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tr f FC VOL. X. ARP ON CARNEGIE. Applauds the Millionaire for the Gooo He Is Doing. HE MAKES SOME SUGGESTIONS. ?.. . Says the Great Steel Kins; Could Reach the Masses ?: 1 a Better Way I hau by Libraries. "Scale it. Mr. Flicks, scale these profits down "> per rent, for the ne\t fiscal year. The books show that we are getting rieh too fast. I'ut down the jii i. ? of steel rails and put up iha price of labor. We are hut trustees for our fellownien and a million a year is enough ! >r ua." It .Mr. Carnegie had said that ten years ago, lie wouldn't he so perplexed now about giving away his money. !!?' says it is a sin for a man to die rich, and as life is uncertain and death is sure, he seems to be in a hurry about getting rid of his millions. The live millions he has settled upon ii.s aged and indigent laborers is a benefaction that everybody commends. The twenty-live millions he has given to the cities far public libraries is not imperially commended by anybody except those who received it. It is about on a par with Rockefeller's Jwentv-fivo mill inn c in lli.? r^nni "?i - versltlos. Neither Rift reaches the masses of the people nor allioviote the rendition of the poor. George Peabody's and Peter Cooper's charities were more sensible and effectual. George Muller'R life work, who without a dollar of capital to begin with, established orphanages in London until he had over 22.000 in charge when he died, and from year to year maintained. and educated them, was a much grander charity than giving millions to colleges and libraries. George Peabody's millions built blocks of good comfortable tenement houses for th-* laboring poor of Ixmtion. houses that sere furnished and equipped with every comfort and every safeguard for (he health of the tenants. Health s that, he left a large fund for the promotion of education in the South. There are many charities fnr tnoro needed by the people than giving them \ chance to read free books. The poor <do not have time to read very much. A right hungry man can hardly get religion. much less enjoy a story book. But still we commend Mr. Carnegie for his good intentions, and if he had given two or three thousand dollars to Cartersvllle, 1 would have said. "Mr Carnegie, you are a big-hearted Scotchman, sir!" I hope they will elect him mayor of New York. The reason why the public pra.se Mr. Carnegie so is because the public Is surnrisod Such mnnlflc0?c<-> So uncommon that it is unexpected. The Rift is really no act of generosity, for as he savs himself it is a sin to keep It and die rich. He got all his millions from the labor of the people, and now he is trying to pour some of it hack in the jug. That is right and honorable for the ore was God's and the labor was the toil of his men. He ought to pour it hack and give some to the tollers whose sweat earned the money. This is pure mornity and common sense. Every man has a moral right, and it is his duty to make sufficient profit to maintain himself and family in comfort, and even in luxury, and aiso to lay up something for his children and for old age and for the accidents of life; but beyond that his rights under a Christian civilization do not go. 11c then becomes a trustee for his fellowmen who are in need. Not that he should parcel out and deliver to each one his share, for it cannot be done, but he should make some Investment that would insure the greatest good to the greatest number. Nevertheless. Mr. Carnegie is scattering his money. He Is sowing wheat among the tares. He is giving largely to the wealthy el* lea who can provide their own li! raries. He Is scattering hi3 money; I mean the surplus, that has grown t.? he n burden. He has Just finished a million dollar mansion in New York and haa another In Scotland. and a few millions in reserve for contingencies. We hope that these small holdings will not Interfere with his intentions to die poor No, there is no peculiar grace in the gifts of Carnegie or Rockefeller. They are a surpris \ that's all. for not one in a hundred of the millionaires do such things. Most of them hold oti and pile it up for th? ir children to quarrel over. The Standard Oil Company has just deviated 1 dividend of twenty millions for Rockefeller. He eru -bed out and absorbed all contpttlng mills and still sella oil to the consumers at if? cents per gallon. Cheap, isn't it? lint ha could a< 11 it at 10 cents and mai.e a hundred per cent. It is the comnn 1 people, the masses, the tollers and tl.e poor who buy the oil, and every gallon takes a nlcklo from them (ha! ? u-i t not to he taken. God made th? eh and gave the lahor. Vr. Rocker 11' r had hut little to do v/ith if. Most or his millions really belong to God and the laborers. It la no sufficient answer that he has endowed a coll. The children of the laborers are not in It. It's too far ayay and too high tip. These colossal fortunes are becoming alarming. They endanger good government, for It is still a fact "tbat riches and virtue are rarely found combined." Laws grind the poor and )RT F( rich men make the laws. It Is too Into. The opportunity has passed, for rich men make the laws. Millionaires control the United States senate and will resist any tax that limits or lessens their estates. Tint it is wrong for us to envy the rich. In the economy of life and the ursuits of happiness it seems necessary to have rich men. They built] ships, railroads, canals, telegraphs ami telephones, cotton and woolen mills, reapers, mowers, fl >ur mills and a thousand other plants that furnish us with food and clothing and add to the comfort of mankind. The world would make slow progress without them, but when they begin to unload their vast profits mankind will criticize the manner of it. Generally they unload it on their children, who never earned a dollar of it. Some of them would carry it all to heaven with them if they could. Many of them give a part of it to some church or charity as a kind of passport to heaven. An old friend of mine who was pretty hard up burrowed $r? from me one morning to pay one of those darn little just debts as he called them, lie said his creditor was annoying liim. but before ho left my oflice a committee from tha country catled and asked us to help to build a country church. 1 gave them a dollar, but my friend subscribed $~> and handed over the bill that 1 had loaned him. After they had left I asked him why he gave me much and he im. ih-ii, i iiiwujs givv: vuai r.usu to help build a church. 1 do not belong to any, for 1 have not vet felt Rood enough to join, but 1 have lived in live counties nnd practiced my profession in fourteen and 1 have helped to build country churches in all of them. It may be that death will catch mo unawares before 1 do Join the church and St. Peter will refuse me admission into the heavenly gate. Hut I will have one credential, for I can say: 'St. Peter, 1 know I have not been a good man and am not fit to mingle with the saints, but 1 have got a little stock in every country church from Rabun's (lap to Tallapoosa?and maybe he will let me in?may -be so. Major, could you lend mo another $5 without inconvenience?" Of course I did, for he was one friend whom I never refused. He did join the church and I believe he is in lienven now. Charity Is the greatest and most blessed of all virtues. As the poet says: "It is twice blessed. It blessath him that gives and him that doth receive." Put when a man with $100(JOO income gives away of it t > ease his conscience and secure a pass- ' port to heaven he makes a mistake. It yill do neither. A man's standing in the community is determined more by his charity than anything elsa. How much does he give to the church and how much to the poor is discussed by his neighbors and he is rated a - j cordlngly. Not long ago I pave a problem to I the young people. If a man sells a , j sow and pigs for $ls and gets as much : for one-tenth of the bow as h did J for nine-tenths of a pig how many | pigs did she have? I have receivi >1 i Beores of answers?most of them making it nine pigs and some ten pigsone smart girl makes it seventy-two | pigs and one smarter man proves that I the sow had 1,791 pigs. Strange to I say every answer is correct Nine pigs gives J9 for the sow and $1 ea h ! for the pigs; Seventy-two pigs gives |2 for the sow and 11 22 9 cents for a pig and it would take seventy-two pigs to make the $16. Nine cents for the sow would give 1 cent for each pig, and therefore require 1,791 pigs to up the $ IK. It is a see-saw sum. As the price of the sow goes down the number of pigs goes up and any nam- | her is correct. Now let mc ask the school boys and girls to hold up a little on compositions and speeehe*. Please excuse me for 1 have not the time. It would take every hour in the day to comply with c.ll their requests.?Ilill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. A SLAVE OF TOBACCO. l-ove of tlte Weid One of tlio Weak- i nes.c* of the lireut Curlyle. As is well known, Thomas Carl.vlc, 1 the great Scottish essayist and historian. was a slave to tobacco. In his home, his <*udy or out of doors, he was seldom Been without his pipe, and ho smoked the strongest tobacco he couid procure. During the last part of bin life he was a sufferer from insomnia, and his friend. Sir Charles (laven Duffy, oncp suggested to him that ono who suffered so much from sleeplessness and indigestion ought not to smok- fo constantly. CNrlyle replied that hi^ had once given up smoking for an utile year at the instance of a doctor. who assured him that his only aill.ient v ts too much tobacco. At the end c;f the year ho was walking one evening In tiie country so wearv thnt lie v..:s hardly able to crawl front tre to trap, win a lie suddenly detcrmin* -1 that whatever was amirs with liltn "that fellow at 1? ast did not understand it." and he returned to tobacco' and smoked afterward without let or hindrance. In his latter days he used a (lap pipe made in Pultlin and known as the "Hepral." He was unable to rem w the supply and Sir Charles Huffy assured him that these pipes were strictly reserved for believers in Irish nationality and promised him a supply if lie qualified in the ordinary manner. Carlyle never qualified. ivioft or us wofflfl rather profit by tho I mistakes of others. I MIL HIT MILL, S. C? WED IfSiTMu Irregularities in the Commissary Department Unearthed. ncriPCDC AMn nTucD? ADDrcrcr\ vi i iuliio nnu vi n cno nnnto i i_v Government Gnnl? rouml in tlti? Co??r>?ii?n oT 1'ernni Not Entitled to Theui-Army Ofilcei'8, Civilian Clerk*. ?t rroiutnent Contractor ami Other Perton* In vol ve it ? Ne \r Disrnveries Dally. Manila? Imercsi In the capture ai^K fate of Agttinaldo is well-nigh overshadowed l>y sensational developments. present and prospective, of frauds in tlie Commissary Pepartment. How widely tlie.se extend lias not yet been asoeriainod. but enough is already known to justify the belief that they are far-reach ins. Captain I'rederick .1. Harrows, of the Thirtieth Volunteer Infantry. Quartermaster of the Department of Southern Luzon, together with seven Commissary Serseants. several civilian clerks, a prontineni Covernnieiit contractor, the assistant manager of the Hotel Oriente, the proprietors of three of the largest bakeries in Manila, a number of storekeepers anil other persons have been arrested. The investigation lias scarcely begun. lint thousands of sacks of tiour, a cpiantity of bacon, and wagouloails of other goods, all bearing fJovernment marks, liave been found in the possession of unauthorized persons. It is alleged that the contractor in question, who lias been doing a business approximating $100,000 tier month, has spent huge sums in entertaining otlicers. It is asserted that large quantities of stores have been lost or stolen in transit. and also that there is a shortage in the commissary depot. New scandals are devcloneil dailv lllirit transactions have been traced back to June. 11100, and it is possible that there are others of earlier date. The exorbitant tariff on provisions makes the surreptitious sale of commissary supplies immensely profitable. It is understood that other United States oflleers may be arrested. lieutenant Philip K. Sweet, of the Forty- j sixth Volunteer Infantry, is prosecuting the investigation, under the direc tion of Colonel Wilder. Chief of Police. I PROMOTION FOlt FUNSTON. Ipimintfil a Ttrl~:idirr in the Regular | Armv?Whnitnii Al*<> Honored. Wasliington. T>. C.?The following important army appointments were announced at the White House: To he Major-tleuoral United Stales Army. Rritrudier-flenernl IJoyd Wiiea ton. vice Miles, promoted Lieutenant< Iciteral. To he "BrigadierGenerals in the United States Army. Brigadier-Gen- j oral Frederick Funston. United States Volunteers, viee Wheaton. proniotetl; Colonel Jaeob 11. Smith. Seventeenth United Stales Infantry. Urigadler11 en era 1 Volunteers, vice Daggett, retired. JV4_, Agitinaldn Treated I.Ike a Client. Manila.?Aguinnhlo continues to oxpress himself as pleased with and impressed by the eourteous treatment nocorded him by General MacArthur. "I am a prisoner." said he, "but I am treated like a guest." FELL OVER A PRECIPICE. flothei* Meet* it shocking Dentil. While 1 Daughter is Ituiily Injured. Poughkoopsie. X. Y.?A few days tgo Mrs. Daniel Patterson, wife of a ueehanie; her twelve-year-old daughter. and Nellie Phase, aged fourteen rears, all living in ('old Spring, went jut for a walk. They stopped on Table Koek, half way up Breakneck Mountain. to wateh the forest tires [turning on Crow Nest Mountain across I lie river. Suddenly the Patterson child slipped ; and fell over the cliff. The mother ( sprang forward to save the child, and i aDo fell over the reek. Dotli screaming in turn as they fell. Nellie Chase tie- ' eame greatly evited as she saw her ' friends go over, and she. ioo, fell after tliPut. - --- v.--** - Table Ilo.k is litk> feet above tidewater. and the side of tjie mountain under it is very steep. A man named McCarthy hoard screams and ran up the hill. He found Nellie Chase in the branches of a large tree, where sbe had fallen. She was uninjured. The Patterson girl was found a few feet further down, with a broken arm and a < lit and 1 mis -d hotly. Mrs. Path rsoh was found further down the mountain dead. She had fallen at least 1(1(1 feet, and was <la--hed to death on the rocky side of the hill. She was ?'<oui fortyMho years old. Her husband i- n. -loved in the Cornwall Foundry ut Cold Spring. CAM P.IJM 125 M LES A!J K0U3. .Sitccc?ftfti1 1 A|iiMiiiifiil?i With I'AccI. it* 1 tint iit (lerinanv Washington. 1 >. (' i:\l l'ii'iir111 S with fast electric trains between Berlin and Hamburg. tiermnny. have demonstrated that a speed of ai least i 1'J." miles an hour can lie attained witliotii dltliculty. Consnl (b'ncial fluent her. in Frankfort, in a report to the State Department 011 this sub- | Jeet, sa.v< that the high rate of speed lias placed surface crossings out of , the question. Tlie outcome of the experiments is to bo a line of miles in length. ' from a point adjoining the city of Berlin to a station just outside of Hamburg, its estimated cost la ?33,- ! 000,000. _ ? 1 I A- V L T NESDAY, APRIL 3, H>< THE NEWS EPITOMIZED WARHIXflTON ITEMS. Republican National Headquarters at Washington were closed. Charles Monun. thirty two years old. of the Patent <) I lice, committed snieide by shooting himself in the head. Siekness had unbalanced his mind. The canturc of Acjninahlo pave pre at satisfaction to President McKinley and members of the*Cabinet, who consider it the final blow to organized insurrection in tIn* Philippines. Secretary ltoot and Adjutant Conor at t'orbin expect to visit the Philippines in the snmmpr for the purpose oL personally studying the military Puliation. The <liivprnmonl, through Secretary Tiny. declined i<> protest against the seizure of Manchuria l?y Russia. TIip rpply <>f I he l'.ritislt Hovcrmnent declining to noeenl tlip ntm-mlcd 11 si yPauncefote treaty was made public. AjUorney-i icneral (irigps tendered Ills resb.intion to I'rpsiilptit M< Kinley. ami nnnotiuppil liis plans for resuming tin* planticp of law. oril AIIOI'TK!) ISLANDS. More emigrants sailed from Porto Rico for Hawaii. 40o for Cuba. ami 2h(m> am under contra* t to go to Ecuador. Five members of tln> M.nndo-Pucnt secret society in the Philippines wore sentenced to death. The Philippines Commission sailed front Hollo for Sulti to confer with the SuTfan. fJeneral Miles thinks the Cubans will nir'ee to the proposals of Conpress and the Administration at Washington. The work of raislnp the wreck of the vfaltte in Havana harbor was hepun. fwovernnr Allen expects to leave Porto Itleo in a fortuiplit for Washington to confer with President MoKinley. DOMESTIC. Near Sir Mile. W. Ta.. Cliarles Cors shot and killed a seven year-old son of John Tlognn because some one stoned his horse. Till* flnw ill llir* cnrtAii.1 ... . im .-v ? wimi m tlx- I'.enumont (Texas! <>11 well is 20,000 barrels. Four mon wore arrested at Thornvillo. Ohio. suspeetod of burglarizing the Somerset Rank. A million dollar mansoloum as an Abraham lam >!n mmnorial is projeeto<l for Springfield. Ill.x Now trials won* ordered in tho oases of two of tin* iniMi convicted ami sontonooil to lifo imprisonment in eonneotioii with the Cocbel murder in Kentncky. Corporal I Tarry K. Yeakley. Fortyfliirtl Rettery of Coast Artillery, who hail been a phv-Uian at Winchester, Va.. I'onitniitoil suicide at New l.ondon. (Vnn.. by drinking wood alcohol. I Although no <lat<> has yet been set j for tin1 launching of tin* battleship Maine, now in process of construction nt the t'rainp Shit) Yards, in Philadelphia. it will take place in a few weeks. Members of the Woman's Sabbath Alliance, at New York City, inveighed against compulsory Sabbath desecration at colleges. It was said that the Rogers Locomotive Works, at I'atersou. N. were sold to a syndicate headed by August Relmuut. The Minnesota State Senate defeated an Anti-Cigarette bill, ami there Were rumors of a hoodie fund supplied by cigarette manufacturers. The village of Sing Sing, N. Y.. gave tip its name for that of Otsining. an Indian Chief of the seventeenth cen- , lury. John Keith, aged ninety nine years. M Cpper Sandusky. Ohio, choked ( tvh'le eating and died two hours later. | Fire, started by a stroke of light- i ning. destroyed St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral, at (Irand Rapids, Mich. Loss, $.10,000; insurance, $20,- \ 300. i i in* new torpedo beat Tingloy was ! launched at the Columbia Iron Works, 1 at Baltmorc, Md. 1 A satlslii (1 mortgage for $100,000 was burned in St. Andrew's .Methodist Episcopal Church at New York city. Several T'nion I'aeilie trams were stalled by snowdrifts in Nebraska, , win re - hlir.r.ard was tacrine. A one-legged man robbed Joseph r Schultz. at Chicago, and fifteen crip ] pl? s were arrested, but Schultx could | not identify his man. I Minnesota was reapportioned info t nine Congressional districts. Tito city Hall at Itutland. Vt.. was 1 destroyed by lire. All the records were ' save I. The loss is SfiO.OfMt. By a compromise decree the celebrated iliomp-on will case, involving S1.XU0.000. was settled ;t( Brattleboro, < Vt.. the heirs receiving $*J00,(M)() and tlie rest goin^ to form ti trust fund for charity. " I FOR1SIGN. Russian stud< tils sent "sent? noes of i death" to the War an 1 Interior Minis- ' tecs at St. I'? Tsl in . > Mine, d Callil'et. wife of the former 1'rei: h Mini ier of War, died at Paris. } Mrs. William Cowan, aired sixty ' eight. was found murdered in her ( home at (!alt. Out., rohhery was the motive. ( ITeneh troops killed I'odi Kaldms, tlie old slave trader; killed or wound- i ed loll of h: follower*, and took til iy ; pi isoie rs oil the west coast of Africa. , i nr? ? i.imcarian revolutionists were com I. iiuiod to <te.ith at Salomon. Lord Laiisdnwne, the Hritish For- ( eign Secretary, stated in the House of ( Lords that hotli (2rent Britain and tierniany had warned Ciutia against making separate agreements with other j Powers involving territorial conditions. IMES 01. WILL BE HO COAL STBIKE" Statement to Miners Issued by the General Committee. WAGE SCALE WILL BECONTINUED riio Committor Roj.'.rtoil That It lln.t AsHur:tiir?%* of l-*iittirc Kcrot^nIt ion ??f !!?? t nion if lVtfv Sli*iUt?* ami |ti<. tm liam rs r?* niMcouliiuitM! ?Motliod of iiiR (Srit vavicrs l'r.ivl?l?*tV. Wilkes Carre. I'ciiii. The threatened strike or 1 I".'MM) uiittois in t lu* hard coal region v.-ill not take pince. At :i mooting o<" tin* executive Committee of tho 1 idled Mino Workers of tho throe anthracite districts. held in tliis city. 1t wis decided that the men should oontinuo at work. This Committee was given arbitrary powi'i' liy tho guttural convention of miners, hold at llazlcton in the fort? part of the nionih. to declare a strike if the circumstances warranted it. In the opinion of the Commit tee. in a lengthy address, which was prepared by Mr. Mitchell hints If. the circumstances did not warrant a strike at this time. Some members of tlie Committee, so It is said, were in favor of pursuing a radical course on the ground that if the operators did not recognize the miners' union now the opportunity would In* losl forever. 1'resident Mitchell, however, soon convinced tho Committee that a conservative course was tin* only one to pursue at this time. The statement issued by the Committee is. in part, as follows: "A conference was secured with representatives of the coal carrying railroads. at which your Committee presented the claims of the mine workers. The representatives of the operators listened attentively to the presentation of our arguments, and while they would not agree to meet in general joint conference with the miners this Viet P 1 lo>?? .11.1 4,1 4 1 ...... ..... .no iiui.f 111 :t i me notices which were posted continuing the advance in wages until At?ri 1 1. T.kiJ. nml agreeing to take up ami adjust with their mine employes any grievances they migltt have should he interpreted ami construed to,mean that such grievances should he considered and adjusted with representatives or committees of the Mine Workers: and they hold out the hope that if during the present year the mine workers demonstrated their willingness and ability to abstain from encaging in local strikes full and complete recognition of tlie organization would umptestiotiahly lie aeeorded at n future date. ' In consideration of vast interests involved and in view of the fact that tit least partial recognition of our or- : gani/.ation lias heen secured, and with tic hopes that a greater degree of justice will he obtained in the not distant future, your Committee would respectfully recommend that work he continued. and that committees tie selected at each mine, colliery, stripping and washery and instructed to wait upon the mine superintendents or other persons in authority and in a respectful, conservative, fearless and aide manner present any grievances, either as to prices or conditions of employment. I hat the mine workers may have, and ' ask that such grievances he adjusted." ; S 1.000.000 FIRE IN RICHMOND. S c aVi'son Hotel lliiriicii ? fluent* ! " sou perl Willi Ultltriilt.v. Iliehmoiul. Va. The Jefferson Hotel, < at' this city, which was erected by the lull. I I.w is I lint,... >. i ' ' ... .. ......... . ,1 . . >.-.| III I Ml IHI I ins; ami Itirnishim; of about Sl.OUUJXHt, was destroyed I?y li.o. ' The llanu s w. iv discovered in tiio ui?I??-r part of tin* main street side shortly before inidiiitrht. and in a 1 short time that part of the lutddini; was a roarinn furnace. Although tin* lionr was late when the tiro broke out, :n immense crowd was attracted. The yui'Hls who were driven out of lie Main street portion and those In he Franklin street part took retime it tiie lobbies of the latter, and there he scenes of distress and excitement ^ red description. The tnau'uilieeiit structure covered tall" a I dock in the ultra fasliionalde lart of the city, was loiiii of buff hrick. and granite foundation, and was regarded as semi lire proof. There were in the note! many fine works of art, itu-ln?Ii11ir. in the Frankin street court, Valentine's niarablc statue of Jefferson. DENMARK'S OFFER TO US. "oilititIoiih rioter Which Slic Will Sell W est Initio I -.liiioW. I.omlon. The < 'opeiihngcii correpomlcnt of tin- 1 laily News says he lll?! tin- lievl mil to.fin- r..i. ?... iv iil dint i ii* iiovi*r11HH*iit litis romiitiniotcil tn tin* I iiiiivl Stales 11 o > llnwiii- (Kiniiiicii- under wiiidi ic \ ill *11 11. I 'ill! i Ii \V< 1 I miles J li s!, till. sunt I.I s l.uniMMM) s 11*111 tie aid Io l>< mm rk; - * ,?:nI. the pojnilaion : I j111 ileeiili* wliftlier they Will I* n. .ii Danish nr i trniisferred to 111 * nit< ! St.'iti s; ihii it. it tin* inlialii' Mi's >te i In* ir;iiis|'ern il I liny shall inlinelintely I m '<*1 ?i lie not only Atnerii an lil.jeets. hut citizens, and fourth, that he proline! Of tile island- :: I: :;11 be ill ill it t <*, | into tin* Initial States free >f duty. :*l.|o?t?.n Killed tin* < lilff'H I mlv \Vi\c III eoiltieetiou Willi the defeat of tile lative ehief, Kodey Kttlihn, by a 'reneh expedition til .Matulina, West \frieti. it is iititiotitieoil that tin explo don of the eliiof's powder magazine tilled his forty wives. n !>. NO. 3. DIED A HERO'S DEATH Lieutenant-Commander Roper Suftjcaied on the Petrel. MANY OF THE CREW PROSTRATED A Trujoily in CuvitCommuiiiioi Hojier Lo?t lltH :,ir~ hi :in iH'iii'l to si IVri*liin? failor in Hip ltiii'i<iiig Silil foil in o." t"n* ( unlmsit I'rlift ?Navy lio.iarii i >:ii'* TriimtP. l\ I.?Kiiv ilisi'oviTfil a? the sailroom of the United States nlmat Petrel. I.mm -.tenant Commar icr .lesse Minis Itoper < .>niniatidiiig 1'iif sail room is a small compartment adjoining tlit nr.gay.iite. Tin1 heat was intense. |lie* sm?i<i' sulYccnting am! tlie Unities dillicitlt to cNiinguish. Lieutenant Command r Uopcr was the tiist to deseeud into the liohl. rut he was lor. Ml to return to the d< < titulars then weni ilowti. Seaman Patrick 'l'oner was prostrated apd a! out to perish, when l.i. meiiani t'oniitiauilcr Koper etnleavoted in rescue hitir and was stift'ocated in the attempt Lieutenant .losiah MeKean and Cadet Lewis suffered severely iu bringing the hody id" Lieutenant Commander Itoper to the (leek. Twenty-two of the crew were prostrated. Toner, Kvnns. Flaherty. I.arsen. Ivessler. Cahey. Utirion. Smith. Sullivan atul Forsboon seriously, liul all will recover. The contents of the saih'oom tvite destroyed, hut the damage to the gimhoat was slight. The origin of th?? lire had not been ascertained: possibly it was a case of spontaneous eotubustiou. . . , '-?v- * ' jM*'* i y Washington. P. C. ? The Navy I>epnrtiueiit received the following ?lis patch from Hear Admiral Uemey. r.nuniitnder-in-Chief of the Asiatic Station: "Fire discovered snilroom Petrel, seven litis morning. Itoper commanding. After going below once. went, again against advice. Attempted to rt'c/ivid* i??i??i Itolo"- II-. - . . .... I. in* ^Ull IIK'H 11*11 P <iif.l :u V. I~t. Twenty-two other <>flleors and men cut in ly prosl rated. All' roenverini;. 'Ire out. 1 hint a ire immaterial. Send iioper's remains 1 >> I'.uffalo. "REM l-'.Y '* Tho department at nnoo sent a telegratn to II. K. Kay. (lit' lnotl.t r in law of rJeutouaut-Pnmmaudor Itopor. at I.onv:\vooil, Mass.. imkir tliat In* inform Mrs liopi r of tlimn-ws. *1 1m- following expression of $.. itip:>i liy arid approeint ion Is also made. "With this sail now ; the depantmift sends to Mrs. Kopi-r deep sympatIn n tlu? groat loss she has sttsta noil arul tlto highest appt'ooiation of tli Kalian-* ; y ami self saerithe with \\ deh '.i. utouant Commander Kopor gave his lifo for his fellow-men. It \v:ts a hoVo's death." Tho deceased oflicer was' horn* ia Missouri, ami entered tho naval service Juno lsits ]li> was ooniiiiis- sinned to tho rank hold hy him at tin* linio of his death oil Maroli 1 Silt), and ordered to command tho Petrol Novemhor h~?. IS'J'J. .. n' Tho I'etrel was otto of tho vessels under Admiral Ih weyjtt the.hat tic of Manila Hay. when site was in ? Tiargt* of l.ietiteiiant- Pontmander 10. P. Wood. Tho latter odioor on mo homo shortly iftor, and Lieutenant-('oniniamlor Itopor sneooodod him. Tho Hnffalo. on whioh tho hody will ho sent home, is now used for Jlu? trnnsportation of troops, and is nhntit 0 reittrn to the I'nited S'ates hy way d* the Mediterranean. DEATH OF THE RF.V. JOHN JASPER. ritr \rjrn PrMilifr Who Ailvoratcil lt?? Theory Tlint tlir "Sun Ho ItfoTc." Richmond, Yn.?Tho Rev. John Jasper, tho famous eolored advocate of 1 ho "sun do move" theory, died at lots homo hero aged eighty-nine. lie had | Sixth Mount /ion Church, anil was hohl in high esteem l>.v the people <>t (lis race. He once ma le a tout of the North, delivering his "sun do mote"" k'Ciure or sermon. ..... WOMAN STOPS A LYNCHING ' vivct the Man Wlin hilled Iter tlnxi .iini I'rniii the Fury <>f a Molt, Coluiuhia, S. (. Mrs. Walter \V. Alirams save I'reston Hilliam fruit* being lyn< he?l for the murder ?.f Iter .voting husband. Ahrains ivprinutmleti his farm hand for < <.min^r late to work and :is he inrned his hack Hilliatu er.lshi d l< skllll Willi I' rot It. lie" murderer tied and was captured hv le-i cii i oi i ; i?!;1 ai or. who w re t: ?111*_r to lyii'-h him when Mrs. ,\l>ram.appeared and hogged h r husband's l i ieiitls to let the law take .its eottrsc. I.ulioi World. A stit re loan company in AsliI . - I I I'.ii.ln; II e ' .ial* : i.I : " i \\ - m law i>r hilniu. ' iiiii:.. n<<ii j^t numbers of labor ' b: ^ I i ii <h iaroil un<oieaiUiI'::c adiiicr vrocor.S ? f f*aiii"!"n. fi. ' . >> al. il :. 11 enrl\ di.s nii : i ' 1'iut iit, witli favorable pyo peels of <?? < ( >??. \ :lemon lias be u rendu <1 w 11ft i le i .strikers ai tlit* . Ijieb 'th (Mass Woiks. at Marion, In*!., ami business ..as boon resuinci!. Tlie pepiilntir.ii of Loinleii lias ir?" or? nsoil from O.'S.TSS in l.sol to 1,<KK),OUU iu l',KJl. / m.