A SLEEP1NGV0LCAN0
-iie Canadian Political Situa
tion Is Becoming Se
riously Critical.
THEIK HOXOKIS AT STAKE.
Danger of Disruption Increasing
"With Most Kapid Strides.
IXFAJir AND SHAMEFUL INTRIGUE
Allowed to Be Perpetrated Without Protest
bvtlie Governor.
THE FORESHADOWING OF ANNEXATION
nerlXXAI. TELTCRAM TO THE DISPATCn.l
MoXTltEAi,, Oct 20. The political situa
tion in the 1'rovince of Quebec is becoming
more critical each day, and events may
happen at any time which would be fraught
with the greatest consequences to Canada
and the United States. The Itoyal Com
mittee appointed by the Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Quebec to inquire into the charges
of boodling made against Premier Mercier
and his Government is now sitting at
Quebec, and damaging evidence is being
adduced, implicating the Quebec Premier
aud his ministers. The committee will
conclude its inquiry in a few days, and it is
believed that the Lieutenant Governor will
dismiss the Jlinistry. Should he follow
this course, serious trouble is inevitable.
Mercier's leading newspaper organs have
already commenced to pave the way for an
agitation in behalf of annexation and are
hurling defiance at the Governor General
and the Ottawa Government. A veritable
j-rnsation as caused to-day by the publica
tion in L'Elpiwr, Mr Mercier's personal
organ, of an article entitled, "Warning to
ihe Go ernor General," in which it makes a
violent attack on Lord Stanley and threat
ens trouble. L'Eltttmr says:
QtTr.ni:c the scene ov a drama.
Tor a few months past the Province of
Quebec has been the scene of a drama which
may liai e a cry tragic end. In our Prov
ince, and in our Province only, the people
aiocalm enough, and are friends'enough ol
quietness aud eood order to endure all the
outrages committed against our national
dignity and the Constitution which jruaran
tees our autonomy. We are not afraid to
nfllnn tliat it is only in the Province of Que
bec, -nith French Canadians, that sucn a
turns is attempted without ueing lnimeui
atelv exposed to most serious consequences.
1-ot Mr. Abbot try. For example, let him
make public the correspondence between
the Lieutenant Governor and his Ministers.
Tliere Mould be a general uprising. The
press of that province would unanimously
protest. Indignation meetings would be
held in every municipality to ask the Irape
nal Government to recall the Governor
v, ho would allow such an outrage to be
committed agamstour Constitution. It will
urelv be admitted that the Queen and her
Ministers have at least as much power as
Lord Stanley and the members of the Feder
al on eminent. The House of Lords is, we
think, as important -as the same of Canada.
Ne ertbeless neither the Queen nor her
Ministers would ever allow the House of
Lords to make public the confidential corre
spondence between a Colonial Governor
r.ud his 3Iinistei8.
S1AS1EY A PAKTTTO THE IXTRIGUE.
What really surprised us was to learn that
Lord Stanley was a party to this shameful
intrigue and allowed the infamy to be per
petrated without protesting. "We are well
aware of the independence and apathy of
tins Government, but we expected that on
that occasion he would give us proof of the
noDlenessand dicnitr which animates all
Knglikhmeu whenmatteis of honor are at
stake Unfortunately we were mistaken.
What has been going on lately In our pi o
vince does not pre-occupy the Gov
ernor General, who seems to trou
ble hlmoe f veiy little with the
mo-t serious question affecting public In
tel et, but alt these shameful occurrences of
which we have haa knowledge for the last
few months will have tfce'r effect, and Lord
Stanley ill perhapi rjercelvo before long
that ne is sleeping on a volcano. Until now
the Province of Qncbeo has remained at
tached to England because the people of this
pto ince appreciate the liberty of the con
stitution and the constitutional customs
which have been given to us by Great Brit
am, above all othei considerations.
THE SITUATION CHANGES SUDDENLY.
But as soon as the representative of the
metropolis allows all those things which at
tach us to England to be trampled upon with
impunity the situation changes, nnd out of
rfspect to our own dignity wo are obliged to
question the future and to see where we will
did protection ourselves. This is the situa
tion that the apathy and connivance of the
Governor General has brought us into. We
rain him of the danger, which is increas
ing with more rapid strides than
people think. ir he will onlv
come out of his torpidity and learn what
the public opinion is ho "will see for him
felf that it is high time to counteract the
dealings which are tending to wreck all our
pol'ticnl institutions He will have to be
made aw are of the responsibility of what
may happen and perhaps sooner than he
think-. We cannot allow a whole popula
tion to be turned into ridicule, as our popu
lation has been for the last few months.
The article Ins created great excitement
in political circles, as it is believed to fore
shadow Mr. Mercer's intention of running
the annexation Wus Important develop
ments may take place in a few days.
YOUTH GROWS TIBED OF AGE,
An Old Man Kills IlimsclT Upon the Elope
ment of His Young Wife.
Plymouth, Pa., Oct. 20. Sperial
The union of an old man nearly 70 years of
age with a girl of 19 has resulted in
n elopement, robbery and suicide.
Two years ago Jacob Masterman,
an aged aud wealthy farmer re
siding in Fairmount township,
1G miies from here, became infatuated with
Ida Dimmick, a buxom servant girl on an
adjoining farm. Masterman proposed mar
riage to her. She was induced to give her
content Masterman had been a widower
for many years, with many married chil
dren. Tno months ago William Belas, a fine
looking young man, was engaged as a farm
hand. Early Friday morning Masterman
awoke to find that his wife had eloped with
the farm hand, taking a team and a car
riage. Seven hundred dollars in cash had
been takeu. Saturday and Sunday Master
man sat brooding. Early yesterday morn
ing Masterman was found stretched upon
the floor with a bullet hole in his temple.
A tevolver lay beside him. Within a few
minutes he breathed his last.
LITIGATION WILL BE PRESSED.
The Cowles Company to Actively Fight the
rittsburg Iteduction Company.
Lockport, Oct. 20. Special An im
portant business change in the celebrated
Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum
Company of this city took place at the an
nual meeting held recently at Cleveland,
r. W. Matthiessen, the wealthy zinc manu
facturer of La Salle, 11L, has invested
largely in the stock of the company and was
elected President, Mt. Eugene Cowles re
signing. Mr. Matthiessen will assume the
business direction of the company assisted
by Mr. Cowles, who will be resident man
ager here.
The extensive patent litigation with the
Pittsburo Bednction Company, the Cowles
only rival ; this country in the manufacture
of pure aluminum, will be pressed and an
extensive plant erected in addition to the
one here and at Stoke-on-Trent, England.
This plant tuil be capable of producing 20
tons of pure aluminum a dnv and ill Te-
quire from 20,000 to 30,000 horse power.
The remaining officers of the company
elected were vice President Alfred II.
Cowles, of Lockport; Secretary, Horace "W.
Power, of Cleveland; Treasurer, A. P. Os
borne, of Cleveland.
"WALKED OUT OF PHIS0N.
Two Convicts Find an Easy Way of Escap
ing From Jail.
Heading, Oct. 20. ferial. During
the rain storm of last night some one un
locked the cell door of Beatrice Collins,
under sentence of two years for passing
counterfeit money. She went Into the
jail yard and passed from there to a
stable and thence into a side yard, where
she was assisted over a board fence and
escaped. With her went another convict,
John Miller, alias Bush, who was serving a
sentence of 18 months for robbing a cream
ery. The escape was reported to Warden
Mensch at fl o'clock this inornin" and he
placed 2vigbt Watchman Bhoads under
arrest.
Bhoads refused to say anything more than
that he had discovered the cell vacant and
reported the escape to the warden. Miller
was on duty as a nurse in one ot the auioin
ing cells, but before he left he was allowed
to get into another convict's cell,
where he exchanged his prison clothes
for citizens clothing belonging to a
man who was to be discharged to-day. The
woman, when sentenced, refused to name
the place of her residence, but it is said
that she hails from Brooklyn. The
belief is general that her friends bribed
someone in the jail to assist her
to escape. She" secured her black dress
vesterday on the plea that she wanted to re
pair it. She was sentenced only a few
w ecks ago. Yesterday she asked for f 26
which she had in her pocket when arrested,
saying she wanted to make some purchases.
This was refused her. It is said the woman's
maiden name was Nein, and that she is the
wife of a Brooklyn broker.
SPRECKELS SELLS SUGAR.
Prices Sent on the Downward Koad TVltli
Startling Rapidity.
Philadelphia, Oct. 20. Special
Tnder the impetus ot a Spreckels move,
granulated sugar yesterday struck the 4
cent notch for the first time in many weeks,
and the drop had a very curious accompani
ment When the market reached 4 1-16
cents, a local sugar broker made an offer
of 4 cents for 500 barrels to Spreckels'
selling agents. "What is it for," asked
the agents. "Eor E. C. Knight & Co.," re
plied the broker. The offer was promptly
accepted, and thus it leaked out that one of
the lirst, if not the first, of the Spreckels
sales at 4 cents was made to one of his com
petitors in the business. Following this
transaction the lower price was sent broad
cast over the country.
The object of the series of sensational con
cessions on Spreckels' part seemed to be to
keep his price at a poin where the other
refineries would not meet it. When the
price broke to 4'o in the afternoon, the
Pranklin aud E. C Knight & Co. refiner
ies promptlv met the cut, but it was hard to
sell sugars, and later Spreckels dropped, his
price to 4 1-lGc, which was also met by
Knight, but not openly by Franklin. Later
in the day Spreckels made his price 4 cents,
and this brought in a eood many orders that
had been apparently waiting for this climax
of the downward movement of values.
A HEEVY UAH'S IHDTJSAKCE.
Be Hangs to an Engine's Flag StafT and
Takes a Perilous Bide.
Siiamokin, Pa., Oct. 20. SjyeciaL
When the Philadelphia express steamed
into the Heading station at a late hour last
night, people on the platform noticed a
man hanging to a flag staff on the engine.
His leet almost touched the wheels. When
the train stopped he fell unconscious to the
ground. Physicians found him uninjured,
and on recovering consciousness he told a
marvelous tale.
lie was Harry McLaughlin, and while
going home from the theater was crossing
Race street, when steam from an engine on
a siding obscured the approach of the ex-
Jiress. Just as the pilot was about to strike
le jumped as high as possible upon it and
was hurled up the smoke stack. Descend
ing he clutched the flag staff The train
was running at the rate of 30 miles an hour,
and none saw the man's terrible periL
Many times he was about to relax his grip,
but the thought of death nerved him to an
extraordinarv power of endurance, suffi
cient to hold'on to the finish.
SI8TEES EVEff IK DEATH.
Two Aged Spinsters Fonnd Dead In the
Midst of Want and .Misery.
Boston, Oct. 20. Special Two aged
spinsters, Margaret Breen, 75, and Bridget
Breen, 78, sisters, were found dead this
morning in the apartments which they had
occupied for 30 years. Lying beside the
bed in one of the rooms was the Tiody ot
Bridget; near the door of the other room
was the body of Margaret. Bridget being
blind was unable to support herself and
Margaret supported both by doing washing
and general work.
Of late she has been too feeble to work,
and the two women had lived on charity.
It is supposed that Bridget died in the
chamber and that Margaret started to the
door to call for.assistauce, when the shock
of her sister's death overcame her and she
fell. Another old woman, who lives in an
other room in the house, was prostrated by
the shock, and now lies at the point of
death. She was a great friend of the aged
couple.
YELLOW FEVER AT SANTOS.
Strict Quarantine Orders Issued to the
Vessels In the Harbor.
Biode Janeiro, Oct. 20. Dispatches
received here from Santos, the 'port of Sao
Paulo on the north side of the Island of
Engua-Cuacan, announce that the yellow
fever there is increasing. In consequence
of this prevalence of the much dreaded
malady the Brazilian Government has or
dered that the vessels at Santos, amounting
to about 100 craft,! large and small, which
have not yet commenced to discharge their
cargoes, go outside the harbor until it is
their turn to discharge.
Ships which arrive at that port after the
issuing of the order referred to will not be
admitted until there are berths available for
them. Santos is not a large town (its popu
lation is estimated to be about 10,000,) but
its harbor admits of large vessels, and it
has an active export trade, chiefly in coffee
REVISING THE DISCIPLINE.
The Evangelical Conference Will Discuss
Iy Representation To-Day.
Indianapolis, Oct 20. The conference
of the Evangelical Association will doubt
less close to-morrow. A resolution was
adopted for tho appointment of a commis
sion of nine to revise the language of the
church discipline.
The question of lay representation is to be
the special order for to-morrow. It is inti
mated that a represeitation ot four laymen
will be given on each of the various chnrch
boards, aud also a substantial recognition in
the General Conference. Elgin, 111., was
selected as the place of the next General
Conference.
Another Victory for the It. & O.
C,cinnati, Oct 20. Another step has
been taken In the legal contest over the
absorption of the Ohio and Mississippi road
by the Baltimore and Ohio, and it is in
favor of the absorbers. To-day Judge
Hunt dissolved the temporary injunction on
the ground that the proper method to settle
the question is by proceedings in quo war
ranto, and until such proceedings are suc
cessfully held the election of Saturdav will
stand. J
THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY,
LIFE'S CHARMS LOST.
A Baltimore Belle Jumps From the
Washington Monument.
SHE WAS EXCEEDINGLY SMALL.
Iler Friends Found Mates, but Xo
Songht Iler Heart and Hand.
One
DESPONDENCY CAUSED HER TKAGIC DEED
rSrECTAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DtSPATCn.1
Baltimore, Oct. 20. Miss Alice Hecht,
the daughter of Moses Hecht, one of the
best known and most successful Hebrew
citizens of Baltimore, threw herself from
the top of the Washington monument about
noon to-day. Though no one saw her take
the fatal leap, there can be no question but
that it was a premeditated suicide, as- the
exceedingly diminutive stature of the young
lady rendered it impossible for her to get
over the railway without considerable
effort.
The distance from the portico just below
the Btatue of George Washington, from
which she precipitated herself, to the base
where her dead body was found is about 153
feet. When the body was stripped it was
found that her backbone was broken and
terribly mutilated, her tongue cut and her
face badly bruised. Strangely enough her
arms and legs were unbroken. Just above
the pelvis bone on the right side was found
a deep, clean cut hole, which is supposed to
have been caused by her falling on one of
the sharp iron pickets which form a railing
around the base of the monument.
A STBANGER SAW HER BODY.
Thn first intimation of the lady's sad
death was given by a gentleman who'started
to go up the monument about noon. He
saw the body as he stepped upon the base
which forms the first landing just above the
keeper's quarters and notified John Burns,
the Keeper's son, who was then on duty.
The latter called in Sergeant Meehan, wlio
removed the body to the morge, where it
remained unidentified until this evening,
Suicide had evidently been contemplated
for a little while a least, as Miss Hecht had
made several visits to the monument. She
had been there often enough to make her
face familiar to Burns, though it was not
until Saturday that she plucked up sufficient
resolution to make the ascent. Her courage
failed her and she came down, in a short
while and went away. This morning she
came aeain, and, after handing young Burns
usual fee ot fifteen cents, went up the wind
ing stairway. Burns said she appeared to
De in a despondent mood, though there was
nothing ia her appearance to arouse sus
picion. SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS TOO SMAT.I.
Some time afterward a gentleman who
had been up with a lady told Burns that
there was a lady at the top who appeared
to be sick. He had questioned her, but she
had vaguely said that she was only nervous
and he had left her so. Burns went up,
but found she had recovered from what was
probably agitation caused by her con
templated suicide. He came down and
looking up from the outside saw her look
ing toward the east in an aimless sort of
a way. It was only a few minutes after
this that her mutilated body was found.
Mr. Hecht declined to give any informa
tion as to the cause of the young lady's sui
cide. It is known, however, that for some
time melancholy has been growing upon
her. Though 30 years of. age, she was ex
ceedingly 'small, and this is supposed to be
at the bottom of her despondency. Until
about five years ago she went in society a
great deal, and was quite active in Hebrew
social auairs. as her companions became
married one after the other Miss Hecht
hecran to brood. Her deanondennv Tpntlv
became noticeable in her features, and her I
death was probably a welcome relief from a
life which had lost its charms for her.
PARSON DOWNS' SLANDER SUIT.
The Complaint Was Defective, and tho Case
May Not Come to Trial.
Boston-, Oct 20. Special The 550,000
slander suit which Parson William W.
Downs brought in the Superior Court
against Deacon Joseph H. Story and several
other defendants may not be tried. Lawyer
Chaplin, counsel for the defendants, has
asked the court that the plaintiff be non
suited for failure to file a sufficient state
ment of the particulars upon which the
declaration and writ is founded. Mr. Chap
lin said that the declaration merely alleged
that four out of five persons conspired with
one Alice Neptune to slander the plaintiff.
An amended statement which had been
filed merely set out that a slander and con
spiracy had been uttered. Mr. Chaplin
said that as the statute provided that no
action should be brought for slander after
two yeais, no action could be maintained,
tor me aiiegea sianaer occurred more man
two vears before July, 1890. When the writ
was brought W. H. Baker, for the plaintiff,
said that he had set out in his particulars
all that he could. Judge Dnnbar was of
opinion that he had not set out enough, and
said the plaintiff would be given a week in
which to file mors particulars, or secure a
modification of the order ot the court. Other
wise a non-suit would be entered.
SMALLER DRINKS OF WHISKY
May Result From a Prospective War Be
tween the Trust and Kentucklans.
Chicago, Oct. 20. The Whisky Trust
has run foul of the Kentucky distilleries, i
and a merry war is expected. The trust re
cently Issued a circular to its customers
notifying them that they would forfeit cer
tain rebates allowed if they purchased
quick-aging whisky from other firms, and
it has now decided that this quick-aging
whisky is under 2 years of age. This is a
direct slap at the Kentucky distillers, and
it is predicted by a whisky dealer who visit
ed the Internal Bevenue Office to-day that
the Kentucky distillers will now start up
their spirit-making and make war on the
trust.
"The trust has assumed to dictate alto
gether too much," said the gentleman, "and
if this thing keeps up long saloon keepers
will give only a certain quantity for a
drink, and use smaller glasses."
Pennsylvania Capital in Alabama.
Tuscaloosa, Oct. 20. To-day a contract
was closed between Pennsylvania capitalists
and the Tuscaloosa Coal, Iron and Land
Company, whereby the former undertakes
to build a railroad from Deepwater and Tus
caloosa northward to the coal fields. They
also contract to build a coke plant at Tusca
loosa. The scheme is to bring coal to Tusca
loosa by rail and ship it down the Warrior
river to Mobile.
Brazilian Financial Legislation.
Bio de Janeiro, Oct 20. In the Cham
ber of Deputies to-day the bill restricting
the issue of paper money was passed to its
second reading by a vote of 100 against 12.
The Deputies also voted in favor of the
abolition of the law rendering obligatory
the payment of tariff dues in gold coin.
Boomers Most Walt a Year.
GurnRiE, O. T., Oct 20. Secretary
Noble has ordered all the surveying corps
and alloting agents in the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe reservations to disband until
Congress makes further appropriations.
This will delay the opening of these lands
over a year.
Burlington's Iron Company Sued.
Burlington, Ia., Oct 20. Special A
suit was filed to-day for the foreclosure of a
mortgage against the McCosh Iron and Steel
Company on a trustee deed, In the sum of
225,000 with interest since September 1,
1891. The announcement of the firm's
trouble is a great surprise, as the concern
was supposed to be very prosperous. It is
one of the largest manufacturing plants in
the Wesr and one of Burlington's chief in
dustries. SEARCHING FOB HOEY'S PROPERTY.
The History or a S100.000 Mortgage to a
Safety Trust and Deposit Company.
AsBURr Pake, N. J., Oct. 20. Experts
in the County Clerk's office are busily en
gaged in searching for John Hoey's prop
erty on orders from the counsel of the
Adams Express Company. There were
two lis pendens filed in the County Clerk's
office yesterday, showing that Henry Sand
iord, President of the Adams Express Com
pany, had a lien on three tracts of land
owned by Mr. Hoey, and seven of his cot
tages, with all the personal property and
fixtures in any of Mr. Hoey s hotels and
the seven cottages. Mr. Hoey owns, as
shown by the search, at least 300 acres of
land in and around Long Branch, and
many costly buildings.
There are no records showing that he has
transferred the property to his wife. The
claim of Mr. Sandford that Mrs. Hoey exe
cuted the mortgage forSlOO.OOO to the Guar
antee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, of
Philadelphia, is not proven by the records
here. Mr. Hoey executed the document.
The trust company assigned this mortgage
to William L. Hu'bbell last June for $100,
000 in cash. Last Wednesday Mr. Hubbell
assigned the mortgage to Henry Sandford
and L. C. Weir, trustees of the Adams Ex
press Company, for 51 and other valuable
considerations.
A DAY OF RESOLUTIONS.
The Wishes of the Trans-Mississippi States
Formulated at Their Congress.
Omaha, Oct 20. The order of the day
at the Trans-Mississippi Congress was the
introduction of resolutions. Mr. Thomas,
of Minnesota, introduced a resolution that
trans-Mississippi States should petition
Congress to open a channel from the great
lakes to the seaboard through which large
vessels might pass.
Mr. Bushnell, of Nebraska, introduced a
resolution to petition the President of the
United States in the interests of
the trans-Mississippi States, asking
that a representative citizen of the
trans-Mississippi States be appointed
upon the Inter-State Commission. Mr.
Buchanan, of Colorado, introduced a reso
lution favoring the free and unlimited coin
age of silver.
Mr. Miller, of Nebraska, introduced a
resolution that most of national laws iorthe
purpose of regulating Inter-State commerce
had been but a hindrance and burden to the
people and should be repealed. These reso
lutions were all referred without debate to
the Committee on Besoluticns.
PROMOTERS OF HEALTH MEET.
Infant Mortality, Glanders In Man
and
Empiricism Are Treated.
Kansas City, Oct. 20. Eminent advo
cates of sanitary improvements filled the
Auditorium this morning when President
Montizambert called the nineteenth annual
convention of the American Public Health
Association to order. Delesates were pres
ent from all parts of Canada, Mexico and
the United States.
Dr. C. D. McDonald, of Kansas City,
read the first paper. Its subject was "The
Causes and Prevention of Infant Mortal
ity." He advocated the avoidauce of ex
posing infants to low temperatures, of forc
ing sleep by soothing syrups and nourish
ing infants with other than the food de
signed by nature. Dr. Joseph Sharp, Pro
fessor of Theraputics in the Kansas City
Medical College, read a paper on "Glanders
in Man." He cited an instance where a
case was fully developed. Hon. Albert H.
Horton, Chief Justice of the Kansas Su
preme Court, followed with an address on
''The Necessity of More Strineent Lezisla-
I tion to Bepress Empiricism."
OPIUM SMUGGLING ACTIVE.
The Queer Hiding Place in Which
rot
of the Drug Was Fonnd.
San Francisco, Oct. 20. Special A
curious and important seizure of contraband
opium was made to-day on tho coast Steamer
Lakme, from Seattle. The Customs officers
received a tip that she had the drug on
board, but a careful search failed to reveal
any. In the Steward's room one of the in
spectors was much struck with the picture
of a variety actress on the wall. He said it
looked so much like a friend of his he was
determined to take it.
In cutting it from the frame he was para
lyzed to find a large cavity in the wall,
from which he extracted 172 boxes of
choicest Chinese opium. Coasting steamers
have not been watched carefully of late,
because it was thought that the smuggling
of Chinese opium from Victoria to Puget
Sound ports had been stopped, but this
seizure proves that it is still active.
CARDINALS IN COUNCIL.
The Pope's Advisers Reach No Conclusion
on the Question of Locality.
Bome, Oct. 20. Since the French pil
grim incident at the Pantheon the Pope has
presided at six meetings of the Cardinals.
Long and animated debates occurred on the
questions of the locality of the next con
clave, as to whether the Pope should leave
Bome, and whether steps should be taken
to establish a modus vivendi with the Quiri
nol. No decision was arrived at.
The Italian Government has assured the
Pope that nothing Bhall occur to disturb the
tranquility of the Holy See, but that it
must be understood that there was no inten
tion to modify the law of guarantees.
A Jockey Bets on His Own Mounts.
BtjdaPesth, Oct 20. Sporting circles
throughout Hungary are excited at
the discovery of a series of ex
tensive frauds committed by a jockey
who has been riding for Herr
Blaskovitz, the owner of the largest pacing
stable in this country. The jockey, it ap-
Eears, has been betting upon and against
is own mounts, and has thereby netted
large amounts of money. The disgraced
rider had a number of confederates, and
further important revelations nyiy be ex-
pecieu.
An Entire Town Burned.
St. Petersburg, Oct 20. Dispatches
received here announce that the town of
Bockow has been entirely destroyed by
fire. Five children were burned to death
during the conflagration. The inhabitants,
most of whom lost all they possessed, are
camping out in the fields.
Made by the Mound Builders.
Licking county, O., of which Newark is
the county seat, has probably the most
unique fair grounds in the world. It is the
site of one of the most interesting relics of
the mound builders, commonlv called the
Old Fort. An area of about 27 acres is in
clobed by a circular embankment nearly 15
feet high. There are many large trees, evi
dently planted by thejnound builders, indi
cating great age. Inside the entire embank
ment is a ditch from 10 to 15 feet deep. On
each side of the entrance, which is 75 feet
wide, the embankment is higher and
broader than elsewhere. Eagle Mound, in
the center of the inclosure, takes its name
from a mound in the shape of a flying eagle.
Speed of Thunderstorms.
Detroit Free Press. I
An ordinary thunderstorm is said to travel
at the average rate of 30 miles an hour. Of
course, that is the plain, ordinary thunder
storm that merely goes loafing along for the
purpose of souring milk and committing
minor depredations. The thunderstorm de
signed especially to catch you out in your
new fall suit and silk hat swoops along, at a
much faster rate.
OCTOBER 21; 1891.
PATTON IN A CORNER.
Rev. Frank Smith Willing to Swear
to tho Words of Bis Address.
IP DR. BRIGGS IS A HERETIC
His Friends Claim That Princeton's Presi
dent Is One, Too.
TIIE DOCTRINE OF FUTURE PROBATION
New York, Oct. 20. Since Dr. Briggs'
inaugural address there has been nothing in
a theological way that has stirred the con
troversionalists so much as the reproduction
ot Dr. Patton 8 sanctification views of 1887.
By this time 5,200 Presbyterian clergymen
have read Dr. Patton's expressions, proba
bly with surprise and some consternation.
Very likely what Dr. Patton said is to have
as far-reaching, effects as what Dr. Briggs
said.
Judging from the tone of the discussion
that has already sprung up if any other
Presbyterian bad uttered Dr. Patton's re
ported views he would be in sure danger of
investigation. Dr. Patton's orthodoxy is
not likely to be officially questioned, but
what he said at Princeton in 1887 is to be
used by the defense in the Briggs trial, and
it will be a formidable weapon. It may
acquit him. If it does not if can easily be
used to show the majority in an undesirable
light expelling one man and retaining
another for holding the same opinions.
This is supposing Dr. Patton to have been
correctly reported. He Bays he was not.
The Bev. Mr. McQueen, who was the sten
ographer, positively attests the correctne s
of his notes. The "Eev. Mr. Frank Hyatt
Smith, who took the address in long hand,
corroborates Mr. McQueen. Both say they
are ready to make oath to their statements.
MR. SMITH RECALL THE ADDRESS.
Mr. Smith, who is now pastor of a pros
perous Congregational church in Cambridge,
Mass., came to New York yesterday and
gave out the following account of the ad
dress and hiB connection with it:
"The Philadelphia society at Princeton,"
said Mr. Smith, "publishes a periodical
called the FhiladelpAian Maqazine, of which I
was the senior editor in 1887. We published,
every issue, the address of some professor
before the society. After Dr. Patton's re
marks Dr. Duffield came to me and said:
" 'Those views of Dr. Patton were very
broad. You had better not print them with-
eport had been
ud J. tooK the prools to
Dr. Patton, with a request to be allowed to
print the address. He had no reason to be
surprised at the request. He knew very
well what the custom had heen. Never
theless he exhibited annoyance and excite
ment and said: 'Oh, no; you mustn't print
that It would injure the Church. I was
speaking as Dr. Patton and not as a Prince
ton professor. I can't allow you to print a
word ot if
"I notice that Dr. Patton says in his in
terview with the Merala that he objected to
to the publication on the ground that the
address lacked literary form. He said noth
ing of that kind in my hearing. The only
objections he mentioned to ma were the
possible injury to the Church, and the fact
that he was abo-ji to write an article on the
same subject for a New York magazine.
PROMISED NOT TO PRINT IT.
"Of course I promised not to print the ad
dress if he wished it suppressed, but without
my knowledge one of the other editors of
the magazine inserted a paragraph to the
effect that Dr. Patton's address had been
held over foranotber issue. Thereupon Dr.
Patton called me before him and took me
severely to task for the paragraph. 'Now,'
he said, 'the public will be expecting the
address to be printed and I would not have
it printed for any consideration. It would
injure the Church.'
"I kept my proofs. I believe that they
were the only evidence in existence. It was
I who sent them to the Evangelist. I had no
personal feeling against Dr. Patton, but it
seemed to me outrageous that he should be
forcing the prosecution of Dr. Briggs for
views wmen ne nimseii nau publicly
avowed. I thought it was time for the
truth to be known.
"As the Herald said on Saturday, the first
paragraph in the quotations which it gave
from the address expresses the doctrine of
future probation, pure and simple. I see
that Dr. Patton says he was defining the
doctrine of purgatory, and not his belief in
it, He says that a colon should be inserted
before the first sentence in the paragraph.
Then it will appear that the paragraph you
quote is only an explanation of what has
gone before. If Dr. Patton's orthodoxy
has got to where it hangs by a colon it must
be frail. Examination of the address will
show that the foregoing sentence and the
first sentence of the quotation cannot well
be connected by a colon or anything else.
'There may have been persons in the
audience that night who got the impression
that Dr. Patton now tries to give, but I
never heard of them. The address was
freely commented upon among the stu
dents. All whom I heard speak of it had
exactly the same idea that Mr. McQueen
and I had namely, that Dr. Patton had
clearly given in his adherence to the doc
trine of sanctification after death the
same doctrine for which Dr. Briggs is now
to be tried.
IF BRIGGS IS HERETICAL SO IS PATTON.
"There is no doubt that if Dr. Briggs is
heretical then Dr. Patton is heretical also
on the strength of that first paragraph.
That is not all- If I or any other student
in Princeton had upon examination pro
fessed other views given in that address we
would not have been allowed to be gradu
ated. He says: 'I am pretty sure that there
is no doctrine that is put in jeopardy by
the simple affirmation of this belief in
future probation.' That is a direct con
tradiction of the theology taught at Prince
ton. At the end of his address he savs:
Those who hear the gospel In this' world
will not have another chance hereafter;
those who do not hear It or have no oppor
tunity here will have some chance in tho fu
ture. Our own Confession of Faith, which some
think very straightlaced; does hold out that
hope, although it does say that the heathen
cannot he saved by framing their lives ac
cording to the light of nature.
"That is also a square contradiction of the
Princetonian system. For either expres
sion any other man would be tried for
heresy.
"I understand that the address is to be
used as evidence for the defense in the
Briggs trial. I am williug to go upon the
stand and swear to the absolute correctness
of the stenographic report which the Herald
has printed."
Dr. Briggs' friends regard Mr. Smith's
production of the report at this juncture as
the most valuable assistance they have yet
received.
Dr. Patton was seen at Princeton vester
day, but he declined to make any further
remarks on the controversy.
Dr. David Swing, of Chicago, who, 17
years ago, was prosecuted by Dr. Patton
lor saying what Dr. Patton himself said in
1887, commented on the singular situation
with some satisfaction yesterday. He had
known of the existence 'of the report since
the address was delivered.but at the request
of his informant had refrained from saying
anything about it
'Patton will deny the correctuess of the
report," said Dr. Swing, "or he will write a
note he'll do that anyway in which he
will say just what he told the student, that
he spoke as Patton the man, and not as
Patton the Presbyterian. He is a man who
doesn't think there is any inconsistency in
that. Now, according to this report as
printed, Patton, as long ago as three j ears,
hoped that Socrates would be saved. He
arraigned me because I got Socrates merely
on the border."
Governor Hill at Grady's Monument.
Atlanta, Oct. 20. Governor Hill and
party arrived in Atlanta at 4 o'clock this
afternoon to attend the unveiling of the
Grady monument, which will take place tomorrow.
IHS B0KG OF THE CICADA.
now the African Insect Entertains Others
With Its Concerts.
In Nature Notes Mr. B, T. Lewis, on the
authority of a correspondent in whose trust
worthiness he has entire confidence, gives a
curious account of the appreciation with
which the song of the cicada is heard by
insects other than those of its own genus.
The correspondent lias frequently observed
In Natal that when the cicada is singing at
its loudest in the hottest portion of the
day It is attended by a number of other in
sects with lovely, gauze-like, iridescent
wings, whose demeanor has left no doubt in
his mind that 'the music is the attraction1.
The cicada, when singing, usually stations
itself upon the trunk of a tree with its
head uppermost, and the insects in question,
to the number of sometimes 15 or 16, form
themselves into a rough semicircle at a
short distance around its head. During a
performance one of the insects was obseryed
occasionally to approach the cicada and to
touch it upon its front leg or antena, which
proceeding was resented by a vigorous
miuivb ui i lit- loot oy I lie cicaaa, wunoui,
however, any cessation of its song.
The insects composing the audience are
extremely active, and so wary that they
take flight at the least alarm or the too
near approach of any intruder. Some of
them, however, have been captured; and on
examination those "proved to belong to the
same family as that most beautiful of British
insects, the lace-wing fly, which, indeed,
they closely resemble except as to size, their
measurement across the expanded wings
being a little over two inches; they have
since been identified by Mr. Kirby at the
British Museum as 'Notochrysa gigantea.' "
A FAD OF THE PAST.
Old Furniture Is Not So Easily Gotten
Now as It Used to Be.
New York Drygoods Chronicle.!
There is a local collector who at one time
used to do a thriving business by collecting
in his travels ancient pieces of furniture.
He owns his occupation is about gone. He
talks about in this way: "Beginning about
ten years back the craze for following up
auctions and buying old furniture set in in
the country. In the cities it dated away
back of that. The first symptom of the dis
ease was old clocks. Some of them were
fair-looking, and some were not After
clocks, chairs set in, fiddle-back chairs
mostly. I've sold them as high as 510 eacli
many a time. Then old writing desks
caught on.
"When you come to look at it, there's
more sense in buying an old desk than in
any other old piece, for modern builders
have made not so much improvement in
these goods. In old times tnere were no
safes used in houses to give secure keeping
to the law and family documents, so it was
necessary to have some receptacle for them.
An old desk of curled maple and slanting
front, its lots of little pigeon holes, sly
locks and drawer room, is really a valuable
piece of furniture. Buffets and other
furniture had their turn. Owners of houses
out in the country and the dwellers in
provincial cities are now the only people
who can be roped in for old furniture. Old
furniture which has belonged to somebody
else, and old furniture anyway, is a fad of
the past."
A MIRACLE B7 BLAVATSKY.
Colonel Olcott Tells or a Mysterious Bell
Ringing, and Assigns a Canse.
I have seen Mdme. Blavatsky do so many
wonderful things that it is difficult to select
specimen cases, says Colonel Olcott in the
London Chronicle. I remember once after
dinner that we were all standing on the
verandah of Mr. Sinnett's house at Simla.
Suddenly somebody asked Mdme. Blavatsky
to give a proof of her wonderful powers.
Madame waved her hand, and th"e music of
bells was heard coming up from the valley
toward us. Now, there were no bells any
where near, and, since the request for a
"miracle" was impromptu, Mdme. Blavat
sky could not possibly have known that it
was to be made.
She explained how she produced the
music. In ordinary course a psychical cur
rent was passing through the atmosphere
near at hand. She sent forth a second cur
rent by force of her will. When tbe tft o
met a vortex was formed, and out of this
vortex came the music. If you were to
whistle you would think upon a note, and
straightway it would come forth. Mdme.
Blavatsky, with her extraordinary powers,
brought the notes of the bells out of that
vortex on exactly the same principle.
An Engine's Millionth Slile.
PallMUBndget.l
The fine engine, "Charles Dickens,"
which was built by the London and North
western Bailway Company in 1882 for their
special express service between Manchester
and London has completed her millionth
mile, having run the daily connection, with
occasional exceptions through necessary re
pairs, during that period, leaving Manches
ter at 8:30 A. Jl. and Euston (London) at 4
r. M., covering the journey via Maccles
field and Stoke in & hours. The record
has been watched with peculiar interest by
the heads of the London and Northwestern
locomotive department, as the feat is with
out a parallel in the annals of railway
traveling.
The Religions Status of China.
Formal religion in China is on its death
bed. Not one church in a hundred can
boast of accommodations for its ministers
that are better than a pig pen. Buined
walls, broken roofs, dirt and decay are
everywhere. The real religion of the Chi
nese, ancestor worship and a hybrid spirit
ualism is believed in by the masses who
have learned that thev can conduct every
exercise as satisfactorily as a professional.
The higher classes are almost entirely ag
nostics. A Railroad Upon Trees.
One of the greatest curiosities of railroad
construction is a track in Sonoma county,
Cal., resting on the tops of trees. These
trees grow at the bottom of a ravine, 75 feet
deep, which the railroad was compelled to
cross. The branches were removed from
two immense redwood trees and the trunks
sawed off on a leyel with the sides of the
ravine, the Tails being laid on the stumps.
This foundation is declared by railroad en
gineers to be perfectly secure.
Wealth of SI. Grevy.
It has been estimated that M. Grevy died
worth at least 10,000,000 francs. When
elected President he had an income of about
40,000 francs per annum. While in office he
received 1,200,000 francs per annum, 600,000
francs of emoluments, 300,000 for the ex
penses of the household, and 300,000 francs
more for reception?.
Edison's Tribnto to Women.
Edison says that in working upon the
delicate details of his electrical inventions
he can find no fingers as skillful as those of
women. He employs 200 of them upon his
work.
Extract of lipff
The best nnd most economical "Stock" for
Sou3, Etc. One pound equals forty-five
pounds or prime lean Beef.
YOUR GROCER KEEPS IT.
rvrDTS61013 showing use of ARMOUR'S
EXTRACT in Boups and Sauces, sent free, on
application to
ARMOUR &. CO., Chicago.
Se30-1-MWT
STORIES OF ST0RMS;
Brought in by the Vessels Which Are
Now Arriving in Port,
THE SEA STREWN WITH WBECKS.
So Far None of the Accidents Eeported Are
Very Serious.
THE SITUATION OP TIIE LINIE EDAM
CsPZCIAL TELIGEAM TO THE DI3PATCK.1
New York, Oct 20. A battered fleet of
many kinds of craft got in to-day with more
news of the cyclones. The British tramps
steamship Cyprus, from Barrow, ran out of
coal in her battle with the seas, and had to
put in at Sydney, Cape Breton, for a new
supply. When about 280 miles from the Irish
coast, on September 30, the Cyprus sighted
the dismasted and sinking Brigantine Clare,
Captain Carty, from Westport, Ireland, for
Nova Scotia. The Clare was smashed in a
hurricane on September 24. In cutting
away her masts twofof her crew were badly
hurt by falling spars, ""he Cypns took off
the Clare's crew and landed them at Sydney.
The steamship Diadem, which arrived on
Monday night, when two days out from
Amsterdam, on October 5 was boarded by a
sea which knocked Seaman William Van
derberg from the upper deck overboard.
The Diadem passed a large quantity of
wreckage and a dismasted hulk of a vessel
of about 400 tons on October 5. The steam
ship Prndetia arrived in ballast from New
castle aleak-
The agents here of the Netherlands
American line think that their disabled
steamship, the Edam, which was reported
on October 16 in tow of the Cunard steam
ship Scythia, bound for Queenstown, will
make port within a week. The Edam's
passengers will be transferred to the steam
ship Botterdam, which will stop at Queens
town. A BIG HORN GLACIER.
From One Point a Fehble Can Be Dropped
1,000 Feet Into a Lake.
New York Tost, j
Mr. Willard G. Johnson, of the United
States Geographical Survey, who discovered
a glacier in the Big Horn Mountains of
Wyoming, says he believes that in his re
cent explorations in that country he pene
trated where no white man ever had set
foot before. The mountain from whose
summit he first . saw the glacier wa3 13,500
feet iu height, and he gave it the name of
Cloud Peak.
As he stood on its highest pinnacle the
glacier broke upon the sight, stretching its
fields below him. He calculated that it was
five miles long. It extended into a lake a
distance of three-quarters of a mile. From
one point of the glacier there was a sheer
descent of 1,000 feet, so that a man standing
there could drop a stone Into the lake
below.
Only a Missing Letter.
Blngkamton Republican.!
The loss of a single letter mokes many a
broker merely broke.
COFTBIQHT, 1S3L.
DOS'T BE CAUGHT
by "cut prices." Don't buy spurious
imitations of Dr. Pierce's medicines at
less than the regular prices, and think
that you're saving money. Tou would
be, if yon could get the genuine guar
anteed medicines in that way. But
you can!t. The genuine medicines are
sold only through regularly authorized
agents, and always have been, are, and
always will be sold at these prices:
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
(the remedy for all diseases arising from
a torpid liver or impure blood), ...
$1.00 per bottle.
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription (for
woman's weaknesses and ailments), .
SI. 00 per bottle.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellet3 (tha
original and best Liver Pills), . .
25 cents per vial,.
Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, ...
CO cents per bottle.
And they're worth that they're wortli
more than that. They're the cheapest
medicines you can buy, at any price,
for they're guaranteed in every case to
benefit or cure, or you have your money
back. You pay only for the good yor.
get. TSo other remedies of their kind
are, or could be, sold on these terms.
Dealers not authorized to sell Dr.
Pierce's genuine medicines may offer
dilutions, imitations, or substitutes, at
less than the prices given above Be
ware of them.
ISO OTTTFIR
Leaves aDexicate aiid Iiastotcj Odor
For sale Sy all Dreg and Fancy Goods Dealers or It
unable to procure this wonderful soap send
25c In stamps and receive a cake by retnm mail.
JA3. S. KIRK & CO., Chicago.
SPECIAt-Shandnn BeUsWaltz (the popular
Society Waltz) sent FREE to anyone sending us
three wrappers of Shandon Bells Soap.
L. H. HARRIS
DRUG CO.
Have removed to Nos. 46 and 48
Seventh avenue, opposite New
Grant street, but a short distance
from the Union depot. '
They will be glad to see their old
friends and make many new ones.
Orders by mail receive prompt
and careful attention.
i i j -y. j-
L. H. KARRIS DRUG CO.,
Nos. 46 and 48 Seventh Avenm,
O017-D riTTSBUKG, PA
1 ,
1
trifonVft ,r.juSSs.vM,
ill;
mtai-iiairf&,
;-' ---it
,n? ?f.
if 1 r 1 iyifrSta riTinf 1 1 -i t 1