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Backbone of the Strike at Hazelton
and Vicinity Broken.
WOMEN OPPOSE THE TROOPS.
Pushed Buck by the Military Until They
Dispersed?Five Thousand Miners Go
Back to Work and the Rest Expected
to Follow?Sheriff Martin and Deputies
Arrested?Militia to Be Withdrawn.
Hazletos, Penn. (Special).?Unless unforeseen
developments occur, the anthra"
cite coal strike in thia region is ended*
Yesterday twelve hundred men, half of the
full complement, returned to work at the
Honeybrook collieries of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Company, as did threo hundred
of the thirteen hundred at Pardee's
Latimer mines, while the Cranberry'
Crystal Ridge and Harwood collieries
of the same company and Coxe's colleries,
IntheDrifton district, remained at work.
The latter were to have settled the question
? of a strike yesterday, but at the request of
the operators held off nntll Thursday.
Nearly five thousand strikers have returned
or will do so to-morrow, ana a little less
' than that number are still out, with indications
in favor of their joining the workers.
The only incidents of yesterday were
small outbreaks at Lattimer and Eckley.
both of which were quickly subdued, and
the serving of warrants of arrest on Sheriff
Martin and a number of his deputies. At
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Lattlmer women atiempieu iu mur vm
three hundred Italians who returned to
work. They were armed with clubs and
stones and moved on the engine-house and
company's stores. The raid looked threatening
for a time, and was not ended until
three companies of the Thirteenth Regiment.
with fixed bayonets, had pressed back
and dispersed the crowd.
A number of Butler Valley miners who
wanted to return to work at Lattlmer were
driven back by a body of armed strikers,
who mot them as they came over the mountain,
a mile or more from camp. The
break of the strike is practically a victory
for the operators. In only one or two instances
hpve the demands of the men been
granted, although several companies have
'promised to consider the grievances.
The warrants for the arrest of Sheriff
Martin and his deputies were issued yesterday.
by Judges Lynch and Bennett at
Wilkesbarre They were served here last
night, and no resistance was maae. ino
writs contain seventy-eight names, including
that of the Sheriff, and he has agreed
to deliver all the deputies for a hearing.
A company of the Ninth Regiment will escort
them to Wilkesbarre. General Gobin
permitted the service of the writs because
ne tbinks the civil authorities are now able
to handle the situation. The gradual withdrawal
of the troops will be considered tomorrow.
ItvJunction Against Debs Perpetual.
Wheeling, W. Ya. (Special).?The featare
of interest in the opening of the September
term of the United States Court for
the District of West Virginia was the application
of ex-Governor A. B. Fleming, of
Fairmont, to make the injunction against
Eugene V. Debs and others perpetual. The
Governor was acting for his client, the
Monongah Coal Company, and as there was
no appearance for any of the defendants
the injunction was made perpetual.
Brockton Striken Win.
Bbocktox, Mass. (Special).?The big
strike of shoe lasters is settled, and it is
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apparently a viufcvrjr iui wc annvw.
SWEEPING OPINION ACAINST TRUSTS
The United State* Conrt in Kansas Severely
Criticises Trade Combination*.
In a decision handed down in Topekaj
Kansas, holding that the Kansas City Live
Stock Exchange is a trust, organized in violation
of the Sherman Anti-Trust law,
United States District Judge C. J. Foster
made some severe criticisms upon the formation
of trusts and combinations to control
trade. The exchange is an organization
of commission men who control tho
sale of live stock in Kansas City. All live
stock which enters the city must pass
through the exchange. Judge Foster issued
an injunction restraining it from doing
business, because it is an unlawtul combination.
In the course of the decision the
Judare says:
"The crying complaint of to-day and the
great menace to the welfare of the people
Is the tendency of wealth to monopolize
and control the industries of the country,
and it must be confessed by every thoughtful
observer that many of the so-called stock
aYid produce exchanges are among the
most potont instrumentalities for the accomplishment
of these purposes by speculators
and aiventurers."
FOUND ON THE MESA'S TOP.
Result* of an Kxpedltlon Recently Sent
Oat by the Government.
F. W. Hodge,of the Bureau of Ethnology,
Smithsonian Institution, has just returned
to Washington from an expedition to the
Enchanted Mesa, of New Mexico, which has
?xclted tho interest of scientists and the
daring or exploring parcies. n w?? uruu^ut
into prominence a few months ago by the
expedition of Professor William Libbey, of
Princeton University, who reported no
evidences of early occupancy.
. ' Mr. Hodge's explorations have brought
good results, however. He ascended by an
extension ladder comprising six sections.
e The Mesa was determined to be 431 feet
from the western plain to the top of the
highest pinnacle above the cleft, and the
talus at the base of the cleft 224 feet above
the plain. Mr. Hodge found several potsherds,
two stone axes (broken), a fragment
of a shell bracelet and a stone arrow point.
All vestiges of the ancient trail ascending
the talus, and continued thence to the summit
by band and foot holes in the solid rock,
have been obliterated; but some traces of
the holes remain.
FaHt Freight Runs.
The B. and O. S. W. has been making
records on quick despatch freight within
the past week or two. Two trains, one
weighing 732 and the other 731 tons, ran
from Cincinnati to Parkersburg, 200 miles
in eight hours and three minutes and eight
hours and four minutes respectively. The
run from St. Louis to Cincinnati, 340 miles
was made in sixteen hours. Considering
that some of the grades exceeded one per
cent, the performance ranks with the best
on record and demonstrates that the track
and motive power of the L. and 0. S. W
must be in good condition.
Sixteen Suicide* in One Week In Chicago.
Sixteen persons who had found life in
Chicago a failure committed suicide last
week. Five of the unfortunates were women.
Four of the victims hanged themselves,
four took poison, three drowned
themselves, two used revolvers, one inhaled
gas, and one leaped from a window.
Bearx Invade Idado Orchards.
Citizens of Kendriek, Tata County,
Idaho, have been obliged to fight largo
numbers of bears which have invaded tlieh
orchards nightly, owing, it issai l, to failure
of the wild berry crop in the mountains,
Prominent l'enjile,
Queen Victoria is interested in the Klondike
developments.
Prince Victor Napoleon has just attained
the age of thirty-six.
The Rev. Dr. Abel Stevens, the historiac
of Methodism, died in San Jose, Cal.
General Fitzhugh Lee is being eonsid
ered for the Presidency of the University
of Virginia.
President Fan re, while in Russia, gav<
three French talking dolls to the Czar';
little daughter.
The memorial to Archbishop Bensou, ii
Canterbury Cathedral, England, is to tak<
the form of a canopied tomb beneath th<
northwest tower and close to his grave
ROYAL HEIR WEDS StKVANI.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austriv
Marries a Former Housekeeper.
A sensation has been caused by the statement
that the Archduke Frant Ferdinand
son of the late Archduke Karl Ludwig and
Frlncess Annunciata, daughter of the lat<
! King Ferdinando II., of Naples, and heir
presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hun!
gary, was married in London a few days
j ago" to a middle-class lady from Kohlscheldt,
near Alx-la-Chapelle.
The Kolnische Yolks-Zeltung eays the
; lady's father was formerly a mine manager,
| that one of her brothers is a clergyman of
f Essen and that another brother Is a tradesmrn
of Aix-la-Chapelle.
The Lokal-Anzeiger adds: "She Is a
: former housekeeper of Herr Krupp, the
| gre^t iron master of Essen, where she met
j FEANZ ^EBDIJTAXD, ABCHDCKE OF ACSTBU,
j Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The couple
have gone to Algiers."
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
was born at Gratzon December 13,1863. He
Is one of the riohest men in Europe, as he
inherited, while still a child, all the immense
wealth of the Este branch of the
Hapsburg family. He was only eight years
old when his mother died.yet his father then
straightway handed him over to the cars
of the Jesuits, with strict instructions that
he should be brought up untainted by thl?
I wicked nineteenth century.
I FIRE DESTROYS A BLOODY RELIC.
! The Much-Used Gallows at Fort Smith
Gone.
The old relic of barbarism at Fort Smith,
Ark., the gallows in the Federal jailyard,
is gone, never to return. It had been the
intention of some civilized persons to exhibit
the grewsome relic for money, accompanied
by George Maledon, the notorl
FAMOUS QALLOWS AT FOBT SMITH, ABK.
ous hangman, who has killed legally more
persona than any other man In the United
States, but good sense and humanity prevailed,
and that ugly Instrument of death
whioh has given to Fort Smith such a murderous
reputation abroad, was burned In
public, leaving nothing but ashes and horrid
memories which time alone can efface.
The whole number of executions at Fort
Smith within the last twenty-flve years Is
| somewhere near a hundred, of which about
j eighty are credited to George Maledon,
I who never made a failure or a bungling
job. Maledon is an old Federal soldier of
German nationality. He hanged people
as a business and seemed to like it, because
! HinM moi mnnarr in If Tho hiffhftst nilm
ber of executions "in one day was seven,
and he called that a "good day's work."
GREAT BRITAIN AND SILVEF*
A. Letter on the Subject From a Bank of
of England Official.
At the semi-annual meeting of the Bank
j of England, the Governor of that institution,
after referring to the proposals of the
United States Government on the subject
of silver, proceeded to read a letter addressed
by himself to the Chancellor of tho
Exchecquer, and wherein the bank expressed
its readiness to hold one-flfth of
the bullion reserve^n silver, as permissaj
ble by the bank charter, provided always
j that the French mints were again open to
I fr<*e coinage of silver, and the prices at
j which silver was procurable and saleable
| would prove satisfactory. He concluded
I by denying that the bank had bought any
j silver, "and declared that all the bank had
| undertaken to do was under certain condlj
tlon to carry out what was permlssable
j under the statute of 1844.
I r.RANn ARMY COMMANDER KILLED.
I E. F. Sands, of Jersey City, Meets Death
by Jumping From a Trolley Car.
Emanuel F. Sands, of Jersey City, N. J.t '
I who|in June last was elected Commander of
1 the Grand Army of the Republic in the
I State of New Jersey, was instantly killed
' while jumping from a trolley car at Varick
and Grand streets.
i Mr. Sands nad been to Newark to a Grand
! Army meeting, and was on his way home
I on a Consolidated Traction car. He told
1 the conductor to let him off at Varick
| street, but the car did not stop and he
j jumped. He fell and his head struck the
! rail, fracturing liis skull. He died before
an ambulance could be called.
Mr. Sands was sixty-four years old and
I leaves a family. John Woodward and Irv
ing Buck, the conductor and motorman,
of Jersey City, were arrested.
ronj rtuauuu mvnuvu*
Forty persons wore drowned in the Rivor
Volga near Astrakhan, Russia. The
j steamer Tsarevitch was sunk in a collision
with the Malfltka. As she was going down
l her passengers loaped into the water in a
panic. Many of them swam ashore.
Lynched at Skajfuay.
! A young Russian Finn, whoso name is
unknown, was lynched by Ave enraged
miners on Skaguay trail, bound for the
Klondike, on the afternoon of September
3. The crime with which ho was charged was
i stealing. The scene of the hanging was
near the foot of the summit, about fifteen
miles from salt water.
Itoller-Skates For Messenger Koys.
American visitors to London often complain
of the dilatory messenger boy service.
Tho boys are now being providod
with roller-skates.
The National Game,
Miller, of Minneapolis, catches without a
chest-protector.
Both Philadelphia uud St. Louis failed to
1 j win a game in Washington this year.
| Gettman, the new Washington outfielder,
i is a left-handed batsman and thrower.
Pitcher Getzein, formerly of the Bostons
and Detroits, is now a type-sticker in Chicago.
Dnlhen, of Chicago, is one of the finest
' I all-round ball players the game has pro'
! luced.
| The magnates will be compelled to pass
i a stringent and at the same time an intelli>
glble rulo regarding a balk this fall. The
i present rule is violated every day.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. |
TVoahlnrton Item*.
Th? TrreckJnar of the steam whatei
Navarch by being caught in an ice pack in
the Arctlo Ocean, the probable loss of thir- J<
ty-seven members of her crew and one
passenger, and the rescue of the Captain
and his wife and six of the crew, have jusl j
been reported to the Treasury Departmenl !
by Captain Tuttle of the revenue steamer
Bear, of the Behring Sea patrol fleet. 0
Th? Monetary Commission appointed under
the authority of the Indianapolis
"Sound Money" Convention held its opening
session in Washington. r
The Secretary of the Interior has made
requisitions on the United States Treasury
for the following sums to be used in the
October payment of pensions: Buffalo,
81,650,000; Chicago, $2,875,000; Concord,
N. H., $775,000; Des Moines, la.. $2,140,000;
Pittsburg, $1,750,000. Total, $9,190,000.
President McRinley has commuted the l
sentence of C. Lee Addington, who was to I ?
die on the scaffold In Paris, Texas, on Friday,
to life Imprisonment. Addington mur- al
dered Oscar Hodges in the Choctaw Nation ti
In 1895.
Archibald J. Sampson, of Arizona, ha9 _
been appointed United States Minister to
Ecuador. 01
Four chiefs of division and twenty clerks M
In the Post Office Department have been A.
notified to show cause why they should [j
not be reduced in salary and position, to ,
make room for other clerks of greater of|
flcienoy. of
General Fitzhugh Lee gave the President .r
his opinion dt the situation In Cuba, and J"
decided to go back to Havana for the pres- !V
ent at McKlniey's solicitation. ^
The President has appatnted Silas C. ^
CroJt Surveyor of Customs for the Port ol tc
New York and Charles M. Dickinson, of jc
Blnghamton, N. Y., Conaul-Qoneral at Con- ^
stantlnople. ^
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Domestic. si
EE COED OF THE LEAGUE CETTBS. a
Per Per ^
Clubs. Won. T/OSt. cf. Clubs. Won. Lost. ct. -r>
Bait 87 86 .707 Brooklyn 57 69 .452 1
Boston ...89 37 .706 Pittsb'g ..56 69 .448 i ?'
N'wYork.79 45 .637 Chicago .55 70 .440 '
Clncln'atl70 54 .565 Phllad'a..54 72 .429 *
Clevel'd..65 59 .524 Loulsv'le 51 73 .411 ?
Wash'n.. 57 67 .460 St. Louls.27 96 .220 []
John R. Gentry and Robert J. broke the s<
world's team pacing record In Philadelphia, oi
making a mile in 2.09. c,
President McKinley and his party were
**? _ tx__i t-J TTJ11- f V
warmly welcomed in ine jtserssuiro ama m
Massachusetts. The President is the guest r<
of an old friend, and made a speech to a al
big crowd at the Hoosic Valley Fair, North le
idams.
Sheriff Martin and his deputies were held ^
for trial by the Court in Wilkesbarre, Ponn., J'
for the shooting of strikers at Lattimer.
" Further improvement in the yellow fever ^
situation in the South is reported. tl
The State Committee of the National m
Democrats, at a meeting in New York, en- L
dorsed Alton B. Parker, the candidate of tl
the regular Democracy for Supremo Court
Judge. m
Joseph M. Hardy and Henry G. Blake ,
were sentenced at Albany, N. Y., to four- i b<
teen years and four months' lmnrisonment' M
for kidnapping little John Conw.iy. Hardy to
Is the boy's uncle. Albert S. Warner, a New
fork lawyer, is charged with b?ing an ac- ! ^
;omplico. "but has not yet been captured. ; m
The object of the kidnappers was money, j"
ind the case aroused great interest through- |
out the State. "
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The jury at i-ranKiori, ivy., in mo irim i
of Dr. Himter and others accused of bri- , {;'
bery In attempting to secure Hunter's elec- I _
tion to the United States Senate, returned !
a verdict of not guilty In all the cases.
Mrs. Elizabeth McBoberts, of BufTalo, N
F., jumped Into the Niagara River and was
jarried over the Falls. She was sixty-flve
fears old, and suffering from Ill-health and B
melancholia.
Hon. George F. Hour, of Worces ter. Mass.,
made the address of wolcome at the Na- .
tlonal Conference of Unitarian and othei 1
Christian churches in Saratoga, N. Y. tc
The widow of Dr. Rlzal, the former H
leader of the partiots in the Philippines, Is N
In Philadelphia, where she has made arrangements
for military expeditions to aid
the insurgents, and concluded an agreement
for mutual assistance with the Cuban
Junta. She intends to return to the Philippines
to lead the patriots in person. Her
husband was executed by the Spaniards.
William Gantz, a pressman, who had
often boasted that he would accomplish
the feat, jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge
and was rescued from the water with apparently
but slight Injuries.
^Tte first snow storm of the season is reported
from Juneau, Alaska, stopping
travel over the passes to the Klondike gold
fields.
The Republican organization, under Senator
Piatt's leadership, carried the Republican
primaries In New York without opposition,
assuring a solid delegation against
3eth Low for Mayor. The Democratic
primaries in Brooklyn resulted In the general
success of Hugh McLaughlin's organization.
The First National Bank, of Benton Har- j
bor, Mich., has closed its doors, owing de- '
posltors $90,000.
The historic frigate Constitution sailed
from Portsmouth, N. H., for Boston, where
she was launched 100 years ago.
A coal mine near Blocton, Ala., caught
Are, and before all the miners could be
rescued Ave were burned to death and
three or four were reported missing.
K The bones of a mastodom have been unearthed
near Waterloo, Ind. One tooth h
weighs about five pounds. The bones, I P
measured separately, give the standing j v
Imlffht abont eiirhtoen feet. | ti
United States Commissioner Alexander j 0
at New York discharged the eleven Chinamen
who were arrested several days ago on
j the charge of violating the Chinese Exclusion
act.
Henry W. Sage, who has given $1,250,000 *
!fa cash gifts to Cornell University, died iD
Ithaca at the age of eighty-three.
Star Pointer defeated Joo Patchen in a ; t
race at Indianapolis, Ind., in 2.01, estab- j
lishing a new pacing race record.
The Now York Ropublicnn State Commit- ; v
tee nominated United States Circuit Judge j t
William J. Wallace for Chief Judge of the | c
Court of Appeals. " C
| The village of Imlaystown, N. J., was al- ! j
: most wiped out by a ilro which is sup- j
posed to have been started by burglars. | ^
The loss was nenrly ?50,000.
An angry crowd *tt Dillon, S. C., with j
drawn pistols prevented the train carrying I c
| a circus from leaving that town until c
money people claimed to have been robbed I j
of was repaid. I
The annual meeting of the American c
Forestry Association was h^ld in Nashville,
1 Tenn. " j
Foreign. ji
Travelling Incognito, King Leopold 01 j s
Belgium lias reached Las Palraas, Canary | I
Island; it is suspected that ho is going to i r
visit the Congo country, Africa.
Dr. T. M. Angstadt, formerly a clergyman
of Philadelphia, and lato a physician
in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, killed himself ! ?
in the latter place because he could not cure I t
a patient who was suffering from a painful ^
disease. j t
A mass-meeting was held in Athens to g
' denounce Greece's terms of peace with Tur- . f
j key, and a copy of the treaty was burned.
i Great damage has been done by an earthj
quake in Yokohoma, Japan.
Ten were killed and thirty fatally wound- t
! ed in a railroad wreck near Kafosvars, | j
Austria. j t
Jewels worth 8150,000 found in the ruins j
! of the Charity Bazaar Are in Taris have [
beeusoldat public auction.
George Waldron, a survivor of the famous I
, charge of the Light Brigade atBalaklava. j
was killed at Montreal, Canada, by a blow j
with a caue in the hands of ais wife. i (
The whaling ship Falken has reached j
Hammerfest, the most northern town in j j
! Europe, with a pigeon bearing a message, j
dated July 13, nn?l neueveu to dc* iruui ah- i
dree's arctic balloon. (
Lieutenant Peary and party have re- .
turned to Sidney, li. C., from NOrth Green- 1
land, on the preliminary trip. Arrange- ( J
ments were niude for an expedition in j
search of the North Pole next year. i
Tho defeat of General Jeffrey's British ; 1
force by Momunds is regarded as veryser- j
ious at Simla, India, More troops are to be | 1
sent from England, and it is believed that j l
the authorities foar trouble with more than i
thetrlbemen. 1 <
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JD FOB GOLD SEEKffi
jseph Ladue in Consultation With the
President and Secretary Aleer,
OOO MEN ON HALF RATIONS,
hat Will Be the S 1on ThU Winter,
According to the Alaska Pioneer?Wax
Department Advice* Are More IJncouraglng
? The Government's Reindeei
May Be Utilized In Forwarding Snpplief
Washington, D. C. (Special).?Joseph
adue. the Alaska pioneer, who came to
ashlngton to consult with Secretary Alger
jout methods for the relief of the destituon
which he and others who comprehend
ie situation believe will overtake those
ho have crowded into the Klondike withit
adequate supplies, called on President
cKinley. He was presented by Secretary
Iger. The President discussed the sltuaon
with Mr. Ladue, and appeared deeply
iterested in his suggestions for the relief
f the Klondlkers.
Mr. Ladue estimates that there are about
100 people in the Klondike, and that there
re provisions for only about 3000. He
links the idea of attempting to arrange
ir ico Ancrlnoq fr>r narrvlnc suhnlles down
le Yukon is utterly impracticable,. owing
) the fact that when the river freezes the
e in the centre Is forced up/forming great
lllocks. He believes that all persons who
ave not sufficient provisions and who can
sturn to St. Michael before the river freezes
jould do so.
He says tnat navigation will not close for
month, and ho advises that a courier be
lspatched immediately across Chilkoot
ass to Klondike to urge all who can to
mbark on the last outgoing steamer. This
lesestlon will probably be adopted. In
dditfon he advises the establishment of
:ations along Chiikoot Pass with dog
rains for conveying'rellef supplies. Before
>aving the White House Mr. Ladue premteii
Mrs. McKinley a half-ounce nugget
I virgin gold. Secretary Alflrer also resived
a souvenir Klondike nugget.
Secretary Alger said after the interview
lat no steps would be taken looking to
slief of the miners in the Klondike until
tter navigation closes and the Government
,>arns through Captain Ray, who is at St.
[Ichael, the exact situation. Secretary
Iger has received a telegram exprossin/j
le opinion that the four steamers now go
ig uo the Yukon carry ample provisions
>r all persons now In Dawson City anl
le vicinity. If they arrive safely perhaosi
lere will be no necessity for any relief
easures. If not, it is possible that Mr.
adue's suggestion for dog trains across
le Chllkoot Pass may be accepted.
Secretary Bliss has Instructed the Comissioner
of Education to have the reindeer
ow at Teller Station. Alaska, which have
sen broken to work, forwarded to 8".
ichael.to be held there for use in forwarc tft
supplies to the Klondike country in case
t emergency. There are*about eighty of
le reindeer which, it is believed by the Ac.ilnistration,
can be utilized in thie way,
id the opinion prevails that they would
5 much more useful than dogs, because
ley travel more rapidly, draw more, and
in live on the little foraee the country
roduces. The Secretary savs that each
Indeer will carry about 300 pounds and
ill Dravel a hundred miles a dayv
CUBA'S NEW PRESIDENT.
rigadier-General Mendez Capote Electod
Chief Magistrate of the Republic.
News has reached New York of the elecon
of Brigadier-General Mendez Capote
> the Presidency of the Ropubllt! of Caba.
e is a man of ability, and the Cubans in
ew York City declare he will carry on t:ie
PRESIDENT CAPOTE, OF CUBA.
rar with Spain with redoubled energy,
resident Capote is a graduate of the Uniersity
of Havana, and one of the most disInguished
lawyers on the island. He is
nly thirty-four years of age.
M'KINLEY OFF FOR A HOLIDAY.
he President Goes With His Party to
North Adam*, AIakr.
President JIcKinley left Washington on
he Pennsylvania Railroad at 9 o'clock
'uesday night for North Adams, M;isa.,
mere ho will bo the guest for a week or
en days of W. B. Plunkett. He was acompanied
by Mrs. McKinley, Attorneyfeneral
and Mrs. McKenna, Mi ss McKeana,
Secretary and Mrs. Alger, Miss Mabel Mckinley,
his niece; George 13. Cortelyou,
icting Secretary to the President, and
. Walter Blandford, Private Secretary to
he Attorney-General.
Just as the train started the President
ame to the broad rear platform of the end
tar and bowed right and left to the ciowd
nside and outside of the station railing,
lis appearance was greeted with handlapping.
The train consisted of four coaches. The
>rivate car of President Thomson 0! the
Jennsylvania road was occupied by Mr.
indMrs. McKinley. There was no prolonged
top on the way, and the train reached
forth Adams at 9 o'clock Wednesday
norning.
Frost lu the Northwest.
Telegrams from various parts ol the
forth west say that frost was general
hrouijhout Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
Visconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota ami
he entire Northwest. Slight Hurries of
mow were reported in Michigan, Indiana
md Wisconsin.
Tliirty-tliree Lives Lost In a Collision.
The British steamer Tyria and the Ausrian
steamer Ika wore in collision near
"iume. The Ika was so badly damaged
hat she sank. Seventeen of her passenjers
were rescued, but thirty-three were
lrowned.
Minor Mention.
Coon cat farms are operated'uear Lewison,
Me.
Louise Michel has been expelled from
Belgium.
Italy's Minister of Finance, Siguor Aswnio
Brauca, has resigned.
Many Odessa (Russia) business houses
lave oeen ruiueu uy tut? risu ui iul: imtc ui
jraiii.
Cranberries in New Jersey will make a
eery light yield, iu some counties not rnueh
uore tuanone-fourth of a crop.
Glass manufacturers of Kokomo, Ind.,
lave begun to draw on the sand banks of
;ho lake shore about St. Joseph, Mich., for
tvhite sand at the rate of from live to ten
jarloads a day.
COUNTING SILVER DOLLARS.
Twenty-one Young Women Kept Busy
For Several Weeks.
(
The count of money In the vaults of the,
United States Treasury at Washington Is
flHll in nrnfrroflc nrnl Trill nnf fnr
several weeks. The unusually long time 1
occupied in the oount is due to the cautiousness
of Treasurer Roberts. In all
previous counts the money has been
weighed In bags, there being 1000 silver
dollars In each bag. Two tests would be
applied to these bags, depending on
whether the dollars were new or had been
used. A bag of 1000 new and unused dollars
weighs about fifty-eight nounds and i
fifteen ounces. A basr of badly used dol- |
lars weighs about fifty-eight pounds and i
nine or ten ounces, a difference of 86 or $7.
Counting thi.= way the count did not take
so lone, but Treasurer' Roberts has insist- 1
ed that in one of the vaults in which old i
silver dollars are stored each dollar shall
be counted. This is now being done, and
the tinkle of silver dollars is heard for
many foet throughout the Treasury. Twenty-one
young women have been assigned to i
this count. In the vault which held the
new silver dollars the count was made in
the regular way. and the gold in the vaults
will be counted by weight.
BIG LOSS OF LIFE IN ITALY.
Hurricane and Floods Kill 100 and Injure
a* Many More.
A hurrioane swent over Sava. Oria and
Latlano, all In the Province of Lecce, Italy.
Forty persons were killed, seventy were
wounded, twenty houses were destroyed,
and telegraphic communication with the
scene of the disaster was cut off.
At Oria the railway depot was demol- ]
lshed and all the railway men engaged j
there were killed. Two chateaux and |
thirty houses were destroyed in a neteh- (
boring village, where twenty were killed ,
and twenty-four Injured.
At Mesagne fifteen were killed and Ave
Injured. I
A special dispatch from Rome says that |
two villages near Brindisi have been flooded
and that twenty persons Tiave been (
drowned.
The floods, which were caused by recent |
heavy rains, wreciced every house in the j
two villages. Injuring many people.
Great tracts of country have been devastated.
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KILLED BY TICERS. ,
i District in South China Panic-Stricken
by Their Ravages.
Chinese advices say that much excite- I
ment prevails about Foo Chow over the, j
killing of many natives at Kullang by man- (
i-il ?1 l-l.U U 1^ on/1
j eur.iuft Lifters, wuiuu uavu unuiou uu uuu i
eaten many natives. Hundreds have fled
to near-by cities for protection. They refuse
to return and attend to their crops, 1
saying that they will leave the country for
good rather than fight tigers. 1
Expert hunters have killed some of the
beasts, but more come down from the
mountains. They first attacked oattlo, 1
and destroyed hundreds of them before |
many natives were killed.
The foreign settlement at Foo Chow has
offered a reward of $50 for every full-grown
tiger killed. Traps have been set, and
I tiger hunts on a great scale are now In
progress. Several natives who were caught
and torn by tigers and rescued by hunter?
nro now in the Foo Chow hospitals.
1000 HORSES DEAD.
! Strange Equine Malady Raging on Eastern
Shore of Maryland.
Dr. A. W. Clement, Maryland's State j
Veterinarian, reports an alarming epidemic I
among horses on the eastern shore, whicb
! luiioa over one tnousana.
Dr. Clement said: "The strange disease
j threatens to become general throughout
j the State. I made a post-mortem exami;
nation of a number of horses which died
j from the disease, and will make an official I
| report as soon as possible. I cannot as yet
| give any definite opinion in regard to the
j disease, but I am almost certain it Is
caused by horses eating some poisonou?
vegetable" matter."
A TORPEDO-BOAT COES DOWN.
Duke Frederick William of MecklenbnrgSchirerln
One of Those Drowned.
A Hamburg despatch says that Torpedo- !
boat No. 26 has been capsized and sunk,
near the llrst lightship off Cuxhaven. Eight
of her crew, including her commandor, i
Duke Frederick William of Mecklenburg- j
Schwerin were drowned. The Duke was 1
born In 1874, held the rank of Lieutenant in 1
the German Navy, and was a brother of the j
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
The mother of the Duke received the !
I news of his death at Castle Rabensteinfeld, |
I 3chwerin. The whole town has been thrown i
Into deep mourning. The churchjjells were j
i foiled and the performance at the Court j
Theatre was abandoned.
EARTHQUAKE IN LIMA.
j Two Shocks Crack Walls and DeslToy
Ceilings In Peru's Capital.
There have been two strong earthquake
3hooks at Lima, the capital of Peru. Great
alarm was caused among the inhabitants, i
| the majority of whom rushed out into the
! streets.
j Many ceilings fell and walls were cracked
I during the subterranean disturbance.
i The seismic vibrations moved from west !
to east. Mellendo, in the south, and Paita,
j in the north, were not affected, but in the
i region of the disturbance there were frequent
landslides, interrupting traffic on the
Croya Railway, while telegraphic communication
was interfered with.
Otter Skins Becoming Scarce.
The hunting schooner Rattler has arrived
at San Francisco from the Arctic,
I having secured twenty-six sea-otter skins j
i and 193 fur-seals. Captain Neilson deI
clares that otters are becoming scarce. He J
got one skin that is entirely white, the first
I fo Iron n,?n<-vriHnrr fr* Hi A hlintpra
i The conventional color o? the sen-otter Is |
j black. Skins here and there dappled with I
| silver have always commanded the highest >
I price. This pure white skin, it is expected, [
i will bring from -r700 to 61000, the highest j
price on record.
Arroyo's >Iurder Premeditated.
Velasquez.ex-Inspector-General of Police, !
i now in prison in the City of Mexico, has j
confessed that he ordered the killing of !
' Arroyo, the assailant of President Diaz.
1 His servant admits buying the knives with
which the deed was committed. Velasquez
| says that the man was not tortured. The
Judge has decided that Velasquez and Cabrera,
the detective, are guilty, and he
holds them for trial.
England Buying Horses.
| A report to the State Departmental Washj
ington from the United States Minister at
t Buenos Ayrcs says that agents of the British
' War Office have purchased 1400 horses in
j Argentina for use by the British Army in
I Africa. It is believed that these horses are
j better able to stand the trying African cli
I UUHU VUUU l*Uj vouvtwi
Troops Fire on Strikers.
A special dispatch from Helao, twelve
miles from Milan, Italy, aays that during
! strike disturbances there the troops were
! called out and llred upon the strikers, killing
one man and wouuding eight.
Cj'clliiK Notes.
The lamp and bell ordinance is being enj
forced raore rigorously than ever by the
! New Jersey authorities.
! An English doctor reports that he rode
6324 miles on a wheel last year, of which
distance 4">24 miles w-'re made on professional
visits.
Lord Dunraven, who failed to bring
home the America's Cup, has developed almost
as creat an affection for cycling as
| for yachting.
Olio of the San Francisco street railways,
I running through a hilly district, provides
I racks for bicycles ou the front and rear of
ears, and oharges live cents extra for carrying
a wheel. The amount from this service
cuts quite a figure in the receipts.
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DR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Strong Words of Hope and Promise For
Discouraged Tollers In the Lord's Vine/ard
? Christian Workers, Like the
Stars, Shine In Magnitude Forever.
Text: "They that turn many to righteousness
shall shine as the stars forever
and ever."?Daniel xii., 8.
Every man has a thousand roots and a
thousand branches. His roots reach down
through all the earth. His branches
spread through all the heavens. He speaks
with voice, with eye, with hand, with foot.
His silence often is loud as thunder and his
life is a dirge or a doxology. There Is no
such thing as negative Influence. We are
all nositive in the nlaca wo ocminv m&klncr
the world better or making it worse, on the
Lord's side or on the devil's, making up
reasons for our blessedness or banishment,
and we have already done work in peopling
heaven or hell. I hear people tell of what
they are going to do. A man who has
burned down a city might as well talk ol
Bome evil that he expects to do, or a man
who has saved an empire might as well talk
of some good that he expects to do. By
the force of your evil influence you have
already consumed infinite values, or you
have by the power of a right influence won
whole kingdoms for God.
It would be absurd for me, by elaborate
argument, to prove that the world is off the
track. You might as well stand at the foot
of an embankment, amid the wreck of a
capsized rail train, proving by elaborate
argument that something is out of order.
Idam tumbled over the embankment sixty
senturles ago, and the whole race, in one
long train, has gone on tumbling in the
same direction. Crash! Crashl The only
question now is, By what leverage can the
crushed thing be lifted? By what hapimer
may the fragments be reconstructed? I
want to show you how we may turn many
to righteousness and what will be our
future pay for so doing.
First, we may turn tnem by the charm of
a rignc example. a cnua coming irom a
fllthy home was taught at school to wash
Its face. It went home so much improved
in appearance that its mother washed her
Face, and when the father of the household
came home and saw the improvement in
domestic appearance he washed his face.
The neighbors, happening in, saw the
change and tried the samp experiment, until
all that street was purified, and the next
street copied its example, and the whole
uity felt the result of one schoolboy washing
his face. That Is a fable by which we
set forth that the best way to get the world
washed of its sins and pollution is to have
our own heart and life cleansed and purified.
A man with grace in his heart and
Christian cheerfulness in his face and holy
uonsistency in his behavior is a perpetual
sermon, and the sermon differs from others
Ln that It has but one head and the longer
[t runs the better.
There are honest men who walk down
Wall street making the teeth of iniquity
chatter. There are happy men who go into
a sickroom and by a look help the broken
bone to knit and the excited nerves drop
to a calm beating. There are pure men
whose presence silences the tongue of uncleanness.
The mightiest agent of good on
earth is a consistent Christian. I like the
Bible folded between lids of cloth or calfskin
or morocco, but I like it better when,
in the shape of a man, it goes out into the
world a Bible illustrated. Courage is beaunfni
fn paqH fthnnt hnt rAther would I see
a man with all the world against him confident
as though all the world were for htm.
Patience 13 beautiful to read about, but
rather would I see a buffeted soul calmly
waiting for the time of deliverance. Faith
Is beautiful to l-ead about, but rather would
I find a man in the midnight walking
Btraight on as though he saw everything.
Oh, how many souls have been turned to
God by the charm of a bright examplel
When, in the Mexican War, tbe troops
were wavering, a general rose in his stirrups
and dashed into the enemy's lines,
Bhouting, "Men, follow me!" They, seeing
his courage and disposition, dashed on after
him and gained the victory. What men
want to rally them for God is an example
to lead them. All your commands to others
to advance amount to nothing as long as
you stay behind. To affect them aright
you need to start for heaven yourself, looking
back only to give the stirring cry ol
' Men, follow!"
Again, we may turn many to righteousness
by prayer. There is no such detective
as prayer, for no one can hide away from
It. It puts its hand on the shoulder of a
man 10,000 miles ofT. It alights on a ship
midatlantic. The little child cannot understand
the law of electricity, or how the
telegraph operator, by touching the instrument
here, may dart a message under the
sea to another continent, nor oan we, with
our small intellect, understand how the
touch of a Christian's prayer shall instantly
strike a soul on the other side of the earth.
You take ship and go t'o some other country
and get there at 11 o'clook in the mornjg.
You telegraph to America and the
message gets here at 6 o'clock the same
morning. In other words, it seems to arrive
here five hours before it started. Like
that is .prayer. God says, "Before they
call I will hear." To overtake a loved one
on the road you may spur up a lathered
steed until he shall outrace the one that
brought the news to Ghent, but a prayer
ahnll r?ntnh It at One CallOD. A bOV
running away from home may take
the midnight train from the country
village and reach the seaport in time to
gain the ship that sails on tne morrow, but
a mother's prayer will be on the deck to
meet him, and in the hammock before he
swings into it, and at the capstan before
he winds the rope around, ana on the sea,
against the sky, as the vessel plows on
toward it. There is a mightiness in prayer.
George Muller prayed a company of poor
boys together, and then he prayed up an
asylum in which they might be sheltered.
He turned his face toward Edinburgh and
prayed, and there came ?1000. He turned
his face toward London and prayed and
there came ?1000. He turned nis face toward
Dublin and prayed and there came
?1000. The breath of ^lljah'9 prayer blew
all the clouds off the sky, and It "was dry
weather. The breath of Elijah's prayer
blew all the clouds together, and it was
wet weather. Prayer, In Daniel's time,
walked the cave as a lion tamer. It reached
up and took the sun by its golden bit and
stopped it and the moon by its silver bit
and stopped it.
We have all yet to try the full power ol
prayer. The time will come when the American
church will pray with its face toward
the west, and all the prairies and inland
cities will surrender to God and will pray
with face toward the sea. and all the islands
and ships will become Christian. Parents
who have wayward sons will get down on
their knees and say, "Lord, send my boy
home," and the boy in Canton will get right
up from the gaming table and go down to
find out which ship starts first for America.
Not one of us yet know* how to prav. All
we have done as yet has only been pottering.
A boy gets hold of his father's saw and
hammer and tries to make something, but
it is a poor affair that he makes. The father
comes and takes the same saw and hammer
and builds the house or the ship. In the
childhood of our Christian faith vve make
but poor work with these weapons of
uul ,tv.
of men in Christ Jesus then, under these
implements, the temple of God will rise and
the world's redemption will be launched.
God cares not for the length of our prayer9,
or the number of our prayers,or the beauty
of our prayers, or the place of our prayers,
but It is the faith in them that tells. Believing
prayer soars higher than the lark
ever sang, plunges deeper than diving bell
ever sank, darts quicker than lightning
ever flashed. Though we have used only
the back of this weapon instead of the edge,
what marvels have been wrought! If saved,
we are all the captives of some earnest
prayer. Would God that, in desire for the
rescue of souls, we might in prayer lay
hold of the resources of the Lord Omnipotent!
We may turn to righteousness by Christian
admonition. Do not wait until you
can make a formal speech. Address the
one next to you. You will not go home
ninn? tn.ilnv. Between this and your place
of stopping you may ilecido the eternal destiny
of aa immortal spirit. Just one .sentence
may do the work, just one question,
just one look. The formal talk that begins
with a sigh and ends witb ? "anting snuffle
is not wliut is wanted,'out the heart throb
of a man in dead earnest. Ther<? is not n
soul on earth that you may not bring to
God if you rightly go at it. They said Gibralter
could not bo taken. It is a .rook 160C
feet high and three miles long, but theEng'
lish and Dutch did take it. Artillery anc
i-v "
sappers and miners and fleets pouring oat %
volleys of death and thousands of men reoklass
of danger can do anything. The stoutest
heart of sin, though It be rook and snr- _
rounded by an ocean of transgression, under
Christian bombardment may hoist the
flag of redemption. '
But is all this admonition and prayer
and Christian work for nothing? My text
promises to all the faithful eternal loster.
"They that turn many to righteousness
shall shine as the stars forever." As stars
the redeemed have a borrowed light.
What makes Mars and Venna and JuDiter
so luminous? When the gun throws down
his torch in the heavens, the stars pick up
the scattered brands and hold them In
procession as the queen of the night advances.
80 all Christian workers, standing
around the throne, will shine in the
1 light borrowed from the Sun of Righteousness?Jesus
In their faces. Jesus in their
1 songs, Jesus In their triumph.
Again, Christian workers shall be like
the stars In the fact that they have a light '
independent of each other. Look up at
the night and see each world show its distinct
glory. It is not like the conflagration,
in which you cannot tell where one
flame stops and another begins. Neptune,
Hersohel and Mercury are as distinct as if
; eaoh one of them were the only star. So
our individualism will not be lost in
heaven. A great multltnde?yet each one
: as observable, as distinctly recognized, as
greatly celebrated, as if in all the space,
irom Kaie to gate Ana irom mil to am, a?
were the only Inhabitant?no mixing no, no
mob, no Indiso^jjilnate rash, each Christian
worker standing oat Ula9trioas, all
the story of earthlv achlevment adhering
1 to each one. his self-denials and pains and
services and victories published.
Before men went ont to the last war the
1 orators told them that they would all be remembered
by their country and their names be
commemorated in poetry and in song.
' But go to the graveyard in Richmond, and
you will find there 6000 graves, over each
of which is the inscription, ."Unknown."
The world does not remember Its heroes,
but there will be no unrecognized Chrlstaln
worker In heaven. Each one known by all >
?grandly known, known by acclamation,
all the past story of work for God gleaming
In cheek and brow and foot and palm. They
shall shine with distinct light as the stars
forever and ever.
Again, Christian workers shall shine like
the stars In clusters. In looking up vou
find the worlds In family circles. Brothers
and sisters, they take hold of each other's
hands and dance in groups. Orion in a
a group. The Pleiades in a croup. The
system is only a company of children with
bright faces, gathered around one great
fireplace. The worlds do not straggle off.
They go in squadrons and fleets, sailing
through Immensity. 8o Christian workers
In heaven will dwell In neighborhoods and
clusters.
I am sure that some people I will like in
heaven a great deal better than others.
lonaer is a conaienauoii 01 umioiy vurutlans.
They lived on earth by rigid role.
They never laughed. They walked every
hour, anxious lest they should lose their
dignity. But they loved God. and yonder
they shine In brilliant constellation. Yet I'
shall not long to get Into that particular
group. Tonder is a constellation of small
hearted Christians?asteroids in the eternal
astronomy. While some soujs go up from
Christian battle and blaze lilce Mars these
asteroids dart a feeble ray like Vesta. Tonder
Is a constellation of martyrs, of apostles,
of patriarchs. Our souls as they go up to
heaven will seek out the most oongenial society.
Again, Christian workers will shine like
the stars in swiftness of motion. The
worlds do not stop to shine. There are no
fixed stars, save as to relative position.
The star apparently most thoroughly fixed
files thousands of miles a minute. The astronomer,
using bis telescope for an alpenstock,
leaps from world crag to world crag
and finds no star standing still. The
chamois hunter has to fly to catch his prey,
but not so swift is his game as that which
the soientist tries to shoot through the
tower of observatory. Like petrels midatlantic,
that seem to come from no shore,
and be bound to no landing plaoe, flying,
flying, so these great flocks of worlds rest
not as they go, wing and wing, age after
age, forever and forever. The eagle hastens
to its prey, but we shall in speed beat the
eagles. You have noticed the velocity of
1 the swift horse under whose feet the miles
' slip like a smooth ribbon, and as he passes
, the four hoofs strike the earth in such j
quick beat your pulses take the same vibra- - *
I tlon, but all these things are not swift in
I nnmnoWann wrlth ttlA mnMnn rtf whioh I
speak. The moon moves 54.000 miles In a
day. Yonder Neptune flashes on 11,000
1 miles In an hour. Yonder Mercury goes
109,000 miles In an hour. So like the stars
the Christian shall shine In swiftness of
' motion.
| You hear now of father or mother or
1 child sick 1000 miles away, and it takes
you two days to get to them. You hear of
some case of suffering that demands your
' Immediate attention, but it takes you an
1 hour to get there. Oh, the joy when you
shall in fulfillment of the text, take starry
speed and be equal to 100,000 miles an hour!
HavlDg on earth got used to Christian
work, you will not quit when death strikes
you. You will only take on more velocity.
1 There is a dying child in London, and its
spirit must be taken up to God. You are
!' there in an instant to do it. There is a
young man in New York to be arrested for
1 going into that gate of sin. You are there
in an instant to arrest him. Whether with
spring of foot or stroke of wing, or by
the force of some new law that shall hurl
you to the spot where you would go, I
know not, but my text suggests velocity.
A.11 space open before you with nothing to
hinder you in mission of light and love and
joy, you shall shine in swiftness of motion,
as the stars forever and ever.
Again, Christian workers, like the stars,
shine in magnitude. The most illiterate
man knows that these things in the sky,
looking like gilt buttons, are great masses
r\t m qtf-Ai-o Tn TPrtiiyh them one would
think that it would require scales with a '
pillar hundreds of thousands of miles high
and chains hundreds of thousands of miles
long, and at the bottom of the chains
basins on either side hundreds of thousands
of miles wide, and that then Omnipotence
alone could put the mountains into the
scales and the hills into the balance, but
puny man has been equal to the under,
taking and has set a little balance on his
geometry and weighed world against
world. Yea, he has pulled out his measuring
line and announced that Herschel is >
36,000 miles in diameter, Saturn 79,000 miles i
in diameter and Jupiter 89,000 miles In dia- J
meter and that the smallest pearl on the ?
, beach of heaven is immense beyond all
imagination. So all they who have toiled
for Christ <xu earth shall rise up to a magnitude
of privilege, and a magnitude of
; strength, and a magnitude of holiness, and
a magnitude of joy, and the weakest saint
in glory become greater than all that we
can imagine of an archangel.
Lastly?and coming to this point my
mind almost breaks down under the con
templation?like the stars, all Christian
workers shall shine in duration. The same
stars that look down upon us looked down
upon the Chaldean shepherds. The meteor
that I saw flashing across the sky the other
night I wonder if it was not the same one
; that pointed down to where Jesus lay in
, the manger, and if, having pointed out His
birthplace, it has even since been wandering
through the heavens, watching to see
how the world would treat Him! When
Adam awoke in the garden in the cool of
the day, he saw coming out through the
dusk of the evening the same worlds that
greeted us last nigbt.
To the ancients the stars were symbola
of eternity. But here the figure of my text
breaks down?not in defeat, but in the
majesties of the judgment. The stars
shall not shine forever. The Bible says
they shall fall like autumnal leaves. As
when the connecting factory band slips at
nightfall from the main wheel all the
smaller wheels slacken their speed and
with slower and slower motion they turn
until they come to a full stop, so this J
great machinery of the universe, wheel {
; within wheel making revolution of 2
appalling speed, shall, by the touch I
of God's hand, slip the band J
of present law andslaekenand stop. That M
is what will be the matter with the mountains.
The chariots in which they ride shall
halt so suddenly that the kings shall be
[ thrown out. Star after star shall be car- JO
ried out to burial amid funeral torches of
burning worlds. Constellations shall throw I
ashes on their heads, and all up and down |
the highways of space there shall be mourn- V
ing, mourning, | mourning, because the 8
* * * * *1* , ? nv a plf K
worms are aeaa. uui mo vmumau num.- H
ors snail never quit their thrones?they
| shall reign forever and ever. I
) American Butter Wins In England. 9j
The experiment of sending American but- I
I ter to England has proved succcssful. H