The Union Times, 1894-09-28

in the loss of my present handsome salary, hut I ran not again so soon appeal to the splendid individual integrity ami intelligence which stood liehind the ballots east for me last fall. I have said all along. privately and publicly, that 1 should not become a candidate for governor and the above is inv chiefest reason. As 1 nm without a representative at Saratoga and very busy hero I ask you to make this public. 1 am deeply moved by the favor shown me and never expected it." THE PORTLAND DOCK IN ASHES. The Mont IlUnitt roua lire In the History of the Oregon City. lNniTr.AMi, Ore.. September ;? !.- The most disastrous fire in the history of this city broke out at 4:"0 p. m. yesterday in the dock of the Pacific Coast Elevator company, and raged for three hours, destroying property valued at nearly $1,500,000. All day long a hcavv wind had been blowing and nine alarms had been turned in. The tire department was scattered about the lity, looking after the small fires, when an alarm from the elevator was rung in. The scene of the fire was across the river from the main part of Hes' befpre more thiliV^Vinc '"JhJJVne ?ould retyiond to the general alarm and when the engines arrived the tire was aeyond control, and in half an hour from the time it started the docks for lialf a mile were on tire. Nothing rould l?c done but let the tire burn it self out. _ WELCOME TO GRAY GABLES. Secretary Carlisle Spoilt Sunday With the President and Mrs. Cleveland. Itrz/.A kd's Hay. Mass., September','5. ?Secretary of the Treasury. John (?. Carlisle, arrived hero yesterday afternoon on the light house tender, John 1). Rogers, having left Now York late Saturday afternoon. Half an hour later President and Mrs. Cleveland welcomed him cordially at Gray Guides. Captain Schley, of the Rogors. accompanied hiin ashore. A ftor luncheon the party en -

sum- im:it :i new organization of railway moil will bo formocl. JUDGETHURSTON'S FATAL FALL riio VrnorHltlo .InrUt Fulls lloivn u Might of of Stairs mill Itrrnks II in Nerk. I'lTTsnruo, I*a.. September 25.?Judge \riol Stnmlish Thurston, of Klmirn, V. V.. foil down a stairway at the rosi- , loneo of his grand daughter. Mrs, .las. , iayley, at West ISraddoeh yesterday ( norning and broke his nook. Mr. Thurston was not a son nil sleeper, and vas in the habit of getting out of bed ( o read, lie was hoard to leave his 'ontn. presumably for the purpose of j electing a book from tin- library. At ] lie head of the stairs lie tripped and j ell to the bottom. The hack of his . lead was bruised and his nook broken, loath was instantaneous, .lodge Thurs- , on was eighty-five years of age. His l atlier was an otlieer in General Wash- < ngton's army in the revolutionary war. 1 So was a direct lineal descendant of i ililes Standish of IMyniouth settlers \ nine. He was a supremo court judge ; tad resided in Klmirn. sixty years, had i ioM many positions of trust and was < yry wealthy. i /1URDER INDUCED BY RIVALRY. J trkoiiKii* Tcnrhrrs Agror to Figlit With 11 Fists When One Slionts t he Oilier. IjItti.k Rock, Ark.. September J5.? i it an early hour yesterday morning at t Vxarkana. (!. L. Ilrynnt, president of lie Texarkana Inter-State Normal and tusinoss college, shot and wounded 1 'rofessor George F. Kllis. a former i*acher in the college and ;it y*"" lu'..v>si>'sr?''m.l ?f-M ?-s> - 'h 1" tie two schools. The nieiv^r on the u utsklrts of the city to H*Ji it out r hen llryant pulled a pistol and shot t lllis through the body. Kllis was unrnied. as the men haul agreed to light i ith their lists, llryant was placed in iil ill dofunlt of boil wliii-li \vu?i

intercept tin- train and lynch tho prisoner. The young man Is now detained at the station house, lie still clings to the story of being a tool in the hands of one. Ilrowne Allen, and tells tin* narrative with reinarkble clearness and liarvo. lie says that Hen Allen is not the Allen in question, and that the latter, si handsome young1 man, well dressed with si good bearing, was a stranger until they met sit si eigar store, on the corner of Whitehall and Marietta, several daya ago. Mis story jf the plot is one thsit has been worked by professional criminals the world >ver and is believed to have been framed in Myers' mind by some cheap work of fiction, rather thsin by sin actual experience. lien Allen, the gambler and ex-conriet,was arrested in Itirminghsiin yester* lav and will arrive here today. In the neantiine .Tones, Drake and Con ley sire ret retained, however, but few people issoeiate their names, of the first two. it any rate, with the brutal crime. The detectives are working day and < light on the ease and the Allen mystery vill be probed to si dettinite bstsis. HIGHWAYMEN IN NEW YORK. 1 The Street Cum llelil I |i on I lie l'riiiel|iul St rcctH mill r?Mni|(cri Unfilled. iveifue eiTr*at the corner of Hank [ ind Hudson streets last evening, and elieved several of the passengers of heir watches and chsiins. ! About a dozen members of the gang ; narelied down Hudson street shouting 'lire" and "police" in the hopes of 'sinsing a crowd to gather so that they onld ply their profession. The scheme did not work, and at the , orner of Ifsmk and Hudson streets the , rang stood in front of sin uptown horse sir, and while some of the members lehl the horses' heads the others ran iround the sides of the esir grabbing ,vatidies and noeketbooks. The ivivm.mi -

jvasiated tlie island of t'nba is now attacking the southern coast of Florida ,an<l lashing' the waters of the Gulf. It ;is uncertain whether to pursue its ''northwestern course or carom off the land up the Atlantic in the tracks of the coastwise trading vessels. . The bureau has given timely warnhig. and any mariner who during the .next two or three days heads his vessel {towards the south will do so at the risk 5of both ship and cargo. This storm is a perfect type of those 1 bred in the tropics (hiring the Septem- ' ;ber and early October seasons. Its velocity is unusual, but this is expected to | diminish before the wind reaches the northern latitudes. Last night the 1 storm centre was two hundred miles southeast of Key West, the wind having a velocity of thirty-six miles from i the northeast. It moved two hundred i miles west last night, and today at the < rate of sixteen miles an hour, its aver- ? iage forward movement previously lie- 1 ing fourteen miles an hour. ] INCREASE ?N DRY GOODS TRADE J Tlie Ket-ord Itr.iiii iirokrti In the Amount t of llu*liie*s Done. ( Nkw York. September :25.?A mem- ( ber of one of the largest dry goods < firms in this country said today, in ( talking with the president of his bank 1 over the general business situation: ' "We are doing a very large business. c 'In fact, one day last week we broke the * ' (record in doing the largest business in ^ ;the history of the house, and this is '' saving a good deal." n r . , r What is true of that house, in a gen- n eral way. is true of almost every other * house in the same line, and is also true r ;<>f the houses i*i nearly every other r line of trade. n Further evidence of this picking up u of trade was given atn^Un wAr *

- nn- viuiiige, ugu 11 was iiiikIo. MARYLAND'S LATE^SENSATION. Itnlt Imorr Drmorrntlc I'ollt Ulun* AVlll Support Their Old Opponent. Hai.timohk, September 2-v.?The announcement that Mr. John 1\. C-mven, general counsel for the Baltimore and Jliio railroad company, will accept the lemoeratic nomination for congress in the fourth district, now represented l?y Mr. Isidor Ua.vner, is the political sensation of the hour here. For more :han twenty years .Mr Cowen has been lie uncompromising enemy of Senator iormon ami the state and city 111a hines in Maryland. The newspapers luring that period have contained lo/.ens of columns of his speeches, deivercd during campaigns, in which lie lenounced in most scathing and vigor>us terms the acts of the politicians, specially denounced Senator (lornian, Jr. basin, Mr. Quinn and other promiicnt politicians, and accused them of 11 sorts of crimes against good gov.ernaent. Time and again he has traversed he state as an independent ally of the epublicans. lighting the state demoeaey, and for years, he was head, front nd brains of every independent movolent in Baltimore. , i i? ~ ne oovernor IBS' That Alabama Wsr-' v raiitn In 1807 Iteneiublcd Money. Jackson', Miss., September 22.?(Jovrnor Stone j*esterday received from lie governor of Alabama one of the iventy dollar special warrants issued y that state in 1S07. It is a much loser resemblance to United States urrency than that issued by Mississipi. It is exactlj' the size of United tates currency and the color is preisely the same as green-backs. One of liese bills was submitted to United tates Attorney Cleneral Stansbury who i a long opinion said there was no violtion of law in the issue. Sitlil to lie w lilt lie v 111 \Vn?lilinr??in -

The tight oceurreil a few minutes after 5 o'clock. x Livingston was standing at the hotel news and cigar stand reading an after- 1 noon paper when Desha Breckinridge * came in and bouglri a package of cigarettes. Livingston spoke to l)esha and extended his hand, saying: "It is all over now; we ought to he friends. Shake hands." * Breckinridge, with an angry look on f his face, replied: "No. you one-horse ! scoundrel; I will not take your hand. ^ Vou profess to l?e a man's friend and k then stab him in the hack." '' Livingston replied to this by saving that he had done nothing of the kind, 1 when Breckinridge called him a x "damned liar." * ItrcekinrlUcc Aimed at 11 In llrurt. Then Livingston struck tit Desha A and knocked his glasses off. following this up with a blow on the neck. Desha reached for his hip pocket and instant- ^ ly flashed in thoairthe long, bright ' blade of a dirk. 1' Both men were as pale as dSath. " Livingston in a moment of desperation '' grabbed at the glittering blade which Breckinridge had aimed at his bear.L " and thtrd fingers of Livingston's right 11 hand, cutting the third finger to the ? bone. The hotel clerk and several by- ^ standers rushed in and seized Breckinridge and at the same instant Matt 11 Lane, a- strong Breckinridge man. ^ ran up ami said In* would take hand in J' helping Desha. Two witnesses say P that Lane also flourished a big knife. u Lane and .1 udgc Kinkbead afterwards had a rjuurrel on the streets. and tin* former dealt in t In* most scathing A abuse. Trouble will be certain to fol -

low. DIFFICULT TO BALANCE. J Trnilo In Mhii.v Itrunclicn Iiupr?vr?l, In Oilirrn.il ii sliiiiiNtlll. y Nkw Yoiik. September ii.?-U. (?. r Dunn X- Co's wt'cklv review of the trnclr e conditions says: Plenty of material for a encouragement, and also for diseour- < ayeinent. can lie found liy those who ?1 seek that and nothiny else. I to t husi- \ ness men who want to see the situation I exactly as it is find accounts so conflict- ? iny that it is difficult to strike a l?al- t unce. In those depart incuts of indus- i try and trade in which the deferred i business ami the demand for replenishment of stocks have not been exhausted, there is obvious improvement, and -j in some the business is not only larycr than last year, but larycr than two years ayo. 111 the ayyreyate, business t is about a tenth larycr than last year, 1 but still falls about 5 per cent, below a ( full volume for the season. CHINA HOLDS TO KOREA. 1 It In Derlareil Tlint Sim Cannot, llnrr Not ] unit Will Not t*IVI- ll?-r I'p. I Loniion". September :l!i.?The Times I publishes it dispatch from Itcrlin sfstt- 1 iny that in an interview a member of I the Chinese lcyatinn in Ik-rliu declared 1 that China can not. dare not and will not 1 give up Korea, thouyh the war should < last thirty years. Viscount Aoki, the .lapnne.se minister, with whom the Times' correspondent also had an interview, is quoted as sayiny; "The .lapanese cannot yo backwards. It is useless < to talk about a cessation of hostilities." 1 i SUICIDE CAUSED BY REMORSE. ! A I.ltlle I.ail Kill* lllniMcIf Mri-iiimo llo

Joyed un informal ehnt on the verandah bis the day was pleasant and warm. The Rogers will probably remain hero until Mr. Carlisle is ready to return, either this afternoon or tomorrow. DENOUNCE THEIR SENATORS. Democrat* of a Maryland County Declare Oorinan and Dlbaon Cnilt for the Trust*. Wkstminstku, Md.. September 2.v? Tlio democrats of Carroll county met in convention yesterday and elected delegates to tlir congressional convention to be held at Towson City. Resolutions were unanimously adopted endorsing President Cleveland, demanding a tariff for revenue only, declaring that Senators Gorman and Gibson are unfit to represent the democracy of Maryland, and asking for the election of I'nitcd States senators by direct vote of the people. SENSATION AMONG CATHOLICS The Kir vat Ion of Mennr Cabrera to tlir itlHboprle Cause* the Trouble. MAimin, September 2.Y With all the Impulsing ceremony of the church the Mont Reverend Lord I'lunkett, archbishop of Dublin, yesterday consecrated the protestant ebureb in this city and also consecrated the Reverend Seno: Cabrera as the first jirotestant bishop of Madrid. It is expected that the elevation of Manor Cabrera to the bishpri* will cause a sensation in the catholic world. I'liwiterly /lilmlttcri to the liar. "S< a a N'Tox, I'a.. September 2.Y Ter enee V. l'owderly, ex-genernl inastei workman of the Knights of Labor win yesterday admitted to the bar of Lack awnnn county. It is said that Mr Fowderly may leave Sernnton and set