THE NEWS,
G. W. Nelson, a prominent member of the
First Baptist Church, sang In the cholr at
the union services of all the churches In
Chattanooga, Tenn, at the First Baptist
Church. As Dr. R DB Garrett pronounced
the last words of the banadiction Mr, Nelson
fell heavily forward, dead, Apopilexy was
the cause,
The Gilson Asphaltum Mine, at Fort
Duchesne, Utah, is still burning flercely,
Work is now being directed to the air shaft
In hopes that by cutting off the air the fire
can be brought under control. The entire
underground workings of the mine have
been destroyed. It is hardly probable that
work can be resumed this winter,
The secretary of State has completed the
count of the vote for presidential electors in
Missouri. It shows a total vote cast of 674,
018, divided as follows: Democratic, 363 652;
republican, 304,080; probibitionist, 2 169;
socialist-labor, 610; Palmer-Buckner, 2
national probibitionlst, 204 Bryan's elecs
tors had 58,712 votes more than the McKin.
ley electors and 53,258 more than all others
combined,
Terrible storms and floods have occurred
in Athens, and the low-lying quarters have
been inundated, several persons being
drowned.
Joba R. Hoxle, the wealthy ranch and eat.
tle owner, died in Chicago, aged
Years,
Dr. J. C. Hartzell, of Clocinnati, recently
elected a bishop of the Methodist Church,
will leave for Africaio a few days,
fly will locate at Madison, N. J.,
55;
ot
sixty-five
His fam.
daring bis
absence,
A special from Portsmouth, O,, the
Structural Steel and Iron Company has been
says
organized and will begin the manufacture of
bridge work and other heavy structures. It
has ample capital, and already has contracts
booked.
The appifeation of the John A.
Bons Company, of Trenton, for the
ment of a receiver for the
Traction Company, of Lancaster, was denied
in the United States Court.
Complete returns show that in the West
Virginia House of Delegates the Republicans
have 38 members, the Democrats 23 and the
Gold Democrats 4 The Senate Ra.
publicans 20, Democrats 5, Populist 1. The
legisiature does not elect a United States
Bepator.
The State Convention of Nebraska Sugar
Beet Growers, just closed, bas passed resol
Roebilng's
appoiat-
Pennsyivaaia
stands
the
attracting
its own sugar and properly protecting
new industry. The matter is
much attention in Nebraska,
In Chicago, after a sensational trial, Marie
and Nettie Cronin of
declared not
Judge Hutchinson's court, The youn
were acc of setting fire to
at 143 Fourth
der to obtain Insurance,
Omaha, were
arson by
ised
court on September 6
The Comptroller of tha Curreney has re-
ceived information of the failure of the Da-
kota National Bank, of Bloux Palls, 8 D
The back has a capital of
time of the last report it had a
£50.000 and liabilities a nou
exclusive of
man has been placed lo
Milo EB. cue of the
peusion att
£30,000 and at the
surplus of
nting to #23) Wp
’
stock. Bank Examiner Zimmer-
charge,
Sievens, best-known
save | } | 88 : : §
ruoeys in the United States, died
at his home, 3578 Cedar avenue, (
O., aged 63 years,
ieveland,
Mr. Stevens, ever since
as a pension attorney,
About 10} men empl
the Virginia and N
Company, Rich
strike on acao!
wages,
Hon. George
and member of the ministry, ap-
pointed to succeed Bir James Winter as judge
ofthe St. John, N. F., Bupreme Court, the
latter having recently resigned,
pointment meets with general approval Mr,
yed at the factory of
wrth Carolinas
v
oad, Va,
of 10 pa cent. res
Wheeling
went oul ©
fue
Emerson,
has been
admitted,
President-Elect McKinley will be invited to
attend the comvention of the International
Epworth League In Toronto next July and
reply to the address of welcome, to
ered by Lord Aberdecn.
be delle.
The coming Illinois Legislature will be
tsked to pass laws prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes, placing saloons in counties, towns
and wards under local option and compel
ing observance of the Sabbath.
Henry White, charged with the murder of
Policeman Jackson, in Columbus, Ga ,
found guilty and sentenced to death January
15, 1897,
Cester Witherrpoon, president of the Mid-
way Turnp ke, In Woodford county, Ky., has
received anonymous notes threatening to
burn his home if he continues to collect toll,
Meantime tofigates have been raided and
chopped down every night for five nights
The damage caused by the recent high
water on the Great Northern Railway has
now been repaired and all trains are run-
ning on time. Through business to and from
the Pacifle Coast, passenger, freight and ex-
press, is being handled promptly,
By the overturning of a gasoline lamp an
explosion occurred at the residence of F, A,
Walker, Minneapolis. Mrs. Walker, her
daughter Mabel, aged 13 and the domestis,
Mary Overiaad, were probably fatally
burned.
Ernest Warford, aged 54 years, of Easton
Pa. a storekeeper for the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company at Phillipsburg, N J., fel
from a passenger train which wes crossing
the Lehigh Valley Railroad bridge and was
dashed to death on the rocks 60 feet below.
BIG FOUR FLYER WRECKED.
—
was
Spreading Badls Cases a Spacial to Leave the
Tracks,
While running at the rate of 40 miles an
hour the “White City Special,” of ths Big
Four route, jumped the track at Monee, 34
mfles from Chicago. The engine and three
coaches left the rails but did not tip over,
No one was injured,
The mail car, baggage car and express car
and smoker followed the locomotive. ‘lhe
smoking car was well filled with passengers
but further than a severe shaking up they
were not injured,
A special train was made up at Kankakee
and the passengers were brought to Chicago
Conductor Langham, of the wrecked train,
made a report stating that the accident was
caused by spreading sells.
HAY DESTITUTE.
Awful Condition of Armenian
Christians,
THE RED CROSS REPORT.
Miss Clara Barton and Other Offi
cers Complete Thelr Detalled
of the Rellef Expedi-
An Army of Un-
People.
Record
tions
fortunate
Barton, president, and other
ted Cross Boclety have com
Miss Clara
officers of the
pleted their detailed reports of the Armenian
relief expedition to Asta Minor last win-
The report made by Miss Darton is
quite exhaustive and covers the work of the
several expeditions sent out from Constanti-
ter,
nope,
It shows that
in the reports
dured by the Armenians, gives an account
of the salling of the relief party, of delays in
the work had its inception
of the terrible sufferings en-
sending out the first expedition on account
of the American
ment concerning the Turkish
{ the
adverse newspaper
it
Governmeg
ex padi
and various relief
tions,
Miss Bart
the United States, to theo
fund and to
carrying out the purpose
Speaks «
n returns thanks to the press of
niributors to
relief other agencie
8 of th
In conclusion she says that, notwith
ing all that has been done through ali
alos Lo
cles, lofinitely
for
the Casplan Seas, the Black and the
“are
Zore ref
ie ¥ shi sls
betwoen the Archipels
someone,
lay
the Arn
lan race, existing utder the ordinances
least semi-civiiization and
religion of Jesus Christ Ace
intelligent and impartial
terranecan,’”’ she says,
million and a-hall of people of
prof esaing the
wrding to
stated estimates of
observers of various countries and concurred
agents, whose observations
women and
ol shelter, ral
f the comforts that
make human iife preservable, or any means
of obtaining them, save through the chari-
table beneflosns of the world,
the state.
sh outside suppor
“The same es ates concur in
ment that without su
least 50,/ 03 of these
: at
lin 1
yr perished through accumu
Mary, 7
Bave fouad any batter :
persons will have
“None of
fum for the dispeasation of
us
chantiabie
than the faithfal missior
ground, #
present
jos already
terest
Goorge H. Paliman
wa that thers
a
{ mission at
jas Was 0D BR
ED BY FOOTPADS.
Jecatar's Blreels
der, pastor of Grace NM,
1
sae,
The minister's ¢ rpse was {oun
M. There was a bullet
bead, His pe
pockets were rifled an
walch, which he Is known to have
was missing. The murder was evidently
written a note
Miller, of Bloomingte
that he would
Mr. Miller ba
1 ow % .
iantiy just arrives
ington. Being thoroughly acquainted
he olts 3
the city, be had evidently started to walk
Catto, Heo was [ound a
the street in the
# residence,
the
Rey ir
Catto
he Hev. Mr. Miller ,was ous of the best
Ho was grand
prelate of
the Grand Commandery of the
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
for five generations,
The Duke of Marlborough fs having
Miss Helen Gould is making great prepa
the Countess of Castellane,
Tufts College, was brought about by bis
having iadorsed a number of notes
friends,
Rabbi Emil G, Hirsch, of Chicago, has
made a new transiation and revision of the
Jewish prayer book prepared by Mr. David
Einhorn.
One of the lawyers before the Bupreme
Court, at Washington, the other day, was
George H. Williams, Grant's Attorney Gen
lamas,
John H. Hale, of Glastonbury, Coan.
caused universal surprise by declining =
Democratic nomination for Congress beeasus,,
he had not been “long enough out of the Re-
publican party. ™
Lady Hayter, who is known In London as
the Zenobia of the Liberal party, Is not only
an accomplisfied woman of the world, but
is also one of the most indefatigable of
women travelers,
The Rev. J. ¥. Langmors, who has been
chosen ehapinin of the Protestant Episcopal
Bisterhood of Bt. Mary, to succend the Rev,
Dr. G, B. Houghton, is a member of the
English order known as Cowley Fathers,
A Georgia legisiator named MeCock
thinks that possums are rapidly disappear
ing from the State as a result of the constant
war that Is waged upon them, apd Ye Is urg-
ing upon his fellow statesmen the duty of
passing = bill to make illegal the killing of
these Interesting marsupials at any tims be
tween March 1 and October L
UOLOMA BHOT BY WEYLER.,
Execution in Heysna—More Minor Vie-
tories Reported by the Bpaniards
Another
Antonio Lopez Coloma, former leader of
the ==volutionists in Matanzas, was shot hav.
ing remained for 24 hours
chapel, according to law,
Captaln-General Weyler has issued orders
previousiy in oa
to the farmers in Provinces of Pinar del lo,
Havano and Matanzas to carry the yew crop
of corn to the garrison towns, and raliroad
officials have been Instructed to provide the
farmers with cars aud mules with which to
facilitate transportation. The
sold to the commanders of the Spanish col
umuns and will be used for military purposes.
These
current prices or may admis it
After Decomber 20 found stored on
the farms or elsewhere without the knowl
corn will be
commanders may buy the corn nat
on deposit,
all corn
edge and consent of the military command
WAT
be
ors will bo conslderad contraband of
and the farmers so withholding It will
eriminally prosecuted,
General Fig commanding the
zarro Regiment of «
dispersed an Insurgent forces at
Veitia, this The
killed on the fleld the troops «
a quantity of arms and ammunition.
A dispatch
onel Durango
leron,
avair)
provinoee,
enemy left one
and
received from Lisutenant-Ce
says that intered
an lusurgent fo
that
retire
Cano, Province adds
hils troops comy
killed
leaving 1 ing
Carrs
after the engagemen
bi Hills belween the
p-Lienoral We
Maceo, the
await its arrival
ward, regardless
n iran.
thn
Arrests were
ietinrs
we Nt ". ir
ne captured |
are expe
BURNING STEAMER ASHORE.
Cargo of Lumber and Valuable Lake
iroyed.
The
abandoned by her
steamer BW. Arnold, on
orew, went
Tro
ths Salmon
SAVED BY ROENTGEK RAYS.
pe
y 35
Frances, the 2-year
nn Betts, of New Hope, XN. iaying
het
the
t § nv iw Wass
" t
mouth and wall then
child has porsiste ishment,
i has been gr
f: f Fie #7
als, foaring their ohi
the slvarsity of
perated
Peanayivania
upon. Dr. GM.
led Roentgen raves to the ehiid’s
iy imbedded edge
artilagea, ‘Tne child
und the pon
r photograph
+» penny. The little
is now Jdolng well
eR ———
MRS. HARRISON ROBBED.
Fresideat's Home in
apolis, Ind.
of the family were in
entered Lhe library window,
stolen
It is belleved that the thieves wore frigh
the other
rooms was disturbed that was
The
wateh
rizson™s first husband, and was highly prized,
make every effort to recover it and has of.
ferod a rewnrd of 850 for ita return,
NO OFFENSE TO TURKEY.
The Asyrmbiing of American Craisers at Bmyraa
Dees Bot Mean War,
The Navy Department is informed that the
eruiser Minneapolis has sailed from Smyraa
to Mersine. It is said this move has no sig-
nificance in conection with the Turkish
trouble, for the authorities have discredited
the reports that the ships wers assembled at
Smyrna for the purposs of menaciag Turkey.
The Ban Francisco, Clnclousti and Ban
eroft remain at Bmyraa. The departure of
the Minneapolis was not directed by the de-
partment and was determined upon by the
admiral for the better disposition of his ships
on the advance of winter,
The departinent is informed that the Ter.
ror hiss arrived at New York after her trials
of gun gear, The Machias bas arrived at
Ningbo.
WEYLER INHAVANA
The Spanish Commander Retarns
From His Campaign.
SURPRISE AT THE CAPITAL
The Cuban Commander-in-Chief
Says He Has 35,000 Well
Equipped Men and that
He Intends to Proceed
to Havana Province.
Captaln-General Weyler arrived in Havana
on board the erulser Legazpl from Mariel
His return was a complete surprise, as he
bad asserted In an interview with the
respondent of El Liberal, of Madrid, that he
was pleased with the rosult
campaign in Ploar del Rio,
that he eX pects d to remain to conduct active
operations In Pinar del Rio provines for fil.
teen or twontly days
eOr-
#80 far of his
and sunounced
longer, adding
until Christmas, By that date we shall have
dealt a mortal blow to the revolution,
Reception at Artimisa.
Exploriog trains left Artimisa for
order to
#
Cande-
lerin and Ban Cristobal in
f
prepare
rthe arrival at Artimisa Captaln-Gen
eral Weyler,
Artimisa is in the Pro del
Rio, near {
Havana
Ato
iis viel ns
that the Cap-
started
ward for Mangas, and at 820 pes
Artionis
bad arrived at Mariel, the
ceived at 5 that the cruise
pe
ern extremity of the military
Province of Pioar i Ri
to her commander to pisos the
disp
At Boel
sal of the Captain
J Creneral,
Artl
mmanded by Geg-
'k General Wevier enterad
miss with the iumns
erais Aguliar and Arolas was seen that
the Captain-General was nsiderably sur
t re 8 field usiferm, with
irtned. He w
Pasama bat, and rode a black horse,
y at the he
iarge garden onsbie
receive there the sta oMoers
and trapsmit rder
14,
i
ere he als
transacted
seiness with his chide! or sia
sin-Gegeral was received
rut
es Lhe arrest
5
riano Reyes and J
Bone; Segura s Lr
Candelaria, Ploar del Ri
Damns the is
fleid, ©
nded,
gonts left 15 aried 0
dead and retired with 130 wou
At the appros: trial of ls
{he citizen
hing public
American hins
bees 80 long lmprisonsd on cb f con
Bomeliian, who
spiracy, rebelilon, ete, oon i for the de-
fenss will demand bis
request upon the conclusions arrived at by
the publie prosecutor when (he latter asked
that
fry
ang
sentence of impriscument for
gsed upon the prisoner,
Insurgents have dymamited an exploring
traln near Cardenas, Province of
derailing the eogine and upsetting and burn.
ing the care, A passenger train which fol
lowed It was fired upon, end although the
passengers threw themselves upon the floor
a lady and five mon, gendarmes sud fAremesn,
wers wounded,
Matanzas,
ins IIIs sss
LIGHT FOR THE BLIND.
X Bays Prodoce s Marked Effect en a GI Wh
Had Not Been for Three Years
Another illustration of the marvelous
power of the X raye has just been shown al
the Edison laboratory in Orange, N. J. A
young girl of Newark received a severe blow
on the bead three years ago which, acting on
the optic nerves, caused total blindness,
A friend took her to Edison's laboratory
tug the X rays Lut to bave the interior of
her head examined to locate the pressure on
It was the opinion of occulists
could be performed and the sight restored
I he girl was placed under the X rays, but,
although her head was completely perme
ated by the rays, no special lesion could be
located. The head was 80 transpareat while
the X rays were playiog on it that Mr Edi
son placed his own hand on the opposite side
of it and distinctly saw the bopes and their
articuistion. -
Then he thought be would try the effect
of the X rays directly on the eyes. The
throes years
ent shapes of objects held before her eyes
while suffused with the X rays, and de
soribed them accurately, In the ease of a
dise of brass she was able to tall the color,
saying that it was yellow. The experiment
was considered a great success,
i st BIA is HA
Selling Pacific Islanders.
Adviess from the Neer Hebrides in the
Pacific Osean, show that patives of the ish
ands are being sold to the masters of tending
vessels at’ from $30 to $50 Some
the natives so sold are su od to groat
eruelties, —
ah
THE WAS
Some Interesting Facts About the Tall
Shaft of White Marble,
The distance nt wileh the monument
Is visible hax always been on matter of
debatable interest with Washington
Not a train the
nor a boat speeds 1p or down the
ji uple, approaches
{ its
Potomac, but carries a group af people
anxious to gee nt
lawt the
the sky as they depart or
just what point they
“i Ware white marble against
first find it as
they return,
Probably the distance at
which the montient is from
the summit of the Blue Ridge at Buick
o's forty
The eleva
the Po-
ago,
long
greatest
ween is
Gap, a distance of about
miles mm an alr line
there in 2060 feet
The BOCES YOurs
their
three
above
mountal
keen eves, trained
sharp «Teh
#
ARMY CYCLE TEST.
United States Troops Whee! a Thousand
Mountain Miles.
The bieycle for military use Is pow an
assured success, It has § i
by United States troops in thy
far West that shows be
that,
be its ads
been giv
4 test
yond peradven.
ture however problematical may
antages in actual battle, it is
practical utility in var.
O0P8
already of vast
ous othe
Hix fort
of eight men fir
nt Fort Miss
nand of 1,
Wer
alin
fantry
the com weutenan
men chosen
the
bicveles
Wen
phtens the intellect
Others Are Stupefie
¢
en
during t SeVen Years
the
a hook
occupied in finishing mony
Washington Bit
Sor
ar
American Hardwoods in Europe.
The demand for American
leads the foreign shipments, although
tulip, poplar, ash, gum and black wal-
utit. whenever a good quality can be
secured, are in some demand. Euro
pean copstmers like the quality of
American oak, amd since it is known
to pe plentiful bere, it will prebably be
in increasing demand,
has been shipped to Germany in con
siderable quantities, where cheap wood
j« required for furniture and other
pees, Much of this lumber is forward:
od from New Orleans, and since a
great part of the ocak, ash, poplar, cot.
tonwood and other timbers demanded
by the foreign market is in the South.
ern Stated, i not improbable that lum.
ber for foreign markets will be largely
shipped in future from Gulf ports, In
speaking of this matter The North.
western Lumberman sass that the Eu.
ropean market requires lumber eut of
exact thickness and of accurate length,
trimmed so as to have the butts square
and true. Space for piling in the yards
of the Old World i= an object, so that
random. uneven lengths are objection-
able, and, since the foreign buyer in-
sista that he shall have just what he
bargains for, quality should be strictly
attended to—Garden and Forest,
“ifty-nine fixhhooks, all baited, bave
* tp found Inside of a codfish caoght
off Flamborough Head,
and wi
The two bodies struck the waly
when both
rose they were not three yards apart.
The nearest life buoy that hung on the
bulwark was thrown overboard =o
anickly by the quartermaster that it
tonted pot thirty from where
the two bodies were floating, and the
order to stop the ship was given » ith
in four seconde of the occurrence, the
whole scene being observed by the offi.
cor on watch: and the rapidity with
which he stopped the chip and gave or
dere for the beat to lowered was
happily rewarded Ly a rescue—Las
seil’'s Magazine,
yards
bw
Oldest Human Teeth.
A couple of teeth found near Wel
mar, are claimed by Dir. A. Nehring to
be the oldest human teeth yet found in
Europe, One of them, a permanent
first molar, is remarkably Hike that of
a chimpanzee, but pot much Hike that
of the gorilla or orang. Iie also calls
attention to the fact that the frst pre
molar and last molar are roduced in
sige in modern wan ag compared with
early man, This was known before;
but he adds that he finds the same
state of things in domesticated as com.
pared with wild dogs, In the former,
as in civilized man, the jaw is relative
1y feebly developed, aml there is a ten
dency to reduction of the last molar,
Germany has wore periodical publica-
tions—about 8000--than any other Eu
France 3,000, Italy 1.400, Austria-Hon
gary 1.300. The total number ia Eu
rope is about 25,000,