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MIS CM TflGBTHEl Disobedience of Orders Results in a Terrible Railroad Accident. VICTIMS WERE EXCURSIONISTS, Fatal Result of a Head-End Collision? An Accommodation Dashes Into an Excursion Train on the St. Louis and Sail Francisco Road Sear St. Louis?The Wreck Due to Neglect of Instructions. St. Loots, llo. (Special).?An excursion train on the St. Louis and San Francisco Bail road collided Sunday moruing at 10 o'clock with the Valley Park accommodation, fourteen miles from the Union Station. Eight persons were killed outright, one died while being removed to the hospital, and the body of a woman was buried under the lebris. The killed: C. C. Blevins: William Cart" wright, thirty-flve years old; Adolph Hohl, forty-two years old, engineer of the accom modatlon train; Frank Hussler, fireman 01 the excursion train: Conrad Kuntz, sixtv-flve years old; Bernard McK*auna, forty-five years old, proprietor of the Arsenal Laundry; Mrs. Bernard McKenna, bodv under the debris: Mamie McKenna. ten years old, daughter of Bernard McKenna: Charles D. Mobius, twenty years old; Honry Thole, thirtv-one years old. There were eh-ven cars to the excursion train, all of which were crowded. More than half the occupants of these cars were injured in a greater or less degree, though the list of Injured as reported to tne police is only twenty-five. The wreck is the most di-astrou9 that has happened in tho vicinity of St. Louis, and it is believed is due entirely to the carelessness of the engineer of the exoursion train. The excursion was bound for St. James's Springs, where there was a Grand Army reunion ana the dedication of a soldiers' monument. The train was run in two sections, the first of eleven cars and the second of twelve. Fourteen miles from St. Louis,just beyond the town of Kirkwood, there is a switch at tnn nf ft hnnw o>rn.<I? The engineer of the oxoursion had orders to stop at this switch, and the train chart is so marked. Instead, he kept on, and evidently believing that the place to pass was at the switch two miles further along the line, he sent his train at full speed down the grade. Ia the meantime the Valley Park accommodation?two cars, basides the enginewas running toward town, also at a high rate of speed, for the train was late and making v.p time. The two trains met at the foot of the grade in a deep cut. There was no time for anybody to jump, for the accommodation had'rounded a curve just before the collision. The crash occurred exactly in Trout of the fourteen mile post and was witnessed by a score of bicyclists who happened to be on the bluff at the time gathering autumn leaves. One of them says there was a crash and then for half a minute nothing could be heard except the rush of steam that escaped from one of 'the locomotives, which had been partly cu* in two. Then screams and groans of ancrnish filled the air and a mass of people poured from tbe crowded excursion train and from the second section, which came up a few moments after. As soon as the train hands who had not * been wounded and the passengers could regain their presence of mind they commenced the work of rescue. The first body dragged from the wreck was that of a little child, Mamie McKenoa. She was literally out in two by a mass of metal and was gasping in death when taken from under the side of a car. The next body was that of her father. The child's mother could not be found. Six more bodies were taken from the wreck and placed In one of the excursion cars. In the meanwhile physicians had arrived from the little towns near thH scene of the wreck, and in half an hour rbey were reinforced by a dozen surgeons from St. Louis. These did what they could for the many wounded, tying up .severe! arteries and bandaging wounded limb? that they might stand the ride to the city. At 12 o'clock a train was made up of half the excursion ??. ?u! > ?V> a iun/] ark/4 ttt/mii.cia i "UUBVJUCSj CUiU lii '.'H.* U'^Uu nuu tv \s wtuvtw.* were oonveyed to St. Louis. The wreck is one of the most complete "that was ever seen in Missouri. The locomotive of the Valley Turk accommodation is w ilded at least two feet into the locomotive of the excursion. The first car on the latter train was a combination baggage, and it was in this that the greatest number was killed. Tho force of the collision wis such that pieces of iron as large as a man were hurled over the thirty-foot embankment and Into a field fifty feet distant. England's New Primate. TKa rr~vr?nrah1? anH Rio?hf "RftV. Frederick Templo, 1>. D.. Bishop of Loadon, Provincial Dean of Canterbury and Dean of the Chapels Royal, has been appointed Archbishop of Canterbury and Prirante of all England in room of the Right Hon. and Most Rev. Edward White Benson, who died suddenly at Hawaiian, October 11. Benefits of Consolidation, All-night cars, free transfers, illuminated Bigns, lower steps au A other improvements are guaranteed by the consolidation of Cincinnati street railwajyCauliflower as a Summer Crop. Cauliflower has not foruietly been much grown as a summer crop on Lon^ Island, N. Y., but last season the growers were very successful with it. Canes Made of Sharks. Shark fl=hers at San Diego, Cal., take out 'ihe backbones of their catch to havo them 'made into cane3. Wild Docs In Brazil. In some parts of Brazil wild dogs have become as dangerous to travelers as wolves in Siberia. AVant to Be Firemen. There are at present about 1300 applicants lor positions in the New York Fir*< Department. Gotham's Expensive Police. Six million and a half dollars is the cost of the New York police force for the coming ye*r. A Costly Struesle for Spain. So far the Cuban Revolution has C03t Spain ^145,000,000. . Minor Mention. The Bering senl fishing season ha3 been a very poor one. A museum of reliis of the fire of 1871 is to b"5 established in Chicago. Argentina will supplant its fractional currency by an is^u*; of nickels. It cost the New York, Nhw Haven and " -"--J n..(i.no i S05 to ohnncra the riilLLIUiVi 1MIUVI* ? . O.d Cclony system from left to right hand running. They proclaimed sis a day of humiliation an I prayer at Cape Town, South Africa, in view of the appe iruuce of the rinderpest in the colony. Yale reports about 2030 stu lents this year, which is 138 more than last year. The quaint old town of Medford, Mass., has ju-t held a historical festival in commemoration of the 226th anniversary of its foundation. Le Guilvinee, a little fishing port at the tip of Cape Finistorre, in France, lost fifty * i~ nlr?hf ilnrinc? thil r^f?pnt IWtf U1CU III Win; UI),U. v.?. 0 gales. All the rual?; population of the town was out in the boats when the storm came down. It is proposed to encourage the opening up of thf extreme southern territory of Argentina by the creation of a regular line of steamers between Buenos Ayres and the southern ports?that is to say, Bahia Blanc.;, Port Madryn, Santa Cruz, Pusrto Ga! legos and San Hias. A REWARD FCR SOBRIETY. George Crocker Receives the 8500,000 Left Him by HI? Father. As a reward for Ave consecutive years of total abstinence from intoxicants George Crocker was awarded $500,000 at San Francisco, Cal. Charles Crocker, father of George, Charles F., and William H. Crocker, died September 22, 1891, and in making his will failed to bequeath a portion of his property to his son George, who was given to overindulgence in intoxicants. Instead, he placed 490 bonds of the Southern Pacific Company in the bands of the other two sons In trust for George, with the proviso that if within fifteen years after the death of the founder of the fund George Crocker should stay sober for five consecutive years the principal should be turned over to hi,m. If, however, he failed I nK.-tfnfn f.nm the bonds IV auouiiu Jiuui v ?v* iiiu v?.Pw---, were to be distributed among certain grandchildren of Charle3 Crocker. September last George Crocker applied for the bonds, alleging that he hnd been sober for five years. The matter was submitted to the oourts by the executors, who were instructed to turn over the bonds to the legatee. BIG CROP OF APPLES. The Aggregate Yield a Shade Under 59,000,000 Barrels. Throughout the States of chief commercial production, including New England and | New York, the crop of winter apples Is'larue. A special r sport places the aggregate yield at a shade under 59,000,000 barrels, for all o* the United States, against 60,500,000 barrel9 in 1895 and 57,000,000,*barrels two years ago. This authority says that the crop 'in New England. New York, Michigan and parts of a few other States is phenomenal. New England and New York alone have over 16. - ? --- '">.. UUl/.UW ORITeiS, mil" uiuiu iliuu 7,000,0i:0 a year ago, while Michigan Is harvesting the greatest crop of fine fruit Persecuted in that State. The report coveriner the Central West, however, shows that in many instances the crop is in ufficient to supply home requirements. The CanMa crop is among the largest on record. Exports from the Atlantic Coast are already 1,000,000 barrels, or a third more than all of last season, and the foreign markets have a capacity for absorbing further vast quantities before spri?g. PROFESSOR BURR RETURNS. Expert of the Venezuela Commission Tells of His Investigation. Professor George L. Burr, of Cornell University, the historical expert who was sent to ^ Europe in the Interest of the United States Venezuela Commission, returned to New York on the steamship Teutonic. He left this eountry in May last and ha9 spent mo9t of the time in Holland looking **- aVa a1<1 n t Tka D it mi a fKof Mklata up ILLO uiu touvrua <%i xuu u<^uo to the colonial period of Dutch Guiana. "My mission was purely a scientific one," he said. "I was sent by the commission to explore the atchives of Holland. "I explored a great body of documents that before had not been searched. I found them amonar the Dutch archives, and they are naturally good material for the commission." KILLED IN THE BULL RINC. A Picador In Mexico Mangled by the Animal He Was Teasing. A bull fight with fatal results occurred at Nogales, Sonoro, Mexico, and for a short time there was a panic in the audience. One of the bulls killed a horse, and then a picador, Jose Angulo. while attempting to put a thorn in the side of the animal, was caught on one of its long horns, which pierced him like a sword. He was tossed and fell to the ground, bleeding and mangled, where the beast held htm between his horns and pawed him. He was frightfully mangled and died a few minutes later. There was intense ex citement in the audience, wnicn ;was nnauy quieted by the killiLg of the bull. NEW WARSHIPS NAMED. Alabama, Illinois and Wisconsin the Battleships Will Be Christened. Secretary of the Navy Herbert, before leaving Washington for Alabama, selected the names for the newjbattleships and gunboats now under construction. The three battleships will be known as the Alabama, Illinois and Wisconsin. The Runboats will bear the names Annapolis, Marietta, Newport, Princeton, Vicksburg and Wheeling. Killed a Child for Kevenge. Seeking revenge as the result of a quarrel with his employer, Oscar Marshall, a North Bend (Wis.) farmer, William Palmer, eighteen years of age, took the three-year-old son of Marshall to the barn and deliberately crushed his skull with an axe. Later he confessed to the crime. Portojral Quells a Rebellion. A telegram from St. Paul de Loanda, Portuguese West Africa, says that the Portuguese expedition has just punished the rebellious Bendo natives, burning twenty-four of "their villages apd killing one hundred o.' the rebels. Mother and Daughter Asphyxiated. Mrs. Elizabeth Hart, a widow, sixty years old, and her daughter, Mrs. Sarah J. Stevenson, thirty-five years old, also a widow. wer< found asphyxiated in their rooms, at Boston Mass. A gas-jet was turned partly on. Th< deaths are believed to have been caused bj accident. A Brave Grandmother. Mrs. Emma Petarmann. of Hawthorne, N J., saved her little grandson from being rur over by a train, but was herself killed. English Farmers Hoarding Wheat. English farmers are holdinc on to wheal for higher prlcvs, and Europe's poor potatc crop will Increase the need of grain. Wheal bad a slight rise in the Liverpool market, and on the Continent it remained firm and steady. Sulu Islands Rebel Against Spain. An official despatch from Manila reports a conspiracy in the Sulu Archipelago, a portion of the Spanish colony of the Philippine Islands. Relniorcemente of troops have been sent from Manila. Murderous Highwaymen. Highwaymen shot and killed Mra. Charles Kiser, seriously wounded her husband and rifled the dead woman's pockets before his eyes, near Norristowu, Penn. spain'a ivesoari-ei. An official noto denies the reports that Spain is without resources to continue the war in Cuba. It points out that the rejection by the Spanish Government of the conditions sought to be imposed by Freuch financiers for taking up the proposed loan is proof that Spain is able to obtain the necessary funds. Negotiations for the loan, the noto adds, are proceeding elsewhere. Unable to Ilusk the Iuidcdw Crop. Farmers of Calhoun County, Michigan' were unable to get help enough to husk the immense corn crop of this year. Cycling Notes. In France bicycles are electrically lighted. Connecticut h:u more than 60,000 bicycle ridera. The outlook for n New York State road system is very bright just now. Magistrate Deul, of New York City, has decided that there is a difference between coasting and scorching. R. D. Jefforson has completed the feat of riding a btcyele from Ostender, Belgium, to Irkutsk, Siberia, a distunce of 6574 miles, in 150 days. The "scorcher" can work his own sweet Will ILL irtJlttllU. xuoio ? uu the carrying of elihar bells or lamps by bicyclists. I v; -f '/ - *- ' tinY,;-.-,-> -, : FIGflTFIM MID-OCEAN The Crew of the Steamship Worsley Hall Have a Fearful Voyage. A GALLANT RACE TO PORT. Flames Discovered In the Cargo of Cotton While Far From Land?For Three Durn They Kaged In the Hold of the Vessel V Fierce Storm Made the Situation Even More Thrilling. New York City (Special).?With a fire raging in her fore hold and her iron sides as hot as a sizzling gridiron, the British steamship Worsley Hall, which left New Orleans on October 16, steamed slowly Into this port Monday morning. For three days the Are had been feeding on the cotton cargo, and during that time the orew had been fighting it day and night. They kept up the fight while a gale 9wept the vessel for fifteen hours; water and steam were poured into the furnace below decks, nnd every effort was made to quench the death-threatening fire. Finally they gave up the struggle and started for this port as a last resort. The steamer's hold was half full of water when she anchored off Clifton, Staten Island. She was heeled far to starboard, and her bow had settled until she looked as if aboul tp dive to the bottom. Still the fire smouldered among the cotton bales, and ten hours more of hard labor scarcely sufficed to conquer it. When the Worsley Hall left New Orleans three hundred tons of grain in bulk were spread out on the bottom of her big hold. On top of the grain 7790 bales of cotton were piled. The steamer at 5 o'clock last Friday morning was 660 miles east by south of Sandy nooK ana steaming on ner coarse ior niivnr, when Chief Officer Lewthwaite noticed smoke coming from the ventilators directly under the bridge. He called Captain Charles Cameron, who summoned the entire crew of flfty-flve men. The forward hatch was opened and a thick volume of smoke poured out. In spite of the smoke twenty bales of cotton were hoisted out to get at the Are. The smoke was so intense, however, that the captain decided to attack the blaze from another point. Portions of the saloon floor were ripped up, holes were drilled through the iron deok underneath and steam and water fnrnan nnnn Vho hum^ nr. r?nrcn with thrt TTW4W AViVWU VJW / ?*?o "" full power of the pumps. In spite of this the fire had gained such an ascendancy that at 1 p. m. a sheet of flame was pouring out of the hatchway. Steam and hand pumps were throwing all the water possible into this hatch, and finally the Are was driven back sufficiently to enable the men to clap on the hatch again. Hardly had this been done before a tremendous gale burst upon the vessel. She was hove to, and throughout Friday night all hands remained at their posts. It was not until Saturday that the gale blew Itself out. In the meantime four lifeboats, well supplied with food and water, had been made ready to launoh at a moment's notice. After the storm Captain Cameron steered for this port. Two tugs and the steamer's pumps flooded her with water yesterday, and last night she was beached north of Bay Ridge on the Long Island shore, to keep her from sinking. The flre had been drowned out, but the cargo was ruined, and the vessel seriously damaged. The Worsley Hall belongs to the Hail Line, of Liverpool, and registers 5000 ton?. Captain Cameron believes spontaneous combustion caused the fire. HE HATES TO KILL PEOPLE. Lieutenant Blnns Leaves the United States Army, Fearing Trouble. The resignation of Second Lieutenant Joseph R. Blnns, Socona Infantry, United States Army, has been accepted, to take effect immediately. He tendered his resignation to the President at Washington in a long letter, setting out his belief that a collision between the people and the United States Army would follow the election; in which case, he wrote, he could not conscientiously serve against the former. When Lieutenant Binns's resignation reached the War Department there was no delay; Adjutant-Gnneral Rugglfts banded it to Secretary Lamont, and the latter took it to the White House, with the result that it was accepted forthwith, and Lieutenant Blnns is no longer in the army. He was an officer of the First United States Infantry, uow stationed at Angel Island, Cai. BOY SENTENCED TO HANC. Elmer Clawson, Who Killed Farmer Hodgetta, Condemned to Death. Elmer Clawson, the eighteen-year-old boy, who was convicted 01 muruenog aenry houretts, a farmer of Pluckamln. was arraigned in court at Somerville, N. J. He was sentenced by Judge Magie to be hanged on December 16 at the Somerset County Jail. Young Clawson was employed by Hodgetts, and the two got into a dispute as to the amount of wa;;es that should be paid to the boy. The boy went away, but returned later on his bicycle. They again engaged in a wordy war, and Clnwson Anally drew a revolver and shot Hodgetts while he was standing on the doorstep of his house. Clawson then mounted his bicycle and scorched away. When placed on the witness stand to!estlfy in his own behalf Clawson made no concealment of the fact that he had killed Hodgetts. nnd said further that it was his intention to &1J1 LUC SltUlUU .IqCUI ak KOiuaiuaYjuc. WIFE AND CHILDREN DROWNED! Andrew Stupe Took His Family Boating and. AH But He Were Lost. Andrew J. Stupe, a grocer of Denver, Col., accompanied by his wife and five children, wont boating on Smith's Lake. While moving about the occupants capsized the boat, precipitating the en* ire family into the water. Stupe seized the youngest child and made desperate efforts to right the boat. The water, which was very cold, soon chilled those who held to the sides of Ihe boat, and all except Stupe rel-ased their hold and disappeared beneath the surface of the lake. Stupe succeeded in clinging to the boat until rescued, but the little child in his arms died from exposure before the resi;urers arrived. Searching parties dragged the lake for the bodies of Mrs. Stupe an .1 the four children. NITROGLYCERINE VICTIMS. Two Workmen Blown to I'ieces and Five Bully Hurt. Two men were killed and five persons injured, three s#rlously, by an explosion of 1800 pounds of nitro-giycerine at the Acme Dynamite Company's works, Hulton. Penn. The dead are James La Brei% chlor mixor, and Joseph Kuele, engineer. The injured were James Singliolder. Robert Singhoider, Emma Johnston and two unknown boys. The building was completely demolished and the bodies of the two men mangled beyond recognition. The loss was about $5000. Window? were shattered and houses sil iken for a mile away. She Was lO'J Yearn Old. Mrs. Martha Squires, of NeUonvilie, N. Y., tvho celebrated ttio anniversary of nor 102J birthday on October 11 last is dead. She was <n her usual health, seemingly, when she awoke, but dropped dead shortly after leaving her bed. She was born in Pond Ridge, Westchester County. October 11,1794. She leaves seven children, of whom she eldest is eighty-four; seventeen grandchildren-the youngest of whom is twentythree; twenty-two great-grandchildren and Jive great-great-grandchildren. HI Lang Chung's New Iionor. The appointment of Li Hung Chang a* Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs was announced. DEATH AT THE CROSSING. Dr. W. W. Palmer and HI* Granddaughter, of Eeaotborg, N. J., Killed. a Dr. W. W. Palmer, a prominent physician , of Keansburg, N. J., and his twenty-twoyear-old granddaughter, Fannie Palmer, were kiliea, and William E. Hahn, a friend, > and Miss Deborah, Dr. Palmer's daughter, f were injured on a grade crossing of the t Atlantic Highlands division of the Central ^ Railroad of New Jersey at Keansburg. Mr. Hahn's injuries, it was thought, might result fatally, but Miss Deborah Palmer, who is 1 only bruised about the hip!', will recover. The accident occurred a few minutes after 1 8 o'clock a. m. Dr. Palmer, who was the owner of considerable property in that l vicinity, intended to drive to a dwelling < house owned by him just north of the village, < where repairs were in progress. He had in < the wagon several utensils commonly used 1 by house decorators in their work and a quantity of paint, which was placed under the seats. In the front of the wagon sat Dr. 1 Palmer and his granddaughter. Mis* Deborah Palmer occupied the rear seat with M<. 1 Hahn, who lives at Atlantic City, but has I been visiting the Palmers for several days. \ He is an engineer on the West Jersey Railroad. The roadway leading from Dr. Palmer's house to the grade crossing Is rather winding, and at the freight station there is a sharp turn to the right, just before crossing the traok. The station hides from view all approaching trains from the south. It was just time for the 8.26 train from Atlantic Highlands, and apparently without any warning it came upon them as they turned the corner of the freight station, striking the rear end of the wagon with terrific force, knocking it fully a hundred feet and hurliDg the occupants out witn sreat violence. W. W. Ramsay, the station agent, heard the crash, and went at once to aid the injured. It was lound that Dr. Palmer had sustained a fractured skull, his head having struck the sharp corner of a railroad tie. His right foot had been cut off Dy the trrln. He was otherwise badly bruised and lacerated. Miss Fannie Palmer bad been badly mangled about the limbs below the knee, and had sustained bruises about the hips and face. Mr. Hahn was removed to the Long Branch Hospital^n a critical condition, and Miss Deborah. Dr. Palmer's daughter, was takeu to her homo suffering principally from shock. ur. raimer was sixcy-seven yuan uiu, uuu went to Keansburgh about forty years ago from Keyport, where he was a successful J physician. He had not been engaged in 1 activ? practice for twenty years, i He leaves 1 a widow and one married daughter, Mrs. John Glberson, of Farmingdale. c " i THE FARMERS' CONCRESS. ' J Call Issued for the Annual Sleeting: to Be j Held In Indianapolis. The call for the next annual meeting of the j Farmers' National Congress has just beea Jl issued by President John M. Stahl, of Chi' [ cago. The meeting will be held at Indian- r apolis, Ind., November 10-18, The regular dolegateb trom each State are one from each ( uou^ressiuuui jjisinui uuu i?u at 10150fjjr * pointed by the Governor of the State. Tne </ s PRESIDENT J. If. BTAHI* beads of All agricultural colleges and State agricultural boards are members by virtue of their offices. For the Indianapolis meeting the Governors of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan have appointed 5000 associate delegates, having all the privileges of the congress except voting. The coming meetlnj? promises to be the largest gathering of representative agriculturists ever convened in the United States, if not in the world. The Farmers' Congress is not a secret order, and is non-political. All railways have made a rate of one and one-third for the round trip. INDIAN ACENCY HELD UP. . The Bandits Were After the 846,000 Annuity Honey. The Sao and Fox Indian Agency was held up by four masked robbors. Sac and Fox is sixty miles east of Guthrie, Oklahoma, and only thirty miles from Carney. Threestores rrtam vnhKaH onrl fnlrAtv Tnrllnn A&Anr i General Thomas had $46,000 at Sao and Fox, ] annuity money to be paid to Indians next ( week. This money the robbers wore after. , , The robbers rushed Into General Thomas's , office and flred several phots, but Thomas ' was absent, As they rode oat of town the ] (lends flred Into a crowd of Indian children at the Government Sohool, but none of the shots took eCfeot. 1 Two of the robbers were recognized as be-' 1 in? in the Carney hold-up last week. The I news came over thu telephone from Chandler, 1 but the wires were soon cut, evidently by the bandits, and no further particulars can be 1 'earned. j i GREAT LOSS OF WHEAT. 1,000,000 Batbels Burned In Two Chicago < Elevator*. In less than an hour Are destroyed i $1,200,000 worth of property on the north branch of the Chloago River, In a dllapi- ! dated neighborhood of Chicago, 111., i known as Goose Island. The Pacific Grain ' Elevators A and B, owned by the Chicago and Paoiflo Elevator Company, were completely destroyad, and several framqr dwellings adjoining them were swept away. There were more than 1,000,000 bushels of wheat stored in the two great elevators. The loss on wheat 1b estimated At 8861,000, on corn at $94,800, and there was a small loss on oats. The loss on buildings and machinery Is estimated at nearly $800,000. In- , surance fully covers the losses. Bloodhounds Tracking; Murderers. Mrs. Eva Winner, wife of Jesse Winner, and her two children, a girl aped throe and a boy ased eighteen months, wero murdered at Richmond, Mo. The woman's head was cut with an axe and the throats ol the children were cut, their spinal cords being severed. Bloodhounds are being used to track the murderers. Slew Ninety Turku. At Taxis a band or Macedonian insurgents delea'.od a detachment of Turkish troops after a long engagement. N.nety Turks were killed and oight wore captured. Struck by a Train. Peter Becker, a York County (Pennsylvania) farmer, and an umbrella mender named William King, from Brooklyn, N. Y., were found dead at the side of the Pennsylvania Railroad's tracks about three miles west of York, Penn. Becker was deoapitated and King's head was crushed. Both men had been intoxicated, and wore struck by the same train, although their bodies were founc' u mnuupurt. An A^eil LoTer. The engagement of Captain William Abrams, a great-grandfather of eighty, worth $500,000, and ftllss Laura Smith, the vllllage school teacher at East Bockawav, Long Island, wa^ announced. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Wuhlatto* A volume, completing the British case,was lid before .the Venezuelan Boundary Commission. In his annual report to the Secretary of he Navy Commodore Hichborn, Chief of the Jonstruction Bureau, deplores the seiious lelays and inconvenience that have resulted rom lack of adequate materials for repairs o ships. He ask9 that Congress authorize he allotment of 81,500,000 for new stores. The President appointed Isaac H. Llonjerger, of St. Louis, Assistant Attorney-Gcn>?i tnr Interior Deoartment, vice Will am A. Little, resigned. Post Cbapluin George W. Simpson has >een placed on the retired list of the army >n account of disability, and Eev. Leslie R. Proves, of Albany. N. Y.. appointed to suc:eert him. Chaplain Simpson was born In Maryland and appointed in 1876. 8ir Julian Pauncefote, British Ambassador to the United Slates, returned to this country by the Germanic after a three months' vacation, spent chiefly in France. Sir Julian bad a conference with Lord Salisbury and Secretary Chamberlain regarding the Yenezlelan situation. The United States Court of Claims handed lown judgments in 403 letter carrier cases in 'avor of the claimants. Many of the cases vere of carriers in New York Citv and Tren* on, N. J. The first installment of new navy magaiine rifles has been completed, and 500 of hem were ordered to the Now York Navy fard, 300 of them for the new cruiser Brookv and the others for the Puritan, All the ither ships will be provided with this small )ore, flat trajectory arm, as soon as possible. The Dopartment of State has just pubJ ? -Aitirv.n a# /*!Anojilnii i-onAI fa rolftHnff isuuu a vuiuuio yjk *w.wv.m.r3 o the money question, whioh contain statisics that bear on the financial issue in this lountry. Surgeon-General Tryon, of the Navy, in lis annual report, saysthat the care and comort of the sick and wounded of the navy lave been much improved by the adoption >f iron swinging cots for the sick bays of all vessels, and the establishment of an ambuance sorvioe at Chelsea, New York, Philalelphia and Norfolk. Domeatlc* Fourteen-year-old Myrtle Eva Adams, of iowdoinham, Me., accuses her uncle, Charles 3. Bickford, of abducting her and subjectng her to fearful torture. The jury at New Haven, Conn., in the sase of Dr. John Edward Lee, charged with ibusing Miss Bird Madeline Pnlmer, a young irtlst, nnd attempting to perform an operaion, returned a verdict of guilty. Dr. Lee ras at once sentenced by Judge Thayer to Ivfe years in the State prison. The factory of Ronalds A Co., on Boemm )lace, Brooklyn, was destroyed by Are, with i loss of over $100,000. Hundreds of em>loyes, many of whom wore women, made hetr escape from the building, and a flrenan was the only person to sustain injuries. The firm of Harper 4 Brothere, New York 3ity, became a corporation, with a capitalizition of $2,000,000. Fire in the Washington Mills, Lawrence, klass., damaged them more than $55,000, ind has temporarily thrown 4500 men out of vork. John Lawrence, aged seventy-two, pleaded juilty in Worcester, Mass., to tneft, to orgery, and to having Impersonated a priest. Mrs. Eunice Buss Davis, the oldest female ibolitionist living, celebrated her ninetyixth birthday in Dedham, Mass. Henry W. Cornell,-a son of former Goverlor Cornell, wa3 arrested, charged by a Bafalo (N. Y.) hotel proprietor, who says that Cornell gave him two drafts that were reurned dishonored. M D. Seibert. Democratic elector from the Seventh Alabama District, died suddenly on lunday. The tickets had been printed in ill the counties and could not be reprinted. The Massachusetts Supreme Court susalned the injunction against striking furnluro workers parading In front of their ormer employer s door, holding the patrol o be an Unlawful interference with the later's rights. Barnard McMeeney was burled to his head n a trenoh in Newark, N. J., by a cave-in. i body of brave men labored over twenty lours In the work of rescue, and finally freed dm. The water pageant of the Snipping and Iniustrial Sound Money Association, which noved down the North River from Harlem o the Battery, New lork City, proved a ipectncular success. Ta'.o and a team from the Carlisle Indian lohool played a game of football in New fork City, Yale winning, 12 to 6. Mr. Bryan and his wife attended churoh n Jacksonville, III., where they were stulents in college and were married. The body of ex-Speaker Crisp was burled n Am9rlcus, Ga. Nearly every United States port reports a carcity of vessels to carry the wheat now raiting to be exported. Mobs of masked horsemen overran the jikes In Anderson County, Kentucky, detroying toll-gates. Bankers believe that a part of the gold that las been imported is being hoarded. Major McKinley talked to many delegaioos in Canton, Ohio, and declared that the >ountrv must return to a protective tariff to lecure prosperity. , Leonard Lafiin, agent of the American ExDrees Company at Brookfleld, Mass., slipped rom his bioycle in front of an electric car at ? ~ Ht? fV?o nm piace auu was luoiauiij uusu uj >uv iar. The sesquicentennlal celebration ended at Princeton with a banquet. President Cleveandmade a speech, and many degrees were Kjaferred. Horace W. Chlpman, auditor of the New fork Transfer Company, dropped dead from i tandem bicycle, which he was riding with tils daughter in New York City. Dr. J. C. Moore, charged with the over ssue of stock of the Union Publishing Company, of Manchester, N. H., was found ?uilty. Dr. Moore Issued the stock to himself, and borrowed money on It as collateral. William F. Barr, Presidential elector for the Twelfth Ohio District on the People's party ticket, has withdrawn his name. This secures perfect fusion of Democrats and Populists on the Bryan ticket In Ohio. Word reached Fleminaton, N. J., of the horrible death of Freday Kornberger, two vears old, at Glen Gardner. Mrs. Kornberger was polishing a nlokle stove. She placed a parcel containing potash on a table. Phe chlla obtained possession of the fluid and drank a quantity. The child's mouth was horribly burned. A physician was summoned, but failed to relieve the sufferer, and he died In a few hours. "Will" Settle, cashier of the United 8tates Buildine and Loan Association of Louisville, Ky., is a defaulter for (8000. He used two sets of bauk oooks to cover up his peculations. which have been going on for sev eral years. He has not been arrested. While David Vedder and family, residing near Glen. N. Y., were absent from thel^ home, a tlilef entered the house, and stole securities to the value of $6000. Superintendent of Vermont Insane Asvlum was indicted on charges of brutally beating female patients. Owing to a dispute about the payment of a contractor's bill by the Comptroller the entire street cleaning force of New York City was ordered to cease operations by Colonel Waring. The Populists of Georgia have formally withdrawn their electoral ticket. Forelsrn Notes. Bismarck's disclosure of a secret alliance between Germany and Russia when ho retired has awakened distrust, nin! may prevent a renewal of the Triple Alliance next year. Tschigorin defeated Charousek in the fourth game of their match aud won theftlst prize in the Hungarian chess tournament at Buda Posth aud the silver statue "Victory" presented by the Emperor. Hundreds of persons are on the verge of starvation along the Labrador coast. While the British cruiser Talbot was at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and just before her departure for Bermuda, sho lost one of her Maxim guns overboard. Some of the crew ~t .u? mora in th? not nf hnistini? the U1 IUC UIJCl TT V4W *U ..v? w- ? ^ gun from the launch when it slipped from the hoisting tackle and dropped into the water. A dispatch from Constantinople says that - ~?<n?t h.ta Art/inM.d/1 at thu QiiItan'a nflJnofl tx L'UUUIUl U440 4.V/V1 uw v?w - X" between the Turkish and Albanian guards, during which several mer- were killedxat.ii. REV. DR. TALHAGE SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. \ Subjects Gospel Fannin*." Text: "My Father Is the husbandman."? John xv., 1. This last summer, having gone in different directions over between five andsixthousand miles of harvest fields, I can hardly open my Bible without smelling the breath of newmown bay and seeing the golden light of the wheat field. And when I open my Bible to take my text, the Scripture leaf rustles like the tassels of the corn. Wo were nearlv all of us born in the country. We dropped corn in the hill, and went on Saturday to the mill, tying the grist in the centre of the sack so that the contents on either side the horse balanced each other; and drove the cattle afield, our bare feet wet with the dew, and rode the horses with the aalter to the brook until we fell off, and hunted the mow for nests until the feathered oocu pants went cackling away. We were early all of us born in the country, and all would have stayed there had not some adventurous lad on his vacation come back with better clothes and softer hands and set the whole village on fire with ambition far city life. So we all understand rustic allusions. The Bible is full of them. In Christ's Sermon on the Mount you could see the fullblown lilies and the glossy back of the crow's wings as it flies over Mount Olivet. David and John, Paul and Isaiah find in country life a source of frequent illustration, while Christ in the text takes the responsibility of . ?.#?s* . a _ m :? ?\r.. caning woa a iuriuor. uouioiuig; axj miuui Is the husbandman." Noah was the first farmer. We say nothing about Cain, the tiller of the soil. Adam was a gurdener on a large scale, but to Noah whs given all the acres of the earth. Ellsha was an agriculturist, not cultivating a ten-acre lot, for we find htm plowing with twelve yoke of oxen. In Bible times the land was so plenty and the inhabitants so few that Noah was right when he gave to every inhabitant a certain portion of land, that land If cultivated ever after to be his own possession. They were not small crops raised in those times, for though the arts were rude, the plow turned up very rich soil, and barley and cotton and flax and all kinas of grain came up at the call of the harvesters. Pliny tells of one stalk of grain that had on it between three and tour hundred ears. The rivers and the brooks, through artificial channels, were brought down to the roots of the corn, and to this habit of turning a river wherever it was wanted, Solomon refers when he says: "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, and He turneth It as the rivers of water are turned, whithersoever He will." The wild beasts were caught, and then a hook was put into their nose, and then they were led over the field, ani to that God refers when He says to wicked Sennacherib: "1 will put a hook in thy nose and I will bring thee back by the way which thou earnest." And God has a hook in every bad man'8 nose, whether It be Nebuchadnezzar or Ahab or Herod. He may think himself very independent, but some time in his life, or in the hour bf his death, he will find that the Lord Almighty has a hook in his nose. This was the rule in regard to the culture of the ground: "Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together " illustrating the folly of ever putting intelligent and useful and pliable men in association with the stubborn and unmanageable. The vast majority of troubles in the churches and in reformatory institution? comes from the disregard of this command of the Lord, "Thou ehalt not plow with an ox and an ass together." 1 Thtre were large amounts of property inrested in cattle. The Moabites paid 100,000 sheep as an annual tax. Job haa 7000 sheep, 8000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen. The time of vintage was ushered in with mirth and music. The clusters of the vine were put Into the wine press, and then five men would get into the press and trample out the juice from the grape until their garments were saturated with the wine and bad become the emblems of slaughter. Christ Himself, wounded until covered with the blood of crucifixion, making use of this allusion when the question was asked: "Wherefore art Thou red in Thine apparel and Thy garments like one who treadeth i he wine vat?" He responded: "I have trodden the wine press alone." In all ages there has been great honor paid to agriculture. Seven-eights of the people in every country are disciples of the plow A government is strong in proportion as it is supported by an athletic and industriohs yeomanry. 8o long ago us before the fall of Carthage, Strnbo wrote twenty-eight books on agriculture; Hosiod wrote a poem on the same subject?"The Weeks and Days." Cato was prouder of his work on husbandry than of ail his military conquests. But I must not be tempted into a discussion of agricultural conquests. Standinga mid the harvests and orchards and vineyards of the Bible, and standing amid the harvests and orchards and vineyards of our own country?larger harvests than have ever before been gathered?I want to run out the analogy between the production of crops and the prowth of grace in ?Kn amii?*11 thn?a sacred writers makJntr. use ot that analogy. Id the first place, I remark, in grace as in the fields, there must be a plow. That whioh theologians call conviction is only the plowshare turning ud the 3ins that have been rooteii .and matted in the soul. A farmer said to his indolent son: "There are a hundred dollars burled deep in that field." The 9on ^ent to work and plowed the field from fence to fence, and he plowed It very deep, and then complained that he had not found the money: but when the crop had been gathered and sold for a hundred dollars more than any previous year, then the young man took the hint as to what his father meant when he said there were a hundred dollars buried down in that field. DeeD plowing for a crop. Deep plowing for a sdul. He who makes light of sin will never amount to anything in the church or In the world. If a man speaks of sin as though it were an inaccuracy or a mistake, instead of the loathsome, abominable, consuming and damning thing that God hates, that man will never yield a harvest of usefulness. Wnen I was a boy I plowed a Held with a team of spirited hones. I plowed it very quickly. Once in a while I passed over some of the sod without turning it, Out I did not jerk back the plow with its rattling devices. I thought it made no difference. After awhile my rather came along ana saia, "Why, this will never do: this isn't plowed deep enough; there you have missed this and you have missed that." Ana he plowed it over again. The difficulty with a great many people is that they are only scratched with conviction when the subsoil plow of God's truth ought to be put in up to the beam. My word is to all Sabbatb-school teachers, to Hit parents, to all Christian workersPlow deep! ^Plow deep! But what means all this crooked plowing, these crooked furrows, the repentance that am'punts to nothing? Men groan over their , sin4 but get no better. They weep, but their tears are not counted. They get convicted, but hot converted. What is the reason? I remember that on the farm we set a standard ^ith a red flag at the other end of the field.', We kept our eye on that. We aimed at that. We plowed up to that. Losing eight ipf that we made a crooked furrow. Keeping our eye on that w?* made a straight furrow. Now in this matter of conviction , we must have some standard to guide us. It is a red standard that God has set at ihe >other end of the field. It is the Cross. ^Keeping your eye on that yon will make a straight furrow, j^usiu^- u> ? ,uu wiW make a crooked furrow. Plow up to the Cross. Aim not at either end of the horizontal piece of the Cross, but at the upright piece, at the ccntre of It, the heart ot the Son of God who bore your sins and made satisfaction. Crying and weeping will not bring, you through. "Him hath God wilted to be a Prince and a Saviour to gmrepentance. V Oh, plow up to the Cros?! Asain, I remark, in grace as in the field, there must be a sowing. Iu the autumnal weather you find the farmer going across tbe field at a stride of about twenty-three Inches, and at ev^rv stride he puts his hand into the sack of grain and tie sprinkles tne seed-corn over the field. It looks silly to a man who does not know what he is doing. He Is doing a very Important work. He is scattering the winter,grain, and though iho anow may come, the next yimr there will be a great crop. Now. that in what we are doing when we are preaching thv Gospel?we are scattering the seed. It\ia "jLfoolishness of preaching, but it is the ifej. and though the snows of worlcf ' \ come down upon It, it will yield i glorious harvest. Let us be stL, wt*ww the right kind of seed. Sow mulien stalk and mulien stalk will come up. Sow Canada thistles and Canada thlsiles will come up. Sow wheat and wheat will come up. Let-ti? distinguish between truth and error. Let us know the difference between wheat and hellebore, oat and henbane. Again, I remark, in grace a* in the Tarm ' ;-j there must be a harrowing. I refer now not to a harrow that goes over the field in order 'v3H to prepare the ground for the seed, but ahar- j row which goes over after the seed Is sown, ] lest the birds pick up the seed, sinking it down into the earth so that it can take root, You know a harrow. It is made of bare of : wood nailed across each other, and the underslde of each bar is furnished with sharp teeth, and the horses are hitched to it. it : V goes tearing and leaping across the field, -,- ij driving the seed down into the earth until it ' J springe up In the harvest. Bereavement. I sorrow, persecution are the Lord's harrows 1 to sink the Gospel troth in your heart, ' v^f These were truths that you heard thirty: years ago; they have not affected yon untu recently. 8ome great trouble came over you, - ffil and the truth was harrowed In, and it has I come up. What did God mean In this coun- 1 tryinl857? Foracenturv there w&sthe.Goa- '1 pel preached, but a great deal of it produced 4 no result. Then God harnessed a wild J nanintno. hartrnr of commercial disaster. ' and that harrow went down Wall street, an<t ud Wall street, down Third street, ana up Third street, down State street, and ap State street, down Pennsylvania avenue, and ap /S8H Pennsylvania avenue, until the whole land was torn to pieces as it had never been be- A fore. What followed the harrow? A great awakening In which there were 500,(XW' ; ? souls brought into the Kingdom of .? our Lord. No harrow, no crop. Again, I remark, In grace as in the- farm >& there must be a reaping. Uany Chrlattaag'-igM speak of religion as though it were a matter i-'flSM of economics or insurance. They expect to , fl reap in the next world. Oh no! Now Is the , time to reap. Gather up the joy of the-, Christian religion this morning, this after noon, this night ir you nave not as moon urace as yon would litre to bare, thank God for what you have, and pray for more. You '""-'.j are no worse enslaved than Joseph, no worse ,.troubled than was David, no worm scourged .. .$m than was Paul. Yet, amid the rdttlin? of;,' tetters and amid the gloom o! dungeons, aba .' vfl ?ruld the horror of shipwreck, they r',yM triumphed ia the jrnic* of Go.I. The weakest H man in the house to-day has 500 acres o! . ifl spiritual joy all ripe. Why do you not go H aiid reap it? Yon have been groaning over ifiU your Infirmities for thirty yoare. Now give -U one rocnd shout over your emancipation. |JH You say you have it so hard; you might have it worse. You wonder why this great trouble keeps revolving through your sotil, turuinir and turning with a black nana on B the crank. Ab, that trouble Is the grindstone on which yon are to sharpen vonr* sickle. To the fields! Wake up! Takeoff I your green spectacles, your blue speetacIei^'jaM your black spectaoles. Pull up the corners .fl of your mouth as far as you pull them down, v-? To the fields! Reap! reap! ? Again, I remark. In grace as in fanninf^JuH there is a time for threshing. I tell youWSM bluntly that 13 death. Just as the farmer with a flail beats the wheat oat of the straw, so death beats the soul out ol the body. Every sickness is a stoke of the flail, and the sick-bed Is the threshing floor. What, say you, is death to a good man only taking ' wheat out of the straw? That is alL An H aged man has fallen asleep. Only yesterday you saw him in the sunny porch playing H with his grandchildren. Calmly he reoeived the message to leave this world. He bade* pleasant good-bye to his old friends. The telegraph oarrles the tidings, and on swift rail trains the kindred come, wanting onoe' more to look on the face of dear old grandfather. Brush back the gray hairs from his brow; It will never ache again. Pat him" >JW away In the slumber of the tomb. He will ,Bfl not be afraid of that night Grandfather was never afraid of anything. He will rise la the morning of the resurrection. Grandfather was always the first to rise. His voice has H already mingled in the doxologyof Heaven. -1 In AhllMtl UrKUUIttlliCt uiwojro uiu otu^ *14, v?*v*v?* Anything ghastly In that? No. The threeh- HH ing of the wheat oat of the straw. That is The Saviour folds a lamb In Hts bosom. The little child filled all the house with har^^H music, and her toys are scattered all np and I down the stairs jost as she left them.' what' if the hand that plucked four-o'oloclra out of the meadow is still? It will wave la the , eternal triumph. What If the voice that made manic in the home Is still? It wiUsbraflH the eternal hosauna. Put a white rose in one hand, a red rose in 'the other hand, and a'';^BB wreath of orange blossoms on the brow; the white flower for the victory, the red flower l^B for the Saviour's sacrifice, the orange bloe- ' jE* soms forher marriage day. Anything ghaa&O-'^^P Iy about that*1 Oh, no! The sun went down ; and the flower shut The wheat threshed fl out of the straw. "Dear Lord,, give me-^HH sleep," said a dying tboy, the son ofoneof my elders, "dear Lord, give me Bleep." And he closed his eves ana awoke In glory. Henry W. Longfellow, writing a letter of condolence to those parents, said, "Tho3e |H| last words were beautifully poetic," And\ Mr. Longfellow knew what is poetic. "Dear Lord, give me sleep." Twas not in cruelty, not in wrath. 'SB That the reaper came that day; ' 'Twas an angel that visited the earth And took tbe flower away. - |^H So It may be with us when our work la all HH done. "Deas Lord, give me sleep." BSfl I .have one more thought.to present I < >.??? onnirati of th? nlnflrinir. of thesowino. of the harrowing, of the reaping, of the threshing. I must now speak a moment AM the garnering. Hi Where Is the garner? Need I tell you? Oh, no. So many have gone oat from yoar own circles?yea, from your own family, that yoa have had your eyes on that garner for many a year. What a hard time some ;^H| of them had! Ia Gethsemanes or suffering, ^^8 they sweat Rre.-it drops of blood. Thef IB took the "cup of trembling" ana they pat-^^H it to their hot Hps and they cried, "If it possible, let this cap pass from me." Wltit-^BH tonguee of burning agony they cried. Lord, deliver my soal!" Bat they got ovcr^^H It. They all xot over it. Garnered! TheirM^H tears wiped away; their battles all endMiVH their hardens lifted. Garnered! The Lord of the harvest will not allow those sheaTW.^^H to perish in the equinox. Garnered! Some-^^H of us remember, on the farm, that thefl^H sheaves were pat on the top of the raok^HN which surmounted the wagon, and these.^HJ sheaves were piled higher and hlgner, and|Bfl after a while the horses started for the bara;^^H and these sheaves swayed to and fro in the^^H wind, and the old wagon oreaked, and the^Hfl horses made a struggle, and palled so hard^^H the harness came up in loops of leather oaH^b on their backs, ana when the front wheel^^H struck the elevated door of the barn itBH seemed as if the load would go no faitberj^^H until the workmen gave a great shout. anafl^H then with one last tremendous stiain, theHHB horses palled in the load; they were unhar^^^l neesed, and forkful after forkful of graio^^M fell into the mow. Ob, my friends, our get-H ting to heaven may be a pull, a hard pall, very hard pull; bat these sheaves are boonc^^HB to go in. The Lord of the harvest has pron^HH ised it. I see tho load at last coming the door of the heavenly garner. Th^^^H sheaves of the Christian soal sway to andfri^^^H in tbe wind of death, and the old body creakS^H under the load, and as the load strikes tb^HH door of the celestial garner, it seems as if can go no farther. It is the last struggl^l^H until the voices of angels and the voicos our departed kindred and the welcoau^^^H^ voice of God shall send tbe harvest ro^^^^^B into the eternal triumph, while all down the sky the cry is heard: home! harvest home!" ci^utccmtu wn i i-n him LIUIIILLI1IM i renfleld Survived Seventeen Serloaa A<^H|| dents and Lived Seventy-Three Gilbert Penfield, of Bristol. Conn., there a few nights ago from injuries in a runaway accident. He had more bad lack than any other in Connecticut, but still managed to three years beyond the Scriptural llml^^HHj three score and ten. Penfleld's bad iflHB long ngo passed into a proverb in his par^^BHj tbe Nutmeg State. BHHH He was seriously injured seventeen prior to the fatal accident, and almost time his life was despaired of. He through some very baa spells, and his hoped be would survive the eighteenth dent, but, owing to his age, be could^^^^^fl rally. Began acd Ended Life Together. The Rev. George Dunbarr~*l(ghty old, and his wife. Anna, seven ty-teiiieHHH^H old. who were playmates In youth anaN^^^B|H brated their golden wedding, died recHB^^H In New York City within twenty-four of each other. 9BKR i Australian exposition. Queensland intends to hold an tlonal exhibition at Brisbane next yeot^^H|^H m