A SERMON ON HUNTING.
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Dr. Talmage Gives an Interesting Talk
Appropriate to the Season.
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Texn 2% 0 he moruaang he shall devowr tie
prey, and at wight he shall divide the spoil.”
Genesis xlix., 27.
A few nights ago 309 men encamped along
the Long Island railroad so as to be ready
for the next morning, which was the first
‘‘open day” for deer hunting. Between sun-
rise and 2 o'clock in the afternoon of that
day fifteen deer were shot. On the 29th of
October our woods and forests resound with
tie shock of firearms and are tracked of
pointers and setters because the quail are
then a lawful prize for the sportsman.
On a certain day in all England you can
hear the crack of the sportsman’s gun,
because grouse hunting has begun, and
every man that can afford the time and am-
munition and can draw a bead starts for the
fields. Xenophon grew eloquent in regard
to the art of hunting. In the far east peo-
ple, elephant mounted, chase the tiger. The
American Indian darts his arrow at the bufl-
falo until the frightened herd fall over the
rocks. European nobles: are often found in
the fox chase and at the stag hunt. Francis
I was called the father of hunting. Moses
declares of Nimrod. ‘‘He was a mighty
hunter before the Lord.” Therefore, in all
ages of the world, the imagery of my text
ought to be suggestive, whether it means a
wolf after a fox or a man after a lion.
Old Jacob, dying, is telling the fortunes
of his children. He prophesies the devour-
ing propensities of Benjamin and his de-
scendants. With his dim old eyes he looks
off and sees the hunters going out to the
tields, ranging them all day, and at nightfall
coming home, the game slung over the
shoulder. and reaching the door of the tent
the hunters begin to distribute the game, and
one takes a coney, and another a rabbit, and
another a roe. ‘In the morning he shall de-
vour the prey. and at night he shall divide
the spoil.” Orit may be a reference to the
habits of wild beasts that slay their prey and
then drag it back to the cave or lair and di-
vide it among the young.
Itake my text, in the first place, as de-
scriptive of those people who in the morn-
ing of their life give themselves up to hunt-
ing the world, but afterward, by the grace of
God. in the evening of their life divide
among themselves the spoils of Christian
character. Thereare aged Christian men and
women inthis house, who, ifthey gave testi-
mony. would tell you that in the morning of
their life they were after the world as in-
tense as a hound after a hare, or as a faleon
£woops upon a gazelle, They wanted the
world’s plaudits and the world’s gains,
They felt that if they could get this world
they would have everything. Some of them
started out for the pleasures of the world.
They thought that the man who laughed
loudest was happiest. They tried repartee
and conundrum and burlesque and madrigal.
They thought they would like to be Tom
Hoods or Charles Lambs or Edgar A. Poes.
They mingled wine and music and the spec-
tacular. They were worshipers of the har-~
lequin. and the Merry Andrew, and the buf-
foon, and the jester. Life was to them foam
and bubble and cachinnation and roystering
and grimace. They were so full of glee they
could hardly repress their mirth even on sol-
emn occasions, ani they came near bursting
out hilariously even at the burial because
there was something so dolorous in the tone
or countenance of the undertaker.
After awhile misfortune struck them hard
on the back. They found there was some-
thinz they could not laugh at. Under their
late hours their health gave way or there was
a death in the house. Of every green thing
their sou! was exfoliated. They found out
that life was more than a joke. From the
heart of God there blazed into their soul an
earnestness they had never felt before. They
awoke to their sinfulness and their immoral-
ity, and here they sit at sixty or seventy
years of age as appreciative of all innocent
mirth as they ever were, but they are hent
on a styie of satisfaction which in early life
they never hunted—the evening of their days
brighter than the morning. In the morning
they devoured the prey, but at night they
divided the spoils.
Then there are others who started out for
financial success, They =ee how limber the
rim of a man’s hat is when he bows down
before some one transpicuous. They felt
they would like to see how the world looked
from toe window of 2 34000 turnout, They
thought they would like to have the morn-
ing sunlight tangled in the headgear of a
dashing span. They wanted the bridges in
the park to resound under the rataplan of
their swift hoofs. They wanted a gilded
baldric, and so they started on the dollar
huar. They chased it up one street and
chusad it down another. They followed it
\ it burrowed in the cellar, They treed
it in the roo".
Wherever a doilar was expected to be,
they were. They chased it across the ocean.
They chased it across the land. They stopped
not for the night, Hearing that dollar, even
in the darkness, thrilled them as an Adiron-
dack sportsman is thrilled at midnight by a
loon’s laugh. They chased that dollarto the
money vault, They chased it to the Gov-
ernment treasury They routed it from
under the counter. All the hounds were out
—all the pointers and the setters. They
leaped the hedzes for that dollar, and they
cried : “Hark away! A dollar! A dollar!’
And when at last they eame upon it and had
actually captured it their excitement was
like that of a falconer who has successfully
flung his first hawk.
In the morning of their Ilfe, oh, how they
devoured the prey! But there came a bet-
eter time to their sou). ‘hey found out that
an immortal nature cannot live on bank
stock, They took up a Northern Pacific
bond, and there was a hole in it through
which they could jook into the uncertainty
of afl earthly treasures. They saw some
Ralston, living at the rate of $25,000 a month,
leaping from a San Francisco wharf because
he could not continue to live at the same
ratio. They saw the wizen and paralytic
bankers who had changed their souls into
molten gold stamped with the image of the
earthy, earthy. They saw some great souls
by avarice turned into homunculi, and they
said to themselves, *‘I will seck after higher
treasure.’
From that time they did not care whether
they walked or rode if Christ walked with
them ; nor whether they lived in a mansion
or in a hut if they dwelt under the shadow
of the Almighty: nor whether they were
robed in French broadcloth or in homespun
if they had the robe of the Saviour's right-
eousness ; nor if they were sandalled with
morocco or calfskin if they were shod with
the preparation of the Gospel. Now you see
peace on their countenance. Now that man
says “What a fool I was to be enchanted
with this world. Why, I have more satisfac-
tion in five minutes in the service of God
than [ hadin all the first years of my life
while I was gaingetting. . I like this evening
ol my day a great deal better thau I did the
morning. In the morning I greedily de-
vourel the prey. but now it is evening, and
fam gloriously dividinz the spoil.”
y fri , this world is a poor thing to
hunt. It ig healthful to go out in the woods
tnd hunt. It rekindles the luster of the eye.
It strikes the brown of the autumnal leaf in-
to the cheek. It gives to the rheumatic limbs
the strength to leap like a roe. Christopher
North's pet gun, the muckle-mou’d Meg. go-
ing off in the summer in the forest had its
echo in the winter time in the eloquance that
rang through the university halls of Edin-
burgh. Tt is healthy to go hunting in the
fields, but I tell you that it is belittling and
bedwarfing and belaminz for a man to hunt
this world, The hammer comes down on the
guncap. and the barrel explodes and kills
you instead of that which you are pursuing.
When you turn out to hunt the world, the
world turns out to hunt you, and as many a
sportsman aiming his gun at a panthers
i one down under the striped
¢ vhile you have n attempting
i r this world the world has been des
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vouring you. So it was with Lord Byron.
So it was with Coleridge. So it was with
Catherine of Russia. Henry IL went out
hunting for this world. and its lances struck
through his heart. Francis I. aimed at the
world, but the assassin’s dagger put an end
to his ambition and his life at one stroke.
Mary Queen of Scots wrote on the window
°f her castle :
From the top of all my trust
Mishap hath laid me in the dust.
The Queen Dowager of Navarre was offered
for her wedding day a costly and beautiful
pair of gloves, and she put them on,but they
were poisoned gloves, and theytook her life,
Better a bare hand of cold privation than a
warm and poisoned glove of rninoussuccess.
“Oh,” says some young man inthe audience,
“I believe what you are preaching. I am
going to do that very thing, (nthemorning
of my life I am going to devour the prey.
and in the evening I shall divide the spoils
of Christian character. I only want a little
while to sow my wild oats, and then I will
be good.”
Young man, did you ever take the census
of all the old people? How many old people
are there in your house? One, two or none?
How many in a vast assemblage like this?
Only here and there a gray head, like the
patches of snow here and there in the fields
on a late April day. The fact is that the
tides of the years are so strong that men go
down under them before they get to be sixty,
before they get to be fifty, before they get to
be forty, before they get to be thirty ; and if
you, my young brother, resolve now that you
will spend the morning of your days in de-
vouring the prey the probability is that you
will never divide the spoils in the evening
hour. He who postpones until old age the
reiigion of sesus CIr.st postpones it forever.
Where are the men who, thirty years ago,
resolved to become Christians in old age,
putting it off a certain number of years?
‘They never got to be old. The railroad col-
lision. or the steamboat explosion, or the
slip on theice. or the falling ladder, or the
sudden cold put an end to their opportuni-
ties. They have never had an opportunity
since, and never will have an opportunity
again. They locked the door of heaven
against their soul, and they threw away the
keys. They chased the world, and they died
in the chase The wounded tiger turned on
them. They failed to take the game they
pursued. Mounted on a swift courser, they
leaped the hedge, but the courser fell on
them and crushed them. Proposing to bar-
ter their soul for the world, they lost both
and got neither
While this is an encouragement to old peo-
ple who are still unparloned. it 1s no en-
couragement to the young who are pattinz
off the day of grace. This doctrine that the
old may be repentant is to be taken cau-
tiously. Itis medicine that kilis or cures,
The same medicine given to different patients,
in one case it saves life and in the other it
destroys it. This possibility of repentance
at the close of life may cure the old man
while it kills the young. De cautious in tak-
ing it.
Again, my subject is descriptive of those
who come to a sudden and radical change.
You have noticed how short a time it is
from morning to night—only seven or eight
hours. You know that thé day has a very
brief life. Its heart beats twenty-four times,
and then it is dead. How quick thiz {ransi-
tion in the character of these Benjamites!
“In the morning they shall devour the prey,
and at night they shall divide the spoils.” Is
it possible that there shall be such a trans-
formation in any of our characters? Yes, a
man may be at 7 o'clock in the morning an
all devouring worldling, and at 7 o'clock at
night he may be a peaceful distributive
Christian.
Conversion is instantaneous. A man passes
into the kingdom of God quicker than down
the sky runs zigzag lightning. A man may
be anxious about hissoul for a great many
years ; that does not make him a Christian.
A man may pray a great while ;that does not
make him a Christian. A man may resolve
on the reformation of his character and have
that resolution going on a great while, thar
does not make him a Christian. But the
very instant when he flings his soul on the
mercy of Jesus Christ, that instant is Justra-
tion, emancipation, resurrection. Up to
that point he is going in the wrong direc-
tion ; after that point he is going in the right
direction. Before that moment he is a child
of sin ; after that moment he is a child of
God. Before that moment devouring the
prey , after that moment dividing the spoil.
Five minutes is as good as five years.
My hearer, you know very well that the
sest things you have done you have done in
3 flash. You made up your mind in an in-
stant to buy, or to sell. or to invest, or to
stop. or tostart. If you had missed that one
hance, you would have missed it forever.
Now, just as precipitate and quick and spon-
:aneous will be the ransom of your soul.
some morning vou were making a calcula-
jon. You got on thetrack of some financial
)r social game, With your pen or pencil you
were pursuing it. That very morning you
were devouring the prey, but that very night
you were in a different mood. You found
‘hat all heaven was offered you. You won-
iered how you could get it for yourself and
‘or your family. You wondered what re-
sources it would give you now and hereafter.
{ou are dividing peace and comfortsand sat-
sfaction and Christian reward in your soul.
You are dividing the spoil.
One Sabbath night at the close of the ser-
sice I said to some persons, ‘When did you
irst become serious about your soul?” And
‘hey told me, ““To-night.” And I said
ythers, “When did you give your heart to
30d?” And they said. “To-night.” And I
said to still others, ‘“When did youresolveto
serve the Lord all the days of your life?”
And they said. ‘‘To-night.” I saw by the
zayety of their apparel that when the grace
»f God struck them they were devouring the
srey, but I saw also in the flood of joyful
ears, and in the kindling raptures on their
yrow, and in their exhilarant and transport-
ng utterances, that they were dividing the
spoil.
Pe you have been in this building when the
ights are struck at night, you know that
with one touch of electricity they are all
Jlazed. Oh, I would to God that the dark-
ress of your soul might be broken up, and
hat by one quick. overwhelming, instanta-
1eous flash of illumination you might be
yrought into the light and the liberty of the
ions of God'
You see that religion is a different thing
‘rom what some of you people suppose. You
‘houzht it was a decadence. You thought
-eligion was maceration. You thought it
was highway robbery ; that it struck one
iown and left him half dead ; that it plucked
ut the eyes ; that it plucked out the plumes
>f the soul; that it broke the wing and
'rusined the beak as it came clawing with its
slack talons through the air. No, that isnot
religion.
What is religion? It is dividing the spoil.
{t is taking a defenseless soul and panoply:
ng it for eternal conquest. It isthe distribu-
don of prizes by the king's hand. every medal
stamped with a coronation. It is an exhilar-
:tion. expansion. It is imparadisation. It
s entocronement. Religion makes a man
master of ezrin. of death and hell. It goes
forth to gathsr the medals of victory won by
Prince Emanuel. and the diadems of heaven,
and the glory of realms terrestrial and celes-
tial, and then. after ranging all worlds for
mverything that is resplendent, it divides the
spoils, /
What was it that James Turner, the a
mous Euglish evangelist, was doing when in
his dying moments he said: ‘‘Christ ig all!
Christ is all?” Why. he was entering into
ight. He was rounding the Cape of Good
Hope, He was dividing the spoil. What
was the aged Christian Quakeress doing
wien at eighty years of age she arose in the
meeting one day and said : "The time of my
departure is come. My grave clothes are
falling off?” She was dividing the spoil.
She longed with wings to fly away
And mix wita that eternal day.
What is Daniel now doing, the lion tamer,
and Eiijab, who was drawn by the flaming
coursers, and Paul, the rattling of whose
cha made kings quake, and all the other
victims of flood and fire and wreck and guil-
lotine where are they? Dividing the spoil.
r 5 ten thousand
Hog raiment bright
8 of the rauscmed saints
p the steeps of ligat
| inissed,
*Tis finished, all is finished.
Their fight with death and sin.
Lift high your golden gates
And let the victors in.
Oh, what a grand thing it is to be a Chris
tian! We begin now to divide the spoil, but
the distribution will not be completed to all
eternity. There is a poverty struck soul,
there is a business despoiled soul, there is a
sin struck soul, there is a bereaved soul—
why do you not come and get the spoils of
Christian character, the comfort, the joy, the
peace, the salvation that I am sent to offer
you in my Master's name?
Though your knees knock together in
weakness, though your hand tremble in
fear, though your eyes rain tears of uncon-
trollable weeping-—come and get the spoil.
Rest for all the weary. Pardon for all the
guilty. Rescue for all the bestormed. Life
forall the dead. I verily believe that there
are some who have come in here downcast
because the world is against them, and be-
cause they feel God is against them, who
will go away saying :
Icame to Jesus as i was,
Weary and worn aud sad.
I found in Him a resting place,
And He has made me glad.
Though you came in children ofthe world,
you may go away heirs of heaven. Though
this very autumnal morning you were de-
vouring the prey, now, all worlds witness-
ing, you may divide the spoil.
LE ES LAE
CONSTABLES MOBBED.
Beaufort, S. C., People Object to a Seiz-
ure of Smuggled Whisky.
State Constables Swan and Stroebel were
mobbed by a large crowd at Beaufort, S.
£., while trying to seize some whisky. Brick
bats, eggs and curses are said to have been
heaped upon the constables. The Governor
held a long consultation with the Attorney
General and telegrams have been sent to
the sheriff at Beaufort and the captain of
the local military company, but their pur-
port is not known.
Swan and Stroebel went to Beaufort to
see about hquor that had been smuggled
into the State. They got aboard a steamer
with a warrant, but the Captain declined to
recognize it. The constables got hold of a
barrel of beer, but were met by 2 mob as
they left the boat. Swan says that there
were 300 to 400 persons in the crowd.
Draymen and everybody else refuse! to
a sist them, so they began to roll the bar-
rel. The crowd followed and pelted them
with brickbats and other missels. Swan s
nose was broken and his eye terribly cut.
During the transportation of the barrel it
was smashed and its contents rolied out,
When 1t reached the jail only six bottles
were leit.
ASTRIKE AVERTED,
The Sheet Mill Wage Scale Settled in
Conference.
The threatened strike in the sheet mill
industry has been averted and a settlement
effected by which 30 mills employing over
8,000 men, will be continued in operation
during the winter, The settlement was ef-
fected by the rollers agreeing to take the
wage reduction intended for the roughers
and catchers.
President Garland and the sheet com-
mittee of the Amalgamated Association of
tin, iron and steel workers, called upon
Secretary John Jarrett, of the association of
iron and steel sheet manufacturers and
asked to reopen the conterence. Mr, Jarrett
sent for the members of the Manu-
facturers’ committce. When they assem-
bled the Workers’ Committee proposed the
following comprise, which was at once
accepted. The wages of roughers and catch-
ers will continue at $2.25 per dav, but the 10
per cent reduction on this price will be
assumed by the rollers. which will make
the reduction for them reach about 15 per
cent. The scale will be signed at once. By
this settlement the long wage fight in the
iron and steel industries has been settled
finally with the exception of 4 or 5 scatter
ing mills.
DESTITUTION IN CAN ADA.
400 Indians (Perish From Hunger and
More Will Die.
The greatest destitution prevails among
the Indians all over Canada, and from La-
brador to British Columbia comes tales of
suffering, Priests and missionaries are
vainly endeavoring in a small way to re-
lieve the misery and suffering which has
only commenced with the arriva' of the
cold weather and the government has been
appealed to. Oneof the Indian towns in
the northern part of the province of Quebec
has been wiped out by reason of the famine.
1t is already known that more than 400 In-
dians have perished because of hunger. It
is expected that thousands more must in-
evitably starve before the winter is over,
Will Be Located in Washington.
The auestion of the future location of the
oureau ./awaras of the world’s fair has, it
is said, been finally settled by a a determi-
nation to remove it to ‘Washington and
quarters have already been engaged in the
Pacific building. The acting secretary of
the treasury hus granted an aliowance of
$12,000 for the members of the world's fair
national commission, which is to assemble
in Chicago next April for the final meet-
ing,
THE LABOR WORLD.
We have 200 tailors’ unions.
PorTUGAL has labor exchanges.
GERMANY has 238,000 union men.
New York has 300,000 workingwomen,
GENEVA, Switzerland, has a watch school.
HELENA, Montana, has Chinese hucksters,
C1GARMAKERS bave had 142 strikes since
1891.
Tae United Typothetae favors compulsory
arbitration.
AvwsTeErDAM, Holland, has 60,000 idle dia-
mond workers.
ORGANIZATION has raised wages $500,000 a
year in Boston.
Tre International Boot and Shoeworkers’
Ynion has 4600 members.
CiNciNNATI is furnishing work for the un-
employed in the city parks.
STONECUTTERS have made Washington, D.
C.. their genera! headquarters.
NEW Zeananp furnishes work and free
railroad passes to the unemployed.
RAILROAD companies, it is said, are pre-
paring to annihilate unions throughout the
country.
JHICAGO unions ask that one of the World's
Fair buildings shall be preserved as a home
for labor.
Wire machinery 100 men do the work for-
merly requiring 500 in manufacturing boots
and shoes.
Tae Bishops and Members of Parliament
met in London to discuss the problem of the
unemployed.
Ou~eyviLLE (R. 1.) textile workers have
had their wages reduced thirty-eight per
cent. since September 1.
TweNTY-FIVE window glass factories are
now in operation, and the looked-for big
building season next year indicates busy
mills.
THE scale of the Finishers’ Union, accord-
ing to Amalgamated men, allows a cut in
wages ranging from twenty to twenty-five
per cent.
A FREIGHT train passed Bakersfield, Cal..
withe250 unemployed workingmen on board.
They were looking for work, and proceeded
East, and many intend to goto New Orleans.
AprL the Germans working in the French
frontier districts, including those employed
in the factories at Sebirmuack, have been dis-
They wre mostly Alsatians living ut
sehirmeck
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
BAIRBAROUS ROBBERS.
THEY TORTURE A LAWRENCE COUNTY WOMAN
NEARLY TO DEATH,
One of the boldest robberies ever perpe-
trated in S.awrence county occurred a short
distance from EnonValley. The victim waa
Mrs. Mary Williams, the aged wife of John
Williams, a farmer. Williams was away
from home, and at 11 o'clock there was a
rap at the door. When Mrs. Williams
opened it she'was confronted by three revol-
vers in the hands of masked men. All three
sprang upon her and in a minute she was
knocked helpless, bound and gagged. The
raffians punched her in the face with their
pistols to frighten her into telling them
where they could find her money. She
pluckily refused to answer their questions,
although they threatened all sorts of tor-
tures. It was about midnight when the old
lady surrendered, but she was unable tc
speak, and only pointed to the hiding place
ofthe money, #200. Mrs. Williams lay on
the floor until morning, when a neighbor
found her. It is probable thatshe will not
survive.
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MORE FARMERS’ INSTITUTES.
WHERE AND WHEN THE AGRICULTURISTS' WILL
MEET IN ANNUAL SESSION.
darrispure—T. G. Edge,Secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture, has announced
the following additionel dates for farmers’
institutes to be held in Penmsylvania; Sligo
December 6, 7; Bellevue December 8, 9;
Sandy Valley December 11, 12; Guys Mills
December 12, 13; Blair December 12, 13;
Punxsutawney December 13, 14; Lock Hav-
en December 12, 13; Clearfield December 14,
15; Dubois December 15, 16; Clintonville
December 14, 15; Somerset December 20, 21;
East Waterford December 20, 21;Uniontown
December 22,23; Loysburg January2,3; Union
City January 2, 3; Spartansburg January 4,
b; Warren January 11,12; Mansfield, Tioga
county January 16, 17; Tioga, Knoxville;
January 18, 19; Cooperstown January 16,17;
Lewiston January 18, 20; New Paris Febru-
ary 20, 21; Burgettstown February 20, 21.
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REVOLUTIONIZING COKE BURNING.
ScorTpALE—A revolution in the burning
of coke in the Connells ville region is being
agitated and by a practical demonstration
has proved to be successful. Kramer Eb-
erhart, an experienced coke burner for
niany years, bas made a discovery of in-
terest. By a simple hot air appliance he
has devised a plan to burn off the ovenin-
stead of introducing cold air at the door. By
the new plan the inventor claims that bet-
ter coke can be made and the percentage of
loss by burning will be much less, at least
20 per cent., than under the old process.
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A LAND OFFICE BUSINESS IN TURKEYS.
Two immense droves of turkeys were
driven into Uniontown by George Hibbs
and shipped East. The two droves con-
tained 2,500 turkeys and it required three
cars to transport them. Besides the turkeys
2,000 chickens were shipped from here. The
fowls are being purchased by wholesale
dealers in Eastern cities,
i pe iate
WORK FOR MA NY MEN.
Jonxstown—DBlast furnace No. 9 of the
Cambria iron works, after shutting down
nine months, has just been started. This
will give employmen t to probably 300 men
and means resumption in many other de-
partments. Great rejoicing followed the
announcement.
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MINERS ACCEPT A REDUCTION.
Dusois—The miners of this district de-
cided to accept a reduction of 10 per cent.
and will go to work. This affects 2,000 men.
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THE citizens of Altoona, have agreed to
subscribe £5,000 monthly for the relief of
the needy of that city. Unemployed men
will be required to earn their portion by
working on the street or im the stone
quarries.
Tue body of Ko Hang,a Chinese laundry-
man of West xewton, was jounnd on the
bank of the Yougheogheny at Scott Haven,
It is thought he was dementediaud wander-
ed about until he succumbéd to exposure.
OLp employes of the J. P. Witherow
works, at New Castle, are being notified to
report for duty December 1, at which time
the works are expected to start
Junius FRALEY, acoke worker at Leith,
was taken sick at the stomach. He was
given an emetic and vomited a live lizard
three and a half inches long.
ELMER LyoN, principal of a public school
at Roehester, was acquitted of a charge
of assault and battery for switching Edward
Fehr, a 10-year-old pupil.
TexseysoN Ross, a pumper, was held up
by a highwayman near Emlenton, Monday
evening and robbed of a gold watch and
chain and $198.
Tae strike in the Wilkesbarre lace mill,
which has lasted for some months, is ended
The strikers will return to work at a 20 per
cent reduction.
By the shutting down of the Union Coal
Company’s collieries in the Shamokin dis-
trict 3,000 miners are thrown out of employ-
ment.
Work has begun on a new sheet plant of
four mills at Saitsburg, which is to be ready
for operation next summer.
Tre Enterprise Glass Works, BeaverFalls,
which have been idle for several months,
has started in full.
FarMERs near Derry are watching for
barn burners, Two barns were burned in
one night by incendiaries.
WirniayM HOLDEN, colored was fatally
crushed by tons of clay in a Braddock brick:
yard.
AX explosion of powder fatally injured
a little son of Thomas Freeble near Greens-
burg.
TrE Frick Coke Company will build
1,000,000 gallon reservoir at Connellsville.
Sixty men were laid off at the Nypanc
car shops in Meadville
Twenty Thousand Hungry.
In Ironwood, Mich., which is the center
of the Gogebic mineral range. 5,000 miners
have been out of employment since June.
Eight hundred wood -choppers engaged in
the forests have also been idle. IFully 20,000
persons are on the verge of starvation. They
have nothing to live on now but a few beets
and potatoes, The distress in Ironwood is
greatest because it suffered last summer
trom an epidemic of typhoid fever. Not
less than 1.000 children are not only hungry
but cannot leave the miners’ cabins because
of their lack of clothing. Gov. Peck of
Wisconsin is preparing to send a carioad of
provisions to the miners a d an appeal for
help witl be made to Gov. Rich of Michi-
zan. From Ashland, Wis, to Ironwood,
Mich., the business houses, dancc-houses
and gambling dens have closed
LATER NEWS WAIFS,
FOREIGN.
The great cotten mills at Pottendorf, 2
miles south of Vienna, was burned to the
ground. The mill was the largest of its
kind in Austria and gave employment to
1,000 operatives.
An anarchist’s bomb was exploded #a’the
machinery of a factory in the vil'ige of
Piefenbach, near Gablonz,Ger.Considerable
damage was done to the machinery but no-
body was injured.
Terrific snow storms prevail in the
Highlands of Scotland and a number of
railroad trains are imbedded in great
drifts,
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CAPITAL AND LABOR.
The Hartford City Glass Company has
signed the scale and will resume immedi-
ately. The United Glass Company has also
signed in the northern district and will
start two furnaces at Cleveland, N. Y.
The armor plate shipments for last
month from the Carnegie steel works at
Homestead amounted to over 275 tons.
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CRIMES AND PENALTIES.
At Kankakee, Ill, Jesse D. Smith, aged
40, shot dead his divorced wife and Mrs,
Graybill with whom she was living and
then killed himself,
L. A. Hilliard, who embezzled $13,000
from the Chicago ‘‘Tribune’’ whiie cashier,
was sentenced to four years in the penitent-
iary,
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FIRES,
Six four-story brick stores at St. Louis,
occupied by the Paddock Hawley Iron
Company, dealers in iron and farm imple.
ments. Losson buildings aud contents
about $250,000; insurance one half.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Rosendorff & Sons, of New York dealers
indry goods, have assigned.
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WEATHER,
A colé wave struck Burlington, Ia., the
mercury going down to 2° above zero.
ete le Ay eens.
BUSINESS GETTING BETTER.
But the ImprovementGoes on at a Snail’s
Pace.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s “Weekly Review of
I'rade’’ New York says: Consumption increase
es slowly and all branches of business are
waiting for its growth. There has been a
little improvement in stocks, while the
price of products has declined a little on the
whole, but the volume of business hag
somewhat increased.
Trade waits for the revival of indus-
tries, and the week's returns respecting in-
dustrial progress are rather conflicting. The
sales of wool have been the largest since
September, 1892, amounting at tanree chief
markets to 8,025,800 pounds against 4,513,-
500 for the same week last year, and, while
it is stated that many purchases are of a
speculative character, there is evidence that
large buying by active mills is prompted
by increased orders,
Pittsburg iron and steel manufacturers
are playing havoc with Eastern markets,
although the prices made in that region are
so low that their continuance cannot be
predicted. Thereis considerable increase in
the number of concerns in operation, but
there does not appear to be mueh gain in
actual consumption of pig iron, and prices
are as low as ever. The markets for pro—
ducts have been irregular. Wheat has ad-
vanced 1 cent, though the receipts have been
4,300,000 bushels against 5,500,000 last vear,
and the exports from Atlantic ports only
610,000 bushels, against 1,900,000 last year.
The corn receipts are remarkably large,
amounting to 3,000,000, bushels. "against
1,300,000 last year, and the price hasde-
clined 1 cent. The exports continue to
exceed imports largely, For three weeks
at New York the exports were $22518 311,
against $22,469,336 ast year, while the im-
ports were $22,034,029, against $37,158,943
last year.
The faiiurcs for the week numbered 387
in the United States agaivst 180 last year,
and 34 in Canada against 29 last year,” but
the list this week includes some of more
than usual importance. For the preceding
week the liabilities of firms failing amount-
ed to only $3,526,812 against $3,727,467 .the
week before but the weekly average is far
beyond what it would ,be in times of pros-
perity.
#2 NEW PENSION ORDER.
Certificates Under the Act of 1890 No
Longer to Specify Disabilities.
Commissioner of Pensions Lochren has
issued the following important order simp-
lifying the practice of the bureau in the ag-
judicatioa of claims underthe famous sct
of June 27, 1890:
Pension certificates issued under the second
section of the act of June 27, 1890. will no
longer specify particular disabilities, In
such certificates, where the maximum rat-
ing of #12 per month 1s allowed the certifi-
cates will state that the applicant *'is unable
‘0 resort to manual labor.” Where Jess
‘han the maximum rating is allowed the
ertiticate will state that it is for ‘‘partial
inability to earn a support by “manual
labor” 5
Whenever, in case of a pension
ander said section at less an in aad
mum rating, a higher rating is subsequent-
ly sought, the application for such higher
rating shall be considered and treated as a
zlaim for incresse and not as a claim be-
cause of a new disability and the increase
followed, in commence from the date of
the medical examination showi in-
creased disability. 2g the in
er
ROASTED TO DEATH.
Seven Men Diein the Flames of a Burn-
ingHotel.
Seven men were roasted to death in a
burning hotel at Merrill station, Pa. on the
Cleveland & Pittsburg railroad. Several
others were injured, but may recover. The
dead are.
Jeremiah Wrenn, boss stonemason, aged
60, of Pittsburg; Daniel Wrenn, son of the
abo.e, aged 23, of Pittsburg; John Kelly,
laborer, of Woods Run, aged 40; Robert
Stanley, engineer, aged 25, of New Brigh-
ton; James Hughes, engineer, of Chartiers,
aged 33; Barney Wilker, stonemason, of
East street, Allegheny; James P. Miller, a
laborer, of Allegheny.
Henry Wilker, son of Barney Wilker, is
badly injured. James Winn,of Beaver Falls
sustained a fractured shoulder by jumping
from the third story window. He was taken
to Mercy hospital. James Sheener, of Se-
wickley, was badly burned.
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The Fair May Be Saved.
There is a possibility that the principal
World’s Fair buildings will be retained an.
other year. At a meeting between the offi-
cials of the Exposition and members of the
South Park Board of Commissioners repre:
sentatives of the Mxposition promised to
prepare a schedule ot buildings at Jackson
Park which they have the authority to turn
o.er tothe Park Commissioners. The latter
promised to decide what sum of money
they would accept from the Exposition in
return for a release from all ordinances,
contracts or bonds, which relate to the res-
toration of Jackson Park to its original con
| ditiop,
GEN. RUSK DEAD.
The Ex-Secretary of Agriculture Passes
Away. :
Hon. Jeremiah Rusk, ex-secretary of ag-
riculture died at his home, Viroqua, Wis.,
at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning. Gen.
Rusk had been seriously ill for about ten
days. 1t was thought last week that he was
in a dying condition but he rallied, - and
hopes were entertained of his recovery.
General Jeremiah McLain Rusk was born
in Morgan county, Ohio, on July 17, 1830.
He received a publie school education, and
when he was 14 years old the supportof his
mother and sisters tell upon him. He work-
ed on the home farm until he was 15 years
old and then he engaged in driving a stage
between Zanesvilleand Newark. In 1
he removed to Vernon county, Wisconsin,
married and opened .a hotel. He was
elected sheriff and to other local offices and
began to take interest in county affairs. In
1861 he was elected to the legislature,
In July, 1872. he enlisted and was ‘made
major of the I'wenty-fifth Wisconsin Regi-
ment. In 1870 he was elected to Congress,
and served from March 4. 1871, to March 4,
1877. lu the fall of 1851 he was the Repub-
lican candidate tor Governor of Wisconsin,
and was elected by a plurality of 11,667. He
was reclected in 1884 by a plurality of 19,268
and in 1886 by a p.urality of 18 718, :
Gen. Rusk was a candidate for the nomi~
nation for President 1n 1888. His canvass
was conducted with dignity, but he receiv-
ed only the support of Wisconsin in the
convention and withdrew after the third
ballot. He was appointed secretary of agri-
culture in the Harrison administration and
served with the distinction which charac-
terized him in all offices of public trust.
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Horrible Self-Mutilation.
Fred White, living at Otsego, Wright
sounty, Minn.,who,while insane two or three
months ago, gouged out hiseye and was
committed to the asylum at St. Peter, cut off
his right leg above the ankle and with the
‘eft hand cut off his right hand at the wrist,
asing an ax. It is a case of religious insani-
ty. He will probaby die.
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A Bad Prairie Fire.
A terrible prairie fire has been raging
east of Guthrie, Ok., in Lincoln county, de-
vastating many farms and destroying tim-
ber, crops and buildings. Mrs. John Hall,
aged 53, was burned to death and others
badly injured.
—OrriciaLs of the British Admirality at
San Francisco say ships have not been or-
ered to avoid that port on account of de-
sertions of British sailors.
MARKETS.
PITTSBURG.
THE WHOLESALE PRICES ARE GIVEN BELOW.
GRAIN, FLOUR AND FEED.
WHEAT—No. 1 Red.. 65 @ $ 66
No. ZRed..........» 63 64
I 6 6 25°
Timothy prime... . 17 185
Biyesrass. oc. 00.0 LL. . 140 170
RAGS—Country mixed .... % 1%
HJONEY—White clover.... 15 17
Buckwheat... .... 10 . 12
MAPLE SYRUP, new crop. 50 100
CIDER—countrv sweeti®@bbl 6 00 6 50
CINCINNATI. .
FLOUR ...... 0... 3 50
WHEAT—No. 2 Red... 58
BYE-Neo, 2...5... 50%
Sn —Mixed 39%
Y6G0G8.......... . 3 5
BUTTER .. 30
TEOus PHILADELPHIA, 31" >
. LAWrem yo einem ena nis we 8 5
WHEAT-No. 2. 2 apes Go
CORN—No. 2, Mixed. 48 46}
OA'l S—No. J, White...... o~ 33% 34
BUTTER—Creamery Extra. 28
EGGS—Pa.. Firsts.......... 25 26
NEW YORK.
FLOUR—Patents............ 200 4
WHEAT—No 2Red........ 65% 66
RYE—Western dr 5
COBN—No. 2. 10 2% 43 4
OATS—Mixed Western..... 34 341
BUTTER—Creamery... 17 27
EGGS—State and Penn 25 271
LIVE-STOCK REPORT,
Per 100 Ibs.
ro wi CATTLE,
rime Steers..... =i 4 6
“ood butcher . 5 3 o » 2 i
Common............, 350to 3 80
Bullsand dry cows... 2 00 to 3 25
Veal Calves 5 50 to
6 50
. 20 00to 45 00
. . SHEEP,
Prime 95 to 100-1b sheep....$
ood mized.....,....,
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Common 70 to 75 1b sheep... i 00to 2 00
0
Choice Lambs.......... 00to 4 25
iecind HOGS WEE
Selected... .................... 5 Gh
Prime Yorkers..... 5 50 to 5 =
Heavy sWseEe tuner iarisanns H 40to 5 650
| 30UBHS coves vivir. 4 00to § 00
CORN—No. 2 Yellow ear... 45 46
High Mixed ear..... crete 42 43
No. 2 Yellow Shelled. 44 45
Shelled Mixed........... 42 43
OATS—No. 1 White.....e.. 35% 36
No.2 White... .......... 34% 35
33 34
32 33
H6 b7
No. 2 Western, New...... 53 54
FLOUR—Fancy winter pat 4 00 4 25
Fancy Spring patents..... 415 4 40
Fancy Straight winter.... 3 40 3 50
3 XX.Bakers....... Leen 033.00 32
RyeFlour....... . 325 3 50
Buckwheat flour. : 2% 3
HAY—Baled No. 1 Tim’y.. 13 00 13 50
Baled No. 2 Timothy..... 11 50 12 00
Mixed Clover. ............ 1050: 11 00
Timothy from country... 00 18 00
FEED—No.1 WhMd@® T 17 50 18 00
No. 2 White Middhinses..... 17 00 17 50
Brown Middlings........ 1500 16 50
Bran: bulk. ..... . 1500 15350
STRAW — Wheat. 600 650
Oats coon ee 7 00 7 50
L DAIRY PRODUCTS,
BUTTER—EIlgin Creamery 29 30
Fancy Creamery......... 25 27
Yancy country roll. .... - 20 23
Low grade & cooking.... 10 15
CHEESE—Ohio, new..... .. 11% 11%
New York, new.. es 12 12%
Wisconsin Swiss... 15 15%
Limbureer (New ma 13% 14
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
APPLES—Fancy, ¥ bbl... 375 4 00
Fair to choice, # bbl.... 1 50 34
GRAPES-Concord,pony b’sk 9 11
Delaware, pony basket... 10 12
Catawba, pony busket.... 12 13
Niagara, pony basket..... 10 12
BEANS—
NY & M(new)Beans@bbl 1 90 200
Lima Beans............. 34
FOTATORES—
Fancy bu..... eisisinnee 60 65
Sweet per bbl... ....i..0 200 3 00
CABBAGE—rper hundred.. 3 00 4 00
ONTONS—YellowGlobe® bu 55 60
Mixed Country... ...... 40 50
...Spanish, per crate........ 100 110
TURNIPS—purple tops... 40 50
: POULTRY ETC.
Live chickens @ pr....... 45 50
Live Ducks 2 pr......... 40 60
Live Geese ® pr..... 11.00 115
Live Turkeys #th..... 8 9
Dressed chickens 8 1b.... 9 10
Dressed ducks @th....... 10 12
Dressed turkeys 8 t..... 11 13
EGGS—Pa & Ohio fresh. .. 24 25
FEATHERS—
Extra live Geese @ ..... 55 60
No 1 Extra live geese Ih 4 50
Mixed,..........0 0.0. 49 857
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