The Brooklyn ' Divine Preaches on
"ine Ascension or . Cnrlst."
. The Grandest, Tenderest, Mightiest Good.
.;: Br Ever Heard.
TEXT: "Ltfl.up.your head, 0 v ftates,
and he v lifted up, ye ecerktstina doors;
. ocf tAe Kiny of Glory nhall come in." Pa.
xiv,'; ?.' ". . v.;
: olden times when a great conqueror re
turned from victorious war, tha people in
. wild transport would take hold of the gates
of the city and lift them from thotr hinges.
umk)mj. ms city neeas no mora
' got home. Off from the hinges with the gates!"
David, who was the poet of poets, forcells in
nls own way the triumphal entrance of
jurist into heaven altar His victory over sin
and death and hell. , It was a if the celestial
V inhabitants had said. "Here He comes! Make
way for Him! Push back the bolts of dia-
' ttiond!. Take.hold of , thedoorsof pearl and
hoist them from their hinges of gold I Lift
., p your heals, O ye gates; and be ye lifted.
up, ye everlasting floors, and the King or
r Glory shall come in." - .
Among the mountain? of Palestine no one
. is more uplifting than Mount Olivet. It was
the peroration of our Lord's ministry. On
."the roof 'of a house in Jerusalem I asked,
; "Which is Olivet?" and the first glance trans
fixed me.- But how shall I describe
toy emotions, V, when near the close of
a journey, in which we had for two
; nighta -encamped amid the shattered
masonry of old - Jericho, and tasted of
the acrid waters of the Bead Sea, that erys
. tnl sarcophagus of the buried , cities of the
, plain, and waded down into the deep and
swift Jordan to baptise a man, and visited
til 1-lllrlu 'tt IkrtitcA if X1at mnA fat.hf
, " " " . wwvt u u . v. jun, j i.uu vua
and Lazarus, we found ourselves hi stirrups
and on horse, lathered ' with the long and
ditHcu.lt way, ascending' Mount Olivet? Oh,
that solemn and suggestive ridgal It is a
limestone hill, a mile in length, and 300 feet
high, and 2700 feet above the level of the
sea. Over it King David fled with a broken
heart. Over it Pompey led his devastat
ing hosts. Here the famous Tenth Legion
built their batteries in besiegement. . The
Garden of i- Gethsemane . weeps at the
foot of it,' Along the base of this hill flashed
the lanterns and torches of those who came
to arrest Jesus. ': From the trees on this hill
the boughs wereton off and, thrown into
the path of Christ's triumphal procession. Up
and down that road Jesus had walked twice
a day from Bethany to Jerusalem, and from
Jerusalem to Bethany. There, again and
Again, He had taught Hi disciples,'- Half
way up this mount He uttered His lamenta
tion 5 5'0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem L" From its'
height Jesus took flight homeward when He '
had finished His eartnly mission. There is .
nothing' more for Him to do. A sacrifice
was needed to make peace between . the
recreant earth and the outragad heaven, and .
He had offered it. Death needed to be can
quered,and He had put His resurrection foot
upon it The thirty-three years of voluntary r
exile had endecL The grandest, tenderest,
mightiest good-by ever heard -ras now to be ,
uttered. '-. "
Ou Mount Olivet Jesus stands in a group
of Galilee fishermen. ; They had been to
gether in many scenes of sadness and perse
cution and had been the more endeared by
that brotherhood of suffering. They had
expected Him to stay until the day of coro
nation when He would . take the .earthly
throne and wave a scepter mightier,: and
rule a dominion wider than any Pharoah,
than any David, than any Caesar But now
ail theso- anticipations collapse. Christ has
given His last advice. He has offered His
last sympathy. - He has spoken His last word.
His bands are spread apart as one is apt to
do when he pronouces a benediction, when '
suddenly the strongest and most stupendous
law of all ' worlds is shattered. . It is
the law which, since the worlds were created,
hold them together. It is the law which
holds everything to the earth, or
temporarily hurled . from earth, returns
it; the law which keeps the planets whirling
around Mir sun, and our solar system whirl
ing around other systems,, and all the sys
tems whirling around the throne of God
the law of gravitation, ,- That law is sus
pended, or relaxed, or broken, to let the body
of J esus go. That law had laid hold of Him
thirty-three years before, when He descended.
It had relaxed its grip of Him but once, and
that when it declined to sink Him from the
top of the waves on Lake Galilee, on ' which
He walked, to the bottom of the lake. That
law of gravitation must now give way to
Him who made the law. It may hold the
other stars, but it cannot longer hold 'the
Morning Star of the Redemption. It may
hold thenoonday sun, but it cannot hold the
Bun of Righteousness. The fingers of that
law are about to open to let go the most illus
trious Being the world has ever seen, and
whom it had worst maltreated. The strong
est law of nature which philosophers ever
weighed or measured must at last give way.
It will break between the rock of Olivet and
tka Kant r,t r!hflats v-,t- Wovh it alt n
disciples 1 Watch it, aU the earth ! Watch
it, all the heavens f Christ about to leave
this planet. How? ;His friends will not con
gent to have Him go. His enemies catching
Him would only attempt by another Calvary
to put Him into some other tomb. I will tell :
you how. The chain of the most tremen-,
dous natural law is unlinked, v The sacred
foot of our Lord and the limestone rock part,
and part forever. '-".--. ' . V
Leaning back, and with pallid cheek and
uplifted eyes, the disciples see their Lord ris
ing from the solid earth. Then, rushing for
tvai d, they would grasp Hs feet to hold Hun
fast, but they are out of reach and it is
too late to detain Him Higher than the
tops of the fig trees from which they had
plucked the fruit. ( Higher than) the olive
prees that shaded the mount; Higher,
until He is within sijht of the Bethlehem
where He was .born, and the Jordan where
He was baptized, and the Golgotha where
He was slain. Higher, until on stab's of
fleecy cloud He steps. Higher, until into a
sky bluer than the lake that could not sink
Him, He disappears into a eea of glory
whose billowing splendors hide Him. . The
fishermen watch and -watch, wondering if
the law of nature will not reassert itself
and He shall in a few moments come back'
gain, and they shall see Him descending,)
first His scarred feet coming insight, then
cue scarred Bide, then tne ssarred brow, and
they may take again His scarred hand. But
the moments pass by and the hours, and no
reappearance. Gone out of sight of earth,
but come within sight of heaven. And rising
still, not welcomed by one angelic choir Mkt
those who one Christmas night escorted Him
down! but all hwvea turns out to greet Him
home, and the temples have especial anthem,
Mid the palaces espial banquet, and the
streets especial throngs; and all along the
line to the foot of the tnrone, for years va
ra td but now again to be taksn, there are .
urc-h-s lifts:!, and banners waved, and trumr
pets sounded, and doxologies chanted, and
coronets cast down.
The iince'is throns'd Hi cfcMriot wheels,
And tjm-e Him u His throno: i
' XJiea swei their sultlun harp" and sang
" "'f'M 'i!t"i worn if dotty."
U was fae greatest day in heaven! As IIs
fcofxujthe st-piof tii ) throne that thirty
Hir e year? fctore 1I a'jlicatel for our a I-v-,e.
thi rh-i f.'oai all the hoaH of
neavun a shout, saintly, .cherubic, serapnic,
u-changelic. "Hallelujah I Amou !"
- o garden of ol Wes, thou dear honored pot
Th fame of thy glory fhull us'ur b forgot. , .
No wonder that for at least fourteen hun-,
tired years the churches have, forty days af
ter .Easter, kept Ascension Day; for the la
ons are most Inspiring and glorious. It
takes much of the nncartainty out of the
Idea of heaven, when from Olivet we sea
human nature ascending. The same body
that rose from Joseph's tomb ascended
from Mount Olivet. Our human nature is
in heaven to-day. Just as they had seen
Christ for forty days, He ascended, head,
face, shoulders, hands, fet and the entire
human organism. Huanity ascended I
Ah, how closely that keeps Christ in sym
pathy with those who are still . in the strug
elol Ascended scars, face scars, hand scars.
. teet scars, shoulder . scars r That will keeu
Him in accord with all tha suffering, .with
all the wearv, with all the, imposed upon.
No more is He a spirit now than a body, no
more of heaven than earth. Thosa of , the
celestial inhabitants who never saw our
world now walk around Him and learn from
His physical contour something of what our
race will be when, in the resurrection,
heaven -will have uncounted bodies as well
as uncounted spiritsi. On Ascension Day He
lifted Himself throngh tha atmosphere of
Palestine, until, amid the immensities, Hs
disappeared.1 He was the only baing the
world ever saw who could li ft Himself ; surely
if He could lift Himself He can do the lessar
deed of lifting us. - 1
No star goes down hat climbs mother iky.
Ne sun seta here except to riea on high.
Christ laads Us all the way; through the
birth hour, for He was born in Bethlehem;
through boyhood, for He passed it in Naza
reth; through injustices, for He endured the
outrages of Pilate's court room; through
death, for He suffered it oa Calvary; through
the sepulchre, for He lay three, days within
its : darkened walls; through resurrection,
for the solid masonry gave way on the firat
Easter . morning; through ascension, for
Mount Olivet watched Him as He climbed
the skies; through the shining gatss, for He
entered them amid magnificent, acclaim.
And here la a gratifying consideration that
you never thought of: We will aee onr
Lord just as He looked on earth. As He
rose from the tomb He ascended from Mount
Olivet. We shall see Him as He looked on'
the road to Bmmaus, as He appeared in the
upper room in Jerusalem, as He was that
day of valedictory on the ridge froAn which
He swung into the skies. Howmuch we
will want to see Him. v. ,
.-''-1 was reading of a man born blind. He was
married to one who took care of htm all those ',
years of darkness. A surgeon said to him,
'1 can remove that blindness," and so he
did. His sight given him. a rose was handed
to the man who never before had seen a ros9
and he was in admiration of it, and his fam
ily whom he had never seen before now ap
peared to him, and he was in tears of rap
ture, when he suddenly cried ontu. "I ouzht
first to have asked to see the one who cured
me; show me the doctor.'. When from our
eyes the scales of earth shall fall. and we have .
our first vision of heaven, our first cry ought
not to be,- "Where are my loved ones?" Our
nrst cry ought to be. , "Where is Christ, who
made all thispossible? Show ms ths doctor!'
Glory be to God for ascended humanity I
Could we realize it, and that it is all in sym-,
pathy for us, we would have as cool a , cour
age in the conflict of this life as had Charlej
the Twelfth wheh h9 was dictatingdi3patche3
to his secretary, and : a bombshell fell into
the room, and the secretary dropped his pen
and attempted flight. Charies said to him:
"Go on with your writing ! , What has the
bombshell to do with the letter I am die-,
tatinz?' If the ascended Christ be on oar
side, nothing should disturb us.
Our fellow sufferer yet retains
A fellow feeling in oar paiue,
And still remembers, in the skies.
His teard. His agonies, and cries.
I am so glad that Christ broke the natural
law of gravitation when He shook off from
His feet the clutch of Mount Olivet. Peorjle
talk as though cold, iron, unsympathetic.
natural law controlea everything. Taereiga
of law iti a majestic thing, but the God who
made it has a right to break it and a rain
and again has broken it, ani again and again
wiu Dreas ic -. a law is oniy uoa'8 way .or
doing things, and if He chooses to do tnam
some other way He has a right to do so. A
law is not strong enough to shackle the Al
mighty, Christ broke botanical law wasn,
one Monday morning in March, on the way
from Bethany to Jerusalem, by a few words
He turned a full leaved fig tree into
lifeless stick. He broke ichthyologi-
cal law. when, without any natural
Inducement, He swung a great school of fish
Into a part of Lake Tiberias, where the fish
ermen bad cast their nets for eight or ten
hours without the 'capture of a minnow;
and by making a fish help pay the tax by
yielding from its mouth a Roman stater.
Christ oroke the law of storms by compel
ing, with '- a word, the angered sea to hush
Its frenzy, and the winds to quit tfceir bel
lowing He broke zoological law when He
made the devils possess tha swine of Gadara.
He broke the law of economics when He
made enough bread for five thousand people ,
jut of five biscuits that would not ordinarily '
bave been enough for' ten of the hungry.
He broke intellectual law when, by a word
He silenced a maniac in placidity. He
woke physiological law when, by a touch.
He straightened a Woman who for eighteen
rears had been bent almost double, and when
He put spring into the foot of inhumated
Lazaru3, and when, without medicine, He
rave the dying girl back in health to the
Syro-Fhoenician mother, and when He made
'he palatial home of the nobleman resound
igain with the laughter of his restored boy,
md when, without knife or battery, He set,
sataracted eyes to seeing again, and the drum
)f deaf ears to vibrating again, and the
serves of paralyzed arms to thrilhn? again,
md then when in leaving the earth Hedefied 1
Ul atmospheric law and physiological law,
and that law which has in it withes and
jables and girders enough to hold the uni
verse, 'the law of gravitation. ; i
The Christ who proved Himself on so many
jeeasions, and especially the last, suoerior to
law, still lives; and every day, in answer to ,
prayer for the good of the world, He is over
riding the law. Blessed be God that we are
not tne subjects of blind f atality, but of a
sympathizing divinity. Have you never
wen a typiloid fever break, or a storm sud
denly quiet, or a ship a beam's-end right it
iel, or a fog lift, or a parched sky break in
ihowers, or a perplexity disentangled,
or the . inconsolable take solace, or
6he wayward reform at the call of prayer?
have seen-it;, multitudes have seen.
It. You have, if you have been willing
to see it Deride not the faith cure. Because
Impostors attempt it is nothing against good
men whom God hath honored with marvel
dus restorations. Pronounce nothing impos
sible to prayer and trust. Because you and '
I cannot effect it is no reason why others
may not. By the same aigumentl could
prove that Rathal never painted a Madon
na, and that M'endelssobn never wrote an or
atorio, and that Phidias never chiseled a
statue. Because we cannot accomplish it
ourselves, we are nt to conclude that others
may not. There are in immensity great
ranges of mists which have proved,
under closer telescopic scrutiny, to be
the store house of worlds, and I do
not know but from that passage in
James, which to some of us in yet misty and
dim, there hiav roll out a new heaven and a
ni'vtf farth: "Theprnvr of til", h-shall h-ive
ii-..!?-." T' " f5i:s --t5 r-v, in ,!s
war against disease, be only skirmishing be
fore a general engagement, in which all the
maladies of earth shall be routed. Surely
allopathy and homoeopathy and hydropathy
and eclecticism need re-enforcement from
tomewhere. Why not from the faith and
praver of the consecrated? The mightiest
school of medicine may yet be the school of
Christ. I do not know but that diseases now .
by all schools pronounced Incurable
may give way under Goppel bombard
ment. - I do not know but that the day
may come when faith and prayer shall raise
the dead. Btrauss and Woolston and Spin
oza and Hume and Schleiermacher rejected
the miracles of the far past I do not pro
pose to be like them and reject the miracles
of the far future. This I know the Christ
of Ascension Day is mightier than any nat
ural laws, for on the day of which I speak ,
He trampled down the Wrongest of them alL
Law is. mighty, but He who . made it is
mightier, Drive' out fatalism" from yotsr
theology, and give grace the throne. ' v
Standing to-day on the Ascension peak of
Mount Olivet I am also gladdened at the
closing gefture, the last gesture Christ ever
made. "He lifted np His hands and blesssed
them," says the inspired account of our
Lord's departure. I am so glad He lifted
up His hands. Gestures are often more sig
nificant than words, attitudes than argu
ments. Christ had made a gesture -of eon
tempt when with His finger He wrote on tha
ground; gesture of repulsion when He said:
'Get thee behind rde, Satan:" gesture of con
demnation when He said: "Woe unto you,
Pharisees and ' hypocrites. But His last
gesture, His OHvetic gesture, la a gesture of
benediction. He lifted up His .hands and
blessed them His arm are extende I, and ,
the calms of His hand3 turned downward,
and so He dropped benediction uddi Olivet,
benediction upon Palestine, benediction upon '
all the earth.
The cruel world took Him in at the start
on a cradle of straw, and at. last thrust
Him out with the point of the spear: but
benediction! : Ascending until, beneath. He
saw on one aide the Bethlehem where they
put Him among the cattle, and Calvary on
the other side, where they put Him among
the thieves.: As far as the excited and in
tensified vision of the group on Olivet could
see Him, and after He was so far up they
could no longer hear His words, they saw
the gesture of the outspread hands, the ben
ediction. And that is His attitude to-day.
His benediction upon the world's climates,
and they are changing, and will keep on
changing until the atmosphere shall oe a
commingling of October and June. Bene
diction upon the deserts till they whiten with
lily, and blush with rose, and yellow with
cowslip, and emerald with grass. , Benedic-'
turn upon governments till they become
more just and humane. Benediction upon
nations till they kneel in prayer.. Benedic
tion uporr the whole earth until every mount
ain is an Olive of consecration, and ever v
lake a Galilee on whose mosaic of crystal,
and opal, and sapphire divine splendors shall
walk. . " f . ' 1
Oh, take the benediction of His pardon, sin
ners young and shiners old, sinners moderate
and sinnera abandoned. Take the benediction
of His comfort, all ye broken hearted under
bereavement and privation and myriad woes .
.Take His benediction, all ye sick beds,
whether under acute spasms of pain or in
long protracted invalidism. For orphanage,
and childlessness, and widowhood a benedic
tion . For cradles and trundle beds and rock
in g chairs of octogenarians, a benediction.
For life and for death, for time and for eter
nity, for earth and for heaven; a benedic
tion. Sublimest gesture ever made, the last
gesture of our ascending Lord. "And He
fted up His hands and blessed them."
Is onr attitude the same? Is it the clenched
fist or the open palm? Is it wrath or is it
kindness? Is it diabolism or Christism? God
give us the grace of the open palm, open up
ward to get the benediction, open downward
to pronounce a benediction. A lady was pass
ing along a street and suddenly ran against
a ragged boy, and she said : "I beg your par
don, my boy, I did not mean to run against
you; I am very sorry." And the boy took off
the piece of a cap he had upon his head and
said: "You have my parding,. lady, and you
may run agin me and knock me clear down;
1 won't care." And turning to a comrade he
said: "That nearly took me off my feet. No
body ever asked myparding before." Kind
ness! Kindness! Fill the world with it.
There has always been too much of disregard
of others. Illustrated in 1630, in England,
when 95,000 acres of marshes were drained
for health and for crop raising, and the
sportsmen destroyed the drainage works be
cause they wanted to keep the marshes for
hunting-ground, where they could shoot
wild ducks.
The" same selfishness la all ages. Oh, for
kindness that would make our life a sym
phony suggestive of one of the ancient ban
quets where everything was set to music;
the plates brought in and removed to the
sound of music, the motions of the carvers
keeping time with the music, the conversation
lifting and propping with the rising and
falling of the music But, instead of the
music of 1 an earthly orchestra, it would
be the music of a heavenly charm, our words
the music of kind thoughts, our steps the
mnsicjof helpful deeds, our smile the musio
of ehfjiuragmg looks, our youth and old age
the fifbt and last bars of musio conducted by t
the pierced hand that was opened in love and
spread downward in benediction on Olivetio
heights on Ascension Day.
By a new way none ever trod
' Carlst mounted to the throne of God.
BLOWN ToITrAGMENTS.
A Singular Accident on the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad Two Men Killed.
About two o'clock P. M., at Buffalo, N. Y.,
Lehigh Valley engine No. 261, George Pearl
.engineer and Henry J. O'Connor, fireman,
started for East Buffalo with a string of twenty
seven ears. The train was nioving slowly and
had crossed the Lake Shore tracks at the Buf
falo Creek Junction, when the locomotive ex
plodcd. AH that remained of its fifty tons of
mechanism were its six driving wheels at the
forward end and the disabled tender at the
rear. The tracks were ripped from the ties
and bent out of shape, the ground was torn up
for some distance and broken telegraph and
e led ric light wiree hung from their posts a
tangled mass. No trace was left of cither
engineer or firemen on the spot where the ex
plosion took place. What was apparently a
human body was seen flying through the air
at an elevation of 100 feet, and was observed
to fall on tht- Lake Shore Bailroad, at least
1,000 feet west of where theexplosion occurred.
The body of the other unfortunate man took
northeanterly course at a high elevation, and
dropped into tho creek 500" feetaway.
The remains of the two men were found
alter vome search shockingly mutilated. -
EXPLOSION 0FPOWDER MILLS.
Three of the Workmen Killed and Others
I n jn red.
: -:
The entire plant of the Consumers' Powder
Co., located aear Winton, Pa, was destroyed
at 10:30 o'clock in the morning by an explo
sion and fire. The force of the explosion was
terriffic.
The workmen had no opportunity to escape,
and three are reported a bng instantly
killed )oneof thni Wing Wiilitim Mellett),
and severnl others bnrtly. injured. All the
inn-lings in the vici'uty of the works
j"iM i.--i!!y riVs'royed. '
THE NEWS.
The SupremeCourt of Nebraskahaa decided
the celebrated Elmwood Elevator case in favor
of the Farmers' Alliance. rThe great forest
fires in Northern : Winconsiu are gaining
ground. James Atwood, of Itockfort, Ind.,
fired into a party of whitecaps who attacked
him, and shot Wm. Miles, a neighboring far
mer. Edward Valvis,, an artiat, was struck
by a train on the New York Central Bailroad
in New York, and instantly killed. Another
secret Irish association is said to have been
formed in Canada.' Near Star Lake, in the
Adirondacks, Henry Farnev shot and in
stantly killed Wm. Montrieff. The Allen
Line steamer Parisian struck an Iceberg off
the Banks of Newfoundland, and- narrowly
escaped disaster.-- Ei-Mayor Vaut, of Pbil-'
adelphia, has accepted the Democratic nomi
nation for Congress, to succeed Mr. Randall.
The Massachusetts Senate passed the
amendment abolLsning the poll tax as a pre
requisite to voting. Leslie McLeod, asso
ciated editor of Wallace's Monthly, was ar
rested in New York, charged with stealing
$50,000 worth of bonds. -Deputy United'
States marshals are looking for Mayor W. W.
Cottrell, of Cedar Keys, Fla., who interfered
with the customs collector in the performance
of his duty. In Huntaville, Ala., George
.Griffin and John Robertson, negroes, killed
the illegitimate twins of a negress and fled.
7 The deal for the purchase of the sewer
pipe works in Toronto, Out., by an English
syndicata has been completed. John Crouch,
his wife' and eon Andrew were murdered at
Bertleysville, O.
A tornado swept over "Blythesdale, Mo,
wrecking a dozen houses and seriously injur
ing every member of Henry Young's family,
.-Mrs. Charles Frost, of Portsmouth, N.H.j
.during a fit of temporary Insanity, attempted
to drown her four-months-old baby and her
self, but was prevented by a tramp.- -William
Berry, a watchmaker, attempted to- murder
his sick wife at their, home ia New York by
crushing her skull with a stove lid.- Eliza
O'Brien, of North Woburn, Mass., aged thir
teen, "died of hydrophobia. I. N. Stern, a
'clothing merchant of New York, was killed at
'Linden,. N. J., while attempting to board a
tram.- The Consumers' Powder Company's
.mill at Scranton, Pa., was blown up and three
workmen killed.- General Joseph E. Johns
ton, will unveil the Lee monument at Rich
nond. ,
') The village of Ellicottsville, N.Y., was
swept by a fire that caused losses aggregating
$50,000. Oliver W. Oleson, of Lacrosse,
.Wis., was killed by William Deyer for refusing
to pay for a round of drinks. The hark
Emetic, of Sair Francisco, was wreeked on th
New Zealand coast, and the captain and seven
men drowned.-- Candidates continue to
spring up in opposition to Carlisle for the Ken
tucky senatorship. -Terrific wind storms in
Kansas and Misjouri did great destruction to
property, and caused the loss of a number of
livesr Judith Torey had Raymond Carroll,
the son of Mayor Carroll, of Rochester, N. Y,
arrested on a charge of spending $15,000 of her
iortune and then assaulting her. -The sixty
sixth anniversary of the American Sunday
School Union was held in the First Presby
terian Church of Trenton, N. J. Mrs. James
McGill, of Ritchie county, W. Va, whose hus
band recently deserted her, informed the
authorities that he had been engaged in coun
terfeiting for four years, and tamed over to
them the moulds and dies he had been using.
An attempt to expel a number of squatters
from Mrs. L. G. Robinson's large tract of land
in, Wetzel county, W. Va., caused a riot,
during which a mob demolished the home of
a widow and burned her furniture.
A locomotive, drawing a freight train, on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, exploded near
Buffalo, N. Y entirely demolishing the en
gine, and killing the engineer and fireman. ,
Willie Wynn, aged thirteen years, lost his
life in trying to save his grandmother from
the flames of their burning home at Campbell
ford, Ont. The works of the Standard and
Venture Powder and Dynamite Manufactories
at B rock vi 11c, Ont., exploded, but nd one was
hurt. Wm. D. Hale, aged seventy-one years,
father of Frederick ' Hale, who killed his
brother Henry a week ago at Pittsfield, Mass.
committed suicide. General Julius White,
ex-minister of the Argentine Republic, died at
South Evanston, I1L One fireman and two
brakemen were killed by the collision of two
freight trains on the East Tennessee, Virginia
nd Georgia Railroad at a tunnel near Chat
tanooga. -Twenty-five illicit distillers were
captured by United States officers near Pine
ville, Ky. -Lieutenant- Edwin B. Weeks,
quartermaster at the United States army post
at San Antonio, Texas, committed suicide.
John Van Tassel, a brakeman in the employ
of the New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railway, received severe injuries between the
bumpers and secured a verdict $15,000 dam
ages in a New York court Hon. Reuben R.
Thrall, said to be the oldest practising attor
ney in the United States, died at Rutland, Vt,
in his ninety-fifth year. He was an old-time
abolitionist and a co-worker with Wm. Lloyd
Garrison. Charles Randolph, ex-secretary
of the Chicago Board of Trade, missing foi
several weeks, has turned up in Portland',
Oregon. Three thousand employes of the
National Tube Works at McKeesport, Pa.,
struck for a ten per cent- advance. Edward
Reed, a clerk of the Southern "White Lead
Works, Chicago, was fatally shot by George
Bartley, a striker. In the General Southern
Methodist Conference, encouraging reports
were presented of the increase in Sunday
school membership.
Ferdinand J. Drier, of Philadelphia, has
presented to the Historical Society of Penn
svlvania, aicollectionef 9,000 autograph letters
and r eliquary curios. The collection embraces
letters of Revolutionary interest and the tsigi
natures of distinguished men and women of
the last one hundred years.- . 7;
HAS become the fayliioffin Chieaw fr
tnr. to buy their wives' bonnet. The irtUli-
like han?ft. " 1 f-a v that a a general
z a t! i now . i :"'. r turn woman what
HFTT-FIR3T CONGRESS
Senate Session.
103d Day. The Senate passed the annnal
hension and military academy appropriation
bills, and entered upon the consideration of
the army appropriation bill.
1U4TH Day. The Senate passed the army
appropriation bill, including the amendment
providing that no alcoholic liquors, beer or
wine shall be sold and supplied to. enlisted
men in any canteen or building ill a garrison
or military post. A motion was adopted to
reconsider the vote passing the Senate bill to
amend the charter of the Bright wood Rail
road Company of the District of Columbia
(authorizing a branch road to Tskoraa.) An
amendment was adopted providing that no
part of the road shall be built within the
bounds of any public road, street or highway
except in crossing the same. As amended the
bill was again passed. The Senate then passed
185 private pension bills . in an hour and
a-half. v , .
. 105TH DAY. Mr. Hoar, from the Judiciary
Committee reported baek the House amend
ment to the Senate Anti-trust bill with an
amendment. The Senate then proceeded to
the consideration of the bil1 authorizing the
issue of treasury notes on deposits of silver
bullion. Mr. Jones, of Nevada, who reported
the bill from the Committee on Finance, ad-
j a .u canoo ! th. u crrrfiK t inn fit Mr.
Teller, Mr. Jones postponed finishing his j
speech untu to-ir-orrow. - Alter a one cacvu
tive session, the Senate adjourned., .
106th DAY. Mr. Davisrfrom the Commit
tee on Pensions, reported back the House sub
stitute for the Senate Dependent Pension bill,
with a written report, and moved that the
House substitute be non-concurred in and a
conference asked; ' Agreed to. The Senate at
1 P. M. resumed consideration of the Silver
bill, and Mr. Jones of Nevada, continued the
speech begun by him yesterday. Mr. Jones
concluded his speech at 3.15, having thus oc
cupied, in all five and one-fourth hours. ' Mr.
Jones, of Arkansas, then addressed the Senate
in criticism of the pending bill. The bill
went over until to-morrow. After an executive
session, tbeJJepgteadiournd. ; .
i 107th Day. The House bill appropriating
$80,000 for a public building at York, Pa.,vas
passed. When the Silver bill was taken up,
at one o'clock, Mr. Teller made a speech in
opposition to the pending measure. Without
concluding his speech, Mr. Teller, at half-past
twot yielded to a motion to go into executive
session. The doors were reopened at 3.05 and,
on motion of Mr. Ingalls, the Silver bill was
laid aside informally till to-morrow. Among
the bills passed were: Senate bill forthe relief
of Major Goodloe, paymaster United States
Marine Corps, crediting him with sums lost
through the defalcation of his clerk.- Many
of the hills that were reached on the calendar
were laid aside, on the suggestion of Mr. In-,
galls, that the senators who reported them
were not present. The frequent repetition of
this formula, with the point of sarcasm which
marked itsdelivcrv, created some amusement
in the chamber. Finally, on his motion, the
Senate, at 4.30, adjourned.
House SomIob
112th Day. The House passed abill grant
ing Mrs. Delia 8. Parnell a pension of $600 a
year. The tariff debate was continued, Mr.
Crisp, of Georgia making the princi pie speech.
An evening session washeld for debate on the
same subject. . - ;i :'
118th Da y. The House had two sessions,
devoted to debate on the tariff bill. Messrs.
Springer, of Illinois, McAdoo, of New Jersey,
and Cummings, of New York, vigorously at
tacked the bill. Mr. Henderson,? Iowa, said
there were various propositions in the bill to
which he objected, including free hides and
the proposed . reduction of the tobacco tax.
The Speaker announced the appointment of
Mr. Blount, of Georgia, as a member of the
committee on rules, and Mr., Mutchler, of
Pennsylvania, on appropriations.
114TH Day. The House went into commit
tee of the whole on the tariff bill. During de
bate on one of the amendments Mr. Mills
branded as false a statement made by Mr.
Grosvenor reflecting on the democratic ma
jority of the. committee of ways and means of
the last Congress. Several amendments to
the bill offered from the democratic side were
Toted down.
115th Day. The House, after the transac
tion of some routine business, went into com
mittee of the whole (Mr. Paysou,of Illinois in
the chair) on the Tariff bill. Various amend
ments were offered, but were rejected; and,
after considering thirteen of the 156 pages of
the bill, the committee rose and the House at
6:45, adjourned.
116th Day. On motion of Mr. Morrill, of
Kansas, the House insisted on its amendment
to the Senate Dependent Pension bill, and a
conference was ordered. The House then went
into committee of the whole (Mr. Grosvenor,
of Ohio, in the chair,) on the Tariff bill. After
considering sixteen of the 156 pages of the
bill, the committee rose, and the House ad
journed. v
AN attempt Is being made tororm a grgaiH
lie agricultural trust called the Farmers
Co-operative Brotherhood of the United
States, with a capital of $50,000,000, divided
into 1,000,000 shares of $50 each, to regulate'
the prices of grain.
SQATTERS PLAYING HAV00Y
They Destroy Property When Ordered to
Leave a West Virginia Tract. -
A despatch from New "Martinsville, W.Va,
says the region along Fishing, Creek,in 'Wetzel
county, has been the scene of mobrule during
the past four days, and that much excitement i
still exists. The trouble grew out of an at
tempt to expel a large number of squatters
from a 5,000 acre tract of land, owned by Mrs.
L. G. Robinson. Having cleared the land,
Mrs. Robinson divided it into farms, built
houses and rented them This was objected
to by the squatters, and a mob of one hundred
men gathered at one of the tenant-houses, oc
cupied by a widow and her children, tore the
house down and burned the ruins and all tha
belongings. ,
MARKETS.
Baltimore Flour City Mills,extra,t4.75
$5 00. Wheat Southern Fults, 0192,
Corn Southern White, 4647c, Yellow
4Sa49c Oata Southern and Pennsylvania
3338o. Rye Maryland and Pennsvlvania
6162c. Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
13.U0$14.00. Straw Wheat, 7.60$8.60.
Butter Eastern Creamery, 1820c., near-by
receipts 1214a Cheese Eastern Fancy
Cream. Western. 910c . Eggs
lllljc. Tobacco, Leaf Interior, 1$2.00,
Good Common, 3.00a$4.00, Middling. 5$70.
Good to fine red, 8ft Fancy, 10$13.
New Yobk Flour Southern Good to
choice extra, $3.053.15. Wheat No. 1 White
0(9S. RyeState 5860c Corn South
ern Yellow, 421431c Oats White, State
a3i34c Butter State, 18181c Cheese
State 9i10o. Egg13i14o.', ,
Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania
fancy, 4.25(a;4.75. Wheat, Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, 8994, Rye Pennsylvania
6860c. Corn Southern Yellow, CJWKrtor
Oats 3233c. Butter State. 2 if"K.
Cheese- New York Faetory,!010Jc Ecus
State, 15l21c - . ----- -
&: ;. V . CATTLE.! X' .Xw .
" k LTlMoms Beet--t4.7flr to.00. Sheep
mJUffAJlS, - How 4.00$4.aO. -HiW
YomK-Beei 4.M!iif?,75. Shp
nW;;f SJa.; IIovs $4.30a$4.65.
T'kaV Libibty Bf-M jo$i.?a, Stteep-f
Towns Devastated and a Number of
r JUves Lost
Honaes Carried From Tlielr FonndMion
, Sad Elavoe In MUsonrl Towbi-
. Slngwlar Escape.
Darkness shut in so quickly after the torna
do that tore through the southern part of the ,
.city of Akron, Ohio, that not half an ideaeould
be gotten of the fierceness or extent of the ter
rible storm.
Professor Egbert, of Buchel College, , who
was' out in the storm, calculated that it was
traveling at the rate of four miles a minnte, so
that its track of about a mile and a-half through
this city was traversed in little more than 20
seconds. It moved in almost a straight line
through j. well-settled part of the city and
acarely a foot- of ihe mil" and a-half but is .
strewn with splintered house timbers, broken
furniture, uprooted trees and leveled barns
and outhouses.-
ings were counted that are either ripped into
kindling wood or so badly wrecked that they
crnnot be occupied, Jt amines numbering
about 75 persons in all, are out of house and
home and being sheltered by friends. Of the
'18 persons who were injured all will probably
recover. "-V .
Seventy-five buildings, including residences
and barns and outhouses, were damaged by the
wind, and not one escaped that was in a direct
line of the tornado. Uprooted trees are counted
hy the scores. Many that were blown down
or cut off are from 1 to 2 feet in diameter.
Buildings that resisted the winds are in adan
gerous condition, and many will have to be
lorn down" Outhouses in some, caws were
transplanted from 50 to 100 feet and set down
in neighboring varus. v :
. Thousands of people visited the scene of de
struction and a force of special police stood
guard over remnants of residences and house
furnishings. In several churches relief papers
were started and several thousand dollars will
be raised for the immediate wants of the home
less people. ' s, -i
William Poole and his daughter, who hid
just driven into their barn, were caucht np'
with the building and rolled with it to the bot
tom of the hill on wluch it stood. The barn
of Albert Funk; on Exchange street, was torn
to pieces and bis horse blown into a vacant lot
near by and killed. People whose houses were
destroyed had their all invested in them, and
. i. : . c . l. . L A .. A .
That no lives were lost is most wonderful.
In most instances the families took refuge in
the cellars and thus escaped serious injury, r
tornado at Sharon, this county, just one moot'
ago ha ving put everybody on the alert. J
ST. Loris, MO. Several violent storms I :
the form of tornadoes have passed over di8
ent parts of North Missouri within the past to
days, and a large amount of property has bet
destroyed and several persons killed. In If a : -rison
county a number of house and bsrvs
were demolished and a large amount off :
property destroyed. 1
-- .William Wilson and his two small ehiln s
were blown away with bis house and kili i
and several persons injured. . -
In . Centre county more than SObuildn
were destroyed and Mrs.Nathan Green v ;
killed. Cattle and hogs were killed and a gr t
deal of general arm property as well as crc ;
greatly injured. Five or six dwelling i
several outbuildings were blown aws! i
orchards swept down, hut nobody killed.
Near Blythesdale, Mrs. Jane Moore and . . .
Henry Young were fatally injured, and a n; i
ber ot other persons more or less seriously lu i .
More than a dozen houses were wrecked I
other property destroyed. -
Fbankus, Pa. A terrible cyclone pi I
over the southern part of this county abo 5
o'clock. Two people, Noah Jackson and v
were killed outright, and a large numlx i f
persons dangerously injured.
The storm was general throughout he
country, but the deadly cyclone, only about
300 feet wide, extended about 2ft miles. Ev ry
thine in its path was demolished, trer p-
rooted and houses and barns complete' -mojished,
'
In one instance a house containing in
valid was struck and the bed contains - the
sick man lifted up bodily and carried out into
the yard, where it fetched up against a ti ee.
The sick man was badly injured. A rirg9
number of cattle were killed. i '
HORRIBLE CRIME.
A Wealthy Pennsylvania Farmer, IU
. Wife and Son Foand Ittnrrlereri.
Information has just been received of a
horrible triple murder at Bentleysville, Pa.
The town is a small country place on the
National pike, and remote from railroad and
telegraph.
On a fine farm within one mile of it lived
John Crouch, a wealthy farmer, with his wife,
Eliza, and son, Andrew, aged sixteen. Crouch
was reported to keep a large amount of money
in tho house. '
A neighbor called at the farm, and was hor
rified to find the doors and windows open snd
the house ransacked from top to bottom. In
their bedroom lay Crouch and his wife with
their throats cut from ear to ear, while up
stairs the son was found murdered in the jth
manner. . -'4-
Of the three Mrs. Crouch was the on! y ore
who had made any struggle. Her blood -h
splattered aU over the wallSj and the taih
chamber presented Rkkeniny appeovancti.
Tracks about the premises indicated tht ti
least four men haa been engaged , in the hfr
rible crime. ; y '" ' '
An alarm was at once sent outand the v hrl
section is being patrolled for suspicion s hsr
acters. Suspicion rests on some parties m
Bentleysville who have mysteriously ' p
peared. No arrests had been made, but it the
miscreants should be captured lyachir is
probable.
Robbery was undoubtedly the motive of the
crime, but no one knows how -much money
was obtained by the murderers.
FARMERS' ALLIANCE DEMANDS.
Snb-Traanrles Wanted for the Storo of
1 hf3tVl Crops of th(Jonntrj.
delegation representing thi Farron Al
liance appeared before the; Ways and ; nntt'
Committee a few days ago. -They ad , -.ted'
the passage of the bill creating Eub-t - sr'.fs .
in different parts of the country for th recep
tion of staple crops produced -by farror
C. W. Maeune, chairman of the Let -jv'
Committee of the Alliance, wm spot -tn
He said twettnullion farmers had bee. -ie-
sented at the St. Louis convention' 'hpy '
had proposed the rernedjf set out in th- I n
the first step in the.dirvcHn of re!t t . t,
no favors and no clats .legislation; thrr era
Bflw rafferlhff from: tht tHtter,iTiy n '' f '
uk the enact ment any jw?ontit8tll-!
BZ8fure4 bttt as tha great d enter chis. t& tl,':
men w )mv bad pone out in theWe.st r-- -war
and laid the soil wilder coBtribuu i
horrowed sooney, they pvt. - : a'-tni"
contraction of the currency atathne w '
dahts beoaM due, arid askml .that .!
Hons he restored to whatthc y wert .
aiJirofd, They tftk;;! jasti,