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10 SEALING GONFBBENGE Great Britain Refuses to Take Part in the Proposed Convention. CANADA'S OBJECTION THE CAUSE, She Ie Willing to Confer Afith the United Slutes Alone, Bat Not With Rugdla and Japan Included?The Decision Due to the Innlatance of the Officials of the Government of Canada* * "n 1 -3 /T?_ TKA L.(?"DO>, X.L1JJ1UUU ? j-uc v?flcials of the British Foreign Office have communicated to Ambassador Hay the flnal decision that Great Britain must refuse to take part in any sealing conference with representatives of Russia and Japan. The British Government, however, asserts its willingness to confer with the United States alone, but It Insists that Russia and Japan are not interested in the Bering Sea aeals to a degree entitling them to representation at a conference. The British Government doos not suggest any date for a conference "with the United States, and it Is thought probable in London that Great Britain's withdrawal will result in two meetings, one between the United States, Russia and Japan, and the other between the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Th? withdrawn! of fi-reat Britain from the ' Washington conference is due to Canada's Insistance, and until the Canadian officials Informed the Foreign Office here of Canada's objections to meeting Russia and Japan, out of fear of being outvoted, Great Britain fully intended to enter the conference with the three other governments. But for Colonel Hay's representations, the first announcement of Great Britain's unwillingness to take part in the conference would have been final, but the United States Ambassador so plainly pointed .out the unusual character of Great Britain's change of mind at so late a day that some of the Foreign Office officials decided to reopen the question, and have been endeavoring to secure Canada's acquiescence, but unsuccessfully. Sir Julian Paunceforte, the British Ambassador to the United States, also used his influence in a spirit" of great friendliness to the United States in efforts to secure the adherence of Great Britain to the original programme. The diplomats here consider that Great Britain's course was not courteous to Russia or Japan. Experts who have been investigating the Bales of sealskins in London, in order, to obtain evidence for the use of the United States at the conference, have proof that eighty per oent. of the skins sold by the Canadian companies are those of female seals, and the most of the animals wer<* hot. STATE DEPARTMENT RETICENT. Declines to Dlacnss the Action of the British Government. Washixoton, D. C. (Special).?Inquiry at the State Department confirms the announcement from the British Foreign Office in London that the British Government has refused to take part in any conference in which Russian and Japanese delegates participate. Beyond this confirmation the officials of the Department decline to discuss the question, as correspondence is till in progress on the subject. John W. Foster, ex-Secretary of State, who is in charge of the Interests of, the United States In the Bering Sea seal flsheriee matter, was asked about tne statement that there would be two conferences, one between the United States and Great Britain and the other between the United States. Russia and Japan, but he declined to discuss this point at this time, CANADIAN VILLAGES WIPED OUT. Two Women sad Two Children Perish In a Forent Fire. Three Canadian villages, Casselman, 8outh Indian and Cheney, have been swept away by forest fires. The inhabitants of Casselman, about 500 in number, are huddled together on the rocks in the river and are without sufficient clothing and have nothing to eat. Casselman Included about one hundred houses, a lumber and a grist mill, a furniture factory and several other establishments of importance. All these have been destroyed. At South Indian, a population of 500 Is homeless. Only three or four houses are still standing. Four bodies have been recovered near South Indian. They are those of Mrs. Levielle, Miss Stiles, her sister and Mrs. Levlelle's two ohlldren, one an Infant, the other twelve years old. The women rushed HULLl LUC11 livUOC IU IV WUO ViCOllUg, but the smoke surrounding them, they lost their way and ran into the flames. The forest fires spread rapidly along the Canadian boundary, and jumped across into North Dakota. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of timber has been burned. Settlers fought in bands to save their homes. FLEETEST OF OCEAN FLYERS. German Racer Beats All Southampton Records on Her Trip Eastward. All records over the Southampton course, ?ast or west, were eclipsed by the huge North German Lloyd wonder, the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Steaming at twenty-one knots an hous sue passed Eddystone lighthouse, fourteen miles frem the Plymouth Breakwater, at 2.25 o'clock p. m., Wednesday 9.35 a. m., New York time?and In less than an hour later she was in port. . Thus the big ship has finished her first eastward trip from New York over a course nf nn.il tic a! mllfis. in flvti dav9. fifteen hours and ten minutes, which is eq4al to five days, twenty-one hours and ten minutes from Sandy Hook, N. J., to the Needles, off Southampton, England. _ Not only has the Kaiser beaten all Southampton records, but she has increased her own average speed by .052 knots per hour. Iiow's Opening Gun. The principles of the Citizens' Union and the candidates nominated were indorsed and ratified at a mass meeting in Cooper Union, New York City. Mr. Low, the candidate for Mayor of Greater New York, was present and made a brief address. It was nis first public appearance in the campaign, and he was enthusiastically received. Carl Schurz, Joseph Laroque, Charles Stewart Smith, C. C. Beaman, Charles 8. Falrchild, John H. Schumann uuu xiciiiy M visuiuu LU^LUC auuicasca. oouator Guy tendered the Citizens' Union the allegiance of the Home Rale Democracy. Spain to Grant Autonomy. At a Cabinet council the Spanish Government decided to grant autonomy to Cuba under the suzrainty of Spain and to continue the campaign as long as may be necessary. Senor Gullon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, explained to the Cabinet the position of the diplomatic negotiations with the United States. Seuor Sagasta, the Premier, has received a cable message from Lieutenant-General Weyler, who offers his services to the Government, and says, "I shall not resign." About 20.000 persons are reported to have marched to the palace in Havana where deputations asked Weyler to remain in Cuba. Cvclliiir Notes. There are 4000 bicycles In the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. The Long Island Railroad carried this season more than 100,000 bicycles. A flend has invented an automatic bicycle whistle which can be heard three blocks. The Rev. G. Woolsoy Hodge, of Philadelphia, comes out flat-footed and four-squaro In defence of Sunday cycling for recreation after "the moral duty of church attendance" has been fulfilled. There is a fine art in modern high speed racing, which enables speed and knackness to oat-weigh pure speed. Judicious "headwork," as it is called, more than compensate? for a slight lack of sprinting or staytuR r*OTf?rs. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, j jUTI "Wimlilncton Items. ?- ? 1- ?lit i? J>0 more irer seeua win iro scut uui yjj the Department of Agriculture. The President appointed Augustus G. ! The Seyfert, of Pennsylvania, Consul at Stratford, Ontario, Canada. Information reached Washington that the Government forces in Guatamala have rccaptured Quezaltonango from the insur- ma gents. mn It is proposed by Secretary Long to include in his annual report a reoommenda| tion that Congress authorize him to secure Wir a Government powder factory, so that the , I Government may not be compelled to dej pend upon private contractors for naval j supplies of any character. i According to the estimates of the officials . I in the division of loans and currency, I Treasury Department, there were on the _ ! 1st of October, 73,300,000 people in the I United States, and the money in circulation pral j per capita was $22.89. try, A deficit of $11,441,579 resulted from the wiDl operations of the postal service in the flscal year ended June 30,1997. In the prevlous year the deficit was $8,127,088. Re- 01 d ceipts in 1896-97 were $82,665,463, and ex- Imp penditures $94,097,042. evei lost Domestic. A1 WTVtr /\B fTTP f PlrtTTr /*T TTDQ rtfftr v?- *?.* y.?j Per Per Moi Clubs. Won. Lost. ef. I Clubs. Won. Lost. ct. Boston ..93 39 .705 Wash'n.. 61 71 .462 apo Bait 90 40 .692|Pittsb'g ..59 71 .454 'ron N'w York.83 48 .660 Chicago .59 72 .450 shul Clncln'atl76 55 .580 Philad'a..55 78 .414 ohai Clevel'd..69 60 .535 Louisv'le 52 76 .406 Ci Brooklyn 61 71 .462 St. Louls.29 102 .221 lyln A number of rich veins of lead ore have been discovered near Emaus, Lehigh County, Penn., and Dr. H. Horn,of Philadelphia, . and other capitalists have leased a traot of P. land on which they have begun mining, if1.?, j Samples analyzed showed the ore to oon- !J|" | tain a large percentage of lead. Highwaymen held up a Chicago and Al- mer j ton express train at a point less then six wer< I miles from Kansas City, Mo. The robbery tjoa] I is the third on that railroad within a year, ^ I all within fifteen miles of Kansas City. Can) A disastrous Are raged in the stock yards by 1 I district of Chicago, many horses being Btay burned to death and one man losing his In tt i life. In Disastrous fires raged in Wood County In the northwestern section of Ohio. One Hon small village in the oil field has been en- "*ar tirely destroyed. The loss of property and t0 s* crops is aireaay very great. Duncan Paul, Postmaster at Appln, cor(j Mich., was found dead in his offloe, shot W(,r( through the head. It is thought that he ja was murdered. jarff( The village of Meadville, N. Y., a colleo- and tion of houses near the saw mills of Chaun- man cey Mead was entirely wiped out by Are, Thei entailing a loss of 825,000. The Are was tie p caused by swamp flres, which are rasring oarc fiercely. One hundred workmen lose theii ever homes and there is no insurance. ohioi The will of Major Lewis Ginter was filed Th for Probate at Richmond, Va. The total ">m| value of the estate is between $7,000,000 wool and $8,000,000. Major Ginter's home is left to his nieces, the Misses Arents; Wcstbrook, time his country home, is left to his sister, Mrs. g?r? Young, and the Bloomingdale stock farm to George Arents. His brother and his niece and nephew in Missouri are remem- _ . bcred. as are other relatives. Bequests are v made to ail the charitable Institutions In the city. G? Sheriff Doht, of Lour Island City, has tionl made public letters which have passed be- port tween Martin Thorn and Mrs. Naok, the alleged slayers of William Guldensuppe, Ne proving that the pair have contemplated Mar: death by their own hands. They also Bhow Upoi that Mrs. Nack has lost all hope. aam The first New York beet sugar factory, at ne3S> Rome, began operations. It is expected ~ that about 20,000 tons of beets will be turned into white and brown sugar this season. HeDry Crower, a oolored man, was taken from the court room at Hernando, Miss., by a mob of seventy-five men and lynched. Grower assaulted flfteen-year-old Dovle Ferguson. While in the woods near Amcram, N. Y. hunting coons, Peter J. Yongonson, of that village, aged twenty-four years, was fatally ** shot by a companion, who fired at him in the dark, supposing he was a coon. The young man Is dead. The claims of the South Carolina Dis ^ pensary that original package sales were fxnot hurting it were exploded when a com- <22 parison of September Dispensary sales with those of a year ago showed a falling off of nflnrlv A40 000 S?ven hundred and thirty j Bix barrels of liquor,ordered for use In September, are still on hand. At Chicago the lawyers for Adolph L. Luetgert, the alleged wife murderer, closed the case for the defence. Luetgert was not put upon the stand, his counsel fearing that the cross-examination would weaken hia case* form Judge Munger, of the United States Dls- ty-oi trict Court, granted, in Lincoln,- Neb., a othe: temporary restraining order to prevent the Ne | enforcement of the law in regular stock Corn yards, passed by the Nebraska Legislature, a E The accounts kept by the 8tate Comp- movi troller and by the 8tate Commissioner of Conf Excise of the money paid the Treasurer as bo lo the State's sharo of the liquor tax collect- born ed for the fiscal year ending October 1, now 1897, were compared in Albany, N. Y., and Mr agreed. The amouDt paid to the Treas- f?qu urer, which is one-third of the total regit amount collected, was $4,002,938.21. artill The Phoenix Brewing Company, of Louisville, K-., failed, with liabilities of $250,000. " pera Mrs. Augusta Nack and Martin Thorn {nt0 were arraigned in Long Island City, N. Y., L0gi and pleaded "Not sruilty" to the indiotment Hqnc | cnarging mem wua ine muraer 01 trnimm ques | Guldensuppe. an(j Governor Atkinson's wife was put on trial He for forgery in a West Virginia court. aale j The Citizens' Union of Greater New York j nominated John H.Schumann for President "e I of the Council and Charles 8. Fairchlld for I Comptroller of Greater New York. bt President Low resigned as head of Co- |nu1fi lumbia University, New York City. His b k i resignation will be acted on November 15. I The new university buildings on Morning! side Heights were dedicated. State Senator Miller, of the Reading W1 (Penn.) District, and Daniel W. Reeser, jon, Democratic nominee for Recorder, were (nt0 arrested charged with bribery. Eli Swo- occu Jer, who was a candidate for Recorder j^e efore the last Democratic Convention, al- gwe{ leges that he withdrew in favor of Reeser cortf and sold him his delegates for a promise of wj,0* $1000. The accused were held in S1000 bail gt each. They deny the charges. * A verdict for $1789 was Riven at Lewiston, Me., to Arthur S. Melcher, of Auburn, who sued Mrs. Louise M. Hadley, niece of 8ii Representative Dlngley, for $25,000 dam- jerS( ages for breach of promise of marriage. .. Melcher is the first man In Maine to sue a ?r* woman for such a breach of contract. He ;P?. claimed that Mrs. Hadley, as Miss Dingley, 7?~; popped the question, and that he went to great expense to prepare a home for her, only to be jilted for Hadley. j Michael, the cycling wonder, wa3 beaten by Ave yards in a twenty-flve-mile race at Philadelphia. Starbuok rode a chalnless w bicycle and Michael had poor pacemakers. __ aasa Foreign. Ouc] The sum of 8500,000 in gold was with! drawn from tho Bank of England for ship- ?ons ment to the United States. gon( W. J. Scanlon, United States commercial cuti< agent, died of yellow fever at Tort Antonio, Jamaica. Great damage was done in Japan bv a typhoon. " tagk Sir John Gilbert, President of the Royal ) Society of Painters in Water Colors, is dead j r in England. | Jjj< The European edition of the New York Herald is informed that the Indian Government has refused to consider Senator Woicott's proposals in regard to silver. It After a discussion which continued for ^eer several days, the Chamber of Deputies of eilU( Peru adopted the ftold standard by a ma- 01 jority of oiie vote. I ma William Peed, a lawyer of Cambridge, ; r"n lino ili'jnn.ui.. hit.) irrlfK I PlOV luiui, nitii nauuuiv.-) of 8500,000. A The Greek Boule passed a vote of confl- c .al denee in M. Zainiis, and the action is un- " derstood to be an accei>tauee of the treaty ^e,iV of peace. Ti Tiio Cavendish sporting expedition, which was reported massacred in the in- J-N"j7 terior of Africa, has arrived at the coast ; alive and well. I 8 MBA MSWEP1 i Country Presents a Terrible Scei of Death and Devastation. NY FARMERS LOST THEIR AH tnlpegr Was in Great Danger, But W Saved by a Change of the Wind?T* IVomen and Five Children Perished Their Home in the Woods?tlve Sto Suffered Heavily In the Prairie Fir* in-nipeo Manitoba (Special).?T Srie Are which raged all over the cou being fanned and driven by a gale d, died out during the night, and t] nlng sun dawned upon a terrible scei eath and devastation. Farm house lements, crop3 and live stock we rywhere consumed, and many farme their all. : Beausejour, forty miles east of tt , two women and five children nam< eskl were burned to death. Fixe oan n tholr bouse, which was In the wood a two directions simultaneously at t off all means of escaoe. Only a fa rred remains were found afterward, ireasses of horses, cattle and sheep ai fir all over the district, ana a numoer < lllef* of foreigners are homeless an rlv destitute. ; Bagot, seventy miles west, the Cam i Paci9o Railroad depot and seven car Dominion Grain Company's elevate l 20,000 bushels of wheat, Lawrta's ston arinbotham's, Link's and Bucknnan les, a cold storage warehouse and Fai Waldron's farm buildings and crof > destroyed. The little town was pra< lly wiped out of existence. Stony Mountain the fire ran up to th idian Pacific Railroad platform, wher< desperate efforts, its progress wt ed. Much hay and grain was consume lis district. the Lake Francis district, northwea ie oity, there was also extensive destru< of crops. A young farmer namei kbam was terribly burned while tryin ive his property. Oakland, on the Portage branch of th hern Paciflo Railroad, several hundre s of wood and thousands of tons of ha > destroyed. st southwest of this city there Is a hay marsh. The fire swept over th nearly every farmer lost his hav an y also lost their grain and implementi :e were large bands of horses and cal asturing on the marsh, andthecharre asses of the animals dot the groun y few paces. Jack rabbits and pralrl kens were a)30 annihilated. le people of this city were anxious f< 3 hours, as it was feared that the fli Id come Into the suburbs, where man able residences are located, but ly ohange of the wind averted the dai NEAL DOW DEAD. ran Leader of Tcmperanre Forces Ej pireg In Portland, Me. neral Neal Dow, the veteran ProhJb st, died a few days ago at his home i land, Me. al Dow was born In Portland, Me., c :h 20,1804. His parents were Quaker l attaining his majority Mr. Dow wi itted as a partner in his father's bus , and the firm of Josiah Dow & Son wt 'dT\ GENEBAL ICEAI. DOW. ed. Of this firm he was a member fl] le years, He was connected with man r business enterprises. al Dow married,January 20,1830, Mari elia Durant Maynard, the daughter c loston merchant, and immediatel sd into the house on the corner c jress and D ow streets, where he live ng ana wtiere ne aiea. ui ten caiiare to Mr. and Mrs. Dow but three ar living. . Dow, in the latter part of 1861, at th est of Governor Washburn, raised nent of volunteers and a battery c lery. He was commissioned Brigadie >ral shortly after by President Lincoln was in connection with the Maine Ten noe Union in 1837 that he first cam public notice. He went before th slature and argued for a prohibitor >r law, and in 1842 had the licens tion submitted to Portland citizen! won. i headed the movement to prohibit th of liquor in Maine. He succeeded i ng the bill passed whioh has now oom ? known the world over as the "Main It was signed by Governor Hut June 2,1851. It was repealed in 1851 no secured the re-enactment of the la^ 157, and it has remained on the statut 3 ever since. Brothers Drown Four Girls. lile returning from a party at Hami! Ala., six people in a boat were throw the Buttahatchie River and four of th pants drowned. Those drowned wei Misses Lizzie Smith, Belle Key, Mar iringen and Ella Phillips. Their ei i, Robert and John Wright, brothers causod the boat to capsize by rockin ived their own lives. Racing: In New Jersey Doomed. loe the special election held in Ne1 ay the supposed majority against th gambling amendment dwindled, unt latest returns made it seem probabl there was not any majority at all. Ii tions based on revised returns from a ities make it seem evident that bore ag in future will be unconstitutional i State. Lynching Like a Legal Hanging. ashington Ferran, the colored man wh ulted the two Landrum children, i liita parish, a few days ago, wf hed publicly in the court bouse squai [onroe, La. There were over 500 pe; present at the lynching, which wf lucted in all respects like a legal exi on. Spain's New Cabinet. nor Sagasta was Instrusted with th of forming a new Cabinet in Spaii quis Vega de Armijo accepts the Pros :y of the Chamber. Admiral lierinej be Minister of Marine. Labor World. is said that child labor in Michigan hi i recently lessened by the compulsoi :ation law. 1 account of increasing orders the Se (Ala.) cotton mills have commenced I day and night, with two shifts of eu es. mass-meeting of building trades mi lies to protest against the shooting < ers at Hazleton, Penn., has been held I York. 10 Brotherhood of Locomotive Fir , at the close of its fiscal year (June3 ), had a membership of 24,000 and 5". res. Large accessions have been mad o. J THOUSANDS DROWNED, , From 15,000 to 80,000 Lives I-ost by Flood* In China. The steamer Victoria brings news of the 1g most disastrous floods that have visited China for many years. Sixty villages near Tung Chou, containing over 80,000 inhabitants, have been destroyed by floods, and the people drowned or forced to fl ee. There I is no m?ans of finding out how many thouL. sands have been drowned, but the number is estimated by Chinese authorities at from 15.000 to 20,000. The flooded district is within twelve miles of Pekin, the capital of China. As a vo rule, Chinese officials make very llttb stir . when a calamity like this happens, but the n proximity of the disaster has resulted in its ck being brought"to the attention of the Em?r.Virt Kao flinf nit nncuiMn ro. Jg ^OIUI, ?UU llOJ V>4. KXKs*. UW l?UM? ui> [/WWW.W.W lief be given. Survivors from the villages u. nearest Pekin have been allowed such shelter as they can find in the city wallB, but n* thousands are without protection against of the rain, which continues to fall. he The floods have greatly damaged a large number of estates belonging to Pekin Qe nobles. The unusual rains began July 23 >s, and continued until August 15. The crops re Jin the flooded district were destroyed. ? Early in September high officials of Pekin " and Tien-tsin suddenly forbade the slaughter of cattle, their object being to appease lis the wrath of the gods and stop ths rain. 5(j The result was to cut off the entire meat supply, which led foreign consuls to prc>10 test and to report the situation i:o the s. foreign ministers at Pekin. It Is claimed id that the action of the officials constitutes a iw violation of the treaty rights. THIRTY BURIED ALIVE. Six More Corps** of Russian Fanatics j. Found Walled Up. 3. Fresh excavations at Ternovsky, in the *r distrlot of Tlreaspol, not far from Odessa, >g Russia, the scene of the living burials of a r- number of persons belonging to the rellg>3 lous sect known as the "Raskolnlki," who 5" have been walled up alive by Feodore Kovaleff, In order that they might secure 0 salvation by self-immolation, have resulted In the discovery of six more Doaies or men, ^ women and ohlldren. The search cona tinues, and it is expected that about thirty corpses will be unearthed. The Czar is taking a strong personal interest in the extraordinary occurrences at 1 Ternovsky. Kevaleff, the fanatical exeou& tioner of the persons buried alive, is quite convinced of the sanctity of .his act, and it ? Is believed probable that he will be confined a for life in a monastery as a madman. y OAe of the chief figures in this terrible drama is a well-educated woman, Vera a Makaveyer, who, as Sister Vitalia, seems to have been a sort of priestess of the f&natid oal sect. 3. t; CONNECTICUT'S NEW LAW. a d Citizenship, In Future, Depends on Ability 0 to Bead English. )r The popular indorsement of the Constle rational amendment requiring all candly dates hereafter for the right to vote in Connecticut to read the Constitution and State statutes in English wa,s obtained bv a small vote, as all such amend ments Invariably are, but by a vote large enough and a majority big enough to ?* show that the feeling of the people of the Nutmeg State is almost a unit in favor of . an educational limit to the privileges of * citizenship, which in future depend on the " applicants' ability to read English. The new law applies even to those already votlD ers who change their residence. The most active supporters of the amendment were the natives not actually in pollj' tics, and the Irish Americans. The press ** of the State discussed it with a unanimity _ that made opposition doubtful. One German newspaper published in Hartford came out agaiMt it, but the small vote against it 3hows the absence of any organized movement In opposition. LIVE FROG IN HIS STOMACH. Caie of Albert Vansant, Who Was Said to be a Consumptive. "Frogs in his stomach instead of consumption" is what has ju?t been discovered is the ailment of Albert Vansant, a young man of Rahway, N. J. Within two yeari numerous physicians have diagnosed his . 3ase as pulmonary trouble, and two weeks ' ago he began the use of Inhalants instead t of drugs. Yesterday he was taken very ill with cramps and peculiar pains In his Jtom^h, and .soon tie expeuea a nvo uug four inohes in length from his throat. The creature hopped about a?i if glad to be released from its confinement, and is now in the possession of the physician, who is diagnosing the case l!or more frogs. The young man seems better to-day than for a year past. It is supposed that the - animal was swallowed about two years ago t- while the young mac. was drinking from a y small stream of water. He was violently ill for a few days at that time. The case a Is being watched with great interest. >f y Henry George Accepts. ,j At a mass meeting in Cooper Union, New n fork City, the nomination for Mayor of the 0 Greater New York was formally offered to Henry George by the representatives of 0 four Democratic factions, united aa the a Jeffersonian Democrats. In accepting the nomination, Mr. George declared that he r was neither a gold man nor a silver man, ' but a Jeffersonian Democrat. He said that he stood on the same platform aa that on 0 which he stood in the municipal campaign 6 eleven years ago. The enthusiasm of the y audience was very great. Overflow meet0 ings were held In the neighboring streets. _____ Republican Ticket l.n Virginia. ? The Lamb wing of the Republican party, e in convention at Lynchburg, Va., nominae ted P. H. McCall for Governor; 0. B. Roller, )- of Harrisonburg, Lieutenant Governor, and 5. James K. Lyons, of Richmond, Attorney v General. Colonel William Lamb called the e convention to order and was cheered throughout his speech, in which he denounced the regular machine for the cowardice displayed in refusing to ce.ll a con^ 7ention of the party. n Unfinished Hotel Collapaes. e The Charlevoix Inn, now in course of e construction at Charlevoix, Mioh., coly lapsed in a gale of wind, burying fifty 3" workmen in the ruins of uhe structure, 400 J? feet long. Work had progressed so far ? that workmen were roofing in. the structure, while lathers and plasterers were at work on the first and second floors. In the collapse two men were killed outright, Pierce Kendall, a carpenter; aad a joiner whose name is unkuown. ip 11 ResnTae Coining Silver Dollars. le ^ The mint in San Francisco, Cal., will at II OE.ce resume the coinage of silver dollars, ie In accordance with, instructions received n from Washington. Boiler Explosion Kills Three. The boiler In a grist mill al; Moscow, 1,0 d Iowa, exploded and killed the engineer and fireman and a farm 3r named Mat olf. J.E. *s Parker, C. Smith, H. Jacobs and a boy :e named Hunt were injured, The boiler [l w sighed 2500 pounds and the boy was blown 7 over 400 Teet. a* Bicycles Will lie Assessed. Bicycle owners are to be assessed this l0 year by the Board of Assessors, of New j < Haven, Conn. On the new tax lists which have been sent from door to door the "bi' cycle" is included. Owners of wheels are u making a strong protest. Murder Then Sulchle. T?nr?nf? a niiarnil in St. Louis, Mo., IS I - 1 7 George P. Pfeiler, a stenographer, shot his father-in-law, Robert Delauey, through the 1- brain and then killed hlmseif. Delauey :o was seventy years old and had been in tlia i- habit of coming home iutoxicated and making troubla. Pfeffer did not drink, and was g. considered an exemplary young man. His af wife saw biin shoot himself. In Forest and Prairie Fires. s- Hundreds of acres have been burned ovor by the forest and prairie llres of Indiana l*0 and Illinois. Smoko impeded navigation on the lakes. VENEZUELA'S NEW PRESIDENT. Sketch of the Career of General IgoacI' Andrade. The election of General Ignacio Andrad as President of Venezuela is regarded as signal victory for the proposed arbitratio between Venezuela and Great Britain. Get eral Andrade has aiways been an earnes advocate of that means for settling th long-standing disputes. His election wa considered for a time in doubt, owing t the violent opposition of political schomei in the Venezuelan Congress to the treat vuflflorl lnTTTftlv thrmi o?h his ftflfnrfc* J ?v.Q ywk w QEKEBA.Ii IGNACIO AWDBADE. Andrade has lone been a conspicuous flsr ure in the national life of his Kepublic. Hi is fifty-eight years old. and is the son o General Jose Escolastlco Andrade, one o Venezuela's famous figures. He lived ii Amerloa for some time and is closely ii toucn with American ideas. His brother 1 the Venezuelan Minister In this country General Andrade himself is an old friem and ally of ex-President Crespo, and wll enjoy the acti7e support of that statesman in all his official acts. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT NEEDS Secretary Wilson Will Atk For Increasec Aoproprlatlons. Secretary Wilson, of the Agricultural De partment, will in his annual report asl Congress' to make a material increase ir the appropriation for at least thre< branches of the work of his department These are the bureau of animal industry the farmers' bulletins and the weather bu I reau. The Secretary says the facilities of th( bureau of animal industry for the inspec tion of meat intended for foreign shipment are overtaxed, and that the experiment al ready made by the bureau in the shinmen of butter to England should be followec up by more work in this line. He claim! that the shipments already made have pro duced excellent results, as shown by tli< fact that a representative of English flrmi ha3 recently been in Iowa buying up al the available butter supply for export. There is a constantly increasing demanc for the farmers' bulletins, and it is the Sec retary's purpose, if he secures the necessary funds, not only to increase the clrculation of the documents, but to largely in crease the range of subjects covered. Mr. Wilson thinks there should be sev eral new weather stations, and Is also o! the opinion that the forecast work can with an increase of money devoted to thai purpose, be made more serviceable to th< country at large. WRECKED BY ANCRY FARMERS. Headquarters of an Obnoxiona Sect De stroyed In Mlgftonrl. Report comes from Fuller Postofflce ir the southern part of Benton County, Mis souri, of the wrecking of a church an( printing office set up near there by a sect calling themselves the "Brethren of th< Church of Christ in Love and Union." J man styling himself the Rev. L. S. Garre' was at the head of the community, th< members of which hold their property ii common. In the third story of their churcl building Garret printed a paper callec "The World's Cresset." A hundred farmer /aided the building, destroyed the press and threw the type into the street. Garre had been warned of the raid, and was no to be found by the regulators. GUATEMALA'S REVOLUTION. i Prominent Merchant Tortured anc Killed by Order of Barrloft. Details received from Guatemala con cerning the shooting of Juan Aparicio, t wealthy merchant of that country, whosi firm has a place of business in New York 3how that Apariclo was tortured by Gen eral Roque Morales, one of Dictato: Barrios's commanders at Quezaltenango because he would not make a forced loar to Barrios. He was strung up by th< thumbs and lashed until he became uncon 3Cious. When he recovered and still re fused the loan, Morales shot him dead When Quezaltenango was taken by the in aurgents Morales was shot without a trial OLD RAILWAY EMPLOYES. Postmaster-General Gary Has a Lou; Record?Some Other Old Timers. Probably the oldest railroad station ageni in the oountry in point of service is Jamei k. Gary, Postmaster-General of theUnitec States. He was appointed agent at Alber ton, Howard County, Md? on the Baltimori and Ohio Road forty-four years ago, ant his name still appears on the pay rolls o 11 nnvf nMoaf "RftlH tut) cuuiljauj, x uo l n v uvai ~ more and Ohio agents are said to be Cap tain Charles W Harvey, at Ellicott City Md., and John W. Howser, at Relay Each has been in the service for thirty-foui years. The same company has also in ac tuai service a passenger conductor, Cap tain Harry Green, who has run trains be tween Baltimore and Cumberland for forty seven years. Public Sentiment Defied. The Common Council of Elizabeth, N. J., oj a vote of seven to six, in spite of popular protest, granted to the Standard Oil Trust a franchise to lay a pipe line througt the streets. One of the seven left a sick' bed to vote. The taxpayers will carry th( case to the courts. Exodus From Dawson City. Word comes from Dawson City of at overland exodus compelled by fear ol famine. Major Uinter Dead. Major Lewis Ginter, the cigarette king who was a pioneer in this business, out o; which he made a fortune of ten million dol lars, died at West Brook, his home ueai Richmond, Va. Major Ginter was tin largest individual owner of American To bacco Company stock and the richest mac in the South. Suicide In the Chuvcli. Frank G. Clark, aged sixty years, com mitted suieido by hanging in the belfry ol the Congregational Church at Brattleboro, Vt., of which ho was janitor. He lel't ti widow, son and two daughters. Prominent l'eople. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has appointI a i? l>onl fr\ aiirt?jrinf-i>nil Mi>> \vnrl< eu J113. A| XU. laui fcv .,Uj?v?.?vvM.. w... Qf the (rtreet-cleaninjj force in the business district of Chicago. William C. Whitney has given SlOftO to the Washington unit Leo University of which ex-Post master-General William L, Wilson is President. The Kinj; of Co run has sent thirty young men to Russia to learn the language of that country. On their return they are to bi employed as otllcials. Susan B. Anthony will attend the National Council of Women at Xashville, Tenn., from October 25 to 27. She will make several addresses, / V v..;. ;V FOUR FISHERMEN DROWNED. 0 Captain Smith'* Boat Capsized in th? Surf at North Long Branch, X. J. e Four pound fishermen were drowned at a North Long Branch, N. J., by the upsetting n of Captain Henry Smith's boat in the heavy l" surf about two hundred yards from shore. 1 14 Captain Smith and two members of his e crew, Andrew Anderson and John Seuna. 19 were rescued by the crew of a Ashing boat 0 in charge of Captain John Hennessey. The '3 men drowned were: Antonio Henrleksen, y twenty-nine years old, Sweden; Joel Hertz, ' twenty-eight years old, Sweden; Adolph " Persons, thirty years old, Sweden; George Robblns, twenty-six years old, North Long Branch. The fishing crews breakfasted at halfpast 5 o'clock. Half an hour later Captain Hennessey and Captain Smith put in an appearance on the shore with their crews. The surf was runDing high, but as both captains had successfully lifted nets when the sea was heavier neither expressed any unwillingness to leave shore. itiipi&iD nennesswy umuuwu cat* noat bound for the oltshore pound. They reached E the pound safely, and had one-third of the : pocket loaded when Captain Hennessey's 1 attention wa? attracted by the firing of a gun from the shore. This was followed by ? * the ringing of the village fire bell, i ' "Boys, Captain Smith's boat has had a r C1 mishap," said Captain Hennessey. "We J must try and save them." * s The nets were dropped by the fishermen, t and every man in a few seconds was at his A place in the boat. It was no easy matter j! * to make quick time in such a surf. Look- c J InK ahead, about 100 yards, Captain Hen- 7 I nessey saw two men struggling in the ? water. The distance seemed greater a3 ? i the men at the oars pulled each stroke, but finally Andrew Anderson and John ' Seuna were taken aboard more dead than E alive, : JAPAN'S ENTERPRISE. J p Money Appropriated to Teach Americana ? f How to Make Tea. q f Several months ago the Japanese Tea * J Guild sent to this country a special comg mission to investigate the condition of the n . Japanese tea trade in the United States and b J Canada, and to co-operate with its Ameri- D 1 can representatives in giving publicity to ? me merits 01 Japanese teas ana tne oest methods of preparing them. Tea bazaars are to be opened in many of ? ; the principal cities in the United States and r' Canada, where ladies can enjoy a cup of 0 I fine Japanese tea made by experts, and at ? the same time receive instructions which L will enable them to make it equally well at * ' home. More than half the tea consumed ' c in the United States and Canada is of i Japanese growth, yet most Americans ap- ? parently do not understand how to prepare j it so as to develop Its delicious qualities. ? The Japanese Government has appropriated 5 . a large fund to aid in prosecuting this sducational work. The Japanese Tea Guild P has Issued this official recipe for making P > Japanese tea: First.?Use a small, dry and thoroughly : clean porcelain teapot. . Second.?Put in one teaspoonful of tea 7 t ieaves for each cup of tea desired. ?, 1 Third.?When using Japanese teas, pour |] 3 in the required quantity of fresh boiled water, and let stand with closed lid from , a two to three minutes. Never boil the leaves. 3 [n order to retain the natural flavor, Japan- ? ' ase tea leaves should be kept in tight can 2 or jar, free from moisture. 1 Note.?To thoroughly enjoy the natural, ! delicate and sweet flavor, neither sugar 5 nor cream should be used. ? ! ti FIRE DESTROYS A TOWN. a c flno MnnHrorl Rnll.llnrra In IniHn PAnn T, Levelled to the Ground. t Fire started at Austin, Penn., in Weed's ^ 3 livery barn, in Turner street, and in five tl hours every building in the place except I Qve was levelled to the ground. Turner street is the principal residence 0 " Jtreet in the town, and the loss is a heavy (! blow. Probably five hundred persons are k i homeless. t< The fire was started by a load of hay be- a J Ing run into a gas jet. The load was backed w J Into the barn and the team left standing : trhile the driver wa3 preparing to unload, p J it is the second great fire in the history of F ^ ;he village. k ' About one hundred buildings were a 5 jurned, mostly residences. Among the ii 1 large losses were the Methodist Church, w j Presbyterian Church, Opera House, Welch's k meat, market, Hellwig's drug store, Gallup'a fc 3 !ivery and Weed's livery. The loss is e Dlaced by insurance experts at from $150, si ' )00 to $200,000. a; ' The town is practically without a water b mpply, the mill pond on which the cltlzena oc lepend for water for fighting fires having ti jeen drained while undergoing repairs. a; It was necessary to blow up the drug ci 1 jtore with dynamite in order to save the " justness portion of the town. The only fire w protection of the town was that furnished fc )v the Goodyear Mills, and the four hun- P ? irea men employed mere were oruereu u 3 >ut to 9top the progress of the fire. no 1 SLAUCHTER AT A CROSSINC. ? i Six People Killed and a Family Wiped ft 1 Out of Existence. C| A passenger train on the Kansas City w . Fort Scott and Memphis Railway ran into o ^ . wagon containing seven persons at Dead ^ Man's Cut, three miles north of Willow h Springs, Mo., instantly killing six and fa- w tally injuring the other one. Those killed ^ were Pbilip L. Wooton and his four chil- 11 3ren, Philip, Jr., Amanda, Dora and an in- * : !ant child and Mrs. Francis Malbrey. Philip Wooton's wife was fatally hurt. . ? l Conductor Hallaway says that the proper signals for the crossing were given, but 0 3 they were not heard. The crossing is con- cl i jidered one of the most dangerous in the ? . jountry, being a curve and a heavy g-ade. 11 The persons killed lived in Texas County, ?' : Missouri, and wnre on their way to Arkanj sas to pick cotton. NAMED BY THE PRESIDENT. 11 William R. Finch to Be Minister to g Paraguay and Uruguay. Q The President made the following appointments: | William It. Finch, of Wisconsin, Envoy ti Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary o Df the United States to Paraguay and Uru?uay. To be Consuls of the United States: Jame3 * f. Dodge, of Indiana, at Nagasaki, Japan; J George W. Dickinson, of New York, at Belleville, Canada; Alvin Smith, of Ohio, E at Trinidad, West Indies, and Persy ilcEl! rath, of New York, at Turin, Italy. Joseph Perrault, of Boise, Idaho, to be Surveyor-General of Idaho. She Weight* 500 Pounds. | Paris is much interested in a Canadian colored woman who is on exhibition -there* D* She weighs 500 pounds, J* A Pitiful Tragedy. j P.omeo 'Weisenberg, eleven years old, of er New York Cltv, became crazed and violeut th | as a result of long brooding over the fast th that he was refused admittance to a crowded so 1 school building. He is now in a ward in is ' Bellevue Hospital. The little fellow worked pe 1 hard all summer to earn clothes to wear to school. tfl wi Raised Their Hid Five Millions. al The New York syndicate have raised th f their bid of forty-live millions for the ra I Union Pacific Railroad Ave millions, mak- Wl ! I ing it fifty million dollars, and it is thought se this will be the highest and will be accept- "" cd bv the Government. !*r 11) dr Minor Mention. (li New Orleans complains of an invasion of j fr | iaio. The Creek Indians of Oklahoma haw J', decided that the squaws shall not vote. ' A man died in a St. Louis hospital from sij lockjaw, caused by wearing tight shoes. pt The War Department is making a survey F< ! of the defences of San Francisco Harbor. Michigan parties are agitating the eoni struction of a ship canal to join Lake Erin with the southern end of Lake Mich- wc igan. no Houses aro building in London now at [ the rate of more than 1200 a month. During the year between August, 1896, and Au- __ gust, 1407, VI,591 houses were buUt. . ? MHIHaHBHHMBaBMnBMMnMi TIE SABBATH SCHOOL ; INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT^ FOR OCTOBER 24. v? Lennon Text: "Paol Before Kins Agrrippn," Acts xxvl., 19-32?Golden Text' Matthew x., 32?Commentary on the Lesion of the Day by Rev. Stearin. Festus succeeded Felix, and both were willing to please the Jews at Paul's ex Donse (xxiv., 27; xxr., 9). Paul appealed :o Caesar; therefore the case had to go to Some. King Agrlppa ooming to Cesarea, Festus states the case to him as far as ha cnows It, whioh is that It concerns "on? resus, who was dead, but whom Paul afIrraed to be alive" (xxv., 19). Agrlppa deilring to hear for himself, Paul Is brought orth in the presence of Agrippa, Bernice, festus and the chief captains and princi>al men of the city and allowed to speak or himself. He states briefly his early ilstory as an enemy of Jesus, and then nore fully his conversion on the way to Damascus and his commission from the jord Himself. .. . 19. "Whereupon, 0 King Agrippa, I was lot disobedient unto the heavenly vision." iVhen he heard one speaking to him from leaven, saying "I am Jeeus, whom tho? >erseoutest," he could no longer doubt but hat he had been greatly mistaken and that 'esus of Nazareth was actually alive and In 1 leaven, and at once he yielded to Him, aylng, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to ' lo?" We cannot expect such a vision or a 'olce from heaven, but the word of God hould be to us as much a voice from tetven as that which he heard. 20. "Repent and turn t? God and do *. ' ! rorks meet for repentance." This he ireached everywhere, proclaiming that lod was in Christ, Goa manifest in the lesh, and that the only way to turn to hid was to turn to Christ (I Cor. 111., 11), nd then let your life prove that you hard eally turned to Him, for while no works f ours can save us, yet If saved by His nished work we will surely show it by our rorks. 21. "For these causes the Jews caught le In the temple and went about to kill ie." Jesus was the cause of all their tatred. There are gods many and lords lany In Christendom as well as In heathndom, but there Is only one living and. rue God. who so loved us as to give His nly begotten Son for us. and when we reeive Him He and His Spirit will be manlest in us and will provoke more or less pposition from the world and also from eliglous people who do not truly know lim, for the oarnal mind, whether reli'ious or otherwise, is enmity against God Rom. viil., 7). 22,28. "From Moses and the prophets he ontinually proclaimed that It had been aretold that the Messiah should suffer and le and rise from the dead before He could e Israel's Messiahlor a light to the gentiles." o also our Lord Himself, for Moses and the rophets set forth that His sufferings must reoede His glory (Luke xxiv., 26-27)^ We aceive Him, and t>y His finished work are ived eternally, but if we would reign with um in giory we must De content to suner ith Him this little while, and by life and i oetrine proclaim Him to all the world Math, x., '87-89; Rom. viii., 17; II Tim. 1L, ' Q? 24. "Paul, thou art beside thyself. Muoh sarning doth make thee mad." He had ot been speaking the wisdom of men, but ad been telling earnestly the story of esus and to this day those who are muoh. i love with Jesus and carried away with [lm are accounted beside themselves, hey said of Christ, "He had a devil and Is lad" (John x., 20). The prophets testified 3at people said, "The man of the Spirit is lad." "He that departeth from evil is acounted mad" (Hos. ix., 7,* margin, and ja. llx., 15, margin). 25, 26. "I am not mad, most noble Festus, ut speak forth the words of truth and soerness." Yet these are the very words hat are not palatable to men of the. world, 'he time will come, is even now come, when lany who bear the name of Christ will not ndure sound doctrine. They have a form f godliness, but deny the power thereof [I Tim. lv., 8; ill., 5). Like Festus, they now all about It, but they will not yield 3 it and be obedient to it. They know all bout Him who is the only Saviour, but \ rill not submit to Him or be ruled by Him. V 27. "King Agrlppa, believest thou the A rophets? I know that thou believest." 1 'rom verse three it would appear that the ing was well aoqualnted with the Jews i nd their affairs and the promises concernlg them and their Messiah, but It is not 'hat we know that helps us, but pnly the nowledge we make use of. It Is not the >od we look at and can talk about and ven prepare for others that benefits ourslves, but only that which we personally ppropriate. We must receive Him. >28. "Then Agrlppa said unto Paul, Allost thou persuadest me to be a Chrisan." Another translation is, "Lightly rt though persuading thyself that thou unst make me a Christian." The word Christian," so common with us, Is not a ord much used in the Bible, being only )und in two other places (Acts xi., 26; I et. iv? 16). The word "saint"* or "beever" or "brethren" Is much more com ion. 29. "I would to God that not only thou, at also all that hear me this day, were oth almost and altogether such as I am, rcept these bonds." He was addressing le king and the governor and the ohlef iptains and mighty men, and yet felt that ith the exception of his bonds he was bet>r off than they and that what he had they il(?ht well desire to have. What could It e? What but this, that their position and onor were but temporary and transient, hile he, though for a time their prisoner, as one with Him who was at God's nght and, a joint heir with Christ, a king and priest unto God (Rom. viii., 17; Rev. L, 5, ; v., 9,10), and tnat he would surely in ue time enjoy His heavenly kingdom. <ift 91 "Thin man doath nnthtnir worthv f death or of bonds." This was the contusion of the king and governor and the there as they went aside after Paul had ' nished. Pilate bore the same testimony oncerning our Lord Jesus, and yet the I ews had Jesus crucified and Stephen :oned and James slain, and they would . ave killed Paul. Oh, how they hated J esus of Nazareth! A 32. "This man might have been set at' ^ berty if he had not appealed unto Cesar." V hall we say, What a pity he appealed to ffisar? Or shall we say, "Ye*, my Father, ^ Ills is so, because that Thou hast found it ] ood?" (Math, xl? 26, French Testament). M ometimes God does directly, and someimes He permits to be done, but He always verrules and controls for His glory and ~ lie highest good of His people whom He nohangeably loves even in their pererseness. If Paul erred, as I think from lie testimony, in going to Jerusalem at tils time, the Lord still loved him, apeared to him and will surely get him to lome, as he said.?Lesson Helper. ; REMEDY FOR CATTLE FEVER. enver Physician Makes a Discovery of Great Value. It is believed a cure for cattle fever has ien found. Dr. V. A. Norgaard, of Densr, Col., is the discoverer. The plan for >aling with the fever Is primarily to exrminate the insect commonly known as e "tick," which abounds on fever-strickl cattle, and through the means of whioh e disease is communicated. To do this ,e cattle are forced to swim through a lution in a vat. What the solution is It not known at the present time, but crude >troleum is used. When thesuccessful experiment was tried rl r\ f otiiibir" /tofilo UCUU VI lOlJ nv/tt J VH?ViV | are forced to swim through the solution. I id it was noticed that while standing on | e drip board there was almost a perfect | in of ticks falling off the cattle. They 1 are put into a pen and the next day, just i venteen hours after the experiment was I led, a rigid examination was prosecuted 1 id the examiners failed to And a single I re tick in the whole herd. There was no -J image done the eyes ox skin of the cattle H pped and not a single bad effect resulted om the dipping. CB If the new remedy proves to do all that ffl is claimed it can do the cattle market 111 experience somewhat of a revolution, id about 500,000 head of cattle will be lipped North each year during the now -V ohibited season, which extends from jbruary 15 to JNovemuer 10. a Deepest Fresit Water Lake. I rho deepest fresh water late In the I >rld is Crater Lake, Oregon. There are 1 tisli in it. Its greatest depth is 2000 feet. 3 many aunnowen on Uae StalK. 1 A single sunflower stalk at Burns, Kan- ? s, bore 233 hlooms at ono time, i I