the omission is due to the hurried manner in which the work was prepared. A sort of fatality has attended the issuing of these regulations. It took a board of officers at least three years to get them in shape. They were approved by the war depariment and ordered to be printed. Since then they have been run through the press twice, only to make the discovery that gome important matter was left out and the matter had to be corrected accordingly. First, we have the brief Bible account. Then we have the prolonged account of what Christ was at thirty years of age. Now you have only to minify that account somewhat and you find what he was at ten years of age. Temperaments never change. A sanguine temperament never becomes a phlegmatic temperament. A nervous temperament never becomes a lymphatic temperament. Religion changes one's affections and ambitions, but it is the same old temperament acting in a different direction. As Christ had no religious chango, he was as a lad what he was as a man, only on not so large a scale. When all tradition and all art and all history represent him as a blonde with golden hair, I know he was in boyhood a blonde. Good Health at Johnstown. Batteries: Miller and Hull!van; Conway and Terrieu. At Brooklyn— The state board of health has hung out the following bulletin: "Thegeneral condition of health in Johnstown and vicinity Is excellent. No epidemic disease of any kind prevails, nor is it expected that any will arise. The whole region has been divided into convenient districts and each placed under a competent sanitarian. The state board of health in prepared to meet all emergencies as they arise. The air is wholesome and the drinking water is generally pure. If the good people of the devastated district will go on as they have so nobly done during the past week in their efforts to clean up the wreckage good health will certainly be maintained." Miss VVehn says that when she was coming on to Washington she was kC pt going from one end of the train to the other relating her experience to others on th'D train. She says that the Society of the Bad Cross is doing noble work at Johnstown. Brooklyn. Louisville, ,0 0033500 2-13 ,1 0001000 0-2 Batteries; Lovett and Reynolds; Ramsey and Cook. At Gloucester— A BOYS' CHRIST. In other words, while I do not believe that any of the so called apocryphal New Testament is inspired, I believe much of it is true; just as I believe a thousand books none of which are divinely inspired. Much of it waa just like Christ. Just as certain as the man Christ was the most of the time getting men out of troubl , I think that the boy Christ was the most of the time getting boys oat of trouble. I have declared to you this day a boys' Christ. And the world wants such a one He did not sit around moping over what was to be or what was. From the way in which natural objects unwreathed themselves into his sermons after he had beoome a man I conclude there was not a rook or a hill or a cavern or a tree for miles around that he was not familiar with In childhood. He had cautiously felt his way down into the caves and had with li~ht and agile limb gained a poise on many a high tree top. His boyhood was paaod around grand scenery as most all the great natures have passed early life among the mountains. They may live now on the flats, but they passed the receptive days of ladhood among the hills. Among the mountains of New Hampshire or"the mountainsof Virginia or the mountains of Kentucky or the mountains of Switzerland or Italy or Austria or Scotland or mountains as high and rugged aa they, many of the world's thrilling biographies began. Our Lord's boyhood was passed in a neighborhood twelve hundred feet above the level of the sea and surrounded by mountains five or six hundred feet still higher. Before it could shine on the village where this boy slept the sim hod to climb far enough up to look over hills that held their heads far aloft. From yonder height his eye at one sweep took In tho mighty scoop of the valleys and with another sweep took in the Moditerranean sea, and you hear the grandeur of the cliffs and tho surge of tho great waters in his matchless sermouology. One day I see that divine boy, the wind flurrying his hair over hia sun browned forehead, standing on a hill top looking off upon Lake Tiberias, on which at one time according to profane history are, not , four hundred* but four thousand ships. Authors have taken pains to say that Christ was not affected by these surroundings, and that he from within lived outward and independent of circumstances. So far from that being true he waa the most sensitive being that ever walked the earth, and if a pale invalid's weak linger could not touch his robe without strength going out from him, these mountains and seas could not have touched his eye withoftk irradiating his entire nature with their magnificence. I warrant that he had mounted and explored all the fifteen hills around Nazareth, among them Hermou with its crystal coronet of perpetual snow, and Carmel and Tabor and Gilboa, and they all had their sublime echo in after time from the Olivette pulpit. Athletic 3 1 1 0 0 4 1 2 0—12 Governor Beaver'* Plnu Crltieiaed. Kan Has City 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0-1 Batteries; Robinson and Seward; Sowders and Hoover. Pittsburg, June # 10. —The Times in its leading editorial very vigorously condemns the plan of relief proposed by Governor Beaver and adopted at Johnstown. The Times says the only legal way to raise the money needed, and the on'y way that will meet tin* app oval of the citizens of the state, is through a relief bill passed by the legislature and approved by tho governor. The course adopted at Johnstown, it contends, is not only illegal and calculated to lower the dignity of the state, but if the money is borrowed on the plan proposed, it can only be obta|ned by Governor Beaver's act as an individual, and the state wjll not in any sense Ikj bound to repay the loan. The editorial conclu es with this statement: Racing. "The water came down the two forks with terrible force, telling of the ruin that was being wrought above. Portions of bridges and houses, logs, pieces of furniture and all kinds of debris went tearing by mid on down in the rapidly swelling river. Ten, fifteen, twenty minutes passed, and there was no movement of the train. The rain came down from the heavens above, while the floods of the two forks roared and dashed as they Joined together, nuking one mighty and angry river. People from the town of South Fork crossed the bridge and mixed with the passengers. Then the Jatter did not know of the reservoir two miles above them,  wfls getting ready to let loose the vast body of water which it held within its confines. Paris, June 10.—The grand steeplechase at Auteuil was won by Lo Torpilleur, with The Sikh second and Fairfax third. Fourteen horses ran. . Dr. Joseph N. Dickson, in charge of the BCdford street hospital, and Dr. T. L. Hazzard, of Allegheny, deny emphatically that there is a single case of diphtheria in Johnstown or any of its suburbs. They siy there is a good doal of follicular s ire throat, but that is rarely fatal and is npt contagious. It THE CROPS OF THE COUNTRY, Who Will lie Chief of Ordnance? Wo have, beside, an uninspired book that was for the first three or four centuries after Christ's appearance received by many as inspired and which gives prolonged account of Christ's hoyhood. Some of it may be true, most of it may bo true, none of it may be true. It may be partly built on facts, or by the passage of the ages some real facts may have been distorted. But because a booL ia not divinely inspired we ore not therefore to conclude that there a,re not true things in it Presoott's "Conquest of Mexico" was not inspired, but we believe it although It may contain mistakes. Macaulay's "History of England" was not inspired, but we believe it although it may have been marred with many errors. The so called apocryphal Qospel in which the boyhood of Christ is dwelt upon I do not believe to be divinely inspired, and yet it may presents facts worthy of consideration. Because it represents the boy Christ as performing miracles some have overthrown that whole apocryphal book. But what right have you to say that Christ did not perform miracles at ten years of age as well as at thirty? Ho was in boyhood as certainly divine as in manhood. Then while a lad he must have had the power to work miracles, whether he did or did not work them. When, having reached manhood, Christ turned water into wine that was said to be the beginning of miracles. But that may mean that it was the beginning of that series of manhood miracles. In a word, I think that the New Testament Is only a small transcript of what Jesus did and said. Indeed, the Bible declares positively that if all Christ did and said were written the world would not contain the books. So wo are at liberty to believe or reject those parts of the apocryphal Gospel which says that when the boy Christ, with his mother, passed a band of thieves ho told his mother that two of them, Dumachus and Titus by name, would bo the two thieves who afterward would expire 011 crosses besido Him. Was that more wonderful than some of Christ's manhood prophesies? Or the uninspired story that the boy Christ made a fountain spring from the roots of a sycamore tree, so that his mother washed his coat in the stream—was that more unbelievable than the manhood miracle that changed common water into a marriage boverage? Or the uninspired story that two sick children wero recovered by bathing in the water where the boy Christ had washed. Was that more wonderful than the manhood miracle by which the woman twelve years a complete invalid should have been made straight by touching the fringe of Christ's coat? Or the inspired story that when a mother brought a dead child by the name of Bartholomew to Mary, the mother of Christ, she said: "Do thou place thy son in my son's bed and cover him with his clothes;" and, so done, the dead child opened his eyes and called with a loud voioe for bread. Is that more wonderful than the manhood miracles by which Christ reanimated tha dead again and again without going where they were or even seeing them? Why should we disbelieve the apocryphal New Testament when it says that a boy struck the boy Jesus till he cried out, or the story that Christ with other boys made clay figures of birds and these clay figures took life and flew away? Is that more unbelievable than the Bible account that Adam was made out of clay and walked forth a man and afterwards soared an immortal? Not half so much of an undertaking to make a bird out of clay as to make a man out of Clay. Or the uninspired story that the boy Christ took tho cloths of a dyer's shop and threw them into tho fire, and after the dyer's protest and ejaculation brought forth the cloths in the color that the dyer wished? Is that more unbelievable than the manhood miracle in the wilderness picnic where five biscuits the size of your fist were turned into enough bread to feed five thousand and the fragments filled twelve baskets? Or the uninspired story that Joseph the father as a carpenter, having orders to •% throne for the king at Jesuralem, and toiling two years on it, fonndthat after done it wp- tw spans too short, and UNINSPIRED STORIES. How tl»e Corn, Tobacco, Wheat anC1 Other Products are Progressing. Washington, June 10.—The second term of Commodore Montgomery Sicard, as chief of the bureau of ordnance, will expire in about three weeks. There is no precedent for appointing a bureau officer for three successive terms, and those who profess to be well informed are of the opinion that Secretary Tracy will make a new appointment. In the event of a change the most formidable applicant is said to be Commodore William M. Folger, at present in charge of the ordnance gun factory in this city. Commodore F. M. Ramsay, the commandant of the navy yard, New York; Commander R. W. Mead, commandant of the navy yard, Washington, and Capt. H. L. Harrison, presideut of the steel loard, are among the other applicants for the place. Washington, Juno 10.—The weather crop bulletin for the week ending Saturday, June 8, says: The week was generally favorable for all crops in the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys, and the corn is rapidly recovering from the effects of the recent frost, considerable being replanted. More rain is needed in northern Minnesota and Dakota. In the states in the Ohio valley weather conditions favored wheat, oats, grass and tobacco, but the weather was too cold and wet for corn. "Governor Beaver went to Johnstown on the principle that it is better to act iat than never. Events may prove that he had belter not gone to Johnstown at all." "What If tl»e Reservoir Should llreak?" AFTER THE BIQ FIRE, " 'What it the reservoir should break?' said a citizen. Verdict of the Nineveh Jury " 'God help ua if it does,' responded an old woman, the mother of three boys who had come out of the mines with their faces black with honest toil. Gheensburo, Pa., Juuo 10.—The jury impaneled by the coroner of Westmoreland county to inquire into the cause of the death of the 218 persons whoso bodies were picked up at Nineveh have rendered a verdict that each of the victims "came to his death by violence due to the flood caused by the breaking of the South Fork reservoir; and as well the aforesaid coroner as the jurors aioresaid do certify under their outli.s that the s.iid deceased died o! violence caused by the action of the flood, or there is such strong suspicion of such violence or other unlawful acts as to make an inquest necessary." Ill Kentucky and Tennessee the weath »r has improved the tobacco crop much more than was anticipated, but previous injury will doubtless prevent a full crop. Seattle Will lilne Like the Plicotiix from Its AhIick—No liodlea Found, Seattle, W. T., June 10 —Yesterday was a strange Sunday in Seattle. The wind that had heretofore blown the smoke of the smoldering ruins away allowed it to drift back again on the hills, The day was intensely hot, and Second street, which is now the main thoroughfare, was crowded with s ght seers from neighboring towns. Work is progressing ox\ a don in brick buildings and every carpenter in the city is employed. Insurance adjusters are sett ling loses promptly. No saloons are running and splendid order is piaintained. A gang of men is engaged in blowing down shaky walls with dynamite and tho work of clearing * ff the debris is being carried on as rapidly as possible. Ill Texas all crops were benefited excepting cotton, the growth of which was retarded by cold weather. Recent rains and freshets in the middle states and North Carolina have greatly damaged growing crops, and in localities escaping the freshets the weather was so cool as to prove injurioua ** 'Where is the reservoirf asked the writer of an old man. A TERRIFIC STOF^M, " 'Two miles find 6 half UP the South branch,' responded he, pointing in the direction.Kain end llail Do Considerable Damage ill and Around Onwego. "It needed but a glance at the topography of the country to show that should the reservoir, which was described as three miles long, one and a half miles wide, and sixty feet deep, empty ite mountain of water down tjxe sides of the gorge through which South Fork flowed, the limited express would be destroyed and all on board swept into eterhity.!' Oswego, N.Y., June 10.—The worst storm of rain anil hail experienced hero in many years has just passed over this section of the state. The people were just gathering at a mass meeting in aid of the Johnstown suffer ei*s, when the sky suddenly became black, and two immense clouds seemed to rise up out of the lake and bear down upon the city. The people aba doned the meeting and rushed for their homes. In New England the conditions were generally favorable for all crops excepting corn, which was slightly injured by low temperature. Reports are especially favorable for all crops, excepting com, which was vastly injured by low temperature. Reports are especially favorable from Arkansas and Kansas, where the wheat harvest is in progress and corn well advanced. Harvesting is also progressing favorably in Tennessee, but some damage occurred from hail in the northern and middle portions on Monday. THE KEMMLER APPEAL. Tli« Constitutionality of tlie Law to lie Tcated. Throughout the burned district streets which were formerly a labyrinth will now be platted in bror.d straight avenues. Search in the ruins fails to reveal any bodies as yet. The firemen are positive that half a dozen lives are lo§ , but o,wing to the confusion it cannot he ascertained who are missing. Our citizen* an Lending all their energies to rebuilding. Offers of financial aid have poured in upon busin« men during the past two days. The relief worfc is so thorough that' no one goes hungry, ai*l the streets are full of hastily eating stands. Today every idle man in Seattle will be ordered to work or he will be arrested. It is thought that the city will be rebuilt inside of a year. Mr. llatto'n suggested that the train be moyed across the bridge'. The conductor (it first said that he had orders to stay where Ue was,but he finally consented to take the train across. The Great Dam Breaks. Buffalo, June 10.—Charles IS. Hatch, attorney lor William Kemmler, also known as John Hurt, the wife murderor, sentenced to be executed hy electricity, has filed notice of his appeal to the court of appeals. The appeal involves not only a question of the constitutionality of the method of punishment to be used, but it promises to be one of the most interesting ca.-es in criminal his- As the clouds approaohed the city they were frightful in appearance. They passed over the city three minutes apart, and the tun shone brightly between them. The thermometer fell from 00 to 58. LOOKING* OVER THE DEBRIS AT THE BRIDGE TOWARD JOUNSTOWK. is something like quinsy, but a milder disease. Religious servioes were held at several different places throughout the oity Sunday and were largely attended. Tlie Mysterious Ex)ireMUian Discovered. The hail came with terrific force, the stones being of all shapes and sizes. The weather observer picked up one at the signal office that measured one and three quarter inches long and five-eighths of an inch thick. Great damage was done to strawberries and tobacco crops, and in many fields they were utterhr ruined. "About fifteen minutes after the limited bad reached the north side," says Mr. Hatton, 4'the engine of the freight train, which had remained on the south side, gave a flerco shriek and the train started for the bridge. Intuitively every one kuew the dam had broken and the water was coming. Chicago, June 10.—Hakan Martinson, a young 8we le, who has been in the employ of Larson Bros., expressmen, until a week ago, when he was taken in charge by the police and cl-wely guarded since then, has beei seen by a United Press representative, who was given a detailed account of his w.irk for the men who hired him to haul the furniture from the Clark street flat to the cottage where* Dr. Cronin was murdered. He helped the men tj carry the furniture into the cottage, described their appearance, and can posiively identify one of them whom he has seen on th» street several times since the murder. Martinson will be the mo*t competent witness produced before the coroner's jury.  The waters have begun to give up their dead. Fifty bodies were recovered here, m Dst of them floating in tha water. Seven of them were dragged out of the raft above the bridge. On the body of Chris. Kempte, an undertaker, was found $8, ICO. The body of Miss Bessie Bryan, of Philadelphia, was dug up yesterday and positively identified. It had been buried among the unknown. The Witters Give Up Their Dead. Mr. Hatch stated that the writ of habeas corpus wi 11 Hi applied for at once, probably this week. The writ will take the precedence and be heard lirst. The petition upon which it is expected the writ will be granted will recite the facts of the case, and it will be aliened that the punishment prescribed is contrary both to the constitution of the state and of the United States, which constitution provides that there shall lx) no excessive lines levied, no excessive bail demanded, or severe punishment inflicted which Ls cruel or tory "The inhabitants, shrieking and crying, ran for the mountain side. The two engiues on the limited blew their whistles and started with the train up the track, followed by a freight train. The writer was in the rear of the next to the last car on the limited. The roar of the water was almost deafening. In less time than it has taken to write this paragraph it had struck the houses nearest the bridge and they were lifted high into the air and tumbled over in the surging stream. The engine of the escaping freight train, which had given the alarm, had hardly reached the north side when the bridge went down, and the freight cars were borne off by the rushing Waters. The second cloud sent down sheets of rain. The streets were illled from gutter to gutter, and many cellars were flooded. The rainfall in twenty minutes was one and four-tenth iuches; the heaviest m that time ever recorded here. The air was tilled with electricity, and the thunder was incessant an4 deafening, Oflloori Quarrel Over a Prisoner. Pennsylvania Will Give #1,000,000 to Washington Court House, O., June 10.— Carter, the confidence operator, was released on |1,500 bonds, but was at one© rearrested by a Pinkerton d tectlye on a charge of swindling: Daniel Kellar, of Bear Gap, Pa., out of $-4,200. Sheriff Patton also had a warrant for Carter, and the oont st between the Pinkerton man and the sheriff for possession of the prisoner almost resulted in a free Johnstown. G vt-rnor Beaver, so much inquired for during the last week, is here. He looked at the wreck with weeping eyes, conferred for an hour and a half with William Flinn, James B. Scott, William MeCreery, Gen. Hustings and other*, who have borne the burden of the work of rescue and relief, and pledge 1 a $1,000,000 from the state treasury upon conditions which were Satisfied at once. There will be 110 extra session of the legislature. A state commission, with the governor at its hoa 1, will take control Of the relief work on Wednesday. Tho Burgess yacht Merje, owned in Toronto, was driven ashore at Jiine Mile Point. The crew escaped. A" unknown schooner was driven ashore at Pair Haven. There is no communication with near by towns, but tho damage to orops is believed to be very heavy, unusual. 4tNo man having been executed by electricity, how tire you going to hhow the punishment to be cruel and unusual?" asked a United Press reporter of Mr. Hatch. And then it was not uncultivated i/'""naour. These hills carried in their arms or on their backs gardens, grovee, orchards, terraces, vineyards, cactus, sycamores. These out- PALESTINE WAS LOVELY THEN. San Fuanc:s60, June 10.—Advices from Auckland giv« the particulars of the wreck o{ the »-hip Aitinore, bound (Sydney to Han Francisco. The ship struck a reef otT the Fiji Islands on tiio niyM'of April &J, The natives'proventCA| tU« tfrew from landing. The lux*, day thv second inate with sovoral passengers, inc udiug women and children and sDix of the » row, lef£ in small bouts fur the Island of fcDUva. Tuty have not since been heard, from. It is feared they were di owned. Tlie Wreck of the Alfmore. "We exp.-ct lo plainly show that tho method is what we a it to be. Under this law it is not |roVid« d who shall apply this current of electricity. A bungler  do it. It is a barbarous method, because the prisoner does not know whei} he is to be {tilled. Again, th • Jaw says the curreut shall be applied until life «s extinct Suppose the Current d-nsu'L kill tho man at once. Why, it may be kept up live, ten, fifteen minutes or a week." TU« (lernuii lluptint Conference, Theresa Astor Suicide*. branching foliages did not have to wait 41 As the passenger train fled up tlio track the back water up the Jforth branch carried by if artjcle3 of furniture from the houses which, a few seconds before, Vdfd standih^1 by the side of the train. There was great excitement among the passengers on thp f-rain, })ut jyas soyji discovered that the (linger tvas past and a 'Thank (Jod, we'ro saved I' weut up from the hearts and lips of all on board. "Thitiik God, AVe're Saved!** Staunton, Va., June 10.—Sunday was a grand service day with the Baptists encamped at Harrisonburg, Va.  from Lexington and. Harper's Ferry brpujght in not less than 4,000 peop)e. The roa4s leading to Harrisonburg Were for inUes with vehicles bringing ii\ the poetry people, from ten to twelve thu-usaiul people were on the ground. There was i'at a single disturbance, although all classes of people were represented. TU® waster of the conference is S. B. Mph(er, t*T Springfield, Ma John Wist!, of Iowa, is reading clerk, and J". G. JJwoy, writing clerk. The sessions' are held yudi'r a pavillion seating 5,000. Tile dining ball seats SU0, Several thousand dined yesterday. D. S. Miller, of Mount Morris Normal school, Illinois, lectured on the  Land. The sermon at the morning service was by Rev. Mr. Moyer, prinpipalof Mount Morris Normal school. From two to three thousand German Baptists are on (he ground. To-morrow, wlieu lUu business conference begins, the number will he doubled. N$W York, June 1(X—Theresa Astor, wife g/ a cigarmaker named John Jacob Astor, commit te 1 suicide by taking paris green. claims to be a cousin of his millionaire namesake, and has frequently been 4'written upM as such in newspaper nrt'cles. He earrs only $C150 a week, and lives in a miserable tenement. Despondency because of poverty is given as the cause of the woman's suicide. the floods before their silence was broken, through them and over them and in round them and under them were pel It'was proposed that the state furnish $1 - 000;0tDU'to ploverqof l^eayei; immediate use in clearing up and restoring Johnstown. Jn order to make the state whole, 200 citizens of Pittsburg, Philadelphia and other portions of it will liecome individually responsible until the legis'ature meets and makes an appropriation that will relieve them. This plan was unanimously agreed to. It was also arranged that on' Wednesday morning "Oeli. Hastings, acting for Governor Beaver, should take charge of the1 -work of policing the valley and cleaning it up, including Johnstown and the surrounding borough. were thrushes, were sparrows, were nightingales, were larks, were quails, were blackbirds, wero partridges, were bulbuU, Yonder tho white flocks of sheep snowed down over the pasture lands. And yonder the brook rehearses to the pebbles its ud ventures down the rocky shelving. Yonder are the Oriental homes, the housewife with pitcher Winn as lie I l.ow Bourke Cock ran got in the case Air. Hatch answered: 1 lie Aiiuivt-iDai y of tli* FIbk'k Adoption. Hartfohd, June 10.—The Courant his made its annual ap]Deal for a eel el ration of Juue 14, the anniversary of the adoption of the St;irs ami Strip s as the national eniblem. Tne day is .D1-served ui this city biy a general display of the tlag, and Hie Counint sugj:fDsts that in udClitioi\ this the  Of ttie fl bj tol»l in politic school* OM that day. a Bridge (,q ID« atli. "The limited train lay atWilmoreall night and until late Saturday afternoon, when it proceeded slowly east, reaching Altoona aboiit 7 o'clock that evening. 41 Wh-n 1 de.erftiined to appeal this I looked uroUi.il t«Dr s-jw» one to act as counsel. Every lawyer ot standing in New York is interested in ilie question rais.d in this case and is thoroughly interested in the l esu.t of tliis proceed.nj. 1 went to New York, saw Mr. Cockran and secured his services. If th6re is any truth in the statement that Mi\ Cockran is interested in another murderer \ donH know it." Ai,toona, Pa., June VX—A bound engine and car went through the bridge wesDt of Petersburg and Engineer Port and Fireman Hoffright were killed, A misplaced bWitcli caused accidml on the shoulder entering the door, down the lawn in front children ing among the flaming flora. this spring and song and grass and sunshine and shadow woven Into the most exjuidto THE DAY AT JOHNSTOWN, nature that ever breathed or wept or sung suffered. Through studying the sky bet™* the hills Christ had noticod the weather lig Suicide of a Soldier—Church Service# In Governor Beaver Interviewed. New Orueans, June 10.—Edwin Harris, late deputy collector of this port, has been indicted by the grand jury for the embezsdjnient of $4,000. An Official Indicted. the Open and Incidents. In an interview Governor Beaver said that he had been over the entire flooded district and found the supply depots well filled, but Ishey mitst soon be roplt'll " I fmi 11(1 the streams (Ple4 ilebriji ap}J  4rift in which tl|are js a possibility of human bodies being imbedded, with a probability that if allowed to remain they will endanger public health, leaving it impressed in my •nind that the public lowers of the state must be exercised to restore things to their normal condition. The funds whioh have eoiiib into hftndj foi layge ftmou'nli and from so many quarters outside of the state, and which have been imposed upon ma Uooin. and that a crimson iky at night meant JbHNSTOWN, Pa., June 10.—William B. Ttdimg. ageCf 28, of Oakdale, a member Of iWrpaay C, Fourteenth regiment, committed Suicide 111' his t&t tjJ plaicliig (.he mu'jtZle of b% fifle' left temple anil pulling &ie trigger. pespondeRcy cCiuse4 by a slight iflnees, and doubtless intensified by a night's guard duty among the gloomy ruins, is the only known cause of the soldier's act He w*s a farmer and leaves a widow and two ohlldren. 1'iie hrgnm0ut will bp hail as Uj the writ of corpus am] an opinion as to the constitutionality o£ the law obtained before the appeal proper. It ia probable that upon the flnol dispos tion of the question of constitutionalily the appeal from Kt-tum'er's sentence • ill drop out of sight. Wo always chronicle with special pleasure eacli gain iu the way of social and domestic? quiet comfort. The latest invention to Cio away with noise is the manufacture of l&fqer. doors, which slaiti noiselessly Bridget and the northwest winfls. TUwf are  of two thick Wpey, bourns moldecj into pane}*' a pel together with glue and potaah, aud put through a heavy rolling process Covered with a waterproof coating, uiul then a fireproof coating, they are hung liko wooden doors, and are bolli beautiful and serviceable.1 This is one step toward £aper' houses, which will soon follow.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.' weather next day, and that a crimson sky In the morning meant wet weather before night. And how beautifully he made use of it Id after years as he drove down upon the pectiforoua Pharisees and Sadduceea by crying out; "When it is evening ye say it will be fair weather for the sky is red, and in the morning it will be foul weather today for the sky is red and lowering: O ye hypocrite*, ye can discern the face of the sky but can ye not discern the sigus of the times." By day, aa every Jules Taveruier San Francisco, J we 10.—Jules Travernier, Uie well kuowu artist and critic, died at Honolulu, May 18. Niagara Falls, June 10.—"Jacko" Walker, a local boatman, with Frank Davy, a friu) d, were out on the river some di$t aboie the fulls wLat they lost control of the boat, and it was gvt-pt bjr'the current over the foils, pnssing aiuibst directly in the middle of the Horsehoe. The belies have n.Qt yet been recovered. Two Men Go Over the Falls. Floods in In vaiD the ryes are filled with light; In v»in the cheek with beauty glows, Unless the teeth are pure and while, ULless the breath ig like the rose ; And SOZODONT atone suppHes These beauties that we all so prize. $N*ClANAPOU8, June 10,— Heports from the gurrounding country tell of great damage done by streams swollen by recent rains. No loss of life has been reported. • Father Tahney is a Catholic priest who belief? tfcftt #here f*e«r b there is th« church, and that churches as well as per- (continued on third paqb.)