TALMAGE GHURGH BURNT BROOKLYN TABERNACLE DE- STROYED BY FIRE. Hotel Regent Goes With It-The Summerfield Church and About Twenty Residences Damaged - Most Destructive Fire of Recent Years in Brooklyn. REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE, The Rev. Dr. T. De Witt church, the Brooklyn Tabernacle, and Hotel Regent, which was the finest hotel in the East of New York completely destroyed by fire, and merfleld Methodist Talmag outside the Sum- Church and no less than twenty residences wore damaged toa greater or less extent, It was one of the great- est fires that Brooklyn hb aver seen, entailing as it did million and a Hie uarter dollars, xtended over the two ton, Ls ' unded by Greene, Clin- nues. 1 "ire ) nent a 1088 estin ton and Wi was in WwW in res; fore and mained preached referred to sion. He trip ar xpressed tho hope of me we his opl he urned after six n Ho was reparing to go upon an extended trip to the fol Land at the time of the last fire in his church, and the work o wwullding went forward in his absences, while services worn held in the Academy of Music. Arrange ments had been made for the Rev, R. Fay Mills, the well known evangelist. to fill the Tabernacle pulpit during Dr. Talmage's projected trip to Australia and India, upon which he had plaoued to sail from San Pran- Saco on May 30. +” Dr. Talmage 4d concluded the services and dismirsed the congregation. He re mained upon the platform to shake hands with those who wished to speak with him, { his intended Nunday-seh vi with so which added 1 f r Tha soon burst ro i windows and reached the « The flames rose above the roe few minutes and then the beams fell with a crash and whole interior of the edifice was gone walls were loft standing, except upon Waverly avenue side of the Sunday-se structure adjoining and forming a po of the church, where the wall fell int street, Meanwhile there were scones of ment in the spacious Hotel Regent adjoin ing. This had ninety feet frontage in Clin- ton avenue, and a depth of 200 feet, axtend- fog to Waverly avenue, The fire, which first communicated to the hotel through the party well, was extinguished by the fire brigade formed of the employes, but when the Tabernacle was fully aflame ths hotel canght in so many places that it was found that it could not be saved, The suites of rooms wears occupied by about 100 guests and there were ninety-three servants Bome of the guests were in their rooms, but all made their way down by the elevators or the fire. eROADPON, Mes. A. Loomis, of Bavannah, Oa., was slek In hor room, Dut she was enrried down the fire-escape by William Franois, and taken toanelghboring house, Mr, Franols assisted two other women to esenpe Misa Keone, tha Rousekeannr, was over como by smoke In the effort to save some ar ticles and had to be carried out, George P MoCoy went up In the elevator to his rooms on the seventh Moor and semsired such of his personal effects as he conld carry, and then made his way down the fire.cscapn One of the occupants of the hotel wie Judge Henry A. a. but he and his wife wore out of the bullding. They lost all their property, as did the other oeenpants, Only the books In the offles of the hotel were saved, Inthe safe was parsons] property valuad at $60,000 belonging to the guts, The wind carried sparks goross Way erly and Groen avenues, and sot fire to sey oral houses, At Greene nnd Clinton avenues there was on Joss of 82000 on the houses of Louls Hirsch, No. 34% Clinton avenue, Ad Joining this, at No, 129 Greens avenue, there was a loss of #5000 on the houses of Dr, Mon for, At No. 130 the los to 8. W, Heoves wns $1000, At No, 132 J. HW. Pepper lost $300 on bis store and houss above it. The next bloek, on the south side of Greene ave nue, is occupied by the Bummerfield Matho dist Episcopal Church, and this was dam. aged to the extent of shout $2500. There were two small houses and a stable ) the infia thn cenit oe burned in Waverly avenues, opposite the Tabernacle, with a loss of about #1000, On the north side of Greene avenue, and be- tween Waverly and Washington avenues, there were five houses, the loss pon which was about #2000 each, On the Washington avenue side of this block the house of Dr, Krotzschmar, at No. 402, was damaged #15 - 000, At No. 404 George Harvey's house sul. fared a damage amounting to £10,000, At No, 400 an unoccupled house was damaged #2000, At No. 885 Washington avenue thoro was a loss of #1000 to the house of Freeborn (1. Smith. The aggregate ot these losses wns a little over £50,000, The damage to the Tabernacle was about £300,000. The property was valuod at $400,- 000, and the site is worth 895,000, The debt upon it was about $175,000, not including | intersat of $25,000 more, There is a mort gage of $135,000 held by Russell Sage, and a lien by George Wills, build. er, of $50,000, On the Hotel Nogent the loss was estimated at $700,000, without counting the personal effects of the guests which were burned, The site cost $100,000, and the building was erected at an exponse of $650,000, The insurance was £400,000, It was furnished In a costly manner, A meeting of the trustees was held at Talmage's house at 5 Dr. After o'clock p, m. | a prolonged session it was decided to make an attempt to rebuild, In that viding the new event, Tabernacles is free from debt, Dr. Talmage promised to be the pastor. He wielded to thelr wishes not to postpone his trip around the world, A round sam was subseribed on the pot for the new structure, A tte w ito find a pine wrihe te intion of the Tabernacle Within four hours after the fire ! dos halls and churches gratis had been made, A trustee said to a reporter “We almost fool ns if we had oad off ir minds, pro. wore | | lightest hitting in the League and only good | i ! ] | ] | | | | | ! | | There seems 3 our build ing a Tabernacles afore it was a case of sinkis ip an he He was anew, with del pab- dart in assist VATIONAL GAME, the League ia of the Weaver ladelphia Club bh signed First Goekle, the star player of Peansyl- vania "Varsity team, Tux Loulsvilles at present are doing the pitching has held them up. Iv is so 2 ui IC represents r, and from nitation will be me ily by the ient Hart or Me i afused to ' AD ionrAaxDs, late of Harvard, it is a settled now, will join the Bostons next year, practically make his debut with that agust 27, when pitches with them ’ r crippled Charlie Bennett's he benefii, Fon the first time in the history of Canada the Governor General advocates baseball, He 1s a great lover of the American National game, and has been elactad honorary patron of the Ottawa Club of the Canadian League, “Bon” Fraovsox, one of the best-known layers in the profession, died suddenly of ape lexy at his house in Brooklyn a few nights ago, He was a member of the old At- lantie Club for years, and up to three years age had been an umpire, when he retired with a comfortable sompetence, Munruy, Burks, Doyle and Clark, of the New York team, are all under five foet seven inches in height, while Ward, Westerveit, Wilson and Davis each stand five feet nine, Farrell, Ruste and Connor are the only six. footers on the tess, onsidering the facts, the name *' Giants” seems misplaced, » RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUNM, Ver fot, ot Chatw, Won J65Clneinnatl, Daltimore. 18 084 86. Louls, , Pittsburg 12 M67 Brooklyn, , Philadel, . 12 71 682 Chiengo... 5 11 818 Bost or 11 B11 Louisville, 65 12 204 Rew York.10 S00, Wast'ng'n, 3 17 400 Par fat, ot 8 8 500 810 444 T11 580 Clube, Wen Cleveland 13 —— RIOTERS KILLED, Gendarmes Forced to Fire on a Mob in Austrian Silesia, The striking miners made a desperate ate tack st Troppau, Austrian ‘Silesia, upon a detachment of gendarmes wiio were guards ing a colliery in Polish Ostran, with the ob. Joot ot making a raid upon the mines and ilidings in order to drive away the men wha were at work, hin rioters wore warnad fo dinforne, but Instead of doing so began peiting the police officers with stones, Finally they made a rush upon the polices, expecting to drive them away by forob of numbers, The gead Armes, after a last warning, opened fire upon the rioters, Rilliag sine of them and wounding twenty others, The mob thea fied in all directions. | Mary, the | was dedicated nt Fredericksburg, Va., in an | exacted 10 MARY WASHINGTON, THE MONUMENT AT FREDER- ICKSBURG DEDICATED, The Handsome Memorial Shaft Une veiled in the Presence of Thou- sands President Cleveland, the Vice-President, Members of the Cabinet and Others Take Part. The monument erected to the memory of mother of George Washington, imposing way, President Cioveland, his Cabinet, Vieo-President Adlal E. Stevenson and Mrs, Stevenson, Chief Justice Fuller and the Associated Justices \ of the Supreme Court, Giovernor Charles Tul- Hus O'Forrall and staff, Benators and Repre sontatives and other publie men assisted at the dedication, The day's fostivities began soon after 10 o'clock. when the Presidential party, scoompaniod by the Marine band and the Alexandria Light Infantry, arrived from Washington on a LJ train over the Pennsylvania road. I'he President was met at the station by Many P., Rowe and the ommon ( n behalf of the vty. Governor O'Fer- rail and staf who Riel Rpeci led oun and ! Mr. Mayor and Fel 4) i ! me Who § 5 ir od ns y off guests of Virgl ind Fre I return » thanks for the that has extendad to th the Slate tres n of the warmth liminished by the of the highest wsion there are have assembled or it a sacred national hing ean be more important to those ve assumed the responsibility of self- ont than the euitivation and stimu- mong themselves of sentiments whist s» and elevate and strengthen human As a clear and wh stron have its flow from u 80 must a iesome clean an have better axomy +3 write 1 ' more truth - Wn W r he strength and hono t he could gauge a people and thelr fitness for self-government {I he knew the depth and steadfastness of thelr love for their mothers, 1 believe that he who thinks it brave and manly to outgrow his care and devotion for his mother is more than he who has no musie in himaslf, fit for treason, stm togems, and spoils, and should not be trusted. Let us recall to-day as conclusive proof of the close relation between American greatness and a lasting love and reverence for our mothers the proud declaration of George Washington, ‘All Iam I owe to my mother,’ and let us not forget that when his lory was greatest and when the plaudits of fa countrymen were loudest, he walued ore than these the blessing and approval of his aged mother, “While these exorolses cannot fall to in- spire us anew with reverence for American motherhood, we will remember that we are hers to do honor to the woman who gave to our nation its greatest and best citizen, and that we have the privilege of participating in the dedication of a monument erected by the women of our land in loving and en- during testimony to the virtues of the mother at Washington, Let us be proud to- day that the npobility of this woman from a distinguished foreigner the admission, ‘If such are the matrons of America, she may well boast of lustrous sons,” and that Lafay ette, who had fought with her son for American Independence, declared after he had received hor blessing, ‘I have seen the only Roman matron lying ot this day.’ “"Romembering these things, lot us leave this place with our love of country strength ensd, with a higher estimate of the value 0 American citizenship, and with a prayer to | God that our people may hold fast to sentle | ment that grows out of a love and reverensn for American motherhood," "hora was another onthuarst of snthasisem when the President finished and gave way | 10 tha Masonic societies, who performed the dedioatory ceremonies, Senator John W. Daniel, the orator of the day, was then in- | trodused by President Cleveland, After paving a gracaful tribata to Mrs Waite and the ladies of the Lady Washington Association, whose plous hands had peared “the first monument on earth erected woman to a woman,’ Senator Daniel sal In part: “This stona represents two [deals woman- ly exoellonon au patriotie duty. You have roared this beautiful obelisk to one who was } eroald sxpoct a ! opinion, the Nght of the dwelling In a plain rural colonial home, Hor history hovers around it. Bhe was wife, mother and widow, Bhe nursed a hero at hor breast, At her knee sho trained to the love and fear of God and to the kingly virtues, honor, truth and valor, the lion of the tribe that gave to America liberty and independence, This Is her title to renown, It is enough.” Mr, Daniel traced the history of the mother of Washington from her birth on tho 80th of November, 1706, at the plantation home of her father, Colonal Joseph Ball, in Lanens- ter Coynty, Va., en the banks of the Bapps hannock, where the river broadens as it blends Into the Chesapeake Bay, through all the eventful years of her life down to her Aoath at her home in Fredericksburg on the 25th of August, 1780, and closed an eloquent peroration by saying : “Onoo again the May time breaks with its sunshine, its verdure, and its blossoms over the land whose hills and plains were shaken and whose homes were shattered by the thun- dors of war; but no more do the long lines come gloamirg onto tha deadly fray (no mors fa heard the noise of the Captains and the shouting ; no more are seen the garments rolled in blood, Yet history repeats itself, and a mighty host again is marshalled upon these plains, Manhood and womanhood and annahood aro hors: the people have come from far and wide ; the old Masonic lodge of which Washington was a and the volunteer soldiery are gatherad our noble Chief Magistrate and Comn eg-in-Chlef, who fills Was! ington and J Hit up public lessons member hore, and and- the seat of Ire imbibe this RAYS n Aare the pt and prophesy, world will ore be Heving world, with many |} role world, It will then be a vieto never till then. Fireside mother's love must un Heving, i this are tok f vision, once uw herole ———— COMMONWEALERS GUILTY. Coxey, Browne and Jones Convicted of Trespass at Washington, gs in #4 Clans oy A now trial was asked in ths DOS i i fre 10 15 L wk wi! 4] Pence, of ( y third and Inst speaker for the defences, Mr. Penoo sald that no one who hat listened 10 the evidences given in the case sonviction, and no one, in hie wanted a conviction except the police officers, who had been very active is Mr Pon _— f tha n bel joven) for the Comm rado, addressed the jury asthe the matter, nwa alors £0 4 in the srrnowt tha rsa VW Capitol grounds nw Iristriot Attors } pang MIA reas Birney ag fluenond away fro 1e this was what is in the world, striction, and “You must Judge Miller, “by move of this character It} of anybody to antertalin any views ment he may desire, It is not only itis a duty, The people have the perfe-z right to ventilate their views, but they 1 do it in a proper way and within the law The cases were given to the jury at 12.4 clock At 3.40 the jury returned, finding Coxey., Browne and Jones guilty on the first count of the information, that of carrying a banner in the Capitol grounds contrary to Inaw, and Coxey and Browne guilty, and Christopher Columbus Jours not guilty, on the second count of trespassing en the grass Poh ding a motion for a new trial the delend- ants were released on £500 honds The penalty imposed by the statute for of- fences of this kind is fine or imprisonment or both, at the discretion of the Jadge of the polies court ithe fine not to exoond $100, the imprisonment not to axcesd sixty days, wnts i" f gover: a right us MURDERS BY HUNDREDS, Astounding Record of Crime In the Pennsylvania Mining Regions For a tong time lawlessness has provailed in the Wyoming coal fields in Pennsylvania, and hardly a wook has passed sinee January that a orime of serious oharmctor has not been committed. Within the last three months erims has bean on the inerease, and Japtain Whalen, chief of the Detective Dee partment, says that thirty-five mystarions and brutal assassinations have been come mitted, bosides other atroslous deads, In every (nstanoe the orimes have been traced to Hungarians and Blavonians, who have managed to essoape, Entire communities have been terrorized by members of an oath-bound organization, whose influence appears to reach from the anthracite coal regions of Northern Ponnayle vania to the bituminous country of Central Pennaylvania, and west of the Alleghany Mountains to the coke country, The crime inal record of ths portions of the State enug- meratod shows, it is sald, that during the Inst year more than 200 murders have been pore petrated, and only seven of the murderers apprebonded, he same body of prganized outlaws come mitting these crimes has also bean guilty of the wholesale destruction of property, ani the value alone of the conlbreakers and ot her mine works destroyed in theanthraeite couns Sih am vain, It Is declared, to nearly §2,000,« THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Riemann Croxen announesd in New York | City that he wished to be relieved of some of | the drudgery and responsiblity of Tam- many Hall leadership : this was looked upon by many as an indication that he intended {| 10 retire, GeNERAL BWERTLAYND 6nd sixty men, who marched from Connecticut to join Coxey's army In Washington, reached West Farms, N. Y., where the General was arrested for marching without a permit, He passed the night in a oell, while his followers visited Now York Clty, and wore entertained at the headquarters of the People's party, where they slept : Witrian A. Buaren's 835 was ltunehed at ath, Me, Tux Bpeacial Naval BB armor frauds renched at ones went to work, 0,000 steam yacht ard to inve Pittsburg the : and tigate 1 Per Tur Grand Jury of Hudsor Now Jersey, handed up a presentment charging the Western Uni Telegraph Company with aiding green goods men in thelr business, Tur New York State ( vention was organizsd election of Joseph H The bo iy a 1) ar Tue villages « by a most Awellis nstitutional Ce AA wears burs to ball a West and nwealers, th i Sr i {rats res Jr. : t . it 4 1 Mamhals at 8 ny, Aan Tw wore faring a fight with C« Washington State Riates Deg Marshals shot xeyites in Washington. Tre smended Tariff bill was presented to the Re lean Senators and in its present shag fil be pressed t ate, An eart! the villages and assistan CHAIRMAN 1 F i much improved in health Tur cruiser New York was the San Fr isco at Bluefie American interests, the situation having b come segious, Foreign. opensd with the chair ; Presi. said the Insurre Tux Brazilian Congress President .elect Moraes ix dent Peixoto, in his speect tion had been crushed, yf Nicolet, Canada, t swan the for a sall, river boat upset and ali bat Foun young men a *kiff and went 4d While returning the one were drowned Ax official dispateh from Salvador teilso the defeat of the rebels in three battles with #00 kilind and 1500 wounded, Carrarx Warsox, in command of the Uni tod States mau-ol-war San Francisco, now at Bluefleids, has demanded that the Nicara guan authorities make reparation for the death of the Amerioan citizen Kille ! there, Tre River St, Auns is rapilly esting un the village of Bt, Anne de la Porade, Quebec, Canada, a doren or more hous having gon» down with the landslides Gexenat, Axpre AveLixo Caoxkes has boon olected President of Pera, Genora Caceres was Prostdent from 1886 to 1800 Tux Government ordered the German war ships now in Drazilian waters (0 proceed at once to Ramon, yok ' the favor Hawaiian AuHEXA Tie delegates siocted to Constitutional Convention tion, To — Br direction of the As#istant Secretary of War the few remaining Indians composis Company I, Sixteenth Infantry, at For Douglass, have been discharged, thereby practiealiy wiping out the organization and making another step toward the total atandonment of the scheme of separate Indian companies, ns — Tue subject of bullding a ship canal be. twoon Philadelphis and New York has again been agitated in the former oity ; and a meoting of prominent oitizsens was held re. contly, st which t was recommended that an appropriation of $10,000 should be made to make a prelimi survey, Tue World's Pair oheme contributed by Ounade wits Revanbly out Jini} gute in Ken- Ia ald to ba Ive Deen YOr7 Bana. Myand ——— LATER NEWS, Bowassp J. Prosiey, Under Sheriff of Wests chester County, New York, ¢hot and almost instantly killed Joseph Schnelibach, who had shot and assaulted his sister-in-law, Mathilda Schwelling, In Boarsdale, N. Y. Tip, the unruly fiveton elephant of Cene tral Park, New York City, who had mur tered olght men, was killed by the administration of five His death was calm, ounces of potassium cyanide, Navy an in party of Cal., Tur Boeretary of the exam in her experts while in Ban Francisco ining the Monterey fourd blow-holes pintes Works, 1 by a strike of the Tn Pullman Paloes Car gront , were clos men for higher wages, Mrs. E. B. White, the painter, was sitting in her home at Houston, Waa wile of 8 Texas, discussing vith & neighbor her pond. ing suit, her husband and and shot He then mortally livoree walked in her wounded hims Ors were nn, Wash, wed pia ily. but 6 this foroe i wsiderod in- protoct Gorman interests at arly are asking infantry be sent sufficient to Bamon, and the colonial gn 1 ¥ a 3 ¥ eum #3 4 that a Ialialion of marine ——— AN AWFUL CRIME. A Family Waylald and Its Members Butchered 3 received letter from the Taylo irowning, telling Away at 10 hildren waited | Tayi itil midnight, when two n, wh id her were George and / mo their home In a man and his family got into the wagon and started for Brow: The only statement regarding the erime was from the seven-year-old girl, who was suffering greatly at the time she told her story. It seems that when the Meeks family and the persons acoompanying them reached a point on the road near the school house in Lynn County, a small distances from Drown. ing, they were attacked by two armed men who were lying in walt at the roadside, Their first victim was Meoks, His wile jumped from the wagon in terror st the sound of the shot, but she also was murdered, The flends then soimed large stones and best the lives out of the two children and loft the third one for dead, The assassins hauled the bodies of thelr vietims nearly two miles in the wagon tothe Taylor farm, burying them under a hay stack, I ——— a ——— SEIZED BY CANADIANS. An Outrage Committed on Twe American Steamers on Lake Erie, News has boen reosived from Sandusky, Oblo, that the Canadian cruiser Petrel, in the Canadian waters of Lake Erie, oap- tured the steamers Victor and Leroy Brooks, of Patdn-Bay, for fishing in Canadian waters, The steamers’ crews and passengers nem bears of clube from Dayton and Phisbang, Penn.,, were taken to Windsor, © Great pxeitement prevaliod among fishermen on the ielands, The capture occurred south of Peles Island, where several Chioago and New York capi talists were fishing, Four of the fishermen who wore in row. boats at the time managed 10 esoape and him to wei ng
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