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P ti ' iffE BEAM TBEUT United States Cruiser Bancroft to Force the Dardanelles. NO PROTEST TO BE HEEDED, Minister Terrell Ordered to Go Aboard and Sail Through?Oar Mediterranean Fleet to Go Into Action If the Fort* Resist?European Great Powers Understood to Sanction the Bold Programme. Washington', D. Cm October 14.?The UnlRtatPQ nr?f?Hr?A ah in Hanr?tv\ff rohnoA Ha. parture for European waters has been the Bubject of profound mystery, is to play an Important part tn the effort of the Powera to jbring about a settlement of the Turkish question. The little vessel is to force the Dardanelles with Minister Terrell standing on her deck, and if Any obstaoles are ? ( I \/7 * UNITED STATES MIVISTEB TEBBELL. {Will board the Bancroft and pa33 the Dardanelles.) placed In the way by the Turkish forts, the Mediterranean fleet,under Admiral Selfridge, now 150 miles away, will come to her assistance. The British fleet will no doubt also be near at hand to back up the American commander if occasion arises. From the highest authority it was learned that the Powers had agreed to the programme <?nd not only will offer no objection or resistance to the entrance of the Bancroft to the Golden U6rn, but will aid her If nectary. The decision to send the Bancroft to Constantinople was reached some weeks hgo, Just before her departure from Annapolis as ?training ship, but received its 3eal after the Cabinet meotinar, when orders were sent to her commander to report at onoe to Minister Terrell on arriving at Smyrna, and | there follow his Instructions. Captain Belknap, of the Bancroft, on recelviner Mr. Terrell on boanl, is to sail for Constantinope and pass the Dardanelles, no matter what may happen. Minister Terrell la to take up his residence on the vessel, which will become the official guard ship of the United States. The American fleet under Admiral Selfridsre consists of the San Francisco, flagship; the Minneapolis, the Marblehead, and the Cincinnati and the Ban croft. Minister Terrell will * board the Bancroft, which yill become the despatch l>pat of our legation by this simple action. The ship will proceed to Chanak, which is about half way between Smyrna and the Dardanelles. From this point Minister Terrell will send an official despatch to the Foreign Office in Constantinople that he Is coming to the capital on the American gunboat Bancroft. No formal request Is to be made for the privilege of entering the Sea of Marmora and no opportunity will be given the Porte to exercise the power of denial. The report that a flrman had been refused by the officials lo rftf-A- nn R11 flint* ity has been sought recently and none will be. The statement from Minister Terretl will b? positive and will leave no grounds for ^ discussion of the subject. ICRAIN CROP FIGURES. Government Statistics Show Increase in Corn anil Wheat. I The returns to the Statistician of the Agricultural Department, Washington, for Ootober make the general condition of corn 90.5 per cant., against 91 for the month of SepItember. The averages of condition tn the large and surplus corn States are: Tennessee, 8^; Kentucky, 97: Ohio. 10G: Michigan, 102: Indian ?. 103; Illinois. 102: Wisconsin. 98; Miunesota, 97; io?ra. 102: Missouri, 85; Kansas. 81; Nebraaka, 101. The returns of yield per aor? ot all wheat indicate a production of 11.D bushels, which is six-tenths of a bushel less than the preliminary estimate for 1895. The rate of yie'd of the most important States is: New York, 15; Pennsylvania, 14; Ohio, 9; Michlsjau, 12; Indiana, 9: Illinois, 13.0; Wiscousln, 14.5; Miu- ' ne?cra. 14; Iowa, 15; Missouri, 10.7; Kansas, 11; Nebraska. 14; South Dakota, 10.5; North Dakota. 10; Washington, 1G; Oregon, 15.5, and California, 14.5. The indicated quality for the country at large is 84.4 per cout., - again?t 85.7 last year. The averages of a fow selected States are: N?w York, 93; Pennsylvania, 84; Kentucky, '74; Ohio, 67; Mich gas, 89; ludluna, 71; Illinois, 80; Wisconsin, 80, Minnesota, 89; Iowa, 83; Missouri, 80: Kansas, 81; Nebraska, -84; South Dakota, 9>; North Dakota, 87; WashinKtou, 56; Oregon. 87, and California, 94. The wheat crop is generally short in quantity and poor in quality, owing to unfavorable weather. Drought at seeding time, deficiency of sn^w protection and excessive rains after harvest producing scanty growth, shrivelled trralns and rust, worst in the great ceutr.il rogion.Ohlo to Kansas,and adjoining Si.ifos. Crops are fairly good in .New jersey anil Maryland and adjoining parts of PennBvv.tuia aud Kew York; also In the Rocky At "intaln valleys. Th? pro! mlnary estimate of the yield of oata is 24.3 bushels par acre, against 29.6 a year ago; quality, 74 9, ranging from 55 in Kansas to 104 In Mohtaua. Killed Huftband With an Axe. Lommle Long May, white, married Eoxie Tillman, from Chatham County, three "months ago. Ho brought his wife to live at bis father's, near Clyde, aa. A lew uavs ago split his head oc>?n with aa axe. She said Bhe killed blin in self defouse. There worf no eye witnesses to the tragedy. A:rnln?t Cattle Tick*. The Agricultural Department has issued quarantine regulations against o.ittle infested with the Southern cattle tick, kuown scientifically as ('Boanhilus bovis." This insect is supposed to aid la spreading Texas fever. Distress From Mexican Floods. Great damage hits beon caused by the floods in mountain districts a ijacent to Kuvllngs, lloxico. Over ?101.000 wortii of ngri" cultural auu minium properiy wui rumeu an'i great distress prevails among tho farmers and miners, who lost all tSeir live stock aad effects. Hohart's t'irat S;ieefh. Garret A. Ho!>art, the Republican candidate for Vice-President, made his first speech of the campaign in Apolio Hall, Paterson, N. J. He was given a most enthusiastic receptlon. ilrs. Hotmr: was on the platform. Tho candidate devoted his time to tho financial auoetion. ? * # . ^ ,W.vv " . SJ THE NEWS EPITOMIZED 1 Wa*hinsrt?n I teasi. The new Ministers from Hayti and Korea (Vt-rf* formal'y introduced to President Cleveland. ( Secretary Olneyhas appointed Dr. Jame<? Howard Qor<=?, of the Columbian University, ind Mr. Thomas Wilson. Curator of the National Museum. United States Commissioners to the International Exposition to be opened In ({rna^ola nn Anrll 24. 1897. V The United States Supreme Court began Its annual session in Washington. The Secretary of War is receiving tho con- j gratulations of bis friends over the good health of Mrs. Lamont and a new born little daughter. The Comptroller of the Currency has received a telegram announcing the failure of the First National Bank of Eddy,New Mexico. The bank had a capital of $50,000, and its lost report showed an indebtedness to depositors of about $75,000 c Dr. Burges?, Sanitary Inspector of the Ma- ( rine Hospital Service at Havana, in a recent report, says that yellow fever continues to be epidemic there, and he is informed that ' It is so in most of the places where Spanish t aoldiers are found. Secretary Herbert awarded contracts for gun forginsrs to the Bethlehem Iron Com- 6 pany and Midvale Steel Company. 1 I Domestic. William Delth was killed, Emily Rue and Afnrv Schnadke were fatally and two other prirls se^rloaslv Injured by a runaway team at Union Hill, N. J. The E Igar Thomson Steel Works, of the t Carnegie Steei Company. Braddock, Penn., < were put in operation in all departments 1 after a suspension, which wa9 due to a total t lack of orders. New orders were received. I The Homestead Steel Mills of the same com- fi pany have also been started after an enforced e shutdown. t An alleged plot of Highbinder3, in Boston, * Mass., to assassinate every member of the * Chinese Christian Union in that city, has been revealed to the police by a member of ? the Highbinders. 1 G John Rrueger. a sleep-walker, went into rj Saloon Keeper Met&chele's bedroom, New ^ York City, and was shot dead under the im- a pression that he was a burglar. e The Illinois Central Railroad Company re- ( {>orts tho largest gross and net earnings ir j ts history. fi Theodore Meyer, head baker of the Man- ? hattan State Hospital, on Ward's Island, New t York City, was killed by an insane pntieut. 5 who struck him in the head with an as. ' D. C. Crawford, the St. Louis (Mo.) mer- i chant who discharged twelve clerks because | , they said they were for Bryan, was arrested for intimidation on a warrant the Democratic State Committee got out. The Marine National Bank of Duluth, Minn., closed Its doors and the bank examinei is in charge. Tho bunk has a capital ol ?250,000. Inability to make collections and heavy withdrawals are given as the cause ol the failure. , Major McKinley received at his home in Canton 300 early settlers from Cuyahoga County, Ohio, not one of whom was less than seventy years old, Many woraeu were among them. Three men were instantly killed by a fall of rock in the Laflin Mine, at Wilkesbarre < Penn. Walter Hunt, of PiainQeld, N. H.,shot and killed Irving Smith, a farmer, and ther killed himself. In a fight between a Sheriff's pos?e and the Green gang of outlaws atOolagh, Indian Territory, two of the outlaws were killed and the others were captured. The Greens have been actively "on the road"' for thref months. Three women lawyers were appointed ai receivers in as many cases by Justice Mao Lean, of the Supreme Court, New York City The Indiana State Board of Elections decided that the National Demoorats shoulc adopt the title "gold standard" on the electoral ticket, instead of National Democratic as was desired. The spot cash price of Vo. 2 red wheat, the standard grade, in New York, was eightj cents on October 18, the highest point reached in the nresent uoward movement. A care"u) canvass of the political aituatloi indicates that fusion has been efTeoted between the silver forces in seventeen States. v The price of bar silver dropped to 64J4 ? cents an ounce, the lowest figure it has 11 reached in three years. 0 George Jessup and Frank Thompson, of ? Brooklyn, while wheeling in New Jersey were held up and robbed by two masked j tramps. j County Clerk Knopf wav arrested at Chi- y cago charged with issuing 2000 fraudulent a naturalization certificates. o Mary Hepler, eighty years old, was run down and perhaps fatally Injured by a truck b in New York City. Police had to rescue tho \ driver, John Hunt, from a mob. 1; The body of Mis3 Grace Diokerson, who ? disappeared from her homo in Brooklyn September 22, was found in Wykoff 8wamp, near Canarsie. Long Island, by hunters. She i had been dead one day, and tho mystery is unsolved. The people of Oxford, Maps., are greatly v alarmed over the presence or a firebug. He t got in his work when tho farm house owned <3 by the Chaffee brothers, abdut one and a ^ quarter miles from the town, and occupied f by William Troreau and his family and Ell t Duprey and his family, was entirely con- t sumod, with nil its oontents. Willie Duprey, j, an eleven-year-old son of Ell Duprey, was ? burnod to death. 0 Lar^e sums of money were raised for mis- t sions at the meetings of the Christian Mis- I Monary Alliance in Carnegie Hall, New York u City. v A filibustering expedition In aid of the Cuban revolutionists, which left Florida waters, carried 200 men aud one of ttie largest cargoes of war munitions sent to s Cuba since the rebellion began. n The Indiant Stute Board of Elections by a 6 vote of 2 to 1 decided to deny the petition of v the National Democrats to go on the ballot b under that name. Governor Matthew had b the deciding vote and cast it against the petition. Governor Morton, of New York, has dismissed the charges of malfeasauce In neglect ot duty against Superintendent Lathrop, of the Stute prisons, but recommends that he investigate the state of affairs in the Auburn prison. j The Baltimore Baseball Club won the Tem- ., pie Cup series from the Cleveland team, defeatlnK the latter in four successive games. P The plavers of the Cleveland team will each r get 8117 for his share of the proeeetls. The a Baltimore men will divide about $2500 as v their share, and each man will get about c f200. An exploiion occurred in the bl(? rolling 8 mill of the Philadelphia and Beading Ballroad Company at Danville, Penn. A man and a boy were killed, six men serlouslj hnrt and seven other men Injured. The t dead are: John Casselman, an employe of the mill, and a Hungarian baby, name unknown. Bocco Moralito. a laborer formerly em* o ployed bv a Brooklyn (N. Y.) gas company, shot and killed William Matuas, the foreman who had discharged him. The Dauntless sailed from Palm Beach, Fla., with a large filibustering expedition In \ aid of the Cuban insurgents. News was brought to the Port of New t York by the officers ot tho Fuerst Bismarck t that the American Liner Paris bad broken s 3 propeller shaft about 320 miles out; the h steamer declined assistance and continued on her way. It is reported among the studen<9 of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, that William IX Ossrood, the famous football 3 player, has boon killed while fighting with f the insurgents inCubaagaiust the Spaniard* v Foreign Mot?*. Advices from London aro that Sir William Hr?r/>i-.iirf hns denied the rumor of his resie nation of tlx; Liberal leadership in the Brit- ( ish House of Commons. t Autonio Maeeo's position in the moun- 1 talus of Piuar del Rio, Cuba, is impregnable * ami cannot bo captured by any force thai ti General Weyler cau muster. s Serious cjolie riots are reported from ^ Georgetown, the capital of British 'Guiana. s The poli'-e, in trying to restore order, were obliged to fire on the mob. Three rioters 1 were killed and many wore wounded. Intense cold and snow prevails in many parts of the United Klnir.lom. On many of I he coasts there wevo numerous c;:su:ilitios , in 1 loss of life. ^ t V -V W ' -v-? IfRECIS IM STOBlTSff ADS jreat Damage Wrought All Along the Atlantic Coast. ;ONEY ISLAND SUFFERS GREATLY ? -r it- nr i. r__. nr... Taan /uo ui iuo n oni diui jub iuf *vt"u -?Jersey Coast Battered by Monstroua Waves?Yachts Dashed on Shore--* Rnla From Cape May to BostonMany Summer Hotels Washed Away. New Yobk City, October 13.?Tremendous lam age was wrought all along theAtlantio 3oast from Cape May to Boston by the north>ast gale, whloh raged for twenty-four hours yith unabated fury. The fierce winds swept he shores near New York leaving behind insis:htly piles of wreckage, where once itood stately hotels and neat pavilions. The find blew with a terriflo velocity. At Sandy look, N, J., it reached a velocity of seventy. Ive miles an hour. The destruction wrought n and near New York will reach hundreds >f thousands of dollars. Summer Resorts Knlned. Tremendously high tides helped the dGvasation along the water front and the shores >f Long Island and New Jersey. Coney aland, Gotham's famous seaside resort, is l wreok. The fiercest waves ever 6een there lave washed away the beach along the ihore. Many buildings have been totally deitroyed. many others seriously damaged, car racks have been washed away, and the Brighton Beaoh race track was submerged. Jeidl'a concert pavilion at Brighton Bf>aoh vas destroyed. Pavilions everywhere ilong the beach have been denolished, boardwalks crushed and tores of the beach have disappeared. [!he iron pier at West Brighton was cut In wo, and some thirty feet of the massive itructure tossed about. The damage all dons: the beach, from Norton's Point to the IHp.nfrftl TTnffll urn a rflrv Yienw and hofhlnc javJUons, largo board walks, photograph ind shooting galleries were carried out to ea. The station of the Marine road near he Erighton Beach Hotel went seaward at ! o'clock in the afternoon. At Coney Island done it is estimated that the total loss will lot fall much short of $200,000. At Itockaway 3eaoh and Far Rookaway the loss was at ea3t 580,O X). On Long Island the Tillages along the hore have been almost overwhelmed by terlflo wa\ieB. Hog Island has been wiped ilmost from the face of the ?arth. Dama;o on New Jersey Shores. The New Jersey coast is a track of ruin. L'he Hotel Brunswick at Sea Isle City has >een swept away. Inhabitants of Asbury "ark,in fear and trembling, watched the oroecting bulkhead being swept away spile by iplle. Part of the iron pier at Cape May has jone. At Long Branch 20,000 persons vere gathered watching the awful devastator The Marine Observatory at Sandy look was cut off by the wires blowing lown. Everywhere along the coast where here were lowlands there are bays; where here were cottages, are piles of wreckage, onH amall hnra hftAn rirlvAn tsbore and wrecked. Costly bulkheads were arried away at Long Branob, and at Asbury 'ark Senator Bradley's famous board walk iras almost completely destroyed. Tbore fas vast ruin at Atlantic City and other tolnts along the South Jersey coast. ?be loss to property owners living between Slberon ana Highland Beach cannot be safest estimated. Tbe pound fishermen place heir loss at $30,000. Harry Jansen, a flshernun, was knocked off a bulkhead into the ea, opposite the 8carboro Hotel, Long {ranch. Cliff Anderson, in attempting to ave him, was carried out by a breaker. The wo men were nearly exhausted when Capain Charles H. Vandyke reached thwm with he aid of a rope that ha tied about his body. Japtain Vandyke brought the men safely to and. Cranberry Bogs Flooded. About Hammonton. N. J., the meadows ?ere all covered witn water. Owners of ranberry bogs were worrying lest what was eft of their crops nfter the dovasting fires if last spring would be ruined. Of the thou and little islands which dot the Jersey hore from Great Bay southward, almost very one was under water all day. The jong Beach Railroad from Beach Haven to larvey Cedars, a distance of eight miles is rashed away. In Barnegat Bay much'damge was done lo sailing craft. Several score if small boats were ruined or sunk. In New York City littlo damage was done, ?yond the llooding of cellars in South and Vest streets. Thousands, however, anxiousy waited to learn the fate of overdue vesels, as the hurricane swept directly across he track of the incoming steamships. 'he Stonxi Wrought Havoc Among the Pleasure Craft. Boston, 31as?., October 13.?The storm has rrought havoc among the pleasure craft in his vicinity. The sloop yacht Egeria was [riven on Rip Rap Wall and one of ier sides was smashed. She Is going o pieces. The sloop yacht May is ashore at he C<>w Paiture. Between twenty and hirty yachts have broken from their moorogs at South Bcston, and a large number of hem are damaged so badly that they will iot be worth repairing. Captain Swim, of he tug Florence, sighted a two-masted British schooner scurrying before the wind, inder bare poles in Dorchester Bay, but he ras unable to learn her name. Yacht* Destroyed at Newburyport. Newbortpobt, Mass., October 13.?The torm here has been severe. Several yachts rere driven ashore and destroyed, and a core or more were damaged badly. The rharves are in bad condition. Several wareouses were undermined. The city railroad as been rendered impassable. AWFUL FLOODS IN SIBERIA. 'oar Rivers Oat of Their Banks and Many Raported to Be Drowned. The Oriental liner Tacoma, just arrived at 'acoma, Wash., brings news of awful floods a Siberia and great loss of life. The Si boon, Moor, Santachasa and Inman Rivers :ot out of their bounds about the middle of leptember, and the plains were covered with rater for many miles on either side of the hinnelp. The Siberian Railway tos closed by the loods for a distance of 120 versta from In. nan, the terminus, and telegraphic communcation with Vladivostock, wbioh had been nterrupied for a week, was not restored rhen the Tacoma sailed. Gold Ledge in Alanku. Government experts report the existence if a great gold bearing ledge in Alaska. Indians Want to Vote. About 150 Indians on the Fort Totten reaei ation are very anxious to vote. Under the )awes act they took allotments of land, and hat law provides that as soon as an Indian akes his allotment, whether tho patent is isued or not, he becomes a citizen. They lave retained counsel to secure their rights. Poor Whallnc Season. News from the North Pacific whaling fleet ontained a harrowing record of desertions, Ights, death and mutiny; the catch ol whale? ras poor. VAfi Fire la Great Barriuston. Tho largest flro that ever occirred in }reat Barrlugton, Mass., broke out in a oneraent house near thp Now York, New laveu and Hartford Railroad station. The lames soon spread to tho Konuely Hotel tnd livory stables, and the Miller House .tables. situated in die centre of iho town. L largo brick row in Railroad street was oon in flames. All of theso buildings were lestroyod and tho Hollenbeck Block and tho illller House damaged. The loss is $'200,000. The Fari* Exposition. Forty-four Governments have already iuliciitflil their willingness to participate in lie Paris exposition of 1903. BOSTON'S OLDEST VOTER, Joseph D. Jones Has Nearly Reached the Age of Ninety-nine. The oldest Inhabitant In Boston, and, lnaidentally, the oldest voter, is Joseph David Jones, and he is an inmate of the Home for Aged People in West Springfield ttreet. If Mr. Jones lives until December 30.1896. he will have reached the age of ninety-nin? years. This aged citizen is wide-awake to the topics of the times, and is intensely in sl % i -1 3 p JOSEPH l>4 JOKES. terested la the Presidential election. Mr Jones is a registered voter, and deolares thai he will exercise his privilege ns a sovereigt I oltizen just as long as ho is able to do so Mr. Jones was born in Boston, not far from ) Faneull Hall, in 1797. In his early days he was a dry goods merchant, and later became ' a manufacturer of tinware. It Is remarkable how well he retains his faculties. His mind is clear, his hearing Is acute, but, as lis himself puts if, "I am compelled to use glasses when I read." He is active on his feet and the only aid he uses when walking is a small cane. Ha is registered as being ninety-nine years old. ( | BANK ROBBERS KILLED AT BAY. , Tried to Escape With Their Booty, But ' Were Surrounded. ' Three bold robbers were killed and two | citizen's wounded during an attempt to rob i the Bank of Meeker, at Meeker, Col. The | citizens were not dangerously wounded. The dead bandits are George Harris, Charles i Jones and William Smith. < The bandits, with drawn revolver* com- | polled Cashier Moulton to throw his 1 hands. All the employes and the oust#mer3 1 were told to bold up their hands, and were ( warned, on pain of death, not to move. The < leader of the trio then ordered Mou'ton to 1 march ahead to the safe and unlock it. He i did as ordered. I A shot fired in the bank had nlarmed the town, and while the robbers were leisurely gathering their booty every man In town was arming himself to theteeth. aAs the robbers followed the crowd cut of the bank they 1 were confronted by a dozen men armed with Winchesters. The bank was surrounded, retreat was cat off and they had to fight ot surrender. To be caught meant death by | lynching or otherwise, and the robbers con- , eluded to fight. ' i The bandits, Jones and Smith, fell to the ground at the flret volley, pierced by rifle I bullets. Harris, the last of tne trio. wa3 shot through the back. DOUBLE MURDER AV?NGED. Crazy Shoemaker Kill* Two Policemen ; and is Riddled With Balls. Three men were slain and two others wounded, ono perhaps fatally, in Columbus, Ga. One of the dead men was J. A. White, a shoemaker, who, aided by his nineteenyenr-old son Henry, killed two of the city's i policemen. Officers Adams and Jackson gave White a summons to appear before the Recorder for ( disorderly couduct. He made threats , against the officers, although he then went home. He subsequently repaired to Rumsey's J bar, where he was met by his sou. Henry , White. ADout that time Officers Jackson and Adams appeared nt the front of the bar. White flung his gun to his shoulder and flred several shots without stopping. Officer Adams fell dying at almost the first shot. One of the flrst shots struck Officer Jackson in the abdomen. Father and son then started up First avenue toward their home on Sixteenth street. A largo number of the police force ot tne oily armed themselves with Winchester rifles and proceeded to White's house tinrl smashed In ihe door. Before White could Are several bullets had entered his body, flred by the officers. He died in a few moments. LONE BANDIT ROB3 A TRAIN. The Union Pnclflo Fait Mall Plundered In a Unique Wny In Utah. The Union Pacific fast moil and express train slopped at a water tank near Nintab station, eight miles from Ogien, Utah, about 1 o'clock a. m. A man rose up out ot the darkness behind the tank and poiuted a pair of revolvers at the engineer and fireman. He ordered the engineer to pull the train about a mile beyond the tank. Then the bandit put . cotton sacks over the heads of the fireman and the engineer and compelled them to get out of the oab and walk with him to the mall car. The mall car was foroed, the clerks thinking that three men were engaged in the operation. Several registered mail bags were thrown oat. The bandit took these and disappeared in the underbrush at the mouth of the Weber Canon. fh? raaiaf-Ai-arl mull thrown outbv therob ber was tho through California pouoh. It contained an unusually heavy amount of money, one package of $25,00u alone being consigned to the Wells-Fargo Bank. MUTINY ON ALFONSO XIII. Forty Spanish Gartner* Rebel, Bat Are Overcome ana Pat in Irons. A dispatch from Ferrol saya that a mutiny has oocurred on board the Spanish warship Alfonso XIII., lying at that port. Forty gunners rebelled and attempted to seize the boats and go ashore. A fight between the mutineers and the marines and other? on board the ship ensued. The revolt was suppressed and the mutineers were put in irons. Oyster Beds Destroyed. Engineer Sunford, of the Connecticut State Shell Fish Commission, received notification that the natural oyster beds la the vicinity of Bridgeport and Stratford, 3700 acres In extent, have been covered wltu sand by the hurricane and the oysters destroyed. The beds comprise the greater part of the publlo oyster grounds of the State, nnd the loss caused by the storm is estimated at if50,000. Hofttnn Illicit Distillery Seized. United States authorities raided an illicit distillery in South Boston, Mass., and seized a ?5000 plant. Cycling Notes. Kfiw:irk. N. J., has a cycle drum and flfe corps. Instructors in riding schools shoul I see to it that their pupils learn the rales of the road. It is reported that them will l>e important improvements iu crank hanger ben rings on "1(7 models. Ono of the largest bicycle manufacturers will try to make juvenile tandem riding popular next year. If convenient it is well to havo a skilled professional repairer examine your wheel as often as once a month. Map publishers say that cycling is responsible for a new and large demand for road maps mounted on mu?iln. V * DU MAURIER IS NO MORE. The Author of "Trilby" Dies in London of Heart Failure. George Du Manrlor, the artist-novelist, author of "Trilby," died a few days ago In his new house on Oxford Square, London, England. A fortnight before he had a chill and his lungs became affected. His illness was pathetic in the Extreme. For days he hovered between life and death, at intervals conversing with friends regarding his work. Once a friend referred to the success of "Trilby" as a book and as a play, whereupon Du Maurier replied: "Yes, it has been successful. But the popularity has killed me at lust." His end was painless and he passed away surrounded by friends. One who was present at his death says: "He died almost as tragically as SvengalL At the zenith of Trilby's fame he became a victim of tho heart, and Du Maurier has gone the same way." George Louis Pnlmella du Maurier was born in Paris, March 6th, 1834, and educated In that city, but was a British subject. VESSEL WRECKED, THREE LOST. The Lather A. Ilobr Went to Plecot OX LeirM. Del.. In a. Gale. The schooner Luther A. Roby, Captain William H. Maloney, from Oheverle, Nova Scotia, with plaster, went ashoro In a heavy northeast gale, below the point of Cape Henlopen, near Lewes, Del., and almost immediately went to pieces. Three of the crew were lost and Ave saved. The drowned are Harry Milby, steward, of Mlddletown, Ma3S.; Thonris Sine?, seaman, of Boston, and a Norwegian sailor. A fierce northeast gale had been blowing. In the early dawn the schooner was seen driving toward the beach. The life savers hastened toward the spot she wa* heading for, but she struck before they came opposite h?r. Before the crew could get their apparatus into working order the vessel pounded to pieces in the heavy surf. The men aboard of hor clunsr to whatever piece of wreckage they couid grasp and struggled through the whirling waters to the beach. Three of them never reached it, but the uiuoi UYC nciu OUYCU, ENGLAND'S PftlMATc DEAD. rhe Archbishop of Canterbury Expires Suddenly lu Gladstone's Church Pew. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate jf nil England and Metropolitan, the Bight 3on. and Mo3t Rev. Edward White Benson, [). D.', and Privy Councillor, died suddenly while attending divine service in :he church at Hawarden, Englaud. The Archbishop was the guest of Mr. Gladstone, :hrough whom ho was appointed to the Archbishopric of Canterbury, and, in company with the Gladstone family, went to the Uiiwaraen cDurcn. After the service had commenced a commotion was noticed In the Gladstone pew, ind immediately thereafter church at:endants were seen removing the Archbishop, who. It was supposed, was suffering from a St. He was taken 1.0 the rectory and medical assistance was hastily summoned. The ioctors worked ovfir him in vain, and at L1.45 o'clock he died. The physicians say :hat death was caused by apoplexy. Archbishop Benson was sixty-seven years 01 age. TWO MEN LYNCHED. Mob Vengeance Upon Colored Mnrdet^ra in Alabama. Randolnh Falls, a Toadvine farmer, while jolng home after having sold his ootton, camped In the woods twenty-five miles from Birmingham, Ala, A passer-by saw two colored men with him. The next morning ( Falls's body, with the head split open with an axe, was found. His pockets had been i rifled. "Jim" Anderson, colored, was oaught, and. confessed. He was taken to the woods, al- j lowed three minutes to pray, and the mob | Bred one hundred or more shots at aim. i Henry Cyat, whom Anderson had implicated, j was caught and shot to deatb. < Plotols In Political Meeting*. General James S. Walker, Republican | candidate for Congress in the Tenth < Virginia District, was interrupted ] by tough3 while speaking In Lee County, Virginia. Pistols were placed J at his head and he was made to ac- ' knowledge that he had mads free silver speeches two yenrs ago. Joseph Prather, ' aged twenty years, shot and killed William ' Keeling, aged forty-five, at a political meet* ' Lag In Chaplain, Ky. ( Storm on the Coast. ^ , A terrific storm raged along the Atlantlo J Coast. The fringe of the gaie that ha I been ' moving in the direction of New York for sev-. eral days reached there yesterday and did damage along the const. Sailing craft did not venture to leave the port. The storm was central 700 miles off shore. The Demand for Wheat. There is a large and steadily Increasing demand in Europe for American wheat, due principally to the failure of the. crop in Russia, India and Argentina. So great is the demand that ships enough to carry it are difficult to be had, and there is in consequence a boom in ocean freights. TVeyler'a Efforts Are Fntlle. Tho Spanish General Bernil has declared that Captain-General Weyler's plans for suppressing tho Cuban insurrection are futile, and that Antonio llaceo's position in Pinar del Rio is impregnable. Ex-Governor St. John'* Son <Dead. At Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Harry St. John, son of ex-Governor St. John, of Kansas him n. few dava aeo of srrio. At the time of his death He was under indictment for the j murder of his wife. j Fusion Effected in Kansas. The Democratic and Populist State Central Committee of Arkansas m>)t in Little , Kock and eHected a fusion on the electoral ticket. Decrease in Wheat Yield. The wheat harvest of the world shows a decrease this year of 185.435,542 bushels, as compared with that of lost year. Killed His Friend. Count von Ballestrom, a youns: German nobleman, was accidentally shot and killed by a friend in California. Choctaw' Governor Inaugurated. The Choctaw Council canvassed the returns of the election for Governor and McCurtin had a plurality of 210 over Jackson. There was no trouble whatever. As soon as McCurtin was elected a largo number who had gone to Tusfeahoma to witness the oount returned to their homes. Indian Agent Wisdom has requested that the troops be withdrawn. A Desperate Emergency. Josephine Thomas, of Mount Airy, N. J.f bitten on the toe by a spider, saved her life by cutting the toe olT with a carving knife. Minor ^Mention. The Thames tunnel at Loudon cost S3,J00.U00. The United States have ninety thousand lawyer?. The .Mexican War Department is about to consider the project of equipping a portion of the army with bicycles. ** * * /XT t' x ? ?i-~ ?III nnt tnlrrt The uocnescer (a. i.j nuuu >w?. any more Canadian silver on deposit except at a discount ot twenty percent. Tlio Mexico y Cuba Cl"l>, of tho City ot Mexico, has forwarded $1500 in gold to tue Cuban h-ndquarters iu Now York. Premature decay and storms h ive caused the ruin of nearly 500.) acre* ot grain in Stutsman and Kidder Counties, North DaU<2ia yv 'J'tr,*''}$ * . -* .-' *.' REY. DR. TALMAGK SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THI NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Divine ChJrojcraphy." Text: "Rejoice because your names ar written in heaven."?Luke x., 20. Chlrography, or the art of handwrltina like the science of acoustics, is in very un satisfactory state. While constructing i church, and told by some architects that th voice would not be heard in a building shape like thatproposod. I came In mush anxiet; to this city and consulted with Prof. Josepi Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, abou the law of acoustics. He said: "Go ahea< and build your church in the shape pro posod, and I think it will be all right, nave studied the laws of sound perhaps mon than anv man of my time, and I have com* so far as this: Two auditoriums may seem t< be exactly alike, and in one the acoustic: wnj w ftuwu auu IU tuu UlUWf UftU? 1U lUt same unsatlsfacterv stage is chtrography although many declare they have reduced i to a science. There are those who say the1 can read charaoter by handwriting. It ? said that the way one writes the letter '!' decides his egotism or modesty, and the wa; one writes the letter "0" decides the heigh and depth of his emotions. It is declared > cramped band meansa cramped nature, anc ah easy, flowing hand a facile and libera spirit; but if there be anything in this science there must be some rules not yet announced for some of the boldest and most a^gressiv* men have a delicate and small penmanship while some of the most timid sign then names with the height aud width and scopt of the name of John Hancock on the immor tal document. But while the chtrographj ot the earth is uncertain, our blessed Lord in our text preseuts the chirography celestial. When addressing the seventy disciples standing before Him, He said: "Rejoice because your names are written in heaven." Of course, the Bible, for tho most part, when speaking of the heavenly world, speak; figuratively while talking about books and oh/\nf fmimnfifa nVtAilf rrrl ? unci oKrtii4 uuuuc iiuuipcu, uuu auuui miu^o auu ouuui gates and about' golden pavements and aboul orchards with twelve orops of fruit?on* crop each month?and about the white horses of heaven's cavalry; but we do well tc follow out these inspired metaphors and reap from them courage and sublime expectation, and consolation and victory. We ore told that in the heavenly library there is a Boob of Life. Perhaps there are many volumes in it. When we say a book, we mean all written by the author on that subject. I cannot tell how large tljose heavenly volumes are, nor the splendor of their binding, nor the number of tneir pages, nor whether they are pictorialized with some exclting.scenes of this world. I only know that the words have not been impressed by type, but written out by some hand, and that all those who, like the seventy disciples to whom the text was spoken, repent and trust tbe Lord for their eternal salvation, surely have their names written in heaveD. It may not be the same name that we carried on earth. We may, through ths inconsiderateness of parents, have a name that is uncouth, or thnt was afterward dishonored by one after whom we were called. I do not know that the seventy entrances of the names of the seventy disciples correspond with the record in the genealogical table. It may not be the name by which we were called on earth, but it will be the name by which heaven will know us, an 1 we will have it announced to us as we pass in, and w* will know it so certainly that we will Dot have to be called twice by it, as in the Bible times the Lord called some people twice by name: "Saul! Saul!" "Samuel! Samuel!" "Martha! Martha!" In examination of your name in the heavenly archives, if you find It there at all, you will find It written with aboldhand. You have seen many a signature that because of sickness or old age had a tremor in it, yet it was as bold as the man who wroteit. Many an order written on the battlefield and amid the thunder of the cannonade has had airMan/ia aI flT/ilfomonf In ottOTO Vnf/) onH every letter and Jn the speed with which It was folded and handed to the officer as he put his foot In the swift stirrups, and yet thit commander, notwithstanding his trembling hand, gives a boldness of order that shows itself in every word written.- You do not need to be told that a trembling hand does not alway9 mean a cowardly hand. It tvas with a very trembling hand Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, signed his name to the Declaration of American Independence, but no signer had more courage aud when some one said, ''There are many Charles Carrolls, and it will not be known which one it is.' ne resumeu me peu auu wruitt vutuica Carroll of Carrollton. Trembling hand no sign of timidity. The daring and defiance seen in the way your name is written in leaven is a challenge to all earth and hell to :ome on if they can to defeat your ransomed soul. Again, if according to the promise of the text, you are permitted to look into the volumes of eternity and see your name there, pou will find it written in lines, in words, in letters unmistakable. Some people have ;ome to consider indistinct and almost unreadable penmanship a mark of genius, and so they affect it. Because every paragraph that Thomas Chalmers, and Dean Stanley, ind Lord Byron, and Rufus Ghoate and other potent men wrote was a puzzle, imitators make their penmanship a puzzle. Alexander Dumas eays that plain penmanship is the brevet of incapacity. Then there are some who, through too much demand upon their energies and through lack of time, lose the capacity of making the pen intelligible, and much of the writing of thi3 world is indecipherable. We have seen piles of inexplicable chirography, and we ourselves have helped augment the magnitude. We have aot been sure of the name signed, or the sentiment expressed, or whether the reply was affirmative or negative. Through indistinct penmanship last wills and te?ta* meats have bepn defeated, widows and orphans robbed of their inheritance, railroad trains brought into collision through the iim words of a telegram put into the hand of a conductor, and regiments, in this wise, mistaking taeir instructions, nave ueen sacrifled in battle. I asked Bishop Cowie, in Auokland, New Zealand, the Bishop bavins been in many of the wars, what Tennyson, in his immortal poem. "Tne Charcre of the Liglit Brigade," meant by the worts, "Some one had blundered," and the Bishop said that I he awful carnage at Balaklnva was the result of an indistinctly-written and wrongly-read military crder. "Some one bad blundered." ' But your name, once written in the Lamb's Book of Life, will be bo unmistakable that all heaven cau read it at the first glance. It will not be taken for the name of some other, so that in regarn to it there shall come to be disputation. Not one of the millions and billions and quadtrillions of the finally save! will doubt that it means you and only you. Oh, the glorious, the rapturous certitude of that entrance on the heavenly roll. NDt saved in a promiscuous way. .Not put into a glorified mob. No, no! Though you came up, the worst sinner that was ever saved, and somebody who knew you in this world at one time as absolutely abandoned and dissolute should lay: "I never heard of your conversion aud I do not believe you havfl a right to be here," you could just laugh a laugh of triumph, and, turning over tbe leaves containing the names of the redeemed, say: "Read it;for yourself. That is my name, written out in full, and do you not recognize tho handwriting? No young scribe of heaven entered that. No auuonymens writer put it there. Do you not see the tremor in the lines? Do you Dot ulso sea the boldness of the letters? Is it not as plain as yonder throne, as plain as yonder gate? Is it not the name unmistakable and the handwriting unmistakable? The crucified Lord wrote It th<;re the day I repented and turned. Hear it! Hear it! My name is written there! There!" There is not on earth an autograph letter or signature of Christ. The ouly time He wrote out a word on earth, though He knew 50 well bow to wriite, He wrote with reference to having it soon stiufllei out by human foot, the time that He stooped down aud with His linger wrote on the ground tho hypocrisy of the Pharisees. But when He writes y.ur name iii the heavenly archives. ... T vr.? hfW or hrmn TTo mnv. it is to i;a i uv?vi ? ^ 1 1? ? stay there from age to age, from cycle to cycle, froir. euou to oaon. And so for all you Christian people I do what John G. Whittier, the dyir.s poet, said he wanted done in his home. Lovely man ho was! I sat with him iu a haymow a whole summer afternoon, and heard him tell the story of his life. He had for mauy years been troubled with insomnia, and was a very poor sleeper, and he always had the window curtain of his room up so as to see the first iDtimation of sunrise. When * ?.l- 1?4 m?.nlnn no was uremaiuK IUiJl iu iu<? uiuiuiug hour, ia hi3 home In the Massachusetts village, the nurse thought that the light ot the rising sun w&s too strong for him, and M ' -pfe pulled the window curtain down. The last thing the great Quaker poet did was to wava his hand to have the curtain up. He wanted I to depart In the full gush of the mcrning, ' 339 And I thought It might be helpful and in? BM spiring to all Chrjftian souls to have more v K light about the future, so I pnll up -the cnr> tain In the glorious sunrise of my text and W say, "Rejoice that your names are wrlttei In wj heaven.' Bring on your doxologlos! Wave . * . e your palms! Shout your victories! Pull np -Kg all the ourtalns of bright expectations! Yea! i&ry hoist the window itself and let the perfume - M of the "morning glories" of tha King's gar? F den come In, and the' muslo of harps all . ' ^fr a a-tremble with symphonies, and the sound . > e of the surf of seas dashing to the foot of the ' , d throne of God and the Lamb. y But there is only one word on all this suba ject of Divine chlrography In heaven that '.vM t confuses me, and that is the small adverb. ^ i which 8t. John adds when he quotes the text ' in Revelation and speaks of some "whose ,'4$| I names are not written In the Book of Life of Jr$ 0 the Lamb slain." Oh, that awful adverb. J "not!" By full submission to Christ the J Lord, have the way all cleared between you 9 and the sublime registration of your name J j ) this moment. Why not look up to see that . *3 1 they are all ready to put your name among "'vy 1 tne Diissrni immorta:s.' xnere is tne nugniy ; f volume: It la wide open. This re Is the pea: 3 it is from the wing of the "Angel of the New Covenant." There Is the Ink: it la red ..IsJ f from the Calvarean sacriflce. And there is 53 t the Divine Scribe: the glorious Lord who J wrote your father's name, and your moth- M | er's name there, and your child's name . . fM 1 there, and who is ready to write your name SS < there. Will you consent that He do it? Be> fore I say "Amen" to this service, ask Him >*3 3 to do It. I wait a moment for the tremen- ' vj > dous action of your will, tor It Is only an , ^ action of your will. Here some one savfc, 3 "Lord Jesus, with pen plucked from angelic ' wing, and dipped In the red Ink of Golgotha, $ ' write there either that whlah Is now my [ Earthly name or that which shall be my . heavenly name." I pause a second longer . 1 that all may consent The pen of the Divine 8 ' Scribe is in the fingers and is lifted and is 'l lowered, and it touches the shining page. 1 and the word la trace i, in trembling ana 1 bold and unmistakable letters. He lias put ! It down In the right place. i And If there bo In all this assembly a hope- vj : less case, so-called hopeless by yourself and ' others, I take the responsibility of saying. '?3 1 that there is a place in that Book where your 1 name would exactly fit in, and look beauti- -*vJ I fnl ar\A ttnii /tan nnUlran fViOn T /ion Jfl I hands together, have it. there. A religion* 41 1 meeting was thrown open, and all those who . >, ] could testify of the converting grace of God .; .3j were asked to speak. 8itenoe reigned a mo- ?2I meat, and then a man covered with the -j marks of dissipation arose and said: "Yon .1 can see from my looks what I have been, bat I am now a saved man. When I left home a. -j thousand miles from here I had so disgraced j my father's name that he said,'As you ate going away I have only two things to ask of you. first, that you will never oome home again, and next, you will change your name.' Jfj I promised. I have not heard my real name -';7?| for years. I went the whole round of sin, ^ until there was no lower depth to - fathom. r-1 But I am by -the grace of Qqd a changed man. I wrote home asking forglveneas for '* my waywardness, and here are two letters, one from my father and another from my sister. My mother died of a broken heart. V'$l But these two letters ask me to come home, and boys, 1 start to-morrow morning." The JttUl woo iuat uia uamo w no vtjliuvu tu -j 1 heaven, where I pray God all of onr names : may be written though so unworthy are the ' ?l best of us, and all of us. If you have ever 1 been In the thick woods and beard the sound of village bells you know the sound Is hin- ' : '& dered and muffled by the foliage, though " somewhat sweet, but aa you oome to the edge of the woods the sounds become elearer, fSi and more oharming and when you step out from the deep shadows into the sunlight you hear the full, round, mellifluous ringing of V$S the bells. Oh! ye, down In the thlok shadows of unbelief and who hear only the faint :;X notes of this Gospel bell, come out Into the i clear sunlight of pardon and peace, and hear :.J: the full chime of eternal harmonies from all ^ the towers of heaven. Oh! Come out of tho . i woods! BESSEMER ORE DISCOVERED. A New Body, Carrying Much Iron, Found : W In Michigan. )u.n fnvnorl Infn ttiA nam xhftn. nei dredged for the Miohigamme River, 321 Michigan, for the purpose of reclaiming the , M Mansfield Mine, which was flooded several . . >39 years ago, drowning twenty-seven men. The j enterprise has proved even a greater success 1 than the projectors anticipated, for a large ' body of Bessemer ore has been discovered in the old channel. Six inches below the sand covering on the $] river bed was a bed of ore. A system of trenching was instituted, and the body was ?, traced nearly 300 feet. A sample of the ore . < has been analyzed for iron. It is very rich. While the ehemist's figures are not available. . * it is stated that no other mine In the district produces ore that approaches it in the vol- - ~4 ume of iron carried. It is Bessemer ore of Kthe finest quality. The depth of the deposit has not yet been tested. j ENORMOUS CATCH OF HERRING. * Nearly 50,000 Barrels of Fish Taken Thlf Month Off Capo Cod. Between 40,000 and 50,000 barrels of her- a ring have been taken in Caoe Cod Bay since the 1st of October, which has not been equaled j in twenty years. The canning factories are 1 running overtime and salters are putting the fish in barrels. Only 6000 barrels, however, have been used, the fish that are unavailable being turned loose again. H Fish traps, empty in the morning, have I naa in tnem at aignt irom ouu to w uuieia I of herring, and the catch of three gill nets 1 hos boon known to load a doty. The fish 1 are ot large size. Few mackeral have, been seen, but the catch of pollock has been goodiw. J Flounder fishing has also bean profitable. Thirty boats are engaged in it and the men : are each earning from $2 to $1 per day. ] HOUSES OF REFUGE DISCONTINUED 2To Farther Ute for Those on tlie East Coast or Florida. . ,4jjj Secretary Carlisle ordered the discontlnu, ance of the houses of refuge on the eastern coast ot Florida, at Chester Shoals, Hither Creek, and Orange Grove. These houses of J refuge, ten In number, were established years ago on that coast, when along its entire length of 230 miles there were not more than seventy-five inhabitants. Now there are 10,000 from tne last report of the District Superintendent. Six of these houses are still In operation. The distance between these houses averages twenty-six miles, and at eaoh mile along the coast are placed guide poats, indicating the distance and direction to the nearest station. The houses are supnilftd with cota and provisions sufflolent to succor twenty-five persons for ten days. I SQUIRRELS KILL A COW. 1 A Farmer Finds a Whole Colony Swarm- I lng About His Beast. 9 Squirrels have Rlways been supposed to bo fl vegetarians, with a pronounced liking for fl nuts, but a Kentucky colonv of the little anl* mals has recently shown a carnivorous disposition and taste for raw beef. John S. HH Parks, of Triplet, Ky., owns a blood Jersey cow. whloh feeds in a pasture Bear Parka's house. Beyond the pasture Is a wooded field, where squirrels abound. A few days B9H ago Parks heard his cow bel'.owlng in an unusual manner, and as if in pain. HBpM He went to her assistance and found her EflP| on the ground covered with squirrels, which were savagely biting her. The squirrels HH scampered away at the approach ot the man. The cow died an hour later from ioss of blood. HH Golil for Hoarding. New York bullion brokers report a constautiy increasing dernaud for gold for hoar<lIng. The prev.iiiin;* commission charged for gold for this purpose is }{ per cant. and H| at this rate the gold Amis ready takers. One bullion hrm reported that it received orders HH to buy Russian gold rubles and Austrian |JpB&j florins lor persons of those Nationalities liv iug here. A Statue to Mrs. Stowe. ~ The Hartford (Conn,) Equal Rights Club ^^^9 has appointed a committee to raise funds foi HH the erection of a statue of Harriet Beechej Stowe, the authoress of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," H|H9 who died in June. The Jiartford member) I^BH| of the committee are Elizabeth D. Bacon, H|Hfl Mrs. Tucker, Francis Ellen Burr, Mrs. Emily ' P. Collins, Mrs. Alta S. Cressy and Mrs. S. ? 1 Brown". .