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mlmtI floods. Business Interrupted and Homes Deserted in Several States. MILLS FORCED TO SHUT DOWN. The Mononjjtliela Rlvpr a Kucin; Torrent-?Kullroad Travel Interfered With in Several Statee, and Much Damage to Property Reported?Several Drowned In the Overfl iwlnc Waters in Kcutucky PiriSEfRo, Penn. (Special).?Tho usually placid Monongahela P.iver is n raging torrent, rushing onward with vast quantities of wreckage and rubbish upon Its surface. The landmarks of the stream are completely ob literated by the volume and rush of the angry waters, andihe locations of the various dams are only traceable by the eddies. Throughout the Monongahela Valley river traffic has been suspended, and there is a general feeling of apprehension. The rise was very rapid. Along the river at many places railroad tracks are covered by many feet of water. Mills and workshops are partially submerged and tht workmen nave been ^ driven from their benches'. The greatest damage thus far repotted is between JloKeesport and Pittsburg, where, throughout tho distance, the shores are lined with manufactories. A majority of these < places were compelled to suspend operations, and mu h loss ami damage will result. All of the railroads in the Mononsrahela Valley, with the single exception of the Monon branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, experienced much difficulty in getting their passengers through to their destination. At CJlassport tbe river rose so rapidly thnt the flr^a could Dot be drawn from the costly mrnaces of the United Coke, O.is and Chemical Company's plant, and, as these furnaces are now partially under water, they will be ba ily damaged, if not ruined. At McKeesport the rise in the Monongahela and Youghiogheny Rivers compelled many people to move their household goods by means of boats. The oity waterworks, Dewee's Woods Rolling Mill, the National/ Rolling Mill, Cannon's Planing Mills and all the coal yards are submerged. It is expected that the loss in the Monon{vnliola nnrl HKi'rt V-illacc rrill rt?Qr?h htin^roi^o , H..OJC7 >?.?? ?V??KU UUUU.VU.' of thousands of dollars. RIVERS RISE RAPIDLY. Losses Caused by the Flood in the State of Kentucky. Fbakkfobt, Ky. (Special).?Nearly all streams in Kentucky are clear out of their banks aad doing unmeasurable damage. Several people have been drowned in various parts of the State. Much stock has been lost, fencing swept away, and other property almost ruined. The streams all through the mountains are higher than for years, and the greatest damage is feared. News comes from Pineville, Ky., that two white men, while crossing a raging stream, were drowned, and also a revenue officer, who was in the mountains loosing after moonshiners. At Middlesborough, a cloudburst deluded the locality, drowning James Charwell and riunily. Charweli and his wife and four children while eu route home from a neighbor's in a wagon were caught in tho cloudburst and all drowned. Tho Worst Floo?l In Years. Wheeling, W. Va. (Special).?The Kanawha Valley is suffering from the worst flood in years. Charleston is under water. Members af the Legislature wnt to the State iiuu-3c 1u uuuld, ul uu wlvi> jjwiu, since the bar^nent is flooded and the fires put out. Suffering among the poor is great, and churcies and schools are filled with those driven from their homes. It is impossible to estimate the damage in the upper part of Charleston. Business is almost entirely suspended. Telephone connection is broken. The postoffico now oc" 'pics an island. Maryland In the Cabinet. Wjfp W 40& f \ JAMES A. GA?.Y, i (Has a:ceptc l a por;'ol;o offered him by Minor ADDRESS TO S LVER REPU3LICANS. Teller and IIin Associate* C.ill a Meeting ol a Frorisional Xatiuual Committee. Th>! Silver Republicans in the Senate and House signeu an address to the people,which whs made public at Washington, calling a meeting of a "provisional National Committee of the Silver republican parly" in Chicago June 8 next, for the purpose of callins h Nat onal Convention of Silver Republicans aud those who will co-operato with thetu ''until the gr? at monetary issue is settled and settled right."\ Each State and Territory is asked to designate a member of tho Provisional National Committee, to represent it in all matters preliminary to the calling of tho National Convention. Charles A. Tow no. of Minnesota, is namod Cnainnan of the committee until a further crganization is elTeeted. The address declares that th" Republican pany has abauclonel the principles' u which ir was founded an-l that the Silver Republicans cannot follow "that party into a shameless abandonment of American interests and the tyranny of an alien m< nay system." It i3 announced that the address is issued in response to numerous inquiries requesting information re^ardinjr party policy. It is signed by Senators Teller, Dubois, Cannon, Pettigrew, Mam le and Jones, and Representatives To wne, Ilartman, Sbafroth and Allen, of Utah. "Secretary t<? tho President" Now. The office of President's private secretary has ceased to exist and from th s time on the duties of the office will be discharged by tho Secretary to the Pres'denf. Mr. Thurberis the first officer to append this title to his name. Tho change, wh ch was made in the Legislative Appropriation act just approved, has gone into ' fleet. Mm. C!eve >in>! nt Princeton. Mr-. Grover C evehnd. her mother, Mrs. H. E. Perrin , an 1 her daughters, Ruth. Esther an ! Marion, arr.vud in Princeton, N. J., :*nd took pos -ssiou of tiie President's uew home. Aimivl :?t Curttions. Senator Ellsworth introduced a bill in the New York Legislature forbidding uewsjKiper cartoons or the printing of pictures without consent. Convletcil of Filibustering. Captain Hart, of the Laura la, wiis convicted in Philadelphia of aiding a military expedition agains; .Spain. Hems o.' Interest. The gold proiuct of tho world is rapidly Increasing. According to offlciul reports. thi plague in India is abating "THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Waihineton Item*. The bill 'o incorporate the International Bank was favorably reported to the House. The House Committee reported in favor of removing General Smith, Commandant of the Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth, Kan. William J. Bryan appeared on the floor of fhe nous* and was greeted by many of his former colleagues. In the Senate a resolution calling foi an investigation of the death of Dr. Ru z in Cuba was adopted. In the House Mr. Grosvenor (Rep. Oliio,) took occasion to denounc2 civil service reform, and was roundly applauded bv Republican members. Secretary Oluey assured Senator Sherman thnt there was noihing critical iu the relations between the United Stales and Spain. Senor de Lome guaranteed to Secretary Olney that Dr. Ruiz's murderers, if there was murder, shall be punished, and that if insisted upon all Americans in custody in Cuba shall be brought to Havana for trial. A bill for the reorganization of the Consular Service was reported favorably to the House. The Senate Committees made amendments to the Sundry Civil Bill, adding nearly $750,00 to the appropriation. The Senate passed a bill for a new system of return postal card and envelope service. The General Defl^ien^y bill, carrying an appropriation of $8,433,937, was reported to the House. The House reversed the finding of its Election Committee, and seated the contestant in e TT _ _ 1.1 r./xrM Wrt luo CK5U Ul XXUpKlU^t VS. XY.CUUCIU UVUi mo Tenth Kentucky District. Domestic. The Gorman-American Bank of Tonawanda, N. Y., shut its doors because of a run and a State examiner was placed in charge. The flood at Pittsburg, Penn., is subsiding, and it is believed that the worst is over at Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Ky. Two children of Mrs. Allen, of Washington Park. Brooklyu, were left alone in the flat while their mother went to call on a sick friend. The younger child, aged three, set Are to her clothes and was burned to death. Her sister wa? fatally burned. The furniture ignited and was destroyed. At Tallahassee Fla., M. Nicholson, conricted of the mur.ler of J. Duval, a livery man, or .naaison, nn., in io?o,una sentenced to bo hanged March 17, committed 9Uicide by laudanum poisoning. By the biggest ice deal known on the Penobscot River, in Maine, for years, the Consolidated Ice Company, of Nt-w York, has acquired the bouse and harvesting plant of the American Ice Company. The Canndlan Pacific Railway Company has place I with the Carnegie Company, at Homestead, Pcno., an order for 65.000 tons of steel rail?. The People's Party, in convention at Chi??Poffaw XI I-Tm Pflann OAn A f uvunuaiou vauni ii. ii.wiiovu, uvu w? Chicago^ murdered Mayor, for the same office, which is to b? filled next April. Mr. Harrison is the leading candidate of the free silver Democrats for Mayor also. The engine nn 1 express, mail and baggage cars of Train No. 1 on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad were thrown from the rails at Glen Station, Ky., by running into awashout caused by the extremely heavy rains. No damage was done to the sleepiug cars. Mr. Stout, the road master, was killed. A despatch from Paris says that Dr. Steinitz, the famous che^s player, is dead at Moscow, Russia. About two weeks ago it was announced that Dr. Steinitz was suffering from a mental disorder and had been placed in the Morocoff Private Hospital, at Moscow. William Steinitz was born at Prague, Bohemia, on May 14. 1836. The family of Jacob Ciciez, of Cleveland Ohio, was almost completely wiped out of existence by fire. Eight persons were burned. Jacob and Mary Ciciez, husband and wife, were fatally burned, aad their four children, who are all under six years old, received injuries. Albert Jerno and Joseph Jerga, boarders, were also badly burned. The Southern Pacific Railroad will pay $150,000 to the State of Keutucky for its charter. Ferdinand May was arrested in New York City charge 1 with defrauding a bank in Strassburg, Germany, of over S200.000. by lalsely representing that lie una soia ana consigned to this country a large amount of whulebone, on which thi bank cashed bills of exchange. Ho was sent to Ludlow Street Jail in dt-fau't of ?100,000 bail. R. G. Dun A Co.. of New York City, in their last weekly trade statement, gave a decidedly encouraging revi;w of business condition?. At Pra:rieDu Chien, Wis.,ex-County Judge and ex-Mayor C. E. Fuller committed suicide by shooting himself. The suicide was due probably to mental aberration. Deer in the Green Mountains of Vermont, were never more plentiful or in better condition since their importation into the State ten years ago l han during the present winter, rne Tans 01 saow imvo uccu cum* piirntively light, and in consequence the deer have been wandering through the forests a? during other seasons of the year. The recent increase in incendiary fires in New York City has aroused the Are officials into raukinK a protest concerning the blanket policies which are issued by flre insurance companies wilhout any preliminary survey of the property to be insured. A resolution was introduced in the Senate at Albany, N. Y., calling for an investigation of the conduct of department stores. The substitution of electricity for steam as a motive power for the Brooklyn Bridge cats will, it is stated, save *10,000 a year. Captain Romeyn, of the Fifth Artillery, stationed at Fort >I?Pherson, felled Lieutenant O'Brien to the ground with a blow on I--. - -nul. 1. !? IUB J'' W . J. IJJS IUUK |Jinvo IU luo v.V'UI.JV. VI I dress Dannie. At New Bloomfield, Peun., Dr. T. L. Johnston, who a few weeks ago was convicted of murder in the second decree for the killing of Dr. Ge rtreS. Henry at Duncauuon, was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment in the Eastern Penitentiary. An unknown Italian woman was murdered at Norwalk, Conn., and after tlie assassin had inflicted sixteen terrible \vouu.1s he placed the body on a railroad track, but it was discovered, aud the police ar searching for the murderer. At New Brunswick, N. J., Elwoo<l Thompson, twenty-nine years of age. shot and instantly killed himself iu his home on Bald win street. He leaves i wife and five children. His suicide is attributed to worrj over the disgrace brought upon him by hi.c mother, who recently was convicted of keeping a disorderly house. The accounts of retiring State Treasure! Joseph Uartly and State Auditor Eugene Moore, of Nebraska, show a shortage of more than half a million dol'ars. Three burglars held up John Welsh ani' his wife iu their road houie nearMenlo Park N. J. Catherine Selio, ol A'dene, N". Y., sacrifice J her life in saving the lives of her brother.an 1 sisters when a lamp exploded. At Iron River, Mich., the residence ol Thomas Brosnowsky was burned an t two children p rshoi in the flr>\ General Jobu C. Robinson, a veteran o' the Civil War, died in his homo in Elmira N. Y. Floods in the Ohio IViver and its tributaries caused preat damago to property. Korelcn Note*. The American, Scott, was released frorr confinement incomunicado in a Cuban jai' at the demand of United States ConsulGeneral Lee. A savage attack was made on Willinnr Waldorf Astor by John Burns in tho British House of Commons. President Krneirer tins asked that tin Hi?h Court of th-South Afr can Republic bt placed uuder I he Volksra id, through fear o' the plots of Cecil Rhodes. James Fry, who murdered J. P. Shaw in p bush llfteen miles Irom Emsdale, Canada, as the result of a quarrel, has committed suicide by shooting. Fry had given out that hf would never be captured alive, aud had barricaded himself in the house. The Powers ordered Greece to evacuate Crete within twenty-four hours. Kinj; George replied that he would do so If the autonomy of the island was guaranteed by Europe. France and Brazil have signed a protocol refering their dispute regarding territorial boundaries to arbitration, the President ol the Swis.s Cot-foJeration to be the referee. NINE KILLED BY A TRAIN. H< Ml But One of a Familv Party Meet aa Tl f\ .1 . O ' flol ineir ueain ai a orossiriff, ? aei tlu A CHILD'S MARVELOUS ESCAPE, oil tlo Mg A Shocking Tragedy Occurs N'enr Chattanoogn, Tenn.?Engine Crashes Into of r a Loaded Wagon ?An Infant Found 5ei on the l'ilot of the Locomotive in the je] Anns of Her Lifeless Little Sister, ?a aci Chattanooga, Tenn. (Special).?An ink ta[ coming passenger train on the Georgia Di- qq vision of the Southern Railroad, bound from [nl Atlanta, struck a wagon at a crossing four ini miles east of this city at noon Wednesday. t?? Nine members of the family of W. J. Wood- f0, ward, a farmer, living ten mlies from the 3ts city, were killed, the only occupant of the w* wagon who escaped being a three-year-old ??* child. Virgil Woodward, who was rescued ac uninjured from beneath the extension front 3. i of the locomotive immediately after the ac- ^ cident. Those killed were: yyj Mrs. Laura Woodward, aeed 44; George, a q0 son, aged 24; Josie Lee, a daughter, aged 22; Mrs. Lizzie Woodward Montgomery, a married daughter, ajjed 23; her son. aged two ^ months; Delia Woodward. as;ed 17; Daisy Woodward, aged 10: Mary Woodward, aged i 12: Ada Woodward, aged 8. i The family were en route to the city to have a family picture taken, prior to the de- ;j0 parture of Mrs. Montgomery, who intended fn laotrn fnr Klnrnnfft Aln_. to ioin her hUS? band. The father an I eldest son had oome C to the city eariier in the day. '0H The wagon was drivtn by George Wood- , ward. The turnpike crosses the tracks just beyond a curve. The train was running at lot a speed of thirty-flve miles an hour, and just ak as it rounded the curve, Engineer Laird saw ;he the wagon filled with people crossing the ian tracks. He sounded the whistle and the ;he bell was rung. The driver seemed to grow ?oi oonfused and. instead of pulling uo, he iD( whipped his horses, apparently hoping to iee cross before the train reached him. ne The engineer reversed his lever, but tbo < train's momentum was too great, nud it :he struck the wagon squarely broadside as it p0j was midway of the tracks. of i Instantly the air was filled with bodies and ;0S fragments of the shivered wagon. Seven of ^ the occupants were instantly killed and two were so horribly mangled that they died in four hours. The engineer is prostrated with i grief over the tragedy, and for a timo it was thought he would lose his mind. 21a A striking feature of the cutastropho is g that no limbs were broken, but in nearly 3ia every oase fhe skulls of the victims were fr0 crushed to fragments, each body seeming to ;ttV have described an ellpse through the air pro and have fallen upon the head. for Lizzie Montgomery descended on tho pilot jU| of the locomotive and still held her two-year- Q0| old sister, who escaped with a few scratches, p0j and was the only oufe saved, in her lifeless arms. WASHINGTON'S NEW SENATOR. Gr< Ceorce F. Turner is a Prominent Itesldent of Spokane. A George F. Turner, the new United States kl< Senator from Washington, is one of the most 'or prominent men of Spokane, and has for lja' many years been a Republican Ifvier in the 6 aas an< GEOROE F. TURNEK. I101 J a J{ eastern part of the State. Most of his bus!- / ness luteresis are centered in the Trail Creek mines and the development of adjacent c'v properties. | ?& GOVERNOR'S PALACE BURNED. \w ou< AH the Turkish ltecord*. Contracts, anti ten so on Burned at Canea. a 1 \Vn Fire was discovered at an early hour in the 30E morning in the Governor's palace at Canea, all Island of Crete, a building constructed of I wood, .ind In h very short tirae the structure ^ with nil its contents was burned to the ,,a, ground. to Vice-Admiral Canevaro, of the Italian ^is squadron, who is in command of the united naval forces in Cretan waters, resided in the ae^ palace, which was guarded by a strong force fejj of Italian sailors. The energetic efforts of the British marines, who form apart of the foreign force occupying the town, alone DA saved the thickly populated district, in whi'-h the palaoe is situated, from destruction. Do- Ha tacnments of sailors from the warships in the harbor wore landed, and rendered valuable aid in lighting the flames. " The lire destroyed the last vestiga of the for machinery of the Turkish Government. All ?a( of the records were consumed, as well as . . contracts and financial, legal, an i munici- "al . mull., rnq Dill 'lOCUIUeUlS. Mlino mo wui.iv- v.1.0 ?uiu ing the Moslem rabble set lire to several we houses In the town and suburbs. to Duriug the fire the Governor's safe fell Kl\ frorti the floor on which it stood Into the Un ruins and burst opon. The sa!e contained 1 7000 pounds Turkish. The soldiers who had all gathered about the burning building and ;el were engaged in trying to extinguish the pai flames, upou seeing the contents of the safe ( exposed, tried to steal the money, but wore in prevented by the European officers, who Hi- Ap reotodthe sailors un lor their co-nmand to his fire a volley of blank cartridges at the would-be robbers. I Philadelphia's Ambition. The question is being mooted in Phlladol- 3tr phla of removing the State Capital from H ir- 9x1 rlsburg to that city. Ri' lo^ Five of a Family Dead. August Hanson and his wife and Ave children, living six miles from Oldhum, South * Dakota, were found uucoiftcious, probably 'ot from flax straw gas and smoke from their ch stoves. The wifean l four children are dead, on and Hauson is in a critical condition. One an boy is recovering. be Kxtra Session of the Senate. The President issued a proclamation calliug an extra session of the Senate to con- u , vone at 12 o'clock March 4. to receive such ;i communications as may be received iron: :un the incoming President. Cj'cliiiff Notes. Thfi statistician who asserts that the total weekly rai'eage of alt the bicycle riders in lb the world is !)!)0,0i)0,000 miles Ls nor likely to m be contradicted. th The bicycle dealers of St. Louis, Mo., are th p anning the formation of a bicycle arcade. be Several firms have already hirel buildings v? In the selected location. W Lady bicvclists have begun to utilize their bicycles for ornamental purposes. When a bicycle has had Its day it is dismemberod. limb from limb, und the parts hung up on the drawing room wall. On nails that once (l; supported china brackets, over doors where r, fans held position, all the remains of the old cycles are displayed to view. t TO PRESERVE THE FORESTS. >w the I'rcsldent Celobruted Washlnc;ton'a Birthday. ?resldent Cleveland celebrated the 165th niversary of the birth oi the flrst PresiDt of tho republic by issuing thirteen cxltive orders which are far-roaching In sir effect. the recommendation of Sccrotary Frani aud a Forestry Commission of the Nanal Academv of Sciences, the President nnd and promulgated thirteen proclamans establishing thirteen additional forest ervations, containing an aggregate area 21,379,840 acres. L'he report of the Forestry Commission to Jietary Francis, and his report to the Presiat, give interesting and valuable inforition noneornine this important Executive In his report to the 'President, Secre y Francis says; 'An appropriation of S25.000 was made by ngress 'to enable the Secretary of the tetior to meet the expenses of an aestivation and report by the Nanal Academy.of Sciences on the induration of a National forestry policy the forested lands of the United ties, Under authority of this f.ct, and th the approval of the Secretary of the In1or, Professor Wolcott Gibbs, President of i National Academy of Sciences, appointed ommission, consisting of Professor Charles Sargent.dirpctor of the Arnold Arboratum, Harvard University; General H. L. Abbott, ilted States Engineer Corps; Professor lliam H. Brewer_of Yale University, Ar Id Hague Ql ttte united states ueoiogicai rvey, AlejAnder Agassiz. and Gifford Pinit, the President of the Academy being erIclo a member ot tho commission." HANNA TO BE SENATOR. vernor Buftlinell Will Nauie Him to Succeed Sherman. Governor Bushnell, of Ohio, gave out the lowing statement to the press: 'It had been my intention to mako no mlncementln relation to tho action I would e la the mntter of an appointment to (111 i prospective vacancy In the Ohio reprobation in the United State* Senate until i vacancy actually existed, But on acmt of the manifest Interest of the people 1 their dt>sire to know what will be done I >m it best now to make the following state* nt: 'When Senator Sherman resigD3 to enter i Cabinet of President McKinley I will apnt to succeed him Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, Cuyahoga Countv, to serve until his sucsor is chosen by the Seventy-third General lemblycf the State. I trust this action ! meet with the approval of the people. ' asa s. bushnell." t was not expected tho formal announcent would be made before Senator Shern's resignation was placed In hi-j hands, lince George B. Cox. of Cincinnati, dereJ for Chairman Hanna, the pressure m other Republican quarters in Ohio in or of the Cleveland man ha3 become very nounoed. It not only became too strong Governor Bushnell to run counter to. : 90 strong that he oould no longer withd a declaration of his Intention to apnt Mr, Hanna. GREAT POWERS SHELL CRETE. tek Flag Lowered After Seventy Shot* But Hoisted Again. L fusillade having continued at Canea, :ind of Crete, despite tne warnings of tho iign admirals, the united squadrons bom.Inrl rho insurant p.nmn outside of Canea. imnrt flrin&r was heard in tbo hills to the itwnrd. The reply of the Turks was feeble, :l it was obvious that they must abandon ilr positions if pres-ed. Their gun practice >m the redoubt on the outer lines was licrous. Che chief Cretan position was a hamlet on idgeof hills, 4000 yards from the flagship. 4.30 p. m. signals wore made to Her BritMnjesty's ships Dryad; Earrier and Rolge, together with one Italian, one Gern and one Russian warship, to open Are the Cretan position, where the Greek flag 9 hoisted some Jays ago. ?he British ships fired forty and the other elgn i.hips thirty shell3 at he village and ned the house heM by the Cretans. The ; was soon lowered, and tha order "cease 3" so mded aftBr ton minutes. Thereupon ) flag was rehoisted. The rocks around re crowded with Cretans. ^he Turks, encouraged by the fleets, now 3ned a lively fu9itlad3, while the Cretans re removing the wounded. The Cretans 1 not reply duri ag the whole performance. 8LONDIN DEAD. e Ma i Who Won Fame by Crossing Niagara on a Tight Hope. Jlondin, the rope walker, died at his ne, Niagara Villa, South Ealing, England, aw days ago. )n June 30. 1859, Blondin startled the llized world by crosjfns Niagara Falls a tight rope. Fifty thousand people messed the feat, which had never :n before attempted. During the folring year Blondin repeated tho perili journey nearly fifty times, and on Sepnbei 14, 1863, he made tho trip, carrying man on bis back, before tho Prince of ties. The latter,- when Blondin was praited to him, exclaimed, "Thank God, it's over!" llondin's real name was Jean Francob d3 nvolet. He begin ropa-walking when ir yoare old, and only a few months ag:> re aa exhibition in London. Ho appeared bo as active as over, and repwatod all of ranrvelous feats on a ropa nearly one ndred feet from tte ground. Blondin yer used a safety not and said ho nevor t fear on a rope. lUGHTER FOR GENERAL HARRISON. is I.right Bine Eyes and Weights Eight Pounds anil a Hair. ["here is great joy at tho residence of mor President Harrison, in Indianapolis, 1., for at 5.30 a. m. Sunday there camo a >v eirl with bright blue eyes that strongly emble the Harrison type. Tho baby ichts eight pounds aud a half, according Dr. Jameson, tho attending physician, and res every indication of perfect health. Mrs. rrison is doing nicely. Phe finest woolon and cambric giIts and sorts of b.\by requisites have been revod at thi Harrison hotne during the st fe .v weeks. Jenoral and Mrs. Harr.son were marriod St. Thomas's P. E. Church, New ?ork. ril 6, 1896. Tho former President is in > sixty-fourth year. Mississippi and Missouri Overflow. leavy rains in the valleys of tho Missouri srer and its tributaries have floodel those earns, and tho Mississippi is receiving the tra volume of water to swell its own rise. /or men are preparing ior an overflow of viands. Moslems Slain !ln Crete. Dffl^ial reports from Crete say that the ;al number of Moslems, men, women and ildren, who have baen killed in the prest troubles on that island Is over 27.000, d that twenty-five Moslem villages nuva en pillaged anl burned. Undeserved Pensions. Tho President sent to tho Senate a veto of private pension bill, accompanying it with message criticising Congress for making .d precedents by grantiug pensions wnere ey wore not deserved. Fur n New Department. It was said at Washington tha"; a bill for o establishment of a Department of Comurce ami Manufactures would bo pushed rough Congress at an early day, and that a Cabinet member for the department had ;en selected in tho person of John H. Con>rse, President of the Baldwin Locomotive orks, at Philadelphia. Nova Scotia's Finances. The provincial estimates for the ensuing ical year were3ubmiitod to thoNov.i Scotia isrislaturo. The revenue for tho year is tirnated at $839,099, and tha expenditure! ?S >5,033. PRESENTED BY ALL TEXAS. A Silver Service From tlie Lone Star State to the Battleship of Her Name. Ten thousand people witnessed the presentation of the silver .service lo the United State3 battleship Texas on the plaza in front of the Bpnch Hotel at ttaiveston? rnxas. Captain Glass, accompanied by his officers, arrived at the wharf shortly after 1.30 o'clock p. m. They were followed by the bluejackets and marines of the Texas, and all were received find escorted bv the local military to the Tremont Hoto1. where they were met by Governor Culberson and staff. After the band had played "My County, 'Tis of Thes," "Dixie" and ''Yankee Doodle," Governor Culberson was introduced, and In a brief and eloquent speech he expressed the sincore appreciation of the people at the hi(,h compliment which had been paid the Stale by the Secretary of the Navy, and as a slight token of that foiling commissioned him to present a silver service through Captain Glass to the battleship named after the State of Texas-. When the Governor finished, presentations were made, embracing a Lone Star flajj, portraits of Austin and Houston, a collection of Texas histories and works by Texas authore, and a small service of silver by various chapters of the Daughters of the Republic. Captain Glass responded in a happy vein. Cnp imu VJltlOO WOO quiuuoMKk.v-..,. ?r I At the conclusion of his remarks a guar I of blue-jackets was formed around the silver service, which consists of fourteen pieces of sterling silver, weighing 1200 ounces aud costing $5000. CARY IN THE NEW CABINET. The Maryland Man Announce* That He Hat Been Salecteil. Jamfis A. Gary, of Baltimore, MJ., has been selected for the position of PostmasterGeneral in Major McKinley's Cabinet and has accepted. He authorized this announcement: "Mr. McKlnley has tendered to me a portfolio in his Cabinet. While it was not /ioflnJ+alv aafflo/1 mMr?h nn? T mm namiPAii if* will be one which I can accept." Jame3 Albert Gary Is a widely known manufacturer of Baltimore, Md., and has been prominent in Republican politics since 1870, when he was nominated for Congress in the Fifth Maryland District In 1879 the Republicans nominated him for Governor. He has been a Maryland delegate to every National Convention of his pariy since 1872, and from 1880 to 1896 represented bis State upon the Republican National Committee. Mr. Gary was born in Uncasville> Conn., in 1833. of English descent. He was taken to Baltimore as a boy, and was educated at Rock Hill Institute, Ellicott City, Md. In 1860 he was admitted to partnership in the firm of James S. Gary & Son, manufacturers of cotton duck, twills, etc., and since CQ6 aetua 01 ijim miuur, iu ioiu, una uwu tut? head of the firm. Ia business Mr. Gary has been highly successful. Ha own? valuable jotton duck mills in Howard and Baltimore Counties, M l. He is also largely interested In financial and other business corporations in Baltimore. CONGRESS OF MOTHERS ADJOURNS. Its Three Day*' Meeting Proved a Success From Every Standpoint. The National Congress of Mothers, alter a three days' meeting at Washington, has adt ^.1 f.,- In juurnwu. xuo aucuunuco wi? itu iu of expectation. Those participating as delepates and spectators believe that the HonKress is the beginning of a great movement for the education of women in respect to rearing their families. The first Congress of Mothers has not only had the support and encouragement of those his:h in official circles, but of scientists, educators and progressive thinkers throughout the country. Many letters and telegrams of sympathetic feeling have been received. At the closing session Dr. Mary Walker tried to talk about dress reform. An animated discussion eusued, and an officer started to ejeot Miss. Walker, but was prevented. Resolutions were adopted 'or a continuance of a headquarters in Washington from which articles relative to the progress of the work will be sent to newspapers. A Congress of Mothers will be held annually ic Washington. SPAIN WINS IN THE PHILIPPINES. A Crushing Defeat of the Insurgents Re. ported. A dispatch from Manila, the capital of the Phil!ppine Islands, says that the Spaniards have won a brilliant victory over the insurgents, and inflicted a crushing blow on the rebellion. The troops attacked the rebel stronghold at Silang. whioh was desperately defended by a large force of insurgents. The fighting was without material advantage to either aid a unfit fViA frnnnti wapa afnrm the rebel position. The oommand was obeyed with alacrity. The rebels made a brief stand against the ouTush of the troops, and then those who wero able to do so fled precipitately in the direction of Ymus, which is now the last rallying point of the insurgents. The loss of the troops is not stated, but the number 0/ rebels killed is placed at 500. STEEL RAILS FOR EXPORT. The Carnegie Company Gets an Order for 100,000 Tons From England. Millard Hunsicker, representative of the Carnegie Company, London, has forwarded to his company in Pittsburg, Penn., orders for steel rails for export to England amouat; ?1ft 1 nnft fnna Hna nt tha ndara lu fn* IU? IW iVJyVVV IUU.7, VUU Wl VUW WIUW4J IJ IVt 25,000 ton3 forthe London au'l Northwestern Uailroad. and a similar order is booked for the London and Southwestern Rallroa l. The other orders are smaller and are for different roads. It is und rstood that soma of them are merely first orders and largely of the trial class. It Is also reported that the company has just secured an order for about 11,000 tons of steel rails from the Government of Japan. Greece Defl.int. A British gunboat turns! back a Greek transport carrjlng reinforcements to Crete. The act caused great indignation In Athens. The Greek Government persists iu its defiance of the Powors. Berlin newspapers denounce Great Britain for its refusal to blockPiruaita Thrt riimnr nf A mRQ4Hr?rfl of 2000 Moslems at Sitia la oonflrmed. Lonl Salisbury has sent a note to the Powers favoring the granting of autonomy to Crete. The Greek Government called out army reserves and the National League threatened to foment revolution in the Balkan States if Crete should be taken awaj Irom Greece. Chief Ju?tlce Heavier Dead. Chief Justice Mercer Beasley of the Su. preme Court of New Jersey died Friday in Trenton. 31ercer Beasley was born in Mercer County, New Jersey, in 1815, and had bBen Cnief Justice for thirty-three years. His present term would not have expired until March, 1899. Until very reeentlv he did not show his great aije. His step wa3 (lrm and his eye3 bright, and but for tho deep seams in his face any one would have readily believed him to be a much younger man than he was. Out of the Common ltmi. The Canadian Indian Famine Fund amounts to j'5 ,000. Two-thirds of the population of the Brit sh Channel islands are ,'emale?. An occasional wolf hunt varies tho monotony of life in some parts of Illinois. Mrs. Polly Cloud Graves, of Lexington, Kv., has just celebratod her 100th birthday. About 10,000 bale3 of tobacco are now stored iu tho bonded warehouses at Tampa, Fin. In Paris it is estimated th;it there are no less than 50,000 victims of the morphine habit. Hales of print cloths for a recent week at Fall lUver, Mass., were the heaviast on record. The company which controls the amber product of Prussia pays 3160,000 annually v'or toe privilege. ? - " ; REV. DR. TALMAQE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY TIIE NOTED DIVINE. Subjcct: "A Shattered Faith." Text: "And soma oa broken pieces of the eh'.p."?Acts jfxvll., 44. Nover off Goodwin sands or the Skerries or Cape Hatteras was a ship in worse predlca. ment than, in the Medltermnean hurricane, was the grain ship on which 276 pas.vju-ars were driven on the coast of Malta, Ave miles from the metropolis of that island, called Uitta Vecchia. After a two weeks' tempest, when the ship was entirely disabled and captain and crew had become completely demoralized, an old missionary took command 01 trie vessel, tie was smaii, orooked-backa.i and sore-eyed, according to tradition. It wa3 Paul, the only unscared man aboard. He was no more afraid of a Euroclydon tossing the Mediterranean sea, now up to the gates of heuven and now sinking it to the gntes'of hell, than he was afraid of a kitten playing with a string. He ordered them all down to take their rations, first asking for them a bles3tucr. Then he insured all their lives, telling them they would be rescued, anl, so far from losing their heads, they would not lose so much of their hair as you could cut off with one cli'-k of the scissors?uay, not a thread of it, whether it were srray with a#e or golden with youth, -'There shall not a hair fall irom ine neaa 01 any or you. Knowing that they can never get to the desired port, they make the sea on the fourteenth night black with overthrown cargo, so that when the ship strikes it will not strike so heavily. At daybreak they saw a creek and In their exigency resoived to make for it. Aad so t!iey cut the ca'jles, took in the two paddles they had on tho3e old boats and hoisted the mainsail so that they might come with such force as to be driven high up on the beach by some fortunate billow. There she goes, tumbllug towards the rocks, now prow foremost,now stern foremost, now rolling over to the starboard, now over to the larboard; now a wave dashes clenr over the deck, and it seems as if the old craft has gone forever. But up she comes again. Paul's arms around a mast, he cries: "All is wejl. Go I has given mo all those that sail with me." Crash went the prow, with such force that it broke off the mast. Crash went the timbers till the 3U?13 1 UOUDU lUWUi^U UVU CM UO LVT JJUO VI I U O vessel. She parts amidships, and into a thousand fragments the vessel goes,and into the waves 276 immortals are precipitate 1. Some ot them had been brought up on the seashore and had learned to sw>m, and with their chins just above the waves and by the strokes of both arms and propulsion of both feet they put out for the beach and reached it. But alas for those others! They have never learned to swim, or they were wounded by the falling of the mast, or the nervous shock was too great for them. And others had been weakened by long seasickness. Ob, what will become of them? "Take that piece oi a rudder," snys Paul to oue. "Take that fragment ot a spar," says Paul to another. "Take that image of Castor and Pollux." "Take that plank from i he lireboat." "Take anything and head for the beach." What a struggle for liie in the breakers! Oh, the merciless waters, now they sweep over the heaJs of m n. women and children! Hold on there' Almost ashore. Keep up your courage. Remember what Paul told you. There the receding wave on the beach leaves in the sand a whole family. There crawls up out of the surf the centurion. There another plank comes in. witha lifeclingiugfast to it. Tlier^ auother piece of the shattered vessel, with its freightage of an immorlal son!. They must by this time all be saved. Yes: there comps in last or ail, lor un uhu ooeu u?o sou- i ing the rest, the old missionary, v-ho wrings the w.iter from his gray beard and cries out, "Thank God. all are here!" Gather around a fire and call the roll. Pan 1 builds a Are. and when the bundle of sticks begins to crackle, and, standing and sitting around the blaze, the passengers begiu to recover from tbelr chill, and the wet clothes begin lo dry. and warmth tejiins to come into all the shivering passengers, let the purser of the vessel go round and see if any of the poor creatures are missing. Not one of the crowd that were plunged into the sea. How it relieves our anxiety as we read: "Some on broken pieces pf the ship. And so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land." Having on previous occasions looked at the other passengers, I conflue invsolf today to an examination of those who came In on broken pieces of the ship. Thero is something about them that excites iu me an intense interest. I am not so mucti interested in those that could swim. They sot ashore, as I expected. A tniio of water is not a very great undertaking for a stromj swimmer, or even two mil?8 are not. But I cannot stop thinking about those on broken pieces of the ship. The great gospel ship is the finest of the universe and can carry more passengers than any craft ever constructed, and you couia no mora wreck it than vou could wreck the throne of God Alin'ghty. I wish all ffc people would tome aboard of her. I could not promise a smooth voyage, for ofttimes it will be tempestuous or a chopped sea. but I could promise safe arrival for all who took passage on that Great Ea>teru, so called by me because its comtnan lor came out of the east, the star of the east a badge of his authority. But a vast multitude do not tako regular pa-sage. Their theology is broken in pieces, and their life is broken in pieces, nud thoir habits are broken in pieces, and thetr word ami spiritual prospects are broken in p'oces, and yet I believe tbey are going to reach the sninlng snore, ana I am encouraged oy rne experience of those people who are spoken of in the text, "Some on broken pieces of the ship." Oue object in this sermon is to encourage all those who caunot take the whole system of religion as we believe it, but who really believe something, to come ashore on that one plauk. I do not underrate the value of a great theological system, but where in all the Bible is there anything that says Believe in John Calvin and thou ahalt be saved? or, believe in Arminius and thou jUn!f ho cnva/t*} haliutra In avmul i"*P Finrh and thou shait be saved? or, believo in tho Thirty-nine Articles and thou shalt be saved? A mau may be orthodox and eo to hell, or heterodox and go to heaven. Tho man who in tho deep affection of his heart accepts Shrist is saved, and the man who does not accept him is lost. 1 oelieve in both the Heidelberg and Westminster catechisms, and I wish you all did, but you may believe lu nothing they contain except the od? idea, that Christ came to save sinners, and that you aro one of them; and you are instantly rescued. If you can in An fhtt frrunH aM shin T UMllId rat iter have you get aboard, but if you can ouly flud a piece of wood as long as the humau body, i r a piece as wide as the outspteai humaD arms, and either of them is a piece of the s, come in on that piece. Tens of thousands of people are to-day kept out of the Kingdom of God because they caunot believe everything. I am talkug with a man thoughtful about his soul who has lately traveled through New England and passed the night at Andover. He says to me. '! cannot believe that in this life thedesiiny is irrevocably fixed; i think there will bo auother opportunity of repentauce after death," lsaytohim: ''My brother, what has that to do with you? Don't you realize that the tnan who wiits for another chance after death when he has a good chance before death is a stark I'ooiV Had not you batter tactile plank that is throwu to you now and head for shore rather thau wait for a plank that may by invisible hands be thrown to you after you are dead? Do as you please, but as for myself, with pardon "for ail my sins offered me now, and all the joys of time and eternity offered me now. I iustantlv tako til-m, rather than.run the risk of such other ehauee as wise men think they can peel oil' or twist out of a Scripture passage that his for all the Christian centuries been interpreted auother way." You say, "I do not like Princeton theology, or New Haven theology, or Audover thaology. I do not ask you ou board either of these great men-of-war, their portholes tilled with the great siege guns of ecclesiastical battle, but I do ask you to take the ono plank of the gospel that you do believe in and strike out for the pearl st-ung beach of heaven." Says some other man, "I would attend to religion if 1 was quite sure about, the t'oetrine of election and free agency, but that mixes me all up."' Those things used to bother me, but I have no more perplexity about them, for I 3ay to myself, "If I love Christ and live a good, honest, useful life, I X am elected to be saved, and if I do not love Christ and live a bad life I will b^Hj damned, and all the theological w-H inaries of the universe oanuot make any different." I flouudered a longwhlM^H In the sea of sin and doubt, And it was as rough as the Mediterranean on tho four-. I teenth night, when they threw the grata M overboard, but I saw there was mercy tee a fl sinner, and that plank I took, and I havo been warming myself by the bright fire on . ? the shore ever since. While I am talking to another man aboat his soul he tells me, "I do not become a Christian because I do not believe there la any hell at all." Ah, don't you? Do All the people of all beliefs and no belief at all, of good morals and bad morals go straight to A happy heaven? Do the holy and the de? bauuhed have the same destination? At mid nignt, id a uauway, iau owuet ui ? hou9e and a burglar meet. They both Are, and both are wounded, but the burglar dies in flvo minutes, and the owner of the house lives a week after. Will the burglar be at the gate of heaven, waiting, when the house owner comes in? WiJl the debauchee and the libertine go right in among the families of heaven? I wonder if Herod is playing on the banks of the river of life with the children ho massacred. I wonder if Oharles Guiteiiu and John Wilkes Booth are up there shooting at a mark. I do not now controvert it, although I must say that for such a miserable heaven I have no admiration. Bat the Bible does nQt say, "Believe in perdition and be saved."* Because your theory of light is different'*, from others do not refuse to open your eyes. < Because your theory of air Is different you * do not refuse to breathe. Because your \i ; theory about the stellar system is different ( you do not refuse to acknowledge the north v star. Why should the fact that your theolo- ' giral theories are diffarent hinder you from, acting upon what you know? If you have not h whole ship fastened In the theological drydocks to bring you to wharfage, you have ' at least a plank. "Some on broken pieces oi rue snip. "Bat I don't believe in revivals!" Then goto your room, and all alone, with your door locked, (rive your heart to God, sad join some church where the thermometer never gets higher than fifty in the shade. ( 1 .. "Bat I do not believe in baptism!" Come in without it ahd settle that matter afierA ward. "Bat there are so many ip-[ consistent Christians!" Then come] in and show them by a good example( how professors should act. "IBat J don't**"""! believe in the pid Testpjui^nt!" Then ' come in on the New. I don't like the book of Romans." Then come in on Matthew or Luke. Refusing to come to Christ,! whom you admit to be the Saviour of thelost, because you oannot admit other things.1 you are like a man out therein Chat Medltor* ranean tempest and tossel in the HelltS' breakers, refusing to oome ashore until he [ can mend the pieces of the broken ship. X| hear him say: l'I won't go in on any of these, planks until I know In'what part of the -LJ- Ai 1? r amp lury uciuu^. nuru j. cau kov iuo niuu-j . toss in the right place, and the sails set, and! toat keel piece where it belongs, and that floor timber right, and the ropes untangled,1 I will go ashore. I am an old sailor, and know ail about ships for forty years, and aa' soon as I can get the vessel afloat in good; shape I will come in." A man drifting by oil a piece of wood overnears him and says: "Yon1 will drown before you get that ship re-' constructed. Better do aa I am doing. I know nothing about ships, and never saw{ r one before I came on board this, and I can-, not swim a stroke, but I am going ashore on, / this shivered timber." The man lh the' offing, while trying to mend his ship, goes! down. The man who trusted to the plans is saved. Oh, ray brother, let your smashed* up system of theology go to the bottom,! ' while you come in on a splintered sparf "Some on broken pieces of the ship." If you can believe nothing else, you certnirtUr KuHawa In vlnoHrtiia anffarintf frtf Trmi! see it almost every day in some shape. The; steamship Knickerbocker, of the Cromwell'; line, running between New Orleans and Ne'Wj York-, was in great storms, and the captaui1 and crew saw the schooner Mary D. Crattmer, ol Philadelphia, in distress. Top weuthercold, the waves mountain high, the lirst officer of the steamship and four man put out in a lifeboat to save the crew of thg schooner, and reached the vessel an t towed it out of danger, (he wind shifting so that the schooner wa<* saved. But the fivs men of the steamship coming back, tbeia bo t ca sized, yet righted again itnd came on, the sailors coated with Ice. The boat capsized again, and three times upset and was righted, and a line was thrown the poor fl tellow?. but their hands were irozen so iney could not grasp it, aud a great wave rolled * over therj, and they w?mt down, never ? to rise again till the sen gives up its dead. Appreciate that heroism and Belt sacrifice of the brave fellows all who can,,' and oan we not appreciate the Christ who put out into a more biting cold and into a more overwhelming surge to bring us out o( infinite peril into everlasting safety? The wave of human hate rolled over him from' one side and the wave of hellish fury rolled over him on the other side. Ob. the thick* uess of the night and the thunder of the tempest into which Christ plunged for our rescue! Como in on the narrow beam of the cross.' Let all else go and cling to that: put that' under you, and with th^ ear&estnes3 of a swimmer struggling for his life put out for shore. There is a great warm lire of welcome already built, and already many, who were as far out as you are. are standing in its genial and heavenly glow. Tlio angels of God's t rescue lire WUU1U ; UUl 1u>V iud ami %v your hand, and thuykjow how exhausted you are, and all the redeemed prodigals of heaven are on the beach with new white roho* to clothe all those who come In on broken pieces of the s'aip. My sympathies are for such all the more because I was naturally skeptical, disposed to question everything about this lifo and the uext, and was in danger of being far!her out to sea than any of the 276 in the Mediterranean breakers, and I wa? sometimes the annoyance of my theological professor because I asked so many questions. But I came in oa aplanlr. I knew Christ was the Saviour of sinnt'rs and mat I vrtis a sinner, and I got! ashore, and I do not propose to go out on llmt sen agaiu. I have not for thirty minutes discussed the controverted points of theology in thirty years, and duriog the rest of my life Ido not urooose to discuss them lor thirty seconds. I would rathor in a mud scow try to weather the worst cyclone that ever swept up from the Caribbean, than risk my immortal soul in useless and perilons discussions lu which some of ray brethren in the minis* * try are indulging. They remind mo of a " company of sailors stauding on the Ramsgate pier head, from which the lifeboats are usually launched, aud coolly discussing the different styles of oarlocks aud ho*7 deeo a boat ought to sot iu the water whiles hurricane is in full blast and there are three steamers crowded with passengers going to pieces in the offing. An old tar, the muscles of his face working with nervous excitement, cries out: "This is no time to discuss such thiugs. Man the lifeboat! Who will volunteer? Out with her into thesurf! Pull, my lads; pu 1 for the wreck! Ha, ha! Now we have them. Lift them in and lay them down on the bottom of the boat. Jack, you try to bring them to. Put those flannels around their heads and fee", and I Will Dull' for the snore. God help me! There! Landedl Huzza!" When there ar? so many struggling in the waves of sin and lorrow and wretchedness. let all else go but salvation for time and salvation forever You admit you are all broken up, one de- . cade of your life goue by, two decades, three decades, four tiecade?, a'half century,perhaps three-qunners of a century, gone. The hour hand and the mlnue hand of your clock of life are almost parallel, aud soon it will be 12 and your day nuded. Clear discouraged. are you? I a Imit it ts a sad thing to givo all of our lives that are worth anything to sin and tho dev.l and then at last make God a preseut of a first rate corpse. But the past you cauuot recover. Get on board that old ship you never will. Have you only ono more year left, one more month, one more week, one more day, one more hour?como in on that. Perhaps if [ you ifcx to heaven God may let vou go out on some creat mission to soiue other world,: where you can atone for your lack of service in this. I From many a deathbed I have seen [ the hands thrown up in deploratioa something like this: "My life has been k1 wasted. I had stood "mental faculties A and line social position and great opportunity, but through worldliness and neglect all has gone to waste save thtsa ew remaining hours. I uow accept ol Christ and shall enter heaven through J His mercy, but alas, alas, that when I might I have entered the haven of eternal rest with a full cargo, and been greeted by the waving hands of a multitude in whose salvation I had borne a blessed part, I must confess I now enter the harbor of heaven on brokaq pi ces of the ship."? ?J