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PRESIDENT BORDA SHOT.
The Chief Magistrate of Uruguay
Falls by an Assassin's Hand.
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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.
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' New York'# New Police Chief.
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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.
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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,
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TAT M A tttf'S SPRMfW I
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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
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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_