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The Exeter Advocate, 1891-5-21, Page 2epommilimistimaziesemineimmenaisautsmatautrimalaimatimilsweireatea, FOOLED UNCLE SAM. 'KNOX'S "FIRST MORTGAGE," •It Was on a Pretty Canadian Girl, But He Didn't rere0108e it# Chiliau Vessels Get Stipplieo at San Francisco, ONE CABBIES OFF A U. 8. DEPUTT-ITARSHAL The Attempt to Capture the Tedbert tend atomics wails—The emulous woo smart For the Americans. A Sem Diego, Cal, despateh of yeeterday ups : Last night United States Mareleal Gard eeized the Chilian steamer Etats, now receiving supplies in the harloor, and laced Oaptaia Mauzeurn under arrest. Telegrams have been passiog between this city and the department et Wae.hington which brought about the above reeults. Tug -boats have left to seize two veesels !seen outside, one of whiett is supposed ,to be the schooner Robert and Minnie, and the other a warship belonging to the Chilie,n insurgents, which leave been hovering around the entrance of the harbor to receive the supplies taken on board the Etats. The warship was first sighted about noon yesterday passing north. Ten hoar° later she repaesea the harbor, going 0011th, laying to jtist north a Coronado Islands, Customs Officer Berry sent a party out to investigate, who reported see• hag a large vessel under steam which they could not approach nearer than two miles on account of her steaming away from them. Ordere were received from Secre- tary Blaine to seize both vessels if found within the three-mile limit, and Martha! Gard and Collector Berry went out last night in different tugs for that purpose. At midnight the Etats received 40 head of cattle, 47 head of sheep and 3,000 pounds Df dressed meat from the ferry -boat Cor- onado. The vessel has also received other stores, including 800 tons of coal. As soon ao all the provisions and fuel were on board she expected to leave the harbor and cruise between here and Catalina to meet the schooner Robert and Minnie, from which she wets to take the Remington rifles and ammunition, and then sail for Chili. A today's deepatch says: About 5.30 last evening the Milian steamer Eteta ipaietly steamed out into the ocean, carry. tug with her Q. S. Depateoillarshal Spencer. Marehal Gard was not aware that the captain had any intention of dis- regarding hie authority, for he left for Point Loma just one hour ahead of the big steamer, and had proceeded Fiume dis- tance out to sea before he could have been aware that the Etats wile following him. Marshal Gard's errand on his second nip was to take the schooner Robert and Min- nie anywhere she might be found in the open seas, outside of Mexican jurisdiction, as a piratical craft. The marshal's launch left the wharf at 4 o'clock Besides Merehal Gard there were aboard A. 0. Spaulaing, of San Francisco, A. M. Conoughly, Capt. Crawford, and four soldiers from the bar. racks armed with rifles and ammunition, who had 'been detailed to go on the empeai- tion at the request of Marshal Gard. It is known that the Marshal received ineeruc- tions from Washington that he had authority to take the Robert and Minnie on the high seas under the neutrality and piracy laws. At 4 o'clock Wednesday morning Marehed Gard and party left for Coronado bland, where the Robert and Minnie ware hut seen on Tuesday. Just outside a sail appeared, which the tug made for. As soon as her master saw the Tiaguana he put about and ran south in order, it was supposed, to get into Mexican waters before he was overhauled. The meeting place of the schooner and tug was two and a half miles south of the international line- -about fifteen miles southwest of Point Loma. The tug passed to windward of the Robert and Minnie, and those onboard had a good charms to observe her closely. on her stern were the words Robert and Minnie, San Francisco. The schooner was so heavily laden that she made but slow progress. There were but four of her orew visible, and these watolaed the movements of the tug anxiously through a glass from their position on the poop. The schooner being in Mexican waters, Marshal Gard returned to port to telegraph for instruc- tions. There has at no time been any real doubt in the rainds of those best informed that the ammunition which the Robert and Minnie carried was intended for the Chilian transport, and that it would be trans- ferred to the hold of the Etats for nee of the insurgents as soon as the big steamer obtained what supplies she needed. it is definetely known that communica. tions have tweed between Capt. Ferrell of the sohooner and Capt. blauzum of the Etats. The Chiliane laid their plans well and they were carried out to the letter re- gardless of the interference of the U. S. authorities. Just after midnigbt this (Thurday) morning Marshal Gard and party returned from outside and reported that the Robert and Minnie had oompletely disappeared. The Deputy -Marshal who had been placed in a small boat at the entrance to the harbor to watch for developments, reported that when the Etats started out Pilot Dill was sand. wiohed between two armed Ohilians, while four cannon guarded both bow and stern. He reports that at least eighty Chiliana were drawn up in line on the decks, show. ing that while the vessel was in port she was plentifully supplied with men, arms and ammunition. While here she dis- played only one email cannon and a crew of abort sixty men. The deputy reports that when the vessel left the harbor she turned north and steamed toward San Clemente. A DEADLY DUEL. Challenged to Mortal Combat the Son of a Nan Who esilled Nineteen Per- sons. A Knoxville, Tenn,,despatoh received to. dey says: A bloody duel was fought near here 'Wednesday by two men named Johnson and Sizemore, Trouble had existed a long time between the men and failing to settle the difference, Johnson sent word to Sizemore to meet him in a geoluded spot. The challenge was soteepted and in the fight Johnson was killed. Size. mora is the son of a man who killed nine. teen men before being himself killed. A reward has been offered for Sizemore's arrest and a large posee is now hunting him down. •Rejects the Endless Hell Doctrine. A New York deepatch says: Rev. Dr. Bridgeman took leave of the congregation of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church *aa* evening in an address wield), although he Apulia more in eorrow then in anger, showed be had been deeply wounded by some of the thinge eaid abbot him bemuse of hie oetenon deolaring hia disbelief in the ortho. elect hell. He riedd he would preach his Iasi sermon me pastor of the church on Sunday next. A meeting of the congregettion with closed doors then took place. At its con- Oluelon Mr. John P. Towneend announced that the congregation had accepted Mr, letridgeman'e reoignation although with *SO wigret, and granted letters of die. Waal 110 hird end Afro. Bridgeman. ft Md Web 'Med te giVo him $5,000# bob. *ad In six snonthly instable% = HENCE A BREAM OF P11011I8E A Buffelo deepotoh says,: Nellie R. Livingston, a pretty Canadian about 30 years old, is titling Frank W. Knox, a pro- minent Penneylvaide, lawyer, tor $25,000 damages for not keeping his viOfil when, as she alleges, he promised to make her Mrs. Knox, Briefly told, the plaintiff's story begins wish the following advertisement, which appeared in a 13uffelo paper : " Wanted—Situation by a youug Canadian lady as companion to a lady (mueical); will assist in housekeeping. Andress M. L,, Simooe, Oaterio." This advertieement came into Mr. K130X'fi hands and he opened correepondenoe with the ledy. He wanted a musical companion, but she must come as leis wife. The preliminaey correspon- dence ended in a meetiug itt the f.ilifft House, and this meeting within two daye resulted in an engagement—the lady to be the companion for life of Mr. Knox, who gravely acknowledges 59 years as having passed over his heaa and his de- privation by Providence of four wives. The case opened in the Supreme Court this afternoon before Judge Childs and a jury. Mise Livingston told her story. He brother, the ciaid, was a judge in Canada. The oor- reepondenoe between her end Knox was read, and then came the deteils of her meeting with Knox. Miss Livingston was the firet to reach the trysting place, the well-known hotel, the Tiff t House, in cora. pany with her brothenin-law, The wooer's train was belated but presently arrived and he appeared on the soene. He rushed in and greeted the lady and then prosaically enough went to dinner. " Then, ' said Miss Livingston, "when he got through he came and pressed both my hands and said he liked me. He spoke of my hands my fingers, my hair, my face, and said anyone could see 1 had been brought up a lady. He at once eaid, let us make this a business matter.' 1 did not like that idea." "What took place then?" "He then began to talk ot making preparations for our marriage. He said harmony was complete. We were both Scotch, both Preebyteriena, and he said it suited him every way. He told me of his home, and said he kept three horses and two gardeners at his house in Penney!, vania. He spoke of remarpeting the house and wanted me to help him. He asked me whet kind of engagement ring I wanted, and told me of his idea of visiting the sea- shore and various popular resorts, and gave me to understand he was e rich man. He wanted to get married right away, but I told him I wanted some time to think over it. He visited me next day at a friend's house where I was stopping and I went to the theatre with him and to the cyclorama. His talk was almost en. tirely on the subject of our marriage. He wanted to buy my trousseau, but this I would not allow. I Belted him to defer the wedding a few months, but he wouldn't hear of it. He said his heart was set on the marriage and he could not wait. He said he couldn't stand disappointment. He took an envelope from his pocket and said " there was $130 for me to begin to bay things with." I mad to him, "Mr. Knox, you've taken your first mortgeige on He eaid, "I'm going to mske an American of you." I took the money and put it in my pocket. He asked if he had any rival in my affections and I told him he had, but did not pursue the subject. He kisaed me and said matters ehonid bo atranged as I wished. Mies Livingston reluetantly ao. knowledged that at this time she was engaged to be married to another person, but the match had since been broken off. A Buffalo despatch seys : The breach of promise snit of Mies Nellie M. Livingston, of Simooe, Ont., against Frank W. Knox, an ex -judge of Coudersport, Pa., was con. tinned here today in the Supreme Court. Miss Livingston was subjected to a rigid cross-examination by Lawyer Milburn. She stated that Mr. Knox urged her to break her engagement to Mr. Wallen, of Oil Springe, Ont., the young Canedian, stat- ing that hie money would outweigh his rival's youth. She did not want it under- stood that she had fallen in love with Mr. Knox. There was no time for either love or affection. It was a distinctly businees matter. Joseph jaokson, Miss Livingston's brother-in-law, and Mrs. Laura Laycock gave corroboratory testimony in favor of Bliss Livingston. Mr. Knox was then pat on the stetted. He explained bow he carae first to get acquainted with Miss Livingeton, through the newspaper advertisement. She wrote him about Jan. 1, 1889, auggeeting that they meet at the Tifft House. " Now desoribe what °courted." " I registered," he amid, "and the clerk told me that a Mr. Jackson was there and wished to see me. There was a mutual introduction, and be took me up and intro- duoed me to Miss Livingston. I took dinner and Mr. Jackson went away on some business. She then euggested that we go to the theatre that evening, and she and I went." " What was said about the subject of marriage." " At the Tiff: House there was some talk about it. Shehold me what her hielfory was, and it was mutuelly agreed that we should be married eome time in January, as I wanted to go Beath about that time." " Did you talk about property 2" " I think we did." " Well, yen went to eee her the next day 7" " Yes, I went to Dare. Leyooclete the next day. After a little while this lady came in, and the first thing she said was, I diin't eleep much last night. There are so many things convected with my life that I want everything dropped until I eau see my way olear. My brother is a very ex. acting man. They think I am et mere ohild and will not be satieeed with what 1 have done. There is another thing also that I can't tell you about.' She said that they did not give her any money at home, and I asked her if She would like me to give her a present and she said she would. gave her 4130." " Did she ever give it baok 2" "No, she never did." When thio conversation ended Mr. Knox took a train for home. Soon after Mies Livingston sent for him to cora° to Buffalo, and he telegraphed her that he was out of the race—that he did not want to meet her again. He had never met her since that time till yesterday. Mr. Knox was dis- missed from the etand and the evidence was all in. Miso Livingaton was recalled and denied a considerable portion of the evidence given by ?Olt% Knox. In summing up, Attorney Milburn Said there were only, two deem of oases of this kind that ehould be maintained in comet. Oneviart where a man had rnined the life of a girl under promise of roarriage, and the other was where a young girl, Muir% the brighter part of her hie, had been constantly aseociated with rt rnan with the nakurel belief and mideratanding tient he was to Marry her. In such a me if the Man deserted her the best thing fee her Wit to have her Older brother, if she had One, give the man who bad deserted her good linking, or if not to briog the matter into court and play to crowded. house. The judge's charge wits very brie t and to the point. The jury retired at 12,45; and at 2,30 o olook this afternoon a commotion watt created in the Supreme Court -tweet when the jury reported that they had found a verdict. They were ushered into court and when the judge aeked what their verdict wae, everyone WeB survived to hear the foreman say thee they gavethe plaintiff e5,000 damages. The verdict seemed to be contrary to the expeotatioes of most of those who had heard the trial. A Buffalo deepatch Bays: Nellie M. Livingston, of Blame, Ont., who a few days ago obtained a verdict of 55,000 in suit for 515,000 from Lawyer Knox, of Coudersport, Pen, because of his failure to carry out a matrimopial engagement, has not yet got the money. In feet Nellie will likely have to go through another course of legal proceedings before the ducats will come into her possession. The counsel for the aged Lothario hem filed a motion for a new trial on the ground tiles the damages awarded were exceesive and that the ver- dict wag contrary to law and evidence. Judge Childs hese ordered a stay of pro. ceedinge until he has heard argument on thie motion. DELEGATED TO RILL GOULD. -- A Crank Ve ho Said JaC Was One of Christ's Followers. A New York despatch says: A danger. ous lunatic) named Charles J. Dixon, who comes from Pueblo, Col., was arrested here last night at the residence of Dr. Munn, Jay Goulds physician. Dixon told the doctor that he belonged to an organi. zation known as " Chriet's Fellowers," Thie organization was strong throughout the country, and he had be.en delegated at a secret meeting to come to New York and kill Jay Gould. He exid he was known as vine -president No. 71 of the order, and told a senestional story as to how the organization was formed. Dixon was looked up ea insane. Dixon said that if Mr. Gould would give himself $660,000 in caela and $200,000 for BOMB charitable institution he ' felt as though be could save Mr. Gould'e life by arranging matters with his people. If Mr. Gonkfreitteed to accept both propositions and he (Dixon) failed to kill him the organ. ization would certainly kill Dixon. In a room where Dixon had been stop- ping detectives found a trunk full of clothing, a revolver and a slangshos, but the lunatic was unarmed velesn ei rested, He had $360 in his pocket. Dixon mad, among—other things, that he killed four men who tried to rob his office at Pueblo. He declared he had been a land agent and formerly owned e newspaper calledthe Jacksonian in Colorado. To -morrow he will be examined as to his sanity. TIJRNED WHITE BY FEAR. Frightened by a leGGO at the Pane a Woman's Bair Turns Gray. A Portemonth, N. H., despetch says: The hair of Mrs. Mnrlity, the wife of a ehoemaker, turned whixe last night by fright. Nine years ago, when the was 11 years old, her step-Mther committed an comet upon her, and was ordered by the courfie to stay out of New Hampshire at least twelve years. Last night as she at at her window the brutal step,father, from whore the had not heard in the interim, pressed his face againet the pane. lalre. Rothe, was so terrified that be could not utter a word or move a finger. The mem scowled andairessed a card against the glees, on which was written the eollow. ing in hie own handwritindee en' I have located you and have returnedfor re- venge." Than the figure vanislaed. The woman fell on the flour in 8 feint, and it was half an hour before she recovered sufficiently to relate what had happened. Her hair had then become white. It wee later learned that a man answering the description had boarded the evening train for Boston. INTERNATIONAL Y. M. C. A. Opening of the Convention at Kansas City weeterday. A Kansas City despstoh says: The 29th International Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association opened here this morning. After prayer, reading of the Scriptures and singing, the committee on permanent organization was appointed. The committee reported the following offi- oere for the permanent organization : President, Thomas H. MoPheeters, of St. Louis; Vice•Preeidente, Ohm'. A. Jewell, Connecticut; Thomas A. Wilkie,Ontario; David Coleman, Alabama; H. A. Avery, South Dakota; Thomas D. Foster, lows; Samuel P. Herbison, Pennsylvania; and John A. Sohemerhorn, Colorado; Secre- tary, Herbert M. Clark, Michigan ; Aseo- ciate Secretaries, Ralph C. Goodwin, Mas- sachusetts • Wm. McBride, Alabama ; and Wm. 13, Made, California. After adopt. mg the corrimittee'D report the convention took a recess. CHEWING GUM FORBIDDEN. A New Set of Rules Promises to Result in Strike of Telephone Gir:s. A Detroit dispatch says: The girls in the Central Telephone Exoleange are in a frame of mind over the new rates of the company, which prohibit tho chewing of gam during working hours, interdict flirting over the wires, and require them to say "number," instead of "Hello." The day girls, who get $16 per month, are willing to strike to.morrowi but they are not organ- ized, and fear their chances of encoess would be very smell. The night girls, who get $20 per month, have more time to themeelvlie, but, owing to the nature of their work, cannot talk up the matter of striking &wing working hours, and neither at will trust the other to organize a union. The girls are mad, however, and have been muttering over the new rules ever since they went into effect hot Friday. Life without the soul. satisfying chewing -gum is a bore. Tale fiLleler-FASTERe. /Nearly a Week Without Rest to Earn a Hundred Dollars. A San Francisco deepatoh says: The sleep -resting contest, which began a week nee with twenty entries, ended in W. C. Woodford, the only contestant who re- mained awake, being forced by the =melee- naent to retire at 9.45 this morning. He had been without sleep for 158 hones and 48 minutes, and when finally obliged to close his eyes was pronounced by the physi. oian in danger of becoming a maniac, It is now believed he will maintain his reason. He broke the record of 144 home and 20 minutes made in Detroit. Woodford re- ceived $100, and Jackson and Harris, who remained awake over 90 home, 050 and $25 nespeotively. Free to Hope. Waebington Pont: "May I hope 2" he asked, after his seventeenth rejection. " Yea," she replied, " you may." "Because—" he said pleadingly. " Because," she responded earnestly. is a free country." ANOTHER " LITTLE WAR." British rfrops to Oppose the Boers in l3outh Africa,. • SOME FIGHTING EXPECTED. • A London °We says: Replying to a queetion in the Home of Clommons to -day io regard to the. reported Boer " trek " being prepared for the invasion of Maahonen land, Manicaland, and other South African territory for the purpoee of eeteblishing the eomalled "Republic of the North,' llou Edward StddlimPe, Seoretiery of State for War, intimated that troops were being sent to British Beolnetneland in order to oppose the prophied Boer "trek,' Reoent Itilvices Mate that 20,000 well -armed Boers propose to orose the Limpopo on June let tom proclaim the Republic of the North. The leaders of the trek include men of r oio5ni°y1,1 aidnal lb' c'elthepiebieFnIcerneea8r4e4stiteidantdCa p o havee met with the approval of the famous Afrikaeder Brine recently in eeesion at Kimberley. The Boer movement is a South -African movement in the direction of northward eapeneion, and is bound to conflict with the claims of the British ohartered company, to say nothing of the olaims of the Portuguese South • Afrioan Company. One of the objects ot the raid is said to be the replacement of the °bar- tered company by o, popular movement free from the imperial Government's con- trol. There ie a otrong feeling against the compeller and egainst Imperial control in South Africa. The leaders of the trek, however, say little or nothing about the chartered company, claiming to base their proceediugs upon conoeseions granted long before the chartered company existed. The new republic will be founded on conetitn• tionel laws of the South African Republic, and is expected to attract men of high character and ability from sll parte of South Airline. Another "little war" in South Africa eeerns to be threatened. It will require ninny more British troops than are now available lo cope with the 20,000 Boers, who are dead shots and capable of Buffering the most severeleardships without complaint. BLAINE TO SALISBURY. A DHEIS of Settlement Laid Down by the American Government. A Washington despatch says : The fol. lowing note in addition to the correspond. mace teat has already passed in relate») to the Behring Sea contravene, is made public: DEPARTMENT OE STATE. WASHINGTON, April 14th, 1891. Sia,—The modifications which Lord Salisbury suggests in the questions for arbrital ion do not wholly meet the views of the President, but the President ebanges the text of the third and hith in such manner, it is hoped, as will result in an agreement between the two Governments. While Lord Salisbury suggests a different mode of procedure from that embodied in the sixth question, the President does not understand him actually to object to the question, and he there- fore assumes that it is agreed to. The six questions as now proposed by the President are au f ollows : 1. What exclusive jurisdiction in the sea now known as the Behring Sea, and what exchniive righte in the seal fisheries thereindid Russia assert and exercise prior and up to 'the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States? 2. How far were these claims of jurisdiction as to the seal fisheries recognized and conceded by Great Britain? 3. Was the body of water now known as the Behring Sea included in the phrase " Pacific Ocean, as used in the treaty uf 1825 between Great Britain and Russia; and what rights, if any, in the Behring Sea were held and exclu- sively exercised by Russia atter said treaty? 4. Did not all the rights of Russia as to juris- diction, and as to the seal fisheries in Behring Sea east of the water boundary described in the treaty between the United States and Russia of March 301h, 1867, pass unimpaired to the TJnited States under that treaty? 5. Has the. United States any right, and if so what right, of protection or property in the fur seals frequenting the islands of the United States in Pehring Sea, when such seals are found out• side the ordinary three-mile limit? 6 lf the determination of the foregoing ques- tions shall leave the subject in such a position that the concurrence of Great Britain is neces- sary in prescribing regulations for the killingof the fur seal in any part of the waters of Behring Sea, then it shall be further determined: First—How far, if at all, outside the ordinary territorial limits is it necessary that the United States should exercise any exclusive jurisdiction in order to protect the seal for the time living upon the islands of the United States and feed- ing therefrom. Second—Whether a closed season (during which the killing of seals in the waters of Behr- ing Sea outside the ordinary territorial limits shall be prohibited) is necessary to save the seal - fishing industry so v3,Iuable and important to mankind, from deterioration or destruction ; and if so, Third—What months or parts of months should bo included in each season, and over what waters it should extend. A HIGH witaitateses DEAD. The Eminent Theosophist, Madame Blavat- sky, Joins the Majority. A. -London cable says: Madame Bletvateky, the well.known theosophist, is dead. Madame Helene P. Blevatsky was born in Russia about 1820. She married Gen. Nicole V. Blavatsky, Governor of the Crimea, during the Crimean war, but ehe spent nearly 40 years in India studying the mysteries of Buddhism, to which, as modified by her own theories, she wae s oon.vert. She published "Isis Unveiled" in 1877, and bonded the Theosophioal Society in the United Stades in 1978, re. turning to India the next year to agreed its tenets. She dest much in occelt lore, and claimed to have found the key of wonderful knowledge. She gained many adherents in India, although responeible pereons have published au expose of alleged frande by which she duped the credulous. TO BUY UP CANADIAN CO re PANIC ir uharles Tupper Chosen President of a Waterworks and oaeworns Corpora- tion. A London cable says: Sir Charles Tup. per bas been appointed director of the Waterworks and Gewworks Securities' Corporation which hes just been organized here with a capital of £2000,000 sterling. The object of this new corporation is to buy up waterworks, gasworke end other concerns oU the kind in Canada and the United States. There hi every prospect of an early settlement of the question of the power of the trustees to invest in colonial inscribed stook. A eimple bill improved by the colonial representatives in London is being drafted for the Imperial Perliament. Legislation may also be necessary in Canada and the other colonies., A Governor's Naturalization. A Lincoln, Neb., despatch says: Just before adjournment of the Supreme Court yesterday a decision wee handed down in the Thayer -Boyd quo warrant° cased. tA, judgment of Mister was rendered agalitet Governor Boyd in favor of ex. Governor Thayer. The decision Wise written by Judge Norval, 'Judge Cobb concurring, but Judge blexwell diseented. Conned for Governor Boyd announced that they would at Once apply for a supereedeas for the purpose of taking the cue on 'a writ of error to the United States Sopreme Court. They claim tba,t the question of natnraliza- tion ie a Federal one and they are confident of But:lava in the court of tem gent*. • Mrs, Mary A. Woodbridge, recording seoretery of she National W. 0. T., TT., will go to Ermined as 8 delegate from the National W. a. T. U. lasanass. vosansaa.,,,msa TUB i'HILOBOEHER,'S OTORZ, GREAT MOST FIEE. Terrible Experience of a Train Load of Men Wrecked in the Flames, eLorirx.x (woman WO DEATH. 4. Coudereport, Pm, despatch gives the following fuller detaile of the train burning horror reported yesterday ; At Moore's Run, on the Tinnanealiouing Valley Rail- road, a trein load of 75 men sent from Austin on Sunday night had been fighting back the Are by every conceivable means. They made trenohes, piled up earth and lighted back fires, but were finally obliged to retreat. The men hastily boarded the train, and atarted to make a run to another point, when it was found that they were hemmed in by the forest fires on one side end a huge ekidway of logs on the other. It was finally decided to dash past the burning ekidways, and the engineer and fireman with faces covered with dampened cloths and their hands and ammo wrapped in wool mounted the little engine and palled out through the well of fire. The 75 ex- hausted men gathered in groups on the fiats for protection, or lay on their fame on the floor. As the blazing furnace of logs was approached the heat beamme on. bearable, and the smoke was so blinding and stifling that the men were obliged to cover their mouthe with cloths. Just opposite the millions of feet of burn- ing logs, where the heat and smoke and flame were the greatest, a terrible thing °marred. The engineer had forgotten that such great heat would eurely spread the rails, and he pulled the throttle wider in the hope of the sooner escaping from a torrent of heat and smoke. Then there was a lurch, an ominous heaving, and a ebriek of despair as the train toppled over into the hell of fire • beneath. A scene ensued never to be forgotten by these who escaped. Every survivor will bear to his • grave a mark of that awful moment. The oars caught fire like so many paper play- things, and the men within, heif blinded and ecarcely realizing anything exoept that they were being roasted to death, struggled fearfully to regain the track, where safety lay for a time at least. Those uninjured from the fall, and only smarting from the pain of the intense heat, bravely turned with burned and blackened hands to aid their more unfortunate fel- lows. At this hour (930 p. m.) it is impossible to secure full details. Superin- tendent Badger, of the Tinnemahoning Valley road, ante in oherge of the relief train, and had worked the hardest of all to save the properties of °there. When the train ditched and rolled over so euddenly, he must hey° been injured eo as to be unable to help himself, and owing to smoke and panto he wae not found ontil too late, jammed in the wreok, where he bad slowly burned to death. It is known that eix others else miserably perished at once, or died soon after, and 30 others of the party were badly burned, many pro- bebly fatally, owing to the fact that they inhaled flames that seemed to fairly spring into their faces. Seven others of the party are missing and their fate is unknown, though they are likely to be in the charred wood of the loge or the train. THIRTEEN OIL WELLS,BORNED. An Oil City, Pa., despatch says: A mes- Beige received from Superintendent Strong, of the Oil City Fuel Co.'from Pine Grove township, says thus far thirteen oil wells have been burned, four gas welle of the Fuel Supply Co. and nine oil wells of the North Pennsylvania 011 Co. The fire is etill burning. Minor forest firee, for some of which arrests are expeoted of fishermen end boys, are reported from various points in this motion. The Fuel Company is in receipt of mesesges to -day from Elk and Clearfield counties announcing serious forest fires, which are spreading. A DEADLY INF ATUA.TION. Husband and Wife Conspire to Poison Their Life Partners. An Abingdon, W. Va., despatch nye : Dr. John A. P. Baker and Mrs. W. R. Gilmer are under arrest charged with the murder of Mrs. Baker, wife of Dr. Baker, and an attempt to murder W. R. Gilmer, husband of the woman under arreet. Mrs. Baker died suddenly more than a year ago. Recently eome tell.tale letters were found whioh were written by Mrs. Gilmer to Dr. Baker. They show that a criminal inti- macy existed between the two, and that they had plotted Mre. Baker's death. Mrs. Gilmer hes made a confession that 'Dr. Baker poieoned hie wife and sent her poise with instructions how to administer it to ber husband. She did so, and nothing ettved his life but the timely arrival of Dr. Gilmer, a brother of the poisoned man. All the parties are prominent in Abingdon, and the affeir has excited the greatest sensation the town has ever known. REBELLION IN HONOUR AS. An Uprising Against the Government in Which. Severe Fighting Takes Place. A La Libertad despatch nye : Advices from Honduras state that at 3 o'clock yesterday morning a force under the com- mand of Col. Molina and Gen. Bardeles, both of whom were leading rebele, attecked the cmartel at Amapela. The guard there was taken by surprise, and the rebate were soon in poeeeseion of the ottertel. Six hundred and thirty Government troops, tinder Col. Barrera, made a movement spinet the coarse'. Severe fighting fol- lowed, but at noon the Government troops drove the rebels from the ouartel, inflicting great loss upon them. Among the killed was Gen. Bardeles, one of the rebel leaders. Amapale, is eituated upon the island of that Dame, and the rebels were driven to the mainland. Col. Barrera, has 300 infantry and 40 cavalry guarding the ieland. The rebels are besieging the place, and evidently intend to roske smother attach as soon as reinforcements, which are expected, arrive. PLUNGED INTO THE FLAMES. Unaccountable Freak of an Excited Man at a Forest Fire. An Atlantic City, N. J, despatch says : Thomas Smith, in the misplay of Capt. R. D. Freboh, of Port Republica while fighting the forest fire an that vioinity, became so excited as to lose control of hiroself, the flames seemingly exerting an influence over his actiena Ile threw away his shovel and dashed into the fire. Hie companion thought he had been burned to death, but the next morning he found him lying beside a brook into whiola he had plunged to ex. tinguieh the fire in his clothes. His head and hands were severely burned and his hair singed from his head. Smith wee weak from exposure, and after having been resuscitated could assign no reason for hie mad freak. Mr. Goschen, the Englieh statesman, is a man of slender physique, etoop-shouldered and pale. He is painfully nearsighted and can reed a letter only when it is brought to the end ot his large nose. The pen le mightier than tho sword, The dollar mightier than the pen But an advertisement in the TIMER IS laightiet far for businesemen. A Yankee Orook Works a Transparent Fraud Ouillible Englishmen. HOW TO INCREASE THE; WEIGHT 01' GOLD. A London cable says: Edward Pinter, alias e Sheeney Al," also said to be known in New York under tho name of Sone - holm, the American swindler. who has been reaping gold in Hump by pretending to be possessed of the philosopher's Mon' o wile again under em xabeation to -day itt the Marlborough Street Police Court charged with attempting to °Maio *40,000 by taloa pretenoee from Edwin Streeter, a Bond street jeweller. Pinter, who was arrested' on May 4th, had provieuely induced Streeter to go to hie (Pinter's) bed.room at Storey's Hotel, whore, so as to test the A.neerioan'a claim, Streeter handed Pinter a sovereign, which the latter threw into a crucible, covered it with some kind of powder and, after appearing to melt inpalled out a lump of gold equal in weight to three eovereigns. Sheeney Al" then suggested thet Streeter should furnish him with 10,000 sovereigns which he would transform by the use of the philomplaer's atone into gold, weighing 24,000 sovereigns, or equal to e120,000. Streeter appeared to memo to this, and &eked that Pinter should go to his jewelry works to f umber test the power of the philosopher's stone. Pinter consented and appeared there on Allty 4th, plaoed two sovereigns in n crucible,. covered them with the powder and placed the crucible and its °entente in a heated furnace. Streeter, however, had become suepicioas, and when the gold VMS simmering he gave a eignal, which brought two Sootlauct Yard detec- tives from concealment in the workshop and Pinter was arrested. At the Police Court the next day the presiding magita trate said it was just possible that Pinter may have discovered some method of increasing the weight of gold. Streeter said he had been informed ',het Pinter had been swindling people by the process referred to in the United States. Pinter insisted he could increase the weight of gold, and asked it it WWI jut that he should be compelled to divulge his secret in court. Thereupon Streeter called attention to the tam that Pinter, while claiming to increase the weight of gold, refused to make the increase with gold bare and kept everybody away from the crucible while the experiment was being conducted, claiming the fumes of the acid he used would kill anybody who appr °ached it without being thoroughly prepared for and guarded agai»st the fames. In court to. day Messrs Avery and Pollard appeared as counsel foe the public prosecutors under instructions from the Treaeury Depart; men*. Mr. Avery eaid the game Abe prisoner played was of the most simple nature possible. He made it a condition of " his experiments" that the soy - °reigns were to remain in the acid or com- position which he used for a certain time. The prisoner would than use materials which produced such a horrible stench that everybody present at the experiment was glad to rush away. When they returned to ascertain the result of tbe American's work they found the pritioner and the e overeigns gone. Severe' yeare ego Pinter p layed this trick with succees in Lwerpool. H e then managed to get 500 sovereigns and v aniehed. The hesring wee then adjourned. A neong the people said to have been vim ti mized by Pinter's philosopher's atone are a member cf the Rothschild family and a m ember of the firm of Baring Brea., MANGLED BY OARS. The Letter That Told of the Errand ea, Which He WEIS G oing. An Albany, N. Y., despatch says: T* mangled body of a young man was found on Saturday on the Central Railroad tracks, a foe miles west of Schtmectady. The following letter, found in one of his pookees, indicates a romance in cenneoticn with. his life HERMANN, Mo., March 24, 1891, Mr. Samuel Bright: Drain FREEND,—I got your letter in which you ask the hand of my daughter. Ale rtlat If you are the respectable young man I take you for I shall be glad to have you for a son-in-law. I don't care if you are poor. I have enough for us all. All I want is a good fellow to manage my money and other affairs, SS I ant getting too old for that. I know A. Jager and 'Eli Rogers and will come to your city eoon and find out if you are all right, and if you aro allright will let you come and marry my daughter soon.—Your friend, A. 'WENDELL. Nothing waa found on *be body to wall- oete where the victim bed lived. He was well dressed and in the same pocket with the letter was a, New Testament. It is thoughtothist he fell from a west bound freight train on which be lees trying to imanks.ehis way to the object of his effem io HE SAT ON TEM CAT, And the Bite She Gave Elm Will Pro- bably Cause Bis Death. ' A Ten Mile Run, N. J., despetch eels ;Tee. Smith, a wealthy resident of this town, lies at the point of death from the effect of the bite of a cat. Mr. Smith oat down on a chair on wItiola there was a newspaper three weeks ago. Beneath the, newspaper WWI the family cat. As his weight descended on the animal, she seized his right hand with her teeth and inflicted a deep wound, from whioh the blood flowed freely. Mr. Smith thought little of the incident at the time, but last week the hand' and arm became greatly swollen and 'very peininl. Dr. Moser, of Griggstown, Wad called in end pronounced it ft ease of blcod- poisoning resulting from the cat's bite.. Remedies were aciminietered, but without effect, and the patient ie 181 it dying condi- lion. Mr. Smith is about 50 years old, haa. a wife and two daughters, and ie the owner - of considerable farming land in this. vicinity. Look me in the face! My name is 'Might.have- been V / no also called 'No -more,' 'Too -late; 'Parc' wen!' e The poet who wrote the above, must have been in the last etages at consumption. Perhaps he bad only learned, for the first time, that if ho had taken Dr. 'Pierce'' Golder* Medical Discovery in his earlier ill - nese, he would never have reached his pres- ent hopekee (Rendition I Whet can be more sad than a keen realizetion of what, "might have been ?" Physicians now admit that consumption is simply scrofula in the blood attacking the• lung -Cranes. It is never sefe to allow the blood to remain impure, mad it is espeoially recklees, when such a pleasant, hermlose, ' remedy as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Diecovery will drive every taint of scrofula or impurity from the eystern, catteing a current of rejuvenating blood to leap through the veins, One of the UnfortunateS. Puck : Brotherton—Marriage its * failure. , Benedeet (in surprise)—Why, I didn't kbow you had ever been married! Brotherton—I haven't—I failed. a—Fires last menth destroyed property tet the vele° of $11,309,000 in the Malted States and Canada. The tote' for the first four months of the year Wee e44,307,150.