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F' " * f* ; -V fc'" . . ?? I THE COUNTY RECORD! KINGSTREE, S. C. - LOUIS J. BRISTOW, Ed. & Prop'r j ? ?r\- ; ' I "UNWRITTEN LAW." Wtit Virginia's Governor Pardon* a Hus* j band Who Shot His Rival. Abont a y?ar ago W. 8. Klmes shot tad seriously injured Benjamin Hal), turnkey .of the jail at Parkersburg. W. Va., because |Hall had alienated the affections of Sirs. Klmes. Kimes confessed and said he reI arretted that he did not kill his viotim. Judge Jackson gave him a sentence o! twenty-four hours In jail and a fine of $100 and costs, and then concurred in a petition signed by many citizens pleading for the remission of the fine. Governor Atkinson gave notice that he would remit the fine. The Governor said: "This is a remarkable case. The only regret In the matter is that Kimes did not kill Hall. He ought to have done so. He . tried to do so, but his pistol missed fire. He shot the scoundrel four times, but unfortunately did not kill him. Every man aahn v, ? = a onnl in hja hr?rtv will airree with me that he ought to have killed him. . "Hall is still at large. He ought to be apprehended and imprisoned for life. If the Prosecuting Attorney of Wood County does his dutv he will see that the scoundrel is prosecuted and imprisoned for breaking up Riraes's home. I remit this fine and costs with more pleasure than any word the English language furnishes me to express. Kimes did what every man would nave done under the same circumstances, except that he should have practised with a revolver or double-barreled shotgun, so that when he made the attempt he would bave brought Hall down. ?:'C "A villain like Hall is unfit to live in a civilized community. I repeat again. I remit this fine and "costs with the greatest pleasure." 8inceKlmes's release he has been employed at Wheeling, going to Parkersburg occasionally to see his children. Hall is living With Mrs. Kimes and every visit the husband makes there the wife endeavors to BL>, nave the police arrest him for failure to ? - pay his fine. I WARNING TO COLD HUNTERS. i Secretary BIIm Point* Oat the Dangers of Going to Klondike. Secretary Bliss bas taken cognizance of th* nuh to the Klondike gold fields and Alaska and has issued the following warning to the general public: To whom it may concern: In view of information received at this department that 3000 persons with 3000 tons of baggage and freight are now waiting at the entrance to White Pass, in Alaska, for an opportunity to cross the mountains to the Tukon River, and that many more are preparing to Join them,' I deem it proper to ball the attention of all who contemplate making that trip to the exposure, privation, suffering and danger incident thereto at this advanced period of the season, even if tjey should sueoeed in crossing the mountains. To reach Dawson City, when over the oaes, 700 miles of difficult navigation on the Yukon River, without adequate , moans of transportation, will still be before (ham, and it Is doubtful if the Journey can ha completed before the river is closed by s lea. I am moved to draw public notice to these conditions by the gravity of the possible consequences to people detained in the mountainous wilderness during five or six months of an arctic winter, where no relief oaa reach them, however great the need. O. N. Bliss, & Secretary of the Interior. S? STRIKERS' FAMILIES IN WANT. WI>T Requests Foe Help Received at the Iamrri ne?uquamr?. Appeals tor food and provisions were h?- j numerous at the headquarters of the striking miners' officials in Pittsburg, Penn. It ugpaared as If a wail had arisen from every ^. ? Weetlon of the .district, and many miners ware present to ask that the suffering ones be looked after. Secretary Warner was S 1 . kept busy answering the appeals. He said jthjt he had sent more than 91000 worth of jgjooecies and provisions into various parts of the district. The appeals are now coming K ferom families the heads of which are at the . parlous mining camps using their influence v,' . 'to keep other men from working. : A series of meetings is to be held all ; -peer the district. It is the intention to [keep up the interest in every section and etreagtnen every point where there is any indication of weakness. The vigils on tne V/';' > {mines of the New York and Cleveland < Am Ooal Comnanv are to be kent up with Ilnoreaeed vigor. ; v. . Thorns* B. DeArmttt, Superintendent of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Comjpaay, worked hard to get the miners at Oak EU1 to return to won. By a house-tohouae canvass he succeeded in getting a 'lew more diggers. Thirty-seven miners went in. The men were told by Mr. De Ar. mitt that they wonld lose all they had i earned if they refused to work. AN ARMENIAN INVASION. Several Thousand Cross From Persia Into Turkey. An official dispatch received at Constanjtlaople, ?hrkey, says that on Friday last '; [ several thousand Armenian agitators from Persia Invaded Turkey. They killed two ''hundred of the Migriki tribe. Including ;women and children. The wife of the chief [Was put to death with the most cruel torV" (tares, and several other victims had their noses and ears out off. ! The authorities have taken measures to oapture the marauders, and to provide for eventualities in the vilayet of Van. ! Van, or Wan, capital of the vilayet of the same name, is a fortified city of Turkish 'Armenia on the east coast of Lake Van, about one hundred and forty-five miles oitnthonst nf Prwrnum ! For a Swedish Colony. It has been learned that a *ract of land containing 15,000 acres, bordering on Fish Hirer, in Alabama, And known as the Harford Tract, has been purchased by a Swedish colony of Illinois, who are represented by R. A. Johnson. A part of Fish River is navigable, and some of the land purchased is well adapted for agricultural purposes, while the remainder is timbered. The in,fluz of these Swedish immigrants is expect'pected to begin this fall, and it is thought that their thrift will be the means of developing that section favored in so many respects by nature. . . . v DlcS a Defaulter. . I When C. S. Anthony, General Auditor of the Fitchburg Railroad, died a month ago, it was deemed wise to put an expert on his books. President Marcy said that the expert had completed his task, and that a deficiency of between $12,000 and $14,000 had been discovered in the Auditor's department. He declined to give details, but said that the money had been taken by Mr. Anthony and could not be recovered. The first thing some men will do when they get to heaven will be to hunt around for one of the old patriarchs so they can tell him all the new stories they know. ' ~ 4 BULLETS PL? PI Mli Desperate Attempt to Release a Convict In Boston. "BICYCLE BANDIT'S" FIERCE FIGHT Attack of Herbert Wlllla, the Taunton (Mau.) Desperado, and His Brother Fpon Keepers at Charlestown ? The Prisoner Fatally Shot?His Brother and Two Officers Seriously Wounded. Boston, Mass. (8pecial).?While attempting to escape from the State Prison at Charlestown Just before noon, Herbert WillIs, the young Taunton desperado, who was recently sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Frederick N. 8trange, was fatally Injured,and his brother,Everett,who assisted him in his break for liberty, was seriously wounded by guards. Two of the latter were wounded by the Willis brothers, who tried to shoot their way out with revolvers which Everett Willis had brought with him on a visit to the prisoner. Everett Willis was removed to the Massachusetts General Hospital, where It was found that he had been shot in the head and neck. Herbert Willis, the murderer, who is In the prison hospital, was shot twice in the bead. The two guards who were hurt were E. F. Darling, turnkey, who was shot in the thigh and cut about the head, and Yard Officer Abbott, who was also injured about the head by blows, thought to have been delivered with the revolvers in the hands of the desperadoes. Everett Willis arrived at the prison during the forenoon to pay a monthly visit to his brother. He was admitted by the usual officials, and Willis, the murderer, was escorted to the guard-room to meet his relative. At the time, Edward Whltham and Darling were in the rotunda with Yard Officer Abbott, Offloer Townsend, and others near by. Five other .visitors were in the rotunda at the time, a man, two women, and two children. The brothers Willis had been conversing in a low tone, sitting apart from the others in the guard-room for about half an hour,when Offloer Whltham saw the visitor pass a revolver to his brother, and' together they sprang toward Darling, their intention evidently being to secure his keys. Whltham rushed to Darling's assistance, and as he did so the Willis brothers opened fire, one of the bullets striking Darling in the thigh Seeing the desperate nature of the affair, Whltham returned the shots, but missed. Abbott, who came through the door into at tha aama instant, saw trouble and grappled with Edward Willie. Both brothers, who had beenbeatlngDarling.'began to pound Abbott. Officer Townsend. from the office door, then fired a shot, which penetrated the neck of Willis, and a, second later Officer Benjamin, who was on' duty In one of the wings, fired a shot! through the bars, wounding Willis In the head. Meanwhile, Herbert Willis had been jumping around, firing repeated shots from! his revolver, to which the officials responded. using great care not to hit the other visitors. A shot from the revolver of Officer Whltham took effect In the head, while one from Darling lodged In the back of his head. The murderer was then secured and removed. Everett Willis was also taken away, and the officers, nearly all of whom bore some mark of the affair, wore given medical attention. It is thought none of them will suffer seriously, exoept, possibly, Darling, who 'ji advanoed In years. The bullet; which struck him In the thigh, passed completely through, and the wound Is considered dangerous. At 2 o'clock p. m.. it was learned from the prison authorities that the murderer was In a precarious condition, as a result of his wounds, and that there was little hope that be could survive. His brother, though serionslv wounded. It is thought, has a chance of getting well. Herbert jYillis, the prisoner. Is nineteen years old. and his brother eighteen. Herbert Willis was committed on February 13 of this year for the murder of young Fred N. Strange, near Taunton, about a year ago. He had terrorised the community for two weeks. His first offence was stealing a bicycle in Providence, K. I. On the night of June 22 occurred the uorder of 8trange. Willis held up Strange as the latter was riding along on his bicycle and took It from < him. When Strange resisted and began to follow Willis shot him. He was arrested on August 8 and tried, found guilty and sentenoed a few months later. Everett Willis has always been of a venturesome disposition, and was suspected of complicity in Herbert's crimes, but nothing oould be proved against him. There are four younger sisters In the family. Samuel B. Willis, the father, left Taunton on June 14, and is thought to have gone to Alaska. Tried to End Both Lives. William J. Morris, who was formerly a trusted employe of Henry Clews, the Wall street operator, and who was released from Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison on August 2 after serving a sentence for forgery, shot his wife Margaret in Brooklyn and then sent a bullet into his own brain. He was killed instantly. His wife is in a precarious condition in the Homoeopathio Hospital. Brooklyn. The thirty-eight calibre bullet struck her right arm, near the shoulder, shattering the bone, then went through the right lung, and, coming out of the back, still had sufficient force to bury itself in the wall. They quarreled, and she had refused to livo with him longer. Mrs. Morris says she is the daughter of the late Lord Conyers. Desperate Battle la Cuba. . Official information has reached Havana, Cuba, of a /decisive battle between loyal troops and Insurgent forces in Matanzas. " 41 "I According to IlllS laiormauuu, tun D^auuu troops were routed after a hard battle, with heavy losses. This news caused a veritable sensation in Havana, as It is generally known that Captain-General Weyler is now in Matanz&s, and there is a belief that the Spanish troops directly under him were those which suffered defeat at the hands of the rebels. The 8panish losses in killed and wounded were very heavy, and probably greater than in any of the recent battles fought on the island between the opposing forces. Blow at the Dispensary Daw. Judge Simonton filed a decretal order at Columbia giving the South Carolina dispensary the severest blow it has sustained. Bottles of liquor looselv packed in cars are recognized as "original" packages, the entrance and sale of which in the State is permuted under Interstate commerce laws. River Steamer Blows Up. News has just been received to the effect that the steamer Fritz had blown up fifteen miles south of Cairo, 111., and that nine colored men and a white deck hand have oeen killed. 8everal others are reported as injured. The steamer was owned by Captain B. B. Bradley, of Cairo. Boy Kills Baby Accidentally. Morris Eppler, eight years old, found a revolver at home at Dayton, Ohio, and while trying the weapon shot and killed Rudolph Freikle, three years old. He dragged the body Into the yard and went to bed, but he is now in jail. s5-* n ; - T" r v . *? - ; ' ' r COXEY FOR COVERNOR. The Ohio Popollat* Nvm a State Ticket at Colombo*. The "middle of the road" men ooctroUed the Ohio Populist State Convention at Oolumbus four to one, and nominated a fal' State tloket. The minority were made up of fighters, however, ana the antl-fasioniBte were forced Into a pitched battle at every point. JACOB t. COXXT. (Nominated for Governor by the Ohio Populists.) John Seltz, the venerable Democrat, Greenbaoker, Laborite and Populist, was utterly unable to preserve order as Chairman of the convention, and a squad of police was kept In the hall all day to prevent downright rioting. The following State tloket was nominated: For Governor, Jacob S, Coxey; for Lieutenant-Governor, Morris Whltcomb; for 8upreme Judge, 0. C. Pomeroy; for Attorney-General, C. A. Beeves; for Stat^ Treasurer, F. M. Morris. A LUNATIC'S WILD WORK. I WO Jion irionany TW uuiiuou uj xijiu? Shots, and Others Are Injured. John Thomas, a prospector from Fort Steele, either orazed with liquor or labor, tng under the delusion that he was being persecuted, ran amuok at Spokane, Wash., and as a result two men are believed to be mortally wounded and a man and a boy seriously Injured. John Thomas, aged thirtyfive years, was shot through the body and In the left shoulder. Cleo Olsen, aged eighteen, of Anoka, was shot in the left breast; mortally wounded. C. E. Davis, of Spokane, was shot in the: left shoulder; flesh wound. Max Jackson. aged eleven, was shot In the left wrist and finger; wounds alight. Without having reoelved any provoca-; tlon, Thomas shot three times at G. N. Watson, who was standing in front of (he Grand Hotel, but missed him. A running fight then ensued between Thomas and; Chief of Police Warren and Officer Sail!-, van. Thomas's shots were wide, and, Davis, Jackson and Olsen, who were among the large crowd of spectators, were straok. Thomas was finally hit. When carried to J the police station he asked the officers to J take a pistol and kill him. FIRED ON THE DAUNTLESS. The Cruiser Wilmington Prevents the Tugx From 81ipplng Out to Sea. Much excitement was caused at Jacksonville, Fla., about 3 p. m. by the roar of a gun from the United States cruiser Wilmington. The warship had fired a blank shot at the tug Dauntless to obmpel her to< The Dauntless has been trying to get out of the river for som*. time past, but the vigilance of the gunboat has prevented. She moved out at the same time as tht small steamer Brunswlok, that plies up and down the river, hoping to pass out unobserved on the further side of the boat. The, Dauntless shoved ahead and was seen by the Wilmington. Instantly the shot rang out from ope of her forward guns. The Dauntless moved forward a short distance and then, seeing that preparations were being made for another shot, stopped. An officer was put on board, and sne was taken to her plek and tied up. She has no arms on board, but there is a suspicion that a cargo is near by waiting for her to take to Cuba. / TOLLGATE BURNED. Farmers in Western New York Adopt the^ Methods Panned in Kentucky. The fight between the farmers and thej Shelby Toll Boad Company, near Medina, N, Y., culminated when the tollhouse at the south end of the road was burned. The tolj taker, John Bleekman. with his family, resided in the house, which forms a portion, of the tollgate. At about 2.80 o'clock a. m. j there came a load knocking. Bleekman] discovered that the entire rear portion of; the building was In flames. He gave the; alarm, but the spread of the fire was so rapid that it was with the great est difficulty tnat members of his family could make their escape. As it was, several of the children were more or less burned, and Mr. Bleekman was overcome while endeavoring to save some of his goods. Mrs. Bleekman, mother of the keeper, a bedridden in-; valid, bad to be carried from the biasing, structure. She Is in a precarious condition as a result of the excitement, rough handling, and being carried through the flames and smoke. CHICAGO ALDERMAN IN CONTEMPT. Refused to Give the Name of an Aliased Briber to the Grand Jury. Alderman William Mangier, of Chicago, was sentenced by Judge Dunne to serve ninety days in the county jail and to pay a A# f)1AAA #A? AAnfomrkf A# AAnvf UUO VI VAWV XVi VVUbCiuy* VI vuui v Alderman Mangier a few weeks ago publicly stated that he had been approached' by a prominent business man with an offer of f2000 to vote for the Oenoral Electrio Street Railway franchise ordinance. On being summoned by the Federal Grand Jury to testify as to the name of the alleged business man, Alderman Mangier refused, asserting that in telling his story he would incriminate himself. His persistent refusal to testify, although immunity was promised for himself, led to the contempt proceedings. The court sustained a motion of Mangler's attorneys for an appeal, and ruled that the Alderman could meanwhile be released on bond. Bail was at once furnished in the sum of $5000. Suicide of a Baptist Minister. The Rev. James Yates, a Baptist minister, committed suicide in Sheffield, Ala., by hanging himself. He was found by his wife before life was extinct, but died in a few minutes. Mr. Yates came from Detroit, Mich., and had been in Sheffield a year. He was sixty-flve years old. India's Latest Woe. Details of the great earthquake in India in June received by mail confirm the reports of its severity in Northern Bengal, Assam and Cachar. The number of persons who perished among the Cherera Hills is e&lm&ed ftt from iQQQto 60QQ. . J V'"*' JRf. :-'v1 J*f' "yT > ? 3BTB Price Rose Because of Tremendous Foreign Shipments. DOLLAR A BUSHEL PREDICTED. Aa FMt as the Grain Reaches the Sets* board It is Pat Into Vessels acid Vanishes?Statisticians Figure Oat s Crop of Aboat Five Hundred Million Bushels?Very Short Crops Elsewhere. MEW iobk C/'ITT ^special;.? vrneat ami climbs upward, bringing untold happiness to the farmer, the retail and wholesale merchants and the speculator as well. The entire country finds In this high price for wheat the cornerstone upon which the expected prosperity Is to stand. The best expert crop statisticians figure out a total wheat orop of about 500,000,000 bushels. At the present prices for cash wheat prevailing In Minneapolis, St. Louis and this city the farmers are receiving about ninety cents a bushel for their product. The wheat already sold of the present crop is about 72,000.000 bushels, which brought $57,600,000, at the average rate of eighty cents per bushel. The balance of the crop, even should cash wheat not go higher/will bring $415,200,000, an increase over last year of $128,400,000. Of the crop of 1806 there remained unsold on January 1 of the present year about 190,000,000 bushels. This was sold for an average price of seventy cents, an Increase of twelve cents over last year. The total received for these sales was $133,000,000, an Increase of $22,800,000 over last yea.r. A peculiar feature of the present erop movement is that while the new crop is being rushed to market at a rapid rate there seems to be no increase in the stocks held at prominent points. As fast as the grain reaches the seaboard it is loaded into vessels and vanishes. The Granger roadsBurlington, St. Paul, Rock Island, Northwestern and Omaha?are so glutted with business as to find it difficult to find cars In wmcn 10 move toe grain onerea ior irauaportation. All of the trunk ilncB and the roads running to Oulf ports are jammed with business. According to advices from poitlons of Europe where the wheat crop has been either a partial or entire failure the demand to be made upon this country to'supply the difficulty will exceed 200,000,1)00 bushels. The heavy buying by foreigners ha9 been the mainspring In the upward movement. Should such an enormous amount go abroad the supply for consumption here will be curtailed. It Is a dream of the farmer and the trader that wheat at a dollar a bushel shall be realized again. Experts in the grain trade predict that before the winter is half over the price will exceed that. A continuance of the present heavy export demand, it Is believed, will make that hope a reality. The market for several days has reflected all these conditions. Favorable advices from home and abroad sent the brokers earlyto the Produce Exchange, where an: exciting opening was looked for. It wasnot disappointing. At the sound of the gong for the beginning of business the j wheat pit was in an uproar. v Both the September and December opmadfl nam Rflnt?mhAF btVUS UiQUU ucn UlgU A VVV4UWI ?/v - ? opened Mv. higher, at 88$?c*? ana in the first half hour advanced lo. per bushel, at 89 V*. closing at 89V* December opened with simultaneous quotations ranging from 87>fc* to 87Wo., the extreme price being an advance of %o. from the closing of the day before. It then sold up to 89&o. and closed at 88J?o*. a net gain of IV. P?r bushel. On Friday a reaction was experienced in the wheat market and!the price dropped to 2,'ifo. a bushel lower than the highest point it reached Thursday. The break was attributed to the report of 8t. Louis selling at Chioago, and also to easier cables. Dispatches from Chicago said that Eastern Indiana farmers were still holding off in expectation of fl*wneat. LYNCHED IN NORTH CAROLINA. Sheriff Outwits a Mob, But Is Finally Overtaken at a Railroad Station. Miss Kitty Henderson, a crippled girl of Weavereville, N. C., was knocked down' and assaulted by a colored man named' Bob Braokett. He left her unoonscious. A mob of farmers at once began to search for him. He was captured and identified by the girl. Later he confessed. He wasj taken to Asheville jail, but was spirited! away later, while a mob beat at the jail' ioors. At 3 o'clock a. m. a mob of sixty men armed with gum;, pistols, axes and sledge1 hammers boarded an east-bound train from! Ashevllle and met the Sheriff, who wax to get on the some train, twenty miles from Ashevllle, and took his prisoner from him.' The mob grabbed the culprit and told the] Sheriff to get on the train. The victim was: talc en to the place of his crime and hanged.; SLAUCHTER IN INDIA. 1500 Natives Were Killed by One Volley. During the Recent Riots. The London Evening News publishes a; letter from Calcutta under the date of July] 12, throwing light upon the condition of affairs in India. The writer says that 1500 rioters were killed with one volley of forty-] pounders in the recent rioting near Calcutta, a ciroumstance which the news-, papers have not revealed. All men in Calcutta, he says, go about their daily duties' to their offices and elsewhere with rerolv-' ers in their pockets, not knowing what mo-' ment they will be attacked, and the houses' are all equipped with revolvers, rifles and' oayonets. The Largest llav Crop Ever Grown. Four hundred delegates and visitors at-, tended the opening session of 1 he fourth] convention of tho National Hay Association at Pittsburg, Penn. Addresses of; welcome were inuue uy jroyor roru aim President Bindlay, of the Chamber of Com-' merce, after whioh the convention heard' the annual reports of the officers and' standing committees. The report of the Committee on 8tate of Trade showed that the present prospect is for the largest hay crop ever grown in this country. Had the "Klondike Fever." J. W. Kendall, of Tacoma, Wash., has Klondike fever so bad that he swapped his business for a farm, and being unable to secure transportation by steamer for his iiorses to Dyea, chartered a coal barge and, with the horses aboard, will have it towed north* Fire Deaths in One Day From iMghtnlng. Five deaths from lightning were reported In one day at Louisville, Ky. Green Belcher, a Logan County farmer, was struck by a bolt end instantly killed while standing in his barnyard. Near Stephensport, on the Indiana side of the Ohio River, three persons fell victims to the lightning. One was a colored mm namec Head. The others were two fai ers, Samuel Hundley and Richard Jones. Tne twelve-year-old son of J. B. Ellis, of ''we Hill, WanenCounty, was instantly kiLu J by a bolt whioh struck the house. i THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Items. The Attorney-General has decided that goods Imported Into Canada from foreign countries and thence exported to the United States are subject to the discriminating duty of ten per cent, provided for in Seotlon 22 of the new Tariff act. The question whether goods shipped through Canada to the United States In bond are liable to the discriminating duty Is under consideration. The Cramps brought suit against the Government for over $1,700,000 damages alleged to have been sustained La building warships. Secretary Sherman sent a dispatch to Minister Taylor, expressing the sorrow of the President for the assassination of Premier Canovas. Domestic. RECORD OF THE LEAOUE CLUBS. Per Per Clubs. Won. Lost. ct. Clubs. Won. Lost. ct. Boston ...64 28 .696 Philad*a..42 51 .452 Clncln'ati58 30 .659 Louisv'le 43 53 .448 Bart 58 30 .659 Plttsb'g ..41 51 .446 N'wYork.52 36 .5911Brooklyn 38 52 .422 Clevel'd..48 48 .527,Wash'n.. 35 55 .389 Chicago .45 50 .474 St. Louis.25 70 .263 Sylvanus Johnson, colored, charged with assaulting Mrs. Livingston Atwell on Jane 23, was convicted at Key West, Fla., and sentenced to be hanged. Mrs. Atwell identified Johnson as her assailant and the trial lasted only two hours and twenty minutes. Johnson collapsed when sentence was passed. It was over his case that the recent fatal riot occurred resulting in the calling out of troops. Charles W. Clifford, a Chicago restaurant keeper, crazed by jealousy over attentions of Policeman Penner to his wife, murdered her by cutting her throat with a butcher knife. After satisfying himself that his wife was dead Clifford lay down beside her and shot himself dead. Mrs. Clifford was formerly a "strong woman" with circuses. Her professional name was Mme. Mendoza. The United 8tates torpedo boat Dupont, built by the well-known Herreshoff firm at i Bristol, It. I., to make a speed of 27% knots an hour, received her second official trial J over a sixty-mile course in Narragansett Bay, and made an average speed of 28.58 knots. Charles Madison, of Richmond, Ta., a lineal descendant of President Madison and a brother of Lillian Madison, who was murdered in Richmond several years ago by Cluverius, committed 9uicide on a passenger train just west of Williamsburg. Madison was about thirty years old. He was intoxicated when he shot himself. William H. Maddern was killed instantly and five other men were injured, one mortally, by an explosion of dynamite in the St. Joe Lead Company's mine at Bonna Terra, Mo. The explosion was due to the carelessness of the men who were handling the dynamite. LouisE. Rossie, paying teller of the Bedford Bank In Brooklyn, was arrested charged with embezzlement. He confessed to having stolen about $6250 during his three years as paying teller, and aaid that he had lost the money In betting on horse races. The Pacific Coast Steamship-Company's steamer Mexico was wrecked while going into Dixon entrance from Sitka, Alaska, in a heavy fog. The steamer struck upon a reef, over which she passed, sinking in the deep water beyond. All on board were saved. Among the passengers were about forty tourists, some of whom were naturalists. Henry 8. Marcy. President of the Fitchburg Railroad, died of apoplexy at his home in Belmont, Mass. Frank C. Conroy was executed at Clinton Prison for murdering his wife at Ogdensburg, N. Y. President McXinley and Vice-President Hobart visited the Catholic 8ummer School at Pittsburgh, N. Y., and made a trip through the An Sable Chasm. , The Republicans of Kentucky held their 8tate Convention in Louisville. Merchants from all over the country arrived in New York City for their fall buying in consequence of the work of the Merchants' Association. William O. Read, Jr., a broker and head Of the firm of Read, Parson A Co., killed himself in the Edison Building, New York City, where the firm's offices are. William Lamb Picknell, the artist, died in Boston pn Sunday. President Mckinley reviewed the Twentyfirst Infantry at the Hotel Champlaln, and took luncheon with ex-Governor Woodbury in Burlington, Vt. The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was held in Detroit; many papers of an interesting nature were read. The police of North Adams, Mass., have nnder surveillance Harvey Lanfalr, who, it I* believe^ will be able to throw light on the murder of Henry F. Keed and hiB sister in that city. The 8outh Coast left San Francisco, Cal., for the gold fields So heavily and uneven! y loaded that there are grave fears is to her ability to make the trip. John Gordon, alias Lewis Nelson, colored, who murdered William Allen, at Brunswick, Miss., on July 15 by clubbing him with a gun barrel, and who was captured in Louisiana, was hanged by lynch Nathaniel Mason, a young colored man, who had been employed by Dr. Charles A.1 Powell, in Olenwood, Ga., attempted to assault Mrs. Powell, and was captured by her husband. A posse of fifty neighbors took the man from Dr. Powell and carried hlftx some distance down the road, where he was placed against a pile of rocks and shot. Benjamin Mayfleld, colored, was lynched at Edna, Ga.* Mayfleld assaulted the wife of Donald James, a railroad conductor, and was caught a short distance from the scene of his crime. Albert Gray, a bicyclist, was run down and probably fatally injured by two society women of Derby, Conn.? who were out driving. Frank Harper, aged seventeen, was found by the police in New* York City in a pitiable condition from lack of food. He may die. Five other persons were rescued from starving only by timely discovery. Negotiations are now in progress in New York City looking to a consolidation of all the companies owning compressed air motor patents. The consolidated company, if formed, will be controlled by the MetroSolltan Traction Company through its ofceri and directors. John W. Foster visited President McKinlev at the Hotel Charaplain, and conferred with him for three hours on the seal question. _ A severe electric storm passed over Farmlngton, >. u. me ugmnmg wn.? terrific and the deep darkness caused Seneral consternation. A bolt struck the ouse and stable of John S. Koberts, just outside the village, burning both, besides fifty tons of hay, a valuable trotting horse, other live stock, and nearly all the furniture. The house was a line old structure. The loss is S 10,000, partially Insured. ForeirnA dispatch says that Oporto, Portugal, is in a state of open rebellion, and that martial law has been proclaimed. The body of Senor Canovas del Castillo was taken from Santa Agueda, where he was assassinated, to Madrid, to lie in State; Golll, the assassin, has. been identified as Michel Anglolino, the son of a tailor, and a native of Foggia, Italy. Drunami, the fugitive King of Benin, surrendered himself to the British authorities on the west coast of Africa. Dr. How, the Bishop of Wakefield, and author of the Jubilee Hymn, died in England. . ? ?. . IN THE QUIET HOUB& M PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE , * WORLD'S GREATEST AUTHORS. sj/jj gong: of Freedom?Bear the Burden With ,V\ PatIence-"Take No Thought far the Morrow"?Harmony Through hlioovi W ?Calm 8plrlts Work Methodically. V Good-by to pain and care! I take | " Mine ease today: Here where these sonny waters break, ffifc And ripples this keen breeze, I shake >?? All burdens from the heart, all weary '/J thoughts away. I d-aw a freer breath?I seem Like all I see? Waves in the sun?the white-winged '5 Of sea-birds in the slanting beam,? r $?( And far-off sails whioh hit before the soutfe ' ft wind free. ?Whittier. :ii Bear the Burden With Patlenee. ' In a peculiar manner the Christian mag ' ;i Vif> frvr what* ha ia /?olloH 11 nAA in &*. eadure. The consciousness ot reserve power is in itself a source of confidence and strength. Sailors do not fear the storm' very much so long as their vessel is stanch and their are strong anohors and reliable ' >) cables on board; so the Christian eaten upon the duties and responsibilities of a fwj new day with confidence because he knows' 3H where there are unfailing resources upon 5 which he can draw. God's promise of daily 7 strength is like a sure anchor, that holds eren in the most terrific tempests of life. That anchor never fails; that cable never v parts. The Christ an must not expect exemption from the cares, burdens and diaap*. ' pointments of this life. They will come. and may come like an avalanche. "Many,* .. 1 J says the Psalmist, "are the afBlctions of , * . the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him J out of them all." And the way of deliver* ance Is frequently through the acceptaaoe |H of the strength that He gives to meet tfcw B dally need. In view of these things the ft , child 0! God shonld take courage, and beer J with patience whatsoever burden may be placed upon his shoulders. Bear the bor* -4jg den just for today, and let the stre ngth that. ~A God imparta help you to bear it. Deliver-. , ^ ance may come tomorrow. Be patient and be hopeful.?Christian Advocate. Take No Thought for the Morrow.** i Eternal One, what are days and years , but drops in the one river? They are much to us. tney are as nothing to thee. Tbon 1 j':4 dweliest in eternity. From everlasting to' ,*1 everlasting thou art God. We are troubled .1 by moments, we look forward to tomorrow with distress and fear; we look back and ' \ see nothing but a gaunt row of dead days, i" looking reproachfully at us. May w# not enter for one moment the sanctuary ot tj eternity and be with thee whose years art eternal, that"from thy throne we may look, ! O down on all the restlessness and folly, alt ,'r/i the disappointment and tumult of what WW "fi call time? Thy i/n, our Saviour, wis al- y. ways lifting our thoughts up to Mgher'>fj things. He would not have us distressed^ his word was: Fear not, little flock; take wo thnncrht fnr th* m.irrnw T.ord. lnerMM ? W our faith. If thou wilt increase our thou wilt increase our strength, our insight, our patience. Thou wilt take away trot* us the sting and the weight of fear and flit :}'M us with the perfectness of love. Then* are i great gifts we ask, but we ask them of ft | great uiver. Amen. Harmony Through Discord. I Mrs. Gatty, in her "Parables from Fftturo," gives a beautiful Illustration of God'* use ana our use of imperfect Instrument* OkL"j8| doing His work?imperfect apostles, Imper-. ^ foct churches, imperfect Christiana, and y*4 V . really good work is done. She relates tha story of a yonng minister, who insisted thkt Mp everything most be squared according to * i his ideas of perfect right. On one ooeutoa 3 he undertook to tune the church organ fft an emergency. He took the scale of not** used, and tuned the organ perfectly accord- V* < lng to it Then he struck the note* of ? ' Haydn's 4<Mass" in five flats, and W*a .6 astonished at the terrible discords he made. An organ tuner explained afterwards to "x him that his scale was right, &aft.*?S| system was right, bnt if you stick > kJ too close to it, it sets you wrong. 1 / Most fifths must be left flat, some few mm >. sharp, the octaves alone tuned In unison, \ because the organ is an Imperfect instrtt-- .. ment. But by making proper allowanoe Sj for this imperfection, wonderful and bar-;;*' monious muslo may be produced by it.?B*r? lij9 F. N. Peloubet. <<! J Calm Spirits Work Methodically. . The people In all line* of duty who do the # most work are the calmest, most unhurried WJ" people in the community. Duties payer wildly chase each other In their lives. One task never crowds another out, nor otot $ compels hurried, and therefore InipnrHflif doing. The calm spirit works methodically, doing one thing at a time and doing it V well, and It therefore works swiftly, thongh > never appearing to be In haste. We need f the peace of God In our heart just aa i sally n for the doing well of the little things of our c secular life as for the doing of the greatest duties of Christ's kingdom. Our face ought ^ to shine, and our spirit ought to be tntbyW qull, and our eye ought to be clear, and nerves ought to be steady, as we prsflt <H through the tasks of our commoneat day. f Then we shall do them all well, slurrlafl^^J nothing, marring nothing. We want heartpeace before we begin any day's duties, and ^ we should wait at Christ's feet ere wa go ' s forth.?J. B. Miller, D. D. Prayer Will Sweeten Affliction. Are you in sorrow? Prayer can maM^Ssr your affl iction sweet and strengthening. you in gladness? Prayer can add to yoor^Jf joy a celestial perfume. Are you in exfaracBiO. ^ danger, whether from outward or tamsi'.'JB enemies? Prayer can set at your xigfck hand an angel whose touch "could shatter ^ a millstone into smaller dust than the flour it grinds," and whose glance could lay an army low. When St Felix of Noia was J hotly pursued by murderers, he took refuge in a cave, and instantly, over the rift of Jt, the spiders wove their webs, and," seeing this, the murderers passed by. Then said the saint, "Where God is not. a wall la a spider's web; where God is, a spider's web-; is as a wall." What will prayer do for youl I answer. All that God can do for you. When He bids us pray it is aa though He V said to us, "Ask what I shall give thee."? Canon Farrar. A Foundation of Sand. The thing that is all the while surpxidbgJjS n? is the collaose of fair characters; thwv&fifl good man, the trusted man, the honorable ^ man, in an hour stands out a perjurer, a " .J-, thief, a liar; but in every case it will be . lound llrst that he had no tap-root of oharaeter, and then that he was moved by b ' f; doubie purpose. On such a foundation no : man can long stand. Home wind of chanoe . J or blow of circumstance assails him, some V'i | thread of suspicion trails behind him, some ' 'W crisis closes in upon blm, and be posses to > \ a the ever-sitting judgment that auocTen and seperates him into his two selves. M Character and conduct must test oa one -JH and the same foundation, and they must be ^ of one piece.?Bev. T. T. Hunger, D. D. . raf Be thy duty high as angel's flight, I Fulfill it, and a higher will arise i *J8 Even from its ashes. Duty is Infinite, . ' -MM I Beceding as the skies. ] Were it not wisdom, then, to close our eyee Vg On duties orowding only to appall? j Bo; duty is our ladder to the skies; And, climbing not, we fall. ?Robert Leighton. j There is no greater gift or possession 1 than to believe God speaks to us. If wa believe that wit are already blessed.?MarUa , 1 Lather. i J I j