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The prison population of India,
large as it is, is only thirty-eight per
100,000 inhabitants, or less than half
Hiq, population that prevails in Great
>o>: JBritain.
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A new invention is Jadoo fiber. It
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Is a material in which every sort of
/ plant will root freely without earth.
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plant or tree can be propagated much
jnore quickly in Jadoo than in earth.
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"The New York World says the high
prices of rent and living rooms in de- i
cent sections of New York are the
. greatest detriments to matrimony, as
~ *?no man with small earnings?say
^1200 or $1500 a ear?can rent a flat |
and support a wife in decent style on
Vs * Manhattan Island."
Many of the patriotic Greeks who
went to Greece from this and other
countries to fight against the Turks
v . are in a pitiable condition. Not only
K is the Government unable to make any
1 ? use of their services, but in the pres-ant
disturbed condition of the country
they can get nothing to do, and they
-are in actual want.
|k' The Cray lord (Kan.) Herald records
V. 'that the experiment tried there a year
j - ago of electing women to fill all the
, -city offices has proved a complete sue
, cess, the city business being conductW'
them in a careful, economical
.and efficient manner. It says that the
eme officers would have been continned
for another year had they con'
eented to serve.
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K-.-' > That is a sarcastic touch, indeed,
"tike cart comment of a daily paper
' -which explains the abandonment of the
Armenians by saying that they were
racarifloed because they were "outside
the sphere of Mediterranean influence,
and bat a trifling factor in the ootton
trade." Yet it is to be feared, remarks i
the New York Observer, that English
commercial investments have too
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greitly of late influenced British dif
ploinacy. We might almost say, if the
play upon .words could be pardoned,
I that English bonds have, indeed, become
England's bonds.
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Excessive noise is a form of violence
which injures the hearing, the nervoos
> -system and the brain. We do not per&
, y.m& one man to beat another with a
stick,- to throw injurious substances
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Pinxo JUS eyes, ?J pomm or Uluvf j
wife to maltreat him, bat hitherto
fevwry man has had foil liberty ^to asaauft
his fellow creatures through the
j^edntm of their ears and thereby to
do them grievous bodily harm. Bat a
public movement against unnecessary
noises in New York City has began.
An ordinance against one most baneful
noise has been discovered and a
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pestiferous noisemaker heavily fined.
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The size of the commercial armies
fcy thit invade New York City every day
for a lew hours' campaigning may be
' judged from the fact that it is claimed
that twenty-three thousand persons,
equivalent to two good-sized army
-coips, entered a certain big business
building on a single day this last April,
by actual count Over ten years ago
it was estimated that the population of
New York was five hundred thousand
- greater at midday than at midnight.
\ Now, the difference between the popu*
lation in and out of business hours
noay be much greater. These facts are
1 ' wuggeetive as to the number and complexity
of the new problems both j
urban and suburban that have come j
with the years. These daily migra- j
tions to and fro inevitably affect char'
meters and manners as well as bank 1
accounts.
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Says Harper's Weekly: Chicago,
which never lacks something to brag
of, will presently have a considerable
basis for self-congratulation in the
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magmnceni Dotuevaru aiuug iue suure
-of Lake Michigan, which is to connect
it with Milwaukee. This beautiful
road will be eighty uiiles long, and
promises to be the most notable stretch
of roadway along a waterfront in the
oouutrT. Eighty miles is over-long
N for a drive, but it is just a comfortable
morning stretch for a contemporary
.bicyclist. New York's beautiful Riverside
Drive, even when the new viaducts
have lifted it over Ninety-sixth
street, carried it over the wide gully
from 128th to 134th street, and extended
it to 156th street, will still
seem microscopic compared with this
Chicago road, though it will be long
enough for most practical purposes,
And almost unmatched in beauty.
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The Steamer Aden Lost in the In-j
dian Ocean.
^N AWFUL STORY OF DEATH.
Struck on a Reef In a Riff Storm?Only
One Lifeboat Got Away?For Seventeen
Day* Immense Wave# Droke Over
the Wreck, Washing Men, Women and
Children Into the Sea ?The Rescue.
Loxdos, England (By Cable).?Despatches
from Aden. Arabia, say that the
Indian- Government's steamer Mayo, sant
out in search of the missing steamer Aden,
from Yokohama, via Colombo and Aden
!or London, has returned there, and re
norrs war tne Auen was ioiauy lust uu mo
island o! Socotra, at the eastern extremity
of Africa, daring the morning of June 9.
The Aden carried thirty-four passengers
torn China and Japan.
The captain of the wrecked steamer, some
of her officers and crew and seven white
passengers were swept overboard and
irowned very soon after she ran ashore.
Sight women passengers, nine ehildren, two
pfficers and a few of the Aden's crew succeeded
in getting away from the wreck in a
post, but they have not been heard from
ince. and little hope is entertained of their
afety.
The Mavo saved nine of the Aden's ba?
sengers, three of the white members of the
rew and thirty-three of the natives who
owned part of the steamer's crew. Ail
hese persons were rescued just as the Aden
cas breaking up. The survivors of the
vrecked steamer were brought to Aden. In
ill, the drowned and missing Include tweny-flve
passengers, twenty European officers
and thirty-three natives of the Aden's
rew.
Two days after leaving Colombo the Aden
vas struck by a severe monsoon, with
quails, violent and incessant. Day by day
he weather grew thicker and the passen
?ers became more and more alarmed. At
I o'clock in the morning on June 9 the ves?el
struck upon the Rasradresa reef, on the
?astern coast of the Island of Socotra,
.vhich is situated in the Indian Ocean. 120
niles east of Cape Guardafui. the eastern
extremity of Africa. The engine room was
nstantly flooded, and utter darkness enmed.
It was soon seen that the steamer could
aot survive the shock, and that the only
chance for safety lay in the boats. Life
belt? were distributed, distress signals
given, and the boats on the lee side prepared
for launching. Those on the weather
dde had already been washed away.
A lifeboat was lowered, only to be swept
away immediately with three' Lascars and
the first officer, Mr. Carden. The gig was
despatched to the rescue with Mr.* Miller,
:he second officer, but both boats were
-apldly swept away. The only remaining
boat was then lowered amid a scene of Incense
emotion. A cry of anguish broke
from the lips of the men when this halt oapiined,
throwing the sailors and the stores
'nto the sea.
After great efforts the boat was righted
and the women and children were lowered
nto it, with the exception of Mmcs. Gillett,
; Pearce and Strain, who heroically decided
{ :o share the fate of their husbands, and
Misses Lloyd and Weller, who remained on
i ooard. The boat, manned by a European
crew, left in a tremendous sea, and drifted
rapidly oat of sight.
Vast wares still swept the deck. washing
the people about and leaving them prostrate
on the deck. One by one. men women
and children, grown too weak to withstand
the repeated buffeting*, were washed
overboard and out of sight.
Among those first engulfed were Mr.
! and Mrs. Strain and their two children
and Mrs. Lloyd and Weller, tne missionaries;
Mrs. Pearce's baby, with its Chinese,
nurse, and then Captain Hill, whose leg
was broken, but who had borne himself
calmly and bravely. All day the victims
were picked off ono by one until five
o'clock In the afternoon, when those who
still survived, many of them badly hurt,
retreated below.
The storm abated slightly on the morning
of the 10th, and those who were able to
move began to search for food, hunger until
then having failed to assert Itself over
more acute privations. The search resulti
ed In their getting very little food, and
| this was shared out equally and in very
small portions.
All tne time the desperate men kept a
sharp lookout, but no vessel was sighted
until the 13th, and even then the distress
signals were not seen. On the 17th and
Sain on the 20th other vessels were sight,
but the signals were not seen or were
I Ignored.
When things were at their worst, two
steamers were sighted. One proceeded
I without paying any attention to the dis|
tress signal. The other anchored under the
I lee of the Island. Assoonassbewassigntea ;
a Lascar mounted the rigging and signalled |
her. In reply candles burned at her port- j
holes, and at daybreak on the 26th a bus- 1
pense of seventeen days was relieved by tha
spectacle of the steamer rounding the point
and heading toward the wreck. She dropped
anchor about a mile away.
With heartfelt joy, mingled with tears of
the men and hysterical sobbing of the women,
they saw the life boat lowered. It
took her three-quarters of an hour to reach
the wreck. Every one rushed to the broken
side of the ship. It was the llfo boat of the
Indian Government steamer Mayo, which
rescued all of the survivors in two trips.
St. Lou la Breaks a Record.
The American lino steamer Bt. Louis,
Captain Handle, New York for Southampton,
has just broken the New Yoru-Southampton
record, 6 days, 10 hours and 55
minutes, which has been held by the Feurst
Bismarck since September, 1S93. To equal
the time of her fastest previous eastward
| passage, 6 days, 11 hours and 30 minutes,
I Q* T nnla TV a a /]na tf\ HrHvfl off tilR
Needles, two miles west o! Hurst Castle, at
4.27 o'clock Tuesday morning. She therefore
has lowered the eastward record by
more than an hour and a half.
Bannock Indians Uneasy.
Three hundred Bannock Indians hare
broken away from the Fort Hall Reservation,
In Idaho, and the authorities in Washington
have been asked to send help. Army
officers think the Indians ore gathering
roots, of which they are very fond.
Sherman's Prophecy.
Secretary John Sherman in an Interview
stated that the question of trusts Is the
most Important one before the Nation. He
declared that trusts must be curbed and
that the present law is not strong enough.
The Bimetallic Situation.
A report that England has consented to
reopen the India mints and increase the use
of silver at home at the solicitation of
France and the United States is made, but
it Is discredited in Washington. M. Hanotaux,
the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.
gave a luncheon in honor of the
United States Monetary Commissioners.
Minor Mention.
Kansas has passed an anti-butterine bill.
It is estimated that the wheat crop oi
Oklahoma this year will foot up to 15,000,OOObushels.
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JOHN RUSSELL YOUNC NAMED.
The Philadelphia .Journalist Appointed
Librarian of Congress.
The President sent to the Senate the
nomination of John Russell Young, of
Pennsylvania. to be Librarian of Congress.
John Russell Young, the first chief executive
of the magnificent new Congressional
Library, soon to be opened to the public,
was bora in P.owlngton, Penn., in 1841, and
was educated in the public schools. He
JOHN RCSSELI. VOCNO.
began work a? a reporter on the Philadelphia
Press, and at the beginning of the
Civil War joined the Army of the Potomac
as a war correspondent. Subsequently he
started a newspaper in Philadelphia and
another one in New York City. He studied
law and was admitted to the bar. In 1877
he accompanied General Grant on his tour
around the world. Mr. Young was appointed
Minister to China in 1882, and filled
that position until the accession of President
Cleveland. The Senate immediately
confirmed the nomination of Mr. Young.
OHIO DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Reaffirms the Financial Planks of the Chicago
Platform.
In the Ohio Democrat!*? State Convention,
held at Columbus, Horace L. Chapman
was nominated by the Democrats and
Silverltes for Governor. Chapman won on
the second ballot. The convention was
largely attended. It was in some respects
a mass meeting of free silver fusionists, and
the white metai and Bryan were the keynote
of every utterance.
Tho rhntlnn rwaa poIIp.^ fn npilpp ViV
W. W. Durbin, Chairman of the Central j
Committee. He made a speech for silver I
and Ulric Sloane was introduced as the
Temporary Chairman. He also spoke for |
free silver.
The platform reiterating the Bryan principles
adopted at Chicago was reported by
General A. J. Warner and adopted. An
anti-trust resolution and one calling for the
recognition of Cuba was accepted also.
Names were presented for the nomination
for Governor as follows: Paul 8org,
Allen D. Smalley, Allen W. Thurman, D. D,
Donovin, R. T. Hough. Horace L. Chapman,
S. M. Hunter, I. M. Van Meter. A. W.
Patrick and James A. Rice. 8org withdrew
and Chapman was nominated on the second
ballot. The remainder of the ticket nominated
was as follows:
Supreme Judge, J. P. Spriggs; AttorneyGeneral,
W. H. Dord; State Treasurer,
James F. Wilson; Board of Public Works,
Peter H. Degnan.ond School Commssioner,
Byron H. Hurd. All are silver men.
ENDEAVORERS IN COLLISIONS.
Two Fatal Accidents to Their Excursion
Traini to San Francisco, Cal.
Section 4 of the Christian Endeavor
special on the Northwestern Railroad was
run into by section 5 at about 1 o'clock a.
m. at West Chicago, thirty miles from Chicago.
Three persons were killed and more
than twenty injured. The killed were:
Mrs. R. Shipman, of Fond du Lac, Wis.;
Mrs. John Gooding, of Fond du Lac, and a
tramp. The train was filled with excursionists
going to the Christian Endeavor Convention.
While the train was standing at
the tank, section 5 came up behind anl
struck the rear end of section 4 at full speed.
The passengers, few of whom had gone
to sleep, were crushed in the wreckage. In
the two coaches there were eighty persons.
Mrs. Shipman and Mrs. Gooding, the two
passengers who were killed, were in the
?econd sleeper. Mrs. Shipman's daughters
were found fast in the debris, but refused
to be taken out until their mother be
helped. The daughters were not seriously
hurt. Mrs. Gooding was crushed to death
between the partitions of her berth. Charles
Courtney, the engineer of section 5, was
fatally injured.
A Christian Endeavor excursion train on
theYaudalia road collided with Train No.
5 west of Terre Haute. Ind. R. T. Sherman,
a mail clerk, of Indiauapolis. and W. P.
Conn, baggage master, also of Indianapolis,
were killed, and Samuel ParkiusoD. mail
clerk, of CoV^bus, and Frank Owens, fireman,
of Terre Haute, were injured fatally.
No passengers were injured.
CORNELL FRESHMEN VICTORIOUS.
Win the Boat Rare After a Terrillc
Straggle.
The freshman boat race over the two
mile course at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., between
the Columbia, Pennsylvania and
Cornell crews, was one of the most remarkable
in the annals of boat racing in this
country. Cornell won by three-quarters of
a length. Columbia was second by onethird
of a length over Pennsylvania. The
official time was Cornell 9 minutes 21 1-5
seconds. Columbia 9 minutes 22 3-5 seconds,
and Pennsylvania 9 minutes 23 1-5 seconds.
It was anybody's race until the instant
the flag dropped, and the fact that but two
seconds divided the first and last crews, and
that the boats lapped one another nearly a
half is evidence of the character of the
struggle.
A WOMAN HEADS THEIR TICKET.
The State Convention of the Liberty Party
of Nebraska.
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Lincoln. Overtures on the part of the regular
Prehibitlonists were Ignored, and
Mrs. Sara A. Wilson, of Lincoln, was
nominated for the Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, and R. 0. Bentley, of Shelton,
for Regent of the State University.
The platform declares for the utte'- suppression
of the alcoholic drink traffic, for
equal suffrage and a system of full legaltender
paper money "distributed through
Government bonds on equal terms to all.
Ended Their Lives Together.
Mrs. Pauline Widmer, aged forty years,
and her daughter Pauline, aged twentynine,
were found dead at Owensboro. Ky? by
neighbors, who suspected something was
wrong when the family was not astir at the
usual hour. Both had died by drinking
carbolic acid. They had dressed and prepared
for death, The daughter left a note
saying that her mother was too good to her.
Breaking Up Meetings In Germany.
The Upper House of the Prussian Landtag
passed the first reading of the Government's
bill enabling the police to dissolve.
' any political meeting tn their discretion.
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Coollv Hold Up Eieht Persons in Belle
Fourche, South Dakota.
ESCAPE WITH ABOUT $10,000.
Fonr Men, Thought to Be Laughing Sam
Carey With a Xew Gang, Raid the
Biitte Connty Bank i?t Belle I'ourche
South Dakota, and All Bnt One Get
Away Into the Impansable Bad Land*.
Deadwood, South Dakota (3pecial).?
Four masked men made a desperate raid on
the Butte County Bank at Belle Fourehe
Monday afternoon. Entering the bank
with revolvers drawn they ordered the customers
present and the bunk officials to put
up their hands. A littie hesitancy on the
part of Cashier Marble drew a shot from
one of the robbers, which clipped off a
piece of the cashier's right ear and enforced
compliance with the command.
In the safe and on the counters there
were bills and coin amounting to about
S10.000. The robbers scooped it all into a
sack, backed out of the bank, and mounting
their horses, which had been conveniently
stationed near, rode away.
The alarm was given immediately and in
a few moments a well-mounted and armed
posse was in pursuit. Within a few miles
from town the posse came up with the fugitives
and a running fight ensued, which resulted
in one of the robbers surrendering.
The others, being better mounted, kept on,
but are closelv pursued and have very little
chance of escaping.
The man who was captured is a stranger
in the hills, and ft is believed that he was
used to locate the place and fix all the details.
The other men are believed to be the
remnants of the once famous band of
Laughing Sam Carey thpt flourished in the
Bla;k Hills until ten years ago, when they
held up the iron-hound treasure coach of
the Wells-F&rgo Company at Buffalo Gap
and were almost exterminated. They got
650,000 in gold at that time, and the*surviving
members got out of the country with
It.
Several men who saw the escaping robbers
declare that the leader was Carey.
None of the men carried rifles, but all were
armed with heavy revolvers. The men
made for the Bad Lands. They evidently
figure on standing off the posse or hiding
In some of the many recesses.
There were eight men in the bank at the
time the robbers entered, three of whom
had pistols in their pockets. Most of them
were men who have lived on the frontier a
long time, and knew that an effort to draw
a revolver would merely precipitate a flght
that might end in the killing of all those in
the bank.
The men worked at the Job as coolly as If
they were performing a legitimate transaction.
When they were overtaken by their
pursuers they had discarded their masks
and were counting the money. Thev quickly
got their revolvers into action, and shovred
by the way they used them they were cIdtimers
at the business. The "bank das
offered a reward of 65000 for the robbors,
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CREAT LOSS OF LIFE ABROAD.
A 'Crowded Train Swept Away by a Big
Flood in Gallcla.
The town of Kolomea, In Galicla, has
been flooded by the rising of the Elver
Pruth. Many houses have been destroyed,
and the bridge between Kolomea and
Tnrka has been swept away. The
collapse took place while a train was
crossing, and many were drowned. There
were five railway carriages, and they
fell In a great heap together. A terrible
itorm of hall, thunder and lightning was
raging at the time, and added to the horror
of the scene. Seren officials, including the ,
postal staff at Mi.tlvan, have been drowned.
The distress at Kolomea Is terrible. Hundreds
are homeless, their houses having
been carried away with the rush of the
waters. i
RELEASED BY LICHTNING.
A.WU VOUV1CIJI nuivu iu mm >1
and Some Others Escape.
A thunder stor e struck the Georgia State
convict camp at the Greer lumber yards, at
DaAota. The camp was demolished, and
two convicts were Instantly killed and ten
wounded, some of whom may die. In the
panic that ensued every one of the remaining
convicts made breaks for liberty. The
guards shot, but to no avail, and bloodhounds
were placed on their tracks, not,
bowevem until they were well in the lead.
A few orthem have been captured, andthe
hounds were close on the tracks of the
others. The storm did great damage.
WOULDN'T HAVE THE MUTTON.
Irish Women Prevent the Distribution
of the Australian Jubilee Gift.
The charitable societies of Limerick.
Ireland, began to distribute a hundred carcasses
of mutton, part of the Australian
jubilee gift to tbe poor of the United Kingdom.
A mob of wemen jeered the recipients,
snatchtMi the meat fron them, and
trampled it In the mu i. The other applicants
were afraid to receive the mutton,
and as a rosujt it was returned to the
stores. The action of t le mob was due to
their determination not to participate
themselves or to allow others to participate
in any form in the Queen's jubilee.
BIC WHEAT CROP IN TENNESSEE.
The Season Has Been Perfect and the
Output Will He Enormous.
The most remarkable wheat crop ever
known is now being harvested throughout
Eastern Tennessee, Tbe season has been a
perfect one, and the farmers had planted
an unnsuaily large crop. The output will
be enormous. Already' tnesaleof new wheat
has begun, and 5W) Dusneis 01 im> urst uu
earliest crop wis delivered at Knoxviile at
ninety cents. This Is not the price to be
paid for all wheat, us the opening quotations
are from sxxty-eight to seventy cents.
The price paid last y<ar at the opening was
from sixty to sixty-five cents.
She Killed Her Xnsulter.
"Dave" Smith was shot and instantly
killed by Mrs. E. N. Lengly, of Iron River,
Wis. Smith, aeoompanied by Charles
Olsen and another man, went to Mrs.
Lencley's residence and demanded admittance.
Fierce Combat in Crete.
About 1200 armed Mussulmans made a
sortie from Canen, Island of Crete, and fell
upon the insurgents at Eanlikastelli. Both
sides lost heavily. The trouble arose from
the encroachments of Mussulman refugees,
who attempted to pasture their cattle within
the limits of the neutral zone.
British Noble Lost in a Veldt. *
A despatch from Cape Town, South
Africa, say? that a searching party has
found the bv 'y of the son of Sir Herbert
Maxwell. M. . . for Wigtownshire, who lost
| his way in a -eldt in Rhodesia and died
from starvation.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Washington Items.
Senators Tillman and Chandler had a
] lively tilt in the Senate and greatly amused
i their colleagues.
President MoKinley nominated Church
Howe Consul General at Samoa and John
P. Bray at Melbourne, with other Consuls.
John K. Richards, of Ohio, was chosen for
Solicitor General.
The Senate adopted the rate of twenty
per cent, ad valorem on hides.
Speaker Reed announced that he intended
to appoint House committees at the present
session of Congress.
Domestic.
BECOBD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.
Per Per !
Clubs. Won. I/nt. ct.| Cluh?. Won. I/xr. ct.
Boston....40 14 .741 Brooklyn.26 23 .481 ]
Baltimore.36 17 .679|Phlladel..27 30 .474 1
Oinclnnati33 17 .660 VTshing'n 22 31 .415 1
New York33 20 .623 Louisville 21 32 .396;
Cleveland 27 27 . 500 Chicago. .2 ) 35 .361
Pittsburg.26 27 .431 St Louis.il 44 .200
AlvanS. Dillaway, son of President C. O. I
L. Dillaway of the Mechanics' National J
Bank, committed suicide at his home, 32 ;
King street, Dorcester, Mass., by taking a '
dose of m Drphine.
At Somerville, Mass., Robert Shaw, aged i
sixty, shot his wife three times, fired one j
shot at his daughter, which just grazed her
neck, and then turning the revolver on |
himself put a buUet into his neck. The
man had been drinking.
A disease which resembles and is do- I
olared by local veterinarians to be anthrax j
has broken out among the cattle on the ;
farm of George Mahan, near Sugar Grove, j
Penn.
William Dickson, of Hoboken, N. J., dls- i
regarded a warning and took ihold of an '
electric wire to prove that it was insulated.
He met instant death.
Turnpike raiders in Kentucky burned !
four bridges on Richmond and" Big Hill j
Pike, and two on Big Hill and Berea Pike. !
About twenty horsemen are said to have |
composed the party. Travel is suspended.
Many houses in Excelsior Springs. Mo., :
have been washed away and possibly some
lives lost by the heaviest flood that section i
of the country has ever known.
The Keystone National Bank, at Erie, i
Penn., closed its doors. Its officers and '
stockholders have published a statement to ;
the effect that the bank was making no I
money, and they had decided that it was ,
best for stockoolders and depositors for ;
the bank to go into liquidation.
It is announced that the prise of Virginia |
peanuts will be advanced soon. This is
owing to the limited supply. The stocks I
of shelled nuts in Virginia at the present |
time will barely exceed 22.000 bags, as !
against 34,000 last year and 60,000 in 1395.
Fanny Taylor, a colored girl, was arrested
by the Sheriff for having attempted to wreck
trains near Slocumville, R. I.
Chairman Bynum, of the National Democracy,
opened headquarters In New York
City, and said that a vigorous campaign
would be waged against free silver.
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
adopted aesolutions urging Congress
promptly to annex Hawaii. The resolutions
demand annexation oq. the broad
ground of national policy, prestige and
commercial necessity.
Lightning struck the house of J. Bandine,
at 8tanwood, Mich., burning it to the
ground, killing one child tern years old and
badly burning Mrs. Bandine and a child
eight years old.
At Cadillac, Mich., the honae of George
Copeland was struck by lightning and his
wife's sister and her little child were instantly
killed.
William F. Hoey ("Old Hoss") the famous
delineator of the American tramp,
died a few days ago in New York City.
The jury at New York City in the To- ,
bacco Trust case, after being out twentyone
hours, were unable to agree and were !
discharged. They stood 10 to 2 for convic- [
tlon on euery ballot.
A dynamite explosion in South Scranton, ,
Fenn.. blew up the business block of Leon
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uicaeisKi, a uoauie uvnuug uiwt uwu ,
by him and a single house owned by
Michael O'Hara. The business black, a
two-story building, was torn to pieces. '
Twenty other houses had all the windows I
blown out and plaster torn from the walls. [
The shock was felt all over the city. 01- t
chefski was arrested for arson.
Mrs. F. J. Jackson, who is wealthy and
owns a big laundry and a drugstore at
Kansas City, Mo., was arrested charged
with complicity in the murder of her husband,
Frederick J. Jackson, who was shot
several months ago in Mrs. Jackson's apartments
at the Woodland Hotel by Dr. J. D.
Ooddard, who is the manager of Mrs. Jackson's
drug business.
At Leadville, Col., public gambling probably
has received Its death blow. A posse
of deputy sheriffs has raided every gambling
establishment in the city, seizing tables
and implements worth more than $1000,
which will be destroyed. All the proprietors
of the gambling houses were arrested.
The raid has caused a rtreat sensation, as.it
breaks up on "industrj" which has flourished
here 6lnce 1879.
Miss Llllie Blals was awakened at Red
Bud, lib, by a man who had entered her
room and threatened to kill her unless she I
kept quiet. 8he#creamed at the top of her
voice, and ho placed his pistol to her breast
and flred, the bullet inflicting a mortal
wound.
The Bard-Coleman furnaces at Cornwall,
Penn., will be put in operation soon, i/ney
have not been In blast to? a year. The
North Cornwall furnaces, owned by James
C. Freeman, and which have not been
opened for several years, will also be
started up soon.
Harry Gilliam, a colored man, was taken
from the Monroe County (Miss.) Jail, carried
five miles from Aberdeen and hanged
to a tree. He was charged with having
robbed a white woman at Okolona, and
with having attempted an assault upon
her.
Tube works in and near Pittsburg. Penn.,
have jus"; concluded contracts with the .
Australian Government for stoel-rivited
pipe. The contract includes 100 miles of
twelve-Inch lap-welded steel pipe and 300
miles of thirty-inch pipe. It is for the
water supply of the Koolgardie gold fields.
This is the largest order on record In this
line.
Franklyn Bassford, marine artist and
yacht designer, killed himself off Jersey
City, N. J., on the nearly completed La
Rita, a craft he had designed on novel
lines. He was disappointed with the boat.
Robert Taylor, a young Englishman, employed
as assistant cashier in a Nassau
street bank. New York City, confessed to
the theft of 62470.
Guy C. Ledyard, Jr.. manager of the Chicago
"office of the National Starch Com- 1
pauy, committed suicide at the home of his I
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miner, v^uicn^u, uy suuuuu^. nu^ .
a Yale man and at one time a member of |
the Yale ball team. In a game he sustained {
a broken leg. It was badly set and had to j
be scraped once a year, and the pain at j
such times was intense.
Colonel F. D. Mussey, a well-known
Washington correspondent, died at Middlebury,
Vt., of Bright's disease. He was fiftyone
years old.
A derrick on the roof of a new building
at Atlanta, Ga., fell, knocking three workmen
from a scaffolding on the ninth story.
Two of them were dashed to instant death
on the ground, 125 feet below, and the
third was saved in an almost miraculous
way. The killed are Palmetta Avres and
Charles Kargill, colored.
Augusta Garrison and Frank Jones are
dead and Thomas Jones.thc letter's brother,
is dying, as the result of a shooting iu front
of the Methodist Church at Pleasant Valley,
Texas. Garrison's daughter accused Frank 1
Jones of treating her unfairly. /
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IN THE QUIET HOPES. j|
PREGNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE \
i WORLD'S CREATEST AUTHORS. *1
O! Let Jenai Lift the Load?Test of Trst
Worth-Faith for Guidance?Fretting..
Over Small Things-Christ's Separn* \
i tlons?Feet That Go Cp To God. .**3
The camel, at the close of day, ?-.^J
Kneels down upon the sandy plain
To have its burden lifted off,
| And rest to gain.
My soul, thou, too, shouldst to thy knees
When daylight draweth to a close,
And let thy Master lift the load
And grant rej>ose.
t :<f'vmQb
Eke how couldst thou tomorrow me'
With all tomorrow's work to do
If thon thy burden all the night
Dost carry through V
The camel kneels at break of day
To have his guide replace bis load,
'men rlseth up anew to take
The desert road.
So thou shouldst knee) at morning daws, :*
That God may give thee daily care,
Assured that He no load too great
Will make thee bear.
, ?j. M. L. .jl
The Teat of True Worth.
That which I would have every one in- , j
qr.ir r< .-peeting every work of art of undetermined
merit submitted to his judgment, '
is not whether it be a work of especial
grand -ur.importance or power: but whethW vjjB
it have any virtue or suLstanoe as a link in
the x:h>ri ..f truth, wh-ther it have recorded
or interpreted anything before unknown,
whether it have added one single stone to m
our heaven-pointing pyramid, cut away one .5
dark bough, or levelled one rugged hillock tfi
ino'irpath. This,!: it be an honest work '; ?
of art, it must have done, for no man ever
yet worked honestly without giving some 1
itU'.h help to his race. God appoints to every
one of His creatures a separate mission.and a
if they discharge it honorably, if they quit j
themselves like men and faithfully follow 3
the tight which is in them.withdrawing from . 1
It all eold and nuenehinir influence thank .. ".i
will assuredly come of it such burning ? i
as, in Its appointed mode ana .1
measure, shall shine before men 5
and be of service constant and holy. Ds--,?V/
grees infinite of lustre there must always be, ?9
but the weakest among us has a gift, how- J $
ever seemingly tririal, which is peculiar to ' w
him and which, worthily used, will be gift - ?>.
also to his race forever. "Fool not, " "f? jfl
George Herbert,
For all may have
If they dare choose, a glorious life or grave. -vS
If, on the contrary, there be nothing of this . Vfreshness
achieved, if there be neither pur- . '?!
pose nor fidelity in what is done, if it bo "y
an envious or powerless imitation of other - jfl
men's labors, if it be a display of mere man- , 1
ual dexterity or curious manufacture, or if '
in any other mode it show itself as having ' n
its origin in vanity?cast it out. It matters .
not what powers of mind may have been .
concerned or corrupted in it, all have lost
their savor, it is worse than worthless?
perilous?cast it out?John F. us kin.
Faith for Guidance.
Take from the navigator his nautical in- '~J
struments. and the stupid booby that settles v?gj
on the mast of his ship to refresh its weary ? ffl
frame can make Its way to land, and leave fja
him to perish at the mercy of the winds and
waves. The sea gall that follows his craft, . 3
to pick up the crumbs of bread that fall from !?&!
his table, always keeps its reckoning In jjjl "
itself?but man can never depend oa?l
himself for guidance. A law ot,ajM
an instrument is his guide, and 3
his faith In following them determines J
his course. "Yea, the stork in the heavens a
knoweth her appointed times, the turtle, the ^
crane, and the swallow observe the time of
their coming, but my people know not the '<
judgment of their God." The bee. without . 3
compass, square or line, can so shape his \\
cell that the mathematician demonatrstes \mit
loses the least space. Brought overland,* .
distance of two thousand miles, over moun- r9
tains and deserts, shut out from all comma- . g
ulcatlon with the world around, when,
at intervals, the emigrant stopped hi rest
his teams and wash his clothes, confident of S
the capabilities of the little creature, he | <
opened their habitation and let them go. Sb
Yet, in this strange country to which they !
were brought in darkness, they were per- _
fectly at home: and among the hundreds of
strange substances, eight or ten thousand
of them made several selections in a dsy, \|
yet. not in a single instance js one deceived:
and in perfect confidence we eat the fruit of
their labor, involving millions of selections, ',29
with a definite understanding that if one ',-j '
made a mistake our life would pay the penaity.
Yet we eat without exciting a / nr. We
can trust the instinct of the bee. but we
cannot trust the God who gave it the instia*;
or. perhaps, deny the relation between fjm
cause and effect by doubting His existence. .
Fretting Over Small Things.
The great and serious plans for a lifetime
that belong to the solemnities and the - jH
august occasions of existence, may be
absolutely sacrificed and even joyfully '!!
yielded, because great grace is upon us W rEStA
the supreme hour~of choice; bat the small JStt
daily piannings for work and pleasure are , W<
often held fast tenaciously, and when they- j
are broken we fret and fume with inward
chafing, if not with outwnW irritation. As m|
for taking joyfully the Interruptions t|i^H
come through front door and back, the hindering
things by way of accidents that put ,r
ua out and put us a!>out, so that nothing
canbefini5hedasdet-ired.it does seem aa'- r
if human nature could never find that pas- . ' ?aible.
. . Would it not be a triumph of grace
indeed to be able to take joyfully suck ;H'gg
' spoiling?" How do we crave our owe. way, .jm
evt-n in the smallest affairs! Life would be
undisciplined Indeed, if we always hod it. - '%
Here is really a great opportunity to J
emulate ancient worthies of this present
work-a-day life, and take joyfully
a spoiling that may often be as hard to bear >
as loss of goods. The records of matyrdoms,
and of great achievements will not be en- '-^j
larged by deeds well worthy of remembrance
but the small, joyrul surrenders win be well --vfflj
pleasing in His sight "who knows and pftica . "3
ail;" and, putting these small sacrifices! with L V
others.
"We shall see life may be "
A ro?ary of little deeds
Done humbly, Lord, as unto Thee."
?Julia H. Johnston, in Interior
Christ'* Separation*.
Sawdust and steel filings are all mixed up " jg
until the magnet sweeps over the pile; then ;
the one is taken and the other left The
sweepings of the United States mint are all
gathered by one broom in one heaD, but the
lire s-parates the gold from the dust. The
wheat and the tares gr >w together until the
harvest. The good fish and the bad are- ffiH
dragged in the same net. and the an- ' '"
gels separate the n at the feet of God. dw
Ti:e faithful and the unfaithful go about
the streets untu the Master returns.and then
the faithless are cast out. Wise and foolish j ,.
virgins sieep alike until the Bridegroom
ccmcs, and then the separation. The two
robbers were in a common prison, till Christ
separated them on Calvary, and led onn
away to paradise.and left the other to plunge ??
in dee; or depths from the top of the crow
where he haa rejected Christ. "When Hn ijgjj|
comes," the very thing you think is going
to save all. will divide the just from the un- ,
just, will devote a part to life, a part to
destruction, on the simple test of personal . M
love to Jesus Christ.?0. P. GIfford.
The feet that go up to God into the mountain.
at the end, are the same that first pa| )^8
08 their shoes beside the burning bush.,
This Is why the Christian, more than othsr * >
men. not merely dares but loves to look
back and remember.?Phillips Brooks.
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