Tj-JLE PJIlLADEIuPHIA 1NQUIKEK UNDAY MOKNING, MAT 24. 1896. CHILD'S AWFUL DEATH 9ews of the State THE BARNES MEMORIAL the new hall of the Atlantic City Turn I Verein. on New York avenue, on Mon- M'CAHDLESS AND TAYLOB PROSPEROUS ATLANTIC MIR Deaf From flCLE His Birth IP1 John Gieason's Hearing Came in the Night. Awakening He Heard His Aunt Heard the Clock Ticking.
Like a Bright Angel of Light Came the Golden Miracle of Sonnd With a Heart Bubbling Over With Joy and Gratitude This Deeply Pious Young -Man Returned Thanks to the Divine Master Above, That He Had Placed It in the Power of the Master Physician Among Men to Restore the Lost Sense of Hearing. All Things Work Together for Success at the Gay Seaside Resort. HOTEL IMPROVEMENTS Visitors Find Additional Pro-visons for Comfort and Safety. Turners Arriving Social Functions. ATLANTIC CITY IS FLOWING ON THE flH i Jf VS Drnsnprirv anrl the nnpninfir of the Delaware River bridee will swell the throng of summer visitors.
Many improve- ments nave oeen made ana tne city-oy-tne sea was never more attractive than at present. From a Staff Correspondent. ATIiANTIC CITY May 23 Never DCen SU1 Prosperous spring: season nor such bright prospect or a summer pleasure for visitors and prosperity XOr "Old-Keepers With the opening Trr Air, Citv snreads out her hosni table arm STho'usandl who cess to her charms and says: "Come, drink deep draughts of health-renew- the Atlantic, throw dull care to the winds, arl(1 find a new lease of life a xn -nr k. west from all that vast territory which is enlivened by the pulsating train service of the Pennsylvania Railroad will come this season, via the new Delaware Bridge, thousands who have never viewed the ocean and once under the spell of Atlantic City's charms they will be slaves for life. ATLANTIC'S GOOD THING.
Atlantic City knows a good thing when she sees it, and she is always ready to push it along. The munici pal authorities were quick to see that an increasing flood of prosperity was bound to follow improved railroad fa cilities, and extensive public improvements were planned. Most important of these is the new steel ocean-front walk. The Esplanade is its official title, and the title is not beyond its dignity. With Aladdin-like magic this giant causeway of steel and wood is arising in place- of the old boardwalk.
It will be the most magnificent sea-coast promenade in the country. Evidence of the rapidly approaching completion of the new esplanade was given yesterday when Councilman Samuel B. Rose officiated at the driving of the first nail in the superstructure of the steel frame work. Nearly all the 2,000,000 feet of lumber which will be used in the woodwork is on the ground, and a force of carpenters are now engaged building in sections the top of the promenade, and portions of it will soon be in use. The work Is attracting universal attention from visitors.
A movement has been started to provide for the dedication of the esplanade with elaborate ceremonies. It is expected that the work will be completed in time to have this dedication on July 4. HOTEL IMPROVEMENTS. Real estate owners and the hotel men are not slow in realizing that At lantic City Is on the flood tide of pros perity. Land values have gone up amazingly, as witness the sale a few days ago of a beach front lot for which had been purchased for 100,000 only a few months ago.
An, eight-story hotel is to go up on this site. Several other new hotels have been contracted for or are in contemplation, and Atlantic City is fast gaining, the reputation of having unsurpassed facilities for that class summer visitors to whom money a minor consideration when they are in search of health and pleasure. Many of the older hotels have been remodeled, and the luxuries which are now demanded by hotel guests the. seashore, as well as in the city. have been provided.
Provision for the safety and welfare of the thousands transient 'Visitors has also engaged additional attention on the part the hotel men, and there has been notable increase in the number of fire escapes on the larger hotels. Atlantic City has been favored with immunity from loss of life in hotel Ares, and with these additional pre cautions and the improvements in the police and fire departments the thousands of visitors this summer should feel as safe in an Atlantic City hntal a a in their pitv hnms The advance guard of a small army Turners from Philadelphia, Read ing, jersey iiy, iewara ana iew York arrived this afternoon. They will take part in the dedication of Two Brave Soldiers Who Are Not Forgotten by Their Surviving Comrades. THEIR GRAVES DECORATED Pennsylvania Reserves Who FoiiKlit Under "Bncli" McCandless and Captain Taylor Visit the Cemetery Where They Rest. ALTHOUGH A WEEK BEFORE DECORA- tion Day proper, a number of the friends 1 of General William McCandless and Cap- tain John Taylor, of the Pennsylvania Re- serves, visited Mt.
Moriah Cemetery yes- terday and with appropriate exercises dec- orated their graves. Mayor Warwick was a participant, making the principal ad- The survivors of the old Second Regi- annual visit yesterday to the grave of rjrT wiinam 7 a rT0 RPrvPfl nnrpr Tnrn j- uliv less. it is a beautiful tribute to his memory, this yearly raising of a flag onAici i t. uui in jionan ueme- tery. There, in the afternoon, the emb- lem that had been placed by the hands kTn Iw h7 Hi 7 taken dovin by his son.
James Hoyt, private secretary of the Director of Pub- uiicij, aim a. new unc was raiseu Dy Colonel Patrick McDonough, the last living commander of the Second, and president of the regimental association. Captain John Jack was the orator of the occasion, and an address was also delivered by Mayor Warwick. Among others present were General St. Clair A.
Mulholland, Emsley, Post Commander of the G. A. R. James Jlor- rison, Adjutant-General of the Depart- ment; Michael Bradley, who was one THE PROPOSED ALBERT of McCandless' confidential friends; Jas. E.
MacLane, Captain Joseph Bennison, Sergeant George Myers, secretary of the association; James Toomey, the last color bearer of the regiment, who car-rifcv. a duplicate of the original headquarters flag Of the division; P. S. Dooner, and P. Dever.
SURVIVORS AND Ff ENDS. In the evening the survivors and their friends held the annual dinner. Mayor Warwick presiding and ex-Sheriff Con-nell among others making addresses. The grave of Major Charles F. Hoyt and William A.
Hoyt. his son. In the cemetery of St. James the Less, Falls of Schuylkill, will be decorated on Memorial Day with a guidon and flowers. That of Sergeant Charles Devine.
late secretary of the State Association Pennsylvania Reserves, will be similarly cared for in old Cathedral Cemetery. The flag taken from the grave of General McCandless yesterday was presented to Mr. James Hoyt. IN JOHN TAYLOR'S MEMORY. Philip R.
Schuyler Post, No. 51, G.A. accompanied by a number of the camps of the Sons of Veterans, yesterday afternoon decorated the grave of the late Captain John Taylor in the Mount Moriah Cemetery. Among those on the platform were Captain Jack, of the Pennsylvania Reserves; General St. Clair A.
Mulholland, Assistant Quartermaster of the G. A. R. Abraham Levering, Dr. John P.
Patterson, Department Chaplain Rev. W. Sayer, and Assistant Adjutant General James D. Morrison. The grave was decorated according to the G.
A. ritual, after which introductory addresses were made by Department Commander Emsley and Post Comman der H. F. Glass. A guidon was placed over tne grave Dy wmraae Bradley, of the Second Pennsylvania Re- serves, after which a salute of twenty-j one guns was fired.
The oration of the I Ttr i I i Some people will say it is a miracle I hat lias happened to John Gleason, of Jrenton, others that it is a triumph of scientific skill, and some will sav the whole story is a lie; but there are many people in Trenton who know personally of the facts who declare that it is, to say the least, one of the most wonderful cures ever accomplished by human agency. The facts are startling and can easily be verified. John Gleason is a young man aged 19, living with his aunt, Mrs. Hogan, at 235 Centre Street, Trenton. He says: "I can't remember when I could hear well.
My earliest recollection is of trouble with' my John Gleason, 235 Centre street, Trenton. Deaf from his birth. Cured by Doctor Copeland. ears. Had a bad discharge from my ears all my life and for many years puffing noises in my ears.
My aunt, who reared me, was always doctoring me, taking Imp tr hrxenitale ptr Hut I nr, nr '-'l" uui 1 i Detter Detier. wnen we moved irom New York to Trenton and heard of the fame of Dr. Copeland, my aunt, who was always full of hope, determined that I should go to him. I took his treatment quite a while without seeing any change and began to think that this would be a failure as all the others. One night I got awake and heard the clock ticking.
I was startled and listened again and heard some one walking in slippered feet about the house. It was my aunt who was suffering from rheumatism in the IT STANDS ALONE! ii World" The Ridden by Johnny'Johnson Champion of the World America Apollo and Lovell Diamond Bicycles Base Ball, Tennis and General Sporting Goods E.K.Tryon,Jr.&0 10 and 12 N. 6th St. The Child and the King, Would you hear the beautiful conversation between the good king and the pious child? One day the king met a little girl just coming out from school, and he said to her: "What have you learned to-day?" "The kingdoms of nature," the child answered. Then said the king: "In which kingdom dees the pebble belong?" The child "In the mineral kingdom' The king "In which belongs this big tree?" The child "In the vegetable kingdom." Th-3 king "In which does your kitten belong?" The child "In the animal kingdom." The king "And in which kingdom do I belong?" Then said the child, straight from the heart: "In the kingdom of heaven." From the German.
Its Chief Drawback. "I never did like that theatre," ob served Mrs. Gaswell, as they drove home after the play. "Its acrostic properties are very defective." Chicago Tribune. feet.
Then I realized that I could hear, I never knew what perfect hearing was before. "I could scarcely hear a trolley car passing the door; now I can hear it nearly a square away. I haar the fingelus at St. John's four squares away. I could not hear the whistle at the Trenton Iron Works where I work, now hear it plainly.
1 can hear nearly every word of Father Hogan's sermon at St. John's from the rear of the very large room. The noises have entirely ceased and the discharge is stopped." The A nut's Story. Mrs. Hogan.
the aunt of John Gleason, 2.3." Centre street, Trenton, says: "I brought the boy up from a baby, and when he was three ysars old and could not talk we thought he was tongue-tied and took him to a doctor. He said the child was deaf. We found he could hear a little and finally taught him to talk. We started him to school but he' could not hear anything the teachers said, unless he was right up close. We always lived in New York and I took him to the Manhattan Hospital till I got discouraged, as he grew worse if possible.
We tried every remedy for catarrh of the throat, head and ears, but nothing helped. I never lost hope, however, and after we moved to Trenton I brought him down to Dr. Copeland. Seemed Like a. Miraele.
"The coming of the power of hearing under Dr. Copeland's New Treatment was startling and seemed like a miracle. He wakened in the mght time and found he could hear. I was walking about from pain in my feet and he heard me and called to me. We were overjoyed.
This was the most wonderful thing that had ever happened to any of us. We could not understand it. It seemed almost like some unseen power had come and touched his ears and made him hear. Dr. Copeland's wonderful treatment had opened up the tubes which had been closed all hia life and he could hear." Those not able to come to the office shonlrt write for Symptom Blank and Monograph on Deafness.
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Largest variety of gas and oil Stores in Philadelphia, Condensed Before Delivery. "Do you use condensed milk?" asked the neighbor of Mrs. Eastside. "Yes," she replied. "1 think the milkman must condense It.
If he didn't I don't see how on earth he could get so much water in it." Buffalo Times. Punishment to Fit the Crime. Visitor to Hades "But why do you kecc. that poor man over there in a double heater?" His Satanic Majesty "That man on earth was one of those cranks who carried children in front of. him on his bicycle." Washington Times.
The latest in Dentistry. "I see they are using rays in dentistry now." "What for? To locate the pain?" Chicago Evening Post. day. They will be joined by hundreds of jolly Teutons to-morrow. This evening a Kirmess was giverr in the new hall, followed by a dance.
There will be a banquet after the dedication on Monday and a ball in the evening. SOCIAL, ATTRACTIONS. A grand ball will be given on June 13 next, on the occasion of the formal ODiing of the Hotel Rudolf. While Mr. Essner, who opens hotel on the 1st of June, will at once assume personal management of the house, he has concluded to make this ball the inaugural and social function.
It promises to be an interesting and brilliant effort. Governors Hastings, of Pennsylvania. and Griggs, of New Jersey, and Mayors Warwick, of Philadelphia, and Stoy, of Atlantic City, and other prominent officials of the two States named will be among the special guests. A full military band and an orchestra will alter- i nate in furnishing the music for the promenade and the dancing. The floral and electric dworatinns will be novel and i elaborate.
A special train will be run to accommodate the guests from Philadel- pnia. Sig. Giannini. the popular tenor, who will be with the Bostonians next season. has just closed a contract for the sum- mer with Carl G.
Essner. Sig. Giannini. vj 1 in il.l nil llit c-iiv illl functions of the Cloverites, Five O'Clock- i ers, Pen and Pencilites and other bon vIvants Gf the Quaker City, will sing at i all the entertainments at the Hotei Rudolf and on special occasions in which Mr. Kssner is interested at the Philadelphia Bourse.
His contract is in effect until the opening of the fall operatic season. EXPLOSION AND FIRE Escaping Gas Ignited and Five Persons Were Injured. Three Were Burned A Man's Leap From a Window Fell L'pon u. "Woman. An explosion of gas, at the house of Mrs.
Ella Berger, No. 703 Wood street, resulted in five persons being injured and the house being badly damaged. Philip C. Ford, aged 0T, of No. St Hi West street, was engaged by Mrs.
Berger to put in new pipes and while the old ones were being replaced considerable" gas escaped. After Ford had run a pipe through the ceiling of the back parlor he struck a match and held it to the tube to see whether gas was coming through. The next moment there was a loud report, which was followed by a sheet of flame. Ford, who was standing on a step ladder, was knocked off by the force of the explosion, and was unconscious when found by Mrs. Berger, a few minutes afterwards.
Mrs. Hewling, who also lives in the house, was in the room watching Frod when the explosion occurred, and she was badly burned. She ran out of thf room and Mrs. Berber went trv Ford's assistance, dragging him out to me naiiway. ONE TOOK THE LEAP.
a 1 1 1 .1 .1 1 4. ATi- ine nine ul uie avtiueiu Mia. Here-en's IS-vear-nld rtaue-hter Fannie, was up-stairs and Daniel Hance, a boarder, was also in an upper room. Both were' badly frightened, and Hance, seeing the smoke coming up the stairs, shouted to the young woman to jump out of the window. She did not care to make the leap, but Hance did not hesitate, and he landed on a woman who was sitting in a chair in the yard.
Miss Bergen managed to get down by the stairs. A. policeman who was attracted by the explosion sent, out a fire alarm and telephoned for the patrol wagon, which took Ford to St. Joseph's Hospital. He was found to be severely burned, but the doctors don't think he will die.
The fire was extinguished before it did much harm, but' con-considerable damage had already been done by the explosion. Two doors were forced from thir hinges, windows were shattered, pictures were knocked from their fastenings and the wall paper was torn off. A neighboring paysician who was called to the house attended to Hance, who was injured by the Jump he made, the woman whom he jumped on, and Mrs. Hewling axid Mrs. Gordon, who were burned while rescuing Ford.
The damage to the house can be repaired for about $400. A Matter of Opinion. Just outside of one of our Eastern cities is a lakeside hotel where the same families gro summer after summer because of its accessibility for business men and the attraction the lake offers for hours of leisure. The table one season grew so poor that in self-defense the regular boarders made up a purse to send their rustic landlord on a little journey in the world, that he might thus delicately be instructed in the benefits other hotel men bestow upon their guests for value received. Speculation ran high during his absence as to the result of his awakening, some guests prognosticating real coffee and cream, the hopes of others soaring as high as vegetables from a garden not walled with and' an occasional rib roast of beef.
The rustic and insular host returned at last, seated himself on the piazza and smiled with proud satisfaction at his expectant guests. "Well," he said, "I've been to your Newport an' your Boston, an' I don't care a hang fer any of 'em. This hotel of mine Is the only slace I've struck where you can git seven kinds of pie for dinner." Judge. Justified HU Slowness. An 8-year-old San Raphael boy was being lectured on obedience last evening.
"I told you that you could play with the Wilson boys till 5 o'clock," said his mother. "Here it Is 7 and you are just home. Why didn't you come when I told you?" "I did. mamma." "Don't tell me a falsehood. Why didn't you come home at 5 o'clock?" "I started home at 5." "Then you stopped to play on the way." "No, mamma, sure I didn't." "Do you expect me to believe that It took you two hours to walk half a mile? I think I shall have to punish you for telling me falsehoods." "Honestly, I started home at 5 o'clock and came straight home." The mother led the boy into the kitchen and took down a whip.
He turned pale, and tears welled into his eyes. "Now. sir, will you tell me the truth?" "Ye-es, mamma: Charlie Wilson gave mc a mud turtle and I was afraid to carry it so I led It home." San Francisco Post. DELEGATES ARRIVING Advance Guard of the Prohibition Convention Getting Into Pittsburg. BUTTONS ARE DISPLAYED Part of the Maryland Delegation Which Will Doom tlie Cnntliiliicy of Jnahna LtTrring Has Taken IlrndqiiHrtrrn the St.
Charles. THE NATIONAL PROHIBITION CONVEN-tion will be held In Pittsburg on Wednesday next, and the town is filling up with delegates. Campaign buttons are being lit rally displayed, and a lively contest for head of the reform ticket is expected. PITTSBURG, May 23. The advance guard of the 128(5 delegates who will compose the National Prohibition Convention to meet in this city Wednesday have arrived In Pittsburg.
Part of the Maryland delegation, which will boom the candidacy of Joshua Levering for the head of the National ticket, came in ana is quartered at the St. Charles Hotel. They have with them a seemingly inexhaustible supply of Levering buttons, which they will use among the friends of the "broad gauge'" candidate between this and the opening of the convention, and will place them, if possible, on the lapels of some who are now enlisted in favor of the "narrow-gauge" candidate," whoever he may prove to be. Many delegates arrived to-day, and when the National Reform Convention opens on Monday hundreds of Prohibitionists will be present as spectators. It is believed by the managers of Wednesday's convention that the attendance will exceed 15,000.
MYSTERY OF A BANK BOOK Its Discovery Brings to Ligfht a Death nder Snsplclons Circ*mstances. Special to The Inquirer. ERIE. May 23. While Major lyson una malcinir an excavation on the erounds of the Soldiers' Home yesterday he found a wallet containing a bank book upon which was written the name of Wadsworth Wyman.
or stocKbriage, Y. There were also notes amounting to 5514. Tyson wired the Oneida Eank, receiv ing an answer that the money was still tere. Relatives of Wyman write Major Tyson that he left Oneida a year ago. An unidentified man was buried here last fall, and it is generally thought that Wyman was robbed and murdered.
An rTrrt Is being made to solve the mystery. ATTACKED BY HIGHWAYMEN They Are Terrorizing AVomen in the Vicinity of Heading. Special to The Inquirer. READING, May 23. The bold attacks by highwaymen in the northwestern section of the city is causing general alarm.
Miss Margaret Righter, residing at 735 Madison avenue, was caught by a tall man on Fourth street near Greenwich. He threw his arms around her, but before he succeeded in snatching her purse several men came to Miss Righter's assistance and the man fled. Twenty minutes later Mrs. William A. Barrell was relieved of her pocketbook on Centre avenue near Oley street.
She carried it in her hand, when it was grabbed from her by a man, who succeeded in escaping. ON GETTYSBURG'S FIELD Inlon Leaguers Pay a. Visit to the Historical Grounds. Special to The Inquirer. GETTYSBURG, May 23.
Almost ninety of the members of the Union League, of Philadelphia, arrived here this afternoon on a special train over the Reading road. They visited a portion of the field this afternoon under guidance of Captain Long, and will finish in the morning- They will return in the afternoon. Among those in the party are: Rudolph Elankenburg, ex-United States District Attorney Ellery P. Ingham, Henry C. Terry, E.
W. Cramp, and D. E. Swei-gard, of the Reading road. DEATH jNA MINE A Civil Engineer Drowned in a.
Cage Pit. Special to The Inquirer. TAMAQUA. May 23. Frank Jelly, a civil engineer, employed by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, fell in a cage pit at No.
4 mine and was drowned. The pit was dragged for several hours before the body was found. Jill SHOT HIS COMPANION An Oxford Youth Got In Line of a. Target With Fatal Results. Special to The Inquirer.
OXFORD, May 23. Andrew Weaver, the 7-year-old son of Constable Weaver. Lower Oxford, was accidentally shot by Fred Cope this morning with fatal results. Cope was shooting at a target when the boy jumped up suddenly on a line with the mark and received a small ball in the head. He died this afternoon.
DEATH FOLLOWS A QUARREL During an Altercation a Man Kills His Son-in-Law. KITTANN1NG, May 23. During an altercation at Pine Creek, ten miles from here, John Adams shot and killed Peter Craven, his son-in-law. Craven's wife had left him and gone home to her father, and this was the cause of the quarrel. Lava.
Found in Berks County. Special to The Inquirer. READING, May 23. While searching for Indian relics on Neversink Mountain John B. Brobst, of this city, and Jones De Turk, of NeversinK, found a considerable bed of volcanic lava on the premises of Albert and Cyrus Ruppert.
The lava is very light and brown in color. Specimens of it will be forwarded to the museum department of the University of Pennsylvania. Country Mansion Burned. Special to The Inq-uirer. READING, May 23.
The large stoae dwelling house of H. S. Keffer, near Gernant's Church, in Ontelawnee township, was destroyed by Are last night. Some of the furniture was saved. The fire, it is supposed, was caused by a defective flue.
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Fissures, Fistulae, Ulcers. 10 to 1 and 2 to 4, except Thursday. Sunday 10 to 1 16 of a it of to Two-Year-Old Tot Crushed Under a Trolley Car. When the Motormnn Reached the Power House He Fainted Away. The Little One Walked in Front of the Marcus Hook Car.
Special to The Inquirer. CHESTER, May 23. The two-year-old daughter of Rebecca Sampsel, of 1015 West Third street, was killed by a Mar cus Hook trolley car of the Chester Trac tion Company line to-day noon. The little one was standing on the curb line and as the car approached she ran directly in front of It and was killed. She was terribly crushed.
Alotorman John Sullivan fainted when ibe arrived at the power house and had to give up his car. THINK IT MURDER Indications Point to Foul Play in tlie Death of Superintendent Roberts. Special to The Inquirer. HAZLETON, May 23v Coroner Mc-Coombs to-day made a post-mortem examination of the body of Griffith Roberts, who was found dead near the shops yesterday. The conclusion arrived at by the physician is that the man was murdered.
On the skull three distinct indentations were discernible, indicating that three blows were struck. The blood stained iron pipe which was found near the spot. Detective Brundage claims, was the instrument with which the fatal wounds were inflicted. Further investigation to-day shows that iie couiq not nave fallen from the train as tne body lay on the East side track. twenty feet from the road on which the train ran.
No definite information regarding the identity of jjbs assassin has thus far been obtained. REACHED7 CLEARFIELD Ex-Senator Wallac'e's Remains Met by Distinguished Lawyers. CLEARFIELD, May remains of the late ex-United States Senator Wallace reached here at 0.19 to-night over the Pennsylvania Railroad from New Xork. They were accompanied by his son, William E. Wallace, and by other members of the family.
The funeral party was met at Tyrone by S. V. Wilson, J. F. Snyder, W.
A. Hagerty, Oscar Mitchell, James H. Kelly and William D. Bigler, Assistant United States Treasurer, the committee of the bar appointed for that purpose, and also by a committee of citizens, headed by James Kerr, late Clerk of the House of Representatives. The party was met at the Clearfield station by a large concourse of people.
The funeral will take place from his late residence Tuesday, at 2 o'clock. The bar of this county has arranged for a public meeting in the Court House at 11 o'clock on the day of the funeral to pay a fitting tribute to the memory of their late colleague. It is understood that Governor Hastings and members of his Cabinet will attend the funeral. RAILROADS AT WAR Two Companies Fighting for Su premacy Aear the Town of Dallas. WILKESBARRE, May 23.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Wilkesbarre and Northern Railroad are fighting over some valuable land at Dallas. The track recently laid by the Wilkesbarre and Northern Railroad was destroyed. Rails and ties were torn up and piled in a heap. Old cars, minus their trucks, which were removed purposely, were then dumped on the ground. It Is now feared the rival road will burn the cars and replace the track.
The Valley Company has a number of men on the ground and trouble Is looked for. III. DEADLOCK BROKEN Shenandoah's Superintendent ot Public Water Works Elected. Special to The Inquirer. SHENANDOAH, May 23.
The deadlock which has existed since March 1 in the Borough Council over the election of a Superintendent of Public Water-Works has been broken on a compromise. The Denfocratic members were allowed to re-elect Oscar Betteridge upon their vntine to Meet Charles Schooppe as Re- publican Councilman in the Second Ward to succeed James JVlCJKJinenny, tne republican membei who resigned. BOY'S FATAL HUNT AVliile Dragging a Gun It Went Off and Killed Him. Special to The Inquirer. SHAMOKIN.
May 23. Roy Ayten, aged years, of Chilisquaque township, was accidentally shot and killed on the farm Benjamin Whittymyer last evening. Toung Ayten was engaged in dragging gun underneath the barn to shoot a rat that had been stealing chickens, when went off and the entire load of shot entered ibis breast. Ayten died a few moments later. EXPLOSION IN A MINE One Man Lost Both Eyes and Another Severely Injured.
Special to The Inquirer. HAZLETON, May 23. Dominic Ornega and Samuel Patchen, miners employed at No. 2 Lattimer, were badly injured by a premature explosion to-day. The men were tamping a blast, when the explosion took place, burying them under tons of debris.
Patchen lost both eyes and Ornega was cut and burned about the face and body. An Officer Beaten by Tongrhs. Special to The Inauirer. READING. May 23.
Officer Samuel Lewis was found on Third street, near Court, shortly after 2 o'clock this morning in an unconscious condition. A phy sician was summoned, wno reviveu mm. The officer stated that he sustained his injuries in an encounter with toughs. A Cat Family's Adventures. In the warehouse of George J.
Appold Sons, on Water street, are several cats which have passed through a strange adventure. Some time ago the old cat became the mother of two kittens which grew to be favorites with every one in the building. One day the kittens were missing and all efforts to find them failed. About a month after their disappearance a part of the platform in the front the building had to be removed in order to permit coal to be taken in. There, to the surprise of the porter, he the mother cat crouched beside a rat-trap inside of which were the two lost kittens receiving nourishment from her through the wires of the trap.
The secret was out. The mischievous kittens had crawled into the tra, which had long been out of use, and it had "caught" them. Their plight being seen by their mother, she sustained them in the manner which instinct suggested. The kittens had grown so large in the time they had been missed that they filled the narrow precincts of their prison. Baltimore Sun.
The Uncertainty. "At least tell me one thing," said the new arrival in hades, pressing his hand his elbow. "lis it is it the heat, or merely the humidity?" Detroit Tribune. a is Corner-Stone of the New Building Laid Yesterday. The Congregation of the First Presbyterian Church Unite in Honoring One of Their Former Pastors.
The cornerstone of an addition to the old First Presbyterian Church, Washington square, to be known as the Albert Barnes Memorial, was laid yesterday afternoon. The exercises, which were presided over by the pastor of the church, Rev. Ir. George D. Baker, were a tem erectea near tne stone.
They opened with a hymn, The Church's One Foundation," followed by an invocation by Rev. W. M. Rice," D. and Scripture reading by Rev.
W. S. Alexander, D. D. Rev.
S. W. Dana, D. delivered an address, congratulating the church and pastor on their beautiful tribute to the man whose name was so inseparably Church Justice Williams the ate X. 5.nff T.
fif i it as clii cAaiii jjic ut atLlual v-lli io licxii lty. An address on the life and example of Alexander Barnes, pastor of the First esbyterian Church from to 1 was men aeuverea -Dy itev. ueorge a. Purves, D. of the Princeton Theo- logical Seminary if PUtmT? Dy the pastor.
A hymn and the Doxology sung by the congregation concluded tne service. rr' 1 v. i tit x. j. ntr uuiiuiug, which win ljkz ri iv Jl to the memory of the former pastor.
Rev. Dr. Albert Barnes, will stand on the corner of Seventh and Spruce streets, taking up four lots on the Spruce street front, and extending in depth to the church proper, at Washington Square. It will be two stories in height, of Port Deposit granite, with the main entrance at the corner of Seventh and Spruce streets. The general design of the building is BARXES MEMORIAL BLILDIXG.
in the Italian Renaissance, this effect being further heightened by a Parisian dome. The roof will be flat and sur- rounded by an ornamental balustrade j.ne ounaay scnooi rooms will have a seating capacity of 2500 and besides a reading room and librarv. there will be a large gymnasium in the basem*nt. It is intended that young- men and women living in near-by boarding houses shall have free access to the reading-room and library. This building when completed, about the of October, will be One of the largest and most complete church establishments in the city.
ARMY PROMOTIONS Many Changes in Two Arms of the Service. WASHINGTON. May 23. Colonel Dan-gerfield Parker, Eighteenth Infantry, at present in Philadelphia, was placed on the retired list of the army to-day. Ai number of promotions have been caused by the retirement of Colonels Parker and Gordon, and the death Of Lieutenant Gatewood.
They are as follows: Lieutenant Colonel D. D. Van Valzah Twenty-fourth Infantry, to be Colonel of the Eighteenth; Major E. H. Liscum.
pi tne wenty-second Infantrv, to be Lieutena nt-Pnlnnol Ya i Captain W. M. Van Home of thV Seven- leentn inraniry, to be Maj'or of the Twenty-second; Lieutenant D. Nick-erson, of the Seventeenth Infan try, to De captain of Second Lieutenant C. the B.
Hager- oe First1 Lieutenant 'of "the Seventeenth; I Lieutenant Colonel S. S. Sumner of the i bixtn cavalry, to be Colonel of the ErnZtZttlfFJfKl sixth Cavalry; Captain James M. Bell, of the Seventh Cavalry, to be Major of the First Cavalry; First Lieutenant H. G- Sickel, Adjutant of the Seventh Cav- airy, to be Captain of the same: Scc- NOTES OF THE COURTS In Common Pleas Court No.
4, yesterday. President Judge Thayer handed down an opinion in the case of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, trustee and administrator of Charles H. Baker, deceased, against the Franklin Fire Insurance Company, fully sustaining the master's report In the equity proceeding brought by the former company against the latter. The equity proceedings brought by Mrs. Mary J.
Lagen, wife of Attorney Charles J. Lagen, against the Philadelphia 'Cycle and Field Club, of Ardmore, in which she asked the court for an injunction restraining tlie club from enforcing a resolution abolishing lady membership, was dismissed yesterday by President Judge Thayer and Judge Arnold, In Common Pleas Court No. 4. Common Pleas Court No. 4.
yesterday, on application of Attorney Matthew Dittman, granted charters to seven well-known German singing societies, whose -headquarters are located in this city. They are as follows: Philadelphia Saengerkreis, Schweizer Maenner-chor, Lieder Verein, Franz Abt Saengerbund. Franklin Saengerbund, Philadelphia Junger Maennerchor, and Concordia Maennerchor. Judge Hanna, In the Orphans' Court yesterday, dismissed the exceptions and confirmed the adjudication In the estate of John Wright, deceased. In the estate of Louise Ischy.
now Mrs. Mahler, late a minor, sundry exceptions presented to tne adjudication or the account UL lne uelras were msraisseo. ine exceptions were dismissed and the adjudlca- SfJL Td OI mggle Execution was yesterday issued from the Common Pleas Court by Mary Lewis against Frank J. Lewis, on a judgment note for $1027. Judgment was entered by Fred Fell against Ernest F.
and Elmira Schmidt, on a judgment note for $3417.75. Judgment was also entered for want of affidavits of defense by William M. Singerly against George Raltz on two mortgages, one for $27,486.61 and the other for $12,484.9. The Orphans' Court yesterday appointed Thomas J. Walsh guardian of the estate of the Hicks minors; Commonwealth Title and Trust Company of the Becker minors; Land Title Company of the Fell minors; Thomas M.
Bains, of the Darby minors; William F. Lan-dis, of the Landis minors; Harry Downey, of the minor estate of A. Downey; Thomas J. Cadden, of Robert Cadden; Joseph H. Burroughs, of K.
R. Blllard; Dennis Forrest, of Sarah Sharkey; Martha P. Stuart, of Susan E. Fiero, and Isaac Kllner. of H.
E. Kilner. Their Turn. "Ah. you have changed much since last I saw you," exclaimed the old man of the play.
"Yes," replied the Ingenue, "fourteen dresses." Thereupon they came forward to the footlights and sung with much feeling a song entitled, "And Her Husband Went Insane with Patent Buttons." Detroit Tribune. ObliKed to Her. "Sir!" screamed Mrs. Bluebeard No. 1, "nothing will satisfy me but a separation "Delighted to accommodate, I'm sure," said that amiable husband.
And the next instant the swish of the snickersnee followed, and the lady found herself sufficiently disconnected to suit the most captious. Cincinnati Enquirer. A. 1 I I of is at of of a little of face Xork, uay was mau uy vxayvi I ond Lieutenant J. P.
Lyon, Third Caval-He said: i ry, to be Lieutenant of the Sixth; See- "Those who knew Capt. John Taylor ond Lieutenant Edward Anderson, First In (his life time, could speak for a year i Cavalry, to be First Lieutenant 'of the about his s-ood oualities. He was a man (Seventh; Second Lieutenant W. H. Hart.
among men, always large-hearted and th FuFh avalry to be First Lieu-always a ready friend. I unfortunately tenant of the Seventh Cavalry. Four generations appear in this interesting group, the figure in the centre being Frederick Simon of 2424 Passyunk Avenue, who has just celebrated his eightieth birthbay. Seated with him are his son and grandson, both Frederick Simon, and at his feet is his great grandson, Harry Herbert Simon. KPKYS' never knew of him in the field or camp, but he must have been a brave soldier.
Such a man could not be a coward. He had the qualities in him that make heroes. Take his life as an example of wiryat America can produce." The benediction was pronounced by Chaplain Sayers. Tricks of the Trade. Two or three lawyers were discussing the tricks of their trade.
"A big. burly fellow from the Michigan pine forests came into my office," said one of them, "and told a very mean story about a rich man here in town, who was trying to cheat him out of $2)00 or $3000, and who had managed to get a pretty tight clutch on the money. The backwoodsman looked and talked like an honest man, and the old miser's reputation whs mean enough to tnatch the story, so I felt inclined to believe it. When he had fiinished I looked him up and down from head to foot. He asked me what I was looking him over for.
said 'I was thinking that if I were over six feet tall, and as powerful man as you, I wouldn't hire a lawyer to help me to get that The man's excited face smoothed out into blank astonishment. 'What do you he said. I answered, mean just what I say. You are sure, are you, that he has I that money in his office? 'He had it I there last 'Well, you don't need a "The man turned on his heel and left without another word. In a day or two he sent me a check for $50 and his thanks for my advice." Chicago Times-Herald.
Home, Sweet Home. "The best time to strike your clients right after dinner, is it not?" asked the social statistician. "it is when they eats at a hotel." answered the begging gentleman. "Home diners, man. is just as liable to be com-in' away mad as in a good humor." In-dianapolls Journal.
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