Show by telegraph AMERICAN 1 NEW TEW 20 after recess rece reee s porter sorter resumed his tits argument by referring to joseph H richards JRichard a aj a dastard who ont ent went out before the church committee to put his own slater sister in a false falso attitude do by pretended belica tude this man under the malign influence of bowen and by tilton hib his brother inlaw in law came to this court to make a theatrical exhibition hibi tion of himself which only tilton could have devised this man had been brought back to contra diet nesle jsesie be ive sie ale turner he could not deny bessie bessle turner told him what she had sald said what was wa in his hid power he did to win the honoring nod of niton hiton and to corn commend mend himself to bowen porter spoke in scathing terms of martin whom he declared to be Til tilton tonlis mib mit miserable erable perjured spy in comparison with whom he respected even moulton miltona Til tons tona minion martin who was sent to pry into mrs conduct and to re report le 9 ort her lan lau language guage was put upon the stand to swear down beisal bessie turner upon the point of what took place at mrs birs ovington Oving tons these were the men who bad had been put forward to swear down bessie turner but a girl who could stand the fire of tho thadd most brilliant cross examiner in america who could defy fullerton even after the latter had bad been obliged to call to his assistance the most brilliant advocate in this country or elew elsewhere heie hele this girl who could withstand the comb combined idel iDea attack of Fullert fullerton Fuller ton tou and ana besch beich had but litto to fear from richards ric Bic haida even when the latter was supporter hUp sup supported ported by tilton on the one hand and the spy martin on the other porter then urged the impossibility of any girl of twenty two year years or any person of any age being able to laurl lauri cate leate such a narrative as she had given of or events which took place in the family of tilton the language used by tilton to her or in her presence was precisely what his whole conduct and character rendered probable and for him natural the testimony of bessle bessie turner was wits then read in regard to what took place on the day when mrs curs tilton returned to her home and found her pla pia place ceat at the table asur usurped ed by the housekeeper elien elleu dennis Der liia liis when she was unable to control herself and left the room in tears tilton asked bessie if sho did not think liis his wife was crazy this ad question revealed a purpose which had been but too plainly indicated at one stage of thiis case an and d it was one to be remembered when they came to consider the tim time when ewhen her hus hua band baud persuaded her to lie as he be willed i t he commented on the angry interview of tilton with his wife in which ho he accused her of bringing this girl on to use against him why should he fear this if be was innocent plaintiffs counsel had had bad access to all persons by whom bessio nessia turner had been employed and to all with whom she had associated and yet not one had hai been beeg placed upon the stand to testify against her truthfulness or purity he urged that every word told by bessie turner bore the stamp of probability such tsuch a story could never have been imagined and he spoke in praise of the courage manifested mani tested by bessle bessie turner in defense of mrs tilton against a brutal husband hus hua band porter then passed on to and reviewed bowena bowens testimony and said that on cross ex bowena bowens memory was very treacherous TYRONE pa 20 A nire fire broke out at eleven welock this morning at the upon lumber coli co mill west of osceola fifteen tail lall lion feet of lumber was burned the wind was so strong that nire fire brands two feet long were thrown to most all parts of the town of oa 08 ceola and fires lires broke out in every quarter all the public buildings except the catholic and methodist bieth bleth odist churches were burned about houses were destroyed and twelve hundred people are homel howel hous houf leles eeles esa esq the people were driven to the race course where they were sui sul rounded surrounded by nire fire from all sides hideg the fire department part ment here left at two tc lock loek with their steamer and hose cani caril oge age but they could not reach osceola on account of the railroad track being burned the railroad between osceola and powellton Pow ellton eliton on either side Is one blaze blae of til ill nile file e the member members of the tyrone company fought their way vay through and rendered all the assistance possible about M houes hou es are standing yet some somo half dozen were wore burnel burned between osceola and powellton Pow ellton sheriff mcpherson sou left Heutz dale at four clock o pm the reports at that hour were that fourteen houses were burned there and that the conflagration was raging terribly and wid there was no escape for nor the town every communication being cut off by the tire through the woods at till this writing hoop ors ora the mos hanno uuno auno lumber conigan companies I 1 es heid heirs and the big hill andE and elliott hiott and ca caidwell caldwell adwell lumber saw mill milliand sand jonsie jes jos sin warford s new foundry and about feet of lumber have been destro destroy destroyed 5 ed at osceola oceola the total loss is about 9 the insurance generally is very light no lives live had been lost up to the last report the people aie nie in destitute circumstances they have lost their property and everything else the miners who were on strike are reported as working dill dili gently to save hensdale Henz Hen idale gdale dale the woods between tyrone find and phil ehll lipburg limburg lip burg are on fire I 1 I 1 POTTS pottsville spottsville VILLE 20 this am an attempt was made to burn shenandoah at rylea hotel it aus was discovered that coal oil and righted matches had been thrown in the windows and in a few minutes at ter the above discA discovery ivery was made a second alarm sounded in another direction and a dwelling house and carpenter shop were burnt to the ground while the dremon were working on the adjoining building a third alarm was wag given up town where a lumber yard had been bee tired and partially destroyed rhe elti eitl citizens zens are very much alarmed and and committees of safety llave been I 1 organized charles charlea hayes dayes was wai arrested this afternoon charged with being connected with the incendiary cen diary fires and was held in slow siaw bail ball to anwer answer at the next term wim of or court the fires on luhe the mountains continue and abid heavy winds have spread them rapidly in all ali directions the citizens of alij telegraphed to t the potts vine fire department for assistance today to day but deore batore tran could be had they again telegraphed that tha they had ahe the fires under control the people of gilberton telegraphed g to the city fire d department 1 for help the large D draper raper colliery being in great dau danger g but it was finally saved at the tl donaldson ona ldson idson and tremont colliery whistles and alarms were given during the day dayl summoning the men to protect the coal brenk breakers the fire is advancing on the plains and Mal mai seville where the citizens are out in the woods fighting the flames slabtown Slab Blab town a small mining village is entirely burned fifteen miners dwellings have been burnt at langgans La aud and eight at the penn collier colliery y at four this pm a portion of the pott Uville bouville Po aville fi fine fire de department arment were called out and they tey immediately left by spec spee special I 1 a I 1 train for gilberton A di dispatch pAtch from maghonoy city says that the minors miners have decided to accept the operators ofner offer and resume work at bowmans colliery it is predicted that the men in other localities will soon do thet the same BELLE bellefonte FONTE pa 20 an extra train left here this eveni evening tig ilg for far snowshoe with w iab a large body of men man from valentines works to aid in checking the fires in that region mine no 4 at snowshoe is burned about seventy nive five feet of trestle work of the railroad has been destroyed st tt and the water tanks and several buildings along alon aion the road are op TOD nire fire fir and great excitement excitement prevails nate later about thirteen cars have been burned at snowshoe and about eighty or one hundred tons of coal ant ani an ant 1 all the houses abou the mines ha have ve been dest desi destroyed royed toyed acrel ders mill andu aud and a large lot of lumber are destroyed also the timber belonging to the bellefonte Belle fonte mill co BOSTON 20 the prominent lawyer mentioned in the evening eve nine nini papers as an alleged defaulter is ii abraham jackson it is said that a deficit of one hundred and sixty thousand dollar dollars in his bis acco accounts u ants has already been discovered and the further the investigation proceeds the more complicated the affair bee bec becomes omes owes COUNCIL la tn 20 it tt is 19 understood by inform ion received in this elev to y 3 that the union pac 1660 ralin 3 i will abide by the decision of or the ua U S circuit court in the mandamus cae to compel the company to operate its part of the road and anti the tho whole as a continuous line to counell council bluffs mryr lincoln who ha ba been kept under close surveillance veil vel liance lance nince bince leaving the courtroom yesterday escaped from her lier room today to day slad and went to is a drug store anti and ordered Jau aau laudanum danum and other drugs with the intention of committing suicide sui guir elde itle but the tho druggist who was acquainted with hei her fixed up a simple compound which was wits taken by ber her in a few rew minutes after leaving the drug store the effect was harm barm harmless less and she will bo be taken to the asylum a at batavia tomorrow to morrow BALTIMORE 20 ex exit 6 senator jesse jcsse D bright died at his residence here today to day aged 63 qun letter received from froin the light house bouse keeper on the southwest south west point of antiposti Anti costi island says that on the of nov lat la t the brigantine briwa BrIga titine orient ran ashore seven miles from that island the captain and seven men were frozen to death in the rigg rigging 1 ug and six men perished in aftem attempting pt to reach shore joyce the chief mate and morea moorea moren deck land hand hand landed safely but were badly frozen CHICAGO clu CIU CAGo 21 A boston special says of the reported defalcation of abraham jackson the greatest mystery is to account for the use to which he put the money as he be lived economically had no costly vices vice and did not speculate A washington special says that the sioux delegation now sow thayle there promises tobe robe tobe troublesome lesme and expensive the more their real sen laments are learned the more it appears that they are with wilh their reception and they are arv 11 I 1 1 1 disposed ta to accede to the wishes of those who brought them to washington they are not satisfied with the government interpreters pr eters and the government ofil elais are a little suspicious auspicious of the hair bal breeds who act in that capacity for their chiefs there is alo aio an evident want of or harmony among the chiefs no conclusion as V to the abrogation of the black hills treaty was arrived at at the conference yesterday between the government go authorities and the western congre congressmen amen arid anid territorial officers the latter not lint being unanimous in their views on the subject there was waa a decided difference of opinion as to the existence of gold in the hills governor thayer of wyoming insisted that the existence of gold there could not be denied pennington governor of dakota was very much inclined to discredit the goi got gold story ho be said there was no gold therland there ans and and that few persons wished to go there except such as would cut a throat or scuttle a ship he said u few of the good people of his ills territory had been misled anti ami had bad violated the treaty by going into that country but he was confident that in this respect the people of df dakota had been more modest than their neighbors governor thayer was here asked if the conference was a burlesque and he left in a huff buff the pros projects P ec ta of the negotiation ti of ofa streaty treaty are not promising TYRONE pa 21 the confusion is so great and the telegraph tt lines to t o ausy busy with railroad business that ik it is impossible to get much further information about the fire at osceola hundreds of people are ard homeless and fri friendless friendie endle endie a destitute of clothing and ind provisions the burgess of huntington was telegraphed this morning for food and clothing for the sufferers relief is badly needed A large number of cars and many feet of trestle work oa on the railroad have been destroyed shipments of coal will be delayed for at least ten d days deys ays the total insurance is reported to amount to nearly one hundred thousand dol doi dollars lars larR A fire is still raging in the woods at snowshoe city where several houses and a number of cars cais cals and orne torne t trestle works have been destroyed NE NEW kv YORK 21 cardinal mccloskey was yesterday presented with a diamond cross worth twenty thousand dollars by a young lady 1 upil of the st vincent institute in thlu city in the beecher trial this morning judge porter continued his summing up of the case for the defendant fen dant he first commented on the testimony of bowen who he said testified that beecher bt echer did not advise the dismie sal sai of tilton but on cross examination he admitted admi ted that beecher tolo oldhem hlin tilton that he be had never never heard before keel feel pointed out ut cermin certain alleged lu inconsistencies consistencies in Bt bowen wens test testimony m ny and ana he be argued that tilton and moulton knowling of the impending down downfall lail tall of ot the former arranged a conspiracy by which beecher beecker was wag to ho bo made the inspru ment of reinstating tilton with bowen and after mrs tilton that the there ro was a conspiracy against her hu husband to drivet drivel hiu niu from the independent union moulton louston went to beether and took him to Til tons tona house oa on the night ot dec bulb 11 not 11 saut porter for the destruction of beech arbut for the overthrowing 0 bowen or the reinstatement of tilton nilton and they brought i their machinery to bear upon bee beecher cher so that they have had him in their toils lis ila for all these years he asked PC ff it were wore true that on the ard 3rd of july mrs tilton confessed to her husband the commission of adultery did the jury believe that would that night or for the next four years have slept with hei did they believe that for six months after that she would have permitted her husband and beecher to meet at her house and ah in the streets of now new now york counsel dwelt on the letter of retraction given by mrs tilton to beecher moulton who swore in this thia trial with the spirit of a fl eid field says that be he did not seethe letter ietter charging adultery in and ad tilton swears that it was in his posse sahn si in do you believe gentlemen thiet that ir lathi thi paper was in Moul moui tons keeping he did not read it do you believe that this letter of a 6 confession which was so important was destroyed while the letter of apology was kept why gentlemen this paper had k berged dived ag its purpose to the conspirators and it was disposed of it was not a confession at all but an accusation which was wai wa retracted by mis uis tilton tilgou lowthe of december 11 on the night of that day moulton goes to beecher to lotain the letter of or retraction beecher beucher said it was due to the |