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A SEALING CONFERENCE. ureat Britain Accepts the Proposition of the United States. TO BE HELD IN WASHINGTON. Ambassador Hay Notified?Belief That the Conference Will Be Attended Also by Representatives of Russia and Japan ?Commiwloner Foster Tell* of His Work at St, Petersburg and London. Loxdojc, England (By Cable).?The British Foreign OfHoe notified Ambassador Haj that Great Britian has accepted the propo. sition of the United States for an International conference on the question of pelagk eallng In the Bering Sea. It will be held at Washington during the the coming autumn. John W. Foster, the United States Special Commissioner on the sealing question, ii the course of an interview said: "Whereever I have been, at St. Peters' burg, Berlin, Paris or here in London, 1 have been received In the most cordial man ner. "Whatever may be the feeling In the United States anent the often-reported antagonism to our Government displayed by foreign Powers, I have seen nothing of It. ' Everywhere I have had evidence that the foreign governments wish to meet any question raised by the United States in a pirit of tho utmost frankness and openmindedness. Perhaps it is needless for me to say that this is most gratifying to me officially and in my private capacity. "The British Government has agreed to aaa*v4> Ann rvwAnneifiAn fnr ft QAJllinff POTl 4 avuc|/l) y Ui ^ivyvjjuvu W Q - -? I COMMISSIONEB JOHK W. F08TEB. ferenoe. I am now returning to make an Immediate report to President McKinley. "I have had long and entirely candid conferences with Mr. Chamberlain, and last Sunday I passed the day with Sir Bichard Webster, the Attorney-General, who is the adviser of the British Govern/ ment. "My statement met with the frankest And most impartial consideration. "As to the Hawaiian question, I may say that in London, Paris, Berlin and St. Petersburg I have had ample opportunity to ascertain the prevailing sentiment in political and commercial circles. "In all these capitals annexation is generally regarded as the natural, if not Inevitable, result of the large growth and expansion of the United States on the western coasts of America. "As it could not be expected that any other foreign Power would be permitted to occupy the islands owing to the strategic importance, the proposed annexation would be acquiesced in by the European governments, aitnougn tne position wuicq It would give the United States In the Pacific would not be welcomed by nations seeking supremacy in that quarter of the world. "My personal views on this question are well known in the United States. Nevertheless it is extremely gratifying to find that the necessary expansion of the United States will not be the cause of European difficulties, and it is appreciated as the logical outcome of American destiny." i WRECK ON THE RAIL A Switch Tampered With and a Train Partly Derailed. The Chicago Express on the Cleveland, Cinoinnatl, Chicago and St. Louis Bailway, due in Cincinnati at 7 a. m., was wreoked at Thornton, Ind., about 2.2fr o'clock. Four were killed outright and several slightly injured. There was a deliberate plot to wreck the train, as a coupling pin had been driven Into the switch so as to hold it open and throw the fast train from Chicago to Cincinnati oft the track as it passed that point. The engine and tender, the mail, express and baggage cars were thrown from the track and wrecked. The coaches and Wagner sleeping cars remained on the track and none of the passengers were seriously hurt, although they had a lively shaking up. It Is reported that none of those in the cnrs that were thrown from the track were seriously hurt. Seth Wlnslow, of Greensburg, Ind., the engineer. andB. Crickmore, of Indianapolis, the fireman, an? two unidentified tramps,were killed outright. The officials of the "Big Four" Railroad state that no passengers were hurt. The fatalities are limited to the engineer and fireman and two tramps. Free Grass in Texas. For a month of dry weather extending over a part of June and the first of July, a dozen parties of haymakers worked in the free fields of tho coast country about Alvln, Brazoria County, Texas, and shipped thousands of tons of hay. Hundreds of thousands of acres covered with this grass are free to anybody, yet enough goes to waste every year there, it is said, to" feed all the stock of northern Texas. The proportion saved each year, however, is becoming larger now. Sunstroke In Alaska. Those who have an idea that cold weather prevails exclusively In Alaska will be surprised to know that Archie Burns, a miner, was affected by sunstroke while crossing the pass from Dyea. He recovered and proceeded after two days' rest. A Vlnele?H Potato. Robert Cornwell, a farmer, living near Golden City, Mo., after numerous experiments, thinks he has succeeded in developing a potato that will grow without vines. He says his potatoes grow entirely under ground out of the reach of potato bugs, which cost so much to destroy each season, not to mention the damage they do. Ho also says a field planted with the vineless "ntatn mnr l.A Tvnrtml with thft OriliUUXV Harrow. Arrests in Washington. Of the 22.5K2 arrets in Washington last year, 11,975 were of colored ofleuders. The National Gnmc. Brooklyn has released pitchers McMahon and Daub. It will be well to watch for a great finish by the Clevelands. The Boston Club will plav no more exhibition games this season. It is out for the flag now. What a wonderful pitcher young Towoll seems to be! He is winning everything for Cleveland. Rusie, of New York, never pitched bettor ball than this year. His long lay-off did tiAf offont1 him Warner, of New York, has caught moro games than any other catcher in the League ?o far this season. j .. M'KIN'LEY VISITS VERMONT. j Crack Cavalry Troop* at Fort Ethan Allen filvo a Parade. President and Mrs. MeKlnley, Vico-President and Mrs. Hobart, Secretary and Mrs. Alger. Secretary and Mrs. Porter, Miss ~ .1 nr.?J? -Rnilow r raiJCOH Al^rr, ntu .nSM, Hid. 1/...VJI Secretary Alger's daughter; Charles B. I'ike, Miss Alger's fiance, and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. FIrstk comprised the Presidential j party, which ieft the Hotel Champlain, I Bluff Point, N. Y., on t^e steamer Maquam I for Burlington, Vt. The party was met by Troop E, of the Fifth Cavalry, under Captain Dodd. The [ troop escorted the party to the residence ! of Colonel Le Grand B. Cannon. When ! passing in front of the armory of Company j M, V. S. N. G., a Presidential salute was ( Bred, and the President acknowledged it. ; The first gun was fired at Fort Ethan Allen ; at twenty-five minutes to 4 p. m., announci ing the arrival of the Commander-inChief. J The President and Secretary went to the re| vie wing stand, and the four troops of cavalry j were drawn up in squadron front on the i parade ground. Lieutenant Tate and the I colored guard went to the commanding j officer's quarters, where they received tne colors of the regiment, Mrs. Bailey presenting them. The cavalry then gave an exI haustive dfill. Captain D odd's Royal I Biders, Troop F, gave an exhibition of daring work. The party returned to Burlington on the steamer Vermont, being escorted to the boat by Troops F and D. In addition to the Presidential party, the guests at luncheon at Colonel Cannon's home were Governor Grout, Edward J. Phelps, Mayor ! H. 8. Beck, General T. S. Beck, former j Collector Smalley and C. Kennedy. Bur| lington was plentifully decorated for the ; occasion. FOR FARMS IN ALASKA. j Secretary Wilson on the Possible Yukon Agriculture. Secretary Wilson, of the Agricultural Dej partment, has been in Chicago conferring j with a number of people interested in Al aska. He said: "I am greatly interested in the development of Alaska. With tne aid of three experienced men, who are now in the Yukon country, the Department of Agriculture is making extensive investigations with a view i of learning ttie value of the agricultural resources of the principal valleys, and it is certain an experimental farm will be established within a year near the junction of the Yukon and Tanano Rivers, or in some other favorable location." He pledged himself to work for the project, and he said Congress would appropriate at least $15,000 for the purpose, and there seemed to be no obstacle to the trial for the experiment next spring. Secretary Wilson favors the plan of sending a colony of practical farmers to the Yukon Valley as soon as possible to establish farms and supply the miners with ?raln, meats and vegetables. 500 PERSONS KILLED. Towns Destroyed In the Eruption of thf ? oicano mayon. Five hundred reported killed up to July i is the record of the terrible outbreak oi the great volcano of Mayon, on the islano' j of Luzon, one of the Philippine group. On the night of June 24 this volcano began throwing up ashes and lava in immense quantities. Flames shot over 10( feet above the crater. The next day flfty-slx bodies were recovered at a considerable distance from the volcano, and the most recent despatches to Hong Kong up to July 8 say that not less than 500 were known to be killed. It is possible, say the despatches, that the loss of life will reach into the thousands. On July 8 lava streams and ashes reached the cities of Bacaca, Malipol and Liboh, and their destruction was certain. Fifteen smaller towns between these and the volcano had been destroyed, and scores of the agricultural population had beeD overwhelmed while attempting to escape FOUR CIRLS DROWNED. N : They Were Members of a Camping Partj i and Sauk Out of Sight While Wading:. Two women and two little girls, daughters of prominent Keokuk (Iowa) people, were drowned in the Skunk River, neai I Pack Wood. Three of them were daughters | of Mr. and Mrs. Tierce Pample and the | other a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis | Adams, of Ioka. Two of the Pamples were j young women and the other thirteen years old. Bessie Adams, the other victim, was sight years old. They were members of a large camping party which had been outing on the banks of the Skunk River for several days. The four girls went in wading at a place which appeared to be shallow. The other women nf tho nn^-tv who were sittine on the bank. I saw all four disappear suddenly, and by the time the men had been summoned they had I aunk for the last time. The four bodies j were recovered and the funeral was held at Rock Creek. Killed a Boy in Cliurcli. \ At a colored church, four miles west of ! 3vlacauga, Ala., a thirteen-year-old colored i boy was murdered. John Graham, a col| ored man, returned to the neighborhood ! after an absence of two years, much j jhanged in appearance. During services 1 in the "church the boy whispered to GraI ham; "You have been away so long that ! you look like a toad frog." Graham drew i pistol and Ored at the boy, killing him instantly. Wheat Still Advancing. 1 September wheat made a new record on i the New York Troduce Exchange, reaching | eighty-six cents. The continued rise is due to the conviction that the United States I must feed many millions in other counj tries. Corn was lower on better crop prospects. Naval Fete at Newport. Twenty thousand visitors saw the naval fete at Newport, R. I. In the afternoon there was a parade of sailors and marines. In the evening beautifully illuminated boats wound around Goat Island amid the | barking of cannon and the detonation of ! ?)ombs. Senator Gorman May Retire. It is said on high authority that United States Senator Gorman, of Maryland, will I in u short time announce that he wi'l not be a candidate for re-election, and that at the conclusion of his term ho will retire from politics. A Fierce Onslaught. There are eighteen thousand applica! tions on file for the seventy-ilve positions I at the disposal <of Congressional Librarian Young. No Postal Competition. The Federal Government will not permit competition with its postal business. The I Western Union Telegraph Company recent! I? in RntTnlrv V V n Innnl lf>1. IJ ? tw... .v.. j ter delivery at one cent tor each letter This meant a saving of one cent to the cus| tomers. The company received a peremp! tory order from Washington to abundor that line of business. New Coating For War Ships. The Navy Department will investigate the product of the Utah mineral lands with j reference to a new coating for the bottoa of war ships. . Cycling Notes. A school to train bicyclc riders Is soon to be started in France. Dr. Ciiauncey M. Depew is lenrning tc ride the bicycle. He is receiving instruc; tions at Newport, K. I. Around Copenhagen, Denmark, all cyclists are obliged, under penalty of a fine it is said, to walk their bicycles down hill no matter how small the incline. A long period of dryness is harmful tc rubber, therefore tires should not be store*, in hot, dry places. The dryness acts af harmfully on rubber as damp does on steel. A good wipe over with u wet cloth is an excellent thing for the tires after every ride. S ' ' ' FATAL FlOBDSlNHJMB I Many Hundreds Drowned in Germany and Austria, ENORMOUS LOSS OF FROPERTY. ; The Danube Never Known to Be So High Before?A Part of Vienna Submerged ?Bodies of the Dead Floating In the Streets of Trautenan?ltallroads Destroyed?Damage Will Be Millions. Beblix, Germany (By Cable).?The re" ports of the disastrous floods in Prussian Silesia and Saxony received here have creI nf a/1 rr*Anf /lAnof in Pai*lln n T1H ??wov* ^uuobyiuakivu iu a/vahu, uuu show that the people in large sections of those territories are panlc-strickf-n at the appalling magnitude of the danger which threatens them. The latest advices report 168 persons have been drowned in Silesia and Saxony, and that the damage to prop" erty exceeded $3,000,000. The King of Saxony, who was at the Pillnitz Castle, was obliged to quit the place, the waters having risen so high that the inundation of the castle was threatened. Prince Hohenlohe, the Imperial Chancellor, was to have returned to Berlin, but the stoppage of railroad traffic by the floods prevented his making the journey. The coal mines at Bockau, Saxony, are flooded with twelve metres of water. The survivors of the floods in devastP-ted villages of Silesia and Saxony are suffering untold misery. They are entirely destitute of food and shelter. Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen has issued an appeal for a National subscription for the relief of the sufferers. Reports from many parts of the oountry give the details of the great damage dono by the floods. The valleys of the Elbe and I Oder Rivers have suffered terribly, wasn| outs have occurred at many places along i the Saxon Railway, and there wa3 a complete cessation of traffic on that line. The Danube has overflowed its banks at every point, doing incalculable damage. The town of Enns, at the junction of the River Enns and the Danube, in Upper Austria, is practically submerged. Upward of 200 houses are under water. The bodies of twenty persons were recovered at Trautenau, Bohemia, the river Aupa having overflowed its banks and Inundated a large part of the town. Tliebuilding occupied by the law courts at Trautenau was undermined and Its walls collapsed. Three boxos containing 150,000 florins in money were stored in the building and carried away by the flood. The gates closing the entranoe to the Donau Canal, which traverses "Vienna, Austria, and which is really a branch of j the Danube, are submerged, a thing that has never occurred before. There are several feet of water in the lower parts of the citv. The great floodgates whioh hold back Lake Grundlsee gave way and an enormous volume of water rushed into tin* icorge bolow, flooding the town of Aussee. The break occurred at a late hour, anil most of the Inhabitants of- the town were asleep. Many of them had narrow escapes from drowning. Hallstadt Lake, In Upper Austria, has overflowed, carrying a flood to IschI, a fashionable watering place. The Empress is at IschI, and has been much affected by the distress caused by the floods. A house in Marschenburg. whose foundations had been undermined, collapsed, and twenty persons were drowned. At Freiheit a house was carried away bodily by the flood and seventeen persons perished. The streets of Trautenau present a frightful spectacle. Many corpses can be seen floating about the town. A cradle containing a crying infant was discovered as it was being carried away, and tho child was rescued. Many of the inhabitants of Reichenberg have lost their lives. The splendid public grounds at Gmunden have been entirely destroyed. The destruction of railroad embankments and bridges has been enormous and unprecedented. The Western Railway is the worst sufferer. A large number of trains, including the Orient express, are blocked, HUC1 H ia 1UI [lUSSllJlrj w 3U} nuw be resumed. The los9 caused by the destruction of mills and houses and the carrying away of cattle and crops will be immense. The total damage done will amount to many millions of dollars. LAYINC SIEGE TO HAVANA. Cuban Bands Rush In nml Oat of the City's Suburbs. An attempt made by the Spanish battalion of San Quintin to dislodge the Cubans from their camps among the bills of Managua, some three miles from the Havana suburb of La Vivora, ended in the defeat of the Spaniards. The insurgents, commanded by Juan Delgado, occupied such advantageous positions that the Spanish Are inflieted only small losses upon them. The Cubans had only two killed and very few wounded, while the San Quintin battalion had seventy killed and wounded. When the forces of San Quintin saw that they could not attain their end they retreated to the capital. a miHturv train cominc to Havana with I cattle to provide meat for the capital, and with horses for the Spanish army, was seized by the insurgents between the stations of Agnacate and Bainoa. The cars were burned, the horses were taken by the Cuban soldiers, and the cattle were sent to the Cuban stores. Within sight of Jaruco, a few miles from Havana, a Spanish column was defeated by the insurgents after several hours' fighting. The Spaniards carried into the town sixty of their dead and ninety-two wounded, among whom were several officers. One can hardly realize that it is possible for the Cubans to do what they are now doing near Havana. The insurgents have been able to inflict all this evil upon the Spaniards simply because they have received some.expeditions from the United States which safely landed in Havana province. They are now well provided with arms and ammunition. Havana, practically, is in & state of siege. Lightning Plays on a Town. Two children were killed by lightning at Webster City, Iowa, and the havoc that lightning played within the city limits for almost an hour seems incredible. The victims ure Minnie Luppus, aged two, and Carl Luppus, aged four. American Contract* Cause Indignation. English Arms are indignant because the contracts for the traction plnnt of the London Central Railway have been given to Americans. Double Suicide. Henry Aubert, aged fifty-eight, and his wife, Mina, aged flfty-six, respected residents of Jersey City Heights, N. J., foaring that their old age would be embittered by poverty, arranged their worldly affairs and I ended their lives logeiner uy tuiiauug llluminatiug gas. They wore found in their room lying in their beds as though asleep. Quarry Too Hot to Work In. During the last especially hot spell work was suspended in the granite quo.rries at j Concord, N. H., because the stono had become so hot. Minor Mention. The forest area of Maine is about 13,GG-1,000 acres. Melbourne (Australia) clergymen demand that minimum pay for them shall be $1000 a year. The steamer Excelsior, bearing gold from Alaska, will be convoked by United States revenue cutters, for Tear of a hold-up at eea. The damage done to the macadam roads by the weather of the past two weeks will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. With no dry dock large enough to accommodate our battle ships, the Unite 1 States Ls forced to patronize tho English clocks of Canada* .. . m THE NEWS EPITOMIZED | T TTaBhlncton Itcmn, i ^ Terence V. Fowdorly assumed office as j Commissioner-General of Immigration. The reoent gold discoveries in the Yukon I g region are giving renewed interest and importance to tho Alaska boundary controversy. Expenditures of tho Government for July axeeeded receipts by nearly $11,000,000. Secretary of the Navy Long said tho I,' Federal Government can make armor plates for less than the price contractors demand. T Domestic. BECOBD Or THE LEAOUE CLUBS. Per Vn Clubs. Won Lost. ct. I Clubs. Won, Lost. ct. Boston ...58. 26 .690'Plttsb'g ..38 44 .463 Bait 53 27 .663,'Chicago .40 47 .460 Cincin'atl52 28 .650 Louisv'le 38 50 .432 N'wYork.49 31 .613 Brooklyn 34 48 .415 Clevel'd..45 37 .549 Wash'n.. 31 52 .373 Philad'a..41 45 .477 St. Louis.22 66 .250 " District-Attorney Backus, of Kings Connty, Brooklyn, issu ad a decree .that immoral shows and swindling games must w? uuu* o. Ished from Coney Island. h, Vice-President Hobart joined President e, McKlnley at Lake Champlain. 8amuel Hoadley, sixty years old, resetted . Professor Willard Humphreys, of Princeton, though his mother, Mrs. W. A. Humphreys, was drowned in Lake George, N. Y. h Admiral Slcard's North Atlantic squadron t arrived at Newport, R. I., to take part in the fete. e: Nelson Dingley, father of Representative Dingley, died at his home In Lewlston, Me. He was eighty years of age. Death ? was due to a stroke of paralysis, aggravated rl by old age. A A combined observation car and locomotive bearing officials of the New York, C) Ontario ana Western Railroad struck a u wagon containing eight persons at a dangerous crossing, near Rockland, Sullivan w County, N. Y., killing two children and seriously injuring the other occupants of _ the vehicle. g Pickett's division of ex-Confederates has oeen invited by the Grand Army men of a I Philadelphia to join in a Blue and Gray re- | ei anion on September 17tn and latn next, g Mayor Warwick presided at the meeting f< and made a speech. R Miss Lizzie Schumann, of Secaucus, N. a /., was found dead in heme. Her husband jays she shot herself. She had sued for ? iivorce and swore ho threatened her life. Officers of th? Pennsylvania militia y nade every preparation to call out troops ^ quickly in case of an outbreak among the Q striking coal miners. ^ The largest gold deposit ever made at tl ;ho San Francisco Mint was made a few ri days ago?$3,775,000?of which $775,000 hi sas from the Klondike. on The Glucose Sugar refining Company, 'l ivith a capital of ?40,000,000, was incorporited at Trenton, N. J. F. O. Matthiessen, >f New York, is one of the incorporators. A train on the Kansas Pacific Railway A yas wrecked east of Denver, Col.; two ;ralnmen were killed and several passengers injured. By a unanimous vote the City Council of ol indlanapolls, Ind., has passed an ordinanoe C] reducing the price of gas from $1.25 to 75 n ;ents a thousand feet. * The long expected consolidation of the Chicago Gas Company was affected in ^ Springfield, HI., and the oompany certified m to an increase of capital stock from 84,000,- w 000 to $25,000,000. The consolidated com- ai panies will be known as the People's Gas- n light and Coke Company. ^ Mrs. Peter Hauptmann, wife of the mil- tj lionaire wholesale tobacconist, was found p murdered in the parlor of her home, in St. ? Louis, Mo. Her throat was cut from ear to rj ear. A bloody butcher knife wa3 on the 3l floor near the corpse. She was murdered by her maniac daughter. 3I John Flynn,fourteen years old was struck p over the heart while boxing with Frederick d Treichler, thirteen years old, in Newark, cl ST. J., and died within a few moments. e< Lieutenant Michael Moore, the eldest re- ^ tired soldier of the United States army, " iied in Brooklyn aged ninety-se7en years. w His boyhood days were passed in the coun- ai try near Canal str jet, New York City, and ie often swam and Ushed in tne brook tnat ' formerly ran through Lispenard Meadows. t( Just across the Ohio River, from Sisters- ft] ville, W. Va.. a wagon containing sixty tj luarts of nltro-gHycnrine dropped into a a hole In the road and the stuff exploded. w \V. A. McCleary, of Marietta, who was driving the wagon, was blown to atoms, and not a vestige of his body was found. Both horses were blown to pieces. Twenty-four members of the faculty of R Brown University, Providence, R. I., signed a remonstrance against the action of the jorporation which caused President Andrews to resign. tl The steamer Willamette, which left San t. Francisco, Cal., for Alaska with a party of [s orold seekers, broke down when two hundred miles out. , fi Marching bands of strikers succeeded In p inducing more miners to leave work inPennaylvania. Governor Hastings prepared Cl to order out the State militia if any violence Cl was attempted. f( Patrick Dolan, President of the United 6: Mine Workers and leader of the strikers in n Pennsylvania, was arrested on charges of 2: inciting to riot. ti The President and Mrs. McKlnloy gave an informal reception at their hotel on [? T /lUftmnloln fA nal?KKAI?lnc? /tiflvAnfl I* UUi&O VUULUUiUlU W uuiAawv*4u6 vmtuvuoi n Mrs. Augusta Mahler was found dead in ^ her bedroom in New York City, with a bullet in her brain. Her husband said she killed herself after attempting his life. At Redwood Falls, Minn., John O'Connell, a well-known politician, was mur- h dered at his farmhouse. Mrs. O'Connell, n the wife of the murdered man, was the g murderess. The wife's antipathy to drink c was strong, and O'Connell's abuse of her g and the children while under its influence d appears to have driven her temporarily ^ Insane. f, Eev. Mr. Pettit, pastor of the Memorial n Methodist Protestant Church in South b Camden, N. J., declared from the pulpit that there were liurs and peritaps thieves araong the members of his churoh. Almost a riot followed. The managers of the Tennessee Centen- f nlal express gratification at the large at* tendance. ? More than one-half of the miners In the a Pennsylvania coal mines controlled by W. jj P. De Armitt have joined the striking coal ? miners. c At Montgomery, Ala., the roundhouse and railroad shopii of the Western Railroad were destroyed by Are. The roundhouse contained sixteen of the company's fine lo- h comotlves, valued at $10,000 each, all of which were practically destroyed. u Thomas Hillhouso, who was Assistant Treasurer of the United States for many ? years, was Adjutant-General during the JJ war, State Comptroller, State Senator and i President of the Metropolitan Trust Com- * pany, died at Yonkers, N. Y. The jury in the third trial of Charles W. Spalding, Treasurer of the Illinois State University and President of tho Globe Savings Bank of Chicago, returned a verdict of C guilty on an indictment charging him with A hypothecating bonds. I c 1 .4 V /"lit,, KnnL-tnra P DCVUItti ? L CUt JCW XVI O. V/IfcJ uauaiu^ houses are equipping expeditions to search k for gold on the Klondike. * Garrett E. Anderson, a wealthy citizen of Brooklyn, who went to Arizona to nurse n dying son, died of thirst on the desert near Phoenls, and his wife narrowly escaped a Q similar fate. j t President McKinley will attend the Army j r sf the Potomac reunion in Troy, N. Y., on | I August 20 and 21 as the guest of Governor ^ Clack. Charles Schilling, while riding his bicycle near Rahway, N. J., was impaled and instantly killed by a carriage shaft. Two llve9 wero lost in a train wreck on a :ho Missouri Paciilc Railroad near Eldorado, Kan. I * -*- t - r%\ ~ _ V xne i-renca summer j-iii uuiimim^uo urrlved at New York from Havre. She had c eiglity-soven cabin and 200 steerage passengers on board. Tho customs officers col- r lected about ?600 in compliance with the v :lauseof tho new Tariff law relating to the p :axation ol personal enects. j l'oreigm. s r.'aood progress was made in the peace ne- -J gotiattons betwean Turkey and Greece; ? seven Turkish warships sailed for Crete, _ BUM IK MM BBDffS.' Iritish Reserves Called Out and Troops Hurrying to Chakdara, >,000 NATIVES UNDER ARMS, rlbesmen Sending; Forward Fresh Forces Continually to Attack the Hated English? Insulted Queen Victoria?A Lucknow Mohammedan Sent to Trlson For a Year?Fears For Garrison at Chakdara Simla, British India (By Cable).?In consquence of the rapid spread of the revolt l India, from 12,000 to 15,000 natives now iilng under arms, the British Government us ordered the reserve brigade to assemle under the command of Colonel Wode. unse. The British regiments will await rents at Rawalpindi and the native regl. tents at Mardan. The staff wil remain for :ie present at Nowshera. General Blood, with every available man, as started for the relief of Fort Chakdara be garrison has been notified of his inmtion by heliograph. Heavy fighting is icpected at Amandara. Fort Chakdara is strong enough to resist ay attack and had a arood supply of amlUnition. The onlyf?ar is that the garson may become exhausted by constant ghting. The tribesmen are sending forward fresh slays contiDually. The reconnoltering slumn found the enemy In great force, locking the road to Chakdara. In the fighting a hundred of the enemy ere killed. The British loss is given as rnrteen wounded, including Captain Baldin, severely wounded, and Lieutenant eys, slightly. The enemy followed up the retiring colmn and attaoked the camp in a half-heart1 manner, belne easily reDulsed by the arrison. Colonel Reid", with large "reln>rcements, has reached Camp Malakand. einforcements, with abundant supplies of mmunition, also arrived at Dargal. The larch was forced and rapid. Nineteen Ikhs died from sunstroke on the wav. Maulvi Sidayat Ragoul, recently arrested t Lucknow on charge of insulting Queen ictoria and the British Government at a leeting of Mohammedans called to oongratlate the Sultan on his victories over Greece, [aulvl telling the assembly that "but for le Sultan's forbearance the old woman's bs would have been broken years ago," fis been sentenced to a year's imprisonlent. The Government offered to accept iretles for his good behavior in lieu of imrisonment, but he could not produce them. HUNDREDS SAW HIM KILLED. Wire Jferiormep ran* sevenij-u?o icbv From a Bicycle. "Professor Arlon," twenty-eight years Id, a wire performer, while riding ft blcye on a wire at Wlssel's Ridgewood Park, ucens County, Now Yorl:, fell to the round and received injuries from which he led a few minutes later. The unfortunate ian fell seventy-five feet, and his fall was Itnessed by nearly 2000 men women [id children. "Arion" was to have given Ightiy exhibitions for a week. His first sirformance was successful. His fatal feat as attempted during the annual picnio of ie Hessian Volksfest at the park. At 9 . m. the assemblage gathered about the rounds in the park to witness the perilous de. The wire is charged with electricity applied from the trolley lines. When "Arion" mounted the wire from a :aall platform built about the top of the ole all eyes were upon him. Small incanoscent lights were so arranged about his lothing and the wheel that they illuminati as soon as the electrical current was >uohed. "Arion" was to ride 100 yards, 'e had gone about quarter of the distance hen he was seen to topple off the wheel, ud both man and bicycle fell to the round. A scream went up from the women ad children as they saw "Arion'a" descent ) death. An examination showed that three ribs ad the right leg were broken, and he susilned internal injuries. "Arion's" right ame was Frank Donahue, aud his home as in Fort Wayne, Ind. He leaves a widow ud a three-year-old child. THE CROWING SOUTH. eport of Industries Established During the Tear's Second Quarter. A carofully prepared tabulated report of re industries established in the South for he second quarter of this year has been sued by the Tradesman. These were: Agriultural works, 3; breweries, 3; brick and j Je works, 9; canning factories, 9; comresses and gins, 53; cotton and woolen tills, 24; development and improvement ompanies, 7; distilleries, 1; electrio light ompanies, 69; flour and gristmills, 40; iuadries and machine shops, 17; gas plants, 1 ice factories, 9; mines nnd quarries, 28; atural gas and oil companies, 8; oil mills, I; phosphate and fertilizer companies, 8; 3,E.neries, 3; water works, 50; wood workig plants, 18. Under the head of miscelineous are included rico mills, soap facorles, sugar mills and refineries, etc., 52, taking the total number of industries for tie quarter 547. Seven Killed by a Tornado. A tornado struck San Jose, 111. The ouse of A. C. McDowell, two and a half liles north of San Jose, was destroyed, even persons were killed. They were: A. !, McDowell and his grandson, the wife of amuel Brownlee and three Brownlee chilxen, and Miss Jessie Grover, a neighbor, rho was spending the evening with the mUr* n^A?m rtoma A 1 h 1 rr frnm fllA JiUllIJ. 1U3 Siutm^nuiv UUVWVIJ >uw orth, and utterly destroyed the McDowell ouse. Killed In a Newspaper Office. H. B. Owens, foreman of The State newsaper, of Columbia, 8. C., met with a fearul accident In the engine room, from the ffects of which ho died next day. He ras slipping a pump belt on when his feet ew from under him, und he fell head-first ito the flve-foot flywheel of tho engine, [is arm and head went through and were rushed. His neck was dislocated. Heavy Fightlnc Up the Nile. The Egyptian Intelligence Department as received word of heavy tribal fighting p the Nile between tho Dervishes and the aallns. The Dervishes, under one of the enerals of the Khalifa, defeated the Jaalins a a pitched battle, and occupied Motemneh. 'he losses on both sides were very large, 'he Jaalins are said to have lost two thouand killed. Natives Defeated in Gazaland. In a battle near Jhimbutu, the capital of iazaland, tho Governor of Portuguese East .frica, Colonel Albuquerque, with a small 'ortuguese force, routed seven thousand ebels. The Portuguese losses were two illed and ten wounded. The natives lost hree hundred. British Government Buy* Our Unlit*. Lord George Hamilton, la reply to an inuiry in the House of Commons, said that ho Government had bought 7703 tons of ails from America because the lowest iritish bid was $43,375 higher than the imcrican. rromineni i-eopie. W. J. Bryan Is said to be clearing $23,000 year from his lectures. John Wanamaker has had the degree of jL. D. conferred upon him by Howard Uni- { 'ersity of Washington, an institution for olored students. Horace L. Chapman, the Democratic j lominee for Governor of Ohio, studied law phen he was a young man, but never racticed. He is very wealthy. Governor Black, of New York, who is a 'oung man in the forties, was a farmer's on and one of a family of eleven children, r?3t UG preparoa uiuiseii, uuaiuuu, tu ouicr allege at eighteen and graduated from Dartmouth at twenty-two. .. - - * tctt q \ v u \ rru crunnf 111JJ UrLJJJL>^LJL JLi, Uvilvui> INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUCUST 22. LcflMon Text: "The Excellence of Christian love," I Cor. xlii., 1-13?Golden T?'xt: I Cor. xlii., 13?Commentary on the Leg*on by Kev. D. M. Stearns. 1. "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." It is said that this Is the only chapter in all Paul's epistles in which he does not mention Jesus in one or other of His titles. But it is a portrait so wonderful that one cannot fail to recognize the likeness oven without the name. The first three verses set forth love versus prophecies, tongues, knowledge, faith, goods, etc. All are nothing apart from love, but Jesus combined all in Himself, and He sooke with more than toncnes of man or angola. See Isa. 1,4; Math, vil., 28, 29; xiit., 54; Luke iv., 22; John vii., 15, 46. 2. "And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing." He foretold all things. In Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and He is the author and finisher of our faith (Mark xiii., 23; Col. II., 3; Heb. xii., 2). Apart from or severed from Him we can do nothing (John xv., 5), but through Him, or Ho through us, can do all things. 3. "And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned and have not love, it profiteth me nothing." He actually gave us everything, all the glory of heaven, and became so poor for us that He often had not where to lay His head, and He gave Himself a sacrifice for us that we might by His blood be saved, and then eat Him and live, and it was from first to last love to God and to us (John vii., 53, with viii., 1; Luke ix., 53; I Cor. viii.. 9): also (Ex. Ixii., 8: John vi.. 58. 57: Phil, ii.,'8; Gal.U, 20 1. c.). When this great love of His constrains us or takes hold of us as a burning faver, we will reflect Him. 4. "Love sufTereth long, and is kind. Love envleth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up." His patience, kindness, contentment and humility. Never was this love seen perfectly on earth except in our Lord Jesus. Oh, Jesus, Master, give me this love! Love passive, love active, love to those in the same work, love at Jesus' feet, willing to be used in any way or set aside, willing to be used to open some one's eyes and then to be washed off into the pool. Delighted with Christ, wholly occupied with Him, and fully yielded to Him. 5. "Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil." The R. V. says, "Is not provoked, taketh not account of evil." He never pleased Himself, nor sought His own will nor glory, but did always those things that pleased the Father (Rom. xv., 3; John v., 30; vi., 33;viii., 29). When oppressed and afflicted He opened His mouth-. When reviled, He reviled not again. When He suffered. He threatened not (Isa. liii., 7; 1 Pet. ii., 23). There is noway to live this life, woicn every ^unsuuu uu^ul lu uve, cjiucyi, by yielding to Him that He may live it in us. If we are willing, He will do it. 6. "Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth" has no part in nor fellowship with that which is evil. Neither does evil, nor tolerates.it in others, but loves the truth, lives the truth and speaks the truth. He said, "I am the truth." The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth. God is the God of truth (John xiv., 6; xvi., 13; Isa. lxv., 16). He deslreth truth iir the inward parts (Ps. Ivii., 6), and when He who is the truth has full control it will be even so. 7. "Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." In meekness suffers as*in the sight of God, and for Christ's sake puts up with everything, believing that all things are from God and for our sakes to accomplish His blessed will until He come. Uncomplaining, unresisting, meekly yielding, simply trusting, having confidence In God and seeing Jesus only. 8. "Love never faileth. But whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away." Whatever else may cease with oursoujourn hero love shall not cease. Every prophecy shall be fulfilled and prediction be no more needed. There shall be one language as before Babel, and all our present knowledge of the future be swallowed up in the sight and enjoyment of the actual realities, while love shall be known, manifested and enjoyed as never before. God is love, and he that dwelleth In love dwelleth In God and God in him (I John iv., 46). 9, 10. "For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away." We may know much now, but we shall know more hereafter, for "if any man think that ho knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as ho ought to Know" (I Cor. viii, 2). The child of God in this world has not what he will have, is not what he will be, sees not what he will see. 11. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a mau, I put away childish thing3." He refers to some phases of the talk of little children in chapter iii., 1-5, which are often met with today. All talk that savors of church or denominational pride, or that boasts of what we do, or of what we are, is mere childish prattle, baby talk. But with this difference, while the children's talk may be innocent and ever attractive, the baby talk of Christians is positively sinful. The cure for all such thoughts and words is found in Isa. lv., 7-9. Let the thoughts and words of God take the place of, ours, and na inn a f a fllloH rcifh til Am nil rs will bo crowded out. 12. "For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then 9hall I know even as also I am known." All our knowledge here is but partial, and I believe that when we shall be at home with the Lord, even the most familiar words from His book will then open to us with a breadth and length and depth and height of meaning that we never dreamed of. 13. "And now abidoth faith, hope, love, these three. But the greatest of these is love " Heb. xi. is the great faith chapter: Rom. viil. is the great hope chapter, and this is the great love chapter. The love of God to us is the greatest thing we ever heard of, and His love to others manifest through us is the greatest service we can render. But we must also remember that "without faith it is impossible to please Him" (Heb. xi., 6). and also that the hope is the groat purifier of our lives (I John Hi., 3). There are no contradictions here, but we must take the whole testimony and put it before us to see the whole Lesson Helper. AUSTRALIAN SHEEP DYINC FAST. fremendons Damage Is Done by LongContinued Drought. Consul Bell at Sidney, New South Wales, reports to the State Department, Washington, that the long drought in Australia will probably be worse on sheep than that of 1895, when more than 9,000,000 were lost through that cause alone. Some estimates predict the loss of half the sheep and conservative estimates place the loss at 25,000,000. Lack of rain has destroyed all vegetatton on the ranges and the sheep are being slaughtered in,vast numbers to save the pelts. All this season's lambs are dead in most districts, it is declared that one flfth of the finest wool sheep on cue entire globe have perished, and it appears to be an American opportunity now to raise sheep at Lome, as the prices on the foreign wool market are likely to advanco. Cattle Lost In it 1'cculinr Way. Farmers near Parkersburg, \V. Va., lost a number of cattle in a peculiar manner. A creek In the vicinity had overflowed the meadows near by, and when the waters receded a heavy deposit of sand was left on the grass. Soon afterward cattle were turned into tho fields and fed for several hours, and shortly afterward a number of them died In great agony. The stomachs of tho animals wero examined and it was found tho sand on the grass they nua eaten had cut through their stomachs as broken glass would have done. To Socure American Sailors. Lieutenant-Commander Hawley will visit many of tho lake cities to recruit sailors for the navy, the object being to secure more Americans of tho high standard required than aro to be found in tho seaboard cities MMH m A TEMPERANCE COLUJf^B THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFES" H| IN MANY WAYS. I ? w?/xf ?fio fa* 'uni 11 JLTU W I | u .jr\L IA.I4 w? " reer of Father Mathew, the Great Irish Advocate of Total Abstinence? His Triumphal Visit to United States. If urged to lift the glass that tempts, In city grand or humble town, But he that tempts the king or tsar, Quick, turn your glass and set it d?wnl If tho9e that ask you vex or tease, Perhaps condemn you with a frown, De firm; mind not the laugh and sneer; Quick, turn your glass and set it downl If health you crave and strength of arm, Would keep your harcfy hue of brown, Nor have the scarlet flush of sin, Quick, turn your glass and set it downl If In your troubles others say, "Tn an a nf drink vnnr sorrows drown." Look oat lest droWned the drinker be! Quick, turn your glass and set it downl Cold water, boys, hurrah! hurrah! Will help to health, wealth and renown. If urged to give these treasures up, Quick, turn your gloss and set it downl Theobald Mathew. A young correspondent, who has no personal recollection of Father Mathew, aska us for some facts concerning the great temperance advocate's public career. The following account gives briefly the principal events of his life as a philanthropist and reformer. Father Mathew's heroio work in Cork, during the cholera epidemic of 1832, first attracted attention, and at that time he was appointed one of the governors of the Cork House of Industry. It was there he met William Martin, another governor, an old Quaker, locally famed as the "teetotal man" of that city. It was through the influence of the Quaker that the priest undertook his temperance work. I One evening early in April, 1838, Father TVfofoanf fr\r Mart'in and hid sistance in forming a "temperance society." A meeting was held for that purpose in J Father Mathew's chapel on April 10, and the Cork Total Abstinence Society was i formed. Father Mathew signed the pledge aDd was followed by sixty others. The pledge signed that night differs but ' slightly from the form afferward adopted, . and which is found on the medal. The I Cork pledge read: "I promise to abstain from all intoxicating drinks, etc., except used medicinally and by the order of a medical man, and to discountenance the cause and practice of intemperance." Thus was born one of the greatest tern- < perance movements that the world has ever seen. By the close of the year 10,000 had signed the pledge. The next year the crusade became an epidemic. On December 1, Father Mathew was advertised to preach a charity sermon in Limerick. A tremendous crowd filled the city. All day long, all night, and most of the next day, did Father Mathew stand administering the pledge; 17,000 names were recorded, though it is estimated that more than 100,000 signed the pledge at that time. In two days at Waterford 80,000 signers were secured. In one day at Clonmei, 30,AAA a^rynnd T)iiplno> iha first TP/IP nf thft crusade the Government excise returns showed a falling off in the consumption of spirits of 1,480,633 gallons. At the beginning of 1843, about 5,000,000 persons in Ireland, more than half the entire population, had signed the pledge, and the consumption of liquors had fallen off nearly one-half. The crusade was then extended to Scotland and, England with wonderful results. In 1849 Father Mathew visited this country. His tour was a continuous ovation. He was banqueted at the White House by President Taylor. The United States Senate voted to admit him to the bar of the Senate Chamber, a distinction which no foreigner had ever received except General Lafayette. About 600,009 persons signed the pledge in this country as a result of Father Mathew's efforts. He returned to Ireland in 1851, so completely exhausted that he lived only five years longer. The Bicycle Said to Produce Temperance. I The semi-annual reports of the two large ? brewing and malting companies of Chicago and Milwaukee have just been published, and they furnish food for reflection on tne part of the public as well as the stockholders. The reports state that there has been . a decrease in the sales of beer by the two companies amounting to 47,427 barrels. The officials attribute this falling off in consumption to the depression in commercial and industrial enterprise. The total output of all the breweries in the Chicago internal revenue district decreased 120,751 bushels for the six months, and although the hot weather has increased the consumtion somewhat, it is still below that of the corresponding period of previous years, i Although the official reports relating to , the liquor business do not refer to the ef; fects of the bicycle on trade, it unquestion; ably has an important influence. All the I world's awheel, and as everybody knows, a wheelman cannot serve two masters, i Hence he has parted company with GamI brlnus, and the numerous sheriff sales of i saloons and embarrassment of vinous liquor j dealers indicate that the bike is even greater ! than Bacchus. As a temperance worker ! the wheel has no equal.?Evansvf lie (HI.) I Tm1n>al Total Abstainers In the White Honse* It is not as well known among temperance people as it ought to be that Mre. General Grant made the first move against ! Intoxicating liquor at the White House, she having secured Its banishment from the New Year reception of the President. Mrs. Grant was succeeded by Mrs. Hayes, who was an Ohio woman, and a warm sympathizer with the woman's crusade. A life-long teetotaler, she never offered wine while at the White House. Next came Mrs. Garheld. Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Cleveland, all total abstainers and none furnishing wine to their own guests, though, lacking the cooperation of their husbands, they could not Erevent its use at State dinners as could [rs. Hayes, because the President's view9 and practices coincided with her own. i | Mrs. McKinley is well known to be a total ( abstainer. J "That Beats the Devil." A Christian woman in Illinois recently followed a drinker, in whom she was deeply 'nterested, into a saloon. Just as he wan about to take a glass she tapped him -- 1-1? fclm gently on me siiuuiuci auu utui to go witt her. He complied, and as they marched toward the door the saloon keeper recovered sufficiently from his amazement to ejaculate: "That beats the devil!" The lady turned and emphatically retorted: "Yes, sir, it was my intention to beat tho devil." If it is the intention of the ohuroh to beat the devil, his Gibraltar of intemperance must not be ignored. Most Degrading of All. What is more degrading, more shameful, more despicable in the eye of God and man than intoxication? It destroys the temple of God and turns it into that of a demon Shakespeare, in "Othello," refers to intemperance in the following words: "Oh, thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil." That invisible spirit is alcohol, which the great enemy of mankind has so long employed as a decoy to ruin such vast numbers of the human race. Temperance News and Notes. Impure words and blows are often the g/eompauiments of drunkenness. Australia has ruled out barmaids. Those now in service may be registered and licensed, but no more can be engaged. But a landlord's wife will be allowed in the bar. A liquor merchant and expert swore recently that line cognac could be made from I roasted almond shells and essential oils. This drink, ho said, would fool the average drinker. ?. The teaching of temperance is now compulsory in the public schools of the province of Ontario. According to the Minister I of Education, no fewer thau 150,000 pupils are studying this question ia the pubiio schools of the province, and 13,009 in the separate schools; and the Public Sch ool Inspector for Toronto states that more than 20,000 pupils in the public schools of the city receive instruction in temperance