University of South Carolina Libraries
H ' ^ BOYCOTT ON IN ST. LOUIS. Street Cars Running, But Citizens Do Noi Ride in Them. ? r./M\/liTATIIO niCMICQfn I Ht KUbiJt UUnru iniuo uiomiuuu^ Striker.* Rnn Ruses in Opposition to the. Transit Company?Persons "Who Kldc in the Street Cars Are Uoycotteil? Sheriffs Armed Force Disbanded? Cost of the Posse Coinitatus to the City St. Louis, .Mo. (Special).?Cars aro opi'rated over the Transit Company's lines without interference by strikers ^ or their sympathizers, hut the passenger traffic has dropped to insignificant . ; proportions on a majority of the lines because of the boycott. The last of the posse men have been mustered out, and the Trausit Company must depend upon the regular police force for protection, supplement ed by such assistance as the 125 em ~i?..,.,. tnivii liof.n sworn in as I'M ? i?* v private watchmen can give. President Harry Ilawes, of the Po lice Department, gives out his estimate of the cost to the city of the posse, emergency policemen, guns and meals for the force to date, placing it * at $ir,7.000. Mack Missick, Secretary of the Street Car Men's Union, made public the disposition of money contributed to aid the strikers as follows: Receipts to date. $.">3.0.-1.04; relief disbursed. $32,057.70; balance on hand. $l-.->7.S". The fund is distributed al the ratio of $7 a week to married meu and $4 to single men. Eight hundred strikers are now engaged in running bus lines in oppo sition to the Transit Company, and it is expected that as many more will be employed, as a number of buse:have been purchased in the East foi immediate delivery. Because she rode on a Transit Com pany car to the residence of her fanv ily physician, whose services were re quired by her aged husband, Mrs Joseph Madole has been placed undei the ban of the boycott She says thai her druggist refused to allow her tc use the telephone in calling up tb? physician and also refused to fill 11 prescription hi- had left on his first visit; that the butcher and the grocer with whom she had traded refused longer to sell her provisions, stating that a boycott had been placed upon her and her ramny necause sui had. siOQen on a Transit car. ^ FORTUNES MADE IN A DAY. Chicagoans Who Profited Largely by thi Illne In Wheat. Chicago (Special).?During the reor>ni rise in wheat small fortunes were made by many members of the Board of Trade. John Cudahy. who was long on wheat when the rise came, is said tc have clearod $350.0U0. jJL ^ James Patton 'is credited ing made $300,000 on corn. Members of the firm of Frazier & Company have co^EBEgg the wheat deal from $150.0( 000 to the good. ^K9Bjra) Leopold Bloom made abo^^^^^B. v John Barrett, formerly / Ijf Barrett & Farnum, is ni'ade $T>0,000. / ftf>. H. Roche, a veteran tra^^^^H abovut $50,000. \ ??? ?;? ^Hn FIU'.IPINO GENERALS RELEASEES Plo d\)l Pilar and Others Swear Allegi) ance to the United States. tHy Cablet.?Nine of the insurgent lffaders.lurhuliuy: < Jout-rals Plo del Pilar. tConcepcion. Garcia, and A1 varpy.. weri released unon takins tin oath of allegiance to the Government and renouncing all forms of revolution in the Philippines, together with making formal acknowledgement of American sovereignty. This oath is much stronger and mon binding than that which General Otis administered. and was consequently distasteful to the Filipinos, who accepted it with bad grace, fully realizing the results of any violation. COLD HUNTER RESCUED. Murpliv Wan the Onlr Survivor of a Fart] Hound For Cape Nome. Nome, Alaska (Special)?After sev eral months of fearful suffering during which he helplessly watched the deatb of one after another of his companions. James Murphy, of New York City, a castaway sailor, was rescued from starvation by natives on St. Lawrence Island. Murphy is the sole survivor of a party of six which sailed for Nome November 3. IS!)!), on board the schooner Eacret. from San Francisco. The little vessel was destined for Cape Nome, but was driven ashore on St. Lawrence Island. A Blow at lite Ice Trust* The Ice Trust was knocked out com* pletely in New York by a decision hnnriori rlmvn liv Kui>t'<>nu> Crnirt- .Tnst. ice Alden Chester, at Albany. The Justice refused to vacate the oriler grunted by Justice Chase, appointing Myer Xussbaum as a referee to conduct the inquiry into the operations ot thf lee Trust, in order to enable the Attorney-General to secure sufficient evidence upon which to base an action to annul the certificate of authority issued the American lee Company tc do business in the State. * Ssml-rentennlal In Kanaan. '? . At a convention of delegates representing ninety cities and towns ol Kansas, at Topeka, it was decided tc hold in U?t4 an exposition in celebration of the fiftieth anniversarv of the organization uf the Territory of Kan sas. Topeka anil Wichita are eandi dates for the exposition. Brltlftli Troops to Star In Africa. It is oltteinlly announced that nc British troops will leave South Africa till the end of the war. Prominent People. i Sir William Harcourt, the Britisl 1 Liberal leader, denies that he will re I tire from politics. k Bethany College in Kansas has con P ferred tlie degree of LL.D on Itepre ? sentativc Dolliver, of Iowa, f Ceneral Andre, the new Minister 01 iWar of France, is in his sixty-thin year, tall, of great physical vigor ant intellectual. [ The University of Rochester has con ferr^itfhe degree of Doctor of Laws lu^^^^eral Elwell Stephen Otis ol I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.; I Wxaliliitrton Mimiik. Secretary of t!>? Treasury lucre lias called oil tin- depositary national bunks for iiii>.<MHI more of Ilie <JovI eminent funds deposited with tlieni. The N:iv:il Hoard of Const ruction dej eided that the six submarine torpedo ] boats authorized by Congress, two J shall l?e constructed on the Pacific | coast and four on the Atlantic coast The Secretary of the British Lcga; tion. Reginald T. Tower, lias sailed to ! accent annoiutuient as British Minister ! at Pekin. Throe of the battleships just author{ ized by Congress will be provided with i superimposed turrets and two will be equipped with the quadrilateral turret system. Our Adopted Islftiirt*. Thanks to the rigorous measures j adopted by General Lee, the yellow | fever at Quemaudos, Cuba, is abating j steadily. i The municipality of Havana, Cuba, 1 has sanctioned the building of a system of electric street railways. I President McKinley signed the commission of Joseph M. Oats as postmaster at Honolulu, Hawaii. Porto Rico has been created a customs collection district by the Treasury Department. The amnesty proclamation is being published in all the places in the I Philippines garrisoned by Americans, but as yet it has produced no apparent result. The imports Into Porto Rico amounted to $7.871),208, and the exports from I the island to $3,720,023 in the nine months ended March 31. One of the last acts of the old Government of Hawaii was to destroy $20,000 worth of opium seized by cus1 tonis authorities. There is about $3,000,000 in tne <juK<in Treasury. | Domestic. ' The Ohio Supreme Court has decided that $300,000 sought by the Toledo Centennial Board is not available, thus killing the project. The schooner Alaskan was wrecked at Nome, Alaska, her crew being saved ; by the revenue cutter Bear. Another effort will be made to ob; tain a rehearing iu the famous case ' of Captain Oberlin M. Carter, who ' is now in prison at Leavenworth, Kan. A terrific hail storm, during which . hailstones as large as hens' eggs fell, I damaged wheat fields near Denver, , | Idaho, to the extent of $50,000. I I William Woodward, a farmer, shot I nnil killed his stendauiruter and. in turu. was beaten to deatb by his neighbors at Marshall, Mo. Charles B. Snead, sixty years old, who owns an estate in Brattleboro, Vt., valued at $li30,000, died in New | York City. [ Accompanied by his family. John N. Irwlu. the United States Minister to I Portugal, arrived at New York City on the St. Paul. He will go to his home in Keokuk, Iowa. | Judge L. H. Thompson, of the Vermont Supreme Court, died at his home in Irasburg, Vt., of pneumonia. He was fifty-two y<ars old and had been I a Supreme Court Judge since 1887. (An exploding boiler in a grist mill at Williamsburg, Ivy., killed Riley Broyles and his fifteen-year-old daughter. Carrie. John Whitehead and his wife were : found dead in their house near PoseyI ville, Ind., and he is believed to have I eloln on/1 himCftlf k Postmasters of most of the leading I cities of the Northwestern States get k increases in salaries because of in* Increased receipts. Western Christian Endeavor delegates refuse to travel Sunday while going to Boston convention. Arthur Ledyard, one of the best known balloon operators and paraj chute experts in the country, was , I drowned in. Lake Erie, a few miles ! from Toledo. Ohio. I On touching a live wire at Galena, ! Kan., City Marshal Milford Parker was instantly killed. To save his mother from brutality the eighteen-year-old son of Herman i Haarmeyer killed his father at Cincinnati, Ohio. The entire business section of the village of Mlddleton. Wis., was destroyed by fire. The total loss is more than $100,000; insurance, about one-half. Aaron tiane. tne uartenaer wno 1 killed his sweetheart. Mary Brannigan, at Nev\' York City, has been found guilty of murder in the firs' degree. Fdrelgn. Two French missionaries and 100 converts have been murdered In the southern part of the Province of Pechili, China. The Australian Commonwealth Bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons in London amid cheers. Lord Curzon reports heavy rains in some of the famine districts in India. I>r. G. M. Fisk has resigned as second secretary of the United States Embassy at Berlin. General Roberts reports the gradual pacification of the western part of the Transvaal. The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union Congress, which met at Edinburgh. Scotland, re-elected the president, Lady Somerset, and the _ 1X1 ir.n Xf T O uiuur uioiers. i?ira. in. u. ul I Maine, was elected an additional vice- j j president. Russia has forbidden her newspapers to publish movements of troops or warships and to "remember lius- | sia is preuestined to predominate in j Asia." An appeal by' a committee in Paris. : advocating Boer independence, has j been issued. , It is definitely stated -at the London foreign office that Lord Pauncefote will retire at the end of the year. The semi-inillenial celebration of the birth of Jolyi Guttenberg, the inventor of printing, began on a grand scale at j Mayence, Germany. Lieutenant-Governor Mclnnes. ot British Columbia, who refused to re> sign on being requested to do so by the i Dominion Government, has been djs- I misspiV -.A force for the relief of Coomassie. Ashantee, was dispatched from Prahsu. \ The death of Count Muravieff. Rus* slan Minister of Foreign Affairs, is said to be fraught with givat mo | ' ment for France. The Russian-French ! " alliance may b<> abandoned l'or an alii- j auee between England and Russia, f Au American army of <].">< () men and , 1 a fleet of more than a dozen lighting I ships will soon bo iu China. Further cutting of General Roberts's . line of communication in South Africa 5 is to be punished by the destruction f of the farms within five miles on eacb side of the point attacked ?1 RELIEF OF TIEN-TSIll. Admiral Kempff Te'Is of the Success of the Rescuing Party* TUF nilTRRFAK 15 SPRFAHINfi. Ill? UV I UMUHK IU Wl The Powers Are Preparing For a-Lorn. Campaign?Chinese Capital Held by 300,000 Soldiers Armed With Modern Gnns?Situation is Considered in the Highest Degree Alarming. London (By Cable).?According to a dispatch from Che-Foo, Admiral Kernpff reports that the combined forces entered Tien-Tsin. sustaining small loss. They then started to re\ licve Admiral Seymour's force, which f is believed to be surrounded uear Pe[ kin. The British cruiser Terrible has arrived at Che-Foo from Taku with the latest news, which is as follows: "Eight hundred Sikhs and 200 Welsh Fusiliers have affected a junction with the American, tierman and Russian forces, which had been cut off by the Chiuese about.nine miles from Tien-Tsin." According to Japanese reports. Admiral Seymour has been captured, and the Ministers have left Pekin, guarded by Chinese soldiers. Their whereabouts is unknown. That the Powers look with troubled nvoe r,n thp sitimtlnn is shown bv the action of some of them in hurrying troops to the scenc of the trouble. From British India ten thousand English soldiers have started for China, and more are to follow. Russia has ordered an army of 52,000 to proeoed at once, and some of the divisions have started, while Japan will have 15.000 men on the ground in a short time. It is estimated there are 300,000 hostile Chinese troops around Pekin: that they have L.J Creusot guns, eighteen Krupps and 150 Maxims, while their supply of ammunition is said to be inexhaustible, practically. Ihese soldiers are undisciplined and are unfamiliar with such modern weapons of war. There are further indications thai the outbreak fs spreading to the south of China. Preparations for a prolonged war are being made by all the Powers. A9IERICA3S KILLED IN CHINA. ~ Four Marine* Fatl In an Ambush on tl e Way to Tlen-Tnln. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The following dispatch from Rear-Admiral TvomnfT Phofnn Similnv wns tv>. celved by the Navy Department: "In ambuscade near Tien-Tsin on the 21st, four of Waller's command killed and seven wounded. Names will be furnished-as soon as secured. Force of 2000 going to relieve Tien-Tsin today." ' In prompt answer to this news, indicating the increasing gravity of the Chinese crisis. Secretary Long issued orders directing Rear-Admiral Remey to proceed from Manila to Taku on the Brooklyn, taking on board such troops as General MacArthur can furnish and she is able to carry. Adu.iral Remey will displace Admiral KempfE In command in Chinese waters. Request For an Armistice Refused. Washington. D. C. (Special).?Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister.asked Secretary Hay to obtain an armistice in the operation of American troops until Li Hung Chang could reach Pekin and bring about a cessation of the disorder. This request, laid before President Melvinley. was answered by i the statement that the United States could not bind itself under the exlstI insr conditions. DIRECTOR RATHBONE REMOVED. M. C. Fosnes Appointed Actios Directoi of Cuban Posts. Washington, D. C. (Special).?"Phe Fostmastor-General lys issued an order removing from ornce Estes G. Rathbone, who had been suspended by a former order from the position of Director-Geueral of Posts of Cuba, and detailing Martin C. Fosnes, an iuspee' tor in the postal service, to perform the duties of Director-General of Posts until further orders. Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General Br is tow has been relieved from further work in Cuba and has sailed for home. Postmaster-General Smith said that Mr. Rathbone will not leave the isl find, as lie will be wanted as a witness in the coses of the other officials against whom charges have been preferred. NEW NOTE TO THE PORTE. (Jolted States Charge d'Aflalreft Demanded an Immediate Reply. Constantinople (By Cable).?Lloyd C. Griscom,United States Charge d'Affaires, presented a fresh note to the Ottoman Government, insisting upon an immediate reply to the demand of the United States for a settlement of the indemnity in connection with the losses of Americans at the time of I the Armenian massacres. Although vigorously phrased, the note is not an ultimatum. It is said, however, to have been'a disagreeable surprise to the Porte, testifying as it does to the Intention of the United States Government to pursue the matter of indemnity to the end. Heavy Rains In the Sooth. The recent heavy rains in the South have inundated a vast territory aud caused much damage to crops. TOants the Saltan Depoaed. A committee' of the Young Turks' puny nas sent a manifesto to the various embassies at Constantinople, describing the situation in Turkey and declaring that it is time for the Towers to terminate the Sultau's regime. Boy Killed by a Baseball. George Lakin. nineteen years old. died from the effects of a nlow from a baseball at Baltimore. The hoy was at the bat. and was struck behind tinear by a pitched ball. Bryan's Cousin Named For Governor. The Democratic State Convention of Florida nominated for Governor Wiilin 111 S. Jennings 011 the forty-fourth ballot. The nominee is a lirst cousin of William Jennings Bryan, lie is a native of Illinois, but removed to Florida :u isso. IIi' is thirty-seven years old. Want No Squnvr Men. There is a strong movement to expc-1 all the white men 011 the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, who are now scattered through th?; rcsorviition. by force if necessary. | i LIVES LOST IN I WMJtj i I ! j Washout Near Atlanta, Gt., Causes ! Horribie Railway Disaster, VICTIMS CAUGHT IN A TRAP Local Trjilu Goes Down in a Gulch Neat McDouougli?Sleeping Car on the End I'lns Dswn the- Wreckage ? Flame, Add to tlte Disaster?Only Those in the Sleeper Escaped Death. . .il r< ? /C,,,,,,r.. 4 A*\lUliiiU, VJU. \o|icv;iai;.?A ptuocunri train 011 the Macon brancli of the Southern Railway ran Into a washout one and a half north of McDonough, Ga., nud was completely wrecked. The wreck caught fire and the entire train, with the exception of the sleeper, was destroyed. Every person In the train, except tho occupants of the Pallman car. perished. Not a member of'the train crew escaped. Thirty-five persons in all were killed. The list of killed is as follows: William A. Barclay, conductor, Atlanta; J. E. Wood, condifctor, Atlanta; J. H. Huuuicut, conductor; J. T. Sullivan, engineer, Atlanta; \V. W. Bennett, baggagemaster, Atlanta; T. F. Maddox, i cotton buyer, Atlanta; W. J. Pate and twelve-year-old son, Atlanta: H. R. Cressinan. Pullman conductor; George W. Flournay, Atlanta; D. C. Hlghtower, Stockhridge, Ga.; W. W. Park, Macon, Ga.; SOlder Hecson, traveling man, supposed to have been from Florida; T. F. Florida, Kashvllle, Tenn.; W. 0. Ellis, bridgeman, Stockbridge; D. Y. Griffith, Superior; J. H. Rhoades, flagman; John Bnftitley White, fireman; Will Green, extra fireman; W. L. Morrisett, pump repr.irer; W. R. Lawrence, foreman extra gang; Ed. Byrd, colored, firema-, Atlanfa; Robert Spencer. train porter; four unidentified bodies and eight negro section hands'. The wrecked train was a local knowu as No. 9. It left Macon at 7.10^ir. m.?v and was due in Atlanta at 9.55 p. m.r\ The train reached McDonough on tlme^ 8.30 p. m. A train from Columbus, due to connect with the train from Ma-, con at McDonough, was late and the wrecked train did not wait for It. The train ran only a mile anda half from McDonough, when without' warn1 ing it plunged into a waehout 'sixty feet deep and 123 feet vide. Camp's Creek had swollen because of the recent heavy rains and cut out the railroad embankment until the culvert through which it flowed was trausformed into a gorge, through which a raging torrent surged. The train, consisting of a ..aggage car. second-class coach, tirst-class coach and a Pullman sleeper, was knockedVmto splinters by the fall. The wreck caught fire in a few minutes after the fall and all the coaches were burned except the Pullman car. rjvery persou on iue iruiu vacviil the occupiints of the Pullman car was killed in the accident. Not a member of the train crew escaped. A blinding rainstorm was on. The windows of the coachos were closed and when the passengers went down they were either drowned in the torrent or burned with the wrecked coaches. As the wreck began to go to pieces under the destructive work of the dames and flood bodies floated out and were carried down stream by the current. The storm did not abate in fury. Flashes of lightning added to the steady glow of the burning train. All through the night the rain continued. The dawn revealed the most disastrous railroad wreck the South has known in many years. An hour after the train's plunge into the gorge several of those who escaped from the wreck walked into McDonough with the news. Parties were organized at once. Nearly the entire male population of the towu went to the scene to render assistance to those imprisoned in the wreckage. Little could,, be done by the rescuers, however, as thcfire kept them at a distance. At daylight the bodies that had floated from the gorge were gathered up. Some of the bodies were terribly burned, while others were crushed beyond recognition. The only means of identification in the majority of the cases were letters and papers in the pockets of the victims in the catastropae. Only three ladies.wore on tlie train: two escaped. The fbodies of tlie dead were brought to Atlanta. No blame attaches to the railroad, as other trains had passed the spot in safety only a few hours before the collapse. EIGHT KILLED IN A COLLISION. Train Carrylnc Excursionist* to a Saengerfest ltuns Into a Freight Train. Green Bay. Wis. (Special).?A northbound passenger train on the Chicago and Northwestern Road, loaded with excursionists bound for the Saengerfest in this city, collided with a freight train at De Pere, five miles south of here. Eisht persons were killed and thirty-four were injured. The dead are Edward Kuckie and Lawrence Hank, of Fond du Lac: Georse L. Liovd. of Eden: Charles Mierswa, Matt Korcher and Burt Ivos, of Oshkosh; .Auntn Weber aud a man from Ashland whose name is unknown. The accident happened just as the passenger train was pulling into the station. A double-header freight train was backing on to a side track to let the passenger train go by, but had not cleared the main track. When the two trains came together the first coach, which was a combination smoking and baggage car. was driven through the second coach, whf.re the loss of life occurred. The cause of the accident was the failure of the freight crew to sire the passenger traiu the right of way. A Million For llrown University. Announcement was made at Brown University, Providence, K. I., that cash and pledges had been received amount injr to $1,()!)(!. 10d. Just a year ago the offer came from John D. Rockefeller to give the college $250,000 in case $7-30.000 was raised within a year. PrefOrient Krucer'tf Pence Condition*. President Kruger's principal condition for immediate peace in South Africa is that he be allowed to stay in the country. Lightning Strike* a Churchi During a severe thunderstorm at Gillinghani. Wis., lightning struct the United Brethren Church during service. Lewis Feckhain was instantly killed, Julian Hart and S. Foley were rendered uuconscious, and the entire congregation shocked. The building was wrecked. > destructive Plttaburc Fire. A fire in tUe heart of the business district of Pittsburg, Penn., caused "a loss of $250,000 and for a time threatened to wipe out an entire squire of haudsuine bui'di'Jgs. mm i AI FEARFUL ACT OF A MANIAC u. *it??i,?. ? rn?,:i? ;? nc a AUiiiiij Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Murders Two Men Willi an Axo, Injurei Two Women and Then Tubed HJs Own Life. Cedar Rapids. Iowa (Special).?Chas. Mefford, a maniac, killed Jauies Fitzsimmoas, fatally Injured Jos. Drake, seriously injured Mrs. James Fitzsimmons, slightly injured Miss Kate Fitzsimmons, and then ended hi< own life a few dajs ago. Mefford was twenty-seven years old. and had been insane fpr several years. He was in the Independence Asylum for a short time two years ago, but escaped and was never returned^ He was not considered dangerous. Mefford darted out of his home about 10 o'clock p. m a raving maniac. He was clad in nothing but a shirt: He was seen two t>r three times between then and midnight, but the police I failed to find him. , Reginald Andrews, janitor of the (5ld Ladies' Home, was awakened by the crashing of glass just before 5 o'clock In the morning. The next mo- j ment Mefford stepped before him swinging a neck yoke. "Your time has coJie!" shouted Mefford. . "What time :? you mean?" asked Andrews. v "I have murdered one whole family to-night and I am going to kill you and everybody In the home," replied Mefford. The maniac swung the neck yoke and tried to brain Andrews, who dodged, grabbed the weaipon, threw Mefford on the bed. and choked him until he begged for mercy. ? Andrews then agreed to give Mefford a bath, a suit of clothes and some breakfast, which apparently satisfied him. Rushing through the house. Andrews locked the twelve or fourteen Inmates in their rooms, notified the police by telephone' and ran across the street to the home of Joseph Drake for assistance. Drake dressed, picked up a revolver and started out. Mefford, carrying an axe. was seen to plunge through a window in the home of James Fitzsimmons, about one hundred and fifty yards away. Mrs. Fitzsimmons screamed and Mefford swung the axe and brought It down toward her head. Her uplifted arm saved her life. Her arm was broken in two places and she sus{ tained a serious scalp wound. Mr. Fitzsimmons. hearinz the I screams, ran into the room and grapr pled with the maniac. Mefford shook him off and sent the axe crushing Into his skull. Dashing upstairs, Mefford attacked Miss Kate Fitzsimmons, inflicting several severe scalp wounds. When Mefford went down stairs Drake had just entered the house. Drake dropped to his knees to shoot, but there were four empty chambers and each time the hammer came down on one of them. Then Mefford struck him on the ; head with the axe. A second and third blow followed and Drake fell. Andrews escaped. Mefford took Drake's revolver and ran out of the house. After running several blocks he put a bullet into his left breast below the heart. Running on two or three blocks further, he sat down on the curbstone, and, placirig the revolver to the centre of his forehead, fired again. Mefford continued to wave the revolver above his head, but just as a policeman grabbed the revolver from behind Mefford fell dead into the gutter. Maniac KHU.Two Men. New Orleans (Special).?William IT. Robinson a few weeks ago was released from the insane asylum in Jackson as completely cured. He re turned to ins Home in iNew urieans and obtained work. All his friends thought he was sound iu Lviml agniu. but his iusauity returned in a most violent form. He shot two men fatally, besides wounding a policeman iu one leg. He was about to be lynched by a mob, when Sheriff Klock, with a force of deputies armed with shotguns. rescucd him and placed him in prison. NEBRASKA LOSES TERRITORY. Armed North Dakota Farmers Change tlie Course of the Missouri River. Jackson, Nob. (Special). ? An armed band of thirty-two men from South Dakota has et'.t n channel through Kininger's Neck, or. as it is known on tiie maps. Bruigher's Bend, in the Missouir River. The bend <s so.n^ twenty-five mile? cround and not more than a qua-tiy or a mile across .'is neck. The u';:k i> low lana, tvivcied with willow and small timber*. Residents of th.t hot-* tnmc flw? i?irni? oncf a r IvILr Point, have a.'ways contended that it' .a channel could be cut through the neck and tho river straightened our it would prurcrc rue recurrence of r'tft spring Hoods which have so frequently overflowed the southwestern portions of Union County. Another result of cutting through the neck of the bend is to tbtow thousands of acres of excellent farming land into South Dakota which has been a part of Nebraska. Difiil Aged 103 Yearn. Mrs. Almira Milligan dk:l at the home of her niece. Mrs. James Edwards. of Alford, Mass.. after a life of 1 102 years and 11 months. She was the wealthiest woman in town. Mrs. | Milligan had two husbands, and had beeu a widow the second time almost, forty years. 1 Morinoui Invade Iowa. Fort Dodge. Iowa, is overrun with Mormon missionaries, who make per- 1 sonal visits to all houses and distribute ! literature by the barrel. They say that i moreapostles are on the wpy from Salt Lake City to make converts. Sold Her Cblf^Tor S100. Paulina Mathls, driven by poverty, sold her child for $100 to a Mrs. Gross and executed a bill of sale, properly at- * tested, which was filed in the Regis ' ier's office in Xew York City. - 1_ s Serious Trouble in Bulgaria. It is learned that ninety persons were killed and 372 wounded in the re- * cent conflict between troops and peasants in the Varna district, in Bulgaria. a A state of siege has been proclaimed In the.dlstrlcts x>f Varna, Shumia, Tit- s nova.vJUaSJ^Ld^Rustchuk and ltisto- I) ^ P Death of a Noted Scientist. j_ Dr. H. S. Lucas, the (tHyjjjvt'ror of tj emery deposits in Chester, Ma^.. died 11 at Franklin, N. C. He was a ^ontist 11 of considerable note and the nr^L to r< produce epsom salts. ? ' WHAIMiDAL PASTY Georgia Mill Owner Gives His Employes a Novel Vacation. MARRIAGE-PROMOTING OUTING. Banker TVItlmin Personally Conducted His Employes on Tlielr Vacation Trip J Be Offered Prizes to tlie Single Men j and Women Who Would Marry?Five Couples Were on Their Honeymoon. Now York City (Special).?It was like a breeze from the Georgia pines when William H. Withara, at the head of his bank cashiers, mill superintendents and pretty girl tourists, invaded this city a few days ago. Marshaled by the proprietor of thirty-two. banks and nine cotton mills the party moved from Asbury Park early In the morning and took possession of fifty-seven rooms at the Gilsey House. There were five bridal couples In the company, one engaged couple and seven attractive young women. Mr. Witham takes his employes on a two-weeks' vacation each year. His marriel managers and clerks >are accompanied by their wives and daughters. As he believes that men who niar\y arc Apro attentive to business tnan bachelors, he asks eligible girls to meet his unmarried clerks and cashiers. ? He offered this year a reward of $250 to the first young woman who married one of his cashiers, $150 to the second; and he says he told the young women that the third would get n Hnlln- onH n hfllf A?>nw11nir tr? Mr. Wit ham the seven ygngg J^rpmen who accompanied him are .theiijeven most There were lligfeflBnjh.the party ana Mr. Witham ^wHRhus busy as the manager of. aoMj^^mnpany on Banker wftham're^Bfc'a'--tomnnco. Born in La Granifl^^^HR: came to office boy. min&s find ' Raili For Urines In works in the Connellsyai ^gi^?Bdy single men have l^n^dtii^rg^S^and this has brought abotit'an. uiftcecedented demand for Jun e,b'ritipSwhe foremen and yard man^erl??i??retaining the married men be'cauiS^|AeIr store bills are larger. The badflttrs are therefore nuking, a grjanggMKpot wives to avoid the. danger a^getfting an -enforced summer vac^flP^V EV^ry girl who arrives from the old country quickly becomes a Wife, if she so de* two girl heroines/ , Their Prompt Action S?T?<1 000 P??en, c?ri Near Birmingham, Ala. Birmingham, Ala. (Special).?Two daughters of Isaac Ledenderff,' of Fayette County, saved an excursion train from Columbus, Miss., bound fof Birmingham a few days ago. The rain was coming down In torrents, and the young women, who resided near a culvert saw that the waters had risen above-it and were rapidly un dermining It. Knowing that ttS^uJnJ would be along soon, they lefC'ilMl house in the drenching downpour and ran dowu the track a 'mile to the nearest station, where they Informejd the trackmen of the condition of th?e culvert. ' | A danger signitpvas pot out. thetrain stopped, and after several hours' of hard work ren^jrlsg^the damage.the train pi'oceede?rto..Blrtlinghani. delivering its GOO ^abengers several hours late. Fought a Dnel on Horseback. Munco Tipsward was killed by Willis Lilly, Ills brother-in-law, in London Township. 111. It was a duel on horseback. Both were riding at breakneck speed, Tipsward following close liehind L.lly. slashing him with a knife j whenever lie was able to reach him. I Lilly dashed ahead of Tipsward. and, when a few feet away, drew his revolver and lired. The ball entered Tifisward's head, and he fell from his liorse dead. The murder was the culmination of a family feud which has existed for several years. IlllnoiR Democrats Meet. The Democratic State Convention nominated a State ticket headed l>y Samuel Alschuier. of Aurora, for Governor. Delegates were elected to the Kausas City Convention. The plaP form adopted reaffirms the Chicago platform of 1890. condemns trusts, upholds the Monroe Doctrine, denounces imperialism, expresses sympathy with the Boers ar.d instructs the delegates to the National Convention to vote for Bryan for President. General ChaQee Ordered to China. Orders were issued by the War Department. at Washington, to Brigadier-General Atlna R. Chaffee to take command of the forces in China and to proceed at once to assume his new duties, while the Fourth and Twentieth Infantry were directed to proceed from Manila to Taku at once. These, with the Ninth Infantry, which is also ordered to China, will make a brigade. A Fatal Game of Cards. At Granite, Greer County. Kan.. Cattle Inspector Gilmorc. William Anderson. another man and a woman, engaged in a frame of cards. Tliey luarreleil and all fell upon Giliuore. ivho shot and killed his three assaiimts. Cloudburst at Mobile, Ala. A cloudburst occurred at Mobile.Ala. Vll the streets were submersed, in mine places to a depth of live feet. Business in the city was practically iUspelided. Cycling Too clips are gradually coming iuto avor witli wlieeltueu. Mi^r of the wheels seen on the road ( re equipped wiih coaster brakes. , It 's estimated that more miles of ] idepath throughout i he country will 1 e built this year than ever before. The cycle record from NVw York to j lostou has been broken by Bet ram i !. Iiussell. of Springtield. Mass. His > 1 ime was twenty hours and three iriu- ' f tes. being three hours and Uveutyine minutes better than the previous t ?cord. made by Warren F. Taylor two t ears ago , 9 v ' a I GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAX. i PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. The Cluirch of Go<l-l(olincti? Takes Time ?Tin; Impulse ?o I'lHine (io?t?A l'rayci for Gracc?<>o<1'h Love lVr>onnl?Take What Comes Upon Thee Cheerfully# The Church of fJoil is stnhlished I Through Jesus Christ our Lord, aj iliuwen u$ \_nri.M :ui niiJiiuu^, With Christ she shall accord. The sweetness of Christ's spirit Within her life endures. And to the weary nations God's day of peace ensures. The Church of God enshrinoth Whate'er true men hold dear, And with her strength do^li cherish The visions of the seer. Tho patience of Christ's spirit. Within hor heart abides; To hope she still doth witness, Whatever ill betides. The Church of CJod belongeth To men of every time: >:? Christ is the elder brother Of men of every cliiue. The justice of Christ's spirit Shall iti the Church remain, Until in some glad future Men brotherhood attain. The Church of CJod increasetb Through sacrifice and pain. Through travail and through sorrow She makes her constant gain. The passion of Christ's spirit Ne'er from the Church shall die: Love shall the sin-vexed peoples J Redeem and sanctify. The Church of God infoldeth All of earth's purified, And gathers all the needy -3 For whom the Master died. The splendor of Christ's spirit The Church shall glorify. And fit earth's humble people To be the Church on high. Tlio Church of CJod endureth. Though vexed with inward strife; To God's sure end she moveth. For Christ is her true life. The power ol' Christ's strong spirit The Church shall unify, Whpn. all names lost in one name, The Kingdom draweth nigh. 7 ?Lucius Harrison Thayer in The Con grcgatioualist. >\ Holiness Takes Time. There is a deep truth beneath the lint v'-j of tho familiar hymn which counsels us to "Take time to be holy," A holy lift is the result of deliberate effort an<! ceaseless watching. It does*not come in to maturity unless we take time for its culture. It is in this very sphere of the religious life that the modern businesi stress invades with such disaster. \V? are busy, and we simply do not take time to be holy. It takes more reai strength to pray than it does to perform dflH physical toil. The reason why people d? not pray when they are tired is becaust they cannot; their strength is exhausted - J It takes vital force to study the BibW anu to reflect on religious tnemes. Anc yet this is generally reserved to th? close of the day, when we are too mud exhausted for the tusk. And so it sooi falls into disuse. We may as well recognize, therefore, at the beginning that i' ^akes strength an<l time to attain a holj life. It is a matter of downright and , persistent earnestness. It is true that i ho# life is the result also of'relationshij and. tit absorption. Both the activ? Struggle and the passive, receptive mooc are necessary. It is the first of thesi that we tend most to neplect. But w? , . must' arouse ourselves: holiness mean: struggle; holiness takes time. * * The Impnluc to Pri?l*e God. The impulse to praise God for his woft derful works is as natural to men now ai ' it was to the Psalmist, and for the sami reason. It is only the perverted mind -x; warped for the time by disease or sorrow j and with its thought and sight raisdi ,wrected, which fails to look up, as it wen J torjiJt h tha"k^^ jpp^fWir^xnitiirioii>mrn tu-r natural * r world makes its appeal to his heart a? tbe spring expands into the early summer. It is easy t-> understand.then how in the ages past men who knew little 01 nothing of God found themselves iin pel led to worship injttire. In worship pin.tr nature they were looking us | thi'ntisrh nature to nature's God. and h? wli.) today fails to hear God's voice, tc I < see God's hand, and to read something ot' God's In-art and spirit in nature must , j be doaf, blind and stupid beyond belief ' The year brings scores of lessons with its rolling months, but in its own waj &*? no iNiirr iinu t' iiinunsn v m mure lUMp* jjHg fill than this. " W A Prayer for Grate. Lord, preserve me in the unity of thj holy church. in tho love of God and ol my neighbors. Let thy grace enlarge mj heart to renumber, fiiithfully to use wisely to improve and humbly to give thanks to thee for all thy favors, with whieh thou has enriched my soul and supported niy estate and preserved mj * person and rescued me from dagger ano invited mi' to goodness all the days ol my life. O do unto tli.v servant :is thou llfiost to tlo unr? those that lov;? thj n;init;! Lot thy truth comfort me; thj mercy deliver me; thy staff support met thy irra?-e sanctify my sorrow; ami thj goodness pardon all my sins; thy angels" guide nil' with safety in this shadow ol death, ami thy most Holy Spirit load m? into the land of righteousness: for thj name's sake, which is s? comfortable, ami for Jesus Christ's sake, our dearest Lord and most gracious Saviour. Amoa ? God's Love I'rrnonal. Whoever has once absorbed th( thought that < ???il loves him. him individually, with a personal aft'eition. has undergone a marvelous transformation It is scarcely too much to say that a revolution has been wrougiij^in his soul. He is not Vilely any more.' He cannot despond. The promises belong to him ^ It is easy to believe. His bliss is assured. The troubles of earth are insignilii'i'.nt. its prizes contemptiide. Very few eiunprehenil the greatness of <?odf love to us?a love which 110 demand can exhaust, which will last forever, and which has back of it all wisdom, all power. A little inklimr of this wonderful fact is enough to start one on a new life. Its full disclosure ami discovery constitute heaven. We may well pray not only for more love to Him, but for a clearer view of His love to us. The twc things ha v: very close connections. Whatsoever is brought upon thee take cheerfully, and be patient when thou art changed to i> low estate. For gold is tried ill the tire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. Believe in Him and Ho will help thee: order thy way aright and trust in Him.?Je.sus, Son of Sirach. The path of sorrow and that path alone Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. No traveler ever renchod" this blest abode \Vho found not thorns and briars in his road. " ?WKJiam Oo-.vper. EFFECT OF THE UPRISING. Former Con Mil at Tien-Tain Think* It Will < Undo All MUaionnry Work in China. E. T. Sliephard. tor oinlit years Amerirail Consul at Tien-Tsin. said that in his iipinioit tin* present situation in China is more grave for Christ ianity than any previous t-risi<. !lc said: "The uprising of the Boxers means the flest ruction of all that has been accomplished liy the Christian Church in China for the past sixty years. In fact, it means norc. During those lonu yer.rs the tnis ionaries have done much in planting the seed lor civilization, and tliev have made nanyconverts. The latter are Ileitis slaughtered by hundreds by the Boxers. As a esult of this massacre the Chinese will ibaudou all Christian beliefs. - i