THE BOERS ARE REPORTED BEATEN.
RUMOR UNCONFIRMED.
Londoners Full of Confidence—Everyone Takes
Heart at the News from the Front Al- &
though Not Crediting AlL
The war office had nothing to com-
municate to the public Sunday.
may be taken for granted that the rumor
of General Brabant’s victory at Wepen-
er is premature. ‘With the remainder of
his force he left Aliwal North Saturday
for Rouxville, and there has scarcely
been time for an engagement.
There is practically no fresh news.
All the Boemifontein dispatches, how-
ever, breathe a confident tone. There
seems to be a heavy demand on the rail-
way, for so large an army leaves the
populace bare of everything save the
absolute necessities of life.
The fact that the censors allowed
Winston Churchill's dispatch on the!
subject of remounts to pass spe: aks vol-
umes for the condition of that que
and concerning the prospect of any im- | Snow has damaged
mediate advance toward Pretoria. The] and d
utmost Lord Roberts will be able to | of Col . ol
do for some time will be clearing the | fohn R. Reese, president of the U me
Boers from the southern part of the | ed Mine Workers, of Iowa, is ill with |
Free State. t smallpox Albia, la
The dispatches announce ap-! Andrew rnegie in an Interview
proach of winter. The first pinch 01 said that young men should marry |
frost has been felt at Bloemfontein, | “common sense women.
where considerable rain has fallen Joseph Stringer choked his wiie to
Telegrams from Cape Town Sunda
say: “An unconfirmed report is in cir
culation here that Gen. Brabant has
inflicted a crushing de upon the
1
Boers at Wepener, capturing guns and
taking prisoners.” .
A dispatch from Pretoria by way of
Delagoa bay, says: It is official lly an
nounced that a battle has been fought
south of Brandiort, in which 600 Brit
ish troops were killed and wounded and
800 taken prisoners.
Lord Roberts is declared to be find-
ing great difficulty, owing to scarcity
of water.
The enemy are making a general at-
tempt to discover a strategic opening.
Their numbers are unknown to us, but
are anywhere between 3000 to 6,000.
They are moving cautiously. Remounts
are arriving, but the pile ne animals
are little liked by the cavalry. Among
the valuable documents discovered be
longing to Messrs. Steyn and Fischer
is some correspondence proving that the
a general Dutch risir
Trustworthy
Boers recently
refugees asserts that the
obtained at least thirty
pieces of artillery, some of large cali-
ber, which were brought overland as
machinery from a West African port.
Eight of these guns were dispatched to
the Free State a week ago. The Boer
officials openly boast that they have
succeeded in smuggling ammunition
through Portuguese territc
In the course of the Dempsey rial
State Engineer Munnick admitted un-
der pressure that, acting under instruc-
tions from State Secretary Reitz,
Transvaal, he had bored holes in
mines.
Heavy fighting was continued at
Wepener Tuesday. hree Boer cor
mandos are attacking the town
fighting was severe and lasted all day
long. The Boers received a check
The casualties were rather heavy on
both sides. Another commando 1s ad-
vancing toward Wepener from DeWets-
dorp.
MACRUM SAYS IT'S A LIE.
x-Consul’s Reply to Hay’s Statement Regard-~
ing Tampered Mail.
Charles E. Macrum, of East Liver-
pool, O., ex-consul to Pretoria, when
seen Wednesday morning regarding the
statement that Consul Adelbert Hay has
failed to find any evidence of the con-
sular mail being tampered with ¢
Mr. Macrum’s stay at Pretoria
“While 1 do not take much stoc
newspaper reports, this is such a pal-
pable perversion of the truth that it is
impossible to allow the matter to pass
unnoticed, as it scems to have come
from the state depa tment. This state-
ment is on a parallel 1 with the malicious
misrepresentation whic h came from the
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
The shah of Persia is en route to
Russia.
United State Senator Chilton 1s very
ill at Tyler, Tex.
Three hundred mi
at Knoxville, Tenn
Telegraphers on the
way are out on
Phya Prasiddhi, the new
irom Siam, arrived in Washington F
day.
Two hundred :
.rs are on strike
Southern rail-
a strike.
minister
ri-
tv thousand per-
sons visited the exposition Sun-
day.
There have 11 cases of bubonic
plague and s at Sydney. Au
tralia.
Bryan Democr
Admiral Dewey 1
i to welcome
ks of their
fall of Ladysmith was 2 be the signal |
party.
i Stephen Crane, the novelist, 15 Sa
| to be dying at his home mn Sussex,
1
the winter there
n typhoid fever at Nom
300 cases
death at Bakerville, Tenn.. and blew his
own head off with a gun.
A company of Pittsburg and other
capitalists has been formed to cultivate
coffee and rubber in Mexico.
York 3.000 cigarmakers
and a
are
In New
on strike for e in wages
general strike is threatened.
The President has nominated John
P. V. Gridley, of Erie, Pa. to be sec-
ead lieutenant in the marine corps.
Alexander, Ark., Mrs. T. H. Hol-
i shot and killed William Cook, who
she claimed had defamed her charac-
ter.
Owing to the good offices of Ameri-
can missionaries the revolution in the
Cameroons, Africa, is said to he dying
out.
The sealing steamer Terra Nova,
with 37,000 seals, and the Walrus, with
2.000 seals, have returned from the ice
helds.
While setting fire to a pile of brush
car Wilkesbarre Mrs. Michael Fox's
clothes ignited and she was burned to
death.
Prof. E. Benjamin Andrews, of Chi-
cago, will probably decline the office of
Shanectior of the University of Ne-
braska.
The authorities of British Columbia
e decided to repeal the law exclud-
g aliens from mining pr ivileges in the
province.
The Democratic State convention of
North Carolina nominated Charles B.
Avcock for governor and elected Bryan
cgates.
David Zimmerman and James Moffitt
were killed and Oscar Zimmerman bad-
ly injured by a boiler explosion at Syl-
vester, Mich.
Augustus Young shot, but did not fa-
tally wound, Kate Van Clooster, at
Murpheysboro, Ill, and blew out his
own brains.
Rufus Wright, a Chicago millionaire,
was shot and perhaps fatally Wounded
by Mrs. Louisa Lottridge, who s:
it was accidental.
John C. Farrar, teller of the Water
bury (Vt) National bank, is missing
and there is a defalcation of
f the bank's funds.
The St. Louis Sunday School Union
is arranging to have 10,000 Sunday
school children sing for Admiral Dewey
nn
at his reception in May.
George W. Hull, the Rhode Island
mi illionaire arrested in New York a
perjury charge. has been heh to
bail in the sum of $10,000.
Five hundred miners emg
Pleasant colliery
strike.
ith the wages.
were 30 !
same department before I reached this
country. If proof {
are not on file at the consulate in Pre
toria it is because they have been will
fully abstracted therefrom. In short, 1]
want to say that the statement published |
is a lie, nothing more or less.
been slandered and maligned
have become tired of it.”
ONE MAN KILLED.
Five Others Were Injured by an Explosion of
Natural Gas in Indiana.
until
i
i
{
i
High pressure and a piece of alleged
defective pipe in the mains of the Chi-
cago Pipe Line Company, at a poir
four miles southeast of Logansport.
Ind., were the cause of a terrific
plosion Sunday, in which Michael E
son, Jr., was instantly killed and five
other men received injuries from
which it is doubtful if some will recov-
er,
. Twelve men were in a trench repair-
ing a leak in a 10-inch main from which |
the gas had been transferred to an
eight-inch main near it. The men were
around a “T” in the eight-inch main,
and Ellison was stooping over it when
the explosion occurred, and he was
thrown 150 feet away, and instantly
killed.
The “T” weighs 1,000 pounds, and
was carried a distance of 50 feet, tak- |
ing off the top of George Nelson's hat |
and a small bunch of his hair, other-|
wise not injuring him. i
New Creed Called For.
The Presbytery of Nassau, in
sion at Northport, Long Island, unani-
mously adopted the following resolu-
tion: hat it is the prayer of the
Presbytery of Nassau that the general
assembly rorolate a short and simple
creed that would be acceptable to the
church.”
The resolution as introduced was}
stronger, but was podified in the inter- |
{
{
ses
est of harmony. Rev. Gray, who |
offered the resolution, et it meant to |
set aside the present creed as an heir-
loom and to make a new creed that
would be more se. Thereupon
Mr. Gray was 1 delegate to the
general assembly, h the understand-
ing that he would present his views to!
that body. !
pre
Blown Up by a Dewey Gun.
A large cannon captured by Admiral
Dewey at Manila and loaned by the
government to the citizens of Clarks-
burg, who have it on exhibiti in the
park, was loaded to the mn i
heavy charge of power
Madam Dowd’s resort
more & Ohio depot =
Wednesday morning
the contents were to
inmates escaped with
Mammoth Real Esiate Deal.
A syndicate headed 0. A.
ertson and Frank O’M S
and F. E. Kennaston, of
has purchas sed all the N
cific lands in Minnesota, approximately |
530,000 acres. The deal was the largest
ever made in Minnesota, and-with the |
exception of the Weyerhaeuser Wash- |
ington pine land deal, probably the
largest ever made in the United States.
The price paid is said to have rin
Rob
>.
about $1,900,000.
Burglar’s Easier Haul.
Burglars Sund night dug through
the nine-inch brick wall of the vault of
St. Simon’s church at Toronto, O., with
crowbars and picks and stole $1,173,
the Easter offering. The church is sit-
uated on the brow of a ravine and the
cracksmen worked three hours unob-
serve Se
of all my charges |
I Yee | <
| been t turned by praise.
{ melancholy
jescaped. C
he custom house receipts at Ha-
a for the first threc months of 1
being $77
T onths in 1890.
Strong, a rich
{ Creek.
Thomas Blaney, a t
rested in New York, hav
session $10,000 worth of beer
d to have been stolen
Goldman,
the
30 men of
was attacked
by insurgents Friday, near Orion, and
two men were killed before they could
retire.
Prol. E. Benjamin Andrews, former-
y president of Brown university, and
now superintendent of the Chicago pub-
lic schools, has been chosen chancellor
of University of Nebraska.
Secretary Alger says he is sorry for
Dewey and considers that his head has
He predicts for
presidential asperations a
disappointment.
At Omaha, Neb., the sheriff learned
that a mob intended to raid the jail to
lynch James Corney, charged with as-
saulting Kate Vavra. The prisoner was
taken for safety to Lincoln.
with
Capt.
Thirty-second regiment,
in his
{t is rumored that a consolidation will
be effected of the National Steel Com-
| pany, Ameri Tin Plate Company and
the Ame n Steel Hoop Company,
with a capital of $140,000,000.
President Kruger is reported to be
at Kroonstad. In an interview Mrs.
Kruger said that she prayed for an end
war, but that the Boers will never
relinquish their independence.
Rev. Dr. H. W. Bennett, of Ander-
son, lad. is io be put forward for a
shopric in the M. E. Church. ie
once had a charge at Akron, O.
Bennett for several years practiced on
Stephen Alonoghan, a war veteran,
believed to be poor, died at Shamokin
Wednesday and when his papers were
examined it was found he owned gov-
ernment bonds to the amount of $30,-
000.
t Indianapolis, Ind., a colored man,
riding a bicycle, fired a revolver into
a crowd of boys that teased him and
rence Vort was wounded
1 the hip and George Golden in the
oh
gh.
For over 40 days Mrs. Ollie Reimer,
an inmate of the Me County, Pa.,
{ Insane hospital, has aa entirely
on milk injected into her stomach
through a ru ibber tube. She is trying to
¢ herself to death.
The Mollicans. of southeast Russia,
numbering 10,000, are said to be only
waiting the czar’s permission to follow
the Donkhobors to Canada. Tolstot
advised the Donkhobors
e Canada for California.
The United States Glucose Company,
the National Starch Company and the
United States Starch Company are to
the National Starch Com-
500,000 capital stock and
per cent. bonds.
The State convention of the League
of Democratic Club of Ohio opened in
1
1
not to
pany :
$4,000, oon mn
Columbus Wednesday, and although
the sentiment is said to be for Bryan,
President Buch el referred only indi
rectly to the Nebraskan
r entirely.
and ignored sil-
One hundred thousand acres of hard-
wood land and Go miles of operating
railroad in the upper Michigan penin-
sula passed into the hands of Chicago
capitalists Saturday, the purchase being
made from Cleveland and New York
parties, comprising the Munising Land
Company and the Munising Railroad
4 Company.
(TAGK OF DESOLATION IY Kphghg | =ovcome cousarseo
FIERCE TORNADO. a Large Business Houss—Nar- TRUST OF FARMERS.
- row Escapes. ee
Two Fatalities Reported—Many Others Said to
Be Injured— Farm Houses Blown Down—
To Rais2 the Price of Wheat—Scheme Manipu-
Ams . The four-story brick warehouse of tated in the United Siates and
Telegraph Wires Are Disabled. the Armstrong McKelvy Lead and Oil Switzerland being Advocated.
—— Company, at Wood street and Second |
A storm approach toraade in) Yenc. Pittsbur psed Toursdny :
i » near Win- | ommng at 9:45 ° sree pet-] All the farmers of the world in a sort
sons w crus to death and four}; international trust to restrict the
1d New-
i pli TW ers injured. { any otites : i Hipiosed production of wheat and raise prices
g in the doomed structure had thrilling ei rT
bored and fourf Goon = i ote vad is the plan which it is hoped to cars
been injured | igh yes Deu Cy gt 1 into effect at the International Agricul
Nire Ihe build which | was a relic of the | yy] Conference in Paris, July o- “16.
are ~F i
| first half of . was a complete} Ji is proposed to ask the farmers of
wreck and ent: or a loss of about $15,- the world to reduce their wheat out-
ooo. It w vned by T. M. Arm-{nut by 20 per cent, and not to sell a
bushel for less than a dollar. J. Hany
particular
At Paton. it is said, several he
MSCS
of the Armstrong
were blown down four people seri- i
hos "W or | i De ashi br a br Te ley, of St. Paul, executive agent of the
passengers on the southbound Santa Fe ased by ine snoek the he Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union,
passenger train that two persons were Baye HMeK ro e € Oiihe Bre the National Cotton Growers Associa-
killed. Laat ri i € Go ease ee I" | tion, the Farmers’ Federation of the
The telephone and telegraph wires {ccc 9% the innlding, contamng be: | Mississippi Valley and the Na
vere rendered useless by the wind and | : $30,000 and 10,000 worth ot | tional Grain Growers Associa”
attem to ch Putnam, New- s and colors, were destroyed. | tion, is the chiei promoter oi the In-
| ton, or affected poi have proved fu- oY ale he lieved to he covered by in- | ternational Agricultural Trust in Amer-
West of Cicarwater it is reported] or nce pices d in New York by the Na-{ica. Prof. G. Ruhland, of the Univer
a strip of country five miles long tional Lead Company, on a fire and sity of Fribourg, Switzerland, is the
swept by water risk. A searching investigation | chief promoter of the plan in Europe,
a storm 1
! will be instituted by Coroner Jesse N
at 6 o'clock Sun-
a
al
day night, and houses, : The idea was conceived by these tw
barns and other blown McGeary to Pisce the responsibility | men independently. Mr. Hanley has
( sual re reported from for the awful disaster. The cause 13: been interested in many “hold-your
Shrotded in myste but is believed | wheat” schemes, and is prominently as-
fact that indefinite scraps of in- He Sh been due to some neglect. Cor- sociated with the farmers’ elevator and
formation are all thot cen be secured) IcGeary declared that only a su- [various co-operative undertakings. He
gives cause for alarm that the storm 18 perficial examination has been made | has long believed that if the farmers
hiuch more serious than is generally sad no one had suggested that any crim- would only come to an under tanding
admitted. At a small settlement sev- inal neglect was at the bottom of the as to limiting production and agree {6
eral miles west of Freemont, in Sum- i but he declared that every sell only when their price could be ob-
ner county, it is said all of the houses i on brought out at the in- | tained they could easily master the sit-
were wrecked h Sr oi life. juest, which he set for next Tuesday | nation,
morning. An expert examination
; : will
be made in the meantime.
The storm area, so far as can be learn-
INDIA'S SAD STATE
ed, extends over about ten counties
near and at the southern line of the | re
State. The cyclonic disturbance seems SCALDED A SCORE.
Dis'ress Exis's at Present Over an Area of
300.000 Square Miles—Aid Asked for
3,500,000 People.
Battery of Boilers in the Riverside Iron Works
Explode—Loss may be $125,000.
About 8 o'clock Friday morning a
battery of two boilers, each 350 feet
long, between the blast furnace and
steel plant of the Riverside iron works.
to have follow »d the course of the Ar-
kansas river.
ONE GREAT POOR HOUSE.
No Doctors Within Reach of the Poveriy-Siricke
en Population of Puerlo Rico.
The State department has made public
one of the reports upon which it based
its statement relative to the famine in
The startling fact was recently made) at Wheeling, W. Va. exploded with | India. This report from Consul Fee
public that in many districts of Puerto terrific force from a cause which has |at Bombay, who that, notwith-
Rico where the population reaches not yet been definitely fixed. The en-|standing the season of acute distress has
thousands there is no resident physician. gine house of the steel plant and a wall hardly commenced, the returns far ex-
For instance, Wayuya, a town of 1,500, | of the blast furnace were destroyed ceed those during the initial stages of
must depend on the simplest remed es [and 20 men working in the vicinity were | the famine three years ago. It then
in the case of illness, as there is no phy- | more or seriously injured. The | affected only 1,000,000 persons; now the
sician within H. At Utuado the Decide cat an immediate suspen- figure is 3,500,000 and the daily expendi-
death rate is 8 per cent. annually, and f in the various departments | ture is placed at $84,000. The famine
this town is a day's ride from Ponce | of the big plant, located near the boiler. | Tea covers 300,000 square miles, with
through the mountains. Flying ore, falling missiles and escap-{2 population of 40,000,000, and there is
It appears th physicians have further area of about 145,000 square
3 ing steam caused the injuries to the em- | | :
been sent to th districts, but they | ployes. miles, with a population of 21,000,000,
|
refuse to rema
Jargely because no| One Pole was blown through the air in which more or less distress prevails
| ing, seeing
i in crowns,
{ member me? I wo
NOTHING BELOW B DOLLAR A BUSHEL OR. THLMAGES Son SERMON.
A GOSPEL ME MESSAGE.
nig
Subject: The Nesurreciion of Christ—=Thg
Seasyn of Spiritual Gladness and Rey
treshmeni—Victory Over Death and
the Grave—The Mission of Flowers.
[Copyright 1400.
WasmsatoN, D. C.—This rmon of Dr
Talmage rings all the } s of gladness,
espec ally appropriate at t season, wher,
all Christendom is celebrating Christy
yesurrection; text, John xix.. 41, “In the
garden a naw supule her
Looking around ti
flowers in wreath
and flowers in er
billows ot he
of beauty, you feel as
small heaven
You say these flowers wii fade.
perhaps you may see them again. They
may be immortal. he fragrance of the
flow er may be the spirit of the flower: the
ay of the flower dying on earth; its
$ may appear in better worids. 1 do
Sa say it will be so. 1 say it may be so,
The ancestors of tho tuberoses and
camellias and japonicas and jasmines and
heliotropes wera born in paradis
apostle
lar live
ies this morn.
and flowers
ses und 1 ower:
in sta
ig) in :
Yes, bat
Tuty came down in the regn-
ssion. Their an
bd, underground
of ‘apos stolie 3
cestors during So flo
afterward appeared,
The world started with Edan;
it will end
Heaven is ealied a paradise of
God. Paradise means flowers. While theo-
jogical geniuses in this day are trying to
blot out everything material from their
iden of heaven, nnd, so far as I can tell,
thelr future state is to be a floating around
someavhers between the Great Bear and
Cassiopeia, I should not be surprised if at
last I can pick up a daisy oun the ever
ing hills and hear it say; “I am one of the
glorified flowers of earth. Don’t
shiped with
Easter morning in 1900.”
My text introduces us into a garden
is a manor in the suburbs of Jeru
with Eden.
‘you on
| owned by a wealthy gentleman of the name
| vided this place for his lust slumber.
town is able to support one. As a re- ; 60 feet and fell beside a workman who, and where relief has been or will be
sult of this condition of things the} in describing the incident, says he given. The consul says that the appli-
order providing a physician for e s | thought the man fell from the clouds. cations for relief are overtaxing the
500 people is now very difficult of ga | 81 Singularly enough, the laborer who was state authorities and are increasing at
forcement, because the towns reply that | blown up was not fatally injured. Sev- an appalling rate, the number of apphi-
there is no fund for such service. | eral of the victims will probably die. cants at the relief works during the
This is ast poorhouse e| The pecuniary damage will exceed last week in January advancing 230,000 |
and there are opportunities for charity | $ 5,000, and if the metal in the blast 1d bringing up the total to 3,500,000,
at every Were $10,000 to be ex- | furnace chills there will be an addition- with the most trying period still two
pended ly for medicine months distant.
loss of over $100,000.
medical aid it EE possibly save t ee Li
2: | ands Revert to the Crown.
lives of 3,000 people. At one time the | A A PRIEST MOBBED. | Al te rae
government considered the feasibility | rem | Mining Compan, See of he t i ion |
f accioning A rsicia pe ; 1 ) y, rate n- i
o = ey phy i 5 i sash toy 1 | Mexicans Demanded Costumes for Passien | {ario, da, with $360,000 capital and
at an aggregate cost of $ yer year, { , 300, 3
but the funds for ot uch an oN it Play in Vain, Then Grew Angry. ! holding 3.000 acres of mining property
not available. a the | - ca lin the Sudbury district, have been noti-
fipl svatane | . The new order of the Archbishop fied by the Canadian government that
ee 1 Mexico regarding as > 1€ad by 3 8 i 2
WAR LOSSES | Iexico regarding the Passion Play, their charter has been declared forfeit-
. | customary on Good Friday, was ob-|.4 and that the lands revert to the
=— | se -rved in the Valley of Mexic al- crown ?
Washington Authorities Try to Make a Compar=- | though the masses resented the prohibi- The Vermillion Company was organ
: 5 > Ww . 1. Th pany was organ-
ison of Two Campaigns. | t of the pera which has been a ized by Akron men, but the directors
The war department has prepared } of Hoy Week 10r centunes lai the Canagian Copper Company ond
| sistemnent Sea - 2 rd oi ) the clergy when they | Anglo-American Iron Company secur-
ures in the Dn Rone the Indians. {ed a controlling interest, and the Akron
the f Yautepee, in the State of}yen recently brought suit against them
Sot Sirioen wu the people assembled at the) fr g1,000,000 damages, alleging that the
10 he A ns that | interests of the Vermillion Company
or 1 tne costumes ‘a 2 2
the American troops sh time of their y fore neglected.
occurrence | : regarded in s report 1 Scathing Criticism on War.
, and are the n, the peo declaring that
The London Leader say “The re-
ports from Boer as well as from British
sources of our reverses near the Bloem-
fontein railway ar truly lamentable.
ch a priest, and
cient customs.
d not stand s
: They show a distinct lack of care and
1s issued a re- leading. In the face of surprise we
casualties up| ceem utterly without resources except
reliance on pluck. That is a safe card
in the play, but a cosy one.
ons led by asses,”
n of the Britis
the Jught we had learned
late years in t commi
icers and 1,060
18 officers and
prisoners, 168
Died
an
an old de-
army, but we
omething of
oned ranks.
What light does this war throw upon
and | that possibility?
{ ot er et et am:
woun hospital. Bubonic Plague in Havana.
rr olfice returns of casuaities Ar .
y A report on bubenic co nS ir
dded the losses of the last P : g condidens ia
Hawaii up to March 31 has been re
ceived by the marine hospital service
irom Surgeon Carmichael, stationed at
Honolulu. The total cases to date
number 70, of which Go died, 9 recover-
ed and one is in the hospital. Of those
who died 32 were Chinese, 8 Japanese,
16 Hawaiians and 4 whites.
for the Cape The active part of the disease, the sur-
} along a huge | geon says, seems to have passed, and if
City,” which 4 crusade against the rats is carried on
The machine|in conjunction with ‘other sanitary
and grave I at the rate | measures the surgeon hopes for a speedy
cessation of the present plague.
the woun
n,
aggregating
and total
and men
Thousand Maryland Miners Lay Down
Their Picks.
Lot for Cape Nome.
ludi number of Pitts-
sections.
lirt
he prospectors
Gold Dredging
, of Pittsburg, Pa,
3 e recog
the United
Royal Gift to Belgium.
not do Ivor to the 1 $35,000. Among|{ Tj the Chamber of Deputies Wednes-
will let Shor ren idle unti 2 are Johnson, gone day a communication from King Leo-
get tired of Ihactivite and 1 t { the com Dr J. Ir-1 pold was read presenting all his real
work of their own volition. On the #Jonn Dale inn Mé Cefiand estate to the nation on the occasion of
other hand the miners claim that they Le ard, of Pitts 1 H.| his 65th birthday, whith was April o.
are prepared to continue the contest in- | Todd, William HB L nion-| He pointed out the necessity for open
definitely. town, and John of | spaces and gardens near growing cities,
The general strike of the mine Brownsviile. for the benefit of hygiene and artistic
the Georges creek coal region will ——,— effects, and expressed the hope that
riously affect the manufacturers and Murdered by Tramps. these naturally adorned spaces would
plants of all kinds that use bituminous Shortly before m oht Sunday two | not be allowed to deteriorate. A bill
coal Pode n th: Bt 15 x There is tramps with white dkerchi tied | has been introduced to accept the offer.
comparatively a small supply on hand, | ove i a 1 ous Ne
and it is thought that a couple of wee Yop hols be f She Tous > Col. Hays Leaves the Army,
idleness at the mines will cause a ma- | v r Lieut. Col. Webb Hayes, of the
terial increase in the price, if not cause | Toledo, Ohio, knocked : Thirty-first infantry, son of the late
a partial famine of that ¢ and as johanna opened the door one President Hayes, has been honorably.
Ly maTriin TIT of the men struck her across the head | discharged from the army at his own
Chicago Millionaire Shot. with a club. knocking her down. Kate | request. He has been serving in the;
Rufus Wright naire manu- { sprang to the assistance of her sister, Philippines with Col. Pettit, but is now
facturer of ru »s, was shot Sat- | when a second tramp felled her with anon his way to San Francisco. It is as-,
urday during a scuifle for possession of | axe helve. sumed that he does not care to devote
a revolver in apartments of Mrs. The women were bound and gagged | his time to the guerrilla warfare into
Louise Lottridge, the Leland hotel, | and the house robbed. Johanna died {which the operations in the Philippines
Chicago, Ill, and died S y from the { in a short time, and Kate is a raving have degenerated.
affoets of the wound. Th body of the aniac as the result of her injuries. Booth Geis $200, 000.
millionaire is now at undertaking he tramps escaped w $200 in money. ow .
eos. wi 1 induest will be held. a ” I'he birthday of Willlam Booth, com-
It is the o that the Cuban Teachers Welceme. mander of the Salvation army, who was
coroner’s rk the Supt. Frye, of the Cuban schools, has born at Nottingham, England, April 10,
close of the state- i telegraphed to Gen. Wood, military 1820, was signalized Tuesday by the re-
ment by the dec of he governor of Cubs, it the president an a] ceipt of hundreds of congre atulatory’
tectives Coll ng was | ic of Harvard » voted to guar- | messages from all parts of the world
accidental, w Mrs. : ne 1,430 Cuban | and the presentation of a purse of $200,-
Lottridge of on e part of] 20%, 28 the result the collections
go! Success of the made during the seli-der week of the
enterpris adow of a doubt, | army lust concluded, =
A A 1 ¢ of the Mr. to Washington CABLE FLASHES.
Berwind-W Compai near § to at t rangements with Secre-
Windber. -ounty, Pa., a riot}]tary Ro tion of the Mer. Fran Marchetti will suc
urre d shortly before midnight Sun- y amy !
ceed Mgr. Sgaretti on the apostolic del
ehich
which 1 egation to the United States.
day in the
one = | 2
death, 1 party to A 3 Irish regi
stabbed Washington. ment a 3s n were capiured
: by the Boers near Bloemfontein.
The openi >f the Paris exposition
Maru, which |is an augury of tan: among the Eu-
the lo Sunday, from | ropean nations for a time at least.
party Austrians in Berlin are preparing
¢ urveyors en-!give a fine rec ception to the emper
Bur- | of Austria on the occasion of his visit
se boundar s h aithere May 3 J
oT ; jermany, | large body Tabor er who A consistory 1 be held Friday in
was found from a rope sometime and Trrdered Rome for the ypointment of "new
in an empty the roof of and Mr. bishops to the United States. including
his house. e boundary | ie at Columbus, O. :
1s hnge 1 ol al 5 wh The Tahitian government has
blood poi ; eng xillea and 4 the Oceanic camship
w a ne proposition for cam service
Ainab Will Stand by Fo an Francisco to T: :
Repul 1 State ommittee In the German {own of
sesued a call 1 Janeicke, who professed to
: to meet at gician, mungered Louise
arrived cettled t inducing her to drink a pot
ychnine..
Senator
he the
d elphia
ire def
prisoners.
on the
ie a man
stop the war
Herat. The czar on his visit to Mo
cow for the first time dispensed with
his bodyguard of soldiers.
E ngland to
to calling on
1 2 quie
I gi haved. I'he governor has
been notified of the desire of the author-
ities that the prisoners be treated with
every courtesy and consideration,
jor State offices,
Taylor for
contest
nominate Gov.
ber election,
and threatening to occupy, | :
: 1 CEUDY: | and Pilate’s ruffinn
of Joseph. [fe belonged to the court ot
seventy who had condemned Christ, but
he had voted in the negative, or, being a
timid man, had absented himself when the
vote was to bo taken. At great expense he
laid out the garden. It being a hot climate,
I suppose there were trees broad branched,
and there were paths winding under these
trees, ad hare and there were waters drip-
ping down over the rocks into fish ponds,
und there were vines d flowers blooming
from the wall, and all arou
arboriculture.
of kiosk and After the fa-
tigues of the Jerusalem courtroon, how |
refreshing to come into this suburban re- |
traat, botanical and pomologicall
Wandering in the garden, I behold some
rocks which have on them the mark of the |
sculptor’s chisel. I come neare
find there subterranean rece
down thie marble steps, and 1
and I
Icome
come to a
fruits and Howers.
either side there are room
six rooms of rock, the wal
having niches, each niche
hold a dead body. Here is one room
i y wealthy of scuipture.
ph realizes he ¢
len, and
our or
is of these rooms
nlways walk this ga Le has pro-
what a beantiftil spot in which to w
the coming of the resurrection! M
this tomb, for it is to be the
ed tomb in ail the
f Napoleon,
mpared w ith it.
3 rdared, i
to the
throw dogs
other crucified bodies,
prompt and efficient hindran
the owner of this mausoleum in the rocks,
begs for the body of Christ. He
from. tl
the poor, mutilate
and blood, shroud and perfumes it.
I think that regular embalimment
Jog in olden time a
, tho priest, with sc
me Se al skill, would po
omitted.
to be emb
tensfon of
the place between the ribs w hor 3 the in-
cisicn must be made,and then t!
having
wade the incision,
a violation af the dead.
© with salt of ni
and cassia ¢
plete the em}
balmment of k 3
omitted. It would have iy
contention and another riot,
The funeral! hastens on, Present, I
think, Joseph, the owner of the mauso-
leum; Nicos 12, the wealthy man who
had brought the spices, anc tthe two Marys
No organ dirge, no pinmes, no aRtnisiie
Heavy burden for two men as they carry
Christ’s body down tlie marble stairs and
into the portico and lift the dead weight to
the level of the niche in the rock and push
the body of Christ into the only ple sant
resting place it ever had. Coming forth
from the portico, they close the ac oor of
rock against the recess.
The government, afraid that the dis-
ciples nay steal tha body of Chri and
play r rrection, order the s of the
ganhedrin to be put upon the door of the
tomb, the violation of that seal, like the
violation of seal of the Government of
the United S at r Great Britain, to be
followed with gr unishment. A come
pany of soldiers from the tower of Antonia
is detailed to stand guard.
At the deer of the maus
takes places which decides t
tor all graveyards and cemeteries.
of lightning against sword of stee
against military. No seal of letter
sum a fight
question
Sword
aver more easily broken than that seal ot
the sanhedrin on the door of the tomb.
The dead hody in the niche in the rock
begins to move in its shroud of fine linen,
slides down upon the pavement, moves out
of the portico, appears in the doorway, ad-
vances into. the open air, comes up the
marble step Having left His ortua
attire behind Him, He comes fort vork-
man’s garb, as I take it, from the faet that
the women mistook Him for the gardener.
That day the grave received sh shat-
{ering it never be rebuiit. All tLe
trowels of earthly masonry never mend
it, Forever and fore it is a broken
tomb. Death, taking side with the m
tary in that fight, d a terrible eat
from the ang cf flame, so that he
under
himself shali go down he awhile
fore the
it. The King of terrors re
King of grace! he Lord is n! Let
earth and heaven keep Easter to-day!
Hosanna!
Some things strika my observati
nd, firet, post mort h
ast with ante mortem ignomintes, It
they could have afforded Christ such a
costly sepulet why conld not they have
given Him an earthly residence? W itl ti
cher.
2
=
give this piece of marble to a dead Christ
instead of a soft pillow for the living Jesus
If they had expended half the of that
tomb to make Christ comfortable, it would
story. He
a ston
the world’s bonefac-
not have been sc sal a
hread; they gave Him
Christ, like most of
tors, was ap preciated better after He was
and monu-
dead. Westminster Abbey
mental Greenwood are the
to atone by honors to the
) thie Liv
HE or seventy
his being oppr
contract that he had just ade for a thou-
sand verses at sixpence a line. And there,
too, you find the monument of Samuel But-
ler, the author of ‘“Hudibias;” but while I
look at his monument in Pc corner I
eannot but ask myself where he
a garret. There 1 sea the cl
the Poet’s corner—the costly t
of whom the celebrated Waller wrote: “The
old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, has
just issued a tedious poem on the fall of
man. Ifthe jenpth of it be no virtue, it
has none.” There is a beantiful monument
to Sheridan Jak Sherent If he could
have only discounted that monument for a
mutton chop!
Oh, you unfllial children, do not give
your pargnts so much tombstone, but a
few more blankets—less funeral and more
bedroom! If five per cent. of the money
we now spend on Burn hanguets could
have been expended in making the living
Seotch poet comfortable, Lo would not
have been harried with the drudgery of an
exciseman. Horace Greeley, outrageously
abused whiie living, when dead is followed
toward Greenwood by the President of the
United States and the leading men of the
army and navy, Massachusetts tries to
atone at the grave of Charles Sumner for
the ignominious resolutions with which
her Legislature denounced the living
Senator. Do you think that the tomb at
fprngfald can pay for Booth’s bullet?
, do justice to the living! All the jus.
He you do them you must do this side the
gates of the Necropolis. They cannot wake
up to count the number of carriages at the
obsequies or to notice the polish of the
Aberdeen granite orto read epitaphal com-
memoration, Gentleman’s mausoleum in
the suburbs of Jerusalem cannot pay for
Bethlehem manger and Calvarean cross
judiciary, Post mor-
atone for ante-mortem
of the
¥ tak fet in
Blet to one
tem honors cannot
tgnominies.
Again, standing in this garden of the
hese |
1 the beauties |
large enough to |
that |
cannot |
oa
st 1
he |
1
| sapuichier, I am
that floral and ar
{ appropriate for the |
adornments Christ spent the s!
His inhumation.
I cannot
see in the newspapers w
are announced ¢
| nection with it
if the
| allow—strew the
{ hearse with flowe
[ies them on ti
|
|
i
|
|
{
{
|
i
|
|
i
|
| are glad that amo
|
{
|
|
|
|
|
means
coronation; in t
vietor
Clrist was buri
mean resurrection
anyhow.
will express the
ness.
elton
flowers when sha
her hand now ti
more and pluek t
shiny days taka a
| Jrooklyn has n
Greenwood,
burn,
Hill,
nor San Francise
graveyards with
and the slab aslant and the mound caved
in and the grass a pasture ground for the
sexton’s cattle
and Deothat of s
| not afford to take c
| day turn out all }
i slab and bank up
your last slumber.
respeet for your bones if you have no de-
ference for the bones of your ancestry. Do
you think these
tance? You will
tance they
angel takes out
s | your cemeteries {
| Again, standin
new sepulcher, I am fmpressed with the
dignity of private and unpreterding o bse-
| es,
Joseph was mourner,
—had entire charge of everything,
four people at the burial of the King of the
lot this be consolatory to |
{ Universe! Oh,
those who
through
thro
ket of richest
rem
the were at His
! Not recognizing
hood and orpha
charit (he dej
erty, which won
keep the family t
| take care of ther
expenses absorbe
for crape which
bread.
By all r
but do no
1s necoss: Ary.
| than Christ our
four people in the
Again, standin
fact that you ean
roof of rock, wa
eannot ke
out and come up
come up He dic
fruits of them ths
certainly we will
all the granite of
| Atlantic
the face of
have
stronger v
thing e
in the
brighter
with
door of the grave
flung flat into tie dust.
Oh, my
are not so
sepuicher I
ered up the
there are four ga
sther—garden ©
world’s sepul
regeneration,
gardens. DLioon
heaven! Oh, mm
ness on this
[ interpret it ri
ith heave
1
a
mane
moro
us white
rough voyage of
be ended, and she
the flags of trinm
gallants, All he
greet her into jy
verberating sbou
old ship Zion! A
ghe drops anchor
upon a young m
sisting in the robbery of a posteflic
telligent 3
tentiary.
young men do
late that the
doubt if there is
1am called upo
does not begin 1
saloons. I thiai
workhouse. Ma
dead father and
of your gool m
your childhood,
you.
Beaming was tl
the Marion Co
months,
We shall all tar
1s driven us, not
but just bee
he
u
The sometime ma
Tonen of old
sound of which
our own
with
sudden, in the mic
our con
pride
some 8 :n €
of the instabilit;
we turn to Bim w
humi
atl on
nstead of
tacause we did
understand what I
allow—1 say
Let con
contribute to its alleviation.
will ring the victory; the pa
will kindle its lamp and illume the dark-
The cluster of
Your
over the still heart.
nor Boston than {tas Meunt Au-
nor Philadelphia
nor Cincinnati than its Spri
But what shall we
ars in the day when the arel
Jack of acquaintance have bat
i littla demonstration of grief
! of their loved ones,
ing equipage, two rows of siiver handles,
at tho grave, Christ loo
small properties are scattered and widow-
A man of
ly afford to ain in any ot
a NO One wis
ingly and tenderly put away to sepulcher
Lord,
sapuleher, I am impr
Seal of sanhedrin,
from the tower of
onus we will rise.
the corals of the deepest cavern of the
Ocean, we will come to the sur-
nueh
while wanderinz
rs of the gardon bave
tomb.
arden of
“Fhere she comes up the bay, t
Judge Baker’
men of the country woul
records of the
would Le to then
all the tamperan
liver.
v When you get out of prison thera
will be little hope for you un
about face—turn
anty
fometima We
CASE We W
It alize a great need only God can suppl
1 and we pu
surprised to know
the worl
Therefore, 2
For Sale by Harry McCulloch,
impressed with the raet
ho ent decorations ar
ce of the dead, W
sng flowers and sculptural
ort time of
sometimes
are the ohsequics
rl the friends say in Lon:
“Send no flowers.” Ratt
if the m I
flowors, the
th flowers.
ill suggest
will mean
casket with 1
rs, the gray
he brow—it
heir hand—it
ed in a garden. Flowers
is sad enough
servatory and arboretum
The Larebell |
szion Hower
the daffodil
sympathy;
will be the
littia child loved
was living. Put them in
1at she can go forth no
hem for lierself, Oa snun-
fresh garland and put it
asters
o grander glory than its
aurel
than its
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Indeed, were your father
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Some day you will want to lie down to
You cannot expect any
are of no
how much
relics
see of
impor-
impor-
his trumpet. Torn
nto gardens.
g in this garden of the
sexton, liverymau
Oaly
lack of
ugh means or
at the graves
Long line of glitter-
wood, pallb
not neces:
rers glow: ad
It there
embers that is two more
obsequies.
g this idea, how many
nage go forth into cold
yarted left a small prop-
id have been enough to
ogether until they could
mselves, but the funeral
d everything. That went
ought to have gone for
mode menns ean
our great
do honor to the de-
t pr funeral pageant
ever more lov-
but there were oniy
c procession.
g in this garden with a
pressed with the
eep the dead down,
company of soldiers
i
little worth that yout can- |
sh A
Antonia, fioor of rock,
lis of rock, door of rock,
p Christ in the crypts, Coma
Heo must. Come out and
1. Prefiguration. First
at slept. Just as certain-
ly as we go down into the dust, just =o
come up again, "Phough
the mountains wers piled
Though buried amid
ace,
With these eyes we may not look into
he noonday sun, but we shall
ision, because the tamest
land to which we go will be
than t! /
ie sun. We shall have
the speed of the \ighining.
1, energized, swiften
Pod
hinges end
taken oll its
athh and the grave
they used to be; for
in this ‘garden with the
find that the vines and
eC sompletely cov-
Instead of one garden
rdens, opening into each
{ Eden, garden of the
of the earth's
heaven, Four
earth! Bloom, O
garden
¢
ry, O
¢ friends, wake up to glad-
ster morning!
This day, if
ght, means joy—it means
n, and it means peace with
flower
Wreathe them
u throat of the cannon;
that it may bi
raid them into the
war charger. No
{ hnman blood, Give
All around the
And soon the
the ct militant will
» will sail up the heavenly
harbor, scarred with many a conflict, but
ph floating from her top-
suven will come out to
ort, and with a long re-
at of welcome will s
ftor tem pe 35LUOUY Voy
within the veil,”
& Opinion of Saioons,
Baker, of the Federa
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an named Deeming for as
i ald
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one man out of fifty that
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study the pris
various penitentiaries it
1 4 stronger sermon than
ce lecturers could ever de-
3 you right
your faco from the
< I will send yeu to the
ybe tho memory of your
mother, and the prayers
other, offared for you in
vat mak? a man of
1en fined 210 and sent to
workhouse for six
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Cerebro ningitis is epidemic
in the vic of Idlewild. The first
death was Joseph Shipley, Satur-
day night. A fe hours later Harry
Shaffer, a companion and fellow work-
man, i illness with the
died aiter a bri
same disease. A sister of young Shai
fer contr: the discase and is now
i 1 death. The dis-
its appearance 1
Allen, a twelve-year-
Tuesday night, aiter a
short illn
The peop
of Sz ick township,
tte © 5 » wrough up over the
3 , hat mo 10S Té-
ime the citizens have
from time time found oil on the
swamp lands and on still waters, but it
remained for Adam Bunbard to make
which resulted in the ex
Two days ago he found a
ily cove .red with about a foot
He put it into several tin
In the presence
the discov
citement.
pool liter
of pure oil.
cans and took it home.
of several he lighted the fluid with a
match and it burned like pure carbon
oil. Now the people have sent scv-
eral samples of the oil to chemists for
analysis, and the field will probably be
the sc v
Definite arrangements have been com-
pleted for the erection of a soldiers’
monument in Center county. A perma-
nent organization was cff cted with ex-
Governor James A. Beaver as president,
and all of fh necessary committees
were appoint The opinion is domi
nant that not L000 will be
uitable shaft. Of
be devoted to
a soldiers’ and sailors’ monument and
$10,000 to the Curiin memorial. A total
of abo: ut $13,000 has already been pledg-
cd.
e of s tests
A railroad extend irom Donohue
to New Alexar Westmoreland
county, a distance seven or eight
miles, is to be b A recent pur-
chase of 2,300 acres of coal land near
New Alexandria by James Gallagher,
representing unknown syndicate,
was the first st n the direction of giv-
ing the old to the advantage of rail-
road Jacilitle s. A corps of Altoona en-
d by the Pennsylvania
now at work on
any, 18
R R:
he
Russell Bros.” No.
near Plummer,
aT
oil well, on their
yrd county,
The terri-
carly days.
considera-
ay
ific 1n the
la be st wnsi
in the surrounding territory
This jon, § Harrold.
of Beave s that he had with-
drawn ¢ for the nomina
tion for A on the Republican
icke Mr was member of
last . and voted for M.
S. Quay for States
excitement in
r the discovery oi
pure. Leases for
been obtained on the land.
senator
There is considerable
Jedford county ov
iron ore 6o p
20 years have
cent.
The Riddleb Iron Company will
build ailroad to connect the Balu
more & Ohio railroad at Orleans, this
county, and will use the Pennsylvania
product rather than the
Michigan as
heretofore
The Aoorigen Plate Mirror Company
was chartered at Harrisburg on Satur-
day, with a on 11 of $50,000,000. The
new combine is looked upon as the be-
ginning oi a determined move on the
part of American plate gl men to
wrest the trade in this country for plate
mirrors from foreign manufacturers.
On the McCray farm at Concord,
ic county. Monday, the men were
boiling maple syrup. McCray's 10-
year-old son took a pail and started on
a run for the house. He stumbled, the
entire contents pouring over the childs
body, burning him terribly. It is
doubtful if he lives.
Mrs. Rose Dorsey, colored, whose
age is reliably attested to be III years,
died Tuesday at the home of her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Wm. H. Hermings, in Pitts-
burg. The old lady retained all her
senses up to within half an hour of her
death.
labor is
ima, where
reperted in
new indus-
are springing into being rapidly.
Wa mer are higher than ever before in
that locality,
city of
an
A
rsa mm
Storm
Are THAT
in the m
lessness, |
No maf
about eati
your stom
tress, pal
Don’t
symptoms
They a:
Lor help!
It nceds
and diges
Hood
The be:
dies know
are comb
thousand:
its cures
medicine
yet disco
president
was a lie
with his
tlon has
lor, who:
strolls u
and that
upon a
knoll so
that whi
proposed
was acct
were ma
selves t
stone.
{ncident
has caus
the hous
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