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r p . n t ? PRESIDENT BORDA SHOT. The Chief Magistrate of Uruguay Falls by an Assassin's Hand. un i rn dv a mii itadv nnrirro r\ I lulu u i n iTiiuiinni ui i iv/uu> The Celebration of the Independence of the Republic Was in Progress? Crime Committed as the President Wan Leaving the Cathedral, Where a Te Deum Had Been Sang Before Him. Montevideo, Uruguay (By Cable).?j. fdiarte Borda, President of the Republic ol Uruguay, was assassinated just a few minutes after the Chief Executive left the Cathedral, whero ho had listened to the re Deum sung on the occasion of the anniversary of the independence of Uruguay. Following the assassination, and while the immediate members of the President's official family were still bending over him where he had fallen, there was a forward movement of the crowd which had gatheredi *nd in order to protect the dying President his military escort attacked the crowd and succeeded in driving it back, only aftei many persons had been wounded and sev' eral killed. The assassin is Avelino Arrendondo, an officer in the Uruguayan army. He is a Uruguayan and only twenty-seven years old. Now that Uruguay's chief is dead ho Is calm, and declares that he is content with his action, and that his crime was not Inspired by anything more than a persona' hatred for'the "President. Montevideo was in gala attire to-day in celebration of the independence of Uurguay, which was proclaimed on August 25, 1825. The day, according to the programme which had been mapped out, was one replete with festivities and feasts. The flrst builet went wild, but the second struck President Borda in the loft breast. He fell backward into the arms of Bishop Solerand sank to the ground. Of the official ceremonies, the singing of the Te Deum was the most impressive. Hundreds had gathered in front of the cathedral, and the President was well received as he passed out the door. He had walked only a few stops when Arredondo stepped forward out of tho crowd and raised a pistol. Before any one could stop him he had fired two shots at the President. r or an instant mere was jiu uwiui oueuce; then a frightful uproar. The crowd poured forward with cries and shouts, and while Arredondo was seized by several sol- j dlers, the other troops were thrown into j line to keep the crowd from trampling j upon the prostrate bodv of the President, j The soldiers attacked the crowd with bayonets, and finally drove it back after many ' had been wounded and several killed. The President, stiil breathing feebly, was ! then removed under military guard to the city palace, where he died in afew.'minutes. i The body was then wrapped in the flag of ! Uruguay and removed to his late home. JoseJCuestas, President of the Senate,was I nominated for President ad interim by the : Chamber of D eputies later in the afternoon. . He immeaiately.dismissed all the members j of the Cabinet except General Luis Perez, j who win continue at iuo ueuuui tuo ?t t?t Department. Senor Borda was elected President of i Uruguay for the term extending from March, 1894, to 1898. Only after a fierce l fight for it?Congress balloting twenty- j seven times?and his administration has j been beset with tribulations from the outset. While the assassination is universally denounced, his removal from the ! sphere of control is regarded as a good j thing for Uruguay. He has all along been inspected of keeping the revolution alive for his own purposes, and he was connected with a firm which provided the military materials for the Government, whereby he must have amassed a fortune. President Borda was about fifty years old. He was a married man and had a famllv. and also a brother, who is an officer in the Uruguayan ; army. . BRANDING THE SEALS. The Experiment of marking: the lonnf Females Successfully Carried Ont. The United States revenue cutter Rush with Professor David Starr Jordan, of Stanlord University, and the party of seal branders aboard, has arrived at Tacoma, Wash., ten days from St. Paul Island, with news of the successful inauguration of the branding of the seals. The Rush met Professor Jordan and his party at Dutch Harbor on July 24. The party included Professor Elmer E. Farmer, Professor Thomas D.Wood, Arthur H. Greeley, Arthur J. Edwards, 'Howard T. Warren, Trevor Kincaid, and Robert E. Snoderass. ! They went at once to St. Paul Island, where the work of branding the young fe'male seals was begun. Several thousand iof the seals were successfully branded with an electric device that causes no pain. Professor Jordan landed and made a careful examination of the herds and rook eries. Professor Jordan expressed himself as greatly pleased with the trip and the complete success of the branding. He is at work on his report, and it will be filed shortly after his arrival at San Francisco, whither he hastens without delay. He left Professor Farmer and his party at St. Paul Island and he was continuing the brandlag. . k y ' New York'# New Police Chief. - ? U S T>^v A cnnngt" <J\ mucu uuiiuruiuw i>v ws *vllce Department, of interest to all New Yorkers and of possible far-reaching effect upon the coming election in the Greater Now York, took place at Police Headquarters when Peter Conlin retired from the office of Chief of Police and John MoCullagh, one of the Acting Inspectors, was appointed Chief to fill the vacancy. The re. tlrement of Chief Conlin was a surprise tc many. The appointment of Chief McCullagh was oven more of a surprise, because j it w&s generally supposed that DeputyChief Moses W. Cortright would be promoted in the event of the retirement of Chief Conlin. Sensational Rumor About the Kaiser. The affair of the German Kaiser's black eye received on bonrd the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, off the Norwegian coast, 1? commented on by Harold Frederic, a reliable European correspondent, in the j light of the latest rumors that Lieutenant j von Hahnke, stung by some insulting j speech of his imperial master, assaulted j the latter, and then, knowing that ho had | ruined himself for life, calmly committed suicide. Where the Apple Crop Is Big. Kansas and Missouri aro rejoicing in big apple crops, while everywhere else in the Union the fruit seems to be scarce, small, and of rather poor quality. New York buyers are reported to bo swarming in the two States, buying up all the apples in sight. Women Drivers at a Horse ICace. Miss Lotca Elliott* of Danforth, Me., was the driver of the winning horse at the recent horse race in PittslMii, in which all the drivers were women. The women wore divided skirts, and acquitted themselves most creditably. W>""S "'"I". Judge McKenna, the Attorney-General of tha United States, is an enthusiastic wheelman. J. I'latt Betts broke the mile bicycle rocord at Crystal Palace, London. Time, one minute, 3*7 3-5 seconds. Very few wheelmen any where would object to a rule like that passed by the District Commissioners requiriug ail cyclists in the streets ol Washington to ride with the head erect. Massachusetts has a State law which regulates bicycle riding, and prevents cities and towns from passing any regulations which would conflict with the State law. The limit of speed allowed by this State law Is ten miles an hour. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Wnslilnjrton Items. | The two sessions of Congress last winter I are found to have appropriated $528,000,I 000. The Government will send out a new exi ploring party to Alaska next year. Statistics for tho past year show that ! Great Britain, Germany and France, re| spectivoly, wore leaders in trade with the , United States. A. W. Faber, tho lead pencil manufHc! turer, was fined !?30,0fl0 by the United I States Government for unvalulng imported pencils. Domestic. RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS. Per Per Clubs. Won. Lost. ct.| Clubs. Won Lost. ot. j Boston ...72 32 .692jPhilad'a..47 68 .443 ! Bait SG 32 .673|Louisv'lo 45 59 .433 I Clncln'ati62 35 .639 Brooklyn 44 53 .431 j N'w York.61 37 .G22 Pittsb'g ..43 53 .426 J Clevel'd..52 47 .525 Wash'n.. 41 60 .406 Chicago .49 55 .471 St. Louis.26 77 .252 Prince Luigi, of Savoy, and his party of Italians reached the summit of Mount St. Elias July 31, at 12 o'clock noon. The altitude indicated by the mercurial barometer is 18,100 feet. It is the most successful exI pedition ever undertaken. The party wa? ! fifty-one days on snow and ice without | sickness or accidents. Mary Kyle Dallas, the well-known poeti authoress, expired at her home in New York I City of heart failure. She was about sixty j years of age. Reports received at Little Rock, Ark., in| dicate that six of the colored men impli| cated in the murder of Johnson and the I assault on Hanley in Cleburne County have j been lynched. Eight lynchings occurred \ in the State in four days. "Al" Hankins, a Chicago gambler, was i | killed by the collapse of his folding-bed. Commander Booth-Tucker returned from ! Europe with the assent of General Booth j to go ahead with his colonization schemes in the Southwest. 1 ! Jacob Barber, a child of four years, was | shot through the heart near the village of I Langford, N. Y. His mother is thought to j J have done the deed and is believed to be in- | ; , sane. The mother was not arrested, but is j U ~ I ? U ~ ,1 Tt O st*-;sNT>n knvfl I I l'OIU^r WUIUUCU. Ik 19 OCftlVA U.CTJL aunuuo LIU f V. been strange for some time. The Western Passenger Association refused to make special rates for New York buyers. Former Judge Dillon announced that he I would urge the Gould family to criminally prosecute the conspirators who, using Mrs. Angell as a dupe, plotted to obtain a share j of the late multi-millionaire's fortune. The question of applying the new jury | law in the trial of Adolph L. Luetgert in Chicago was settled by the prosecution acquiescing in the objections of the defence. In Brooklyn Mrs. Ottilia King, a former actress, of Vienna, shot herself after an unsuccessful attempt to kill Placida Saitto. G. M. D. Legg's large poultry house at Tuscola, 111., was destroyed by an incendiary Are, and Robert Lathrom's body was found In the ruins, ^ The Seattle OVash.) authorities com- , pelled the overloaded Alaska schooner t Moonlight to carry less freight. i A train in the coal olty branch of the Al- i ton road was ditched near Branchville, ' Iowa. The wreck is believed to be the I work of striking miners. The engineer and firemen were killed. 5 A sudden and heavy rainfall caused great k damage by floods in New York City and 1 Brooklyn. Mrs. W. L. Scruggs, wife of the exWlnlaf-nr tn Vpnpznftla who WftS iniured on August 14 by falling from a train' died at 1 Atlanta, Qa. The Futurity Stakes, the great race of the Coney Island Jockey Club's fall meeting. was won by Thompson Brothers' filly ( L'Alouette. The track was muddy and the < time, although good, was not fast. ; ] Fire almost destroyed Alva, Oklahoma. ^ The loss 1b $30,000. The town has 2000 pop- f ulation. The town is new, having only j been built four years, and the whole busl- t ness portion consisted of wooden struc- j turefr A Roller exploded in W. H. Halllday's 1 brickyard at Cairo, 111. Biley Bradley, the < engineer; Gideon Ricks, a moulder, and 1 Henry Bchlller, a temperer, were instantly * killed. Eight other men were badly scalded ? or otherwise injured, Tne injured are ojj i colored except Schiller. The trial of Adolph L. Luetgert, the sausage-maker, for the alleged murder oi his wife, began at Chicago. The full-blooded Cherokees threaten violence if their tribal government bo abolished. Cotton mills in Fall River, Lowell, Manchester and other New England centers resumed operations. W. K. Vanderbilt's estate at Islip, Long Island, has been assessed this year for $250,000, an increase of 200 per cent over last year. The owner has entered a protest, and the small taxpayers of the place object to a reduction. Ex-Pollco Captain Nathaniel R. Mills was ; instantly killed in a runaway at New York City, a Fire Department team dashing him against an elevated railway pillar on Columbus avenue. ' . j The Davis will case of Butte, Montana, < hn* bean settled after seven vears of litiea- I tion, under which the estate shrank in I value $5,000,000. I ( A, policeman, Charles Hemminger, Bur- j ] prised burglars in the basement of Isaao i j Harter k Son's savings bank at Canton, | ( Ohio. The burglars' lookout opened Are | j on the officer, and the latter shot one of j the men who had been in the cellar. The burglar died at the hospital later without . revealing his identity. The burglars had a t big lot of tools and explosives in the cellar, e and were, no doubt, professionals. New York Anarchists have retained counsel to prevent the exclusion of their fellows j c ooming here from Europe. j \ California papers say that the State's ; y iried apricot crop this year will All 1000 I i cars. j ' William W. Lawrence Bhot and danger- . j ously wounded Juage weaver,01 ? ooasiocs, , Vt., the crime being the outcome of domestic difficulty between Lawrence and his wife, whioh had come up before Judge Seaver for decision. Foreign. The Constantinople prisons are crowded j I ?7ith Armenians and Turkish Liberals who i have been arrested on suspicion. The Ar- < menian who exploded a bomb in the Turk- i ish Government offices has been tortured I and whipped until ho was covered with blood, and the 9oles of his feet havo been burned. Yet he refuses to confess. Six | soldiers at Toschkschla, Turkey, outraged some nuns, and cut off the nands and feet 1 of two of them. They tied the others to i t trie*a nnH flhnnHnnAfi thom. I 1 Twenty women were killed in an accident to an apparatus used for raising water at Moncada, Spain. In a speech before the Volksraad of the South African Republic President Kruger repudiated British suzerainty of the Transvaal. Fort Ali-Musjid in the Khyber Pass was captured and burned by the rebel tribesmen of the Indian frontier; the entire pass is now in possession of the rebels. Count Mut?u, formerly Japanese Minister | to Washington and Minister of Foreign | Affairs during Japan's war with China, is j dead. President Faure, of France, and the Czar j and Czarina reviewed fifty thousand Kus- | sian troops and attended a state banquet. All the British Army ofllcors 011 leave of i absence have been ordered to immediately 1 I rejoin their regiments. Tn<liu, owing to the mutiny nnd reduced acreage following tho plague, will have little or no wheat to export to Europe this year, and tho field will bo left to America. The steamer Cheang-hy-Etcng, Captain ' Scott, bound from Penang, for Japan, foundered In a typhoon. Of tho thirty-two members of tho ship's company twority-one were drowned. Captain Scott, as tho vessel sank, committed suicide by shooting . himself with a revolver. Tho eleven survi, vor3 experienced the most terrible suflfer[ ing from exposuro in open boats for flvo j days, under tho intense rays of a tropical j sun and with no water. The striko at the slate quarries of Lord | Penrhyn in Wales Is ended. The men havo : won a complete victory, Lord Penrhyn coaI coding them tho full right to MA'S FMTIER WAR The Afridis Capture Several Forts and Slaughter British Sepoys, ENGLISH GARRISON DRIVEN OUT. Three Hundred Native Soldiers Massacred In an Outpost Near tho Khyber Pass ? Advancing Tribesmen Were Shelled and Repulsed, But Not Pursued by the English?Hot Fighting. Pespawtjr, India (By Cable).?It Is reported that a large number of Afridis, led by fanatical priests, attacked the Sepoys near Fort All-Musjld, masf-acring 300, japturing their rifles and then proceeding In large force to make an attack upon the British garrison on the Lowragt. There is a very uneasy feeling in Quetta, where the troops are under orders to be In readiness to march to New Chaman, which is the extreme outpost of the Afghan frontier, southeast of Kandahar, and on the edge of tho Reglstan Desert, between the provinces of Toba and Pishin. Fort Maude has been captured by the A.frldis. The garrison was composed of a few native levies. The fort was afterward burned by the enemy. The garrison-retired at 10.30 o'clock in the evening, and the fort was burned half an hour later. The earrison reached Colonel Westmacott's relief column coming from Kohat, at 11.30 p. 31. At the same time that Fort Maude was ibandoned the Khyber Rifles, garrisoning Fort Jewangera, were compelled to abandon that nlace. The area of the active fighting is enlarging rapidly. The Afridis attacked with cyreat determination the fortified post at 3udda, but were not succassful in capturing it. Parochinar was also attacked, rhere are two English ladies with the garrison at Parochintir. The British officer commanding at Jamrud moved a battery of artillery, escorted by the Fourth Dragoons, to the mouth of the Khyber Pass and shelled the enemy at i range of 3200 yards. The Afridis retired, but the battery returned to Jamrud, the jfflcer in command deeming It inadvisible :o enter the pass. Khyber Pass Is swarming with Afridis, ind it is feared the fall of Fort Maude has jreatiy encouraged the rebellious elements. The British military authorities have now nobilized 32,000 men for frontier opera:ions, which, with the frontier garrisons, nake 42,000 men available for use against ;he Insurgents. London Tnkes Fright. London, England (By Cable).?It Is adnltted even in official circles that the news !rom India is of the srravest description. Ill those who are familiar with the situa;ion attach the greatest importance to the rising of the warlike Afridis, who are estinated to muster 25,000 lighting men. The Ifridis, however, only form a part of the nsurgents that the British must put down. A letter from India, published in the 5tandard, emphasizes the belief that the Sultan of Turkey is at the back of the ivhole uprising. PRESIDENT IN BUFFALOSis Presence at the O. A. R. Encampment Cansed Great Enthusiasm. The presence of President McKinley jvershadowed all else on the opening day )f the G. A. R. encampment at Buffalo, J V Tho (Wl -rfoltrirfl In TlnfTnTr* urnro waiting for him. Each wanted to catch a jlimpse of him, and po when his special xain drew in the streets from the station :o his hotel were dense with humanity. The President helped Mrs. McKinley from the >lat.form with tender solicitude, and placed ler in the carriage with Commandor-in3hief Clarkson and Augustus F. 8. Cheu.of Buffalo. He had refused the escort of Fed;ral troops, and even declined t:he attendtnce of companies of the G. A. B. Prejeded only by mounted police, ho journeyed ;o his hotel. He could not escape without i speech. The great crowd at the Niagara lotel insisted on it, so he gave way and ipake briefly of the G. A. R. Everywhere the President wjis received vith great enthusiasm. At night Colum)ia Post, of Chicago, escorted him to the SUicott Club, where a banquet was given n his honor by Columbia Post. Governor Black, General Algeir, Governor Pingree, former Postmaster-General Bissell ind Archbishop Ireland wore among the quests. The President 9poke to the toast, 'The Nation and Its Defenders.'' NEW JERSEY FLOODED. 1 Terrific Cloudburst Destroyed a Large Amount of Property. A terriflo cloudburst over central ?ud lorthem parts of New Jersey rendered hunIreds of people homeless and destroyed housands and thousands of dollars' worth >f property. Newark, Linden, Paterson, Trenton, New 3runswick, Elizabeth, Rahway and Wood)ridge were flooded, and that there was not i great loss of life appears almost miracuous. Rahway, Linden and Woodbridge vere inundated. Houses were flooded, giant trees uprdoted, railroad tracks covered by sliding land, all raffle suspended und crops literally deitroyed.x It was one of tho most disastrous itorms tu the history of New Jersey. The heavy rain caused much damage to ;rops in the farming districts, including iVarren, Sussex, Hunterdon, Somerset, Berjen, Middlesex and Morris Counties. There vas a heavy rain in those places, but as ;hey are but sparsely populated, except in some districts, the only damage done was ;hat to crops. Price of Bread Stationary. Bread has not advanced in price in consequence of the sensational advance in wheat, though in a few places the bakers iro making their loaves smaller. Some of :hem say that if wheat continues to sell ibout the dollar mark, and flour costs thom 30 much more, the size will be generally reiuced, rather than make any" increase in the selling price of the loaf. American Flag Flylr.g. It is learned from Paul J. Hending, an employe of tho Pacific Phospha te Company, that the American flag Is flying on Clipperton Island. He has been living on the island with two other men, and they successfully resisted tho attempt of Captain McMurtry, of the ship Kinkora, to hoist the British flag there three months ago. Bought by Englishmen. Edwin Corbin, of Chicago, has closed a deal amalgamating the United States and Canadian Lakes Fisheries companieswhereby the control of twenty companios passes into the hands of a Briti sh company, with $5,000,000 capital. Tried toSacriilce His Boy. Samuel Hostetter, of Wooster, Ohio, while laboring under the delusion that the Lord hud called upon him for a sacrifice, tried to cut his young son's throat und oiler him up. Mrs. Hostetter was terribly cut wfcile rescuing her boy. Sensational Crops Estimate. The shortage of crops la Europe this year Is estimated by the Orange Judd syndicate of agricultural papers at 300,000,000 bushels of wheat, 325,000,000 bushels of rye, and 1,000,000,000 bushels of potatoes, which it mill /.nn at* fho 1 n ff*ua+ urnAr^a frnm tills country ever made iu any year with prices advancing. Discoveries of Pearls, New discoveries of pearls in Arkansas rivers have made tho people wild with excitement, and thousands of porsons are wading in the water throughout tho State searching for them. ! ! WHEAT MET ACTIVE All Europe Must Look to the United States For Grain Supplies, CAUSE OF THE WONDERFUL RISE. Tn Vnn- Vnrlr Contmnko. TnnxllPll 81.00 3-4 and Cash AVhcat 81.14 1-4? Then There Was a Drop in Trices Doe to Sales to Take Profits?The Govern' meat's Report on Short Foreign Crops. New Yobk Citt (Special).?There was. again great activity in wheat on Monday and a new high record price was made for it, although it was not .maintained. The chief dealings were in September wheat, or wheat deliverable in September, bn the New York Produce Exchange September wheat touched $1.06%, or 1 }i cents a bushel above the high price of Saturday, which up to that day was the top price. The closing price was ?1.03%, or 1% cents below Saturday's closing price. Tie high price was 14}? oents above the hitfh price one week before (Auguwt 16). The drop in prices in the late trading was due to sales to take accumulated profits, and to information that the reports from the West of damage to spring wheat were greatly exaggerated. These repor :s etnannfoil frrvm fho Dhlnncn of Trade, and from the large holders of wheat in Minneapolis, ^who were interested in rushing up the price for speculative purposes. At the same time it was generally thoug ht that the large foreign demand would sooner or later legitimately take wheat to a much higher place. Cash wheat took a jump. The high quotation was $1.14)^, against the high price of $1.11 on Saturday. Tho alosing quotation was 81.11#. FOREICN CROP REPORTS. Shortage of "Wheat a:itl Rye In Europe Sends Up Prices. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The Agricultural Department is informed through its agents abroad that the reports of a shortage in the. wheat and rye crops o{ European countries are fully warranted by the facts. In eastern Europe particularly there is a deficiency of rye. In a special grain crop report Statistician Hyde, qf the Department, said: "This fact, as well as the wheat deficiency, will tend to restrict the exportation of the latter from those European countries which usually have a surplus of that grain. As to non-European countries other than the United States, their aggregate contribution to the European supply 'will be materially affected by the fact that India, denuded by tho famine, will have practically no wheat to export." Conservative commercial estime.tes put the total wheat crop in France asi low as 100,000,000 hectoliters, making it about one-seventh less than tho heavy crop of 1896. An official report from Germany saya that none of the leading cereals are rated a?, "good." Mail advices from Russia speak unfavorably regarding the wheat and ryj crops, the recent great heat having caused premature ripening. Prices of wheat at Vienna are reported to be the highest in tea years, and foreign wheat is being imported. In Belgium the yield of wheat is report, ed as satisfactory, but that of rye deficient. Advices from Copenhagen, Donmark, say that rye had suffered from, sto rms but wheat tvas a fair average crop and barelj good. The wheat crop of Roumania is described as "very disappointing," and parcels oi new grain receivod in London aro irregU' lax and of very poor quality. Crop prospects in India were Improved by rains in many districts, but in Bombay ana runjab mucn mo:re rain was aeeuea. Reports from Australia say the crops have been improved by rain, and according to latest mail advices were fairly good. Telegraphic reports from Argentina represent the weather ai? being favorable for the crops. Say Wheat Will Go to SI.SO. Tofeka, Kan. (Spsclal).?"Hold youi wheat" is the advice by many of the leading whest raisers of Kansas. The big jump in the wheat market induces the farmers to hold out for a higher price. Big raisers saj if Western farmers will hold their crop sixty days wheat will go to $1.50. AN ACED PHILANTHROPIST. John I. Blair, of New Jersey, Reaches the Ago of Ninety-five. The Hon. John I. Blair, of Blalrstown, N. J., on Sunday was ninety-flve years of age There -./as no publio demonstration, owing to the Impaired health of the aged phllan HON. JOHN I. BLAIR. thropist. A short time ago it was believed that lie would die, but he rallied and Is now reported to be improving. Blairstown was aamed after him, aad all the working people ia it owe their livlag tc him, as the mea areeagaged ia the various eaterprises which he fouaded. He made his first dollar when he was a boy of eight years, aad he has said that he felt prouder and happier over that dollar than ho felt wuen ho had his first million. A Triple Crime. In East Nashville. Tenn.. J. B. Rich shot find killed his wife and brother-ir.-law, and then turning his weapon upon himself, inflicted fatal wounds. Not long ago Rich began a suit for divorce. Ho attompted to kidnap one of his children and was arrested. He was soon released on bond aad at once repaired to his mother-in-law's I home. Minor Mention. Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia will soon be able to communicato with the outside world by telegraph. A line is being laid from Harrar to his capital. It costs only ton cents to send a telegram GOO miles in I'raucc. Father Henry Van Rensselaer, grandson of the last Albany (N. Y.) patroon, took a llnal vow in the Jesuit Brotherhood and gave his entire fortune to the church. Prince Henri of Prussia has bought a flvemonths-old Siberian bear cub at Hamburg to present as a suitable pet to the crew of the German warship Koenlg Wilhelm. A section of the British Tories, led by Lord Lonrlondnrrv is makini? a (lotor mined effort to shako off Joseph Chamberlain's domination of the Unionist party. J.L.Johnson, of Chicago, recently purchased at auction for $3750 a bed upon which "Bonnie Princo Charlie" used to sleop, and the old relic is now on its way to Chicago. *. . - ;* " " ; - ' v:-''v.. r/ TO DEATH OVER Mill | Two Men and a Boy Swept Over thf j Horseshoe Falls. PERISHED BEFORE THOUSANDS Frank Weber, of Buffalo, and Warren Bush and Charles Glasner, of Chicago, Sailed In a Small Boat to Theli I Watery Graves?ThotiAandH Stood Pow- I erless on Shore Watching the Tragedy. Niagara. Falls, N. Y. (Special).?A thrill- i Ing tragedy was enacted in the raging j waters of the Niagara Sunday afternoon, and three 'ives wero sacrificed to the treachsrous waiers of tho rivor. About 5 o'clock it was reported that a boat had ventured too near the rapids, had been caught in the swift current and was seen to be carded over the Horseshoe Falls. In a 9hort time the river bank was lined with persons from the hotels and Prospect Park. Some one descried the boat, and the cry went up in the throng, "There she goes!" The men clung with desperate energy to the boat, which was swept qlong with lightning rapidity into the long rapids of the Canadian side. Tbe boat was tossed about as if were paper. Then it disappeared altogether be- . tween the huge waves, to reappear again. No effort was made by the occupants be lore tney reacnoa tne swiit waier to stem the course of the craft, and It is supposed they were intoxicated. When they reached the rapids they must have realized that death was staring them in the face, but they simply clung to the boat and went down to their fate. The crowds on the shore groaned and watched the boat with its occupants with strange fascination. The v great stronsr waves picked it up, hurled it down, and then would pause momentarily to be hurled downward again toward the brink of the cataract.' The distance from the falls to the beginning of the swift water is fully a mile. The boat was less than four minutes in going this distance and, just before reaching the terrible plunge, capsized. This was the last seen of the men. and it Is supposed that their bodies were swept over the falls. The boat afterward was seen in the river below, but was not recovered. An oar was found by one of the crew of the Maid of the Mist. No sooner had the news of the tragedy spread than search began for the persons who were in the boat. It was learned that the victims of the tragedy were Frank Weber, of Buffalo; Warren Bush, twentvone years old, of Chicago, a former employe of the United States Express Company, and Charles Glasner, twenty-nine years old, of Chicago, employed by the united Stales Express Company. They had been camping on the banks of the Niagara River, with several companions. On the fatal day they hired a small boat at La Salle and started t<? row across the Niagara Biver to the Canadian shore. SORROW FOR JOHN P. LOVELL X. General Expression of Sympathy Called Ont by Hlfi Death. Seldom has there been such a general expression of sympathy over the loss of one whose life has been devoted to business pursuits, as has been called forth by the 1 recent death at Cottage City, Mass., of that venerable landmark of the business world, the late John P. Lovell, founder and President of the John P. Lovell Arm's Company of Boston. Almost numberless messages and letters of condolence, on the death of his honored father, have been received by Colonel Benjamin S. Lovell, Treasurer of the Lovell Arms Company. The wide scope covered by these communications is in itself evidence of the great regard in which tie was held by the leaders in business and public life. These expressions of sympathy have not been confined to New England, but they have come from every prominent business centre of the North, East, West and South?in fact, from every portion ol the Union; because the name of John Pc Lovell, and the corporation created by him, have been for more than a half century the ;vnonvm of honest dealing and business Integrity. Even from England, from Arms | w'h whom Mr. Lovell had enjoyed the I pleasantest business relations for more than fifty years, Colonel Lovell has received messages of sympathy. A SAD ACCIDENT. 5core of Children Thrown Into Water and , Five Drowned. At the foot of Cherry street, Toronto, | Canada, thero is a float made of rough ' timber, twelve feet long by six feet wide, j used for conveying workmen from the j mainland to the breakwater, a distance of j about a hundred yards. The float is worked j by chains attached to the bank on one side I and the breakwater on the other side. Twenty-one children, boys and girls, from eight to thlreen years old, crowded Ir j the raft to go to bathe at the breakwater. Half way cross the channel, whore the water Is very deep, the raft capsized and all the children were thrown Into the water. | There were many boats in the neighbor hood, and these were soon at tne scene 01 | the accident. Ail of the children were res- | cued except five. Three bodies have been | recovered, those of Albert Driscoll, eight ! years; Gertie Harvey, eleven years, and "Jack" Bethel, ten years. The names of the other two children are not known. Dlgastrous Collision. Running at fast speed to Coney Island, a trolley car of the Nassau Electric Railroad I dashed into a drag upon which forty per- [ sons were riding, and, after killing two ; horses outright, hurled the passengers to j the roadway. Many of the party were ser- j iously injured, and the passengers In the j trolley car were thrown into a wild panic. Throe of the passengors on the car were | also injured. William Grupp, driver, thir"Aiira nlil of ftrooklv. was fatally I injured/ Cliulalongkorn Not Coining Over. The King of Siam, Cliulalongkorn I., will ( not visit the United States, as at flrst j proposed. After his eontinbntal visits, His Majesty will re-embark on bis yacht at Marseilles, France, and will sail for homo. Army of the Potomac Iteunlon. President McKinley and Secretary Alger attended the twenty-oighth reunion of the Society of the Army of the Pctomac, at Troy, N. Y. Light Sentence Caused Lynching. At Williamsburg, Ky., Cau3y Sullivan, a j white farmer, who was sentenced to twenty j years' imprisonment for assaulting his sister-in-law, was taken from jail and | hanged by a mob. There were about fifty I men in the mob, all well armed. They j came from the neighborhood of Corbin, ' and entered town so noiselessly that they j did not awaken any of the inhabitants, j Tho light sontence for so dastardly a crime i caused the lynching. Bank Deposits Increase. The State Bank Commission of Kansas J reports that bank deposits have increased I 815.000,000 since January 1. Prominent People. t\?i? hla nnrnl ! UOnan uuy ic, iiiLui u.?>.un ...... . rejected by eleven publishers, sold it for j $1.25. Verdi is amusing himself nt Monte^atini by writing the requiem for his own funeral. Canovas's father wns n modest schoolteacher and his mother was a washer- | woman. Guglielo Marconi, the Italian, who is to I telegraph without wires, is only twenty- I three years of ago. Edhom Pasha, the commander of the victorious Turkish army in Thessaly, is to be presented with a jeweled sword north *20.000, > ' ' " >'v >' " ' ' "V TIP TAT M A tttf'S SPRMfW I .L/lVl lilJUilLilUUU uuitiavili 9 SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Job Had Boils, Bankruptcy and a Fool Wife, But He Finally Kscaped. Body and Soul, From His Troubles?Thousands of Others May Be Similarly Saved Text: "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."?Job xix., 20. Job had it hard. What with boils and bereavements and bankruptcy and a fool of a wife he wished he was dead, and I do not blame him. His flesh was gone, and ms nones were ary. Jttis teetn wastea away until nothing but the enamel seemed left. He cries out, "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." There has been some difference of opinion about this passage. St. Jerome and Schultens and Drs. Good and Poole and Earnes have all tried their forceps on Job's teeth. You deny my interpretation and say, "What did Job know about the enamel of the teeth?" He knew everything about it. Dental surgery is almost as old as the earth. The mummies of Egypt thousands of years old are found today with gold filling in their teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solomon and Moses wrote about these important factors of the body. To other provoking complaints Job, I think, has added an exasperating toothache, and, putting his hand against the inflamed face, he says, "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." A very narrow escape, you say, for Job's body and soul, but tliere are thousands ot men who make just as narrow escape for their soul. There was a time when the partition between them and ruin was no thiaker than a tooth's enamel, but as Job finally escaped so have they. Thank God! Thank God! Paul expresses the same idea by a different figure when he says that some people are "saved as by fire." A vessel at sea is in flames. You go to the stern of the vessel. The boats have shoved off. The flames advance. You can endure the heat no longer on your face. You slide down on the side of the vessel and hold on with your fingers until the forked tongue of the fire begins to lick the back of your hand, and you feel that you must fall, when one of the lifeboats comes back, and the passengers say they think they have room for one more. The boat swings under you. You drop into it?you are saved. So some men are pursued by temptation until they are partly consumed, but after all get off? "saved as by fire." But I like the figure of Job a little better than that of Paul, because the pulpit has not worn it out, and I want to show you, if God will help, that some men make narrow escape for their souls and are saved as "with the skin of their teeth." It is as easy for some people to look to the cross as for you to look to this pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable, loving, you expect them to become Christians. You go over to the store and say, "Grandon joined the ohuroh yesterday." Your business comrades say: "That is just what might have been expected. He always was of that turn of mind." In youth this person whom I describe was always good. He never broke things. He never laughed when it was improper to laugh. At seven he could sit an hour in church, perfectly quiet, looking neither to the right hand nor the left, but straight into the eyes of the minister, as though he understood the whole discussion about the eternal decrees. He never upset things nor lost them. He floated into the kingdom of God so gradually + If {a tmnavfnln ttiaf rrrhnn fho maffat* was decided. Here is another one, who started in life with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept the nursery in an uproar. His mother found him walking on the edge of the house roof to see if he could balance himself. There was no horse that he dared not ride, no tree he could not climb. His boyhood was a long series of predicaments, bis manhood was reckless, his midlife very wayward. But now he is converted, and you go over to the store and say, " Ark wrignt joined the church yesterday." Your friends say: "It is not possible. You must be joking." You say: "No; I tell you the truth. He joined the church." Then they reply, "There is hope for any of us If old Arkwright has become a Christian." In other words, we will admit that it is mope difficult for some men to Accept the gospel than for others. I may be preaching to some who have cut loose from churches and Bibles and Sundays, and who no intention of becoming Christians themselves, and vet vou may find yourself escaping before you leave this house as "with the skin of your teeth." I do not expect to waste this hour. I have seen boats go off from Cape May or Long Branch and drop their nets and after awhile come ashore, pulling in the nets without having caught a single flsh. It was not a good day, or they had not the right kind of a net. But we expect no such excursion to-day. The water is full of flsh, the wind is in the right direction, the gC9pel net is strong. 0 thou who didst help Simon and Andrew to fish, show us how to cast the net on the right side of the ship! Some of you Incoming to God will have to run against skeptical notions. It Is useless for people to say sharp and outting things to those who reject the Christian religion. I cannot say such things. By what process of temptation or trial or betrayal you have come to your present state I know not. There are two gates to your nature? the gate of the head and the gate of the heart. The gate of your head is locked with bolts and bars that an archangel could not break, but the gate of your heart swings easily on its hinges. If I assaulted your body with weapons, you would meet me with weapons, and it would be sword stroke for sword stroke and wound for wound and blood for blood, but if I come and knock at the door of your house you open it and give me the best seat in your parlor. If I should come at you now wltn an argument, you would answer me with an argument; If with sarcasm, you would answer me with sarcasm?blow for blow, stroke for stroke ?but when I come and knock at the door of your heart you open it and say. "Como in, my brother, and tell me all you know about Christ and heaven." Listen to two or three questions. Are youashappyasyouusedto be when you believed in tho truth of the Christian religion? Would you like to have your children travel on in the road in which you are now traveling? You had a relative who professed to be a Christian and was thoroughly consistent, living and dying in the faith of the gospel. Would you not like to live the same quiet life and die the same peuceful death? I hold In my hand a letter, sent me by one who has rejected the Christian religion. It says: "I am old enough to know that the joys and pleasures of lite are evanescent and to realize the fact that it must be comfortable in old age to believe in something telative to the future and to have a faith in aAma arcfom fhaf nrnnnapQ tn fiilVA. T am free to confess that I would be happier if I could exercise the simple and beautiful faith that is possessed by many whom I know. I am not willingly out of the church or out of the faith. My state of uncertainty is ono of unrest. Sometimes I doubt my immortality and look upon the deathbed as the closing scene, after which there is nothing. What shall I do that I have not done?" Ah, skepticism is a dark and doleful land! Let me 9iiy that this Bible ts either true or false. If it be false, we are as well off as you; if it be true, then which of us is safer? There is a large class of porsons in middle life who hav? still in them appetites that were aroused in early manhood, at a time when they prided themselves on being a "little fast," "high livers," "free and easy," "hail fellows well met." They are now paying in compound interest Tor troubles they collected twenty years ago. Some of you are trying to escape, and you will, yet very narrowly, "as with the skin of your teeth." God and your own soul only know what the struggle is. Omnipotent gruee has pulled out many a soul that was deeper in the mire than you aro. They line the beach of heaven?the multitude whom God has rescued from the thrall of suicidal habits. It' you this day turn hack on the wrong and utart anew, God will help you. Oil! the weakness of human help! Men will sympathize for a while and then turn you off. If you ask for their pardon, they will give it and say they will try you again; but. falling away again under tlie power 01 temptation, tuey i-n?i juu oft forever. But God forgives seventy times seven; yea, seven hundred times; yea, though this be the ten thousandth time. Ho is more earnest, more sympathetic, more helpful this last time than when you took your lirst mistep. If with all the influences favorable for a right life men make so many mistakes, how much harder Is it when, for instance, some appetite thtuata ltd i^oa gtappl? jato V the roots of the tongue and pulls a man down with hands of destruction? If, under such circumstances, he breaks away, there will be no sport in the undertaking, na holiday enjoyment, but a struggle in whicm the wrestlers move from side to side and \ hnnri n.nH f-nHat nn#l watch for an nnnnr. """ tunity to get in a heavier stroke, until with one final effort, in which the muscles are distended and the veins stand out and the blood starts, the swarthy habit falls under ; the knee of the victor?escaped at last as "with the skin of his teeth." The ship Emma, bound from Gottenburg to Harwich, was sailing on when the man on the lookout saw something that he pronounced a vessel bottom up. There was something on it that looked like a sea gull, but was afterward found to be a waviag handkerchief. In the small boat the crew pushed out to the wreck and found that it was a capsized vessel, and that three men had been digging their way out through the bottom of the ship. When the vessel capsized, they had no means of escape. The captain took his penknife and dug away through the planks until his knife broke. Then an old nail was found, with .. which they attempted to sorape their way ud out of the darkness, each one working until his hand was well nigh paralyzed, and he sank back faint and sick. After long and tedious work the light broke through the bottom of the ship. A handkerchief was hoisted. Help came. They were taken on board the vessel and saved. Did overmen come so near a watery grave without dropping into it? How narrowly they escaped?escaped only "with the skin.of their teeth." There are men who have been capsized of evil passions and capsized midocean, and they are a thousand miles away from any snore of help. They have for years been trying to dig their way out. They have been digging away and digging away, but they can never be delivered unless now they will hoist some signal of distress. However weak and feeble it may be, Christ will see it and bear down upon the helpless craft and take tiem on board, and it will be known on earth and in heaven how narrowly they have escaped?"escaped as with the skin of their teeth." There are others who in attempting to come to God mast run between a great many business perplexities. If a man go ' , over to business at 10 o'clock in the morning and come away at 3 o'clock intheafter| noon, he has some time for religion, but y how shall you find time for religious con* \ templation when you are driven from sun- j rise to sunset and have been for five years going behind In business and are frequently dunned by creditors whom you cannot pay, and when from Monday morning until Saturday night you are dodging bills that you cannot meet? You walk day by day in uncertainties that have kept your brain on Are for the past three years. 8ome with . less business troubles than you have gone crazy. The clerk das heard a noise in the back counting room and gone in and found the chief man of the firm a raving maniac. V or the wife has heard the bang of a pistol ? in the back parlor and gone in, stumbling over the dead body of her husband?a > suioide. There aro men pursued, harassed, trodden down andsoalped of business perplexities, and which way to turn next they do not know. Now God will not be hard on you. He knows what obstacles are in the way of your being a Christian and your first effort in the right direction He will crown with sucoess. Do not let satan, with cotton bales, and kegs, and hogsheads, and counters, and stocks of unsalable goods, block up your way to neaven. Gather up all your energies. Tighten the girdle about your loins. Take an agonizing look Into the faoe of God, and then say, "Here goea one grand effort for life eternal," and then bound away for heaven, escaping "as with the skin of your teeth." In the last day it will be fqund that Hugh Latimer, and John Knox, and Huss and Bidley were not the greatest martyrs, but Christian men who went up incorrupt from the contaminations and perplexities of Pennsylvania avenue, Broad street, State street and Third street. On earth they were called brokers or stock jobbers, or retailers, or importers, but in heaven Christian heroes. No fagots were heaped about their feet; no inquisition demanded from them recantation; no soldier aimed a pike at their heart, but they had mental torture compared with which all physical consuming is as the breath of a spring morning. V'59 I find in the community a large class of N ^ men who have been so cheated, so lied \ about, so outrageously wronged, that they M haver lost their faith in everything. In, a J| world where everything seems so topsy turvy tney ao not see now mere can do ?ujr God. They are confounded and frenzied and misanthropic. Elaborate arguments to prove to them the truth of Christianity > or the truth of anything else touch them nowhere. Hear me. all such men. I preach to you no rounded period?, no otrnamental discourse, but put my hand on your shoulder and invite you into the peace of the gospel. Here is a rock on which you may stand firm, though the waves dash against it harder than the Atlantic, pitching its surf clear above Eddystone lighthouse. Do not charge upon God all these troubles of the world. As long as the world stuck to God God stuck to the world, but the earth seceded from His government, and hence all these' outrages and all these woes. God is good. For many hundreds of years He has been coaxing the world to come back to Him, but the more He has coaxed the more violent have men been In their resistance, and they have stepped K""'- otonnari hn.'V until thev have waua. auu oicp^/vu _ ^ __ _ dropped into ruin. Try this God, ye who have had the bloodhounds after you, and who have thought that God had forgotten you. Try Him and see if He will not help. Try Him and see if He will not paraon. Try Him and see if He will not save. The flowers of spring have no bloom so sweet as the flowering of Christ's affections. The sun hath no warmth oompared with the glow of His heart. The waters have no refreshment like the fountain that will slake the thirst I of thy soul. At the moment the reindeer stands with his lip and nostril thrust in the cool mountain torrent, the hunter may be coming through the thicket. Without crackling a stick under, his foot, He comes close by the stag, aims his gun, draws the trigger, and the poor thing rears in its death agony and falls backward,its antlers crashing on the rocks. But the panting hart that drinks from the water brooks of God's promise shall never be fatally wounded and shall never die. This world is a poor portion of your soul, 0 business man! An eastern king had ^ graven on his tomb two Angers, represented i ^ j as sounding on each other with n snap, and ^ J under them the motto, "All is not worth that." Apicius*Coclius hanged himself because his steward informed bim that he ^ had only ?80,000 sterling left. All of this 1 world's riches make but a small Inheritance I for a soul. Robespierre attempted to win I the applause of the world, but when he was dying a woman came rushing through the crowd, crying to him, "Murderer of my kindred, descend to hell, covered with the curses of every mother in France!" Many who have expected the plaudits of the world have died under its anathema maranatha. Oh, find your peace in Godl Make one strong pull for heaven. No half-way work will do it. There sometimes comes a time on shipboard when everything must bo sacrificed to save the passengers. The cargo is nothing, the rigging nothing. The captain puts the trumpet to his lips and shouts, "Cut away the mast!" Some of you Dave Deen tossed ana ariveu, auu ?uu ucv, in your effort to keep the world, well nigh lost your soul. Until you havo decided this matter let everything else go. Overboard with all those other anxieties and burdens. You will have to drop the sails of your pride and cut away the mast. With one earnest cry for help put your cause into the hand of Him who helped Paul out of the breakers of Melita, and who, above the shrill blast of the wrathiest tempest that ever blackened the sky or shook the ocean, can hear the faintest imploration for mercy. I shall close this sermon feeling that some of you who have considered your case as hopeless will take heart again, and that with a blood red earnestness, such as you have never experienced before, you Will SWirt iur lilt- >;uuu II1UU VI mv at last to look back, saviug: "What a S great fisk I ran! Almost lost, but saved] Just got through, and no more! Escaped JO by the skin of my teeth." |^H A Unique Jubilee. A midwife at Stolpe, near Berlin, Qer-^"^^ many, celebrated the 6000th occasion on H which her services had been required by inviting all the children she had helped into H the world to dinner at her house. They fl afterward formed a torchlight procession H and marched through the town. H London has 14,000 policemen, Paris has fa m* hps 3809, . ^JL_