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STATE MBTIENTACTS'
Secretary Hay Says the Flour Seizures
Were Illegal.
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WILL INSIST UPON OUR RIGHTS.
Instructions Sent to Ambassador Choate |
Keeardlnj; tlio Seizures ot American
(iooilK? !\?r. liny Holds That Britain'* :
Action Was Interlcronc? With tlie
Tr;iUo of Tvro N out rill Nations.
Washington', D. C. (Special).?The State
Department has received by [cable from j
Embassador Choate at London a statement
[>f the facts be bad learned in connection I
with the seizure by British warships of !
American goods on throe merchant vessels,
the Beatrice, tha Mashona and the Maria.
The goods comprised not only flour,
but miscellaneous articles of common
trade, and whilo they were
pliipped for Lorenzo Marques in
British and German ships, yet the
contention of the officers hero is that they
were not subject to seizuro. They could
not raako representations on the subject
nntil they possessed a knowledge of the
facts, but us soon as Mr. Choate's statement
was received instructions were sent
to him by cable to iuform the British Government
that the right of seizure in these
cases were not admitted.
Thl3 is the preliminary step usually
taken in such negotiations. Next in order
will be a report from the American consuIof
MnmBoiitiiH nf T.nrnnzn Mnraues re
ppoctlnc tho present condition of the goods
Seized or detaiund and the damage sustained.
Tho State Department is not yet
fully informed on these points, although
they will bo necessary to the further presentation
of the case. It will be the duty
of the consular agent at Lorenzo JIarque3
to ascertain and report those facts, and he
Is now engaged in doing this under the original
instructions of tho State Department.
i While tho Department is acting, as it
promised in the beginning, firmly to protect
all American rights of trade, It is ]
showing no unseemly haste in the presentation
of the case. The instructions,to
Mr. Choate were not a demand for the release
of the goods, nor for Indemnity,
|)Ut rather a precautionary notice to the
British Government to save all the 'rights
of the United States. It will bo sufficient
to effect a settlement of the matter by negotiation,
and the State Department has
^ not the slightest doubt that the British
Government will make full amends to tho
ownors of tbe goods when all the facts are
* laid before it.
f GERMANY FILES A PKOTEST.
} (foreign Office Sends a Note to Great
J Britain?Another Steamer Soiled.
Beblin (By Cable).?The Foreign Office
has sent a note to Oreat Britain protesting
(gainst tne seizure of the German steamer
Bundesrath, which was arrested by a
pritlsh cruiser off the east ooast of Africa
Da suspicion of carrying contraband of war.
the note states the German view of the
case.
tka ttomhnpcflp ftnrrocn a nh Pn fr ctfifAct
that the British have seized the Hamburg
jtenmer Htfns Wagner near Delagoa Bay,
unci that the owners ot the vessel hav?
complained to the Foreign Office,
A SURPLUS OF 52 1,000.000.
Tlie Governments'* Finances For the First
Half sf the Currant Fiscal Year.
%
"Washington, D. C. (Special).?The com?
paratlve statement ot receipts and expen(
| dltures of tbe Government shows tbat for
V ? the first half of the current fWoal year
c there was a surplus of $21,026,934,83 in receipts
over disbursements.
v The total funds received into the Treasary
in December were $46,759,104, or more
than $5,000,000 more than in December,
1898. The expenditures for tbe month
amounted to $39,145,559. For the first six
months of the fiscal year the receipts were
$284,703,494 and the expenditures $263,766,560.
The monthly circulation statement issued
OAnfvAlUf r\ f tha Pn pron r? tr uhnwa
that at the close of business December 30,
1899, th? totnl circulation ol National bank
notes was $240,195,528, an increase for the
year of $2,460,418 ana for the month of $2,435,275.
Tbe circulation based on United States
bonds amounted to $209,759,985, a decrease
for tbe year of $4,256,002, aud an Increase
for tbe month of $593,083. The circulation
secured by lawful money was $36,435,538,
(in increase for the year of $6,716,420, and
for th? month of $1,837,192.
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PORTUGAL'S CORTES OPENS.
Message From the Throne Fails to Mention
the Transvaal.
Lisbon (By Cable).?The Cort#3 was
opened on Tuesday. The message from
the Throne declared that the cordlalityjof
Portugal's relations with the other powers
was shown by the presence in theTagu?
of fleets of France, Germany, and Great
Britain.
The Government, it continued, had
caused itself to be represented at the Brussels
and The Hague Conferences, the
former to chcck tbe abuses of alcoholism
in South Africa and the latter to reduce
tbe frequency aud to minimize the horrors
of war, and it was hoped that both humanitarian
objects would be achieved.
The remainder of the speech was confined
to domestic alTairs, and no mention
was made of Great Britain or the Transvaal.
ONLY ONE OF THE CREW SAVED
Eight Lives Lost in tlie Wreck of a
Schooner on Cabot Island.
St. JonN?, N. F. (Special).?During a
severe hurricane the schooner Puritan wvs
driven on Cabot Island ana completely
wrecked. Of tbe crew of nino persons
only one man was saved.
Tbe sole survivor, though his arm was
broken, contrived to get above the reach
of the waves, remaining on a jutting pinnacle
ot rock until the keeper of the liurlithows#
and his assistants rescued hlan.
Tbey lowered a man over the cliff with a
spurorope by means of which the injured
man was raisod to a place of safety.
Six of the eight who perished were married
men, nearly all with lurge families.
Captain Carter was married only three
days before sailing.
muoiivaii uib iu vuuwi
Eight hundred bogs were recently exported
from tho United States to Havana,
but six hundred died within three days.
MiijorDavfssavs tlie animals died of cholera,
and recommends that no more hogs
J>e sent from the United States, as he considers
that further importations would be
dangerous to tho health of Hay.ina.
British Consul to Become a Cltiznn.
'Philip H. Btirrougb, who has Lean British
Consul in Kausas City, Mo., for nearly
six years', has resigned and has decided to
become a naturalized citizen of the United
States.
Prominent People. _
Senator Hauna is reputed to be worth
50,000,000.
President Hadley once hejd the running
record of Yale.
LI Hung Chang has been appointed Acting
Viceroy of Canton.
Count Lao Tolstoi is now pronounced by
bis medical advisers fully restored to hij
Oidinary health.
Sir Thomas Lipton has been unanimously
plected rear - commodore of the ltoyal
Ulster Yacht Club.
Tho committee having charge of th?
fund for the relief of the family of the lat?
jltijor General Henry W. Lawton will enieavor
to raise 550.000.
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SA7EDBYBBEECHES BUOY
Thrilling Rescue of the Crew of the
Schooner Hitchcock.
COULD NOT LAUNCH LIFE BOAT.
rh? Schooner I'an Aground in n Ranch
Sra-Lit'* Line Fouled at First?Beach
Patrolmen Made a Gallant Fight For
Hours?The Crew Safely Pulled to
Shore?Nine Sailors Itcscued.
Eastport, L. I. (Special).?One of the
most thrilling rescues of a shipwrecked
orew ever witnessed on the Long Island
coast was effected here when nine men
were brought ashore over and through
:lie waves la tue Drseanes uauy iru w mo
stranded schooner S. P. Hitchcock. She is
loaded with lumber.
RESCCIXO SnirWBECKED SAII.OB3 IN THE
BREECHES BUOY.
The vessel was discovered aground by
Bench Patrolmen Griflln and Tuttle. Signals
for assistance wera displayed, and
the orew of the Moriches Life-Saving
Station answered them, informing the
crew of the vessel that efforts would b?
made to take them off. There was a very
rough sea on, and the life-savers decided
that to launch the surf boat would only
place themselvesin great peril.
The crew ran out the other life-savin?
apparatus, and before daylight shot a life
line out to the vessel. The second one
reached her, and then the crew of the
Hitchcock began to haul In the line. At
Its end was the hoavy line which operates
the breeches buoy.
Despite the simplicity of the gear and
the printed directions which accompany
the wnip itne ana caoie, (us uiow u; iuo
Hitchcock managed to foul it. The
breeches buoy had been rigged when the
crew of the Hitchcock was still hauling on
the line and the apparatus had been anchored,
but It was Impossible to use th?
buoy owing to the fouling aboard the ship.
The crews from the Moriches, Forge
River, and Patuuck stations arrived at
daylight to aid. The crews waited for the
ship's crew to clear the lines, but they did
nothing. At 8 o'clock Captain Seaman of
the East Morichej crew signaled to clear
-the lines. The signal was answered as understood
and man were seen to go to the
lines, but It was 9 o'clock before the Une3
were In working order.
The Hitchcock had meanwhile driven in
further, and a readjustment of the anchor
nnd shore line was needful. A few minutes
after ten o'clock the breeohes buoy reached
the ship on its first trip. The first man to
enter the breeches took the trip through
the water as the ship rolled toward the
9bore just as ho reached the line.
The second man's deparcure was better
planned, and he rode ashore without getting
wet. The rest had varied fortunes
until the ninth man was safe. Captain
Sorensen then entered the breeches, bringing
his papers and instruments. He also
landed safely. As fast as the men wera
landed they were taken to the station and
jared for.
1TQUNG WOMAN PREVENTS A WRECK.
She DUcovers a Burning Railroad
Bridge Just lit Time.
New York Citt (Speolnl).?The brldg*
3ver the East Chester road on the subur
ban line of the New Huven Railroad in
The Bronx caught Are, it is supposed from
| i spark dropped by a passing locomotive,
ind was burned.
Mabel Fields, the eighteen-year-old
JauKhtor of Tax Commissioner August C.
Fields, discovered the tire a9 she was on
the way to a church entertainment and
ran down the track neirly half a mile to
West Chester, ^here she uotifled the station
agent.
?He ran back to the bridge, arriving just
In time to flag a heavy freight train which
was running about thirty mile? an hour.
Several passenger trains arrived later and
Iheir craws fought the lire till a wrecking
irew arrived from the Harlem River yards.
Twenty-two Sailors Drown,
^London- (By Cable).?A dispatch from
dristol announces that the British steamer
Borghese, of Glasgow, foundered of? Cap*
Finisterre in a hurricane. Twenty-two oi
the crew were drowned. Thp survivors
nine la number, have just arrived iu
Bristol.
FOURTEEN SOLDIERS INSANETheir
Minds Unbalanced While Campaigning
in the Philippines.
San Francisco (Special).?The folio wins
soldiers, declared to be iasane, have been
sent to Washington, D. C., from the Presidio
Military Reservation:
Sergeant Thomas F. Collins, Company
G, Sixth Infantry; Sergeant Owen H. Wissman,
Hospital Corps; Privates Thomas F
Barry, Hospital Corps; Artou Earber, Company
E, Fourth Infuntry; Michael Gallagher,
Company C, Twenty-third Infantryi
George M. Barton. Troop C, Fourth Cavalry;
Walter A. O'Neill, Battery F, Sixtt
Artillery; Louis Ford, Company L, Fourth
Infantry; Emerick Mulner, Company B,
Sixth Inlantry; David E. Young, Com pan j
A, Seventeenth Infantry; Frank Thayer,
Company I, Seventeenth Infantry; Georgo
W. Decker, Company E, Eighteenth Infautry;
Joseph Hoffman, Company E, Twentysecond
lnfautry; George J. Nixon, Company
I, Twelfth Infantry.
Nearly all of these mon lost their minds
as a result of campaigning in the Philip
nines.
Boy Murderer Handed.
Edward C'ressinger, agednineteon years,
was hanged at Sunbury, Penn., for tho
murder of sixteen-year-old Daisy Smith,
daughter of a farmer at Boyles Itun, lowoi
Augusta iuwusui[>. ^ressiuger wus 1111
youngest murderer hauled iu the State.
The crime was committed on August 10
18'JS, and was the result of joalousy.
Governor McLaurln N amcd For Senator
Governor McLaurin was Dominated by
the joint caucus of the Legislature at Jacksou,
Miss., for tbe term In the United
States Seriate, beginning March, 1901. Ho
received 118)$ votes of a possible 179. Representative
Allen was put iu nomination,
but most of his friends refused to vote.
Monument to a Cuban Patriot.,
General Maximo Gomez h&3 laid at San
Pedro, Cuba, oa the spot where Gensral
Uaceo was killed, the foundntion stona ot
a monumeut that will be erected in memory
of the dead patriot.
8300,000- Poitoftice Deficiency.
Secretary Gage transmitted to Congress
an estimate for deficiencies in the Postoffice
Department amounting to about
$300,000. Iucluded in the list is an item
for $150,000 for experimental rural free delivery,
$50,000 for railway postal clerks and
$3000, for the representative of theDepartmeut
to the celebration of the twenty-fifth,
anniversary of the International Union, at
Berne, Switzerland,
Contraband Found ou the Bundeiratli.
It is reported at Durban, Natal, that the
captured German steamer Bundesrath had
on board Ave big guns, fifty tons of shells
and 180 trained artillerymen.
CHICAGO CANAL OPENED. [
Water Finally Turned Into the Drain- !
age and Ship Channels
WONDERFUL ENGINEERING FEAT.
Opening of tlie Great Waterway Divided
the East Front the West as Though it
Were an Island?Gulf and Lakes are
Now Connected?Entire Work Cost
533,000,000?Seven Years in Building. I
Q.?What is the richest and most i
powerful island in the world?
A.?The island bounded on the east by
the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the
Gulf of Mexico, on the west by the Mississippi
River and on the north by the Great
Lakes, tlje St. Lawrence River and tlje
Chicago Draiijage Canal.
Chicago (Special).?At 9 o'clock Tuesday
morning water was turned into the $33,000,003
drainage canal and began to flow
toward ;Lookport, where it will fall into
the Desplaines River and thence flow into
the Illinois and Mississippi Blvera. The
collateral channel has been tor some time
completed from the Chicago River to
within fifteen feet of the main channel,
and the fifteen foot wall of earth, with two
sluice gates behind it, has been all that
has kept the Chicago River and Lake
Michigan out of the canal.
Probably no public work ever has been
undertaken by any other State or municl*
pality which was designed to do so mucb
Cor the navigable and commercial interests
of the country as this canal. The requirement
of the law, which compelled the construction
of the rock sections to meet the
demands of tho next generation, was wise,
for It has laid the foundation of a mammoth
ship oanal.conneotlng the Great Lakes with
the Mississippi River and the Gulf, and saving
the sanitary district [of Chicago aud
the Federal Government the great expense
that would be necessary in rock excavation
and blasting under tho flowing water. The
*# nnnfl f r\ fhft cfnclfi rAHllfrA*
mont of disposing ol sewaRe, could have
been constructed for $12,000,000. So the
sanitary district has expended $21,000,000
Inthe direction of the great narigablo
waterway.
As an engineering triumph tho great interest
in the canal lies in the fact that it
disposes of the sewage of this city In a
manner contrary to the laws oj nature and
gravity. The canal, properly speaking', begins
at the south branch Of the Ohicngo
River at Robey street, and continues1'
southward as an entirely artificial channel
until It reaches the controlling works at
Lockport, a distance of twenty-eight miles.
A.t Lockport the ohannel widens to about
500 feet, into a basin, in which the large
lake vessels can bo turned and maneuvred.
The fall from the mouth of the Calcago
river to the Lockport works?and bivff remembered
that henceforth the Chicago
Elver will flow upstream, as commonly
understood ? is only seven feet, so
that the flowtof water in rapidity and vol?
nme through the Chicago River to tb?
canal is controlled by the bear trap dam
and controlling works at the Lookport
terminus, the fall south of the controlling
works being abrupt, and about forty feet
In the next four miles.
It is by means of these controlling works
:hat the water was turned down to the
ralley by the simple opening of the gates
or valves, and it also is by means of the
2ontrolling work3 that the waters down
:he valley can be turned off as suddenly in
jase of emergencies.
Tho'populur belief that the waters of the
:anal having been once turned down the
valley, the flow must bo unceasing and beI
?- J u ? ? !< ftBHATMiftno fr\y fho
yuiiu uuuuita uuuliui 13 ciiuuwu,>, >v. ?.
flow of tills great volume of 300,000 cubio
feot a minute can lie stopped almost as easily
as tbe simple turning of a faucet in the
spigot of a barrol.
The first work in this great enterprise
<vos begun on "Shovel Day," Septomber 3,
1S92, on tbe rock cut fcelow Lemont, on the
Hue between Cook and Will Counties, so
Ihat a littlo over seven year3 have been
consumed In the entire work, Involving an
autlay of about '533,000,000. Over eighty
per cent, of the entire work was done during
the so-called panlo period, nnd owing
to this fact tbe entire cost of construction
was reduced about 88,000,000. Indeed, th?
Hoard of Trustees and its engineers are
uuanlmous in the belief that the work
could not be duplicated under existing
prices for both labor and material for less
than $40,000,000.
SLAVERY IN CUAM MUST CEASE.
Proclamation Issued by Captain Leary,
the American Governor.
Manila (By Cable).?A naval officer who
ba3 arrived here from Guam brings a projlamatloi
Issued by Captain Leary, naval
governor of that island, decreeing the
absolute prohibition and total abolition of
Bluvory or peonage, the order to take effect
Februuj-y 22.
The "prologue o/ the proclamation declares
that the Spanish system of peonage,
amounting to slavery, is a menace to popular
liborty and a violation of the priviI
ipcios ciinmntfiBfi bv th?. American const!
tution. ^
Captain Leary also deported all the
8paniah priests, for reasons which were
wufllclent forhim.
CUBA'S CABINET SWORN IN.
Uemburi Swear Allegiance to the Authorities
of the United Stutei.
Havana (By Cable).?The President ol
the Supreme Court, Senor Mendoza, in tba
Throne Room of the Paluce, administered
the oath o( office to the members of the
new Cabinet, with the exception oi Senor
Villalon, the Secretary of Public Works,
who was unuble to reach Hero iu time.
The witnesses of tht cflreinouy wer? Generals
Wood and Chaffee, and Colonels
Richards, Dudley aud Blact, all in full
uniform. The oath was the ordlnnry ona
administered to all Cuban officials tulcing
office under the present authority, swear<
In? allegiance, for the time beln^, to th?
military authorities of the United States
Negotiating a New Spanish Treaty.
It is officially announced in Jludrid,
Spain, tliat negotiations have been opened
with tho United States for a new treaty of
commerce, and that the United States
Government has a^n'od to place Spanish
trade upon an equal footing with that oi I
America in the Philippines for a decade.
Child Gets a S10.COO Verdict.
A jury in the Circuit Court at Newark,
N. J., brought in a verdict for $10,000
against the New Jersey Street Railway in
favor of Ida H. Herlich, three years old,
whose right hand was cut oil by a trolley
car on July G last.
Fell 600 Feet to Death. <
Andrew Johnson was killed by falling
GOO feet down a shaft in the Koarsarga
miue, near Calumet, Mich. John Sinco,
his partner, was arreBted, as he and Johnsou
were heard quarreling just previous to
the accident
Signal Corps Men Wanted.
Secretary of War Root will soon call on
Congress for additional men for the Signal
Corps to enable General Greely, the chief
of this corps, to assume charge of the commercial
cable business of the Philippine
Islands with the ending of the war in tlia
Philippines, when the various ports of
trade of the islands will be opened and
telegraph and cable communications between
the various points will .be resumed.
General ?>arl? Summoned llome.
Governor-General Davis ba3 been summoned
from Puerto Rico to give information
whloh will aid Congress in establishing
ajpermanent form of government for
I the island.
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PLAGI1B STBIiBS HABIU:
Health Authorities Discover the Disease
in the City.
FRESH OUTBREAK IN HONOLULU.
War Depnrtinent is Talcing AcMre Meas*
ures to 1'reserve n Rigid Ouaranline in
the Philippines?Two Deaths Hare Occurred
? Health Officials Are Not
Alarmed?The Plague lu Honolulu.
Manila (By Cable).?The health officers
aave found a native with all the symptoms
Df bubonic plague, in a bouse in the walUd
:lty, where two suspicious deaths have
sccurred. The patient has been Isolated,
and every precaution has been taken t?j
prevent n spread of the disease.
Washinotox, D. C. (Special).?Secretary
Root called Surgeon-General Wyman into
consultation on the establishment of a
quarantine system for the Philippine:. It
was decided that the War Department
should confide the maintenance of a
quarantine system to the Marine Hospital
lerrice.
It happens fortunately that the Marine
Elospttal service has already two quarantine
plants in the Philippines,, while two of its
surgeons are now on their way to Manila,
so that little delay will be encountered in
jeglnniugto draw a rigid quarantine line
:n the islands. /;rSurgoon-General
Wyman says the disease
no longer creates the dread it once did because
it has been demonstrated that it can
be handled by modern 'soientiflo work. It
has been Stamped out of Aiexahdria.Egypt,
Kobbe, Japan and Vienna, Austria. The
methods of fighting the disease are
the same as used against smallpox?isolation,disinfection
and sanitation. Thegreatest
danger,is due tQits possible Introduction
into new.localities through ambulant,
or walking, cases which defy the surveillance
of the authorities.
One feature of the disease which Is gratifying
to the authorities, in view of the
possible outbreak'of an epldemle in the
Philippines, 14'the fact'that Its history
shows that It does not attack Europeans as
readiiy ai natives. > *
FRESH OUTBREAK IN HONOLULU.
Plague Reappear* After an Interval of
Thirteen Day*.'
!<-i
Sax Fbaxcisco rSpeoial).?After an interval
of thirteen days; in which no cases
were discovered,. bubonio plague has
broken oat agcfcm. A ybung girl named
Ethel Johnson^Hed on December 23, and
an December 25. t*.o new oases were discovered
among\t1ii?/Cblnese. The latter
cases were found-ii|,,j>ppoait9 sections of
the city, one at PjrtWk|T and the other at
Palama. In the-djilffifitai the phyBicians
the Prtiama case :T*;y?jKl6t; the most pronounced
oases of'3ti*^W?jp? 'death that has
ocourred since the outbreak,. >
Until the qu anmtj^a'frtt?-at Honolulu
sports sailing from :Im will stop at that
pert. They will take more coal and go
straight through to Manila, eaABflK .
Guam if necessary.,
Washington, D. C. (Special).?Th?|frport
roceivad by both the State Dep^Rf '
ment and ' by Surgeon-General Wvman
from Honolulu oonflrms the dispatches as
to thejexlstence of the plague. SurgeonGeneral
Wyman does not feel apprehensive
as to the possibility of the infection of San
Francisco from HonoFUlu.
New Plagu? District In Brazil.
Rio Janeiro, Brazil (By Cable).?The
bubonic plague has broken out in the city
ind neighborhood of Sao Paulo.
PROMOTION FOR ARMY OFFICERS.
President Karnes Bates and Wheat?n to Be
Slajor-Generals oi Volunteers.
Washington, D. C. (Special).?The President
sent to the Senate the following nominations
of army officers for promotion:
t%_t .1 ry 1 t r\ t)..?an k.i T*t?_
Briguumr-ueuciui o. v, xiuidi iu ira jmjor-General
of Volunteers; Brigadier-General
Lloyd Wheaton, to be Major-General
of Volunte#rs, by brevet.
DKIOADIER-OENERAL LLOYD WHEATON.
(Promoted to the rank of Major-Genera'
of Volunteers.)
To be Brigadier-Generals?Colonel S. B.
M. Young, ijieiueDHnc-^oiuuei anum .uaf
Arthur and Lieutenant-Colonel William
Ludlow.
Also a numher of other appointments
and promotions in the regular and volunteer
army.
PRESIDENT CIVES A DINNER.
Cabinet OHlcer* and Their Wives the
(Jurats of Honor.
Washisotos, D. C. (Special).?The first ol
the formal dinners of the social season at
the White House was given by Presldeifc
and Mrs. McKiuley Wednesday, the members
of the Cabinet aDd their wives being
tho guests of honor. Invited to meet them
were motnbers of the Senate and House,
and a few other persons.
The East Room and other public portions
of the house were appropriately dacorated
for the occasion. The .Murine Band furnished
the music. The list of guests \r.i3
unusually large, covers being laid for over
seventy persons.
Ganboat Marietta IteporU to YFat6on.
The Navy Department at Washington has
been informed that the gunboat Marietta
has arrived at Mauila. The Brooklyn, Now
Orleans, Nashville and Newark all have
reached the main floet, and the Marietta is
the last of these additional ships sent to
reinforce Rear-Admiral Watson to arrive
nt the Asiatic station.
Six Hundred Ktutian* Killed.
Tho latest reports from Achalkalek, In
the Government of TIflis, Ilussia, show that
600 Iive3 were lost during the enrtliquuke?
-rhich visited that disUJct.a few days ago
New?r Gleantttjfi.
Coal is worth $125 a ton at Cap# Nome,
Alaska
The budget of the German Empire shows
a deficit for the past year of $20,000,000.
The Georgia Legislature Iihs voted to
Jermlt the pructice of osteopathy in that
tate.
A traveling library service lias been instituted
by the Illinois State farmers' Alliance.
.
Benewed reports of strained relations
between Russia and Japan have reached
Victoria, B. C.
It took a bid of $55,000 to secure the 1!
privilege of letting out seats for the Paris
Exhibition of 190^
!i!5 NSU'S E.-iV0:.1IZED'
Wailiineton Itema.
Major Alexander Roeers, of the Sixth
Cavalry, has at his own request been relieved
from dnty as military attache at
:he United States Embassy at Paris and
ardered to join his regiment in this coanry.
The Board of Naval Construction has
. ecommendod that the auxiliary cruiser
Badger, lately the Yamurl, be sold. It will
ost not less than $250,000 to put the ship
n condition for naval service. She is at
Mare Island, Cal.
The statement issued by the Director of
:h? Mint shows tuat the total coinage for
IS99 was $139,343,191, as follows: Gold,
$111,344,220; silver $26,061,519; minor
-I? SI QQ7 151
;uius, i
Captain F. A. Cook, who commanded the
iruisur Brooklyn in the battle of Santiago,
.old President McKinley be was responsible
for the loop made by the Brooklyn,!or
which Rear-Admiral Schley has been
iriticised.
A delegation of two Hawaiians, Robert
SVilcox and Edgar Caypless, arrived in
Washington to urge the appointment of a
lew commission to visit Hawaii and to be
jomposed of three Americans and three
3awaiians. They are opposed to the territorial
form of government at present
recommended for the Hawaiian Islands.
^ttorney-General Griggs decided that
:be evidence taken by t be Interstate Commerce
Commissidn relative to the classtfl
ml ion of freights did not warrant legal
neasures against the Official Classification
Committee under the Anti-Trust law.
General Otis, at Manila, cabled the War
Department that First Lieutenant Edward
Taylor, Twe.lftblpfantry, was run over by
a train crossing the Agno River nearBauclsta,
and died in a few hours.
Inspector-General (Breckinridge has prepared
the text of a bfll for the proposed increase
of the Inspector-General's depart*
ment. k The bill provides that the numbet
of Inspectots-Generfl shall be increased
*rom nineteen to twtyrty-flve officers.
' ' r {'
Oar Adopted Island!.
The op?nipg of the Philippine ports or
Dagupan, San Fernando,Vigan, Laoagana
Aparrl permits . the resumption of trade,
bringing relief to communities greatly in
leed of footstuffs.
The Cuban Planters' Association has presented
to General Wood at Havana a statement,
In whioh occurs a request that the
passage of lmtnigrajats to Cuba be paid by
the Government provided the immigrants
ire of a suitable kind, f
A great quantity of counterfeit American
fold coin is in circulation at Havana,Cuba.
Life along the coasts of ,the provinces ol
3agayan and North and South Ilocos, P. I.,
s resuming normal conditions. The
Imerican troops occupy the important
owns and patrol the country roads.
Six men of tb? signal corps were atacked
at Talevera, near Tarlac, P. I., by
:wo hundred insurgents, and four ar?
maaiutf.
Colonel Wessels'scavalry, while scouting
n the vicinity of Trinidad, found evidence
>f Filipino soldiers being In that vicinity,
>nt It was impossible to bring about an engagement.
increase in the garrison of Namac?acap,
P. I., against a threatened insurf?nt
nttack averted trouble.
The Council of Honolulu. Hawaii, has
appropriated 925,009 to fight the plague.
Astven daya' quarantine has been estabUbed
lor all vessels leaving the port.
Domestic.
The torpedo Soat Qoldsborough had a
lecond builders' trial at Portland, Oregon.
The machinery worked perfectly and In an
tight-minute run she steamed at the rate
>f thirty-two miles an hour against a twonlle
current.
By a vote of 17 to 2 th* City Council ol
Terre Haute, Ind., passed a resolution expressing
sympathy with the Boers and hoping
that they would succeed in the wai
with England.
Two girls escaped from the State Indus:rial
School for Girls at Trenton, N. J. The
;lrls made their escupe at midnight, but '
:hey were soon captured in the morning,* *
ind tafcen back to the school.
TrtVin A1 Hart bnnwn f-hrnilchnnl: thi
jountry for bis skill Id the manufacture ol
rlolins, died at bis home, Philadelphia,
igad ninety-one. He was the first to dis;over
that violins made of Amerioan woods
irere superior in tone and quality to any
tuch instruments of foreign woods.
Four men were killed and several others
njured by u boiler explosion one mile west
if Ellzabethtown, Penn. They were employes
of Keller <fc Gresson, railroad conractors.
Fire completely gutted the buildings expanding
from No. 21G to 222 Monroe street,
SMdly damaged the building at Nos. 212
214 Monroo street, Chicago, caused a
OSS aggregating about 81,000,000 and relulted
in the injury of nine llremen, two
if them seriously.
Former Congressman Michael Griffin,
lead of the State Tax Commission, died
suddenly of apoplexy In his office at Eau
Jlaire, Wis.
John Hough, the? 9layer of Harry ChadTick,
wa? sentenced to imprisonment for
ife by Judge Ralph Wheeler, at -Middle- %
own, Conn. vj?J
Four men have been frozen to death In J
louih Carolina within ten days, two whites . j
ind two nogroes. * - a
The public schools of Beading, Penn., aia-js
o crowded that the Board has had to le?am
private houses to accommodate the ovaftal
low of pupils. , WGS
Samuel Wall and AJbirt W, Barnes, bronT^
if Akron, Ohio, lie in the 3ame grave. The |
nen had been lifelong ohums and business j
Roth died on the same dav. I
jnited so long la life, tbelr families da:ermlnerl
not to separate them in death. S" |
hey lie la the one grave.
Vara Ism.
A detachment of the West India Regt- 1
mont (colored) embarked at Kingston.
Jamaica, to reinforce the Bermuda garrlIOD.
The Queen of England has accepted the ,
services of twelve battalions of militia for j
foreign stations. Seven of these are as- |
signed to South Africa.
The British sailing vessel Emily Lloyd i
has been wrecked near CLe'rbourg. I
The captain and twelve of her crew were
drowned. The French steamer St. Jean i
has been sunk near Brest. Seven of hei j
crew were lost.
A dispatch received at Rome from Mas- '
jowah says an Abyssinian army of 10,000 1
aien sent north to subdue the Tlgre rebels '
3us reached that province, and that llts '
Makonnen, the Governor of Tlgre, has es- I
:ablished his residence at Eudatnoenl.
Denmark will not enter into negotia:ions
for the salo of the Danish West Inlies
to the United States until uu act shall
Qave been passed by Congress enabling the [
purchase to be rnadd.
Extra precautions have been adopted by I
the military authorities at Dublin, Ire- I
land. The constabulary has been fully i
irmed. <
The Chilean Government proposes to dt- 1
vote the surplus revenue, $1,200,000, to 1
public works. '
Deputies representing agricultural and 5
Industrial constituencies in France are op- '
postnjf:-the ratification of th* FrancoPrince
Arenberg,recenUj^HMK>martialed I
in German South \va ^
Th?^Greek Government will present a
bill to. the Legislative Assembly providing,
for the reorganization Of tjt? wtfolifarmy
under command ot tha OrovirfePrince, ' It
will be suggested that fc foreign- General?
probably u German?baaskeji^Q reorganize
The Indian Congiass ha?>daolared Its j
dissatisfaction with the carfMcf measures 1
of the Government, alleging that these
have the effect of depreciating the value ol [
the savings of the mayso?, virtually enhancing
rents and.indebtedness and injur- 1
lously affecting manufactures.
The Wagner Theatre nt Bnyreuth has
been pronounced unsafe and its use next
summer forbidden.
The Italian Cabinet granted amnesty on
New Year's Day to all persons accused of
political offences.
I
1
powerfully presented as by the Incident
concerning a man falling ill in Paris just
a'ter the death of Voltaire, when a professional
nurse was called in, and sbe nsked,
"Is the gentleman a Christian?" "Why do
you ask that?" said the messenger. The "
nurse replied, "I am the nurse who attend*
ed Voltaire in his last illness, and for all
the wealth of Europe I would never see Another
infidel die." What discourse in itsmoral
and spiritual effect could equai ov ^
tale like that? You
might argue upon the fact that thosefallen
are our brothers and sisters, bat V
could we impress any one with such a troth
DR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BYTHE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: New Tear Thoughts?We Should
Malce the Most of Our Itrlef Ltves?
Infidelity the Source of Much WoeChrist's
Matchless Stories.
[Copyright, LouL. Klopsch. 1899.1
Washixotos, D. C.?In this discourse Dr.
Talmage takes the opportunity of offering
some very practical and useful suggestions;
text, Psalms sc., 9, "Wo spend our years
as a tale that Is told."
The Israelites wore forty years In the
wilderness, and during thirty-eight yea^s
fit IhA fnrtv ~ 1 -?* * -
-J ^wvuaur, lO it^UiUOU Ul IUUIU,
and, I suppose, no other emigrants had a
duller or more uninteresting time than
they had. So they got to telling storiesstories
concerning themselves or concerning
others; stories about the brick kilns of
Egypt, where thoy had toiled in slavery;
stories about how the waters of the Red
Sea piled upv into palisades at their crossing;
story of the lantern hung in the heavens
to pruide them by nifjht; story of ibises
destroying the reptiles of the wilderness;
stories of personal encounter. It must
havo been an awful thing to have had nothing
to do for thirty-eight years except to
get lost every time they tried to escape
from the wilderness. So they whiled away
the time in story telling. Indeed, there
were persons whose one business was to
narrate Btories, and they were paid by
such trlfliB as they could pick up from the
surrounding listeners. To such instances
our text mere when it says, "We spend
our yearsw a tale that is told."
At this "ifremendous passage from the
year 1899aoihe year 1900 it will do us all
good to dgmlder that our whole life is a
story toHP-tlgood story or a bad story, a
tragic Story or a mirthful story, a wise
story or* foolish story, a clean story or a
filthy stoty, a story of success or a story of
failure. *?'Wo spend our years as a tale
that is to&."
In thdHlrst Dlace. I remark that avsrv
persouis me la a very interesting story.
My te* does not depreciate "a tale that is
told." We have all of us been entertained
by the sto^y.teller when snow bound in the
rail train, or In the group a winter's night
In the farmhouse, or gathered around a
blazing hearth with some huntors at the
mountain inn. Indeed, it Is a praiseworthy
art to impersonate a good story welL If
you doubt the practical and healthful and
inspiring use of such a story, take down
from the library Washington Irvlng's
"Tales 01 a Traveler" or Nathaniel Hawthorne's
"Twice Told Tftles." But as Interesting
as any of these would , be the
story of many un obscure life It the tale
were as well toid. Why do we all Jike
biographies and autobiographies? Bev
cause they are stories of eminent hapum'*
lives. But the story of the life of a b?pk-'
woodsman, of a man who looks stupid$Of ]
one about whom you never heard a word,;|
must be just as thrilling on a small scaln
as on a large scale is a life of a Cyras, pr fS
Cesar, or u Pizarro, or a Mark Antonf,
a Charlemagne. i "<7jB
If you got the confidence of that verjiw
plain man just come out of the baokwoodafl
and can induce him to give tho stirring ex^l
periences of his life, he will tell you that si
which will make yonr bloo.l curdle and J
your hair stand on end; that night when <ffl
panther disputed his pathway on the way*
home; that landslide; when the mountains'
seemed about to come down on bis cabin;
that accident to bis household and no surgeon
within fifteen miles; that long storm
tbut shut them in aad the food was exhausted;
tbnt contest at his doorway with
bandits, who thought thero might be within
something worth taking; tbat;deathbed,
with no one but himself to count, tlftl'ipttering
pulses.
Oh, yes,,while "wo spend
It is the story of a^lmml
makes it Interestln^^jBo^jPoowe^^^a 1ocean
of eternal
will never termintfKsaSMBiWj^^CM
keynote o? *n ant|BH|K8^nKjBB^p I
never
I
big dinner, to whioh the 1 n
sent in fictitious rogrets; that 1
herd answering the bleat of tl^ocflraep
and all ibe rural neighbors that nlgtflfHHHjft
ing him celebrate the fact that it was saflrajfifc
the barnyard; that of the bad boy, redpa^H
to the swines' trough, i?M?ted.iiome wffiEr
such banqueting and jewcwHhgt it rtulSff is
the older son with jealousyan'OisKruntpP;
raont; that of the Pb.irlsao full*>f brrtgjrn-'
docloandthe publican smitln?hisb{$ist; '
with a stroke that brought 'townljiiltaMr-' K
ecs in commiseration; stories naiB&step- rosy,
about paralysis, about '
about dropsy, about ophthalmia?storres
that He so well told that they have-rolled
down to the present and will roll down
through the entire future.
I heard. Daniel Baker, the wonderful I
svangelist of his time, preach what I sup- I
posed was a great sermon, but I remem- '
ber nothing of it except a story that he <
told, and that, I judgo from the seeming
ififect, may that afternoon have brought 1
hundreds into the kingdom of God. I I
beard Trumau Osborne preach several ser- I
mons, but I remember nothiug of what he i
mid in public or private except a story i
:bat be told, and that was, among other i
hings, the means of ray salvation. The i
lfelong work of John B. Gough, the great- i
3St temperance reformer of all time, was i
;be victory of anecdote, and who cau ever <
target his story of Joel Straton touching i
Jim on the shoulder or of Deacou Moses i
3rant at Hopkinson, or of the outcast J
ivoman nicknamed "Hell Fire," but re- |
leetred by the thought that she "was one i
)f us?" D wight L. Moody, the evangelist <
)t worldwide fame and usefulness, wbc re- <
iently passed to his great reward on hlghr, t
luring his valuable labors iu the pulpit i
yielded the anecdote for God and heaven !
intil all nations have boeu moved Dy it.
It you have hud experiences of pardon
ind comfort and disentbrnilment, tall of
t. Toll It in the most pointed and dranatlo
way you cau manage, Tell It soon,
ir you may sevor loll it at all. Ob, tbe
tower of "tho talo that Is told!" An hour's
lAacourse about tho fact that blasphemous
behavior is sometimes punished in this
70rld would not impress us as much as the
implo story that in a towa of New York
itate attheclosoof the last century thirtyiz
profane mea formed themselves into u
lab, calling themselves "Society of tlio
)ruids." They met regularly to deride
nd damage Christianity. One night in
heir awful meeting they burned a Bible
nd administered the sacramcut to a dog.
'wo of them died that night. Within three
ays three were drowndd. In live years nil
bo thirty-six camo to a bad end. Bofore
iistlces of tho peace it was sworn that two
rero starved to death,seven were drowned,
ight wero shot, live committed suicide,
oven died on the g*llow3, one was frozen
9 death and threodied accidentally. Indents
llko that, sworn to, would balk any
roposed Irreverent and blasphemous beavior.
In what way could tbe fact that lnfldel:y
will n?t help any ou? well be so
no wen na uy luc atuuo neur v icluuu x mm, ?
London, whero men wpio digging a deep
drain, and the shoring gave way and, a ;j
great pile of earth fell upon the workmen. "
A man stood therewith his hands in his
pockets, looking at those who were trying i.
to shovel away the earth from those who
were burled, but when some one9ald to th?
spectator, "Bill, your brother Is down
there," then the spectator threw off hie
coat and went to work with an agony ot
earnestness to fetch up his brother. What
course of argument could so well as that 3
incident set forth that when we toll for the
salvation of a soul it is a brother whom we v|
are trying to save?
A second reading of mv te*.t reminds me I
that life is not only a story told, but that
It Is a brief story. A long narrative
stretched out indefinitely loses its interest. 3
It is generally the story that takes only a ^
minute or half a minute to rehearse that V
arreata the attention. And that gives ad- ?
dltional interest to the story of our life. It ~j
is a short story. Subtract from our life all 3
the hours of necessary sleep, all the boots
of incapacity through fatigue or illness, aft |
the hours ot ohildhood and youth before i
we get fairly to work, and you have abbre- Ij
viated the story of life so much that you t
can appreclate the psalmist's remark when |
he says, "Thou hast made my days as a
hand's breadth," and cau appreciate the |
MpUabiU t/<IUiCI3 DAlUCOntVU WMUlt uo vvim (
pares life to "a vapor iliat appeareth for a 1
little season and then vanishes away."
It does not take long to tell all the *1
cissltudes of IKe?the gladness and the /
griefs, the arrivals and the departures, ;!
the successes and the failures, the victories
aud the defeats, the ttps and the downs. '"I
Tlio longer we live the shorter the years. j
We hardly get over the bewildering fatigue 2
of selecting gifts for children and friends 3
and see that the presents get off in
tirao to arrive on the appropriate day
than we see another advancing group
of holidays. Autumnal fruit so sharply
chases the summer harvest, and the
snow of the white blossoms of spring-timo
come too soon after tho snows ot
winter. It is a remark so often made
tbat it fails to make any impression and*
the platitude that calls forth no reply,
"How rapidly time goos."
Every century is a big wheel of years.
which makes a hundred- revolutions and
breaks down. Every year.is a big wheel ot
months and makes twelve revolutions and
then ceases. Geologists and theologians .
go into elaborations of guesses as to bow
tkjog the world will probably last; how '
Kfliff beforethe volcanic forces will explotfe
Eor meteoric stroke demolish it, or the
paid of ajong winter freeze out its popula- i
Wfoi o.t the flres of a last conflagration
9pEB It. That is all very well, but so fai
aS the present population of the earth i#
wtiMjnjd Ithe world will last but a little ' >,?
HBpit begin life with a cry and end
nad the cry and the groan
>~jfijniat, far apart. Life.. Job says, is like
a 1Teaver's flbuttle^-ffr, a? 'J1
mailLi my text, a siury uuicn- ^
ryuHjffcnd laughed at and gone and dlsanother
story as a "talo that is
jflKort as tlmo Is it Is long enough it
weVHEly employ it. The trouble is we *
wasuKfo much tlmo we cannot catch up. SotaMgus
have been chasing time we lost
at ffljfiy years of age, or thirty years ot -V?
e#CppjBorty years of age, and if w lived
we could never overtake it.
JpBejpfi; a poor apprentice, every morning
'JaB&seiJ a certain store ns tbe church clock
BHk sIx, at the moment when the merMntooli
down ins shutters, each ot
|HH&Bayiog "Good morning, 31^" %nd -J
grapfirtf else. What was Joseph's surprise j|
ftd' tlnd that the merchant had suddenly *
ifi?4?nd loft him Ills store aud business. f
ThatJftnot tbe only instance where a man /
Huflus: made a tortuuo by punctuality. The i
Time flies away fast, c . .*5
Th^jfrile wo ever remember, ^
Thf&3iw with the next December.
fe'A thlrd rfikdltig of my text reminds me
HUit Jifeis notptonly a story told, but -J
ktened to.* There is nothing more flf
wfip'toMy#no than to tell a story ijjfl
wrnmpeople dm' atteodiag. They may S9
^HHWriog o^wome other subject, ot
toflljp^i^oocu^fed.^ Oue cannot tell a.
soli^^^no' eucli thine as beintr alone. 3
Gch&Hlatetui; and the air is full of spiritual 385
^^ Renccs, all listening, and tile world "?
illffifc?to the Story of our life, some hoping 9
fibe successful, others hoping it will ; "dfl
i talic about public life and private ]
ll%jimt there is no private lire. Tho story
mm * however insignificant It ma}
pto be, will win the applause or bias ., <H
f|Bp!wit:multltude tbat no man can sum* fl
As a "tale that is told" among ad- I
antagonists, celestials or pander
BBgaca, tho universe is full of Ustealns:
HElis well as of gleaming eyes. If
HjUc'or do the right tblnp, that is known,
ZEtSL aay ordothe wrong thing, that is
gffrn. I suppose the population ot tba
pKllgencea In tbe nir is more numerous M
?l|n.tne population of intelligences on.the 'Im
earth. Oh, that the story of our 11 fe might rM
bftfltfor such an audience In such an au- <jB
(iirorluml God grant that wisdom and 'iffl
Melity and earnestness and trntb may j33 3
characterize the "tale tbat is told." |
'.' Through medical science tho world's- l>||
longevity may be creatly Improved in the J
future, as It has beou iu the past, but lt'..f 3
would hot be well for the people to live tob , - jj
long. Some of thom would, through their
Skill at acquisitiveness,' gather too much, IB
ahd some multimlllloualros would become J
uiwiMUfvu<79 auu liiuiyuuuc.-', auu auuiC U
would-atter awhile pocket a hemisphere. V?
So. Death is useful in its financial llniitalions,
and then nil have enough sorrows
and annoyances n&d sufferings by tho timo
they' become nonagenarians or centenarians
to make it desirable to quit. Besides
that, It would not be fair so louj? to Keep so '
many good old people out of heaven. So
It Is well nrranged that those who stand by
the deathbed of tho uineteeuth centuga^JV
will not bo called to stand by the deathbed
of the twentieth century.
Ob, crowd this last year with prayers, '
with hosaunas, with kind words, with helpfulness.
Make the peroral ion of the cen? '
Lury the climax of Chrlsllike deeds. Close
up the ranks of God, nnd during this re- .
maining twolve montlis charge mightily
iKainst the host of Abaddon. Have no . -"^j
reserve corps. Lot swiftest gospel cavalry
gallop, and heaviest moral artillery roll,
aud mightiest evangelistic batteries thunier
on the scene. Let ministers of the :]
gospel quit all controversy with each .<
other aud in solid phalanx march out 9
Cor the world's disenthrallment. Let ^9
printing presses, secular aud religious, ,39
make combined movemeut to instruct aud , '9
smancipate the world. On all the hills let S
there be Elijahs praying for "a great rain," . <19
nnd on every contested Held Joshuas to Jj
Bee that final victory is gained before the "
sun goes down, and e*ery mountain be- ^ a
some a transfiguration, muI every Galilee 7- fl
i walking place of Him who can hush a '-9
tempest. Let us be jealous of every month,
of every week, of every day that passes
without somethlug significant and
glorious wrought for God and this sin *21
sursed world. Let our churches be . wj
thronged with devout assemblages. Let 1
the chorals be more like urand marches 'i
than requiems. Let tho comlug year see I
ihe last wound of Transvaal aud ruiUppiue _ |
3onfllet, nnd the earth quake witli the I
grounding nrms of the last regiment ever
:o be marshaled, and the furnaces of tho
foundries blaze with tlie (Ires tbat shall $
;uru the last swords Into plowshares.
Ami may all those whose lives shall go
>ut In this last year of u century, as many
vill, meet la the heavenly world those who
u the morning and noonday of this hunired
years toiled and suiTored for the
vorld's salvation to tell them how much
nis becu aceomplislitd for the glory of
Jim whoso march through all the coming
centuries the Scriptures describe as going
orth "conquering and to cououer." Oh, '
he contrast between that uplifted spec-.
acle of eternal triumph In the presence o?
lod and the Lamb and these earthly MB
cenes, where "we sunad oar years as a tale ^H|
hat Is told " _
M